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
August 15, 2017, Community Happenings
Chamber to Meet
Alyssa Russell and Emma Edson of the Sitka Seafood Festival will address the Chamber of Commerce noon Wednesday at the Westmark Sitka.
The Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust has taken over sponsorship of the festival. Activities will run through November.
Chamber luncheons are open to the public.
Anthropologist
To Speak Friday
Anthropologist and photographer Carlos Tobon Franco will give a free presentation 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18, at the Odess Theater on the SJ Campus.
Franco has been an artist-in-residence as a part of a partnership between the Ministry of Culture for the country of Colombia and the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. He has been creating a project documenting his time in Alaska as well as the lives of Sitkans and their relationship to the natural world.
Fish to Schools
Coho Drive Set
Commercial fishermen are being called for the Fish to Schools annual coho donation drive Aug. 16-31 at both Seafood Producers Cooperative and Sitka Sound Seafoods.
Fishermen are being asked to consider donating some coho salmon to ensure that all kids in Sitka schools can eat locally-caught fish throughout the school year. To donate, sign up and indicate the number of fish to donate while offloading.
Donation drive sign-up sheets are being posted at the scale shacks and in the main offices. For FAS coho contributions contact Lexi at 738-5684. Only coho will be accepted.
For more information about the Fish to Schools program or the Coho Donation Drive contact the Sitka Conservation Society at sophie@sitkawild.org or call 747-7509.
Tribal Council
Meets Aug. 16
The Sitka Tribe of Alaska Tribal Council will meet 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 16, at the Sheet’ka Kwáan Naa Kahídi. It will feature a “tribal citizens to be heard” item on the agenda. For public comment contact Anne Davis, 747-7352.
STA School Supplies
Distribution on Tap
Sitka Tribe of Alaska’s annual backpack and school supplies distribution will be 4-7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 21, at the SEACC, STA Language and Education Office, 205 Baranof Street.
All Sitka Tribe of Alaska Tribal citizens with school-aged children are invited. Those unable to attend can stop in at the office between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 22-23.
For more information contact Lillian Young at 966-1357 or Lakrisha Johnson, 966-1956.
Emblem Meets
Sitka Emblem Club officers will meet 5:15 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, at Sitka Elks Lodge.
Shoes Offered
To Tribal Youths
The Sitka Tribe of Alaska Social Services Department fall Family Preservation project is assisting Tribal families by providing tennis shoes or Xtratuf boots to 100 enrolled Tribal youths.
Registration begins Tuesday, Aug. 15, for the first 100 youths who submit a completed request form. Gift cards will be distributed Monday, Aug. 21, during the STA Back to School Backpack Distribution.
To receive a gift card, youths must currently reside in Sitka and be enrolled in STA; forms must be completed by the youth’s parent or legal guardian only; must be ages 1-18.
Shoes are available first come, first served. Request forms are at the Social Services office, 110 American Street.
Resolutions
Sought by ANS
Alaska Native Sisterhood members are requested to take their Grand Camp resolutions to the 6:30 p.m. Aug. 15 and 22 ANS meetings at the ANB Founders Hall.
Lake Diana Closes
To Goat Hunting
The Sitka District Ranger, under authority delegated by the Federal Subsistence Board, is closing the Lake Diana zone to the harvest of mountain goats effective 11:59 p.m. Aug. 17.
The closure will remain in effect through the remainder of the season which ends Dec. 31. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has issued a concurrent closure in the same zone.
The rest of Baranof Island will remain open for goat hunting unless closed by past or future special action.
A map and description of the closed areas are available from the Sitka Ranger District Office and the Sitka area office of ADF&G.
Information on federal subsistence management special actions for the Tongass National Forest can be found at http://www.fs.usda.gov/news/tongass/news-events. For additional information, call Subsistence Biologist Justin Koller at 747-4297 or email him at jpkoller@fs.fed.us.
STA Cultural
Panel to Meet
The Sitka Tribe of Alaska’s Cultural Customary and Traditional Committee will meet noon Friday, Aug. 18, at the Resource Protection Department offices at 429 Katlian Street. A light lunch will be served and the public is invited to attend.
Organists to Give Recital
At Sitka Lutheran Church
A recital on the historic Kessler organ by William and Yvonne Kuhlman is planned noon Aug. 16 at Sitka Lutheran Church.
Critics have hailed organist William Kuhlman as “a world-class performer” whose playing “communicates musical purpose and excitement.” His 40-year teaching and performing career has spanned a broad range of activities, from concerts with the Dallas and Philadelphia Brass and Chicago Symphony Trumpeter Adolph Herseth, solo recitals in the cathedrals of Trondheim, Rotterdam and Vienna, and publication of his scholarly work in the national organ journals, ‘‘The Diapason’’ and ‘‘The American Organist.’’
He has performed with the famed Empire Brass.
In one year, he was aired on four different National Public Radio programs including “Performance Today,” “Saint Paul Sunday Morning,” “Pipedreams” and “All Things Considered.” He has recorded on the large mechanical action organ at the Center for Faith and Life built by Robert Sipe, where “Baroque Music for Organ and Brass” was recorded with the Empire Brass under the Telarc label and issued internationally in 2003.
He has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the George C. Marshall Foundation. In 2004 he performed concerts with the Sistema Nacional para las Orquestas Juveniles e Infantile de Venezuela (The Venezuelan State Foundation for the National System of Youth Orchestras), along with trumpet virtuoso Marc Reese in Caracas, Venezuela.
His compilation of organ literature and sacred tunes titled “The Organist’s Music Library Plus” has proved to be an invaluable tool for organists, performers and scholars. His most recent recitals have been in Mesa, Tucson and Sun City West, Ariz., Rochester, Minn., Cresco, Iowa, and Valparaiso Chile. Following retirement, he was awarded an honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and was named professor and dollege organist emeritus of Luther College, in Decorah, Iowa, where he worked for 38 years.
Yvonne Kuhlman served as director of campus programming from 1985 to 2005 when she went to England to co-direct the Nottingham Study Program with her husband Bill Kuhlman.
In her role at Luther College, she coordinated the Center Stage Series which brought internationally renowned performers and speaker to the campus and community. She also headed many special events, celebrations and visits by royalty during her tenure.
She is a graduate in organ studies from Saint Olaf College with further study at Syracuse University, the University of Iowa and Westminster Choir College, where she sang performances at Lincoln Center, New York, with Maestro Leonard Bernstein.
Prior to her career at Luther, she served as director of music in four states and taught at various times in the department of music at Luther College while raising her family, giving private organ and piano lessons and working as music buyer at Kephart’s Music Center in Decorah, Iowa.
Sesquicentennial
Scheduling Aug. 17
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the transfer of Alaska from Imperial Russia to the United States, local agencies, community organizations and individuals interested in coordinating their plans for the Alaska sesquicentennial commemoration are invited to Sitka National Historical Park’s visitor center 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, for a planning meeting.
The goal of the gathering is to coordinate sesquicentennial programming throughout 2017, and update the calendar of events to help promote programing and reduce conflicts.
For more information contact Ryan Carpenter at 747-0121.
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