In honor of National Safe Boating Week, businessmen and boaters today will have something in common: all will be sporting life vests.

“I’ll be wearing my life jacket to work tomorrow,” said Docks and Harbors Port Director Carl Ucytil in celebration of “National Wear Your Life Jacket to Work Day,” a joint initiative between the National Safe Boating Council and the U.S. Coast Guard that lasts all day today.

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Assist

• At 6:54 p.m. Wednesday, the Juneau Police Department assisted another agency in the 5500 block of Aisek Street.

Child abuse

• At 3:16 p.m. Wednesday, JPD conducted a confidential investigation into a report of child abuse in the 5000 block of Douglas Highway.

The Sealaska Lands bill and a partial settlement went before a subcommittee on Thursday and now head to the full House Resources Committee for review.

Several Sealaska and federal representatives spoke before the House Committee on Indian and Alaska Native affairs regarding both bills.

The partial settlement, meant as a stopgap measure in the event the lands bill isn’t enacted, would transfer approximately 3,380 acres of the Tongass National Forest to partially fulfill the remaining land entitlement of Sealaska.

A U.S. House of Representatives committee Thursday will hear two different Sealaska land bills. Both bills relate to advancing the finalizations of Sealaska’s land conveyances required by the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.