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Sunday, January 13, 2019 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 49, Issue 88

In the news Alaska Supreme Court orders mandatory retirement for judge ANCHORAGE — The Alaska Supreme Court has placed a Superior Court judge on mandatory retirement because of a medical disability.

Justices on Friday backed the recommendation of the Alaska Judicial Conduct Commission regarding Judge Angela Greene of Utqiagvik, the Chukchi Sea community formerly known as Barrow.

Greene’s attorney, Bill Satterberg, said Greene did not oppose the recommendation and did not stand for retention because she recognized she could no longer do the demanding job.

Satterberg says Greene served for less than five years and was required to go through the commission review for the medical retirement.

Greene became ill in 2016 but returned to the bench in July 2017.

While walking in December 2017, Greene was struck by a water delivery truck in Utqiagvik and knocked unconscious, leading to a second medical review.

Snow removal equipment strikes pipe, causes spill in village FAIRBANKS — A heavy equipment operator plowing snow in a Yukon River village struck a fuel pipe that spilled diesel.

The Fairbanks Daily NewsMiner reports an estimated 3,000 gallons of diesel hit the ground in the village of Beaver.

The spill is about the volume of 10 pickup truck bed tanks.

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation says the village drinking water well and the Yukon River are about 600 feet from the spill area.

The spill was discovered Tuesday at the Beaver Cruikshank School tank farm, a fuel oil storage facility.

The Yukon Flats School District is listed as the party responsible for the spill.

State environmental staff made plans to travel to the site Friday.

Beaver is 110 miles north of Fairbanks.

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Borough population rises as state population dips

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

Alaska’s population decreased for the second year in a row. From July 2017 to July 2018, the state lost 1,608 people, or 0.2 percent of the total population, based on a new report from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

The state’s total population peaked in July 2016 at 739,676.

As of July 2018, the population was at 736,239.

Of Alaska’s 29 boroughs, 18 lost population between 2017 and 2018. The Kenai Peninsula Borough gained population during this time.

The biggest losses were in the Municipality of Anchorage with a loss of 2,386 people and the Fairbanks North Star Borough who lost 734 people. The Matanuska-Susitna Borough gained 1,355 people.

Alaska’s population is continuing to grow older. Between July 2017 and July 2018, the

Source: The U.S. Census Bureau and the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. (Graphic by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

population of Alaskans ages Alaska has the fastest grow0-64 declined by 0.9 percent ing population of people age while Alaskans age 65-and- 65 and older in the country, acolder increased over 5 percent. cording to the Alaska Commis-

sion on aging. The commission projects the aging populating will double by 2042 before declining. According to the re-

port, the oldest borough was Haines, with a median age of 48.6 years old. The state’s median age is 35.2 years old. The Kenai Peninsula’s median age was 41.5.

According to the state’s report, the Kenai Peninsula Borough, which is home to an estimated 58,471, had a net gain of 361 people between 2017 and 2018, or a growth rate of .62 percent. The borough has seen an increase in population since the 1960s, however, between 2016 and 2017, the borough saw a slight decrease in population. Since 2015, the borough’s population has stayed steady around 58,000 people.

The state released their population projections in 2018, and the Kenai Peninsula is expected to slowly increase to a population of 58,696 by 2020.

By 2045, the borough may be home to 63,472 people.

Tim Dillon, executive director of the Kenai Peninsula Economic Development Dis-

See POP, page A3

Control of Alaska House remains Former assembly unsettled ahead of session start member honored in

naming ceremony

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The big question heading into the new legislative session Tuesday is: Who will control the Alaska House?

Republicans will hold 23 of the chamber’s 40 seats, which would be enough for a small majority. But party doesn’t always dictate how lawmakers organize.

Bipartisan coalitions have formed when the parties are closely divided or evenly split.

Organizations have formed, too, in bids to help protect constituent interests.

Rural Alaska Democrats, for instance, have organized with the GOP when it’s in charge to ensure their districts aren’t left out of budget and policy decisions.

The way lawmakers organize determines their top leadership.

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

In this May 12, 2018, file photo, Alaska House Minority Leader Chris Tuck looks over a document during a break in the Alaska House floor session in Juneau. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)

For the past two years, the House has been controlled by a largely Democratic coalition that formed with a goal of addressing the state’s deficit following drawn-out and gridlocked legislative sessions. The

few Republicans who joined were branded turncoats by then-state GOP chair Tuckerman Babcock, now Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s chief of staff.

In November, two of the co-

See HOUSE, page A3

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly Chambers were officially dedicated to Betty J. Glick, a former assembly member, in a ceremony before Tuesday’s assembly meeting.

Assembly member Dale Bagley presented the resolution to name the chambers after Glick at the November assembly meeting. Glick was a former assembly member from 1982-1995, and then again from 2002-2005.

At Tuesday’s assembly meeting, Bagley said he was happy Glick could attend the ceremony.

“Betty has been around forever,” Bagley said. “I think there’s a lot of people out there that have called her over the

years for advice on how to handle certain situations and it was a great opportunity to name these assembly chambers after Betty J. Glick. I think it was also kind of nice we got to do it while she’s still around.”

In 1981, Glick was recognized in the “Who’s Who of American Women” for her dedication to the community, the resolution said.

She served on the Kenai City Council, and was vice mayor of Kenai, and the chair for the Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning and Zoning Commission. While serving on the borough assembly, she was elected vice president and then president.

The resolution says Glick “has selflessly served the constituents of the Kenai Peninsula Borough since her arrival to Alaska in 1961.”

Faith-based shelter fights to keep out transgender women

By RACHEL D’ORO Associated Press

ANCHORAGE — A conservative Christian law firm that has pushed religious issues in multiple states urged a U.S. judge on Friday to block Alaska’s largest city from requiring a faith-based women’s shelter to accept transgender women.

Alliance Defending Freedom has sued the city of Anchorage to stop it from applying a gender identity law to the Hope Center shelter, which denied entry to a transgender woman last year. The lawsuit says homeless shelters are exempt from the local law and that constitutional principles of privacy and religious freedom are at stake.

Alliance attorney Ryan Tucker said many women at the shelter are survivors of violence and allowing biological men would be highly traumatic for them.

He told U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason that women have told shelter officials that if biological men are allowed to spend the night alongside them, “they would rather sleep in the woods,”

even in extreme cold like the city has experienced this week with temperatures hovering around zero.

Tucker said biological men are free to use the shelter during the day, adding there are other shelters in the city where men can sleep.

Ryan Stuart, an assistant municipal attorney, countered that

the preliminary injunction sought by plaintiffs was premature because an investigation by the Anchorage Equal Rights Commission had not been concluded, largely because of the shelter’s noncooperation. The investigation is on hold.

Stuart also said there is no homeless shelter exemption.

See FAITH, page A2

Kodiak officials say some city Borough seeks to increase voter turnout tsunami sirens not working KODIAK (AP) — Kodiak officials say nearly half of the city’s aging tsunami warning sirens are not working.

The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports city manager Mike Tvenge made the disclosure this week at a City Council work session.

Five of the city’s 12 sirens are inoperable, including one near the harbor master’s office.

At the meeting, council members discussed maintenance options and the possibility of replacing the sirens.

Later in the week, the council added a funding request to a capital improvements project list, making it the No. 2 priority. The top priority is replacing the city’s fire station.

Tvenge says most of the sirens were installed in the early 1980s. The original sirens were installed in the early 1950s and 1960s, with one still operable.

Officials want to request $1.25 million for tsunami siren upgrades.

“These sirens are beyond the recognized lifespan of 20

years and require annual maintenance,” states a resolution to add the siren upgrades to the capital improvements list.

Kodiak Mayor Pat Branson said dealing with the problem is important.

“These are people’s lives we’re talking about,” Branson said.

Tvenge said the sirens run on batteries, which are kept charged, rather than a direct electrical current.

“The siren is activated by a switch, run through the battery

See SIREN, page A3

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

A resolution to establish an election stakeholders group to explore election models to better serve the peninsula voters was introduced at Tuesday’s Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting.

The resolution would task the borough clerk in establishing the group, which would maximize accessibility and inclusivity in the voting process.

The stakeholders group would evaluate and solicit

constituent comments about various election models to better serve borough and municipal voters.

“While local elections directly impact the everyday lives of borough residents, voter turnout in the borough and municipal elections is typically low and the current election process consumes considerable community resources,” the resolution reads.

The borough conducts regular elections through traditional polling places open on election day and by mail See VOTER, page A2

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Kodiak-made horror short based on Tlingit legend

By JACK BARNWELL Kodiak Daily Mirror

KODIAK — After wrapping up a month-long shoot, a budding filmmaker is putting the finishing touches on a movie short produced on the Emerald Isle.

Cameron Currin, a Coast Guard member by day and film director in his free time, said his film “Kushtaka” is inspired by a Tlingit legendary creature of the same name, which translates as Land-Otter Man. The film is also adapted from “The Strangest Story Ever Told,” a story written by Harry Colp.

“I wanted to make a film related to where I’ve lived for a while,” Currin said. “I did a lot of research about Alaskan myths and came across the otter man.”

Currin said the myth stood out, so he did more research on it, which led him to “The Strangest Story Ever Told.” Colp’s story recounts how one of his prospecting friends, named Charlie, encountered a swarm of the creatures in Thomas Bay. “I read the book and really liked it, and wanted to make a short film based on the experience,” Currin said.

Colp first wrote about the creatures in 1900; his daughter Virginia published the story in book form in 1953.

The film is about 15 minutes long, has no dialogue and is shot in black and white in a tribute to the films of the early 1900s. An official one-minute trailer, which can be found at kushtakafilm.com, provides a foreboding musical track and plenty of up-close detail shots foreshadowing a less-than-desirable outcome.

The IMDB summary reads, “Based in the 1900s, a recently widowed prospector remains alone in the Alaskan wilderness during his desperate search for gold. Something has been stalk-

This December 2018 photo provided by Cameron Currin shows actress Alicia Currin acting in the movie short “Kushtaka,” filmed in Kodiak. Currin said his film is inspired by a Tlingit legendary creature of the same name which translates as Land-Otter Man. (Cameron Currin via AP)

ing him from the trees. Can he find his fortune and leave Alaska for good, or will he lose the only real valuable thing he has left, his own life?”

Currin said his two actors are his wife Alicia Currin, as Margarette Driscoll, and Kodiak local Paul VanDyke, as Timothy Driscoll.

Among those helping with the production were Kodiak resident Robert Wagner, producer and a makeup artist; Nick Dunson, set decorator; Fred Martin, production assistant; and C.E. Zacherl, art director and concept artist.

“A lot of people who helped were just co-workers or Coas-

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ties like me,” he said.

VanDyke said his experience participating in the film was positive.

“It was the first time I ever shot a film with someone else directing,” VanDyke said. “Taking direction from a director was a new but good experience.”

VanDyke said the teamwork with involved with the small crew was what made everything special.

“Cam is a great director and we have a solid team, so that’s what made it special for me,” VanDyke said. “The guys that were helping with the behind the scenes stuff were a lot of fun to work with.”

VanDyke added that the black and white format brings something different to the table, beyond saving money.

“I like it because it puts the movie more into the film’s period — it’s more like an old-time movie and it fits because it’s a piece period,” VanDyke said.

“I also think from a cinematic perspective it reduces some distraction of color and makes you focus on what is happening on the screen.”

Currin has some background in drama, having acted in middle school and high school.

However, his experience in film was initially limited to playing around with amateur video

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The shelter officials even paid for a taxi to take her to a hospital for treatment of a forehead wound from fighting at another shelter, according to alliance attorneys.

The same individual showed up the following day and again was denied entry, according to the motion for a preliminary injunction. Plaintiffs say they want the federal court to make clear that the shelter is not violating the law.

Alliance Defending Freedom also represented a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. In a limited decision, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the baker, but it did not rule on the larger issue of whether businesses can invoke religious objections to refuse service to gays and lesbians.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified the alliance as an LBGT hate group, one that seeks to push transgender people “back into the shadows.”

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If there is, he said, it is “a legal theory that cannot be described as obvious,” he said.

The city wants the federal court to abstain from the case, saying the matter should be allowed to proceed to completion by the commission.

At the end of the proceeding, Gleason said she will take the matter under advisement.

The shelter operators filed a federal lawsuit against the city and its Equal Rights Commission in August, months after a transgender woman complained to the commission that she was denied housing at the shelter.

The plaintiffs maintain the person identified only as “Jessie Doe” showed up inebriated after hours in January 2018 and was not turned away because of gender, a point Tucker raised again in court Friday.

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and produce, with most of the crew volunteering.

Production and filming were done between November and December. The team faced a number of memorable obstacles — including the Nov. 30 earthquake on the first day of filming.

“That was the day when we first wanted to shoot and then we had that tsunami scare,” Currin said. “Luckily, nothing bad happened.”

Then, there was the challenge of shooting in a Kodiak winter.

“There were a few times when it snowed and we didn’t account for it, as flurries came into the shot,” Currin said.

“It did work out toward the end because the snow was intended for the final scene,” he said. “Having all that scenery from Kodiak makes it beautiful and stand out.”

In the end, he said the challenges were worth it.

“I always wanted to do it, and now it’s down,” Currin said.

“It’s going to be really cool to see that work come to a close.”

Currin said he financed the film out of his own pocket, with a budget of approximately $10,000.

Now, he’s in the process of starting a crowdfunding campaign to help cover some additional costs. In addition, he said he’s trying to arrange a local showing but said those plans are still up in the air.

“I’m not asking for much, just enough to ship off to film festivals,” he said.

The campaign kicks off on Jan. 15 and will run for 40 days. He said donors will be recognized.

“I still have some room in the credits for backers,” Currin said. “We have a process that if you contribute you get your name in the credits.”

making.

“I’ve always been attached to that creative outlet,” he said.

“This is my first film to professionally make. I realized if I wanted to make films, I should start with a short.”

He added that he’s always been a movie buff with a soft spot for horror and science fiction films.

“I used to watch a lot of the old SciFi Channel and the horror movies on it like ‘Alien’ and ‘Gremlins,’” Currin said. “Movies like that were the golden age of sci-fi horror.”

The film took two years to For more information on the plan, two months of prep work and a roughly a month to film movie, visit kushtakafilm.com.

Around Alaska Sealaska Heritage Institute donates exhibit to schools JUNEAU — The Sealaska Heritage Institute is donating copies of an exhibit featuring Alaska Native place names to schools across the region.

The interactive exhibit called “Our Grandparents’ Names on the Land” also features indigenous fishing tools.

Heritage Institute officials say the display offers a look at how Native people in the area survived and thrived historically. Institute president Rosita Worl says the donation can ensure that all students learn about Native history and cultures.

Each of the 17 copies of the exhibit are stored on a hard drive and include videos and interactive components. The material also includes 33 lesson plans involving the exhibit.

The institute’s live exhibit was unveiled last year.

Sealaska Heritage Institute is the nonprofit cultural and educational arm of Juneau-based Sealaska Corp., a regional Native corporation.

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for more remote precincts through absentee and in-person voting sites, according to the resolution.

The stakeholder’s group would also research ways to increase voter turnout in the area.

The group would include a representative of borough administration, one community resident who would represent the interest of people with visual impairments, two members of the borough’s canvas board, one member representing the League of Women Voters, the municipal managers and one council member from each of the borough’s municipalities and two borough assembly members.

The group is slated to form and meet by August 2019.

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Melissa Fay Lomelin

Edwin Jay Oaks

March 30, 1980 - January 2, 2019

September 25, 1951 - December 24, 2018

Lifelong Alaskan Melissa Fay Lomelin passed away January 2, 2019 at Alaska Regional Hospital, surrounded by her loving family.

Melissa was born March 30, 1980 in Soldotna, Alaska to Glenda and Tom Hunt. She graduated high school from Soldotna High and married the joy and love of her life Troy Lomelin on June 19th 2004. Melissa’s greatest loves in her life were her husband Troy, her wonderful family and friends, horses, cars and art. She had a great sense of humor and an infectious laugh to match.

She always thought of others and had a giving spirit. Melissa loved spending time with her family and friends and was a bright and inspirational light to everyone she met. Her heart of gold was unmatched and unconditional. She loved horses and was an incredible artist. Melissa was unexpectedly taken from us but chose to share and amazing gift of life through organ donation.

We were honored to witness her becoming a forever angel and can only hope that her happiness will live on as miracles for other families.

Melissa was preceded in death by her grandparents and her mother in law Walda Rogers.

Melissa is survived by her Husband Troy Lomelin of almost 15 years, parents Tom and Glenda Hunt, sister and brother in law Melanie and Shane Noblin, sister and brother in law Amanda and JR Edwards, and nieces and nephews Emily Noblin, Gavin Noblin and Alexander Edwards.

There will be a celebration of life event at a later date for close family and friends.

Edwin Jay Oaks was born to Lenore and Edwin Oaks in Ashland Oregon on September 25 ,1951.

He is survived by his mother, sisters Marcia Rogers, Brent of Reno , NV. and Marilyn Reed, Tom of Anchorage , AK. and many nieces and nephews. Jay was preceded in death by his brother Scott Oaks.

Jay Oaks AKA “Jbird” embraced his maker in Reno, Nevada on December 24, 2018. Jay grew up in Reno graduating from Reno High School and attended UNR. As a young man Jay was a gifted skier appearing in the Hot Dog ski movies as a stunt skier. A person with many interest jay was also a hang glider pilot. Hang gliding from the mountains around Reno. His passion was fishing, he fished all over the western U.S. If it had water Jay was there to fishing it.

Jays need to fish lead him to Alaska and to the Kenai River, which will be his final resting place. Jay loved to fish so much, he became a Kenai River Guide so he could be on the water every day and became one of the best guides on the river. On the off season the Bird worked as construction superintend for a company supplying camps for the oil field, gold mines any remote sites.

Which took him all over Alaska as well as Colorado, Wyoming and the western united states.

Jay lead life to the fullest, always looking for his next adventure.

He chose never to marry or have children, for him his dogs and fishing was enough to make him happy. His smile and laugh will be missed by everyone who knew him.

Fair well old friend may you rest in peace!

Around the Peninsula

Tie One On: Fly tying

Learn to Tie Flies at Tie One On: Kenai Peninsula Chapter of Unlimited’s popular fly tying night. Family friendly.

Alaska USA credit union shutdown assistance AllTrout skill levels welcome. Vices and fly tying equipment supAlaska USA Federal Credit Union is prepared to assist our plied. 6:30 PM, Tuesday, Jan. 29 at Odie’s Deli in Soldotna. members who are employees of the federal government impacted by the partial shutdown through special programs now Community craft show in place. We encourage members to call our 24/7 Member SerThe Kenai Peninsula Homeschool Activities Committee will vice Center at 800-525-9094. host a Community Craft and Vendor Show on Feb. 2 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Soldotna Sports Center. For vendor inKPC to assist current, potential students formation visit www.facebook.com/kphomeschoolactivities or impacted by federal shutdown call 907-513-9469.

Kenai Peninsula residents who have enrolled or hope to enroll in KPC classes, but are impacted by the federal shutdown Family History and Resource Center opening are encouraged to call KPC toll-free at 877-262-0330.

The Newly Remodeled Soldotna Stake Temple & Family History and Resource Center will be opening to the public AK CESCL training Jan. 8. Located inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day The Kenai Watershed Forum will be hosting a 2 day AK Saints at 159 W. Marydale Ave. in Soldotna. Come and explore CESCL training on Feb 11-12 at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture our beautiful facility on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday mornAssociation in Kenai. With a 1-day refresher course on Feb- ings 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Tuesday, Wednesday evenings 6 p.m. ruary 13. To be eligible you must have an active AK-CESCL to 8 p.m. and Thursday evenings 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Go to the number and have taken the 2-day training within the last 3 Soldotna Stake Temple & Family History and Resource Center Facebook page or call our Center during open hours at 907years. Register online at www.kenaiwatershed.org 262-3581 for more information.

Nikiski Recreation Center activities —Daddy Daughter Dance will be held on February 8th at NCRC from 6-8 p.m. Tickets available at NCRC or call 7668800 for more information.

—A Cannonball Contest will be held at the Nikiski Pool Thursday, Jan. 17 at 6:30 p.m. The contest is $1 per competitor.

A swim test is required to participate. Prizes will be awarded in three age categories.

—Swim Lessons are open for registration. Lessons available are group and semi-private lessons for beginners, advanced beginners, and intermediates. Tiny Tots and Pre-School Aquatic play will also be available for registration. Lessons will be held January – April.

—Strong by Zumba with Samantha Pate: Mondays at 9:30 a.m. and Fridays at 9:30 a.m.

—Yoga with Lacey Stock: Mondays at 6 p.m. and Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.

—Body Blast with Lacey Stock: Tuesdays at 6 p.m. (no class on Jan. 15) —Spin Class with Teri Langston: Wednesdays at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 9:30 a.m.

—Strong by Zumba with Jen Ellis: Thursdays at 9:30 a.m.

—Open gym nights: Teen Center, Monday–Friday, 2:30–8 p.m. Full Swing Golf, Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–8 p.m. Call 776-8800 for more info.

Ammo Can Coffee Ammo Can Coffee will host Coffee with local Kasilof author, trapper and musher William Bill Laughing-Bear on Jan. 11 from 7 -9 p.m. at 35559 Kenai Spur Highway (next to Lucky 13 Fashions) in Soldotna.

The KPC Showcase presents: ‘We Up’ ‘We’ Up is a documentary film tracing the cultural, creative, and spiritual connections between indigenous hip-hop artists of Alaska and their peers across the circumpolar north. After the screening of the film Executive Producer Aaron Leggett, curator of Alaska History and Culture at the Anchorage Museum, will be on hand to discuss the film and gather feedback. At Kenai Peninsula College, McLane Commons, on Thursday Jan. 24 at 6:30 p.m.

Fireweed Fiber Guild gathering Fireweed Fiber Guild will have its monthly “gathering” Jan. 19 at the Soldotna Library from noon to 2 p.m. The public is invited to join us. There will be demonstrations of spinning as well as spindling. Bring your projects and come and learn all the activities that the guild participates with and are planning for 2019.

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Caregiver Support Meeting Training Caregiver Support Meeting Training: Part 1 of DVD presentation with Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA: Progression of Dementia Seeing Gems-Not Just Loss will take place Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 1 p.m. at the Kenai Senior Center. Training covers which level of dementia your care partner experiences to customize your caregiving techniques. Teepa Snow explains the appropriate levels of care needed during different stages, which types of behaviors to expect, appropriate activity, and much more.

Nikiski Community Council meeting The Nikiski Community Council will be meeting Monday evening, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Lake Marie Nikiski Senior Center on Holt-Lamplight Road. All residents of the Nikiski community are invited to attend.”

Yellow Bird dancers to perform in Kenai Yellow Bird Productions, an internationally known indigenous dance group, will perform at the Renee C. Henderson Auditorium at Kenai Central High School on Saturday, Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 and are available at the Kenaitze Indian Tribe’s administration building at 150 N. Willow Street in Kenai. The event is a fundraiser for the Tribe’s Yaghanen Program. For ticket questions or to contact the Tribe, contact Michael Bernard at 907-335-7290.

Trick Dog Class Kenai Kennel Club will be offering a TRICK DOG CLASS. This is an introductory class so no prior experience is necessary but it would be beneficial if the dogs already know basics like sit, down And work on a flat collar and leash. Next Trick Dog Class starts Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 5:30 p.m. for Novice & Intermediate Levels.

Please Pre-Register by emailing aknewberrys@gmail.com. More information about Trick Dog can be found at http://www.akc.org/ about-trick-dog/.

N.E.T.S. (Necessary Education, Technology and Skills) NETS is a FREE seven-week workshop to help adults gain skills, explore careers, and find a job! The workshop every Monday and Wednesday from 2–3:30 p.m. from Jan. 23 to March 6 in the Learning Center at Kenai Peninsula College. The course, taught by Terri Cowart, will focus on community service, learning about resources, and career/college awareness. Everybody is invited to attend (ages 18+) For more information, call 262-0327.

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— and once the battery runs down, it turns the connection off and starts charging the battery up. That’s why the sound might go down.” Tvenge said.

The system does not automatically provide information on whether a siren is broken.

But the sirens are tested every Wednesday. If the city gets a report that a siren is not working, staff will listen specifi-

cally to that siren during the testing.

Council member John Whiddon noted there was a possible system deficiency.

He said he doubts anyone from the “city is going to run around and make sure the sirens are working” if there is an actual emergency.

He said he wondered if there is an effective way implement an indicator system to identify working sirens and non-working sirens.

Tvenge said the city has not yet looked into the options.

Kim Dee Hughes

There will be a Celebration of Life memorial at the Alaska Sea Life Center in Seward, Alaska for Kim Dee Hughes on January 19, 2019. The time will be from 5:30 pm until 8:30 pm.

In lieu of flowers please consider donating to the Alaska Community Foundation, “Seward LIbrary Endowment Account”.

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alition’s members lost re-election bids to Republicans, and a third successfully ran for state Senate. His House seat went to a Republican.

Republicans, therefore, were eager to reclaim control, asserting the day after the elections that they had organized a bare-minimum majority, even though a race involving one of their members, Bart LeBon, was too close to call. While the race was being sorted out, ultimately in LeBon’s favor, Kenai Rep. Gary Knopp left the GOP caucus, saying the organization was too small and “doomed to fail.” Nancy Dahlstrom, who had just won a seat, left to become Dunleavy’s corrections commissioner.

