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Page SitkaSentinel, Sitka, Alaska, Monday, October 21,1996 Sitka Residerit Harry P. Doughman Dies in Washington ti fi ft ai le V( se fir CJ fa en be scl YJ be 28 26 Sitka resident Harry Perry Doughman, 67, died Oct. 7 in Seattle. Graveside rites of committal were held Oct 19 at Peaceful Hill Cemetery in Naselle, Wash. A reception followed at the Naselle Assembly of God Church.

Mr. Doughman was born on April 29, 1929, in Ohio, the son of Ada and Mary (Lake) Doughman. He spent his early years in Ohio where he also received his schooling. Mr. Doughman later moved to Seattle where he worked as a mechanic for Boeing Aircraft for 20 years.

He moved to Naselle in 1969 and on Dec. 31, 1970, he married Tarja Varila. They lived at Naselle and later moved to Sitka where Mr. Doughman worked in the seafood industry until his death. He was an avid reader.

His wife will remember him as her best friend and companion. Mr. Doughman is survived by his wife Tarja and four children from a previous marriage. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Mary Hellena Doughman, in 1973. Arrangements were by Penttila's Chapel by the Sea, Long Beach, Wash.

Nun Who Helped Jiineau's Seniors Dies of Cancer JUNEAU (AP) Mass will be held Tuesday at Juneau's Cathedral of the Nativity for a Roman Catholic nun, credited with launching many of Juneau's senior citizen programs. Sister Patrick Mary Prevost died of cancer-related complications Oct. 16 in Troy, N. Y. at the age of 50.

Sister Patrick worked in Jimeau for 14 years before leaving in 1987. helped establish three senior centers, a Care-a-Van service, served as director of the St. Ann's Care Cen- Mef and established an adult day care program for the frail elderly no longer capable of living alone. "She was the senior program, she really was," said Pat Denny, retired executive director of Catholic Community Services. "She would storm City Hall with a group of senior citizens when they wanted something done." Sister Patrick laughed frequently, dressed up as Tweety Bird for Halloween and the Fourth of July parade, and turned heads by cross-country skiing in her habit because "they're ive oaiikclothes She was called back, to in; 19 87 to serve as principal and local superior of Saint Helen's School and was diagnosed with cancer two years later.

Piggott, assistant executive director for Catholic Community Services, recalled Sister Patrick's last day in Juneau. "I asked her one thing that she did not get to do in Juneau that she always wanted to do," he said. "The very last day, she sashayed through the door in her full habit into the' Red Dog (Saloon.) We had a of beer and we talked about the good things that happened to her in Juneau." Free Firewood Made Available The Sitka Ranger District will offer firewood to the public OcL 26 and 27, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.mi, at the Sawmill Creek Campground area. The available firewood is left over material from the recent hazard tree removal and salvage project.

The wood available is dead and down material, no trees are to be failed unless designated by the U.S. Forest Service personnel, a news release from the district stated. There will be no fee and permits are not required. Forest Service personnel will be on hand both days to provide information and assistance. The Forest Service stated that the firewood is designated for personal use only and is not to be sold, traded or bartered for commercial or private ventures.

Those needing further information can call Eric VanCise or Paul Matter, weekdays, at the Sitka Ranger District, 747-6671. Pair of Alaska Inmates Escape Arizona Prisbii Glass Program Startis Series FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) Two Alaskans a convicted murderer and a sexual offender remained at large today after breaking out of a private Arizona prison with four other Alaska inmates who later were caught. Leslie Simpson, 28, and Edward Martin, 54, were among a dozen Alaska inmates originally involved in an escape scheme that was carried out Saturday night. The prison" break came at the Central Arizona Detention Center in Florence, an Arizona city of 8,000 people.

Simpson had been convicted of fatally beating his wife five years ago, and Martin had been imprisoned for the attempted sexual abuse of a minor. Authorities believe they may have hitched a ride out of the area. Six of the inmates were caught inside the prison fence. Fugitives Douglas Armey and Mark Hartvigsen were captured after a farmer spotted them walking through a field. They told reporters they had stolen a file from the prison shop and used it to cut through the fences Saturday night.

Roger Gartin, a convicted murderer, and convicted burglar Ryan Staley were captured at a convenience store in Florence, 45 miles southeast of Phoenix, along with a woman charged with aiding and abetting the escape authorities said. Hartvigseh said he and Armey didn't like the penitentiary and wanted tp serve their time at the Maricopa County Jail in Phoenix. "We planned on getting recaptured. We got it into our heads that we were going to walk and not do any crimes and get to the protection of County. And we made it," he said Sunday.

The state of Alaska pays a private contractor more than $4.4 million a year to house 206 of its inmates. The state ships some of its prisoners to Arizona because of a court order to relieve prison overcrowding in-Alaska. v. is being to search for the two men who have not been found," said. Susan Hart, a spokeswoman for Corporation of America, the Nashville, company that operates the' "We're still trying to: find exactly happened," she.

told the Anchorage Daily News. ''IfVthere's anything tp correct, we it. But at this point, it's premature to make any assumptions about what went wrong." The 12 Alaskans in the escape plot were among 40 prisoners exercising in the recreational of the medium- security prison Saturday evening; said Alaska deputy Corrections commissioner Bill Parker, who arrived on Sunday. The facility's alarms went off several times before the guards found nothing.out of theTordi- nary when they went to check, Parker said. Around 6:40 p.m.

