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MEDIA CONTACTS:
Cassandra Stalzer, 907-334-0520, cstalzer@rasmuson.org
Taylor Bickford, 907-227-9718, taylorb@strategies360.com
ANCHORAGE, AK – Plan4Alaska, a project of the Rasmuson Foundation, will host town hall meetings in Palmer and Kenai this week to talk with Alaskans about the state’s historic budget deficit.
My first memory is of my mother’s forefinger skimming beneath the words, “Once upon a time, in a faraway land, lived a beautiful princess named Snow White. She had skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony.”
Enter, with me, the art room at West Homer Elementary School, where Halibut Cove artist Annette Bellamy is slicing up slabs of clay in preparation for a class in “exercises in imagination.”
And here come the kids–twenty-one third-graders, streaming into the room.
Haven House is a very special place here on the South Kenai Peninsula. Many lives are saved in this humble little clapboard building. Many lives are indeed begun anew. From personal experience (hey, all art is personal, right?) I have been impressed by the casual yet passionate way with which Peg Tileman (the former executive director featured here) and staff deal with domestic violence across all walks of life.