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SAGA to Cease AmeriCorps Program, Hopes Another Org Will Save It
Nineteen AmeriCorps volunteers throughout the state were told this week their positions, including stipends and benefits, could end on Monday.
As a second year AmeriCorps member, Maia Wolf volunteers at Discovery Southeast, a nature education nonprofit. She got the news the same way fellow AmeriCorps volunteers in Juneau, Anchorage, Homer, Seward and Cordova did – in a teleconference Tuesday.
The volunteers thought they had secure positions through July. Wolf says they're frustrated.
"It's financially difficult for a lot of people. We're coming out of college. We don't have a lot of savings and so not having something lined up and having so little time to look for a new position is difficult," Wolf says.
The volunteers affected are specifically AmeriCorps members with Southeast Alaska Guidance Association, or SAGA. The Juneau nonprofit is ceasing operation of its AmeriCorps program due to financial troubles, and hopes another program in the state can take it over. SAGA has been bringing AmeriCorps volunteers to Alaska for 20 years to work on service projects on public lands and volunteer with schools and nonprofits.
Discovery Southeast Executive Director Shawn Eisele says the organization plans to support Wolf for the full length of her contract, regardless of what happens to the AmeriCorps program.AWARE hopes to do the same for its AmeriCorps volunteer.
Saralyn Tabachnick is the executive director of Juneau's domestic abuse and sexual assault prevention nonprofit. She says the AmeriCorps volunteer at AWARE serves as a children's advocate and fills a real need.
"She works with kids who are living in shelter, acclimates them to shelter, spends time with them, safety plans with them, facilitates groups for them, helps them feel like the unique people that they are," Tabachnick says.
She says if SAGA's AmeriCorps program doesn't get picked up by another organization, AWARE will try to raise funds to keep its volunteer on as long as possible.
Faith Lee is the coordinator of Sitka AmeriCorps, the program that might take on SAGA's volunteers. If it's financially viable, Lee says Sitka AmeriCorps could ensure SAGA members had support to complete their terms.
"We would take on all of the reporting, filing, payroll, health insurance," Lee says.
The Sitka School District runs the community's AmeriCorps program. Lee says the administration is figuring out what the budget implication of doubling the number of AmeriCorps members will be to the district.
SAGA receives $250,000 in federal funds as well as community contributions to run its 11-month AmeriCorps program.
Lee hopes Sitka AmeriCorps can help out.
"I felt really bad that 19 young adults were maybe not going to have an advocate and that's something that I really take to heart because I want them to have a great experience. I want them to leave a footprint and make an impact and feel good about their service. And hopefully continue to volunteer for the rest of their lives," Lee says.
Sitka's 6-year-old AmeriCorps program and SAGA's have had a great relationship in the past, Lee says.
"They actually mentored us and shared everything when we first took on AmeriCorps. They were wonderful. Without them, we would've really struggled. SAGA has contributed to our state for many years. If I can help in any way, I'm more than happy to put that extra time in," she says.
SAGA board member George McGuan says faced with a $350,000 debt and no way of repaying it, the board is seeking legal counsel to figure out what to do next.
University of Alaska Regents Approve Tobacco Ban
The University of Alaska Board of Regents has approved a policy banning smoking and other tobacco use on its campuses statewide.
The language passed by regents during a meeting in Anchorage Thursday says, "The University is committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for its students, employees, and visitors, by prohibiting tobacco use and smoking, including the use of electronic cigarettes and similar products, within its campuses and facilities."
No funding is attached to the policy which will be up to campus communities to implement.
Tobacco use will be allowed inside private vehicles.
The ban takes effect December first 2015.
Butler to Return as Alaska's Top Doctor
Jay Butler is returning to his job as the state's top doctor.
Health and Social Services Commissioner Valerie Davidson says in a release that Butler will be both the state's chief medical officer and director of the Division of Health.
Davidson also announced Jon Sherwood will be deputy commissioner for Medicaid and Health Care Policy.
Both appointments are effective immediately but subject to legislative approval.
Butler was previously the chief medical officer from 2007-09. He left to work for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Before he returned to the state position, he was senior director of the Division of Community Health Services at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Anchorage.
Sherwood is a 25-year veteran of the state health department.
Study: Climate Change Hurting Salmon Habitat
Scientists know climate change is altering rain and snowfall patterns in Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest. A new study details how that could affect salmon and suggests what can be done.
"Global climate change may become one of the most pressing challenges to Pacific Salmon conservation and management for Southeast Alaska in the 21st Century."
That's the opening statement in a report released earlier this year by The Nature Conservancy scientists Colin Shanley and David Albert.
Standing next to a fast-running Juneau creek, Shanley says the research began by examining about a half-century of Southeast stream-gauge measurements.
"By doing that we can figure out how historical patterns of temperature and precipitation affected our current stream discharges and things important to salmon," he says.
The researchers looked at how warming temperatures and changing rain and snow patterns have, and will, affect the sources of streams.
"Those watersheds that are generally fed by deep snowpack in the mountains might see fluctuations in their snowpack. And that in turn affects how much water is in the river throughout the rest of the next summer," Shanley says.
One threat is flooding during the spawning and incubation period. The study projects that will happen more often during key times.
"When the salmon run up the river in the fall, they're laying their eggs in the gravel and leaving them there, hoping that they'll hatch. And some of these high-water events, where you get rain on snow, are going to cause more flooding events, or that's what we predict. So certain streams are more susceptible to scour and loss of salmon eggs," Shanley says.
In other places, streams may have less water and flow slower.
That's already happened in parts of central and southern Southeast, killing fish.
"For the salmon streams that are really reliant on a more consistent rain to maintain adequate flows, you're seeing water temperatures exceed what salmon can really tolerate," he says.
Shanley says some of those scenarios can be addressed.
The study recommends restoring or improving damaged streams and rivers. That includes more of the restoration work already being done, including adding trees and stumps.
"The wood in the water slows down the water, so that can help with higher water. … That'll get cooler and then they (salmon) can hide from predators and direct sunlight," he says.
Shanley says fixing culverts and reconnecting diverted streams to wetlands would also help. That's also been done, but he says more is needed.
