Classes spark passion for Ketchikan glass artists

03/27/13 - 3:56pm

KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — Terry Leberman, a local glass artist, exudes the fervor of a convert when he talks about making glass art.

“Oh God, what a feel,” he said, grinning and swooping his hands to imitate the motions of learning to blow glass at a Whidbey Island, Wash. workshop.

“It’s exciting,” he said.

Leberman’s studio is a labyrinth of several connecting offices downtown Ketchikan. Finished and in-process glass pieces gleamed on work surfaces and brilliant sheets of glass jutted from vertical shelving.

Ketchikan grandparents begin LDS mission

06/16/12 - 12:46pm

KETCHIKAN (AP) — With four children, 10 grandchildren, three successful fishing lodges and more than 40 years as Ketchikan locals under their belts, Kirk and Pam Thomas were more than ready to take up a new challenge and run with it.

On June 15, the couple will leave for a three-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in central Canada.

"We've always wanted to serve in our married life," Pam said.

Ketchikan students throw prom for senior citizens

04/21/12 - 11:27am

KETCHIKAN (AP) — Her cobalt sequins sparking in the dance floor lights, prom queen Eldora Peterson wheeled her way to be crowned alongside king Larry Thomas at Sunday's Senior Spring Fling at the Sunny Point Conference room.

Dance tunes spanning the 1940s to the 1980s, spun by Ketchikan High School senior Ethan Bowlen and his father Scott Bowlen, had attendees clapping, stomping, singing and reeling, on feet and on wheels.

Kayhi prom queen Inga Christensen and king Mark Dulay chose and crowned Peterson and Thomas.

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