Peninsula Clarion, April 11, 2014

C

M

Y

K

Guns

Golf

Snowshoe teaches sportshooting class

Haas leads Masters tournament by 1

Recreation/C-1

Sports/B-1

CLARION

Mostly sunny 42/22 More weather on Page A-2

P E N I N S U L A

Friday-Saturday, April 11-12 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 164

Question Should a state-wide ban on smoking in public places be enacted? n Yes; or n No.

To place your vote and comment, visit our Web site at www. peninsulaclarion. com.

Results and selected comments will be posted each Tuesday in the Clarion, and a new question will be asked.

Suggested questions may be submitted online or e-mailed to news@peninsulaclarion.com.

50 cents newsstands daily/$1.00 Sunday

Keeping an eye on the sky Biologists look to amateur birdwatchers to help find struggling Rusty Blackbirds

By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

Beginning Saturday, wildlife biologists statewide will be watching the skies in search of a bird in dramatic decline. They are hoping to get more help to report sightings.

Audubon Alaska, a conservationist society out of Anchorage, is launching the Rusty Blackbird Spring Migration Blitz from April 12 to May 31.

The project, in coordination Courtesy photo from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Lloyd Spitalnik with the Alaska Department of A female rusty blackbird perches on a branch. Biologists are Fish and Game, is encouraging hoping birdwatchers will keep an eye out for the bird. anyone to log bird sightings in

eBird, a datasheet that could help biologists understand factors that have landed the Rusty Blackbird in the red on the 2010 Alaska WatchList.

The Rusty Blackbird is a boreal perching bird, which migrates back to Canadian forests and Alaskan wetlands in the spring. The species has seen a 90 to 98 percent decline in global population since 1966, according to the Audubon Alaska WatchList.

The population dropped from 13 million in 1965 to 2 million at the last report in 2010, a declining rate of 5 to 12 percent

Gov. introduces fix to unfunded pensions

C

M

Y

K

Inside ‘The sooner we tackle these fiscal problems, the better off everybody is going to be, the faster the economy grows, and the more we can guarantee that the next generation inherits a debt-free future.’ ... See page A-5

Index Opinion.................. A-4 Nation.................... A-5 World..................... A-8 Religion................ A-12 Sports.....................B-1 Recreation............ C-1 Classifieds............ C-3 Comics.................. C-9 Check us out online at www.peninsulaclarion.com To subscribe, call 283-3584.

See BIRD, page A-14

Schools funding unclear

In the news JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Gov. Sean Parnell has outlined his plan for addressing Alaska’s nearly $12 billion unfunded pension obligation in bill form.

The bill calls for moving $3 billion from the constitutional budget reserve toward addressing the public employees’ and teachers’ retirement systems. It would put about $1.9 billion toward the public employees’ system and the rest toward the teachers’ system. It calls for annual appropriations of $500 million, divided between the two.

The bill also would allow the state to request additional funds through appropriation to cover the annual contribution amount if an actuarial analysis determined that was needed. While Parnell initially proposed his plan as a budget item, his spokeswoman said members of the House majority indicated they would be more comfortable having a bill introduced.

each year. Nearly 30 percent of the Rusty Blackbird population resides in Alaska.

David Tessler, a Regional Wildlife Biologist with the Fish and Game diversity program, said there is not a lot of information to explain why the Rusty Blackbird population has dropped. Hopefully the data obtained from the blitz will provide more answers, he said.

“We are looking for basic help to figure out where they migrate and when so we can better protect their habitat for survival,” he said. “As biolo-

School board set to vote on budget Monday, final revenue amount unclear

By RASHAH McCHESNEY Peninsula Clarion

prehensive portal called the “Ocean Data Explorer.”

The aim is to provide information in a single interface for personal or professional interest in the Alaska regions oceans, said Darcy Dugan, AOOS Program Manager, from coastal managers and planners to industry or conservation to recreationists and the public.

Few things are certain about the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s budget, but what is clear is that the board of education will approve one for the upcoming fiscal year during its Monday meeting.

Though the board is required to pass a balanced budget, one in which revenues and expenditures meet, the sources of that revenue — the state and the Kenai Peninsula Borough — have yet to clarify absolute funding levels, leaving the school district to approve a budget that will change dramatically when funding sources are solidified.

The budget currently contains a $4.5 million shortfall, or lack of revenue to make up for projected spending.

The district addressed this by pulling more than $2.1 million of health care fund balance and the rest from unassigned fund balance, a type of district savings. In addition, the administration identified about $1.3 million in cuts, including an increase to the student teacher ratio.

See COAST, page A-13

See SCHOOLS, page A-14

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion

Spring Cleaning Larry Kitchen, an Alaska Sure Seal employee, cleans a parking lot on Kalifornsky Beach Road Wednesday in Soldotna.

Interactive maps highlight AK coast Photo Courtesy Alaska Ocean Observing System

By KELLY SULLIVAN Peninsula Clarion

The new portal launched

by AOOS, Monday, provides interactive maps of Alaska’s coast.

Planning for the weather forecast, tidal movements and a look at the resident wildlife on a new kayak route just became possible — before even leaving the driveway.

Anyone can virtually travel the coast of the Kenai Peninsula using the Alaska Ocean Observing System’s new com-

Legislature debates defining Soldotna Council ‘medically necessary’ abortion BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU, Alaska — The Alaska House on Thursday began debating legislation that would further define medically necessary abortions for purposes of Medicaid funding.

SB49 is similar to regulations that were approved by the state health commissioner and are currently subject of a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest.

A spokesman for Planned Par-

2014 20

28th LEGISLATURE

2nd SESSION

enthood Votes Northwest, Erik Houser, said the case is on hold pending what happens in the Legislature.

The House version of SB49 tracks closely with the version that passed the Senate last year, but it does not include language that would allow for expanded family planning services. The

bill’s sponsor, Senate Majority Leader John Coghill, R-North Pole, supported having the language removed in the House Finance Committee, calling it a mandate beyond services the state already provides. Minority Democrats plan to seek an amendment to reinstate that language, seeing those services as a way to prevent unwanted pregnancies and to reduce the number of abortions.

The House was in mid-debate when it went into recess See REGS, page A-13

C

M

Y

K

to help save pool

By KELLY SULLIVAN Peninsula Clarion

With a handful of community supporters watching, the Soldotna City Council voted to pay $50,000 toward keeping the Skyview swimming pool open. Although all council members voted unanimously in favor, several later expressed personal reservations over the decision.

The money would directly assist operational costs, and would come from the 2014-2015 city budget. The resolution states the funds would be a unique contribution.

Mayor Nels Anderson said the official request from the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board was 20 perSee POOL, page A-13

C

M

Y

K

A-2 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

CLARION P

E N I N S U L A

(USPS 438-410) Published daily Sunday through Friday, except Christmas and New Year’s, by: Southeastern Newspapers Corporation P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, AK 99611 Street address: 150 Trading Bay Road, Suite 1, Kenai, AK Phone: (907) 283-7551 Postmaster: Send address changes to the Peninsula Clarion, P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, AK 99611 Periodicals postage paid at Kenai, AK Represented for national advertising by The Papert Companies, Chicago, IL Copyright 2014 Peninsula Clarion A Morris Communications Corp. newspaper

Who to call at the Peninsula Clarion News tip? Question?

Main number.............................................................................................. 283-7551 Fax............................................................................................................. 283-3299 News email...................................................................news@peninsulaclarion.com General news Will Morrow, editor ............................................ will.morrow@peninsulaclarion.com Rashah McChesney, city editor.............. rashah.mcchesney@peninsulaclarion.com Jeff Helminiak, sports editor........................... jeff.helminiak@peninsulaclarion.com Fisheries, photographer.............................................................................................. ............................ Rashah McChesney, rashah.mcchesney@peninsulaclarion.com Kenai, courts...............................Dan Balmer, daniel.balmer@peninsulaclarion.com Borough, education ......... Kaylee Osowski, kaylee.osowski@peninsulaclarion.com Soldotna .................................. Kelly Sullivan, kelly.sullivan@peninsulaclarion.com Arts and Entertainment................................................ news@peninsulaclarion.com Community, Around the Peninsula............................... news@peninsulaclarion.com Sports............................................ Joey Klecka, joey.klecka@peninsulaclarion.com Page design........ Florence Struempler, florence.struempler@peninsulaclarion.com

Circulation problem? Call 283-3584 If you don’t receive your newspaper by 7 a.m. and you live in the Kenai-Soldotna area, call 283-3584 before 10 a.m. for redelivery of your paper. If you call after 10 a.m., you will be credited for the missed issue. Regular office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Sunday.

General circulation questions can be sent via email to circulation@peninsulaclarion.com. The circulation manager is Randi Keaton.

For home delivery Order a six-day-a-week, three-month subscription for $39, a six-month subscription for $73, or a 12-month subscription for $130. Use our easy-pay plan and save on these rates. Call 283-3584 for details.

Mail subscription rates are available upon request.

Minimum wage bill pushed

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — House Speaker Mike Chenault on Thursday said legislative passage of a bill to raise Alaska’s minimum wage would guarantee that wages go up, while the outcome of a similar ballot initiative would be dependent on the whim of votes.

Chenault, R-Nikiski, said most lawmakers he’s spoken with support having the Legislature address the issue. He said the minimum wage was once aimed at helping young people in entry-level positions.

But “it seems like that’s expanded into people trying to make a living and trying to raise a family off of those minimum wages,” Chenault told a news conference. “And I just think that we need to improve those and bring that standard up a little bit more.”

The bill introduced last week, HB384, had been slated for a vote as early as Friday.

But it was pushed to Sunday’s calendar to allow all members the opportunity to be present to vote, Chenault said.

The timing of the bill late in session has raised concerns about the Legislature’s intent.

Want to place an ad?

Classified: Call 283-7551 and ask for the classified ad department between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, or email classifieds@peninsulaclarion.com.

Display: Call 283-7551 and ask for the display advertising department between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Leslie Talent is the Clarion’s advertising director. She can be reached via email at leslie.talent@peninsulaclarion.com.

Contacts for other departments: Business office...................................................................................... Jane Russell Production................................................................................................ Geoff Long Online........................................................................................ Vincent Nusunginya

Visit our fishing page!

Go to peninsulaclarion.com and look for the Tight Lines link.

twitter.com/pclarion

facebook.com/ peninsulaclarion

Follow the Clarion online. Go to peninsulaclarion.com and look for the Twitter, Facebook and Mobile links for breaking news, headlines and more.

C

M

Y

K

An initiative can be pre-empted if the Legislature passes substantially similar legislation.

That happened in 2002, and a year later, lawmakers gutted the law, leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of union leaders and initiative supporters.

Chenault was among the lawmakers who voted to both raise the minimum wage in 2002 and then strip the major new provisions of the law a year later, according to legislative records.

If the bill were to pass, Chenault said he had no intention of revisiting the minimum wage issue for at least two years. Initiatives passed by voters cannot be repealed by lawmakers within two years of their effective dates.

Senate Majority Leader John Coghill, R-North Pole, told reporters earlier this week he thought lawmakers’ motives had been “tainted” by past actions. He said he thought there was probably reluctance among senators to move forward on a bill.

Both the House bill and the initiative would raise the current minimum wage of $7.75 an hour by $2 an hour over two years and adjust it for inflation after that.

The Alaska District Council

of Laborers, in written comments to the House Labor and Commerce Committee, which advanced the bill Wednesday, said the organization “would view any legislative attempt to subvert a vote on the pending initiative before Alaskans as an anti-worker action.”

House Minority Leader Chris Tuck, D-Anchorage, who works as a union business representative, said he believes it is best that Alaskans get to vote on the issue.

Gov. Sean Parnell said the concerns that have been raised are valid but noted that lawmakers are allowed to take action to overturn voter initiatives after two years.

“It’s really becoming more about the politics than about the substance,” he said. “If we think the minimum wage is a good piece of legislation, then we ought to pass it and pass it on to the people and not worry about whether it’s on the ballot or in a legislative session. If the substance is good, it ought to pass.”

Thursday Stocks Company Final Change ACS...........................1.89 +0.01 Agrium Inc............... 92.61 -1.58 Alaska Air Group.......91.67 -3.37 AT&T........................ 35.12 +0.20 BP ........................... 48.28 -0.50 Chevron...................116.69 -2.41 ConocoPhillips......... 69.71 -1.83 1st Natl. Bank AK... 1,764.00 +24.00 Forest Oil...................1.86 -0.02 Fred Meyer.............. 43.87 -0.85 GCI...........................10.76 -0.46 Harley-Davidson...... 66.63 -1.25 Home Depot............ 76.78 -0.98 Key Bank................. 13.50 -0.51 McDonald’s.............. 99.43 +1.08 National Oilwell........ 78.61 -0.15 Shell Oil................... 73.41 -1.06 Safeway....................37.84 -0.16 Tesoro.......................48.11 -0.74 Walmart................... 76.89 -1.08 Wells Fargo...............47.71 -1.39 Gold closed............ 1,318.29 +6.51 Silver closed............ 20.06 +0.18 Dow Jones avg..... 16,170.22 -266.96 NASDAQ................ 4,054.11 -129.79 S&P 500................1,833.08 -39.10 Stock prices provided by the Kenai Peninsula Edward Jones offices.

Oil Prices Wednesday’s prices not available

C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

Obituaries Levi Tristan Brence

Hershey Track and Field registration open

Former Kenai resident Levi Tristan Brence, 21, of Baker City, Ore., died Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at his residence.

A memorial service will be held 1:00 p.m. Monday, April 14 at the Harvest Church in Baker City with Pastor Brad Phillips officiating. A reception will follow at the Church Fellowship Hall. Memorial Contributions may be made to Levi’s family to assist with expenses. This may be done through Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel, 1500 Dewey Ave., Baker City, OR 97814.

The Nikiski Hershey Track and Field Meet will be held on May 16. North Peninsula Recreation is now taking entry forms for students ages 9 to 14. Entry forms are available at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center, the Nikiski Pool, and online at northpenrec.com. Deadline for entry is April 25. For more information, or if you would like to volunteer to help at the track meet please call Tammy at 776-8800.

Dorothy June (Palmer) Enzler

North Peninsula Recreation is inviting everyone to be a part of the Nikiski Community Mural project. Community paint workshops will be offered April 11, 12 and 14 at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center. Come one come all — help is needed to paint this large mural for the community! Morning and afternoon painting sessions will be offered. Call 776-8800 for more details.

Former Kenai Peninsula resident Dorothy June (Palmer) Enzler of Myrtle Point, Ore., died Tuesday, April 8, 2014.

She was 89.

Family and friends will gather at the Coquille River, at a later date, to scatter her ashes as she requested.

Mrs. Enzler was born on June 9, 1924 in Coquille, Ore. The youngest of seven children, her father, a minister, died when she was 4 and the family moved to Eugene, Ore., where she grew up.

In 1944, while a student at San Jose Bible College, she met and married Warren Enzler. They moved to Alaska in 1951, where they raised their family. They homesteaded in Ridgeway, later moving to Nikiski.

Dorothy was the librarian at Wildwood Army/Air Force Station until it closed and then worked for the State of Alaska. She was a member of the Kenai Christian Church, Kenai Homemakers Club, and a 4-H teacher.

After a vehicle accident in 2002, Warren and Dorothy moved to Myrtle Point to be near their daughter. (Warren died in 2007.) After a heart attack in 2010, Dorothy moved to Havens Adult Foster Home in Myrtle Point, where she passed away in her sleep.

Mrs. Enzler was preceded in death by her husband, Warren Enzler; son, Harold Enzler; and grandson, Ron Hills.

She is survived by daughters, Sue Stock of Johnson City, Tenn., Peggy Todnem of Powers, Ore., and Lois Dennett of Federal Way, Wash.; four grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren.

Arrangements are by Nelson’s Bay Area Mortuary in Coos Bay, Ore.

Peninsula Clarion death notice and obituary guidelines:

C

M

Y

K

Around the Peninsula

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

Pending service/Death notices are brief notices listing full name, age, date and place of death; and time, date and place of service. These are published at no charge.

Obituaries are prepared by families, funeral homes, crematoriums, and are edited by our staff according to newspaper guidelines. The fee for obituaries up to 500 words with one black and white photo ranges from $50 to $100. Obituaries outside these guidelines are handled by the Clarion advertising department.

Funeral homes and crematoriums routinely submit completed obituaries to the newspaper. Obituaries may also be submitted directly to the Clarion with prepayment, online at www.peninsulaclarion.com, or by mail to: Peninsula Clarion, P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, Alaska, 99611.

The deadline for Tuesday – Friday editions is 2 p.m. the previous day. Submissions for Sunday and Monday editions must be received by 3 p.m. Friday. We do not process obituaries on Saturdays or Sundays unless submitted by funeral homes or crematoriums. Obituaries are placed on a space-available basis, prioritized by dates of local services.

For more information, call the Clarion at 907-283-7551.

Community mural in the works in Nikiski

Cribbage tournament continues The Soldotna Lions 20th annual Kenai Peninsula Cribbage

Community Calendar Today 8 a.m.

• Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 398-9440.

9:45 a.m.

• TOPS #AK 196 meets at The Grace Lutheran Church, in Soldotna. Call Dorothy at 262-1303.

Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917.

12:30 p.m.

• Well Elders Live Longer exercise (W.E.L.L.) will meet at the Nikiski Senior Center. Call instructor Mary Olson at 907-776-3745.

8 p.m.

• Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “It Works” at URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai.

• AA 12 by 12 at the United Methodist Church, 607 Frontage Road, Kenai.

• Twin City Al-Anon Family group, United Methodist Church, 607 Frontage Road in Kenai. Call 907-953-4655.

Friday 3:15 p.m.

The House Labor & Commerce Committee will sponFriday 8:30 a.m. sor a public hearing to disThe House Finance Comcuss HB 346 Public Benefit mittee will sponsor a pubCorporation, SB 129 Real lic hearing to discuss SB Estate Appraisers, SB 159 74 University Of Alaska Air Ambulance Services, SB Building Fund and HB 316 145 Vets’ Retirement / Loans Workers’ Compensation / Housing / Employment and Medical Fees. Testimony will SB 58 Cancel Insurance on be taken on SB 74; HB 316 Certain Abandoned Proplisten only. erty. Testimony will be taken.

Friday 9:00 a.m. Saturday 10:00 a.m.

The Senate Finance ComThe House Finance Committee will sponsor a public mittee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss SB 216 hearing to discuss HB 349 Sexual Abuse/Assault PreAlaska Retirement Reserve vention Programs, SB 209 Fund and SB 194 Tourism Regulation Of Smoking, HB Marketing Board. Testimony 268 Big Bull Moose Derbies; will be taken.

Snow Town Ice Classic, HB 32 Lines of Business On Business License and HCR 15 Task Force On Unmanned Aircraft Systems.

2 minute testimony limit.

LIO Schedule

C

M

Y

K

A-3

Tournament continues every Saturday at 3 p.m. through May 3 at the American Legion Post 20, 902 Cook Street in Kenai. The public is invited to participate. For more information, call Ray at 776-5688 or Bob at 776-5339.

Class reunions — The 50th reunion of the Kenai High School Class of 1964 will be celebrated on June 20, 21, and 22. All classmates, friends, family, teachers, and students who attended the old Kenai High School are welcome. The class of 1964 was the last class to graduate from the old high school. Planned activities include a dance and program June 21 and a picnic June 22. For information call Mary Grainge Bodnar at 262-0995.

— It’s not too early to get started on planning for 2015. Kenai Central High School classes of 1970 through 1979 are having a reunion Aug. 1-2, 2015. Please contact Anna Carlson at 907-469-0409 or email annasherpa@gmail.com.

— Kenai Central High School Class of 1984 will be holding their 30 year reunion July 11-13, 2014. There will be a meet and greet 6-9 p.m. at the Upper Deck Lounge in Kenai Airport on July 12 with a no host bar, Prime rib dinner 7-9 p.m. at Main Street, music and dancing to follow. On July 13 from 1-3 p.m. there will be a picnic gathering at the green strip in Kenai weather permitting. Contact Mike Lott at 907-690-2032. Donations welcome.

Saturday 8 a.m.

• Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 398-9440.

9 a.m.

• Al-Anon book study, Central Peninsula Hospital’s Augustine Room, Soldotna. Call 907-953-4655.

10 a.m.

• Narcotics Anonymous PJ Meeting, URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai.

Noon • Homemade soup, Funny River Community Center.

7 p.m.

• Narcotics Anonymous support group “Dopeless Hope Fiends,” URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai.

8 p.m.

• AA North Roaders Group at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 242-9477.

The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations. To have your event listed, email organization name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone number to news@peninsulaclarion.com.

Monday 1:00 p.m.

The House Judiciary Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 315 Jury Nullification, SB 170 Affirmative Defense To Prostitution, HB 370 AWCB Controlled Substance Prescriptions, HB 254 Powers of Attorney and SCR 2 Acquire Tongass National Forest Land. Testimony will be taken.

All teleconferences are held at the Kenai Legislative Information Office, 145 Main Street Loop No. 217, Kenai, unless otherwise noted. To confirm call 283-2030 or email Kenai.LIO@akleg.gov.

To listen or watch online go to http://alaskalegislature.tv/.

A-4 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

M

Y

K

Opinion

CLARION P

C

E N I N S U L A

Serving the Kenai Peninsula since 1970 STAN PITLO Publisher

WILL MORROW ������������������������������������������������������������������������ Editor Jane Russell...................... Controller/Human Resources Director LESLIE TALENT................................................... Advertising Director GEOFF LONG.................................................... Production Manager VINCENT NUSUNGINYA.................................... New Media Director Daryl Palmer.................................... IT and Composition Director RANDI KEATON................................................. Circulation Manager A Morris Communications Corp. Newspaper

Job Shadow Day a winning collaboration Question: What do you get when you

combine 121 high school juniors and 56 local employers for the day?

Answer: In Kenai, it adds up to the annual Job Shadow Day, an opportunity for students to experience a day in the work force in a career field they might like to pursue.

Wednesday marked a milestone for the program as it was the 20th year that the school and business community have come together to give future employees a taste of the daily grind. Students were matched with businesses and agencies in a wide range of disciplines, from the oil field and support industry to health care to law enforcement — even journalism was an option for participating students.

While the experience was just half a day on the job, students had the chance to learn about the education and training needed to land a job in their chosen field. And with a taste of an actual work day, they might also have found that they might want to consider a different career. Either way, the opportunity can be a valuable experience.

Students also were introduced to some important skills for job seekers — namely, filling out a job application and writing a good cover letter and resume. When it comes time to apply for that first job, that might be the most important experience to take away from the day.

Organizing the event is a massive undertaking.

Pulling it off involves collaboration between the Kenai Chamber of Commerce, Kenai Central High School and the Peninsula Job Center. Also impressive is the number of businesses willing to participate. While there are certainly some careers that have yet to find their way to the Peninsula, there is still a diverse business community here. Job Shadow Day wouldn’t work if just a few of them were willing to participate.

Beyond some good career advice, Job Shadow Day has another significant impact in enhancing the relationship between the community and the school.

As much as we hope for a positive experience for students, we hope their job shadow hosts were left with a positive impression, too. After all, in just a few short years, those students will be entering the work force, and looking for employment with some of the same businesses that were involved in Wednesday’s event.

A big thank you is in order for making Job Shadow Day such a long running success. When dedicated organizers, enthusiastic students and willing participants from the business community all come together, it’s a winning situation for everyone involved.

Letters to the Editor Republican Party should return to roots If you are like me, you are concerned about the nation’s ever growing debt, growing government, government involvement in its citizens lives, IRS targeting, EPA over regulation, and the list goes on. I for one, want a senator that will fight for my conservative values and not “evolve” in order to fit in. The current GOP leadership in both houses have failed us! The two current Alaska senators have failed to represent our conservative values and thus have also failed us.

They get their marching orders from the establishment and obey, since they owe their election to the machine. Now is the time to support the conservative candidate that will not “owe” anything to the progressive, big government GOP establishment once in office. We are not the extremists that the GOP paints us to be, we are Reagan Republicans that want our party to come back to its roots and offer the country a true alternative to the Democratic Left Wing Party.

I am supporting Joe Miller for our senate seat. Before you start with the GOP statement of “He’s not electable,” or what I’ve heard from people around town, “He lost the general election in 2010 and then acted like a child, challenging the results,” you probably are not aware of the circumstances of what the challenge was about. Joe was defending the rule of law and his right under state election law to receive equal treatment during the hand counting of the ballots. If one candidate’s ballots receive a hand count then the other is hand counted as well. This did not happen!

Lisa Murkowski was allowed to keep the ballots that were not in compliance with the election law, i.e. those being the ones that did not contain the exact spelling of her name as required by the law. If the state no longer supports that law, then change it! Don’t ignore it like the federal government ignores the Constitution. If the government thinks the Constitution is outdated and no longer applies to this day and age, there is a process to change it. You cannot just ignore it!

Elect the man that will stand for us, the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law!

William Keller Soldotna

Many contribute to Job Shadow Day success In preparation for the 2014 Job Shadow Day, 121 juniors at Kenai Central High School spent several months researching careers and preparing business portfolios,

Puppy, Big G Electric, Blue Moose Bed & Biscuit, Buckets Sports Grill, Central Alaska Engineering, Central Peninsula Hospital, Challenger Learning Center, Chez Moi Boutique, City of Kenai Parks and Recreation, Computer Renaissance Soldotna, Alaska Department of Corrections, Doyle’s Fuel and Weaver Brothers, Inc., Dr. Mathew M Cannava, MD, Encore Dance Academy, Gentle Dental, Hilcorp, Home Depot, Homer Electric Association, Kaleidoscope School of Arts & Science, Kenai Middle School, Kenai Dental, Kenai Fire Department, Kenai Library, Kenai Peninsula Orthopaedics, Kenai Police Department, Kenai Veterinary Hospital, Kenai Wildlife Refuge, Kenai Peninsula College, Kenai Peninsula Construction Academy, Kuya Qyut’anen Early Childhood, Lynden Transport, Mountain View Elementary, Mykel’s Restaurant, New Beginnings Fitness Center, Peak Oilfield Services, Peninsula Clarion, Peninsula Health Center, Peninsula Internal Medicine, Peninsula Memorial Chapel, Peninsula Pathology Institute, PJ’s Diner, Premier Chiropractic, Redoubt Reporter, Soldotna Police Department, Stanley Chrysler, Taurianien Engineering & Testing, Tesoro, Tim’s Janitorial, Twin Cities Veterinary Clinic, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Wagging Tails, Whitey’s Music Shop, and WinceCorthell-Bryson Consulting Engineers.

Thanks again to everyone in this community who generously donated their time and effort to help these students take the next step to explore their future educational and career goals!

Sincerely, Mr. Alan Fields, Principal Kenai Central High School

Duplicate street names a public safety hazard Duplicate and similar sounding street names are a problem everywhere for emergency responders. Just a simple Google search for “duplicate street names” brings up articles of many different regions trying their best to rid their communities of this public safety issue. One article that popped up titled “Toronto Paramedics Delayed by Duplicate Street Names” explains how paramedics responding to a fatal fire in west Toronto were delayed a half an hour because two streets had the same name on opposite ends of the city.

We don’t even have to go that far to feel the effects of duplicate street names.

In 2002 emergency responders were delayed 48 minutes to an Eagle River address, where a fatal shooting occurred, because of similar sounding street names within a subdivision. This became a high profile incident that made national news and prompted both the Municipality of Anchorage and the Kenai Peninsula Borough to upgrade their 9-1-1 systems.

Do we really need to have an incident like this occur in our community to realize the importance of changing these duplicate

911 Education Month

E-mail: news@peninsulaclarion.com

Fax: 907-283-3299 Questions? Call: 907-283-7551

The Peninsula Clarion welcomes letters and attempts to publish all those received, subject to a few guidelines: n All letters must include the writer’s name, phone number and address. n Letters are limited to 500 words and may be edited to fit available space. Letters are run in the order they are received. n Letters addressed specifically to another person will not be printed. n Letters that, in the editor’s judgment, are libelous will not be printed. n The editor also may exclude letters that are untimely or irrelevant to the public interest. n Short, topical poetry should be submitted to Poet’s Corner and will not be printed on the Opinion page. n Submissions from other publications will not be printed. n Applause letters should recognize public-spirited service and contributions. Personal thank-you notes will not be published.

