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Sunday, March 24, 2019 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 49, Issue 148

In the news Medical officials to study suicide at Fairbanks post FAIRBANKS — Medical experts will go to the Fort Wainwright Army post in Fairbanks to study suicide.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported on Friday that the team is coming at the request of Republican Rep. Don Young and U.S. Army Alaska Maj. Gen. Mark O’Neil.

The study is in response to a perception that there has been a recent spike in suicides at Fort Wainwright.

The exact number of recent suicides at Fort Wainwright is fluid because several deaths remain under investigation.

U.S. Army Alaska didn’t immediately have statistics available Friday related to past rates of suicide at Fort Wainwright.

U.S. Army Alaska spokesman Lt. Col. Martyn Crighton says he believes this is the first time this type of study is being conducted in Alaska.

He says the timing of the study has not yet been announced.

Record number of people visit Alaska parks ANCHORAGE — A record number of people visited Alaska’s national parks in 2018, the Anchorage Daily News reports.

The National Parks Service says visits to its parks in Alaska topped 2.9 million, the highest number of visits recorded for the state, and up from about 2.7 million in 2014.

The Daily News reports that the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in Skagway had the most visits in the state last year, and it was the only national park site in Alaska to top 1 million visits. Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, a remote volcano crater park site on the Alaska Peninsula, had the fewest, with 100 visits, the newspaper reports.

The Daily News says a booming cruise industry bringing more passengers to the state in recent years is a major reason for more visits to the parks.

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city ‘Pitifully small budget as it is’ Kenai council asks Growers fear agriculture cuts could curb industry growth to keep

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

Agriculture in Alaska has seen growth and increased interest in recent years, however, growers fear proposed cuts outlined in Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget could curb business in the

industry.

Wednesday, the House Department of Natural Resources Subcommittee voted down around 30 cuts to programs and institutions that support the agricultural industry, including the Alaska Grown program and a number of inspec-

tors. Roughly, $1.2 million is proposed to be cut from the Division of Agriculture.

However, there are plenty of opportunities for the cuts to find their way back into the budget as the various committees take their turn working on the proposed budget, Rep. Geran Tarr, D-Anchor-

age, said.

“We’re hearing from Alaskans from all over the state about how important this is,” Tarr said. “There has been so much growth in agriculture and so much positive momentum.”

The governor’s proposed See GROW, page A2

Peninsula resident Willow Kitchens tests out the Da Vinci Xi surgery robot during the Community Health Fair at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna on Saturday. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

Lending a hand CPH shows off new surgery robot at health fair

By BRIAN MAZUREK Peninsula Clarion

Central Peninsula Hospital held its annual Community Health Fair on Saturday to offer discounted services and show off a few

new pieces of technology, including their latest surgery robot — the Da Vinci Xi. The event took place from 8 a.m. to noon at the hospital’s River Tower. The discounted blood screen-

ings are always a big draw for the health fair, and CPH Director of External Affairs Bruce Richards said people were lined up at the door at 7:30 in the morning.

“Everyone had fasted the night before in order

to get their blood work, so they were hungry too,” said Richards.

The Da Vinci Xi surgery robot also drew a large crowd because visitors were able to try out the See HAND, page A2

fishing tax revenue

By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion

In the face of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposed legislation, Kenai City Council has passed a resolution requesting that cities be able to keep commercial fish tax revenue.

Dunleavy recently introduced legislation that would keep about $28 million in commercial fish tax revenue in the state’s general fund, instead of sharing it among fishing communities like Kenai.

“The city of Kenai is right at the mouth of the Kenai river and there has been fishing here since some time in the 19th century. We provide infrastructure for all of that and it is only appropriate that we, and any other municipalities in the fishing zones, receive that tax,” said Kenai City Councilmember Henry Knackstedt at Wednesday night’s Kenai City Council meeting.

Each year, Kenai sees about $150,000 to $200,000 in tax revenue, which is based on an average of the previous two years’ price and catch.

The resolution, urging the state to allow fishing communities to keep the tax revenue, was unanimously approved.

“I don’t want to see this fish tax go away and not be allocated where it should be,” said Council Member Tim Navarre.

Kenai’s City Manager also spoke at Wednesday night’s meeting about the city’s budget and how the state’s budget crisis could affect the city.

See TAX, page A3

Fairbanks fire crews put High-tech Navy ship makes 1st trip to Alaska, stops in Ketchikan out fire at borough landfill

By BEN HOHENSTATT Juneau Empire

Ketchikan has a rare visitor this weekend.

The USS Zumwalt, part of the Navy’s newest class of warships, arrived in Ketchikan Saturday morn-

ing, and it will be open to public tours 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Sunday.

“The point of this stop in port is to engage with the community, and let them see where their tax dollars are going and what the Navy is out there do-

ing,” said Commander Brandon Raile, a Navy Chief, in an interview with the Juneau Empire.

Raile said the last time a Navy ship made a stop at Ketchikan was in 2005 when the USS Ogden was See NAVY, page A2

FAIRBANKS (AP) — It took two hours and 10,000 gallons of water to quell a fire that broke out at the Fairbanks North Star Borough landfill, officials said.

The blaze south of Fairbanks burned an area measuring 200 feet by

100 feet by the time fire crews arrived, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported.

“It was mostly frozen but it was still burning,” Battalion Chief Scott Raygor said, adding a lot of tires and plastic were See FIRE, page A3

Mueller submits report; Barr mulls release

By ERIC TUCKER, MICHAEL BALSAMO and CHAD DAY Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr scoured special counsel Robert Mueller’s confidential report on the Russia investigation with his advisers Saturday, deciding how much Congress and the American public will get to see about the two-year probe into President Donald Trump and Moscow’s efforts to elect him.

Barr was on pace to release his first summary of Mueller’s findings on Sunday, people familiar with the process said.

The attorney general’s decision on what to finally disclose seems almost certain to set off a fight with congressional Democrats, who want access to all of Mueller’s findings — and supporting evi-

and labored to condense it into a summary letter of main conclusions. Mueller delivered his full report to Barr on Friday.

The Russia investigation has shadowed Trump for nearly two years and has ensnared his family and close advisers. And no matter the findings in Mueller’s report, the probe already has illuminated Russia’s assault on the American political system, painted the Trump campaign as eager to exploit the release of hacked Democratic emails to hurt Democrat Hillary Clinton and exposed lies by Trump aides aimed at coverPresident Donald Trump talks with reporters before boarding Marine One on the ing up their Russia-related South Lawn of the White House, Friday, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) contacts.

Barr has said he wants to dence — on whether Trump’s later sought to obstruct the in- Deputy Attorney General Rod release as much as he can un2016 campaign coordinated vestigation.

Rosenstein, who appointed der the law. That decision will No announcement was ex- Mueller and oversaw much of require him to weigh the Juswith Russia to sway the elecSee BARR, page A3 tion and whether the president pected Saturday as Barr and his work, analyzed the report

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Sitka Tribe gears up for herring legal battle

By ALEX MCCARTHY Juneau Empire

KathyHope Erickson believes what she’s doing now is the most important thing she’ll ever do with the Sitka Tribe of Alaska.

Erickson, the chair of the tribe’s tribal council, looked out over a room of about 60 people Friday and spoke about the importance of preserving the herring fishery around Sitka. In December, the tribe filed a civil case against the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, looking to get the department to take better care of the herring fishery in Sitka

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in port, and Juneau was visited by the USS O’Kane in May 2017.

Steve Corporon, director of port and harbors for the City of Ketchikan, said some bigger fenders were needed to make sure the ship would fit at the dock without damaging either

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machine by unwrapping a Starburst that was strategically placed on the operating table. Kids generally seemed to be more adept at controlling the surgery arms than adults. Richards and others watching chalked it up to their experience with video games.

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Sound.

The tribe has held meetings in Sitka and Juneau thanking people for their support and raising money for their legal costs. The Juneau meeting happened Friday afternoon, with Erickson leading the event.

“I firmly believe that it’s not just a battle for subsistence,” Erickson said in an interview Friday. “It’s a battle for the ecology of the Pacific Northwest.”

The herring population has declined in recent years, and the tribe has pushed for changes to the way the fishery is managed. In 2018, Fish and

Game calculated the harvest for Sitka Sound to yield more than 11,000 tons of sac roe herring, but the actual harvest failed to even produce 3,000 tons, according to a fish and game report cited in court records.

Prior to that fishing season, in Jan. 2018, the tribe brought multiple proposals to the Board of Fisheries, including one (Proposal 99) to reduce the percentage of herring that commercial fishermen could harvest in Sitka Sound.

The tribe wrote in its proposals that overfishing in the commercial fishing industry was impeding the ability of

subsistence fishermen who rely on herring roe, according to court records. The Board of Fisheries voted down Proposal 99 by a 5-2 vote, and multiple board members stated they believed the board’s regulations already provided “a reasonable opportunity for subsistence uses,” a phrase that is key to both the state’s and the tribe’s arguments.

Now, members of the tribe are looking to settle the issue in court. Seth Beausang, the lawyer representing the Department of Fish and Game, has told the Empire and has written in court documents that the tribe hasn’t been spe-

cific in its legal requests.

Elizabeth Saagulik Hensley, an attorney for Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP representing the tribe, said during Friday’s event that the tribe is hoping to get a court hearing, and has appealed to the Alaska Supreme Court to try and get a hearing. The Supreme Court has not issued a decision, Hensley said.

The tribe has allocated $40,000 for its legal costs, according to a GoFundMe page raising money for the legal effort. The GoFundMe, titled “Sitka Tribe of Alaska’s fight to save the herring,” sets a goal of $50,000 and had raised $3,720

as of Friday evening. Erickson said Sealaska Heritage Institute and Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska have already pledged their help.

Mike Miller, a member of the Sitka Tribe of Alaska’s Tribal Council, agreed with Erickson that this situation goes beyond just herring eggs.

“We’re seeing some of these cultural ways of practicing being picked at, little bit by little bit by little bit, and it’s really quite concerning,” Miller said. “If we keep letting that go, it’s just going to be wrong, and it’ll be another thing that’s lost forever where people remember how it used to be.”

the vessel or the dock.

He said the ship’s presence would be a departure from the pre-cruise ship season status quo.

“This time of year everything is exciting, I guess,” Corporon said.

Raile said that nearly 15-year gap between visits to Ketchikan likely played a role in why Ketchikan was chosen for a visit. Plus, there’s a strategic reason to send the high-tech ship to

Southeast Alaska.

“From Alaska, for air times you can get to pretty much anywhere in the northern hemisphere in under nine hours,” Raile said.

“Another reason is, as we’re all aware, is the changing environment up here.”

He said receding ice in the Arctic is creating water ways that previously didn’t exist and that means “everybody is more interested in the area for trade and other

purposes.”

“It’s important that the Navy does more and more exercise up in this part of the world,” Raile said. “We have the opportunity of a ship that needs something to do and something that needs to be done. It works out pretty well.”

The trip from San Diego, where the ship is based, to Ketchikan serves as a chance for servicemen to familiarize themselves with

operating the 610-footlong ship also known as DDG 1000.

“The purpose of this whole underway for them is training and testing out the new equipment,” Raile said.

“This is a very new ship.”

Construction on the Zumwalt started in 2009, and according to the Navy, it is the largest advanced surface combatant in the world.

The ship is named for Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt

Jr., a World War II, Vietnam and Korea veteran, who served as the 19th Chief of Naval Operations.

The USS Zumwalt was launched in October 2013, according to the Navy.

It recently made a similar trip to British Columbia and more travel will be in its future after the stop in Ketchikan.

“I can’t talk about where it is going after that, but back underway,” Raile said.

three separate components, and essentially acts as an extension of the surgeon’s arms. The surgeon sits at a station and controls the four robot arms remotely using his or her thumbs and index fingers to operate each arm individually. The Da Vinci’s arms are positioned above the operating table, and the surgeon is able to see a topdown view of the person — or piece of candy — being operated on. The third component is a monitor that

shows the same view that the surgeon is seeing, just on a bigger screen.

It also has a built-in surgery simulator to give surgeons the opportunity to train on the machine before using it on actual patients, as well as an intercom system that allows the surgeon to communicate with the nurses in the operating room.

Sage Davenport, an RN who was one of the first at the hospital trained on the Da Vinci Xi, said the

machine is being used for general surgeries including gall bladder removals, appendectomies, and eventually some gynecological and urological procedures.

Richards said that The Da Vinci’s first surgery was a successful hernia repair on Feb. 4, and since then it has been used for 45 procedures.

Richards said that the price tag of the Da Vinci Xi was around $2.1 million and is the newest version of the Da Vinci available, which

is manufactured by Intuitive Surgical. According to Richards, the hospitals in Juneau and Homer are the only hospitals in the state that do not yet have the technology.

“We’ve known we needed one for a while, but we were waiting for the technology to advance a little bit,” said Richards.

Lisa Michael, director of surgery for the hospital, pointed out the name they had given their surgery ro-

bot: Seymore. Employees were able to submit suggestions for the name, and Michael was pleased because Seymore is the name she suggested. “Because it sees more,” explained Michael.

Other medical technology on display included a UV light used to disinfect rooms in the hospital and a Spinal Machine from Precision Chiropractics that allows patients to view detailed biometric data during chiropractic sessions.

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budget returns the grant to the federal government and puts the $100,000 of state funds to other use.

The proposed budget also looks at cutting plant material inspectors, which are required to ship peonies worldwide and to California. Without these inspections, Alaska peonies would be halted from reaching the world market.

“Getting in these world markers would be a game changer for Alaska,” Holloway said. “If we don’t have inspectors, well, dig up the peonies then.”

Wayne Floyd, a peony grower in Kenai, just returned to the peninsula after advocating for agriculture in Juneau this week. Without plant material inspectors, Floyd could no longer send his flowers to Vietnam, where his Alaska-grown peonies are sought after.

He said the proposed cuts would also put a serious setback on Alaska’s effort to be more food secure.

“It would put the brakes on the turnaround we’ve been doing,” Floyd said.

Less than 5 percent of Alaska’s food is grown and raised in the state, according to research commissioned by the Alaska Department of

Health and Social Services.

The rest comes from the Outside, often through the Port of Alaska in Anchorage.

As recent as 1955, Alaska grew 55 percent of its food, according to the United States Division of Agriculture Alaska Farm Service Agency.

Farming in Alaska took off after President Roosevelt’s New Deal in 1935, which brought just more than 200 families from the Midwest to farm in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley.

An increase in local food availability means potentially more money in the local economy. Alaskans spend around $2 billion on food, most of which is imported, according to the 2017 Central Peninsula Agricultural Market Analysis. Peninsula residents spend an estimated $31 million every year on fresh produce alone, the analysis said. Assuming every dollar spent on locally grown produce could generate an additional $0.34 in economic impact over purchases of products grown outside the area, even small increases in local food purchases can generate economic growth. Kenai Peninsula residents could generate an additional $1.1 million in the

local economy by purchasing just 10 percent of their produce from local growers, according to the analysis.

Floyd said in the last five years, the Legislature has made progress in the industry, including an increase in interest and the creation of more than 40 farmers markets across the state.

Reducing that legislative support and state funding for agricultural programs may cost the state’s farms important resources, according to a report by the Alaska Food Policy Council.

“Decline in agricultural production from the 1950s was mirrored by a decline in support for agricultural education,” the report said.

“State support for agricultural research had virtually disappeared by the mid-1970s, and despite a brief resurgence with pipeline revenues, has again suffered neglect both from the state and federal governments. Research requires adequate funding to be effective in its role as long-term support.”

Tarr said she and her staff have compiled testimony from more than 150 Alaskans, from more than 25 legislative districts who support agriculture.

“I’ve heard story after story after story from farmers,” Tarr said.

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budget would reduce funding to the state Division of Agriculture. The state agricultural veterinarian and the Agriculture Revolving Loan Program are on the chopping block as well.

The state’s last dairy farm, Havemeister Dairy in Palmer, could also shut down if the proposed budget is passed. A cut to the state’s dairy sanitation program would prohibit the dairy from selling its milk in stores.

The potential cuts are now in the hands of the House Finance Committee.

Dr. Pat Holloway, who taught horticulture at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for 30 years, is touted as the godmother of Alaska’s peony industry. She recognized and organized the opportunities peonies had in Alaska. She said the depth of cuts to the state, especially agriculture is surprising.

“Having all of this pulled out from under the rug is devastating,” Holloway said.

Holloway said the Division of Agriculture gets a “pitifully small budget as it is,” and that much of the state’s research in agriculture is funded through passthrough money, which is money from the federal government, that is appropriated through a state agency.

The Kenai Peninsula is home to 30 percent of the state’s peony farms, according to the Alaska Peony Growers Association. Holloway said there are more than 135 growers in Alaska at various stages in their farms.

Holloway said the Alaska Peony Growers Association, in collaboration with the Alaska Department of Agriculture, received a $3 million grant to study thrips infestation of peonies in Alaska.

Thrips are small insects that have the potential to cause a foreign country to block all shipments to that country.

The state must contribute $100,000 toward the cost of the research. The proposed

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Sidney Dale Hunter

April 11, 1940 - January 28, 2019 Sterling resident, Mr. Sidney Dale Hunter, 78, died Monday, Jan. 28, 2019 at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna.

No services will be planned.

Sidney was born April 11, 1940 in Arbor Vitae, Wisconsin. He graduated high school in Wisconsin. In 1968 he moved to Alaska living in Anchorage from 1968 to 1984 until moving to Sterling. He worked out of Operations Union, MB Construction, Unit Company – Husky Oil and many others he was dispatched to. He retired from the Operators Union Local 302. Sidney had many friends and family members That will miss him.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Merlin H. and Rosalie M. Hunter; sister, Vangie Say Kally; brother, Roger Hunter, Floyd Hunter and Rodney Hunter.

He is survived by his wife, Joan Hunter of Sterling; sons, Kristopher of Sterling, Sidney D. (Heidi) Hunter of Woodruff, Wisconsin, Tab R. (Dawn) Hunter of Arbor Vitae, Wisconsin, and Tragg M. (Katy) Hunter of Woodruff, Wisconsin, grandchildren, Jeron (Jenna) Hunter, Heather Hunter, Sidney Hunter III, Brandon (Maggie) Hunter, Cali (Logan) DanKovich, Wyatt Hunter, Hudson Hunter, and seven great grandchildren; and sister, Vonnie (Jim) Braun.

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in the area. “It was thick, black, nasty smoke, but fortunately we were able to stay upwind of it.”

The fire reported early Thursday morning was burning in an area where people dump their household trash, according to Fairbanks city fire officials.

Raygor said landfill

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tice Department’s longstanding protocol of not releasing negative information about people who aren’t indicted against the extraordinary public interest in a criminal investigation into the president and his campaign. Democrats are already citing the department’s recent precedent of norm-breaking disclosures, including during the Hillary Clinton email investigation, to argue that they’re entitled to Mueller’s entire report and the underlying evidence he collected.

Even with the details still under wraps, Friday’s end to the 22-month probe without additional indictments by Mueller was welcome news to some in Trump’s orbit who had feared a final round of charges could target more Trump associates or members of the president’s family.

The White House sought to keep its distance, saying Saturday it had not been briefed on the report. Trump, who has relentlessly criticized Mueller’s investigation as a “witch hunt,” went golfing and was uncharacteristically quiet on Twitter. Not so one of his guests, musician Kid Rock, who posted a picture with the president and the tweet, “Another great day on the links!

Thank you to POTUS for having me and to EVERYONE at Trump International for being so wonderful. What a great man, so down to earth and so fun to be with!!”

In a possible foreshad-

fires are relatively common and can be ignited a variety of ways.

“Hot embers, wood stove ashes, charcoal, even computer batteries: Something was sitting in that pile hot, smoldered for a while and eventually caught everything else on fire,” he said.

Fairbanks firefighters were assisted at the scene by crews from Chena-Goldstream, Steese Volunteer, University and Fort Wainwright fire departments.

owing of expected clashes between the Justice Department and Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a letter to members that Barr’s offer to provide a summary of principal conclusions was “insufficient.” Pelosi later told Democrats on a conference call that she would reject any kind of classified briefing on the report and that the information must be provided to Congress in a way that would allow lawmakers to discuss it publicly.

The conclusion of Mueller’s investigation does not remove legal peril for the president. He faces a separate Justice Department investigation in New York into hush money payments during the campaign to two women who say they had sex with him years before the election. He’s also been implicated in a potential campaign finance violation by his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who says Trump asked him to arrange the transactions.

Federal prosecutors, also in New York, have been investigating foreign contributions made to the president’s inaugural committee.

As for Mueller, with no details released at this point, it was not known whether he concluded the campaign colluded with the Kremlin to tip the election in favor of the celebrity businessman. A Justice Department official did confirm that Mueller was not recommending any further indictments, meaning the investigation had ended without any public charges of a criminal conspiracy, or of obstruction of justice by the president.

