The Skagway News - May 26, 2023

THE SKAGWAY NEWS.

May 26, 2023

Bird hazing continues, for now

By Melinda Munson

In mid May, a small band of volunteers from Paws & Claws Animal Shelter completed a dog walking training to discourage birds from nesting near the Skagway Airport runway.

The workshop follows approximately six weeks of seasonal explosions at the airport meant to scare off birds. Reported to be more intense than most years, the noise is alarming tourists and causing anxiety among pets. One local dog, startled by an explosion, jumped from his car window and was killed by traffic.

“We still do not have the official go ahead from the higher ups at DOT,” said Katherine Moseley of Paws & Claws. “But we wanted to keep the momentum going forward by completing this training. We will be ready to go as soon as approval is obtained. Unfortunately, this means you will still be hearing the firecrackers. Things on government levels can be slow.”

Moseley said that while the dog walking program is often called hazing, that’s not an accurate portrayal.

“Dogs are not being encouraged to chase birds. Just having a presence with or without dogs helps us deter them. When the birds see the dogs, they treat them how they would treat a predator (think fox, wolf, coyote) showing up in a nesting area. It does not make it a hospitable area for them to want to nest in.”

Moseley calls the dog walking “a temporary solution.”

“I am confident a public process will happen in the fall that will include expert

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By Melinda Munson

This year, Skagway highschool students took over a task once assigned to Public Works and built raised garden beds for older and disabled community members, an outreach of the Higher Ground Program.

“It became a neat way to apply things we’ve been working on,” said Aaron Schmidt who serves as Skagway School vocational education teacher when he’s not teaching English, social studies or physical education.

The students had to design plans for the garden beds.

This was accomplished by measuring and sketching existing beds placed near the road. A Carl Perkins state grant allowed for a friend of Schmidt, Rason Jens, a master woodworker from Oregon, to visit Skagway and help build the first prototype.

From there, the apprentice

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woodworkers measured, cut and joined their pieces to make five additional garden beds.

Schmidt gave an overview of the project. “Measuring. Always, always measuring,” he said. He described the enterprise as a “sweet spot of tolerance.” “Perfection is not needed,” he said. “We nevertheless strive for it.”

Higher Ground began in 2017, after a proposal by Kim Burnham. A municipal program with a budget of $5,000 for this year, it is administered on behalf of the municipality by the Skagway Organic Gardening Society (SOGS). To date, thirty-two Skagway residents have participated in the program with 23 garden beds distributed. The beds come with soil and are available to residents 55 and older or those who struggle to garden due to physical impairment. The beds remain the proper-

ty of the municipality. (See here for application.)

Eight applicants were on the waitlist, leaving just two remaining after the six Skagway School manufactured garden beds are delivered.

“We hope to be able to issue beds to all of them this season,” said Kim Burnham of SOGS.

The program has come full circle from its inception when local carpenter Howard Smith designed and constructed the first three garden beds.

“The idea to have woodshop students build the beds for the program was in the original program proposal, and was attempted at an earlier date, but there were logistical issues that prevented that plan from coming to fruition until this year,” Kim Burnham said. “The efforts of woodshop teacher Aaron Schmidt and Public Works Director Tyson Ames final-

ly helped accomplish that goal.”

Shop student Jeremy Burnham walked away with an important lesson, one that some adults have yet to master.

“I learned that if you follow the instructions on something it makes it easier to do,” he said.

The highschoolers were not present when Betsy Albecker, the first recipient of a student-made garden bed, was gifted her future kale keeper.

Schmidt described the building process as “an opportunity to use our skills for service, to help the lives of people we probably don’t even know. There’s not really a celebratory payoff. There’s no applause. I like that,” he said.

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Betsy Albecker received the first Skagway School student constructed garden bed via the Higher Ground Program.

Photo by Kim Burnham

Student woodworkers build raised garden beds

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Legislature settles on $1,300 PFD, with bonus if oil prices climb higher

By Larry Persily Wrangel Sentinel

Alaska lawmakers reached a compromise on the state budget and adjourned after a one-day special session last week, approving a $1,300 Permanent Fund dividend for this fall with the possibility of a second, smaller payment next year if oil revenues exceed projections.

