PRINCE OF WALES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Chamber POWer
232 Members Strong

Volume 23, Issue 12, December 2012

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President-Jan Bush
B-3 Contractors, Inc. belle@aptalaska.net

From the Presidents Desk:

Tis the Season! For the Chamber, that means a real flurry of activities as the pieces of the 2013 Island Guide are put into their proper sections and volunteers spend hours proofreading in an effort to produce a 100 percent correct publication. The Chamber Board meets this month for our annual work session. This year we review all of the Chamber projects in more detail so our new Director, Chris Cumings of the Craig Wells Fargo Branch receives a good overview of the total works! We welcome Chris to the Board. We have shuffled some of the officers of the 2013 Board. See the list at the left. Thank you, John Moots, for all your years of service to the Chamber and its members. John is taking a year off. He first joined the Board of Directors in 2004. The POW Chamber of Commerce will inaugurate a first ever POW CHAMBER BUSINESS AFTER HOURS event to celebrate the arrival of the 2013 Island Guide. This event will be held after hours of course, in the Chamber office. We look forward to other BUSINESS AFTER HOURS events to be hosted by our Chamber members in their places of business periodically throughout the years to come. Look for more information in the January newsletter. The office gals dressed up the office for Thanksgiving and will soon be decking it out for Christmas when they have some time between the critical work of getting the Island Guide work done and the Membership campaign put to bed. Take note of the news we share and send us yours!

Past President- John Bruns

Forest Products Task Force john.bruns.ak@gmail.com

Vice President-Jeannie McFarland

McFarlands Floatel/Baskets & Bullets floatel@starband.net

Secretary- Sharilyn Zellhuber

Arrowhead LP Gas/Arrowhead Transfer szell@ati.lynden.com

Treasurer- Budd Burnett

Hollis Community Council dbld@aptalaska.net

Director- Lynnette Logan

First Bank-Craig Branch Lynnette.Logan@firstbankak.com

Director Janice Lund

Columbine Inn jlund@aptalaska.net

Director-Kim Swainson
Individual

Director-Chris Cumings
Wells Fargo-Craig Branch christopher.cumings@wellsfargo.com

Newsletter Editors: Rebecca Chester, Sharon Brosamle & Jan Bush Office Managers: Rebecca Chester and Sharon Brosamle

Weekday Office Hours: 12pm - 4pm PO Box 490 Klawock, Alaska 99925 Phone: 907-755-2626 Fax: 907-755-2627 info@princeofwalescoc.org www.princeofwalescoc.org

To all our members: a Very Merry Christmas!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DECEMBER OFFICE HOURS...........PAGE 2 DECEMBER CHAMBER MEETING.......................PAGE 2 POW RUNNERS CLUB FUTURE FUN RUNS AND WALKS..... PAGE 2 CHRISTMAS FACTS....... PAGE 3 BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION...........PAGE 3 CHAMBER DIRECTOR NEWS....PAGE 4 WOMEN WHO ROCK....PAGE 4 OFFICE WORKS...........PAGE 5 PRINCE OF WALES TRAILS OPPORTUNITIES.....PAGE 6 POW BOROUGH STUDY QUESTIONS AND WEBSITE UP.....PAGES 7 AND 8 FARMERS MARKET HIRE.....PAGE 9 GET OFF THE ROCK TRAVEL PACKAGE......PAGE 9 IFA TIDINGS ...... ..PAGE 9 POW RUNNERS/WALKERS CLUB AND MARATHON NEWS....PAGE 10 PRINCE OF WALES MARATHON SPONSOR LIST....PAGE 11 3500 . ...PAGE 11 POW VOC TEC PROJECT REPORT ..PAGE 12 HEALTH FAIR INFORMATION.....PAGE 12 ISLAND WIDE VISITOR COMMITTEE NEWS .. PAGE 12 DECEMBER EVENTS CALENDAR.........PAGE 13

DECE MBE R E DITION

This left hand column of the reformatted newsletter is dedicated to our sponsors who have paid for advertising and help the Chamber cover the costs of mailing and maintaining our email account and website. To become a sponsor and have your information appear here each month or for certain months of the year, call the Chamber office. We thank all of our sponsors for their support of this newsletter.

2013
Prince of Wales Island Runs and Walks
Our scheduled runs are as follows if you would like to participate.

Walkers are welcome!

The following are based on former stagings. December 15TH Jingle Bell Run - 10:00 at Klawock AC Grocery Store Sign in at 9:30AM in the Store Lobby 1 mile, 2 mile, 3 mile options! February 9th Cupid's Chase - 10:00 at Craig High School March 16 Shamrock Shuffle - 9:00 at Craig City Gym May 4th Totem-to-Totem Tune-Up - 9:00 at Healing Heart Totem in Craig May 25th POW Marathon: 7:00 at Craig Firecracker Run - 9:00 at parking lot of SEARHC in Klawock

OFFICE HOURS
As the season slows down and we wrap up the Island Guide for 2013, our office hours will be changing. Mon-Fri 12pm - 4pm with some early morning and evenings open also.

