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Petersburg doctor John Bergren and his family returned to town this month after a year working as a family physician in the eastern part of South Africa. Bergren worked under a South African government program called the rural health initiative, designed to bring foreign primary care doctors into rural parts of that country to help fill a shortage of health care professionals.
Joe Viechnicki spoke with Bergren, along with his wife Laurie, and two daughters Caddy and Ellie, about the experience.

The Petersburg city council has chosen its top candidate for city manager. In a special meeting Monday, councilors unanimously agreed to offer the job to a former Petersburg city manager, Richard Underkofler. If Underkofler does not accept, the council will offer it to Kenneth Weaver who most recently worked as a city manager in New Mexico.

Volunteer fire fighters this morning extinguished a fire in a trident seafoods machine shop and modular building off of main street in Petersburg.

Petersburg will have some extra representation in Juneau this legislative session. The city council interviewed a lobbyist and then voted to hire him during Monday (1/7/08) night’s meeting, but the decision was not unanimous.

Womens Aid in Violent Emergencies is now an official non-profit organization under the state of Alaska and is working to gain that status under federal rules. WAVE is an all-volunteer advocacy group where victims of domestic violence can turn for help in Petersburg. The group has been in existence for several years but the non-profit status makes it a bit more formal….and organizers are hoping to increase wave’s base of supporters and volunteers.
Matt Lichtenstein spoke with WAVE president Sunny Rice