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• Free Tlingit workbook part of language revitalization

  05-07-2017 23:26 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Richard Radford writes on a whiteboard during the Monday night Tlingit language learners workshop in the Juneau Public Library. (Photo by Carter Barrett/KTOO)http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/07/05TLINGIT.mp3This isn’t a class, and there is no teacher. About 15 people are participating in a Tlingit language workshop at the Juneau Public Library on a Monday night.
  The group of Natives and non-Natives are learning a language that only about 100 people speak fluently.
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• 22-year wolf control study gives insight on Interior populations

  05-07-2017 23:19
  
  A 22-year wolf control study gives new insights into how species management programs in adjacent areas effect Interior Alaska populations.
  From 1993 to 2014, National Park Service researchers monitored wolf population dynamics, to assess how two large-scale wolf control programs affected a population located within the adjacent protected area of the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. Both programs had a goal of increasing the size of the Fortymile caribou herd, Yukon-Charley Rivers National
  
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• Newscast – Wednesday, July 5, 2017

  05-07-2017 22:09 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/07/noon070517.mp3In this newscast:
  A soldier from Alaska is killed in Afganistan,
  End of first king salmon opener for trollers,
  Shortened summer Dungeness crab season, and
  An update on air traffic control privatization efforts in Congress.
  
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• Woman arrested after trash attracts bear to her tent

  05-07-2017 21:57
  
  An Anchorage woman is custody at after police received a report of a black bear on top of a tent with trash around it.
  APD says they responded to the tent located in the 8300 block of Boundary Avenue at Centennial Park around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. When they arrived, the bear was gone, but found the crumpled tent with a sleeping bag inside. Police said they poked the sleeping bag and 58-year-old Christine Chalp “poked her head out.”
  Chalp told officers at the scene she was playing dead
  
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• Brain injury survivors use mask-making to shed light on hidden trauma

  05-07-2017 21:05 via ktoo.org
  
  
  On a recent afternoon, seven people are using colorful paints, feathers, strings and beads to decorate masks inside Access Alaska, a support center for people with disabilities.
  Retired Air Force Sgt. John Main is busy sketching designs. He’s methodical, coordinating colors with a list of emotions written on a separate sheet of paper.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170703-10.mp3Like everyone else at this event, Main suffers from a brain injury. In 2011 he had a stroke, but it was no
  
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• Workforce Wednesday: Working on soft skills

  05-07-2017 21:03
  
   
  Before job seekers get to show their hard skills, like working with their hands, they have to have soft skills — work ethic, attitude and timeliness.
  Speaking and listening skills will show in the interview. Before that, a person’s writing skills will show in their cover letter. Enthusiasm and communication skills will tell an employer that person is ready to advance.
  The Alaska Process Industry Careers Consortium (APICC),  developed a program called YES, Youth Employmen
  
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• White Pass railroad company wants 20 more years on lease to make way for urgent Skagway port improvements

  05-07-2017 20:09 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Cruise ships dock in Skagway’s port. (Photo by Emily Files/KHNS)
  The private company that controls more than half Skagway’s port wants a 20-year lease extension in order to make way for pressing waterfront improvements.
  http://khns.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/03SkagLeasewINTRO.mp3White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad is a major tourist attraction in Skagway. Since 1968, it has controlled a significant portion of Skagway’s tidelands and uplands through a lease with the city.
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• Denali’s first Uber driver hits the streets

  05-07-2017 20:04
  
  DENALI, Alaska (AP) – Denali’s first Uber driver has hit the streets following Gov. Bill Walker’s recent signing of a ride-sharing bill.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the first thing 36-year-old Noah Treky did was turn his Uber app on after the governor’s approval in June.
  Treky was an Uber driver in Nevada in 2015. After returning to Alaska in March, he carefully watched as the Legislature considered allowing Uber to operate in the state.
  Treky works in housekee
  
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• Shareholder unrest shapes Shee Atiká meeting

