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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School’s Out– What Are You Going to Do Now?
By ABIGAIL BLISS
Sentinel Staff Writer
As the snow turns to slush, the days grow longer, and signs of herring start to appear, Sitkans are gearing up for the warmer weather ahead.
Some, impatient for the sunshine, jetted off to tropical spots for this week’s Sitka School District’s spring break; others are taking advantage of the (hopefully) climbing temperatures to complete outdoor chores or spring cleaning. Sentinel Staff took a jaunt around town Friday to learn locals’ spring break plans.
Jerry Kowchee of the Sitka Tribe of Alaska said he would head for Nome, his hometown.
Jerry Kowchee
“They’re having basketball starting this week, and that was featured on ESPN as one of nation’s largest tournaments,” he said.
Kowchee said he could crash with family members and watch mushers cross the Iditarod sled dog race finish line at the end of the week.
Isaac Williams, who is in kindergarten at Baranof Elementary School, said he would be going to Hawaii over spring break.
Isaac Williams
“I’m going to swim, like, in the water,” he said. “We’re going to buy a house right by the beach.”
His classmate, Koda Neuharth, said his family would be visiting Disneyland.
“I’m going to run around, I’m going to go somewhere to eat, I’m going to see Donald Duck,” he said, adding that he hoped to see a “big tunnel” and a “water slide.”
Koda Neuharth
The pair’s exciting plans have yet to be confirmed by their parents.
Some Sitkans have their sights set on having their spring break fun closer to home.
Naomi Buck said she and her son, Colter, would be staying in town, and she had signed him up for gymnastics classes.
“We’ll probably do a lot of reading, too,” she said.
“Legoland!” her son exclaimed.
Colter Buck
“That’s not until next Christmas,” she reminded him.
Sitka High junior Lily Hood said she plans to lay low, and hopes to get some hiking in if the weather cooperates.
“I have a lot of homework over spring break ... But, out of sight, out of mind?” she said.
Lily Hood
Rob Woolsey, news director at Raven Radio, said it may be spring break for some, but he would be keeping his nose to the grindstone. He said he would be “making sure Sitka is well-informed and up to date during our hectic budget season.”
Rob Woolsey
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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.
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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.
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