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Back in late August, UAA’s chancellor Cathy Sandeen announced a difficult financial decision: university funding for women’s gymnastics, men’s hockey and men’s and women’s skiing would be eliminated. A campus town hall to discuss, and UA regents’ action at their Sept.10 meeting gave the athletic teams the opportunity to try and support themselves. The ski team managed to save Nordic, but lost alpine, and half of its funding.Here we are four months later, still in the throes of a spreading pandemic and an oil-price and pandemic-induced economic decline in the state. How are the state university teams’ survival efforts going?On the next Hometown Alaska, we’ll feature the coaches for gymnastics, hockey and skiing to share how they plan to survive. If their fundraising is successful, what’s the next step? Are they folded back into the university athletic family once again?As always, your questions and comments are welcome throughout the program. Join us!HOST: Kathleen McCoyGUESTS:Sparky Anderson, UAA NCAA men’s a

‘Harbourage for a Song’ by Meryl McMaster: Plains Cree and European artist Meryl McMaster poses on the northern peninsula of Newfoundland, a first point of contact between indigenous and Norse peoples over 1,000 years ago. Canaries in her headdress are not a native species. and represent displacement. (Image courtesy of ‘Extra Tough,’ Anchorage Museum)‘Meq’ by Amber Webb appears in ‘Extra Tough.’In early November, in the midst of a pandemic, the Anchorage Museum welcomed visitors to ‘Extra Tough: Women of the North.” With constraints, the museum has been able to invite visitors to view the exhibit several days each week. Beginning December 1, the museum, like much of Anchorage, will return to a closed phase for a period of weeks. The good news is, this exhibit will be available through September, 2021. So like many of the restrictions we feel right now, this closure can be righted once Covid numbers decline. We have time to visit this intriguing exhibit.Biographies of Alaska women in the exhibitToday’s editio

The YWCA of Alaska recently named its 31st cohort of Women of Achievement. On this edition of Hometown Alaska, we learn more about the mission and priorities of this organization as it has thrived through three decades. And, we meet and speak with several Women of Achievement to learn their story and hear their wisdom.As always, your questions and comments are welcome during the live broadcast. Join us!HOST: Kathleen McCoyGUEST:Theresa Lyons, CEO of YWCA AlaskaSharon Richards, 1988 co-founder and first executive director YWCASeveral Women of Achievement: Carol Schatz (1997); Kate Slyker (2014); Moira Smith (2020)LINKS:2020 Booklet featuring Women of Achievement and Youth Awards, PDFFull list of Women of Achievement through the years, PDFYWCA Alaska websiteYWCA Facebook page, with archived live events of this year’s awardeesPARTICIPATE:Call 550-8433 (Anchorage) or 1-888-353-5752 (statewide) during the live broadcast (2:00 – 3:00pm)Send e-mail to hometown@alaskapublic.org before, during or after the live broadc