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10 YEARS AGO

Sept. 15, 1998 — As an elementary school principal, Kyra Aizstrauts hears a bit of everything.

But on Friday, her son asked a question that took her by surprise.

“I have a third-grader who asked me if it was OK if the president had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky,” said Aizstrauts, the chief administrator at University Park Elementary. “I said, ‘How did you know about that?’”

Aizstrauts isn’t the only one asking that question.

Teachers throughout Fairbanks found themselves in a difficult spot Monday as students returned to class equipped with lurid details of President Clinton’s sexual indiscretion, made public Friday by the Starr report.

25 YEARS AGO

Sept. 15, 1983 — Area miners turned out in force Wednesday night to attack the borough’s proposed Comprehensive Land Use Plan for not designating areas within the borough for mineral development.

About 10 miners testified at Ryan Junior High School, and many others were in the crowd of about 80 people who attended the public hearing on the plan, which focused on rural issues.

Most of the miners’ opposition centered on designation of the mineral-rich area of Ester Dome as prime residential land.

50 YEARS AGO

Sept. 15, 1958 — The voyageurs of old could scarcely have told more interesting tales of their experiences than those recounted yesterday by a couple of young fellows who just finished a 2,000-mile canoe trip.

Their summer-long journey took them through the Mackenzie River system from Alberta to the Arctic Coast.

Then they went up the Rat River to the Little Bell and the Big Bell and finally down the Porcupine to its confluence with the Yukon River at Fort Yukon.

75 YEARS AGO

Sept. 15, 1933 — Public school in Fairbanks will open early in November, the School Board decided in a meeting last night and a formal announcement of the decision was made today by Louis F. Joy, president of the board.

“The time when the new public school building, now in the course of erection, will be ready for occupancy is uncertain,” Joy said today.

“We are reluctant to rent buildings and fix them up as we did last year because of the heavy expense that would be entailed again.”