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Alaska Air Group Inc. made a couple announcements in the first week of November. The airline company that owns Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air reported a 3.3 percent increase in traffic on a 4.3 percent increase in capacity year-over-year for its October operational results. That made for a 0.9 percent decrease in load factor, or sold capacity, to 83.7 percent compared to October 2012. Year-to-date Alaska Air Group load factor is down 0.2 percent to 85.8 percent from the first 10 months of 2012 on a 7.5 percent increase in capacity. Alaska Airlines reported a 3.8 percent increase in traffic on 5.1 percent capacity growth for October year-over-year. The end result was a 1 percent decrease in load factor. For the year, Alaska Airlines has seen a 0.4 percent decrease in load factor to 86.3 percent. On-time arrivals were up 2.9 percent for October to 89.7 percent, but down 0.6 percent for the year to 87.3 percent. Horizon showed a 1 percent increase in traffic on a 1.2 percent decrease in capacity yearover-year, making for a 1.7 percent increase in load factor to 79.4 percent, an October record for the regional carrier. Year-to-date Horizon’s load factor is up 2.9 percent to 80.9 percent. On Nov. 7 Alaska Air Group announced its board of directors approved a 20 cents per share cash dividend to be paid out Dec. 4 to all shareholders as of Nov. 19. The company paid a 20-cent per share dividend in August, the first such payout it had made to shareholders since 1992. On Oct. 24 Alaska Air Group announced a record third quarter net income of $289 million and company leaders forecasted a second-consecutive record year for 2013 overall. — Elwood Brehmer Brehmer covers transportation for the Journal. Contact him with tips and story ideas at elwood. brehmer@alaskajournal.com.

Hultberg resigning as Administration commissioner JUNEAU (AP) — Gov. Sean Parnell is losing another commissioner. Becky Hultberg told Parnell in a letter dated Monday that she plans to resign as com-

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missioner of the Department of Administration, effective Dec. 11, for a position in the private sector. Hultberg told The Associated Press on Nov. 12 that she has a job offer but it was premature to discuss the details. Hultberg is the fourth commissioner to step down in recent months. Bryan Butcher resigned as revenue commissioner in August to join the Alaska Housing Finance Corp. Dan Sullivan left his post at the Department of Natural Resources in September to run for U.S. Senate, and Joe Masters resigned as public safety commissioner last month after five years in that role with plans to return to the private sector. Hultberg has served as administration commissioner for three years. She said it’s been a wonderful experience and she leaves knowing the department is in good hands. An acting commissioner has not yet been named. — Associated Press

AT&T launches 4G LTE in Fairbanks AT&T launched its 4G LTE network in Fairbanks Oct. 6. 4G LTE, which stands for long-term evolution, is the fastest service currently available in Alaska. AT&T turned on its 4G LTE network in September 2012 in Anchorage, followed by

Juneau in March 2013. Verizon turned on its Fairbanks 4G LTE networks earlier in the year. According to AT&T’s announcement about the faster service, the launch is part of a threeyear plan to expand and enhance broadband networks. AT&T is the largest wireless provider in Alaska. The company does not release subscriber totals for the state, but estimates from its competitors peg the number at 260,000 or more. “AT&T is excited to bring the nation’s fastest and most reliable 4G LTE network to Fairbanks area today. Alaskans count on AT&T for wireless service, and we continue to see demand for mobile Internet skyrocket,” said Bob Bass, AT&T’s Alaska president, in the announcement. “That is why AT&T invested nearly $45 million in its Alaska network during the first half of 2013. Our ongoing investment throughout this year directly contributes to today’s launch, and responds to what customers want from their mobile experience — more, faster, reliably, on the best devices.” — Molly Dischner Dischner covers telecommunications for the Journal. Contact her with tips and story ideas at molly.dischner@alaskajournal.com. See Bulletin, Page 30

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Movers & Shakers Tammy Gray and Brad Kiefer have been hired at Northrim Bank and Ligia Lutan has been promoted to assistant vice president. Gray has been hired as assistant vice president, branch manager at Northrim Bank’s West Anchorage Gray Branch. Her career in banking has spanned 25 years and she specialized in business and real estate lending and was most recently at Kiefer Key Bank in Eagle River. Kiefer has been hired as a vice president, commercial lender. He joins Northrim Bank with 10 years in banking Lutan as a commercial loan officer and 14 years as a licensed insurance agent. Kiefer has an associate’s degree in Insurance Service and commercial lending diploma from the American Bankers Association. Lutan has been promoted to assistant vice president, construction loan administrative officer. She has been with Northrim Bank for more than nine years. She spent one year with Credit Administration and has been with Construction Lending for the past eight years. She holds a bachelor of laws from the University of Bucharest. Lutan completed the American Bankers Association national commercial lending program and received Northrim Bank’s Customer Service First Award in 2012. The Anchorage Board of REALTORS has awarded the following honors: Judy Rosenberg of Jack White Real Estate was recognized as the REALTOR of the Year. A life-long Alaskan, Rosenberg has served her profession as chair of the Professional Standards Committee, and is the immediate past-president of Alaska MLS. Bev Rude of Alaska Multiple Listing Service was awarded the REALTOR Affiliate of the Year. Born in Alaska, Rude has been with Alaska MLS for 10 years and serves as business development and operations manager. Officers of the Anchorage Board of REALTORS for 2014 are: President Mike Rasmussen, Rasmussen Properties; President-elect Ron Day,

