{"id":290,"date":"2010-01-21T14:30:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T23:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=290"},"modified":"2010-11-17T16:20:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T01:20:25","slug":"pelican-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Pelican Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Senator-with-General-Katkus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-294\" title=\"Senator with General Katkus\" src=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Senator-with-General-Katkus-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Senator-with-General-Katkus-244x300.jpg 244w, http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Senator-with-General-Katkus.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a>I met with General Thomas Katkus of the Alaska Department of Military &amp; Veterans Affairs today to get an update on the situation in the community of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pelican.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pelican<\/a>.\u00a0 Last summer was very difficult for Pelican.\u00a0 Heavy rain and flooding collapsed the flume that provides the community\u2019s water-supply and electricity.\u00a0 The flume also helped power the freezers at the Pelican Seafoods plant.\u00a0 Without power there was a risk that ammonia-based coolant could seep into the community.\u00a0 Governor Parnell issued an <a href=\"http:\/\/gov.state.ak.us\/admin-orders\/251.html\" target=\"_blank\">Administrative Order<\/a> making <a href=\"http:\/\/aprn.org\/2009\/10\/15\/pelican-gets-disaster-relief-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\">disaster relief<\/a> funding available to the community and instructed DMVA to assist with emergency repairs of the flume.<\/p>\n<p>I worked with local leaders and the administration in response to this situation, and visited the Pelican this past fall to see the recovery work.\u00a0 While there has been progress, there is still much to be done.\u00a0 It was good to hear an update on the community\u2019s recovery, and I\u2019ve encouraged the City of Pelican and the Kake Tribal Corporation to continue working together to find solutions to these issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met with General Thomas Katkus of the Alaska Department of Military &#038; Veterans Affairs today to get an update on the situation in the community of Pelican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,4],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bert-stedman","tag-pelican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}