On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches chats with Jared Griffin and Robyn Callahan about Kodiak College and upcoming classes.
Read More »Talk of the Rock: Garden Pests
On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with Cooperative Extension Service Pest Technician Janice Chumley about how to defend against pests you might find in your garden, from root maggots to cutworms.
Read More »Talk of the Rock: Industrial Arts District
On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks about a plan for an industrial arts district with its project manager, Anjuli Grantham, and one of her partners, Kathy Drabek from the Shun’aq Tribe of Kodiak.
Read More »Talk of the Rock: Tactile Art and New Arts Council Season
On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches talks about art in Kodiak with Kodiak Arts Council executive director, Katie Oliver, and Arts Council scholarship recipient, Cunat Spencer. Spencer is working on a tactile art project where she’ll use layers and texture to create white-on-white paintings that enable viewers to both see and feel a landscape.
Read More »Talk of the Rock: Sven Haakanson
On today’s Talk of the Rock, you’ll hear host Kayla Desroches speak with former executive director of the Alutiiq Museum, Sven Haakanson. Haakanson is a teacher and scholar, formerly in Kodiak, and now in Washington State. He is Curator of Native American Anthropology at the Burke Museum and an associate professor at the University of Washington. In 2007, he received …
Read More »Talk of the Rock: Community Clean-up Day
On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with organizers of the annual community cleanup event, which takes place the first Saturday of every May. You can find out more about the event through the Chamber of Commerce website or its Facebook page.
Read More »Talk of the Rock: Kodiak Food Co-ops
On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with two food co-op organizers, Dana Myers from the Kodiak Bounty Cooperative and Healthy Tomorrows Executive Director, Merissa Koller Williams, who’s putting together a food co-op with a committee as part of a year-long Kodiak initiatives plan. Koller Williams is currently in the process of requesting public input from Kodiak …
Read More »Talk of the Rock: ComFish 2016
On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with a ComFish 2016 organizer, Julie Bonney, and two speakers who will give talks at ComFish about cannery history. The Kodiak Maritime Museum’s Toby Sullivan speaks about the murders of two cannery union workers and how they affected legislation about worker rights, and the Baranov Museum’s Anjuli Grantham gives an …
Read More »Talk of the Rock: Youth Story Slam
On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with organizers behind an upcoming youth story slam. They talk about the event and some of their experiences working with youth on Kodiak Island.
Read More »Talk of the Rock: Borough Manager Bud Cassidy
On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with retiring Borough Manager Bud Cassidy, who’s been a borough employee for roughly thirty years. They talk about the jobs he held before entering local government, how he met his wife, and his memories of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, among other things.
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