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Aniak and
Unalakleet
vie at State
Volleyball
Mixed
Tournament
Corey Hester | For The Drums
Aniak and Unalakleet faced off in
the Class 1A-2A State Volleyball
Mixed Tournament Dec. 9 and 10
in Anchorage. Unalakleet took
home third place in a sweep of:
25-17, 25-13, 25-15 over Aniak.
See more on Page 8.
Council asks tribe for help to keep
bus running
The city of Bethel is asking for money from Bethel’s tribe,
Orutsararmuit Native Council, in order to keep the community bus system running past the new year, according to
KYUK.
At a meeting Tuesday Bethel City Council voted to have
the city manager engage in discussions with ONC, with the
goal of identifying funding options for the service. The city
requests a commitment of $75,000 from ONC to continue
bus service through Dec. 31.
The bus system is run through a joint partnership
between the city and ONC. The city operates the system;
ONC then pays matching grant money.
Plane goes down near Kwigillingok
On Dec. 21 at about 11:07, troopers in Bethel received a
report that an aircraft had crashed near the village of Kwigillingok. Tribal Police Officers (TPOs) from Kwigillingok
Public Safety responded to the crash site and made contact
with the pilot, Blaze Highlander, age 44, of Bethel, who was
found not to be seriously injured. No other people were on
board the aircraft when it crashed.
Both the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and
Rescue Coordination Center (RCC) were notified of the
incident, along with the National Transportation Safety
On the Y-K delta
Board (NTSB). Highlander was transported to the medical
clinic in Kwigillingok to evaluate his medical status. The
aircraft, a Cessna 206, belonged to a commercial carrier
headquartered out of Bethel.
UAF receives suicide prevention
funds
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has received $1.4 million for suicide and substance abuse prevention efforts in
rural Yupik Eskimo communities in Southwestern Alaska,
according to an Associated Press report.
The money was for the Center for Alaska Native Health
Research program exploring how Alaska Natives are using
cultural traditions and ancestral knowledge to promote
well-being.
Unit 18 hunt extended
The Federal Subsistence Board has extended the hunt for
the Unit 18 Remainder until Feb. 29 and have changed the
harvest limit from one antlered bull to any moose, according to KYUK.
The board states the action will provide additional
opportunity for federally qualified subsistence users to
harvest a moose.
The moose population is considered healthy in Remainder area and able to support the expected additional
harvest.
For information on the season extension or hunt area,
contact Robert Sundown with the Yukon Delta National
Wildlife Refuge.
Couple found dead
Gina Martin, 26, and Jonathan Paul, 29, of Kipnuk were
found dead on Dec. 18 in their home in Kipnuk according
to state troopers. Their infant was found with them and
alive. Troopers are investigating.
Three people stabbed
On Dec. 18 Alaska State Troopers in St. Mary’s received
a report of a stabbing in Mountain Village.When troopers
responded to investigate it was revealed that three individuals of the same household received injuries caused
from an altercation involving a knife. Two individuals were
medevacced to Bethel. The investigation is ongoing.
Man dies on snowmachine trip
A Hooper Bay man died after his snowmachine became
stuck Dec. 6 north of the Southwest Alaska village, according to The Anchorage Daily News. Paul Kaiser, 58,
was reported overdue from a snowmachine trip about late
Tuesday. Searchers found Kaiser and his snowmachine the
next day on the edge of the Manayagavik River about three
miles north of Hooper Bay, troopers said.
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thousands of miles of marsh, tundra, mountain ranges
Recently the U.S. Postal Service Inspector General
VOICE OF
and rivers. Then there are the bridges to build to our
issued a scathing report on the bypass mail service
THE TUNDRA island communities, not to mention the National Park
in Alaska. The Inspector General has totally wrong,
Service land and wilderness preserves. Let’s not even
partially inaccurate and just plain uniformed reasons
think about how we would keep these roads open in the winter. This
for eliminating bypass mail. However, the Postal Service Inspector
General is not the only entity that just doesn’t get it. The recent media is Alaska, not Florida.
We are the keepers of the Last Frontier and stewards of a wealth of
hype over the ice blocked fuel barge got national attention.
minerals, petroleum, natural gas, wildlife and enough fish to feed the
Well-meaning folks in the Lower-48 were concerned that pregworld. We are a state of strategic importance and we deserve to be pronant women in Nome would be unable to get to the hospital due
vided the mandated USPS Universal Service. Those of us who reside
to speculated $9 per gallon fuel price. Some folds e-mailed “The
in the 80 percent of Alaska’s off-road communities have our reasons
Nugget” suggesting we tell folks to close off their north-facing rooms
for living here. Our isolation solidifies our sense of community and
and insulate our homes. Alaskans know one can never have enough
keeps the road-system crazies off our doorstep. We are strong, selfinsulation. Others, including the USPS suggested that Alaskan build
reliant and resourceful, and we don’t need to be treated like secondhighways to the 80 percent of our communities that are off the road
class Americans by Washington politicians and bureaucrats.
system so we could truck in our fuel. Can you hear the fiscal screams
—Nancy McGuire, “The Nome Nugget”
in Juneau and Washington? Sure, we’re going to build a highway over
Remembering Phillip Guy
Drums Staff
“The 40 million acres of land is hardly enough
for Alaska’s Natives, but this is our compromised
figure and agreement. You gentlemen must realize
that we will develop our lands to combat the poverty conditions that exist because of lack of adequate
communications, the lack of better sanitation facilities, lack of or absence of sanitary water wells, lack
of and need for proper housing, and other human
misery-producing conditions.”
