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Iditarod 2019 Peninsula mushers’ progress as of 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday: 14. Mitch Seavey, Seward, out of In to Takotna 18. Travis Beals, Seward, in to Takotna 29. Sarah Stokey, Seward, in to McGrath 45. Ryan Santiago, Sterling, out of Nikolai Find more Iditarod coverage on Page A6.

In the news Young feted as longest-serving Republican in House history JUNEAU — U.S. Rep. Don Young was feted by colleagues for becoming the longestserving Republican in House history.

Young, who was reelected in November, marked 46 years in the House on Wednesday. He surpasses the late former Speaker Joseph Cannon of Illinois to become the longest-serving Republican.

According to House records, the late Rep. John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, is the longestever serving member of the House. Dingell served 59 years.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thanked Young for being “a leader of merit and character.”

The 86-year-old Young thanked his colleagues for recognizing his tenure.

The U.S. Senate notes the late Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina served nearly 47 ½ years. That tenure, however, includes a number of years in which Thurmond served as a Democrat before switching parties.

Inside ‘Accusations of dual loyalty have an insidious, bigoted history.’ ... See page A7

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Mayor, city manager talk Kenai Gabriel, Ostrander speak on budget, bluff erosion, city projects

By BRIAN MAZUREK Peninsula Clarion

During the Kenai Chamber of Commerce’s Wednesday Luncheon, Mayor Brian Gabriel and City Manager Paul Ostrander went over the current state of the city, including what the city’s budget will look like this year, trends in revenue and spending, the impacts of public services and the status of current city projects including the bluff stabilization project and the renovation of the Kenai Municipal Airport.

On bluff erosion, Ostrander explained that the bluff by Oldtown Kenai erodes at a rate of about three feet per year, which is problematic for properties currently located along the bluff and discourages new development.

Ostrander said that efforts to stabilize bluff erosion will reach the next phase soon.

“This has been a top priority for the city for 30 years, and right now we’re

Kenai Mayor Brian Gabriel and City Manager Paul Ostrander give a presentation to the Kenai Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

closer than we’ve ever been,” said Ostrander.

Ostrander said that he has been working with the Army Corps of Engineers for the last two years to fi-

nalize their feasibility report and that he expects that report to be done in the next couple months.

After the feasibility report is finished the city will

immediately move into the design phase, which Ostrander expects to take about a year. Since the total cost of the project is estimated to be between $30-$35 million,

Ostrander said that significant federal funding will be required to cover the cost.

Ostrander indicated that Senator Lisa Murkowski See KENAI, page A2

Anchor Point residents storm borough hall Group of concerned citizens brought unified message: fund education

By BRIAN MAZUREK Peninsula Clarion

An invocation is given by Debbie Hamilton at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly Meeting in Soldotna on March 5, 2019. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

Sterling man charged with burglary of vacant residence

By BRIAN MAZUREK Peninsula Clarion

A man has been charged with burglary after being arrested outside of an unoccupied residence in Sterling.

On March 3, troopers responded to a call about a suspicious vehicle in a Sterling neighborhood, according to an affidavit filed at the Kenai Courthouse on March 4. A neighbor reported that a black Mercury was outside of a home that the neighbor knew to be unoccupied.

When an Alaska State Trooper arrived on scene, Mason Baldwin, 41, was allegedly standing near the front gate of the residence and attempted to hide behind the car. According to the affidavit, there was a dremel tool and a headlamp on the ground near Baldwin. Inside the car, the trooper identified a crow bar, a come-along, wire cutters, a car battery and two

walkie talkies.

While investigating the residence, troopers confirmed that the front door had been forced open and found numerous household items including a sewing machine and fishing poles located next to the front entrance.

While being questioned by troopers, Baldwin allegedly claimed that an acquaintance had asked him to help pick up a generator from the residence.

According to the affidavit, Baldwin said that his acquaintance had likely burglarized the residence but denied having any involvement.

When confronted with the fact that the boot prints surrounding the property matched the boots that Baldwin was wearing, Baldwin allegedly claimed that the boots did not belong to him. Baldwin was ultimately arrested and transported to the WildSee CRIME, page A2

Dozens of Anchor Point residents made the trek to Soldotna on Tuesday night to give the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly a unified message: Fund education to the cap and don’t shut down Chapman Elementary School.

Governor Dunleavy’s proposed budget includes a 19 percent decrease in funds to the Department of Education and Early Development, which has residents of Anchor Point

worried about teacher layoffs, larger class sizes and school shutdowns.

Parents, teachers and pastors were among those in attendance at Tuesday’s borough meeting to express their support for Chapman Elementary, which some felt could be first on the chopping block if the current proposed budget is passed. Community members also urged the borough to keep education funding at the highest level possible for the borough’s upcoming budget, in order to mitigate any potential cuts at the

state level.

“I realize that the state level cuts are not your fault. However, we look to you as borough assembly members to help soften this blow,” said a teacher at Chapman.

“Putting small schools on the chopping block means that small communities, whose lifeblood flows through the local schools, would become ghost towns,” said another teacher from Nikolaevsk school.

“By not fully funding See HALL, page A2

Uncounted votes could decide fate of field house

By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion

Soldotna’s field house bond may have failed at the polls, but with over 150 votes still in question, the narrow defeat is still uncertain.

After the polls closed on Tuesday night, the ordinance failed by 21 votes, 290 to 268. The unofficial results, though, left a good portion of votes uncounted.

“We currently have 149 absentee ballots in our custody, 22 questioned ballots and there are still 18 that went out absentee,” said Soldotna City Clerk Shelly Saner. “As long as they are postmarked by (March 5) and received before (March 12), they will be canvassed with the others.”

The remaining votes will be canvassed on March 12 at 9 a.m. Saner said she hopes to have an update to the unofficial results by the end of the day on March 12. The results are not official, though, until the are certified by the city council. The election’s certification is currently on

A rendering of the proposed Soldotna Regional Sports Complex field house. Unofficial election results leave the field house’s future up in the air. (City of Soldotna)

the agenda for the March 13 Soldotna City Council meeting.

The election asked voters if the city should issue a $10 million dollar bond to fund the construction of the field house. The city’s sales tax would then increase by a half percent to cover the debt.

The total cost of the approximately 42,000 square foot building is estimated at $11.8 million dollars.

If the bond was approved, $10 million will be financed

through debt of a general obligation bond, with the remaining covered by private funders, donations, grants or, if needed, funds previously authorized by the city council.

The city would take on a 10-year bond with an interest rate between 3 and 3.5 percent. It would be paid off in 10 years with 10 annual payments.

The half-percent sales tax increase would cover that debt, increasing the tax from 3 percent to 3.5 percent.

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and Senator Dan Sullivan have both voiced their support for the project.

“If we can get the federal funding necessary, we can move into construction as early as 2020,” said Ostrander.

Gabriel spoke about the renovations to the Kenai Municipal Airport and said that the work is scheduled to be finished on Jan. 31, 2020.

The $12 million renovation includes replacing the roof, expanding baggage and passenger areas, and adding new offices for the airlines.

In terms of the economic forecast of the city, Gabriel and Ostrander were both hopeful about the future.

The city does have concerns about revenue, and Ostrander noted that Capital Grants from the state stopped in 2015 and are not expected to return. Capital grants averaged about $5 million to the city prior to 2015 and were used for maintenance on roads and city buildings as well as new construction. Ostrander said that city assets depreciate in value by about $1.6 million each year, meaning that about that much needs to be spent on maintenance to prevent buildings from falling into disrepair.

Gabriel spoke to the potential economic impacts of two bills introduced to the senate by Governor Dunleavy, SB 57 and SB 63.

SB 57 would eliminate a local municipality’s ability to collect property taxes from

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education to the maximum, it will exasperate the shortfall from the state, resulting in additional cuts that the school board will be forced to make,” said a concerned parent.

Because of time constraints and the number of people who wished to speak

oil and gas property, and if passed would mean a loss of about $200,000 in revenue to the city. SB 63 would similarly repeal a municipality’s ability to collect business taxes from fisheries, which would equate to about $150,000 in lost tax revenue for the city of Kenai. Gabriel said that as of now he does not expect either bill to pass through the senate due to lack of support.

The city’s main sources of revenue property taxes and a sales tax. The city’s three percent sales tax accounts for 47% of the city’s revenue, and Gabriel said that this revenue has steadily increased each quarter over the last year. Property taxes make up about 25 percent of the city’s revenue, and Gabriel presented a pie chart that broke down how a $1000 property tax is distributed to all the services the city provides. One example, according to the chart, is that about 47 percent is allocated to public safety including fire and police services.

Other notable developments in the city pointed out

by Gabriel and Ostrander include the city being officially recognized as a bicycle-friendly community, the completion of Kenai’s first dog park located next to Daubenspeck Family Park, and and updated version of the city’s website that will roll out on April 10 of this year.

Ostrander also encouraged Kenai residents to attend a public meeting on March 12 at 6pm at the Kenai Senior Center where people can provide input on the city’s 2020 budget. on behalf of Chapman, that portion of the public comments was limited to 20 minutes, to which one man in the audience responded “Doesn’t education deserve more than 20 minutes?”

Another opportunity for public comments was given towards the end of the meeting, but by that time most of the citizens attending the meeting had already gone home.

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wood Pretrial Facility.

Troopers confirmed that the owners of the residence are deceased and have been unable to identify next of kin.

Baldwin faces one count

of first-degree burglary, a class B felony, one count of second-degree theft, a class C felony, one count of possession of burglary tools, a class A misdemeanor, one count of fifth-degree criminal mischief, a class B misdemeanor, and one count of violating the conditions of release, a class B misdemeanor.

Job losses not as bad as predicted

By KEVIN BAIRD Juneau Empire

No matter which budget solution the Legislature and Gov. Mike Dunleavy approve, there will be negative consequences for Alaskans.

That was one of the messages delivered by the state’s chief economist, Ed King, Wednesday at the Capitol.

King was not able to get through his entire presentation on the economic effects of Dunleavy’s budget during the Senate Finance Committee meeting. King made his way through seven of 23 slides before a barrage of questions from the committee members prevented him from moving further.

Later during a press conference, King said a solution must be implemented because the state’s deficit will persist. But each solution has its drawbacks.

If government spending is reduced, then jobs will be lost and services will be lowered.

If taxes are raised, there will be lost economic activity and a lower standard of living.

If the Permanent Fund Dividend is cut, then there will be lost economic activity and a lower standard of living.

If assets are depleted, then there will be lower future earnings and bigger problems in the future.

The Dunleavy administration is proposing the first option, and job losses are inevitable, King said.

r 6Q UP 1,000 state jobs could be lost, depending on how the Dunleavy administration’s privatization efforts fare. r 6Q UP KPCT DPVME be lost in public schools, depending how the state’s 53 school districts approach the problem. r 6Q UP KPCT DPVME CF lost at the University of Alaska, and that largely depends on how the board of regents decides to implement cuts.

But how many more jobs could be lost as a result of the budget cuts? The Institute of Social and Economic Research, or ISER, has estimated that 14,272 more jobs would be lost in Alaska. This estimate is based on a study saying for every $100 million taken out of the economy, 892 jobs are lost (with $1.6 billion in cuts, 892 is multiplied by 16 to reach 14,272).

King argued this number is likely much higher than what would actually occur.

Part of this is because full Permanent Fund Dividend of $3,000 should stimulate the economy and increase the demand for jobs. If Senate Bills 23 and 24 are passed, providing Alaskans with the payback dividend during the next three years, that stimulus could be larger.

King also said fiscal stability in the government is certain to attract more investment in Alaska and subsequent jobs. However, the length of time before new investment is attracted is unknown.

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Around the Peninsula Nikiski Community Council Meeting The Nikiski Community Council Meeting will meet March 11 at 7 p.m. at the Nikiski Senior Center on Lake Marie Street in Nikiski.

St. Patrick’s Surprise Ladies’ Luncheon will host Peninsula Take-a-Break St. Patrick’s Surprise on Saturday, March 16 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. at Solid Rock Conference Center at mile 90.5 of the Sterling Highway. The guest, inspirational speaker will be Kristina Fitzgerald with a story of redemption. For reservations call Susan at 335-6789 or 440-1319. Reservations need to be made by March 13.

Wild and Scenic Film Festival Join the Kenai Watershed Forum at Snug Harbor Seafoods on K-Beach for the Wild and Scenic Film Festival on Saturday, March 23 from 6-9 p.m. This year’s films combine stellar filmmaking, beautiful cinematography and first-rate storytelling to inform, inspire and ignite solutions and possibilities to restore the earth and human communities while creating a positive future for the next generation.

The Wild & Scenic Film Festival is a fundraiser for the Kenai Watershed Forum and a way to support our mission of working together for healthy watersheds on the Kenai Peninsula. Price is $25, includes a Cooper Landing Brew, food and fun!

Farm Bureau Annual Meeting

in Soldotna. Free and open to the public; bring a friend! Refreshments and sometimes door prizes. Membership and general club information is available at www.cenpengardenclub.org, on facebook, or contact Phyllis Boskofsky at cenpengardenclub@gmail.com.

KPC College Council meeting Kenai Peninsula College Council meeting scheduled The College Council will hold their next meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 7 at KPC’s Kachemak Bay Campus in Homer in Pioneer room 202. The College Council is advisory in nature and members are recruited from all sectors of the Kenai Peninsula to provide input to KPC administration. The meeting is open to the public. For a copy of the agenda, contact the director’s assistant at 262-0318 or visit this link: http://www.kpc.alaska.edu/about/college_council/reports/.

Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is accepting applications for summer jobs for the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC). Eligible applicants will be youth 15-18 years of age and who live in or have lodging available in the local commuting area. Applications are available at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center, the Alaska Employment Service Office in Kenai, or from local high school career counseling offices. Applications will be accepted from March 4 through April 12. All applications must be received at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters on Ski Hill Road by 4:30 p.m. (close of business), on April 12. The positions will be filled via a random selection process and selected applicants will be notified by phone no later than April 26. Youth will work 40 hours each week from June 3 through July 26, and receive $9.90 per hour.

Job duties will include trail maintenance and rehabilitation, cabin restoration, campground maintenance, litter collection, biological assistance, and visitor information services. For additional information, please contact the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge office during regular business hours at (907) 262-7021.

Saving and Storing Seeds for Your Garden Dr. Pat Holloway, Professor Emeritus of Horticulture at UAF will present a lecture on how to harvest, handle, save, and store flower, vegetable, and native plant seeds for later use in your garden on Tuesday, March 12 from 7–8:30 p.m. at Peninsula Grace Church, 44175 Kalifornsky Beach Road (at Mile 19.5, across the road from Craig Taylor Equipment)

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Hospice Spring Volunteer Training

Registration is open for Hospice of the Central Peninsula’s Spring Volunteer Training. Training is over two weekends, March 22-23 and 29-30 at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna. Volunteers must be 18 years or older and be able to pass a background check.

Lunch and snacks are provided. Call the office at 2620453 or visit www.hospiceofcentralpeninsula.com for more info.

Ninilchik Community Neighborhood Watch The Ninilchik Community Neighborhood Watch would like to give public notice that we are now working together for a safer community. We encourage support and participation. Contact your local nonprofit organization at 907-202-2103 or 907-398-8067.

Kenai National Wildlife Refuge: February Winter visitor center hours 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.

—Winter Walks, 1-hour guided snowshoe walks every Wednesday at 2 p.m. and Fridays at 12:30 p.m.

Snowshoes provided with pre-registration. Call 907260-2820.

—Saturday Wildlife Movies: “Refuge Film” at 11 a.m., noon, 2 p.m. “Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom” at 1 p.m. “Alone in the Wilderness” at 3 p.m.

Kenai Kennel Club will be offering a Trick Dog class beginning March 12 and ending April 16. 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 can work on a flat collar and leash. Class is 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/abouttrick-dog/

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Prom Expo

Get everything you need for prom. A peninsula Prom Expo will take Friday, March 15 2-8 p.m. at the Soldotna Parents experienced with raising children with Chronic Sports Complex.

Medical Conditions and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities are needed as MAP volunteers to help Mentor, Advocate and Partner with new parents in similar situa- Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory tions. Please join our volunteers in providing free Parent- Council’s PROPS Committee meeting to-Parent support in our community. Register for training The Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council’s this week by visiting https://www.stonesoupgroup.org/ event/mentor-advocate-partner-map-training-soldotna/ or PROPS (Prevention, Response, Operations and Safety) call 907-953-8480 to inquire about more information on Committee meeting will be held in Kenai on Friday, March 8 at 10 a.m. at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Ashow you can help. sociation building, 40610 Kalifornsky Beach Road. The public is welcome to attend. For an agenda, directions or Sterling Community Rec Center Daily Event more information call 907-283-7222 or 800-652-7222.

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The Performing Arts Society is pleased to announce the return of pianist Eduard Zilberkant, who has charmed our audiences several times in the past. Joining him are Bryan Emmon Hall, violin; Gail Johansen, viola; and Ryan Fitzpatrick, cello. They will be performing works

by Beethoven, Turina, and Arensky. Please join us for this classical chamber music on Saturday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. at Soldotna Christ Lutheran Church. Tickets are $20 general admission and $10 for students and may be purchased in advance in Soldotna at River City Books and Northcountry Fair or in Kenai at Already Read Books and Country Liquor or at the door.

MAP volunteers needed

Kenai Peninsula Chapter of the Alaska Farm Bureau Schedule February will hold its Annual Meeting at 6 p.m., Thursday, March 7 —Pickleball: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 10 a.m.at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Building on K-Beach Road. 12 p.m.

All Farm Bureau members and those wishing to join should —Weight room: Open 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4-6 p.m. Monattend. For Zoom sign on information, email kpchapterfb@ day-Friday (Free weights, squat rack, rowing machine, cargmail.com. dio bikes, tread mill, elliptical, and yoga balls/mats) —Zumba: Mondays at 6 p.m.

—Teen Center: Air hockey, fosse ball, video games, WiKPC Showcase presents: Letters From Fi, and gym time.

Happy Valley: Memories of an Alaska —Home school gym time: Fridays at 12-2 p.m.

Homesteader’s Son —After school red program: 3:30-5:30 p.m. Monday to Friday.

Registration anytime KPC Showcase presents: Letters From Happy Valley: Call for information 907-262-7224. Adults $3 per visit, Memories of an Alaska Homesteader’s Son, an evening seniors $2 per visit, teens $2 per visit, and children $1 per with Alaskan author Dan Walker on Thursday, March 7 visit at 6:30 p.m. at McLane Commons. Fifty years after leaving the family homestead in Happy Valley, Dan Walker unexpectedly received a shoebox full of letters penned Land Management Division letters of in 1958 by his parents as they traveled north from Sugar Tree Ridge, Ohio, to build a new life on the Last Frontier. interest The letters ignited Walker’s memory and he remembered The Kenai Peninsula Borough’s Land Management Divihow, as a small boy, he watched with wonder as his fami- sion is calling for letters of interest from people looking ly built a home, harvested moose, and learned the ways of for new agricultural land. The hope is that people will the north country. A quiet thread of melancholy weaves share some details that the borough can use to inform the through Walker’s story as he remembers how his father’s program design. The kinds of major points officials think untimely death forced their large family to leave behind would be helpful in a letter include the size and general the life he loved. location needed, along with any other criteria that would be essential for the person’s production plans, and maybe Girl Scout Reunion Tea an indication of the time frames that people are thinkCurrent and former Girl Scouts in Service Unit 941, ing if they were to take on an area of land with producformerly named Kalgin Service Unit on the Kenai Penin- tion goals. Letters should be addressed to KPB Land sula, are invited to a Girl Scout Reunion Tea to observe Manager, 144 North Binkley St., Soldotna AK 99669. the 60th Anniversary of our Service Unit on Sunday, More information can be found at kpb.us/land March 31 from 2:30-5:30 p.m. at Soldotna Methodist Church, Binkley Street. Bring your Scouting memorabilia. For more info contact Rosemary Pilatti at 907-776- Central Peninsula Hospital Health Fair 8916 or wrangell86@gmail.com.

Central Peninsula Hospital is holding a Health Fair on March 23 from 8 a.m. to Noon in the River Tower Free In-Person Tax Preparation Available on the CPH campus. Blood Chemistry Panels, Thyroid, Free income tax return preparation is available again Prostate, Vitamin D (D2&D3) and A1C tests will be this year at the Soldotna Library from Feb. 9 to April available. You must be 18 years or older to have blood 13. This AARP Foundation-sponsored program is open work done. Community health partners are invited to to low-and moderate-income taxpayers of all ages, with participate as a vendor. Contact Camille Sorensen at special attention to those age 60 and older. AARP mem- 714-4600 or csorensen@cpgh.org for an application. bership is not required. Call 907-420-4308 to schedule Deadline for vendor registration is March 18. an appointment. For more information, email taxprepsoldotna@gmail.com.

Refuge Accepting Applications for Summer Youth Conservation Corps Jobs

Classical chamber music with pianist Eduard Zilberkant

Soldotna Little League baseball clinics Soldotna Little League will be starting baseball clinics on Mondays and Wednesdays through April from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Skyview Middle School. You must be registered with Soldotna Little League for the 2019 season. We have early bird savings if you register before March 31. You can save up to $50 per person.

‘The Best of Broadway’ Forever Dance Alaska will present “The Best of Broadway” annual showcase on March 29-30 at 7 p.m. at the Renee C. Henderson Auditorium. Tickets are $15, includes $1 KPBSD seat charge. Call 262-1641 or email info@foreverdancealaska.com.

Al-Anon support group meetings Al-Anon support group meetings are held at the Central Peninsula Hospital in the Kasilof Room (second floor) of the River Tower building on Monday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. Park around back by the ER and enter through the River Tower entrance and follow the signs. Contact Tony Oliver at 2520558 for more information.

Shamrock Shuffle Fun Run/Walk Shamrock Shuffle Fun Run/Walk will take place on Sunday, March 17 at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex on K-Beach Road in Soldotna. 1.5 Mile and 3 Mile runs. Registration 1-2 p.m. 2 p.m. start. Entry Fee $10 Youth, $20 Adult, $50 Family. *Age group awards * Door prizes. Proceeds to benefit the Soldotna Whalers Wrestling Club. For more information call 262-1721 or 252-2959.

Public Health announcement: Make sure your immunizations are up to date Now is a good time to make sure your immunizations are up to date. Measles outbreaks are happening as close as Washington State, a common travel destination for many Alaskans. Our public health officials are urging Alaskans to ensure that all of their immunizations, including the MMR vaccine, are current. Protect yourself and your family – and the whole community! To learn more, including vaccine requirements for schools and daycares, visit immunize.dhss. alaska.gov. For local questions community members can call Kenai Public Health at 907-335-3400.

Alaska Food Festival & Conference Registration is open for the 4th semi-annual Alaska Food Festival & Conference, which will take place at Land’s End Resort in Homer on March 8 and 9. Session topics will cover Alaska’s vast and diverse food system: farmers market issues, food security, policy, production, harvesting, business, education, community, tradition, sovereignty, fermenting, subsistence, growing, and more!

Chef demonstrations, hands-on activities, vendor booths, and a Friday night social round out the event. This event is sponsored by the Alaska Food Policy Council and the Alaska Farmers Market Association. For program and registration information, go to https://www.akfoodpolicycouncil. org/2019-conference/.

Peninsula Clarion death notice and obituary guidelines: The Peninsula Clarion strives to report the deaths of all current and former Peninsula residents. Notices should be received within three months of the death.

We offer two types of death reports: Pending service/Death notices: Brief notices listing full name, age, date and place of death; and time, date and place of service. These are published at no charge.

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What Others Say

The Times-Picayune of Louisiana on a more sustainable Mardi Gras There’s nothing better during Mardi Gras than the catch.

You make eye contact with a masked rider on a float and score a piece of Carnival treasure.

For two weeks, you fill bags with pounds of glittery beads, hula hoops, glow-in-the-dark bracelets and necklaces and blinky rings.

Then, at the end, you’ve got to figure out what to do with all that plastic, most of which you’ll never put on again.

Some throws are usable, like the zippered pouches and mini-notebooks from Muses, the cellphone lanyard from Nyx or the glass beads some krewes have started throwing again. Some are coveted keepsakes, like the Zulu coconut, Muses shoes and Nyx purses.

Or, the yellow flags tossed to the crowd Thursday night with “Never Been Thrown, Float 20” printed on them.

That’s definitely a keeper.

Some people use beads for their art, and some sort their loot and take it to ARC of Greater New Orleans to be repackaged and reused.

But most of those strings of plastic go into landfills or, as New Orleanians have learned, into our storm drains. Tons of beads and other trinkets never make it home with anyone. They litter the streets and sidewalks and are scooped up and sent to landfills by the street-cleaning crews who follow parades.

We can’t go on this way. Or, we shouldn’t.

The city found 46 tons of Mardi Gras beads in New Orleans’ drainage system along five blocks of St. Charles Avenue in 2018. That’s 92,000 pounds on just one small section of the parade route.

Street-cleaning crews scoop up about 900 tons of waste on average during the Mardi Gras season. Last year, that number was nearly 1,200 tons, according to the city.

“We have to face the consequences at the end of the parade,” Howard Mielke, a Tulane University pharmacology professor, told NOLA.com ‘ The Times-Picayune reporter Maria Clark. “Watching the gigantic sanitation trucks come by at the end. visually, it’s spectacular to see that take place.”

It is impressive how quickly that happens and how clean the route is afterward. But that feat covers up the fact that we are putting tons of waste into our environment that isn’t going to break down and could have toxins in it.

Mielke has researched the amount of lead in Mardi Gras beads picked up along St. Charles Avenue and Canal Street.

His 2013 study found lead in four bead samples, including small green beads, large green beads, non-metalized black beads and non-metalized small red beads. That small number might reassure some people. But he also found higher traces of lead accumulated in the ground along the parade routes.

“That’s old soil that has had years and years of exposure to lead. Kids pick beads up off the ground and don’t know they have been contaminated by the parade route itself,” Mielke said. ...

There are alternatives being developed. An LSU biological sciences professor has a patent pending on biodegradable beads made from algae. Misti and Aron Medders, who live Uptown, have started making environmentallyfriendly throws to sell. They planned to make 550 dozen of their “No-Call Nola” necklaces made with black and white recyclable plastic beads and a little yellow penalty flag.

Recycling efforts are growing, and the city is putting bumpers across some storm drains to keep the beads out.

With Dunleavy’s budget, timing is everything

By WIN GRUENING For the Juneau Empire

As Alaskans take various and mostly predictable positions on Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposed budget reductions, a theme seems to be emerging in the Legislature. Legislators are far from reaching any kind of consensus, yet it’s possible to discern some common elements that presage a possible outcome down the road.

