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In the news North Slope, Beaufort Sea leases planned

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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The state Department of Natural Resources plans to hold its annual oil and gas lease sales for the North Slope, Beaufort Sea and North Slope foothills.

The sales are scheduled for Nov. 19, with the bid opening in Anchorage. The department, in a release, said the total lease area covers about 14 million acres.

It also says the North Slope and Beaufort Sea sale areas will include terms and conditions aimed at encouraging exploration on adjacent tracts of federal land, including the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says it will hold a lease sale for the reserve the same day.

The federal lease sale will include 270 tracts covering about 3 million acres.

Clarification A story on school board District 7 candidate Damon Yerly in Wednesday’s Clarion requires clarification. Yerly’s residency in Alaska totals 27 years; he returned to the state 15 years ago after leaving for college. Yerly currently is working with the cleaning business he owns with his wife.

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Hilcorp’s Baker platform catches fire

By RASHAH MCCHESNEY Peninsula Clarion

The crew quarters on an Alaska Hilcorp, LLC platform in Cook Inlet caught fire Thursday morning during a safety meeting; it burned for several hours before firefighters were able to contain the blaze.

The four crew members who discovered the fire at 7:30 a.m. were evacuated via a Hilcorp helicopter, according to company representatives, and several

agencies responded to the Baker platform to put out the fire.

The platform is about 8 miles from shore and is one of 10 in the Cook Inlet that Hilcorp bought in 2012, said company spokeswoman Lori Nelson.

The cause of the fire is still being investigated, said both state and private personnel responding to the incident.

As the sun rose on a clear and cloudless day, a large plume of smoke was visible for several miles and a steady stream of

gawkers kept Nikishka Beach Road busy in Nikiski where firefighting operations could be seen in the distance. The noise and wind picked up by midmorning as helicopters flew between the platform and shore, delivering personnel and supplies to the ships working to keep the fire from reaching the platform’s gas production areas.

Firefighting crews on ships with the Cook Inlet Spill Prevention & Response Inc., or CISPRI, and the Ocean Marine Ser-

vices Inc., or OSMI, were some of the first vessels on scene and a Coast Guard instituted 2 mile safety zone by sea and 5 mile no-fly zone around the burning platform.

The Coast Guard sent a cutter from Seward, a helicopter and a C-130, though the vessels were used primarily for oversight and do not have firefighting capabilities, said Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Shawn Eggert, public affairs officer.

A video shot by members of

the Nikiski Fire Department at about 9 a.m. shows the OSMI supply vessel Discovery shooting about 4,000 gallons of seawater per minute onto flames on the northern side of the platform as black smoke billows into the air.

As state and private organizations worked to set up a unified command, several agencies reported that the fire on the platform had been contained by late afternoon.

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Sterling woman jailed on sexual assault charges

By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

A Sterling woman is in jail after Alaska State Troopers allege she forced a minor into the woods near the Sterling Highway and sexually assaulted him Tuesday.

Troopers received a report of a sexual assault that occurred at Mile 80.5 of the Sterling Highway in Sterling at about 6:20 p.m., according to a trooper dispatch.

Soldotna troopers and the Alaska Bureau of Investigation responded to the scene 30 minutes later and found Laurel Lee, 51, who was passed out in the woods.

Investigation revealed Lee yanked a 14-year-old boy off his bicycle and dragged him into the woods and sexually assaulted the teen, according to a trooper affidavit.

The teen told troopers he was eventually able to fight Lee off after a couple minutes. He ran back toward the Sterling Highway and then reported the assault to his guardian, according to the affidavit.

At the scene, troopers found a purse with a bottle of vodka and Lee’s driver’s license.

Lee was taken to Central Peninsula Hospital because of a high level of See LEE, page A-12

Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion

Crane terrain The Peak Oilfield Service Company assisted Bill Elmore in rigging up a cranes and a recycled cockpit for training workshops for his business Alaska Crane Consultants for National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators certification, Thursday, in Soldotna.

‘Keep the streams clean’ Kaleidoscope students ask Kenai for help with storm drain project

By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

Students from Kaleidoscope School of Arts and Science filled the Kenai City Council chambers Wednesday night with a message for the city, “keep the streams clean.”

Third and fourth grade students presented a slideshow

with a song to the city council about their findings after taking a walking tour on Shqit Tsatnu Creek Trail with Dan Pascucci with the Kenai Watershed Forum.

The students asked permission to spray paint with stencils on the storm drains the message, “Keep it clean by the stream.”

Third grader Victor Santana said the three classes involved wanted to share the message and to get the word out to city residents.

Kaleidoscope teacher Kelli Stroh said the students are involved in a social action project and wanted to make a difference in their community.

Kenai City Manager Rick

Koch thanked the students for bringing this to their attention.

He said the city would be happy to let them paint the message on storm drains and would need to coordinate when and where so they could block traffic so the students remain safe painting on the streets.

After the presentation, the See STREAMS, page A-12

Three in race for District 5 borough assembly seat Marty Anderson

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LaDawn Druce Sterling resident LaDawn Druce grew up knowing she wanted to be a teacher but never imagined she would get into politics.

As a career educator with 21 years of experience in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, Druce said she is running for the vacant district 5 Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly seat to ensure great schools continue to meet the needs of a growing community.

Druce is currently a school counselor at Ninilchik School, Soldotna High School and River City Academy. For the majority of her career, she taught See DRUCE, page A-6

Photo by Kelly Sullivan/Peninsula Clarion

LaDawn Druce and Stan Welles and spoke at a candidate forum on September 17, 2014 in Kenai. The two are running for the District 5 seat on the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly.

Stan Welles As the new kid on the block, Stan Welles has been tuning into issues in his district since he moved to Sterling in 2012 after spending 20 years in Homer.

For nearly 10 years, Welles

owned Pioneer Pizza in Homer, managed by his son Luke Welles. He hosted a variety of Alaska politicians for public meet and greets, until the family closed the pizza parlor down in 2001.

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Marty Anderson has lived on the Kenai Peninsula for 33 years and his longevity in the area became the deciding factor when he filed on the last day for the Sterling and Funny River district seat on the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly.

“I believe I have a better understanding of the community — of what it’s been through and where it’s going,” he said.

“I have the mentality of the people that live in this district and could represent a majority of the people better.”

Anderson has worked in the welding technology industry for 28 years and is an owner and instructor of Alaska Technical Training. Since 2003, he has served on the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board

of Education.

From 2009 to 2013, Anderson served on the Alaska Workforce Investment Board, a committee Marty that advises Anderson the governor on where to spend funds for worker training.

The governor-appointed board looks at where the greatest need for jobs are or what training can be provided to make sure Alaskans get those jobs first, he said.

“Every one oilfield job produces six to seven other jobs,” he said. “When you lose 100 oilfield jobs you are losing 600 See ANDERSON, page A-12

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Peninsula Clarion, Friday, October 3, 2014

Obituaries Darin Jones Longtime Kenai resident Darin Jones, 46, passed away at his home on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014.

Darin attended Kenai schools beginning in 1977 in fourth grade and graduated from Kenai Central High School in 1986. He traveled to Arizona with lifelong friend, Richard Shirnberg, where both attended heating and refrigeration school. Though he excelled in the program he worked only a brief time in that field while living in Anchorage, choosing instead to work in and around the oil industry close to his beloved Kenai.

But his favorite job above all was commercial fishing. From boyhood Darin was an avid fisherman first for the pure pleasure of it and in his teen years he joined his dad and brothers, Shawn and Mark, in commercial fishing.

Having been the youngest of three brothers he was a strong competitor be it fishing, growing tomatoes, ping pong, or baseball. His goal, stated or not, was to beat the competition! That competitive spirit endured as he coached his sons in various organized sports. Darin had a deep abiding love of nature and the outdoors and in addition to fishing enjoyed hunting, canoeing, birding and camp fires at the beach site. He rarely met a stranger and made friends easily. Darin will be remembered for his quick smile and missed by many.

Darin is survived by his sons Brandon and Spencer Jones, both of whom are somewhere in Texas; mother Val Jones and sister Cristin Jones, both of Anchorage; brothers Shawn Jones of Kenai, Mark (Trish) Jones of Salinas, California; and numerous nephews, nieces, aunts, and uncles scattered in the west

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southwest of Anchorage. In addition, no wildlife has been impacted by the fire, according Continued from page A-1 to a release from a unified command center between the Coast The living quarters were ex- Guard, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation tensively damaged.

“Nothing could be saved,” and Hilcorp. said Commissioner of the AlasBaker ka Oil and Gas Conservation The Baker platform is not a Commission, Cathy Foerster.

As of Thursday evening, no high volume production facilspills or contamination of the ity.

It produces 5 mcf, or about Cook Inlet have been reported.

The platform is about 45 miles 5,000 cubic feet, per day of nat-

and southwest U.S. Darin was preceded in death by his father, Sherman Jones.

Arrangements are unknown at this time. Contact Debbie Burman-Petroze at 262-7775 for details.

Celebration of life gathering will be held by Darin’s mom, siblings, and friends on Saturday, October 4, 2014 at 2 p.m. at Tanglewood B & B, 2528 Beaver Loop Road in Kenai, Alaska.

Charlotte Korpinen Charlotte Korpinen died Sunday, Sept.

28, 2014 in Anchorage with her family at her side.

A memorial service will be held at the American Legion Post 20 in Kenai, Sunday, Oct. 5 at 2:00 p.m. with potluck to follow.

Her ashes will be spread in the Cook Inlet near her home during the summer of 2015.

Charlotte was born to Pauline and Clarence March in the village of Kenai on February 21, 1937, and was delivered by her Grandma March who was a midwife. She was a lifelong Alaskan and traveled with her husband Fred during his service in the U.S. Army. They returned to Kenai in 1967 where they raised their daughter. She assisted her husband in their business at Kenai Korners and at their fish site alongside her mother, father and sister. She also worked as a bookkeeper for Kenai Natives Association.

Charlotte was a shareholder in CIRI and KNA, and served for many years on the KNA Board of Directors. She was very proud of her Native heritage and was instrumental in preserving the culture. She was a very active member of the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 20 and the Moose Family Center Chapter 1120.

Charlotte will be remembered for her beautiful smile and as

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.

ural gas, Nelson said.

The company had one well in production on the platform.

The well was shut-in remotely when the fire broke out. In addition, a subsurface pipeline used for transporting the natural gas to shore was secured, Foerster said.

John Sims, a spokesperson for Enstar Natural Gas Company, said the company is a customer of Hilcorp, but the disruption is causing them no supply problems.

The remote shut-in procedure involved triggering the closure of a subsurface safety valve on the well. While the company reported that the fire had not reached the production areas of the platform, Foerster said preemptively shutting down the well was a safety decision.

“It was the prudent thing to

do,” she said.

In order to resume operations on that well, Hilcorp will have to get the valve and well inspected and approved by the conservation commission.

The platform was carrying about 10,000 gallons of diesel fuel, Eggert said. Petty Officer Joshua Yates told the Associated Press that about 8,000 gallons of drill mud and 1,000 gallons of hydraulic oil were also on board.

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a loving wife, mother, sister, Auntie and cousin. She passed on her knowledge about Native traditions to her family and was known for her smoked salmon, homemade bread and Perok.

Life in Kenai was an open door policy, and Charlotte shared many a Sunday morning of sourdough hotcakes with friends and family, evening tea with the “gals” and endless games of pinochle. Sharing stories and a banya were a weekly affair.

Crocheting and knitting were a favorite pastime of hers, and her nieces will remember her for keeping their Barbie dolls dressed in the latest crocheted formals. Her sister has fond memories of sledding down “Porky Hill” with Charlotte and hitching a ride on the back of cars to get around town in the winter when they were actually supposed to be at home in bed. Charlotte met Fred at the Kenai Bible Chapel while he was stationed at Wildwood Army Base, and it was love at first sight.

She was preceded in death by husband Fred and daughter Neisa, mother Pauline and father Clarence, brother Clarence, niece Lorissa and nephew Alan Robert.

She is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Lee and Alan Blohm, Michigan; Auntie Fiocla Wilson, Kenai; brotherin-law Alan (Reina) Korpinen and sisters-in-law, Eileen (Bob) Korpinen and Jeannie (Sam) Johnson; nieces and nephews, Diana and James Zirul, Kenai, Chris and Denise Blohm, Michigan, Kevin Blohm, Michigan, Lori and Tommy Nelkie, Kenai, Patti and Greg Satkowiak, Michigan, Jeremy, Alan Lee, Alisha, Cyle, Chelsea, Holli, Kiana, Taylor, Meghan, Chandler, Kaelin, Scarlet, Kamden, Kaleb, Avery and Kalina.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Holy Assumption Russian Orthodox Church, American Legion Auxiliary Unit 20 or Moose Family Center Chapter 1120 in memory of Charlotte Korpinen.

Arrangements made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel and Crematory. Please sign Charlotte’s online guestbook at AlaskanFuneral.com.

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.

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.

Cause While it is not year clear how the fire started, several people said it did not appear to have been triggered by oil and gas related activity.

“This was basically a house fire that happened on a platform,” Foerster said. “It’s the kind of thing that could happen anywhere. It was just in the living quarters. Hilcorp is not out there doing things that are

catching on fire.”

She said Hilcorp followed all of the proper procedures when the company received word of the fire. “Nobody was injured or killed. This was a happy ending,” Foerster said.

Alaska Journal of Commerce reporter Tim Bradner contributed to this report as did the Associated Press.

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Editor’s note: The questionnaire reEach candidate also received an invita- seat to represent Kenai: Grayling Bassett, sponses printed on Page A-5 were request- tion to submit an opinion piece, published Blaine Gilman and Jake Thompson. ed by the Clarion to offer our readers the below.

Each response is printed exactly as it viewpoints of those running for borough Three candidates are running for the Ke- was received. assembly in the Oct. 7 municipal election. nai Peninsula Borough Assembly District 2

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Assembly District 2 — Kenai

Bassett: Time to figure out what we want

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eople in Kenai, as around peninsula, want things to happen, but it’s not always clear on what we want.

We want action on how to spur outside demand to come spend money in our A Morris Communications Corp. Newspaper area, through capital investment, resource development, or tourism. We want to spur the local economy to keep money within our community from leaching out, which it must do since there is very little point source production on consumables.

However, we also fiercely value our independence and individuality. We want people to keep their noses out of our business, let us be.

These aren’t incompatible, but can lead to conflict. You can’t do this if it affects that. You can do that despite affecting this.

Competing wants give us a slew of headaches and unfortunately can’t be “Kids today” — it’s a sentiment we ironed out when those wants are diametrihear from time to time, usually preceded or followed cally opposed.

What is the responsibility of governby a list of everything wrong with the younger generament?

Action? Restraint? Wanting sometion. thing done, but in the right way. Wanting Depending on your perspective, that can be a long list. to curtail some action, or cut it all toBut we’d like to offer a different list, one just as long gether. When we’re pooling our collective — if not longer — of some of the great things that kids resources, we all want responsibility and accountability... whatever those represent today are up to. to each of us.

We’ll start with a recent Eagle Scout project to We have our starts and stops, which is construct a firewood shed at the Kenai Peninsula Food not necessarily bad, and while it makes Bank, spearheaded by Sage Hill, a Boy Scout from things less efficacious than many would

Kids today are doing some great things

Soldotna. Hill marshalled volunteers for the project and has a plan in place to keep the wood shed stocked, something that will no doubt make a huge difference for a person or family in need during the next cold snap.

We’ve also heard about Jenna Hansen of Nikiski, who uses her reindeer, Scene of the Crash and Comet, to raise funds to benefit homeless youth. And Jessica Roper, a Kenai Central High School graduate and now a paramedic student at Kenai Peninsula College who has raised funds to help provide water rescue training for area first responders. Then there’s the student representatives who have recently joined local city councils — Allie Ostrander in Kenai, and Jackson Blackwell in Soldotna. And the Cook Inlet Academy students who recently spent time helping out in the community.

The list can go on and on. You don’t need to look too far to find area youth volunteering, fundraising, organizing and generally helping make their community a better place.

Sure, they spend too much time attached to their cell phones, their taste in clothes is a little odd and the noise they call music is hard to bear.

But by and large, today’s youth are aware of the world around them and engaged in their community. In fact, we’re excited to see what kids today will be able to accomplish tomorrow.

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prefer, it’s how some people think that is the way democracy should work; opposing views ameliorating their positions until a compromise is reached that makes both sides equally happy (or the more likely alternative, equally unhappy).

The partisan nature of certain conflicts make some compromises very difficult, but we need to temper our passions if we are to understand that our own personal biases are not equally shared. We all have ideas as to what’s best for the community. Some of them sensible, some unfeasible, others right out. As an assembly member, I hope to recognize my own biases, which track towards collective action, but still hold onto values maintaining individual responsibility.

The borough has core obligations concerning education, waste, and road maintenance.

Besides those obligations I have a few ideas that I would like to put forward.

Maybe at least one might work.

I would like to explore a scheme of taxpayers being able to direct a portion of their tax burden to borough expenditures in a prioritized fashion. This can allow taxpayers to signal the assembly and borough mayor their interests directly.

This scheme may be useful as an advisory

allocation, but I hope it will give more clarity to the administrative and legislative processes. Coupled with that accountability, I would like an accompanying system where voters may have feedback to the assembly or administrative action, to give a wider voice than to they who shout the loudest.

I would like to see the feasibility of a transit system that may move people between city/town centers within the borough. I would not want such a system to directly compete with the other transportation services, but introduce an option that may allow for greater ease to mobility restricted or low income individuals to still be more active throughout the community. This kind of infrastructure may also give some of the less incorporated tows a node around which to focus potential development.

We also need to evolve flexible plans as effects of climate change become more pronounced. Issues of erosion, invasive species, wildfire mitigation, and possibly uprooting low lying communities will have to be continuously explored as we face a new challenges.

I am assured that the people of Kenai will choose as their representative the person who will best advance their interest for the community, whether it be me or my fellow candidates. Thank you.

Gilman: Community built on strong families

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have been blessed to have been raised and to have raised my children in the Kenai Peninsula Borough. I moved to Alaska in 1967 with my brother and my parents when I was six (6) years old.

My father received a job as principal in Seldovia. We lived in Seldovia for one year and then moved to Seward where I was raised until 1976 when I moved to Kenai. I graduated from Kenai Central High School in 1979. I attended college at Seattle University from 1979 to 1983 and graduated with a BA in philosophy. I attended law school at Lewis & Clark in Portland from 1983 to 1986 and graduated with a J.D. in law. During the summers of college, I was employed as a cannery worker at Seward Fisheries.

In 1986, I returned to Kenai and passed the Alaska Bar Association Examination and became a licensed attorney in Alaska.

I started working as an attorney in Kenai in 1986; and twenty-six (26) years later, I am still practicing law and operate my own law office.

In 1988, I met a Kenai girl, Margaret O’Reilly, at a City of Kenai Planning and Zoning meeting. We fell in love and were married in 1989. We have been blessed with four (4) children, Rebecca, Benja-

Cook Inlet. Nikiski has been chosen as the lead site for the Alaska LNG Plant. If this project becomes a reality, the workforce min, Jacob and Brittany ranging from ages for the construction of the LNG Plant is twenty-four (24) to fourteen (14). projected to be 3,500 to 5,000 people.

Many of our social problems today, crime, Further, there will be up to 600 permanent poverty, addiction and violence are caused jobs for the operations of the facilities. in part by broken families. We need strong The KPB needs to set policies that are families. We have too many broken families supportive of the oil and gas industry and on the peninsula. As a community, we can do work together with industry to make the better. Municipal, state and federal governAlaska LNG project a reality. ment should be focusing on policies that In order to have strong families, you encourages and strengthens families. need self-reliant individuals who are willIn order to have strong families, you ing to take personal responsibility for their need a good education system. Funding actions and become actively involved in education is the conservative choice. The their community. Governmental programs assembly needs to assure that our public are not the solution to all of the social schools are strong, adequately funded, problems that we encounter on the peninand are providing the resources to our sula. The private sector – where individuchildren to succeed in a competitive als work together to aid their communities world. Advance placement classes need through volunteering through churches to be available to prepare our children and nonprofit organizations – is a better for college. However, not all children are alternative for finding solutions to social college bound. Therefore, more vocational problems. Governmental programs too ofand technical classes need to be available ten trap families in long term dependence so they have the skills necessary to ready leaving them incapable of escaping their themselves for the workforce. condition of poverty for generations.

In order to have strong families, you I would be honored to be you assemneed good jobs. We are having a renaisbly person for District 2. Please vote on sance in the oil and gas industry in the Tuesday, October 7th.

Blaine Gilman

Thompson: Spend our tax dollars carefully

“That’s how we’re going to break the chain of transmission, and that’s where our focus has to be.” am Jake Thompson, a lifelong resident — Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease of Kenai. I am married to Rhonda and Control and Prevention, on how federal health officials will have two beautiful children. Kenai monitor people who have come into contact with an airline needs a strong fiscal conservative and a passenger who brought Ebola into the U.S. every day for the thoughtful balanced voice on the Bornext three weeks, the incubation period for the virus. ough Assembly. As a young parent rais“This development will only draw condemnation from the in- ing a family, I know the importance of ternational community. It also would call into question Israel’s balancing a budget and living within our ultimate commitment to a peaceful negotiated settlement with the means. Each dollar spent must be leveraged into the maximum benefit. I want Palestinians.”

— White House press secretary Josh Earnest our children to get a great education so

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Letters to the Editor Navarre has a proven track record Like most of you reading this letter I rarely get involved in Borough government affairs. Only occasionally will an issue of personal concern get me to attend meetings. Most day-to-day business of Borough government doesn’t show up on my radar screen. It is fortunate for all of us that there are people who take care of this essential business. I’ve known Mayor Mike Navarre for over 20 years and, while we don’t necessarily agree on every issue, I’ve always found him to be very knowledgeable and competent. I find it reassuring that we have someone with Mayor Navarre’s extensive experience and contacts handling both the mundane government business and the emergencies.

During the wildfire last spring we were fortunate to have Mayor Navarre helping coordinate the successful response.

