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Katie Mangelsdorf.
My experience as teacher and librarian in rural and urban Alaska led to my writing an adventure biography about Joe Redington Sr. , the Father of the Iditarod. Joe’s inspirational life showed he was a thinker and a doer–just the role model our children need. His dreams have preserved part of Alaska’s history, and he made history–coming up with the first long distance sled dog in Alaska and taking his team of huskies to the summit of Mt. McKinley. The character traits he lived, such as: perseverance, honesty, doing the best he could not matter what was going on around him, not giving into fear or frustration, trusting in himself, not letting limitations hinder what he could accomplish, the importance of his word and handshake, are all qualities that are inherent in every child and adult. These character traits can be seen through his often incredible adventures in Alaska. My goal is to plant seeds of “anything is possible if you only believe” and to light a spark of interest in reading and writing.
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Grandson of Iditarod legend wins Alaska race
AP, ANCHORAGE, Alaska
Ryan Redington on Tuesday won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, bringing his six dogs off the Bering Sea ice to the finish line on the main street of Nome, Alaska.
Redington, 40, is the grandson of Joe Redington Sr, who helped cofound the arduous race across Alaska that was first held in 1973, and is known as the “Father of the Iditarod.”
“My grandpa, dad and Uncle Joe are all in the [Musher’s] Hall of Fame. I got big footsteps to follow,” Ryan Redington wrote in his race biography.
Photo: AP
He previously won the Junior Iditarod in 1999 and 2000. His father, Raymie, is a 10-time Iditarod finisher.
Ryan Redington, who is Inupiat, is the sixth Alaskan native musher to win the world’s most famous sled dog race.
After crossing the finish in Nome at about 12:15pm, he said it has been a goal of his since he was “a very small child to win the Iditarod, and I can’t believe it. It finally happened.”
“It took a lot work, took a lot of patience, and we failed quite a few times, you know? But we kept our head up high and stuck with the dream,” he said.
Ryan Redington won the Iditarod on his 16th try. He was scratched from seven of those races, but his performance this decade was t