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TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2015 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 45, Issue 94

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Staff, parents learn ALICE plan

Let the games begin

By KELLY SULLIVAN Peninsula Clarion

In the news Oregon climber dies in 1,000-foot fall

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ANCHORAGE (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say an Oregon man died while climbing Mount Yukla.

Dasan Marshall of Portland, Oregon, was climbing with a friend Sunday when he fell about 1,000 feet, troopers said.

Because of the terrain in the Chugach Mountains about 6 miles from the Eagle River Nature Center, a helicopter was used to recover Marshall’s body. The body was taken to the state medical examiner’s office.

No foul play was suspected.

People who knew Marshall, 24, described him as an experienced climber who loved the outdoors.

“It was in his blood,” Heidi Medema, 24, told the Oregonian. “It was something he had to do, something he loved to do. The mountains were where he was happiest.

They were his life.”

Medema met Marshall in 2011 while he was climbing at the Portland Rock Gym, where she worked.

He graduated from Portland Waldorf School in 2009.

“He was very interested in taking a big bite out of life,” Tracy Trefethen, a teacher and Marshall’s academic adviser at the school, told the Oregonian. “He was full of adventure.”

Inside ‘If there’s one thing government can do for small business it’s to get the heck off their backs.’ ... See page A-5

Photos by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion

Above: Natalie Ahkinga, 10, practices her two-foot high kick on Wednesday at the Yaghanen Youth Center in Soldotna.

The Kenaitze Indian Tribe will host a regional Native Youth Olympics event at Kenai Middle School during the 2015 Peninsula Winter Games.

Top: Ransom Hayes, 9, competes against William Wilson, 9, as the two practice for the Native Youth Olympics arm pull event.

Below: Children practice for a regional Native Youth Olympics.

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See TRAIN, page A-9

Walker: Native Youth Olympics kick off festivities Nothing off the table

By RASHAH McCHESNEY Peninsula Clarion

Since October, the Kenai Peninsula’s Ggugguyni team has been gearing up for the Peninsula Winter Games and an annual showcase of talent, athleticism, culture and a unique form of sportsmanship at the regional Native Youth Olympics.

The team, now more than 40 students strong, will open the games on Friday, kicking off a weekend that also includes board games, kids activities and family fun that has been providing a break from the winter blues on the Central Peninsula since 1976.

The Native Youth Olympics, or NYO, have been paired with the games for four years, adding another activity to a weekend tailored for children.

NYO provides an indoor activity that isn’t subject to the weather, unlike some of the other events that have been canceled, or repurposed due to the year’s unseasonably warm temperatures.

“The biggest deal is the weather, of course, and without our ice carvings,

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

that’s a huge fundraiser for the event that’s gone,” said Soldotna Chamber of Commerce event organizer Tami Murray.

When it became apparent that the ice

wasn’t going to be available, organizers switched gears and are now offering a Friday evening adults-only monopoly tournament which, at $50 a ticket, should See GAMES, page A-9

JUNEAU — Nothing will be off the table as the state cuts spending to reduce projected multibillion-dollar budget deficits, Gov. Bill Walker said.

In an interview Monday, on the eve of the new legislative session, Walker said he wants to look at the budget over several years. He said he has in mind a target for cuts over the next three years but isn’t ready to disclose it.

Even taking a longer view, he said he doesn’t expect state leaders to just dabble around the edges of the fiscal situation this session.

See BUDGET, page A-9

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Training for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s new intruder response procedure has now reached parents and educators.

Kenai police Sgt. Jay Sjogren presented on ALICE protocol, which stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate, to parents and teachers at the Mountain View Elementary School Site Council meeting Thursday. The program is modeled as a proactive, multi-optional response to active shooter scenarios, Sjogren said.

The training will carry a different weight for elementary students, especially incoming kindergartners who will be looking to the adults inside their classroom for direction, Sjogren said.

“We all know in this day and age this is the reality,” Sjogren said. “ALICE gives you more tools for your tool belt, a way to come to a resolution and make personal decisions as elementary educators.”

Soldotna’s Davis ready for Winter X Games

By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

To be the best means to train with the best.

For the last four years Soldotna professional snowmachiner Cory Davis has lived by that motto as he prepares to compete in his 10th ESPN Winter X Games competition Thursday through Sunday in Aspen, Colorado.

Davis, 26, has spent the last few weeks training with Monster Energy teammates Joe Parsons and Heath Frisby in Yakima, Washington. Parsons, 26, has won three gold X Games medals and 13 overall, while Frisby, 30, has

nine top-three finishes with two gold medals. Frisby’s last gold came in 2012 in the best trick event, when he landed the first-ever front flip.

When Davis first started training at Parsons’ place in Yakima four years ago, he said he had to play catchup on some of the freestyle tricks the world’s best in the sport perform. It wasn’t until the 2013 freestyle event when Davis pulled off his first back flip.

“I’m a pretty conservative rider,” Davis said. “I didn’t like doing anything outside of my comfort zone. I was a late bloomer on flipping. I never tried (to flip) in backcountry Alaska.”

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medal in each of the last two years. In the long jump event last year he pulled off a 142-foot jump to earn his second silver medal. In both 2009 and 2011, Davis nabbed a bronze in the speedand-style events.

Davis got the best of Parsons in 2013 when he beat the defending champion of the speed-and-style event to advance to the finals where he placed second behind Levi LaVallee. The contest was a three-lap race on a course that featured numerous jumps, and the gold-medal race lasted less than three minutes.

Davis said his passion for snowmachine racing came from him watching his father, former Iron Dog champion

Scott Davis, who he calls his idol. The father and son duo teamed up to race in the Iron Dog in 2011 and placed third in the 2,000-mile trek across Alaska.

“I grew up racing and I’m fortunate to have a natural talent,” he said. “Its something I enjoy from all aspects from racing across Alaska. Every form comes with being in love with riding sleds.”

Davis left for Colorado on Monday and will arrive in Aspen before the X Games begin Thursday with his two Arctic Cat Snowpro 600 racing sleds in tow.

He is signed up to compete in two events, speed-and-style and the long See DAVIS, page A-9

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Virus causes tumors in wild turkeys

By MARY ESCH Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y. — Wildlife biologists tracking a tumorcausing virus first diagnosed in eastern wild turkeys five years ago have found the virus is far more widespread — but less deadly — than expected.

The new study eases fears among wildlife managers and hunters that lymphoproliferative disease virus — which can turn a turkey’s head into a gruesome mass of scabby tumors and clog its airway — isn’t to blame for a drop in the wild turkey population.

In 2009, scientists at the University of Georgia diagnosed the virus in a tumor-riddled wild turkey from Arkansas, the first time it was found outside of domestic turkeys in Europe and Israel.

A follow-up study found the virus in numerous healthy turkeys shot by hunters in 17 states from Colorado to Maine.

“Once we discovered this virus and found it was common, there was a big scare,” said Justin Brown, lead researcher at the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study and now state wildlife veterinarian for Pennsylvania. “There was a fear that this virus was decimating turkeys and we’ve missed it all these years.”

The discovery of the virus, which can also cause cancerous growths on the liver, spleen, kidneys and lungs, came at a time when the National Wild Turkey Federation said turkey populations had decreased 15 percent across their range.

New York’s wild turkey population, for instance, is at a 15year low.

The new study, to be published in coming weeks, provides some much-needed perspective, Brown said.

“We found that infection is widespread and common, but the development of tumors is actually a rare event,” he said.

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sporadic cause of tumor formation and mortality.”

Prized by hunters, eastern wild turkeys can stand 2 1/2 feet tall and weigh up to 25 pounds.

Males in spring breeding season have red, blue and white skin on their heads, a long beard of hair-like feathers, and glossy black plumage with an iridescent copper and greenish sheen.

Eastern wild turkeys had once been exterminated in New York but boomed under restoration efforts in recent decades, so much so that the state’s wildlife agency helped re-establish populations throughout the Northeast.

Over-hunting and forestclearing in the late 1800s eradicated the species in New York, but they were re-introduced around 1948 from a small remnant population in Pennsylvania. As abandoned farms reverted to forest, New York’s turkey population reached a high of 300,000 birds in 2001, when the population of raccoons and

other common nest predators had been decimated by rabies.

The state shipped hundreds to Vermont, New Hampshire and other New England states.

“There has been a gradual decline over the past decade, to about 180,000 statewide today,” said Mike Schiavone, a wildlife biologist who heads wild turkey research for the Department of Environmental Conservation.

The decline has been attributed to a decrease in habitat, an increase in predators, and bad weather in spring or summer that hurts breeding and survival of young.

Schiavone said the tumor virus was first detected in New York in 2012. “What we discovered after we ramped up testing in the last three years is that prevalence is really high, like 50 percent,” Schiavone said.

The prevalence rate ranges from an estimated 30 to 80 percent, depending on the testing site.

Katrina Alger, a graduate student at the State University

of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, is testing for the virus in blood collected from wild turkeys during banding and bone marrow from the legs of birds sent by hunters.

The virus hasn’t been detected in domestic poultry in North America, but some labs in the Northeast are testing backyard flocks to see if they’re infected, Brown said.

It’s not contagious to humans, but DEC advises against eating diseased birds.

“One of the things we need to do moving forward is to try to determine if there are other effects of this virus other than tumors,” Brown said.

Similar viruses in poultry have been found to cause other disease syndromes that leave birds weak and immune-suppressed.

“We also don’t know the impact on really young turkeys,” Brown said. “That’s one of a number of things we still have to evaluate.”

Clarion Question Results The Clarion question for last week was:

Should lawmakers be constitutionally prohibited from using the earnings of the Alaska Permanent Fund to pay for state goverment?

Results are not scientific

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Peninsula Clarion, Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Dana Ray Bachiochi Dana Ray Bachiochi, 64, of Happy Valley passed away on Monday, Jan. 5, 2015 in his home.

Dana was born Oct. 16, 1950 to Raphael (Ray) and Marilyn (Caywood) Bachiochi in Stafford Springs, Connecticut where he graduated, taught and eventually retired from teaching.

He received his Master’s degree in Art Education and Audio/Video Production and taught for 35 years in his home town of Stafford Springs before retiring in 2007 after suffering a stroke. In 2008, he moved to Alaska, living for a short time in Anchor Point.

After his stroke he said, “I have been humbled.” He prayed that God would give him another chance to live and he put up a good fight on the road to recovery, constantly doing things that were thought impossible.

A consummate volunteer, he was constantly giving. He was a member of the Lion’s Club, Rotary International, Knights of Columbus, St. Edward’s Catholic Church in Stafford, St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Ninilchik, the Italian Club and Stafford Arts Commission. He led Boy Scout, Cub Scout and Girl Scout troops in Connecticut and Alaska as well as volunteering with Chapman School, Stafford Fish & Game, Alaska Prison Ministries, Anchor Point Chamber of Commerce and the Food Bank in Anchor Point. He started Mini Kickers soccer in Stafford and was the high school set designer for 35 years.

Dana enjoyed bible study, swimming, baseball, football, painting, pottery, gardening, horseback riding, kayaking and fishing halibut and salmon. He loved cooking for large groups and made amazing spaghetti sauce. He loved the outdoors; camping and spending time with his family and friends. Dana even found time to run two New York City Marathons.

Dana’s family said, “He always had a twinkle in his eyes, no matter what life brought his way; he always looked at the glass half full. He was kind to everyone; always putting others before himself. Dana was very compassionate and forgiving. He enjoyed working with kids, enjoying ‘the light bulb tuning on.’ His tenacity and passion for life, God and family was an example of how to live.”

He was preceded in death by his mother, Marilyn.

Dana is survived by his loving wife, Gilberte (Gibby) Bachiochi; sons, Matthew and wife, Kat of New York City and Mark of Stafford, Connecticut; daughter, Kelley and husband, Eddie Chollett of Paris, France; step daughters, Echo Paixcio of Salt Lake City and Allie and husband, Eric Schaff of Texas; father, Ray of Stafford, Connecticut; grandchildren, Connor, Owen and Luke Bachiochi, Mathis and Aiden Chollett and Noah and Benjamin Schaff; sister, Realyn Skelly of Stafford Springs; uncle, Dick Bachiochi and wife, Loraine of Florida and many cousins all over the country.

A Funeral Mass will be held at St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church, 1:00 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015 with Father Bob officiating.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given in to the family at P.O. Box 39603, Ninilchik, AK 99639.

Please visit Dana’s online obituary and sign his guestbook at www.alaskanfuneral.com.

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We offer two types of death reports: Pending service/Death notices: Brief notices listing full name, age, date and place of death; and time, date and place of service.

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complete paperwork and sit for up to two hours at a time. Volunteers are screened to ensure that they have not been a victim of a violent crime, have no criminal background and have no cases pending before the court. Volunteers go through up to 40 Judo club accepting new members hours of classroom and courtroom training and then are asked The Sterling Judo Club will be accepting new members to evaluate for 8-10 hours per month in the Kenai courthouse. starting today. The club meets every Tuesday and Thursday, at Call 907-646-9880 in Anchorage for more information.

