March 27, 2008

Photo by Nancy McGuire AND THEY’RE OFF—Nome youngsters go dashing through the snow on Anvil City Square in search of Easter eggs Sunday. They were decked out in their Easter Sunday finery with their fancy Easter baskets. One youngster even had a fur-lined Easter basket. The Easter egg hunt was sponsored by the Nome American Legion Auxiliary.

VOLUME CVIII NO. 13 MARCH 27, 2008 Team effort needed to tackle homelessness, alcoholism in Nome By Diana Haecker tigated binge drinking in so-called The recent death of Marjorie Nor- Alaska bush communities. ton, a 42-year-old woman from Noatak, gave rise to an overdue de- “Alcohol abuse bate regarding the compounded begets homelessness” problem of alcohol excesses and This assessment by Police Chief homelessness in Nome. Burke is a conclusion of what he and Norton was found at a residence his officers see every day. Some- known to be home to transient times, people as far as Texas can see partiers seeking a place to sleep off it, too. “We had a lady from Texas the effects of a night of drinking in call our dispatcher, saying there was Nome. She was found dead by a person lying on Front Street who friends who also frequent the place needed assistance,” said Burke. at 610 West Fourth Avenue. The Texan had logged on to the Nome Police Chief Paul Burke said city’s webcam and saw a drunk man that no foul play seemed to have con- passed out on the sidewalk. ”Now, tributed to her death and refuted ru- that’s not right,” said Burke. “Is that mors that Norton was beaten, raped or what we want people on the Internet murdered. Norton’s body was sent to to see of Nome? Is that what we want the state medical examiner for an au- to see?” Burke said that while the topsy. According to Burke, the medical fact should not be hidden, the roots examiner didn’t find any signs of out- of the problem need to be addressed, ward violence as a cause of her death. and the whole community needs to “It’s a toxicological death—either drug be part of the solution. or alcohol related,” said Burke. Burke rattled down statistics in The toxicological report will be his office at the cop shop on Bering released in four weeks. Street and quickly pointed to the in- Norton’s death marks the third tention to not get down on the so- death this winter of visitors who did- called “inebriates” or “regulars,” but n’t have adequate housing in Nome. to offer help to make Nome a better On Dec. 4, William Lincoln, 77, of place to live—for all. White Mountain died in a camper “We had 877 cases of Title 47s last shell camp on West Beach while he year,” said Burke. Title 47 is the police was in Nome visiting his daughter, code for people who are too drunk to who lived with her boyfriend in the take care of themselves. Last year saw makeshift camp. There was no alco- a daily average of 2.4 people who fell hol involved, but the elderly man had under that code and were transported complained about the bitter cold the by the police to the Anvil City Correc- night of his death. tional Center or to the hospital to sober On Dec. 15, Merritt Segock, 44, up. Burke puts the number of chronic of Elim died of exposure on the sea alcoholics wandering the streets of ice in front of Nome. Segock was Nome to 14 individuals. found highly intoxicated and had ei- In addition to the Nome “regulars” ther passed out on the ice or fell who get picked up, go to the jail or the asleep there. Without adequate hospital to sober up and start the game clothing or protection, Segock suc- all over again once they’re out, Burke cumbed to a combination of alcohol pointed to the high number of visitors intoxication and hypothermia. He who come to Nome and end up sad Photo by John Callahan died on the sea ice. statistics as Title 47s. “There are peo- AIRBORNE—Nome’s Jesse Blandford lifts off for two during the class 3A state semi-final game in Anchor- These are the extreme cases of a ple here for the price of a plane ticket, age Friday evening. Nome fell to the Heritage Christian School Eagles in the match, but went on to earn problem that put Nome on the na- no contacts, no family, and these peo- third-place honors in the tournament. The Eagles took second. For tournament coverage, see page 9. tional radar as an alcoholic sin city after a syndicated news article inves- continued on page 5 Return of the Sweepstakes revives the ‘Dog Days of Nome’ Editor’s note: The following is a historic ac- in history for excitement, speed and endurance— The men and women of this shut-in commu- and settlement, it is hardly surprising that they count of the first years of the All Alaska Sweep- the records of the famous dog races of Nome. nity, unusually active mentally and physically should be as well an indispensable factor in the stakes, provided to The Nome Nugget by the The winter season here extends from the de- as is always the case in any frontier civilization, most popular and representative sport; and it Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum. parture of the last boat of the open season late in need an outlet for their superabundant energy was because of a desire to make this sport a rec- October, to the arrival of the first boat early in in some diversion that is characteristic of their ognized part of the life of the community that By Esther Birdsall Darling, President of June, and during this time the people of north- surroundings—for many pleasures are geo- the Nome Kennel Club was organized in 1908 the Nome Kennel Club in 1916 western Alaska are cut off from the rest of the graphically impossible. This diversion they with Albert Fink as its first president. Since out of the far north have always come world by a barrier of over a thousand miles of ice have found in these thrilling contests over the From the very beginning there was much en- tales of adventure and achievement, hardship and and snow; the only direct communication with the snow-swept wastes of Seward Peninsula. thusiasm and generous purses have been of- heroism, it is not strange that out of the far north “Outside” being by the weekly government dog In this country where dogs have always been have come also the records of a sport unequalled team mails and the wireless telegraph system. an indispensable factor in the work of discovery continued on page 6

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Hello out there, ing a refinery in Alaska creates jobs My mother’s name was Elizabeth A More Perfect Norton Sound Now that the mushers have for Alaskans and would probably Estelle Blanchard. She was born in By Jason Evans passed, it decided to blow snow lower the cost to us, making it feasi- 1903 in Alaska, and moved with her Last week Barack Obama gave his speech on race in America and he some more. Here some of the mush- ble to maybe save. parents to Port Orchard, Washington touched on a lot of issues about segregation in America. Obama said, 50 ers said it was too warm for mush- Anyway, take care, everyone, and a few years later. She graduated years after segregation, the black areas are not as well off as the white areas. ing. Time seems to be flying by fast. behave yourselves. from the University of Washington What Obama is talking about rings true in our region as well. Almost every The kids are growing fast, some of As always, in 1923. I am sure she taught in service we receive in our region and especially in our villages is not the same them more ornery than others. Karen Nanouk Nome for a while, but am not sure in terms of quality as the services people receive in the rest of the state. Can you (drinking people) imag- Unalakleet the time frame. It would have been Our schools are not as well equipped as schools in Anchorage or Fairbanks, ine how much we are hurt by your 1923-1929 or from 1931-1938. She leaving our kids at a disadvantage. I know when I work with a village based drinking? We often cry because of Dear Editor: probably taught upper school rather business looking to get a loan, it is much harder and many times impossible the way you become when you I hope you will be able to help me. than the lower grades, if your school to get that loan approved at the local bank compared to when I work with a drink. After my son and I read the book was large enough for the separation. business that is located in downtown Anchorage. Internet service blinks on Just like gas and oil…How the The Cruelest Miles, our interest was Her specialty was high school Eng- and off all day in our villages at speeds folks in Anchorage would say are heck do they expect us to get ahead? peaked for information as to when lish Literature. Do you have any completely unacceptable, and cell phone services are nonexistent everywhere With their raising the prices on these, my mother taught in Nome. I have records of that? I recall her stories in our region except Nome. the money the government is giving great respect for how all of you in of dog sledding and I have some When you look at even more basic services like water and sewer, they are us as a subsidy payment buys us only Nome live your lives. We cannot photos from that time, but no date. not even available in many communities in the Norton Sound region. What 60 gallons of oil or gas. That is not begin to conceive your ability to tol- Anything you can get for me would would the Mayor of Anchorage Mark Begich say if several hundred of his res- much for us that have to pay for it. erate winter conditions. It is very be greatly appreciated. idents had no water and sewer even just for a few days. I’m sure he would I still say it’s nuts—that they are cold for us here in northwest Oregon I was 29 when mother died in call it a city crisis, a disaster. I know the Mayor would make every effort to taking oil out of our land, and we when the temp reaches 20 degrees 1971, so many of the details of her hook those residents back up to water and sewer as soon as possible. An An- have to pay this much for it. Build- above, and that is very rare. life are unknown to me. I guess at chorage resident without water and sewer is completely unacceptable and that age I was too much “into myself unimaginable. and my family” and not as interested I ask myself then, why are we left out? Why are we treated so different? Letters to the editor must be signed and in family history as I am now. Does race play a role? Why don’t we call out for a crisis to fix our prob- Thank you for any help you can give lems? include an address and phone number me. I know these are complex issues that can’t be resolved over night. I want Judy Swanson our people to rise up and demand more. Only when we demand equality will 17580 Tree Top Way we start to receive what we deserve, rather than what someone else gives us. Lake Oswego, OR 97034. The Corner Office is a column written by Jason Evans, President/Owner of Financial Alaska, a professional business consulting firm. Mr. Evans has Editorial extensive expertise in business and finance. [email protected].

Shouldnʼt Happen Last week a woman was found dead in a house that had no heat, no electricity, and no running water. The building was used as a flop- house where people who needed shelter would go to get out of the wind and snow. The location had a history of numerous calls for police assistance due to alcohol related problems. There are other similar structures in Nome. Earlier this winter there was a fire at an abandoned house. The squatter had lighted a candle to keep himself warm and was lucky to escape with just singed hair. The building was destroyed. We have a problem that needs a solution. This problem has many parts. The chronic alcohol abuse canʼt be overlooked. Treatment cen- ters are needed. A sleep-off center in needed. A soup kitchen would be of use. We should not incur the expense of housing a drunk at the state jail or hospitalizing them. The jail and the hospital are not drunk tanks. Medical staff should not be expected to deal with combative drunks. We also have to realize that not every homeless person is a drunk. They may need an economic boost and an affordable home. We should also have some community compassion to realize that any one of us under unforeseen circumstances could end up in a similar predicament. Perhaps we need to reset out priorities and allocate funds for an emergency shelter; and be sure that a treatment center and low-income housing are available. We need to use our intelligence to find a way to be sure such tragedy does not happen again in our town. — N.L.M.—

Illegitimus non carborundum Photo by Nancy McGuire EGGS EVERYWHERE— Nome youngsters search the snow on Anvil City Square Easter Sunday afternoon. There were quite a few lucky eggs for special prizes such as Easter baskets, toys and even some bikes.

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EVENT PLACE TIME Thursday, March 27 *Tennis Nome Rec Center 5:30 a.m. - 7 a.m. *Open Gym Nome Rec Center 7 a.m. - noon *XYZ Center Center Street 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. *Nome Visitor Center Front Street 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Art Fair Old St. Joe’s 10 a.m.m - 6 p.m. *Preschool Story Hour Kegoayah Library 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. *Carrie McLain Memorial Museum Front Street noon - 5:30 p.m. *Library Hours Kegoayah Library noon - 8 p.m. *Tennis Nome Rec Center noon - 1 p.m. *Cardio Kick Boxing Nome Rec Center 12:05 p.m. - 1 p.m. *Open Gym Nome Rec Center noon - 10 p.m. *Northwest Campus Library Northwest Campus 1 p.m. - 8 p.m. *Knowing the Unborn video Prematernal Home 1:30 p.m. Howard Farley on Mushing/Sweeps Museum 2 p.m. *Smoke Free Class w/Rita Binford Prematernal Home 3:30 p.m. *Swim Team Pool 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. *Strength Training Nome Rec Center 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Nome Follies/DVD Premiere Old St. Joe’s 7:30 p.m. *Kripalu Yoga Nome Rec Center 5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. *Lap Swim Pool 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. *Nome Food Bank Bering & Seppala 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. *Open Swim Pool 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. *Hockey - Ages 12-16 Ice Rink 7 p.m. *Swing Dancing Nome Rec Center 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. *Thrift Shop Methodist Church 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. ONLY *Narcotics Anonymous Behavioral Health Bldg. 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 28 *Pick-up Basketball Nome Rec Center 5:30 a.m. - 7 a.m. *A.M. Laps Pool 6 a.m. - 7:30 a.m. Photo by Diana Haecker *Open Gym Nome Rec Center 7 a.m. - 10 a.m. *XYZ Center Center Street 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. DONATION— Brenda Crim with the Baptist Collegiate Ministry at the University of Alaska Anchorage cam- *Nome Visitor Center Front Street 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. pus, left, hands a check for more than $10,000 to Bering Sea Women’s Group board member Bryan Weyau- *Kindergym Nome Rec Center 10 a.m. - noon *Carrie McLain Memorial Museum Front Street noon - 5:30 p.m. vanna, with board members Lorlie Shield and Sadie Reddaway, executive director Samaria Ross and board *Library Hours Kegoayah Library noon - 6 p.m. *Strength Training Nome Rec Center 12:05 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. member Anne Walin looking on. *ACSA Pool 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. *Injury Prevention Class Prematernal Home 1:30 p.m. Howard Farley on Mushing/Sweeps Museum 2 p.m. *Fetal Alcohol Syndrome video Prematernal Home 2:30 p.m. *Kids’ Soccer (1st-4th Grade) Nome Rec Center 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. Bering Sea Women’s group gets Artist Reception w/Jon Van Zyle Arctic Trading Post 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. *Cardio Kick Boxing Nome Rec Center 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. *Kids’ Soccer (5th-8th Grade) Nome Rec Center 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. *Open Gym Nome Rec Center 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. gift from faith-based volunteers *Balancing Life Yoga Nome Rec Center 5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. *Tae Kwon Do Nome Rec Center 6:45 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. Auction w/Sweepstakes Queens Old St. Joe’s 7 p.m. By Diana Haecker that some had bruises in their faces,” tian,” said Crim. *Hockey-Men’s League Ice Rink 7 p.m. In an unceremonious fashion, Crim said. Crim organized a train of volun- *Adult Soccer Nome Rec Center 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. Brenda Crim with the Baptist Colle- The next thought on her mind was teers to come to Nome and help staff Saturday, March 29 giate Ministry last week handed over how to help battered women in the the Iditarod operation at the finish *Nome Visitor Center Front Street closed *Carrie McLain Memorial Museum Front Street closed a check of $10,273.63 to the Bering region and the need for more fund- line. She also brought in an inspira- *Hockey-Ages 3-5 Ice Rink 11 a.m. *Library Hours Kegoayah Library noon - 6 p.m. Sea Women’s Group. The money ing for women shelters was men- tional basketball coach, combining *Hockey-Ages 12-16 Ice Rink 1 p.m. going to the women’s shelter came tioned. basketball entertainment with a pos- *Northwest Campus Library Northwest Campus 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. *Water Aerobics Pool 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. from proceeds of the concession Hence, the donation to the Nome- itive life message. *Babies in Waiting video Prematernal Home 1:30 p.m. stand Crim and a host of volunteers based Bering Sea Women’s Group, Howard Farley on Mushing/Sweeps Museum 2 p.m. *Open Gym Nome Rec Center 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. operated during the Lonnie O’Con- assisting battered women of the re- *Family Swim Pool 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. nor Iditarod Basketball Tournament gion with shelter and other resources. *Prevent Baby-bottle Tooth Decay video Prematernal Home 2:30 p.m. *Beginning Baton Nome Rec Center 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. at the Rec Center. Crim currently works at the Uni- *Hockey-Ages 6-11 Ice Rink 3 p.m. Crim came up to Nome with 120 versity of Alaska Anchorage campus *Open Swim Pool 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. *Lap Swim Pool 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. volunteers on the mission to help out as the director of the Baptist Colle- *AA Meeting XYZ Center 8 p.m. with the Iditarod Sled Dog race and giate Ministry. Previously, she had All Alaska Sweepstakes Night Board of Trade Saloon 8 p.m. - midnight to raise money through the conces- been with the campus ministries at Sunday, March 30 sion stand for the BSWG. several Texas universities, including *Nome Swimming Pool Pool closed *The Joy of Stress video Prematernal Home 1:30 p.m. BSWG board members Bryan Texas A&M. During the meeting at *Open Gym Nome Rec Center 2 p.m. - 10 p.m. Weyauvanna, Sadie Reddaway, Anne the Polar Cub, she told the BSWG *Single Parenting video Prematernal Home 2:30 p.m. *Step Aerobics Nome Rec Center 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Walin, Lorlie Shield and BSWG ex- board that she had led many faith- Balto movie showing Old St. Joe’s 5 p.m. ecutive director Samaria Ross were based volunteer projects including *Hockey-Men’s League Ice Rink 7 p.m. at hand to accept the donation last taking medical students to South Monday, March 31 Seward’s Day—City Offices Open Friday afternoon at the Polar Cub African AIDS orphanages. To make *Carrie McLain Memorial Museum Front Street closed Café. Crim, originally from Texas, a point, she also took students to *Pick-up Basketball Nome Rec Center 5:30 a.m. - 7 a.m. *A.M. Lap Swim Pool 6 a.m. - 7:30 a.m. moved to Alaska and spent time in China, where Christianity is out- *Open Gym Nome Rec Center 7 a.m. - 10 a.m. Kotzebue. “I was invited to accom- lawed. “I wanted the students to ex- *XYZ Center Street 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Photo by Diana Haecker *Nome Visitor Center Front Street 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. pany some women to seal camp and perience what it is like to not openly *Kindergym Nome Rec Center 10 a.m. - noon noticed that when they looked up be able to say that you’re a Chris- Brenda Crim *Library Hours Kegoayah Library noon - 8 p.m. *Open Gym Nome Rec Center noon - 10 p.m. *Strength Training Nome Rec Center 12:05 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. *Northwest Campus Library Northwest Campus 1 p.m. - 8 p.m. *Things Mother Never Told Me video Prematernal Home 1:30 p.m. *Discipline: Limits w/Love video Prematernal Home 2:30 p.m. *Swim Team Pool 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Located on east Front *Cardio Kick Boxing Nome Rec Center 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. *Water Aerobics Pool 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Street across from *Tae Kwon Do Nome Rec Center 6:45 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. National Guard Tuesday, April 1 *Tennis Nome Rec Center 5:30 a.m. - 7 a.m. *Open Gym Nome Rec Center 7 a.m. - noon Armory *Library Hours Kegoayah Library noon - 8 p.m. *Carrie McLain Memorial Museum Front Street noon - 5:30 p.m. *Tennis Nome Rec Center noon - 1 p.m. Take Out *Open Gym Nome Rec Center noon - 10 p.m. *Cardio Kick Boxing Nome Rec Center 12:05 p.m. - 1 p.m. *Northwest Campus Library Northwest Campus 1 p.m. - 8 p.m. Orders *Strength Training Nome Rec Center 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. *Swim Team Pool 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. *Lap Swim (Adult Lessons) Pool 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. 443-8100 *Hockey-Ages 6-11 Ice Rink 5:30 p.m. *Kripalu Yoga Nome Rec Center 5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. *Nome Food Bank Bering & Seppala 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. Monday - Saturday • 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. — Sunday • 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. All Alaska Sweepstakes Banquet Nome Rec Center 6 p.m. *Open Swim Pool 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. *Hockey-Ages 12-16 Ice Rink 7 p.m. Subway Daily Specials *AA Teleconference: 1-800-914-3396 (CODE: 3534534#) 7 p.m. *Thrift Shop Methodist Church 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. ONLY Sunday — Roasted Wednesday, April 2 Monday — Turkey/Ham Thursday — B.M.T. *Pick-up Basketball Nome Rec Center 5:30 a.m. - 7 a.m. Chicken Breast *Lap Swim Pool 6 a.m. - 7:30 a.m. Tuesday — Meatball Friday — Tuna *Open Gym Nome Rec Center 7 a.m. - 10 a.m. *XYZ Center Center Street 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Six-Inch Meal Deal *Nome Visitor Center Front Street 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Wednesday — Turkey Saturday — Roast Beef *Kindergym Nome Rec Center 10 a.m. - noon $6.99 *Carrie McLain Memorial Museum Front Street noon - 5:30 p.m. *Rotary Club Polar Cafe noon *Library Hours Kegoayah Library noon - 8 p.m. *Open Gym Nome Rec Center noon - 10 p.m. GOLD COAST CINEMA *Strength Training Nome Rec Center 12:05 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. *Northwest Campus Library Northwest Campus 1 p.m. - 8 p.m. 443-8200 *Open Swim Pool 4:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. *Cardio Kick Boxing Nome Rec Center 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. *Water Aerobics Pool 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Starting Friday, March 28 *Tae Kwon Do Nome Rec Center 6:45 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. *City League Volleyball Nome Rec Center 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. Town Hall Meeting Old St. Joes 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. on Underage Drinking Step Up 2 the *Hello Central (also on Channel 98) Nome Visitors Center 7:30 p.m. Streets ( PG--13) 7 p.m. Did you eat 5 today? Fruits and vegetables help fight cancer, heart dis- Rambo (R) ease and high blood pressure. Eat five servings a 9:30 p.m. day! Canned and frozen fruits and vegetables are Saturday & Sunday Matinee just as good for you as fresh—just 1:30 p.m. & 4 p.m. rinse off sugary or salty syrups or cream sauces. Listen to ICY 100.3 FM, Coffee Crew, 7 - 9 a.m., and find Norton Sound Health Corporation out how you can win free movie tickets! Community Calendar sponsored by Norton Sound Health Corporation, 443-3311 4 THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2008 LOCAL THE NOME NUGGET

