Sun-soaked Cordovans fill Main Street for 4th of July
Cordova’s Main Street was booming, bold and patriotic as fiddles and banjos filled the air, along with the sounds of children playing and people cheering during the Kelp Box Derby.Members of the U.S. Coast Guard performed a presentation of the colors, silencing the crowd enough to hear the salmon, hamburgers and hot dogs grilling nearby.Annie Carlson sang the National...
Dedication ceremony honors fallen U.S. Coast Guard personnel
A dedication ceremony honoring U.S. Coast Guard personnel who perished during a search and rescue mission in Prince William Sound Aug. 7, 1981, took place in Cordova on Wednesday, June 27, at the Veterans’ Memorial.Kari O’Rear gave the opening address at the memorial dedication ceremony. Her father, Bob Bernard, had wanted a memorial for the lost helicopter crew for...
Nationwide competitors race in Alaska Salmon Runs
Irene Webber’s grandchildren ran in her footsteps during this year’s Alaska Salmon Runs in Cordova.In 1986, Webber ran the first King Salmon Marathon in Cordova, completing the 26.2 miles alone. Thirty-two years later, the Alaska Salmon Runs features the King Salmon Marathon, Sockeye Half-Marathon, Coho 10K, Humpy 5K, and the Smolt one-mile fun run/walk.“It just grew from there,” said...
Festival celebrates salmon through music and art
Musical headliner Big Fat Buddha, the Alaska Salmon Runs, Small Fry Activities and a myriad of other attractions brought in the crowds for the 2018 Copper River Salmon Jam in Cordova July 13-14.“I don’t think I’ve ever seen kids doing hula hooping on the side of a mountain when it was pouring rain and fighting with Duct tape swords,”...
Taste of Cordova competitors honored at cook-off
The annual wild food cook-off, Taste of Cordova, took place during this year’s Copper River Salmon Jam on Saturday, July 14 and featured many locally sourced ingredients for mouthwatering dishes.This year’s judges were Kate Velasco, co-owner of Fork & Spoon, now a permanent food trailer; Sena Wheeler, co-owner of Cordova’s new fish processing plant, 60° North Seafoods, and Alyssa...
Cordova’s Public Works Streets Division installs new flagpole
Cordova’s Public Works Streets Division put another finishing touch on the Cordova Center by working with Jerry Blackler to install majestic new flagpoles just in time for Independence Day. Streets Division employees who completed the concrete base were Bill Howard, Mark Wegner, Chris Bolin, Mike Arvidson, Jim Cardwell and Will Brown and the Blacklers donated their time to install the...
She’s 19 and Homegrown food truck owner
Homegrown, a food truck offering homemade meals by owner Heidi Wiese, is the latest addition to the Breakwater Fill Lot, where families come to see fishermen off and watch bowpickers safely returning home.Meals by Wiese, a 2017 graduate of Cordova Jr./Sr. High School, feature locally sourced fish from 60° North Seafoods, that Wiese gets from her cousin John Derek...
4H Music Camp brings Hawaiian culture to Cordova
Students and instructors gathered to create, learn, and perform music during this year’s Cordova 4H Music Camp, featuring Hawaiian Camp, Bluegrass Camp and adult classes.Keawe and Kaloku Holt of the Ke Kukui Foundation lead the Hawaiian Camp this year with instructors Mahealani Mackenzie, Alyssa Reyes, and Ka’imipono Mohika while Bradley Murphy and Leslie Zeigler led the Bluegrass Camp.Students learned...
Couple travels 18,000 miles from Córdoba, Argentina to Cordova, Alaska to foster connections
Just seven months ago Laura Tallone and Dante Gonzalez quit their jobs in Córdoba, Argentina, and headed north in a pickup truck, intent on visiting other communities named Córdoba and Cordova across South and North America.Before arriving in Cordova, Alaska, on July 17, they visited five more Córdobas before crossing the U.S. border, one in Peru, three in Columbia,...