Sterling Elementary, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. (7 p.m. for younger participants). Members are welcome from all surrounding communities. There are no instructor fees or other monthly fees. Soldotna library hosts teen activities Sterling Judo Club is a nonprofit organization and all instrucTeens at the Library activities are every Wednesday in Janutors volunteer their time. Annual USJF membership is $50. The ary, at 4 p.m., in the Community Room at the Soldotna library.

Sterling Judo Club is led by Sensei Robert Brink, 7th degree — Let them eat cake! Jan. 21. On this day in history: Louis black belt, Founder of the Anchorage Judo Club, and former XVI was beheaded in France. Come hear more about this deUSJF President. For more information please contact Clayton capitation-heavy revolution and sample a French snack.

Holland at 394-1823, or Sensei Bob Brink at 907-242-9330 or — Data Privacy Day! Jan. 28. Just because you’re paranoid obobo1a@gmail.com. Information can also be found on the doesn’t mean you’re not right. Everyone online is totally watchSterling Judo Club’s Facebook Page. ing you. Come learn some easy strategies and social media tips to keep your data, and your identity, safer.

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Tribal funk band Pamyua to perform in Kenai

Pamyua will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m., Saturday in the Renee C. Henderson Auditorium at Kenai Central High School.

The concert is a fundraiser for the Kenaitze Indian Tribe’s Yaghanen Youth Program. Tickets will be available at the door or in advance at Kenaitze Indian Tribe offices, and are $10 general admission for all ages.

Music from the Anchorage-based band ranges from Native American, to World Music, to what the band has called “tribal funk.” Alaska Magazine called them “one of the 10 greatest Alaska artists of the millennium,” according to the band’s website. They have performed worldwide, including at the grand opening of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, and were featured in the Discovery Channel’s “Flying Wild Alaska” series.

Pamyua (pronounced bum’yo-ah) is an Inuit word that as a verb means “to request an encore of a drumsong or a dance.” As a noun, the word means “the tail of an animal, object or idea.”

The Kenaitze Indian Tribe’s Yaghanen Youth Program offers activities that encourage academic achievement, respect for all people and cultures, and teach life skills in a safe and positive atmosphere. For more information about the program, contact Michael Bernard at (907)335-7290 or email him at mbernard@ kenaitze.org.

KPC presents traditional Irish music concert The Irishmen are back on the Kenai, and everyone is welcomed to come together at a concert of traditional Irish music and folklore at KPC on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Ward Building. Performers returning include: Dublin native John Walsh on the Tenor Banjo; vocals and Bouzouki by artist Pat Broaders; and Sean McComiskey on Button Accordian. This event is an annual kick-off for Spring semester, is free, and family friendly. Support for this event is made possible by the UAA Diversity Action Council, the KPC Showcase and the Damon Foundation, the KPC Student Union, and the KPC Multicultural Consortium. For more information: Diane at 262-0328.

Square dance classes on tap Beginning square dance classes will be held on Wednesday nights from 6:30-8 p.m. 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.

Learn about foster care and adoption on the Kenai Peninsula A meeting to learn more about foster care and adoption on 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 of Health and Social Services, Office of Children’s Services, offers monthly Resource Family Orientations to give interested individuals a brief overview of the state’s foster care and adoption programs and process. To learn more about how to make a difference in a child’s life and in your community, please join us. For more information, call Tonja Whitney or Michelle Partridge at 907-283-3136.

Have a photogenic pet?

Send the Clarion a picture Pet photos run on the Pets page every Tuesday. They can be color or black and white and may include people. Limit one photo per household. They may be e-mailed to news@peninsulaclarion.com, dropped off at the Kenai office or mailed to the Clarion at P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, 99611. A brief explanation of the photo, the pet’s and owner’s names, owner’s address and phone number must be included.

Photos with an address written on the back will be returned.

For more information, call 907-335-1251.

Compassionate Friends group to meet

Have you lost a child, grandchild, or adult sibling of any age?

The Compassionate Friends of the Kenai Peninsula meets at 6 Alaska Judicial Observers seeks volunteers p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of each month at the Soldotna PubAlaska Judicial Observers is looking for volunteers to ob- lic Library. The next meeting is Jan. 27. For more information, serve in courtrooms. Volunteers must be able to take notes, email tcfofthekenai@gmail.com or call Leslie at 907-398-3113.

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.

• Take Off Pounds Sensibly, for all ages, meets at the Kenai Senior Center. For more information call 907-283-3451.

• Toddler Story Time (18 Months-PreK) in the Children’s Area at the Soldotna Public Library. Get up and get moving with stories, songs, and silly fun that encourages your toddler’s language skills!

For more information, call 907-262-4227.

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

• Kenai Bridge Club plays party bridge at the Kenai Senior Center. Call 907-252-9330 or 907-283-7609.

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• Free Seated Zumba Gold at the Kenai Senior Center. New participants, active older adults, and chair-bound or limited mobility participants are encouraged.

• Stress Relief QiGong Practice in the Community Room at the Soldotna library. Enjoy meditation to restore balance to the entire body. Easy and fun exercises. No previous experience or level of physical ability necessary. Parents and children are welcome! With Duane Gibson.

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• LEGO Club (Ages 6 and up) on Tuesdays in the Community

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Room at the Soldotna Library. Tell your stories and build your world with Legos. Bring a friend with you and let your imagination go wild.

Adult supervision needed for those under the age of 10.

6 p.m.

• Weight Watchers, Woodruef Building, 155 Smith Way, Soldotna. Doors open at 5:15; joining members should arrive by 5:30; Getting Started session for newcomers at 6:30. Call 907-262-4892.

• ICAN (International Cesarean Awareness Network) meets in Old Town Kenai. Contact Niki at 394-9166 for directions. Kids are welcome at this potluck type event.

6:30 p.m.

• Narcotics Anonymous “Speaking of Solutions” group at Central Peninsula Hospital, Redoubt Room, Soldotna.

7 p.m.

• Lost & Found Grief Self Help Group at Christ Lutheran Church, 128 Soldotna Ave. For more information, call 907-420-3979.

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

• AA North Roaders Group Step and Traditions Study at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 907242-9477.

• Alcoholics Anonymous Ninichik support group at United Methodist Church, 15811 Sterling Highway, Ninilchik. Call 907-567-3574.

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.

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What Others Say

A victory for journalism As the world mourned Monday the

Paris bloodshed and debated President Obama’s European absence, a critically important development took place in Washington.

James Risen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, won his legal fight against the U.S. Department of Justice, which wanted him to disclose the sources he used in his newspaper and book coverage of a failed U.S. operation against Iran’s nuclear program.

Risen, backed by his employer and legal team, refused for more than seven years. Prosecutors believe the facts came from Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer on trial for giving Risen the information.

At stake was journalists’ ability to report free of government interference, a bedrock component of the First Amendment’s press freedoms.

Undoubtedly, Monday’s announcement that Risen won’t have to testify at Sterling’s trial is a victory for journalism and the public’s right to know about their government’s actions.

Risen’s rights as a journalist should be considered rock-solid ...

Perspective, as always, is important.

Before James Risen came Gareth Jones, a Welsh reporter who traveled to Soviet Ukraine and reported on the government-caused famine that killed millions in 1932 and 1933.

Jones’ dispatches were carried by newspapers in Britain, Germany and America.

A 2009 story in the London Telegraph explains what happened next. The Soviets banned him and criticized his work’s authenticity. Two years after his reports were published, he died in China, killed by bandits. “Later investigations into the circumstances of his death uncovered a trail of Soviet involvement,” The Telegraph wrote.

Gareth Jones, journalist, risked — and lost — his life for writing about terribly important facts a government wanted suppressed.

By comparison, James Risen was fortunate. His life wasn’t in danger. But his journalistic ethics were, as were his legal rights should he refuse to testify and risk being held in contempt. The Obama administration’s crusade against leakers of government information scooped up Risen, which was absurd, making his a cause celebre for the lovers of journalistic freedom.

We cheer Risen’s victory. It was long overdue. But we’re not naive to think similar situations won’t arise again. Joel Kurtzberg, Risen’s attorney, said the Justice Department has, in essence, created court precedent that journalists may be forced to deal with for years to come. That’s chilling. “I worry about future administrations,” he said. “Now there’s bad precedent, and not every executive branch in the future will exercise their discretion the way this one did. It didn’t have to go this way.”

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Obama sings the same old song

Here’s a suggestion for Joni Ernst, the new Republican senator from Iowa, who will deliver the GOP response to the State of the Union address Tuesday night.

Get a chorus together and open with this old Sammy Cahn-Jule Styne number: “It seems to me I’ve heard that song before; it’s from an old familiar score, I know it well, that melody.”

Advance leaks of the president’s address indicate he will call for higher taxes on the wealthy and successful in order to pay for programs for the poor and middle class.

This is boilerplate Democratic wealth redistribution we’ve heard since New Deal days, which appeals more to emotions than it does to principles with a long history of success.

Since the advent of modern “anti-poverty” programs 50 years ago, according to an analysis by The Heritage Foundation, “U.S. taxpayers have spent over $22 trillion on anti-poverty programs.” And yet the poverty rate remains essentially unchanged. One might conclude then that if you’ve spent 50 years and $22 trillion trying without success to fix something, perhaps you’re doing it wrong and should try a different approach.

If the goal is more successful people who can take care of themselves, incentives must be put in place to encourage people to make right decisions.

First on any anti-poverty help-the-middle-class list must be a stable family life.

A two-parent home where adults love and are committed to each other and in which their children feel loved creates a climate

in which moral and economic values like hard work, self-control, personal responsibility and accountability flourish.

To help achieve this, parents must be educated and they must have jobs. Gov- Cal Thomas ernment can make this easier by reforming the tax code to remove the “marriage penalty,” which in too many instances charges higher taxes to married couples than to singles, and increasing the exemption deductible for children, which might make it possible for one parent to stay home with young children; allow college tuition to be deductible to incentivize more people to obtain a college education and ease their debt upon graduation. Better yet, scrap the tax code entirely and replace it with a flat tax or consumption tax that allows people to save, invest and spend more of the money they earn.

Economically, there must be a change in attitude from working to pay bills, to working to build wealth. Bills, like the poor, we will always have with us, but in building wealth one moves toward independence and personal satisfaction that pays dividends in liberty and personal choice.

Government should also make it easier for people to move in pursuit of new opportunities. My late grandfather worked for the B and O Railroad for 50 years. He retired with a pension, a gold-plated watch

and a lifetime train pass. Those days are long gone. People need to be ready to move to places in pursuit of opportunities that can bring economic and career growth.

Earning more produces more in taxable income and more income means more tax money for federal and state treasuries. My wife and I have moved eight times (so far) and each move provided new opportunities, more experience and eventually higher incomes.

Here’s another suggestion for Sen. Ernst and the new Republican Congress. Let the Democrats focus on misery, poverty and failure. You promote hope, opportunity and achievement. Begin featuring people with stories to tell of how they overcame difficult circumstances — from poverty, welfare, addiction, single motherhood, and so on — and are now independent, strong and if not prosperous, then at least free of their addiction to government.

Leaders should inspire others to follow examples of people who have succeeded in life. Instead, the Democrats’ mantra has been that the poor and middle class can’t succeed without government help. If that were true, the money spent on programs aimed at the poor and middle class would have succeeded by now.

It’s long past time for a new direction and for a new “song” with different words.

In the month we observe the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., how about “We HAVE overcome”?

Email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribune.com.

5 goals from Obama’s 2014 State of the Union

By NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press

to strengthen the credit, reward work, and help more Americans get ahead,” Obama said optimistically — too optimistically, it was able to unilaterally make the change for turned out. The proposal never passed. new federal contractors. The White House estimated it would directly help a few hundred thousand people, but argues the big- Energy ger impact has been that several states and Obama said the goal of his energy pollocalities raised their minimum wage last icy is to create jobs and a cleaner planet year after Obama raised the debate. and announced that he wanted to set higher fuel economy standards for trucks. He followed up by visiting a Safeway distribution Retirement savings center to promote the idea. The process for Obama was able to create a new retire- making the change is underway within ment savings account — dubbed “myRA” the administration, with a new regulation for “my IRA” — geared toward low- and planned to be proposed in March 2015 and middle-income Americans who don’t have finalized in March 2016. the upfront investment that many commercial IRAs require. For years, Obama has been asking Congress to encourage more Americans to grow a retirement nest egg E-mail: news@peninsulaclarion.com by allowing all workers to be automatically enrolled in IRAs unless they specifically Write: Fax: opt out. But Congress hasn’t acted on that, Peninsula Clarion 907-283-3299 P.O. Box 3009 Questions? Call: so Obama offered the more modest myRA Kenai, AK 99611 907-283-7551 plan. The Treasury Department has set up a new security as the basis for the investment The Peninsula Clarion welcomes and for the past month has been running a letters and attempts to publish all pilot program with a small group of emthose received, subject to a few ployers, with plans to expand the program guidelines: by the end of 2015. n All letters must include the writer’s name, phone number and address.