If these hours dont work for you please call for an pointment.

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CHAMBER BOARD - DECEMBER MEETING

The Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors will meet for their annual Board Potluck Lunch and Work Session on Sunday, December 9th.

Locations and times are subject to change

Since 1870, Christmas Day has been a federal holiday in the United States.

The poem "The Night Before Christmas", published anonymously in 1823, is generally credited for creating the modern day idea of Santa Claus. The custom of decorating a Christmas tree has been traced back to the 15th century.

The most expensive Christmas tree was decorated in the United Arab Emirates in 2010 at an estimated cost of over $11 million. Americans buy 25-30 million real trees and 8-12 million artificial trees to decorate each year.

It can take up to 15 years to grow an average-sized tree of 6-7 feet or as little as 4 years, but the average growing time is 7! The Tlingit words for Merry Christmas are Sigowu Kswas!

The traditional Christmas dinner in England used to be a pig head prepared with a mustard sauce. Most English folk are possibly quite delighted that this isn't the case anymore. The tradition of burning a Yule log actually has its roots in ancient Scandinavia. Supposedly the Yule log was a source of good luck and its remnants were saved to inspire good fortune throughout the year. It was such a widely held belief that people even threw the ashes in wells to make the water safer to drink. "Hot cockles" was a popular game at Christmas in medieval times. It was a game in which the other players took turns striking the blindfolded player, who had to guess the name of the person delivering each blow. "Hot cockles" was still a Christmas pastime until the Victorian era. "Wassail" comes from the Old Norse "ves heill"--to be of good health. This evolved into the tradition of visiting neighbors on Christmas Eve and drinking to their health. An artificial spider and web are often included in the decorations on Ukrainian Christmas trees. A spider web found on Christmas morning is believed to bring good luck. Candy canes began as straight white sticks of sugar candy used to decorated the Christmas trees. A choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral decided have the ends bent to depict a shepherd's crook and he would pass them out to the children to keep them quiet during the services. It wasn't until about the 20th century that candy canes acquired their red stripes

Klawock Schools are saving BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION

Klawock Schools will be saving these boxtops for NEW SCHOOL EQUIPMENT. You can drop off any you collect at the PRINCE OF WALES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OFFICE.
From the U.S Energy Information Administration on Gas Prices: 2000 to 2011 average retail Price $2.27 11% Distribution & Marketing Refining Cost & Profits Federal & State Taxes 2011 Average Retail Price $3.52 9%

Fly the Alaska Coastline-from your computer

Printed with permission from the Capital City Weekly-By Sarah Day

Frame by frame you can fly the Alaska coastline from the comfort of your own computer. Whats even more amazing is not only the raw beauty of the more than 6,640 miles of coast, is the detail the Alaska ShoreZone project can show with the ecosystem of the coastline. While the entire coastline isnt completely mapped, Southeast and a bit further north is! To check this out head to http://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/shorezone

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This is where you will find not only the video and the photographs taken thus far of the coastline, but also handy tutorials and supporting documentation for what the Nation Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is doing with it. Either the NOAA portal for ShoreZone or the main website of www.ShoreZone.org (Other states are mapping their own coastlines with this program) provide instruction on how to use it in greater detail, through cruising thorough the video or photo runs of the coast is intuitive and fairly easy to use. 3

Tongass Business Center

907-225-9015 Fax 907-225-9014 1-800-478-9015 tbcktn@tbccenter.com www.tbcenter.com

The Chamber of Commerce

has a new Director-please help us welcome

Chris Cumings
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION, by CHRIS CUMINGS:

Call for catalog. Office equipment and supplies, Sharp Copiers and faxes, printing and binding, newsletters, office furniture.

I am 28 years old, married with a new son. I am a life long Alaskan who growing up got to experience life in almost every corner of our state while my dad worked in law enforcement, though we eventually settled down in Ketchikan after he retired. I went South to attend college at the University of Oklahoma where I earned a bachelors degree in Political Science summa cum laude. After completing my degree, I also attended law school at OU, where one of my key achievements was having a law review article published studying the Roadless Rule quagmire. Being homesick for Alaska, I came back North and took a job with Wells Fargo Bank in the management training program. I spent several months working in Anchorage and then took a summer assignment in King Salmon. Once the fishing season ended, I jumped on the opportunity to return to Southeast and I accepted the position I am currently in as the Branch Manager for our local Prince of Wales branch and have been out here for 2+ years now. I consider POW one of the most amazing places I have ever been fortunate enough to live in and have turned down other opportunities to move on to bigger branches because I love the lifestyle out here and truly enjoy serving the people of our island. I look forward to working with the Chamber and its membership as POW enters an exciting new era of its history with all the promise our future holds.