—Phillip Guy, then President, AVCP 1969
statement provided at the congressional hearings
held in Fairbanks and Anchorage.
Phillip Guy was a director of AVCP, Calista
Corporation, Yukon Kuskokwim Corporation,
RuralCap, Alaska Legal Services, Kwethluk
Inc., AFN and a state representative.
On Dec. 18, 2011 ANCSA became 40 years
old. When ANCSA became law Guy was 1st
Vice President of AFN. Guy participated in the
land claims negotiation that eventually created
13 for-profit regional corporations and 225 forprofit village corporations, and cash settlement
of $962.5 million dollars.
ANCSA is the only type of aboriginal settlement of its kind which positively changed
multiple economies in all 50 states and multiple countries. ANCSA Section 7(i) subsurface
income is a benefit to all 12 regional and 224
village corporations. ANCSA 7i has kept all
ANCSA corporations solvent. Just to list a few
ANCSA 7i funds developed dividend programs to shareholders, purchase of community
goods and fuel plus much of the fuels are used
for subsistence hunting and fishing, scholarship programs, burial assistance, elder benefits,
donations to non-profits, preservation cultural
traditional programs, shareholder hire and
training programs, land bank protection, and
funded protection of hunting and fishing for
rural Alaska under ANILCA Title VIII. ANCSA
7i distribution reached over $1 billion dollars
to 12 regional corporations, and 224 village
corporations under the sharing 70/30 formula.
Guy was one of the Native leaders who agreed
to the ANCSA land loss formula which created
the ANCSA 7i sharing provision.
Guy authored many resolutions that were
submitted through AFN for federal/state
funding for health corporations, better sanitations facilities, water wells, safe airports, funding regional housing programs, food stamps,
and support of subsistence hunting fishing.
Guy worked with Governor Hammond in
the creation of the Alaska Permanent Fund as a
legislator through the House Finance Committee.
Guy’s vision in 1969 was of capacity change.
Guy’s vision of the change was clear. He
quietly made change happen by resolving
challenges and problems of rural community
needs, and he constantly pushed for Native
people work together. He did not seek recognition, nor did he want recognition for the work
he accomplished in life.
Phillip Guy died on Nov. 14, 2011.
The Tundra Drums thanks Phillip Guy for
his dedication in serving the Native peoples all
across the state.
Stories of my mother
The holiday season always
reminds me of my mother who
passed away before my children
were born which remains one of
the great regrets of my life.
Our mother was a short, sturdy
Ojibwa woman from Lac du Flambeau Reservation in Northern
Wisconsin. She was quiet, even in
our house where four of her six
children and a posse of friends
and, later, in-laws and extended
family loved her. My two oldest sisters lived outside Alaska:
One on the Reservation where
a group of nieces, nephews and
cousins still reside; and the other
in Detroit where another group of
nieces and nephews are centered.
Today, my sister Linda and I are
all who remain of Mom’s original
brood of six.
Maybe it was because my mother said so little that when she did
speak we all would shut up and
listen; especially when she told us
stories from the Reservation. The
thing that most marked these stories for me is that my mother said
they were true and my mother
didn’t lie or exaggerate.
The Talking Dog.
One evening my mother and
her sister, Agnes, were left alone
in the house. All the adults in the
Reservation were attending an
important meeting and the girls
pretended to be sick so they could
stay home. They decided to sneak
over to the Tribal Hall and spy on
the adults.
They sat outside under the
window and played a game of
yard laughing at them
chance: the “Jump-upwhile they sat in the
and-make-a-face-and
house trembling. Then
hope-no-one-sees-you”
my mother opened the
game. They made it
door slightly and threw
up on the spot. It took
a piece of meat to the
courage. If either got
dog and promised him
caught, it would be
they would not make
trouble for both. Goose
fun of the chief again.
bumps. SPRING, my
The dog took the meat
mother’s young legs
and disappeared. No
pushed her way up
Point
one on the Reservation
and she could see the
of View had ever seen a yellow
packed room where
dog that matched the
the chief making an
ELSTUN
girls’ description. My
animated speech. My
LAUESEN
mother told us that we
mom landed and, gigshould always show
gling, she imitated the
respect for our Elders.
chief, mocking his gestures to her sister’s amusement.
The Fire Balls
Now it’s sister’s turn. SPRING.
One day my mother was ill.
This time the chief himself is
She
woke up in the middle of the
looking out the window! Agnes
night but felt like she was still in
lands and turns to alert my mom,
a dream. She could see the lake
but she was still in the throes of
from her room. She saw a large
imitating the old chief and was
ball of fire coming out of the lake
not paying attention.
and then start rolling toward her.
Suddenly someone burst out
It broke into smaller balls and all
the door and my mom and Agnes
but one flew away. The one that
ran down the road as fast as their
remained rolled into the house
young legs could take them. They
heard a man shout, “Go get them” next door belonging to a family
named St. Germaine. The next
but soon, to their relief, they were
day at breakfast my grandmother
well into the woods on their way
explained to my mom that firehome. A small, yellow dog ran
balls would visit a home to take a
up from behind them and slowed
soul away. Shortly after that, my
to a trot next to them. Turning
mother learned that the Elder St.
his head the dog greeted them,
Germaine had passed.
