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Credit Christine Trudeau / KYUK In their May 11 meeting, Bethel City Council voted unanimously to extend four COVID-19 related emergency mandates by two more months. There’s the mandate that acknowledges the pandemic as an ongoing emergency, and a measure that prevents water shutoff for households with unpaid water bills. There’s also a measure that requires unvaccinated travelers to adhere to strict social distancing for their first seven days in Bethel. They must also present a negative test within 72 hours of arrival, and should test seven days after arrival as well.
Bethel City Council also upheld its indoor and indoor-adjacent public spaces mask mandate for two more months. Just two days later, on May 13, the CDC updated its guidelines for masks in indoor spaces. The organization now says that vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks indoors in most situations. ....
Credit Shane Iverson / KYUK Three people are splitting the $20,945 Kuskokwim Ice Classic grand prize. The winners are Janelle Kinegak of Chefornak, Josephine Paul of Bethel, and Vicky Spencer of Bethel. Each will take home $6,981.67. The Kuskokwim Ice Classic clock stopped at 10:05 p.m. on May 6. Janelle Kinegak and Josephine Paul each guessed the minute before at 10:04 p.m., and Vicky Spencer guessed the minute after at 10:06 p.m. The three won out of 10,370 people who entered the contest. The $20,945 jackpot is the largest in recent memory for the event. Bethel Community Services Executive Director Michelle DeWitt organizes the Kuskokwim Ice Classic. She said that the contest began in the early 1980s, but reliable records of the jackpot did not begin until the early 2000s. ....
Credit Kuskokwim Ice Classic The river ice has broken in Bethel. The clock on the Kuskokwim Ice Classic tripod stopped on May 6 at 10:05 p.m. Bethel Community Services Foundation Executive Director Michelle DeWitt, who helps organize the contest, wrote in an email to KYUK that the winner of the Kuskokwim Ice Classic jackpot will likely be announced by Monday, May 10. DeWitt said that while not all entries have been analyzed yet, she believes that this year’s jackpot will be the largest since at least the early 2000s. Two winners in another Ice Classic contest have been announced: the winners of minute madness, the contest where people bet on which minute of the hour the clock will stop. This year, there were two of these minute madness contests. The winner of each takes home $10,000. Randy Esmailka of Galena won the first round. In a live video on the Kuskokwim Ice Classic s Facebook page, Esmailka said that he picked minute five based on his son’s birthday, and he ....
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