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After the Rain
After turning off a local Facebook thread with a shout one more time over the current leadership's insistence that places like the pool, museum and library need to make money and pay for their own way, and almost tossing the iPad out the door into the rain, there...
News and News
It is so interesting that on Monday the news was all over the papers-- Extreme Hiker Missing in Tongass was one headline--and that here in Haines we had no idea the hiker was in our backyard. Then, just as we are all talking about it and wondering and worrying-- the...
Health Care Solution
My husband Chip said he could solve the healthcare debate in a second. "It's easy, just cut the health insurance for congress. Let them try to buy the same level of care. Guarantee we'd have a new system the next day." We are self insured. In this, we wish Haines...
Update on Meade Rescue
I figure since I told you someone was stuck in the mountains between Haines and Skagway and needing help, I better let you know what is up-- Skagway News is a good source for the complete story, as will be the Chilkat Valley News in a couple of days-- Also, the...
Ahn Trio Wows
They told us Haines is the best place they have ever played, and asked if they could take the full-house audience in the Chilkat Center (all 300 of us) with them on tour. They would have a lot of takers last night, what with the crazy blizzard of wet snow. The Ahn...
First Light
Marnie looked out the big windows of the Chilkat Center and said " let's hope the Coast Guard is on its way" as we finished Morning Muscles today at 7 am. Only half a dozen of us were there, probably because of the big storm yesterday and last night. The same...
Beautiful People
The visiting Ahn Trio, twins Lucia and Maria, and their sister Angella watched the Academy Awards last night at our house with the same interest we had watched the weekend high school basketball games from Sitka. (We are a little depressed that the girls lost by one...