Community news – Sept. 1
Homer Council on the Arts gets a new look
“We are so excited to have a new look to our building on Pioneer Avenue. The new paint and our new sign scream ART,” said Executive Director Gail Edgerly. “We wouldn’t have been able to fund these upgrades without support from the Rasmuson Foundation, local volunteers and [...]
Homer celebrates hospital improvements
More than 200 people turned out to help celebrate the newly remodeled South Peninsula Hospital Saturday, an event that commemorated $14.7 million in improvements that include the town’s gain of spacious birthing and surgery centers.
Cities share sisterly secrets of success
Eight visitors from Teshio, Japan continue to spend their week meeting Homer residents and taking in the sights in celebration of the 25-year Sister City relationship between Homer and Teshio. And, while exchanging gifts, ideas and stories about their lives, the two very different groups discovered they have a number of things in common. Politics isn’t necessarily one of them.
Community News – Aug. 25
Jasper makes Dean’s List
William Jasper completed his freshman year at Southern Oregon University in Ashland. He was on the Dean’s list all three quarters of this past academic school year.
Iredale wins writing award
Homer High School freshman Taylor Iredale was awarded the Editor’s Choice in the 28th-Annual Creative Writing Contest sponsored by UAA and [...]
Understanding our coastal environment
When Mayor Jim Hornaday came back from a climate change meeting last year, he drafted a letter to the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve.
The land around Kachemak Bay, Hornaday had heard, was rising.
“What does this mean to us?” he asked. “Are we going to wash away or gain more land?”
Police Report – Aug. 25
Homer Volunteer Fire Department responded to 8 EMS calls and 1 Rescue for the week of August 16th through August 22nd, 2010.
8/19
Crews responded via Maritime Helicopters to Grewingk Glacier for aircraft that had made an emergency landing. four patients were transported to SPH for evaluation.
8/18
Caller reports juveniles in front of liquor store. Officer [...]
Community News – Aug. 18
Why are we friends with Teshio?
The concept of sister cities was born in 1956 when President Eisenhower envisioned a way to prevent war. He and 100 prominent Americans created the People-to-People initiative. They believed that if people would cross international borders and befriend people in other countries, we’d understand each other better and this understanding [...]
Running the K-Bay 5K for Leo
Leo is 11 years old and in the fifth grade at Fireweed Academy.
He’s like most any other fifth-grader: Active, creative, eager to learn and always curious.
And he has neurofibromatosis.
“Most people have never even heard of it, but it affects one in every 3,000 births,” said Leo’s mom, Denise Ogle.
According to the Children’s Tumor Foundation, neurofibromatosis is a genetic disorder of the nervous system that can cause tumors to grow on nerves anywhere in the body, including the brain and spinal cord. It can lead to blindness, deafness, chronic pain, disfigurement, learning disabilities, bone defects, cardiovascular problems, cancer and even death.
Community News – Aug. 11
Palin pushes back into spotlight
Homer’s own Kathleen Gustafson continues to garner national attention, thanks to her chance encounter with former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on the Homer Spit on Saturday. Palin, who was in town filming for her upcoming Discovery Channel series, confronted Gustafson while the Homer teacher was hanging a banner that read “worst [...]
Breathing new life into the Nanwalek church
Nanwalek’s old chapel sits on a hill facing a cobalt sea – a place memorializing many baptisms, weddings, funerals and holiday services.
For the past three decades, it sat there used as storage, bearing quiet witness to the ever-changing tides as a new church next door took over.
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