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Alaska artists awarded solo exhibits at state museum

...selections woven during the last 20 years. Dick Benedict, painter from Juneau: Benedict has worked as a painter, cannery worker, stable hand, school janitor, garbage man, laborer, and landlord, all the while painting surreal painting in...

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Historic Kenai warehouse under deconstruction

...marked on the building's interior metal paneling read, "F.N., from Luzon, City of Manila, 1927."A former cannery worker likely left this signature, and he wasn't the only one. Names and dates crowd the warehouse's structural beams...

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South to Unalaska

...huge hotel, and is the epicenter of activity. Locals eat there. Lots of men are coming and going all the time. Cannery workers cut across the front entrance on their way from the hardware store to the processing plants. From my room, I could...

http://juneauempire.com/blog-post/barb-belknap/2012-09-12/south-unalaska
Nancy Moreno

...Wanamaker, George Benson. Nancy attended Sheldon Jackson School & Wrangell Institute. She began her career as a cannery worker, enjoying all the travel & friends she made along the way. After marrying Matthew Lee, she settled in Juneau...

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Ethelda Bisom

...Springs before moving back to Juneau in 1968 so her children could attend high school and live at home. She was a cannery worker at several locations in southeast Alaska and was employed at the Baranof Hotel from 1968 until she retired.Faye...

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This Day in History

...were being circulated in Fairbanks and elsewhere in the Territory. The Alaska Fisherman's Union and the Cook Inlet Cannery Workers Union went on strike in Seldovia and Kenai. In 1979, heavy rains in Atigun Pass caused crude oil spilled from a...

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This Day in History

...circulated in Fairbanks and elsewhere in the territory. In 1949, the Alaska Fisherman's Union and the Cook Inlet Cannery Workers Union went on strike in Seldovia and Kenai. In 1979, heavy rains in Atigun Pass caused crude oil spilled from a...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/062805/sta_20050628003.shtml
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Give elders a break

...senior citizens. They gave so much of themselves in terms of their experiences as teachers, nurses, fishermen, cannery workers, loggers, trappers, gold miners and farmers. They helped develop the young state. I can recall growing up between...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/080405/let_20050804013.shtml
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Around Town

...789-6640. Children's Bead Circle, 4-6 p.m., Spirit Beads, 217 Fifth St. Details: 463-3220. "Hawk Inlet Cannery Worker's Reunion" and pot luck dinner, 5-7 p.m., ANB Hall. Bring your cannery photos, stories and memorabilia...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/081202/loc_at.shtml
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Around Town

...789-6640. Children's Bead Circle, 4-6 p.m., Spirit Beads, 217 Fifth St. Details: 463-3220. "Hawk Inlet Cannery Worker's Reunion" and pot luck dinner, 5-7 p.m., ANB Hall. Bring your cannery photo's, stories and memorabilia...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/081302/loc_calendar.shtml
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