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New Year’s Eve is one of the most festive nights of the year, when friends and families gather to count down the waning moments of the year as they anticipate the fun times ahead in the year to come. While adults tend to look forward to New Year’s Eve festivities more than children, there are ways parents can ring in the New Year with their kids. Invite kids into the kitchen. New Year’s Eve festivities often include food, so why not invite youngsters into the kitchen to cook alongside you? Kids may not be interested in preparing the main cours...
The first Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center was erected in 1931, two years before the opening of Rockefeller Plaza, where the tree now draws thousands of tourists each year. The tradition began when construction workers hard at work on building Rockefeller Center decorated a roughly 20-foot tall balsam fir tree on Christmas Eve in 1931. Strings of cranberries and tin cans were among the items used to decorate the tree. While there was no tree in 1932, the first official tree was unveiled in 1...
When you think about Christmas, you assume snow and cold, but not in Mexico. When it comes to Christmas down south the weather is warm and mild during the holiday season. Families decorate their homes with colorful flowers, moss, lanterns and evergreens. From December 16 until Christmas Eve families participate in “Las Pasadas” for nine nights. The children are given candles and figures of Mary and Joseph. Many Mexican children receive gifts from Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. The children sing about Joseph and Mary asking for a room in the hou...
Every year I go to Juneau for Christmas. I put my Christmas tree up. When I’m in Juneau, I open my Christmas stocking and presents on Christmas Day. My mom is going to make hot cocoa that I can drink while I open presents. Every Christmas I love going to Juneau. By Presley Petticrew Things I’m Grateful for at Christmas. I love my friends because they help me a lot. My family do the same as my friends. They help me also. I’m grateful for food and water because it helps us stay alive. For sure God and Jesus are important. If God did not send...
What I am thankful for: Chrysalis Balansaag “the snow, and I am thankful for my warm and toasty house.” Hailey Bartlett “Mom, Da, Bro” Angus Booker “snowflakes, they make me happy!” Brogan Booker “my Mom Dixie, my Dad Chris, my Baby Thoren.” Stella Buness “my Sissy, Mom & Dad, Auntie Loni, Gramma’s and Grampa.” Carter Cummings “I’m four.” Emily Cummings “peanut butter and graham crackers.” Evylin Gadd “clean up time with my Mom.” Jayden Daugherty “my family and my school.” Madison Gillen “my blanket and my cheese.” Derek Heller “John Wayne, and...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. December 9, 1915: Wrangell now has a regularly appointed town marshal, Earl West having been appointed last night and is now on the job. Mr. West was the choice of the majority of the business houses in Wrangell and it is believed that he will make a reliable and trustworthy officer. Mr. S. Zynda, proprietor of the Eagle Brewing Company, of Juneau was in Wrangell for a few days the first of the week, preparatory to placing his beer on the local market. Mr. Zynda states that he will soon have a new...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. December 2, 1915: Commissioner and Mrs. Sowton of the Salvation Army arrived on the Princess last Tuesday morning and since have been holding a Congress here among the workers from the different camps of Southeastern Alaska. About seventy delegates attended. In an interview, Commissioner Sowton states: “My trip to Alaska has been very successful and very pleasant. In my conference of the three days I have held many delightful meetings, and I feel that we have materially strengthened the Army work in...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. November 25, 1915: The first shipment of shrimp to be made from Wrangell was made on the Dolphin last Saturday. The shipment contained about two hundred pounds of fine large shrimp. Wrangellites were given a chance to try them as about a hundred pounds were placed on the market and sold here. The shrimp were caught at the entrance of the Wrangell Narrows by Victor Noberg, Chas. Chase and Arthur Thebo. Mr. R.L. Petty of Ketchikan was a visitor in Wrangell for a few days this past week. In speaking...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. November 18, 1915: As announced last week, the Wrangell Orchestra is forging ahead fast with their plans for that big dance on Thanksgiving. The original plans have been changed somewhat and the dance will be a good old fashioned Hard Time Dance, which is just the right kind for everyone to have a jolly good time. So prepare for the time of your life and get your oldest, raggiest and worst clothes laid out for the occasion. Good music is promised and everyone will have a good time. The admission...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. November 12, 1915: Bert McKay was in from the mine at Groundhog Basin last Tuesday and reports that Manager J.G. Galvin is rushing the work at the mine and that they expect to strike the big ledge within a few days. Three crews are at work at the mine and they have cut through one ledge already which is important enough that it is a mine itself, but the big body of ore is expected to be cut into shortly and then we can look for some big announcements from the men who are backing the proposition....
Principals Honor Roll: Samantha Acuna, Liana Carney, Sophia O’Brien, James Shilts, Jade Balansag, Bruce Smith, Kaylyn Easterly, Laura Helgeson, Tasha Massin, Jing O’Brien Honor Roll: Jimmy Baggen, Jamie, Early, Tyson Messmer, Mercedes Morgan, Madison Blackburn, Karri Buness, John Buness, Trevor Miller, Hunter Wiederspohn, Hank Voltz Honorable Mention: Daniel McIntyre, Elizabeth McIntyre, Ryan Rooney, Rowen Wiederspohn, Kaydin Mill, Jacob Dow, Aaliyah Messmer, Julia Miethe, Logan Ritchie, Alex Rooney, Hannah Brown, Jonah Comstock, Madison Har...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. November 4, 1915: The Wrangell Machine Shop is this week overhauling the engines taken from the river boat Winifred, which was recently purchased by the Stikine Mining Company, and the same will be installed in a new river boat which they will build here this winter. The new boat will probably be of the fifteen ton class. It is the intention of the Stikine Mining Company to put in service one more freighter as well as side wheel passenger boat, and have same ready for operation next season. The...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. October 28, 1915: Work was started this morning on the new tug to be built by the Willson-Sylvester mill company to take place of the Alaska, which was condemned at the recent inspection. The new tug will be 64 feet, 6 inches in length, with a 20 foot beam and will draw 9 feet of water. The plans for the vessel were drawn by Mr. Wm. Reade, who also has charge of building on the boat. The boat will be built on what is known as a skip-jack model, a very popular model on tugs on the Great Lakes, and...
Prenatal and parent support center Hannah’s Place received $5,000 from Wells Fargo & Company, after being approved for a Volunteer Service Award. The bank’s Wrangell branch manager Aleisha Mollen presented the award on Oct. 24, which will help fund needed equipment, such as a new fetal heart monitor. Hannah’s Place is a community resource center that started in 2011. Its mission is to actively inform, network with, and care for young mothers and women in need in the Wrangell area. In addition to classes, Hannah’s Place offers free and confide...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. October 21, 1915: The big cable ship Burnside arrived in port last Saturday night and after spending Saturday in port started work on the broken cable. The break between here and Ketchikan was found only five knots off shore and was repaired. The crew then set to work and removed the approach cable from the place where it originally entered Front Street taking it up across the reserve back of the jail to the cable office. The Burnside left yesterday and took over the cable in other parts. Representa...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. October 14, 1915: The big stern wheeler Tyconda, which made two trips up the Stikine River earlier this year, caught fire and was totally destroyed recently at Anchorage on Cook Inlet. The vessel left here last May after proving unsatisfactory on the river on account of not having sufficient power to forge the rapids on the Stikine. L.C. Berg and Chris Wedo came in town this afternoon from mining property at Aaron’s Creek on the mainland about twenty miles from Wrangell. The work for the season h...