Keller Williams Realty; Secretarytreasurer Mark Masley, RE/MAX Dynamic Properties; Past-president D’Ette Owen, Keller Williams Realty. Directors for 2014 are: Laura Dufour, RE/MAX Dynamic Properties; Erin Eker, Jack White Real Estate; Debbie Higbee, RE/MAX Dynamic Properties; Cody Keim, RE/MAX Dynamic Properties; Eva Loken, Jack White Real Estate; Debbie Mumma, Keller Williams Realty; Scott Myers, Jack White Real Estate; and Denny Wood, Keller Williams Realty. The Alaska Chamber named Nicole Schuh Alaska Business Week program director in October. Prior to joining the Chamber, Schuh worked at the Alaska Aviation Museum as operations manager. She holds a bachelor’s degree in advertising and a Schuh master’s degree in science in recreation from the University of Idaho. ABW gives high school students hands-on learning opportunities that explore their leadership skills and future career choices, while learning about the world of business. ABW simulates a business environment, immersing students in scenarios faced daily by business owners. Students are broken up into different “companies” which compete against each other. A team of business executives works directly with students throughout the week, advising and coaching each company in its pursuit of a winning strategy. Dr. Elliot Bruhl is the new medical director at SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital in Sitka as of Sept. 30. Bruhl worked at Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital for eight years, from 1998 to 2006. He was a physician and medical director for Sitka’s Mountainside Family Healthcare in 2007-08. When he returned to SEARHC in 2009, Bruhl worked as a family physician and served as Chief of Services Critical Care and Emergency Medicine at Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital. Bruhl earned his medical degree from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, and completed his residency at St. Joseph Hospital in Denver. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Medi-

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David Hall and Star the Reindeer cross I Street in downtown Anchorage while walking in the city’s first major snowstorm of the year on Nov. 10. Star the Reindeer is the unofficial town mascot, and this is the sixth reindeer to carry the name. The 11-year-old Star 6 came from a reindeer herd near Palmer.

cine. Bruhl also holds a bachelor’s degree in geology from Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., and a master’s degree in hydrology from the University of Idaho School of Mines in Moscow. The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium added three providers to the Ethel Lund Medical Center in Juneau. Dr. Matt Taintor, MD, is not new to SEARHC, but has made the move from the SEARHC S’áxt’ Hít Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital in Sitka to ELMC in Juneau. Taintor’s specialties are pediatrics and internal medicine and will be filling a six-month vacancy as the clinic’s new pediatrician. Taintor earned his medical degree from the University of Minnesota where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and he completed a combined internal medicine/ pediatrics residency at the University of Utah. He also holds undergraduate degrees in psychology and biology from Bethel University in St. Paul, Minn. Before he completed medical school, Dr. Taintor lived in Juneau where he worked with Juneau Youth Services and

spent time as a fly-fishing guide. SEARHC also added two new physicians to the organization: Dr. Jessica Porter and Dr. Keegan Jackson. Porter’s specialty is family medicine. She earned her medical degree from the University of California Davis where also did her family medicine and obstetrics residencies. SEARHC can now offer cesarean sections to patients that require it in Juneau instead of referring to a private practice physician in town. Jackson’s specialty is also family medicine and she earned her medical degree from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in East Lansing, Mich. She did her residency with Duluth Family Medicine Residency in Duluth, Minn. Jackson’s medical interests are geriatric medicine, women’s health and preventative medicine. The Alaska Railroad Corp. named Chief Mechanical Officer Doug Engebretson as chief operating officer, a position left vacant when former COO Bill O’Leary was promoted to president and CEO on Nov. 1. Engebretson’s promotion was effective Nov. 8. A third-generation rail-

roader with more than three decades of railroading experience, Engebretson joined the Alaska Railroad in 1984, just as the federally owned railroad was preparing to be purchased by the State of Alaska. Engebretson has extensive expertise Engebretson with the mechanical aspect of train operations, beginning with his certification as a carman (railcar mechanic) in 1980, following a three-year apprenticeship at the Burlington Northern Railroad in Montana. After five years with BN from 1977-1982, Engebretson moved to Fairbanks and the following year joined the Alaska Railroad as a journeyman carman. Engebretson’s was promoted to Fairbanks Terminal supervisor in 1986. In 1990, he transferred to Anchorage to become car operations manager, a position he held until 2006. He also served as mechanical capital project manager from 2001-02. In 2006, Engebretson joined the senior management team as director of mechanical maintenance, and at the beginning of 2010, he was named CMO.

