Residents oppose Roadless Rule - page 3 TWC leaves mining committee - page 4 Serving Haines and Klukwan, Alaska since 1966 Chilkat Valley News Volume XLVIV, Issue 49 Thursday, December 12, 2019 $1.25 Lack of snow masks DOT overtime cuts By Kyle Clayton of Southeast shares one budget, Last Thursday’s snow-covered and one pool of overtime hours. roads in the late afternoon and Boron doesn’t have a fixed amount evening shined a light on what of overtime hours to work with, but plowing will look like on the Haines relies on his boss to tell him what Highway and other state roads if the percentage has been spent. borough experiences a normal winter. Designating overtime for plowing, On Thursday Dec. 5, a foot of Boron said, is a tough judgement snow had fallen in town, according call. If he plowed on a Thursday to NOAA data. Because the Alaska morning, for example, he likely Department of Transportation cut won’t plow in the afternoon in order overtime hours for its workers, plow to save overtime for the weekend if truck drivers were off work Thursday necessary. by the time parents were picking their “My overtime is severely children up from the Haines School. restricted,” Boron said. “It’s very Haines DOT station foreman unlikely I would do overtime plowing Matt Boron said drivers typically on the afternoon on a work week. I start plowing around 5 a.m. so that would save it for the weekend.” they can clear Main Street and other He said he’d never use overtime high traffic areas before the morning on lower priority roads like Mud commute. Their eight-hour day Bay, Small Tracts or Lutak past the typically ends at 1 p.m., and there’s ferry terminal. usually not enough hours remaining Larry and Jeanne Beck drive and to plow on Saturday and Sunday. rely on the school’s bus to transport “Folks in Haines haven’t seen the their four children to school and back Treble Choir members Yzella Miramontes, Natalie Jobbins, Hannah Boron, Sonona Sundberg, Matilda budget cuts when it comes to snow from their home at 25 Mile Haines Rogers and Lydia Andriesen sing Kirby Shaw’s 1962 arrangement of Holly Jolly Christmas. More photos plowing the last couple years because Highway. Larry Beck said DOT staff on back page. Kyle Clayton photo. we’ve had no snow,” Boron said. “I do a great job when they plow in the don’t think anyone has really asked morning, but the afternoon school “Where’s DOT?” because we, in bus route should also be a priority Maidy resigns over charter interpretation the past couple years, have just had for the state. By Jenna Kunze “I will continue to blow my whistle police, though not explicitly. The no snow. We get into a more typical “When it starts snowing and keeps Haines Borough Assembly member until the sound has reverberated off of resolution will add emergency police winter when we see a lot of snow, then going...it will get dangerous,” Beck Sean Maidy resigned Tuesday, the farthest reaches of these assembly services as an areawide power. it’s going to look a little different.” said. “I would think, if conditions following the assembly’s 4-2 approval chambers,” Maidy wrote. Borough clerk Alekka Fullerton Boron said two winters ago warrant, that they’d have a couple of a resolution interpreting charter Maidy said he believed that the reported to the assembly a discussion overtime was restricted, and last to specifically allow for areawide assembly should hold a special she had with attorney Brooks winter was almost entirely cut. All See PLOW page 6 emergency police service. election to allow voters to accept Chandler earlier on Tuesday: “He “I resigned because I cannot be a a language change in charter, but said that he thought (the resolution) party to an assembly who willingly most of the assembly thought that should probably satisfy everyone and and knowingly violates their own the resolution would allow current that he thought it was a great idea Monsters raise charter,” Maidy told the CVN police practice and give the borough to have it on the ballot in October,” after the meeting. He emailed his time to draft language for an October Fullerton said. “This gives us enough resignation to mayor Jan Hill at 8:22 2020 ballot proposition. time to work on the language that we money for preschool p.m., immediately after the meeting. Currently, emergency medical want to put forward to the voters.” By Jenna Kunze said his monster ate gasoline. Maidy sat on the Haines Borough services, emergency dispatch and But Maidy and assembly Haines artists last week brought Shiner painted the highest grossing Assembly for nearly three years. emergency response are the only member Zephyr Sincerny cited to life