A team from the White House visited Dillingham this past Thursday and Friday to check out the town ahead of a possible visit by President Obama later this year.
Alice Ruby, Mayor of Dillingham said, “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. So a pre-advance team would visit and look at different facilities and meetings and so on.”
Mayor Ruby says the team visited 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 spokesperson said they have no official details to share at this time.
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