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Permitting begins for lone U.S. graphite prospect near Nome By Elwood Brehmer Alaska Journal of Commerce

In the coming years Alaska may have the country’s only producing graphite mine. Graphite One Resources, a Vancouver-based exploration company, has begun permitting on 129 graphite claims at its Graphite Creek prospect on the Seward Peninsula. The mineral deposit is on the northern slope of the Kigluaik Mountains about 40 miles north of Nome and about 10 miles from spur-road access off of the Taylor Highway. Graphite One Vice President and Director Dean Besserer the company conducted a $5.5 million drilling campaign in 2012 that showed great promise for the prospect from its 18 drill-core sites. He called the 16,800-acre property a “world-class flake (graphite) deposit,” during a Nov.

6 presentation at the Alaska Miners Association convention in Anchorage. “We are the United States’ only advanced, high-grade flake graphite deposit,” Besserer said. In an interview he said the company is in the early stages of an expected three-year permitting process and hopes to start developing the site as soon as late 2016. The estimated development cost of the mine could be from $120 million to $150 million. Besserer said at that price it could have as little as a 1.5year initial payback window. The graphite deposit has inferred resources totaling 23.4 million short tons, according to a December 2012 Graphite One report. A highlight of the deposit is 8.6 million tons of nearsurface material with a 13.5 percent mineralization. Another subsurface portion of 27.9 million tons of base has a 9.7 per-

cent flake graphite base. The near-surface deposit runs for approximately 1.3 miles along the base of the mountain range, and the entire host formation is continuous over about 10 miles, according to the report. At an average long-term production rate of 20,000 tons of graphite per year, the mine would almost certainly have a 50-year life, but additional finds could extend that out to 100-plus years, Besserer said. A final drill season is needed to pin down exactly where to start site development, he said. To relate the deposit to gold in terms of value, he said the 8.6 million-ton, high-density deposit would equate to more than 1 million ounces of gold at current gold prices of about $1,300 per ounce and a conservative flake graphite price of $1,200 per ton. The large flake graphite present at Graphite Creek that

Besserer said makes the prospect especially promising has traded at $1,400 to $1,500 per ton in recent weeks after hitting a near-term bottom of about $1,200 early this year. Through much of 2011 it was trading at more than $2,500 per ton after being less than $1,000 as recently as 2007. Comparatively, the more common amorphous or lump graphite trades for about $400 per ton. Because of the relatively high concentration of graphite necessary to make a deposit viable when compared to copper or precious metals, he said less ore needs to be processed in graphite mining. As a result, the Graphite Creek mine will have a much smaller footprint than some of the other surface mines in the state, he said. He projected ore processing at 200,000 tons to 400,000 tons per year. He added that graphite operations don’t use chemi-

cals such as cyanide like some metal mines do to leach material from the ore. “We’re going to be a glorified gravel pit,” Besserer said. The deposit’s location along the continuous mountain slope would make for a “bench” mine along the slope as opposed to an open-pit dug on levels beneath the surface, he said. Without an operating graphite mine, the United States imports all of its graphite. Canada currently has two small graphite mines and a third scheduled to begin production sometime in 2014. In recent years China has produced about 70 percent of the world’s graphite, but depletion of the country’s flake deposits has hurt its quality, while demand for flake graphite has doubled since 2000, Besserer said. Aside from being a popular lubricant, graphite is increasingly used in lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells, when in flake form. It is also considered one of the best-know thermal conductors. It’s those technical applications, Besserer said, that will continue to grow demand and price particularly for flake graphite. Elwood Brehmer can be reached at elwood.brehmer@alaskajournal.com.

