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January 2003:  Hot Tea Month         Diet Month

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29

Profile America: Bingo

Dec. 27 - Dec. 30 Clarke Cochrane Christmas Classic - Kayhi Gym

Other Calendars:

Ketchikan:
The Arts This Week
(schedule of local events updated weekly)

 

Ketchikan Visitors Bureau: Local Calendar

 

Ketchikan School District:
School Calendar 2002-2003

30

Profile America: 2002 Anniversaries

Dec. 27 - Dec. 30 Clarke Cochrane Christmas Classic - Kayhi Gym


31

Profile America: New Year's Eve

1

Profile America: Hank Williams, Sr.

2

Profile America: Speed Limits & Gasoline


7:00 pm Ketchikan City Council regular meeting - City Council Chambers
Agenda (88KB)
Packet (5.9MB)


 

 

3

Profile America: Pop Music Chart

7:00-8:00 PM Nathan Jackson ­ Master Carver - Friday Night Insight Program - Alaska Discovery Center - Nathan Jackson, Master Carver and a Chilkoot Tlingit, will present slides about his Native art projects from around the world. - The Friday Night Insight series is free and open to the public.

4

Profile America: Utah Statehood

5

Profile America: Eye Care Month

6

Profile America: Drinking Straw Invented

KGBSD Christmas Vacation Dec. 20th -January 06


5:30 pm Ketchikan Borough Assembly regular meeting- City Council Chambers
Agenda
Information Packet:


7

Profile America: Transatlantic Phone Calls

4:30 - 6:30 pm Public Informatiion Meeting - USDA Forest Service -Southeast Alaska Discovery Center -- The USDA Forest Service will hold meetings in Ketchikan and Saxman to gather comments on the Licking Creek Timber Sale Draft EIS. Comments on the timber sale proposal will be accepted through 01/21/03. For information call Kathy O'Conner (907) 228-4124

8

Profile America: Oatmeal

6:00 pm KGBSD Community Forum at the Ted Ferry Civic Center concerning Schoenbar School for next year. The Ketchikan School Board wants to hear your ideas for locations to educate the Schoenbar students during the Schoenbar remodeling project.

6:00 - 8:00 pm Subsistence Hearing - USDA Forest Service - Cape Fox Corp. Offices, Saxman -- The USDA Forest Service will hold meetings in Ketchikan and Saxman to gather comments on the Licking Creek Timber Sale Draft EIS. Comments on the timber sale proposal will be accepted through 01/21/03. For information call Kathy O'Conner (907) 228-4124

7:00 pm to 9:00 pm - Special Planning Workshop - The public is invited to a planning workshop on the growth of the cruise industry in Ketchikan. Community residents can share their thoughts on
the level of growth Ketchikan would like to see in this area. City Council Chambers (call 225-7133 for more information)

9

Profile America: First Flight in America


Noon - Ketchikan Legislative Liaison meeting - City Council Chambers - Agenda:

  • Call to order
  • Public comments
  • Legislative Business: a) Finalize projects for Liaison Booklet; b) Fly-in Trip Planning
  • Comments From Liaison members
  • Adjournment


4 pm - 8 pm Ketchikan South Tongass Hwy. Widening Public Meeting - An open house public meeting to present the proposed project at the Ted Ferry Civic Center. Staff from Design, Right-of Way and
Environmental will be on hand to describe the project and discuss the design process.

10

Profile America: Texas Oil

 

7:00-8:00 PM Friday Night Insight Program - Journey into Amazing Caves - This 40-minute video will take you into caves at the Grand Canyon, ice caves in the glaciers of Greenland and underwater caves in the Yucatan. Dr. Hazel Barton and Nancy Aulenbach travel to unique places in search of extremophiles - microscopic creatures who live in places of extremes. From bats to bacteria, watch what these explorers and scientists find when they explore these far regions of our world. This video is narrated by Liam Neeson and features songs and performances by the Moody Blues. -- The Friday Night Insight series is free and open to the public. For more information call 228-6220.

11

Profile America: Snow Shovel Races

12

Profile America: First Woman Senator

 

 

 13

Profile America: Clean Off Your Desk Day


5:30 pm KGB Special Assembly Meeting - Work Session

Agenda
Information Packet:


 

 14

Profile America: Frisbee Introduced

6:00 pm - KGB Planning Commission Platting Board Regular Meeting - City Council Chambers - Public is welcome to attend.