He adds other change will come without human assistance.
"What we imagine happening is kind of a shifting in productivity of streams in Southeast Alaska. Because there is a great variety of streams in terms of mountainous headwaters and glaciated headwaters and low-elevation floodplains that were really set up to be pretty resilient," he says.
Changes in watersheds could affect other plants and animals, as well as community drinking water supplies. That's been predicted for a while.
But Shanley says it's not all bad.
"This is not a doom-and-gloom outlook. This is really just us just getting smarter about how climate change may play out and how it might affect resources that are valuable to us," he says.
The two-year study was published in the Public Library of Science-One, an international, peer-reviewed, online publication. It cost about $90,000, with grants from the Alaska Sustainable Salmon Fund and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
The Nature Conservancy is an international conservation organization. Other regional projects include Tongass National Forest restoration projects and small business development.
10 Years On, Selendang Ayu Spill's Legacy Still Evolving
This week marks 10 years since the bulk carrier Selendang Ayu ran aground off Unalaska Island. The ship lost power and broke in half against the shore, spilling oil and its soybean cargo, and leaving six crew members dead.
It was the biggest shipping disaster in the Aleutians' recent history – and its impacts are still evolving today.
Name a maritime disaster in the Aleutian Islands, and Dan Magone has probably helped clean it up. He's been salvaging shipwrecks since long before a real spill response system was in place.
That had changed, thanks to the Exxon Valdez, by December 2004, when the Selendang Ayu lost power north of Unalaska. But even then, Magone says:
Dan Magone: "We were very ill-equipped to deal with a ship of that size."
There was no automatic tracking to give early warning that the 738-foot vessel was in trouble — and no heavy-duty tugboats nearby to rescue it. Tow lines from local tugs kept snapping, and the Selendang's anchors didn't hold.
Magone got on scene just as the vessel went aground, and the Coast Guard started airlifting the crew to safety. With a squall moving in, Magone went back to Unalaska.
Magone: "We landed at the airport, and I got out of the helicopter as my son was driving by in a welding truck. He pulls off to the side of the road, comes over and gives me a great big hug, which was totally out of character. But what I didn't know was the Coast Guard helicopter crashed not long after we left."
Six Selendang crew members were lost at sea – but the Coast Guardsmen survived that crash. Retired Coast Guard Capt. Ron Morris, the federal on-scene coordinator for the disaster, remembers meeting them in town.
Ron Morris: "They still smelled like the jet fuel, whatever they use in the helicopters. I mean, they reeked of the disaster, essentially."
Meanwhile, the ocean was ripping the Selendang Ayu in half. The spill that followed poured 336,000 gallons of oil and 66,000 tons of soybeans into the water and onto shore.
Magone was ready to start responding, though the weather meant his expectations weren't high — now, he thinks they're lucky if they cleaned 10 percent of the spill.
Still, Ron Morris says locals were angry at first that the complex, multi-agency planning process and lack of nearby equipment delayed the response.
Morris: "It's just that you're so far away from everything there. You're working on the other side of the island, which is remote as well — and those resources just aren't around the corner."
Once it began, the project would last two years. It was the biggest, longest job Dan Magone ever took on. And hundreds of locals got involved. Brenda Tellman was hired to scour the beaches for oil, rock by rock, living at the site for weeks on end.
Brenda Tellman: "Some beaches were really messy and really stinky, but I think even if you got what we got off, it was better than leaving it there. … We ended up using some seashells, that worked pretty good — better than the [oil] scrapers itself."
Others worked to keep Unalaska's multi-billion dollar seafood industry safe from any oil that turned up close to town. The big fisheries were unharmed — but the state did close a small tanner crab harvest near the spill.
Some fishermen found work at the wreck to make up for lost revenue. Roger Rowland was one of those. When he talks about the Selendang now, he's quick to bring up other local spills – some of them deadly, like the Kuroshima in 1997. He says yes, the Selendang was dramatic – but it's just one in a long list:
Roger Rowland: "And if you throw in near misses, you can easily call one a year — just right here in our local waters. It's not as out of the box as we might like to think it is. It's just barely outside the box."
Still, that was enough to spark some big changes to spill planning in the region. The Selendang led to Unalaska's emergency towing system, which has come in handy in the past several years. And it resulted in better vessel monitoring – a vital tool in a high-traffic area where weather and human error will always cause problems.
But one thing some say might have saved the Selendang hasn't happened — the dedicated heavy-duty tug. Retired Capt. Ron Morris says it's a missing piece at either end of the Aleutian chain, where thousands of ships cross over as they transit the Pacific Ocean:
Morris: "You know, if you had a towing vessel [in the west at] Adak, and there at Unalaska/Dutch Harbor, so that you could take care of vessels on the Great Circle Route in those two choke points, you'd have a much better opportunity to conduct a save on a drifting vessel."
That unfilled need has been especially significant for Dan Magone. A year ago, he merged his decades-old salvage company with Resolve Marine. The international corporation saw an in after the Selendang for one of their tugs, the Resolve Pioneer.
Magone: "Resolve thought, well, if we could hook up with Magone and use his facility and do what he's been doing to try and make income any way we can so that we can have a vessel out there until it's needed — so that's what evolved there."
But it's not ideal for the Aleutian Islands Risk Assessment, a study funded by the settlement from the Selendang that's just now wrapping up. They plan to ask the federal government and other sources for millions of dollars to finance an even bigger tug – and a whole new response system.
Finding that funding will be a big challenge. It predates the Selendang, and still hasn't been solved, 10 years down the road.
AK: Maps
If you want to find a rare book or unusual map in Juneau, there's only one place to go – Dee Longenbaugh's shop. Longenbaugh is the owner of The Observatory: a rare book shop, used bookstore, and treasure trove all in one. You can find everything from local cookbooks about how to prepare halibut to maps of the Great White North.
Kayla Desroches stopped by the Observatory on a recent afternoon and has this profile.
When I arrive, Dee Longenbaugh sits at her computer. Piles of old papers peek out from under her desk. I avoid stepping on them; I don't want to trample documents that look a hundred years old.
