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In this July 27, 2017, photo, Killisnoo the bear eats his birthday cake at the Fortress of the Bear, Thursday, July 27, 2017, in Sitka, Alaska. Fortress of the Bear celebrated two milestones in July – the 10th birthday of Killisnoo, its very first bear cub, and the sanctuary’s 10th year in operation. (James Poulson/The Daily Sitka Sentinel via AP)
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In this Monday, July 24, 2017 photo Victor Littlefield holds up a cellphone video of an orca whale pulling a line off his boat near Sitka, Alaska. Littlefield of Sitka says his boat was attacked by an orca during a fishing excursion with his 14-year-old son and two others. Littlefield says the party was aboard his anchored 33-foot aluminum boat Sunday near Little Biorka Island when it lurched to one side. (James Poulson/The Daily Sitka Sentinel via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND JUN 10-11, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this June 2, 2017, photo, Carolyn Servid holds up the newly republished adventure novel by Jack Calvin, "Square-Rigged," and a copy of the original, at right, during a reading at Old Harbor Books in Sitka, Alaska. A photo of the author taken around the time the book was last published in 1929, is at left. (James Poulson/The Daily Sitka Sentinel via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND JUN 10-11, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this June 2, 2017, photo, Mary Purvis reads from the newly republished adventure novel "Square-Rigged" written by her grandfather Jack Calvin during an event at Old Harbor Books in Sitka, Alaska. A photo of the author taken around the time the book was last published in 1929, is at left. (James Poulson/The Daily Sitka Sentinel via AP)
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In this March 17, 2017 photo, Brannon Finney, from left, Kelsey Kubik and Bettina Nichols stand on the deck of the fishing tender Kamilar in the morning at Eliason Harbor in Sitka, Alaska. On a door of the F/V Kamilar is a sticker with pink script: Girls fish too. Vessel owner Finney is captaining the tender for the Sitka sac roe herring fishery with her all-female crew, something that¹s rare for the fast and frenzied commercial fishery. (James Poulson/The Daily Sitka Sentinel via AP)
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This Dec. 4, 2016, photo provided by Ruth Culp shows calendar model Vern Culp on Galankin Island in Sitka Sound, near Sitka, Alaska. He and 12 other Sitka-area men stripped and then strategical posed behind quilts for a calendar fundraiser on behalf of the Ocean Wave Quilt Guild in Sitka. (Photo by Ruth Culp via AP)
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This Feb. 3, 2017, photo shows John Stein in Sitka, Alaska, holding up his father's baby cup. The cup, believed to be from about 1899, was recently returned to Stein. ( James Poulson/The Daily Sitka Sentinel via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND NOV. 12-13, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Oct. 13, 2016 photo, Kristy Griffin, Sitka History Museum curator of collections and exhibits, left, gives a tour of the new museum's archive room in Sitka, Alaska. The museum is slated to open next summer, just in time for the 150th anniversary of the transfer of Alaska claims from Russia to the United States. (James Poulson/Daily Sitka Sentinel via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, NOV. 5, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Oct 27, 2016 photo, poet Nikki Zielinski, from left, Emmett Williams and Peter Bradley work with book making equipment at the Island Institute office in Sitka, Alaska. For centuries fairy tales have been used to introduce and address difficult subjects to children and adults, but Zielinski, Island Institute's current artist in residence, wondered whether the same method would work to tackle uncomfortable topics in today's world. (James Poulson/The Daily Sitka Sentinel via AP)
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Sitka Police Lt. Barry Allen talks about his 27 years on the police force Monday, April 28, 2014, in Sitka, Alaska. (AP Photo/Daily Sitka Sentinel, James Poulson)
