Photo by ERIK HILL / Anchorage Daily News

Onlookers observe a brief fireworks display following the ceremonial lighting of "Light of the North, a Beacon to the Future" during Alaska 50th Anniversary of Statehood Day Saturday January 3, 2009 downtown.

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