June 13, 1918
A meeting of the local War Savings Stamps Committee will be held at the Town hall June 17, at 8 p.m. for the purpose of making arrangements and appointing sub committees to handle the War Savings Stamp drive of the 28th inst., regarding which a proclamation is published elsewhere in this paper. Everyone who wishes to take part in this, either as solicitors, contributors or otherwise, are invited to attend. We must keep the good work going.
June 11, 1943
Frank Dufresne, Executive officer of the Alaska Game Commission, spent a day in Wrangell this week while on a field trip through the Southeast area. Always justly proud of his crack Alaska organization, World War I veteran Dufresne is glowing these days with pride in his former boys who went to join the armed forces. Ex-Wildlife Agent Jack Benson, now a lieutenant in the Navy, was with the first contingent to land on Attu. Ex-Wildlife Agents Dan Holland, Doug Swanson, Doug Gray and half a dozen others are in the thick of it and giving a fine account of themselves. Some of the boys, with expert knowledge of the Aleutian Islands, were able to give great assistance to the armed forces in their tasks in the westward. Doug Gray, Annapolis graduate and former teacher in Wrangell, is back in the Navy in charge of a corvette unit in the south Atlantic.
June 13, 1969
The Chamber of Commerce Fourth of July queen contest neared its half-way point this week.
Five contestants were selling tickets in the competition. The winner will reign over the community’s Fourth of July celebration, which begins with a coronation ball on July 3. Contestants and their sponsors are Gina Krepps, International Longshoremen and Warehousemen Union; Sharon Silvester, Green Construction Co .; Carol Dailey, Alaska Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood; Cindy Privett, Elks and Emblem Club, and Bobbi Ann Lewis, American Legion Auxiliary. The queen is selected on the basis of the number of tickets she sells.
June 14, 1993
The Department of Environmental Conservation will team up with the Southeast Conference to bring a special program to nine Southeast communities to help rid those communities of household hazardous wastes. The program will be in Wrangell June 19 and 20.
“The program is a giant step forward for the region’s health and environment,” said Jim Kohler, executive director of the Southeast Conference, a non-profit organization that represents the interests of SE communities. “We will be keeping thousands of gallons of toxic wastes generated each year from contaminating our drinking water, our fishing waters and our land.”
The program is the first of its kind in the nation. Household-generated hazardous wastes that can pollute the water and land if disposed of in the trash or poured down the sink will be collected from Skagway, Haines, Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, Craig, Klawock, Thorne Bay and Ketchikan. The program has been planned over the past two years in order to solve this top-priority waste problem.
A Household Hazardous Wastemobile, a specially designed trailer outfitted with waste processing equipment, will visit each community for a weekend. The Alaska Marine Highway System is providing transportation to the communities.
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