ON PARADE – Children dressed as their favorite animals hold a Sitka Spruce Tips 4-H Club banner as they march down Lincoln Street on Earth Day, Monday. The Parade of Species was held in recognition of Earth Day. It was hosted by Sitka Conservation Society, University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service and the Sitka Sound Science Center. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Daily Sitka Sentinel
August 19, 2013 Community Happenings
First Aid, CPR
Training on Tap
UAS-Sitka Campus, Office of Continuing Education, is offering American Heart Association first aid and CPR training 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Sept. 7, Oct. 5, Nov. 2 and 23.
Training fulfills OSHA and Coast Guard Requirements. Participants who successfully complete this course will receive Heartsaver cards.
Class is limited to 10 students. The $90 cost includes book. For more information or to register, call 747-7762.
School Supply
Drive on Tap
Steve Dalquist, an Edward Jones financial adviser in Sitka, is supporting a school supplies drive by using his office as a drop-off location for a school supplies drive.
Local residents and businesses may take items to the Edward Jones branch office, 223 Harbor Drive, during regular business hours Aug. 19-29. Call 747-1001 for information.
STA Panel Meets
The Sitka Tribe of Alaska Sitka Marine Mammal Commission will meet 7 p.m. Aug. 22 at STA’s Resource Protection Department office, 429 Katlian St. The public is invited to attend.
Date Change for
Bishop’s Visit
Bishop John Lokwango will speak at the First Presbyterian Church at both noon and 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 20.
Tonight’s meeting has been canceled due to flight changes.
Alaska Day Panel
Meets Aug. 20
Alaska Day Festival coordinators will meet 6:30 p.m. Aug. 20 at Centennial Hall.
Planning continues for the 2013 mid-October commemoration of the 1867 purchase transfer of Russian claim in Alaska to the United States.
Celebrating 50 years of the Alaska Marine Highway System will be the theme this year.
Persons having comments about festival activities and new volunteers are invited to attend the meetings or contact Chairman Ted Allio at 747-5124 or Schedule Coordinator Elaine Strelow at 747-3469. The festival’s mailing address is PO Box 1355, Sitka, and its website is alaskadayfestival.org.
Digital Program
At Park Weds.
In addition to regularly scheduled ranger-led programs, Sitka National Historical Park will host a special evening program this week, ‘‘Digitally Preserving the Russian Bishop’s House,’’ 7 p.m. Wednesday in the visitor center.
SNP Ranger Michael Hess will offer a look at how architects used computer modeling and a 3D laser scanner to document, measure, and preserve the 170-year-old Russian Bishop’s House for a special collection in the Library of Congress.
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20 YEARS AGO
April 2004
Michael Stringer, environmental specialist for Sitka Tribe of Alaska and a founder of the community garden, takes the concept of Earth Week literally. This weekend he hopes others will share his appreciation for “earth” and things growing in it by joining him in preparing the community garden just behind Blatchley Middle School for another growing season.
50 YEARS AGO
April 1974
Classified ads Houses for Sale: Price dropped to $36,500 for 2-story, 4-bdrm. carpeted home on Cascade. Kitchen appliances, drapes, laundry room, carport, handy to schools.
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