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Cooper Landing Gem

October 2018

Diamond in the Winter Emerald in the Summer

Cooper Landing

Chamber of

Commerce

& Visitors Bureau

Board Of Directors

Stephanie Lesmeister President

Jason’s Guide Service [email protected]

Angel Bond President Elect

Kenai Princess Lodge 598-1001

Shirley Wilmoth Treasurer

The Hutch B&B 595-1270

Rose Hetrick Secretary

Inn at Tern Lake 288-3667

Cheryle James Member

Wildman’s 598-1007

Dusty Byrd Member

Alaska Troutfitters 595-1212

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Chamber of Commerce PO Box 809

Cooper Landing, Alaska 99572 [email protected]

Newsletter/Admin Yvette Galbraith 230-3055

[email protected]

Dear Chamber Members,

We’d like to congratulate all of our members for making it thru the

busy 2018 summer season! Be sure to join us for our Fall Social Mixer,

this Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018 at 4:30 to 6:30 pm at Sunrise Inn.

Current members, new members and those wishing to re-join are

welcome to attend, as well as those who advertised in our Upper

Kenai Visitor Guide from Hope and Moose Pass. We will have

appetizers for all and one free drink per membership. Come and

partake in the fun!

Stephanie Lesmeister, President

2019 Cooper Landing Chamber

Membership Renewal Campaign

Membership Dues and Ad Placements are to be paid by

Oct 31, 2018 to be included in 2019 Upper Kenai Visitor

Guide. All updates and changes to your listings need to

be in by this date as well!

Invoices were mailed out to all current members in their 2019

Cooper Landing Membership Renewal and Upper Kenai Visitors

Guide Advertising Packets. If you have not received yours contact

the chamber today at [email protected]!

Cooper Landing Chamber of Commerce Community Events Happening in the Landing

Cooper Landing Emergency Services

Monday, October 1st, 2018 at 6:00 pm

Cooper Landing Fire Hall

Cooper Landing Seniors Citizens Corporation Inc. Board Meeting

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018 at 1:30 pm

Helen Gwin Commons

Cooper Landing Chamber Social Fall Mixer

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2018 at 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Sunrise Inn

Cooper Landing Chamber of Commerce

Monday, October 8th, 2018

10:30 Board Meeting

12:00 Membership Meeting

Sunrise Inn & Café

Cooper Landing Advisory Planning Committee

Wednesday, October 10th, 2018 at 6:00 pm

Cooper Landing Community Hall

Cooper Landing Library Sweepstakes

Saturday, November 3rd, 2018 at 6:00 pm

Sunrise Inn

Cooper Landing Community Club

Thursday, November 8th, 2018 at 6:00 pm

Cooper Landing Community Hall

Cooper Landing Community Club October Update

The September Community Club meeting was well attended. It was nice

to see everyone after the summer season. At the meeting we heard

updates from the Walkables Group and the Gun Club regarding their

ongoing projects and had a special visit from Senator Micciche. Two

board seats are available this year and Yvette Galbraith and Jamie

Hilton were nominated to become our new board members. Thank you

both for your interest in joining the Community Club!

There was much discussion about the Community Assistance Program and funds will be

dispersed to all groups who sent in requests. CLAPC reported about the Borough’s Hazards

discussions and how residents can weigh in with their concerns. Our Cooper Landing Youth

Group received a grant from the Kenai Mountain Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area for

their upcoming Storytelling Project. This project will provide an opportunity for the youth to

connect with the elders in their community and will give them a chance to document the

town’s history. The goal of this project is to preserve and share the memories of the people

who have shaped the community of Cooper Landing. Look for more detailed information

in the coming months.

Our next community club meeting is November 8th at 6:00 pm. Please notify Kristine (Krissy)

Route of any agenda items you’d like to add. Contact us at cooperlandingcommuni-

[email protected]. Happy Halloween!! Thank you,

Krissy Route,President

Cooper Landing

School Holiday Market

Saturday, November 17, 2018

Save the date! Contact Virginia at [email protected]

if you are interested in renting a vendor

space.

Cooper Landing Community School

Lap Walking & Independent Workout: Monday through Friday, when

school is in session, Cooper Landing School, 7:30am-8:45am. Utilize

the gym for walking laps or using the school's workout equip-

ment. Please wipe down equipment/mats after use with provided

supplies. Adults only, please.

Tot Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, when school is in session, at

Cooper Landing School, 11am-12pm. Bring the toddlers out to run in

the gym and work off some energy.

Chess Club: Mondays, beginning November 5, Cooper Landing School, 3:15pm. Available

to school-aged children, who are interested in playing chess and sharpening their

skills. Adults are welcome to attend and play a match against a learning student. For

questions, call Gary at 595-3055.