But Longenbaugh says that age doesn't determine the worth of a rare book or a map. For her, it's not so much about what year the map came from. It's more a question of what the map reveals.
"Why are these old ones so very different? If you're curious, you want to find out why," she said. "What did they believe at that time? And it's the only thing I know that shows the world as our ancestors knew it or thought they knew it.
While her priciest map is $15,000, Longenbaugh stocks inexpensive maps so that anyone can buy them.
"You can have excellent taste and little money and we all know the opposite can be very true. But I also get people hooked on maps," Longenbaugh said. "Maybe you're young, don't have much money, OK, well here's a little map for you. And say, five or ten years go by, well you now you've got money, oh yeah, and you love those maps."
Although Longenbaugh is a business owner, her store began as a passion project when her children had gotten older. She collected around 343 old books about Alaska on trips to San Francisco and New York – enough to set up her bookstore in 1977. So she rented an old house in Sitka's downtown area.
"…And my sweet older son built me a very nice bookcase which I still have and I put the books on display and ran a little ad in the paper and people started coming and it was just kind of fun," she said.
Longenbaugh says that it was the first used bookstore in Southeast.
In 1989, she and the Observatory moved to Santa Fe for a time. But she says she had a longing for Alaska. She flew back to the state to visit with her daughters, who live in Juneau, and stayed.
Longenbaugh originally settled in the Juneau Empire offices. She's since ended up on the corner of third and Franklin where there's a bread shop in the basement. Sometimes the baker's music vibrates up through the floors.
Although it's a little quiet during the off-season, Longenbaugh loves meeting the world travelers during the summer months. Some antique owners keep their rarities behind lock and key, but she believes in inviting guests to see and touch her maps.
She says one way to tell an old map is genuine is to feel for the Gutenberg Press plate mark – the raised ridge along the side of the paper. She pulls a circa 1763 map of Alaska and Asia from a drawer, and spreads it across a table in back. The paper is made out of linen and is thick and pliable.
"A reproduction's going to be smooth of course. If it's real, you feel that plate mark? And you look it over on the other side. There it is – even stronger. That would not come through of course on a reproduction," she said.
Longenbaugh also has a group of loyal customers in the community who come for the books. Mary Ellen Frank and her husband have been visiting her shop for 20 years.
Frank crafts figurines and then creates clothing for them that reflects traditional Native dress from around Alaska. Her work has been featured in museum collections and exhibitions.
She says she's browsed The Observatory for research and that Longenbaugh goes above and beyond.
"When Dee travels, and she's travels worldwide, she keeps her eyes open for things for you," Frank said. "Or if she goes into a museum there that is of particular interest to you, she'll let you know about that, get photographs for you. Really share."
And Frank can guess why Longenbaugh is so popular in town.
"When you drop by her shop, if there's somebody else there, in to time at all you're all involved in the conversation," Frank said. "She's just one of those really engaging, charismatic people."
Longenbaugh has a personal attachment to her maps. She says her favorite is a 1570 depiction of Alaska and Asia recreated in the 1600s. She says that Alaska is almost unrecognizable until you spot the Strait of Anian, the former name for the Bering Strait. However, her favorite maps are usually her newest and she moves around with them.
"I take 'em home and sometimes I bring 'em back because I get another one that I like even better," Longenbaugh said.
While certainly at the traditional retirement age, Dee is all about her business. She says it gives her the chance to meet interesting people, examine books and maps, and keep on learning. She doesn't plan to give that up anytime soon.
300 Villages: Kluti Kaah
This week we're heading to the Native Villages of Kluti Kaah in Cooper Center Alaska. Mark Johns lives in Kluti Kaah.
Alaska News Nightly: December 12, 2014
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U.S. Senate Considers $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill
Liz Ruskin, APRN – Washington DC
It's been a big week for Alaska in Congress. Lawmakers removed the Alaska exemption in the Violence Against Women Act, a significant gain for advocates of tribal authority.
Sealaska Lands Bill Passes Congress
Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska – Juneau
A bill transferring 70,000 acres of the Tongass National Forest to Sealaska passed Congress.
SAGA to Cease AmeriCorps Program, Hopes Another Org Will Save It
Lisa Phu, KTOO – Juneau
Nineteen AmeriCorps volunteers throughout the state were told this week their positions, including stipends and benefits, could end on Monday.
University of Alaska Regents Approve Tobacco Ban
Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks
The University of Alaska Board of Regents has approved a policy banning smoking and other tobacco use on its campuses statewide.
Butler to Return as Alaska's Top Doctor
The Associated Press
Jay Butler is returning to his job as the state's top doctor. Butler will be both the state's chief medical officer and director of the Division of Health.
Study: Climate Change Hurting Salmon Habitat
Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska – Juneau
Scientists know climate change is altering rain and snowfall patterns in Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest. A new study details how that could affect salmon and suggests what can be done.
10 Years On, Selendang Ayu Spill's Legacy Still Evolving
Annie Ropeik, KUCB – Unalaska
This week marks 10 years since the Selendang Ayu [SELL-en-dang AYE-you] ran aground off Unalaska Island. The vessel lost power and broke in half against the shore, spilling oil and its soybean cargo, and leaving six crew members dead. It was the biggest shipping disaster in the Aleutians' recent history – and its impacts are still evolving today.
AK: Maps
Kayla Desroches, KTOO – Juneau
If you want to find a rare book or unusual map in Juneau, there's only one place to go – Dee Longenbaugh's shop. Longenbaugh is the owner of The Observatory: a rare book shop, used bookstore, and treasure trove all in one. You can find everything from local cookbooks about how to prepare halibut to maps of the Great White North.
300 Villages: Kluti Kaah
This week we're heading to the Native Villages of Kluti Kaah in Cooper Center Alaska. Mark Johns lives in Kluti Kaah.
Akeela House celebrates 40 years of successful sobriety treatments
The Akeela House in Anchorage turned 40 this year. It's one of Anchorage's oldest substance use treatment facilities. Now it has programs in communities and prisons across the state.
Ron Greene graduated from the Akeela House residential treatment facility in the late 80s. He says the program used to rely on extreme measures to breakdown people's defenses.
