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Cooper Landing Gem
May 2019
Diamond in the Winter Emerald in the Summer
Cooper Landing Chamber of
Commerce& Visitors Bureau
Board Of Directors
Stephanie Lesmeister President
Jason’s Guide Service [email protected]
Angel Bond
President Elect Kenai Princess Lodge
598-1001
Shirley Wilmoth Treasurer
The Hutch B&B 595-1270
Rose Hetrick
Secretary Inn at Tern Lake
288-3667
Cheryle James Member
Wildman’s 598-1007
Dusty Byrd Member
Alaska Troutfitters 595-1212
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Chamber of Commerce PO Box 809
Cooper Landing, Alaska 99572 [email protected]
Newsletter/Admin Yvette Galbraith 230-3055
Dear Chamber Members,
After looking over our calendar I think many will agree that May is our busiest month in the year for events and activities! The first week of the month starts off with several meetings held by our local organizations, the Health Fair, and a Cooper Landing Community Club meeting. Then we encourage all of our members to join us at our Chamber Spring Social Mixer on May 14th to share their winter adventures and network with other local business owners. Following that, and one the local favorite events, is the annual Cooper Landing Snail-a-Thon Race held Saturday morning, May 18th.
And the activity doesn’t stop there! Our big event of the month is the
2019 Cooper Landing Drift Boat Regatta being held in conjunction with the 70th Anniversary Celebration of the Cooper Landing Community Club and Hall. This year’s regatta is a fund raiser for the
Kenai Watershed Forum, It begins May 25th with a pre-race barbecue at Eagle Landing Resort at noon. Participants in the race should start putting their boats in at 11:30 am so they can grab a bite to eat with the crowd before the 1 pm start. (Note all boats must be in by 12:30 pm) New to the race this year is the opening of the Drift Boats category for both 18 AND 20 foot boats, and a Raft category for the most trash clean up. We’ve also added a prize for the best decorated boats! If you are not able to race but would like to participate with a donation, please email us at the Chamber ([email protected]) and we will graciously accept your donation! Corporate sponsorship is still being sought for racers and raft participants.
After the racers have put their boats away, the awards ceremony is to be held in conjunction with the Cooper Landing Community Club’s 70th Anniversary Celebration at the Community Hall. The Community Club board has been busy the last few months to make this one of the highlighted events in the Landing for the year. Be sure to help support them by purchasing the cool new t-shirt they specifically for this event. And we’ll let you in on a little secret… it will
be a collector item for all our softball lovers out there! Speaking of softball…. It’s time to start warming your arm up and get
those bats out. The first game for the 2019 Cooper Landing Softball Tournament is Thursday evening at 7 pm on May 30th! It’s crazy May
in the Landing… time to Rock-n-Roll! Stephanie Lesmeister, President
The Month of May Cooper Landing Chamber of Commerce Community Events Happening in the Landing
Cooper Landing Advisory Planning Commission Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 at 6:00 pm Cooper Landing Community Hall
Alaska Health Fair Saturday, May 4th, 2019 9 am to 1:00 pm Cooper Landing School Sponsored by Cooper Landing Community Schools, Cooper Landing Senior Citizens Corporation, and Cooper Landing Emergency Services
Cooper Landing Emergency Services Board Meeting Monday, May 6th, 2019 at 6:00 pm CLES Building
Cooper Landing Seniors Citizens Corporation Inc. Board Meeting Tuesday, May 7th, 2019 at 1:30 pm Helen Gwin Commons
Cooper Landing Chamber of Commerce Meeting/Cleanup Wednesday, May 8th, 2019 at 10:00 am Board Meeting & Annual Clean Up Cooper Landing Visitor Center
Alaska Department of Natural Resources—Firewise Meeting Wednesday, May 8th, 2019 6:00 to 8:00 pm Cooper Landing Community Hall
Cooper Landing Community Club Meeting Thursday, May 9th, 2019 at 6:00 pm Cooper Landing Community Hall
Cooper Landing Gun Club Fundraising Banquet Saturday, May 11th, 2019 Kenai Princess Lodge
