The New Road

The New Road

Iliamna Lake Contractors are adding on to an old road for easy access to the barge landing.

            The new road cost $85,000 and is getting paid for by the Indian Reservation Road program.  The road started getting built on August 15^th, and was finished on September 7^th.

            The people who are helping to build the road are Jocko Neim, who is the mechanic, Steve Smith, who is the registered Surveyor, Gilbert Andrew, the Operator, Tony Wassilie the driver/operator, followed by William Nickoli, Stacie Garrison, Paul Hobson Jr., and Stacy Hill.

             

          The road is 1600 ft. long (about 1/3^rd mile).  They hauled the gravel from a gravel pit on the south end of the town.  The design of the road was planned for 2 ½ years and completed on December 8^th 2010.  Some people thought it was going to be paved, but it will only be gravel.

Before the barge landing was built there was no public access to the beach.  The old barge-landing road crossed private property that washed out every year and was dangerous for hauling equipment over.  The biggest challenge with the new barge landing was securing Rights-of-Way through three different parcels of property.

Tribal Administrator AlexAnna Salmon thinks the new road is one of the prettiest roads in Igiugig.  Stacy Hill who operates one of the dump trucks thinks it was fun, but as they got further up the road it was nerve wracking, because if you backed up to far up you would drive off the road.  Everyone agrees it wills be nice to ride on the new road to the beach because the old road has been washed out and is sometimes hard to drive on.

the new road.

If all goes according to plan, a 200 ft. long concrete ramp will be built at the barge landing by summer 2013. 

The Landing.

Not So New Curfew

    Why the “new” curfew? Some might ask (mostly teens). Actually, there has been a curfew in place since early to mid 2011. It has recently been enforced because kids were out later than they needed to be, and the Village Council doesn’t want the school attendance as poor as it was last year. The curfew ordinance was written not to criminalize, but to urge and build responsibility, though not everyone agrees that a curfew is necessary.

    What are the consequences if someone is out after curfew? If a person under the age of 18 is seen out after 10 O’clock p.m. on weekdays and 12 a.m. on weekends. he/she will be brought home by the VPSO. The VPSO will then have a talk with his/her parents. Then the parents and offender will be brought before the Village Council to explain why the underage person was out after curfew. The offender will also be given a penalty: community service hours. But wait! There is a way to avoid all this, you could call VPSO Decker and give him a good reason why you’re going to be late or you could just be home on time!

    The teens and adults of Igiugig feel very differently about the curfew. “It’s kind of lame,” one teen said.  While most teens don’t want the curfew to stay in effect and think that it isn’t necessary, others (adults) would call it a good thing. “As the writer of the ordinance, I think it’s good. It’s a good thing for kids to be home when they need to be.” Says VPSO Dan Decker about the newly enforced curfew. Some might not even care if there is or isn’t a curfew in effect and being enforced.

    Either way, the curfew is being enforced and there isn’t really anything anyone under 18 can do about it. If you don’t want to get into trouble, don’t caught out after curfew, or just go home when it’s time (recommended). Even though some may feel very strongly, or not at all, about the curfew all it comes down to is responsibility. 

Final Post for 2011/2012 School Year!

Well everyone, we made it home safe and sound. As a matter of fact, we've been back for the better part of a week now. We got home just in time for the end-of-school barbeque (the second plane load literally landed as we were serving up the burgers), then we closed down the school. All in all, we had a fantastic adventure and I think the kids will be talking about this trip for a very long time.

I just wanted to let everyone know that the Cashunt pictures are in! Use the link below and the password dash to check out the battle of the Flaming Stars and the No-Se-Ums--yes, that's how the Cashunt people spelled it; they must think we're the "We-Don't-Know-Ums". (This joke is only funny if you know Spanish, by the way. So if you don't speak Spanish-or even Spanglish-ask someone who does.)

Happy summer everyone!

Cashunt:
Flaming Stars vs. No-Se-Ums Scavenger Hunt Battle in Boston

This is Kiara and I have lots of things from yesterday!

We went to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. The Hippogriff Ride was super boring to me because it just went up and down and around, then done. Then me and my mom went to Jurassic Park. We went on a river adventure and we went on this big raft. Then we went up like a roller coaster, then down and then splash! I got a little wet and my mom didn't get that wet. After that we saw a dinosaur's head in the water, then it sneezed out water from its nose but it didn't really get me wet. Then we were supposed to go to a place whose name I can't remember, but we turned to the left and there were danger signs and there were many dinosaurs fighting each other. Then we passed that and we saw a shaking box; it was shaking really hard and it almost smooshed the raft. Then we went in deeper and deeper and it was dark and dinosaurs scared us. Then we went almost to the exit; we saw a big t-rex that looked really real and then we dropped down and big splash! I got scared and told my mom that we should never do that again.

This is Aiden and I'm going to talk about what we did today.

We went to Universal Studios and my first ride was Shrek 4D. Donkey sneezed on us! The fairy went on donkey's nose and donkey said "We can fly!" 

I got painted on my face. It's called blue tribal and so did Keilan, but his is more blue.

Today I cried through the Simpsons ride, which is fake. Falling down the hole was scary and that scientist with those glasses picked us up with that wheel spaceship plane thing.

After we went to Simpsons we went to the Men In Black. We got to shoot aliens. I shot 159 in the eyeballs; my score was 259.

We went on the ET ride! It was fun and we saw ET's home. It was a bunch of mushrooms and aliens communicating.

This is at the entrance to Universal Studios Islands of Adventure.

Betsy says "The adventure begins!"

Chocolate frogs at Honeydukes in the village of Hogsmeade.

The village of Hogsmeade, filled with muggles.

Kiara next to the wanted poster of notorious mass murderer, Sirius Black.

Mandrake

Quidditch set, missing the snitch

HOGWARTS!!!

Andrew and Dolly standing outside Hagrid's house.

Buckbeak, the Hippogriff

The book of monsters

Katy trying out Dumbledore's elder wand. Surprisingly, it didn't work.

Ron's car

Goblet of Fire--we tried to put our names in, but they just burned up.

Triwizard Cup

Dolly and Keil, hanging twenty

Keilan, Aiden and Dolly outside Universal Studios

The Hills fighting aliens on the Men in Black ride.

We are at Florida

We got in Florida and its hot and the group is a bit too hot. Charlie the bus driver is really nice and early to pick us up. We get to the beach and we get into the water we go boogie boards and it was just fun the waves made the boards hit my head. We all had a blast at Cocoa beach.

 By: Blaise 

we at Cocoa beach now swim

Aiden and Kaylee having fun.

Kaylee riding the waves.

Everybody heading out to catch waves.

Kaleb Hill: "Swim away!"

Dolly Ann bracing for impact!

The wave is going to eat everyone.