Daily Sitka Sentinel

July 25, 2014 Community Happenings

    On Dean’s List
    Alaire Hughey has been named to the Linfield College, McMinnville, Ore., spring semester dean’s list. To be named, students must complete 12 graded credits and be in the top 10 percent of their class.
  The 2012 Sitka High graduate is the daughter of Randy and Carol Hughey.

    Harp Sing Set
    The fourth Sunday Sitka sacred harp sing is scheduled 3:30-5 p.m. July 27  at the Sitka Pioneers Home Chapel.
    Beginners and listeners are always welcome. Call 738-2089 for more information.

    Festival Parade
    Route Changed
    The Sitka Seafood Festival has changed the parade route for Aug. 2, due to road construction.
    The parade will start at the Crescent Harbor parking lot and travel down Lincoln Street to the SJ Campus. It will begin immediately after the tote race, which starts at 11 a.m. at Crescent Harbor. The parade will begin approximately 11:45 a.m. or noon.
    Maritime themed-entrants are being encouraged, but are not required. All are welcome and there is no entry fee.
    Parade floats and children’s costumes will be judged for creativity and a cash prize for first place will be given –  $100 for the best float and $50 for the best child’s costume. For more information, call Linda at 747 6985.

    Volunteers Sought
    To Pick Vegetables
    The Sitka Local Foods Network is seeking a few volunteer harvesters to help pick the veggies at the St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm on Friday afternoons and occasional Saturday mornings.
    Pickers are needed 3:30-5:30 p.m. every Friday throughout the summer to help harvest for the Sitka Farmers Market and the booth at Chelan Produce on non-market weeks.
    Volunteer harvesters also are needed 8-9:30 a.m. on the Saturdays on Farmers Market days.
    St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm is a communal garden located behind St. Peter’s By The Sea Episcopal Church on Lincoln Street. Volunteer harvesters usually can get small amounts of produce for their families when they help at the garden. For more information, contact lead gardener Laura Schmidt at 738-7009. Volunteer harvesters should call Schmidt to arrange a time.

Indian River Trail
Hike Rescheduled
The July 26 Indian River Trail hike has been rescheduled to Saturday, Aug. 30, in order to avoid aggressive wasps on the Indian River trail.
Sitka Trail Works and the USFS Sitka Ranger District are arranging for pest control to remove the wasps on Monday, July 28. Until then, hikers are being advised to avoid the Indian River trail area near the swimming hole and rope swing.
For more information call 747-7244, or visit http://www.sitkatrailworks.org.
 
 
    White E Shop
    Sale Saturday
    The Sitka White Elephant Shop will have a storewide half-price sale noon-3 p.m. Saturday, July 26. Excluded are boutique and bags of rags.

    Pressure Canner
    Gauges Tested
    Cooperative Extension Service agent Sarah Lewis will test pressure canner gauges from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 26, at the Sitka Farmers Market.
    Lewis said gauges should be tested annually to ensure they reach the pressure needed to preserve foods safely. The agent will also answer questions about pressure canners and food preservation and offer publications on home canning.
    The market is located at the ANB Founders Hall. For more information, call Susie at the Juneau Extension office at 523-3280, ext. 0.

    Girl Scout Day
    Camp Registers
    Girls ages 5-18 are invited to Girl Scout Day Camp 10 a.m.-5 p.m. July 28-Aug. 1 at the Sitka Lutheran Church. Girls need not be registered Girl Scouts to attend.
    The cost is $40 per girl or $60 for a family. Financial aid is available. Pre-register online at http://girlscoutsalaska.org/programs/camps, or register in person at camp.
    Girls should take lunch, water bottle, rain gear and running shoes. For information, or to volunteer to help with camp, call 907-947-5357.

   
    Symposium
    Dinner Cruise
    Sets Sail Friday
    Island Institute Symposium will feature a dinner cruise Friday. Leaving from Crescent Harbor at 6 p.m., the Allen Marine cruise will be for three hours, and includes a king salmon dinner catered by the Larkspur.
    The cruise is the final evening event of this year’s symposium.
    The symposium returned this summer for the first time since 2009, with the theme ‘‘Radical Imagining: Changing the Story with Stories of Change.’’
    A second Island Institute program – the Sitka Fellows Program – will be highlighted on the cruise. The Sitka Fellows include an illustrator, a writer, a printmaker, a graphic novelist, a physicist, and a musician. On the dinner cruise, each will speak for a few minutes about their work, and about what they hope to accomplish in their seven weeks in Sitka.
    Dinner cruise tickets cost $50, and are available at Old Harbor Books.
    On Friday morning, writer Luis Urrea will deliver a talk centered around the symposium theme. The talk will take place in the Yaw Chapel at 9 a.m., and will be followed by a discussion.
    Urrea, a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, is a prolific and acclaimed writer who uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore greater themes of love, loss and triumph, the Institute said.
    Major support for the Sitka Symposium has come from the Alaska Humanities Forum, the Skaggs Foundation, and Island Institute members. For further information, visit the Island Institute website at www.islandinstitutealaska.org or call 747-3794.