Where is Mary Anne Alexie?

Here is a picture of a missing poster of Mary Ann Alexie.  Mary Ann Alexie has been missing since October 10th, 2012 from the Spenard neighborhood of Anchorage.  Their is a $3,000 reward for information about her disappearance thanks Calista Corporation for the recent donation. She was a student at Alaska Career College.  She is 34 years of age she is 4 ft 10 inches tall weighs 120 lbs.  She is an Alaskan native.  She has brown hair, brown eyes and weighs 120 lbs Does anyone seen her on Spenard Road lately was she in a Spenard hotel like Spenard Motel.  If you have any information about her disappearance please call the Anchorage Police Department at (907) 786-8900.

Farewell to my grandfather Robert James Swenson 1924-2012

 Here are a few pictures of my Grandfather Robert James Swenson one was at his home in Grand Junction in 2008, The middle one is a painting and the last one was my Grandfather with my mother Sharon in front a fireplace I think at his home at Snoqualmie behind the adminstration building used be the Snoqualmie school.

December 2, 2012 my mother had told my only living grandfather Robert James friends and family called him Bob Swenson has has passed at age 88.  He was born on June 23, 1924 at Snoqualmie Falls, Washington.  He passed away quietly on December 2, 2012 at the awesome age of 88 at the Veterans Medical Center in Grand Junction, Colorado.  He has two sons named Robert (Bob) and Jim.  He had two daughters named Susan and Sharon.  He had many grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.   He graduated from Snoqualmie High School in 1942.  He was briefly involved in World War II.  He married Wanda Thompson on September 1944 for 26 years had four beautiful children by her.  He married Lola Mavis Jamieson Case in 1972 in Port Angeles. He was a devoted father, grandfather and great-grandfather to many people. One of his favorite songs was Amazing Grace.  He moved to Port Angeles in 1970 lived there till his retirement from the Port Angeles School District in 1989.  He also in the 1970's owned an Exxon gas station.  He worked at Weyerhauser in the late 1940's and 1950's and at Boeing in the 1950's and 1960's.  During his last ten years he was in the Snoqualmie Valley he built a house west of Snoqualmie located on 381st Avenue SE it was built in 1961.  They spent their first Christmas there.  One of the picture is from the inside of the house.  When he was at Weyerhauser at the Snoqualmie Falls plant he overseen the computer automation of the plant.  He also was responsible for keeping the Snoqualmie United Methodist Church stove heated before during and after service so church members could get warm in the 1950's. He was also the church volunteer custodian and he believe in doing this for people and he refused to take money for his good deeds which I also have this same quality.  He was always treating his children and grandchildren with respect.  I also remember him making homemade ice cream with rock salt this was a Swenson trait because Grand Uncle George would do it to.  We were very close.  He was the son of Ralph Johan Swenson and Hazel Staurt one of seven children. He had three brothers named Stewart (Stu), George, Ralph and three sisters named Irene, Grace and Trudy.  Only Trudy is the only sister living and all of the rest of his brothers and sister have passed on already.  He was preceded by his grandchild Matthew Swenson who passed away in 1976 and his still born great grandchild Richard Alban Marion my first born nephew passed away in 1996.  He had when his closest brother Grand Uncle George passed away on September 1991.  I remember him and Dave Battey squeezing me tightly at the Swenson Farm.  It was like he lost his best friend when he lost his brother George.  I am going to enclosed a couple of pictures of him. I am the oldest son of Sharon Yakanak his youngest daughter.  You know every since his death I have a new perspective on foul language he also use to say that if cuss that is the language of the devil.  He was a devoted Christian my friend.  Here is a recent picture of a brick dedicated to him 

Will we get Justice for his other victims in the United States

Here are photos of Israel Coward Keyes.


December 2, 2012 the Alaska State Department of Corrections had discovered the suspect Israel Keyes decided to take the cowards way out and possibly commit murders all over the nation.  He has already confessed to the murders of Samantha Koening, Bill and Lorraine Currier. Here is the timeline on Israel Keyes was all over the nation according to my friends at KTUU Channel 2 in Anchorage.  http://www.ktuu.com/news/fbi-says-israel-keyes-planned-murders-stashed-supplies-120312,0,2130588.story.  We might have been able to save Samantha Koening earlier this year.  February 1, 2012 this moron took Samantha at gunpoint at a coffee stand next to the Midtown Anchorage Coffee Stand then dumped Samantha's body at Matanuska Lake near Wasilla.  He was captured by Lufkin, Texas police.  While in Alaska he ran a construction company which may have been a front for something else or a money laundering angle this kind of reminds me of the Bethany Correrira case where the landlords where money laundering and Bethany got caught up in the middle in 2003. 

