Welcome Fur Rondy Arch!

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Welcome Fur Rondy Arch!

Steve Kari, shown with his wife Ella, were among the throngs attending the lighting ceremony of the Fur Rondy Arch that now arches over 4th avenue in downtown Anchorage, AK. Thus, accomplishing a longtime dream of Jim Huettl, President of the Anchorage Mushing District. Steve was one of the engineers who worked on the project.

Check out our interview Jim Huettl and with Fur Rondy Executive Director, Dakotah Fujan about the Arch in the Mushing District!

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From Sourdoughs to Seawolves

We look back at a lively interview from 2011 about the first University of Anchorage basketball team featured in the book From Sourdoughs to Seawolves recorded before an audience at a downtown Irish Pub. Author, Sara Juday, graphic artists, Dave Freeman and Clark Mishler, plus former Mayor, Dan Sullivan join us!

From Sourdoughs to Seawolves

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We celebrate Thanksgiving remembering a longtime tradition, the Great Alaska Shootout and the first University of Alaska Anchorage basketball team - the Sourdoughs. Author Sara Juday shares her experience writing From Sourdoughs to Seawolves about the first UAA sports programs - including a chapter on the Sourdoughs- a team that will go down in infamy. I should know because I was there! 

Deadliest Catch Myth Buster Close Calls!

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Commercial fishing in Alaska is dangerous- even if it's just working on construction of a new boat!

Mike was working with his boat builder and while inspecting the boat made a misstep, fell about 5 feet on channel iron! Tail bone, butt and vertebra - black and blue!

Mike considers himself lucky!

Then as the Alaska Rotary District Governor, Mike talks about the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards- a program that helps young people build leadership!

College basketball March Madness is popular in Alaska. We pulled out a gold nugget memory featuring author Sara Juday and her book "From Sourdoughs to Seawolves". She dedicated a chapter to the first University of Alaska Anchorage basketball team, the Sourdoughs, that yours truly and former Anchorage Mayor, Dan Sullivan, were teammates. Recorded at McGinley's Irish Pub downtown Anchorage.