By Jenny Neyman
Redoubt Reporter
Three weeks after seeing a brown bear shot by the side of the Sterling Highway near the Russian River Ferry, Jerry Holly said the incident is still eating at him, and he wants to know why the situation developed as it did.
“I’ve never seen such a fiasco in my life as this [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 28, 2009
Bear death under scrutiny — Investigation into roadside shooting continues
October 28, 2009
Baby steps — Girl’s condition improves with brain surgery
By Jenny Neyman
Redoubt Reporter
At 2 years old, Emily Jacobs can count to 14. She can name all the Disney fairies. She can tell you about the sun being up and going down. She can point out a shark — “aaah!” — and a kitty — “so cute.” She can look at a syringe and tell you [...]
October 28, 2009
Haunting memories — ‘Nantiinaq’ sightings, spirits led to desertion of Native village
By Naomi Klouda
Homer Tribune
Malania Helen Kehl, Nanwalek’s eldest resident, is frequently called upon around the village to impart her memories of how life used to be on this southernmost tip of the Kenai Peninsula.
Among her remembrances are medicines used to heal the sick and ways of preserving sea lion meat in barrels for winter. She [...]
October 28, 2009
Cheers to fall — Central peninsula breweries tap into special beers
Editor’s note: Thanks to Kassik’s, Kenai River and St. Elias for kindly sharing their craft, time and knowledge for this story, and to Bill Howell, home brewer and adjunct professor of a beer appreciation class at Kenai Peninsula College, starting in January, for lending his palate and opinions. Hey — reporters get to have a [...]
October 28, 2009
Hollowing Halloween — Local sculptor to hone talents on giant pumpkin
By Jenny Neyman
Redoubt Reporter
A jack-o’-lantern won’t do for this job. An extraordinary pumpkin requires an extraordinary design.
That’s the attitude Kenai sculptor Joy Falls will use to approach the 319-pound pumpkin she’ll be carving at the Kenai Visitors and Cultural Center this week.
“I’m a sculptor and it will be sculptural. Kind of a 3-D character. It’s [...]
October 28, 2009
Almanac: Ready to rumble — Kenai was grounds for Evel vs. Awful, Peninsula Clarion vs. Cheechako News
By Clark Fair
Redoubt Reporter
The comparisons were obvious and understandable. Evel Knievel, famed daredevil motorcycle rider, planned to jump over the Snake River Canyon in Idaho on Sept. 8, 1974. The previously unknown Awful Knawful, on the other hand, planned to jump over Beaver Creek in Kenai three weeks later, on Sept. 29, 1974.
Knievel planned to [...]
October 28, 2009
Science of the Seasons: Winding waterways — Streams don’t stick to the straight and narrow
By Dr. David Wartinbee, for the Redoubt Reporter
Last week I flew over the Caribou Hills and spent some time looking at the headwaters of Deep Creek and the Ninilchik River. Along the way I took a couple pictures of stream meanders in another area and I got to thinking about what that picture was telling [...]
October 28, 2009
Catching a break — Now’s the time to smoke, process summer’s bounty
By Mark Conway, for the Redoubt Reporter
If you are like me, you may have some leftover fish in your freezer.
When it gets toward the end of the season, my wife and I cut up some of our salmon in rounds to take out later when things slow down, only cutting off the tail and head [...]
October 28, 2009
Better footing — Rotary, business donations make a difference a world away
By Phellisha Dobson
and Jenny Neyman
Redoubt Reporter
In a poverty-stricken area of Nicaragua, where owning anything beyond a pair of flip-flops would be a mark of prosperity, school outfits do double duty. If a child attends school in the morning, they pass their school clothes and shoes off to a sibling for afternoon wear. After a visit [...]
October 28, 2009
Plugged In: High image quality for small budgets
By Joseph Kashi, for the Redoubt Reporter
A reader recently inquired which cameras and lenses we thought would provide the best image quality without breaking the bank. That’s a very timely topic. We’ve already discussed upper-end cameras, and so this may be a good time to make some recommendations.
Get a good entry-level digital Single Lens Reflex [...]
October 21, 2009
CIRI venture backs out of Kenai Hydro — Company refocusing on several other energy projects
By Jenny Neyman
Redoubt Reporter
Wind Energy Alaska, partly owned by Cook Inlet Region Inc., a Southcentral Alaska Native-owned corporation, has announced it is pulling its support from Kenai Hydro, a joint venture with Homer Electric Association to investigate the feasibility of installing hydroelectric projects on streams in the Kenai Mountains near Moose Pass.
“What we’ve determined is, [...]
October 21, 2009
Warm memories — Quilt tells of Funny ways homesteaders got around
By Jenny Neyman
Redoubt Reporter
The Funny River block in the statehood anniversary quilt project represents a scene Patsy Bird remembers well, but not with the comfy coziness a rendering in colorful material and thread would suggest.
The block depicts Bird and her family crossing the Kenai River in their homemade cable car, standing on a 6-foot, open-air [...]