In a letter to the Republican and Democratic leaders of the congressional Judiciary committees, Barr noted on Friday

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LIO Schedule Monday, March 25 6:30 p.m.: The House Resources Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss Confirmation: Jason Brune, Dept. of Environmental Conservation. Testimony will be taken.

7:30 p.m.: The House Finance Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss HB 39 Approp: Operating Budget/Loans/Funds and HB 40 Approp: Mental Health Budget. 2 minute testimony limit.

Tuesday, March 26

1:00 p.m.: The House Transportation Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss HB 23 Snowmobile Registration Fees. Testimony will be taken.

1:30 p.m.: The Senate Labor & Commerce Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss SB 69 Exempt Charitable Gaming From Permit / Fees, SJR 8 U.S.- Mexico Canada Agreement on Trade, SB 83 Telecommunications Regulation / Exemptions, SB 52 Alcoholic Beverage Control; Alcohol Regulation and SB 44 Telehealth: Physician Assistants; Drugs. Testimony will be taken.

Wednesday, March 27

6 p.m.: The Senate Judiciary Committee public hearing to discuss SB 23 Appropriation: Supplemental Payments of Prior Years’ PFD and SB 24 PFD Supplemental Payments.

Testimony will be taken.

6 p.m.: The Senate State Affairs Committee public hearing to discuss SJR 4 Constitutional Amendment: State Tax; Intiative. Testimony will be taken.

Thursday, March 28

1:30 p.m.: The Senate Labor & Commerce Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss SB 52 Alcoholic Beverage Control; Alcohol Regulation. Testimony will be taken.

Friday, March 29

Classical chamber music with pianist Eduard Zilberkant

3:30 p.m.: The Senate Resources Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss SB 90 Cook Inlet: New Administrative Area; Permit Buyback. Testimony will be taken.

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.

All teleconferences are held at the Kenai LIO 145 Main St Lp #217, Kenai, AK 99611 unless otherwise noted. To confirm call 283-2030 or email Kenai.LIO@akleg.gov.

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that the department had not denied any request from Mueller, something Barr would have been required to disclose to ensure there was no political inference. Trump was never interviewed in person by Mueller’s team, but submitted answers to questions in writing.

In a Saturday conference call to strategize on next steps, Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued a warning for his fellow Democrats, some of whom have pinned high political hopes on Mueller’s findings: “Once we get the principal conclusions of the report, I think it’s entirely possible that that will be a good day for the president and his core supporters.”

A handful of Trump associates and family members have been dogged by speculation of possible wrongdoing.

They include Donald Trump Jr., who had a role in arrang-

ing a Trump Tower meeting at the height of the 2016 campaign with a Kremlin-linked lawyer, and Trump’s son-inlaw, Jared Kushner, who was interviewed at least twice by Mueller’s prosecutors.

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Peter Carr, spokesman for the special counsel, said Saturday that the case of former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates will be handed off to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Gates was a key cooperator in Mueller’s probe and court papers show he continues to help with several other federal investigations.

Justice Department legal opinions have held that sitting presidents may not be indicted. But many Democrats say Trump should not be immune from a public accounting of his behavior. Though the department typically does not disclose negative information about people who are not indicted, officials have at times broken from that protocol.

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What Others Say

How do we prevent the next terror attack?

As the world mourns the loss

of 50 lives in the New Zealand mosque shooting, leaders across the globe need to stop and ask a vital question: What is being done to prevent the next hate-filled extremist from getting swept up in a toxic mix of white supremacy and nationalism and then acting upon it to take innocent lives?

Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, is in custody in New Zealand and stands accused of the slaughter that took place in two houses of worship in the city of Christchurch late last week. Before he acted, Tarrant chillingly outlined in a 74-page manifesto the abhorrent ideology he embraced. It’s likely that the same technology that enabled publication of his sick screed is one of the main culprits in his radicalization. The digital age has made it easier for propaganda from hate groups to metastasize.

Sadly, Minnesotans have had a front-row seat when it comes to witnessing the rise of online terror recruiting and its impact on the state’s Somali-American community. In 2016, nine men from Minnesota were sentenced by a federal judge for their efforts to aid the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

While Western nations have understandably focused on Islamic extremism, similar international cooperation is needed to thwart individuals who subscribe to Tarrant’s stated beliefs. Over the weekend, a Washington Post story shed light on alarming security gaps. The U.S. and its closest allies have built up impressive infrastructure to monitor and share intelligence about international terror, but there’s no comparable approach for domestic terror.

Homegrown terrorists who espouse extreme nationalism are generally seen “as a problem for domestic law enforcement and security agencies to confront,” according to the Post story, impeding the flow of information internationally. The reality is that this malignant ideology transcends national borders. Online groups have followers from around the world. They venerate killers from a wide number of nations, including the U.S. The antiquated parameters that hinder intelligence sharing about this threat must end.

Stronger recognition of the threat posed by extreme nationalists, neo-Nazis and others of a similar ilk is also needed from political leaders. In 2017, “20 of the 34 extremist-related murders in the United States, or 59 percent, were related to right-wing extremism,” according to the Anti-Defamation League.

The October 2018 shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue is a painful reminder that the threat remained the following year.

The Trump administration has lent far too little support to efforts like this and, at one point, specifically pulled funding to one of the organizations working to combat rightwing terrorism.

Another critical issue that needs airing: What are social media companies’ responsibilities when it comes to harboring users spreading radical, dangerous ideology? And what about their obligation to quickly shut down violent video of crimes perpetrated in real-time?

Violent right-wing extremism has thrived in part because it has fallen between the cracks of international intelligence sharing.

Minnesota’s increasingly influential congressional delegation should seize the opportunity to lead on this issue. All solutions must be pursued to prevent others from succumbing to the siren call of terror.

— Star Tribune of Minneapolis, March 18

The Twitter diagnosis

At one point during a 2016 presidential debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump was citing possible culprits for the hacking of Democrats’ emails. He was his usual sensitive self: “It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, OK?” Was he projecting, talking about himself in his pajamas communicating his dark thoughts through his devices? He’s been on a tear recently. You have your morning routine; President Trump has his. The first thing he does after he awakens is to take a tweet — lots of them — to start his day. It’s a Twitter shower before he gets to anything else. On a recent Sunday, he began before 5:30 a.m., ripping into the “fake news media” and, before the day was through, cyberattacking many of his favorite enemies. This multimillionaire who holds the highest office in the land has a ton of grievances, and it’s an ever-growing list. It was a combination of old and new that day and night: General Motors, for closing an auto plant, and his grudge against John McCain — he’s been on a nonstop tear about McCain, who has been dead for seven months. He’s also attacked social media companies like Twitter for suppressing Republican points of view. This might surprise some, considering how he was twittering those hard feelings. For good measure, he also described George Conway as “A total loser.” That’s notable because George Conway, a respected attorney, is the husband of Kellyanne Conway,

who is extremely visible as a top Trump adviser and apologist. In fairness, however, let’s note that her hubby George has incessantly trashed her boss Bob Franken as a mental case, most recently as consumed by a narcissistic personality disorder and an antisocial personality disorder. One can only hope Kellyanne and George don’t take their outside activities home with them.

As for his perennial “enemy of the people,” the mainstream media, Trump once again tried to strike fear in our hearts by suggesting official government action, tweeting about the variety show “Saturday Night Live”: “Should Federal Election Commission and/or FCC look into this? There must be Collusion with the Democrats and, of course, Russia!

Such one sided media coverage, most of it Fake News.”

That “collusion” with Russia part is obviously a Trump version of a joke. One can only assume it is. Still, Congressman Devin Nunes, who formerly headed the House Intelligence Committee, which was supposed to be investigating the real Russian collusion allegations before the Democrats took over, has filed a lawsuit against Twitter. Nunes is charging

defamation and seeking $250 million in damages.

He cites several insulting comments leveled against him by various parody accounts. In the process, he ignores long-established First Amendment case law. We should note that during his time as chairman of House Intelligence, Nunes so embarrassed his colleagues by his constant defenses of President Trump that the investigation was taken away from him and ultimately headed by another Republican member of the committee.

Of course, it’s an entirely new ballgame these days in the House of Representatives, with the Democratic Party takeover. The House side of the Capitol has become investigation city, and that predictably has prompted a torrent from an outraged President Tweety Bird: “The Dems and their committees are going ‘nuts.’ The Republicans never did this to President Obama, there would be no time left to run government.”

For the record, GOP-led House committees targeted the Obama administration nonstop, along with his secretary of state, the future presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Hillary was not big on cyber communication. In fact, she went out of her way to hide her cyber communications, which was a big reason that Donald Trump beat her. Given how he flogs the world on Twitter with his every thought, it almost makes us wish he’d hide a few of his, too.

Start with cracking down on fentanyl Earlier this year, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol made the largest bust of illegal fentanyl in the country’s history, seizing 254 pounds of the deadly drug at the southern border.

It was just the latest in a long line of stories and data indicating that this synthetic drug is uniquely dangerous for American citizens, their families and our communities.

You don’t have to look very hard to understand why the current stage of the opioid epidemic is perhaps the most dangerous. While deaths associated with painkillers and heroin are still far too common, fentanyl accounted for nearly half of the 72,000 drug overdoses in 2017, up from only 6 percent in 2012. One of the many reasons fentanyl is so dangerous is because amounts barely discernable to the naked eye, mixed with heroin, can still be deadly.

Alaska hasn’t been spared the scourge of this drug. According to a report from the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services Section of Epidemiology, 28 people died from fentanyl overdoses in 2017 — up from five in 2016. That’s a nearly six-fold increase in just a year, and fentanyl continues to increase as a percentage of opioid-related deaths.

Though no segment of the population is immune, fentanyl has hit the Alaska Native community particularly hard.

One reason that fentanyl has become such a big problem in a relatively short amount of time is that it is not subject to new Food and Drug Administration regulations designed

A laska V oices C heri M c G uire to crack down on prescription drug abuse. Often manufactured illegally in China, fentanyl usually enters undetected via both our southern and northern borders. This can be done as simply as mailing a package through the U.S. Postal Service.

We can no longer sit idly by and simply hope this problem gets solved on its own.

Fortunately, last year Congress passed, and President Donald Trump signed, legislation that contains new measures to combat the opioid crisis, and specifically fentanyl. The Support for Patients and Communities Act received strong bipartisan support, including from Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan and Rep. Don Young.

Among the most impactful provisions in this bill is a requirement that USPS screen for fentanyl in packages shipped in from overseas, particularly China. It establishes better interagency coordination and fentanyl detection measures at border crossings. The bill increases funding for addiction treatment, as well as several key changes to Medicare and Medicaid that will make it easier for recipients to get the care they need.

Last year, Alaska received a waiver

from the federal government to expand recovery and treatment services to those on Medicaid. The state is also using over $2 million in federal funds to expand recovery residences at 10 facilities across the state. These are good steps and should be applauded.

But Congress can and should do more. For instance, it should pass the Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues Act, which would give law enforcement the flexibility to combat the crisis by allowing the Drug Enforcement Agency to quickly classify new strands of fentanyl as Schedule I controlled substances. The SOFA Act is supported by 52 U.S. state and territory attorneys general but has yet to be passed by Congress.

The fentanyl bust at the southern border provides even more evidence for what many of us already knew: fentanyl is one of the most deadly drugs we have ever seen, and it is leaving nothing but death and destruction in its wake. But it’s also a problem we can solve with smart and proactive policy choices.

Our law enforcement agencies, medical professionals and regulators, and treatment centers need adequate support and tools to combat fentanyl smuggling to keep Alaskans safe. Now is the time to put our foot on the gas in the drive to end the opioid crisis once and for all.

Cheri McGuire lives in Anchorage and is a lifelong Alaskan, community leader, longtime small business owner and a dedicated mother and grandmother.

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Nation/World

Anti-Brexit marchers flood into London

By GREGORY KATZ Associated Press

LONDON — AntiBrexit protesters flooded into central London by the hundreds of thousands on Saturday, demanding that Britain’s Conservative-led government hold a new referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union.

The “People’s Vote March” snaked from Park Lane and other locations to converge on the U.K. Parliament, where the fate of Brexit will be decided in the coming weeks.

Marchers carried European Union flags and signs praising the longstanding ties between Britain and continental Europe. The protest drew people from across Britain who are determined to force Prime Minister Theresa May’s government to alter its march toward Brexit.

May also is coming under rising pressure from her own Conservative Party to either step down or set a date for her resignation as her political support continues to wilt. The coming week is seen as crucial as

Florida city dismantles, relocates Confederate statue LAKELAND, Fla. — A statue of a Confederate soldier is being removed from a Florida park.

The statue had stood at the center of Lakeland’s Munn Park for 109 years. City officials began dismantling the monument Friday.

City commissioners voted in December 2017 to start the process to move the statue after receiving complaints from residents. In November, commissioners approved funding the $150,000 cost of moving the statue with citations issued as part of the city’s red-light camera program.

The Ledger reports the statue is being relocated to a different park where the city honors soldiers and first responders. Veterans Park is adjacent to a city-owned convention and entertainment complex.

Deputies rescue 2 wailing bear cubs trapped in flooded den Demonstrators carry posters and flags during a Peoples Vote anti-Brexit march in London, Saturday. The march, organized by the People’s Vote campaign is calling for a final vote on any proposed Brexit deal. This week the EU has granted Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May a delay to the Brexit process. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

political rivals jockey for position to succeed her.

Conservative Party legislator George Freeman tweeted that a new leader is needed.

“I’m afraid it’s all over for the PM. She’s done her best. But across the country you can see the anger. Everyone feels betrayed. Gov-

ernment’s gridlocked. Trust in democracy collapsing.

This can’t go on. We need a new PM who can reach out & build some sort of coalition for a Plan B,” he tweeted.

Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable, invited to help lead the march in favor of a second referendum, called

the crowd gathered in central London impressive and unified.

“There is a huge turnout of people here from all walks of life, of all ages and from all over the country,” he tweeted. “We are a Remain country now with 60 percent wanting to stop the Brexit mess.”

Protests held after cop cleared in shooting

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press

PITTSBURGH — The father of a slain black teenager pleaded for peace Saturday after the acquittal of a white police officer triggered an apparent retaliatory shooting at the defense attorney’s office and touched off protests in the streets of Pittsburgh.

Police put officers on 12-hour shifts until further notice.

The verdict late Friday in the deadly shooting of 17-year-old Antwon Rose II angered his family and civic leaders and prompted hundreds of people to gather Saturday afternoon at an intersection called Freedom Corner in the Hill District neighborhood, the historic center of black cultural life in Pittsburgh. One man held a sign with the names of black men killed by police around the U.S. “It’s very painful to see what happened, to sit there

Marchers stop and sit with their hands up in an intersection in the streets Saturday, in Pittsburgh, Pa. (AP Photo/ Keith Srakocic)

and deal with it,” Rose’s father, Antwon Rose Sr., told the crowd. “I just don’t want it to happen to our city no more.”

Afterward, he told reporters: “I want peace, period, all the way around. …

Just because there was violence doesn’t mean that we counter that with violence.”

The mostly white crowd then marched through downtown Pittsburgh and other city neighborhoods,

periodically blocking streets as they chanted, “Who did this? Police did this!” The protest soon moved onto the University of Pittsburgh campus. Police reported no immediate arrests or injuries.

Early Saturday, five to eight shots were fired into the building where the officer’s attorney, Patrick Thomassey, works, police in nearby Monroeville said.

No one was hurt. Police said

they had been staking out the place as a precaution, and the gunfire erupted after they left to answer another call around midnight.

Former East Pittsburgh police Officer Michael Rosfeld had been charged with homicide for shooting Rose as the unarmed teenager ran away from a traffic stop in June. Rosfeld testified that he thought Rose or another suspect had a gun pointed at him and that he fired to protect himself and the community.

“I hope that man never sleeps at night,” Rose’s mother, Michelle Kenney, said of Rosfeld after the verdict, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “I hope he gets as much sleep as I do, which is none.”

Rose’s family is now pressing ahead with a federal civil rights lawsuit filed against Rosfeld and East Pittsburgh, a small municipality about 10 miles from downtown Pittsburgh, where the trial was held.

Helicopters rescue Norway cruise ship

By JARI TANNER Associated Press

HELSINKI — Rescue workers off Norway’s western coast rushed to evacuate 1,300 passengers and crew from a disabled cruise ship by helicopter on Saturday, winching them one-by-one to safety as heaving waves tossed the ship from side to side and high winds battered the operation.

The Viking Sky issued a mayday call as bad weather

hit and engine problems caused it to start drifting toward the rocky shore, the Norwegian newspaper VG reported. Police in the western county of Moere og Romsdal said the crew, fearing the ship would run aground, managed to anchor in Hustadvika Bay, between the Norwegian cities of Alesund and Trondheim, so the evacuations could take place.

Rescue teams with helicopters and boats were

sent to evacuate the cruise ship under extremely difficult circumstances, including gusts up to 43 mph and waves over 26 feet. The area is known for its rough, frigid waters.

The majority of the cruise ship passengers were reportedly British and American tourists. About 180 have been evacuated, according to rescue officials.

Video and photos from people on the ship showed it heaving, with chairs and

other furniture dangerously rolling from side to side.

Passengers were suited up in orange life vests but the waves broke some ship windows and cold water flowed over the feet of some passengers.

Norwegian public broadcaster NRK said the Viking Sky’s evacuation was a slow and dangerous process, as passengers needed to be hoisted one-by-one from the cruise ship to the five available helicopters.

Experts warn Midwest flood risk may persist for months

By JIM SALTER Associated Press

ST. LOUIS — Even as floodwaters receded in hardhit places in in the Midwest, experts warned Saturday that with plenty of snow still left to melt in northern states, the relief may only be temporary.

Rainfall and some snowmelt spurred flooding in recent weeks that’s blamed in three deaths so far, with two men in Nebraska missing for more than a week. Thousands were forced from their homes in Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri, as water broke through or poured over levees in the region.

The damage is estimated at $3 billion, and that figure is expected to rise.

As temperatures start to warm, snowmelt in the Da-

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kotas and Minnesota will escalate, sending more water down the Missouri and Mississippi rivers and their tributaries.

Lt. Col. James Startzell, deputy commander of the Corps of Engineers’ Omaha, Nebraska, district, said even warmer temperatures are possible into next week.

He urged people living near rivers to be watchful.

Bill Brinton, emergency management director for hard-hit Buchanan County, Missouri, which includes St. Joseph’s 76,000 residents, said his counties and surrounding ones have already been ravaged by flooding.

“There’s a sense from the National Weather Service that we should expect it to continue to happen into May,” Brinton said. “With our levee breaches in Atchi-

son and Holt and Buchanan counties, it’s kind of scary really.”

A precautionary evacuation involving hundreds of homes in the St. Joseph area was lifted as the Missouri River began a swift decline after unofficially rising to a new all-time high, inches above the 1993 record. St. Joseph was largely spared, but Brinton said 250 homes were flooded in the southern part of Buchanan County. It wasn’t clear when residents would be able to get back.

When they do, officials say they need to be careful.

Contaminants that escaped from flooded farm fields, industrial operations and sewage plants are part of the murky water now saturating homes.

In Fremont County,

Iowa, homes remain underwater, so it will be some time before residents can return, said county Supervisor Randy Hickey.

“We don’t want them in that water, anyway,” Hickey said.

Experts also warn that sharp objects — broken glass, pieces of metal, pointy sticks and rocks — could lurk in muddy debris.

Downed or broken power lines also may pose electrocution hazards.

On Saturday, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said President Donald Trump granted her request for an expedited disaster declaration for 56 counties with flooding damage. The move makes assistance available to homeowners, renters, businesses, public entities and some nonprofit organizations.

ASHLAND, Wis. — Two Wisconsin sheriff’s deputies rescued a pair of bear cubs trapped in a flooded culvert that had served as their den.

The Ashland Daily Press reports that Ashland County deputies Zach Pierce and Dylan Wegner discovered the baby bruins Friday near the Bad River Indian Reservation in northern Wisconsin. Pierce says the cubs were soaked and cold, so they brought them into their squad car to warm up.

Pierce said they realized they risked angering the cubs’ mother who was nearby. He said she was slow and groggy from waking up and “the little cubs were screaming and crying like crazy.”

A conservation warden then arrived on scene and the cubs were placed in an open area for their mother to gather up.

Atlanta police set up hotline for ‘child murders’ case ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta’s mayor and police chief are leading a push to re-examine evidence from a string of murders that terrorized the city’s black community between 1979 and 1981.

As a result, authorities are being inundated with calls.

Now, officials have set up a central hotline for anyone with information about the “Atlanta Child Murders” cases.