"It was crazy in those days. Sleep deprivation that kept us up for days on days end. We did just some crazy things that I know they're not allowed to do nowadays. It would probably be considered client abuse. But in those days they did them."
Greene says it worked. He's been sober for 27 years now. He was also helped by the continued support of the program — he could only move out if he had another sober person to live with him. Other graduates say Akeela taught them basic living skills, like cleaning and answering the phone.
Akeela CEO Rosalie Nadeau says their methods have changed dramatically since the early days, but they still use the ideas of a therapeutic community.
"We do it more in group, where they get confronted on their behavior. 'What do you mean you're good? I saw you doing this. And you talk all kinds of crap. And we can't have that.' So we do that kind of thing now, but it's less confrontive, and it's less personally demeaning."
Nadeau says they adapt their methods for different groups. Confrontation isn't as effective for people with other mental health disorders or for women with children living with them.
Julia Luey graduated from Akeela House in 2008 when she was 21 and now manages one of Akeela's other programs. She says going through the recovery program was brutal but forced her to grow up. She says her most significant relationships were with the other clients who helped run the house. They taught her an important message:
"That's there's hope. That there's a different way to live. And you don't think there is when you're addicted. And that that's going to be your life for the rest of your life. And it's a lot of hard work, but if you're honest and motivated to change, then it's there. It's everywhere."
Akeela House started as one facility in 1974. Nadeau says no one remembers exactly how the program got it's name. Eight years ago they began expanding, and have now grown from 11 employees to 180 and run programs from Ketchikan to Nome.
Anchorage Capital Budget Seeking $350 Million for Port Expansion
The City of Anchorage put out its wish-list for funding from the state Legislature, and topping the list is a request for $350 million for just one project.
"The priority is: Port of Anchorage, Port of Anchorage, Port of Anchorage," said Mayor Dan Sullivan, whose office worked with the Anchorage Assembly collecting and ranking capital projects for the city.
The port funding request is more than every other item in the budget combined, it comes amid steep declines in how much money the state is willing to give Anchorage for capital expenses. In fiscal year 2013 the city got a $250,297,475 for new projects. Last year it was $80,134950.75, down more than two-thirds.
Sullivan admits there's an element of sticker-shock in the request, but the price tag is meant to give legislators a realistic cost on updating a port serving 85% of communities in the state.
"We're hoping for a commitment,"Sullivan explained, "over the next several years, if we can break this into several pieces. So, we'll work closely with our legislators and the governor and see if we can't come up with a funding mechanism that works for everybody."
Sullivan and other members of the Assembly are hoping the scaled back plans adopted for the port's final design will convince legislators that upgrades are not an extravagance, they are a necessity.
Other priorities in the wish-list include the Midtown Transit Center and several road updates to facilitate more east-west vehicle traffic. The current assembly shares the mayor's focus on funding infrastructure programs, which made for a smooth budgeting cycle this year.
"It was a very good process, you'll find both the executive branch and the legislative branch, for the most part, were on the same page," said DickTraini said, vice-chair for the Assembly.
Traini believes it's unrealistic to expect Legislators to fund every item in the 66-page document, but that at the very minimum it gives representatives a more detailed view of their constituents' needs.
You can view the full capital budget here.
ASD Charter Schools Need Facilities; School Board Considering Proposal
Charter schools in Anchorage are struggling with a facilities problem. The schools are part of the Anchorage School District, but they have to find and pay for their own buildings. And it's really hard to find empty schools or pay to build new ones. Now the Anchorage School Board is discussing a potential solution.http://www.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/11-Charter-long-for-web.mp3
Rilke Schule principal Dean Ball pops his head into a kindergarten classroom on a recent morning.
"Guten morgen, Herr Ball!" the children chorus. That's "good morning" in German.Rilke Shule is Anchorage's German-emersion charter school. Like all public schools, charter schools are publicly funded and are free. But unlike neighborhood schools, students are chosen through a lottery system. And the district does not provide charter schools with buildings. That means Rilke Schule is spending more than $700,000 a year --or a third of their budget -- to rent rooms in a church.
Ball says it's far from ideal. Classrooms on the three floors are small and awkwardly elongated. Teachers work from storage closets.
"Here's our one set of bathrooms for our 383 kids," he says, pointing to standard sized building bathrooms.
The school is running out of space, though they've tried to make modifications.
"We also built a wall between the art room and the storage area at the time and that became a classroom. Very small."
They have six portable units outside the school. Their forth grade classes are held offsite at Abbott Loop Elementary. Ball says they've been looking for a new place to rent or a way to build for four years.
Rilke Schule is not the only charter school in Anchorage without a home. The School Board approved the creation of a new middle school a year ago called the STrEaM Academy, but it didn't open this fall because the founders can't find a building.
Middle school teacher Andranel Brown says she and her coworkers want to create the hands-on, place-based school because of comments made by her students in east Anchorage.
"A few times we have gone on hikes and a number of years kids would say 'Ms. Brown I've never been on a hike before.' I'm like, 'What? We're standing here on Bird Ridge. It's just around the corner.' Or kids would go on the planet bike ride [through downtown and Kincaid] and say 'This is the farthest I've been from home.' And I said, 'This is not OK.'"
Brown says they've chased leads and spent months looking for a location. She says she's spoken to many other Anchorage charter school principals, and she always hears the same message:
"Facility consumed my life. That is what took up the bulk of my time. If we had had a space that was adequate for us, we could have directed so much more energy into other things."
Now the Anchorage School Board is considering offering help. Some board members want to set aside $5 million for a Charter School Facility Fund. It would give schools low-interest loans to help them build new facilities or modify others. Board member Natasha von Imhof says it's a way to help the schools solve the facilities challenge without costing the district money.
"It's a loan pay-down; it's not necessarily a grant. And so as charter schools pay back the loan, whether it be through capital campaigns or a state grant or simply monthly payments, the money goes back into this charter school facility fund."
Von Imhof says the fund could be used to attract federal and state dollars as well. Both levels of government are considering putting more money toward public charter schools.
Von Imhof says charter schools are important for the entire district because they are innovation incubators.
"Charter schools are given a little bit of freedom to try innovative academic practices that, if are successful, can be standardized and scaled up to apply to other neighborhood schools."