Photo by Diana Haecker THE DRILL— Nome student Christian Leckband attended with 39 other players the Mini Mukluk basketball camp on March 14. Photo by Diana Haecker COACH— Al Sokaitis explains the right throwing technique to Mini Mini Mukluk basketball draws 40 players Mukluk camp participants, on March 14. Iditarod activities in Nome are luk Tournament. Players focused on rive from not only surrounding vil- mainly geared towards adults, and is drills, game skills and calisthenics lages, but statewide with cultural ed- Tuesday, April 2 widely known for the Lonnie from March 11 through 14 in Nome. ucation during breaks. Town Hall O’Connor Iditarod Basketball Tour- The championship games were The Mini Mukluk Tournament was 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. nament. held in conjunction with the LOIBC sponsored by Nome Eskimo Com- Meeting Challenge Life Foundation based at the Nome Rec Center on Friday. munity, Raven Screens, Frontier Fly- @ Old St. Joe’s out of Fairbanks and headed by Mike The main focus of the tournament ing, GCI, CH2MHILL, Richard Hajdukovich and Al Sokiatis held a was to provide a healthy activity for Beneville from Nome Community tournament for all Junior and Senior students during spring break and to Schools, Emma Pate, the Lonnie A chance for the community to: high school students. train students to become better bas- O’Connor Basketball Committee, Close to 40 students, mainly from ketball players. Norton Sound Health Corp. Diabetes Nome with a few players from Mike Hajdukovich is already ex- Prevention Program and Challenge Hooper Bay and surrounding vil- cited about the 2009 Mini Mukluk Life Foundation. • Learn more about underage lages, participated in the Mini Muk- Tournament hoping to have teams ar- drinking and its impacts NSEDC board interviews three CEO • Provide comments on the candidates state plan By Laurie McNicholas to name acting CEO Janis Ivanoff as why NSEDC did not provide public Directors of Norton Sound Eco- NSEDC’s registered agent on file notice of the special board meeting nomic Development Corp. gathered with the State of Alaska in place of in Nome, Harrelson apologized and • Create and implement local in Nome March 17 to interview three Asicksik. During the meeting the said the meeting had been called the candidates for chief executive officer board held an executive session previous week. of the company—Jason Evans, closed to the public to discuss possi- The NSEDC bylaws committee solutions Randy Romenesko and Bob Walsh— ble future acquisitions, Harrelson met March 18 in Nome, but took no reports Dan Harrelson, NSEDC added, but he declined to provide ad- action and did not forward any rec- board chairman and president. ditional information about acquisi- ommendations to the board, Harrel- Questions? Call Melissa Boeckmann, NSHC, at 443-3241. Evans, formerly of Nome, is presi- tions the board is considering. Asked son reported. dent of an Anchorage firm, Financial Alaska. Romenesko resigned as Nome’s city manager last December after seven years in the position. Walsh, a former Nome resident who I Am Recovering lives in Anchorage, reportedly works for US Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Earlier the NSEDC board had in- I Am Healthy terviewed two other applicants for the CEO position, Sam Towerak of Unalakleet and Bob Miller of An- chorage, Harrelson said. He de- I Have a Future clined to predict when the board will select a CEO to replace Eugene Several years ago, a car accident and brain injury changed my life – instantly, for a lifetime. Asicksik, who resigned from the po- I was fortunate to ﬁnd follow-up care in my hometown, following four months of Anchorage %N8J8989P8>8@E sition Dec. 31, but noted that the hospitalization. My family, especially Nana and Dad, have been by my side all the way. board plans to conduct further dis- They made the difference. cussions with two candidates, per- %:FLC;EeKN8CB haps as soon as this week. Harrelson said the board also held Others are not so fortunate. At least 10,000 Alaskans live with brain injury and a special meeting March 17 in Nome %?8;KFI

We deliver Free to the airport and will send freight collect same day as your order. THE NOME NUGGET LOCAL THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2008 5 • Homeless continued from page 1 Eskimo Community. Families on the Safety Team formed and received munity and the City should partici- lower-end of the pay scale who get dis- training to formulate a community pate at some level,” said Brown. ple have no place to stay here,” said placed with nowhere to go, however, plan to attack the issue. “It’s bigger than any one can solve Burke. “They end up sleeping in sometimes don’t have the luxury of “Consider the team as a strike on their own.” doorways, or shacks or even aban- time to apply for loans or cannot afford team, a small group of people who NCC director Johnson said his doned cars, if they’re not continu- to be on a year-long waiting list. do a precision strike on a particular concern is for families who get ously wandering the streets of Nome.” Nome Community Center execu- issue,” described Burke. “Our issue kicked out of their homes for what- The police chief could think on the tive director Lance Johnson knows an is drinking and intoxicated people. ever reason and need places to stay spot of four dwellings in Nome that example of a family, who was evicted It’s a broad problem, which requires as a family, that they not be torn apart give shelter to homeless people or from their home and who—without a number of strategies to work on, by child protection laws or agencies. visitors with no Nome address. He his intervention—would have expe- but once we deal with that issue and “We need temporary housing facili- said the houses are a public safety rienced the nightmare to not only lose solve it, we go on to the next and that ties with dedicated staff, planning hazard as they don’t have working their home, but also have their chil- will be the use of alcohol and sub- and commitment to help these folks plumbing and human waste is every- dren taken away by Office of Chil- stance abuse by teens.” that are for varying reasons dis- where, inside and outside the build- dren Services for not having a home. City council member Jerald placed,” Johnson said. “We need a ings. “These homes are either on the Janet Ahmasuk, Rural Victim Serv- Brown is also a member of the Com- committed building here to provide abatement list or in the abatement ice Coordinator with BSWG, gave a munity Safety Team and added, “I’ve services to the homeless, or the tem- process, but they’re still there causing few more examples of tragedies that known quite a few individuals who porarily homeless.” chronic problems,” said Burke. “We hit some people this winter. Not al- didn’t seem to have a place to live. Ahmasuk added that to alleviate know where these places are, they’re ways does the tragedy end in a death, Some ended up dying of exposure. some of the immediate needs, the unsafe, there’s no power; these places but in hopelessness. For example, The fact that there is no safe place for city should make a public building are cold, dangerous and filthy.” women seeking shelter at BSWG them to go, concerns me.” Brown available and open it to homeless— eventually transition out, and as they said that he’d like to see an alcohol at least to get them out of the cold. Nowhere to go seek a new life away from abuse, ob- rehabilitation center in town. “Nome She also said the issue needs to be Nome—unlike Bethel, Kotzebue, stacles seem insurmountable. is a very alcoholic town and it seems addressed at the state level and at the Fairbanks and Anchorage—does not In Nome, housing for women with to me that we should do something Alaska Federation of Natives confer- Photo by Diana Haecker have an alcohol treatment center fa- more than three children is impossi- to help some of the citizens who ence. “It seems to me that there cility to address the problem over the ble to find, said Ahmasuk. “They then can’t help themselves,” Brown said. should be something like alcohol and OUT IN THE OPEN—Drinking long term. Norton Sound Health go back to their abuser, the abuse Brown suggested a combination substance abuse as well as elder doesn’t only occur in the bars along Corp. submitted a request for funding starts again, gets worse and the of efforts. “Kawerak has funding abuse on the agenda—at least at the Nome’s Front Street. Doorways for an alcohol and substance abuse women bounce back to the women’s sources, the hospital should play a Youth and Elders Conference,” Ah- and the nearby beach provide treatment center to the Alaska Legis- shelter, where again, they find no role, as well as the faith-based com- masuk said. areas where many consume. lature. Not until the Legislature fin- home, no job and they end up going ishes its 90-day session will NSHC back to their abuser in the village and find out where that request stands. the cycle starts all over again,” Ah- Nome also lacks a homeless shel- masuk said. The Bering Strait Hous- ter. Since the Polaris Hotel was exclu- ing Authority, the federal low-income sively rented out to AMI, the housing authority in the region, has a contractor building the Rock Creek bedroom stipulation stating that gold mine for NovaGold, inexpensive moms with more than two children hotel rooms became non-existent in have to be housed in a sufficiently big Nome and put even more villagers in enough house, of which there are not the situation of having nowhere to go. enough available in Nome. Hence, As a last resort, some desperate the choice is either to go back home families ended up banging on the door to the village and abuser or become of the Bering Sea Women’s Group, but homeless with children in Nome. were turned away because, by man- Ahmasuk also said that another date, BSWG is only allowed to offer overlooked problem is elder abuse shelter to battered and abused women. and the heartbreak that follows when Samaria Ross, executive director of elders have to leave their village for BSWG, said that this winter marked a their own safety, but have no re- disturbing trend as they had to turn sources or ability to fend for them- -NABANNA@ N=PAO KBBANA@ BKN +=PERA KNC=JEV=PEKJ AILHKUAAO away whole families who were seek- selves in a new strange town. ing temporary shelter from the cold. In December BSWG had to turn The housing market in Nome is away 14 people, partly because they "JFKU=@AHQTAATLANEAJ?ABKNHAOOPD=JUKQIECDPPDEJG such that even people with a well- were families including males—no qfs ojhiu+ J@I=GAQOL=NPKBUKQNJ?DKN=CAPN=@EPEKJ DKQN paid, steady job have a hard time men allowed at BSWG—or because %216 EJ NKKI@EJEJCOANRE?A #QHH =PDHAPE? ?HQ> SEPD LKKH finding homes to buy or to rent. the women seeking shelter were re- +Epft opu jodmvef uby/ KILHEIAJP=NU DECD OLAA@ SENAHAOO &JPANJAP +ECDPHU Nome Sweet Homes Realtor Melissa leased from jail at 2 a.m., seeking a PQNJ@KSJ OANRE?A OQEPAO 1DNAANAOP=QN=JPO=J@= Ford said that unlike the situation in warm place, but BSWG is not allowed the Lower 48, the Nome housing to take in perpetrators. “Most of these I=NPEJE=J@SEJA>=N market is characterized by many gals just want to get their feet warm,” buyers and very few homes or prop- said Ahmasuk. “In the homeless world, erties for sale. “There aren’t many the men get the better spots, they get houses for sale,” said Ford. “And the warmer spots and they kick out the most homes are over $200,000.” ladies, who then come to us. That’s a pie in the sky for most fam- “Homelessness is a very complex ilies who are hit by the threat of evic- problem here in town,” said Ahma- tion for whatever reason. Ford said suk. “People are homeless for many there are definitely not enough apart- different reasons.” ments or houses available to meet the demand in Nome. The high demand Whose responsibility? for housing or rent has sent costs up, so A group that emerged out of the that people have to cough up $2.10 per Community Safety Group—the square foot for a new apartment or safety group looks into the issue of home. “I have seen families getting missing persons and unsolved evicted, looking for housing and even- deaths—has begun to tackle the issue tually they had to leave Nome. They of public intoxication and its effects just couldn’t make it,” said Ford. on the community. 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By Sandra L. Medearis passing through and report any ques- Mushers in the All Alaska Sweep- tionable dog conditions to race offi- stakes will drop dogs if an official cials for referral to race veterinarians. race veterinarian decides the dog’s Race rules strictly forbid mistreat- injury or health is life-threatening. If ment of dogs and specifically the use this happens, the musher may finish of whips. the race, but not in first place for the “No whips, no crap. That doesn’t grand payday of $100,000. work anymore,” Crane declared, and A lead judge, Dr. Denny Albert, added that he had been responsible upon recommendation of the lead vet- for tightening up rules on other races erinarian, may in the interest of dog he had led. care and humane treatment require a Crane said the race veterinarians dog dropped to save its life, according had been chosen from vets experi- to current rules. Besides being dis- enced in other major races, including qualified from winning first place, a the Iditarod and Yukon Quest. Offi- team that has to drop a dog will suffer cials will be doing random dog a 10-hour penalty. Injured dogs must checks on dog welfare. be carried to the nearest checkpoint Any musher thinking that another for treatment and evaluation by a vet. musher is not following the rules may Should a dog die, the musher must file a protest anywhere along the trail. notify officials as soon as possible. However, once three teams have The same penalties apply: no first- crossed the finish in Nome, checkers place finish and a 10-hour penalty. at checkpoints must require all mush- Instead, the musher and team may ers left on the trail to sign a waiver still vie for one of the money finishes, that they will not file any further second through ninth places. The of- protests. The first team across the line ficial veterinarian’s word is law on in Nome might not be the winner. Be- whether a dog needs to be dropped. cause the teams left the start in two- Old race rules said that the mush- minute intervals, judges were to ers had to return with all and the adjust the elapsed times by 32 min- same dogs with which he started the utes (16 teams multiplied by two min- race, with tired, sick or injured dogs utes) at a place known only to them. Photo by Sandra L. Medearis riding home in the sled basket. How- Official times and order of finish—ac- READY FOR THE RACE—Vol- ever, this is 2008 and rules had to be cording to elapsed time would be unteers for the All Alaska Sweep- updated, lead judge Al Crane told inked within 24 hours, Crane said. stakes prepare to man checkpoint personnel Friday. About 50 race volunteers—check- checkpoints. Standing is Leo Ras- Come to the Arctic Trading Post “We have 20 original rules and 20 point officials, ham radio operators mussen. Sitting in the foreground interpretations. It is in the interpreta- and first aid crews—attended the is Lew Tobin and his daughter, tions that we plugged modern think- briefing by Crane, first responder cap- Loki Tobin. for an artist reception and ing into the rules,” Crane said. tain Tom Vaden and Colby Carter, Dogs can ride in the basket this head of local ham radio group radio. Each checkpoint has first aid year if their condition is not life- SPARC. Checkpoints—once gold supplies for injuries that do not require showing for Jon Van Zyle. threatening, leaving the musher still mining settlements and now deserted evacuation and professional care. eligible for winner-takes-all decrepit camps for the most part—are Each musher before the race $100,000 first place. Fort Davis, Hastings, Cape Nome, signed a release saying he or she and “An orthopedic injury will not be Safety, Solomon, Topkok, Timber, the team were in the good health and considered life-threatening,” Phil Council, Boston, Telephone, Haven, prepared to run the race. Schobert, executive race director, said First Chance, Gold Run and Candle. The All Alaska Sweepstakes Ban- Monday. A dog cannot run tied behind The return is by the same route with a quet will happen at the Nome Recre- or running loose in front of the team. musher required to sign in both ways. ation Center at 6 p.m. April 1. Find Crane instructed checkpoint offi- Communications for the race are race headquarters at the Mini Con- cials to observe the condition of dogs traveling by satellite phone and ham vention Center on River Street. Van Zyle’s All Alaska Sweepstakes • History 100th anniversary poster continued from page 1 ness to their dogs bring the quickest search for unknown lands and chart Friday, March 28 • 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. and surest returns from all stand- unknown waters in the ice floes of fered that have ranged from ten to points. This has resulted in the devel- the Arctic; and the dogs which The Arctic Trading Post, Front Street three thousand dollars, according to opment of such a high standard for “Scotty” Allan bought for that in- the financial conditions prevailing, dogs that not alone is acknowledged trepid explorer have been of untold not only in Alaska, but generally— throughout Alaska, but their su- Call 443-2686 for more information. for many contributions come from premacy is conceded the world over. continued on page 16 liberal friends “Outside.” When Amundsen contemplated It was early seen that not only making a dash to the North Pole, it was would the races furnish much of the to Nome that he wrote for dogs; and winter entertainment, but there would while he subsequently gave up the voy- We would like to sincerely thank the following organizations, be a consistent effort on the part of the age, the dogs selected for him were af- dog owners and dog drivers to im- terwards used by Leonhard Seppala in business and people that made the 2008 Easter Egg Hunt a prove the breed of sled dogs, which a team which twice won the All Alaska up to this time had been but little con- Sweepstakes and the Ruby Derby. wonderful success this year. sidered; an effort to instill into all dog Vilhjalmur Stefansson, too, turned users an intelligent understanding of to Nome for dogs when he went at Individuals: Theresa & Jake Kenick, Lois Christensen, Linda Nichols, Sally the head of a Canadian Expedition to the accepted fact that care and kind- Johnson, Josie Bahnke, Kim & Hunter Carter, Gladys & Kimberly West, Elmer & Julie Pugh, Kat Lee, Sylvia Paniataaq, Rahnia Parker, Cody Bahnke, Stan Nenana Ice Anderson, Jana Veriti, Rachel Tate, DJ Bright, Paul Lee, John Kowchee, Alen Classic Lane, Colleen Johnson and Michael Apitiki. Organizations and businesses for donations: American Legion Post 19, VFW An Alaskan Tradition Ladies Auxiliary Post 9569, Miller’s Construction, RJ’s Auto, Fat Freddies, Arctic 2007 jackpot: Trading Post, Bonanza Express, Nome Dental, City of Nome, Chukotka, $303,272 Maruskiya’s, Quality Auto, Hansens, AC, CHARR, Bering Air, Nome Nugget Newspaper, KNOM, KICY, Ski Doo, Airport Pizza, Telalaska, Arctic Business and Ice Watch Professional Women, Nome Jail, Sea Side Update: Center, Gladys West, Subway, Glue Pot, 47.5 inches T ha (As of March 20) nk Builders, Q-Trucking, Polar Café, Norton Sound s! Tickets available through April 5 Regional Hospital Injury Prevention Program, Department of Fish and Game, VFW Post 9569, www.nenanaakiceclassic.com • [email protected] • 907-832-5446 Music Mart, Nome Youth Facility, Norton u u How to take part: Dutch Harbor: Alaska Commercial Co o o y Sound Economic Development Corporation. Galena: Crowley Marine Services, y 1. Buy your $2.50 ticket; one k Yukon Inn k for each guess. n n Haines: Harbor Bar, Outfitter a a If we forgot anyone, we apologize and thank you for 2. Fill out the ticket with your Sporting Goods h h ou your effort! date and time. Homer: Eagle Quality Center, T T y Ulmer’s Drug & Hardware, nk 3. Drop it in an Ice Classic can. Duggan’s Waterfront Bar a 4. Mark your calendar. Kodiak: Cy’s Sporting Goods, Safeway Th Winners of the bikes with helmets: Ryan 5. Watch for breakup. Kotzebue: Alaska Commercial Co. Thanks! Outwater, Riley Larsen, Traci Karman, Trinity McGrath: Alaska Commercial Co. Miller, Lilly Tull, Athena Hall Ticket Locations: Ninilchik: Ninilchik General Store Nome: Eagle Quality Ctr. (Hansons) Winner of the scooter with helmet: Leif Erikson Akiak: Stephan Ivan & Sons Store Petersburg: Harbor Bar Anktuvik Pass: Nunamiut Prudhoe Bay: Brooks Range Supply Auke Bay: DeHarts Store Seward: Safeway, Gateway Texaco Hosted by the American Legion Barrow: Alaska Commercial Co. Unalakleet: Unalakleet Native Store Cordova: Alaska Commercial Co. Valdez: Eagle Quality Center, The Dillingham: N&N Market Pipeline Club Auxiliary Unit 19 THE NOME NUGGET LOCAL THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2008 7 Queen Janice drops the go flag, Royal court raises $40,000