The two Republicans who caucused with Democrats and won re-election have indicated a desire to be part of a coalition. Knopp, who hasn’t joined with Democrats either, has expressed interest in the parties working together. Republican Sharon Jackson, whom Dunleavy appointed to replace Dahlstrom, must be confirmed

by House Republicans and seated.

Some current or incoming Republican members have said they would prefer a GOP-led majority organization, or pledged to voters that they would only be part of an organization led by Republicans.

In 1981, a permanent speaker wasn’t elected until the 22nd day of session, and that organization was tenuous. That June, during session, the Democratic House speaker, Jim Duncan, was ousted from the role and replaced by Republican Joe Hayes.

No one wants a repeat of that, said Rep. Dave Talerico of Healy, a leader of the Republican caucus. The best outcome, in his mind, would be for his group to pick up a few more members.

He and other legislators hoped having everyone in Juneau, face to face, could help break the logjam.

The majority leader the past two years, Anchorage Democratic Rep. Chris Tuck, said having freshmen get to know members from the other party is important.

Tuck likes, at least as a starting point, a so-called committee of the whole. A version of that concept was floated in an Anchorage Daily News opinion piece by Republican Gail Phillips and Democrat Kay Brown, former lawmakers who proposed the Republican and Democratic-led groups share power, with co-speakers who would rotate in the duty and

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trict, said those numbers could increase if certain projects, the Alaska LNG project, are fulfilled.

“A lot depends on potential opportunities we have on the peninsula,” Dillon said.

Dillon said the Alaska LNG project would need 10,000 employees during the construction phase, and then 1,000 permanent employees.

“For every one worker, there is an impact of 20 or more jobs,” Dillon said.

Migration estimates from the U.S. Census show hundreds of borough residents left the borough between 2012 and 2016 and moved to counties in Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida and Texas. Many residents who moved to the borough between 2012 and 2016 came from many other boroughs in Alaska, including Bethel, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area and Anchorage

committee co-chairs. Under their proposal, the full House would vote on a leadership package.

“Right now, just staring at each other isn’t a very good process,” Tuck said.

Republican Rep. David Eastman, a conservative lawmaker at times at odds with his party, said organization should occur around agenda items and priorities, not around personality and positions of authority. He said two issues that lawmakers should begin organizing around are repeal of a sprawling criminal justice overhaul and following the traditional formula for calculating the annual checks residents receive from the state’s oil-wealth fund, both issues Dunleavy has championed.

Some legislators argue fixes have been made to the criminal justice overhaul, and allout repeal is unnecessary. The dividend calculation has not been followed since 2016, as lawmakers grappled with the budget deficit.

Typically being in the majority means bigger offices, committee chairmanships and larger staffs.

If lawmakers have not organized in a way that forms a majority by Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer would oversee nominations for and election of a speaker pro tempore, according to his office.

“The State is facing real challenges to move forward, and Alaskans need all branches of their government functioning to help find solutions,” Meyer’s chief of staff, Josh Applebee, said by email.

Dunleavy’s budget office has projected a $1.6 billion deficit for the coming fiscal year.

Dunleavy s aid he would work to ensure his budget proposal is in line with revenues.

North Pole Republican Rep. Tammie Wilson said cutting $1 billion would be difficult without major restructuring and she doesn’t think it could happen in a year.

But she said the state can move in that direction by asking whether certain services are necessary and whether some can be covered through publicprivate partnerships.

There was pushback last year against the level of cuts already made in some areas.

Alaska does not have a state sales or personal income tax.

Tuck said he doesn’t know how $1.6 billion could be cut “without tanking the economy further.”

The state has long relied on oil revenues and last year, after years of deficits, began using Alaska Permanent Fund earnings to help cover part of the gap. Earnings also are used to pay the annual dividend residents receive from the oilwealth fund.

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Donald Trump’s blunderbuss pulpit

OK, America, here is the word of the month: “blunderbuss.”

No, it is not a mass-transit vehicle Serving the Kenai Peninsula since 1970 whose driver has taken the wrong route.

You’d think most everyone in this Second Terry R. Ward Amendment-obsessed nation would know Publisher that a blunderbuss is a gun, an old-timey ERIN THOMPSON..................................................................... Editor one.

DOUG MUNN....................................................... Circulation Director It long preceded the automatic weapons FRANK GOLDTHWAITE.................................... Production Manager that wreak the kind of mindless mass destruction that has become part of our national routine. It had a flared barrel. Think of it as a mini bell-bottomed single-round shotgun. It was very inaccurate, but in its day, it caused a lot of damage. Could that describe a certain blundering and blustery chief executive?

Actually, that’s not the only word of the month. For President Blunderbluster and his obsequious gang that couldn’t shoot straight, their word is “crisis,” as in “national security crisis” or “humanitarian crisis” or even “crisis of the soul,” for crisis’ sake.

Oh, and let’s not forget the phony crisis … make that “fake crisis,” as Donald Blunderbluster tries to weasel out of the With the conspicuous exception fine mess he’s created. All his ready-aimof President Trump and some of his supporters, Ameri- fire approach has accomplished is a partial cans were appalled when it was revealed that Russian government shutdown over his insistence that the Democrats agree to spend $5.7 bil“troll farms” had launched a disinformation campaign on social media designed to influence the 2016 election. lion for a border wall. He needs to keep the blood boiling in his xenophobic base, But online deception about elections is detestable even but his scattershot attempts at intimida-

What Others Say

Disinformation campaigns threaten democracy

when it originates inside this country, as it apparently did in a 2017 special election for a U.S. Senate seat from Alabama.

The New York Times reported Monday that progressive Democrats opposed to Roy Moore, the odious Republican candidate in that race, created a Facebook page and Twitter feed purporting to represent Moore supporters opposed to the sale of alcoholic beverages. The convoluted strategy behind the “Dry Alabama” campaign was to associate Moore with calls for a statewide ban on the sale of liquor in order to alienate moderate, pro-business Republicans and help Democratic candidate Doug Jones. (Jones, who says he had no idea that the deception was underway on his behalf, was narrowly elected.)

“Dry Alabama” was actually the second case of Russian-style disinformation in the Alabama campaign uncovered by the New York Times. In December it reported on an “experiment” in which a phony Facebook page was created to try to drain support for Moore from conservatives and a “false flag” operation was created to suggest that the Republican candidate was being followed on Twitter by Russian bots.

Ironically, one of the participants in that project was Jonathon Morgan, the chief executive of New Knowledge, a cyber security firm that compiled a report on Russian disinformation for the Senate Intelligence Committee. Morgan said that his intention was to understand the mechanics of disinformation tactics, not to affect the outcome of the election. But the New York Times quoted an internal report saying that the project sought to “enrage and energize Democrats.”

The architects of “Dry Alabama” made no apology for trying to influence the election. Matt Osborne, a progressive activist who worked on the project, told the New York Times that while he hoped that deceptive tactics would someday be banned from American politics, in the meantime Democrats “cannot unilaterally give it up.”

That’s ludicrous. Misleading voters is not just another campaign tactic. It’s a corruption of democracy.

Jones, the supposed beneficiary of these efforts, sees things more clearly. After the first report of online disinformation, the senator said that he was outraged. He has called for investigations by the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department to see whether any laws were violated.

Even if they weren’t, this sort of deception is entirely unacceptable, whether practiced by Republicans, Democrats or Russians. Candidates should follow Jones’ lead in disavowing it.

hoot about the 800,000 government workers who hadn’t been paid.”

It is a straw, but a desperate Blunderbluster is willing to grasp it. He already put what was left of the squandered prestige of the presidency on display with an Oval Office address. It was a real tough choice for the broadcast networks. They had to decide whether to cut away from their fare of situation comedies and go with the one in the White House. They opted to carry the “POTUS Show,” simulcasting with the cable news networks.

That was probably a smart decision, and a few more people learned a thing or two.

The main thing is that this president thinks the First Amendment specifies a right to “peaceably dissemble.” Actually, it does allow his lies, as long as they don’t slop over into defamation.

So far, even though he repeatedly slanders Mexicans, Muslims, women and people of color, he gets away with it. Still, that night, fact-checkers swarmed all over him.

In fact, there really are crises in this country; a gun crisis, for instance, with more than 300 million privately owned modern weapons of mass destruction in the U.S. No matter how many massacres there are, or how frequent, political leaders are unable or unwilling to do anything about it, and that certainly includes President Blunderbluster.

State and DNR committed to safely developing Donlin Gold project

As Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR), I take very seriously my department’s responsibility to “develop, conserve and maximize the use of Alaska’s natural resources consistent with the public interest.”

Calista Corporation and The Kuskokwim Corporation (TKC) have similar responsibilities to their shareholders to develop their land responsibly. We share the same goal of reviewing project plans to ensure the Donlin Gold project meets the state’s strict regulations and can operate safely.

DNR coordinates the State of Alaska’s environmental and engineering oversight — Los Angeles Times, Jan. 8 as Donlin Gold, one of the world’s largest known gold deposits, finishes permitting and moves toward mine construction, operation, and ultimately reclamation and closure. Through the Large Mine Permitting Process, experienced state agency staff E-mail: work together and with local and federal news@peninsulaclarion.com counterparts on the key issues, conductWrite: Fax: ing a thorough environmental review. The Peninsula Clarion 907-283-3299 State actively contributed to development P.O. Box 3009 Questions? Call: of the Donlin Gold Environmental Impact Kenai, AK 99611 907-283-7551 Statement led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and commented on subsistence, The Peninsula Clarion welcomes letters and attempts to water quality, tailings and fisheries issues. publish all those received, subject to a few guidelines: State regulators brought significant expern All letters must include the writer’s name, phone numtise, permitting responsibilities and acber and address. countability to that federal review process. n Letters are limited to 500 words and may be edited to Does this approach work for Alaska? fit available space. Letters are run in the order they are We have five major metal mining projects received. that have operated safely and in an environn Letters addressed specifically to another person will mentally sound manner for decades. Cernot be printed. tainly, much of this is due to responsible n Letters that, in the editor’s judgment, are libelous will ownership — backed by the experience, not be printed. knowledge and dedication of our mining n The editor also may exclude letters that are untimely or program staff, who provide thorough and irrelevant to the public interest. independent oversight. Residents of the n Short, topical poetry should be submitted to Poet’s Yukon-Kuskokwim region wondering how Corner and will not be printed on the Opinion page. well the state program works can consider n Submissions from other publications will not be printed.

Northwest Alaska’s experience with Red n Applause letters should recognize public-spirited serDog, Interior’s experience with Fort Knox vice and contributions. Personal thank-you notes will not and Pogo, and Southeast’s experience with be published.

Kensington and Greens Creek.

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tion certainly have not strong-armed the Democrats one bit.

In fact, he’s weakarmed them, and they remain united and adamant that they will not fold this time.

When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told him Bob Franken again that there would be no wall money, he flounced out of the room, saying “byebye.”

Obviously Blunderbluster’s wall is closing in on him politically. He must dig out of the dung pile into which he willingly dived.

The Democrats seem intent on rubbing his nose in it. Now someone in his bunker has come up with a strategy to save his nose and the rest of his face. “How about this, President Trump (his other name): What if you declare a national emergency and divert Pentagon funds to pay for the wall?

Never mind that the situation at the border with Mexico doesn’t qualify as one, or that the courts probably will put a stop to it. Before they do, you can reach agreement without congressional wall funding, and climb out of the smelly pit you dug. Presto change-o, the shutdown will be over, and the opposition will have decided they had extracted a last pound of flesh from you.

Then you could stop pretending you give a

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specific components underlying the estimate of hundreds of millions of dollars in financial assurance needs. It relies on conservative estimates of the costs for reclamation, closure, care and maintenance. As the mine progressed through development and operations the plan would be subject to continuous state review and updates by Donlin Gold when warranted, with substantial changes subject to public review and comment, including concurrence from both TKC and Calista.

Overall, I’ve been very impressed by the rigor of the baseline data collection and analyses conducted for this project.

From tailings management to mercury and cyanide risks, to potential impacts on fish and subsistence resources, the project has undergone a high level of scrutiny. Donlin Gold has never shied away from tackling difficult questions, often going beyond legal and regulatory requirements. I’ve also seen the extensive and meaningful public outreach throughout the Y-K region by Donlin Gold and the agencies.

The permitting process creates a solid foundation that can reassure the public, Calista and TKC the project will be constructed, operated, and closed as promised.

DNR is committed to fulfilling its responsibility to develop Alaska’s natural resources with integrity for the good of Alaska, and we have high expectations of Donlin Gold. The State will fulfill its regulatory responsibilities to review and evaluate permit applications and enforce the terms and conditions of issued authorizations. With continued input from the local communities, TKC, Calista and others — and continued oversight by DNR and other agencies — I believe Donlin Gold can develop this world-class resource safely and for the benefit of the people of the region for years to come.

These mines have benefited their regions’ economic and environmental wellbeing alike. Fort Knox, at the headwaters of Yukon River tributaries, has received awards for its reclamation efforts. While pre-mine studies documented the absence of Arctic grayling in local waters, reclamation efforts achieved their goal of seeing 800-1,400 grayling over eight inches long at Fort Knox’s Water Supply Reservoir in just a few years. Eagles, moose, mink, otters, loons and many other types of wildlife share the ecology of this area.

Alaskans often ask how we can protect the environment throughout a mine’s life cycle, and especially about long-term, post-closure water management. Our understanding of and commitment to addressing these requirements has grown significantly in recent decades. We fully recognize the State must be able to mitigate risks and guarantee mines like Donlin will be taken care of, regardless of any ownership changes. We take this responsibility very seriously. The Reclamation and Closure Plan (Plan) prepared by Donlin Gold (http://dnr.alaska.gov/mlw/mining/ largemine/donlin/archive/) describes longterm water management and treatment. In coordination with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, DNR conducted a thorough review to ensure the proposal meets Alaska’s stringent water quality standards to protect fish and human health.

A major part of the plan includes Donlin Corri A. Feige is a geophysicist and enGold’s financial assurance plan, required gineer, and serves as Commissioner of the before operations can begin, describing Alaska Department of Natural Resources.

Nation

Granddad: Wisconsin girl has no link to suspected kidnapper

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. — The grandfather of a northwestern Wisconsin girl who authorities say was abducted during a home invasion that left her parents dead said Saturday that the family has no connection to the suspect and doesn’t understand why he targeted her, deepening a mystery that has captivated the state for months.

Someone blasted open the door of James and Denise Closs’ home near Barron with a shotgun in October , gunned the couple down and made off with their 13-year-old daughter, Jayme Closs.

Jayme had been missing for nearly three months Thursday when she approached a stranger near the small, isolated north woods town of Gordon and pleaded for help . Officers arrested 21-year-old Jake Thomas Patterson minutes later based on Jayme’s description of his vehicle. He was jailed on suspicion of kidnapping and homicide.

Investigators have said Patterson’s goal was to kidnap Jayme, but he appears to have no connection to the family. Jayme’s grandfather Robert Naiberg said in a telephone interview Saturday that the only thing the family knows for sure is that no one knew Patterson.

He said Jayme told FBI agents she didn’t know him at all.

“He didn’t know Jayme, he didn’t know Denise or Jim,” Naiberg said. “(Jayme) don’t know him from Adam. (But) he knew what he was doing.

We don’t know if he was stalking her or what. Did he see her somewhere?”

Patterson attorneys Charles Glynn and Richard Jones said in a statement they consider the situation “very tragic” and that they are relying on the court system to treat their cli-

In this Oct. 17, 2018, file photo, Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald speaks during a news conference about 13-year-old Jayme Closs who has been missing since her parents were found dead in their home in Barron, Wis. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via AP, File)

ent fairly. Charges are expected against Patterson on Monday, when he is expected to make his initial appearance in court.

The news that Jayme was safe set off joy and relief in her hometown of Barron, population 3,300 and about 60 miles from where she was found.

The discovery ended an all-out search that gripped the state, with many people fearing the worst the longer she was missing.

Jayme’s aunt, Jennifer Smith, posted on Facebook Saturday that Jayme was doing well.

“Jayme had a pretty good night sleep it was great to know she was next to me all night what a great feeling to have her home. As a family we will get through all of the healing process Jayme has. It will be a long road but we are family strong and we love this little girl so much!!”

Another aunt, Sue Naiberg Allard, posted that Jayme got “the most awaited hug ever” when she returned home.

Jayme told one of the neighbors in Gordon who took her in

that she had walked away from a cabin where she had been held captive.

“She said that this person’s name was Jake Patterson, ‘he killed my parents and took me,’” said another neighbor, Kristin Kasinskas. “She did not talk about why or how. She said she did not know him.”

Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said investigators are trying to figure out what happened to Jayme during her captivity and why she was seized, and gave no details on how she escaped except to say Patterson was not home at the time. He said there is no evidence Patterson knew Jayme or her family or had been in contact with her on social media.

“I know all of you are searching for the answer why any of this happened,” Fitzgerald said.

“Believe me, so are we.”

The sheriff said he didn’t know whether Jayme had been physically abused.

Patterson took measures to avoid leaving evidence at the scene, including shaving his head beforehand, and a shotgun was recovered from the home

where Jayme was believed held, Fitzgerald said.

Property records show that the cabin belonged to Patterson’s father at the time of Jayme’s disappearance.

The cabin is in Eau Claire Acres, a development about 10 miles outside the tiny town of Gordon, nestled in the dense evergreen forests of northwestern Wisconsin that are popular with vacationers in the summer and snowmobilers and ATV riders in the winter. Law enforcement barricades blocked the road leading to the property Saturday.

Naiberg, Jayme’s grandfather, said he spent a few hours with her on Friday. No one pressed her to talk, he said, adding that FBI agents and doctors advised them to let her speak when she’s ready. He said she was largely silent and did not talk about how Patterson had kept her confined.

Patterson, who was unemployed, remained largely an enigma Saturday.

He has no criminal record, the sheriff said. He worked for one day in 2016 at the same Jennie-O turkey plant in Barron as Jayme’s parents. But the sheriff said it did not appear Patterson interacted with the couple during his brief time there.

Over the past few months, detectives pursued thousands of tips, watched dozens of surveillance videos and conducted numerous searches for Jayme, including one that drew 2,000 volunteers but yielded no clues.

In November, the sheriff said he kept similar cases in the back of his mind as he worked to find Jayme, including the abduction of Elizabeth Smart, who was 14 when she was taken from her Salt Lake City home in 2002.

Smart was rescued nine months later after witnesses recognized her abductors on an “America’s Most Wanted” episode.

Shutdown puts strain on Native American tribes

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Fallout from the federal government shutdown is hurting Native Americans as dwindling funds hamper access to health care and other services. The pain is especially deep in tribal communities with high rates of poverty and unemployment, where one person often supports an extended family.

The effects were being felt far and wide.

In New Mexico, a lone police officer patrolled a Native American reservation larger in size than Houston on a shift that normally has three people, responding to multiple car wrecks during a snow storm, emergency calls and requests for welfare checks.

Elsewhere, federally funded road maintenance programs are operating with skeleton crews and struggling to keep roads clear on remote reservations. Tribal members said they can’t get referrals for specialty care from the Indian Health Service if their conditions aren’t life-threatening.

Native American tribes rely heavily on funding guaranteed by treaties with the U.S., acts of Congress and other agreements for public safety, social services, education and health care for their members.

Because of the shutdown, tribal officials say some programs are on the brink of collapse and others are surviving with tribes filling funding gaps.

About 9,000 Indian Health Service employees, or 60 percent, are working without pay and 35 percent are working with funding streams not affected by the shutdown, according to the Health and Human Services department’s shutdown plan. That includes staff providing direct care to patients. The agency delivers health care to about 2.2 million Native Americans and Alaska Natives.

The agency gets money from the Interior Department, whose budget is snared by the shutdown.

For many tribal members, IHS is the only option for health care unless they want to pay out of pocket

Nia Tagoai, a patient scheduler at a clinic offering health care and other services operated by the Seattle Indian Health Board, works at her desk Friday, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

or have other insurance. Benefits under programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are unaffected by the partial government shutdown.

Much administrative work at IHS has come to a halt, and while most of it doesn’t have an immediate effect on health care delivery, some patients were experiencing delays.

Clara Pratte’s 68-year-old mother had surgery to clear up vision in one of her eyes earlier this month, but the Navajo woman wasn’t able to get a referral from IHS for a follow-up appointment after pressure built up in her eye.

“We’re managing, but it’s a matter of when the government might open again to have it evaluated by a specialist,” Pratte said.

In Washington state, the Seattle Indian Health Board plans to cut services if the federal shutdown continues more than a week or two. Endangered programs include an in-patient treatment center for chemical dependency and a traditional medicine program that incorporates a sweat lodge, storytelling and drumming to help people in recovery, government affairs officer Aren Sparck said.

About one-fourth of the organization’s funding comes from IHS, he said.

IHS spokesman Joshua Barnett said tribal health programs and ones in urban areas can continue operating, but the agency

cannot fund them during the shutdown.

Leaders of Native American organizations wrote to Congress on Thursday describing the impact the shutdown is having on their communities, including on education, housing programs, child welfare and economic development.

“The long-term effects of this shutdown will ripple throughout our communities for months or even years following the reopening of the government,” read the letter released by the National Congress of American Indians.

Michelle Begay was furloughed in late December from her administrative job with IHS and said she cannot seek work in

the same field under the agency’s regulations.

She doesn’t know how she will pay for her daughter’s parking pass for college or a plane ticket to Chicago to see her son graduate from a Naval academy next month without dipping into her savings. If she does, she risks not being able to cover her house payment and utilities beyond January.

Begay also had applied for health insurance through her employer before the new year to avoid high deductibles on her husband’s plan, but the paperwork didn’t get processed because of the shutdown. She recently paid $600 to be seen for bronchitis but couldn’t cover the costs when she was hit with a second bout. She went to an IHS clinic after calling for three days to get an appointment.

“I was very fortunate, my situation was treatable,” she said. “My lung didn’t collapse, that’s what they were really concerned about. But, still, I had to wait two, almost three days to be seen.”

Another federal agency serving Native Americans, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, was expected to furlough nearly 2,300 of its roughly 4,060 workers, according to its contingency plan.

An agency spokeswoman didn’t respond to messages left by The Associated Press.

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Peninsula Clarion | Sunday, January 13, 2019 | A5

US stocks drift in a quiet close to another winning week

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers

NEW YORK — U.S. stock indexes nestled a hair lower on Friday after the falling price of oil weighed on energy companies, but the S&P 500 nevertheless closed out its third straight winning week following a brutal stretch in December.

It was a day full of broken streaks — oil fell for the first time in two weeks, and the yield on the 10-year Treasury note sank to its first loss in more than a week — but the market remained calm through it. Gradual moves for markets in recent days have offered a respite following the tumultuous trading that rocked investors in late 2018.

“After some of the initial gains we saw earlier in the week I think it’s just a rally looking tired,” said Willie Delwiche, investment strategist at Baird.

“I think it’s probably not much more than a chance for people to digest the move and try to get a sense of whether we’ve had a bounce — and this is it — or maybe a pause as we continue to move higher.”

The S&P 500 edged down by 0.38 points, or less than 0.1 percent, to 2,596.26. Last month, a typical day for the index was a swing 10 times that.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 5.97 points, or less than 0.1 percent, to 23,995.95. The Nasdaq composite lost 14.59, or 0.2 percent, to 6,971.48, and the Russell 2000 index of smaller stocks ticked up by 1.95, or 0.1 percent, to 1,447.38.

It was the first loss for the S&P 500 in six days, and much of the reason for it was the falling price of oil. Benchmark U.S. crude lost 1.9 percent to settle at $51.59 per barrel, and Brent crude, the international

standard, sank 1.9 percent to $60.48 a barrel.

That helped pull energy stock in the S&P 500 down 0.6 percent, the largest loss among the 11 sectors that make up the index. ConocoPhillips, Marathon Oil and Hess all fell more than 1 percent.

Big gains earlier in the week meant the S&P 500 was still hanging onto a 2.5 percent rise for the last five days. The three-week winning streak for the S&P 500 is its longest since August. Not only that, the last three weeks of gains have all been of more than 1.8 percent.

The last time that happened was in 2001.

The S&P 500 has been clawing back gains since running to the edge of what traders call a “bear market,” when it dropped 19.8 percent between setting a record in September and a low on Christmas Eve. Stocks have climbed on soothing words from the Federal Reserve about the future path of interest rates, plus hopes that the U.S.-China trade dispute may ease. That’s helped to at least paper over worries about slowing growth for corporate earnings and the possibility of a looming recession.

Companies across the country are gearing up to report how much profit they made in the last three months of 2018, and expectations are for a fifth straight quarter of growth topping 10 percent.

General Motors gave an encouraging sign Friday when it gave better-than-expected profit forecasts for both 2018 and 2019.

That helped the automaker surge to the biggest gain in the S&P 500, and it jumped $2.45, or 7.1 percent, to $37.18.

Other big-name companies have recently offered a more discouraging picture of revenue trends due to slowing growth in China and elsewhere.

Today in History Today is Sunday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2019. There are 352 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 13, 1982, an Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.’s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River while trying to take off during a snowstorm, killing a total of 78 people; four passengers and a flight attendant survived.

On this date: In 1794, President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the Union. (The number of stripes was later reduced to the original 13.)

In 1915, a magnitude-7 earthquake centered in Avezzano, Italy, claimed some 30,000 lives.

In 1941, a new law went into effect granting Puerto Ricans U.S. birthright citizenship. Novelist and poet James Joyce died in Zurich, Switzerland, less than a month before his 59th birthday.