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Sport effort to eliminate setnetters proposed for ballot By Molly Dischner Alaska Journal of Commerce

The Cook Inlet fish wars are back in full force, with sport fishermen angling to eliminate commercial setnetters. The newly formed Alaska Fisheries Conservation Alliance, or AFCA, submitted a ballot initiative petition Nov. 6 that would ask voters to ban setnetting in Cook Inlet. The AFCA said the action is meant to preserve king salmon, which the organization says are in decline, and would prohibit setnets in statewide nonsubsistence areas. Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Valdez, Ketchikan and much of the MatanuskaSusitna and Kenai Peninsula boroughs are defined as nonsubsistence areas in Alaska Department of Fish and Game regulations. Setnetting in subsistence areas, including Kodiak, could continue. But if that area was no longer considered a subsistence area, as was discussed this fall, setnetting would go by the wayside. AFCA President Joe Connors said that if an area grows enough to lose a subsistence designation, setnetting may not be appropriate there. The alliance registered as a nonprofit in Alaska in mid-October, but it is essentially a name-change from the Kenai King Conservation Alliance nonprofit formed in May. Both organizations registered as 501(c)6 nonprofits, which allows them to engage in political activities such as lobbying. Members of the Kenai River Sportfishing Association, or KRSA, are involved in both organizations, including founder Bob Penney, who is also on the board of the new alliance. KRSA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit and is subject to legal limits on the amount of money it can spend on political activity. In a prepared opening statement about

the initiative, Connors pointed to setnets as the cause of king salmon declines. “Setnets are decimating other fish species, such as king salmon, trying to return to the rivers of the Kenai Peninsula,” Connors said Nov. 6, before submitting the initiative. He worked as a setnetter for six years, and pointed to his experience as evidence for the issue with setnet caught kings. In a statement, the Kenai Peninsula Fishermen’s Association, which largely repre-

the fishery don’t just support fishing families and deckhands, they trickle down to a web of support businesses including fish processors, fish tenders, truck drivers, mechanics, welders, fuel sellers, boat builders, grocery and hardware stores. “The loss of the fishery would do irreparable harm not only to the fishermen who would lose their livelihoods but to the Kenai Peninsula’s economy as well.” Connors, who owns a lodge on the Kenai,

The truth is, Cook Inlet’s setnet fisheries have existed for more than a century because we have harvested responsively, sustaining Cook Inlet’s salmon runs year after year. We have full confidence in the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to manage for sustainability of the resource, as they have done since statehood. We know that sustainable salmon runs will provide healthy fisheries for generations to come. — Kenai Peninsula Fishermen’s Association

sents Cook Inlet setnetters, said the fleet has a relatively low historic exploitation rate of Kenai kings at 13 percent, and that the action would decimate a fleet that supports the Kenai Peninsula economy. “The Cook Inlet setnet fishery is important to Alaska’s economy and to the economy of the Kenai Peninsula,” KPFA wrote in a Nov. 8 statement. “Eighty-four percent of the setnet permits are owned by Alaska residents, and 80 percent of those Alaskans live on the Kenai Peninsula. Revenues from

agreed that the initiative would put Cook Inlet setnetters out of business. But, he said, the king salmon are being devastated, and the fish must come first. Kings around the state are at a period of low abundance, and scientists organized to study the issue have not pointed to setnets as a cause in any region, including the Kenai River. “The truth is, Cook Inlet’s setnet fisheries have existed for more than a century because we have harvested responsively, sustaining Cook Inlet’s salmon runs year after year,” KPFA wrote

in its statement. “We have full confidence in the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to manage for sustainability of the resource, as they have done since statehood. We know that sustainable salmon runs will provide healthy fisheries for generations to come.” Evidence doesn’t point to Kenai kings as in a permanent decline. Minimum escapement goals have been met each year, and ADFG has concluded that overexploitation of the stock is not occurring. The stock has fluctuated in the past between small and large returns, and the initiative does not contain a sunset date or other mechanism to address the possibility that kings could rebound. Connors said he would be open to allowing setnetting again in the future if king numbers were larger, but that would need to be a discussion down the road, not something to include automatically. For now, the group wants its initiative on the August 2016 primary ballot, or for the Alaska State Legislature to take action before then. Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell has 60 days to review the petition with input from the state’s Department of Law and Division of Elections. Treadwell is tasked with checking out the signatures so far, and affirming that the initiative meets the law. If he certifies it, the initiative backers will have one year to collect about 30,000 signatures from around the state.

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Network merger allows Alaska Communications to pay down debt By Molly Dischner Alaska Journal of Commerce

Broadband growth and the closing of the Alaska Wireless Network led to strong third quarter results for Alaska Communications System Group Inc., and the company continued to pay down its debt. The company’s net income for the third quarter was $77.6 million driven largely by the money it received in the deal with General Communication Inc.. Alaska Communications and GCI closed on the Alaska Wireless Network in July, which created a shared infrastructure for the two companies although they will maintain separate retail operations. Alaska Communications owns one-third of the network and GCI the remainder, with former GCI Chief Operating Officer Wilson Hughes taking over as CEO of the new company. Alaska Communications received about $132 million for contributing its assets to the new network, $8.1 million in earnings on the equity it contributed, and $2.9 million in preferential distributions, said Chief Financial Officer Wayne Graham during a Nov. 6 investor call. The preferential distributions are part of the terms of the AWN transaction, which gives ACS more than its one-third share of the network’s proceeds initially. The company also continued its debt reduction in the third quarter, paying $96 million in cash and repurchasing $6 million of convertible notes with common stock, Graham said. The company did take

