It is great that we are gaining daylight every day now. Soon the sun will be over the mountain. If the warm weather continues for the rest of this winter, our construction season will be underway sooner than later.
Please look in your emails. Your membership bills and requests to update your information have been emailed to you. We are working on a new website and want to have it up and contain the information you want your potential customers to review. Please send in any updates.
What would you like to see from your Chamber to support your business? We currently have a limited number of board members. We have already reached out to our members for support for the board and are waiting to hear from you. Knowing that there are limited hands instead of many for getting the work accomplished, what do you want from the Chamber?
Please reach out to us to serve on the board or any ideas you might have. Looking forward to a prosperous 2025!
Thank you,
Cheryle James President
Cooper Landing, Alaska 99572
info@cooperlandingchamber.com
Cooper Landing Trails
• The new Cooper Landing Trails website is still under development but is now open for viewing. Please see: https://cooperlandingtrails.org/. If we ever get enough good snow, we’ll have grooming reports for snow trails on the new website. Check it out.
• Once the snow is deep enough, we will groom Quartz Creek Road beyond the power line to the Crescent Creek trailhead and the Devil’s Creek snow trails to the right and north of the regular trailhead. Recall that CLT won’t be allowed to groom the Russian River Campground again this winter due to construction scheduling for the improvements there. You may still hike, snowshoe, or ski on your own once the construction is ended which we understand was December 20th.
• The new snow trails equipment has started arriving! These items were made possible by a grant from the Recreational Trails Program of the Alaska State Department of Natural Resources. If you are curious you may read more about RTP at the following website: https://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/grants/trails.htm
• We held a CLT meeting at Sunrise on December 2nd. See the our website for the notes. An update of our activity was given and volunteers signed forms for work done on USFS lands.
• CLT officers, David and Janette, continue to meet monthly with Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance (RTCA) to work on how to advance our CLTRPPP. This month a representative of Kenaitze Tribe joined our meeting where drafts of the new Pitch Deck and Story Map were presented.
• For other details please see the notes of meetings posted on our website “News” page. https://www.walkcooperlanding.org/news
• If you’re interested in volunteering with CLT contact us. See information below.
Contact Us: walkcooperlanding@gmail.com walkcooperlanding.org PO Box 863 Cooper Landing, AK 99572
Cooper Landing Lynx News
Thank You
We would like to extend a big heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported the Cooper Landing School students this year. We appreciate your kindness and generosity. Thank you to everyone who volunteered to help with the building of the Christmas Swags, the behind the scenes work with the Christmas play, and with the Spaghetti Dinner. Thank you to everyone who purchased a Christmas Swag, merchandise, a plate at the spaghetti dinner, and/or donated towards our cause. A special shout out to Sunrise Inn for donating and making the spaghetti dinner, Wildman’s for donating the ice cream, IGA for donating the cutlery, and CL Brewery for donating the root beer. Because of you our school will be able to participate in the ski program this season! We are incredibly grateful for your time and support! We couldn’t have done it without you.
Thank you to our Business Sponsors:
• Sunrise Inn
• Wildman’s
• Cooper Landing Brewery
• IGA
• Cooper Landing Fishing Guide
• Cooper Landing Chamber
• Salmon Run Lodge
• Jon James Construction
• Alaska Rivers Company
Cooper Landing Community Club
The New Year has come and we wish you all health and happiness as we finish out the holidays celebrating the joys of abundance, family, friends, the beauty of where we call “home,”…and more light!
Your community club board had a quiet but productive December, electing officer positions and discussing the upcoming year’s events, goals and objectives. Your new officers are Rhonda Lynn, Director Member, Kathy Lessard, Secretary, Marja Beltrami, Treasurer, Lorraine Temple, Vice President, and Yvette Galbraith, President. Our next CLCC Board of Directors meeting will be held on January 6 th , 2025.
Other items and activities include the Bylaws Committee working hard on updating our Club Bylaws. They have had two meetings with one more to go before our next general meeting. It is to be held at the Hall on January 7 th , 2025. The CLCC hosted the first of a three-month travel sharing series of Friday Night Fireside Chats. It was well attended and participants enjoyed visiting Northern Spain, Tasmania and Japan. The next Friday Night Fireside Chat will be, January 10 th , with the presentation locations to be announced.
Our first general meeting for 2025 will be Thursday, January 16 th at 6 pm at the Community Hall. Please watch the Crier and social media early in the month for agenda requests and announcing expected guests with presentations.
We wish you peace, health, and prosperity as we roll into 2025!
-Your Cooper Landing Community Club Board Yvette, Lorraine, Marja, Kathy, and Rhonda
Website Content Update
Thank you to all of our members who renewed their membership for the 2025 year! If you need to update your information, logo, or photos for your Chamber Website Listing now is the time to do so. Please email us your updated items by February 15th.
Cooper Landing Library News
How you can help our library:
Our library provides invaluable services to the community. In addition to book and movie checkouts, we provide an online catalog, access to the Alaska Digital Library, internet, and up-to-date computers, printers, and fax for public use.
•Volunteer! Email Virginia at cooperlandinglibrary@gmail.com if you would like to contribute time. We are always looking for volunteers to work a regular shift, substitute, and/or provide expertise and service in specialized areas, such as accounting or information technology.
•Donate! Checks can be mailed to Cooper Landing Community Library, PO Box 517, Cooper Landing, AK 99572. You can also donate directly at the library or online through our website, cooperlandinglibrary.com, by clicking the donate button at the bottom of the page.
We look forward to seeing you in the library soon!
Virginia Morgan Volunteer Director
Puzzle Exchange!
Take a puzzle or leave a puzzle! This is a great and easy way to share puzzles with our neighbors and friends!
Donating Guidelines
1. Please put DONATED BY and your name inside the top cover of the puzzle boxes you are exchanging.
2. Please provide puzzles in Ziploc bags inside their box to avoid losing pieces.
5. It is okay to leave puzzles missing 1-2 pieces (but no more than that!), Be sure to indicate on the image of the box or picture provided where the missing pieces are located.
Returning Puzzles
1. When you finish your puzzle, sign your name inside the box so we can see which puzzles are the most popular and return it to the library for another!
COVID tests
Each household can receive four free COVID tests at this link: https://covidtests.gov
Library Hours
Monday 1-3 pm
Tuesday 3-5 pm
Wednesday 1-3 pm
Thursday 1-3 pm
Friday 1-3 pm
Saturday 11 am-2 pm
Book Club
The following book club meetings will be via zoom. Please email cooperlandinglibrary@ gmail.com for the link.
• January 21 – Quiet by Susan Cain
• February 18 – The Wealth of Shadows by Graham Moore
• March 18 – James by Percival Everett
• April 15 – Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
• May 13 – Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Its time to play CHESS! Come and work those brain cells out starting on Tuesday, November 5 at the Cooper Landing Community Library starting at 3:15 pm until 4:30. All ages and levels welcome. You are never too young or old to learn how to play!
Questions, please call Gary Galbraith (907) 302-1131. If you have your own set, please bring it!
Cooper Landing Gem News
Do you have business or organization updates you would like to share with the community? All Chamber Members are invited to submit updates and information to the monthly newsletter. Contact us for more information.