“Boozhoo.” Then he began to
laugh in my mother’s 12-year-old
voice. The girls screamed and ran
to the house. The laughing dog
kept on their heels laughing in
a girl’s voice. He sat in the front
Three Knocks On The Door
One night my mother’s family was awakened by three loud
knocks on the door. It sounded
almost like a tree branch strik-
ing the side of the house in the
wind, but there was no wind that
night. The evening was calm.
Her mother opened the door
and stared out into the cloudless,
starry evening and then turned
around looking pale and shaken.
“Your uncle just died,” she said to
my mother. Sure enough, the next
day, word arrived of my mother’s
uncle having passed away in his
sleep. My mother said that when
there are three knocks on the door
and no one is there, someone in
the family is going to die. When
you open the door, the first person
you think about will be the one to
pass away.
Now over the years I have
become a skeptic and an empiricist. I did well in logic classes at
the university. And if I heard
these stories today — even from
my mother — I would smile and
talk to her about the difference
between correlations and causations. I would talk to her about
illness-induced delusions like the
fireballs and Jungian archetypes
and psychological projections and
transferences and on and on. And
at the end of my pettifoggery — if
there is such a word — I am sure
that my mother would just smile
and ask: but what about the talking dog?
I don’t have an answer. Do you?
Please send me your stories and
family legends that get told over the
holidays and I will share them. As always e-mail [email protected]. Thank
you and Merry Christmas and Happy
Holidays.
The Tundra Drums • December 26, 2011 • Page 3
Conference of Young
Alaskans convenes in Juneau
Institute of the North
Workshop will teach ways to
grow an art or craft business
Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center
Partners in Growth, along with Alaska State Council on the Arts, is offering the
Building a Successful Arts and Crafts Business workshop on Jan. 27 and 28 at Yupiit
Piciryarait Cultural Center. The workshop will help answer questions about how
to make more money, expand sales through the Internet and become a Silver Hand
member.
The workshop sessions are 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 27, and 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 28.
Individual consultation will be available from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Jan. 28. The cost is $25
for the workshop or $5 per class. Lunch and snacks are included.
Artists can register by Jan. 16 at the cultural center or by contacting Reyne Athanas, 543-4538, [email protected] or Judy Wasierski, 543-4547, jawasierski@
alaska.edu. There are a limited number of openings for the workshop.
Classes offered are:
• Creative Exellence which includes mentors, training, juried shows, resources;
• Critical Evaluation which includes what to sell, goals, cultural concerns;
• Artist Authenticity which includes methods, purpose, programs such as the
Silver Hand, options, decisions;
• Shaping Your Market which includes ;
• Professional Toolkit which includes resume, bio, business cards, portfolio, social
media, client database, branding certifications, business license;
• Professional Resources which includes technical training, grants, partnerships,
college, café; and
• Promotional Resources (existing) which includes ANAF, IACB, café, local/regional cultural center or corporation, facebook.
Partners in Growth is a new program at Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center to help
artists and rural communities build successful art businesses. There will be a series
of professional development workshops for artists offered with Building a Successful
Arts and Crafts Business being the first one. Contact Reyne Athanas for information
information.
Alissa Joseph of Bethel, Jalene Herron of
Bethel and Brad Gusty of Stoney River will
attend the Institute of the North gathering
for young Alaskans interested in discussing
the state’s rich history, vibrant present and
thriving future. The Conference of Young
Alaskans is modeled after the Alaska Constitutional Convention of 1955 and provides
an opportunity for youth, ages 16 to 25, to
meet and discuss current issues and challenges facing the state. This year’s conference is in Juneau, Jan. 4-7.
“The Conference of Young Alaskans
entices young people to be knowledgeable
about their state, to be involved in public
issues and communicate with one another,”
said Sonia M. Christensen, a prior delegate
also attending this year’s conference. “I
believe that COYA fosters an environment
that engages youth to form well-rounded,
well-educated and well-versed opinions
and courses of action.“
Prior to the conference, delegates will
attend educational sessions led by experts
from economic industry sectors representing the diversity of the state and providing
a baseline of information to be explored
during conference discussions. Each delegate outlined their top five priority issues,
some of which include: economic resilience,
fiscal policy, education and workforce development. The goal of the conference is to
instill confidence in Alaska’s young people
to become leaders in their communities, the
state, and the nation.
“We are excited about the ideas and possibilities generated when we support an incredible group of young leaders,” said Nils
Andreassen, managing director, Institute of
the North. “We firmly believe that the 2012
Conference of Young Alaskans is an invaluable resource for Alaska,”
The 55-person delegation was selected
through an application process with an eye
toward representing the diversity of people
and cultures in the state. More than half of
the delegates are from outside of Anchorage
and 30 percent are Alaska Native. In all, 29
communities will be represented, including
strong delegations from Fairbanks, Nome,
Bethel, Kotzebue, Ketchikan and Sitka.
