Community
Cinderella’s Closet Providing Free Dresses for Prom!
by Meggean L. Bos, MA
Soldotna High School
Family and Consumer Sciences
Cinderella’s Closet is opening soon. March 18, 20, 25, and 27 from 2:30-4:30 in the theater dressing rooms at Soldotna High School. Look for the pink signs!
This is a program where we help local ladies in need with free prom dresses, shoes, and accessories. We have helped over 342 ladies in the past 4 years. Last year, we provided items to 92 local students from Soldotna High, Cook Inlet Academy, Skyview High, River City Academy, Kenai Central High, Nanwalek, Port Graham, Susan B. English (Seldovia), and Nikiski High. Please share this/post at your schools. It is “housed” at SoHi, but is open to any peninsula high school students.
We are still taking donations. If you are able to collect any items, please let me know and I will make arrangements to get them. It’s a great program for our students. My favorite was when I had a Senior with tears in her eyes that said, “Thank you for doing this. Without it, I wouldn’t have been able to go to prom.”
City of Seldovia’s Comprehensive Plan Public Review Draft
by Jenny Chissus
The City of Seldovia has received the public review draft for the Seldovia City Comprehensive Plan! Many Seldovia residents participated in the multiple meetings that were held in the Post Office building this past year, and it will be rewarding to see the complete “vision” perceived by the group from USKH.
The City and USKH are hopeful that the community will continue their participation and take the time to review the document. To download the full draft, you may CLICK HERE to go directly to the City of Seldovia site to download the document.
Please be patient, as it is a fairly large file, so it may take some time to download. Please bring your thoughts and comments to the City. You may print off the plan and mark directly on your copy, and return that to the city office. You may also send your comments to this email: seldoviacompplan@gmail.com. The comment period deadline is March 17, 2014.
There will be public discussion of the Comprehensive Plan draft at both the upcoming Planning and Zoning meeting and council meeting, though there is not a meeting planned specifically to address this document.
After all the comments are reviewed and changes are made to the document, the final version will return to Seldovia’s Planning and Zoning Commission for adoption, then to the city council for approval. The final process will include adoption at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Commission then to the Borough Assembly for final approval.
Thank you for your input and continued support of this very important project for the future of Seldovia!
Seldovia Museum Mystery for February and January’s Reveal!
by Jan Yaeger
Maybe it’s the weirdly warm weather, or maybe it’s just that time of year, but around Seldovia, fisherfolk are starting to work on nets for the upcoming fishing season. So January turned out to be a great time to ask about fishing floats. Thanks to Rod Hilts and Rick Harkness, who gave great information about not only the wooden ‘corkline’ line floats pictured in our January Mystery, but about other types of floats as well.
Rick tells us wooden floats were made of Port Orford cedar, favored for its rot-resistance. The floats were given extra protection by hot-dipping them yearly in paraffin wax to seal them, which would help prevent softening and splitting as well as rot. Cotton nets were also subject to rot, and were dipped in ‘bluestone’ (copper sulfate) to deter bacterial and algal growth. Wooden floats were phased out in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and cotton gillnet is also a thing of the past. But Rick brought us a fabulous gift, donating an unused shackle of cotton gillnet as well as several spools of mending twine. They are a great addition to our Museum collection. Thanks, Rick!
If you have a mystery for us, please contact Jan at 435-3245!
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February’s Monthly Mystery at the Seldovia Museum is about… March. Specifically, March 27, 1964, and the Good Friday Earthquake that so dramatically changed the face of Seldovia. Next month brings the 50th anniversary of this event, and we are in search of the stories of those who experienced it. Were you here, or perhaps you remember hearing about that day from a friend or family member?!
The Seldovia Museum would like to mount a temporary exhibit in March and April that features the memories of those who experienced the earthquake, either here in Seldovia or elsewhere. Would you be willing to share your story with us? You can write it down, send an email, or come visit us and just talk. Or if you prefer, we’d be happy to come to you! Contact Jan at jyaeger@svt.org, or by phone at 435-3245, or stop in at the Museum office on the top floor of the ATC. Or you can come by the Museum Tuesdays and Thursdays between 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm – our doors are open!
Where were you during the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake?
Games Start Today at 11:30am
Basketball games are on today – starting at 11:30am! Lumen Christi made it in this morning on the Rainbow Connection, and with the help of MANY drivers, we were able to get the team in from Jakolof Bay in time to start the first game at 11:30am this morning, Lumen Christi vs. Nanwalek!
Seldovia Girls team will play Lumen Christi Girls around 12:30 or so, and the Seldovia Boys will be playing Lumen Christi following the girls game! Last night was a great game, with good food, lots of folks who battled the crazy deep snow to get there, and the Seldovia Boys team won the game against Nanwalek!
Stop by and support the OTTERS! See you there!
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