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MARCH 9, 2014 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 135

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Photos by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion

Kash Bishop, 3, licks sugar from his fingers as he eats a piece of fry bread Friday at Ft. Kenay in Kenai. Proceeds from the monthly “Fry Bread Fridays” will be used to buy a new fire supression system for the Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church .

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Community turns out for monthly pastry sale to benefit iconic Russian Orthodox church By RASHAH McCHESNEY Peninsula Clarion

The sweet smell of fry bread wafted down the sidewalk in Old Town Kenai Friday as a steady stream of people walked into Fort Kenay for their monthly fix of the sugary pastry. It has been more than year since the enterprising volunteers at began luring in passersby with the promise of sweet fry bread and succulent pirozhki in the kitchen at Fort Kenay and by all accounts, the fundraiser has been a success. “We raised about $5,000 last year,” said volunteer Dorothy Gray.

Inside the kitchen, above the din of voices, Lydia Pollard sweats above the stove — pausing occasionally to adjust the paisley bandana holding her back her hair. She’s full of jokes. “I hear juvenile delinquents,” she shouts as Kaydence Monti and Kash Bishop walk through the door. “Oh that little girl can put away the fry bread.” The two know what they want and they walk right up to the counter to get it — Bishop, 3, can barely see into the kitchen but reaches his arm up to get at the sweet bread anyway. Gray smiled at Bishop’s

chubby fingers waving in the air as she handed two pieces of the bread, fresh off of the stove, to the waiting children and said, “Sugar?” The traditional pastry can sprinkled with powdered sugar or cinnamon; butter and honey are also available. They sell $2 for one or $5 for three. Proceeds from the bake sale benefit the Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church which sits across the street from Fort Kenay and is a frequently visited tourist attraction year round —weekly services are also held at the church. Father Thomas Andrew,

Top: Volunteer Dorothy Gray cuts into a fresh stack of cinnamon rolls while wearing one of the Russian-made aprons sold at Ft. Kenay. Gray said the group can sell about 250 pastries on a busy day. Left: Mary Lou Bottorf pays for her treats. Proceeds from the sale benefit the Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church in Kenai.

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Chicken 50-year-old libel decision still pox on widely used in modern cases the rise JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press

By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

Three cases of chickenpox in young adults from the Kenai and Soldotna area since mid-February have been reported by the Alaska Department of Health in a press release Thursday. State officials believe there is potential for more people to be at risk of exposure for anyone who has not been exposed to chickenpox or received a vaccination. Dr. Brian Yablon, a state epidemiologist, said chickenpox is very contagious and can cause serious complications to infants, adolescents and adults who have not been exposed. “People think of chickenpox as being a mild disease,” he said. “It can cause complications including See POX, page A-13

WASHINGTON — Singer Courtney Love hadn’t been born and tweeting was reserved for birds when The New York Times won a landmark libel case at the Supreme Court in 1964. But when a California jury decided recently that Love shouldn’t have to pay $8 million over a troublesome tweet about her former lawyer, she became just the latest person to lean on New York Times v. Sullivan, a case decided 50 years ago Sunday, and the cases that followed and expanded it. The Sullivan case, as it is known among lawyers, stemmed from Alabama officials’ efforts to hamper the newspaper’s coverage of civil rights protests in the South. The decision made it hard for public officials to win lawsuits and hefty money awards over published false statements that damaged their reputations. In the decades since, the justices have extended the decision, making it tough for celebrities,

AP Photo/Alik Keplicz

Iditarod 2014 Peninsula mushers’ progress as of 9 p.m. Sunday

6. Mitch Seavey, out of Kaltag 20. Paul Gebhardt, in Kaltag 36. Travis Beals, out of Galena 40. Kristy Berington, out of Galena 42. Anna Berington, in Galena 45. Danny Seavey, out of Ruby 53. Monica Zappa, Kasilof, out of Cripple

In this Aug. 28, 2010 file photo, Courtney Love of the U.S. band Hole performs at the Sluzewiec Racing Track in Poland. when a California jury decided recently that Love shouldn’t have to pay $8 million for a troublesome tweet about her former lawyer, she became just the latest person to lean on New York Times Obituaries..................... A-3 Opinion......................... A-4 v. Sullivan.

Kenai approves new P&Z meeting changes By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

The Kenai City Council unanimously approved an ordinance to allow telephonic participation for the Planning and Zoning Commission, but not before one amendment vote hung in the balance on a disconnected call Wednesday night. With council members Mike Boyle and Tim Navarre participating telephonically at Wednesday’s city council meeting, an amendment proposed by council member Robert Molloy to reduce the number of callins commissioners could make be reduced from four to two in a calendar year was up for a vote. The verdict was split 3 to 3 when Vice-Mayor Ryan Marquis asked for Boyle’s vote. No answer. Boyle’s call had been dropped and the council took a slight recess until he called back. “You are the swing vote,” Marquis said. Boyle voted yes and the amendment passed, 4-3. The council approved all four amendments, two suggested by Mayor Pat Porter and the other two by Molloy. The council unanimously passed the ordinance, after more than three months of it being on their agenda. The ordinance was postponed at the Feb. 19 meeting so amendments proposed by Molloy could be finalized. At that meeting, Porter and Navarre participated telephonically and Porter motioned to delay the vote so she could review the amendments in person. On Wednesday, Porter passed the gavel over to vicemayor Marquis so she could make two amendments to the ordinance. The first requiring a quorum of four commissioners always to be present at each meeting. The other being when the commission act as a quasijudicial body making decisions on conditional use permits, only people present could vote. Molloy said the mayor made a good compromise with her amendments. He said he originally did not support the ordinance because the commission used the same template for the city council on telephonic participation and he does not see the two bodies as functioning the same way. “It is like comparing apples to oranges,” he said. “Council meets 35 times a year while planning and zoning meets 17 times.” See P&Z, page A-12

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politicians and other public figures to win libel suits. Newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations were the primary means of publishing when the Sullivan case was decided. Today, the case applies equally to new media such as Twitter, Facebook and blogs. Because of the ease of publishing online, more people may claim the protections granted

by the decision and others that followed. “It seems reasonably clear that the protections afforded by Sullivan and the cases that came after it apply to both media and non-media speakers,” said Lee Levine, a First Amendment lawyer who co-wrote a recent book on the case. See CASE, page A-2 C

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