The 2011 Sitka Health Summit is coming up, and nominations for the community wellness awards are being accepted now. These awards highlight people and groups in Sitka who are making our community a healthier place to live. The Sitka Local Foods Network has its roots in the Sitka Health Summit. In 2008, two of the [...]
Archive for the ‘Awards’ Category
• Community Wellness Award nominations needed for Sitka Health Summit
Posted in Awards, Sitka Health Summit, tagged arts and crafts, community greenhouse, Community Wellness Awards, encouragement, farmers market, fish, food, food security, garden, Harrigan Centennial Hall, Kerry MacLane, Linda Wilson, Penny Lehmann, SEARHC, Sitka, Sitka Community Hospital, Sitka Health Summit, Sitka Local Foods Network on August 7, 2011 | Comments Off
• Sitka Fruit Tree Initiative planting group to meet on Tuesday, Jan. 18
Posted in Awards, Food choices, Fundraisers for the Sitka Local Foods Network, Gardens, Local food in Alaska projects and research, Sitka Health Summit, tagged apple trees, apples, cherries, cherry trees, crabapple trees, crabapples, fruit tree shares, Garden Ventures, Harrigan Centennial Hall, Lisa Sadleir-Hart, Penny Brown, Sitka Fruit Tree Initiative, Sitka Health Summit on January 17, 2011 | Comments Off
The Sitka Fruit Tree Initiative planting work group will meet from 7-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 18, at Harrigan Centennial Hall. All members of the public are welcome to attend. The Sitka Fruit Tree Initiative hopes to plant 200 apple, crabapple or cherry trees in Sitka before the next Sitka Health Summit on Sept. 30-Oct. [...]
• Iris Klingler wins Table of the Day Award for her bread, honey and jelly during fifth Sitka Farmers Market of the summer
Posted in Awards, food security, Fundraisers for the Sitka Local Foods Network, Photo galleries, Running of the Boots, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network events, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, tagged Alaska Cruise Association, ANB Hall, arts and crafts, berries, bread, carrots, cod, community garden, community greenhouse, education, encouragement, farmers market, fish, food, food security, garden, Greater Sitka Chamber of Commerce, halibut, home baked goods, Iris Klingler, market, Maybelle Filler, music, potatoes, produce, Running of the Boots, salmon, Shutterfly, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, St. Michael's Russian Orthodox Cathedral, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, Summer's End Celebration, Suzan Brawnlyn, WIC (Women Infants Children) supplemental food program, WIC clients, WIC coupons, XtraTufs on September 15, 2010 | Comments Off
Iris Klingler won the Table of the Day award at the fifth and final Sitka Farmers Market of the summer on Saturday, Sept. 11, at Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall. The local home baker and honey/jelly maker was presented with a certificate, $25 cash and a farmers market cookbook by Sitka Local Foods Network board members [...]
• Deadline nears for getting food and other entries to the Southeast Alaska State Fair in Haines
Posted in Awards, education, Gardens, Local food in Alaska projects and research, Local food in the news, tagged Alaska Marine Lines, arts and crafts, berries, big veggies, carrots, cod, education, encouragement, exhibitor's guide, fish, garden, Haines, halibut, homemade beer and wine, jams and jellies, Jeanette Berry, potatoes, produce, projects, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, Southeast Alaska State Fair, traditional foods on July 6, 2010 | Comments Off
The deadline for getting your local entries ready for the Southeast Alaska State Fair is this week if you want to take advantage of free shipping from Sitka. Jeanette Berry, the Sitka town representative for the fair, needs to have all non-perishable entries packed and delivered to the Alaska Marine Lines office in Sitka by [...]
• Two associated with Sitka Local Foods Network win awards at Alaska Health Summit
Posted in Awards, Food choices, Local food in the news, Sitka Local Foods Network in the news, tagged Alaska Dispatch, Alaska Health Summit, Alaska Public Health Association (ALPHA), Anchorage Daily News, Angoon, Arts for Kids, berries, Capital City Weekly, Carla Petersen, Craig, cranberries, Eating Alaska, Ellen Frankenstein, food, Frankenstein Productions, Gov. Sean Parnell, Grace Brooks, Haines, halibut, Hoonah, Hydaburg, Juneau, Juneau Empire, Kake, Kasaan, Klawock, Klukwan, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), salmon, SEARHC, SEARHC Steps to a Healthier SE Alaska program, Sitka, Sitka Health Summit, Sitka Local Foods Network, Steps to a Healthier US, Theobroma Chocolate Co., Wrangell, Yukon River salmon on December 13, 2009 | Comments Off
The Alaska Public Health Association (ALPHA) honored two programs with ties to the Sitka Local Foods Network during the Alaska Health Summit banquet on Dec. 9. Sitka filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein (and her Frankenstein Productions company) and the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Steps to a Healthier SE Alaska program both won the Alaska Community [...]
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