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Bosnia trip turns into aid mission

On Saturday, Jo Paddock-Betts leaves for her third trip to Bosnia-Hercegovina. She and her husband, Jim, will carry duffel bags full of humanitarian aid destined for the elderly of Medugorje...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/032701/Loc_BosniaTrip.html
Local
Toppling Syria's Assad

...Holocaust and the genocide in Rwanda, the world said: Never again. And there have been interventions to stop the killing - in Bosnia, Kosovo and Libya. But these have been the exception, not the norm. Even now, as horrifying violence unfolds in Syria...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-06-07/toppling-syrias-assad
Opinion
Match-fixing probe: 680 suspicious games worldwide

...investigations have found that a World Cup qualifier between Liechtenstein and Finland in September 2009 was fixed by a referee from Bosnia, who UEFA banned for life.Last year, UEFA expelled a Malta player implicated in fixing a European Championship qualifier...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2013-02-05/match-fixing-probe-680-suspicious-game
Sports
Juneau Empire Online Local News: Former Juneau woman saw war's effects 7/12/98

...resident Annabel Lund about the Serb Republic in Bosnia, where she volunteered for two years in various...Eventually, dozens of boxes went from Juneau to Bosnia, he said. Lund, 46, went to Bosnia under the auspices of the international group...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071298/lund.html
Juneau Empire Online Local News: Juneau retiree reaches out to many around the globe 6/19/98

...six months of providing food and other help to refugees in Bosnia. Shortly afterward she was diagnosed with shingles - essentially...had HIV or were at risk of contracting the virus. She went to Bosnia in October of 1997 after Juneau Cares expanded operations there...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/061998/color.html
The participatory photography of Skip Schiel

...of people that numbered between 25 and 600. The group started at Auschwitz in December 1944, and traveled through Croatia, Bosnia, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines before ending up in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1994, 50 years to the day after the historic...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-09-27/participatory-photography-skip-schiel
Art
Juneau beauty queen turns camel racer

...contest - she went off to study at Sweden's University of Gothenburg. It's what she does. Annerud went to Australia from Bosnia. She was working in that war-wrecked province of Yugoslavia as an emergency physician for the International Medical Corps...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/102999/Loc_color.html
Local
Feds offer American high school students scholarships for foreign study

...The Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Abroad Program offers scholarships to spend a semester or an academic year in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mali, Morocco, Oman, Thailand, and Turkey. The application...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-10-27/feds-offer-american-high-school-student
Local
Juneau Empire Story Archive

...Paddock-Betts leaves for her third trip to Bosnia-Hercegovina. She and her husband, Jim...Paddock-Betts leaves for her third trip to Bosnia-Hercegovina. She and her husband...as "a little tiny hovel of a town." Bosnia trip turns into aid mission 032701 Local...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/032701/Loc_BosniaTrip.shtml
Paying the costs in Iraq

...government in Iraq to the people, I have cause to wonder. In Bosnia, which has one-sixth the population of Iraq, and is not...administrations in virtually ANY area EXCEPT our provision of freedom to Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq, and the speed with which we shall be able...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/092603/let_letter2.shtml
Opinion

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