In the face of Alaska’s projected $1.6 billion deficit, to no one’s surprise, some voices demand passage of new revenue measures — a statewide income tax or a sales tax. Others argue steep budget cuts are necessary even while Permanent Fund Dividends be enshrined in Alaska’s Constitution and are essentially untouchable.

Given the current makeup of the Legislature, it’s not likely any of these scenarios will come to pass this year.

The governor’s proposals, while balancing the budget, depend on an array of debatable statutory and policy changes. These are far-reaching and, in some cases, invite lawsuits and leave to the imagination potential consequences down the road.

Nevertheless, Dunleavy deserves credit for finally forcing Alaskans to discuss the fiscal reality confronting us.

In the Legislature, even conservative voices supporting budget reductions are distancing themselves from the level of cuts being contemplated by the administration.

No doubt they are being influenced by the municipalities they represent.

Many proposed cuts would effectively shift much of the reductions to municipalities across the state. This puts questions of “needs vs. wants” squarely in the laps

In this Jan. 22, 2018 photo, Gov. Mike Dunleavy give his State of the State speech to a Joint Session of the Alaska Legislature as Senate President Cathy Giessel, RAnchorage, left, and House Speaker Pro Tempore Rep. Neal Foster, D-Nome, listen at the Capitol. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

of local taxing authorities where, some would argue, they belong.

But, the wheels of bureaucracy move slowly, and to assume local governments could possibly react in time to absorb these reductions by either raising taxes or canceling projects and services overnight is not reasonable.

Furthermore, proposed cuts to the ferry system, health care and education, for example, require time to analyze for reductions to make sense.

Regardless of one’s feelings about proposed reduction levels, it seems many Alaskans prefer a more realistic approach that phases reductions in over time.

The House Majority Coalition is signaling a tax is off the table this year, and to expect budget cuts. “The sheer complexity of taking on the proposed change to the budget itself will consume most our time going forward,” House Speaker Bryce Edgmon said recently. Edgmon said he’s asked caucus members to “help share the pain.”

Senate Finance Com-

mittee Co-Chair Natasha von Imhof explains it this way, “I keep hearing the administration referring to this ‘fiscal crisis.’ We don’t have a fiscal crisis. We have a priority crisis. We have enough money to pay for a certain level of government services, and a certain level for a dividend. We just don’t have enough money to pay for both at the highest level desired.”

Given the House and Senate public positions, what outcome is possible and reasonable in the session time remaining?

The final date to approve a budget — June 30 — is fast approaching. With much of the session taken up with organizational changes, legislation supporting the governor’s budget proposal has yet to be reviewed.

It isn’t hard to see where we are headed and to do the math. $1.6 billion in suggested cuts cannot be absorbed in the short term and new taxes, even if proposed, would likely be vetoed.

There is only one existing revenue source available large enough to make a dif-

ference.

Alaska’s Permanent Fund.

Approved last year under Senate Bill 26, Percent-ofMarket-Value (POMV) legislation allows a portion of the Permanent Fund earnings to be split between a permanent fund dividend (PFD) and paying for government services.

Maintaining PFD’s near last year’s level would make available enough funding to shrink the deficit to a manageable level — in the $350 million range. A deficit of this size could be handled with targeted expenditure reductions and a minimal draw from the Constitutional Budget Reserve.

When warranted, Dunleavy would have the option of restoring PFD’s to a higher level in the future, thereby keeping his campaign promise, but it would allow time for any further cuts to be absorbed and Alaska’s economy to continue its recovery.

Equally as important, maintaining curtailment of the PFD during this crisis means every Alaskan would share the pain.

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DNC won’t let Fox News host 2020 presidential debates

By KATE FELDMAN New York Daily News (TNS)

None of the 12 sanctioned Democratic primary debates ahead of the 2020 election will be hosted by Fox News, the Democratic National Committee announced Wednesday.

DNC Chairman Tom Perez cited an explosive new article from The New Yorker that documented the network’s close ties President Donald Trump and his administration.

“I believe that a key pathway to victory is to continue to expand our electorate and reach all voters,” Perez said in a statement.

“That is why I have made it a priority to talk to

a broad array of potential media partners, including Fox News. Recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and Fox News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates. Therefore, Fox News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates.”

Earlier this week, Jane Meyer detailed a series of links between Fox News and the White House, including then-Chairman Roger Ailes possibly feeding Trump a question about his history with women

ahead of a 2015 GOP primary debate and FoxNews. com killing the story about Trump’s payment to adultfilm actress Stormy Daniels.

Former Fox News president Bill Shine currently serves as the White House communications director.

In a statement, Fox News senior VP and managing editor Bill Sammon praised his hosts.

“We hope the DNC will reconsider its decision to bar Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, all of whom embody the ultimate journalistic integrity and professionalism, from moderating a Democratic presidential debate,” he said.

“They’re the best debate

team in the business and they offer candidates an important opportunity to make their case to the largest TV news audience in America, which includes many persuadable voters.”

Of the dozen debates, only two have been assigned so far: one to NBC News/ MSNBC/Telemundo and one to CNN. “That’s really a shame,” Baier tweeted. “When it comes to fairness — our news product speaks for itself. We will continue to cover this 2020 race fairly & will continue to invite Democrats-Republicans & Independents on to talk about key issues & substance with our very large viewing audience.”

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Omar’s Israel remarks expose Democrats’ divisions

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Back in January, the Democrats welcomed their brash young newcomers to Congress with smiles and hugs. That was before the new colleagues dragged the party’s simmering divisions over Israel out in the open.

Provocative comments from Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota have thrust the Democrats into an uncomfortable debate over Israel policy a few weeks before a high-profile conference at which senior Democrats typically make a show of support for the Jewish state. Increasingly, the rift appears as much generational as ideological, with newly elected Democrats showing less deference to the party line.

Omar became the flash point after she suggested last week that Israel’s supporters are pushing U.S. lawmakers to take a pledge of “allegiance to a foreign country.” It’s at least the third time she has forced older, pro-Israel Democrats who run the House into awkward territory over U.S.-Israeli policy.

In this photo, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., arrives for President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington.

(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Republicans have been happy to stoke the furor, with President Donald Trump calling Omar’s remarks “a dark day for Israel” and posting a photo of himself in Jerusalem. Inside the Democratic family, meanwhile, leaders are in a bind, torn between a need to admonish Omar and their desire to defend one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress.

This time Omar is not apologizing. And this time pro-Israel Democrats led

by Speaker Nancy Pelosi are not just warning her about the dangers of Jewish tropes. They are expected to offer a resolution con-

demning anti-Semitism on the House floor. Although no vote on the resolution is yet scheduled, Democrats said it could come as soon as Thursday.

“Accusations of dual loyalty generally have an insidious, bigoted history,” an early draft of the resolution reads in part. “The House of Representatives acknowledges the dangerous consequences of perpetuating anti-Semitic stereotypes and rejects anti-Semitism as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values that define the people of the United States.”

Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced in a meeting of leading Democrats late Tuesday that the text will be updated to include antiMuslim bias, according to a senior Democratic aide who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private meeting. Other Democrats said an outpouring of support for Omar prompted leaders to consider broadening the measure to avoid dissension. Omar did not speak to reporters outside her office on Tuesday evening.

“There is a lot emotional disquiet about the situation, and it’s a good time to restate our values,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who is Jewish and a member of leadership, as he exited a meeting in Pelosi’s office. “That’s what I hope our resolution can do.”

The text, which includes a history of bigotry against Muslims and blacks as well as Jews, sounds unobjectionable by itself. But the fact that senior Democrats felt obliged to put the House on-record on the topic points to a transformation in the country — mostly among Democrats — about supporting the Jewish state.

Sen. McSally, ex-Air Force pilot, says officer raped her

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Sen. Martha McSally, the first female Air Force fighter pilot to fly in combat, said Wednesday that she was sexually assaulted by a superior officer, and later, when she tried to talk about it to military officials, she “felt like the system was raping me all over again.”

The Arizona Republican, a 26-year military veteran, made the disclosure at a Senate hearing on the military’s efforts to prevent sexual assaults and improve the response when they occur. Lawmakers also heard from other service members who spoke of being sexually assaulted and humiliated while serving their country.

McSally said she did not report being raped because she did not trust the system, and she said she was ashamed and confused.

She said she was impressed and grateful to the survivors who came forward to help change the system. She was in the ninth class at the Air Force Academy to allow women, and said sexual harassment and assault were prevalent. Victims mostly suffered in silence, she said.

McSally read from a

prepared statement getting choked up at one point. She referred to “perpetrators” who had sexually assaulted her, an indication that she had been attacked more than once.

She did not say whether her assaults happened at the academy or during active duty. She didn’t name any names.

She said she stayed silent for years. But later, as she watched the military grapple with how to handle sexual assaults, she felt like she should speak out.

“I was horrified at how my attempt to share generally my experiences was handled,” she said. She almost left the Air Force after 18 years.

“Like many victims, I felt like the system was raping me all over again.”

McSally’s revelation comes not long after Sen. Joni Ernst , R-Iowa, detailed her own abuse and assault, and at a time of increased awareness over the problem of harassment and assault in the armed forces and the larger #MeToo movement that roiled Hollywood and major corporations.

Reports of sexual assaults across the military jumped nearly 10 percent in 2017 — a year that also

During a hearing by the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel about prevention and response to sexual assault in the military, Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., recounts her own experience while serving as a colonel in the Air Force, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

saw an online nude-photo sharing scandal rock the Defense Department. Reporting for 2018 is not yet available. Reports of sexual assaults were also up at the military academies, most at West Point .

McSally said she shares in the disgust of the failures of the military system and many commanders who haven’t address the problems of sexual misconduct.

She said the public must demand that higher-ranking officials be part of the solution, setting the tone for their officers.

“We have come a long way to stop military sexual assault but we still have a long way to go,” the senator

said. “It took many years and too many lives ruined.”

Her colleagues on the committee lauded her for coming forward.

“I’m deeply affected by that testimony,” said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. McSally told the Wall Street Journal last year that she had been sexually abused as a teenager by her high school track coach.

She said the coach took advantage of her through “emotional manipulation” because her father had died.

He denied the allegations.

McSally served in the Air Force from 1988 until 2010 and rose to the rank of colonel before entering politics.

Trump still hopes for North Korea deal after ominous report

By DEB RIECHMANN and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Satellite photos showing new activity at a North Korean rocket launch site raised fresh doubts Wednesday that Kim Jong Un will ever give up his drive for nuclear weapons, yet talks continue and President Donald Trump said he was still hoping for the agreement that eluded the leaders at last week’s summit.

The president said his relationship with the North Korean leader remains “good” even though Trump walked away from negotiations at their high-profile meeting in Vietnam. He said then that the North’s concessions on its nuclear program weren’t enough to warrant sanctions relief, and he said Wednesday he’d be unhappy if reports prove true that Kim is rebuilding a launch site after promising in Vietnam to extend his ban on nuclear and rocket tests.

“I would be very, very disappointed in Chairman Kim,” Trump said when

This Dec. 5, 2018 image provided by DigitalGlobe shows a satellite image of North Korea’s Sohae facility. (DigitalGlobe via AP)

reporters asked him about reports of new work at the Sohae Satellite Launch Station, which is tucked into the hills northwest of Pyongyang. “I don’t think I will be” disappointed, Trump said, “but we’ll see what happens.”

Past administrations discovered the perils of trying to do business with North Korea, which has a history of backing out of agreements. Trump believes his discussions will be different because Kim he has

publicly announced his desire to focus on economic development in his reclusive nation, which is suffering under harsh U.S. and international sanctions.

Trump has favored direct talks with Kim, but with no third summit under discussion right now, the next stage of negotiations is likely to be conducted at lower levels. Trump’s envoy to North Korea, Steve Biegun, had lunch Wednesday at the State Department with his counterparts from

Japan and South Korea. The South Koreans have proposed semiofficial threeway talks with the United States and North Korea as it works to put nuclear diplomacy back on track.

Suh Hoon, the director of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, told his nation’s lawmakers in Seoul that North Korea was restoring facilities at a rocket launch site it had dismantled last year in a goodwill measure.

Meanwhile, 38 North, a website specializing in North Korea studies, said commercial satellite imagery indicates the rebuilding started between Feb. 16 and March 2. And the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington, issued another report saying satellite imagery taken Saturday — just two days after the summit ended — showed North Korea “pursuing a rapid rebuilding” of the rocket site.

Some analysts think the work is a signal that Kim is getting ready to conduct more tests, but others suggest he’s just registering his disappointment that no

Around the World Leading minister resigns over scandal that threatens Trudeau TORONTO — A leading Cabinet minister in Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government resigned Monday, becoming the second minister to step down over a scandal that has shaken the government in an election year.

Treasury Board president Jane Philpott, considered a star minister, said in a resignation letter that it was “untenable” for her to continue in the Cabinet because she lost confidence and could not defend the government.

Philpott’s friend, former Attorney General and Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, testified last week that Trudeau and senior members of his government inappropriately tried to pressure her to avoid prosecution of a major Canadian engineering company in a case involving allegations of corruption in Libya.

Wilson-Raybould resigned from Cabinet last month after being demoted to veteran affairs minister the month before.

The scandal has rocked Trudeau’s government.

