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After being rescheduled earlier in the month because of foul weather, supporters of cancer care were finally able to come together this past weekend to golf, mingle and raise funds for a good cause. Now in its tenth year, the men's and women's Rally For Cancer Care golf tournaments have raised funds for the Wrangell Medical Center (WMC) Foundation's Cancer Care Fund. The fund provides up to $1,000 per year, per applicant to help defray travel and lodging costs for individuals receiving cancer...
It isn't often that the weather gets one over on events in Wrangell, but both the ladies' and men's Rally For Cancer Care golf tournaments this past weekend have had to be rescheduled. The course at Muskeg Meadows was soaked by more than 3 1/2 inches of rain, while gale-force winds on Saturday delayed more than 40 Petersburg participants from making the trip. "This is the first time the weather's been so terrible," said Jane Bliss, director of support services at Wrangell Medical Center. "The...
First Bank's 13th annual Customer Appreciation Golf Tournament was held July 19 and 20 at Muskeg Meadows. More than 40 golfers teed up for the nine-hole course over the weekend. Teammates Eric Kading, Faye Kohrt and Chris Ellis took first place on Saturday with a net score of 17 and a team handicap of 16. Ed Rilatos, Brian Ingraham and Randy Romenensko's team took second place with a net score of 22 and a team handicap of 15. Wayne Harding won the straightest drive contest with a 26.5-inch...
Randy Littleton sends a ball flying down-course in front of some onlookers Friday at Muskeg Meadows. The Nine-Hole Best Shot tournament was sponsored by Fourth of July Queen contestants Robyn Booker and Kira Torvend. The grand prize – two tickets to a Seahawks/Rams football game – went to Mike Ottesen, Jr. A chipping contest held as part of the same tournament, which featured tickets to Virginia Lake courtesy of Sunrise Aviation, went to Aaron Powell....
Golfers braved clouds of rain and mosquitoes to participate in the annual Ottesen's golf tournaments this weekend. In the four-person best shot tournament held Saturday, Brian Smith, Jane Bliss, Tammy Davidson and Vincent Balansag won on an overall score of 21, with a 17-stroke team handicap. A three-person team of George Woodbury, Brett Woodbury and Warren Edgley took second on a team score of 22 with a 12-stroke handicap, followed by Greg Scheff, Bill Messmer and Pete Walden, who also scored 2...
The perennial Brian Gilbert Memorial Golf Tournament and accompanying auction took in $49,000 over the weekend. The tournament and awards banquet held Friday and Saturday, is the Wrangell Medical Center Foundation's largest single annual fundraiser. That amount doesn't include expenses, according to Kris Reed, who tracks the fundraiser's figures. Of money raised, 28 sponsors pledged $25,825, or more than half. While the number of sponsors was the largest number ever, their contributions missed b...
The more visible aspects of the Stikine River Birding festival start this evening, but festival elements had already started Monday. Guest artist Elizabeth Kunibe has been teaching students in Wrangell about art using bird cutouts and paints. Their work goes on display this evening in the Nolan center. Students were given wooden templates mounted on driftwood and received a lesson about color. They then painted their silhouettes and attached eyes, Kunibe said. She was putting the finishing touches on the bird templates last week when interviewe...
To the Editor: Wrangell Lions Club would like to thank the people of Wrangell who continue to recycle their aluminum through the Lions club collection boxes around town. If you have not taken notice of them, you can find collection boxes at Bobs’ IGA, City Market, Wells Fargo, Alaska Marine Highway (ferry terminal), Muskeg Meadows and Alaska State Housing Authority. We appreciate the support of these businesses. If you have larger pieces of aluminum to recycle we are able to make arrangements to take that also. The funds that are collected f...
At the beginning of this year’s Rally for Cancer Care, balloons were released with the names of those fighting cancer or those who have passed on. This year 45 women from Petersburg and two from Ketchikan swelled the total participants to 83 women. Over $6000 was raised to support the WMC Foundation’s Cancer Care program to provide grants to residents of SE Alaska who must travel away from home for cancer treatment....
BEARFEST GOLF TOURNAMENT Saturday, July 27 – 18 Hole Best Ball 1st place – Net score: 33, Handicap: 33 Greg Scheff Ed Rilatos Rafael Nunez Hal Rhodes Sunday, July 28 – 18 Hole Best Ball 1st Place – Net Score: 21, Handicap: 15 Jeff Davidson Ken Davidson Hal Rhodes Randy Littleton BEARFEST MARATHON RESULTS Marathon – Men Brian Asher: 3:21:30 Eric Wartman 3:36:19 Dale McMurren: 3:40:49 Kent Johnson: 3:48:49 George Southgate: 5:42:23 Jim Simpson: 7:34:44 Frank Bartocci: 7:34:44 Laurence Macon: 7:...
By Greg Knight Sentinel writer It was a case of rain and sunshine for the annual Alaska Airlines golf tournament at Muskeg Meadows last weekend – as torrential downpours socked in players on Saturday and gloriously warm and sunny weather was the name of the game on Sunday. The tournament, which is one of Muskeg Meadows’ most popular and well-attended matches has seen immense turnout in recent years, though the 2013 version saw a slight downturn according to course manager Shannon Booker. “Tr...
Lovers of golf in Southeast Alaska came out in a big way as Wrangell’s Fourth of July events kicked off last weekend at Muskeg Meadows Golf Course. A total of 27 golfers took part in the Ottesen’s True Value 4-person “best ball” tournament that began on Saturday – and saw store manager Ernie Christian’s team of himself Faye Kohrt and Eric Kading take the top spot in competition with a net 18 score on a 14-shot handicap. Christian said being able to host the tournament on the opening day of Four...