a $2 million loss for extinguishing debt. So far in 2013, the company has paid down $134.2 million in debt, a 24.9 percent reduction compared to December 2012. “Finally, with debt balances coming down we create headroom for the business going forward. We are managing from a position of strength as we reduce our debt, build cash and invest for our future,” Graham said. The company also provided guidance for its operations this year that was similar to the prior guidance: revenue is expected to total between $340 million and $350 million for the year; adjusted earnings before income taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, of $105 million to $110 million, and free cash flow of $20 million to $25 million. Capital spending will likely come in moderately lower than the previously expected $50 million, Graham said. ACS President and CEO Anand Vadapalli said the company was happy with its third quarter performance, particularly the growth in broadband revenue. “This overall wireline growth is unique to our sector,” Vadapalli said. Broadband revenue increased 19.4 percent compared to the same quarter of the prior year, with a 1.2 percent increase in wireline revenue. Compared to the prior year, consumer revenue grew 5.3 percent to $10.3 million this year, and business and wholesale revenue grew 3.7 percent, to $2.5 million. See ACS, Page 31

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GCI income up in 3Q; fails to reach deal with KTUU By Molly Dischner Alaska Journal of Commerce

General Communication Inc. posted strong financials for the third quarter, but other issues remain at the forefront of the company’s work. After closing on the purchase of three television stations in early November, GCI couldn’t reach an agreement with KTUU about transmitting the broadcaster’s programming in rural Alaska by a Nov. 8 deadline. Instead, transmission has ended to 22 communities for the time being. The Anchorage-based telecom ended the third quarter with net income of $8.9 million, or 22 cents per share, for the quarter, and $16 million for the year-to-date. The yearly net income is an increase of $7 million compared to the first nine months of 2012. GCI’s revenue and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, were also up sequentially and year-over-year. The Alaska Wireless Network, or AWN, transaction played into the third quarter numbers. GCI and Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc. closed on AWN, which merged the two companies infrastructure, in July. Each telecom will continue to market and sell its own retail product. “The transition is going well and we are quite pleased with the quarterly and year-to-date results,” said GCI Chief Financial Officer John Lowber during a Nov. 7 investor call about the quarterly earnings. Lowber said there is work left on integrating the two networks, but it is off to a good start. AWN is also continuing to improve its network, and Lowber said the network will likely expand the fastest service in Alaska, 4G LTE, or long term evolution, to Fairbanks by the end of the year. GCI’s third quarter results were driven by increases in wireless revenue, and wireline performance for the consumer, business and managed broadband sector. Wireless revenue more than doubled compared to the third quarter of 2012, at $68 million for the third quarter, with data a major factor in that, Lowber said. GCI also added 2,400 non-Lifeline wireless subscribers, including business services, Lowber said. Consumer wireline revenue also increased, although by a lesser amount, 4 percent year-over-year. Business wireline revenue increased 3 percent year-over-year, while the adjusted EBITDA and the sequential revenue were down. Lowber said that was partially the result of fluctuating needs for oil and gas support activity. Managed broadband revenue was up 6 percent year-over-year, although the adjusted EBITDA was down for the same period. The company also increased its debt by about $100 million, largely from the purchase of certain ACS assets to contribute to AWN, Lowber said.

Despite sharing a network, GCI and ACS have not had identical focuses since combining infrastructure. GCI is more aggressively marketing some options, and offered free iPhones this fall to entice subscribers, and is also pushing the Turbozone internet. Lowber said the two companies have different strategies because they have different needs. “It’s also worth noting that the economics between us and ACS are substantially different,” Lowber said. ACS receives preferential distributions from the new network initially, but GCI is the majority two-thirds partner and will take on more of the short-term risk, and longer-term reward, from the deal.

