<\/a>Assistant drill team coach Evonne Noonan, left, drill team captain Jennifer Fredrick and drill team coach Leslie Dahl pose photographs after arriving at the airport on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 1995. The drill team was greeted by a crowd of about 400 people. (Brian Wallace \/ Juneau Empire Archives)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
This week in 2005,<\/strong> Steve Vick, a Haines swim club coach, was greeted by more than 100 Juneau residents at Auke Rec after completing a 92-mile swim through Lynn Canal — taking 8 days, 4 hours and 15 minutes — in protest to the proposed Juneau to Skagway access road. “Progress isn’t development,” he said. “Progress is going ahead and taking this marine highway system and making it state-of-the-art, making it world-class, something the rest of the world can look at and say, ‘That’s an example.’”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\tOriginal Story: “Vick completes 92-mile swim” by Korry Keeker. 08\/11\/2005.<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t• Questions or suggestions for the Empire Archives series? Contact reporter Clarise Larson at clarise.larson@juneauempire.com or (651)-528-1807.<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three decades of capital city coverage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":890,"featured_media":101707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[73],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-101706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-ccw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101706"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=101706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}