the monsters lurking in the monster, at $150, for Olen Stickler, After resigning, he later wrote three entities defined in charter as correspondence with Chandler from imaginations of Chilkat Valley who imagined an underwater beast on social media that he no longer areawide powers, but the resolution’s August, in which he wrote that the preschoolers. with a spikey head and seaweed legs believes in local government and proponents say that emergency To fundraise for the preschool, that “walks upside down,” Stickler described himself as a whistleblower. dispatch has always included Haines See RESIGN page 6 board president Kathryn Lee matched said. Stickler’s mother was victorious each preschooler with a local artist to in a bidding war for the art. bring each child’s imagined monster Oryn Stanford, 3, worked with to life—then auctioned off the pieces John Svenson to design “Rose,” a Giving Tuesday benefits local nonprofits at First Friday. pink-legged, multi-tailed beast that By Jenna Kunze made it easier to create and share Earth Day event. Sixteen monsters were transformed runs fast and dines on children. After Nine nonprofits reaped more than a fundraising campaign directly KHNS generated $3,000 to benefit into watercolors, sculptures, tiles, conversing with the child, Svenson $16,000 in donations on Tuesday, through its platform, which many its local news department, interim stained glass, piggy banks, string got to work. December 3. local nonprofits took advantage of. manager Janine Allen said. puppets and stuffed animals, earning “He kind of narrated this thing to Giving Tuesday, defined as a Haines Friends of Recycling In its first year participating in the preschool $1,100. me and then I cross-examined him to “global generosity movement” on its generated $6,250. Online, the group Giving Tuesday, the Jilkaat Kwaan “They met with the artists, and make sure it was what he wanted,” official website, was created in 2012 raised $3,125 that was then matched Heritage Center in Klukwan earned the artists had questions themselves Svenson said of his meeting with following Black Friday and Cyber by an anonymous donor. $1,075, according to employee about the monsters,” lead teacher Stanford. “He put great emphasis Monday with the mission to build a “We will be using that money for Karlie Spud. Betsy Shiner said. “Some children on the square teeth, those were very more generous world. some needed repairs and signage at Southeast Alaska Independent had really unique ideas about where important. And the five triangular To amplify donors’ generosity, the recycling center,” board member Living generated $2,000. the monsters lived and what they ate.” pink eyes. Then I asked him if it was Facebook signed on to match up Melissa Aronson said. Smaller sums were collected by Hunter Wishtar, who designed a to $7 million in donations made She added that some funding will creature painted by Melina Shields, See MONSTER page 3 to eligible nonprofits. They also help pay for speakers for this year’s See GIVING page 6 Second Time Arounders needed second wind By Kyle Clayton “I’m not a spring chicken, but I Haines Marching Band founder think I was one of the younger ones,” Sue Waterhouse said she had the Waterhouse said. “thrill of a lifetime” when she While the band had six musicians marched and played alto saxophone ready to fill in, it wasn’t enough to in the Second Time Arounders compensate for the 19 members who Marching Band at the Macy’s dropped out during the march. “I Thanksgiving Day Parade in New had two in my row, right next to me, York City. say ‘Oh I can’t keep up anymore,’” The Florida band’s mission is Waterhouse said. “The guy playing to provide opportunity for former the bass drum, he fell over. He went high school, college and military down, hit the pavement, came back band members to continue playing up, hit the bass drum a couple times music. “It’s for band geeks that and keeled back over.” really want an opportunity to do it The band marched on while one more time,” Waterhouse said. “I Waterhouse appealed to nearby just wanted to go to New York City.” police officers to help the winded Waterhouse applied for a spot in the man. “I’m sure he recovered,” she band last year after seeing an article said. “I didn’t hear of any deaths or in the Tampa Bay Times soliciting fatalities.” new members to march in the annual Waterhouse said the streets, holiday parade. rooftops and office building windows Waterhouse was one of 450 band were lined and packed with people members who traveled to New York. watching the parade. “It was The musicians met at their hotel at unbelievable to be marching down 1:30 a.m.