A team from the White House will be in Dillingham this Thursday and Friday to check out the town ahead of a possible visit by President Obama later this year.
“We were contacted by some Washington staffers to tell us that it’s possible the president would make a trip to Alaska sometime in the late summer or fall, and that it’s also possible that he might visit some rural communities, and Dillingham had made the list of those communities,” says Alice Ruby, mayor of Dillingham. “So a pre-advance team would visit and look at different facilities and meetings and so on.”
Ruby says the team will visit various facilities, including the airport, the hospital, the school and the campus.
Ruby says she thinks Dillingham may be one of several Alaskan communities receiving such a visit this summer.
A White House representative said they have no official details to share at this time.
