The Mat-Su Borough has new floodplain maps available. The maps will be the subject of discussion at a public meeting from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the Mat-Su Borough Assembly Chambers in Palmer.
At the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Northwest Hydraulic Consultants, a company based in Canada and the Pacific Northwest, recently updated a 1985 flood insurance study commonly used in Mat-Su for insurance purposes.
The new maps used updated topographic data and aerial photography to adjust floodplain boundaries to show which areas might be affected by a 100-year flood. The new maps will be used by lending institutions and insurance agents to help determine who must buy flood insurance and at what cost. The borough plans to use the maps for flood-plain management.
Teen places second in piano competition
Wasilla resident Micah McKinnis, 17, placed second with duet partner Jasper Jackson, 15, of Anchorage in a Music Teachers National Association Northwest Regional Senior Duet piano competition recently in Portland, Ore.
The association, a national nonprofit for music teachers, sponsors a nationwide music competition each year.
The Northwest division competition included teams from Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
McKinnis and Jackson represented Alaska, along with their teacher, Svetlana Velitchko. McKinnis is home schooled in the Valley and has been playing piano since he was 7 years old.
The pair played selections from "Six Epigraphes Antiques" by Claude Debussy, "Hungarian Dance No. 1" by Johannes Brahms, "Laideronnette, Imperatrice des Pagodes" by Maurice Ravel, and "Sketches by Valery Gavrilin.
McKinnis and Jackson are alternates who could go on to compete in a national competition in Albuquerque, N.M., in March if the first-place team is unable to compete.
Boy Scouts hosting Valentine dinner show
Scout Troop 339 is hosting "Broadway in Love," a dinner show and auction fund raiser to help five scouts raise money to attend the 100th National Scout Jamboree in Washington D.C. in July.
The fund raiser, set for 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, will be a dinner show at Settlers Bay Lodge on Knik Goose-Bay Road south of Wasilla. For a $40 ticket, attendees will get dinner (London broil steak or chicken cordon bleu) and entertainment from a range of singing talent from Anchorage and Mat-Su singing songs from Broadway musicals.
An auction will follow with items such as art, vacations and signed Aces hockey gear.
Tickets are available at Little Britches Baby Boutique, 373-2800, or 545 S. Knik-Goose Bay Road, at Walther's Dental Center, 376-9449, or 1700 E. Bogard Road, Building B, Suite 204, or by calling Loree Seims at 315-1144.
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