It was a busy week for Haines High School students and staff. The Student Council put on a cupcake Valentine’s Day fundraiser: North Douglas Chocolate Cake and Vanilla Buttercream cupcakes. The Spirit Committee organized a Valentine’s Day dinner fundraiser: Italian Sausage Tortellini Soup and Parker House Rolls. Principal Lilly Boron said, “Since we don’t have Cooking Class this year, it was a welcome treat to serve a town favorite. It’s worth mentioning that the same students running the fundraisers were also involved in their virtual State DDF Meet and Basketball Games over the same weekend. Both fundraisers were successful.” The student council sold 400 cupcakes and the spirit committee sold right around 85 meals.
Four Juneau breweries have united to raise money for Haines: Alaskan Brewing, Barnaby Brewing, Devil’s Club Brewing, and Forbidden Peak Brewery. The Juneau breweries coordinated efforts and created the event “Pour the Love: Juneau Breweries for Haines” with all proceeds being donated to Chilkat Valley Community Foundation Landslide Relief. Participants can purchase a $30 passport from any of the tasting rooms between Feb. 12 and March 13 and then they can visit all four breweries to sample a specialty beer and get a stamp on their passport.
Haines Brewing Company also wanted to get involved so they sent kegs of beer down to Juneau businesses, The Hangar and The Island Pub, to be poured during the month-long event.
Once participant’s passports are filled out, they turn them into any of the four breweries and receive a t-shirt designed by Haines-raised artists Celia Bower and Tulsi Zahnow. The t-shirt design shows beer being poured from the Seven Sisters mountains in Juneau to a thirsty salmon through fireweed, hops, and forget-me-nots that become the Chilkat River.
Zahnow said, “I’ve been wanting to help Haines in a way that is meaningful to me, so the opportunity to express my love for Haines and the people there through art felt therapeutic.” Bower agreed and added, “Being able to do the art for Pour the Love felt like a total honor. It was nice to use a creative outlet and my connection with Juneau and Haines for something that I really care about.” The two artists and best friends said it was their first time doing an art collaboration and their styles are complimentary.
For non-Juneau residents, t-shirts will be available online at any of the four Juneau breweries’ websites.
The Aurora Projekt of Juneau donated the printing of the shirts and Capital Copy of Juneau donated the printing of the passports and advertising posters.
Local musician Andrew Cardella is currently sailing around Mexico. But before his sailing adventure he dropped a new album entitled “Andrew Cardella: Everything Will Probably Be Okay.” It is available to stream on Spotify and YouTube. It can be purchased from Amazon music and Apple music. The album consists of 11 original songs written during his various travels throughout the past few years. Andrew said, “I recorded partially in the KHNS studio and partially at home. A few songs feature Eric Holle on the banjo/mandolin, and a few songs feature my brother, Joey Cardella, on background vocals. Other than that, I play guitar, drums, bass, keys, and sing.”
Harriet Brouillette and Tom Matthes visited the Florida Keys on vacation and spent their time fly fishing and diving. On their way home they stopped in Miami to look at some puppies and ended up bringing home a female boxer they named Kala Kia.
Zach Tarleton was visiting his family and friends in the South and decided to check out a litter of yellow labrador retrievers from Wildrose Kennels in Oxford, Mississippi. He brought home a male he named Chester, Chet for short. Gabe Thomas recently traveled to Juneau to retrieve two male Doberman puppies that were flown from a breeder in Texas. The puppies are 12 weeks old and named Remi and Ruger. Gabe’s partner Tracey Harmon said, “Gabe’s mom (Joyce Thomas) has a six-month-old female standard poodle named Shamrock and his sister (Rhiannon Thomas) has an eight-week-old male pitbull named Brailer, we have a lot of puppies in the family now!”
Keri Eggelston reported she and her family adopted Lucy from an animal shelter in Anchorage. They picked her up in Juneau. She was a Christmas surprise for her sons, Ryker and Jamison, who have wanted a dog for years.
CaSandra Nash also has a new puppy. She volunteers with Southeast Organization for Animals based in Juneau and frequently fosters animals for them. She said, “We took in Lelu, a lab mix who was supposed to be a temporary foster, but we fell head over heels in love and decided to keep her.” Jackie Martin, too, has a new puppy. She got her female black lab locally and named her Bella. She said, “There are puppies everywhere right now! My neighbors also have a new puppy, an eight-week-old male chocolate lab!”