Grants To Be Awarded at Seward Community Foundation Fundraiser

The Seward Community Foundation will proudly announce their 2009 grant recipients at their spring fund raising event. Five local nonprofit organizations have been awarded grants from the Seward Community Fund and the City of Seward Fund. The community is invited to join in this celebration and to learn more about the [...]

BOX CREEK CANYON WORK SESSION

The next regular board meeting of the Seward/Bear Creek Flood Service Area will be held on Monday, May 4, 2009 at the Seaview Plaza Building, in the Kenai Peninsula Borough Annex Office, Suite 122 at 7:00 PM. The building doors will be open at 6:30PM and, as always, the public is invited to attend. [...]

KPB Flood Plain Task Force Meeting

Notice is hereby given that the Kenai Peninsula Borough “Flood Plain Task Force” will hold a meeting on Friday, May 15, 2009, to examine current flood plain issues and the development of options for the Seward-Bear Creek Flood Service Area.
The task force meeting will begin at 6:00 PM in the Cooper Landing Community Hall, 18511 [...]

Cribbage Tournament

WHAT: SINGLES CRIBBAGE TOURNAMENT
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 7:00 PM SHARP!
WHERE: AMERICAN LEGION (FIFTH & ADAMS)
WHO: MEMBER AND GUESTS
HOW MUCH: FREE
WHAT ELSE: PRIZES, FOOD, FUN!
* SPECIAL PRIZE FOR MOST “UNIQUE” CRIBBAGE BOARD
DOUBLE ELIMINATION FORMAT/NO MUGGINS
AMERICAN CRIBBAGE CONGRESS RULES APPLY
CALL 224-5440 WITH QUESTIONS

Statehood Symposium this Friday and Saturday

On Friday, May 1, 2009
1:30 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. School Program
at the Seward Elementary School.
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Seward Arts
Council 1st Friday Gallery Walk with
the symposium mural.
At 6:30 p.m. at the Alaska Vocational
Technical Center (AVTEC) the
symposium kicks-off with a reception.
Seward children’s choir program,
Governor Wally Hickel keynote
address, mural preview. Refreshments
served.
On Saturday, May 2, 2009 at [...]

GARAGE SALE!!!

When:       THIS SATURDAY ONLY    5/02    from 8:00am – 12:00pm
Where:       439 Fifth Avenue ( the pink house across from the Post Office*)
*** Lots of Furniture, appliances, kitchen goods, clothing, and everything else you need! Come and see what we have for you! ***

Puffin Mascot Naming Contest

Alaska SeaLife Center Announces Puffin Mascot Naming Contest
The puffin has landed—but it’s still looking for a name.
The Alaska SeaLife Center debuted its new puffin mascot at the Dena’ina Center on April 18th, and launched a contest to name the oversized seabird by May 13—just in time for Seward’s Harbor Opening Weekend on May 15-16.
The contest [...]

Call To Artists, Seward Music Festival Poster Art

Calling all Alaskan artists (novice or pro, green or seasoned), get your name out there. In fact get it on our poster, and our shirts, hoodies, stickers. Your work will be everywhere.
Announcing the 2009 Seward Music and Arts Festival Poster Art Contest. Contest means judging, judging means winning. [...]

City Calendar

[SCN note: In an effort to better connect COS public information and notices we have linked the resolution titles to the full length documents that are on file with Laserfiche. Please let us know if this is something that is helpful and should be continued. PT- SCN]

Seward City Council Regular Meeting
Action Agenda
Monday, April 27, [...]

Draft Letter to Governor Palin on Road Closure

This is a DRAFT letter by the City Manager for Mayor Carey of the Borough to Governor Palin. I thought I would post this so that the community knows that the City is calling the attention of the Governor to the failures of the system currently in place and is seeking solutions and remedies to address these failures.
April [...]

No Road Closures

The DOT project manager has been called and has stated—————-There will be NO FURTHER ROAD CLOSURES. There will be one lane of traffic open at ALL TIMES.
Please let everyone know Seward is open for business this summer if asked. –Jean

KPTCM Cover

The Latest from Niebrugge Images Photo Blog

Cover of the Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council Travel Guide (KPTMC), Alaska.
This is actually a composite of two of our images combined by KPTMC. You see, they really liked this photo from Harriman Fiord in Prince William Sound. Problem was, even though it looked like it could have been [...]

First Friday Artist

The First Friday artist for Resurrect Art Coffee
House is Dot Bardarson. Her show is titled “Spirit of Alaska”, a display
of watercolors having to do with Eskimo and Native art. These pieces were
inspired by her teaching experience in Point Hope and her residency at Chatham
Cannery in SE Alaska where all her friends were Tlingit, mostly from [...]

A Taste of Greatness

The Malt Marathon Home Brewers Club would like to thank the Ale House for hosting a beer tasting event for the club and friends. Specialty Imports of Anchorage brought six types of ales and barely wines for the group to evaluate. While a total score for the evaluation was difficult to calculate [...]

The Closet will be closed today

Due to conflict in schedules and lack of volunteers, The Closet will not be open today (April 28th). We will continue with regular hours (3:30-5:30) next Tuesday, May 5th. I apologize for any inconvience this causes. Call Valarie at 224-7052 with questions or if you are interested in volunteering. Thank you!

Invasive Weed Workshop

The CES Invasive Weed Workshop is still scheduled to start at 9:00 am TODAY, April 28th at the UAF Rae Bldg. We may be a little behind schedule because of the road closure but it’s still happening.
If you have any questions, please contact 224-5261 about the schedule.
Draft Schedule:
9:00 AM – Opening Remarks, and Welcome, from [...]

Road Issues Who to Contact Sqeaky Wheel Gets the Grease

Here are the top people of DOT. The commissioner of DOT this is his email address dot.commissioner@alaska.gov his name is Leo von Scheben.
Allan Drake is one of the people they gave to us to contact his email is alan.drake@alaska.gov.
Governor Palins email address sarah.palin@alaska.gov, Paul Seaton representative_paul_seaton@legis.state.ak.us, Gary Stevens senator_gary_stevens@legis.state.ak.us, Mark Begich phone number 202-224-3004 his [...]

Road Closure Extention

[7:59am] THE ROAD IS NOW OPEN. One lane of traffic only. Official word.
[4:31am] We have received the a call from the project manager, they are finishing up the grading and will have the bridge open for 8am to get the school buses though.
[11:28pm] “morning”
[10:34pm] 2:00am
[9:10pm] What we know for sure that the road is not [...]

In Love We Trust – Showing Tonight! 6pm at Library

Another gem of a film, showing tonight at the Seward Community Library, In Love We Trust at 6pm.
About the film: A divorced couple learns that the only way to save their little daughter Hehe, who suffers from a blood disease, is to have another child. Now both remarried, Mei Zhu and Xiao Lu are [...]

Come Dine at AVTEC’s Academy Café

AVTEC’s own Alaska Culinary Academy restaurant, The Academy Café, is open May 7 through June 12 during the Ala Carte and Dining Service classes. This is a combination of two classes that run consecutively, rotating the students through all areas of fine dining, from actual food production to dining room set-up and service. The Café [...]

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