10 Years Ago
A free workshop led by Dan Henry July 7-9 aims at helping residents develop skits for September’s Historic Hysterics Skit Festival.
The festival, Sept. 9-10, celebrates the 90th anniversary of the Chilkat Center and will serve as the annual fundraiser for the Chilkat Center.
The festival aims to feature a series of 10-15 minute skits equivalent to a mini theater festival, with adjudication and awards, said Annette Smith, secretary of Lynn Canal Community Players.
A collaboration between the foundation and the theater troupe, the festival seeks theatrical pieces with a humorous and historical bent, based on an event or item from Haines or Alaska history.
Anyone interested in creating a skit is invited to attend the workshop. “You don’t have to be a writer. You can just be a person who has fun developing something like that,” Smith said.
20 Years Ago
Haines residents are being warned to be on the lookout for phishing attacks that target First National Bank Alaska customers.
The phishing is done by counterfeit E-mails designed to look like official bank correspondence and include urgent requests for personal information.
Banker Dick Flegel, president of the Haines Branch, said “calls started coming in about a week ago. The three of four calls so far have been from local businesses.”
The scam could last a few days up to a month or longer, a bank warning advised residents. “Anyone receiving an E-mail that could be phishing, should not respond to the solicitations nor click on any links within the E-mail,” the announcement said.
30 Years Ago
A cellular telephone was used to summon rescuers to Sullivan River Monday afternoon, after an injury on a three-thinning operation.
A Fairbanks man called Haines police with a report of a man being struck by a tree, said chief Charlie Fannon. The man with the phone apparently was part of a crew working on a Native allotment for Tlingit-Haida, Fannon said.
The dispatcher alerted the U.S. Coast Guard and the Alaska State Troopers in Juneau, and in turn a two-person medical emergency team from Glacier Valley Fire Department was deployed on a Temsco helicopter under a standing arrangement between the department and the company.
The injured man, 24 years old, was struck in the hip by the butt end of a tree as it fell after being cut, said Jeff Newkirk, a supervisor at the fire department.