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JUNEAU— Alaska’s unemployment rate remained steady at 6.5 percent last month.

Federal labor statistics show that rate has held since August.

Unemployment stood at 6.7 percent in April 2018.

The state labor department says employment was up an estimated 0.9 percent from April 2018, with construction adding the largest number of jobs at 1,800.

Health care and oil and gas each added 500 jobs over the period while manufacturing had the biggest decline. The department says manufacturing in Alaska is mostly seafood processing.

The state labor department says there were 200 fewer federal jobs last month compared to April 2018, while local government grew by 200 jobs and state government by 100 jobs.

Man charged in cold case drops extradition fight AUBURN, Maine — A Maine man is no longer fighting extradition to Alaska to face charges that he raped and killed a woman there more than 25 years ago.

Steven Downs of Auburn is charged with assault and murder in the death of 20-year-old Sophie Sergie at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1993. The Sun Journal reports Downs has withdrawn a petition contesting extradition.

Downs’ lawyer, James Howaniec, says Downs maintains his innocence, and will fight the case in Alaska.

Downs’ parents hired Fairbanks attorney Frank Spaulding to assist Howaniec. Spaulding told Fairbanks TV station KTVF Downs will return to Alaska in about 10 days.

Downs was a student and Sergie was a former student at the time of Sergie’s death. The case went unsolved for years before DNA evidence led to Downs’ arrest in February.

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Annual Torch Run marks 50th anniversary of Special Olympics

By Brian Mazurek Peninsula Clarion

Peninsula residents came together Saturday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex to raise money for local Special Olympics athletes — while also enjoying some fresh air and exercise with their friends and family. The 2019 Law Enforcement Torch Run marks the 50th anniversary for the Special Olympics, and this year is also the first year that the central peninsula’s annual Torch Run took place in Soldotna instead of Kenai.

Tina Strayhorn, who is the local organizer for Special Olympics Alaska, said that this year’s run boasted one of the largest turnouts she’s seen since she started volunteering in 2007, with close to 100 people participating. The Law Enforcement Torch Run is one of the largest annual fundraising events for the Special Olympics, and is organized by local law enforcement agencies, as well as the Alaska Peace Officer’s Association. A dozen communities across Alaska, including Seward, Soldotna, Homer and Ko-

Participants in the annual Special Olympics Torch Run smile for a photo outside the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex in Soldotna on Saturday. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

diak, hosted a Torch Run this year, raising thousands of dollars for their local athletes.

Colonel Barry Wilson of the Alaska State Troopers is the deputy director for the Torch Run and

came down to Soldotna from Anchorage this year to participate in the race.

Wilson worked in Soldot-

na for several years before moving to Anchorage, but one of this year’s particiSee TORCH, page A2

Borough to take public comment on budget

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly will be taking public comment on next year’s budget at Tuesday’s meeting.

The $84,293,373 in appropriations will fund the

borough’s annual budget from July 1, 2019 until June 30, 2020.

The proposed budget maintains that basic services remain funded at current levels. The proposed budget outlines the borough’s goals, which are to fund education at

the highest level “borough residents can reasonably afford and sustain.” Continued support for borough service areas is also maintained in the proposed budget.

State fiscal uncertainty played a role in the borough’s proposed

budget. The borough’s “proposed budget reflects Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposed elimination of the FY2020 State Aid for School Construction, which reimburses the Borough 70% of the debt service on voter-approved school bonds,” the bud-

Bill aims to criminalize abortion

By Alex McCarthy Juneau Empire

The heated debate about abortion bans going on in states throughout the country might be coming to the Alaska Legislature next year.

Rep. David Eastman, R-Wasilla, filed legislation this week to make abortion illegal. The bill, House Bill 178, defines abortion as “murder of an unborn child.”

HB 178 will not be on the Legislature’s agenda until it reconvenes in January 2020. Though lawmakers are still meeting, they are in a special session called by the governor, and according to state statute, the Legislature can only address topics outlined by the governor during special session.

In his proclamation of a

ture education funding.

HB 178 was referred to the House Health and Social Services, Judicial and Finance committees. The Health and Social Servic-

Hunter finds friend dead after 6 days

By RACHEL D’ORO and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press

ANCHORAGE — A man found his missing friend dead during a bear hunting trip on Alaska’s Kodiak Island, but said Friday he and another hunting friend initially thought the man had stormed off in frustration as he had done in the past.

Aleksandr Neverov

told The Associated Press he found the body of 39-year-old Viacheslav Akimenko on Monday.

That was six days after the 39-year-old Delta Junction man went missing at Sturgeon Lagoon when he left his party to go on a hike.

Neverov said Akimenko was fed up with the constant wind and rain on the desolate western side of the island and became

antsy waiting for the plane set to pick them up that was slow in coming. He wanted to go home early from the hunting trip that began April 28, spending much of the time waiting out the weather in a tent, according to Neverov.

“He didn’t want anything to do with that island. It just got to him mentally,” he said in a phone interview. “It’s

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Former manager gets prison time for embezzling from utility

es Committee could take it up when the Legislature resumes its regular session in January 2020.

Rep. Ivy Spohnholz, D-

ANCHORAGE (AP) — A southwest Alaska woman who spent lavishly on cruises, airline trips and visits to a casino will spend nearly three years in jail, her punishment for embezzling more than $500,000 from a village utility.

Donna Vukich, 60, of Naknek was also sentenced to three years of probation following her sentencing Thursday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage.

She pleaded guilty in January to theft from a program receiving federal funds and filing a false tax return, said Bryan Sch-

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A woman holds a sign supporting legalized abortion at the Women’s March on Juneau in front of the Alaska State Capitol on Saturday, Jan. 19. (Michael Penn/Juneau Empire)

special session, Gov. Mike Dunleavy tasked the Legislature with dealing with finishing the state budget, finishing a crime bill and developing a plan for fu-

get reads. The proposed budget says this reduction is $2,654,392. The borough proposed budget also includes potential reductions from fish tax receipts, in the amount of $750,000 from the State of Alaska. The program

Suit filed against University of Alaska, former professor ANCHORAGE (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed against a retired University of Alaska Anchorage anthropology professor who is banned from campus over sexual misconduct allegations by multiple women.

David Yesner is named in the federal lawsuit filed Wednesday along with The University of

Alaska system and the University of Alaska Board of Regents, Anchorage television station KTVA reported.

Plaintiffs maintain Yesner was allowed to use the UAA campus as his own personal “hunting ground” while the university shielded its reputation instead of proSee UA, page A2

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could face elimination, according to Dunleavy’s proposed state budget.

The largest component of the budget is the contribution to the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. The borough is required to fund the district at a minimum of $27,492,488, and a

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roder, the U.S. attorney in Alaska. She has repaid $510,181 to the Naknek Electric Association, Schroder said in a statement.

Authorities said she

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tecting female students.

They say he preyed on women who relied on him for professional and academic success.

The lawsuit says Yesner was promoted for decades despite known instances of sexual misconduct.

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Anchorage, is the co-chair of the House Health and Social Services Committee, and told the Associated Press on Friday that she will not hear the bill.

She told AP that she has “no interest in making it illegal for women to get an

maximum amount of $52,537,091. The borough has proposed an appropriation of $51,512,091, or 98% of the maximum allowed by statute.

The FY 2020 proposed capital budget includes a $1 million increase, totaling $2.25 million, for major maintenance projects for school district buildings. Roughly 30% of the borough’s schools are over 50 years old, and half of the schools are 30 years or

older.

Sale tax revenues are projected to increase by $1.1 million due to an “increase in local retail sales,” according to the budget documents. The proposed budget documents said sales tax revenue is expected to increase 5.5% from the prior year’s budget.

The borough’s proposed budget also notes the Alaska LNG project “does not appear to be feasible in the next five years,” the budget

document reads. The project has an estimated price tag of $45 billion, with an estimated $25 billion of the project located within the borough.

General property tax rates are proposed to remain at their current levels.

To see the budget documents, visit the borough’s website www.KPB.us.

There will be public testimony on the budget at Tuesday’s meeting and at the June 4 meeting.

served as general manager of the utility between 2011 and 2015, during which time she was in possession of a company-owned credit card to make purchases for the utility. She was accused of taking money from the account for personal expenses and using util-

ity funds to pay the credit card bills.

According to court documents, she used the money to pay for her daughter's college tuition, took cash advances and treated family and friends on several trips.

Documents showed she spent $51,000 with

Norwegian Cruise Lines, $62,000 for Alaska Airlines flights, $16,000 at Little Creek Casino and Hotel in Washington state and about $7,000 on essential oils.

Naknek is a village of 550 people about 300 miles southwest of Anchorage.

“What the University did do was continue to reward Yesner for his sexual harassment, sweeping the students’/Plaintiffs’ complaints under the rug and awarding Yesner with promotion after promotion within the Anthropology department and within the graduate school in general,” the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit does not name the plaintiffs, who

are identified as Jane Does 1 -through 20. Claims by the first five women are represented in the case.

The lawsuit follows an investigative Title IX report that found the accusations by nine women credible. One of those women, who is not a plaintiff in the lawsuit, said she was using a public shower when Yesner entered fully naked and accosted her during a

trip to Delta Junction to get supplies.

Attempts to reach Yesner for comment were not immediately successful.

UAA spokeswoman Kirstin Olmstead declined to comment on the pending litigation. But the university’s own investigation showed “Professor Yesner engaged in reprehensible behaviour,” she said in a

statement.

“The university has taken available steps to address that conduct and offered to do what it can to make things right for affected individuals,” she wrote.

“We remain willing to do so.”

Plaintiffs allege they were subjected to years of sexual harassment, discrimination, exploitation, abuse and retaliation that hurt their

emotional well-being and academic careers. They say the university failed to follow Title IX requirements following numerous complaints from the women.

Plaintiffs are seeking a jury trial and reimbursement for tuition and other expenses. The lawsuit also seeks removal of Yesner’s name from diplomas and other university documents.

important health care procedure.”

Jessica Cler, the Alaska state director for Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii, said in a statement to the Empire that HB 178 is almost certainly unconstitutional.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade ruled that state regulation on abortion is unconstitutional.

This year, Legislatures in Alabama and Missouri have passed legislation banning abortions. Opponents believe these laws won’t stand up to constitutional challenges, but Cler still said this wave of anti-abortion moves in government is still deeply concerning.

“HB 178 is in line with a trend we are seeing across the country

to criminalize abortion,” Cler said. “These bills are dangerous and outrageous. Alaskans have made clear their support for reproductive health care, including abortion. It took generations of struggle to secure the right to control our own bodies. We aren’t about to let a handful of lawmakers erase that progress and strip us of our most funda-

mental rights.”

This is not new territory for Eastman. He has been critical of coverage of abortion through Medicaid, and was censured by the House in 2017 when he said some Alaska women try to get pregnant to get a “free trip to the city” for abortions.

Eastman, who was in his first term at the time, later apologized for the

comments. In her statement to the Empire on Friday, Cler called Eastman’s previous comments “inaccurate and reprehensible.”

He introduced House Bill 250 in 2017 that was known as the Life at Conception Act, which was very similar to the new legislation. That bill did not make it out of House committees.

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After signing up for the run and shooting the breeze outside of the Soldotna Sports Complex, all the torch run participants gathered at the bike fix-it station by the entrance to the sports complex to hear a speech from Wilson and to take some last-minute group photos. Then everyone lined up behind the two torch-bearers — an officer and an athlete — before heading down the Unity Trail along K-Beach Road for a 5K loop. Tyne was

right about the quickness of her bike and was one of the first ones to finish, but everyone was free to travel at their own pace.

After finishing the run, the athletes were treated to a cookout with hot dogs, sliders and plenty of fresh fruit and water. Strayhorn said that they tried to keep the menu as healthy as possible, but couldn’t resist throwing in a few sweets as well.

The weather was good for a run this year — partly

overcast with the sun occasionally making an appearance — but bad weather has never stopped the athletes before.

“Raining, snowing, blowing, we’ve been out here in all of it,” Strayhorn said. All the proceeds from the fundraiser will go toward the local Special Olympics Athletes like Tyne and Sam and help fund their uniforms, equipment, training and transportation to competitions around the state.

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pants, Mercedes, chimed in to take credit for getting Wilson down here.

“We peer-pressured him,” Mercedes said. Wilson admitted it didn’t take much pressure to decide to come down, and was proud of the support that the Special Olympics has on the central peninsula.

Wilson said that law enforcement agencies have a long tradition of supporting the Special Olympics, going back 40 years to Sun Run fundraisers, in which officers ran a relay from the Yukon River all the way to Anchorage. Wilson said that since the Torch Run began in 1991, the event has raised over $750 million for Special Olympics Athletes.

“I have the advantage of being old and really seeing the difference that the event has made over the years,” Wilson said. “It’s a great opportunity to support the athletes in doing what they love, and we get a lot of love back.”

Athletes were tasked with reaching out to their friends and neighbors to sponsor them in the run, and people also had the opportunity to donate online.

One athlete, Tyne, said that she enjoys going out into the community and has fun raising money for the race. Tyne’s sport of choice is basketball, but she has been participating in the run since 2009. For the last couple of years Tyne has opted to ride her bike because it’s a little easier on the legs and she is able to finish faster.

Another athlete, Sam, has been participating in the torch run for nearly 20 years and also chose to ride her bike this year. This time around, she experimented with her Fitbit to see if it counted steps from cycling.

Sam said she loves seeing everyone have fun and enjoy themselves each year in support of the Special Olympics.

In brief Dead gray whale spotted along Alaska’s Turnagain Arm ANCHORAGE — A second large whale has died in waters south of Anchorage.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is monitoring a dead gray whale in Turnagain Arm and hoping it will drift to shore so biologists can conduct a necropsy.

On May 1 and 2, biologists conducted a necropsy on a humpback whale in Turnagain Arm. NOAA Fisheries is monitoring significant gray whale mortalities along the West Coast that have occurred this spring.

As of May 13, 52 gray whales had died, including 32 in California, 17 in Washington and three in Oregon.

Not all have been necropsied. Several that have been examined were emaciated or malnourished.

The agency says a decline in food associated with anomalous oceanographic conditions often results in starvation, especially among juveniles or other inexperienced foragers.

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Richard A Creary

December 28, 1951 - April 28, 2019

June 4, 1945 - May 11, 2019

USAF Retired Tech Sgt Richard A. Creary took his final flight at 1525, May 11, 2019 over that rainbow bridge to be reunited with his beloved dog Ozzie.

Graveside services will be 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, at Spruce Grove Memorial Park in Kasilof.

Military honors will be rendered by the JBER Military Honor Guard. A potluck and remembrance of his life will follow at 36745 Short Lane, Kenai.

Richard was born on June 4, 1945 in Fort Collins, Colorado. The first child of Anna Tillman and Wallace Creary. Youthful adventures and experiences were shared with his brothers, Howard and Leo. In the early 1960s, the family moved north to Alaska, settling in Soldotna on Echo Lake Road.

Richard and his brothers worked with their father servicing and maintaining equipment, frequently traveling about Alaska. Richard’s mother, Anna (Granny Annie), drove a school bus in the area for approximately thirty years and was known for her excellent cooking skills.

In 1963, Richard graduated from Kenai High School, at which time he petitioned the United States Air Force for enlistment. Richard obtained his basic training in San Antonio, Texas, then moved on to technical schooling at Chanute AFB in Illinois. Richard’s first permanent duty station was Kingsley Field AFB in Klamath Falls, Ore., then to Rhein Main AB in Frankfurt, Germany. He was honorably discharged at McGuire AFB in New Jersey in July, 1970, after which he returned home to Alaska. Due to failure to meet recruitment needs during the Vietnam Conflict, the offer was made to prior service members to re-enlist with no time lost; Richard accepted the offer and re-enlisted in July of 1971. Richard had many duty stations afterward, such as Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona; Beale AFB in Marysville, California; Osan AB in South Korea; and Patrick AFB in Cocoa Beach, Florida.

Richard’s active duty was working with the SR-71 and U-2 aircraft, the only two planes at the time other than the space shuttle to fly in uncontrolled airspace at 60,000 feet or greater. He was part of what is referred to as the Skunk Works program. He retired from the United States Air Force on Aug. 31, 1987 at Patrick AFB. Upon his military retirement he went to work for Lockheed Martin, where he was part of the Advanced Development Project, often taking him overseas. In 1995, Richard returned home to the Kenai Peninsula, where he worked at various companies, including 2 Bears Trucking, Thompson Log, and Harold Jackson Construction. He also worked with Helen Pope and her brother as an escort, security, groundskeeper, and companion.

Richard was working for Moore’s Landscaping when he suffered and survived a major stroke on Jan. 9, 2009. Richard made friends, and enemies as well, along his travels in life. One of his fondnesses was “lil” Katie Moore, and he was just as proud of “lil” Thomas Moore as was daddy Tom Moore. Richard’s daily route and routine often lead to many fur friends. He had special doggie treats for each animal friend he routinely visited, and his furry friends came to recognize the sound of his vehicle, eagerly greeting him in anticipation of treats. His coffee buddies, JR Crump, Bill Mileski, and John Parker, to name a few, met at Carr’s coffee shop, where their informal discussion group solved the problems of the world. Richard’s brilliant, sparkly blue eyes lent well to the Jolly Santa outfit he donned yearly, making rounds to the elderly, shut-ins, and less fortunate to share in Christmas cheer.

Richard met his wife, Scharlott Thomas (née Richardson) while working for the Pope family. Often times, Richard’s kind heart would work miracles to surprise and bring smiles to the faces of Scharlott’s children: Jason Curtis, Amber Gardner, Jolene Foree, and Ruben Curtis, extending to the grandchildren Joey, Mathew, Billy, Desiree, Kyle, Hailey, Keegen, William and Ezekiel. Over the past ten years, Richard and his wife have strongly advocated for better treatment and healthcare for veterans and have been written of in the Peninsula Clarion newspaper several times.

Those left to mourn the loss of this great warrior are his wife Scharlott; kids Jason and Kari, Amber and Gene, Jolene and Mike, Ruben and Natalie; grandkids Joey, Mathew, Billy, Desiree, Kyle, Hailey, Keegen, William, Ezekiel, and a new granddaughter expected to join the family this summer; brothers Howard and Leo, as well as Leo’s wife Judy and their boys, Brian and Darin; his other faithful service animal Whootie; and his many other friends.

In lieu of flowers, friends and family are asked to extend the gratitude of monetary gifts to offset the cost of laying Richard to rest. Enjoy the celebration and potluck, bring nourishment, refreshments, memories, and stories about Richard.

Arrangements are with Peninsula Memorial Chapel.

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“Becky”, passed away after a long battle with cancer, on April 28th 2019. She was surrounded by family at her home in Chicago, Illinois.

Becky was born in Seymour Indiana December 28th. 1951, to Raymond and Selma Ernst. As a young child she moved with her large family to Alaska where she would bring energy and love to everyone she met while moving through the state from Fairbanks to Nikiski. While living with her family on Beck lake, she met her soon to be husband Willie Porter, who she would spend 26 years with commercial fishing, raising their 3 sons, building a home at Sunshine Point and continuing to make amazing life long friends. In 1995 after discovering she had breast cancer, Becky moved to Chicago where she went to school for massage therapy and started a successful business. In Chicago she, as always, made friends wherever she went including her partner, Denise Ellis.

Becky was a caring, energetic, amazing woman.

She loved music, theater, nature, and everyone she met.

She was an incredible mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, wife and friend. She will be missed in all of the many lives that she touched.

Becky was preceded into death by her father Raymond, mother Sally, brothers Butch and Rick, and sister Ruth. She is survived by her 3 sons Zach, Abe and Eli Porter, daughters in law Becky and Shannon Porter, grandchildren Braeden, Sadie, Emily, Eden and Madelyn Porter, Hannah Autry and McKenzie Spence, brothers Rand and Rob Ernst, sister RoseMarie Atkinson, partner Denise Ellis and too many friends and close family to count.

A memorial potluck/barbecue will be held at her childhood home on Beck lake in Nikiski June 15th at 2pm.

For information or directions please call 776-8645 In lieu of flowers please make donations to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation in memory of Rebecca Ernst @ www.bcrf.org

Around the Peninsula Midnight Sun Soiree The LeeShore Center invites you to join us at the Kenai Elks Lodge Saturday June, 8 6-11 p.m. for the Midnight Sun Soiree with Prime Rib Dinner, Silent Auction, Split the Pot, Raffle, Door Prizes, Live Music and Dancing. Tickets are $60 per person or $110 per couple and available at The LeeShore Center or online at www.leeshoreak.org. roceeds to help fund construction of a heated storage building. For more information contact the LeeShore Center at 283-9479.

Novice rally obedience class

Peninsula Dog Obedience Group will be offering a novice rally obedience class and a conformation class starting on May 29. For more information, contact us at rael@ptialaska.net or visit our facebook page (PenDOG).

