Homer News

File photo - Fran VanSandt organizes food that will soon be placed in the Kachemak Lions' Thanksgiving Basket.

Library Board Members Clockwise from left: Elaine Burgess, Helen Hill, Neil Denny, Andy Haas, Sue Mauger, Marylou Burton and Cleo Webb In times of tight city budgets, for institutions like the Homer Public Library, it's good to have a few friends.

HOMER TRIBUNE/Naomi Klouda - Sixth grader Lance Peterson at West Homer Elementary School gets an H1N1 vaccination shot Tuesday morning.

With an even 500 tickets sold in the Homer Chamber of Commerce's 12th annual car raffle, the last ticket drawn was purchased by Roberta Highland, leaving Highland with the choice of $25,000 toward a new Ford automobile or $15,000 cash to buy well, whatever she wants.

For most of her 28 years teaching at Soldotna High, Sammy Crawford wanted to see the Advanced Placement courses she taught have weighted grades.

Former college president Dr. Paul R. Dauphinais has been selected as the Homer Chamber of Commerce's new executive director.

A late-night fire Monday on Early Spring Street displaced a family of three. Neighbors have pitched in to help Lionel and Alyica Johnson and their 2-year-old daughter, the family now homeless after the fire destroyed their house.

As I write this, I'm recovering from what my friend Jan Flora calls "the Kachemak Crud." For the past week I've had a runny nose, a cough, a slight temperature and general body aches.

Live Irish music is coming to Homer, all the way from uptown, midtown and downtown Anchorage.

By Naomi Klouda Homer Tribune The Kenai Peninsula is home to only two garbage landfills on the road system - " one in Soldotna and one in Homer.

HOMER TRIBUNE/Naomi Klouda - All four of Kachemak Bay Campus' Adult Education instructors and volunteers have won awards for their work.

HOMER TRIBUNE/Aaron Selbig - A cluster of dipnetters plies the waters of the Kenai River July 19 as a commercial fishing vessel passes by.

Mike Heimbuch Way too long after the normal weekly deadline for submitting my column, I started a piece about the City going after Mike Kennedy for the egregious display of recycled "durable goods" in his yard.

It takes a lot of hard work to make a living as an artist in Homer. From throwing thousands of pots at arts and crafts shows to welding steel, a handful of artists have managed to support themselves by their creations and make some cool art in the process.

Curves has moved to a new spot in the Orca Building on Pioneer Avenue - " back up from its old quarters on Lake Street.

Residents looking for a way to get or stay in shape had a new place to go as of 6:30 a.m. Monday.

One step closer to completing the Lexus and Scholastic EcoChallenge, the recycled fashion show accentuated the "reduce, reuse and recycle" message put forth by Homer's EcoLogical team with some modeling help from the Girl Scouts.

Bearfoot, the band that started as a group of Anchorage bluegrass camp counselors, returns to Homer for one performance at 7 p.m. Nov.

Members of the U.S. Coast Guard ssigned to either the USCGC Hickory or USCGC Roanoke Island have taken the motto "always ready" to heart when it comes to their duty station.

Citizens, relax. There's no need to worry. Everything is fine. Just move along and pay no attention to that man in the hockey mask juggling bloody chainsaws.