In 1962, comedian Ernie Kovacs died in a car crash in west Los Angeles 10 days before his 43rd birthday.

In 1964, Roman Catholic Bishop Karol Wojtyla (voy-TEE’-wah) (the future Pope John Paul II) was appointed Archbishop of Krakow, Poland, by Pope Paul VI. In 1968, country singer Johnny Cash performed and recorded a pair of shows at Folsom State Prison in California; material from the concerts was released as an album by Columbia Records under the title “Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison,” which proved a hit.

In 1978, former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey died in Waverly, Minnesota, at age 66.

In 1990, L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation’s first elected black governor as he took the oath of office in Richmond.

In 1992, Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for its soldiers during World War II, citing newly uncovered documents that showed the Japanese army had had a role in abducting the so-called “comfort women.”

In 1997, seven black soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor for World War II valor; the lone survivor of the group, former Lt. Vernon Baker, received his medal from President Bill Clinton at the White House.

In 2000, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates stepped aside as chief executive and promoted company president Steve Ballmer to the position.

In 2012, the Italian luxury liner Costa Concordia ran aground off the Tuscan island of Giglio and flipped onto its side; 32 people were killed.

Ten years ago: President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, vowed during her Senate confirmation hearing to revitalize the mission of diplomacy in U.S. foreign policy. Obama’s choice to run the Treasury Department, Timothy Geithner (GYT’-nur), disclosed that he had failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004. U.S. Marshals apprehended Marcus Schrenker, 38, in North Florida days after the businessman and amateur daredevil pilot apparently tried to fake his own death in a plane crash. (Schrenker was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to securities fraud charges, on top of four years in federal prison on charges stemming from the plane crash.) Actor-director Patrick McGoohan died in Los Angeles at age 80. Author Hortense Calisher died in New York at age 97.

Five years ago: A shooting at a Wesley Chapel, Florida, movie theater left Chad Oulson, 43, dead; retired Tampa police captain Curtis Reeves, 71, is accused of killing Oulson during what authorities said was an argument over Oulson’s texting just before a showing of the movie “Lone Survivor.” (He is still awaiting trial; a judge has rejected a “stand-your-ground” defense.) Two Fullerton, California, police officers who were videotaped in a violent struggle with a homeless man, Kelly Thomas, during an arrest were acquitted by a jury in Santa Ana of killing him.

One year ago: A false alarm that warned of a ballistic missile headed for Hawaii sent the islands into a panic, with people abandoning cars on a highway and preparing to flee their homes; officials apologized and said the alert was sent when someone hit the wrong button during a shift change. Two Army captains who met at West Point, Daniel Hall and Vincent Franchino, returned there to be married, in what The New York Times said was believed to be the first same-sex marriage of active-duty personnel at the military academy.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Frances Sternhagen is 89. TV personality Nick Clooney is 85. Comedian Rip Taylor is 85. Comedian Charlie Brill is 81. Actor Billy Gray is 81. Actor Richard Moll is 76. Rock musician Trevor Rabin is 65. Rhythm-and-blues musician Fred White is 64.

Rock musician James Lomenzo (Megadeth) is 60. Actor Kevin Anderson is 59. Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus is 58. Rock singer Graham “Suggs” McPherson (Madness) is 58. Country singer Trace Adkins is 57. Actress Penelope Ann Miller is 55. Actor Patrick Dempsey is 53. Actress Suzanne Cryer is 52. Actress Traci Bingham is 51. Actor Keith Coogan is 49. TV producer-writer Shonda Rhimes is 49. Actress Nicole Eggert is 47. Actor Ross McCall is 43. Actor Michael Pena is 43. Actor Orlando Bloom is 42.

Meteorologist Ginger Zee (TV: “Good Morning America”) is 38. Actress Ruth Wilson is 37. Actor Julian Morris is 36. Actor Liam Hemsworth is 29.

Thought for Today: “I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”

-- James Joyce (1882-1941).

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World

3 dead, dozens injured in Paris Congo runner-up Fayulu asks court to bakery gas leak explosion order election recount

By ANGELA CHARLTON and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press

PARIS — A powerful explosion apparently caused by a gas leak blew apart a Paris bakery on Saturday and devastated the street it was on, killing three people and injuring dozens as it blasted out windows and overturned nearby cars, French authorities said.

Witnesses described the sound of the explosion as deafening. Firefighters pulled injured victims out from broken windows and evacuated residents and tourists as a fire raged and smoke billowed over Rue de Trevise in the 9th arrondissement of north-central Paris.

Charred debris and broken glass covered the pavement around the apartment building housing the bakery, which resembled a blackened carcass, and people were trapped inside nearby buildings.

Interior Minister Christophe Castaner paid homage to the courage of rescuers, who saved the life of one firefighter who was buried under the rubble for 2½ hours.

The French Interior Ministry said two firefighters and a female Spanish tourist were killed by the blast and about 10 of the 47 wounded were in critical condition. French authorities corrected the figure of four dead given earlier by France’s interior minister.

Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said the cause of the blast appeared to be an accidental gas leak. He said Paris firefighters were already at the scene to investigate a suspected gas leak at the bakery when the explo-

The scene of a gas leak explosion in Paris, France, Saturday.

A powerful explosion and fire apparently caused by a gas leak at a Paris bakery Saturday injuring more than 40 people blasted out windows and overturned cars, French authorities said.

(Matthieu Croissandeau via AP)

sion happened about 9 a.m.

Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell tweeted that “I deeply regret the death of three people after the explosion in central Paris, including a Spanish woman.” He shared condolences to her relatives and “wishes for a quick recovery to the other injured Spaniard.”

The Spanish newspaper El Pais reported the woman was a tourist staying in a hotel near the bakery, which is around the

corner from the Folies-Bergere theater and not far from the Paris shopping district that includes the famed headquarters of Galeries Lafayette.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo extended a “message of affection and solidarity” to the victims. She said many residents and tourists had been evacuated from neighboring buildings and hotels and Paris authorities were helping to provide them temporary accommodations.

Authorities said around 200 firefighters and police were involved in the operation. A helicopter evacuated the wounded.

Silver-helmeted firefighters and red firetrucks filled the street and inspected adjoining courtyards.

Pedro Goncalves, an employee at the Hotel Mercure opposite the bakery, said he saw firefighters enter the bakery in the morning but he and his coworkers “thought maybe it’s a joke, a false alarm,” and they went back to work.

About an hour later, he said a blast rocked the surrounding streets, one so powerful that he felt a whistling in his ears.

“I heard one big explosion and then a lot of pressure came at me, a lot of black smoke and glass,” he said. “I had just enough time to get down and cover myself and protect my head.”

Goncalves, who was struck by shattered glass, had cuts on his head and spots of blood on his sweater and undershirt. He ran for the exit and then went back to check on the hotel’s clients, adding that some of them had head injuries and were bleeding. He said the hotel was “destroyed” in the blast.

“Thank God I’m OK,” he said.

Another witness told The Associated Press that she was awakened by the blast and feared it was another terrorist attack.

The explosion came as the French capital was on edge and under heavy security for yellow vest protests Saturday against economic inequality. Authorities said 32,000 protesters took to the streets around the country.

By MATHILDE BOUSSION and SALEH MWANAMILONGO Associated Press

KINSHASA, Congo — Congo’s presidential runner-up Martin Fayulu has asked the constitutional court to order a recount in the disputed election, declaring on Saturday that “you can’t manufacture results behind closed doors.”

He could be risking more than the court’s refusal. Congo’s electoral commission president Corneille Nangaa has said there are only two options: The official results are accepted or the vote is annulled — which would keep President Joseph Kabila in power until another election. The Dec. 30 one came after two years of delays.

“They call me the people’s soldier … and I will not let the people down,” Fayulu said. Evidence from witnesses at polling stations across the country is being submitted to the court, which is full of Kabila appointees.

Rifle-carrying members of Kabila’s Republican Guard deployed outside Fayulu’s home and the court earlier Saturday.

It was an attempt to stop him from filing, Fayulu said while posting a video of them on Twitter: “The fear remains in their camp.”

Fayulu has accused the declared winner, opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi, of a backroom deal with Kabila to win power in the mineral-rich nation as the ruling party candidate, Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, did poorly.

The opposition coalition for Fayulu, a businessman vocal about cleaning up widespread

corruption, has said he won 61 percent of the vote, citing figures compiled by the Catholic Church’s 40,000 election observers across the vast Central African country.

Those figures show Tshieskedi received 18 percent, the coalition said.

The church, the rare authority that many Congolese find trustworthy, has urged the electoral commission to release its detailed vote results for public scrutiny. The commission has said Tshisekedi won with 38 percent while Fayulu received 34 percent.

Earlier on Saturday, the commission announced that Kabila’s ruling coalition had won an absolute majority of national assembly seats. That majority, which will choose the prime minister and form the next government, sharply reduces the chances of dramatic reforms under Tshisekedi.

Congolese now face the extraordinary situation of a presidential vote allegedly rigged in favor of the opposition. “This is more than an electoral farce; it’s a tragedy,” the LUCHA activist group tweeted, noting a ruling party majority in provincial elections as well.

This could be Congo’s first peaceful, democratic transfer of power since independence from Belgium in 1960, but observers have warned that a court challenge could lead to violence.

During the turbulent years of election delays, many Congolese worried that Kabila, in power since his father was assassinated in 2001, was seeking a way to stay in office to protect his sprawling assets.

Pompeo confident of US deal with Turkey to protect Kurds

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Despite Turkey’s vows to the contrary, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Saturday he was confident the two nations can agree on a way to protect U.S.-allied Kurdish rebels in Syria after American troops withdraw from the country.

After speaking to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Pompeo said an agreement was a work in progress

but can be achieved in a way that allows the Turks to defend their country while leaving alone Kurds who do not pose a threat.

The top U.S. diplomat said he was “optimistic” that Kurds who fought alongside U.S. forces against the Islamic State group in Syria are not threatened by pledges from Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to launch military operations against what he terms Kurdish “terrorists.”

“We recognize the Turkish people’s right and President Erdogan’s right to defend their

country from terrorists and we also know that those who aren’t terrorists, those who were fighting alongside us all this time, deserve to be protected and we are confident that we can achieve an outcome that achieves both of those: protect the Turks from legitimate terror threats and prevent any substantial risks to folks who don’t present terror risks to Turkey,” Pompeo told reporters.

“We had this conversation, many details still to be worked out but I am optimistic we can achieve a good outcome,” Pompeo said of his call with Cavusog-

lu from Abu Dhabi, where he was on the fourth leg of a nine-nation Mideast trip.

He offered no details, but said the U.S. special envoy for Syria and the anti-IS coalition, Jim Jeffrey, had traveled to northern Syria earlier this past week to work on the matter and would be returning to Turkey to continue the discussions.

Turkey considers many of Syria’s Kurdish groups to be terrorists and has pledged to attack them. The threats have intensified in recent days as the U.S. begins the withdrawal process from Syr-

US says time for new government in Venezuela

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The United States stepped up its criticism of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro on Saturday with an explicit call for the formation of a new government in the South American country.

The U.S. State Department said in a statement that it stood behind the head of Venezuela’s opposition-run congress, Juan Guaido, who said on Friday that he was prepared to step into the presidency temporarily to replace Maduro.

The statement was the latest in a series of Trump administration attacks on Maduro, whose inauguration to a new term as president on Thursday has been widely denounced as illegitimate.

“The people of Venezuela deserve to live in freedom in a democratic society governed by the rule of law,” State Department spokesman Robert Palladino said. “It is time to begin the orderly transition to a new government. We support the National Assembly’s call for all Venezuelans to work together, peacefully, to restore constitutional government and build a better future.”

“The United States government will continue to use the full weight of U.S. economic and diplomatic power to press for the restoration of democ-

ia on President Donald Trump’s orders.

On a visit Friday to Turkish troops stationed near the Syrian border, Turkey’s defense minister, Hulusi Akar, said his country was “determined” to fight Kurdish militias it considers terrorists.

He said military preparations were ongoing.

Pompeo and U.S. national security adviser John Bolton have made similar assurances to the Kurds, which have been denounced by Erdogan and other Turkish officials.

Comments by Bolton on the

matter drew a quick rejection this past week from Erdogan, who said they were a “serious mistake” and that Turkey “cannot make any concessions in this regard.”

Turkey insists its military actions are aimed at Kurdish fighters in Syria — the Syrian Kurdish Peoples Protection Units, or YPG — whom it regards as terrorists, and not against the Kurdish people. That has been Turkey’s longtime position. Turkey has rejected any role for Kurdish fighters in restoring peace to the war-torn region.

Around the World Coal mine collapses in northern China, killing at least 21 BEIJING — Twenty-one coal miners were killed when a mine collapsed in northern China, state media reported Sunday.

The disaster occurred Saturday in Shenmu in Shaanxi province in the heart of the country’s coal-mining belt, according to state TV and the Xinhua News Agency.

Sixty-six other miners were rescued, the city government said in a statement.

The number of fatalities reported in cave-ins, explosions and other disasters in Chinese coal mines has fallen sharply over the past decade but the industry still is the world’s deadliest.

Romanian govt scraps warships’ acquisition amid dispute

Supporters of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro hold a poster of him outside the Supreme Court where he is being sworn-in for another term in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday. (AP Photo/ Ariana Cubillos)

racy in Venezuela,” he said in the statement, released in Abu Dhabi where Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was visiting as part of a Mideast trip.

Pompeo spoke to Guaido earlier in the week shortly after the 35-year-old was elected to lead the National Assembly.

Pompeo told reporters traveling with him that the events taking place in Venezuela now were “incredibly important.”

“The Maduro regime is illegitimate and the United States

will continue … to work diligently to restore a real democracy to that country,” he said.

“We are very hopeful that we can be force for good to allow the region to come together to deliver that.”

Guaido, speaking to a crowd blocking a Caracas street a day after Maduro’s inauguration, said he was willing to become interim leader. But he said he would need support from the public, the armed forces and other countries and interna-

tional groups before trying to form a transitional government to hold new elections to replace Maduro.

The head of the Organization of American States, Secretary-General Luis Almagro, responded quickly, sending out a tweet recognizing Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president.

U.S. national security adviser John Bolton then praised Guaido, although Bolton didn’t echo Almagro’s step of calling him the interim president.

BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania’s defense ministry has suspended the $1.83 billion acquisition of four warships following a political dispute over which offer best serves the NATO member.

The ministry said it had informed military prosecutors there were “reasonable suspicions” about the legality of the procedure, saying it could harm national security. It didn’t provide further details.

The government, scheduled to announce the winner Saturday, made its announcement late Friday.

The acquisition of four multirole corvettes has caused political friction with the ruling Social Democratic Party favoring an offer from Damen, a Dutch company.

Army Chief of Staff Nicolae Ciuca, however, reportedly considered the deal too expensive. According to reports, France’s Naval Group made a cheaper offer.

Romania has committed to upgrading its armed forces and equipment in the next decade.

— Associated Press

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

Utqiagvik -14/-18

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Today

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Mostly cloudy

Mostly cloudy with a bit of ice

Clouds giving way to some sun

A little snow and sleet in the a.m.

A blend of sun and clouds

Hi: 33 Lo: 29

Hi: 34 Lo: 22

Hi: 29 Lo: 22

Hi: 32 Lo: 24

Hi: 31 Lo: 21

The patented AccuWeather.com RealFeel TemperatureÂŽ is an exclusive index of the effects of temperature, wind, Sunrise humidity, sunshine intensity, cloudiness, precipitation, Sunset pressure and elevation on the human body.

10 a.m.

Noon 2 p.m.

4 p.m.

10 17 17 19

Daylight Length of Day - 6 hrs., 26 min., 42 sec.

Daylight gained - 3 min., 40 sec.

Alaska Cities Yesterday Hi/Lo/W

City Adak* Anchorage Barrow Bethel Cold Bay Cordova Delta Junction Denali N. P. Dillingham Dutch Harbor Fairbanks Fort Yukon Glennallen* Gulkana Haines Homer Juneau Ketchikan Kiana King Salmon Klawock Kodiak

First Jan 13

Today 10:00 a.m.

4:27 p.m.

Full Jan 20

Moonrise Moonset

Today 12:33 p.m.

12:31 a.m.

Anaktuvuk Pass -4/-5

Kotzebue 9/6

Yesterday Hi/Lo/W

City

Kotzebue -22/-30/pc 39/36/sn 37/30/sn McGrath -18/-47/pc 13/-5/c 29/27/c Metlakatla 46/35/r -24/-25/sn -14/-18/pc Nome -12/-26/s 0/-26/sn 36/29/sn North Pole -22/-44/pc 38/31/sn 39/34/c Northway -25/-41/pc 35/11/r 41/32/r Palmer 11/-12/pc -7/-39/pc 12/9/pc Petersburg 36/31/r -4/-43/pc 19/12/pc Prudhoe Bay* -31/-39/s 21/-9/sf 37/33/sn Saint Paul 28/19/sn 41/36/sn 41/36/r Seward 27/6/sn -21/-43/pc 1/-5/s Sitka 41/35/pc -35/-46/s -19/-31/s Skagway 33/23/c 6/-30/sn 26/20/sn Talkeetna 11/-25/pc -11/-32/pc 5/-11/pc Tanana -17/-50/s 32/23/i 32/29/sn Tok* -22/-39/pc 26/14/sn 43/36/r Unalakleet -7/-23/pc 36/30/r 41/37/r Valdez 22/13/sn 42/32/r 47/42/r Wasilla 15/-13/pc -26/-37/s 7/3/s Whittier 30/5/sn 39/-8/sn 43/35/r Willow* 8/-18/pc 41/35/r 46/40/r Yakutat 37/5/i 42/29/sn 43/38/r Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

From Kenai Municipal Airport

Nome 21/18 Unalakleet McGrath 19/15 6/1

New Feb 4 Tomorrow 12:44 p.m.

1:50 a.m.

Today Hi/Lo/W 9/6/s 6/1/c 47/43/r 21/18/sn 1/-4/s -13/-21/s 30/28/c 43/39/r -14/-18/pc 38/33/c 41/37/r 44/41/r 35/32/r 26/18/pc -6/-11/pc -8/-11/s 19/15/sf 30/24/sn 31/27/c 37/33/sn 23/19/c 34/27/c

Albany, NY Albuquerque Amarillo Asheville Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Buffalo, NY Casper Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Charlotte, NC Chicago Cheyenne Cincinnati

26/12/pc 46/28/c 47/33/pc 37/34/i 44/41/r 36/16/pc 63/51/pc 35/23/sn 44/27/s 53/44/r 19/13/sf 42/25/pc 29/15/s 23/14/sn 33/19/s 56/33/c 35/29/sn 41/37/sh 32/29/sn 37/22/s 35/28/sn

24/8/s 41/31/sn 40/25/c 42/32/sh 53/41/c 36/26/sn 55/38/pc 33/24/sn 48/28/s 52/40/c 36/14/c 40/23/s 28/23/s 23/12/pc 33/15/s 64/40/c 39/32/r 43/34/r 34/18/pc 40/19/s 37/26/sn

High ............................................... 16 Low .................................................. 2 Normal high .................................. 24 Normal low ...................................... 8 Record high ....................... 41 (2003) Record low ....................... -40 (1972)

Kenai/ Soldotna 33/29 Seward 41/37 Homer 43/36

Precipitation

From the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai

24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. Trace Month to date ........................... 0.16" Normal month to date ............. 0.39" Year to date .............................. 0.16" Normal year to date ................. 0.39" Record today ................. 0.32" (1963) Record for Jan. ............. 3.03" (1980) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963) Snowfall 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. Trace Month to date ........................... Trace Season to date ......................... 14.9"

Anchorage 29/27

Bethel 36/29

Valdez Kenai/ 30/24 Soldotna Homer

Dillingham 37/33

Juneau 41/37

National Extremes Kodiak 43/38

Sitka 44/41

(For the 48 contiguous states)

High yesterday Low yesterday

86 at McAllen, Texas -18 at Lebanon, N.H.

State Extremes High yesterday Low yesterday

Cold Bay 39/34

Ketchikan 47/42

48 at Annette -54 at Galena

Today’s Forecast

(Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation)

The winter storm will focus on the mid-Atlantic today, delivering 6-12 inches of snow from the West Virginia mountains through northern Virginia and southern Maryland. More rain will approach California.

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National Cities City

Fairbanks 1/-5

Talkeetna 26/18 Glennallen 26/20

Unalaska 39/36 Yesterday Today Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W

Almanac Readings through 4 p.m. yesterday

* Indicates estimated temperatures for yesterday Today Hi/Lo/W

Internet: www.gedds.alaska.edu/auroraforecast

Temperature

Tomorrow 9:59 a.m.

4:29 p.m.

Last Jan 27

Today’s activity: LOW Where: Auroral activity will be low. Weather permitting, low-level displays will be visible overhead from Barrow to Fairbanks and visible low on the northern horizon from as far south as Anchorage and Juneau.

Prudhoe Bay -14/-18

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World Cities

City Cleveland Columbia, SC Columbus, OH Concord, NH Dallas Dayton Denver Des Moines Detroit Duluth El Paso Fargo Flagstaff Grand Rapids Great Falls Hartford Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jackson, MS

Yesterday Today Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W 32/25/sn 46/28/c 30/27/sn 20/2/s 46/42/pc 32/28/sn 35/30/sn 31/28/sn 31/24/c 28/24/sn 56/35/pc 27/19/c 37/14/pc 31/28/c 51/32/s 30/12/pc 35/10/s 83/66/pc 66/57/pc 33/28/sn 60/45/r

34/25/c 52/37/r 36/25/sn 23/4/s 47/33/pc 35/23/c 39/17/s 32/20/pc 33/19/pc 30/24/c 57/35/c 29/18/pc 36/22/pc 32/17/pc 48/23/s 29/14/s 38/12/s 84/67/s 57/40/pc 34/20/c 49/36/c

City Jacksonville Kansas City Key West Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Midland, TX Milwaukee Minneapolis Nashville New Orleans New York Norfolk Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix

Yesterday Today Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W 71/42/pc 31/30/sn 82/70/pc 57/43/c 47/37/r 60/52/r 40/31/sn 50/37/r 79/67/pc 56/36/s 33/30/c 32/21/c 50/36/r 72/51/c 34/20/pc 43/34/c 37/35/c 32/31/sn 78/54/pc 35/22/pc 69/47/c

77/46/pc 33/22/c 79/69/s 56/42/pc 47/32/c 61/50/c 41/31/sn 45/34/c 82/64/sh 47/31/c 34/22/pc 34/25/pc 49/36/r 57/42/s 33/23/pc 45/33/r 38/28/pc 35/22/pc 81/55/pc 34/24/sn 64/50/c

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29/20/sn 24/5/s 54/32/pc 29/24/c 50/29/pc 62/42/pc 32/30/sn 67/51/s 63/55/r 62/57/pc 40/26/pc 59/38/pc 31/20/c 38/30/pc 22/8/sn 77/56/r 33/31/sn 66/39/pc 39/37/sh 37/30/sn 35/33/sn

34/23/sn 24/9/pc 49/33/s 45/21/s 45/26/pc 61/43/c 33/17/c 56/41/pc 63/50/c 61/52/r 35/23/sn 52/34/s 36/22/s 34/22/pc 19/2/pc 77/56/pc 33/23/c 62/46/c 38/28/pc 34/28/sn 35/25/c

City

Yesterday Hi/Lo/W

Acapulco 88/73/pc Athens 48/43/r Auckland 77/63/pc Baghdad 58/35/pc Berlin 43/38/r Hong Kong 71/66/pc Jerusalem 61/39/s Johannesburg 86/65/t London 50/44/pc Madrid 52/24/s Magadan 19/8/c Mexico City 67/48/pc Montreal 7/-2/pc Moscow 16/12/sn Paris 48/41/r Rome 52/34/s Seoul 45/30/s Singapore 90/77/pc Sydney 88/70/s Tokyo 45/39/r Vancouver 50/32/pc

Today Hi/Lo/W 84/73/pc 50/42/pc 78/63/pc 60/51/c 47/34/r 70/62/s 52/41/s 86/65/s 53/43/pc 53/29/pc 13/4/c 66/46/pc 11/0/s 26/25/c 51/41/c 55/41/pc 44/23/s 89/78/t 80/72/pc 50/36/s 47/34/s

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Steel sweep Bears

By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

The Chippewa (Wisconsin) Steel continued to be a thorn in the side of the Kenai River Brown Bears in the race for the North American Hockey League playoffs, sweeping the Bears on Friday and Saturday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex.

The Steel defeated the Bears 6-2 on Friday and 4-0 on Saturday to rob the Bears of a chance to gain ground in the playoff race.

Four teams from the Midwest Division get into the playoffs. The Bears are in fifth at 12-

19-2-2, five points behind the Springfield (Illinois) Jr. Blues.

The Blues lost 8-1 to Fairbanks on Friday, but defeated the Ice Dogs 4-3 on Saturday.

The Bears and Jr. Blues face off in a crucial three-game series starting Thursday at 7 p.m. at the sports complex.

The Steel are in last in the division at 11-23-1-1, six points behind the Bears. Chippewa improved to 6-8 since Carter Foguth took over as head coach on Nov. 20, including 4-0 against the Bears.

“The big thing is we’re starting to play with a lot more confidence,” Foguth said. “I think we have a fast team and we’ve

been able to unleash that speed by playing a more uptempo style of game.”

Chippewa certainly found the big ice sheet at the sports complex to its liking Friday.

