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Kings of Fish: In Alaska, Salmon Means Life Each summer, billions of salmon return from the ocean to their ancestral spawning grounds, continuing the generations-old relationship between the fish, the land, and the people “Standing dead,” Don Honea tells me. He laughs Native humor is very dry because he is standing, clearly not dead, in the dim light of a Yukon River salmon smokeshack, holding up a five-foot cottonwood log that is indeed dead. It’s the only wood they cut to smoke their salmon catch, and the gnarled, musty aroma of generations of cottonwood fires seeps from the pores of the smokeshack timbers and varnishes the tin siding. The precision of Honea’s smoke-wood prescription reflects not just how deeply held this tradition is, but how important salmon is in the vast natural empire known as Alaska. ....
The Daily Herald Time tends to fly by once you find the right place, the right job and community to call home. Just ask McDonald s General Manager Edythe Dee Dee Buchanon, who is celebrating 30 years with the company, and a team of fellow employees and customers she considers more than friends, but family. Or as she and the Trotwood Avenue restaurant s owners Tony and Gina Wolfe like to put it, the McFamily. I ve enjoyed building these relationships, and I ve worked in other restaurants, but this is my baby, my home, Buchanon said. It s the people that I work with, the organization that I work with that makes it more worthy to me, which makes me feel important. Me feeling important makes me want to be the best I can be, in whatever I do. ....