Another proposal would set aside $2 million of the $5 million specifically to help Rilke Shule.
School Board member Kameron Perez-Verdia says he recognizes the charter schools' needs, but he's unsure about the fund.
"I do definitely have reservations about using operating funds to put into a fund like that because I think that we all know that we are in a very difficult financial situation as a district."
Perez-Verdia says bonding is a better solution, but that would take time to put into place.
School Board member Pat Higgins says he's concerned that public money would be given to a school that does not have to follow the competitive bidding process.
"So I'm not opposed to helping the schools get better facilities and get it at better rates, but I want total transparency on all the finances that are taking place."
He's also concerned that charter school facilities could be built at commercial building standards, which are lower and less expensive than institutional standards. Schools are built as institutions and can serve as community shelters.
Rilke Shule Treasurer Jason Shorter says the fund is a good short-term solution for the school and the district.
"It's a great deal for charter schools because it's significantly cheaper than commercial money for us, and it's a good situation for the district because charter schools count toward all the good metrics the district has."
Many charter school organizers are in favor of the solution because it can help them find facilities right now.
The School Board will discuss and vote on the issue during their December 15 School Board meeting.
Outgoing Senator Mark Begich Bids Farewell On Senate Floor
Mark Begich said goodbye on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Thursday. His six years in office end with this Congress.
Begich, who lost his seat largely due to his embrace of Democratic policies, recounted how far the country has come since the great recession.
"I remember coming onto this floor as a freshman in '09," he said. "The chaos in this economy was unbelievable. The amount of jobs we were losing, 600+k a month – equal to my whole population of my state. Unemployed! Boom Gone."
He says he and other freshmen wondered what they'd gotten into. Now the stock market is up, unemployment is down and the annual budget deficit has shrunk. Begich says there's more to do and urged his colleagues to be optimistic.
"People may be angry with us, but they want to know what we're going to do to solve these incredible problems," he said. "And it will be incumbent on the next Congress to sit down and work together. It's going to be tough. Because the politics of today are about the moment in time. It's not about the long term."
He told a few anecdotes about his time on Capitol Hill. Once, he said, he and his son Jacob dug out their car after a snow storm and parked it near the white-domed Capitol building.
"Those who know me – I don't really follow all the rules around this place," Begich said. "We started walking through the Capitol with our snow shovels over our shoulders. The place was empty. And I realized what an incredible place this is…," emotion choked off his words a few times during the speech, particularly when he spoke of his wife and son. "…You just see the history…and in a small way we were part of it."
Begich staffers sat in the back of the chamber, many in tears.
As is the tradition, other senators stood to laud Begich. One was Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat who later said her own farewells. Landrieu says many senators assert their parents gave their lives to public service, but in Begich's case, it's quite true. Congressman Nick Begich's plane disappeared en route to Juneau. As Landrieu noted, that left Mark and five siblings without a father.
"So when Mark walked in here, the first day I met him, I don't know what I was expecting, but I was expecting someone to have a heavy burden on their shoulders because of that," she said.
Instead, Landrieu says, Begich was one of the most optimistic people in the Senate, brimming with self confidence and encouraging to his peers.
"And I know that his father is truly honored that he didn't get bitter. He wasn't angry. He accepted that as God's will, which is a hard thing to accept," Landrieu said. "And he just, just did so much for the community that his father loved, the state that his father loved."
Before Begich left the floor, senators stood in line to hug him. Their applause lasted nearly a minute. On Jan. 6, former Alaska Attorney General Dan Sullivan will be sworn in as Alaska's 8th senator since statehood.
Senior Care Center Key to Development Plan
A long-range plan to develop borough-owned land in Ketchikan's Ward Lake-Revilla Road area is inching forward, albeit with hesitation on the part of the Borough Assembly.
A huge part of the Ward Cove Group's development plan is a proposed senior housing complex, close to the intersection of Revilla Road and North Tongass Highway. The company's president told the Assembly that he's been carefully researching senior centers over the years, and has a good idea of the kind of facility he'd like to see built.
Ketchikan has a shortage of housing options for senior citizens, specifically seniors who need assistance. Ward Cove Group President David Spokely said seniors often have to leave town, because there just isn't space at the Pioneers Home, the state-run senior care center.
"When I came here years and years ago, there was a six year waiting list for senior housing," he said. "There's still a six-year waiting list."
Spokely said his vision for the senior center is a true home, with different levels of assistance and various services, such as an urgent care medical clinic for seniors.
He said one section would be for seniors with memory problems.
"The best place I found Down South was, they have about four rooms that open up into a 20-foot by 40-foot corridor, that corridor has a little coffee shop and sitting area. It looks like someone's living room," he said. "So when you come out of your assisted-living room, you come right out into a living room that everybody is combined in. No hallways, no corridors, no place to get lost."
There would be another section for residents who don't have dementia, but need regular physical care; and for those residents who can move around independently, Spokely said the proposed facility has places to go.
"The center area is a food court, basically a community area where you can get food and services, a little movie theater," he said. "Just an indoor community center that you would expect to find in a typical downtown area."
Another section would offer apartments and condos for seniors who don't need assistance, but want to take advantage of some of those services offered through the center.
"We're looking at a senior community that (would) not just serve the people of Ketchikan, but to be an attraction to the rest of the state," he said. "To invite people so they don't have to go to Seattle and live without family members, and leave the state of Alaska to get care."
All this might sound too good to be feasible, but Spokely said he has spent a lot of time researching senior care centers, and figuring out what is possible for Ketchikan.
"Most people take vacations at Disneyland. Ask my wife, our vacations are going through senior centers throughout the Northwest, and urgent care centers, asking them how they operate and how they fund it," he said.
Spokely said starting the overall development with the senior center makes economic sense, because there is an established need for that service. He mentioned his mother-in-law, who has lived in Ketchikan since 1946.
"She still gets up, still walks every day, whether it's raining or not all year round and she loves the rain," he said. "She's not going south. But at some point, she's not going to be able to stay in her apartment anymore."
Spokely said the senior center is for his mother-in-law, and seniors like her, who want to keep on walking in the rain.