Atlanta police urged tipsters to call 404-546-2603 and, if no one answers, callers are encouraged to leave a message for follow-up.

At least 25 African-American children and several adults were killed in the late 70s and early 80s. Atlanta native Wayne Williams was convicted in the deaths of two adults in 1981. He’s been linked to the deaths of at least 22 of the children, but has never been tried. Williams maintains he never killed children.

— Associated Press

Today in History Today is Sunday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2019. There are 282 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 24, 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525, an Airbus A320, crashed into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board; investigators said the jetliner was deliberately downed by the 27-year-old co-pilot.

On this date: In 1765, Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers.

In 1832, a mob in Hiram, Ohio, attacked, tarred and feathered Mormon leaders Joseph Smith Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.

In 1882, German scientist Robert Koch (kohk) announced in Berlin that he had discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis.

In 1944, in occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that killed 32 German soldiers.

In 1955, the Tennessee Williams play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” opened on Broadway.

In 1958, Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army at the draft board in Memphis, Tennessee, before boarding a bus for Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. (Presley underwent basic training at Fort Hood, Texas, before being shipped off to Germany.)

In 1976, the president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed by her country’s military. British war hero Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, 88, died in Alton, Hampshire, England.

In 1988, former national security aides Oliver L. North and John M. Poindexter and businessmen Richard V. Secord and Albert Hakim pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the Iran-Contra affair.

(North and Poindexter were convicted, but had their verdicts thrown out; Secord and Hakim received probation after each pleaded guilty to a single count under a plea bargain.)

In 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez (vahl-DEEZ’) ran aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and began leaking an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil.

In 1995, after 20 years, British soldiers stopped routine patrols in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

In 1998, two students, ages 13 and 11, opened fire outside Jonesboro Westside Middle School in Arkansas, killing four classmates and a teacher. (The gunmen were imprisoned by Arkansas until age 18, then by federal authorities until age 21.)

In 1999, NATO launched airstrikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time in its 50-year existence that it had ever attacked a sovereign country. Thirty-nine people were killed when fire erupted in the Mont Blanc tunnel in France and burned for two days.

Ten years ago: In his second prime-time news conference since taking office, President Barack Obama claimed early progress in his aggressive campaign to lead the nation out of economic chaos and declared that despite obstacles ahead, “we’re moving in the right direction.” Citing the AIG debacle, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in a rare joint appearance before a House committee, asked for unprecedented powers to regulate complex nonbank financial institutions.

Five years ago: President Barack Obama began a week of international travel as he arrived in the Netherlands with Russia’s Crimean incursion at the top of his agenda. An Egyptian court sentenced to death nearly 530 suspected backers of ousted President Mohammed Morsi over a deadly attack on a police station, capping a swift, two-day mass trial in which defense attorneys were not allowed to present their case.

Five former employees of imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff were convicted at the end of a six-month trial in New York that cast them as the long arms of their boss.

One year ago: In the streets of the nation’s capital and in cities across the country, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied against gun violence, spurred by a call to action from student survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.

Today’s Birthdays: Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti is 100. Actor William Smith is 86. Fashion and costume designer Bob Mackie is 80.

Former Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire is 72. Rock musician Lee Oskar is 71. Singer Nick Lowe is 70. Rock musician Dougie Thomson (Supertramp) is 68. Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger is 68. Comedian Louie Anderson is 66. Actress Donna Pescow is 65. Actor Robert Carradine is 65. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is 63. Actress Kelly LeBrock is 59. Rhythm-and-blues DJ Rodney “Kool Kollie” Terry (Ghostown DJs) is 58. TV personality Star Jones is 57. Country-rock musician Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers) is 55. Actor Peter Jacobson is 54.

Rock singer-musician Sharon Corr (The Corrs) is 49. Actress Lauren Bowles is 49. Actress Lara Flynn Boyle is 49. Rapper Maceo (AKA P.A. Pasemaster Mase) is 49. Actress Megyn Price is 48. Actor Jim Parsons is 46. Christian rock musician Chad Butler (Switchfoot) is 45. Actress Alyson Hannigan is 45. Former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning is 43. Actress Amanda Brugel (TV: “The Handmaid’s Tale”) is 42. Actress Olivia Burnette is 42. Actress Jessica Chastain is 42. Actor Amir Arison is 41. Actress Lake Bell is 40. Rock musician Benj Gershman (O.A.R.) is 39. Neo-soul musician Jesse Phillips (St. Paul & the Broken Bones) is 39. Actor Philip Winchester (TV: “Strike Back”) is 38. Dancer Val Chmerkovskiy is 33. Actress Keisha Castle-Hughes is 29.

Thought for Today: “If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.” -- William James, American psychologist (1842-1910).

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Public Safety

Court reports The following dismissals were recently handed down in Kenai District Court: n A charge of violating condition of release against Diane Vinberg, 28, of Kodiak, was dismissed. Date of the charge was Jan. 8. n A charge of violating condition of release against Amber Erickson, 32, of Kenai, was dismissed. Date of the charge was Nov. 1. n A charge of violating condition of release against Amber Erickson, 32, of Kenai, was dismissed. Date of the charge was Nov. 27. n A charge of disorderly conduct against Jesse E. Bass, 33, of Soldotna, was dismissed.

Date of the charge was Sept. 21. n A charge of violating condition of release against Andrew Hoke, 22, of Kenai, was dismissed.

Date of the charge was Dec. 8. n A charge of violating condition of release against Amanda Richmond, 37, of Kenai, was dismissed. Date of the charge was Dec. 17. n Amended charges of one count of improper use of registration, title or plates and one count of violating condition or release against Margaret Rookard, 68, of Kenai, were dismissed. Date of the charges was Mar. 17, 2018.

The following judgments were recently handed down in Kenai District Court: n Aaron A. Bayer, 30, of Anchorage, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of negligent driving, committed July 28, 2012. He was fined $300 and a $10 court surcharge. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Andrew James Hoke, 22, of Nikiski, pleaded guilty to fourthdegree misconduct involving a controlled substance, committed June 14. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete a substance/ alcohol abuse assessment and follow all recommendations, forfeited items seized, and placed on

probation for 12 months. n Andrew J. Hoke, 22, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to one count of fourth-degree theft and one count of violating condition of release, committed Feb. 2. On count one, he was sentenced to five days in jail with all but time served suspended, fined a $100 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to pay restitution, forfeited items seized, ordered to have no contact with Kenai Safeway, and placed on probation for six months. On count two, he was placed on probation for 12 months. n Amanda L. Richmond, 37, of Sterling, pleaded guilty to seconddegree criminal trespass (upon premises), committed Sept. 11. She was sentenced to 10 days in jail with five days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to have no contact with Kenai Walmart, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Amanda Richmond, 37, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree theft and one count of violating condition of release, committed Nov. 3. On count one, she was sentenced to 120 days in jail with 100 days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to pay restitution, ordered to have no contact with Kenai Safeway, and placed on probation for 12 months. On the count of violating condition of release, she was sentenced to five days in jail. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n William Orvel Samson, 60, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, committed Mar. 16. He was sentenced to 120 days in jail with 100 days suspended, fined $4,000 with $1,000 suspended, a $150 court surcharge, a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and $1,467 cost of imprisonment, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had his license revoked for one year, forfeited all items seized, and placed on probation for two years. All other charges in this case were dismissed.

n Gordon E. Shangin, 30, of Sterling, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of second-degree harassment, committed Oct. 19. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered not to consume or buy alcohol for 12 months, ordered to complete a substance/alcohol abuse assessment and follow all recommendations, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Kyle Alexander Eshleman, 32, of Kenai, pleaded guilt to an amended charge of reckless endangerment, a domestic violence offense committed June 5, 2016.

He was sentenced to 330 days in jail with 320 days suspended, fined $1,000, a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete a substance/alcohol abuse and anger management assessments and follow all recommendations, ordered to pay restitution, forfeited items seized, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Amber Lynn Erickson, 32, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child (driving under the influence with a child) and one count of driving under the influence, committed Sept. 18. On count one, she was ordered to complete a substance/alcohol abuse assessment and follow all recommendations and was placed on probation for 12 months. On count two, she was sentenced to 50 days on electronic monitoring with 45 days suspended, fined $2,000 with $500 suspended, a $75 court surcharge, a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and $66 for the first three days plus $14 for each additional day of monitoring ordered, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had her license revoked for 90 days, and placed on probation for one year. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Amber Erickson, 32, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to violating condition of release, committed Nov. 16. She was fined $500, may perform community work service at $10 an hour in lieu of

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fine, and was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $50 jail surcharge. n Chase Euchler Fannon, 20, of Wasilla, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, committed July 26, 2017. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail or on electronic monitoring with 27 days suspended, fined $2,000 with $500 suspended, a $75 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had his license revoked for 90 days, ordered ignition interlock for six months, and placed on probation for one year. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Monica Fredericka Larsen, 26, of Anchorage, pleaded guilty to one count of an amended charge of fourth-degree assault (negligent injury with a weapon) and one count driving under the influence, committed June 15, 2015. On count one, she was sentenced to 180 days on electronic monitoring with 170 days suspended, ordered to complete a substance/ alcohol abuse assessment and follow all recommendations, and placed on probation for 36 months.

On count two, she was sentenced to 180 days on electronic monitoring with 170 days suspended, fined $2,000 with $500 suspended, a $75 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had her license revoked for 90 days, and placed on probation for three years. n Diane Dee Anna Marie Vinberg, 28, of Kodiak, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance, committed Feb. 27. She was fined a $100 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, forfeited items seized, and was placed on probation for one month. n Sarah Jean Whitaker, 25, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to violating condition of release, committed Nov. 23. She was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to admit the facts in the police

report, ordered to follow all conditions in another case, and was placed on probation for 12 months.

All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Sarah Whitaker, 25, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to violating condition of release, a domestic violence offense, committed Jan. 12. She was fined a $100 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to follow conditions in another case, and placed on probation for 12 months.

The following judgments were recently handed down in Kenai Superior Court: n Antheny James Preston, 27, of Eagle River, pleaded guilty to seconddegree burglary, committed Sept. 17, 2017.

He was sentenced to five years in prison with three years suspended, fined a $100 court surcharge and $200 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to pay $100 cost of appointed counsel, ordered to pay restitution, forfeited all items seized, ordered, among other conditions of probation, not to consume alcohol to excess, not to use or possess any illegal controlled substances, including synthetic drugs and marijuana, ordered not to possess, apply for or obtain a medical marijuana card or act as a caregiver while under supervision, ordered to complete a substance abuse evaluation and comply with treatment recommendations, ordered to have no contact with victim in this case or a specifically noted Kasilof address, ordered to have no contact with two other specifically named people, ordered not to apply for, possess, or use any checking, credit, access device, or charge account belonging to another person without prior approval from the probation officer, ordered not to enter any pawn shop for any purpose without prior approval from the probation officer, ordered to submit to search directed by a probation officer, with or without probable cause, for the presence of alcohol to excess, controlled substances, drug paraphernalia, evidence of controlled substance transactions, and stolen

property, and was placed on probation for five years after serving any term of incarceration imposed.

All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Diane Dee Anna Marie Vinberg, 28, of Kodiak, pleaded guilty to first-degree promoting contraband, committed Dec. 31. She was fined a $100 court surcharge and a $200 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to pay $500 cost of appointed counsel, ordered to complete all treatment programs recommended by a substance abuse evaluator, ordered, among other conditions of probation, not to consume or possess illegal drugs or possess drug paraphernalia, not to be present where illegal drugs are sold or consumed, not to have illegal drugs in her residence, not to consume or possess controlled substances unless prescribed by a physician, ordered to submit to search directed by a probation officer for the presence of illegal controlled substances, and was placed on probation for three years. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Mark A. Weinberger, Jr., 33, of Soldotna, was found guilty of one felony count of second-degree assault, committed Mar. 15, 2018 and one misdemeanor count of fourth-degree assault, committed Mar. 10, 2018. On count one, he was sentenced to 48 months in prison with 24 months suspended, fined a $100 court surcharge and a $200 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to pay $1,500 cost of appointed counsel, ordered to pay restitution, ordered, among other conditions of probation, not to consume alcohol to excess, to complete a batterer’s intervention program and violence rehabilitation program, ordered to submit to search directed by a probation officer, with or without probable cause, for the presence of weapons, ordered to have no contact with victim except through the Court or with Big G Electric unless for official business, and was placed on probation for five years after serving any term of incarceration imposed. On count two, he was sentenced to 360 days in jail with 270 days suspended and placed on probation for 36 months.

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driver, Jill P. Butler, 48, of Kenai, was uninjured. Butler was arrested on charges of third-degree theft and reckless driving and taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility. n On Mar. 20 at 8:49 p.m., Kenai police made a routine traffic stop on the Kenai Spur Highway near Gill Street. A routine records check resulted in a summons to court for Rebecca L. Rathke, 34, of Palmer, for driving while license revoked. n On Mar. 20 at 9:23 p.m., Kenai police received a report of a wanted person near the corner of Forest Drive and Fifth Avenue.

Officers responded and arrested Bradlee E. Sample, 19, of Kenai, on two Soldotna Alaska State Troopers warrants; an arrest warrant on the original charge of fourth-degree assault, $1,000 bail, and a failure to comply warrant on the original charge of driving under the influence, three days to serve. Sample was taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On Mar. 20 at 9:24 p.m., Kenai police made a routine traffic stop at Broad Street and Frontage Road.

As a result of the stop, Alexander K. Yadao, 24, of Kenai, was arrested for violating conditions of release. An additional charge of petition to revoke proba-

tion was made by the Probations Office. Yadao was taken to Wildwood Pretrial without incident. n On Mar. 23 at 1:39 a.m., Alaska State Troopers contacted Daniel Lynch, 63, of Soldotna, on a traffic stop in Soldotna. After investigation, Lynch was arrested for driving under the influence and taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility. n On Mar. 23, Alaska State Troopers contacted Christina Sawyer, 49, of Kenai, on a traffic stop near Soldotna. Sawyer was determined to be driving under the Influence and was arrested. Troopers subsequently discovered methamphetamine in Sawyer’s car. Sawyer was taken to Wildwood Pretrial on charges of drug-related driving under the influence and fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance. n On Mar. 22, Alaska State Troopers responded to a disturbance call near Kenai. After investigation, Regina Konig, 52, of Kenai, was arrested and charged with domestic violence related fourth-degree assault and fifth-degree criminal mischief. She was also charged with fourthdegree misconduct involving weapons. Konig was taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail.

n On Mar. 21 at 8:39 a.m., Alaska Wildlife Troopers responded to the area near North Fork Road and Rickard Street in Anchor Point for a car parked in the roadway. Investigation revealed that Nichola Usoltseff, 25, of Anchor Point, had six outstanding warrants for his arrest for failure to appear on the original charges of driving under the influence and fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance and violating conditions of release out of Palmer and Soldotna.

Usoltseff was arrested and taken to the Homer Jail on $1,850 cash bail. n On Mar. 21 at 1:33 p.m., Alaska State Troopers responded to a domestic disturbance in Nikiski.

After investigation, Corey Green, 25, of Nikiski, was arrested for fourth-degree assault (domestic violence) and fourth-degree assault and was taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility. n On Mar. 21 at 7:05 p.m., Kenai police received a report of a shoplifter leaving a business near Mile 10 of the Kenai Spur Highway and fleeing down Marathon Road. Officers responded and located the suspect vehicle upside down near Daubenspeck Park. The

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SoHi girls, boys nab 5th

By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

4A roundup

In a tournament full of upsets, the Class 4A boys state basketball championships have been anything but predictable.

That is why the crowd Friday at the Alaska Airlines Center saw No. 5-seeded Soldotna playing No. 8 Ketchikan for the right to move on to Saturday’s state title game.

In the end, the bottom-seeded Kings continued to prove everybody wrong with a thrilling 5348 victory over Soldotna to advance to the final.

SoHi, meanwhile, had to settle for fifth place in the tournament after losing Saturday’s third-place contest 62-38 to the Colony Knights. The fifth-place result ties the results of the program’s most recent trip in 2010.

The Soldotna girls met a nearSoldotna Ituau Tuisaula (left) drives the lane by Dimond’s Alissa Pili ly identical fate. The Stars lost in Friday in the Class 4A state basketball tournament at the Alaska Air- the semifinals 46-36 to Dimond lines Center in Anchorage. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion) before heading home in fifth

place after falling to Chugiak 56-49 in the third-place game.

Stars junior Jersey Truesdell continued to make a case for tournament MVP with 30 points, torching Ketchikan with 5-for-6 shooting from 3-point land and five rebounds. SoHi’s next highest scorer was senior David Michael with five points. Truesdell tallied 31 points in Thursday’s quarterfinal win over West Anchorage.

Ketchikan, however, had the moves when it mattered most.

The brother tandem of Marcus and Chris Lee notched 16 and 19 points, respectively, and it was a dunk late in the third quarter by Chris that helped spark the late heroics for the Kings, according to Truesdell.

“One play on the high school level like that dunk, can just suck the air out of one team,” he said.

“And it can fill up another team.”

SoHi led 35-28 and was seemingly in command when Lee rose up after a fall to collect a rebound and slam home a dunk with 1:39 left in the third quarter, sending the crowd into a frenzy and injecting some much-needed energy into the Kings.

The slam was followed just 30 seconds later by a 3-pointer from Jake Taylor, cutting SoHi’s lead to 35-33.

Soldotna head coach Nolan Rose attributed the fourth-quarter comeback by Ketchikan to Soldotna’s inexperience in playing a do-or-die game. No Soldotna boys squad had played in a state contest in nine years prior to Thursday’s opener against West.

“We aren’t quite ready to execute the way we needed to in the fourth quarter of a big game like this,” Rose said. “In a tense environment, we got away from doing the things that got us that lead.

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Kenai girls secure 3rd

By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

The Nikiski girls used a powerful fourth quarter to pick up a 62-54 tournament semifinal victory over Barrow Friday night at the Alaska Airlines Center, moving the Bulldogs to Saturday’s Class 3A state title game against Anchorage Christian Schools.

ACS defeated Kenai Central 51-30 in Friday’s other semifinal contest.

The Kenai girls ultimately secured third place at state with a 50-42 win Saturday over Barrow. The Kardinals had not finished any better than third since a runner-up result in 1993.

ACS is generally considered the best girls team in the state, regardless of classification, having compiled a 23-0 record prior to the state tournament that includes victories over 4A teams. Having lost twice to the Lions this year, Nikiski would need a big game Saturday to knock off their conference rivals and claim their first state basketball title in 13 years, but it’s exactly what they wanted.

“It’s really exciting for us, this is the furthest any of us have gone,” said senior Kelsey Clark. “We’re really excited to get another chance to play ACS.” Nikiski lost to ACS at home 86-56 the first time the two schools played, then lost 67-52 two weeks ago in the Southcentral Conference championship. Nikiski head coach Rustin Hitchcock has hinted all season that he feels the Bulldogs have made gains on the Lions, and said Saturday will put everything the team has learned to use.

“We have nothing to lose,” Hitchcock said. “We

3A roundup have absolutely nothing to prove on this stage whatsoever. We got seeded number three, we’re in the finals, already above our seed, and we get to throw everything at the number one seed and try to take them down.”

With three years of state hoops experience under her belt, a Division I college commitment already signed and a championship volleyball trophy on the same court just four months prior with many of the same teammates, senior Bethany Carstens said the Bulldogs are ready to take on the Lions.

“We don’t feel rattled against them in basketball, because we want to beat them,” Carstens said. “It’s just so much motivation.”

Carstens led the Bulldogs yet again with 24 points, 13 rebounds and four steals, including a 6-for-6 night from the charity stripe. Clark recorded eight points and four steals and had some crucial hustle plays down the stretch, America Jeffreys notched 11 points and Lillian Carstens laid in several big buckets late to finish with nine points.

“We all just want it so bad,” Clark said about the finishing kick.

For a second night in succession, Nikiski had to sweat out a victory. The Bulldogs led 32-27 at halftime but the Whalers found a groove in the third quarter, particularly with the hot hand of Jordan Ahgeak, who hit three big shots in the frame and finished with a team-high 16 points.

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Nikiski’s Kaitlyn Johnson (left) works her way around ACS’s Jordan Todd on Saturday in the Class 3A girls state basketball championship at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

ACS tops Nikiski for title

By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

On the opening tip of Saturday’s Class 3A girls state title game, the Nikiski girls basketball team had a chance to snap a 13-year championship drought.

Within 20 minutes, the dream had become a nightmare.

The Anchorage Christian School girls rolled to the Class 3A crown Saturday with an overwhelming 6348 victory over the Bulldogs, completing an undefeated season along the way, at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage.

The title was their third in a row and fourth in the last six years, putting the Lions on the fringes of a 3A

dynasty.

