The Seward Community Library Museum raffle quilt has moved around the corner to the new book store Cover to Cover. Located at 300 Washington St, Cover to Cover is open 7 days a week 9am to 10pm. Stop in to see the beautiful quilt, browse the books and don’t forget to buy your raffle ticket! Tickets are only one dollar and are going fast.
All proceeds are going to the building project for a new Library and Museum location. Tickets are available at: Seward Library, Seward Museum, Teresa Roy at First National Bank, Mary Tougas at Hertz, Karla Oates at Sew-n-Bee Cozy and Vanta Shafer at Cover to Cover.
Thank you Cover to Cover for displaying our quilt! Drawing will be August 20th, noon, at the Library. We’ve had questions about shipping the quilt if someone from out of town wins it. The answer is Yes! of course we will ship it!
www.somethingforus.org
This beautiful quilt is on the move this week to Sew-n-Bee Cozy. Seward’s own quilt shop located at 211 4th Ave. Sew-n-Bee Cozy is displaying the quilt through the holiday weekend. Stop by and see the quilt and get your raffle tickets during their business hours of 10am-7pm M-Sat and Sundays 12-5pm. www.sewnbeecozy.com
The raffle proceeds go to the Seward Community Library Museum building project. Tickets are only $1 each and tickets sales are going fast. Drawing will be at the Library August 20th at noon. A 3-D model of the project is on display at the Library, stop by to see the model and look at the plans. More information is on our website, www.somethingforus.org.
Thank you Sew-n-Bee Cozy for displaying the quilt! Donated by Pam Ventgen, a quilter from Anchorage. Pam will be in Seward doing quilting classes for Seward’s local quilters in October and January.
Tickets available at the Library, Museum, Teresa Roy at First National Bank, Mary Tougas at Hertz, Karla Oates at Sew-n-Bee Cozy, Vanta Shafer at Cover to Cover.
Swim-a-Thon was a great success this year for Seward Tsunami Swim Club. 36 swimmers took to the pool last Thursday afternoon for a two hour swim time fund raiser for the club.
How many lengths can a STSC swimmer do in two hours? The maximum amount of lengths allowed to be swum by the USA Swimming rules for Swim-a-Thon is 200. This year STSC had 18 swimmers do the full 200 lengths. 200 lengths equal 5,000 meters which equal 3.10 miles per swimmer.
A total of lengths swum by STSC swimmers were 5,613 lengths or 140,325 meters or 87.19 miles! How far is that?! Running to mile 87 of the Seward Highway (around Girdwood) or swimming to Fox Island round trip three times!
Sponsors pledged over $10,000 to our swimmers this year.
Seward Tsunami Swim Club would like to thank our wonderful community members and family members for your support of our program! Without you, we would not be able to have our swimmers in the pool learning the swim strokes or competing statewide.
Thank you.
STSC Board:
Head Coach-Matt Hershock
Athlete Assist.-Grace Hawkins
President-Pat O’Leary
Vice Pres.-Eileen Eavis
Secretary-Sue Pfeiffenberger
Treasurer-Mary Tougas
Safety/Meet Coordinator-Terri McKnight
Member-at-Large-Maya Moriarty
Member-at-Large-Ina Hawkins
Seward Tsunami Swim Club will be having their annual fund raising event this Thursday April 17th at the Seward High school pool, Swim-a-Thon 2008!
The Swim-a-Thon is sponsored by USA swimming and has been the big fund raising event for the Tsunami swim club for many years. Swimmers have two hours to swim up to 200 lengths, (5000 meters). Swim sponsors can do a per-length donation or a flat rate donation to a swimmer for this event.
How many lengths can a Seward Tsunami swimmer do in two hours? Come on by and see these kids in action and sponsor a swimmer for this event. Swimmers will be coming to your door or calling. Are you an Alumni of STSC? Call us to sponsor a swimmer or email your request by Thursday and we will match your sponsorship to a swimmer for the Swim-a-Thon! Swimmers and parents will be at the pool after school Thursday for the two hour Swim-a-Thon followed by a pizza and ice cream dinner for swimmers and families.
STSC has 45 swimmers between the ages of 6 and 18, a Head Coach and an Athlete assistant. STSC is a non-profit organization that promotes swim skills and positive youth sport activities. STSC has an all volunteer, non-paid board. All funds raised by Swim-a-Thon are used to keep the club operating.
