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Peninsula Clarion, Wednesday, January 7, 2015
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. 10:30 a.m. • Bouncing Babies Storytime at the Soldotna Public Library. Call 262-4227. 11 a.m. • Wee Read at the Kenai Community Library. Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. • TOPS group AK 222 Soldotna meets at Christ Lutheran Church, 128 Soldotna Ave. Call 260-1662. 5:30 p.m. • Weight loss and health support group, Christ Lutheran Church. Call 362-1340. • Kenai Soil & Water Conservation District’s Board of Supervisors meeting at 110 Trading Bay, Suite 160. For information, call 283-8732 ext. 5 7 p.m. • Card games, Funny River Community Center. • Narcotics Anonymous support group “Clean Machine” at Central Peninsula Hospital’s Redoubt Room, 250 Hospital Place, Soldotna. Call 907-335-9456. • Alcoholics Anonymous “Into Action” group, 12X12 study meeting, VFW basement Birch Street, Soldotna, 907-262-0995. 8 p.m. • Al-Anon Support Group at Central Peninsula Hospital in the Augustine Room, Soldotna. Call 252-0558. 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.
Peninsula Clarion death notice and obituary guidelines: The Peninsula Clarion strives to report the deaths of all current and former Peninsula residents. Notices should be received within three months of the death. Pending service/Death notices are brief notices listing full name, age, date and place of death; and time, date and place of service. These are published at no charge. Obituaries are prepared by families, funeral homes, crematoriums, and are edited by our staff according to newspaper guidelines. The fee for obituaries up to 500 words with one black and white photo ranges from $50 to $100. Obituaries outside these guidelines are handled by the Clarion advertising department. Funeral homes and crematoriums routinely submit completed obituaries to the newspaper. Obituaries may also be submitted directly to the Clarion with prepayment, online at www.peninsulaclarion.com, or by mail to: Peninsula Clarion, P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, Alaska, 99611. The deadline for Tuesday – Friday editions is 2 p.m. the previous day. Submissions for Sunday and Monday editions must be received by 3 p.m. Friday. We do not process obituaries on Saturdays or Sundays unless submitted by funeral homes or crematoriums. Obituaries are placed on a space-available basis, prioritized by dates of local services. For more information, call the Clarion at 907-283-7551. C
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Around the Peninsula Garden club looks at ‘Agriculture to Art’ Central Peninsula Garden Club’s presents “Agriculture to Art” by Lee Coray-Ludden, president of the AK Natural Fiber Business, at its Jan. 13 program at 7 p.m. at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Building, Mile 16.5 Kalifornsky Beach Road. Lee and others in the local fiber group, have raised awareness of growing various fiber producing animals, fiber products, and the unique processes involved. She will share information about the local group’s diversity, the role growing animal feed of all kinds plays in the quality of the fiber and their many activities. She will also bring fiber examples including one of her little goat kids. Learn more about gardening and the fiber producing process. A brief annual meeting to approve the 2015 budget and elect board members will precede the program at 6:50 p.m. Refreshments and most of the time, door prizes. The program is free and open to the public. For more information, call Marion Nelson, 283-4632.
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Cure cabin fever with craft extravaganza Peninsula Take-a-Break is sponsoring a “Cabin Fever Craft Extravaganza” on Saturday from 1-4 p.m. at the Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna. Learn a new craft project with hands-on demonstrations. Door prizes and a tea party will also be featured. For further information call Linda at 262-4996 or Deanna at 398-630l. There is no charge for this event.
Soldotna library hosts teen activities
Teens at the Library activities are every Wednesday in January, at 4 p.m., in the Community Room at the Soldotna library. — Twelfth Night on Jan. 7. OK, so technically, it’s a day late. Come by anyway and enjoy a slice of King Cake and some PS4 — Lego Free Time on Jan. 14. Why should the little kids have all the fun? Enjoy our enormous Lego hoard and attempt to complete a challenge. — Let them eat cake! Jan. 21. On this day in history: Louis XVI was beheaded in France. Come hear more about this decapitation-heavy revolution and sample a French snack. — Data Privacy Day! Jan. 28. Just because you’re paranoid Learn about foster care and doesn’t mean you’re not right. Everyone online is totally watchadoption on the Kenai Peninsula ing you. Come learn some easy strategies and social media tips A meeting to learn more about foster care and adoption on to keep your data, and your identity, safer. the Kenai Peninsula will be held Wednesday, Jan. 21, from 6 to 8 p.m. at 145 Main St. Loop in Kenai. The Alaska Department Book club meets at Soldotna library of Health and Social Services, Office of Children’s Services, offers monthly Resource Family Orientations to give interested Outside The Box Book Club (Book Club For Adults) on individuals a brief overview of the state’s foster care and adop- Saturday in the Community Room. January is National Hobby tion programs and process. To learn more about how to make a Month. The book club is reading the book “WHO ARE YOU difference in a child’s life and in your community, please join PEOPLE?: A Personal Journey into the Heart of Fanatical Pasus. For more information, call Tonja Whitney or Michelle Par- sion in America.” Come for a discussion on hobbyists in Amertridge at 907-283-3136. ica and how to start your own hobby.
Woodturners to meet
Square dance classes on tap
The Kenai Peninsula Woodturners Chapter will hold its meeting at 1 p.m. this next Saturday, Jan. 10 at the woodturning shop in the log building at mile 100 on the Sterling Highway, just a few miles south of Soldotna where Echo Lake Road meets the highway. There will be a wood turning demonstration. Visi-
Beginning square dance classes will be held on Wednesday nights, starting Jan. 7, from 6:30-8 pm at the Sterling Senior Center. Classes are open to participants of all ages. For more information, call Theresa Lusby at 360-790-1757, or the Sterling Senior Center at 907-262-6808.
Site south of Denali considered for dam FAIRBANKS (AP) — A site south of Denali National Park and Preserve is being considered for a possible dam, though an official involved with the project said it’s not yet clear if such a development is feasible. The Native Village of Cantwell filed a preliminary permit application with federal regulators in November to explore a dam along Carlo Creek, about 13 miles south of the park entrance. The application was published in the Federal Register late last month. Gordon Carlson, a Cantwell village official, said the community is looking for an alternative energy project to generate revenue by providing electricity to the Golden Valley Electric As-
sociation grid. The Denali-area site is one of two under consideration as a possible dam location, but the entire proposal is very preliminary, he said. “We don’t know if the water’s there, we don’t know if the terrain is there,” he said. While the village owns the land at the dam site, agreements would be required from other area landowners, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported. The proposal is looking at a 10-foot-high dam that would power a 1.6-megawatt turbine. Associated infrastructure would include a roughly 12,000-foot road, powerhouse and trans-
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mission line. Documents filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission estimates a threeyear study and the licensing process will cost at least $1 million. Carlson said the village will look for grants or other funding sources to help with the early-stage costs. What those studies turn up will determine whether a project moves forward. Questions have been raised by some residents and business owners in the Carlo Creek area about how such a project might affect them. Bill Madsen, who lives along Carlo Creek and until recently operated a nearby business,
said the uncertainty bothers some people. “Nobody has said anything. Nobody has approached any of the neighbors,” he said. A 60-day comment period on the Carlo Creek application began Dec. 22 Carlson said the village also is in the early stages of reviewing a hydro project on the Jack River in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough that it considers more promising. That project is much larger and would be capable of generating an estimated 4.2 megawatts of electricity. More than 5 miles of roads would have to be built to reach to the proposed dam.