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emergency services. All of these services are supported by taxpayer dollars. I will see that your dollars are spent carefully they can compete in the world economy and efficiently for the maximum benefit we now live in. If we provide a great of us all. I am asking you now to join me education for our children they will suc- in this fight to make our collective dream ceed and we all benefit from their youth- of a successful and prosperous comful vitality, low crime rates, reduced munity come true. I will be your voice social and economic problems. We all on the Borough Assembly if you vote benefit from good roads, environmentally Jake Thompson on the October 7, 2014 safe waste management and excellent municipal ballot.

Jake Thompson

has made politics his life, we need an indiErik Huebsch vidual that has lived as the rest of us with Kasilof kids, budgets, upheaval of families.

There is a sizeable population of seniors that live on the Kenai Peninsula, and conA vote for Bearup tribute vastly to the economy. We should is a smart vote not be threatening them with higher taxes Incumbent Mayor Navarre, who claims and increased expenses. We need a fresh to be a representative of the Kenai Peninsula perspective. residents, is not. In order to find monetary The Kenai Peninsula needs an adminissupport for his campaign, big money, he tration that is working with private propwent to Anchorage, to the Democratic Par- erty owners and business people; an adty, for serious partisan money. Now if he is ministration that recognizes the invaluable truly representative of the Kenai Peninsula, contribution of senior citizens. why does he need to do that? He is looking The Kenai Peninsula is not likely to get for the big Anchorage money of the Demo- these things from the current mayor. We cratic Party not the local money. For anyone will get that with Tom Bearup. A family that is interested the information is readily man who has raised a family, pays propavailable on the APOC website. erty taxes and is willing to make himself Secondly, the current mayor says this available to people like families, veterans is a great place to raise our kids. He has seniors and business people who are strugno comprehension of the family struggles gling to deal with all the challenges of famwhen children are having education issues ily, home and community life. at school. So let us not pretend that this Christine Hutchison mayor understands the challenges of raisKenai ing a family on a budget.

The issues of property taxes, mortgage Mayor has shown resolve, payments, utilities and college education accountability, integrity for their children are very real considerMany of you know me. I went to school ations for the vast population of the Kenai in Kenai, starting in the first grade, and my Peninsula.

We do not need a career politician who See LETTERS, page A-5 Mayor Mike Navarre.

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Assembly District 2 — Kenai Q&A

Kenai assembly candidates weigh in on borough issues

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1. If elected, what issues do you tures exceed projected revenues by feel require immediate attention? $2,021,869”. A budget that plans for expenditures to exceed revenue is FISGrayling Bassett: The borough CAL INSANITY! needs new landfills.

It is reasonable for the borough to 2. Has the borough struck the explore how to continue its stances proper balance between sales tax on issues of trash separation, methane and property tax? Are there inequirecuperation from landfill fields, and ties within the borough’s tax struccharging businesses, possibly extend ture that should be addressed? that to residential.

There may be a place for privateBassett: On whole, I think the public partnerships on recyclables and property/sales tax balance is not bad, compost-able materials. but needs to be assessed and tweaked Environmental issues must be eval- when it’s becoming sub-optimal. uated.

Generally available information Erosion is already threatening pub- show that the city of Kenai and the borlic infrastructure, and the borough is ough have a relatively low sales taxes going to have to consider when it par- rate. (taxwatch.com, forbes.com) ticipates in shoring-up or relocating For similar cities/boroughs within infrastructure as the existing param- the state, we in the KPB pay a compaeters change. rably lower mill rate on our property The borough will have to get in- taxes. (money.cnn.com, brookings. volved as each community adapts, edu, taxfoundation.org) potentially opening up previously unProperty tax exemptions help many developed areas to utilization. people to continue living in the borIf feasible, I would also be inter- ough, compensating for the higher ested in a test program of allowing cost of living we have in Alaska. residents to commit a portion of their The sales tax limit at $500 may tax burden to areas of borough spend- need re-evaluation, aiming to be reving which they would individually pri- enue neutral in regards to borough oritize, giving taxpayers a more direct income, and should be reflected in a say in the bundle of public goods and decrease in the mill rate. services they consume.

Any major change in the tax structure should be made clear as to who is Blaine Gilman: The most press- getting what tax relief, and at the cost ing issues relate to the socioeconomic of whom. impacts of the proposed Alaska LNG Project. Nikiski has been chosen as Gilman: Overall, the borough has the lead site for the LNG Plant. The struck the proper balance between workforce for the construction of the sales tax and property tax. The sales LNG Plant is projected to be 3,500 – tax ordinances should be reviewed pe5,000 people with up to 600 perma- riodically to make sure that they are nent jobs. being administered fairly with busiThe Municipal Advisory Gas Project nesses and whether current exempReview Board (in which the Borough tions make sense.

Mayor is a member) met on September 11, 2014 in Anchorage to discuss Thompson: Fundamentally, I’m property taxes on these proposed fa- opposed to property tax. The concilities. Its consultants recommended a cept of having to continually pay for Payment In Lieu Of Taxes. The mayor something you already own, under as well as the assembly needs to make threat of it being taken away from sure we have a funding mechanism in you, just feels wrong. So any reducplace that will pay for the socioeco- tion in property tax is good thing, in nomic impacts to the borough. my opinion. I’m not opposed to sales A committee needs to be formed tax, however we do have to strike a comprised of members from Soldot- balance to keep people shopping lona, Kenai and Nikiski to share their cally and not heading north to Anchorconcerns about impacts and advise the age to avoid sales tax. I do think we mayor for future meetings with the should strongly consider looking into Review Board. the borough tax structure. Recently the borough attempted to pass a bed Jake Thompson: The anadro- tax, thankfully Mayor Navarre used mous stream ordinance should be re- his veto authority. I believe we should pealed. Like most people, I am all for be trimming our budgets before develhabitat protection, but I’m also a firm oping new taxes. believer in private property rights. Like most things in government, they take a 3. What role should the assembly good idea, or a good intention, and take play in addressing local healthcare it way too far. I believe we can protect issues? the habitat without what amounts to a land grab by the borough. So ultiBassett: To my understanding, mately I’d like to see the ordinance in the borough is the capital owner of it’s current form be repealed, and then CPGH, and jointly with city of Homer replaced by something more respect- of SPH. ful to property owners.

The assembly makes decisions My next concern is the budget. I about purchases of capital in the forms found a quote in the FY15 adopted of real estate and equipment. budget that alarmed me, “ExpendiAs such, a thorough discussion

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parents lived in Kenai about a mile past Wildwood. Altogether, I have lived in Kenai and Soldotna in excess of 55 years. I worked on construction of the first platform in the Cook Inlet, the pipelines in North Kenai and the Cook Inlet, and as a truck driver moving oil rigs for exploration. Later, I started my own business – forty years of employees, payrolls, sales and property taxes and customer service. I have served on boards and commissions regularly serving this community. As a citizen who cares about our future here, I have decided that I need to comment on the race for Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor.

Tom Bearup says he wants that job.

I imagine there once was a time that a person could move 2,500 miles and leave his past behind; he could come to Alaska and attempt to reinvent himself. But today, the internet and other technologies bring events of history right to our fingertips. While Mr. Bearup has certainly lived a colorful life, his financial antics and questionable decisions paint a very concerning picture. I suppose many of the same concerns I have kept him out of office in Arizona. This week, the Clarion reported that Mr. Bearup says he ran for Pinal County Sheriff in 2012 because he “needed money and a job.” I can find lots of interviews from his campaign trail in Arizona that year, but can’t find a single one where he tells the people of Arizona that what he’s really looking for is a paycheck. Rather, his stated reasons for his interest in the position of Sheriff sound familiar: “to bring financial accountability, honesty and integrity” to the office.

Fast forward two years, and on his current website, Mr. Bearup touts “Optimistic, Respectful and Account-

needs to occur between the assembly and the service boards, potentially with the input of local healthcare providers and other related interest groups, as to which services should be made available by public investment in publicly owned healthcare infrastructure.

It may be an enticing idea that borough owned resources could be a local option to many out of borough/state alternatives, justifying a continued expansion of services offered, but we also need to evaluate if we have the population make-up for such services to be reasonably available.

The assembly is simply part of that process.

It can be only as determinant as its members’ individual operating philosophies or constituents’ collective responsiveness.

Gilman: The borough is in the healthcare business whether we like it or not. The question is whether it should remain so.

Central Peninsula Hospital is owned by the borough and operated

by CPGH, Inc., a non-profit corporation, under a Lease and Operating Agreement. This Agreement expires on December 31, 2017. The borough is required to give a Notice of Termination on or before December 31, 2016. If Notice of Termination is not given, the term of the Lease and Operating Agreement automatic renews for an additional 10 year period.

The assembly needs to decide whether to continue operating the hospital under this arrangement or whether it should be sold. My concern is whether CPGH, Inc. is competing too strongly against physicians and other medical providers in the private sector.

Government should not be competing against private businesses unless services are not being provided by the private sector.

Thompson: The assembly should be encouraging more private competition. There has been one mechanism that throughout history has continuously lowered cost while increasing quality, and that is competition and the free market. For instance, a surgery center just opened in Kenai, many of their procedures are significantly less expensive than that of CPGH. Private industry and competition is driving down the cost of healthcare here on the peninsula already! Unfortunately the hospital’s Inc board is denying the surgery center in Kenai a “transfer agreement” that would allow the surgery center to accept Medicaid, Medicare, and Tri-Star patients. I find it unacceptable for a borough owned hospital to not allow patients a choice, and to stifle private enterprise. As Kenai’s representative to the Borough, I will encourage private enterprise and remove obstacles that discourages lower costs, patient choice, and the free market.

4. Funding for education is the largest item in the borough budget.

able” as his qualities. He suggests these are the reasons you should elect him as mayor.

The voters of the Peninsula should remind Mr. Bearup that “accountable” isn’t a slogan. If he’s going to ask people to vote for him because he is accountable, then he must have shown accountability with his actions. By my measure, that would include a solid history of being accountable to his commitments including the responsibilities of elected and other positions, accountable with finances including mortgages, student loans and charitable donations, and accountable to his word including swearing to claims of residency. I don’t believe Mr. Bearup can claim a history of accountability.

Alternately, Mike Navarre has been an integral member of our community for most of his life. His time in the State Legislature and as Borough Mayor has shown us his accountability, resolve and integrity when trusted with public office. Although there may have been issues on which we disagreed, I’ve never doubted that he thoughtfully considered all options and based his decisions on what was ly the same questions.

Sammy Crawford best for our borough and its future.

Kenai I will be casting my ballot for Mike Navarre.

David Hutchings Navarre a great Soldotna manager for borough

Missing debates makes it harder to weigh candidate In a democracy information is very important, especially in selecting the best candidates to represent us. It is very disappointing that candidate Bearup refused to participate in three face to face debates (two invitations from the League of Women Voters and one from KSRM radio).

It is difficult to make an educated decision without an opportunity to judge candidates for one’s self when they are side by side answering exact-

As a 40-plus-year, year-around resident and a 40-year private business owner in the Kenai Peninsula Borough, I will be supporting Mike Navarre for Borough Mayor. Mike is a proven businessman who has supported his community and many nonprofit organizations with both his time and resources. He has quietly, without fanfare, surrounded himself with highly qualified staff members that have done a great job of operating our Borough.

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What is your philosophy on funding for the school district?

Bassett: In general, the school district operates under the watchful eye of not only their own accounting, but the school board, local parents, the state, and are subject to 3rd party accounting review.

As a result, I would like to think that the requests that they put forward are reasonable, and should be granted what they ask for within the proscribed limits, as it is the responsibility of the borough to educate our children and young citizens.

I believe that there are those who hold unfavorable positions toward certain curricula for personal reasons, wanting to withhold funding to have those curricula points removed.

This consequently leads them to undermine (not necessarily maliciously) what is in the public interest of producing well informed, work-ready citizens.

This unfortunately is at cross purposes for our shared desire to maintain and improve the well being of our community.

Gilman: I support funding the school district to the cap.

Funding education is the conservative choice. Our state is spending approximately $35,000 per year to incarcerate an intimate and 57% of intimates have not graduated from high school. It is more fiscally conservative to educate people than to imprison them.

The borough paid 44 million to the school district for fiscal year 2014. Ten million gets paid back to the borough for in-kind services (maintenance, insurance, and audit costs). The source of these funds is from the seasonal sales tax and a 2.2 mill rate. This is a good deal for the taxpayers.

For fiscal year 2014, the borough paid 92.5% of the cap. In other words, the borough could have paid an additional 3.5 million towards schools. The majority of people who I have talked with in the community want schools to be strongly supported and funded to the cap.

ment in their children’s education.

5. What experience will you draw on as you examine the borough’s $70 million-plus budget?

Bassett: I don’t have experience being personally accountable for a budget the borough’s size, but there are many parallels between personal and small business income/revenues and expenditures and public spending.

However, the government is not in the business of making money.

Rather the government is responsible for allocating services where there is a collective interest in maintaining a standard which the market can not provide.

Ultimately, money in and money out must be close to balancing, and any deficits or surpluses must be appropriately handled.

In policy school training, I handled exercises examining many areas of public interest: making recommendations for states with severe budgetary shortfalls during the financial crisis; analyzing potential improvements in privatizing government operated services; comparing and preparing costbenefit studies for potential pubic investments; evaluating the efficacy of public programs through empirical studies.

I will draw on these experiences, and listen to what advice that’s available to me.

Gilman: I served on the Kenai City Council from October 2003 to October 2005. Shortly before my term started, K-Mart had gone bankrupt and had shut down its store. As a result, the City of Kenai was facing a large fiscal gap. We were required to make serious cuts to the budget and find innovated methods to provide city services.

Also, I have operated my own business for over twenty plus years. I have had to keep payroll in line with revenues. Likewise, the borough should make sure its budget balances.

Finally, the assembly should meet with each borough department and have them justify and explain their budget. If there are unnecessary exThompson: I attended Sears (when penditures, I would have no hesitation Snoopy was the mascot), Mountain in requesting the departments to cut View, Kenai Middle School, and Ke- their budgets. nai Central High School. My daughter Thompson: When my daughter just started Kindergarten at Mountain View Elementary this year. It’s im- was born in 2009, my wife was had a portant that we provide our children great career as a Hotel Manager, and a quality education, and that requires I was doing well as the Program Diadequate funding. However, I don’t rector and Operations Manager for believe funding is the sole factor in a KSRM Radio Group. My wife and I quality education. The State of Alas- decided it was in our children’s best ka spends more money per student on interest for her to be a stay at home education than 46 other states, how- mom. This reduced our income nearly ever our graduation rates are below in half. As the sole provider for a wife, average, our test scores haven’t shown and two small children, I understand any significant improvement of the the importance of a proper budget and last several years. I want our children separating needs from wants, while to get the education we’re paying for. making certain the each purchase is I want accountability for the money made carefully and deliberately. Livspent, I want an increase in vocational ing within our means is a skillset I will opportunities, and not only do I want, bring to the forefront of the budgetary but we need more parental involve- conversation.

sula Clarion two candidates for Kenai city council, Henry Knackstedt and Tim Navarre, defended the 2012 compressive plan. Mr. Navarre went so far as to say, “The 2012 comprehensive plan in a good plan.” Don’t these candidates remember that the citizens voted against that plan by a large majority? They concluded it was a bad plan. Thus it appears that these two candidates do not listen to the citizens of Kenai, they think that they know better than the majority of Kenai citizens. Mike Boyle voted against the plan and worked toward its rejection by our citizens. A vote for Mike Boyle will be a vote for a council member who listens to the citizens and cares about the welfare Boyle listening of all citizens. to Kenai residents Marilyn Kay Johnson On the Opinion Page of the PeninKenai

dealings that beg for further explanation. Despite filing for bankruptcy relatively recently, he touts his ability to fiscally manage a business as large as the Kenai Peninsula Borough.

I have reviewed his answers to candidate questions and nearly all involve spending more taxpayer funds or lowering revenues. I am not comfortable with a candidate that cannot display any positive accomplishments of his own, but rather bases his candidacy on misleading criticism of his opponents.

My support will go to a proven leader, Mike Navarre.

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Welles settled into a home on the Moose River with his wife Nikki Welles.

After some encouragement from his peers, he decided to run for Sterling and Funny River district seat for Kenai Borough Assembly. Welles met with current assemblyman Charlie Pierce, who is term-limited out, to gain more perspective of what the job entailed.

“I was burdened with the issues on the table,” he said.

“Frankly, the only way to keep our freedom is participating in our own governance. I felt a sense of responsibility to participate.”

Welles said to be an assemblyman means stewardship of other people’s assets, a responsibility he takes seriously with a great deal of accountability.

With a background in aerospace engineering, Welles has always looked at problems analytically. In his research of the Kenai Peninsula Borough budget, he said education makes up 65 percent of the expenditures.

Over the last eight years, education expenses have increased by $42 million, yet there has been a reduction in students and an increase of staff, he said.

From 2005 to 2013, the number of students has dropped while the number of employees increased, he said. In the meantime, Alaskan students ranked 52nd out of 107 states and

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language arts at Soldotna High School. Her husband Michael Druce retired last year after 41 years as a public school teacher.

The Druce family came to Alaska from Southern California in 1993. Two years ago they bought 15-acres on Robinson Loop Road and started a family farm, Alaska Summer Peonies.

She said the farm is a retirement endeavor and legacy to leave for their three sons. They planted their first field last fall and recently planted a second field.

This summer she was encouraged to run for the Sterling and Funny River district seat left vacant by Charlie Pierce, who is term-limited out.

“While I’m busy, it felt like the right time,” she said. “I’m passionate about community education and other issues that affect all of us. I’m enthusiastic and dedicated to help others.”

She said she hopes to change the standoff reputation some

countries on standardized math test scores a proxy that gauges educational achievement, according to a 2010 article in the Atlantic Monthly Magazine he cited.

“All government entities like to tax excessively and have a big tendency to throw money at projects without looking at parameters that measure production,” Welles said. “In my world I look for metrics that adequately measure production. It looks to me like we are not applying those.”

Welles said the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District has spent close to $5,000 per student, compared to $3,000 per student spent by the Mat-Su Borough.

“Why should we spend more and not get anything for it?” he said. “Money is not the answer.

I believe we have bigger issues in our schools.”

Welles grew up on a dairy farm in upstate New York owned by his family since 1792. The farm neighbors an airport where Welles got into flying and developed an interest in aerospace engineering. In his professional business experience he has done contract work for Boeing and worked as a senior mechanical engineer with AMAX Henderson Molybdenum Millsite, a mining operation in Clear Creek County, Colorado.

At AMAX, he had $34 million worth of trains to babysit on 92 miles of track 5,000 feet underneath the continental divide.

He said Colorado has some of the most restrictive mining re-

quirements in the country to protect waterways and would like to see work on the Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay do the same.

“We have a huge amount to contribute to our republic with our natural resources and we can do so responsibly,” Welles said. “No doubt they will increase the fishery and be a productive alternate revenue for the state of Alaska. We shouldn’t have a negative attitude toward mining.”

With the anticipation of job growth and industrial development with the project proposing to build a liquefied natural gas facility in Nikiski, Welles said he wishes the borough could enhance its tax base and lower the mill rate. He said he has a dream that borough sales tax could return to 2 percent.

“On the cautionary side with every aspect of development, every entity that spends money will see this as a golden opportunity for them to increase their budget,” he said. “Everybody will be looking through rosecolored sunglasses. It’s important to move carefully and look at where demands are and be prudent.”

Welles said the Sterling and the Funny River area would be affected by population growth with an increase of residential demands and support businesses coming to the area.

On the issue of the anadromous stream ordinance, which the borough passed last June to protect salmon habitat protection along lakes and streams, Welles said he was not happy

about the exhortation of property rights by the borough administration.

Welles said he has experience with erosion issues with a trout stream that runs through his family’s farm property in New York.

He said the measures used to study river and lake banks were “nothing short than an invasion of privacy.”

Welles said he calls the findings “flawed physics and phony fishology.”

“To say the Moose River or lakes and streams with no current are affected the same as the Kenai River, give me a break,” he said. “The Kenai River has sharp bends and the velocity causes erosion which feeds the fish, gives them nutrients and a clean bed for spawning. It’s good for the fish, bad for the landowner.”

In meeting with people in the Funny River community, he said one issue people expressed to him was not having an escape route from the Funny River Horse Trail Wildfire. He said he would be in favor of putting a bridge across the Kenai River as an emergency escape in case of a future fire, if a majority of the residents were in favor.

“Disasters are hard to predict and in any given situation it’s hard to know what demands will be,” he said. “We certainly appreciate the firefighters’ efforts to save our community.”

politicians have by being more approachable and personable.

While working in the school district has allowed her to meet many people in the community, through the campaign process, she has met more new people and has come to realize not everyone knows her.

“It’s an opportunity to connect with people, something that comes natural to me,” Druce said. “I love to talk and listen to people. I think counselors are wired that way. We are problem solvers and try to come to agreements on things.”

For five years until July 2013, Druce served as the president of the Kenai Peninsula Education Association, an elected position that allowed her the opportunity to visit schools throughout the district. The district size is unlike any other in the Lower 48 with 44 schools across 25,000 square miles, roughly the size of the state of West Virginia, she said.

The diversity of all the schools is one of the distinct characteristics of the district with larger schools in Kenai and smaller K-12 village schools across Kachemak Bay in Port

Graham, she said.

Traveling to all the schools gave her a good perspective to better understand certain school and teacher needs, she said.

“I gained a better appreciation for what teachers are doing and how hard they work,” she said. “I felt I was representing the hardest working most dedicated people I have ever known. Teaching is an art and a passion.”

Druce said with all the discussions she’s had with people about education, she realizes a lot of people haven’t visited Kenai Peninsula schools. She said she encourages every local official at every level to visit the schools in the area and see the change that has occurred since they attended school.

With school enrollment numbers declining and two consolidations in the last few years, she said some people may be tempted to cut staff and funding. The problem is the data doesn’t show how the staffing formula would affect teachers from different buildings.

“If you can see what teachers are doing, then those dialogues about numbers, I hope

they would make sense,” she said. “Maybe student enrollment went down last year, but that doesn’t mean they all left from one school. It’s easy to look at a graph and make those assumptions not understanding how spread out we are.”

Druce said she believes education has been adequately funded, but she would like to see the borough fund to the local limit cap, something they haven’t done that last couple years.

As an assembly member she said she would be the person to ask, “Why aren’t we funding to the cap?”

