Serving Alaska's Prince William Sound & Copper River Valley
Thursday, May 16, 2024
By Sue Bergstrom for Valdez City News – Faith Revell is the Curator of Education and Public Programs at the Valdez Museum and Historical Archives and a UAA adjunct professor who teaches fine arts at Prince William Sound Community College. She says she loves to make things by hand and […]
Valdez Rock Climbing Festival 2015 will be Friday, May 22 through Monday, May 25 and will include, climbing, climbing clinics, climbing competitionss, climbing camaraderie, climbing irony, climbing chatter. All ages and skills welcome to join us exploring the crags around Valdez. Lots of evening entertainment with music, dancing, spaghetti feed […]
By Sue Bergstrom for VCN – The Copper River Watershed began recognizing a community member who went above and beyond in caring for the watershed by providing leadership and inspiration in the fall of 2013. The first winner was Paul Swartzbart of Cordova, awarded at the combined Wild Food Feast […]
By Sue Bergstrom for VCN – Representatives of the City of Valdez, R&M Consultants, ARCADIS U.S. Inc. and the public, gathered at the base of Hotel Hill on Friday, April 24th to officially begin the long-awaited Valdez Harbor Expansion Project. Mayor Larry Weaver, members of the Valdez City Council, representatives […]
A cooperative effort between Valdez and Yakutat Schools, Valdez and Yakutat Native Tribes, Crowley Maritime and Alyeska Pipeline Service Company is bringing a group of six students from Yakutat on a field trip to Valdez. The students arrive the evening of Monday, April 27th and depart the morning of Friday, […]
Advertisement Hands on History and Art Summer Camp with instructors Jan Whalen and Faith Revell will be June 8th through June 12th, 2015. There will be two sessions per day, younger students in the morning and older students in the afternoon. Sessions will be held both inside and outside. There […]
Advertisement The Prince William Sound Community College Commencement Ceremony will be held at the college’s atrium on May 2, 2015, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Coast Guard Commander Joseph Lally will be the graduation speaker. Light snacks and beverages will be served after the ceremony. Call 834-1632 for more […]
By Sue Bergstrom for VCN – Between five pm and seven pm on Friday, March 27th, one Valdez parking lot was not only full of vehicles but full of people scurrying back and forth through the rain between Valdez Museum and Historical Archives and Valdez Consortium Library to pore over […]
We often forget to celebrate those who provide us with leadership and inspiration along the way to hard-won successes. The Copper River Watershed Project wants to recognize those individuals who have gone above and beyond the call of duty in their contributions to the watershed. The Watershed Hero award was […]
By Sue Bergstrom for VCN – In May 1985, Dr. Gordy Klatt walked and ran for 24 hours around a track in Tacoma and raised over twenty thousand dollars for the American Cancer Society. The following year 339 people in 19 teams joined him and raised thirty three thousand dollars. That […]
