Tag: Seldovia
Meet Seldovia’s New School Principal Alan Haskins and his Wife, Laura
by Jenny Chissus
Our new principal Alan Haskins and his wife Laura, are excited about coming to Seldovia and working with our community and students. Alan plans on moving to Seldovia in July to familiarize himself with our school and meet with the community in preparation for the 2014-2015 school year. Laura will join him in Seldovia as soon as she gets their daughter off to the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. They will be making an initial quick trip to Seldovia in June to celebrate Laura’s birthday and meet folks. But until then, here’s a quick introduction to our new Principal/Teacher for Susan B English School and his wife, Laura!
Seldovia’s Small Town Doctor Retires
by Jenny Chissus
One key to a successful community is the presence of medical care. As a Realtor, this is a question often asked by buyers looking to either relocate or invest in our beautifully situated community by the sea. I have always been proud to say that we have a great doctor, who lives in Seldovia full-time and serves our community alongside our volunteer Fire and EMS crews.
At the end of April, the question may be answered quite differently. Our resident doctor, Dr. Larry Reynolds will be retiring after 40 years of service to the community of Seldovia! I wanted to sit down with Doc and Cheryl (his wife and office manager) to go over this big transition for Seldovia, and for them!
It all began in 1974, when Doc and Cheryl were living in the San Francisco area in California. As Cheryl tells it, she had grown up playing outdoors and living and loving that outdoor lifestyle, nature, the works. As she grew, she saw the build up of the area, and her peaceful open spaces and woods were replaced by buildings and more buildings, and the fresh air became polluted, and she knew that she wanted to get back to a healthy environment. After Doc’s residency, and Cheryl’s nursing education, they were both researching areas to go, where they could be out in nature, open a small practice to serve a small community, and Alaska had a lot of appeal.
They had some good friends in Fairbanks who invited them up to visit – so they packed their car and set off for their Alaska adventure in January! They followed the ski runs as they drove north, and the skiing got better and better – the further north they went! They stayed with friends in Fairbanks while they studied Alaska, and the demographics of the many small towns, rainfall, climate, population, etc.
Doc really liked the idea of Homer, so they visited and met with Doctor Eneboe who was the only practicing physician in Homer at the time, and he didn’t want a partner, Continue Reading
Close Up Students Continue Their Fundraising Efforts
by Jenny Chissus
We are so thankful for the support we’ve received from the community for the student’s trip to Washington DC for the Close Up conference in April. With just one month to go until the departure, the students are in full and final fundraising mode to finance the lodging, tuition and airfare for the trip.
Thank you especially to the following sponsors who generously donated the following items for the grand basket raffle! As you can see, there is a TON of value in these items, and anyone who lives or visits Seldovia, Homer or Anchorage will greatly enjoy spoiling themselves with these wonderful gifts, stays and travel certificates!
WA DC Close Up Gift Basket Items:
Fat Olives Dinner for 2 in Homer
Linwood Bar & Grill – 2 certificates for 1 Large Pizza any kind
Dimond Center Hotel – 2 night stay in Anchorage
Smokey Bay -1 RT ticket across the bay
Mako Water Taxi – 2 RT tickets and Sweatshirt
Bridgekeeper B&B – $100 gift card
Gear Shed – 2 Happy Trollers for the troller who thinks they have everything
Homer Jeans- Dakine small backpack & Yoga Mat with carry strap
Northwind in Homer –Journal
Hand knit socks by Alta Colberg
Homer Bookstore-Journal & Reading light
Blackberry Bog – Cocoa/mug gif
The students; Aidan, Calem, Devin, Marina, Olivia, Thor, Xandria are all available with tickets to sell! You can have one chance to win this great basket for $10, or get a FREE extra ticket, when you purchase 6 tickets for $50! If a student doesn’t come to you – please feel free to stop by the school, or give the school a call 234-7616 and they will make sure to get you connected with some tickets!
Drawing will be held on April 11, 2014 – and you do NOT need to be present to win!
Thanks Seldovia and all these great businesses for your generous and continued support of our students and their education!
In Our Own Words
by Jan Yaeger
Seldovia Village Tribe Launches Community Oral History Project Preserving Seldovia’s Photos, Films and Memories
Do you know your family’s stories? Have you thought about how to pass them down to future generations? Do you have family photographs and slides that you wonder how to protect, or old VHS tapes or family films that you can’t watch anymore because they are deteriorating or you don’t have the equipment? The Seldovia Museum has an answer!
If you have a post office box in Seldovia, you may remember getting a survey in the mail about a year ago, asking about your potential interest in an oral history project the Seldovia Museum was hoping to do. We got a terrific response, showing strong support from the community of Seldovia, and we are thrilled to tell you that this project was awarded funding from the Institute for Museum & Library Services. The project, called “In Our Own Words”, is now underway!
There are several parts to this project. We are surveying recordings we already have, as well as gearing up to do new interviews and add material, such as historical photos and video, to our archives. But this is truly a community project: although our main goal is to record the many stories and images of Seldovia for the public, we also want to assist community members in preserving your own Seldovia-related stories, photos, videos, and audio recordings. We can Continue Reading
Seldovia Time
