Friday morning I headed out of Valdez and met up with an old Northway friend.\u00c2\u00a0 Rita Abel.\u00c2\u00a0 She parked her car in Glenallen and jumped in with me.\u00c2\u00a0 We talked the whole way into Anchorage where we met up with another dear friend from Northway days, Chris Standley.\u00c2\u00a0 Together the three of us went to the Beth Moore Conference being held at the Achorage Baptist Temple.\u00c2\u00a0 (ACS: Anchorage Christain School).\u00c2\u00a0 Over 1500 women attended the two day event.\u00c2\u00a0 It was awesome.\u00c2\u00a0 Beth Moore is such an inspirational speaker.\u00c2\u00a0 It was great connecting with Rita and Chris and spending time together diving into God’s word.\u00c2\u00a0 Very powerful.\u00c2\u00a0 Rita and I got out of Anchorage by late afternoon today and I arrived home in Valdez around 9:00.\u00c2\u00a0 Bill was making a fresh batch of guacamole and stir fying some late night dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 Perfect timing!\u00c2\u00a0 Katie was the first to spot 2 killer whales on one of the Stan Stevens boats today.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s turning into an eagle eye of sorts.<\/p>\n
A close friend of ours died in a plane crash Wednesday evening.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s still difficult to believe it really has happened. Don Spitler arrived with his family in Northway back in 1977.\u00c2\u00a0 (The same year Bill and I began teaching in Northway).\u00c2\u00a0 Over the years Bill and Don trapped, hunted, drove school buses and coached kids together, supported each other in school student\/parent issues.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 He was instrumental in bringing basketball to Northway School.\u00c2\u00a0 Northway basketball was on fire while Don spear-headed the program.\u00c2\u00a0 It was basketball games that packed the Northway School gym with elders down to babies and everyone in between.\u00c2\u00a0 The Spitler\/Cronk basketball legacy was known around the state for many years.\u00c2\u00a0 Don was bright, funny, goal oriented and driven.\u00c2\u00a0 He seemed to eat, sleep, and breath hunting, but he loved his family and doted on his grandchildren.\u00c2\u00a0 We will miss his spirit, his sense of humor, and wonderful adventures.\u00c2\u00a0 I know he died doing what he loved, flying the beautiful Alaskan interior, taking pictures of a summer sunset.\u00c2\u00a0 But that doesn’t make it any easier.\u00c2\u00a0 My prayers go out to his family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Friday morning I headed out of Valdez and met up with an old Northway friend.\u00c2\u00a0 Rita Abel.\u00c2\u00a0 She parked her car in Glenallen and jumped in with me.\u00c2\u00a0 We talked the whole way into Anchorage where we met up with another dear friend from Northway days, Chris Standley.\u00c2\u00a0 Together the three of us went to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}