This season Seward Tsunami’s have swum in six different meets on the Kenai Peninsula and in Anchorage’s Bartlett pool. 17 swimmers competed in the Junior Olympics this last week, a record for the club.
Sponsor a swimmer for STSC’s Swim-a-Thon 2008 today!
Stsc_feelthewave@yahoo.com or call Robin Audette at 224-3271
Seward Tsunami Swim Club is making history this week as 17 swimmers head to Anchorage to attend the 2008 Speedo Junior Olympic Championship. This is the highest number of swimmers to qualify and attend Junior Olympics in the history of the club.
Head Coach Matt Hershock has 17 swimmers combined with boys and girls that will be swimming 64 events over the next four days at the Bartlett pool. 33 events will be female events and 31 events will be swum by the males.
STSC has three relay teams this year, one male relay team in the 15 and over events doing the 400 Free, 400 Medlay, 200 Free and the 200 Medlay relays. Girls 11 & 12 will swim the same female relay events and the 10 and under relay team will swim a 200 Medlay and a 200 Free relay.
These athletes have been training hard and placing in timed swim meets to qualify for Jr. Olympics. Seward senior Kenny Audette age 17, will be swimming his last year as an STSC swimmer. The O’Leary family has three fast swimmers competing this year, Meghan, age 17, Ryan, age 15 and Jayna age 14.
Traveling to JO’s will be: Edmee Andersen, Eileen Audette, Isabel Barnwell, Olivia Beckham, Josephine Braun, Catelynn Hettick, Robin McKnight, Maille Moriarty, Meghan O’Leary, Rachel Tougas, Ashley Von Borstel, Kenny Audette, Nick Broughton, Jayna O’Leary, Ryan O’Leary, Taylor Seavey and Sam Werner.
Events start on Thursday April 10 in the evening and then at 8 a.m. each day Friday, Saturday and Sunday. All events will be at the Barltett High School pool.
Good luck Tsunami’s!
Seward High Drama Productions is once again proud to present, “You Can’t Take It With You.” At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world it really nuts.
Shows begin nightly at 7:00 PM in the high school theater. Show dates are:
Saturday, April 12
Sunday, April 13
Monday, April 14
Tuesday, April 15
Children under 12 must be accompanied by adults.
Once a year, Providence Seward Medical and Care Center organizes an efficient, inexpensive way for high school students to get their sports physical screening.
This year’s event is: Wednesday, April 2, 3:30 pm - 7 pm at PSMCC. Cost is $5.00 per student.
Students MUST pay and pre-register for the event at the high school office. The deadline for registration is close of business Monday, March 31st.
The sports physical screening includes blood pressure, pulse, height & weight, basic vision screen, and overall clearance by a physician or physician assistant.
All proceeds will be donated to the Seward Seahawks Athletic Booster Club.
For questions, please call 224-2836.
It’s swim meet time on the Peninsula and the Seward Tsunami Swim Club (STSC) is on their way to Homer this weekend to compete in the March Madness swim meet hosted by Homers’ Kachemack Swim Club.
The meet will take place in the Kate Khuns Aquatic Center, Homer. The meet is open to all swimmers currently registered with USA Swimming and Alaska Swimming. Starting Friday March 7th with warm ups at 4:45pm and event starts at 5:45pm. Saturday warm ups are at 9:00am with event starts at 10:30am.
STSC swimmers will be swimming 54 female events and 36 male events with a total of 90 events. Three relays will be swum in the age groups of 10 and under girls, 12 and under girls, and open boys. STSC will have 19 swimmers between the ages 7 and 17 participating at March Madness.
STSC currently has 45 swimmers in three swim levels with head coach Matt Hershock and Athletic Assistant Grace Hawkins. Swim levels Gold and Silver swim everyday of the week and have been in more intense training for the peninsula meets where they are working toward recorded event qualifying times for the 2008 Speedo/Alaska Junior Olympic Championship competition coming April 10-13 at the Bartlett pool in Anchorage. Last swim season STSC had 13 swimmers qualified and 9 competed in the Junior Olympics at Bartlett pool.
STSC swimmers going to the March Madness meet are: Edmee Andersen, Eileen and Kenny Audette, Isabel Barnwell, Olivia Beckham, Catelynn Hettick, Robin & Walker McKnight, Maille Moriarty, Meghan, Ryan & Jayna O’Leary, Alice & Karl Pfeiffenberger, Rachel Tougas, Ashley Von Borstel, Nick Broughton, Michell Hauth, and Elijah Kellar.
