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Thanks to the growing success of the super We Love Italian "Let Us Adopt Italian Language Students" campaign, grants are now available through COMITES of San Francisco, the "Committee of Italians Abroad" in our area.   The purpose of the grants is to promote and support teaching and learning of Italian language and culture in Northern Califo...

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Felice Pedroni, per gli americani Felix Pedro, nasce a Trignano di Fanano il 16 aprile del 1858, ultimo di sei fratelli. Costretto all'emigrazione, nel 1881, dopo una breve tappa in Francia raggiunse gli Stati Uniti dover partecipò alla grande corsa all'oro. Trasferitosi dapprima in Canada, poi, nel 1895, in Alaska nel bacino del fiume Yukon, nel 1...

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News-Miner Community Perspective: Fairbanks started because of the discovery of gold in this area by Felix Pedro (his Italian name was Felice Pedroni), an immigrant from Fanano, Italy, and the establishment of a trading post by E.T. Barnette to service the miners. Our Golden Days celebration each July celebrates and recalls Felix Pedro's disco...

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The Alaska Retirement Management Board has added $225m (€163.5m) to its real assets portfolio through investments in infrastructure and real estate.   The pension fund has selected Lazard Asset Management and Brookfield Investment Management as its separate account managers to manage public infrastructure investments.     Read m...

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Growing up, I had a friend with dark hair and espresso-colored eyes whose skin turned a deep shade of copper in the sun. Her brother was flame-haired, fair-skinned and freckled. (Yes, I'm positive he wasn't adopted.) While they both shared the same roots of an Irish father and a Native American mother, their characteristics couldn't have been more...

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by Sam Friedman   Fenano, Italy, and its sister city in Alaska have more in common than a link to the prospector who discovered gold here in 1902. There's also hockey, industrial sprockets and parmesan cheese. This week, Fairbanks hosted seven guests from Fenano, including town mayor Stefano Muzzarelli, his tourism minister and several...

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di Igor D'India Nel 1965 Walter Bonatti, famoso alpinista, esploratore e inviato della rivista Epoca, realizzò un affascinante reportage sulla sua traversata solitaria in canoa dei fiumi Yukon e Porcupine, sulle tracce dei cercatori d'oro, dei quali tanto aveva letto nei romanzi di London. Dopo aver fotografato il Chilkoot pass vicino Whitheh...

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Teachers and singers from across Fairbanks and North Pole are joining for one night to perform 26 Italian songs and arias on stage at 7 p.m. Friday in Davis Concert Hall in the University of Alaska Fairbanks Fine Arts Complex.   The performance is a fundraiser for the National Association of Teachers of Singing. The cost is $5 at the door, b...

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Italian line producer Nicola (Nick) De Stefani believes Alaska is a diamond in the rough that offers the film and advertising industries an untapped venue for incredible filming opportunities, and he's the just the man to get the ball rolling.   Nick discovered his love for Alaska a long time ago and he has used his vast knowledge of the sta...

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By Kevin Baird Chef Alberto Bessi, of Fanano, Italy, spent the past week in Fairbanks, and, after the eye-opening experience, he is planning to visit next year. When he was asked about his experience with cooking moose meat and eating it, the chef's eyes widened and a smile crossed his face. With only a small grasp of the English language, he...

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