Mike Lockabey directs people's attention to Saturday night's auction items at the Nolan Center. Raising money for Ducks Unlimited, the annual banquet and auction collected about $20,000 in all. "It was a very good dinner and it was successful," reported Wrangell chapter president Keene Kohrt.
After expenses, he estimated $9,000 would go to the national organization, which works to restore wetlands around the country and advocate for their conservation. Important habitat to ducks, geese and other fowl, wetlands are also important to duck hunters, Kohrt noted. "If we want to have ducks come back to Alaska, we've got to help out," he said.
The event was a community effort, with local banks helping to store pictures and merchants guns. The Stikine Inn staff catered the dinner while the Garnet Grit Betties roller derby team served. "There's great cooperation here," said Kohrt. Though the chapter struggled for a stretch following the mill's closure in 1994, he said it has since bounced back. "Finally we're back in a lot better shape."
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