KTUU-GCI dispute weighing on operations During the Nov. 7 call, the KTUU issue had not yet been resolved and GCI’s Lowber described it as a “highly contentious dispute.” By Nov. 8, the two parties did not reach an agreement and GCI stopped broadcasting KTUU’s programming. GCI spokesperson David Morris said Nov. 12 that the company would continue to negotiate, but for now, programming has stopped in nearly two dozen communities. “The agreement that was in place expired Sept. 30, and we are just so far apart on the terms,” Morris said. GCI has stopped transmitting KTUU’s signal to Adak, Akutan, Anaktuvak Pass, Barrow, Bethel, Cordova, Galena, Kaktovik, King Salmon, McGrath, Kodiak, Kotzebue, Kuparuk, Nikolski, Nome, North Slope BP, Shemya, Skagway, Tanana, Unalaska, Valdez and Whittier. KTUU is an NBC affiliate, and those communities will also no longer receive other NBC programming via GCI. The contract dispute revolved around the terms of the agreement for January 2015 and beyond. KTUU had asked for payment for its signal rather than the exchange-of-services the two companies have operated under for the past decade. GCI has maintained that it needed a new agreement to continue broadcasting past the deadline, while KTUU has said that the two could have operated as-is until 2015. “GCI has chosen to unnecessarily put Alaskans in the middle of a complex negotiation that only impacts 2015 and beyond,” wrote KTUU Marketing Director Brad Hilwig in a Nov. 9 press release. “We offered our signal for free through 2014 and GCI chose to reject that offer. We’re disappointed because it limits choice in rural Alaska.” Morris said there’s nothing free about carriage to rural Alaska, that GCI provides services in exchange for the transmission See GCI, Page 20

November 17, 2013 • Alaska Journal of Commerce

• Page 7

Editorial & Opinion

Legal, historic harvest is not bycatch By Andrew Jensen Managing editor

“Words have meaning, and names have power.” The word of the day is bycatch, and those who would use it against Cook Inlet setnetters well understand the power of words. The quote is attributable to Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the 17th century Spanish author who wrote the classic novel “Don Quixote” about the man from La Mancha who travels the land engaging in misguided quests that always end badly yet never shake a groundless faith he has acted heroically. Much like the reality Don Quixote stubbornly ignored while repeatedly falling victim to it, words retain their definition regardless of any attempts to pretend they mean the opposite. Few words are more poisonous in the world of fisheries management than “bycatch,” and there is now an effort underway to tag setnetters with a term that is properly associated with the taking of salmon, halibut and crab by trawlers operating off the coasts of Alaska. It is simply wrong to call the legal, historic harvest of king salmon by Cook Inlet setnet fishermen by the same name as the prohibited species catch otherwise known as PSC taken by trawlers. Bycatch like the trawl PSC is not to be caught or sold. This is obviously not the case for setnetters, who have caught and sold kings for a century from the beaches of Cook Inlet. Attempting to conflate trawl bycatch with legitimate setnet harvest is erroneous, because by regulation a prohibited species catch limit conveys no right of use and by law bycatch is required to be minimized to

the extent practicable. Neither of those conditions can apply to the setnet harvest of kings or sockeyes, which are allocated in regulation and are limited mainly by abundance. According to the federal analysis used to support a cut in the allowed bycatch of halibut by Gulf of Alaska trawlers approved in 2012, “Because PSC must be avoided, to the extent practicable, it cannot be regarded as an asset of fixed quantity, but instead as an upper-bound threshold, the farther below which the total PSC mortality level, the better, all else equal.” (emphasis mine) The federal analysis makes a strong distinction between an “allocation,” which is the amount of fish that can be harvested by various direct user groups, and an “allowance” for indirect users such as trawlers to take those same fish while targeting other species. “PSC allowances do not convey ‘propertyrights’ to use of a given amount of the prohibited species,” according to the federal analysis, “but rather reflect society’s upper-limit on its willingness to incur uncompensated losses of prohibited species.” It cannot be clearer. Regarding bycatch, trawlers chasing groundfish have no legal claim to an allocation of halibut, but the public through its regulatory authority in the North Pacific Fishery Management Council allows them a certain limit and will shut them down if the cap is reached even when a harvest of their target species is still available. The amount and account for halibut bycatch is undoubtedly controversial, but make no mistake, under the law direct users outrank indirect users and by that fact alone there can be no confusing trawlers

with Cook Inlet setnetters who are direct users under the most basic of fisheries management principles. There is no right of trawlers to keep salmon or any other kind of bycatch, but some bycatch is legally required to be retained in order for a full accounting of the prohibited species catch. It is a perverse interpretation of the rules to suggest a trawler who is legally required to retain and account for bycatch is the same thing as a setnetter who is allowed to retain and sell king salmon. Although recent programs now retain trawl bycatch for donation to food banks, those takes of salmon or halibut once required by regulation to be discarded still result in “uncompensated losses” to the public through foregone yield by direct users. Again, this situation cannot be applied to Cook Inlet setnetters, who pay fish taxes to the state for their harvest and wages to their crew all the while supporting Peninsula communities and generating a valueadded chain that ends at retail outlets and restaurants around the world serving Alaska salmon. The harvest of king salmon, which generates value to the public in and of itself, also allows for the primary harvest of sockeye salmon that supports hundreds of fishing families who have called Alaska home for generations. There is also talk that some king salmon harvest by setnetters goes unreported to minimize the overall take. However, setnet catch of king salmon is one of the indicators the Alaska Department of Fish and Game uses to measure run strength, so underreporting the harvest would only make the run appear weaker and therefore result in more fishing restrictions to setnetters.