With the prospect of more oil and gas activity in Nikiski, which would spur growth across the Central Kenai Peninsula, planning for growth and expand the infrastructure is critical, she said. If more families move in it would help to have three scenarios – low, middle and high – projection to plan for how much housing and schools would be needed to accommodate the influx, she said.

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Alaska Supreme Court rules for nonNative adoption ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court decision against Tununak that allowed an Alaska Native infant girl from the western Alaska village to be adopted by non-Native parents.

The higher court agreed in a split decision with an earlier Superior Court ruling that the baby’s well-being trumped legal preferences under federal law designed to keep children with Native American communities when possible, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported.

In its Sept. 12 action, the state Supreme Court said the lower court correctly allowed a non-Native Anchorage couple to adopt the girl because an approved member of her biological family did not formally file to adopt her.

Justices Daniel Winfree and Craig Stowers disagreed and said that was not reason enough to override the Native preference.

According to the majority opinion, the state took custody of girl identified by the pseudonym “Dawn” in 2008 when she was 4 months old.

and vibrant community.

On the Central Peninsula Hospital operating policy, she said for a borough of the Kenai Peninsula’s size the quality of care from the facility is amazing.

She is not in favor of the hospital entering into a transfer agreement with the Surgery Center of Kenai.

On the issue of borough funding on non-departmentals, Druce said the Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council, Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District and Central Area Rural Transit System provide a valuable service to the community and funding to these programs should continue with accountability.

Tribal officials put the girl’s grandmother forward as a candidate to adopt the child, but an adult son who initially lived with the grandmother had a criminal history. The grandmother later said the son had moved out, but other problems such as unsecured guns and medicine in the house prevented her winning custody after the woman said she would take care of the problems, but failed to do so.

The Superior Court Judge in 2012 gave custody of the child to the Anchorage nonNative family. The tribe appealed the decision, and the Alaska Supreme Court reviewed the case.

Julie Kitka, president of the Alaska Federation of Natives, said the federation’s members worried about the precedent that would be set by the higher court decision.

“This decision is a disservice to our children,” Kitka said in a statement. “The formal petition for adoption is a very complicated process that requires the assistance of a lawyer that the majority of Alaska Native families cannot easily afford.”

As a school counselor, Druce understands if a student takes the time to come into her office for whatever reason, it’s important to them. If elected to the assembly, she said she would approach her role as a representative of her district the same way.

“I’ve always respected people who have taken time to stand up for their opinion,” she said. “It doesn’t mean you are going to vote the way they want you to. You are always obligated by the position to honor the fact they came to be part of the process.”

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Nation Around the World Supreme Court takes up disputes over Muslim headscarves, housing discrimination, more WASHINGTON — Did retailer Abercrombie & Fitch discriminate against a Muslim woman who was denied a job because her headscarf clashed with the company’s dress code?

That’s the question in one of the 11 cases the Supreme Court said Thursday it will take on in its new term.

The justices took no action on the highly anticipated issue of same-sex marriage, though a decision on the gay marriage cases could come later this month.

Among the new cases, the court will consider the scope of housing discrimination laws, the First Amendment rights of judicial candidates to raise campaign money and a challenge from Arizona Republicans over who can draw the state’s congressional districts.

In the Abercrombie dispute, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued the retailer after it refused to hire Samantha Elauf at a Tulsa, Oklahoma, store in 2008 because her Muslim hijab conflicted with the company’s “look policy.” The policy was described at the time as a “classic East Coast collegiate style.”

Turkey’s parliament approves motion for military operations in Iraq, Syria ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s parliament gave the government new powers Thursday to launch military incursions into Syria and Iraq, and to allow foreign forces to use its territory for possible operations against the Islamic State group.

The move opens the way for Turkey, a NATO member with a large and modern military, to play a more robust role in the U.S-led coalition against the Sunni militants. However, Turkey has yet to define what that role might be.

The vote came as the extremists pressed their offensive against a beleaguered Kurdish town along Syria’s border with Turkey. The assault, which has forced some 160,000 Syrians to flee across the frontier in recent days, left the Kurdish militiamen scrambling to repel the militants’ advance into the outskirts of Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab.

The assault came despite renewed U.S.-led airstrikes in the area overnight. The United States has been bombing the Islamic State group across Syria since last week and in neighboring Iraq since early August.

Turkey’s parliament had previously approved operations into Iraq and Syria to attack Kurdish separatists or to thwart threats from the Syrian regime. Thursday’s motion, which passed 298-98, expands those powers to address threats from the Islamic State militants who control a large cross-border swath of Iraq and Syria, in some cases right up to the Turkish border.

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Obama touts economic gains

By NEDRA PICKLER and JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press

EVANSTON, Ill. — President Barack Obama acknowledged his pivotal role in the midterm political campaign Thursday, arguing that the November congressional elections are a referendum on his economic policies and blaming Republicans for blocking his efforts to boost wages and create more jobs.

In a speech at Northwestern University that marked a shift in attention from foreign entanglements to domestic concerns, Obama laid claim to an economic recovery that he said has made steady progress, yet he conceded that many families have not benefited from lower unemployment, beefed-up corporate profits and a pumped-up stock market.

Obama offered a lengthy defense of his policies, from bailing out the auto industry to his health care law, and he renewed his call for a higher minimum wage and equal pay legislation. He said that while he’s not seeking election in November, “these policies are on the ballot, every single one of them.”

Promoting pocketbook issues in the homestretch of the midterm election campaign, Obama fluctuated between bullish assurances that the recovery was real and recognition that joblessness and low wages still afflict millions of Americans.

“These truths aren’t incompatible,” he. “Our broader economy in the aggregate has

come a long way, but the gains of recovery aren’t yet broadly shared.”

He underscored the political climate just four weeks before congressional elections, accusing Republicans of rejecting efforts to increase the minimum wage, refinance student loans or extend unemployment benefits and of pressing for more tax cuts for the wealthy.

“When nearly all the gains of the recovery have gone to the top 1 percent, when income inequality is at as high a rate as we’ve seen in decades,” he said, “I find that hard to swallow.”

The speech came after Obama spent weeks consumed with international crises, though the White House had always planned to refocus on the economy to assure voters that he hasn’t forgotten about their money struggles.

An Associated Press-GfK poll released Wednesday found that the economy is the top issue for the Americans most likely to cast ballots in the midterm elections. Nine out of 10 consider it extremely or very important in deciding their votes for Congress. They have just one month to make up their minds, and Obama plans to speak out more during that time on pocketbook concerns, including a jobs speech Friday in Indiana.

Besides criticizing Republicans for blocking his economic proposals, he also needled his favorite news media target, saying that fewer Republicans were running against his health care plan because “while good,

‘These truths aren’t incompatible. Our broader economy in the aggregate has come a long way, but the gains of recovery aren’t yet broadly shared.’

— U.S. President Barack Obama affordable health care might seem to be a fanged threat to freedom on Fox News, it turns out its ‘s working pretty well in the real world.”

As the economy shows signs of improving, however, Obama’s challenge has been to walk a delicate line — taking some credit for an economic recovery without seeming to disregard continuing hard times.

“It’s very tricky for a president when economies are emerging from recessions,” said Matt Bennett, a strategist who has consulted for various Democratic candidates. “It’s just very difficult to take credit that you are due — or as much as presidents are due blame or credit for the economy— without sounding a false note for people who still feel very vulnerable.”

Many important indicators are in a positive place — unemployment has been going down, consumer spending is up and housing prices are rising. The stock market hit records in the past month, though it has softened in recent days.

The speech comes one day ahead of the government releasing its job report for Sep-

tember. The unemployment rate in august was 6.1 percent, far below its high of 10 percent in 2009. But while the number of people who have been unemployed for less than 26 weeks has declined, many of those still in the jobless ranks have been without jobs for a long time.

What’s more, since 2007, the proportion of adults either working or seeking work has sunk from 66 percent to 62.8 percent, the lowest in 35 years.

Much of that is due to voluntary retirements, but much is also due to workers who have grown disillusioned with the job market.

Also, while corporate bottom lines are improving, companies aren’t filling jobs as fast they were before the recession.

An index compiled by Steven Davis, a University of Chicago economist, found companies took an average of nearly 25 days to fill a job in July 2014, up from fewer than 22 in 2006.

While acknowledging that the recovery has failed to reach all middle-class Americans, Obama blamed part of that failure on Republicans. He said he had presented his plans for jobs and higher wages.

Protesters to pack meeting on education changes

JPMorgan says data breach affected 76 million households, 7 million businesses

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — JPMorgan Chase & Co. said Thursday that a recent cyberattack compromised customer information for about 76 million households and 7 million small businesses.

The New York-based bank said in a regulatory filing that customer information including names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses were stolen in the cyberattack.

However, JPMorgan said there’s no evidence that the data breach included customers’ account numbers, passwords, Social Security numbers or dates of birth.

The lender also said it has not seen any unusual customer fraud related to this data breach.

JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s biggest bank by assets, has been working with law enforcement officials to investigate the cyberattack.

DENVER — Students and teachers fighting a plan to promote patriotism and downplay civil disobedience in some suburban Denver U.S. history courses are expected to pack a school board meeting Thursday where the controversial changes could face a vote.

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walkout planned at a school Thursday morning didn’t take place after the principal sent a letter to parents asking them to discourage their children from participating.

The principal at Golden High School, Brian Conroy, said he is “proud” that students have made their opinions known, but a walkout now would be counterproductive and unnecessary because students have already gotten the board’s attention.

Students across a majority of the 17 high schools in Colorado’s second-largest school district have left classes in droves over the past few weeks, waving signs and flags in protests

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The protests started Sept.

19, the day after the Jefferson County school board proposed creating a committee to review texts and course plans, starting with Advanced Placement history, to make sure materials “promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free-market system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights” and don’t “encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law.”

Board member Julie Williams, who originally proposed that the committee review materials for classes, and other

backers of the proposal say students are being used as pawns by teachers, who are upset about the plan to base raises on an evaluation system and have been staging sick-ins, where they call in sick and force school to be canceled some days.

Williams is one of the board’s majority of three new conservative members— Ken Witt, John Newkirk, and Williams — who were backed by Republicans last year in the officially non-partisan elections, campaigning on their opposition to a proposed $1 billion tax increase for schools that failed by a wide margin on the ballot.

None of the three returned calls Thursday.

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Complaints at problem women’s prison shelved

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — When inmates at a notorious Alabama women’s prison came forward to complain of sexual abuse and harassment, state investigators time and again classified the complaints as unfounded or unsubstantiated and often recommended that the matters be closed without further action, according to investigative reports obtained by The Associated Press.

In only a small fraction of cases in the past three years did corrections officials consider the allegations fully credible, according to roughly four dozen reports released to AP under the state’s open records law.

In a scathing report this year, the Justice Department chronicled an “unabated” culture of sexual abuse and harassment at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, where inmates “universally fear for their safety” and guards aren’t properly disciplined for bad behavior.

Yet state investigators who looked into the allegations of misconduct, usually involving corrections officers, repeatedly categorized the complaints as

unfounded or said there was insufficient evidence to move forward.

Their conclusions are difficult to square with a federal inquiry that painted the prison as a cauldron of sexual violence, and they raise questions about whether more should have been done in at least some of the cases to get to the bottom of inmate allegations. The thoroughness of the state’s investigations is among the concerns addressed in the Justice Department report, which said investigators “often fail to use basic investigative tools and techniques” and close cases prematurely with limited evidence.

Alabama corrections commissioner Kim Thomas said his department thoroughly investigates abuse allegations, noting investigators work for the state rather than the prison and are therefore independent. He said the state strongly encourages inmates to report abuse and that allegations, even if unsubstantiated, are forwarded as a matter of routine to the local district attorney for review and potential prosecution.

The state investigative reports represent only a “snapshot in time” of the records the

Justice Department had access to in making its findings, he said, calling the prison much improved since then.

“Nothing like that is ever perfect. It’s never going to be perfect, but it’s not going to be because we have our heads in the sand,” Thomas said.

Problems at the prison in Wetumpka, Alabama, a maximum-security facility that houses death-row inmates, are well documented. The Justice Department in 1995 warned of unconstitutional medical and mental health conditions and in 2007 ranked Tutwiler as the women’s prison with the highest rate of sexual assaults in the nation. Even before this year’s report, Thomas issued 58 directives for improvement.

Justice Department investigators visited in April 2013, interviewing dozens of prisoners and staff and reviewing disciplinary reports, logs and other documents. Their January report was unsparing.

It said staff raped, fondled and harassed inmates with impunity over the previous two decades, invaded their privacy in showers and bathrooms, made sexual advances and created a “toxic, sexualized environ-

ment.” The report said multiple women, with no opportunity to collaborate, told a “markedly similar story.”

“They don’t come into states and go this wide and this deep unless there is pretty convincing evidence of a pattern and practice of abuse,” American University law professor and prison violence expert Brenda Smith said of the federal scrutiny.

The AP reviewed 49 investigative reports between 2011 and July 2014 regarding a broad variety of misconduct, including graphic sexual comments and inappropriate touching. Most of the allegations concerned corrections officers or other prison staff, though a few were made against other inmates. One woman alleged she was abused at a hospital where she’d been taken but later retracted the allegation.

Of the complaints, at least 42 are categorized as either “unfounded” or “unsubstantiated” or investigators made clear in summarizing the complaint that they did not consider the allegations fully credible. Most of the ones deemed substantiated involved inmate-on-inmate allegations.

The reports, many of them multiple pages, offer varied reasons for cases being closed.

Sometimes inmates who reported abuse later recanted allegations, scored erratically on lie detector tests or were described as mentally unstable.

Other cases lacked corroborating witnesses. In some instances when someone anonymously would accuse a guard of having sex with a prisoner, both would deny it and the allegation was dismissed.

Corrections officials investigated a complaint from an inmate who said a guard made crude sexual comments. But the officer denied it and the matter was closed. In another case, an inmate said an officer stared at her in the shower as she dried off, and at others in the bathroom. The case was closed after the officer denied wrongdoing and other witnesses didn’t corroborate it.

It’s impossible to say whether more allegations should have been deemed credible. But the Justice Department report strongly criticized the state’s investigative process, saying officials were quick to close out inquiries because of uncooperative accusers, too often

failed to seek out witnesses or check verifiable facts and relied too heavily on prisoner polygraphs.

The state says it regularly refers cases for prosecution, though juror doubts about inmate credibility can make convictions difficult. C.J. Robinson, an Elmore County prosecutor, recalled one case this year that ended with a guard’s acquittal after jurors apparently didn’t believe the prisoner.

“When you start talking about an inmate, it becomes increasingly difficult. I’m not saying every single case, but in most cases, the inmate is either hesitant to cooperate, or they ask for something in exchange for telling the investigator what happened,” he said.

Thomas said the department has made multiple improvements in the investigative process, including training sessions, streamlining investigations so the accuser does not have to tell her story repeatedly and encouraging unannounced visits from professional coordinators.

“I want each allegation investigated thoroughly and for us to take some appropriate action (on) those,” he said.

White Ohio woman sues over sperm from black donor

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press

CLEVELAND — An Ohio woman has sued a Chicago-area sperm bank after she became pregnant with sperm donated by a black man instead of a white man as she and her partner had intended.

The woman is seeking damages and wants to ensure the sperm bank doesn’t make a similar mistake again.

Within days of their wedding in New York, Jennifer Cramblett and Amanda Zinkon had become pregnant with the donor sperm. In April 2012, five months into her pregnancy, Cramblett, 36, called Midwest Sperm Bank LLC outside Chicago to reserve sperm from the

same donor in the hope that Zinkon, 29, would someday also have a child.

That’s when Cramblett learned from a sperm bank employee that she had been inseminated with sperm from the wrong donor, according to a lawsuit filed Monday against Midwest Sperm Bank in Cook County, Illinois.

Cramblett said they had chosen sperm from a man known as No. 380, a white donor. The sperm used for insemination came from No. 330, a black donor, she said.

“How could they make a mistake that was so personal?”

Cramblett said during a telephone interview on Wednesday.

According to the lawsuit, her

excitement about the pending birth was replaced with “anger, disappointment and fear.”

“They took a personal choice, a personal decision and took it on themselves to make that choice for us out of pure negligence,” Cramblett said.

A woman who answered the telephone at Midwest Sperm Bank on Thursday would not comment and said an attorney would be providing a statement.

She would not give her name or identify the attorney.

Cramblett said she and Zinkon love their 2-year-old daughter, Payton, very much and wouldn’t change anything about her. But they are concerned about raising her in the predominantly white community where they live.

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The lawsuit said they had moved from Akron to Uniontown for better schools and to be closer to Cramblett’s family. She said that as a lesbian she has felt the sting of prejudice but doesn’t know what it’s like to be mistreated because of skin color.

Therapists have recommended that Cramblett, Zinkon and Payton move to a more racially diverse community with good schools, the lawsuit said.

Cramblett said she decided to sue to prevent the sperm bank from making the same mistake again. The lawsuit says the sperm bank has no electronic record-keeping and no quality controls that would AP Photo/Courtesy of Jennifer Cramblett have prevented it from sending the wrong sperm to fertility This undated family photo provided by Jennifer Cramblett shows her daughter, Payton. clinics.

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Egypt judge in mass death sentence cases removed

By MAGGIE MICHAEL Associated Press

CAIRO — The Egyptian judge who oversaw mass death sentence cases against Islamist supporters of the country’s ousted president, drawing world criticism, has been removed from his criminal court, officials and the judge himself told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Judge Said Youssef, who led two high profile cases in southern city of Minya, told the AP he was notified on Sunday that he was removed from “criminal judiciary” to “civilian judiciary.”

“I was notified while I was looking into cases,” Youssef said. He added that his court, known as the “terrorism court”

and assigned to look into cases linked to violence and acts of terror, had been “dismantled.”

He declined to discuss why he was removed.

Youssef’s court appeared to be the only one dismantled.

The move looks like a demotion for Youssef. According to the el-Shorouk daily newspaper, removal from the court is an exceptional measure which only takes place in two cases: either the judge has been associated to an act that is damaging to his reputation or that he was investigated by a special committee which ruled that he was no longer capable of overseeing criminal court cases.

Normally, a judge who has spent 15 years in criminal judiciary remains in his post until

‘The case caused an international earthquake and it was expected that judges would get rid of him after all damage he caused.’

— Gamal Abdel-Maguid, lawyer retirement, the paper said.

Other officials, including a top judicial official, corroborated Youssef’s account.

Said was condemned when he sentenced to death more than 1,200 people in two mass trials.

The number of death sentences, initially the most in recent memory anywhere in the world, was later reduced to more than 200.

Most of the defendants were charged with murder, attempt-

ed murder, joining an outlawed group aiming at toppling the regime and stealing government weapons in connection with the attack last August in the town of Matay and el-Adawa, south of Cairo. Police officers were killed in the attacks.

The cases are rooted in the violent attacks on police stations and killing of police officers in August 2013 in revenge for security forces raiding two

Islamists’ sit-ins in Cairo that left hundreds dead and sparked days of unrest. Protesters were demanding the reinstatement of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood group.

The military led the ouster of Morsi in July after mass demonstrations against him and his supporters staged near-daily demonstrations demanding his reinstatement. Some 22,000 people have been arrested since Morsi’s ouster, including most of the Brotherhood’s top leaders as well as large numbers of others swept up by police during pro-Morsi protests.

Gamal Abdel-Maguid, a lawyer who represented a number of defendants, nicknamed

the judge “Said the butcher.”

“The case caused an international earthquake and it was expected that judges would get rid of him after all damage he caused,” Abdel-Maguid said.

In the two court cases, Youssef issued his stunning verdicts in their second hearings and in the absence of lawyers who responded by boycotting the next sessions.

In reaction to the death sentences, the U.S. State Department said his ruling “defies logic” that so many people could get a fair trial in just two hearings. Amnesty International said that Egyptian courts “appear to have handed out death sentences at the drop of a hat” using “flimsy evidence and deeply flawed proceedings.”

Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying won’t quit, offers talks instead

By JOANNA CHUI and WENDY TANG Associated Press

HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s embattled leader refused demands by pro-democracy protesters to resign Thursday, and instead offered talks to defuse a week of massive demonstrations that have grown into the biggest challenge to Beijing’s authority since China took control of the former British colony in 1997.

The Hong Kong Federation of Student said in a statement early Friday that they planned to join the talks with the government, focused specifically on political reforms. They reiterated that Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying step down, saying he “had lost his integrity.”

A wider pro-democracy group that had joined the dem-

onstrations, Occupy Central, welcomed the talks and also insisted that Leung quit.

Occupy Central “hopes the talks can provide a turning point in the current political stalemate,” it said in a statement. “However, we reiterate our view that Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying is the one responsible for the stalemate, and that he must step down.”

Leung’s comments came at a news conference held just minutes before the protesters’ midnight deadline for him to quit.

“I will not resign,” he said.

The students had threatened to surround or occupy government buildings if Leung did not step down, and the police had warned of serious consequences if the protesters carried out that threat.

Standing beside Leung was the territory’s top civil servant,

Chief Secretary Carrie Lam, and he asked her to arrange the talks.

She said she would seek to meet with leaders of the demonstrations as soon as possible.

“I hope both sides will be satisfied,” she said. “Students had wanted a public meeting but I hope that we can have some flexibility to discuss details.”

The protesters want Beijing to reverse its decision that all candidates in an inaugural 2017 election for chief executive must be approved by a committee of mostly pro-Beijing elites.

They say China is reneging on its promise that the city’s top leader will be chosen through “universal suffrage.”

Leung said the authorities would continue to tolerate the protests as long as participants did not charge police lines, but urged them to stop their occu-

pation of much of the downtown area.

“I urge students not to charge into or occupy government buildings. ... It’s not about my personal inconvenience,” he said. “These few days the protesters’ occupation of key areas of the city has already seriously affected Hong Kong’s economy, people’s daily lives and government functioning.”

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ties whose students joined in launching the protests appeared before a jittery crowd in front of the entrance to his office and appealed for calm.

Earlier Thursday, police were seen bringing in supplies of tear gas and other riot gear, and the protesters prepared face masks and goggles as tensions rose in the standoff outside the imposing government compound near the waterfront.

