Peninsula Clarion, June 08, 2014

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CLARION P E N I N S U L A

JUNE 8, 2014 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 213

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Kenai woman, 2 daughters, boyfriend missing By KELLY SULLIVAN and RASHAH MCCHESEY Peninsula Clarion

A family of four has been missing from their Kenai home for more than a week. Brandon Jividen 37, his girlfriend Rebecca Adams, 22, and her daughters Michelle Hundley, 5, and Jaracca Hundley, 3, were last seen one week ago, said to Kenai Police Sergeant Scott McBride. The report is currently under investigation, McBride said.

Rebecca Adams’ family members said the last contact they’d had with her had been alarming. Lanell Adams, the missing woman’s sister, said she got a phone call around Memorial Day weekend. “She sounded very distressed,” said Lanell Adams. “She just told me ‘know that I love you,” and she had to get off the phone very quickly.” Lanell Adams said Rebecca Adams would not tell her what was wrong. “Growing up we always had this thing … we say ‘thou shall not lie’ and you always have to tell the truth,”

Lanell Adams said. “I asked her, thou shall not lie Becca, are you ok?’ She said, don’t ask me that right now, just know that I love you.” After that conMichelle & Rebecca Brandon versation, Rebecca Jaracca Adams Jividen Adams, her daughters and boyfriend Washington State to help with the hunt disappeared from their North Kenai for her sister. apartment near Chugach Aveue. Audre Gifford, who said Adams Lanell Adams flew to Kenai from was her cousin, said the family had left

behind both of their cars, all of their camping and outdoor gear and the car seats for Adams’ daughters. The family’s dog is also missing, Gifford said. Gifford said she and other family members have been searching for evidence of what happened to the four for several days. “We’ve been over there (to the apartment) a lot,” Gifford said. “Right now, investigators are looking for the last ping on (Jividen’s) cell phone to see where that came from and checking their bank records.” See GONE, page A-2

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Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion

Laurie Marta takes a picture of Lynn Mettille in front of the quilt Mettille made, Friday, at the Kenai Fine Arts Center. The quilt show, which opened Friday, features 16 quilts from several local and snowbird artists who handmade and designed an eclectic group of pieces. C

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Before making the trip back from Tucson, Arizona to Kenai in time for the birding festival May 15, Marilyn Kay Johnson went into her arts and crafts room in her summer home and reached for a plastic bag full of random thin strips of fabric. “I need something to work on while on the road,” Johnson said. She sat in the passenger seat and stitched the multi-colored pieces together while her husband Ralph Van Dusseldorp drove north. At night, Johnson would iron the quilt in the hotel room. As they made their way up to the Pacific Northwest, Johnson stopped into a shop in Oregon for a piece of batting to go between the layers of the quilt. The couple caught the ferry from Bellingham, Washington to Whittier, a five-day ride. During that time, Johnson kept on her

Troopers arrest Nikiski teacher By RASHAH MCCHESNEY Peninsula Clarion

The Alaska State Troopers have arrested former Nikiski Middle-High School music teacher Jeremy Anderson, 36, on seven counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor. Anderson was arrested Thursday by troopers who were assisted by the Anchorage Police DepartSee ASSAULT, page A-11

Kenai River fest runs through Soldotna

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Projecting success By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

By KELLY SULLIVAN Peninsula Clarion

Photo by Kelly Sullivan/Peninsula Clarion

Janel Elliott and Hiedi Berg share a funnel cake at the 24th In Centennial Park this annual Kenai River Festival, Saturday, at Centennial Park in weekend the banks of the icy Soldotna.

Kenai River hosted many anglers whose fishing lines never touched the water. At the end of the soggy boat launch boardwalk, a group of raincoat-clad children learned

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project throughout the day. In their stateroom on the ferry she “I like to do a piece of it, stand back look at it, add to it, stand hung the quilt on the davenport and examined her unfinished back look at it and watch it evolve,” she said. “The way I go work to see what could be added. Even in her dreams she would to bed every night if I can’t sleep I picture all this fabric going think about her quilt and the designs she could create. See QUILT, page A-2

to cast under the instruction of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. It was one of many hands on activities community members tried to, undeterred

Question Sonar estimates Estimated early-run kings in the Kenai River: n Friday: 257 n So far: 1,323 Information provided by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Sonar estimates can be obtained by calling 262-9097.

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Should an open burning ban on the Kenai Peninsula be extended until the Funny River Horse Trail wildfire is completely extinguished? 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.

by misty weather. Hundreds of people attended the 24th annual Kenai River Festival, hosted by the Kenai Watershed Forum and the City of Soldotna. Further inland, Justice Adcox and his brother Archer Adcox shot handmade river rockets into the air at the Challenger Learning Center of Alaska’s booth. “When I count to three you push the button,” Summer Lazenby said. “Be ready.” Justice Adcox’s long, salmon-pink, rocket launched at a sharp arch, and landed ten feet in front of him. He ran to pick it up excited by the successful send off. While the kids took turns launching their rockets, Amy Adcox, their mother, chatted with her friend Megan Wohlers. “The kids just love it,” Amy Adcox said. Despite the rain the family was managing a C

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Eleven years ago, a program called Project GRAD Kenai Peninsula began to encourage students to not only graduate high school, but also to succeed after graduation. Mike Peterson, executive director, has been with the program for 10 years. He started as an instructional coach and became director in 2011. While high school graduation rates increased fairly quickly after the program began, he said, more recently post-secondary education enrollment has increased. “Especially down the road with the kids that don’t attend college right out of high school, they’re coming back and talking to us a year, two years, three years later for reenrollment into some kind of post-secondary

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Mike Peterson helps Project GRAD students load gear on water taxis Thursday at the Homer Harbor.

education whether it’s college or vocational school,” Peterson See GRAD, page A-10

Judge allows more briefs in salmon management suit By MOLLY DISCHNER Morris News Service-Alaska/ Alaska Journal of Commerce

A federal judge ruled to allow additional information to be filed in the lawsuit regarding federal oversight of Cook Inlet salmon management. United Cook Inlet Drift Association and Cook Inlet Fisherman’s Fund, who brought the lawsuit forward in February 2013, want federal oversight of the State’s See BRIEFS, page A-2


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