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Petition to make Bethel damp has enough signatures, sponsors say
(Alex Demarban/The Arctic Sounder, 18 December 2009) -- Petition gatherers who want to make Bethel a damp community again say they have enough signatures to put the question on the ballot. "We feel pretty good, we're all pretty happy," said Allen Joseph, one of 28 petition sponsors. Voters in the community of 5,600 chose in October to end Bethel's damp status after three decades. A separate group of Bethel residents led that effort. They said they opposed the state-set alcohol-import limits placed on damp communities. But they also said they didn't want liquor stores or bars in Bethel. However, the decision opened a Pandora's Box, as several restaurants and grocery stores raced to get their liquor license applications before the state alcohol board. Three such applications, submitted by Osaka's Restaurant, Corina's Restaurant and 123 BBQ, are pending before the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, said director Shirley Gifford. The next board meeting where those can be considered is Feb. 26, Gifford said. Other businesses have run newspaper ads in The Delta Discovery expressing their intent to apply, including to open a liquor store. While gathering signatures, petitioners ran across people who voted to end the damp status but now want to go back, said Joseph. They said too many businesses were trying to get liquor licenses, he said. About 20 sponsors gathered voter signatures starting Dec. 7. They quickly had enough to get the item on the ballot, Joseph said. They gathered 673 signatures, more than the number of Bethel voters who chose to remove the damp status in October, he said. Just 404 valid signatures are needed to get the item on the ballot. That's 35 percent of the number of people who voted in the October election, Joseph said. Joseph turned 24 booklets into the city clerk Friday afternoon so she could begin verifying signatures. "To me, it's a tremendous accomplishment," he said. "A lot of people are pushing for it and supporting it and I'm hoping for the best."
Fairbanks man pedaling to DC to highlight climate change
(Dan Bross/KUAC Fairbanks via APRN, 17 December 2009) -- A Fairbanks man has taken his concerns about climate change on the road. Don Ross is riding his bike from Fairbanks to Washington, D.C. stopping along the way to get the word out about the warming planet. Ross, who has pedaled about 2,300 miles to southern British Columbia since leaving Fairbanks October 3rd, says hes doing the trip during the winter to get attention. [mp3]
Rosetta Stone looking for local talent
(K<title></title>athy A<title></title>hgeak/The Arctic Sounder, 10 December 2009) -- North Slope residents can get ready for their close-ups now that the Inupiaq Rosetta Stone language project is underway. Rosetta Stone, a company famous for its line of language learning software, is launching a course in the Inupiaq language. Project organizers are hoping that local models will help illustrate the course. "It only feels right that people learning the Inupiaq language see Inupiaq people, settings, and objects," said Patuk Glenn, museum curator with the Inupiat Heritage Center in Barrow. One way that people naturally learn a language is by seeing something and associating it with a word. That's why custom photography is necessary for some parts of the program, Glenn said, because "stock photography does not have pictures of things like maktak, Barrow or a parka ruff." The project was launched by the school district, Ilisagvik College and the North Slope Borough's Inupiat History, Language and Culture (IHLC) commission in February 2009. The goal of the technology-assisted language program is to supplement Inupiaq language learning in communities and schools across the region.
High winds topple tall crane at Dutch Harbor
(Anchorage Daily News, 5 December 2009) -- DUTCH HARBOR - Winds as high as 125 mph toppled a 110-foot gantry crane at a shipping facility in Dutch Harbor. A spokesman for American President Lines Ltd. says no people or other structures were damaged when the crane fell at 8:45 p.m. Friday evening. Mike Zampa says the company is still assessing damage to the crane, which fell onto gravel at the shipping terminal. APL is the world's fifth-largest container shipping company. Unalaska city roads chief Jim Dickson described the storm in an e-mail Saturday. "A few roofs were blown away, a mud slide across a road; but generally most of town made it through with only minor damage," he wrote.
Opinion: Correct past wrongs in Arctic development
(Buck Parker/McClatchy Newspapers via Juneau Empire, 2 December 2009) -- Environmental groups had high hopes for the Obama administration. They had spent eight years fighting off relentless efforts by the previous administration to eviscerate laws and regulations aimed at protecting our natural heritage and opening nearly all public resources to private exploitation. The report card, nearly a year into the Obama era, is mixed but mostly admirable. The Environmental Protection Agency has overturned or withdrawn many onerous Bush initiatives. The Forest Service is doing pretty well by the national forests. The Park Service is working to protect Yellowstone from the annual onslaught of snowmobiles. The president will attend the Copenhagen climate talks. Now, the Interior Department is faced with one of its biggest decision so far: whether to allow oil companies to lease and drill in the Arctic Ocean. The upcoming Arctic decisions dwarf everything else Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has done so far. Interior's Minerals Management Service took a step in the wrong direction in October, approving a plan by Shell Oil to drill just offshore from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska next year, without a full environmental analysis. Other important decisions are imminent, including whether to continue offering lease sales, and defend existing leases, in the Arctic Ocean and whether to allow Shell to also drill in the pristine Chukchi Sea in 2010. It is not too late for Salazar's Interior Department to correct course and protect the Arctic Ocean.
Fairbanks diocese to pay millions for abuse
(Anchorage Daily News, 25 November 2009) -- Alaska victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and volunteers from the Fairbanks diocese could finally receive payments early next year for the damage done long ago, though many of the details of the bankruptcy settlement have yet to be worked out. Lawyers for the Fairbanks diocese and representatives of almost 300 creditors, most of them sex abuse victims, said Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court that they've agreed to a nearly $10 million settlement.The amount available to pay victims could grow considerably, depending on the results of efforts to extract up to $100 million from two insurance carriers that are not part of the settlement, said Ken Roosa, an Anchorage attorney who represents 240 victims trying to collect through the bankruptcy case. Those two insurance companies had refused to participate in the negotiations, Roosa said. The Catholic Bishop of Northern Alaska, the formal name for the diocese, turned to bankruptcy in March 2008 after efforts to settle numerous sexual abuse lawsuits failed. Under the settlement, the diocese would resolve the cases and would sell some property, but would not have to close any parishes. Specific amounts to individuals aren't yet set and will be determined case by case, depending on the abuse suffered. People with marginal claims of mistreatment that don't relate to sexual abuse may not get anything, Roosa said. Bankruptcy Judge Donald MacDonald still must approve the terms.
Program will ease Native students into college
(Alex Demarban/The Arctic Sounder, 19 November 2009) -- Mike Angaiak saw the world change from the tiny village of Tununak. In his lifetime, motorized boats replaced skin kayaks, snowmachines supplanted dog sleds and cash played a growing role. The government school arrived in 1925, and Angaiak, who died in 2001 at age 85, said he attended class just one day in his life, according to his son, John. Still, Mike, and his wife, Susie, insisted their children get college degrees. Seven of 10 did that, including John, who earned a bachelor's degree in 1972 and is now retired after working for Southwest Alaska Native organizations. "It was mom and dad's persistence that I get my education, so that I will fit in my time," said John, 67. The Angaiaks are unusual. While Alaska Native students play an increasingly large role in college classrooms, their enrollment numbers and graduation rates remain low. For example, while Alaska Natives make up about 16 percent of the state's population, they comprise only 9 percent of the students at the University of Alaska Anchorage, according to a 2008 paper. And just 10 percent of UAA's freshmen earn a degree in six years. A new Alaska Humanities Forum program s

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