We had sad news the other day. The treasurer (1994-1999) of our Alaska Folk Festival was arraigned yesterday on charges of having embezzled thousands of dollars from the festival. As someone said, that's like having a nephew of Mother Teresa rob Mother Teresa. Our little folk festival, where everyone is a volunteer! It costs about $50,000 to put on but the actual festival week is free. It's paid for by concerts during the year, memberships, corporate ads in the brochure and by selling t-shirts, mugs and posters. They've tracked about $12,000 missing; the guy admits to having taken $3000-4,000. He pled Not Guilty yesterday.