Gerald Butts, his closet adviser and best friend, also resigned last month and is scheduled to testify Wednesday before a Parliament justice committee in Trudeau’s defense.

“I know Philpott has felt this way for some time.

And while I am disappointed, I understand her decision to step down. I want to thank her for her service,” Trudeau said at a campaign-style event.

Trudeau said he takes the concerns very seriously and said the matter has generated an important discussion.

“But at the same time, we need to keep in mind the bigger picture,” Trudeau said.

Trudeau has acknowledged raising the issue with Wilson-Raybould, but has said that was appropriate.

“I have concluded that I must resign as a member of Cabinet,” Philpott wrote. “Sadly, I have lost confidence in how the government has dealt with this matter and in how it has responded to the issues raised.”

Philpott, a physician, is a former minister of health and minister of indigenous services and was widely viewed as of one of Trudeau’s most competent Cabinet ministers.

“The evidence of efforts by politicians and/or officials to pressure the former Attorney General to intervene in the criminal case involving SNC-Lavalin, and the evidence as to the content of those efforts have raised serious concerns for me,” Philpott wrote.

“I must abide by my core values, my ethical responsibilities and constitutional obligations. There can be a cost to acting on one’s principles, but there is a bigger cost to abandoning them.”

Philpott said she would continue as a Parliament member for Trudeau’s Liberal Party.

Wilson-Raybould said the same last week but declined to say she had confidence in Trudeau. Trudeau said earlier Monday he was still deciding whether Wilson-Raybould could remain a member of his party in Parliament.

Trudeau thanked Philpott for her service in a short statement that said he would have more to say later in Toronto.

The leader of the opposition Conservative Party, Andrew Scheer, said at a news conference that Philpott’s resignation demonstrates “a government in total chaos” and called again for Trudeau to resign and for a police investigation of the affair.

Wilson-Raybould testified last week she was pressured to instruct the director of public prosecutions to negotiate a remediation agreement with SNC-Lavalin.

The agreement would have allowed the company to pay reparations but avoid a criminal trial on charges of corruption and bribery. But Wilson-Raybould said the pressure was not illegal and said she was not instructed to interfere.

If convicted criminally, the Montreal-based company would be banned from receiving any federal government business for a decade. SNC-Lavalin is an economic force in Canada, with 9,000 employees in the country and about 50,000 worldwide.

Brazil’s Bolsonaro tweets obscene video, draws fire RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has aroused outrage by sharing a video on Twitter that shows one man urinating on the head of another man.

Bolsonaro made the post Tuesday night criticizing Carnival. Many conservatives detest Brazil’s Carnival celebrations, seeing them as heathen. And the far-right president himself was one of the main targets of revelers’ mockery this week’s Carnival, a time when samba schools and organizers of thousands of street parties traditionally take politicians to task.

Bolsonaro’s post included video of a Sao Paulo street party in which a man wearing a jockstrap touches himself sexually, then lowers his head while another man urinates on him.

Bolsonaro wrote, “I feel uncomfortable showing it, but we have to expose the truth for the population to know and always make its priorities.”

“This is what many street parties in Brazil’s Carnival have become. Comment and draw your conclusions,” he added.

The tweet quickly garnered tens of thousands of comments, many sharply critical of the post.

“You need medical help urgently,” tweeted journalist Fabio Pannunzio, who said his 6-year-old granddaughter and other children saw the post.

Others jumped in to defend Bolsonaro, arguing that children shouldn’t be allowed on Twitter anyway and that the president was just showing how debased Carnival celebrations had become.

Some users said they were reporting the Brazilian president’s post for allegedly violating Twitter’s rules, but the post remained in Bolsonaro’s timeline Wednesday afternoon.

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

The tweets underscored one of the tactics that helped get Bolsonaro elected: stoking cultural wars.

— The Associated Press

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Sports

Southcentral tourney ready to make noise Peninsula teams eyeing 2 state spots in loud Seward gym with reputation of wild action

By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

It may seem quiet this time of year at the end of the Alaska Railroad in the small town of Seward, but the energy inside the Seward High School gym is getting ready to explode with noise and excitement.

That’s because Seward plays host to the 2019 Southcentral Conference basketball tournament, where eight schools and 16 teams will fight for four tickets to the Class 3A state tournament.

Seward’s gym is notoriously small and cramped to be hosting 16 teams, and peninsula coaches are mindful of how close the fans are to the action, and are preparing for the tournament in earnest with ways to beat the noise.

“Seward is a cracker box gym,” said Nikiski boys coach Reid Kornstad. “It will be an intense, pressure-filled, awesome high school basketball environment. The noise in there is piercing.”

“It’s going to be crazyville,” added Kenai Central girls coach Cary Calvert. “It’s going to be exciting, people are on top of each other.”

Even the home teams know

they are facing a tough time when the crowd gets going.

“It’s wall-to-wall atmosphere,” said Seward girls coach Curtis Berry. “I think it’s going to be really crazy, it’s a great atmosphere. It’s a basketball mentality morning to night, it’s crowded and loud.”

Some coaches have even taken to creating a set of signs to communicate to the players on the court which play to run. Nikiski girls coach Rustin Hitchcock likened it to a thirdbase coach in baseball.

“There’s something to be said about the feel of the old days,” Hitchcock said. “There has the potential to be this circumstance you can’t control, and you really you have to try and drown that out.”

The tournament also boasts some of the best 3A teams in the state, evidenced by the two heavyweight contenders on the girls side, the Nikiski and Anchorage Christian Schools squads. The Lions have staged an impressive, undefeated run thus far at 24-0 overall, while the Bulldogs haven’t been far behind at 20-3.

Together, the Bulldogs and Lions have combined to go 19-1 against conference op-

Southcentral Conference tournament At Seward High School GIRLS Thursday’s games Game 1 — Nikiski vs. Houston, 8:15 a.m.

Game 2 — Homer vs. Grace, 12 p.m.

Game 3 — Kenai vs. Redington, 3:45 p.m.

Game 4 — Seward vs. ACS, 7:30 p.m.

Friday’s games Game 5 — Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser, 8 a.m.

Game 6 — Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 loser, 11:45 a.m.

Game 7 — Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner, 3:30 p.m.

Game 8 — Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 winner, 7:15 p.m.

Saturday’s games Game 9 — Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner, 8:15 a.m. (4th place) Game 10 — Game 7 loser vs. Game 8 loser, 12 p.m. (3rd place) Game 11 — Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner, 3:45 p.m. (Championship) BOYS

Homer’s Stanley Swoboda (right) tries to swipe the ball from Kenai’s Adam Trujillo Feb. 14, 2019, in a conference clash at Kenai Central High School. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

ponents, not including their only matchup against each other this year, an 86-56 win for ACS on Nikiski’s home court.

“It’s an ACS world,” Calvert said.

“Our region looks pretty good, but Nikiski and ACS have been 1-2 pretty much all year.”

So is it inevitable that Saturday’s

girls championship showdown will feature Nikiski and ACS? Last Friday, the Kenai girls showed they can hang with the Lions in a 57-32 loss that was still close at halftime — against a team that has averaged 73.5 points on offense this season — giving Calvert and the rest of the

Thursday’s games Game 1 — Kenai vs. Redington, 10 a.m.

Game 2 — Nikiski vs. Grace, 1:45 p.m.

Game 3 — ACS vs. Homer, 5:30 p.m.

Game 4 — Houston vs. Seward, 9:15 p.m.

Friday’s games Game 5 — Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser, 9:45 a.m.

Game 6 — Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 loser, 1:30 p.m.

Game 7 — Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner, 5:15 p.m.

Game 8 — Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 winner, 9 p.m.

Saturday’s games Game 9 — Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner, 10 a.m. (4th place) Game 10 — Game 7 loser vs. Game 8 loser, 1:45 p.m. (3rd place) Game 11 — Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner, 5:30 p.m. (Championship)

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Soldotna’s Danica Schmidt drives for a bucket Jan. 18, 2019, against Colony at Soldotna High School. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

Stars on cusp of history SoHi teams hope to break 25-plus year region title droughts

By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

The Soldotna boys have not won a Northern Lights Conference title since 1991. The Soldotna girls have not won a Northern Lights Conference title since 1993.

Both are two wins on their home floor from doing so this weekend.

The Stars boys have not gone to state since 2010. The Stars girls have not gone to state since 2014. Both are one win on their home floor from doing so this weekend.

With the Northern Lights Conference tournament set to run at Soldotna High School from Thursday to Saturday, opportunity is great. Will great moments follow?

“I don’t think our boys and girls have had this kind of success in a while,” said Soldotna boys head coach

Nolan Rose of the No. 1-seeded girls and No. 3-seeded boys. “We’ve had a good year and the girls have had a phenomenal year.

“To have the opportunity to do that a year that we host regions and get to play games on our home floor is pretty cool. Friday night should be a pretty raucous environment.”

The Northern Lights Conference is down to five teams after Kenai Central dropped from Class 4A to Class 3A before this school year. That leads to a pared down tournament with just two games on tap for Thursday — No. 4 Kodiak and No. 5 seed Palmer in a boys contest at 6 p.m., and No. 4 seed Kodiak and No. 5 seed Palmer in a girls contest at 7:45 p.m.

The action heats up in a hurry Friday with semifinal play. On the girls side, the Stars face the Kodiak-Palmer win-

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Will Barton scored 23 points, Gary Harris added 19 and the Denver Nuggets snapped their three-game losing streak with a 115-99 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night despite LeBron James’ move into fourth place on the NBA’s career scoring list.

James scored 31 points and surpassed Michael Jordan’s 32,292 career points on a driving layup during the second quarter. His Lakers erased most an early 23-point deficit before fading in the fourth quarter of their fourth consecutive loss.

Denver (43-21) blew all but two points of its huge early lead, but Harris and Nikola Jokic contributed key baskets down the stretch of the Nuggets’ first win of March.

James now trails only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387 points), Karl Malone (36,928) and Kobe Bryant (33,643).

out a 10-point deficit in a game that featured two endings.

SUNS 107, KNICKS 96 PHOENIX (AP) — Devin Booker scored a season-high 41 points and Phoenix rolled to its fourth victory in five games.

Booker made 14 of 23 shots, including six of 10 3-pointers, and the Suns (15-51) took over after a slow start in a matchup of the teams with the NBA’s worst records.

WIZARDS 132, MAVERICKS 123 WASHINGTON (AP) — Bradley Beal dunked over 7-foot-2 Salah Mejri and then stared him down in the most dramatic part of a 30-point performance as Washington beat Dallas.

PISTONS 131, TIMBERWOLVES 114 DETROIT (AP) — Andre Drummond had 31 points and 15 rebounds and surging Detroit beat Minnesota.

SPURS 111, HAWKS 104 HEAT 91, HORNETS 84

Northern Lights Conference tournament at Soldotna High School BOYS Thursday’s game Game 1 — Kodiak vs. Palmer, 6 p.m.

Friday’s games Game 2 — Colony vs. Game 1 winner, 2:30 p.m.

Game 3 — Wasilla vs. Soldotna, 6 p.m.

Saturday’s games Game 4 — Lowest losing seed from Friday vs. Game 1 loser, 9 a.m.

Third-place game — Highest losing seed from Friday vs. Game 4 winner, 12:30 p.m.

Championship — Game 2 winner vs.

Game 3 winner, 4 p.m.

GIRLS Thursday’s game Game 1 — Kodiak vs. Palmer, 7:45 p.m.

Friday’s games Game 2 — Soldotna vs. Game 1 winner, 7:45 p.m.

Game 3 — Wasilla vs. Colony, 4:15 p.m.

Saturday’s games Game 4 — Lowest losing seed from Fri-

See NLC, page A7

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kelly Olynyk had 22 points and 11 rebounds, Hassan Whiteside added 18 points and 15 rebounds off the bench and Miami beat Charlotte to break a tie for the eighth spot in the Eastern Conference.

Olynyk was 8 of 14 from the field, including 5 of 7 from beyond the 3-point arc as Miami won its third straight game.

BULLS 108, 76ERS 107 CHICAGO (AP) — Zach LaVine scored 39 points and hit the go-ahead layup in the closing seconds to lead Chicago to wild win over Philadelphia.

LaVine scored 13 in the fourth quarter as the Bulls wiped

ATLANTA (AP) — LaMarcus Aldridge scored 32 points and San Antonio pulled away from Atlanta in the closing minutes for its fourth straight victory.

NETS 113, CAVALIERS 107 NEW YORK (AP) — Spencer Dinwiddie scored 12 of his 28 points in the fourth quarter and Brooklyn beat Cleveland for its second straight win.

JAZZ 114, PELICANS 104 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Derrick Favors scored 25 points, Rudy Gobert added 22 points and 13 rebounds, and Utah beat New Orleans for the second time this season

Caps beat Flyers for 1st place, Holtby gets 250th win PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom each had a goal and an assist, and Braden Holtby got his 250th career win as the Washington Capitals beat the Philadelphia Flyers 5-3 Wednesday night to reclaim sole possession of first place in the Metropolitan Division.

Brett Connolly, Tom Wilson and Andre Burakovsky also scored for the Capitals, who won their fifth straight and seventh in the last eight. Washington began the

night tied with the Islanders atop the division.

Ovechkin moved one point from reaching 1,200 for his career.

He will become the third active player and 49th all-time to reach the mark.

Holtby stopped 27 shots.

CANUCKS 3, MAPLE LEAFS 2, OT

overtime as Vancouver rallied past Toronto.

