Photo archive for May 14, 2008
Alaska Nanooks hockey players, from left, Braden Walls, Jordan Pernarowski, Justin Binab and Ryan Muspratt prepare to hit the ice between drills of the team’s first practice Monday afternoon, September 17, 2007, at the Patty Center. The Nanooks will learn who will lead their practices next season as the replacement for departed head coach Doc DelCastillo will be annouced today.
Environmental activists from the Alaska Wilderness League and Greenpeace watch Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne's news conference at the Interior Department in Washington on May 14, 2008, where he announced the status of the polar bear as a threatened species.
Members of the Alaska Wilderness League, dressed in polar bear costumes, sit in the last row during Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne's news conference to announce the status of the polar bear May 14, 2008, at the Interior Department in Washington.
Elliott, a 1-year-old tabby, sits about 40 feet up in a birch tree off of Emma Way as GVEA's Karm Singh reaches him in a bucket lift Tuesday morning, May 13, 2008. "He just doesn't want to come down, or he doesn't know how to get down," owner Janet Kidd said of her cat, which she rescued from the Fairbanks North Star Borough Animal Shelter last fall. Kidd returned home from work Monday evening and could hear Elliott meowing, but couldn't see him until she looked up. "I said 'Oh No! He's up there!'" Kidd suspects that Elliott was chased up the tree by a neighborhood dog. Golden Valley Electric Association employees Karm Singh and Russ Young came to the rescue, using a bucket lift on the back of their service truck to reach the cat and bring it down to safety. "Another day at the office," Singh, a 21-year veteran of GVEA, joked about helping the cat, adding that he's saved about a half-dozen felines from high places throughout the years and that they were already in the neighborhood for another job. The crew opted to use the bucket instead of ladders for safety reasons. "Once you get your hands full of cat, it's hard to climb down (the ladder)," Singh added.
Elliott, a 1-year-old tabby, sits about 40 feet up in a birch tree off of Emma Way on Tuesday morning, May 13, 2008. "He just doesn't want to come down, or he doesn't know how to get down," owner Janet Kidd said of her cat, which she rescued from the Fairbanks North Star Borough Animal Shelter last fall. Kidd returned home from work Monday evening and could hear Elliott meowing, but couldn't see him until she looked up. "I said 'Oh No! He's up there!'" Kidd suspects that Elliott was chased up the tree by a neighborhood dog. Golden Valley Electric Association employees Karm Singh and Russ Young came to the rescue, using a bucket lift on the back of their service truck to reach the cat and bring it down to safety. "Another day at the office," Singh, a 21-year veteran of GVEA, joked about helping the cat, adding that he's saved about a half-dozen felines from high places throughout the years and that they were already in the neighborhood for another job. The crew opted to use the bucket instead of ladders for safety reasons. "Once you get your hands full of cat, it's hard to climb down (the ladder)," Singh added.
GVEA's Russ Young hands Elliott, a 1-year-old tabby, to his owner Janet Kidd after Elliott was rescued from a tree near Elliot Way Tuesday morning, May 13, 2008.
City of Fairbanks Police officers convene in front of the house at 209 Dunbar Ave. after clearing the structure Tuesday afternoon, May 13, 2008. Occupants of a suspicious vehicle fled when officers attempted contact, running into the house known for suspicious and illegal activity.
A violet-green swallow gathers feathers for a nest in a ventilation hole in the roof of a shed at Creamer's Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge on Tuesday afternoon, May 13, 2008.
A violet-green swallow peeks from a ventilation hole in the roof of a shed at Creamer's Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge on Tuesday afternoon, May 13, 2008. A pair of the swallows spent the afternoon gathering material for their nest in the vent hole.
Asparagus ca be prepared in some pretty interesting ways, including crispy asparagus straws.
Detroit Pistons' Richard Hamilton (32) celebrates a basket with Rodney Stuckey (3) and others in the second half of Game 5 of an NBA Eastern Conference semifinal Tuesday, May 13, 2008, in Auburn Hills, Mich. Hamilton led the Pistons with 31 points in a 91-86 win. The Pistons won the best-of-seven series 4-1.