Hollis Adventure Rentals

907-530-7040 cell 425-766-8969 fax 907-309-6483
harentals@comcast.net www.Harentals.com
This years Women Who Rock was a wonderful success. Thank you to everyone who contributed in some way to helping HOPE honor women who support families. This years honorees were Cathy Bolling, Joni Kuntz, Helen Jackson, Alma Cook, Roxy Wilson, Deborah Blair, and Selina Tolson. These women work hard to make POW a safe and great place to raise our families. Thank you 2012 Women Who Rock! We also had another successful silent and live auction; many thanks to Chuck Hanson for volunteering his time to be the auctioneer. Many artists from around POW contributed their wares to the auction and HOPE is grateful for their dedication to supporting safe families. HOPE is happy to take nominations through out the year. If you know of a woman who should be nominated please call HOPE, 826-2581 and have a nomination form sent to you by email or slow mail .

PO Box 1041, Craig, AK 99921 Car rental with kayak, boat and camping gear packages at the Hollis Ferry Dock. We also offer Skiff, Van, RV, Truck, and Fishing Gear rental at affordable rates.

For anyone interested , we have a copy of the USFS Big Thorne Project, Draft Environmental Impact Statement here at the office. It is on DVD, youre welcome to come get a copy or take a look at it. 4

Thorne Bay Market

Alaska and Proud

OFFICE WORKS
FROM SHARON

Rob Williams, Manager

907-828-3306 anp@kpunet.net www.alaskandproud.com

Rebecca asked me to give you an office report so here goes. We have been on overload for the past few weeks with a very active membership drive and updating all our information. When an application comes in it must be proofed at the web site, in the MyChamberApp, in the bookkeeping system, the business directory and lastly on the report that goes to Jan and the Board. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel and it is not a freight train coming! Everything needs to be proofed and to the Producers office by the time the Newsletter goes to print. Rebecca has changed her day job which has coincided with changing to our fall and winter office hours. Please check elsewhere in POWer for the current office schedule. And, remember, you need only give us a call and we can make an appointment to meet you here at other than regular winter hours. We are contemplating holding the first Chamber After Hours here at the office, with goodies and treats and snacks plus the release of the 2013 Island Guide. Mark your calendar for a Thursday or Friday around the end of January or first of February to share in this. When we get closer we will announce a firm date and time. For those of you that have not been in the office for a while we have a world of information on our shelves for you: Medical/Health - locations on the Island.

An independent full service grocery store. We feature fresh meat and produce and a full line of groceries.

PeaceHealth Medical Group-Prince of Wales

PeaceHealth Medical Group-POW 907-826-3257 Ext. 2219
www.peacehealth.org/SoutheastAlaska

US Forest Service project & bid information. Updates on the Mining projects. UAS Ketchikan/Juneau Class Schedule 2013 Alaska Department of Labor, classes they are offering Alaska Statistics on Employment and Job Markets Directory of Businesses, large and small in Alaska We have the Mile Post, Hunting and Fishing Regulations, Alaska Magazine, Fish Alaska, Alaska Business Monthly and numerous other magazines and periodicals that pertain to Alaska and our Island. The first of December I will be attending a payroll law seminar in Anchorage and hope to have lots of good information to pass on to business members. Our television monitor is currently featuring pictures by all of our 2013 photo submissions, and from the Zombie run sponsored by the P.O.W. Runners/Walkers Club that were taken by Michelle Smart-Nickerson. Ann James, thanks so much for bringing the Zombie pictures here for us to share with all. Do you have some pictures you would like to share? Bring them into the office!
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Primary care clinic serving residents and visitors of Prince of Wales. State of art medical, diagnostic and x-ray equipment; telemedicine; visiting specialists; home healthcare.

Tongass Federal Credit Union

907-755-2800 Fax: 907-755-2810 Toll Free: 800-960-8328 Mary Isaacs, Branch Manager/ tfcu@aptalaska.net www.tongassfcu.com

Prince of Wales Trails Opportunity

This information was submitted by the USFS-Maeve TaylorFor more information about these trails contact Craig Ranger District at 907-826-3271 or Thorne Bay Ranger District at 907-828-3304 (Please note: The Sunnahae Trail is currently under a multi year reconstruction.)

