Podunk Below the Masthead Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The raising of a much anticipated totem pole at Metlakatla, CityWest offers up their side of the story and a death in the downtown area, all the featured items of the Wednesday Daily News.

HISTORIC TOTEM POLE RAISING TO COINCIDE WITH ABORIGINAL DAY-- Wednesday’s paper outlined the hard work and long process leading up to next week’s Totem Pole raising at Metlakatla. The first totem pole in the community to be raised in over 160 years will be the featured event during the celebration of Aboriginal Day across the harbour. The background of the community and of the pole’s creator was featured as the front page, headline story…

(from  the blog a town called podunk, click on the link below to see the entire article atowncalledpodunk.blogspot.com/2 … 1787898579 )-