November 8, 2007

Students and community members will have to wait until spring to use the new Klukwan School gymnasium because there isn’t enough water pressure for the new sprinkler system to function properly.

Ruth Ryan, head teacher at Klukwan School said that the lack of water pressure had prevented workers from finishing the design of the sprinklers in the gym. “We can’t get checked off with the fire marshal until the water pressure issue is addressed.”

The gym, which besides the sprinkler system is otherwise nearly complete, had the finishing touches put on the floor recently. “A crew from Anchorage installed a beautiful hardwood floor. They locked it up for about 10 days to cure.”

November 12, 1992

Biologists with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service counted 2,008 bald eagles Saturday during the fall’s first aerial survey of the Chilkat and Chilkoot valleys.

That’s up from 1,492 eagles tallied the same date last year but it isn’t a record, said eagle management specialist Mike Jacobsen. “It’s about what we expected, a pretty normal number of birds.”

Last week’s count showed the majority of birds, 1048, within the eagle preserve’s critical habitat area adjacent to Klukwan, About 100 birds were counted in the upper Chilkoot Valley and the rest were fairly evenly distributed in the Chilkat Valley, Jacobsen said.

November 11, 1967

Ballet will come to Haines on Thanksgiving night when the Ketchikan Theatre Ballet presents a group of young dancers at the Chilkat Center for the Arts at 8:15 p.m.

The Ketchikan Theatre Ballet is touring Southeast Alaskan on a grant from the Alaska State Council for the Arts, offering a program which includes an original ballet “The Raven” with music by Greta Brown of the University of Alaska.