By Sandra L. Medearis The community gave enthusiastic Nome’s Janice Doherty dropped support, Doherty said. the Nome Kennel Club flag Wednes- “We not only fed a community day as All Alaska Sweepstakes queen that not only donated their time to send off the $100,00 winner-takes- and money to come in and have all All Alaska Sweepstakes sled dog food, but also bid on different teams on a 408-mile round-trip race items—gold nuggets, fur hats, to and from Candle— a place where beautiful complete parka sets for her family has roots. children, flight-seeing trips, dog The race is running the route that mushing rides and beautiful Doherty’s grandmother and family beaded jewelry,” Doherty said. “I followed in moving from Candle, a wanted to do this to ensure a hub of mining activity, to Nome by musher wouldn’t leave Nome’s dog sled in 1924. trail empty-handed; to leave with Doherty donned her regal robes an empty poke would not be satis- Tuesday after she raised the most factory in my book. I wanted them money of the All Alaska Sweep- to know that their efforts did not stakes queen nominees—$11,244. go unnoticed, to actually come to The queen’s contest traditionally has this historical event and walk away raised purses for finishers after first with something,” she added. place—the amount and the number Timbers had a memento for of places depending on queen contest each of the queen’s court. She took involvement. This time the queen $50 from each woman’s nomina- and her court raised more than tion fee of $100 and bought com- $40,000 for nine race finishers. memorative ivory jewelry. The Doherty was thrilled to have a part queen has a bracelet with different in the centennial celebration of the husky dogs scrimshawed on each Sweepstakes, she said. piece. Second- and third-place can- “To be a part of this event is ab- didates have sled dog earrings. solutely touching to me; the people Queen candidates fourth through who have supported me in this race ninth have earrings with huskies Photo by Nancy McGuire and the community involvement and scrimshawed on them. the togetherness that this has brought More money was on the way for HER HIGHNESS—Janice Doherty has been hard to miss the past few weeks as she hustled and campaigned forth has really shown what a com- mushers with queen nominees run- to win the All Alaska Sweepstakes Queen Contest. Doherty raised more than $11,200 in her quest to take the munity can do when they come to- ning an auction Friday, March 28 to top honors. The contest netted more than $40,000 total in prize money for the runner-up finishers of the race. gether to support something that they further beef up the mushers’ prizes. believe in, that is so important as a part of their roots,” Doherty said. But more personally, it was an honor also to commemorate Do- herty’s family history. “For my grandmother to be here to witness this so many years later, to be able to be here to relive this event and Trust issues touch to know that’s where our history came from, because my great all of us. Co-workers, grandfather, Robert Snyder, named Candle after the candle brush that grows there. It is a complete honor friends, family or the to represent our past and our present,” Doherty said. face in the mirror. Eight other contestants will round out the queen’s court and make it possible for more mushers to finish in the money, down to 10th place. As in the original Sweepstakes first run in 1908, Doherty’s contribution along with money raised by other contestants—$40,387 at $5 a vote—will go into the runners-up purse to pay for one finisher for each queen candidate. YOU According to traditional rules, distribution of the queen contest money means that after the first- place team collects the $100,000 race purse, Doherty’s contest money awaits second official fin- KNOW isher, second-place queen contest- ant Kristina Rasmussen–Hoffert’s money—$9,892—will go to the third finisher and so on. Additional members of the queen’s court and US... their purse contributions at $5 a vote are: Dana Sherman, $6,441; Tammy Gologergen, $5,607; Peggy Darling, $5,437; Meredith Ahma- suk, $2,091; Katie Schobert, $140; That’s why we’re speaking out. and Myrna Outwater, $100. Kirsten Timbers, head of the queen contest, said the candidates collected money in checks, cash and gold. The gold counted at the The Alaska Mental Partner Boards going price the day the candidate received it. Each of the nine finish- Alaska Mental Health Board ers after the grand winner will re- Health Trust Authority, ceive a metallic gold purse at the Advisory Board on finish line containing any gold col- Alcoholism and Drug Abuse lected by the corresponding queen with our partners, place winner plus a certificate for Governors Council on the cash and checks to be redeemed Disabilities and Special Education at Wells Fargo Bank. advocates for timely, “I read the book [Esther Birdsall Alaska Commission on Aging Darling’s Baldy, an account of the All Alaska Sweepstakes of old] and accessible treatment and Alaska Brain Injury Network added my own little twists, to make it symbolic,” Timbers said. Suicide Prevention Council The queen candidates sold Valen- services to better serve tine baskets, exchanged donated hair- dos for votes, put on shows and auctions and cranked out chili con Alaskans. Inadequate carne as fundraisers. It was great to work with women who had so much passion for the care only increases project, Timbers said. “They threw bake sales to steak feeds. The contestants had some fan- long-term cost. tastic fundraisers. One raised money by taking people out of town to Far- www.mhtrust.org ley’s Camp to watch Iditarod mushers come in,” she said. (Doherty even auctioned a river rock for $55.) 8 THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2008 easter THE NOME NUGGET

Photo by Diana Haecker STREETGAMES (top)— Casey Menadelook edges out Junior Er- ickson during the footraces held on Easter Sunday behind Old St. Joe’s Hall.

Photo by Nancy McGuire IN HER EASTER BONNET (right)— Gabriella Brown, 2, is Photo by Nancy McGuire quite the sweetheart in her Easter BIKER GAL— Riley Larsen, 3, poses with her brand new bike she won outfit as she hunts for Easter Eggs at the American Legion Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday afternoon. on Anvil City Square Sunday afternoon at the American Legion Easter Egg Hunt. Bering Strait School District Photo by Diana Haecker BEAUTIES IN A SLED (below)— 2008 Activity Calendar Sisters Grace, 3, Heidi, 3, and Zoe Okleasik, 4, showed up in style at March 27-28 April 5 Sunday’s Easter Egg hunt at Anvil Yupik Days Elementary South Ski Meet City Square, organized by the @ Gambell (Grades 1-5) @ Unalakleet ladies of the American Legion March 27-29 April 11-12 Auxiliary. Western Interior Alaska X-C Ski Elementary North Ski Meet Championships @ Tanana (Grades 1-5) @ Elim

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Photos by Al Grillo/Associated Press THE GAME PLAN (above)—Nome Nanook coach Patrick Callahan goes over strategy with his team during its first game of the state tournament last Thursday in Anchorage against Hutchison.

DRIVING (left)—Nanook Jeremy Head drives around a player from Hutchison last Thursday during the class 3A state basketball tournament in Anchorage. Nome won the game before falling to Heritage Christian School in the semi-final game Friday. The Nanooks bounced back to win the consolation game and place third.

