Pictures of the Year - 2002
A selection of my favorite photos taken for the Anchorage Daily News in 2002.
Water droplets on a car windshield refract multilple images of a flag at a residence in Anchorage, Alaska Wednesday afternoon, August 21, 2002. The droplets act as a lens, reversing and inverting the image of the flag. Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News - 020821
 A jet taking off from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport past the city skyline is framed by fall foliake on a cottonwood tree up Arctic Valley Road Wednesday. JIM LAVRAKAS/ ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS - 021002
 		Hooper Bay's Harold Napolean lights the seal oil lamp to open the 3-day Youth & Elders Conference preceding the AFN Convention at the Egan Center in Downtown Anchorage Monday. Behind the lamp is elder Mary Ahkivgak of Barrow, who gave the invocation. Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News - 021021
 A pair of trumpeter swans paddle through a swampy area just south of Girdwood on the Seward Highway Wednesday. Trumpeter swans winter in both Southeast Alaska and the Pacific northwest and migrate north to Southcentral Alaska to nest in the summer. Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News - -020918
 Karen Riccio and Beverly Custer, both from upstate New York and running to raise money for arthritis research, finish their lunch break along the marathon course by waving to an incoming jet at Point Woronzof. Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News - 020818
An Alaska Railroad work train passes Bird Point as it heads south along Turnagain Arm Sunday. Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News - 0201027
Fireweed, in its last throws of autumn color, is whipoped by high winds and rain on Hillside Drive Tuesday. Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News - 020924
 A group of fishermen take advantage of the open water around the float at DeLong Lake Sunday to try their luck at catching rainbow trout stocked in the lake. Jim Lavrakas/ ADN - 021201
 Diane Benson portrays Native leader and activist Elizabeth Peratrovich in a one-woman play. Photo by Jim Lavrakas 4/9/2001
 Bev Aleck, whose husband Nick was an Amchitka worker, is a force behind the recent government settlements for those workers who died due to cancer they contracted because of their work there. Jim Lavrakas/ ADN/ 020115
 With cheesy special effects, Laura Bliss Spaan re-films the finale of her short film featuring duct tape, &quotRhapsody in Silver", that will be shown as part of her Out North Contemporary Art House's &quotUnder 30" series next week. Spaan is a self-professed duct tape fanatic. Jim Lavrakas/ ADN/ 011218
 Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News Sheila Wyne holds one of two companion pieces- of Adam and Eve - that speak to &quotmultiple histories" that will be part of her upcomnig show at the Decker/Morris Gallery. Wyne is pulling together multiple series - one that deals with &quotimpediments" - for the show that opens Friday.
Jim Lavrakas / Anchorage Daily News Orfeo (Emily Lodin) mourns the death of Euridice (Marla Berg) in Anchorage Opera's production of the tragedy, &quotOrfeo ed Euridice", sung in Itlaian.
 Jarrett Dyson has been Junior's best friend since childhood, when they grew up together on base at Elmendorf. Junior taught Jarrett how to play the drums, and is teaching him to play the piano. Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News/ 020621
 Bartlett students gravitate in awe to watch freshman Junior Jones play his incredible brand of piano music during a visit to Jones classroom. Jones has multiple disabilities, is blind, and attends a Bartlett special needs class, but is a musical virtuoso. Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News/ 020501
 An Anchorage Fire Department ambulance goes Code Red - lights and siren- through the Lake Otis and Tudor Road intersection on an emergency run. Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News - 021105
 Anchorage firefighters, fire investigators, and volunteers try to pull over the chimney at a home at 9930 Near Point Drive in Stuckagain Heights that was destroyed by fire early Monday morning. Fire investigators say that the owner of the home was saved by the smoke alarm that warned him of the 4 a.m. fire. JIm Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News - 021007
Ken McMillan accepts an American flag in his son Kevin's honor from Camp Pendleton Marine Capt. Mark Brown at Kevin's funeral Monday, 2/28/01. The 18-year old Anchorage resident killed in an accident Jan. 18 while on duty at Camp Pendleton, CA., and was buried at Fort Richardson (AK) National Cemetery. Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News/ 020328
