Today is the 19th of October and the second snow of the season is drifting down. It’s been about three weeks since we said goodbye to the family of Sandhill Cranes that have for years nested just across our runway from our hangar. We won’t see them again until sometime in May, next spring. In [...]
Earlier this year when ACS received a special grant for food security for vulnerable populations, AWA participated in the food distribution with several flights to remote villages. AWA-Alaska enjoys a mutually beneficial relationship with Adventist Community Services. We praise God for the opportunity to serve people in need through this connection. The Fairbanks area ACS [...]
Pictured is the Kobuk River in front of the village of Shungnak. Shungnak is a village of approximately 270 Inupiat Eskimo people and less than ten nonnative folks associated with the K-12 school. This village has been a site for Adventist mission ministry since the late 1960s. But the tenure of our mission personnel [...]
The village of Birch Creek is approximately 90 nautical miles north of Fairbanks and about 20 miles south of the Yukon River. It is a small village of just less than thirty inhabitants. For over 100 years it has been considered an Episcopal strong-hold. Until about ten years ago when, due to budget short-falls [...]
Pictured is the open pit of the Fort Knox gold mine just 20 miles northeast of Fairbanks Alaska. This mine which operates 24/365 processes 45,000 tons of material per day in its mill. As of the fall of 2019, it had produced 8 million ounces of gold in the 20 years of its service life! [...]
The good news last week here was that the Cessna 172 XP repaired/overhauled engine is now back on the airplane. This airplane experienced a rather catastrophic alternator drive failure while on a training flight last August. Although the oil pump drive was sheared the engine did not seize, and the pilot landed at the Palmer, [...]
Jim Kincaid and Kim Ueeck load shelf stable food products for transport to the village of Shungnak to restock the village food bank. Recently, the largest regional airline in Alaska suddenly shut down due to the loss of revenues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. With this cessation of services many of Alaska’s some 225 villages [...]
Dear AWA Family and Friends, The weather in Alaska has been not as cold as usual and snow was late in coming. Our first permanent (a relative term) snow arrived during the first week of November. We now have about 8 inches on the ground with more to arrive tomorrow and more every few [...]
Training is key for survival in harsh conditions. That is why Linda and I take advantage of what training we can for living in this area. Recently, FEMA had a special training event for Disaster Mass Care operations. It was held in Palmer, Alaska, which is North East of Anchorage and is part of [...]
In Alaska, at these high latitudes, summer is short, beautiful, and intensive. In what is called “the interior” of the state at our base in Fairbanks Alaska, this summer has been exceedingly warm and sunny with high temperatures in the 70s, and a few days reaching into the low 80s. The significant downside has [...]
