Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic was awarded a $10,000 grant from First National Bank Alaska to support KBFPC’s recent emergency capital project — repairing one of the two buildings on the KBFPC campus on Ben Walters Lane in Homer.
While 2023 saw the closest thing to a “return to normalcy” since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, actual COVID numbers and hospitalizations were reported to be rising for the first few months of the year before dropping to unprecedented lows. With a drastic decrease in demand for on-site tests and vaccines, the South Peninsula COVID-19 testing and vaccine site closed its doors, giving way to at-home testing and treatment at the regular hospital facilities.
We had never heard of Homer, Alaska, until 2015, when our son announced he was moving there. He packed up a 1984 Volkswagen Vanagon, surfboard in tow, and drove from Burbank, California to Homer. He didn’t know anyone there; he just made up his mind and went.