This is the reverse outcome of underreporting bycatch, which results in a fishery staying free of restrictions as long as it remains under the limit. The closer parallel to the king salmon harvest by setnetters is “secondary” catch. Trawlers in the Gulf of Alaska catching rockfish are allowed to retain and sell an allocated amount of other species such as sablefish that are the primary target catch for other gear types, namely longliners. These “secondary” allocations issued to trawl boats are based on historic catch in the same way setnetters are allocated a historic harvest of king salmon. While we are discussing fisheries management terms, I find it unlikely that those who wish to call setnet harvest by the inflammatory term “bycatch” would welcome the word “wastage” being applied to the death of king salmon after being hooked and released. There is no equating bycatch with legal harvest, but there is a correlation between the term “wastage,” used to describe the death of halibut hooked and released by commercial fishermen, and the death of king salmon hooked and released by sport fishermen. “Discard mortality rate” is a more clinical, and equally accurate, term for caughtand-released kings that die before spawning, but my guess is the public might more readily comprehend the term “wastage.” Words have meaning, and having an honest debate about Cook Inlet salmon fisheries means they can’t be redefined as a means to win the argument. Andrew Jensen can be reached at andrew.jensen@alaskajournal.com.

Observers track ‘substantial discards’ from halibut fleet By Laine Welch For the Journal/Fish Factor

Keeping tabs on how many and what kinds of fish are coming over the rails is a key tool in Alaska’s highly successful fishery management programs. For nearly four decades, that has been the job of fishery observers who track everything that is hauled aboard trawlers, crabbers and most other fishing vessels 60 feet and longer. Starting this year and for the first time ever, observers were placed aboard smaller Welch boats and Alaska’s hook and line fleet to start getting information about “removals” in that gear group’s fisheries. The primary finding after eight months can be summed up as: “substantial discards.” “The category with the most new coverage was the catcher vessel hook and line fleet in the Gulf of Alaska,” said Glenn Merrill, assistant regional administrator for NOAA Fisheries in Juneau. “In that fishery we did see some substantial discards compared to some other gear types — in the skate fisheries, rockfish, shark and in the directed halibut fishery, in particular.” From January through August,

a total of 7 percent of all the hook and line fishing trips in the Gulf were monitored by observers, according to documents the agency provided for the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, or NPFMC. Those trips produced an estimated 601 metric tons of directly observed discards in the directed halibut, sablefish and Pacific cod fisheries. When that tonnage and the observer rate are extrapolated over the entire fleet, the discards add up to more than 20 million pounds of halibut, nearly 3 million pounds of cod and 5 million pounds of skates. “That is not necessarily mortality, it is fish going over the rails,” Merrill explained. The new catch and discard data could eventually result in new fishery management plans and bycatch caps, Merrill said, but any changes are a few years away. “This is a brand new program for us,” he said. “I think we feel confident with the data, but it’s always nice to have at least a year or two of information under your belt before you start making decisions about future management — but ultimately, it could.” Find links to the NPFMC

observer documents at www. alaskafishradio.com.

Halt to halibut It’s all over for this year’s halibut fishery — the eight-month season ended on Nov. 7, a week earlier than usual. Early numbers show that there was more than 1 million pounds left of the nearly 22 million-pound harvest. Kodiak processors called the season “scratchy” and fishermen seemed to agree.

“As a whole it was kind of slow fishing,” said Rick Turvey, skipper of the Big Blue. “There is fish out there, they are just harder to get and they don’t seem like they are getting big. There are a lot of small fish.” Prices to Kodiak fishermen averaged about $4.50 for the season, but ended as high as $5.65 at the closure. Fishing was better down at the Panhandle, with one Petersburg buyer calling it “very good, historically good.”

A dollar drop in price also helped kept the market moving more steadily, after some early push back from buyers to the high priced fish. That, combined with overall lower halibut catches that have cleaned out any backlogs in freezers, bodes well for next year. The International Pacific Halibut Commission will reveal the first peek at what next year’s catches might be in early December. The See Welch, Page 8

