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Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Feb. 16 – 22

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Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Feb. 16 – 22

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council at JAHC.org for more details on this week’s happenings.

Fred LaPlante serves the Juneau community as the pastor of the Juneau Church of the Nazarene. He is passionate about encouraging others to see life more clearly through faith in God’s Word.

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Living and Growing: Love listens first

‘Loving people well requires more than speaking clearly; it requires listening carefully.’

Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Feb. 9 – 15

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Juneau Community Calendar

Weekly events guide: Feb. 9 – 15

Jeff Lund/contributed The author would rather fish for steelhead, but he’ll watch the Super Bowl.

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I Went to the Woods: Super Bowl spectacle

At some point on Sunday, dopey characters, hopelessly addicted to Doritos, will let others down by crunching their…

Peggy McKee Barnhill (Courtesy photo)

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Gimme a Smile: How much snow can one backyard hold?

Snow, snow, everywhere, and no place to put it!

The Spruce Root team gathers for a retreat in Sitka. Spruce Root, is an Indigenous institution that provides all Southeast Alaskans with access to business development resources. (Photo by Lione Clare)

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Woven Peoples and Places: Wealth lives in our communities

Sustainable Southeast Partnership reflects on a values-aligned approach to financial wellness.

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Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Feb. 2 – Feb. 8

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council at JAHC.org for more details on this week’s happenings.

Actors in These Birds, a play inspired by death, flowers and Farkle, hold ‘flowers’ during a performance at the UAS Egan Library on Saturday, Jan. 31. (photo courtesy Claire Richardson)

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Living and Growing: Why stories of living and dying in Juneau matter

What if we gave our town a safe space to talk about living and dying with family and…

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Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Jan. 26 – Feb. 1

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council at JAHC.org for more details on this week’s happenings.

Courtesy photo Adam Bauer of the Local Spiritual Assembly of Bahá’ís of Juneau.

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Living and Growing: Surfing into the future

Many religious traditions draw strength from the past.

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Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Jan. 19-25

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council at JAHC.org for more details on this week’s happenings.

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Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Jan. 12-18

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council at JAHC.org for more details on this week’s happenings.

Four members of the Riley Creek wolf pack, including the matriarch, “Riley,” dig a moose carcass frozen from creek ice in May 2016. National Park Service trail camera photo

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Alaska Science Forum: The Riley Creek pack’s sole survivor

Born in May, 2009, Riley first saw sunlight after crawling from a hole dug in the roots of…

Sun shines through the canopy in the Tongass National Forest. (Photo by Brian Logan/U.S. Forest Service)

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Opinion: Let’s start the New Year with an Alaskan-style wellness movement

Instead of simplified happiness and self-esteem, our Alaskan movement will seize the joy of duty.

January community calendar

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Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Jan. 5-11

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council at JAHC.org for more details on this week’s happenings.

Kaa Yahaayí Shkalneegi Muriel Reid photo In 2024, SSP’s Regional Catalysts attended and helped with the Kake Culture Camp hosted by the Organized Village of Kake. The goal was to be in community, grow our relationships, and identify opportunities to support community priorities determined by the community itself. In 2024, SSP’s Regional Catalysts attended and helped with the Kake Culture Camp hosted by the Organized Village of Kake. The goal was to be in community, grow our relationships, and identify opportunities to support community priorities determined by the community itself. (Ḵaa Yahaayí Shkalneegi Muriel Reid photo)

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Woven Peoples and Place: Don’t be an island, be amongst the people

Láaganaay Tsiits Git’anee and Shaelene Grace Moler reflect on celebrating values in action.

Fred La Plante is the pastor of the Juneau Church of the Nazarene. (Photo courtesy Fred La Plante)

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Living and Growing: You are not alone

Those words can pull us back toward hope, especially when we’ve just heard painful news.

The whale sculpture at Overstreet park breaches at sunrise on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (Mari Kanagy/Juneau Empire)

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Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Dec. 22-28

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council at JAHC.org for more details on this week’s happenings.

Jeff Lund photo The author practices in case he had the chance to be Jimmy from the 1986 movie Hoosiers. He never got the chance on the basketball floor, but had moments in life in which he needed to be clutch.

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Opinion: Everyone wants to be Jimmy

Sports, and the movie “Hoosiers,” can teach you lessons in life

Laura Rorem (courtesy photo)

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Living and Growing: Gracious, gentle power

Gracious power is grace expressed with kindness and mercy.