Homer News

HHS drama class offers laughs with May 15 performance

05/08/13 - 6:03pm

Wrapping up the school year, Homer High School’s 15-student drama class is inviting the public to a performance at 355 W. Pioneer Ave., at 7 p.m. May 15.

To be performed are:

•“Chicago ERR” by Linda R. Karcz;

•“Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread” by David Ives;

•“The Road to Ruin” by Richard Dresser;

•“Missed Connections” by Ira Brodsky and Barbara Lhota; and

• “Arabian Nights” by David Ives.

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Cannes, watch out for Chapman filmmakers

05/08/13 - 6:01pm

What do Cannes, France, and Chapman School have in common?

For starters, they both start with “C.” More importantly, however, they attract some talented filmmakers. The 2013 Festival de Cannes is happening May 16-26. Thousands of miles closer to home, Chapman’s Student Film Festival was Tuesday.

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Family loses $1,200 in scam

05/08/13 - 5:58pm

A Homer man is warning people not to be taken in a phone scam in which he lost $1,200 for a “bond” to claim a $550,000 sweepstakes prize. Although the man suspected the phone call was bogus, he said he took a gamble and last week and wired three $400 payments through Western Union to accounts in Jamaica. The scam artists said they would meet the man at Wells Fargo bank, but never showed up, and he realized he had been taken.

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21st Shorebird Fest Starting Out Strong

05/08/13 - 5:56pm

The 21st annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival has started with a junior birders discovery lab held Wednesday morning. The festival kicks into gear today with a spread of events, starting at 12:01 a.m. this morning with the Big Spit Plus Birding Challenge, a three-day event spread over the festival, challenging birding teams to spot as many species as possible, but without the one-day rush of previous versions of the contest.

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Public hearing on Spit rezoning set for Monday

05/08/13 - 5:28pm

The Homer City Council at its 6 p.m. Monday meeting holds a public hearing and could act on proposed changes to zoning regulations and maps for the Homer Spit. Citizens can speak on two ordinances, 13-11(s) and 13-12, during the public hearing portion of the agenda.

The ordinance adds these activities as permitted uses in the Marine Commercial District, generally the area around the harbor:

• Accessory lodging, that is, apartments or rental rooms as part of building use such as fishing charter offices;

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New Homer Middle School principal also announced

05/08/13 - 5:26pm

Kari Dendurent has been hired as the principal for Homer Middle School, according to an announcement from the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District.

Dendurent is currently assistant principal at Houston High School, Houston, Alaska, and was assistant principal at Palmer High School prior to that. She comes to Alaska from Florida, where Dendurent taught and was an assistant principal of instruction in Orlando. She earned her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla.

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Assistant principal promoted at Homer High

05/08/13 - 5:19pm

With current Homer High School principal Dr. Allan Gee leaving the school at the end of this school year, a new principal has been selected. Doug Waclawski, the school’s assistant principal since 2010, will become the school’s principal for 2013-2014.

“This is the best school in the state of Alaska,” Waclawski told the Homer News about his interest in becoming the school’s top administrator. “It is Homer’s best kept secret.”

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Residents talk fish to Seaton, Micciche

05/08/13 - 5:14pm

Homer area residents and voters from other areas of the Kenai Peninsula got a two-for-one special Friday with an opportunity to listen to and ask questions of Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, and Rep. Paul Seaton, R-Homer, during a town hall meeting held at Homer City Hall.

“Thank you to both men,” said Homer City Council member Francie Roberts in her introduction of the two legislators who represent areas of the central and southern peninsula.

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The rib bone’s connected to ...

05/08/13 - 5:09pm

In a photo on her Facebook page, Marissa Paul, a 2011 Homer High School graduate, holds a shiny curved bone. It looks like the kind of bone beachcombers might find along Kachemak Bay from a moose or bear.

Paul, however, got the bone from a place closer to her heart — about six inches up toward her shoulder bone.

It’s her rib.

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Birding: It’s for anyone, anywhere

05/09/13 - 11:14am

“The birds are always out there waiting for us to notice them,” said Jeffrey Gordon, this year’s keynote speaker at the 21st annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival.

Gordon, 48, is the president of the American Birding Association based in Colorado Springs, Colo. He will be welcomed to Homer at a reception with featured author Philip Hoose from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Land’s End Resort. At 7 p.m. Saturday at the Mariner Theatre, Gordon presents his keynote talk, “Birding Together.”

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