Cooper Landing Seniors Citizens Corporation Inc. Membership Meeting & Potluck Featuring Ed Holsten, presenting on Bark Beetles Tuesday, May 14th, 2019 at 11:30 am Helen Gwin Commons
Cooper Landing Chamber Spring Social Mixer Tuesday, May 14th, 2019 4:00 to 6:00 pm Sunrise Inn & Café
Cooper Landing Snail-a-Thon Saturday, May 18th at 10:45 am Kenai Lake Baptist Church
2019 Cooper Landing Drift Boat Regatta Saturday, May 25th, 2019 starting at 12:00 noon (All boats in by 12:30 pm) Eagle Landing Resort
70th Anniversary Celebration of Cooper Landing Community Club & Hall Saturday, May 25th, 2019 at 6:00 pm Cooper Landing Community Hall
Cooper Landing Annual Softball Tournment Starts—25th Year! Thursday, May 30th—June 8th, 2019 at 7:00 pm Cooper Landing Community Hall & Softball Field
Join us for appetizers & drinks at our annual Spring Social Mixer! Come and share your stories from this past winter, and network with our
business community. Drop off your new rack cards and pick up copies of the 2019 Upper Kenai Visitor Guide to have at your business and for your guests. One drink ticket per Chamber membership or if you advertisers in this year’s
guide. For more information email us at [email protected].
Alaska Rivers Company (ARC) is inviting the public to join them for a hands-on, science-based, educational presentation by the Bird Treatment and Learning Center. This program includes a Golden Eagle (Denali) and a Short-Eared Owl (Flame) and covers biology, ecology and conservation given by an experienced and certified presenter from Bird TLC. The presentation is free,
compliments of ARC. Prior and following the presentation, Alaska Rivers Company will be offering their Float n Feathers Scenic Float for those interested in spotting more species on the Upper Kenai River. For EACH rafting participant who mentions the Bird TLC (and throughout the month of May), ARC will donate $5 to the Bird TLC. The Bird TLC takes in over 1000 injured birds annually from every part of Alaska including the remote Arctic regions, and their bird placement program serves wildlife education facilities throughout North America. The Bird Treatment and Learning Center is an independent 501(c)3 organization with operations that includes not only avian rehabilitation, but also science curriculum based, interactive education , as well as a non-releasable bird placement program and a flight center on a local Army base. Please contact ARC for departure times and rates. (907) 595-1226 or email [email protected] and help support the efforts of the Bird Treatment & Learning Center this May!
Cooper Landing Community Club Update
May is a big month for the Cooper Landing Community Club! Lots of events have occurred in May shaping the Community Club’s history including the
registration of the non-profit with the territory of Alaska in 1949! Come learn more about our history by attending our 70th Anniversary Birthday Bash on Saturday, May 25th. There will be food trucks, a beer garden, a bouncy house (kids only), DJ music and dancing, as well as a home run derby. The event will run from 6 pm to 11 pm. At 7 pm the special Birthday Announcements will take place including: a speech by Mona Painter, the announcement of the Regatta Winners, and the Youth Group’s showing of their Storytelling Project. This is an event you won’t want to miss out on!
To learn more about this event visit: https://www.cooperlandingcommunityhall.com/70th-anniversary May is also the month for the annual Softball Tournament. This year is the 25th Anniversary! Limited edition t-shirts will be available for purchase honoring both events. (We can’t wait for you to see what is imprinted on the back!) Dates to keep in mind:
May 8th: Community Club Meeting, 6 pm
May 17th: Softball Teams Meeting, 7 pm
May 25th: 70th Anniversary Birthday Bash, 6 pm to 11 pm
May 28th: Softball Concessions Pre-Meeting, 5:30 pm
May 30th: 25th Annual Softball Tournament begins, 7 pm
The Cooper Landing Chamber Needs You! Help out on Saturday, June 1st with our night for concessions at the Cooper Landing Softball Tournament! Proudly wear and show off your business’s T-Shirt as you serve those hungry players and attendees at that evenings game. Please call Yvette to let us know if you can join us at (907) 230-3055.