Here's a PDF version of the development proposal: WardCoveGroupProposal
Arctic Expedition Uncovers Previously Undiscovered, Ancient Mollusk Specimens
During a 2010 expedition in the Beaufort Sea's deep, Arctic waters off Alaska's northern coast, scientists discovered what turned out to be a previously-unknown, ancient type of mollusk.
The newly-discovered bi-valve mollusk, called Wallerconcha sarae, dates back about 1.8 million years.
Paul Valentich-Scott, is the curator of malacology, which is the study of mollusks, at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in California. He says the specimens are pretty small – only about an inch across and round-shaped.
"Think of a 1-inch ball bearing, but they're all white," Valentich-Scott said. "They do have an outer skin that's really dark brown and kind of heavy, a little bit hairy-like, actually."
"And inside, when you open them up, just think of opening up a clam shell that you might eat and they look very much like a clam that you might have for steamers or that kind of thing on the inside."
This description fits a variety of mollusks, but Valentich-Scott says the specimen does have a few unique traits that warranted both a new species and genus.
"This one had some very unusual characters in the sort of top part of the shell that had not been seen before; so, it's all shell-based," Valentich-Scott said. "Since we don't have an animal, we can't do any DNA work and compare it that way, we can only compare shells of both fossil species and recent species to this new discovery."
There are about 75 species of mollusks documented in the region, but Valentich-Scott says new discoveries are rare.
"A few of them have been new, like in the 20th century, but not many," Valentich-Scott said. "So, in terms of what we know of this group of animals up in the Arctic, this is quite significant."
Wallerconcha sarae was discovered by scientists on a joint U.S.-Canadian expedition off Alaska's North Slope aboard the U.S. Coast Guard ice breaker Healy in 2010. Their primary mission was to map the sea floor and sediment below to gain a better understanding of the region's geology.
Valentich-Scott says the discovery was made when scientists were investigating an interesting spot on the bottom of the Beaufort Sea.
"This is one of the unusual situations where we have essentially an extinct hydrothermal vent system," Valentich-Scott said. "We're pretty sure that this was an active vent system somewhere in the 1-2 million years ago."
The first hydrothermal vents were discovered in the mid-1970s. And since the science is so young, relatively little is known about them. But, by studying this extinct vent system, the picture is gradually becoming a clearer.
Even though researchers only have what are essentially mollusk bones to study, Valentich-Scott says they can still make educated guesses into certain aspects of the animal's existence based on knowledge of active hydrothermal vents and other comparable mollusk species.
"It probably used the bacteria in the environment of this hydrothermal vent to more or less feed," Valentich-Scott said. "We know it was a filter-feeding organism and it might have been in fairly warm water, or it could have been a cold seep as well, we're not quite sure."
"But, in terms of other types of reproduction or what it did on a daily basis, we just don't exactly know at this point."
The shells were found buried as deep as 15 feet in the sea floor's sediment, but Valentich-Scott says some were discovered much shallower, which opens up some interesting possibilities.
"We also found them within about 1 or 2 inches of the surface of the mud," Valentich-Scott said. "So, it's highly suggestive that they could, in the right circumstance, still be found alive."
There are only about 15 specimens to work with so far, but as scientists delve further into Arctic research, Valentich-Scott believes more will likely be uncovered.
Alaska News Nightly: December 11, 2014
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With Lower Oil Prices, State Expecting Major Deficits
Alexandra Gutierrez, APRN – Juneau
The Alaska Department of Revenue has drastically revised its financial forecast to account for lower oil prices.
Port Funding Tops Anchorage Mayor's Budget Wish List
Zachariah Hughes, KSKA – Anchorage
The City of Anchorage put out its wish-list for funding from the state Legislature, and topping the list is a request for $350 million for just one project.
Outgoing Senator Mark Begich Bids Farewell On Senate Floor
Liz Ruskin, APRN – Washington DC
Mark Begich said goodbye on the floor of the U.S. Senate today. His six years in office end with this Congress.
Anchorage School Board Discusses Charter Schools' Facility Issues
Anne Hillman, KSKA – Anchorage
Charter schools in Anchorage are struggling with a facilities problem. The schools are part of the Anchorage School District, but they have to find and pay for their own buildings. Now the Anchorage School Board is discussing a potential solution.
Senior Care Center Key to Development Plan
Leila Kheiry, KRBD – Ketchikan
A long-range plan to develop 300 acres of Ketchikan Gateway Borough-owned land is inching forward.
A huge part of the Ward Cove Group's development plan is a proposed senior housing complex. The company's president told Ketchikan's Borough Assembly that he has carefully researched senior centers over the years, and has a good idea of the kind of facility he'd like to see built.
Arctic Expedition Uncovers Previously Undiscovered, Ancient Mollusk Specimens
Josh Edge, APRN – Anchorage
During a 2010 expedition in the Beaufort Sea's deep, Arctic waters off Alaska's northern coast, scientists discovered what turned out to be a previously-unknown, ancient type of mollusk.
Former NBA Coach Leads Haines Girls' Basketball
Emily Files, KRBD – Ketchikan
Haines School now has a PE teacher and high school girls' basketball coach who trained an NBA team for 20 years. And what might be even more surprising…Greg Brittenham says despite his high-profile jobs with the New York Knicks and later with Wake Forest University, what he's really wanted is to end up in the 2,000-person town of Haines.
Former NBA Coach Leads Haines Girls' Basketball
Haines School now has a physical education teacher and high school girls' basketball coach who trained an NBA team for 20 years.
And what might be even more surprising — Greg Brittenham says despite his high-profile jobs with the New York Knicks and later with Wake Forest University, what he's really wanted is to end up in the 2,000-person town of Haines.
During a recent basketball practice, Coach Brittenham leads ten girls in a layup drill. It looks like a humble job for someone with this on their resume:
"Prior to this was at Wake Forest University as a player development coach. Prior to that with the New York Knicks for 20 years as an assistant coach in varying capacities."
But Brittenham waited years for the right opportunity to move to Haines. He would call or email school district administrative assistant Ashley Sage about once a year asking about job openings. Why?
