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Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Jan. 5-11

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council at JAHC.org for more details on this week’s happenings.

Kaa Yahaayí Shkalneegi Muriel Reid photo In 2024, SSP’s Regional Catalysts attended and helped with the Kake Culture Camp hosted by the Organized Village of Kake. The goal was to be in community, grow our relationships, and identify opportunities to support community priorities determined by the community itself. In 2024, SSP’s Regional Catalysts attended and helped with the Kake Culture Camp hosted by the Organized Village of Kake. The goal was to be in community, grow our relationships, and identify opportunities to support community priorities determined by the community itself. (Ḵaa Yahaayí Shkalneegi Muriel Reid photo)

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Woven Peoples and Place: Don’t be an island, be amongst the people

Láaganaay Tsiits Git’anee and Shaelene Grace Moler reflect on celebrating values in action.

Fred La Plante is the pastor of the Juneau Church of the Nazarene. (Photo courtesy Fred La Plante)

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Living and Growing: You are not alone

Those words can pull us back toward hope, especially when we’ve just heard painful news.

The whale sculpture at Overstreet park breaches at sunrise on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (Mari Kanagy/Juneau Empire)

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Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Dec. 22-28

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Jeff Lund photo The author practices in case he had the chance to be Jimmy from the 1986 movie Hoosiers. He never got the chance on the basketball floor, but had moments in life in which he needed to be clutch.

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Opinion: Everyone wants to be Jimmy

Sports, and the movie “Hoosiers,” can teach you lessons in life

Laura Rorem (courtesy photo)

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Living and Growing: Gracious, gentle power

Gracious power is grace expressed with kindness and mercy.

Hiking down from Dan Moller cabin in mid-January 2025. (photo courtesy John Harley)

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Sustainable Alaska: Skiing on the edge

The difference between a great winter for skiing and a bad one can be a matter of a…

Juneau as pictured from the Downtown Public Library on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2025. (Mari Kanagy/Juneau Empire)

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Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Dec. 15-21

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Downtown Juneau experiences its first significant city-level snow fall of the season as pictured on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (Mari Kanagy / Juneau Empire)

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Weekend guide for Dec. 12-14

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A totem pole, one of 13 on downtown’s Totem Pole Trail in Juneau, Alaska, Nov. 27, 2024. (Christopher S. Miller/The New York Times)

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Weekly guide: Community calendar for Dec. 8-12

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Peggy McKee Barnhill (Courtesy photo)

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Gimme a smile: My roommate’s name is Siri

She hasn’t brought a lot of stuff into the house, and she takes up very little space.

photo courtesy Tim Harrison Rev. Tim Harrison is senior pastor at Chapel by the Lake.

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Living and Growing: I Wonder as I Wander

The Rev. Tim Harrison reflects on the Christmas season.

Jeff Lund photo The author heard what he thought was a squirrel. It was not a squirrel.

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I Went into the Woods: A change of plans

It was only a 30-hour trip but it’s always better to bring more food than you count on…

Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire file photo Reverend Gordon Blue from the Church of the Holy Trinity gives an invocation at the Alaska Commercial Fishermen’s Memorial on Saturday, May 3, 2025.

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Living and Growing: Psalm 30, Ouroboros, the dragon of fear and love.

Psalm 30:6 Weeping may spend the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Shoppers and vendors mingle along rows of booths in the mall ballroom at Centennial Hall during the Juneau Public Market last year, which returns this year starting Friday, Nov. 28. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire file photo)

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Weekly guide: Community calendar for Nov. 22-28

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Cold water dipping is a centuries old stress reduction technique still practiced today. (Photo by Raven Hotch)

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Recipes for stress reduction rooted in Indigenous knowledge

We must choose to live intentionally and learn to commit to our wellbeing.

photo courtesy Tim Harrison Rev. Tim Harrison is senior pastor at Chapel by the Lake.

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Living and Growing: ‘Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God’

So says Matthew 5:9, one of the beatitudes of Jesus

photo by Page Bridges Heather Mountcastle and Luke Weld playing crystal singing bowls at Holy Trinity Church.

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Living and Growing: Our Juneau Renaissance

Juneau is a mecca for artists, and because we have so much talent of all kinds, we will…

public domain photo St. Thérèse of Lisieux pictured in 1888.

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Living and Growing: What makes a saint?

A commonality among saints is that they are completely committed.

Photo by Jeff Lund Cold and damp are defining characteristics of this time of year so the warm couch is always tempting.

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I Went to the Woods: The fear of fear

What’s the margin of error for being prepared?