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Glenyce Hansen May 12, 2019

On May 12, 2019, Glenyce Hansen of Apache Junction, Arizona, went to be with the Lord at age 78.

She was born in Wadena, Minnesota, and her family moved to Columbia City, Oregon when she was 3. In 1956, she married James Hansen and together they raised two children. The family lived in St. Helens, Oregon. In 1969, they moved to Alaska and lived many years in Kenai and Sterling. Later, Glenyce and her husband retired in Apache Junction, Arizona, and lived there for many years.

Glenyce enjoyed making crafts of all types for her family, friends and neighbors, and was known for her kindness. She was very talented at decorating her homes.

Glenyce was a dedicated wife and mother and was very proud of all her family.

Glenyce is preceded in death by her parents, Claude and Leona Phelps.

She is survived by her husband Jim Hansen and their two children, Tammy Hansen Latta and Ron Hansen, daughter-in-law Charman, 8 grandchildren: Meghan, Erin, Morgan, Ashley, Jordan, Caity, Justin, and Kiley; 11 greatgrandchildren, and 3 sisters: Shirley, Claudette, and Sheryl.

A “Celebration of Life” memorial service was held Saturday, May 18th, at the clubhouse of Palmas Del Sol Park, 3400 South Ironwood Drive, Apache Junction, Arizona. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the National Stroke Association.

LIO Schedule Monday, May 20 5 p.m.: The House Finance Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss HB1001 Appropriation: FY 2020 Education Funding. Testimony will be taken. safety and will be bringing a special guest Smokey the Bear.

We will enjoy camp songs and a story too. We look forward to seeing you!

—Movies @ the Library: Tuesday, May 14 at 5:30 p.m. Join us for a movie and popcorn! The film reveals the origin story of half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry and takes him on the journey of his lifetime — one that will not only force him to face who he really is, but to discover if he is worthy of who he was born to be a king. Rated PG-13.

—Soldotna Library Friends Book and Art Sale: Thursday, May 23 at 2 p.m. Join us for great deals on books and art! All proceeds benefit the Soldotna Library Friends.

—Escape the Room: Spy School: Tuesday, May 28 at 6:30 p.m. You are just about to graduate from spy school, but there is one final test. You have 30 minutes to show off your skills. Registration required. Please call the front desk at 907-262-4227 to reserve your spot. This program is designed for adults.

—Drawdown: Book to Action Climate Series: Thursday, May 23 at 5:30 p.m. Climate change is affecting Alaska faster than any other state in the nation. Join us for a solution-oriented discussion focused on climate action and local solutions. The topic this month is transportation.

Al-Anon support group meetings are held at the Central Peninsula Hospital in the Kasilof Room (second floor) of the River Tower building on Monday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 7 Kenai Community Library: May p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. Park around back by the ER and —American Girl Club, Monday, May 20 at 4 p.m. Join us at enter through the River Tower entrance and follow the signs. the Kenai Community Library for our monthly American Girl Contact Tony Oliver at 252-0558 for more information.

Club! We will be making a Teacup for your doll! Bring your doll 2019 Women On Target schedule (doesn’t have to be an American Girl) or use one of ours! The Go to our events and sign up on Eventbrite “get tickets” doll house will be out for everyone to play with. Meets at the and review the instructions on Facebook-Kenai Peninsula same time and place as LEGO Club.

—No-Sew T-Shirt Bag, Wednesday, May 22 at 4 p.m. Have Women on Target. You must be 18 years of age. June 8: Inan old T-shirt laying around? Need some cheap reusable bags? tro to pistol; June 29: Intro to pistol; August 2: Intro to Rifle.

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Serving the Kenai Peninsula since 1970 Jeff Hayden Publisher ERIN THOMPSON......................................................... Editor RANDI KEATON....................................... Circulation Director FRANK GOLDTHWAITE......................... Production Manager

What others say

Europe must bring Iran back to negotiating table It’s been a year since President Donald Trump made good on a campaign pledge to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. The administration’s strategy: Turn the screws on Tehran with sanctions to compel Iranian leaders to work on a broader agreement that also tackles Iran’s pursuit of ballistic missiles and support of terrorism.

Since then, Europe has tried to keep the old deal alive, crafting workarounds to get past U.S. economic sanctions imposed on Iranian oil. That bid largely failed.

Now Tehran says it has exhausted its patience with the Europeans.

Iran has given European leaders 60 days to resume commitments laid out in the original nuclear pact, or Iran will stop adhering to the deal’s call for an end to uranium enrichment.

That’s not all that’s happening. Tehran is suspected of being behind an attack on oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates over the weekend, As of Tuesday, there was no proof of Iranian responsibility for the ship attacks, nor were there reports of casualties. Intelligence reports also suggest Iran has been building up proxy forces ahead a possible attack on American forces in the Middle East.

In response, the Pentagon has drawn up contingency plans to send as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East if Iran ever launched an attack on U.S. forces or sped up efforts to develop nuclear weapons, The New York Times reported. Trump denied the report, but said if he were to deploy troops, he’d send “a hell of a lot more troops than that.”

Our translation: Neither a leaked Pentagon deployment strategy nor some presidential tough talk means the United States anticipates a military confrontation. What it does mean is the U.S. considers Iran to be untrustworthy, which is why the 2015 nuclear deal is insufficient.

Wadding up that old deal marked the first step toward a better one. Now it’s up to the Europeans to get on board as U.S. partners with Iran Deal 2.0.

An important indicator, one we hope the Europeans noticed, emerged from Iran last weekend when President Hassan Rouhani acknowledged the economic pain that American sanctions have inflicted. Rouhani likened it to the misery Iran felt during its war with Iraq in the 1980s. Good to know, President Rouhani.

Thanks for sharing. “We are in a difficult situation today, but at the same time, I am not disappointed,” Rouhani said. “I believe that we can overcome these conditions, provided we are together and join hands.”

Iranian oil exports have dropped from 2.5 million barrels a day to below a million barrels. As a result, Iran’s economy has taken a $10 billion hit.

In recent weeks, the Trump administration has doubled down on pressuring Tehran, declaring Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization and slapping sanctions on the country’s copper, steel, aluminum and iron industries.

Getting the Iranians back to the table for talks is a goal that should be shared by the U.K., France and Germany — the main European guarantors of the 2015 nuclear deal.

The U.S. isn’t cowed by Tehran’s saber rattling, and neither should Europe. Rouhani and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, know their country’s economy has been waylaid by the sanctions.

But a new deal won’t happen without Europe’s cooperation. European leaders have been behaving as if Iran has boxed them into a corner. The opposite is true: Harsher sanctions have shown Iranian leaders where their economy is headed if they don’t acquiesce — and negotiate.

— The Chicago Tribune, May 14

Funding for research is money well-spent V oices of the P eninsula J essica S hepherd Every year, during budget negotiations at the state and federal level, staff at the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (KBNERR) wait nervously for news.

Will the National Research Reserve System, administered by the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) survive another year?

Will the University of Alaska Anchorage (our state partner) continue to provide the small share of general funds needed ($37,000 plus $186,000 in unrecovered overhead) as match for a larger infusion ($690,000 in 2018) of NOAA funding? So far, year after year, KBNERR and the Reserve System, which includes 29 coastal Research Reserves, have prevailed, thanks to strong support from the public and our elected officials.

Here’s what we stand to lose if that support falters.

KBNERR maintains three water quality stations and two weather stations. Every 15 minutes, data is recorded to provide real time information about water and weather conditions in Kachemak Bay. Twenty years of data is now available to help us track changing ocean conditions that may affect the production and health of shellfish, finfish, marine mammals and birds, as well as benefits to humans who depend on the bay for seafood and recreational opportunities.

To further understand these re-

sources, staff conduct research on local streams and uplands to better understand how these landscapes foster juvenile salmon. The data from these projects address questions about development, and how to best proceed in ways that insure healthy salmon populations into the future.

KBNERR’s Harmful Species Program, working with some 40 volunteer community monitors, samples the waters of the bay for harmful algal blooms and marine invasives. This proactive approach serves as an early warning in the event of a toxic bloom or an aggressive invasive, like European green crabs. Staff also work with the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team out of Oregon to conduct die-off alert trainings in the villages of Port Graham and Nanwalek and lead monthly beach surveys to monitor for dead or dying seabirds in partnership with the Seldovia Village Tribe Environmental Team.

KBNERR Education staff outreach place-based science in Kenai Peninsula schools to approximately 2,400 K-12 students annually.

KBNERR collaborates with other environmental educators, including the Pratt Museum, Alaska Maritime NWR, and the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies, to offer a five-day Master Naturalist Training each May for approximately 30 incoming summer educators on the natural and cultural history of the Kachemak Bay area. Staff conduct annual for-credit Teacher on the Estuary workshops for teachers around the state. And KBNERR conspires to offer a variety of public events, including Estuary Hikes, Outdoor Adventure Talks, Public Discovery Labs, and guest lectures.

Trainings, technical assistance

and public programs are conducted throughout the year, including the 3-day Kachemak Bay Science Conference, quarterly meetings of the Kachemak Bay and Lower Cook Inlet Marine Ecosystem Workgroup, and a Green infrastructure training which led to funding ($100K) for the incorporation of green infrastructure into the new police station design. In 2018 2,395 community members participated in these trainings.

Additionally, KBNERR offers numerous opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students. Each year staff create and oversee internship opportunities for students attending the Kenai Peninsula College, Semester by the Bay program, and undergraduate NOAA Holling Scholars. Over the past year, KBNERR has hosted six undergraduate and seven graduate students.

Staff share their scientific, training and education findings through manuscript publications, reports, posters, conferences and workshops, oral presentations, and web-based data portals and videos.

Finally, KBNERR provides a significant local return on investment for Alaska. Approximately 98% of federal funding from NOAA is spent at the local level. Those federal dollars help attract over $750,000 annually from partners like the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to monitor for harmful and invasive species, and from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for research and community engagement on watershed support for salmon habitats. State financial support for KBNERR is money well-spent.

Jessica Shepherd is the education coordinator for the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.

Letter to the Editor

This is not about abortion, but controlling women In my medical records, it says I had an abortion: spontaneous. Most know that to be a miscarriage, but for a long time, every time I saw the word, I got upset — but not for reasons you may think.

What I actually had was an ectopic pregnancy, a burst fallopian tube, an emergency surgery, two transfusions, and a brush close enough to Death that I felt his robes swirl as he found other prey. This was a baby that was planned, a pregnancy that was wanted, and I felt the loss very keenly.

This baby, briefly, had a heartbeat.

Now, according to the states of Ohio and Alabama, and even my home state of Alaska, where they too are trying to push anti-abortion bill, my circumstances would be fuzzy — sure, I had been bleeding, but there was a heartbeat. Sure, two days later, my 2-year-old daughter found me passed out from loss of blood on the bathroom floor… but

there was a heartbeat. Sure, I was told another 30-minute wait and I would be dead as well… but was there still a heartbeat? As one senator — male, of course — suggested, couldn’t we move the fetus to the uterus and save them both? Anyone with an ounce of knowledge about women knows that it simply does not work that way.

These bills actually defy science and biology. Yes — there is a heartbeat to pump blood to a growing fetus, but at four weeks, at six weeks, there is no brain activity — for there is no brain. We have romanticized the heart to such an extent that common sense no longer matters.

We have laws that allow us to pull the plug on the brain-dead — why wouldn’t these apply for those who have yet to develop one?

Make no mistake — these bills are not about babies, life or even abortion. These laws are about privileged men who believe women cannot be trusted to make decisions

on their health with their doctor. It’s not even about an accidental pregnancy — it’s about forcing women to their will as they exalt in their virility and shirk responsibility. It’s about taking away fundamental human — women’s — rights. But if you cannot trust a woman to make her own decisions, why on earth would you entrust her to raise a child that you forced her to have?

I refuse to allow a few men to dictate what I can or cannot do with my body, or those of my daughters, their daughters, and so on. When the punishment for an abortion is vastly more than for that of a rapist who “shouldn’t suffer for a mistake” it becomes abundantly clear.

This is not about abortion. This is about control. And I refuse.

This is MY life. MY body, and I will not be reduced to less than you — not while my brain still functions, and my heart still beats.

— Elizabeth Ulricksen, Kenai

Nation

Peninsula Clarion | Sunday, May 19, 2019 | A5

Tornadoes rake Southern Plains GOP congressman: DALLAS (AP) — A spate of tornadoes raked across the Southern Plains, leaving damage and causing few injuries, and parts of the region were bracing for more severe thunderstorms and possible flooding.

The National Weather Service confirmed an EF2 twister Saturday morning with winds up to 130 mph that destroyed at least two homes and left one person with minor injuries in southwestern Oklahoma.

A suspected tornado caused roof damage to “numerous” homes in northwestern Arkansas, a state official said, and severe winds downed trees and power lines across a highway, blocking all lanes.

Energy companies in Oklahoma and Arkansas reported tens of thousands of customers were without power Saturday afternoon.

Tornadoes touched down Friday in Kansas and rural parts of Nebraska, tearing up trees and powerlines, and damaging some homes and farm buildings, according to the National Weather Service.

In Abilene, Texas, a city 150 miles west of Fort Worth, strong winds prompted the evacuation

Trump conduct is ‘impeachable’

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press

Wesley Mantooth lifts a wooden chair out a window of the home of his father, Robert, in Abilene, Texas, on Saturday. Many residents said a tornado struck in the early morning hours. (Ronald W. Erdrich/The Abilene Reporter-News via AP)

of a nursing home and left numerous homes and businesses damaged, according to the Abilene ReporterNews . A spokeswoman for the city said no deaths or serious injuries were reported.

The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch until 8 p.m. Saturday for the western half of Arkansas. Portions of North Texas also were under a tor-

nado watch and a flash flood warning was issued in the Dallas area Saturday afternoon.

Forecasters warned of heavy rain, lightning, pingpong ball-sized hail and flooding as a line of storms moves west to east through afternoon, covering an area from south of Killeen, Texas, to north of the Oklahoma state line.

In Oklahoma City, thunderstorms prevented workers from securing and removing glass from Devon Tower, which was damaged Wednesday when a scaffolding holding two window washers banged against the building, The Oklahoman reported. Officials said the rain and winds blew broken glass from the tower and compromised the integrity of other panes.

Women lawmakers speak about rapes as abortion bills advance

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio — For more than two decades, Nancy Mace did not speak publicly about her rape. In April, when she finally broke her silence, she chose the most public of forums — before her colleagues in South Carolina’s legislature.

A bill was being debated that would ban all abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected; Mace, a Republican lawmaker, wanted to add an exception for rape and incest. When some of her colleagues in the House dismissed her amendment — some women invent rapes to justify seeking an abortion, they claimed — she could not restrain herself.

“For some of us who have been raped, it can take 25 years to get up the courage and talk about being a victim of rape,” Mace said, gripping the lectern so hard she thought she might pull it up from the floor. “My mother and my best friend in high school were the only two people who knew.”

As one Republican legislature after another has pressed ahead with restrictive abortion bills in recent months, they have been confronted with raw and emotional testimony about the consequences of such laws. Female lawmakers and other women have stepped forward to tell searing, personal stories — in some cases speaking about attacks for the first time to anyone but a loved one or their closest friend.

Mace is against abortion in most cases and supported the fetal heartbeat bill as long as it contained the exception for rape and incest. She said her decision to reveal an attack that has haunted her for so long was intended to help male lawmakers understand the experience of those victims.

“It doesn’t matter what side of the aisle you are on, there are so many of us who share this trauma and this experience,” Mace said in an interview. “Rape and incest are not partisan issues.”

Personal horror stories have done little to slow

passage of bills in Georgia, where a lawmaker told about having an abortion after being raped, or Alabama, where the governor this week signed a law that bans all abortions unless they are necessary to save the life of the mother.

In Ohio, a fetal heartbeat bill passed even after three lawmakers spoke out on the floor about their rapes — among them State Rep. Lisa Sobecki, who argued for a rape exemption by recounting her own assault and subsequent abortion.

It was gut-wrenching, the Navy veteran said, but her decision to speak out was validated the next day when she was approached in the grocery store by a man in his 70s, whose wife of 41 years had read of her account that morning in the local newspaper. The story prompted his wife to tell him for the first time that she also had been raped.

“It’s not just our stories,” Sobecki said. “It’s giving voice to the voiceless, those that haven’t felt for a very long time that they could tell their stories and be heard.”

Four years ago, when a previous fetal heartbeat bill was being debated, state Sen. Teresa Fedor, then a state representative, surprised colleagues with her story of being raped while in the military and having an abortion. She felt compelled to share the story again this year when the issue resurfaced.

“It’s not something you like to focus on,” the Toledo Democrat said. “And it didn’t seem to have an impact in stopping the effort, so that’s the sad part.”

The governor signed the bill, without exceptions for rape or incest.

Ohio state Rep. Erica Crawley, a Democrat representing Columbus, said she didn’t intend to share the story of her sexual assault when floor debate on the heartbeat bill began.

But she said she was motivated by a Republican colleague who alleged that witnesses at committee hearings on the bill had exaggerated or fabricated their stories.

“I wanted them to know that I’m someone you have respect for, and this has

happened to me,” she said.

Crawley felt she had no choice but to speak out: “Because if I stay silent, I feel like I’m complicit.”

Kelly Dittmar, an expert on women and politics at Rutgers University, said she would not be surprised if even more female lawmakers begin to speak out about their rapes and abortions. More women feel empowered by the #MeToo movement, she said, and the record number of women who won seats in state legislatures last year gives them a greater voice.

“For some women who have healed enough in their own personal battles with this type of abuse, they might be comfortable speaking about this publicly because they see a higher purpose for it,” she said.

One such woman is Gretchen Whitmer. In 2013, she was minority leader in the Michigan state Senate when she spoke against a Republican-backed effort to require separate health insurance to cover abortion.

Seven minutes into her floor speech, a visibly upset

Whitmer put down her notes and told her colleagues that she had been raped more than 20 years earlier and that the memory of the attack continued to haunt her.

She thanked God that she had not become pregnant by her attacker.

In an interview this week, the Democrat said her decision to share her story was the right one. After her testimony, her office received thousands of emails from people thanking her.

“That was the thing that bolstered me the most and convinced me that I had to continue speaking out and running for office and taking action,” she said. “There are a lot of victims and survivors out there who care, who need to be heard, who need to be represented and who need the law to reflect what we want and need to see in our country.”

Earlier this week, Michigan’s Republicanled Legislature passed two bills to restrict abortions and sent them to the governor.

That governor is now Whitmer. She said she will veto both of them.

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WASHINGTON — A Republican congressman from Michigan on Saturday became the first member of President Donald Trump’s party on Capitol Hill to accuse him of engaging in “impeachable conduct” stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s lengthy investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

But Rep. Justin Amash stopped short of calling on Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against Trump, which many Democrats have been agitating for.

Often a lone GOP voice in Congress, Amash sent a series of tweets Saturday faulting both Trump and Attorney General William Barr over Mueller’s report. Mueller wrapped the investigation and submitted his report to Barr in late March. Barr then released a summary of Mueller’s “principal conclusions” and released a redacted version of the report in April.

Mueller found no criminal conspiracy between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia, but left open the question of whether Trump acted in ways that were meant to obstruct the investigation. Barr later said there was insufficient evidence to bring obstruction charges against Trump.

Trump, who has compared the investigation to a “witch hunt,” claimed complete exoneration from Mueller’s report.

Amash said he reached four conclusions after carefully reading the redacted version of Mueller’s report, including that “President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct.”

“Contrary to Barr’s portray-

al, Mueller’s report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment,” the congressman tweeted. He said the report “identifies multiple examples of conduct satisfying all the elements of obstruction of justice, and undoubtedly any person who is not the president of the United States would be indicted based on such evidence.”

The Justice Department, which Barr leads, operates under guidelines that discourage the indictment of a sitting president.

A representative for Amash did not immediately respond to an email request to speak with the congressman.

Trump and Republican lawmakers generally view the matter as “case closed,” as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., recently declared on the floor of the Senate.

On the other hand, Democrats who control the House are locked in a bitter standoff with the White House as it ignores lawmakers’ requests for the more complete version of Mueller’s report, the underlying evidence and witness testimony. Some Democrats wants the House to open impeachment hearings, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has resisted, saying impeachment must be bipartisan.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, DMich., a freshman who opened her term by profanely calling for Trump to be impeached, applauded Amash.

“You are putting country first, and that is to be commended,” Tlaib tweeted. Tlaib is seeking support for a resolution she’s circulating calling on the House to start impeachment proceedings.

Today in History Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2019. There are 226 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On May 19, 1649, England was declared a republic by Parliament following the execution of King Charles I. (The monarchy was restored in 1660.)

On this date: In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was beheaded after being convicted of adultery.

In 1913, California Gov. Hiram Johnson signed the Webb-Hartley Law prohibiting “aliens ineligible to citizenship” from owning farm land, a measure targeting Asian immigrants, particularly Japanese.