"Look around," Brittenham said. "I mean, that's why everybody's here, especially in the winter. People don't leave this place, it's just spectacular. It's everything I've wanted. It's taken me about 18 years to get here and I've finally made it."
In the early 1990's, Brittenham visited Haines for the first time. He was working with a summer program in Klukwan called Camp of Champs. After that first experience, he kept coming back every year, even after the Camp of Champs program ended. He's also done basketball clinics all over Southeast Alaska.
When the Haines PE teacher position opened for this school year, Brittenham saw his chance. He and his wife moved here in the summer.
"One of the things I believe is if the kids know that there's no other agenda and they know I'm not in it to make the money, to use this school to get to another level, not at all, I'm only here to help," Brittenham said. "Once you've gained their trust, then the job is easy because they know you've got their best interests at heart."
Brittenham has never worked as a school PE teacher before. He says one of the most surprising things about the new job is what he's seen from other teachers.
"These teachers work endless hours," Brittenham said. "I came in on a Sunday off the ferry and there were teachers here preparing for Monday on a holiday weekend. The amount of hours that these people invest in the community is just astounding."
Brittenham is now getting the unique chance to teach kids about movement in a way he often wished NBA players had been taught. He says youth sports are so competitive that kids go right into learning sports skills before they learn fundamental movement patterns, like how to tuck and roll when you fall.
"So when I go to the pros, there's a lot of those guys that — they're unbelievable jump shooters and they can dunk, but they can't move. They don't run the floor very well, or they don't slide their feet, they can't get over to play defense," Brittenham said. "It was interesting to see, these guys made it that far, yet they're really lacking the skills that we're working on now with our fourth and fifth graders."
Brittenham is enjoying the challenge of teaching, but he says basketball is his passion. So he's happy to be a Glacier Bears coach.
"I've got a group of girls that just absolutely embrace learning how to play the game of basketball," he said.
There are 16 girls signed up for the team. Brittenham says they're working on mechanics: Shooting, passing, keeping control of the ball. That's something junior Kayley Swinton has noticed.
"It's more perfecting everything," Swinton said.
Swinton has played basketball in Haines since fourth grade. This season has been different.
"A lot more positivity and everybody's working together," Swinton said. "Coaches and everybody have just been more into basketball and they're just more into the game."
Brittenham says he plans to coach a little unconventionally. He wants to give team members more equal playing time regardless of talent.
"You know, the philosophy is if you're going to invest time and energy into this team, then I'm gonna absolutely find minutes for you to play games," he said.
He also doesn't plan on choosing a team captain. He says he'd prefer to think everyone is a leader on the team.
The Glacier Bears girls play their first game in Petersburg December 19th. The first home game is January 2nd against Wrangell.
Anchorage Massage Parlor Owner Charged With Felony Sex Trafficking
The owner of an Anchorage business owner is being charged with two felony counts of sex-trafficking after a four-year joint investigation by state and federal agencies.
Yin Mae Tran-Lau is accused of promoting prostitution at her Anchorage massage parlor since 2011. According to a lengthy deposition submitted to the court from the Anchorage Police Department detective leading the case, days of surveillance, undercover operations and witness cooperation are all part of the evidence in the state's case against Ms. Tran-Lau.
The case involves local partnerships with the IRS and FBI as part of a task force to combat sexual exploitation in Alaska.
Such cases are complex, and extremely difficult to charge, explained Adam Alexander, Assistant District Attorney for the State's Office of Special Prosecutions,"The perpetrators of these types of offenses are instinctively drawn to vulnerable populations as victims, and people who manage prostitute enterprises are almost by definition, or often times, are sophisticated business people."
Charging documents in the case paint a detailed picture of how particular web-sites tutor clients in etiquette to exchange money for sexual favors, and the elaborate ways large sums of cash are managed by traffickers.
At one point the documents describe a Ziploc bag full of bills changing hands inside a Fred Meyer grocery store as a check is written out on the top of a grill.
During one six day period the lead detective observed 90 patrons enter one of Tran-Lau's parlors, all of them men.
There's also evidence of international flights and boarder crossings to bring workers from California to Anchorage.
Though multi-agency investigations are time consuming and resource intensive, Alexander said they fit with a growing push in to combat sexual exploitation,"Our offices here with the Alaska Department of Law are pretty aggressively investigating allegations of sex-trafficking state-wide, and unfortunately we're seeing an increase in the number of cases."
"We look forward to our day in court," said defense attorney Steven Wells. "We're going to raise a vigorous defense, and anticipate a jury will find Ms. Tran-Lau not guilty."
An arraignment is scheduled for next week on December 16th.
With Lower Oil Prices, State Expecting Major Deficits
The Alaska Department of Revenue has drastically revised its financial forecast to account for lower oil prices, anticipating multi-billion-dollar deficits.
Oil revenue is expected to drop by more than half. The department's fall report projects the state will bring in $2 billion in oil revenue this fiscal year, compared to nearly $5 billion in the previous year. The Department of Revenue made that calculation based on an average oil price of $76 per barrel. Brent crude oil is currently valued at $65 per barrel.
The Department of Revenue does expect oil production to increase slightly over the next two years, and projects that it will remain above a half million barrels per day over the next three years. Production is expected to decrease by 22,000 barrels this fiscal year.
The new numbers indicate the state is facing a major deficit. When lawmakers passed their budget this spring, they planned for a gap of $1.4 billion. The deficit for that same budget has now ballooned to $3.5 billion.
A similarly large deficit is expected for the coming fiscal year. Last week, Gov. Bill Walker released the budget his predecessor, Republican Sean Parnell, without endorsement. Parnell's $5.5 billion proposal would result in a $3.3 billion deficit if accepted unchanged at projected oil prices.
The state currently has $15 billion in savings.


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* I am slowly figuring out how to navigate this forum so please be patient and redirect me if this is in the wrong place or if this is a topic that has been flogged into the ground in the past
*My wife and I are considering buying a boat. (Did I just hear some cackling?)
*I have pretty extensive dinghy sailing / windsurfing experience and a bit of keel boat crew time in, but no skippering and no systems maintenance experience at all. I am fairly handy though. (More cackling?) My wife is a complete novice.
