May 18 – 8pm
DHS Gym     
Congratulations Graduates

Delta High School  
Byam, Jay Rodney
Carey, Andrew Jacob
Chapman, Julia Lynn
DeBilzan, Nicholas John
Drew, Donovan Howard
Ebona, Jason Russell
Erickson, Robert Eli
French, Mitchell Lewis
Gardner, Richard Forest
Henry, Dora Helen
Hobbs, Victor Thomas Bailey
Huff, Dejae Michelle
Ionashku, Andrey Viktorovich
Jensen, Patrick Wayne
Kelderman, Sydney Ann Colleen
Kiselev, Yulian Olegovich
Koval, Igor Vladimirovich
Kulakevich, Simona Benita
Kurilchenko, Valentina Volodimirivna
Mackey, Kayla Elina
Mazhan, Liliya
McDavid, Korina Renee
McLaren, Chance Leland
McLaren, LeRoy Caleb
Moschell, Nicholas David
Roach, Alan Michael
Rush, Mallory Taylor
Schmidt, Patric Alan
Schultz, Jacob Colestin
Smith, Brett Loren
Tappen, Charles Wellington
Terry, Amanda Nichole
Vasilik, Alex Vasilievich
Webber, Alex Dawn
Yearty, Heather Ladon

New Horizons
Palmer, Brittany Chantel
Wickham, Mathea M
Glushko, Aleksandr
Glushko, Marianna A
Malyk, Dmitry F
Swan, Henry Adam

Delta/Greely Homeschool  
Barladyan, Viktoriya Amatoliyvna
Deisler, Kyla Ann-Marie
Ellis, Grace Ann
Gruber, Ashley Trista
Helkenn, Jessica
Kosmin, Agnesa Yuryevna
Kuzmin, Valentina
Petty, Emily Jane
Petty, MaryKate Elizabeth
Skovrinski, Ariel Leigh
Skovrinski, Coral Nichole
Tom, Dana Pauline
Dexter, Ashley Miranda December 22, 2011
Kolosov, Leonard Dennis December 22, 2011

“BLM public lands offer the widest range of recreation opportunities of any public land agency.  This spectrum of traditional and new outdoor recreation activities contributes to the health and well-being of millions of Americans including members of the military,” BLM-Alaska State Director Bud Cribley said.  “We are proud to join with other federal agencies to make the passes available and to recognize the brave men and women who serve and their families.  We hope that a visit to these lands will offer an opportunity to unwind, relax, rejuvenate, and just have fun with their families.”

Entry to BLM-managed public lands is already free in Alaska.  Opportunities abound for rafting the Gulkana Wild & Scenic River, hiking the Pinnell Mountain National Recreation Trail, watching wildlife along the Denali Highway, hunting and fishing along the Dalton Highway, viewing historic Ft. Egbert, snowmachining in the White Mountains National Recreation Area, and almost any outdoor recreation pursuit of your dreams.   Nominal fees are charged for use of facilities like campgrounds, picnic shelters and public cabins. For more information about recreation opportunities on BLM-managed public lands in Alaska, go to: www.blm.gov/ak.

In Alaska, active duty members of the Armed Forces can pick up their pass at the following BLM offices:

Alaska Fire Service
1541 Gaffney Road
Fort Wainwright, AK 99703

Alaska State Office Public Room
222 W 7^th Avenue
Anchorage, AK 99513

Anchorage Field Office
4700 BLM Road
Anchorage, AK 99507

Glennallen Field Office
Mile Post 186.5 Glenn Highway
Glennallen, AK 99588

Fairbanks District Office
1150 University Avenue
Fairbanks, AK 99709

Arctic Interagency Visitors Center
Dalton Highway Milepost 175
Coldfoot, AK

Military members and their dependents must show a current, valid military identification card to obtain their pass. More information is available at Recreation.gov.

For more information on recreation and visitor services please visit the Bureau of Land Management Website.

The season begins with vegetable and bedding plants, fresh milled organic flours, hand thrown pottery, homemade natural organic herbal healing salves and lip balms, beadwork, leather and fur products as well as Kuspuks, knitted scarves and mittens, jams, jellies, jewelry, Bolga baskets, farm fresh eggs, aprons, RADA cutlery, wall hangings, honey and much more – all on Opening Day!

Be sure to try the delicious foods such as hot pretzels, homemade soups, hot dogs, doughboys, French fries and smoothies as well as sodas.

Our vendors have the necessary certifications that enable them to offer a wide variety of breads, cookies and other delights to satisfy your taste buds.

Workshop Wednesdays –You Can Do It!  These are one-hour instructional workshops and seminars held every Wednesday at 1:00 P.M.  All ages are welcome.  Fees range from $5.00 to $15.00, depending on the cost of materials and supplies provided.

