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Camp Mend-A-Heart Camp Mend-A-Heart is a free day camp for ages 6 to 16 who are experiencing a loss due to death. Camp is held at Solid Rock Camp, just outside of Soldotna and in a beautiful, wooded area. Many fun activities as well as age appropriate grief activities. All applications must be in by July. Please contact Hospice at 262-0453 for additional information and applications. Monday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Turning Plastic waste into 3D filament wins 29th Caring for the Kenai
Sterling Senior Center breakfast The Sterling Senior Center will be serving breakfast on Saturday, April 27, from 9 a.m. to noon. Menu includes pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits and gravy. Adults $10, children $5. All proceeds benefit the center. Everyone welcome!
Alzheimer’s Community Forum An Alzheimer’s Community Forum will be held Wednesday, May 1, 5-7 p.m. Hear a brief overview on Alzheimer’s, dementia and memory loss. Bring a friend who has been affected by the disease. Share your thoughts about how we can help people in your community. Light refreshments will be provided. Registration is requested. Call 907953-0160 or email harrismc78@gmail.com.
ASEA/AFSCME Local 52 scholarship ASEA/AFSCME Local 52 Cook Inlet Chapter is offering three scholarships to applicants who have not previously received a scholarship. Scholarship applications must be received or postmarked by May 31st of the current year. Applications are available at the ASEA/AFSME Cook Inlet Chapter website.http://www.afscmelocal52.org/index. php/union-leadership/ chapters/cook-inletchapter. If you have questions or need more information please send an email to cookinlet3432@outlook.com or ginakuntzman@ yahoo.com. Emailed applications are not accepted. See EVENTS, page A2
From worms to drones this year’s CFK finalist’s ideas amaze the judges.
Thursday night, Homer’s Austin Cline took first place honors and a $1,600 cash award in the annual Caring for the Kenai environmental and natural disaster preparedness contest. Austin’s proposal to recycle plastic waste into 3D printer filament wowed the crowd and judges at the Kenai Central High School Little Theater. “It’s a simple process that I already have grants for to turn plastics into 3D printing material,” explained
Cline. The CFK essay prompt challenges high school students to respond to the question, “What can I do, invent or create to better care for the environment of the Kenai Peninsula or improve the area’s preparedness for a natural disaster?” The contest, administered by the Challenger Learning Center of Alaska, was assigned this year in Kenai Peninsula freshman biology classrooms,
with one home-school student and at least two high school students entering voluntarily. Taking second place and earning $1,100 was the team of Lindy Guernsey and Akilena Veach from Seward. Lindy and Akilena demonstrated a working drone which they had built at school using 3D printers. The girls use the drone to survey Seward’s floodplains. The girls’ work has supplied the Seward Flood Board
with crucial data to help prevent property damage during flooding events. “We worked with our outward bound program and built the drone then we heard about Caring for the Kenai and our science encouraged us to enter,” said Lindy. “We learned how to fly the drone on a computer simulator after we built it. We’ve flying for three years we’ve been working with younger students so the program will continue
after we graduate,” added Akilena. In third place and claiming a $900 prize was Connections home-school student Anna DeVolld. Anna will be visiting local Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club meetings to share information about the role of pollinators in our ecosystem. As part of her presentation, Anna shared a ‘Pollinator Pack’ she has developed: a cluster of plants which support See CFK, page A2
England takes 1st State Body Building Championship
Heavy metal workouts leads to multiple medals for Soldotna’s Kimmy England.
2009 Soldotna High School graduate Kimmy England has claimed her first State NPC sanctioned Body Building championship. “Judgement Day” was the name of the competition held April 6 in Anchorage. National Physique Committee (NPC) is the largest amateur bodybuilding organization in the United States. Amateur bodybuilders compete in competitions from local to national competitions sanctioned by the NPC. England says she first became interested in bodybuilding when she was a little girl and her father competed in a bodybuilding show. “I saw my dad go through a prep for the competition and got introduced to it without even knowing. Then after graduation I started working out at The Fitness Place and wanted to learn how to use the equipment properly so
I hired Angie Brennan as a trainer. I was one of the few clients she had at that time that wanted to build muscle and she brought the idea of bodybuilding to me,” said England in an interview with the Dispatch. England said she wanted to be stronger. “I was a runner in high school and wasn’t unhealthy but didn’t look healthy so I wanted to build muscle to be stronger and look healthier. When Angie brought up the possibility of bodybuilding to me I looked it up and really liked the look of muscle on women,” she said. It’s a look that doesn’t come easily and takes hours of hard work and dedication according to Kimmy.
“I began training in the summer of 2012. I’ve had some bumps in the road since then and was injured and hurt my back and had a knee surgery in 2015 that slowed down my progress a bit, but since then I’ve been training for bodybuilding working out between five to six days a week with an hour of weights depending on if I’m in my off season or in season and cardio varies,” she said. Bodybuilding is not just about having muscle, it’s also performance and stage presence says England. “In the past my experience has been in women’s figure and this was my first time competing in women’s physique and that is where See ENGLAND, page A2
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month For every 1,000 children in Alaska, 42.2 were victims of
physically or sexual abuse. That’s the number of substantiated reported cases. If a child tells you they are being harmed, remain calm, tell the child it’s not their fault, and report it to your local Child Advocacy Center or the State hotline: 1-800-478-4444 Or contact The LeeShore Center crisis line: 283-7257 The LeeShore Center is proud to be a United Way agency
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