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Bristol Bay communities sing through cloth masks for slavii January 15th |
A small group of people sing through cloth masks. It s slavii at St. Seraphim of Sarov s Orthodox Church in Dillingham. At the front of the church, a boy is spinning a star decorated with tinsel. Normally, he d be surrounded by others doing the same. Father Jason Isaac is the rector in Dillingham. Despite restrictions, he said, the spirit of the celebration hasn t changed. I m very surprised to see the joy. The message of Christ being born will always be celebrated joyously, he said. With this year being different because of COVID-19, the people are still trying to bring joy to each other by singing here the carols. ....
New year brings giant storms, big waves and chilly winds January 15th |
Alaska went big on New Year s. First, on New Year s Eve 2020, a superstorm spun its way through the North Pacific Ocean and into the Aleutian Islands. The twirling mass of gases surrounding Earth was more than 5,000 miles wide, its boundaries stretching from northern Japan to middle Alaska. That s about 10 times the width of a typical hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. The Alaska storm that covered a good portion of the globe induced a Dec. 31 low-pressure reading on the Aleutian island of Shemya of 924.8 millibars, a record low for Alaska. Winds on the island registered more than 80 mph. A buoy in the ocean south of Amchitka Island farther east than Shemya in the middle of the Aleutian chain rode up and over a 58-foot wave. ....
Darryl Thompson has hunted moose for 60 years. He s the Togiak public works director, and he s been looking forward to the season opening on Jan. 8. There s a lot of moose in the region, so it s not usually a hard hunt to do, he said. But Thompson said that conditions can be treacherous for hunters on snowgoes, so they usually hunt in groups. What we re worrying about is, we ve had so much rain and warm weather that ponds or lakes or rivers have a lot of water on top of the ice, so you got to be careful that you don t get stuck in overflow. Especially with the soft snow, he said. ....
We have a lot to look forward to in 2021. Although 2020 was a very challenging year, it was not all bad news. Alaskans achieved an incredible victory with respect to the proposed Pebble mine. In November, the Alaska District of the Army Corps of Engineers rejected a key federal permit for the project. The Corps denied the permit because it concluded that Pebble would cause significant degradation to the waters and fisheries of Bristol Bay and issuing a permit to Pebble was not in the public s interest. This was a huge victory. Alaskans should celebrate it. Despite this positive development, the fight against this ill-conceived and irresponsible development project is not over. The Pebble Limited Partnership, or PLP, has vowed to appeal the Corps decision. It is therefore incumbent on Alaskans not to soon forget the lessons we learned in 2020 about Pebble and PLP. ....