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One-Foot High Kick Takes Center Stage CountsCoMedalMuednal ts Alaska: Gold: 58 Silver: 47 Bronze: 35 Total: 140 Alberta North: Gold: 28 Silver: 28 Bronze: 28 Total: 84 Greenland: Gold: 11 Silver: 9 Bronze: 7 Total: 27 Northwest Territories: Gold: 21 Silver: 25 Bronze: 25 Total: 71 Nunavik Québec: Gold: 9 Silver: 6 Bronze: 8 Total: 23 Photo By Charles Pulliam Nunavut: David Thomas of Alaska attempting a kick of 8’10”. Gold: 10 Silver: 15 Bronze: 25 Total: 50 One-Foot High Kick Saami: Gold: 4 Silver: 5 Bronze: 7 Total: 16 takes center stage Yamal-Nenets: By CHARLES PULLIAM not your going to hit it,” Open 11, while Nipisar missed, giving said. Gold: 17 Ulu News Female competitor Suzie the Gold Ulu to Thomas and In the Junior competi- Silver: 20 Pearce said. “One of my last the silver to Nipisar. tions, Amy Elzibeth Miller of Bronze: 7 During most Arctic games, kicks [6-8] I just felt I was going “We tried a different tech- Alberta North edged Alaska’s Total: 44 the One-Foot High Kick takes to hit it.” nique, but I’m proud of them,” Danielle Malchoff by kicking the spotlight and it was no dif- “I had a lot of fun this year Nunavut’s coach Allen Anavilok her first attempt at 6-10. ferent on the Kenai Peninsula and really enjoyed the games,” said. “They had good games Yukon: Malchoff used all three of her this week. Pearce said. She is from Iqaluit, and had fun, and that’s what the attempts before sticking the Gold: 10 More than 300 spectators Nunavut, and is participating in games are really about…having landing on her third attempt Silver: 14 packed the stands at Kenai her seventh Arctic Winter fun.” for a successful kick. The result Games. Aisa Pirti, Nunavik- Bronze: 29 Central High School Thursday gave Miller the Gold Ulu and to watch the open Male and Alberta North’s Jennifer Quebec, leaped to the Bronze Total: 53 Malchoff the silver. Female One-Foot High Kick Bell won the Gold Ulu in the Ulu while Nunavut’s Thomas Nicole Elizabeth St. competitions during the Inuit Open Female event with a kick Johnston finished in fourth in Martin of Alberta North beat Games. of 6-10. Pearce missed all three Open Male competition, with a out Deseray Cumberbatch of In the One-Foot High Kick, of her attempts at 6-10 and set- kick of 8-7. His attempts at 8-10 WeatherWeather Nunavik-Quebec for bronze by an athlete has three attempts to tled for the Silver Ulu. failed, but through a kick-off, ForecastForecast kick a small ball. The athlete In the Open Male he took fourth. connecting at 6-6 on her first must jump off of two feet, Competition, a tie resulted in a “I just gave up [in mid attempt. though kick the ball with only kick-off for first place. Both air] on my last attempt,” Nunavik-Quebec team one foot, land on the same foot David Thomas of Alaska and Johnston said of his final kick at members Alec Airo and Paul that kicked the ball, and hold Sean Nipisar of Nunavut 8-10. “I should have gotten it.” Beaulne took the gold and sil- the landing for it to be a suc- missed all three kick attempts Johnston is competing in ver in the Junior Male competi- cessful attempt. at nine feet. his first Arctic Winter Games. tion. Airo notched first by kick- Cold with a full day of sunshine “Usually you can just look In the kick-off, Thomas had “There was a lot of competi- ing 8-6, while Beaulne settled 25/0 at the ball and feel whether or a successful first attempt at 8- tion, but it was a lot of fun,” he for silver after a kick at 8-2. Think Pink! NWT musher Yamal contingent misses borscht, but enjoys competition, friendliness makes fashion statement By DAWN FITZPATRICK while winning Gold Ulu Ulu News This is only the second time Yamal—representing Russia— has participated in the Arctic Winter Games but they brought a country-size contingent with them. Yamal boasts athletes com- peting in figure skating, table tennis, snowshoe, cross-country skiing, snowboard, biathlon ski, and Inuit Games, along with a cultural contingent. “The AWG has done a good job organizing the games,” said Photo By Dawn Fitzpatrick Nikolay Sakal, a table tennis Yamal cultural contingent watching a skating event (left coach. However, he has been surprised to find no borscht to right): Antastasia Vorobeva, Tamara Nevolina, Yulia Photo By Jahnie Triplett (soup), but has enjoyed “vehi- Nurtdinova; below is Daria Boyarkina Rebecca Baxter relaxes with one of her favorite dogs, cles stopping and people saying are all here for the first time. “schools and stages very good,” Beca. hi.” He also has noticed that “everybody smiles a lot.” They have danced