C

M

Y

K

uniform addresses along streets that are easily identifiable and not confusing to pinpoint. I understand that every second counts in an emergency situation. When someone is in crisis changing their address on forms and documents or whether their street name has historical significance is not even a thought in their mind, all they are doing is counting the seconds until help arrives.

For those of you that live on streets with similar names to Salmon, Great Land, Strawberry, Forest, Pine, or Spruce, the street you live on may cause a delay in emergency response because of its name.

I care about you, your family, and your neighbors, and I want to ensure that an incident like what happened in Toronto or Eagle River never happens to you. I hope you will support me in my efforts to assure efficient and timely emergency response to all Kenai Peninsula Borough residents.

street names? They are an accident waiting to happen and the only reason it has not happened yet is due to the dedication and integrity of our call-takers doing their very best to confirm the location of the emergency.

Many public employees for the Kenai Peninsula Borough, like me, are lifelong residents of this community. We live and work in this community, our children go to school together and are on the same sports teams, we personally know and are friends with local business owners; in short we care for and have a stake in this community’s success. I find real intrinsic value in the work I do and I am so grateful that I get to work alongside friends and neighbors that have dedicated their lives to protecting the life and property of our citizens. They are the true heroes — the 9-1-1 call takers/dispatchers, the fire/EMS responders, and the This information is provided by Carrie public safety officers. I feel that I work for Henson, E9-1-1 Addressing Officer, Kenai them, trying to make their job easier by en- Peninsula Borough. April is National 9-1-1 suring that locations are easy to find with Education Month.

Classic Doonesbury, 1972

Letters to the Editor: Write: Peninsula Clarion P.O. Box 3009 Kenai, AK 99611

including job applications, résumés, and cover letters. The unit culminated with individualized, first-hand workplace experiences with local business hosts from across the Central Peninsula. KCHS students and staff would like to extend our sincere appreciation to all of the individuals, agencies, and businesses that helped to support this program and to make this such a positive experience for students.

Special thanks go to the following Job Shadow committee members for organizing this annual event: Johna Beech, Gloria Ungrue, Melyssa Nordwall, and Chastity Peterson at the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center; Rachel O’Brien and Diana Spann at the Peninsula Job Center; Krista Timlin at Kenai Peninsula College; and Holly Zwink, Emily Warner, and Meredith McCullough at Kenai Central High School.

Thanks also to the City of Kenai Fire Department’s Tommy Carver and the City of Kenai Police Department’s Lieutenant Dave Ross for speaking at the luncheon; Jackie Garcia and Matt Barndt for helping students prepare their résumés; Maureen Lawlor of Central Peninsula Hospital and Craig Hansen of Tesoro for assisting with job shadow orientation; Tim Navarre for organizing donations for the luncheon; and Debbie Allen, Jim Beeson, Patti Lawyer, Tasha Thompson, Sam Strange, Lisa Gabriel, Melodie Epperheimer, and Misty Hamilton of KCHS for helping behind the scenes with organization and transportation.

Thanks to all of these businesses and organizations for donating their time and expertise to host and mentor students: Affinity Salon & Spa, Alaska State Troopers, Alaska State Wildlife Troopers, Artistic

By GARRY TRUDEAU

C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

Nation

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

A-5

House passes Ryan budget with big cuts

By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press

WASHINGTON — House Republicans rallied behind a slashing budget blueprint on Thursday, passing a non-binding but politically imposing measure that promises a balanced federal ledger in 10 years with sweeping budget cuts and termination of health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act. The 219-205 vote on the budget outline takes a mostly symbolic swipe at the government’s chronic deficits. Followup legislation to actually implement the cuts isn’t in the offing.

Twelve Republicans opposed the measure, and not a single Democrat supported it.

The measure passed after a three-day debate that again exposed the hugely varying visions of the rival parties for the nation’s fiscal future. Republicans promised a balanced budget by 2024 but would do so at the expense of poor people and seniors on Medicaid, lower-income workers receiving “Obamacare” subsidies, and people receiving food stamps and Pell Grants.

Democrats countered with a plan that would leave Obama’s health care plan and rapidly growing health programs like Medicare intact, relying on $1.5 trillion in tax hikes over the coming decade to bring deficits down to sustainable but still-large levels in the $600 billion range.

The GOP plan, by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would cut more than $5 trillion over the coming decade to reach balance by

C

M

Y

K

‘The sooner we tackle these fiscal problems, the better off everybody is going to be, the faster the economy grows, and the more we can guarantee that the next generation inherits a debt-free future.’

— Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis. 2024, relying on sharp cuts to domestic programs, but leaving Social Security untouched and shifting more money to the Pentagon and health care for veterans. It reprises a controversial plan to shift future retirees away from traditional Medicare and toward a subsidy-based health insurance option on the open market.

While staking out a hard line for the future, follow-up legislation is likely to be limited this year to a round of annual spending bills that will adhere to a bipartisan budget pact enacted in December.

But the Ryan plan does paint a picture of what Republicans would attempt if they claim the Senate this fall and the White House in 2016. Its cuts to entrenched benefit programs like Medicare and Medicaid, however, would be difficult to pass even if Republicans gained control of both the House and Senate in this fall’s elections.

“It’s totally out of touch with the priorities and values of the country,” said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. “This is a clear road map of what Republicans in Congress would do if they had the power to do it.”

In a statement, White House press secretary Jay Carney said the vote “illustrates once again

that the House Republicans’ view of the economy is a topdown approach that cuts taxes for millionaires and could raise taxes on middle class families with kids.”

Republicans say the tough cuts they promise would strengthen the economy because less government borrowing would boost savings and investment. And they say it’s simply unfair to saddle future generations with mountains of debt.

“The sooner we tackle these fiscal problems, the better off everybody is going to be, the faster the economy grows, and the more we can guarantee that the next generation inherits a debt-free future,” said Ryan.

Republicans opposing the bill were mostly tea party adherents such as Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, as well as several members of the Georgia delegation who are competing in a Senate primary. A handful of more moderate members from the Northeast, including Reps. Chris Gibson of New

York and Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey, also opposed it.

At issue is the arcane congressional budget process, which employs a nonbinding measure known as a budget resolution to set forth goals for future taxes, spending and deficits. But follow-up legislation is usually limited to one-year appropriations bills. The House Appropriations Committee has already approved two of its least controversial bills, those funding veterans’ programs and the budget for Congress itself.

Senate Democrats have announced they won’t bother with a budget plan this year, relying on Ryan’s December pact with Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray, DWash., to guide consideration of this year’s round of appropriations bills.

Ryan’s plan revives a nowfamiliar list of spending cuts to promise balance, including $2.1 trillion over 10 years in health care subsidies and coverage under the Affordable Care Act; $732 billion in cuts to Medicaid and other health care programs; and almost $1 trillion in cuts to other benefit programs like food stamps, Pell Grants and farm subsidies.

The measure also promises deep, probably unrealistic cuts to domestic programs like education, health research and grants to local governments that are funded each year through

C

M

Y

K

annual appropriations bills.

Ryan’s plan also reprises a failed strategy from last year to cut domestic agency operating budgets and shift the money to the Pentagon after 2015. When Republicans tried that last year, the House was unable to pass the follow-up spending bills implementing the cuts. They haven’t even drafted legislation that would implement their po-

larizing plans for Medicare.

Republicans say the new “premium support” system for future Medicare retirees who are now 55 or younger would prevent the budget from spiraling out of control as more baby boomers retire and the present system collapses. They also say the redesigned Medicare program would offer seniors more choices and curb costs.

Kathleen Sebelius resigns

By JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning after the rocky rollout of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, a White House official said Thursday.

Her resignation comes just over a week after the end of the first enrollment period for the Obamacare law. While the opening weeks of the rollout were marred by website woes, the administration rebounded strongly by enrolling more than 7 million people in the new insurance marketplaces.

Sebelius’ resignation following her five-year tenure in Obama’s Cabinet comes as the White House seeks to rebound from the politically damaging launch of the health care law.

But it could also set the stage for a contentious election-year confirmation hearing to replace her, as Republicans seek to make the health law the centerpiece of their efforts to retake the Senate in the November midterm contests.

The official said Obama was nominating Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, to replace Sebelius. The official was not authorized to discuss Sebelius’ resignation ahead of the formal announcement and requested anonymity.

C

M

Y

K

A-6 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

Jeb Bush exposes immigration problem

Around the World Lawyer: Teenage stabbing rampage suspect was ‘like deer in headlights’ after attack PITTSBURGH — The 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing 22 people at his high school was dazed “like a deer in the headlights” hours later and doesn’t fully grasp what he did, his attorney said Thursday as he sketched out the beginnings of a possible mental health defense.

Deepening the mystery of what set off the violence, attorney Patrick Thomassey said Alex Hribal had no history of mental illness or troublemaking, didn’t abuse drugs and was no outcast at school, where the lawyer described him as a B or B-plus student.

“In a case like this, it’s pretty obvious to me that there must be something inside this young man that nobody knew about,” Thomassey told The Associated Press.

The local prosecutor, meanwhile, said Hribal remained an enigma.

“We have very little information about him,” Westmoreland County District Attorney John Peck said, “except for the fact that he was a student, his age, and how he was as a student.”

Man blamed for crash at Florida day care that killed 4-year-old girl has surrendered WINTER PARK, Fla. — The SUV driver accused of causing a car to crash into a Florida day care, killing a 4-year-old girl and injuring 14 others, most of them children, surrendered to authorities Thursday.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office tweeted that Robert Alex Corchado was in custody at the jail. Corchado’s attorney, Jack Kaleita, confirmed it, but refused to comment further.

“He had nowhere to go,” said Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Wanda Diaz.

The surrender came a day after police say Corchado, 28, crashed his Dodge Durango into a convertible, which in turn smashed into the KinderCare building. Authorities — and the mother of the little girl who was killed — pleaded for the suspect to give up, even as they blanketed the state searching for him.

Authorities did not immediately announce charges against Corchado, but he already has a long criminal history. Nicole Quintus, whose daughter Lily Quintus was killed, said he was responsible for heartbreak.

‘Possible signal’ detected in Flight 370 search zone where past sounds were heard PERTH, Australia — For the fifth time in recent days, an underwater sensor detected a signal in the same swath of the southern Indian Ocean on Thursday, raising hopes that searchers are closing in on what could be a flight recorder from the missing Malaysian jet.

An Australian air force P-3 Orion, which has been dropping sonar buoys into the water near where four sounds were heard earlier, picked up a “possible signal” that may be from a man-made source, said Angus Houston, who is coordinating the search for Flight 370 off Australia’s west coast.

The latest acoustic data would be analyzed, he said. If confirmed, the signal would further narrow the hunt for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, which vanished March 8 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard.

The Australian ship Ocean Shield, which is towing a U.S. Navy device to detect signal beacons from a plane’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders, picked up two underwater sounds Tuesday. Two sounds it detected Saturday were determined to be consistent with the pings emitted from the flight recorders, or “black boxes.”

The searchers are trying to pinpoint the location of the source of the underwater signals so they can send down a robotic submersible to look for wreckage and the flight recorders from the Malaysian jet.

— The Associated Press

By MICHAEL J. MISHAK Associated Press

MIAMI — With three little words, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush set off a fury this week that served as a potent reminder of how difficult the immigration issue remains for his possible presidential ambitions and the Republican Party.

An early GOP establishment favorite, Bush has long urged his fellow Republicans to show more compassion for those who enter the country illegally. But when he described illegal immigration in an interview as an “act of love” by people hoping to provide for their families, the backlash from his own party was swift and stinging.

Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho, accused Bush of “pandering.”

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and House Speaker John Boehner said the country should enforce the “rule of law.” And conservative commentator Michelle Malkin created a new Twitter hashtag: #CancelJebBush.

Some of the party’s most powerful insiders and financiers are concerned immigration could define the coming nominating contest in the way it did in 2012. Like Bush, Texas Gov. Rick Perry was jeered when he implied that his rivals were heartless if they opposed a law that lets some children of undocumented immigrants pay in-state tuition at public colleges.

The nominee, Mitt Romney, took a hard line and advocated “self-deportation” for those here illegally. He won just 27 percent of the Hispanic vote, the lowest portion for a Republican in 16 years.

“The worst thing that can happen to a political party is not for voters to decide they don’t like you,” said Alex Castellanos, a GOP consultant and former Romney adviser. “It’s for voters to decide you don’t like them, and that’s where the Republican Party is right now.”

The Republican National Committee has urged the GOP to embrace an immigration overhaul, but comprehensive legislation remains stalled in Congress. Action is unlikely in an election year with high stakes. All 435 House seats, and 36 in the Senate, are on state ballots. Republicans need to gain only six Senate seats to win majority control from Democrats. The political calculus makes the GOP’s core base of voters critical, so House Republicans want to avoid an

C

M

Y

K

‘The worst thing that can happen to a political party is not for voters to decide they don’t like you. It’s for voters to decide you don’t like them, and that’s where the Republican Party is right now.’ ­— Alex Castellanos immigration fight that could alienate them. But some establishment Republicans say the delay threatens the long-term future of the GOP. “It’s going to kill the Republican Party,” said Al Hoffman, a Republican megadonor who chaired George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns.

He and others argue the GOP needs a nominee with a “Nixon-goes-to-China mentality”_in which the party leader takes an audacious, if not popular, step_on issues such as immigration. They suggest that’s necessary in part to peel away some Hispanic voters from Democrats in 2016.

For Bush, the debate is personal. His wife, Columba, was born and grew up in Mexico.

The two met while Bush was an exchange student there; she is now an American citizen.

On Sunday, in an interview with Fox News before an audience at the George Bush Presidential Library in Texas, Bush said immigrants who enter the country illegally should, in fact, pay a penalty. But he added that he viewed such a violation as “a different kind of crime.”

“Yes, they broke the law, but it’s not a felony,” he said. “It’s an act of love.”

Hispanics are a crucial voting bloc in an increasing number of swing-voting states, from Florida to Colorado to Nevada.

Some see a new opportunity for the GOP to appeal to Latinos, many of whom have soured on President Barack Obama because of his administration’s record-setting number of deportations.

“Hispanics are eager to hear from a leader in the Republican Party talk about immigration in the way that Jeb Bush talked about it,” said Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, the country’s largest Hispanic civil rights organization. “Some may argue that a bold country-first stance on immigration cannot win the nomination, but what is certain is that a divisive, anti-immigration stance does not win the presidency in a nation of immigrants.”

In contrast to the 2012 nomination fight, most of the potential 2016 presidential contenders have signaled support for some kind of immigration overhaul.

But they remain deeply divided

over whether legislation should offer a pathway to citizenship for those living here illegally.

After the Senate passed a bipartisan measure last year that would do just that, the barrage of conservative criticism virtually silenced the GOP’s most outspoken immigration advocates, including Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

The furor over Bush’s remarks shows the potential perils of picking up the issue, especially in the early voting states that play an outsized role in choosing party nominees.

Bush’s “act of love” comment was pithy and provocative enough to stir deep discomfort in a party still searching for a single message on the subject.

And it challenged GOP officials to disagree without further alienating a voter group they’re trying to attract.

“We appreciate the compassion in the statement, but the best compassion you can show a people is to uphold justice,” said Tamara Scott, a RNC committeewoman and prominent Christian conservative in Iowa.

Bush, the two-term, Spanishspeaking former governor of a state with a booming Hispanic population, has struggled to articulate his views in a party that has changed dramatically since the last time he ran for office in 2002.

Last year, Bush released a book that championed legal status_but not citizenship— for illegal immigrants, seemingly contradicting his past statements.

5 charged in the kidnapping of NC prosecutor’s father

By ALLEN G. BREED and MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press

WAKE FOREST, N.C. — A North Carolina man whose daughter prosecutes violent crimes was rescued by an elite FBI team after he was kidnapped and terrorized for five days in what authorities described as an act of retaliation involving the Bloods street gang.

Five people were arrested following a late night raid by the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team on an Atlanta apartment.

During the abduction, the kidnappers took a picture of Frank Arthur Janssen tied up in a chair and sent it to his wife, threatening to torture and dismember him if she went to police, according to court documents.

John Strong, the FBI’s agent in charge for

North Carolina, said the kidnapping was related to Janssen’s daughter’s prosecution of Kelvin Melton, who is serving a life sentence for ordering the shooting of a man in 2011.

Melton, 49, was convicted of being a habitual felon, and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.

According to the criminal complaint, Melton had a mobile phone in his prison cell and was in constant contact with the alleged kidnappers. Authorities closed in on the suspects by tracking their cellphones and listening to their calls.

Court documents said a woman knocked on Janssen’s door Saturday at his Wake Forest home in a quiet, upscale, golf course subdivision. Several people assaulted him and someone used a stun gun. He was then driven to Atlanta and his wife, Christie, reported him missing.

C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

A-7

$4 billion in bogus tax refunds a growing problem

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press

WASHINGTON An Internet connection and a bunch of stolen identities are all it takes for crooks to collect billions of dollars in bogus federal tax refunds. And the scam is proving too pervasive to stop.

A government report released in November said the IRS issued nearly $4 billion in fraudulent tax refunds over the previous year to thieves who were using other people’s personal information. Attorney General Eric Holder said this week that the “scale, scope and execution of these fraud schemes” has grown substantially and the Justice Department in the past year has charged 880 people.

Who’s involved? In a video message released ahead of the April 15 tax filing deadline, Holder said the scams “are carried out by a variety of actors, from greedy tax return preparers to identity brokers who profit from the sale of personal information to gangs and drug rings looking for easy access to cash.”

Even Holder isn’t immune.

Two men pleaded guilty in Georgia last year to trying to get a tax refund by using his name, Social Security number and date of birth on tax forms.

The IRS says it opened nearly 1,500 criminal investigations related to identity theft in fiscal year 2013, a 66 percent increase over the previous year, and has strengthened filters that

help detect where the scams are coming from. It says it stops far more fraudulent refunds than it pays out and is making a dent in the problem.

Still, the schemes have grown more sophisticated, attracting criminals with violent backgrounds who see an easy and safe vehicle for theft, according to law enforcement officials who fear that not enough controls are in place.

“I’ve been on calls with Alabama, Chicago, some other field divisions, where they’re now experiencing people who were from Florida and now moving to other states to conduct this same type of fraud,” said FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jay Bernardo, who works fraud cases in south Florida.

“Based on the parameters that are in place now,” he added, “it’s very difficult to stop.”

What can taxpayers do? The most important step: Protect their Social Security numbers.

Thieves steal Social Security numbers in any number of ways, including from publicly available sources or workplaces. Victims include school children, prisoners, Medicaid beneficiaries and the deceased. Criminals use the information to file false returns and then pocket the refund checks, in many cases before the legitimate taxpayers have had a chance to submit their own returns. It’s a crime made easier by electronic tax filing, which lets crooks mass-produce fraudulent returns.

“Part of what’s happening is people are reverse engineering,” IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told a House subcommittee this week. “You know, you file a thousand fraudulent returns and then you see which ones go through. ... They can adjust faster than we can adjust.”

In a statement Thursday, the IRS said that it has started more than 200 investigations this filing season into identity theft and refund fraud schemes and that enforcement efforts are taking place nationwide.

The agency said investigators are especially focused on the misuse of specialized identification numbers assigned to firms that electronically file tax returns.

The IRS has also said that

it’s improved its computer filters to flag suspicious refunds, including cases in which many refunds go to the same address.

In the latest sweep in south Florida, a hub for refund fraud, federal prosecutors last week announced charges against 25 people for using thousands of stolen identities to claim $36 million in fraudulent tax refunds.

In one case, a middle school food services worker is accused of stealing students’ personal information from an electronic database. In another, a jail guard is alleged to have stolen the identities of inmates and used the data to file false refunds. A mail carrier is accused of stealing tax documents out of people’s mailboxes.

President Obama marks 50th anniversary of Civil Rights Act

By JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — A halfcentury after the passage of sweeping civil rights legislation, President Barack Obama declared that he had “lived out the promise” envisioned by Lyndon B. Johnson, the president who championed the push for greater racial equality.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, which Johnson signed into law, Obama lauded his Democratic predecessor’s ability to grasp like few others the power of government to bring about change and swing open the

C

M

Y

K

doors of opportunity for millions of Americans.

“They swung open for you and they swung open for me,” he said. “That’s why I’m standing here today.

Obama spoke at the end of a three-day summit commemorating the landmark law that ended racial discrimination in public places. The anniversary has spurred a renaissance of sorts for Johnson’s domestic agenda, which included the creation of Medicare, Medicaid and the Voting Rights Act. And against the backdrop of Obama’s own troubled relationship with Congress, there have also been fresh bouts of

nostalgia for Johnson’s mastery of congressional dealmaking.

“No one knew politics and no one loved legislating more than President Johnson,” Obama said. “He was charming when he needed to be, ruthless when required.”

The president also offered rare personal insights into his views on the office he has held for more than five years, casting it as a humbling perch with powerful possibilities.

“Those of us who’ve had the singular privilege to hold the office of the presidency know well that progress in this country can be hard and it can

be slow, frustrating. And sometimes you’re stymied,” he said.

“You’re reminded daily that in this great democracy, you are but a relay swimmer in the currents of history, bound by decisions of those who came before, reliant on the efforts of those who will follow to fully vindicate your vision,”

C

M

Y

K

he continued. “But the presidency also affords a unique opportunity to bend those currents by shaping our laws and by shaping our debates, by working within the confines of the world as it is, but also by reimagining the world as it should be.”

As the nation’s first black

president, Obama faced criticism from some African-Americans in his first term for doing too little to help minorities.

He’s used his second term to focus more acutely on issues of inequality and economic opportunity, an effort that dovetailed with the commemoration of the Civil Rights Act.

C

M

Y

K

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

A-9

Syria rebel infighting kills 51 fighters BEIRUT (AP) — Fierce infighting between rival Islamic rebel groups in eastern Syria killed more than 50 fighters Thursday, an opposition group said, while government shelling left at least four teenagers dead in a town in the country’s west.

The rebel infighting took place around the town of Bukamal in the oil-rich Deir el-Zour province near the Iraqi border between rebels from the al-Qaida breakaway group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and fighters of the alQaida-linked Nusra Front and other Islamic groups. The two sides have fought each other for

months other over territory they previously captured together from President Bashar Assad’s forces.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 51 died in the rebel-on-rebel fighting Thursday. The numbers could not be independently confirmed and calls to activists in the area went unanswered.

It was the latest episode in a relentless cycle of blood and violence that has gripped the country since March 2011, when the uprising against Assad’s rule began.

Syria’s conflict began three years ago with largely peace-

‘Two volunteers from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent were among the injured as they arrived in an ambulance to treat people hurt in the first blast, and were caught in the second.’

— U.N. humanitarian affairs chief Valerie Amo ful protests calling for reform, and later for Assad’s ouster. It has evolved into a civil war and Islamic extremists, including foreign fighters and Syrian rebels who have taken up hard-line al-Qaida-style ideologies have

played an increasingly prominent role among fighters, dampening support from the West.

Thousands of fighters have been killed in rebel-againstrebel violence that intensified beginning of the year, particu-

larly in northern and eastern Syria.

Overall, more than 150,000 people have been killed in the past three years, opposition activists say.

Meanwhile, activists said four teenagers were killed in the rebel-held town of Rastan, just north of the city of Homs, a day after two car bombs exploded in a government controlled district there, killing 25 and wounding over 100. Opposition groups including the Local Coordination Committees and the Observatory said a barrage of artillery shells killed the teenagers.

U.N. humanitarian affairs chief Valerie Amos condemned the Wednesday car-bombing in Homs, saying “Two volunteers from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent were among the injured as they arrived in an ambulance to treat people hurt in the first blast, and were caught in the second.”

Attacks on civilians are war crimes and may also amount to crimes against humanity,” Amos said.

In Damascus, state-run news agency SANA said rebel mortar fire killed two civilians and wounded seven on the city’s outskirts.

Real IRA man charged with 29 Omagh bomb murders

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK Associated Press

DUBLIN — An Irish Republican Army veteran was charged Thursday with 29 murders over the 1998 car bomb attack on Omagh, the deadliest bombing of the entire Northern Ireland conflict.

Police long have considered Seamus Daly, 43, a prime suspect in the bombing, which was claimed by a breakaway faction

called the Real IRA. The blast tore through a crowd of civilians who had been unwittingly evacuated toward the bomb because of confusing telephoned warnings. Most of those killed were children and women, among them a mother 8 months pregnant with twins.

Daly, who lives in the Republic of Ireland, was arrested Monday by Northern Ireland police in the border town of Newry and was scheduled to be

arraigned Friday at a court in Dungannon, west of Belfast.

He previously served a 3-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to a charge of IRA membership in 2004.

Daly also was ruled responsible for the Omagh bombing in a landmark civil lawsuit.

A Belfast jury found that he and three other suspected Real IRA commanders should pay families of the victims more than 1.5 million pounds ($2.5

million), but the men have refused.

On Thursday, police also charged Daly with attempting to bomb the Northern Ireland town of Lisburn four months before the Omagh attack. British army experts defused that bomb.

Authorities in both parts of Ireland have failed over the past 16 years to prosecute anyone successfully over the atrocity, which came just months after

Argentina hit by nationwide strike

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press

C

M

Y

K

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A nationwide strike paralyzed Argentina’s economy on Thursday, shutting down air, train and bus traffic, closing businesses and ports and emptying classrooms. The strike also stopped all non-emergency hospital attention, left garbage in emptied streets and complicated many other aspects of life in the South American nation.

Labor leaders want higher pay, lower taxes and millions of dollars they say are owed to union-run health care providers. The government disputes this debt to the funds, which the unions lost total control of after being accused of misusing the money.

C

M

Y

K

the triumph of Northern Ireland’s Good Friday peace accord. The Real IRA was formed in 1997 in defiance of a decision by the largest anti-British paramilitary faction, the Provisional IRA, to call a cease-fire and pursue peace talks.

Two men previously charged in connection with the blast were acquitted.

A Northern Ireland electrician was charged with making the bomb, but a judge found

that the forensic evidence was flawed and police officers offered misleading testimony.

Another man was initially convicted in the Republic of Ireland of supplying the phones used by the bombers — including one phone allegedly provided to Daly — but his conviction was quashed on appeal after a court found that police had rewritten some of their notes from the man’s interrogation.

C

M

Y

K

A-10 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

A-11

A-12 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

C

M

Y

K

Religion

Why Palm Sunday became a time for tears

P

assover was near and thousands were gathering at Jerusalem for this important occasion.

Jesus and His disciples were among them and as they descended from the Mount of Olives the crowd broke into shouts of praise, crying: “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!”

This enthusiastic welcome must have taken the disciples by surprise.

On a previous visit to Jerusalem, there had been an attempt on their Lord’s life; now He was being welcomed warmly with His arrival being called the fulfillment of Zechariah’s ancient prophecy: “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold your King is coming to you. He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a

city. Jerusalem would ultimately be under siege by Roman soldiers; its citizens enduring untold suffering.

The city would be leveled and the temple destroyed. But this weeping one would also suffer. In a few days Roger C ampbell the mood of the crowd would change; donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey” their chants of praise would become (Zechariah 9:9). calls for crucifixion.

To celebrate their acceptance of Why then was Jesus so concerned this one they now called their king, about them? Why these tears? the people placed palm branches Centuries earlier, Isaiah had along the road before Him; hence the written that the promised redeemer reason for calling the annual celebra- would be a man of sorrows and tion of this event Palm Sunday. In acquainted with grief (Isaiah 53:3), remembering the triumph of that day, a prophecy that was fulfilled again however, we’re prone to forget its and again as our Lord ministered to tears. the poor, the sick, the dying. Now, When Jesus neared Jerusalem, He though the fickle crowd would soon began to weep because he knew diffi- turn against Him, Jesus grieved over cult times were ahead for this beloved their coming calamities and wept for

Voices of R eligion

Church Briefs Church shares ‘The Jerusalem Experience’ Do your kids think Easter is all about chocolate bunnies and ham dinners? Do they get more excited about cartoon reruns than the Easter story? Then make a change in their Easter this year! Bring your children to “The Jerusalem Experience” where you can use your senses to discover more than ever about the true story of Easter and the depth of Jesus’ love for us.