Cooper Landing Historical Society & Museum
Helen and Pat Gwin and Katie Feichtinger are honorees at the May 27 opening of Cooper Landing Museum. Helen and Pat for their Cooper Landing
pioneering and Katie for the artistic and informative map she burned onto a monumental slice of a local spruce cut by Jack Harris which will be installed below the big museum sign on the old Cooper Landing schoolhouse. Everyone is invited to join us at 1 pm on Memorial Day for the festivities, refreshments, and door prizes.
Mayme Ohnemus started the long and involved process of naming a mountain peak above Gwin’s Lodge for Helen and a naming a
ridge running west of the peak “Old Buzzard Ridge” in honor of Pat
Gwin for their involvement in the area not only with their business but in many positive aspects of community growth. (These geographic sites were approved and are shown on Katie’s map). While Pat Gwin
played a smaller role in community volunteerism—he did help build the original community hall—selling of the contents of his shop, offered by Helen, paid for the gravel pad for the schoolhouse museum building. Helen was active with the first local chamber of commerce, and helped with the organization of the community club in 1949. After selling the lodge in the 1970s, Helen helped found the Sexy Senior Dumpster Cleaners in 1997 and the Cooper Landing Senior Citizen Corp. Inc. in 1999, served for many years as treasurer for the Dall Homemakers, and generously supported CLHS and the Cooper Landing Museum.
Pictures show Helen as cashier for one of many events behind the sign copied from the sign Jack Lean sported in the old Cooper Landing Store (now a museum building), Mayme Ohnemus talking about Helen during the standing-room-only memorial for Helen after her death in 2007, Pat and Helen in their bar in 1952, Helen tending the guest book at the opening of Eagles View senior housing in 2006 while accompanied by Keith Freeman, Helen dancing with Harold Davis at a 1953 party at the community hall (Frank Towle and Betty Sunday also on the dance floor), Helen at Sexy Senior Dumpster Cleaning work, and Helen in the museum with Mary Fort showing some of the objects Helen donated: a white fox fur, Native baskets, and an early Gwin’s Cafe sign. Booklets of the Gwin’s Cooper Landing history are available in the museum
for a donation. I’ll be working at the museum several days be-
fore the May 27 opening. Feel free to stop by when you see Hyper Green parked there. The museum phone number is 907 595-3500 and my cell is 907 202-6049. Mona Painter
May Update for Cooper Landing Community School Health Fair: Cooper Landing School, May 4, 9am-1pm. Sponsored by Cooper Landing Senior Citizens Inc. , Cooper Landing Community Schools, and Cooper Landing Emergency Services.
Tot Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, thru May 15, at Cooper Landing School, 11am-12pm. Bring the toddlers out to run in the gym and work off some energy. Ashtanga Yoga: Cooper Landing Community Hall. Tuesday (Mysore), Wednesday (Mysore), & Thursday (Guided 1/2 Primary) @ 9:30 am @ the Cooper Landing Community Hall. Bring your own mat or use one provided by Cooper Landing Community School. Cost $10 per class or 10 classes for $70. Call/text/email Tanisha Walters for more information, 303-482-7176 or [email protected]. Vinyasa Flow Yoga: Cooper Landing Community Hall, Mondays, beginning May 20, 8:30am. A flowing, dynamic form of yoga; movement with breath and mindful transitions and a focus on mind-body connection that can transition into our day to day lives. Bring your own mat or use one provided by Cooper Landing Community School. Props and modifications will be available. $5 per session. Call/text Dusty Byrd for more information, 907-202-0129.
