At a Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce meeting in the early 1970s, Len Laurance said that eventually Ketchikan would host more than one million cruise ship passengers each season.
The proclamation, made at a time when less than 70,000 cruise passengers visited the First City, was met with guffaws by the audience.
But Laurance, who died at 88 on April 8, was right. In both 2018 and 2019, Ketchikan had more than one million cruise visitors and would likely have had more than 1.3 million in 2020 if not for the COVID 19 pandemic that shut down the entire Alaskan cruising industry.
In an interview in 2014, Laurance said his projections were simply based on a 10 percent increase every year.
KETCHIKAN (KDN) â The Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center announced seven COVID-19 cases on Tuesday; two that were reported late on Monday and five involving individuals who attended weekend events at Ketchikan High School, prompting Kayhi to close for students and staff on Wednesday.
The Ketchikan School District announced in a press release on Tuesday afternoon that it had âbeen notified of five positive COVID-19 cases of individuals who attended the wrestling tournament held at Kayhi on April 23 and 24, and one individual who attended the Kayhi prom and parent-sponsored after prom party held on April 24.â
The release noted that âPublic health, district nursing staff, and coaching staff are working together to identify close contacts.â
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KETCHIKAN (KDN) â The Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center recorded two new positive COVID-19 cases on Monday.
One of the cases was related to travel and one was determined to be community spread, according to a Monday update to the EOC s data dashboard.
Two cases also were recorded on Sunday, according to the dashboard. Both cases were related to travel, and one case involved an individual who was not staying in Ketchikan.
As of Monday afternoon, 13 of Ketchikan s 433 total cases were still considered active.
Results were pending from 28 local COVID-19 tests â down from 30 on Friday, according to the dashboard.
The local test positivity rate was 1.70% on Monday.
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