The Steels outshot the Bears 28-27 but were able to run away with the game when Kenai River goaltenders Dennis Westergard and Gavin Enright had a rough night.

But Kenai River head coach Josh Petrich said the problem was with more than goaltending. He didn’t like the way the whole team played in the first and third periods.

Kenai River Brown Bears forward Trey LaBarge protects the puck from Chippewa (Wisconsin) “It was the first night of the Steel defenseman Michael Black on Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, at the Soldotna Regional Sports See BEARS, page B2 Complex. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

Kenai gets 1st victory

Stars power SoHi girls, boys sweep weekend

SoHi has perfect trip

By JEREMIAH BARTZ Frontiersman.com

Staff report Peninsula Clarion

The Kenai Kardinals earned their first victory of the 2018-19 season Saturday afternoon. Nate Beiser scored twice to lift Kenai to a 3-1 win over Houston at the Big Lake Recreation Center.

Cooper Stock also scored for the Kards.

Isaiah Squires recorded the lone Houston goal.

After a pair of tough losses, the Palmer Moose took out their frustrations on the Kenai Kardinals on Friday night.

Zach Nelius used a hat trick to lead the Moose to an 8-1 win over the Kards at the MTA Events Center in Palmer. The Moose needed only about four minutes to grab a 4-0 lead. Jack Matlock scored a pair of goals within a 33-second span to push Palmer ahead 2-0. Nelius and Owen Hayes added goals within a 40-second stretch to make it a 4-0 game.

Luke Thiesen added a shorthanded breakaway goal in the win. Pierce Brooks also scored.

Bailey Maxson provided Kenai’s lone score.

The host Soldotna girls basketball team cruised past Grace Christian 70-27 in nonconference action Saturday.

Soldotna had a 49-8 lead at halftime.

Brittani Blossom had 20 points, while Morgan Bouschor had a career-high 13 off the bench, and Aliann Schmidt and Danica Schmidt added 12 apiece.

Tessa Binder pumped in 15 for Grace.

Hoops roundup

Soldotna boys 50, Mt. Edgecumbe 36 The host Stars came back from a deficit after the first quarter to notch a nonconference victory over the Braves on Saturday.

Mt. Edgecumbe led 18-16 after eight minutes, but SoHi led 29-24 at halftime and 4030 after three quarters.

Jersey Truesdell paced Soldotna with 18 points, while Ray Chumley added 15 points.

For Mt. Edgecumbe, Bear Brown led the way with 13 points.

Stars skate past Hawks, Knights Soldotna capped a perfect trip to the Valley with a 4-1 nonconference win over Colony on Friday night at the Menard Arena in Wasilla.

The Stars now stand at 6-0 in the league and 8-4-1 overall. And the trip was perfect for more than the varsity, as the JV also won all three of its games.

Alex Montague scored twice for the Stars.

Galen Brantley III and Gavin Haakenson also scored. Goalie Josh Tree made 30 saves.

Jack Holman recorded the lone goal for Colony.

A night after edging Palmer in overtime, the Soldotna Stars drilled Houston 9-2 Thursday night at the Big Lake Recreational Center in Big Lake.

Eight different players scored to help Soldotna earn its second Railbelt Conference win in as many days. Alex Montague led SoHi with a pair of goals. Braxton Urban, Logan Shane, Dylan Walton, Jose Montague, Galen Brantley III and David Aley also scored. Brantley led Soldotna with four assists. JD Schmelzenbach added three helpSee PUCK, page B4

Soldotna girls 60, Seward 22 The host Stars took a 28-5 lead after the first quarter in cruising to a nonconference victory.

Brittani Blossom had 15 for the Stars, while Aliann Schmidt and Ituau Tuisaula each had 13.

Ashley Jackson had 10 for the Seahawks.

Soldotna boys 55, Seward 24 The host Stars jumped out to a 12-6 lead after a quarter and a 28-12 lead at the half en route to collecting a nonconference win Friday.

Jersey Truesdell poured in 22 for SoHi to lead all scorers, while Ray Chumley had 12 and David Michael added 11. For Seward, Max Pfieffenberger had six.

Alaska Prep Shootout Soldotna’s Aliann Schmidt shoots over Seward’s Selma Casagranda on Friday at Soldotna High School. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

The Kenai Central boys basketball team See PREP, page B4

Chiefs, Rams use home fields to advance in playoffs KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs’ defense had heard the chorus of critics all season long, the ones that claimed their sieve-like line and shaky backfield would spoil young superstar Patrick Mahomes and cost them a chance to chase their first Super Bowl appearance in decades.

Well, that defense is a big reason why the Chiefs are one step away.

With persistent snow turning Arrowhead Stadium into a winter wonderland, the Chiefs successfully shut down Andrew Luck and the potent Indianapolis Colts on Saturday.

Mahomes and the rest of their own high-powered offense took care of the rest, rolling to a 31-13 victory in the divisional round to end 25 years of playoff frustration.

“We’re such a different team,” said Mahomes, who threw for 278 yards while running for a score. “We have such young players. We have such confidence we’re going to win every

single game.”

Damien Williams ran through snow and muck for 129 yards and another score, and Tyreek Hill had 72 yards receiving and a touchdown run, as the Chiefs beat Indianapolis for the first time in five playoff meetings to earn their first AFC title game appearance since January 1994.

The AFC West champions will play the winner of Sunday’s game between the division-rival Los Angeles Chargers and the New England Patriots next weekend for a spot in the Super Bowl in Atlanta.

“We wanted to light up the city,” Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones said. “We didn’t want to take the road down memory lane.”

Andrew Luck was held to 203 yards passing for the Colts, while Marlon Mack was a non-factor on the ground.

He had 46 yards rushing before leaving late in the fourth quarter with a hip injury.

“Was not expecting it to end today,” Colts coach Frank Reich said.

“We knew we were going up against a very good team, a very well-coached team. It’s hard to lose. It’s hard to lose when you’ve come this far with the team that we have and the guys that we have, so credit to the Chiefs.

“They outcoached us, they outplayed us,” Reich said. “We just gave them too many opportunities.”

The Chiefs set out to change history from the opening minutes, when they forced a three-and-out and then waltzed right over a Colts defense that nearly shut out the Texans a week ago.

Mahomes and Co. scored on their first three possessions , then again just before halftime, to take a 24-7 lead.

If there was any question whether this would be Kansas City’s day, it was answered when Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri missed a 23-yard field-goal try off the upright just before halftime.

It was the first time in 22 postseason

attempts that he’d missed from that close.

Not that the Chiefs thought they had it wrapped up.

They’ve had bigger playoff meltdowns against the Colts.

There was the 10-7 loss in which Lin Elliott missed three field goals when the Chiefs were the No. 1 seed, and the loss at Arrowhead Stadium in 2003 in which nobody punted. Five years ago, they blew a 38-10 secondhalf lead against Luck and the Colts to spoil Andy Reid’s first season.

Not this time.

Not with this Kansas City quarterback.

After shattering nearly every franchise passing record, Mahomes picked up right where he left off in his regular-season finale. He led the Chiefs on touchdown drives of 90 and 70 yards to open the game, quickly identified a favorite target in Travis Kelce, and shook off a banged-up knee to scram-

ble for a touchdown late in the first half to give his team a big cushion.

Of course, the Chiefs (13-4) didn’t need it the way their defense was playing.

The Colts (11-7) went three-andout on their first four possessions, were outgained 185-12 in the first quarter, and Luck didn’t complete a pass until he found T.Y Hilton early in the second.

Their lone bright spot came when Zach Paschal recovered a blocked punt for a touchdown .

Even when the Colts caught a break and Sammy Watkins fumbled the ball to them late in the third quarter, they were quick to give it back. Dee Ford stripped Luck and fellow linebacker Justin Houston plopped on the ball, ruining another red-zone opportunity.

“It seemed like the rushers were getting there all night,” Chiefs cornerback Kendall Fuller said. “Guys See NFL, page B2

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Kuchar holds Sony Open lead after 3 rounds

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer

HONOLULU — Matt Kuchar made it look easy Saturday in the Sony Open.

With no bogeys on his card, it even felt easy to him.

Beneath that cap is plenty of gray hair.

Beneath that smile, he knows better.

“Listen, the game of golf is not easy,” Kuchar said after a 4-under 66 to take a two-shot lead over Andrew Putnam into the final round. “It’s not often you’re in full control. Those times you’re not in full control, you’re faced with a lot of situations where golf is going to find a way to stress you out and test you.”

He gets another test Sunday, and Kuchar at least is equipped with recent experience. In November, he ended a four-year drought by winning the Mayakoba Classic in Mexico on another course that requires keeping the ball in play off the tee for good chances to score.

There’s another similarity in the two events.

Kuchar had a 54-hole score of 193 in Mexico, the lowest of his career. He went one lower at the Sony Open at 18-under 192. Kuchar has made only one bogey through 54 holes at Waialae, and he only came seriously close to one bogey until saving par from a bunker on the par-3 17th.

“Good, steady golf,” Kuchar said. “It

felt easy out there. I didn’t find myself in any trouble.”

Putnam was two shots behind after a 67.

Keith Mitchell had a 63 to pull within four shots, along with Chez Reavie, who fell back with three straight bogeys early on the back nine. Those were the only players within five shots of the lead, and all of them are chasing Kuchar.

“I anticipate needing another good score tomorrow,” Kuchar said. “I know I can’t coast.”

Kuchar is 2-2 when he has the 54hole lead going into the final round.

The only other time Kuchar won twice in the same season was in 2013, when he won the Match Play Championship in Arizona in February and the

Memorial in early June. That put him at No. 4 in the world, the highest he has been in his career.

Kuchar was sliding his way out of the top 50 toward the end of last year, when he failed to make a Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup team for the first time since 2009. But he had a good session with his swing coach in Dallas, and it paid off two weeks later on the Gulf side of the Mexican coast.

This was more of the same.

Putnam, who won for the first time last year in the Barracuda Championship held opposite a World Golf Championship, did his best to stay in reach.

They were tied through seven holes until Putnam made bogey on No. 8 and failed to birdie the par-5 ninth, the easiest hole

at Waialae. Putnam missed an 8-foot birdie attempt on No. 18.

“Didn’t feel as easy as the first two days,” Putnam said. “Still played a good round. Still got a chance.”

Bryson DeChambeau had a 63 and led a large pack at 11-under 199, seven shots out of the lead for a slim chance at winning unless the leaders come back to the field. Also tied for fifth were Charles Howell III and 54-year-old Davis Love III, who had one of his better putting rounds.

Kuchar was at his best on a number of putts from the 50-foot range. He didn’t make any, but he didn’t leave himself any work for par. That added to the stress-free feeling of a round, and the overall control he feels in his game.

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sticking coverage, playing good technique, good eyes and things like that.”

The Colts finally scored an offensive touchdown with 5:31 left in the game. But in the perfect summation of their lousy afternoon, their erstwhile star kicker missed the extra point.

By that point, the party in the stands already had begun.

The Chiefs had lost six straight home playoff games, including heartbreakers to Pittsburgh and Tennessee the past two years. But a proud franchise that won its only Super Bowl title with Len Dawson in 1970, and last played for a spot behind Joe Montana, is once more one step away.

“I’m just happy for these guys in this locker room,” Kelce said. “Playoff wins are hard to come by, let alone wins in the NFL. So, I mean, it’s just exciting for us to be able to play next week.”

RAMS 30, COWBOYS 22

Chippewa (Wisconsin) Steel defenseman Spencer Oyler protects the puck from Brown Bears forward Brendan White on Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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season I didn’t like our goaltending,” Petrich said. “We needed them tonight.”

Chippewa took a 3-0 lead in the first 10 minutes, 1 second, of the game. Defenseman Matt Clark started the scoring by flipping one in from close to the blue line.

Clark also would score from long range in the third period to double his scoring output for the season.

“Those can be tough due to traffic, but you can’t have two identical goals like that in the same game,” Petrich said. “Our wings need to get out and block shots.”

When Killian KieckerOlson won a scrap in front of the net and scored just 4:11 in, Westergard was lifted.

With 9:59 left in the first, Jacob Dirks scored on the power play for a 3-0 lead.

The goal came off a set

play where the Steel send two fast players — their fastest is Dirks — streaking down the ice and send the puck long.

Petrich said his team had been shown the play on film, but the Bears didn’t recognize and execute.

“We weren’t even going to call it, but we had them back on their heels a little bit so I thought, ‘Let’s try it,’” Foguth said.

Kenai River jumped back into the game quickly in the first 4:27 of the second period as Eagle River’s Zach Krajnik scored on assists from Andy Walker and JJ Boucher, and Boucher scored on assists from Trey LeBarge and Brandon Lajoie.

But goalie Igor Samokhvalov steadied the ship and kept a clean sheet the rest of the way.

“We’ve been talking to them about dealing with the ups and down during the game,” Foguth said. “They moved past the beginning of the second period and played

a good third period.”

Clark scored again in the third, while Isaac Moberg added a pair of tallies.

Saturday, the Bears struggled on special teams in getting shut out. Chippewa was 3 for 5 on the power play, while the Bears were 0 for 2.

Dirks scored the lone goal of the first period on the power play. In the second, Grisha Gotovets scored, then Hutson Collins added a power-play goal before the period was up. Camden Thiesing finished the scoring in the third with another power-play goal.

Igor Samkhvalov made 37 saves for the shutout, while Enright stopped 25 or 29 for the Bears.

Petrich thanks current and former members of the military for showing up despite the subzero weather. He said the same of the fans.

“It’s really impressive,” he said. “We’ve got to do better for our fans. My apologies to them.”

Bears notes: Alec Butcher,

who played for the Brown Bears for two seasons and won the NAHL MVP in his last year with the team in 2013-14, scored his first professional goal Saturday.

Butcher lit the lamp for the Wheeling (West Virginia) Nailers of the ECHL. Friday Steel 6, Brown Bears 2 Chippewa 3 0 3 — 6 Kenai River 0 2 0 — 2 First period — 1. Chippewa, Clark (un.), 2:09; 2. Chippewa, Kiecker-Olson (Weiss), 4:11; 3. Chippewa, Dirks (Szmul, Moulton), pp, 10:01. Penalties — Chippewa 2 for 4:00; Kenai River 3 for 6:00.

Second period — 4. Kenai River, Krajnik (A. Walker, Boucher), 2:45; 5. Kenai River, Boucher (LeBarge, Lajoie), 4:27.

Penalties — Chippewa 1 for 2:00; Kenai River 1 for 2:00.

Third period — 6. Chippewa, Clark (Weiss, Kiecker-Olson), 4:47; 7. Chippewa, Moberg (Kiecker-Olson), 13:45; 8. Chippewa, Moberg (un.), en, 18:00.

Penalties — Chippewa 3 for 6:00; Kenai River 2 for 4:00.

Shots on goal — Chippewa 11-9-8—28; Kenai River 8-9-10—27.

Goalies — Chippewa, Samokhvalov (27 shots, 25 saves); Kenai River, Westergard, Enright (27 shots, 21 saves).

Power plays — Chippewa 1 for 2; Kenai River 0 for 2.

LOS ANGELES — With 1 yard between the Los Angeles Rams and the Dallas end zone on fourth down midway through in the fourth quarter, Sean McVay decided to go straight ahead.

No clever plays for this high-flying offense. No elaborate schemes from their inventive coach.

C.J. Anderson ran directly into the left side while his line cleared a path. He tumbled into the end zone with 7:16 left for the Rams’ final points in their first playoff victory in 14 years, 30-22 over the Cowboys on Saturday night in the divisional round.

“We always talk about attacking success, never fearing failure,” McVay said of his reasoning behind the simple call.

“We wanted to come out here and try to play fearless tonight.”

Los Angeles’ ground game is something to be feared after racking up a franchise playoffrecord 273 yards rushing from the opening drive to Anderson’s final first-down run.

Anderson rushed for 123 yards and two touchdowns, and Todd Gurley ran for 115 more yards and another TD to send the second-seeded Rams (14-3) to the NFC championship game for the first time in 17 years.

That’s also the most ever allowed in the postseason by the five-time Super Bowl champi-

on Cowboys, who were playing in their NFL-record 63rd postseason game.

“Feels great, just running the ball the way we did,” quarterback Jared Goff said after his first career playoff victory.

“Two 100-yard rushers, that’s rare, and it starts with those five guys up front.”

Next weekend, the Rams will face the winner of the other divisional playoff game in New Orleans between the top-seeded Saints and the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. The long-struggling Rams had won only one postseason game since their last trip to the Super Bowl in February 2002, but the 32-year-old McVay has added his first playoff victory to his spectacular two-season franchise turnaround . Los Angeles is one win away from another Super Bowl trip after McVay largely stuck to old-time football basics with his unlikely running back tandem and an offensive line determined to assert its superiority.

With the Rams’ veteran offensive line cutting holes in the Cowboys’ defense, Gurley and Anderson became the fourth set of teammates in NFL history to rush for 100 yards apiece in a postseason game, an improbable development just a few weeks ago. Gurley is the Rams’ offensive centerpiece and one of the NFL’s elite running backs , but Anderson is a well-traveled veteran playing only his third game with the Rams after signing last month when Gurley was struggling with a knee injury.

“It’s scary,” Anderson said of his new partnership with Gurley.

“We’ve got two different styles, and we can keep teams off balance. ... Playing on the field with Todd Gurley and Ezekiel Elliott, I’m just trying to make my statement and make my stamp in this game, too.”

The Cowboys (11-7), who largely shut down Seattle’s league-best rushing attack last week, hadn’t allowed two 100yard rushers in a playoff game since the NFL-AFL merger.

Los Angeles racked up more yards than the Cowboys had allowed on the ground all season.

“We got beaten,” Cowboys defensive end Tyrone Crawford said. “Like I said in (the locker room), it’s a scar that you’re going to wear for the rest of your life. You can either look at your scar and run from it, or you can look at your scar and remember it, and punch somebody in the face because of it. So hopefully our guys use this as ammunition for next year.”

NHL-leading Lightning pull away from Sabres late

By The Associated Press

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Steven Stamkos broke a tie with 5:16 remaining in the NHL-leading Tampa Bay Lightning’s 5-3 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday night.

Nikita Kucherov, Brayden Point, Ondrej Palat and Ryan Callahan also scored, and Louis Domingue stopped 30 shots. The Lightning have won 18 of their last 20.

Sam Reinhart, Tage Thompson and Marco Scandella scored for Buffalo.

BLUE JACKETS 2, CAPITALS 1, OT WASHINGTON — Cam Atkinson scored his 25th goal of the season, Artemi Panarin connected in overtime and Columbus beat Washington after the defending Stanley Cup champion Capitals lost All-Star goaltender Braden Holtby to an eye injury.

Panarin scored in overtime for the second straight game.

Holtby took a stick to the left eye from Atkinson through his mask in the second period. He left the game, giving way to backup Pheonix Copley, and the team said Holtby was still being evaluated.

Blue Jackets goalie Joonas Korpisalo stopped 32 shots in his second consecutive

start in place of Sergei Bobrovsky, who backed up after being scratched ThursGOLDEN KNIGHTS 4, day for disciplinary reasons. Coach John BLACKHAWKS 3, OT Tortorella did not commit to starting BoCHICAGO — Vegas defenseman Shea brovsky in the second half of his team’s Theodore scored 1:19 into overtime when back-to-back this weekend.

Chicago’s Carl Dahlstrom slid the puck into his own net.

BRUINS 3, MAPLE LEAFS 2 Theodore was driving when Dahlstrom knocked it away and through the legs of TORONTO — David Pastrnak scored goaltender Collin Delia. It was Theodore’s a tie late in the second period and Boston first goal since he scored twice in an 8-3 beat Toronto. victory at Chicago on Nov. 27.

Sean Kuraly had a goal and two assists, David Krecji also scored, and Tuukka Rask made 30 saves. Boston won the DEVILS 3, FLYERS 2 season series 3-1 and moved within two NEWARK, N.J. — Rookie Mackenzie points of Toronto for second place in the Blackwood made 32 saves in his return Atlantic Division. from an injury, helping New Jersey beat Philadelphia.

RANGERS 2, ISLANDERS 1 Damon Severson, Nico Hischier and Miles Wood scored for New Jersey. The NEW YORK — Mats Zuccarello Devils won for the second time in six scored late in the third period and the New games and handed the Flyers their ninth York Rangers beat the Islanders for their loss in 10 games. first victory at Barclays Center.

Zuccarello redirected the winner with his skate from in front of the net for his RED WINGS 5, WILD 2 fifth goal of the season. Filip Chytil also ST. PAUL, Minn. — Tyler Bertuzzi scored and Alexandar Georgiev made 24 saves to help the Rangers win in Brooklyn had his first career hat trick and Detroit for the first time since the Islanders began beat Minnesota to end a three-game losing streak. playing home games there in 2015.

Playing in his 100th career game, The Islanders had been 13-2-0 in the Bertuzzi completed his three-goal perteams’ previous 15 meetings overall.

formance at 8:38 of the third period, con- NHL games, is 3-0 in three starts. The verting a feed from Nyquist by lifting a 25-year-old has allowed only two goals backhand past Devan Dubnyk. in those starts. Binnington shut out Philadelphia 1-0 on Monday and beat Montreal 4-1 Thursday.

KINGS 5, PENGUINS 2

LOS ANGELES — Jonathan Quick stopped 38 shots to get his 301st win, helping Los Angeles snap Pittsburg’s sixgame road winning streak.

Quick tied Mike Richter for fourth place in career wins by an American goalie, reaching the mark in his 577th game and matching the former Rangers goalie’s total in 666 games.

CANADIENS 3, AVALANCHE 0 MONTREAL — Carey Price stopped 28 shots for his third shutout of the season and 43rd overall to help Montreal beat Colorado.

Brett Kulak, Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Jordie Benn scored in the third period. The Canadiens had lost three of their last four.

The Avalanche have lost nine of 10.

BLUES 3, STARS 1 DALLAS — Rookie goalie Jordan Binnington won his third straight start, Vladimir Tarasenko scored two goals and St. Louis topped Dallas.

Binnington, who has played in six

COYOTES 3, OILERS 2 EDMONTON, Alberta — Conor Garland scored a pair of power-play goals, including one that went in off his face and left him bloodied, and Arizona won its third straight. Jordan Oesterle also scored for the Coyotes.

SHARKS 4, SENATORS 1 SAN JOSE, Calif. — Brent Burns scored his fourth game-winning goal and, Martin Jones made 27 saves for San Jose.

The Sharks, who own the second-best home record this season at 16-4-4, have won six straight games and are 8-1-0 in their last nine along with a five-game win streak at home.

Joe Pavelski, Joe Thornton and Melker Karlsson also scored for San Jose. Jones has allowed two or fewer goals in four straight starts.

Ryan Dzingel scored the lone goal for Ottawa while Anders Nilsson, acquired Jan. 2 in a trade with Vancouver, made his fifth consecutive start for the Senators and stopped 28 shots.

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Duke nips Florida State on late 3-pointer

By The Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Cam Reddish hit a 3-pointer with 0.8 seconds left to lead No. 1 Duke past No. 13 Florida State 80-78 on Saturday.

Reddish caught the ball on the wing off the inbounds pass and made a wide open 3-pointer to ensure Duke (14-1, 3-0 ACC) would win its ninth straight game. He finished with 23 points on 9-of-15 shooting.

Duke played the second half without star freshman Zion Williamson, who left after getting poked in the eye late in the first half. He didn’t return and had 11 points and eight rebounds in 17 minutes.

LOUISVILLE 83, NO. 12 NORTH CAROLINA 62 Roy Williams suffered his worst home loss in 16 seasons with North Carolina as Louisville stunned the 12th-ranked Tar Heels.

Connecticut transfer Steven Enoch had season highs of 17 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Cardinals. Dwayne Sutton added 17 points and 10 rebounds while flirting with at triple-double, and Louisville (11-5, 2-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) bounced back from a frustrating loss to longstruggling Pittsburgh.

NO. 3 TENNESSEE 78, FLORIDA 67 GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Grant Williams scored 20 points, Jordan Bowden added 17 off the bench and No. 3 Tennessee rallied to beat Florida for its 10th consecutive victory.

Admiral Schofield, who sat out much of the second half with four fouls, provided the biggest bucket with a 3-pointer from the corner with 41.3 seconds remaining. Jalen Hudson misfired on the other end, and the Gators were forced to foul in the waning seconds. Schofield’s shot came after Williams appeared to get away with a travel in the lane.

The Volunteers (14-1, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) have

their first double-digit winning Kerwin Roach II scored 17 for struggled to put away a team that for the Hawkeyes (14-3, 3-3 Big start to cruise past Miami (Ohio). streak since 2008.

Texas, but had just four points af- was blown away by No. 3 Tennes- Ten), who have won three straight ter halftime and missed key bas- see a week ago. after a 0-3 start to league play.

KANSAS STATE 58, kets late as Texas Tech fought off a NO. 20 IOWA STATE 57 NO. 4 VIRGINIA 63, Longhorns rally. Texas (10-6, 2-2) MISSISSIPPI 81, NO. 14 NO. 17 HOUSTON 79, CLEMSON 43 AMES, Iowa — Barry Brown has two straight after starting 2-0 MISSISSIPPI STATE 77 WICHITA STATE 70 hit a layup with four seconds left in conference place.

