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Helms remained politically and socially active until her death, writing letters to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner [22] and continuing her volunteer work and involvement in sister city programs. [4] She died on November 7, 2009. [3] In celebration of the 2010 Arbor Day, schoolchildren planted a commemorative tree for Helms in Wien Park ...
The News-Miner was founded as the Weekly Fairbanks News in 1903 by George M. Hill and assumed the News-Miner name in 1909, under editor William Fentress Thompson, when Zachary Hickman sold his newspaper, The Miner News, to the Fairbanks News. Thompson guided the paper through tough economic times as the gold near Fairbanks was mined out.
Susan Howlet Butcher (December 26, 1954 – August 5, 2006) was an American dog musher, noteworthy as the second woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1986, the second four-time winner in 1990, and the first to win four out of five sequential years.
Vogler spent fifty years as a miner and developer in Alaska. Vogler was known around Fairbanks as a frequent writer of letters to the editor until 1973 when he launched a petition drive calling for Alaska to secede. He subsequently launched his first campaign for governor a year later.
Robert Cecil "Bob" Erwin (December 29, 1934 – January 24, 2020) [1] was an American lawyer who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Alaska from August 3, 1970, to April 15, 1977.
John Bruce "Jack" Coghill (September 24, 1925 – February 13, 2019) was an American politician and businessman who was the sixth lieutenant governor of Alaska from 1990 to 1994, serving under Governor Walter Hickel.
In March 1981, he hired a bush pilot to drop him off at a remote, unnamed lake approximately 225 miles (362 km) northeast of Fairbanks, approximately 40 mi (64 km) west of the Coleen River and 150 mi (240 km) north of Fort Yukon, Alaska, [4] [5]: 174 [a] on the southern margin of the Brooks Range. McCunn intended to photograph wildlife for ...
He then was a football coach at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1949. [5] In 1960, Orbeck was appointed to the Alaska Senate by Governor William A. Egan, [6] serving until 1961. In 1964, he was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives, serving until 1975. [2] Orbeck died on January 6, 2012, in Arizona, at the age of 96. [7]