Alaska inmates cut through the firit of three fences surrounding the prison. Six of the inmates-- convicted murderers were caught at that point, but the other six cut through two more fences and fled into the desert. Florence police, dogs and helicopters searched five miles of desert surrounding the prison, police dispatcher Andrea Ortega said. The returned escapees couid face as much as six additional years iri prison, said Alaska Corrections Commissioner Margaret Pugh. Adak School Supt.

Faces Charges Over Spending ANCHORAGE (AP) The former superintendent of the now-closed Adak school district is facing formal ethics complaints over his spending and travel. The director of a state cpmmission that polices ethics for school teachers and administrators filed a formal accusation Friday against Ed Gilley, asking that his administrator's certificate be revoked. Js accused of using district- money to travel around the country at no benefit to the district, and improper spending on items such as laundry, jewelry and tuxedo rentals. The complaint also accuses him of over-reporting his income to the state teacher's retirement system to increase his retirement pay, and underreporting it to the Internal Revenue Service. The accusation, signed by Sanna Green, executive director of the Professional Teaching Practices Commission, will lead to a hearing before the commission if Gilley contests the charges.

Gilley, who now is superintendent of Kashunamiut School District in Chevak, told the anchorage Daily News Friday that he will have no comment until after the commission hearing, which has not been scheduled. "I intend to respond to charges before the PTPC," he said. The charges add up to allegations that he broke laws and regulations and violated ethical standards in five areas, including: Inappropriate spending after learning in November 1993 that the Adak school system would lose all its students because the Navy planned to send all military dependents off the island and eventually close its naval station there. Gilley is accused of negotiating salary increases and bonuses for himself while cutting the number of days he was obligated to work each year. Poor accounting practices, including over-reporting Gilley's income to the retirement system and under-reporting his own compensation and that of 10 other employees to the IRS.

Hiring and over-compensating an unqualified person Joyce Hunt, who joined the district as general la- borer in 1994 and left as acting business manager this June. Using his job for personal gain. This hiring his stepson, Gary Giddens, and his wife, without prior School Board approval; collecting $10,000 in lieu of moving expenses, but then having district workers pack and mail household items at district expense; charging his laundry expenses to the district; charging itfee district S55 for a tuxedo that he to the Anchorage Chamber of Conv merce Gold Pan Awards in September of 1995; and charging $84.75 for anV other tuxedo and jewelry rental white in Washington, D.C., in August 19957 The last students left the Adak Re. gion School District in June 1994. Though it was a small system with only 700 students at its peak, it took, district officials two years after the students were gone to distribute assets to other districts around Alaska and to shut down district offices.

The district collected about $2.5 million in federal money over the last two years, and applied for more federal funds in 1996. But federal officials decided this spring that Adak was no longer eligible. After that, the state Department of Education began looking into Adak's finances, and wjent to court in June to force the district to close and turn over its records to the state. SUkk; Daii' Newman and Ron McGlain; will; present a- program ri artist Dale Chihuly and the art of glass- blowingVas the first in a series of winter lectures hosted by Sheldon Jackson Museum. -v The free begins- at 7 p.m.

23 at the museum. Included will be a video on work, a discussion of the: artists' experience with the medium, arid a lecture about Chihuly's exhibition, 'Alaska Baskets," display at the museum throughNov. 21.. 1 Newman, a former Blatchiey MiiK die School volved with, me arts M.many years. In 1986, while doing work at San Francisco State University, he started the art of glass blowing.

He has since attended several giaiss schools nationwide and has worked with nationally known glass artist Robert Levin. i McGlairi, president of Wilmac Corp; and a former middle school sci-- ence teacher, has taken painting and drawing but interest is in sculpture. For- the past eight years he has focused on glass art In 199 1, Newman and McGIain founded the Edgecumbe Glass Studio. The two have made and maintained the studio's equipmeht. studio specializes in creating brie-of- a-kind works of art.

Newmari and McClairi hosted Chi-' huly's summer 1995 visit to Sitka as well. Khowles Appoints Two Tbfibard JUNEAU (AP) G6V. Tony Knowles appointed a McGrath man and a Gustavus man tatwo vacant spots on die Stke Board of Game. Greg Streveleii 55, of is a biologist, natural resource consultant and owner of Icy: Strait Environmental Services. Mike Fleagle, 37, of McGrath, is a heavy operator and mechanic.

with the state Department of Transportation. Knowles said both men are ly suited sit on the board by virtue of their long experience in' Alaska. The yV have experience and firsthand game issues that face Southeast and the Interior. Greg Streveler Mike Fleagle will bring a fresh perspective and leadership to me game Streyeier balance of exnire Jan. 31,1999.