For Nikiski, it was one victory short of the Bulldogs’ ultimate goal, but the only tears being shed at the finish were ones of joy for a successful 26-5 season that ended with a runner-up finish to the consensus best girls team in the state, regardless of division.

“It hasn’t really hit yet,” said senior Bethany Carstens. “I feel like I should be way more sad.”

Carstens led Nikiski’s attack with 15 points, while teammates America Jeffreys and Kelsey Clark chipped in eight points each, with Clark pulling down seven rebounds as well. Lillian Carstens also cleaned up on the glass with eight boards.

Destiny Reimers and Jordan Todd

played lead roles in the scoring splurge that ACS enjoyed early on.

Reimers led the team with 15 points and seven boards and Todd had 14 points and seven rebounds.

For Carstens, the game was the highest result of a sterling individual career at Nikiski. Carstens earned two Class 3A Girls Player of the Year awards in three full seasons and is committed to playing Division I hoops at Chicago State University, accomplishments made more remarkable after dealing with two serious knee injuries.

“I’m happy,” Carstens said about her four years at Nikiski. “It was really fun. Hanging out with all these girls was so much fun.”

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Ice Dogs clinch Ravn Cup

By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

Kenai River Brown Bears goaltender Gavin Enright tracks the puck in front of Bears defenseman Ryan Reid and Fairbanks Ice Dogs forwards Parker Brown and Jonathan Sorenson on Friday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

The Fairbanks Ice Dogs defeated the Kenai River Brown Bears 5-1 on Saturday in North American Hockey League play at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex to lay claim to all seven Ravn Cups in existence.

The Ravn Cup is the seasonlong battle between Alaska’s only two junior hockey teams. The cup was started in the 2012-13 season and the Ice Dogs have won it every year.

After Saturday, Fairbanks leads the season se-

ries with the Brown Bears 7-2. There are three games left in the series — and the regular season — for both teams. The Ice Dogs host Kenai River on Thursday at 7 p.m. and Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Kenai River, at 22-29-33, has been eliminated from the playoffs and will finish fifth in the Midwest Division. The Ice Dogs (35-163-3) have a six-point lead on the Minnesota Magicians for first place in the division. Each win counts for two points, with Fairbanks having three games remaining, and Minnesota having four.

The Bears finish their home schedule with a 1014-2-2 record in front of the faithful, including 4-3-0-1 on this homestand.

Friday, the Bears were able to stay alive in the Ravn Cup by coming back from a 2-0 deficit to claim a 4-2 victory and snap a six-game Fairbanks winning streak.

Thursday, Fairbanks had taken a 3-0 lead in the first period only to let Kenai River cut the gap to 3-2 after two periods. The Ice Dogs hung on for a 5-2 win.

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“Just anxious, I think, and that cost us an opportunity to get the win.”

Finishing second at the Northern Lights Conference tournament held on their home floor gave Soldotna the fifth seed at the big dance, and the Stars made it count with a narrow victory over the Eagles on Thursday.

While making it to the state semis could be seen as a major success for the Stars after years of missing it altogether, Truesdell said the moment was bittersweet.

“As competitors, you just feel … what could we have done better?” Truesdell said. “But as a person, you’re really proud of the things you’ve done.

“Our summer was full of working hard to get to this point. No one saw us coming.”

Ketchikan got off to a blazing start, reaching a 13-2 lead less than six minutes into the game with the Lee brothers tallying 11 points of that run, but Truesdell and company began to heat up as well.

Truesdell hit consecutive 3s to rapidly claw back out of the hole and SoHi took a 15-14 lead early in the second quarter.

The Stars led 24-23 at halftime, thanks to an off-balance corner lob by Truesdell at the buzzer that somehow found the net for three points.

Timely offense and plenty of defensive stops defined the third quarter for SoHi, which got points from Truesdell, Tyler Morrison and Ray Chumley in spurts. A jumper by Chumley with 3:25 left in the quarter pushed the lead to 35-28, but the Ketchikan rally was coming.

Lee’s dunk and Taylor’s trey was the match that lit the flame. Kristian Pihl buried a trey to cut the gap to 39-38 with 6:03 left in the fourth quarter, than Taylor knocked down another 3 with 4:40 left for a 41-39 edge for the Kings.

It was part of a 9-0 Ketchikan run that spelled doom for SoHi, which hit a scoring slump of five minutes before Truesdell snapped the scoreless skid with a jumper with 1:43 to go. By that time, Ketchikan led 44-41.

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Soldotna’s Danica Schmidt receives a block from Dimond’s Ahvionn Rabb Friday in the Class 4A state basketball tournament at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

with his fourth foul with just over four minutes left in the game, which also did not help matters, although he conceded he wasn’t going to change his style of attack.

“When you’re down four or five with three minutes left, it’s always go time,” he said. “I’m not going to slow down with four fouls … you have to go or else you’re going to lose.”

The Kings sank six free throws over the final 69 seconds of game time to seal the semifinal victory.

In Saturday’s thirdplace clash with Colony, Truesdell pumped in 21 points, shooting 4 for 12 from beyond the arc and grabbing four rebounds as well. Morrison added six points for the Stars.

The Knights got big days from star players Patrick McMahon and Sullivan Menard, who poured in 19 points apiece.

Colony flaunted their muscle in the second quarter, outscoring SoHi 19-2 to grab a 36-14 halftime lead, helped by 51 percent shooting in the first half.

Dimond girls 46, Soldotna 36 The Soldotna Stars faced a top-seeded behemoth and lost Friday in the Class 4A state semifinals.

The Stars ultimately fin-

ished fifth overall at state after losing 56-49 to Chugiak in Saturday’s thirdplace tilt.

But in Friday’s semifinal against the 20-2 Lynx, who harbor the three-time 4A Girls Player of the Year in Alissa Pili, the Stars showed that they belonged in the big dance.

“There’s a lot of pride to have there, especially considering the size of our school and having to play three straight Anchorage schools,” head coach Kyle McFall said. “Just to send this group of seniors off on a high note was really important. We’ve kind of built a program around them and they’ve helped establish a culture.”

SoHi kept it close throughout and had it tied up at 32 apiece with six minutes remaining, but the Lynx used one last surge to distance themselves and stave off the Stars.

Pili finished with 22 points and 18 rebounds for Dimond, including a 10for-11 day from the freethrow stripe, while fellow senior teammate Dshanna Schuster notched eight points.

Senior Aliann Schmidt rattled in 14 points for SoHi and junior Ituau Tuisaula had 10 points and nine rebounds. Overall, the Lynx won the battle on the glass 34-24 over the Stars.

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Soldotna’s Ray Chumley unleashes a shot Friday against Ketchikan at the Class 4A boys state tournament at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

coming within 10 points of a berth to Saturday’s championship game was apparent for the players, but the feeling of accomplishment also resonated with the team.

“We’re a small 4A school and we haven’t gotten to third place in a while,” Tuisaula said.

“That’s something we’re looking forward to.”

After playing to a 5649 loss with Dimond in the regular season, McFall said the team decided to switch some things up, namely do everything possible to contain Pili.

With sophomore Drysta Crosby-Schneider tasked to guard the daunting Pili for much of the contest, the final stat line for Dimond’s star was commendable. McFall praised Crosby-Schneider’s defensive stands on Pili throughout the 32 minutes of action and said it helped raise the overall execution of the team.

“We couldn’t ask them to execute much better (on defense),” McFall said. “If you hold Dimond under 50 points, you’re usually going to win.”

Crosby-Schneider even pitched in on offense with several crucial plays in the second half, including a bucket with 7:06 to play to tie the game at 30-all. The sophomore later swiped a steal with 2:13 left to keep the Stars in the game when it began to look bleak.

“It was my job to guard Alissa and have my other teammates, like the seniors, to put not as much pressure on them,” Crosby-Schneider said. “We wanted to keep (Pili) to 25 points, because she’s so high-scoring, so that really contributed.”

The Lynx earned their fifth straight state final appearance, having won two of the previous four.

Dimond head coach Jason Stahl lauded Soldotna’s

place in the tournament as one of the more even lineups.

“They’re very balanced,” Stahl said.

While McFall commended the SoHi defense, he acknowledged that the offense faced trouble getting shots to go in.

“It’s like we were afraid to take it to the basket,” he said. “The second half we calmed down and were getting good looks, but we still turned down some open shots. I thought the second half, we finally settled into (what we do) offensively, we just couldn’t quite execute down the stretch like we wanted to.”

Not long after CrosbySchneider’s post shot early in the fourth quarter, the Stars tied it once again on an inbounds pass to Tuisaula, forging a 32-all contest.

However, the Lynx quickly ripped off a 7-0 run to go up 39-32, with five points coming from Schuster. Tuisaula knocked back a rebound with 4:11 left to end the run, but Pili came back with a drive to the hoop and the foul shot, putting the Lynx up 42-34 with 2:45 left.

In Saturday’s thirdplace game, Soldotna got off to a blazing start with a 17-4 lead, but the Mustangs found their groove and began to chip away at the lead, which was 3021 at halftime. SoHi held a slim 39-38 edge entering the fourth quarter, but Chugiak won the final eight minutes 18-10 to secure third place.

In the second half, Soldotna’s shooting went cold at 14 percent (3 of 21), and overall, the Stars hit 16 of 23 attempts from the freethrow line.

Brittani Blossom pumped in 15 points to lead SoHi, while Ituau Tuisaula notched 10 points and 10 boards and Danica Schmidt had nine rebounds

and four steals. Chugiak got 19 points from Chasity Selden and 13 from Ari Lewis.

Friday girls Lynx 46, Stars 36 Dimond 11 9 10 16 —46 Soldotna 9 6 13 8 —36 DIMOND (46) — Rogers 7, Martinez 2, Schuster 8, Camacho-Villafuerte 2, Roth 3, Parker 0, Rabb 2, Pili 22.

SOLDOTNA (36) — McGillivray 2, Blossom 2, A. Schmidt 14, Tuisaula 10, Holland 0, Crosby-Schneider 6, D. Schmidt 2.

3-point FG — Dimond 1 (Rogers); Soldotna 1 (A. Schmidt).

Team fouls — Dimond 6; Soldotna 13. Fouled out — none.

Friday boys Kings 53, Stars 48 Soldotna 10 14 11 13 —48 Ketchikan 13 10 10 20 —53 SOLDOTNA (48) — Rich 0, Morrison 4, Hanson 2, Chumley 4, Truesdell 30, Kant 3, Michael 5.

KETCHIKAN (53) — M. Lee 16, Taylor 6, C. Lee 19, Smith 0, Kemble 1, Salazar 0, Barajas 2, Pihl 9, HiltonSeludo 0.

3-point FG — Soldotna 6 (Truesdell 5, Kant 1); KETCHIKAN 4 (Taylor 2, Pihl 2).

Team fouls — Soldotna 18; Ketchikan 12. Fouled out — none.

Saturday girls Mustangs 56, Stars 49 Soldotna 17 13 9 10 —49 Chugiak 4 17 17 18 —56 SOLDOTNA (49) — McGillivray 4, Blossom 15, A. Schmidt 6, Bouschor 3, Tuisaula 10, Holland 0, CrosbySchneider 5, D. Schmidt 6.

CHUGIAK (56) — Carlos 0, Schwartz 0, Houser 0, Young 2, Selden 19, Palmer 11, Wachmann 9, Lewis 13, Larsen 0, Beam 2.

3-point FG — Soldotna 3 (Blossom 3); Chugiak 5 (Selden 2, Palmer 1, Wachmann 1, Lewis 1).

Team fouls — Soldotna 10; Chugiak 15. Fouled out — none.

Saturday boys Knights 62, Stars 38 Colony 17 19 17 9 —62 Soldotna 12 2 15 9 —38 COLONY (62) — White 0, McMahon 19, Dearborn 4, Menard 19, Spencer 9, McPhail 0, Alley 0, Escobedo 0, Johnson 3, Finley 0, Hersrud 2, Baker 6.

SOLDOTNA (38) — Rich 0, Metcalf 0, Bouschor 0, Morrison 6, Hanson 0, Chumley 4, Truesdell 21, Kant 3, Wells 0, Rosin 0, Michael 4, Denna 0.

3-point FG — Colony 5 (Menard 2, Dearborn 1, Spencer 1, Johnson 1); Soldotna 5 (Truesdell 4, Kant 1).

Team fouls — Colony 8; Soldotna 10.

Fouled out — none.

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goals, while Vaughn Simpson and Garrett Crane added tallies. Kristaps Bareika had the shutout in net for West Valley, which had 14 shots on goal to the six for Soldotna.

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goals by Jonathan Sorenson and John Stampohar. Once again, Fairbanks struggled with the early lead.

“It was 3-0 last night and the next thing you know it’s 3-2,” Ice Dogs head coach Trevor Stewart said. “I’d like to see a little more killer instinct once we get the lead.”

Both coaches agreed a fight between Fairbanks’ Tanner Edwards and Kenai River’s Connor Scahill with 6:49 left in the first was a turning point.

“I’m a firm believer that fighting has a place in the game, and that fight is a prime example why,” said Kenai River head coach Dan Bogdan, who is 8-6-0-1 since taking over for Josh Petrich.

Scahill got in a few good licks, and by the end of the period the Brown Bears had tied the game.

Both scoring plays started with chips out of the zone, one by Soldotna’s Preston Weeks and the other by Anchorage’s Ryan Reid. Laudon Poellinger picked both up and carried the puck up the boards before shoveling it across the crease.

Thomas Walker finished the first on the far post, while Alex Klekotka banged in the second.

“Both were pretty simple,” Poellinger said. “I got a chip out of the zone, took it up the side, got it across the crease and the guy was open.”

Fairbanks has the eighth-ranked power play in the league and before Friday had only given up two short-handed goals this season.

Eagle River’s Zach Krajnik earned a breakaway against the Fairbanks power play with 9:49 left in the second period and was able to beat Fairbanks goalie Nate Reid for the game-winner.

“It was a great play,” Poellinger said.

“He’s that kind of player for us.”

Poellinger had the kind of night where he always seemed to be in the right place at the right time. That continued with 6:10 left in the second period, when Eagle River’s Connor Canterbury threw a puck at the net and it bounced off Poellinger for a 4-2 lead and three-point night.

“I actually got knocked down and got back up,” he said. “When I did, the puck bounced off me into the net. It was a lucky bounce again.”

The Ice Dogs outshot the Bears in every period, finishing with a 48-32 advantage.

Kenai River goalie Gavin Enright had 46 saves, and was never better than during a 4-on-4 sequence late in the second period.

Fairbanks had a rebound chance followed by a breakaway chance less than a minute

later. Only Enright’s cat-quick movements prevented goals on both occasions.

“I’m almost used to it now,” Poellinger said. “He makes so many crazy saves every night.”

Enright would need no crazy saves in the third. The Bears saw a lot of possession, and kept Fairbanks from chances in the middle of the ice.

“They played good, boring hockey,” Stewart said. “That’s what you want to do to protect the lead.”

Cody Moline left the game early in the second period after getting gashed in the back of the calf with a skate. Bogdan said that, fortunately, the skate missed Moline’s Achilles tendon, but Bogdan had no further updates on the injury.

Saturday, the Ice Dogs did a better job of holding the lead.

Brenden MacLaren and Jake

Borgida scored for a 2-0 lead after one, then Jonathan Sorenson made it 3-0 just 4:27 into the second.

Eagle River’s Connor Canterbury, assisted by Klekotka, cut it to 3-1 just over a minute later, but Matt Koethe and Jax Murray scored in the third to ice it.

Bears notes: A pair of former Brown Bears players are moving to the pro ranks.

Defenseman Tyler Andrews of Anchorage has signed with the Atlanta Gladiators of the ECHL. Andrews just finished a four-year career at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin, where he won a Division III title in the 2017-18 season. The 6-foot2, 205-pound 24-year-old had seven goals and 29 assists in 107 games for the Green Knights.

Defenseman Ben Campbell

has signed with the Evansville (Indiana) Thunderbolts of the Southern Professional Hockey League.

Campbell, who is from Duluth, Minnesota, recently finished a four-year career for Nichols College in Dudley, Massachusetts. The 6-foot-1, 185-pounder made the Commonwealth Coast Conference Second Team this season. He is No. 8 among defensemen in Nichols history with 48 points in 107 career games, coming on 14 goals and 34 assists.

Friday Brown Bears 4, Ice Dogs 2 Fairbanks 2 0 0 — 2 Kenai River 2 2 0 — 4 First period — 1. Fairbanks, Sorenson (Koethe, Stampohar), 0:41; 2. Fairbanks, Stampohar (Abbott, Sorenson), pp, 10:02; 3. Kenai River, T. Walker (Poellinger, Weeks), 16:03; 4. Kenai River, Klekotka (Poellinger, Reid), 19:00. Penalties — Fairbanks 2 for 15:00; Kenai River 6 for 39:00.

Second period — 5. Kenai River, Krajnik (Weeks, Reid), sh, 10:11; 6. Kenai River, Poellinger (Canterbury, Spethmann), 13:50. Penalties — Fairbanks 2 for 4:00; Kenai River 3 for 6:00.

Third period — none. Penalties — Fairbanks 2 for 4:00; Kenai River 2 for 6:00.

Shots on goal — Fairbanks 15-14-19—48; Kenai River 13-8-11—32.

Goalies — Fairbanks, Reid (32 shots, 28 saves); Kenai River, Enright (48 shots, 46 saves).

Power plays — Fairbanks 1 for 5; Kenai River 0 for 2.

Saturday Ice Dogs 5, Brown Bears 1 Fairbanks 2 1 2 — 5 Kenai River 0 1 0 — 1 First period — 1. Fairbanks, MacLaren (Mobley, Murray), 7:23; 2. Fairbanks, Borgida (Murray, MacLaren), 19:57. Penalties — Fairbanks 1 for 2:00.

Second period — 3. Fairbanks, Sorenson (Woods, Koethe), 4:27; 4. Kenai River, Canterbury (Klekotka), 5:49. Penalties — Fairbanks 2 for 15:00; Kenai River 3 for 17:00.

Third period — 5. Fairbanks, Koethe (un.), 10:06; 6. Fairbanks, Murray (Stampohar, Brown), pp, 15:04. Penalties — Fairbanks 5 for 5 for 49:00; Kenai River 1 for 4:00.

Scoreboard Basketball NCAA Men’s Tournament EAST REGIONAL First Round Friday, March 22 Duke 85, North Dakota State 62 UCF 73, VCU 58 Liberty 80, Mississippi State 76 Virginia Tech 66, Saint Louis 52 Second Round Saturday, March 23 LSU 69, Maryland 67 Michigan State 70, Minnesota 50 Sunday, March 24 Duke (30-5) vs. UCF (24-8), 1:15 p.m.

Virginia Tech (25-8) vs. Liberty (29-6), 3:10 p.m.

SOUTH REGIONAL First Round Thursday, March 21 Friday, March 22 Oklahoma 95, Mississippi 72 Virginia 71, Gardner-Webb 56 Iowa 79, Cincinnati 72 Tennessee 77, Colgate 70 UC Irvine 70, Kansas State 64 Oregon 72, Wisconsin 54 Second Round Saturday, March 23 Purdue 87, Villanova 61 Sunday, March 24 Virginia (30-3) vs. Oklahoma (2013), 3:45 p.m.

Tennessee (30-5) vs. Iowa (2311), 8:10 a.m.

UC Irvine (31-5) vs. Oregon (2412), 5:40 p.m.

Second Round Saturday, March 23 Kentucky 62, Wofford 56 Auburn 89, Kansas 75 Sunday, March 24 North Carolina (28-6) vs. Washington (27-8), 10:40 a.m.

Houston (32-3) vs. Ohio State (20-14), 4:40 p.m.

Kentucky (25-7) vs. N.C. State (27-5), TBA PORTLAND REGIONAL

NCAA Women’s Tournament

First Round Friday, March 22 Clemson 79, South Dakota 66 Mississippi State 103, Southern University 46 Arizona State 60, UCF 45 Miami 69, Florida Gulf Coast 62 Indiana 69, Texas 65 Oregon 78, Portland State 40 Saturday, March 23 South Dakota State 76, Quinnipiac 65 Syracuse 70, Fordham 49 Second Round Sunday, March 24 Mississippi State (31-2) vs. Clemson (20-12), 5 p.m.

Arizona State (21-10) vs. Miami (25-8), 3 p.m.

Indiana (21-12) vs. Oregon (30-4), 5 p.m.

Monday, March 25 South Dakota State (27-6) vs.

