...working years commercial fishing in Cook Inlet. He later joined Local Union 302 and traveled the state as a heavy equipment operator building the highways and roads that we use and count on every day.Ray enjoyed moose hunting, clam digging and...

...an expert in numerous fields. Throughout his lifetime, he was a teacher, logger, commercial fisherman, heavy equipment operator, mechanic, oil platform worker, carpenter and home builder. He also spent time working on the Alaska Pipeline...

...He lived and worked on the North Road, Tyonek, Kasilof, Homer, Kalifonsky Beach, and Beluga working as an equipment operator, carpenter, logger, wrecker driver, deck hand, and stick building cabins and utility buildings from spruce...

...Calif. He grew up in Moses Lake, Wash. and moved to Soldotna in 1990, where he worked for VECO as a heavy equipment operator on the North Slope and in the Cook Inlet as a crane operator. He was preceded in death by his father, Wayne of...

...Mintken. He came to Alaska as a soldier in the 1950s. Over the years he worked as a diesel mechanic and heavy equipment operator all throughout the state, eventually retiring in the Kenai area." "Alvin will be remembered for always living...

...construction company Whitewater Engineering was working on another hydroelectric project, for Cordova, when it sent equipment operator Gary Stone to work in an known avalanche chute. An avalanche killed him, and Stone left behind a wife and two...

...Fay said he was keeping busy talking to job hopefuls about the company's openings for roustabouts, welders, equipment operators and other positions for work on the North Slope and locally. In about two hours, he talked to 110 people, he...

...and worked 5 years at ASRC (Arctic Slope Regional Corporation) in the oil industry as a crane operator and heavy equipment operator. Bob celebrated 35 years of marriage and raised four wonderful children with Celestina Stamer. He was a wonderful...

...give a much-needed boost to the region's ailing logging industry. Besides cutters, road engineers and heavy equipment operators would also get work and a virtually impenetrable forest would be opened to home builders, hikers and Winnebagos...

...still lives on a part of the old homestead, as do two of his three brothers, including Jeff, a retired heavy equipment operator. Steve said he finds it interesting that Foster Avenue has sort of become a de facto family project. "We've...