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Profit Ranks High on Bering Strait’s Lemonade Day
Lemonade Day 2018 hit the Bering Strait Region with full force! With over 300 participants region wide, budding entrepreneurs all across the region opened for business just for a day selling lemonade, baked goods and much more! They sure brought in the [...]
Nome Summer Child Care OPEN starting June 11
Summer 2018 Full-time Child Care June 11-August 17 for children ages 3&4, from 7:45am-5:15pm Kawerak Head Start’s Uiviilat Play and Learn Child Care program is offering full-time Monday to Friday child care for children ages 3 and 4 year old. State Licensed Provided [...]
Walking Together, Walking for Life
Residents in Nome walked together in unity under sunny skies for the Annual Walk for Life on Friday June 9, hosted by Kawerak Wellness. The walk started off with an invigorating welcome performed by the Nome St. Lawrence Island Dancers. The beat [...]
Lemonade Day Nome Maps Released!
Make sure you get out on Saturday June 9th to support our young entrepreneurs by purchasing yummy treats, breakfast, lunch or dinner! Stands will be open around 10am-4pm, but each stand operates their own hours. See if you can get all locations! [...]
PRESS RELEASE: International Maritime Organization Approves Routing Measures and Areas To Be Avoided in the Bering Sea and Bering Strait
KAWERAK INC PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE • May 25, 2018 Contact: Austin Ahmasuk, Marine Advocate • (907) 443-4368 • aahmasuk@kawerak.org International Maritime Organization Approves Routing Measures and Areas To Be Avoided In the Bering Sea and Bering Strait As global shipping [...]
PRESS RELEASE: NSEDC, Kawerak & BSNC oppose mining in critical Norton Sound habitat
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE • May 22, 2018 Contact: Tyler Rhodes, COO / tyler@nsedc.com Brandon Ahmasuk, Kawerak, Inc. Subsistence Resources Program Director / Sub.dir@kawerak.org NSEDC, Kawerak & BSNC oppose mining in critical Norton Sound habitat Entities oppose mining in the Safety Sound, Bonanza [...]
Prepping the Next Generation of Business Leaders
On a beautiful Saturday afternoon in mid-May, dozens of Nome’s next generation of business leaders took time out of their day off from school to attend a Lemonade Day workshop to brush up on their entrepreneurial skills. Drew McCaan and John Smith [...]
Young Artist Earns Design on Katirvik Cultural Center Shirts
The first Katirvik Cultural Center t-shirt design competition could not have been more of a success! We were grateful for the many talented artists that took their time to craft a design that was meaningful to them and relevant to our beautiful [...]
Tribal Gathering
On April 16, 2018 children, families, tribal ICWA workers, and State OCS workers came together in honor of the tribal youth in the foster care system. This first-ever Tribal Gathering signified a special evening exemplifying unity and collaboration of people and groups [...]
Head Start Kids All Smiles AND Dance Back at School
May 17th was a joyful day for Nome Head Start, so joyful in fact that teacher Janet Balice and the kiddos in the Blueberry classroom were dancing and jumping with excitement (and for fun exercise!). The children were greeted with their smiling [...]
Inaugural Heavy Equipment Operation Class
Training on large equipment in rural Alaska is no easy task, but where there is a will, there is a way! Thanks to the cooperation between Kawerak and Northwest Alaska Career and Technical Education Center (NACTEC) as well as funding from an [...]
Kawerak Congratulates 2018 GED Grads!
May 10th 2018 marked a momentous day for 15 students of the General Education Diploma program with Kawerak's Community Education Department. Although they have earned their certificates before this date, they were able to don a cap and gown to be recognized [...]
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