In 1921, Congress passed, and President Warren G. Harding signed, the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.

In 1935, T.E. Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia,” died in Dorset, England, six days after being injured in a motorcycle crash.

In 1943, in his second wartime address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledged his country’s full support in the fight against Japan; that evening, Churchill met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House, where the two leaders agreed on May 1, 1944 as the date for the D-Day invasion of France (the operation ended up being launched more than a month later).

In 1962, actress Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday to You” to President John F. Kennedy during a Democratic fundraiser at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

In 1981, five British soldiers were killed by an Irish Republican Army land mine in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

In 1992, in a case that drew much notoriety, Mary Jo Buttafuoco of Massapequa, New York, was shot and seriously wounded by her husband Joey’s teenage lover, Amy Fisher.

In 1993, the Clinton White House set off a political storm by abruptly firing the entire staff of its travel office; five of the seven staffers were later reinstated and assigned to other duties.

In 1994, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York at age 64.

In 2006, A key U.N. panel joined European and United Nations leaders in urging the Bush administration to close its prison in Guantanamo Bay, saying the indefinite detention of terror suspects there violated the world’s ban on torture.

In 2017, former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., whose penchant for sexting strangers ended his political career, pleaded guilty in Manhattan to a sex charge, tearfully apologizing for communications with a 15-year-old girl. (Weiner received a 21-month prison sentence.)

Ten years ago: President Barack Obama asked consumers to back his plan for higher efficiency standards for cars and trucks, saying drivers would make up the higher cost of cleaner vehicles at the gas pump.

Five years ago: The U.S. charged five Chinese military officials with hacking into U.S. companies’ computers to steal vital trade secrets, intensifying already rising tensions. A federal judge threw out Oregon’s same-sex marriage ban that had been approved by voters. Lucy Li, at age 11, became the youngest player to qualify for the U.S. Women’s Open by winning the sectional qualifier at Half Moon Bay in California.

One year ago: Britain’s Prince Harry wed American actress Meghan Markle in a service that reflected Harry’s royal heritage and his bride’s biracial roots, as well as their shared commitment to put a more diverse, modern face on the monarchy. Justify won the Preakness in foggy Baltimore, on the way to a Triple Crown sweep. Starbucks announced a new policy allowing anyone to sit in its cafes or use its restrooms, even if they don’t buy anything; the policy came five weeks after two black men who hadn’t bought anything were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks. First lady Melania Trump returned to the white House following a weeklong hospitalization for kidney treatment.

Today’s Birthdays: PBS newscaster Jim Lehrer is 85. TV personality David Hartman is 84. Actor James Fox is 80. Actress Nancy Kwan is 80. Rock singer-composer Pete Townshend (The Who) is 74. Concert pianist David Helfgott is 72. Rock singer-musician Dusty Hill (ZZ Top) is 70. College Football Hall of Famer and former NFL player Archie Manning is 70. Singer-actress Grace Jones is 68. Rock musician Phil Rudd is 65. Actor Steven Ford is 63. Actress Toni Lewis is 59. Rock musician Iain Harvie (Del Amitri) is 57. Actress Polly Walker is 53. Actor Jason Gray-Stanford is 49. Gospel singer Israel Houghton is 48. Rock singer Jenny Berggren (Ace of Base) is 47. Race car driver Dario Franchitti is 46. TV personality Kim Zolciak Biermann (TV: “Real Housewives of Atlanta”) is 41. Country/rock singer Shooter Jennings is 40. Actor Drew Fuller is 39. Actor-comedian Michael Che (chay) (TV: “Saturday Night Live”) is 36. Christian rock musician Tim McTague (Underoath) is 36.

Rock musician James Richardson (MGMT) is 36. Actor Eric Lloyd is 33.

Pop singer Sam Smith is 27. Actor Nolan Lyons is 18.

Thought for Today: “The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.” -- Ogden Nash, American poet (born in 1902, died this date in 1971).

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ExxonMobil evacuating Iraq oil field

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By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press

Report: ‘Foreign bodies’ enter Syrian airspace from Israel

BAGHDAD — Employees of energy giant ExxonMobil have begun evacuating from an oil field in the southern Iraqi province of Basra but work at the field is still ongoing, Iraqi officials said Saturday.

The evacuation comes amid rising tensions between the United States and Iran.

The U.S. has already ordered all nonessential diplomatic staff out of Iraq.

As tensions escalate, there are concerns that Baghdad could once again get caught in the middle. The country hosts more than 5,000 U.S. troops, and is home to powerful Iranian-backed militias, some of whom want those U.S. forces to leave.

An Iraqi oil official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said all those who are being evacuated are foreigners or Iraqis who hold additional national citizenships. The official did not give numbers but said the first group left two days ago and another batch left early Saturday.

“We continue to closely monitor. As a matter of practice, we don’t share specifics

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian state media is reporting that “foreign bodies” have entered Syrian air space from Israel in the country’s south.

The late Saturday report on state news agency SANA comes a day after a similar incident that caused loud explosions in Damascus SANA said Syrian defenses were activated and dealt with the incoming “foreign bodies.” The use of the term indicates they may be unmanned drones.

SANA said “the foreign bodies” were coming from the southern region of Quneitra on the edge of the Israelioccupied Golan Heights, also like the report Friday.

Israel does not usually comment on reports concerning its strikes in neighboring Syria, though it has recently acknowledged striking Iranian targets there.

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related to operational staffing at our facilities,” said Julie L. King, media relations adviser at ExxonMobil headquarters in Irving, Texas.

She added that ExxonMobil has programs and measures in place to provide security to protect its people, operations and facilities. “We are committed to ensuring the safety of our employees and contractors at all of our facilities around the world,” King wrote in an email.

An Iraqi security official

confirmed that ExxonMobil’s employees are evacuating the West Qurna 1 oil field in Basra province, adding that “the vast majority of the evacuees are Americans.”

He also spoke on condition of anonymity adding that the evacuations began on Thursday.

State-run Iraqi News Agency said work at Qurna 1 oil field “is going on normally” and has not been affected by the evacuation of ExxonMobil’s employees.

Basra Oil Co. chief Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail told INA the number of employees is less than 70, adding “they did not withdraw but decided to be in Dubai during this period and run the oil field remotely.”

He said the departure of the employees is for a short period and work will not be affected even by 1 percent in terms of production, maintenance and new projects.

“Work in Qurna 1 field is very normal,” Ismail said.

Australia’s conservatives win 3rd term

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s ruling conservative coalition won a surprise victory in the country’s general election on Saturday, defying opinion polls that had tipped the centerleft opposition party to oust it from power and promising an end to the revolving door of national leaders.

“I have always believed in miracles,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison told a jubilant Sydney crowd.

He compared his Liberal Party’s victory for a third three-year term to the births of his daughters, Abbey, 11, and Lily, 9, who were conceived naturally after 14 years of in vitro fertilization had failed. His wife, Jenny Morrison, suffered endometriosis.

“I’m standing with the three biggest miracles in my life here tonight, and tonight we’ve been delivered another one,” he said, embraced by his wife and daughters.

Opposition leader Bill Shorten had earlier conceded defeat as the coalition came close to a majority in the 151-seat House of Representatives, where parties need a majority to form a government. Vote counting was to continue on Sunday.

“I’m disappointed for people who depend upon Labor, but I’m glad that we

argued what was right, not what was easy,” Shorten told his supporters.

Shorten would have become Australia’s sixth prime minister in as many years. He said he would no longer lead Labor after six years at the helm.

The tight race raised the prospect of the coalition forming a minority government.

The conservatives became a rare minority government after they dumped Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister for Morrison in an internal power struggle last August. The government then lost two seats and its single-seat majority as part of the blood-letting that followed.

An unpopular singleterm Labor government that was voted out in 2013 had been the only previous minority government since World War II. Opinion polls prior to Saturday’s election had suggested that the coalition would lose and that Morrison would have had one of the shortest tenures as prime minister in the 118-year history of the Australian federation.

Morrison had focused his campaigning on polling that showed while Labor was more popular than the government, the prime minister was more popular than Shorten.

There was so much public confidence of a Labor victory that Australian online

bookmaker Sportsbet paid out 1.3 million Australian dollars ($900,000) to bettors who backed Labor two days before the election. Sportsbet said 70% of wagers had been placed on Labor at odds of $1.16.

Another betting agency, Ladbrokes, said it had accepted a record AU$1 million wager on Labor.

Shorten, who campaigned heavily on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, said Saturday morning that he was confident Labor would win, but Morrison would not be drawn on a prediction.

Morrison is the conservatives’ third prime minister since they were elected in 2013.

Tony Abbott, who became the first of those three prime ministers in the 2013 election, conceded defeat in the Sydney seat he has held since 1994.

Polling suggests climate change was a major issue in that seat for voters, who instead elected an independent candidate, Zali Steggall. As prime minister in 2014, Abbott repealed a carbon tax introduced by a Labor government. Abbott was replaced by Turnbull the next year because of poor opinion polling, but he remained a government lawmaker.

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land mosques on the country’s immigration policies also lost his bid for election.

Fraser Anning was the target of widespread condemnation for railing against Muslim immigration within hours of the mass shootings in the New Zealand city of Christchurch in March. He faced more criticism later for physically striking a teenage protester who cracked a raw egg on his head and was censured by the Senate.

LONDON — Thousands are marching in Northern Ireland to demand that the region’s leaders permit samesex marriage.

The demonstrators in Belfast on Saturday want samesex couples to be treated the same way in Northern Ireland as they are in the rest of the UK, where same-sex marriage is legal. The issue is a stumbling block to restoring Northern Ireland’s Catholic-Protestant powersharing administration, which has been suspended for more than two years.

Northern Ireland’s 1.8 million people have been without a functioning administration since the government collapsed in January 2017 over a failed green-energy project. The rift later widened to broader cultural issues separating Northern Ireland’s British unionists and Irish nationalists.

The socially conservative Democratic Unionist Party, an ally of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government, is opposed to a redefinition of the law.

Official: Bomb blast in western Afghanistan kills 2 KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan official says that a bomb blast in the western province of Herat has killed at least two people, including a child.

Gelani Farhad, a spokesman for the province’s governor, says that 14 people were wounded in Saturday morning’s attack in the Obe area, including the district administrative chief.

Farhad said that a remotely controlled bomb went off when the district chief’s vehicle was passing by the area’s main market.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

Taliban insurgents are active in the province and regularly target Afghan officials and security forces.

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Public Safety Police reports Information for this report was taken from publicly available law enforcement records and includes arrest and citation information. Anyone listed in this report is presumed innocent. n On May 13 at 9:28 p.m., Alaska State Troopers received a report of a domestic disturbance that had occurred the night before, in which a vehicle had been damaged. A suspect has been identified, and the incident of criminal mischief is under investigation. n On May 13 at about 11:00 p.m., Alaska State Troopers conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle traveling 78 miles per hour in a 45 miles per hour zone on East End Road, near Homer. Investigation resulted in the driver being identified as Ivan Kalugin, 36, of Homer, who was arrested for driving under the influence and taken to the Homer Jail.

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not like he was causing trouble or acting out. He straight up said, ‘I don’t want to be here, and I want to go home.’

“There was no argument, no fights,” he said.

“Nothing like that.”

Instead, he grabbed a rifle “and booked it for the hills.”

Neverov said the last thing he heard his friend

n On May 13 at 6:19 p.m., Alaska State Troopers received a REDDI (Report Every Dangerous Driver Immediately) report of a vehicle heading southbound from Cooper Landing. Troopers located the vehicle and performed a traffic stop near Mile 77 of the Sterling Highway.

Investigation revealed that the driver was not impaired. Further investigation revealed that a passenger in the vehicle, Richard Heath, 39, of Soldotna, had an outstanding warrant for his arrest for violating his conditions of release, stemming from an original charge of driving under the influence.

Heath was arrested for his warrant and taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility without bail. n On May 13 at 2:57 p.m., Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Soldotna Post, issued a citation to John E. Rate, 73, of Homer, in Soldotna at the Kenai River Flats for utilizing a drift gill net in the personal use smelt fishery in the Kenai

River that was deeper than four feet. Rate’s net was nearly six feet in depth. A legal smelt drift net must be 20 feet in length and four feet in depth or smaller. Bail was set at $120. n On May 13 at about 3:00 p.m., Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Soldotna Post, issued a citation to Adrian Calibo Abad, 27, of Sterling, for making a false statement on a 2019 Alaska resident low-income hunting/trapping/sport fishing license application.

Investigation by troopers revealed that Abad applied for and received a low-income license for which he did not qualify. Bail was set at $320. n On May 14 at about 2:40 p.m., Alaska State Troopers arrested Kris Kammers, 37, of Soldotna, for a no bail warrant for his arrest on original charges of assault and criminal mischief. Kammers was taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility without incident. n On May 14 at about 11:10 p.m., Alaska State Troopers were conducting

routine patrol when a male was observed standing next to a tipped-over motorcycle near Ninilchik. Investigation resulted in the arrest of Tanner Combs, 35, of Ninilchik, for one count of driving under the influence and one count of fourth-degree misconduct involving weapons.

Combs was taken to the Homer Jail. n On May 13 at about 4:00 a.m., Granite Construction reported to Soldotna Alaska State Troopers that one of their F450 trucks had been stolen from the job site near Mile 110 of the Sterling Highway. The truck was reported to have a jersey barrier picker in the back, valued at about $5,000. At about 4:30 a.m., the vehicle was spotted on the Sterling Highway, and at about 4:35 a.m., troopers attempted to stop the truck.

The driver failed to stop and, after a short pursuit, the driver ditched the truck behind the Decanter Inn and fled in to the woods.

The truck was recovered

with no damage, but the jersey barrier picker was missing. Further investigation on May 14 located the jersey barrier picker in a gravel pit off Dorothy Drive, off Tustumena Lake Road. A suspect has been identified, and investigation is continuing. n On May 16 at 2:32 a.m., Alaska State Troopers responded to Opal Street in Nikiski for a 911 hang-up call. Investigation revealed that Nicole Panamaroff, 41, of Nikiski, had physically assaulted a male and, in the process, caused damage to property.

Panamaroff was arrested for fourth-degree assault (domestic violence) and fifth-degree criminal mischief (domestic violence).

Panamaroff was taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility and was held without bail. n On May 13 at 6:06 p.m., Soldotna police contacted Karli Bell, 19, of Soldotna, regarding an outstanding arrest warrant.

During the investigation, Bell provided officers with a false name. Bell was ar-

rested on the warrant and for making a false report and taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility on $2,500 bail. n On May 11 at about 1:10 a.m., Soldotna police responded to a room at the Soldotna Inn for a disturbance. Anthony Ritter, 38, of Sterling, was arrested for fourth-degree assault, interfering with the report of domestic violence, violating his court ordered conditions of release, and on an outstanding arrest warrant.

Ritter was taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail. n On May 7 at 4:41 p.m., the Soldotna Public Safety Communications Center began receiving complaints involving a REDDI (Report Every Dangerous Driver Immediately) vehicle inbound to Soldotna on the Sterling Highway, near Mile 91. Soldotna police contacted the vehicle on Frontier Avenue, near Turnbuckle Terrace. Krystle Michaels, 35, of Kenai, was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs and was taken to Wildwood Pretrial.

mumble was, “I’ll find my own way home,” as he walked away from camp.

Neverov said his friend had disappeared in a similar way in the past, only to show up days later as if nothing had happened.

There was no indication that Akimenko had harmed himself or been mauled by a bear, according to Neverov, 33.

“No signs of anything,” he said.

Alaska State Troopers are investigating, and an autopsy will be conducted

to determine the cause of death, troopers’ spokesman Tim DeSpain said in an email to the AP. Neverov, who also lives in Delta Junction, suspects his friend either had a heart attack or might have been poisoned by something he picked up and ate.

He said he found a root in his friend’s pocket that had been shaved off the sides for consumption.

Every time the two are out in the woods, Neverov said, Akimenko would always eat things he found,

from berries to mushrooms.

“Some stuff I don’t know and I won’t put in my mouth, and he’ll cut a piece off and try it,” Neverov said of his friend. The two would go fishing or hunting once a week, and Akimenko would show up at Neverov’s cabin daily.

He said he had poor cell reception and could only text. He was eventually able to text with an Alaska State Trooper, who made arrangements to fly to the site the following day.

Few details were outlined in an online trooper report on the case that was posted Thursday.

According to the report, Akimenko and Neverov chartered a flight from Kodiak to Sturgeon Lagoon, about 90 miles west, for the hunt, along with 30-yearold Mikhail “Mike” Malyk of Palmer.

The trio was scheduled to be picked up by plane on Wednesday, but Akimenko and Malyk decided to leave a week earlier.

When their plane arrived

to collect them on May 8, however, Akimenko had already left camp, Malyk and Neverov told the pilot.

Malyk departed camp and eventually went back to Palmer, while Neverov stayed and looked for Akimenko, covering miles in a search that included a visit to a small village. No one there had seen the missing man, locals told Neverov.

On Monday afternoon, he found Akimento’s body lying next to his jacket and the rifle about a mile from their camp.

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Monday

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

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Temperature

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High .............................................. 57 Low ............................................... 38 Normal high ................................. 57 Normal low ................................... 37 Record high ...................... 72 (2002) Record low ........................ 24 (1956)

Precipitation

From the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai

24 hours ending 4 p.m. yest. . 0.02" Month to date .......................... 0.37" Normal month to date ............ 0.48" Year to date ............................. 2.41" Normal year to date ................ 3.55" Record today ................ 0.22" (1988) Record for May ............ 2.77" (1966) Record for year ........... 27.09" (1963)

Juneau 67/44

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101 at Zapata, Texas 15 at Climax, Colo.

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SoHi girls defend title Homer boys make history with crown

By MEGAN PACER Homer News

Homer’s Brenna McCarron (right) prepares to send the ball up the field under pressure from Soldotna’s Ryann Cannava during the girls championship game of the Peninsula Conference soccer tournament on Saturday at Homer High School in Homer.

(Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

For the very first time, the Homer boys soccer team won a conference tournament championship, topping Kenai Central on Saturday on the turf at Homer High School.

“It’s huge,” said head coach Warren Waldorf of the victory.

The 1-0 win over Kenai made the Mariners the Peninsula Conference soccer champions. Both they and Kenai, which was on a run of three straight conference titles and is the defending

Division II state champ, will advance to the state championships in Anchorage next weekend.

Head coach Warren Waldorf kept his explanation of the game and victory brief.

“We got a goal, and we kept them from scoring a goal.” he said. “So we won.”

Senior forward Tom Gorman netted the game’s only goal in the 31st minute.

Though Kenai was hungry to even the score and played with energy, a strong Homer defense, along with goalkeeper Clayton Beachy, was able to hold the Kardinals off for the rest of the match.

Kenai coach Shane Lopez said the game followed a pattern set by the teams all season. They tied 1-1 on April 16, and Kenai won 1-0 on May 9. So this means after three games, each team has scored two goals.

“They stayed tight defensively and we weren’t able to get the tying one in,” Lopez said, giving credit to Damien Redder, Travis McKinley and Nate Beiser for solid games.

Homer also played the game without Daniel Reutov, the Mariners’ leading scorer, after he was injured See KICK, page B2

Baseball wraps regular season SoHi, Kenai, Homer see weekend of promising signs Staff report Peninsula Clarion

The Homer baseball team celebrated senior night by defeating Kodiak 12-2 in six innings Friday in Southcentral Conference play.

The Mariners move to 2-5 in the league and 6-7 overall. The seniors honored for Homer were Seth Adkins, Hunter Warren and Austin Dash.

Mose Hayes pitched all six innings for Homer, giving up two unearned runs on only a hit. He struck out 10, walked one and hit two batters.

“He’s throwing great and other guys can get the job done too,” Homer coach Rich Sonnen said. “We just have to make sure the defense can back them up.”

Homer made just two errors, but both of them led to runs.

After going down 1-0 in the third, the Mariners strung together hits and walks to take a 6-1 lead in the bottom of the third. Kodiak cut it to 6-2 in the fifth, but Homer got five in the bottom of the inning. The big blow was a bases-loaded triple by Adkins.

In the sixth, Dash, Warren, Harrison Metz and Austin Ceccarelli strung together singles to score a run and invoke the mercy rule.

Ceccarelli was 3 for 4, while Metz was 2 for 4 with a double, Dash was 2 for 4, and Warren and Karl Wickstrom added hits.

“The guys were a little fired up for senior night, and a little fired up after getting beaten by Soldotna pretty good the other day,” Sonnen said. “They wanted to come back, put on a good show, and pick up a win on

senior night.”

Soldotna 7, Palmer 2 The visiting Stars continued rolling by topping the Moose in Southcentral Conference action Friday.

Soldotna moves to 4-4 in the conference and 5-11 overall.

Tanner Ussing pitched all seven innings for the Stars, giving up three hits and two runs while walking five and striking out five.

