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Most notably she is recognized for her battle with local entities when striving to restart sports programs through the school.

At one point she nearly uprooted her family to a larger community due to these hurdles. Instead she faced them head-on and jumped through each hoop they placed in front of her.

“Everything started with COVID,” Fraker said. “Once COVID hit, everything shifted. The school administration was very reluctant to work with us in the community to reopen again per all the social distancing and masking and everything else that followed with ‘COVID protocol’…but we were all on the rise and ready to try and get back to normalcy. There was all of those excuses in the book, but then soon turned over to be money issues of course. That it had apparently gotten too costly for the gym to country wise email marketing list be open for a few hours a day to the public throughout the week. It got ugly there for a bit within the community and the school district.”



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In small towns and villages of Alaska the schools are the heart of the community and basketball the sport of choice.

“If we didn’t have our gym, we didn’t have much of anything,” Fraker said. “Soon began the decline in interest, in kids and families moving away. Suddenly we were left to almost no kids and are currently still facing the issue today.”

The town had slowly been losing residents since before the pandemic.

Fraker is a customer service agent for Alaska Airlines. Getting in and out of Yakutat is another reason families decide to leave. The isolation doesn’t foster new job growth so graduating students don’t have the desire to return home after college.

The wilderness is what the families like Frakers with history there love. The wilderness and basketball.