Avoid These Frightening Investment Moves
Matt North Investment Goblin Master Once again, it’s Halloween. If you’re an adult, you’re probably more amused than frightened by the variety of ghouls, ghosts and goblins you’ll see running around this week. However, although Halloween itself may not be particularly alarming, you can find some things in life that are truly scary – such [...]
Births and Deaths
BirthsKylee Anne Rickard, a baby girl weighing 6 pounds, 11 ounces, was born at 2:25 pm on Oct. 21, 2007 to Jeffrey and Danielle Rickard of Ninilchik. Grandparents are Leroy and Stephanie Rickard of Colville, Washington, Dan and Shelly Self of Ninilchik and Rebekah Tarpley of Upper Lake, Ca. Caden Clark Bice, a baby boy [...]
Living Healthily
Homer Medical Clinic October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In this article, we hope to clarify some of the issues around screening for breast cancer. What does screening mean? Screening is when a test is performed before a person has any signs or symptoms of disease. The goal of screening is to detect problems early [...]
Competition rewards entrepreneurial ideas
By Naomi Klouda Homer Tribune Carolyn Kroll spent the past five years perfecting her blueberry and cranberry patches on a homestead in the shadow of Iliamna with an idea to offer a nutritious juice to the national market.Her presentation at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention Alaska Marketplace competition netted her $1,000 and a position [...]
First Friday fetches fall colors and warmth
• Artists usher in season with quilts, watercolors and pit-fired clay masksBy Sean Pearson Homer Tribune As autumn’s vibrant hues of gold and orange shift into the grays of winter, Homer’s ever creative and always-captivating art world opens the month of November with a wide range of visual offerings from local and visiting artists. From [...]
Puttin’ on ‘Chez Ritz’
•If you’re bleu and you don’t know where to go to …By Sean Pearson Homer Tribune If memories of black-clad “Bond girls” and Gary Thomas waggling a gold-dipped finger in your face at last year’s Ritz Art and Adventure Auction have you a little nervous about just what the folks at the Pratt Museum have [...]
Huun Huur Tu
Group sings the pastoral sonic mimesis of natureBy Layton Ehmke Homer Tribune When hearing throat singing for the first time, it might be useful to remember your ears are fooling you. What you’re hearing is real — though you’d swear the performers are using sonic synthesizers to create their traditional songs. As it’s known in [...]
Sustaining Omega 3
Laine Welch Two terms have become tops in the English vocabulary and both benefit Alaska seafood.The first is “Omega 3 fatty acids,” which is ranked as this year’s most popular food additive and will be found in more items than ever. That’s according to USA Today, one of the nation’s most widely read news sources. [...]
Initiative authors continue to seek signatures statewide
•Native delegation fails to support initiativeBy Layton Ehmke Homer Tribune It’s been one week since the Renewable Resources Coalition got the go ahead from Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell’s office to collect signatures supporting their Clean Water Initiative — what could be Alaska’s first-ever voice on whether a new mine makes the grade. The initiative, aimed [...]
Igniting ‘The Firecracker Boys’
• H-bombs, Inupiat Eskimos and the roots of the environmental movementBy Sean Pearson Homer Tribune In 1958, the father of the H-bomb, Edward Teller and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission unveiled a plan to excavate a colossal instant harbor on the coast of Alaska by detonating six thermonuclear bombs. Instead, they inadvertently launched the environmental [...]