Ashtanga Yoga: Cooper Landing Community Hall. Cost $10 per class or 10 classes for

$70. Tuesdays & Wednesdays 9:30-11:00 (flexible start time), independent practice. Thursday

9:30-10:30 (class starts promptly at 9:30 am), verbally guided group class. Call/text/email

Tanisha Walters for more information, 303-482-7176 or [email protected]

Volleyball: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6pm, Cooper Landing School. Please wear clean,

non-markable shoes. Adults only.

Preschool: Cooper Landing School, Thursdays, 10:00-noon. Ages 3-5 come join us for

hands-on learning and collaborative play. Contact Paige Booze

at [email protected] or 907-422-7462.

A completed registration/liability form is required for participation in all events above.

Printed copies available at the school.

Cooper Landing Senior Links

The Cooper Landing Seniors would like to thank

everyone in the community for coming out to support

our Soup Supper and Pancake Breakfast fundraisers. Your support helped

make these events fun and successful!

We would also like to extend our thanks to the many volunteers and

donors that made these events possible. You are an amazing team of

people and greatly

appreciated!

The Sexy Senior Dumpster Cleaners would like

to thank everyone that came out for the Adopt

-A- Highway 2018 Fall Cleanup. Fourteen

volunteers cleaned up 23 bags of trash

between mileposts 41-44 on the Sterling

Highway.

Cooper Landing Historical Society & Museum Lee Post gave a super natural history program at the museum

on Saturday,Sept. 29th after a general membership meeting.

Showing slides of his work “building bones” of many years in

Alaska and the Lower 48, including the museum’s Dead Bear

Walking, Lee included much more in his program than describing attaching one bone to

another.

Take offshore killer whales, for instance. I hadn’t even heard about the offshore orcas and

the differences between them and resident and transient orcas before Lee showed us the

broken bones of one and the ground down teeth of another. The orca with the three ribs

broken at different times, in the same area, may have been deliberately injured by another

pod member. The ground down toothed orca was only 12 years old, a young one, but

these orcas eat sharks and sharkskin used to be used for sandpaper before sandpaper was

invented.

We saw many of the animals Lee and his students have worked on---- many sea mammals

and varieties of whales, wild and tame land mammals, and birds. Lee’s slides from receiv-

ing the dead animal, using one or more methods of removing the flesh and oil, bleaching

the bones, and articulating the skeletons were enhanced by his commentary on many

aspects of the work itself, the students who participated, and the individuals and entities

who shared space and resources.

Thanks to Lee for giving to the museum an updated “Building Bear Bones” book dedicated

to Sheryl and Ed Sotelo : “Super-teachers who pulled off the creation of a world-class

skeletal exhibit by recycling a record-sized brown bear. That project (pages 48-49) was

done with their elementary school students and community Volunteers. May enthusiasm

like theirs never die.” Thanks to Sheryl and Ed for our Dead Bear Walking! Mona Painter

Board of Directors: President Mona Painter, Vice-President and Acting Treasurer Bob Baldwin, Secretary Barb

Atkinson, and Ladonna Herbert, Ron Gravenhorst, and Al Fleetwood.

Lee Post at the Cooper Landing Museum and page 51 in his Building Bear Bones revised edition now with

bear/human hand and foot bone comparisons.

Cooper Landing Community Library Sweepstakes Saturday, November 3rd, 2018

6:00 pm

Sunrise Inn & Café

We're approaching the end of summer (slowly) and the Library Fundraiser

tickets are now available. Tickets are $110 and available for purchase at

the library or with our volunteers. It's going to be another wonderful,

fun-filled evening, so be sure to get your tickets early on. Need not be

present to win!!

The 15th Annual Seward Music and Arts Festival October 5th, 6th, and 7th, 2018

Live music, performances, artisan vendors, food, kids & teen area, and a beer garden!

Community Activities

Sew & Sew Quilters Mondays 10 am Community Hall

Soldotna Shuttle Bus Wednesdays 8:30 am

After School Group Wed 3:30-5:30 pm CL Comm. Hall

Game Night Fridays 7 pm Helen Gwin Commons

Trap at Gun Club Sat at 12 pm

Volleyball Tues & Thurs 6 pm CL School

Cooper Landing Library

Fall Hours

Monday 1 - 3 pm

Tuesday 1 - 3 pm

Wednesday 1 - 5:30 pm

Thursday 12:30 - 5 pm Friday 12 pm - 3 pm

Saturday 11 am - 2 pm

Church Services

KL Baptist 11:00 am

Catholic 12:30 pm

CL Community Lutheran 9 am

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT

1 CLES Board

Meeting

6 pm @ CLFH

2 CLSCCI

Board Mtg.

