Cub Scouts’ food donation teaches generosity
By Naomi Klouda Homer Tribune Pack 555 of the Cub Scouts brought in nearly 500 items for the local food bank at their 12th-annual Carnival Food Drive Nov. 20 at Paul Banks Elementary. The tradition takes the fun of carnival games and prizes, mixes in a ticket price of one can per game and helps [...]
Nutcracker Faire marks vendors’ season highlight
Staff report Homer Tribune In anticipation of holiday shopping around town, the Homer Council on the Arts has sold out its 93 vending slots at the Nutcracker Faire. In fact, there’s even a waitlist of about five artists hoping to squeeze in if someone cancels out.The Faire features handcrafted wares from pottery to wearable art [...]
Alutiiq artist fires culturally significant masks
• Lohse breaks mold with petroglyphs, masks; looks to keep Alutiiq culture aliveby Allison Teague Homer Tribune Port Lyons native Lydia Lohse was taking classes toward a degree in business when her life took an unexpected turn some five years ago. An elective class working with and pit firing clay in Southeast Alaska created [...]
The Yellow Cabin experiment can’t be contained
• Band without walls cites the need to experiment By Layton Ehmke Homer Tribune It’s easy to say that no other band is doing what Yellow Cabin is doing, and doing it as democratically as they’re doing it. At times, their music is like a sci-fi cinema ballad. Other times, it’s epic pop. And when [...]
NUTCRACKER’S 19TH
• Nutcracker production takes whole community of effortBy Naomi Klouda Homer Tribune “Our Nutcracker story is about young Clara’s remembrances of a special Christmas Eve. The flurry of activities at the party foreshadows the events of a dream. In the dream, Clara is swept away to a beautiful place to dance and be entertained. Somehow [...]
Calendar
Sports Calendar WednesdayHomer JV Wrestling vs. Voznesenka at McNeil Canyon, 6 p.m. ThursdayVolleyball Banquet in Commons, 6:30 p.m. FridaySoftball Meeting in Room A-104, HHS, 11:30 a.m. Wrestling vs. Kenai at Kenai Duals, 6 p.m. SaturdayWrestling vs. Nikiski at Kenai Duals, 9 a.m. Wrestling vs. Seward at Kenai Duals, 11 a.m. Homer Invitational Nordic Skiing at [...]
Sports Briefs
SoHi hockey turns up the heatFollowing a stellar performance at their End of the Road Tournament last weekend, the Homer Mariner hockey team found itself facing a little stiffer competition from rival SoHi last Tuesday at the Homer Ice Rink. Despite goals from forwards Aaron Lewis and Tracy Quance, the M’s dropped the home game, [...]
Mariner wrestlers relatively ready to rumble
• Team picks up second-place nod at Round Robin RumbleBy Sean Pearson Homer Tribune Ben Daigle again found his way to the top spot in his weight class at Homer’s Round Robin Rumble on Saturday. The 130-pound junior continued his climb to the top spot in the state, ousting Colony’s Sam Loggins 6-3 in the [...]
City council amends telephonic
By Layton Ehmke Homer Tribune Homer City council adopted an ordinance tightening the rules on participation by city council members telephonically. Fundamentally, the ordinance proposed by Councilman Dennis Novak states that council members are to notify council three days in advance of physically missing a meeting. Then, at the meeting, if the respective representative is [...]
Thanksgiving: unplugged
Sean Pearson • A thesis refuting clinical studies denouncing the debilitating effects of L-Tryptophan It wasn’t enough that we forgot to take the turkey out of the freezer this year and wound up improvising with barbecued moose sandwiches and ramen noodles for Thanksgiving.Or that the wild wind and rain wiped out our Internet connection.Or even [...]
