Lucus and I recently had the opportunity to travel to the village of Elim. Located on the northwest shore of Norton Bay on the Seward Peninsula, Elim is an Inupiat Eskimo village with a fishing and subsistence lifestyle. They were the raffle winners of KNOM Morning Show’s first ever Winter Toy Advisory, a contest with [...]
Together in Faith
Last week was the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, when Christians from all denominations agree to put aside their differences and recognize that we worship the same God. It’s a step that I appreciate personally, as God is big enough to encompass different ways of living and practicing faith. So when the Nome Ministerial [...]
Be Your Best!
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be at my best. Thinking back, I feel that I identified being at my best with accomplishing something – a small task or even a big feat. As I look at my time here at KNOM, I think it’s a bit different. I love [...]
FUDSicles.
Taking a look outside of my bedroom window today, I was struck by two thoughts. Firstly, that at one point, I could see just a couple of rooftops followed by a beautiful green and red carpet of tundra before my eyes reached the stoic White Alice Towers atop Anvil Mountain. Now it takes a [...]
Wear Snow Pants: A Cheechako’s Guide to Alaskan Livin’
Cheechako: noun. (From the Chinook jargon) a person newly arrived to the mining districts of Alaska or Northwest Canada; roughly translates to “newcomer” or “tenderfoot”. Despite being a cheechako, I have learned a few things about life in the last frontier these past few months. I would like to share some of these with you. [...]
Oh, the Games We Play…
It’s no secret that I’m a gamer. Even my KNOM profile features me playing “Ticket To Ride – Europe” – (which has become known as “The Train Game” in the Volunteer House) – it’s one of my favorite pickup-and-play board games, since it is strategic and fun with pretty much any number of players. [...]
The Pickle Cliff
In the volunteer house, Josh is our whimsical decorator, that is, he’s the artist that has drawn and created various artwork that now adorns my bedroom door. For some reason, over the past four months it seems to be have gradually become the “it” place where his work is now displayed (as well as [...]
Hindsight
With the dawn of a new year upon us, I have been reflecting upon being halfway through my volunteer year here at KNOM. I came across this little diary entry recently and thought it summed up my arrival to rainy Nome, Alaska quite well! What an adventure it has been so far. I’ve grown so [...]
News at KNOM
Hello, future KNOM News volunteer. Have you ever wondered what news is like at KNOM? Here are the basics: What type of news does KNOM cover? KNOM practices community journalism. We cover news that affects our listening area: Nome and the rural communities and Alaska native villages in Western Alaska. We try to create a [...]
Anything Can Happen: Sports Reporting, Alaska Style
Standing on a sled controlling fourteen huskies who are pulling you and the sled over ice and snow, through wind chills of 50 below and blizzards for hours on end, overnight, day after day, is not an eccentric activity in Alaska. It’s the state sport. Mushing in Alaska is like football in Oregon or baseball [...]