Taxes n Letters are limited to 500 words While most of Obama’s proposals last and may be edited to fit available year were positions he had long advocated, space. Letters are run in the order one of the few new proposals he offered was they are received. extension of the earned-income tax credit, n Letters that, in the editor’s judgwhich helps boost the wages of low-inment, are libelous will not be come families through tax refunds. Obama printed. wanted it broadened to provide more help n The editor also may exclude letto workers without children, a view emters that are untimely or irrelevant braced by some Republicans and conserto the public interest. vative economists. “Let’s work together

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama used his last State of the Union to declare 2014 a “Year of Action,” and he can claim credit for accomplishing several of the goals he laid out. The smaller ones.

That’s because while he was able to check off most of what he promised to do through executive action in last year’s speech, Obama was unable in the bitterly partisan election year to get Congress to go along with the bigger plans he had for the country that required their approval.

As Obama prepares to make that annual trek up Pennsylvania Avenue to address Congress once again, here’s a look back a year later at five of the promises he made — and which got fulfilled and denied.

Immigration “Let’s get immigration reform done this year,” Obama declared to a Congress that had long blocked his efforts. And so he did, although it was not the broad plan he envisioned that would have allowed a path to citizenship for more than 11 immigrants illegally in the United States. Instead, Obama took executive action to make more than 4 million of those immigrants eligible for protection from deportation and eligible for work permits.

Minimum wage One of Obama’s most ambitious ideas was to raise America’s minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour, upping the ante from the $9-an-hour proposal he made in the 2013 State of the Union. Congress wasn’t keen on the idea, but the president C

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Business Business Briefs Chambers set schedules n The Soldotna Chamber of Commerce will meet at noon today at Froso’s Restaurant in Soldotna. An Emergency Management update is planned. RSVP to 2629814. n The Kenai and Soldotna Chambers of Commerce will host a joint luncheon at noon Wednesday at the Kenai Visitors Center for a presentation on “Your business and Pot: Providing details on the new marijuana regulations and how it affects business,” by Renee Schofield, CEO of TSS Inc. RSVP to 283-1991 by 2 p.m. Tuesday.

Soldotna Teen Club benefits from Credit Union 1 Community Support Fund Credit Union 1 (CU1) is pleased to announce that its One for All Alaska Fund has surpassed 2013’s total by 14 percent, showing a strong year-over-year increase. Since the fund’s inception in 2011, the total amount disbursed to communitybased nonprofits has increased 190 percent.

In 2014, the fund’s focus was “community change.” Organizations that support this focus were chosen as beneficiaries in each community where CU1 has a branch. All donations remained in the community in which they were raised.

A grand total of $41,120.58 was donated from the 2014 One for All Alaska Fund to the following organizations: n The Children’s Lunchbox (Anchorage) n Fairbanks Youth Advocates (Fairbanks) n Kodiak Women’s Resource and Crisis Center (Kodiak) n First City Homeless Services (Ketchikan) n The Soldotna Teen Club (Soldotna) n Boys & Girls Club of Eagle River (Eagle River) n Boys & Girls Club of Nome (Nome)

Junior Achievement Raffle tickets available The Kenai Junior Achievement Committee has put together a raffle fundraiser for the 2014-2015 school year. Junior Achievement is the world’s largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices. Tickets are $10 each and all proceeds benefit Junior Achievement programs on the Kenai Peninsula.

Winning tickets will be drawn on March, 21, 2015 at the Kenai River Brown Bears hockey game. You need not be present to win. First place is $1,000, Second place is $600 and third place is $400.

To purchase tickets, please contact Janet Johnson at johnsoja@denalifcu.com or 907-257-1669 or Renee Rybak at r.rybak@alaskausa.org or 907-395-4505.

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The Kenai Watershed Forum is sponsoring two Alaska certified erosion and sediment control lead training sessions Feb. 9-10 in Soldotna. This training explains the erosion process and how to obtain and comply with the EPA NPDES Construction General Permit. The course will describe the key elements of a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan and stormwater Best Management Practices. This is a requirement for people who work on Alaska DOT roads. Other people who may need this certification include commercial and residential builders, project engineers, natural resource managers and anyone responsible for creating, maintaining or evaluating a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan.

Farm business workshops slated Kenai Soil & Water Conservation District invites current and prospective farm business owners to attend one of three educational workshops entitled “Flowers, Fruit & Vegetables: Profitable Opportunities in Alaska.” Presenters Jeff Tranel and John Hewlett of RightRisk, LLC (Colorado) will teach participants how to assess and manage the unique risks of farm businesses with crop insurance, good records and other risk management tools; how to calculate annual profits and long-term return on investment; and how to manage farm income taxes. Sessions are Jan. 26 from 9 a.m. to noon at Homer Public Library and Jan. 26 from 6 to 9 p.m., at Kenai Community Library. There is no charge to attend, but registration is required. To register for Kenai Peninsula locations, contact Heidi Chay at 283-8732 ext. 5 or kenaiswcd@ gmail.com.

Applications due for Dream Big Small Business of the Year Awards Program Applications are due by Feb. 2, 2015 for the Dream Big Small Business of the Year Awards Program. There are many businesses here on the Kenai Peninsula that could qualify for this award, so submit your application. There is a great chance to win $10,000 to help you with your business in 2015.

The Dream Big Small Business of the Year Award, sponsored by Sam’s Club, celebrates the success of small business and honors its contributions to America’s economic growth. This is a chance to win a $10,000 cash prize and gain national recognition for your business! Are you a small business owner with a unique story to tell? If so, then we want to hear from you! The winner, and the 7 regional finalists, and 100 Blue Ribbon winners will be acknowledged on June 9 during America’s Small Business Summit in Washington, D.C. Eligible small businesses can apply by completing the application form, found at https://www.uschamber.com/americas-small-business-summit-2015/dream-big-award.

The application fee is $25 for U.S. Chamber of Commerce members and $150 for non-members. The $150 fee includes a one-year Small Business Alley Level Membership to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

What’s new in your business?

Have you opened a new business, moved to a new location, hired a new person or promoted an employee?

Send us your information at news@peninsulaclarion. com, fax it to 907-283-3299, or drop it by the Clarion at 150 Trading Bay in Kenai.

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Taxes, regs targets for new chair

By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writer

NEW YORK — Cutting regulations and taxes are on Rep. Steve Chabot’s must-do list for small businesses.

The Ohio Republican, who became chairman of the House Small Business Committee when Congress took office last week, plans to continue the committee’s focus on how the government burdens small companies.

“If there’s one thing government can do for small business it’s to get the heck off their backs,” Chabot says. “We do overregulate them. We do overtax them.”

Priorities Chabot plans to hold hearings to advocate for small businesses, as did his predecessor Sam Graves, R-Mo. Chabot says the committee will focus on the health care law and regulations issued by the IRS and Environmental Protection Agency.

Chabot also plans to push for tax relief for small businesses. He noted that when the Republican-led House passed tax bills in the past, the legislation stalled in the then-Democratic led Senate. He’s looking for more progress in a Congress now controlled by the GOP. “We think we have a much better chance at advancing a whole range of tax reform issues,” Chabot says.

Among them: a drop in personal tax rates as well as corporate rates and a permanent increase in tax deductions on equipment and property purchases. Chabot also wants an end to the estate tax, which has forced some families to sell a business when the owner dies because they don’t have enough cash to pay the government.

But he doesn’t expect Republicans to get a free ride. Democrats have enough seats in the Senate to block legislation.

And President Barack Obama has made it clear he’ll continue to use executive orders to make policy changes like one he issued last year to shield about 4 million immigrants from deportation.

While the committee acts as an advocate, its primary jurisdiction is over the Small Business Administration. Chabot wants to see the agency’s lending process streamlined to make it easier to get loans.

“It’s cumbersome, it takes too long,

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In this May 29, 2013 file photo, U.S. Rep Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, speaks at a gathering of tea party activists in Cincinnati. Chabot, who became chairman of the House Small Business Committee when Congress took office last week, plans to continue the committee’s focus on how the government burdens small companies.

there’s far too much paperwork. It just in- regulations he wants to see less of.

“It was the paperwork. You’re just inuntimidates a lot of people,” he says. dated with reporting to the federal government,” he says.

Background Chabot was first elected to Congress from Ohio’s 1st District in 1994, served until he lost his seat in 2008 and won it back two years later. He has been on the Small Business Committee for his entire 18 years in Washington.

His district borders House Speaker John Boehner’s. The two men have a good relationship, Chabot says.

Legislation Chabot sponsored in the last Congress included bills to make permanent the prohibition against state and local government taxes on Internet access and to increase the amount of investor money available to small companies under the SBA’s Small Business Investment Company Program. Neither bill made it to the floor of House.

Before Congress, Chabot ran a small business, a solo law practice. He recalls getting a taste of the kinds of government

Report card Chabot gets good grades from smallbusiness advocates for what they call his genuine concern about companies and willingness to work with both Democrats and Republicans.

“He’s not overly ideological. He’s someone who’s pretty pragmatic about the needs of small business,” says Todd McCracken, president of the National Small Business Association.

Chabot showed his sensitivity to smallbusiness concerns during committee hearings, says Kevin Kuhlman, director of legislative affairs with the advocacy group National Federation of Independent Business.

“He asks good, substantive questions and just keeps an open mind and just listens to the answers,” he says.

Port labor dispute doesn’t take a holiday

By JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — A labor dispute between dockworkers at the West Coast’s sea ports and their employers didn’t take a day off for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

On Monday, ports where longshoremen typically would be busy loading and unloading containers from massive oceangoing ships were unusually quiet. Operators of terminals at ports including at the massive Los Angeles-Long Beach complex ordered crews that were far smaller than normal, saying they needed to organize

dockside yards already congested with containers of goods — not work at normal capacity to add more containers.

As a result, cranes sat idle and companies that want their ships unloaded and released back onto the ocean had to wait.

The Pacific Maritime Association, which represents terminal operators and ocean-going shipping lines, accuses members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union of purposely slowing work to create a crisis and gain bargaining leverage in negotiations over a new contract that began in May. The union blames the maritime association for the backlog.

After early signs of progress at the bargaining table, the two sides began sniping — and as tensions have risen, the rate that cargo is moving has slowed.

The 29 ports from San Diego to Seattle handle about $1 trillion worth of cargo each year according to government data, and though the economic impacts of problems on the West Coast waterfront have not been sweeping so far, exports including produce and some Asian-made imports have been affected. Retailers have complained and elected officials have urged a swift resolution.

Earlier this month, a federal mediator got involved.

Luck or skill? It depends if you’re divorcing You have just entered the Twilight Zone.

It’s a place where CEO’s don’t take credit for their accomplishments but instead attribute it to luck. It’s a place where divorcing wives praise their husbands’ talents and brilliance. It’s a place that exists right here and right now. If you own a company or are a shareholder of a company, this can impact you.

I interviewed Joe Cordell. Mr. Cordell is a founding partner of Cordell and Cordell. It is one of the largest, if not the largest family law firm in the country. He has 103 offices in 28 states, with over 175 divorce attorneys.

Robert Pagliarini: The impetus for this particular conversation was something that I read over the weekend. It was about the Hamm case. Which is shaping up to be potentially the second largest divorces settlement I think the country has ever seen.

And the article I saw was that Miss Hamm, which is now Miss Arnall, rejected an offer to settle for about $1 billion. And of course this piqued my interest.

Joe, since you have expertise in this, I am wondering if you can talk briefly about what this case is, how it started and why she is rejecting a $1 billion settlement?

Joe Cordell: What makes this case especially interesting is that it places each side of the table in the divorce in an unlikely position. By that, I mean you have a husband who is arguing that the bulk of his wealth is entirely the product of luck and good fortune. As a result, it would be a separate asset.

This requires a little bit of explanation.

The way the law works, not only in Oklahoma but in the vast majority of states, the property you’ve owned before you got married continues to be your separate property.

However to the extent that property gained value and that gain in value is due to your sweat equity or your efforts or skill or tal-

ents, then the gain or appreciation is considered marital.

We know if you are a doctor or a lawyer or whatever other career you might have, to the extent that you are generating income in the course of Robert Pagliarini your marriage, that’s marital money. So your paycheck is a marital source of funds.

That logic applies to the increase in value of an asset.

Mr. Hamm’s company is Continental Resources and was founded by Mr. Hamm in 1967. At the time of his marriage to his now divorced spouse Sue Ann, the company was worth approximately $50 million dollars. That is a lot of money, until it became worth $18 billion!

What’s interesting is the persuasive argument on the part of Mr. Hamm’s attorneys. Mr. Hamm has no education to speak of; I’m not even sure if finished high school. He made a decision to buy these abandoned Shell oil fields that virtually all experts agree have no economic value. It turns out they were abandoned by virtually all of the major oil companies in various parts in the United States and elsewhere.

So in the face of the most informed opinions on the planet, Mr. Hamm decides to buy these at a bargain.

It turns out that the bulk of his fortune is attributable to that single decision. His attorneys would argue that in addition to that being blind luck, that there were changes in the international marketplace for oil.

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cal and some political, Mr. Hamm finds himself a multi-billionaire.

Now his wife is arguing a contrary position. She said “No, no. My husband is a good business man, he is smart, and he’s made all these important moves and decisions in the course of our 26-year marriage that resulted in all of this appreciation.”

