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KENNY LAKE NOTES - HOWARD KIBBLE
We had a small forest fire here on the
plateau the other day, one that was quickly
extinguished by the quick work of the peo
ple who live here and the suppression crews
from Glennallen.
The event brings to mind a suggestion
made by one of my neighbors, Roy Alley, a
j couple of years ago. Fire breaks, from the
! Tonsina to the Copper across this pie-shaped
area between the two rivers. When the sug
gestion was heard it was pointed out that
there were not enough people involved to
warrant such expense, but now the scene is
a far different one.
There is hardly a vacant piece of
ground bordering the road left. The next
of the homesteaders will be settling back of
• the initial tier along the road, and inci
dental! y, use those same fire breaks for
access roaas.
If the fire breaks were put in at mile
intervals, a fire could be contained much
easier because of the access as well as
safe guarding the rest of the area by iso
lating it.
One of the most beautiful views I've
ever seen is to be had by a pause at Willow
Lake on the Richardson Highway; the day
I'm thinking of there was no haze in the
air and the Wrangell Range across the Cop
per looked so close it seemed you could
throw a rock and see a pick-mark in the
snow on them. There wasn't a riffle on the
lake or a breath of a breeze to sway a leaf
anywhere. The country fell away to the
north in one long, gradual swoop; hopped
oyer the gorge of the Copper and rolled up
the other side of the basin, reaching clear
to the sky just from the momentum of the
rush.
• There are few moments in one's exis
tanc.e that can be labeled as awestruck by
grandeur but I'm sure that hardly a person
on this earth would not have been given
pause by such a view, and certainly no
Alaskan.
Like I say, no greater land lies out
of-doors.
KENNY LAKE NEWS - GINNY HELKENN
Well we really had the excitement out
here this.week but not the kind anyone likes
I'm sure, A forest fire started on the back
of John Abchers homestead and it was esti
mated that about 100 acres were burned over.
Some of Tom Newtons timber was also burned.
All.the men in the area rushed to the scene
to help and most of them worked through the
night. It was a day Kenny Lake won't for
get for a long time and especially me as it
happened to be my birthday, the 29th of May.
Men were brought.in to relieve all the local
men on the morning of the 30th but still
many stayed through the day. A1 Taylor, our
fire warden, was one of the last to leave,
but by then things were under control and t
the worse was over. We took our children
out on Memorial Day afternoon to survey the
damage a fire leaves. Page 4 Please
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COPPER VALLEY ELECTRIC OPEN HOUSE
The Board of Directors are pleased to an
nounce that Copper Valley Electric will hold
open house on June 8, 196j5« wish to in
vite the people of Copper River Basin to
view the new addition of Generator Unit #3
in our plant.
DATE: Saturday, June 8, 1963, TIME: ItAK,
thru PM, with tours being conducted by
the plant operators and linemen. Refresh
ments will be served by CVEA wives.
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