Roy Jones is setting up his easel around town, selling original landscape paintings to help pay his way back home to Albuquerque, N.M. Roy says he suffers some physical disabilities and a degenerative brain injury he calls “living dementia.” He came to Alaska for a summer job that didn’t work out.
Tamari, brown sugar and butter made up the marinade on 700 pounds of sockeye served at the annual Fisherman’s Barbecue June 17. Grillmaster Larry Jurgeleit said the recipe came from wife Nelle Jurgeleit-Greene. A crew of five, including two on prep, two grillers and a grill-cleaner cook salmon. Geni Rietze and husband Harry Rietze of Haines Packing Co., who donated all the fish for the event, also deep-fried 200 pounds of lingcod.
That white stretch limousine seen around town recently belongs to Sean Rolnick of Coastline Tours. He has operated the limo previously in Skagway, taking cruise ship passengers to jewelry stores there.
Dames Gregg, 6, celebrated his first birthday with friends over with a piñata Saturday at #8 Officer’s Row. About 20 costumed children showed up for the lawn party that included seeing a giant rainbow over Chilkoot Inlet. Mom Kiara Hylton used papier mache to create the piñata that dad Rahsaan Gregg rigged up with a pulley system. Rahsaan and Kiara met while working building sets and installations for corporate live events. Rahsaan’s cousin Jade Scheele, husband Eric Scheele and their two children, Aidan and Quinn also arrived in town this week. The Scheeles live in Portland, Ore.
Linn Asper said he was at a local restaurant and everyone there was named Asper. Son Leif Asper and daughter Leah are here from Iowa City, Iowa. Leif’s son Eli stayed home with Leif’s wife Erika Johnson to attend music camp. Son Gabe Asper also is in town with his son, Ace. Visit highlights include playing board games and going halibut fishing. Leif also is connecting with schoolmates from Haines High School class of 1993.
Former resident Kris Reeves died in Arizona on March 10, 2023. She was 62 and had suffered from cancer. She and husband Kevin Reeves had recently lived in Valdez, where they were part of an artists’ co-op. Kris is survived by husband Kevin, daughters Hannah and Megan, brothers Larry and Doug Price and sisters Tina Schinner and Debbie Lopez. Kris was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, David Price. Kris and Kevin moved to Haines in 1989, leaving for Seward and eventually settling in Valdez. Megan’s address is P.O. Box 1003, Idyllwild, CA 92549.
Jayda Maier is in town, enjoying the outdoors and and creating artworks while visiting grandmom Fuzzy von Stauffenberg. She’s friends with Faith St. Hilaire, a niece to Beth MacCready. Jayda and Faith enjoyed a trip down the Chilkat River with Ketch Jacobson and Marty Fowler. Jayda’s mom is Fuzzy’s daughter Ashley Welch, who lives in Aptos, Calif.
Cindy Price-Hagwood continues her drop-in, open-session art and craft sessions 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 8 at the Haines ANB Hall. Wooch Een Daakahidi, or “House of Togetherness,” invites residents to bring any unfinished project for a day of companionship and support. For more information, contact Cindy at the Chilkoot Indian Association, 907-766-2323.
Rio Ross-Hirsh is deckhanding aboard the Fjordland this summer. As an infant, Rio rode in a backpack toted by mom Leslie Ross, who captained the vessel for owner Glen Jacobson. Now Glen is working as mechanic and his son Ketch Jacobson is at the helm of the twin-hull tour boat that plies Lynn Canal each summer.
If you’re in the market for a pet drake, call Cassie Miller at 314-0868. Cassie ordered 14 female Harlequin ducks to produce eggs “but they got one wrong.” Cassie said the boy duck is a family favorite but she doesn’t know if her family has room for another pet. “We could give him away in a sealed and closed adoption,” she said.
Haines High School graduate Matthew Davidson will speak 7 p.m. July 5 at the Haines Presbyterian Church about his book, “I Am Matthew.” The 2015 work gives a account of years Davidson spent as a homeless man in Fresno, Calif. and his eventual salvation. Matthew graduated from Haines High in 1990.