February is the month to celebrate Elizabeth Peratrovich day, honoring a pioneer in Alaska civil rights. Haines schools will have a 9 a.m. assembly on Tuesday, February 18. Elizabeth was a Tlingit woman whose powerful speech in the Territorial Legislature influenced passage of the anti-discrimination law – 19 years before 1964 and the lower 48’s civil rights era.
At noon on February 12, the U.S. Mint will begin selling a new gold one dollar coin…