Anchorage news

On Saturday October 11th there was a 52 year old man who had called the Ted Stevens airport saying that one of the planes were gonna blow up. After the airport had received this call they grounded all of the flight from anchorage. The place were able to trace where the call had came from. The 52 year old man had 24 criminal charges already and already had two warrants out for his arrest. The man had bail set for him at $1,500.

News in Anchorage Alaska

On Late friday night an Anchorage Police Department cruiser had hit a pedestrian on the road. The police office was traveling south on Muldoon Road. The pedestrian was a 64-year old man who was walking on the side walk and had stepped onto the street. The man was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. The stretch of the road has been targeted for improved safety improvements because of its high crash rate.

News about Alaska

Recently places in Alaska have made a ban against synthetic drugs. Alaska is banning drugs like spice based on their packaging. Most of the packaging that is on spice says not for human consumption but those words are usually covered up with names like "Mr. Happy," "Dead Man walking" and "OMG." The new law says that a synthetic drug should be forbidden if its label does not show the ingredients. As of monday the Anchorage Police Department had issued seven citations under the ordinance since January.

The Rest Of Bering Sea Days

Every year my school has a week of outdoor activities called Bering Sea Days. On Monday and Tuesday we went reindeer hunting. On Wednesday we did a lot of different activities. None of the activities that we did were outside.

On Wednesday we help put together a baby killer whale's bones. This killer whale was a whale that we my class dug up last bering sea days. We only got all of the vertebrae put together. The people who did not go on the reindeer hunt were putting the whale together through out the whole week. We are going to continue putting the skeleton together next semester.

Also on Wednesday we were cooking a reindeer that Paul had go during the weekend. We cut a lot of pieces and made it into jerky. We also put a lot of meat through the grinder so that we could make burgers out of it. Some people were making a salad to go with the reindeer burgers. And someone was able to saute the reindeers heart.

On Thursday we continued to put the killer whales skeleton together. After we helped with that we had to go dissect kitiwake stomachs. Most of the people did not like having to cut the stomachs open. After we did that the younger grades cooked the kitiwakes. Only the younger grades were able to do this because the older grades had cooked the day before.

We also had to sit through peoples presentations about the Bering Sea. Some guy named Seth was doing a presentation about waves. And a guy name Josh was doing a presentation about archeology. During Josh's presentation he was talking about finding spear heads. He brought a few spears for us to throw.

On Friday all we did was stay in our class room and we made posters. The people who went hunting made a poster about the reindeer hunt. And the people who did not go on the reindeer hunt did their presentation about digging for fossils. At the end of the day every one who made a poster had to present them and people had to judge them. And the reindeer hunters poster had won first place.

10 Things About Me

1. I am Kirk Mandregan and I live in St.Paul Island Alaska.
2. I am a senior in high school.
3. I like to ride my 4 wheeler occasionally.
4. I like to go shooting.
5. I have an AR15 and two .22 pistols.
6. I like playing video games from time to time.
7. I worked as a baiter this summer and am still currently working.
8. I have 3 brothers and 2 sisters.
9. I am the 2nd to youngest child.
10. I am an Aleut.

My sports bike

Recently I changed the oil on my Trx450r. I changed my engine oil and my transmission oil. I have to change the oil on my bike a lot. I have to change the engine oil every 20 hours of riding. And i have to change the transmission oil every 40 hours of riding.

When I changed my oil I needed to use a few socket wrenches and extensions to get the cap and bolt out of the engine. The engine oil cap is located under the engine so i needed to have an extender to reach the cap. And the transmission bolt is located on the left side of the engine in front of my chain.

Bering sea days

Every year in my school we have a week of outside activities and we call this week bering sea days. Every grade in my school participates in bering sea days. We have people come here to teach us about the bering sea. We also have people come up here to help us with our activities. 

On Monday and Tuesday of bering sea days some of the high school kids went on a reindeer hunt. On Monday we were able to find the reindeer pretty fast. We had to crawl for a few hundred yards so that we could get close to them. We got pretty close to the reindeer we were about a hundred and fifty yards away. And Paul Melovidov was the person with the rifle. 

Paul crawled farther then the rest of the group did. He had to get at least a hundred yards away from the reindeer. We sat their for about 40 minutes waiting for him to shoot. He got pretty close to the reindeer but he missed his shot. He missed his shot because he dropped his gun on the weekend and it threw off his scope.

On Tuesday we went on this hill called lake hill to try to see if we could spot the reindeer. We did not see them anywhere so we went on this hill called Polovina. We spotted them when we were on Polovina. We saw them by this lake called big lake. We call it big lake because it is the biggest lake on our island. 

We drove our vehicles to the car dump that is near big lake. We had to walk nearly a mile until we got at least two hundred yards away from the reindeer. Once we go that close we started to flat crawl on our stomachs to try to get at least a hundred yards away. We had left our backpacks and anything that would stick out. But once we got to the destination we wanted to be at the reindeer had moved.

Because they moved three of us were about to go back to get our backpacks. But once we started to head back the reindeer had moved back to where we wanted them to be. So we went back to the rest of the group and paul had crawled farther so that he could get close to the reindeer. Paul was able to get a little then a hundred yards away form the reindeer. He missed his first shot.

After he had fired his first shot the reindeer started to run around a lot. The had ran closer to him because they were not able to see him in the grass. Once they got pretty close he had fired a second shot and he killed a reindeer. After he killed one reindeer the rest of them got even closer to him. He then sat up and the reindeer finally saw him.

After the reindeer saw him they ran towards us. It was pretty cool to be able to see the reindeer herd run past us. Since they ran past us a couple of took out our phones and ipods to take videos and pictures of the herd. A few of us went to go see the reindeer that had been killed. And two people went back to get everyones backpacks and stuff. 

Paul was the only one who was able to cut the reindeer. He had to cut the reindeer down the front side of it's body. He started from the sternum and went all the way down to the rear end. He had to be very careful while doing this so that he did not puncture the stomach. If he had punctured the stomach he would have spoiled the meat.

He had to cut the throat so that he could grab the esophagus. He had grabbed the esophagus so that he could pull it down and take out all of the guts and intestines. He cut all around the neck so that he could take the head off of the body. Once all of the guts and intestines were out of the body we put the reindeer into this sled. We put it into the sled so that it would be much easier to haul back to the trucks.

After we put the reindeer in the back of the truck we went back to the school. We were at the school for about five minutes. Then we went to go hang the reindeer. Most people like to hang their reindeer so that all of the extra blood could drain out of the body. We let the reindeer hang for three days.

While it was hanging we had to take the skin and fur off of the body. We also had to take all of the fat off of the body. Then we put some game bags around the reindeer to keep bugs off of it.  After three days we quartered the reindeer up so that it would be easier to cut the meat off. And that is what we did on our reindeer hunt during bering sea days.