CLEMSON, S.C. — Kyle Guy and Kansas State stunned No. 20 STARKVILLE, Miss. — Blake HOUSTON — Corey Davis Iowa State, handing the Cyclones had 13 points, De’Andre Hunter Hinson scored a career-high 26 Jr. had 20 points, Armoni Brooks their second straight loss. scored 12 and No. 4 Virginia imNO. 10 NEVADA 74, points, Breein Tyree added 19 and added 14 and No. 17 Houston reproved to 15-0.

FRESNO STATE 64 Mississippi rallied past No. 14 bounded from its first loss of the Clemson started the day with NO. 21 MARQUETTE 70, FRESNO, Calif. — Caleb Mar- Mississippi State. season to beat Wichita State. a national championship football SETON HALL 66 Ole Miss (13-2, 3-0 SouthDavis and Brooks combined to parade and celebration just a few tin scored 27 points, including two steps away at Death Valley. The free throws with 54.6 seconds re- eastern Conference) won its 10th hit eight 3-pointers — seven in the MILWAUKEE — Markus basketball Tigers (10-6, 0-3 Atlan- maining, and No. 10 Nevada held straight game, continuing its sur- second half — and the Cougars Howard scored 26 points, Sacar prising run of great basketball un- (16-1, 3-1 American) overcame a Anim had 14 and No. 21 Martic Coast Conference) had hoped to on to beat Fresno State.

Martin also added nine re- der first-year coach Kermit Davis. five-point halftime deficit for their quette staved off a second-half add to the good feelings with their 29th straight home victory. DeJon rally to beat Seton Hall. first win over Virginia since 2012. bounds, and Jordan Caroline had 19 points and 16 rebounds for the Jarreau had 13 points, and Fabian NO. 15 N.C. STATE 86, Wolf Pack (16-1, 3-1 Mountain White Jr. added 12.

NO. 23 OKLAHOMA 76, NO. 5 GONZAGA 96, PITTSBURGH 80 West), who have won two straight NO. 25 TCU 74 SAN FRANCISCO 83 since losing at unranked New RALEIGH, N.C. — DJ FunderNO. 18 KENTUCKY 56, NORMAN, Okla. — Kristian SAN FRANCISCO — Brandon Mexico on Jan. 5. burk scored 12 of his 18 points in Doolittle hit a runner with less than VANDERBILT 47 Clarke scored 24 points and No. 5 the second half and No. 15 North three seconds left, lifting No. 23 LEXINGTON, Ky. — Ashton Oklahoma over No. 25 TCU. Gonzaga got a tiebreaking 3-pointCarolina State beat Pittsburgh.

NO. 11 AUBURN 93, Hagans and Keldon Johnson each er from Zach Norvell Jr. with less GEORGIA 78 scored 15 points and combined to than three minutes remaining to DEPAUL 79, NO. 24 ST. IOWA 72, NO. 16 OHIO AUBURN, Ala. — Jared Harprally No. 18 Kentucky from anothspark a 15-2 run to finish off San JOHN’S 71 STATE 62 er had 22 points and seven assists er slow start.

Francisco. while he and No. 11 Auburn reNEW YORK — Femi Olujobi IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — bounded from a rough night to beat Luka Garza scored 16 points, Tyhad 27 points and eight rebounds NO. 19 BUFFALO 88, NO. 7 KANSAS 73, Georgia. in his New York homecoming and ler Cook had 15 points with eight MIAMI (OH) 64 BAYLOR 68 Harper and the Tigers (12-3, rebounds and Iowa rolled past No. DePaul pulled away from No. 24 1-1 Southeastern Conference) St. John’s, beating the short-handAMHERST, N.Y. — Jeremy 16 Ohio State, handing the BuckWACO, Texas — Lagerald Vick Harris scored 17 points and No. 19 ed Red Storm for its first win over a scored 18 points with six 3-point- looked sharper at home than in an eyes their third straight loss.

Ryan Kriener scored 11 points Buffalo shook off a cold-shooting ranked team in almost three years. ers on his 22nd birthday and No. 7 82-67 loss at Mississippi, but still Kansas held on to beat Baylor.

Vick hit two of his 3s in an 11-3 run in the final 1:44 of the first half for the Jayhawks (14-2, 3-1 Big 12) to put them up by 10. Kansas EASTERN CONFERENCE Georgia St. 74, Louisiana-Monroe Boston U. 58, Lehigh 45 San Diego St. 70, Air Force 61 then held a double-digit lead for 73 Bryant 73, Mount St. Mary’s 68 Santa Clara 83, Loyola MaryFootball Atlantic Division most of the second half until the mount 75

W L Pct GB Grambling St. 69, Southern U. 63 Bucknell 56, Lafayette 47 Bears (9-6, 1-2) had eight consecuCanisius 75, St. Peter’s 62 UC Irvine 65, CS Northridge 61 NFL Playoffs Toronto 32 12 .727 — Hampton 83, UNC-Asheville 61 Davidson 77, Rhode Island 67 Utah St. 50, Wyoming 42 Divisional Playoffs tive points in the final minute.

Philadelphia 27 16 .628 4½ Hofstra 74, Elon 71

Scoreboard

NO. 8 TEXAS TECH 68, TEXAS 62 AUSTIN, Texas — Matt Mooney scored 22 points to lead No. 8 Texas Tech over Texas for the Red Raiders’ first win in Austin since 1996.

Jordan Culver scored 14 points and had seven assists for Texas Tech (15-1, 4-0 Big 12), whose last win in Austin came when both schools were in the old Southwest Conference. The Red Raiders are the only Big 12 team still unbeaten in league play.

SoHi skiers lead area Staff report Peninsula Clarion

The Soldotna ski team led the area Friday and Saturday at the Government Peak Recreation Invitational on Friday and Saturday.

The SoHi boys were the top team in both the boys classic and skate races. In the boys classic, the Stars combined for 1 hour, 6 minutes, 57 seconds, while Juneau was runnerup at 1:08:52. In boys skate, SoHi won at 1:02:30, while Grace Christian was second at 1:03:25.

Palmer won both the girls classic and skate races, but Soldotna was third in girls classic and second in girls skate.

Soldotna’s Jeremy Kupferschmid was the only individual winner from the Kenai Peninsula. Kupferschmid won the boys classic race at 15:46.

Government Peak Recreation Area Invitational

Friday-Saturday, Palmer Team results: Girls classic: 1. Palmer 1:23:11; 2. Grace Christian 1:25:54; 3. Soldotna 1:26:08; 4. Kenai 1:34:13; 5. Juneau 1:39:47.

Boys classic: 1. Soldotna 1:06:57; 2. Juneau 1:08:52; 3.

Grace 1:11:05; 4. Palmer 1:13:00; 5. Kenai 1:21:53.

Girls skate: 1. Palmer 1:18:37; 2. Soldotna 1:21:29; 3.

Grace 1:28:26; 4. Kenai 1:29:30; 5. Juenau 1:40:39.

Boys skate: 1. Soldotna 1:02:30; 2. Grace 1:03:25; 3.

Juneau 1:03:52; 4. Palmer 1:04:13; 5. Ke-

nai 1:11:51.

Individual results (top 20) Girls classic: 1. K. Houser, Pal 19:23; 2. R. WhittingtonEvans, Pal 20:20; 3. A. Berrigan, Pal 20:34; 4. M. Jackson, Gra 20:38; 5. E. Arthur, Sol 20:55; 6. M. Salzetti, Ken 21:06; 7. L. Ellis, Gra 21:09; 8. H. Delker, Sol 21:32; 9.

C. Demienteff, Gra 21:37; 10. K. Delker, Sol 21:40; 11. S. Martin, Sol 22:00; 12. I. Dammeyer, Sol 22:04; 13. G. Annett, Gra 22:28; 14. J. Ruffner, Sol 22:32; 15. Z. Copp, Pal 22:51; 16. B. Werner, Pal 23:42; 17. S. Lindquist, Sew 23:47; 18. A. McLaughlin, Gra 23:55; 19. L. Fallon, Ken 23:56; 20. M. Ticknor, Ken 24:11.

Boys classic: 1. J. Kupferschmid, Sol 15:46; 2. L. Fritzel, Gra 15:49; 3. J. Walling, Pal 15:53; 4. B. Walters, Sol 15:56; 5. C. Taylor-Ruth, Jun 16:08; 6. A. Ellefson, Jun 16:16; 7. K. Taylor, Pal 16:44; 8. J. Harris, Sol 16:55; 9. C. Fritzel, Gra 17:12; 10. F. Morley, Jun 17:25; 11.

F. Boze, Sol 18:16; 12. L. Chilton, Sol 18:26; 13. Q. Cox, Sol 18:41; 14. W. Metzger, Gra 18:57; 15. J. Dammeyer, Sol 19:00; 16. A. Blust, Jun 19:02; 17. J. Foster, Ken 19:03; 18. T. Merritt, Pal 19:03; 19. W. Wallace, Gra 19:05; 20. T. Hippchin, Ken 19:33.

Girls skate 1. K. Houser, Pal 17:21; 2. M. Salzetti, Ken 18:29; 3. A. Berrigan, Pal 18:56; 4. E. Arthur, Sol 20:12; 5. K. Delker, Sol 20:13; 6. R. Whittington-Evans, Pal 20”13; 7. I. Danmeyer, Sol 20:30; 8. H. Delker, Sol 20:32; 9. M. Jackson, Gra 20:37; 10. A. McLaughlin, Gra 21:32; 11. S. Lindquist, Sew 21:36; 12. S. Foster, Ken 21:45; 13. J. Ruffner, Sol 22:03; 14. Z. Copp, Pal 22:06; 15. B. Werner, Pal 22:13; 16. S. Martin, Sol 22:16; 17. G. Annett, Gra 22:36; 18. L. Fallon, ken 22:45; 19. S. Mueller, Pal 23:39; 20. C. Demienteff, Gra 23:40.

Boys skate 1. J. Walling, Pal 13:21; 2. A. Ellefson, Ken 14:46; 3. J. Kupferschmid, Sol 14:50; 4. B. Walters, Sol 14:53; 5. L. Fritzel, Gra 14:56; 6. K. Taylor, Pal 15:00; 7. C. Fritzel, Gra 15:17; 8. C. Tylor-Roth, Jun 15:21; 9. J. Harris, Sol 16:00; 10. F. Morley, Jun 16:13; 11. W. Metzger, Gra 16:20; 12. L. Chilton, Sol 16:44; 13. W. Wallace, Gra 16:51; 14.

T. Merritt, Pal 16:51; 15. T. Hippchen, Ken 17:11; 17. K. Leach, gra 17:12; 18. A. Blust, Jun 17:30; 19. F. Boze, Sol 17:35; 20. J. Dammeyer, Sol 17:45

Crawford leads area at Frosty Bottom Staff report Peninsula Clarion

Mike Crawford led the way for Kenai Peninsula fat bike riders Saturday at the Frosty Bottom in Anchorage.

Kenai’s Crawford finished sixth in the men’s 25-mile race with a time of 1 hour, 49 minutes and 35 seconds. Anchorage’s Brent Lowen won in 1:43:55. Also in that race, Kenai’s M. Scott Moon was 36th in 2:33:23.

Sterling’s Tyle Owens was 14th in the men’s 50-mile race with a time of 3:05:30, with the victory going to Anchorage’s Jason Lamoreaux in 2:48:40.

Also in that race, Sterling’s Nathan Kincaid was 38th in 4:33:51 and Soldotna’s John Messick was 44th in 5:26:05.

In the women’s 25-mile race, Eagle River’s Sheryl Loan won at 1:56:39, while Soldotna’s Cindy Miller was 31st in 4:13:20 and Kasilof’s Jane Adkins was 32nd in 4:15:00.

Saturday, Jan. 12 Kansas City 31, Indianapolis 13 L.A. Rams 30, Dallas 22 Sunday, Jan. 13 L.A. Chargers at New England, 9:05 a.m. (CBS) Philadelphia at New Orleans, 12:40 p.m. (FOX) All Times AST

Chiefs 31, Colts 13 Ind. 0 7 0 6—13 KC 14 10 0 7—31 First Quarter KC_Dam.Williams 10 run (Butker kick), 10:05.

KC_Hill 36 run (Butker kick), 6:28.

Second Quarter KC_FG Butker 39, 12:13.

Ind_Pascal 0 blocked punt return (Vinatieri kick), 5:56.

KC_Mahomes 4 run (Butker kick), 1:40.

Fourth Quarter Ind_Hilton 29 pass from Luck (kick failed), 5:31.

KC_Dar.Williams 6 run (Butker kick), 2:23.

A_76,765.

Ind KC First downs 15 29 Total Net Yards 263 433 Rushes-yards 14-87 33-180 Passing 176 253 Punt Returns 0-0 5-6 Kickoff Returns 4-80 2-39 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 19-36-0 27-41-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-27 4-25 Punts 7-48.3 4-27.5 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 3-1 Penalties-Yards 10-70 6-54 Time of Possession 20:11 39:49 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Indianapolis, Mack 9-46, Hines 3-24, Luck 2-17. Kansas City, Dam.Williams 25-129, Hill 1-36, Dar.Williams 3-9, Mahomes 3-8, Watkins 1-(minus 2).

PASSING_Indianapolis, Luck 1936-0-203. Kansas City, Mahomes 27-41-0-278.

RECEIVING_Indianapolis, Ebron 5-51, Rogers 5-30, Hilton 4-60, Inman 4-55, Pascal 1-7. Kansas City, Hill 8-72, Kelce 7-108, Watkins 6-62, Dam.Williams 5-25, Dieter 1-11.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_Indianapolis, Vinatieri 23.

Rams 30, Cowboys 22 Dallas 7 0 8 7—22 L.A. 3 17 3 7—30 First Quarter La_FG Zuerlein 25, 9:44.

Dal_Cooper 29 pass from Prescott (Maher kick), 6:03.

Second Quarter La_FG Zuerlein 23, 13:40.

La_Anderson 1 run (Zuerlein kick), 7:00.

La_Gurley 35 run (Zuerlein kick), 3:27.

Third Quarter La_FG Zuerlein 44, 10:03.

Dal_Elliott 1 run (Cooper pass from Prescott), 5:20.

Fourth Quarter La_Anderson 1 run (Zuerlein kick), 7:16.

Dal_Prescott 1 run (Maher kick), 2:11.

A_77,187.

Dal La First downs 19 30 Total Net Yards 308 459 Rushes-yards 22-50 48-273 Passing 258 186 Punt Returns 0-0 3-29 Kickoff Returns 3-60 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 20-32-0 15-28-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-8 0-0 Punts 4-41.3 1-29.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 4-26 4-41 Time of Possession 23:47 36:13 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Dallas, Elliott 20-47, Prescott 2-3. Los Angeles, Anderson 23-123, Gurley 16-115, Goff 6-12, R.Woods 1-9, Reynolds 1-9, Cooks 1-5.

PASSING_Dallas, Prescott 20-320-266. Los Angeles, Goff 15-280-186.

RECEIVING_Dallas, Gallup 6-119, Cooper 6-65, Elliott 2-19, Jarwin 2-17, Schultz 1-20, Beasley 1-15, N.Brown 1-13, Austin 1-(minus 2). Los Angeles, R.Woods 6-69, Cooks 4-65, Higbee 2-30, Gurley 2-3, Reynolds 1-19.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_Los Angeles, Zuerlein 63.

Basketball NBA Standings

Boston 25 17 .595 Brooklyn 21 23 .477 New York 10 32 .238 Southeast Division Miami 21 20 .512 Charlotte 19 23 .452 Orlando 18 24 .429 Washington 18 25 .419 Atlanta 13 29 .310 Central Division Milwaukee 29 12 .707 Indiana 28 14 .667 Detroit 18 23 .439 Chicago 10 33 .233 Cleveland 8 35 .186

6 11 21

— 2½ 3½ 4 8½ — 1½ 11 20 22

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Houston 24 17 .585 San Antonio 25 19 .568 Dallas 20 22 .476 New Orleans 20 23 .465 Memphis 19 23 .452 Northwest Division Denver 28 13 .683 Oklahoma City 26 16 .619 Portland 26 17 .605 Utah 23 21 .523 Minnesota 21 22 .488 Pacific Division Golden State 28 14 .667 L.A. Clippers 24 18 .571 L.A. Lakers 23 20 .535 Sacramento 22 21 .512 Phoenix 11 33 .250

— ½ 4½ 5 5½ — 2½ 3 6½ 8 — 4 5½ 6½ 18

Friday’s Games Atlanta 123, Philadelphia 121 Washington 113, Milwaukee 106 Indiana 121, New York 106 Toronto 122, Brooklyn 105 Dallas 119, Minnesota 115 Houston 141, Cleveland 113 Portland 127, Charlotte 96 Utah 113, L.A. Lakers 95 Golden State 146, Chicago 109 Saturday’s Games Detroit 109, L.A. Clippers 104 Miami 112, Memphis 108 Orlando 105, Boston 103 Minnesota 110, New Orleans 106 Oklahoma City 122, San Antonio 112 Phoenix 102, Denver 93 Sacramento 104, Charlotte 97 Utah 110, Chicago 102 Sunday’s Games Philadelphia at New York, 9 a.m.

Toronto at Washington, 9 a.m.

Milwaukee at Atlanta, 11:30 a.m.

Houston at Orlando, 2 p.m.

Golden State at Dallas, 3 p.m.

Portland at Denver, 4 p.m.

Cleveland at L.A. Lakers, 5:30 p.m.

All Times AST

Men’s Major Scores EAST Boston U. 75, Navy 69 Bucknell 55, American U. 54 Buffalo 88, Miami (Ohio) 64 CCSU 77, Mount St. Mary’s 68 Colgate 91, Lehigh 78 Columbia 102, Elmira 63 Dartmouth 81, Harvard 63 DePaul 79, St. John’s 71 Duquesne 85, Saint Joseph’s 84 Georgetown 96, Providence 90, 2OT Georgia Tech 73, Syracuse 59 Holy Cross 77, Lafayette 70 LIU Brooklyn 80, Robert Morris 73 Loyola (Md.) 66, Army 64 Maine 66, Albany (NY) 62 Mass.-Lowell 74, UMBC 63 Monmouth (NJ) 65, Manhattan 49 NC A&T 93, Delaware St. 70 NC Central 61, Md.-Eastern Shore 48 Oklahoma St. 85, West Virginia 77 Princeton 62, Penn 53 Richmond 76, George Washington 56 Sacred Heart 98, Bryant 70 Saint Louis 71, La Salle 64 St. Bonaventure 71, Fordham 64 St. Francis Brooklyn 72, St. Francis (Pa.) 68 Stony Brook 62, New Hampshire 44 Temple 82, South Florida 80, OT Vermont 81, Hartford 62 Wagner 66, Fairleigh Dickinson 60 SOUTH Abilene Christian 75, SE Louisiana 72 Auburn 93, Georgia 78 Austin Peay 72, UT Martin 70 Belmont 109, E. Kentucky 93 Bethune-Cookman 71, Howard 63 Charleston Southern 101, Longwood 91 Charlotte 65, FAU 60 Chattanooga 80, Samford 75 Coll. of Charleston 71, Delaware 58 Davidson 64, VCU 57 Duke 80, Florida St. 78 E. Illinois 67, Tennessee Tech 60 ETSU 72, Mercer 68, OT Florida A&M 69, Savannah St. 64 Gardner-Webb 64, SC-Upstate 59

Jackson St. 59, Alcorn St. 52 Jacksonville St. 90, SIU-Edwardsville 54 James Madison 74, Towson 65 Kentucky 56, Vanderbilt 47 Liberty 69, Jacksonville 53 Lipscomb 95, Stetson 71 Louisiana Tech 73, Middle Tennessee 56 Louisiana-Lafayette 87, Georgia Southern 85 Louisville 83, North Carolina 62 MVSU 72, Alabama A&M 63 Marshall 70, W. Kentucky 69 Miami 76, Wake Forest 65 Mississippi 81, Mississippi St. 77 Morehead St. 74, Tennessee St. 61 NC State 86, Pittsburgh 80 New Orleans 79, McNeese St. 66 Nicholls 77, Houston Baptist 76 Norfolk St. 80, Coppin St. 66 North Alabama 61, NJIT 55 North Florida 87, Florida Gulf Coast 66 Northeastern 90, William & Mary 70 Old Dominion 75, FIU 74 Radford 79, Presbyterian 77 SC State 72, Morgan St. 68 Southern Miss. 73, UAB 68 Tennessee 78, Florida 67 Texas A&M 81, Alabama 80 Texas State 70, Appalachian St. 69 Texas-Arlington 61, Coastal Carolina 58 UNC-Greensboro 89, Furman 79 UNC-Wilmington 97, Drexel 83 Virginia 63, Clemson 43 W. Carolina 94, The Citadel 82 Winthrop 80, High Point 63 Wofford 90, VMI 76

Fairleigh Dickinson 74, CCSU 67 George Washington 46, Dayton 45 Hartford 61, Vermont 32 Holy Cross 78, Loyola (Md.) 60 Maine 76, Albany (NY) 65 Marist 56, Fairfield 46 Mass.-Lowell 67, UMBC 55 Md.-Eastern Shore 59, NC Central 49 NC A&T 67, Delaware St. 47 Navy 62, Colgate 49 Niagara 58, Iona 46 Penn St. 62, Illinois 48 Quinnipiac 67, Monmouth (NJ) 38 Robert Morris 75, St. Francis Brooklyn 56 Sacred Heart 80, Wagner 68 St. Francis (Pa.) 80, LIU Brooklyn 66 Stony Brook 82, New Hampshire 63 SOUTH

Bowling Green 97, Cent. Michigan 87, OT California Baptist 77, Chicago St. 75 Cincinnati 74, UConn 72, OT Detroit 93, Milwaukee 84 E. Michigan 95, Kent St. 61 Grand Canyon 69, Rio Grande 65 Ill.-Chicago 73, Cleveland St. 56 Indiana St. 72, Evansville 66, OT Iowa 72, Ohio St. 62 Kansas St. 58, Iowa St. 57 Loyola of Chicago 67, Illinois St. 64 Marquette 70, Seton Hall 66 Minnesota 88, Rutgers 70 Missouri St. 69, Bradley 64 Murray St. 85, SE Missouri 67 N. Illinois 73, Akron 56 North Dakota 71, W. Illinois 65 Notre Dame 69, Boston College 66 Oakland 90, Green Bay 78 Ohio 70, Ball St. 52 S. Dakota St. 84, Oral Roberts 65 Toledo 85, W. Michigan 77 Valparaiso 65, S. Illinois 61 Youngstown St. 82, IUPUI 76

Alabama A&M 80, MVSU 60 Belmont 69, E. Kentucky 43 Charleston Southern 81, Longwood 74 Charlotte 68, FAU 47 Chattanooga 76, ETSU 67 Florida Gulf Coast 105, North Florida 66 Furman 65, W. Carolina 55 Georgia St. 56, Louisiana-Monroe 41 High Point 78, Gardner-Webb 61 Howard 61, Bethune-Cookman 40 Jackson St. 88, Alcorn St. 66 Jacksonville 64, Liberty 52 Louisiana-Lafayette 59, Georgia Southern 48 Maryland 83, Michigan 69 Mercer 76, Samford 68 Middle Tennessee 75, Louisiana Tech 38 Morehead St. 85, Tennessee St. 62 Morgan St. 62, SC State 51 New Orleans 88, McNeese St. 76 Nicholls 77, Houston Baptist 54 Norfolk St. 68, Coppin St. 63 North Alabama 72, NJIT 60 Old Dominion 95, FIU 68 Presbyterian 70, SC-Upstate 54 Radford 70, Winthrop 49 SE Louisiana 74, Abilene Christian 71 SIU-Edwardsville 51, Jacksonville St. 47 Southern U. 86, Grambling St. 81 Stetson 80, Lipscomb 65 Tennessee Tech 99, E. Illinois 88 Troy 87, Arkansas St. 79 Tulsa 75, East Carolina 55 UAB 71, Southern Miss. 60 UALR 65, South Alabama 42 UNC-Asheville 60, Campbell 52 UT Martin 74, Austin Peay 65 VCU 68, Richmond 43 W. Kentucky 85, Marshall 55 Wofford 93, UNC-Greensboro 66 Wright St. 61, N. Kentucky 55

SOUTHWEST

MIDWEST

Ark.-Pine Bluff 82, Alabama St. 71 Cent. Arkansas 75, Lamar 68 Houston 79, Wichita St. 70 Kansas 73, Baylor 68 LSU 94, Arkansas 88, OT Northwestern St. 61, Stephen F. Austin 59 Oklahoma 76, TCU 74 Prairie View 79, Texas Southern 73 SMU 77, Tulsa 57 Sam Houston St. 66, Incarnate Word 52 Texas Tech 68, Texas 62 Troy 90, Arkansas St. 85, OT UALR 91, South Alabama 62 UTEP 65, Rice 64 UTSA 76, North Texas 74

Akron 74, Bowling Green 71 Buffalo 66, Miami (Ohio) 59 Cent. Michigan 89, N. Illinois 66 E. Michigan 64, W. Michigan 61 Green Bay 60, Youngstown St. 42 Kent St. 58, Toledo 47 Memphis 71, Wichita St. 50 Milwaukee 59, Cleveland St. 53 Murray St. 64, SE Missouri 59 Ohio 90, Ball St. 75 S. Dakota St. 68, Oral Roberts 55 South Dakota 69, Purdue Fort Wayne 51 Texas 64, Iowa St. 62

