Attorney John McKay, second from left, and Alaska Dispatch founder and editor Tony  Hopfinger, right, talk to Anchorage Police after  Hopfinger  was detained and handcuffed by the security detail for Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller at a Miller town hall Sunday in Anchorage, Alaska. Story here. (AP Photo/Anchorage Daily News, Bill Roth)

• Joe Butler, an Ex-Presser now working in marketing for the SR, writes of Hopfinger, who worked for the Press in the mid-1990s: "I recall a powerful spot news piece on a local connection to the Heaven's Gate cult -- the parents of one of the victims lived in CDA and had been wondering where their daughter was, and then found out she was dead. He won an Idaho Press Club award for this one. He and a photographer also spent an entire weekend shadowing one of the hotshot fire crews battling a wildland fire."
  

Question: Anyone recall Hopfinger during his short tenure at the CdA Press?