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    Janelle Huntington dreams of the day when she has her own airplane and can explore Alaska’s vast expanse beyond the road system. She knows the financial expense of pursuing her passion of flying, so she decided to pursue a career that naturally matches her interest by becoming an air traffic controller.

    “I just like exploring Alaska, like going to the Interior where my dad’s from, or to the Inupiaq region up north where my brother lives, or the Alutiiq region, where my boyfriend’s family lives,” Janelle said.

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    A potlatch style celebration October 29 at the Crooked Creek Johnny John School gymnasium officially brought a successful end to the summer’s frantic construction of nine new homes to replace those lost in last spring’s devastating flood of the Kuskokwim River.

    Helen Macar, who was pregnant during the record flood, held her newborn as she thanked everyone for her new home and tearfully recalled the ordeal of her life.

    “I was five-months pregnant when the flood hit,” Macar said. “It was scary because I didn’t know what was going to happen to us.

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    American Multiplex, a shareholder of the Kuskokwim Corporation, with real estate investments throughout Anchorage, began as a vision of former Anchorage mayor Rick Mystrom in 1978 when he and his wife, Mary, first bought three apartment buildings in Anchorage. By 1989, American Multiplex had amassed 10 apartment complexes across the city.

    American Multiplex forged a partnership with TKC’s Kuskokwim Properties LLC in 2007. Today, TKC holds 95% interest in Kuskokwim Properties LLC and American Multiplex owns 5%.

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Assessment of village infrastructure launched by The Kuskokwim Corporation

Dennis Linnell walked with a sense of purpose along the few narrow streets in Sleetmute carrying a white three-ring binder and a headlamp hung about his neck. He soon found himself at the U.S. Post Office, but not to send or check his mail. Instead, he busily jotted notes on his binder, and bent down to peek at the foundation to inspect its structural integrity before stepping back to take several photos.

Linnell, a civil engineer with Hattenburg Dilley and Linell, LLC of Anchorage is tasked by The Kuskokwim Corporation to assess the various infrastructures of its 10 villages including roads, runways, schools, stores, public buildings and fuel storage tanks, just to name a few on his target list.

Meanwhile, a standing-room-only audience at the Sleetmute village tribal council building listened to CEO Maver Carey of TKC, who explained the necessity of the project August 23.

“With approximately 36% of our shareholders living in one of TKC’s 10 villages, it’s important to strategically focus and maximize our resources by forming partnerships with state, federal, and non-profit agencies also working in our villages,” Carey said. “It’s very important to understand which agency is responsible for issues within the villages. Oftentimes, Alaska Native corporations are held responsible when it might be a city, state or federal issue. What’s important for us to understand is where TKC, as the village corporation, can assist, when feasible, with economic development opportunities within our region,” she added.

The focus of the study is not only to obtain sound information about existing infrastructures in the villages, but also to better gauge the future of maintaining them, and help tribal and city councils prioritize short and long-term needs, Carey explained.

Jessica Holden of Information Insights, a research company based in Fairbanks and Anchorage also charged by TKC to compile the findings of the study, also facilitated the town hall style meeting with Carey that mixed serious debate with lighthearted and more neighborly comments accommodating a variety of topics ranging from reasons why people stay to make their home in their respective villages to a pie-in-the-sky wish list of businesses folks might want to see, such as a laundromat or a Target, which brought laughter among lit faces.

The village infrastructure study began August 23, and included Lower and Upper Kalskag, Aniak, Chuathbaluk, Sleetmute, Crooked Creek, Red Devil and Stony River. Results of the study will be sent for review to all of TKC’s villages. Georgetown and Napaimute’s infrastructure study will take place before the end of the year.