Linda Behnken is the director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association. ALFA, and its community-supported fishery, Alaska's Own, is starting a seafood donation program to aid Sitkans in need. In partnership with the Seafood Producer's Cooperative, Sitka Sound Seafoods, and Sitka Mutual Aid. For more information on how to contribute the program visit www.alaskansown.com.
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The Alaska Department of Fish & Game has developed a pair of interactive tools to help the public stay on top of where herring are spawning in Sitka Sound. The "Sitka Sound Daily Herring Spawn" is a step up from the diagrams that the department has published in the past. The "Sitka Sound Herring Survey" identifies where the major predator groups (whales and sea lions) are congregating, and shows the gps track of the ADF&G aerial survey.
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eSports fan Christian Litten joins Daily Sitka Sentinel sports editor Garland Kennedy and KCAW's Robert Woolsey to talk about the boom in eSports happening around the globe.
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Hunkering Down for many Sitkans means endless Netflix, but there is an alternative: KCAW's The Library Show is starting "Library BINGO." Five-in-a-row wins an Elizabeth Peratrovich coin. A "coverall" wins a giant Nutella cake baked by Library Show host Kari Sagel.
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Anxiety is a normal response to threat, as old as humankind itself. In an excerpt from an upcoming episode of Raven Radio's Health Chat, host Martha Pearson speaks with SEARHC psychiatrist S.R. Thorward about how to manage the very normal feelings of anxiety we're all experiencing around the coronavirus pandemic.
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Sitka Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins has partnered with a group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs -- including Google executive Max Henderson -- to develop a new website, covidactnow.org. In a very short time, the site has influenced policy-makers across the country, as they impose stricter measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Sitka firefighters responded to a small fire in a home bathroom on Monday afternoon (3-23-20). Chief engineer Craig Warren says the firehall received the call at 4:35 P.M. on Monday that a wastebasket was on fire in the bathroom of an upstairs apartment on Edgecumbe Drive. By the time firefighters had arrived on scene, the homeowner had contained the fire with a chemical extinguisher.
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Last Sunday (3-22-20) the City of Sitka issued a strong recommendation that Sitkans "Shelter in Place." Similar recommendations -- and in some places, mandates -- are happening all over the country. KCAW's Katherine Rose spoke with municipal administrator John Leach, and asked him to clarify what "Shelter in Place" means at this time for Sitkans.
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Daily Sitka Sentinel Sports editor Garland Kennedy wraps up Region V Basketball and the Iditarod, and contemplates life with nothing but eSports! With KCAW's Robert Woolsey.
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Lindsay Worthington is a professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM. She and USGS geologist Maureen Walton are heading up a major project to study the undersea Queen Charlotte Fault system, which they call "The San Andreas of the Pacific." The fault, which is offshore of Southeast Alaska, has had more frequent and larger seismic events over recent decades than its California cousin.
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