The terms were )eft vacant when the legislature; failed. to approve two of KnoWles' previous appointees before the 19th legislative session ended. The board next meets in Sitka October 25 through 31. Expressive Arts Workshop Set The University of Alaska Southeast, Sitka campus, Office of Continuing Education, will offer training in expressive arts therapy 8:30 a.m.-4-30 p.m. Oct.

22. Jill Eisinger, C.E.T., will instruct. Cost wiil.be and a minimum of seven students must register by Oct 18 for the class to.be held. Yupik Remains Returned Home NOME (AP) The remains of 386 Yupiks unearthed by archeologists have been returned to St. Lawrence Island, the first such repatriation in the Bering Strait region.

The bodies had been removed from the island from the 1800s through the 1960s. Savoonga residents buried 92 sets of the remains earlier this month, and Gambeil plans a ceremony for other remains when weather permits. Gerald Soonagrook, Gambell's Indian Reorganization Act Council president, said the remains will be placed among the rocks of Sivuqaq Mountain east of the village. "The souls are tired from being away from their original burial sites, and the descendants from this village feel a completion, a peace," Soona- John Bursell, M.D. is pleased to announce the opening of his office located at 2211 North Jordan Juneau Alaska Specializing in: Rehabilitation Services Musculoskeletal Medicine Sports Medicine Treatment of Neurologic Neuromuscular Disorders Now accepting new patients please call (.907) 790-4129 for appointments.

grook said. The remains were stored in' the University of Alaska Fairbanks museum and handled by Gary Selinger, who helped village officials with'the; repatriation efforts. Vera Metcalf of Bering Straits Native Corp. said Selinger fought wiui the Bureau of Land Management to gain the release of the remains. Selinger said the BLM objected to the return of some items found with' the remains.

Metcalf said the remains have taken a long road back to Saint Lawrence, and are being returned now thanks to the Native American Graves protection Act of 1990. "These remains were taken without the permission of the community or the elders," she said. "It is good that the communities are involved to mend the wrongs of the past It is time the children and villagers and young adults learn more about their culture through the return of these objects." Funerary objects included with the remains will be stored at the UAF museum until the villages have regional archive. Charter School Teleconference On The Department of Education will hold a hearing on the charter school effort in Alaska 7 p.m. Oct.

24. Those participating will have a three minute period to respond to three basic questions: What is working as it relates to the charter school statute and regulations? What is not working? What specific changes, if any, would make them better? Those interested may hear the teleconference at the Sitka Legislative Information office, located at 210 Lake Street. Sta To (AP) State Rep. hias admitted. cheatuig on his wife with a while oh state business in Colorado twoyearsago.

The Anchorage Republican, first elected in 1992, told KflJli-TV Saturday that he had a confessed to bis wife and tried to put it behind him. r. who is facing Democrat Dorothy Garrett for re-electioni ruled from would who are hurt family "by Rumors of the affair were whispered abojit in Alaska political circles for were made public, last by: government watchdog group that mailed information to vbt- ere House District 23. affair was documented 'Ji- vor 6 Papers the woman filed in Wyomirigi and Mulder named as her lover. Her name was hot available and a message.left at Mulder's house' night- was hot immediately returned.

GarTett told the televisipii stationed ANCHORAGE y.s; Senate candidate has -failed the bar exam for the22hdtime. The Alaska Dar'ex- am Fjiday, Obermeyer was.niot list applicants who the test There were 66'people; Aynp; makihg the success rate 71 percent: Theresa Obemieyer -the; Demov cratic; U.S. Senate seat now occupied-by: Ted Stevens, and a former member of the Aiichbr- age School' B6ard. She has contended that a consph-acy led by Stevens is keeping her husband from passing the bar exam and becoming a practicing attorney. Admits on State frip she had not seen the divorce papers and was not behind their being made public.

vBut she said 'Mulder's troubles ''It's: quesuonmg, his judgenoenL of.atSl, his personal judgement, being rinyoiyed inany thing -this, and number two, then wharkind of judgement does when he's a legislator?" Garrett asked, not the first time Mulder's ethics have been a citizen activist complained that! Miit- Jurieaii state office for persphal business and that the lawmaker benefiting from lobbying activities, V. The House's "ethics panel; cleared hirri last yeir He improperly profited from his-! wife's work. It found aJlowihg her to use has office but only required him. to ethics uriteers ih'his reimbursed the stete fbr his wife's business calls; Mulder has apprdached the state ethics panel about this latest His' trip to Golbradp cost taxpayers paid thatirioney backi- The ethics board.has 3Q days cide if he violated Vsfete rules by cbmrnitting adultery while" on 'the trip. Youth Itidloor Soccer Slated Saturday's scheduled Youth Indoor Soccer games include the following.

Kindergarten games arei at.9 Blatchiey gym. First grade, itf a.m., second grade; 11; irii; Blatchiey, and 2 p.m. at Sterstoyia; third-grade, noon, Blatchiey; fourth grade, 1 p.m., Blatchiey; fifth graded 2 p.m., Etolin gyin; and sixth through. eighth grades, 2 Blatchiey. Those needing further information can call Sitka Community School at 747-8670.

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