Bring the whole family to Grace Lutheran Church and School (47585 Ciechanski Road, Kenai) on Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon (“tours” leave every 10 minutes and last about 1 hour, the last tour leaving at noon) for a multi-sensory learning event that covers the last days of Jesus’ life on earth. Meet witnesses from the Bible; taste, touch, feel, and be a part of the Passion story; take a walking journey with your passport in hand and be transported back to the time of Christ. Come, celebrate the resurrection in a whole new experience. For more information, visit www.GraceLutheranKenai.com or call Pastor Rob Guenther at 907-690-1660.

Soldotna Catholic church plans Faith Walk

them, being more concerned with their imminent suffering than His own.

Why are we not more like Him? In his book, “Dark Threads the Weaver Needs,” Herbert Lockyer says, “At the head of the procession of the world’s sufferers is a thorncrowned man,” adding the reason most of us don’t measure up to His compassion for others is because we’re too busy looking in a mirror to look out the window.

“In a mirror,” Lockyer writes, “you see only yourself, but through a window you do not see yourself but others.”

Our Lord was ever concerned about the pain, poverty and suffering of others. His first prayer from the cross was for the forgiveness

tory”, performed by the 7th and 8th grade and high school classes for children ages 3 through high school, and ending with its annual treasure hunt. In addition, all children will receive treats and participate in other festivities with their respective classes. Please call 260-5916 or 252-1230 for questions regarding Sunday School or to arrange transportation for Sunday morning. An evening worship service begins at 5:30 p.m. and will include the AAJC Choir’s inspiring cantata, “His Last Days”, along with other special music and songs. Everyone is invited to attend any and all of these services commemorating the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

of His tormentors. And even in that place of humiliation and suffering, He took time to minister to a repentant dying thief, assuring him of heaven.

Are you so occupied with your own problems that you lack compassion for others?

Are you unlike your Lord in caring for the poor, the suffering, the discouraged and despairing?

Remember Palm Sunday’s tears.

And replace your mirror with a window.

Roger Campbell is an author, a broadcaster and columnist who was a pastor for 22 years. He can be reached at rcministry@ameritech. net.

Non-perishable food items or monetary donations may be dropped off at the church Tuesdays 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Thank you for your support.

Sack Lunch Sunday in Kenai Star of the North Lutheran Church, 216 North Forest Drive in Kenai, will serve free sack lunches every Sunday starting at 1 p.m. For more information, call 283-4153 or visit www.sotnlc. org.

Join ‘Family Revival’ at Sterling church

United Methodist Church provides food pantry

Sterling Pentecostal Church will host a family seminar called “Family Revival” presented by Gordon and Afton Mallory at 7:00 p.m. April 18-20. The Mallorys will share their knowledge and experience from marriage and ministry, including being missionaries to the Philippines, pastor in Hawaii, and an international evangelist. A seminar syllabus is $20, and there is no additional charge for the seminar. Call 262-7240 for more information. The church is located on Swanson River Road at Entrada.

The Kenai United Methodist Church provides a food pantry for those in need every Monday from noon to 3:00 p.m. The Methodist Church is located on the Kenai Spur Highway next to the Boys and Girls Club. The entrance to the Food Pantry is through the side door. The Pantry closes for holidays. For more information contact the church office at 283-7868 or email kumcalaska@gmail.com.

Clothes 4 U at First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church Soldotna, located at 159 S. Binkley Pilgrimage to Mexico City planned Street, is re-opening its Clothes 4 U program. It is open on the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church is sponsoring All are invited to come to a presentation about Our Lady second and fourth Saturday of each month from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. a Faith Walk around town on Good Friday beginning at noon at O’Neill Hall, 222 West Redoubt Avenue in Soldotna. Partici- of Guadalupe in Mexico City at Our Lady of Angels Catholic All clothing and shoes are free to the public. pants will walk around Soldotna and reflect on the Stations of Church on April 24, at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. An informational meeting will follow the presentation about the planned pilgrim- Clothes Quarters open weekly the Cross together. age. The pilgrimage will take place Jan. 21-27, 2015. For more information call 283-4555.

Clothes Quarters at Our Lady of the Angels Church is open Apostolic Assembly celebrates Resurrection every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and the first Saturday The Apostolic Assembly of Jesus Christ is celebrating Jesus’ Food Pantry open weekly of every month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, Resurrection beginning with its annual three day purification call 907-283-4555.

The Soldotna Food Pantry is open every Wednesday from fast to be broken with communion at the 7:00 a.m. “Sonrise” 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for residents in our community who may be Service on April 20.

Submit church announcements to news@peninsulaclarion.

Starting at 10:30 a.m., the Sunday School has planned a experiencing food shortages. The Food Pantry is located at the com. morning of special activities, including a play, “Jesus Vic- Soldotna United Methodist Church at 158 South Binkley Street.

C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

C

M

Y

K

. . . Coast

. . . Regs

Continued from page A-1

Continued from page A-1

The website contains layers of data from more than 500 statewide organizations.

“We wanted to create a onestop shop for coastal and marine data,” Dugan said. “Our goal is to have as comprehensive data as possible, while keeping it simple enough that the average person is not intimidated.”

One of 11 regional observing branches of the national organization, Integrated Ocean Observing System, or IOOS, AOOS covers more coastline than all other IOOS organizations combined, Dugan said.

When a user first opens up the portal, they can chose from three maritime regions, the Arctic, Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska. Local organizations such as Kachemak Bay Research Reserve in Homer, Gulf Watch Alaska based out of Homer, and Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council (CIRCAC) based in Kenai contributed information.

Many portals offer video tutorials. The Cook Inlet ShoreZone Imagery application offers photographs and aerial video visually documenting the regions beaches.

“Several hundred real-time and terrestrial sensors are located in the Gulf of Alaska region so users can view information from weather stations, stream gauges, buoys and webcams,” Dugan said.

Tammy Neher, Science Coordinator at Gulf Watch Alaska, said the portal offers an affordable way to publish research, under the supervision of more advanced developer.

AOOS is even adapting new tools for Gulf Watch’s biologically and ecologically focused data, Neher said; AOOS is used to displaying single-variable, sensor-driven information, she said.

Susan Saupe, Director of Science and Research at CIRCAC said it has been working with AOOS for nearly four years.

CIRCAC is an example of how the structure for a major set of data can be applied on a smaller sample and provide an approach for gathering necessary information to efficiently handle an environmental problem such as an oil spill, Saupe said.

The AOOS portal provides access to multiple types of data such as wind speed, wave flow, and weather conditions, all of which contribute to how CIRCAC would make decisions during a spill response, Saupe said.

Saupe said previously CIRCAC would have to gather paper maps and hard copy reports and piece together tidbits of information. Now they can overlap the interactive maps on the website and see how one piece of data directly relates to another.

A week ago the information could be found, but in very different locations, Dugan said.

The portal is the culmination of a decade of work geared toward regional stakeholder, she said.

The majority of funding over the last decade came from National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, and various grants, Dugan said.

Dugan said AOOS plans to update the portal consistently dependent on community feedback and as new research is available.

Kelly Sullivan can be reached at Kelly.Sullivan@ peninsulaclarion.com.

until late Thursday afternoon, allowing time for a legislative group photo and afternoon committee hearings. The House scheduled to go back into session late Thursday afternoon.

The bill calls on the Department of Health and Social Services to fund no abortion services under Medicaid unless the abortion is medically necessary or the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest.

The bill defines medically necessary abortions as those needed to avoid a threat of serious risk to a woman’s life or physical health from continuation of a pregnancy. That could mean a serious risk of death or “impairment of a major bodily function” caused by one of 21 different conditions, such as coma, seizures and epilepsy.

It also includes what has been called a “catch-all” option: “another physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy that places the woman in danger of death or major bodily impairment if an abortion is not performed.”

The House defeated a proposed amendment offered by Rep. Cathy Munoz, R-Juneau, to add to that a psychiatric dis-

Photo by Kaylee Osowski/Peninsula Clarion

At its monthly free swim on Monday March 31, 2014 the Central Peninsula Change Club saw the Skyview High School Pool nearly at capacity at one point. Linda Tannehill with the Kenai Peninsula Cooperative Extension Service office said. The club hosts a free swim night from 3-6 p.m. the last Monday of every month. Each month has a different sponsor. Sweeney’s Clothing of Soldotna sponsored Monday night’s swim.

. . . Pool Continued from page A-1

cent of the overall cost of running the pool.

City Manager Mark Dixson said the annual expenses for Skyview are about $225,000.

He said this is an issue that involves the entire community, not just the city.

There is a chance at the April 14 school board meeting that the board will still decide to close the pool, Anderson said.

“In practical terms the I think the school board is looking for an excuse to put the pool back in the budget,” Anderson said.

Anderson said it might persuade the board to open the pool next year if they have other funding coming from the community. Council member Pete Sprague said while he doesn’t understand why the Borough won’t make any adjustments when they have the leeway, he was happy to see the council making an effort.

Council member Meggean Bos she said it was easy to see how important keeping the pool open was to the community.

However, she hopes the District Borough will exhaust all possibilities in compromising with the community. Bos also suggested when Skyview turns into a middle school next year they

should extend the open swim hours so more residents might take advantage of the facilities.

As an educator at Soldotna High School she said she had a hard time justifying the school district cutting teachers and staff support but paying for the pool, Bos said. She sees it as a Borough issue, not a city issue.

Refering to the most recent request for the city to purchase the Birchwood Golf Course, she said, “more and more entities want us to help out, but at what point is it beyond our control?”

Council member Linda Murphy said swimming education saves lives and is a good family activity. The community testimony from seven community members that evening swayed her to vote “yes”. However, if she saw the same allocation in the budget next year she would not support it again.

“Even though the funds are in the budget, the budget is still subject to amendments during the budget process,” Shellie Saner, City Clerk. “The budget work session is tentatively scheduled for May 14.”

A-13

order that places the woman’s health at risk, in line with language in the regulations. Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux, who sponsored the House version of SB49, said experts had testified that “no mental condition would ever make an abortion medical necessary.” She also said it was a “vague and subjective term” when not diagnosed by a psychiatrist.

The Alaska Supreme Court has held that the state must pay for medically necessary abortions if it pays for other procedures deemed medically necessary. The court, in its 2001 decision, referenced bipolar disorder, saying medication needed by women with conditions like bipolar disorder and epilepsy “can be highly dangerous to a developing fetus.

Without funding for medically necessary abortions, pregnant women with these conditions must choose either to seriously endanger their own health by forgoing medication, or to ensure their own safety but endanger the developing fetus by continuing medication,” the decision stated.

Supporters of the bill say they are seeking to bring clarity to the term “medically necessary.” They also say public money should not be used to pay for “elective” abortions.

Critics say the bill raises constitutional concerns and would put government between a woman and her doctor.

AP Photo/Dan Joling

Romeo

A chain link and barbed wire security fence separates a bull moose from a cow and yearling calf Sunday, in Anchorage.

The bull was walking along Raspberry Road near Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and spotted the cow on airport property. The bull made several passes attempting to reach the female but was thwarted by the fence.

C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

A-14 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

Courtesy photo from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Lloyd Spitalnik

A male rusty blackbird perches on a branch. Biologists are hoping birdwatchers will keep an eye out for the struggling bird.

so if we can get more eyeballs out there and get people to report observations, we can determine what we can do about Continued from page A-1 the decline.”

Tessler, who has studied the gists we can only do so much, Rusty Blackbird for the past

. . . Bird

. . Schools Continued from page A-1

That increase in the number of students in each teacher’s classroom resulted in a cut of about 10 teachers across the district, cuts that the board of education already voted to instate — though those cuts could be reversed, said district spokesperson Pegge Erkeneff. “(The) board can change anything at this point,” Erkeneff wrote in an email. “Thus those reductions and changes are not set in stone, even though they have already been identified and included in the budget as it will be presented.”

Previously, both Erkeneff and assistant superintendent Dave Jones had referred to those cuts as permanent.

It is unlikely that the student teacher ration would be reduced and those teaching positions will be reinstated as staffing and scheduling has already been determined for the next year, Erkeneff said.

At the state level, funding for

schools could be much higher than district administration had anticipated at the outset of the budgetary process — though their budget projection included $1.741 million in “one-time” funding from the state, which it has received for the last three years.

The current budget was built on the assumption that no changes would be made to the Base Student Allocation, or the per-student amount of money given to the district by the state each year.

Instead, Gov. Sean Parnell’s proposed budget included an increase of $85 per student and the House passed a measure Monday that would increase it by $185 for the upcoming fiscal year and $58 for the following two years — resulting in a final base student allocation of $5,981 in 2016. That bill is currently in the Senate Finance Committee.

Also embedded in the bill was an addition $30 million in one-time funding, which Dave Jones, assistant superintendent, said he hoped was in addition to the 25 million in one-time funding that was already included in

six years, said several factors contribute to the loss in population including winter migration habits and climate change.

Reports of the bird flying with large flocks of different black birds to agricultural areas in the south and could have deemed the bird an agricultural pest, which could have been subjected to controlled poison from farmers, he said.

While the Rusty Blackbird is now is extensively protected, changes in winter migration habitat from forests converted into farmland and mercury accumulation in river systems on breeding grounds could explain the population decline, he said.

“There are a number of hypothesis’s, but no smoking gun,” he said. “Several contributing factors at different times or often together. It is an issue we can’t unravel.”

Tessler said the blitz project is in partnership with the International Rusty Blackbird Working Group, which formed in 2005. The decline became

For more information on the declining Rusty Blackbird population in Alaska visit ak.audubon.org/rusty-blackbird-spring-migration-blitz or call 907-267-2332.

apparent 10 years ago and since then a continent-wide program started with every state and province on a different timeline for bird reports.

In Alaska, the biologists predict the Rusty Blackbird will return to the state between mid-April and early May. Tessler said it is unclear where the bird’s highest density areas are and at this point none exist because they are thinly distributed throughout the state during breeding season. Todd Eskelin, wildlife biologist for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, said the Rusty Blackbird is one of several species that have taken a noticeable hit in population.

The Olive-sided Flycatcher, a perching bird and Red-necked Phalarope, a wetland bird, have fallen in the same category.

‘We’re in the final stages of putting our budget together, but the number for the school district will be one of the last things that we put in because we’re going to wait and see what the legislature does.’

— Mike Navarre, Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor a state appropriations bill.

“As far as we know, (the $25 million) is still there, but it’s conference-able which means that they could change it when they come together in conference committee to settle this stuff,” Jones said.

With the increase to the student allowance and additional one-time funding, the school district’s budget shortfall could then be completely covered by the Kenai Peninsula Borough.

Currently, the budget is built to include about $43.5 million from the borough but the district could be given an additional $2.5 million by the borough before the funding cap is reached.

But the borough, which gives about 68 percent of all borough

C

M

Y

K

taxes collected to the district, has yet to decide how much money it will provide.

“There is room between the cap and what they’re currently funding us, yes,” Jones said.

“They could (fund higher).

Would they? That’s a question for them.”

Borough Mayor Mike Navarre said it was difficult to commit to the district’s budget request early, as the state’s level of funding had not yet been determined.

“The state budget, in both the House and the Senate so far, have increased the amount that they’re putting into education, so it may require something less than what they originally asked us for in terms of our lo-

he said. “By collecting data we can determine what habitats they need so we can do our best to protect them.”

Eskelin said new technology tools like geo locator devices allow biologists to figure out where birds travel. While there may not be a high density of Rusty Blackbirds in the Kenai Peninsula, the area has plenty of features the bird finds attractive for breeding grounds. Typically, they would return to the same area each year.

The wildlife refuge organizes several bird watching events like the Kenai Peninsula Birding Festival from May 15-18. The Kenai Wildlife Viewing Platform on Beach Access Road is a popular spot for birders, he said.

Tessler said people who go out bird watching and don’t see the Rusty Blackbird, should report that as well. Bird sightings can be entered online in eBird or a print out datasheet from Fish and Game.

He said the best thing people can do to help is to continue to put information of bird sightings in eBird, a program he uses to track different species on the Kenai Peninsula.

By accessing the database, he said users have many ways to look at data that wasn’t available a decade ago. People can report when a bird arrives, departs, the nesting location, how many have been reported and he said he can filter the information to track specific species.

Eskelin said six years ago he encountered a family of Rusty Blackbirds at Headquarters Lake, but last year was the first year he didn’t see them nest there.

“They like to nest next to Reach Dan Balmer at daniel. a lake or boggy area typically balmer@peninsulaclarion.com found in black spruce forests,” cal contribution,” Navarre said.

The borough’s budget will not come out until June, but will introduced to the Borough Assembly at its first meeting in May, Navarre said.

“We’re in the final stages of putting our budget together, but the number for the school district will be one of the last things that we put in because we’re going to wait to see what the legislature does,” he said.

If the state ultimately approves the higher base student allocation and one-time funding, and the borough chose to fund the school district at a high enough level to cover the rest of the projected shortfall — Jones said the board could then talk about cuts that could be reduced.

That discussion will take place at 4 p.m. Monday in the borough building in Soldotna during the board’s budgetary work session, Jones said.

Those work sessions are open to the public, but are not broadcast online as is typical of the board of education meetings.

“The fortunate thing is, if

The Board of Education will hold a work session on the budget Monday at 4 p.m. at the Kenai Peninsula Borough building, 148 N. Binkley, in Soldotna. A regularly scheduled board meeting will start at 7p.m.

(the state and borough cover the shortfall) we’re not going to have to look at further cuts,” Jones said. “Our recommendation will be that we pass the budget as it exists here and that we use that unassigned fund balance but when the Senate and House pass and come to the end of the session, then we use that additional revenue to reduce the unassigned fund balance spend.”

Reach Rashah McChesney at rashah.mcchesney@peninsulaclarion.com

C

M

Y

K

C

M

Sports Y

SECTION

B Friday, April 11, 2014

K

Bears know what they are getting into Kenai River has plenty of big-game experience against Ice Dogs at Big Dipper Ice Arena

By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

If there is a team that knows what a big game in the Big Dipper Ice Arena is like, that team is the Kenai River Brown Bears.

The Bears will call on all of that experience Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. when they face the host Fairbanks Ice Dogs in a deciding Game 5 of a first-round North American Hockey League series.

“We know what it is like up there,” Kenai River head coach Geoff Beauparlant said. “We’ve had some success. Ultimately, we need to do it one

more time.

“It’s going to take a great team effort for 60-plus minutes to achieve our goal of moving on.”

As usual, 2,242 fans will be in attendance at the Dipper, where seating allows them to pack in around the ice.

And the fans should be particularly rambunctious, because they certainly don’t want to see the Dogs lose to their Alaska rival in a year when Fairbanks has home ice advantage throughout the Robertson Cup playoffs.

The Ice Dogs posted that top NAHL regular-season record partially by dominating at home, where they finished 24-5-1.

But the team that has had the most chance to get used to the Dipper is the Bears. Kenai River played there eight times in the regular season last year and three times in the playoffs.

This year, Kenai River also played at the Dipper eight times in the regular season, handing Fairbanks a loss and an overtime loss. The Brown Bears also are 1-1 in the playoffs at the Dipper this season.

Of particular relevance is a 3-2 loss the Bears suffered in Game 5 last season. Kenai River led 2-0 going into the third period of that game. The Bears return six players from that heartbreaker, while the Ice Dogs return 10.

But Beauparlant said the team isn’t necessarily focused on settling a score from last year.

“I haven’t heard any of that talk around the locker room,” the coach said. “The focus is on this year. Yes, we have experience and guys that have been through Game 5, but they do too.

I don’t think it’s an advantage either way.”

Scoring first and special teams have told the story of the series so far. In each game, the team that has scored first and had the most power-play goals has won. Fairbanks won Games 1 and 3, while Kenai River took Games 2 and 4.

“We need to compete at the level we did in Games 2 and 4,” Beauparlant said. “If we compete at the level we did in Games 1 and 3, we don’t give ourselves as much of a chance.

“We have to get off to a good start moving our feet and creating our own energy and opportunities early.”

The Bears will have a full lineup, getting defenseman Tyler Andrews back from a two-game suspension for a hit in Game 2 on Tayler Munson, the Dogs’ leading scorer. Munson still has not played since the hit. Kyle Lee, who tied for four in points during the regular season, also has been out for See BEARS, page B-4

Golf has no use for patronage

I

C

M

Y

K

AP Photo/Matt Slocum

Bill Haas tees off on the 17th hole during the first round of the Masters golf tournament Thursday in Augusta, Ga.

Haas leads Masters by 1 DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer

AUGUSTA, Ga. — No nerves. No worries. Adam Scott never knew the opening round at Augusta National could be so enjoyable.

With his green jacket upstairs in the locker room for Masters champions, Scott made only one bad swing that cost him two shots in a round of 3-under 69. It was the lowest opening score by a defending champion in 13 years, and it left Scott one shot behind leader Bill Haas on

an otherwise demanding day.

“It was really how you hope to come out and play at any major, and especially the Masters,” Scott said. “And there’s no doubt winning the Masters last year had me a little more comfortable on the first tee than I’ve ever been in the past, because I didn’t have the legs shaking and nerves jangling for six or seven holes like usual.”

Haas, with a rich family history at Augusta that includes a green jacket for his great uncle Bob Goalby, settled down after an opening bogey with a collec-

tion of good birdie putts and an 8-iron to 5 feet for birdie on the 18th for a 68.

It was the first time in 18 majors that Haas has had the lead after any round. That only gets him a crystal vase for the low round of the day at the Masters.

Haas knows better than to put too much stock into what happens Thursday. He was leading after the opening round in Houston last week and tied for 37th.

“There’s tons of golf left,” he said.

Only one first-round leader

in the last 30 years has gone on to win the Masters.

Former Masters champion Bubba Watson, who slipped that green jacket on Scott last year, played his first bogey-free round in a major since the 2009 U.S. Open and shot a 69. So did Louis Oosthuizen, whom Watson beat in a playoff at Augusta.

They were the only players to break 70, the fewest for an opening round at the Masters since 2007.

“No one is really going crazy See GOLF, Page B-4

PRETORIA, South Africa — A prosecutor hammered at Oscar Pistorius’ credibility at his murder trial Thursday, asserting that the star athlete had a string of unlikely excuses for why he wasn’t to blame in the three gun charges he faces on top of murder.

In casting doubt on the Olympian’s honesty while cross-examining him, prosecutor Gerrie Nel was pushing the prosecution’s argument that Pistorius is also lying about killing his girlfriend by mistake in the pre-dawn hours of Valentine’s Day last year.

Nel asserted that the doubleamputee Paralympic champion wouldn’t “accept responsibility for anything” and reacted incredulously to Pistorius’ explanation of why a gun he was handling went off under a table in a packed restaurant, for which he was charged with firing a gun in public without good reason.

Pistorius said a friend’s pistol, a Glock, went off while he was holding it but insisted that he hadn’t pulled the trigger. A police

expert testified earlier at the trial that the Glock couldn’t be fired without the trigger being pulled.

Nel said: “We have you in possession of the gun, a shot went off, but you didn’t discharge the gun? ... I’m putting it to you, you fired that gun. There is no other way,” Nel said. “You are lying.”

“I respect Mr. Nel’s comment,” Pistorius replied, “but I didn’t pull the trigger on that firearm.”

The incident in a trendy Johannesburg restaurant happened just weeks before he shot to death his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Feb. 14, 2013.

Pistorius also said two witnesses, a former girlfriend and a friend, were both lying about an incident in 2012 when the runner is alleged to have fired his gun out the sunroof of a moving car. He has been charged with a firearms violation in this incident.

Pistorius said he wasn’t guilty of yet another charge against him, illegal possession of ammunition for .38-caliber ammunition found in a safe in his home after he killed Steenkamp.

S ports V iews J im L itke other sports — at least in terms of success — Haas was ready with an answer.

“I’ve been asked that before, and I think (it’s) purely numbers. The odds of getting out on tour are small. And then you take it down to how many tour players have sons, and then how many have sons that even like golf.

“And then if you like golf,” he said finally, “the best part about this game is that you have to earn it.”

Haas, from Greenville, S.C., did just that on his sixth go-round at Augusta National with his own scorecard in his pocket. He got off to a shaky start with a bogey at No. 1, then found another gear and tore off six birdies. His second hiccup came at 17, when his iron shot landed just past the flag yet somehow slid all the way off the right side of the green.

“The wind somewhat switched, maybe,” Haas said, “at least that’s what I’m claiming.”

Bill was along for plenty of Jay’s rounds and even toted the bag on one occasion. He had no trouble recalling his previously most memorable trip.

That was 1995, when Jay was leading by two strokes midway through the tournament. Oddly enough, the wind figured into that one, too.

As Jay stood over a short putt, a gust moved the ball, costing him one stroke. He dropped another when his shot into 15 slid off the green and into the pond.

See LITKE, Page B-4

Minnesota, Union to meet for crown

Prosecutor pounds Pistorius’ credibility CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press

f connections were all it took to make a splash at the Masters, Bill Haas would have contended long before now.

“We’ve had a bunch of family play here,” said Haas, whose opening-round 68 catapulted him into the lead.

“A bunch,” as it turns out, is hardly an exaggeration. Bill’s father, Jay, played the tournament 22 times from 1976 to 2005. His uncles, Jerry Haas and Dillard Pruitt, made the field once and twice, respectively. His great uncle Bob Goalby won in 1968.

But golf is not one of those enterprises where a dad simply hands over the keys with a pat on the back, says “good luck,” and the business runs exactly the way it did before.

It’s easier to inherit size, strength and speed, apparently, than touch. Even casual fans can come up with the great father-son pairings in most other pro sports: Bobby and Barry Bonds (baseball); Archie and Peyton and Eli Manning (football); Rick and Scooter, Jon, Drew and Brent Barry (basketball); Bobby and Brett Hull (hockey); Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Junior (NASCAR).

To find golf’s best fatherson tandem, you have to turn back almost 150 years. That would be Tom Morris Sr. and Tom Morris Jr., who were known as “Old Tom” and “Young Tom” to avoid any confusion, since they each won four of the first dozen British Opens.

At least nine father-son tandems have won golf tournaments since, and a dozen have played in the Masters — but never in the same tournament together until Craig and Kevin Stadler did it Thursday.

Asked why golf didn’t seem quite as family-friendly as the

By The Associated Press

AP Photo/Chris Szagola

Union’s Mike Vecchione, top, leaps into the arms of Sebastien Gingras, center, after scoring a goal with Nick Cruice, bottom, approaching during the third period of an NCAA men’s college hockey Frozen Four tournament game against Boston College, on Thursday in Philadelphia.

C

M

Y

K

PHILADELPHIA — Daniel Ciampini and tiny Union College are thriving on college hockey’s biggest stage.

Ciampini broke a third-period tie with the second of his three goals to help Union beat Boston College 5-4 in the NCAA hockey semifinals Thursday night.

The Dutchmen (31-6-4) advanced to the final for the first time. They will face the Minnesota-North Dakota winner in the championship game Saturday night.

“When I came in here as a freshman, there were goals set, but our ultimate goal was not to win the national championship that year,” said Ciampini, now a junior. “It’s just been growing each year.”

Mat Bodie and Mike Vecchione also scored and Colin Stevens made 34 saves for Union, a liberal arts college in Schenectady, N.Y., with only 2,200 students.

Johnny Gaudreau, Steve Santini, Ryan Fitzgerald and Patrick Brown scored for Boston College (28-8-4), trying to make its fifth title game appearance in

eight years.

Ciampini broke a 2-2 tie on a power play at 6:31 of the third period, tipping in Shayne Gostisbehere’s one-timer from the point.

Minnesota 2, North Dakota 1 PHILADELPHIA — Justin Holl scored a short-handed goal with 0.6 seconds left to give Minnesota a victory over North Dakota on Thursday night in the NCAA hockey semifinals.

Minnesota (28-6-6) will face Union College in the title game Saturday night. Union beat Boston College 5-4 in the first semifinal at Wells Fargo Center.

Holl scored his first goal of the season, beating Zane Gothberg to the glove side with a shot just inside the post.

Sam Warning opened the scoring for Minnesota with 9:09 left, and Connor Gaarder tied it for North Dakota 32 seconds later.

Adam Wilcox made 36 saves for Minnesota, and Gothberg stopped 26 shots.

