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NEWS - IF YOU HAVE'NT READ ABOUT IT
IT'S NEWS TO YOU
DAILY COVERAGE:
The 2006 Serum Run is complete everyone is back home busy unpacking
and getting back to their regular lives. Watch for the photo gallery
posting as members of this years journey send in their photo logs.
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Counselors Luke Titus &
Fred John at the Old Minto Camp
recieve hand made blankets from Serum Run
Vice President Beth Wheeler.
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GIFT OF QUILTS:
Each year the CHETEK LUTHERAN WOMEN OF THE EVAGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH
OF AMERICA hand makes quilts for the Serum Run to give to the center
at Old Minto.
This year they managed to make 20 quilts. The ladies
get material scraps from all over, some donated, some they purchase
themselves. They works all year round. They work on the squares
at home then bring them to their circle meetings and tie and sew
the backing and batting. They are already working on next years
batch.
SERUM RUN 2006 KICKS OFF:
Carolyn Meugee-Vaughan recieves
the serum from the Alaska Railroad conductor, Don Wright at the
start of the 2006 Serum Run in Nenana, Alaska.
Using
History to Preserve the Future
Serum Run '25 is a dog team journey with snow machine support
across 768 miles of Alaska's frozen rivers, tundra and sea
ice from Nenana to Nome. The mission of this annual trip is
twofold. First, it is to commemorate the twenty men and their
dog teams who relayed crucial diphtheria serum to Nome, saving
countless lives. Second, and more importantly, it is to widen
the awareness throughout Alaska of the need for inoculations
for every single child and to stress important health issues
such as immunizations,
medical exams & cancer screening, tobacco cessation, accident
prevention, HIV awareness and drug and alcohol abstinence.
Mushers and their
snow machining partners along with over 150 sled dogs will retrace
the route of the original Serum Run. Stopping at each village
and school along the way, they will rekindle the spirit of the
Serum Run by bringing a message to school children and their
parents regarding the need for inoculations, awareness and making
healthy lifestyle choices.
It is important
to remember this story and keep it alive through our annual
1925 Serum Run to Nome. It is important to honor the men and
dogs that virtually saved the life of Nome. It is even more
important to honor our children by educating them about their
health. Learn about
Immunization.
MELLEN'S DOGS RUN FOR HER - Serum Run musher, Kurt Jokela
is preparing for this years trek across Alaska. Mellen Shea’s
dogs will be part of the team. Shea has been an integral part of the
Serum Run, working with the late Norman Vaughan to commemorate the
1925 effort to get life-saving diphtheria serum from Nenana to Nome.
Mellen
would like to be on the trail this year but she is now in a battle
for her life against cancer. While she undergoes treatment, Kurt and
Val Jokela care for her dogs.
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KTUU - WATCH
VIDEO COURTESY OF KTUUCH2
For copies of this broadcast call (907) 762-9595.
Food Drops:
We shipped a total of 14,549 pounds, that's 7.27 tons, of food and
straw. Every bag had to be weighted, labeled put on pallets and
then stretch wrapped. Click on any photo for a larger view.
Norman
Vaughan
Col Norman Vaughn passed away on the
23rd December 2005 in Anchorage, Alaska.
To learn more about Norman Vaughan and his life adventures
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In Loving Memory of Colonel Norman Vaughan - a tribute
to Normans' life & adventures by Shelly Gill
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Here (PDF)
Willow woman brings
Seppala dog back home
By PETER PORCO, The Associated Press
Published:
February 14th, 2005 ANCHORAGE
(AP) - He was a nothing dog. Maybe less than nothing, stuffed
and mounted without a name and a history. A handsome white Siberian
husky reduced to a curio in a roadside theme park in upstate New
York.When auctioned off last fall with other amusement-park items,
he was called "Alaskan Husky Dog Mount in Glass Case."But
one person knew his name and his story, a heroic tale from across
the decades.The stuffed dog languishing in New York was Fritz, a
key member of Leonhard Seppala's team that relayed serum for a diphtheria-ravaged
Nome in 1925, the "great race for mercy"
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here for full story
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MELLEN SHEA
It is with
a heavy heart that we report our friend and honorary musher
for the 2006 Serum Run, Mellen Shea, has lost her battle
with breast cancer. Free of her body now, Mellen is most
likely catching up to Norman Vaughan on the trail for
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Musher
Jim Lanier, Carrying Ashes of Colonel Norman Vaughan To
Nome
An Iditarod musher on the way to Nome this year
has something special in his sled bag. Musher Jim Lanier
is carrying the ashes of Colonel Norman Vaughan along
the trail in a memorial gesture to celebrate the life
of the famed adventurer.
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