Here is the report from the Last Frontier. My wife, daughter and I spent most of July in the Midwest (and missed the wettest July on record in Anchorage). This was the first chance for the grandparents to meet and hold granddaughter Nicole themselves. One of the highlights of the Chicago leg of our travels was to get matching father/ daughter football jerseys. On Aug. 2, we had Nicole’s final adoption hearing, and we officially ended our six months as foster parents.

The club had a final summer outing over Labor Day weekend on the Portage Glacier cruise, then overnighted at the Kenai Princess Wilderness Lodge in Cooper Landing. Our guest speaker was Mr. Barry Johnson, MLS, a librarian with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He discussed some of his current projects. The club’s fall kickoff event coincided with the NU/UNLV game, which was telecast here.