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To the Editor: The Wrangell Chamber of Commerce’s (WCOC) main mission is to support economic development for our members. The WCOC board of directors fully supports the new Wrangell Medical Center (WMC), but only if it is a stick built project. The benefits to the WCOC members will be substantially more with traditional on site construction, than if the project is built with modular construction. We ask that the City & Borough of Wrangell (CBW) and WMC work to do what is needed to make the project be built on site, not down south and barged t...
Attorneys for Alaska Island Community Services are asking the Borough of Wrangell to look into possible conflict of interest issues and delays in physician privileging by the Wrangell Medical Center board. In a letter to Mayor Jeremy Maxand, dated Sept. 26, Danielle Ryman, an attorney for AICS, alleged that the board could be acting improperly after failing to adhere to their bylaws. The board, according to the letter, is not acting on a request by Dr. Greg Salard for emergency room privileges...
The Borough Assembly met in open session on Tuesday, Oct 25 to hammer out a unified message with the Wrangell Medical Center Board – and to look to the citizens of Wrangell to vote in the Nov. 15 special election. That election will put before the voters a proposed ordinance that would authorize the borough to pledge 29 acres of property at the site of the new hospital. The buildings to be raised there would also be pledged as collateral on a $24.7 million U.S.D.A. loan. The preliminary text o...
By Noel Selle-Rea The Wrangell Medical Center board and staff have chosen an approach of keeping communication between the City and Borough of Wrangell (CBW) and Wrangell Medical Center (WMC) direct and out of the media. After the article in last week’s paper I felt it important that we provide some facts about the project. As many of you know, WMC staff, WMC board and myself have all personally poured our heart and soul into this building project for the past several years. It is my hope and belief that we will get past the politics that a p...
A former Wrangell resident and Tlingit elder received an award last week from Governor Sean Parnell for her work in advocating for Alaska Native women and children. Gov. Parnell awarded the 2011 Shirley Demientieff Award to Ethel Lund at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention in Anchorage on Friday, Oct. 21. The governor of Alaska gives the award each year at AFN. Lund, who grew up in Wrangell, is one of the founders of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium and has served as its...
A strongly worded letter to Wrangell Medical Center CEO Noel Selle-Rea from Borough Manager Tim Rooney could be a sign of things to come between the borough and the beleaguered hospital replacement project. The letter from Rooney’s office, dated Sept. 28, laid the groundwork for an Oct. 4 filing in the First Judicial District court seeking declaratory relief to sever the borough from a contract entered into by Selle-Rea and InnoVative Capital. Innovative, a banking and financial advisory f...
