Attendees of the annual Valentine’s Tea on Feb. 10. Photo courtesy of Martha Mackowiak.

Sacred Heart Catholic Church celebrated a belated Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day with a potluck of Asian dishes and delectable desserts recently. The celebration gave parishioners the opportunity to celebrate the Lunar New Year with their priest Father Michael Ko, a missionary priest from South Korea, who came to Alaska via Papua, New Guinea. “Father let us know that…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...