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Recreation on the Ballot

Voters cast their ballots at the Anchorage Division of Elections Office on Election Day, November 8, 2022. The polling place served as a an early voting location for districts 1 to 40. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media)
Voters cast their ballots at the Anchorage Division of Elections Office on Election Day, November 8, 2022. The polling place served as a an early voting location for districts 1 to 40. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media)

Next week, on March 14, ballots will be mailed out to qualified, registered voters in Anchorage, for the Regular Municipal Election on April 4. The ballot includes elections for Assembly seats, Anchorage School Board seats and Service Area Board of Supervisors seats as well as 14 propositions and one Special Election Proposition. On the first segment of today’s show, We'll be joined by Beth Nordlund, executive director of Anchorage Park Foundation. Beth will explain Special Election Proposition No. A, the bond proposed for Anchorage Parks and Recreation Service Area Capital Improvements, including specific projects that the bond will fund. In the second segment today, our guest is Joe Connolly, the chair of the Glen Alps Road Service Area Board of Supervisors. Joe will talk about the importance of Proposition 6 which will create a Chugach State Park Access Service Area, the first step in the process of making much needed improvements to Chugach State Park trailheads.

HOST: Lisa Keller

GUESTS:
Beth Nordlund, executive director Anchorage Park Foundation
Joe Connolly, chair of the Glen Alps Road Service Area Board of Supervisors

LINKS:
Anchorage Park Foundation
Glen Alps Board of Supervisors
Ballot information

Lisa Keller was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. She was 8 years old when Title IX passed and was fortunate to have parents who encouraged activity and to live in a progressive and encouraging community for girls and women in sports. She played baseball and soccer, downhill skied at Arctic Valley, learned to swim at The Spa, hiked the Chugach, and ran the Anchorage tracks and trails. She headed to University of Oregon, Eugene, and played soccer until she discovered the new sport of triathlon. After earning a degree in Political Science, she quickly fell back on her life as an athlete and began a career in fitness and coaching. She is a past winner of the Gold Nugget Triathlon and the Eagle River Triathlon, as well as many smaller triathlons and running races. She is a two-time Alaska Triathlete of the Year and has achieved All-American status in USA Triathlon age group rankings. She is one of the founding board members of the Alaska Run for Women. In 2002 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and since then has won the survivor division of the run many times. She owns Multisport Training of Alaska, providing coaching for Alaska triathletes, and is the General Manager of Running Free Alaska, an organization that brings run workouts and races to the women prisoners at Hiland prison.