After Leung’s news confer-

ence, however, the atmosphere was palpably calmer, although many protesters expressed disappointment about the proposed talks.

“They didn’t mention anything about when they are going to talk, no details, nothing,” said Joanna Wong, 28, who works in the aviation industry.

Wong said she would stay at the protest site to see how the student groups react to the announcement.

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Reputed drug capo hid in plain sight in Mexico

By MARK STEVENSON and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — One of Mexico’s most-wanted drug lords was hiding in plain sight, eating at a seafood restaurant about 10 blocks away from the center of San Miguel de Allende, whose colonial square is a magnet for foreign residents and tourists.

Hector Beltran Leyva, the purported head of a feared drug gang allegedly run by his family, was eating at Mario’s Fresh Seafood, a simple restaurant known among expatriates for its fresh ceviche and fish filet when federal agents swooped in on Wednesday.

Beltran Leyva was dressed in casual but expensive-looking jeans and shirt, with an open, contrasting collar and no tie, the kind of informal chic that

fits in at San Miguel, where Americans and Canadians flock to restore colonial homes and take classes in the arts.

About 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, after Mexico’s late lunch rush, Mario’s was empty, except for Beltran Leyva and an associate, German Goyenechea, a businessman and local political activist, also dressed casually in cargo pants, a T-shirt and boots.

Army special operations agents detained the pair without a tussle, even though prosecutors said both carried pistols.

“It was all peaceful,” said a restaurant employee, who agreed to talk about the event only if not quoted by name because he was afraid of getting in trouble. “Everything happened so calmly that nobody realized what was going on.”

It fit in with the laid-back style that Beltran Leyva cul-

tivated. His family-run cartel rose to fame and power in the rough northern city of Mexicali, Baja California. Beltran Leyva, 49, assumed leadership of the family cartel after his brother Arturo was killed by troops in a gunbattle in late 2009. Two other brothers are behind bars for involvement in the organization.

Under growing pressure from Mexican and U.S. authorities, the elder Beltran Leyva moved to the central state of Queretaro, which has largely avoided the country’s drug violence. Crowded with booming, high-tech industry, much of it foreign-owned,— Queretaro appears to be the perfect place for a man with large but shadowy sources of income to blend in and launder his wealth through seemingly legitimate enterprises.

“He adopted a moderate

US eases ban on lethal arms sales to Vietnam

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The United States announced Thursday it was partially lifting its ban on sales of weaponry to Vietnam to help its maritime security, in a sign of deepening ties between the former enemies.

The move is intended to support Vietnam’s ability to defend itself in the South China Sea, where it is among Asian nations facing an increasingly assertive China.

Secretary of State John Kerry informed Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh of the U.S. decision as they met in Washington.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters the U.S. will now allow sales of lethal maritime security capabilities and for surveillance on a case-by-case basis.

Psaki said the decision was not directed at China.

The U.S. imposed an arms embargo against

Vietnam in 1984 because of concern over the authoritarian government’s human rights record.

Relations between the U.S. and Vietnam were normalized in 1995, and Washington approved non-lethal arms sales in 2006. Ties have deepened in recent years, particularly as the Obama administration has sought to expand U.S. engagement in Asia. The U.S. is also striving to build the capabilities of another South China Sea claimant, the Philippines, to patrol and monitor its territorial waters.

U.S. officials said Thursday’s step recognized improvements by Vietnam’s authoritarian government on human rights, including the release of 11 detainees, but that it was primarily driven by America’s national security interests.

Psaki said the Southeast Asian nation needs to do more on human rights, and the U.S. continues to evaluate its security relationship with Hanoi.

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‘It’s a huge deal to get Hector Beltran Leyva, who took over the most bloodthirsty cartel in Mexico. The Beltran Leyva organization was known for corrupting the upper ranks of government and terrorizing communities.’

— Andrew Selee, Mexico expert profile and transformed his lifestyle to go undetected,” said the federal criminal investigations chief, Tomas Zeron. “He maintained his (illicit) operations far from his home ... avoiding calling the attention of friends, neighbors and local authorities. He left behind luxury vehicles and adopted an identity as a wealthy businessman who bought and sold properties and art works.”

Being accompanied by a political activist when he was arrested was also true to Beltran Leyva’s style: His cartel was known as the smoothest of all of Mexico’s gangs in corrupting and coopting Mexican police and politicians.

In 2005, an aide to former President Vicente Fox was arrested for allegedly passing information to Beltran Leyva, though those charges were later dropped.

Zeron said the associate, Goyenechea, “acted as the financial operator of his (Beltran Leyva’s) group,” presumably laundering drug money.

Goyenechea has been listed as a member of a nonpartisan civic group known as Mexican

Civic Parliament and Mexico’s Green Party. When contacted by telephone, both groups promised to send a statement regarding Goyenechea, but neither did.

The Beltran Leyva organization had spread to southern Mexico in the 2000s, terrorizing the resort of Acapulco and Morelos state south of Mexico City, although the violence waned somewhat after the brothers’ arrests and killing.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said the leader’s arrest Wednesday brought the cartel further to its knees.

“One of the world’s biggest drug empires continues to crumble with the capture of Hector Beltran-Leyva in Mexico,” DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart said in a statement Thursday. “Much of the violence and lawlessness that has plagued Mexico can be traced to this criminal regime.

“Beltran-Leyva’s organization smuggled countless amounts of lethal and highly addictive drugs into the United States and other parts of the world, facilitating addiction,

violence, and death,” Leonhart wrote. He added that the “DEA congratulates the Government of Mexico and the brave individuals who carried out this operation and we pledge our continued commitment to the relentless pursuit of global drug traffickers.”

At least nine capos have been killed or captured by security forces since 2009, including the arrest last February of elusive Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who had been among the world’s most wanted men.

According to the U.S. State Department, Beltran Leyva, alias “The H” and “The Engineer,” was born Feb. 16, 1965, in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa, a cradle of drug trafficking.

He has been indicted in courts in the U.S. District of Columbia and New York. U.S. authorities offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to his capture, and Mexico put up its own bounty of 30 million pesos, about $3.7 million.

Andrew Selee, a Mexico expert at the Wilson Center think tank in Washington, said the cartel established a pattern of extreme brutality that has become the hallmark of other gangs such as the Zetas.

“It’s a huge deal to get Hector Beltran Leyva, who took over the most bloodthirsty cartel in Mexico. The Beltran Leyva organization was known for corrupting the upper ranks of government and terrorizing communities,” Selee said.

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he 1830s. Trains are picking up speed. New technology is leading to new limits. But how fast is too fast? It becomes clear that the new trains can go an astounding 35 miles per hour! The opponents are quite alarmed. It was highly likely that a train traveling that fast would literally crush the bones of the passengers and so must be avoided at all costs. As historian Stephen Kern puts it, “New speeds have always brought out alarmists.” Kern goes further.

He says concern about the effects of our speeded-up lives is also hysteria.

“Technologies that promote speed are essentially good,” he said, adding that “the historical record is that humans have never, ever opted for slowness.”

he tells a story about how Oxford University replaced the gigantic oak beams in the ceiling of one of its dining halls. When the beams began to show signs of rotting, university officials were concerned that they R ick C upp wouldn’t be able to find lumber large But many of us disagree. Danny and strong enough to replace them.

Hillis is the man who pioneered the But the university’s forester explained conceptual design behind high-speed to them that, when the dining hall was super-computers. He has no phobia built 500 years ago, their predecesabout speed. But he warns that our sors had planted a grove of oak tress obsession with speed does in fact hurt so that the university could replace us. We become consumed with what’s the beams when the time came. The happening right now and lose sight trees needed were ready and waiting. of what’s happening in the long run.

I like the idea of a “new aesthetic He recommends cultivating what he of slowness.” calls “a new aesthetic of slowness.”

We need one to build a wonderTo illustrate what that might look like ful, full life and have a relationship

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Church Briefs Our Lady of the Angels hosts Marriage Encounter retreat On Sunday, all married couples are invited to spend an afternoon together in a Marriage Encounter retreat: Listening to the Heart in the Sacrament of Marriage. This retreat is being hosted

by Our Lady of the Angels in Kenai. The event will begin with a sharing potluck lunch at 1 p.m. The retreat will be 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. No charge and no public sharing. Contact the parish office at 283-4555 if you need babysitting or for more details.

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with our God. Psalm 46:10 says “Be still, and know that I am God.” In our increasingly fast lives our schedules become more and more full, with less time to simply sit and be with God. In fact, we increasingly feel guilty when we “indulge” in such a pleasure. We have lost sight of planting saplings that will one day grow, limb by limb, to a great forest.

One author tells of writing “prayer” in his calendar for the mornings but constantly rushing past it into the day. He finally gained a new aesthetic of slowness. In his calendar he replaced the word prayer with “meet with God.” This wasn’t merely another item. He slowed down and started keeping his appointment to

talk with his Father.

It is just such a man who continues every day to build a fuller life. When he reaches his final days, the wonderful tree he has grown to become will be a testimony to the value of slowing down.

So by all means take a fast train or even faster plane. But start the day by going slow. Meet with your God. Grow.

Rick Cupp is Minister at the Kenai Fellowship; Wednesday meal at 6:16 p.m., worship at 7 p.m.; Sunday Bible classes for all ages 10:00 a.m.; Sunday coffee at 10:45 a.m.; worship at 11:15 a.m.

called “Children of the Day” by Beth Moore is under way at the no scary or inappropriate costumes.

First Baptist Church of Kenai. The group begins with lunch at More information can be found at www.peninsulagrace.org noon, a video and discussion. Childcare is available. For more or by calling 907-262-6442. information, call Carole at 283-7772 or Kassy at 283-7672.

Food Pantry open weekly

Nikiski Aglow to begin Bible study

Nikiski Aglow meets each Saturday morning from 9-11 a.m. at the Nikiski New Hope Christian Fellowship, Mile 23 North Road. All are welcome to attend. Aglow International is founded on prayer and compassionate outreach. It is global in ministry vision, yet rooted in small groups. Nikiski Aglow is hosting the DVD teaching of Graham Cooke with “Game Changers.” The five themes are: 1.How you are known in heaven; 2.Establishing your internal overcomer; 3.Mind of Christ; 4.Reinventing your walk in the fruit of the Spirit; 5. Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ. For information call Bev at 776-8022 or 398-7311 or Paulette at 252-7372.

The Soldotna Food Pantry is open every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for residents in our community who may be experiencing food shortages.

The Food Pantry is located at the Soldotna United Methodist Church at 158 South Binkley Street. 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.

United Methodist Church

Retired Presbyterian pastor Mary Adams will be bringing the provides food pantry message at Kenai United Methodist Church on Sunday, October 5 during the 11:30 worship service. Pastor Adams will be Class explores essential oils of the Bible The Kenai United Methodist Church provides a food pantry preaching on Ephesians 2:11-22. Her theme is breaking down for those in need every Monday from noon to 3 p.m.

A free class on the essential oils of the Bible, led by Toni walls, church unity. The little brown church with the bells is Loop, will take place at 2 p.m. Oct. 11 at King’s Treasures The Methodist Church is located on the Kenai Spur Highway located at 607 Frontage Road in Kenai across the street from bookstore in Kenai. For more information, call 740-1476. next to the Boys and Girls Club. The entrance to the Food PanWells Fargo Bank. All are welcome to attend. try is through the side door. The Pantry closes for holidays.

For more information contact the church office at 283-7868 Calvary Baptist resumes kids club or email kumcalaska@gmail.com.

Healing prayer service Calvary Baptist Church has resumed its Awana Kids Club at Our Lady of Perpetual Help on Sunday evenings. The group meets at Kenai Middle School Clothes 4 U at First Baptist Church A Liturgy of Lament: a healing prayer service for all impacted from 5:15-7:30 p.m. All kids, ages 3 through sixth grade, are First Baptist Church Soldotna, located at 159 S. Binkley by abuse and violence will take place on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at welcome. See the Calvary Baptist Awana web page for further Street, is re-opening its Clothes 4 U program.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, 222 West Redoubt Avenue, details and Club schedule: calvarykenai.org/awana.

It is open on the second and fourth Saturday of each month Soldotna. Archbishop Schweitz will be celebrating the liturgy. from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. All clothing and shoes are free to the pubOctober is domestic violence awareness month, so we are pleased Grace Brethren plans Harvest Carnival lic. to be hosting this evening for the community. LeeShore and Safe Peninsula Grace Brethren Church on K-Beach Road is Environment from the Archdiocese will be represented. Please extend an invitation to those who might want to participate. Con- pleased to announce their fourth annual Kids Harvest Carnival. Clothes Quarters open weekly It will be held on October 29 from 6:30-8 p.m. The carnival tact the church office at 262-5942 for questions.

Clothes Quarters at Our Lady of the Angels Church is open features games, candy, hot dogs, temporary tattoos, a costume every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and the first Saturday contest, and a puppet show.

Awards for the costume contest will First Baptist hosts women’s Bible study be given at 7:40 p.m. followed by a puppet show. Admittance is of every month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, A nine-week women’s Bible study on I and II Thessalonians, free. Supplies are limited to the first 150 kids who come. Please, call 907-283-4555.

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to 700 other jobs.”

Anderson moved to Alaska in 1981 from the south side of Chicago, an area that was economically depressed and at the time had one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, he said. With his father out of work, they moved to Alaska for the job opportunities available.

Anderson graduated Soldotna High School in 1982 and entered the job market with college welding course experience while he was still in high school. He was immediately hired out of school and became a pipe welder. By age 22, he said he was making an extremely good wage, an opportunity he wants for all youths today.

After he sustained a back injury on the job, his career shifted to welding inspector. He has 4,000 hours in technical training and works as a consultant for various oil companies to make sure they are in compliance with state and federal requirements.

“If we have a leak like what they had in Prudhoe Bay in 2006, that makes it extremely diffi-

cult to open up additional lands for drilling and production in areas,” he said. “Ninety percent of land in Alaska is controlled by federal government and we don’t want those types of incidents preventing us to bring our resources to market.”

With his background in the oil and gas industry, he said his experience would be beneficial as the borough starts to plan for the growth to come with the increased activity in the Cook Inlet with the Alaska LNG Project looking at constructing a liquefied natural gas facility in Nikiski.

The increase in road traffic and a population influx would put a strain on the current infrastructure of road maintenance and schools. The growth would have a dramatic effect across the entire central Kenai Peninsula, he said.

Anderson said the Sterling and Funny River district is unique because it is separated by a river and is made up with people who’ve chosen to live an independent lifestyle. While the needs of seniors should be a priority, at the same time he recognizes the community also has younger families moving in, evident by the student growth at the Sterling Elementary School.

Anderson and his wife DeeDee Anderson have four children and live off Robinson Loop Road. He said one thing he would like to see in Sterling is a bike path and safer areas for kids

Senate hopeful grilled at Alaska fisheries debate

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

KODIAK, Alaska — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dan Sullivan got grilled on his positions on fishing issues during a debate Wednesday night with Democratic Sen. Mark Begich in one of the largest fishing ports in the U.S. Sullivan, who took flak for initially planning to skip the debate to campaign in rural Alaska, sought to show his command of fisheries issues, the focus of the only-in-Alaska debate that is a tradition among politicians in the Last Frontier. Sullivan mentioned his family’s fish camp and the need to cut burdensome regulations. He also mentioned Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who recently endorsed him and campaigned with him in Kodiak.

Fishing is a multibilliondollar industry in the state and a major employer.

It was a friendly audience for Begich, who chairs the Senate subcommittee on oceans, atmosphere, fisheries, and Coast Guard and entered the debate with the endorsement of fishing

organizations such as the United Fishermen of Alaska and the Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers.

At one point, Begich, wearing a gold salmon pin on his lapel, said he wouldn’t mind answering some of the questions that were being directed solely to Sullivan.

“Well, Senator Begich, we’ve heard a lot from you, but we really haven’t had an opportunity to question Mr. Sullivan,” one of the questioners, fish industry writer Laine Welch, said before asking Sullivan another question.

During the debate, Sullivan was asked about his brother’s fish business. He said his brother is a wholesaler who buys farm-raised fish as well as fish from Alaska.

Sullivan said he is against genetically modified fish, known as “Frankenfish,” a position Begich also holds. Sullivan said he has never supported the Pebble Mine, a massive gold-and-copper prospect near the headwaters of a world-premier salmon fishery in southwest Alaska. But he said he supports having a process in place for projects like that to be vetted.

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versial project should be allowed to go through the permitting process. He and others, including Murkowski and state officials, worry the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will veto the project before it has gone to permitting. Begich — to applause — called the project the wrong mine in the wrong place.

When Begich said he planned to hold a committee hearing to discuss concerns about Canadian mines and their impacts on Alaska, Sullivan said hearings and letters don’t get the job done.

“Face-to-face contact, faceto-face diplomacy, that’s what you make an impact on,” Sullivan said.

Sullivan also asked why Begich did not hold up the nomination of Sally Jewell for Interior secretary until there was a commitment from President Barack Obama’s administration to allow for a road to be built through a wildlife refuge to connect the town of King Cove with an all-weather airport.

Begich noted he wasn’t the only member of the delegation who voted to confirm Jewell.

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to play.

He said there have been several bike-vehicle related fatalities in the area and Sterling is the only central community that doesn’t have a bike path.

“If we want to attract youth to our community, we need a reason for them to be here,” he said.

Anderson said he voted no on Proposition A on animal rescue because he doesn’t support adding additional taxes and creating more government. He said it is unfortunate some people are not responsible pet owners.

“The problem is only one specific group would pay the bill, landowners,” he said. “I’m a conservative by nature and that service should be shared equally.”

He said he likes having plowed roads, paved streets and those types of services, but like his neighbors, he chose to live in a rural area for a reason.

“I don’t want infringements on my freedom anymore than absolutely required,” he said.

On the issue of the Central Peninsula Hospital deciding to enter a transfer agreement, he didn’t support the borough-owned hospital giving up local control. He said he received treatment for a back fusion and his wife underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma at the hospital.

“I like the fact we have an elected individual to sit on the hospital board to make decisions on my behalf,” he said. “They will use the same facility I do and live in the same community.”

Anderson said he believes the school board has done a good job with the district budget and having a large enough surplus to deal with federal changes. The rising cost of the Affordable Care Act left a $1.6 million hit to the school district, he said.

“If we are going to be a responsible elected official, we have to keep a reserve,” he said.

“You can’t operate a business of that size without a reserve.”

As a school board member, he said he appreciates the faith people have put in him to make decisions on their behalf. He said he’s learned not everyone will be pleased with his decisions but has made an emphasis to listen to all perspectives.

“You can’t go in with a preconceived idea and say, ‘This is how it’s going to be,’” he said. “You also can’t be easily swayed and need to look at all the facts to make the best informed decision.”

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Senior Center and Council on Aging to express concerns for improvement priorities to consider when the city addresses it legislative capital improvement priorities.

Vice Mayor Ryan Marquis, the council of aging liaison, said one priority the senior center has is a warm place to keep their vans so drivers don’t have to go out into the cold to warm the eight vans the center uses.

“In the past they haven’t had space for the vans,” Marquis said. “Now that the city has a new shop, they’re inquiring about available space.”

Other priorities include fixing a leak in the solarium, install upgraded stalls and Americans with Disabilities Act compliance toilets and perform a study to evaluate present and future needs at the senior center. Marquis said people have been appreciative of the new heated sidewalks and boiler replacement that the city has done for the senior center this year.

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Reach Dan Balmer at daniel.balmer@peninsulaclarion.com.

council unanimously passed two ordinances. The first was to appropriate $36,535 from the general fund in acquiring five parcels on Peninsula Avenue that will be retained as a staging site for the bluff erosion project.

The estimated cost includes the payment of delinquent property taxes, relocation assistance for three renters who currently reside on the property and removal of the structures.

Koch said the three tenants had been contacted and have been given until Nov. 30 to vacate. He said the city will assist the tenants in finding new housing, will receive $1,000 moving allowance and would not be charged rent in the meantime.

The council passed an ordinance to appropriate $1,000 in the general fund to purchase ice Reach Dan Balmer at daniel.balmer@penincleats for all city employees.

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intoxication, according to the report.

On Wednesday charges of first-degree sexual assault, kidnapping and second-degree sexual abuse of a minor were filed in Kenai District Court. Lee was arrested and taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility.

Lee told troopers the boy came up to her on a bicycle while she was walking on the sidewalk and asked her to have sex with him.

She told the interviewing trooper she was intoxicated, according to the report.

Kidnapping and sexual assault in the first-degree are unclassified felonies and if convicted are punishable by 20 to 99 years in prison with a maximum fine of up to $500,000.

If convicted, she would have to register as a sex offender.

Sexual abuse of a minor in the second-degree is a class B felony and carries a prison term of up to 10 years and a fine of up to $100,000.

Lee was arraigned in court Thursday and remains in custody.

Reach Dan Balmer at daniel.balmer@peninsulaclarion.com.

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By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

In order to make the United States Hockey League, the top junior league in the country, a player has to be driven to succeed.

In the case of 2012 Kenai Central graduate Zack Zulkanycz, that player had to be driven to succeed in more ways than one.

Zulkanycz has made the 23man roster for the Dubuque (Iowa) Fighting Saints, becoming the first Kenai Peninsula player to ply his trade in the USHL since Soldotna’s Brandon Fisher in the 2010-11 season.

“It’s surreal,” said Zulkanycz, who made his Saints debut Saturday. “I still can’t really believe I’m here.

“When I was 14 or 15 I used to joke with my friends about playing in the United States Hockey League. Same thing

when I was in juniors. Now it’s become reality.”

It has become reality largely due to a lifelong love affair with the game.

Zulkanycz, the son of Dan and Lisa of Kenai, said he fell in love with hockey watching Penguins games with his dad.

That would be the same Penguins team that Zulkanycz, with his teammates and coaches, watched play a preseason game against the Minnesota Wild this week.

As a 7-year-old, Zulkanycz said he would practice with his Kenai Peninsula Hockey Association team for an hour, then go home and skate for four more hours in a backyard rink until his mom called him in.

But it wasn’t until eighth grade that Zulkanycz’s relationship with the game became long distance.

At that point, the Zulkanycz family decided that Zack would have to play in Anchorage if he

Brown Bears ready for Minot

By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

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With their roster cut down to 23 as of Wednesday, the Kenai River Brown Bears are set to take on the Minot (North Dakota) Minotauros today and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex.