Minnesota advanced to its 11th championship game and first since 2003, the year it won the last of its five titles.

C

M

Y

K

B-2 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

Rangers clinch home ice in 1st round

By The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Rick Nash scored the winning goal with 1:42 left, on New York’s third shot of the third period, and the Rangers clinched homeice advantage in the first round of the playoffs with a 2-1 victory over the NHL-worst Buffalo Sabres on Thursday night.

New York secured second place in the Metropolitan Division when the Philadelphia Flyers lost at Tampa Bay later Thursday. The Rangers will face either the Flyers or Columbus in the playoffs.

The Rangers struggled throughout against the lowly Sabres and goalie Matt Hackett, who played in just his seventh NHL game of the season.

Drew Stafford gave Buffalo a 1-0 lead in the second, and Benoit Pouliot tied in in the final minute of the frame.

LIGHTNING 4, FLYERS 2 TAMPA, Fla. — Richard Panik, Eric Brewer and Steven Stamkos had third-period goals to help the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Philadelphia Flyers.

Tyler Johnson had the other goal for Tampa Bay, which moved within a point of Montreal for second place in the Atlantic Division.

Wayne Simmonds and Sean Couturier scored for the playoff-bound Flyers, who are tied for third in the Metropolitan Division with Columbus.

Brock Nelson scored power-play goals late in the second period as the New York Islanders topped the Montreal Canadiens.

The loss, combined with Tampa Bay’s 4-2 win over Philadelphia, hurt the Canadiens’ chances of starting the playoffs on home ice. Montreal is second in the Atlantic Division with 98 points and one game left to play, while the Lightning have 97 points with two games remaining.

The Islanders posted their first regulation win in four games, but improved to 7-2-2 in their last 11 games.

The Canadiens, coming off a 3-2 overtime loss in Chicago on Wednesday, were outshot 30-19.

CAPITALS 5, HURRICANES 2 RALEIGH, N.C. — Troy Brouwer scored two goals and the Washington Capitals routed the Carolina Hurricanes.

All three members of Washington’s third line — Joel Ward, Jason Chimera and Eric Fehr — each had a goal and two assists. They helped the Capitals claim an easy win in this Metropolitan Division matchup of teams knocked out of the playoff race.

Braden Holtby stopped 36 shots for Washington, which won its third straight after losing five in a row.

Jiri Tlusty scored a short-handed goal, Radek Dvorak added a late goal and Anton Khudobin finished with 16 saves for the Hurricanes.

ple Leafs.

Brad Boyes and Brandon Pirri also scored for the Panthers. Roberto Luongo, who returned after missing Tuesday’s game with an upper-body injury, made 27 saves.

Paul Ranger and Tyler Bozak scored for the Maple Leafs, and Drew MacIntyre stopped 33 shots. The 30-year-old MacIntyre made his first career NHL start and second appearance for Toronto this season.

SENATORS 2, DEVILS 1, SO OTTAWA — Erik Karlsson scored the winner in the shootout to lift the Ottawa Senators to a victory over the New Jersey Devils.

Mike Hoffman also scored for the Senators and Robin Lehner stopped 38 shots to win his third straight game.

Michael Ryder scored his 18th of the season and Cory Schneider had 31 saves for the Devils.

The Senators had a power play for the final 35 seconds of overtime, but couldn’t take advantage.

PREDATORS 2, COYOTES 0

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Pekka Rinne made 29 saves to lead the Nashville Predators over Phoenix and damaging the Coyotes’ playoff hopes.

Craig Smith and Patric Hornqvist scored for Nashville, which has won four of its last five.

The loss hurt Phoenix’s quest for the Western Conference’s eighth and ISLANDERS 2, CANADIENS 0 PANTHERS 4, MAPLE LEAFS 2 final playoff spot. The Coyotes entered the day two points behind the Dallas MONTREAL — Evgeni Nabokov SUNRISE, Fla. — Nick Bjugstad Stars in the wild-card race. Both teams made 19 saves for his fourth shutout had two goals and an assist to lift the have two games remaining, including this season, and Ryan Strome and Florida Panthers over the Toronto Ma- Sunday’s season finale when Dallas

C

M

Y

K

visits Phoenix.

WILD 4, BLUES 2 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Kyle Brodziak scored two goals and John Curry made 43 saves in his Wild debut to lead Minnesota over the struggling St. Louis Blues.

Nino Niederreiter added a goal and an assist to help the Wild snap a ninegame losing streak against the Blues and win for the sixth time in seven games.

St. Louis dropped its fourth straight and also lost star T.J. Oshie after he was shouldered in the face by Wild enforcer Mike Rupp halfway through a chaotic second period. Rupp was ejected, Oshie dabbed blood from his mouth as he moved slowly back to the locker room after being down on the ice for 5 minutes.

Kevin Shattenkirk and Jaden Schwartz scored for the Blues.

JETS 2, BRUINS 1, SO WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Bryan Little scored in the shootout to give the Winnipeg Jets a victory over the Boston Bruins in their last home game of the season.

Little beat Chad Johnson with a low shot between his pads, the only scorer in three rounds.

Winnipeg’s Evander Kane tied the game at 1 with a wrister that beat Johnson over his glove with 1:57 left in the third period.

Brad Marchand scored the opening goal at 10:12 of the first period for the NHL-leading Bruins, who have clinched the top spot in the Eastern Conference and have 115 points to

lead the NHL, three ahead of the idle Anaheim Ducks.

KINGS 3, OILERS 0 EDMONTON, Alberta — Marian Gaborik had two goals and an assist and Martin Jones made just 17 saves for his fourth shutout of the season as the Los Angeles Kings snapped a three-game losing skid.

Anze Kopitar also scored for the Kings, who had won just one of their previous five games. Los Angeles has already clinched third in the Pacific Division and will play second-place San Jose in the first round of the playoffs.

The Edmonton Oilers have lost two in a row and have now been shut out 10 times this season, seven of those coming on home ice. The loss dropped Edmonton into 29th place in the NHL, a point back of Florida, which beat Toronto earlier in the night.

AVALANCHE 4, CANUCKS 2 VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Tyson Barrie scored the go-ahead goal in the third period as the Colorado Avalanche defeated the Vancouver Canucks.

Paul Stastny added two goals and Semyon Varlamov stopped 38 shots for Colorado, which is 8-0-1 in its last nine games and took over top spot in the Central Division ahead of the scuffling St. Louis Blues.

John Mitchell scored into an empty net for Colorado in the final minute to seal it.

Henrik Sedin and David Booth scored for Vancouver, which got 24 saves from Jacob Markstrom in his first start for the Canucks.

C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

B-3

Pineda pitches Yankees past Red Sox

By The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Michael Pineda won while pitching with some substance smudged on his hand as the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 4-1 Thursday night.

New Yankees star Jacoby Ellsbury drew all the pregame attention after switching sides during the offseason.

But it was the dark brown, seemingly tacky substance on the lower palm of Pineda’s pitching hand that quickly became the focus.

Close-up camera shots clearly showed Pineda (1-1) pitching for the first four innings with something on his hand, and there was speculation it was pine tar to help him get a better grip on a chilly night. The game was never stopped for an umpire to examine him, and it was gone by the fifth.

Pineda said it was merely dirt, rubbed on his sweaty right hand. Red Sox manager John Farrell said that he found out about it only after Pineda’s hand was cleaned up.

Pineda (1-1) took a two-hit shutout into the seventh. He allowed four hits in his first Yankees’ win, struck out seven and walked two.

Ellsbury scored in the fourth and singled in the fifth off Buchholz (0-1).

WHITE SOX 7, INDIANS 3

The Astros prepared to face Dickey grounder to first. The Pirates took two of (1-2) and his knucklers by taking swings three at Wrigley Field.

CHICAGO — Rookie Jose Abreu con- in an indoor cage before the game against nected for his second multihomer game former major league knuckleballer Steve NATIONALS 7, MARLINS 1 in three days and the Chicago White Sox Sparks, now a Houston radio announcer.

WASHINGTON — Stephen Strasended a 14-game losing streak against burg struck out 12 in 6 2-3 innings on a Cleveland. day Washington really needed to rest its Abreu hit tape-measure drives in the ATHLETICS 6, TWINS 1 relievers, and Jayson Werth and Ian Dessecond and fifth innings and drove in three MINNEAPOLIS — Dan Straily mond homered, leading the Nationals past runs. The Cuban slugger hit the first two homers of his major league career Tuesday pitched three-hit ball for seven innings and Miami for a three-game sweep.

Sam Fuld hit a rare home run to help the Strasburg (1-1) got 14 consecutive outs in Colorado.

Abreu has four homers and 14 RBIs in Oakland Athletics complete a three-game in one stretch and allowed only three hits, sweep over Minnesota. including Marcell Ozuna’s homer in the 10 games.

Straily (1-1) gave up one run and struck seventh. The right-hander’s lone walk was Alexei Ramirez homered and drove in three runs for Chicago. The Indians out five. The Athletics have gone nine straight to the last batter he faced. had outscored the White Sox 102-45 in a games to start the season without their starter allowing more than three runs. streak that dated to last June.

BREWERS 6, PHILLIES 2 John Danks (1-0) overcame a rocky PIRATES 4, CUBS 3 start. Indians starter Danny Salazar (0-1) PHILADELPHIA — Carlos Gomez struck out 10 in 3 2-3 innings, but also CHICAGO — Pedro Alvarez hit a three- had three hits with an RBI and Milwaukee gave up five runs and six hits. run homer to cap a five-run seventh inning extended its winning to six games with a and Jason Grilli retired Emilio Bonifacio on victory over Philadelphia. a bases-loaded grounder to end the game, The Brewers’ wins have all come on ASTROS 6, BLUE JAYS 4 giving the Pittsburgh Pirates a victory over the road during the streak. They came TORONTO — Robbie Grossman and the Chicago Cubs on Thursday. The Pirates to Philadelphia following a three-game Jonathan Villar homered off R.A. Dickey trailed 4-0 heading into the seventh, but sweep at defending World Series champion Boston. and the Houston Astros avoided a three- two big drives changed things.

Pinch hitter Travis Snider cut the defiThey battered the Phillies with 25 runs game sweep by beating Toronto.

Dallas Keuchel (1-1) allowed one run cit in half with a two-run homer off Brian and 38 hits in the three-game sweep. Miland five hits in seven innings. Anthony Schlitter. Alvarez put Pittsburgh ahead waukee has batted .320 and has outscored with his three-run drive against James Rus- opponents 42-18 during the streak.

Bass got his first save.

Ryan Braun had two hits and an RBI, Villar hit a three-run homer, Grossman sell (0-1), his third homer in two games.

Chicago threatened in the bottom of the ending the series 6 for 12 with 10 RBIs had a two-run shot and Jason Castro added ninth before Grilli retired Bonifacio on a while increasing his lifetime total to 24 a solo drive.

Bradley questions Pacquiao’s fire GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer

C

M

Y

K

LOS ANGELES — Manny Pacquiao’s latest pastor wants him up at 5 a.m. every day for prayers. The eight-division champion sometimes has 100 people and a yappy dog named Pacman in his home after training sessions, playing darts and carousing into the night.

Even during a hiatus from his duties as a Filipino congressman, it’s tough to see how a great boxer could keep his focus and fire amid Pacquiao’s hectic life and long career.

According to Timothy Bradley, Pacquiao can’t do it.

“When was the last time you saw him knock somebody out?”

Bradley asked, knowing it’s been nearly five years. “He’s not the same guy. He’s more compassionate, more kind.

That spark isn’t there. That’s not good for a boxer.”

Bradley isn’t afraid to voice unpopular opinions. After all, he’s one of the few prominent boxing observers who believe he actually won his first fight with Pacquiao two years ago, a split decision that sent Bradley on a wild career loop of his own.

When Bradley (31-0, 12 KOs) repeatedly declares Pacquiao has lost his killer instinct and competitive fire heading into their highly anticipated

welterweight rematch Saturday in Las Vegas, he realizes it could motivate Pacquiao to produce his best performance in years.

He claims he simply doesn’t care what Pacquiao (55-5-2, 38 KOs) thinks or does with that bulletin-board material, and that might be Bradley’s greatest indictment of all.

“It wouldn’t affect him if he didn’t believe it,” Bradley told The Associated Press.

“He definitely started thinking, ‘Maybe I am too nice. Maybe I have lost my fire.’ He started second-guessing himself and really thinking about it. Freddie (Roach) should thank me for saying that. If he gets offended by it, he needs to check himself.

Maybe he got a reality check.”

Roach believes that check will get cashed at the MGM Grand Garden. Pacquiao’s longtime trainer insists he sees signs of the hellacious puncher who captivated the boxing world during a 15-fight winning streak before that hotly disputed loss to Bradley.

“I think he’s really winding my guy up to be explosive in this fight, so I thank him for that,” Roach said. “Manny feels like he’s being disrespected, like it’s a little bit of a slap in the face.”

For the first time in several camps, Pacquiao knocked down a sparring partner at Roach’s

Wild Card Boxing Club. For the first time in ages, Pacquiao is talking about inflicting pain rather than minimizing it.

“He’s very religious right now, but he has mentioned during the mitts and so forth that if he hurts this guy, he’ll finish him,” Roach told the AP. “He showed me the combination he’ll use. I like that, because he’s talking about hurting people for the first time in a long time. I think that hunger is back a little bit.”

When Pacquiao is asked about Bradley’s bold declarations, he doesn’t respond in kind. While Roach insists Pacquiao knows and cares about the perceived disrespect, he doesn’t engage in verbal sparring.

“Maybe I’m too nice and too kind in the ring sometimes,” Pacquiao said while wrapping his hands for his final Wild Card workout earlier this week.

“Maybe I’ll try to change it.”

After nearly a year away, Pacquiao looked solid last fall in a clear-cut victory over Brandon Rios. But Pacquiao’s inability to stop a defense-deficient opponent stoked the discussion about whether Pacquiao’s most dynamic days are over.

“I couldn’t believe it when I

saw him take a backwards step in the 12th round,” said Bradley, who has stopped just one opponent himself in the last seven years. “He didn’t try to engage. He didn’t try to finish.

I had never seen that from Manny Pacquiao before. It’s amazing to me.”

Pacquiao will fight without his wife, Jinkee, at ringside for the first time since his career moved stateside. She is home in the Philippines, due to give birth later this month to their fifth child, a boy to be named Israel.

Roach is used to the Pacquiao circus by now, and he remained patient with Pacquiao’s myriad distractions even after a knockout loss to Juan Manuel Marquez in late 2012. The trainer steadfastly believes his prize pupil is still capable of the remarkable feats that got him to the top.

Still, Roach raised an eyebrow when he heard about daily pre-dawn prayer sessions with the latest in a dizzying line of spiritual advisers to the increasingly pious boxer’s camp.

“I told the pastor to stop waking him up so early,” Roach said with a smile. “I told him, ‘I thought God was with us at all times, not just 5 a.m.’”

C

M

Y

K

RBIs in 21 games at Citizens Bank Park.

Braun opened the series by homering three times in Tuesday’s 10-4 win.

METS 6, BRAVES 4 ATLANTA — Eric Young Jr. got three hits, stole three bases and scored four times and New York overcame Justin Upton’s two home runs to beat Atlanta.

The Mets broke a 4-all tie in the seventh. Luis Avilan (1-1) gave up a leadoff single to Daniel Murphy, who scored on a two-out single by Juan Lagares off Gus Schlosser. Murphy drove in three runs with three hits.

DIAMONDBACKS 6, GIANTS 5 SAN FRANCISCO — Tony Campana hit an RBI single with two outs in the 10th inning to lead Arizona to its first backto-back wins of the season with a victory over San Francisco.

Cliff Pennington had two RBIs and scored the winning run for the Diamondbacks, who won the final two games of the series. Miguel Montero also drove in two runs for Arizona.

Michael Morse hit a two-run double that gave the Giants the lead, but an error by third baseman Pablo Sandoval allowed the tying run to score in the eighth and San Francisco fell in extra innings to lose their first home series since last August against Boston.

Eli Manning has surgery on ankle EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning is going to start the offseason training program with a surgically repaired left ankle.

The Giants announced that Manning had arthroscopic surgery Thursday to relieve some lingering discomfort in the ankle he sprained in the regular-season finale against Washington. The two-time Super Bowl MVP has been rehabbing the ankle for more than three months, but it was still bothering him. Dr. Robert Anderson, a foot and ankle specialist in Charlotte, N.C., performed a debridement, removing dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue.

Manning expects to be able to run in six weeks. Manning

is coming off one of his worst seasons.

The 33-year-old who will be entering his 11th season threw a career-high 27 interceptions playing behind a decimated offensive line that allowed him to be sacked 39 times. He completed 317 of 551 passes for 3,818 yards and 18 touchdowns. His quarterback rating of 69.4 was his lowest since a 55.4 in his 2004 rookie season.

“I’m looking forward to the start of the offseason program on the (April) 21st,” said Manning, who has started 151 consecutive games. “I will be in the weight room and in the meeting rooms so we can all learn the new offense. I got some good work in this week at Duke, and I think it’s smart to get this procedure done now so the ankle isn’t an ongoing issue.”

C

M

Y

K

B-4 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

. . . Litke

Bill has been aiming at that goal since high school. A friend took Jay and his sons Continued from page B-1 to Augusta back then and they squeezed in 27 holes, in “I never remember thinking, addition to playing in the pre‘Man, I wish I could hit this tournament Par 3 contest. shot for my dad. But there’s “Did you beat him?” a some times now, I’m like ‘I reporter asked Bill, referring wish my dad could hit this shot to Jay. for me.’”

“I don’t think so. I don’t Jay, who is 60 and a force beat him much, honestly,” Bill on the Champions Tour, won replied. nine times on the PGA Tour.

“Even now?” came the But his dream of getting the follow-up. locker next to Goalby’s in “Even now, yeah,” Bill conAugusta National’s champions ceded. “He’s good.” room never got closer than that Jim Litke is a national third-place finish. sports columnist for The As“That can’t happen,” Jay sociated Press. Write to him at told The State newspaper of jlitke@ap.org and follow him Columbia, S.C., last week, at Twitter.com/JimLitke. “but I hope Bill can.”

Sports Briefs NFL players named in police report MIAMI — Three NFL players are named in a police report involving a woman who passed out in a hotel and later woke up in a hospital not knowing how she got there, though no one has been charged with a crime, authorities said Thursday.

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and wide receiver Quinton Patton, and Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Ricardo Lockette, were with the woman at a Miami hotel where Lockette lives, according to the Miami Police Department report.

Police stressed that the report contained only unproven allegations at this point.

“As far as whether there was a crime committed, it’s too early to say,” said police spokeswoman Kenia Reyes.

The account of the woman, who was not identified by police, is described in the report: The woman mixed drinks and gave the men shots, and the men told her “in order to drink the shots she had to ‘hit’ the bong which contained marijuana.”

The four were watching a basketball game when the woman began feeling light-headed and went to lie down in a bedroom.

Kaepernick came into the room, began kissing her and undressed her completely. The woman told police that they did not have sex, and that Kaepernick left the bedroom saying he’d be right back.

A few minutes later, the woman told police, the other two men “peeked” inside. She said to them, “What are you doing? Where is Colin? Get out.”

The report says the woman does not remember anything after that and later woke up in a hospital room with no memory of how she got there.

Powell banned for 18 months KINGSTON, Jamaica — A Jamaican disciplinary panel on Thursday banned former 100-meter world record holder Asafa Powell from athletics for 18 months after the veteran sprinter tested positive for a banned stimulant last June.

In the sprinting powerhouse’s capital of Kingston, the head of the three-member panel of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission said its decision was unanimous after examining the “voluminous nature of the evidence.”

“In all the circumstances, Mr. Powell was found to be negligent, and he was at fault,” said commission chairman Lennox Gayle, adding the panel would issue a written statement explaining its decision in about a month.

Dempsey is highest-paid player in MLS Seattle Sounders striker Clint Dempsey is the league’s highestpaid player at $6,695,000 in guaranteed compensation this season.

Toronto FC and the Los Angeles Galaxy each have three of the 12 players making seven-figure salaries, according to figures released by the MLS Players Union.

The numbers include the player’s base salary and all signing and guaranteed bonuses annualized over the term of the player’s contract, including option years, but not performance bonuses.

Landon Donovan of the Los Angeles Galaxy is guaranteed $4,583,000, just ahead of teammate Robbie Keane’s $4.5 million.

Omar Gonzalez is paid $1.25 million.

Toronto midfielder Michael Bradley is the second highest paid MLS player, at $6.5 million, followed by teammate Jermain Defoe at $6.18 million and striker Gilberto at $1.2 million.

Thierry Henry of New York Red Bulls is set to make $4.35 million, while Tim Cahill of New York Red Bulls is due $3,625,000.

Rounding out the other 12 are Montreal’s Marco DiVaio ($2.6 million), Seattle’s Obafemi Martins ($1,753,000), and Vancouver’s Pedro Morales ($1,410,900).

— The Associated Press

Spurs continue to own Dallas

By The Associated Press

DALLAS — Patty Mills scored 26 points starting in place of Tony Parker and the San Antonio Spurs moved to the brink of the top seed in the Western Conference with a 109-100 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday night.

Making his second start of the season and seventh of his career with Parker nursing a bad back, Mills had 11 points and a pair of steals in the third quarter when the Spurs turned a two-point deficit into an 11-point lead.

The Spurs beat the Mavericks for the ninth straight time in the regular season, a streak that has lasted more than two years.

Tim Duncan had 20 points and 15 rebounds after leaving briefly in the first quarter because of a hyperextended right knee. Kawhi Leonard added 16 points, a career-high 16 rebounds and five assists.

Monta Ellis led Dallas with 24 points and Dirk Nowitzki had 19.

The Spurs are just a win or an Oklahoma City loss away from securing the top seed in the West.

The Mavericks (48-32) are in a three-team scrum with

Phoenix and Memphis — their opponents in the final two games — for the final two playoff spots a year after missing the postseason for the first time since 2000. Dallas is in a virtual tie with the Suns (47-31) and a game ahead of the Grizzlies (46-32).

NUGGETS 100, WARRIORS 99 OAKLAND, Calif. — Kenneth Faried made a turnaround hook shot over Draymond Green with a half-second remaining, and the Denver Nuggets made Golden State wait at least one more game to secure a playoff berth with a stunning win over the Warriors.

Stephen Curry’s floater over Faried put the Warriors up 99-98 with 4.7 seconds to play, sending the announced sellout crowd of 19,596 roaring to their feet. Faried quieted fans moments later, backing down Green for the winning shot.

Curry’s quick 30-footer rimmed off as time expired.

Timofey Mozgov tied a career high of 23 points and set a career best with 29 rebounds, and Faried finished with 18 points and 17 boards to rally the Nuggets from 20 points down in the first half.

Denver, which had lost six straight on the road, won both games at Golden State this season.

. . . Bears Continued from page B-1

Fairbanks.

“We have to be prepared as if both are going to play,” Beauparlant said.

The Bears won Game 4 4-3 on Wednesday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex by giving Kris Oldham his first playoff start in the net. Oldham responded by getting the franchise its first victory in a playoff elimination game in six tries.

Beauparlant was not about

. . . Golf Continued from page B-1

out there in perfect, perfect conditions,” Graeme McDowell said after fighting to salvage a 72.

But there was something about the way Scott played that grabbed most of the attention on such a gorgeous spring day in the South. Golf has been waiting for a star to take control all year, even more without Tiger Woods at Augusta for the first time in 20 years because of back surgery.

Scott was in control of his emotions and his game all day — except for once.

to tip his hand as to who will play Saturday.

“We have confidence in both goaltenders to win the hockey game,” he said.

Beauparlant said he was grateful to the fans for showing up and making noise despite the fact that the games were midweek.

“That was really telling as to how far we have come as an organization,” he said. “The support the community has for the program is incredible.

“The players love loud crowds, and it was definitely loud last night.”

The Bears are 0-5 all-time in playoff series, including 0-4 against the Ice Dogs, perennial Robertson Cup contenders who won it all in 2011 with Beauparlant on the bench as an assistant.

In order to alter that trend, the Bears will have to beat the Ice Dogs for a third time in five playoff games after beating them just three times in 16 regular-season games.

Beauparlant has said the best players on a team have to be the best players in order to win hockey games, and that has been the case so far in the playoffs.

The three Bears with Division I commitments are leading the team. Alec Butcher has three goals and two assists, Albin Karlsson has three goals and an assist, and Sebastian Fuchs has three assists.

For the Dogs, Ross Olsson has three goals, while Duggie Lagrone and Jacob Hetz have four assists apiece.

“It’s a great challenge for our team and it’s always a fun place to play,” Beauparlant said. “It’s exciting to be in the position that both teams are in, with an opportunity to move to the next round.”

Walking over to the heart of Amen Corner, the fans behind the 12th tee rose in unison to cheer the champ.

“The memory that will stick with me forever today was walking up to the 12th tee and everyone getting out of their seats as I approached there,” Scott said. “It was great, the level of respect that everyone has for this golf tournament and what happens here.

“But then,” he said with a smile, “I went and hit it in the water.”

Scott’s tee shot bounced off the front slope and into Rae’s Creek — amazingly, he said it was his first shot into the water on that hole — and he made double bogey to fall out of the

outright lead. He picked up a birdie on the 14th, and threeputted for par on both the par 5s on the back nine.

Still, there were few complaints.

Augusta National officials knew this would be a gentle day of weather, and it was clear they made sure the course was anything but that. The hole locations were severe for an opening round. With endless sunshine, the greens became firmer and quicker by the hour.

So many others paid the price.

Jason Dufner took a quadruplebogey 9 on the 13th hole with only one penalty shot. The worst of his woes was a wedge from the drop area that didn’t even make it to the creek. He wound

up with an 80 in his first round in a major since winning the PGA Championship last summer.

He was in good company.

Phil Mickelson had a pair of 7s on his card for the first time in five years at a major, and his 76 matched the highest opening round at Augusta for the three-time Masters champion.

U.S. Open champion Justin Rose shot 40 on the front and scrambled for a 76.

Jason Day had a 75 in his first event in six weeks.

Vijay Singh also opened with a 69 when he was the defending champion in 2001, but that was different. Conditions were easier that year, and Singh was four shots behind. On this day, only 19 players broke par.

