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increases. Your investment of corrugated cardboard, for example, results in a comprehensive recycling program for our community, putting profits back into our program as a public-service, non-profit organization. All you need to do is drop it off, at no charge, or hire a local pickup service. VCRS has seen an increase in our community’s engagement to recycle. Consistently, we help Alaskans to refine their recycling preparation behavior and ability while adjusting to the “recycling right” attitude. To many people, the local impact that recycling makes does bring to mind the parable of The Starfish Thrower. This story is about a young boy found on the beach among thousands of washed up starfish, eagerly throwing them back into the sea. Upon receiving criticism from a bystander for taking on a task seeming to make little difference, the youngster provides a very rational explanation for his intention and effort. He followed his heart, remaining loyal and dedicated to the effort. Through repetition, as he continues to act upon what the situation demands, he cul-

tivates insight in the observer and raises the level of awareness for all. Critically, a more effective response to resolving this problem is to find the source of what caused the starfish to wash up on shore. Point taken; a non-linear approach to resolving our environmental issues does revolve the problem back to the source and invites collaboration throughout the eco-system. Responding to the bigger picture and to the momentum at the same time generates a greater impact. Could this be what is happening with recycling? Well, recyclers are doing what’s right, considering the circumstances, and acting accordingly. Since festive trends are going green, there is material to craft holiday packaging in the VCRS Reuse store such as: packing peanuts, paper bags, newspaper bundles, and blank newspaper rolls. Saving money begins before you go to the store. Consider using alternatives like cookie tins made out of cardboard boxes from aluminum foil or plastic film rolls, decorate the backside of used copy paper with

watercolor paints or have kids try a marbling technique using food coloring and shaving cream to make wrapping paper. Another gift strategy that aligns simply would be to give only four gifts: Something they want, something they need, something to wear, and something to read. Involving children in the decision making process for their own gifts helps them become savvy consumers. Remember, children can learn by easily helping to separate the recyclables from the many pieces that make up holiday packaging which are not recyclable. We cannot accept foil wrapping paper, tissue paper, cellophane, bows, ribbons, tinsel, string, and Styrofoam. It is difficult to catch these bits and pieces upon delivery to the recycling center and they contaminate the loads sent to our end users. All residents of the Mat-Su Borough are capable of living with the results of an earth friendly lifestyle. Environmental impacts currently being made from the disposal of holiday packaging by recycling alone has helped offset the effects of consumption growth. Let’s not go into the “red” by spending on throwaway items and think about conserving more “green”.

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1. Moose Lodge 2. Senior Center 3. Pioneer Home 4. Visitor Center 5. Colony House 6. Borough Gym

7. The Depot 8. Backcountry Bike and Ski 9. Silvertip Design 10. Palmer Deli

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December 7th-9th, 2018 Palmer, Alaska

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All 3 Days, 7th-9th All day

Shop Palmer Shop Palmer cards will be located at all participating locations. When a customer spends $10 at those stores, the shop will mark their card at every $10 increment. Once the card is filled, they can drop it off in any participating location’s drop box. On December 21, all drop boxes will be collected and a final card winner will receive a Visa Gift Card valued at $1,000

7pm

The Alaskan Nutcracker Glenn Massay Theater 8925 E. College Dr.

Saturday, December 8th 9am-11am

Lions Club Pancake Breakfast Palmer Moose Lodge 1136 S. Cobb St.

All day

Gage Tree Service Lights Up Palmer Businesses on S. Alaska St. & S. Colony Way

9am-4pm

Annual Holiday Bazaar Mat-Su Senior Services – 1132 S. Chugach St.

All day

Community Christmas Tree Palmer Library – 655 S. Valley Way

10am-1pm

All day

Palmer Water Tower Jr. Large Pavilion – across from 723 S. Valley Way

Free Kids T-Shirt Coloring while supplies last Silvertip Designs – 421 S. Alaska St.

10am-1pm

Festival of Trees 8 beautifully decorated trees for raffle to benefit the Mat-Su Special Santa Program Drawing held at 3 p.m. Palmer Depot

10am-2pm

Meet Santa Downtown Palmer Deli 550 S. Alaska St.

Friday, December 7th

10am-6pm

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10am-6pm

Old Fashion Colon Refreshments, bak 316

10am-6pm

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10am-5pm

Festival of Trees 8 beautifully decorated trees for raffle to benefit the MatSu Special Santa Program - Palmer Depot

10am-6pm

Gingerbread Houses Drop Off for Display Alaska Veterans & Pioneer Home 250 E. Fireweed Ave.

10am-3pm

Free Tai Chi & Pilates Machine Demo White Feather Wellness 10823 E. Palmer Wasilla Hwy.

10am-6pm

“Light Up A Life” Hospice Tree Valley Hospice Resources - Palmer Depot

10am-2pm

10am-6pm

Craft Fair United Protestant Church 713 S. Denali St.

Team Ineka Mushing Demos Pioneer Home 250 E. Fireweed Ave.