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Nome boys cap season as third best in state The Nome Boys basketball team Friday night. The other semi-final placed third in the class 3A basket- featured the Haines Glacier Bears ball tournament. versus the Eielson Ravens. The Nome boys advanced to the The Nanooks committed nine first- state semi-finals by defeating half turnovers and fell behind 27-21 Hutchison High School in the open- at the half. Heritage Christian, well ing round. Nome then lost to Her- known for stalling when ahead, began itage Christian School of Anchorage making use of the tactic early in the in the second round. The Nome boys third quarter. Nome pressed and came back and defeated the Eielson played aggressive man-to-man de- Ravens on the final day of the tour- fense for the remainder of the game nament to place third. but was never able to close the gap. The Nome Boys end the season Nome was led by Jeremy Head’s with 24 victories as well as being the 13 points. Blandford scored 10 Western Conference champions. The points and grabbed a game-high Nome boys’ third-place finish at state eight rebounds. Junior Samuels pro- was Nome’s highest finish at the vided tremendous energy off the class 3A state tournament since plac- bench while scoring 10 points and ing third in the 2000-2001 season. grabbing five rebounds. Senior starters Josh Head and Jor- dan Miller ended their Nanook play- Nome Boys 60 - Eielson 56 ing careers with an impressive 46-9 The Nome boys defeated Eielson record over the last two seasons. The in the third-place game at the state 46 victories are the most wins in any tournament. Eielson’s record going Crowley’s Nome facility employees are deeply two-year stretch for the Nome boys into the game was 24-3. involved in their community. basketball team, according to avail- The Nome victory allowed the able results. Nome junior Jesse Nanooks to match the Ravens for the Crowley is more than just a company that supplies you Blandford and sophomore Jeremy most wins (24) of any 3A school in with vital fuel and petroleum products – we’re also your Head were each named to the All- Alaska this season. Tournament Team. Cheerleader Thre- Nome jumped out to a quick 21-9 neighbors. We work here and play here. Take Cam, for cia Mocan was named to the lead at the end of the first quarter. instance. At work, he’s a pro at customer service: this Cheerleading All-Tournament team. Eielson outscored Nome 31-23 over Crowley fuel truck driver handles everything from Jeremy Head and Banner Romenesko the next two quarters to make a very home heating fuel to propane deliveries, making sure were named to the Good Sport Team. close game of it. Nome held on for a four-point win behind the clutch you stay warm all year long. Away from work, you’re Nome Boys 59 - Hutchison 51 fourth-quarter free-throw shooting of likely to find Cam carving a traditional Eskimo mask, The Nome boys defeated the Samuels, Jeremy Head and Bland- forging silver jewelry, or helping to plan the next big Hutchison Hawks in their opening ford. Nome was led by Blandford’s event for the Nome Nannok Booster club where he round game at the state tournament. 21, Jeremy Head’s 18 and Josh Hutchison, the second-place team Head’s 10 points and 12 rebounds. is vice president. We’re proud to have Cam as a part from the Aurora Conference, brought Nome attempted 29 free-throws in of our team. a 19-7 record into the game. the game compared to just eight at- Nome jumped out the an early 21- tempts by the Ravens. To find out more about how Crowley and its employees 9 lead before being outscored by 12 Nome’s final record for the 2007-08 have been making life more enjoyable around here in the second quarter as the Hawks season ended at 24 wins and four losses. forged a 29-29 tie at the half-time. for over 50 years, call 800-977-9771. And to learn more about Crowley’s complete products The Nanooks came back and re- Boys class 3A basketball and services in Alaska, visit www.crowley.com. Or ask Cam. gained the lead by outscoring the tournament scores Hawks by 15 in the third quarter. Eielson 49 - Bethel 35 Jesse Blandford led the way with 19 Nome 59 - Hutchison 51 points, including four three-point Haines 65 - Grace 52 field goals. Jordan Miller added 15. Heritage 57 - Petersburg 41 Josh and Jeremy Head combined to Grace 56 - Bethel 45 grab 18 of the Nanooks’ 32 rebounds Petersburg 53 - Hutchison 47 in the game. Haines 70 - Eielson 64 Heating Oil • Diesel Fuel • Gasoline • Jet Fuel • Aviation Gasoline • Heritage 61 - Nome 48 www.crowley.com Heritage Christian 61 - Nome Boys 49 Petersburg 43 - Grace 42 (ot) (4th place) Propane • Packaged Petroleum Products • Lubricants • Oil Cleanup Products The Nome Boys played Heritage Nome 60 - Eielson 56 (3rd place) © Crowley Maritime Corporation, 2008 CROWLEY is a registered trademark of Crowley Maritime Corporation Christian in the state semi-finals on Haines 41 - Heritage 30 (Championship) 10 THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2008 sports THE NOME NUGGET Arctic Winter Games: Western Interior skiers team up for gold As the week progressed at the 20th their work cut out for them if they skied and out shot their rival in what The Arctic Winter Games has been The games have the look and feel Arctic Winter Game’s biathlon range were to overtake the competition’s turned to be a runaway upset, with held every two years, starting in 1970. of the Olympics, with elaborate open- last week in Yellowknife, Northwest strongest relay lineup, the power- over a six-minute margin of victory. It began with several hundred coming and closing ceremonies, and a Territories, Canada, Team Alaska’s house Yukon team. Representing Western Alaska was petitors from three locations; Alaska, large torch burning throughout. Each Senior Composite 4 x 6 kilometer On the final day of competition, in the crew’s youngest member, 15-year- Yukon, and the Northwest Territories, night ulus are awarded and national biathlon relay team (co-ed 15- and 16- front of an impressive crowd, the ge- old freshman Emerson Conger of but has grown to become an event anthems played for each of the com- year-olds) found themselves looking ographically diverse Alaska group Nome. After skiing the first 2k loop, with over 2,000 participants from petitors earning gold. There are 18 up in the standings. The squad had was able to do just that, as they out Conger was able to settle his heart nine locations. These include the sports ranging from traditional native rate down enough to hit a 1.5 inch tar- original three, plus Nunavut (what games to table tennis. There are lots get (from over a half football field used to be eastern Northwest Territo- of opportunities for young rural away) 3 of 5 times in the prone (lying ries), Northern Alberta, Nunavik Alaskans to participate in the 2010 HHoorroossccooppee down) position. After the second lap (Arctic Quebec), Greenland, Yamal (a games, which will be held in northern he matched a personal best by hitting region in Russia), and the Sami (the Alberta. “ March 27 - April 2 a 4.5 inch target 3 of 5 times in the people of northern Scandinavia). tougher offhand (standing) position. All Signs: The first Roman calendar started the defined and tidied up. This also applies to your rela- Conger had earned his first medal, year at the vernal equinox. How sensible! Spring is tionship to your partner’s wealth. (A rich partner is the beginning of things, not the middle of winter. the best labor-saving device.) an individual bronze in the 7.5k Mass On Saturday, April 5th, we have the New Moon in Start Race, the preceding day. He was Aries, which is the best time to draw up resolutions Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Church Services and think about your future. Let various ideas cook All this activity in Aries is taking place directly able to move up in the standings in in your mind—then on Saturday or Sunday write opposite your sign. This means that the opportuni- each of his individual races, going down three things you want to make happen in your ties of the New Moon later this week are all about from sixth, to fourth, to third. Con- life. (Even if they’re unattainable.) Lose weight? partnerships and relationships for you. In a suc- Directory (Gluttony is not a secret vice.) Exercise? (You can cessful partnership, you must be as good for your ger’s split in the relay proved to be the drive past the gym once a week.) Addicted to cold partner as he or she is for you. That's a given. What third fastest for boys. turkey? Then you can quit cold turkey! Write down do you want to achieve in your future vis-à-vis part- three things at the end of the week. (Expect a sur- nerships and close friendships? You're not a sign Representing girls from the West- Bible Baptist Church Service Schedule, 443-2144 prise mid-term on this next Wednesday.) that prefers to sail solo: you need somebody on the ern Interior was Nikki Fennimore, a other end of your teeter-totter. Be honest with your- Sunday School 10 a.m. Aries (March 21-April 19) self about what you want and what you expect in sophomore from Galena. The team’s Worship Hour 11 a.m. The exercise in All Signs above is an excellent terms of partnerships. Write down three things next third skier bounced back from leaving thing to explore this week. So many people are dis- Saturday—you just might get them! Community Baptist Church-SBC covering your talents this year. It’s almost as if you three targets standing in the prone po- were in the closet. People with influence and power Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) sition to hitting them all offhand. 108 West Third, 443-5448 are suddenly impressed with what you can do. This There’s no question that your serious focus now is Fennimore too, was adding a gold to a Small Group Bible Study 10 a.m. is encouraging and thrilling. You’re prepared to on your job, your employment scene, and for some work hard now, but at least, your rewards seem to of you—your health. The New Moon at the end of previously earned bronze metal, hav- Sunday Morning Worship 11 a.m. be at hand! This weekend when both the Sun and this week is perhaps your best opportunity all year ing finished third two days earlier in Pastor Bruce Landry the Moon are in your sign, please think about what to focus your mind and define what your hopes are you can do to further enhance your image, your about your job and your health. Just remember: you the 6k Sprint. Community United Methodist appearance, and your style of relating to partners can’t achieve the impossible without attempting the The team’s edge over Yukon in 2nd Ave. West, 443-2865 and close friends. Hey—when Noah built the ark, it absurd. In a perfect world, what would your job be? missed shots (9 to 16) was guaranteed wasn’t raining. Start with perfection—the perfect dream—the per- Sunday 11 a.m. Worship & Sunday School fect job—and slowly cut back to reality. By by the foursome’s best shooter, Thrift Shop — Tuesday & Thursday 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Taurus (April 20-May 20) Saturday, write down what you really want to do to Kelsey Boyer. The Fairbanks junior Many of you will travel more this year. You might keep your boat afloat. also explore opportunities in publishing, the media was the only competitor to shoot Evangelical Covenant Church or even medicine and the law. Every aspect of study Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) clean, thus forcing the Yukon unit to Bering & Front Street, 443-2565 and learning will turn you on. Some will go back to This week is all about fun stuff for Sagittarians. school or continue with schooling or getting further You couldn't pick a better time for a vacation. take seven more trips around the Sunday School 10 a.m. training in something. Basically, you’re keen to Basically, you want to enjoy yourself. You’re short, but time-consuming, penalty Sunday Morning Worship 11 a.m. expand your world and your experience of whatev- becoming increasingly wrapped up in sports, Tuesday er intrigues you. Think about how you can be the romance, love affairs, social diversions, parties, loop. Prayer Meeting 6 p.m. best you can be! Your inner values will be reflected playful activities with children as well as anything Boyer’s sharp shooting allowed Thursday Youth Group 7 p.m. in your outer world. Your inner choices dictate what to do with theme parks, the entertainment world, him the fastest split among boys, and you do, what you say and what you buy. This is a show business and the hospitality industry. Some Our Savior’s Lutheran Church year of preparation for a successful 2009! What are of you are planning a big vacation. Others want to enabled him to complete his metallic (sic) you preparing for? open a business or earn money in these areas. This color set. He would add his gold ulu is the week to jell your ideas. Think about what 5th & Bering, 443-5295 to a previously won silver ulu in the Gemini (May 21-June 20) you want to achieve. By next Saturday, write Sunday - Sunday School 10:30 a.m. More than any other sign, you can benefit from the down three things—and a year from now, read 7.5k Mid-distance Race, and bronze opportunities offered by the New Moon in Aries what you wrote down. Sunday - Morning Worship 11 a.m. this week. That’s because this particular New ulu in the 6.0k Sprint Race. Moon is a wonderful time to state intentions to Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) The Western Interior was also rep- River of Life Assembly of God, 443-5333 yourself about what you want to achieve. But more Since Cancer is having a gaggle of planets at the resented by two competitors in the Sunday Worship Service 10:30 a.m. than that, for your sign, this New Moon takes place top of their chart, you’re doing the flipside by hav- in the part of your chart related to your future ing the same gaggle of planets at the very bottom, snowshoe biathlon competition. Sunday Evening Worship 6:30 p.m. goals! It doesn’t get any better than this. What which means your focus is on home, family, real Ruby Campbell, a junior from Wednesday Night Service 6:30 p.m. changes do you want to make? What do you want estate and domestic matters. You want to entertain Tanana, won two golds and a silver in to achieve? The balance hangs in your favor. at home. You want to fix and mend things that are St. Joseph Catholic Church, 443-5527 Because of your good fortune, the universe is broken and make improvements. You want solid, the senior snowshoe biathlon divi- ready to support you in your endeavors. Lucky happy, productive, pleasant family discussions. But sion. Jesse Reynolds, a freshman Corner of Steadman and Kings Place you! (It isn’t always this easy.) most of all, you want a sense of security for your Mass Schedule long-term future, and this security is very much tied from Savoonga, took one bronze ulu Cancer (June 21-July 22) up into your home and how you provide for your- in the junior snowshoe division. Saturday 5:30 p.m. This week, there’s a gaggle of planets at the top of self and your family. What are your secret dreams Sunday 10:30 a.m. your chart: the Sun, the New Moon, Mercury and in these areas? Write them down next Saturday. Two other athletes with ties to the Venus. This makes you very high viz. People will region also competed. Sierra Corsetti, Seventh-Day Adventist (Icy View), 443-5137 really notice you now. Your life is on public display. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Furthermore, fiery Mars, the ruler of muscles, Your heavy-duty focus right now is on the people of Unalakleet, was the lone Western Saturday Sabbath School 10 a.m. aggression and assertion continues to be in your who are involved in your life on a daily basis, Interior representative in the classic Saturday Morning Worship 11 a.m. sign until the middle of next month. You’re eating including siblings and relatives. You’re a net work- razor blades for breakfast! All eyes are on you and er par excellence; you can create a petition that will and skate skiing competition. For- Christian School you’ve got what it takes to deliver the goods. Think be signed all over the globe. But what’s happening mer Nomeite Jeff Buie, now living in M-F, 8 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., Grades 1-9 about your life direction and where you want to be, in your immediate environment? How do you treat Fairbanks, won gold in the Snowshoe and what you want to achieve in the next 15 years the people you see every day? These are the people or longer. Life is like a 10-speed bicycle—most of that can make or break your day in terms of moods, Biathlon. us have gears we never use. joy, direct assistance and whether or not you’re sur- rounded by love. If you need attention, apprecia- Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) tion, affection, and acknowledgment from others— As you let your future goals percolate in the back of perhaps that’s what you have to give? Write a your mind this week (see All Signs above) certain description by next Saturday of how you want to areas in particular are where you have to focus. The express yourself to the world, and what you want fresh beginning of the New Moon at the end of this back from others? week highlights publishing and the media for your sign. Got any plans in those areas? It also highlights Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) higher education, further training or teaching, med- “Show me the money!” It’s true; money’s very icine and the law. And last but certainly not least, handy when you want to buy things. Who doesn’t there’s a strong focus on travel and dealing with feel better with 50s or 100s rolled up in their wal- other countries and people from other cultures. let? (Plastic is convenient; but money sings!) How Now That’s What is it you want to do or achieve in these areas? do you want to earn your money in the next 20 Write down three things next Saturday. Dream big! years? What kind of money do you want to earn? What do you think you’re worth? What do you Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) think you can pull down? Your preconceived The area most crying for attention from you is relat- notions about money and how you earn it will dic- ed to a lot of red tape details about shared property tate how it manifests in your life. If you think or anything you own jointly with somebody else. money is dirty, you won’t hang onto it for long. This could also encompass insurance matters, Figure out how much money you want (realistical- taxes, debt, loans and mortgages. Think about what ly) to make your life work nicely. Get specific. you want to achieve, or finish or clear up. What’s Write it down next Saturday. Write down your ideas important to your peace of mind and your future about how you might earn it. Ka-ching! Good News! security? What can you do to feel a lot better about the next few years? Something here has to be better www.georgianicols.com

3/20-27; 4/3 NSEDC FISHERIES SAFETY ORIENTATION CLASS Paul Harvey News & Comment. APRIL 27- MAY 7, 2008 Weekdays at 8:00 AM & Noon On behalf of the NSEDC Board of Directors, the NSEDC EET Department is happy to announce a fisheries safety and orientation class at the Alaska Vocational Technical Center in Seward, Alaska from April 27 - May 7, 2008. The class The Rest of the Story at is limited to 15 participants with a deadline of April 17, 2008, when the selection will happen in the evening. 10:45 AM. In compliance with the U.S. Coast Guard Zero Tolerance Law, each trainee must pass a drug screen urinalysis and stay off the alcohol during training and employment working on our trawlers, crabbers, and long-liner vessels in the Bering Sea. Required to work 16 hours a day, seven days a week upon successful completion of the training, each trainee must pass a physical examination and document a hearing test at the Norton Sound Regional Hospital.

