On Thursday, Oct. 23, 1986, Pope John Paul II canceled his tentative visit to Juneau. After his trip to Canada was moved to the beginning of his North America visit, the stop in Juneau would have been too difficult for the pope to make with the new schedule. <\/p>\n
A new post office was set to open in November, meaning more efficient service for customers and improved working conditions for postal workers. The Mendenhall Valley post office was to replace the downtown office and become Juneau\u2019s new primary service spot.<\/p>\n
In the Thunder Mountain Mobile Home Park, a group of residents quickly extinguished a fire in a person\u2019s home using a pressurized water fire extinguisher. The owners of the trailer were at church when the largest of their four dogs accidently turned on a burner under their deep-fryer full of oil, causing the home to be set aflame.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis Day in Juneau History\u201d is compiled by Empire freelancer Tasha Elizarde, who sums up the day\u2019s events \u2014 30 years ago \u2014 by perusing Empire archives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Thursday, Oct. 23, 1986, Pope John Paul II canceled his tentative visit to Juneau. After his trip to Canada was moved to the beginning of his North America visit, the stop in Juneau would have been too difficult for the pope to make with the new schedule. A new post<\/a> office was set to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}