Ester Community Association
P.O. Box 14 • Ester, Alaska • 99725

A General Guide to the Goings-On
in Your Neighborhood

Upcoming Events:

Stone Soup & Caroling: Dec. 17

The Ester Community Association was founded in 1941 to enhance and simplify the lives of Ester-area residents, and to help them work together for common goals. It has been a forum for cooperation and debate within our community, served as a social organization and the mechanism through which projects are undertaken to enhance the community. It maintains an area water well, a local meeting venue, and has built, maintained, and improved the Ester Community Park. The ECA supports and often works in cooperation with other groups such as the Ester Volunteer Fire Department and the Ester Lump Road Service Area.

While the ECA was incorporated in 1981, it remains a loose-knit social organization, taking on political and fiscal aspects of the community as necessary. Though it is a democratic organization, day-to-day decisions are made by an elected board of directors (five plus two alternates). Other duties are performed by a president, vice president, and a secretary/treasurer, or other members who have been appointed to oversee specific projects. The term of office is one year.

Interested in preserving or maintaining recreational trails in the area? Are other planning issues your hot button? Do you want to provide input (and sweat) to the well, the community hall or the park? Would you like to see an Ester Cemetery? Do you want to help at the library? ECA committees already exist for these and other local interests, and they are eager for your help.

Ester Community Association meetings are rarely dull. Interested and interesting folks from in and around Ester come together to address issues confronting the community and to share ideas and concerns. While these issues may range from the serious to the trivial, we meet with the premise that it is always worthwhile to listen to your neighbors’ ideas and to share your own. Your presence, your input, and your involvement can help shape the Ester in which you live today and the one to which you wake tomorrow.

“I have come across several types of association in America of which, I confess, I had not previously the slightest conception, and I have often admired the extreme skill they show in proposing a common object for the exertions of very many and in inducing them voluntarily to pursue it.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville, DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA

"To me, politics is the art of controlling your environment. If you don’t get into politics, somebody else controls your environment, your world."
— Hunter S. Thompson