Paul from the beach (Joshua Midgett photo) Jason Bourdukofsky, Vice City Mayor of St.
Paul School’s fifth grade class trip to Florida was in peril because their scheduled flight from St. Paul School Superintendent, called with a problem. As if the Universe heard him, at that very moment the St. With that he sent our food on to Unalaska, our last stop.
“We have to trust the community to provide.” “We’ve seen what communities can do,” he challenged us when we looked dubiously at him. PaulĪt this point, our Tour Manager Joshua had the great(?) idea to drop our food, which conveniently weighed about 200 pounds. Mike Dunleavy for consideration.Mac Mandregan who took great care of us in St. There was no such opposition mounted from the Senate Republicans during today’s debate and the vote was ultimately unanimous with several Democrats and Republicans signing on as cross sponsors, a sign of support.īecause the Senate made no changes to the legislation, the bill does not need a concurrence vote and will head to Gov. The bill had faced some skepticism from House Republicans when it passed earlier in the session, where they argued that it was a sweetheart deal for the neighboring landowners because it may preclude a future mine project in the area (Several mining groups wrote in after the vote, noting there was no known mining opportunities and therefore didn’t oppose the legislation). It doesn’t include any funding for improvements or memorials to the cemetery as there’s a separate effort underway for those improvements.
The legislation would transfer about 250 acres of state land from the state Division of Mining, Land and Water to the Division of Parks and Recreation. … The Alaska state Legislature can’t fix the history, we can’t change what was done, but we can protect the final resting place of more than 30 of our fellow Americans at Funter Bay.” They were treated vastly better than the Unangax̂ people-Americans-interred at Funter Bay More than 30 of those Americans at Funter Bay died before their internment ended. “Mostly Germans and some Italians at Excursion Inlet. federal government providing basic health care and adequate food to prisoners of war,” said Juneau Democratic Sen. “If you were to go about 23 miles west northwest of Funter Bay in those days, you would have found the U.S. They given few supplies for the hasty relocation and housed in abandoned buildings from an old mine and cannery. Many of the supporters note the inhumane treatment of the people was steeped in racism, noting that prisoners of war were treated much better at a neighboring camp. Some 30 to 40 people died at Funter Bay where they were given inadequate housing and supplies by the U.S. Sara Hannan, seeks to preserve and commemorate the Unangax̂ people who were forced to relocate from their homes in the Pribilof Islands to a camp 1,300 miles in Southeast Alaska. Legislation adding a cemetery that holds the graves the Unangax̂ people who died at a World War II-era forced relocation camp in Southeast Alaska to the Funter Bay Marine Park has cleared the Alaska Legislature.