Bill Popp came to Alaska in the winter of 1968 as a military brat arriving from Phoenix via the Alcan Hwy. Graduating from East High in 1977, he married his wife Nicole in 1979. After several careers, serving in political office, and growing corn and tomatoes and big-ass blue ribbon cucumbers in his greenhouse, all while raising a family in Kenai for 25 years, Bill moved back to Anchorage in 2007 to run the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation.