Bears make the most of their last month out
September means many things to me. It means a mad dash to pick berries and mushrooms before they dwindle away. It means duck dinners...
CHS student writes in for anniversary of Exxon spill
By Holly West Dear Editor, I'm writing in regards to the legacy of the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989. A significant amount of the younger...
Giving Thanks for a Prepared Cordova
It is Thanksgiving weekend and Cordovans have much to be thankful for with regards to emergency preparation.Cordovans have a city council with the foresight...
Cordova Prepared: Mitigating against the big wind
Depending upon who you talked to on the morning of Dec. 11, you heard a completely different adventure story, but there was a common...
Cordova Prepared: Learn the drill for possible ‘shelter in place’ emergencies
If you and your family were instructed to “shelter in place,” would you know what to do? Or why you were being asked to...
Behind the scenes with the fire department
Humans created fire between 300,000 to 400,000 years ago. A manmade fire was discovered in a cave in Israel and records trace it back...
Cordova Prepared: Have a ‘To Go’ kit ready in an emergency
Were you READY when the 7.9 earthquake hit, early morning January 23?Some people were REALLY ready. Others, many others, were not.Fourteen members of our...
Cordova Prepared: Have your ‘To Go Kit’ ready to go
Are you READY yet?
The earthquake is still in our recent memory. Good intentions still have time to come to fruition. Have we put together...
Cordova Prepared: Lessons learned from a storm
Flash flood warning!It was April 14 and we, the Behrends family, were on the north shore of Kauai, Hawaii. In the eye of the...
Cordova Prepared: What was ‘The WAVE’?
This was a drill! We had 10 minutes to get everything out of the fire hall before the wave hit. And we all had...
