SAIL to set sail with sunset cruise fundraiser
Southeast Alaska Independent Living will be offering an Allen Marine fundraiser cruise. SE Program Director Joel Hanson joined KCAW's Meredith Redick to discuss the event.
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The ADRC offers help for aging or disabled people who prefer to remain at home
Joel Hanson is with SAIL (Southeast Alaska Independent Living) and Kate Grumbles is with the Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC), which has been housed at SAIL for the past year. The ADRC can help people remain in their homes, by steering them toward a variety of resources and grants -- and help with Medicaid enrollment.
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Salty Spoke Bike Co-op provides sliding scale bike maintenance to members
The Salty Spoke Bike Co-op's mission is to make biking a safe, accessible, enjoyable and affordable means of transportation for Sitkans. They're hosting Saturday work days and a series of workshops in the month of February.
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Trying to figure out the future of Tongass timber – by February
What is the future of timber on the Tongass? That's the daunting question before the Tongass Advisory Committee, which is holding its fifth meeting in Juneau this week. But for some, the most important issues on the Tongass are the ones the committee isn’t supposed to address.
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Court orders a second look at controversial fish observer program
A US District Court judge has ruled that a newly-implemented fisheries observer program in the Gulf of Alaska may have become unreliable, and is sending federal managers back to the drawing board to fix it. The decision by Judge H. Russel Holland is being hailed as a victory by Southeast Alaska’s longline fleet, who have chafed under the new system, which requires them to carry human observers on their relatively small vessels. But federal fisheries managers see it as a win as well.
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