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The parish of St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church in Juneau has a reason to celebrate. After spending years without a regular priest, the church has welcomed Father Simeon Johnson to join as its rector.

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"It looked like a howitzer shell hit it."

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Once a month, Juneau galleries, museums and shops stay open late and host show and exhibit openings, artist meet-and-greets and more. This month's "Second Friday" gallery walk will be held Friday, July 9 from 4:30 to 7 p.m.

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JUNEAU - The United Way of Southeast Alaska recently announced Community Impact Grant awards totaling $24,000 to six partner agencies. The projects were selected by a volunteer committee of the board of directors chaired by Katherine Eldemar, from a pool of proposals. The Community Impact Grants were divided into two groups this year. One focused on early literacy and the second set was focused on matching grant funds to help on any issue of need.

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Listed below are the names of the 2010 high school graduates from Southeast Alaska that were available at presstime.

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HOONAH - Navy Airman Apprentice Killian N. Skaflestad, son of Edna E. and Clarence K. Skaflestad of Hoonah, and his command, USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) homeported in Norfolk, Va. recently earned the honor to fly the Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist (ESWS) and Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist (EAWS) pennants.

HOONAH - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) will host a special Denali KidCare pediatric dental clinic on May 17-21 at the SEARHC Trudy Wolfe Medical Clinic in Hoonah.

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HOONAH - Residents and visitors of Hoonah can now reserve the newly constructed Forest Service cabin at Eight Fathom Bight. This cabin, funded with stimulus dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, provided much needed jobs to the local community.

JUNEAU - Elders are paired with teachers in an innovative course to train teachers of Tlingit in the use of Tlingit verbs. Participants work with a data base of 500 verbs created by Linguist Keri Edwards. The weekly course, the result of a partnership between the Goldbelt Heritage Foundation and the University of Alaska Southeast, is attended in person in downtown Juneau at the UAS Bill Ray Center and via audio conference by teachers and elders from Southeast communities including Hoonah, Sitka, Kake, Wrangell,and Klukwan.

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Southeast Alaska is a land of strong communities that manage to stay connected despite their extreme isolation. This weekend, over 650 high school music students from Craig, Haines, Hoonah, Juneau, Ketchikan, Klawock, Metlakatla, Petersburg, Sitka and Wrangell will close the distance between their hometowns by attending the annual Southeast Alaska Music Festival.

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"This was the best Site Managers' Workshop ever," stated a couple of Southeast Senior Services managers. From March 15 through 19, 11 senior center managers living in Southeast Alaska travelled to Juneau where they participated in five days of intensive training. Senior center managers from Angoon, Haines, Hoonah, Juneau, Kake, Ketchikan, Klawock, Sitka, Skagway, Wrangell and Yakutat attended.