Tongass Nation Forest Trails Miles Length Time one-way One Way Difficulty Season Condition 0.04 10 min Easy Mar-Oct Good 0.25 15 min More Difficulty May-Sept Good 0.2 10 min Easy May-Sept Good 1.3 1.5 hr Difficulty May-Sept Fair 5 0.5 1.25 2 1 1.3 2.2 0.7 0.04 0.1 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.2 5.5 0.2 0.8 1 1.5 0.8 0.5 0.1 15 30 min 30 min 1.5 hrs. 3-4 hours 1 hr 1.5 hrs 2 hrs 45 min 10 min 10 min 45 min 45 min 20 min 20 min 4.5 hrs 20 min 45 min 1 hr 1.5 hr 45 min 30 min 15 min 2-3 days More Difficulty More Difficulty Most Difficult Most Difficult More Difficulty Easy More Difficulty Easy Easy Easy More Difficulty Most Difficult Easy Easy More Difficulty Easy More Difficulty More Difficulty Most Difficult Most Difficult May-Oct May-Sept All Year May-Oct May-Sept All Year All Year May-Sept May-Sept May-Sept May-Sept May-Sept All Year Apr-Oct May-Sept May-Sept May-Sept May-Sept May-Sept May-Sept Excellent Fair Excellent Fair/Poor Fair Good Fair Excellent Excellent Good Poor Excellent Excellent Excellent Good Good Excellent Fair Poor Poor

Branches located in the Island News building in Thorne Bay, the Klawock-Heenya Mall and 2000 Tongass Avenue in Ketchikan Thorne Bay branch open 10AM2PM Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. Klawock branch open 10AM-5:30PM Tuesday-Friday, noon-3PM Saturday. Public use ATMs are at Thorne Bay Market, Klawock-Heenya Mall branch and 6 locations in Ketchikan

CAPE FOX LODGE

Cape Fox Lodge's restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A bar/ lounge is open for drinks. Room service is available during limited hours. Down town Ketchikan 907-225-8001

Name Cable Creek Canoe Point Dog Salmon Harris River Harris River Interpretive Loop Kegan Lake One Duck Sunnahae Mtn Trocadero Twenty-Mile Spur Ball's Lake Beaver Falls Big Lake Cavern Lake Deweyville El Capitan Cave Gravelly Creek Hatchery Creek Karta River Memorial Beach Red Bay Lake Salt Chuck Salmon Bay Lake Shipley Bay Staney Creek Cabin Sweetwater Cabin Sarkar Lakes

More Difficulty All Year Excellent More Difficulty May-Sept Good More Difficulty May-Sept Fair

A CLEAN KITCHEN IS A SIGN OF A WASTED LIFE! - SHARON BROSAMLE

DIVERSIFIED INVESTMENTS & INSURANCE

907-225-9805 Fax -907-225-9807 dii@diiketchikan.net

POW BOROUGH STUDY

The POW Borough Feasibility Study website is now up & running! Here is the link: http://www.sheinbergassociates.com/prince-wales-island-boroughfeasibility-study
The Prince of Wales Island Advisory Committee (POWCAC) hired Sheinberg Associates to provide objective and factual information to POWCAC and Prince of Wales (POW) residents, school districts, communities, and organizations on the implications of POW forming a borough. POWCAC identified 10 Questions for the Sheinberg Team to research and answer: 1. Describe the types of boroughs and how are they different from one another. 2. Describe the mandatory, and optional, functions and duties of a POW Island Borough. 3. Determine whether POW Schools will gain or lose revenue if a Borough is formed, and explain why. 4. Develop two realistic POW Borough budgets (one for a borough exercising mandatory duties only (schools, planning, taxation), and another for a borough that exercises a few additional duties.) 5. Estimate the acres of State land that a POW Borough would be entitled to select. 6. Describe legal options for Assembly apportionment on POW given the areas demographics. 7. Prepare a table clearly describing how a POW borough will affect existing 1st and 2nd class cities, school districts, and unincorporated communities in the study area. 8. Describe the effects of a POW Borough on local tribal governments and Native Corporations. 9. What are the options for raising local revenue to support a POW Borough? (including a tax on extraction of resources). 10. Describe the implications of forming a POW Borough on land planning and permitting.

Specializing in investments and insurance for businesses and individuals: retirement (IRA, 401(k), deferred compensation), education, brokerage accounts, life, health, disability and longterm care Insurance. In business over 30 years.

FIRST BANK
Craig Branch
907-826-3254 Fax 907-826-3910
Lynnette.logan@firstbankak.com

www.firstbankak.com Full service community bank Offering checking, savings And time deposit accounts; Consumer, commercial, construction and home loans; And online banking services. Two ATM locations on Prince of Wales Island.