The last conference convened at Alyeska
Resort in Girdwood in 2009 and drew
young adults and teens from across the
state. The Institute of the North recognized
the value in providing young Alaskans
a venue to plan Alaska’s future and the
importance of encouraging young adults to
identify themselves as the next generation
of Alaska leaders.
Generous sponsors contributed to this
year’s conference, providing lodging,
meals and ground transportation for the
delegates. Northrim Bank provided $1,000
for each delegate to attend the conference.
The Alaska Railroad Corporation, Aleut
Corporation, Alyeska Pipeline Service
Company, Association of Alaska School
Boards, AT&T, BP Alaska, Conoco Phillips,
Fairbanks North Star Borough, Foraker
Group, GCI, Ermalee Hickel, IBEW 1547,
Information Insights, Sealaska Corp., State
of Alaska, Strategies 360, 360 North, University of Alaska Fairbanks and University
of Alaska Southeast also made meaningful
contributions to ensure the success of the
conference.
The Institute of the North is a nonprofit
organization founded by former Gov. Walter J. Hickel in 1994. Its mission focuses on
understanding the reality, the richness and
the responsibility of the North.
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Births
Morris Clifford Greene
was born at 8:08 a.m. Oct. 3, 2011 to
Morris and Karen Greene of Pilot Station. Morris weighed 9 pounds, 15.4
ounces and was 20.9 inches long.
His yupik names are At’cairraq,
Legg’leq, Cakiitelleq and Ungauluk. He
joins siblings Noel, Katie, Patrick and
Kennady along with grandparents Rita
Greene and Evan and Kathleen Polty all
of Pilot Station.
Fairah Revaya Huntington
was born at 5:58 a.m. Oct. 5, 2011 to Floyd and
Roseanne Huntington.
Fairah weighed 7 pounds 10 ounces and
was 20.5 inches long.
Send birth announcements to The Drums at
[email protected].
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Next classes start January 16, 2012
If you are interested in getting your Commercial Pilot’s
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You must be willing to train for up to 18 months, must be a
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Only 10 students will be picked for this class. Applicants will
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Turn back the pages
Dec. 17, 1987
The Tundra Drums
Our Chief is gone – Almost 2,000 mourners crowded into and around the Alaska
National Guard Armory in Bethel Wednesday to pay tribute to Chief Eddie Hoffman,
who died Friday in Providence Hospital in
Anchorage of complications resulting from
surgery. Long-time Bethel resident Charlie
Guinn eulogized Hoffman, his friend and
neighbor, as a generous man, one who gave
all he had to his family, friends and community. The sheer numbers of mourners gave
evidence of the lives Chief Eddie touched.
Governor Steve Cowper, Anchorage Mayor
Tony Knowles, the Hoffman family and
almost everyone in Bethel who could, was
at the service. Many villagers made the
journey into Bethel to say goodbye to their
most fierce champion of Native subsistence
lifestyle. City offices, schools, court, and
most other offices closed down part or all of
the day to allow their employees to attend
the services.
Water, sewer, solid waste top city’s
capital projects wish list for the legislature
– Water, sewer and solid waste projects are
the city of Bethel’s top capital project priority for the years 1988 and 1989. The city
council decided at their Tuesday night, Dec.
15 meeting that they would ask from the
Alaska legislature this year $1.3 million to
build and improve sewer, water and solid
waste facilities here. The request represents a change from the city’s top priorities
of former years. Its primary request for
state capital projects money in prior years
has been linked to the construction of the
bulkhead seawall. The seawall, dubbed
the “river stabilization project/petro dock
wingwall extension” rated number 2 in the
city’s wish list planned for the 1988 legislators. Sought for this project from the state is
$2 million. And rated number 3 was “road
upgrade” projects. Sought is $1,250,000.
BCS to operate new mental health home
here – A Bethel facility exclusively devoted
to providing services to the chronically
mentally ill is expected to be opened by
Bethel Community Services (BCS) in early
January. Although formal memorandums of
agreement have not yet been signed by the
three participating agencies – BCS, YKHC
(Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation)
and the state Division of Mental Health
– BCS officials have evidently received
preliminary word that plans for the project
can go ahead. The state’s $247,500 grant,
which will allow BCS to operate a ‘mental
health home’ through the end of the state’s
current fiscal year, June 30, is being handled
administratively by YKHC.
LKSD & teachers declare impasse in
negotiations – Negotiating teams representing the Lower Kuskokwim School District
(LKSD) board of directors and the district’s
teacher’s union, the Lower Kuskokwim Education Association (LKEA) are at impasse.
The teams met on two consecutive Saturdays over the past two weeks and deadlocked over salary questions, according to
representatives of both teams. Representing the district has been Saul Friedman, a
district-hired Anchorage attorney. Chair of
the LKEA team is Richard Kern, a Napakiak
teacher. The district’s 260-some teachers
have been working without a contract since
the current one expired in July of this year.
The teachers’ ‘last best offer’ on salary was
step and column increases and a $1,000 bonus for each teacher. The district’s last best
offer was step and column increases with
no bonus or salary hikes.
