Photo archive for April 17, 2008
Trudi Rand cheers for a first-period Fairbanks Ice Dogs goal by Aaron Stonacek as she and dozens of other fans watched the Ice Dogs take on the Topeka RoadRunners over a live video feed Thursday afternoon, April 17, 2008, from the Moose Family Center. Rand, who is a host parent to Ice Dogs players Nick Guran and Andrew McCabe, said she was disappointed in the team being denied home games in the North American Hockey league playoff series, but still confident of the their chances. “The boys can do great wherever they are,” she added.
The Fairbanks Drama Association and the Looking Glass group present the 8x10 Alaskan Playwrights Festival, an offering of eight short pieces from homegrown talent. Subject range from sandwiches to flying lessons.
Cast members of Theatre UAF's presentation of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" strike a pose Sunday afternoon, April 13, before a dress rehearsal at the Salisbury Theatre. The Anatoly Antohin-directed play opens tonight at 8:15 p.m.
The Department of the Interior says it needs at least 10 more weeks to decide whether polar bears should be listed as threatened or endangered. In a reply Thursday, April 18, 2008 to a lawsuit filed by three conservation groups, Assistant Secretary Lyle Laverty says the proposed listing raises "significant and complex factual and legal issues."
Here is a picture of my son Andrew Akootchook Sage. He is helping out our whaling crew, Akootchook Whaling Crew, by making sure the bearded sealskin is properly oiled. He is rubbing a piece of seal fat over the skin boat so the skin doesn’t dry out while the others were fitting the cover to the boat frame. Andrew’s grandmother/aaka is local skin sewing expert Priscilla Sage.
Brian Wenzel, vice president of gas development at ConocoPhillips Alaska, speaks during a gas line project presentation at the Alaska Support Industry Alliance luncheon Wednesday afternoon, April 16, 2008 at the Westmark Hotel.
A trumpeter swan stretches its wings while resting in Creamer's Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge Thursday evening, April 20, 2007.
Lathrop High School head track coach Jeff Hebard takes advantage of his lunch break to clear the fresh snow from the school track with a snow blower Wednesday morning, April 16, 2008. Local high school teams are preparing for the upcoming weekend's track and field meet scheduled for Saturday at West Valley High School.