MIDWEST

FAR WEST Air Force 62, San Diego St. 48 Arizona 87, California 65 BYU 80, Santa Clara 74 Boise St. 87, San Jose St. 64 CS Northridge 78, Cal Poly 74, OT Colorado St. 91, New Mexico 76 Gonzaga 96, San Francisco 83 Idaho St. 72, Sacramento St. 70 Long Beach St. 82, UC Davis 77 Montana 88, N. Colorado 64 Nevada 74, Fresno St. 64 New Mexico St. 73, CS Bakersfield 62 Pacific 65, Portland 57 Pepperdine 76, San Diego 71 S. Utah 84, N. Arizona 82 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 71, Loyola Marymount 60 Stanford 85, Arizona St. 71 UC Irvine 63, Cal St.-Fullerton 46 UC Santa Barbara 72, UC Riverside 64 Utah 88, Washington St. 70 Utah St. 71, Wyoming 55 Utah Valley 88, Seattle 78 Washington 77, Colorado 70 Weber St. 95, Portland St. 88, OT

Women’s Major Scores EAST American U. 61, Army 51

SOUTHWEST Alabama St. 58, Ark.-Pine Bluff 56 Appalachian St. 62, Texas State 49 Baylor 79, TCU 55 Houston 78, Temple 65 Lamar 57, Cent. Arkansas 37 Oklahoma St. 65, Texas Tech 57 Rice 76, UTEP 42 Sam Houston St. 76, Incarnate Word 56 Stephen F. Austin 84, Northwestern St. 56 Texas Southern 52, Prairie View 44 Texas-Arlington 79, Coastal Carolina 53 Tulane 61, SMU 43 UTSA 57, North Texas 54 FAR WEST BYU 74, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 73 Boise St. 99, San Jose St. 68 Cal Poly 75, UC Santa Barbara 67 California Baptist 89, Chicago St. 52 Fresno St. 79, Nevada 63 Gonzaga 97, Portland 71 Hawaii 65, UC Davis 60 Idaho St. 73, Sacramento St. 43 N. Colorado 73, Montana 62 New Mexico 70, Colorado St. 58 New Mexico St. 61, CS Bakersfield 59 Pacific 79, San Diego 47 Pepperdine 69, San Francisco 50 Portland St. 77, Weber St. 59 Rio Grande 66, Grand Canyon 50 S. Utah 82, N. Arizona 76

Utah Valley 58, Seattle 55

Hockey NHL Glance EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 45 35 8 2 72 188 128 Toronto 44 28 14 2 58 158 122 45 26 15 4 56 131 116 Boston Montreal 46 24 17 5 53 138 139 45 23 16 6 52 131 130 Buffalo Florida 43 17 18 8 42 137 155 Detroit 47 17 23 7 41 133 160 46 17 24 5 39 143 178 Ottawa Metropolitan Division Washington 44 27 12 5 59 154 128 Pittsburgh 45 25 14 6 56 161 132 Columbus 44 26 15 3 55 141 134 129 116 N.Y. Islanders 43 24 15 4 52 Carolina 44 21 18 5 47 117 127 N.Y. Rangers 44 18 19 7 43 121 150 New Jersey 44 17 20 7 41 128 148 Philadelphia 45 16 23 6 38 123 160

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division 44 28 14 2 58 152 125 Winnipeg Nashville 46 27 15 4 58 142 116 Dallas 46 23 19 4 50 121 122 45 20 17 8 48 151 144 Colorado Minnesota 44 22 19 3 47 124 125 43 19 20 4 42 121 134 St. Louis Chicago 47 16 22 9 41 137 171 Pacific Division Calgary 46 29 13 4 62 166 132 San Jose 47 27 13 7 61 167 141 48 28 16 4 60 146 127 Vegas Anaheim 45 19 18 8 46 109 136 Edmonton 45 21 21 3 45 126 144 46 20 21 5 45 131 147 Vancouver Arizona 44 20 21 3 43 115 123 Los Angeles 46 18 25 3 39 105 136 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

Friday’s Games Carolina 4, Buffalo 3 Winnipeg 4, Detroit 2 Calgary 4, Florida 3 Pittsburgh 7, Anaheim 4 Saturday’s Games New Jersey 3, Philadelphia 2 N.Y. Rangers 2, N.Y. Islanders 1 Boston 3, Toronto 2 Columbus 2, Washington 1, OT Tampa Bay 5, Buffalo 3 Montreal 3, Colorado 0 Detroit 5, Minnesota 2 Vegas 4, Chicago 3, OT St. Louis 3, Dallas 1 Arizona 3, Edmonton 2 San Jose 4, Ottawa 1 Los Angeles 5, Pittsburgh 2 Sunday’s Games Nashville at Carolina, 8:30 a.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Columbus, 2 p.m.

Anaheim at Winnipeg, 2 p.m.

Florida at Vancouver, 3 p.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Islanders, 3 p.m.

Arizona at Calgary, 5:30 p.m.

All Times AST

Transactions FOOTBALL National Football League CLEVELAND BROWNS — Named Freddie Kitchens coach.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed QB Jake Rudock to a reserve/futures contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned F Michael Bunting to Tucson (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Activated G Mackenzie Blackwood and F Marcus Johansson from injured reserve. Assigned G Cam Johnson to Binghamton (AHL).

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Toledo’s Bryan Moore four games and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in a Jan. 11 game at Idaho. Suspended Fort Wayne’s Taylor Crunk four games and fined him an undisclosed amount and fined Fort Wayne’s Justin Hodgman an undisclosed amount for their actions in a Jan. 11 game at Indy.

COLLEGE MIAMI — Named Eric Hickson running backs coach and Butch Barry offensive line coach.

B4 | Sunday, January 13, 2019 | Peninsula Clarion

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Homer 6, Houston 1

The visiting Mariners dropped a nonconference contest Saturday.

Soldotna 4, Colony 1 Friday, Menard Arena

The visiting Mariners notched a Railbelt victory Friday at Big Lake Recreational Center.

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ers for SoHi, which outshot Houston 55-23.

Kenzie Powell made 21 saves in the SoHi net.

. . . Prep

Colony 4, Homer 0

Kenai Central 3, Houston 1 Saturday, Big Lake Rec Center First period — 1. Kenai- C. Stock (Knudson) 10:21.

Second period — 2. Houston- Squires (unassisted) 10:42; 3. Kenai- Beiser (J. Stock) 7:37.

Third period — 3. Kenai- Beiser (C. Stock) 00:04.

Shots on goal: Kenai 13-8-19—40; Houston 4-9-4— 17; Saves: Kenai- Cross 4-8-4—16, Houston- Smoldon 12-7-18—37.

Ninilchik boys 76, Kodiak ESS 38

lost the seventh-place game 7737 to West Valley at the Alaska Prep Shootout at Dimond High School in Anchorage on Saturday.

The Wolfpack led 15-9 after a quarter, but by halftime the score was 43-19.

Terrell Peter had 18 points for West Valley, while Demarcus Davis had 17 and Cortarius Mingo had 16. For Kenai, Adam Trujillo had 19.

Friday, Kenai fell into the seventh-place game by losing to Eagle River 64-56.

Eagle River led 17-13 after the first quarter and 37-31 at halftime. Kenai cut the gap to 50-46 after three quarters, but Eagle River won the final quarter 14-10.

The Kardinals buried nine 3-pointers in the game, and Trujillo had four of those on the way to 22 points. Connor Felchle also had four 3s for 12 points, while Evan Stockton added 10. For balanced Eagle River, Jalen Jones had 14 points and Ryan Adkins added 11.

The host Wolverines cruised to a Peninsula Conference win Saturday.

Ninilchik led 15-7 after a quarter and 36-12 at halftime.

Garrett Koch paced the Wolverines with 26 points, while Jake Clark had 16 points and Cole Hadro added 11.

For Kodiak ESS, Mason Mullan had 24 points.

Houston, Homer split

Nikiski sweeps Houston

Nikiski sweeps Redington The Nikiski girls needed a 22-point third quarter to get past Redington 44-35 Saturday afternoon at Redington.

Bethany Carstens scored 11 of her game-high 22 in the third. Redington had led 11-10 after the first half. Abbie Fuller led Redington with 17 points.

The Bulldogs boys completed the sweep with a 54-35 victory.

CIA boys 41, Kodiak ESS 35 The host Eagles notched the Peninsula Conference victory over the Ravens on Friday.

CIA had to crawl back from a 15-4 deficit after the first quarter. By the half, the Ravens were up just 19-16, and CIA led 28-24 after three quarters.

Josh Boyd had 12 points for CIA, while Mason Mullan had

Palmer 8, Kenai 1 Friday, MTA Events Center First period — 1. Palmer- Hooks (Matlock, Theisen)

13:53; 2. Palmer- Matlock (Hooks) 13:20; 3. PalmerZ. Nelius (Biddle) 11:55; 4. Palmer- Hayes (Hooks, Biddle) 11:34; 5. Palmer- Brooks (A. Nelius, Stoll) 4:35; 6. Kenai- Maxson (West) 2:03.

Second period — 7. Palmer- Thiesen (Matlock) sh 12:35.

Third period — 8. Palmer- Z. Nelius (Weaver, Wilson) sh 9:30; 9. Palmer- Z. Nelius (Brooks, Theisen) 0:44.

Shots on goal: Kenai 9-8-7—24, Palmer 16-9-9—34; Saves: Kenai- Coppes 11-8-7—26, Palmer- Horacek 9-1-x—10, Heard x-7-7—14.

13 to lead the Ravens.

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The Houston Hawks scored their first Southcentral Conference girls basketball victory of the year Saturday afternoon with a 40-29 win over Homer at Houston High School.

Houston opened the game on a 9-2 run and capped it with a 15-point fourth quarter.

Houston’s Emily Bitler led all scorers with a dozen. Jaydin Winzenberg added 11 for the Hawks. Rylyn Todd finished with eight for the Mariners.

The Homer boys used an early run to post a 72-62 win over the Hawks. The Mariners led 21-8 after the first quarter.

Titus McGhee led Homer with 16 points and Stanley Swoboda added 15.

Cameron Wyrick finished with 14 for the Hawks. Kyle McLauglin added 13.

First period — 1. Soldotna- A. Montague (unassisted) 7:06; 2. Soldotna- A. Montague (Urban) 4:10.

Second period — 3. Soldotna- Brantley III (Nye) 12:06.

Third period — 4. Soldotna- Haakenson (Urban, Kopp) 7:57; 5. Colony- Holman (Diltz, Korynta) 5:13.

Shots on goal: Soldotna 6-11-4—21, Colony 10-714—31; Saves: Soldotna- Tree 10-7-13—30, ColonyShepard 4-10-3—17.

Homer, Redington split The Redington Huskies used a strong finish to earn a Southcentral Conference girls basketball victory over Homer Friday night at Redington.

The Huskies led by just a point at the half, but outscored the Mariners 25-10 in the second half en route to a 38-22 victory. Abbie Fuller supplied a game-high 19 points in the win.

Lexi Seymour added a dozen.

Fuller and Seymour combined to hit 15 free throws in the win.

In boys action, the Huskies suffered a 70-29 loss to the Mariners.

Jace Kornstad scored 22 points to lead Nikiski to a 5546 boys basketball win over Houston Friday in Houston.

Noah Litke added 14 in the Nikiski win. Francis Mose led Houston with 12. Owen Mulhaney and Kyle McLaughlin pitched in 11 each.

In girls action, Bethany Carstens scored 28 in a 51-27 win over the Hawks. Denali Seward’s Sophia Dow passes under pressure from Soldotna’s Ituau Tuisaula and Danica Schmidt on Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, at Whitted scored 14 for Houston. Soldotna High School. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion) Chris Lockwood tournament The Nikolaevsk girls basketball team finished up play at the Chris Lockwood tournament in Unalakleet on Saturday by defeating St. Mary’s 39-38 and losing to Shaktoolik 54-45. The Warriors did not finish in the top two of the tournament.

Against St. Mary’s, coach Bea Klaich said a team effort carried the day because St. Mary’s was focused on Elizabeth Fefelov. There were six girls in the scoring column, led by Markiana Yakunin with 14 points. Fefelov had 11 rebounds.

Against Shaktoolik, Fefelov had 19 points and 19 rebounds, while Yakunin had 15 points.

In Friday play, Nikolaevsk defeated Kiana 36-32 and lost to Selawik 49-46.

Against Kiana, Fefelov had 22 points and 18 rebounds.

Against Selawik, Fefelov had 20 points and 15 rebounds, while Yakunin had 12 points and Sophia Klaich had 10 rebounds.

Friday boys Wolves 64, Kardinals 56 Eagle River 17 20 13 14 — 64 Kenai 13 18 15 10 — 56 EAGLE RIVER (64) — Adkins 11, Benoit 2, Retzlaff 8, Michener 0, Jones 14, Walker 8, Piper 5, Rollman 16. Totals — 23 13-21 64.

KENAI CENTRAL (56) — Efta 3, Felchle 12, Baker 0, Bezdecny 5, McEnerney 0, Stockton 10, Trujillo 22, Pitsch 4, McKibben 0. Totals — 18 11-23 56.

3-point goals — Eagle River 5 (Adkins 2, Jones 2, Piper); Kenai 9 (Felchle 4, Trujillo 4, Stockton) Team fouls — Eagle River 19, Kenai 15. Fouled out — Adkins.

Eagles 41, Ravens 35 Kodiak ESS 15 4 5 11 — 35 CIA 4 12 12 13 — 41 KODIAK ESS (35) — Bogardus 8, Bircher 7, Mullan 13, Amodo 5, Reft 0, R. LindCharlia 2. Totals — 15 2-4 35.

COOK INLET ACADEMY (41) — Moos 3, Ja. Boyd 2, Johnson 6, Cragg 2, Leaf 5, Walsh 4, Anderson 0, Van De Grift 0, Zeigler 7, Jo. Boyd 12. Totals — 19 1-2 41.

3-point goals — Kodiak ESS 3 (Bogardus, Bircher, Amodo); CIA 1 (Leaf). Team fouls — Kodiak ESS 10, CIA 9. Fouled out — Bircher.

Stars 55, Seahawks 24 Seward 6 6 5 7 — 24 Soldotna 12 16 21 6 — 55 SEWARD (24) — Basalo 0, Koster 2, Moriarity 5, Cronin 0, Ingalls 2, Pfieffenberger 6, Spanos 4, Jarvis 2, Nillson 3. Totals — 8 6-12 24.

SOLDOTNA (55) — Rich 5, Morrison 2, Hanson 0, Chumley 12, Truesdell 22, Kant 0, Wells 0, Rosin 2, Michael 11, Denna 1.

Totals — 20 9-16 55.

3-point goals — Seward 2 (Moriarity, Pfieffenberger); Soldotna 6 (Truesdell 4, Chumley 2). Team fouls — Seward 15, Soldotna 16. Fouled out — none.

Bulldogs 55, Hawks 46 Nikiski 5-11-15-14—55 Houston 9-8-11-18—46 Nikiski (55) — Mysing 1 0-0 2, Weathers 1 3-3 5, Kornstad 7 2-3 22, Handley 3 2-4 9, Litke 4 3-4 14, DeSiena 1 0-0 3; Totals: 17 10-14 55.

Houston (46) — Ca. Wyrick 0 1-2 4, Faliniko 1 1-2 3, G. Mulhaney 2 1-2 5, O. Mulhaney

3 2-2 11, Mose 5 2-4 12, McLaughlin 3 5-6 11; Totals: 16 12-18 46.

Friday girls Stars 60, Seahawks 22 Seward 5 6 6 5 — 22 Soldotna 28 11 19 2 — 60 SEWARD (22) — Dow 0, Sawyer-Lemme 2, Ambrosiani 0, Schilling 0, Von Borstel 8, Sieverts 2, Jackson 10, Dougherty 0, Casagranda 0, Sewell 0. Totals — 7 7-12 22.

SOLDOTNA (60) — McGillivray 4, Buckbee 0, Leaf 0, Blossom 15, A. Schmidt 13, Bouschor 2, Tuisaula 13, Leadens 0, Crosby-Schneider 4, D. Schmidt 9, Fischer 0. Totals — 23 9-14 60.

3-point goals — Seward 1 (Jackson); Soldotna 5 (Blossom 3, A. Schmidt, D. Schmidt). Team fouls — Seward 13, Soldotna 11. Fouled out — none.

Huskies 38, Mariners 22 Homer 6-6-4-6—22 Redington 4-9-10-15—38 Homer (22) — Bishop 2 2-2 7. Bales 1 1-2 3, Doughty 1 1-2 3, Todd 2 0-0 5, Carroll 1 0-0 2; Totals: 8 4-7 22.

Redington (38) — Simmons 1 0-0 2, Apareza 2 0-0 5, Seymour 3 6-12 12, Fuller 6 9-13 19; Totals: 11 15-25 38.

Bulldogs 51, Hawks 27 Nikiski 22-11-14-4—51 Houston 4-8-7-12—27 Nikiski (51) — Jeffreys 3 3-3 9, L. Carstens 1 0-2 2, Bostic 1 2-2 4, Johnson 1 1-4 3, B. Carstens 11 2-2 28, Zimmerman 1 0-0 2, Rizzo 1 0-0 2, Paulin 0 1-4 1; Totals: 19 9-17 51.

Houston (27) — Graham 0 1-4 1, Whitted 6 1-4, 14, Bitler 4 0-2 8, Elson 1 0-0 2, Ritchie 1 0-0 2; Totals: 12 2-11 27.

Saturday boys Wolfpack 77, Kardinals 37 Kenai 9 10 8 10 — 37 West Valley 15 28 14 20 — 77

KENAI CENTRAL (37) — Dunham 0, Efta 4, Felchle 0, Baker 4, Custodio 0, Bezdecny 0, McEnerney 3, Stockton 1, Trujillo 19, Stafford 0, Pitsch 2, Daniels 2, McKibben 2.

Totals — 15 5-7 37.

WEST VALLEY (77) — Damario 4, Atkins 4, Peter 18, Davis 17, Mingo 16, Nance 1, Warner 5, Thomas 0, Campbell 7, Miller 6.

Totals — 29 13-21 77.

3-point goals — Kenai 2 (McEnerney, Trujillo); West Valley 7 (Peter 2, Mingo 2, Atkins, Warner, Campbell). Team fouls — Kenai 11, West Valley 13. Fouled out — Nance.

Anderson 5 2-3 12, Knapp 2 0-0 4, Swoboda 6 2-3 15, Mann 0 0-2 0; Totals: 32 10-19 72.

Houston (62) — Ca. Wyrick 3 8-9 14, Co. Wyrick 3 0-0 9, Welsh 1 0-0 3, Faliniko 1 0-0 2, G. Mulhaney 4 0-0 8, O. Mulhaney 2 0-0 4, Mose 4 1-3 9, McLaughlin 6 1-2 13; Totals: 24 10-14 62.

Stars 50, Braves 36

GRACE CHRISTIAN (27) — Coronado 2, Binder 15, Markel 1, Wood 0, Tanner 3, Salima 6, Crotts 0, Annett 0. Totals — 10 6-9 27.

SOLDOTNA (70) — McGillivray 4, Buckbee 2, Blossom 20, A. Schmidt 12, Bouschor 13, Tuisaula 7, Holland 0, Leadens 0, Crosby-Schneider 0, D. Schmidt 12, Fischer 0. Totals — 31 3-6 70.

3-point goals — Grace 1 (Binder); Soldotna 5 (Blossom 3, D. Schmidt 2). Team fouls — Grace 7, Soldotna 11. Fouled out — none.

Mt. Edgecumbe 18 6 6 6 — 36 Soldotna 16 13 11 10 — 50 MT. EDGECUMBE (36) — Toomer 9, Dock 0, Constantine 5, Alstrom-Bean 2, Johnson-Edwards 4, Dunaway 3, Brown 13, Adams 0. Totals — 14 3-9 36.

SOLDOTNA (50) — Rich 3, Morrison 2, Hanson 7, Chumley 15, Truesdell 18, Kant 0, Wells 0, Michael 5. Totals — 16 12-18 50.

3-point goals — Mt. Edgecumbe 5 (Toomer 3, Constantine, Brown); Soldotna 6 (Chumley 3, Truesdell 2, Rich). Team fouls — Mt. Edgecumbe 12, Soldotna 15. Fouled out — none.

Wolverines 76, Ravens 38 Kodiak ESS 7 5 15 11 — 38 Ninilchik 15 21 18 22 — 76 KODIAK ESS (38) — Bogardus 0, Bircher 11, Reft 0, R. Lind-Charlia 0, Amodo 3, Mullan 24. Totals — 14 4-6 38.

NINILCHIK (76) — Nelson 2, Hadro 11, Koch 26, Moto 2, Clark 16, Moore 6, Davilla 4, Mumey 6. Totals — 29 6-12 76.

3-point goals — Kodiak 6 (Bircher 3, Mullan 2, Amodo); Ninilchik 7 (Koch 4, Moore 2, Hadro). Team fouls — Kodiak 8, Ninilchik 5.

Fouled out — none.

Mariners 72, Hawks 62 Homer 21-19-21-21—72 Houston 8-20-17-15—62 Homer (72) — Beachy 4 1-2 10, Adkins 3 3-5 9, Reutov 3 0-0 6, McGhee 7 2-4 16,

Saturday girls Stars 70, Grizzlies 27 Grace 4 4 8 11 — 27 Soldotna 26 23 8 13 — 70

Bulldogs 44, Huskies 36 Nikiski 3-7-22-12—44 Redington 2-9-8-17—36 Nikiski (44) — Jeffreys 0 1-2 1, No. 4 0 1-2 1, L. Carstens 2 4-6 8, Bostic 1 0- 13, Johnson 4 1-2 9, B. Carstens 9 1-2 22; Totals: 16 8-17 44.

Redington (36) — Simmons 1 0-0 2, Stoker 0 0-2 0, Aporazuk 3 1-2 11, No. 23 1 4-5 6, Fulller 6 6-13 17; Totals: 11 11-22 36.

Hawks 40, Mariners 29 Homer 2-7-11-8—29 Houston 9-10-6-15—40 Homer (29) — Irama 2 0-1 5, Bishop 0 2-2 2, Bales 1 0-0 2, Daughty 3 0-3 6, Todd 3 2-4 8, Carroll 2 0-0 4, Smide 1 0-0 2, Hatfield 0 0-2 0; Totals: 12 4-12 29.

Houston (40) — Graham 2 0-2 4, Whitted 2 0-0 4, Bitler 4 4-9 12, Wingzenberg 4 2-4 11, Elson 1 1-4 3, Ritchie 2 2-4 6; Totals: 15 9-23 40.

Griffin scores 44 against former team

By The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Blake Griffin scored 44 points in his return to Staples Center for the first time against his old team and the Detroit Pistons beat the Los Angeles Clippers 109104 on Saturday to snap a four-game skid.

Griffin was greeted with cheers during pregame introductions and received a standing ovation after a firstquarter video tribute from the team that drafted him first overall in 2009.

He stuck his right arm in the air and then brought his raised hands together in a thankful gesture without smiling.

He clearly wanted to beat the team that stunningly traded him last January after he had signed a $171 million, five-year extension.

Griffin scored 15 points in the opening quarter when he got razzed by superfan Clipper Darrell during free throw attempts. He had 26 points in the first half to help Detroit to a 6554 lead.

His 3-pointer to start the third and a basket by Andre Drummond pushed Detroit to a 16-point lead. Griffin had a one-hand slam reminiscent of his old

Lob City days.

Andre Drummond had 20 points and 21 rebounds for the Pistons. Danilo Gallinari led the Clippers with 23 points.

Towns swished a 3-pointer to make it 106-103 with 2:55 left, giving the Timberwolves the lead for good. Then he blocked a 3-point try by Davis on the other end, triggering a fast break that Tyus Jones finished with a layup.

Davis had 30 points and 14 reSUNS 102, NUGGETS 93 bounds for his 13th consecutive douPHOENIX — Kelly Oubre Jr. ble-double. Jrue Holiday added 25 matched his career high with 26 points points and seven assists for the Pelifor the second time in three games cans. and Phoenix beat Denver, a victory for the team with the worst record in MAGIC 105, CELTICS 103 the Western Conference over the team with the best.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Aaron Gordon Oubre also tied his career best with had 28 points and 12 rebounds and Or11 rebounds. Deandre Ayton added 23 lando held off Boston. points and 13 rebounds for the Suns.

Jayson Tatum missed a jumper at They have won two of three with the buzzer that would have tied it for Devin Booker sidelined with back the Celtics. They charged back from a spasms. nine-point deficit in the final 1:43 before losing to the Magic for the second time this season.

TIMBERWOLVES 110, Kyrie Irving scored 25 points for PELICANS 106 the Celtics, 10 of them from the foul MINNEAPOLIS — Karl-Anthony line in the final 4:31.

Towns had 27 points and a career-high 27 rebounds to help the Minnesota THUNDER 122, SPURS 112 Timberwolves hold off Anthony Davis and New Orleans.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Dennis

Schroder scored all of his 19 points in the second half to help Oklahoma City beat San Antonio.

Russell Westbrook had 24 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists for Oklahoma City. The Thunder bounced back from a 154-147 loss in doubleovertime loss to the Spurs on Thursday night.

HEAT 112, GRIZZLIES 108 MIAMI — Justise Winslow scored 26 points, Dwyane Wade had a huge blocked shot in the final seconds and Miami beat Memphis.

Wade blocked a potential tying layup by Shelvin Mack, then won a jump ball to help the Heat escape.

Wade scored 10 points to help Miami reached the midpoint of the season at 21-20. JaMychal Green had 24 points and 11 rebounds for the Grizzlies.

