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Snettisham under-sea cables to be replaced
Feds to help finance project
Five million dollars from the U-S Energy Department will be used to help fund replacement of the four submarine transmission cables (arrow, left) from Juneau's Snettisham Hydroelectric Project. That word from the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority. AIDEA issued 100 million in bonds last year to purchase the project from the Alaska Power Administration. Alaska Electric, Light and Power operates the project under a power sales agreement with AIDEA. Utility President and General Manager Bill Corbus calls it good news for rate payers since it will reduce the debt service on the deal. He says the cables are already being manufactured in Norway and will be installed next spring.
Alaska will receive upwards of 329-thousand dollars this year under an agreement signed with the Coast Guard to implement a boating safety program. The funds are earmarked for educational programs, law enforcement and search and rescue. Alaska has not had a safety program in the past. The Coast Guard says the 38 deaths recorded in the state last year as the result of boating mishaps is ten times the national average.
The Juneau Fire Department and the Coast Guard's Marine Safety Office continue to investigate the cause of Tuesday night's fire aboard the Bee Bop. The 30-foot cabin cruiser caught fire while docked at Harris Harbor also causing extensive damage to the Warlord (right). Juneau Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jim Carroll says the owner, Scott Tischer, told him the fire may been caused by trying to ignite a flooded oil stove. Little is left of the Bee Bop, making it difficult to pinpoint an exact cause, according to Carroll.
Juneau Police arrested a suspected burglar inside Merchant's Wharf this morning after responding to an alarm shortly after 5:30. Police found 33 year Shawn Biddinger with a box of liquor from the Hangar Restaurant. He was charged with burglary in the second degree and theft and jailed at Lemon Creek.
The man found dead in his van near on an old mining road near the A-J Mill ruins has been identified as 39 year old Larry Huffman. The state medical examiner said Huffman had a history of alcoholism. He did not do an autopsy, and said Huffman's medical history, when coupled with the investigation at the scene by Juneau police, explained his death. He was considered by police to be one of Juneau's homeless. He had no relatives in Juneau, and police are still searching for family members. Huffman may have been from Iowa.
The Alaska Magic Lantern is the title of an exhibition at the Alaska State Museum this evening. Glass slides, some of which are more than an hundred years old, will be illuminated by a "magic lantern" with light originally produced by burning lime, but now replaced by a halogen bulb. The owner of the Alaskan Heritage Bookshop, Dick Wood (left), is giving the presentation. Some of the slides are from the Gold Rush and others are of early Juneau and Sitka. The presentation is from 6:30 to 7:30.
A Juneau high school student will be one of two Alaska Delegates to the Annual United States Senate Youth Program in Washington, D.C. She is Christine Brubaker who is Junior Class Secretary, and on the Student Council. Brubaker will join over a hundred other elected high school student body officers in late February for the Senate Youth Program.
A sign cropped up overnight on the restrooms at Harris Harbor. Its now dubbed "Perkins Potties" in honor of Assembly member Dwight Perkins. Perkins saw the sign last night as he was driving by. He feigns ignorance as to why he deserves such recognition. An informed source tells us Perkins would always complain about the building sitting idle near the Harbor master's office after it was moved from its original site at the Mount Roberts Tramway. Perkins suspects fellow Assembly members are responsible for the sign, but its okay since he feels in good company with Mayor Dennis Egan and Deputy Mayor John MacKinnon. Since the town has an Egan Expressway and MacKinnon Apartments, the long time plumber has no problem with "Perkins Potties."(Captions for our photographs can be viewed by hovering over them with your mouse pointer)
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