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Some of that dislocation will occur in the 56 villages for which Bethel serves as a hub. Tony Vaska, 38, a Yupik Indian who was born upriver in Kalskag, earned a doctorate at Stanford and now is the interim Bethel city manager, sees it coming. "The villages are going to feel it the most as teachers' aides get cut. And 99% of them are native." That will ripple back to Bethel. "Everything is one big question mark," says Dave Foster, 46, general manager of Swanson's, the largest retail store in town. "I don't think we've seen...
What Steve Cowper feels, however, is the need to reinstitute the state income tax, slash entitlements and reduce the state's expectations. The legislature has not reacted to those proposals with unbridled enthusiasm. Tony Vaska has a simple definition of the attitude that keeps the politicians from acting: "Alaska has been spoiled." Maybe so, thinks the Governor, but matters have reached a new level of urgency. "We can change overnight. We don't have any choice in the matter...
...Chamber Music tonight when he appears in a concert at the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall in the Music Building at 8.15 o'clock. The New York string quartet composed by Mr. Ottokar Cadek, first violin, Mr. Jaroslav Siskovsky, second violin, Mr. Ludvik Schwab, viola, and Mr. Bedrich Vaska, violin-cello, will assist Mr. Whiting...
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