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The Weekender: What's happening in Homer this weekend?

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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Wind feeds flames

A Sunday-evening fire engulfs the Diamond Ridge home of Philip Gunzinger. Homer Volunteer Fire Department officals say the cause is under investigation but likely caused by an electrical problem.

Picking through Pebble Project

• ‘World-class’ mine continues exploratory drilling; faces impending ballot measure
Amid new surges in the Alaska Clean Water Initiative movement, and facing a virtual standstill in the permitting process if AGIA moves ahead, the Pebble Project continues to bore test holes in the tundra outside Iliamna — searching for evidence of more gold, copper and molybdenum some 6,000 feet underground.
“We have well over 100 miles of rock core – and it’s been sampled every 10 feet,” said Pebble Mine Project Director of Site Operations Lena Brommeland. “Today, we have eight drills operating.”

'Bearing' life with bruins

• Human bad habits draw bruins into neighborhoods
Each week, the Homer Police Department receives a number of calls about bears wandering into front yards, climbing on porches or meandering in the roads.
And while opinion varies on whether the increase in sightings are a result of climbing black bear population, or bad habits on the part of residents, area biologist Thomas McDonough is encouraging people to quit setting out garbage and storing dog food outside, as that only encourages bears into the neighborhood.

Obama goes after Alaska's votes

• Obama’s Alaska campaign may include peninsula
In an effort to establish a presence in Alaska prior to the November election, U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama will likely include a Kenai Peninsula field office.
Campaign manager Pete Rouse, speaking telephonically to media from around the state on Thursday, announced that offices will be opened in the usual high-population towns like Fairbanks, Juneau and the Mat-Su Valley in addition to the one now staffed in Anchorage.
Setting up an office on the peninsula, possibly Homer or Kenai, is still being discussed, Rouse said.

IN THE WEEKENDER

Homer's glorious gardens

Take a tour

Often overlooked, the delicate art and craft of gardening involves a whole lot more than just burying seeds in fertile soil and hoping the sprouts survive until summer happens.
Fortunately, the cool start to summer hasn’t delayed blooms in local gardens and the Homer Garden Club is again putting some members’ creative efforts on display for their annual show-and-tell this Saturday and Sunday.

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