November 21, 1918
The pool rooms are closed here at present except to customers who make their purchases and leave immediately. The picture show has already been closed for the past two weeks, Manager Cunningham being unable to secure films for Wrangell while the flu ban is on in neighboring towns. Now that Wrangell has a full-grown epidemic of her own, even movie and rummy enthusiasts are glad to remain at home.
November 19, 1943
A letter to The Sentinel from J.W. Mendenhall, Secretary of the U.S. Fisheries Experimental Commission gives valuable information to the fishermen concerning shark fishing. The letter follows: “In this regard
we wish to point out that an appreciable amount of shark has already been produced in certain areas in Alaska and that there is ample opportunity for shark to be produced in your own area. Sufficient shark fillets have been shipped to eastern markets from Alaska that it certainly is not an unfamiliar item there. Appreciable quantities of shark are also produced in Seattle and Florida but the shark produced there is of different species. This species bears the common name of ‘Alaskan Sleeper Shark’. It is our understanding that fishermen want to call this a ‘mud shark’ and we wish to correct this misnomer.”
November 21, 1968
Last Thursday, approximately 350 parents and school patrons visited the elementary and high school buildings. The open house was conducted by the Wrangell Teachers Association in conjunction with National Education Week. Displays in various rooms include science demonstrations, graphic illustrations
of social studies subjects, and art work by the students.
According to many of the visitors, one of the most interesting displays was that of audio-visual equipment in the biology lab. Among the various pieces of equipment shown were a 16 mm movie projector, two 8 mm film loop projectors, a record viewer designed for small group or personal instruction, which automatically changes the film strip to coincide with the phonograph record explaining the subject matter shown. Many of the parents commented as to the versatility of these pieces of equipment and “how much more the children have than when we went to school.”
November 25, 1993
A group of Wrangell High School students got a chance last week to handle the business end of a fire hose, don respirators and other gear, and learn a bit about the life of a firefighter. The students are part of the school’s home economics careers class taught by Therese Pempek. The outing to the Wrangell Fire Department on Nov. 17 gave the group of seniors the opportunity to operate the high pressure hoses used to douse flames and to perform simulated rescues wearing the breathing apparatus used to enter a burning building. The careers class, which Pempek said is in its third year, actually covers a wide selection of possible occupations, and is not limited to what most would consider traditional home economics professions.
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