Good luck Seward Tsunami’s!
STSC website: http://www.geocities.com/stsc_feelthewave/
Alaska Swimming website: akswimming.org
The Alaska Railroad cruise ship terminal was full of families that rocked the New Year in! Thank you all for attending this kick-off fund raiser for the Seward Community Library Museum project. It was standing room only as the band Chill Factor with John Tracy played. Chill Factor started their set off with the Alaska Flag song, recognizing the 49th year of Alaska statehood, and then rocked all evening long!
How do you put on an event like the 49ers’ Ball? It takes months of planning, and lots of volunteers! Volunteers did come to help, the numbers were about 20 for three days of decorating, helping during the event and the clean up! Thank you all! Seward is an awesome place to live!
Here are a few pictures from the ball, do you have some to share? Post some here too!
Happy New Year Seward!
NYE Planning Committee
PS-the 49ers’ Ball logo glasses are available at the Library if you didn’t get one last night!
Balloons are being inflated, tables are being put into place and the bands are warming up in preparation for the New Year’s Eve 49ers’ Ball! It’s something for all of us.A kick-off fund raiser for the Seward Community Library Museum project, it’s going to be a blast! Come to the party and help us raise money for a new home for our Library and Museum.
We were asked why we are calling it the 49ers’ Ball, well, 2008 is the 49th year of Statehood for our 49th state, Alaska. These two numbers only come together once and the planning committee thought it would be great to celebrate this at our New Year’s Eve Ball!
Come early and enjoy the music of Steve Lemme, have dinner or snacks, watch a slide show of historic Seward photos. Later the band Chill Factor will be performing, bring your dancing shoes! Beer and wine will be available in the beer garden, the Pit Bar will be running the garden this year. Food booths will be open, sodas and coffee will be sold all night long as well.
Photo portraits by One shot Photography will be ready for you, and the family.
Kids corner will be filled with lots of fun filled crafts as well as a selection of Disney movies.
Ladies pull out the dresses and men whip-out the suit and tie! You can dress up if you’d like too, but it’s not required.
Doors open at 7pm, if you don’t have your tickets yet, we will be selling them at the door. Leave your coats at the coat check, and come on in to the 49ers’ Ball!
See you there!
www.somethingforus.org or email at nye49ersball@yahoo.com
What a great white Christmas it was this year! All of us on the planning committee for the 49ers’ Ball wish you Happy Holidays! We are still working away on the details for our community event. We wanted to let you know about the food and beverage choices at the 49ers’ ball!
Our beer garden will be open all evening with beer and wine choices, the folks from the Pit Bar will be running the garden this year. Word is they are bringing in a special truck that is set up just for draft service, like what they use for out door jazz festivals, etc. All the beer will be climate controlled. A big thank you to Shelly and Frank from the Pit Bar for working with us. A portion of the evening’s sales will go to our community project. Our logo glass will be sold for re-use in the beer garden and outside the beer garden for $5 each.(see the 49ers’ Ball circle logo in blue to the left). Think green and get a glass for your collection to use at the Ball!
If you will be enjoying the beer garden, please make arrangements for getting home. Don’t drink and drive! The hotels are offering shuttles and we will call taxis for anyone, just let any of the volunteers know that you would like a taxi and we will call for you.
Seward Mini Mart is bringing in an espresso machine! That’s right, you will be able to have all the coffee, lattes, Cappuccinos, Mochas you want all evening long! I’ll be there to get my pick-me-ups during the 49ers Ball! Fountain sodas, bottled water, brewed coffee, (he uses Kaladi Bros.)! There will be plenty of non-alcohol choices for our families attending. Thanks to Sean Carrington of the Seward Mini Mart located inside the Holiday Inn Express. Thank you Sean!
Now for some of the food choices. Food booths will be open at 7 pm and will be open until closing (unless they sell out early!)
Cedar will have her Thai dishes at her booth. Have you tried her chicken or vegetarian curries? Wow! They are wonderful! They come with rice. Spring rolls with sauce, can’t be missed. Cedar has been serving up great food at many of our community events and was the first one to get signed up to do the 49ers’ Ball! Thank you Cedar for your support of our project!
