SWIMMERS COMPETE IN ZONE MEET: Jamie Belardi of Juneau's Glacier Swim Club and four swimmers from Petersburg's Viking Swim Club just finished competing in the 1999 Western Zone Championship Aug. 17-21 in Grand Junction, Colo.

When Juneau's Glacier Swim Club joined forces with Sitka and Ketchikan for the first time in December, GSC coach Scott Griffith compared it to a school dance with different factions on opposing walls.