The game was tied at 1 until the top of the fifth inning, when the Stars scored six runs to open things up.

The top two batters in the order had a big game for the Stars. Jeremy Kupferschmid was 3 for 4 with a run, while David Michael was 3 for 4 with a run and an RBI. Jacob Boze added a hit for the Stars, while Brennen Werner scored a pair of runs.

Luke Guggenmos took the loss for Palmer, giving up seven runs — three earned — and six hits in 4 2-3 innings.

Guggenmos walked seven and struck out seven.

Homer 7, Kenai 5 The visiting Mariners held off the Kardinals on Saturday at the Kenai Little League fields to finish up the regular season at 3-5 in the league and 7-7 overall. Kenai finishes up 1-7 and 1-9.

The Kardinals got off to a slow start, giving up six runs in the first two innings, but then scored three runs in the seventh inning and had the tying run on second base when the final out was made as the team honored Knox Amend, J.T. Lott and Clayton Koroll on senior night.

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Soldotna’s Ben Booth (middle) races in the Class 4A boys 100-meter final Saturday at the Region III Track and Field Championships in Soldotna. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

SoHi sweeps region meet Kenai girls, boys finish 2nd at Class 3A level

By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

The only thing likely moving faster than the athletes Saturday at the Region III track and field championships was the numbercrunching going on in Soldotna head coach Phil Leck’s head.

That’s because the Stars were able to record rare double team championships on home field.

The girls repeated as Region III champs, while the boys broke a lengthy region championship drought dating back 25 years. Both Soldotna coaches Leck and Galen Brantley Jr. speculated that the drought dated back to 1994, when SoHi featured a stacked group of athletes that also were able to win the state title as well.

“It’s a testament to the hard work and effort the

kids put in,” Leck said.

At the Class 3A level, Kenai Central came home second in both the boys and girls team races, with the girls coming close to a title.

The Grace Christian girls won the crown with 178 points to beat Kenai’s 169.

On the boys side, Anchorage Christian won it with 171 points to runner-up Kenai’s 137.

The notion that the SoHi boys were on the verge of winning the title began materializing with just a handful of events left, but the high feelings really ramped up when junior Ben Booth crossed the line to win the boys 200, the penultimate event of the day. That combined with teammate Eli Craven’s third-place finish essentially clinched the team title for the Stars.

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Kenai Central’s Jaycie Calvert leads the field in the Class 3A girls 1,600 meters Saturday at the Region III Track and Field Championships in Soldotna. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

SoHi holds off Kardinals Homer finishes regular season with senior night win Soldotna’s Casey Card (right) celebrates with teammate Casey Earll after hitting an inside-thepark home run against Kenai Central on Friday at Steve Shearer Memorial Ball Park in Kenai.

(Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

It may not have been the prettiest game, but the Soldotna Stars pulled out a gritty 19-11 Northern Lights Conference win over Kenai Central on Friday evening at Steve Shearer Memorial Ball Park in Kenai.

The Stars moved to 3-4 in NLC play this year and 4-5 overall, while the loss dropped Kenai to 1-6 and 1-9 overall.

Soldotna is 3-0 against Kenai this year, but the first two matchups finished in lopsided wins for the Stars — an 18-5 four-inning affair on April 25 and most recently, a 22-6 assault in three innings just 48 hours earlier.

That’s what made Friday’s meeting so surprising.

“This was a classic KenaiSoHi battle,” Knoebel said.

“Nothing is expected when you play the same team two times in three days.”

SoHi’s bats came alive in the late innings and the Stars also capitalized on a few mistakes by Kenai to distance themselves after trailing after four innings.

“The best thing I’m proud of is how these kids fought, the way they had their character, held their heads high,” Knoebel said. “There were some moments today that were tough on us in multiple facets of the game, and there’s nothing I could be prouder of than how they fought for themselves, for me, and how they represented themselves

in the end.”

Kenai head coach John Manley said after Wednesday’s blowout loss to the same team, he stressed to the team that all it would take to compete with the Kards’ crosstown rivals is a few small changes.

“I told them, it’s just a couple of things in the game, and it isn’t a lot,” Manley said.

“Just a couple little things you’ve got to do better … we finally got some hits mixed in there today. I think the difference in that other game was they hit, and we didn’t, and tonight we finally got some hits.”

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won the day for both the boys and girls programs, as Soldotna was able to score team points in all 34 combined events, a feat that filled Leck with pride.

“I don’t know the last time a team did that,” Leck said. “But when you do that, the points really add up.”

Leck stressed the importance of relay victories, which deep teams like SoHi can dominate. Saturday, the girls picked up victories in the 800- and 3,200-meter relays, while the boys won the 400 relay.

The Stars also dominated the field events, winning seven of the 10 events, highlighted by shot put and discus doubles by Galen Brantley III for the boys and Ituau Tuisaula for the girls, and a sister 1-2 in the high jump with Danica and Aliann Schmidt both clearing the bar at 4 feet, 10 inches.

Brantley III was able to turn the tables on senior teammate Cody Nye one week after Nye claimed victories in the shot and discus at the borough meet in Homer. Brantley finished second in both throws last weekend, but Saturday at the region meet, it was Nye taking the silver both times.

“It’s a friendly competition,” Nye said.

Brantley explained that he was able to find a few more inches from his previous season best, while Nye fell short by just a couple of inches off his season best, and that provided the difference between gold and silver.

“Either way we scored 18 points,” said Brantley.

“Even last week when Cody won, I was the first one to high-five him. It’s not so individual as it is a team sport.”

Also winning for Soldotna was sophomore distance ace Erika Arthur in the 4A girls 3,200, winning with a personal best of 12:15.83, more than 11 seconds over second place.

The Stars got points in other places as well, including the hurdles where junior Holleigh Jaime and senior Sophie Thomas finished second and third, respectively, in the 4A girls 100 hurdles, and third and fourth in the 300 hurdles.

Jaime was also part of the winning 800-meter relay team, joining Ayla Read, Mikayla Leadens and Brittany Taylor in the victory.

Also collecting wins for SoHi were senior Kaleb Swank in the boys high jump with a new PR of 6-0, and senior Bryan Whitaker in the boys triple jump with a PR of 42 feet, 7.5 inches. Whitaker led a SoHi 1-2 with teammate Tyler Morrison.

Lastly, junior Kylie Ness was able to score valuable points with two runner-up finishes in the girls long and triple jumps, both with PRs. At the Class 3A level, held jointly with the 4A meet, the Kenai teams won eight girls events and two boys events to finish second in both team races.

The Kenai girls hauled in big points in the relay races, collecting three of the four relay victories to keep the team race close. The Kardinals won the 400-, 800- and 3,200-meter relays, and finished third in the 1,600-meter relay. Kylie-Anne Raye, Chelsea Plagge and Hayley Maw each notched two relay wins.

One of the bigger wins was that of junior Chelsea Plagge in the girls triple jump. Plagge’s new best leap of 34 feet, 4.75 inches, was not only a personal best but a school record as well.

Kenai head coach Jesse Set-

tlemyer said the old record of 33 feet, 1.5 inches, had stood for years, so Plagge’s feat was a long time coming.

“It feels really good in the moment,” Plagge said.

“I got my jump in and you could hear the announcers, they were waiting to announce it, and when I heard ‘34’, that’s all I wanted to hear.”

Plagge said that after struggling to hit her marks last year as a sophomore, she was able to figure out what she needed to do to improve.

“Last year I was struggling with my landing pretty bad,” she said. “But something just clicked this year.”

The day also saw the distance domination of Kenai senior Jaycie Calvert, who romped to a three-race sweep of the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 races at the 3A level, including a new PR of 11:36.87 in the 3,200.

Calvert had to beat Grace senior Mazzy Jackson each time to do it — in Friday’s 3,200, Calvert pulled away in the final 800 meters, and in Saturday’s 1,600, she made her move at the bell, using the last lap to distance herself for a comfortable victory.

“I’ve just got to keep working, because we have a really tough region,” Calvert said. “Mazzy’s a really tough competitor, and so is (Homer’s) Autumn (Daigle) and (Kenai’s) Brooke (Satathite) and the other Brooke (Miller).”

In the 800, Calvert prevailed in a wild finish, passing both Jackson and Homer sophomore Brooke Miller down the stretch in a threeway photo finish. The three runners were separated by a mere .40 seconds at the line.

“I just know that I get to run, and it’s such a blessing,” she said. “It’s just so fun to be able to compete.”

In the Class 3A hurdle races, it was another showcase of the Wilson siblings, as both junior Savanna and senior Jarett Wilson claimed victory in the shorter hurdle events and finished second in the longer one.

Savanna Wilson dominated the girls 100-meter hurdles by over 2.5 seconds, then finished second in the 300-meter race to Homer sophomore Laura Inama.

In the boys hurdles, Jarett Wilson won the 110-meter title by a sliver over ACS senior William Parks, then finished second to Parks in the 300 race.

Kenai senior Kaden McKibben won the 3A boys high jump, clearing the bar at 5 feet, 2 inches, beating runner-up Garrett Ellis of Nikiski by 2 inches. McKibben also finished second in the triple jump.

On the throwing stage, Nikiski junior Kaitlyn Johnson had a big day by winning the Bulldogs’ lone event of the day. Johnson tossed the discus to a new PR of 118 feet, 1 inch, that also broke the Nikiski school record, which had stood at 115 feet, 8 inches, for years.

Johnson said after a rough start to this season that had her searching for ways to climb out of the slump, she was able to find her groove with advice from her grandfather and assistant coach, Larry Johnson.

“It was that and I put a lot of expectations on myself,” Johnson said. “My grandpa’s worked with tons of throwers, he’s worked with Olympic throwers, and that’s been huge for me.”

Johnson said she was able to hit the big mark on her second of six throws in the finals.

“I just let go and relax,” she said.

The Homer girls were also able to pick up three

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in Friday’s semifinal.

“Great team effort today,” Warren said. “The star of the team, is the team.”

Warren said he plans to rest the players for the next few days. He

Nikiski’s Sidney Epperheimer passes the baton off to teammate Shylea Freeman in the Class 3A girls 800-meter relay Saturday at the Region III Track and Field championships in Soldotna. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

event victories over the day to help the Mariners finish third in the 3A team standings. Junior Marina Carroll notched the 3A girls high jump victory with a leap of 4 feet, 10 inches, beating runner-up Bethany Carstens of Nikiski on a tiebreaker of fewest misses.

Carroll said receiving advice from her father and coach helped push her to that extra height in the end.

“I’d just been thinking too much,” Carroll said. “Just approach it like, just jump … let it all flow out. It’s really easy to overthink it.”

Carroll was also second in the 400 and was part of the winning 1,600-meter Homer girls relay, joining Laura Inama, Brooke Miller and Autumn Daigle in the victory that Daigle described as intense.

“We just did a lot of pump-up talk,” Daigle said.

“We were seeded to win so that helped our confidence levels.”

Inama also won the 300 hurdles in a new PR of 47.81 seconds, destroying the field by three seconds.

At the Region II meet at Talkeetna, Jake Clark led Ninilchik by placing fourth in the discus, while Grizzly Beard led Cook Inlet Academy by taking fourth in the 400.

Region III track and field championships At Soldotna HS GIRLS Class 3A team scores — 1. Grace Christian, 178 points; 2. Kenai Central, 169; 3. Homer, 132; 4. Nikiski, 64; 5. Seward, 58; 6. Anchorage Christian, 40; 7. Houston, 8.

Class 3A individual 100 — 1. Laura Ellis, Gra, 12.75; 2. Hayley Maw, Ken, 12.80; 3. Laura Inama, Hom, 13.11; 4. Carissa Houck, ACS, 13.36; 5. Mary Kate Parks, ACS, 13.45; 6. Kylie-Anne Raye, Ken, 13.81.

200 — 1. Laura Ellis, Gra, 25.96; 2. Hayley Maw, Ken, 26.09; 3. Coral Petrosius, Sew, 27.43; 4. Mary Kate Parks, ACS, 27.49; 5. Leiah Rusher, Hou, 28.51; 6.

Shylea Freeman, Nik, 29.03.

400 — 1. Sophia Coverdell, Gra, 1:03.78; 2. Marina Carroll, Hom, 1:04.05; 3. Coral Petrosius, Sew, 1:06.09; 4. Logan Satathite, Ken, 1:06.24; 5. Sidney Epperheimer, Nik, 1:06.44; 6. Lydia Jacoby, Sew, 1:06.60.

800 — 1. Jaycie Calvert, Ken, 2:29.95; 2.

Mazzy Jackson, Gra, 2:30.06; 3. Brooke Miller, Hom, 2:30.35; 4. Sadie Lindquist, Sew, 2:36.95; 5. Brooke Satathite, Ken, 2:39.71; 6. Anna McLaughlin, Gra, 2:41.07.

1,600 — 1. Jaycie Calvert, Ken, 5:21.99; 2. Mazzy Jackson, 5:27.59; 3. Brooke Satathite, Ken, 5:34.09; 4. Autumn Daigle, Hom, 5:37.24; 5. Grace Annett, Gra, 5:41.59; 6. Leah Fallon, Ken, 5:48.82.

3,200 — 1. Jaycie Calvert, Ken, 11:36.87; 2. Mazzy Jackson, Gra, 11:49.46; 3. Autumn Daigle, Hom, 12:10.06; 4. Grace Annett, Gra, 12:19.93; 5. Leah Fallon, Ken, 12:47.93; 6. Summer Foster, Ken, 12:48.62.

100H — 1. Savanna Wilson, Ken, 16.51; 2. Katie Stockton, Ken, 19.03; 3. Malia Hewitt, Sew, 19.54; 4. Mahan Gatpandan, ACS, 19.89; 5. Meg Gerwin, Gra,

hopes to have Reutov back on the field in time for the state tournament, he said.

Earlier in the day, Soldotna knew it would have to play tough to edge out Homer in the Peninsula Conference championship, so that’s just what the Stars did Saturday afternoon.

The Stars cruised to a 4-0 victory to defend their conference

20.57; 6. Carissa Houck, ACS, 21.04.

300H — 1. Laura Inama, Hom, 47.81; 2.

Savanna Wilson, Ken, 50.81; 3. Katie Stockton, Ken, 51.20; 4. Coral Petrosius, Sew, 51.33; 5. Bethany Carstens, Nik, 55.47; 6. Lydia Marlowe, Ken, 56.59.

400 relay — 1. Kenai (Wilson, Raye, Plagge, Maw), 52.00; 2. ACS, 53.68; 3.

Grace, 53.82; 4. Nikiski, 54.90; 5. Houston, 57.11; 6. Seward, 59.56.

800 relay — 1. Kenai (Raye, Ashley, Plagge, Maw), 1:52.83; 2. Nikiski, 1:53.90; 3. ACS, 1:58.43; 4. Houston, 2:01.94; 5. Homer, 2:03.45; 6. Grace, 2:03.62.

1600 relay — 1. Homer (Carroll, Inama, Miller, Daigle), 4:21.91; 2. Grace, 4:29.76; 3. Kenai, 4:30.93; 4. ACS, 4:36.65; 5. Seward, 4:51.83.

3200 relay — 1. Kenai (Efta, Foster, Marlowe, Satathite), 10:23.09; 2. Homer, 10:27.35; 3. Grace, 10:45.11; 4. Seward, 10:57.18; 5. ACS, 11:41.60.

Shot put — 1. Jenna Markel, Gra, 35— 02.25; 2. Anna Brock, Hom, 35—01.25; 3. Kaitlyn Johnson, Nik, 32—10.25; 4. Izzy Fisk, Hom, 31—03.25; 5. Ayrieanne Terrell, ACS, 30—01; 6. Bethany Carstens, Nik, 29—11.

Discus — 1. Kaitlyn Johnson, Nik, 118— 01; 2. Coral Petrosius, Sew, 114—10; 3. Anna Brock, Hom, 114—09; 4. Hailey Anderson, Sew, 86—07; 5. Jenna Markel, Gra, 86—06; 6. Ashleigh Martin, ACS, 85—00.

HJ — 1. Marina Carroll, Hom, 4—10; 2.

Bethany Carstens, Nik, 4—10; 3. Dani Tompkins, Gra, 4—04; 4. Izzy Fisk, Hom, 4—02; 5. Bailey Epperheimer, Nik, 4—02; 6. Logan Satathite, Ken, 4—00.

LJ — 1. Laura Ellis, Gra, 17—01.25; 2.

Jessee Tompkins, Gra, 16—03.25; 3. Laura Inama, Hom, 15—11.75; 4.

Chelsea Plagge, 15—01.5; 5. Maddie Schmeling, Gra, 14—07.25; 6. Dani Tompkins, Gra, 14—03.5.

TJ — 1. Chelsea Plagge, Ken, 34—04.75; 2. Sophia Coverdell, Gra, 31—10.75; 3.

Jessee Tompkins, Gra, 31—05.5; 4. Kylie-Anne Raye, Ken, 31—00.5; 5. Marina Carroll, Hom, 31—00.25; 6. Mary Kate Parks, ACS, 30—08.75.

Class 4A team scores — 1. Soldotna, 221 points; 2. Wasilla, 130; 3. Palmer, 113; 4. Colony, 93; 5. Kodiak, 90.

Class 4A individual 100 — 1. Olivia Davies, Was, 12.69; 2.

Teeana Nicholai, Was, 12.76; 3. Abigail Kenley, Col, 12.86; 4. Mikayla Leadens, Sol, 13.65; 5. Abigail Burke, Was, 13.68; 6. Madylin Kessler, Sol, 13.77.

200 — 1. Olivia Davies, Was, 26.75; 2.

Brittany Taylor, Sol, 27.06; 3. Monica Bustillos, Col, 28.43; 4. Madylin Kessler, Sol, 28.46; 5. Courtney Coates, Was, 29.03; 6. Talia Villnerve, Pal, 29.51.

400 — 1. Allison VanPelt, Was, 1:00.29; 2. Brittany Taylor, Sol, 1:01.22; 3. Kristen Beames, Pal, 1:01.77; 4. Monica Bustillos, Col, 1:02.00; 5. Ashleigh Nicholson, Col, 1:02.72; 6. Ellie Burns, Sol, 1:03.02.

800 — 1. Allison VanPelt, Was, 2:23.11; 2. Sophie Wright, Pal, 2:27.63; 3. Lydia Bushey, Col, 2:31.91; 4. Gretchen Snelders, Pal, 2:35.60; 5. Zoe Copp, Pal, 2:36.51; 6. Aliann Schmidt, Sol, 2:36.64.

1,600 — 1. Allison VanPelt, Was, 5:08.63; 2. Sophie Wright, Pal, 5:37.89; 3. Erika Arthur, Sol, 5:40.87; 4. Lydia Bushey, Col, 5:41.28; 5. Abbi Boucher, Was, 5:42.64; 6. Tanis Lorring, Sol, 5:50.74.

3,200 — 1. Erika Arthur, Sol, 12:15.83; 2.

Abbi Boucher, Was, 12:26.95; 3. Naomi Griffin, Kod, 12:36.28; 4. Lydia Ortiz, Pal, 12:39.54; 5. Tanis Lorring, Sol, 12:44.47; 6. Abby Novak, Col, 13:07.44.

100H — 1. Hallee Blair, Kod, 15.98; 2.

Holleigh Jaime, Sol, 16.82; 3. Sophie Thomas, Sol, 16.87; 4. Hannah Villaroya, Kod, 16.98; 5. Kylie Ness, Sol, 17.09; 6.

Lilyahna Engebretsen, Col, 17.62.

300H — 1. Hallee Blair, Kod, 46.94; 2.

Hannah Villaroya, Kod, 47.87; 3. Holleigh Jaime, Sol, 48.23; 4. Sophie Thomas, Sol, 50.73; 5. Cheyanne Parsons, Was, 51.91; 6. Lilyahna Engebretsen, Col, 52.83.

400 relay — 1. Palmer (Beames, Cutsforth, Keil, Nicholai), 51.35; 2. Soldotna, 53.20; 3. Colony, 53.33; 4. Kodiak, 53.46; 5. Wasilla, 53.56.

800 relay — 1. Soldotna (Jaime, Read, Leadens, Taylor), 1:49.84; 2. Palmer, 1:54.99; 3. Colony, 1:55.31; 4. Wasilla, 1:57.41; 5. Kodiak, 1:58.11.

1600 relay — 1. Palmer (Beames, Nicholai, Cutsforth, Snelders), 4:15.19; 2.

Soldotna, 4:16.46; 3. Kodiak, 4:23.53; 4.

Colony, 4:44.81; 5. Wasilla, 4:45.36.

title. Both teams are heading to the state championships next weekend in Anchorage.

Soldotna started off strong and never let up, earning the first goal less than 10 minutes into the game courtesy of Rhys Cannava on an assist from her sister, Ryann Cannava. The Stars enjoyed two more goals in the first half and one more in the second, while Homer strug-

3200 relay — 1. Soldotna (Arthur, Schmidt, Lorring, Burns), 10:11.62; 2.