The Smoke Shack is preparing a pulled pork sandwich with coleslaw! An appetizer plate with brushetta is on the menu also for the evening! Have you eaten their breakfasts?! If you are coming for the holiday, check them out. They smoke their own ham and bacon. Breakfasts should not be missed! Best chicken fried steak and eggs around. These folks know how to service up some great food. Located right on the corner of Port Ave and 4th Ave inside a rail car. They will be at the 49ers’ Ball, check them out!
The High School travel group with Lori Krier is doing a booth with food choices for the younger crowd. Nachos with cheese, or deluxe with meat and cheese and virgin daiquiri’s.
All of our vendors will be giving a portion of sales to our Seward Community Library Museum project, the reason for our celebration. A new home for our Library and our Museum in one building, something for all of our community!
New Year’s Eve 49ers Ball, at the Alaska Cruise ship terminal at the end of Port Ave. Dec 31st at 7 pm to 1:30 am. Live music all evening. See you there!
www.somethingforus.org or email at nye49ersball@yahoo.com
Our middle school girl’s basketball team took the KPBSD Middle School Borough Basketball tournament after winning their first game against the Kenai Kossacks then on to beat the undefeated Soldotna Maroon Spartans 30 – 18!
Games were held at Kenai High School and Kenai Middle school on Saturday, December 8th. The girls had a 4-1 win/loss record only losing to the Maroon team from Soldotna Middle School. The team was successfully coached by head coach, Mr. Cliff Draper, (seen in the picture wearing the black suit for the championship game) and assisted by Mr. Tim Fleming.
The Seward Middle School Championship team was made up of these girls:
7th graders: Maranda Clark, Gretchen Linquist, Savannah Fackler and Tessa Adelmann,
8th graders: Teal Stewart, Maddy Campbell, Jessica Stallings, Maggie Fleming, Chelsey Clarke, and Meg Berry
Sincerely, Laura Beck – Seward Middle School
Last weekend in Nikiski the Seward Seahawk Wrestling Team lost it’s lead to ACS in the regional tournament late in the goings-on and finished 14 points behind for second place.
Individual champions are Scott Reierson- 119lbs, Dylan Beck- 152lbs, Alan Logan- 189lbs, Brandon o’Brikis- 215lbs. Finishing as runners up were Brenton meier- 112 lbs, Jonas Romero- hwt,
Taking 3rd Matt Nyholm- 145lbs, Koal Backlund- 160lbs, and Kyle Kain-hwt. All nine of these boys qualified to compete at the state tournament held in Sitka this up coming weekend.
With our swim season getting started, Seward Tsunami Swim Club has a great turn out of new swimmers. We are still looking for a person to do Assistant Coaching for our program. You do not have to have experience for this, our head coach can instruct. Two or more days per week in the afternoons. Pay starts at $14/hr. Anyone interested can call Pat O’Leary 224-5825 for details.
Seward High School pool staff will be starting a life guard training class. It will be an American Red Cross course.
Prerequisites are to be 15 years of age and pass a swim test. Sign up in advance at the pool. All classes must be attended to pass the course. $75 Fee 224-3900
Saturday Nov.10 11:30am * Monday Nov. 12 5:30pm
Tuesday Nov 13 7:00pm * Thursday Nov 14 5:30pm
The Seward Elks are proud to offer the youth of our community an opportunity to participate in a new fun event that stresses healthy recreation and lifestyles.
6:30 PM Wednesday August 15th, The Seward Elks Lodge will be sponsoring the Annual Elks Soccer Shoot. The event is open to all children from ages 4-9 and is FREE!! This year the event will take place at the Jon Perry Memorial Softball Field behind the city cemetary off Coolidge Road.
This event is being sponsored by the Elks with the assistance of Seward Parks and Recreation, but children DO NOT have to be a participant in the SPRD Soccer Program to participate.
Participants in the soccer shoot have to shoot a regular youth sized soccer ball into a smaller than regular goal from a specific distance depending on their age. The winners of each age group will receive an award and the first 50 children who participate will receive a commemorative ELKS Soccer ball to practice for next year’s event.
The Seward Elks Lodge is a Community Service and Fraternal Organization that has been active in Seward for more than 65 years. For more information about the Elks, ask a friend who is a member, stop by our club at 419 5th Avenue on Wednesday, Friday or Saturday nights, or call the Lodge 224-3158. You can also visit our homepage at www.sewardelks.com
Elks Care…Elks Share
From the Grand Lodge of Elks - About the Soccer Shoot
Soccer is one of the fastest growing youth activities in the country. The Elks Soccer Shoot Program is geared to coincide with this sport phenomenon. From toddlers to teens, in our large urban centers to our small suburban settings, soccer is becoming the sport of choice for our youth. This program is under the “umbrella” of the Grand Lodge Youth Activities Committee. We want to capitalize on this sporting event to help keep our youth focused and away from undesirable activities.