Hepatitis spreads in Delta – Twentythree cases of Hepatitis A have been
reported in Hooper Bay since June of this
year, according to the state Public Health
Nurse’s office in Bethel. Hooper Bay is
located northeast of Bethel on the YukonKuskokwim Delta coast. Several other
villages in the Delta have reported between
two and seven cases this summer, said Sue
Martin, regional nurse manager for the
state itinerant nursing program. Other villages which have reported cases in the past
several weeks are: Atmautluak, Kasigluk,
Marshall, Upper Kalskag, Bethel, Alakanuk,
Nightmute, Napakiak, Toksook Bay and St.
Mary’s. Hepatitis A commonly lasts for one
to two weeks. Its typical symptoms include
an upset stomach, appetite loss, and possibly vomiting. The caseload “could peter
out or mushroom with the holidays,” noted
Martin. Treatment for the illness is simply
and usually rest, intake of fluids, and a diet
of foods easy to digest. Immunizations,
which are effective for a three-month term,
are available. The disease is transferred by
failure of individuals to wash after having
gone to the bathroom.
Bethel audiences given royal treatment
during five performances of “King and
I” – Rogers and Hammerstein would have
been pleased at the first venture of Bethel
community theatre last weekend, when the
Bethel Council on the Arts and the Bethel
High School’s cooperative production of
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The Tundra Drums • December 26, 2011 • Page 5
Calista shareholders benefit in 2011
Calista Corporation
This year, Calista Corporation shareholder and descendants benefits total more
than $5.6 million. The three main forms of
benefits are dividends, educational support
and cultural preservation. These financial
totals do not include payroll to Shareholders and Alaska Native employees.
The first and largest portion of Calista
shareholder benefits is dividends, of
which $4.15 million was paid in 2011. This
includes $500,000 to eligible Calista Shareholder Elders – those 65 years of age or
older. Voted and approved by shareholders
during the 2007 annual meeting, this distribution is designed to provide assistance
to Elders during the winter months (when
the high cost of heating fuel is in some
places more than $7 per gallon). The $300
per eligible Elder provides much needed
assistance.
The second largest form of benefits is
through education-related support. More
than $750,000 has been provided in the
form of scholarships, internships and donations to the scholarship program this year.
The third largest benefit in terms of
financial contribution is support for the
Calista Elders Council. Although Yup’ik is
the second most commonly spoken indig-
Yulista Aviation, Inc.
Calista Corporation intern Christian Osentoski flies Yulista Aviation, Inc.’s new CH-47F Transportable Flight Proficiency Simulator. YAI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Calista Corporation.
Built for the Army under a contract awarded in 2010, the first of five simulators rolled out in
October 2011. Ostentoski is the son of Calista Shareholders and is currently a junior at University of Alaska Anchorage majoring in mechanical engineering.
enous language in North America, the loss
of the Yup’ik language still remains a threat.
CEC works to secure the Yup’ik, Cup’ik
and Athabascan cultures through language
documentation and preservation, youth
education camps, mentoring programs and
more.
“The 40th anniversary of ANCSA is a perfect reminder that the regional Native corporations were formed to help improve the
socio-economic conditions of our respective
areas,” said Calista Corporation President
Andrew Guy. “This is a very complex duty,
to operate as a for-profit corporate business
while also supporting our remote communities and traditional culture. It is a very
unique and serious responsibility that is put
on very few corporations in this country.”
Guy continued, “The Small Business
Administration’s 8(a) program allows and
enables Calista to provide much needed
key and notable benefits to our shareholders. We are thankful to congressional
leaders for supporting us in continuing to
provide a hand up to our Native peoples,
while also providing service to our country
through federal contracts like the design
and manufacturing of the Army’s Transportable Flight Proficiency Simulators for
the Chinook CH-47F helicopter.”
CO2 levels wrecks havoc for shellfish growers
West Coast shellfish growers have learned
to work around upwellings of corrosive waters and save the lives of their bivalve stocks.
Increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in
the atmosphere are changing the chemistry
of the oceans, making it more acid. The CO2
surge stems mostly from coal-, and to a lesser
degree, oil-fired power plants. The resulting off kilter acidity reduces carbonate, the
mineral building block of shells, skeletons
and corals.
In 2005 oystermen first noticed failures in
natural sets in Willipa Bay in southern Puget
Sound, followed by failures at two of four of
the region’s major shellfish hatcheries.
“In 2008 our oyster larvae production
was off 60 percent and 80 percent in 2009,”
said Bill Dewey, director of Public Policy
and Communications for Taylor Shellfish
Farms in Shelton, Wash., the nation’s largest
producer of farmed oysters, clams, mussels
and geoducks.
At first, the growers believed the killer
was a lethal, naturally occurring bacterium,
but expensive filtration did nothing to stop
the larval die offs. Then ocean acidification
blipped onto the radar screen, Dewey said,
and new testing equipment proved that was
the culprit.
“It became very telling very quickly that
when the oyster larvae were dying enmasse,
it was because we were bringing in very
corrosive water. The oyster is still growing
a shell; it’s just that it is dissolving from
the outside faster than they can grow it. So
eventually they lose that race and they die,”
he explained.
Growers credit Washington Senator Maria
Cantwell for acting fast to get funding for
monitoring equipment last year to help the
$110 million industry adapt to the corrosive
sea water.
“Now we can see what’s going on with the
sea water chemistry and deal with it in real
time,” Dewey said. “We have learned how to
essentially dodge it and produce our larvae
around those corrosive events.”
