Anchorage deaf awareness week is just that, a time to bring to the forefront the shining abilities and wonderful gifts that are abound within the hard of hearing community. Sharon Miranda is the Coordinator of Deaf Supports at Hope Community Resources in Anchorage and says “the only difference between deaf people and hearing people is that deaf people hear with their eyes, not their ears.”
The air traffic control tower at Fairbanks International Airport will close overnight starting this weekend, according to a notice received by Alaska’s News Source.
The cub has been wandering the Anchorage bowl ever since Fish and Game killed its mother and a sibling for repeatedly getting into trash in a Lake Otis neighborhood. A third cub was captured immediately and has been living at the Alaska zoo ever since.