First of all, I would like to thank all of those who braved the cold January weather to participate in our New Year Village Clean-Up.  Dan, Susie, AlexAnna, Mark, Jason, Julie, Jeremy, Angel, Amara, April, Tess, Lukas, Blaise, Josh, Josephine, Dan Jr., Fewnia, Jolynn, Molly, Maggie, Andrew, DollyAnn, Kiara, Aiden, Keilan and Kaleb! You all rock!  The school kids had no choice in the matter, but they assisted happily and it was all the better. Due to high winds, loose dogs and recklessness, trash was blowing rampantly around our beautiful village.  Cigarette butts still manage to take away the attractiveness from our community, smokers; please do not litter your bad habit on our roads!  It is disgusting and rude, young school children are the ones cleaning up after adults, when we are supposed to be their role models.  When the chilling clean up was over our village was looking healthy again.  As a model community, we need to remember that we set the standards in recycling and village cleanliness for our region!  Take pride in the village you live in. 

In other environmental news, I am sad to announce the departure of Wenona Wilson, our Tribal Coordinator in Seattle.  We enjoyed the time we worked with her, loved her visit to Igiugig, and will miss working with her in the future.  We wish her the best of luck in all her future endeavors!

From February 7th to the 14th Angel and I will be in Anchorage attending the Alaska Forum on the Environment where we will be presenting twice.  Our first presentation is on our Demo-Grant and will be an iMovie made by AlexAnna and our second will be on the fee structure of our landfill operations.    We are nervously excited about both opportunities.  Read our news again next month for a full report on our conference.