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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President-Jan Bush
B-3 Contractors, Inc. belle@aptalaska.net
Director-Kim Swainson
Individual
Director-Chris Cumings
Wells Fargo-Craig Branch christopher.cumings@wellsfargo.com
Newsletter Editors: Rebecca Chester, Sharon Brosamle & Jan Bush Office Managers: Rebecca Chester and Sharon Brosamle
Weekday Office Hours: 12pm - 4pm PO Box 490 Klawock, Alaska 99925 Phone: 907-755-2626 Fax: 907-755-2627 info@princeofwalescoc.org www.princeofwalescoc.org
The POW Chamber Board of Directors and staff wish all of our members a prosperous New Year!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
JANUARY OFFICE HOURS...............PAGE 2 JANUARY CHAMBER MEETING........................PAGE 2 CHAMBER AFTER HOURS INAUGURAL EVENT ... PAGE 2 POW RUNNERS CLUB FUTURE FUN RUNS AND WALKS...... PAGE 2 OFFICE WORKS........PAGE 3 POW HATCHERY UPDATE............PAGE 4 JANUARY POWCAC MEETING: BOROUGH STUDY REPORT ... PAGE 5 BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION........PAGE 5 2012 SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS READY TO MAIL! . PAGE 5 THORNE BAY 2012 LIGHTING CONTEST RESULTS.....PAGE 6 IT ALL STARTS WITH ONE SHEET OF PAPER............................PAGE 7 PAYROLL LAW CLASS REPORT...PAGE 8 GET OFF THE ROCK TRAVEL PACKAGE........PAGE 9 FARMERS MARKET HIRE.....PAGE 9 IFA TIDINGS ...... .PAGE 9 POW RUNNERS/WALKERS CLUB AND MARATHON NEWS....PAGE 10 PRINCE OF WALES MARATHON SPONSOR LIST.....PAGE 11 OUT IN THE RAIN 2013 SCHEDULE...PAGE 11 POW VOC TEC PROJECT REPORT ..PAGE 12 ISLAND WIDE VISITOR COMMITTEE NEWS ...PAGE 12 JANUARY EVENTS CALENDAR...................PAGE 13
JANUARY E DITION
This left hand column of the reformatted newsletter is dedicated to our sponsors who have paid for advertising and help the Chamber cover the costs of mailing and maintaining our email account and website. To become a sponsor and have your information appear here each month or for certain months of the year, call the Chamber office. We thank all of our sponsors for their support of this newsletter.
2013
Prince of Wales Island Runs and Walks
Our scheduled runs are as follows if you would like to participate.
OFFICE HOURS
WINTER HOURS Mon-Fri 12pm - 4pm with some early morning and evenings open also.
February 9th Cupid's Chase - 10:00 at Craig High School March 16 Shamrock Shuffle - 9:00 at Craig City Gym May 4th Totem-to-Totem Tune-Up - 9:00 at Healing Heart Totem in Craig May 25th POW Marathon: 7:00 at Craig Firecracker Run - 9:00 at parking lot of SEARHC in Klawock
If these hours dont work for you please call for an appointment.
CHAMBER AFTER HOURS INAUGURAL EVENT! Join us in the Chamber office at Suite #7 in the Klawock Heenya Mall on THURSDAY, JANUARY 24TH from 5pm to 7pm. Network with other members, celebrate the arrival of the 2013 Island Guide and take a supply home for your neighborhood, family and 2013 guests!
OFFICE WORKS
From Rebecca
Now that Sharon and I have been through our first Island Guide creation and publication, we have some suggestions to make our job go a bit smoother. Lets talk about PHOTO SUBMISSIONS. We received many fabulous photographs from many talented people. Thank you so much..but here are some suggestions for the submission for the next Island Guide: The name of your photo file MUST include: Your LAST name The LOCATION where it was taken WHAT the subject is, or who If we can make this the normal way to submit photos it will make the Guide Committees job so much easier because, and let me give you a scenario; the lead proofer calls and states, I need a photo of Kasaan, I know we saw one, can you find it?, we need it now!! We then have to look through 27 files of 827 photos that are titledIMG0452, etc., and try to guess where the photo was taken! So now you understand! Our featured photographer this month is Bob Claus. To check out Bobs pictures go to our website here http://www.princeofwalescoc.org/gallery. On December 21st Sharon and I hosted our first open house at the office and would like to thank those of you that took time out of your busy Christmas schedule to stop by and have some refreshments! We believe this was a success and met some new faces in our community!! Check out page 13 for the photos! With the 2013 Island Guide at the printers our lives here at the office should slow down and we can focus on other issues we are facing. There so many projects here at the office to accomplish, so Sharon and I will be concentrating on those minor items that need to be created and cleaned up. Mark your calendars for our first AFTER HOURS on January 24th to introduce the new 2013 Island Guide! MAY YOUR 2013 BE PEACEFUL, PRODUCTIVE AND PROSPEROUS!
