Getting Crafty with an Old Holiday Sweater
Today we’re getting crafty for the holidays. Natasha Price has been making handmade gifts as far back as she can remember. She’s been sewing since she was three, knitting since she was six, and documenting her DIY projects on her blog for about four years.
Price likes making creative gifts this time of year. So, together we're recycling my old Christmas sweater.
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Night Music: December 14, 2013
Here is the Night Music Playlist with Kirk Waldhaus. All tracks played are listed below in the following format:
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8:00...
Alaska News Nightly: December 13, 2013
Oiled Birds Wash Ashore On St. Lawrence Island. Legislation Would Reject Pay Raise For Governor. Without Medicaid Expansion, Alaska’s Poorest Get Nothing From Health Law. Susitna Dam Funding Cut In Proposed Budget. Legislators Consider State Takeover Of School Health Plans To Lower Costs. Bethel Man Remembers Growing Up In Apartheid South Africa. AK: Ancient Shorelines. 300 Villages: Shaktoolik.
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Making the Golden Connection: An Olympian’s Experience Carrying the Torch on the North Pole
Vice Chancellor for Administrative Service at University of Alaska Fairbanks, Pat Pitney was recorded speaking on ”Making the Golden Connection: An Olympian's Experience Carrying the Torch on the North Pole” at the Alaska World Affairs Council on December 13, 2013.
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Celebrating Volunteers
Volunteers are the heart of many organizations and causes. At this time of year, KSKA provides an opportunity to thank them for their contributions to the community. In the studio, our guests address what volunteers accomplish and how organizations can attract and make effective use of a volunteer workforce.
KSKA: Wednesday 12/18 at 2:00 pm and 9:00 pm
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Holiday Greetings Statewide
Many Alaskans make a point of listening to the radio on that very special Tuesday before Christmas when they can have the unique and uplifting experience of hearing holiday greetings from friends and relatives across the state on “Talk of Alaska.” It’s your chance to reach out to people near and far with your good wishes for the holiday and the new year.
APRN: Tuesday, 12/12 at 10:00am
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AK: Ancient Shorelines
Most of us like to know something about our family history. And we might want to get some idea of who was here before us.
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Gratitude, Positive Thinking, and the Art of Change
We all know those people. People who insist that life is a bowl full of cherries and that it rains dandelion kisses. People who practice gratitude despite great suffering and who choose charity and humility over self gain or glorification. Those among us who make us feel better when we are around them, who inspire us to be kinder, gentler, and more humane. On the next Line One, we will be exploring the connection between gratitude and positive thinking, and our physical and emotional health with Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Jennifer Beathe.
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Affordable Housing; And Elmore Extension Doubts
Affordable housing in Anchorage. Anchorage Assemblyman Chris Birch proposes moving muni election to the Fall. Alaska faces a $2 billion budget shortfall. Report investigates 20 years of APD-involved shootings. State rejects petition to recall Representative Lindsey Holmes.
KSKA: Friday, 12/13 at 2PM & Saturday, 12/14 at 6PM.
KAKM: Friday 12/13 at 7:30PM & Saturday. 12/14 at 4:30PM
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TBA’s two-fer
TBA is offering two shows this holiday season-the beloved story of Scrooge, Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchit, A Christmas Carol, and a one woman play staring Morgan Mitchell titled A Christmas Eve with Laura Ingalls. Wayne Mitchell, who plays Scrooge, drops by Stage Talk to let us in on all the action.
KSKA: Friday 12/13 at 2:45pm
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Alaska News Nightly: December 12, 2013
Gov. Parnell Proposes $1 Billion In Budget Cuts; Presidential Adviser Pete Rouse Touts Alaska Roots; Savoonga Whales Fulfill Musical Needs; Warming Arctic Likely Contributing To Erratic Worldwide Weather Patterns; Revisions Required For Shell’s 2014 Chukchi Exploration Plan; Bethel Homeless Shelter To Open By Christmas; Eaglecrest In Finals Of Ski Town Throwdown; US Women’s Nordic Team Entering Third World Cup Week
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Tumultuous Times in the Coop
In the past couple of weeks, my chicken house looks like several chickens have spontaneously combusted… it’s a cloud of feathers. But every chicken is, luckily, accounted for.
It’s just my Easter-egger going through a late-season molt.
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Alaska News Nightly: December 11, 2013
Big Outside Money Expected For US Senate Race; Study Investigates Two Decades Of APD Officer-Involved Shootings; Department of Administration Gets New Acting Commissioner; Report: 398 Alaskans Pick Marketplace Plans; Public Tells Commissioners HB77 Concerns; Recent Warm Up Affects Subsistence Gathering; Maritime Refuge Eyeing Invasive Cattle On Two Islands; Governor Continues 100-Year-Old Holiday Tradition
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Alaska News Nightly: December 10, 2013
Preliminary Report Reveals Few Details In St. Mary’s Crash; Juneau Highway Gunfight Followed Friday’s Drug-Related Shooting; Funerary Polar Bear Skulls May Be Returned To St. Lawrence Island; Savoonga Harvests Second Whale; State Weighs Options For Highway To Bypass Wasilla; Hovercraft To Be Replaced With Helicopter At Akutan Airport; Putting The ‘State’ In Alaska State Museum; Fairbanks Green Energy Advocate Pushes For Alternative Funding Model; Crews Testing New Road Ice Breaker; XtraTuf Says Its Boots Are Better
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The Christmas Star
On their first Christmas together, my parents purchased a simple red aluminum foil star for the top of their small tabletop Christmas tree.
In the snapshot they stand on either side of the tree. The star has a large hole in the center, obviously meant for a tree light to be inserted from the back.
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Traveling Music
12-22-13
Kluonie Frey (Shonti Elder's daughter)
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I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
The Civil Wars / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Johnny...
Traveling Music 12-15-13
Traveling Music
Kluonie Frey (Shonti Elder's daughter)
12-15-13
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Artist / Composer
CD Title
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Hot Buttered Rum
Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum / Tommy Thompson
Winter’s Grace
Dog Boy Records
3:30
Don Oiche...
Alaska News Nightly: December 9, 2013
Bristol Bay Fishermen File Suit Over Lone Star Sinking; FDA To Announce Decision On Genetically Modified Salmon; Fairbanks Company Offers Giant Pellet Fuel Logs; Inmate Hospitalized After Assault; Major AHFC Mixed Development in the Works for Mountain View; Dog Attack Victim, Hero Recount Their Ordeal; Geological Forensics At The Mendenhall Glacier; Adak Eyes Potential Polluck Fishery
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Good Morning Moon Music Video
Today we’re checking out music videos. Alaskan songwriter Marian Call recently released the first music video for her 2011 album Something Fierce.
Call says the video began last year as part of her Kickstarter campaign, when she took a poll from her fans.
The Gentle Giants
The Carriage Wheel Ranch in Chugiak, Alaska is home to the Gentle Giants, six black Percheron draft horses.
The associated Horse-Drawn Carriage Company, owned by Jon Nauman, has been offering carriage, sleigh and wagon rides to Alaskans for nearly 40 years.