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Kings of Fish: In Alaska, Salmon Means Life Each summer, billions of salmon return from the ocean to their ancestral spawning grounds, continuing the generations-old relationship between the fish, the land, and the people “Standing dead,” Don Honea tells me. He laughs—Native humor is very dry—because he is standing, clearly not dead, in the dim light of a Yukon River salmon smokeshack, holding up a five-foot cottonwood log that is indeed dead. It’s the only wood they cut to smoke their salmon catch, and the gnarled, musty aroma of generations of cottonwood fires seeps from the pores...

The Daily Herald Time tends to fly by once you find the right place, the right job and community to call home.  Just ask McDonald's General Manager Edythe "Dee Dee" Buchanon, who is celebrating 30 years with the company, and a team of fellow employees and customers she considers more than friends, but family. Or as she and the Trotwood Avenue restaurant's owners Tony and Gina Wolfe like to put it, the "McFamily." "I've enjoyed building these relationships, and I've worked in other restaurants, but this is my baby, my home," Buchanon said. "It's the people that I work with, the organizati...