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Hello everybody, welcome to Iditarod Day 2025. We've got mushers going. This is the third one out of the chute. They got 1,100 miles left to go to Nome, and we're looking forward to making sure that Fairbanks sends them off right. We're safe.

We have a wonderful day today because this is what Alaska is all about, our state sport, making sure that we're supporting the mushers and the real athletes, the dogs that are going to go through this, uh, with their mushers. It's an incredible experience, and Fairbanks and our Golden Heart is doing it right. Happy Adidara Day, everybody!

Wear those treats up. Listen, hey, children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow, the snow. Children, I, I, I am dreaming of a white Christmas with a heavy Christmas card I write.

Man, too much for the man, too much for the man, he couldn't make it. So he's leaving the life he's come to know.

He said he's going, he said he's going back to find, going back to find what's left of his world, the world he left behind not so long ago.

My name is Justin Olness, and we're here at the start of the 2025 Iditarod. This is Rerun Kennel, and it was started by my wife and I in, uh, 2021. The rerun is kind of a play on the fact that, uh, many of our dogs— not all of them, but many of them— are rescues. So they came through either the Fairbanks Borough Animal Shelter or through other rescue organizations in the state.

Um, so we're kind of giving them a second chance or an opportunity to run again. Yeah, I got a handful of lead dogs, um, but, uh, of note are some really special dogs, Fly and Tippett. Those are brothers and sisters that we got as puppies from the Fairbanks Shelter, as well as Jig and Tango, brothers that we also got as puppies a couple years later from the shelter. And all four of them have turned into phenomenal lead dogs that I plan on relying on quite a bit to get to Nome.

I was incredibly proud of our Alaska State Legislature coming together across the aisle this weekend to override the vetoes, uh, especially for education funding. You know, we here locally have increased education funding to record levels. But every time the state has reduced their funding through a governor's veto, that's a burden on the taxpayers. And so this helps our students, helps our taxpayers, and really starts to set the groundwork to set our schools up for success going into the future. I want to thank the legislators truly for coming together across the aisle, standing up to political pressure, and doing what's right for our students and our schools.

You tell me I'm the one you treasure forever, forever. I know that forever you will always be the only one, the only one. You will always be the only Hi, I'm Caitlin Wilson. I'm the Public Information Officer for the Fairbanks North Star Borough. I'm here with my coworker Trish, and she's going to tell you why you need to be at the next public meeting.

You better be nice. You better leave a good comment. Hi everyone, we hope to see you at the next public meeting for the Chena Lake Plack Road Entrance Project. It's going to be on August 6th from 5 to 7 PM. We're going to show you all the cool new things that we're adding to Chena Lake Recreation Area.

We're going to be at the swim beach. We're going to have food, beverages, and we really hope to see you there.

Hello everybody, Fairbanks Borough Mayor Gryer Hopkins here on a beautiful Wednesday for my Mayor's Minute update. I'm going to tell you a story all about how this property got flipped, turned upside down with a partnership between the borough and a private citizen. We last year, uh, we held a foreclosure auction just like we are coming up this September 10th, and a guy in town bought this beautiful 50-acre land gravel pit that had junk all over it. And we worked with him to waive $10,000 in tipping fees down to their landfill to clean up this junkyard. He's been working hard at it, and upcoming on the September 10th foreclosure auction, a lot of those properties that you saw in the paper today are also code violation properties.

I mean, they have junkyards on them. If you win one of those properties and then come down and say, "This is my plan to clean up that property that's got a junkyard on it," we can waive those tipping fees at the borough landfill and save you tens of thousands of dollars. I sound like a used car salesman, but it's really important to make sure we can clean up our community, and I want to partner as the borough to help you help our entire community. Thanks, everybody.

[FOREIGN LANGUAGE] I'm Daniel Welch. I'm the Natural Resources Development Manager for the borough. We're staging our project for the West Chattanooga Development. This is a project that's developing outdoor recreational properties for private sale and private ownership. And right now we're on one of the trails that's been established for this project.

There are lots, and there will be lots along all of these trails that are available for private ownership, and that's the project's intent, is to get land in private hands but also maintain the beauty of the recreational nature. Using a new recreational zone, so that's going to ensure that your neighbors are doing the same thing, and you're going to have a great beautiful property. But not only that, you'll have the ability to have a, hopefully, a community of like-minded folks who want that same beautiful nature-protected property.

Forever, you make me feel like I'm living a teenage dream. The way you turn me on, I can't sleep. Let's run away and don't ever look back. Don't ever look back. My heart stops when you look at me.

Just one touch. Now baby, I believe this is real. So take a chance and don't ever look back. Don't.

Hi, I'm Tanner and I'm in 8th grade. I'm from Chinook Montessori Charter School and this week I'm mentoring with the Borough Mayor. We found out that we're getting $3.1 million for CNG buses. Alright.

Thank you. Why do you think public transportation is important? Well, because not everybody has a car or a good way to get around, and public transportation is a good option because for a day pass it would be under $10. And I'm not too sure about the price, but it's good because it's an affordable way to get around the city quick.

So I heard you want to know what's going on this Wednesday night in Fairbanks. Oh yeah, the P6 project. Oh yeah, I heard about that project. Isn't it that one government project that has such a long acronym that they made it into an exponent? Oh yeah, the Pioneer Park Boat Launch Parking Plug-Ins and Pegger Road Path Project.

P6! That's right. We want to talk to you about the Pioneer Park Boat Launch Parking Plug-Ins and Pegger Road Path Project aka P6. The plan is to have a boat launch go from this to this. It's going to be exponentially better.

6 Times, to be exact.