Alaska
Alaska Man Hooks a Pike, Flips His Rowboat, Loses the Rod, Steals a Pedal Boat, Finds the Rod—and Lands the Pike
When Sam Bartell appeared over to see his buddy Tomee Jones within the backside of the rowboat—his ankles up excessive over his head—he ought to have identified issues had been about to take a flip.
Bartell, who had a 30-plus-inch pike on the road, thought for a second that he may hold the boat right-side-up. However because the water came visiting the gunnel and he fell backward into the lake, shedding his doubled-over rod within the course of, he knew for positive that their stress-free day of pike fishing had simply become a goat rope.
The episode all started when Bartell noticed a monster pike swimming close to the dock. It was the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, and the 2 buddies had been with a gaggle of buddies at a home on Hourglass Lake close to Wasilla, Alaska. They weren’t precisely ready for an outing on the water, however noticing an outdated rowboat on the shore, Bartell figured they could as effectively give it a shot.
“We’re tremendous fired up at that time, and I’m like, ‘Let’s seize this crappy boat and let’s go,’” he tells Outside Life.
The 2 labored up and down the shoreline with out a chew, he explains, however after they got here again round and handed inside 20 yards of the dock, a bruiser of a pike exploded on his orange rooster tail.
“That is the largest pike I’ve ever seen!” Bartell yelled as he set the hook, unable to include his pleasure.
This caught everybody’s consideration on the dock—together with Bartell’s spouse, who had already began taking footage. Jones, in the meantime, tried turning round within the bow earlier than out of the blue discovering himself within the awkward place of trying up at his sandals. Then…kersplash.
The following factor Bartell knew, he was treading water empty-handed whereas Jones climbed into the swamped rowboat. The rod had slipped out of his palms.
“Tomee was sort of freaking out,” Bartell says. “He was actually fearful in regards to the big pike thrashing round beneath him. However as soon as he was all good, I appeared again on the dock and all the ladies had been simply laughing at us.”
So, the 2 anglers pulled the swamped rowboat again to shore and sat down on the dock for a breather. After about 10 minutes, although, Bartell nonetheless couldn’t get the fish out of his head. That’s when he noticed the pedal boat tied as much as the dock. And after commandeering the toy craft from the younger youngsters who had been there, the 2 set out once more, pedaling the awkward barge to the identical spot the place that they had dumped their first boat.
It wasn’t lengthy earlier than Jones in some way noticed the rod on the backside of the lake in about seven toes of water. Bartell had already taken one unplanned swim and had nothing to lose, so he went in after it. Diving down and grabbing maintain of the rod, he felt the telltale tug of a fish.
“And I’m like, ‘Dude! This factor continues to be on right here,” Bartell says.
Again within the pedal boat, the 2 stayed tight to the pike and towed it again to dock. With the fish lastly in-hand, Jones ran as much as the home to seize a chunk of firewood to make use of as a membership.
After filleting the 32-inch fish, the 2 drenched fishermen kicked again on the dock as soon as once more to recuperate from a soothing afternoon of pike swimming.
Alaska
Alaska hospital adjusting after Hurricane Helene causes nationwide IV fluid shortage
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Hospitals across the United States and in Alaska are dealing with an IV fluid shortage after flooding from Hurricane Helene caused medical supply manufacturers to cease production.
Baxter International, the largest supplier of IV fluid and peritoneal dialysis fluid for care facilities, was forced to shut the doors of its largest production facility in North Cove, North Carolina — which was impacted by major flooding and water saturating the building.
In a release Thursday, Baxter described their plans to minimize patient disruption moving forward, mentioning a customer limit on orders to prevent stockpiling saline, dextrose, and peritoneal dialysis solutions.
Alaskan hospitals are experiencing the effects of the shortage. Providence Alaska Medical Center said in a written statement:
“The situation and impact to products and availability are currently being assessed, but in the meantime, Providence is employing various mitigation strategies to ensure there is no disruption to patient care, including strategies to conserve current supply and use of alternative fluids and solutions as appropriate.”
Currently, the situation is not considered dire. In a release from Alaska Emergency Medical Services, State Director Michael Levy said it is hoped the situation will be resolved and production will resume quickly, but there are currently no details available.
