On the eve of the Iditarod, mushers gathered inside Anchorage’s Dena’ina Convention Center for the traditional Mushers Banquet.
Outside, a small group of protesters dressed as Grim Reapers held signs claiming the race harms sled dogs. They were from out of state, of course.
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4 thoughts on “Grim Reapers show up on Iditarod Eve — and that’s just one item in The Alaska Story’s newsletter”
marxists turn everything they touch to ash.
The clown brigade. Misguided and grossly ignorant intentions. Sedentary, boring, obese overfed lives kills infinitely more dogs than the rich and varied healthy lifestyle of a canine athlete. I would suspect none of the masked clowns even owns a dog.
Idiots!!! The dogs love it.its,bred into them to run rUn run!
Only in such a blessed rich country, where those in poverty have a higher standard of living than most kings in the history the world, do people have time for such trivialities. Too many of our citizens are living off the sweat of the taxpayers; they don’t need to work.