🌱 Remembering Gloria Hilsinger, a former Bethel nurse practitioner

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In today's newsletter:

• Remembering Gloria Hilsinger, a former Bethel nurse practitioner
• 70-year sentence handed down in Hooper Bay killings

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Cloudy, with a high of 26 and low of 20 degrees.
• Thursday: A little snow in the p.m., temps: high: 28, low: 15. ⛄️ Brr!
• Friday: An afternoon flurry, with a high of 24 and low of 13 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Gloria Ann Hilsinger 1944-2026 (fcfreepresspa.com) — Gloria Ann Hilsinger, a nurse practitioner who spent three years based in Bethel serving Yupik villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, died Nov. 5 at age 82. Her public-health career later took her to Washington state, where she supported rural school nursing and taught future nurses before retiring to Pennsylvania.
   

• Carawan sentenced in 2024 murder of two women in Hooper Bay (kyuk.org) — Bethel Judge Nathaniel Peters sentenced Shaquille Carawan to serve 70 years for killing Novely Rivers and Abigail Olson, both 18, in Hooper Bay in 2024. Carawan pleaded guilty to second-degree murder charges under an agreement prosecutors said was intended to spare the families further trauma from a trial.
   

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Friday November 13

• Tales on the Tundra
  Kuskokwim Consortium Library, 420 State Highway, Bethel
  7:00 pm

Saturday November 14

• Drop-in Stitching Circle
  Kuskokwim Consortium Library, 420 State Highway, Bethel
  2:00 pm

Monday November 16

• Toddler Time at the YK Fitness Center studio
  Kuskokwim Consortium Library, 420 State Highway, Bethel
  11:00 am

Wednesday November 18

• Brown Bag Lunch and Learn presentation: YK Delta AFN representative
  Room 118, Kuskokwim Campus UAF, 201 Akiak Dr, Bethel
  12:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday November 11

• Brown Bag Lunch and Learn presentation: Screening of “When We Die f
  Room 118, Kuskokwim Campus UAF, 201 Akiak Dr, Bethel
  12:00 pm

Friday November 13

• Tales on the Tundra
  Kuskokwim Consortium Library, 420 State Highway, Bethel
  7:00 pm

Saturday November 14

• Drop-in Stitching Circle
  Kuskokwim Consortium Library, 420 State Highway, Bethel
  2:00 pm

Monday November 16

• Toddler Time at the YK Fitness Center studio
  Kuskokwim Consortium Library, 420 State Highway, Bethel
  11:00 am

Wednesday November 18

• Brown Bag Lunch and Learn presentation: YK Delta AFN representative
  Room 118, Kuskokwim Campus UAF, 201 Akiak Dr, Bethel
  12:00 pm

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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