LUTHERAN QUILTERS – Members of the Quilts for Comfort Group stand between pews draped with some of the 205 quilts they made, in the Sitka Lutheran Church Tuesday. The group made the quilts for five local non-profits and one in Anchorage. The remaining quilts are sent to Lutheran World Relief which distributes them to places around the world in need, such as Ukraine, as part of Personal Care Kits. Pictured are, from left, Helen Cunningham, Kathleen Brandt,Vicki Swanson, Paulla Hardy, Kim Hunter, Linda Swanson and Sue Fleming. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Daily Sitka Sentinel
October 29, 2014 Community Happenings
Youth Adventure
Club Set to Meet
Southeast Alaska Independent Living invites students in second through eighth grades for an afternoon Youth Adventure Club activity of games and snacks at Whale Park 3:30-5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12.
The activity is open to children of all ability levels. After-school pickup will be available. The cost is $10.
Contact Bridget for more information and to RSVP at 747-6859 or
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Seniors to Hike
Seniors 60 years and older of all ability levels are invited to hike with Southeast Alaska Independent Living 9:15-11:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 13.
Sarah Komisar from the Sitka Conservation Society will join the hike.
All experience levels are welcome, and all are encouraged to hike at their own pace. Participants should meet at the Swan Lake Senior Center at 9:15 a.m. Transportation to the trail head will be provided, as well as snacks and trekking poles. Hikers will return to the Swan Lake Senior Center by 11:30 a.m.
Contact Bridget for more information and to RSVP, 747-6859 or
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Parent Survey
Available Online
Parents of Sitka High School students are being asked to take a survey about the school’s vocational training.
The training has been accredited for more than 80 years, and is due to be renewed.
‘‘Input from parents is an essential component to the accreditation process, so we are asking for just a few moments of your time,’’ the school said.
To take the survey, log on to http://www.advanc-ed.org/survey/public/8835525.
Computers will also be set up at SHS during conferences for parents to complete the survey.
Discovery Days
At Science Center
Saturday’s 10 a.m.-noon Discovery Days event at the Sitka Sound Science Center will explore whales to gear up for the 18th annual Sitka Whalefest.
Hands-on whale activities are planned. Discovery Days are SSSC annual pass holder events. Passes can be purchased at the door for $50 a family or $30 per individual for the year. For more information contact Ashley at 747-8878 ext. 3 or
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Storefront, Costume
Contest Thursday
The Sitka Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring its Moonlight Madness merchant storefront and costume contest.
Merchants wishing to participate should contact the Sitka Chamber at 747-8604 or
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prior to the start of Moonlight Madness.
The annual Moonlight Madness shopping event will be 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30.
Quilters Meet
The Ocean Wave Quilt Guild will meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, at Grace Harbor Church on Halibut Point Road.
Doors open at 6:45 p.m. A business meeting is followed by show and tell and refreshments.
The program will include a presentation by Lisa Moore detailing her work with digital fabric printing and laser cutting of fabric. Yearly dues of $25 may be paid at the meeting.
The guild meets the first Tuesday of every month, September to May, and is open to all interested quilters. Call Jan Lovett, president of Ocean Wave Quilters, at 747-3653 for more information.
Shoebox Project
Gifts Due Nov. 2
Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes are due Nov. 2. For more information about the shoebox project, go to www.operationchristmaschild.org. For shoebox pick up or drop off information call Jeanette at 747-3445 or Susan at 747-5454.
UAS Closure
UAS Sitka Campus will be closed for business 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, for a staff and faculty training.
Regularly scheduled classes will be meeting. Students should contact their instructor with questions. The building will reopen 4-9 p.m. For more information call 747-7700.
Storewide Sale
At White E Shop
The White Elephant Shop will have a storewide half-price sale in the main store and in the children’s store for the Thursday noon to 3 p.m. opening. The boutique and bags of rags are excluded from the sale.
No School
Baranof Elementary students will not have school on Friday, Oct. 31, for a teacher workday. Call 747 5825 with questions.
9-Ball League Meets
Greater Sitka Pool League will hold a 9-Ball meeting 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, at the American Legion.
Island Institute
Playwright to
Hold Workshop
Dipika Guha. (Photo provided)
Dipika Guha, an award-winning, New York-based playwright, is in town for a residency with the Island Institute. This Thursday, she’ll lead a playwriting workshop to kick off a 48-hour playwriting “bake-off” for participants. The event will be held 6-8:30 p.m. in the Yaw Chapel on the SJ Campus.
Those in attendance will get a lesson in playwriting from Guha before splitting off to write a play of their own (and of any length) by 7 p.m. Saturday, at which point the group will re-convene to share their work. The plays will be based on a set of thematic “ingredients” to be announced at the Thursday workshop. No experience in playwriting is required.
Guha has been writing and leading workshops in Sitka since mid-September. Her two-month stay here is made possible by the Rasmuson Foundation’s Artist Residency Program. Much of Guha’s work centers around the intersections between history and daily life.
“What does it feel like to live inside history, since we don’t experience it in the ways that textbooks lay out?’’ she said. ‘‘We’re in constant conversation with history daily, (and my work tracks) the ways that small relationships are a container for larger questions about history. Where do our small lives meet newspaper headlines and big concerns of the day?”
Guha treats history and culture kaleidoscopically. “In playwriting,” she says, “you have the opportunity to start the world anew.“
The daughter of a teacher and a tea taster, she spent her childhood living in Russia, the UK, and India. The historical and cultural crosscurrents of her upbringing deeply inform her work.
“I recognized early that people are the same the world over, that I had something to learn from everyone,’’ she said. ‘‘That realization made it easy for me to feel at home and not hold on to my sense of difference wherever I am. Growing up in post-colonial India, I recognized that the teaching of history is still eurocentric, and there’s a really tangible impact in feeling left out of history. My writing challenges that. I look at ways that historical and cultural patterns repeat and have repeated in different cultures and times and places. I’m looking for the resonance of these patterns across cultures.”
While in Sitka, Guha is focusing on two projects. One is her first TV pilot, an exploration of grief, loss, impersonation and reincarnation. A woman’s son goes missing, and soon after a man enters her life who may be her son reincarnated.
Guha’s other project is a new play about a young female lawyer representing a man who is imprisoned without charge on an unnamed island. Set without specific time or place, the play looks at the contemporary relationship between America and the Islamic world. Many characters are unreliable narrators, and the audience is therefore asked to form their own truth based on what the characters say about themselves and each other.
In addition to this week’s playwriting workshop and “bake-off,” the Island Institute will host a reading of one of Guha’s newest works, “The Mechanics of Love,” on Nov. 16 on the SJ Campus. Local actors will read the parts. This will be the first time “The Mechanics of Love” has been read publicly. The play will be featured for a short run in New York in December through the Drama League DirectorsFest and a one-day reading at the Ma Yi LabFest.
Volunteer Day
On SJ Campus
The Sitka Fine Arts Camp will host a Volunteer Day on the SJ Campus 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday at Whitmore Hall.
A hot lunch will be provided at noon. All are welcome to join at any time. Call the Sitka Fine Arts Camp office at 747-3085 for more information.
Republican Women
Dinner Set Nov. 5
The Sitka Republican Women invite all women and men to join them for a post-election dinner 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5 at Van Winkle and Sons.
Those planning to attend should RSVP by Tuesday evening to Sheila at 738-3098.
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Photo caption: National Republican Chairman George Bush takes a drink of water offered by Jan Craddick, Sitka delegate, during the Republican convention held here. Mrs. Craddick explained to Bush that the water was from Indian River, which means, according to local legend, that he will return.