If she had been successful with that argument, she would have received half of what then would have been $9 billion.

So now she’s appealing that decision because the judge found that there was a part of the appreciation in the value of the company during the marriage that was marital, about $1.4 billion. She was shocked by that because her argument was that it should have been closer to half of the increase in value of the company.

Robert: I think this is a great opportunity for a discussion for anyone who owns stock in a corporation private or public. If the person who runs it or who has a big stake in the company is getting married, there is almost a duty to protect your shareholders. I’ve seen situations where clients get a divorce, and because of the divorce settlement, it can at best impact and at worst ruin a company’s structure. So there needs to be some preparation whether it’s a prenuptial or some other sort of document that spells out a buy/sale agreement.

Something where if there is a dissolution of the marriage, that the company can still continue.

Joe: You’re absolutely right. Prenuptial Agreements speak not only to the incidence of divorce, but also to the incidence of death. If there is a closely held business, it is critical that there be buy/sell agreements that are incorporated into that planning process.

Robert Pagliarini is a CBS MoneyWatch.

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Around the World Republican lawmakers cool to Obama’s proposals on tax issues, promise to try to block WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers are already signaling they will do what they can to block President Barack Obama’s pitch for tax increases on the wealthiest Americans.

Obama is making that pitch to a huge television audience in hopes of putting the new Republican Congress in the position of defending top income earners over the middle class.

As Obama continues to signal what he will propose during Tuesday’s State of the Union address, senior administration officials said during the weekend that he will call for raising the capital gains rate on top income earners and eliminating a tax break on inheritances. The revenue generated by those changes would fund new tax credits and other cost-saving measures for middle-class taxpayers, officials said.

Tax increases are rarely welcomed by congressional Republicans, who now hold majorities in the House and the Senate for the first time in Obama’s presidency. His tax proposals will probably be dismissed, if not outright ignored, by lawmakers outside the Democratic Party’s liberal base.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said that he had heard all five of Obama’s State of the Union addresses, which he said are filled with proposals both good and bad. But he said on ABC’s “This Week” that the president has fallen short by failing to establish close ties to Congress.

Pope on contraception: Good Catholics don’t have to breed ‘like bunnies’ ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis is firmly upholding church teaching banning contraception, but said Monday that Catholics don’t have to breed “like rabbits” and should instead practice “responsible parenting.”

Speaking to reporters en route home from the Philippines, Francis said there are plenty of church-approved ways to regulate births. But he said most importantly, no outside institution should impose its views on regulating family size, blasting what he called the “ideological colonization” of the developing world.

African bishops, in particular, have long complained about how progressive, Western ideas about birth control and gay rights are increasingly being imposed on the developing world by groups, institutions or individual nations, often as a condition for development aid.

“Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonized,” Francis said.

His comments, taken together with his defense of the Catholic Church’s ban on artificial contraception during the trip, signal that he is increasingly showing his more conservative bent, which has largely been ignored by public opinion or obscured by a media narrative that has tended to highlight his populist persona.

Teenager suspected in string of crimes agrees to return to home state of Kentucky PANAMA CITY, Fla. — The drama surrounding two teenage sweethearts on the run from the law ended quietly and unceremoniously in a Florida beach town.

Dalton Hayes, an 18-year-old suspected of committing a string of crimes with his 13-year-old girlfriend, agreed during a quick Monday morning court hearing to return to his home state of Kentucky to face charges.

Hayes and his girlfriend Cheyenne Phillips were arrested late Saturday night in Panama City Beach by the U.S. Marshal’s Service and local police after being found sleeping in a stolen vehicle.

During a first appearance hearing Bay County Judge Shane Vann said “here’s the deal” to Hayes: He could agree to return to Kentucky, or stay in jail while authorities went through a formal extradition process.

“I’ll sign the papers so I can go back to Kentucky,” Hayes said during the brief proceeding held via a video link-up between the Bay County Jail and the Bay County Courthouse.

Hayes appeared fidgety during the start of the brief hearing, but responded quickly to Vann. He signed his paperwork while Vann watched and then was taken out of view back into the jail.

Militiamen control strategic hill Yemeni troops battle Shiite rebels in Yemeni capital

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press

SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s U.S.-backed leadership came under serious threat Monday as government troops clashed with Shiite rebels near the presidential palace and a key military base in what one official called “a step toward a coup.”

The militants seized control of state media in fierce fighting that marked the biggest challenge yet to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi by the rebels, known as Houthis, who swept down from their northern strongholds last year and captured the capital in September.

The violence threatened to undermine efforts by the U.S. and its allies to battle al-Qaida’s Yemeni affiliate, which claimed responsibility for the attack on a Paris satirical magazine this month and which Washington has long viewed as the global network’s most dangerous branch.

The Houthis and forces loyal to Hadi have been in a tense standoff for months and the two sides traded blame for the outbreak of violence Monday. Witnesses said heavy machine gun fire could be heard as artillery

shells struck around the presidential palace. Civilians in the area fled as columns of black smoke rose over the palace and sirens wailed throughout the city.

Hadi, whose government has ceded control over nearly the entire capital, doesn’t live at the palace, and extra soldiers and tanks deployed around his private residence, which is nearby.

As fighting escalated Monday, the convoys of Yemen’s prime minister and a top official affiliated with the Houthis came under fire, and rebel fighters took over Yemen state television and its official SABA news agency, Information Minister Nadia Sakkaf said.

“This is a step toward a coup and it is targeting the state’s legitimacy,” Sakkaf told The Associated Press.

Cease-fire negotiations continued throughout the day by a presidential committee that included the interior and defense ministers, a presidential aide and a tribal sheik close to the Houthis. By the end of the day, a tenuous truce appeared to be holding.

The announcement of a cease-fire came after witnesses said the rebels had seized con-

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Houthi Shiite Yemeni chant slogans during clashes near the presidential palace in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday. Rebel Shiite Houthis battled soldiers near Yemen’s presidential palace and elsewhere across the capital Monday, despite a claim of a cease-fire being reached to halt the violence, witnesses and officials said.

trol of strategic hills that overlook both the palace and the military camp south of it. There was no government confirmation of the loss of territory.

At least nine people were killed in the fighting and 67 were injured, Yemen’s deputy health minister, Nasser Baoum, told the AP. Yemen’s Western and international allies, including the

U.S and Saudi Arabia, called for steps to implement and consolidate the cease-fire, expressing their support for Hadi.

“We reject the use of violence by those who seek to overturn Yemen’s political transition for their own interests, and fully support President Hadi as the legitimately-mandated president,” a statement on the U.S. Embassy website said.

GOP divided over using budget process on health care law

By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Republicans running Congress have promised to use every weapon in their arsenal to take down President Barack Obama’s health care law.

But now some are questioning whether to use the congressional budget process to derail the 2010 law or save the special step for more traditional purposes like cutting spending or overhauling the tax code. A potentially divisive debate between tea party forces and GOP pragmatists looms.

At issue is an arcane process known as budget reconciliation.

It’s the only filibuster-proof option available to Republicans, who control the Senate with 54 seats but must still muster 60 votes to pass other legislation.

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ing and one to raise the government’s borrowing cap — and so a major debate has begun among Republicans over what to put in it.

Hard-line conservatives want to use the process to force a showdown with Obama over the law.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told a Heritage Foundation gathering of conservatives last week that Republicans should “use every procedural tool available, including reconciliation, to repeal Obamacare with 51 votes in the Senate.”

That’s a view shared by conservative groups like the Senate Conservatives Fund and Heritage Action, and prominent voices on the right like Erick Erickson, publisher of the Redstate.com conservative blog.

“It’s time to stop pussy-footing around with excuses and half-assed attempts at partial repeal, and get serious,” Erickson wrote last week. “Make Obama

veto the repeal of his signature legislation.”

Pragmatic voices in the GOP, however, say the certainty of an Obama veto effectively means that Republicans would be wasting the opportunity given them under special budget rules that limit debate and can guarantee delivery of legislation to Obama.

“I’d like to get tax reform done. I think we could do infrastructure in that process. And I think that’s something that could actually get enacted,” said Sen.

John Thune, R-S.D., chairman of the Senate Commerce committee. “I mean we’re going to have a lot of Obamacare votes one way or the other.”

A reconciliation measure can only advance after the House and Senate have agreed upon a measure called a budget resolution, which sets broad parameters for spending, revenues and curbs to benefit programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.

Democrats used reconciliation to help pass Obama’s health care plan.

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Vonn sets World Cup record

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Lindsey Vonn won a super-G Monday for her record 63rd World Cup victory and celebrated with an embrace from a surprise visitor — boyfriend Tiger Woods.

The American broke Annemarie Moser-Proell’s 35-year-old record of 62 World Cup wins with a flawless run down the Olympia delle Tofane course, finishing by a huge 0.85 ahead of Anna Fenninger of Austria.

Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein was third, 0.92 back.

Wearing a mask, Woods weaved through the crowd unnoticed until he shared an emotional embrace with Vonn, who had no idea that the golfer was coming.

“No way!” Vonn exclaimed when she spotted him.

Vonn tied the record of 62 AP Photo/Armando Trovati victories when she won a downLindsey Vonn celebrates after winning a women’s World Cup hill here Sunday, and celebrated super-G race in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, Monday. with family members who rare-

ly attend her races, including her once-estranged father.

“I didn’t think this could get any better than yesterday with my entire family here but now with Tiger here this is unbelievable,” said Vonn. “I said, ‘I can’t believe you came.’ And he said, ‘I told you.’

“I had no idea he was here,” Vonn added. “He told everyone to keep it a secret and I’m surprised. Normally no one can keep a secret in my family. ...

He just showed up. ... He has a tournament soon. So he’s got a lot of work and I’m surprised that he was able to come all the way over here for a few hours to watch me ski.”

Woods did not speak with reporters and did not take part in the victory celebration, when Vonn was joined on the podium by teammates, coaches and family members.

In an apparent gesture to leave the stage to Vonn, Woods watched by himself from a small white tent protected by police, then was quickly ushered away on a waiting snow-

mobile.

Vonn and company went on celebrating, wearing T-shirts that said “63 victories” and “Make History LV63.”

It was a big relief for Vonn after facing intense media pressure to match Moser-Proell in recent weeks.

“I know it’s a big achievement,” Vonn said. “But I have to focus on the skiing. I can’t let everyone else’s expectations get into my head. So that was my goal this weekend, just trying to ski my best. And I thought I did a really good job.”

Moser-Proell, an Austrian great, established her record between 1970 and 1980.

“Moser-Proell was skiing in the 70s and all the young people in Austria don’t know what that record means,” Fenninger said. “For the newer generation it’s very important that Lindsey make history. ... It’s time to have a new record. She’s very important for us, because in America she’s a real superstar.”

Swedish standout Ingemar Stenmark holds the men’s re-

cord of 86 wins.

Breathing heavily and gritting her teeth in the start house, Vonn attacked all the way down and increased her lead at every checkpoint to win by a large margin.

Vonn was relatively subdued in her celebration, having said that win No. 62 was more important to her.

She was the last of the favorites to come down and flashed a big smile upon reaching the finish before doing a slight fist pump.

“I was definitely pushing the limits the whole way down,” Vonn said. “Sometimes I was a little bit out of control but I maintained the speed, especially on the bottom of the course.

I’m so happy to have finished the weekend with win No. 63.

My family and Tiger is here.

It’s a really, really special day.”

It was Vonn’s first win in super-G this season and her fourth overall this campaign, showing a return to top form after two knee injuries kept her out of last year’s Sochi Olympics.

Scherzer goes to Nationals for $210 million

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Sports Writer

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WASHINGTON — Sure seems as if Max Scherzer and his wife now will be able to afford to buy themselves at least one of those nonstick baking sheets they were hoping to receive as a wedding gift.

Or even a few million of ‘em.

The 2013 AL Cy Young Award winner will become the highest-paid right-handed pitcher in major league history after agreeing to a $210 million, seven-year contract with the Washington Nationals that includes a record $50 million signing bonus.

A person familiar with the negotiations outlined the terms to The Asso-

On Tap Peninsula high school sports Tuesday Hockey Soldotna at Homer, 7:30 p.m.

Basketball Ninilchik girls at Nikiski JV, 4 p.m.

Ninilchik boys at Nikiski JV, 5:30 p.m.

Fort Yukon girls at CIA, 5:30 p.m.

Fort Yukon boys at CIA, 7 p.m.

Wednesday Basketball Fort Yukon girls at Ninilchik, 4 p.m.

Fort Yukon boys at Ninilchik, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday Hockey Homer at Kenai, 6 p.m.

Wrestling Soldotna at Kenai, 6:30 p.m.

Basketball CIA boys vs. Hutchison, 10:30 a.m. at Delta tourney CIA girls vs. Dillingham, 9 a.m. at Delta tourney Nikolaevsk Warrior Rumble Newhalen girls vs. Tri-Valley, 2:45 p.m.

Newhalen boys vs. Tri-Valley, 4:15 p.m.

Nikolaevsk girls vs. Fort Yukon, 5:45 p.m.

Nikolaevsk boys vs. Fort Yukon, 7:15 p.m.

