Overdue Halloween Pictures

Getting ready for the party!

This creature will hurt you.

Minute to win it games.

The Gypsy vs. The Lumberjack

This is what fun looks like in Chignik Bay.

Down, Set, Hike!

Fish and Wildlife visitors

            Mrs. Kresl’s class talked with Fish and Wildlife visitors.  We did lots of activities with them.  We touched animal furs like beaver, muskrat, land otter, and weasel.  We also played a migrating bird game.  Then, we learned about the Water Cycle.  We played a game where we pretended to turn into a water drop and went on a trip around the gym.  Next, we went for a walk outside to look for things that had water.  Then, we drew pictures of what we saw on our walk.  We saw monkey moths, fish, a rainbow, boats, a river, and waterfalls.  We had lots of fun!

 

Written by: Candace, Ella, Faith Ann, Kya, and Walt

Our Favorite Parts:

Candace & Faith Ann

“The Water Drop game was our favorite!

Kya

Playing the migrating game was the best!

Ella & Walt

I liked touching the animal skins the best!

School Lunches

School lunches!    

By: Babyboo  

Chignik Bay School has the best cook in the district. She is also my grandma. Minnie has been working for the school for quite some time now, off and on for about 25 years. All of the children in Chignik Bay have grown up eating her school lunches. She is one of the most talented cooks I know of. I am going to tell you about one of her best dishes.   

Students enjoying some real cooking!

Minnie makes the best barbeque chicken. My guess is she rubs the chicken with the barbeque sauce. The way she makes the sauce is good. It tastes sweet, sour, and a little bit spicy, but not too spicy. She never over cooks it either; it’s always so perfect. And when people are done with the chicken you can hear them licking their fingers because it’s so good and the sauce is so awesome they can’t get enough of it. When you get done eating you can feel that sticky sauce on your fingers.

Lunch time in Chignik Bay.

Minnie said she learned her good cooking skills from her mom, Annie. Her mom taught her how to make homemade bread when Minnie was only 8 years old. Try a piece of her homemade rolls or donuts and you can tell she’s been at it a long time.

If I were you, I wouldn’t wait any longer to eat Minnie’s cooking.

Note: Minnie is currently out of town and won’t be back until the end of November. We are anxiously awaiting her return!  

Sports Update

Nondalton Cross-Country Meet By Blazer

           

We left for our one and only cross-country meet on September 14, 2011. First thing we did when we got to Nondalton was put our stuff up in the boy’s area. Some of us played ball or relaxed and chatted with our friends until Ed told us what we were going to do next, which was go walk the course. So we all got ready and then had to wait until they gave the okay. It seemed to take forever just to walk the course. After walking the course we had dinner, played ball, and hung out with our friends. At 10 o’clock we had to get ready for be. “Lights out” was at 10:30, but no one went to bed until a little after 12 o’clock.

The next day we woke up at 6:40 am to take a shower. At 8 o’clock we all ate breakfast and then did an icebreaker. An icebreaker is something you do in the morning to get you pumped up and ready for the morning. The game was called “Hit the Deck.”  Later on we went into our leadership activities. One of the activities was about volunteering. Another thing we did was a community service project, which we were to fill potholes because one of the machines they normally use broke down a few years ago. The last activity we did was archery. Now that was my favorite class because I like shooting the bow. Also it is my favorite weapon.

The race was going to start later in the day, at 4:15 for the girls and 5:15 for the boys. In first and second place for the girls were Ayla Rickteroff from Newhalen and Alicia Hobson from Kokhanok. The first and second places for the boys were Johnathon Mckennet and William Clark, both from Port Alsworth.

The same day as the run we had a volleyball scrimmage. We made four teams and my team won them all. Our team name was The Dragonflies. After the volleyball scrimmage we had a dance. The dance was okay but I wasn’t there the whole time cause I was playing around with my friends somewhere else, having fun, playing tag or finding something to do. The last day there we cleaned up the school, where we slept and the areas our stuff was in. Then we had free time until the plane came to pick us up. That was fun.