Wind direction provides the biggest warning when to plug intake pipes to the shellfish
holding tanks. At the Whiskey Creek Hatchery, for example, growers have learned when
the wind shifts from the south to the north,
they have a 24-hour window before corrosive
water shows up at their intake pipe. Other
growers also have learned to fill shellfish
tanks late in the day instead of mornings,
and to use water intakes at different depths.
Research has also shown that bivalves use
more than just an opportunity to travel
catches next year were bumped
three different types of calcium
rivers — it has enabled hands-on welding,
up 21 percent to 116,444 tons (256
carbonate to build their shells
construction, engineering and other skills to
million pounds).
in stages, and not all shellfish
prepare for workforce entry into fisheriesThe fish story isn’t quite so rosy
are equally prone to corrosion.
related careers, said NACTEC director Doug
for the Bering Sea, where some
Unfortunately, Pacific oysters
Walrath.
stocks are cycling downwards.
turn out to be one of the most
The vocational training center serves
For sablefish, the 2012 catch was
vulnerable, Dewey said.
trimmed nearly 10 percent to 4,280 students and adults in 16 communities in the
Meanwhile, early detecNorton Sound and Bering Strait regions. The
tons (9.5 million pounds). The
tion and gentle south winds
seafood industry presents a wealth of opBering
Sea
pollock
harvest
was
have allowed Taylor Shellfish
Fish
portunity for jobs at all levels, said Stephanie
decreased by 4.2 percent to 1.2
to rebound to record producFactor million tons (2.6 billion pounds).
Madsen, Executive Director of the PCC and
tion for oyster larvae this year.
At-sea Processors Association (APA), when
Better
news
for
P-cod
–
Bering
Dewey said he is confident that
Laine Welch
she presented the $100,000 check to the
Sea
fishermen
got
a
14.5
percent
the farmed shellfish industry, at
For
NACTEC board last week.
increase
to
more
than
500
million
least, will be able to thrive.
The Tundra Drums
“Whether it be for entry-level processors
pounds.
“I think we will survive and
and support staff like cooks and cleaners, or
Back in state waters — State
figure out a way through this,”
more career-type jobs like engineers, chefs,
managers have announced a preDewey said. “But I don’t think it
mechanics, marketing or human resource
liminary harvest of 29,008 short tons for the
bodes well for other species in the ocean and
specialists,” Madsen said, “we have a goal to
2012 Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery, an
fishing interests that rely totally on natural
hire every eligible Alaskan.”
increase of nearly 10,000 tons. Final decision
production.”
For nearly a dozen years the PCC has dowill be made in February.
Understanding the impacts of ocean acidinated nearly $10 million to Alaska universiPollock pay back — Students at the
fication on food webs and ecosystems is a foties to support research and marine science
Northwestern Alaska Career and Technical
cus of Dr. Robert Foy, director of the NOAA
students. Madsen said the group was “very
Fisheries Science Center at Kodiak. He points Center (NACTEC) in Nome are putting the
excited” that changes in the law allow for the
finishing touches on a shiny 16-foot alumito tiny snail-like pteropods, which comprise
tax credit to be expanded to vocational edunum boat they’ve built, made possible by a
nearly half of the diet for pink salmon.
cation programs at the high school level.
$100,000 donation by the Pollock Conserva“Their physiology will be affected, they’re
The Alaska pollock fishery is the nation’s
tion Cooperative (PCC), an industry trade
not going to be able to grow,” Foy repeats
largest fishery and accounts for 30 percent of
group made up of companies that harvest
in his OA awareness outreach efforts. “A 10
all seafood landed annually in the U.S. For
pollock in the Bering Sea.
percent drop in pteropod production would
information see www.atsea.org.
The boat and fabricated trailer provide
lead to about a 20 percent drop in pink
salmon body weight. The loss of that diet
source would be extremely detrimental to
pink salmon populations.”
A new article in the journal “Nature
Climate Change” says-the-fish-are-OK belief
ignores an important knowledge gap — the
possible effects of CO2 during the early
development of fish eggs and larvae.
Catch stats shuffle — Alaska’s 2012
groundfish quotas show some unexpected
increases. The quotas were decided last week
by the North Pacific Fishery Management
Council, which oversees fishing in federal
waters, meaning three to 200 miles offshore.
Groundfish catches make up more than 80
How will Donlin Gold power the mine?
percent of Alaska’s total fish landings each
year.
Notably, Gulf of Alaska fishermen were
bracing for a decrease in sablefish (black
cod), but instead got a nearly 15 percent
Donlin Gold is looking into the feasibility of building a buried
increase to 13,000 tons (28.5 million pounds).
natural gas pipeline from Cook Inlet to reduce the amount of
Likewise, for Gulf P-cod (Pacific cod, also
barged fuel which is better for the enviroment and our waterways.
called grey cod or true cod) the catch was
expected to tumble a bit, but instead was
For more information please visit www.DonlinGold.com/our-plan
increased by one percent to 65,700 tons (145
million pounds). Also in the Gulf pollock
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The following individuals hold limited entry permits for commercial fishing which are subject to permanent forfeiture of failure to renew for the years 2010 and 2011 as provided in AS 16.43.150(d). The Entry Commission must
receive the renewal fee necessary to prevent forfeiture no later than January 31, 2011, or contact Melehoko Maake at 907-790-6934 to make other arrangements. Those individuals, or anyone with information concerning their
whereabouts, should contact Melehoko Maake by telephone or by writing: COMMERCIAL FISHERIES ENTRY COMMISSION, P.O. Box 110302 Juneau, AK 99811-0302.