10am-3pm

Santa’s Cipher Find Santa’s secret messages & claim your prizes Deeptree, Inc 550 S. Alaska St., Suite 208

11am-3pm

10am-4pm

Blood Drive Across from Peak Boutique 840 S. Colony Way

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11am-4pm

10am-4pm

Annual Pick Your Discount Tree The Gallery 1150 S. Colony Way #18

Free Fat Backc 13

11am-5pm

10am-6pm

Annual Pick Your Discount Tree The Gallery1150 S. Colony Way #18

12pm-4pm

Christmas Open House Edward Jones – Tammy Bruce & Brian Jensen 642 S. Alaska St., Suite 108

12pm-6pm

Colony Christmas Arts & Craft Fair Palmer Depot

4pm-6pm

Holidays at the Farm Open House UAF Matanuska Experiment Farm 1509 S Georgeson Rd., Palmer

10am-5pm

“Light Up A Life” Hospice Tree Valley Hospice Resources Palmer Depot

6pm - 8pm

“Merry Movies at the Moose” Bring your pillows, blankets & lawn chairs Palmer Moose Lodge 1136 S. Cobb St.

10am-6pm

Klondike’s Christmas Craft Fair Free Hot Cocoa while supplies last Klondike Mike’s – 820 S. Colony Way

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Noon-3pm

Warm-Up Station & Games United Way of Mat Su Upstairs from the Palmer Deli 550 S. Alaska St., Suite 205

Noon-3pm

Free Kids’ Games Mitten Money Scramble at 2 p.m. In Front of the Palmer Depot

istmas Arts & Craft Fair Palmer Depot

Food

Craft/Demo

Music

Photo Op

Info

Holiday Delights Mat-Su Orchestra United Protestant Presbyterian Church 713 S. Denali St.

4pm

Running of the Beers 5ishK Walk, Bike or Run from Bleeding Heart Brewery 1613 E Outer Springer Loop to Alaska Picker 562 S. Denali St., Palmer

5pm

The Lighting of the Water Tower Presented by Alaska Picker

5pm

Parade of Lights A Palmer tradition – floats lighting up the night Downtown Palmer

Make a Free Origami Christmas Crane Palmer Library Activity Room 655 S. Valley Way

15min after Parade

BP Fireworks Extravaganza Downtown Palmer

Noon-4pm

Free Horse Drawn Sleigh Rides Near Large Pavilion/across from 723 S. Valley Way

6pm-8pm

vity & Warm-Up Station a Christmas Cookie Peak Boutique 40 S. Colony Way

Noon-4pm

Make and Take a Refrigerator Magnet Colony Inn 325 E. Elmwood Ave.

“Let it Snow” - 2018 Annual Holiday Concert Alaska Children’s Choir Trinity Lutheran Church 10355 E. Palmer-Wasilla Hwy.

ocoa with Santa er Moose Family Day by the Palmer Lions Club mer Moose Lodge 1136 S. Cobb St.

Noon-5pm

Open Station Tour & Warm Up Big Cabbage Radio 716 S. Alaska St.

1pm-4pm

Reindeer Farm Petting, feeding & photos Near Large Pavilion/across from 723 S. Valley Way

1pm-4pm

Ride the Reindeer Train Pioneer Home 250 E. Fireweed Ave.

ristmas Arts & Craft Fair Borough Gym 50 E. Dahlia Ave.

Noon-3pm

Shelter Adoption Day a kitty, puppy or dog Gym, 350 E. Dahlia Ave.

sh with State Farm ion & Photo Op with Puppies State Farm – Erik Christensen nt of the Palmer Depot

Marshmallow Snowman mer Moose Lodge 1136 S. Cobb St.

1pm-5pm

Bike Test Ride & Demo country Bike and Ski 32 W. Arctic Ave.

2pm

ouse – Cookies, Cider & Movies d, Puppies for Photos, a Scavenger Hunt useum of History and Art 23 S. Valley Way

Nativity Display LDS Church 60 W. Bogard Rd.

e Pony Wheel Rides on/across from 723 S. Valley Way

2pm-4pm

1st Annual “Ugly Sweater Sip & Shop” Cobb St. Market 625 S. Cobb St., Suite 100 The Alaskan Nutcracker Glenn Massay Theater 8925 E. College Dr. Caroling with The Chorus Mat-Su Community Chorus Throughout Palmer

2pm-4pm

Smoosh Race Free Entry – CASH PRIZES near the train tracks across from the Visitor Center

3pm-5pm

Free Chili Feed Alaska Bible College 248 E. Elmwood Ave.

7pm

The Alaskan Nutcracker Glenn Massay Theater 8925 E. College Dr.

7pm-9pm

Bingo at the Moose Lodge 1136 S. Cobb St.

