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NN 8-1-2013Diana Layout 1 Photo by Diana Haecker GONE FISHING— Nome’s fishing fleet is busy harvesting Red King Crab and making deliveries to the Norton Sound Seafood Center. See Norton Sound fishery updates on page 7. C VOLUME CXIII NO. 31 August 01, 2013 City pitches in to develop test well at Pilgrim Hot Springs By Diana Haecker In order to get the test well going, source. temperature geothermal sites around the cycle. With a drill rig on a barge heading money was needed fast. Nome’s With Department of Energy funds the world. Pilgrim Hot Springs is owned by for Nome, the development of geot- Common Council met in a work ses- and matching funds from the Alaska The test results indicated that Unatuuq LLC, a consortium of Na- hermal energy at Pilgrim Hot sion on Wednesday, July 24 and Energy Authority, the Alaska Center there is sufficient heat coming from tive corporations including Bering Springs is one step closer to becom- passed a resolution to commit for Energy and Power at University the depths, said the Ethan Straits Native Corporation, Sitna- ing reality. $300,000 “intended for alternative of Alaska at Fairbanks has conducted Berkowitz, the City’s energy con- suak Native Corporation, Kawerak, This summer, a testwell will be energy development to the Pilgrim studies in the past. sultant. Inc., Norton Sound Economic De- drilled to determine if there is Geothermal project” for project ex- According to their website, ACEP Now the entities involved are velopment Corporation, White enough volume of hot water avail- penses. tested an innovative remote sensing testing whether there is enough Mountain Native Corporation, Teller able to produce two Megawatts of Several parties participate in the technique that has the potential to re- water that could be pumped into a Native Corporation and Mary’s energy that could be fed into the quest to find out if there is potential duce the cost of geothermal explo- power plant, extract the heat and re- Igloo Native Corporation. Nome power system. to develop a geothermal energy ration for low and moderate inject the water back into the source so it can heat up again to complete continued on page 4 VPO recovers after being shot By Diana Haecker and met up with Ballot’s boat. Buckland Village Police Officer When Ballot got out of the boat, Lorin B. Geary, 48, is recovering at he shot Geary. the Alaska Native Medical Center in The VPO was taken to the village Anchorage after being shot by a clinic and medivaced to Anchorage. bootlegger in the early morning The troopers were notified at 3 a.m. hours on Friday, July 26. on Friday morning. According to Alaska State Troop- Troopers say that several citizens ers spokeswoman Megan Peters, the responded to the incident, disarmed incident took place on the Buckland Ballot and took him into custody River at the edge of town. The Buck- until Kotzebue troopers and a Kotze- land village police received an bue Alaska Bureau of Investigation anonymous tip about Gary Ballot, officer arrived. 40, importing alcohol into the local Ballot claimed that he received an option community. According to the continued on page 5 Photo courtesy of Jeremy Luce troopers, Geary went to the beach MILESTONE REACHED— Dept. of Transportation Snake River Bridge project manager Tony Cox, left, and Pro-West contractor Bob Gilman oversee the placement of the final girder on the new Snake River bridge, on Monday, July 29. A total of 18 custom-made girders were shipped to Nome, each weigh 120,000 pounds and are 106 feet long. Broadband internet service is heading towards Nome By Diana Haecker GCI director for rural broadband and connects to TERRA Northwest, GCI’s TERRA Northwest project development Bob Walsh said GCI is with Unalakleet and Shaktoolik is building three microwave towers - shooting to connect the system to being online already. — near Golovin, at Bluff and at Nome by December 31, 2013. This summer, phase two on Cape Nome to extend a hybrid net- He said consumers could then ex- TERRA Northwest began with the work of fiber optic cables and mi- pect much higher bandwidth levels installation of three remote repeaters crowave towers from Shaktoolik to than what they were getting via and one microwave tower connect- Nome. satellite connection now. “Applica- ing Shaktoolik to Nome. The sites The project promises to bring tions such as email and Internet are a repeater tower at Kwiktalik faster internet services to Nome by browsers will be much faster. Other near Golovin and Bluff and a mi- increasing bandwidth. Bandwidth is applications such as video confer- crowave tower at Cape Nome. The measured in bits per second and rep- encing, which before may not have signal