Palmer, 10:15.61; 3. Kodiak, 10:20.04; 4. Colony, 10:42.80; 5. Wasilla, 10:49.82.

Shot put — 1. Ituau Tuisaula, Sol, 40— 01; 2. Sarah Uschmann, Pal, 37—03.5; 3. Ahlissa Timu, Kod, 36—11; 4. Teeana Nicholai, Pal, 36—02.5; 5. Hanna Tennesen, Col, 34—09; 6. Autumn Fisher, Sol, 33—11.

Discus — 1. Ituau Tuisaula, Sol, 117—11; 2. Ahlissa Timu, Kod, 103—05; 3. Isabella Hays, Was, 98—11; 4. Hanna Tennesen, Col, 98—05; 5. Kaitlin LaaschGray, Col, 98—02; 6. Rachel Spence, Sol, 97—11.

HJ — 1. Danica Schmidt, Sol, 4—10; 2.

Aliann Schmidt, Sol, 4—10; 3. Kristen Beames, Pal, 4—08; 4. Audrey Johnston, Col, 4—06; 5. Grace Edminson, Pal, 4—04; 6. Kaarena Cruse, Col, 4—02.

LJ — 1. Olivia Davies, Was, 17—01.5; 2. Kylie Ness, Sol, 15—10.75; 3. Mikayla Leadens, Sol, 15—09; 4. Marielle Mangrobang, Kod, 14—07; 5. Morgan Bouschor, Sol, 14—04.5; 6. Sarah Uschmann, Pal, 13—10.5.

TJ — 1. Olivia Davies, Was, 35—04; 2. Kylie Ness, Sol, 32—07; 3. Monica Bustillos, Col, 32—00; 4. Kaarena Cruse, Col, 31—00.75; 5. Andrea Apthorp, Was, 30—10.25; 6. Jaida Vroman, Pal, 30—05.5.

BO YS Class 3A team scores — 1. ACS, 171; 2.

Kenai Central, 137; 3. Grace Christian, 126; 4. Nikiski, 57; 5. Seward, 43; 6. Redington, 39; 7. Homer, 24; 8. Houston, 18.

Class 3A individual 100 — 1. Fredrick Onochie, ACS, 11.25; 2. Jayden Thomas, ACS, 11.61; 3. Connor Spanos, Sew, 11.89; 4. Jahzeah Williams, Red, 11.91; 5. Bryan McCollum, Nik, 11.95; 6. Elias Machen-Gray, Ken, 12.02.

200 — 1. Fredrick Onochie, ACS, 23.40; 2. Bryan McCollum, Nik, 23.88; 3.

Jahzeah Williams, Red, 24.30; 4. Beau Freiberg, Sew, 24.32; 5. Elias MachenGray, Ken, 24.60; 6. Silas McGhee, Hom, 25.12.

400 — 1. Fredrick Onochie, ACS, 50.67; 2. Connor Spanos, Sew, 52.34; 3. Vincent Coverdell, Gra, 52.69; 4. Jayden Thomas, ACS, 53.09; 5. Andrew Beck, Gra, 55.56; 6. Garrett Ellis, Nik, 57.28.

800 — 1. Gabe Martin, Gra, 2:02.52; 2.

Maison Dunham, Ken, 2:03.28; 3. Vincent Coverdell, Gra, 2:03.54; 4. Joshua Davis, ACS, 2:05.49; 5. Nathan Haakenson, Ken, 2:05.86; 6. Jaden Van Dyke, Sew, 2:10.89.

1,600 – 1. Tristian Merchant, ACS, 4:29.43; 2. Gabe Martin, Gra, 4:33.64; 3.

Maison Dunham, Ken, 4:41.20; 4. Preston Wethington, Gra, 4:44.30; 5. Cole Fritzel, Gra, 4:55.74; 6. Samuel Roberts, Ken, 4:58.60.

3,200 — 1. Tristian Merchant, ACS, 9:30.61; 2. Gabe Martin, Gra, 10:00.42; 3. Maison Dunham, Ken, 10:24.84; 4.

Samuel Roberts, Ken, 10:24.91; 5. Preston Wethington, Gra, 10:32.08; 6. Cole Fritzel, Gra, 10:45.83.

110H — 1. Jarett Wilson, Ken, 16.51; 2. William Parks, ACS, 16.62; 3. Aiden Brost, Hom, 19.51; 4. Kacey Hayner, ACS, 19:54; 5. Matthew Thayer, ACS, 19.71; 6. Joseph Wilhour, Red, 19.80.

300H — 1. William Parks, ACS, 43.23; 2. Jarett Wilson, Ken, 44.09; 3. Nate McKay, Gra, 46.69; 4. Kacey Hayner, ACS, 48.36; 5. Aiden Brost, Hom, 49.38; 6. Matthew Thayer, ACS, 49.87.

400 relay — 1. Houston (Caballero, Henry, Seyer, Bolduc), 49.38; 2. ACS, 50.02; 3. Grace, 50.38; 4. Redington, 55.95.

800 relay — 1. ACS (Earhart, Davis, Thomas, Onochie), 1:36.23; 2. Seward, 1:39.13; 3. Houston, 1:45.11; 4. Homer, 1:50.22; 5. Grace, DQ. 1600 relay — 1. ACS (Thomas, Davis, Smith, Merchant), 3:40.14; 2. Seward, 3:40.19; 3. Grace, 3:41.23; 4. Kenai, 3:45.83; 5. Homer, 4:13.85.

3200 relay — 1. ACS (Davis, Smith, Szepanski, Merchant), 8:59.17; 2. Seward, 9:05.38; 3. Grace, 9:07.36; 4. Kenai, 10:01.90.

Shot put — 1. James Coulombe, Grace, 46—00.5; 2. Andrew Carver, Ken, 42— 05.25; 3. Hunter Greene, Nik, 37—06.5; 4. Aiden Arness, Ken, 37—04; 5. Billy Morrow, Ken, 37—03.5; 6. Kalen Molodih, Hom, 36—01.25.

Discus — 1. James Coulombe, Gra, 154—04; 2. Andrew Carver, Ken, 119—

gled to find the energy needed to keep up.

To make matters more difficult, Homer senior and goalkeeper Ali McCarron took a blow to the head on a corner kick early in the game.

Head coach Mike Tozzo said he didn’t want to take any chances by putting her back in, so sophomore Paige Jones went in the goal for the rest of the game.

01: 3. Hunter Greene, Nik, 115—09; 4.

Cort Sandefur, Red, 110—09; 5. Joshua Manwiller, Hom, 107—07; 6. Billy Morrow, Ken, 94—01.

HJ — 1. Kaden McKibben, Ken, 5—02; 2. Garrett Ellis, Nik, 5—00.

LJ — 1. Jahzeah Williams, Red, 19— 02.5; 2. William Parks, ACS, 19—02.25; 3. Andrew Beck, Gra, 18—09.25; 4.

Garrett Ellis, Nik, 18—02.75; 5. Silas McGhee, Hom, 18—00.75; 6. Riesen Cabballero, Hou, 17—06.

TJ — 1. William Parks, ACS, 40—03.25; 2. Kaden McKibben, Ken, 35—09.25; 3.

Tyler Hippchen, Ken, 35—03; 4. Garrett Ellis, Nik, 35—02.5; 5. Kacy Hayner, ACS, 35—00.75; 6. Silas McGhee, Hom, 34—11.25.

Class 4A team scores — 1. Soldotna, 223; 2. Kodiak, 165; 3. Palmer, 95; 4.

Colony, 91; 5. Wasilla, 73.

Class 4A individual 100 — 1. Micah Bartel, Kod, 11.28; 2. Ben Booth, Sol, 11.37; 3. Chance Tucker, Pal, 11.46; 4. Eli Cravens, Sol, 11.61; 5. Zane Vrvilo, Col, 11.65; 6. Mason Reynolds, Was, 11.70.

200 — 1. Ben Booth, Sol, 22.89; 2. Micah Bartel, Kod, 23.10; 3. Eli Cravens, Sol, 23.66; 4. Zane Vrvilo, Col, 23.79; 5.

Mason Reynolds, Was, 23.95; 6. Collin Butrlakorn, Was, 24.06.

400 — 1. Zane Vrvilo, Col, 52.76; 2.

Hunter Hayes, Was, 53.32; 3. Landis Erwin, Col, 53.68; 4. Tucker Christiansen, Pal, 54.22; 5. Kolby Torres, Col, 54.72; 6.

Jordan Spies, Sol, 55.57.

800 — 1. Connor Marbrey, Kod, 2:01.99; 2. Jake Waterhouse, Col, 2:02.54; 3.

Amiqaq Maclean, Pal, 2:06.03; 4. Nathaneal Johnson, Sol, 2:06.42; 5. Rafael Bitanga, Kod, 2:10.49; 6. Jerron Bruce, Kod, 2:12.46.

1,600 — 1. Connor Marbrey, Kod, 4:49.36; 2. Colt Hubert, Kod, 4:52.58; 3. Youji Seto, Kod, 4:52.62; 4. Ryan Owens, Pal, 4:53.97; 5. Bradley Walters, Sol, 4:54.30; 6. Noble Gurney, Pal, 4:58.82.

3,200 — 1. Connor Marbrey, Kod, 10:30.17; 2. Colt Hubert, Kod, 10:34.69; 3. Bradley Walters, Sol, 10:36.46; 4. Noble Gurney, Pal, 10:40.01; 5. Youji Seto, Kod, 10:47.09; 6. Kolten Greathouse, Was, 10:47.41.

110H — 1. Wyatt Helton, Was, 16.01; 2.

Connor Owens, Pal, 16.30; 3. Felix Robertson, Col, 16.56; 4. Brayden Reeves, Col, 16.88; 5. Oscar Shields, Col, 16.97; 6. Corbin Wirz, Sol, 17.20.

300H — 1. Connor Owens, Pal, 41.96; 2. Wyatt Medcoff, Sol, 43.46; 3. Joshua Alonzo, Kod, 43.62; 4. Corbin Wirz, Sol, 44.69; 5. Felix Robertson, Col, 45.04; 6.

Kade Reynolds, Was, 45.17.

400 relay — 1. Soldotna (O’Reagan, Booth, Edelman, Cravens), 45.12; 2.

Wasilla, 45.33; 3. Colony, 46.66; 4. Kodiak, 46.71; 5. Palmer, 49.23.

800 relay — 1. Wasilla (Wagle, Conant, Hayes, Reynolds), 1:34.18; 2. Soldotna, 1:34.60; 3. Colony, 1:35.30; 4. Kodiak, 1:39.46; 5. Palmer, 1:44.17.

1600 relay — 1. Palmer (Caple, Owens, Maclean, Christiansen), 3:37.60; 2. Wasilla, 3:38.25; 3. Colony, 3:38.97; 4. Soldotna, 3:41.56; 5. Kodiak, 3:48.60.

3,200 relay — 1. Kodiak (Seto, Hardy, Bitanga, Marbrey), 8:37.75; 2. Soldotna, 8:41.33; 3. Palmer, 8:52.34; 4. Colony, 9:18.68; 5. Wasilla, 9:29.58.

Shot put — 1. Galen Brantley III, Sol, 48—11; 2. Cody Nye, Sol, 48—1; 3. Yasuhiro Yamashita, Kod, 46—8.5; 4. Aaron Faletoi, Sol, 44—9; 5. Orion Harper, Kod, 44—1; 6. Melvin Lloyd, Sol, 40—6.75.

Discus — 1. Galen Brantley III, Sol, 134—1; 2. Cody Nye, Sol, 128—1; 3.

Yasuhiro Yamashita, Kod, 125—10; 4.

Alexander Bayle, Col, 125—5; 5. James Rogers, Pal, 118—2; 6. Tyler Pasa, Col, 117—3.

High jump — 1. Kaleb Swank, Sol, 6—0; 2. Brynn Miller, Pal, 6—0; 3. Michael Hardy, Kod, 5–10; 4. Julian McPhail, Col, 5—10; 5. Tyler Morrison, Sol, 5—10; 6.

Dylan Jeffus, Was, 5—8.

Long jump — 1. Jastine Asuncion, Kod, 20—7; 2. Tyler Morrison, Sol, 20—2.25; 3. Brayden Reeves, Col, 20—.5; 4. Wyatt Helton, Was, 19—3.75; 5. Dylan Jeffus, Was, 19—3; 6. Trenton O’Reagan, Sol, 19—2.25.

Triple jump — 1. Bryan Whitaker, Kod, 42—7.5; 2. Tyler Morrison, Sol, 41—2.25; 3. Hunter Hayes, Was, 39—5.25; 4. Connor Owens, Pal, 39—4.75; 5. Brayden Reeves, Col, 38—11.5; 6. Chance Tucker, Pal, 38—8.25.

“It’s a lot to ask to put someone who doesn’t play goalie in (during) a championship game like this,” he said.

Soldotna’s charge was led by Rhys Cannava with three goals.

She also assisted Journey Miller, who scored the second goal of the game.

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Homer girls top Kenai in dramatic shootout Staff report Peninsula Clarion

Friday action

Only one of the four games had a dramatic finish Friday at the Peninsula Conference soccer tournament at Homer High School, but that one game had more than enough drama to make up for the other three.

The Homer girls topped Kenai 4-3 on penalty kicks in the girls semifinal to clinch their first state berth since 2007. The Kardinals failed to wrap up their sixth straight berth, and seventh in eight years, but still have a good shot at getting an atlarge berth from the Alaska School Activities Association.

In the conference semifinals last season, Kenai broke Homer’s heart with a 1-0 victory. Friday, Homer was able to turn the tables after a close season series between the two teams — they tied at 0 on April 16 and Homer notched a 1-0 victory on May 9.

Friday, both teams did not score in the first half, second half or overtime, forcing penalty kicks on keepers Kailey Hamilton of Kenai and Ali McCarron of Homer.

The first round of penalty kicks was best of five. Olivia Brewer, Taylor Pierce and Julia Hanson scored for Kenai, while Brenna McCarron, Eve Brau and Jessica Sonnen scored for Homer.

That set up a sudden-death round, with Kenai’s Alyssa Bucho missing and Homer’s Paige Jones connecting to send Homer to the championship.

The championship opponent is Soldotna. The Stars are the defending conference champions and now have seven state berths in the last nine years after topping Nikiski 11-0 in the other semifinal.

Freshman Rhys Cannava had an incredibledebut at the tournament, scoring four goals in the first half.

Assists on two of the goals went to Meijan Leaf and Cameron Blackwell. Sierra Kuntz and Ryann Cannava, assisted by Journey Miller, also scored in the first half for a 6-0 lead.

“We were outmatched by SoHi,” Nikiski coach Linda Zimmerman said. “We went out playing flat in the first half, then it’s hard to recover from three or four goals.

It knocked the wind out of our sails.”

In the second half, Leaf added a pair of tallies, while Blackwell, Drysta Crosby-Schneider and Mykenna Foster also found the back of the net.

Katie Delker and Margarida Mendoca split the shutout for Soldotna.

The game knocked Nikiski into a third-place clash with Kenai.

On the boys side of the bracket, Kenai and Homer would meet for the second straight year for the conference title, while Soldotna and Nikiski boys would meet for third place.

The Kardinals defeated Nikiski 3-0 to earn a fifth straight state berth.

Damien Redder scored in the eighth minute of the first half for Kenai, but the Bulldogs were able to keep it 1-0 at the half.

In the sixth minute of the second half, Travis McKinley scored for the Kardinals, while Nate Beiser added the third goal in the ninth minute of the second half.

Nikiski coach Harrison Deveer said the first two goals came on set pieces, with the second one being a penalty kick.

“We played good, but we knew going in that we’d

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If the Alaska School Activities Association chooses Nikiski, it would be the first state berth in school history.

The Stars have not been at state since 2016.

“I think one needs to come out of our region, and it’ll be us or SoHi, and we proved today we are the better team,” Nikiski coach Harrison Deveer said. “I believe we made our case by taking third.”

After losing a bunch of players for disciplinary reasons, Soldotna assistant Erik Dolphin said that after the past five games, it’s hard to make a case for the Stars.

“Nikiski, I think, deserves a state berth,” Dolphin said. “Harrison has turned the program around from barely fielding a team to competing at a high level with some of the best teams in the region.”

Deveer said his team was nervous because the state berth was at stake, but Michael Mysing rose to the occasion and carried the team.

At the start of the second half, he broke a scoreless tie by beating a defender and blasting a shot off the side post and in. Then, in the closing minutes, Mysing stole the ball from a defender and beat the goalie to ice the game.

Deveer gave Isiah Gray and Jim Lamping credit for gutting it out through injury.

The coach also said SoHi could have won the game were it not for great saves by goalie Michael Eiter.

Dolphin gave credit to players like Cameron Johnson, Levi Rosin and Hunter Woodward for providing solid leadership through a trying season. He also said some young players like Ryder Giessler flourished with all the playing time provided by the suspended players.

“The future is bright,” Dolphin said. “The biggest thing for us is this was a cultural wakeup call. Every single guy we have left is a great kid so we should be able to transform the culture from this year.”

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Mendoca split the shutout in net, meaning the Stars did not allow a goal in the tournament.

Soldotna head coach Jimmy Love said one ever knows how things will play out when heading into a tournament like this one.

“Coming into today I thought, if we came out and played our game, I thought we had a good shot,” he said. “And today they probably played the best game that they have all year. And they needed to today, to win this.”

Love praised his team for the strong effort against Homer. In particular, the Stars did a better job of winning 50-50 balls, which he said they didn’t do last time they went against Homer.

“They played with poise, they played with possession,” Love said. “… Today they did exactly what I asked them to do, so they earned their victory today.”

Tozzo’s analysis of the game was simple.

“We just didn’t play well enough to win.” he said. “…

It took a whole half for our energy to get up. I think we let goals, you know, get us down more than anything, more than normal.”

The fact that the Homer girls were still recovering from an exceptionally long semifinal game against Kenai the day before was probably also a factor, Tozzo said.

However, the team is still heading to the state tournament along with the Stars, and Tozzo said his message for the team will be the same as with any other game.

“Just always coming out with energy,” he said. “Always being the aggressor.”

Nikiski boys 3, Soldotna 0 The Bulldogs made their case for an at-large berth to the state tournament by topping the Stars for third place.

The Homer girls soccer team celebrates its 4-3 win over Kenai Central High School in the semifinal match of the Peninsula Conference soccer tournament Friday at Homer High School in Homer. The game went into overtime and two rounds of penalty kicks before a winner was declared. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

have to play great to beat Kenai,” Deveer said.

The coach added that Jace Kornstad and Justin Harris did a great job in the defensive midfield.

“The guys played well and had a lot of the run of play,” Kenai coach Shane Lopez said. “Damien is excellent at set pieces and saw the gap between the wall and the net and was able to bend it around.”

The Homer boys notched a 6-1 victory over Soldotna to clinch a sixth state berth in eight years.

This is the third straight year that Homer defeated Soldotna in a game in which a state berth was up for grabs, though the Stars still have a shot at an atlarge bid.

The Stars were able to keep the game close until Kenai girls 2, Nikiski 0 The Kardinals wrapped up third place by making it through the tournament without allowing a goal after losing to Homer in the semifinals on penalty kicks.

Alyssa Bucho and Rileigh Pace had first-half goals to boost Kenai.

After getting blown out

by Soldotna on Friday, Nikiski coach Linda Zimmerman was much happier with her team’s play.

“Everybody knew what we needed to do today to play better,” Zimmerman said. “I had four seniors on the field and I told them, ‘This is your last game.

Leave it all on the field.’”

Zimmerman said senior Abby Bystedt, as always, was great in goal. She also said Emma Wik, Tika Zimmerman, America Jeffreys, McKinley Jeffreys and Hannah Young all played well.

Reach Megan Pacer at mpacer@homernews.com.

Clarion staff contributed to this report.

All-Conference GIRLS MVP — Alissa Maw, Kenai.

Coach of year — Dan Verkuilen, Kenai.

First-team all-conference — Olivia Brewer, Kenai; Jordyn Stock, Nikiski; Ali McCarron, Homer; Kappa Reutov, Homer; Eve Brau, Homer; Ryann Cannava, Soldotna; Meijan Leaf, Soldotna; Journey Miller, Soldotna.

Second-team all-conference — Damaris Severson, Kenai; Kailey Hamilton, Kenai; Abby Bystedt, Nikiski; Tika Zimmerman, Nikiski; Brenna McCarron, Homer; Rhys Cannava, Soldotna; Sequoia Severson, Seward; Naomi Ifflander, Seward.

Good sport team — Anya Danielson, Kenai; Alyssum Veldstra, Homer; Jordan Strausbaugh, Soldotna; Rosalie Anderson, Nikiski; Madilyn Moore, Seward.

BOYS MVP — Damien Redder, Kenai.

Coach of year — Shane Lopez, Kenai.

