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Calista pays to extend local Typhoon Halong recovery jobs after state funding runs out
Calista Corporation's board committed company money to keep local residents working on Typhoon Halong recovery after state funding ran out this fall, Calista President and CEO Andrew Guy wrote in a message published Thursday.
Calista is the Alaska Native regional corporation for the Yukon-Kuskokwim region. The money kept people from storm-damaged communities on the job longer than they otherwise would have been, Guy wrote.
Calista Brice construction subsidiaries employed nearly 100 community members, including 81 Calista shareholders and descendants. They removed debris, repaired boardwalks and did electrical, plumbing and mechanical work. Together they worked nearly 62,000 hours and earned more than $4.3 million in wages.
Those figures come from Calista's own account in Storyknife, its shareholder newsletter. Guy didn't say how much the board committed, how much of that work it paid for or how long the extra work will last.
"This disaster is deeply personal to Calista," Guy wrote. Many of the company's friends, family members and coworkers are storm survivors, he said.
The remnants of the typhoon hit western Alaska on Oct. 11 and 12, 2025. In an earlier Calista publication, a Brice Inc. project manager called Kipnuk the hardest-hit village and said Kwigillingok also lost many homes, community buildings and critical infrastructure.
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Kwigillingok, known in Yup'ik as Kuigilnguq and locally as Kwig, is a Yup'ik village on the Bering Sea coast of the Kuskokwim Delta, south of Bethel in the Bethel Census Area. Its neighbors along that coast include Kipnuk, Kongiganak and Quinhagak.
The village sits low on an exposed shore, and coastal flood warnings, high surf advisories and storm surge forecasts are a regular part of life there, with forecasters often naming it among the most exposed places when water rises along the delta. Typhoon Halong did heavy damage to Kwigillingok and nearby Kipnuk, and rebuilding has turned on federal disaster aid. Because that aid pays to rebuild in place rather than to move, the Alaska Legislature and the Anchorage Assembly have taken up calls on Congress to fund relocation of the two villages.