The amount of the PFD and the capital budget — construction and maintenance projects in legislators’ home districts — were the final items that forced legislators into a special session after the regular session ended May 17 without a budget.

The governor called them back to work starting the next day.

While the Republican-led House and Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy wanted a larger PFD, which would have required drawing hundreds of millions of dollars from the state’s dwindling savings account, the bipartisan Senate majority coalition insisted on the $1,300 dividend and a balanced budget without taking from savings.

The budget includes provisions that will provide a second payment next year — called an energy relief payment — if Alaska North Slope oil prices exceed the projected $73-a-barrel average over the next 12 months.

If prices are high, the additional tax and royalty revenue would be shared 50-50 between the bonus payment to individual Alaskans, capped at $500, and a deposit into state savings.

The Senate approved the final budget with only two no votes out of 20 members. The House consented on a 26-14 vote after almost half of the majority joined with the Democrat-led minority to adopt the spending plan and end the special session, which by law could have run as long as 30 days.

The state fiscal year starts July 1.

The budget totals $6.1 billion in unrestricted general fund revenues, of which K-12 education, Medicaid and the Permanent Fund dividend are the three largest appropriations.

After an all-day session of negotiations behind closed doors, legislative leaders on May 18 reached a deal to add more than $34 million to the budget for two dozen projects requested by House majority members.

House Finance Committee Co-Chair Rep. DeLena Johnson, of Palmer, voted for the budget but said she wasn’t happy about it. The Republican said she was worried about the consequences of further disagreement. “What I didn’t want to see was a government shutdown, and I didn’t want to bring it down to the brink,” she told the Alaska Beacon.

Her colleague in the majority leadership, Anchorage Rep. Craig Johnson, also voted yes. He didn’t believe that further negotiations would have resulted in a better deal, he told reporters. “I would prefer not to vote for it, but when I weigh the shutdown, the cost and the practicality, I’m a pragmatist. I’ll fight for what I believe in. But at the end of the day, I think this is the best we can get.”

Among the local projects added in the last day of negotiations was $5 million to rebuild the Palmer Public Library, which is in DeLena Johnson’s district. The library roof collapsed under heavy snow last winter.

Other additions included $3 million to help Fairbanks tear down the derelict Polaris Hotel; $5 million for a harbor float in Dillingham; $5 million for the Wasilla Airport runway extension; $4.75 million for water and sewer projects in Talkeetna; and a series of road and maintenance projects across the state.

The budget does not include any state money for Wrangell projects.

The district of Rep. Justin Ruffridge, a Soldotna Republican, received $600,000 for a road project, but he voted against the budget. “I don’t like being bought, frankly. It’s kind of what that felt like,” the freshman legislator told reporters.

Another no vote came from first-year Anchorage Republican Rep. Julie Cou-

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lombe. “I guess I can’t concur with bullies and bribers,” she told reporters.

“It might not have been the process that all of us wanted to get to, but it was a process,” said House Speaker Cathy Tilton, a Wasilla Republican, defending the decision by 10 members of her caucus to vote for the budget.

In addition to rounding up votes from the House majority, the budget, written in large part by the Senate, added several items favored by members of the House minority. Those included $7.5 million in child care grants, money for public broadcasting, funding for tourism marketing and seafood marketing, and aid to home health care services.

The compromise spending plan includes a one-time increase of $175 million, about 15%, in the state’s per-student public school funding formula, though education advocates had been pushing hard for a permanent increase in the program.

Much of the final weeks of legislative negotiations focused on the amount of the Permanent Fund dividend, with the House majority supporting a $2,700 PFD that would require withdrawing about $800 million from savings. The Senate held firm to a $1,300 dividend and not touching savings.

The state constitution requires a three-quarters majority vote to tap the savings, and it was clear that the Senate majority and House minority were not willing to go along with the House Republicans’ plan, denying anything close to the three-quarters vote.

Meanwhile, legislators could be back at work this fall. The governor has indicated he will call a 30-day special session for lawmakers to consider legislation for a long-term fiscal plan to balance state revenues and spending, something that has eluded Alaska’s elected officials since the early 1990s.

This story includes reporting by the Anchorage Daily News and the Alaska Beacon, an independent, donor-funded news organization.

Hazing - could it go to the dogs?

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advice from bird biologists, etc,” she said.