An independent full service grocery store. We feature fresh meat and produce and a full line of groceries.
You dont stop playing because you get old-you get old because you stop playing! Moon facts..
Age: 4.5 billion years old Shape: Egg-shaped Distance from earth: 384467 km Traveling by car: 130 days Traveling by rocket: 13 hours Traveling by light speed: 1.52 sec. Diameter: 1/4 of the Earths Revolution period: 27.3217 days The same side of the Moon always faces the Earth. The Moons rotation period is synchronous with it revolution period around the Earth. Because of a loss of orbital energy to gravity from the Earth, the Moon is very gradually moving away from the Earth. In the very early history of the Earth, the Moon looked about 3 times larger in apparent size in the sky, because it was closer to the earth! The temperature fluctuates from roughly +300 F to -270 F, because there is no atmosphere to regulate the temperature.
Primary care clinic serving residents and visitors of Prince of Wales. State of art medical, diagnostic and x-ray equipment; telemedicine; visiting specialists; home healthcare.
In photo #1 In the photo you can see Jim See, Vice President of the Board of Directors, and Brian Warmuth, working on eggtakes. Photo #2, you see Mike Douville up close, rinsing eggs with other crew in background. Photo # 3, Savana Ververs can be seen as she gently delivers fertilized eggs into an incubator. Photo # 4 shows the renovated incubation room, and the new plumbing which allows for recirculation of warmed water. Photo #5 Dale Music volunteers his time and chainsaw to cut up chunk logs that we get from Viking Lumber. We use a wood splitter to turn these rounds of wood into chunks we burn in the Heatmor Stove. Mike Bush, of B-3 Contractors, Inc, provides the dump truck to transport log chunks to our boneyard . Craig High School Alaska Naturalist class visited the hatchery , and many of the students had a chance for some hands-on involvement. The group broke up into small groups and observed how each of the members of the spawning team were doing their job. Two students worked with me for some time, learning how to introduce eggs into incubators. All the students did a really great job, and from what I hear, they had a good time helping! Thanks to everyone from the Craig High School Science Department, for helping make these field trips happen! I can only hope that a few of the students will choose aquaculture as a career. I am very thankful for volunteers. People like Mike Bush, and Dale Music, give of their own time, and offer the use of their personal equipment, to help the hatchery cut operating costs. Burning wood instead of diesel oil will surely make a difference. And when I cant find enough employees to help spawn the adult cohos, the members of the Board of Directors turn out, and volunteer their personal time, to get the job done. I cant say it loudly enough, or often enough- I am very thankful for volunteers. What can I do to help? you might ask yourself. If youre interested in serving on the Board of Directors, attend one of our meetings. Every third Tuesday of every month (except during June, July and August) we meet at the Klawock River Hatchery Conference Room. Your unique background and experience can make the Board a more diverse entity. Consider joining this Board, and help make a difference. This organization is becoming a major contributor of cohos to the common property fishermen in Southeast Alaska. If you are a charter boat operator, commercial or sport fisherman, then that means you. Do you really like cohos? as Dale Music told me? Give what you can to the hatchery, to help keep it going. Your tax-deductible donations will help keep this private nonprofit company alive. Or, you can stop by the hatchery, and get to know the staff. Let us show you all the positive changes we have made during these past two years. This is a special place. Its Your community hatchery, so please, care about it, and support it. And last, but not least, I want to thank my crew, for all their efforts this past year. We have done a great job, and can be proud of all our accomplishments!
Dan Goodness, Hatchery Manager
Call for catalog. Office equipment and supplies, Sharp Copiers and faxes, printing and binding, newsletters, office furniture.
In 2012, Chamber underwriters made possible the award of 12 scholarships to Island graduates from POW High Schools. These annual awards are worth $500 and are sent to the recipients College, University or Trade School. Recipients are required to send first-term transcripts to the Chamber to prove good standing with a minimum 2.0 GPA. The 2012 Awards were made possible by the following underwriters : Alaska Marine Lines, Alaska Power & Telephone, B-3 Contractors, Inc., Catch a King Charters, Changing Tide Inn, Cleary Computers, Dollar + Store/Fabry's, Hill Bar and Liquor Store, Log Cabin Resort, Mark and Sheila Beardsley, Petro Marine Services, Shaub Ellison, Silver Bay Seafoods, Southeast Dental Centers, Southeast Road Builders, Trophy Inn, Viking Lumber, Whale Tail Pharmacy. Thank you! 2013 Scholarship applications can be accessed from the Chamber website, Scholarship window.
