RACHEL D’ORO
Associated Press Writer
NOORVIK, Alaska – The U.S. Census Bureau is launching its 2010 count of the nation’s residents in a remote Alaska village.
Census Bureau Director Robert Groves is flying to Noorvik in northwest Alaska on Monday to count the first household in the Inupiat Eskimo community of 650. Groves and other arriving officials are scheduled to be taken to the village school by sled dog teams driven by schoolchildren.
The first to be counted will be Clifton Jackson, a World War II veteran and the oldest resident, according to residents.