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ATVs can be hazardous to operate. Side-by-Side Riders: Always wear your seat belt, helmet, eye protection and protective clothing. ©2020 Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. All rights reserved. • YamahaMotorsports.com

For Best Pricing Options Contact Your Participating Dealer. ©2019 Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. All rights reserved. Product and specifications subject to change without notice. Professional rider on closed course under controlled conditions. Always wear an approved helmet, eye protection and protective clothing. Ride responsibly and always ride within your capabilities, allowing time and distance for maneuvering, and respect ot hers around you. Know the conditions. Observe all state and local laws. Don’t drink and ride.

Yamaha Motorcycles, ATVs & Snowmachines Available At These Participating Yamaha Dealers: Alaska Fun Center

Fairbanks, Alaska 99709 Phone 800-478-3455 www.alaskafuncenter.com

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Science

A COVID-19 story from a rugged Alaskan Ned Rozell After the final steps of a long run in early March, Greg Finstad took his pulse rate. His heart was at 38 beats per minute. Perfect. The reindeer biologist and marathon runner was in top shape to run this year’s Boston Marathon.

From there, things did not follow the plan for Finstad, head of the Reindeer Research Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Not long after reaching his peak of fitness, he was alone in his bedroom, gasping for what he thought might be his last breath.

Finstad was infected with the COVID-19 virus. It knocked him down and almost took him out.

Finstad is not a typical 65-year-old: The sturdy researcher has wrestled reindeer with the Natives of the Seward Peninsula and St. Lawrence Island for more than a quarter century. He was shooting for a 3-hour, 30-minute performance this year at the Boston Marathon.

“I considered myself a tough guy — I can tough it out; that virus isn’t tougher than me,” he said recently in a phone interview. “Well, it is tougher than me.”

Finstad, who is now home in Fairbanks recovering with achy joints but the ability to ride his bike with his granddaughters, was one of the first confirmed cases of the disease in Fairbanks.

His story of the damage wrought by a particle onethousandth the width of an eyelash began in late February, 2020.

Back then, Finstad was on St. Lawrence Island doing reindeer work. One day, he received a text from his wife, Bev. His father, 91 and living in Vancouver, Washington, had passed away.

Finstad caught a flight to Nome, then flew to Seattle, on to Portland and drove to Vancouver. He made it in time to attend his Dad’s memorial service.

While in Washington state, then emerging as a hotspot for the virus that causes COVID-19, Finstad

smell disappeared,” he said. helped his mother get settled “This was not like the flu. My in an assisted-living facility. To body’s response to this was relieve some stress and keep on very different.” with his training program, he By chance, he had a medimapped out a route and ran for cal thermometer at the cabin.

18 miles one day.

He took his temperature and Finstad then flew to Buffalo, found he had a fever. He New York, via Seattle and Chitried to stay as far away from cago. He is on the board of dihis family as he could. They rectors for the Reindeer Owners decided he needed to return and Breeders Association, and home. spoke at the organization’s an In Fairbanks, doctors dressed nual meeting there. in protective gear met him at From Buffalo, he traveled Tanana Valley Clinic. First, Photo courtesy Greg Finstad back to Alaska on March 8, they gave him a flu test.

2020. He remembers extreme Greg Finstad, right, of UAF’s Reindeer “It was the first time I ever congestion within the corridors Research Program runs a race at Birch Hill in hoped I had the flu,” he said. of Seattle-Tacoma International Fairbanks.

The next day, a doctor from Airport.

“It was spring break when I was coming back,” he the clinic called to tell him he tested positive for COsaid. At Sea-Tac, “there were rivers of people in every VID-19. terminal. If anyone sneezed, that virus could have in- “My stomach just fell,” he said.

Soon, he had more than just mental anguish. fected a dozen people.”

Isolated in his bedroom later that night, he could feel Back in Alaska, Finstad briefly visited his office in a UAF building that was almost empty during spring the virus reach his lungs. He went from breathing norbreak. He felt fine, but his visit soon after led to that mally to struggling to suck in a single breath. building being one of the first structures on campus “It felt like an elephant was sitting on my chest,” he said. closed to visitors.

Home from his journey to bury his father, move his He also likened the feeling to having a plastic bag mother to an unfamiliar place and give the keynote duct-taped around his neck. speech at a conference, Finstad and his family drove “It’s like mile 22 of a marathon — you’re hurting, down to their cabin in the Alaska Range. His three taking one step at a time. For me, it was one breath at a granddaughters were off from school for their own time.” spring break. Time at the cabin with them is a family At the lowest moment of his experience, his wife Bev came up and started crying when she saw him tradition.

There in the one-room structure, Finstad began to through the glass door of the bedroom.

“I started crying, too: I thought, ‘man, this is it.’” feel fatigued.

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Finally, after 13 days of isolation in his bedroom, the details of which he hardly remembers, Finstad breathed easier, and felt a bit better. To his biologist mind, his immune system had battled like hell, and barely won.

He credits the workers at the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services for calling him right away, interrogating him as to whom he had been with, where he had been and checking in with him several times each day. They gave him advice, and told him several times they didn’t know an answer to some of his questions, which he also appreciated.

Now, he has gradually recovered. He is trying to run again, maybe to toe the line in the postponed Boston Marathon in September or, more likely, his favorite Equinox Marathon that same month in Fairbanks. But he knows he is not the same as he was in early February.

“I don’t know if my lung capacity will ever come back,” he said. “But you know what? I don’t care. I appreciate every breath I take now. Life is good.”

Along with his newfound appreciation of living (which to this observer always seemed to be high), he wants to be a living cautionary tale as to the danger of the virus that causes COVID-19.

“We’ve thrown all the world’s resources at this, and it’s still killing people left and right. That’s what impresses me and scares me.

“Having recovered from this, there’s a certain amount of immunity,” he said of himself. “I still wear a mask and my hands are raw (from washing them).

“I want to tell people who take their mask off (in tight spaces): You know, I’ll bet I was tougher than you, and it just about killed me.”

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute.

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Julie Cascio, University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, Mat-Su District Healthy, great-tasting, used in food around the world… beans! Yes, beans fall into this category.

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Dry beans, once cooked, provides many meals. It costs less per serving than many other sources of protein.

When dried, they have a long shelf life and are very Julie Cascio versatile.

The long shelf life helps keep us supplied for the future. However, use these beans, too! Cook the beans, so everyone enjoys the taste now, and in the future.

While they last a long time, waiting to use them too many years can make the beans take longer to cook. So start cooking beans and enjoy yummy recipes!

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Boil rapidly for 2 minutes. Turn off the heat, cover, and let beans soak in the water for an hour.

3. Drain the soaked beans. Rinse and drain.

4. Put beans in a large pot, cover with fresh water. Bring to a boil, then turn heat down to low. Cover the pot and cook beans slowly until tender. Depending on which is being cooked it generally takes from 45 minutes to 3 hours.

More liquid may need to be added before the beans have finished cooking.

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Flavorings Spice up beans while they cook. Seasonings such as garlic, onion, oregano, parsley or thyme can be added to the pot while beans are cooking.

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