Lunch on the Ferry

By Link

Waiting to board the Tustemena

  In the Summer, the ferry comes in every two weeks and they sometimes serve lunch, and man, if you have never tried an Alaskan hamburger then you need to come to Alaska and buy one from the ferry. The hamburgers are so delicious that when you eat one you won’t want to get up.

The ferry also does a pumpkin run once every year but the last few years they did not have enough money to come down this way. Whenever they bring in pumpkins and candy you can go on the ferry and pick out your own pumpkins. You can also get your picture taken if you are scary or funny. 

Students having lunch on board.

Cheeseburger, buddy.

 

The Water System in Chignik Bay

By Chevy Lover

The resevoir: our water source

The water system in Chignik Bay has two main connections from the Reservoir to the village. The pipes are about two miles long and run off in two different directions, one of which leads to the water tower while the other one goes to Trident. Back-up water is stored in the water tower in case the Reservoir pipe gets clogged. When that happens the tower feeds the back-up water to the village until the pipe is unclogged.

Outlet pipe

There is a trail that can take you up to the Reservoir. But be careful, it is about two miles long.  Once you get there you get a treat, which is the icy cold, tropical blue water. It tastes like glacier water, freezing cold and delightful.  

Icy cold glacial water.

The Reservoir was built in the early 70s or 80s. They put a concrete dam to block the water from rushing out of the lake too fast.  The lake has probably been around for 100,000 years, but I’m not sure if it was man made.  The bridge was built to access an electrical box that was built after the dam.

I will report more about this topic when I receive further information.

Elder Passed By: Elezebeth Denise

             Robert Livingston passed away at age 85 on September 26, 2011.We can say he lived a long, happy life. Bob was born in Independence, Kansas on May 26, 1927. He joined the U.S. army at 18, then came to Alaska in 1947, where he met and married his beloved Annabelle. Soon after, they moved to Cold Bay, Alaska, where they had three beautiful children. He moved to Chignik Bay, Alaska while working for power plant companies along the Alaska Peninsula.

He lived in Chignik surrounded by loving people. Bob was always social and concerned with the safety and well-being of the people of Chignik. No matter what, he would help a person with anything. He loved to help out at the school. Bob encouraged the children of the village to strive for more; he always had something good to say.

                                                    Rest In Peace

Robert Livingston

May 26, 1927 – September 26, 2011

The Regs for Moose Hunting in 9E

By Link

Unit 9E

You have to be 16 and have a tag to shoot a moose on your own. You can also shoot a moose if you are under age if you’re listed on your parent’s tag.

In hunting unit 9E we have from Port Moller to South Naknek all along the peninsula to hunt moose. We can go to a different place to hunt but we will need a different hunting tag. In my area we can shoot one bull but it must have a spike fork, or have 50-inch wide antlers, or have three or more brow tines.

           

According to Meghan Riley, a Fish and Game worker in King Salmon, in December there was 197 moose between Black Lake and Meshik: 56 bulls and 141 cows and calves.  That is good news for hunters. Fish and Game hopes to count at least 40 bulls for every 100 cows in 9E. For the 2010 survey year they counted 60 bulls for every 100 cows.

I hear that Black Lake and Meshik are the best places to go hunting for moose. There are some big bulls in Black Lake. I would like to go to Black Lake so I can shoot a moose.

Alaska Peninsula Moose

If you are ever over by Black Lake or Meshik, make sure you have a moose tag. If you get one, bring it in to town and we will barbecue it for you. We make the best barbecue moose in all the villages!         

              
For more information about hunting regulations go to http://hunt.alaska.gov

Sites to see in Chignik Bay

 By Alex Stepanoff


The trails in the Berry Flats were made so you don’t have to walk through the brush and be in danger of bears. The Berry Flats contain blueberries, cranberries, and blackberries. Not many people go berry picking as much as they used to because they come late, after summer is over with.  Kids with four wheelers and dirt bikes go riding on the trails and have fun. But it’s not only people that go through the Berry Flats. It is also a comfortable place for bears to stay.




The Lake, which is across the road from the Berry Flats, is a great spot for fishing, BBQ-ing, relaxing and swimming. It is a good somewhere-to-go or something-to- do on a nice and beautiful day. You can have fun with friends and family. You can build a bonfire and roast marshmallows.







