Former resident Magi Hubert reports that Haines mountains appear in the music video “Arrows,” featuring Seattle-based band Fences, which teamed up with Grammy award-winners Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. The album is scheduled to be released in October, with “Arrows” as the lead single. Magi’s brother Ian Hubert of Seattle made the video, using a few of her photographs she took while here in 2012. Several of her photos are used in a composite photograph in the opening scene. She said the mountains are the ones seen from Paradise Cove, while heading toward Mud Bay. The cabin in the video was built on the Seattle set in front of a green screen. Check out the video on YouTube.
Former residents Michael Ahmuty and Travis Reid of Bend, Ore., took music icon Dave Matthews on a raft trip with their company, Riverstone Adventures LLC. The duo co-owns the Bend-based company. Dave’s wife and children were also on the trip, along with crew members. The group rafted along the Deschutes River. The family also went swimming and enjoyed beach time. Matthews was in the area for a performance.
Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald featured Haines in its “Traveler” section Saturday. The piece, titled “Alaska Wildlife: Idyll Characters,” is written by freelance travel writer Lance Richardson. In the article, he writes about Paul Wheeler, Steve Kroschel, Christy Tengs Fowler, Tammy Piper, Dave Pahl, Annette Smith, Dave Olerud, Heather Lende, and John and Sharon Svenson. Check out the article at http://www.smh.com.au/travel/activity/great-outdoors/alaska-wildlife-idyll-characters-20140903-3esn6.html.
About 55 people attended the second annual “White Fang Night” Aug. 30 at the Chilkat Center, said organizer Davey Ozahowski. The event is a celebration of the Disney movie filmed here 1989-1990. The $120 raised via donations was split equally between Haines Animal Rescue Kennel, the local Girl Scouts, and the Venturer Scouts. The event began at Dalton City’s Klondike Saloon, with storytelling about the making of the film. A showing of the movie was held at the Chilkat Center. Ellen Star and Joe Ordonez spoke about living in Haines at the time the film was being made. Davey read Tom Morphet’s account of the relationship between Disney and Haines.
Tammy Jobbins and daughters Lindsey and Natalie returned from their trip to Palmer, where they attended the Alaska State Fair and met up with family. In addition to rides, the sisters went to a Flo Rida rap concert. Tammy’s sister Tomi Scovill and husband Jim Schnabel also drove to Palmer. They met up with Tammy’s niece Danielle Livengood, husband Derrick, and children of Palmer. The group attended a Pentatonix concert. There, they saw Monica Stout and her family, including sister Lazelle. Parents are Roc and Diann Ahrens.
The Sourdough Slim saloon and show Saturday at the Chilkat Center was “absolutely fabulous,” said organizer Lorrie Dudzik. At least 130 people attended, most in costume. There were lots of cowboy hats and stockman’s coats in the lobby. The center lobby was decorated as a western saloon, complete with swinging doors by David Routh and signs made by Tresham Gregg. Neil Einsbruch was the dealer at the blackjack table. Sue Waterhouse made a board of a cowgirl riding a bronco, which attendees could stick their faces into. About $2,000 was raised for the Foundation for the Chilkat Center for the Arts, Lorrie said.
Family members, including great-great nieces of Charles Anway, spent the day in Haines Sept. 4. Anway was a local horticulturalist who developed a hybrid strawberry here in the early 1900s, with a plantation near 2 Mile Haines Highway. Visitors included Barbara and Roland Troxel, Carol and Charles Kamm, Susan Vonida, Janet Calhoon, and Joanne and Rick Harris, along with their Italian foreign exchange student Maria Celli. They arrived on the fast ferry from Skagway during a cruise there aboard the Oosterdam. Bob Henderson, Alan Traut and C.J. Jones greeted them at the ferry and escorted them to the museum and Anway’s homestead. On the museum front lawn, pre-school children were learning about and picking Yellow Transparent Apples from the tree that Charles planted in the 1920s. The family also picked apples. The family visited Hazel Englund, who grew up visiting, helping and working for Anway. Tom Ganner and Terry Jacobson spent time with the group.