*We are in our late 40s with 4 kids who are mostly off to college so we have some time to play. We are trying to see if sailing / cruising is going to be a small part of our lives or THE thing.
*We have the space in our yard to store a trailerable boat if we go that route.
*We have some capital to devote to this project, and the ability to pay moorage and expenses. But I work(ed) hard for that money so I want to be smart about this.
*We live in Seattle, near (but not on) lake Washington.
We are trying hard to anticipate what kind of sailing we will ACTUALLY do as opposed to the dreaming that is rampant in this endeavor, and our thought process is going around in tight circles.
Some thoughts:
Does it make sense to drop what looks like $1000 on US Sailing skipper certification? My gut is yes (safety & confidence), but this is a big chunk of the cost of some of the boats we are looking at.
Do sailing clubs make sense? Again - they seem to, but it is a lot of $$ for no ownership when there a lot of $5,000 - $10,000 sail ready boats out there. (Would you stop cackling!)
Trailerable or moored? I was first looking at a west wight potter 19 that I would store in the yard, tinker with on the trailer, launch with the small SUV we already own and keep this simple and cheapish. Then I started contemplating the ass-pain of stepping the mast each time we want to go sailing etc...and started dreaming bigger.
Partnership? We have varied interests so we are not going to be on this thing every day... I know that most boats get used VERY little so this might be a reasonable approach.
We are pretty sure that we will be "cocktail cruisers" at least for a while. Evenings on the lake with another couple or two, but as our confidence grows we are dreaming of some weekend trips around what seems to be one of the premier (yet somewhat challenging) cruising areas in the world.
Some things I know:
There are A LOT of boats for sale around here.
I have close to zero ability to assess the condition of these "sweet deals"
There are almost no "great deals" in life and certainly not in boating!
Like many hobbies, the boat itself is probably the cheapest part of this adventure. The condition of the boat and the ancillary gear, stuff and things that is included / excluded add up extremely fast.
We are in the prime position to do something extremely stupid.
Some things I don't know:
Basically every thing else!
I guess my fantasy would be to find a nice sweet older couple who have a well maintained and outfitted older boat that they are not using as much as they used to. Partner with them, learn from them, sail with them some, and maybe eventually buy them out of the boat. (Do I hear laughing again!)
Willing to sport a few rounds of drinks if you are local and willing to set me straight.
Thanks in advance - Greg & Ruth
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I have a container planting with a Gartenmeister in it. It gets morning sun and is on a drip waterer, but sits under an overhang so it doesn't get much water on the leaves. It looks really healthy but I realized today that it doesn't have any blooms! It looks like the buds have been dropping off before they get any bigger than maybe a quarter inch. It was blooming for a while before this started.... it's got such nicely colored foliage that I totally missed the lack of flowers until today.
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If it's some kind of pest, there should be some signs of damage on the buds, tiny holes, mis-shapen buds etc. Are you sure it's not getting too much water! The soil should be moist but not soggy. Gartenmeister does appreciate a little bit more sun than other cultivars being a triphylla type fuchsia. Have you been giving it a feed?, remember fuchsias are greedy feeds, 'little and often' - Kath:)
Hi Kath,
Sorry so late in getting back to you, I'm taking a few classes and this is the last week. I'm finishing up a final right now! -but I needed a break...
I did give it a little 10-10-10 a week or two ago. I don't remember noticing blooms then or not. There are a few other plants in the pot, a rubber tree, asparagus fern, geranium and impatients. All are doing well althought he geranium probably wants more light.
I looked a little more closely at the flower buds. They are barely any size at all before drying up and dropping off. I haven't seen any bugs yet or damage. The soil is moist but it drains OK. COuld it still be too moist?
I could try for another picture, but it may be a few more days before I get out there! Please don't give up in me ;)
No, would never give up on you Kato :), It looks very healthy in the photo. The soil might still be too wet using a continuous drip waterer. Does it always look so wet on your pavement?. I would try switiching the drip waterer off and just water the pot in the mornings, and if possible shift the pot so it gets morning sun but afternoon shade and see if that stops the buds falling off.
You can feed with your 10-10-10 twice weekly during the growing season if you wish - Kath :)
I'm going to shut off the water for a week or two and see how that works. It's gotta be either that or the fertilizer, I can't imagine a bug problem doing this unless it's some tiny mite or something that's near invisible.
Thanks Socks, I put it together myself and mostly just got lucky. I like it, but my wife has a different opinion. She doesn't like the colors or plants, especially the rubber tree. Where did I ever find her!? It would probably work just as well without the rubber tree, but it's doing so well and I love to see a healthy tropical!
I'm starting to see a few buds that seem to be sizing up.... still a long way from blooming but i have hope!
I removed the drip line and am allowing the soil to dry out a bit. It's got to be either that or too big a jolt of fertilizer on the plant shocking it. I hope it recovers!
I hope it's ok if I post another picture, I know sometimes it can be annoying if your internet connection is slow.....
This is the latest photo. I know, I know, there's still some water out of the bottom, but it's drying out. It has grown alot, the top three leaves of the unruly rubber tree are new and the asparagus fern is onto the concrete now. Winter should nip their colonizing ways!
My mom is the source of the R.tree, she's such a sucker for a homeless plant and tries to save all the prunings she gets, unfortunately they all root! I said I was going to leave this one out to freeze, but now I'm not so sure.
I read the post on fushia cuttings. I may try a couple myself now that the plant isn't blooming and take them in for the winter instead of the RT.


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Did you kick the drunk friend through the front door, down the 8 steps, and into the street???
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ahaha i should have, they no nothing about brewing so they didnt know, keg means nothing to them. and it was a group perchase. it was funny but gut renching.lol the worst part is we had a second empty keg right next to the beautiful one and it was destroyed already.
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Indigo Raw Silk
Made of raw silk woven in Japan, this unlined six-fold version comes in a rich indigo shade. With its matt finish and slubby quality, it is perfectly appropriate for conservative business dress in the summer.
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- Woven
- Unlined
- 100% silk
- Handrolled edges
- Six-fold
- 3.5" x 57"
- Fabric from Japan


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