National Premises ID coming to rural Alaska

According to local first-hand reports, Copper River area farmers have already been "asked" to fill in these voluntary premise ID forms. What exactly does voluntary mean to a communitarian? One way to find out is to see how other places implement these voluntary type of programs.

Officials in North Carolina tied emergency purchases of hay to their new version of voluntary:

"Hay buyers must have an N.C. Farm ID Premises Identification Number. If you do not have one, download the registration form (PDF file), fill it out and bring it with you to a distribution site. This will start the Farm ID registration process and qualify you to purchase hay."
http://www.ncagr.com/HayAlert/EmergencyHay.htm

For local news and updates on the emerging National Animal IDentification System, visit Alaskans Against the NAIS, www.naisinfocentral.net

Mercantile's Christmas Dinner at Tonsina River Lodge

Kenny Lake Mercantile's Christmas 2007 Dinner Party

Tonsina River Lodge, AK. Hosted by Sharon and Jim.

Mix and mingle with a jingling beat...

Jack frost nipping at your nose..

Let's take that road before us and sing a chorus or twooo00..

There's a happy feeling nothing in the world can buy..

The holly green the ivy green the prettiest picture you've ever seen..

He knows if you've been bad or good...

In the air there's a feeling of Christmas...

This is Santa's big scene...

We three kings of Orient are..

City sidewalks, busy sidewalks, dressed in holiday style..

Rudolph the shinny gunned cowboy..

When they pass around the turkey and the pumpkin pie..

Away in a manger no crib for his bed.

These wonderful things are the things we remember all through our lives..

While sheppards watched their flock by night..

Ho ho ho.

The presents are scattered and broken I fear,
and St. Nikolaus won't come again for a year.

Thanks to Sharon and Jim for a wonderful time had by all.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hannakuh, and to all a goodnight!

Fun in the sun!

girls on bikes

climb every mountain, search high and low

The roof beams for GerTee.

Look how fast breakup came!

Northern Lights and a Full Moon! Whoohoo!

Northern Lights & full moon over Kenny Lake, Alaska

It's been a beautiful week in Kenny Lake! With temps rising above 40 degrees people are out and about. Lovely spring weather is pushing GerTee 2007 ahead of schedule. I'm thinking now of making this one the musuem and starting collecting items and creating an inventory asap.

We're almost ready to officially launch Sharondipity's Shopping Mall. Be sure to let us know if you have a business you'd like to add to our mall. We also need your local links, and anyone interested in learning to use our ezsite program to upload to the website is welcome to come learn. Many of the community pages needs some TLC from local volunteers.

The website expands!

Sunset tonight over Kenny Lake and Mt. Blackburn

Lots of great new pages were added to the site this past week. I'd like to welcome all our new stores in Sharondipity's Shopping Mall (including my own!). We've got a lot of work left, not the least being putting out flyers describing the website, explaining the shopping mall plans, and expressing our hopes and goals for marketing at kennylake.com. I've decided on three basic store formats depending on how much information you want on your page, and how to charge for additional pages on the sites that want to grow (adding new items and ebay auctions, etc.)

Tim Redington's newest dogsleds!