15

Profile America: Motion Picture Academy

6:00 pm - Ketchikan School Board regular meeting - City Council Chambers
Agenda

 16

Profile America: Civil Service


7:00 pm Ketchikan City Council regular meeting - City Council Chambers
Agenda (101KB)
Packet (5.1MB)


17

Profile America: PGA Founded

7:00 - 8:00 pm Friday Night Insight Program - Alaska Discover Center - Arctic Dance - The Mardy Murie Story - This 75 minute video covers the life and work of Mardy Murie. Mardy is now 98 years old and known as "The Mother of the American Conservation Movement." Her work to insure the protection of the Alaskan wilderness has had a deep and lasting effect on the face of the nation. Screening co-sponsored by the Alaska Natural History Association. -- The Friday Night Insight series is free and open to the public. For more information call 228-6220.

18

Profile America: First Aircraft Lands on Ship

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19

Profile America: Hot Tea Month

20

Profile America: Martin Luther King, Jr.

KIC Annual Election


5:30 pm Ketchikan Borough Assembly regular meeting- City Council Chambers
Agenda
Information Packet:


21

Profile America: Diet Month

6:30 pm KGBSD Spelling Bee for grades 4 - 8 - Kayhi Auditorium

22

Profile America: NYC Bans Women Smoking

6:00 pm KGBSD Special School Board Meeting - City council chambers...
Action on the following:
1.Board Member Resignation
2. Language Arts Curriculum Revision
3. Appointment of Drug/Alcohol/Tobacco Committee Members
4. Strategic Plan Contract Approval
5. Tenured Teacher Contracts
6. Retired Teacher Resolution
7. Board Goals

23

Profile America: Ice Cream Bars

24

Profile America: California Gold Rush

7:00 - 8:00 pm Friday Night Insight Program - Alaska Discover Center - Old Time Ketchikan Slide Show - Local historian Mary Ida Henrikson will present a program featuring slides by Otto Schallerer and others gleaned from garage sales over the years. It will be a visual description of downtown Ketchikan and the outlying areas. See Ward Cove without the Pulp Mill site, and see if you can recognize your neighborhood. -- The Friday Night Insight series is free and open to the public. For more information call 228-6220.

 25

Profile America: Around the World

 26

Profile America: Super Bowl XXXVII

 27

Profile America: Dental Drill Invented


5:30 pm Ketchikan Borough Assembly special meeting worksession- City Council Chambers
Agenda
Information Packet:


28

Profile America: Coast Guard Established

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm McDonalds Night for Valley Park Jump Rope Program - Come out and support he launch of this new program by having dinner at McDonalds.

 

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29

Profile America: First Jazz Recorded

 30

Profile America: Inane Answering Messages

9:00 am KGB Assembly Airport Affairs Committee - City Council Chambers. Topic - Terminal renovation design plans.

7:00 pm - City Council Special Meeting - City Council Chambers (No Agenda provided to Sitnews)

 

 

31

Profile America: Social Security

7:00 - 8:00 pm Friday Night Insight Program - Alaska Discover Center - Bushwhackers Delight - Journey from the Canadian border to Sitka through the seldom seen sights of the Tongass with Marcel and Connie LaPerriere. Journey into the Prince of Wales Island caves, sail to the outer islands, spend some time on the Devils Thumb, see the view from Mt. Reid, Revilla's highest mountain, and bushwhack your way across Misty Fiords. Explore the remote corners of the Tongass by foot, snowshoe, rope, boat and plane. -- The Friday Night Insight series is free and open to the public. For more information call 228-6220.

KGBSD - Strategic Planning Sessions Scheduled with the Alaska Associatio of School Boards

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KGBSD - Strategic Planning Sessions Scheduled with the Alaska Associatio of School Boards

 

February 2003

February 7th & 8th - State Wrestling Tournament - Ketchikan High School Gymnasium

February 7th - Applications for the vacant School Board seat due at noon. Applications for the vacant School Board seat are available at the District Office.

 

 

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Past Calendars

December 2002  SNovember 2002  SSeptember 2002-----August 2002----- July 2002
June 2002 ----- May 2002 ----- April 2002 -----March 2002
February 2002 -----January 2002-------December 2001
November 2001
-----October 2001 ------September 2001 ------August 2001
July 2001 -----June 2001 ------May 2001 -------April 2001

 

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