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Swing your partner!
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Photo by Michele Trainor
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Colin Craig, left, twirls Samantha Trainor, right, at Friday night's swing dance. The Delta High School student council hosted a swing dance for the community with Ellie Schneider on hand to demonstrate the fast moving steps. Half way through the evening, Scheider donned her coat and hat saying, "They don't need me anymore. Look at them go!" The council is considering hosting another '40s style community swing dance next year.
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Cold temperatures didn’t deter skaters
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Members of the Delta Huskies high school hockey team skate laps on their outdoor rink at -23F, during a Skate-A-Thon to raise funds to replace hockey gear stolen from the SuValley team during recent games in Delta. Photo by Steve DuBois/Delta Wind
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The Su-Valley Rams will be keeping their sticks on the ice and playing out their
hockey season thanks to the generosity of Alaska’s Interior.
Distraught over the recent theft of more than $2,500 in hockey gear from the
Liewer-Olmstead Hockey Arena in Delta Junction, the Huskies wasted no time in
organizing a fundraising skate-a-thon. News in the Interior travels fast, and
others equally disturbed by the incident began sending in donations. Before the
skaters even hit the ice, at least one local business had pledged $300 and the
Fairbanks Arctic Lions hockey program
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GVEA seeks applicants for board
Golden Valley Electric Asso-ciation is looking for board of director applicants in the co-op’s Districts 5 and 6. The deadline to apply is 5 p.m. January 14 to GVEA’s Fairbanks office.
Nominating committees for each district will review applications, conduct interviews, and select
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Cooking up Thanksgiving Day feast for all
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Sporting a Prudhoe Bay hat, Karla Brown pauses for a moment near Birch Lake before heading on down the Richardson Highway. Photo courtesy Karla Brown
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Karla Brown is a walking machine. After spending two and a half years walking across the United States, she is now embarking on a journey that will take her from Prudhoe Bay down to Argentina.
It all started after a successful recovery from surgery. Growing up, Brown suffered from multiple epileptic seizures. The 21 pills a day she was taking did not control them, so she finally checked into a hospital in Washington State. Walking out the door, she never experienced another seizure.
“And that began my journey,” Brown said. “I walked out that hospital door and kept
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Huskies win inaugural game on new rink
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Delta Huskies goalie Harold Probert warms his gloves over the fire pit behind the palyers’ bench during the inaugural game at the new outdoor rink. The temperature at game time was -6.
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After years of work, the Huskies high school hockey team was ready to play the Su-Valley Rams last Friday in the first game on the new outdoor rink. The rink funds had been acquired, the plans made, the ground had been cleared, the foundation built, the boards put up, the lights installed, the ice made, the lines put down, the ice zammed, and finally the rink shoveled because it snowed several inches before the game.
On game night, Delta hockey fans were in a festive mood as many watched the game from the warmth of their cars parked around the rink and others braved the six below zero
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Broken pipe damages elementary school
A fire alarm at Delta Elementary School alerted firefighters and school
maintenance staff to a broken waterline in the school Sunday afternoon.
Firefighters arrived at the building just as maintenance personnel were arriving
to conduct a welfare check on the building. A leaking pipe in the fire
suppression system in the school caused the fire alarm to activate.
Searching the building, crews found water in the office area and a broken pipe
in principals Michelle Beito’s office. Water several inches of deep was standing
in the office.
The broken pipe sprayed water on
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