Sunrise Happenings

Are you looking for a fun evening activity? Come on down to Sunrise to test your knowledge at Trivia Night on Monday’s at 9pm. Bring your friends, each team can have up to four players. Compete in five rounds and earn points to become the weekly winner. The final round is a challenging audio music round.

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Cooper Landing Advisory Planning Commission (CLAPC)

The next Cooper Landing Advisory Planning Commission (CLAPC) meeting is scheduled for July 12th. We do not know at this time if there are any agenda items but if there are you’ll see the draft agenda posted in the Cooper Landing Crier online and physically around town on bulletin boards.

If you are unable to attend a meeting either via Zoom or in person then you may send us a written message one of two ways:

1. For email visit: https://www.kpb.us/planning-dept/planning-commissions/cooper-landingapc/email-cooper-landing-apc

2. USPS mailing: Send your correspondence to Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Department, Attn: CLAPC, 144 N Binkley St., Soldotna, AK 99669.

Unit 395 Comments Due

Please recall that the Unit 395 draft plan is now available for public comment. It can be accessed via the project website (https://www.unit395planning.com/plan-draft). Please leave a comment through the website or by emailing megan.flory@respec.com. The comment period will be open for 45 days after the June 7th CLAPC meeting, closing at midnight on July 22.

Footprints Around Cooper Landing Sign Project

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I am excited to announce the completion of the Footprints Around Cooper Landing project and share a bit of Cooper Landing’s history with everyone. The project goal was to highlight five significant community sites and document the story of how they came to be. At first, I naively thought it was going to be a breeze to type up a few paragraphs, add a couple of photos, bada-bing bada- boom, project complete…but boy was I wrong.

As the Cooper Landing Youth Group and I began to write down pieces for the signs, it became apparent that many of the details about the specific components we were looking for were not readily available. I quickly discovered that these stories have never been specifically written down. The information wasn’t something one could Google and find results for.

The most important part of the project was now getting the details written down, concisely in one place. The project became a giant puzzle...

The project became a giant puzzle. I felt like Gandalf from Lord of the Rings digging through multiple historic archives and sources searching for information about the onering. Thankfully, Mona Painter, town historian, had the foresight to save so many pieces of excellent information over the years and has a great memory about the community’s origin. And thankfully Sandra Holsten is a wizard at researching and interpreting ancestry records. Without these two ladies, the signs would never have come to fruition. I am so grateful to the time they committed to helping me see this project through!

One article led to another and eventually the signs came together. This project was made possible through our partnership with the Cooper Landing Community Club, Cooper Landing Youth Group, Cooper Landing Historic Society, and the Kenai MountainsTurnagain Arm National Heritage Area (KMTA).

Thank you to Virginia Morgan, Dave and Martha Story, and Erik and Cory Route for editing the drafts for readability and grammar. Thank you to the youth group for sticking with this challenge and for learning the local history of your hometown. Thank you to Kate Stevenson and Connie Loveall for the flower and rock work they did around the signs at the Museum. Also, thank you to Impact Signs and Graphics for printing and installing the signs. Finally, a special thank you to KMTA for awarding our community the grant funding to print the signs and for continuously supporting the historic preservation of the Kenai Peninsula. To find out more about KMTA and the work they do visit their website at: kmtacorridor.org