Christoffer

This is Christoffer with his new sled. He has been "breaking it in" this past week.

Last hockey game of the season

Sunday night a hockey puck did this. We were all sitting on the bench between periods 1 & 2. I took off my helmet because it was hot. The goalie was standing by the boards and another player was on the ice shooting some puck toward the goalie. One shot went over the boards and i stopped it with my forehead. The cut was superglued at the emergency room.

Start-up of Plant 2

Here are a few photos for my friends at the ISLAND up north. Some of you may remember that plant 2 was shut down. These photos prove that urea is going to the #2 warehouse. Since the ice incident earlier this winter the coastgaurd has not allowed as many ships up the inlet, so we are now storing some product in the old warehouse too.

The conveyor belt came from a north road gravel pit. A dumpster is sitting on top of it. Scaffolding supports the corners. Some slanted plywood inside the dumpster directs the granules toward the middle. Quite the operation!

Tournament Time

We had a great time in Fairbanks for the Bantam tournament. The boys did very good, coming in 2nd place out of nine teams. You can see the score before the start of the 3rd period to the right of the top photo. Unfortunately, the score was the same at the end of the period. This is the Big Dipper rink in Fairbanks and it is great place for a championship game. The ceiling is mirrors. Above each goalie on each end, you can stand at the glass windows and see the game. There are trophy cases on the top floor with trophies and photos going back to the early 1900's. My favourite picture is one of some ladies on the ice with long dresses and hockey sticks in their hands and ice skates on their feet.

Chena Hot Springs

We took a 50 mile trip to the hot springs after the friday game. It was windy and below zero at the time of the photos. You can see the icicles hanging from Ian's hair.


In the bottom picture we are all in the big pool. I wish i had not missed an earlier photo op. There were about 5 middle aged women with hair that was white from the frost. They looked much older.