Scoreboard Golf Masters Scores

Thursday At Augusta National Golf Club Augusta, Ga. Yardage: 7,435; Par: 72 (36-36) First Round a-amateur Bill Haas 34-34—68 Adam Scott 33-36—69 Louis Oosthuizen 33-36—69 Bubba Watson 35-34—69 Kevin Stadler 35-35—70 Jonas Blixt 33-37—70 Gary Woodland 36-34—70 Jimmy Walker 36-34—70 K.J. Choi 36-34—70 Brandt Snedeker 33-37—70 Marc Leishman 36-34—70 Fred Couples 34-37—71 Rickie Fowler 36-35—71 Miguel Angel Jimenez 32-39—71 Matteo Manassero 34-37—71 Rory McIlroy 35-36—71 Jordan Spieth 35-36—71 Stephen Gallacher 33-38—71 Francesco Molinari 35-36—71 John Senden 36-36—72 Graeme McDowell 36-36—72 Steve Stricker 34-38—72 Kevin Streelman 37-35—72 Nick Watney 37-35—72 Sang-Moon Bae 36-36—72 Bernhard Langer 36-36—72 Stewart Cink 35-38—73 Boo Weekley 36-37—73 Roberto Castro 37-36—73 Mike Weir 36-37—73 Jamie Donaldson 37-36—73 Charl Schwartzel 37-36—73 Patrick Reed 35-38—73 Thomas Bjorn 37-36—73 Thongchai Jaidee 38-35—73 Matt Kuchar 36-37—73 Henrik Stenson 37-36—73 Russell Henley 37-36—73 Lee Westwood 36-37—73 Steven Bowditch 37-37—74 Brendon de Jonge 37-37—74 Webb Simpson 35-39—74 Jim Furyk 37-37—74 Thorbjorn Olesen 36-38—74 Larry Mize 35-39—74 Matt Jones 36-38—74 Jose Maria Olazabal 37-37—74 Darren Clarke 39-35—74 Sergio Garcia 35-39—74 Hunter Mahan 37-37—74 Victor Dubuisson 36-38—74 Harris English 37-37—74 John Huh 39-35—74 Mark O’Meara 36-39—75 Martin Kaymer 38-37—75 Scott Stallings 36-39—75 Billy Horschel 39-36—75 Ken Duke 39-36—75 Lucas Glover 35-40—75 Vijay Singh 37-38—75 G. Fernandez-Castano 39-36—75 Chris Kirk 36-39—75 Jason Day 37-38—75 Joost Luiten 37-38—75 Keegan Bradley 39-36—75 Ernie Els 39-36—75 Ian Poulter 37-39—76 a-Matthew Fitzpatrick 37-39—76 Sandy Lyle 35-41—76 a-Garrick Porteous 40-36—76 a-Oliver Goss 39-37—76 Derek Ernst 42-34—76 Phil Mickelson 39-37—76 Justin Rose 40-36—76 Ian Woosnam 36-41—77 Y.E. Yang 39-38—77 Matt Every 38-39—77 Ryan Moore 36-41—77 Dustin Johnson 38-39—77 David Lynn 38-40—78 Tom Watson 38-40—78 Angel Cabrera 39-39—78 Zach Johnson 40-38—78 D.A. Points 40-38—78 a-Michael McCoy 38-40—78 Peter Hanson 37-41—78 Tim Clark 41-38—79 Trevor Immelman 41-38—79 Luke Donald 43-36—79 a-Chang-woo Lee 39-41—80 Hideki Matsuyama 40-40—80 Jason Dufner 36-44—80 Graham DeLaet 42-38—80 a-Jordan Niebrugge 39-42—81 Craig Stadler 42-40—82 Ben Crenshaw 41-42—83 Branden Grace 41-43—84

Basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L x-Toronto 46 32 x-Brooklyn 43 35 New York 33 45 Boston 23 55 Philadelphia 17 61 Southeast Division y-Miami 53 25 x-Charlotte 40 38 x-Washington 40 38 Atlanta 35 43

Pct .590 .551 .423 .295 .218

GB — 3 13 23 29

.679 .513 .513 .449

— 13 13 18

C

M

Y

K

Orlando 23 Central Division y-Indiana 54 x-Chicago 46 Cleveland 32 Detroit 29 Milwaukee 14

55 .295 25 32 47 50 64

.684 — .590 7½ .405 22 .367 25 .179 39½

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division y-San Antonio 61 18 .772 x-Houston 52 26 .667 Dallas 48 32 .600 Memphis 46 32 .590 New Orleans 32 46 .410 Northwest Division y-Oklahoma City 57 2 1 .731 — x-Portland 51 28 .646 Minnesota 39 39 .500 Denver 35 44 .443 Utah 24 54 .308 Pacific Division y-L.A. Clippers 55 24 .696 Golden State 48 30 .615 Phoenix 47 31 .603 Sacramento 27 52 .342 L.A. Lakers 25 53 .321 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

— 8½ 13½ 14½ 28½

6½ 18 22½ 33 — 6½ 7½ 28 29½

Thursday’s Games San Antonio 109, Dallas 100 Denver 100, Golden State 99 Friday’s Games Washington at Orlando, 3 p.m.

New York at Toronto, 3 p.m.

Atlanta at Brooklyn, 3:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Boston, 3:30 p.m.

Indiana at Miami, 3:30 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 4 p.m.

Houston at Minnesota, 4 p.m.

New Orleans at Oklahoma City, 4 p.m.

Philadelphia at Memphis, 4 p.m.

Cleveland at Milwaukee, 4:30 p.m.

Phoenix at San Antonio, 4:30 p.m.

Portland at Utah, 5 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Sacramento at L.A. Clippers, 11:30 a.m.

Milwaukee at Washington, 3 p.m.

Philadelphia at Charlotte, 3 p.m.

Boston at Cleveland, 3:30 p.m.

Miami at Atlanta, 3:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Houston, 4 p.m.

Phoenix at Dallas, 4:30 p.m.

Utah at Denver, 5 p.m.

All Times ADT

Baseball AL Standings

East Division W New York 5 Tampa Bay 5 Toronto 5 Baltimore 4 Boston 4 Central Division Detroit 5 Chicago 5 Cleveland 5 Kansas City 4 Minnesota 3 West Division Oakland 6 Seattle 5 Los Angeles 4 Texas 4 Houston 4

All Times ADT

30

L 5 5 5 5 6

Pct .500 .500 .500 .444 .400

GB — — — ½ 1

2 5 5 4 6

.714 .500 .500 .500 .333

— 1½ 1½ 1½ 3

3 3 5 5 6

.667 .625 .444 .444 .400

— ½ 2 2 2½

Thursday’s Games Oakland 6, Minnesota 1 N.Y. Yankees 4, Boston 1 Houston 6, Toronto 4 Chicago White Sox 7, Cleveland 3 Friday’s Games Boston (Lester 0-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 1-1), 3:05 p.m.

Toronto (McGowan 0-1) at Baltimore (Tillman 1-0), 3:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Price 1-0) at Cincinnati (Cueto 0-1), 3:10 p.m.

Houston (Feldman 2-0) at Texas (Darvish 1-0), 4:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Carrasco 0-1) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 2-0), 4:10 p.m.

Kansas City (B.Chen 0-0) at Minnesota (Gibson 1-0), 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Gee 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Skaggs 1-0), 6:05 p.m.

Detroit (Porcello 1-0) at San Diego (Cashner 0-1), 6:10 p.m.

Oakland (Milone 0-0) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 2-0), 6:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 9:05 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Cincinnati, 9:10 a.m.

Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 10:10 a.m.

Kansas City at Minnesota, 10:10 a.m.

Toronto at Baltimore, 3:05 p.m.

Houston at Texas, 4:05 p.m Detroit at San Diego, 4:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at L.A. Angels, 5:05 p.m.

Oakland at Seattle, 5:10 p.m.

NL Standings

East Division W Washington 7 Atlanta 5 Miami 5 New York 4 Philadelphia 3 Central Division Milwaukee 7 Pittsburgh 6 St. Louis 5 Chicago 3 Cincinnati 3 West Division Los Angeles 6 San Francisco 6 Colorado 5 San Diego 3 Arizona 4

L 2 4 5 5 6

Pct .778 .556 .500 .444 .333

GB — 2 2½ 3 4

2 3 4 6 6

.778 .667 .556 .333 .333

— 1 2 4 4

4 4 5 6 8

.600 .600 .500 .333 .333

— — 1 2½ 3

Thursday’s Games Pittsburgh 5, Chicago Cubs 4 Washington 7, Miami 1 Milwaukee 6, Philadelphia 2 N.Y. Mets 6, Atlanta 4 Arizona 6, San Francisco 5, 10 innings Friday’s Games Miami (Fernandez 2-0) at Philadelphia (Burnett 0-1), 3:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Price 1-0) at Cincinnati (Cueto 0-1), 3:10 p.m.

Washington (Roark 1-0) at Atlanta (Teheran 1-1), 3:35 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Liriano 0-1) at Milwaukee (W.Peralta 0-0), 4:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 0-1) at St. Louis (J.Kelly 1-0), 4:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 1-1) at Arizona (McCarthy 0-1), 5:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Gee 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Skaggs 1-0), 6:05 p.m.

Detroit (Porcello 1-0) at San Diego (Cashner 0-1), 6:10 p.m.

Colorado (De La Rosa 0-1) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 1-0), 6:15 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Tampa Bay at Cincinnati, 9:10 a.m.

Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 10:15 a.m.

Colorado at San Francisco, 12:05 p.m.

Miami at Philadelphia, 3:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 3:10 p.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 3:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.

Detroit at San Diego, 4:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at L.A. Angels, 5:05 p.m.

All Times ADT Athletics 6, Twins 1 Oak. Min.

012 201 000—6 13 0 100 000 000—1 3 0

Straily, Cook (8), Abad (9) and D.Norris; Pelfrey, Deduno (6), Fien (9) and Pinto. WСStraily 1-1.

LСPelfrey 0-2. HRsСOakland, Donaldson (1), Fuld (1). Minnesota, Dozier (3).

Yankees 4, Red Sox 1 Bos. 000 000 100—1 4 1 NY 000 220 00x—4 7 0 Buchholz, Breslow (7), Capuano (8) and Pierzynski; Pineda, Cabral (7), Phelps (7) and McCann. WСPineda 1-1. LСBuchholz 0-1. SvСPhelps (1). HRsСBoston, Nava (1). New York, Anna (1).

Astros 6, Blue Jays 4 Hou. 000 020 310—6 8 1 Tor. 000 010 003—4 8 0 Keuchel, Qualls (8), Fields (9), Bass (9) and J.Castro; Dickey, Rogers (8), Redmond (9) and Thole, Kratz. WСKeuchel 1-1.

LСDickey 1-2. SvСBass (1).

HRsСHouston, Grossman (1), Villar (2), J.Castro (2). Toronto, Rasmus (1).

White Sox 7, Indians 3 Cle. Chi.

201 000 000—3 6 1 012 210 10x—7 9 2

Salazar, Outman (4), C.Lee (5), B.Wood (7), Atchison (8) and Y.Gomes; Joh.Danks, D.Webb (7), Lindstrom (9) and Nieto.

WСJoh.Danks 1-0. LСSalazar 0-1.

HRsСCleveland, A.Cabrera (1).

Chicago, Abreu 2 (4), Al.Ramirez (2).

Pirates 5, Cubs 4 Pit. Chi.

000 000 500—5 8 2 001 300 0 00—4 6 0

Cole, Watson (7), Melancon (8), Grilli (9) and T.Sanchez; T.Wood, Schlitter (7), Russell (7), Grimm (7), H.Rondon (9) and Castillo.

W_Cole 2-0. L_Russell 0-1. Sv_ Grilli (3). HRs_Pittsburgh, Snider (2), P.Alvarez (5).

Nationals 7, Marlins 1 Mia. Was.

000 000 100—1 3 0 002 000 05x—7 10 2

Koehler, M.Dunn (7), Caminero (8), Da.Jennings (8) and Mathis; Strasburg, Blevins (7), Barrett (8), R.Soriano (9) and Leon. W_Strasburg 1-1. L_Koehler 1-1. HRs_Miami, Ozuna (2). Washington, Werth (2), Desmond (3).

Brewers 6, Phillies 2 Mil. Phi.

000 201 300—6 11 0 010 001 0 00—2 6 1

Estrada, Thornburg (7), W.Smith (8), Fr.Rodriguez (9) and Lucroy; Cl.Lee, Manship (7), Diekman (7), De Fratus (8) and Ruiz. W_Estrada 1-0. L_Cl.Lee 2-1. HRs_Philadelphia, Byrd (2).

Mets 6, Braves 4 NY Atl.

102 010 110—6 9 0 013 000 0 00—4 7 1

Mejia, C.Torres (6), Farnsworth (8), Valverde (9) and d’Arnaud; Hale, Varvaro (5), Avilan (7), Schlosser (7), Thomas (9) and Doumit. W_C.Torres 2-0. L_Avilan 1-1. Sv_Valverde (2). HRs_Atlanta, J.Upton 2 (2).

Diamondbacks 6, Giants 5, 10 inn.

Ar. SF

022 000 010 1—6 13 0 011 120 000 0—5 10 3

Delgado, O.Perez (4), Harris (5), Ziegler (6), Thatcher (8), Putz (9), A.Reed (10) and Montero; Vogelsong, Huff (6), J.Gutierrez (6), Machi (7), J.Lopez (7), Casilla (8), Romo (9), Petit (10) and Posey.

W_Putz 1-0. L_Petit 0-1. Sv_A. Reed (3).

Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L z-Boston 80 53 18 x-Montreal 81 45 28 x-Tampa Bay 80 44 27 x-Detroit 80 38 27 Ottawa 80 35 31 Toronto 81 38 35 Florida 81 29 44 Buffalo 80 21 50 Metropolitan Division y-Pittsburgh 80 51 24 x-N.Y. Rangers 81 45 31 x-Philadelphia 80 41 30 x-Columbus 80 42 31 Washington 80 37 30 New Jersey 80 34 29 Carolina 80 34 35 N.Y. Islanders 80 32 37

OT Pts GF GA 9 115 255 173 8 98 214 204 9 97 236 213 15 91 218 228 14 84 232 263 8 84 231 255 8 66 194 265 9 51 153 240 5 107 244 200 5 95 218 192 9 91 227 226 7 91 226 211 13 87 231 239 17 85 192 203 11 79 199 224 11 75 218 262

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division x-Colorado 80 52 21 7 111 247 212 x-St. Louis 80 52 21 7 111 248 185 x-Chicago 80 46 19 15 107 262 209 x-Minnesota 81 43 26 12 98 204 199 Dallas 80 39 30 11 89 231 226 Nashville 80 36 32 12 84 202 234 Winnipeg 81 36 35 10 82 222 234 Pacific Division y-Anaheim 80 52 20 8 112 259 204 x-San Jose 80 49 22 9 107 241 197 x-Los Angeles 81 46 28 7 99 203 170 Phoenix 80 36 29 15 87 212 227 Vancouver 80 35 34 11 81 189 217 Calgary 80 35 38 7 77 205 231 Edmonton 81 28 44 9 65 198 268 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference Thursday’s Games Ottawa 2, New Jersey 1, SO Winnipeg 2, Boston 1, SO N.Y. Rangers 2, Buffalo 1 Washington 5, Carolina 2 N.Y. Islanders 2, Montreal 0 Tampa Bay 4, Philadelphia 2 Florida 4, Toronto 2 Nashville 2, Phoenix 0 Minnesota 4, St. Louis 2 Los Angeles 3, Edmonton 0 Colorado 4, Vancouver 2 Friday’s Games Chicago at Washington, 3 p.m.

Carolina at Detroit, 3:30 p.m.

Columbus at Tampa Bay, 3:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at New Jersey, 3:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Dallas, 4:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Calgary, 5 p.m.

Colorado at San Jose, 6 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Buffalo at Boston, 8:30 a.m.

Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Montreal, 3 p.m.

Toronto at Ottawa, 3 p.m.

Columbus at Florida, 3 p.m.

Chicago at Nashville, 4 p.m.

San Jose at Phoenix, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Edmonton, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Los Angeles, 6:30 p.m.

All Times ADT

Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Suspended Texas minorleague LHP Martire Garcia 50 games after testing positive for Clomiphene, a performance-enhancing substance.

American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed OF Avisail Garcia on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Jordan Danks from Charlotte (IL).

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Placed 3B Lonnie Chisenhall on the paternity list. Recalled INF Justin Sellers from Columbus (IL).

MINNESOTA TWINS — Selected the contract of OF Darin Mastroianni from Rochester (IL).

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Assigned OF Mike Baxter outright C to Albuquerque (PCL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — AnY nounced RHP Vin Mazzaro accepted his outright assignment to Indianapolis (IL).

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Signed G Mike James and F Lou Amundson for the remainder of the season.

SACRAMENTO KINGS — Signed G Jared Cunningham for the remainder of the season.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Released DE Kourtnei Brown.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed S Thomas DeCoud to a two-year contract and TE Ed Dickson to a one-year contract.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed S Akeem Davis.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Reassigned F Teuvo Teravainen to Rockford (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled G Jared Coreau from Toledo (ECHL).

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Recalled G Scott Clemmensen from San Antonio (AHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Assigned G Dustin Tokarski, D Nathan Beaulieu and F Jack Nevins to Hamilton (AHL).

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Signed F Ryan Rupert to a threeyear entry level contract.

SKIING U.S. SKI TEAM — Named Stefan Abplanalp coach of the women’s alpine speed team.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Suspended D.C. United MF Lewis Neal one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for serious foul play against New England D Andrew Farrell in an April 5 game.

CHIVAS USA — Waived MF Daniel Fragoso and D Andrew Ribeiro.

Acquired MF Martin Rivero from Colorado for a fourth-round pick in the 2015 SuperDraft.

COLUMBUS CREW — Named Lori McKirnan vice president of finance and business planning.

SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC — Placed D Damion Lowe and F Kevin Parsemain on the disabled list.

COLLEGE NCAA — Announced UNLV will not be eligible for the Mountain West championship game or a bowl berth in 2014 after failing to reach the minimum Academic Progress Rate score.

LITTLE EAST CONFERENCE — Named Megan B. Erbes assistant commissioner.

DUKE — Announced senior QB Brandon Connette is transferring.

GEORGETOWN — Announced men’s sophomore basketball G Stephen Domingo is transferring.

MICHIGAN — Announced senior men’s basketball F Jon Horford is transferring.

PENN STATE — Named Tom McGrath associate athletic director for business relations and communications.

RUTGERS — Named Tom Luicci senior director of digital media.

SAINT MARY’S (CAL) — Named Jim Shaw men’s assistant basketball coach.

UTAH STATE — Extended the contract of football coach Matt Wells through the 2018 season.

M K

C

Recreation Y

SECTION

C

Friday, April 11, 2014

M K

n Also inside Classifieds Comics

C-3 C-11

An

O utdoor V iew L es Palmer

Fish board politics

I

C

M

Y

K

get an anxious feeling whenever state legislators talk about fishing, so I’ve been anxious lately.

Most recently, it happened during “Fish Week,”when usergroups and state agencies were invited to educate the Senate Resources Committee about Cook Inlet fisheries. On the surface, it seemed like a good idea. Then again, a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

I worry about what Legislators might do to the Alaska Board of Fisheries. This 7-member board develops fishery-management policy, makes allocative decisions and sets seasons, bag limits and methods and means for the state’s sport, guided sport, personal-use and commercial fisheries. It make the rules, so it’s an easy target for criticism.

The Alaska Board of Fisheries regulation-making process may well be the most open-topublic-scrutiny process of its kind anywhere. State Senator Cathy Giessel has been asking her constituents about a “professional” board. Because all proposals involve allocation, I wouldn’t want a group of biologists or paid board members making allocation decisions. It’s far better to have board members who are involved in fishing, members to whom users can relate, than to have paid employees. Who would hire them? What would it take to fire them?

I can’t find much fault with the existing process. Proposing a regulation is easy, and anyone can submit one or more proposals.

Proposals are first discussed at Fish and Game Advisory Committee meetings. Advisory committees are members of communities, elected by area residents. On the Kenai Peninsula, committees are in Homer, Seldovia, Ninilchik, Seward, Cooper Landing and Kenai/Soldotna. Advisory committees provide a local forum for the public to address fish, wildlife and habitat issues. It’s local, grassroots government. Some good ideas take root at these meetings, and the committees pass on their recommendations to the Board of Fisheries.

The governor appoints Board of Fisheries members, and these appointments have to be confirmed by the Legislature. Board members serve 3-year terms. The board meets once every three years for each region. All advisory committee meetings and board meetings are open to the public, and there is always ample time for public comment.

If you want openness in government, the present fish-board process is it. And yet, some legislator or governor is always trying to “improve” it. Some of them would no doubt prefer for the fish See PALMER, page C-2

Photos by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion

Snowshoe Gun Club member and volunteer coach Stu Goldstein demonstrates how to check the chamber of a shotgun for a shell at a trap and skeet shooting clinic at the club April 6, in Kenai. The club is open to the public on Sundays and will hold a introductory sport shooting clinic on the first Sunday of the month during the summer.

By Dan Balmer Peninsula Clarion

S

ince Alice Kerkvliet gave sport shooting a shot three years ago, it has grown into an addiction.

She first learned the game at the Snowshoe Gun Club in Kenai and found trap shooting to be a great family activity to share along with her husband Dave and their two children.

Recent success and vigor from the Peninsula youth trap shooters has rubbed off on the parents and more people became interested in shooting sports, Kerkvliet said. Now a regular at the club, she said a couple parents had inquired about having an introduction clinic to shooting sports so they can participate in their kid’s interest.

“They didn’t want to learn in front of their kids because (the kids) shoot really well,” she said.

“This way we can bring parents up to speed and they can all shoot together as a family.”

Last Sunday, 16 people came out for a trap and skeet-shooting clinic at the Snowshoe Gun Club on Shotgun Drive for an introduction to gun safety, handling and shooting games. For two-hours, four coaches were on hand to emphasize shooting range etiquette and offer pointers to people new to the sport.

Annalee Lott became interested in learning gun fundamentals after her son got involved with the youth program. Her son JT comes to the gun club

Shawn Hutchings prepares to shoot as volunteer coach Stu Goldstein watches his form at a trap shooting clinic at the Snowshoe Gun Club on April 6, in Kenai. Alice Kerkvliet holds the controller to the clay target machine which releases a clay disc when the shooter yells “Pull.”

Tuesdays, Saturdays with the youth team and now on Sundays with the general public.

Kerkvliet said Lott jokingly blames her for how much money she spends on ammunition to keep up with her son’s hobby.

Trap shooting is a simple game, see the target, point and pull the trigger, said Stu Goldstein, a gun club volunteer.

“If you over think it, you will miss,” he said.

Goldstein and Jim Trujillo went over the proper ways to handle a shotgun and made sure all the

participants were comfortable in checking the chamber before loading the weapon.

“Safety is the most important thing,” Goldstein said. “Check the chamber every time and always assume it’s loaded.”

Trujillo is the head coach of the Peninsula Shooting Stars, a youth trap shooting team, sponsored by the Alaska Scholastic Clay Target Program. The team competed at the Alaska State Junior Olympic Qualifier in Eagle River on March 23. Nick Edwards of Soldotna finished third, and qualified for Nationals where he will compete in the Junior Olympic Championships in Colorado Springs this July.

Trujillo said a steady core group of 10 youths are at the gun club shooting every Saturday while the team has about 25 members. He said it is great to see the kids having fun with a sport they enjoy.

“A lot of kids come here and have never handled a gun. We teach safety and how to shoot to beginners and encourage kids to come out here and learn,” he said. “The look on their face when they break a target for the first time is great.”

After the safety briefing, Goldstein, Trujillo and Russell Morrison, a club volunteer, split the group up at three stations with a coach for each group. At each station, three people shot a round of five clay discs, one at a time, with only one gun loaded at a time to eliminate the potential for a mishap.

Goldstein instructs the shooters who are rightSee CLUB, page C-2

Benign neglect? Garden pest control naturally

By DEAN FOSDICK Associated Press

Gardeners worried about the safety of synthetic pest-control products sometimes turn to botanically derived compounds instead.

But many of those also contain toxic ingredients, such as nicotine, rotenone and pyrethrins.

“Botanically derived pesticides are not always safe and some are more hazardous than synthetics,” said Linda Chalker-Scott, an extension horticulturist at Washington State University’s Puyallup Research Center. “Any improperly used pesticide will contaminate nearby terrestrial and aquatic systems.”

And don’t use home remedies, she said, which could be “illegal and possibly fatal to many good things in your garden.”

Instead, consider the benign-neglect school of pest-control — a mix of prevention (such as maintaining healthy soil) and natural controls (such as insect-eating insects).

“I don’t add fertilizers. I don’t use pesticides. I use a wood chip mulch, which provides habitat for beneficial insects like predacious ground beetles that may eat slugs and slug eggs,” Chalker-Scott said in an email.

Ninety-nine percent of the insects in our yards are benign or even beneficial, writes Jessica Walliser in her new “Attracting Beneficial

Bugs to Your Garden: A Natural Approach to Pest Control” (Timber Press). She recommends introducing insects that eat other insects.

“A single ladybug — probably the most illustrious beneficial predatory insect — can consume up to 5,000 aphids during its lifetime,” Walliser says, adding that there are thousands of other insect species capable of doing the same thing.

To keep these predatory insects around, however, you have to offer a diverse and pesticide-free garden with plenty of plant-based foods.

“Just like people, most species of beneficial insects need a balance AP Photo/Dean Fosdick of carbohydrates (found in nectar) and protein (found in their prey) in This March 22, photo shows a ladybug on a residential property in Langley, Wash. order to survive,” Walliser said.

In the know on regulations for black bear baiting season

W

ith bear baiting season just around the corner, I thought I’d take this opportunity to review the rules and regulations for baiting black bears on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.

First and foremost, harvesting brown bears over bait is prohibited on the Refuge. However, black bear baiting is allowed on the northern half of the Refuge, specifically that area west of the Swanson River Road to the Refuge boundary, and north of Swan Lake Road to the section line approximately 6 miles north, by State and Refuge permit only.

The free, non-transferable State and Refuge permits are issued to those who provide their current contact information, a 2014 Alaska hunting license, and the Alaska Department Fish and Game (ADF&G) sponsored bear bait clinic number. This number is given to those hunters who have successfully

‘For the third year, Refuge permits will be issued on a lottery sy stem.’

completed a bear baiting clinic sometime during their hunting career. There are two upcoming clinics offered on April 15 at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association on K-Beach Road, and on May 2 at the Soldotna Sports Center during the Kenai Peninsula Sports Rec and Trade show. For those folks who prefer computers, ADF&G also offers the class online at http://www.adfg. alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=huntered. bearbaitingsched.

For the third year, Refuge permits

R efuge N otebook Rob B arto will be issued on a lottery system.

Individuals interested in black bear baiting on the Refuge will need to fill out a permit application at the Refuge Headquarters on Ski Hill Road. Hurry though — applications for the lottery will not be accepted after 4:30 p.m. today.

On Saturday at 10:00 a.m., all applicants must return to our office for the lottery drawing. During the lottery, hunters will be able to choose from approximately 200 one-mile sections (cells) for their black bear baiting stand.

Once a cell has been selected, it will be crossed-off so no other black bear bait C

M

Y

K

stands will be allowed in their chosen cell. Individuals must be present during the drawing to receive a cell.

Any remaining unselected cells will be available on a first-come first-serve basis at Refuge Headquarters beginning Monday. Finally, those individuals with registered black bear bait stations and their additional permitted hunters will not be allowed to harvest brown bears in their assigned cell.

All black bear bait stations must be clearly marked with a warning sign on which the permittee’s hunting license number, the hunting license number of those individuals authorized to hunt over that bait station, and State and Federal permit numbers. The signs should be placed within 25 feet of the bait station, and 6 to 10 feet off the ground.

Some hunters choose to put more signs at the start of their trail in addition to required signs.

All black bear bait stations are pro-

hibited within 1 mile of a residence, including your own home. Additional Federal regulations prohibit bear bait stations within ¼ mile of roads or trails, and within 1 mile of campgrounds and dwellings on the Refuge. The Refuge will provide a map with those boundaries marked to each person receiving a black bear baiting permit. The Refuge also prohibits the use of nails, wire, screws or bolts, or the building of permanent bait stations and tree stands, as well as cutting of green trees for shooting lanes.

Additionally, all bait (including contaminated soil), litter and equipment must be removed at the close of baiting season which is June 30. Finally, the Refuge requires all baiters to submit a harvest report by July 15 whether they set up a bait station or not.

Many of you may wonder why ADF&G and the Refuge allow black See REFUGE, page C-2

C

M

Y

K

C-2 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

is for children ages 4-14 (parents/caregivers must attend with is cordially invited to share ideas and information about boating. children). Participants must bring a swimsuit and towel and will For more information, contact the Flotilla Commander, 776-8522 rotate through dry-land and water safety stations. Allow approxi- or the Vice Flotilla Commander, 776-8457.

Refuge reflects on Wilderness Act anniversary mately 1 to 2 hours to complete stations. A proper fitting Mustang This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. On lifejacket for your child may be purchased upon completion for Volunteers needed for river restoration Earth Day, April 22 the first of the refuge’s “Wilderness” events $15. Contact safekids@cpgh.org or Jane at 714-4539.

Alaska State Parks is looking for a group of volunteers confor this year kicks off. Join Refuge Manager Andy Loranger at in sisting of four or more individuals who are interested in learning the commons at Kenai Peninsula College at 7 p.m. for a viewing Watershed forum staff share their travels about river restoration and concerned about the impacts imposed of “Wild by Law: The Rise of Environmentalism and the Creation Raft through the Grand Canyon with Robert Ruffner, walk the on the river banks each season. Get a first hand look at damage of the Wilderness Act.” Loranger will give a presentation prior to Great Wall of China with Lisa Beranek and hike through exotic done by bank fisherman on public lands and give back by conthe film.

Brazil with Dan Pascucci without leaving the Kenai Peninsula. ducting a spruce tree revetment projects. If you or your organizaJoin Kenai Watershed Forum staffers for a night of pictures, sto- tion is interested contact Ranger Jason Okuly with Alaska State Permits available for Interior Alaska moose ries and laughter on Friday, April 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the Kenai Parks at 907-262-5581 ext. 28.