1:30 pm @

Helen Gwin

Commons ______________________________________________________

CL Chamber

Fall Social

Mixer

4:30-6:30 pm

Sunrise

3 CL VFD

Training 6 pm

@ CLVFDH

4 5 6

7

8 CL Chamber

Meeting

10:30 am

Board

12:00 noon

Members @

Sunrise

9 10 CLAPC

Meeting 6 pm

@ CLCH _

11

12 13

14

15

16 17 PAC

Meeting

12:30 pm @

CLS ___________________________________________________

CL VFD

Training 6 pm

@ CLVFDH

18 19

20

21

22 23

24

25 26 27 Halloween

Costume

Party @

Sunrise

28

29 Nov Gem

Submissions

Due

30

31 Happy

Halloween!

Halloween

Parade @ 2

pm

CL School

1 Nov

2

3 Library

Sweepstakes

6 pm @

Sunrise Inn

October 2018

4 5 CL Chamber

Meeting

10:30 am

Board

12:00 noon

Members ___________________________________________________________

CLES Board

Meeting

6 pm @ CLFH

6 CLSCCI

Board Mtg.

1:30 pm @

Helen Gwin

Commons

7 CLAPC

Meeting 6 pm

@ CLCH ________________________

CL VFD

Training 6

pm @

CLVFDH

8 CL

Community

Club @

CLCH

6:00 pm

9

10

November Gem

Submissions Due

October 29th

2018 Cooper Landing Chamber of Commerce & CVB

Please support our local businesses!

5 Dogs Fishing 907/598-3525

Alaska Heavenly Lodge 907/599-0022

Alaska Horsemen Lodge 907/595-1806

Alaska Kenai Fishing for Fun 888/495-2194

Alaska Marketing Consultants 907/230-3055

Alaska Outdoor Woodstoves 907/598-1633

Alaska River Adventures 907/595-2000

Alaska Rivers Company 907/595-1226

Alaska Streamers 907/205-0000

Alaska Troutfitters 907/595-1212

Alaskan Angling Adventures LLC 907/595-3336

Angle 45 Adventures (Hope) 907/782-3175

Bean Creek Gallery 907/595-3488

Best Route Productions 303/570-2081

Blue Yeti Food Truck 907/231-6089

Boatman’s 907/202-1004

Camp K on Kenai Lake 907/279-3551

Conoco Phillips Alaska, Inc. (Anch.) 907/276-1215

Cooper Landing Brewery 907/276-5044

Cooper Landing Community Club 907/595-2169

Cooper Landing Community Library 907/595-1241

Cooper Landing Community School 907/595-1244

Cooper Landing Emergency Services 907/595-1800

Cooper Landing Fish Camp 907/595-3474

Cooper Landing Rifle & Sportsman’s Club

907/599-0004

Cooper Landing Historical Society 907/598-1042

Cooper Landing Senior Citizens Corp. 907/595-3000

Eagle Landing Resort 907/595-1213

First National Bank Alaska (Sold.) 907/260-6000

Fish & Sons Kenai Charters 907/598-1065

Gwin’s Lodge 907/595-1266

Harbor 360 Hotel (Seward) 888/514-8687

Hotel Seward/A Cabin on the Cliff 907/224-8001

Inn at Tern Lake (MP) 907/288-3667

Jason’s Guide Service 907/351-3036

Kahtnu Spirit Lodging 907/299-2855

Kenai Cache Outfitters 907/595-1401

Kenai Kayak Company 907/521-0244

KPB Mayor –Charlie Pierce (Sold.) 800/478-4441

KPBSD Superintendent Sean Dusek 907/714-8836

Kenai Peninsula Econ. Dev. Dist. 907/283-3335

Kenai Princess Wilderness Lodge 907/595-1425

Kenai River Drifters Lodge 907/595-5555

Kenai River Float-n-Fish, Llc 907/595-3505

Kenai River Fly Fishing 907/598-1400

Kenai River Day Trips &

Kenai Riverside Lodge 800/334-8730

Kenai Riverside Campground/

RV Park/B&B 907/595-1406

Kenai River Trout Anglers 907/599-0085

Kenai Watershed Forum 907/265-5412

Kim’s Essential Oils & Gifts 815/751-7959

Major Marine Tours (Seward) 907/274-7300

Mystic Waters Fly Fishing 509/715-9697

Professional Testing-Carrie Williams 907/598-1633

Prospector John’s Pan for Gold 907/598-1808

Salmon Run Lodge 907/595-2197

Seramur Home Services 907/599-0019

Spruce Moose Chalets 907/677-7543

Stevenson Retreat 907/240-1113

Sunrise Inn & Café 907/595-1222

Talon Air Service, Inc. (Sold.) 907/262-8899

The Hutch Bed & Breakfast 907/595-1270

Upper Kenai Cabins 907/595-3055

Wells Fargo (Sold.) 907/262-4435

Wildman TR Inc. 907/595-1456

Wildman’s Hours

Open 7 Days a Week

7:00 am to 11:00 pm

Come in and eat lunch

with us or take it to go!

Enjoy Wildman’s awesome

chicken fingers, fries and ice cream!