AVTEC Annual Guest Chef Dinner is on

The AVTEC Annual Guest Chef Dinner will be held on Saturday, April 17 at 6:30 p.m. AVTEC holds this dinner once a year and proceeds from dinner provide scholarships to help fund culinary students’ training at AVTEC. This year the Guest Chef is Chef Eric DuBey from Thirty Six Bistro in Anchorage. This year’s dinner [...]

2010 Calendars on Sale!

There are still a few 2010 Seward community calendars remaining. Get yours while the year is still young. Calendars are for sale for $7 (originally $10, saving $1 for each month gone by)–to purchase contact Fritz Klasner (fklasner@gmail.com, 224-4664).
Featuring photographs submitted by community members, advertisements for local businesses, and listing birthdays, anniversaries, and events in the community; the [...]

NEWS FROM THE ALASKA SEALIFE CENTER

The Alaska SeaLife Center today announced a Request for Proposals (RFP) from artists for outdoor public art pieces that will be installed in a new Waterfront Park in Seward. The RFP is open to all statewide and national artists, who can submit either existing pieces or ideas for new creations.
Total Budget for Art: $50,000 USD [...]

The Spring Gardening Workshop IS NOW FILLED.

Thanks for all the folks who responded so promptly and signed up for the hanging basket class. Rita Jo calls the class the “Bodacious Basket Class.” I think we are in for a treat.
We will email or call all folks who either called or email me and let them know the location of the class. [...]

Gardening Workshop Coming to Seward March 26th

Start the gardening season off right by coming to a gardening workshop taught by Rita Jo on:
Friday, March 26th at 6:30 p.m. (location TBA)
The evening’s main topic will be hanging baskets. The basket workshop costs $25 and Rita Jo will provide all the materials for you to make one basket to take with you at [...]

Music In Our Schools Month

March has been officially designated by MENC: The National Association for Music Education for the observance of Music In Our Schools Month (MIOSM®), the time of year when music education becomes the focus of schools across the nation. MIOSM began as a single statewide celebration in 1973, and has grown over the decades to encompass [...]

Local adventurers to be featured in Seward at the Alaska Ocean Film Festival

Paddle to Seattle is the Alaskan kayak documentary that has audiences across the country in stitches. Seward filmmakers, J.J. Kelley and Josh Thomas, combine the unlikely genres of expedition documentation and light-hearted comedy to shine in this fifty-two minute piece. The work brings to life their madcap expedition braving the wettest Alaskan summer on record [...]

Seward Elementary Art Show

Video by Josh Thomas
An artist residency taught by Justine Pechuzal culminates in an art show.

Seward Library Museum project moving forward

By Heidi Zemach for SCN
(heidizemach@yahoo.com)

Seward residents joined Join Jae Shin of ECI/Hyer Architects and Kent Crandall of RISE Alaska for a community presentation of their 35% schematic design for the new Seward community library museum. The meeting was held February 11, in the library basement. The building depicted in the design represents the architect’s attempts [...]

Shorebird Love

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Shorebirds, Copper River Delta, Alaska
This flock of shorebirds nearly formed the shape of a heart. I captured this last spring and saved it thinking it would be a perfect post for Valentines day – not realizing it would fall on a holiday weekend. So I thought I would post [...]

Student Art Show & Book Fair @ Seward Elementary

STUDENT ART SHOW & BOOK FAIR @ SEWARD ELEMENTARY
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Featuring artwork created by kindergarten – 6th grade Seward Elementary students with Artist-in-Residence, Justine Pachuzal, in the gym. Through activities such as this, our children learn to appreciate art and discover their own creativity. Be sure to [...]

Mt. Alice

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Mt. Alice, Chugach National Forest, Seward, Alaska.
This is another recent photo of Mt Alice at sunset captured this past December. Maybe I should just call this the Mt. Alice photo blog because I post so many photos of this beautiful mountain. Really, the subject matter here should be [...]

Full Moon Over Resurrection Bay

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Full Moon over Resurrection Bay, Seward, Alaska.
This was last night’s beautiful full moon rising over Mt. Alice. The bay was as calm as a lake!
Manual exposure of 10 seconds at f/8 and ISO 400. Canon 1DsIII and 24-105 lens at 47.

Alaska Mountain Sunrise

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Sunrise over the Chugach National Forest, Seward, Alaska.
It has been a little while since I have posted a new photo from Seward. Here is a recent image captured out or front door of a view that never gets old!

The Green Beet: Design with recycle in mind

By Jen Ransom for Seward City News
My husband and I recently took a whirlwind trip to visit some friends down in Los Angeles. Leaving the little one at my parent’s Oregon home, we flew down to visit America’s sunny city during the worst rainstorm LA had seen in probably 15 years.
Skipping a trip to the beach, [...]

Got Calendar?

The 2010 Seward community calendars have arrived. Calendars are for sale for $10 at the Library or by contacting Fritz Klasner (fklasner@gmail.com, 224-4664). Featuring photographs submitted by community members, advertisements for local businesses, and listing birthdays, anniversaries, and events in the community; the calendar is the perfect wall companion to the online SCN calendar.
Calendar proceeds are [...]

Community Calendars are here!

The 2010 Seward community calendars have arrived. Advance orders have been distributed (please contact us if you’ve not received your’s). Calendars are for sale for $10 at the Library or by contacting Fritz Klasner (fklasner@gmail.com, 224-4664). Featuring photographs submitted by community members, advertisements for local businesses, and listing birthdays, anniversaries, and events in the community; [...]

Snowy Mountain Sunrise

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Resurrection Peaks, Chugach National Forest, near Seward, Alaska.

Bits of History – A 1911 Seward Christmas

From your friends at the Seward Museum, we hope you enjoy this latest installment in the ‘Bits of History’ series. Please join Lee Poleske for this week’s look into the past as a young and vibrant Seward, Alaska celebrates Christmas during the winter of 1911. The video may also be viewed on YouTube at following [...]

Stocking Stuffers Play This Weekend

Do you remember the Christmas story about the first time female elves were hired to work in Santa’s workshop? How about the saga of Donner and Blitzens’ tireless campaign to move from ‘caboose’ to the front of the sleigh? And that time when Grandma got run over by a reindeer? Well, once you sit in [...]

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