May 30:   No charge.  Children’s opportunity to plant the Market’s flower barrels.  They enjoy watching “their own” barrel grow and bloom throughout the season.  The flower barrels really make the Market’s ground look beautiful.

June 6 :  $ 10.00 Plant your own herb garden container.  Herbs plants and container provided and you take your garden home that day.

June 13:  $ 5.00.  Organic Controls of Common Garden Pests.

June 20: $ 5.00 Rhubarb plant growing, how to divide plants info as well as cooking ideas.

June 27:  $ 15.00  Papermaking.  All materials provided.  Take home what you make.

July 11:  $ 15.00 Watercolor Journaling;  An introduction to the growing trend of adding small, spontaneous watercolor sketches with your journaling text, bringing that moment in time to life.

July 18:  $ 5.00.  Fermentation – A New Look At An Old Preservation Method – Sauerkraut and similar preservation methods.

July 25:  $ 5.00 Cooking with Delta Barley Flour.  Methods and recipes.

August 1: $ 10.00 Tole Painting-Same as July 11^th, but with another instructor–different painting techniques.  Spray paint your container the prior to the class.

August 8:  $ 15.00 Fur Sewing.  All materials provided.  Take your project home with you.

August 15:  $5.00 Cooking with Delta Barley Flour.  Methods and recipes.

August 22:  $ 15.00 Basket Weaving.  Materials and instruction. Take your project home.

August 29: $ 15.00 Garden Stepping Stones.  Take your stone home.

Meet at the Visitor Center @ 8:30am and get bags.

Lunch will start at 11:30am   There will be refreshments available

Bring trash back to Visitors Center and use ONLY the roll off dumpsters provided and NOT the Visitors Center dumpsters please.

To sign up to help stop by the Chamber of Commerce office or call 895-5068

Please DO NOT dump your bags at the Visitor’s Center.  There will be dumpsters provided for your use at the Visitor’s Center parking lot on Saturday ONLY!

Also there is no one to pick up your bags so please DO NOT leave them on the side of the road.  Bring them back the Visitor’s Center and put them in the large roll off dumpster provided (not the Visitor’s Center personal dumpster).

We strive to make our town clean and need your help to achieve this.

As a thank you to all the Community Clean Up participants the Delta Chamber of Commerce will be offering a free lunch at the Visitor’s Center from 11:30 – 2:00.  There will be hot dogs and refreshments for everyone who has helped clean our community.

We look forward to seeing everyone out there cleaning our streets!

If you would like to sign up for the Community Clean up call Amanda Myers at the Delta Chamber of Commerce office 895-5068 or stop into the Visitor’s Center on Saturday and get your yellow clean up bags starting at 8:30am and hit the streets.

Would like to show its gratitude to all the men and women in the Armed Forces.  You and youre family are invited for a pancake breakfast to say, thank you for your sevie to The United States of Amaerica.

Free to Military Families
Pancake Breakfast
Saturday, May 19th
Alaska Steak House Banquet Hall
9am – 12pm

Contact information: King’s Chapel 1414 Alaska Hwy, Delta Jct, AK  99737

The BLM offered 3 million acres in a November 2011 NPR-A lease sale in response to the President’s announcement, which emphasized the need to protect sensitive areas while providing development opportunities.

The notice announces a 45-day period in which interested parties may nominate or comment on available tracts.  The Federal Register notice is the first step in the process leading up to the next oil and gas lease sale, which is tentatively scheduled for November 2012.

“The call for nominations and comments is a process for oil and gas lease sales within the NPR-A that gives industry, conservation groups and other stakeholders the opportunity to provide input into which tracts should be included in the sale and which tracts should be excluded from the sale,” said Bud C. Cribley, BLM-Alaska State Director.  “As industry begins to build infrastructure and explore and develop oil and gas on Alaska’s North Slope, this important step is part of our efforts to facilitate safe responsible domestic energy development within the NPR-A.”

To select which tracts will be available for the oil and gas lease sale, the BLM-Alaska State Director will consider the results from the Call for Nominations and Comments, existing natural resource and environmental data, the location of existing leases, multiple use conflicts,  resource potential, industry interest, and other available information.

There are 630 tracts on approximately 7.1 million acres that will be available for nomination and comment under this lease sale.  Currently there are 186 authorized oil and gas leases totaling 1,481,092 acres in the NPR-A.  Maps showing available areas are available on the BLM website:  http://www.blm.gov/ak.

The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land, the most of any Federal agency.  This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska.  The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation.  In Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, recreational and other activities on BLM-managed land contributed more than $130 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 600,000 American jobs.  The Bureau is also one of a handful of agencies that collects more revenue than it spends.  In FY 2012, nearly $5.7 billion will be generated on lands managed by the BLM, which operates on a $1.1 billion budget.  The BLM’s multiple-use mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.  The Bureau accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on public lands.

