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Lorrie Pope and Donna Chase participate and enjoy a tea party at Island Cove Adult day program. The program is the only adult day program in the stat that is open 7 days a week. It is a program of the Senior Citizens of Kodiak Inc. and has been providing services since 1991. (Pat Branson photo)
Senior Life: Feb. 8
One of the best events of the year is coming up at the senior center: Valentine’s Day. This is the event where we honor all people 80 and older on Kodiak Island. This year we have 162 people 80 and older living on Kodiak Island. Many years ago, people left Kodiak when they retired so the number of people 80 and older who remained in our community was a lot less. Now we are experiencing the largest growth in senior...
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KHS dance clinic
A member of Kodiak High School’s dance team helps a kid at a dance clinic Saturday at Kodiak Middle School. More than 60 kids participated in the clinic. (Derek Clarkston photo)
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The floor plan of the proposed Kodiak Island Borough long-term care facility is seen in this architectural drawing. (Image courtesy Kodiak Island Borough)
Analysis: Care center lease is matter of balancing risk
The deciding vote comes tonight as the Kodiak Island Borough assembly decides whether or not to commit the borough to a $15.375 million nursing home next to the borough-owned hospital on Rezanof Drive. The borough will build and own the facility, formally called a long-term care facility, while Providence Alaska will operate and lease it. The core document in this agreement is a 20-year lease between Providence an...
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Prep hoops: Kodiak girls improve to 16-0 with win over Chugiak
Hannah Wandersee enjoys playing Chugiak. The Kodiak junior posted a double-double in the Bears’ 57-33 victory over the Mustangs Wednesday afternoon at the Lady Lynx Basketball Tournament at Dimond High in Anchorage. Wandersee scored a game-high 16 points – 12 in the first half — and grabbed 10 rebounds. Earlier this season, Wandersee scored a career-high 24 points in a 53-30 win over Chugiak. The 24-point win ...
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Public Safety Blotter: Feb. 7
Tuesday, Feb. 5 • At 12:55 a.m. and 1:02 a.m., an officer was on foot patrol on Marine Way. • At 4:55 a.m., a man reported a dog was barking incessantly. Animal control found the dog but was unable to capture it. • At 8:48 a.m., a business was broken into and the cash register was stolen. • At 9:04 a.m., a vehicle was cited for a parking offense. • At 9:45 a.m., a caller reported someone was driving with an invali...
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State Trooper Report: Feb. 7
Sunday, Feb. 3 Alaska State Troopers responded to a report of an alarm at Mill Bay Gas n’ Go at 12:02 a.m. Investigation revealed the business had been broken into with extensive damage done to two separate doors inside the business. Nothing was stolen from the business.
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Sara Loewen-Danelski holds her recently published book "Gaining Daylight" Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 at the Kodiak College library. (Nicole Klauss photo)
Kodiak woman publishes book about life on two islands
Sara Loewen-Danelski never thought the essays she wrote for a graduate class would turn into a book, but that’s exactly what happened. Loewen-Danelski recently published a book called “Gaining Daylight” that details her experiences growing up on Kodiak Island, living in a remote set net camp with her family, and navigating motherhood. “I had written them essay by essay and after I finished I thought, ‘that’s done ...
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Kodiak High School's Tsunami Bowl team will head to Seward to compete in the competition this weekend, on Feb. 5. From left, Switgard Duesterloh, Chellene Medina, McKenzie Barnett, Hannah Christian, Deborah Bitanga and Jane Eisemann are pictured standing, with John Roy in the front. (Nicole Klauss photo)
Sharp ocean brains head to Seward’s ‘Tsunami Bowl’
Five students from Kodiak High School will travel to Seward today to compete in the 16th annual Tsunami Bowl. The Tsunami Bowl is an annual regional ocean sciences competition in Alaska, which is part of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl. The bowl begins on Friday and runs through Sunday. Each team of students was required to prepare a 20-page research paper that was submitted in December, and will be required to g...
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Report: Three in four seafood workers nonresident
A new state report has found three in four Alaska seafood processing workers are not Alaska residents, the highest percentage of any Alaska industry. Last month, the Alaska Department of Labor released its annual “Residency of Alaska Workers” report, which showed 20.1 percent of Alaska’s 414,000 workers don’t live in the state. That percentage is the highest since 1997, when 20.3 percent of the state’s workers wer...
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Around Kodiak: Feb. 7
Where can you fly off in a hot air balloon, crash land on a deserted island, battle giant crabs, chickens and bees and meet Captain Nemo? Why, in Ray Harryhausen’s magnificent adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic novel: Mysterious Island. Come see it in the public library at 7 p.m. tonight. Admission and refreshments are free! Call Joe at 486-8686 for more information. The Kodiak Island Borough assembly meets at 7...
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