Nov 5, 2009 | Anchorage Daily News
Grit, searchers' persistence save village woman
Link: The Arctic Sounder Wanda Kippi, secretary at the school in Atqasuk, near Barrow, and mother of eight, sat in her living room with her frostbitten feet up, telling the tale of how she got lost for six days on a hunting trip and walked perhaps 40 miles after her four-wheeler sputtered out, while the village mobilized to search and pray for her.
Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: * On Aug. 31, 2009, a daughter, Lillian Betty James, weighing 8 pounds, 7 ounces, to Ladonna Elaine and Michael David James, of Kake.