River Center. Light refreshments will be served. This event is free hunts and open to the public. For more information, contact Josselyn Bear baiting clinics scheduled Surplus drawing permits for moose hunting in Interior Alaska O’Connor at 907-260-5449 or josselyn@kenaiwatershed.org. will be issued on a first come, first served basis to hunters whose The Alaska Department of Fish and Game will host four black/ faxed applications are received at the Fairbanks Fish and Game brown bear baiting clinics on the Kenai Peninsula. Hunters may office beginning 8:00 a.m. Alaska time on April 15 until 5:00 p.m. Trap, skeet shooting clinics planned establish bait stations in certain areas, including areas within June 7.

Beginners can learn how shoot the games of Trap and Skeet at Game Management Units 7 and 15, after successfully completing Faxes received before 8:00 a.m. Alaska time on April 15 can- clinics held on the first Sunday of the month in May and June at a Fish and Game-approved bear baiting clinic. Hunter who alnot be considered. the Snowshoe Gun Club from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Clinics will intro- ready have been certified are not required to re-certify. The clinic Permit applications are available from any Fish and Game of- duce gun safety, gun fit and handling, explain the games of Trap is 3 hours long and provided free of charge to the public. fice, and on the internet at “http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index. and Skeet and then shoot a round of each. This is a good way for Clinic dates, times and locations: cfm?adfg=huntlicense.undersubscribed”, but the website does new shooters to learn and get comfortable on the fields. For more — Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Building, not allow hunters to apply online at this time. Applications must information call Alice Kerkvliet at 398-3693.

40610 Kalifornsky Beach Road in Kenai; be downloaded, completed, signed and then faxed to the Fish and — May 2 at 6 p.m. during the Kenai Peninsula Sport, Rec and Game office in Fairbanks at 907-459-7332. Hunters must comTrade Show at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex.

Fly-tying demonstration on tap plete and sign the application themselves.

An online bear bait clinic is available for anyone 16 and older Specific information for these hunts can be found in the “2014– The Kenai Peninsula Chapter of Trout Unlimited and Sports- wishing to become certified to register a bait station. Visit www.

2015 Alaska Drawing Permit Hunt Supplement” available at Fish man’s Warehouse present Bar Flies, Tie One On: An Evening of adfg.alaska.gov for more information or call 907-262-9368 in and Game offices, or online at “www.hunt.alaska.gov” at “Under- Free Fly tying Instruction and Demonstration. The presentation Soldotna or 907-235-8191 in Homer. subscribed Draw permits available.” Hunters with questions about will be hosted by Mark Wackler, KPTU Board member and Kenai the application process for these hunts can call 907-459-7272.

Guide at the Mainstreet Grill in Kenai Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.

Kids’ activities sought

Recreation Briefs

Fly fishing films land in Kenai

PEEPs exhibit seeks submissions

F3T, The Fly Fishing Film Tour, the very popular annual national film series, will be back on the Kenai Peninsula April 26, at the Kenai Convention and Visitor’s Center. This series features clips of the most exciting fishing footage filmed over the previous year. Once again this year’s event is a fundraiser for the newly formed Kenai Peninsula Chapter of Trout Unlimited. Tickets for this year’s F3T are currently available from event organizer Mark Wackler of Fishology Alaska (394-8378) or they can be purchased online at https://www.ticketriver.com/event/8879.

The Kenai Peninsula Birding Festival’s PEEPs Young Artist Exhibit is seeking submissions. All bird-themed submissions will be on display the month of May at the Kenai Fine Arts Center with an Opening Reception May 2, 6-8 p.m. Awards will be announced at the Birding Festival Kickoff May 15 at the Kenai Visitors Center. The deadline for submissions is April 26. For more information on the PEEPs Exhibit or the May Kenai Peninsula Birding Festival, visit www.kenaibirdfest.com.

The Kenai Flotilla of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will conA Safe Kids Kenai Peninsula water safety event is planned for duct its monthly meeting on April 19 at 10:00 a.m. at the Nikiski May 3 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Skyview High School. The event Fire Station No. 1, 44800 Kenai Spur Highway, Kenai. The public

The Clarion is seeking information for its annual Just Kidding section with listings of summer events for youth. Organizations, businesses, individuals or churches planning summer events open to area youth May through August may submit activities.

Information needed: Name or group or organization; age of youth who may attend; time of activity; date of activity and deadline for registration; place activity will be held including address; cost of activity and/or fees; contact name and phone number for people to call; email address (optional); Web address (optional); and a brief description of the activity. The deadline to submit information is April 30.

Emailed submissions are required. Email Just Kidding information to news@peninsulaclarion.com.

In the subject line write Just Kidding. For more information, call Will Morrow at 907-335-1251 or email will.morrow@peninsulaclarion.com.

. . . Palmer

. . . Refuge

Kids water safety event

Continued from page C-1

was an ugly process to watch.

In 1990, five of the seven members were “commercial.”

They killed almost every proposal that benefitted anything other than commercial fishing in the Cook Inlet region.

It’s different now, and much more fair and equitable.

Over the past 30 years, sport fishing has become a strong player in fish politics, and personal-use and subsistence users have their figurative nets in the political water. Of the current board members, Karl Johnston, Tom Kluberton and Reed Morisky are mainly in the sport-fishing camp, while John Jensen, Fritz Johnson and Sue Jeffrey are commercial fishermen, and Orville Huntington advocates for subsistence. Governor Parnell recently reappointed Morisky, Jeffreys and Jensen. If Legislators don’t confirm Morisky, and if the Governor were to appoint another commercial fisherman to the board, it could tilt the board in favor of commercial-fishing interests again.

The current board is as close to being fairly balanced as it has ever been, which is a good thing for all concerned.

The last thing we need is for the Legislature to upset the balance.

I’m going to feel anxious until the House and Senate meet in a joint session on April 16, and vote whether or not to confirm Morisky’s nomination.

board to meet behind closed doors, where members can be manipulated like certain legislators in the not-too-distant past.

Recently, on KSRM radio’s “Sound Off” program, Representative Mike Chenault mentioned that he was working on legislation that dealt with the Board of Fisheries.

“It will be controversial,” he added. Cook Inlet has long been the most contentious fishery in the state, and it’s in Chenault’s district. With poor king salmon runs severely impacting commercial sockeye fishing in the inlet in recent years, I’m sure he’s had no end of something-has-gotto-be-done complaints from constituents. What can he do to help?

For one thing, he could try to put another commercial fisherman on the board. The last time I remember Chenault being involved with the Board of Fisheries was when he supported East-side set-netter Brent Johnson for the board.

I told Chenault that was a bad idea, and that Johnson couldn’t possibly be impartial when considering allocative proposals, but he stood his ground. Johnson ended up not getting enough votes to be confirmed, but Chenault’s actions leave me wondering about his present intentions.

Les Palmer can be reached Twenty-five years ago, at les.palmer@rocketmail. commercial fishing interests com. dominated the fish-board. It

Coast Guard Auxiliary to meet

. . . Club Continued from page C-1

Its just a fun way to spend a few hours outside.”

The club is open to the general public on Sundays. The cost is $5 for members and $7 for non-members. One-year membership cost in $150 and everyone who joins the club is required to go through a safety seminar, Goldstein said.

He said a couple coaches would be on hand the first Sunday of the month during the summer to offer beginning instruction on clay target sports while promoting the gun club. The club is run on a volunteer basis, keeping machines maintained and stocked with clay targets.

“I want to see people enjoy shooting sports safely,” he said.

eye dominant to keep both eyes open, use the proper stance with one foot bent forward, place the butt of the shotgun firm on the shoulder while following the target with the shotgun barrel.

“Head on the stock, eye on the rock,” he said. “The farther the shot, the less likely to buck.”

At Goldstein’s station, the first group made up of two fathers and a teenager, stepped up and quickly caught on, hitting several targets. The next group, made up of three guys who didn’t have much shootReach Dan Balmer at daning experience, had difficulty iel.balmer@peninsulaclarion. hitting the target at first, until they received a helpful remind- com er from their coach.

“With 350 pellets in a buck, just a close shot will hit the target, Goldstein said. “When you hit the target, remember how that felt and keep doing it.”

Soldotna resident Shawn Hutchings was one of the beginners who wanted to learn the sport. He said he had never tried trap shooting before and decided to take it up.

“It was a little frustrating at first because I couldn’t hit anything,” he said. “Then I learned I was left-eye dominant so as soon as I closed my left eye, I hit the next two.”

He said after a few rounds he started getting a feel for it and started having fun.

“It is entertaining like a game,” he said. “With the weather getting nicer I could see myself coming back here.

C

M

Y

K

Continued from page C-1

bear baiting at all. There are several reasons that come quickly to mind. Baiting allows a hunter to observe bears prior to shooting which prevents accidentally harvesting sows with cubs as well as juvenile bears. Youth hunters at a bait station are given a relatively safe opportunity to observe bears and learn subtle identification differences between sows and boars. Lastly, bait stations allow for clean kill shots in an area relatively free of branches and trees.

Some common violations that we see on a yearly basis include failing to submit harvest reports on time, building permanent structures, cutting green trees

for a shooting lane, and failing to remove all baiting equipment at the end of the season.

Baiting can be an enjoyable experience when done right.

However, as with most hunting activities, it only takes the actions of a few to ruin it for everybody. So please report all violations and help us by recording license plates numbers or descriptions of those you see violating the law. When in doubt, contact either the Refuge at 262-7021 or Alaska Wildlife Troopers at 262-4573.

Rob Barto is a law enforcement officer and K9 handler at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Find more information about the Refuge at http://kenai. fws.gov or http://www.facebook. com/kenainationalwildliferefuge.

C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014 C-3

Classified Index EMPLOYMENT

Homes

Agriculture Computing & Engineering Construction & Trades Domestics, Childcare, Aides Drivers/ Transportation Education Finance & Accounting General Employment Healthcare Hospitality & Food Service Manufacturing & Production Oil & Refinery Office & Clerical Personal Care/Beauty Professional/ Management Real Estate, Leasing, Mortgage Retail Sales & Marketing Schools/Training Tourism Work Wanted

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE Commercial Property Condominiums/ Town Homes Farms/Ranches Homes Income Property Land Manufactured Mobile Homes Multiple Dwelling Out of Area for Sale Steel Building Vacation Property Wanted To Buy Waterfront Property

REAL ESTATE RENTALS Apartments, Unfurnished Apartments, Furnished Cabins Condominiums/ Town Homes Duplex Homes Lots For Rent Manufactured/Mobile Homes Misc. Rentals Office Space Out of Area Rentals Rental Wanted Retail/Commercial Space Roommate Wanted Rooms For Rent Storage Rentals Vacation Rentals

FINANCIAL Auctions Business for Sale Financial Opportunities Mortgage/Loans

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

C

M

Y

K

Antiques/Collectibles Appliances Audio/Video Building Supplies Computers Crafts/Holiday Items Electronics Exercise Equipment Firewood Food Furniture Garage Sales Heavy Equipment/ Farm Machinery Lawn & Garden Liquidation Machinery & Tools Miscellaneous Music Musical Instructions Office/Business Equipment Vacations/Tickets Wanted To Buy

Apartments, Unfurnished

Homes

ALL TYPES OF RENTALS

Property Management Division 170 N. Birch Suite 101, Soldotna (907)262-2522 Mary.Parske@century21.com www.Century21FreedomRealty.com

Homes

RECREATION Aircrafts & Parts All-Terrain Vehicles Archery Bicycles Boat Supplies/Parts Boats & Sail Boats Boat Charters Boats Commercial Campers/Travel Trailers Fishing Guns Hunting Guide Service Kayaks Lodging Marine Motor Homes/RVs Snowmobiles Sporting Goods

NIKISKI 1-Bedroom, 1-Bath home with 24x24 two story unfinished addition.

MLS#14-877 $159,000 Jeannie Smith Kenai Real Property Services (907)398-3729 Ofc: (907)283-7755

Homes

TRANSPORTATION Autos Classic/Custom Financing Motorcycles Parts & Accessories Rentals Repair & Services Sport Utilities, 4x4 Suburbans/Vans/ Buses Trucks Trucks: Commercial Trucks: Heavy Duty Trailers Vehicles Wanted

PETS & LIVESTOCK Birds Cats Dogs Horses Livestock Livestock Supplies Pet Services Pet Supplies

SERVICES Appliance Repair Auction Services Automotive Repair Builders/Contractors Cabinetry/Counters Carpentry/Odd Jobs Charter Services Child Care Needed Child Care Provided Cleaning Services Commercial Fishing Education/Instruction Excavating/Backhoe Financial Fishing Guide Services Health Home Health Care Household Cleaning Services House-sitting Internet Lawn Care & Landscaping Masonry Services Miscellaneous Services Mortgages Lenders Painting/Roofing Plumbing/Heating/ Electric Satellite TV Snow Removal Tax Services Travel Services Tree Services Veterinary Water Delivery Well Drilling

NOTICES/ ANNOUNCEMENTS Announcements Card of Thanks Freebies Lost/Found Personals/Notices Misc. Notices/ Announcements Worship Listings

PUBLIC NOTICES/ LEGAL ADS Adoptions Articles of Incorporation Bids Foreclosures Government Misc. Notices Notice to Creditors Public Notices Regulations

THE PERFECT RANCH STYLE HOME

3-Bedroom 2-bath 2-car garage. Beautiful cedar sided home in very quite paved neighborhood on a corner lot with 1.37 acres. All one floor with no steps! All doors are extra wide. Paved driveway and parking area. Excellently maintained. Ideal open floor plan with open kitchen. In floor heat throughout. Vaulted ceilings and a gas fireplace. Large master bedroom with walk in closet and sliding glass door leading to the back deck with lots of privacy (perfect for a hot tub). Each room has its own thermostat and this house is very energy efficient. Well maintained large front and back lawn with lilac trees and rose bushes. Top of the line water filtration system that has eliminated all iron! Garage is 601Sq.Ft. Asking $269,000. (907)283-5747

Real Estate For Sale Commercial Property Condominiums/Town Homes Farms/Ranches Homes Income Property Land Manufactured Mobile Homes Multiple Dwelling Out of Area for Sale Steel Building Vacation Property Wanted To Buy Waterfront Property

Manufactured Mobile Homes WINTER IN MESA ARIZONA. Why pay rent when you can own a 3-bedroom home in a 5 star gated retirement park.

Priced to sell at $27,000.

Includes major appliances, air conditioning & much more. For more information please call (505)321-3250

Find your new vehicle today in the Classifieds!

C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

C-4 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014 Rentals

Multiple Dwelling

Homes

Apartments, Unfurnished Apartments, Furnished Cabins Condominiums Town Homes Duplex Homes Lots For Rent Manufactured/Mobile Homes Misc. Rentals Office Space Out of Area Rentals Rental Wanted Retail/Commercial Space Roommate Wanted Rooms For Rent Storage Rentals Vacation Rentals

FSBO -

THREE-Bedroom, 2-bath, 2 large walk-inclosets, 1352 inside living space, crawl space, 1.5 car garage, fenced back yard, front and back decks.

Asphalt DW & neighborhood roads. Large space next to garage for boat or RV. Back yard fully sunned, perfect for greenhouse. Just shy of 1/2 acre. Excellent water. 2 blocks down from K-Beach. New in 2010 natural gas furnace, all new in 2010 appliances included (DW, oven, microwave, frig, washer & dryer). Master bath renovated w/walk-in tile shower; beautiful easy to maintain high-end vinyl flooring throughout.

Custom vertical blinds in living room and kitchen, and window coverings. Also included is 55-inch Samsung Plasma TV and 3-speaker Bose surround system; 8 camera security system; outside shed w/Honda lawn mower & weed trimmer. $1500 paint and wallpaper credit provided. Broker courtesy 2.5%. TWO ways to buy - Straight purchase $207K or ASSUME low balance with $880 monthly payments for $70,000 up front cash. (No realtor or credit check is required for the assumption) MLS 14-560 and Zillow.com.

Please call 398-8161; 24 hr notice requested for viewing.

Owner financing not available.

Apartments, Unfurnished 2-BEDROOM 6 miles north of Kenai. $850. per month plus electric & deposit.

No pets.

Coin operated laundry on site.

(907)262-7248.

329 SOHI LANE 2-bedroom, carport, storage, heat, cable, tax included, $875.

(907)262-5760 (907)398-0497 REDOUBT VIEW Soldotna’s best value!

Quiet, freshly painted, close to schools.

1-Bedroom from $625.

2-Bedroom from $725.

3-Bedroom, 2-bath, from $825.

No pets.

(907)262-4359.

Apartments, Furnished DOWNTOWN Soldotna on the river.

2-bedroom, 1-bath, Seasonal/ Permanent, furnished/ unfurnished, NO pets/ NO smoking.

Credit/ background checks. $795., (907)252-7110 EXCELLENT OCEAN VIEW! Bay Arm Apartments, Kenai.

Accepting applications for 1 & 2 bedroom apartments, utilities included. $25. nonrefundable application fee.

No pets.

(907)283-4405.

KENAI Large 1-bedroom furnished, $600., plus utilities.

No animals/ smoking.

(907)398-1303

Homes

Retail/Commercial Space PRIME KENAI RETAIL/ OFFICE SPACE 1,832SqFt to 20,000SqFt. Rates start @ $.50SqFt. Call Carr Gottstein Properties, (907)564-2424 or visit www.carrgottstein.com

Cabins SOLDOTNA 1-bedroom, Satellite, washer/dryer.

No smoking/ pets.

Lease. $725.

(907)262-4047, (907)394-2774.

Homes 3-BEDROOM HOUSE Furnished, Seasonal 4370 Eagle Rock Drive Kenai Spur (907)469-0665 BEAUTIFUL 1-Bedroom home, large kitchen/ bath on 5 acres.

Walk to beach, Happy Valley area. $750. month plus deposit.

(907)399-2992 KENAI 3-Bedroom, 3-bath, appliances. washer/dryer.

No pets/ smoking.

3.5 inutilities. $1,400.T: plus (907)398-1303

Homes HOME Soldotna, 3-bedroom, 2-bath, washer/dryer, dishwasher, $1,200. plus security deposit, utilities.

No pets/ smoking.

(907)242-9551 (907)277-4017.

WHY RENT ?????

Why rent when you can own, many low down & zero down payment programs available.

Let me help you achieve the dream of home ownership. Call Now !!!

Ken Scott, #AK203469.

(907)395-4527 or cellular, (907)690-0220.

Alaska USA Mortgage Company, #AK157293.

Y

K

Y

K

T: 10 in

want better health care? start asking more questions. to your doctor. to your pharmacist. to your nurse. what are the test results? what about side effects? don’t fully understand your prescriptions? don’t leave confused. because the most important question is the one you should have asked. go to www.ahrq.gov/questionsaretheanswer or call 1-800-931-AHRQ (2477) for the 10 questions every patient should ask. questions are the answer.

M

M

283-7551

the doctor will hear you now

C

C

C

M

Y

K

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014 C-5

Homes

C

M

Y

K

Homes

Homes

www.peninsulaclarion.com

283-7551 150 Trading Bay Rd., Kenai, AK 99611 C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

C-6 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

Homes

Homes

www.peninsulaclarion.com

283-7551 150 Trading Bay Rd, Kenai, AK 99611 C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

T: 3.5 in

C

M

Y

K

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014 C-7

Homes

T: 10 in

Homes

open up and say anything

want better health care? start asking more questions. to your doctor. to your pharmacist. to your nurse. what are the test results? what about side effects? don’t fully understand your prescriptions? don’t leave confused. because the most important question is the one you should have asked. go to www.ahrq.gov/questionsaretheanswer or call 1-800-931-AHRQ (2477) for the 10 questions every patient should ask. questions are the answer.

C

M

Y

K

ple Road , MI 48009 0

OB ADCO 2M 70145

tical

None one ze: 3.5 in x 10 in

133

Graphics

Ad #: 70145N Art Director: M. Limbert Copywriter: M. Soldan Account Coordinator: B. Charette Production: T. Burland Publication(s) & Insertion Date(s): —

Helvetica Neue

W_V1.eps, AClogo_blk.eps

For more safety tips visit SmokeyBear.com

C

M

Y

K

C-8 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

Contact us

www.peninsulaclarion.com classifieds@peninsulaclarion.com

Classified Index EMPLOYMENT Agriculture Computing & Engineering Construction & Trades Domestics, Childcare, Aides Drivers/ Transportation Education Finance & Accounting General Employment Healthcare Hospitality & Food Service Manufacturing & Production Oil & Refinery Office & Clerical Personal Care/Beauty Professional/ Management Real Estate, Leasing, Mortgage Retail Sales & Marketing Schools/Training Tourism Work Wanted

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE Commercial Property Condominiums/ Town Homes Farms/Ranches Homes Income Property Land Manufactured Mobile Homes Multiple Dwelling Out of Area for Sale Steel Building Vacation Property Wanted To Buy Waterfront Property

REAL ESTATE RENTALS Apartments, Unfurnished Apartments, Furnished Cabins Condominiums/ Town Homes Duplex Homes Lots For Rent Manufactured/Mobile Homes Misc. Rentals Office Space Out of Area Rentals Rental Wanted Retail/Commercial Space Roommate Wanted Rooms For Rent Storage Rentals Vacation Rentals

FINANCIAL Auctions Business for Sale Financial Opportunities Mortgage/Loans

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE Antiques/Collectibles Appliances Audio/Video Building Supplies Computers Crafts/Holiday Items Electronics Exercise Equipment Firewood Food Furniture Garage Sales Heavy Equipment/ Farm Machinery Lawn & Garden Liquidation Machinery & Tools Miscellaneous Music Musical Instructions Office/Business Equipment Vacations/Tickets Wanted To Buy

RECREATION Aircrafts & Parts All-Terrain Vehicles Archery Bicycles Boat Supplies/Parts Boats & Sail Boats Boat Charters Boats Commercial Campers/Travel Trailers Fishing Guns Hunting Guide Service Kayaks Lodging Marine Motor Homes/RVs Snowmobiles Sporting Goods

C

M

Y

K

CLASSIFIEDS

Drivers/Transportation

Employment

General Employment

DRIVERS

With Class A CDL with hazmat, Doubles, and tankers endorsements.

Kenai based operation Seasonal position.

Please include previous 10yr driving record.

-----

MECHANIC

With DOT Certification.

------Send resume to : Big Mike’s 601 Highbush Ln. Kenai, AK 99611 or email: akbigmikes@yahoo.com

Education

Kenai Peninsula College/UAA In Soldotna, Homer, Anchorage, Seward KPC needs part-time face-to-face and online instructors in academic and career/technical areas.

Positions needed for Fall 2014 Semester • Geology (face-to-face (f2f) or online) • Art: painting, watercolors (f2f in Soldotna) • Philosophy (f2f or online) • Process Technology (f2f or online) • Process Instrumentation, including SCADA, • • • • • • •

Electronic Instrumentation & Sensors (f2f) Occupational Safety & Health (f2f or online) Literature (f2f in Homer) Chemistry (f2f in Homer) Biology (f2f in Homer) Physics (f2f in Homer) Marine Technology (f2f in Homer) Construction Technology (f2f in Homer)

We're especially looking for qualified instructors to teach online college credit classes as we continue to expand our distance education program. If you have taught online or via eLive before, we are interested in knowing more about you.

KPC is a Quality Matters (QM) institution; QM provides a standard for high-quality design of online courses. KPC has an Educational Technology Team to support part-time and full time faculty in their creation of a high-quality distance course.

You can live anywhere in Alaska and teach for KPC! Adjuncts for academic areas should have a Masters degree in the discipline or related subject area. Career/ technical education adjuncts must have a Bachelors degree or extensive expertise in the subject area.

Adjuncts receive a 3-credit tuition waiver each semester they teach. These waivers can also be used by family members.

Interested? Visit the KPC website, http://www.kpc.alaska.edu/employment/ Call 262-0317 for additional information.

An EEO/ AA employer and educational institution.

General Employment

Employment Opportunities-

Custodian Position

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Kenai Middle School is currently seeking qualified applicants for the staffing of a Head Custodian II. This is a full-time position that will oversee and ensure the physical upkeep and cleanliness of school buildings, grounds and furnishings. This position will work a day shift and will coordinate and oversee the evening custodial staff. KPBSD offers competitive salaries and benefits for all our employees.

This position is posted on-line at the KPBSD website, www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us.

Employment tab, Current Openings, Support Staff, and Head Custodian II JobID 4246. *WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER*

WANTED: Advertising Sales/ Customer Service Representative

The award-winning Homer News is looking for an energetic, motivated person to serve as our sales/customer service representative. This full-time, year-round position includes benefits.

Pay is commission based. Qualified candidates will have an understanding of the importance of small newspapers in the life of a community, as well as the ability to translate print and Internet opportunities into tangible benefits for the newspaper's clients. Must have reliable transportation and a good driving record.

Applicants must be able to work independently and efficiently in a fast-paced environment with multiple projects and deadlines. Some sales experience preferred, but willing to train right candidate. The Homer News is a drug-free workplace and a drug test is a condition for employment. Send resume to: lori.evans@homernews.com or deliver to 3482 Landings St., Homer, AK 99603.

Questions? Call (907)235-7767.

General Employment

NEWSPAPER CARRIER The Peninsula Clarion is accepting applications for a Newspaper Carrier.

Delivery area Sterling.

•Must have own transportation.

•Independent contractor status.

•Home delivery - 6 days a week.

•Must have valid Alaska drivers license.

•Must furnish proof of insurance.

•Copy of current driving record required upon hire

For more information contact Peninsula Clarion Circulation Dept.

(907)283-3584

Peninsula Clarion 150 Trading Bay Road, Kenai The Peninsula Clarion is an E.O.E.

Healthcare

Birds Cats Dogs Horses Livestock Livestock Supplies Pet Services Pet Supplies

Direct Service Advocate Transitional Living Center Part Time

SERVICES Appliance Repair Auction Services Automotive Repair Builders/Contractors Cabinetry/Counters Carpentry/Odd Jobs Charter Services Child Care Needed Child Care Provided Cleaning Services Commercial Fishing Education/Instruction Excavating/Backhoe Financial Fishing Guide Services Health Home Health Care Household Cleaning Services House-sitting Internet Lawn Care & Landscaping Masonry Services Miscellaneous Services Mortgages Lenders Painting/Roofing Plumbing/Heating/ Electric Satellite TV Snow Removal Tax Services Travel Services Tree Services Veterinary Water Delivery Well Drilling

NOTICES/ ANNOUNCEMENTS Announcements Card of Thanks Freebies Lost/Found Personals/Notices Misc. Notices/ Announcements Worship Listings

PUBLIC NOTICES/ LEGAL ADS Adoptions Articles of Incorporation Bids Foreclosures Government Misc. Notices Notice to Creditors Public Notices Regulations

General Employment KENAI WELDERS We are looking for qualified welders to join our team in the Cook Inlet. The position requires a minimum of two years’ experience minimum in oil and gas industry welding operations.

Candidates must be familiar with welding, process piping and structural steel with a variety of alloys. Candidates must be qualified in all AWS welding procedures including stick, mig and tig and preferably have fitting experience. Include references in your resume. Must have a valid driver’s license and own tools. The pay scale being considered is between $38 and $42. We are an equal opportunity employer and offer a competitive salary and benefits package.

Post offer/Pre-employment screening including drug testing, functional capacity testing and other pre-employment tests are required.

Submit resumes to: Peninsula Clarion BLIND Box A309 PO Box 3009 Kenai, AK 99611.

General Employment Alaska State Parks in Kenai District Seeking Volunteer Campground Hosts for Summer 2014.

Seeking host for new Eagle Rock boat launch & Issac Walton State Rec site.

For further info please contact AK StateParks (907)262-5581

EXPERIENCED PAINTER & DRYWALL FINISHER

General Employment

or drop off an application/resume at the

PETS & LIVESTOCK

Construction & Trades

Full time Kenai Peninsula.

