1 THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - Freda says hi from Alaska 14 Pap anniverIts, my I am and here admiring sary ways a party going on, an activity for all the community to my new surroundings. Sitka by the Sea, one of Alaskas partake of. Sitka is also a church going town, probably not typical of the old mining towns. There are 8,000 people, including 1,000 who live on boats, and there are about 27 churches of one-mon- th tfje jfrom yean 60 ago The City Water and Light Department will be under the management of the Tbwn Board. If bills are paid by the 10th of the month a discount of 2 percent will be allowed, although 30 days A number of Blanding people will be granted for payment went to Bluff to gather cliff flowers. 60 yean ago Ozro Hunt is making a road to the Jacobs Chair mining district Ralph Hunt is also busy making roads to Red Canyon. 40 yean ago - most historic cities, is situated in the most spectacularly beautiful ao"S: dun G e o - graphic, by Freda Aron Chicago was just a blockhouse in a Frank Hopkins, is lifted (litschoolers of a and placed on the lawn of swamp and San Francisco was erally) by gang high chuckled courthouse. the Frank upon seeing his car, got in, still a sleepy mission when Sitka was a bustling Center of and promptly drove it away before getting a ticket A sports car, owned by pharmacist 30 yean ago From Nells Newsy Notes: Three unwelcome visitors in our area the past week were Violet Wind, Dusty Gust, and Wendy Gale. They wore out their welcome long before they left, if indeed they have left. They may just be holed up somewhere resting. They came unbidden into everyones houses, through windows, doors or any place they could find a crack, leaving their dirty footprints behind. They roared up canyons and through plowed fields, moving the soil across highways and causing poor visibility. They played on the rooftops, ripping shingles off. They pushed the fence posts to rakish angles and tangled lines, causing poor reception. We certainly hope that Mother Nature will keep her three brats home and will send Bitsa Snow and Lotta Rain in their place next time. Even Sonny Sol would be preferable to the three terrorists. 20 years ago Monticellos running Randalls represent three generations and captured two first place division awards in the portion of the Canyonlands Half Marathon in Moab. Deanne is a winner in the G division. Daughter, Kristin, 12, is a winner in division and grandson Adam Bronson the girls 7, didn't finish first, but he was not far behind in his division. ile 10 years ago A delegation of Blanding officials asked county commissioners to consider a special recreation service district for Commission District JL All of the tourist and recreation information y Visitor Center agencies are joining together for a multi-agenc- in the San Juan County Courthouse. North Pacific commerce. ' The Russians discovered Alaska in 1741, Sitka was founded in 1799 and all of Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867. Sitka is as Sitka always was, a place where the sea boils and surges. It is also a rainforest, therefore forever raining. It is a fishing village miles long, an island 14 sur- rounded by fleets of fishing boats. The life of the commuof .the nity and the community are the boats and their produce... fish, fish, fish. Thp Sitka Tlingit, Native Alaskans, claim their forebears were here 10,000 years before the Russians and the life-blo- at all. After church Sunday, we went to The Blessing of the Fleet, which is a yearly occurrence, praying for the protection and thanksgiving of the denominafishermen. Here is this girl conceivable every who grew up in Coney Island tion, but no Synagogue. One Mormon Church, and a on the Atlantic Ocean growing new friend picked me up for down in Sitka - on the Sea Sundays final day of the 171st on the Pacific ocean. Home is always with you. General Conference at the Sitka Ward. Another new friend Since Tve been here, IVe met invited me to the Passover Ser- people from Farmington, vice at his house on April 7. Cortes, Ogden, Montana, etc. I am still looking for an Saturday afternoon there was a big band orchestra playapartment, living temporarily ing at the Keet Gooshi Heen at the University of Alaska, elementary school; Saturday Southeast dormitory. I found evening was the first English one for rent and was told, My Country Equinox Ball in all of mother uses this apartment Alaska, and everyone was sup- each Bummer, but I dont know posed to be in period costume. if shell be coming this year, Many were, but I wore my In she lives in Chicago. Are Your Appliances Too Pooped To Perform Properly? Harris Appliance od Navajos of the American Southwest speak a root lan- dian dress, as we danced to the period music of the 17th and 18th centuries, played by the Sitka English Consort It was fun but not romantic, not & Refrigeration Can Put New Life Into Your Ailing guage from which also comes the Sitka Tlingit language. Though I know some Navqjo, I cannot, at all, understand any of the Tlingit language. The town reminds me also of the old-tifrontier gold mining towns, where they work hard, live hard, and play hard. Not unlike Bluff, there is al Appliances Tm We Service All Makes & Models Domestic & Commercial 774 N. 400 W. 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