Elsbeth Poe is the Young Performer's Theater director at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. She's joined by camp executive director Roger schmidt to discuss a new after-school theater program for kids age 7-18. They'll be holding auditions this Saturday (9-21-13) at Yaw Chapel for their first musical production, The Adventures of Beatrix Potter and her Friends. For complete audition information visit the Sitka Fine Arts Camp online.
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School board president Lon Garrison has served two terms overseeing Sitka’s schools; this October he’ll ask voters for a third. Garrison, like many board members, was first elected when his kids were in school. Now that his daughters have graduated, he says he’s following his passion, and using experience in policy and legislative advocacy to make a good school district even better.
SHS Wolves Football coach Beau Hedrick, and seniors Lucky Miguel and Jaren Sumauang, talk about the season's slow start, as good weather and excellent fishing kept many players on the water longer than expected. The Wolves play next this Saturday (Thunder Mountain, 2PM Sat Sep 21, lower Moller Field).
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Southeast Alaska has more residents – and more jobs – than ever. That’s according to a report released during the Southeast Conference’s annual meeting in Sitka.
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Lauren Oakes is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University. She’s spent the past two years studying yellow cedar decline in the Tongass. Oakes is not trying to learn why yellow cedar are dying -- that’s already been attributed to climate change. Rather, she and her team are studying what’s next: How will the forest plant community be affected by the loss of cedar trees? How will their loss affect us?
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Rachel Thompson, with Maine's Island Institute, is holding a two-part workshop on climate change science. "Communicating Local Impacts of Climate Change" (9AM-5PM Sat Sep 14, Keet Gooshi Heen Room 26, free) will help hone the communication skills of teachers, fishermen, and others interested in communicating climate change research. The "WeatherBlur Orientation" (9AM-4PM Sun Sep 15, Keet Gooshi Heen Room 26, free) will introduce participants to an online learning community.
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The two candidates for Sitka’s school board this year agree on much, but also have one key difference: How they view the role of the superintendent. Incumbent Lon Garrison and challenger Stephen Courtright answered questions for about an hour at the Sitka Chamber of Commerce this week (9-11-13), in the first candidate forum of the municipal election season.
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Mollie Kabler and Kitty LaBounty, hosts (for over 20 years!) of KCAW's Garden Show, discuss how to prepare our gardens for winter.
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It doesn't seem possible that it has been almost two decades since we were listening to Lisa Nurnberger deliver our local news! Now she is Lisa Snyder and here she is pictured with daughter Evangeline. Let's keep Raven flying strong for the next 20 years! As Lisa said "Just renewed my membership cause Raven is the most creative, rockin' station bar none!" Please contribute towards our $55,000 Fall Drive goal. We need everybody to get there!
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Raven Radio News Reporter Ed Ronco is moving to Seattle to become Morning Edition producer at KPLU in Seattle. He starts in October. Ed came to KCAW in September, 2009, from Indiana, where he covered business, politics and government at the South Bend Tribune. He's on the job here through the end of the month, but he plans to remain a proud member of Raven Radio for the rest of his life.
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