Cross Country Meet
Saturday to Usher in
Kenai Sports Season
Kenai will host a cross coun
ity meet Saturday with fleet
looted runners from Wasilla and
Kenai, in competition for team
honors. This is one of the events
in what is called the Kenai Pen
insula Cross Country Champion
ship Races, although two of the
schools which are included in the
series are not actually located in
the Peninsula.
Schools which will participate
ir various races this season in
clude Homer, Kenai and possib
ly Ninilehik, on the Kenai Pen
insula, and Wasilla and Palmer,
both located north of Anchorage.
'There have been no definite en
tries scheduled from Ninilehik
as yet, according to Jim Evens
on, Kenai coach for the past
three years.
Saturday’s races will start t
2 p.m. with the Junior Varsity
competition to be followed by the
Varsity races. Kenai High
School’s new Pep Band will make
its first public appearance of
the season when it plays for the
crowd expected to attend the
event.
Each team will consist of sev
en boys. Over 30 runners are in
training at Kenai. The course
over which the run will be made
is approximately 21* miles in
length. The state cross country
meet is scheduled at Palmer
High School on Oct. 7.
“It is surprising, but some of
our fastest runners are from the
Freshman team,” Everson re
marked. He added that this cross
country training is an excellent
conditioner for boys to get in
shape for basketball games sche
duled later in the season. The
Kenai Peninsula is reported to
be one of the first areas to in
augurate this method of athletic
training.
Practice for basketball will be
gin on Oct. 15, with scheduled
games to begin about the middle
of November. Kenai’s first op
ponent will be the Wasilla cage
team with the game to be played
in Kenai.
Much interest also is being
shown in the possibility of or
ganizing a city basketball team
to be matched in competition
with teams from Wildwood Sta
tion and surrounding areas, Ev
erson said.
Peninsula C of C Council
To Seek Redevelopment Aid
A comprehensive plan for area
redevelopment in the Kenai Pen
in ula is to be considered by the
Kenai Peninsula Council of Cham
bers. The completed plan will be
piesented to the Area Redevelop
ment Act committee with a re
quest for financial assistance.
District 12, which includes the
entire peninsula, recently was
designated as eligible under ARA
for monetary aid in developing
the entire area.
Mrs. Gus Meyers of Homer,
secretary of the Council of Cham
bers, has announced that each
("- amber of Commerce on the
peninsula is to set up its own
committee to determine the spe
cific needs for developing the
particular area served by that
chamber. One member of each
On Lab Staff
Lynn Stetzer, daughter of Phil
Stetzer, has been spending sev
eial days with her father. She
recently graduated from the Uni
versity of Oregon Medical Col
lege, and will be returning to
Portland where she will join the
laboratory staff at Emmanuel
11 spital there.
Clam Diggers
Mr. and Mrs. William Stein
auer of Kenai spent the past
weekend in Homer where they
v ited friends, Mr. and Mrs. Joe
La Fon, and tried to do a little
clamming. The winds were too
strong to accomplish much along
that line, they said.
On Business Trip
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cumberland
of The Last Frontier in Kenai are
ir Anchorage on a business trip
for a few days.
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committee then is to be appointed
to a steering committee which
will evaluate the projects pre
sented by the various communi
ties and consolidate them into a
Peninsula-wide program to pre
sent to ARA.
Each chamber is asked to have
its committee appointed and in
action within 30 days of the last
Council meeting, which was held
in Anchor Point last week. Tihe
steering committee is scheduled
to meet sometime in November,
exact date and location to be an
nounced later.
Council officers, in addition to
the secretary, Mrs. Meyers, in
clude Jack Randall, Anchor Point,
president; and Howard Myhill,
Homer, vice president.
Homer Co-op Lists
37 New Consumers
The August issue of the Co-op
Newsletter, monthly publication
of the Homer Electric Associa
tion, Inc., has just been distrib
uted and lists 37 new consumers
added during July, several of
them from Kenai and Soldotna
area.
New members from Soldotna
are Ralph J. Belt, LeRoy Chaff
lin, John and Judy Hall, William
Hall, L. M. and N. Twila Heath,
Bayrene McIntosh, Orville and
Esther Phillips. Keith V. Rivers,
and Glenn and Eleanor Talbot.
From Kenai: Wesley and Alice
Connelly, Francis and Ila David
son, Charles Gagnon, George A.
Navarre, Vera and Jim Rhodes,
and Tommy Yee.
From Sterling: The Drilling
Control Corporation, Lee Herring,
and Roy M. Young.
From Clam Gulch: Alfred Ma
han, and A1 and Lois Marler.
P'rom Kasilof: Jack and Car
men Hatten, Thomas Hawkins,
ami Charley Watts.
From Ninilehik: Jack and Mari
lyn Splawn; and from Spenard,
John Sherritt.
P'rom Homer: Justine Bass,
David M. Cleaver, Robert De
Vere, Clarence Finch, Claude B.
Misner, Gary Presley, Gene and
Phyllis Rafferty, Harold A. Stark,
Jack and Pat Thompson, Tom
Teitjen, Glenn 0. Walker, and
Harry and Patricia Warner.
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