Friday Basketball Homer girls at Seward, 6 p.m.

Homer boys at Seward, 7:30 p.m.

Wasilla girls at Soldotna, 6 p.m.

Wasilla boys at Soldotna, 7:30 p.m.

Colony girls at Kenai, 6 p.m.

Colony boys at Kenai, 7:30 p.m.

CIA girls, boys at Delta tournament, TBD Nikolaevsk Warrior Rumble Tri-Valley girls vs. Fort Yukon, 2:45 p.m.

Tri-Valley boys vs. Fort Yukon, 4:15 p.m.

Nikolaevsk girls vs. Newhalen, 5:45 p.m.

Nikolaevsk boys vs. Newhalen, 7:45 p.m.

Saturday Basketball Colony girls at Soldotna, 1 p.m.

Colony boys at Soldotna, 2:30 p.m.

Wasilla girls at Kenai, 3 p.m.

Wasilla boys at Kenai, 4:30 p.m.

Seward girls at Nikiski, 5 p.m.

Seward boys at Nikiski, 6:30 p.m.

Ninilchik girls at Homer JV, 3:30 p.m.

Ninilchik boys at Homer JV, 5 p.m.

CIA girls, boys at Delta tournament, TBD Nikolaevsk Warrior Rumble Fort Yukon girls vs. Newhalen, 9 a.m.

Fort Yukon boys vs. Newhalen, 10:30 a.m.

Nikolaevsk girls vs. Tri-Valley, noon Nikolaevsk boys vs. Tri-Valley, 1:30 p.m.

Monday Basketball Nikiski JV girls vs. CIA at Kenai, 3 p.m. JV Nikiski JV boys vs. CIA at Kenai, 4:30 p.m. JV

ciated Press on Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the deal hadn’t been announced. It creates a formidable rotation for the Nationals — who could try to boost the rest of their roster by trading one of their other starters.

Washington is now the 4-1 favorite to win the World Series, down from 6-1 odds when the offseason started.

Scherzer’s signing bonus tops the previous high of $30 million for any player, given by the Cubs to pitcher Jon Lester this offseason. Scherzer plans to establish residency in Florida, which would shield his signing bonus from D.C. income tax, the person familiar with the negotiations said.

The person said the pitcher is

scheduled to take a physical Tuesday, one of the steps needed for the deal to be finalized.

Scherzer, who spent the past five seasons with the Detroit Tigers before becoming a free agent, will receive the money from the Nationals spread out over 14 years, which lowers its present-day value.

Still, Scherzer did quite well for himself. Indeed, he and his bride — they were married in November 2013 — won’t have to depend on their friends to finish filling the requests on their bridal registry at Crate & Barrel, including the pair of $19.95 baking sheets that no one gave them.

The 30-year-old right-hander’s contract is the second-largest for a pitch-

er, behind only Los Angeles Dodgers lefty Clayton Kershaw’s $215 million, seven-year deal that runs from 201420. The previous high for a righty was the $180 million, seven-year agreement from 2013-19 signed by Justin Verlander, another Cy Young Award winner for the Tigers.

Scherzer turned down an offer from Detroit last March that would have paid him $144 million from 2015-20, an average of $24 million per year.

The Nationals will lose what would have been the 27th pick in June’s amateur draft, while the Tigers will gain an extra pick after the first round.

All in all, for the Nationals, it’s a surprising move to upgrade an already

imposing rotation after a relatively quiet offseason for the NL East champions.

Scherzer was 18-5 with a 3.15 ERA in 2014, a year after going 21-3 with a 2.90 ERA and being voted the best pitcher in the American League. He now joins a club whose starting staff in 2014 included Stephen Strasburg, Jordan Zimmermann, Doug Fister — Scherzer’s former teammate with the Tigers — Gio Gonzalez, and Tanner Roark.

That group already was considered among the best — if not the best — rotation in the majors. The question now is what move could come next for the Nationals, who might pursue a trade.

Hawks top Pistons for 13th-straight win

By The Associated Press

ATLANTA — The Atlanta Hawks won their 13th straight game, one shy of tying the team record, as Mike Scott and Paul Millsap each scored 20 points Monday in a 93-82 victory over the Detroit Pistons.

The Hawks haven’t lost since Dec. 26 against Milwaukee.

basket of a difficult first season in New York, a 3-pointer with 32 seconds left that gave the Knicks a four-point lead. That was just enough to help them hold on for their first victory since Dec. 12 and end the longest single-season skid in franchise history.

three-game losing streak with a win over Sacramento.

Lillard had six points during the final 80 seconds and helped rally the Trail Blazers (31-11) from an 11-point, second-half deficit. Wesley Matthews scored 17 for Portland.

ROCKETS 110, PACERS 98

HORNETS 105, TIMBERWOLVES 80

HOUSTON — James Harden

CAVALIERS 108, BULLS 94 scored a season-high 45 points, inCLEVELAND — LeBron James scored 26 points and J.R. Smith added 20 as Cleveland entered a favorable portion of its schedule with a win over Chicago.

Back home after winning two games in Los Angeles to salvage a trip out West, the Cavs had little trouble with the Central Divisionleading Bulls. Cleveland opened a 25-point lead in the third quarter and handed Chicago its fourth loss in five games.

KNICKS 99, PELICANS 92

cluding 18 in the third quarter, and the Rockets beat the Pacers.

It was the 18th 30-point game and fourth with 40 this season for Harden, the NBA’s leading scorer.

WIZARDS 111, 76ERS 76 WASHINGTON — Marcin Gortat scored 20 points, John Wall had 11 points and 10 assists and the Wizards beat the overmatched 76ers.

Washington went on a 20-3 run for a 27-11 lead late in the first quarter and coasted to the win.

TRAIL BLAZERS 98,

NEW YORK — The Knicks KINGS 94 snapped their 16-game losing PORTLAND, Ore. — Damian streak, getting 24 points and nine rebounds from Carmelo Anthony Lillard scored 22 points, includto beat the short-handed Pelicans. ing the go-ahead basket with 1:20 Jose Calderon made his biggest remaining, and Portland ended a

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Gerald Henderson scored 17 points, Brian Roberts added 16 and the Hornets defeated the Timberwolves — their seventh win in eight games.

Charlotte’s Al Jefferson returned after a nine-game absence due to a groin injury. He had eight points and five rebounds in his 25 minutes. In all, Charlotte’s bench outscored Minnesota’s reserves 52-31. Reserves Gary Neal had 12 points and P.J. Hairston had 11 for Charlotte.

CLIPPERS 102, CELTICS 93 LOS ANGELES — Blake Griffin scored 22 points, DeAndre Jordan had 19 points and 12 rebounds, and the Clippers held off the Celtics after losing most of a 23-point lead.

J.J. Redick and reserve Jamal Crawford added 16 points each in Los Angeles’ eighth win in 11 games. Griffin came up one rebound short of a double-double in helping the Clippers improve to 4-1 against the Celtics in their last five meetings.

final 2 minutes, and the Mavericks defeated the Grizzlies.

The Grizzlies took a two-point lead with about 4 minutes left, but Dallas outscored Memphis 14-4 the rest of the way.

WARRIORS 122, NUGGETS 79

MILWAUKEE — Kyle Lowry scored 18 points and was one of six Toronto players to reach double figures against Milwaukee.

Terrence Ross added 16 points as the Atlantic Division leaders (27-14) won for the third time in 10 games. Ross did not start for just the second time in the last 104 games after he was held scoreless for the only time this season in a 95-93 loss against New Orleans on Sunday.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Klay Thompson scored 22 points, Stephen Curry had 20 points and eight assists, and the State Warriors matched a franchise record with their 16th consecutive home win in impressive fashion.

The NBA-leading Warriors (336) out did Denver (18-23) in nearly every major category, including shooting percentage (54.3 percent to 34.5 percent), rebounds (53 to 39), assists (30 to 17), blocks (six to three) and steals (10 to nine).

Ty Lawson had 19 points and six assists, and Jameer Nelson had 14 points and five assists for the Nuggets, who have lost three in a row.

RAPTORS 92, BUCKS 89

SUNS 115, LAKERS 100

PHOENIX — Goran Dragic and Isaiah Thomas scored 24 points apiece, fellow guard Eric Bledsoe added 17 and Phoenix pulled away in the second half to hand Los Angeles its fifth loss in a row, the last two without Kobe Bryant.

MAVERICKS 103, Nick Young scored 24 for the GRIZZLIES 95 Lakers, who were tied 51-all at MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Dirk halftime but fell behind by 10 Nowitzki scored 21 points, includ- in the third quarter and 19 in the ing the last eight for Dallas in the fourth.

Krzyzewski moves 1 win away from 1,000

By The Associated Press

DURHAM, N.C. — Mike Krzyzewski moved one victory from 1,000 for his Hall of Fame career in No. 5 Duke’s 79-65 win over Pittsburgh on Monday night.

Freshman Tyus Jones matched a season high with 22 points for the Blue Devils (16-2, 4-2 Atlantic Coast Conference).

They shot 46 percent and made 11 3-pointers while holding Pitt to three of them. And for the second straight game they mixed in a 2-3 zone defense — an out-of-character move for Krzyzewski, a noted man-to-man disciple.

Coach K improved to 999-308 during his 40-year career. His first chance to become the first men’s coach in Division I history to reach four figures comes Sunday against St. John’s in Madison Square Garden.

That’s also where in 2011 he passed

Ryan Arcidiacono scored 16 points for regain control.

Bob Knight as the winningest men’s The Jayhawks put the game away from coach in college basketball’s top tier. the Wildcats. the foul line in the final minute.

Jamel Artis had a career-high 21 points for Pitt (13-6, 3-3).

No. 11 KANSAS 85, No. 17 TEXAS 66, TCU 48 No. 19 OKLAHOMA 78 GEORGETOWN 78, LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kelly Oubre Jr. FORT WORTH, Texas — Javan Felix No. 4 VILLANOVA 58 WASHINGTON — Georgetown took over first place in the Big East with an oldfashioned, push-and-shove win worthy of the conference’s legacy of physical play, forcing 17 turnovers and holding Villanova to 34 percent shooting in a victory over the Wildcats.

Freshman Isaac Copeland scored a career-high 17 points, and D’Vauntes SmithRivera also had 17 for the Hoyas (13-5, 5-2), who pulled away early with a 17-0 run on the way to a 42-20 halftime lead and withstood a spirited second-half rally. Georgetown shot 60 percent in the first half and 51 percent for the game to move one-half game ahead of Villanova (17-2, 4-2) — and students celebrated by storming the court at the final whistle.

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scored 19 points, converting two driving layups in the closing minutes, and Kansas held on after blowing a 20-point first-half lead for a victory over Oklahoma.

Perry Ellis added 16 points, Cliff Alexander had 13 points and 13 rebounds, and Brannen Greene scored 12 for the Jayhawks (15-3, 4-1 Big 12), who bounced back from a loss Saturday night at Iowa State by beating Oklahoma (12-6, 3-3) for the 14th straight time at Allen Fieldhouse.

The Sooners nearly pulled off an improbable comeback, going on a 21-3 run early in the second half to get back into the game. But after taking a 71-69 lead with just under 4 minutes to go, the Jayhawks — energized by their student body back on campus — used a 13-5 spurt to

scored 15 points, Isaiah Taylor added 13 and No. 17 Texas rolled to a victory against TCU. The Longhorns (13-4, 3-2 Big 12) never trailed in their second straight win since a two-game skid that included a blowout loss at home to Oklahoma. Earlier in the day, Texas moved up three spots in The Associated Press poll after a 27-point win at home over No. 18 West Virginia.

Taylor, who has played all five conference games after missing 10 games with a broken left wrist, also had seven rebounds and six assists.

Kenrich Williams scored 10 to lead the Horned Frogs (14-4, 1-4), who were coming off a win at Texas Tech that snapped a 23-game conference losing streak, including postseason tournaments.

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Sports Briefs NFL looks at whether Pats deflated footballs The NFL is investigating whether the New England Patriots deflated footballs that were used in their AFC championship game victory over the Indianapolis Colts.

“We are looking into it,” league spokesman Brian McCarthy wrote in an email to The Associated Press on Monday. “We do not have anything further to add at this point.”

The inquiry was first reported by the website for WTHR-TV in Indiana, citing an unnamed source.

“We’ll cooperate fully with whatever the league wants us to, whatever questions they ask,” Belichick said Monday during his regular conference call with reporters.

He said he was unaware there was an issue until Monday morning.

Agent: Camera knocks out Tiger’s tooth CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Tiger Woods has another reason not to like cameras — his agent said it cost him a tooth.

Woods made a surprise visit to Italy on Monday to watch girlfriend Lindsey Vonn capture her record 63rd World Cup race. The photo that generated all the buzz was Woods missing his front tooth.

The culprit, according to his agent, was a camera.

“During a crush of photographers at the awards podium at the World Cup event in Italy, a media member with a shoulder-mounted video camera pushed and surged toward the stage, turned and hit Tiger Woods in the mouth,” Mark Steinberg of Excel Sports said in an email. “Woods’ tooth was knocked out by the incident.”