Applications can be received from your local NSEDC AM-850AM-850 Community Liaison or by calling Jerry at 1-800-385-3190. THE NOME NUGGET sports THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2008 11 Johnson makes it five straight with wins at BSSD Ski and Biathlon Championships

By Keith Conger girl’s races on familiar ski trails in utes in 2007 to 34 minutes this year. Imagine a NASCAR racer having the meet’s largest category (34 This year marked a milestone for a wheel fall off and not stopping in skiers). Her victories did not come the annual meet, which began in the pit to replace it, or a marathon without challenge, though, as the dy- 1978. Not only did 75 skiers from runner losing a shoe, and trying to namic duo from Unalakleet, Season 14 different sites attend it, but also get to the finish line with one bare Haugan (silver and bronze), Jonisha fittingly, the event was run this year foot instead of stopping to put it back Wilson (bronze and silver), pushed by its founding father, John Miles. on. Lincoln hard. The three medal win- The BSSD Ski and Biathlon Such was the strategy that regional ners posted such fast times in the ski Championships acts as a regional junior high skiing phenom Shyler race that if they had been racing qualifier for the rural state meet, the Johnson of Unalakleet employed against the boys they would have Western Interior Ski and Biathlon during the first lap of the biathlon taken fourth, fifth, and sixth place. Championships (which every two race at the 30th annual Bering Strait While not being able to secure in- years is a qualifier for the Arctic School District’s Ski and Biathlon dividual gold, the efforts of the Un- Winter Games). Making the squad Championships in White Mountain alakleet girls were enough to this year for the BSSD is Johnson, this past weekend. narrowly claim the first place team Haugan, Wilson, Daniels, and Chris After losing his pole in deep snow trophy over Lincoln’s White Moun- Lockwood of Unalakleet; Tomalonis, on a short, steep section at the begin- tain squad. Rosa Schmidt, Miranda Bergamaschi, Lincoln, Rayna Buck- ning of the race, Johnson decided to Murphy and Arianna Horner, a trio Nassuk, and Adrian Barr Jr. of White chase his competitors rather than of first year racers from Nome, Mountain; Okleasik, and Jamie climb back up to retrieve the piece of banded together to outpace the seven Ablowaluk of Teller; Otten, Terrell equipment. The choice nearly remaining teams and capture the Tanner, and Petey Lockwood of Photo by Christian Persons proved too costly, but by grabbing third place team trophy. Saint Michaels; Zander Weyiouanna, RAYNA REIGNS ON THE RANGE— White Mountain junior high his pole on the final lap, Johnson was Tara Schmidt, who captured her and David Olanna of Shishmaref; skier Rayna Buck-Nassuk (187) leads the pack on the way up to the able to use his superior ski skills to second straight High School Girl’s Renatta Olson, and Tahnee Esparza biathlon range during a race at the 30th annual Bering Strait School Dis- fight his way back for an astonishing Ski Meister Trophy, dominated both of Golovin; and Linda Kimoktoak, trict Ski and Biathlon Championships. come-from-behind, seven-second of her races with 30 minute and 24 and Romay Shayen of Koyuk. victory. minute margins of victory over Jo- The entire ski team from Nome The win extended Johnson’s lene Okleasik of Teller. The tune-up qualified for the Western Interior amazing gold medal streak on the should prove valuable, as the Nome state meet, as each member, with the year in junior high boy’s ski or senior will face tough competition exception of Tara Schmidt who did biathlon races to five. It also allowed from Galena’s Nikki Fennimore, Un- not have a teammate, was a part of a him to stake claim to his first Ski alakleet’s Sierra Corsetti, and top three team. Meister Trophy, the award for the top Tanana’s Ruby Campbell at this For the first time ever, each mem- skier in each age category. coming weekend’s rural state meet. ber of the Nome team finished in the Asa Bergamaschi of White Moun- After capturing the junior high Ski top 10 in both races in each of his or tain took second place in biathlon. Meister Trophy last year, Emerson her categories. Going to the state Nome’s Brendan Wehde balanced a Conger of Nome added his first meet from Nome will be Conger, bad fall with flawless shooting (he BSSD Championships high school Tara Schmidt, Wehde, Rosa Schmidt, was the only boy, junior high or high Ski Meister Trophy. He was able to Murphy, Horner, Tim Schmidt and school, to make all ten shots), to take outdistance Paul Tomalonis of White Sam Schmidt. the bronze medal. Mountain and Alex Otten of Saint The threesome of outstanding boy Michaels, who took silver and skiers beat out 26 other competitors bronze each day. Photo by Ed Todd to finish in the same order as they did The Most Improved Skier Awards RUNNING LIKE BIG FOOT— in the 3K Sprint Race the day before. went to Brendan Wehde and Gam- Jess Reynolds of Savoonga starts Understandably, the team awards bell’s Michelle Slwooko. While one of his snowshoe biathlon races also matched the top three finishing Wehde was able to shave 4:49 off his at the 20th Arctic Winter Games order. ski time from last year, Slwooko did in Yellowknife, Northwest Territo- Hometown speedster Precious the unimaginable by nearly cutting ries, Canada. Reynolds was one of Lincoln won both of the junior high her time in half, going from 54 min- the Western Interior representa- tives on Alaska's Snowshoe Results from the 30th Annual BSSD Ski and Biathlon Team. Biathlon Championships

High School Boys 4.8-mile ski race 1. Emerson Conger, Nome 26:36 2. Paul Tomalonis, WMO 32:00 3. Alex Otten, SMK 36:36 4. Sam Schmidt, Nome 42:39 5. Harvey Tocktoo, SHH 49:53 6. Donny Ahnangnatoguk, BVG 50:04

High School Girls 4.8-mile ski race 1. Tara Schmidt, Nome 36:46 2. Jolene Okleasik, TLA 1:06:33 3. Jamie Ablowaluk, TLA 1:11:25

Junior High Boys 2.4-mile ski race 1. Shyler Johnson, UNK 13:51 2. Asa Bergamachi, WMO 15:17 3. Brendan Wehde, Nome 16:03 4. Terrell Tanner, SMK 18:55 5. Zander Weyiouanna, SHH 19:45 6. Leon Kulowiyi, SVA 20:33 7. Chris Lockwood, UNK 21:15 8. David Olanna, SHH 21:24 9. Tim Schmidt, Nome 21:40 10. Ethan Shayen, KKA 22:59

Junior High Girls 2.4-mile ski race 1. Precious Lincoln, WMO 17:47 2. Season Haugan, UNK 18:11 3. Jonisha, Wilson, UNK 18:37 4. Katie Daniels, UNK 20:06 Save more for 5. Rayna Buck-Nassuk, WMO 21:02 6. Renatta Olson, GLV 22:17 7. Rosa Schmidt, Nome 22:29 retirement with 8. Miranda Murphy, Nome 23:40 9. Linda Kimoktoak, KKA 25:07 10. Arianna Horner, Nome 25:44 a Wells Fargo IRA.

High School Boys Biathlon Race 1. Emerson Conger, Nome 23:06 2. Paul Tomalonis, WMO 26:32 3. Alex Otten, SMK 28:55 4. Donny Ahnangatoguk, BVG 35:19 5. Sam Schmidt, Nome 37:28 6. Harvey Tocktoo, SHH 41:23

High School Girls Biathlon Race 1. Tara Schmidt, Nome 31:02 2. Jolene Okleasik, TLA 54:04 3. Jamie Ablowaluk, TLA 54:45 4. Marissa Oxerok, WAA 55:41 5. Katherine Kitchen, WAA 1:35:14

Junior High Boys Biathlon Race 1. Shyler Johnson, UNK 24:52 2. Asa Bergamaschi, WMO 24:59 3. Brendan Wehde, Nome 25:15 4. Terrell Tanner, SMK 31:01 5. Leon Kulowiyi, SVA 32:33 6. Chris Lockwood, UNK 34:11 Wells Fargo offers an IRA sure to fit anyone’s needs, with a wide variety of investment options. And we 7. Zander Weyiouanna, SHH 34:28 8. Adrian Barr Jr., WMO 35:59 make it easy to roll over money from your 401(k) into an IRA that may better suit you. Visit wellsfargo.com 9. Petey Lockwood, SMK 40:37 10. Tim Schmidt, Nome 40:46 or talk with a Wells Fargo banker today about a Retirement Action PlanSM that can help your golden years be Junior High Girls Biathlon Race a little more golden. 1. Precious Lincoln, WMO 30:48 2. Jonisha Wilson, UNK 31:54 3. Season Haugen, UNK 33:54 4. Rayna Buck-Nassuk, WMO 33:56 5. Katie Daniels, UNK 34:55 6. Renatta Olson, GLV 35:52 7. Miranda Murphy, Nome 37:04 8. Rosa Schmidt, Nome 39:14 9. Romay Shayen, KKA 44:04 10. Arianna Horner, Nome 44:09 © 2008 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. All rights reserved. Member FDIC. 12 THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2008 THE NOME NUGGET CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Deadline is noon Monday•(907) 443-5235•Fax (907)443-5112 e-mail [email protected] Employment Real Estate

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Must be able to experience in a comparable position. communicate effectively verbally and in writing. 2. Must possess computer knowledge and skills Must be willing to work a flexible work schedule as MUNAQSRI Senior Apartments • “A Caring Place” in windows, Internet usage, excel and word. needed. 3. Knowledge of general office procedures. 6. Familiarity with the region and its people pre- Seawall NOW taking applications for one-bedroom 4. Facility in a Native Language of the Bering ferred. Must be able to establish a rapport with Straits region highly desirable. residents and families from varying cultural and unfurnished apartments, heat included 5. Must be able to maintain client confidentiality. sociological backgrounds. 3/17 “62 years of age or older, handicap/disabled, regardless of age” Native Preference per Public Law 93-638. 7. Must be able to meet federal and state criminal Beverly Gelzer, DOB: 9/2/55, was served an • Applications accepted until close of business and child protection background clearance re- Order to Show Cause for Failure to Appear for Ar- Electricity subsidized; major appliances provided on Tuesday, April 1. quirements for this type of position. Must possess raignment. •Rent based on income for eligible households For additional information and applications or obtain within 6 months a valid Alaska Driverʼs Michael Saclamana, DOB: 12/29/80, was ar- •Rent subsidized by USDA Rural Development please contact Human Resources Depart- license and have a safe driving record. rested and booked into AMCC for Assault in the ment at Kawerak, Inc; P.O. Box 948 Nome AK 8. Computer, keyboarding and office skills re- Fourth Degree, Domestic Violence. 515 Steadman Street, Nome 99762 or phone 443-4373 fax: 907-443-4443; quired. Must possess basic computer knowledge Ann Soolook, DOB: 3/14/76, received a sum- or e-mail [email protected] and skills in Internet use, Microsoft Word and mons to appear. EQUAL 3/20-27 Excel. 3/18 OPPORTUNITY A Nome female was transported to the hospi- EMPLOYER Recruitment Notice Applications accepted until close of business on tal for a Title-47 Protective Custody Hold. Division of Children and Family Services Tuesday, April 1. A Nome male was transported to the hospital (907) 443-5220 for a Title-47 Protective Custody Hold. DEPARTMENT: Jacobʼs House PO BOX 1289 • Nome, AK 99762 Fax: (907) 443-5318 Daniel Qualls, DOB: 2/17/45, was arrested JOB TITLE: Caregiver For additional information and applications please Michael Eaton, Manager Hearing Impaired: 1-800-770-8973 POSITION STATUS: Shift (Evening and Week- contact Human Resources Department at Kaw- and booked into AMCC for Violation of Conditions end), On-Call erak, Inc; P.O. Box 948 Nome AK 99762 or phone of Probation. EXEMPT STATUS: Non-Exempt 443-4373 fax: 907-443-4443; or e-mail 3/19 PAY SCALE GRADE: 5-6-7 ($14.22 – 18.55) [email protected] Jonel Fergerson, DOB: 3/19/84, was arrested DOE EEOC and booked into AMCC for Violation of Conditions REPORTS TO: Jacobʼs House Program Director 3/20-27 of Probation. QUALIFICATIONS Robert McGuffey, DOB: 12/8/36, received a Looking for a Citation for Expired Registration. Donald Douglas, DOB: 2/24/78, was arrested and booked into AMCC for Violation of Probation. A Nome male was transported to the hospital new buddy? for a Title-47 Protective Custody Hold. Now Hiring A Shishmaref male was transported to the hospital for a Title-47 Protective Custody Hold. Your new best friend Full- & Part-Time: Barbara Scholten, DOB: 8/30/66, was arrested and booked into AMCC for Violation of Probation. 3/20 A Nome male was transported to the hos- may be waiting for Transportation pital for a Title-47 Protective Custody Hold. 3/21 you at the Nome Security Officers A Nome male was transported to the hospital for a Title-47 Protective Custody Hold. Animal Shelter! Nome Airport A Nome juvenile female was given a Citation for Minor Consuming Alcohol. Xavier Pete, DOB: 8/26/88, was arrested and Officers provide security and protection for air travelers, airports and aircraft. booked into AMCC for Violation of Conditions of Adopt a pet and get a FREE bag of dog/cat food from Release and Violation of Conditions of Probation. A Nome male was transported to the hospital Doctor Leedy and the Nome Kennel Club. Dog food, cat Full-Time: Starting at $36,648 per year Plus Benefits for a Title-47 Protective Custody Hold. Part-Time: Starting at $17.56 per hour Plus Benefits Tommy Raymond, DOB: 11/27/65, was ar- food, cat litter and other donations are always welcome rested and booked into AMCC for Violation of (Includes 25% Cost of Living Allowance plus 25% Retention Allowance) Conditions of Probation. James Niksik, DOB: 1/28/59, was arrested at the Nome Animal Shelter! TSA will pay the maximum government contribution for health benefits and booked into AMCC for Violation of Probation. under the TSA Health Benefit Incentive for part-time TSOs. All part-time A Nome male was transported to the hospital TSOs will pay the same lower cost for federal health benefits as full-time for a Title-47 Protective Custody Hold. Nome Animal Control & Adopt-A-Pet • 443.5212 or 443.5262 employees. Patrick Butler, DOB: 6/15/75, was arrested and booked into AMCC for Assault in the Fourth De- Minimum Requirements: U.S. Citizenship or U.S. National • High school gree, Domestic Violence. Carl Dick, DOB: 10/7/41, was arrested and diploma, GED or equivalent, or one year of security or aviation screening booked into AMCC for Harassment in the Second experience • English proficiency • Pre-employment medical evaluation Degree. • Pass a background/credit check Bertha Pugh, DOB: 7/30/79, was arrested and booked into AMCC for two (2) counts of Violation Please apply online at: of Conditions of Probation. A Nome male was transported to the hospital www.tsajobs.com for a Title-47 Protective Custody Hold. 1-800-887-1895 3/22 We are looking for information on Derek Saclamana, DOB: 3/20/89, was ar- TTY: 1-800-887-5506 rested and booked into AMCC for Violation of any rental properties or houses for Conditions of Release and Minor in Possession of Alcohol by Persons under the Age of Twenty-one. sale in Nome available now or in TSA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Douglas Seidelman, DOB: 12/17/63, was arrested and booked into AMCC for Disorderly Con- duct. the near future. Jeffrey Saclmana, DOB: 4/17/82, was arrested Please contact Tiffany at 907-443-4115 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: and booked into AMCC for Violation of Conditions [email protected], of Release, and Assault in the Fourth Degree, Do- or Josie at 907-443-4611 [email protected] if you have PRESIDENT, MANIILAQ ASSOCIATION mestic Violence. Sue Ann Kowchee, DOB: 2/8/85, was arrested any information. Maniilaq Association is a non-profit corporation serving the health care, and booked into AMCC for Violation of Conditions social services and tribal operations needs of the residents of Maniilaq of Probation. Christopher Dickson, DOB: 3/19/84, was ar- Service Area. The corporate office is located in Kotzebue, Alaska. rested and booked into AMCC for Violation of DISPOSAL OF MUNICIPAL PROPERTY BY LEASE TO Conditions of Probation. The President of Maniilaq Association is responsible for ensuring sys- Dawn Oozevaseuk, DOB: 8/30/83, was ar- GCI COMMUNICATION CORP. tems, programs and work environment of Maniilaq Association are of the rested and booked into AMCC for Violation of Conditions of Probation. highest quality. The President must provide leadership on Alaskan Native James Brown, DOB: 1/5/62, was arrested and The City of Nome is considering disposal of municipal property by lease issues within the Maniilaq Service Area, state and nation. The President booked into AMCC for Violation of Conditions of to GCI Communication Corp. for the purpose of furthering the develop- will work effectively with the Board of Directors and with the public, Probation. 3/23 ment of local trade or industry, specifically, the development of commu- Tribal Governments and funding agencies. Peggy Outwater, DOB: 5/6/60, was arrested nications. The property is located at the City Maintenance building. The and booked into AMCC for Driving Under the In- The ideal candidate for this position will be a leader with extensive ex- fluence. disposal of said property will be by ordinance enacted by the Nome City perience in executive management, including financial management and Edwin D. Johnson, DOB: 6/28/54, received a Council duly noticed by agenda and public notice. Further information citation for Failure to Stop at a Stop Sign. using a team approach. He/She will have proven success in instituting 3/24 may be obtained by contacting the office of the City Clerk. 3/10, 4/3-10-17 and managing effective and efficient organizational systems. The appli- Ryan Angtoghame, DOB: 10/16/76, was arrested and booked into AMCC for Indecent Expo- cant should have excellent oral communication and writing skills with sure in the Second Degree and Introduction of administrative experience. Committed to practicing Inupiat Illiquisiat val- Alcohol on to a Licensed Premises. Mark Miklahook, DOB: 4/14/66, was arrested ues. This individual will have experience working with Boards and will and booked into AMCC for Violation Conditions of be knowledgeable about health care or other service organizations. An Probation and Promoting Prostitution in the Fourth understanding of P.L. 93-638 and tribal governments is required. Degree. Native Preference applies, tribal members and NANA shareholders are encouraged to submit applications. Happy Birthday Nils and This is a contracted position. Salary will be negotiated. Lizzy Hahn! Please provide Maniilaq employment application, resume and at least three professional references to: Maniilaq Association P.O. Box 256 Kotzebue, AK 99752 Photo by Nancy McGuire Attn: Guy Adams, Chairman-President search GREAT HUNTER— Thaniel Booshu, 3, found quite a few Easter eggs at the Easter Egg Hunt Call 1-800-478-3312 ext. 7664 for an application packet. Maniilaq Asso- on Anvil City Square Sunday afternoon. The ciation is an EEO/Alaska Native and American Indian preference employer. Nome American Legion Auxiliary sponsored the Applications will be accepted from 3/12/08-4/18/08 3/20-27; 4/3-10 hunt. Trooper Beat On March 15, approximately 3:40 p.m., while Hooper Bay and Leon Kaganak, 26, of Scammon back in Unalakleet at 5:30 p.m. Unalakleet SAR Unalakleet troopers were at Bering Air in Nome Bay. Investigation is still ongoing so some names sent out three searchers on snowmachine and waiting to return to Unalakleet they were advised are being with held until after the investigation is they located Paniptchuk and McQuesten, three that several Hooper Bay basketball players who complete. miles east of the Tripod Shelter cabin. Both were were traveling back to Hooper Bay had alcohol in in good condition, their snowmachine had become their luggage. Several players were contacted On March 16, at 10:00 p.m., Unalakleet AST stuck in deep snow. The area has been experi- and 27 bottles of alcoholic beverages were seized received a report of overdue travelers on a snow- encing heavy snowfall. All parties returned to Un- due to Hooper Bay having a local option which machine, traveling from Kaltag to Unalakleet. alakleet the morning of March 17. prohibits the importation of alcohol. Importation Conrad Paniptchuk, 57, and Elizabeth Mc- charges are being referred on Karen Hale, 26, of Questen, 50, both of Unalakleet were expected THE NOME NUGGET THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2008 13