At the October POWCAC meeting, the following specific questions were posed for study in regard to Schools and other possible shared services Describe the ways that a POW Borough School District could be set up so that schools retain individuality and own control and identity. If a borough formed, what flexibility is there on timing for when the borough must form the consolidated school district? If a borough forms, who would own school (and other) facilities? Presently it is believed that each community owns its school facilities and the school district operates and maintains it. Would the borough own these facilities? What different considerations may need to be addressed? Would there be an elected school board AND an elected Assembly? Regarding community roads (outside of cities): is the Borough going to maintain roads? Can you also examine the potential for cost savings? For example, if we combine EMS services, does combining buying powers provide the Borough greater ability to procure revenue? The following comments or observations were made: Effects on schools are major concern. There will continue to be separate schools, even if borough formed. We can completely maintain independent sites, even if borough formed. There would be one superintendent, and one school board, but each school would have its own principal. Each school could have an advisory council or site council.

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The gathered participants at the October POWCAC meeting shared the following additional questions and comments in regard to POW Borough formation. The feasibility study underway by Sheinberg Associates will go a long way toward providing answers and further clarity on the many issues involved in this serious decision for POW.

Regarding revenue projections, what will they be based on, what is the assumption for population growth? O Sheinberg notes that generally the borough budgets are a snapshot in time based on current conditions, and general assumptions about inflation are made for the futurewill have to think about this. Could the state cut back on services or funding if a boroughs forms (i.e. state troopers, road maintenance, police, fire, emergency protection). Do we expect this to happen on Prince of Wales? Would there be better access to grants? What kind of financial and legal support and costs did Wrangell bear when it became a Borough? Can you show what has been removed from possible selection by the Borough? The Wilderness area on Coronation Island, if this was within Borough what are revenue implications? o Sheinberg notes that Secure Rural Schools (SRS) funding amount switches if borough formed from a formula based on number of students and road miles to one based on number of Tongass acres in borough. That is why number of Tongass acres in a borough matters. HOWEVER, this is likely not as critical an issue anymore because it is highly likely that last federal SRS payments will come to Southeast communities and schools in January 2013 and last federal PILT payments in July 2013. Together the loss of these two federal revenues means that a year from now there will be $2.75 million less coming to POW (and of this $1.7 million dedicated to school funding). A Fiscal Cliff is coming to Tongass communities (unless Congress reauthorizes PILT and SRS, which seems highly unlikely.)

What is the effect on unincorporated communities thinking about becoming 2nd class cities? A borough selected from the same pool of land that a community can select from, correct?

Is there a way to reserve lands around unincorporated places for those communities to select in future if they become 2nd class cities? o Sheinberg notes that the borough wont work unless there is good communication and a common purposethese kinds of relationship questions should be talked about before forming a borough, or as part of deciding whether to do it or not--possibly when writing your borough charter if you decide to be a Home Rule borough. One way or another communities need to communicate and agree on the rules that will be in effect in their borough. POWCAC is a good model.

Would an unincorporated community have same voice in the Borough as an incorporated community? If Naukati (for example) wants a community center, who would we go to for funding? Do our funding options become more limited or expand under a Borough? Address the limited life span of POW mines, and the implication of relying upon them for a borough tax revenue. In response to short mine life cycles, what about setting up permanent fund? What would that look like? What are anticipated revenues of the two mines? Many people have property on POW but do not live on POW. Can we discount taxes for residents? What exemptions are allowed to property tax, such as for 1st $150,000 of value of seniors homes. In past people have been confused with term bed tax and think it is a tax on number of beds in a house - use correct term, lodging tax. Sheinberg notes that we need to make realistic assumptions to estimate number of lodges and rooms; well need a team familiar with the island to review our assumptions/data to ensure accuracy. Can we explore employment head tax that would use an employment count one time every July? Assessment of property tax can be very restrictive, but sales tax can vary by season. For example, we could have a 10% summer sales tax and 0% winter sales tax, explore options and run scenarios. Compare revenue from a lodging tax versus property tax. Send a courtesy letter to the adjacent communities about what we are doing (Port Alexander, Edna Bay, Kake) so there are no surprises. What happens if certain communities or landowners dont want to be part of the borough?

The next POWCAC meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, January 22nd at the CTA facility in Craig. Meeting starts at 1PM.
Sheinberg Associates is scheduled to make a presentation at this meeting.
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CLEARY Computer Services

Klawock 907-755-2963 cell 907-401-0200 fax 907-755-2121
kcleary@clearycomputerservices.com

P.O.W. Runners/Walkers Club

is having a "Get-off-the-Rock" Travel Package Raffle!! Travel package includes one round-trip Promech ticket and one round-trip Alaska Airlines ticket! The drawing is May 25 at the Marathon Awards Ceremony!! Tickets $5.00 EACH. Tickets on sale at the CHAMBER OFFICE

www.clearycomputerservices.com

Repairs, installations, Internet, networks and servers, Windows, navigation software. Security software and most replacement parts in stock. Custom orders. Pick -up, drop-off, or on-site service available. 25 years experience; work guaranteed.