For anyone interested , we have a copy of the USFS Big Thorne Project, Draft Environmental Impact Statement here at the office. It is on DVD, youre welcome to come get a copy or take a look at it. 5
PO Box 1041, Craig, AK 99921 Car rental with kayak, boat and camping gear packages at the Hollis Ferry Dock. We also offer Skiff, Van, RV, Truck, and Fishing Gear rental at affordable rates.
Branches located in the Island News building in Thorne Bay, the Klawock-Heenya Mall and 2000 Tongass Avenue in Ketchikan Thorne Bay branch open 10AM2PM Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. Klawock branch open 10AM-5:30PM Tuesday-Friday, noon-3PM Saturday. Public use ATMs are at Thorne Bay Market, Klawock-Heenya Mall branch and 6 locations in Ketchikan
4 Most Wattage -- Pizzazz $75.00 Lots of Bright Lights ---- WOW!! Chris and Jakob Nelson
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2. Vern and Teri Redding 3. Yvonne Seaford 4. Bill and Judie Young 5. Monte and Melody McDonald (The Port, the Tackle Shack AND their home!) 6. Danny Killian
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Peoples Choice (pictured here) Most votes cast by the public $100.00
SPONSORED BY TONGASS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION Chris and Tiana Nelson
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Sponsored by the THORNE BAY BUSINESS ASSOCIATION with funds earned from the
Cape Fox Lodge's restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A bar/ lounge is open for drinks. Room service is available during limited hours. Down town Ketchikan 907-225-8001
Specializing in investments and insurance for businesses and individuals: retirement (IRA, 401(k), deferred compensation), education, brokerage accounts, life, health, disability and longterm care Insurance. In business over 30 years.
The Membership Binder in the chamber office contains 221 very IMPORTANT primary documents: the membership application that contains all the important information that produces the annual Island Guide and the Business Directory of the Chamber website. This is only the beginning of the tasks that are tracked on this form. Members first see this updated form in July/August when the Chamber begins the annual ritual of renewing memberships and adding new members to the Chamber roll. The actual application and its backup pieces are essential to a long list of tasks that must be done with each blank that contains members information. All those sheets of paper, once processed into QuickBooks and Excel for tracking, are placed in the binder. They are used on September 1st and October 1st to produce entries into the two early bird drawings for IFA tickets. Our thanks for the early returns.
Each sheet tracks payments as they are received, and are stamped PAID, or TRADE, or RECIPROCAL (in the case of our fellow chambers in the region). The office managers marks each sheet when the window decal and thank you card is sent to renewing and new members. The office Staff and volunteers work on the Island Guide and go back to each members paper file during each phase of the production process. The final proofing of the Business Directory in the new Island Guide is performed by our two office managers-one reading aloud each file: word by word, number by number, while the other matches what she hears to what is approved for insertion in the Guide.
FIRST BANK
Craig Branch
907-826-3254 Fax 907-826-3910
Lynnette.logan@firstbankak.com
www.firstbankak.com Full service community bank Offering checking, savings And time deposit accounts; Consumer, commercial, construction and home loans; And online banking services. Two ATM locations on Prince of Wales Island.
The binder is gone through again to produce the list of ads that have been ordered for the Guide. The Guide producer uses this list to set aside the ad space needed in the publication. 74 are set to appear in the 2013 Island Guide, just down from the 76 ads in 2012. The Binder is referenced countless times during the year and is the first place where any changes requested by members are noted. And in 2013, again this process will start over again.
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do-Benjamin Spock
First let me give you the disclaimer. . . in no way do we give tax advice and recommend before you make any changes, it is imperative you talk to your accountant or tax advisor. That said, you would think after 50 years of bookkeeping there would not be anything new to learn. Wrong! The class, put on by Fred Pryor Seminars, a non-profit division of PARK University Enterprises, was attended by 40 plus people from all over the state and besides the instructor (who was very good), many had problems and issues to share that gave additional insight into a lot of the topics that were discussed. Let me give you a brief out line of some of the high points: I 9s. - more time was spent on this one topic than any other. It appears that this is the area where most businesses receive the largest penalties. $50.00 for each line not completed correctly. $3 to $5,000 for a working employee without an I-9 on record. $50.00 per line for I -9s with only copies of I D attached. Penalties for I-9s stored incorrectly. What you need to do before an audit. (INS continues to do more audits and it coulsave your business hundreds, if not thousands of dollars to review your I-9 procedures.) Salaried employees that are not exempt from overtime. White Collar Executive Exempt. Overtime on tips Employee verses Private Contractor? Are you apt to be charged workers comp, State unemployment tax or FICA and Medicare on a contractor that is working for you? Fringe benefits, taxable or non-taxable? I still, after all these years have problems myself with the Salaried employees that get overtime. It can be a real pain to keep track of, especially if they get commissions. The same thing in including overtime for tipped employees. It is a pain to manually calculate each one but I have yet to see a system that does it correctly. Im hoping there are some members that would like more detailed information on the above topics and other information I picked up at the class. Please call or email, if you are, and we can set up a convenient time to get together and look at the topics you are most interested in for more detail. Sharon Brosamle
www.clearycomputerservices.com
Repairs, installations, Internet, networks and servers, Windows, navigation software. Security software and most replacement parts in stock. Custom orders. Pick -up, drop-off, or on-site service available. 25 years experience; work guaranteed.
