Take time to build healthy women
Starting on Mother’s Day, National Women’s Health Week runs May 13–19, and is a time to encourage making health a priority in the lives of women. This is a week to raise awareness among all of us about the simple commitments we can each make to work healthy doses of exercise, nutrition and sleep into [...]
Doing it for the birds
The birds arrived on schedule. Now all we need is the celebration and that too is on the way. The 20th Anniversary of the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival opens this week, a first glimpse at the summer tourism season ahead. Let’s hope the weather meets us all half-way. It doesn’t have to be superstar California [...]
Welcome back to the earth
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it – if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same redbreasts that we used to call “God’s birds” because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
Is Homer open for business?
Just when it looked like the Homer City Council had finished the much discussed, analyzed, protested and ultimately time-consuming sign code revision, it was put back on the agenda for Monday night’s meeting. Council member Francie Roberts filed for reconsideration in order to question whether the council had made an impulsive move in passing it. [...]
Celebrating Homer’s overachievers
The work of newspapers often runs toward what goes wrong in the immediate vicinity or larger region. Such as break-ins at a local business, the misconduct of drivers, individuals or politicians, a tragic vehicle accident. Man’s inhumanity to man type of stories, or government or business infractions. Or the drug crimes and their sorry legacy. [...]
Take message of hope from warning
Sen. Lisa Murkowksi’s Homer visit managed to pack in a lot of action: a radio talk show answering callers’ questions, a visit to the Seldovia Village Tribe’s new clinic, a talk at the high school, a talk at the local soil conservation office and a filled-to-capacity crowd at the Homer Chamber of Commerce luncheon. No [...]
Poorest will pay the most
It takes a lot of money to be poor. That’s how the saying goes. When your income isn’t more than a certain level, you don’t qualify for low-interest loans. Credit cards charge higher interest and car payments and insurance cost more when your income isn’t high. It can be a vicious cycle that limits single [...]
DEC-approved church kitchen
A friendly group of people assembled at the Homer United Methodist Church Thursday evening to share a meal and a conversation. Any drivers who pass by the sandwich board sign posted before the church the third Thursday of each month might be curious to know more about such dinners. Certainly, it is a unique habit [...]
Sue Lewis: 100 years
Sue Lewis is a marvel. At 100 years of age, she still gets up every morning and puts on her red lipstick. She finds a pair of earrings and puts them on. In her wheelchair she “walks” herself down to the cafeteria and gets herself a cup of coffee, and she pulls up to her table. At the table she is joined by her friends, Lois, who is 94 and Nadine, 95. They talk about anything from the day’s news to the goings on around the Homer Senior Center.
‘Expecting’ PHAT changes
In 2009, Alaska recorded a leap in the number of teen pregnancy rates. A look back at prominent events that year shows Bristol Palin heavily in the spotlight, the pregnant teen daughter of Gov. Sarah Palin. She had a lot of company — in her state and in the rest of the nation. According to [...]
