ADFG’s South Alaska Peninsula Salmon pre-season stakeholders meeting will happen via M$ Teams videoconference:
Thursday, May 30th, 2024 at 10AM
“Annual ADFG Preseason meeting for fishermen. Video conferencing will be available at AEB offices in Sand Point, King Cove, Nelson Lagoon and False Pass. Otherwise fishermen can use the phone number to call in directly or from the harbor houses. They will need to dial the number below and enter the passcode.”
Meeting ID: 279 844 469 514
Dial-in by phone
+1 323-433-2327,,678885963# United States, Los Angeles
(833) 779-6874,,678885963# United States (Toll-free)
Phone conference ID: 678 885 963#
‘Big Wave’ Dave Dillard spoke with Mary Miner (Vice President, Community Development for Alaska Growth Capital) & Julie Toomey (Vice President of Regional Affairs for The Aleut Corporation) on KSDP about the Aleut Shareholder Marketplace Competition at Noon on Friday, April 19th, 2024.
To enter the competition & learn more, please visit:
https://www.alaskagrowth.com/aleut-shareholder-marketplace/
Apply & Enter the Aleut Shareholder Marketplace Competition – https://form.jotform.com/240395051670150
“McKinley Alaska Growth Capital (MAGC), in partnership with The Aleut Corporation, proudly administers the Aleut Shareholder Marketplace Business Plan Competition to support vibrant Aleut communities. Open exclusively to Aleut Shareholders and descendants of Shareholders, this business plan competition improves the economic opportunities available to Shareholders by providing technical and financial support to small businesses to encourage adaptive, entrepreneurial activity in the Aleutians and across Alaska.”
Key 2024 Dates:
April 15 – Business Concept Application opens
May 22 – Business Concept Application submission deadline
August 5 – 9 – Business Boot Camp in Anchorage (travel day, 3-day Boot Camp, travel day)
November 6 – Final Business Plan submission deadline
February, date TBD – Winners announced
Download the interview:
https://apradio.org/mp3/2024-04-19-alaskagrowthdotcom.mp3
Aleutians East Borough School District
SPECIAL Meeting of the School Board
Monday, April 15th, 2024 at Noon
Meeting will be held at the District Office
KSDP will air the meeting live & archive the audio here:
https://apradio.org/mp3/2024-04-15-aebsd.mp3
Agenda+Packet (PDF):
https://www.aebsd.org/page/board-packets
https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1937/AEBSD/4179640/April_15_2024_Special_Meeting_Board_Packet.pdf
Peter Pan announces it will cease operations
Peter Pan Seafood Co., the state-backed processing company that has faced dire financial troubles recently, announced Friday it was ceasing operations.
“We’re saddened to share that Peter Pan Seafoods will be halting operations at its processing plants, leading to the discontinuation of both summer and winter production cycles for the foreseeable future,” the company said in a Facebook post Friday night.
The company faced mounting troubles, including legal claims from fishermen claiming back-owed payments for unpaid deliveries of seafood.
Silver Bay Seafoods recently announced it would acquire Peter Pan’s Valdez facility, as well as operate Peter Pan’s facilities in Dillingham and Port Moller during the 2024 salmon season. It never specified, however, if the King Cove plant would be included.
“This is so sad because I [worked up in King Cove] from ‘96 through last summer,” one commenter posted. “I have good memories from King Cove and the plant, have my kids in the school for a few years.”
King Cove, a community of around 800 residents, relies on the processing facility as its main economic engine. The city already faced hardship when Peter Pan opted last minute not to open for winter’s “A” season, forcing local fishing boats to scramble for new facilities where they could deliver their catch.
“Thanks for waiting until the last possible minute before you told the community of King Cove,” another person commented. “Wouldn’t even tell the fishing fleet of King Cove face to face what was happening, we all have to find out on Facebook.”
Peter Pan said current or former employees can seek processing jobs at Silver Bay Seafoods, but did not specify which facilities would be hiring.
Sand Point City Council will hold a meeting on Tuesday, April 9th, 2024 at 7PM.
KSDP will air the meeting live & archive the audio here:
https://apradio.org/mp3/2024-04-09-sdpcouncil.mp3
Download the packet below (PDF):
https://www.sandpointak.com/uploads/2/7/6/7/27677223/april_9_2024_city_council_packet-final.pdf
Aleutian Peninsula Broadcasting will hold a meeting of its Community Advisory Board (CAB) at 6pm on April 24th at the KSDP Studios in the Sand Point City Building.
The meeting is open to the public and will discuss programming on an advisory level.