According to Moseley, the volunteer group will intentionally be kept small so it is easy to manage.

The Paws and Claws Animal Shelter Facebook page offers suggestions for helping pets deal with the loud noise and any resulting behaviors in a May 12 post

According to Mayor Andrew Cremata, historically the birds vacate the area by early June. Until then, residents may hear blasts from 8:30-11:30 a.m. Warnings about airport explosions will appear on Skagway Swap (Facebook) and be reported to Nixle.

Cremata wondered if Ju-

neau would be submitted “to these constant explosions.”

“People are justified to be upset about it,” he said – but reminded Skagwegians that “explosions are better than someone dying in a plane crash.” Although, Cremata believes it “doesn’t have to be one or the other.”

Cremata reported that the response from the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT) “has been good.”

“They’re working with all the interested parties to come up with a more dynamic plan,” he said.

DOT did not respond for comment by deadline.

Minto Mine abandoned, no effect on Skagway say muni officials

By Melinda Munson

Minto Metals Corp., the only company that used the Skagway Ore Terminal, informed the Yukon Government May 12 it was pulling out of Minto Mine. Minto Metals’ entire board resigned and all workers were removed from the site, leaving the territorial government responsible for maintaining environmental safety at the Yukon mine.

According to a Yukon News article, Minto Metals owes $18 million in securities to the Yukon government.

Skagway signed a MOU with the Yukon Government in February, agreeing to a 35-year contract that allows preferred use of a marine services platform (MSP) for the export of mineral concentrates. In exchange, the Yukon Government will fund the construction of the MSP at a cost of approximately $17 million.

Skagway city representatives didn’t appear alarmed by the news of Minto’s demise.

“It doesn’t change the plans for Skagway at all,” said Borough Manager Brad Ryan. “Minto had a small amount of ore that came

through here.”

“It’s irrelevant,” said Mayor Andrew Cremata. “Minto had never approached us about using the new facility.”

The ore facility is currently closed and will be dismantled as part of the Ore Dock redevelopment project.

While Minto will no longer be a presence at the ore terminal, “They did leave a bunch of cleanup,” Cremata said, noting contamination in the Ore Basin.

According to Cremata, the municipality never saw “a penny of revenue” from Minto.

Senator Jesee Kiehl will visit Skagway June 9, in part, to tour the Ore Terminal.

“We wanted him to see it. It’s that bad,” Cremata said.

The extent of the contamination is unclear.

‘We’re still assessing. It’s a lot. It’s going to be millions of dollars,” Cremata said.

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Sheryl Dennis, Darrin Jones, Jen Larsen, Shaun McKnight, Katherine Moseley and Lori Healy participate in a dog walking workshop to explore the use of canines in deterring birds from nesting near the airport.

By Melinda Munson

My kitchen table is the proverbial canary in the coal mine. It reflects the emotional temperature of the household. If it’s clean with just a plant and a tiny indoor fireplace for roasting marshmallows, the Munsons are okay. If it’s buried in art supplies, winter gloves and various debris, things are a little crazy.

Right now, it’s a lot crazy. The table is so chaotic that items spill onto the floor. There’s the teal curtain that hasn’t been hung for three months, the Instant Pot cookbook I use nightly, random braille notes – and report cards I mean to look at but never will, because I don’t care what grades my

May 8

The chaotic kitchen table

kids with special needs achieve.

In the current climate, there’s just enough space at the six-person table for three people to sit. Luckily, only two kids are allowed to eat at a time since they distract each other. The adults usually flee into the living room and eat on the sofa, anything to get a quiet moment and avoid witnessing the mayhem that’s occurring at the table. (You can judge me all you want, but I have continuously reminded the same child to wipe their face and chew with their mouth closed for the past 14 years.)

This is not how I grew up. Somehow, my mother sat all eight of us kids at a tidy table and we actually had conversations. As a child, I looked forward to dinner. As an adult, the only thing I like about the third meal of the day is that it’s just an hour from bed time.

I will eventually break down and clean up the table, probably tomorrow after the newspaper deadline is over. While I’m overwhelmed with summer break and my husband working Skagway seasonal hours, part of me is being passive aggressive. I am the only one who organizes the table but I sure as hell don’t contribute much to the mess.

-A missing dog was reunited with its owner.

