Hedger wins bowling, Pen History meeting, Gas Fields, ACS phone line, Sipes returns, house building party, Eagles club
Last November Anita Hedger won the state bowling championship for the women’s league, master’s division. Anita is nearly 79 and lives off Rowlinda in Cohoe. The master’s division is for bowlers 75 years old or older. There are five different age divisions with competitors throught most lanes in Alaska, making her win pretty special. Louise Snyder of Kasilof won a bronze metal for third place in the state for her division. In June Anita goes to Reno to compete in the national tournament. Senior citizens have league bowling twice per week in Kenai, three games for $6.
The Kenai Peninsula Historical Association spring meeting is May 3 in the Kasilof Community Church building, next to Kasilof Mercantile. Members from Seward to Kenai to Homer will be attending. The featured speaker is Dr. Linda Chamberlain of east Homer. She is an authority on dogmushing mail delivery and will speak on that subject at 1:00. Kasilof Historical Association will be hosting the meeting and the public is invited. After the meeting, a tour of the McLane Center museum and historic cabins will be offered.
White, vacuum/tank trucks are frequently seen driving through Kasilof and are involved in gas field operations. Gas wells produce by-product fluids, which are separated at well sites. These fluids are picked up by vacuum trucks and, for proper disposal, hauled to the Kenai Gas field on Kalifornsky Beach Road. Gas field drilling operations are planned for local gas fields and will begin as soon as road restrictions go off, enabling the drill rig to be mobilized. Kenai Gas Field is technically in Kasilof.
Backhoes in Kasilof should be extra careful in the future not to dig up phone lines. Alaska Communication System (ACS) owns a fiber optic telephone line, which is buried through Kasilof. ACS has contracted with Tyco Telecommunications to lay a submerged fiber optic cable from Anchorage to Nikiski. It will then hook to the existing line, which runs thorough Kasilof to Homer. From Homer, Tyco will lay a new cable on the ocean floor all the way to Florence, Oregon. The work is planned for this summer. In the past a broken phone line could disconnect half the Peninsula, in the future it could disconnect Alaska from the States.
Mike Sipes of the tallest hill in Cohoe is back from Quito, Ecuador. He has been to South America more than ten times. Originally he went for adventure, but recent trips have been for possible involvement in agribusiness and for personal dental work. Mike has had major dental reconstruction at Quito over the course of a couple years. He has nothing but praise for the Ecuadorian people and dentists.
“I have to do something to offset Borough taxes,” Mike said. “They are taxing me out of my house.”
A work party from Kasilof Community Church has recently built a 1200 square foot house for the MacRae family on Elaine Ave off Cohoe Loop. Chuck Morse headed up the work party. Jim and Dianne McRae already had a basement and recently bought material for their house, but after surgery on his brain, Jim was unable to build it. MacRae’s have a chicken farm of about 300 birds.
Kasilof Eagles Club offers Sunday breakfast potlucks from 10:00 -1:00 at their “Aerie” (Eagles nest) on Jason Road. They are raffling off a large framed print called “The Bear.” Tickets are $1 each, or 6 for $5 and the drawing will be on Mother’s Day.