Could limited taxi serve permits in Eagle River help local business

Here is the truth about what would happen if the Anchorage Transportation Commission were to issue limited taxi service permits for business in Eagle River and Chugiak.  As a taxi cab dispatcher for seven years their is not enough steady business in the area to make a profit without having to pick up trip in the rest of the Anchorage bowl to make an income.  Remember most taxi drivers have to pay lease, gas and insurance.  Taxi is not a charity.  A business does not survive if can not make a profit.  Bars in Eagle River and Chugiak to get their customers together should come up with a ride share program.  Senior Citizens and the disable could lobby their assembly members currently Debbie Ossainder and Bill Starr to get a van pool together with the assisted living homes to get their customers to appointment.  Taxi permits in Eagle River and Chugiak are not cost effective and will not make any money it is a failed idea.  Their is not 24 hour taxi business in Eagle River and Chugiak area to maintain one or one would already be established.  Even the Eagle River Shuttle can not stay afford to stay in Eagle River all the time just ask the owner he will tell you.  Recently a non licensed cab driver Megan Patrick tried offering free rides using her illegal gypsy cab service known as AK E-cab she says could not make a profit trying doing this.  If this was to happen Eagle River permits must be able to pick up in the Anchorage bowl if the current Boston Marathon tragedy has taught us anything we are one Anchorage not individual neighborhoods otherwise we should have permit serve only the area the permit owner lives.  By the way I believe since my Washington State vacation in 2008 in Spokane that the free enterprise system should prevail you more taxis better competition why can not someone like David O'Malley or a Will Merritt be able to own a permit even in the current Anchorage Taxi Ordinance 36 which I have read which needs some surgery you can go to the Anchorage Transportation Commission at 7:30pm on Monday, April 22nd, 2013 and the author of this blog will be their to testify and give copies of the actual testimony to all the comissioners and the transportation inspection.  Please show up if you want allow the freedom of the free enterprise instead of the taxi cab owner who are making more money on their permit and creating a cash cow.  If you believe in free enterprise and allowing more ownership of cab permits allow the industry to grow versus the top heavy argument.  

Anchorage needs another grocery chain

Anchorage for the past 13 years has really only had one grocery chain here.  Carrs Quality Centers owned by Safeway.  Yes, Alaska Marketplace was up in Alaska for a time.  Safeway choose the locations it was doomed to fail from the start.  Most state when a chain buy a group of stores the state decides the stores it must sell not in Alaska they let Safeway decide.  Whole Foods and Albertson's please come to Alaska we need real competition because grocery prices by Safeway monopoly have double and tripled due to lack of competition not due to being remote to the rest of the country. 

Attention Anchorage Municipal assembly and mayor why not penalize the panhandlers and the donors

Attention Anchorage Assembly and Mayor their is a municipal ordinance called 24.80.15 which prohibit unlawful solicitation on a public street in Anchorage, Alaska. Please also enforce this on the panhandler who is soliciting the donor parking as well. We can establish a consequences for this action



First offense a warning then a ride to Beans Cafe or Anchorage Rescue Mission if they refuse automatic one day at Community Service Lockup.

Second offense $500 fine for solicitor plus ride to Beans Cafe or Anchorage Rescue Mission if they refuse then either three days at Community Service Lockup or a week at Cook Inlet Pretrial charged as a misdemeanor.

Third Offense $1000 fine for the solicitor. Now depending on background and personal choice either can spend six months at Cook Inlet Pretrial charged as a misdemeanor. If they are not from Anchorage they have the option one time of having the taxpayers purchase them a one way ticket where they came from and unless it is an in state medical emergency they are officially kicked out of the Municipality of Anchorage if they show up again must provide positive identification then they will spend an automatic six month at Cook Inlet Pretrial for trespassing unless a medical emergency.

Now all these offense can be reduced in an exchange for alcohol and drug related treatment of offender and 500 hours of supervised community service each offense. Judges and defendants have this option during sentencing.

After the second offense notice the Municipal Health Department to send a notice to the State of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services and the Social Security Administration since most panhandlers are recipients of the fraud program called Social Supplementary Income which needs to be eliminated completely. Since federal law prohibits anyone having benefits that involves a criminal record since 1997 the last real Federal Welfare Reform Act which I had a hand in helping five states pass and support of last real GOP congress and President Bill Clinton signed it into law.

Please tell mayor Dan Sullivan, Anchorage Police chief Mark Mew and your assembly you want fairness in panhandling enforcement which means punish the panhandler and the donor. 

 

Mayor Dan Sullivan ultimately vetoed it and it stood in October 2012.

 

 

Here is a picture I took with my cell phone of the 12th and Muldoon Intersection the panhandler is the small dude on east side of the intersection holding a sign.

 

August 27, 2012 a cab driver called that a three car accident was caused by a panhandler at the corner of C St and Benson Blvd near Popeye's Fried Chicken.  Anchorage Police Department refused to give the panhandler the citation even though he caused the accident. 

 

We have a program in Anchorage called Change for the Better that is you give money to a Social Service agency not the panhandler do this period. 

 

Recently as of September 30, 2013 Anchorage police Mark Mew after numerous testimony from the author of this blog Mark Kim Marion and Tom McGrath they are now using the Community Service patrols to now offer these panhandlers a free ride to a homeless shelter.  If they refuse then they call the Anchorage Police Department they are cited with a citation.  Finally this blog is being listened too. We did it.  

 

Make bail amounts for suspects in Alaska should be above 100,000 for first offense

Alaska bail out amounts should be above 100,000 for severe crimes even on the first offense.  If you make penalty for the crime severe enough.  You prevent people from committing the crime.  You also should require at least 90 percent of the bail money before release instead of just 10 percent.  This will also deter crime.  By making the bail amount high you actually keep the prisoners in jail instead having to search for them later.  Having the bail amount so low it does an injustice to the victims of the crime.