First-team all-conference — Travis McKinley, Kenai; Daniel Reutov, Homer; Dexter Lowe, Homer; Michael Mysing, Nikiski; Michael Eiter, Nikiski; Cameron Johnson, Soldotna; Levi Rosin, Soldotna; Max Pfeiffenberger, Seward.

Second-team all-conference — Tomas Levy-Canedo, Kenai; Braedon Pitsch, Kenai; Clayton Beachy, Homer; Austin Shafford, Homer; Gavin White, Nikiski; Sam Koster, Seward; Collin Mullaly, Seward.

Good sport team — Tucker Vann, Kenai; Avram Salzman, Homer; Shane Weathers, Nikiski; Nathaniel Basalo, Seward; Levi Rosin, Soldotna.

Phinny Weston got going in the second half. In the first half, Daniel Reutov, Homer’s leading scorer, struck in the 14th minute but, shortly after, Reutov was injured and missed the rest of the game. With one minute to play in the first half, Hunter Woodward, on a corner kick from Maleda Denbrock, tied the game.

“We played an amazing first half, but we came out and laid an egg in the second half,” Soldotna assistant Erik Dolphin said.

Weston would score four times in the first 29 minutes of the second half to put the Mariners in control. Parker Lowney had a pair of assists on the goals, while Tanner Reid also added an assist.

Eyoab Knapp, assisted by Weston, finished the scor-

Nikiski’s Gavin White tries to keep control of the ball under pressure from Kenai’s Evan Stockton during a Peninsula Conference tournament game Friday at Homer High School in Homer. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

ing for the Mariners.

Dolphin said Colton Sorhus was put in goal so Woodward could move out and make a difference in the

field, and Sorhus did a great job with the switch. He said SoHi’s defense just gave Homer too many great scoring opportunities.

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Kylan Lakshas were missing, which led to some defensive changes.

Both starting pitchers went the distance in the seven-inning game. Kaylee Lauritsen got the start for Kenai and gave up 13 hits and eight walks with one strikeout, while SoHi’s Casey Earll whiffed seven, giving up eight hits and 13 walks.

Earll also hit 2 for 4 from the plate, and said the team had to dig deep to pull out the victory.

“Our coaches taught us to win the battle and fight, no matter what,” Earll said.

“Once we got in that mode of we’ve got to fight for what we want, it was let’s do this, we’ve got this.

“I think we connected as a family more than a team at that moment.”

The offenses of both teams ran rampant, highlighted by two very different home runs by the Stars.

Ashlyn Asp ripped a tworun blast over the left-field fence in the second inning, and was later followed by a wild inside-the-park home run in the seventh inning by Casey Card.

SoHi took an early 4-0 lead, but Kenai answered with five runs in the bottom of the first. The first three batters reached to load the bases and Zaharah Wilshusen sent a blooper to center

field for a bases-clearing triple. Wilshusen then tied the game on a steal of home plate when SoHi catcher Card threw for an attempted steal at second.

Abby Every then scored on a wild pitch to put Kenai ahead 5-4.

SoHi came back with five runs in the second, capped by a two-run shot by Asp, to go back ahead 9-5.

SoHi loaded the bases with no outs in the top of the third, but Kenai miraculously escaped the jam as Lauritsen retired the top of SoHi’s order with three consecutive flyouts.

The momentum continued for Kenai in the bottom of the third as the Kards closed the gap to 9-8 with an RBI single by Lauritsen and two bases-loaded walks drawn by Nereid Phillips and Lexi Reis.

Kenai then took a 10-9 lead in the fourth on an RBI triple lined into center field

by Andie Galloway, who then scored the go-ahead run on a wild pitch by Earll.

“I feel like we weren’t in it in the beginning,” Earll explained. “After the win the other day, we were like, we got this, it’s simple. But we don’t realize how important it is for us to be in the game 24/7, and once we hit that point, we were on it.”

SoHi rallied once more in the top of the fifth, loading the bases for Bailey Berger, who came through with a ground-ball forceout that scored two runs for an 11-10 Stars lead. SoHi

Kenai’s Abby Every slides home in front of the tag of Soldotna pitcher Casey Earll on Friday at Steve Shearer Memorial Ball Park in Kenai. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

added three more to take a 14-10 lead after the frame was over.

Card’s inside-the-park homer in the seventh pushed the lead to nine runs, and was made possible when her shot bounced into deep center field, giving her enough time to make it around as two Kenai outfielders tried to grab it.

Estrella Slats led Soldotna’s bats by hitting 3 for 4 with a walk, while Card fin-

ished 2 for 5.

Every had the best hitting day for Kenai, going 3 for 3 with two walks, while Galloway hit 2 for 4 with a walk, Phillips drew two walks and Lauritsen ended 1 for 2 with a walk.

ing to 6-2 in the Northern Lights Conference and 17-9 overall. Kenai drops to 1-7 and 1-10.

Annalynn Brown pitched a no-hitter for Homer, striking out four and walking one. Kaylee Lauritsen got the call for Kenai, going 2 2-3 innings Homer 16, and giving up 14 hits and Kenai 0, 3 innings 16 runs — 14 earned. LauThe host Mariners fin- ritsen struck out one and ished their regular season in walked three. dominant fashion, improvGrace Godfrey was 4

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — With Kevin Durant out, Draymond Green has taken it upon himself to boost Golden State.

And boy, has he.

Green had 20 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists, and the Warriors beat the Portland Trail Blazers 110-99 on Saturday night for a 3-0 lead in the Western Confer-

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ence finals.

Green had his seventh career postseason tripledouble and Stephen Curry scored 36 points for Golden State, which moved a win away from a fifth straight trip to the NBA finals with Game 4 set for Monday.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr said it was one of the best games he’s seen Green play.

“I don’t even know what to say about Draymond,” Kerr said. “He was a wrecking ball, destroying everything in his path.”

Durant, the two-time NBA Finals MVP who was averaging more than 34 points during the playoffs, remains out with a sore right calf and his return is uncertain.

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the first 6 2-3 innings for Homer, giving up five runs — four earned — on five hits while walking three, hitting three batters and striking out four. Seth Adkins came on to strike out the last batter.

Parker Mattox went the distance for Kenai, with five of the seven runs registering as earned. He gave up six hits and struck out eight.

“He pitched awesome for us,” Kenai coach Luke Oliver said. “The top four batters did the damage. He shut down five through nine all day.”

Sam Berry was 2 for 4 for the Kardinals, while Seth Segura was 1 for 2 and hit by two pitches, Simon Grenier was 1 for 4 and Caleb Smith was 1 for 3.

“We’ve been taking steps in the right direction all year,” Oliver said. “Sometimes when we lost, they’d go into the postgame meeting happier than I was accustomed to, because I don’t like to lose.

Today, they were quiet and upset. That’s the way a loss should feel.”

for 4 with three runs and two RBIs for Homer, while Brown was 2 for 3, Brianna Hetrick was 2 for 2 with three RBIs, Kaitlyn Johnson was 2 for 3 with two runs, Haylee Owen scored three runs, Zoe Adkins was 2 for 3 with two runs and two RBIs, and Hannah Hatfield had two runs.

Homer honored seniors Brianna Hetrick and Claudia Fernandez as part of senior night.

‘Sometimes when we lost, they’d go into the postgame meeting happier than I was accustomed to, because I don’t like to lose. Today, they were quiet and upset. That’s the way a loss should feel.’

— Kenai coach Luke Oliver Homer coach Rich Sonnen said his team had some bad breaks, like lining into a double play, that let Kenai hang around. The important thing is Homer was able to close the season with two straight wins.

“This is exactly what we were hoping for,” Sonnen said. “Pick up these last two wins and get some momentum headed into regions.”

Adkins was 3 for 3 with two-run doubles in the first and second innings. Harrison Metz was 3 for 4, while Mose Hayes, Hunter Warren and Johnny Rummery added hits.

Wasilla 6, Soldotna 4 The Stars closed their regular season at 6-11 overall after dropping a nonconference contest on the road

Saturday.

Soldotna led 3-0 heading into the bottom of the third, but Wasilla cut it to 3-2 after three, then scored two in the fourth and three in the sixth for a 6-3 lead. The Stars had a run in the top of the seventh.

Chris Jaime pitched the first four innings for SoHi, giving up three runs on four hits while walking two and striking out three. Jeremy Kupferschmid pitched the final two innings, giving up three runs — one earned — on two hits while whiffing three and walking none.

Kupferschmid had two of Soldotna’s four hits at the plate, also scoring two runs. David Michael had the other two runs, while Tanner Ussing and Jacob Boze added hits.

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New shrub rose hybrids are easy to care for, easy to love Roses are among the oldest flowers in cultivation, although many have earned a reputation as fussy or difficult to grow. Some of the newer shrub rose hybrids, however, are disease-resistant, carefree and repeat-blooming — just the qualities novice gardeners love.

“They are generally much healthier, more free-flowering, easier to prune and more winter-hardy” than some earlier generations of roses, said Michael Marriott, technical manager and senior rosarian for David Austin Limited of Albrighton, England, about the many emerging shrub rose varieties.

Shrub roses, also labeled landscaping or groundcover roses, blend a diverse mix of old-rose varieties with modern roses to capture the best qualities of each, including fragrance, flowering styles, colours and growth habits.

They’re bred for garden performance rather than plant perfection, converting many rose contrarians into vocal rosarians, Marriott said.

“There are certainly plenty of hesitant gardeners who mistakenly think all roses will be finicky and hard to grow — but I’d say they’re decreasing in number,” Marriott said.

Early landscape designers frequently recommended that roses be concentrated only in rose gardens, in the process creating a monoculture conducive to pests and diseases. Now they’re integrating roses into mixed borders where companion plants surround roses to the benefit of all, Marriott said.

Despite longstanding perceptions, rose growing isn’t a specialty particular to older or more affluent gardeners, said Chris VanCleave, a banker and rose advocate from Helena, Alabama, who has a wide following on the garden lecture circuit and his “Redneck Rosarian” website.

Regardless of where you are or who you are, there’s a rose just for you, he said.

“Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Millennial generations don’t care so much about a perfect bloom. Instead they want garden colour and low maintenance, and they’re also averse to using harmful chemicals in the garden,” VanCleave said.

“Some want flowering power, while others grow them for sentimental reasons,” VanCleave said. “My rose garden began with one rose to honour my mother after she passed away. I now have around 185.”

Along with beauty, roses offer a great deal of utility around the landscape, including erosion control, salt endurance and appeal to pollinators — especially varieties whose blooms open fully to expose their stamens.

“Most roses are more drought-hardy than people think and can tolerate drier conditions, although during these times your flowering and plant size are diminished,” said Anthony Tesselaar, president and co-founder of Anthony Tesselaar Plants in Silvan, Australia, which markets Flower Carpet roses.

Surveys continue to identify roses as everyone’s favourite flower — even people who don’t have gardens, Marriott said.

“As I say to many people, what other plant can have a beautiful individual flower, a wonderful fragrance, flower for six or more months of the year, and be easy to look after?

“It’s easy to argue that they are the most garden-worthy of all plants,” he said.

This 2011 photo shows shrub roses growing alongside a split rail fence near New Market, Va. (Dean Fosdick via AP)

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Museums laud design inspired by nature

By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press

The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York and the Cube design museum in Kerkrade, Netherlands, have joined forces in “Nature,” a blockbuster show devoted to cutting-edge designs both inspired by nature and entwined in nature, with a focus on sustainability.

The show is sobering, at times humorous, sometimes heart-breaking (an extinct rhino that is made to come to life digitally, then vanish again in an instant), and decidedly uplifting when taken in as a whole.

“We searched labs and design studios around the world looking for innovative designs,” says Andrea Lipps, one of the curators at Cooper Hewitt who helped organize the show for the museum’s triennial. And they found them: “There are a lot of people, from all different disciplines, joining together and working very, very hard to find creative solutions to the enormous challenges we face.”

“Nature,” which explores the ways designs drawn from nature can address today’s environmental challenges, features 62 designers from around the world. The show opened at both museums simultaneously on May 10, and will remain on view at both venues through Jan. 20, 2020.

“With 2018 the Earth’s fourth-warmest year on record and global carbon emissions at an all-time high, the crisis of humancaused climate change has never been more dire,” says Caroline Baumann, director of the Cooper Hewitt.

“Solutions will not emerge without radical new thinking. ‘Nature’ brings together some of the most creative and intelligent designers whose works address our complex relationship to nature and its precious resources, and advocate for greater empathy for our planet,” she says.

Accompanied by a detailed book, “Nature: Collaborations in Design,” published by the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the show is organized thematically into sections titled Understand, Simulate, Salvage, Facilitate, Augment, Remediate and Nurture.

At the Cooper Hewitt, the sprawling exhibit opens on the main floor, includes an enormous work installed in the garden, and winds around and up to the third floor.

The “Understand” section explores ways designers can use scientific knowledge to enhance understanding of nature, and features a work called “Curiosity Cloud” by the Austrian design team Mischer’Traxler. The work, designed to draw attention to nature’s fragility, is composed of glass bulbs, each containing a handmade version of an insect species native to New York. When visitors walk through the delicate bulbs, the insects flutter, their wings clicking against the glass.

In the garden, “Petrified River” is an immense work made of cast concrete — an imagined landscape of Manhattan before being settled

by Europeans.

Back in the galleries, “Goatman” describes a project in which British designer Thomas Thwaites created a complex exoskeleton for himself that allowed him to literally live — and eat grass — among goats for three days.

“It meant eating a lot of grass, and he missed being a human after that,” Lipps says. “But he learned a great deal about simplification.”

The “Remediate” section includes a “Sustainable Burial Suit” seeded with mushrooms, meant to be an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional coffins or cremation. And “Totomoxle” features wall panels made from heirloom corn husks, with their naturally vibrant colors.

Nearby is a “Monarch Sanctuary,” which imagines how the facades of buildings could be reconceived to become butterfly sanctuaries, with places for native plants like milkweed to grow.

As if all that weren’t mind-bending enough, the main hall features a work that resembles a strange, enormously tall, sort of colorful insect wing. The panels of the wing-like sculp-

These photos shows an Installation view of “Nature— Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial” at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. (Matt Flynn/ Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum via AP)

ture, “Aguahoja II,” are made largely of pectin and shrimp shells, with colors derived from natural sources like squid ink and beets.

“It’s theoretically even edible,” says Lipps.

The work is meant to draw attention to the fact that while permanent materials like metal and stone have long been revered, there is also value in materials designed to have a limited lifespan and then go back to nature, she explains.

On the third floor of the museum, “Fantasma,” made by a Japanese design team, features naturally glowing silk made from silkworms injected with a green fluorescent protein derived from jellyfish.

In the “Salvage” section, meanwhile, ink has

been derived from exhaust soot — a practical use for pollution. There is also a prototype for Adidas sneakers made entirely of ocean plastic, and another prototype of sneakers that would be entirely compostable.

Nearby are beautiful vessels made from 3-D printed bioplastic derived from algae, bandages inspired by the adhesive that helps sea slugs cling to wet surfaces, and a lamp powered by the microorganisms in a cylindrical container of soil.

“There’s a level of optimism when you look around and see designers really taking on the challenge of all this,” Lipps says. “There’s a groundswell of creativity that’s continuing to reverberate.”

As millennials reject family treasures, baby boomers start to ask, ‘What do we do with all this stuff?’

By Denise Crosby The Beacon-News (TNS)

Every time I enter the blue-tiled bathroom off the back door of my home I think about my mom, my millennial offspring and the overflowing shelves at the local Goodwill.

In that bathroom, displayed next to the outdated mahogany vanity, is a wall hanging featuring shocks of wheat in black silhouette — a not-inexpensive piece of art my sister and I bought for our mother for Christmas one year while we were in college and existing on a ramen noodles budget.

Ever the artist herself, Mom immediately customtailored the background of this already unique wall hanging in fabrics that matched her living room decor. Then she proudly hung it above the new couch Dad finally let her buy, where it remained in a place of honor for almost three decades.

Because I knew how much she appreciated our

gift — and because she had found such a creative way to make it her own — I gratefully accepted this art piece after Mom’s death in 2001.

Although the wall where it now hangs is hardly as prominent, I love that ’80sstyle bathroom, not just because of the deep blue Mexican tile-work but because of the warmth I feel whenever I go into it and see a little piece of my mother’s home heart and talents facing me.

Here’s where the kids and thrift store come in to play: No doubt like you, I’ve been reading a lot about the need for baby boomers to begin downsizing so the next generation won’t be left to deal with all our possessions that over the years somehow morph from treasures into — dare I say — junk.

And I’ve also been reading about how those GenXers and millennials — I produced both — are shunning our would-be handme-downs, telling Mom and Dad or Grandma and Grandpa they don’t want

the brown dining room table and hutch or those delicate sets of China or the sterling silver candle holders or all the other items we gladly accepted from previous generations with the intent of passing them along.

Auctioneers and appraisers, junk haulers and moving companies all seem to be echoing the same thing: The market is flooded with baby boomer rejects. And they cite a number of reasons our kids are turning down the possessions we so generously offer to them. They rent rather than own, live in smaller spaces, collect more digital than physical items and tend to put their money toward experiences rather than things.

Now, instead of gazing upon my mother’s beloved wheat art with sentimentality, I get anxious … wondering where the heck it’s going to end up when my own walls come tumbling down.

And it’s hardly just this one item I worry about because my home, likely like yours,

contains a moving truck full of similar treasures/stuff/ junk, including dusty stamp collections, furniture from the Old Country, formal dishes and silverware also from my mom and lovely oil paintings created by relatives my kids have never met.

I do take some comfort in knowing I’m not alone.

In August, Jo Moss and husband Rod downsized from their Oswego home to a house in Yorkville, yet the couple still can’t get any vehicles into the new threecar garage because it’s filled with so much stuff she assumed her kids would want.

And it’s not just their possessions, but precious items passed down from Rod’s mother after her death almost nine years ago.

At the time they were packing to move, Moss, 62, asked her three kids what they wanted. “And they turned down pretty much everything,” she said, including a Pennsylvania Dutch rocking chair handmade by

their great-grandfather that she eventually gave to a nephew’s girlfriend “rather than put it on the street.”

Her kids also rejected three sets of formal dinnerware, including Haviland China; vast collections of Lladro figurines and Department 56 Christmas villages; as well as 3,000 Beanie Babies and boxes of soccer awards she and her husband, who both coached for many years, earned with their children.

The only offer she got on any of her treasures? One son wants her Hallmark Frosty Friends ornaments she’s collected over 37 years “because he knows how much they are worth.”

At the time she got depressed over the fact “they think all our things are crap,” Moss admitted. “But now I’m getting used to it.”

As am I … sort of. My eldest daughter who gladly accepted a brown dining room set after her paternal grandmother died several years ago is already having

trouble finding a new home for it after selling her house.

So I can only imagine the rejection I will feel as I start unloading (a cruel word, right?) my own treasures when it’s time for the big D … downsizing, that is.

There’s an old writer’s phrase — “slay your darlings” — we use in this profession that means tossing out our favorite words which serve no purpose. On the other hand, the gospel according to de-clutter guru Marie Kondo gives us a little more permission to keep the things that bring us joy.

But any joy that wheat silhouette I inherited has given me over the years is now dulled by the thought of it laying in a pile of other once-upon-a-time treasures on a shelf at the local Goodwill.

It’s chipped and it’s worn and it really is out of date, so it will probably look right at home.

But as long as I’m hanging around, so shall Mom’s favorite piece of art.

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Using a smartphone to sound out sign of kids’ ear infections

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer

WASHINGTON — Researchers have created a way for a smartphone to “hear” a warning sign of ear infections — fluid buildup behind the eardrum.

If it pans out, parents might one day check their tots’ ears at home simply using a phone app and “stuff you have around the house — paper, tape and scissors,” said one of the lead researchers, Dr. Sharat Raju of the University of Washington.

Ear infections are one of the most common reasons for pediatrician visits. Even if there’s no infection, fluid that builds up in the middle ear still can be painful and sometimes can muffle hearing enough to affect speech development.

Diagnosis is difficult.

Usually a pediatrician will peek into the child’s ear to see if the eardrum is inflamed, and parents can buy devices that use cameras to do the same thing. But ear specialists tend to use pricier, more complex tests that measure if the eardrum is pliable enough to vibrate correctly in response to

sound, or is stiff from the pressure of fluid behind it.

A team of engineers and doctors at the University of Washington developed a simple smartphone approach for acoustic testing: Cut a piece of paper, fold it into a funnel shape and tape it around the phone’s microphone and speakers.

Aim the funnel at the ear canal to focus sound. An experimental app beams in birdlike chirps, at a specific frequency. The microphone detects sound waves bouncing off the eardrum.

The app analyzes that echo, a broad-spectrum vibration from a healthy eardrum. Pus or uninfected fluid alters the eardrum’s mobility and changes the reflected sound. The app sends a text saying whether it’s likely that middle-ear fluid is present — one piece of information, along with other symptoms, that might be used for diagnosis.

