Dear Secretary Becerra:
The Attorneys General of Mississippi, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah submit these comments opposing the Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed rule, HIPAA Privacy Rule To Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy, 88 Fed. Reg. 23506 (Apr. 17, 2023).
Lily H. Tuzroyluke’s “Sivulliq: Ancestor” was chosen as Alaska’s selection for adults while Michaela Goade’s “Berry Song” is the selected book for youths.
Victims For Justice
Saturday, July 15th at 12 PM
Hostetler Park, 335 L St (map)
We welcome you to attend this ceremony to honor and remember those who have tragically lost their lives to violence in Alaska. This event will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page for those who cannot attend in person.
There will be a brief welcoming and remarks, followed by the reading of the names.
Sheldon Jackson Museum
Neva Mathias (Cup’ik) will offer a traditional Cup’ik grass basket making class at the Sheldon Jackson Museum. The class is for ages 17+ and free of charge, but a $25 materials fee, payable to Neva Mathias, is due when you sign up. This class is in-person only and limited to a small number of students. It will take place July 13, 14, and 20, 9:30 am-12 pm and 2-4 pm; and July 21, 9:30 am-12 pm and 3-4 pm. Students are encouraged to attend all sessions.
Founders’ Day marks the date a landing party disembarked from the steamship Santa Ana in 1903 to found the community of Seward as the ocean terminus of Alaska Central Railway. RBHS members will host an open house from 11 am – 2 pm Monday, Aug. 28 at the Seward Community Library and Museum. This year is the centennial of the completion of the 470-mile railway from Seward to Fairbanks. Anniversary cake, music on the pump organ, a slide show and free admission to the museum are on the agenda. You’re invited to join in the celebration!
July 8, 2023
Kindle Freebie
Pearl: You are Cleared to Land Kindle Edition
by Deanna Edens (Author)
Have you ever heard of The Pearl of Alaska? How about The Hillbilly Eskimo? Do you know the name of the woman who received the Wright Brothers’ Master Pilot Award at the age of ninety-seven? Well, her name is Pearl and this is a story about her and her family and friends. To be more precise many of these stories are hers—authentic memories written by an amazing woman.
Pearl Bragg Laska Chamberlain was the first woman to fly her own plane from the Lower 48 up the Alaska Highway to Alaska. She worked as a flight instructor, bush pilot, cryptographer for the Pentagon, flew in five Powder Puff Derbies, and was also a WASP trainee and famous “99er.” Pearl was a member of the UFO’s (United Flying Octogenarians), and the mayor of Fairbanks actually declared a “Pearl Laska Chamberlain Day.” Pretty impressive, eh?
I am very excited to bring you this fabulous collection of “Braggin’ Rights” stories that begin in the early 1900s on Chestnut Mountain in Summers County, West Virginia. Tales about bootleggin’ and learning to fly in the Appalachians are followed by adventures to exotic places. Narratives about living in the polar region and escapades of an aviatrix are accompanied by heartfelt memories of real-life victories and the sorrows of a lifetime. So settle down into the cockpit, buckle your seatbelt and get ready for an astonishing and amazing flight.
Welcome to the Empowered Alaska Report!
Alaska Warrior Partnership™ (AKWP) is a veteran-focused, community-led initiative to proactively connect with the over 65,000 veterans who call Alaska home and ensure access to benefits and opportunities available in collaboration with existing resources. The program aims to cultivate an integrated, resilient, and prosperous veteran community in Alaska by improving veteran quality of life. Learn more ->
Michael Dexter Hankins: IDITAROD MYSTERY
We’re still looking for it (read attached story). If not found in my lifetime, hopefully the search continues until it is!
Founders’ Day marks the date a landing party disembarked from the steamship Santa Ana in 1903 to found the community of Seward as the ocean terminus of Alaska Central Railway. RBHS members will host an open house from 11 am – 2 pm Monday, Aug. 28 at the Seward Community Library and Museum. This year is the centennial of the completion of the 470-mile railway from Seward to Fairbanks. Anniversary cake, music on the pump organ, a slide show and free admission to the museum are on the agenda. You’re invited to join in the celebration!
Beth Ann Matthews: Deep Waters A Memoir of Loss, Alaska Adventure, and Love Rekindled
When Beth Mathews’ very healthy and adventurous 56-year-old husband was suddenly felled by an unusual type of stroke while doing routine home maintenance in 2008, the author’s world turned upside down. Her new memoir — her first book — tells the story of her husband’s recovery while also reaching beyond that framework story into deeper waters concerning health and disability, risk versus safety and security, and life choices.
Summer has come to Alaska’s largest city; local trails are busy with Anchoragites; and dogs are once again rivaling the now Portlandesque problem of the homeless as the argument of the day.
Some people think their dogs no different than children and prefer to let them run wild. Some people fear dogs too much and cower at the sight of them. And sometimes, dogs being dogs, the animals can make themselves a problem for everyone no matter the human opinion of canines.
Two years ago – amid horror stories about dogs attacking people and dogs attacking other dogs – the Anchorage Municipal Assembly considered an ordinance that would have required all dogs be on a leash when in public places in the city.
Anchorage Animal Control officials at the time said they were getting 50 calls a week complaining about loose dogs, many of them aggressive animals.