Loui Eriksson and Josh Leivo also scored for the Canucks, who trailed 2-0 after two periods and snapped a three-game skid. Adam Gaudette had two assists and Jacob Markstrom stopped 28 shots.

BLUES 5, DUCKS 4

Thomas got his second goal of the game with 1:04 left on the rebound of a loose shot and Pietrangelo rifled a shot through traffic for the game-winner with 52 seconds remaining for his 12th goal of the season.

GOLDEN KNIGHTS 2, FLAMES 1

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Deryk ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Robert Engelland scored his second goal of Thomas and Alex Pietrangelo scored the season in the third period to lift VANCOUVER, British Columbia 12 seconds apart late in the third period, Vegas.

(AP) — Alex Edler scored 3:11 into and St. Louis rallied to beat Anaheim.

Shea Theodore also scored for

the Golden Knights and Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 33 shots for his leagueleading 33rd win of the season. Vegas pulled seven points behind secondplace San Jose in the Pacific Division and 10 behind first-place Calgary.

The Golden Knights have won five straight since acquiring Mark Stone from Ottawa at the NHL trade deadline.

Fleury, who recorded back-to-back shutouts in his previous two starts, tied Jacques Plante for eighth on the NHL’s all-time wins list with his 437th victory.

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conference ideas of how to topple the Goliath.

“When you get beat by 53 (points) the first time, 25 doesn’t sound too bad,” Calvert said.

Hitchcock said he pored over film of that game, searching for weaknesses in the Lions’ game to exploit, and is eagerly anticipating a Saturday night clash when the lights are brightest.

“Being in the neutral court of Seward, there’s definitely a chance,” Hitchcock said about an upset win. “There’s some technique or design Kenai did that we didn’t do.”

The tournament bracket matches teams from the North division with teams from the South division. ACS clinched the top seed from the north and was followed by Grace Christian, Redington and Houston. The girls south division was led by Nikiski, followed by Kenai, Homer and Seward.

On the boys side, Anchorage Christian also holds command with a 22-4 overall mark this year, but conference foes have shown that there could be trouble brewing if ACS lets its guard down.

ACS clinched the No. 1 seed in the North division, and was followed in the regular season this year by Grace Christian, Houston and Redington. The South division was won by Kenai Central, followed by Seward, Nikiski and Homer.

The top two teams in the conference — aka Saturday’s championship contenders — get automatic bids to state.

One at-large bid will also be awarded to the 3A team chosen in Sunday night’s March Madness Alaska Selection Show, which will be streamed live on the NFHS Network at 7 p.m.

The following is a quick look at Thursday’s opening games: Nikiski girls (1S) vs. Houston (4N), 8:15 a.m. Thursday The Bulldogs are 3-0 against the Hawks this season with a combined score of 165-51, but will open their tournament today with the early game.

Hitchcock said his team can’t afford to suffer a first-round collapse like it did at the ACS Pepsi Invitational tournament in early January, when the Bulldogs lost to Kenai 42-41 in the tourney semifinals in anticipation of a finals clash with ACS. “We had that vision of playing ACS in the finals and got tripped up,” Hitchcock said. “We haven’t been able to have that experience before.”

Hitchcock said his team is getting healthy at just the right time, as several players missed contests in February due to illness and injury, including junior Kaycee Bostic, a post player.

Nikiski’s starting lineup features five dangerous names that opponents have had trouble defending this year, led by reigning Class 3A Girls Player of the Year, senior Bethany Carstens. Carstens is joined by seniors Kelsey Clark and Emma Wik, junior America Jeffreys and Bostic.

Kenai girls (2S) vs. Redington (3N), 3:45 p.m. Thursday The Kardinals defeated the Huskies 42-18 in the only contest between the two schools in January, setting up what is expected to be a win and advancement to the semis for the Kards.

However, Calvert knows better than to underestimate any opponent.

“For us, it’s just all about Redington,” he said. “Who cares about anything else.

They gave us some problems last time, and I’m not even allowing my girls to think about (other teams).”

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ner at 7:45 p.m., while No. 2 Wasilla and No. 3 Colony tangle at 4:15 p.m.

Soldotna, 23-3 including endowment games and 8-0 in the conference, owns three blowout victories over Kodiak and two blowout victories over Palmer.

“We’ve told them, ever since we wrapped up the No. 1 seed, to embrace the opportunity and don’t take it for granted,” Soldotna girls head coach Kyle McFall said.

McFall would know.

He’s coached for five years at Soldotna and coached for three years at now-closed Skyview High School before that, and has never been to state. The Stars and their sparkling record stand a great chance of being granted an at-large berth to state should they lose Friday, but McFall is taking no chances.

“We don’t want to look past Friday,” the coach said.

“We talked to the girls about the unique opportunity, that not every year can you hope to play for the NLC championship on your home court, knowing you’ve beat those

NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 46 19 .708 — Philadelphia 41 24 .631 5 Boston 40 26 .606 6½ Brooklyn 34 33 .507 13 New York 13 52 .200 33 Southeast Division Miami 30 34 .469 — Orlando 30 36 .455 1 Charlotte 29 35 .453 1 Washington 27 37 .422 3 Atlanta 22 44 .333 9 Central Division x-Milwaukee 48 16 .750 — Indiana 42 23 .646 6½ Detroit 32 31 .508 15½ Chicago 19 47 .288 30 Cleveland 16 49 .246 32½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Houston 39 25 .609 — San Antonio 37 29 .561 3 New Orleans 30 37 .448 10½

Dallas 27 37 .422 12 Memphis 26 40 .394 14 Northwest Division Denver 43 21 .672 — Oklahoma City 39 25 .609 4 Portland 39 25 .609 4 Utah 37 27 .578 6 Minnesota 30 35 .462 13½ Pacific Division Golden State 44 20 .688 — L.A. Clippers 37 29 .561 8 Sacramento 32 32 .500 12 L.A. Lakers 30 35 .462 14½ Phoenix 15 51 .227 30 x-clinched playoff spot

hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE

Tampa Bay Boston Toronto Montreal Buffalo Florida Detroit

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 67 51 12 4 106 263 176 66 40 17 9 89 198 164 67 41 21 5 87 241 191 67 36 24 7 79 204 194 66 30 28 8 68 190 211 66 28 26 12 68 209 227 66 23 33 10 56 182 227

Kenai has mostly avoided the illness and injury bug, Calvert said, although senior point guard Jaycie Calvert was sick last week and freshman Logan Satathite will likely not play this weekend after falling ill herself.

Calvert headlines a starting lineup that includes seniors Brook Satathite and Hayley Maw and juniors Liz Hanson and Damaris Severson, who will take over for Logan Satathite.

Homer girls (3S) vs. Grace Christian (2N), 12 p.m. Thursday The third seed from the south could have the advantage over the second seed from the north in a lunchtime matchup.

The Mariners picked up a 33-26 win over Grace on Feb. 22 at home, setting up what should be a tight contest the second time around.

Backed by an experienced upperclassmen lineup, Homer is looking to advance to state for the first time since finishing runner-up in the 2016 dance. The Mariners feature seniors Alia Bales and Rylyn Todd and juniors Kelli Bishop, Laura Inama, Rylee Doughty and Marina Carroll.

Seward girls (4S) vs. ACS (1N), 7:30 p.m. Thursday The fourth seed from the south division, and the host school, will have its hands full tonight with the undefeated ACS Lions. The Seahawks girls team lost 83-27 to ACS on the road just last Saturday.

Seward girls coach Curtis Berry is simply wanting to see the best game the Seahawks have played this year.

“From our perspective, we’re the low seed on the totem pole,” Berry said. “We expect to go out and finish the season with the same things in mind we started with. That’s continue to get better, which is cliche but that’s really what the game’s about.”

Seward has just two wins total this year, one each against North Pole and Eielson in tournament play, but will likely be buoyed by a feisty home crowd.

The lineup features seniors Ashley Jackson and Riley Von Borstel, Sequoia Sieverts, Anevay Ambrosiani and Katelyn Lemme.

Ottawa

67 23 38 6 52 199 251 Metropolitan Division Washington 67 39 21 7 85 231 211 N.Y. Islanders 66 38 21 7 83 192 161 66 36 23 7 79 199 180 Carolina Pittsburgh 66 35 22 9 79 229 204 Columbus 66 37 26 3 77 205 198 Philadelphia 67 32 27 8 72 204 224 N.Y. Rangers 66 27 28 11 65 190 219 New Jersey 67 25 33 9 59 189 225

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division 69 39 25 5 83 207 184 66 39 23 4 82 224 198 66 35 25 6 76 192 185 66 34 27 5 73 167 170 67 32 27 8 72 186 196 67 29 26 12 70 220 211 66 27 30 9 63 220 250 Pacific Division Calgary 67 41 19 7 89 235 194 San Jose 66 39 19 8 86 238 206 Vegas 68 37 26 5 79 203 188 Arizona 66 32 29 5 69 177 186 Edmonton 66 29 30 7 65 187 216 Vancouver 67 28 30 9 65 183 208 Anaheim 68 26 33 9 61 151 209 Los Angeles 66 24 34 8 56 159 210 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each diNashville Winnipeg St. Louis Dallas Minnesota Colorado Chicago

for their first state appearance since 2012, and will play an early game against Redington, which the Kardinals defeated 62-33 in a home win in January.

“Better get some rest,” said head coach Ken Felchle.

With a win today, the Kardinals’ chances of securing their first state spot in seven years could rely on Friday’s semifinal, which would either be against Grace or Nikiski. Kenai holds three close wins over Nikiski, but fell in a 50-32 loss to Grace last weekend.

Felchle said the team has done everything it had to do to clinch the top seed from the south division, and that has set the Kards up for success with a best-case scenario in the region tournament.

“Here’s the deal, we can’t afford to underestimate anyone,” he said.

“We did what we needed to do to give us the best chance. In the beginning of the year, everyone said ACS and Grace, they’ve been the best teams in this region. They’ve been two of the best teams in the state for a long time at 3A and 4A, and they still are the favorites.”

The Kardinals starting lineup features seniors Connor Felchle, Adam Trujillo, and Dominick Efta and juniors Logan Baker and Andrew Bezdecny. Coach Felchle said Efta was dealing with a sickness this week and could miss the first game, with either Tyrone McEnerney or Evan Stockton replacing him in the lineup.

“It would be an enormous honor to go to state with this group of boys,” he said. “They’re just a good bunch of kids.”

Seward boys (2S) vs. Houston (3N), 9:15 p.m. Thursday

The Seward boys have put the rest of the conference on notice by earning the second seed from the south, giving the Seahawks a shot at clinching a state spot for the first time in six years.

“It’s the beauty of March Madness,” said head coach Al Plan. “Upsets happen and maybe you’ll get the chance to redeem yourself after a loss.”

Seward prevailed 53-39 at home over Houston in January, a game in which the Hawks took an early 17-3 lead in the first quarter, before Kenai boys (1S) vs. Redington the Seahawks flipped the script and (4N), 10 a.m. Thursday mounted a comeback to win.

The Kenai boys are searching “It was a lot closer than the

other teams.”

SoHi owns 58-51 and 51-46 victories over Colony and 56-41 and 49-47 victories over Wasilla. The Warriors have won four straight conference crowns and 14 of the last 18. Wasilla also was runner-up at state last season after winning it all in 2016 and 2017.

McFall said the Stars lean heavily on what he called the big four of seniors Aliann Schmidt, Danica Schmidt, Brittani Blossom and junior Ituau Tuisaula.

“They just have to make sure they do it together and not one of them steps up to be the hero,” McFall said.

“They perform better as a team and not individuals, and they’ve done a great job of that this year.”

Sophomore Drysta Crosby-Schneider fills out the starting five with an attacking style of basketball on offense and a tenacious brand of defense. McFall said another asset in the tournament will be his coaching staff of Christa Kennedy, Curt Schmidt and Doug Blossom, a group that has been together for four years now.

Friday’s boys semifinals feature No. 1 Colony vs. the Kodiak-Palmer winner at

2:30 p.m. and No. 2 Wasilla vs. No. 3 Soldotna at 6 p.m.

Rose said he has no idea if the Stars could earn an atlarge berth if they lose Friday.

“We’re playing it like a win and you’re in game,” he said. “We’re not really focused on the potential atlarge berth at all.”

The Stars, 15-9 including endowments and 5-3 in the league, split with Wasilla this season, losing 54-40 and winning 38-33.

The Warriors have won two straight NLC titles and 10 since 2002. Wasilla also is the defending state champion after finishing as runnerup in 2017.

“We held them to 33 points and played excellent defense,” Rose said. “The first game, we weren’t quite as sharp on the defensive end and they were able to take advantage of what we were trying to do.”

Rose said both teams have a similar build. There’s the star player — junior Jersey Truesdell for SoHi and Daniel Headdings for Wasilla. Rose said Headdings may be the best player in the state, and Truesdell lives for moments like those that will be available this

weekend.

Both teams have a solid secondary scorer — junior Ray Chumley for SoHi and Luke Devine for Wasilla.

Then there are role players and solid defenders on both sides. Filling the roles for the Stars are juniors Zach Hanson and Tyler Morrison, and seniors Brock Kant and David Michael.

Rose also has not been to state in two years as a Skyview assistant, two years as a SoHi assistant and now in his third year as Stars head coach.

Should the Stars top Wasilla, the odds are Colony awaits in the finals. The Stars lost 72-42 and 41-34 to the Knights.