Save the Date! August 17th for the KMTA Mineshaft Grinder in Hope. The Mineshaft Grinder celebrates the diligent and desperate prospectors who settled Hope and Sunrise and laid a road up the glacial Palmer Creek Valley where they dug mineshafts into the rocky ridges following veins of gold and silver.
For more info or to sign up visit www.kmtacorridor.org/mineshaft .
Cooper Landing Trail Run 2019
MARK YOUR CALENDAR AND HOPE YOU CAN JOIN THE FUN!
Saturday, June 8. 5K Walk, 11K Run Fee: Donation Registration Time: 9:30 Start: Cooper Landing Community Hall, Bean Creek Rd. Route: Walkers follow the Safety Path to Our Point of View, Mile 45.2 Sterling Hwy- shuttle available back to Community Hall. Runners also follow the Safety Path starting and finishing at the Hall. Start times: Walkers 10:30, Runners 11:00 Sponsored by: Cooper Landing Community Club, Cooper Landing Walkable Community Project
2019 Cooper Landing Chamber of Commerce & CVB
Please support our local businesses!
5 Dogs Fishing 907/598-3525 Alaska Heavenly Lodge 907/599-0022 Alaska Horsemen Lodge 907/595-1806 Alaska Marketing Consultants 907/230-3055 Alaska Outdoor Woodstoves 907/598-1633 Alaska River Adventures 907/595-2000 Alaska Rivers Company 907/595-1226 Alaska Troutfitters 907/595-1212 Alaskan Angling Adventures LLC 907/595-3336 Angle 45 Adventures (Hope) 907/782-3175 Bean Creek Gallery 907/595-3488 Best Route Productions 303/570-2081 Blue Yeti Food Truck 907/231-6089 Boatman’s 907/202-1004 Camp K on Kenai Lake 907/279-3551 Conoco Phillips Alaska, Inc. (Anch.) 907/276-1215 Cooper Landing Brewery 907/276-5044 Cooper Landing Community Club 907/595-2169 Cooper Landing Community Library 907/595-1241 Cooper Landing Community School 907/595-1244 Cooper Landing Emergency Services 907/595-1800 Cooper Landing Fish Camp 907/595-3474 Cooper Landing Rifle & Sportsman’s Club 907/599-0004 Cooper Landing Historical Society 907/598-1042 Cooper Landing Senior Citizens Corp. 907/595-3000 Eagle Landing Resort 907/595-1213 Evergreen Builders 907/202-1795 First National Bank Alaska (Sold.) 907/260-6000 Fish & Sons Kenai Charters 907/598-1065 Grizzly Ridge 907/595-1260 Gwin’s Lodge 907/595-1266 Harbor 360 Hotel (Seward) 888/514-8687 Inn at Tern Lake (MP) 907/288-3667 Jason’s Guide Service 907/351-3036
Kahtnu Spirit Lodging 907/299-2855 Keen Eye Anglers 907/244-9831 Kenai Cache Outfitters 907/595-1401 Kenai Kayak Company 907/441-6753 Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area 206/920-9051 KPB Mayor –Charlie Pierce (Sold.) 800/478-4441 KPBSD Superintendent Sean Dusek 907/714-8836 Kenai Peninsula Econ. Dev. Dist. 907/283-3335 Kenai Princess Wilderness Lodge 907/595-1425 Kenai River Drifters Lodge 907/595-5555 Kenai River Float-n-Fish, LLC 907/595-3505 Kenai River Fly Fishing 907/598-1400 Kenai River Trips & Kenai Riverside Lodge 800/334-8730 Kenai Riverside Campground/ RV Park/B&B 907/595-1406 Kenai River Trout Anglers 907/599-0085 Kenai Watershed Forum 907/265-5412 Kim’s Essential Oils & Gifts 815/751-7959 Major Marine Tours (Seward) 907/274-7300 Mystic Waters Fly Fishing 509/715-9697 Prospector John’s Pan for Gold 907/598-1808 Round Mountain Retreat 907/598-1333 Salmon Run Lodge 907/595-2197 Seramur Home Services 907/599-0019 Spruce Moose Chalets 907/677-7543 Stevenson Retreat 907/240-1113 Sunrise Inn & Café 907/595-1222 Talon Air Service, Inc. (Sold.) 907/262-8899 Tanisha Walters, Lisc. Acupuncturist 303/482-7176 The Hutch Bed & Breakfast 907/595-1270 Upper Kenai Cabins 907/595-3055 Wildman TR Inc. 907/595-1456
Wildman’s Hours
Open 7 Days a Week 7:00 am to 11:00 pm
Come in and eat lunch with us or take it to go!
