2008 Woodie Awards
The Rainbow Connection Therapeutic Horseback Riding Program is a nonprofit organization in Anchorage working to help people with emotional and physical disabilities improve their emotional, physical and mental health. The group claims to "emphasize abilities rather than disabilities.
A small audience gathered on the top floor of the Hilton Hotel downtown, many of them older gentlemen and women, some of them UAA students. The weekly guest speaker for the Alaska World Affairs Council was introduced, and everyone applauded respectfully as Mia Bloom took her place at the podium for the May 30 meeting.
Former features editor Kaitlin Johnson ventures to the small southeast Asian country of Cambodia, which was devastated by genocide in the '70s. Three decades later, the nation is still struggling to recover. Johnson is working in the Children's Surgical Center, in the nation's capital Phnom Phen, while exploring Cambodian culture and blogging her experiences for you.