A big green-thumbs up to the Ketchikan Wellness Coalition, volunteers and grant-funders involved in starting a new community garden network here in Ketchikan.
The garden sites have been taking shape adjacent to Tongass Federal Credit Union, Clover Pass Community Church and Rendezvous Senior Day Services.
Itâs been fun seeing the raised-bed garden plots taking shape. We know that wonderful things will be growing soon, and that includes community growth. Interest in gardening has deep roots in Ketchikan, and these community gardens are certain to bring together friends both new and old.
We appreciate the initiative of the volunteers who rekindled this community garden concept; the willingness of the Ketchikan Wellness Coalition to organize it; the generosity of the Ketchikan Community Foundation and PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center to provide grant funding, and the Clover Pass, TFCU and Rendezvous for site involvement. By definition, community gardens involve community part
At a Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce meeting in the early 1970s, Len Laurance said that eventually Ketchikan would host more than one million cruise ship passengers each season.
The proclamation, made at a time when less than 70,000 cruise passengers visited the First City, was met with guffaws by the audience.
But Laurance, who died at 88 on April 8, was right. In both 2018 and 2019, Ketchikan had more than one million cruise visitors and would likely have had more than 1.3 million in 2020 if not for the COVID 19 pandemic that shut down the entire Alaskan cruising industry.
In an interview in 2014, Laurance said his projections were simply based on a 10 percent increase every year.
Ketchikan is set to go green for the summer as the Ketchikan Wellness Coalition garden network continues to bloom.
The garden network includes three gardens, located at Clover Pass Church, Tongass Federal Credit Union s campus and Rendezvous Senior Day Services (although this garden is not public), according to KWC Executive Director Romanda Simpson.
Plots and beds in the Clover Pass and TFCU gardens will be open for rent by any individual who fills out an application and pays a small fee that will be put toward garden maintenance. Our goal is to offer workshops for the community to come and learn about how to grow and what grows in Ketchikan, because not everything does very well, Simpson said during a Thursday interview with the Daily News.
Thank you to Ketchikan Community Foundation
Posted by Leila Kheiry | Apr 5, 2021
We at KRBD are thrilled to announce that we are the grateful recipients of a grant from Ketchikan Community Foundation, allowing us to update four ancient computers. Having functional, reliable equipment will allow us to continue our mission of providing essential communication services to our listening area, now and into the future.
We started having trouble with the two production room computers a year or two ago. They slowed down significantly, which of course affected our productivity. Our amazing IT guy was able to do some magic and squeeze some more life out of them. But there’s only so much squeezing you can do, right?