“It’s a long time for us both not to have won,” Rose said of the NLC title. “Kyle and I are both young coaches that have big aspirations as to what we can accomplish here.

“It’d be really cool if we both could make the championship game and see if one or both can make it happen. We’re closing in on the 30-year mark. We’re overdue.”

The tournament will be livestreamed at facebook. com/sohiathletics/.

vision and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Suspended Boston RHP Steven Wright 80 games after testing positive for Growth Hormone Releasing Peptide 2 (GHRP-2), a performanceenhancing substance, in violation of Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned 2B Dawel Lugo to Toledo (IL) and RHP Eduardo Jimenez to Erie (EL).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned RHPs Francis Martes and Brady Rodgers to minor league camp.

Reassigned LHP Ryan Hartman, C Lorenzo Quintana and RHPs Jose Hernandez and Erasmo Pinales to minor league camp.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Op-

tioned RHP Domingo Acevedo to Trenton (EL). Reassigned RHPs Brady Lail and Trevor Stephan to minor league camp.

TEXAS RANGERS — Signed RHP Jose Leclerc to a four-year contract.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Signed RHP Bud Norris to a minor league contract.

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Optioned LHP Adam McCreery and reassigned LHP Josh Smoker and RHPs Joe Broussard, Daniel Corcino and Jesen Therrien to their minor league camp.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Signed C Andrew Bogut.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Released LB Josh Bynes.

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Terminated the contract of S Eric Weddle.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Tendered a contract to DE Bryan Cox Jr.

score,” Plan said. “We had to claw our way back and fight to where we could put ourselves in position to win.

“We’ll have to work hard to match up with them, man to man, and be highly efficient offensively to win.”

The starting lineup includes junior Connor Spanos, sophomore Max Pfeiffenberger, senior Josh Jarvis, sophomore Sam Koster and a fifth player that Plan said would be determined later, based on matchup.

senior Jace Kornstad, Noah Litke and Michael Mysing, along with some post size in senior Cody Handley, Michael Eiter and Shane Weathers.

Nikiski had a tough month of February, going 0-9, but revived its chances with a win over Homer in the regular season finale.

“It was tough, and the guys have done a great job of rallying down the stretch and battling that,” Kornstad said. “We’re realizing that confidence comes from knowing you’re prepared, and I’m excited.

Nikiski boys (3S) vs.

“I think we’ve got the Grace Christian (2N), best road we could’ve got1:45 p.m. Thursday ten, we’re going to have to The Bulldogs lost a 52- put two tough games to39 home game to the Griz- gether or one really, really zlies on Feb. 23, but coach tough game.”

Reid Kornstad said if his squad can avoid a slow start Homer boys (4S) vs. ACS like they did in that game, (1N), 5:30 p.m. Thursday Nikiski can be playing in Friday’s semis.

The Mariners face the “Against a team like daunting task of trying to Grace, you can’t spot them upset the top-seeded Lions a big early lead,” Kornstad today. Homer lost 83-42 to said. “We have to take it a ACS at home Feb. 23 in the possession at a time, we only meeting between the can’t lose confidence if we two sides. lose a few possessions. We The lineup includes a just have to be poised and talented cast of seniors understand you lose some Seth Adkins and Japheth and win some.”

McGhee, junior Daniel The Bulldogs flaunt a Reutov and sophomores deep lineup that features a Eyoab Knapp and Clayton few deadly shooters, like Beachy.

Today in History Today is Thursday, March 7, the 66th day of 2019. There are 299 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 7, 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles (vehr-SY’) and the Locarno Pact.

On this date: In 1793, during the French Revolutionary Wars, France declared war on Spain.

In 1850, in a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.

In 1911, President William Howard Taft ordered 20,000 troops to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the Mexican Revolution.

In 1912, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen arrived in Hobart, Australia, where he dispatched telegrams announcing his success in leading the first expedition to the South Pole the previous December.

In 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations took place between New York and London.

In 1945, during World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge.

In 1955, the first TV production of the musical “Peter Pan” starring Mary Martin aired on NBC. In 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”

In 1975, the U.S. Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.

In 1981, anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Bitterman, whom they accused of being a CIA agent.

In 1994, the U.S. Navy issued its first permanent orders assigning women to regular duty on a combat ship -- in this case, the USS Eisenhower.

In 1999, movie director Stanley Kubrick, whose films included “Dr. Strangelove,” ‘’A Clockwork Orange” and “2001: A Space Odyssey,” died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70, having just finished editing “Eyes Wide Shut.”

Ten years ago: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Turkish leaders in Ankara, where she announced that President Barack Obama was planning to make his own visit, which took place in April 2009. Western-backed Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad submitted his resignation (however, he retained his position under a new government). Former Metropolitan Opera general manager Schuyler Chapin died in New York at age 86. Former child actor and singer Jimmy Boyd (“I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”) died in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 70.

Five years ago: Russia was swept up in patriotic fervor in anticipation of bringing Crimea back into its territory, with tens of thousands of people thronging Red Square in Moscow chanting, “Crimea is Russia!”

One year ago: The White House said Mexico, Canada and other countries could be spared from President Donald Trump’s planned steel and aluminum tariffs under national security “carve-outs.” For the second time in less than a week, a storm rolled into the Northeast with as much as two feet of wet, heavy snow that grounded flights, closed schools and knocked out power.

Today’s Birthdays: TV personality Willard Scott is 85. International Motorsports Hall of Famer Janet Guthrie is 81. Actor Daniel J. Travanti is 79. Entertainment executive Michael Eisner is 77. Rock musician Chris White (The Zombies) is 76. Rock singer Peter Wolf is 73. Rock musician Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum) is 73. Pro Football Hall of Famer Franco Harris is 69. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Lynn Swann is 67. Rhythm-and-blues singer-musician Ernie Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 67. Rock musician Kenny Aronoff (BoDeans, John Mellencamp) is 66. Actor Bryan Cranston is 63. Actress Donna Murphy is 60. Actor Nick Searcy is 60. Golfer Tom Lehman is 60. International Tennis Hall of Famer Ivan Lendl is 59. Actress Mary Beth Evans is 58. Singer-actress Taylor Dayne is 57. Actor Bill Brochtrup is 56. Author E.L. James is 56. Author Bret Easton Ellis is 55. Opera singer Denyce Graves is 55. Comedian Wanda Sykes is 55. Actor Jonathan Del Arco is 53. Rock musician Randy Guss (Toad the Wet Sprocket) is 52. Actress Rachel Weisz (wys) is 49. Actor Peter Sarsgaard is 48. Actor Jay Duplass is 46. Classical singer Sebastien Izambard (Il Divo) is 46. Rock singer Hugo Ferreira (Tantric) is 45. Actress Jenna Fischer is 45. Actor Tobias Menzies is 45. Actress Sarayu Rao is 44. Actress Audrey Marie Anderson is 44.

Actor TJ Thyne is 44. Bluegrass singer-musician Frank Solivan is 42.

Actress Laura Prepon is 39. Actress Bel Powley is 27. Actress Giselle Eisenberg (TV: “Life in Pieces”) is 12.

Thought for Today: “History and experience tells us that moral progress cannot come in comfortable and in complacent times, but out of trial and out of confusion.” -- Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States (1913-2006).

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What’s Happening Events and Exhibitions

n Join the Kenai Watershed Forum at Snug Harbor Seafoods on K-Beach for the Wild and Scenic Film Festival on Saturday, March 23 from 6-9 p.m. This year’s films combine stellar filmmaking, beautiful cinematography and first-rate storytelling to inform, inspire and ignite solutions and possibilities to restore the earth and human communities while creating a positive future for the next generation.The Wild & Scenic Film Festival is a fundraiser for the Kenai Watershed Forum and a way to support our mission of working together for healthy watersheds on the Kenai Peninsula. Price is $25, includes a Cooper Landing Brew, food and fun! n KPC Showcase presents: Letters From Happy Valley: Memories of an Alaska Homesteader’s Son, an evening with Alaskan author Dan Walker on Thursday, March 7 at 6:30 p.m. at McLane Commons. Fifty years after leaving the family homestead in Happy Valley, Dan Walker unexpectedly received a shoebox full of letters penned in 1958 by his parents as they traveled north from Sugar Tree Ridge, Ohio, to build a new life on the Last Frontier. The letters ignited Walker’s memory and he remembered how, as a small boy, he watched with wonder as his family built a home, harvested moose, and learned the ways of the north country. A quiet thread of melancholy weaves through Walker’s story as he remembers how his father’s untimely death forced their large family to leave behind the life he loved. n The Performing Arts Society is pleased to announce the return of pianist Eduard Zilberkant, who has charmed our audiences several times in the past.

Joining him are Bryan Emmon Hall, violin; Gail Johansen, viola; and Ryan Fitzpatrick, cello. They will be performing works by Beethoven, Turina, and Arensky. Please join us for this classical chamber music on Saturday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. at Soldotna Christ Lutheran Church. Tickets are $20 general admission and $10 for students and may be purchased in advance in Soldotna at River City Books and Northcountry Fair or in Kenai at Already Read Books and Country Liquor or at the door. n Forever Dance Alaska will present “The Best of Broadway” annual showcase on March 29-30 at 7 p.m. at the Renee C. Henderson Auditorium. Tickets are $15, includes $1 KPBSD seat charge. Call 262-1641 or email info@foreverdancealaska.com. n Last Frontier Freethinkers will be hosting a luncheon for Dan Barker, co-president of Freedom from Religion Foundation, at Odies Deli on Friday, March 1 at 2 p.m.

Dan has written a new book called “Mere Morality” and will be discussing God and Government: Protecting the wall between church and state. For more information please contact info@lastfrontierfreethinkers.org. n Registration is open for the 4th semi-annual Alaska Food Festival & Conference, which will take place at Land’s End Resort in Homer on March 8 and 9. Session topics will cover Alaska’s vast and diverse food system: farmers market issues, food security, policy, production, harvesting, business, education, community, tradition, sovereignty, fermenting, subsistence, growing, and more!

Chef demonstrations, hands-on activities, vendor booths, and a Friday night social round out the event. This event is sponsored by the Alaska Food Policy Council and the Alaska Farmers Market Association. For program and registration information, go to https://www.akfoodpolicycouncil.org/2019-conference/.

Entertainment n Acapulco, 43543 Sterling Highway in Soldotna, has live music at 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. n A bluegrass jam takes place on the first Sunday of the month at from 1-4 p.m. at the Mount Redoubt Baptist Church on South Lovers Loop in Nikiski.

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by Bonnie Marie Playle March brings more light and the hope of spring.

Hopefully in Alaska not much snow will it bring.

The signs Pisces and Aries, the fish and the ram; to see those two together could be quite scary.

The elements are water and fire; both are strong, to get to close causes awareness to be higher.

Pisces people are helpful and friendly; while Arians are self-centered and childish.

They could compliment one another but might be wildish.

The birthstone is Aquamarine and the color is blue.

Both mean health and tranquility so calm down and don’t stew.

March’s flower is the daffodil and the trees are alder and ash.

The pretty yellow color and the new green leaves, definitely don’t clash.

The theme is spring; listen to nature sing.

Poems must include the writer’s name, phone number and address. They should be kept to no more than 300 words. Submission of a poem does not guarantee publication. Poems may be e-mailed to news@peninsulaclarion.com, faxed to 283-3299, delivered to the Clarion at 150 Trading Bay Road or mailed to P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, AK 99611.

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Seward writer to discuss “Letter from Happy Valley” book at KPC

By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

A stroke of fate entered Dan Walker’s life five years ago and now, he wishes to share it with the world.

Walker will be entertaining interested guests Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at Kenai Peninsula College as part of the KPC Showcase events schedule. He will share memories and take audience questions as he discusses his recently released book, “Letters from Happy Valley: Memories of an Alaska Homesteader’s Son”, published last November by Ember Press.

“It’s a rather unique project,” Walker explained.

“What really makes the book is about five or six years ago, my (family) found a cache of letters my parents had written.”

Walker, a longtime teacher and writer from Seward who has authored two books — with a third on the way — received a shoebox full of old letters in the mail that his parents saved over a six-month pe-

riod spanning June 1958 to January 1959, when the Walker family moved north from Ohio to settle on homesteaded property on the southern Kenai Peninsula.

Walker has lived in Seward since 1978, where he taught middle school language arts and social studies for 22 years. One of his lifetime honors was receiving the Alaska Teacher of the Year award in 1999, which gave him the opportunity to meet then President Bill Clinton.

Walker also spent 10 years working with rural schools in a teachermentor program, but now predominantly spends his time writing. Walker’s first book, “Secondhand Summer,” was published in 2016 and details his family’s move from the peninsula to Anchorage in the mid-1960’s.

“When ‘Secondhand Summer’ was published, I finally made the commitment to being a writer,” Walker said. “It’s like being an alcoholic, you have to stand up and admit it.”

The Walker family left

Sugar Tree Ridge, Ohio in 1958 with their eye on Alaska, eventually settling in the Happy Valley

area just north of Homer.

During that time of great change, Walker said his See VALLEY, page A9

‘American Pop’ a good, fizzy read The Bookwork Sez Look out stomach, here it comes.

Oh, how you anticipate that first swallow of greatgrandma’s recipe, the one with the secret ingredient you know but you’re not telling. True, you might share that secret someday but in the meantime, as in the new novel “American Pop” by Snowden Wright, be careful what you spill.

Fiona Forster wondered how well she really knew her husband, Tewksbury.

