Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

The Forum on Zoom

9:00 am Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022

Alaska’s new member of Congress, Mary Peltola

Mary Sattler Peltola is the Congressman for All of Alaska. She was elected in August to fill the remainder of the late Representative Don Young’s term, becoming the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress and the first woman from Alaska to serve in the U.S. House. In November she was elected to a full two-year term in Congress. Rep. Peltola is Yup’ik, born in Alaska and raised on the Kuskokwim River. She began fishing commercially with her father when she was six and worked as a herring and salmon technician for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game during college. At age 24, she was elected to the Alaska Legislature, where she served in the House for ten years. A Democrat, she helped to rebuild the Bush Caucus, which passed legislation and influenced budgets that improved lives in rural Alaska under her tenure as Chair. After leaving the legislature, she worked as Manager of Community Development and Sustainability for the Donlin gold mine project and as Executive Director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. She served on the Orutsararmiut Native Council Tribal Court and the Bethel City Council, and on the boards of the Nature
Conservancy, Alaska Humanities Forum, Alaska Children’s Trust, and Russian Orthodox Sacred Sites in Alaska. Mary is married to Gene “Buzzy” Peltola and has seven children.

 

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Sunday Worship at AUUF & on Zoom

11:00 am Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022

Blue Holidays

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The winter holidays are billed as a joyous time for spending time with family, and friends and consuming in celebration thereof.  But sometimes our lives are not in a place where we feel we can celebrate or buy stuff, and our values may tell us to do otherwise as well.  What then?  How do we get through this month and make it okay to not partake, or partake on the same extreme level that society dictates?  

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