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Alaska Community Honors Every Iditarod Finisher

  • March 14, 2013
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The winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has come under the burled arch in this western Alaska outpost, but that’s just the beginning for this community, where every musher to finish the race gets a hero’s welcome.The town’s sirens blare when each of the more than four dozen competitors is about a mile out, and the mushers are all treated like royalty as they cross the finish line under the famed arch on Front Street, and have their pictures taken with fans.Read more here: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/alaska-community-honors-every-iditarod-192854410–spt.html

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