CallCall LetterLetter P.O. Box 820, Nome, 99762 Phone 907-443-2213 Fax 907-443-2344 Toll- Free: 1-800-478-5429 e-mail: [email protected] web page: www.kicy.org November, 2006

Manager’s Mic KICY here’s nothing like that first Tsnowfall. For the past several weeks we were jogging back and forth between mud slick roads and clouds of dust kicked up by passing gravel trucks. Snow is the great muffler. It muffles sounds. It muffles all the things left lying around like cars and old bicycles. Chris Vandergraph pulls the old satellite receiver out of service. Nome always looks best under a deep blanket of snow. We worked hard to get things all Moody Broadcasting Installs buttoned up for the winter and thanks to so many volunteer work- New Uplink for Alaska. ers this past summer, we should be or at least seven years (as long as folks at Moody Broadcasting e- even warmer this winter. With fuel my history in Nome) our satellite mailed back with a proposal to oil near $4.00 F feed from Moody Broadcasting in erect a $50,000 earth station near a gallon, that’s Chicago has sounded anywhere from a very good Chicago at their expense and send thing. marginal to terrible to completely a digital, stereo signal right to us Unfortu- missing. It turns out that the tran- in Nome. nately, Luda sponder we were looking at with our Our only expense would be a Dennis Weidler Kinok has had big satellite dish was aimed far east, new satellite receiver, an antenna to return to Russia for a short time into the Yukon Territory of , splitter and a couple of connec- for medical reasons. Through the to be precise. And, the satellite, tors. I was excited at the prospect marvels of today’s technology, she which was supposed to be geostation- of having a reliable, high quality is still able to be part of her daily ary was wobbling around an area program source! program. We ask for prayers for often outside of our signal reception. Luda and we know her When I returned home from my listeners...and there are more than This made for some extremely poor last three-week fund-raising tour, we will ever know...will be very glad quality programming from Chicago. the new receiver had arrived and to have her return to Nome. But, we felt the content was worth was installed in about half an Our colleagues down the street, the poor quality. That was until the hour. I held my breath and KNOM, have decided to drop their signal vanished completely, only to offered a prayer of hope that the longtime news service and are now return sporadically. Our Moody new receiver would find the using our satellite dish and receiver Broadcasting feed was often gone for satellite, lock on and begin play- to pull another news service off the days at a time. ing the audio. Praise God, there it ‘bird’. The audio is sent across At the April Arctic Broadcasting was! town via a telephone line. It’s board meeting, I was given approval gratifying to be able to help our As I brought the audio up friends in broadcasting. In Arctic to cancel our subscription to the through the console, it sounded Alaska, we know the value of Moody Broadcasting Network. like I was standing in the Moody teamwork! However, within an hour of my e- studios! mail expressing our desires, the good We’re back. A Prayer Request. For each of our staff members.

