Photo archive for May 30, 2008
Madalyn Lehrer of the North Pole Gardening Club waters one of the beds as volunteers plant flowers in the Golden Heart Plaza Friday morning, May 30, 2008. Festival Fairbanks sponsors the annual event which draws dozens of volunteers, many from different gardening clubs in the area.
Flower identification tags pile up as volunteers plant flowers in the Golden Heart Plaza Friday morning, May 30, 2008. Festival Fairbanks sponsors the annual event, which draws dozens of volunteers, many from different gardening clubs in the area.
Graduate Bonnie Slats smiles as she watches the rest of her classmates prepare for the Effie Kokrine Charter School commencement Friday, May 30, 2008.
Graduate Clara Perdue has a beaded rosette sewn on to her dress by Effie Kokrine Charter School teacher Carla Kangas before the start of their commencement Friday. Perdue's mother, Mona Nollner, did the bead work for her cap and helped Leda Cruger make her dress.
BJ Gore is the sole 2008 graduate of Cantwell School.
Cyclists leave the starting line of the Ester Dome Hill Climb on Friday, May 30, 2008. The hill climb starts the Alaska Coffee Roasting Company Mountain Bike event which continues Saturday with four more races.
Part gravel, part asphalt, the Top of the World Highway winds mostly above timberline to Dawson City.
Aboard a narrow gauge train pulled by restored locomotive No. 73, passengers ride from Skagway over White Pass Summit to Fraser Meadows.
Off the Alaska Highway at Historic Milepost 1053, Silver City was a trading post and way station for the Kluane Lake mining district until 1924.
Lunch at Fort Selkirk, once a Hudson Bay Company trading post, now a remarkable window into the past.
Eight miles up Dawson's Bonanza Creek, historic Gold Dredge No. 4 was the largest bucket line dredge in North America.
Whatever hazards it posed to boats, Carcross' Lake Bennett was a welcome sight for prospectors who'd made 40 trips hauling supplies over the steep Chilkoot Trail.
Baseball was and still is a big sport in the Fairbanks area, and the Van Dykes look like they're ready to become the all-stars for the year. Their major opponent in town was the Californians, and there were probably still teams in outlying areas such as Chatanika and other mining camps. This photograph, taken by Basil Clemons, is captioned "Van Dyke Team, Fairbanks, Alaska. July Fourth 1913." — Candy Waugaman
Elton John plays to the full house of the Carlson Center at the start of his concert Thursday, May 29, 2008.
Elton John plays to the full house of the Carlson Center at the start of his concert Thursday, May 29, 2008.
Elton John plays to the full house of the Carlson Center at the start of his concert Thursday, May 29, 2008.
Elton John plays to the full house of the Carlson Center at the start of his concert Thursday, May 29, 2008.
Elton John talks to the full house of the Carlson Center at the start of his concert Thursday, May 29, 2008.
Elton John greets the full house of the Carlson Center at the start of his concert Thursday, May 29, 2008.
Rep. Don Young's wife, Lu, shows her support while Young answers questions from the media after registering to run for re-election Thursday morning, May 29, 2008, at the voter's registration office in the State Building.
Foundation work is under way at the City of Fairbanks Department of Public Works on Thursday afternoon, May 29, 2008, as a new 17,600-square-foot energy efficient heated garage is built to house vehicles in the winter, eliminating the cost of of plugging in or idling the vehicles. The structure, being built by North Pole contractor RDM Sanders Inc., will hold 32 vehicles including the city's dump trucks, sanders and graters as well as vehicles for police, fire and Homeland Security departments.
Kendall Murphy of South Anchorage, left, defends West Valley's Sean Solie during first-half action at the Alaska state soccer tournament Thursday May 29, 2008 at Anchorage Football Stadium.