Mork and Vasquez-Kool welcome Wrangell's first baby of the year

Rebecca Mork and Kristofer Vasquez-Kool are the proud parents of our newest community member, Alice Lynn Mork. She was the first baby to join a Wrangell family in 2023.

Alice was born at 2:38 p.m. Jan. 19 in Juneau's Bartlett Regional Hospital. She was 7 pounds and 15 ounces.

"It was a pretty fast delivery," said Rebecca Mork. "She took about 10 to 20 minutes."

Mork hadn't realized how far along she was until she arrived at the hospital, where the nurses informed her that she would likely have her baby within the next hour. If she and her mother, Marilyn Mork, had left for the hospital a few h...