(907)398-7201

General Employment

TRANSPORTATION Autos Classic/Custom Financing Motorcycles Parts & Accessories Rentals Repair & Services Sport Utilities, 4x4 Suburbans/Vans/ Buses Trucks Trucks: Commercial Trucks: Heavy Duty Trailers Vehicles Wanted

Agriculture Computing & Engineering Construction & Trades Domestics, Childcare, Aides Drivers/Transportation Education Finance & Accounting General Employment Healthcare Hospitality & Food Service Manufacturing & Production Oil & Refinery Office & Clerical Personal Care/Beauty Professional/ Management Real Estate, Leasing, Mortgage Retail Sales & Marketing Schools/Training Tourism Work Wanted

Provide education, support, and advocacy to homeless women and children residing in transitional housing. Excellent understanding of domestic violence, sexual assault and substance abuse; excellent written and verbal communication skills; basic computer skills; ability to work with diverse population, multi-task, work independently and with a team, calm in crisis.

High school diploma or equivalent required.

Resume and cover letter to Executive Director, The LeeShore Center, 325 S. Spruce St., Kenai, AK 99611

by April 23, 2014.

EOE.

Employment

VISIT

US

Agriculture Computing & Engineering Construction & Trades Domestics, Childcare, Aides Drivers/Transportation Education Finance & Accounting General Employment Healthcare Hospitality & Food Service Manufacturing & Production Oil & Refinery Office & Clerical Personal Care/Beauty Professional/ Management Real Estate, Leasing, Mortgage Retail Sales & Marketing Schools/Training Tourism Work Wanted

ONLINE TODAY www.peninsulaclarion.com

BARTENDER WANTED TAPS card, part-time could be full-time.

Apply in person, call 776-5833.

Trucks: Heavy Duty MAKE AN OFFER 2010 dually long bed, F-350, 4wheel drive, 6.4 diesel truck, 24k miles, Auto Tran. Hide away goose neck Tow & Trailer brake packages.

Spray bed liner. Back up camera. Heated/power mirrors, warranty, Power chip Keyless entry, Power windows/seats Asking $36,400 OBO. KBB at $37k (907)953-4696

To place an ad call 907-283-7551

Auctions

AUCTION

of complete turnkey Welding Shop: Quality Marine, Kodiak, Alaska .

Entire Business Liquidation to be sold as one lot Monday, April 28 @ 10am at Alaska Auction Co. 1227 E. 75th Ave., Anchorage, Alaska.

Preview in Kodiak by appointment only.

(907)349-7078. AlaskaAuction.com

Health

Pets & Livestock Birds Cats Dogs Horses Livestock Livestock Supplies Pet Services Pet Supplies

Cats FREE TO A GOOD HOME Older female cat, spayed, very loving, will go outside. Grandkids are allergic so she must find a new home.

(907)398-4647

THAI HOUSE MASSAGE

Located in Kenai Behind Wells Fargo/ stripmall (907)252-6510, (907)741-1105

Health

Dogs ASIAN MASSAGE

Financial Auctions Business for Sale Financial Opportunities Mortgages/Loans

Business for Sale COFFEE SHOP FOR SALE

Self-Sustaining business in an area where industry is growing, North Kenai.

Contact Brad (907)690-7737.

KENAI KENNEL CLUB

Pawsitive training for all dogs & puppies.

Agility, Conformation, Obedience, Privates & Rally. www.kenaikennelclub.com (907)335-2552

Please make the phone ring! Call anytime!

(907)741-1644, (907)398-8896.

Health **ASIAN MASSAGE** Wonderful, Relaxing.

Happy Spring!

Anytime!

(907)741-1644, (907)398-8896.

Thanks!

Merchandise For Sale Antiques/Collectibles Appliances Audio/Video Building Supplies Computers Crafts/Holiday Items Electronics Exercise Equipment Firewood Food Furniture Garage Sales Heavy Equipment/ Farm Machinery Lawn/Garden Liquidation Machinery & Tools Miscellaneous Music Musical Instructions Office/Business Equipment Vacations/Tickets Wanted To Buy

Recreation Aircrafts & Parts All-Terrain Vehicles Archery Bicycles Boat Supplies/Parts Boats & Sail Boats Boats Charter Boats Commercial Campers/Travel Trailers Fishing Guns Hunting Guide Service Kayaks Lodging Marine Motor Homes/RVs Snow Mobiles Sporting Goods

Transportation Autos Classic/Custom Financing Motorcycles Parts & Accessories Rentals Repair & Services Sport Utilities, 4x4 Suburbans/Vans/ Buses Trucks Trucks: Commercial Trucks: Heavy Duty Trailers Vehicles Wanted

Parts & Accessories TOYO A/T TIRES. P245 70R16 065 1yr old, plus they are on rims, I have Ford hub caps (4).

Came off ‘02 Explorer.

ALL just $450.

(907)260-5943

TEACH ALL DOGS Everything with brains, not pain.

Obedience, Puppy, Nose work, Rally, Agility, Privates.

K-Beach Road (907)262-6846 www.pendog.org

Services Appliance Repair Auction Services Automotive Repair Builders/Contractors Cabinetry/Counters Carpentry/Odd Jobs Charter Services Child Care Needed Child Care Provided Cleaning Services Commercial Fishing Education/Instruction Excavating/Backhoe Financial Fishing Guide Services Health Home Health Care Household Cleaning Services House-sitting Internet Lawn Care & Landscaping Masonry Services Miscellaneous Services Mortgages Lenders Painting/Roofing Plumbing/Heating/ Electric Satellite TV Services Snow Removal Tax Services Travel Services Tree Services Veterinary Water Delivery Well Drilling

Home Health Care PERSONAL CARE ASSISTANT

For elderly, respite, family support.

Experienced.

(907)252-5375

Notices/ Announcements Announcements Card of Thanks Freebies Lost/Found Personals/Notices Misc. Notices/ Announcements Worship Listings

Public Notices/ Legal Ads Adoptions Articles of Incorporation Bids Foreclosures Government Misc. Notices Notice to Creditors Public Notices Regulations

Commercial Fishing EXPERIENCED CREW MEMBER Available for Upper cook Inlet Herring fishery 2014 Please call (907)654-7914

Health

Shop the classifieds for great deals on great stuff.

PENINSULA THAI MASSAGE Thompsons’s/ Soldotna, next to Liberty Tax. (907)252-8053, (907)398-2073

Call Today 283-7551 www.peninsulaclarion.com

C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014 C-9

Advertise “By the Month” or save $ with a 3, 6 or 12 month contract.

Call Advertising Display 283-7551 to get started!

Advertise in the Service Directory today! - Includes Dispatch. 283-7551

398-6000

Licensed • Bonded • Insured

Vinyl Hardwood

907-252-7148

Flooring

Construction

Carpet Laminate Floors

• New Construction • Remodels • Additions

FREE ESTIMATES! Lic.# 30426 • Bonded & Insured

• Rooftop Snow Removal • Roofing • Drywall • Decks • Siding • Building Maintenance Thomas Bell-Owner

Licensed & Insured Lic.#952948

Licened • Bonded • Insured

Fax: (907) 262-2347

Bids

C

M

Y

K

commercial roofing & Services

Now located on the Kenai Peninsula for all your roofing needs.

907-260-roof (7663)

Member of the Kenai Peninsula Builders Association

www.rainproofroofing.com

Public Notices IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District hereby invites qualified vendors to submit a proposal for acceptance by the District to purchase Copy Paper.

One (1) original of the sealed bid must be submitted to the Purchasing Department, Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, 139 East Park Avenue, Soldotna, AK 99669, no later than 4:00 PM local time on May 6, 2014. Bid can be obtained by calling 907-714-8876 during normal business hours, or from the District website www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us Kenai Peninsula Borough Code requires that businesses or individuals contracting to do business with the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District be in compliance with Borough tax provisions.

In the Matter of a Change of Name for:

PUBLISHED: 4/11, 2014

1675/225

) ) ) ISABELA MELISSA AZUARA-O’BRIEN ) Current Name of Minor Child ) Case No: 3KN-14-00252CI Notice of Petition to Change Name A petition has been filed in the Superior Court (Case # 3KN-14-00252CI) requesting a name change from (current name) ISABELA MELISSA AZUARA-O’BRIEN to ISABELLA MELISSA LAVIGUEUR. A hearing on this request will be held on May 15, 2014 at 3:30 p.m. at Courtroom 6, Kenai Courthouse, 125 Trading Bay Drive, Suite 100 Kenai, AK.

Anna M Moran Superior Court Judge

PUBLISH: 4/11, 18, 25, 5/2, 2014

Plumbing & Heating

24/7 PLUMBING AND

NAMING TRUSTEE:

FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY TRUSTOR: RANDY PHELPS TRUSTOR: DONNA SERNA 2002 REVOCABLE TRUST OWNER OF RECORD: RANDY PHELPS Said Deed of Trust was executed on the 18th day of June, 2013, and recorded on the 8th day of July, 2013, Serial No. 2013- 006395.

Said Deed of Trust has not been assigned by the Beneficiary.

Said documents having been recorded in the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, describing: LOT ONE (1), BLOCK FOUR (4), KENAI RIVER BRIDGE SUBDIVISION AMENDED, according to the official plat hereof, filed under Plat No. 75-028, Records of the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska.

The physical address of the real property described above is 36790 Ord Lane, Kenai, Alaska, 99611.

The undersigned, being the original, or properly substituted Trustee hereby gives notice that a breach of the obligations under the Deed of Trust has occurred in that the Trustor has failed to satisfy the indebtedness secured thereby: EIGHTEEN THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED EIGHT-THREE AND 55/100TH DOLLARS ($18,183.55), plus interest, late charges, costs, attorney fees and other foreclosure costs actually incurred, and any future advances thereunder. Said default may be cured and the sale terminated upon payment of the sum of default plus interest, late charges, costs, attorney fees and other foreclosure costs actually incurred, and any future advances thereunder, prior to the sale date. If Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously and default has been cured, the trustee may elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. Upon demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee elects to sell the above-described property, with proceeds to be applied to the total indebtedness secured thereby.

Said sale shall be held at public auction at the ALASKA COURT SYSTEM BUILDING, 125 TRADING BAY DR., #100, KENAI, ALASKA, on the 22nd day of May, 2014, said sale shall commence at 11:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in conjunction with such other sales that the Trustee or its attorney may conduct.

DATED this 19th day of February, 2014.

FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY By: PENELOPE BUNDY Title: Authorized Signer Recording Information Serial No. 2014-001258 Dated: 2-20-2014 PUBLISHED: 4/4, 11, 18, 25, 2014

1661/6090

– Based in Kenai & Nikiski – Long Distance Towing

Slide Backs • Winch Out Services • Auto Sales Vehicle Storage • Roll Over Recoveries

Reddi Towing & Junk Car Killers

PUBLIC NOTICE KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH ROAD SERVICE AREA Effective Monday, April 7, 2014 at 8:00 AM weight restrictions are imposed for Kenai Peninsula Borough Road Service Area roads: 75% on paved roads and 50% on gravel roads. Weight restrictions are stated as a percentage of legal allowable weight and shall be applied to the maximum axle loading of state code 17 ACC 25.013(e).

Pursuant to KPB 14.40.070(C) persons or entities using the right-of-way in a manner causing damage are liable to the borough for the cost of repair and subject to a fine set forth in KPB 14.40.260.

Applications for overweight permits must be approved by the Road Service Area Director.

KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH Pat Malone, Road Service Area Director PUBLISHED: 4/6, 7, 11, 2014

1677/73750

Public Notices PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION HILCORP ALASKA, LLC DOLLY VARDEN PLATFORM The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) proposes to issue Air Quality Control Operating Permit No. AQ0060TVP03 to the Dolly Varden Platform, under Alaska Statutes 46.14 and regulation 18 AAC 50.

Applicant: Hilcorp Alaska, LLC Mailing Address: Box 244027, Anchorage, AK 99524 Location: 60° 48” North; 151° 38' West; Upper Cook Inlet, AK Activity: Offshore oil and gas production Application: May 14, 2013 Emissions: The annual emissions of regulated air pollutants will not exceed: 23 tons of PM, 571 tons of NOx, 430 tons of SO2, 256 tons of CO, and 31 tons of VOC. Preliminary Review and Available Information: Based on review of the application, ADEC drafted a preliminary permit decision for the source. Copies of the draft Operating Permit, Statement of Basis, and administrative record are available at ADEC's office: 410 Willoughby Avenue, Juneau, AK 99801.

These documents are also available at the Department's website at: http://dec.alaska.gov/Applications/Air/ airtoolsweb/AirPermitsApprovalsAndPublic Notices .

Opportunity for Public Participation: Notice is also given that any interested person may present written statements relevant to the draft documents by the close of the public comment period. Written comments will be included in the record if received by close of the comment period. ADEC will consider all comments received and make any changes ADEC finds beneficial or necessary to assure compliance with 18 AAC 50 or State Law. Any person may request a public hearing and that hearing will be held if ADEC finds that good cause exists. ADEC will issue a final decision to issue or deny the permit after the close of the public comment period.

ADEC complies with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. If you are a person with a disability who may need a special accommodation in order to participate in this public process, please contact Deborah Pock at (907) 269-0291 or TDD Relay Service 1-800-770-8973/TTY or dial 711 within 15 days of publication of this notice to ensure that any necessary accommodations can be provided.

Please direct written statements or requests relevant to the proposed permit to Kwame Agyei by mail at PO Box 111800, Juneau, AK 99811, by fax at (907) 465-5129 or send e-mail to Kwame.Agyei@alaska.gov. Comments must be received by close of public comment at 4:30 p.m. on May 10, 2014.

PUBLISHED: 4/10, 11, 2014

www.peninsulaclarion.com

283-7551

HEATING

No matter how old your system is we can make it more efficient.

FREE Kenai: 283-1063 Text us at: ESTIMATES Nikiski: 776-8055 394-4017 email us at: linton401@gmail.com Soldotna: 262-1964 394-4018 UNLIMITED MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS License # 34609

Public Notices NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND SALE 2169746

Licensed, Bonded & Insured

We don’t want your fingers,

just your tows!

907. 776 . 3967

Public Notices

KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT INVITATION TO BID #140-14-W Copy Paper

APRIL 1, 2014 Effective Date:

252-3965

35 Years Construction Experience

Do you look forward to your gas bill each month? If not, you should call

Towing

Raingutter Technicians with over 20 years Alaskan Experience CONTINUOUS CUSTOM ALUMINUM & STEEL GUTTERS

Phone: (907) 262-2347

residential roofing & Services

OF ALASKA

Roofing

Rain Gutters

RAINTECH

776-3490 690-3490

Small Engine Repair

Notices

Insulation

Notice to Consumers The State of Alaska requires construction companies to be licensed, bonded and insured before submitting bids, performing work, or advertising as a construction contractor in accordance with AS 08..18.011, 08.18.071, 08.18.101, and 08.15.051. All advertisements as a construction contractor require the current registration number as issued by the Division of Occupational Licensing to appear in the advertisement.

CONSUMERS MAY VERIFY REGISTRATION OF A CONTRACTOR . Contact the AK Department of Labor and Workforce Development at 907-269-4925 or The AK Division of Occupational Licensing in Juneau at 907-4653035 or at www.dced.state.ak.us/acc/home.htm

Construction

130 S Willow Street, Suite 8 • Kenai, AK 99611

ROOFING

ONE ALASKAN HANDYMAN SERVICE

RFN FLOORS Professional Installation & Repair

Terry Mount - 35 Years Experience

?

Computer Repair, Networking Dell Business Partner Web Design & Hosting

Handyman

Mount Construction

283-3362

Computer Problems Call Today ( 9 0 7 ) 2 8 3 - 5 1 1 6

• Carpentry • General Handyman Work • Sheetrock • Painting • Woodwork • Tree Removal • Hauling • Cleanup & Repairs • Decks • Kitchen Remodels • Bath • Siding • Remodels • Unfinished Projects?

Rain Gutters

260-4943

Tim Wisniewski, owner • Residential & Commercial • Emergency Water Removal • Janitorial Contracts • Upholstery Cleaning

Computer Repair

Licensed • Bonded • Insured •License #33430

LLC

Lic #39710

Handyman

• Experienced • Trustworthy • Dependable • Attention to detail Serving the Kenai Peninsula for over 11 years

HaveGENERAL ToolsCONTRACTING Will Travel

Tim’s Cleaning

Bathroom Remodeling

Full or Partial Bathroom Remodels

1670/450

Classifieds Work!

C

M

Y

K

1663/224

Every Friday in the Peninsula Clarion

www.peninsulaclarion.com

C

M

Y

K

C-10 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

Would you like to have your business highlighted in Yellow Advantage?

),1' $1< %86,1(66 $1< 6(59,&( $1< 7,0( $7 PENINSULACLARION &20

â&#x20AC;˘ Reach readers in the newspaper and online that are ready, willing and able to buy your goods and services. â&#x20AC;˘ Have your business stand out from the competition by creating top of mind awareness. â&#x20AC;˘ Ads appear EVERYDAY in the newspaper â&#x20AC;˘ Easy to use online search engine puts your business ahead of the competion. â&#x20AC;˘ Update your ads and listings frequently.

Peninsula Clarion Display Advertising

(907) 283-7551

025( ,1)2

*HW FRXSRQV DQG VSHFLDO RIIHUV

180%(5

*HW SKRQH QXPEHUV

:(% 6,7(

0$36

9LVLW EXVLQHVV ZHEVLWHV *HW GLUHFWLRQV

)RU PRUH LQIRUPDWLRQ FDOO Display Advertising DW 907 283-7551

Get your business listed 283-7551

Automotive Insurance Walters & Associates Located in the Willow Street Mall

130 S. Willow St. #8 Kenai............................. 283-5116

Business Cards Full Color Printing PRINTERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S INK 150 Trading Bay Road, Suite 2 Kenai

283-4977

Bathroom Remodeling AK Sourdough Enterprises Residential/Commercial Construction & Building Maintenance *Specializing in custom finish trim/cabinets* 35 yrs experience in Alaska

35081 Kenai Spur Hwy. Soldotna .......................262-5916

Computer Repair 130 S. Willow St. #8 Kenai............................. 283-5116

35081 Kenai Spur Hwy. Soldotna .......................262-5916

www.peninsulaclarion.com

Emergency appts. available Denali Kid Care/Medicaid

605 Marine Ave. Kenai............................. 283-4875

Kenai ................................335-0559 Cell....................................350-0559

Family Dentistry

Need Cash Now?

Remodeling AK Sourdough Enterprises Residential/Commercial Construction & Building Maintenance *Specializing in custom finish trim/cabinets* 35 yrs experience in Alaska

35081 Kenai Spur Hwy. Soldotna .......................262-5916

Kenai ................................335-0559 Cell....................................350-0559

Print Shops

Teeth Whitening

Full Color Printing PRINTERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S INK

Emergency appts. available Denali Kid Care/Medicaid

283-7551

150 Trading Bay Road, Suite 2 Kenai............................. 283-4977

908 Highland Ave. Kenai............................. 283-0454

130 S. Willow St. #8 Kenai............................. 283-5116

Kenai Dental Clinic

Place a Classified Ad.

alias@printers-ink.com

Oral Surgery, Crowns, Bridges Root Canals, Dentures, Partials Emergency appts. available DKC/Medicaid

Sweeneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clothing

Located in the Willow Street Mall

908 Highland Ave. Kenai............................. 283-0454

Rack Cards Full Color Printing PRINTERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S INK

Cook Inlet Dental James Halliday, DMD

Outdoor Clothing

Walters & Associates

Oral Surgery, Crowns, Bridges Root Canals, Dentures, Partials Emergency appts. available DKC/Medicaid

Oral Surgery, Crowns, Bridges Root Canals, Dentures, Partials Emergency appts. available DKC/Medicaid

Oral Surgery

Peninsula Memorial Chapels & Crematory Kenai........................................283-3333 Soldotna ..................................260-3333 Homer...................................... 235-6861 Seward.....................................224-5201

Insurance

Cook Inlet Dental James Halliday, DMD

Cook Inlet Dental James Halliday, DMD

Win

Funeral Homes

Kenai Dental Clinic

Residential/Commercial Construction & Building Maintenance *Specializing in custom finish trim/cabinets* 35 yrs experience in Alaska

908 Highland Ave. Kenai............................. 283-0454

Located in the Willow Street Mall

Sweeneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clothing

Dentistry

Dentistry

Sweeneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clothing

Walters & Associates

Boots

Contractor

Carhartt

Kenai ................................335-0559 Cell....................................350-0559

Every Day in your Peninsula Clarion â&#x20AC;˘ www.peninsulaclarion.com

AK Sourdough Enterprises

alias@printers-ink.com

ZZZ peninsulaclarion FRP

Kenai Dental Clinic Emergency appts. available Denali Kid Care/Medicaid

alias@printers-ink.com

605 Marine Ave. Kenai............................. 283-4875

150 Trading Bay Road, Suite 2 Kenai............................. 283-4977

283-7551

B G in the Classifieds.

605 Marine Ave. Kenai............................. 283-4875

Whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking to buy, sell or trade the Classifieds are the best way to find just what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re searching for.

283-7551 www.peninsulaclarion.com Peninsula Clarion

www.peninsulaclarion.com â&#x20AC;˘ 150 Trading Bay Road, Suite #1, Kenai, Alaska 99611 â&#x20AC;˘ 283-7551 â&#x20AC;˘ FAX 283-3299 â&#x20AC;˘ Monday - Friday 8 A.M. - 5 P.M.

Classified Ad Rates Number of Days Run

0, 2014 FRIDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING

11:30

A

B

4 PM

(:37) Nightline (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (3) ABC-13 7030

Alaska Daily

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Always Sunny in (6) MNT-5 7035 Philadelphia ow With Da (8) CBS-11 7031 PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; TMZ (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (9) FOX-4 7033

The Insider (N)

(:36) Late Night With (10) NBC-2 7032 Seth Meyers N) (12) PBS-7 7036

â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Til Death â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

y Collec-

Conan â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

-themed mur-

5 PM

5:30

News & Views ABC World (N) News Inside Edition Family Feud Family Feud (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

The Ellen DeGeneres Show (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bethenny Dolvett Quince; Patti Stanger. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

KTVA 5 p.m. CBS Evening First Take News Entertainment Two and a Tonight (N) Half Men â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

The Dr. Oz Show â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Channel 2 News 5:00 Report (N) BBC World News America â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

WordGirl â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Y7â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Wild Kratts â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ospreyâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

CABLE STATIONS

NBC Nightly News (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Alaska Weather â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

6 PM

6:30

7 PM

B = DirecTV

7:30

8 PM

APRIL 11, 2014

8:30

Jeopardy!

(N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Wheel of For- Last Man (:31) The Shark Tank All-inclusive projtune (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Standing (N) Neighbors (N) ect kits. (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Family Guy 30 Rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Monk â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mr. Monk and the Voo- Monk â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mr. Monk Goes to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Barely Legalâ&#x20AC;? doo Curseâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Group Therapyâ&#x20AC;? Deadly group â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; therapy. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; KTVA 6 p.m. Evening News Unforgettable â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flesh and Hawaii Five-0 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ku I Ka Pili (N) Bloodâ&#x20AC;? (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Kokoâ&#x20AC;? (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Big Bang The Big Bang Rake A doctor is accused of Kitchen Nightmares Another Theory â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Theory â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; animal cruelty. (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; visit to Amyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Baking Company. (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Channel 2 Newshour (N) Dateline NBC (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Grimm â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Law of Sacrificeâ&#x20AC;?

A deadly asset looks for Adalind. (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; PBS NewsHour (N) Washington Alaska Edi- Live From Lincoln Center Week With tion Jason Isbell performs. (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Gwen Ifill

108 252

(28) USA

105 242

(30) TBS

139 247

(31) TNT

138 245

(34) ESPN 140 206

9 PM

9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30

(:01) 20/20 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; American Dad â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

ABC News at (:35) Jimmy Kimmel Live â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; (:37) Nightline 10 (N) (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Family Guy â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

30 Rock How I Met â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gavin Volureâ&#x20AC;? Your Mother â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Blue Bloods â&#x20AC;&#x153;Secret Arrange- KTVA Night- 2014 Masters mentsâ&#x20AC;? (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; cast Fox 4 News at 9 (N) The Arsenio Hall Show â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

The Office Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Always â&#x20AC;&#x153;Business Eth- Sunny in icsâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Philadelphia (10:50) Late Show With David Letterman â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Two and a TMZ (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Half Men â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

(:01) Hannibal â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yakimonoâ&#x20AC;?

Channel 2 (:34) The Tonight Show Star- (:36) Late Evidence exonerates Will.

News: Late ring Jimmy Fallon (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Night With (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Edition (N) Seth Meyers The Dave Clark Five -- Glad All Over, a Great Performanc- Charlie Rose (N) es Special British group the Dave Clark Five. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

SATELLITE PROVIDERS MAY CARRY A DIFFERENT FEED THAN LISTED HERE. THESE LISTINGS REFLECT LOCAL CABLE SYSTEM FEEDS.

NBA Basketball Detroit Pistons at Chicago Bulls. From the United Center in Witches Are How I Met How I Met Parks and Parks and (8) WGN-A 239 307 Chicago. (N) (Live) Real Your Mother Your Mother Recreation Recreation Honora Jewelry Collection â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Lisa Robertson Show â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Friday Night Beauty â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Philosophy: Beauty â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (20) QVC 137 317

unway: Under rhero inspira- (23) LIFE

Way Outâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

4:30

A = DISH

Parks and Recreation

Rules of En- 30 Rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Always gagement Sunny Honora Jewelry Collection â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Wife Swap â&#x20AC;&#x153;Myers/Suttonâ&#x20AC;?

Wife Swap A primped-and- Wife Swap â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mink/Oaksâ&#x20AC;? A Celebrity Wife Swap Dara Celebrity Wife Swap Coolioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s To Be Announced Off Their Off Their A mother who pampers her proper mother swaps. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rhinestone cowgirl mother. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Gottfried and Tanya Thicke. and Mark McGrathâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mates.

Rockers Rockers family. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Law & Order: Special Vic- Law & Order: Special Vic- Law & Order: Special Vic- Modern Fam- Modern Fam- Modern Fam- Modern Fam- Modern Fam- Modern Fam- Modern Fam- Sirens â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; tims Unit â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; tims Unit â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; tims Unit â&#x20AC;&#x153;Closetâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ily â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ily â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ily â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ily â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ily â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ily â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ily â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Friends â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Seinfeld â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Seinfeld â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Seinfeld â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Seinfeld â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Family Guy â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Hangoverâ&#x20AC;? (2009, Comedy) Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Due Dateâ&#x20AC;? (2010, Comedy) Robert Downey Jr., Zach GalifiOperaâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Virginâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Contestâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pickâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Long John Zach Galifianakis. Three pals must find a missing groom after anakis, Michelle Monaghan. A high-strung man takes a road Peterâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; a wild bash. trip with an annoying stranger.

Castle Investigating with Castle Castle takes on a new Castle A body with human â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Helpâ&#x20AC;? (2011, Drama) Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard. An aspiring (:03) Dallas Elena makes a another detective. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; partner. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bite marks is found. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; writer captures the experiences of black women. decision. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 2014 Masters Tournament Second Round. From Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga. SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live)

Futurama â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Til Death â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

(:02) Celebrity Wife Swap Dara Gottfried and Tanya Thicke. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Deal With â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not Another It â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Teen Movieâ&#x20AC;? (:03) CSI: NY â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Thing About Heroesâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; SportsCenter

NASCAR Racing Nationwide Series: VFW Sport Clips Help A Boxing Friday Night Fights. Giovanni Lorenzo vs. Gilberto Olbermann (N) NBA Tonight Baseball Tonight (N) (Live) NFL Live NASCAR (35) ESPN2 144 209 Hero 200. (N) (Live) Ramirez. From Las Vegas. (N) (Live) (N) Racing The Game West Coast Customs Mariners MLB Baseball Oakland Athletics at Seattle Mariners. From Safeco Field in Seattle. (N Subject Mariners MLB Baseball Oakland Athletics at Seattle Mariners. From Safeco Field in (36) ROOT 426 651 365 Pregame to Blackout) (Live) Postgame Seattle. (Subject to Blackout) Cops â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cops â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cops Sting. Cops â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cops â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cops â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cops â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cops â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bellator MMA Live The worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top fighters take part in this Countdown (:45) Cops â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; (:15) Cops â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; (:45) Cops (38) SPIKE 168 325 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; tournament. (N) (Live) to Glory 15 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blazing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Next of Kinâ&#x20AC;? (1989, Crime Drama) Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson. A hill â&#x20AC;&#x153;U.S. Marshalsâ&#x20AC;? (1998, Action) Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr. Sam (:01) â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Skeleton Keyâ&#x20AC;? (2005, Suspense) Kate Hudson, (43) AMC 130 254 Saddlesâ&#x20AC;? clanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sons stalk mobsters who killed their brother.

