The Talkeetna Community Council held a regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, March 1st. In the spirit of moving beyond the sports world, TALKEETNA famous recorded the event. The entire meeting is available below, but broken into component parts. Press play below to hear the agenda items that are listed above the play button. Some agenda items led to discussions long enough to merit their own play buttons. However, in some cases, several items are grouped into a single audio file. For example, audio of the first seven agenda items is available by pressing the first play button, while item eight, Persons to be heard, has its own play button.

1. Call to Order.

2. Volunteer from Board to take Minutes.

3. Approval of Agenda.

4. Approval of Minutes-February 1st, 2010 Regular Meeting.

5. Treasurer’s Report.

6. Correspondence.

7. Announcements.

—a. MTA Board Seat.

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8. Persons to be heard:

—Jok Bondurant.

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9. Assembly Update.

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10. Committee and Board Reports:

—a. Parks Advisory Committee

—b. Road Services Board

—c. MSB Parks, Trail & Rec. Advisory

—d. Talkeetna Playground

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—e. Forest Advisory (preceded by Arthur Mannix as a person to be heard)

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—f. Airport Improvements

—g. Railroad

—h. Main Street

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11. Unfinished Business

—a. Records location–Borough Response

—b. Articles of Incorporation

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—c. Non-herbicide Vegetation Control

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—d. Advocating for the Village Park–updates

—e. State Revenue Sharing with Community Councils

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—f. Susitna Forestry Council Committee members

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—g. MSB Natural Resource Management Units, comments

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—h. Susitna Community Council, AV Teleconference Technology

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12. New Business

—a. Co-sponsoring Railroad event with Talkeetna Chamber of Commerce

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—b. Main Street Committee motions

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13. Adjourn

While on the road covering Susitna Valley sports, I was recently asked whether Talkeetna continues to be an artsy or artistic town. My answer was a resounding yes. Perhaps the best way to answer this question is to peruse the Denali Arts Council’s website, and, of course, check out one of their events. There is a particularly good one coming up, The Complexities of Love. Performed annually on, or as close as possible, to Valentine’s weekend, it is a thematic variety show. Complexities is the brain child of Joe Page, a man who is Talkeetna famous in a variety of fields of endeavor. Joe is the driving force behind many theatrical events in Talkeetna, and was the primary force behind the creation of Talkeetna’s center for the performing and visual arts, The Sheldon Community Arts Hangar.

Complexities was born 11 years ago. Joe’s concept was to take poignantly dramatic and/or humorous scenes from a variety of well known plays and marry them to form an inspirational and/or cautionary tale about the pleasure and/or pain of love. I was lucky enough to be in the first two Complexities, reaching my all-time acting low point as Stanley Kowalski in a scene from Streetcar. All I did was scare all the kids. However, in the first year, I was allowed to perform with Talkeetna heavyweights, Chris Mannix and Jessica Stevens, in a scene from Cyrano De Bergerac, and play my all-time favorite role as Sganarelle, Dom Juan’s equerry. I’m still not sure what half the words meant, but boy were the soliloquies fun.

Complexities of Love runs from the 12th through the 14th.

In addition, meeting season is in full swing in Talkeetna. This week has already seen a Talkeetna Community Council meeting, a Main Street Committee meeting, a Railroad Committee meeting, and an organizational meeting for the Oosik Classic. The what? The Denali Arts Council has just engaged in a series of meetings to plan out the organization’s future. You are invited to attend the Denali Arts Council’s Board of Directors meeting on Monday night, February 8th at 6 pm at the Talkeetna Roadhouse. These meetings are always open to the public. If you have questions, or want to be on the agenda, you may call the Denali Arts Council’s office at (907)-733-7929. The DAC’s Board meetings are monthly, and are held on the second Monday of the month.

A couple days back, TALKEETNA famous promised you a change of direction, something completely different, if you will. Where better to go than to Talkeetna’s original hepcat, the man on the beat. When ice melts, it flows toward this man, to get its cool back. Never had a Moment of Cool? You won’t be saying that much longer. Dig it?

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I wonder if this cat would have any interest in adding a little color to basketball play by play? Speaking of which, both Susitna Valley basketball teams played last night. The games are covered below.