-EMS responded to a medical emergency.

-A lost iPhone was reunited with its owner.

-Dispatch assisted with testing 911 auto-dialer devices.

-Police assisted with a Fish & Game bear seal.

May 9

-Dispatch received reports of a bear spotted near Reid Falls.

-DOT reported they are hazing birds at the airport.

-EMS responded to a medical emergency.

-Dispatch received a report of illegal dumping.

May 10

-DOT reported they are hazing birds at the Airport.

-EMS responded to a medical emergency.

-Lost medication was returned to its owner.

May 11

-EMS responded to a medical emergency.

-EMS assisted with a scheduled Medevac.

-Police responded to a call of a suspicious person.

-Dispatch contacted the on duty provider.

-DOT reported they are hazing birds at the airport.

May 12

-Dispatch received a report of rocks on the Klondike Highway. DOT cleared without issue.

May 13

-DOT reported they are hazing birds at the airport.

-Police personnel responded to a call about someone driving down the foot path toward Yakutania Point.

-Police responded to a late night report of machinery being operated.

-Police and fire personnel were able to locate and silence a “mystery alarm” that had been waking residents on Fifth Avenue.

May 14

-DOT reported they are hazing birds at the airport.

-Dispatch contacted the on duty provider twice.

Once the table is again orderly, albeit temporarily, I’ll replace the hand towels that drape across each seat, protecting the upholstery from multi-colored slime, spaghetti sauce and all things chocolate.

This dining room set is a hasty second-hand purchase procured after we moved to Alaska from the Lower 48. We left behind a beautiful, gleaming, dark-wood table with wooden benches, made in India. It’s probably for the best. Our youngest, who we adopted after the move, likes to scribble so hard on paper he

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inadvertently leaves scratches on the tabletop.

Everyone tells us to savor these moments. That one day we’ll miss the complaining about what’s for dinner, the constant talk of poop and private parts, the childish imprints on the table. I call bullshit. Years from now, I’ll sit at a clean, new table, savoring an entree with lots of green in it – in peace. My food will still be warm as I eat it, and if I miss my kids, I know how to hop on a plane or initiate a FaceTime.

-Police responded to a non-injury vehicle collision.

-Fire personnel responded to an automated EWS Fire Alarm.

May 15

-Fire personnel responded to an automated EWS Fire Alarm.

-DOT reported they are hazing birds at the airport.

-Two lost passports were reunited with their owners.

-Police responded to a report of a stolen backpack –it was later located.

-EMS personnel responded to a medical emergency.

-EMS personnel assisted with a scheduled medevac.

-Police responded to a report of possible domestic violence.

May 16

-DOT reported they are hazing birds at the airport.

-Construction blasting occurred on the Klondike Highway.

-A lost credit card was reunited with its owner.

-Dispatch assisted Royal Canadian Mounted Police in an investigation.

-Police responded to a report of a possible hit and run.

May 17

-Police responded to a report of illegal camping.

-DOT reported they are hazing birds at the airport.

-Dispatch received multiple reports of drones flying above town.

-A lost phone was reunited with its owner.

-EMS personnel to a medical emergency.

-Dispatch received a report of reckless driving.

-Fire personnel responded to an automated EWS Fire Alarm.

May 18

-DOT reported they are hazing birds at the airport.

-Dyea Road was closed overnight for construction.

-Fire personnel responded to an automated EWS Fire Alarm.

-Emergency 911 lines were down for periods of the day due to ship interference.

-Dispatch contacted the on duty provider.

May 19

-DOT reported they are hazing birds at the airport.

-Police assisted with a vehicle lockout.

-EMS assisted with two scheduled medevacs.

-A lost backpack was reunited with its owner.

-Dispatch contacted the on duty provider.

May 20

-DOT reported they are hazing birds at the airport.

-Dispatch contacted the on duty provider twice.

-Police responded to a report of a group of people fighting – officers were unable to locate.

May 21

-DOT reported they are hazing birds at the airport. -EMS responded to a medical emergency.

-Fire personnel responded to two different automated EWS Fire Alarms.

-Police responded to a report of a vehicle with slashed tires.

-Dispatch received a report of a suspicious person digging through the trash.

-Dispatch contacted the on duty provider.

