04/25/2005 03:30 PM Senate RESOURCES

            HB 256-RUTH BURNETT SPORT FISH HATCHERY                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR WAGONER announced HB 256 to be up for consideration.                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  RAMRAS, sponsor  of HB  56, said  it is  a naming                                                               
bill for the Fairbanks Sport  fish hatchery and was well received                                                               
by  the folks  in  Fairbanks and  the  Interior delegation.  Ruth                                                               
Burnett who passed  away from cancer a couple of  years ago was a                                                               
former city  mayor and an aide  to Senator Stevens. She  was very                                                               
committed to bettering  her community and among  other things she                                                               
was involved in the dialogue about a hatchery in Fairbanks.                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
4:51:51 PM                                                                                                                    
SENATOR SEEKINS said  Ruth Burnett was more like  a family member                                                               
to him  and his  family than  anything else.  He followed  with a                                                               
story about how she helped him  start the "Young Life Program" in                                                               
Fairbanks, an interdenominational high school  age group that met                                                               
for years in  her home, and then  moved on to meet  in his house.                                                               
He said:                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
     Ruth  was such  an inspiration  because in  growing her                                                                    
     family, she never  forgot the rest of  the young people                                                                    
     in the community.  As mayor she was a  dynamic force in                                                                    
     trying to put Fairbanks on a unified path....                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE RAMRAS said:                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
     She is  one of the  people that define a  community and                                                                    
     she did  that over decades.  So, it's a great  honor to                                                                    
     her and  the legacy  of her family,  as well.  I second                                                                    
     that emotion, Senator Seekins.                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
4:57:27 PM                                                                                                                    
SENATOR  DYSON  moved  to  report  HB  256  from  committee  with                                                               
individual recommendations  and zero  fiscal note. There  were no                                                               
objections and it was so ordered.                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
4:57:54 PM