Syracuse (25-8), TBA

GREENSBORO REGIONAL

CHICAGO REGIONAL

First Round Friday, March 22 South Carolina 74, Belmont 52 Florida State 70, Bucknell 67 Iowa 66, Mercer 61 Missouri 77, Drake 76, OT Saturday, March 23 California 92, North Carolina 72 Baylor 95, Abilene Christian 38 Kentucky 82, Princeton 77 N.C. State 63, Maine 51 Second Round Sunday, March 24 Florida State (24-8) vs. South Carolina (22-9), 10 a.m.

Missouri (24-10) vs. Iowa (27-6), 10 a.m.

Monday, March 25 Baylor (32-1) vs. California (2012), TBA

First Round Friday, March 22 Marquette 58, Rice 54, OT Texas A&M 84, Wright State 61 Saturday, March 23 Notre Dame 92, Bethune-Cookman 50 Michigan State 88, Central Michigan 87 Missouri State 89, DePaul 78 Iowa State 97, New Mexico State 61 BYU 73, Auburn 64 Stanford 79, UC Davis 54 Second Round Sunday, March 24 Marquette (27-7) vs. Texas A&M (25-7), 10 a.m.

Monday, March 25 Notre Dame (31-3) vs. Michigan

WEST REGIONAL First Round Friday, March 22 Texas Tech 72, Northern Kentucky 57 Buffalo 91, Arizona State 74 Second Round Saturday, March 23 Florida State 90, Murray State 62 Michigan 64, Florida 49 Gonzaga 83, Baylor 71 Sunday, March 24 Texas Tech (27-6) vs. Buffalo (323), 2:10 p.m.

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State (21-11), TBA Missouri State (23-9) vs. Iowa State (26-8), TBA BYU (26-6) vs. Stanford (29-4), TBA ALBANY REGIONAL First Round Friday, March 22 Louisville 69, Robert Morris 34 Michigan 84, Kansas State 54 Buffalo 82, Rutgers 71 UConn 110, Towson 61 Saturday, March 23 Gonzaga 68, Little Rock 51 Oregon State 80, Boise State 75, OT Maryland 73, Radford 51 UCLA 89, Tennessee 77 Second Round Sunday, March 24 Louisville (30-3) vs. Michigan (2211), Noon Buffalo (24-9) vs. UConn (32-2), 7 p.m.

Monday, March 25 Gonzaga (29-4) vs. Oregon State (25-7), TBA UCLA (21-12) vs. Maryland (294), TBA All Times ADT

NBA Results

Friday’s Games Orlando 123, Memphis 119, OT Denver 111, New York 93 L.A. Clippers 110, Cleveland 108 Oklahoma City 116, Toronto 109 Houston 111, San Antonio 105 Milwaukee 116, Miami 87 Brooklyn 111, L.A. Lakers 106 Saturday’s Games Charlotte 124, Boston 117 Miami 113, Washington 108 Atlanta 129, Philadelphia 127 Minnesota 112, Memphis 99 Utah 114, Chicago 83 Dallas 126, Golden State 91 Portland 117, Detroit 112 Sacramento 112, Phoenix 103

Sunday’s Games L.A. Clippers at New York, 8 a.m.

Cleveland at Milwaukee, 12:30 p.m.

Denver at Indiana, 1 p.m.

Charlotte at Toronto, 2 p.m.

Houston at New Orleans, 3 p.m.

San Antonio at Boston, 3:30 p.m.

Detroit at Golden State, 4:30 p.m.

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

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Hockey NHL Results Friday’s Games Minnesota 2, Washington 1 Anaheim 4, San Jose 3, OT Saturday’s Games New Jersey 2, Arizona 1, SO N.Y. Islanders 4, Philadelphia 2 Colorado 4, Chicago 2 Ottawa 4, Edmonton 3, OT N.Y. Rangers 2, Toronto 1, OT Boston 7, Florida 3 Carolina 5, Minnesota 1 Winnipeg 5, Nashville 0 Montreal 7, Buffalo 4 Pittsburgh 3, Dallas 2

G L A O T U s ’ k c A i N G L A O T S c i N MIDWEST REGIONAL

First Round Friday, March 22 Washington 78, Utah State 61 North Carolina 88, Iona 73 Houston 84, Georgia State 55 Ohio State 62, Iowa State 59

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Los Angeles 4, Anaheim 3, SO Sunday’s Games

Philadelphia at Washington, 8:30 a.m.

Arizona vs. N.Y. Islanders at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, 11 a.m.

Montreal at Carolina, 3 p.m.

Colorado at Chicago, 4 p.m.

Columbus at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

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the third quarter to put the Whalers up 45-40 entering the fourth quarter. Things looked dire for Nikiski.

But, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the Bulldogs rediscovered their magic for the final eight minutes. Two 3s from Carstens and Jeffreys in the opening minute of the quarter suddenly had the Bulldogs in the lead again at 46-45, which sparked a lengthy 22-3 run.

“They all wanna score 15 points on every shot, so they try so hard,” Hitchcock explained. “Realistically, when we settle in our groove, we’re as good a team as anyone.”

At one point the Bulldogs score 14 unanswered to take a 62-48 advantage.

Lillian Carstens poured in eight points of that run herself, getting several big breakaway baskets with assists from teammates.

One such shot was set up by a crucial play by Clark that started in Barrow’s zone. Clark raced off court to snag a loose ball, throwing it back inbounds and right to a teammate, who relayed it to Carstens for the layup on the other end.

“We all just took a minute, and like, ‘Wow, we’re down right now,’” Clark said about the late furious run. “We just got this wave of energy back and were feeding off each other. We were playing more for each other than ourselves.”

ACS girls 51, Kenai 30 The Anchorage Christian Schools Lions secured their spot in the 3A girls final for a third straight year Friday with a 51-30 win over Kenai Central at the Alaska Airlines Center.

For ACS, Friday’s semifinal win was another on the path to a potential un-

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Fellow seniors Emma Wik and Kelsey Clark echoed Cartstens’ thoughts about the bonds the team formed over the seasons.

“It’s not going to be the games that I remember,” Wik said. “It’s going to be the relationships I built with all of them.”

As the top-seeded girls team in the tournament, ACS felt pressure to perform against a tested squad like Nikiski, said ACS head coach Chad Dyson.

“It’s a different kind of pressure going in because the last two years we weren’t ranked number one,” Dyson said. “I feel for the girls because they had a lot of weight on their shoulders.”

The ferocious defensive press employed by the Lions gave the Bulldogs fits early on as ACS poured in

Kenai’s Logan Satathite (left) looks for an open teammate against ACS’s Taylor Tiulana in front of her Friday, March 22, 2019, at the Class 3A girls state tournament at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

defeated season.

For Kenai, it was another notch in the belt of a season of overdue accomplishments. Head coach Cary Calvert acknowledged that the Kardinals were overmatched against one of the best girls teams in the state, but said he was happy with the fight and resiliency the team showed.

“I don’t know if we hoped to win,” Calvert said. “Win was never in our vocabulary, but compete and keep them under 50 (points). We almost kept them under, and just to where it ended up …

ACS just overtaxed us.”

For a program that had not played at a state tournament in 17 years, the quarterfinal win over Mt. Edgecumbe on Thursday and Saturday’s third-place game showing marked big signs of improvement.

“That’s a big deal for us,” Calvert said.

ACS got 20 points and 12 rebounds from Jordan Todd, who sank 9 of her 12 shots from the floor, and 11 points from Mary Kate Parks.

Kenai was led by senior Brooke Satathite, who almost notched a double-double with nine points and 11 boards. Kards teammate Liz

Hanson added six points, six rebounds and six steals to the stat sheet. Satathite was named Saturday to the All-State All-Tournament team.

Kenai assistant and conditioning coach Skeeter Creighton added that keeping the score close in the first half helped keep the motivation high.

“We’re playing the best team in the state and you’ve got to give it everything you’ve got,” Creighton said.

“The girls gave it everything they got.”

The notoriously difficult Kenai defense held for a little while in the first quarter as ACS struggled to get its offense humming. The Kards took the first lead of the game on a 3-pointer by Jaiden Streiff, but it didn’t last long against ACS. The Lions took a 12-3 lead, then pushed it to 27-13 by halftime.

Kenai kept the Lions honest by closing the gap to 32-20 midway through the third quarter.

In Saturday’s third-place contest, freshman Logan Satathite put an exclamation point on the season with 21 points on 5-for-7 shooting from the 3-point line. Se-

‘We came out too scared, too overwhelmed. We got too excited.’

— America Jeffreys, Nikiski guard

21 unanswered points in the first and second quarters to stake out a 31-6 lead with five minutes left until halftime.

“We came out too scared, too overwhelmed,” Jeffreys explained. “We got too excited.”

Ultimately, Nikiski turned the ball over 23 times as the Bulldogs struggled to gain control of a game that quickly slipped out of reach. The spurt of turnovers resulted in a lopsided game being predominantly played on one end of the court. By halftime, ACS had more than twice as many fieldgoal attempts as Nikiski at 40 to 19.

“It was a weird mixture of being pensive and panicked,” Nikiski head coach Rustin Hitchcock said.

“Once they found that balance, it just looked so much better.”

Hitchcock said the sluggish start reminded him of the Southcentral Conference title game just two weeks prior, when the Bulldogs quickly fell into a 17-3 hole in the first quarter en route to a loss.

“I think we had a flashback to the region game,” Hitchcock said. “(In that game) the press just overcame us. … This time, we almost just played too fast.

It was kind of a thing over this tournament. In the first

Kenai’s Brooke Satathite (30) looks for an open teammate with ACS defender Jordan Todd in her face Friday at the Class 3A girls state tournament at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

nior sister Brooke Satathite added 18 points on 8-for-15 efficiency and pulled down six rebounds, while Jaycie Calvert chipped in eight points. Barrow’s Lewanne Brower paced the Whalers with 18 points.

Kenai led 17-15 at halftime, then pulled away in the third quarter with a 17-9 run. In the second half, Kenai shot 52 percent (12 of 23) from the floor to Barrow’s 27 percent.

Saturday girls Kardinals 50, Whalers 42 Kenai 7 10 17 16 —50 Barrow 4 11 9 18 —42

and second quarters, it felt like we have to score 100 points all of a sudden.”

Hitchcock said Lions guard Sarah Sorrells played a key role as Sorrells hit three 3s for nine points overall. Sorrells helped spark an 11-0 run

by ACS in the final two minutes of the first quarter that pushed the lead from four points to 21-6, with three treys a part of that run.

The momentum kept up in the opening minutes of the second quarter. Parks swiped a steal and raced off for a layup with 7:05 left in the second, then took a turnover on a block

by Kelsey Smallwood the other way for a bucket.

Jeffreys helped Nikiski get back into the game midway through the second with a 3-pointer and kept it up with a post shot on the next possession.

However, the Lions used their relentless press to keep the Bulldogs at bay. By halftime, ACS led 42-18.

Dyson praised the defensive effort by Mary Kate Parks for maintaining the lead once the Lions took it. Dyson said Parks’ role in guarding the core Nikiski ballhandlers with quickness and agility helped earlier in the year against bigger 4A schools like the Dimond Lynx, who the Lions defeated.

“She consistently came to play every game, she shows up to every practice,” Dyson said.

The third quarter saw a renewed effort and execution by Nikiski with several timely buckets by Wik and Carstens, but while the Nikiski offense began clicking, the defense was still stuck in gear. For every Bulldogs bucket, the Lions were answering. By the end of the third quarter, the lead had grown to 58-32.

When the final buzzer sounded, the Lions celebrated on one end of the court, while the Bulldogs gathered around their

KENAI (50) — Calvert 8, Pierce 0, Galloway 0, Hamilton 0, Maw 2, Hanson 0, Streiff 1, L. Satathite 21, Severson 0, B. Satathite 18, Lauritsen 0.

BARROW (42) — Kaleak 9, Kippi 1, Brower 18, Balanza 0, Leavitt 0, Nicely 0, Donovan 0, Ahgeak 9, Manu 0, Brower 2, Wolgemuth 3, Elkins 0.

3-point FG — Kenai 7 (L. Satathite 5, Calvert 2); Barrow 8 (Brower 5, Kaleak 1, Ahgeak 1, Wolgemuth 1).

Team fouls — Kenai 11; Barrow 12.

Fouled out — none.

Friday girls Bulldogs 62, Whalers 54 Nikiski 13 19 8 22 —62 Barrow 17 10 18 9 —54 NIKISKI (62) — Jeffreys 11, Wik 2, L. Carstens 9, Bostic 4, Johnson 4, B. Carstens 24, Epperheimer 0, Clark 8, Druesedow 0, Hooper 0, Reichert 0, Zimmerman 0.

BARROW (54) — Kaleak 10, Kippi 2, Brower 8, Balanza 0, Leavitt 6, Nicely

0, Donovan 8, Ahgeak 16, Manu 0, Brower 2, Wolgemuth 2, Elkins 0.

3-point FG — Nikiski 3 (B. Carstens 2, Jeffreys 1); Barrow 6 (Leavitt 2, Donovan 2, Brower 1, Ahgeak 1).

Team fouls — Nikiski 15; Barrow 17.

Fouled out — Kaleak.

Lions 51, Kardinals 30 ACS 12 15 13 11 —51 Kenai 3 10 11 6 —30 ACS (51) — Parks 11, Smallwood 1, Davis 0, Reimers 2, Tiulana 3, Powell 2, Pickard 3, Sorrells 9, Yisrael 0, Todd 20.

KENAI (30) — Calvert 3, Pierce 0, Galloway 0, Hamilton 4, Maw 3, Hanson 6, Streiff 3, L. Satathite 0, Severson 2, B. Satathite 9, Reis 0.

3-point FG — ACS 4 (Sorrells 3, Parks 1); Kenai 2 (Calvert 1, Streiff 1).

Team fouls — ACS 12; Kenai 19.

Fouled out — none.

Nikiski’s Lillian Carstens unleashes a 3-pointer Saturday against ACS in the Class 3A girls state basketball championship at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

bench one last time. Hitchcock, in his first year with the team, said the season was a success regardless of the result at state.

“It’s a great way to end it for the seniors,” he said. “I thought we were the model of consistency throughout, we were able to win games on the road and lead consistently, but ultimately, off the court stuff, this is a great group of kids. Nikiski is proud of them and they should be proud of Nikiski.”

With a state volleyball championship and runnerup finish to their credit as well, Wik said the banners are what she will be most happy to see in future years.

“This is our third banner we’ve gotten to hang,” Wik said.

At the conclusion of the tournament, Nikiski

was also awarded the academic honor with an average team grade-point average of 3.90, and Carstens and Kenai Central senior Brooke Satathite were announced to the All-State All-Tournament team.

Saturday girls LIONS 63, BULLDOGS 48 ACS 21 21 16 5 —63 Nikiski 6 12 14 16 —48 ACS (63) — Parks 10, Smallwood 2, Davis 6, Reimers 15, Tiulana 2, Powell 0, Pickard 3, Sorrells 9, Yisrael 2, Todd 14.

NIKISKI (48) — Jeffreys 8, Wik 5, L. Carstens 3, Bostic 7, Johnson 2, B. Carstens 15, Epperheimer 0, Clark 8, Druesedow 0, Hooper 0.

3-point FG — ACS 6 (Sorrells 3, Davis 2, Pickard 1); Nikiski 4 (Jeffreys 1, Wik 1, B. Carstens 1, L. Carstens 1).

Team fouls — ACS 19; Nikiski 19.

Fouled out — none.

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Sunday, March 24, 2019

G ardening D ean F osdick

Want to help bees? Plant flowering herbs Herbs are among the most useful plants in nature. They can tantalize the taste buds, help cure what ails you, oil the body, perfume the air, and attract bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.

“People are getting more into herbs, with herb sales definitely on the rise,” said David Trinklein, an Extension horticulturist with the University of Missouri. “They’re using fresh herbs from the garden for culinary purposes, but another important reason is to help pollinators.”

Many gardeners are trying to help declining pollinator populations by providing them with the plants they need to thrive.

Herbs appeal to a great variety of bee species, said Francis Drummond, a professor of insect ecology and insect pest management at the University of Maine.

“It is mostly the abundant nectar that brings the bees in,” he said. “Some of the more attractive herbs to bees are thyme, comfrey, borage, oregano, bee’s friend, lemon balm, rosemary, hyssop, sage, lavender and chives.”

Most flowering herbs are attractive to pollinators, but some, like cilantro and basil, tend to lose other qualities when they blossom or bolt, said Ed Spevak, curator of invertebrates at the St. Louis Zoo. “So use the leaves earlier (for your own purposes) but then allow the plant to flower to support pollinators,” he said.

Some herbs, like cilantro, fennel and dill, produce very small blossoms that attract very small bees, Spevak said.

“Fennel and dill also serve as host plants for black swallowtail caterpillars,” he said.

Bees find flowers by way of their colour, not their scent, said David Salman, founder and chief horticulturist for High Country Gardens. “Particularly honeybees, although some native bees will feed on them as well,” he said. “But herbs primarily have Old World origins, so their primary interest is (for) honeybees which also were imported here.

“In general, annual herbs tend to be more important for butterflies, primarily swallowtails,” Salman said.

Pollinators as a whole are necessary for a huge amount of the world’s food production, but the European honeybee is a critical species, Trinklein said.

“They’re the king of the pollinators,” he said. “They are morphologically designed to be pollinators, while other species are more accidental pollinators. They’re also greater in number and activity level than other species of pollinators.”

Bees need to collect syrup and pollen from early spring through late fall to support a healthy hive, Trinklein said.

That means gardeners should plant a variety of flowers and herbs to prolong the bloom season.

Many beekeepers maintain that the herbs used for attracting pollinators should be natives, but Trinklein disagrees.

“I don’t think a bee minds if an herb is native or nonnative,” he said. “Lavender and anything in the catnip family are particularly attractive to bees.”

Gardeners seeking to support pollinators might consider planting scent gardens made up entirely of herbs.

They would provide pleasing fragrances around the home as well as nutrition for the bees, he said.

“However, it is advisable to avoid (wearing) strongsmelling perfumes, hairsprays or other fragrances which might attract to the gardener confused bees seeking out nectar,” Trinklein said.

This shows Containerized chive blossoms in a yard near Langley, Wash., which attract a variety of bee species. (Dean Fosdick via AP)

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5 tips on what to do with unwanted stuff

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer

NEW YORK — Worldrenowned tidying expert Marie Kondo is sparking joy among shoppers feeling the urge to clean out their homes.

But once you master the Japanese organizing expert’s novel approach to decluttering, what do you do with all the stuff you don’t want?

Charitable organizations like Goodwill have cited how Kondo’s popular Netflix series, “Tidying up with Marie Kondo” has led to a surge of donations. And sites like OfferUp and thredUP also note an uptick in the number of items being sent to them for sale.

Kondo recommends getting rid of items that don’t spark joy, and she calls for decluttering by category, not by location.

Still, there’s a lot of angst in figuring out the right home for unwanted items.

“I think we’re living in the age where people are taking the stress out of their lives so Marie Kondo comes at a perfect time,” said Wendy Liebmann, founder and CEO of WSL Strategic Retail. “But there’s a lot of stress in trying to find all these places that will take all these things.”

Liebmann recommends getting rid of the easiest items first. Then, deal with the harder items to give away or sell.

Here are five more rules to embrace:

BE SMART ABOUT WHAT YOU’RE SELLING Study a variety of sites from thredUP and Poshmark to find out what they accept, what carries the best value and any fees.

Make sure to sell in-season items and only clean garments. For those who have a closet full of Chanel and Prada bags, check out luxury consignment online retailer The RealReal.com.

“This is not a way to get rich. But it is a way to clean out your closet,” said James Reinhart, co-founder and CEO of thredUP.com. At thredUP, only 40 percent of received items are accepted and sold online; the rest are recycled through a thirdparty partner. If interesting in selling secondhand

In this photo thousands of garments are stored on a three-tiered conveyor system at the ThredUp sorting facility in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

items on thredUP, request a cleanout bag. New this year, customers can request a shipping label that can be used on any box.

Many of the sites including thredUP and RealReal list recently sold items so customers will know their worth. Many sites set the pricing based on quality, style, and the available inventory. Check out selling fees, which vary. For example, for all sales under $15, Poshmark takes a flat commission of $2.95. For sales of $15 or more, Poshmark’s commission is 20 percent. The fee at selling app Mercari is 10 percent.

CONSIDER APPS THAT HELP YOU SELL LOCALLY Move over Craigslist. A growing number of marketplace apps like LetGo and OfferUp let you sell locally the big sofa or other large item that would be too expensive to ship across the country. EBay also allows customers to post local listings.

Many give the option to register with your Facebook account, helping to verify its members and make it a safer exchange. OfferUp says it’s the biggest mobile marketplace for local buyers and sellers. Last year, however, it began allowing sellers to ship item across the U.S., widening the market of prospective buyers, says Natalie Angelillo, vice president of community at OfferUp. OfferUp allows users to create a custom profile link and lets buyers and sellers leave reviews for a particular deal.