When she married him before they came to America, he told her he was a doctor. She believed him then but as she lay on the wooden floor of their cabin, she had her doubts. If he was a doctor, then why didn’t he ease her labor pains?

Tewksbury was a doctor – and he was enterprising. When he realized that potions he’d had back in Scotland could cure patients in America, too, he set up a small shop in their Mississippi Delta town, and it flourished. By the time his son, Houghton, was old enough to run the place, the shop had begun to serve refreshments.

Houghton always said that he came up with the delicious drink that everyone was talking about, all because of Annabelle. He’d

fallen in love with her the minute he saw her but winning her hand was no easy feat. Annabelle’s family had money and her father wasn’t about to let his only child marry a soda jerk.

But Houghton was no mere soda jerk. He was the creator of Panola Cola, sonamed after the Mississippi county where it started.

Houghton alone carried the recipe in his head. He was patriarch to his adult children: eldest son Monty, a heartsick veteran destined for politics but mourning a devastating loss; Harold, who’d had an unfortunate accident as a boy; and twins, Ramsey and Lance, both holding a secret oozing with jealousy.

Houghton never wanted his children to want, but a little hardship made them ready for the future. One day, one of them would take control of Panola Cola, and he’d reveal the secret of his recipe at that time. Until then, he’d keep a cap on it…

Imagine, if you will, a nighttime soap opera written in bathtub gin, narrated

by Burl Ives with snark and a side dish of history. Imagine that it makes you snort just before tearing your heart out and ruthlessly crumpling it. That’s “American Pop.” Taking readers to the mid-19th-century, through elegant speakeasies, Hollywood movie studios, and two wars, to the mid-1980s and back, author Snowden Wright tells a witty tale of a prosperous and proper Southern family with fangs, claws, and tender souls. Of course, that can be humorous but Wright won’t let you laugh for long: while this novel is about a handful of main characters, other Forsters move in and out of chapters with anger and well-meaning, leaving pain as sharp as busted glass.

Grab this book and be prepared to feel all fizzy inside. Grab it, but leave the bookmarks at home; you won’t need ‘em. You’ll be towo tempted to read “American Pop” in one long gulp.

Greta: A surprisingly fun date night R eeling It In C hris J enness

It’s exceedingly rare in the era of the internet that I am surprised by a movie.

Indeed, this week’s film, Neil Jordan’s psychological thriller “Greta,” isn’t particularly surprising, plot-wise, feeling somewhat cobbled together from lesser obsession thrillers like “Single White Female.”

What was surprising, instead, was the very existence of the film at all. I shouldn’t suggest that I’ve got my finger on the pulse of every film ever made but I do a lot of reading and it’s pretty rare that a movie shows up in our small theatre market that I’ve never even heard of. Even movies that I have little interest in seeing, I’ve at least heard of and have an idea of what they’re about — not so

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with “Greta.” The experience made me nostalgic for a time before every dollar spent in Hollywood was endlessly pored over and evaluated. A surprise is a good thing and “Greta” made for a great date night.

Chloe Grace Moretz is Frances, a typical 20-something living in New York City who, on her way home from her waitress job, finds a leather handbag left on the subway. The lost and

found isn’t an option, so Frances takes the bag home and examines its contents to find a Greta Hidig’s driver’s license.

The license includes a home address and so, being a good Samaritan, Frances takes it upon herself to return the bag to its owner.

Greta, a French woman in her early sixties, invites Frances in and the two hit it off. Greta’s daughter is off at college and some-

what distant while Frances’ mother recently passed away. The two women find in each other something the other was missing and they strike up a friendship.

Soon, however, Frances discovers a disturbing truth about Greta and attempts to distance herself. Greta, however, doesn’t give up easily.

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n The Flats Bistro in Kenai presents live dinner music every Continued from page A7 Thursday thru Saturday from 6:30-8:30 p.m., featuring Garrett Mayer on Thursdays, Mike Morgan on Fridays, and Derek Poppin on Saturdays. The Flats Bistro also presents after-dinner music on alternate Fridays and Saturdays from 9-11 p.m. This Friday, March 1, from 9-11:00 p.m., Mike Morgan and Friends host “Friday Night Live” featuring Robert Pepper, Mark Hutton, Lee Johnson and many other local musicians. Watch this space for more music at The Flats. For reservations call The Flats Bistro at 907-335-1010.

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Livid R. Kelly cries, calls sex abuse accusers liars

n Veronica’s in Old Town Kenai has Open Mic from 6-8 p.m. Friday. Call Veronica’s at 283-2725.

This image provided by CBS shows R. Kelly being interviewed by Gayle King on “CBS This Morning” Wednesday in Chicago. (CBS via AP)

n The Alaska Roadhouse Bar and Grill hosts open horseshoe tournaments Thursday nights at the bar on Golddust Drive. For more information, call 262-9887. n An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday. The jam takes place at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thursday of the month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the month. Jam starts at 6:30 p.m. n AmVets Post 4 has reopened in its brand new building on Kalifornsky Beach across from Jumpin’ Junction.

Eligible veterans and their families are invited to stop by to find out more about AmVets and their involvement in the Veteran community. For members and invited guests, Friday night dance to “Running with Scissors,” and Saturday Burn your own steak and karaoke with Cowboy Don. n Odie’s Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. n The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays. n Vagabond Inn has live music Sat. Feb. 9th. Troubadour North starting @ 9pm

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parents preserved their experiences of daily life in the rugged wilderContinued from page A7 ness, from building a home for the family to hunting and harvesting moose for the winter.

Walker was 11 when his father died of a heart attack and the loss of the family patriarch necessitated a move to Anchorage.

Walker said his grandmother in Ohio had kept meticulous care in keeping the letters safe on a closet shelf for years. When his grandmother passed away, the letters were passed on to Walker’s aunt, who kept them herself until her passing.

Eventually, the letters landed in the possession of Walker’s cousins, who sent them off in the mail to Alaska.

When Walker opened up the package to sort through the treasured items, he said it reignited an interest in those early years.

“It was just a curiosity at first, and when we finally opened them, it was like, wow,” he said. “We didn’t know they existed. We didn’t think they still existed on the other end.”

Walker said the letters came tethered in a three-ring binder that measured four inches thick, giving him a lot of time to peruse through his parents’ thoughts and help fill in gaps in his own memory.

“It was basically telling the story of what we were doing,” he said. “They kept journals of what we were doing, like dad building the house, and he wrote it down like he was talking to his father.”

At age 5, Walker only held vague memories of that formative period in his life, but his parent’s letters cast new perspective on what his family experienced in the early days of peninsula life, just before Alaska officially entered statehood.

“The letters came through their perspective of how things were,” he said. “I think it’ll give people a sense of what it was like, and also to help some people understand what the homestead experience was like and why did some people stay and why did some leave.”

Walker said the homesteaded land still rests in his possession, although the original cabin burned down 20 years ago, but the lasting memory of the fortitude and gumption required of his parents to forge a lifestyle in the Last Frontier will remain with him forever.

“I think my parents projected a real optimism,” he said. “They enjoyed what they were doing. That becomes very clear.”

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definitely present, but the film is refreshingly asexual for a modern Continued from page A7 day thriller. There is a lot about “Greta” that is reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock, both in its somewhat old-fashioned sensibilities, but also in its tendency to suggest rather than show.

There is some violence, some of it shocking, but the blood isn’t the point. What little there is, is effectively frightening and not gratuitous.

Isabelle Huppert is excellent in the titular role, never letting the audience know for sure whether she is calculating, crazy or both. Moretz is fine in a role that just about any actress of her age could have pulled off, but she’s a solid performer and does a good job without really distinguishing herself.

More surprising is Maika Monroe as Frances’ headstrong roommate Erica. Monroe has been around for a while, doing work in small parts since 2009, but don’t be surprised to see her break forth in a big way.

Director Neil Jordan has also been around for a while, though his name has dropped off the radar since his heyday with “The Crying Game” and “Interview with a Vampire.” The Irish filmmaker doesn’t have the kind of style that you find with auteurs like Quentin Tarantino or Brian De Palma, but he definitely has a type and I’d love to see his work getting more attention.

His pacing on “Greta” is perfect, exemplified by a terrifying sequence where a character is being stalked via cell phone snapshots.

“Greta” is entertaining and exhilarating, even prompting my wife to hiss directly at the characters on screen — a sure sign that your thriller is affecting. Sure, there are some logical leaps that the film glosses over, but this is often the case with a movie like this. The police don’t necessarily act in the way they probably would in a similar situation, and occasionally the plot hinges on extraordinary coincidences. That said, you don’t watch a movie like this to pick it apart. You watch it to yell at the girl when she runs into the basement to try and escape. For that, “Greta” delivers.

Grade: A“Greta” is rated R for brief shocking violence, but honestly I’ve seen PG-13 movies with almost the exact level seen here. Moderate language.

The Associated Press

CHICAGO — In his first interview since being charged with sexual abuse, R&B star R. Kelly cried and ranted about being “assassinated,” calling his accusers liars and alleging that people are after him for his money.

Kelly told Gayle King of “CBS This Morning” that he never sexually abused women or controlled their lives. The 52-year-old singer was charged last month in Chicago with sexually abusing four females dating back to 1998, including three underage girls.

“All of them are lying,” Kelly said in segments of the interview broadcast Wednesday. “I have been assassinated.”

At one point during the interview, Kelly angrily stood up and started pacing, his voice breaking as he yelled: “I didn’t do this stuff! This is not me!”

He cried as he hit his hands together. “I’m fighting for my (expletive) life,” he said.

Kelly, who is out on bail following his Feb. 22

arrest in Chicago, said earlier in the interview that he had done “lots of things wrong” in relationships with women, but said he has apologized. He denied doing anything against their will. The songwriter said he believes social media is to blame for fueling the allegations.

“I have been buried alive, but I’m alive,” he said, later adding that he needed someone to help him “not have a big heart.”

When pressed about whether he was attracted to younger women, the 52-year-old Kelly said: “I’m an older man who loves all women.” He acknowledged being in a relationship with two young women who live with him.

The recording artist has been trailed for decades by allegations that he violated underage girls and women and held some as virtual slaves. Kelly has consistently denied any sexual misconduct and was acquitted of child pornography charges in 2008.

Those charges centered on a graphic video that prosecutors said showed him

having sex with a girl as young as 13.

As part of his current case, Kelly is forbidden from having any contact with females younger than 18. He has pleaded not guilty to 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse.

Interviews with the two women who live with Kelly will air Friday, including one young woman whose parents say she is being held against her will.

Kelly suggested during the interview that the woman’s parents were in it for the money and blamed them for his relationship with their daughter, saying they brought her to watch him perform when she was a teenager.

A lawyer for the couple bristled at the allegation, saying Timothy and Jonjelyn Savage never asked for or received money from Kelly. The couple said they have not spoken to their 23-year-old daughter for two years and asked Kelly to make her available to talk to them.

“At no point did this family sell their daughter to anyone or provide their daughter for anything for money,” attorney Gerald Griggs said Wednesday during a news conference.

CBS said it interviewed Kelly for 80 minutes. More of the interview is expected to air Thursday.

In an excerpt that aired Tuesday night, Kelly told King that allegations of him having sex with and abusing underage girls were “not true.” He called them “rumors.” When King asked Kelly if he has held

women against their will, he replied, “That’s stupid!”

“Use your common sense. Forget the blogs, forget how you feel about me,” Kelly said. “How stupid would it be for me, with my crazy past and what I’ve been through — oh right now I just think I need to be a monster and hold girls against their will, chain them up in my basement, and don’t let them eat, and don’t let them out.”

King told Kelly that he seemed to be “playing the victim card.”

“I’m just telling the truth,” he replied. He said he was emotional “because this is the first time I was able to say something.”

Kelly noted his acquittal in the child porn case and accused prosecutors of trying the same case again.

“When you beat something, you beat it. You can’t double jeopardy me like that. It’s not fair,” he said.

Michael Avenatti, a lawyer for two Kelly accusers, responded to Kelly’s double jeopardy comment Tuesday on Twitter.

“He fails to understand that it doesn’t matter ‘how long ago’ it happened.

And he also has no clue as to how ‘double jeopardy’ works,” the attorney tweeted.

In a follow-up tweet, Avenatti addressed the emotion that Kelly shows in the interview: “R. Kelly’s tears are out of fear and despair. Because he knows that after over two decades of sexually abusing underage girls, we blew this wide open and have him and his enablers dead to rights.”

Luke Perry, heartthrob on ‘90210,’ dies at 52 after stroke

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer

LOS ANGELES — Luke Perry, who gained instant heartthrob status as wealthy rebel Dylan McKay on “Beverly Hills, 90210,” died Monday after suffering a massive stroke, his publicist said. He was 52.

Perry was surrounded by family and friends when he died, publicist Arnold Robinson said. The actor had been hospitalized since last Wednesday, after a 911 call summoned medical help to his home in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles.

“The family appreciates the outpouring of support and prayers that have been extended to Luke from around the world, and respectfully request privacy in this time of great mourning,” Robinson said in a statement. Those at Perry’s bedside included his children, Jake and Sophie; fiancée Wendy Madison Bauer; former wife, Minnie Sharp, and mother Ann Bennett.

Although Perry was best-known for his role as McKay, he enjoyed a prolific film and television career.

Most recently, he played construction company owner Fred Andrews, father of main character Archie Andrews, for three seasons on “Riverdale,” the CW series that gives a dark take on “Archie” comics. A fourth season has been slated.