Baxter’s statement from Thursday also mentioned their medical affairs team’s availability to advise on possible solutions while supply rationing is still in effect.
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Alaska Airlines employees help uplift communities during inspiring Week of CARE – Alaska Airlines News
Alessandra F., Manager of Community Relations and Engagement, searched for meaningful ways to support local military families in the state of Alaska, where over 50,000 active-duty service members and their dependents reside, and where 1 in 10 Alaskans is a veteran. Her search led her to Fisher House Alaska, a long-standing Care Miles partner with Alaska Airlines.
Fisher House provides military families with a “home away from home” at no cost, allowing them to focus on medical care and recovery while finding comfort and community. Alaska Mileage Plan members can support this cause by donating miles here.
More than 30 Alaska Airlines employees spent the day at Fisher House, baking fresh brownies and cookies, organizing closets and pantries, and preparing thoughtful care packages for the families staying there. The day wrapped up with a hearty fall dinner cooked by our team, serving more than 50 guests and creating a warm, welcoming atmosphere for these deserving families.
Alaska
Wright and Eischeid face off again in a close state House race to represent East Anchorage district • Alaska Beacon
In Anchorage’s North Muldoon and Russian Jack neighborhoods, two candidates are facing each other for the second time in two years for a seat in the Alaska House.
While Republican incumbent Rep. Stanley Wright is seeking reelection, Democrat Ted Eischeid is on a mission to unseat Wright in the rematch.
In 2022, Eischeid lost to Wright by 72 votes.
This year, Eischeid said he retired early from his job as planner for the Matanuska-Susitna Borough so he could redouble his campaign efforts —“I knocked a lot of doors two years ago, I’m doubling that effort this time,” he said.
Eischeid led the race in the primaries with a 3% edge over Wright, although only 8% of registered voters turned out.
Any flipped seat could be consequential in a closely divided House, so an Eischeid victory could tip the balance of power away from the current Republican majority.
Wright is a Navy veteran from South Carolina. He followed his wife to Alaska where they raised their children. Before representing House District 22, Wright worked as a community systems manager in Anchorage’s Community Safety and Development office. His previous public service roles include work in the state governor’s office and for the state’s Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
Eischeid had a career as a middle school science teacher in the Midwest before he, too, followed his wife to Alaska where he found work as a planner for the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. His previous public service was two terms as a nonpartisan county board supervisor in Wisconsin. He said the value of listening to all viewpoints was driven home to him in that role.
“Sometimes I voted conservative, sometimes I voted progressive. I let people’s public testimony and I let the data guide me. And I listened very closely, tried to suspend my bias as much as I could,” he said.
As part of his campaign, Eischeid said he heard that the district’s main concerns are education, public safety and infrastructure. He said the value of a good education is a priority for him in part because he grew up poor in Iowa after his father died when he was very young.
“I’m a food stamp kid. I’m a free and reduced lunch kid. And because I had good public school teachers, I got a good education. I was able to earn that college degree, and I entered a good middle-class lifestyle,” he said, adding that, if elected, he will bring that history — and the sense of compassion it instilled in him — to Juneau.
That sentiment points to a similarity between the candidates. In 2022, Wright told the Alaska Beacon that a “pretty rough” childhood on a South Carolina farm and, later, in a housing project, taught him about the value of public assistance. He sought federal grants for low- and moderate-income housing as a city employee in Anchorage, according to his campaign.
Eischeid described himself as a moderate Democrat who will listen, but doesn’t want to “waste time” fighting culture wars.
“People don’t want professional politicians, and they’re not asking for much, but they want somebody that represents them and knows them and puts people over party,” he said.
Wright did not respond to the Alaska Beacon’s requests for an interview for this story. But his voting record has at least one striking example of putting concerns raised in his district over the leadership of his party: In the last session, he was one of the seven members of the Alaska House’s majority caucus who voted with members of the House minority in a failed attempt to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of an education bill that included a permanent increase for state education funding.
At the time, Wright said one of the schools in his district had been threatened with closure and that “really weighed heavy on my heart.”
In his first term in office he co-sponsored a number of bills that became law, including the measure that led to state recognition of Juneteenth, and passed a law that is intended to streamline the certification process for counselors in order to increase access to mental health care.
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