In the process of getting down to 23, the Bears of the Tier II North American Hockey League have completed several transactions in the past week: • Forward Nathan Colwell

was traded to the Corpus Christi (Texas) IceRays for right-handed defenseman Jason Lem. Colwell played 49 games for the Bears last season, notching nine goals, 12 assists and a minus-9.

He was drafted by the Dubuque (Iowa) Fighting Saints of the Tier I United States Hockey League, but failed to stick.

Lem played 57 games for the IceRays last season, with two goals, six assists and a minus-14.

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wanted to move on one day.

See BEARS, page B-2 “He played in Anchorage, back and forth, rain or shine, for five years,” Lisa said.

With the season going Sep- 60,000 miles on a car in just counting anymore,” Lisa said. he’d be out of school and we’d tember through March, but also three years.

“I was not liking it. be up there again.” with a bit of a break for the high “Once I got to 80 trips to “We’d leave at 9 and be home Lisa said she owes friends in See DRIVE, page B-4 school season, Lisa said she put Anchorage, I decided I wasn’t by midnight or 1. The next day,

Rivalry weekend

Kenai sweeps Cordova

Kenai-SoHi; SewardNikiski ready to clash

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The final week of the 2014 prep football season is here.

Eight weeks ago, teams began the season with fresh faces and high hopes, buoyed by the idea of making the playoffs.

Now, only 16 teams will be left to fight for postseason glory in three divisions — large, medium and small.

The Northern Lights Conference is already locked up with two teams heading to the playoffs. Soldotna and Kenai Central hold both spots, as Homer and Kodiak have been eliminated.

In the other medium-schools league, the Southeast Conference, Juneau and North Pole already hold spots as well, meaning that the See PREP, page B-4

CIA soccer stays perfect Staff report

What stat best sums up the 16-0 record of Cook Inlet Academy coed soccer team?

Timmy Smithwick has now scored 49 goals for the Eagles this season, while CIA has given up just seven goals.

The Eagles improved to 16-0 on Thursday with a 4-0 victory at Lumen Christi in Anchorage.

Smithwick scored four times, finding the net in the first, 21st, 24th and 62nd minutes.

The goal in the 21st minute came off a rebound on a shot by Riley Smithwick.

“He’s just a natural finisher,” CIA coach Kenny Leaf said of Timmy Smithwick. “I thought his brother, Robbie Smithwick, was the most natural finisher I had ever seen, but

handed defenseman to complement Tyler Andrews and the rest of the D corps,” Kenai River head coach Geoff Beauparlant said.

Since another player from Corpus Christi decided not to report, the Bears also got some assets from the IceRays.

• Forward Jack Murphy has been added to the roster.

He had been with the Minnesota Magicians, but he was released while the Bears were in town to play the Magicians.

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Kenai Kardinals’ Becky Dragseth spikes the ball at the net during a game against the Cordova Wolverines on Thursday at Kenai Central High School in Kenai.

The Kenai Central volleyball team challenged themselves Thursday night to keep the visiting Cordova Wolverines under 15 points in each set.

Two out of three ain’t bad.

The Kards swept the Wolverines at Kenai Central High School with scores of 25-11, 25-19 and 25-14, getting the victory in just over an hour. With the nonconference win, Kenai bumped its record up to 4-4 overall.

“We don’t even know what that is,” said Kenai coach Tracie Beck about getting the sweep.

Beck said she used a different cast of players in all three sets, trying out different pairings and forcing the girls to adapt to the changes on the fly.

“You can relax in these games a little too much if you’re not careful,” Beck said. “I’m still tweaking my lineup, I don’t have it the way I want it yet.”

With a dominating net presence, Kenai was able to keep Cordova in check for large chunks of Thursday’s action.

Abby Beck and Kiana Harding led the attack. Beck amassed eight kills and eight digs, while Harding had five kills to go along with a deadly serving game.

“Sometimes they just throw up a single block,” Beck said. “If they’re not reading our setters, then you should be able to put the ball down, because there’s no one slowing it down.”

Amber Walters provided eight assists and Alli Steinbeck added five assists. Kenai libero Jamie Bagley notched 14 digs After a dominant opening set, Kenai came out in the second with a different look after Beck’s experimenting, and came away with See SWEEP, page B-2

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Ostrander looks to cap career Soldotna, Homer, Seward have great shots at team titles

By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

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Kenai Central senior Allie Ostrander breaks free of the field on the way to winning the Tsalteshi Invitational in late August at Tsalteshi Trails.

Five kilometers is all that separates Allie Ostrander from the end of a brilliant prep cross-country running career.

Since 2011, the Kenai Central senior has put together a four-year stretch that may stand as one of the greatest spans of a high school crosscountry running for years to come.

The era of dominance will culminate Saturday at 12:45 p.m. at the Bartlett High School running trails for the 2014 cross-country running state championship meet. That’s when the Class 4A girls field takes off.

The Class 1-2-3A girls get going at noon, the Class 1-2-3A boys start at 1:30 p.m., and the Class 4A boys race at 2:15 p.m.

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“I’m not putting any more emphasis on it, I mean, there’s always that because it’s state,” said Kenai coach (and Allie’s mother) Teri Ostrander.

“All the younger kids know this is their last opportunity to run with these runners, and it’s a big deal for the team.”

“I think she’ll be able to soak it all in, and enjoy it. It’s the end of an era.”

Earlier this year, on the final weekend of August, Ostrander blitzed a 28-year-old course record that Klinnert held at the Fort Abercrombie State Historical Park in Kodiak. Klinnert’s long-standing record was 18 minutes, 48 seconds, and Ostrander topped it with a 17:34.

A week later, Ostrander posted the fastest time by a high school girl in the nation at the Palmer Invitational with a 16:40.

If not for a mid-race collapse at state while leading her freshman year, Ostrander would have had the chance to sweep all four years at the state

meet, just like Waythomas.

But Teri Ostrander said the mood has been set at lighthearted, giving Allie and the rest of the team room to run free and easy.

“We have just a super fun group,” Ostrander said. “The biggest thing I have learned is you just have to savor these moments.”

The following is a closer look at the statebound teams: KENAI KARDINALS After qualifying both varsity teams to the state meet for the first time in years, the Kenai Kards are looking for high finishes.

Last year, the Kenai boys finished fourth in the team standings, led by the senior brother duo of Jordan and Jonah Theisen in third and fourth place, respectively.

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Beauparlant liked what he saw, and Murphy scored the game-winner Saturday against Minnesota.

• Clay Cross and Doc Gentzler, a pair of free agents, and Logan Wendling, who had been acquired in a trade, have been released.

The Bears actually still have 24 on their roster, because they are carrying three goalies.

Beauparlant said he has decided to create a competition for two spots among three goaltenders.

Zach Quinn is the veteran who went 17-18-4 with a .924 save percentage and 2.55 goalsagainst average last season.

Josh Creelman was recently cut from the USHL and picked up the victory for the Bears on Saturday.

Alec Derks just joined the team after also recently getting cut by the USHL. “We’re going to make a little bit of a competition there, and we felt it was needed,” Beauparlant said. “It’s kind of wide open. We’ll see which two emerge as guys who deserve to be here.”

The coach said he doesn’t expect the competition to last very long.

With most of the roster moves behind him, Beauparlant is looking forward to getting on with the season.

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then Timmy came along and picked up where Robbie left off, and then some.”

Brady Hammond played in goal for CIA, while Noah Leaf,

these guys have put time in for the logo since the start of the year,” he said. “It’s the toughest part of junior hockey for the player and coach.”

The Bears, who are 3-5, get a Minot team this is 3-2 after losing its first two games of the season. In their last game, the Minotauros handed previously unbeaten Austin (Minnesota) its first loss of the season.

“Minot is always a wellcoached team by Marty Murray,” Beauparlant said. “They play a sound system and give a lot of hard work.

“They bring their work boots and we’re going to have to match their work ethic and intensity.”

Beauparlant wants to sustain the momentum from a 5-1 victory over Minnesota on Saturday.

“I thought we played as a unit the entire game,” he said.

“We cracked down on defense and kept the shots limited to outside scoring chances. At the same time, we found the back of the net.”

Notes: Andrews, of Anchorage, was named the Easton NAHL Defenseman of the Month on Thursday by the league.

Andrews had nine points during the month, which led the Brown Bears and led all defensemen in the NAHL. The Bears were outscored 31-24 during the month, but the Bears captain was able to keep his plus-minus even. ...

Friday will be GCI night, while Saturday is Ravn Alaska night.

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Kenai Kardinals’ Jamie Bagley watches as the ball falls too far for her to reach during a game against the Cordova Wolverines on Thursday at Kenai Central High School in Kenai.

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the six-point victory.

“Having three different lineups pushes the girls,” Beck said.

“They can’t just relax and go into their normal places, their homes. They have to be thinking the whole time.”

Riley Smithwick, Ashleigh Hammond and Kendra Brush made the shutout happen on defense.

The Eagles go on the road to face Wasilla Lake Christian GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — at noon Saturday and Holy Julius Peppers crossed the goal Rosary Academy at 5:30 p.m. line and caught his breath.

Saturday at Kincaid Park in But his work wasn’t done afAnchorage. ter returning an interception 49 yards for a touchdown. Teammate Morgan Burnett pointed to the stands — time for Peppers’ first Lambeau Leap.

One of many for the Packers on Thursday night.

Aaron Rodgers threw for three scores, and Eddie Lacy ran for a season-high 105 yards ductive offense stranded eight and two touchdowns in the 42runners in the five innings be- 10 rout of the Minnesota Vifore Greg Holland’s perfect kings.

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Jordy Nelson hauled in a 66yard touchdown catch. Things Orioles 12, Tigers 3

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Kansas City Royals went a few more extra innings, withstood a few more scares and figured out another dramatic way to win a playoff game.

Mike Moustakas homered leading off the 11th inning, and the Royals kept rolling in their first postseason in 29 years with a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Angels in their AL Division Series opener Thursday night.

Moustakas hit the first extrainning homer in postseason history for the Royals, a high shot off Fernando Salas that barely reached the elevated right-field stands at Angel Stadium.

“It’s probably the biggest one I’ve ever hit so far,” said Moustakas, a Los Angeles native who had dozens of friends and family members in the stands. “It felt really amazing.”

Alcides Escobar had an early RBI double for the Royals, and their bullpen repeatedly escaped trouble in Kansas City’s first game since that spectacular, 12-inning comeback victory over Oakland in the wildcard playoff Tuesday night at Kauffman Stadium.

Game 2 in the best-of-five series is Friday night at the Big A, with Angels 16-game winner Matt Shoemaker taking on fellow rookie Yordano Ventura.

Chris Iannetta and David Freese homered early in the Angels’ first playoff game since 2009, but the majors’ most pro-

BALTIMORE — Nelson Cruz and the Baltimore Orioles had the good fortune of avoiding Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer during the regular season.

Or maybe it was the other way around.

In his 2014 debut against the hard-hitting Orioles, Scherzer found out quickly that a poor pitch can go a long way — in the other direction.

Cruz and J.J. Hardy homered, and Baltimore hammered out 12 hits in defeating Scherzer and the Detroit Tigers on Thursday in the opener of their AL Division Series.

“I just left too many pitches up,” Scherzer said. “This is a greathitting ballclub. You give them a chance to extend their arms, they can really hit it.”

Jonathan Schoop and Alejandro De Aza each had two hits and two RBIs for the Orioles, who turned a close game into a rout with an eight-run eighth inning against Scherzer and three ineffective relievers.

The 12 runs set a postseason record for Baltimore, making its second playoff appearance since 1997.

Game 2 of the best-of-five series is Friday at Camden Yards.

Justin Verlander, the second of three straight Cy Young winners the Orioles will face, is set to go against left-hander Wei-Yin Chen.

Arizona notches upset of Ducks EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Terris Jones-Grisby scored the tiebreaking touchdown with 2:54 left, plowing into the end zone from a yard out, and Arizona stunned Oregon once again with a 31-24 victory Thursday night over the second-ranked Ducks.

True freshman Nick Wilson ran for a pair of touchdowns and caught another for the Wildcats (5-0), who have won their first five games for the first time since 1998. It was the second straight season that an unranked Arizona team upset the Ducks (4-1).

Kenai serve from Beck. Harding and Alexis Baker formed a blocking unit that left the Wolverines scrambling, and a tip from Steinbeck resulted in a Cordova player putting the ball into the net and preserving the shutout.

“That’s exciting for us, to finish in three and have confidence that no matter who I put where, everybody played it eas-

ily,” Beck said.

Cordova was led by senior middle hitter Sarah Hoepfner with five blocks and three kills. Greenwood said she was particularly pleased with the serving by junior setter Katie Bailer.

Kenai will host Seward tonight at 5:30 p.m., before traveling up for a Valley swing next weekend.

Packers blow past Vikings

Royals outlast Angels in 11th

By The Associated Press

Harboring thoughts of a comeback, Cordova staked out an early 8-5 lead in the third set, but Kenai scored five straight points reassert its dominance.

The Kards managed to grow the gap to 19-12 before Cordova coach Janelle Greenwood called a timeout.

With the 15-point challenge in mind, the final point of the third set came down to a

With his team trailing 2414 going into the final quarter, Oregon’s Matt Wogan made a 21-yard field goal. Marcus Mariota then hit Keanon Lowe with a 9-yard scoring pass to tie it with 8:21 left.

With Arizona driving downfield, the Ducks sacked quarterback Anu Solomon on thirdand-8, but Tony Washington was called for unsportsmanlike conduct to give the Wildcats a first down.

A pass interference call got Arizona closer for Jones-Grisby’s go-ahead touchdown.

were going so well in Green Bay that even Peppers found his way to the end zone through the mist.

But something was missing. “’(Burnett)”just said, ‘Go, go, go, go!’” Peppers recounted.

This is all new to Peppers after joining the Packers in the offseason as a free agent.

“It was actually pretty tough to get up there. I was pretty tired after that run, so I barely got up there,” Peppers said. “It was tough.”

The Vikings had it much worse.

The Packers led 28-0 after the first half played in a light rain.

They essentially toyed with Minnesota the rest of the way.

“Green Bay outplayed us,” Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said. “They were more physical than we were. They did a much better job all night.”

Peppers had the highlight-reel play in the second quarter after picking off a pass over the middle from Christian Ponder, who was hit by tackle Luther Robinson as he released the throw.

The 34-year-old Peppers veered left across the field and waited for blocks before striding the final 10 yards along the sideline to make it 21-0 with 7:06 left in the second quarter.

Peppers became the first player in NFL history with 100 sacks and 10 interceptions.

“I like the way it went tonight,” Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. “Yeah, I’ll take this.”

Ponder struggled in getting the start at quarterback with rookie Teddy Bridgewater out with a sprained left ankle.

Jamari Lattimore intercepted Ponder’s pass over the middle on Minnesota’s drive after the Peppers’ touchdown, setting up Rodgers’ 11-yard scoring pass to Davante Adams to give Green Bay a four-touchdown lead with 4:55 left in the first half.

Scoreboard Football NFL Standings AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W Buffalo Miami New England N.Y. Jets South Houston Indianapolis Tennessee Jacksonville North Cincinnati Baltimore Pittsburgh Cleveland West San Diego Denver Kansas City Oakland

L T Pct PF 2 2 0 .500 2 2 0 .500 2 2 0 .500 1 3 0 .250

PA 79 96 80 79

75 97 90 96

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0 .750 87 67 0 .500 136 95 0 .250 60 110 0 .000 58 152

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0 1.000 80 0 .750 103 0 .500 97 0 .333 74

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0 .750 102 63 0 .667 75 67 0 .500 102 79 0 .000 51 103

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE East Philadelphia Dallas N.Y. Giants Washington South Atlanta Carolina New Orleans Tampa Bay North Detroit Green Bay Chicago Minnesota West Arizona Seattle San Francisco St. Louis

3 3 2 1

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Thursday’s Game Green Bay 42, Minnesota 10 Sunday’s Games Cleveland at Tennessee, 9 a.m.

Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 9 a.m.

Houston at Dallas, 9 a.m.

Chicago at Carolina, 9 a.m.

St. Louis at Philadelphia, 9 a.m.

Atlanta at N.Y. Giants, 9 a.m.

Buffalo at Detroit, 9 a.m.

Baltimore at Indianapolis, 9 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Jacksonville, 9 a.m.

Arizona at Denver, 12:05 p.m.

Kansas City at San Francisco, 12:25 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at San Diego, 12:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at New England, 4:30 p.m.

Open: Miami, Oakland Monday’s Game Seattle at Washington, 4:30 p.m.

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Packers 42, Vikings 10 Min. GB

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10—10 0—42

First Quarter GB_Cobb 8 pass from A.Rodgers (Crosby kick), 9:39.

GB_Nelson 66 pass from A.Rodgers (Crosby kick), 5:18.

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Third Quarter GB_Lacy 11 run (Crosby kick), 10:33.

GB_Lacy 10 run (Crosby kick), 3:42.

Fourth Quarter Min_Ponder 6 run (Walsh kick), 14:54.

Min_FG Walsh 26, 10:07.

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Min GB First downs 20 15 Total Net Yards 299 320 Rushes-yards 25-111 28-156 Passing 188 164 Punt Returns 2-9 4-18 Kickoff Returns 5-134 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 1-5 2-59 Comp-Att-Int 22-44-2 15-22-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 6-34 2-14 Punts 7-43.4 6-50.7 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards 9-91 5-30 Time of Possession 32:09 27:51 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Minnesota, Asiata 1572, McKinnon 7-24, Ponder 3-15.

Green Bay, Lacy 13-105, Starks 12-46, Kuhn 2-6, Flynn 1-(minus 1).

PASSING_Minnesota, Ponder 2244-2-222. Green Bay, A.Rodgers 12-17-0-156, Flynn 3-5-1-22.

RECEIVING_Minnesota, Thielen 4-57, Ford 3-31, Wright 3-27, McKinnon 3-22, Jennings 2-31, Banyard 2-11, Patterson 2-8, Gray 1-16, Ellison 1-12, Charle.Johnson 1-7. Green Bay, Cobb 3-34, Lacy 3-27, Quarless 2-19, Janis 2-16, Starks 2-2, Nelson 1-66, D.Adams 1-11, Kuhn 1-3.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

College scores SOUTH Alcorn St. 33, Alabama St. 7 Delta St. 58, Florida Tech 20 FIU 38, FAU 10 Miles 23, Benedict 13 Shorter 27, Miss. College 14 SOUTHWEST UCF 17, Houston 12<

Baseball Playoffs DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5) American League All AL games televised by TBS Baltimore 1, Detroit 0 Thursday, Oct. 2: Baltimore 12, Detroit 3 Friday, Oct. 3: Detroit (Verlander 15-12) at Baltimore (Chen 16-6), 8:07 a.m.

Sunday, Oct. 5: Baltimore (Gonzalez 10-9) at Detroit (Price 15-12), 11:45 a.m.

Kansas 1, Los Angeles 0 Thursday, Oct. 2: Kansas City 3, Los Angeles 2, 11 innings

Friday, Oct. 3: Kansas City (Ventura 14-10) at Los Angeles (Shoemaker 16-4), 5:37 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 5: Los Angeles (Wilson 13-10) at Kansas City (Shields 14-8), 3:37 p.m.

National League Washington vs. San Francisco Friday, Oct. 3: San Francisco (Peavy 7-13) at Washington (Strasburg 14-11) (FS1), 11:07 a.m.

Saturday, Oct. 4: San Francisco (Hudson 9-13) at Washington (Zimmermann 14-5) (FS1), 1:37 p.m.

Los Angeles vs. St. Louis Friday, Oct. 3: St. Louis (Wainwright 20-9) at Los Angeles (Kershaw 21-3) (FS1), 2:37 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 4: St. Louis (Lynn 15-10) at Los Angeles (Greinke 17-8) (MLBN), 5:37 p.m.

All Times ADT

Hockey NHL Preseason

Thursday’s Games Washington 3, Philadelphia 2, SO New Jersey 2, N.Y. Islanders 1, SO Los Angeles 2, Colorado 1, SO Tampa Bay 3, Florida 0 St. Louis 4, Minnesota 1 Calgary 4, Winnipeg 2 Vancouver 2, Edmonton 1 Friday’s Games Buffalo at Carolina, 3 p.m.

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

Montreal at Ottawa, 3:30 p.m.

Detroit at Toronto, 3:30 p.m.

Boston vs. N.Y. Islanders at Bridgeport, CT, 3:30 p.m.

San Jose at Arizona, 6 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Detroit at Boston, 1:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Montreal, 3 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at New Jersey, 3 p.m.

Florida at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m.

Nashville at Columbus, 3 p.m.

St. Louis at Minnesota, 4 p.m.

Calgary at Winnipeg, 4 p.m.

San Jose at Anaheim, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

Colorado vs. Los Angeles at Las Vegas, NV, 6 p.m.

All Times ADT

Soccer MLS Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE

W D.C. 15 New England 14 S. Kansas City 13 Columbus 11 New York 10 Toronto FC 11 Philadelphia 9 Houston 10 Chicago 5

L T 9 6 13 3 11 6 9 10 9 11 11 7 10 12 13 6 8 17

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WESTERN CONFERENCE x-Seattle 18 9 3 57 x-Los Angeles 16 5 9 57 Real Salt Lake 13 7 10 49 FC Dallas 14 10 6 48 Vancouver 9 8 13 40 Portland 9 9 12 39 Colorado 8 14 8 32 San Jose 6 12 11 29 Chivas USA 6 18 6 24 NOTE: Three points for victory, for tie. x- clinched playoff berth

57 46 63 31 50 38 52 40 38 40 54 51 41 54 34 42 25 58 one point

Thursday’s Games Philadelphia 1, Chicago 1, tie Friday’s Games Sporting Kansas City at D.C. United, 4 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Houston at New York, 2 p.m.

FC Dallas at Vancouver, 3 p.m.

Columbus at New England, 3:30 p.m.

Toronto FC at Los Angeles, 6:30 p.m.

Portland at San Jose, 7 p.m.

All Times ADT

Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Signed a two-year extension of their player development contract with Lowell (NYP) through the 2016 season.

