AVTEC’s New Training Kitchens

AVTEC Culinary Arts students have begun learning knife skills, and cooking in the new building’s two sparkling training kitchens. They now have all new, state-of-the-art equipment to use, under the firm direction of instructor Cheryl Lewis. Only those who saw what they used to have to work with can truly appreciate the difference!

ASLC Charting a New Course

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By Heidi Zemach

They’re charting a new course at the Alaska SeaLife Center, swimming against the current to survive the economic downturn, and seeking new ways to deal with the reality that there just aren’t enough visitors coming in the doors to keep the center afloat. For the brief time that ASLC’s President and CEO [...]

Election Offers Choice

By Heidi Zemach
It’s shaping up to be a competitive Seward City Council race in the 2010 Municipal Election October 5, and a potentially hot ballot initiative is in the hands of local city voters.
Four candidates are applying for three 2-year seats on council. Council incumbents Marianna Keil and Jean Bardarson are on the list. But [...]

AVTEC welcomes students Monday with new building, programs

By Heidi Zemach
On Monday 155 Alaska Institute of Technology students from across Alaska will come to school in Seward for the 2010 fall semester. They will spend the year learning trades that will prepare them for good jobs in today’s economy; jobs that will qualify them as auto mechanics, electricians, pipe welders, chefs, and heavy [...]

2 FREE SBA Workshops

July 19 – TWO SBA Workshops: Hub Zone & 8(a) Programs” – FREE
Sam Dickey, Deputy District Director of the U.S. SBA Anchorage will be hosting TWO SBA workshops on July 19 at the AVTEC First Facility – 2nd Floor Conference Room. Registration is required for EACH workshop: http://aksbdc.ecenterdirect.com/Welcome.action
The HUBZone program provides access to federal contracting [...]

Alaska Railroad clarifies herbicide permit misconceptions

By Tom Brooks, Alaska Railroad Chief Engineer
There has been a lot of hyperbole about the Alaska Railroad Corporation’s (ARRC’s) proposed application of the weed killer glyphosate in areas between Seward and Indian. A few points of clarification are in order.
First, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) permit stipulates that no herbicide will be applied [...]

Council Report: Cabbies Unhappy With Shuttle Buses

By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News
Two taxicab drivers showed up at the Seward City Council meeting Monday, June 14, and talked about how much financial pain they are feeling due to the new First Student shuttle bus system that the city currently runs around town every day. The free shuttle bus was meant primarily [...]

Seward Remapping – Interactive Parcel Viewer

The Borough has set up a webpage for citizens both inside and outside City Limits to view if their property is ‘in’ or ‘out’ of the proposed floodplain updates to the FEMA Floodplain Maps (FIRMS). Everyone should pay special attention to the updates to these maps.
http://mapserver.borough.kenai.ak.us/sewardflood/
FEMA will be coming to Seward to [...]

Seward: A great place to raise kids, but a hard place to survive

By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News
Seward is a beautiful, safe place to raise children, with a comparatively high quality of life. But if you look closely at what’s happening with the population, business and the economy —you find some disturbing trends. A new $35,000 private economic development study prepared for the Seward Chamber of [...]

Jr Achievement Highlighted in Seward Schools

Junior Achievement (JA) programs are coordinated within local schools and among teachers who care to host a community volunteer in their classroom. The curriculum spans over 5-8 sessions and instructs students about how money and businesses work in our cities, country and across International borders. JA has been conducted in various Seward classrooms from 3rd [...]

Seward Economic Development Assessment is out

And gives top billing to SCN;
“All respondents use the Seward City News as their major source for community issues, services, and programs.” !
Seward Economic Development Assessment 2010-05-19 DRAFT.pdf (602kb)

First Cruise Ship Marks another Tourist Season

(By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News)
Under gloomy weather, and intermittent rain, the summer tourist season in Seward officially began Sunday with the arrival of the first massive cruise ship, the Ryndam Holland America. It was transporting about 1200 passengers to Vancouver, with stopovers in Haines, Juneau, and Ketchikan.
This summer 57 ships will dock in [...]

Will We Have a Homer-Like Spit?

By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News

The city-owned South Harbor fill area and breakwater is wasted space, an untapped gravel eyesore just waiting to be put to better use in the summertime. Most summers, the area fills with cars and boat trailers, parked by visiting tourists and locals fishing or putting their boats in for [...]

Swim Coach Gets New View

A community grant from the Holland America Line Inc. Community Advisory Board, was awarded to Seward Tsunami Swim Club (STSC). The $1000 grant was received November of 2009, the start up of the swim season for STSC .
The Seward Tsunami Swim Club grant was for the purchase of an underwater camera and recording system. It [...]

Captain Jack’s Seafood Market Opens

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Over the last couple of years Captain Jack’s Seafood Locker has experienced a number of exciting expansions and is thrilled to mark the completion with the grand opening of their new seafood market. Late last summer, Captain Jack’s finished the renovation of their new custom commercial seafood processing facility. Since its opening it has [...]

Anniversary Sale at Sew’n Bee Cozy

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Seward’s Main Job Generator Isn’t Tourism—it’s Prison

(By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News)
One of Seward’s top employers, possibly the top employer, is one you never see unless you work or have business there. Spring Creek Correctional Center is nestled in the mountains at Fourth of July subdivision, just north of Seward Marine Industrial Center. The state prison facility is out of sight, [...]

City tackles harbor and tourism, name-calling

(By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News)

The harbor:
The Seward City Council passed a resolution authorizing the city manager to implement a vessel maintenance and repair policy for the Seward Small Boat Harbor at Monday night’s meeting. The policy governs minor maintenance allowed in the harbor such as varnishing, waxing, sanding, painting, window replacement and other [...]

Join Kenai Watershed Forum aboard the Kenai Star!

Friday, May 28 • 4 pm to 9 pm • Seward, AK
Join KWF for a dinner cruise and tour aboard Major Marine’s Kenai Star to benefit KWF’s Capital Building Campaign. We’ll cruise the waters of Resurrection Bay on May 28th amidst a backdrop of the Chugach and Kenai mountain ranges. Come aboard for an exciting [...]

Icicle Seafoods Scholarship

The Icicle Seafood Scholarship was created to enable students from Seward, Moose Pass and other northeastern Kenai Peninsula communities to attend KPC during the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 semesters. The scholarship may be used to pay for face-to-face and distance delivered courses from any KPC campus. A total of five scholarships in the amount [...]

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