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I'm not suggesting these bands don't exist, but that there are no reliable secondary sources to back up this claim. It also not shown or even asserted in the article that any of these bands have relevance outside of Soldotna. Please read this for more information. Beeblbrox (talk) 01:21, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Found a Federal Reserve website which answered a lot of lingering questions about the history of financial institutions in Alaska, many of which failed during the real estate crash of the late 1980s. I've had faint memories of a savings and loan in the Blazy Mall and of that S&L being the first of these institutions to fail. Here's what that website returned:
According to the same website, First Federal Bank was itself founded as an S&L in 1955, becoming a bank in 1983 before failing in 1990, with its assets picked up by First National Bank of Anchorage. FFB's location in Spenard wasn't kept by FNBA, being too close to their existing branch a quarter-mile to the west, built nearly three decades before. The FFB building was later headquarters of VECO Corporation for many years before they moved here.
I assume the failure of Peninsula S&L was a significant enough event for Soldotna, though I question whether the institution itself was that significant to Soldotna overall. Looks like National Bank of Alaska, after lobbying an early state legislature to allow for branch banking, acquired the Bank of Homer soon afterward and expanded to Soldotna probably not long after that. I have a photo in my collection of the Soldotna NBA branch taken sometime in the mid 1960s, showing it to be alongside one of the highways but otherwise completely surrounded by wilderness. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 05:30, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
First off, thanks to Ajohns90 for the work done to improve this article. However, several things. I thought that the practice of placing ELs directly into prose was deprecated years ago and is generally discouraged today. There's no DMOZ link and I haven't checked to see if a DMOZ page exists for Soldotna, but I would think that to be the more appropriate place for such links. While there's nothing I would consider harmful, there's also nothing I would consider useful. The most puzzling is the one pointing to the Donald E. Gilman River Center. Don Gilman served as borough mayor for 14 years and also served in the state senate, yet we're not acknowledging that notability, instead offering the impression that some random facility named for him is somehow more notable. More importantly, I don't see this as something that the world at large would really care about. The Alaska State Troopers is something that the world at large would care about due to that TV program. One of AST's detachments is based in Soldotna, which isn't mentioned, making a lot of the more trivial details which are mentioned out to be gratuitous advertising/promotion in comparison.
Any complaints about that pale in comparison to the notable people section, which is just one bad joke. When I think of notable people from Soldotna, I think of Burton Carver and Dolly Farnsworth and Justin Maile and Marge Mullen and Pat O'Connell and yes, even Les Anderson, not the names I'm currently looking at. From what I've read, Emily Johnson is actually from Clam Gulch. She was born in Soldotna because Soldotna is the location of the single hospital serving a large geographic area. This also appears to be the case with Travis Hall. That's called a contextual hole big enough to drive the Space Shuttle through, yet we create such a contextual hole in article after article after article. Pat O'Connell is locally legendary as a hockey coach and teacher at KCHS. More relevant to his notability is that he co-founded the Peninsula Clarion and was the first state legislator to identify as a Soldotna resident (though from what I can tell, he lives or lived on K-Beach Road outside city limits). As a legislator, he is still remembered today for being such a fierce partisan Republican that he once filibustered one of his own bills when the two Libertarians in the House at the time, Ken Fanning and Dick Randolph, signed on as co-sponsors. There's also John C. Davis, the owner of KSRM and sister stations, who has been associated with Soldotna and the broadcasting industry on the Central Peninsula since the late 1960s, very much a longstanding pillar of the community. "The Church of Born and Raised", the practice of artificially attaching significance to one's birthplace where none actually exists, combined with the slavish devotion to mentioning things strictly for the purpose of providing wikilinks to other articles instead of mentioning things because they're contextually relevant, makes up part of the reason why people question the need for notable people sections. Are we going to try and claim that Loren Leman and Mike Navarre aren't "from" the Kenai Peninsula because they were born outside, even though both spent almost their entire childhoods on the peninsula (Leman in Ninilchik, Navarre in Kenai and Nikiski)? RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 10:49, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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