Alaska Health Project of South Sudan focuses on providing clean water, addressing food insecurity, supporting healthcare, and training local people to sustain these projects. At this time, we have put in 93 boreholes (water-wells) in probably 30 villages, we have supported the development of over 1200 small family farms and have built two medical clinics. We are operating in one of the most remote, impoverished, and inaccessible regions in one of the poorest countries in the world. The country is second from the bottom with the lowest human development index.

Mr. Whitekeys or "Keys" will share his book with us as he takes us on an Alaskan journey through Adventure, Danger, Scurvy and Romance. Eight Greenhorns for Chicago set out to Strike it rich in Alaska in 1898. It was the largest Gold Rush expedition ever launched and they had no ideas what they were in for. Mr. Whitekeys reveals a true tale of Alaska Gold Rush History that has never been told. Lavishly illustrated with 100 of Charles Harris's photos (toted a 40 lb. camera with him during the entire odyssey), the book relies on century-old diaries, letters, manuscript and newspaper accounts that tell the story in the words of the men who were there on the Koyukuk in 1898. Mr. Whitekeys is most known for his performances of the Whale Fat Follies at his Fly By Night Clubs. His Club was a mecca for SPAM, Booze, Rhythm and Blues for 25 years (Alaskan vaudeville and satire). His writings have appeared in Anchorage Daily News columns, Alaska Bizarre, the Alaska Almanac, Alaska Magazine column and weekly commentary on Anchorage's KTUU-TV. Sit back and enjoy this journey.

Let's talk trash! Oops! I mean recycling. Anchorage has a Material Recovery Recycling Facility. It's a pilot program that opened in June and will close in October this year. They will accept yard waste - grass clippings, pinecones, wood chips, weeds, dandelions, food waster - herbivore organic/organic waste (poop) from cows, horses, chickens... NO meat, bones, fish, or dog/cat scat. Recycled waste will be used for making grizzly wood products in Palmer. All products will stay in Alaska and will be used again. It'll be the plastic wood furniture of the future! So, bring your #1, #2, and #5 plastic bottles (any color) to the facility. Recyclables will be used for building other products such as boardwalks, picnic tables, and fences. Organics go to a fam in Palmer and are used as a soil amendment. the program is trying to create a circular economy in Alaska.

Celebrating the 80th year since the Alaskan Prospectors Society was formed. The party will take place at the Coast Inn on Lake Hood. Buffet dinner features Pork Tenderloin and Chicken Florentine. Happy hour begins at 5 p.m. with dinner at 6 p.m. Entertainment to follow. Ticket on sale July 2nd through August 20th from Nancy. Price is $40 each with a $10 refund for those attending. Tickets will not be sold at the door. Flyers are available at meetings on the back table.

Tam has been in Alaska since 1959. She is retired from her career as an educator, educational non-profit director and school board member, but service remains her passion along with travel. She tries to combine the two by doing service projects in other countries and will offer some tips on how you can do the same. Her most recent trip brought her country count to 99 and she's currently contemplating what country will be her 100th. She will talk about the Philippines, India and Sri Lanka.

The intent of the mission is to celebrate Alaska's Veterans with a trip to Washington D.C. to visit those memorials dedicated to honoring their services and sacrifices. The trip is currently available to those who served during the period from WWII through Vietnam, including the Alaskan Territorial Guard. These trips are without cost to the Veteran and are funded entirely by individuals and corporate sponsors.

In Our Backyard is an opportunity to be proactive in addressing the needs of our homeless neighbors. It's a nonprofit founded in 2023 by Central Lutheran Church in Anchorage. This project will serve as a model for other faith-based organizations, community groups, or businesses to address homelessness. Our mission is to serve our homeless senior citizen neighbors who make up 27% of our homeless population. As they work to obtain permanent homes we will help them by providing safe interim supportive housing and connections to support services. They need donations, personal items, and volunteers.

Program: Join the award-winning Alaska author as she shares her entertaining series of similarities between America's founding fathers Alaska's early pioneers as they struggled for our independence. Her five-book series, Aunt Phil's Trunk, won the Literary Classics 2016 Gold Metal for Best Nonfiction Series. Her school curriculum for the series took Silver in 2018. Series named best of Anchorage in education 2021, 2022, & 2023. Laura will bring some of her books and arrive in costume!

Mr. Jager will address concerns related to the Port of Alaska, including costs will needed for the port, money the state currently has, environmental issues, the endangered Cook Inlet belugas, hydrogen integration, the thirty-foot tides, climate change, and how this effects future jobs. Three quarter of consumer goods used by Alaskan residents go through the Port.

His research today investigates the biotic and abiotic factors that affect bird populations. His projects focus on shorebirds as study subjects. His work focuses on documenting the status and distributions of shorebirds, studying the migration ecology of shorebirds and assessing the reproductive ecology of Alaska-breeding shorebirds. His current research focuses on climate change on shorebirds and their breeding habits in Arctic Alaska.