In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago.
February 24, 1916: The first of the season’s operators
to go up the river is A. Godfrey of Vancouver, who is
working three claims at the headwaters of McDames Creek in the Cassiar. Mr. Godfrey last year purchased the
Rossela hydraulic plant and his winter men are moving it to his claims. Four men are going in with Mr. Godfrey
and will work for him this season who with the men there now will make a crew of nine men. The men have a long trip ahead of them which means some three hundred
miles of mushing. They have five dogs and two sleds for the trip.
February 28, 1941: It’ll be gala night in the Elks
club next Monday night. It’s the big March meeting of the Stikine Sportsmens Association of Wrangell and
sportsmen Fred Hanford and Bill Weis are promising
everything from soup to nuts with a few movies thrown in. There will be other features no sportsman can afford to miss. President Chad Wyatt and secretary Chet Steear have sort of put Fred and Bill on the spot and the boys have got to
deliver. Hope is that Wildlife Ager. Hosea Sarber will be over from Petersburg with some pictures and H.B. Thornquist, local movie champ, is bringing his camera down with some new films he has been taking.
March 3, 1966: Elections to select delegates from the Wrangell area to the official Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indians will be held in the ANB Hall March 31, it is announced. Two delegates and possibly three will be chosen and voting hours are tentatively set from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. The voting hours may be lengthened, the announcement said. Any qualified voter may cast a ballot, or if he is a permanent non-resident, or if he will be absent from his community because of illness or physical disability, he may cast an absentee ballot.
February 28, 1991: Codependence – what it is and how to address it – was the topic of a three-day class held during the recent meeting of Southeast Presbyterians. The Rev. Curt Karns, whose Wrangell church hosted the 105 delegates from throughout the Panhandle, said the course on codependence was designed to help Presbyterians deal with their No. 1 social concern for this decade, substance abuse. A
codependent is someone who is dependent upon
someone who, in turn, is dependent on something that is basically undependable, Karns said. For example, a person who is dependent on an alcoholic would be considered a codependent. Those who study addiction say that
someone can be a codependent even when actual substance abuse is not involved. For example, someone could be addicted to power or lying. And, the person who is
dependent on that “addict” is another form of a “codependent.” Codependency is considered as much an illness as addiction.
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