TEXAS RANGERS — Claimed RHP Alfredo Figaro off waivers from Milwaukee. Designated RHP Wilmer Font for assignment.

National League NEW YORK METS — Announced hitting coach Lamar Johnson and assistant hitting coach Luis Natera will not return to their positions in 2015 and have been offered positions within the minor league system. Announced the resignation of major league strength and conditioning coach Jim Malone.

Announced strength and conditioning consultant Mike Barwis will oversee all major league and minor league strength and conditioning.

FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Signed G Conor Boffeli and WR Rashad Ross to the practice squad. Terminated the practice squad contract of CB Jordan Sullen.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed DT Luther Robinson from the practice squad MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed QB Chandler Harnish to the practice squad. Released WR Rodney Smith.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Placed WR Rod Streater on the injured reserve/return list.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned G Louis Domingue, D Andrew Campbell, D Brandon Gormley, F Lucas Lessio, F Tobias Rieder and F Jordan Szwarz to Portland (AHL) and F Max Domi to London (OHL).

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Placed C Jordan Staal on injured reserve. Assigned F Phil Di Giuseppe, F Brock McGinn, F Carter Sandlak, F Brody Sutter, F Brendan Woods and D Danny Biega to Charlotte (AHL). Waived G Drew MacIntyre, D Michal Jordan and D Rasmus Rissanen.

Sent D Haydn Fleury to Red Deer (WHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Assigned F Ryan Hartman to Rockford (AHL). Recalled D Klas Dahlbeck from Rockford.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Assigned F Simon Hjarlmarsson and G Oscar Dansk to Springfield (AHL). Waived F Dana Tyrell.

DALLAS STARS — Assigned C Travis Morin and G Jussi Rynnas to Texas (AHL). Signed D Brenden Dillon to a one-year contract.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned F Andreas Athanasiou, F Colin Campbell, F Martin Frk, D Mattias Backman, D Richard Nedomlel and D Ryan Sproul to Grand Rapids (AHL) and Joe Hicketts to Victoria (WHL). Released F Shane Berschbach, F Alden Hirschfeld and F Mark Zengerle.

MINNESOTA WILD — Claimed D Nate Prosser off waivers from St. Louis.

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Assigned F Sven Andrighetto, F Jake Dowell, F Gabriel Dumont, D Davis Drewiske and D Greg Pateryn to Hamilton (AHL). Agreed to terms with F Drayson Bowman on a one-year contract.

OTTAWA SENATORS — Signed F Bobby Ryan to a seven-year contract extension.

THOROUGHBRED RACING NEW YORK STATE GAMING COMMISSION — Suspended trainer Doug O’Neill 45 days — Nov. 3-Dec. 18 — and him fined $10,000 by the after one of his horses tested positive for a banned substance after a race at Belmont Park in June 2013.

COLEGE BROWN — Named Lindsay Berman women’s assistant ice hockey coach.

DELAWARE — Named Sarah Maulorico assistant softball coach.

MISSOURI — Suspended Dave Reiter assistant athletic director for strategic communications indefinitely after he was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated.

MONTCLAIR STATE — Announced the retirement of men’s basketball coach Ted Fiore.

Named Daren Rowe interim men’s basketball coach.

OAKLAND — Named Chris Meny assistant athletic director for athletic performance.

OHIO STATE — Dismissed women’s basketball G Raven Ferguson for a violation of team rules.

SAINT JOSEPH’S — Named Jen Mineau assistant softball coach

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try high school careers.

“Jordan and Jonah have been a huge impact since their freshman year,” Ostrander said.

This year looks to be a repeat, as the Theisens have dominated the majority of local Kenai Peninsula Borough races, and have racked up top-five finishes in statewide events.

Jonah has gotten the better of his brother in most of the races, beating him at last week’s Region III meet by 44 seconds to place second.

The only obstacle keeping either of them from winning a state title outright has been Kodiak phenom Levi Thomet, who has been a thorn in the side of most of the state’s top boys runners.

Thomet ran a blistering 15:10.8 at Bartlett last year, and comes into this year’s meet looking even stronger after breaking Kodiak’s Bear Valley Golf Course record by 36 seconds with a time of 16:03.

If the Kenai boys are looking for an upset, the runners deeper in the pack will need big days, runners such as seniors Travis Cooper and Ian Ashley, freshman Karl Danielson, junior James Butler and sophomore Tristan Landry. Cooper placed eighth at last week’s Region III meet.

“I think a top six in state is within their reach,” Ostrander said. “That means everybody has to race to their potential.

The way our team stacks up with such a big gap in the middle between the top and bottom runners, it’s gonna be harder to do.”

The Kenai girls squad finished sixth in the team standings the last time they competed in 2011. This year, the team will be led by Ostrander,

but will be supported by an emerging class of talented freshman.

Riana Boonstra, Ithaca Ann Bergholtz, Addison Gibson and Kasey Paxton comprise the freshman class on the varsity team, and along with senior Alex Bergholtz and sophomores Mackenzie Lindeman and Katie Cooper should provide a massive boost in the team standings.

Boonstra finished sixth at last week’s Region III meet and the younger Bergholtz was ninth. Teri Ostrander said she believes her girls team is capable of a top-five finish.

Ostrander also said the weekly mileage that the top runners on the team are getting in practice has been brought down to 20 to 25 miles, down from a peak of about 50 miles a week earlier in the season, and added that the workouts have been downgraded to about 75 minutes of practice, also down from the typical range of two hours or more.

“We’ve continued to train how we were training the week of regions,” she said. “You want to taper a bit, but we’re training for a 5K race, it’s not high mileage.”

Ostrander said the entire girls varsity team making the cut was special not only because it had been three years since the last time it happened, but also because Allie will be able to share the moment with a full team out on the trails, something she has had to do alone the past two seasons.

“I think that for her, when you go alone, you warm up alone, you figure out race strategy alone, it’s been a very solitary experience,” Ostrander said about her daughter.

“The social event ... for her, that’s huge.”

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enters the state meet as one of the favorites, after tying with Colony as region champs last week, and losing on the tiebreaker, and finishing second in the team battle last year to West Anchorage.

SoHi coach Ted McKenney said there are three teams that look like the favorites to claim the team championship; West, Colony and Soldotna.

“It just depends on how it pans out,” McKenney said.

“We’ll see who places well, and where the other teams fit in between our racers.”

If the Stars can pull it off, it would be the first time ever that a SoHi girls team won the state championship, and the first SoHi team to win since the Soldotna boys won three in a row from 1999 to 2001.

“They have the heart, they have the vision, there’s five good girls here,” McKenney said.

Leading the charge is junior Olivia Hutchings, who is coming off a runner-up finish at last week’s Region III meet.

With Ostrander expected to leave the 4A girls field in her dust, it leaves Hutchings with a prime opportunity to take runner-up honors. Last year, Hutchings was fourth.

“Olivia definitely has a great chance for second,” McKenney said. “Allie’s in a different class altogether, but Olivia meets every challenge that comes her way.”

Seniors Dani McCormick and Sadie Fox have backed Hutchings up well in 2014, as the pair finished fifth and 15th, respectively, last week.

Both runners have the chance to close out successful high school careers with a flourish.

“Sadie’s just a hard worker, and Dani has good leadership,” McKenney said.

Junior Daisy Nelson placed

10th last week, bridging the gap between the two seniors.

Sophomore Molly Erickson, junior Emily Werner and freshman Kellie Arthur are also making the trip on the state team.

The Soldotna boys missed the cut to state as a team, but junior Aaron Swedberg proved fast enough to do it on his own, finishing seventh last week to become the lone member. Any individuals that place in the top 15 not already on a statebound team qualify.

Coach McKenney said he told his boys squad last week to stick around the 13th- to 16th-place spots during the race, then try to move up as the race draws closer to the end. McKenney said Swedberg did just that and more.

“For Aaron to run seventh in regions is outstanding,” McKenney said. “There’s so much competition in Kodiak, so that’s getting into elite company.

“The pressure is off of him, there’s no team to protect, it’s just go out and do it again.”

HOMER MARINERS Both teams made the cut to the Class 1-2-3A state meet for the third year in a row, and there may be even greater things in store once they get there.

The Homer girls squad has a golden opportunity to break a six-year stranglehold by Grace Christian on the team title.

Homer finished second to Grace at last year’s state meet, but the Mariners claimed last week’s 3A team title over Grace with a winning low score of 35 points, 15 better than Grace.

The Homer girls have not won a cross-country team championship since 1990, the last of a three-year streak the Mariners put together. To put it in even greater perspective, the

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“I’m cautiously optimistic about our girls,” said Homer coach Bill Steyer. “There’s a good chance of winning state, we just have to execute a good race and not have any issues. If that’s the case, we hope to fulfill our mission.”

Sophomore Megan Pitzman leads the charge of the Mariners, coming off a nine-second Region III victory over her runner-up teammate, junior Molly Mitchell.

Freshman Alex Mosley was seventh in 21:24, junior Aurora Waclawski was 12th, and junior Ziza Shemet-Pitcher was 13th.

Sophomores Lauren Evarts and Haley Knott add supporting depth on the state team.

The only obstacle standing in the way of a individual winner for Homer is ace runner Briahna Gerlach, a sophomore from Glennallen. Gerlach won last week’s Region II championship with a time of 18:24.8.

At the Palmer Invite in early September, Gerlach ran an 18:17, third-fastest of the year, behind only Ostrander and Hutchings.

“I don’t think (Megan is) at the level of Briana,” Steyer said. “She’s pretty impressive, I think she’s the second best in the state, but Megan’s not quite there yet.”

The Homer boys qualified to state on the back of a thirdplace region result.

Sophomore Jared Brant finished fifth in 18:21, Jordan Beachy was eighth in 18:36, Jacob Davis was 15th, and senior Brandon Beachy was 20th.

“We’re targeting some other teams,” Steyer said. “I think winning state is a stretch, but they have a shot at second. They would have to have really good races across the board.”

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Nikolaevsk juniors Greg Trail and Jonah Fefelov also qualified for state with results of second and fifth, respectively, at the Region II meet in Talkeetna.

SEWARD SEAHAWKS Seward’s strong history in the sport of running is continuing to pay off, as the Seward boys enter as the Region III champs, having knocked off Grace Christian with 38 points in Kodiak last weekend, better than the 62 points for Grace.

The Seahawks are gunning for a 13th team title in the school’s history, and the first since the Seward girls won in 2007.

The Seward boys last won a team title a decade ago, when Matt Adams led the team with an individual victory in 2004.

Since then, Miles Knotek has been the only victor on the boys side with an individual win in 2011.

Sophomore Hunter Kratz finished second last week with a time of 17:57, while senior teammate Michael Marshall was third in 18:11. Seth Brewi, Thomas Zweifel, Paxson Berry, Brandon Moore and Dylan Gillespie will join them as varsity runners.

On the girls side, freshman Ruby Lindquist took third in 20:55 to lead Seward to a runner-up result in the team standings behind Homer. Brook Wedin was fifth and senior Alice Pfeiffenberger placed ninth to add valuable points.

Freshmen Ashley Guernsey and EmmaLee Moore, senior Josephine Braun and junior Iris Anderson make up the remainder of the team.

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Northern Lights Conference League Overall

W L Pct. W L Pct. Soldotna 2 0 1.000 6 0 1.000 Kenai 2 0 1.000 3 3 .500 Kodiak 1 2 .333 4 4 .500 Homer 0 3 .000 2 5 .285 Week 7

Kodiak 26, Houston 12 Kenai 41, Homer 6 Soldotna 67, West Valley 30

Week 8 Kodiak at Voznesenka, 4 p.m. Thursday Kenai at Soldotna, 2 p.m. Saturday Houston at Homer, 3 p.m. Saturday Greatland Conference League Overall

W L Pct. W L Pct. Eielson 5 0 1.000 6 0 1.000 Nikiski 4 1 .800 5 1 .833 Seward 4 1 .800 5 2 .714 Barrow 3 2 .600 3 4 .428 Valdez 1 4 .200 1 6 .142 Monroe 1 4 .200 1 5 .166 Voznesenka 0 6 .000 0 7 .000 Week 7

Seward 42, Voznesenka 6 Nikiski 57, Barrow 12 Eielson 68, Valdez 8

Week 8 Kodiak 65, Voznesenka 0 Valdez at Monroe Catholic, 1 p.m. Saturday Barrow at Eielson, 1 p.m. Saturday Nikiski at Seward, 2 p.m. Saturday

Peninsula high school football stats Through Sept. 27 Reported games only TEAM OFFENSE Team G 1. Nikiski 6 2. Soldotna 6 3. Kenai 6 4. Homer 5

Pts Rsh Pas Tot 268 2037 966 3003 314 2191 586 2777 172 1756 141 1897 70 501 500 1001

TEAM DEFENSE Team G Pts Rsh Pas 1. Kenai 6 89 525 616 2. Soldotna 6 42 615 537 3. Nikiski 6 83 919 528 4. Homer 5 178 1334 227

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PASSING YARDAGE LEADERS Name, school G Com Att Yds TD Int 1. Anderson, Nik 6 47 79 956 11 1 2. Furlong, Sol 6 33 52 586 11 0 3. Hutt, Hom 5 34 78 500 4 5 4. Baker, Ken 6 16 60 141 4 3 5. Johnson, Nik 3 1 3 10 0 0 6. Blumentritt, Sol 1 0 1 0 0 0 7. Gibbs, Sol 1 0 1 0 0 0 RUSHING YARDAGE LEADERS Name, school G Att Yds Avg TD Logan, Ken 6 141 1041 7.4 9 Riddall, Nik 6 66 903 13.7 16 Gibbs, Sol 6 76 775 10.2 14 Fenton, Sol 5 39 510 13.1 3 Foree, Ken 6 74 433 5.8 5 Castro, Nik 5 33 364 11.0 4 Chavez, Sol 6 26 298 11.5 3 Broussard, Nik 5 27 295 10.9 2 Fisk, Hom 5 50 271 5.4 4 Blumentritt, Sol 6 25 257 10.3 5 Prior, Sol 5 17 154 9.0 2 Cooper, Nik 4 20 132 6.6 1 Welborn, Ken 6 31 128 4.1 4 Hutt, Hom 5 61 113 1.8 0 Johnson, Nik 1 10 108 10.8 0 Jackson, Nik 4 9 101 11.2 1 Winter, Sol 2 10 71 7.1 0 Hill, Hom 3 16 65 4.1 0 Baker, Ken 5 22 60 2.7 0 Carstens, Nik 2 7 53 7.6 1 Gillies, Ken 3 9 48 5.3 0 Furlong, Sol 6 31 40 1.3 3 Ackerman, Sol 3 6 34 5.7 0 Seay, Hom 2 6 32 5.3 0 Jones, Sol 3 7 31 4.4 0 Holloway, Nik 1 3 26 8.7 0 Perry, Nik 2 5 20 4.0 0 Swoboda, Hom 2 9 18 2.0 1 Smith, Nik 1 1 15 15.0 0 R. Riddall, Nik 1 2 14 7.0 0 Tuttle, Ken 1 3 14 4.7 0 Urban, Sol 2 5 13 2.6 1 Streiff, Ken 1 3 12 4.0 1 Cutsforth, Nik 1 3 8 2.6 0 Lueth, Hom 2 3 7 2.3 0 Lowe, Hom 1 2 5 2.5 0 Harshfield, Hom 1 1 4 4.0 0 Randall, Ken 1 1 3 3.0 0 Anderson, Nik 5 7 0 0.0 0 Kallelid, Hom 1 1 0 0.0 0 Hollinger, Nik 1 1 -2 -2.0 0

RECEIVING YARDAGE LEADERS Name, school G Rec Yds Holloway, Nik 5 17 403 Broussard, Nik 5 8 206 Blumentritt, Sol 3 5 173 Duke, Sol 4 7 149 Carstens, Nik 4 8 149 Riddall, Nik 4 6 127 Fisk, Hom 3 9 123 Chavez, Sol 1 3 95 McKenna, Hom 4 5 94 Seay, Hom 4 5 92 Fowler, Sol 3 5 88 Gillies, Ken 5 6 68 Swoboda, Hom 3 5 66 Walden, Sol 4 6 65 Gibbs, Sol 2 2 53 Lowe, Hom 3 3 47 Cooper, Nik 2 4 46 Cotney, Hom 1 2 34 Foree, Ken 3 5 32 Croft, Hom 1 3 30 Logan, Ken 4 4 27 Fenton, Sol 1 1 24 Hill, Hom 1 1 22 Johnson, Nik 1 1 20 Ackerman, Sol 1 1 20 Jones, Sol 1 3 18 Randall, Ken 1 1 14 Cutsforth, Nik 1 1 10 Castro, Nik 2 2 6 Alborn, Hom 1 1 -8

Avg TD 23.7 5 25.7 3 34.6 1 21.3 2 18.6 0 21.2 2 13.6 1 31.7 2 18.8 1 18.4 1 17.6 2 11.3 3 13.2 0 10.8 2 26.5 1 15.6 1 11.5 1 17.0 0 6.4 1 10.0 0 6.7 0 24.0 1 22.0 0 20.0 0 20.0 0 6.0 0 14.0 0 10.0 0 3.0 0 -8.0 0

SCORING LEADERS Player, school TD FG PAT2 PAT1 Pts Riddall, Nik 18 0 2 0 112 Gibbs, Sol 16 0 0 0 96 Logan, Ken 9 0 0 0 54 Foree, Ken 6 0 1 0 38 Blumentritt, Sol 6 0 1 0 38 Fisk, Hom 5 0 1 0 32 Broussard, Nik 5 0 0 1 31 Chavez, Sol 5 0 0 0 30 Holloway, Nik 5 0 0 0 30 Castro, Nik 4 0 0 0 24 Fenton, Sol 4 0 0 0 24 Duke, Sol 4 0 0 0 24 Vest, Ken 0 2 0 18 24 Welborn, Ken 4 0 0 0 24 Johnson, Nik 3 0 0 0 18 Gillies, Ken 3 0 0 0 18 Jones, Sol 0 1 0 15 18 Furlong, Sol 3 0 0 0 18 Ackerman, Sol 0 1 0 15 18 Jackson, Nik 1 0 0 11 17 Walden, Sol 2 0 1 0 14 Fowler, Sol 2 0 1 0 14 Prior, Sol 2 0 1 0 14 Seay, Hom 2 0 0 0 12 Carstens, Nik 1 0 3 0 12 Cooper, Nik 2 0 0 0 12 L. Broussard, Nik 0 2 0 2 8 Swoboda, Hom 1 0 1 0 8 McKenna, Hom 1 0 0 0 6 Streiff, Ken 1 0 0 0 6 Lowe, Hom 1 0 0 0 6 Baker, Ken 1 0 0 0 6 Urban, Sol 1 0 0 0 6 Hutt, Hom 0 0 2 0 4 Hill, Hom 0 0 1 0 2 Creighton, Ken 0 0 0 1 1 Jackman, Ken 0 0 0 1 1

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Anchorage and Grant Aviation a ton of thanks for giving her driving time off here and there.

In Zack’s mind, the reason for all the travel was clear. He wanted to be a Kenai River Brown Bear, the North American Hockey League team that started play in Soldotna in 2007.

“The Kenai River Brown Bears — that was his team,” Lisa said. “He wanted to be a part of it since he was a little kid the year the Brown Bears started.

“The kids that made the team locally were his heroes. That’s what he tried to build his world around.”

At 16, Zulkanycz was affiliated by the team. He never played in a Brown Bears game while in high school, but he practiced with the team and helped out in the locker room.

No task was too tough or boring for him.

“If something needed to be done, I made sure it got done,” he said. “It was just great to be a part of it, really.”

Oliver David was the Brown Bears head coach at the time, and in an odd twist of fate he is an assistant with the Saints now.

To hear Zulkanycz tell it, to say David was not that appreciative of Zulkanycz’s efforts is an understatement.

“He used to rip on me all the time,” Zulkanycz said. “At one point, I used to be a lot chubbier. He’d make fun of me as this little fat kid who thinks he’s going to play junior hockey.

“It pissed me off. I was going to prove this guy wrong.”

David and Zulkanycz maintain a friendly relationship to this day. David said he doesn’t remember saying those things to Zulkanycz, but adds there’s

2014 playoffs will have a strikingly similar look to the 2013 playoffs.

The Greatland Conference of the small-schools division has also been decided. The four schools? Eielson, Nikiski, Barrow and Seward.

Let’s take a closer look at each matchup in the final week of the regular season: Kenai Central (3-3) at Soldotna (6-0), 2 p.m. Saturday The Stars and Kards will face each other for the 40th edition of their once-a-year battle Saturday at the revamped Justin Maile Field at Soldotna High School.

In the 34 years that the two teams have been playing each other, Soldotna has claimed a 23-16 edge, including playoff games.

Soldotna coach Galen Brantley Jr. has attended many of those games in person, either as a coach on the sideline or a player on the field.

“Gosh, there’s been so many good games,” Brantley Jr. said when asked which contest he remembers most vividly. “It’s tough to pick just one. Every year is great, I really enjoy it, especially just the good-natured competitiveness of it.”

Kenai began the longtime friendly rivalry with a 32-0 victory in 1980, en route to winning the Northern Lights Conference championship that season. Kenai went on to take the first four games between the two schools, but Soldotna stopped that streak with a 40-6 victory in 1983, the same year the Stars won their first NLC title.

In the intervening years since, the Stars have emerged with 19 NLC titles, while Kenai has claimed eight. Palmer, Colony and Wasilla have won the other six.

In the previous 39 games, the total overall score is SoHi 947, Kenai 529. SoHi has shut out Kenai 11 times, while Kenai has shut out SoHi seven times.

Soldotna has won the last eight regular-season matchups against Kenai (the most recent Kenai win was a 37-0 contest in 2005), but the Kards got the better of the Stars in the 2011 medium-schools state semifinals, a game in which they topped SoHi 28-12.

It’s also the game that Kenai coach John Marquez looks back on most fondly.

“We had just played them at the end of the year on our turf, and they beat us pretty good,” Marquez recalled. “We had to turn around and go to their place, and to see the same kids from a week earlier, we just refused to lose.”

Marquez said the Kards made several offensive adjustments that year to knock off the Stars en

no denying what Zulkanycz got out of those conversations.

