Sept. 21, 1972
Hank Reeves family has new fishing boat, ‘ALJAC’
The Henry Reeves family is the proud owner of a new 44-foot fishing boat, the “ALJAC.”
The Little Hoquiam Boat Shop in Hoquiam, Washington, recently launched the shiny new fiberglass boat. Constructed with the “lay up” method of fiberglass fabrication, the “bluefin” hulled craft has a draft of five one-half feet. The boat sleeps seven persons.
While Erma Reeves, Allan and Jackie are in Haines, Hank Reeves and a friend, Norman Moe, are headed for Mexico for the fall tuna run.
The ALJAC is equipped with radar, sonar and “the most beautiful head you ever saw,” according to Erma Reeves.
Sept. 18, 1997
Regional marketing gets push
With rubber-tire traffic in the third straight year of decline, Haines tourism director Larry West is spurring a move toward regional marketing by highway communities.
On Sept. 30, representatives from Alaskan and Yukon towns will congregate in Anchorage, one day ahead of the annual convention of the Alaska Visitors Association, to discuss the potential for television advertising and other strategies that could bring more road travelers to the region.
A sample of the publicity West is seeking: U.S. News and World Report recently featured a first-person piece on the Golden Circle, with the writer describing a family experience in an RV.
In Haines, the family found “two lovely state campgrounds,” and a grizzly family in the Chilkoot River. “Happily, they were on the far bank of the stream, so we could watch without feeling threatened.”
Sept. 20, 2012
Neglected horses get new homes in Yukon
In a twist that seems poetic justice, two horses that nearly starved to death in Haines last winter have found a new home at a Yukon hay farm.
Darren Moe, who operates a hay-growing operation near Dezadeash Lake, acquired Crown and Rappie about a month ago. “The boys are really happy,” he said. “They have all the grass they could want” in the pasture, and he supplements that with grain and hay.
At 18 years old, the horses have 10 years of easy work left if they want it, he said. He said Haines volunteers who took care of the pair “did a wonderful job” and he has invited them and their children for rides next spring.
A third horse, Bailey, was acquired by Jeff and Dorothy Brady of Skagway and is kept in Dyea.
Dorothy Brady, who owns another horse, said she has been lavishing love (and hay) on her “900-pound pets.” Bailey has gained 100 pounds and they expect her to gain 100 more over the next year, she said.