Sponsors
March 2, 2018 by

Matson Navigation Company of Alaska, LLC (and formerly Horizon Lines) have been sponsoring Aliy and Allen personally for more than ten years and are a valued part of our sponsor family. Each year we enjoy a dinner with the Management Team during the week then on Friday morning we take the crew and a few dogs into the offices at the Port of Anchorage.

This year we took Junior, Dutch and Kodiak to the office. Just before these dogs were born, Aliy and Allen travelled to Dutch Harbor on the (then Horizon Lines’ ship) Kodiak and that is where the boys got their names so it seemed fitting they visit.

Matson is also a major sponsor of the Iditarod race so we thank them, not only on behalf of our kennel but for supporting the race too!

Aliy and Allen present Kenny Gill, Vice President of Matson with a Thank You plaque
Matson presented Aliy and Allen with gorgeous new street parkas
Kodiak went from lap…
… to lap…
… to lap spreading the love
Junior enjoyed the attention
Dutch in his fancy new Matson wind jacket
Thanks TEAM!

 

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  • Dutch Junior and Kodiak are great ambassadors.
    Thank you Matson, you’re awesome for sponsoring our favorite team.
    You have such great taste, we love your blue leis for the ceremonial start too.
    🙂
    Beautiful plaque and nice parkas.

  • Thanks to Matson and their support for SPK! Yahoo to Kodiak, Junior & Dutch–Your
    Good Dogs! Go Red & Black!

  • Good job – well mannered, Kodiak and Junior and Dutch! Way to go, SPK, for showing a lovely representation in the pageant! Thank you so much for the pictures. Good luck tomorrow at the ceremonial start. We are biting our nails already. Sunday is GAME TIME. Please remember that you have a lot of people cheering you on, Aliy and Allen, backing you up. SPK has a ton of fans, for good reason. You are great representatives of the sport of dog mushing and that’s why we continue to follow. We love you because you adhere to the happy and healthy dog racing creed. It doesn’t matter where you place.
    Allen – we know you are racing the ‘learning’ team. You are a helper to so many other teams. THANK YOU. But Aliy, we know you are racing to win. If you can finish this race with happy and healthy dogs -doing the best that you can do and the best that they can do – that is the prize. You have won.
    Even so, I am SOOOO psyched for this race. Mitch Seavey, you have a serious competitor! Aliy Zirkle is going to show you how it’s done!

  • How awesome is that! Looks like the dogs (and people) had a great time visiting….who knew Kodiak was such a lap dog!

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