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Su Valley Voice: A conversation with author Steven Hawley 3-26-2012

KTNA Staff — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:52:20 +0000

Steven Hawley’s book “Recovering a Lost River” chronicles the impact of damming rivers in the Pacific Northwest. In this conversation, Hawley talked about many of the historical, and potential, ramifications of dam building on salmon and communities. Lorien Nettleton hosted this program, live from the KTNA studio. The program is an hour.

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Su Valley Voice-10-12-2011-Domestic violence

KTNA Staff — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:07:47 +0000

Cici Schoenberger, Behavioral Health Provider at Sunshine Community Health Center, Janice Stormer, Court Advocate for Alaska Family Services, and Ashley Peltier, Children’s Outreach Advocate for Alaska Family Services, join host Charlie Loeb for a studio discussion about domestic violence. They talk about the definition of domestic abuse / violence, who it affects, who is likely to become a victim or abuser, the behavior of the abused and the abuser, eighteen warning signs of abuse, how to help someone you believe is in an abusive relationship, some of the difficulties that might arise when the court system is involved. The program is almost an hour.

Local services available: Upper Susitna Support Services: through Sunshine Community Health Center: 733-2273, a range of information, services, and funds for survivors. Alaska Family Services: 24 hour helpline: 907-746-4080 and a range of services.

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Su Valley Voice-The Talkeetna Library-past, present and future

KTNA Staff — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:33:36 +0000

Talkeetna librarian Ann Yadon, and Friends of the Talkeetna Library member Peg Foster revisit the institution’s history, talk about how the library is used today, and talk about what library users hope for in the coming years. The discussion focuses on how the library building seems no longer adequate for its many uses, the possibility of building a new facility in the next few years, and how that facility could be funded. Will Peterson hosts the program. Audio is about an hour.

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Su Valley Voice-Borough manager John Moosey

KTNA Staff — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:13:16 +0000

KTNA’s Sue Deyoe had a conversation in our studio with Mat-Su Borough manager John Moosey. They talked about his visit to Su Valley High School, the Susitna Dam, the upcoming Borough election, and more.

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Su Valley Voice-Charlie Huggins and Mark Neuman

Deborah Brocke — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:29:18 +0000

Host Sue Deyoe has a conversation with State Senator Charlie Huggins and Representative Mark Neuman about what’s in the state budget, (including $10 million for the Railbelt Hydrology Project, otherwise known as the proposed Susitna Dam project) fisheries, what’s happening with the “Willow clearcut”, and more.

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Su Valley Voice – Senator Charlie Huggins

Sue Deyoe — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:40:08 +0000

Join host Sue Deyoe and Senator Charlie Huggins in a conversation about the next legislative sessions, priorities and topics of interest for residents in the northern valley. (1 hr.)

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Su Valley Voice – memories and remembrance 09

Sue Deyoe — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:24:28 +0000

Host Sue Deyoe speaks with Roberta Sheldon and Rick Ernst about the losses over the past year. A special reading from Sarah Birdsall, clips of Mike Fisher, Jay Hudson, Pete Dana and Norwood Marsh are featured. (59 min)

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And Snow was General By Sarah Birdsall

The last time I remember talking to Mike Fisher was sometime around November 2008 at our usual spot: outside the Talkeetna Post Office. He was telling me he had recently heard from our old friend, Peter Dana, who had haunted this area in the early 1970s. Mike thought he might stop in to see my dad, Bob Durr, and tell him the latest from Pete. I told him my dad would love that. That coming February, Mike died two days before my father passed. Pete Dana would follow his old friends that coming July.

I saw Talkeetna’s home grown pilot, Jay Hudson, who I had known since childhood, at my father’s memorial service, smiling quietly as my brother, Jon, eulogized our dad. Two days later I watched Jay speak at Mike’s service. It seemed a lot of history for our area to lose all at once, Mike and my dad. But the year had just gotten started, and before it would close I would feel the crush on my heart as I watched one of Jay’s brothers, Chuck, help carry Jay’s coffin out of a local church.

Our area has had other hard years, no doubt. But 2009 was a year of losses: A year when the present seemed to cast a wide net over our town and snatch away core pieces of our living past; A hard year to put into words.

Like Pete Dana, Linda Ramsey passed in July. Here since the early 70s and one of the original “up the tracks” dwellers, Linda would have been among the dwindling numbers of residents who would still remember Pete, father of the once pleasant and much looked forward to Moose Dropping Festival, a man I remember seeing sitting at the piano at the Fairview on a gray quiet winter afternoon when my under-aged eyes looked in through the glass—

We are not there because we are here; somehow we all missed the flight—

He used to sing that. So here we are in beautiful downtown Talkeetna Alaska tonight.

He died in Australia , a long way from Talkeetna.

And Linda died in Anchorage , after illness, but her ashes were returned to the Susitna River with a wake of rose petals, like a bride’s train, following behind.

Then in August Emmila Denny got hit by a train at a crossing in Willow. She was here in the 1960s. She knew a Talkeetna that grows ever smaller in the rearview mirror with each passing day. Mud puddles on Main Street. Winter nights as deep and as still as the bottom of a frozen lake. The people who lived here then: Rocky Cummins. Jim Beaver. Don Sheldon. Ray Genet. And Mike Fischer—Emmila sang at his service.