Farmers Market Committee to Hire Seasonal Manager

The POW Farmers Market committee met November 2 in Thorne Bay and decided to advertise for a manager to organize and oversee Farmer Market events for 2013. The salary will be $20 an hour plus travel allowances. The manager would likely work 40-hour weeks during March, April and May, and then 20 hour weeks through October. The committee would like to have a manager on board in early March and trained in time for the first Farmers Market event of the year on May 25, to be held in Craig in conjunction with the POW International Marathon. The next committee meeting is Friday, Dec. 7th at 10am in TB.

Commercial retail rental space available in Ketchikan

Judy Zenge Manager 907-225-7000 Email: theplazallc@gmail.com

November 2012 Inter-Island Ferry Authority Tidings

The Inter-Island Ferry carried 4,424 passengers and 1,095 vehicles between our Hollis and Ketchikan ports during the month of November 2012. The Inter-Island Ferry carried 36,884 passengers and 8,210 vehicles from January 1, 2012 through October 31, 2012 between our Hollis and Ketchikan ports. Driver free begins January 1, 2013 and continues through April 30, 2013. There are no sailings Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. The Inter-Island Ferry will cover the Lituyas sailings between Metlakatla and Ketchikan January 10, 2013 through January 25, 2013
Icy and slippery winter conditions are here again so please be careful on walkways and while driving. If you need assistance with boarding or disembarking the vessel, we will be glad to help. Please allow extra travel time to our Hollis terminal due to the Klawock Hollis Highway road construction and winter road conditions. Drive Safely!!
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Harris Air
based in Sitka, offers scheduled service into Klawock with our twinengine IFR equipped aircraft with connections throughout Southeast. Ask about shipping freight/ groceries. Now operating a Klawock terminal. Sitka 907-966-3050 Fax-907-966-3051 Email: info@harrisair.com

POW Runners/Walkers Club: Looking Back, Looking Forward and Beyond

Local residents certainly enjoyed catching a glimpse of our island runners and walkers assembled on November 17 for the POW Runners/Walkers Club annual 5k Gobble Wobble Fun Run/Walk. Participants were able to exercise off that decadent piece of pie by completing the course - all while delighting in the turkey hats worn by many navigating the route. Headgear consisting of bobbing turkey legs has to brighten anyones day! We thank those who took time during this busy holiday season to gather for this fun event and also Jean Jackson for the planning and staging of this event. On December 15, at 10:00 a.m., you will want to grab your festive running and walking gear and take part in our Jingle Bell Fun Run/Walk. Registration will be from 9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at the foyer of AC Klawock Market, which is providing refreshments before and after the event. Distance options are one mile, two miles, or three miles, and the first thirty registrants receive a special bell; everyone will be eligible for the numerous prize drawings. Jan Bush may be contacted at 401-0376 for more details. When we look beyond the holiday season to 2013, we have to remember our islands upcoming 14th Annual Prince of Wales Island Marathon and 2nd Annual Half Marathon on May 25. The marathon committee has been meeting on a regular basis since early August in order to prepare and stage another successful event for our participants. Online information and registration is available at www.powmarathon.org. The committee is enthused about the possibilities for the May marathon weekend: you will definitely want to be part of it! None of our clubs collective running and walking experiences would be possible without the support and sponsorship of local and regional businesses. We recently welcomed Silver Sea Adventures, the Klawock PTSA, and Mitsy Enterprises to our valued family of supporters and sponsors. They join the Inter-Island Ferry Authority, Diversified Investments & Insurance, Silver Bay Seafoods, NAPA Service Auto Parts, R&M Engineering, Shaan-Seet, Inc., Wesley Rentals, Prince of Wales Health Network, Papas Pizza, McFarlands FLOATEL, Southeast Road Builders, Inc., the Hill Bar, the City of Craig, the Southeast Conservation Council, BW Plus Landing Hotel, Outer Otter Sportfishing, Cleary Computer Services, B-3 Contractors, Inc., the POW Chamber of Commerce and AP&T. We are so grateful to these businesses and organizations for this support and note that our sponsorship drive will continue through the early months of 2013. Interested organizations and individuals may contact Ann James at annjames326@gmail.com for more information regarding sponsorship/supporter options. We would also like to acknowledge Alaska Airlines and Promech Airlines, both of which contributed round-trip tickets for our Get-Off-the-Island Travel Package raffle tickets are available at the Chamber office for only $5.00! And it was a wonderful surprise when The Clothes Company donated our first set of items for our marathon swag bags. Wishing all Happy Holidays! Submitted by Jean Jackson and Ann James , Marathon Race Co-Directors
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PRINCE OF WALES
FARMERS MARKET ASSOCIATION 2013 DATES

CRAIG-POW International Marathon, May 25th KASAAN-Crab Festival, June 15th THORNE BAY-City Celebration, August 3rd COFFMAN COVE-By the Sea Arts & Seafood Festival HOLLIS-Volunteer Fire Department Fund Drive Raffle and Community Celebration, Aug 17th