Legals

1. Any party claiming a property interest name change from Ina-Rene Parker Campbell Parties who do not file an appeal in accordance 222 West Seventh Avenue, #13 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE which is adversely affected by the de- to Ina Rene Parker. A hearing on this request with the requirements of 43 CFR Part 4, Anchorage, Alaska 99513-7504 STATE OF ALASKA cision shall have until April 14, 2008 to will be held at Nome Court at 1:00 pm on Tues- Subpart E, shall be deemed to have waived their SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT NOME file an appeal. day, March 11, 2008. rights. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: The In the Matter of Change of Name for: 2. Parties receiving service of the deci- 3/13-20-27-4/3 Bureau of Land Management by phone at Ina-Rene Parker Campbell, sion by certified mail shall have 30 ADDRESS: A copy of this decision 907-271-5960, or by e-mail at ak.blm.con- Current name of Adult, days from the date of receipt to file an DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR may be obtained from: [email protected]. CASE NO: 2NO-08-00021CI appeal. Bureau of Land Management Bureau of Land Management Eileen Ford Notice of Petition to Change Name Parties who do not file an appeal in accordance [Serial Nos. F-14881-A2; F-14881-B2] Alaska State Office Land Transfer Resolution Specialist A petition has been filed in the Superior Court with the requirements of 43 CFR Part 4, Alaska Native Claims Selection 222 West Seventh Avenue, #13 Land Transfer Adjudication II (Case # 2NO-08-00021CI) requesting a name Subpart E, shall be deemed to have waived their ACTION: Notice of decision approving lands for Anchorage, Alaska 99513-7504 Copy furnished to: change from Ina-Rene Parker Campbell to Ina rights. conveyance Public Information Center (954C) Rene Parker. A hearing on this request will be ADDRESS: A copy of this decision SUMMARY: As required by 43 CFR 2650.7(d), FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: The 3/27; 4/3-10-17 held at Nome Court at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, may be obtained from: notice is hereby given that an appealable decision Bureau of Land Management by phone at March 11, 2008. Bureau of Land Man- approving the surface estate in certain lands for 907-271-5960, or by e-mail at ak.blm.con- NOTICE OF UTILITY TARIFF FILING 3/13-20-27-4/3 agement conveyance pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims [email protected]. The REGULATORY COMMISSION OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Alaska State Office Settlement Act will be issued to Koyuk Native Cor- Eileen Ford ALASKA (Commission) hereby gives notice that VILLAGE PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER BUILD- 222 West Seventh poration. The lands are in the vicinity of Koyuk, Land Transfer Resolution Specialist MUKLUK TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC. (MUK- ING Avenue, #13 Alaska, and are located in: Land Transfer Adjudication II LUK), a local exchange telephone company, has MAINTENANCE PROJECTS IN THE BERING Anchorage, Alaska Kateel River Meridian, Alaska Copy furnished to: filed a tariff revision (TA68-253). In the filing, STRAIT REGION 99513-7504 Public Information Center (954C) MUKLUK proposes to add new Custom Calling T. 4 S., R. 11 W., 3/27; 4/3-10-17 Features to its local service in its noncompetitive SCOPE OF WORK - Kawerak is soliciting Pro- FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Sec. 17. dominant service areas. In particular, MUKLUK posals to perform on-site renovation, repair and The Bureau of Land Management by phone at Containing 640.00 acres. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR proposes to add Caller ID on Call Waiting to its maintenance work to VPSO holding cell/office 907-271-5960, or by e-mail at ak.blm.con- T. 4 S., R. 12 W., Bureau of Land Management Basic Bundle and Kitchen Sink Bundle and Three spaces in six Villages within the Bering Strait re- [email protected]. Secs. 4 to 9, inclusive; [F-14908-A2; F-14908-B2] Way Calling with Call Transfer. The proposed rate gion in the spring of 2008. Kawerak seeks a qual- Eileen Ford Secs. 17 and 18. Alaska Native Claims Selection for Three Way Calling with Call Transfer is $4.00 ified, experienced, licensed, bonded and insured Land Transfer Resolution Specialist ACTION: Notice of decision approving lands for per month. In addition, MUKLUK proposes to re- Contractor skilled in performing the scope of work, Land Transfer Adjudication II Containing 5,060.24 acres. conveyance move the non-recurring service order charge for who is able to keep these projects on-track, on- Copy furnished to: T. 5 S., R. 12 W., SUMMARY: As required by 43 CFR 2650.7(d), the establishment of Facility Reservation Service time, and within budget despite the complexities Public Information Center (954C) Secs. 13, 14, and 15; notice is hereby given that an appealable decision from its tariff. This notice does not detail every proof rural Alaska logistics. The Contractor participat- :3/20-27; 4/3-10 Secs. 21, 22, and 23; approving the surface estate in certain lands for posed revision. ing in this work will have to deal with remote Secs. 27 and 28. conveyance pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims The Commission may approve rates, terms or Alaska conditions, including aircraft charters and *FMS531500443000000* Settlement Act will be issued to Sitnasuak Native conditions that vary from those proposed. You minimal guest facilities at the project sites. NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO Containing 5,120.00 acres. Corporation. The lands are in the vicinity of Nome, may obtain more information about this filing from SELL T. 4 S., R. 13 W., Alaska, and are located in: MUKLUK at 201 E. 56th Ave, Anchorage, Alaska UNDER DEED OF TRUST Secs. 1 and 2; Kateel River Meridian, Alaska 99518. You may inspect the filing at the Commis- Trusteeʼs Sale No: 04-FMS-53150 Secs. 29 to 32, inclu T. 10 S., R. 34 W., sionʼs offices, located at 701 West Eighth Avenue, This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION The length of the contract will be from the date of sive. Secs. 20 and 29. Suite 300, Anchorage, Alaska 99501. TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE award, approximately April 11, 2008, until no later Containing 1,120.03 acres. To comment on this filing, please file your SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor than June 30, 2008. All proposals must be re- Containing 3,835.84 acres. comments by April 18, 2008 at either the Com- Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed ceived in writing at the address shown in the Re- T. 5 S., R. 14 W., The subsurface estate in these lands will be con- mission address above or [email protected] by DANIEL KOOPER PISCOYA AND ANNETTE J quest for Proposals no later than 4:30 pm, March Secs. 1 and 2; veyed to Bering Straits Native Corporation when and include a statement that you have filed a copy PISCOYA, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS TENTANTS 28, 2008. Requests for Proposals received after Secs. 10 and 11; the surface estate is conveyed to Sitnasuak Na- of the comments with MUKLUK at its address BY THE ENTIRETY, as Trustor, to STEWART this will not be considered. Secs. 15, 21, and 22. tive Corporation. above or [email protected]. The option to TITLE OF ALASKA, as Trustee, in favor of NEW Notice of the decision was published in the Fed- comment by email is for all consumers. Individu- CENTURY MORTGAGE CORPORATION, as The successful Responder (Contractor) will be re- Containing 4,479.68 acres. eral Register on March 21, 2008. als or groups of people with disabilities, who re- Beneficiary, dated 12/2/2005 12:00:00 AM, quired to enter into a contract with Kawerak within Aggregating 19,135.76 acres. DATES: The time limits for filing an appeal are: quire special accommodations, auxiliary aids or recorded 12/12/2005 under Instrument No. 2005- ten (10) calendar days after Kawerak notifies the The subsurface estate in these lands will be con- 1. Any party claiming a property interest which is service, or alternative communication formats, 001598-0, in the CAPE NOME Recording District, Contractor of intent to award. In the event the veyed to Bering Straits Native Corporation when adversely affected by the decision shall have until please contact Joyce McGowan at 276-6222, toll- SECOND Judicial District, State of ALASKA. The Contractor fails to do so, Kawerak reserves the the surface estate is conveyed to Koyuk Native April 21, 2008 to file an appeal. free at 1-800-390-2782, or TDD (907) 276-4533 beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been right to retract the intent to award to that Contrac- Corporation. 2. Parties receiving service of the decision by cer- by April 11, 2008. assigned to Deutsche Bank National Trust th tor and/or issue intent-to-award to the next highest Notice of the decision was published in the Fed- tified mail shall have 30 days from the date of re- DATED at Anchorage, Alaska, this 19 day of Company as Trustee under Pooling and Servicing ranking contractor. Proposals should be marked eral Register on March 21, 2008. ceipt to file an appeal. March, 2008. Agreement dated as of April 1, 2006 and the as follows: DATES: The time limits for filing an appeal are: Parties who do not file an appeal in accordance REGULATORY COMMISSION OF ALASKA record owner of the property is purported to be 1. Any party claiming a property interest with the requirements of 43 CFR Part 4, DANIEL KOOPER PISCOYA AND ANNETTE J Proposal – Village Public Safety Officer Main- which is adversely affected by the deci- Subpart E, shall be deemed to have waived their Mary J. Vittone PISCOYA, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS TENTANTS tenance Projects in the Bering Strait Region sion shall have until April 21, 2008 to file rights. Chief, Tariff Section BY THE ENTIRETY. Said Deed of Trust covers an appeal. ADDRESS: A copy of this decision 3/27 real property situated in said Recording District, 2. Parties receiving service of the decision may be obtained from: described as follows: by certified mail shall have 30 days from Bureau of Land Management Kawerak, Inc. LOT 40A, BLOCK 57, BELMONT POINT the date of receipt to file an appeal. Alaska State Office 504 Seppala Drive REPLAT, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT PO Box 948 THEREOF, FILED UNDER PLAT NO. 84-22, Nome, Alaska 99762 RECORDS OF THE CAPE NOME RECORDING All Around the Sound DISTRICT, SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT, Request for Proposal packets may be obtained STATE OF ALASKA. at the above address. Call Gina Appolloni at EXCEPTING ANY PORTION OF SAID New Arrival Alaska Army National Guard operations for the different U.S. 907-443-4252 or email: gappolloni@kaw- PREMISES CONVEYED TO THE CITY OF Adora Ann and Thor Noongwook erak.org.Kawerak VPSO program will evaluate NOME BY QUIT CLAIM DEED RECORDED soldiers train, forge friendships in branches, as well as those of our the proposals in response to this solicitation. It is APRIL 26, 1983 IN BOOK 304 AT PAGE 618. of Savoonga announce the birth of Japan JGSDF allies. To assist in the inte- Kawerakʼs intention to award a contract to the Commonly referred to as 301 MCLAIN LANE, their daughter Rhonda Ann most responsive and responsible Responder , NOME, AK 99762. More than 100 soldiers build gration of U.S. soldiers, an opening based upon Kawerakʼs interpretation of the pro- A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Kingeekuk Noongwook, born bonds during bilateral training at reception was held welcoming the posals. Kawerak VPSO program reserves the Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO March 18 at 5:21 a.m. She weighed right to apply highly subjective criteria in the MAKE PAYMENT OF $868.80 WHICH BECAME North Wind 2008 Americans to Japan, as well as skills process of the selecting the successful proposal, DUE ON *11/1/2007*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT 7 pounds, 3 ounces, and was 19” in training exchanges and cultural with the evaluation factors described in the RFP. PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TOGETHER WITH length. Her sisters are Dana Lynn Until the award of the contract, Kawerak reserves LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY CAMP IWATE, Japan – For more tours. the right to reject any and all proposals or to ad- ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE Noongwook, 14, Shana Rae Noong- than 12 days Alaska Army National “Communication can be tough at vertise for new proposals without liability to Kaw- MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND wook, 13, Brenna Noongwook, 11, erak, if the best interests of the Kawerak will be INDEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. Guard Soldiers participated in North times, but the Japanese Soldiers have promoted thereby By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Elwina Jae Noongwook, 8, and her Wind 2008, a joint combined train- been very friendly and taught many Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has de- brother is Tanon Chris Noongwook, clared all sums so secured to be immediately due ing exercise designed to enhance the of us basic terms and phrases,” said 6. rd 3/20-27 and payable, together with any trustee fees, attor- interoperability of the U.S. Army Juneau’s Sgt. Laurence Dirkes, of 3 ney fees, costs and advances made to protect the Japan, the Japanese Ground Self De- Battalion, 297th Infantry, Alaska security associated with this foreclosure. There is Nome Nugget photographer wins presently due and owing the principal balance of $ fense Force and several U.S. Guard Army National Guard. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 94,468.48, plus interest, late charges, costs and TelAlaska contest and Reserve units. A cultural exchange and dinner Bureau of Land Management any future advances. Nadja Roessek of Homer, for- [F-14934-B; F-14934-C; F-14934-D] NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Among the U.S. participants in social werealso held, giving the Alaska Native Claims Selection demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee will sell the merly of Nome, won the 2008 this year’s North Wind exercise were Alaska Guard members a chance to ACTION: Notice of decision approving lands for above described real property to satisfy the obli- TelAlaska phone book cover photo conveyance gation, together with all accrued interest and all the Alaska Army National Guard, the share their native delicacies and tra- SUMMARY: As required by 43 CFR 2650.7(d), costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to contest. Out of 34 entries, her photo Nebraska Reserves medical unit, and ditional dances with their Japanese notice is hereby given that an appealable deci- the highest and best bidder, ROOM 230 OF THE of Exit Glacier was chosen to appear sion approving the surface estate in certain NOME COURTHOUSE, 113 FRONT STREET, the Florida, Georgia and California counterparts. lands for conveyance pursuant to the Alaska Na- NOME, AK, on April 29, 2008 at 10:00 AM. Ben- on the 2008 Northwest Central National Guards. The Alaska contin- “The Japanese have been amazing tive Claims Settlement Act will be issued to eficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at Alaska/Aleutians telephone direc- Shishmaref Native Corporation. The lands are in sale without cash. gent consists of soldiers from almost hosts and very receptive to learning the vicinity of Shishmaref, Alaska, and are lo- Anyone having any objection to the sale on tory. Roessek was born in Munich, every Guard unit and community from our soldiers,” said State Com- cated in: any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an op- Germany and moved to Nome in Kateel River Meridian, Alaska portunity to be heard as to those objections if they throughout the state. mand Sgt. Maj. Gordon Choate of bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. 1996, where she worked as a pho- North Wind 2008 ran from Feb. Anchorage, and the Alaska Army T. 9 N., R. 33 W., DATED: 1/24/2008 tographer for The Nome Nugget. She 27 through March 21, providing a National Guard’s Joint Forces Head- Sec. 2. REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES now lives in Homer. Containing 640.00 acres. CORPORATION platform for both U.S. and Japan sol- quarters. T. 10 N., R. 33 W., Trustee diers to hone their combat skills and Besides the communication and Secs. 6 and 7; By Secs. 9 and 10; ______enhance security relations and cul- cultural education Alaska soldiers re- Secs. 15 and 16; ____ tural awareness. ceived, they also had the opportunity Secs. 22, 27, and 35. ANNA EGDORF, AUTHORIZED AGENT Containing 4,355.06 acres. : 3/20-27; 4/3-10 Village News “Training has been challenging to see how skilled the JGSDF sol- T. 11 N., R. 33 W., and rewarding for our soldiers,” said diers are on winter-weather equip- Sec. 26. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE Containing 614.40 acres STATE OF ALASKA By Janet Ahmasuk Lt. Col. John Woyte of Nome, comment. T. 10 N., R. 34 W., SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT NOME mander for 1st Battalion, 297th In- “You would think our Alaska guys Secs. 1 and 14. In the Matter of Change of Name for: KALTAG Containing 2.07 acres. Ina-Rene Parker Campbell, fantry, Alaska Army National Guard. would be good on snowshoes and T. 8 N., R. 35 W., Current name of Adult, A week-long potlatch started “Every exercise has to be done first skis, but those Japanese soldiers re- Secs. 19, 20, 22, and 23; CASE NO: 2NO-08-00021CI March 24 in celebration of five Secs. 26, 27, 29, and 30; Notice of Petition to Change Name by our Soldiers while the Japanese ally outdid us,” Woyte said. Secs. 31, 32, 34, and 35. A petition has been filed in the Superior Court community members who died watch, then re-enacted by them and The purpose of the combined joint Containing 7,329.36 acres. (Case # 2NO-08-00021CI) requesting a name over the last few years. Also on T. 8 N., R. 36 W., change from Ina-Rene Parker Campbell to Ina vise-a-versa. The whole time an in- field training exercise was to in- Secs. 4 and 5; Rene Parker. A hearing on this request will be the agenda was stick dancing - terpreter explains the operating pro- crease combat readiness and For- Secs. 24, 25, and 26; held at Nome Court at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, the whole community is involved cedures to our counterparts.” ward Operating Base security in Secs. 35 and 36. March 11, 2008. Containing 4,373.60 acres. 3/13-20-27-4/3 one way or another in the spring The leadership hopes that this ex- response to crises in the Asian-Pa- T. 9 N., R. 36 W., break activities. ercise encourages a better under- cific region. Sec. 23. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE Containing 6.18 acres. STATE OF ALASKA A group of local folks are busy standing of cultural and military Aggregating 17.320.67 acres. SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT NOME raising money for the first spring The subsurface estate in these lands will be con- In the Matter of Change of Name for: veyed to Bering Straits Native Corporation when Ina-Rene Parker Campbell, carnival in 6-7 years. The carni- the surface estate is conveyed to Shishmaref Current name of Adult, val will most likely take place Native Corporation. CASE NO: 2NO-08-00021CI April 11-13. Arctic ICANS — Notice of the decision was published in the Fed- Notice of Petition to Change Name eral Register on March 14, 2008. A petition has been filed in the Superior The Iditarod Race was fast. DATES: The time limits for filing an appeal are: Court (Case # 2NO-08-00021CI) requesting a Richard Burnham was the offi- A nonprofit cancer cial Iditarod checker again this year, as he has been for many 1-800-478-9355 survivor support group. years. Public Notice A group of Kaltag people opened up a barbque grill during Real and personal property assessment notices for the City of Nome have the Iditarod and served burgers, Arctic ICANS next meeting been mailed. If you have not received your notice, or if you have received fries and Navajo tacos as a fund one in error, please contact the City Clerk’s office as soon as possible. The raiser. The Nome Cancer support group will meet at the XYZ Center on back of the assessment notice contains information about notices, the ap- Students in grades 4-12 have peal process, and timely payment of taxes. been on a Cultural Campout. It’s Thursday, April 3 • 7:30 p.m. The 30-day appeal process ends on Friday, April 25, 2008. Appeals must Holy week and we were all busy be in writing and be RECEIVED in the City Clerk’s office by 5 p.m. to praying. be considered timely. The Nome City Council sits as the Board of Equal- The weather has been –4° F On the ization, and will meet on May 7th, 2008 & May 8th and 9th as needed in and windy recently. Winds are so agenda: Speaker and program to be announced. the City Council Chambers to hear appeals. common after the finish of the Id- itarod in western Alaska. Appeal forms may be downloaded from the City of Nome website: For more information call 443-5726. www.nomealaska.org. 3/27; 4/3 14 THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2008 THE NOME NUGGET