At the village of Mentasta Lake, officials said the worst of the structural damage was at Jenny Sanford's home. Multiple cracks in the ground pointed to where some officials thought the fault line actually cut through the country along the area that was shaken by Sunday's 7.9 earthquake. Jim Lavrakas/ ADN - 021107
 		A crack running the length of a football field, two feet wide and six feet deep, runs down the center of the Tok Cutoff, just north of the Mentasta Lake village junction. A 7.9 earthquake on Sunday, 11/3/02, shook the region, and was felt as far south as Louisiana. Jim Lavrakas/ ADN - 021107
 Outside Mentasta Lake village resident's David and Angela Pete's house, and adjacent to their heaved driveway, a spruce tree was wrenched asunder as the forces of the earthquake dropped the ground to the left of the tree in the photo, and raised the ground to the right. Initially the crack was only four feet long, but continual aftershocks lengthened the crack. Residents described the whipping of trees during the height of the quake &quotlike windshield blades". Jim Lavrakas/ ADN - 021107
 Henry Melville stacks sandbags at his home on Meridian Ave. in a Seward subdivision flooded by Salmon Creek Thursday. Melville and his wife Nancy Erickson watched water that jumped the Salmon Creek banks upstream swirl around the home where they've lived for 5 years. &quotI built especially up by the road and I never thought it would come through the woods. I must have moved 300 sandbags today. I'm getting too old for this", he said Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News -0201024
 At David and Christiana (CQ) Bennett's home on H Street in downtown Anchorage they've put up a combination campaign sign that they feel speaks to the most important issue at election time. &quotMy biggest thing is that I get frustrated when I see a 20-25% voter turnout. The more important message is to educate yourself and vote", said David. Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News - 021029
Bill Schorr leaves the new polling place for his precinct at the Muldoon Road Baptist Church Tuesday afternoon. Turnout there was light through the afternoon with just over 90 ballots cast by 4 p.m. Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News - 020827
Corey Rennell, chairman of Generation Ulmer - the youth organization promoting Ulmer's campaign - takes to the air while sign waving at the corner of E. Northern Lights and the New Seward highway Monday morning. &quotWe've been here since six this morning and boy, are we glad the sun's coming out", said Rennell. Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News - 020826
Lt. Governor Fran Ulmer responds to a question during a debate Wednesday featuring the voice and portrait of Senator Frank Murkowski. Murkowski, who returned to Washington, D.C. Tuesday night, spoke by telephone link. The debate, sponsored by Commonwealth North, was held at the Hotel Captain Cook. Jim Lavrakas/ anchorage daily News - 021016
 		Outside the Senate Chambers in the U.S. Capitol, Senator Murkowski pauses to give last-minute instructions to an aide. Murkowski was voting on confirmation of several Federal Circuit Court judges on this day in May, 2002. Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News - 020510
 Frank and Nancy Murkowski, Alaska's new governor and first lady, acknowledge the vocal crowd at the Sullivan Arena Election Central Tuesday evening. Jim Lavrakas/ anchorage Daily News - 021105
Aces forward Jiri Jakes puts the hammer down on Gulls defenseman Samy Nasreddine during late second period play at the Sullivan Arena Sunday. Jim Lavrakas/ Anchorage Daily News - 021117
 DeeDee Jonrowe crests a small rise just outside Eagle River during the ceremonial start of Iditarod 2002. IDITAROD 2002 - JIMLAVRAKAS/ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS 020301
A mushers drives out of the Alaska Range and into the Farewell Burn area of the trail Tuesday. 020305 - IDITAROD 2002/ JIM LAVRAKAS/ ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS
 One of Garth Elsdon's dogs barks at a stranger's approach Wednesday in McGrath. 020307 - IDITAROD 2002/ JIM LAVRAKAS/ ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS
 		At the Unalakleet Cafe, Charlie Boulding sits down for a meal with his wife Robin who followed her husband by snowmachine from Kaltag Sunday. 0203010 - IDITAROD 2002/ JIM LAVRAKAS/ ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS
 A mushers heads towards the dreaded Dalzell Gorge after cresting the summit of Rainy Pass on Tuesday. 020305 - IDITAROD 2002/ JIM LAVRAKAS/ ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS
 Unalakleet residentswalk in front of a fish rack and setting sun Saturday. Clear weather has also produce high winds along the Norton Sound coast.0203010 - IDITAROD 2002/ JIM LAVRAKAS/ ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS

 

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