The Elks Soccer Shoot program is a “Three Goal Contest” and consists of a series of three goals, decreasing in size from 48 inches to 17 inches. The age groups that use these goals are divided into two categories, U-5 contains ages four and five, U-7 contains ages six and seven and U-9 group contains ages eight and nine. The contest is open to boys and girls who shoot separately. The U-5 contestants kick from 15 feet from the face of the goal, while the U-7 and U-9 contestants kick from 18 feet from the goal.
The Elks Soccer Shoot Program is a terrific program for our youth, the future of our country. ELKS SOCCER SHOOT, “IT’S A KICK.”
GEAR DISTRIBUTION
HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING ROOM
7/21 10AM -2PM
7/22 10AM-5PM
7/28 10AM-2PM Last chance for sign up, fee payment gear pick-up
FIRST FORMAL PRACTICE
JULY 30
9AM-3PM
BRING LUNCH AND GEAR
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CALL:
224-6589 OR 491-0588
Bourgeois wins again. And so too do the Foldangerous sisters. Here are some pics of local Mount Marathon runners.
For Seward City News by Russ Maddox
The spate of indictments against current and former lawmakers is no doubt saddening to most Alaskans. But anyone who follows politics enough to be reading the editorial page in this paper knows that favors and payoffs in our political system are the norm, not the exception. It’s the way the game is played by the folks that can afford to play. Go to any committee hearing in the capitol building and you’ll be fighting to get a seat against a horde of lobbyists that sit silently in the audience, watching their money work.
Most of us would agree that trading political favors for personal gain is unethical. Yet nine times out of ten, if the same acts that led to the recent indictments were committed with a bit more transparency, they would be no less unethical but completely legal. Why are we shocked when a legislator promises a vote or sponsors a bill in return for money or other compensation offered behind closed doors; yet totally complacent when they openly sponsor a bill that benefits a business partner or an industry that contributes to their reelection campaign? Read More>
Seward parent teacher student association meets April 30 at 7 p.m. in the Middle School library.
Main agenda items:
- Innisbrook elementary field trip request procedure
- Annual Seward High scholarship & scholarship fund
- Spring Three-School Scholarship garage sale
- Graduation Scholarship presentations
- Seward High 2007-08 schedule
- Pedestrian access to Seward Middle/High
- Seward school wellness grants
- Officers/committee chairs for 2007-08
Seward PTSA was chartered in 1990 - Serving all Seward schools.
For additional information and news go to Seward school Edline pages or https://www.edline.net/pages/Seward_Elementary/PTSA_Corner
The special needs students are setting up a usable/functional kitchen in the teacher’s lounge at the high school. This kitchen is primarily for the teachers, but will be used a couple hours a week to teach adult living skills. There are a few things we do not have or would like to upgrade or replace, and we need your help. If you have any of the following items listed below that you would like to donate, it would be greatly appreciated…
Microwave
Coffee Maker
Upright vacuum
Dish strainer
Thank you,
Jennifer DoughertyOT Aide Seward Schools
(907) 224-7581
Last weekend the Seward wrestling team had the opportunity to travel to Wrangell, AK for competition in the largest tournament held in the South East. The team consisted of 15 young men who battled courageously advancing 12 to the medal rounds. Earning individual titles were Dylan Beck 152, Brandon O’Brikis 215, and Josh Zimmerman HWT. The team wishes to extend a big thankyou to all who helped make this trip possibe and a special thanks to the Wrangell Wolves and Coach Garrison for the hospitality.
After eight years of waiting, Seahawk Coach Dan Marshal finally got another girl’s cross-country championship win.
The Lady Seahawk team was made up of four seniors, two juniors, and one freshman girl; Sarrah Glaser, Tekla Backlund, Juno Prochazka, Kendra Oldow, the Foldager twins, and Alison Barnwell. This was the one of the strongest teams Seward has ever created.
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Two major second half touchdowns by Nikiski put Bulldogs ahead of skilled Seahawks team. Seahawks 17, Bulldogs 27. More to come.
See more photos of the Seward vs. Nikiski game and homecoming parade Here.
