WHO IS FRED DYSON? Fred Dyson served as the representative for Eagle River in the Anchorage Municipal Assembly from 2017 to 2020.  He previously served in the Anchorage Assembly from 1985 to 1991 and in the Alaska State Legislature from 1996 to 2014.  He and his wife, Jane, have lived in Eagle River since building their home in 1974, and have three married daughters, seven grandchildren, and many foster children. Fred wrote a series of articles about boating safety in Alaska for the Anchorage Daily Times from 1991 through 1994 and for the Anchorage Daily News.  He lived on boats as a child, crewed his father's tug, rowed on the University of Washington crew, and learned to sail in a gaff-headed Grand Banks halibut dory.  He built a kayak, has canoed on Alaska's rivers and lakes, has commercial fished for twenty-five years, and has operated research vessels in Cook Inlet, the Gulf of Alaska, and the Bering Sea.  He sailed a Bristol Bay sailboat on Lake Illiamna, owns four boats, and has done research on Chinese ocean-going vessels and Asian shipwrecks in Alaskan waters. Fred is a mechanical engineer who has collected and worked on cars since childhood.  He built, tuned, and raced drag-racing and sports cars for several years, with very little success, and closely follows automobile technology.