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LOCALStaff ReportsShow continuesSummer '95 Gatherings North continues through Aug. 25 at the University of Alaska Museum, offering visitors the chance to meet Native artisans demonstrating traditional and contemporary arts and craftsPoldine Carlo, a Koyukon Athabaskan elder, will demonstrate her fine beadworking skills today through Friday from 1-5 p.m. at the museum. Carlo is well known in the Interior as an author and for her beadwork, skin sewing and teaching. She helps museum visitors learn about the Athabaskan culture.Mary Jane Derendoff, a Koyukon Athabaskan originally from Huslia, will demonstrate her beadworking skills from Aug. 21-25. An educator, she works with Natives, teaching traditional lifestyle skills.Summer Gatherings North is supported by a grant from the city of Fairbanks hotel-motel bed taxfundRogers monumentA monument to Will Rogers will be dedicated at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Fort Wainwright.The monument will commemorate the arrival and departure point of the plane that took Rogers and his pilot, Wiley Post, to Barrow 60 years ago. Their plane crashed Aug. 15, 1935, outside Barrow.Guest speaker for the monument dedication will be Randy Acord.Also on the schedule will be a commemoration of the end of World War II. The war ended with “V-J Day,” Victory over Japan Day, on Aug. 14. 1945, in the United States, which was Aug. 15 in JapanGuest speaker will be Don iNelson.The event will be held bet- lt;ween the Chena River and Gaf- 1fney Road on the post, across from the emergency entrance to Bassett Army Hospital.The dedication is sponsored by the Pioneer Air Museum and the Fort Wainwright/Eielsoa'Fair-banks World War II Commemora- itive Community Committee. iHistoric show iTuesday marks the 1.000th lt;
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Fairbanks Daily News Miner
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Mon, Aug 14, 1995
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