The 2010 Communications Contest deadlines have been set as follows:

Thursday, Feb. 4: APC contest entries due. There is one deadline for all categories. (This is also the date of the February luncheon, so entries can be submitted then).

Monday, Mar. 22: First-place winners are sent to NFPW for the national contest. All entrants must be official APC members by this date in order to qualify for the NFPW contest.

Rules and Categories and an entry form.

Thanks to the Contest Committee members for their hard work and enthusiasm in making the contest bigger and better every year. Members include: Carolyn Rinehart, coordinator, Elise Patkotak, Amy Murphy, and Lee Ault.

Author, performer, former bar owner, TV commentator, and self-proclaimed “sleazy guy” Mr. Whitekeys will be featured at the November 5 APC luncheon. Don’t miss it!

Luncheon Information
11:30 a.m., Thursday, November 5
Golden Lion Hotel, 1000 East 36th Avenue, Anchorage

Lunch: members $16; guests of members $18; others $20

Reservations:
1. RSVP and payment through PayPal.

2. Email: thetus at gci dot net by noon Monday, November 2.

3. Call 274-4723 and leave a message, including a phone number where you can be reached. When calling or sending an email, please include how many people are coming and their names.

Mr. Whitekeys’ bio (from www.mrwhitekeys.com)

Mr. Whitekeys grew up in South Dakota, Iowa, and Arizona. His fondest memories of his youth were the days his father, a doctor, would bring home jugs of unusable blood which he would pour on the roses for fertilizer. No one in town grew better roses.

Whitekeys moved to Alaska in 1970, immediately began playing piano in sleazy bars, and for a brief time in 1972 he and his friend Bodfish held the Guinness Book record for the world’s longest banana split–an 800 foot confectionery monster built on Anchorage’s Park Strip. That record was broken a few months later in Minneapolis by some guys who cheated. Setting an ice cream record in below-freezing winter temperatures presents no challenge at all, but Guinness recognized it anyway.

While performing at Chilkoot Charlie’s in the early 70’s, Mr. Whitekeys and The Oosik Music Company gave the bar it’s world famous slogan, “We Cheat The Other Guy and Pass The Savings On To You!” The management thought they were kidding.

After closing the Fly By Night Club, he has had run-ins with the law for illegally photographing missile sites in Arctic Valley, illegally photographing the Seward Prison, getting too close to grizzly bears in Denali Park, and birdwatching in Mountain View.

In his spare time Whitekeys is addicted to coral reef marine biology, illegal fireworks, and is currently the President of the Anchorage Audubon Society. He will continue to embarrass the entire environmental community until someone else agrees to take the job.