Gerard gets caught up in another fugitive case.

Gena Rowlands, John Hurt.

King of the King of the The Cleve- The Cleve- American Family Guy American Family Guy Robot Chick- Aqua Teen Squidbillies The Cleve- American Family Guy American Family Guy (46) TOON 176 296 Hill â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Hill â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; land Show land Show Dad â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dad â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; en â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Hunger â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; land Show Dad â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dad â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Finding Bigfoot: Further Finding Bigfoot: Further To Be Announced Tanked: Unfiltered â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tricks Tanked â&#x20AC;&#x153;Give a Dog a Phoneâ&#x20AC;? Tanked â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hang Ten Barbequeâ&#x20AC;? Tanked â&#x20AC;&#x153;Give a Dog a Phoneâ&#x20AC;? Tanked â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hang Ten Barbequeâ&#x20AC;?

(47) ANPL 184 282 Evidence â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Evidence â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and Treesâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Win, Lose or (:25) I Didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t (:15) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Teen Beach Movieâ&#x20AC;? (2013, Musical) Ross Lynch, Maia Jessie (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dog With a (:05) I Didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Liv & Mad- Austin & Jessie â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dog With a Liv & Mad- Jessie â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; A.N.T. Farm (49) DISN 173 291 Draw â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Do It â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mitchell, Grace Phipps. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Blog (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Do It â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; die â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ally â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Blog â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; die â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;infANTâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jinxedâ&#x20AC;? (2013, Comedy) Ciara Bravo, Jack Full House â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Full House â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Full House â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Full House â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Friends â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (:36) Friends (:12) Friends â&#x20AC;&#x153;The One With (50) NICK 171 300 Griffo, Jay Brazeau. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; the Dirty Girlâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Fresh Prince The Middle The Middle The Middle â&#x20AC;&#x153;Billy Madisonâ&#x20AC;? (1995, Comedy) Adam Sandler. A hotel â&#x20AC;&#x153;Home Alone 2: Lost in New Yorkâ&#x20AC;? (1992) Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci.

The 700 Club â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Fresh Prince Fresh Prince (51) FAM 180 311 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; magnateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adult son goes back to grade school.

Kevin ends up in New York when he boards the wrong plane.

Worst Tattoos Borrowed, Four Weddings A Cinco de Four Weddings â&#x20AC;&#x153;... And a Borrowed, Borrowed, Randy Knows Say Yes, Say Yes to the Randy Knows Borrowed, Borrowed, Say Yes to the Randy Knows Borrowed, (55) TLC 183 280 Mayo wedding. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; New New Rainbowâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; New New Dress Dress New New Dress Dale Jr.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sick Fast Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Loud â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bad Ass Fast Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Loud The Bronco Sons of Guns â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mobile MAG- Sons of Guns (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Sons of Guns â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scorpion Boss Hog Boss Hog Ice Cold Gold â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Boss Hog â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Boss Hog â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; (56) DISC 182 278 Bronco Part 1â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; goes over-budget. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 58â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Strikesâ&#x20AC;? (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ries: Vatican Dead Files Revisited â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bizarre Foods With Andrew Man v. Food Man v. Food Bizarre Foods Foods with a Ghost Adventures â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Dead Files â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dead Files Revisited â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ghost Adventures â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (57) TRAV 196 277 Zimmern â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; strong smell. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (:31) Pawn Modern Marvels Winter Modern Marvels Ice can be American Pickers â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; American Pickers Rick American Pickers â&#x20AC;&#x153;Step Right American Pickers â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mountain (:02) American Pickers (:01) American Pickers (58) HIST 120 269 Olympics technology. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Stars â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; an unusual tool. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Nielsenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s warehouse. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Upâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mayhemâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Holy Grailâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cheap Pickâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 48 A 28The First 48 Witness is shot The First 48 Investigation on The First 48 A 24-year-old The First 48 A dice game The First 48 A 911 caller is The First 48 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shatteredâ&#x20AC;? A (:01) The First 48 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last Fareâ&#x20AC;? (:01) The First 48 A dice d to death at (59) A&E 118 265 before his court date. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Easter Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; man is shot in the street. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; leaves a bystander dead. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; found covered in blood. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; man is discovered on broken Homicide of a cabdriver. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; game leaves a bystander glass. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; dead. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Rehab AdDream Home House Hunt- Rev. Runâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rev. Runâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rev. Runâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rev. Runâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rev. Runâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rev. Runâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rev. Runâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rev. Runâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House Hunt- Hunters Intâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;l House Hunt- Hunters Intâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;l Rev. Runâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rev. Runâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (60) HGTV 112 229 dict â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ers â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Renovation Renovation Renovation Renovation Renovation Renovation Renovation Renovation ers (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ers â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Renovation Renovation da â&#x20AC;&#x153;Slaying Diners, Drive-Ins and Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive (61) FOOD 110 231 Dives â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Paid Program American Greed â&#x20AC;&#x153;$udden Marijuana in America: Colo- â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cocaine Cowboys II: American Greed â&#x20AC;&#x153;$udden Marijuana in America: Colo- â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cocaine Cowboys II: Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program (65) CNBC 208 355 Death; Hip Hop Hustleâ&#x20AC;? rado Pot Rush Hustlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Death; Hip Hop Hustleâ&#x20AC;? rado Pot Rush Hustlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

The Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Reilly Factor (N) The Kelly File (N) Hannity (N) The Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Reilly Factor The Kelly File Hannity On the Record With Greta Red Eye (N) (67) FNC 205 360 Van Susteren (:31) Tosh.0 (3:58) Fu(:28) Fu(4:58) South (:29) Tosh.0 The Colbert Daily Show/ Futurama â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Futurama â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Key & Peele Key & Peele South Park South Park Tosh.0 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Tosh.0 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Daniel Tosh: Happy

( 81) COM 107 249 MAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; turama â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; turama â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Park â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Report â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jon Stewart â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Thoughts â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rvivors try to Warehouse 13 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Men in Blackâ&#x20AC;? (1997) Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith. Secret WWE Friday Night SmackDown! (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Continuum The mayor is Bitten â&#x20AC;&#x153;Readyâ&#x20AC;? Elena prepares Continuum The mayor is (82) SYFY 122 244 agents monitor extraterrestrial activity on Earth. kidnapped. (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; for the fight. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; kidnapped. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

PREMIUM STATIONS

SATELLITE PROVIDERS MAY CARRY A DIFFERENT FEED THAN LISTED HERE. THESE LISTINGS REFLECT LOCAL CABLE SYSTEM FEEDS.

Weigh-In Game of Thrones â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two Real Time With Bill Maher (N VICE â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Real Time With Bill Maher VICE (SubLive: PacSwordsâ&#x20AC;? Tyrion welcomes a Same-day Tape) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; titled-English) quiao guest. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Snitchâ&#x20AC;? (2013, Crime Drama) Dwayne Johnson, Barry Pep- â&#x20AC;&#x153;Taken 2â&#x20AC;? (2012, Action) Liam Neeson. A Weigh-In (:45) 24/7 per, Jon Bernthal. A man infiltrates a drug cartel to save his vengeful father abducts Bryan Mills and his Live: PacPacquiao/ son from prison. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PG-13â&#x20AC;&#x2122; wife. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PG-13â&#x20AC;&#x2122; quiao Bradley 2 (3:30) â&#x20AC;&#x153;How Highâ&#x20AC;? (2001, (:10) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Prometheusâ&#x20AC;? (2012, Science Fiction) Noomi Rapace, (:15) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Warm Bodiesâ&#x20AC;? (2013, Romance-Comedy) Nicholas Confidential â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Internshipâ&#x20AC;? (2013, Comedy) Vince Vaughn, Owen The Girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Life on Top 4: Student Wilson, Rose Byrne. Old-school salesmen finagle internships Guide to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Working Girlsâ&#x20AC;? + MAX 311 514 Comedy) Method Man, Red- Michael Fassbender. Explorers wage a terrifying battle to save Hoult. An unusual romance unfolds after a zombie saves a man. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Râ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mankindâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Râ&#x20AC;&#x2122; young womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PG-13â&#x20AC;&#x2122; at Google. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PG-13â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Depravity â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (:15) â&#x20AC;&#x153;50/50â&#x20AC;? (2011, Comedy-Drama) Joseph Gordon-Levitt, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Longest Yardâ&#x20AC;? (2005, Comedy) Adam Sandler, Chris MAD DOG: Inside the Secret World of Wahlberg. A MAD DOG: Inside the Secret World of House of Lies Shameless m a madmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 5 SHOW 319 540 Seth Rogen. Learning that he has cancer, a young man vows Rock, Burt Reynolds. Prisoners train for a football game Muammar Gaddafi Stories of the Libyan Muammar Gaddafi Stories of the Libyan â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lazarusâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to beat the odds. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Râ&#x20AC;&#x2122; against the guards. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PG-13â&#x20AC;&#x2122; dictator. (N) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; dictator. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (3:00) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Passion Fishâ&#x20AC;? (1992) Mary McDon- (:20) â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Week With Marilynâ&#x20AC;? (2011, â&#x20AC;? (2005, Comâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Notting Hillâ&#x20AC;? (1999, Romance-Comedy) Julia Roberts, (:05) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Save the Dateâ&#x20AC;? (2012, Romance-Comedy) Lizzy â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Museâ&#x20AC;? (1999, Comedy) Drama) Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville. A bookseller and a movie star Caplan, Alison Brie, Martin Starr. A bookseller resists a manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Albert Brooks, Sharon Stone. fah. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PG-13â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 8 TMC 329 545 nell. Paralyzed TV star and her nurse give each other strength. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Râ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Kenneth Branagh. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Râ&#x20AC;&#x2122; have an unlikely romance. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PG-13â&#x20AC;&#x2122; attempts to woo her. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Râ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PG-13â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

April 6 - 12, 2014

24/7 Pacquiao/Bradley 2 Veep â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Clarion TV

C

M

Y

K

63¢ 44¢ 36¢ 29¢

Minimum of $6.30 per ad or 10 Word Minimum per Day Plus 6% Sales Tax â&#x20AC;˘ VISA & MasterCard welcome.

Classified ads also run in the Dispatch and Online (except single day ads) *Ask about our recruitment ad pricing, details & deadlines

Add - A - Graphic $10 - With your classified Line ad.

Call 283-7551

Angle Arrow -

Arrow -

Banner-

Best Stamp-

Checkmark-

Dollar Symbol-

Electric-

Firecracker-

For Sale Sign-

Heart-

Look-

Magnet-

New-

Pot of Gold-

Star-

Wow! Stamp-

Philosophy: Beauty â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

SportsNation (N) The Best of Pride Cops â&#x20AC;&#x153;Arizonaâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Judge Dreddâ&#x20AC;?

Family Guy 14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The miners kly. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Good Luck Charlie â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hoebe finds a

(3:30) â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Transporter 2â&#x20AC;? Weigh-In Making: 24/7 Pac24/7 PacVICE Kurds in Silicon Valley quiao/Brad- quiao/BradSyria. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ! HBO 303 504 (2005, Action) Jason Statham. Live: Pacâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PG-13â&#x20AC;&#x2122; quiao â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ley 2 ley 2 (:10) â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Dark Knight Risesâ&#x20AC;? (2012, Action) Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cloud Atlasâ&#x20AC;? (2012) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Râ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ^ HBO2 304 505 Batman faces a masked villain named Bane. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PG-13â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Price Per Word, Per Day*

1 ..............................

6 ..............................

12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Š Tribune Media Services

13

Just tell us which graphic you like!

An affordable way to grab peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention

Classified Ad Specials Private Party Only - Prices include sales tax. NO REFUNDS on specials.

Cannot be combined with any other offer

Garage Sale - $26.00* 2 Days - 30 words

Includes FREE â&#x20AC;&#x153;Garage Saleâ&#x20AC;? Promo Kit

Wheel Deal

Selling a Car - Truck - SUV? Ask about or wheel deal special

Monthly Specials!

Ask about our seasonal classified advertising specials.

For items such as boats, motorcycles, RVs and snowmachines

Information

Important Classified Advertising Information

â&#x20AC;˘ In the event of typographical errors, please call by 10 A.M. the very first day the ad appears. The Clarion will be responsible for only one incorrect insertion. â&#x20AC;˘ Prepayment or credit card required. â&#x20AC;˘ Ads can be charged only after an approved credit application has been filed. â&#x20AC;˘ Ads may also be charged to a current VISA or MasterCard â&#x20AC;˘ Billing invoices payable on receipt. â&#x20AC;˘ No refunds under $5.00 will be given. â&#x20AC;˘ Minimum ad is 10 words. â&#x20AC;˘ One line bold type allowed. Additional bold text at $1.00 each word. â&#x20AC;˘ Blind Box available at cost of ad plus $15.00 fee. â&#x20AC;˘ The publisher reserves the right to reject any advertisement deemed objectionable either in subject or phraseology or which is considered detrimental to the newspaper.

Place your ad online at ShopKenaiPeninsula.com

Ad Deadlines Line Ads

10 A.M. The Previous Day Monday - 11 A.M. Friday Sunday - 10 A.M. Friday

Corrections

In the event of typographical errors, please call by 10 A.M. the very first day the ad appears. The Clarion will be responsible for only one incorrect insertion.

Faxed ads must be recieved by 8:30 A.M. for the next dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s publication

C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

State of modern marriage mirrors disposable society DEAR ABBY: My wife and I were discussing our sons-in-law, and young men in their 20s and 30s in general. We were wondering where the attitude of “any money I earn is mine” in a marriage or live-in situation got started.

For the first few years of my daughter and her husband “Joe’s” marriage, Joe resented giving her any of the money he earned. My other daughter’s husband thinks nothing of spending money on himself and his friends without consulting her.

We have seen this attitude reflected in their friends as well. They don’t seem to discuss with each other how each is spending their “joint” income. There seems to be an element of selfishness, too.

My wife and I have been married 40 years and from the beginning I have always considered what each of us earned was OURS, not mine or hers (when she worked). We always discuss any significant purchases, and I have always believed it was my responsibility to support my family. I realize the current economic situation has made that difficult, but the attitude should still be there.

— WONDERING IN WASHINGTON DEAR WONDERING: You have raised an interesting subject. There is a difference between living together and being married because of our legal

system. Because people who co-habit without benefit of marriage are considered individuals in the eyes of the law, it is probably prudent to keep their financial affairs separate. However, each person should contribute to the expenses they share.

In a marriage, the situation is different: The law assumes that the man and Abigail Van Buren wife are one unit. This is the mindset you adopted when you and your wife were married.

There is a tendency among young couples, not only because of the high divorce rate, but also what they have been exposed to in the media from the time they were born, to view marriage as something that might not last. There is also a sense of entitlement among many — NOT ALL — that makes them centered on themselves. We have become a society in which disposability has spread from material possessions to relationships.

I would LOVE to hear what my readers’ — par-

DEAR ABBY: We are fortunate to have great friends and relatives who invite us to their homes for parties, celebrations, overnight stays, etc. often. The problem is, their houses are cluttered and dirty. We see spilled food in the refrigerator, showers caked with grime and years of stains on upholstery.

Money and time are not issues for these folks. If this was a hotel or restaurant, we would leave immediately. My husband and I have been unnerved by the conditions in these houses. We would like to spend time with these people and don’t wish to offend. Subtle hints don’t help. We try our best to enjoy their company and ignore the rest, but it can be difficult. What can we do, Abby?

— NEAT IN NEW YORK DEAR NEAT: When you go to visit, stay in a nearby hotel or motel. If you know food will be served, fortify yourself beforehand and eat as little as possible without being rude. If you’re afraid you might soil your clothing sitting on their furniture, leave anything that isn’t washable at home.

Hints from Heloise

M

Y

K

Rubes

By Leigh Rubin

Ziggy

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Zero in on what is important in a discussion. Others will be responsive, as long as you demonstrate the ability to understand the big picture and its ramifications.

You might be out of sorts when dealing with a difficult person. Do only what you must. Tonight: Find your friends.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHYou could be in a situation that is hard to break away from. Others will want you around to help make sure that everything is up to snuff with a project. Be flattered, even if it means working later than you want to. Tonight: It could be a late one.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Reach out to someone at a distance. You might need to rethink how you deal with this person. Others are highly responsive to you, and they will welcome any suggestions. Tonight: Think in terms beyond the obvious, and make plans accordingly.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Interact on a one-on-one basis. You could find that a lot of what you thought would be difficult actually is quite easy, as others seem to be responsive. One person might be unusually unpredictable later today. Tonight: Time with a favorite person.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You might want to get to the bottom of a problem that revolves around a friend at a distance. You could be taken aback by someone else’s suggestion, but you might decide to use it anyway. A child will be most responsive. Tonight: Follow a friend’s advice.

Be smart with your phone Dear Readers: We can do a lot with our smartphones these days — access the Internet, social media, email, bank accounts, etc. But there is a lot of personal information stored on your phone — banking, credit cards, etc. — that can make losing your phone really scary, as well as a possible identity threat. Here are some hints to help to help protect your personal information as much as possible: * Set a password or swipe pattern on your phone. It takes only a second or two to “unlock” your phone. * Be careful what you access on your phone. You may want to monitor or check bank accounts and credit-card info on your home computer rather than doing it all on your cellphone. * If you lose your phone, someone may be able to find out all of your personal information. Think twice before putting all of your financial and personal info on your cellphone.

If you lose your phone, what information is on there? How many times do we just “speed dial” and not really have all of that information in another place?

Sounds silly, but stop right now and try to remember a friend’s phone number.

Of course, call the carrier right away so it can shut down the service.

Just like with everything else, try as much as you can to take steps to protect your personal information.

Every roadblock you can throw up is a tiny step that, in the long run, may prevent you from becoming a victim of identity theft.

— Heloise P.S.: While on this subject, can you state right now how many credit cards you have in your wallet? If you had to call and cancel or let the credit-card company know that there might be a problem, can you put your hands on all of the needed information?

SUDOKU

By Tom Wilson

Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to Friday.

9 6 7 3 4 5 1 2 8

1 8 4 9 6 2 7 5 3

3 2 5 7 8 1 6 4 9

6 5 9 8 7 3 4 1 2

8 1 2 5 9 4 3 7 6

7 4 3 1 2 6 9 8 5

4 3 1 2 5 9 8 6 7

2 7 6 4 3 8 5 9 1

Difficulty Level

5 9 8 6 1 7 2 3 4

2014 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

C

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Stay focused on a personal or domestic issue. Be willing to put more effort into what you want.

It is clear that you can’t delegate right now and get the results you desire. A friend could surprise you.

Tonight: Where the gang is!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHHH Don’t hesitate to reach out to a neighbor or close relative. You might be delighted by the conversation that ensues. A boss or friend could add an unusual element of surprise to your day; choose to roll with it. Tonight: Out with a loved one.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You could be a bit frivolous as you decide to indulge a loved one to the max. Understand your limitations as well as this person’s needs. You might have the best intentions, but you could go completely overboard. Stay within your budget. Tonight: The moment continues.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHHHYou’ll feel unstoppable, and in a sense you are. Focus on what you need to do in order to get the results you desire. Make plans for the weekend that involve close friends, as you seem to be happiest around them. A new friend could be demanding. Tonight: As you like it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Remain sensitive to what needs to happen with someone you look up to. You could choose to say little at the moment and observe more. You might feel as if a situation is a little out of control.

Use caution with your finances. Tonight: In the limelight.

By Eugene Sheffer

ticularly my younger readers’ — views are regarding this. Click on the link “Write to Dear Abby” at www.DearAbby.com or write to P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars A baby born today has a Sun in Aries and a Moon in Virgo.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, April 11, 2014: This year you see others act out, and you often witness extreme behavior. You might opt to watch rather than participate.

Sometimes you retreat to your own personal world, as you find the chaos difficult to be around. You are likely to make a change on the homefront for the better. If you are single, you draw in some interesting characters to your dating life.

You could find a potential suitor to be demanding and picky. Wait for someone better to come along. If you are attached, the two of you get into your domestic life this spring.

Cupid appears this summer, which adds to the warmth and caring between the two of you. VIRGO can be nitpicky.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You might wake up feeling lucky. Whether or not you choose to act on this feeling, you’ll see everything fall into place today.

Your sense of humor will help you deal with an unexpected obstacle, which could help to free up your weekend. Tonight: Join friends.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH You seem to be bubbling with ideas and plans. Make calls and necessary arrangements.

You’ll gain a sudden insight into why someone is so reactive. You can question this person’s actions all you want, but you’re not likely to get an answer. Tonight: Ever playful.

Crossword

C-11

4/10

Previous Puzzles Answer Key

B.C.

By Johnny Hart

Garfield

By Jim Davis

Take It from the Tinkersons By Bill Bettwy

Tundra

Shoe

By Chad Carpenter

By Chris Cassatt & Gary Brookins

Mother Goose and Grimm

C

M

Y

K

By Michael Peters

C

M

Y

K

C-12 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 11, 2014

C

M

Y

K

C

M

Y

K

Page 2, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 3

Page 4, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 5

Page 6, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 7

Page 8, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 9

Page 10, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 11

Page 12, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 13

Page 14, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 15

Page 16, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 17

Page 18, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 19

Page 20, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 21

Page 22, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 23

Page 24, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 25

Page 26, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 27

Page 28, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 29

Page 30, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 31

Page 32, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 33

Page 34, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 35

Page 36, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 37

Page 38, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 39

Page 40, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 41

Page 42, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 43

Page 44, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 45

Page 46, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 47

Page 48, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 49

Page 50, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 51

Page 52, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 53

Page 54, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 55

Page 56, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 57

Page 58, KPBA Home Show 2014

There’s a reason homeownership is the foundation of the American Dream.

Over time, owning your home has proved to be a good decision. And while lately the economy has presented some challenges, it has also helped us focus on what matters most. It’s reminded us that home is where we make memories, build our future and feel comfortable and secure. When you’re ready, a REALTOR®, a member of the National Association of REALTORS®, can help you find the home that’s right for you. REALTORS® are prepared—to answer your questions, show you options and guide you home.

Every market’s different, call a REALTOR® today.

HouseLogic.com/buyandsell ©2010 National Association of REALTORS® .

Kenai Peninsula Association of REALTORS® Soldotna, AK 907-262-1851 www.kenaipeninsularealtors.org

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 59

60% OF THE AVERAGE HOMEOWNERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S WEALTH COMES FROM THEIR HOMEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EQUITY. ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LIKE A SAVINGS PLAN YOU DIDNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T KNOW YOU HAD.

You might be wondering if buying a home right now is a smart ďŹ nancial decision.

The fact is, homeownership is key to building long-term wealth, no matter when someone buys. Studies show that, over time, most homeowners will steadily build equity. For example, during the past three decades, home values have increased an average of more than 6.0% per year*.

Of course, owning a home is much more than a way to gain a ďŹ nancial edge, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also where you raise a family and create life-long memories. Work with a REALTOR, a member of the National Association of REALTORS, they can show you options in your area that best ďŹ t your situation. To learn more, visit HousingMarketFacts.com. ÂŽ

ÂŽ

Figure obtained from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. *NAR existing home sales historic series.

EVERY MARKETâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DIFFERENT, CALL A REALTORÂŽ TODAY.

.HQDL 3HQLQVXOD $VVRFLDWLRQ RI 5($/7256Â&#x160; Š2008 National Association of REALTORSÂŽ.

6ROGRWQD $.

ZZZ NHQDLSHQLQVXODUHDOWRUV RUJ

Page 60, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 61

Page 62, KPBA Home Show 2014

! g n i h t y r e v E e r A s n o i s s e r p m I First

home ke your sing a m o t e hou on how nal tips day’s competitiv difference io s s e f ro a few p e crowd in to il can mean the on the Consider from th e smallest deta ng stay t lo u o ly g d h in n sta es t ress Sometim d a dep market. a quick sale an between s s, such a market. tic repair ure will e m s o c ll a ixt repairs. , udget, sm d light f • Make u are on a tight b placing a date ile you are at it re . h o g r y W o in if c . , int pla me Even p the pa nce of your ho s that need re d, you u g in h c un ara ulb tou the appe n’t have any b darkness rolls aro o enhance r d e t u in o he w re y make su in Alaska when t t and inviting. h y ll ig r ia Espec o be b r home t e the want you s to cach rick. t e k s a b ple t Using er. smaller. or is a sim s ve clutt • Remo kes a house look s by the front do , potential buyer a k n ir o e m e t r h lo it t e t a of m Clut ake e for er or pile t rds and t the spac newspap r kitchen cupboa hen analyzing nens you are no w li u Open yo to do the same ishes and extra d are likely eeds. Pack up pboard space. n u l c a r n u e yo perso showcas es d n a , g usin . Sometimall ure. m it o n ro r u a f s refocu to a sm isting ange ex dramatic way to can add volumes t • Re-arr e ir y a simple, le or ch This is a an extra end tab g removin ith you space. move w get a ches u e h o t t l e a k a n y to l m rso way pe d collections wil as an opportunit uyer to a e k a T n • is l b photos a potentia so use th Personal sell your house, ! You want the items make this l u g when yo on your packin ’s, and persona t ir r e a h t t s s p jum se a the hou envision inviting difficult. uring an s n e o t l cia n. From s, it is cru ff the floor” clea es and House u io n v a b le o C s dg • t o this seem hink “ea tops of door le it will be Although re for buyers. T e r, h e t h s o t e es e fre atmosph s, picture fram ill your home b n w a ning. f a ly le g n c o ceilin Not ttom o . b o im t r t p o rd Designed orough t baseboa HGTV’s “ . There with a th r n o ie h d e lt s a a e h wc eep” often sho TLC’s “Clean Sw with re a g in and help you ying ” e stag n e a s m c u o t o h a H n h o t Tips area identif ell This A&E’s “S fessionals in our possibilities and ot have to Sell”, n g ro p in y local s ma ecorat are even rvices, offering d hat homeowner e nt t staging s proveme im r o f areas d. considere

www.peninsulaclarion.com

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 63

Page 64, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 65

Page 66, KPBA Home Show 2014

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 67

Page 68, KPBA Home Show 2014

Did you know?

5 Tips for Hiring a Contractor 1. Is your contractor licensed?

Make sure your contractor is licensed. Check their general contractor, residential endorsement, and/ or specialty contractor license with the State of Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development – Division of Occupational Licensing.

Remember, only a licensed contractor can legally submit a bid or provide work as a contractor.

If you hire an unlicensed worker and there is property damage, injury and/ or loss of life associated with your job YOU ARE LIABLE. Worst case scenario is you could lose your home and other assets due to the incompetence of an unlicensed and uninsured operator.

2. Is his or her residential endorsement current?

Only general contractors with a residential endorsement are authorized “to undertake the construction or alteration” of a residential structure from one to four living units. Alaska statue 08.18.025 defines “alteration” as “changes that have a value greater than 25% of the value of the structure being altered”. To obtain a residential endorsement, a contractor must pass the residential endorsement examination, and maintain current continuing educational credits.

3. Ask for references!

Always check the references of contractors you are considering hiring and ask to see examples of their work.

4. Professional credentials?

While this is not required, some people view membership in local, state and national professional trade organizations as an indicator of a long-term commitment to the construction industry.

5. Remember, price isn’t everything!

It is essential to consider quality and reliability in addition to price when making investments in your home.

A warranty isn’t worth much if the builder has gone out of business and moved away.

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 69

Page 70, KPBA Home Show 2014

National Association of Home Builders

Thinking about buying a home?

It’s your move.

Timing the market is a game you can’t win.

With today’s low interest rates, competitive prices and great selection of homes on the market, now is the time to buy.

There’s no reason to wait to make your move.

Learn more: www.nahb.org/timetobuy

KPBA Home Show 2014, Page 71

Page 72, KPBA Home Show 2014