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Jeb E. Morrow
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Kim Wohlhueter
Marki Lockhart
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Mark Wettengel
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David Rau
John F. Schade
Len Raschke
James L. Hubbard
D L. Cornelius
Noah C. Nose
Felix Matchian
Leemon P. Seton
George E. Nanuk
Benjamin Uttereyuk
Calvin Joe
John F. Pingayak
Clifford A. Kaganak, Jr.
Eugene C. Ayuluk
Ronald J. Seton
Norman Pingayak
Ethan O. Aloralrea
David A. Bunyan
Teddy J. Smith
Steven W. Stone
Vincent Matchian
Naaman Tomaganuk
Norman L. Seton
Felix J. Walker, Sr.
Van M. Schmittou
Gavin J. Mccollom
JanusZ Kunat
Curtis D. Thomas
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Alexei Gamble
Clarence M. Jackson, Sr.
Donald P. Wang
Arnold J. Natkong
Robert C. Trotter
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Brian H. Schold
Patrick Clifton
Terry L. Simpson, Sr.
Alan W. BenitZ
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2011 In Review
Shakespeare’s birthplace
37. “The Man Who ____ Too
Much”
39. Become established
40. Holy Father
41. It cuts edge of yard
43. ____ Verde National Park
44. A rooster to farmers?
46. Ready and eager
47. Eurasian duck
48. Scandinavian, e.g.
50. It can be wringed?
52. Greed or sloth, e.g.
53. Diamonds or hearts, e.g.
55. Nervous twitching
57. *They were super
61. *Royal beau
65. Autumn color
66. Witness
68. Polynesian kingdom
69. Like a new car
70. Employ
71. Homework assignment
72. *Pitched at Occupy Wall
Street
73. 6th sense?
74. Reminiscent of the past
ACROSS
1. Presumptuously daring
6. He has final say at the plate
9. Where to get pampered, pl.
13. Scoundrel
14. Needlefish
15. Diver’s lung
16. Independent African ruler
17. Big Island necklace
18. Type of paint
19.
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24.
25.
28.
30.
35.
*Deposed despot
*Atlantis was the last one
Right-angle building extension
Another spelling for #16
Across
___ Bon Jovi
Like Jekyll and Hyde’s
personality
*Arab ______
Stratfor-upon-____,
32. Particulars
33. One born to Japanese immigrants
34. Chewed on
36. Smart but awkward
38. “The Way We ____”
42. Straight muscles
45. It loves company
49. Mixed breed puppy
51. Out of ______
54. October’s “Time,” e.g.
56. Bring to an end
57. Well-mannered Emily
58. Heart feeling
59. Body part that can double
60. Superman’s last name
61. “Read’em and ____”
62. In or of the present month
63. Petri dish gel
64. ____ Clinic
67. Female suffix
DOWN
1. Big talk
2. “Rome” in Italy
3. Matured, as in wine
4. Like Elvis’s famous shoes
5. Official messenger of news
6. Tangerine/grapefruit hybrid
7. Legendary West
8. Rainbow-producing device
9. Jazz singing
10. Stroke on a green
11. Cain’s unfortunate brother
12. Original home of the Saxons
15. Eats noisily
20. Stroke of luck
22. Her counterpart
24. Graceful or refined
25. *Site of nuclear disaster
26. Convex molding
27. With no face value
29. *Retired from “60 Minutes”
31. Roentgen Equivalent Man, pl.
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Aniak and Unalakeet faced off in
the Class 1A-2A State Volleyball Mixed
Tournament Dec. 9 and 10 in Anchorage.
Unalakleet took home third place in a
sweep of: 25-17, 25-13, 25-15 over Aniak.
Tournament awards:
Best defensive player: Jennie Katchatag, Unalakleet.
Academic award: Unalakleet (3.35
team GPA)
Final All Tournament Team for
Mixed 6 state volleyball: Harry Morgan
of Aniak, Stuart Towarak of Unalakleet
and Donald Erickson of Unalakleet
Aniak Halfbreeds
Season Standing: 9-2
(Team wears both black and white
jerseys)
10 - Chelsea Mckindy, Setter, Senior, 5’6
11 - Trisha Morgan, Outside Hitter,
Junior, 5’9
13 - Juliana Peterson, Setter, Sophomore, 4’11
15 - Blandi Smith, Setter, Freshman, 5’5
16 - Veronica Kameroff, Outside Hitter,
Sophomore, 5’7
18 - Elisabeth Wilson, Hitter, Sophomore, 5’9
19 - Alicyn Lee, Defensive Specialist,
Freshman, 5’5
20 - Riley Morgan, Hitter, Junior, 5’10
22 - Charlene Wolf, Defensive Specialist, Senior, 5’2
25 - Tiffany Hunter, Outside Hitter,
Senior, 5’6
32 - Kaitlin Morrow, Defensive Specialist, Freshman, 5’5
34 - Harry Morgan, Hitter, Senior, 6’2
Aniak and Unalakleet vie
Unalakleet Wolfpack
Season Standing: 13-0
(All team members wear black)
1 - Jonisha Wilson, Setter, Sophmore,
5’4”
3 - Colin Corsetti, Hitter, Junior, 6’1”
7 - Jennie Katchatage, Setter, Junior, 5’6”
12 - Chasity Adams, Defensive, Senior,
5’3”
13 - Gage Ivanoff, Hitter, Freshman,
5’7”
14 - James Mixsooke, Defensive, Junior,
5’6”
15 - Stuart Towarak, Hitter, Junior, 6’2”
19 - Catherine Ivanoff, Defensive,
Junior, 5’7”
25 - Donald Erickson, Hitter, Senior,
6’2”
31 - Deion Foote, Defensive, Senior, 5’8”
32 - Roberta Walker, Defensive, Sophmore, 5’7”
41 - Linda Cooper, Defensive, Junior,
5’3”
Foundation opens to more communities
Alaska Community Foundation
The Alaska Community Foundation and
the Rasmuson Foundation recently announced the extension of a collaborative
initiative designed to grow philanthropy in
communities across Alaska.