then gets bounced to Nome resents the capacity for data transfer been possible, will be possible,” and terminates at a receiver installed of a communications channel. The Walsh said. on top of the new Norton Sound Re- higher the bandwidth, the faster data GCI built a hybrid terrestrial gional Hospital. can be transferred, uploaded and fiber-optic and microwave network From there, it is connected into downloaded. to serve Alaska’s western rural re- the existing fiber-optic cable system. gion. Unalakleet and Shaktoolik were The first phase was TERRA hooked up to the system in Dec. Southwest. The system includes 400 2012. Nome is next, but the villages On the Web: miles of buried fiber-optic cable along the way – Koyuk, Elim, www.nomenugget.net stretching from Homer to Levelock. Golovin and White Mountain – are In Levelock, TERRA Southwest not included in the high speed. E-mail: connects to a high-speed microwave Walsh said it would cost $2 million [email protected] communications network with point- per community to be included in the to-point microwave communication system. between nine villages and four Phase 3 of TERRA Northwest mountaintop repeaters. This network will establish a series of towers and connects to the existing DeltaNet mi- repeaters from Shaktoolik to Kotze- Photo by Diana Haecker crowave towers in and around bue next year. HAVING FUN—Jeneva Nashoanak pitches the ball at the dunk tank, Bethel. during last Saturday’s Summerfest, held at Anvil City Square. See The system continues northward continued on page 4 more photos on page 8. 2 THURSDAY, AUGUST 01, 2013 OPINION THE NOME NUGGET Letters Dear Editor: and Nome are doing everything they Samaritan. He took the parable and Alaska Native population. One of the fines him. The man the Rev spoke of I’m a retired stuntman who has can to stifle this group from being applied it to real life in Nome. I read messages implicitly relayed in this also happened to be a son, a friend, a been coming here for four years be- part of the Alaskan dream. At every the Rev’s piece and understood the story is that alcohol related issues in member of a community and a fam- cause of what is being done in Cali- turn they are met with high insur- overall message of it; the importance our community stem specifically ily — perhaps he is a father, an fornia. Now you are starting to do it. ance, no bathrooms, no showers and of caring for one’s neighbor and the from the Alaska Native population. I uncle, a cousin, a provider and a hus- Alaska is the last great state where costly permits for everything from idea that Nome as a whole is, in gen- can say with almost 100 percent cer- band. Referring to him as nothing a man with just the sweat of his brow walking down the street to sitting on eral, neighborly. That’s great. How- tainty that was not the Rev’s intent. more than, “the alcoholic,” serves to and the burning determination to a rock. It’s not hurting the big groups ever, I also read the piece and it left Whether or not that was the intent of dehumanize him and any other per- work hard with his own two hands that come here, but it is killing the lit- a bitter taste in my mouth. Some of the piece is not what I’m concerned son that might find themselves in can make something of himself. Just tle guys that give up everything to be the language used in the story is so with. I do not believe that Rev Ross that same situation, passed out on the the sound of the city, “Nome”, rings part of this great City and State. ambiguous that it took me several Tozzi meant for his piece to come off street or with an addiction to alcohol. with adventure to those in the lower Prospecting is not earning money, reads to fully absorb, dissect and ar- as racist, paternalistic, offensive or In the second to last paragraph forty-eight. People come here as it’s making it from nothing and put- ticulate the various reasons why I dehumanizing, but that was how I Alaska Native traditional cultures dreamers and innovators, not just as ting into the economy was offended by it. and many people I know interpreted and skills are mentioned— “carving, prospectors. These are not the kind Tony Cecere The Rev. begins the piece by the piece. I’m concerned that the art, subsistence and dancing.” While of people who sit on their butts when Duarte, CA 91010 telling a story of a man from a vil- piece will run without the author and these are wonderful skills to have, their country calls, but get up and say lage who drank too much alcohol the news outlet being clued into how these are not skills specific to Alaska “take me.” They are the builders and Dear Nancy, and passed out outside in the middle offensive the story was.
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