May 22

-DOT reported they are hazing birds at the airport. -A lost dog was reported and later reunited with its owner.

-A separate incident of a lost dog was also reported and later reunited with the owner.

-Police assisted in reuniting a young boy with his family, whom he was separated with while hiking on Lower Dewey Trail.

-Dispatch contacted the on duty provider.

-Police personnel responded to a late night report of an open door at a downtown business.

-Blake Owen Perry, 40, of Skagway, was arrested for Violating the Conditions of his release.

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The birthday present Fish this!

By Andrew Cremata

I was sixteen years old, jogging around my neighborhood in Tampa, Florida, about an hour after sunrise. Even though it was early morning, the humidity was stifling and my clothes were entirely drenched in sweat.

It was garbage pickup day. Most homeowners had set out their trash cans the night before. The garbage truck beeped and growled in the distance, its sound muffled by the heavy air.

Only two blocks away from home, I turned onto a side street and saw something that brought me to an abrupt stop.

Perfectly perched on a bangedup metal trash can was a brand-new tackle box – a high-end model with multiple drawers and a spacious upper compartment adorned with a latch and handle. Not even the manufacturer’s stickers had been removed.

My mind began to race.

Had the homeowner gone on a fishing trip at sunrise and absent-mindedly left the tackle box sitting on the trash can while loading their fishing gear into their car? Did an angry spouse toss it in the trash to punish a spouse with a wandering eye? Would taking the apparently unwanted tackle box be considered stealing?

After pondering the situation, I decided that the tackle box must have been left on the garbage can accidentally.

I hurried up the driveway and knocked on the front door of the house. A woman in her mid to late

forties answered. She was dressed in a nightgown and her hair was disheveled as though she’d just stumbled out of bed.

“May I help you?”

Still out of breath, I said, “Hi. I’m sorry if I woke you up. I was jogging past your driveway and noticed the tackle box sitting on the garbage can and wondered if it was being thrown away?”

Frowning, the woman said, “Yes. I’m throwing it away because I bought it for my son but apparently, he’s too busy to visit his mother. You can have it if you want.”

“Thank you!”

The angry mother wasn’t finished. “And since he’s too busy to visit his mother on his birthday, I guess he doesn’t need a birthday present.”

I looked at my watch.

She continued, “Do you like fishing?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“My son used to go fishing all the time. Now all he does is hang out with that girl.”

Taking a step back, I said, “Well, thanks again.”

“I’m glad a nice young man will get some enjoyment out of my son’s present. Feel free to stop by sometime and tell me about all the fish you catch.”

Turning, I waved and said, “Okay. Goodbye!”

It was the last time I jogged down that particular street.

Stumbling upon a brand-new tackle box seemed like incredible luck –but my luck was about to get even better. When I picked the tackle box up off the garbage can, I quickly re-

alized that it was packed full of gear.

Every compartment was full of hooks, weights, swivels and lures. The upper compartment held a bridge gaff and an assortment of small tools, fishing line and a handheld fish identification book. I estimated the total value of the gear at somewhere around $350.

In the top compartment of the tackle box was a brand new 7-inch long red and white deep-diving Bomber lure. It was still in the box.

As the years passed, most of the tackle ended up lost somewhere on the rocky bottom of Tampa Bay. Even the tackle box eventually fell apart after the hinges corroded from frequent use near salt water.

Somehow, the Bomber lure survived despite catching a wide assortment of fish including my first-ever snook and a 175-pound tarpon with a particularly nasty disposition.

Ten years after obtaining the tackle box, I traveled to Skagway for the first time. I brought along few possessions other than a suitcase full of clothes, two fishing rods and a box full of fishing tackle.

My prized Bomber lure was buried deep inside the box, which is exactly where it stayed for twenty-six years.

Last summer, while cleaning out my shed, I came across a tattered cardboard box deep inside a plastic storage container cleverly marked, “Fishing Gear.” After sorting through a half-dozen rusted lures, all tangled together by a crow’s nest of monofilament fishing line, I saw the old Bomber lure.

Picking it up and turning it over

in my hand exposed the plug’s many scratches, each a testament to its storied history. My mind flooded with memories … A massive tarpon leaping high into the air, thrashing wildly in a conflagration of water droplets and ocean spray. A 35-inch snook inhaling the plug as it sat motionless on the surface of a mangrove-lined backwater at 7 a.m. on Christmas Day. An angry mother whose birthday present for her son somehow ended up in the hands of a random stranger.

