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Hey guys!
It’s me, Chisel Triezenberg, and I’m writing this after school, which has, as you might have guessed, started.
This week, if you have a time machine, there will be a shark-focused event taking place at the American Bald Eagle Foundation. The Takshanuk Watershed Council hosts an outdoor field trip activity for the school. Our school has far more students than we have now. And, we get to see more stray dogs wandering around town. Just need to find that time machine. Finally, 60 years ago huge mudslides were causing problems. This is a recurring problem.
The Chilkat Valley News began publishing in 1966, so we feature stories from the small portion of this valley's history that we have documented in the archives. If you have something you'd like to see featured, let us know.
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10 Years Ago (August 25, 2016)
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The American Bald Eagle Foundation will host “Day of the Denticles: A Celebration of Sharks” to educate the public about shark species throughout Alaska.
People are invited to attend 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, at the foundation for food, arts and crafts, activities and plenty of shark facts.
This is the third event in the foundation’s monthly Saturday Species program.
Volunteer coordinator Chloe Goodson organized the events to invite the local community into the foundation. She said the June and July programs about moose and wolves had a very good turnout of roughly 70 people, although she didn’t know the exact numbers.
Goodson said the program will focus on porcupine next month, and she hopes to continue these events through the winter.
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All natural pet food, as well as premium gluten free treats. I didn’t even know these guys could be allergic to gluten. |
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20 Years Ago (August 23, 2006)
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Haines students will get more opportunities to explore and study local ecology thanks to a $17,000 grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The money will help the Takshanuk Watershed Council hire an education coordinator for its EcoStudies program, now in its fifth year.
“We’ve dubbed this ‘No Child Left Inside,’” said watershed council director Tim Shields. “Our goal is two field trips per week.”
River guide Scott Ramsey has been hired to lead the program. Ramsey, who earned a master’s degree in environmental sociology from William and Mary College in 1994, will lead trips to study anadromous fish, invertebrates, plants, geology and geography.
“He’ll do all the scheduling and logistics and most of the curriculum development work and will lead the field trips. He’s really enthusiastic and cranked up to this,” Shields said.
Shields said the program teaches basic field biology science techniques and helps students develop an intimate knowledge of “how the landscape works and how animals live within it.”
The watershed council also received a grant from the state Department of Environmental Conservation to study for sedimentation and debris in Sawmill Creek.
The Alaska Clean Water Action grant “puts a water body on a recovery tract. We’ll be doing preliminary work and will plan a baseline study, if necessary.”
Shields said the creek “has a lot of trash that ends up in it and debris jams that are potential blocks for fish passage.”
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In this August 2006 file photo, Vaughn Avery and Amy Satterwhite perform a mime routine during a show at the Chilkat Center. |
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30 Years Ago (August 29, 1996)
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Although final enrollment figures are expected to change slightly, 447 students showed up for school in the past week, said Haines Superintendent Ron Erickson.
There were 282 elementary and middle school students in Haines, 151 students at Haines High School, eight students in K-4 at the Mosquito Lake School and six correspondence students, Erickson said.
A year ago, opening day figures were 265 in K-8, 136 at the high school and nine at Mosquito Lake, for a total of 410. (Correspondence course enrollment was not available then.) Total enrollment increased to 435 by late fall.
Erickson also expects a bump in enrollment this year.
Klukwan saw a sharp drop in student numbers with the graduation of last year’s large eighth grade class, said principal/teacher Ken Tyler. Twenty students in kindergarten through twelfth grade attended class Monday, the first day of school in the village. That’s down about 10 students from last year, Tyler said.
The beginning of school in Haines was smooth, Erickson said, except for his extra assignment as interim elementary school principal.
New principal James Telles begins work Tuesday.
The school board meets Tuesday night to consider a policy on the proper use of the Internet by students.
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I guess they technically had to say “No one under 21 permitted,” but that doesn’t mean they had to like it. |
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40 Years Ago (August 28, 1986)
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Rounding up stray dogs in Haines will be put on the back burner after Sept.1 so the police department can save money by eliminating the animal control position.
Mayor April Lapham said Tuesday the community service officer, which has been a combination of dog catcher/dispatcher will be eliminated to save the city’s police department about $32,640.
Glenda Amox, who has been in that position, will fill the dispatch position of Gail Turner, who’s leaving Haines Sept. 15. A fifth police officer will be hired to replace Bob Stokely, who left the police department earlier this month to become the new harbormaster.
Lapham said the police department needs to hire the fifth officer to continue its 24-hour, seven-day-a-week police coverage. She said if stray dogs become a problem, the police might have a sporadic roundup whenever complaints make that necessary.
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The new duck stamp for 1986 will supposedly have a difficult time competing with the previous one, which broke all prior national records for sales of waterfowl stamps. |
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50 Years Ago (Sept. 26, 1974)
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JUNEAU-Hunters who participated in the Haines moose hunt and who did not check out of the area should do so immediately, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game advised Tuesday.
Terms of the Haines moose hunt permit specify that hunters who do not check out may not apply for any permit hunts in Southeast Alaska next year. Failure to check out is also a misdemeanor and violators are liable to prosecution.
Dave Johnson, area game biologist, noted that 480 hunters checked in for the Haines hunt, but only 322 had checked out as of Tuesday.
Johnson urged those 158 hunters who have not complied with permit terms to contact Mike Roscovious at the state Department of Public Safety office in Haines, or the regional office of the Department of Fish and Game at 210 Ferry Way in Juneau.
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| Bowling!... In Haines? Where?! |
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60 Years Ago (August 24, 1966)
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Torrential rains this past weekend turned sections of the Haines Highway into a mud and boulder-strewn mess.
Late Thursday night, more than seven mud and rock slides oozed down on the highway between Mile 19 and the Wells Bridge. The slides also cut off water and communications to Klukwan at Mile 22 ½.
Work crews from the state Department of Highways and the City of Haines worked through the night to remove the tons of rubble that covered the pavement. The road was finally reopened to one-way traffic about 1 p.m. Friday.
Even when traffic was allowed through, there were still two or more places where detours had to be made around mud still on the road. Some of the slides had completely crossed the road and had to be dumped into the Chilkat River. Behind Klukwan, several stretches of lower road shoulder were washed away and water cascaded unhindered off the straight edge of the pavement.
As late as Sunday afternoon, residents of Klukwan were without water. Phone service, however, had been restored earlier by Jim Breiling of RCA Alascom’s Haines office.
While field sanitarian for the U.S. Public Health Service, David S. Palmer from Mount Edgecumbe, worked with local men to restore the water system, the Salvation Army stood by to carry water to the village if the need should arise.
The water system was temporarily fixed by early Sunday afternoon and the village again had water.
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In this Aug. 24, 1971 file photo crews struggle to remove tons of debris from the highway. |
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