U.S. Army Vietnam era veteran Val Cooday was one of dozens of people who paddled canoes up through Southeast Alaska’s Inside Passage this summer. They were heading to Celebration – a biennial festival in Juneau that honors the region’s Indigenous people. The voyage was healing and inspirational to some participants, including Cooday. To her, the number of paddlers seem to grow more and more each time.
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Wrangell’s assembly will consider changing the Parks and Recreation Board’s meeting requirements in the municipal code. At Tuesday’s meeting, the assembly could modify the code from meeting monthly to quarterly. The proposal says the change should relieve any strain that staff and board members experience while putting together monthly meeting packets, according to Parks Director Lucy Robinson.
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Two propositions will be on Wrangell’s ballot in next month’s municipal election.
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Wrangell’s polishing pond, which is one of the two treatment ponds at the community’s wastewater treatment plant, flooded on Saturday. Staff also noticed that the outfall line wasn’t flowing. That’s the line where treated sewage water flows into the ocean.
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Episode 26: Wrangell is about to launch an after-school kids club. Three locations around town will host it: Community Center, Irene Ingle Public Library and The Nolan Center. Organizers of the program, Devyn Johnson, Sarah Scambler and Jeanie Arnold, chat with KSTK’s Colette Czarnecki about why and how the program exists. They go over the activities the kids will experience and encourage parents to talk to their children about respect before they attend.
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