Jerrie Clarke has made trips to Mexico, New Orleans, and Branson, Mo. since retiring in January from the Lost City Museum in Overton, Nev. The former Haines Sheldon Museum director was in town this week, visiting friends and getting her first glimpse of the Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center while husband Dan Gagnon was making a road trip from Anchorage to Prudhoe Bay. Jerrie said her trips to New Orleans and Branson were for jazz and bluegrass festivals. “I’ve pulled my mandolin out of the closet,” she said.
Singer Cathy Pashigian made the trip to Haines last weekend just to see Sunday’s performance by Katie Saunders, Nancy Nash and Steve Tada at the Chilkat Center. A second-grade teacher at Juneau’s Auke Bay Elementary School, Cathy will be here next month to help with Lynn Canal Community Players’ Summer Youth Theater Conservatory. She said Sunday’s show was “fabulous.”
Ron and Jacque Horn were entertaining their granddaughters this week, here for vacation bible school with Ron’s daughter Heather Paar from West Seattle. The girls include Pearl, 8, Livia, 5, and Breesa, 3. Heather’s husband Joe Paar was due Wednesday. Twelve volunteers from Westminster Presbyterian Church in Medford, Ore. are here to help out with the school, including senior pastor Barnabus Sprinkle and youth pastor Jeremy Haskel.
Luke and Hazel Robertson paddled a Klepper military kayak into Haines last week, part of a 2,000 mile expedition from Alaska’s southernmost point, Dixon Entrance, to a spot near Utqiagvik, the town formerly known as Barrow. In Haines, they rented bikes from Sockeye Cycle to pedal to Fairbanks. Then they plan to run 550 miles of the Dalton Highway to Prudhoe Bay, finishing by kayaking to Utqiagvik. Luke made a 730-mile solo ski trek, unsupported, to the South Pole and the couple recent ly ran the 156-mile “Marathon de Sables” through the Sahara Desert. They update their website at duenorthalaska.com.
Kathleen Menke’s brother Don Kennell and wife Lisa Adler made their first trip to Alaska earlier this month. Their three-day trip included visits to Tracy Arm, Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center, Chilkat Pass and the Fort Seward barracks art project. Don is a metal sculptor whose creations include an oversized roadrunner and cowboy boot. Their Alaska trip followed delivery of coyote statues to Bellingham, Wash. They live in Santa Fe, N.M. See his other sculptures at http://www.donkennell.com.
A visit by Lt. Col Tim and Melanie Brower and family coincided with Terry and Bonnie Sharnbroich’s wedding anniversary Monday. The Browers are moving from Fort Greely, where Tim served as commander of the 49th missile defense battalion, to the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. Terry and Bonnie met the Browers through daughter Jennifer and Ted McGovern. Ted is an Army National Guard chaplain in Anchorage.
Leigh Horner spent two weeks visiting friends Nancy Cheek and Sandi Daly in Portland, Ore., her hometown. She attended graduation at Portland Christian School, where Anthony DuLucia, Leigh’s nephew’s son, gave the valedictory address. She also saw Dr. Greg Higgins.
Madeline Andriesen is printing and selling some of her finest pieces of student artwork. She and sister Lydia Andriesen also have revamped granddad Pete Andriesen’s notecard business. With a new shrink-wrap machine they’re packaging the pen-and-ink cards Pete last sold here in the early 1990s. The self-proclaimed “Mayor of Dalton City,” Pete was a fixture here in the 1980s and early 1990s. He and wife Claire live in Anacortes, Wash.
Nicole and David Lorentz watched around 10:30 p.m. Friday as a cow moose and two newborn calves swam across Letnikof Cove from a spot north of the cannery. The swim lasted about 20 minutes, Nicole said. She caught the swim on video and posted it on her Facebook page. “(The calves) were teeny, tiny. It was pretty cool. I got 60 shares and 3,000-some views,” she said. She speculated the trio was spooked by something out near the point.
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