Court Week ending 3/21 exonerated; 120 days, 120 days suspended; Consecutive to count 1; Jail Sur- suming or in Possession or Control of Alcoholic Beverage; Date of offense; 3/5/08; Civil charge: $100 with $100 suspended; Probation until 3/20/10; Same conditions as Fined $1,000 with $500 suspended; Shall pay $500 to Nome Clerk of Court by Kittess, Bruce vs. Keene, Michelle Ames; Petition for Custody - Superior Court count 1. 9/30/08; Shall complete 48 hours of community work and submit proof of comple- Union Financial Inc. vs. Bergamaschi, Shawn R.; Debt - District Court State of Alaska v. Richard Littlefield (1/13/73) Order to Modify or Revoked Probation; tion to the Nome Clerk of Court within 120 days; Driverʼs license or permit is hereby Koutchak, Verna F. vs. Tucker, Mischa L.; Divorce Without Children - Superior Court ATN: 110061738; Violated conditions of probation; Probation extended to 3/20/09; revoked for 90 days, concurrent with any DMV administrative action; Such license Michelle, Keene vs. Kittess, Bruce; DV: Both ExParte & Long Term Suspended $100 Correctional Facility Surcharge must be paid within 10 days to shall be immediately surrendered to the court by 4:00 p.m., 3/21/08; Probation for Omiak, James D. vs. Nershak, Mabel; DV: Both ExParte & Long Term AG Collection Unit, Anchorage; All other terms and conditions of probation in the 1 year; Shall not consume inhalants or possess or consume controlled substances Omiak, James D. vs. Nershak, James; DV: Both ExParte & Long Term original judgment remain in effect. or alcoholic beverages; Shall surrender any license or permit, pay the fine, and Seppilu, Sally S. vs. Seppilu, Cerene J.; DV: Both ExParte & Long Term State of Alaska v. Jimmy Kiyutelluk (9/20/65); Order to Modify or Revoke Probation; show proof of community work service, as ordered; Subject to warrantless breath Seppilu, Sally S. vs. Butler Sr., Patrick; DV: Both ExParte & Long Term ATN: 110068488; Violated conditions of probation; Probation terminated; Sus- testing at request of any peace officer; Failure to comply with community work, eval- pended jail term revoked and imposed: All remaining time; Remanded into custody. uation, education or treatment requirements will result in an extra 6 months revo- Week ending March 7 State of Alaska v. Donald Stanley Oliver (12/21/79); Harassment 2°; Date of offense: cation of driverʼs license. Civil 2/27/08; Binding Plea Agreement; Any appearance or performance bond is exon- State of Alaska v. Joricha Thomas (1/1/91); Minor Consuming or in Possession or Con- Stacy A Hafner vs. Robert J. Hafner Divorce with minor children erated; 90 days, 60 days suspended; Unsuspended 30 days shall be served with trol of Alcoholic Beverage; Date of offense: 3/1/08; Fined $300 with $100 sus- Small Claims defendant remanded to AMCC; Jail Surcharge: $150 with $100 suspended; Shall pended; Shall pay $200 to Nome Clerk of Court, or show proof of completing 66 No Small Claims cases filed pay unsuspended $50 within 10 days to AGs Collections Unit, Anchorage; Police hours of community work service, by 6/1/08; Shall attend Alcohol Information School Training Surcharge: Shall pay $50 through this court within 10 days; Probation until at her own expense and show proof of completion to the court within 90 days; Pro- Week ending 3/21 3/19/09; Shall comply with all court orders by the deadlines stated; Subject to war- bation until her 21st birthday; Shall not consume inhalants or possess or consume State of Alaska v. Michael L. Kinzer (10/20/57); Order to Modify or Revoke Probation; rantless arrest for any violation of these conditions of probation; Shall commit no vi- controlled substances or alcoholic beverages; Shall pay the fine or show proof of ATN: 110815191; Violated conditions of probation; Conditions of probation modi- olations of law; Shall not possess or consume alcohol, nor have alcohol in his community work service, as ordered; Shall show proof of completing Alcohol Infor- fied as follows: Shall be re-assessed for treatment and shall make arrangements for residence, nor enter or remain on the premises of any bar or liquor store; Subject mation School if ordered. this within 10 days of release from custody; Suspended jail term revoked and im- to warrantless breath testing at request of any peace officer and warrantless search State of Alaska v. Daniel Iyakitan, Jr. (4/17/67); Notice of Dismissal; Charge 001: In- posed: 25 days, remanded into custody; All other terms and conditions of probation of residence for alcohol. decent Exposure; Charge 002: Burglary 1°; Charge 003: Criminal Trespass 1°; in the original judgment remain in effect. State of Alaska v. Salvadore Campbell (11/11/59); Count 2: Theft 3°; Date of offense: Charge 004: Harassment; Filed by the DAs Office 3/20/08. State of Alaska v. Cosmas Pete (4/18/81); 2NO-07-741CR Attempt Manufacture of Al- 3/7/08; Counts (Charges) Dismissed by State: count 1 (001); Any appearance or State of Alaska v. Donald T. Johnson (6/11/88); Judgment and Order of Commit- cohol without License/Permit in Local Option Area; Date of offense: 12/14/07; Bind- performance bond is exonerated; 9 months, 6 months suspended; Unsuspended 3 ment/Probation; Information Replacing Complaint filed 11/19/07; Count I: Burglary ing Plea Agreement; Any appearance or performance bond is exonerated; 240 days, months shall be served with defendant remanded to AMCC; Jail Surcharge: $150 2°; Count II: Theft 2°; Count I: 2 years, 1 year suspended; Count II: 2 years, 1 year 120 days suspended; Unsuspended 120 days shall be served with defendant re- with $100 suspended; Shall pay unsuspended $50 within 10 days to AGs Collec- suspended, consecutive to Count I; Police Training Surcharge: Count I: $100 pay manded to D.O.C.; Jail Surcharge: $150 with $100 suspended; Shall pay unsus- tions Unit, Anchorage; Police Training Surcharge: Shall pay $50 through this court within 10 days through the Nome Trial Courts; Jail Surcharge: $100 due to the De- pended $50 within 10 days to AGs Collections Unit, Anchorage; Police Training within 10 days; Probation until 3/19/10; Shall comply with all court orders by the partment of Law Collections Unit, Anchorage; Restitution: IT IS ORDERED that de- Surcharge: Shall pay $50 through this court within 10 days; Probation until 3/17/11; deadlines stated; Shall commit no violations of law; Subject to warrantless arrest for fendant pay restitution: in an amount to be determined as provided in Criminal Rule Shall comply with all court orders by the deadlines stated; Shall commit no violations any violation of these conditions of probation; Other: Not return to Clarence Irrigoo 32.6(c)(2); the DA shall submit a Proposed Restitution Judgment within 30 days of of law; Shall not possess or consume alcohol, nor have alcohol in his residence, nor residence or be within 100 feet of residence; Not return to Nome without written this date; Payments must be made to the Department of Law Collections Unit, an- enter or remain on the premises of any bar or liquor store; Subject to warrantless permission of the court. chorage; The court will also accept payments; Restitution is due immediately for breath testing at request of any peace officer and warrantless search of residence State of Alaska v. Fred Goodhope, Jr. (10/30/48); Count 1: Assault 4°; DV; Date of of- civil execution purposes, unless defendant establishes a payment schedule with for alcohol; Subject to warrantless arrest for any violation of these conditions of pro- fense: 1/1/08; Binding Plea Agreement; Counts (Charges) Dismissed by State: the Department of Law Collections Unit; If the defendant misses any required pay- bation. counts 2, 3 (002, 003); Any appearance or performance bond is exonerated; 60 ment, the total unpaid amount becomes immediately due and civil execution may State of Alaska v. Kevin G. Washington (9/27/66); 2NO-07-321CR Order to Modify or days, 60 days suspended; Jail Surcharge: $150 with $100 suspended; Shall pay un- begin; Interest will accrue on the principal amount of restitution due at the rate pro- Revoke Probation; ATN: 109524033; Violated conditions of probation; Conditions of suspended $50 within 10 days to AGs Collections Unit, Anchorage; Police Training vided in AS 09.30.070(a), currently 7.75%, from, the date of this judgment (3/14/08); probation modified as follows: Shall comply with all court orders and deadlines; Surcharge: Shall pay $50 through this court within 10 days; Probation until 3/10/10; the restitution due is owed jointly and severally with restitution ordered to be paid Shall commit no violations of law; Shall not consume or possess any marijuana and Shall comply with all court orders by the deadlines stated; Subject to warrantless ar- by the following co-defendants (Name & Case Number): SOA v. John Walluk 2NO- shall not be where it is present; Shall not enter or remain on the establishments rest for any violation of these conditions of probation; Shall commit no violations of 07-765CR; Defendant is ordered to apply for an Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend where liquor is sold or served; Subject to warrantless arrest for violation of any con- law; Shall not possess or consume alcohol, nor have alcohol in his residence; Sub- every year in which defendant is a resident eligible for a dividend until the restitu- dition of probation; Probation extended to 3/18/10; All other terms and conditions of ject to warrantless breath testing at request of any peace officer and warrantless tion is paid in full; IT IS ORDERED that, after serving any term of incarceration im- probation in the original judgment remain in effect. search of residence for alcohol; Alcohol subject to seizure. posed, the defendant is placed on probation for 2 years under the following State of Alaska v. Kevin G. Washington (9/27/66); 2NO-08-189CR Misconduct Involv- State of Alaska v. Luke Smith (2/26/85); Dismissal; Count I: Assault 4°; Filed by the conditions: General and Special Conditions of Probation set, as stated in order; Any ing Controlled Substance 5°; Date of offense: 3/11/08; Any appearance or per- DAs Office 3/18/08. appearance or performance bond in this case: is exonerated; The following charge formance bond is exonerated; 90 days, 60 days suspended; Unsuspended 300 State of Alaska v. David Blanning (11/22/84) Dismissal; Count I: Assault 4°; Count II: was dismissed by the Prosecutor for the SOA: Felony Criminal Complaint: Count I: days shall be served with defendant remanded to AMCC; Jail Surcharge: $150 with Criminal Trespass 1°; Filed by the DAs Office 3/19/08. Burglary 1°; Date of offense: 10/16/07. $100 suspended; Shall pay unsuspended $50 within 10 days to AGs Collections State of Alaska v. Thomas Asila (6/6/85); 2NO-07-880CR Order to Modify or Revoke State of Alaska v. Frederick Driggs (2/2/88); Count I: Contributing to Delinquency of Unit, Anchorage; Police Training Surcharge: Shall pay $50 through this court within Probation; ATN: 110696796; Violated conditions of probation; Probation terminated; Minor; Date of offense: 2/17/08; Counts (Charges) Dismissed by State: Count II; 10 days; Probation until 3/18/10; Shall comply with all court orders by the deadlines Suspended jail term revoked and imposed: All remaining time; Shall report to AMCC Any appearance or performance bond is exonerated; 180 days, 165 days sus- stated; Shall commit no violations of law; Shall not possess or consume marijuana, by 3/28/08 at 6PM; Suspended $100 Correctional Facility Surcharge must be paid pended; Unsuspended 15 days shall be served with defendant reporting to AMCC nor enter or remain on the premises of any bar or liquor store; Not to be where mar- within 10 days to: AG Collection Unit, Anchorage. by 3/17/08; Jail Surcharge: $150 with $100 suspended; Shall pay unsuspended $50 ijuana is present; Subject to warrantless arrest for any violation of these conditions State of Alaska v. Thomas Asila (6/6/85); 2NO-08-165CR Criminal Trespass 1°; Date within 10 days to AGs Collections Unit, Anchorage; Police Training Surcharge: Shall of probation. of offense: 3/7/08; Any appearance or performance bond is exonerated; 170 days, pay $50 through this court within 10 days; Probation until 2/25/09; Shall commit no State of Alaska v. Donald J. Douglas (2/24/78); Order to Modify or Revoke Probation; 90 days suspended; Unsuspended 80 days shall be served with defendant report- violations of law. ATN: 110062647; Violated conditions of probation; Suspended jail term revoked ing to AMCC by 3/28/08, 6pm; Subject to immediate remand for consumption or State of Alaska v. Nellie Penayah (4/24/79); Amended Order to Modify or Revoke Pro- and imposed: 45 days, remanded into custody; All other terms and conditions of possession of alcohol; Consecutive to 2NO-07-880CR; Jail Surcharge: $150 with bation; ATN: 110061648; After a hearing, the court finds that the defendant refuses probation in the original judgment remain in effect. $100 suspended; Shall pay unsuspended $50 within 10 days to AGs Collections probation; Probation terminated; Suspended jail term revoked and imposed: 90 State of Alaska v. Jacob Otten (5/13/70); 2NO-07-946CR Order to Modify or Revoke Unit, Anchorage; Police Training Surcharge: Shall pay $50 through this court within days, remanded into custody; Suspended $100 Correctional Facility Surcharge Probation; ATN: 110062251; Violated conditions of probation; Probation terminated; 10 days; Restitution: Shall pay restitution as stated in the Restitution Judgment and must be paid within 10 days to: AG Collection Unit, Anchorage. Suspended jail term revoked and imposed: All remaining time, consecutive to the shall apply for an Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend, if eligible, each year until resti- State of Alaska v. Sytel M. Pete (4/8/83); Order to Modify or Revoke Probation; ATN: term in Case No. 2NO-08-143CR; Remanded into custody. tution is paid in full; Amount to be determined; Probation until 3/19/09; Shall com- 109062558; Violated conditions of probation; Suspended jail term revoked and im- State of Alaska v. Jacob Otten (5/13/70); 2NO-08-143CR Count 1: DUI; Date of of- ply with all court orders by the deadlines stated; Subject to warrantless arrest for any posed: 30 days, remanded into custody; All other terms and conditions of probation fense: 2/27/08; Partial Plea Agreement; Any appearance or performance bond is violation of these conditions of probation; Shall commit no violations of law; Shall not in the original judgment remain in effect. exonerated; 300 days, 275 days suspended; Unsuspended 25 days shall be served; return to Glue Pot, Polar Bar or Polar Liquor Store, Polar Restaurant; Shall not pos- State of Alaska v. Sherry Apatiki (7/7/63); Order to Modify or Revoke Probation; ATN: Fine: $1,500 with $0 suspended; Shall pay unsuspended $1,500 fine through Nome sess or consume alcohol, nor have alcohol in his residence, nor enter or remain on 109060596; Violated conditions of probation; Conditions of probation modified as Trial Courts by 2/1/09; Police Training Surcharge: Shall pay $75 through this court the premises of any bar or liquor store; Subject to warrantless breath testing at the follows: Shall perform 10 hours of community work service by 5/1/08 and submit within 10 days; Jail Surcharge: $150 with $100 suspended; Shall pay unsuspended request of any peace officer and warrantless search of residence for alcohol. proof to the Court; All other terms and conditions of probation in the original judg- $50 within 10 days to: AGs Collection Unit, Anchorage; Cost of Imprisonment: Shall State of Alaska v. Darin Slwooko (8/15/79); 2NO-07-183CR Notice of Dismissal of PTR; ment remain in effect. pay $330 to SOA at: AGs Collections Unit, Anchorage; Shall be screened for treat- PTR #1 filed on 1/21/08; Filed by the DAs Office 3/17/08. State of Alaska v. Arnold Ferreira (9/20/83); Order to Modify or Revoke Probation; ATN: ment or education by NSBHS, ASAP, or an approved equivalent agency within 30 State of Alaska v. Darin Slwooko (8/15/79); 2NO-08-53CR Notice of Dismissal; Charge 110065716; Violated conditions of probation; Suspended jail term revoked and im- days of release, complete the recommended program, and show proof of comple- 001: Attempt Robbery 2°; Charge 002: Assault 4°; Filed by the DAs Office 3/17/08. posed: 20 days, remanded into custody; All other terms and conditions of probation tion to the court; Required treatment may include residential treatment up to 90 State of Alaska v. Anne Marie Iyapana (Ozenna) (12/18/70); Dismissal; Count I: As- in the original judgment remain in effect. days; Driverʼs license, privilege to obtain a license and to operate a motor vehicle sault 4°; Filed by the DAs Office 3/19/08. State of Alaska v. Michelle Tungiyan (4/23/83); Order to Modify or Revoke Probation; are revoked for 90 days concurrent with DMV action; Any license or permit shall be State of Alaska v. Delight Lillie Aukon (3/22/87); 2NO-08-203CR Repeat Minor Con- ATN: 110064672; Violated conditions of probation; Conditions of probation modi- immediately surrendered to the court; Restitution: Shall pay restitution as stated in suming or in Possession or Control of Alcoholic Beverage; Date of offense; 2/23/08; fied as follows: Shall not have alcohol in her residence; Suspended jail term re- the Restitution Judgment and shall apply for an Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend, Fined $1,000 with $500 suspended; Shall pay $500 to Nome Clerk of Court by voked and imposed: 60 days, shall report to AMCC by 4/30/08; All other terms and if eligible, each year until restitution is paid in full; Amount to be determined; Pro- 9/30/08; Shall complete 48 hours of community work and submit proof of comple- conditions of probation in the original judgment remain in effect. bation until 3/20/10; Comply with all court orders listed above by the deadlines tion to the Nome Clerk of Court within 120 days; Driverʼs license or permit is hereby State of Alaska v. Carolyn Kirk; Motion to Terminate Probation; Probation Officer Dun- stated; Subject to warrantless arrest for violation of probation; No violations of law, revoked for 90 days, concurrent with any DMV administrative action; Such license ham reports that Carolyn Kirk has fully paid the restitution ordered in this case, and including DUI, refusal to submit to breathalyzer, operating motor vehicle while li- shall be immediately surrendered to the court by 4:00 p.m., 3/21/08; Probation for accordingly recommends termination of her probation; The undersigned supports cense is canceled, suspended or revoked or in violation of limitation, reckless driv- 1 year; Shall not consume inhalants or possess or consume controlled substances that recommendation; Order: For good cause shown, the Stateʼs motion is ing, and driving without valid license; Shall not possess or consume alcohol, nor or alcoholic beverages; Shall surrender any license or permit, pay the fine, and GRANTED; Effective March 14, 2008, Carolyn Kirkʼs probation in 2NO-02-460CR enter or remain on the premises of any bar or liquor store; Subject to warrantless show proof of community work service, as ordered; Subject to warrantless breath is hereby TERMINATED; Filed by the DAs Office 3/12/08. breath testing at request of any peace officer for a period of 2 years from date of this testing at request of any peace officer; Failure to comply with community work, eval- judgment (3/20/08); Other: Not be where alcohol is present. uation, education or treatment requirements will result in an extra 6 months revo- State of Alaska v. Jacob Otten (5/13/70); 2NO-08-143CR Count 2: Assault 4°; Date of cation of driverʼs license. offense: 2/27/08; Partial Plea Agreement; Any appearance or performance bond is State of Alaska v. Delight Lillie Aukon (3/22/87); 2NO-08-204CR Repeat Minor Con- SERVING THE COMMUNITY OF NOME