The three treble hooks were rusted so I replaced them with shiny new hooks and placed the lure in the tackle box I use for northern pike.

A week later, I was fishing for pike in Atlin with two friends visiting from Seattle.

After rigging a couple of large red and white spoons onto my guest’s fishing rods, I noticed the Bomber lure resting conspicuously in the bottom compartment of the tackle box, its new silver treble hooks sparkling in the summer sunlight.

One cast.

Wham!

The pike seemed to hit the lure before it reached the water.

Since that day in Atlin, I keep thinking about the strange journey of my seven-inch red and white Bomber lure.

Against all odds, it somehow survived a host of angry fish, thousands of miles of travel, and even the bottomless abyss of my storage container.

It’s also a solid reminder that it’s time to pay mom a visit.

Josh Colosky got a trout present and it wasn’t even his birthday.

Photo by Andrew Cremata

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Wed. Bible Devotions & Prayer 7 p.m. Email skagwayag@outlook.com

First Presbyterian Church

5th & Main • 983-2260 Sunday Worship 11 a.m. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Women’s Prayer 10 a.m Tues. Bible Study time varies. Please inquire. Online access available to all events.

To reach the Dahl on-duty provider, contact police dispatch at 907-983-2232

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 11th & State • 983-2518 Sun. Sacrament Meeting...10 a.m.

St. Therese Catholic Church 9th & State • 983-2271

Sun. Mass..........4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Mass Mon. & Tues.....12:10 p.m. (when a priest is available)

907-983-2259

Naloxone overdose kits (aka NARCAN) have been placed around town to assist in an opioid emergency. They can be found at the following locations:

● AMHS Ferry Terminal

● Eagles F.O.E. Aerie #25

● Elks Lodge #431

● Grizzly’s General

● Skagway Recreation Center

● The Station

● U.S. Post Office

● Wells Fargo Bank

● Two kits are at the school

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2023 Kindergarten Graduates

2023 Skagway School Senior Class Scholarships

-Cy Coyne Memorial Scholarship: Adalia Deach ($2,000)

-Nancy Schave Memorial Scholarship: Adalia Deach

-The Eagles Auxiliary #25 Scholarship: Callia Fielding ($1,000)

-The Fraternal Order of Eagles #25 Scholarship: Adalia Deach ($1,000)

-The Days of ‘98 Scholarship: Adalia Deach ($1,500)

-Howard Mallory Memorial Scholarship: Calia Fielding ($1,000)

-Fred Hosford Memorial Scholarship: Chloe Miller ($1,000)

-The White Pass Lodge #1 F & AM Scholarship: Josh Cochran ($500)

-The Naomi Chapter #9 Order of the Eastern Star Scholarship: Adalia Deach ($500)

-The Holland America Line and Princess Cruises Scholarship ($2,000): Adalia Deach, Callia Fielding, Chloe Miller

-The Chris Maggio Memorial Skagway School Board of Education Scholarship: TBA

-The STC Discretionary Scholarship: TBA

-The White Pass & Yukon Route Scholarship: Austin Bricker ($1,000), Joshua Cochran ($1,000), Adalia Deach ($1,500), Callia Fielding ($1,500), Chloe Miller ($1,500), Tessa Murphy ($1,000)

-The Margaret Frans Brady Scholarship: Adalia Deach ($1,500)

-The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge #431 Schol arship: Austin Bricker ($2,500), Paul Cooper ($1,000), Adalia Deach ($2,500), Callia Fielding ($2,500), Malihani Harris ($1,000), Chloe Miller ($2,500), Tessa Murphy ($2,500)

-The Hather Family Scholarship: Tessa Murphy ($2,000)

-Tim & Nikki Cochran Scholarship (highest GPA): Callia Fielding ($500)

Photo provided by Kortney Rupprechet

Photo by Melinda Munson

Photo by Aaron Schmidt

Jeremy Burnham works on a Higher Ground garden bed in the Skagway School vocational education shop.

Emily Wall and X́unei Lance Twitchell read a poem together at the 2023 North Words Writers symposium. Twithchl read in Tlingit and Wall read in English.