MUSIC IN THE PARK, 2006
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In 2006, the year before starting Make A Scene Magazine, my company name was Make A Scene. It was based on harnessing the power of self-expression, just like the monthly magazine would be, but in the context of music events. That year we worked with the City of Wasilla to produce Music in the Park! It’s fitting that as Make A Scene Magazine celebrates 15 years in print that we’ve come full circle! We’ll be organizing and sponsoring the Music in the Park concert series once again this year.
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15 years in any business is difficult. 15 years in this business is, let’s face it, is even more unlikely. I look back at this process, how the years have unfolded and how the company has
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for youth, veterans and seniors.
Friends of Nike Site Summit is hosting morning and afternoon bus tours of Arctic Valley’s historic Site Summit on Saturday, June 25; Saturday, July 9; Sunday, July 24; and Sunday, Aug. 21. A hiking tour of the former missile site is set for Saturday, Aug. 6.
FONSS is also hosting a hiking tour of the Nike facilities remaining at Kincaid Park, once known as Site Point, on Saturday, June 11; information on that tour is also available at the reservation link. That tour is open to anyone 10 or older and costs $25.
The online registration link for all nine tours is reg.planetreg.com/ FONSS-2022. Those without Internet access can reserve by calling (907) 929-9870 and making payment and reservation arrangements.
Reservations are required no less than three days in advance for the Site Summit tours. Kincaid Park tour reservations can be made as late as the day of the event if it isn’t sold out. However, late potential participants need to follow the guidelines on the reservation link in order to make lastminute reservations.
The tour price includes round trip bus transportation to Site Summit from the Arctic Valley Lodge parking lot. Bus tours are $82 for students 12-17, veterans and senior citizens 65+, and $87 for adults. The hiking tour is open to fit, experienced hikers 13 and older and the fee is $45 for adults and $40
Site Summit is culturally significant as the only one of eight Cold War-era Nike-Hercules missile sites in Alaska still standing. Tour participants will talk to veterans who were stationed at
grown, and I’m taken back… and taken aback. These years have not always been easy, and while I love thinking back to the beginning of it all, I’m shocked to have made it this far. It was a long shot, yet here we are. Make A Scene, a media company, is much more than a concert series in the park in Wasilla. We’ve grown into a full-service media company. We publish monthly with both Make A Scene Magazine and The People’s Paper, we broadcast daily on 95.5 The Pass KNLT FM, we build beautiful websites, create video products, and contribute to so many events in the Mat Su… I am truly surprised at it all. My core team is incredible. We work daily to make all of these things happen, but my team is bigger than
Site Summit, find out how the missiles were launched and learn about Alaska’s role in the Cold War.
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us. It includes all the people in our community who have contributed to the paper, who have worked with us on events, who call in to the radio station, and the local business owners who’ve hired us to provide various media services. After 15 years in business, that’s a whole lot of people! We discussed putting on a 15 year anniversary event, but we’re so busy this time of year that we decided to have five separate celebrations! Come to the Music in the Park series at Wonderland/Iditapark in Wasilla, every Friday in June from 6-9PM, and also on Monday, July 4th, from 3-9PM, and help us celebrate! Say hello to the staff, and join us where it all began - with a free concert in the park!
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Friends of Nike Site Summit was formed by local volunteers in 2007 to advocate for the preservation of Site Summit. In 2009, it partnered with the U.S. Army (now JBER), the National Park Service, and State Historic Preservation Officer to preserve the historic mountaintop fortress overlooking Arctic Valley. FONSS’ mission is to preserve and interpret the site for the education of current and future generations about the Cold War, and, by doing this, memorialize the millions of veterans who served during the Cold War. FONSS is a committee of the Alaska Association for Historic Preservation, and works in cooperation with JBER.
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