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Fairbanks & North Pole

This web site is about Ice Alaska from its beginning as a Winter Celebration to its later inception as a corporate entity in the City of Fairbanks, Alaska

and

includes a page for Ice Alaska at North Pole.

By the Grace of God, I am alive after fifteen plus years as an Attorney (closing my law office in West Linn, Oregon in 2002) and thirty years as a United States Marine (retiring as a Sergeant Major of Marines in 1982) and now a soon-to-be postgraduate student at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. During my years in the practice of law and in my years of travel as a United States Marine, I have served and studied in almost all of the 50 states of the United States and some 42 countries around the world. As stated in the Marine Hymn, "I have served in every clime and place where I could carry a gun" and some in which I couldn't. In none of these places have I ever found anything of such unique beauty and creativity as that I found at the Ice Alaska World Ice Championships at the Ice Park in Fairbanks, Alaska.

All representations herein are provided from public informational resources (including public records, documents and newsletters of Ice Alaska), personal communications with many Ice Alaska volunteers, sculptors and visitors from around the world and with the Ice Alaska representative from the City of North Pole, and from various electronic media sources that tell the story of the early Winter celebrations in Fairbanks that led to the Winter carnivals and then to the formation of Ice Alaska as a corporate entity at the Ice Park, Fairbanks, and its eventual partnership with the City of North Pole during the 2007 Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. The videos and other images incorporated herein were and are provided through the kindness and generosity of friends and co-workers who wanted to help me make this small website as realistic and informational as possible.

As a United States Marine, an Attorney, and an Ice Alaska volunteer, I was very happy to assist in keeping Ice Alaska's members, volunteers and visitors safe and secure, and as a University of Alaska student, I was especially thrilled to help present to all who came to see such a demonstration of human creativity, beauty and love as expressed in ice by the sculptors of Ice Alaska from around the world. My special thanks go to all who helped me design, create and post this small web site of a business enterprise.

Photo by: Steve Iverson/Ice Alaska.com