together for they said, but they had trouble The cultural contingent is 10 years and are very well known adjusting to the 14-hour time By JA’HNIE TRIPLETT outfits, with her wearing a made up of four young ladies in their hometown of Noyabrsk, difference so the first day was Ulu News bright pink coat with her dogs whose wonderful presentation a city of about 106,000 people. tough. sporting the latest in pink har- is a mix of traditional dance and When asked how they are Special thanks for this arti- What’s pink and furry, and nesses. modern. Tamara Nevolina, enjoying the games and Alaska, cle go to interpreter, Irina runs like the wind? Baxter and her family took Anastasia Vorobeva, Daria they replied, in unison, “cool.” Richards, who currently lives in Take haute couture, add four days to drive here “We let Boyarkina, and Yulia Nurtdinova The performers found the Alaska. snow, toss in some barking, the dogs out every two hours add a dash of spice and every- to feed them,” she said. thing nice, and you have When asked how old she Rebecca Baxter and her dog was, Rebecca said; “I’m 12, but sled team. I’m 10 in America because of Dancing to the Baxter, a great dog mush- the exchange rate.” er from the Northwest “I would like to stick to beat of a different drum Territories, has been mushing sprint racing but it would be and living Tobacco Free. for seven years and won yes- really cool to do the Iditarod,” terday’s Gold Ulu in sled dog she said. Fresh Trash Drummers and racing. Does anyone know if Why does she mush Susan, Dede, Libby or Aily Arctic Winter Games Dancers dogs? Rebecca said, “It’s part have worn a pink coat with Thank You to all Our of my culture and I get to go matching pink dog harnesses? fast.” If it hasn’t been done, watch Tobacco-Free AWG Performers Rebecca’s great sense of out, “Ladies of the Iditarod” humor and style were obvious because Rebecca Baxter is during the races. She and her ready to make a fashion state- dogs were in matching pink ment. UpUp toto thethe MinuteMinute 260-3682 ResultsResults email: To get the current results of all the events, go to [email protected] PO Box 1612 www.awg2006.org. Soldotna, AK 99669 HUTCHINGS BREAK THROUGH www.hutchingschevrolet.com 2262-589162-5891 8800-478-589200-478-5892 GLACIER WE ARE PROFESSIONAL GRADE® THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN STYLE www.glaciergmc.com 2260-260260-2602 8800-650-260200-650-2602 Page 2 2006 ARCTIC WINTER GAMES Friday, March 10, 2006 www.awg2006.org Kenai Peninsula College student journalists publish the Ulu News If you like what you’ve 2008 Host Society invited the Arctic Winter Games compo- been reading in the newspaper students and co-editors Gary J. nent. Students who completed you’re holding, credit Kenai Turner and High to their the “Reporting and Writing Peninsula College journalism “Launch” meeting on Thursday News” course in a previous students who are serving as where they discussed how they semester are also participating the credentialed reporters for can emulate this success in the in the Ulu News project. the Ulu News, the official pub- 2008 Ulu News. KPC—a University of lication of the Arctic Winter In October, in recognition Alaska Anchorage college—is Games. of its journalistic commitment comprised of the Kenai River Giving up their Spring to the Arctic Winter Games, Campus in Soldotna, Photo By Robert Bell Break, 18 students—led by KPC the college was awarded a Kachemak Bay Campus in Magician Terry Brooks engages Ulu News writers Journalism and English instruc- $2,000 grant from the Center Homer, Resurrection Bay Extension Site in Seward, Courtney Proctor and Ja’hnie Triplett in a card trick. tor Janice High—have been for Community Engagement & Anchorage Extension Site, and responsible for gathering and Learning at the University of Alaska Anchorage. The funds the Mining and Petroleum writing stories, shooting pho- were used to purchase a digital Training Service with offices in Terry Brooks brings tos, and writing cutlines for camera and related equipment, Anchorage and Soldotna. With publication in the 4,000 daily supplies and a very small about 2,000 students attending copies of the Ulu News. amount to offset student gas each semester, the college magic to the Arctic Additionally, the Ulu News is costs. offers one-year certificates; published on-line, providing The foundation for the Ulu two-year associate’s degrees; a access to thousands of people Winter Games News undertaking was the col- selection of four-year degrees By JANICE HIGH kids are part of the act.
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