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Alice Soolaimon Wood

By Megan Pacer • July 18, 2018 2:57 pm

Tags: Births, Community

Alice Soolaimon Wood was born at 8:03 p.m. Saturday, July 14, 2018 at South Peninsula Hospital to Mandy and Nicholas Wood of Nanwalek. She weighed 9 pounds, 9 ounces. Her grandparents are Alice Greene and Keith Seville of Nanwalek, and Geraldine and Leonard Roberson of Soldotna.

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