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| In the News |
[14 Aug 2008|12:54pm] |
Break in weather aiding search for Andrews plane
Searchers are using improved weather conditions to mount an extensive search for the missing Andrews float plane. Search and Rescue Coordinator Scott Giard in the Coast Guard's Juneau Command Center told us at 10 a.m. today that a Coast Guard helicopter from Sitka had already made one search and was close to completing a second one. It was scheduled to start another search after that.
Two Civil Air Patrol planes and the Blackhawk Helicopter from the Alaska Army National Guard will also search.
SEADOGS is joining the search today and will conduct a ground search on Mansfield Peninsula on northern Admiralty Island near Young Bay along with Juneau Mountain Rescue.
The Cessna 182 on floats with 56 year old Brian Andrews and his 24 year old son Brandon on board disappeared Saturday afternoon between Juneau and Young Lake on northern Admiralty Island.
Both men are experienced pilots.
The elder Andrews is a Deputy Commissioner in the Alaska Department of Revenue.
Alaska deaths of Rogers, Post remembered
CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) - Lieutenant Governor Jari Askins will help mark the 73rd anniversary of the deaths in Alaska of Oklahoma humorist Will Rogers and aviation pioneer Wiley Post.
Askins will speak and join Doris Coke Meyer, Rogers' oldest living grandniece, in placing a wreath at the Rogers family tomb at 10:30 a.m. Friday in Claremore.
Askins' address is part of the Will Rogers-Wiley Post Fly-In weekend, which takes off when Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Steve Kirby flies over the Will Rogers Museum before the program.
About 50 pilots from Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas are expected to land on a 2,000-foot grass strip close to the house where Rogers was born near Oologah on Sunday morning.
Rogers and Post were killed August 15th, 1935, when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska.
Pioneer aviator dies in Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Ray Petersen, a pioneer Alaska aviator, has died at age 96. Petersen died Tuesday morning at his Anchorage apartment.
Petersen ran Wien Air Alaska, then the largest airline in the state. He also built some of the state's first fly-in fishing lodges.
Born in Nebraska, Petersen arrived in Anchorage aboard a steamship in 1934 and took a job with Star Air, flying to the Lucky Shot Mine near Hatcher Pass.
Petersen told reporters he decided to become a pilot as a high school student near Chicago in the 1930s.
He worked in Alaska flying supplies and personnel for the military during World War II.
Funeral plans are under way.
(Anchorage Daily News)
Book signing planned Saturday for third volume of Gastineau Channel Memories
The third volume of Gastineau Channel Memories is out.
Marie Darlin, the chair of the Pioneer Book Committee formed by Juneau's Igloo No 6 of the Pioneers of Alaska was among the guests on Capital Chat Wednesday.
She says a book signing has been arranged for Saturday afternoon at Hearthside Books in the Nugget Mall from 1 to 3. The price is $27.95.
They thought they were done after the second volume, but said they would do a third volume if they received a hundred contributions. Darlin says they ended up with a 141.
Between the three volumes, she says there are a total of 601 stories.
Some copies of Volume 2 will also be available at Saturday's book signing.
Volume one is out of print but that can be printed on demand through Alaska Litho.
Darlin says the committee is disbanding after ten years following Saturday's book signing.
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