George Bard

A real crowd favorite! Maj. Gary Grennon

Terry and the Tumbleweeds Luda Kinok

Farewell Concert. Anna Moore s part of the recent Reindeer around the state. Exactly what the Fundraising Dinner at Com- future holds for the group isn’t clear. Amunity Covenant Church in Eagle Member, Sue Holder is moving to Cathy Lyon River, Alaska, entertainment was New Orleans, so the strong harmo- promised and was delivered in nies which put the Tumbleweeds on Carol Morton grand style. This wasn’t your the map will be inevitably altered. average entertainment but none So, this may have been the Farewell other than Terry and the Tum- concert for Terry and the Tum- Tim Sergie bleweeds. Terry is Terry Reynolds bleweeds. Only time will tell. and the Tumbleweeds are Sue Of the five songs performed that Dr. Phil Schobert Holder and Jim Brewer (all three evening, the English and Inupiaq former KICY staffers), Carolyn version of “In the Sweet By and By” Lundberg (formerly a Nome- will be forever remembered. I was Chris Vandergraph grown Bruckner) and Mark standing near the rear of the sanctu- Woelber. ary with Gert Fondell and we were Terry and the Tumbleweeds got both wiping tears. That one song, Candace Weidler their start over 20 years ago in sung in Eskimo, is the undeclared Nome and achieved notoriety by anthem of western Alaska. Dennis Weidler performing for Senator Ted We wish the best for whatever lies Stevens election campaign. Uncle in the future for the Tumbleweeds Ted, as he is known by Alaska and thank them for making the Frances Whitmore residents, was so impressed he Fundraising Dinner in Eagle River an flew them all to an Anchorage extra special event. Thanks, too, to recording studio to record his all those who volunteered to serve reelection theme song. that evening. Over a dozen former lease pray for Luda Kinok who The Tumbleweeds have per- KICY staff members helped out! Phas had to travel back to formed for a variety of events Provideniya for medical treatment. Alaska Fact: Also, we are still looking for a full- time volunteer staff member to help n October 30, 2006 the Nome Airport was closed due to an answer phones, check e-mails, clear Oalledged bomb threat made to Alaska Airlines and sent as faxes and type Ptarmigan Telegraph an e-mail. The airport reopened the next day and the FBI is invesigating. messages and Public Service An- nouncements. New FM License Approved. Operation opened my e-mail It took a concerted ‘Solid Ion November 2nd effort by many Foundation’. and found a message volunteers and from our F.C.C. attor- donors for this to ooray! We have surpassed the ney in Washington, happen. I like to H$82,000 mark with D.C. Attached was quote Bill Hartman $15,820.00 received this month. our newly granted who always said, Thank you! license for ICY 100.3! “Many go by giving That means the AM rebuilding While we had been and many give by project is still on target to be operating on Program going.” completed next summer. Dr. Phil displays the new We have only until June 1, 2007 Test Authority, this FM license. God has given us was the final piece of another great and to raise the remaining funds. Please the project. The FM upgrade to powerful gift. I pray we use it help keep KICY debt-free. 1,000 watts at 90 feet is com- wisely that all may know Him. $175,000 plete. A Critical Need: 77 New Monthly Financial Supporters. Thank you, thank you to each one of you who continue to $150,000 financially support this essential broadcast service to western Alaska and the . The truth is, we need more of you. KICY is seeking 77 new individuals, families, churches or Sunday School Classes to become financial partners at $30 a month for one year. That $125,000 could be in the form of 40 Arctic Ambassadors at $42 a month and 37 Chukotkan Missionaries at $21 a month, or any combina- tion. Fuel cost increases, certainly not unfamiliar to all of you, threaten our ability to continue broadcasting. Can you help? $100,000 $82,546.59 PLEASE NOTE! Memorials -October Income- $75,000 In October, we received $25,883.85 memorials in the name of: -October Budget- Tom Dotomain $47,630.00 Ron Bustad -October Expenses- $50,000 Dennis Czajka $20,253.33 Brian Neu Includes Sales & Programs but Charles & Marcella not designated funds. Simonson Edward Lattimore, Jr. Verna Windingstad Arctic Broadcasting $25,000 Lloyd Ness Association is an Charlotte Jensen affiliated corporation Robert Eric Lutz of the Evangelical Thank you for remembering a loved one with your gift. Covenant Church. Pastor Fred Drops in to Visit. astor Fred Savok, twice a Covenant Church ministry, visit us at the KICY studios. PKICY volunteer and a former starting at the church in Elim. I also invited him to participate in pastor in the Nome Covenant While in Nome, we were CareForce, our daily prayer request Church, recently returned to honored to have Pastor Fred program. He accepted our invitation Nome for a visit. With and arrived at the him, he brought a CD- studio bright and early ROM copy of his to review the pages of newest manuscript. prayer requests we His first work, had awaiting him. entitled Jesus and the Pastor Fred has such Eskimo, chronicled the joy in serving the history of his family as Lord. And that joy is they became the first instantly visible missionaries to the wherever he goes. We Alaskan Native or were delighted and Eskimo culture. honored to have His second work Pastor Fred join us deals more with the again on the air in work of his family in Nome. Quanna!

Pastor Fred Savok in the AM studio.

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