This is I he boundary of the borough proposed by the
a kenai Borough.
group circulating petitions for incorporation of
Borough Petition Circulated
i Continued from Page li
hands a l|frge majority of those
attending indicated they were in
favor of a borough comprised of
the entire Peninsula or Election
Districts No. 1) and 10.
No mention of the proposed Ke
nai Borough was made at either
of these meetings. The petition
was readied for circulation a few
days after the meeting with
('ease, when he explained neces
sary steps for petitioning and dis
cussed mandatory and local op
tion incorporation,
liomugh Boundary
The petition calls for incorpor
ation of an organized borough of
an arfa encompassing some 2,500
square miles or larger than the
state of Rhode Island or Dela
ware. It would include not only
Kepai. but North Kenai, Soldot
ijife- Stealing, Kasilof, C’ohoe and
Clam Gulch.
Boundaries for the most part
Would follow the present Kenai
Recording District Boundary and
on the south would meet the north
boundary of the proposed Ilomer
Ninjlchik Borough, petitions of
which were submitted several
weeks ago and for which a deci
sion has been expected daily for
the past couple of weeks.
The borough law demands that
there be signatures of at least 25
per cent of all qualified register
ed voters, wrho voted in the last
election from the city and also
25 per cent of the voters from
outlying areas be affixed to the
petition before it is submitted.
This will necessitate :>28 signa
tures, or 91 from within the Ke
nai city limits and 227 from out
lying communities. Those circulat
ing the petition say that more
than 200 signatures had been ob
tained as of Tuesday afternoon.
According to Exhibit “B" of the
petition, the proposed Kenai Bor
ough boundary would “start at
the northwest corner of the Chu
gAch National Forest where it
meets Turnagain Arm, follow' the
forest boundary south to the Ster
ling Highway, then follow the
Sterling Highway westerly to a
point directly north of the outlet
of Skilak Lake, thence g-o south
erly following1 the foothills ^to a
point south.of Tustumena Lake,
thence go westerly to and follow
ing the township line common to
TIN and TlS, thence continue to
a midpoint in Cook Inlet and
thence follow the midpoint of the
Inlet in a northerly direction to
an intersection with Turnagain
Arm, thenceforth follow the anid
line of Turnagain Arm to a point
directly north of the point of- be
ginning. thence go south t(^ the
point of beginning,”
Rushing Deadline
Ronald Cease,^director of the
Local Affairs Agency, in a'’meet
ing with approximately 150 per
sons attending the Peninsula-wide
meeting of the Kenai Peninsula
Borough Study Group at Soldot
na on April 28, said that the time
element was a problem in present
ing a petition before the May 15
deadline. Even if properly pre
pared, it would stand a 50-50
chance that it might fail and the
time and effort put out would be
wasted.
He advised that the time be
spent prior to coming borough
elections set between Oct. 1 and
Dec. 15 on studying the many vi
tal borough problems that will
confront borough residents after
the borough is formed. Boroughs
not organized by voluntary in
corporation prior to Oct. 1 will
be organized under the manda
tory provisions of HB 90 by or
der of the secretary of state
prior to Jan. 1, 1964 in elections
held before Dec. 15, 1966.
The Kenai City Council, in
their regular session last Wed
nesday 'discussed but took no of
ficial action concerning the ‘'Ke
nai Borough’’ petition which was
put into circulation last week in
a surprise move by a group of Ke
nai City residents.
Inside the city limits of Kenai
Kenai Woman
Is Administrator
Of New Hospital
Mrs. Helen Keppel, R.N. of Ke
nai and Phoenix, Ariz.. has ac
cepted a position as administrator
id the new ( reekside Hospital in
Walnut ('reek, Calif. Mrs. Keppel,
wife of Melvin J. Keppel, was a
i esident of Kenai for five years
and still has a home on North Ke
nai Road.
Mrs. Keppel has been director
of ntirses at Memorial Hospital
in Phoenix and opened the first
training school for nurses there,
opening and organizing the hospi
tal in 1944. In 1900, she organized
the new Maryvale Community
Hospital in Phoenix unu served
as director for two years.
The former Kenai resident is a
graduate of DePaul Hospital in
St. Louis, Mo., and attended
Wayne University in Detroit,
where she obtained her degree in
nursing education. She has been
active in the Arizona State Nurs
es Assoc, and served on the board
of directors for that organization
and is also a member of the Am
erican Nurses Assoc.
Mis. Keppel assumed her new
duties in Walnut Creek on May 6.
the petitioners had garnered the
required 25c 0f signatures.
As the < heechako News went to
press, the petitioners still did not
have the required number of sig
natures (250 of the persons vot
ing iii the last election) outside of
Kenai. although they had more
than the 91 required within the
City limits.
A brief and necessarily incom
plete opinion survey within the
< ity revealed a mixed reaction
with some tor and some against.
Outside the City of Kenai, a simi
lar survey indicated that the ma
jority were opposed.
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TRl Y1PETKK SWAN'S
Trumpeter swans on the Kenaj
National Moose Range in Septem
if 59 was recorded and 25 nests
spotted.
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