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TweetCongratulations to Chris and Elissa Brooks on the birth of their second son. Winston Rally Brooks was born July 2st1 at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau. Older brother Ohlin will now be sharing grandparents Ron and Laurie Alsup, Arlene Brooks, and Steve Brooks with the little guy. Local uncles are Andrew Brooks and Jesse Alsup. Elissa said everyone is doing great.
Nine-day-old Winston was the youngest attendee at a Haines High reunion for the classes of 1999, 2000 and 2001 hosted by Corrie Nash at her family’s home Friday. About 30 classmates joined visiting friends for the barbecue and slide show. Tyler Healy came from Palmer, where he works with at-risk students. Tyler’s younger brother Kelly graduated after the reunion cut-off, but spent plenty of time with his brother at the fair. Kelly is a helicopter pilot in Skagway. Ben Egolf flew in from Peoria, Ill. He works there as an accountant for Bradley University, where brother Will Egolf plays basketball. Liz Mallot came from Juneau where she is a dental hygienist for SEARHC, Cassandra James Stanford drove from Fairbanks with husband Cash and daughter Charlee. Cash’s sister Jaime Bentley brought her daughters up from Jacksonville, Ore., making sure parents Deb and Jim Stanford had a full house for the fair. Paul Rodriguez and his young son took the ferry up from Juneau for the weekend, as did Eliza Lende, who will be teaching fourth grade at the Mendenhall River School this fall. Corrie lives in Juneau and works as an interior designer with the architectural firm of Jenson Yorba Lott. Her work includes the remodel of the Juneau airport.
Fogcutter bartender Jackie Martin won the $1,000 Emblem Club cash raffle on Sunday. “I’m going to save it for my 50th birthday, which is coming up in December, to go someplace and do something,” she said. Jackie donated $100 back to the club.
Lani Hotch said she is grateful for her 93-year-old aunt Amy James’ wisdom and generosity. James is visiting Klukwan from her home in Sitka and is helping out at the Jilkat Kwaan Heritage Center’s traditional knowledge salmon camp. The camp, which teaches Tlingit ways of preparing and preserving salmon, is in full swing. It includes students from Wrangell, Haines, Palmer, Fairbanks, and Kake. “We’re making dry fish and smoked fish, and learning pressure processing as well,” Lani said.
It took Shelly Sloper a few days to get used to the cool weather after arriving from Southern California last week to visit parents Randy and Pam and sister Lindsey. Shelly is at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif., and has one more year left in a master’s degree program in positive developmental psychology.
Keely Baumgartner was in town visiting her family, which includes dad George Falcon, mom Judy Erekson, stepdad Lee Heinmiller and sisters Carlee and Riley Heinmiller. Keely is a labor and delivery nurse at the Alaska Native Hospital in Anchorage. Husband Jordan Baumgartner joined her for the trip. He is a science teacher and coach at Wendler Middle School.
Daughters Azure Jensen and Sabrina Litster and their families from Cincinnati and Salt Lake visited mom Jenny Lyn Smith. Azure’s husband Matt hiked the Chilkoot Trail, while Azure and Jenny Lyn held down the fort with seven-year-old Wade and 20-month-old Camden. The oldest of Sabrina and David Litster’s four children, Faris, turned 10 while they were in town, prompting Jenny Lyn and Bruce Smith to pull out the stops to celebrate. Their adventures included a jet boat tour, wildlife park visit, hike to Battery Point and Chilkat River float. “The guide was great, he let Faris row a little bit and he found out it was harder than it looks,” Jenny Lyn said. They were revived by Carol Clifton’s birthday cream puffs.
Ralph Borders, 58, ran the fair’s half-marathon race and then trotted home to bake the famous chocolate chip cookies from wife Ellen’s recipe. When he delivered the plate of warm cookies to the hospice fair booth, Ralph also gave the volunteers a handful of dollar bills from people who kept grabbing the cookies as he made his way across the fairgrounds.
Jane Sebens captained a co-ed softball team from Juneau this weekend named for her son, Team Fletcher, which included a mix of Haines and Juneau players. Jane is an attorney with the City and Borough of Juneau.
Haines High basketball standout Kyle Fossman completed his own version of a Southeast Alaska State Fair triathlon by playing in the co-ed softball tournament, racing in the 5K Haines Hustle, and entering a peace-sign shaped cake in the baked goods competition.
River guide Rita Maldanado ran the half-marathon at the fair Saturday, then drove to Whitehorse, Y.T. for the Yukon River Trail Marathon Sunday. She finished second in women’s open division and was back to guiding in Haines Monday.
