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12.2.10 Nn Layout 1 Photo by Nikolai Ivanoff FULL MOON IN THE CLEAR—The nearly full moon rises over Anvil Mountain Nov. 22 after days of fog and rain in Nome. C VOLUME CIX NO. 48 DECEMBER 2, 2010 Body recovered from Grantley Harbor ice By Tyler Rhodes dent. Scholten had originally fallen Rescue teams Monday were able through the ice a little more than a to find and recover the body of a 44- mile offshore while riding on a year-old Teller woman who died snowmachine with Marvin Okleasik after falling through the ice while on the way to Brevig Mission to play riding on a snowmachine between bingo. Okleasik was able to get on Teller and Brevig Mission Nov. 24. top of the ice and walk back to Teller According to Shishmaref rescue to report the incident. coordinator Glenn Nayokpuk, Bar- As temperatures dropped over the bara Scholten was found after search Thanksgiving holiday weekend and teams were able to fan out in pairs as Monday, Nayokpuk said crews were ice conditions on Grantley Harbor solidified five days after the acci- continued on page 16 Council stalls on medical rules for commercial drivers By Laurie McNicholas motor bus licenses. The Nome Common Council During a public hearing on the tabled a proposed ordinance that proposed ordinance, John Handeland would replace state medical stan- criticized a provision that would re- dards for school bus drivers with fed- place the Alaska Administrative eral medical requirements for drivers Code medical standards for school of any commercial motor vehicle at a bus drivers with the Code of Federal meeting on Nov. 22. The proposed Regulations medical requirements ordinance also would amend ordi- for persons seeking permits to drive Photo by Nadja Roessek nances covering the issuance and re- commercial motor vehicles. NEVER TOO YOUNG TO HELP—Volunteer Christopher Morgan, 6, adds some cream to a slice of pie held newal of taxicab licenses, and the by volunteer Elise Rasmussen at Nome’s Community Thanksgiving Dinner at the XYZ Center Nov. 25. denial or revocation of taxicab or continued on page 16 Plan aims to have more students graduate on time By Tyler Rhodes Nome-Beltz Principal Steve Gast who drop out are already lagging be- can be overwhelming and spur a sense students are required to re-take classes As of Thanksgiving, nearly four presented a plan to the Nome Board hind their classmates by the 10th grade. of hopelessness. The district’s current they fail, a process that often results dozen high school students at Nome- of Education Nov. 23 that aims to Of the 44 who are currently be- credit recovery program requires that in yet another failing grade and stu- Beltz—almost 31 percent of the high whittle those numbers down as close hind, eight are lagging by a half the students pay for and take courses dents’ schedules being squeezed so school student population—were not to zero as possible. Using online credit, while 21 need to make up be- on their own time, outside of the that they are unable to take other on track to graduate with the rest of courses through a company called tween one and two credits. A semes- school day and largely without help classes required for graduation. “This their class. Apex Learning, Gast said the school ter-long course generally is worth a from teaching staff, unless they seek it cycle of taking a class, failing, and will eventually offer students who half credit. Fifteen students need to out on their own. “You’re asking a kid then taking it again puts the student are lagging behind the chance to make up between 2 1/2 and five who has been failing to go out on his farther and farther behind, because by catch up during the school day. credits. Five credits nearly represent own and do a correspondence taking the course over and over again On the Web: “They could kick out a class in a a full year of classes. course,” Gast told the board. they are losing future credit time slots www.nomenugget.net number of weeks,” he told the board Gast said the credit recovery pro- Starting next school year, Gast needed to repeated courses,” Gast during its work session at the Nome gram will work to address students wants to expand the school day to wrote in an e-mail to the Nugget. E-mail: Elementary School library. falling behind as quickly as possible seven periods (there are currently six) The extra period would also allow [email protected] The initiative aims to cut the high so that they do not accumulate so so that classes using the Apex system teachers from various subjects to be school’s dropout rate by catching stu- many missed credits. “When I’ve got can be scheduled throughout the available in the credit recovery dents at the moment they start falling a kid who’s got an F after the first school day for students who need to classes to aid students as they com- behind and working to put them back quarter, we better have something make up credits. The extra period pleted the online class work. “We on track as quickly as possible. Gast ready for the second quarter to ad- would allow students to take the credit want to start matching these kids and stressed that early intervention is key dress that,” he said. recovery classes while still being en- their needs…with the person who in giving students who fail classes a For students who are already hav- rolled in the rest of the courses they can help them with them,” Gast said. chance to graduate on time, citing a na- ing difficulties passing courses, the need to take to graduate on time. tional study that showed most students added burden of taking extra classes Under the school’s current policies, continued on page 5 2 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2010OPINION THE NOME NUGGET Letters Dear Nancy, My heart is with the Annogiyuk custody for my son. He was not fighting either; he was says that the job situation is better, I am writing on behalf of our son family because I know exactly what I know something is real fishy, beaten by those four drunk guys, I that the numbers have gone up. That David Kelly Tocktoo who passed they are going through right now. Eric, Lance, Jaconiah, and Archie know now. may be because some people’s un- away on October 16, 2010 from an When I read the first newspaper were not found— starting all the way I saw him get up dragging his employment benefits ran out. accidental gunshot wound. He was article about Jaconiah I got so very from years ago. jacket; start running to the alley, and From our point of view—the jobs only 13 years 1month and 16 days upset the way it used the words Where? Where did they disap- two of the four guys ran after him. are disappearing. I called someone old. We would like to express that “drunk” and “staggering.” This is as pear? They were in Nome for a pur- That was the last time I’ve seen my today who used to work for North- gun safety is no joke; it is not “just if to prove it might have been his pose and all of them are blamed on beloved son, Eric. I was at a dis- west Campus to ask why he couldn’t words said.” fault or making us look bad. alcohol. I don’t think so. I hate to tance— four houses down, when administer the SAT test to my son— It is an action that every gun I don’t get it; it seems like most of say this: Can there be a polygraph they beat him up. I will never forget being that he worked for a college— owner must practice. It only takes a my fellow islanders disappear only done on whomever was on duty, that; he was curled up on the ground. which is a school, right? He told me minute to make sure all firearms are in October. please? I know this sounds ridicu- Whoever may be responsible for he was laid off—along with all the totally empty and shells are put away I smell something behind this be- lous. these missing people—justice will other people that work for NWC in properly. cause I know in my heart my own Of course they make stories like come to you. the other outlying villages—due to Who knows, it might save your in- son’s disappearance is either those my son went to Nome to spend his I still want to reach out for my son cuts. nocent young loved one or a young last two boys who chased after him, PFD. No way he didn’t. That makes and hug him, but I can’t. And so the Legislators say they one you know. For those few out or the cops that were on duty that me real upset. He went to Nome on Laura M. Apatiki should cut this much off of that, and there who have experienced a loss time are responsible. When I called October 4, 2004, October 9 was di- Anchorage, AK 99518 cut something else out. Well—I similar to this, understand how im- Nome Police Department I asked rect deposit and October 12, the rest dare every last one of those Legisla- portant these words are— please pro- have you heard from my son? (when of PFDs were mailed, and he didn’t Hi everyone, continued on page 13 mote gun safety! he was just missing 2—2.5 hours) get PFDs.
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