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Both visitors and residents of Alaska are notorious for squeezing a massive amount of work and play into just a few weeks of long-lighted summer.

Soldotna bowler Chuck Nibert, by a small margin, won the Alaska State Senior Championship event with scores of 224, 245, 256, 258, 236 and 203 for a 1,422 scratch series, and a 237 average. His handicap total was 1,524, which also took first place, by a little wider margin. Chuck averaged 46 pins over his entering average of 191.