For a brief time in late 2008 Emmila helped take care of my dad. When she’d leave him she’d say, I love you, you know that.

When Jay Hudson would say hi to me, he would always say my name. Always. Hello, Sarah. And then a smile.

I think of all the bits and pieces we collect from the people we share life with, like a bucket of pebbles off a vast beach, and I think how lucky, how very lucky that we live in a place where we can fill our buckets with these pebbles, that a conversation in front of a post office can turn into a precious gem, that the memory of a young blond pilot with flight goggles too big for his face can live on even after he’s gone, how lucky.

But the price for that is the weight a year like 2009 can have on the heart, like a steady snow that keeps building, a general kind of snow like what James Joyce wrote about in his story, “The Dead,” a snow that falls on the graveyard where Emmila and Jay now rest, that falls on the river where Linda’s ashes were joined with the water, that falls on the cabin where my father’s ashes wait a final resting place. A snow that falls on all the living and the dead. Falling faintly and faintly falling. And this last year, snow was general all over Talkeetna. Indeed.

Su Valley Voice – the school principals speak

Sue Deyoe — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:16:55 +0000

On last week’s Su Valley Voice, host Sue Deyoe speaks with High School Principal Rob Picou and Talkeetna Elementary Principal Carol Wadman about NCLB, upcoming events, homeschooling, and how they handle their positions in the school. (1 hour)

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Su Valley Voice-Vern Halter, MSB Assembly Representative

admin default — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:55:05 +0000

Host Sue Deyoe has a studio conversation with the northern Valley’s newly-elected Mat-Su Borough Assembly Representative, Vern Halter. They talk about Talkeetna’s Riverfront Management Plan, and fisheries management. Vern gives some insight about his new role in Borough government. Audio runs about an hour.

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Su Valley Voice-homeschooling

admin default — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:33:58 +0000

Four people involved in homeschooling in the area talk to host Sue Deyoe in the KTNA studio. We hear from student Charlie Allison, parent Rich Humm, and two people on the teaching and curriculum side, Shoo Salasky and Mindy Lindgren. The audio runs about an hour.

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Su Valley Voice-domestic violence in our communities

admin default — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:06:18 +0000

Sharon Montagnino, executive director of the Sunshine Community Health Center, CiCi Shoenberger, behavioral health specialist at SCHC, and Trooper Jacob Covey talk with host Sue Deyoe about the serious issue of domestic violence, and the help available. Audio runs 58 minutes.

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Su Valley Voice: The Mat-Su Borough maintenance guys

admin default — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:04:06 +0000

For the first half hour, host Sue Deyoe talks with Chuck Jacobs, who does MSB maintenance for Willow and parts north, as well as Talkeetna water and sewer. MSB Parks and Rec man for the northern valley is next, that’s Ralph Naffziger.

Audio runs about 55 minutes.

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Su Valley Voice-Mat Su Borough Assembly candidates

admin default — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:22:56 +0000

Host Sue Deyoe talks with Mat-Su Borough candidates for assembly Vern Halter and Doyle Holmes about their opinions and thoughts on topics relevant to the Upper Susitna Valley.

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Su Valley Voice-MSB Assembly Representative Tom Kluberton

admin default — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:12:37 +0000

Host Sue Deyoe talks with Mat-Su Borough Assembly Representative Tom Kluberton. They cover the sales tax possibility, school bond issues, funding for school maintenance, and roads.

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Su Valley Voice-The flu, swine and otherwise

admin default — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:11:00 +0000

Area public health nurse Jane Conard and school nurse Barbara Mercer update listeners on the swine flu and seasonal flu in Alaska. They talk about the different types of flu, how to do your part to help prevent spreading them, and give information on vaccines. Sue Deyoe hosts the show. Audio is about an hour.

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Su Valley Voice: Mat-Su Borough Assembly Representative Tom Kluberton

admin default — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:42:24 +0000

Host Sue Deyoe talks to Mat-Su Borough Assembly Representative Tom Kluberton about the Borough budget, taxes, and future Borough projects.

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Susitna Valley Voice: Emergency services

admin default — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:00:24 +0000

National Guard Commissioner Craig Campbell, Mat-Su Emergency Services Manager Tom Smayda and local EMS Captain Tim Morgan talk about their agencies’ services, and how they coordinate with communities. They spoke with Sue Deyoe in a conversation which aired live from the KTNA studio.

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Some of the resources listed in the show: Red Cross 357-6060; Mat Su Borough Emergency Service 373-8800; ww1.matsugov.us ; www.ready.gov and www.ready.alaska.gov

Su Valley Voice: Mat-Su Borough Assembly update

admin default — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:57:26 +0000

Mat-Su Borough Assembly Representative Tom Kluberton joins Sue Deyoe in the studio, where they update listeners on the high school and school insurance settlement, the latest on the Boy Scouts’ plans, forestry topics related to the proposed Su Valley school wood fired boiler; the spring at Parks Highway milepost 88, sales tax, and the special election to elect a new mayor.

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Susitna Valley Voice: What’s new at the Mat-Su Borough?

Sue Deyoe — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:00:29 +0000

Host Sue Deyoe speaks with local Borough Assembly member Tom Kluberton about ongoing Borough issues.

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