“This type of technology could potentially avoid needless doctor visits,” said Dr. Justin Golub, a Columbia University ear specialist who wasn’t involved with the research. Golub often sees patients with suspected ear infections who don’t ac-

tually have one. He called the tool’s accuracy “quite impressive.”

Researchers tested the system on 98 ears, in children older than 18 months who were about to undergo surgery at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Half were having ear tubes implanted, so doctors could tell exactly how much fluid was present to compare with the smartphone results. The system detected fluid as well or better than specialized acoustic testing devices, the team reported Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

A smaller test showed similar results as young as 9 months. And in a separate experiment involving 25 kids’ ears, parents used the smartphone to check for fluid just as well as doctors did.

“Examining ears is difficult,” and better tools are needed for doctors, too, said Dr. Alejandro Hoberman, pediatrics chief at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, who also wasn’t part of the research.

But just because there’s fluid present doesn’t mean it’s infected — and Hoberman worried that at-home

In this undated photo Dr. Randall Bly uses a uses a phone app and a paper funnel to focus the sound, to check his daughter for an ear infection, at the UW School of Medicine in Seattle. (Dennis Wise/University of Washington via AP)

use of such a device “may alarm parents” and pressure doctors to prescribe unnecessary antibiotics.

Dr. Randall Bly, a University of Washington ear specialist and study co-author, says the smartphone approach is a bit like using a thermometer in deciding when to call a doctor. If it finds no sign of fluid, “then you can be pretty confident the fever or whatever is

probably not related to an ear infection,” he explained.

But lots of children have persistent ear fluid without infections — and they’re supposed to be tracked for months in deciding if they need ear tubes. At-home monitoring would be easier and cheaper than repeated doctor visits just for an ear test, added Raju, a surgical resident.

That’s one reason the

American Academy of Otolaryngology in 2016 called for development of at-home strategies to detect fluid buildup in the ears.

The research was funded in part by the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health.

The university filed for a patent, and the researchers are seeking Food and Drug Administration approval to sell the app.

Obesity surgery benefits may be bigger for teens than adults

In this 2015 file photo, Miranda Taylor, 20, poses for a portrait outside Christ College of Nursing and Health Science in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press

Teens who have obesity surgery lose as much weight as those who have

the operation as adults and are more likely to have it resolve other health problems such as diabetes and high blood pressure, a study finds.

The results suggest there’s a benefit from not waiting to address obesity. Researchers say longer study is still needed to know lifetime effects of this radical surgery and that it’s a personal decision whether and when to try it.

The study was published Thursday by the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the Combating Childhood Obesity conference in Houston. The National Institutes of Health paid for it, and some researchers consult for makers of obesity surgery tools.

The damaging effects of obesity accumulate, and the risk of developing other diseases and dying

prematurely rises the longer someone goes. Surgery is usually reserved for people who can’t lose enough weight through other means — diet, exercise and sometimes medicines — and are severely obese.

Researchers led by Dr. Thomas Inge at the University of Colorado wanted to know whether it’s better or safer to have it in midlife, the most common time now, or sooner before many of those other health problems appear or do much harm.

They compared results from two studies of gastric bypass surgery, which creates a much smaller stomach pouch, in 161 teens and 396 adults who had

been obese since they were teens. Five years after their operations, both groups had lost 26% to 29% of their weight.

Diabetes went into remission in 86% of teens and 53% of adults who had that disease before their operations high blood pressure did the same in 68% of teens and 41% of adults. Some side effects were more common in teens, and they were twice as likely to need a second operation.

One troubling finding: Although about 2 per cent of each group died, two of the teens did so from drug overdoses, suggesting substance abuse and self-harm may be a concern.

Overall, the results are consistent with an earlier study comparing teens and adults, Ted Adams of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City wrote in a commentary in the journal.

“Almost 6% of adolescents in the United States are severely obese, and bariatric surgery is now the only successful, long-term treatment option” for them, he wrote.

Most obese teens stay obese as adults, and adults who were obese as teens have worse health than people who started to weigh too much at an older age, but that doesn’t mean it’s the right choice to have surgery earlier than later, he warned.

Democrats grapple with fully embracing Medicare for All

By ELANA SCHOR, HUNTER WOODALL and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press

MASON CITY, Iowa — A half-dozen presidential candidates back “Medicare for All,” a proposal that would put the government in charge of most health benefits. But some of the Democrats they’re courting aren’t sure that the nation’s health care system should be overhauled so dramatically.

After watching Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Medicare for All supporter, speak in a packed northeast Iowa tavern, 67-year-old Connie Suby said she backed the ambitious proposal as an ultimate goal. But she cautioned that “we’re not ready for that as a country,” urging “baby steps” that keep private health insurance in place.

“Give people the option,” she said.

Suby is among the Democratic voters concerned that such a major remodeling of America’s health care infrastructure might be too big of a leap for their party’s next president. While polls suggest Democrats like the idea of Medicare for All, it’s not clear that they’re sold on an abrupt shift away from private insurance. In more than two dozen interviews across three early-voting states, most Democratic voters told The Associated Press that they’re open to a more incremental approach toward single-payer health care that starts with making government-run insurance available to more people — such as a publicly funded health plan that Americans could choose as an alternative to their employer-sponsored plan.

That explains the complicated dance Warren and others, including Sens. Kamala Harris of California, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kirsten Gillibrand, are performing as they balance their support for singlepayer with rhetorical room for private insurance companies to still play a role in the system. Warren told a voter at a Virginia town hall on Thursday that it’s not “inconsistent” to pursue Medicare for All as well as smaller steps to get there, such as lowering the age for Medicare eligibility.

Other candidates have simply spurned Medicare for All. Former Vice President Joe Biden has called for the expansion of Medicare as an option for Americans of all ages to buy into “whether you’re covered through your employer or on your own or not.”

Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke touts “Medicare for America,” which would automatically provide government-run insurance to those who don’t get it through their jobs.

Only Bernie Sanders, the author of the Senate’s Medicare for All bill, is solely focused on singlepayer as a way to “fully solve the health care crisis,” an approach his team thinks adds to his progressive bona fides.

The Vermont senator’s legislation would set up a four-year transition to government-run care for almost all health treatments, free of premiums or deductibles, with private insurance available as a supplement.

Warren, Harris, Booker and Gillibrand have been less clear on how they would treat private insurers under a Medicare for All system, and each has supported more incremental steps to increase access to care.

Despite enthusiasm from many progressives for Medicare for All, it’s unclear whether Democratic primary voters will choose a nominee based on a single-minded commitment to ending private health insurance. Chris Jeffrey, a 55-year-old grocery manager from Clive, Iowa, praised Sanders for having “pushed the debate” toward the most far-reaching health care vision. But even though Jeffrey caucused for Sanders in 2016, he said he’s open to Biden or Warren as well. While health care is a top issue for him, he doesn’t favor one candidate’s approach over another’s.

President Donald Trump and the GOP have used Medicare for All as a cudgel in their battle to paint the Democratic agenda as too extreme for most voters. The White House blasted Sanders’ bill last month in a statement predicting it would “cripple our economy and future generations with unprecedented debt.”

Liberal activists working to build support for singlepayer are under no illusions about the difficulty of the task ahead of them, particularly given Republican and industry-backed efforts to tar government-run health care as a costly boondoggle. Congressional Democratic leaders are also not yet on board, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi publicly focused on protecting the Affordable Care Act from Trump-backed efforts to kill it.

“We’re talking about Medicare for All as the policy that’s going to be implemented in 2021,” Jennifer Flynn Walker, senior director of mobilization and advocacy at the progressive Center for Popular Democracy, said in an interview.

“We’ll have a new president, and by that time we’ll have done the work so you can’t be a sitting president and not have committed to the idea.”

Laying that groundwork with the Democratic electorate would seem to start with voters like 61-yearold Trudy Rand. The longtime New Hampshire nurse urged policymakers to “seize the day” and push for Medicare for All, adding that “the system is broken.”

But when asked to weigh Sanders’ strategy against a more incremental approach, Rand said it wasn’t a makeor-break issue. “I wouldn’t not vote for somebody because they weren’t going Medicare for All,” she said.

Single-payer health care advocates often point to polling that shows the majority of Americans supporting Medicare for All, though surveys also point to higher levels of support for more incremental changes that would allow

for a choice between government-run and private insurance.

While 56% of respondents favored Medicare for All in January polling from the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation, up from just 40% between 2002 and 2004, the popularity of optional buy-ins to Medicare and Medicaid were significantly higher, at 74% and 75%, respectively.

“Once the fur begins to fly and arguments for or against the plan are made, in what would be a debate unlike any we’ve ever seen in health . we don’t know what the outcome of that will be,” Kaiser president Drew Altman said in an interview. “And so, no one should mistake current levels of support or opposition with what they might be if

there was debate about a real proposal.”

To be sure, several voters said they’d prefer to see Sanders’ single-payer system become a reality.

Lemuel Anderson, a 24-year-old resident of Ames, Iowa, said he’s deciding between Sanders and Warren and health care is one of the issues tipping him toward Sanders. That Warren has left the door open to preserving some form of private insurance after a transition to Medicare for All was a problem for him.

“I think that currently it is about profit when it comes to health care and that’s something that people need, so it shouldn’t be about profit,” Anderson said. “And if you keep private insurance that will continue to be the case.”

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To tweet or not to tweet U nhinged

A laska N ick V arney

The annual Shorebird Festival in Homer is now over so the guests of honor should arrive any day now.

The expected migratory pulse of feather bearers had no discernible pulse, therefore, our local eagle population was called on to perform various narcissistic poses and impromptu demonstrations of mugging seagulls with an IQ of a saltine.

What is it with this year’s spring? One day we have a mild touch of sleet at sea level while the graying pinnacles of the mountains across the bay are refreshed by a silvery blanket of virgin snow. Then, pow! The sun decides to kick things up a bit and stick around for a week.

Suddenly, I’m tramping around in mud up to my keister while Hitchcock’s, “The Birds” is coming alive in our backyard.

I’m talking about a serious invasion here. And, I swear, it’s the same land birds, year, after year, after year. Not just species, but the identical birds or, at least their equally deranged descendants.

There’s ageless Pavarotti, who is a huge robin with a voice that could match any opera maestro in the world today, including a plethora of dead ones.

This cheese-brain starts

Sandhill cranes feed in Beluga Slough on May 11, 2019, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

to bellow every morning just as the glimmer of dawn begins to ooze over the eastern horizon and does not desist until he has every other critter that can chirp, twitter, caw or screech, dancing around in the nearby spruce and alders.

Once his disruptive mission is accomplished, he flies off to roost somewhere and zones out leaving me with no holds barred, bird rap battle going full bore.

And, guess who leads that little sideshow? Well, it’s some petite, plumed, weird-o that I call…

Hold it: The edit police are not going to allow me to utilize that particular terminology due to the fact that there are some of you who would blow your morning oatmeal through every orifice in your skull if you saw the word in print. So, I’ll just use part of his name, ‘head.

I don’t have a clue as to what kind of creature this frenzied miniature peeper is but it sounds like a goosed soprano.

The wee beasty can’t be over 3 inches tall yet he has a scream that can crack windshields and

loves taking center stage after Pavarotti ghosts into the boonies.

Of, course the morning squawk-a-mania wouldn’t be perfect without Big Duke, our resident studmuffin pheasant shrieking at ole ‘head to shut up while Mort the magpie joins in and screeches just because he’s inherently obnoxious.

It’s like the menagerie tabernacle choir around here until about 9:30.

Then, everyone scatters when Fast Freddy, the falcon, floats by looking for his breakfast of small

birdie turnovers or beakscrambled rodents (it depends on who forgets to look up).

Double F is trés cool and knows it. I swear that I’ve seen him sporting shades on some of his more spectacular quick snack dives. That smokin’ sky-Harley can clear out a crowd.

I just wish that he were an early riser. Well, at least prompt enough to shave the top notch off of the mad peeper once in a while, or make Pavarotti choke on his early worms.

But alas, he seems to pre-

fer to arrive near brunch time when his main targets have moved on after their morning banquet and concluded their cacophony of morning chants.

I cannot end this avian adventure tale without mentioning the Thuds.

Thud is the generic name that I bestow on the astuteness-disabled birds that smack into the cabin’s front windows at around the speed of sound and then lay on the deck, claws up, like some sort of mutant dead fly.

They aren’t dead, of course. They smacked head-on, didn’t they?

They’d have to hit buttfirst to do themselves any brain damage. They just lay there a bit, then stagger up, wobble to the edge of the deck and attempt to fly away with a bit of dignity. That’s hard to do when you’re going sideways and are upside down but at least they are quiet about it.

Time to shut the ‘puter down. An insufferable interloper has just made its spring debut I need to introduce it to my “little friend,” a modified, long-shaft, single-action broom.

Ever hear a woodpecker doing a drum riff on a log cabin? It makes the local menagerie tabernacle choir sound like a chilledout Eagles concert.

Nick can be reached at ncvarney@gmail.com if he isn’t busy trying to entice Double F into making early dawn raids.

Celebrate our students! Clark Fair

At the Kenai River Campus of Kenai Peninsula College, we like to celebrate our students and share their successes with our community. Here is Clark Fair’s first-person story, which is one of many: After graduating from Kenai Central High School in May 1976 and spending my summer as a groundskeeper at Birch Ridge Golf Course, I found myself at a loss. While many of my former KCHS classmates were off to bigger and bet-

ter things, I had no immediate plans to further my education, no new job to carry me through the winter, and practically no idea what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I was rescued from this malaise by two things: (1) an ultimatum from my father, which led me to (2) Kenai Peninsula Community College.

My father told me this: “If you get a job or go to the community college, you are welcome to stay here for free. If not, you

need to either start paying rent, or move out.” In January 1977 I began classes at what is now Kenai Peninsula College, and I have been connected to KPC in one way or another for most of the last four decades. I owe a great deal to our local campus, and I want to state clearly how fortunate I think we peninsula residents are to have such an institution in our midst.

My own journey began with these four classes: American History with

George Anderson, Beginning Composition and Creative Writing with Lance Petersen, and Introduction to Geology with Alan Boraas. In all cases, I was in excellent hands. My time at the college reinvigorated my love of learning and began to bring me out of a shell I had carefully constructed around myself.

To begin with, my KPC experience provided me the impetus to enroll in a fouryear university. At KPC, the instructors encouraged

Learning for Life Morel Mushrooms It may be close to this year’s morel mushroom season so if you are looking for some of these treasures, UAF Cooperative Extension Service has a publication on morel mushrooms. This publication is entitled “Collecting, Preserving & Using Morel Mushrooms.” You will be provided information on field identification, sustainable harvesting methods, storing, freezing and drying processes. There is a list of suggested guidebooks and websites.

Find more information at “The Great Morel: A Tribute to Shroomers, www.thegreatmorel.com/info.html.

This Cooperative Extension Service publication and others are available for free in our office or downloadable at www.uaf.edu/ces.

Submitted by Linda Tannehill, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, Kenai Peninsula District, Health, Home and Family Development.

me. The advisors assisted me. The learning inspired me.

In 1985, while working as a reporter for the Peninsula Clarion, I began taking education courses at KPC. Two years later, after earning a certificate to teach high school English, I found myself in a tanking state economy (because of the falling price of oil), and I needed a job. KPC director Ginger Steffy hired me as a teaching adjunct.

Between the college and substitute teaching in local public schools in 1987-88, I survived financially.

After I was hired as a high school teacher, I returned regularly to KPC to earn credits to maintain my certification, learning more about education and anthropology and various other subjects. I attended a performance of “The Ballad of Kenai” at KPC. I performed in a reader’s theater there for a KPC Showcase.

KPC was a regular focus of community and cultural events.

After I retired from teaching, KPC director Gary Turner hired me as an adjunct instructor and English tutor, and I eventually became the coordinator for the campus newspaper.

Later, he hired Tony Lewis and I to write a book about the 50-year history of the college.

And what a history it has been. The Kenai River Campus has grown and prospered. The Kachemak Bay Campus has unified and grown and prospered.

Course offerings have continued to transform with the shifting needs of residents and the workforce. Sure, Alan Boraas is still here— and we’re delighted to have him—but nearly everything else is different. NEARLY everything.

What has NOT changed is the personal nature of the community campus system, the incredible expertise available right in our collective backyard, the ability to help us better understand this place in which we live, and the opportunity to train people here to do the things we do here … or to look beyond this place and move on, guided by whatever ambitions they might have.

Those who know me know that I take education seriously, and I take it personally. And I want to ensure that it continues to be available locally—and throughout this state in which I have lived my entire life—for generations to come.

Clark’s path is just one of many, which are as varied and as rife with possibilities as our own imaginations. We are proud of his success, and proud to call him our own.

Recycling Bin A plastic tax will decrease consumption Britain will introduce the world’s first plastic tax for products made up of less than 30% recycled material. This will provide a huge boost to the recycling industry by massively increasing demand for recycled plastic, spurring businesses to invent and deploy better products and creating more jobs.

ReGroup’s next meeting is Monday, May 20, 6:30 pm at the Hope Community Center off Kalifornsky Beach Road.

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The benefits of spaying or neutering

PET PAL

COLOR ME BORED Dear Heloise: I have spent months looking at furniture stores that might carry the color fabric I want for new furniture. All carry exactly the same range of dull, bland colors that are supposed to be “in.”

How about pastels and small designs on fabric? What happened to green and yellow? Wake up, manufacturers -- not everyone wants gray, blue or beige! Thank you.

-- Jane in Fredericksburg, Va. Jane, I hear you. Fresh greens and yellows can add light and energy to a room!

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Dear Readers: Meet Kody and Iroquois.

Dear Heloise: Regarding the woman who Kody is a 5-year-old lovable keeshond. He was dismayed to find that many of her family loves hiking and his little buddy, the plush photos had become stuck to the glass in the family mascot Iroquois. Kody’s mom, frame: While reading the steps of the solution

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Mom is put out by stepdad who tattles on her daughter DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been together for 12 years. I have a daughter from a previous relationship who is now 16. They have had their ups and downs. What irritates me to no end is, my husband tattles on my daughter.

Today she wanted to come home from school because she felt nauseated. My husband had the day off, and even though he didn’t want to, he picked her up from school. He proceeded to text me at work later on in the day to let me know that she was eating waffles and chicken nuggets.

I can’t control what my daughter eats when I’m not there. This isn’t the first time something like this has happened.

The issues between them are much deeper, but I cannot stand his tattling. If my child says she’s nauseated and then eats waffles, she must learn somehow that they are not conducive to feeling better.

My husband going out of his way to rat on her when she does things like this seems overboard. Am I crazy for feeling this way?!

We used to work together and shared that, but it’s no longer the case. I think I might have more in common with others. We never fight, and they are wonderful people, but each time I open myAbigail Van Buren self up to them, I feel judged and different. How do you suggest I maintain my friendships? Is it worth it?

-- FAITHFUL FRIEND IN OHIO

DEAR FRIEND: If the only thing these women brought to your relationship was the fact that you used to work together, and because circumstances have changed, it may be time to reevaluate how important these workplace friendships are to you. Friends do not have to think in lockstep, and -- SEEKING PEACE AT HOME they shouldn’t make you feel judged if your opinions differ from theirs.

DEAR SEEKING PEACE: You are A way to maintain friendships like not crazy for feeling this way. You ARE these is to see the individuals less often crazy for not having it out with your husband rather than complain to me, and, when you do, talk about the things and for not insisting the three of you you do have in common. If that doesn’t get counseling from a licensed mar- work, realize that not all friendships riage and family therapist to iron out last forever and move on. Sometimes friendships run their course, and this those “deeper issues.” may be one of those times.

P.S. Waffles and chicken nuggets Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van are considered comfort food. What Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and your daughter may have needed that day was comfort. If the foods she chose was founded by her mother, Pauline Philwere not conducive to feeling better, lips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbyour husband could have suggested a by.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. better option. (Chicken broth?)

For everything you need to know DEAR ABBY: I went out with some girlfriends a few weeks ago. We began about wedding planning, order “How chatting and, after a while, I started to to Have a Lovely Wedding.” Send your notice things that made me feel discon- name and mailing address, plus check or nected from them. After thinking about money order for $8 (U.S. funds) to: Dear it later, I realized that although we have Abby, Wedding Booklet, P.O. Box 447, known each other for 10 years, we no lon- Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.) ger have much in common.

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Dear Heloise: Do I really need to SPAY OR NEUTER MY PETS? -- A Reader in Philadelphia Spaying or neutering your pets is, in fact, one of the best things you can do for them. The benefits are many. According to the Humane Society of the United States (www.humanesociety.org), neutered or spayed animals: * live on average 20% longer than unneutered ones; * have a reduced risk of cancer; * are less likely to “mark” their territory; * can be less aggressive, and less likely to roam or bark excessively; * are 100% guaranteed to not reproduce.

