“Eat everything but the bones” was a sentiment shared at the first Art of Place lecture of 2013 at the University of Alaska Southeast Friday — the theme for the series this year is food — but Ed Kunz told me you can eat the bones too, if you prepare them right.

United Way of Southeast Alaska, formed in 1974 and incorporated in 1979, enters the new year with new board members and an invitation to agencies and organizations to partner with the nonprofit.

New board members

After the recent earthquake, residents were shaken and wondering where to best get information and instruction. Tom Mattice of the City and Borough of Juneau’s emergency management department said CBJ is working on upgrading emergency communication, but that having a plan in place is an individual or family’s best course of action.

If an earthquake of a certain magnitude occurs within a certain distance, a tsunami warning is automatically generated for all of Southeast Alaska.

“But that’s different for each community,” Mattice said, “We’re not critically vulnerable.”

A quake with a magnitude of 7.6 gave Juneau a jolt just before midnight Friday night. 

According to the National Weather Service, the point of origin for the quake was 205 miles south of Juneau. NWS has issued a tsunami warning for coastal areas between and including the north tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia to Cape Suckling, located 75 miles southeast of Cordova.

It is suggested that in a warning area, people move inland to higher ground. In an advisory area, moving off the beach and out of harbors and marinas is suggested.