Photo archive for April 13, 2008
Sen. Con Bunde, R-Anchorage, right, plays a jug bass in the Capitol stairwell to celebrate the adjournment of the 25th Alaska Legislature, in Juneau on Sunday, April 13, 2008. Legislative staffer Dave Stancliff accompanies Bunde on the guitar. The House and Senate finished their business Sunday, closing out the session by passing the capital budget and a $315 million transportation bond bill.
Gov. Sarah Palin made it back to Alaska from a conference in Texas in time to give birth to her fifth child this morning, a boy named Trig Paxson Van Palin.
Ryland Bell, yellow, and Ralph Backstrom watch the last riders of the final day of The North Face Masters big mountain snowboarding competition on Mount Alyeska in Girdwood, Alaska. Weather delays pushed the event two days longer than originally scheduled and canceled the heli-ski portion of the super finals.
Judges Shawn Farmer, left, Julie Zell and Joe Stokes on the final day of The North Face Masters big mountain snowboarding competition on Mount Alyeska in Girdwood, Alaska. Unlike half-pipe events where riders are rated on original tricks, the big mountain judges where looking for control, choice of line and use of natural obstacles.
Tina Harmon of Girdwood, Alaska, waits her turn to drop in during the first day of The North Face Masters big mountain snowboarding competition on Mount Alyeska in Girdwood, Alaska. Harmon placed third in the women’s event.
Ryland Bell rides the headwall venue on the third day of The North Face Masters snowboard competition at Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, Alaska. Bell originally got his snowboarding start in Fairbanks and now spends his winters in Lake Tahoe. Bell still helps his parents commercial fish during the summers in Juneau.
Eli Sonafrank, left, and Nick Toye, student members of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Sustainable Campus Task Force, look over the club’s stockpile of donated bicycles Saturday afternoon, April 5, 2008. Members meet a few times a month repair and build working bicycles from various parts of otherwise nonworking bicycles.
Eli Sonafrank consults a bicycle repair manual about a troublesome bottom bracket on a donated bicycle Saturday afternoon, April 5, 2008. Members of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Sustainable Campus Task Force meet a few times a month repair and build working bicycles from various parts of otherwise nonworking bicycles.
Rachel Garcia, left, and Nick Toye, right, look on as Tom Marsik works on a donated bicycle’s bottom bracket Saturday afternoon, April 5, 2008. Members of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Sustainable Campus Task Force meet a few times a month repair and build working bicycles from various parts of otherwise nonworking bicycles.
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"It is really no big deal," Twila Schuster says Friday, April 11, 2008, of her photo appearing on this Sunday's Parade magazine issue "What People Earn." The local real estate broker, who reportedly makes $173,000 annually, appears with Trouble, Leona Helmsley's dog, $12 million and Mary Ellen Warren, an airline baggage agent, $24,000.
Signs depicting Ludwig van Beethoven mark the race course during the annual Beat Beethoven 5-kilometer running race Saturday morning, April 12, 2008 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Starting and finishing at the Patty Center, runners make their way along the course lined with radios playing Beethoven's 5th Symphony, trying to complete the run before the 30-minute piece ends.
Runners make their way up Tanana Loop during the annual Beat Beethoven 5-kilometer running race Saturday morning, April 12, 2008 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Starting and finishing at the Patty Center, runners make their way along the course lined with radios playing Beethoven's 5th Symphony, trying to complete the run before the 30-minute piece ends.
These photographs, taken in 1914 at Chatanika, Alaska, show a town that had once been a booming suburb of Fairbanks. By the time these photographs were taken, Chatanika had lost its railway service and closed the post office as the residents headed for more prosperous areas. Looks like they still had a store, the Grand Hotel and other businesses trying to survive in this small area — wonder what the population was of Chatanika in 1914.