Contact:
Artealia Gilliard, 907-271-4418, agilliard@blm.gov

Ruth McCoard, 907-271-3322, rmccoard@blm.gov
Deputy Chief, Office of Communications
BLM-Alaska State Office
222 W. 7^th Avenue, Suite 13
Anchorage, AK  99513-7504
907-271-3322 Office
907-952-0464 BlackBerry
907-271-5421 Fax

New Breakfast Menu Offers Freshly Made Items with Quality Ingredients Fairbanks, AK,

May 13, 2012 – Fairbanks Consumers shouldn’t settle for drab, uninspiring breakfasts. Wendy’s is re-energizing mornings with a new fresh-made breakfast menu, which serves up both tasty traditional and tantalizing new entrées and sides, all made to order with ingredients that are hand prepared daily in Wendy’s kitchens.

The new Wendy’s breakfast menu offers fresh Grade A eggs, thick-cut Applewood Smoked Bacon, all-natural grilled sausage, seasonal fresh fruit, fresh-baked breads and coffee made with 100 percent Arabica beans. More adventurous palates can enjoy the Artisan Egg Sandwich, Fire-Roasted Burrito and Mornin’ Melt Panini. For traditional tastes, there are favorites like the Biscuit Sandwich, Seasoned Home-Style Potatoes, and Fresh Seasonal Fruit Cup. All of the new menu items are made with Wendy’s passion for quality and served at affordable prices.

“A real breakfast is a great breakfast – it’s prepared and cooked fresh with real, wholesome, natural ingredients,” says Rick Ireland, Owner and Operator of Wendy’s Alaska. “Our new breakfast menu delivers a whole new experience, with offerings like Asiago cheese and hollandaise sauce on a honey-wheat muffin with fresh cracked eggs, fresh cooked Applewood smoked bacon and natural sausage; a panini with fresh-baked sourdough bread topped with cheddar and Asiago cheese; or a warm oatmeal bar made with fruit like cranberries and blueberries.

“For consumers who really care about the food choices they make, Wendy’s new breakfast menu is a difference you can taste. Wendy’s has redefined the breakfast experience with an inspired menu that offers unique, exciting foods,” says Ireland.

Wendy’s new menu is available in Anchorage and will be served weekdays from 6 to 10:30 a.m. daily. Menu items range from entrées to sides. Prices will vary.

Contact Rick Ireland, Wendy’s Alaska rireland@wendys.alaska.com

Denny Lynch (614) 764-3553 denny.lynch@wendys.com

About The Wendy’s Company The Wendy’s Company is the world’s third largest quick-service hamburger company. The Wendy’s system includes more than 6,500 franchise and company restaurants in the U.S. and 26 countries and U.S. territories worldwide. For more information visit www.wendys.com, or www.aboutwendys.com.

Many of the events will have an impact on traffic and drivers may experience delays and road closures.

Tuesday, May 15 – 6:30-8 a.m. – Brigade Run – East on the airfield to Ketcham Road adjacent to the golf course. North on Ketcham Road to Gaffney Road.  West on Gaffney Rd to Freeman Rd.  South at the JAG Bldg back to the airfield. Expect blocked road and traffic delays on Ketcham and Gaffney.

Wednesday, May 16 – 9-11 a.m. – Memorial Ceremony.  Roads closed – east from the Intersection of Alder and Rhineland Roads (individuals will still be able to access Kamish Clinic); north from the intersection of Santiago Road and the southern entrance to parking lot of Bldg 3401 and west from Bldg 3417, Warrior Transition Battalion to Alder Road.

Wednesday, May 16 – 12:30-3:30 p.m. – Redeployment/Change of Command Ceremony.  Montgomery Road will see a large increase in pedestrians, parking and traffic around the Alert Holding Area, (Bldg 2116). Police traffic control points will be operating in the vicinity of Bldg 2116

Thursday, May 17 – 9:30-11 a.m. – Wounded Warrior and Gold Star Family Walk -  Luzon Road will be closed all the way from Northern Lights Chapel north to Montgomery Road to the Alert Holding Area, Bldg 2116 where the walk ends.

Thursday, May 17 – 9 a.m.-7:30 p .m. – 1/25 Installation-wide Organization Day – Montgomery Road will see a large increase in pedestrians, parking and traffic around the Alert Holding Area (Bldg 2116) where the majority of the activities will take place. However, there are organized sports events that will take place at the Softball Complex, Physical Fitness Center (inside and out) and on River Road for the Mud Race.  Shuttle buses will be running to alleviate traffic congestion.

All motorists are asked to be aware of possible road closures, traffic delays and pedestrians and to drive with caution.

Linda Douglass
Garrison Public Affairs Officer
(907) 353-6701