How many organizations?\u00a0 How many committees?\u00a0 How many boards?\u00a0<\/p>\n
How many subscriptions?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How much can one keep in one’s head?\u00a0 and still be able to access the information?<\/p>\n
Dad could read very fast – though not a whole book in 10 minutes with total recall as\u00a0someone recently claimed – and related knowledge of scientific and linguistic research to environmental, economic, anthropologic, and political issues.\u00a0 He figured\u00a0 that the more he learned, the easier it was to make sense of and retain, because each new fact related to something else he was interested in.\u00a0 Everything was tied to something else, “like a spider web.”<\/p>\n
Niilo’s Causes and Committees…the list will be too long for any one person, but I’ll start it off for all to add to:\u00a0 Community Building,\u00a0 Community Self-Reliance<\/p>\n
Healthcare – access for all<\/span><\/p>\n Neighbor Helping neighbor – one of founders of: <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Chena Goldstream Volunteer Fire Dept<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Northern Schools Federal Credit Union (now Spirit of Alaska FCU)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Head Start in northern Alaska<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Local Agriculture – Niilo harvested hay, had pride in the family garden<\/span><\/p>\n ….<\/span><\/p>\n There are many many more, but Heather is too tired right now, so please add to the list via Comments!<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How many organizations?\u00a0 How many committees?\u00a0 How many boards?\u00a0 How many subscriptions?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How much can one keep in one’s head?\u00a0 and still be able to access the information? Dad could read very fast – though not a whole book in 10 minutes with total recall as\u00a0someone recently claimed – and related knowledge of scientific and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}