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CRAIG RECREATION NEWS Submitted by Victoria Merritt

Craig Bazaar!
The Christmas Bazaar will be December 8th, held at the Craig City Gym from 10 to 4pm. A great place to do your Christmas shopping! New and handmade gifts and crafts. Proceeds will be shared with the Craig WAVERUNNERS. Sign up forms are at Craig City Hall. Space with a table is $20 $5 extra for a wall space and $5 extra for electricity. Sign up forms at Craig City Hall or email craigrec@aptalaska.net. Craig Recreation News Roller skating will be at 3pm on Fridays in November and December! There will be a free snack at the Youth/Rec Center from 2pm to 2:50pm, then down to the gym. No skating on December 14th, 3 the Youth and Rec Center will be open from 2 to 4:30.There will be a skate on Thursday, December 13th at 3pm. Volleyball open gym Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7pm-closed Thanksgiving week. Ages 14 and up, $1 to play. DVD Aerobics at the City Gym Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 5:30, weekdays at 9:30 $2, this is a kid friendly activity. Parent/Tot Gym is weekdays, 10:30 to 12:30 for free. Stop by Craig City Hall for info. Bully Proof, a program by the Gracie Institute is Free for ages 5 to 12 Sundays at 3pm. The Craig City Gym or the Craig Youth/Recreation Center can be rented for parties on a space available basis. $15 an hour for the Gym, $25 an hour for the Youth/Recreation Center. Call Craig City hall, 826-3275. Questions about activities and events, call Victoria Merritt, 826-2575.

Half Marathon
Sponsors and Supporters
As of November 30, 2012

Silver Level
AP&T The Nature Conservancy Island Air Inter-Island Ferry Authority Alaska Airlines R&M Engineering POW Health Network Southeast Road Builders City of Craig Outer Otter Sportfishing B-3 Contractors, Inc. POW Chamber of Commerce Silver Sea Adventures

He who hesitates is last - Confucius

Bronze Level
Diversified Investments Papas Pizza Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Cleary Computers Mitsy Enterprises

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Thats how many 2013 Island Guides the POW Chamber of Commerce hopes to send out in an ALASKA PACK. If we can get the GUIDE production finished on time, it will be included in an Alaska collateral mailing to top-producing travel agencies in high producing Alaska markets throughout the U.S. and Canada. In mid-January, the State of Alaska will send a package of Alaska tourism collateral to top-producing travel agencies in high producing Alaska markets throughout the U.S. and Canada. An introductory letter from the state will be included, along with a copy of the 2013 Alaska Official State Vacation Planner and information regarding the Alaska Certified Expert (ACE) program. All materials in this Alaska-exclusive mailing will be packaged together and sent in a poly bag via U.S. mail in mid-January 2013. This is just another great benefit that your Chamber of Commerce hopes to provide to our 2013 valued members.
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Supporters
ProMech Air Best Western + Landing Hotel Hill Bar McFarlands FLOATEL Shaan-Seet Wesley Rentals NAPA Alaska Marine Lines Klawock PTSA

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Coffman Cove Charters, LLC

907-329-2044 / 503-377-2505 lee@coffmancovecharters.com www.coffmancovecharters.com

Fish halibut, salmon and bottom fish with Capt. Lee Harper. Walk-ons welcome, reservations encouraged. Call now to guarantee your spot in the Silver Talon. We'll see you in Coffman Cove this summer!

The bid documents for the POW Voc Tec Center Building were finalized by the Advisory Committee at a special meeting on Wednesday, November 28th. The project is out for bid as of November 30th, 2012. Bid date is January 4th, 2013. The committee will meet on January 4th to open the bids and begin the process of scoring them. The expected award will take place on January 10th with a work start date of January 20th. The completion date for the project is November 1, 2013. Sitework performed by Klawock Contractor B-3 Contractors, Inc. is in the testing and cleanup stage at the project site on Boundary Road and will be substantially complete by December 10th.

Prince of Wales Vocational & Technical Education Center Report

Upcoming Health Fair POW clinic schedule

Call 305-1201 or email jessica.rooney@akics.org for more information. Times will be announced as we get closer to confirming our schedules.
Clinic in Port Protection and Edna Bay the week of December 10th

DHB RESTORATION, LLC

Coffman Cove 907-329-2018 fax 907-329-2019
gwd2nd@douglasshomebuilders.com

Our Health Fairs feature reduced cost lab work: A Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (including Fasting Cholesterol test) for $25, additional labs: TSH (Thyroid) $25, PSA (for men) $25, HA1C (Diabetic test) $25.

