Delta's Ice Classic winner finally identified
Of the eight 2006 Nenana Ice Classic winners, one was from Delta Junction. As an online reader of Alaska newspapers, I could only find three names of the eight winners. They were the three names as published in an article from Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
Dermot Cole's recent Sunday, June 25, column has a few words about the non-release of names of Classic winners. Dermot says, "I want to repeat a friendly suggestion I've made in years past. The ice classic should go back to the old practice of releasing all the names of the winners as soon as they are available." (Dermot Cole is a Fairbanks Daily News-Miner daily columnist.)
This seem very reasonable. Winning the Ice Classic used to be a big deal. When my family first moved to Delta Junction in 1984, one of our first community functions involved playing cards for Ice Classic tickets. We went to our new friend's home (NAME NOT RELEASED) on Nistler Road and had lots of fun.
As Dermot alludes, being an Ice Classic winner was a thing to be proud of. You were supposed to be happy you won. You'd tell everyone what you were going to do with all those thousands of dollars—besides "Go to Hawaii."
Dermot ends that little note with this, "According to the guess book, the winning tickets, each worth $33,812 were held by: Ronald W. Stewart, Fredericks & Co., Woolery, Joe Dinkins, Irene Roberts, Sharon Stockard, Ray Reinertson and Katherine Gauden."
Who is Delta Junction's 2006 Nenana Ice Classic winner?
Dermot Cole's recent Sunday, June 25, column has a few words about the non-release of names of Classic winners. Dermot says, "I want to repeat a friendly suggestion I've made in years past. The ice classic should go back to the old practice of releasing all the names of the winners as soon as they are available." (Dermot Cole is a Fairbanks Daily News-Miner daily columnist.)
This seem very reasonable. Winning the Ice Classic used to be a big deal. When my family first moved to Delta Junction in 1984, one of our first community functions involved playing cards for Ice Classic tickets. We went to our new friend's home (NAME NOT RELEASED) on Nistler Road and had lots of fun.
As Dermot alludes, being an Ice Classic winner was a thing to be proud of. You were supposed to be happy you won. You'd tell everyone what you were going to do with all those thousands of dollars—besides "Go to Hawaii."
Dermot ends that little note with this, "According to the guess book, the winning tickets, each worth $33,812 were held by: Ronald W. Stewart, Fredericks & Co., Woolery, Joe Dinkins, Irene Roberts, Sharon Stockard, Ray Reinertson and Katherine Gauden."
Who is Delta Junction's 2006 Nenana Ice Classic winner?
posted by Chris at 6/28/2006 12:21:00 PM
1 Comments:
Did you not realize that the Delta winner in your list is..it is Ron Stewart from Granite View Sports
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