Please join us in
celebrating our first edition of The SeeUoracle, the
first online
newspaper at SeeUonline. These stories were gathered from September,
2002 through February 2003 by both full-time and
part-time student reporters working in the In Print journalism
course at SeeUonline. Roving reporters were able to cover
stories from all parts of the Mat-Su Valley from the Trapper Creek
area down to Palmer.
Students Have Play Day In
Talkeetna
by
Amanda Summitt
On a crisp October morning Mrs. Drake’s class awaited for the arrival
of the Alaska State Train. The class
was going to go to Talkeetna for a field trip. Everybody was a little
early getting to the train station because they were so excited about
riding on the train. The students anxiously waited for the arrival of
the train. It came about thirty minutes late.
Mrs. Drake was asked
why she had chosen to take her students to Talkeetna on the train. “I
chose to take the kids to Talkeetna on the train for several reasons
-- to give them exposure of Alaska and to give them exposure of a
different kind of transportation that is not commonly used. The fourth
grade classes had studied Alaska and this was a fun way to wrap up
their studies.”.....
“Well, don’t ever drive around
without your headlights on,” SeeUonline student Matt Pistulka
explained. After a rude awakening from a snow machine accident
Pistulka realized his choices were live or die.
Enjoying a day with his friend in Willow, AK, Pistulka and his friend,
who was driving a truck, managed to collide. Neither of the vehicles
were running headlights. The snow machine was badly injured, but no
more then Matt himself....
On a crisp October morning Mrs. Drake’s class awaited for the arrival
of the Alaska State Train. The class
was going to go to Talkeetna for a field trip. Everybody was a little
early getting to the train station because they were so excited about
riding on the train. The students anxiously waited for the arrival of
the train. It came about thirty minutes late.
