DIVE PRACTICUM – Dive student Karson Winslow hands a discarded garden hose to SCUBA instructor Haleigh Damron, standing on the dock, at Crescent Harbor this afternoon. The University of Alaska Southeast Sitka Campus Dive Team is clearing trash from the harbor floor under floats 5, 6 and 7 as part of their instruction. Fourteen student divers are taking part this year. This is the fifth year the dive team has volunteered to clean up Sitka harbors. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Daily Sitka Sentinel
July 16, 2017, Community Happenings
Sitkan to Receive
NM Scholarship
Makayla Dawn Murphy has been named a National Merit Scholarship winner at Washington State University.
The 2017 Sitka High School graduate will study international human rights. She is the daughter of Richelle and Gerald Murphy.
National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced about 900 additional winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities. Designees join more than 3,200 other college-sponsored award recipients who were announced in June.
College-sponsored awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
Festival Schedules
Lectures, Concerts
The Sitka Arts and Science Festival has scheduled free lectures and concerts 7 p.m. July 23-26 and July 30-Aug. 2 in the Odess Theater.
Topics include photography, botany, fish skin sewing, marine science, illustration and early music. Showcases of festival work are on Thursday, July 27, at the Del Shirley Room upstairs at the Odess Theater, and Thursday, Aug. 3, at the Sitka Sound Science Center.
Call Sitka Fine Arts Camp, 747-3085 for more information or visit www.sitkafestival.org.
Cellobration
Concert July 23
The Sitka Summer Music Festival will hold its annual Cellobration 4 p.m. Sunday, July 23, at Centennial Hall.
Cellobration is a celebration of the cello seminar students
Airport Terminal
Public Event Set
The concept plan and preliminary funding plan for improvements to the Sitka Airport Terminal will be presented for public review and comment 5:30-7 p.m. Thursday, July 20, at Harrigan Centennial Hall.
Stortz Photos
Book Released
Old Harbor Books will host a book release reception for ‘‘William Stortz Photographs’’ 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 20. Proceeds from sales of the book, edited by Libby Stortz, will go to Sitka Conservation Society and the Audubon Society.
Library Panel
Slated to Meet
The Sitka Library Commission will meet 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 2, at Sitka Public Library. All are invited to attend.
For further information, visit the library, call 747-8708, or email maite.lorente@cityofsitka.org.
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20 YEARS AGO
April 2004
Photo caption: Sitka High students in the guitar music class gather in the hall before the school’s spring concert. The concert was dedicated to music instructor Brad Howey, who taught more than 1,000 Sitka High students from 1993 to 2004. From left are Kristina Bidwell, Rachel Ulrich, Mitch Rusk, Nicholas Mitchell, Eris Weis and Joey Metz.
50 YEARS AGO
April 1974
The Fair Deal Association of Sealaska shareholders selected Nelson Frank as their candidate for the Sealaska Board of Directors at the ANB Hall Thursday.