The Bulls trailed only 97-92 before Royce O’Neale and Joe Ingles hit back-to-back 3-pointers to make it 105-92 with 2:23 remaining.

Ingles, who had 16 points, then waved goodbye as he backpedaled down the court, clinching Utah’s fifth win in its last six games.

Zach LaVine scored 21 points and Lauri Markkanen added 16 for the Bulls, who dropped their seventh straight.

KINGS 104, HORNETS 97

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Bogdan Bogdanovic scored 22 points, Willie Cauley-Stein had his second straight double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds, and Sacramento beat roadweary Charlotte.

De’Aaron Fox and Buddy Hield each scored 21 points for the Kings, who improved to 10-3 against Eastern Conference teams this season.

The Hornets fell to 2-11 against teams JAZZ 110, BULLS 102 from the West.

SALT LAKE CITY — Donovan Kemba Walker had 31 points deMitchell scored 34 points, his third spite going 3 for 12 on 3-pointers straight game with more than 30, to for the Hornets, who have lost three help Utah pull away from Chicago. straight and five of six.

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U nhinged A laska N ick V arney

You think this is cold?

I have received several emails text-mumbling about the sheets of cold air blanketing the area lately. Why, I’m not quite sure.

They must be coming from relative new arrivals who assumed that the last few winters were the norm and that whispered allegations of over 2 inches of snow accumulations were sporadic reports from remote glaciers scratching the rocky skin of Denali.

Believe it or not, some of the folks described the last couple of weeks as being “frigid.”

Come on now. Frigid is a cold so mean that, if you slam the door while jumping back into your vehicle after scraping the windows, its glass will shatter and your hyper-cooled knickers splinter upon contact with the upholstery.

Frigid is where new flashlight batteries last about three and a half seconds, candle flames freeze, and diesel fuel becomes so dense that it’s dispensed in strips.

Frigid is a wind chill factor of 60-plus below goosed by winds hurtling snowinfused air bursts across the hood of your rig until it morphs into nothing more than a fleeting image suspended in a barrier of white.

I recall once back in late eighties roaming around between Prospect Creek and the Yukon River, the ambient temperature down at an old well house became so malevolent its thermometer totaled itself at -70.

If you wanted to waste perfectly good hot coffee, you could toss it in the air and the only thing that would hit the ground was recyclable freeze-dried crystals. Note: The same goes for -40, if you want to try it in warmer climes.

If there is a positive about the aforementioned “frigid” conditions it’s that when it gets butt-slammin’ bitter, the air mass becomes so heavily chilled that its movement is generally sloth sluggish and that’s a good thing.

Trust me, if a nice breeze came up under those circumstances, the wind chill would take a person down like a turbo toilet with a 10-gallon flush cycle.

It’s been several years since I’ve worked under those conditions and, although I miss the wild country and rolling on the Dalton, I can’t say the same for the whiteouts, avalanches, sundry monsoon clouds of mosquitoes and visiting idiots behind the wheel with the IQ of a bag of Jiffy Pop. Reminiscences are fine but always looking back can lead to a head-on with something you never see coming.

When I decided to leave the high arctic rodeo, I dedicated my time to chilling out in a different way by pursuing profound piscatorian delights, beach walks, writing, and seeking out what was over life’s horizons or just around its corners.

What I discovered was a unique population harboring an unquenchable sense of humor and bottomless capacity to laugh at themselves and life’s absurdities.

Take for instance this latest cold snap that was the genesis of this column.

It seems that newbies and those with stunted memories either haven’t experienced or forgot about how downright grumpy Mother Nature and Old Man Winter can become.

When those two get together, they sometimes take great pleasure in reminding us that they still carry one hell of a wallop stick and will use it, especially if they feel taken for granted.

So, when the duo starts throwing snit fits, the emails roll in with stories and complaints, many of which were probably fueled by a few nips of schnapps or IV infusions of Boones Farm Apple wine.

Quiz: Is it fertile or fermented minds that come up with the following?

“The eagles keep crashing in my front yard because they lack de-icing equipment.

PETA should form an action committee.”

Or, “The moose are becoming so frosty that they’re rubbing their keisters on our French doors tryin’ thaw out their sphincters.” How about, “There are mammoth blocks of ice bobbing in the bay that could serve as the airport’s alternate runways.

And then there’s, “What’s up with this?

I’ve put so many trees through our wood stove, in the last ten days, that I’m considering contracting logging trucks for direct delivery, just so I can cut out the middle man. If this biting chill continues, I’ll use up more timber than Muller’s prosecutorial investigation team has in paper pulp. We’re talking about the destruction of a national forest here.”

I’d share more but this a family publication.

It’s nice to see that so many of you are taking this cold snap with a sense of humor and not getting snarky about things you can’t control.

By the way, the forecast for this weekend is a warming trend.

Wouldn’t it be cool not to be so cool?

Nick can be reached at ncvarney@gmail. com if he hasn’t fallen for another, “Double dog dare you!” at the school’s flag pole.

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Thanks for making Skate with Santa a success

The City of Kenai Parks & Recreation Department would like to send out a HUGE thank you to the following businesses and organizations in recognition of their contributions to Kenai’s 2nd Annual Skate with Santa event and our first ever Holiday Night Lights Community Skating Party: Kenai Central High School Hockey Program, Kenai Vice Mayor Tim Navarre, Three Bears, Walmart, Big John’s Kenai Chevron, Kenaitze Indian Tribe and Santa himself. Also a special thank you to Redline Sports, which manages the Kenai Multipurpose Facility and provided the spectacular light show for the Holiday Night Lights Community Skating Party.

The City of Kenai is fortunate to have businesses and organizations in our community who welcome the opportunity to partner with us in providing wholesome safe recreational events for all ages. Please make a point to stop into each business mentioned and thank them personally.

One more thank you to all who attended one or both of these events. It is a delight to watch the Kenai community enjoy the resources available in our amazing City! Please follow us on your Kenai Parks & Recreation team has on of-Kenai-Parks-Recreation-172728313376653/) — Your Kenai Parks & Recreation Team our Facebook page to learn more about what their agenda. (https://www.facebook.com/City-

Students compete in VFW’s Voice of Democracy

VFW Post Commander John Walker, Rory Gilmartin, Carlee Rizzo, Jackson Klein, Coy Babcock and VFW Auxiliary President Dave Carey On Tuesday evening Jan. 8, the first and second place winners of the VFW’s Voice of Democracy, for grades 9-12, and Patriot’s Pen, for grades 6-8, read their entries for the public. The

winners were presented certificates and cash awards by VFW Commander John Walker and Auxiliary President Dave Carey. Family and friends attending were also entertained by a dance group from the Triumphant Theater with Patriotic themed routine.

Carlee Rizzo, Nikiski High School Winners of Voice of Democracy: 1st Place Winners of Patriot’s Pen: 1st Place Coy BabRory Gilmartin, Nikiski High School; 2nd Place cock, Aurora Borealis

Learning for Life

The Recycling Bin

Pieces of a Puzzle

Sustainability begins at home

Did you make a New Year’s Resolution? Nearly half of all Americans make a resolution each year; with weight loss and improved health being among the most popular. Unfortunately, only about 8 percent of us actually keep our resolutions. Why? Most goals are simply too big to reach. Instead of setting ourselves up for failure, let’s explore ways to make good health attainable.

All the foods we eat should fit together like a puzzle. Every puzzle fan knows to first find the corners, which will establish a guide for the rest of the pieces. The cornerstones of a healthy diet are: eating a colorful variety of vegetables and fruits, more whole grains, lean protein, and low-fat, calcium-rich foods. Other puzzle pieces include: limiting sugars, saturated fats and sodium, as well as including physical activity. Some days your puzzle will be more complete than others; but if you focus on making gradual improvements rather than giant changes, you stand a better chance of forming a healthy eating pattern and achieving your goal of good health.

Stop by our office for a handout for more information.

Submitted by Amorette Payment, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, Nutrition Educator, Kenai Peninsula District.

Sustainability is a balancing act, maintaining an environment where human settlements and the natural world flourish together. We all make a difference, each and every one of us.

Interested in reducing, reusing and recycling? ReGroup’s next meeting is Monday, Jan. 21, 6:30 p.m. at the Hope Community Center on Princeton Avenue off K-Beach Road near Poppy Street.

Information is provided by ReGroup, a nonprofit educational group formed to provide public awareness of the benefits of waste reduction, reuse and recycling on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula.

Thanks to local media for your support I would like to thank Ms. Erin Thompson of the Peninsula Clarion, Mr. Merrill Sikorsky of the Dispatch, Mr. Bob Bird of KSRM and Mr. Jay Barrett of KDLL for interviewing us. The KPC Auxiliary consists of volunteers who help the community as they come to the hospital. We also offer grants to people interested in pursuing careers in the medical field. Thank you so much to our local media for helping us get the words out into the community about our fundraisers and our continuous need for volunteers.

— Suzanne Sanders, CPH Auxiliary, Marketing

Soldotna Community Schools Program winter classes —Youth Martial Arts: Based in traditional Japanese martial arts, this class will help youth develop physical strength, flexibility, and mental awareness. Class is on Tuesday nights from 6:307:15 p.m. starting Jan 22.

—Fur Sewing: This class will demonstrate fur stretching and teach skin sewing techniques for making hats, gloves, slipper or other projects.

Class is Tuesday and Thursday nights from 6:309:30 p.m. and starts Jan 29.

—Mindful Strength: This is a combo of TaiChi, Pilates, Yoga, and strength movement and is great for those who need modified movements.

Class is Thursdays from noon to 1 p.m. and starts Jan. 24.

—Indoor Soccer (Futsal): This is a pick-up game for adults and teens. Class is Wednesday nights from 7-9 p.m. and starts Jan. 16.

—Hall Walking: Free Hall walking at Soldotna Prep School is available Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursdays from 6-8:30 p.m.

—Country 2-Step Dance Lessons: Lessons

starts with the basic steps and partner dance techniques. Class is Thursday nights from 7- 8:30 p.m. and starts Jan 24.

—Table Tennis: This is just a drop-in friendly night of table tennis for all skill levels. Class is Thursday nights from 6-8 p.m. and starts Jan. 10.

—Beginning Pilates: This class will cover the basics of Pilates by utilizing the deep core muscles of the body for better posture and movement.

Class is Tuesday & Thursdays from 6-7:30 p.m. and starts Jan. 29.

—Intro to Alaska Herbal Solutions: This class will teach you about local plants and how they are used to feel better naturally. Class is Tuesday nights from 5:30-6:30 p.m. and starts Feb. 5.

Kenai Community Library events — Imagine and Play: Friday, Jan. 11 at 10:30 a.m. Join us for a KNIGHT themed story time, some songs, and PLAY! Appropriate for children ages 1-4. Must have a parent present.

—Social Security 101: Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 12 p.m.Brought to you by Alaska OWL and the Social Security Administration, this hour and a half free workshop will discuss benefits, qualifications, early retirement, getting the most from your benefits, the future of Social Security, and when to file for Medicare. Also, learn about my Social Security online. You need to create an account and print your Social Security Statement before attending the workshop! Laptops and chargers are available for check out during the workshop.

—Pinwheel Pincushions: Wednesday, Jan. 16 at 4 p.m. Come learn how to sew and make a usable pincushion in the process. The first of our upcycling as we are using scraps out of the library’s scrap bin. RSVP early, class is limited to 10 people.

—Sourdough Pancakes: Thursday, Jan. 17 at 5:30 p.m. Come to this interactive class and learn how to make this classic Alaskan fare! We will make some sourdough pancakes during the class to eat and send you home with a glass jar of sourdough starter. Class size is limited to 8 partici-

pants so sign up early at the front desk!

—American Girl Club: Monday, Jan. 21 at 4 p.m. Join us at the Kenai Community Library for our monthly American Girl Club! We will be making a fitbit for your doll! Bring your doll (doesn’t have to be an American Girl) or use one of ours! The doll house will be out for everyone to play with. Meets at the same time and place as LEGO Club.

Readers & Leaders Special Story Time: Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 10:30 a.m. Special guests KPC ESL Instructor and student Sara Hadfield and Olga Pugols. During this bilingual story time we will be singing songs, playing games, and making an arts and craft project! We will also be learning about Puerto Rico! For more information please call James at 283-8210.

Let’s Draw!: Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 4 p.m.

Have fun drawing football players and equipment in this interactive class. We will be learning about tonal drawing and dramatic lighting. We will also be discussing logo design. If you plan to attend please sign up at the front desk! Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. For more information please call James at 283-8210.

Booklover’s Book Club: Wednesday Jan. 23 at 5:30 p.m. Join a friendly librarian at the Kenai Community Library for an engaging hour of discussion on books you are currently reading, books you have read and recommend and books you just did not care for! Want to start a series but don’t know which one, come on in and chat with other booklover’s! Light refreshments will be served.

DIY Face Moisturizer: Thursday, Jan. 24 at 5:30 p.m. Learn how to make your own nourishing and moisturizing face lotion! Go home with a small glass jar. Made with Shea Butter, Jojoba Oil, and Also Leaf Juice. Class is limited to 10 participants.

Afterhours Zombie Survival Night: Friday, Jan. 25 at 5 p.m. Join us for an exciting after hours program for teens and tweens ages 10-14! We will be testing our zombie knowledge with an epic zombie trivia game/scavenger hunt! Snacks and drinks will be provided.

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A pooch with extra pounds shepherd, Ziva, wearing a headband of festive Christmas lights while being silly with her tongue sticking out!

To see silly Ziva and our other Pet Pals, visit www.Heloise.com and click on “Pet of the Week.” Did your pet have a fun holiday? Email a picture to: Heloise(at)Heloise.com.

-- Heloise HINT FROM HIM Dear Heloise: I use baking soda for underarm deodorant.

-- Donald B., via email Donald, you are on board with me -- baking soda also can keep foot odors at bay, and it’s cheap, safe and readily available!

No time to shampoo? Sprinkle a tiny amount of baking soda down the part in your hair and brush. The baking soda will absorb excess oils.

-- Heloise

each thing. I rarely eat bread or potatoes. No eating between meals. No counting calories.

When at a buffet or large family meal, I take only one scoop of each item -- no second helpings. If I’m hungry for sweets, I eat a small piece of candy (I keep mini candy bars on hand).

I exercise two hours a week at a health club.

I’ve painlessly lost 30 pounds, and I look and feel better after doing this for seven months.

-- Annie in Nebraska Slow and steady -- solid advice for the new year!

-- Heloise

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DEAR ABBY: I started working in engineering in the late 1980s and thought it was “cute” that we all wore Hawaiian shirts when the guys went out for Friday lunches.

Now we’re in our 50s, and many of my peers still honor that tradition.

I no longer find it cute. In fact, I’m finding it embarrassing because men over 50 -- especially curmudgeonly engineers -- should not be wearing Hawaiian shirts.

They look like horrible Caribbean cruise ship tourists. In addition, their favorite lunch destinations are usually in a part of town where there’s a big university, and they add the element of creepiness by ogling the young coeds.

I find myself hiding or inventing meetings so I can avoid being part of this Friday circus of embarrassment. How do I just tell them that the reason I no longer go along is their curmudgeonly displays of creepiness?

-- SOLE TAILORED SHIRT IN TEXAS DEAR SOLE: There’s no way to politely tell your co-workers their attire and the way they comport themselves is an embarrassment. Say instead that these lunches “aren’t your thing” anymore.

It would be a kindness to diplomatically point out that their ogling is inappropriate. Hope they take the hint, but don’t be surprised if you hear that some of the coeds complained to the managers of the restaurants, and your pals have been asked to take their lunches elsewhere.

DEAR ABBY: My husband’s parents live in Vietnam. He has decided to take a two-to-three-week trip there soon -- at a time when it’s impossible for me to accompany him because I’m a schoolteacher. The purpose of the trip is to attend a cousin’s wedding and visit his parents.

We have known each other eight years and have been married for one year. He always talked about taking me to Vietnam so

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I feel his going without me is a negative commentary on his feelings for me and our marriage. He doesn’t see it that way at all.

What is your opinion?

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Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Dear Heloise: Can I store clothes in plastic containers in the attic?

-- Alicia J., via email Alicia, clothes need to “breathe” and be exposed to circulating air. Storing clothes in plastic bins doesn’t allow for this. Also, mold and mildew can accumulate.

If you live in an area of high humidity, hang clothes, and cover with a cloth garment bag or EASY WEIGHT LOSS? PET PAL cotton sheet.

Dear Heloise: This is what I did to lose Dear Readers: Doris H., via email, sent a -- Heloise picture of her adorable 6-year-old German weight: My rule is just to eat one helping of P.S. A cedar chest is OK, too.

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Jaqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019: This year you change your goals and your direction. You feel more in touch with your needs, and are more willing to support yourself in achieving what you desire. Listen to your inner voice while making decisions. If you are single, toward your next birthday, you easily might be charmed by a new person in your life. Get to know this individual better. If you are attached, you sometimes feel conflicted in what you want from your sweetie. Accept your sweetie as he or she is.

ARIES understands you well.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 20-April 19) HHH The more you eye the long term and see what’s going on, the better you understand how lucky you are because of your ability to communicate. Confusion surrounds the day, but you will enjoy yourself if you stay open. Tonight: Someone admires you more than you realize.

This Week: Flow with the moment, but keep a firm hand on your finances.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HH Keep your own counsel, even if someone tries to coerce you into giving him or her some information. A loved one reaches out to you. The conversation you share could be quite intimate. You might adjust your patterns as you gain more understanding. Tonight: Keep your plans hush-hush.

This Week: You hit your power days Monday through Wednesday.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You can make headway and have a significant conversation with a key person in your life. You might not be as secure as you’d like to be. A friend might become controlling at some point. Recognize how insecure you feel.

No one can change that feeling but you. Tonight: Out with friends.

This Week: Resist overthinking a problem.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH You might want to change gears and proceed in a new way with a key project, where you’ll be more visible. A conversation could be more serious than you had anticipated -- at least, that’s how the other party is taking it. Tonight: Stay light and easy, especially in public places.

This Week: Zero in on what you want.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Be willing to stretch your mind and understand a different culture. Though you might not feel comfortable, know that you are learning to be more effective and understanding. Let your creativity emerge. Tonight: Eliminate confusion by clarifying what someone else is saying.

This Week: Take charge of a difficult situation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH One-on-one relating seems to be the best mode to relax and share some time with a loved one. You’ve pushed hard to achieve a certain goal; don’t lose ground by not un-

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Dear Heloise: My veterinarian has diagnosed my dog as OVERWEIGHT. She says, as it is with people, extra pounds usually appear as a result of the animal eating too much food and not getting enough exercise.

There are other conditions that can contribute to your dog being overweight: hormone imbalance, the animal’s breed and temperament, and diseases.

Being overweight can be a contributing factor for diseases like diabetes, pancreatitis, heart and liver disease, and arthritis.

The cure for overweight? It’s a slow and steady process, according to the doctor, with small portions of a nutritionally sound diet and no snacking. Up the exercise.

She says to make sure the whole family knows the dog is on a diet.

-- Elizabeth A. in Ohio Great hints to help a common problem.

Readers, check with your veterinarians for their expertise!

-- Heloise

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derstanding what a key person shares with you. Walk away from a power play. Tonight: Reach out to a loved one.

This Week: Take a stand from midweek on.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Reach out to a loved one or an important friend.

This person often delights in what goes on around you. You might experience more than just a friendship with this person. Be open to communicating your thoughts. Touch base with a sibling or a dear friend. Tonight: Hang out.

This Week: A partner comes from a more anchored space than usual.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH You don’t need to do much other than relax and catch up on sleep. A friend who is very serious might want to get you into playing a card game with him or her. You will need to learn some ground rules, but once you do, you’ll be difficult to beat. Tonight: Know when to call it.

This Week: Let someone know more about what’s going on around you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Your affectionate side emerges. You might find it hard to say “no” to a loved one. A serious conversation might go along with this period of getting to know each other better. Avoid making any commitments, if you can. You might not be ready. Tonight: Act like a teenager again.

This Week: Plan on working hard, especially at the beginning of the week.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Stay centered, and know what is possible for you to commit to. You could be happiest at home, not pushing too hard. Invite a friend over for an early dinner and some fun conversation. Confusion could surround your plans. Tonight: Do not push someone; just listen to him or her.

This Week: You could have a greater impact on a child than you realize.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH You might be trying to find out how someone really feels about you. Know that you cannot change this person.

Just give him or her space, and he or she is likely to pull in more closely as a result. You communicate well together, but don’t push the timing. Tonight: Respond to a request.

This Week: Others become more responsive as the week ends.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Be aware of the cost of continuing to enjoy a certain set of friends. You might not understand what’s going on between you and another person, and it seems easier to hang out with your mutual friends. Tonight: Listen to a favorite musician or go off to the movies.

This Week: Ask for what you want at the beginning of the week.

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Law & Order: Special VicLaw & Order: Special VicLaw & Order: Special VicModern Fam- Modern Fam- Modern Fam- Modern Famtims Unit ‘14’ tims Unit ‘14’ tims Unit ‘14’ ily ‘PG’ ily ‘PG’ ily ‘PG’ ily ‘PG’ “Horrible Bosses 2” (2014, Comedy) Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason “Horrible Bosses” (2011, Comedy) Jason Bateman, Charlie (:45) “The Sudeikis. Nick, Dale and Kurt plot revenge on a thieving investor.

Day, Jason Sudeikis. Three oppressed workers plot against Change-Up” their employers.

(2011) “Marvel’s the Avengers” (2012, Action) Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans. Superheroes join “Sky High” (2005) Michael Angarano. Two superheroes send forces to save the world from an unexpected enemy. their reluctant son to a training school.

SportsCenter (N) (Live) NFL PrimeTime SportsCenter SportsCenter

(3:00) 2019 Australian Open Tennis First Round. From Melbourne, Australia. (N) (Live)

2019 Australian Open Tennis First Round. (N) (3:00) College Basketball West Coast XTERRA Ad- Golf Life Sled Head Surfing From Oceanside, College Basketball Saint Mary’s (Calif.) at Loyola MaryCollege Basketball Villanova at Creighton. From CHI Health Pacific at Portland.

Sport ventures 24/7 ‘G’ Calif. mount. From Gersten Pavilion in Los Angeles.

Center in Omaha, Neb. (N Same-day Tape) Bar Rescue A military hero Bar Rescue “Fish Out of Blue Bar Rescue “Father Knows “Creed” (2015, Drama) Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson. Rocky Bal- “Homefront” (2013, Action) Jason Statham, James Franco, needs a rescue. ‘PG’ Water” ‘PG’ Best” ‘PG’ boa mentors Apollo Creed’s son.

Winona Ryder.

(2:00) “Rocky II” (1979, Drama) Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire. Underdog Philly “Rocky III” (1982, Drama) Sylvester Stallone, Mr. T, Talia Shire. A merciless “Rocky IV” (1985, Drama) Sylvester Stallone. Vengeful boxer “Rocky V” “Rocky” fighter gets another shot at heavyweight champ. contender forces Rocky into a title match.

Rocky Balboa faces a deadly Soviet fighter.

(1990) Ranger Smith Harvey Bird- Mike Tyson Bob’s Burg- American Family Guy Family Guy Rick and Tigtone (N) The Shivering Dream Corp Bob’s Burg- Family Guy Family Guy Rick and Tigtone ‘14’ ‘G’ man Mysteries ers ‘PG’ Dad ‘14’ ‘14’ ‘14’ Morty ‘14’ ‘14’ Truth LLC ‘14’ ers ‘PG’ ‘14’ ‘14’ Morty ‘14’ Crikey! It’s the Irwins ‘PG’ Crikey! It’s the Irwins ‘PG’ Crikey! It’s the Irwins “Bindi Crikey! It’s the Irwins (N) How Do Ani- How Do Ani- How Do Ani- How Do Ani- (:01) Lone Star Law “DeHow Do Ani- How Do Ani& the Otters” ‘PG’ ‘PG’ mals Do mals Do mals Do mals Do ceived” ‘14’ mals Do mals Do (:10) “Wreck-It Ralph” (2012, Children’s) Voices of John C. “Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax” (2012) Voices of (:35) Raven’s Coop & Cami Coop & Cami Star Wars Bunk’d ‘G’ Raven’s Andi Mack ‘G’ Stuck in the Stuck in the Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer.

Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Zac Efron.

Home Resistance Home ‘G’ Middle ‘G’ Middle ‘G’ The Loud The Loud The Loud Henry DanLip Sync Cousins for “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” (2008, Children’s) Voices of The Office The Office Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ ger ‘G’ Battle Life ‘G’ Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer.

‘14’ ‘14’ (2:25) “The “Just Go With It” (2011, Romance-Comedy) Adam Sandler, Jennifer Anis- (:10) “Role Models” (2008, Comedy) Seann William Scott, (:15) “The Goonies” (1985, Children’s) Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen. Young misfits Waterboy” ton, Nicole Kidman. A man’s careless lie spins out of control.

Paul Rudd, Christopher Mintz-Plasse. find a 17th-century pirate’s treasure map.