In 2012, thousands of square feet of the greens at Muskeg Meadows golf course were attacked by hordes of ravens – the ubiquitous local bird seeking food in the fertile soil and rich grasses of the course. At the end of last year the course seemed on the path to correcting the problem, and at the beginning of the 2013 tournament many of the areas affected by the ravens had healed and were sprouting green grass again. And then they returned, looking for grubs in the ground of the course. Last y...
Heavy rains took out the first day of the City Market Golf Tournament last weekend at Muskeg Meadows golf course – though the second day saw a combination of Wrangell and Petersburg players finish at the top of their game. The team of Robbie Robinson, Ray Pederson, Greg Scheff and Eric Kading finished Saturday with a net score of 33, while the straightest drive went to Robbie Robinson at 7-feet. Glacier Larsen took the closest to the pin honors with a distance of 23-feet, 4-inches. Course manager Shannon Booker said the tournament, which was a...
The Wrangell Medical Center Foundation held their 6th Annual Brian Gilbert Memorial Golf Tournament last weekend at Muskeg Meadows – under better weather than previous tournaments – and saw a total of 60 players come out over the two-day event. On Friday afternoon, a round of casual golf was played, with a 9-hole best-ball scramble as the format. First place in the event went to the team of Greg Scheff, Ed Rilatos, Dave Doyon and Matt Jurak with a net score of 18, while Keene and Faye Koh...
The Alaska Energy Authority has approved the top of the clear-cut across from Muskeg Meadows Golf Course as a test site for a meteorological research tower and work will proceed on construction when all necessary permits are in place. The purpose of the tower is to collect wind data for potential power generation. The current plan calls for the Southeast Alaska Power Agency to enable Forest Service permitting issues, with staff from the City and Borough of Wrangell working with the AEA to cover local data collection for another Wrangell Island...
Wrangell held tightly to the 2013 Ryder Cup this past weekend as the Borough’s combined teams defeated Petersburg for victory during the annual tournament held May 18-19 at Muskeg Meadows golf course. The tournament, which followed a series of four different mini-tournaments over the course of the two-day event, featured Wrangell beating their neighbors to the north by 8-2 score on Saturday – and forced a tie-breaker on Sunday which local golfer Eric Kading broke with a shot on No. 1 bet...
A waft of heavy mist and cooler temperatures did nothing to stop Muskeg Meadows Golf Course from opening their 2013 season May 4-5 for the annual Angerman’s kickoff tournament. “We want to thank tournament sponsor, Angerman’s Inc. and Outlet Store, and everyone who joined us at Muskeg Meadows for our season kickoff golf tournament,” said course manager Shannon Booker. “Heavy mist did not deter twenty folks from competing for first place.” The competitors for Saturday’s portion of the event were Greg Scheff, Ed Rilatos, Steve Boehlert, Tymon Com...
After what seems like an eternity of wind, rain, snow and generally horrid weather all winter, the staff at Muskeg Meadows Golf Course has opened for business and is poised for the 2013 season to begin. Course manager Shannon Booker said that while the course is currently open for both rounds on the links and for use of the driving range, the kickoff of the course’s season will begin early next month. “The Angerman’s Tournament will be May 4-5 and we are expecting up to 20 participants for that...
What do you get when a senior level management official at Trident Seafoods and a former Governor of Alaska who lives in Wrangell put their combined skills, efforts and desires together? You get a brand new set of netting for the driving range at Muskeg Meadows Golf Course. The netting, which will be installed in the spring, replaces an aging net that has seen service since the opening day at the course in 2001. According to Joe Plesha, Trident’s chief legal officer in Seattle, former G...
A new mayor, renovations to the Shakes Island Tribal House and Marine Service Center, and the ongoing Wrangell Medical Center debate – all of these stories were newsmakers in 2012. Let’s take a look back at some of the biggest stories in Wrangell over the past year. JANUARY A late night blaze destroyed a trailer and sent a woman to Wrangell Medical Center with severe burns on Dec. 22. The fire, which began at 10:30 p.m. in a small pull-behind trailer near the top of the park, severely inj...
Sometimes Mother Nature cooperates with a business endeavor – and sometimes, she doesn’t at all. Such is the case at Muskeg Meadows Golf Course over the past few weeks, with rainouts and generally bad weather delaying the end of their 2012 season by at least a week. Of the two tournaments that had been planned for last weekend, the “Two clubs and a putter,” tournament was cancelled on Saturday, with the Breakaway Adventures’ end-of-the-season event rounding out the year on Sept. 9. Grover Ma...
The sun was shining just long enough on Sept. 1 for 11 members of the Muskeg Meadows Golf Club to compete individually for the 2012 course championship. Shooting a 92, with handicap of 20, club member Randy Littleton seized the championship for the 3rd annual event. Littleton’s best game shined on Nos. 6, 11 and 18 as he shot for par, and drained a pair of reasonably long putts as well. “Randy’s game improved a lot, as he hadn’t been out to practice much lately,” said course co-manage...
Wrangell Golf Club hosted the Totem Bar’s 18-Hole 4-Person best-ball scramble tournament last weekend, Aug. 4-5 at Muskeg Meadows golf course. The tournament featured 15 participants on Saturday, with 14 golfers taking part in a 9-hole event on Sunday. Saturday’s 1st place team consisted of Totem Bar owner, Aaron Powell, along with Mike and Chuck Hay, and Adam Sprehe with a gross score of 70, using a team handicap of 27 (net score 43.) Second place went to club members Eric Kading, Faye Koh...
