Haines High senior JC Davis got a knock on his front door last week. When he answered it, he found a high-profile visitor. It was the mayor, Tom Morphet, come on “bended knee,” as Morphet later described it, with $100 in hand. He needed the young Davis’ help. The trouble had started a few weeks earlier, when the local marching band, Morphet included, had been contacted to be in a community play, the Thirty Nine Steps. Many know the mayor as a …
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