“What I think I would have been doing with a player like him is getting him in the right frame of mind,” David said. “Being from the Peninsula, he may not have known how to line up his dreams and put in the type of work it takes for a small-town kid to make it in this game.”

After a high-scoring career at Kenai Central, Zulkanycz did prove David wrong when he made the Brown Bears his first year out of high school.

Zulkanycz said he learned a valuable lesson early that season when David told him each player has a role, and for many players that role isn’t concentrating on scoring goals.

“That first year, I decided I was going to be an energy forward, a power forward that gets in there and bangs bodies and goes hard to the net,” Zulkanycz said. “It’s what (general manager) Nate Kiel called the Brown Bears identity — tough and in your face, no one wants to play against you.”

In the 2012-13 season, Zulkanycz scored six goals, had 13 assists and was a minus-4 in 51 games.

After that season, David left to become an assistant in Dubuque, and Geoff Beauparlant became coach of the Brown Bears.

Beauparlant had actually coached against Zulkanycz in his Midget days in Anchorage and quickly came to appreciate the unique energy the local product brought to the team.

“He brings a special energy and a willingness to compete every single shift that is unparalleled in junior hockey,” Beauparlant said.

At first, Beauparlant thought Zulkanycz might bring too much energy.

“I was taken aback with how much energy he brought to the bench and I actually talked with him about toning it down,” Beauparlant said. “As the

route to the first medium-schools state championship.

“We didn’t have a shot by any odds,” Marquez said. “You can take that game to Vegas, we weren’t gonna win.

“It was just a combination of our athletes’ resiliency, and we made less mistakes that game.”

This year’s highly anticipated game between the Kards and the Stars will have playoff implications on the line once again. The winner takes the Northern Lights Conference crown and the top seed.

Both teams hold 2-0 marks in the NLC, and with this year’s playoffs holding only two weeks of action, no postseason games will be held at home for any team. Next week’s semifinals will be played in Anchorage.

In Brantley’s mind, the two seeds from the Southeast Conference — Juneau and North Pole — are so evenly matched that it does not matter which team the Stars face in the semifinal round.

“The biggest thing to keep in mind is keeping things in perspective,” Brantley Jr. said about preparing for the season finale.

“Win or lose, it doesn’t change our futures.”

With no real advantage, the only thing on the line in Saturday’s game is pride ... and a 26-game winning streak that the Stars currently hold.

It’s a streak that Kenai is hoping to break.

“I respect Brantley, those kids do not know how to lose,” Marquez said. “They’ve never felt that, and because of that, they’re just calm all the time.

“All that said, it goes out the window for us.”

Brantley Jr. said it will come down to the trenches — moving the ball effectively on the ground.

“My suggestion is get there early,” Brantley Jr. said. “With both teams running the ball, time’s gonna go away quick.”

Both schools feature a formidable stable of backs that can make big gains on the ground.

For SoHi, it’s Drew Gibbs, Ty Fenton and Jared Chavez. For Kenai, it’s Chase Logan, Kyle Foree and Andrew Welborn.

Marquez echoed his fellow coach and repeated that the Kardinals defense is focused on containing — but not fully stopping — the SoHi offense.

“Listen, you’re not gonna stop them completely,” Marquez said.

“You can slow them down, try to keep their offense off the field, but we gotta have good ball control and clock management on our side.”

Marquez added that Kenai will receive a boost on both sides of the ball with the return of linebacker Zach Koziczkowski, who has been sidelined for three weeks with an injury.

Soldotna is hoping to see the return of receiver and special teams player Tim Duke, who suffered a leg injury last week against West Valley. Brantley Jr. said he is a game-time decision.

‘He has a passion. I know it sounds cliche, but he has a passion.

He knows what he’s feeling. He knows what he’s after. He loves to play hockey. He loves everything surrounding hockey. He loves the locker room, he loves watching hockey and he loves talking hockey. He is in love with hockey.’

— Oliver David, Fighting Saints assistant season progressed, I realized that’s who Zack is.

“It’s important that you remain true to yourself and that endears him to coaching staffs quickly.”

David also said Zulkanycz’s energy stands out, and it is that energy that has allowed him to make leaps in his playing ability each season.

“He has a passion. I know it sounds cliche, but he has a passion,” David said. “He knows what he’s feeling.

He knows what he’s after. He loves to play hockey.

“He loves everything surrounding hockey. He loves the locker room, he loves watching hockey and he loves talking hockey. He is in love with hockey.”

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Both teams are 4-1 in the conference. Eielson currently leads the standings with a 5-0 record and is in great position to claim the Greatland crown with a win over Barrow this weekend.

Seward clinched its first playoff spot since 2004 with a Thursday night victory over Voznesenka over a week ago, and can lock up home-field advantage with a win over Nikiski.

Of course, that is easier said than done.

“The last four years being at home, fighting for a state title, we’ve won that home game,” said Nikiski coach Ted Riddall.

“We’ve got some success built around it.”

The Bulldogs have won the small-schools state championship twice in the last three years, and have hosted playoff games in Nikiski all three years.

But Riddall is not counting out a small team like Seward, which has experienced a renaissance in performance this year.

“I think they have a little more support over there than recent years,” Riddall said. “In the past, they’ve had difficulty with support around the team, so now I think that’s really changing.

Whenever we play them, they play us tough no matter the record.

“They’ll probably bring the whole town.”

The rise of Seward also brings to mind the old rivalries that the two schools used to have in the past, says Riddall.

Before the advent of the small-schools category in the state of Alaska in 2000, Seward and Nikiski fought each other in an unsanctioned conference, a bit of a prelude to the current Greatland Conference, beginning in 1996. Glennallen and Houston also featured teams in the first edition of the GLC. The first few years saw Nikiski and Seward engage in tough games that brought together the best of what the sport had to offer.

Riddall did not join the Bulldogs until the later two years of that period, and Nikiski will also be challenged to beat Seward without its head coach on the sideline this time around as well.

But it’s for a good reason.

Riddall said he is traveling to Washington this weekend to his former college, Pacific Lutheran University, where he will be inducted into the school football hall of fame.

“It’s a really cool deal, so I couldn’t pass that up,” Riddall said.

As an outside linebacker from 1991 through 1994, Riddall racked up a school-record 41 sacks, including a single-season record of 21 in 1993. In that same

you can become a Brown Bear and move on to higher levels,” the coach said.

Beauparlant also tried to get Zulkanycz to be more of an offensive player, and he improved to seven goals, 16 assists and a plus-12 in 51 games.

“Geoff wanted me to take more of an offensive role, a top-six forward role,” Zulkanycz said. “Obviously, that’s not a role I’ve played, but I produced more offense. A blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while, right?”

That improved offensive ability, which also came from shooting a lot of pucks with Vince Redford at the Kenai Multipurpose Facility in the summer, came in handy when Zulkanycz was invited to the Saints main camp this summer.

Even though David used to coach Zulkanycz, he said he doesn’t make personnel decisions as a Saints assistant. He said his only role was to give Zulkanycz a chance.

USHL teams are only allowed to keep four 20-year-olds, so as a 20-year-old Zulkanycz faced steeper odds than many of the 150 in camp.

But David did say Zulkanycz is the type of player the Saints made several attempts at developing last season, but failed.

“He executed in camp and did the little things,” David said. “He got pucks deep, he stopped at the net, he didn’t turn the puck over, he didn’t overhandle the puck, he supported his teammates, backchecked, blocked shots and was vocal on the bench.

“The guys rallied around him.”

Zulkanycz was invited to training camp, where he would eventually survive cuts from 31 players all the way down to 23.

“When I got the invite to main camp, I thought, ‘I’m 20 years old playing against a bunch of little kids.’

span, Riddall was a part of three championship appearances, winning one of them.

“A lot of what I do as a coach comes from there,” Riddall said.

Nikiski will be under the guidance of former head coach and current offensive coordinator Scott Anderson.

Riddall said both he and Anderson know what to look for when playing Seward. The Seahawks run a traditional wishbone offense, which should provide a nice complement to Nikiski’s Wing-T offense.

“They run that wishbone pretty well,” Riddall said.

“We’ve got our work cut out for us. We just got to be able to stay in the gaps and stay in, take on your own blocker, and we gotta play well.

“The Wing-T offense has won numerous state championships.

Bartlett’s doing well and they’re bringing it back. You just look at it and there’s a reason teams use it.”

A two-way tie will be decided by head-to-head matchups, should either team rise or fall to Eielson or Barrow’s season record after Saturday’s pair of games.

Houston (1-4) at Homer (2-5), 3 p.m. Saturday With nothing on the line as far as playoff positioning, it may look like the Mariners have nothing for which to play.

But there is one thing missing that the team has yet to do.

Win a home game on the new turf.

“The most important thing is to get our guys out here, get the win but have fun,” said Homer coach Josh Fraley. “We want to get our seniors out there, play and have fun.”

It will be the third game on the new turf, and with 10 seniors on the roster, Fraley said now is as good as time as any to get the players game-time experience.

The game is also Homer’s homecoming celebration.

“This particular group of guys are excited,” Fraley said.

“Most of them knew what a rough time we had last year, with the games we played against Lathrop and Palmer. It was brutal.

“But this is a good homecoming matchup.”

Fraley said the offense that the Hawks utilize is similar to that of Kenai, a team that Homer saw last week. Because of the similarities in the offensive schemes, Fraley said he is hoping for an easier time than what the Mariners experienced in the 41-6 loss against the Kards.

“Our tackling has been horrendous the last couple weeks, but we’ve put in a lot of work in that,” Fraley said. “We want to be fundamentally sound, that’s been a point of emphasis. Just limit turnovers and penalties, unlike last week.”

“All these kids are 16, 17, 18, 19 years old. I’ve been doing this for three years. It’s a mindset thing.”

When he came home from main camp, Zulkanycz worked out four days a week, plus was at the rink nearly every day, to get ready for training camp.

“Coach (Matt) Shaw told me he really liked the way I played, but knows there is more in me,” Zulkanycz said.

“He told me to go home this summer and come back more of an animal.”

Now that he has the team made, Zulkanycz is not going to get complacent thinking he has a permanent spot on the team, or a Division I scholarship, wrapped up.

“I’m going to take it one day at a time,” he said. “I have to get better each day because if you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse.

“Sixty games plus practice is not easy on the body. I have to stay healthy and stay in good shape.”

David said players that stick with the Saints get Division I scholarships.

He said the team typically gets 20 NHL and college scouts at each game.

“It’s fairly logical,” David said. “If you are playing in the USHL for a season, you’re playing against potential first-round draft picks and players that have been already drafted.

“In the entire league, every single team has 12 to 18 players already committed to college. If you are playing in the USHL, there’s no guesswork about if your game will translate to the speed of the next level.”

In addition to coaching Zulkanycz, David said he will keep pulling for him due to their history together.

“He’s the story you hope for, for every kid,” David said. “He’s what junior hockey is. Zack Zulkanycz is the junior hockey story.

“It’s why you do it after high school instead of going straight to college.”

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or reasons that defy logic, as most things about fishing do, we anglers prefer not to angle close to home. We relish traveling long distances, often at great pain and expense, to places where the fishing is usually no better than it is in our backyards.

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Bank fishermen seem compelled to cast 200 feet when there are fish right under their noses. A dedicated “bankie” will risk his life trying to cross deep, swift water in chest waders or hip boots, anything to get to the other side, where the fishing is always better.

People who live along the Kenai River often have a perfect fishing hole within a few steps of their house, but you won’t catch them fishing there. They’re out in their boats, eyes squinted against stinging rain, a grimace of a grin frozen on their chapped faces. Ask them whey they subject themselves to such abuse, and they’ll say, “Gotta get to the good hole.”

An angler’s urge to get the the “good hole” is stronger than a salmon’s urge to spawn. If you don’t think so, think back to any recent fishing trip. Too painful for you? Then consider one of mine.

In September, I got a phone call from Myron Mickey, alias “Captain Mick,” an old friend and Kenai River guide.

“Hey, Les,” Mick said, “How’d you like to go fishing in the morning?”

“Just tell me where and when,” I replied, reluctantly.

“Meet me at Big Eddy at 5 a.m., he said.

“Why so early?”

“Gotta get to the good hole.”

A few seconds after I went to sleep, the alarm went off. I fell out of bed, grabbed a peanut butterand-jam sandwich and a thermos of coffee, and headed my car in the general direction of Big Eddy, a 13-mile drive from my home in Sterling. I got to Big Eddy at almost the same time Mick did.

Bundled up like ice fishermen, we soon had the boat loaded, and we shoved off into the icy blackness, engine at “dead slow,” bound down the Kenai for Eagle Rock, some three miles away. The only light was from stars.

“How do you see to steer?” I said toward the blackness at the stern of the boat.

“Who sees?” Mick said. “I steer by sound. When I hear tree branches scraping one side, I steer toward the other.”

“I suppose you know when you’re about to hit a gravel bar by the grinding sound the prop makes as it destroys itself on the bottom.”

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In this photo taken Sept. 30, a pair of trumpeter swans prepare to land on open water in Potter Marsh in Anchorage, Alaska. Hundreds of swans stop to feed at the marsh every autumn on their annual migration south.

Gustavus-grown scientist returns via kayak

By MARY CATHARINE MARTIN Morris News Service-Alaska/Juneau Empire

A Gustavus-grown scientist recently completed a 2,000 mile journey by foot and kayak from Stanford, California to Southeast Alaska, aiming to raise money for a science institute he plans at the Inian Islands location known as “the Hobbit Hole.”

Zach Brown, who graduated from Stanford University’s Department of Environmental Earth System Science with a Ph.D., began walking north April 25.

He started off in style: when it got to be time to set up camp his first night, he was passing through an affluent section of San Francisco. He knocked on the door of a nearby house and explained, to the woman who answered,

his trek to bring awareness to the Inian Islands Institute, which its founders see as “an ecological field school like no other, bringing students for wilderness immersion courses in Southeast Alaska focused on the rich local ecology and our place within it.” He asked to camp on her lawn.

She told him no and closed the door. He moved on. Then she called the cops on him.

Most interactions along the way have been much more friendly. Brown, a self-described gregarious person, said one of the most challenging aspects of the trip was being alone for the majority of the 113 days it took him. In that way, he said, some of the trip’s most memorable moments had to do with people: The caretaker of Addenbroke See TRIP, page C-2

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Zachary Brown arrives at the Hobbit Hole.

Scenic byway leads to outdoor fun

By ALISHA ROEMELING Statesman Journal

BEND, Ore. (AP) — Every time I venture over the Santiam Pass toward the beautiful haven that is Bend, I start thinking of ways I could successfully make it my new home.

The metropolis of Central Oregon is bursting at the seams with fun outdoor activities, delicious breweries, dry weather, great skiing and my most treasured aspect — hiking trails galore.

Once over the pass and into the city of about 78,280 Bendites, I begin to rationalize quitting my job, working at Mount Bachelor all winter and livAP Photo/Statesman-Journal, Alisha Roemeling ing in a tiny apartment. While it may This recent photo shows the Cascade Lakes Byway outside of Bend, Ore., not be the smartest move for my cathat stretches from Mount Bachelor all the way to Highway 58 near Oakridge, reer, nor for my finances, the trade-off offering endless lakes, trails, camping spots and adventure. could be worth the jump.

And then I stop day dreaming and soak up the warm mountain sun, breathe in the smell of pine trees and forget worrying about the future.

Cascade National Scenic Byway, just outside of Bend, stretches from Mount Bachelor all the way to Highway 58 near Oakridge, offers endless lakes, trails, camping spots and adventure.

Recently, friends and I took a trip to the area with all things necessary for camping as well as a couple of inflatable kayaks.

Not quite knowing where we wanted to end up, Lava Lake campground was chosen at random as our destination for the night. Arriving long after dark, we paid for the campsite and set up our tent with the help of a headlamp, and 20 minutes later, we were See FUN, page C-2

Research links the forests of the Kenai Peninsula and Amazon

plots: one where most trees had died and another where only a few had died.

At each plot, we hoisted up a mast that allowed us to measure solar radiation above the trees as Juan C amilo V illegas Palacio well as temperature, relative humidity and wind conditions from there ecently, I and other research- all the way down to the ground. To measure the forest structure, we ers from the University of took photographs with a fish-eye Arizona, Michigan State camera lens facing the sky that University, and the University of Washington visited the Kenai Penin- will be used to calculate how much sula to collaborate with biologists at shading occurs at a certain place the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and time. Additionally, we brought to investigate tree mortality and how a laser-based instrument called LiDAR (Light detection and Ranging) it affects microclimate conditions that scans the vegetation structure near the ground, such as shading and provides a detailed picture of and temperature. Funded by the the complicated branch and leaf National Science Foundation, our structure of the plots. These can be team is interested not only in the changes locally, but if these changes related to all the other measurements of microclimate. could influence other areas as far Together, these measurements let away as the Amazon Basin in South us characterize near-ground condiAmerica. tions such as albedo and air turbuOur team lugged a lot of equiplence in the atmosphere. Albedo is the ment to measure how the forest strucPhoto by Nathaniel Chambers amount of solar radiation reflected by ture and the microclimate changed Researchers from the University of Arizona, Michigan State University, University of Washington, and the Kenai See REFUGE, page C-2 after tree mortality.

We compared two National Wildlife Refuge establish a monitoring site in the Caribou Hills off Oil Well Road.

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Lighthouse, in British Columbia, invited him to stay for the night; two fishermen from Sitka fed him venison burgers and fresh prawns.

Along the way, he stopped at the Salmon Coast Field Station in British Columbia.

“It is a very close analogue of the Hobbit Hole: smallscale, off-the-grid, beautiful,” he said.

His two favorite parts of the trip, he said, were hiking in Redwood National Park, through old-growth redwood trees, and

ished, he plans more work on the Inian Islands Institute.

Brown and those he’s working with — founders include Lauren Oakes, Aaron Strong, and Lida Teneva, all Ph.D. candidates at Stanford who have done work in or relevant to Alaska — have “our website,

video, logo, advisory council, business model, a fantastic Stanford course under our belts, and more courses in the pipeline for next summer,” he wrote. “But we are still looking for our “angel” to help us purchase the Hobbit Hole property before it falls into the wrong

hands — that is priority number 1 for us!”

They raised about $25,000 through a fundraiser over the winter. With that money, they got a professional appraisal and did some media work, he said.

But right now, they’re mainly focused on looking for their angel donor.

The property is listed for $2 million.

Brown plans to be an instructor at the institute. Over the winter, he’ll be organizing courses and visiting researchers and “generally furthering my education about the ecology and practical skills and living in this area, so that I will be as able an instructor at Inian as I

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into the drive was the turquoisegreen waters of Devils Lake, a 23-acre shallow lake 10 miles from Mount Bachelor. People were canoeing in the water as well as fishing. The small lake offers 11 walk-in camping sites and some of the most beautiful clear (and cold) waters in the area.

Mount Bachelor was up next.

Usually covered in snow and skiers, Mount Bachelor defines the word powerful in the winter, but in the summer, it seems much more inviting for those who aren’t as excited about rigorous activity in below-freezing temperatures.

We grabbed some coffee from the coffee shop within the lodge and sat at a table outside, admiring the mountain bikers and people traveling up the ski lift to hike around toward the summit.

For $17, you can ride the ski lift to the Pine Martin Lodge halfway up the mountain and get some food, a beer or just take some photos.

Mount Bachelor is well known not only for its snow activities, but for its 13-mile downhill mountain bike park, which is open from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. Fridays through Sundays through October. Tickets for the park vary depending on your age and how high up the mountain you want to go.

Don’t want to pay $17? Neither did I. Instead, I followed my ears toward the echoing sounds of barking. Just to the right of the main ski lodge was a teepee where small blonde puppies were seen chasing one another. Naturally I headed in their direction and found an abundance of dogs all strung together.

Yes, they were sled dogs.

Throughout the year, Mount Bachelor offers sled dog rides several times a day. During the winter, a ride with the sled dogs is $75, but in the summer, when the dogs still have just as much energy to expend and not as many sledders, the cost of a ride is just $10.

While I didn’t take a ride on the sled, I did get to hold the sleepy Alaskan Husky puppies and play with the other sled dogs as they took a break from running.

After exploring the mountain, we headed into Bend to 10 Barrel Brewing Company for a sour beer, some pizza and a few games of Gin. I always end up wishing I had a few more hours — make that weeks — of time to spend in the area, but alas, daydreaming will have to do for now.

seasons produced by strong El Niño events. Vegetation changes resulting from tree Continued from page C-1 mortality, such as those observed on the Kenai Peninthe land surface and is related sula, can have many effects. to surface properties like its When trees die, this changes color. When trees such as the the microclimate near the dark spruce of the Kenai are ground in terms of shading, replaced by other types of veg- temperature and other varietation, for example lighterables. This microclimate incolored grasses, the change fluences many other environin energy absorbed near the mental factors such as what earth’s surface due to change plants will grow in there, will in albedo alters the transfer new seedlings reestablish the of moisture and energy to the trees that were lost or will another. We were back at Big atmosphere and influences the new species come in, and how Eddy before the sun came up amounts of evaporation and quickly will water in the soil high enough to melt the frost tree transpiration. evaporate back into the air. off our faces.

Also, when tree structure The changes in microcliWe were gutting our fish is replaced by a different type mate after many trees die is when Mick said through of vegetation, such as grasses, important not only locally, but cracked lips, “W-w-was that wind patterns near the ground can also have effects on the g-g-good fishing, or what?” change. Near-ground wind cur- climate at larger scales. The “Th-th-that was s-srents are responsible for trans- microclimate near the ground something, all right,” I said, ferring moisture in the form of surface interacts with the atmoteeth chattering like runaway water vapor to the atmosphere. sphere above it. If the microcastanets.

This moisture eventually pro“It sure p-p-pays to get up duces rainfall either locally or early and g-g-get in the g-ggood hole, doesn’t it? he said, elsewhere when transported by straightening a finger that had high atmospheric currents.

In a changing climate, thawed enough to bend withdroughts accompanied by out breaking. higher temperatures are be“It s-s-sure d-d-does,” I coming more frequent. Associsaid, looking out at the river. ated with these droughts are About a hundred feed away, large-scale tree die-off events a boat was anchored, the that can be amplified by the only one in sight. Four guys presence of pests such as bark were casting lures, and they beetles, as well as by the powere catching one silver after tential occurrence of fire. Tree another. die-off events are widespread “Gee,” I said, that looks in temperate regions around like a pretty g-g-good hole, right here where you keep your the world. Locally, the Kenai b-b-boat tied up. Look at those Peninsula has experienced such large-scale tree mortalg-g-guys.”