ISLAND-WIDE VISITORS COMMITTEE MEETING (Jeannie McFarland)

POW Chamber Island Wide Visitor Committee met in November to update everyone on several ongoing activities and events. The Island Guide production was discussed and more suggestions made to improve the use of the guide by Visitors and Residents alike. Production of the guide is in full swing and the deadline for this years Guide is the first week of December. If you have any ideas or photos get them to the Chamber Office. If they dont make it this year we will file them with the 2014 guide plans and be ahead! News about the US Forest Service programs and winter plans were shared. Gail Slentz from the IFA shared the current news of Ferry Operation and future plans. Ann James updated us on the 2013 Marathon and the new route to avoid the construction on the Klawock to Hollis Highway. Holding a 3rd Biennial VISITORS SUMMIT in September of 2013 was discussed. Planning will begin after the first of the year. A Scenic Byways meeting was held after the Visitor meeting. The group finalized the information on points of interest for travelers on each section of the Byway. At the next meeting in February the group will proofread the document for final printing. The Visitor Committee will resume meeting in January on Thursday the 10th from 11am to 2pm, location to be determined. If you would like the complete report on the meetings contact Jeannie McFarland at floatel@starband.net.

www.douglasshomebuilders.com

General contractor specializing in remodeling, disaster restoration and new construction of both residential and commercial structures. 30 years-plus of experience with detail-focused approach to all aspects of work. Douglass also offers carpet and upholstery cleaning on all of Prince of Wales Island Boats and RVs too. Call for a free quote. 24 hour fire and flood service. Cell phone 907-254-0672.

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DECEMBER 2012 EVENTS!

PLEASE SEND YOUR JANUARY 2013 EVENTS TO

info@princeofwalescoc.org
BY DECEMBER 28 TO SEE THEM HERE NEXT MONTH!
Photo by Diane Stittgen

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1ST SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1ST SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1ST SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1ST TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4TH WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5TH FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7TH SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8TH SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8TH SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8TH SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9TH TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11TH THURSDAY DECEMBER 13TH THURSDAY DECEMBER 13TH FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14TH SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15TH

GPS/GEOCACHE by Out In the Rain meet at Annie Bettys at 9AM THORNE BAY BUSINESS ASSOCIATION CHRISTMAS LIGHTING CONTEST BEGINS HOLLIS COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS PARTY-POTLUCK-HOLLIS LIBRARY 5PM WINTER SQUALLS ISLAND GRIND AT CRAIG HS AUDITORIUM AT 7PM POW BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COALITION MEETING, 5:30PM-8:30PM, KLAWOCK HEENYA MALL BUILDING #3 LAST THORNE BAY PLANNING MEETING for community Christmas Dinner and School Program-3:30PM CITY HALL CHAMBERS FARMERS MARKET MEETING IN THORNE BAY AT 10AM HOLLIS COOKIE EXCHANGE-12PM HOLLIS LIBRARY HOLIDAY BAZAAR-CRAIG-sign up at city hall THORNE BAY CHRISTMAS TREE COLLECTING ADVENTURE LEAVES THE PORT 11AM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ANNUAL WORK SESSION CRAIG MIDDLE SCHOOL/CRAIG HIGH SCHOOL WINTER CONCERT AT 7PM THORNE BAY GREAT COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS DINNER AND SCHOOL PROGRAM5PM THORNE BAY SCHOOL GYM CRAIG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WINTER CONCERT AT 7PM THORNE BAY CHRISTMAS PROGRAM WRAP UP MEETING-3:30PM-CITY HALL CHAMBERS ROOM JINGLE BELL FUN RUN/WALK SIGN IN AT 9:30 AT KLAWOCK AC GROCERY STORE. OPT FOR 1-MILE, 2-MILE, 3-MILE DISTANCES AT 10AM. BELLS AND PRIZES AND REFRESHIMENTS BY AC KLAWOCK MARKET! CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT KLAWOCK CHRISTMAS BAZAAR-10AM-6PM-KLAWOCK CITY GYM KLAWOCK SCHOOL WINTER CONCERT AT 6PM IN GYM KLAWOCK ALL SCHOOL PROGRAM AT 6PM IN GYM THORNE BAY JUDGING OF THE HOLIDAY LIGHTING CONTEST 13TH ANNUAL P.O.W.E.R. BENEFIT CONCERT AT CRAIG HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM AT 7PM FOLLOWED BY RECEPTION..call Ralph Mackie, Karen Coffey, Cathy Bolling

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15TH SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15TH TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18TH THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20TH THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20TH SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22ND TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25TH MONDAY, DECEMBER 31ST

Merry Christmas! Happy Holiday!

New Years Eve! POWCAC MEETING AT CTA IN CRAIG: BOROUGH STUDY REPORT 1PM

LOOKING AHEAD TO JANUARY

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22

REMEMBER -

SUPPORT CHAMBER MEMBERS THAT SUPPORT ISLAND ECONOMY!

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