(3:00) My 600-Lb. Life “Octa- 90 Day Fiancé “More to Love: Tell All, Part 1” The couples 90 Day Fiancé (N) ‘PG’ Return to Amish “No Turning Back” Lowell and Lisa prepare 90 Day Fiancé ‘PG’ via’s Story” ‘PG’ meet in a dramatic showdown. (N) ‘PG’ for the babies. (N) ‘14’ Alaska: The Last Frontier Alaska: The Last Frontier Alaska: The Last Frontier Alaska: The Last Frontier Alaska: The Last Frontier The Last Alaskans ‘PG’ Homestead Rescue “High Alaska: The Last Frontier “Coming of Age” ‘14’ ‘14’ “Hill Country Hunt” ‘14’ Exposed (N) ‘14’ “Thrill of the Hunt” ‘14’ and Dry” ‘PG’ “Thrill of the Hunt” ‘14’ My Ghost Story “You’re Not My Haunted House ‘14’ My Haunted House ‘14’ My Haunted House ‘14’ Fear the Woods “Phantom Haunted Case Files “The Haunted Case Files ‘PG’ Fear the Woods “Phantom Alone” ‘14’ Revenge” (N) ‘PG’ Black Monk” (N) ‘PG’ Revenge” ‘PG’ American Pickers “Going American Pickers “Hidden in American Pickers “SomeAmerican Pickers “Rat Rod (:02) American Pickers “Pick- (:05) American Pickers “Big (:05) American Pickers ‘PG’ (:03) American Pickers “Rat Down?” ‘PG’ Plane Sight” ‘PG’ thing Weird Here” ‘PG’ Rolls” ‘PG’ ers Like It Hot” ‘PG’ Money Racer” ‘PG’ Rod Rolls” ‘PG’ (1:30) “The “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” (2008, Adventure) Brendan “John Wick” (2014, Action) Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, (:01) “Walking Tall” (2004, Action) The Rock, Johnny Knox- (:04) “John Wick” (2014, AcMummy Re- Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello. A young archaeologist awakens a cursed Chinese Alfie Allen. An ex-assassin hunts down the gangsters who ville, Neal McDonough. A sheriff and a deputy try to rid their tion) Keanu Reeves, Michael turns” emperor. ruined his life. town of thugs.

Nyqvist, Alfie Allen.

Fixer Upper Three houses in Fixer Upper A couple are Fixer Upper ‘G’ Beachfront Beachfront Bahamas Life Bahamas Life Island Life Island Life Hunters Int’l Hunters Int’l Bahamas Bahamas Waco, Texas. ‘G’ first-time buyers. ‘G’ Bargain Bargain (N) ‘G’ (N) ‘G’ (N) ‘G’ (N) ‘G’ Life ‘G’ Life ‘G’ Diners, Drive-Ins and Worst Cooks in America Guy’s Grocery Games “Whiz Guy’s Grocery Games ‘G’ Worst Cooks in America Beat Bobby Beat Bobby Beat Bobby Beat Bobby Worst Cooks in America Dives ‘G’ “The Perfect Bird” ‘G’ Kids” ‘G’ “Eggtastic” (N) ‘G’ Flay ‘G’ Flay ‘G’ Flay ‘G’ Flay ‘G’ “Eggtastic” ‘G’ Shark Tank ‘PG’ Deal or No Deal “Flying Deal or No Deal ‘G’ The Profit Marcus spends The Profit Profiles of pot en- The Profit The “Emerald Tri- Retirement Paid Program The Profit Marcus spends High” ‘G’ time as a high roller. ‘PG’ trepreneurs. ‘PG’ angle.” ‘PG’ Income ‘G’ time as a high roller. ‘PG’ OBJECTified (N) The Next Revolution With Life, Liberty & Levin (N) OBJECTified The Next Revolution With Life, Liberty & Levin FOX News Sunday With MediaBuzz Steve Hilton (N) Steve Hilton Chris Wallace (N) ‘PG’ (2:40) “Mr. Deeds” (2002, (4:50) “That’s My Boy” (2012, Comedy) Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg. A “Jack and Jill” (2011) Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes. A man “Hot Tub Time Machine 2” (2015, Comedy) Rob Corddry, (:35) South Comedy) Adam Sandler. young man’s estranged father tries to reconnect with him. dreads a visit from his passive-aggressive twin.

Craig Robinson, Clark Duke.

Park ‘MA’ (2:30) “Paul” “Thor: The Dark World” (2013, Action) Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman. “Iron Man” (2008, Action) Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow. A billion- (9:54) Fu(:25) Futura- (10:56) Fu(:27) FuturaThor must save the Nine Realms from an ancient enemy. aire dons an armored suit to fight criminals. turama ‘14’ ma ‘PG’ turama ‘PG’ ma ‘PG’

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‘PG’ Chicago P.D. “My Way” Lind- Murdoch Mysteries Mursay deals with a piece of her doch investigates a student’s past. ‘14’ death. ‘PG’ NCIS: Los Angeles A Syrian Madam Secretary “Strategic man is attacked. ‘14’ Ambiguity” (N) ‘14’ Mom ‘14’ Mom ‘14’ The SimpBob’s Burg- Family Guy Rel “Clevesons (N) ‘PG’ ers (N) ‘PG’ “Trump Guy” land” (N) ‘14’ ‘14’ “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (2001, Children’s) Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Dateline NBC ‘PG’ Emma Watson. J.K. Rowling’s student wizard has his first adventure.

Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man (8) WGN-A 239 307 Standing Standing Standing Standing Standing Standing Suze Orman Financial Solu- Susan Graver Style “Week- Q The Deals (N) (Live) ‘G’ (20) QVC 137 317 tions for You (N) ‘G’ end Edition” (N) ‘G’ (3:00) “The Perfect Soul“Til Ex Do Us Part” (2018, Suspense) Kelly Sullivan, Dan (23) LIFE 108 252 mate” (2017, Suspense) Cas- Payne, Anna Van Hooft. Sophia is accused of assaulting her sandra Scerbo. husband’s “friend.” (:05) Law & Order: Special Law & Order: Special VicLaw & Order: Special Vic (28) USA 105 242 Victims Unit ‘14’ tims Unit ‘14’ tims Unit ‘14’ (2:45) “The Change-Up” “Bad Words” (2014, Comedy-Drama) Jason Bateman, Kath(2011, Comedy) Ryan Reynryn Hahn, Rohan Chand.

A mean-spirited 40-year-old enters (30) TBS 139 247 olds, Jason Bateman. a national spelling bee. (:15) “X-Men: First Class” (2011, Action) James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne.

(31) TNT 138 245 The early years of Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr.

NFL PrimeTime (N) (Live) SportsCenter With Scott Van Pelt (N) (Live) (34) ESPN 140 206 (35) ESPN2 144 209

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(3:40) “Wonder Woman” (2017, Action) Gal Gadot, Chris (:05) “Ocean’s 8” (2018, Comedy) Sandra Bullock, Cate True Detective A retired True Detective Attention True Detective A retired de- True Detective Attention foPine, Connie Nielsen. Wonder Woman discovers her full pow- Blanchett, Anne Hathaway. Eight female thieves try to steal a detective recalls a crime. focuses on two suspects. tective recalls a crime. ‘MA’ cuses on two suspects. ‘MA’ ers and true destiny. ‘PG-13’ valuable necklace. ‘PG-13’ (N) ‘MA’ (N) ‘MA’ (3:30) “Murder on the Orient Express” “The Snowman” (2017, Suspense) Michael Fassbender, “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” (2009, (:15) “17 Again” (2009, Comedy) Zac Efron, Leslie Mann, “Taxi” (2004, Comedy) (2017, Mystery) Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Rebecca Ferguson. A detective plays cat-and-mouse games Romance-Comedy) Matthew McConaughey, Thomas Lennon. A 37-year-old man miraculously transforms Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon.

Depp. ‘PG-13’ with a serial killer. ‘R’ Jennifer Garner. ‘PG-13’ into a teenager. ‘PG-13’ ‘PG-13’ (3:30) “Mr. Right” (2015, (:10) “The Usual Suspects” (1995, Suspense) Stephen “Dunkirk” (2017, War) Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Car(8:50) “12 Strong” (2018, War) Chris Hemsworth, Michael “Alien: Covenant” (2017, Romance-Comedy) Sam Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne. Five small-time criminals begin an ney, Jack Lowden. British forces evacuate Allied troops from Shannon, Michael Peña. A U.S. Special Forces team battles Science Fiction) Michael FassRockwell. ‘R’ ill-fated association. ‘R’ Dunkirk, France. ‘PG-13’ the Taliban and al-Qaida. ‘R’ bender. ‘R’ (3:00) “Remember the TiAll Access “Den of Thieves” (2018, Crime Drama) Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, Ray Donovan “The Dead” Ray Donovan “The Dead” “I Feel Pretty” (2018, Comedy) Amy Schumer, Michelle tans” (2000, Drama) Denzel ‘14’ O’Shea Jackson Jr. Elite lawmen try to bring down a gang of tactical thieves. Ray settles his final scores.

Ray settles his final scores.

Williams, Rory Scovel. A woman gains a renewed sense of Washington. ‘PG’ ‘R’ (N) ‘MA’ ‘MA’ self-confidence. ‘PG-13’ (3:00) “Extraordinary Mea- “The Professional” (1994, Suspense) Jean Reno, Gary Old- “Far and Away” (1992, Drama) Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gib“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (2007, Adventure) Johnny sures” (2010, Drama) Bren- man, Natalie Portman. A hit man takes an orphan girl under son. A class-crossed Irish couple go to 19th-century America. ‘PG-13’ Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley. Jack Sparrow’s friends join forces to dan Fraser. ‘PG’ his wing. ‘R’ save him. ‘PG-13’

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(7:05) “Vam- “Self/less” (2015, Science Fiction) Ryan Reynolds, Natalie “Pitch Perfect 3” (2017) Anna Kendrick. The The Making (:20) “Z for Zachariah” (2015, Drama) “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Bur(:40) “Won303 504 pires Suck” Martinez. A dying man’s consciousness is transferred to an- Barden Bellas reunite for an overseas musical Of: Pitch Per- Chiwetel Ejiofor, Margot Robbie, Chris Pine. gundy” (2004, Comedy) Will Ferrell, Christina der Woman” other body. ‘PG-13’ USO tour. ‘PG-13’ fect 3 ‘PG-13’ Applegate. ‘PG-13’ (:15) “Fargo” (1996, Comedy) Frances McDormand, Steve “The Hunted” (1995, Action) Christopher (:40) “Murder at 1600” (1997, Suspense) Wesley Snipes, “Murder by Numbers” (2002, Suspense) Sandra Bullock, “Murder on the Orient ^ HBO2 304 505 Buscemi, William H. Macy. An overextended salesman hires Lambert. Ninja assassins stalk an American Diane Lane, Daniel Benzali. The president’s son is implicated Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt. Teen-age killers play cat-andgoons to kidnap his wife. ‘R’ murder witness in Japan. ‘R’ in a secretary’s death. ‘R’ mouse with a detective. ‘R’ Express” (7:15) “Dunkirk” (2017, War) (:05) “Conspiracy Theory” (1997, Suspense) Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, (:25) “RoboCop” (1987) Peter Weller. A (:10) “War for the Planet of the Apes” (2017, Science Fiction) Andy Serkis, “Mr. Right” Fionn Whitehead.

‘PG-13’ Patrick Stewart.

A paranoid cabbie’s rantings make him a CIA target.

‘R’ murdered policeman returns as a crimeWoody Harrelson, Steve Zahn.

Soldiers battle Caesar and his army of intel(2015) ‘R’ + MAX 311 516 fighting cyborg. ‘R’ ligent apes. ‘PG-13’ All Access All Access “The Break-Up” (2006, Romance-Comedy) Vince Vaughn, “I Feel Pretty” (2018, Comedy) Amy Schumer, Michelle “What’s Love Got to Do With It” (1993, Biography) Angela “Remember the Titans” ‘14’ Jennifer Aniston. A couple end their relationship, but neither is Williams, Rory Scovel. A woman gains a renewed sense of Bassett, Laurence Fishburne. The life of singer-actress Tina (2000, Drama) Denzel Wash 5 SHOW 319 546 ‘14’ willing to move. ‘PG-13’ self-confidence. ‘PG-13’ Turner. ‘R’ ington. ‘PG’ (7:00) “Jiminy (:45) “First Sunday” (2008, Comedy) Ice Cube, Katt Wil“Throw Momma From the Train” (1987, “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (2007, Adventure) Johnny Depp, Orlando “Extraordinary Measures” Comedy) Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Anne Bloom, Keira Knightley. Jack Sparrow’s friends join forces to save him. ‘PG-13’ (2010, Drama) Brendan Fra 8 TMC 329 554 Glick in Lala- liams, Tracy Morgan. Two bumbling thieves’ plan to rob a wood” church goes awry. ‘PG-13’ Ramsey. ‘PG-13’ ser. ‘PG’

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House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ (7:00) “Fast Times at Ridge- (:05) “Miss Congeniality” (2000, Comedy) Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine. A (:45) “Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous” (2005) Sandra Bullock, Regina King. (:25) “The Waterboy” (1998, Comedy) Adam mont High” (1982) clumsy FBI agent goes under cover at a beauty pageant.

FBI agent Gracie Hart must save two kidnapped friends in Las Vegas.

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Next Week: Wise sayings

Issue 02, 2019

Founded by Betty Debnam

A Young Inventor

Louis’ code

Mini Fact:

Louis Braille wanted a code with which each letter could be read under one fingertip. He worked for three years to make his system just right, and finally, in 1824, he presented his invention to the school’s director.

Braille’s symbols represented the alphabet along with numbers, punctuation symbols and contractions.

Braille has been adapted to other languages, including Chinese.

Early life

Louis Braille was born in January 1809, 210 years ago, in a small town in France called Coupvray. His father was a harness maker who worked with leather, and Louis loved to play in his father’s workshop.

When he was just 3 years old, Louis climbed up on the workbench while his father was outside. As he pretended to make a hole in a piece of leather, the tool he was using slipped and punctured his right eye.

The damaged eye became infected, and soon the infection spread to Louis’ left eye. By the time he was 5 years old, he was completely blind.

Overcoming his handicap

As Louis grew, his parents taught him as much as they could. His father carved a

cane for him so he could move around the house and in the nearby village. He started his education with the local priest, who saw how smart he was. Later, Louis joined other village children at the school, but he needed more help than sighted students.

The village priest learned of a special school in Paris called the Institute for Blind Youth. He arranged for Louis to attend the school, and when he was 10 years old, Louis went to live at the school.

photo by Jose Antonio Alonso

Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be unable to read? We read all day long: street signs, sports scores, newspapers, books, teachers’ instructions, even sizes in our clothes and shoes.

But people who are blind or sight-impaired have to learn other ways to find out the same information.

Louis Braille In 1824, a 15-year-old blind boy named Louis Braille demonstrated a better way for blind people to read. This week, The Mini Page learns more about how Louis’ code changed the world for those who can’t see.

Sharing his knowledge

Louis went on to become an instructor at the Institute for Blind Youth. His alphabet spread to other schools all across the world.

The brilliant young blind man faced many health challenges through his life, but he always managed to get well. But in 1850, he had to give up teaching for good.

He was not strong enough to stand and speak loudly before his classes.

Louis Braille died on Jan. 6, 1852, two days after his 43rd birthday.

Methods of reading

The founder of the institute, Valentin Haüy, had invented a system of reading and writing called embossing. Large letters of the alphabet would be pressed, or embossed, onto thick waxed paper, and students could trace the letters with their fingers to read.

But the size of the letters made embossed books too large and heavy to move, and they were expensive to print.

Later, a retired military man visited the school to demonstrate a system he had invented for soldiers to communicate in the dark, called nightwriting. He used dashes and dots to represent different sounds. Louis was excited to learn this system, but he soon figured out that it was difficult to read and didn’t have symbols for punctuation.

So Louis got started on perfecting a system of his own. He worked late into the night, after classes and on weekends.

Resources On the Web:

• bit.ly/MPBraille • bit.ly/MPgames

At the library:

• “Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille” by Jen Bryant

The Mini Page® © 2019 Andrews McMeel Syndication

Try ’n’ Find

Mini Jokes

Words that remind us of Braille are hidden in this puzzle.

Some words are hidden backward or diagonally, and some letters are used twice. See if you can find: BLIND, BRAILLE, CANE, CODE, DASH, DOT, EMBOSSING, FINGERS, FRANCE, HARNESS, INSTITUTE, LEATHER, LETTERS, LOUIS, NIGHTWRITING, PARIS, PRIEST, READ, SCHOOL, TOOL.

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Frosty: What often falls in the winter but never gets hurt?

Fiona: Snow!

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Eco Note

7 Little Words for Kids Use the letters in the boxes to make a word with the same meaning as the clue. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of letters in the solution. Each letter combination can be used only once, but all letter combinations will be necessary to complete the puzzle.

1. they fly in a “V” (5) 2. not straight (7) 3. hold in your arms (5) 4. calm (8) 5. opposite of straight hair (5) 6. write your thoughts here (7) 7. large body of ice (7)

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The Mini Page® © 2019 Andrews McMeel Syndication

• 1 cup canola oil You’ll need: • 2 cups sugar • 3 cups white or wheat flour • 1/2 cup unsweetened • 2 teaspoons baking powder applesauce • 2 teaspoons baking soda • 4 eggs • 1 teaspoon salt • 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips • 1 teaspoon cinnamon • 1 (15-ounce) can pumpkin puree What to do: 1. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and spices in a large bowl. Mix well.

2. Beat pumpkin, oil, sugar, applesauce and eggs in separate mixing bowl until smooth.

3. Add flour mixture gradually and stir until just moistened. Gently fold in chocolate chips.

4. Line muffin tins with paper liners; fill each liner with batter until 3/4 full.

5. Bake at 400 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes until done. Makes 2 dozen.

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Cook’s Corner

Temperatures vary from year to year, but there has been an overall upward trend. Temperatures have risen by 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit since 1900. In the polar regions, they have risen much faster — by 4.1 degrees.

Every decade since the 1980s has been the warmest on record. Polar ice is not the only ice that is melting. Glaciers on high mountains are also shrinking.

Melted land ice is swelling the volume of water in the oceans. This is making sea adapted with permission from “50 Things You Should Know levels rise.

About the Environment” by Jen Green, © QEB Publishing Inc.

For later: Look in your newspaper for articles about other tools that help disabled people.

Teachers:

For standards-based activities to accompany this feature, visit: bit.ly/MPstandards. And follow The Mini Page on Facebook!

Answers: geese, crooked, carry, peaceful, curly, journal, glacier.

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ASK A DESIGNER: Small touches create a great master bathroom

D EAN F OSDICK

Espalier pruning has artistic and practical benefits Espalier design is an ancient pruning practice that fashions fruit trees, vines or flowering shrubs into artistic, two-dimensional forms. This lateral shaping makes it easier to harvest and mow, maximizes sunlight, and helps trees fit into tight areas. “It’s a great way to utilize growing space next to walls and fences while adding ornamental interest,� said Harold Taylor, outdoor landscape manager at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. “It is also used for efficient use of garden space and as a method for creating outdoor rooms in the landscape.�

To espalier (pronounced ess-PAL-yay) a tree is to train it to grow flat against a support of some kind — a wall, fence or wires, say.

Support it with ties or brackets, and prune it to grow sideways by selecting several strong branches from separate levels and eliminating buds shooting toward the front or rear.

The horizontal survivors eventually will become the tree’s fruiting spurs.

A half-dozen or more classic, architectural espalier profiles have evolved over time. Examples include the “Cordon,� with its vertical trunk and multi-tiered horizontal branches; the self-descriptive “Fan,� whose branches grow from the trunk at 45 degree angles; the “Candelabra,� where vertical branches rise from a single low horizontal limb; and the “Belgian� or “English Fence,� where espalier plants are linked in latticelike fashion to freestanding trellises. The latter often serve as living fences to screen unattractive areas. “Have patience, as it will take a couple growing seasons or more for your espalier to start taking shape, and five to 10 years until at peak form,� said Leonard Perry, a horticulture professor emeritus at University of Vermont Extension, in a fact sheet.

Almost any woody plant can be espaliered, although some, with sturdy yet supple branches, are more genetically suited than others for this training technique. “Fruit trees are one of the most widely used,� Taylor said in an email.

That would include apple and pear trees, along with peaches, pomegranates, figs, cherries, plums, nectarines and apricots.

Ornamental plants with long, flexible branching also make good espalier candidates. Think camellias, holly, magnolia, bougainvillea, climbing roses and a host of others.

Dwarf, semi-dwarf cultivars and young trees that haven’t developed thick branching are easier to train than are standard-size, open-canopy varieties. Young trees also are less expensive, while dwarf trees are less likely to outgrow their shape if not pruned every year.

Espalier trees often are used in commercial orchards to boost yields. “Growing fruit trees as a fruiting wall is becoming common with commercial orchards because it takes less labor to prune and harvest,� said Renae Moran, a fruitgrowing specialist with University of Maine Cooperative Extension. “However, they do not have the look that a home-trained tree would have since commercial growers do not spend any time fussing with the tree’s appearance. “To a hobby grower, the formal shape of an espalier tree may be the primary reason for choosing the training system,� Moran said.

Espalier training usually is done in winter when plants are dormant. “Once a person overcomes the fear of making pruning mistakes, it’s easy,� Moran said. “Cleaning up the prunings afterward is more work than the pruning itself.�

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This photo shows the contrast of painted walls and tiled areas, as seen in this master bathroom, which can make the tiles a more noticeable focal point. (Angie Seckinger/Boffi Georgetown via AP)

By MELISSA RAYWORTH Associated Press

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to design a gorgeous master bathroom if you have a huge budget. But with the right choices, says interior designer Gabriel Anderson, you can have an exceptional master bath without overspending. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having huge expanses of marble is amazing and wonderful, but you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to have that to have an amazing bathroom,â&#x20AC;? says Anderson, cofounder of the New York design firm Dean and Dahl. There are â&#x20AC;&#x153;little touches you can incorporate that really bring a master bath to life.â&#x20AC;?

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve asked Anderson and two specialists in bath design â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Julia Walter of Boffi Georgetown in Washington, D.C., and Nadia Subaran of Aidan Design in Silver Spring, Maryland â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to tell us what those little touches and smart strategies might be.

PLANNING A BETTER SHOWER When you reach in and turn on your shower, does your hand get soaking wet? Wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it be nice if it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t? â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the things that I always do now is installing the handles for the shower in a place thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not directly below the shower head,â&#x20AC;? Anderson says. That will require the pipes to be extended a bit further, so â&#x20AC;&#x153;the plumber will be bugged by it.

But in the end, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really cost a lot more.â&#x20AC;?

Another impactful adjustment: Design a shower thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enclosed by a partial glass wall, with an open space but no door and no step where you enter. The floor needs to be pitched downward just slightly near the drain so that water doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t run out of the shower area. This is easier to do in a larger bathroom, especially if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing new construction rather than just remodeling, Subaran says, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth considering. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Folks are thinking about wanting the ability to just kind of walk into a shower,â&#x20AC;? rather than stepping over something to get in, she says.

Another option is to make room for a larger shower by skipping the tub. Some real-estate agents advise that having a tub in a master bathroom is important for a homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resale value, and you might find that a tub is a necessity for your family. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Designing is all about the user,â&#x20AC;? says Anderson, who has two young kids. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We bring them into the master bathroom and have them take baths in there. For us, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an absolute necessity.â&#x20AC;?

But, he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;if space is at a premium, some- creative with: Try hunting for a vintage mirror in a times itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth taking that space and having a distinctive frame, or a unique light fixture, he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is something that just takes the time of more luxurious shower.â&#x20AC;? going to estate sales or antique stores or whatnot,â&#x20AC;?

RECONSIDERING THE Anderson says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Taking the time to go and find that special piece â&#x20AC;Ś can really elevate your bathDOUBLE SINK room,â&#x20AC;? and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to cost much.

When designing a master bath for a couple, Walter often asks how often they actually use the INCREASING YOUR COMFORT sink at the same time. It tends to be pretty rare. So No one wants to feel chilly when they step out for clients seeking a change of pace, she suggests of the shower. So many people are adding heated a 4-foot-long wash basin within a vanity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Instead of two sinks,â&#x20AC;? she says, you have one floors to master bathrooms. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Radiant floor heat is no longer a trend â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sink with two faucets. So you can be next to each like the norm for master-bath heat,â&#x20AC;? says Subraother when you want to, but when one person is man. alone they have a large sink all to themselves withA heated floor can be expensive depending on out taking up extra space in the room. the bathroomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s size, but for a heating splurge that â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can save a little bit of money there,â&#x20AC;? Walisnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t costly, consider heated towel racks. ter says, and still have â&#x20AC;&#x153;a beautiful, big, masterbath vanity.â&#x20AC;?

USING STONE

ADDING FURNITURE AND SPECIAL PIECES â&#x20AC;&#x153;You always need a place to sit down to take your slippers off, or whatever the case may be,â&#x20AC;?

Anderson says. This is something often shown in design magazines, and many homeowners do have a bit of space for it.

One tip is to buy an attractive chair or bench meant for outdoor use, because it will be moistureresistant and upholstered with outdoor fabric. Anderson says many outdoor styles in teak or metal can look great in a master bathroom.

And seating isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only detail you might get

All three designers are fans of stone on walls and vanity surfaces. It offers natural beauty that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go out of style and can be combined with a range of color palettes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stone is always a trend,â&#x20AC;? Anderson says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but I think right now people are wanting to use large amounts of stone as opposed to porcelain.â&#x20AC;?

If you want high-quality stone but are concerned about cost, one option is to cover just one wall and your vanity with it, then leave the other walls painted.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a practical choice thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also timely, Walter says: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The trend is going toward not having the whole bathroom tiled.â&#x20AC;?

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