  05-07-2017 19:37 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Tension between a Native village corporation and its shareholders has reached a boiling point.
  Shee Atiká called Sitka police to their annual meeting, saying threats had been made against staff and the board.
  Shareholders have a different story: one of raising their voices against a corporation in financial free-fall and calling for new leadership.
  http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170703-07.mp3Shee Atiká has 3,000 shareholders.
  Christine Silvanio is one of them. She flew all the w
  
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• Three-time cancer survivor asks Senators to vote ‘no’ on proposed health care plan

  05-07-2017 19:15
  
   
  This Fourth of July, Alaska’s senators are home, while Congress is on recess — but their work on a proposed health care plan is far from over.
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell initially wanted a vote on their attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act before the holiday recess, but it became clear that wouldn’t happen. The delay gives Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan more time to look over the proposed bill and get answers — something both
  
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• Neighbors react to home falling into the Matanuska River, worried about ongoing erosion issues

  05-07-2017 18:51
  
   
  After the Matanuska River claimed a vacant home Monday evening, Valerie Musiel and her husband are left wondering if their home in Sutton will be next.
  “I don’t want to leave,” Musiel said during an interview taking place in her backyard. “This was a beautiful place at one time.”
  The Musiels have had their home for almost six decades. Old photos Valerie clings onto show woods, a 50-foot clothesline and many more acres of their property. That’s not the
  
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• Soldier from Wasilla dies of wounds suffered in Afghanistan

  05-07-2017 18:45
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – The Army says an Alaska soldier serving in Afghanistan has died.
  The Department of Defense says 19-year-old Pfc. Hansen Kirkpatrick of Wasilla died Monday in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
  He was wounded in what the Defense Department says was an indirect fire attack. The incident is under investigation.
  Kirkpatrick was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss, Texas.
  (Copyright 2017 The Asso
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 7-6-17

  05-07-2017 10:33 via ktoo.org
  
  Thursday, July 6, 2017,We’ll get an update on the Orpheus Project with William Todd Hunt;We’ll profile a new business in town, Harbor Tea & Spices, with guest, Janice McCann;And Nancy DeCherney will be here with Arts Up;That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, live at 3 on KTOO, repeated at 4 on KRNN, and available on demand via ktoo.org
  
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• Tillerson Confirms North Korea Missile An ICBM, Calls For Global Action

  05-07-2017 03:12 via ktoo.org
  
  Updated at 7:19 p.m. ET
  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confirmed Tuesday that the missile launched by North Korea on Monday was an intercontinental ballistic missile, in a statement in which he condemned the test.
  “Testing an ICBM represents a new escalation of the threat to the United States, our allies and partners, the region, and the world,” Tillerson said.
  In response to the test, U.S. and South Korean forces conducted joint military exercises aimed at “countering North
  
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• Fireworks show a family affair in Anchorage

  05-07-2017 01:43
  
  What’s the Fourth of July without fireworks? For the people behind the Anchorage show, each year it’s a family affair.
  Kylie Clark is a third generation pyrotechnician with Alaska Pyrotechnics.
  The company has “been around since 1949. My grandfather started it,” she said.
  But everything Clark knows, she learned from her dad.“His pyrotechnic number was one when they first started issuing licenses here,” said Clark.
  Now, it’s his memory lighting her way.
  
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• Alaska Military Youth Academy cadets lead Fourth of July parade

  05-07-2017 01:38
  
  Thousands of people lined the streets of Anchorage for the annual Fourth of July parade.
  Cadets from the Alaska Military Youth Academy (AMYA) kicked off the festivities, leading the line of floats around the Delaney Park Strip.
  “This is the first Fourth of July parade I’ve been in,” said Garrett Canada. “It’s a big event and it’s cool to represent the academy as the first sergeant. It means a lot to me because people are counting on me to represent the C
  
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• North Korea launched intercontinental ballistic missile, U.S. officials confirm

  05-07-2017 00:44
  
  U.S. officials said North Korea launched intercontinental ballistic missile, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.
  Martin says U.S. military officials are not disputing outside experts who say if the missile had been fired on a normal trajectory, that was intended to take advantage of the range these rockets could reach, that missile could have gone in excess of 4,000 miles — enough to reach Alaska, although not the lower 48 United States, and not Hawaii.
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