Young commercial fishermen face hurdles
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Lindsey Bloom is so enthused about her budding career as a commercial fisherman that she’s got the “Made in Alaska” emblem and two leaping sockeye salmon tattooed on the small of her back.Raleigh Eager, who found himself living in a tent on Kodiak Island after a friend back [...]
Ski for women
• Drop the chips and hit the trailsBy Sean Pearson Homer Tribune You’re probably already aware that this Sunday is Superbowl Sunday – the quintessential offering of football fun, food and frivolity. (And inarguably the best place to catch the newest advertising creations Superbowl promoters can dream up.)Still, you may or may not know that [...]
Outstanding Business of the Year past winners
2005 Don Jose’s, Frosty Bear / The Den, Print Works 2004 Tech Connect, Kachemak Gear Shed, Bay Club 2003 Downward Dog Productions, Homer Brewing Company, Homer Theatre 2002 Bay Realty, Fritz Creek General Store, The Fringe, Smoky Bay Natural Foods 2001 Ulmer’s, Coastal Realty, First National Bank Alaska 2000 GCI, Maritime Helicopters, National [...]
Mako’s takes top business honors
By Sean Pearson Homer Tribune It was an inevitable case of Murphy’s Law that the winner of the 2006 Business of the Year Award presented by the Homer Chamber of Commerce was the only person not in attendance at the awards ceremony Friday night. Still, Mako Haggerty certainly had a way of making his presence [...]
• Big Brothers/Big Sisters program offers area youth positive mentoring.
By Sean Pearson Homer Tribune Susan Kirn has brothers and sisters running out her ears. It’s not that the passionate professional hails from a particularly large family. In fact, she isn’t even related to any of the 20-plus siblings she works with. She does, however, think of them as family.“It takes a village, or a [...]
A kiwi, a jar of Nutella and a 22 lb. turkey
Sean Pearson Licensed to SPIEW After a rather enlightening and admonishing conversation with my doctor, we both came to the conclusion that I would begin a more healthy eating and exercise program. I say we, because I feel it’s important for me to take at least some responsibility for improving my health and well-being. After [...]
Authorities report on reports of reports
People complain about the wheels of justice turning slowly, and bureaucracy getting in the way of progress and this week, Homer has had a perfect view of both. As the one-year anniversary of the heartbreaking shooting at the Homer airport approaches, the community was again asked to wait this week as another level of investigation [...]
A true generalist may unlock society’s mysteries
Jessica Schallock “I am a true four-wheel-drive creature that can go anywhere.” Such were the words of biophysicist Luca Turin when describing his varied education in Chandler Burr’s 2002 book “The Emperor of Scent.” Luca Turin has developed a new theory of our sense of smell that hinges on molecular vibration rather than shape. Turin, [...]
Letters to the editor
Wealthy fishermen get the fishThe International Pacific Halibut Commission regulatory proposal of a one-fish bag limit is unfairly discriminatory between financial classes of recreational fishermen holding the same Alaska sport-fishing license. The one-fish bag limit regulation proposal would unjustly apply only to the recreational fishermen of modest financial means, using the public services of a [...]
Ban on aerial wolf hunting to be on ballot
ANCHORAGE, (AP) ANCHORAGE, (AP)— An initiative to ban the aerial shooting of wolves has been approved to appear on the 2008 ballot, Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell’s office announced Friday. Parnell gave notice that Alaskans for Wildlife’s ballot petition banning the same-day airborne shooting of wolves met the required number of signatures to be placed on [...]
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