Indian Creek is a wonderful creek to catch pink salmon in. They run up it in multitudes. We try not to catch the females so they can breed. Upstream a little ways is the reservoir that we get are supply of water from for the town.









Hole-in-the-Wall pretty much explains itself. A chunk of the mountain fell and now it is a short cliff face with a hole in the middle that leads to the other side. There has been tons of salt-water erosion to the walls, now smoothed down to a rounded point.

The First Day of Fishing By Roy Shangin

Grandpa Andy's boat the Sharon Dawn

            The first day of the 2011 Fishing Season was crazy because no one was ready and I wasn’t here at the Bay. We had a seven to eight hour boat ride from Perryville to Chignik. The time was three in the morning when I got to the Bay. After getting our net and block on board, my Grandpa Andy set off to start the opener at the sandbar for the first haul of the season.

            What I can remember of that morning is boats. Some were by us and some were at the upper bar. All the captains, skiffmen, and deckhands were waiting for the flair to go in the air. As soon as the flair was in the air, the boats and skiffs were all you could hear, with black in the air. The sound was loud and the jumpers were flying in and out of the water.

going really slow, boat full of reds!

In not even an hour we closed the net and began pulling it up on deck. I could see the fish swimming around, going crazy with their fins out of the water. I thought it was a small bag of fish until the fins from the fish came out of the water. The bag of fish was too big to bring on board so the deckhands and captain had to use a big net called a brailer (a special tote to bring big bags of fish on board). After the first haul of fish we put in my Grandpa Andy’s fishing boat, the fish-hole was half full.

Sunset leaving Perryville

I guess everyone had a very good day of fishing as well. By the end of the day I felt like my body was going to crash…and that was only the first day of the 2011 season.

Emergency Opener

By Caylen Kalmakoff

Fish and Game had to open the Chignik Bay salmon fishery early due to too many fish passing through the weir. Usually, fishing doesn’t start until the middle of June to early July but this year it started on June 3. No fisherman was expecting this to happen. I mean no one. The Fish and Game count limit is supposed to be forty thousand but there were too many fish going up the river. 20,000-30,000 salmon and more passed through the weir in a single day.

Cape Caution Tender

            This year there were over 50 boats fishing in the Chignik Bay fishery. The first week or two of fishing was so good that every boat was loaded full; some even had a big bag alongside. The kind of salmon caught here is red, “humpy”, king, dog and silver salmon. The others are good, but red salmon are the fish we want.

Fishing Net

            When Fish and Game announced that there would be an emergency opener, people started to scrabble all around. There were planes coming in full of passengers. After everything was said and done it meant money in their pockets. And it meant a lot more work, because the more fish they caught, the more work there was. The price for the fish this year was $1.20/lbs.  This fishing season was the best out of the past years so far.

Chignik Bay Pastries

Chignik bay donut shop

By  silace pounds

The Chignik Bay donut shop is closed for the winter. Owner Janis Carslon closed the store on August 19.

Carslon started the store in the summer of 1997. The usual months are June - August. She runs the bakery as a break from her normal job working at a childrens hospital in Seattle, Washington.

The line at the Chignik Donut Shop

The donut shop is well known for its donuts. It is a popular stop for everybody from fishermen to ferry travelers, and especially locals. The most popular donuts are maple bars, but she also sells cinnamon, glazed ,chocolate, sugar cake, and the fill donuts like lemon, cherry, apple , blueberry and more and she makes sandwiches with homemade bread. And the most popular sandwiches are ham, turkey and roast beef.

Satisfied customers

Look forward to Carslon being back next summer around June.  She will open 6 days a week closed Sunday, open around 9:00 am

Maiden Voyage

Welcome to our Blog in Chignik Bay, Alaska.  This blog is going to be our online edition of our newspaper called The Salmon Run.  This newspaper will be published by the students of Chignik Bay School.  We want people to know what its like here in the Bay of adventures.  We will catch you on the flip side.   Stay tuned for our first articles.  Keep hooking in!  Blog you later.

Chignik Bay Students