The Chisana News Wire ~ On-Going Updates from Alaska Chick
~ Good Morning Everyone!! It's that time, time for Updates! The Chisana News Wire, sounds pretty interesting, don't ya think? ☺
First Things First
Two really important issues are going on in the bigger world right now that I want to make sure the word is spread about.
First! Margie Clayman's Social Media, Marketing, & Musings post this morning, "A Blogging Hiatus Till We Get This Done" brought this remarkable (hat tip to Kaarina Dillabough) story to my attention.
Please read Margie's post. Coach Luma, Fugees Family, all the children, make for an incredible blessing. A blessing for the children and a blessing for all of us that hear their story. I am not going to say much more about it because Margie says it so very well. Please read Margie's post and then go read about Fugees Family and the soccer team in Georgia.
I read the comments on the giving stream on Fugees Family site, and the one that stays with me is "Pay it Forward". These are our children now, folks. We can show them our love by teaching them to read, to dream, to write, to create and to become a team, because a team is like a family, right?
I am donating $12. You can donate here. Or visit the Fugees wishlist for in-kind donations, including clothing and soccer equipment.
Second (and just as important!) A determined and blessed young lady, Nisha who is spreading hope and joy to all that read her posts on Adventures of Me, If God is Watching, I Plan on being Entertaining. Nisha tells you her plan and passion while giving us all a picture how just one of us can make an incredible difference.
Nisha and I are both blessed to be connected to each other through another beautiful example of humanity and love, our good friend Stan Faryna. Stan's post Luxurious decorations for your castle or estate #free ~Beautiful Things For the Asking shares more about Nisha, her project and how he, himself has come to this point in his life and purpose. I urge to read Stan's moving post and get to know Nisha.
Donate if you can, pray if you will and please, pass these important issues along. If we spread the word we can make these dreams come true and help do such good in our world.
Chisana Communications
There have been quite a few questions and comments about our communication abilities here in Chisana with Pioneer Outfitters. Our phone system is just like yours, anywhere.
AT&T put an earth station on Pioneer Outfitters property in 1996. Alaska Power & Telephone (AP&T) put the phone system in a building we, here at Pioneer Outfitters, built them, they dug ditches across of of Chisana running phone lines underground all the way to the Oatfield Airstrip (3 miles away), crossing Johnson Creek and the people that have vacation cabins there. The generators we run 24 hours a day, here at Pioneer Outfitters, provides the power for the phone company.
We have NO cellular service here in Chisana or anywhere in the surrounding areas. (I use a satellite phone and the personal locating device, SPOT for any emergency needs in the field.)
Our internet connection is provided by Star Band. If I seem to be absent online, it's not from lack of trying or desire! Our bandwidth is an on-going war for me sitting here, in my Inspiration Corner, wanting to share something special or just to chat with a pal.
Pioneer Outfitters Fall Big Game Hunting
All of the Post-Hunting Season Paperwork for 2011 is DONE!!
The NEW! Family Big Game Hunts are already a hit for next fall! The thanks go to the longer hunts (20-30 days) and the fact that the new website allows us to share more about who and what we are at the core of it all... a family.
ATTENTION! All 2011 Fall Hunting Season clients: Your gear has been mailed! It’s all gone!!
EVERYONE I promised photo discs, they will be arriving SOON! ~I needed the correct discs! (Unless of course you were a disrespectful cheap ass looser, in which case, I wouldn’t hold my breath!)
Pioneer Outfitters Survival & Guide Training
The first of the next group of 3 trainees will be arriving soon! The first Pioneer Outfitters Survival & Guide School trainee is getting a 3 month head start on his two classmates arriving in the Spring of 2012.
I am now, at the request of the State of Alaska Commercial Services Board, State of Alaska Ethics Committee, the State of Alaska Board of Game and (my favorite) Master Guide Terry Overly, working on the first draft of the online portion of the Pioneer Outfitters Survival & Guide Training course and the newly requested Ethics Class.
New Prices!! November 1st, 2011
The NEW Prices go into effect November 1st, 2011. Any Adventure, Excursion or Big Game Hunt booked with a deposit before November 1st will receive the current prices.
Alaska Chick, the Alaska Expat
The Lizard tried to talk, guilt and belittle me out of my Expat 30 Program New Habit, today. (Today was day two, 10-21-11.) After spitting wood for my Chisana Boy to deliver, I didn’t need to go for a walk. I had been outside, right? I wasn’t online, right? Right then I thought, “OOOOH, I recognize you...”
Winter Fun and Summer Anticipation!
We, here at Pioneer Outfitters, are really looking forward to the Winter Excursions to begin! It’s time to have some fun with the cold.
The son-gos have been pulled into the shop for tune ups and to be gone over and prepped for when there is enough snow on the ground. We are also working on the old 70’s Arctic Cat - Kitty Cat for my little 4 year old Alaska Chicklet!
The 2012 Summer Horseback Adventures are my first love of all the trips Pioneer Outfitters offers. The Land of the Midnight Sun, camp fires, horse-bells, wildlife to be encountered and all the joys of showing new friends all that this land has to offer.
On The Home-Front
7th Grade has begun. Whoa. Pre-Algebra. (oh, yipee) 
My soon to be teenager, the Chisana-Boy, is a conundrum. Where is the in-grained fear of GOD, Himself, striking him down for back-talking? I had it. Why doesn’t he have it? I wouldn’t have spoken to MY mother like that! (did I?!) Sheesh.
On the other hand, Zach sure has become quite the young man. He steps right up and deals with any of the day to day issues that come up with fuel, the generators, water pumps, the horses or having wood cut and delivered. (and when did he learn to do all that?!)
The Alaska Chicklet. My sweet (yeah.) little tiny baby girl is growing up already! She went out to Tok and had her first away from home and Mommy sleep over. A WEEK ago!! I am so very- very sad (an so very proud!), she loved every minute and was completely content. She was only a baby yesterday... it goes so very fast.
I am, Alaska Chick.
“As you look, really look, and find no words; feeling both, your heart healing and filling to an inner bursting point and feeling that your soul has been laid open to the breeze and wind like a raw wound. This takes you beyond the physical, past the mental; this is the spiritual element. This is Chisana.”
My name is Amber-Lee Dibble and I am the Manager at Pioneer Outfitters. We are located in the Wrangell St. Elias National Park & Preserve, our nation’s largest, most unexplored, unexploited and untouched National Park.
I am Mom, the Manager and the lead Guide of the Extreme Pro Team Guides. Born a Capricorn 1, Week of the Ruler, on the Day of The Indomitable One.
Pioneer Outfitters has been taking people into the wilderness of Alaska on horseback for Spiritual, Pleasure, Gold Panning, Glacier Exploring and Historic Trail Pack Trips, as well as Big Game Hunting and Survival & Guide Training since 1924. We, our family and our horses have always lived here year-round. As we make our life, we make our “living.”
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