Bozhi Sebens and parents Tod and Margaret Sebens celebrated Bozhi’s eighteenth birthday by attending their first professional basketball game in Portland, Ore. The Portland Trail Blazers beat the New Orleans Pelicans in a thriller. They capped the holiday with a drive to Coos Bay, Ore. for Thanksgiving dinner with Tod’s mother Loraine Brooks and his sister Pamela Brooks.
Words from literature will be the focus of the 2017 Alaska State Spelling Bee for grades 4-8 that will be held Feb.…