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Sept. 11, 1967
Alaska’s newest theater, the Chilkat Center for the Arts, will begin operation Friday and Saturday nights when two special performances will take place, the Haines-Port Chilkoot Centennial Committee announced.
The first formal use will occur when Carolyn Stanford presents an evening of song as part of the Alaska Music Trail.
Official dedication of the theater will take place Saturday night before performances of the Lynn Canal Community Players’ “The Smell of the Yukon” and the Chilkat dancers.
State officials and other guests from throughout the state have been invited to the dedication ceremony.
Sept. 10, 1992
Top fishermen will be required to take a lie detector test before they can claim their prizes in next year’s Haines Master Angler Tournament, organizers said this week.
The change is being instituted to avoid “appearances of impropriety” raised by questions of whether legal sport fishing gear has been used to land prize-winning fish, said Jim Studley, president of the Haines Sportsmen’s Association.
“I know that hasn’t been a problem, because I know the individuals and there are witnesses (to top catches), but we’ve had other people say so-and-so has used a net,” he said. “We don’t want our tournament to lose its integrity.”
Under the proposed change, all first place winners would be required to take the test to vouch they caught their fish on hook and line.
If someone were found to have entered fish illegally to win the Master Angler title, they could be criminally charged.
“It’s a felony to defraud anybody of more than $500,” Studley said.
Sept. 13, 2007
A snack-sized plastic cheese tray flushed down a toilet blocked a baffle, causing a sewage overflow that cancelled Haines High School classes Monday.
Classroom assignments were rescheduled Tuesday after the blockage caused flooding of gray water and fecal matter in the bottom level of the former elementary building where high school classes are being held this fall.
Toilets were clogging as early as last Friday, but the flooding didn’t start until Sunday afternoon when a group of Canadian students used showers in the building.
Senior Marley Horner took advantage of the unscheduled holiday Monday to catch up on homework. He said he wasn’t surprised by the flooding. On Friday, a pool of water was soaking the carpet by the senior lockers mounted on a wall near the women’s restroom, he said.