10pm

Colony Christmas After Party Featuring Nervis Rex Klondike Mike’s – 820 S. Colony Way

Sunday, December 9th 10:30am

The C-Cup, Adult Women’s Hockey Championship MTA Events Center 1317 S. Kerry Weiland Way, Palmer

11am

Colony Christmas Cribbage Tournament $10 to enter – Winner takes all Klondike Mike’s 820 S. Colony Way

2pm

Alaska Celtic Pipes & Drums Palmer Public Library 655 S. Valley Way

2pm-7pm

4pm

5pm-7pm

Nativity Display LDS Church 560 W. Bogard Rd. (Formerly Arctic Ave.) Warm Light & Good Cheer Christmas Concert Mat-Su Community Chorus St. John Lutheran Church 440 E. Elmwood Ave. Holiday Social & Dessert Contest Bring a dessert to share! People’s Choice wins $100 cash Featuring Earth 2 Travolta Palmer Depot

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covered the Arctic Floating ice shelves, such as some in Ocean and rammed Antarctica today, can be thousands of feet into the coastline thick, but once they are gone they leave of northern Alaska only subtle records of their passage — unabout 80,000 years less they touch land, which seems to have ago. been the case in northern Alaska. The first clues Others have hinted at the possibility of to the phantom ancient ice covering the Arctic Basin. A ice cap emerged decade ago, UAF marine geologist Berwhen Farquharson, nie Coakley found glacial scour marks on a postdoctoral rethe floor of the Arctic Ocean that were too searcher at UAF’s deep to be caused by sea ice or icebergs. Geophysical Insti An unknown giant ice shelf may also extute, visited UAF’s plain the pinkish boulders stranded on the by Pam Groves Ben Jones at a re- UAF researchers Louise Farquharson and Dan Mann stand in TeshekpukPhoto Lake to ponder northern tundra. Catching the eye of pilots search cabin he an ancient beach rising from its northern shore. each summer, the rocks dot the coastal has restored and plain as far as nine miles from the Arctic maintained on the northern shore of Tes- cluding Jones and Dan Mann, eliminated Ocean. Geologists have traced these rocks hekpuk Lake, about 60 miles southeast of other explanations for the elevated beach, to outcroppings hundreds of miles to the such as that tectonic forces lifted it up. Utqiaġvik. northeast in Canada. The ice tongue that While Farquharson was helping Jones in After much debate, they concluded that created the Teshekpuk Lake beaches could a study of northern lakes a few summers the Arctic Ocean was once covered by ice. have been part of a conveyor belt that carago, he encouraged her to gather some Not by a thin layer of sea ice as it is to- ried the boulders to northern Alaska. samples from the bluff, including remains day, but by a massive, 1,000-foot thick ice of whales and shellfish that were thou- shelf, fed by an ice dome sitting over arctic This column is provided as a public service by Canada. The edge of the ice shelf leaned the Geophysical Institute, University of Alassands of years old. “These exposures were dripping with onto the Beaufort Sea coast, depressing ka Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF the land enough to create the beaches ex- research community. Ned Rozell is a science fossils,” she said. writer at the institute. Back in the laboratory, Farquharson posed at Teshekpuk Lake. used a sophisticated method to estimate Other long-gone when buried grains of sand in the bluff ice bodies have left were last exposed to sunlight. That’s when behind more evishe discovered something puzzling — her dence. The Laurensamples dated to a time when global sea tide Ice Sheet once level was so low that the ancient beach covered most of Canada and a wide should have been a hilltop. sweep of the Lower “It was a very exciting turn,” she said. What were all those ocean-dwelling 48. At the Laurencreatures doing on a landscape that should tide’s peak 21,000 have been high and dry, the stomping years ago, Montreal was buried under grounds of mammoths? Something very heavy must have been 10,000 feet of ice; pressing down on the land, forcing north- Long Island was a ern Alaska under water, Farquharson mound of glacial debris at the toe of thinks. Photo by Ben Jones Jim Webster of Webster’s Flying Service stands next to a tundra boulder about four miles She and her co-authors on the paper, in- the ice sheet. inland from the Beaufort Sea coast.

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We will have ing the holiday season! “Let it Snow” features Multi Cultural dance presentation, Santa’s visit Alaska Rock Garden Society favorites from both the Christmas and Hanukkah where he will give away some goodies for kids ( December 2018 traditions, as well as several secular selections. bring a special gift for your kids for Santa to give Alaska Rock Garden Society Come join us for an evening of song! is optional), games for kids and adults, give aways The Alaska Rock Garden Society will not be facebook.com/alaskachildrenschoir and gun raffle drawing. Bring a dish to share for our having a Membership meeting in December. (907) 982 - 5467 “Noche Buena”dinner and 2 whole roasted pigs will Please join us on Saturday January 19, 2018 at Postpartum Mama Meetup be on the menu. the Elks Lodge in Eagle River, 17111 N Eagle December 21 @ 1:00pm - 2:00pm kabayan.inc.matsu@gmail.com • 907 - 322 - 9463 River Loop Road from 2:00 - 4:00. 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Ice Lanterns and a Winter Trail December 21st @ 3:00pm - 5:00pm (making lanterns) Eagle River Nature Center (32750 Eagle River Rd) Learn how to make an ice lantern and take home a truly COOL holiday decoration. Help us set out ice lanterns to light up the Nature Center trails for the Winter Solstice. Then from 5-8pm, the Rodak Trail will be lit up with ice lanterns. Enjoy the magic on a quiet evening walk. www.ernc.org/contact • 907-694-2108

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