Taking the ‘hands-on’ approach to help out
Instead of heading for a warm beach or an amusement park this summer, Homer residents Kirsten Swanson and Casey Parrett spent two weeks in July as volunteers on a construction project in the Northern Nicaraguan village of LaRioja.
“It was quite an experience,” Parrett said. “The work was hard, but it was rewarding because we were helping the people here in the area. All the members of the team were great and it felt like family. I loved the kids, and I brought home the happy memories of their laughter and smiles.”
Young actors hone talents at Pier One
Capping three weeks of training with the Youth Theatre Skills Conservatory, nine thespians, ages 10-12, will showcase their talents in three Pier One performances Friday and Saturday.
“This theatre skills camp is a sampler course,” Co-director Clara Noomah said. “Most of the kids have some experience and this gives them a taste of a variety of things.”
Tracking Todd
Todd arrived early this morning in Miami, Florida where it was a steamy 96 degrees. He spent most of the day at Peterson’s Harley Davidson, where, while they were racing to get Todd’s bike together, they also went overboard in outfitting Todd with T-shirts, motorcycle cleaner and other paraphernalia free of charge.
A modern band of gypsies
hey come from a world steeped in tradition and offer an art that is as much a celebration of the past as it is revolutionary. Brothers Olivier and Eric Slabiak, virtuosic violinists, stand at the helm of Les Yeux Noirs, a six-piece explosion of gypsy jazz, klezmer and Yiddish music from Paris. The group performs at the Down East Saloon next weekend, and — aside from profound talent — what stands to make the group so electrifying is their defiance of genre lines and an extraordinary ability to combine traditional sounds with an exploratory rock spirit.
Lady M’ alumna to mix it up at March Madness
Former Mariner basketball standout Lindsay Layland will join her Lady Logger teammates in representing the University of Puget Sound at the NCAA Division III National Tournament this weekend in Newberg, Ore.
Layland starts as a freshman for the 13th-ranked Loggers and Coach Suzy Barcomb, and is averaging seven points and six rebounds per game. She is currently undeclared, but is leaning toward psychology as a major.
Meet-up on the Internet, then take it outside
A new online group started this month seeks to match people of like interests for organized excursions on hiking trails and other outdoor pursuits.
The site, called the “Homer Outdoor Meet-up Group,” was organized by Valerie DeLaune, who said she started it in order to assist people in finding fellow hikers, skiers, kayakers, mountain climbers, or even those who want less arduous walks, to meet up for activities.
‘Preach the gospel at all times – and if necessary use words’
God has a plan for Anna Dickerson.
The 1998 Homer High School graduate and pediatric nurse at the Alaska Native Medical Center has no doubt of this, and continues to strive to fulfill her dreams of combining nursing work with mission work.
Lunar event happens ‘once in a blue moon’
While a blue moon consistently gives poets fodder and feeds the imagination of stargazers, its presence is a scientific marker for a rotating earth that by its own clock, ignores the Julian calendar.
And only once in every 20 years, the blue moon appears on New Year’s Eve, as it will this year.
Clinton brings ‘The Contract’ to Homer audience
A film made in Homer by anyone from the Outside would likely include breath-taking beach scenes, glacier-laden mountains, or the lapping of moody waves on Kachemak Bay shores.
But that isn’t what Clinton Edminster sees.
SVT clinic to receive $2.2 million for improvements
The Seldovia Village Tribe Health Center received an early and fairly unique Christmas present this year. The gift – courtesy of the Obama Administration – included $2.2 million in stimulus funding that SVT plans to use to reconfigure a warehouse alongside the clinic.
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