Race organizers said this was not reported to them. They added that Woods did request extra security and a snowmobile to exit the finish area, and organizers met both requests.

“I was among those who escorted him from the tent to the snowmobile and there was no such incident,” Nicola Colli, the secretary general of the race organizing committee, told The Associated Press. “When he arrived he asked for more security and we rounded up police to look after both him and Lindsey.”

Bethel’s Pete Kaiser wins Kuskokwim 300 BETHEL, Alaska — A Bethel man is the first local musher in nearly 30 years to win the Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race.

Pete Kaiser and his team of nine dogs crossed the finish line in Bethel at 5:31 a.m. Sunday with an elapsed time of 35 hours, 1 minute, 25 seconds.

“It’s kind of crazy, it’s like a dream come true,” he said after fans, friends and family greeted him at the finish line. “I don’t really know what to say.”

Kaiser, who began mushing as a kid and grew up watching the Kuskokwim 300, earns $25,000 for his first place performance.

This was Kaiser’s seventh Kuskokwim 300.

The last local musher to win the race was Myron Angstman in 1986.

“It’s taken a long time for that come around, and it’s cool it finally happened,” Kaiser said.

Brewers trade Gallardo to Rangers Yovani Gallardo is getting a chance to pitch at home.

The Milwaukee Brewers traded Gallardo and $4 million of his $14 million salary to the Texas Rangers for infielder Luis Sardinas and right-handers Corey Knebel and Marcos Diplan on Monday.

“It definitely means a lot. I grew up here, went to high school here,” said Gallardo, who lives in North Texas. “I’m very excited for this opportunity and looking forward to it.”

While the deal gives the Rangers a needed proven starter in the middle of their rotation behind Yu Darvish and Derek Holland, it could also indicate the Brewers may try to pursue free-agent pitcher James Shields.

— The Associated Press

Basketball The Top 25

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 18, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking:

Record Pts 1. Kentucky (63) 17-0 1,623 2. Virginia (2) 17-0 1,562 3. Gonzaga 18-1 1,467 4. Villanova 17-1 1,429 5. Duke 15-2 1,345 6. Wisconsin 16-2 1,282 7. Arizona 16-2 1,228 8. Notre Dame 17-2 1,055 9. Iowa St. 13-3 1,004 10. Louisville 15-3 1,003 11. Kansas 14-3 943 12. Utah 14-3 940 13. Maryland 17-2 937 14. Wichita St. 16-2 857 15. North Carolina 14-4 803 16. VCU 15-3 670 17. Texas 13-4 554 18. West Virginia 15-3 501 19. Oklahoma 12-5 445 20. N. Iowa 16-2 387 21. Baylor 13-4 260 22. Dayton 15-2 241 23. Indiana 14-4 93 24. Seton Hall 13-4 91 25. Iowa 13-5 85

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Others receiving votes: Oklahoma St. 47, Miami 41, San Diego St. 34, Georgetown 33, Stanford 31, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 18, Providence 17, Colorado St. 16, Arkansas 15, Georgia 13, Butler 11, SMU 11, Michigan St. 8, LSU 6, Old Dominion 5, Wyoming 4, Ohio St. 3, Louisiana Tech 2, Tennessee 2, George Washington 1, St. John’s 1, Washington 1.

USA Today Top 25 Poll

The top 25 teams in the USA Today men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 18, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:

Record 1. Kentucky (31) 17-0 2. Virginia (1) 17-0 3. Gonzaga 18-1 4. Villanova 17-1 5. Wisconsin 16-2 6. Duke 15-2 7. Arizona 16-2 8. Maryland 17-2 9. Notre Dame 17-2 10. Louisville 15-3 11. Utah 14-3 12. Iowa State 13-3 13. Wichita State 16-2 14. Kansas 14-3 15. North Carolina 14-4 16. VCU 15-3 17. West Virginia 15-3 18. Texas 13-4 19. Northern Iowa 16-2 20. Oklahoma 12-5 21. Baylor 13-4 22. Dayton 15-2 23. Indiana 14-4 24. Seton Hall 13-4 25. Stanford 13-4

Pts Pvs 799 1 768 2 723 3 697 5 654 6 653 4 602 9 514 11 504 12 502 7 473 8 443 13 424 14 422 10 390 16 317 17 273 15 233 20 202 22 195 18 120 23 100 — 56 — 40 21 33 —

Others receiving votes: Arkansas 29, San Diego State 28, Iowa 27,

Colorado State 26, Oklahoma State 24, Michigan State 17, Ohio State 15, Wyoming 14, Miami 13, SMU 12, Georgetown 11, Old Dominion 11, Butler 5, N.C. State 5, Saint Mary’s 5, Mississippi 4, Providence 4, Valparaiso 4, Kansas State 3, Stephen F. Austin 3, LSU 2, St. John’s 1.

The Women’s Top 25

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 18, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking:

Record 1. S. Carolina (27) 17-0 2. UConn (8) 16-1 3. Baylor 16-1 4. Louisville 17-1 5. Tennessee 15-2 6. Notre Dame 16-2 7. Maryland 15-2 8. Texas 14-2 9. Oregon St. 15-1 10. Texas A&M 16-3 11. Stanford 13-4 12. North Carolina 16-3 13. Arizona St. 16-1 14. Kentucky 15-4 15. Duke 13-5 16. Nebraska 13-3 17. Florida St. 17-2 18. Mississippi St. 19-2 19. Princeton 17-0 20. Iowa 14-3 21. Minnesota 16-2 22. Georgia 16-3 23. Syracuse 13-5 24. W. Kentucky 16-2 25. Rutgers 13-5

UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Nikolay Kulemin had two goals and an assist, and the New York Islanders reclaimed first place in the Eastern Conference with a 7-4 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday.

Following its last game before the All-Star break, New York is assured of being on top of the Metropolitan Division when it resumes play next week.

The Islanders, 15-2 against divisional foes, are off until they host the New York Rangers next Tuesday. The Islanders are 16-4 overall at home.

Michael Grabner, John Tavares and Nick Leddy each had a goal and an assist.

Grabner gave the Islanders the lead on their first shot,

NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Toronto 27 14 Brooklyn 17 24 Boston 13 26 Philadelphia 8 33 New York 6 36 Southeast Division Atlanta 34 8 Washington 29 13 Miami 18 22 Charlotte 17 25 Orlando 15 29 Central Division Chicago 27 16 Cleveland 22 20 Milwaukee 21 20 Detroit 16 26 Indiana 15 28

through the third period and Jonathan Quick made 22 saves for the defending Stanley Cup champions, who wrapped up their seven-game homestand with a dismal 1-2-4 record and dropped out of the playoff picture.

FLAMES 2, KINGS 1, OT

SUNRISE, Fla. — Radim Vrbata and Bo Horvat scored, and Ryan Miller stopped 23 shots to lead Vancouver to its third straight win.

Brandon Pirri spoiled Miller’s bid for a third straight shutout with 2:32 remaining, ending the goalie’s career-best scoreless streak at 200:45. Miller, who had blanked Philadelphia and Carolina in his last two starts, topped his previous best scoreless streak of 161:35, set in 2010 with Buffalo Vancouver improved to 3-1 on a five-game road trip.

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Memphis 29 12 Houston 29 13 Dallas 29 13 San Antonio 26 16 New Orleans 20 21 Northwest Division Portland 31 11 Oklahoma City 20 20 Denver 18 23 Utah 14 27 Minnesota 7 33

and Kulemin made it 3-0 with a short-handed tally on New York’s first shot of the second period. Kulemin also scored in between, and Josh Bailey and Tavares found the net in the Islanders’ three-goal middle period.

LOS ANGELES — Dennis Wideman scored 4:08 into overtime, and Calgary rallied for its fourth straight victory.

Sean Monahan tied it with 6:05 left in regulation for the Flames, who are unbeaten on their fivegame Pacific Division road trip.

Joni Ortio stopped 33 shots in his fourth straight win as Calgary moved past Los Angeles into the final playoff spot in the Western Conference with the victory.

Matt Greene scored midway

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Others receiving votes: Oklahoma St. 52, Chattanooga 45, Washington 30, Green Bay 21, Oklahoma 21, LSU 13, Seton Hall 13, George Washington 12, Long Beach St. 10, Miami 10, Iowa St. 6, South Florida 2, DePaul 1, Pittsburgh 1.

Islanders topple Flyers

By The Associated Press

Pts 867 848 787 746 740 708 629 616 606 551 489 457 451 421 371 315 283 267 219 209 191 132 90 80 65

.707 .690 .690 .619 .488

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.738 — .500 10 .439 12½ .341 16½ .175 23

Pacific Division Golden State 33 L.A. Clippers 28 Phoenix 25 Sacramento 16 L.A. Lakers 12

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.846 — .667 6½ .581 10 .390 18 .286 22½

Monday’s Games Washington 111, Philadelphia 76 Charlotte 105, Minnesota 80 Atlanta 93, Detroit 82 L.A. Clippers 102, Boston 93 Golden State 122, Denver 79 Dallas 103, Memphis 95 Houston 110, Indiana 98 New York 99, New Orleans 92 Cleveland 108, Chicago 94 Toronto 92, Milwaukee 89 Portland 98, Sacramento 94 Phoenix 115, L.A. Lakers 100 Tuesday’s Games Oklahoma City at Miami, 3:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Denver, 5 p.m.

All Times AST

Men’s Scores EAST Albany (NY) 64, Stony Brook 47 Detroit 81, Northeastern 69, OT Georgetown 78, Villanova 58 Hartford 65, UMBC 63 NJIT 65, Maine 55 New Hampshire 67, Mass.-Lowell 64, OT Vermont 64, Binghamton 44 SOUTH Appalachian St. 69, Troy 64 Ark.-Pine Bluff 54, Alcorn St. 49 Bethune-Cookman 65, Morgan St. 58 Charleston Southern 82, UNC Asheville 75 Coppin St. 87, Florida A&M 75 Delaware St. 59, Savannah St. 50 Duke 79, Pittsburgh 65 ETSU 90, Tusculum 52 Florida St. 59, Clemson 55 High Point 72, Longwood 67 Louisiana-Monroe 57, LouisianaLafayette 55 NC Central 59, Hampton 52 Norfolk St. 74, NC A&T 60 SC State 73, Md.-Eastern Shore 72, OT South Alabama 66, UALR 64 Southern U. 79, MVSU 55 MIDWEST Kansas 85, Oklahoma 78 SOUTHWEST Georgia St. 60, Arkansas St. 54 Houston Baptist 84, Cent. Arkansas 61 Lamar 57, SE Louisiana 50 Prairie View 74, Grambling St. 60 Stephen F. Austin 79, New Orleans 54 Texas 66, TCU 48 Texas Southern 67, Jackson St. 54 Texas-Arlington 66, Texas St. 55 FAR WEST

No major team scores reported

Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 47 29 14 4 62 152 126 Detroit 46 26 11 9 61 134 115 Montreal 44 28 13 3 59 121 105 Boston 46 24 16 6 54 121 117 Florida 44 20 14 10 50 107 122 Toronto 47 22 22 3 47 139 146 Ottawa 44 18 18 8 44 120 122 Buffalo 47 14 30 3 31 89 167 Metropolitan Division N.Y. Islanders 46 31 14 1 63 151 129 Pittsburgh 44 26 12 6 58 134 111 N.Y. Rangers 43 26 13 4 56 131 104 Washington 45 24 13 8 56 133 115 Columbus 44 20 21 3 43 113 138 Philadelphia 47 18 22 7 43 127 144 New Jersey 47 17 22 8 42 107 134 Carolina 46 16 25 5 37 98 120

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Nashville 44 30 10 4 64 136 102 St. Louis 46 29 13 4 62 148 111 Chicago 45 28 15 2 58 139 105 Winnipeg 47 25 14 8 58 131 117 Dallas 45 21 17 7 49 143 148 Colorado 47 19 18 10 48 122 135 Minnesota 45 20 20 5 45 124 132 Pacific Division Anaheim 46 30 10 6 66 133 121 Vancouver 44 26 15 3 55 123 110 San Jose 47 24 17 6 54 127 130 Calgary 46 25 18 3 53 133 119 Los Angeles 46 20 14 12 52 127 122 Arizona 45 16 24 5 37 104 150 Edmonton 46 11 26 9 31 104 154 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Monday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 7, Philadelphia 4 Carolina 4, Toronto 1 Vancouver 2, Florida 1 St. Louis 3, Colorado 1 Columbus 3, Minnesota 1 Calgary 2, Los Angeles 1, OT New Jersey 5, San Jose 2 Tuesday’s Games Ottawa at N.Y. Rangers, 3 p.m.

Edmonton at Washington, 3 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 3:30 p.m.

Nashville at Montreal, 3:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 3:30 p.m.

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

Arizona at Chicago, 4:30 p.m.

Boston at Dallas, 4:30 p.m.

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Transactions BASEBALL American League HOUSTON ASTROS — Traded OF Dexter Fowler to the Chicago Cubs for INF Luis Valbuena and RHP Dan Straily.

