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Wrangell Medical Center’s finances seem to be in a tight spot, its board of trustees learned at a Dec. 17 meeting. In an independent audit conducted by BDO USA in Anchorage, the hospital’s assets were totaled at $6.1 million, down from $10.4 million the previous year. The biggest loss was from $3.5 million in written-off costs relating to a previous effort to build a new hospital, in addition to those related to depreciation of property and equipment value. The hospital’s expenses are up as well, rising from $8.7 million to $10.4 milli...
"When everything gets worn out, I'm quitting," Clara Haley once promised herself. On her second comb now after more than four decades of cutting hair, she has finally decided to close up her Front Street store, Grandma's Barber Shop. "It's been a great shop," she said. Patrons are sure to remember it, with its shelves and walls filled with antiques, knick-knacks and curiosities she's collected over the years. "I have stuff in here that the museum doesn't have," said Haley. There's little room fo...
For those hoping to start off the new year with a joltingly crisp dip, Wrangell’s annual Polar Bear Plunge will be held in Shoemaker Bay on New Year’s Day at 1 p.m. Clay Hammer first took the plunge in 2000, organizing the event each year since. But this year will be a bit different, as he heads for warmer waters. “He will be on the lovely beaches of Maui this year,” said Shawna Buness, coach of the Garnet Grit Betties. Wrangell’s roller derby team will instead take on the responsibility for organizing the plunge. “We were honored to take it on...
BLACKOUTS, COLD, TOYS FOR ALL Reprinted from the Dec. 24, 1970, Wrangell Sentinel In 1898 a Christmas gift was promised to every child in Wrangell. Four years later, in 1902, Wrangell shivered in 5-degree weather. Thirty-nine years later in 1941 it was blackouts and war, but Christmas still came. These excerpts from accounts of Christmases past are taken from issues of the Wrangell Sentinel. Some of the stories, reprinted here as historic notes on holiday seasons gone by, follow: Dec. 24, 1898: The St. Michael's Trading Co. carried a half page...
The Federal Subsistence Management Program is again holding its annual art contest, open to all Alaska students grades K-12. Deadline for submission is February 2, 2015. This year’s theme for the contest will be fish and shellfish. The winner’s artwork will be featured on the cover of the regulations book for the Harvest of Fish and Shellfish on Federal Public Lands and Waters in Alaska, which will be distributed statewide. The art contest offers an exciting opportunity for young individuals to express their talent and creativity while sup...
Monday, December 15 Citizen Assist: Need vehicle moved. Agency Assist/Suspicious Circumstance. Suspicious Circumstance. Tuesday, December 16 Civil Issue. Traffic stop verbal warning for driving habits. Wednesday, December 17 Suspicious Circumstance. Random Breath Test Given. Ex Parte Paper Served. Driving with Revoked License. Agency Assist. Thursday, December 18 MVA: Damages under $2000. Friday, December 19 Welfare check requested. Report of Theft. Saturday, December 20 Report of stolen vehicle: Vehicle found. Suspicious behavior. MVA/Agency...
Joseph W. Kuntz "Joe", "Joe Cool," passed away November 25, 2014 in Wrangell, where he lived for 70 years. He was born to Joe and Sarah Kuntz in Fromberg, Mont. on November 18, 1941. He attended school here, and a couple years "down south" as he used to say. With the sea always calling his name and hunting always his game, it wasn't until 1969 that he bought his first commercial boat, a 28 footer named "Cari K" after his daughter. Prior to that he worked as an offbearer at the 6 mile mill...
Screenwriting student Haley Reed will be premiering her first film, “Vigil,” Saturday evening at the Nolan Center. Filming for the project took place in Wrangell during the summer, using a local cast and crew. Production was kept to a small budget, with between three and twelve people working on it at any one time, using personal equipment. “Overall, I think scheduling worked out pretty well,” Reed said. After filming ended she took the film back to the University of Loyola-Marymount in Los Angeles for editing help. Though she was unsure...
Alaska seafood innovators are getting serious about ‘head to tail/inside and out’ usages of fish parts, and they see gold in all that gurry that ends up on cutting line floors. Fish oils, pet treats, animal feeds, gelatins, fish scales that put the shimmer in nail polish – “almost anything that can be made out of seafood byproducts has increased in value tremendously in the last few years,” said Peter Bechtel, a US Dept. of Agriculture researcher formerly at the University of Alaska. In today’s climate of planet consciousness “co-product...
During this Christmas season it is an essential spiritual practice to nurture Joy. Paul has told us that joy is connected with love (cf. Gal 5:22). Therefore, it cannot be a self-centered experience, the result of a disordered love. True joy participates in the kingdom of God, which St. Paul says “is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Rom 14:17). Joy is a matter of justice, which consists in conformity to the will of God, obedience to his laws and personal friendship with Him. Apart from friendship with God there is no true joy...
On Dec. 18 Wrangell’s advisory committee to Alaska Department of Fish and Game held the last and lengthiest of its public meetings to discuss Board of Fisheries proposals for the 2014-15 meeting cycle. This 12-person committee let the public review and discuss new finfish management proposals, providing their recommendations to the state board of Fisheries. Consulting them on management policies were Troy Thynes and Patrick Fowler from Petersburg’s ADFG office. Among the policies the committee supported, it voted ten to two in favor of cre...