If you are concerned about the cost, look for a low-cost spay/neuter clinic.

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Jaqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, May 19, 2019: This year, you willingly experience life more openly. You could start looking at each day as an adventure.

You might tend to take more risks.

Use good sense. If you are single, you will meet quite a few people this year. You might find that the people you are hanging out with like to play life free and easy. You will know when you meet someone who is suitable for you. He or she will want to commit.

If attached, the two of you want to spend more and more time together.

Plan some mini vacations or lengthy weekends together. You often act like two lovers who have just met. In a relaxing atmosphere, you will bond far more deeply with the one you love. You enjoy one-on-one relating, especially to your sweetie (and vice versa). SAGITTARIUS nearly always perks up your mood.

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 The Full Moon could set feelings afire. You might instinctively hold back rather than share. You could feel more together than you have as of late; however, confusion marks interactions at present. Tonight: Reach out for a loved one.

This Week: Eye the big picture Monday. Then you will know what to do.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Deal with a person directly.

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This Week: Another person’s gesture is heartfelt. Respond accordingly.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Defer to another person who seems to have stronger feelings than you about a personal matter or key relationship. You could change your mind and surprise your-

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Donna, is out hiking with this pair by a sparkling stream.

To see Kody and Iroquois, visit www.Heloise.com and click on “Pet of the Week.” Do you have a furry and funny friend? Email a picture and a description to Heloise@Heloise.com.

-- Heloise

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self later. Tonight: Having fun with a loved one.

This Week: Others cannot stay away from you. Enjoy.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH You could get a lot accomplished if you so choose. What is happening around you could cause a change of tune. Be more forthright in how you deal with a child or loved one. This person might be overly emotional, but he or she will calm down. Tonight: Get some exercise.

This Week: Pace yourself. Expect to do some networking LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH Be more playful and upbeat. You could be tired from pushing as hard as you have. On top of your fatigue, an innate misunderstanding could come forward.

The unexpected occurs when dealing with finances. Tonight: Fun and games.

This Week: You have difficulty settling in. Mid-week you finally land.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Stay centered and deal with a domestic or personal matter. Excitement surrounds an idea of yours. Do not hedge. Put this new idea through before someone changes their mind. Tonight: Order in.

This Week: Getting going could be difficult, but you will. You will even make up for lost time.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHH Speak your mind loud and clear. You might not be able to contain another person or keep this person from expressing his or her feelings. You easily could over-dote on someone, causing yourself a problem. Tonight: Hang out.

This Week: Ask questions Monday. Use the information you gain during the week.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH You could have a problem, as you might have a tendency to go to excess. A misunderstanding could be the trigger to your emotional display. The unexpected impacts a partner or close loved one. Tonight:

Say yes to an offer.

This Week: Others make quite an impression on you. Make it a point to let them know.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You smile with ease and feel more in control than you have for a while. You could be sitting on a minor earthquake. Deal directly with a conclusion, especially around making plans and/or feelings. Tonight: Let the party begin.

This Week: You roll into Monday, ready for nearly anything. Calm down some in order to make the most of the next few days.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You might feel compromised by a friend. As a result, you could decide to keep to yourself and think through the situation. Do not hesitate to ask for advice or get feedback. Tonight: Not to be found.

This Week: Reach out for a like spirit. You could be delighted by the interaction.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH Your friendly ways draw several people toward you.

You could be extremely busy keeping up with different sets of friends.

Remember that you are just one person! Tonight: Only where there is fun!

This Week: You have the ability to get into the trenches, make new friends and accomplish a lot.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Pressure builds. You might resent being a role model or taking the lead. You will do whatever you want to do and nothing more. If you would like to take some time off to spend with an older friend or relative, by all means do. Tonight: Could go to the wee hours.

This Week: Defer to a loved one or partner. This person will appreciate the focus being on him or her.

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A War Memorial Turns 15

The war effort

Mini Fact:

Civilians, or people who were not serving in the armed forces, were much more involved in the war effort than people are today.

Many families had victory gardens, where they grew vegetables to eat so that other food could be sent to the troops.

Kids felt strongly about recycling. Many did their part to help the war effort by collecting scrap materials to be used in making weapons and machines.

In some cities, there were blackouts so light would not guide enemy planes or submarines to targets. People would draw heavy blackout shades across their windows at night to keep light inside.

Families were encouraged to read the newspaper and listen to the radio for news of the war. They were discouraged from spreading false rumors.

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The Freedom Wall has 4,048 gold stars. Each star stands for 100 of those who died in the war.

Fifteen years ago, a new memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. Since then, millions of visitors have walked through the memorial and paid tribute to the men and women who served in World War II, which lasted from 1939 to 1945.

In honor of Memorial Day on May 27, The Mini Page visits the National World War II Memorial.

World War II

The Second World War ended almost 75 years ago. You may have great-grandparents who helped our country fight its way to victory.

Franklin Roosevelt was president during most of World War II. Harry S. Truman took over when Roosevelt died in 1945. He was president when the war ended.

The United States did not enter the war until 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, a U.S. base for the Navy.

Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy*,” and Congress declared war on Dec. 8. * Infamy (IN-feh-mee) means dishonor.

Americans fought World War II in two main theaters, or regions, which came to be known as the Atlantic and Pacific. More than 30 countries eventually were involved in the war.

The memorial

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• The two arches stand for the Atlantic and Pacific regions.

• At the time of World War II, there were 48 states, seven territories and the District of Columbia.

The memorial has 56 pillars, each one with NPS photos by Victoria Staufffenberg the name of the state or territory and bronze oak and wheat wreaths.

• Twenty-four panels made of bronze line the entrance to the memorial. These show scenes from the war, including soldiers getting medical exams and coming home from the war.

• The Rainbow Pool is at the center of the memorial.

• The memorial lies on the National Mall between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.

Many items were scarce because they were needed in the war effort or because they had to be shipped to our allies, or countries who were fighting on our side.

Rationing, or distributing items equally, was an effort to give everyone a fair share of scarce goods and keep prices low. The rationed items included gas, coffee, sugar, rubber, beef, oils and some canned foods.

Resources On the Web:

• bit.ly/MPWWIImem

At the library:

• “Voices From the Second World War: Stories of War as Told to Children of Today” (Candlewick Press)

The Mini Page® © 2019 Andrews McMeel Syndication

Try ’n’ Find

Mini Jokes

Words that remind us of World War II are hidden in this puzzle. Some words are hidden backward, and some letters are used twice. See if you can find: ALLIES, ARCH, ATLANTIC, BLACKOUT, CIVILIAN, GARDEN, HAWAII, MEMORIAL, NATIONAL, PACIFIC, PEARL, PILLAR, RATION, ROOSEVELT, SERVE, THEATER, TRUMAN, VICTORY, WAR, WASHINGTON, WORLD.

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Riana: “Two’s company, three’s a cloud!”

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Eco Note By 2030, there may be 9 billion people on the planet. As numbers rise, more and more land will be needed for farming. Earth has enough fertile land for everyone on the planet, but resources aren’t divided equally. The United Nations and other organizations are working to reduce poverty and hunger. Food aid is given to people at risk of starvation, but the real solution is to improve farming in developing countries so people can grow enough food to be able to feed themselves.

You’ll need: • 2 (28-ounce) cans apricot halves • 1 cup light brown sugar • 4 cups Ritz crackers, crumbled

• 1 stick butter, cut into small pieces

What to do: 1. Grease a large casserole dish with butter.

2. Layer bottom with apricot halves.

3. Sprinkle on brown sugar, cracker crumbs and butter, in that order.

4. Repeat layers of apricots and toppings.

5. Bake in a preheated 300-degree oven for 1 hour until crusty on the top.

Serves 8.

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Baked Apricot Casserole

* You’ll need an adult’s help with this recipe.

Cook’s Corner

adapted with permission from “50 Things You Should Know About the Environment” by Jen Green, © QEB Publishing Inc.

For later: Look in your newspaper for articles about Memorial Day.

Teachers: For standards-based activities to accompany this feature, visit: bit.ly/MPstandards. And follow The Mini Page on Facebook!

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Meet the Clarion: Ad Executive Beth Ulrickson

By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion

From public notices to garage sales, Advertising Account Executive Beth Ulrickson is the go-to person at the Peninsula Clarion.

“I dabble in a little bit of everything when it comes to advertising,” Beth said.

“I am in the office all day, unlike the other ad reps who get to roam, so I am often the first face or voice you find to answer questions.”

Beth primarily focuses on classifieds and legals for the Clarion. She also handles them for the Juneau Empire and does legals for the Homer News.

“I love to know things, and to do a variety of jobs to keep my mind busy, so

it’s the perfect job for me,” she said.

Beth was born in Columbus, Ohio and moved to Alaska with her parents when she was 8 years old.

“I have always loved the small town feel of Kenai, even if it seemed your parents knew everything because they knew everyone,” she said.

Her parents owned Dean’s Peninsula Printing and Beth has fond memories of Kenai.

“I grew up in the days of giant snowstorms, the eruption of Redoubt, the cold snap of -60 F in ‘88, during which I worked the drivethru at McDonalds, spending Saturday nights driving endless loops around Frontage and Spur, or “dragging the strip” as we called it because we thought we were

Around the Peninsula KDLL Spring Membership Drive KDLL Public Radio has its Spring Membership Drive from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 23 and 24 and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 25, with special, original programming, live music and a raffle for concert tickets. Tune in at 91.9 FM or listen online at www.kdll. org. Call 283-8433 for more information or visit KDLL 91.9 FM on Facebook.

2019 Celebration of Birds The Keen Eye Bird Club is hosting the 2019 Celebration of Birds, three consecutive Saturday bird walk opportunities led by local bird enthusiasts. Schedule follows: May 25 Kenai Wildlife Refuge Walk, 8-10 a.m.; June 1 Bishop Creek/Stormy Lake Walk 8-10 a.m. Families encouraged. Weather appropriate clothing is suggested. For more information refer to the Kenai Peninsula Birding Festival Facebook Page or call 262-7767.

Trump immigration policies and Alaska Margaret Stock, immigration expert/attorney, will talk about changes in immigration law and policy that have been implemented since President Donald Trump took office, and how these changes affect Alaskans on Thursday, May 23 from 6-8 p.m. at the Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna. Changes include the slowing of legal immigration, increases in denials of visa petitions and citizenship applications, reduced refugee numbers, and the growth in detention of asylum seekers. Hosted by Many Voices. https://www.facebook.com/events/325949158103118/

LeeShore Center monthly board meeting The LeeShore Center will be holding its monthly Board meeting at The LeeShore Center on Wednesday May 29. The meeting is open to the public and begins at 6 p.m. For further information call 283-9479.

Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival Into its 20th year, the Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival is happening June 20-23 in Seldovia and is building to be an event to remember. The headliners are the Sahnas Brothers and Suzanne Lansford who play a blend of Greek, Latin, and Flaminco guitar music with the added flair of Suzanne Lansford’s excellent fiddle accompaniment. The second headliner is Tumbledown House Band, which performed at Salmonfest 2018.

Also appearing from Alaska is the Emily Anderson Band from Fairbanks, Kat Moore from the Super Saturated Sugar Strings, Noah Proctor and Kelly Baber from Soldotna, Susan Mumma and Daryl and the Scribs from Seldovia. Happening at the same time is the 5th annual Higgy’s En Plein Air Art Festival with Emil Vinberg and Jen Jolliff as Headliners. Both events have free workshops along with musical busking, a song circle with the performers and other activities to make this a truly memorable weekend! Tickets are $40 for an all festival Adult pass, Teens $16., under 12 free. More info on Facebook- Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival or the seldoviaartscouncil.net.

Caregiving and Depression Caregiver Support Meeting will take place Tuesday, May 21 at 1 p.m. at Kenai Senior Center. Topic: Caregiving and Depression. During Mental Health Month, we will discuss how caregiving puts you at risk for depression. Please join us to share your experiences as a caregiver, or to support someone who is a caregiver. For more information, call Sharon or Judy at 907262-1280.

cool,” she said.

But, mostly, Beth loves

the feeling of family that she is surrounded by. She-

family fun community event and this year our charity of choice is the Soldotna Montessori Food Box program. If you are not a racer, we are always in need of volunteers on race day. Contact Janice at volunteer@trithekenai.com. Get all the event details or register at www.trithekenai.com or email me at wahoo@trithekenai.com or call 252-0558.

Fishing Vessel Drill Conductor class The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association (AMSEA) will offer a Fishing Vessel Drill Conductor class in Homer on May 25 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. The class will be conducted at the Best Western Bidarka Inn, 575 Sterling Highway. This class is free to commercial fishermen, thanks to support from the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community & Economic Development, the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health, and AMSEA members. The cost is $175 for all others. Interested mariners may register at www.amsea.org or call (907) 747-3287.

Kenai Performers’ summer drama camp Junior session, ages 5-7, June 17-June 28, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-noon. Fee: $250. Senior session, ages 8-18, June 17-July 13, Monday-Friday, 12:30-4 p.m. Fee: $450. Location: 43335 KBeach Road (backside of Subway). Early enrollment discount if fee is paid by June 1. For more information or to register, call Terri at 252-6808.

Sterling Community Rec Center: May —Pickleball: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

—Beginner pickleball lessons: Tuesdays, 12 p.m.

— Intermediate pickleball lessons: Wednesdays, 9 a.m.

—Weight room: Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday (Free weights, squat rack, rowing machine, cardio bikes, tread mill, elliptical, and yoga balls/mats) —Zumba: Mondays at 6 p.m.

—Teen Center: 12-15 years old. $2 per visit. 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Monday-Friday. Air hockey, fosse ball, video games, Wi-Fi, and gym time.

—Home school gym time: Fridays at 12-2 p.m.

—After school rec program: 3:30-5:30 p.m. Monday to Friday. Registration anytime Call for information 907-262-7224. Adults $3 per visit, seniors $2 per visit, teens $2 per visit, and children $1 per visit

Mouth to Mouth Wild Run and Ride Registration now open for 2019 Mouth to Mouth Wild Run and Ride. The 6th annual Mouth to Mouth will take place on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27. A 10-mile beach run or fat bike ride between Kasilof and Kenai River mouths begins at 2 p.m. at Kasilof River Special Use Area off Kasilof Beach Stub Road and ends at Kenai South Beach parking lot off Cannery Rd. Registration at 12 p.m. 3 mile beach run from Cannery Road Beach to Kenai River mouth and back begins at 3 p.m. at Cannery Road beach access off Dunes Road. Registration at 2 p.m. Register online at https://inletkeeper.org/m2m/. Advance registration $30 ($25 for Cook Inletkeeper members), day of registration $40 ($35 for members).

Kenai National Wildlife Refuge May —There are a few spaces left in the Youth Game Warden Camp open to current 5th, 6th, and 7th graders. Pick-up/turn in your packet at the Refuge Visitor Center. If you did the camp prior and are on the wait list to repeat the camp you should hear shortly.

—Kenai Refuge Summer Camp registration packets will

has three children, four step children and dozens of “adopted” children that she showers in love.

“At last count, there are approximately 20 to 25 kids who call me mom, and I am completely OK with that — even though only the last two can be called teenagers anymore because the ages range from 27 down to 13,” she said.

She also has a grandson, whom she loves teaching new words, actions, songs and more.

“He has my entire heart wrapped up in his chubby little fingers,” Beth said. “… My house is a house of imagination, dreams, fandoms, individualtiy and mostly? Love.”

Outside of work and family, Beth loves to write.

She has a handful of unfin-

ished novels on her laptop and a few published poems in her portfolio. She also loves photography and being a nerd.

“For the past two years or more, this almost 50-year-old grandma has been picked up every other Sunday by her 27-year-old son to go and play Dungeons and Dragon with the boys,” she said. “I love every minute of rolling the dice and laughing and fighting and adventuring with my kids in the worlds of their making.”

Beth shows off this happy persona in the office, too.

“Monday through Friday I work all day, and you can always tell which office I’m in as it’s usually loud, with lots of laughter,” she said.

be available soon for Critter Camp (going into 2nd/3rd) and Get Out and Get Dirty (4th/5th). Critter Camps are June 10-14 and June 17-21. GOGD Camps July 8-12 and July 22-26.

—Refuge Visitor Center daily summer hours are 9 a.m-5 p.m.

Celebrate our state!

Alaska’s 60th Anniversary dinner and auction with Keynote Speaker Kelly Tshibaka, Alaska Commissioner of Administration, will be held on Friday, May 17 at the Merit Inn, 260 Willow St., Kenai. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. No-host bar. 6 p.m. dinner. Tickets $50 per person. Purchase eight tickets if a full table is desired. Visit rwk.nationbuilder.com.

Kenai Fine Art Center May exhibit Come in and see the Kenai Fine Art Center’s May exhibit, “Of Stone,” by Alanna deRocchi and Jonathon Green. This dual artist exhibit will showcase two artists that are currently instructors at UAA. A combination of immense pottery and printwork that melds natural and architectural elements. The Kenai Fine Art Center is located across from the Oiler’s Bingo Hall and next to the Historic Cabins. 283-7040, www.kenaifineart.com. Of Stone will hang until June 1st.

Path to Victory Soccer Camp The Path to Victory Soccer Camp for boys and girls will be held at Kenai Sports Complex June 24-27. This camp, hosted

by Grace Lutheran Church & School in Kenai, is for children age 3 through those entering the 4th grade in the fall of 2019. It will focus on learning and improving basic soccer skills, such as footwork, dribbling, passing and shooting. Coach Joe Graumann won the 2019 Upper Midwest Athletic Conference’s Offensive Player of the Year! He was also named NCAA Division III Third Team All-North Region by the United Coaches!

He will lead the team of seasoned Path to Victory coaches made up of additional coaches and students from Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School and many volunteers from Grace Lutheran Church. In addition to improving their soccer skills, players will also learn about sportsmanship and God’s love for them, as they participate in a short daily devotion. There will be a Parents Night and Ice Cream Social at Grace Lutheran Church on June 28 at 6:30 p.m. There the players will have the opportunity to show off what they have learned in the camp. All camp participants will receive a camp t-shirt and a water bottle. The camp fee is $35 if paid by May 31 ($50 in June), and families can reserve a spot by visiting www.GraceLutheranKenai.com/PTV. Space is limited to the first 100 players to register and pay. All students must be pre-registered to participate.

Kenai Senior Center activities May The Kenai Senior Center is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday, and are open until 9:30 p.m. on Thursdays. Community meals are served Monday to Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost for lunch is $7 suggested donation for individuals 60 or older, $14 for those under 60. Call 907-283-4156 for more information.

—Thursdays in May: M&M Knitting group, 1-2 p.m.

—Riverside Band, lunchtime entertainment, Monday, May 20, 11:30 a.m.

—Kumi with Kit 2, Japanese braided key-chain project, Tuesday, May 21, 1 p.m.

—Kenai Peninsula Caregivers Group, Tuesday, May 21, 1-3 p.m.

—Memorial Day (observed): wear your red shirts, Friday, May 24, 11:30 a.m.

—Closed, Memorial Day, Monday, May 27

2nd Annual Disability Pride The Kenai Peninsula will celebrate its 2nd Annual Pride Celebration on Saturday, July 20 at the Soldotna Creek Park from 12-4 p.m. This is a national event, which celebrates the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Disability Pride is seeking sponsors for this event and extends a warm invitation to you and your business to participate. We hope to hear back from you

by June 3. Contact Maggie Winston at 907-740-0410 or Nikki Marcano at 907-262-6351. Donations can be mailed to Independent Living Center at 47255 Princeton Ave., #8, Soldotna, AK, 99669.

Free Picnic at the Food Bank

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Celebration of Life 26th of May, 2019 at 2pm

Join us for the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank Spring Festival and Fundraiser on Friday, May 31 from noon to 7 p.m. This is a community event for all ages and an opportunity for us to thank you, our neighbors, for your support. There will be a free barbecue/picnic, games, music, cake walks and bucket raffles. There will be prizes for the kids and even a clown making balloon animals. A no host beer/wine garden will be from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. and if you donate a food item you will be entered the drawing for a special prize.

5th Annual Homeschool Swap and Share 5th Annual Homeschool Swap and Share will take place Tuesday and Wednesday, May 21-22 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Star of the Northern Lutheran Church, 216 N. Forest Drive, Kenai. Everyone is welcome. Bring any materials, curriculum, toys, games that you wish to share with other home-school families.

Or stop by to browse the selection of donated items. All items are free. Contact Karen at karen@acsalaska.net or 907-205-0663.

2019 TriTheKenai Triathlon The 2019 TriTheKenai triathlon is set for Sunday, June 9.

This event is a great beginner triathlon for adults (15+) and youth (6-14) and includes both individual and team events and for the serious-minded triathlete. We offer the more challenging intermediate distance event. The nonprofit TriTheKenai is a great

Mile 103.5 Shadura Rd. Follow until the end of the Road and we will be waiting for you.

Plenty of food, and games for the kids!

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