“Yeah,” Mick said, looking ity in response to bark beetle up. “I’ve s-s-seen them before. infestations and, more recently, forest fire.

They c-c-come from way upEven the tropics are not river, somewhere.” exempt. In the Amazon, tree Les Palmer can be reached mortality has occurred when at les.palmer@rocketmail.com. there are particularly dry

climate of a large enough area changes substantially, it can influence how the atmosphere circulates, thereby affecting other areas as well. Because tree die-off has been occurring over such large areas, scientists have begun to ask if large scale tree die-off, as has occurred on the Kenai Peninsula and in many other large areas in North America, could affect all the way down to the Amazon Basin in South America.

Scientists call this type of effect “atmospheric teleconnections”. The reason we think this might be possible is because a recent study calculated that if trees were added to grasslands—something being discussed as a way to reduce some of the carbon in the atmosphere that is contributing to warming—there is a potential teleconnection with the Amazon. Now we are asking if

losing trees from forests could also have a similar effect. By understanding the structural and functional effects of forest die-off, and through the use of climate models, researchers expect to better understand the atmospheric feedbacks and interactions that can potentially develop.

paying a visit to the White Sulfur Hot Springs on Chichagof Island. Over the course of the trip, he passed, in one way or another, through most of the West Coast’s coastal temperate rainforest.

The best part of the trip, however, was his arrival at his final destination. “…The biggest highlight had to be arriving at the Hobbit Hole, the culmination of the long journey. That night, a bunch of people from Gustavus came out there in their boats and we had a wonderful party, and a rare evening of sunshine.

It was surreal and magical for me,” he wrote in an email.

Now that the journey is fin-

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“Say, now, you ever thought about guidin’?”

“I don’t have the nerves for it,” I said.

“Shhh! Listen!” he said.

I listened, but all I could hear was the sound of fast water flowing past something in the river, maybe a rock.

“Whew!” Mick said. “Sure glad we made it past that big rock!”

With no more than an occasional shot of adrenaline to keep us warm, we idled on down the river. After what seemed like hours, we arrived at Eagle Rock, anchored in the “good hole,” and poured coffee to stave off hypothermia while we waited for the bite.

“Bait up, and get your line in the water,” Mick said. “You never know when they’ll start biting.”

Had I known it would be an hour and 15 minutes until they started, I’d have rationed my coffee. But when the bite finally started, it really started.

We caught our limits of three silvers each, one right after

— Zach Brown, Ph.D., Stanford University’s Department of Environmental Earth System Science

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NAPLES, Italy — La dolce vita is all the sweeter when you get it for free.

“La dolce vita,” of course, means “the sweet life,” in Italian, something you will find plenty of in Italy’s third-largest city.

Naples gets a bad rap for crime and grime, and it’s true the city does have some gritty edges. But there’s plenty to enjoy here: amazing pizza, impressive architecture, a rich and carefully preserved history - all set on the turquoise curve of the Bay of Naples.

Here are five ways to get a slice of Neopolitan life for free.

Roam the Duomo From the outside, Naples Cathedral, or the Duomo di Napoli, isn’t that impressive. But inside you’ll find a gilded panoply of sculptures and frescoes. The highlight is the Royal Chapel of the Treasure of San Gennaro, to your right as you enter, which has a wealth of statues and other art beneath an ornate ceiling. Via Duomo, 149; Monday-Saturday, 8 a.m.12:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.-7 p.m.; Sundays and holidays from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. and 5 p.m.-7 p.m.

Celebrate Christmas in July, or whenever Not far from the Duomo you’ll find Christmas Alley, real name Via San Gregorio Armeno. This is a narrow alley famous for its practitioners of the art of Neopolitan nativity scenes featuring detailed figurines. Walk slowly and peer through the shop doors to watch the artists at work and take in the multicolored display of finished pieces lining the walls.

Perambulate the past One of the best ways to experience new places is to simply wander. A good place to do that in Naples is the Centro Storico. Main thoroughfares include Via dei Tribunali, which bisects the district running more or less east-west, Via Duomo, on the northeast side and Via San Biagio dei Librai to the south. You can go armed with a guidebook and check off the various churches and monuments or roam at random. A landmark to look out for is San Lorenzo Maggiore, Via dei Tribunali, 316. Open daily, entrance to the church is free.

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‘But we are still looking for our “angel” to help us purchase the Hobbit Hole property before it falls into the wrong hands — that is priority No. 1 for us!’

enjoying the crackle of a fire in an otherwise silent Deschutes National Forest.

Lava Lake is just one the many places one can stop to camp, swim, or hike on the byway. Some of the surrounding attractions include Cultus Lake, Crane Prairie Reservoir, Elk Lake and Mount Bachelor.

After a light breakfast and a hike along the shores of Lava Lake, we packed up camp and headed toward Bend, pulling the car over more times than I can remember to take photos and admire the many natural attractions that make up the area.

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As he wrote on his blog about the journey’s conclusion: “Finally I gathered myself to say a few words. They might’ve been totally incoherent — something about how the trek was long, not always fun, not always safe, but it was worth every mile just for this moment. And I said something about the Hobbit Hole, and our dream to use that special homestead in the wilderness to create a public institute for education and research. And then some thank-yous, because while the trek might’ve been under my own power, I certainly wasn’t on my own out there.”

So the next time you tromp through a once-forested area on the Kenai that is now an open grassland, consider that this change may influence happenings in the Amazon. It is indeed a very small world.

Professor Palacio is at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín-Colombia. For more information on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge visit http://kenai.fws.gov or http:// www.facebook.com/kenainationalwildliferefuge.

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Beautiful 3375sq.ft. home on 1.5 acres with an attached 2-car garage, a 1200sq.ft., heated, insulated shop, and a greenhouse. 4-bedrooms, 3-bathrooms, including a large master suite (15 x 25) with a jetted tub, 2-large bedrooms and one average size bedroom. The kitchen and dining areas have been updated with granite counter tops, laminate floors, lots of cabinets, and two pantries. French doors lead from the kitchen/ dining to the deck. Unfinished basement with water treatment system, boiler, on demand hot water, laundry, and lots of room for storage, a gym, or additional living space.

Oversize garage has a 10' counter with a built in utility sink which is great for processing fish and game. Located in Soldotna. $350,000.

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3-Bedroom, 2-bath, K-beach area home, over 2200ft, 1.23 acres. 2200+ square foot home with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 car garage,shed, two story addition with second living room and downstairs family room. Located just off K-beach in a desirable, K-beach elementary school location. Energy upgrades made from 3 star to 4 star. Motivated sellers.

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Conveniently located 4 miles from Nikiski High School and 8.5 miles from Captain Cook State Park. Includes a 12 x 12 shed with additional overhead storage, a large fenced dog pen, and is wired for your generator. 100 gallon propane tank, and an above ground 300 fuel tank, private well and septic. All appliances stay.

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One COMPLETELY REMODELED... paint, flooring, kitchen. Exterior to be painted this month. Excellent rental history.

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Purchase for $268,000. OBO. (907)252-9153.

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STERLING Swanson River Road 2 corner lots with 2-bedroom, mobile home fully furnished.

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Advanced degree or certificate may be substituted for up to two (2) years of required experience. Master's degree and licensure with the State of Alaska to provide counseling services required. At least a CDCI through the Alaska Commission for Behavioral Health Certification required.

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Capital Projects Manager plans, organizes and coordinates larger (100k+) capital improvement and maintainance and repair projects from conceptual initiation through construction closeout; and performs related duties as assigned Benefits include Holidays, Paid Time Off, Extended Sick Leave, Medical/Dental/Life & Accidental Death Insurance, 401(k) For the job description or to apply visit our website at http://kenaitze.applicantpro.com.

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The Peninsula Clarion is accepting applications for an additional outside sales representative.

Sales experience is a must.

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Benefits available.

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8am- 5pm, Monday-Friday.

150 Trading Bay Rd. in Kenai.

Capital Projects Manager

Procurement & Business Service Supervisor Qualified applicants must apply online

by October 7, 2014

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KENAI, AK Come join a family-friendly, innovative work environment. The Kenaitze Indian Tribe has opened our Dena'ina Wellness Center, featuring an integrated model of care. Employees at Kenaitze Indian Tribe deliver health, social service, education and tribal court services to tribal members, Alaska Native/American Indian people and others.

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CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM Part-Time Eligibility Technician Responsible for conducting interviews and ongoing case management to determine eligibility for childcare subsidies.

Qualifications: HS diploma or GED, understanding of and ability to apply state, federal, and internal regulations and procedures. Strong organization and mathematical skills, data entry ability, excellent communication and decision making skills, ability to work with diverse population, work independently and as a team.

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Advertising Assistant Proficiency with both Mac and PC computer using Word/ Excel and Outlook, as well as experience with other software programs desirable. Exceptional customer service and telephone skills, accuracy in data entry with a high attention to detail. Professional appearance. Ability to meet deadlines and complete multiple tasks, this individual will support the Advertising Department with office related tasks, may work directly with customers in a receptionist capacity, perform data entry on a daily basis, and learn to answer phones.

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Public Notices IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI In the Matter of a Change of Name for: JULIET MADELINE BURLINGAME, Current Name of Minor Child Case No: 3KN-14-00837CI

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Public Notices KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH Public Notice of Proposed Release of a Deed Restriction Pursuant to Kenai Peninsula Borough (KPB) Code of Ordinances, Chapter 17.10.130(f), the Kenai Peninsula Borough is considering release of a deed restriction on the use of a parcel of land owned by the City of Homer commonly known as the former Homer Intermediate School. The proposed Ordinance 2014-31 can be viewed at: http://www.borough.kenai.ak.us/ AssemblyClerk/Assembly/Ordinances/2014/ O2014-31.pdf The Borough encourages you to review the proposed ordinance and submit written comments.

Written comments must be received no later than COB Nov 3, 2014, to be included in the Planning Commission packet for its public hearing. Written comments may be sent to the following address: Kenai Peninsula Borough, Land Management Division, 144 N. Binkley Street, Soldotna, AK 99669-7599 Description of Property: Former Homer Intermediate School, 450 Sterling Highway, Tract 2 Homer School Survey 1999 City Addition, Plat No 2000-22 HRD, Tax Parcel No. 175-100-70 Basis for Proposed Action: Parcel No. 175-100-70 was deeded to the City of Homer in 2000 after the property was deemed surplus to borough and school district needs under KPB Ordinance 98-42. The deed was made subject to a restriction requiring the property to be owned by the city and used for public purposes in perpetuity. This property contains the former Homer Intermediate School which has since been used for KPC Kachemak Bay Campus, Boys and Girls Club, and other generally beneficial public uses.

The Homer City Council adopted resolution 13-096 which served to request the borough to amend the deed restriction to permit the city to sell the property and dedicate the proceeds for the use and benefit of the general public. In that resolution the city cites concerns of sustainability of operation and maintenance costs of the existing facilities on the property and additionally cites goals of providing for a new public safety building. Proposed KPB Ordinance 201431 would remove the deed restriction thereby allowing the city to consider any management decisions for the property under its authority and financial interests. The City of Homer, as a first class city in the borough, has public decision making processes with citizen involvement which ensure that the public property and any proceeds are used for public purposes appropriate for the area.

The public is invited to give testimony at the following meetings. Public meetings will be held as shown unless otherwise advertised.

KPB Planning Commission Public Hearing: November 10, 2014, 7:30 p.m. at the KPB Administration Building, 144 N. Binkley Street, Soldotna, AK 99669.

KPB Assembly Meeting: November 25, 2014, 6:00 p.m. at the KPB Administration Building, 144 N. Binkley Street, Soldotna, AK 99669.

Additional Information: For further information contact Marcus Mueller, Land Management Division at 907-714-2204, or toll free within the Borough 1-800-478- 4441, ext. 2204

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CITY OF SOLDOTNA Planning & Zoning Commission Notice of Public Hearing October 8, 2014 The Soldotna City Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, October 8, 2014, at 5:30 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chamber, 177 N. Birch St., Soldotna, Alaska, on the following items: Resolution PZ 2014-025 - A Resolution of the Planning and Zoning Commission Granting a Variance to the Maximum Driveway Width to Allow a 30-Foot Driveway Width in a Single Family / Two Family Residential District. The Property is Located at 154 W. Riverview Avenue and Legally Described as Lot 98A, Binkley Street/Shady ROW Dedication and Replat. (Plat No. KN 88-40).

Resolution PZ 2014-026 - A Resolution of the Planning and Zoning Commission Granting a Request for a Conditional Use Permit for the Development of an Animal Care Facility in a Commercial Zoning District. The Property is Located at 374 Lovers Lane and Legally Described as Lot 2, Binkley River Subdivision Number 2 (Plat No. KN 0820116).

Resolution PZ 2014-027 - A Resolution of the Planning and Zoning Commission Granting a Request for a Conditional Use Permit for a Mulit-Family Dwelling (Tri-Plex) in a Commercial Zoning District. The Property is Located at 329 Binkley Circle and Legally Described as Lot 3A, Terra Edge Subdivision, Part 4 (Plat No. KN 0940034).

All interested persons are invited to attend and participate in the public discussion. Written comments may be sent to the Planning & Zoning Commission, c/o John Czarnezki, 177 North Birch Street, Soldotna, AK 99669. For further information, call John Czarnezki at 907-262-9107.

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NOTICE OF PRELIMINARY PERMIT APPLICATION ACCEPTED FOR FILING AND SOLICITING COMMENTS, MOTIONS TO INTERVENE, AND COMPETING APPLICATIONS (September 18, 2014) On September 2, 2014, Chugach Electric Association, Inc. filed an application for a preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act (FPA), proposing to study the feasibility of the Fourth of July Project (Fourth of July Creek Project or project) to be located on Godwin and Fourth of July Creeks, near Seward in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska. The sole purpose of a preliminary permit, if issued, is to grant the permit holder priority to file a license application during the permit term. A preliminary permit does not authorize the permit holder to perform any land-disturbing activities or otherwise enter upon lands or waters owned by others without the owners' express permission.

The proposed project would consist of two new developments using the same: (1) 70-foot long, 30-foot-wide, 30-foot-high powerhouse; (2) tailrace consisting of a concrete drop box continuing to a rip rap channel; (3) 10,900-foot-long, 69-kilovolt transmission line extending from the powerhouse to an existing substation; (4) 4,300-foot-long, 16-foot-wide gravel access road; (5) 200-foot-long bridge; and (6) appurtenant facilities.

Fourth of July Creek Development (1) a 110-foot-long, 20-foot-wide, 18-foot-high concrete intake structure located at an elevation of 790 feet mean sea level (msl) on Fourth of July Creek; (2) a 5,200-foot-long, 54-inch-diameter steel penstock from the Fourth of July Creek intake housed in a 3,460-foot-long, 16-foot-diameter tunnel and a 1,670-foot-long, 54-inch-diameter steel penstock buried where feasible; and (3) a horizontal Francis turbine/generator unite rated for 6.6 megawatts (MW) at 637 feet of net head.

Godwin Creek Development (1) a 110-foot-long, 20-foot-wide, 18-foot-high concrete intake structure located at an elevation of 415 feet msl on Godwin Creek; (2) a 3,500-foot-long, 78-inch-diameter steel penstock buried where feasible from Godwin Creek; and (3) a horizontal Francis turbine/generator unit rated for 6.1 MW at 280 feet of net head.

The estimated annual generation of the Fourth of July Creek Project would be 55,012 megawatt-hours.

Applicant Contact: Mr. Paul R. Risse, Senior Vice President, Chugach Electric Association, Inc., 5601 Electron Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99518; phone: (907) 563-7494.

FERC Contact: Julia Kolberg; phone: (202) 502-8261.

Deadline for filing comments, motions to intervene, competing applications (without notices of intent), or notices of intent to file competing applications: 60 days from the issuance of this notice. Competing applications and notices of intent must meet the requirements of 18 CFR 4.36.

The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and competing applications using the Commission's eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp Commenters can submit brief comments up to 6,000 characters, without prior registration, using the eComment system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ecomment.as You must include your name and contact information at the end of your comments. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-8659 (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426. The first page of any filing should include docket number P-14630-000.

More information about this project, including a copy of the application, can be viewed or printed on the "eLibrary" link of Commission's website at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp.

Enter the docket number (P-14630) in the docket number field to access the document.

For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary.

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Dad’s other woman causes stress throughout family how could you possibly object? That you could have a moral compass that points in a different direction is not on his radar.

Because your dad insists on imposing this woman on your family, recognize that you probably can’t have one without the other.

That will mean seeing your father far less than you would like, and away from Abigail Van Buren your husband and children — if at all.

Under no circumstances should you allow your father to destroy your marriage as he did his own.

I do NOT want to ruffle any feathers.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

— TOO CHICKEN TO TALK DEAR TOO CHICKEN: The company’s policy on personal calls during business hours should be a part of the employee handbook. If it isn’t, it should be brought to the attention of your employer or supervisor so it can be included when the handbook is updated.

Ideally, the person to speak to your co-worker about this would be your boss. Because these calls are distracting the other employees, your boss should be made aware of it so he or she can deal with it.

TO MY JEWISH READERS: Tonight at sundown, Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, begins. It’s a day of fasting, reflection, DEAR ABBY: I was wondering if you could help prayer and repentance. To all of you, may your fast me out with a co-worker who is constantly on her be an easy one. phone. Four, five, sometimes eight times a day she is making and accepting personal calls. It’s very distractDear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also ing to the rest of the office. When she’s not at her desk, known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her it’s then my responsibility to cover for her. mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.

I would like to find a polite way to say “these phone DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA calls can be made after hours.”

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A baby born today has a Sun in Libra and a Moon in Capricorn if born before 4:00 a.m. (PDT).

Afterward, the Moon will be in Aquarius.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, Oct. 3, 2014: This year you feel as if you will be able to create more of what you want. Your success depends upon your networking skills. If you are single, it will be your choice whether you decide to change your status. You might be enjoying playing the field a bit too much! If you are attached, the two of you often will be found socializing out and about. You love to party together, and you enjoy the bond that exists between you. As a couple, you will surpass any issue that emerges. AQUARIUS piques your interest.

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’ll want to go along with the majority, but a partner could worry you. You come from a point of caring, but you also would like to spend time with your immediate circle. Follow your intuition, and consider blending everyone together. Tonight: Just don’t be alone.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH You might want to move in a new direction, but a loved one could have many questions. You are likely to feel overwhelmed from dealing with as much negativity as you seem to be getting. You will need to pull back and do some thinking. Tonight: Out and about.

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Accept what you are hearing, and respect this person’s point of view.

You might be taken aback by what happens as a result. Tonight: Enjoy the moment.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH A roommate or loved one loves teasing you. However, you could close down unintentionally. Is this behavior really what you want to do? Consider your role in this situation. Keep conversations light and easy. Tonight: Follow someone else’s cue.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Consider what needs to happen with a close friend who often unnerves you. You could opt to meet a trusted loved one for a late lunch to discuss this situation.

Recognize what is happening at home and in your immediate circle.

Tonight: Go with the flow.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Your imagination will come out in conversations, particularly through your word choice. A misunderstanding could have you asking yourself how you could have avoided a difficult situation. A flirtation could start up from out of the blue. Tonight: Let the fun begin.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHYou are likely to trigger a key per-

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars son in your life by making a sharp comment. You might be hearing only what you want to hear. You could be overwhelmed and more negative than you realize. Clear your mind, and take a walk. Do something you love. Tonight: Head home early.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHYour interest might be piqued, and you could have a lot of questions. Let a friend reveal as much as he or she feels comfortable revealing. You might decide to leave well enough alone; otherwise, you could see a problem evolving. Tonight: Catch up on others’ news.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Be aware of the cost of proceeding as you have been. Your ability to remain positive lies largely in the fact that you know when to take a step back. Follow through when you think you are on better ground; you will be a lot happier that way. Tonight: Your treat.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH You don’t need to explain anything, or at least you feel that way. Be careful — a problem could ensue at a later date when this attitude could be thrown back in your face. Though you might be annoyed at everything you are hearing, be diplomatic. Tonight: Kick up your heels.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HH You might want to slow down and do some thinking before you take action. One-on-one relating will result in some interesting ideas. Take your time, and don’t feel pressured by what is happening around you. Time is your friend right now. Tonight: Keep a secret.

Longer-lasting flowers Dear Heloise: I love fresh flowers, and I buy a small bouquet at the grocery store now and then. You wrote about how you keep them lasting a long time. Please share your hints.

— Barbara in Texas Happy to, and they do make me happy, too! Here is what I do: Cut off an inch or so of the stem at an angle.

Remove all leaves and foliage that will be below the waterline.

Do leave (very bad pun) intact the leaves that will be above the waterline.

Those leaves act like sponges and soak up the fresh water.

Don’t place in direct sunlight or near a heat source — not on top of a TV, etc.

Do change the water every few days or when it gets yucky! Re-cut the stem so the flower can drink up more fresh water.

Sometimes, I put a small vase of roses in the refrigerator at night to prolong the life. Remember, florists keep fresh flowers in a “cool” room, and so should you.

— Heloise

Send a great hint to: Heloise P.O. Box 795000 San Antonio, TX 78279-5000 Fax: 1-210-HELOISE Email: Heloise(at)Heloise.com

Soup savings Dear Heloise: I love making stews and soups, but meat really can be expensive. To help keep costs down but still make the soup hearty, I add beans instead of more meat.

— Jan in Illinois

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I don’t want to be around her and have told my father this, but he doesn’t accept or respect my feelings. Being around them causes stress on my marriage because my husband doesn’t want to be around her either, and we don’t want her around our children.

This is causing so much stress that at times I’m afraid it could end our marriage. When I try to talk to Dad about this, he acts like there is no reason for me to be uncomfortable and blames my husband for these feelings. It’s like he completely denies that there is any way I could feel the way I do, even though she has brought nothing but negativity into my life.

I don’t know what to do. I want to still have a relationship with my dad, but my marriage comes before this.

How can I keep both?

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