Sitka Health Summit

12/21/2025

12/19/2025

🎄 Sitka Alcoholics Anonymous – Monthly Potluck & Meeting 🎄

Join Sitka AA for the last Saturday of the month gathering on December 27.

🥘 Potluck: 6:00–7:00 pm
🪑 Meeting: 7:00–8:00 pm
🎉 Theme: Christmas

📍 611 Lincoln Street
See House behind St. Peter’s By the Sea

All are welcome. Come enjoy fellowship, food, and connection as we close out the year together.

You don’t have to do this alone.

12/19/2025

The City and Borough of Sitka will hold a public outcry auction for obtaining a 2026 Plaza Vendor Space Permit and/or Plaza Outfitter Space Permit in 2025 for commercial operations of tours and excursions at Harrigan Centennial Hall, 330 Harbor Drive. This auction will be held for any vendor with an expiring permit and any other tour or excursion operation seeking a 2026 permit. The auction will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, January 9 and will be held in Meeting Room 6 of Harrigan Centennial Hall.

The application must be filed by Thursday, January 8 at 4:00 p.m. at the office of the Harrigan Centennial Hall Manager. For application and procedures, visit www.cityofsitka.com/cbsforms or contact Harrigan Centennial Hall Manager at 907.747.4090.

12/17/2025

Thank you to those of you that joined us for our ribbon cutting over the weekend. We would love to see you again at our next event this Sunday, Dec 21st for winter solstice and National Homeless Persons Memorial Day.

Winter solstice is the shortest day of the year and the longest night. It is also a day of hope because we know that every day after the solstice will have more light than the one before. Which is why it is an apt fit that every year on the Winter Solstice, we honor National Homeless Persons Memorial Day. We remember those who have lost their lives while experiencing homelessness and we look forward in hope to what can be when we care for and provide opportunities for all our neighbors.

This year, we will be commemorating and remembering this day by gathering as a community for a walk/run through totem park!

Registration will begin at 12:30pm on Sunday Dec 21st at the Mill Building of the Science Center. Registration is a suggested donation of $25 but is also a pay what you can/sliding scale to participate!

The run/walk will begin at 1pm. There will be soup and hot drinks in the Mill Building to enjoy until 3pm.

We will have purple and white ribbons for folks to wear in honor of loved ones who passed away while experiencing homelessness.

We are looking forward to this event and we hope you join us! See you Sunday!

12/17/2025

Alaskans near and far braved the cold to celebrate that Hítx'i Sáani Community has finally become reality, addressing a crucial need for the community.

12/16/2025

This was a Sitka Health Summit project

OPEN HOUSING - Andrew Hinton, Sitka Homeless Coalition executive director, and Deborah Vo, a program officer at the Rasmuson Foundation, cut a ribbon at the Hítx’i Sáani “Little Houses” housing development at the end of Jarvis Street Saturday. More than 100 Sitkans attended the event to officially open the units in the permanent supportive housing development located on Alaska Mental Health Trust Land. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)

12/16/2025

This was a Sitka Health Summit project

12/14/2025

12/12/2025

This was a Sitka Health Summit project

A record-breaking year for Fish to Schools!

Aatlein gunalchéesh to Shee Atiká, whose donation of 3,600 lbs of sockeye made this milestone possible. This is the first time sockeye salmon has ever been served through Fish to Schools—bringing even more culturally meaningful, nutrient-rich, local foods to students in the Sitka School District and at Mt. Edgecumbe High School.

Shee Atiká’s generosity allows us to increase the frequency of local fish meals on the school lunch menus and strengthens the connection between youth and the land and waters that sustain our community.

Together, we’re ensuring Sitka’s kids have access to food that is healthy and rooted in place!

📸 - and representatives