Lisa Phu

About 300 people heard Dr. Astrid Pujari’s talk at Centennial Hall on Saturday during this year’s Cancer Connection Health Forum.

Even though Judge Thomas Nave finds Kathleen Turley liable, he states John Forrest failed to prove his damages during the small claims case.

It includes a 2 percent pay increase, though the district won’t say what the budget impact would be.

“When you read it, please keep in mind the fact that it will represent what the law requires. It will not represent any notions of approval or disapproval on my part of trapping,” said Judge Thomas Nave.

“Going back to school cost me $1,100 and being homeless,” said Elliot Scott.

The task force’s job is to make recommendations to the Department of Education on age-appropriate prevention curricula on sexual assault, teen dating and youth suicide.

Monday’s small claims case between a trapper and a trap springer was supposed to last an hour, but after about two and half hours in District Court, it’s stretching into a second day.

“We lay out the tarp to give us something dry to lay on and then we lay our bedding out on top of that and then the excess tarp we put over ourselves,” said Clyde Didrickson.

A Juneau trapper has lowered the amount of damages he’s seeking in a lawsuit against a hiker who sprang his traps last December. John Forrest sued Kathleen Turley in September.

Alaska gets close to 2 million visitors a year. More and more of them are visiting the Arctic Circle and beyond.