The actor’s next big screen role will be in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon

In this 2018, file photo, Luke Perry poses for a portrait during the 2018 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

a Time In Hollywood,” which is slated for release in July.

“90210” co-star Ian Ziering paid tribute to his co-star on Twitter , where fans and celebrities shared their memories of Perry and mourned him . “I will forever bask in the loving memories we’ve shared over the last thirty years,” Ziering said. “May your journey forward be enriched by the magnificent souls who have passed before you, just like you have done here, for those you leave behind.”

Born and raised in rural Fredericktown, Ohio, Perry gained fame on “Beverly Hills, 90210,” which ran from 1990 to 2000. In a 2006 interview with The Associated Press, he recounted being partly inspired to pursue acting by a photo of Paul Newman his mother kept on her mirror.

He played out the memory of hearing his mother say, “He’s the most beautiful man in the world, honey … he’s a movie star.”

“I thought, ‘OK, that’s cool.’ I watched him and, ‘Yeah, man, who didn’t want to be Paul Newman!’”

But Perry expanded his interests far beyond acting, identifying history as a passion and family a priority.

“When you are younger you can have only work, and I did for a long time,” he told the AP in 2006.

“But it doesn’t command my attention that way anymore. A lot of the mysteries and the questions I had about it I’ve figured out, but life offers up mysteries every day.”

He had roles in a handful of films, including “The Fifth Element,” ”Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” ”8 Seconds” and “American

Strays,” appeared in HBO’s prison drama “Oz” as a televangelist convicted of fraud, and voiced cartoons including “The Incredible Hulk” and “Mortal Kombat.”

He made his Broadway musical debut as Brad in the “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” and starred on London’s West End in another stage adaptation of a film, “When Harry Met Sally.”

In recent years he starred in the series “Ties That Bind” and “Body of Proof.”

The same day he was hospitalized, Fox TV announced that it would be running a six-episode return of “90210” featuring most of the original cast, but Perry was not among those announced.

On the original series, Perry’s character went from loner to part of a close-knit circle that included twins Brenda and Brandon Walsh (Shannen Doherty, Jason Priestley), but also endured a string of romantic, family and other setbacks, including drug addiction. Perry left the series in 1995 to pursue other roles, returning in 1998 for the rest of the show’s run as a guest star.

In a 2011 interview with the AP, Perry said he and his male co-stars were a “really good strong core group” while the show aired and maintained close ties. The friendship and trust he shared with Priestley created a sort of “shorthand” when it came to filming, Perry said.

Nathaniel Taylor, who played Rollo on ‘Sanford and Son’ dies

By MARTHA IRVINE AP National Writer

Nathaniel Taylor, the actor best known as Rollo Lawson, the street-smart best friend of the son on the 1970s sitcom “Sanford and Son,” has died.

Taylor died Wednesday at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after a heart attack, his son Kaedi Taylor told The Associated Press Saturday. The elder Taylor was 80.

Taylor’s character, Rollo, was the sidekick to Lamont Sanford, played by actor Demond Wilson, and often drew the skepticism of TV patriarch Fred Sanford, who thought Rol-

lo was a bad influence on Lamont because he’d spent time in jail. The fast-talking but good-hearted Rollo dressed in colorful suits and hats and called Fred — played by actor and comedian Redd Foxx — “Pops.”

Taylor went on to act in other shows and movies, later opening a performing arts studio for young actors. But his son said Taylor never tired of people recognizing him as Rollo.

“It was a time and an era — just to be on TV as a black man, it was an honor,” said Kaedi Taylor, who works in the television and film industry behind the scenes. “It was an honor for people to remember him.”

Nathaniel Taylor also played roles on shows such as “The Redd Foxx Show,” ”Police Story” and “What’s Happening” and Blaxpoitation films such as “Dynamite” and “Trouble Man.” He reprised his role as Rollo in the 1980s spinoff “Sanford.”

Hip-hop music promoter Alonzo “Lonzo” Williams, one of Taylor’s longtime friends, said the actor was a mentor to many. “He was always there with a wise word and a kind word and a joke to put a little icing on it,” Williams said.

Taylor is survived by his wife, Loretta, four daughters and three sons.

This image shows actor Nathaniel Taylor, who played the role of Rollo Dawson in the hit 1970s sitcom “Sanford and Son.” (Sarah Mack Photo via AP)

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Published Feb 21,28 & Mar 7, 2019 845555 NOTICE OF INTENT TO BEGIN INTEGRATED VEGETATION MANAGEMENT PLAN ACTIVITY In accordance with the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) Integrated Vegetation Management Plan (IVMP), Homer Soil and Water Conservation District (HSWCD) plans to use herbicide as a control tool to reduce invasive Bird Vetch (Vicia cracca), White Sweet Clover (Melilotus alba), Orange Hawkweed (Hieracium aurantiacum), Narrowleaf Hawkweed (Hieracium umbellatum), Canada Thistle (Cirsium arvense), Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), and Common Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) at selected sites. Treatments may occur on infestations within the state road right-of-way at: 1) Katie Jean Circle at Skyline Drive; 2) Stariski Creek Wayside east and west of the Sterling Hwy; 3) Oil Well Road between Kingsley Rd and S Marion St.; 4) Foreland St at Kenai Spur Hwy; 5) Feuding Lane near the Sterling Hwy; 6) Sterling Hwy between mileposts (MP) 42-51; 7) Snug Harbor Rd at the Cooper Landing Post Office; 8) Seward Hwy between MP 51-79; 9) Portage Glacier Hwy from Visitor Center to Whittier Tunnel; 10) Hope Hwy at Palmer Creek Rd; 11) Old Nash Road (Res. Bay Rd) at Nash Rd; 12) Exit Glacier (Herman Leirer) Rd MP 0.3 west of Amber St. RoundUp Custom (EPA No. 524-343), or Milestone (EPA No. 62719-519) will be applied by certified applicators using hand-held equipment. Specific locations within infested areas will be identified and spot-sprayed following notice to the Alaska Dept. of Environmental Conservation. Each location will be posted with appropriate signage.

Treatments will occur between May 15th and October 1st of 2019. Some locations may require two applications. For more information, please refer to the DOT&PF IVMP (http://dot.alaska.gov/stwdmno/ivmp/) or contact Katherine Schake at katherine@homerswcd.org.

Pub: Mar 6 & 7, 2019 847415 Transportation Meeting The Ninilchik Traditional Council will conduct a public meeting Thursday, March 28th, 2019 to present, discuss, and review transportation planning and the NTC Long Range Transportation Plan. A copy of the plan is available for review and may be obtained from NTC offices in Ninilchik throughout the public process. For more information, please contact the Transportation Coordinator at 907-567-3815. The meeting will be held at the NTC Transit Facility located at 66590 Oil Well Road and start at 4:00pm.

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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI In the Matter of the Estate of CANDIE LEE ISAAK, Deceased.

Case No. 3KN-19-00042 PR NOTICE TO CREDITOR NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be presented to the undersigned Personal Representative of the estate, at DOLIFKA & ASSOCIATES, P.C., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, P.O. Box 498, Soldotna, Alaska, 99669.

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Man keeps romance under wraps because of age gap DEAR ABBY: I’m a woman in prison for embezzlement. I was sentenced a year ago. My problem is my fiance.

He’s constantly saying that when I am released in 2 1/2 years, we are going to have a serious talk about the reasons why I did the crime.

I have told him repeatedly Abigail Van Buren that once I walk out of the prison gates, I won’t want to discuss the reasons that put me here. I just want to put this horrible experience behind me.

I know this has been difficult for him, and he wants answers. How can I get him to understand that I will have paid my debt to society and just want to focus on the future when the time comes for my release?

-- IMPRISONED IN VIRGINIA DEAR IMPRISONED: I have an idea.

Discuss your reasons for having committed embezzlement with your fiance NOW, before your sentence is up. He has proved his love by sticking with you, but if he is going to marry you, he deserves some honest answers. Although you may wish to close the gates behind

you on this chapter of your life, that you are a convicted felon may have a negative impact when you re-enter the job market after your release, and you should be prepared for it.

DEAR ABBY: Some time ago, my husband developed a foot condition and was advised by his physician to wear white socks. The condition has subsided, but he insists on wearing white socks as a preventative measure because the condition was painful. Regardless of how he dresses, he wears them, and has been questioned about it when he wears a dark suit. Is it acceptable for him to attempt to prevent a recurrence of an uncomfortable ailment? Or should he follow the protocol of dress?

-- PRACTICAL OR FASHIONABLE? DEAR P OR F: It seems to me that your husband has a solid medical reason for wearing the socks he chooses. Suggest that he buy some SHORT white socks, and when “protocol” requires it, wear dark socks over them. However, if he refuses, then protocol be darned. (Like the socks!)

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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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, March 7, 2019: This year, you will change how you value your image and how you want others to see you. Therefore, you might decide to adapt your work to reflect the authentic you. As a result, you will be more comfortable and successful. If single, you draw a new type of person to you.

Don’t make commitments unless you’re 100 percent sure. If you’re attached, you and your partner become more aware of your exterior lives; however, you remain close to each other. ARIES easily draws strong feelings.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Lately, you might have gone way overboard. Today, you might wake up to the idea of making an adjustment to your schedule. Relaxing and taking life easy every once in a while will help you recharge. Do so. Tonight: As you like.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HH You might feel a little low or tired.

If you can do research or spend some time working from home, do so. You might want to reassess an ongoing issue. To find a solution, tap into someone else’s imagination. Tonight: Opt for an early bedtime.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Reach out for friends. Don’t avoid calls, and make sure to be on time for an important meeting. Your interpersonal abilities come forward. You help others feel more at ease. Tonight: Just don’t be alone.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Clear out a long-overdue project. A partner or associate might be difficult but still has the ability to loosen up and relax. Help this person gain a different perspective of a major issue. Tonight: A must appearance.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Partnership matters dominate the a.m. You cannot get someone to relax and get past a problem. You can do only so much. Be more easygoing about what’s happening. Loosen up, and decide to enjoy. News from a distance changes your mood. Tonight: Use your imagination.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Others make the first move,

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Tonight: Go with a suggestion.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH You’ve done your share; however, you pitch in again on a work or personal project. You might observe but not share that this particular project could’ve been done far more simply.

Later, decide to indulge a loved one.

Tonight: A loved one tells you what he or she wants to do.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Your creativity is profound and comes from a deep source within.

Once again facing an obstacle, you feel as though you can bypass the problem by approaching it in a certain way. Don’t question possibilities. Tonight: If necessary, be practical!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You might find it difficult to get going this morning. If you can work from home, all the better. You will perk up later in the afternoon. A problem in the a.m. ceases to be one by the end of the day. Tonight: Charming another person into getting closer.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Don’t hesitate to pick up the phone and explore your options. Your sixth sense plays into the moment. You have the right idea. Ask for another person’s support. Tonight: Head home, where you can relax.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Curb spending. Don’t let it get out of control. You might want to try a different approach or do something differently. Explore your options with a friend who understands your priorities.

Tonight: As you like it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You start the day on the right foot. Don’t allow someone to turn a situation upside down on you. You cannot come to terms with a problem that is constantly changing. You need to accept what might be happening. Tonight: Out and about, making weekend plans.

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WAX PAPER AND PARCHMENT PAPER Dear Readers: Wax paper and parchment paper are both useful in the kitchen, but they are hardly interchangeable.

Wax paper, naturally, is coated with wax on either side. It is cheaper than parchment paper and can be used to line your work surface with when mixing and measuring ingredients like flour and sugar (use the wax paper as a “funnel” and pour any excess back into its container), or putting together a meatloaf, etc.

But that’s where it ends. Wax paper is not safe for oven use -- it could melt or even catch fire!

Parchment paper is perfect to line cake pans. Use a dab of butter to “glue” the corners of the paper to the baking sheet.

Cookies baked on parchment paper should release easily. Silicone is what makes parchment paper nonstick.

You’ll find both in the baking aisle.

-- Heloise STALK TALK Dear Heloise: I’ve come across several recipes lately calling for “stalks” of celery, chopped.

Don’t they mean “ribs”?

-- Mary M., Clinton, Ind. Mary, how right you are! A stalk is comprised of many ribs of celery. We’ve grown accustomed to referring to one rib of celery as a stalk.

If a recipe is not based on celery, such as egg salad, and calls for two “stalks” of celery, bet your bottom dollar that they mean “ribs.”

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DEAR ABBY: I am a 30-year-old divorced male. I suffered from a stroke six months ago and have paralysis on one side of my body. After rehab, I returned home able to walk with a cane.

I have started texting a beautiful divorced woman. She lives next door, and we have been friends for more than six years. I don’t know her age, but she’s at least eight years older than I am.

She has been visiting me frequently, and we have recently started holding hands while talking and exchanging hugs and kisses. My family is unaware of this.

Honestly, it has been a while since I have been in a relationship, and I want to pursue this new opportunity. But I don’t know how to do it without causing problems with my family because they might think it is a forbidden relationship due to the big age gap between us. What should I do?

-- READY AGAIN IN THE WEST DEAR READY: At your age, the age difference is not important. Could your worries be based upon some feeling of guilt? If that’s the case, my advice is to live the rest of your life as fully and happily as possible. Your neighbor is an adult; so are you. Let this relationship evolve naturally and see where it leads. And if it leads to something permanent, do not apologize to anyone for wanting to be happy.

By Eugene Sheffer