Kenai, Soldotna Share
Million Dollar Funds
For Airport Improvements
Funds amounting to an entire
million dollars for upgrading the
Kenai and Soldotna Airports were
included in the big general ap
propriations bill passed by the
Alaska Legislature during closing
hours of the spring session last
week. This includes $100,000 from
the state to match $600,000 from
the federal government in its aid
to-airports program.
The appropriations bill, as pass
ed by the Legislature following
prior approval of slightly differ
ent bills in the Senate and House,
specified that $332,000 of the
state’s allocation of $400,000 be
Kenai Airport and that $68,000
be allocated for improvements to
the airfield at Soldotna.
Federal Aviation Agency, with
the state acting as intermediator,
plans to turn the Kenai airport
over to the city of Kenai follow
ing completion of the project. This
is in line with FFA’s desire to
dispose of 17 airports now being
operated by FFA and “to get out
of the airport business.”
The Senate bill, approved last
Wednesday, called for federal
aid-to-airport expenditures to be
increased $1.5 million over the
governor’s budget request.
Kenai and Soldotna airports
were not included in the gover
nor’s budget proposal and the
Soldotna airfield was not in the
budget bill drafted by the joint
committee of the Senate and
House. The Senate bill also pro
posed $500,000 in state and fed
eral funds for the Kotzebue air
port, which also was not includ
ed in the governor’s request. The
House bill reduced this to about
$300,000 for Kotzebue.
State funds amounting to $400,
000 were provided in the Senate
bill for the Kenai Airport im
provements. In drafting its own
money bill, the House Finance
committee sliced $100,000 from
the Kenai project to provide $78,
000 for improvements to the com
munity-owned airport at Soldot
na. In final passage by the Legis
lature, however, the Soldotna ap
propriation was reduced to $08,
000 and $332,000 allocated to Ke
nai.
Projects to Begin Soon
The City of Kenai’s Airport
Committee was informed Thurs
day that a sum of $885,328 in
state and federal funds is now
subsidized and available for the
improvement program at Kenai
airport. It is expected that con
struction this summer will con
sist basically of engineering and
soils work and that the remain
New Church Group
For North Kenai
One of the new church groups
being organized in the area is the
North Kenai Baptist Fellowship,
which is meeting each Sunday af
ternoon in the North Kenai Com
munity Club building.
Rev. Virgil Redmond, pastor of
the Sterling Baptist Church, and
Rev. William Bursell of Soldotna
are working jointly with the
group. Rev. Bursell recently serv
ed as supply pastor for the Sol
dotna Baptist Church during the
time the regular pastor, Rev. Paul
A. Weimer, was Outside.
Services for the North Kenai
Baptist Fellowship are held at
2:30 p.m. and an average attend
ance of 18 persons has been re
corded each Sunday.
e der of construction and improve
e ments will be completed prob
e ably the latter part of the next
construction season,
e Improvement needs at the Ke
if nai Airport are listed as the pav
t ing of about 5,000 feet of run
a way in the central portion of the
n airstrip, steel mats for construc
tion of a parking apron, access
roads, a maintenance building and
installation of runway lights.
S Following completion, the FA A
will continue operating the con
“, trols but the maintenance, upkeep,
e and operation of the airport will
e be the responsibility of the City
0 of Kenai.
The Kenai Airport has been
rated as the busiest FAA inter
1 mediate airport in the world for
the past three years. The City’s
1 Airport Committee consists of
Stanley Thompson, chairman, and
* Carl Seaman, assisted by Mayor
J James G. Dye and City Attorney
: James iE. Fisher. They have been
^ assured that after improvements
are completed the field will see
even greater use and possible
“direct to the states’’ flights
will be considered.
The House Finance Committee,
in including the Soldotna appro
priation, said the decision was
viewed as “encouraging cities to
do something for themselves.” The
do-it-yourself project of the com
munity, with the state helping
only in engineering, was described
by Commissioner of Public Works
Richard Downing as “a good
4,000 foot gravel strip.”
Improvements planned by Sol
dotna include paving of the air
strip and construction of a taxi
way. Work there is expected to
be completed this summer.
Oral Polio
Vaccine Due
Again Sunday
April 21 will be “S.O.S. Day”
or Sabin Oral Sunday in Kenai
and Soldotna, when Type 3 oral
polio vaccine will be available to
area residents.
Sponsored by the Kenai Area
Health Council, the third polio
vaccine feedings will be given at
the Kenai Community Library
and at the Soldotna School sim
ultaneously from noon to 8 p.m.
The vaccine will be available
at Ninilchik School from noon to
8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23, and
at Cooper Landing School on Fri
day, April 26, from noon to 2 p.m.
The Type 3 vaccine is the third
in a series of feedings that have
been offered the public recently.
Approximately 2,300 persons par
ticipated on each of the two pre
ceding dates when Type 1 and
Type 2 vaccine were administered.
A make-up day for those who
missed receiving Type 1 vaccine
is scheduled at the Kenai Health
Center from noon to 8 p.m. on
May 27, according to Miss Jean
nine Lyerly, public health nurse
at Kenai. This is the only make
up day now planned although it
is possible there will be another
in the fall.
Miss Lyerly said that Type 1
and Type 3 vaccines are regarded
as the most important and urged
that everyone make a special ef
fort to take this final dosage on
S.O.S. Sunday.
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