Kaknu Toastmasters Cliib
Elects Hoover President
Organization of a Toastmasters
Club in the Kei.ai-'Soldotna area
was completed, a charter signed,
a club name selected and officers
elected at a meeting held March
9 at Riverside House, Soldotna.
Winford A* Hoover, school su
perintendent at Kenai.who helper!
spearhead the movement and has
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been temporary chairman, was
elected president.
Others elected are James S.
Gibson, Kenai, educational vice
president; Richard T. Hall, Sol
dotna, administrative vice presi
dent; Francis J. Hall. Sterling,
secretary; George Denison, Ridge
way, treasurer, and J* E, Mc
Guire, Kenai, sergeant at aims.
Twenty signed as charter mem
bers and, in addition to Hoover,
Gibson, -Dick” Hall, “Fritz” Hall,
Denison and McGuire, are I. M.
(Monty) Coleman, Lyman Mc
Bride, Jess H. Nicholas, Jr., Rob
ert L, Puckett. John B. Hakala,
Clifton F. Cline, Glenn J. Kipp,
Aver ill S. Thayer, Richard Ru
betrg, David L. Spencer am! Had
ley V. Parsons, all of Kenai; Ar
thur L. Jess, Jr., and Wayne E.
Hagerty, Soldotna, and James D.
Clark, Wildwood Station,
Three names for the club were
submitted for consideration and
were “Midnight Sons,” “Kaknu”
am! Kenai-Soldotna Toastmasters
Club."
“Kaknu,” a Russian word mean
ing driver village” was deemed
especially fitting as this section
of the Kenai Peninsula was one
of the first to be settled by the
Russians long before Alaska was
purchased by the United States,
“Kaknu” was chosen as club
name,
A sample program was pre
sented which included Bob Puck
3-Act
Comedy
WITH REM LIVE ACTORS
“STARS IN
THEIR EYES”
-„ 2 VERFORM ANCES
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Community Hall
March 31
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Shower Honors
Bride-To-Be
A pre-nuptial shower honoring
Miss Dixie Lee Suthard, bride
elect of Jerry Gibson, took place
on the evening of March Tt in
the home of Mrs. Edward Teague
of Weaver Bros, camp near Sol
datna. Co-hostesses were Mrs,
Jack Weaver and Mrs. Teague.
Guests included Mrs. Tom
Suthard, mother of the bride-to
be; Mrs. Sam Gibson, mother of
the prospective bridegroom, Mrs.
Jim McCoy, Mrs. Frank Char,
Mrs. Teresa Hennelbarth, Mrs.
Paul Wiemer, Toni Holt, Judy
ami Jewel Franklin, Mary Lou
Grainge and Coleen Murdock.
Refreshments included, a while
layer cake baked by Marian
Friekey and decorated with pastel
lilacs and pink roses.
The wedding of the Soklotna
couple will be an event of this
Saturday night.
KEN AI—Visiting at. the home
of Mr, and Mrs. Everette Rowden
are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.
N, Mielstrom of Casper, Wyo.,
who arrived Sunday for an indefi
nite stay, Mielstrom, who Is a
cabinet maker by trade, is con
sidering opening up a shop in this
area.
ett as featured speaker, Fritz
HaH table topic chairman, Monty
Coleman as toastmaster and
George Denison as critic,
A full program will he planned
for future meetings and will in
clude three speakers, three critics,
table topics chairman, toastmas
ter and chief critic.
The organization will meet on
the second and fourth Friday
nights in each week with the com
ing dinner meeting set for 7 p.m
March 23 at Riverside House,
Soldotna.
Hospital Site
Meeting Is Set
Tuesday at Kenai
Site chairman of the Central
Kenai Peninsula Hospital Asso
ciation, Inc., James E. Fisher, an
nounced today that the next pub
lic hearing of the site committee
will be held at Kenai on March
27 at « p.m. in the Library Build
> g This meeting will he another
in the serif- of meetings which
have he«n held on the North Cen
tral Kenai Peninsula to determine
the at?it* de* regarding the sub
wot of a hospital rite,
“The tree for deciding on the
exact location ;? getting closer,”
the chairman said. "All persons
inters v-i in donating land for
the ho pital are reminded that the
considerate ■. dete mining loca
tion of a hospital are ** follows:
(1) Population concentration to
he served (including potential
growth for residential and indus
trial areas); (2) Natural beauty;
(2) Restrictions or zoning of ad
jacent uses; (4)- Size of approxi
mately 15 acres; (5) Adequate
sub-surface support for the hos
pital building's footings; (6)
Feasibility of on sit* sewage d tu
ps ■ al; 1 7 > The quantity and qual
ity of water available: (HE As
biv""< n. - e if po-.hle* ami
lir transportation; (9) Topo
graphy: (10) Cost"
Anybody wishing to make a
donation may obtain an option
form from Janies E, Fisher, site
chairman (Box H97, Kenai),
Cherts Building. Kenai, Alaska.
HOMER BOROUGH MEETING
HOMER—B. E. Uminski, chair
man of the Homer Borough Btudy
Group, has announced that a joint
meeting of (representatives of the
study group from the Kenai-Sol
dotna area ami various local bor
ough study groups is scheduled
for this Friday (March %&) at 8
p.m. at the Homestead on the east
road. Invited to attend are repre
sentatives of the Homer and An
chor Point Chambers of Com
merce, Nlnilchik Community Club,
PUD directors, Planning Commis
sion, Fritz Creek Civic League
Snd others interested in local gov
ernment. ,*,...-.,■,364"
Kenai Peninsula
Progress Report
ACTIVITY IN BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Mortuary Plans
Are Announced
Plans to establish a mortuary
service on the Kenai Peninsula
iare in the its akin s', according to
Hollis Henricks, Cordova post
master and owner-operator of the
Copper Delta Mortuary at Cor
dova.
Hendricks, Cordova resident far
the past’ 30 years, was a recent
visitor in Kenai, Soldotna and
other communities in the Penin
sula recently, conferring with
businessmen and looking over
possible sites.
The service will be Petiinsula
wide, Hendricks said, and he
hopes to have it in operation
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.sometime in May. Definite selec
tion of location will be announced
by him soon.
Hendricks does not plan to op
erate the Peninsula mortuary
himself. John R. Bacak. who is
coming to Alaska from Ohio in
April, will be in charge of the
mortuary establishment in this
area. Bacak reportedly has a
background of considerable train
ing ami experience and recently
acquired an Alaska license, Hen
dricks said.
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