In this file photo, Japanese organizational expert Marie Kondo introduces her new line of storage boxes during a media event in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

STUDY WHAT CAN BE DONATED You don’t want to waste time carting a big piece of furniture to only find out your local thrift store doesn’t want it. Best to call the local Salvation Army or Goodwill store to make sure they can either pick up the item or you can drop it off. Goodwill’s main website says acceptable donations include clothing, shoes, books, small appliances and small furniture. At the beginning of the year, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey stopped accepting book donations at their Goodwill stores but they are now accepting them again.

SCRUTINIZE DONATION BINS Heading to a local donation bin may be convenient, but unfortunately, many items wind up supporting

for-profit groups. Look for signs that spell out a clear mission statement. Also, look at what percent of sales are contributed to the charitable organization. Be wary of a donation bin without a clear mission statement.

RECYCLE ELECTRONICS Many electronics makers and retailers offer recycling programs. Amazon allows customers to receive an Amazon.com gift card in exchange for a variety of electronic devices including Amazon devices.

And, of course, there’s always that garage sale.

“Check to see if your neighborhood or homeowner’s association has a designated garage sale date,” says Target Corp.’s home style expert Camille Styles. “If not, team up with a friend who may also be looking to sell some of their items.”

Is your kitchen-sink disposal environmentally friendly?

By Katherine Roth THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

If you’re trying to be more eco-friendly at home, should you use your kitchen garbage disposal?

It depends.

“Keep in mind that when food is added to the wastewater system, it must be further treated,” says Maggie Sauerhage, a spokeswoman for the U.S Environmental Protection Agency.

She suggests learning about your local water infrastructure first.

For starters, the most eco-friendly option for food waste is to create less of it.

For unavoidable food waste, consider donating it or composting.

Beyond that, wastewater and environment experts agree that the environmental value of kitchen disposal systems depends on the wastewater system of a given locality. Disposals make sense if your wastewater system is set up to convert food waste into energy, as is the case in a growing number of big cities.

“Any food that is sent down the disposal will be filtered and captured at a wastewater treatment facility. The debris captured are typically sent off to a landfill, incinerator or to an anaerobic digestion facility (for conversion into energy) if one is close by,” says Steve Dege, director of material supply chain and solutions at the recycling company TerraCycle.

Joe Dillon, president of Racine, Wisconsin-based InSinkErator, which invented the garbage disposal more than 80 years ago, says disposals are used in more than 50 per cent of U.S. homes and in countless food-service operations. He argues that in addition to convenience, disposals are ecologically beneficial because they divert food waste from landfills.

“Using an advanced garbage disposal like the InSinkErator can lessen the environmental impact of food waste by sending the processed food particles — from meat, bones, even banana peels — through a

home’s plumbing system to facilities equipped to handle them, rather than sitting in landfills and contributing to excess methane,” he says. “A growing number of wastewater facilities are installing equipment that allows them to turn food waste into renewable energy. Cities that have introduced this technology include New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Milwaukee and Tacoma, Washington.”

But critics say disposals can be problematic near large bodies of water.

“There’s a lot of nitrogen in food waste, and nitrogen can be very harmful to marine and plant life,” says Nancy Seligson, supervisor of the Town of Mamaroneck, New York, and a past president of the non-profit organization Save the Sound.

“If you’re in an area like ours, on the Long Island Sound, which has been trying to reduce nitrogen in the water for 25 years, using a kitchen disposal system and adding unnecessary nitrogen to the water waste system might not be a good idea.”

Disposals also might not be the best option in areas with water shortages: Conveying food waste through pipes and treating it at a plant can be energy- and water-intensive.

“Another consideration that should be given is whether there is methane capture at their municipality’s water treatment plant.

Sending food scraps into wastewater streams will change their chemical composition, and whether a municipality would be able to handle this or not is a very specific question,” says Birnur Aral, a director at the Good Housekeeping Institute focusing on environmental issues.

Sauerhage, of the EPA, says that in determining how to dispose of food waste responsibly, consider these questions: Where is the effluent going? Does it go to a wastewater treatment plant or wastewater recovery facility? Has the treatment plant said it wants organic waste? Does it operate an anaerobic digestion facility?

What does it do with solids?

This illustration provided by the United States Environmental Protection Agency shows the EPA’s food recovery hierarchy pyramid. (United States Environmental Protection Agency via AP)

Is there concern over damaging your household or local piping systems?

The EPA has issued a “food recovery hierarchy” to help consumers. It’s a sort of upside-down pyramid ranking possible solutions for food waste. At the top — the most eco-friendly option — is reducing food waste, followed by distributing ex-

cess food to the hungry. The next best option is industrial uses for food waste, such as converting waste oil to fuel and food scraps to energy.

Then comes composting, either by communities or in backyards. Landfills and incinerators are the least eco-friendly destination for food waste, according to the EPA.

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Science Says: Tiny ‘water bears’ can teach us about survival

BY SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON — Earth’s ultimate survivors can weather extreme heat, cold, radiation and even the vacuum of space. Now the U.S. military hopes these tiny critters called tardigrades can teach us about true toughness.

These animals are pipsqueaks, only about the size of a period. Under a microscope they look like some combination of chubby bear and single-eyed alien.

And they are the closest life gets to indestructible.

No water? No worries.

Tardigrades survive. Antarctic cold, 300-degree heat (150 degrees Celsius), a lack of oxygen, even punishing radiation doesn’t stop these animals. They are so resilient in the face of so many dangers that scientists think their unique biology may hold clues to how we can make crops more resistant to drought, better preserve blood and medicines, and even make more effective sunscreen.

When the going gets tough for tardigrades, they curl up, dry out and wait.

Then, when the environment gets better and they get water, they spring back to life.

Scientists say they can stay dormant for decades before reanimating.

In 2007, scientists put two species of tardigrades in containers, launched

them into orbit and opened them up to cold, airless space full of punishing radiation from the sun and stars.

“If you were put into that same thing, you would explode,” said tardigrade expert Randy Miller, a biologist at Baker University in Kansas. They lived and later multiplied, and the offspring from those tardigrade astronauts are still alive, Miller said.

There are as many as 1,200 species of tardigrades, and they live all over Earth, from mountain tops to ocean depths to driveways. Not all have the ability to go dormant and come back to life.

Speaking from McMurdo Station in Antarctica, Brigham Young University biologist Byron Adams said he can walk a few hundred yards outside and find tardigrades. He called them the tigers of inland Antarctica, near the top of the limited food chain, eating algae and aquatic plants.

Miller said tardigrades seem to be the first animals on Earth to have evolved legs, and, sure enough, they look like a first draft: The rear two legs face backward while the front six face forward.

If they are hurt when they are in an active phase and can’t go into survival mode, they die like other creatures. But they don’t have a circulatory system or a skeleton, so that allows

them to curl up in a hypersurvival mode called “cryptobiosis.”

Not all the critters come back from suspended animation, Miller said. But overall, they survive, even living through Earth’s five mass extinctions.

University of North Carolina biologist Thomas Boothby wanted to know how they manage to survive in “environments we think of as being impossible to live in.” So he isolated the genes that activate when tardigrades need to go into cryptobiosis.

Boothby engineered those genes into yeast and says their tolerance to drought increased 100-fold.

He hopes the genes could also help crops better survive drought.

In December, the Defense Department’s longterm research arm gave Boothby a nearly $5 million grant to figure out what in tardigrade genes might help human health.

The idea is to see if the tricks that tardigrades use to protect themselves when they dry can be used to protect vaccines and human blood, Boothby said.

Boothby hopes to make bags of blood last longer than the current six weeks and allow them to be stored in a dried state so soldiers can take their own blood supply to battle or ambulances can carry more.

Tardigrade tricks could possibly also help with pre-

This undated electron microscope image provided by William Miller of Baker University in March 2019 shows a tardigrade , also known as a “water bear.” (William Miller via AP)

serving vaccines to help reduce the enormous cost and complexity of trying to keep vaccines cold. They could also potentially help preserve organs or damaged tissue.

Japanese scientists are studying whether tardigrade proteins could help them come up with a better sunscreen to protect against ultraviolet rays that cause skin cancer. A 2016 study showed that human cells augmented with a DNA

protein unique to tardigrades reduced radiation damage in preliminary lab tests.

Tardigrades are so otherworldly that some theorize that they could easily exist on planets outside the solar system. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb said “they could survive an impact by a rock and they could potentially be brought from another planet” to Earth.

Loeb and colleagues decided to see if life on Earth

could survive some of the worst cosmic calamities.

So they looked look at the hearty tardigrades, concluding that the water bears could survive most end-ofthe-world scenarios, like a giant asteroid crash, cosmic ray burst or nearby supernova — everything short of our sun blinking out.

“It’s good to know that at least one creature on Earth has a chance of surviving no matter what,” Loeb said.

US experts: Medicines for opioid addiction vastly underused

By Matthew Perrone THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Medicines proven to treat opioid addiction remain vastly underused in the U.S., the nation’s top medical advisers said Wednesday.

Only a fraction of the estimated 2 million people addicted to opioids are getting the medications, according to a report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The influential group, which advises the federal government, called for increased prescribing of the drugs and other changes to reduce barriers to their use.

In 2017, opioids were involved in nearly 48,000 deaths — a record. In recent years, there have been more deaths involving il-

licit opioids, including heroin and fentanyl, than the prescription forms of the drugs, which include oxycodone and codeine.

Government-approved medications, which include methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone, help control cravings and withdrawal symptoms like nausea, muscle aches and pain. Their use is backed by most doctors and medical groups. Yet they still have skeptics, especially among supporters of 12-step programs that favour abstinence-only approaches.

The report concludes that patients taking the medicines fare better over the long term and are 50 per cent less likely to die than if they weren’t on them. An “all hands on deck” response is needed — including doctors, law

This file photo shows packets of buprenorphine, a drug which controls heroin and opioid cravings, in Greenfield, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

enforcement and family members — to expand access to treatment, it said.

The group’s conclusions echo similar reports from the U.S. Surgeon General and a presidential commission appointed to President Donald Trump to make recommendations for curb-

ing the opioid epidemic.

The 14-member panel, which included addiction and rehabilitation specialists, summed up several reasons behind the low use:

STIGMA Stigma and misunderstanding about the nature

of addiction remains one of the biggest barriers to treatment in part because two of the medications used to treat opioid addiction — methadone and buprenorphine — are themselves opioids. The panel said this contributes to the mistaken belief that it’s “just substituting one drug for another.”

Experts said the medications are given at doses big enough to fend off withdrawal, but too small to produce a euphoric high.

Patients can drive, rebuild relationships and get back to work.

RULES The medicines are subject to restrictions that limit their use. For example, methadone can only be given at government-regulated clinics, which can require patients to commute.

Buprenorphine can only be prescribed by certified health professionals who must complete eight hours of training. Federal rules also cap the number of patients that these physicians can treat to 275.

The authors also note that medications are often not available to prison inmates. The report concludes there’s no scientific basis for such limitations.

LACK OF TRAINING Addiction treatment has long been separate from mainstream medical training, the report notes, which means many doctors, nurses and social workers don’t receive training on treating drug addiction. The report calls for combining addiction programs into standard medical education.

With black lung fund in jeopardy, taxpayers could foot bill

Retired coal miner John Robinson uses a nebulizer during his daily breathing treatments for black lung disease in Coeburn, Va. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan)

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Trump administration and coal industry allies are insisting that a federal black lung trust fund will continue to pay benefits to sick miners despite a drastic cut in funding.

But the expected shortfalls will be covered by taxpayers instead of coal companies, adding more debt to the already struggling fund. And at least one Republican congressman from the coalfields has added his voice to the chorus of miners and advocates worried that the fund’s promise to sick workers and their families

ultimately might not be kept.

Longtime U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers, a Republican from Kentucky’s Appalachian region, said a government report shows the trust fund “is on an unsustainable path, potentially putting the benefits on which many families in my region rely in jeopardy.”

The cut potentially means hundreds of millions in savings for coal companies, though Trump’s Labor Department acknowledges that the trust fund’s purpose was for the industry to pay for the health of workers who got sick mining coal.

In January, the tax rate

coal companies pay to support the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund was cut in half, leaving sick miners and their advocates fearing future benefit cuts from a fund that is already about some $4 billion in debt.

“The trust fund is billions of dollars in debt and we just cut the revenue stream that funds it in half, in the face of the most serious outbreak of black lung disease that we’ve seen in the U.S.,” said Wes Addington, a Kentucky lawyer who helps coal miners seek black lung benefits.

“They’re not explaining how the math works on that, and at what point it becomes a problem, and what’s the solution to that problem in a year or two years?”

The Department of Labor said in a statement Wednesday that it is obligated to continue paying benefits to sick miners, so a shortfall would be covered by borrowing from taxpayers.

“The U.S. Treasury is required by statute to make repayable advances to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund so that it can meet its obligations,” the statement said.

With cash trickling into the fund at less than half its usual rate, federal budget officials estimate that by the middle of 2020

there won’t be enough money to fully cover the fund’s benefit payments.

The 1977 law establishing the trust fund was designed to “shift fiscal responsibility for black lung benefit payments from the federal government to the coal industry,” according to a congressional budget justification document created by the Department of Labor this year.

Miners say coal operators want to foist their obligations back on the government.

“It only seems fair that since this is an industrycaused problem, the industry should be paying for these benefits instead of shifting the burden onto taxpayers, as they have done,” United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts said in a statement Wednesday. Roberts said miners are concerned that the mounting deficit in future years will force lawmakers to cut benefits.

Lawmakers could restore the tax rate to its 2018 level, but that hasn’t happened. Some Democratic senators, including West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, have sponsored a bill to extend the 2018 tax rate for another 10 years. The rate of $1.10 per ton of underground mined coal was cut by more than half to about

50 cents in the new year.

The fund took in about $450 million in revenue in fiscal year 2017.

The mining industry supported the higher tax rate’s expiration.

“We must provide peace of mind to American miners and their families by restoring the excise tax on coal,” Sen. Warner said in a statement. “Anything else is an empty promise.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had pledged last year to not let the tax rate expire, but that didn’t happen. McConnell has maintained that benefits would continue to be paid despite the cuts.

In a statement, McConnell spokesman Robert Steurer said Wednesday that an increase in the tax “would require a bipartisan and bicameral effort that can pass both chambers.” Steurer noted that that effort would have to begin with a bill in the House of Representatives.

Carl Shoupe, an exminer in Harlan County, said he believes lawmakers and the industry “are just kicking the bucket down the road.”

“I honestly believe they’ll start cutting benefits, if people don’t start speaking up and standing up for them,” Shoupe said.

Addington, executive director of the Appala-

chian Citizens Law Center in Whitesburg, Kentucky, said he has seen a spike in miners seeking black lung claims, and the CDC has reported on the proliferation of a serious strain of black lung that is sickening miners at younger ages.

“We’re not only seeing more claims, most of the claims we’re getting are much more severe cases of black lung than ever came into this office a decade ago,” Addington said. “And it’s not even close.”

C2 | Sunday, March 24, 2019 | Peninsula Clarion

Science Says: Tiny ‘water bears’ can teach us about survival

BY SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON — Earth’s ultimate survivors can weather extreme heat, cold, radiation and even the vacuum of space. Now the U.S. military hopes these tiny critters called tardigrades can teach us about true toughness.

These animals are pipsqueaks, only about the size of a period. Under a microscope they look like some combination of chubby bear and single-eyed alien.

And they are the closest life gets to indestructible.

No water? No worries.

Tardigrades survive. Antarctic cold, 300-degree heat (150 degrees Celsius), a lack of oxygen, even punishing radiation doesn’t stop these animals. They are so resilient in the face of so many dangers that scientists think their unique biology may hold clues to how we can make crops more resistant to drought, better preserve blood and medicines, and even make more effective sunscreen.

When the going gets tough for tardigrades, they curl up, dry out and wait.

Then, when the environment gets better and they get water, they spring back to life.

Scientists say they can stay dormant for decades before reanimating.

In 2007, scientists put two species of tardigrades in containers, launched

them into orbit and opened them up to cold, airless space full of punishing radiation from the sun and stars.

“If you were put into that same thing, you would explode,” said tardigrade expert Randy Miller, a biologist at Baker University in Kansas. They lived and later multiplied, and the offspring from those tardigrade astronauts are still alive, Miller said.

There are as many as 1,200 species of tardigrades, and they live all over Earth, from mountain tops to ocean depths to driveways. Not all have the ability to go dormant and come back to life.

Speaking from McMurdo Station in Antarctica, Brigham Young University biologist Byron Adams said he can walk a few hundred yards outside and find tardigrades. He called them the tigers of inland Antarctica, near the top of the limited food chain, eating algae and aquatic plants.

Miller said tardigrades seem to be the first animals on Earth to have evolved legs, and, sure enough, they look like a first draft: The rear two legs face backward while the front six face forward.

If they are hurt when they are in an active phase and can’t go into survival mode, they die like other creatures. But they don’t have a circulatory system or a skeleton, so that allows

them to curl up in a hypersurvival mode called “cryptobiosis.”

Not all the critters come back from suspended animation, Miller said. But overall, they survive, even living through Earth’s five mass extinctions.

University of North Carolina biologist Thomas Boothby wanted to know how they manage to survive in “environments we think of as being impossible to live in.” So he isolated the genes that activate when tardigrades need to go into cryptobiosis.

Boothby engineered those genes into yeast and says their tolerance to drought increased 100-fold.

He hopes the genes could also help crops better survive drought.

In December, the Defense Department’s longterm research arm gave Boothby a nearly $5 million grant to figure out what in tardigrade genes might help human health.

The idea is to see if the tricks that tardigrades use to protect themselves when they dry can be used to protect vaccines and human blood, Boothby said.

Boothby hopes to make bags of blood last longer than the current six weeks and allow them to be stored in a dried state so soldiers can take their own blood supply to battle or ambulances can carry more.

Tardigrade tricks could possibly also help with pre-

This undated electron microscope image provided by William Miller of Baker University in March 2019 shows a tardigrade , also known as a “water bear.” (William Miller via AP)

serving vaccines to help reduce the enormous cost and complexity of trying to keep vaccines cold. They could also potentially help preserve organs or damaged tissue.

Japanese scientists are studying whether tardigrade proteins could help them come up with a better sunscreen to protect against ultraviolet rays that cause skin cancer. A 2016 study showed that human cells augmented with a DNA

protein unique to tardigrades reduced radiation damage in preliminary lab tests.

Tardigrades are so otherworldly that some theorize that they could easily exist on planets outside the solar system. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb said “they could survive an impact by a rock and they could potentially be brought from another planet” to Earth.

Loeb and colleagues decided to see if life on Earth

could survive some of the worst cosmic calamities.

So they looked look at the hearty tardigrades, concluding that the water bears could survive most end-ofthe-world scenarios, like a giant asteroid crash, cosmic ray burst or nearby supernova — everything short of our sun blinking out.

“It’s good to know that at least one creature on Earth has a chance of surviving no matter what,” Loeb said.

US experts: Medicines for opioid addiction vastly underused

By Matthew Perrone THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Medicines proven to treat opioid addiction remain vastly underused in the U.S., the nation’s top medical advisers said Wednesday.

Only a fraction of the estimated 2 million people addicted to opioids are getting the medications, according to a report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The influential group, which advises the federal government, called for increased prescribing of the drugs and other changes to reduce barriers to their use.

In 2017, opioids were involved in nearly 48,000 deaths — a record. In recent years, there have been more deaths involving il-

licit opioids, including heroin and fentanyl, than the prescription forms of the drugs, which include oxycodone and codeine.

Government-approved medications, which include methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone, help control cravings and withdrawal symptoms like nausea, muscle aches and pain. Their use is backed by most doctors and medical groups. Yet they still have skeptics, especially among supporters of 12-step programs that favour abstinence-only approaches.

The report concludes that patients taking the medicines fare better over the long term and are 50 per cent less likely to die than if they weren’t on them. An “all hands on deck” response is needed — including doctors, law

This file photo shows packets of buprenorphine, a drug which controls heroin and opioid cravings, in Greenfield, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

enforcement and family members — to expand access to treatment, it said.

The group’s conclusions echo similar reports from the U.S. Surgeon General and a presidential commission appointed to President Donald Trump to make recommendations for curb-

ing the opioid epidemic.

The 14-member panel, which included addiction and rehabilitation specialists, summed up several reasons behind the low use:

STIGMA Stigma and misunderstanding about the nature

of addiction remains one of the biggest barriers to treatment in part because two of the medications used to treat opioid addiction — methadone and buprenorphine — are themselves opioids. The panel said this contributes to the mistaken belief that it’s “just substituting one drug for another.”

Experts said the medications are given at doses big enough to fend off withdrawal, but too small to produce a euphoric high.

