10 Years Ago
A fundraiser July 21-22 at the Hammer Museum will give residents a chance to brighten their toolboxes.
“Art and Hammer” is patterned after “Wine and Canvas” fundraisers in the Lower 48, said Kate Dickson, museum assistant. Participants will get a claw hammer, plus art supplies to decorate it, including acrylic paints. Finger foods and alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages also will be served.
Experienced art instructor Kelleen Adams, who will help participants create their designs, said participants should show up with a design in mind. Sessions start at 7 p.m. each night and participation is limited to 15 people per session.
30 Years Ago
Roger Schnabel’s proposal for an aggregate transfer facility on city tidelands near the Small Boat Harbor will be discussed by the city council’s Ports and Harbors Committee at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
City council members asked Schnabel last week if he would consider going back to his original location, on Beach Road.
Schnabel said he switched locations on the advice of city planning commission chair Dave Nanney.
“I’m really here to try and work things out,” he said. “Ideally, I’m over at Beach Road.”
Kathy Pardee-Jones, a nearby resident who opposes the Front Street development, said perhaps the city could offer Schnabel a break on its rates at the Lutak Dock. That way, it would be more economical for him to put the transfer facility away from the Harbor, she said.
Schnabel cautioned that he can consider only a limited number of proposals. He already spent money assessing the situation on Beach Road, he said. “I can only be in the ring so far before I’m laid out flat.”
40 Years Ago
Twenty thousand Sitka spruce trees are being planted this week by nine Klukwan youths working with the Department of Natural Resources. Tlingit and Haida Community Council received a state grant from the Department of Community and Regional Affairs to hire the planters for six weeks. The youths are provided with transportation and Klukwan Inc. provides breakfasts and lunches.
Forester Roy Josephson that the seedlings are planted in cleared areas to “replenish where nature didn’t do it.” So far the teenagers have planted in the Little Salmon area across the 26-mile bridge on Sunshine Mountain and in the Kelsall. They also planted trees between the high school track and the highway for the Women’s Club.
About once a week, the teenagers do a little trail-clearing to break up the monotony of planting trees. So far they’ve cleared the Seven-Mile Saddle and Mt. Ripinski trails.