TRUCK FIRE – Firefighters knock down a fire in a Ford Explorer truck in Arrowhead Trailer Park in the 1200 block of Sawmill Creek Road Saturday evening. One person received fire-related injuries and was taken to the hospital, Sitka Fire Department Chief Craig Warren said, and the truck was considered a total loss. The cause of the fire is under investigation, Warren said. The fire hall received the call about the fire at 5:33 p.m., and one fire engine with eight firefighters and an ambulance were dispatched, he said. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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May 22, 2018, Letters to the Editor
Electric Ordinance
Dear Editor: Almost six months has passed since Assembly approval of incentive ordinance 2017-39S and to my knowledge it has not attracted new electric loads. If so, I urge the Assembly to revisit the idea and approve an electric incentive rate.
Sitka is today about the only community in Alaska with surplus electric energy. If I recall, it was recently reported there is 4 MW of capacity and over 40,000 MWh of energy available although new heat load is planned. Heat load has its purpose, but it lacks two fundamental elements: it does not create jobs nor revenue.
As noted at the May 8 Assembly meeting, regulatory uncertainty will chill investment interests. The ability to calculate energy costs up front allows business interests to plan a project and act accordingly. Low energy costs during company start-up provides maximum inertia for getting airborne. However, this surplus energy is a finite resource. Perhaps a lifetime opportunity. As a published rate, it’s fair game, first-come, first-served, for any potential customer. Clearly, this is a marketing dream and should be advertised far and wide; at least from Juneau to Ketchikan.
I personally believe commercial agriculture is the missing link in our Sitka chain of life. But who knows what ideas may arise. A niche wood facility using second-growth Tongass timber, or a facility turning fish waste into a viable product, or allied marine industries at the industrial park. A published rate may encourage those with an idea to give it a go. What better use of our energy?
Please realize our hydro facilities can easily pay for themselves if we are clever enough to use the energy. Happily, at virtually no cost to anyone, the Assembly can amend the rates. Should we try and no one is interested, no harm no foul. Check my math, but even a $0.05/kWh rate could yield $2 million in new revenue – sweet!
Christopher Brewton, Sitka
Pacific High School
Dear Editor: I listened to the many speeches praising the graduates at Pacific High School. They deserved the praise. Where many of us question the cost keeping PHS, involves the use of so many superlatives, when their praiseworthy achievements are equal to but not greater than successes of their peers at Sitka High School.
Every day, SHS students overcome obstacles and achieve impressive goals, without exaggeration. At great cost to the district, PHS misleads us into thinking that the extraordinary does not happen all the time in our regular high school. Why are we paying extra to have happy talk wafted at us?
John Welsh, Sitka
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20 YEARS AGO
March 2004
Businesses using the Centennial Hall parking lot testified Tuesday against a proposal to charge them rent in addition to the $200 annual permit fee. City Administrator Hugh Bevan made the proposal in response to the Assembly’s direction to Centennial Hall manager Don Kluting to try to close the $340,000 gap between building revenues and operational costs.
50 YEARS AGO
March 1974
Alaska Native Brotherhood Grand President William S. Paul Sr. will be special guest and speaker at the local ANB, Alaska Native Sisterhood Founders Day program Monday at the ANB Hall.