Inside Alaska Business.

June 2018

Local listeners of KLEF. the classical music radio station, purchased a K9 for the Anchorage Police Department via Dollars for Dogs. Mozart is a four-year-old Belgian Malinois who was born in The Netherlands. He was purchased at Adlerhorst Kennels, a California-based, family-owned provider of security and police dogs as well as training classes and certilications.

Mozart is a Certified Police Canine--an honor he earned after completing more than 600 hours of training. Mozart is trained in tracking, building searching, evidence searching, and apprehension. He has been partnered with Officer Breager. Breager and Mozart are the seventh team in APD's K9 unit, muni.org

ASRC

Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) acquired F.D. Thomas (FDT) and FDT's wholly-owned subsidiary D. Zelinsky & Sons through its wholly-owned subsidiary ASRC Industrial Services (AIS).

Headquartered in Medford, Oregon, with satellite offices in Kent, Washington, and Oakland and Sacramento, California, FDT is nationally recognized as a premier provider of waterproofing, roofing, infrastructure restoration, specialty painting, and coatings services. FDT will become part of AIS's construction, maintenance, and repair operating group.

D. Zelinsky & Sons was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Oakland, California, and provides commercial painting, wallcovering, faux finishes, waterproofing, (ireproofing, high performance coatings, and SoftWalls upholstered wall and ceiling systems. D. Zelinsky & Sons will also join AIS's construction, maintenance, and repair operating group, asrc.com

UA INNOVATION CHALLENGE

Three teams comprised of University of Alaska Anchorage students and Anchorage community partners presented to a panel of judges their innovative ideas to address top-of-mind community issues in the final phase of an innovation challenge sponsored by the University of Alaska.

University and business leaders judged the competition, evaluating the solutions based on innovation, implementation, and relevance.

The $5,000 first place award went to Team Early Childhood and members Ann Broberg, Vanessa Hughes, Colleen McCowan, and Nigel Sharp, who pitched a kid-friendly cafe, bringing together a unique play area with healthy food options.

With an idea for a new app, Team Trails took home second place and $2,000. As proposed, the Irails app would combine user-generated data and trail maps to keep people up to date on trail safety issues, general trail tips, and current trail conditions. Team members included Cassandra Maurer, Cy Two Elk, Faith Kolean, John McManamin, Michel Ramirez, and Joel Wieman.

Team Neighborhood took home the third place $1,000 award for its solution to clean up a neighborhood based on creating art from The trash collected. Team members included: Emma Kelly. Lyndea Kelleher, Garrison Theroux, Nolan Klouda, Randy Moore, Katrina Chertkow, and Zack Archulelta. alaska.edu

SALMON SCIENCE NETWORK

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