Klas Stolpe

Juneau's Gold Medal basketball tournament will be inducted into the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame on Tuesday night.

Della Cheney remembers playing with a family heirloom growing up in Kake, a rather strange-looking metallic object that wasn't easily moved about. The heirloom? a roughly 12-inch long, 30-pound unexploded round of ammunition fired by the U.S. military on the village more than 140 years ago.

Alaska Tlingit spiritual leader, elder statesman and Native icon Walter Soboleff, who died early Sunday in his Juneau home at age 102, called for respect and tolerance among races.

Looking out at a sea of young U.S. Coast Guardsmen, 67-year-old retired U.S. Army Maj. Drew Dix, a Medal of Honor recipient, said, "The faces don't change, the uniforms do."