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North Pole News for August Photo: A beautiful sky photo taken at Fairbanks soccer fields last month, during our son's game. North
Pole Summer Festival July 3, 2010 This celebration has been a part of the community for many years. Last year saw record attendance at both the Parade and Festival. To learn more about the event, visit the City of North Pole Web site or call 907-488-8584 for more information. HAPPY
FOURTH OF JULY! Golden
Days in the Golden Heart City of Fairbanks - Many events are scheduled throughout the week, including the Kick-off Party and Old Tyme Games (July 21, 5:30pm -10:00pm), Kiwanis Sourdough Pancake Breakfast (July 22-23, 6:30am-10:00am, Sadler's Parking Lot), Young Pioneers Day (July 23, Noon-4pm, Pioneer Park) and the Golden Heart Comedy Night (July 23, 7pm-10pm, Pioneer Park). The comedy night is extremely entertaining with contests for the hairiest beard, legs, chest and so on (you get the picture and there are plenty of menfolk in town that qualify for this contest)! Also featured on comedy night are comedians' Mr. Whitekeys of Anchorage, AK and Phil Palisoul of Denver, CO. Two of the top Golden Days attractions are the Golden Days Parade which will be held on Saturday, July 24th at 10:00am and the Rubber Duckie Contest held in the afternoon at 2:30pm, after the parade. Upwards of 6,000 rubber ducks will be dumped into the Chena River and then the ducks will race downriver toward the finish line at the Cushman Street bridge. The top winners of this contest take home cash prizes and gifts, determined by their duck's placement at the finish line. Finishing out the celebration is the "Governor's Picnic" at Pioneer Park on July 25. Come meet Governor Parnell while he and others serve up BBQ food to hungry folks. There are many additional events scheduled for the week and we have just listed a few. For a complete schedule of events, visit the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce Web site. Gardens,
Wild Berries and Flowers in the Interior Photo:
Our greenhouse lit up by evening sun. We
have some wonderfully-wild raspberry bushes growing in our backyard and we hope
to begin harvesting them soon. Below is a photo of our friend's son plopped in
the middle of our raspberry bushes last year, enjoying the bountiful supply of
raspberries. In addition to wild raspberries growing, there are many wild strawberries ripening at the moment, and we have a few plants growing near our garden beds. Blueberries are the next predominant wild berry that ripens after the raspberries, generally ripening in mid-to-late July or early August. While we have no wild blueberries growing in our yard, they can be found along various roadways and hills in the surrounding North Pole/Fairbanks area. Some folks have secret picking spots and don't like to let others in on their favorite place. In spite of our short summers, we are grateful for the return of warm weather and the perennial display of wildflowers that grow throughout the summer months. In addition to perennial flowers, there are many beautiful annual flowers planted within the city limits, local parks and at local businesses. Some folks get quite creative with their flower displays; planting flowers in recycled things like the trunk of an old car, gold dredge buckets, weathered tires, wheelbarrows, sinks, toilets, teapots and watering cans. The ideas are endless - if you have the opportunity to walk or bike around town, you'll get an up-close view of some of the creative ideas inspired from living here in the interior of Alaska. Summer
Activities and Daylight Hours We thoroughly enjoy the 24 hours of daylight we receive during the summer months, but summers tend to be quite short in terms of warm weather in the Far North. August temps usually cool down considerably. Now we have reversed the daylight cycle and we are loosing four to seven minutes of daylight each day; this pattern will continue until winter solstice on December 21st when we start to gain daylight once again. That's
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