Thank you to Haines Community and Chilkat Valley Community Foundation for sharing the resources that support nonprofits in Haines to do good work year-round. Blessings take many forms, perhaps the most enduring is the eagerness of all to help others, and to work together for a healthy and vibrant community. The arts and cultural richness of the Chilkat Valley span hundreds, if not thousands of years. Let us celebrate the light of our creative, loving community and express gratitude in all we say and do.

Thank you to the people of Haines, KHNS, Chilkat Valley News, our many nonprofits, the business community, Haines government, and the Chilkat Valley Community Foundation for your many contributions that make possible Art on Main Street displays, First Fridays, the Gingerbread Contest, Building Relationships, the Fort Seward Interpretive Walking Tour and the Fort Seward Sculpture Garden. We invite everyone to join forces to envision a Portage Cove waterfront design master plan in the coming years, with public engagement supported in part by the Chilkat Valley Community Foundation and support from the Alaska Community Foundation.

Carol Tuynman

Creative Director, Alaska Arts Confluence

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