The Community Asset Building Initiative
was launched by both ACF and Rasmuson
Foundation in 2007 and led to the establishment of five funds serving the Chilkat Valley, Talkeetna, Petersburg, Seward and the
Kenai Peninsula. With the recent announcement, ACF officially began its process to
identify three to four more Alaska communities interested in this approach to local
philanthropy.
These community funds are officially
referred to as “affiliates” of ACF. Affiliate communities benefit from The Alaska
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From Page 4
“The King and I” was performed by a local
cast of 80. Putting on (or pulling-off, some
would say) a full musical production, complete with ballet, is ordinarily no small task,
but doing it in five short weeks is nothing
short of amazing. Selecting a cast of 80 from
a population of around 4,000 for this musi-
Community Foundation’s oversight of fund
investments and expertise in communitybased philanthropy while retaining local
control of fundraising, goal setting and
grant recommendations.
Overseen by local advisory committees,
the existing five affiliates have grown from
inception to permanently endowed funds
with more than $3.7 million in assets as of
September 2011. ACF affiliates use their
grant making capacity to fund projects important to the community. In Talkeetna, for
example, the Jessica Stevens Community
Foundation Fund awards grants to local
projects like Talkeetna Build A Plane, which
purchases inoperable small aircraft for local
high school students to rebuild. The project
helps students gain useful mechanical skills
while connecting them to the culture of
their aviation-centric town.
“We are very excited to be taking the next
step with this initiative and to have the
opportunity to see it work for more Alaska
communities,” said Candace Winkler, president and CEO of The Alaska Community
Foundation.
Community funds also provide a vehicle
for residents to support the growth and
development of their communities through
bequests and other giving. In Seward, for
example, a local man named Tony Rollo left
$2 million to the Seward Community Foundation Fund in his will when he passed
away in late 2010. “Without the presence
of the Seward affiliate, that gift probably
wouldn’t have happened,” Winkler said.
Rasmuson Foundation is contributing $2
million in support of the expansion over
the next three years. “Community philanthropy is about building financial assets
and more,” said Diane Kaplan, president of
Rasmuson Foundation. “Developing and
managing a community fund builds community leadership and connects neighbors
as they identify local priorities and solutions. Our partnership with ACF is an effective, cost-efficient model for meaningful
community-based philanthropy.”
ACF and Rasmuson Foundation are
beginning the work of reaching out to local
leaders across Alaska to identify communities interested in establishing an affiliate
fund. Visits to candidate communities will
take place early in 2012, with the formal
application process following later in the
spring.
For information on the Community Asset
Building Initiative and to explore establishing an affiliate contact The Alaska Community Foundation at 334-6700.
cal production was accomplished in just
three auditions. Corina LePore easily won
the audience over as Anna Leonowens, the
English school teacher who is hired by the
King of Siam to teach his 70-plus children.
A very proper and lovely Anna, Ms. LePore,
moved gracefully and convincingly through
the entire play.
Nunapitchuk graduate appointed – Mollyanne Coolidge, a sophomore at Sheldon
Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska, has been
appointed to the position of Resident Assistant at North Pacific Hall, a women’s
residence hall at the century-old institution.
A graduate of Anna Tobeluk Memorial
High School in Nunapitchuk, she is also on
the college varsity basketball team.
Boys home hires new director – A
33-year-old Fairbanks man is scheduled to
begin work next week at the Bethel Group
Home as treatment director. Howard
Swartz, who holds a master’s degree in
child counseling and psychology, will work
at the boys’ home here beginning Monday,
Dec. 21. He replaces Ric Iannolino, who left
the boys home’s employ last month to work
at the Bethel-based Yukon-Kuskokwim
Health Corporation. Iannolino is employed
by YKHC as a regional trainer in the
agency’s alcohol program.
Quinhagak Youth Singspiration set for April
The eighth annual non-demoninational Quinhagak Youth Singspiration is planned for
April 26-29. Each year youth from around the state visit Quinhagak for the event. For information contact Mary Hill, 556-2115, or Bob and Emma Cleveland, 556-2118. Contact Darren
Cleveland, 556-2118, about registration and travel.
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