Patients can drive, rebuild relationships and get back to work.

RULES The medicines are subject to restrictions that limit their use. For example, methadone can only be given at government-regulated clinics, which can require patients to commute.

Buprenorphine can only be prescribed by certified health professionals who must complete eight hours of training. Federal rules also cap the number of patients that these physicians can treat to 275.

The authors also note that medications are often not available to prison inmates. The report concludes there’s no scientific basis for such limitations.

LACK OF TRAINING Addiction treatment has long been separate from mainstream medical training, the report notes, which means many doctors, nurses and social workers don’t receive training on treating drug addiction. The report calls for combining addiction programs into standard medical education.

With black lung fund in jeopardy, taxpayers could foot bill

Retired coal miner John Robinson uses a nebulizer during his daily breathing treatments for black lung disease in Coeburn, Va. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan)

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Trump administration and coal industry allies are insisting that a federal black lung trust fund will continue to pay benefits to sick miners despite a drastic cut in funding.

But the expected shortfalls will be covered by taxpayers instead of coal companies, adding more debt to the already struggling fund. And at least one Republican congressman from the coalfields has added his voice to the chorus of miners and advocates worried that the fund’s promise to sick workers and their families

ultimately might not be kept.

Longtime U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers, a Republican from Kentucky’s Appalachian region, said a government report shows the trust fund “is on an unsustainable path, potentially putting the benefits on which many families in my region rely in jeopardy.”

The cut potentially means hundreds of millions in savings for coal companies, though Trump’s Labor Department acknowledges that the trust fund’s purpose was for the industry to pay for the health of workers who got sick mining coal.

In January, the tax rate

coal companies pay to support the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund was cut in half, leaving sick miners and their advocates fearing future benefit cuts from a fund that is already about some $4 billion in debt.

“The trust fund is billions of dollars in debt and we just cut the revenue stream that funds it in half, in the face of the most serious outbreak of black lung disease that we’ve seen in the U.S.,” said Wes Addington, a Kentucky lawyer who helps coal miners seek black lung benefits.

“They’re not explaining how the math works on that, and at what point it becomes a problem, and what’s the solution to that problem in a year or two years?”

The Department of Labor said in a statement Wednesday that it is obligated to continue paying benefits to sick miners, so a shortfall would be covered by borrowing from taxpayers.

“The U.S. Treasury is required by statute to make repayable advances to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund so that it can meet its obligations,” the statement said.

With cash trickling into the fund at less than half its usual rate, federal budget officials estimate that by the middle of 2020

there won’t be enough money to fully cover the fund’s benefit payments.

The 1977 law establishing the trust fund was designed to “shift fiscal responsibility for black lung benefit payments from the federal government to the coal industry,” according to a congressional budget justification document created by the Department of Labor this year.

Miners say coal operators want to foist their obligations back on the government.

“It only seems fair that since this is an industrycaused problem, the industry should be paying for these benefits instead of shifting the burden onto taxpayers, as they have done,” United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts said in a statement Wednesday. Roberts said miners are concerned that the mounting deficit in future years will force lawmakers to cut benefits.

Lawmakers could restore the tax rate to its 2018 level, but that hasn’t happened. Some Democratic senators, including West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, have sponsored a bill to extend the 2018 tax rate for another 10 years. The rate of $1.10 per ton of underground mined coal was cut by more than half to about

50 cents in the new year.

The fund took in about $450 million in revenue in fiscal year 2017.

The mining industry supported the higher tax rate’s expiration.

“We must provide peace of mind to American miners and their families by restoring the excise tax on coal,” Sen. Warner said in a statement. “Anything else is an empty promise.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had pledged last year to not let the tax rate expire, but that didn’t happen. McConnell has maintained that benefits would continue to be paid despite the cuts.

In a statement, McConnell spokesman Robert Steurer said Wednesday that an increase in the tax “would require a bipartisan and bicameral effort that can pass both chambers.” Steurer noted that that effort would have to begin with a bill in the House of Representatives.

Carl Shoupe, an exminer in Harlan County, said he believes lawmakers and the industry “are just kicking the bucket down the road.”

“I honestly believe they’ll start cutting benefits, if people don’t start speaking up and standing up for them,” Shoupe said.

Addington, executive director of the Appala-

chian Citizens Law Center in Whitesburg, Kentucky, said he has seen a spike in miners seeking black lung claims, and the CDC has reported on the proliferation of a serious strain of black lung that is sickening miners at younger ages.

“We’re not only seeing more claims, most of the claims we’re getting are much more severe cases of black lung than ever came into this office a decade ago,” Addington said. “And it’s not even close.”

Peninsula Clarion | Sunday, March 24, 2019 | C3

Community

Celebrate our students: Maggie Winston At the Kenai River Campus of Kenai Peninsula College, we like to celebrate our students and share their successes with our community. Here is one of many: Taking full advantage of what she calls KPC’s “amazing disability services team,” Maggie Winston graduated from KRC in 2013 with an Associate of Arts in general studies and in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. KPC, she said, “enabled me with every opportunity to complete my degree locally.

Any class that was not available to me on campus was available online, facilitating more opportunities for success.”

Maggie listed three key things she gained in her experience at KRC: (1) “I learned how to better advocate for my needs by requesting and receiving accommodations for equal access to class materials.”

(2) “I found joy and satisfaction in helping others through tutoring.” (3) “I learned the importance of critical analysis and using reason to guide decisionmaking.”

Since graduation, she has continued on her path to success. “I have dug my wheels pretty deep into disability service,” she said.

She illustrated a children’s book by mouth-painting/ drawing. Former Alaska Gov. Bill Walker appointed her to (and she is currently chair of) the Governor’s Council on Disabilities and Special Education. She also works at the Independent Living Center as a systems advocate/transition specialist and recently became an adjunct for the LEND program with UAA’s Center for Human Development.

“My entire goal for my career has been to help others, travel and make a comfortable wage,” Mag-

The Recycling Bin The birds are on their way back to us from their southern realms.

Let’s make them welcome in our yards. We don’t have to buy anything, we can reuse so materials we already have. Leaving little piles of leaf litter attracts insects that we don’t want and birds do. Little bundles of twigs are great for nesting material as well as hair, feathers, bits of wool yarn. Check out Audubon’s website ‘Beyond the Bird Feeder’ for do-it-yourself natural bird conservation.

Our Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is a good source of wild bird information. And a good bird identification book adds much to enjoying our winged friends.

Thanks for making St. Patrick’s Day a success The Sterling Community Center would like to thank all the businesses and community members that attended, helped and donated to our St. Patrick’s Day event on March 16.

It was a huge success — lots of wonderful food catered by Yo!Tacos, auctioneer by Norm and Barb Blakeley, bartender by Karla McCloy, cashier by Debbie Debnam, entertainment by the Murray Girls and all the help from the board members.

We want to also thank the community supporters that attended the function and spent their dollars, which will help on operations cost for the center. Thanks to the businesses that donated items for the auction: Power Point Productions, Glynn Murray, Vonnie & Charlie Pierce, CBC Rental, Lauri Johnson, Hydra Murray, Alaska Railroad, Wet & Wild Alaska Fishing, Buckets Bar & Grill, Papa Murphy’s Pizza, Yo!Yacos, Marie McConnel, Oilers Baseball, Team Melissa & Grace-5 Star Realty, Cake Lady, Mountain Moma, Pad Tai Café’, Bailey’s Furniture, Suzan & Fred, Glynn Murray, Pywackets, Wok n’ Roll Food Truck, Diamond Dance Project, Ammo Can Coffee, Leora Pooler, Mike’s Welding, Verba’s, Lori Engler, Bing Brown’s and Al & Bunny Swan.

gie said. “Directly due to my experience at KPC, I am doing exactly that now.

I travel to Juneau once or twice a year during legislative sessions to advocate for services for individuals with disabilities, and in April I will be taking my third trip to Washington, D.C., with students I mentor in the LEND program, to meet with our national congressional delegation and advocate further. Last summer I planned the first annual Disability Pride Celebration for the Kenai Peninsula, and I’m currently helping to build a summer work program for transition-age youth with disabilities to acquire work-readiness skills. I’ve got a bomb career thanks to KPC!” Recently engaged, she encourages anyone interested in further education to look to our local college: “My advice to others that might be considering an

Maggie Winston graduated from Kenai River Campus in 2013 with an Associate of Arts in general studies and in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. (Courtesy photo)

education at KPC is ‘Just do it!’ Sign up for one class and just try it out. If you’re willing to do the work and give the time, then abso-

lutely anyone can get a degree at KPC. Anyone.”

We congratulate Maggie on her career path, as she continues to strengthen her

Community voices Become a Global Family with AFS-USA Have you ever considered being a host parent to an exchange student from another country?

Each year, AFS welcomes more than 2,200 international students to the U.S. These are outstanding young people who were selected in their home countries to study in U.S. high schools and are eager to experience what it’s like to live in America.

Sharing daily life with a teenager from another country and culture is a rich and rewarding experience and is a wonderful way for you and your family to bring more understanding into the world.

Current AFS host mom in Soldotna Liz Solomon says the following about hosting an exchange student: “One would never know our exchange student came to the Kenai Peninsula from the bustling big city life in Portugal, as you watched her glide effortlessly on her skate skis to the finish line at her last ski meet of the season. From the minute she landed in Alaska (well, after sleeping 15-plus hours or so) Margarida was eager to participate in every new activity and opportunity that came her way, and quickly assimilated into an entirely new life style.

Having her in our home and family this year was a joy! She has really impressed us with her sense of adventure, her independent nature, and kindness and sensitivity towards others. She has taught our only child how to share his space and our attention, how to catch waves in the Hawaiian surf, inspired him with her guitar and ukulele music, and advised him on how not to invite a girl to the high school homecoming dance. In return, he taught her how to catch a halibut, shared his ice skating and archery techniques, showed her some piano tunes and American rap songs, and introduced her to wild Alaskan blueberry pie!

Hosting an international student has been a very enriching experience for the entire family and is a wonderful way to teach your children to be open-minded, sensitive, and welcoming to other cultures and customs.”

Host families provide a bed and meals, share their daily lives with students, and help guide and support students as they would their own children. Families and their hosted students receive ongoing support from AFS staff and experienced, local volunteers.

Families on the Kenai Peninsula interested in learning more about hosting an international exchange student, reading incoming student bios, and more can contact Eileen Bryson, AFS Volunteer, by emailing eileendbryson@ gmail.com or by phone at (907) 690-2779.

And there is a wonderful chance to meet this year’s great exchange students on the Central Peninsula by coming to our AFS 38th Annual International Dinner tonight, March 24, at 6 p.m. at Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church. There will be short talks by our 7 students, a gourmet dinner with food from these 7 countries, and even a great Silent Auction.

(Courtesy photo)

Break up, let’s don’t rush it

U nhinged A laska N ick V arney

This is a tough stretch of time for the testosterone tribe. Winter storm damages must be assessed, tires changed over and oil changes completed. Missing gardening tools must be tracked down before one’s bride discovers they are missing and then, most importantly, fishing gear retrieved and sand blasted for rust and solidified organic material — including the tackle boxes that may have living organisms just waiting for a bit of sunshine and warmth to make things really ugly when their lids come off.

Obviously, this volatile stage of the year puts a tremendous amount of pressure on the ability of the male species to make quality decisions. We don’t

need any unexpected trials or tribulations invading our rugged karma. At least, I don’t.

Enter my bud, Willie.

I should have never asked for his help in hauling off some yard debris after my old chore truck came close to coughing up its clutch and went on strike for at least one new spark plug.

It’s perplexing. I never ran out of steam when I was 18 years old.

Anyway, I forgot that W.W.’s latest pickup makes my oxidized little beater look like a new 2500 Dodge Ram. He lives 4 miles away and I swear I heard him leave his driveway. I spotted the black exhaust when he was about a quarter of a mile out and wondered how many concerned citizens called in a fast-moving spring brush fire heading west on East End Road.

When he finally started down our gravel access, there was so much smoke,

own skills and make our state stronger at the same time. We are proud of her success, and proud to call her our own.

roaring backfires and sparks flying that he would make the arrival of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse look like a pony ride at a school carnival.

As he careened into our front yard, he suddenly slid sideways toward the cabin and then spun into a 180-degree turn, neatly coming to a stop, back end first, against the brush pile.

“Wow, that was some kind of drivin’ Willie!” I grumped while trying to extricate myself from a batch of dried thorn-enhanced rose bushes that I launched into when realized my butt was occupying the same garden space that his rig had been skidding toward.

“What are you talkin’ about bro?” W asked while fussily wiring his driver’s door back on.

“That cool back-spin up to the trash heap.” I answered. “Where did you learn that?”

“What trash heap? Hell, I couldn’t see a thing there for

a minute, too much smog in the cab. I was just hopin’ I had enough brake pad left on my left front wheel to slow the beast down and kick it sideways ‘fore I ended up in your front room. Ain’t got nuthin’ left on the other three but some serious grindin’ noises. Guess I should get them buggers fixed when I get my PFD, unless I need it for bail again.”

“Willie, we can’t use your heap to haul trash. The thing looks like a leftover obstacle course chassis from a monster truck rally. I can see the transmission case through the truck bed.”

“You sayin’ my righteous ride t’ain’t safe, Nicko?”

Willie barked.

“Well, let’s just say I never seen a vehicle before with more holes in it than Bonnie and Clyde’s getaway car running on tires patched up with duct tape.” I shot back.

“I think I’ll just burn the junk.”

“You ain’t touching my truck, you ungrateful

#%&@*le!” Willie snorted.

“Chill out, Willie the Wiz, I was talking about the brush, although now that you mention it…”

Just about the time W.W. started to turn as red as his glowing engine block, Jane stuck her head out of the door to remind me that a basketball game that I had earlier deemed “momentous” would be starting soon.

Willie and I immediately declared a truce, shot into the cabin and assumed proper horizontal snacking positions while cracking a couple of cold ones.

A few minutes before the opening jump ball, I picked up the distant thunder of some really colorful vocabulary emanating from the basement where my love was starting the laundry.

Her heated soliloquy was spawned by the fact that our water pump had blown its pressure switch hose. I immediately responded in a manly manner by initiat-

ing a shutdown of the water storage feeder pipes and stopped the flooding of the lower floor before the water level got deep enough to qualify for a tide book. Not only that, I was able to contact an excellent plumber with a 30-minute response time (a fishing buddy) and barely missed five minutes of the game.

As for the brush removal, that will be taken care this Monday when they release my fossilized rig from rehab. W won’t be able to make it. Something about his truck and an officer without a sense of humor.

I hope things slow down a bit around here. Wives in hip boots and heavy-duty rain gear battling an errant pressurized hose while their hubbies check their basketball bracket scores have been known to cop an attitude.

Nick can be reached at ncvarney@gmail.com if he isn’t still swamping out the basement.

C4 | Sunday, March 24, 2019 | Peninsula Clarion

An interview with the editor

By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a series of stories about the people who make up the Clarion news team.

After just over a year in Alaska, Peninsula Clarion’s editor-in-chief Erin Thompson has decided that the state is the crossroads between natural beauty and fear of death.

“I recently drove to Fairbanks to go to the hot springs, which was totally worth it. We decided on a whim to drive the Steese Highway to Circle,” Thompson said. “I got about 80 miles in before I had a panic attack on an icy road that was at the very top of a mountain and had no guard rail. There was an amazing view but I didn’t take any photos because I was too busy figuring out how to turn my car around without dying.”

Kenai Peninsula Clarion Editor-in-Chief Erin Thompson takes a break from the newsroom with a roadtrip to Fairbanks. (Photo by Erin Thompson)

Thompson moved to Kenai from Lincoln, Nebraska, in December 2017 to work with the Peninsula Clarion as a reporter on the cops and courts beat.

She is originally from San Francisco, but as a selfdescribed “army brat,” she moved around.

Around the Peninsula Sterling Senior Center breakfast The Sterling Senior Center will be serving breakfast on Saturday, March 30 from 9 a.m. to noon. The menu includes sausage, bacon, ham, scrambled eggs, pancakes and biscuits and gravy. $10 for Adults, $5 for children. Everyone is welcome. All proceeds benefit the center. For further information call 262-6808.

The KPC Showcase presents: An Alaskan Doctor’s Perspectives on Antarctica with Dr. Kristin Mitchell

“We lived on a base in Oakland when I was a kid, and then moved to Germany when I was in middle school,” Thompson said. “I ended up in Kansas for high school, which was terrible and I would not recommend it.”

After studying in New

York City at Sara Lawrence College, Thompson found herself in several “ridiculous” temp positions throughout the city.

“One of my first temp jobs was moving money around for a bank in New Jersey — but we could only make changes to the system one week a month. So three weeks a month, eight hours a day, I was in a room with 12 other people with nothing to do,” she explained. “I spent a lot of time writing fiction about the ennui of corporate life — I was 24 and thought that was very insightful.”

From New York City, Thompson found her way to Guam where she lived on and off for about seven years. First, she worked as a reporter for the weekly newspaper, the Pacific Daily News. She then worked as a freelance business reporter and as a senator’s press secretary.

“I actually lived on a

directions or more information, call 907-283-7222 or toll free 800-652-7222. Meeting materials will be posted online at www.circac.org.

LeeShore Center monthly board meeting The LeeShore Center will be holding its monthly board meeting at The LeeShore Center on Wednesday, March 28.

The meeting is open to the public and begins at 6 p.m. For further information call 283-9479.

Trauma Workshop

Dr. Kristin Mitchell will present An Alaskan Doctor’s Perspectives on Antarctica on Thursday, April 4 at 6:30 p.m. in the McLane Commons, Kenai Peninsula College.

Mitchell recently visited Antarctica as part of the Homeward Bound initiative. She was one of 80 women hailing from 23 different nationalities that were a part of this program, with each of them specializing in various fields of science, engineering, technology and mathematics.

A Trauma Workshop will take place on March 30, 1-4 p.m. at Soldotna United Methodist Church with Trauma Specialist, Lisa Schmitter. This workshop will explain trauma and the physiological and psychological impact it can have. It will provide you with tools to regulate and begin to heal from the trauma. Traumas can be recent or from years ago. Lisa Schmitter, a trauma specialist who has 35 years experience, will share the latest research and neuro hacks for moving from PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) to Post Traumatic Growth. Visit the Facebook page for the Trauma Workshop at https://www.facebook.com/ events/2327680134135110/.

Seward Fish & Game Advisory Committee election meeting

Kenai Peninsula Foundation grant cycle opening

The Seward Fish & Game Advisory Committee will hold an election meeting on Thursday, April 4 at 7 p.m. at the City Council Chambers, located at 410 Adams Street in Seward.

Agenda will also include a review of the BOF meeting, discussion of BOF Cook Inlet proposals to submit, and any other items of business that may properly come before the committee. For more information contact Jim McCracken at 362-3701.

Kenai Peninsula Foundation 2019 competitive grants cycle is open from March 6 to April 3. We are currently accepting applications. Please direct general questions to KPF’s Program Manager, Hadassah Knight, at hknight@alaskacf. org. Please direct eligibility and technical questions about the online grant system to The Alaska Community Foundation at grants@alaskacf.org.

Kenai/Soldotna Fish & Game Advisory Committee election meeting The Kenai/Soldotna Fish & Game Advisory Committee will hold an election meeting on Thursday, April 4 at the Kenai River Center at 6 p.m. Also on the agenda will be preparing BOF proposals, and any other business that may come before the committee. For more information contact Mike Crawford at 252-2919.

Canine Good Citizen Advanced (CGCA) test Kenai Kennel Club will be offering a Canine Good Citizen Advanced (CGCA) test on Sunday March 31 at 10:30 a.m. at Kenai Kennel Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Hwy Unit 21 (behind Home Gallery in the mall Job Center is in). Your dog must have successfully passed the CGC test before testing for CGCA. To register for the CGCA test or with any questions, contact Paula at paulalovett@yahoo.com.

Combat fishing auction The Armed Services YMCA of Alaska, and the Seward Charter Fleet invite you to our 13th Annual Armed Services Combat Fishing Auction will take place Thursday, March 28 at 3720 Bellanca Way, Unit B in Anchorage. Begins at 5 p.m. Cocktails at 6 p.m. Live Auction. Hors d’Oeuvres.

No cover charge. Bid online now: www.asymca.org/alaskacft-auction. All proceeds go to support active duty, guard, and reserve military members stationed in Alaska. For more information about this event or to inquire about tournament sponsorship opportunities, please contact the ASYMCA at 907.552.9622 or Welcome.Center@akasymca.org To learn more about the Combat Fishing Tournament, visit: www. asymca.org/alaska-cft.