The Inter-Island Ferry carried 44,793 passengers and 10,018 vehicles between our Hollis and Ketchikan ports during 2012. Driver free begins January 1, 2013 and continues through April 30, 2013. There are no sailings Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. The Inter-Island Ferry will cover the Lituyas sailings between Metlakatla and Ketchikan January 10, 2013 through January 25, 2013. The Metlakatla sailings will not change our 8:00am departures out of Hollis or our 3:30pm departures out of Ketchikan. Icy and slippery winter conditions are still here so please be careful on walkways and while driving. If you need assistance with boarding or disembarking the vessel, we will be glad to help. Please allow extra travel time to our Hollis terminal due to the Klawock Hollis Highway road construction and winter road conditions. Drive Safely!!
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TO KEEP UP TO DATE ON THE TSUNAMI DEBRIS AS IT REACHES OUR SHORES, SUBSCRIBE TO BEACHCOMBERS ALERT: Join the Beachcombers and Oceanographers International Association by sending your $20 annual donation to 6306 21st Ave. NE, Seattle WA 98115-6916
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PRINCE OF WALES
FARMERS MARKET ASSOCIATION
2013 DATES
CRAIG-POW International Marathon, May 25th KASAAN-Crab Festival, June 15th THORNE BAY-City Celebration, August 3rd COFFMAN COVE-By the Sea Arts & Seafood Festival HOLLIS-Volunteer Fire Department Fund Drive Raffle and Community Celebration, Aug 17th
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P.O.W. Marathon
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Sponsors and Supporters
As of November 30, 2012
Silver Level
AP&T Island Air Inter-Island Ferry Authority Alaska Airlines Silver Bay Seafoods R&M Engineering Southeast Road Builders POW Health Network City of Craig Outer Otter Sportfishing B-3 Contractors, Inc. The Nature Conservancy POW Chamber of Commerce Silver Seas Adventures
Bronze Level
Mitsy Enterprises Diversified Investments Papas Pizza SEACC Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Cleary Computers
Supporters
ProMech Air Best Western + Landing Hotel Hill Bar McFarlands FLOATEL Shaan-Seet Wesley Rentals NAPA Alaska Marine Lines Klawock PTSA
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Fish halibut, salmon and bottom fish with Capt. Lee Harper. Walk-ons welcome, reservations encouraged. Call now to guarantee your spot in the Silver Talon. We'll see you in Coffman Cove this summer!
www.douglasshomebuilders.com
General contractor new construction, remodeling, disaster restoration, 24-hour fire & flood service/full service carpet & upholstery cleaning, applied structural drying, water restoration, odor control of both residential and commercial structures. 35 years of experience with detailfocused approach to all aspects of work. Licensed, bonded and insured. Cell phone 907-254-0672.
You should be the change that you want to see in the world-Mahatma Ghandi
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info@princeofwalescoc.org
BY JANUARY 28 TO SEE THEM HERE NEXT MONTH!
Photo by Bailey Watson
OUT IN THE RAIN SKI/SNOWSHOE/WINTER HIKE Check out the Craig Ranger District Twelvemile Creek Restoration - Phase II, comments invited: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/fs-usda-pop.?project=3991 Send comments to tccady@fs.fed.us with Twelvemile P2 in subject line. NO ISLAND NEWS-OFFICE CLOSED FOR HOLIDAY NO ISLAND NEWS-OFFICE CLOSED FOR HOLIDAY VISITOR COMMITTEE MEETING 11AM TO 2PM-KLAWOCK HEENYA BUILDING
CHAMBER BOARD OF DIRECTORS REGULAR MEETING AT NOON AT APT CONFERENCE ROOM THORNE BAY BUSINESS ASSOCIATION MEETING 12 NOON-THORNE BAY PUBLIC LIBRARY
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2ND WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9TH THURSDAY, JANUARY 10TH WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16TH THURSDAY, JANUARY 17TH SATURDAY, JANUARY 19TH TUESDAY, JANUARY 22ND THURSDAY, JANUARY 24TH
OUT IN THE RAIN SKI/SNOWSHOE/WINTER HIKE POWCAC MEETING AT CTA IN CRAIG: BOROUGH STUDY REPORT 1PM
PRINCE OF WALES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AFTER HOURS-5-7PM AT THE CHAMBER OFFICE
REMEMBER -
Pictured below is the open house that Sharon and Rebecca held on the 21st of December.
Rebecca speaking with local artist June Krowlikowski about a Chamber membership.
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