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That there shall be no cruelty to Perhaps the most signal tribute of dogs that might, by chance become all to the remarkable reputation of the lame or exhausted or in any way a drag Nome Dogs was the fact that in 1915 upon the others, an invariable rule of the French Government sent Lieu- the Kennel Club makes it obligatory to tenant Rene Haas nearly 10,000 miles return with every dog, alive or dead, to secure Nome dogs for service in the with which the team started. In this Vosges Mountains; and these “little way it is to every driver’s obvious ad- auxiliaries of a great war” as they were vantage to so treat his dogs that he may called by the celebrated by French not be forced to carry on his sled the writer, Leon de Tinseau, were so care- extra weight of a dead or disabled dog. fully and wisely chosen by “Scotty” The drivers can also use their own Allan for Lieutenant Haas that they are discretion about the number and now recognized as an indispensable length of the stops to be made—only addition to the Alpine Corps in the one being stipulated at Candle, 204 matter of transportation where the use miles from Nome, and the end of the of horses and mules is impossible. first half of the race. Here the teams The first great race took place are examined and checked up by the with all the pomp and ceremony that judges appointed by the Club. marks the carnival time in sunnier Not the least scientific feature of lands. There was a holiday spirit in the race is the ability to realize how the very air; schools and the courts much rest a driver can afford to take adjourned, and business houses were himself and give his dogs, without practically closed for there was no the loss of a single valuable moment. demand for anything but “inside in- These stops are made at relay sta- formation” or “straight tips” during tions, and here all of the food for all these famous Dog Days of Nome. of the contestants is distributed by The surging crowds that pushed their commissary teams controlled by the way through the narrow streets, laugh- Kennel Club; and is so divided into ing and care-free, proudly wore the col- separate allowances that no time is ors of their favorite teams. Pennants and lost in preparing and allotting it. streamers of the Kennel Club, gold and Throughout the year the dogs are Photo courtesy of the Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum green, fluttered everywhere in the keen, fed on a general diet in which rolled crisp air. Heralds with their silver toned oats, dried salmon, household scraps, DRAWING A CROWD—The All Alaska Sweepstakes filled Front Street with spectators. The masses descended bugles announced the coming of a cho- and the flesh of the white whale make on Leonard Seppala as he won the eighth running of the race on April 17, 1915. sen Queen and her many Maids of up the list. The latter is oily and full of suggestive neither of hounds nor exceedingly intelligent and responsive, hour to hour—from a narrow passage Honor, fur-clad from head to foot, and nutriment, and is fast becoming one of wolves. On the contrary they have showing much pride in their work, and between the towering ice hummocks of brought in state to the decorated stands the most popular of dog foods. But much more the appearance of the fox, a deep and abiding affection for their the Bering Sea, to wide plains of unbro- of the Kennel Club officials in sleds during the race they are fed the most with pointed noses, prick ears, and masters, as well as great fleetness. ken snow; from the steep slopes of Top- drawn by powerful huskies. nourishing and sustaining combina- bushy tails curled up over their backs. Each type has distinct and obvious kok Hill, to the desolate, storm-swept Then followed the excitement of tions such as chopped mutton and They are wonderfully even and advantages, and each, as may be wastes of Death Valley; from the pleas- the starts when the teams, mad with beef, mixed with eggs. This, having steady in the their work, gentle and readily understood, has its enthusias- ant winding road through the wooded the desire to be gone, plunged and been carefully prepared, is then frozen tireless, requiring comparatively little tic supporters and staunch admir- Council district, to the trackless and barked and howled, straining at the to be kept as long as may be necessary. food, and but little time in which to ers—and for good cause. treacherous ice on rivers and lakes. harness and held only by the greatest The only equipment carried on the digest it. Any number of them can be Sometimes, however, despite the With so much hinging on climatic difficulty by men who strove in vain light racing sleds, which are made of turned loose together in a corral or known skill of a driver and the ac- changes and the temporary state of the to clam their impatience. hickory and lashed with reindeer stable, with hardly any fear of their knowledged merit of his team, despite trail, it may be conceded that the win- The drivers, motionless, yet alert and sinew or walrus hide, is an assort- fighting. Their allegiance is given to months of training and years of expe- ning of this great race lies one-third in watchful, waited the final signal through ment of furs and water boots for the the one who feeds them. rience, luck may be against a man; the driver, one-third in the dogs, and the tense moments of silence before the men, and certain necessities for the The Alaskans, a comprehensive and a slight accident to his sled, or to one-third in chance. It is the uncer- flag in the hands of the Queen should dogs in the way of canton flannel name used for convenience, to distin- a dog, a sudden blizzard which strikes tainty of the result, the possibility of drop, and the dogs, released, should moccasins for their feet should they guish them from the distinct type of him alone because of his position on unexpected developments, that keep dash forward in their head-long flight— encounter icy trails; dark veils for Siberians, may be malamutes or the trail, or some other untoward in- up the interest in the race; and arouse spurred on by wild and echoing cheers. their eyes if the sun is too strong, and huskies (native Alaskan dogs) or they cident, quite out of any human reck- an enthusiasm that prompts the entire Cheers that died away only as each team blankets in case of a cutting wind. may be setters, pointers, collies, oning, may turn an anticipated victory town, no matter what the hour of night disappeared down the white trail that In every resting place the dogs are hounds, airedales, or what-not, with or into an overwhelming defeat. or day, to be ready to greet the return- leads from Nome on Bering Sea, to considered first, and no man thinks of without a strain of the malamute or The time of any particular race de- ing victor, and his faithful dogs, with Candle on the Arctic Ocean, a course of himself till his dogs are rubbed with huskie. These dogs are far more indi- pends not so much upon the speed of the cordial welcome that this is al- 408 miles over one of the bleakest and alcohol, fed and bedded. In case of any vidual, less like machines, in their the dogs as upon the weather and trail ways freely given to those who have most desolate regions of the North. stiffness, liniments are applied and a characteristics, than are their rivals the conditions that prevail for their run. triumphed in the greatest sporting These celebrations have now be- thorough massage given. Many of the Siberians; less easy to manage too, but The route varies constantly—from event the world has ever known. come a tradition in Nome, and the in- drivers sleep on the floor of the road- terest has grown as the capabilities of house with their dogs to better note the dogs have developed, and the skill their condition, while others share of the drivers increased, till the races their bunks with the leader of the team. are the greatest events of the year to It should be thoroughly understood the sport-loving enthusiasts whose that as dogs are not driven with reins, support makes them possible. Not but by spoken orders, the leader of a alone that, but they are now consid- team must understand all that is said ered of national and international im- to him and guide the others accord- portance—the progress and results of ingly. An intelligent leader is, there- the various events being telegraphed fore, an absolute necessity and in most in detail, and published in all of the teams there will be found several dogs great newspapers of the world. capable of filling the important post. The course lies along a telephone A driver rarely sits in his sled for line so that the messages from road- any great length of time during the houses, camps, and villages are constant race, but runs behind pushing as hard and bulletins telling of the condition of as possible, jumping on and off the the men and dogs are posted up in pub- runners at the rear—generally riding lic places, clubs and the theaters; and down, and shoving up, the grades. when the thrill of the start is over, and The best of feeling exists between the wild excitement has simmered the drivers in the contest, and they are We are now Frontier Alaska. down to a keen attention, the town waits invariably willing to help one another, day and night for reports on the where- if necessary, in any way possible. abouts and welfare of the racers. In the second Sweepstakes, that of As early as November the prospec- 1909, a team of Siberian dogs, tive entries, men and dogs, begin to owned by Goosak, and driven by All Nome passenger train for the event which takes place al- Thrustrup, attracted much attention ways in April, the exact date being de- for various unusual attributes. termined by the climatic conditions of Fox-Maule Ramsay, a young the season. As a matter of fact, the men Scotsman, interested in mining in services are now operated who go into it are usually those who are Nome, and a keen sportsman, saw never quite out of training; men whose their possibilities, and during the fol- days are often spent in work that hard- lowing summer went over to the coast ens the muscles, followed by evenings of Siberia, a distance of less than 150 out of the Hageland building. devoted to indoor baseball, or other miles; and going some way up the forms of exercise that will give then Kolima River procured a large number strength and suppleness. Smoking and of the best type of these Siberian dogs, drinking have no place in their routine, bringing with them to Nome, two men and frequently a rigid diet is observed. who understood them thoroughly. The dogs which have been care- In the race of 1910, in which Ramsay fully selected for strength and fleet- entered one team in the name of Colonel ness, are driven daily increasing Charles Ramsay of London, one in the distances until a little spin of a hundred name of Stuart Weatherly, also of Lon- Frontier Alaska reservation lines: miles or more at a time is a mere trifle. don, and driving a third himself, they The number of dogs driven in a team showed their capabilities beyond the is entirely optional with the driver, and most sanguine anticipation of their Statewide 1-800-478-6779 varies according to his personal idea of backers, and attained an enormous pop- how many can be used to advantage— ularity which has never waned. Nome 443-2414 it being desirable to select enough to These Siberian dogs, generally keep up to the required standard in all and erroneously called “Siberian wolf Nome Villages 1-800-478-5125 things, yet not too many for efficient hounds,” in the “Outside” papers, are