Caregiver Support Program Workshop and Open House Kenai Peninsula Family Caregiver Support Program Workshop and Open House will take place in the Blazy Mall, Suite # 209 on Tuesday, March 26 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Drop by our office to see how we may best serve you via the workshop, access to our lending library, durable medical equipment closet, gain information and assistance, or for a cup of coffee and to visit. Workshop Presentation 1-2 p.m.: “The Family Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease” focuses on strategies to help deal with behavior issues such as perception of reality, agitation, hallucinations, sleeplessness, sundowning, wandering and incontinence. Please join us to share your experiences as a caregiver, or to support someone who is a caregiver. If you are helping a family member or friend by being a caregiver, contact KPFCSP to see how we may help. Please call Sharon or Judy at (907) 262-1280, for more information.

CIRCAC board of directors meeting Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council (CIRCAC) represents citizens in promoting environmentally safe marine transportation and oil facility operations in Cook Inlet. CIRCAC is holding its Board of Directors Meeting on Friday, April 5 at 9 a.m. at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association building, 40610 Kalifornsky Beach Road, Kenai, AK 99611. The public is welcome to attend. For an agenda,

SPEAK meeting SPEAK (Support Group for families of children who live though disabilities) will be meeting the third Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Love Inc. building 44410 K-Beach Rd. Parents, Grandparents, Guardians, and care givers service providers and resource representatives are encouraged and welcome to come and participate. This is great way to connect with others through their overcoming successes as parents, grandparents, and caregivers. SPEAK is a resource-based group. Please no children, childcare is not available. Questions call 907-252-2558 or 907-9536325.

Soldotna Community Schools Program upcoming classes —Coffee Fundamentals: Explore the history, farm cultivation, home brewing methods and structured tastings with Declination Coffee Roasting Co. owner and head roaster Hollis Swan. Students will walk away with a vocabulary in tasting and describing coffees as well as an understanding of home brewing equipment and techniques. Saturday, March 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. $45 per person (includes free pound of coffee).

—Survival Gardening: This is a one-day course on intensive organic gardening in our unique climate with Jackson Gardens Nursery owner Bobbie Jackson. Learn everything from planning, planting, harvesting and preserving the harvest. This class will demonstrate that anyone can grow their own vegetables, herbs, fruit, grains and flowers. Regardless of where you live, whatever the weather, experience level, garden size, finances, available time, age or physical ability.

Seeds and supplies will be provided to make seed tapes and start some plants for your garden. Saturday, March 23 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. $50 per person.

—Wilderness Living Skills: Learn hands-on training in the skills of wilderness living and modern survival. The focus of this class will be on clothing, fire, shelters, hazards and safety. Class will occur inside Centennial campground but will meet in the parking lot of the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. Saturday, March 23 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. $20 per person.

For more information and to registers call Soldotna Parks & Recreation at 907-714-1211.

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 252-0558 for more information.

Kenai Alternative High School 5th Rotation interviews Kenai Alternative High School is currently scheduling interviews for our 5th Rotation. Interviews will be held the week of March 25. Classes for the 5th Rotation begin April 8. Students who are interested in scheduling an interview are asked to call the school at 335-2870 between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

ranch in the jungle for a while — we didn’t have running water inside at first, so I had to bathe and wash dishes with a hose, and I spent most of my time warding the house from spiders — which are plentiful, huge and terrifying,” she said.

Guam is an American territory, so parts of it felt like the United States, according to Thompson.

“But it’s also in the Pacific with a very unique island culture,” she said.

“There are beaches and luxury hotels for tourists, but also small villages and family ranches and large areas of relatively undeveloped jungle and wilderness.”

Thompson left the spider-laden jungles of Guam and landed in Kenai, where she can often be found running errands with her dog, Rusty, by her side.

“He’s very old and has a heart condition so he makes terrible wheezing sounds

when he wants attention,” Thompson explained of her dog. “We like to go to the landfill to drop off trash and see the eagles circling the refuse. Rusty stays in the car because otherwise he would get eaten by an eagle.”

Thompson is also known for making elaborate meals that end up going uneaten, or painting while watching science fiction shows on Netflix.

When not meandering around the landfill, Thompson is the public’s go-to person when they have thoughts on the Peninsula Clarion.

“I’m the editor — so I read and edit stories before they go on the page, copy edit, lay out articles and photos, work with reporters to develop content and generally field queries from the public,” Thompson said. “If someone has thoughts about our newspaper — good or bad — I’m the person who gets the call.”

CIRCAC scholarship deadline CIRCAC is giving away two $2,500 scholarships to graduating high school and college-age students pursuing coursework in environmental sciences or maritime technical and vocational studies. Applications can be filled in online at https://www.circac.org/outreach/scholarship-program/.

For more information, call 907-283-7222. The deadline to apply is March 26.

“Alaskans Choose Respect” Awareness The LeeShore Center cordially invites you to join us for the 10th Annual “Alaskans Choose Respect” Awareness Event March 27 in support of state-wide efforts to raise awareness of domestic violence and sexual assault. We will meet at noon in Kenai on the Frontage Road in front of the gazebo at Leif Hansen Park at noon and walk to the Kenai Visitors & Cultural Center. Refreshments will be served. For more information contact the Education and Training Assistant at 283-9479.

Seeking host families The Central Peninsula AFS chapter is seeking host families for the 2019-20 school year. There are currently seven high school exchange students hosted by local families, and we will be sending four local students abroad next year. We have a strong organization and lots of support for host families. If you are interested in learning more, contact Eileen at 690-2779 or Laura at 394-6949.

AFS foreign exchange student dinner The 38th annual AFS foreign exchange student dinner will take place Sunday, March 24 at 6 p.m. at Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church in Kenai. Meet our seven exchange students and enjoy food from their countries: Thailand, Lebanon, Holland, Tanzania, Portugal, Germany and Spain. All proceeds go to support local host families and the four Peninsula students who will study abroad next year.

Tickets are $25 or $10 for kids, and are available at River City Books, the UPS store in Soldotna, or from AFS students and volunteers. Call Connie at 398-3128 for more information.

The Nikiski Community Recreation Center —Call out to local vendors: It’s time to reserve your space! Booth Space is available for the annual Family Fun in the Midnight Sun/Nikiski Days Event scheduled for Saturday, June 15. Interested vendors are encouraged to contact us early. Applications will be available online www.northpenrec.com —American Red Cross Lifeguard class: The Nikiski Pool is looking for lifeguards. Class will be held April 8 through April 12 from 5-10 p.m. For more information, call 7768800.

—Aqua Hiit: Nikiski Pool is offering a new aquatic fitness class for Heart & Lung health. This is a low-impact, instructor-led cardio and pulmonary exercise that is beginner friendly. Class is free with pool admission. Class will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10-11 a.m. March 19 through May 9. For more information, please call 7768800.

—Spring clean community garage sale: The annual NCRC community garage sale will be held Saturday, March 29 from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Make sure to pre-register for this event. Forms can be picked up from NCRC or the Pool or they can be printed off of the website. For more information, call 776-8800 or check out our Facebook page.

—NPRSA spring craft fair: The annual NPRSA spring craft fair will be held Saturday, April 13 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Come see what local craftsmen and artisans have made! Vendor booths are available, but they fill up quickly so reserve your space today. Call 776-8800 for more information.

—Lifeguard prep class: Nikiski Pool will be hosting a Lifeguard Prep class for those 13 years and older from March 19 through April 4 on Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 5-6 p.m. This class is for anyone interested in lifeguarding or wanting to work on their water skills.

—Indoor soccer: NPRSA is now registering youth ages 4th through 5th grade for Indoor Soccer. Practices will start after Spring Break and games will begin in April. For more information or to register, please call 776-8800.

—Fitness classes: NPRSA has many offerings to help you meet your health goals in 2019. The following fitness classes are held at NCRC: Strong by Zumba with Samantha Pate: Mondays at 9:30 a.m. and Fridays at 9:30 a.m.; Yoga with Lacey Stock: Mondays at 6 p.m. and Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.; Body Blast with Lacey Stock: Tuesdays at 6 p.m.

—Spin Class with Teri Langston: Wednesdays at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 9:30 a.m.

—Tuesday night log rolling: The Nikiski Pool hosts log rolling on Tuesday nights from 6:45-7:45 p.m. This FREE family-friendly event is for ages 5 and up. Come try out your skills on the key log! For more information, please call 7768800.

—NCRC Open Gym Nights: Teen Center, Monday – Friday, 2:30-8 p.m.

—Full Swing Golf, Monday – Friday. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Sister sets up shop in town, sweeps up couple’s friends DEAR ABBY: Several years ago, I was diagnosed with a rare illness called Wegener’s granulomatosis. Because of the way this illness has affected me, I have a hoarse, raspy voice and probably will the rest of my life.

The problem is, I get asked all the time by almost everybody I speak with, “What’s wrong with your voice?” or, “Do you have a cold?” I’m a journalist who is on the phone constantly, so I get asked this question numerous times every day. Whenever I tell the truth (it’s just the way I talk), people immediately feel bad, so I usually just lie and say, “Yes, I have a cold,” or, “I have allergies.”

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-- JUST TIRED IN THE EAST DEAR JUST TIRED: I see no way to prevent people who don’t know you from asking the question.

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DEAR ABBY: Recently I borrowed a power tool from a neighbor. When I tried to use it, it didn’t work. So I called my neighbor and we tried to fix it with no luck. To be polite, I said I was sorry.

He replied, “You could pay for it.”

It’s a fairly expensive tool, and I definitely did not break it. It never worked.

Do I owe him anything other than to thank him? If it was something under $50, I’d probably offer to buy a new one to keep relations cordial. But under the circumstances ...

-- IT DIDN’T WORK DEAR DIDN’T WORK: Talk to your neighbor again and repeat what

you said. However, THIS time tell him your apology was not an admission of guilt, but condolences and regret that you were the bearer of bad news.

Then give him Abigail Van Buren MORE bad news, that you will not be paying for something you didn’t break.

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I have recently come across a locally owned Chinese restaurant that’s affordable.

The food is quite delicious. My wife takes issue with the Styrofoam containers the restaurant provides for leftovers.

She claims they leak chemicals into the leftovers on top of being environmentally unfriendly.

On our last visit, to my surprise and consternation, she brought her own glass food storage container with her to the restaurant. Is it appropriate to bring your own container to restaurants for leftovers?

-- LEFTOVERS TO GO DEAR LEFTOVERS: I’m wracking my brain trying to come up with a reason why it would be inappropriate, if the patron doesn’t mind the hassle of bringing it. In fact, it seems like an intelligent, environmentally friendly solution to an overcrowded landfill problem, as long as the restaurant doesn’t object.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Dear Heloise: My precious mother-inlaw, who was from Missouri and lived to be 95-plus, rode to church with us. When she would come out of her house, she would say to us with a smile, “Too much health?”

Meaning, had she overdone her makeup.

I loved her and wish she was still here to HOSIERY HELPER tell ME if I have “too much health”! At 79, I Dear Heloise: A footed piece of pantyhose still love to wear blush and eye shadow, but I stretched over a coat hanger works nicely to don’t want to overdo it.

-- Barbara G., Colorado Springs, Colo. grab dust, crumbs, pet hair and other yucky things from under the stove and refrigerator.

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-- Heloise P.S. Read on for another hint about hosiery.

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Dear Heloise: My kids are asking for a dog, but they both have ALLERGIES. What would be a good breed for them?

-- Karen S., Fort Wayne, Ind. Karen, allergy-prone kids need a hypoallergenic (less likely to cause an allergic reaction) breed.

What causes the allergies? Dander and shedding, mostly. The symptoms can be itchy, watery eyes, sneezing and rash.

No dog is completely hypoallergenic, BUT there are breeds that are more hypoallergenic than others: Shih Tzu, Yorkshire terrier, poodle, Maltese and even the hairless Chinese crested are good choices.

These dogs (except the Chinese crested) have HAIR that grows, not FUR, and they require regular grooming, which can add up. These breeds need their faces and eyes kept clean, too.

Whichever breed you choose, look online for a rescue group for that particular dog breed. They are out there.

-- Heloise

Dear Readers: Linda M., via email, sent a picture of her gorgeous, smiling German shepherd, Lucy Belle, playing in the yard with some colorful balls. What a stunner!

To see Lucy Belle and our other Pet Pals, visit my newly updated website, www.Heloise.com, and click on “Pet of the Week” at the top of the page.

Email your funny and furry friend to Heloise@Heloise.com. Include age, breed and amusing anecdote!

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Dear Heloise: While helping a friend with party invitations (which requested no gifts) to her 50th anniversary, I had an idea.

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Jaqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, March 25, 2019: Spontaneity serves you well this year. You land well if you do not overthink your actions. If single, you meet someone out of the blue who intrigues you. You like his or her offbeat manner and style.

If attached, the two of you plan a long-awaited trip.

SAGITTARIUS has a lot of suggestions about this vacation. Be spontaneous.

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) HHHHH Your energy builds all day long. You pitch in willingly and help others if needed. An adventurous idea or project appeals to you. Your sixth sense kicks in, encouraging a risk. New information heads your way, allowing you to feel more independent and free. Tonight: Getting into a new experience.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH One-on-one relating proves satisfying.

You hear or share some news that really needs to be kept hush-hush. In a discussion you discover the importance of knowing what to do and when to do it. Start honoring timing more often. Tonight: Take some time to reflect, then decide on your plans.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You communicate enthusiasm, especially to a close loved one or associate. As you get behind an idea or project, you recognize that success could be more strategic than you realized. With it will come greater responsibility. Is this what you want?

Tonight: Share your thoughts with a trusted admirer.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Getting what you want done could take more time than you realize. You could decide to work longer than you intended. Understand that you are human and can do only so much. Tonight: Take a brisk walk to refresh your energy.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH You feel energized and ready to go. You are unusually lucky, especially if spontaneous and willing to accept a different type of person or attitude. At a later date, you could look at this period as significant in your life history. Be aware of your actions and words. Tonight: Acting as if you were a kid.

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loved one or partner wants. Be willing to ask for clarification. You could easily misread the conversation, as could the other party. Honor your foundation. Tonight: Head home early.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You seem to naturally defer to a partner or close associate. Communicate the bottom line as far as your willingness to be flexible. Return calls and be responsive to others. You could hear some interesting news, which you will share. Tonight: At a favorite haunt.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Curb an innate possessiveness that could come over you. You recognize the importance of letting go. Nevertheless, you might have difficulty being so nonchalant and easygoing. Your ability to reach out to those in your daily life earmarks your actions. Tonight: Stick to your budget.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH All eyes seem to focus on you and look for your leadership. You are unusually fortunate. Your ability to look at the big picture makes a big difference. You communicate creatively to others and help them see that same big picture. Tonight: As you like it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HH You might want to stall when making a decision. Get more facts and/or find a new possibility or path. Stay centered and worry less about the outcome of this decision. More information is forthcoming and will help clear your mind. Tonight: Make it easy.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH You speak your mind and share more of your ideas. A certain group of associates recognizes that you have unusual ideas that often prove to be successful. Express your caring to a special friend. This person needs to hear your voice and appreciation. Tonight: Follow your friends.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH You could experience a high level of stress, yet you cannot come out on top in a work-related issue. Others admire your ideas and presentation.

If you relax, you might be surprised at how the end results change. Tonight: A must appearance.

BORN TODAY Singer Aretha Franklin (1942), singer/songwriter Elton John (1947), theologian St. Catherine of Siena (1347)

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MICHAEL J WELCH is applying under 3 AAC 306.300 for a new Retail Marijuana Store license, license #19834, doing business as COLDSMOKE FARMACY, located at 840 KALIFORNSKY BEACH RD, SUITE B, SOLDOTNA, AK, 99669, UNITED STATES.

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Must have current driver license Drug test mandatory Hourly DOE Plus benefits

Interested persons may object to the application by submitting a written statement of reasons for the objection to their local government, the applicant, and the Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office (AMCO) not later than 30 days after the director has determined the application to be complete and has given written notice to the local government. Once an application is determined to be complete, the objection deadline and a copy of the application will be posted on AMCO’s website at https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/amco. Objections should be sent to AMCO at marijuana.licensing@alaska.gov or to 550 W 7th Ave, Suite 1600, Anchorage, AK 99501.

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Issue 12, 2019

Founded by Betty Debnam

Life With Deafness

Living with deafness

A little boy named Benjamin spells his name using American Sign Language.

People who don’t hear well are sometimes frustrated by how hearing people act toward them. Kids who see another child wearing a hearing aid might make fun of him. They might ignore him because they think he won’t be able to understand what they’re saying.

Many people with hearing loss have learned to overcome this challenge. They use tools such as hearing aids, lip-reading or sign language to communicate. They appreciate people who talk directly to them so that they can watch lips and facial expressions.

Technology has made a big difference in helping people communicate.

• Closed-captioning makes it possible to read what the people on TV are saying.

• TTY or TDD is a special type of telephone. One person types in a message, and the other person can read it on a screen.

• Captioned telephones work something like TTY. They are faster because software changes the spoken words to text.

• Texting, email and instant messaging are great tools for people with hearing loss.

Some tools are less high-tech, but they still work. Flashing lights and vibrating alarms can alert people to a fire or a ringing phone. Service dogs may be used to warn their owners of dangers.

image by Wil C. Fry

Do you know anyone at your school or in your neighborhood who is deaf or hard of hearing? You might have a grandparent who has lost some of his or her hearing over the years and now uses a hearing aid.

For Deaf History Month, March 13 through April 15, The Mini Page learned more about living with deafness.

A person is considered deaf if he or she can’t hear other people speak, even when using a hearing aid.

Why are some people deaf?

Hearing loss happens for different reasons.

Some people are deaf or hard of hearing from birth. Their hearing loss might be caused by damage in the brain or in the ears, or it might be inherited. Others may have worked at very loud jobs, which hurt their hearing over time.

Listening to loud music can ruin our ability to hear. Deafness can also be caused by diseases, infections or fluid in the ears.

Ears at work

Just beyond the part of the ear you can see is the ear canal, where sound enters our brain. The waves of sound meet the eardrum and the ossicles (AH-sih-culs), small bones in the middle ear, and cause them to vibrate. Those vibrations make tiny hair cells in the cochlea (KOH-klee-ah) move and send electrical messages to our brain through the auditory nerve. Then our brain takes over to understand the sound.

Helping deaf students Almost 400 years ago, a Spanish man named Juan Pablo Bonet developed a way for people with hearing loss to communicate with each other.

In the mid-1700s, a Frenchman, Charles-Michel de l’Épée, used Bonet’s signs to develop an alphabet. He also started a school for deaf children in Paris.

Laurent Clerc was a graduate of l’Épée’s school. In 1815, he traveled to London and met Thomas Gallaudet (gal-uhDEHT), a teacher who wanted to help deaf people learn.

Clerc and Gallaudet came to the United States and started the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1817. Today, Gallaudet University is in Washington, D.C. In the United States, many people use American Sign Language. The alphabet is shown at right.

image by Isaac Hohlamme

Resources On the Web:

• bit.ly/MPhearing1

At the library:

• “Some Kids Are Deaf” by Lola M. Schaefer

The Mini Page® © 2019 Andrews McMeel Syndication

Try ’n’ Find

Mini Jokes

Words that remind us of deafness are hidden in this puzzle. Some words are hidden backward, and some letters are used twice. See if you can find: A E L H C O C R R T

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Adapted from “The Robin Takes 5 Cookbook for Busy Families” with permission from Andrews McMeel Publishing (andrewsmcmeel.com).

7 Little Words for Kids Use the letters in the boxes to make a word with the same meaning as the clue. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of letters in the solution. Each letter combination can be used only once, but all letter combinations will be necessary to complete the puzzle.

1. madness (5) 2. way of dressing (5) 3. keep in your mind (8) 4. idea (6) 5. when the sun rises (4) 6. ask to come to a party (6) 7. finds at fault (6)

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Cook’s Corner Frozen Vanilla-Mango Bars

The distinctive blue color that Earth presents to the universe may be altered by the end of this century due to effects of a warmer climate.

Scientists predict that blue regions, such as the subtropics, will become more blue, while areas nearer the poles may turn a deeper green as warmer waters stimulate larger and more diverse blooms of phytoplankton.

image courtesy NASA

AID, BRAIN, CANAL, CAPTION, COCHLEA, DAMAGE, DEAF, DISEASE, EARDRUM, EARS, FLUID, HEAR, HISTORY, INFECTION, LANGUAGE, LOSS, LOUD, MUSIC, OSSICLES, SIGN, TECHNOLOGY, TOOLS.

Wendy: What do you call a person who washes whales?

Will: A blubber scrubber!

adapted with permission from Earthweek.com

For later: Look in your newspaper for items that might help deaf people.

Teachers: For standards-based activities to accompany this feature, visit: bit.ly/MPstandards. And follow The Mini Page on Facebook!

Answers: anger, style, remember, notion, dawn, invite, blames.

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