JUNEAU, Alaska – All four Juneau breweries, Alaskan Brewing, Barnaby Brewing, Devil’s Club Brewing and Forbidden Peak Brewery, are coordinating a fundraising event to help the community of Haines, which was hit by a devastating landslide and weather event in December. The program is “Pour the Love: Juneau Breweries for Haines,” and it’s a passport that gives participants the opportunity to try four specialty beers – one from each Taproom. After filling the passport, customers turn it in to one of the breweries for a one-of-a-kind t-shirt designed by Haines-raised artists Celia Bower and Tulsi Zahnow.
“Everyone in Juneau is feeling the devastating loss from the December weather event in Haines,” said Andy Kline from Alaskan Brewing. “We in the brewing community feel like there is a special bond because Haines hosts the Great Alaska Craft Beer and Home Brew Festival, and it’s an event we all look forward to every year.”
2020: Pandemic, natural disaster and upheaval
December 24, 2020
Megan Whitermore celebrates graduation from the back of a truck on Main Street during Tuesday s parade. The ceremony was altered due to COVID-19 restrictions.
As I sat down to write the 2020 Year in Review, I thought: I don t want to relive this year, nor should anyone else. But tradition dictates an annual recap, which if left unwritten, would end my positive relationship with CVN bookkeeper Jane Pascoe. Plus, the newspaper is a weekly black hole of white space that must be filled. So here it goes:
A January 2020 blizzard that brought 50 inches of snow in two days prompted then-borough manager Debra Schnabel to declare a public safety emergency. She told the CVN she hoped the public would hunker down while public works crews cleared roads. The term would soon reappear in a different context two months after the severe weather event that, in hindsight, seems miniscule.
Anchorage resident repays kindness to Haines disaster relief
December 24, 2020
Wally Smith, 83, a retired industrial arts teacher in Anchorage, donated $1,000 to local disaster relief efforts this month because he “had a kindness to repay to those who were kind to me” during a trip to Haines in 1964.
At the time, Smith was on his way to the Haines ferry terminal bound for the Lower 48 where he would attend graduate school in Colorado. While driving through Canada, a fellow teacher had mechanical problems with his pickup truck. Smith stopped to help repair the truck’s broken axle and, in the process, sustained a head injury.