HEADS UP – Frist-grader Tiffanie Potter enjoys coasting down a sled run at Haines Elementary School Tuesday while classmates wait their turn on the school-owned sleds. From Dec. 1, 1994.

Nov. 24, 1969

Service will be stressed this year by the Haines Unity of the American Cancer Society (ACS). Anyone who needs help-whether it be for transportation or just a need to talk to someone concerning cancer-can call Belle Sage.

Hazel Nelson, service chairman of the Haines Unit, said that bandages, dressings, and other items would be available through the unit if they are needed.

This year’s education program will include films, publicity about the seven danger signals of cancer and the need for a yearly check-up, and perhaps a smoking machine and display items as part of a program about smoking for the school students. Bonnie Sharnbroich, education chairman, reported at a recent unit meeting.

Dec. 1, 1994

November snowfall in Haines this year was the second largest ever recorded for the month and more than the amount seen all last winter.

By Wednesday, 82 inches of snow were measured at the official Haines weather station located outside the Harbor Bar.

That surpasses the November 1990 total of 73 inches recorded at the waterfront site, but falls short of a 1948 measurement taken at an inland weather station.

“It’s a relative term,” Jim Truitt, a National Weather Service forecaster in Juneau said of weather records. “If you’re in Boston, and they’ve been taking measurements in the same location for over 200 years, it’s a lot tougher to break records.”

Keeping weather records in Alaska, in general, and Haines in particular, is far from exact science. Truitt said the National Weather Service only has snowfall records back to 1943 for Juneau, where the nearly 59 inches recorded as of midnight Nov. 28 surpassed the 1990 mark of 48.8 inches. For Haines they have no historical data.

Nov. 26, 2009

“Community Education” is more than open gym.

According to Greg Schlachter, its new director, the purpose of the program operated by the Haines Borough School District is “bridging the gap between classic education in a school setting to lifelong learning directed at addressing the community’s needs.”

Including helping residents acquire automotive service excellence certificates.

The certificates reflect a level of training and vastly improve a person’s chances of getting jobs ranging from selling car parts to fixing engines. While training is available at home via computer, testing has previously required a trip to Juneau or Anchorage.

Schlachter is working to make Haines a testing center.

“This is just the tip of the iceberg of what could open up. We already do testing for (high school equivalency exams) and for the University of Alaska. Why couldn’t we be a testing facility for any kind of certification program?”

Continuing education classes also could be offered to medical professionals or to general contractors, he said.

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