Community News – May 16
Local LARPing Homer High School students, as well as a few younger and older warriors, gathered on Sunday for a little Live Action Role Playing at Karen Hornaday Park. Several participants created names for their clans, donned costumes and wielded foam weapons as they clashed in a make-believe battle. ‘Mariners on the Move’ Homer High [...]
Friends of the feathered flock to 5k fun
A total of 186 runners and walkers — along with a few kids in strollers — completed Sunday’s annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival Migration Run.
Homer High graduate Tux Seims turned in the fastest overall time for the 5-kilometer course, finishing in 17 minutes, 36 seconds. Heather Gaines was the quickest women’s finisher, coming in at 20:33.
Rounding out the top five in the men’s division were: Eric Rozeboom, 17:59; Brad Bentler, 18:05; Jan Spurkland, 18:55 and Jake Worsford, 19:27.
The next four women finishers following Gaines were Katie Moerlin, 21:03; Katie Miller, 21:33; Beck Hauser, 21:38 and Elizabeth Roedl, 22:15.
Dexter Lowe, 11 and Ethan Pitzman, 10, were the fastest youth finishers, coming in at 22:45 and 22:47, respectively. Aziza Pitcher, 13, was the fastest female youth, coming in at 23:57.
Community News – May 9
Cash prizes come in as $Homer Bucks$ A new Homer Chamber of Commerce campaign enters into a new practice of giving $500, or less, cash winners “Homer dollars” to use at local stores. The Homer-grown contest features the town’s own forefather and town namesake, Homer Pennock’s picture. Who needs Ben Franklins? Chamber Executive Director Monte [...]
More than 18,000 pounds kept out of landfills
On Saturday, April 28, dozens of local citizens, businesses, nonprofits and government agencies came together to participate in the Seventh-Annual Electronics Recycling Event, a program of Cook Inletkeeper.
Electronic waste is the fastest growing segment of our nation’s waste stream. Electronics may be safe to use, but when discarded they can leak toxic chemicals like lead, mercury and cadmium into our water and air.
Recycling the precious metals in electronics helps reduce the need to find new sources.
More than 100 households participated this year, on par with turnout over the past several years, but slightly down from last year’s record-breaking 130 households.
Graduation week celebrates more than 30 degrees
The Kachemak Bay Campus of Kenai Peninsula College announced that the 2012 Commencement will be held Wednesday, May 9 at 7 p.m. at Homer High School’s Mariner Theater.
The commencement’s keynote speaker will be Dr. Gretchen Bersch, UAA professor emerita and recent inductee into the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame.
The KBC 2012 Commencement Student Speaker will be Valedictorian Charlene Flyum.
University of Alaska Regent Fuller Cowell and UAA Provost Michael Driscoll will confer degrees.
FYI News briefs & announcements – May 2
Aerial wolf kill postponed Kenai Peninsula wolves will get at least a year’s reprieve from state-sanctioned culling. State game officials say they will study the best way to boost the moose population on the area north of Homer and on state land around Kenai rather than immediately act on a proposal approved by the state [...]
Community News – May 2
Women’s health events planned through May The issue of women’s health is not black and white, and with all the publicity over the past year or two, it is hard to know what is fact and what is fiction. That’s why Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic is participating in National Women’s Health Week from May [...]
Community News – April 25
“Northern Exposure” showing at KBC The Kachemak Bay Campus-KPC is hosting a screening of several award-winning episodes of Northern Exposure, the hit television series that ran on CBS from 1990 through 1995. The comedic, often poetic, portrayal of a fictional Alaska small town and the unique characters who live there won Peabody Awards, Emmys, and [...]
VISTA volunteer helps growers sprout
VISTA volunteer Bronwynn Kelly arrived in Homer in January, with deep snows and long nights being her first look at Alaska.
“There was this crazy amount of snow, and the first thing I did was coordinate a discussion for a High Tunnel (greenhouse) group. A few of them had collapsed because of the snow load,” Kelly recalled.
Nothing like jumping in with both feet, new territory and all. Kelly had graduated from Michigan Technical University with a degree in environmental science in May of 2011. She comes from the upper peninsula in Michigan, where snow runs deep and winter can be long, though not as long as an Alaska winter. Her year-long service projects are with Sustainable Homer’s Kyra Wagner, working on a whole array of People’s Gardens and other projects.
Homer City Council: Time to talk about gasline
Homer City Council discussions will start this spring as local officials learn all the options for how to build-out the natural gasline distribution system.
It was a tough road to gain the $8.1 million in funding on the 2013 Capital Budget, as detailed by Homer City Lobbyist Linda Anderson at a Monday work session. But, with factors in place requested by Gov. Sean Parnell – such as the local tariff to pay $2.5 million of the project – Anderson expressed optimism that it wouldn’t be vetoed, this year, as it had the two previous years.
City Manager Walt Wrede said it’s important to get to work now in community forums to engage the public in a dialogue with officials.
