Daily Sitka Sentinel sports editor Klas Stolpe fills us in on Mt. Edgecumbe High and Sitka High basketball over the holidays. He also discusses his annual birthday tradition (shared only by other endurance athletes): Running a mile for each year. It took a couple of tries, but the 59-year old managed the epic run the weekend before New Year's. With KCAW's Robert Woolsey.
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Raven Radio is hiring a full-time reporter. Alaska is an amazing place for a journalist, and Sitka is in the sweet spot with dynamic municipal and tribal politics, a rich arts and cultural life, a diverse community, awesome natural resources, and a stunning environment. News happens here in an extraordinary way. Just ask Brian Mann (NCPR/NPR), Ed Ronco (KNKX Seattle), Rachel Waldholz (Bosch Fellow, Germany), Emily Kwong (John Alexander Fellow, NPR), or the many other reporters who honed their skills here.
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The Feast of the Nativity (or "Russian Christmas," as it is commonly called) is celebrated throughout the Orthodox Church in America on January 7. But it's not as if Eastern and Western Christianity couldn't agree on the date to celebrate the Nativity. Much of Orthodox Christianity observes the Julian calendar, which is 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar.
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Former Alaska Department of Fish & Game Commissioner Cora Campbell has been named CEO of Sitka-based Silver Bay Seafoods, as of January 1, 2019. Campbell has held the title of chief external affairs officer for Silver Bay since June of 2018. She was commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish & Game under Governor Sean Parnell from 2010 to 2014.
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The Sitka Conservation Society and the UAS Cooperative Extension are teaming up to offer a three-day "4-H Winter Wonders Camp," 9:30-noon Monday, January 7 through Wednesday, January 9. Only two places remain available for elementary school students. To register, call Kevan at 747-7509.
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The Wearable Art Show is on! Now is the time for artists to begin planning their pieces for the March, 2019 event. Producer Jeff Budd joined us in the studio to discuss the history of the event
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Pick. Click. Give. is a chance for Alaskans to use part of their Permanent Fund Dividends to contribute to causes they care about. After they complete their online PFD applications, residents are given the option to choose to donate a portion of their dividends to one of 600 participating nonprofits.
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Sitka's Legislative Information Office is kicking into high gear for the start of the 2019 legislative session in Juneau. The LIO can connect residents to the legislature in a variety of ways, from scheduling committee testimony to tracking bills. LIO staffer Ken Fate explains how it all works.
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Victoria Vosburg and Jen Cedarleaf have organized Sitka's version of the Audubon Christmas Bird Count for the last 12 years. Volunteers are needed to count birds on about 30 mapped routes this Saturday, December 29. A planning meeting and slideshow are scheduled for 6 p.m. tonight (Wed 12-26-18) at the Alaska Raptor Rehabilitation Center.
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A conversation with the Jolly Northern Elf suddenly goes south when a former business associate, Mumsy Krinklenose, implicates Santa in "Wish Graft" and other high crimes. Only a steady diet of lemon drops -- and firm denials by press secretary Sugar Plum Huckleberry -- can hold Santa together, and keep Christmas on track.
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