Author Annie Boochever on her novel Bristol Bay Summer, a gas war in Dillingham?, some speakers who say Ni, and thoughts on Beaver Round Up.
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Last year, Vitus Fuels opened for business in Dillingham, selling gas out of the Teddy’s Convenience store on Lake Road and delivering heating oil. Between Vitus' entry (Dillingham's now third fuel retailer), the lower than average fuel sales in town this winter, and a low price of oil on the world market ahead of spring deliveries, Dillingham customers are starting to see, finally, some competition at the pump.
We sent our reporter Matt Martin to see just how good the deals around town are.
A few weeks ago on this program, Tom Collier, the CEO of the Pebble Mine, discussed the lawsuit Pebble has filed against the EPA in federal court which has temporarily stopped the EPA from doing any more work towards what some call the preemptive veto of the Pebble Mine. Collier believes Pebble will prevail in this lawsuit. He also told us then that he’s confident the project will move forward to permitting.
On the other side, the coalition battling Pebble is continuing to press their case where they can. Joining us now to talk more about that is Alannah Hurley with the organization United Tribes of Bristol Bay.
You might’ve heard, hopefully you've heard by now, of a novel called Bristol Bay Summer. Set in the early 1980’s, this novel chronicles 12-year-old Zoey Morley, who accompanies her younger brother, her mom, and her mom’s bush pilot boyfriend to a setnet camp on Halfmoon Bay. It is a beautifully told coming of age tale vividly set here in our backyard. The author, Annie Boochever, is in Dillingham this week.
Their arena is not a court or a mat, and rarely will their events sell out the stands like other teams. But some impressive young men caught our attention this week as they prepared to travel to their own state competition in Anchorage. KDLG’s Hannah Colton stopped by the Dillingham Speech and Debate team during one of their final practices, and she brought us this report.
We’ll end this week’s show with an essay. As I read this I stare out at a mostly bare and soggy tundra on a warm, what feels like spring, day in February. It has not been a good winter for us, again. And next week’s Beaver Round Up will surely suffer a bit. But as our occasional essayist Clark Fair reminds us, the beloved annual celebration is about more than just the races, the prizes, and .... those beaver buns.
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