Enjoy Wildman’s awesome
chicken fingers, fries and ice
Community Activities
Sew & Sew Quilters Mondays 10 am Community Hall
Soldotna Shuttle Bus Wednesdays 8:30 am
After School Group Wed 3:30-5:30 pm CL Comm. Hall
Game Night Fridays 7 pm Helen Gwin Commons
Trap at Gun Club Sat at 12 pm
Volleyball Tues & Thurs 6 pm CL School
Cooper Landing Library
Spring Hours
Monday 1 - 3 pm Tuesday 1 - 3 pm
Wednesday 1 – 3:30 pm & 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Thursday 12:30 - 5 pm Friday 12 pm - 3 pm
Saturday 11 am - 2 pm
Church Services
KL Baptist 11:00 am
Catholic 12:30 pm
CL Community Lutheran 9 am
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
1 Early Bird Drift Boat Regatta Registration Due! ———————————————————————————--
CLAPC Meeting 6 pm @ CLCH ———————————————————————————--
CLES Training 6 –8 pm @ CLES
2 3 4 Health Fair 9 am—1 pm @ CL School
5 6 CLES Board Meeting 6 pm @ CLES
7 CLSCCI Board Mtg. 1:30 pm @ Helen Gwin Commons
8 CL Chamber Board Meeting 10:00 am CL Visitor Center ———————————————————————————--
CLES Training 6 –8 pm @ CLES ———————————————————————————--
Firewise Meeting 6-8 pm @ CLCH
9CL Community Club Meeting 6 pm @ CLCH
10 BTLC Exhibit & Fundraiser @ 1 pm @ ARC
11CL Gun Club Fundraising Banquet 4 pm @ Kenai Princess Lodge
12 Mother’s
Day Call Your Mom!
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14 CLSCCI Mtg. & Potluck 11:30 am @ Helen Gwin Commons ——————————————————————————
CL Chamber Social Mixer 4—6 pm @ Sunrise
15 CLES Training 6 –8 pm @ CLES
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17 Softball Teams Meeting 7 pm @ CLCH
18 Snail-a-Thon 10:45 am @ KL Baptist Church
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22 Last Day of School! CLES Training 6 –8 pm @ CLES
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25 CL Drift Boat Regatta Pre-race BBQ 12 pm Eagle Landing. Race starts 1 pm ————————————————————————————-
CL Com. Club 70th Anniv. Celebration 6 pm @ CLCH
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27 Memorial Day CL Historical Society & Museum Opening Celebration 1 pm @ CLHSM
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29 CLES Training 6 –8 pm @ CLES
30 June Gem Submissions Due ——————————————————————————
CL Softballl Tournament Starts! 7 pm @ CL Com Hall Softball Field
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Events for May 2019
2 3 CLES Board Meeting 6 pm @ CLES
4 CLSCCI Board Mtg. 1:30 pm @ Helen Gwin Commons
5 CLAPC Meeting 6 pm @ CLCH ———————————————————————————--
CLES Training 6 –8 pm @ CLES
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8 CL Softballl Tournament Finals. 7 pm @ CL Community Hall Softball Field
June Gem Submissions Due
May 30th
