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Juneau is the capital of the U.S. state of Alaska. Juneau was named after gold prospector Joe Juneau, though the place was for a time called Rockwell and then Harrisburg (after Juneau’s co-prospector, Richard Harris—several books credit the Tlingit Chief Kowee with showing these prospectors where the gold was). The Tlingit name of the town is Dzántik’i Héeni “river where the flounders gather”, and Auke Bay just north of Juneau proper is called Aak’w “little lake” in Tlingit.

Trivia

• A large fountain featuring bronze statue pelicans stands in front of the Federal Building in Juneau. Pelicans are not indigenous to the State of Alaska; the proper artwork (an eagle) was delivered to Florida by mistake.
• Wyatt Earp’s pistol, which he left in Juneau when traveling to Nome, on display at the Red Dog Saloon.
• In 2005, the cruise ship industry was estimated to bring nearly one million visitors to Juneau
•  Juneau was the 49th most lucrative U.S. fisheries port by volume and 45th by value taking in 15 million pounds of fish and shellfish valued at 21.5 million dollars in 2004 according to the National Marine Fisheries Service.
• Juneau has an area nearly equal to that of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which itself contains 78 cities and has over 100 times Juneau’s population.
• Juneau is one of only five state capitals not served by an interstate highway. Dover, Delaware; Jefferson City, Missouri; Carson City, Nevada; and Pierre, South Dakota, are the other four state capitals with this distinction.
• A “Juneau body” is a humorous reference to an automobile with a rusted out undercarriage. Juneau is infamous not only for its impressive precipitation, but also for Alaska Department of Transportation’s propensity to salt the ice-covered roads.

On October 22, 1935, 22 Rotarians held the first regular Tuesday lunch meeting of the newly-organized Juneau Rotary Club.  The second oldest club in District 5010, Juneau Rotary was chartered on November 2, 1935.  The new Juneau Club was sponsored by the Ketchikan Rotary, the first in the state and 2000th club to be charted by Rotary International. Since then, the “Downtown” Juneau Club helped start a number of other clubs in Alaska, which in turn founded other clubs, thus allowing our District to span from Canada to Russia:

• Fairbanks, 1940
• Anchorage, 1941
  Sitka, 1941
• Petersburg, 1941
• Juneau Glacier Valley, 1964
• Juneau Gastineau, 1988

Over the years, the Juneau Rotary Club has been at the forefront of a number of community projects.  The list of community organizations helped by Rotary includes St. Ann’s Hospital, the Zach Gordon Youth Center, the Salvation Army, the University of Alaska, Juneau Parks and Rec, the Glory Hole, the Russian Orthodox Church and the Augustus Brown Swimming Pool.