Author: Robert Woolsey, KCAW

Last two cruise ships cancel Sitka visits

The last two cruise ships of the season have cancelled their port calls in Sitka. The Holland America ships Westerdam and Oosterdam will bypass Sitka on Wednesday and Thursday September 25 & 26. Fred Reeder, port director for the Cruise Line Agencies of Alaska, says continued inclement weather off the coast forced the ships to cancel.

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Bauer: Raising the value of well being in communities

If you are sick and not feeling well, Dr. Ursula Bauer can’t do anything to make you better. But she IS doing a lot to help shape the policies and programs that may keep you from getting sick in the first place. Short of the Surgeon General, there’s almost no one in government more interested -- or more influential -- in helping create a culture of health in the US.

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Courtright wants a teacher’s voice on school board

COURTRIGHT_100A teacher at Mt. Edgecumbe High School is competing for a seat on Sitka’s school board. Stephen Courtright teaches music at the state-run boarding school. He says helping make policy for local schools is a way to contribute to the community, and bring in a teacher’s perspective.

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Poetry is at the top of Ann Staley’s list

Forty years ago, poet Ann Staley bought her first piece of artwork in Ashland, Oregon. It was a watercolor painting of a tree by Norm Campbell. Staley and Campbell have maintained a long friendship ever since. Over the next several weeks, the pair will collaborate on art and poetry in a new residency program developed by Sitka’s Island Institute. She stopped by recently to talk about how a poet and a painter collaborate. She spoke with KCAW’s Robert Woolsey.

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‘Beatrix Potter’ to revive musicals in Odess Theater

The newly-remodeled Odess Theater is going to stage its first musical in decades this fall. The Sitka Fine Arts Camp has launched a new program called the “Young Performer’s Theater.” Auditions will be held Saturday (9-21-13) for the company’s first show: “The Adventures of Beatrix Potter and Her Friends.”

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