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SITKA - Eleven Alaska Native/American Indian high school students from rural Alaska communities learned about health careers as they participated in the 2012 Ethel Lund Village Health Occupations Program (VHOP) on April 24-27 in Sitka.

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In past columns, we learned about Charles Vincent Baronovich, pioneer at Kasaan Bay and how he married the daughter of Chief Skowl, started a trading post and smuggled liquor and other items from Canada.

Ever wondered about someone you pass on the sidewalk, see in the grocery store, or heard mentioned in stories? This is our attempt to track those people down, and grill them, lightly.

SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Behavioral Health/Suicide Prevention Program is joining with 15 Southeast Alaska communities to host local "Walk For Life" suicide prevention events at 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 12.

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The episode with the U.S. Revenue Service detailed in a recent column was not Baronovich's closest brush with the law.

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Editor's note: This is the second installment in a four-part series about Charles Vincent Baronovich. In last week's issue, we learned about how Baronovich arrived in Alaska, married the daughter of Chief Skowl of a village in Polk Inlet and started a salmon saltery in Karta Bay. He also hunted and traded fur seals out of Kodiak. We continue his story when he decided to smuggle liquor to Alaska where it was illegal.

The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Behavioral Health/Suicide Prevention Program is joining with at least 14 Southeast Alaska communities to host local "Walk For Life" suicide prevention events. All the events will occur on May 12 at 1 p.m., with the exception of the Klukawan/Haines event, which will begin at 8 a.m.

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Charles Vincent Baronovich came to my attention years ago when I started researching a mine in Kasaan Bay. As I continued to research, I found many more things about this man who pioneered the mining and saltery industries in the 1870s. In addition, this independent individual enlightened me about episodes of illegal activities in early Southeast Alaska.

The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) is joining with other health care organizations around the country to honor National Patient Advocacy Week April 9-15, an event organized by the Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy.

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I was born and raised in Wrangell, and I live here with my husband and two daughters. I am Tlingit and I practice traditional food gathering. My family has a cabin at the mouth of the Stikine River, the fastest free flowing navigable river in North America, where we often live and where we fish. This river is the source of salmon that my family relies on to sustain us year-round, and is the source of salmon that contributes to our community's fishing economy. The Stikine is also an important spiritual and cultural resource.

WRANGELL - A growing coalition of groups and businesses are working together to develop a biofuel manufacturing facility in the island community of Wrangell. Space heating with biofuels is a key recommendation of the Alaska Energy Authority's recently released drafted Southeast Integrated Resource Plan.

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WRANGELL - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) is recruiting cancer survivors for its second annual Southeast Men's Prostate and Testicular Cancer Survivor Retreat on June 1-3 in Wrangell.

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This interview was conducted with Eric Yancey, founder and owner of Breakaway Adventures, LLC.

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At this point in her career, Vivian Faith Prescott is likely a household name in Sitka, where she lives, as well as in Wrangell, where she was born and raised, if not among the literary-aware in Alaska in general. Prescott is in her own league; her accomplishments span the achievable of several lifetimes.

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Miners, contractors and anyone who wants to break rock into pieces knows about dynamite. It was Alfred Nobel who refined nitroglycerin into dynamite, invented the blasting cap and patented it in 1867. We know about him today because he used his fortune to fund the Nobel Prizes. Fortunately the first hard rock miners in Alaska had access to dynamite.

Thirty-six Alaskan sites are set up for a free tax preparation service available until April 17 through the AARP Foundation.

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The Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Haines Health Center is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. David O. McCandless, MD, to its staff.

Soon after gold was discovered in Juneau, prospectors fanned out into the 25-mile strip of country between the Mendenhall River and Berner's Bay. Here, the Mendenhall, Herbert and Eagle glaciers descend from snow-capped mountains to gravel-strewn valley floors less than 200 feet above sea level. Prospectors panned the stream gravels hoping to find gold in similar quantities to the discoveries behind the rapidly expanding town of Juneau. In the basins through which Montana and Windfall creeks flow, gold seekers found enough gold to stir images of fortunes.

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KETCHIKAN - The Tongass Historical Museum has partnered with the U.S. Forest Service to present "A Forest of Words," a Tongass-inspired exhibit at the museum.

The U.S. Forest Service's proposed actions for 2012 include projects in the Wrangell and Petersburg Districts.

Indigo L. Prus, daughter of Tasha L. and Joseph E. Prus of Petersburg, recently graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Recruit Training Center in Cape May, N. J. Prus is a 2010 graduate of Petersburg High School.

Editor's note: This is the second installment in a two-part series recounting the events of a 1907 border survey team. Part one of the series appeared in last week's Capital City Weekly.

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Home of the trans-Alaska pipeline, Alaska has been the setting for a few epic engineering battles rendered against nature. The Million Dollar Bridge, spanning the lower Copper River, is a reminder of another improbable Alaska construction project.