TEXAS RANGERS — Acquired RHP Yovani Gallardo and cash considerations from Milwaukee for RHP Corey Knebel, INF Luis Sardinas and RHP Marcos Diplan.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with RHP Daniel Bard on a minor league contract.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with LHP Erik Bedard on a minor league contract.

MIAMI MARLINS — Agreed to terms with INF-OF Don Kelly on a minor league contract.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Agreed to terms with OF Nori Aoki on a one-year contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Signed F James Michael McAdoo to a 10-day contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Named David Lee quarterbacks coach.

CHICAGO BEARS — Named Jeff Rodgers special teams coordinator.

DENVER BRONCOS — Named Gary Kubiak coach and signed him to a four-year contract.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Named Bill Musgrave offensive coordinator.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Named Cory Undlin defensive backs coach and Justin Peelle tight ends caoch. Announced defensive backs coach John Lovett and tight ends coach Ted Williams will move to the pro scouting department.

Canadian Football League CALGARY STAMPEDERS — Resigned QB Drew Tate. Released DL Shawn Lemon.

MONTREAL ALOUETTES — Named Kavis Reed special teams coordinator.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Chicago F Daniel Carcillo six games for cross-checking Winnipeg F Mathieu Perreault during a Jan. 16 game.

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Activated D Robyn Regehr from injured reserve. Placed G Martin Jones on injured reserve, retroactive to Jan. 14.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Reassigned F Viktor Stalberg to Milwaukee (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer MONTREAL IMPACT — Named Enzo Concina assistant coach.

TORONTO FC — Signed F Sebastian Giovinco, effective July 1.

North American Soccer League NEW YORK COSMOS — Signed MF Walter Restrepo.

COLLEGE BIG TEN CONFERENCE — Suspended Wisconsin hockey student-athlete Eddie Wittchow one game for receiving a disqualification penalty in a Jan. 17 game against Minnesota, plus one additional game under the conference’s supplemental discipline process. Suspended Minnesota hockey student-athlete Vinni Lettieri one game for leaving the bench during the same incident.

CCNY — Named Andrijana Todorovic men’s volunteer volleyball coach.

NORTH CAROLINA — Named Gene Chizik defensive coordinator.

VANDERBILT — Cortez Hankton wide receivers coach.

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lia Cook to be included in the training curriculum, which may help normalize ALICE concepts.

“It teaches students about doing something rather than nothing,” Sjogren said.

Parent Rhonda Scott said she was disappointed only three parents had shown up to the meeting.

Scott said she attended to learn about what the school district is changing in their curriculum that can help make students safer at school.

“I think this is far better than the lockdown method, where everyone in the building are sitting ducks,” Scott said. “With ALICE teachers and students learn to defend themselves.”

Scott said she believes her children would be able to easily pick up on the new training, but it may feel scary for them at first because of the content. She said she thinks parents should reinforce the idea behind ALICE at home because active shooters can target public places as well.

“Is it perfect? No. Is it better than what we had? Absolutely,” Sjogren said. “It really falls on your shoulders and educators at this level to make those decisions. You will have to make the best decisions you can. You have to empower yourselves and empower each other.”

Last August principals, local law enforcement and school district administration received the first round of education and training for ALICE. Alaska State Troopers and municipal police were designated within the school district as the primary trainers for staff and students in individual schools and classrooms.

Parent Heidi Bond, who attended the site council meeting, said the training seems to be in the beginning stages in terms of actually being implemented in the schools.

Mountain View assistant principal Bill Withrow said it wouldn’t likely be until early spring when students receive training for carrying out ALICE. Right now school district and building administrators are developing the material that will be taught in the classrooms, he said.

“The educational material will be age appropriate,” Withrow said. “We are not going to show the same material to a sixth-grader, senior and kindergartner.”

Sjogren said in a few years the kindergartners and firstgraders will have the procedure down just like a fire drill. He recommended books such as Reach Kelly Sullivan at kelly.

“The Ant Hill Disaster,” by Ju- sullivan@peninsulclarion.com.

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last two winters on the Kenai Peninsula has been frustrating not only for him, but for everyone associated in the snowmachine industry.

“It’s a bummer. The lack of snow is making the sport shrink,” he said. “The best part about riding is going to my mountain cabin. Nobody is more upset about it than I am. This is not the Alaska I remember.”

Soldotna Arctic Motor Sports dealer Lane Giesler said he has known Davis since he was racing dirt bikes as a kid.

He said he has given Alaska more exposure to the sport through his video documentary, “Winter Project,” about the history of backcountry riding. He said he is excited to see how he does this weekend.

“I’m hoping he has some great runs,” he said. “I have known him forever. He is a good kid.”

Davis, now a veteran of the sport since he broke into the X Games at age 16, has become one of the marquee names in the snowmachine circuit. He said he is looking forward to competing against the best in the business and his goal is to always do better every time out. The excitement of the competition has become just part of the job, he said.

“This is a prestigious event,” he said. “It’s the most important thing I do this year.”

The snowmobile speed-andstyle event will air at 5:15 p.m.

AST on Thursday on ESPN. Davis will also compete in the snowmobile long jump on Friday at 7:30 p.m. AST on ESPN.

jump. He said he is looking forward to the speed-and-style event, which is a combination of both, where riders perform midair tricks. The competition to reach the top podium will be close, he said.

“Technically you can lose the race but still win the event based on what tricks you pull off,” he said. “It will be interesting to see how it plays out.”

As he prepares for the biggest competition of the year, Davis said the safety of handling a 450-pound machine in the air is always on his mind.

Two years ago snowmachiner Caleb Moore died from injuries he suffered in a crash during the X Games snowmobile freestyle finals at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen.

Moore under-rotated his sled on a backflip, and the snowmobile skis planted atop the landing ramp, which knocked Moore off. While he was able to walk away at first, Moore suffered a concussion and died of chest trauma. His death was the first in the 20-year history of the X Games.

Last year Colten Moore, younger brother of Caleb Moore, won the freestyle event and dedicated the victory to his brother.

Davis placed sixth in the event.

He said it was hard not to think about his fallen competitor.

“It’s always at the back of my mind,” he said. “The important thing is to give it your best, be focused and ride safe.”

The X Games removed the Reach Dan Balmer at danfreestyle event this year. iel.balmer@peninsulaclarion.

For Davis, a lack of snow the com.

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help offset some of the costs of the games, Murray said.

Other events have just been canceled.

“We’re probably not going to have any snowmachine rides or sled dog rides; maybe not even kicksled rides,” Murray said.

“A lot of the outdoor activities are going to be kind of replaced with the indoor ones.”

Jumpin’ Junction will have two large bouncehouses and the National Guard is bringing a climbing wall. Both will be at the Soldotna Sports Complex, 538 Arena Ave. off Kalifornsky Beach Road, on Saturday.

For a different kind of entertainment, one that could be interactive for school-aged kids, NYO offers a glimpse into Alaska Native culture and insight into a different kind of competition.

While events like the onelegged high kick and the seal hop require an astonishing amount of athleticism, others like the Indian stick pull require a level of craftiness that doesn’t necessarily require competitors to be in top physical form.

Organizers leave five open spots in each game for kids in the crowd who want to participate.

During the games, the competitors will often push themselves to compete and then immediately began cheering for the other competitors.

“They’re competing against themselves, trying to better themselves,” said Kenaitze Indian Tribe Yaghanen Youth Center programs director Michael Bernard.

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Kenaitze Indian Tribe NYO Invitational Friday n 5:45 p.m. Opening Ceremony n 6 p.m. Scissor broad jump (juniors) and one-hand reach (seniors) n 7:30 p.m. Alaskan high kick Saturday n 8 a.m. Coaches meeting n 8:30 a.m. 2-foot high kick n 9:30 a.m. Arm pull (juniors) and toe kick (seniors) n 11:30 a.m. Lunch n 12:30 p.m. Kneel jump n 1:30 p.m. Eskimo stick pull n 3 p.m. One-foot high kick n 5:30 p.m. Potluck dinner (open to the public at the Kenai Middle School commons

As Bernard spoke about the games during a recent practice, his older students spent most of their time helping the younger kids with technique.

The Indian stick pull drew a long line of hopeful competitors near the end of the practice.

It requires two people to grasp a greased stick and try to yank it out of each other’s hands.

Kya Ahlers, 13, said the trick to the pull was to push first.

“The stick is supposed to be a fish,” she said. “The other person is like the fish and they’re wiggling it and so you grab onto and pull it so the fish doesn’t get out of your hands.

I push forward first and get the extra part (of the stick) and then I pull.”

Ahlers got a taste of competing against herself as she

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Departments are looking for efficiencies and ways they can better work together, Walker said. But he wasn’t sure what kind of reductions that might result in and said it certainly wouldn’t close the gaping budget hole.

Walker, who took office Dec. 1, is expected to release more details on his budget plans this week. He submitted his predecessor’s operating budget and a bare-bones capital budget that generally included projects with federal match money as placeholders to meet a Dec. 15 deadline for submitting budget plans to the Legislature. He has until Feb. 18 to submit revised budgets but said he wants to get them to lawmakers as soon as possible.

“What we have said is, there really isn’t any area that is protected from adjustment,” Walk-

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er said.

The state is facing a $3.5 billion budget deficit this year and a potentially larger deficit next year amid the fall in oil prices, according to a new analysis by the Legislative Finance Division. Alaska relies heavily on oil revenue to fund the cost of government, and the state is expected to use savings to help it get by.

The analysis shows that the statutory budget reserve fund, which is easier for lawmakers to draw from than other funds, is expected to be dry by the end of this fiscal year. The constitutional budget reserve, which requires a three-fourths vote in the House and Senate to tap, is projected to have $9.3 billion at the end of the year.

The state also has billions in a Permanent Fund earnings re-

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tournament n Noon-4 p.m. Kids Carnival at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex, 538 Arena Avenue n 3 p.m. Bird TLC at the SolSunday dotna Regional Sports Comn 9 a.m. Coaches meeting plex n 9:30 a.m. Wrist carry n 10:30 a.m. Indian Stick n 5:30 p.m. Fireworks at the Soldotna Regional Sports pull Complex n 1 p.m. Seal hop n 3 p.m. Closing ceremony The Kenai Peninsula Hockey Association will hold Peninsula Winter the Stanley Chrysler Cup Games at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex and the KeFriday n 5:30 p.m. Adults only nai Hockey Rink.

Monopoly tournament at Mykel’s Restaurant, 35041 Online: visitsoldotna.com/ chamber/events/peninsulaKenai Spur Highway winter-games/ Saturday n 10 a.m. Kids monopoly area) n 7:30 p.m. PAMYUA in concert at the Kenai Central High School Auditorium

worked on her one-foot high kick, a task that requires jumping off the ground with both feet, kicking one foot high and touching a beanbag suspended off of the floor, then landing on the foot that kicked the bag.

While Ahlers psyched herself up for her 66-inch jump, Bernard walked behind her and quickly raised the bag.

Ahlers took a deep breath, leapt off the floor and landed off-balance and without touching the bag the first three times she tried.

“Come on, you can do this,” Bernard said.

Ahlers looked at the bag one more time, took a deep breath, jumped and barely grazed the bag with the tips of her toes before landing in a perfect crouch. serve account.

Increases in statewide costs, such as pension system payments, debt service, and oil and gas production tax credits, account for a large portion of the increases in the operating budget over the last nine years, the analysis says. Other major budget drivers are Medicaid and education.

Walker said he thinks the state will save money if it expands Medicaid coverage, as he hopes to do.

The governor said he doesn’t want to get too tangled in the debate over possible new revenue this year.

“I think everybody’s in agreement, I think, that we need to make these budget adjustments first,” he said.

House Majority Leader Charisse Millett, R-Anchorage, said the focus of her GOP-led caucus will be on cutting the budget where possible and making tough decisions, with input from Alaskans.

She nodded as Bernard told her to get a nearby measuring stick, but her serious expression gave away to a wide smile when she saw the height of the bag.

“70-inches?” she said. “I did not know that I could kick that high. That was awesome. This is my favorite event.”

Bernard said support from visiting teams, parents and the community was a large part of encouraging the kids to better themselves.

“The idea is that bettering yourself would better your community — so competing against yourself and making yourself better makes your team better,” he said.

Reach Rashah McChesney at rashah.mcchesney@peninsulaclarion.com.

Teen shot during fight in Anchorage ANCHORAGE (AP) — Anchorage police are looking for the person who fired gunshots outside an apartment complex, injuring a 17-year-old girl.

Police say a fight broke out during a gathering of about 15-20 people in northeast Anchorage Sunday night. Several shots were fired and one of the shots hit the teen in the thigh.

Friends at the gathering took her to a nearby hospital. She was treated and released.

Detectives were interviewing witnesses throughout the night. Police continue searching for the shooter who remains at-large Monday morning.

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Notice to Creditors

Invitation to Bid

In the Matter of the Estate

DONNA LEE WILCOX

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Deceased.

Case No. 3KN-14-225

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the undersigned Personal Representative of the estate, at DOLIFKA & ASSOCIATES, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, P.O. Box 498, Soldotna, Alaska, 99669.

KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT INVITATION TO BID #121-15 Athletic Equipment and Supplies The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District hereby invites qualified vendors to submit a proposal for acceptance by the District to purchase Athletic Equipment and Supplies One (1) original of the sealed bid must be submitted to the Purchasing Department, Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, 139 East Park Avenue, Soldotna, AK 99669, no later than 4:00 PM local time on February 13, 2015. Bid can be obtained by calling 907-714-8876 during normal business hours, or from the District website www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us Kenai Peninsula Borough Code requires that businesses or individuals contracting to do business with the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District be in compliance with Borough tax provisions.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the undersigned Personal Representative of the estate, at DOLIFKA & ASSOCIATES, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, P.O. Box 498, Soldotna, Alaska, 99669.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the undersigned Personal Representative of the estate, at DOLIFKA & ASSOCIATES, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, P.O. Box 498, Soldotna, Alaska, 99669.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI

Deceased.

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Deceased.

Case No. 3KN-14-242 PR/E NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Case No. 3KN-14-226

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the undersigned Personal Representative of the estate, at DOLIFKA & ASSOCIATES, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, P.O. Box 498, Soldotna, Alaska, 99669.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the undersigned Personal Representative of the estate, at DOLIFKA & ASSOCIATES, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, P.O. Box 498, Soldotna, Alaska, 99669.

PUBLISH: 1/20, 27, 2/3, 2015

PR/E

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

DATED this 30th day of December, 2014.

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE SANDRA BELL

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE JAMIE E. BURNS

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PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE CANDIE MILLER PUBLISH: 1/20, 27, 2/3, 2015

PUBLISH: 1/6, 13, 20, 2015

2045/6090

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI In the Matter of a ) Protective Proceeding of: ) ) AVERY DELANEY BUTLER

NOTICE TO ABSENT PARENT You are hereby summoned and required to file with the court a response in the form of either a Parental Consent (PG615) or an Objection to the Appointment of a Guardian. Both forms are available on the court’s public website at http://courts.alaska.gov/forms.htm.

Your response must be filed with the court at: 125 Trading Bay Dr. Suite 100 Kenai, AK 99611 (court address) within 30 days after the last date of posting of this notice. In addition, you must send a copy of your response to the petitioner or attorney of record whose address is on file at the Alaska Court System.

If you fail to file a response with in the required time, the court may grant the Appointment of Guardianship if it finds it to be in the best interest of the child.

You have been made a party to this action because you are a legal parent or legal guardian of the minor child.

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All real estate advertising in this publication is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.�

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this publication are available on an equal opportunity basis.

TO THE PARENT OF THE MINOR CHILD NAMED ABOVE: UNKNOWN FATHER Case No: 3KN-14-00211PR

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In the Matter of the Estate

DATED this 16th day January, 2015

PR/E

FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE IN PLACING ADS YOU MAY USE YOUR VISA OR MASTER CARD

DATED this 15th day January, 2015

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI

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) ) )

Deceased.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice to Creditors

MARGARET EVANGELINE KRUGER

LAVERN MILLER

Case No. 3KN-14-241

PUBLISH: 1/20, 27, 2/3, 2015

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PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE DENNIS DOWNS

Notice to Creditors

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In the Matter of the Estate

DATED this 15th day January, 2015

2043/6090

In the Matter of the Estate

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI

Case No. 3KN-14-238 PR/E NOTICE TO CREDITORS

DATED this 30th day of December, 2014.

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE TIMOTHY T. JACOBSON PUBLISH: 1/6, 13, 20, 2015

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Deceased.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

2059/225

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TAMILA K. JACOBSON,

Invitation to Bid

PUBLISH: 1/20, 2015

In the Matter of the Estate

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Notice to Creditors

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI

KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT INVITATION TO BID #120-15 A-V Equipment and Supplies The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District hereby invites qualified vendors to submit a proposal for acceptance by the District to purchase A-V Equipment and Supplies One (1) original of the sealed bid must be submitted to the Purchasing Department, Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, 139 East Park Avenue, Soldotna, AK 99669, no later than 4:00 PM local time on February 10, 2015. Bid can be obtained by calling 907-714-8876 during normal business hours, or from the District website www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us Kenai Peninsula Borough Code requires that businesses or individuals contracting to do business with the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District be in compliance with Borough tax provisions.

PUBLISH: 1/20, 2015

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Lead paint poisoning affects over one million children today.

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Gay grandma is unhappy being shielded from son’s kids DEAR ABBY: I came out of the closet when my son was 4. I thought I had taught him not to judge because of a label. He’s now 30, with a wife and two adorable children who own my heart.

When my granddaughter was born, my partner and I were at the hospital and have visited with them often and they with us. However, after my grandson was born last year, my son quit speaking to me.

I have asked him numerous times what the issue is. His response is: “I have to protect my children from people who are gay. I don’t want them to know anyone who is gay.” His wife and her family are very religious, and I feel this is the real reason. What can I do?

— HEARTBROKEN GAY GRANNY DEAR HEARTBROKEN: If your son is under the mistaken impression that he is going to somehow “protect” his children by isolating them from gay people, he must be living in an alternate reality. Does he also plan to emigrate to the moon?

I suspect you have put your finger squarely on the reason why your son is now ostracizing you. His wife appears to wield the power in that family, and could benefit by learning more about homosexuality AND her religion, which I assume

preaches love and tolerance for one’s fellow man rather than judgment and exclusion.

You can’t force your son and his wife to have contact with you if they don’t want to. Leave open the possibility that they may, over time, reconcile their love for you with their faith.

For your own emotional Abigail Van Buren well-being, it’s important you find other outlets for your maternal instincts and go on with your life because any child would be blessed to be a part of it. Sadly, a large number of LGBT young people are rejected by their parents when they come out.

These kids would benefit greatly from having a positive adult mentor like you.

This could be your golden opportunity to make a significant, positive difference in someone’s life.

Contact Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays at pflag.org to find out how to get involved.

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but you will do it anyway. Tonight: Have a serious talk.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH You’ll be encouraged to get an overview and detach from the here and now. You could gain a new perspective that will force you to rethink a decision. Someone you view as an authority figure might be overly serious. Tonight: Feed your mind with a good book or movie.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Defer to someone for whom you have a great deal of respect.

Do not be surprised if you suddenly begin to pick up on different vibes and need to rethink your relationship with this person. You could feel less than highly energized. Tonight: Be a duo.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH If you have felt as though you have been on unsteady ground with a key person in your life, you’ll want to stabilize the situation at this point. You have a potential new beginning with a relationship. Stay open to relating, even if someone is difficult. Tonight: All smiles.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHYou might be overly concerned about a situation and unsure what would be the best way to calm it down. Try not to trigger someone.

You have the possibility of a new beginning. Allow your creativity to flow, and find the appropriate path.

Tonight: Play it low-key.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Your creativity flourishes, whether you’re dealing with a loved one or seeking a solution for a problem that plagues your daily life. A wish or resolution made today is likely to stick. Decide to use the New Moon energy of the day properly.

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DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend is a widower. We have been dating for more than a year. He has his house and I have mine.

I just found out that we are sleeping in the bed his late wife died in. (She died in her sleep.) I had assumed that he had taken care of all that stuff because her clothes and other personal effects are gone.

How do I suggest we get another bed at his place?

I try to have him come to my home as often as I can.

But there are still times we end up at his house, and it’s creepy.

— SLEEPING POORLY IN FLORIDA DEAR SLEEPING POORLY: I agree. Tell him how you feel and suggest the two of you select a new mattress for his bed together.

You have been a couple long enough that you should be able to speak frankly with him. And he has enough time invested in you that he should be willing.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars A baby born today has a Sun in Capricorn if born before 1:44 a.m. (PST). Afterward, the Sun will be in Aquarius. The Moon is in Capricorn if born before 4:59 a.m.

(PST). Afterward, the Moon also will be in Aquarius.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015: This year you are unusually dynamic and creative. You are able to make your desires possible. Doing so adds to your confidence and sense of well-being. If you are single, you probably have noticed more admirers around you. Your dating life will be active. After August, you might decide to settle down. If you are attached, the next 12 months promise a new beginning for you and your relationship. Your bond functions best when you allow it to flow without judging every interaction. AQUARIUS seems to have an unusual need for independence.

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 Once you wake up, an idea you have been mulling over for a while will emerge! Test it out on several people. The time has come to make it a reality. The feedback you get might cause some adjustments, but they will point you down the right path. Tonight: Where your friends are.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH All eyes are likely to turn to you. A new beginning becomes possible, especially with a higherup, parent or boss. You might not be ready to assume all the responsibility that you want or need to,

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Tonight: Let the fun begin!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH You will want to understand what is going on with a loved one.

Focus on the quality of your daily life.

Loosen up and remain confident. A close neighbor or friend could need time with you to talk. You might not want to hear what he or she has to say. Tonight: Mosey on home.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH A new beginning becomes possible with a key relationship or in your immediate surroundings.

You could be out of sorts, as if someone is raining on your parade.

Might you be misreading the other party? Give this person space. Tonight: Hang out with a pal.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Reach out to a loved one whom you care a lot about. Weigh the pros and cons of a money matter. You might need to pull back some with regard to your budget.

Follow your sixth sense, should you get confused. Tonight: Make it your treat.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHHYoumightfeelreadytomake a move on an important situation.

Remember to think before you leap! You will follow a path close to what you initially visualized. You could be confused by a friend who might be less than optimistic. Tonight: Where the fun is.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHYou’ll have information that you must keep hush-hush. You could be overly concerned about what you need to do. Trust that you will make a good choice if you follow your intuition. Understand what an older friend or relative expects from you.

Tonight: A must appearance.

The men speak out!

Dear Heloise: When I get an advertisement from lawyers, doctors or businesses on magnets, I don’t throw them away — I use them. I take a picture of a family member or pet that’s about the same size. I paste it over the advertisement, then put it on my refrigerator. My family loves my collection, and I even send them to friends.

— Earl Harmon, Port St. Lucie, Fla. P.S.: I love your hints in the magazine (Good Housekeeping magazine — Heloise) and newspaper columns.

The other day, I was at a home-improvement store to pick up supplies for a hint I read in your column. The salesman asked what I was making. He said, “What a great idea — did you think of it?” I couldn’t lie and said I read it in your column. He said, “Wow ... I thought all those helpful hints were about making cupcakes.” I think he is a follower now.

Careful tarping Dear Heloise: Regarding placing a tarp over your car to easily remove snow: It may work on some cars, but it likely will destroy the luster on most.

Snow is heavy, and on top of a tarp it can scratch your car. The more often you do this, the more scratches will accumulate.

To those wives whose husbands think they are too manly to read your articles: I’m a 55-year-old man who fishes, works on cars, operates heavy equipment and fixes almost anything.

I not only learn something occasionally, but I enjoy reading your column.

Thanks.

— Dave in Dayton, Ohio Dear Earl and Dave: Thank you both for writing and reminding folks that this column is NOT just about baking, sewing and housework. It’s about life, and how to fix things, prevent and solve problems and take care of yourself.

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Peninsula Clarion, Tuesday, January 20, 2015

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Indoor petting zoo planned for strip mall

BY LARRY LARUE The News Tribune

TACOMA, Wash. — Debbie Dolittle Penwell can’t remember how she started collecting camels, as if adopting and housing six of the beasts were nothing extraordinary.

In her life, it wasn’t.

Penwell was raised in White Center, a King County community that embraces its nickname, “Rat City,” on the city website. It’s where her love of animals began.

“I had rabbits, dogs, cats, ducks, chickens and one goat,” she said. “I was always the kid with the animals.”

At 51, she still is. Penwell and boyfriend Don Miller share a 10-acre farm in Parkland and, if you count every little chicken, duck and camel, they have more than 100 animals.

“We met because both of us advertised goats for rent on Craigslist,” she said.

“I wanted to check out the competition,” Miller said.

“When I did, I knew I was done,” he added, noting he found her very attractive. “If you met the

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two of us, who would you rent a goat from?”

Life, he said, has been happy chaos ever since.

“Debbie gets calls from people all the time asking if she can take this animal or that one,” Miller said. “She has a lot of connections, and she can help place most anything.”

A lot of times, that placement is at their own farm.

Just caring for so many creatures — both livestock and exotics — is a full-time gig. But that’s not the half of it for Penwell and Miller.

“We still rent out goats for brush-clearing, and we work with cities and landowners,” Penwell said. “We’ve got a contract now with the Point Defiance Zoo to do camel rides, and other zoos have expressed an interest.”

In addition, Penwell for years has taken her animals to children’s parties around the Puget Sound, packing up everything from rabbits to wallabies, providing zebra, pony and donkey rides.

It paid the bills — some months, just barely.

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AP Photo/The News Tribune, Lui Kit Wong

In a Thursday photo, Debbie Dolittle Penwill holds a smiling four months old pig, Ginger, at Jozee Rooz Indoor Petting Zoo in Parkland, Wa. Penwell and boyfriend Don Miller share a 10acre farm in Parkland and have more than 100 animals. They plan to open the Jozee RoozIndoor Petting Zoo soon.

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A brief explanation of the photo, the pet’s and owner’s names, owner’s address and phone number must be included. Photos with an address written on the back will be returned.

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