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Stop Roadless Area plan, return to multiple use in Tongass By Frank Murkowski Guest commentary

not only adversely affect timber, but renewable energy development, including hydropower and geothermal, and mining as well. The Clinton Administration imposed the Restricting access in this way effectively deRoadless Rule on the Tongass in 2001. The stroys multiple use of the Tongass. Because of these terrible impacts, Gov. Forest Service’s failure to correctly describe the volume of timber needed to meet market Sean Parnell appealed the Court’s 2011 redemand in the 1997 Tongass Land Manage- versal of the Exemption to the Roadless Rule that my Administration negotiment Plan Environmental Impact ated in 2003. He has re-filed the Statement caused the Ninth Cirlawsuit against application of the cuit to enjoin most timber sales Roadless Rule to the Tongass associated with the Plan in 2005, that Gov. Tony Knowles origipending a new Forest Plan which nally filed in 2001. The Conwas produced in 2008. Now Secgressional Delegation has introretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilduced legislation in the House sack wants to significantly amend and the Senate to set aside apthe 2008 Forest Plan by directing plication of the Roadless Rule to a 10- to 15-year transition to secthe Tongass. ond-growth timber. Instead of reinforcing the Along with terminating the Murkowski Roadless Rule, Secretary Villong-term pulp mill contracts, and modifying its domestic manufacture sack should engage in rulemaking to corpolicy (which in the 1970s provided 4,500 rect the errors the Court found in the 2003 direct jobs in Southeast), each of the actions Department of Agriculture rulemaking mentioned above has been a disaster for the that exempted the Tongass pursuant to the timber industry and Southeast Alaska. There July 2003 settlement agreement that my are fewer sawmills now than in 1900, and far Administration negotiated with the Justice Department. less volume harvested. The premise of the Secretary’s directive Amending the Forest Plan, as the Secretary proposes will cause the greatest harm of that the Forest Service can prohibit entry all. This is because the purpose of the transi- to the 9.6 million acres of Roadless Areas tion to second growth is a blatant attempt to because there will be sufficient second prevent entry into Roadless Areas, which the growth available to support a viable timber current Forest Plan allows. This policy will industry in 10 to 15 years is simply false

Welch:

for the following reasons: 1. When he first proposed this idea to the Tongass Futures Roundtable in May 2010, courageous Tongass-based Forest Service employees told him that it would not work. That is why no effort was made to amend the Forest Plan to implement the Transition then; 2. His apparent belief that environmental groups will support harvest of old growth timber outside of Roadless Areas (to allow the 10 to 15 years which even he agrees is necessary) is belied by the seven administrative appeals of the Big Thorne Sale, which has delayed the award of that Sale to who knows when; 3. A significant portion of the second growth inventory is located in the 1,000foot coastal buffer zones and stream buffers where the old time loggers first started. The Forest Plan and the Tongass Timber reform Act preclude timber harvest in those areas; 4. The National Forest Management Act prohibits the harvesting of timber until it is mature. In the Tongass that is 90 to 100 years. The oldest second growth we have (other than on Admiralty Island) is 60 years old. Even Secretary Vilsack admits in his July 2, 2013, Directive that Congress will have to change the law to allow the Transition; 5. Preventing timber harvest before a stand matures was a key demand achieved by national environmental groups in the NFMA in 1976. Secretary Vilsack knows that they will not agree to it. That’s why he

plans to amend the Forest Plan before attempting the change needed in the NFMA to make it work; 6. At page 23 the 2010 Economic Analysis of Southeast Alaska, which analyzed the Secretary’s Transition Plan, it states “young growth management is not currently economically viable without substantial public investments to pay for thinning.” Given fiscal constraints where’s the money coming from to pay for this? Secretary Vilsack knows that Congress will not agree to it. That’s why he plans to amend the Forest Plan before attempting to obtain the appropriations needed to make it work. What is Secretary Vilsack’s reason for taking such an irresponsible and reckless position regarding the Tongass? Is he taking the same personal interest in other National Forests? Is it coming from him or from environmental groups pressuring the White House? In conclusion, we need our political leaders to continue to fight to get rid of the Roadless Rule. And, we need to oppose the Secretary’s Transition Plan amendment to the 2008 Amended TLMP because its purpose is to reinforce the Roadless Rule and because it is a fraud. We need to return to multiple use management of the Tongass. Frank Murkowski was the governor of Alaska from 2002-06 and a U.S. senator for Alaska from 1981-2002.

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fishery will reopen in March.

Expo grows Pacific Marine Expo (Fish Expo to most Alaskans) is one of the nation’s top 50 fastest growing trade shows, and it has expanded again this year. “We’re at 492 companies displaying products in 69,000 square

feet and that’s up from a little over 400 companies and 65,000 square feet last year,” said show director Bob Callahan, speaking of space at the CenturyLink Field Event Center in Seattle. “We have exhibitors from 14 foreign countries and 107 brand new companies on the show floor,” he added.

Last year a scheduling conflict forced Expo to change its dates from a weekend to mid-week. “We were concerned about it but it worked out so well that we have kept the mid-week dates based on feedback from exhibitors, visitors and our advisory board,” Callahan said. “It was overwhelmingly positive.”

Expo is celebrating its 47th year and Callahan credits its success to the direct contacts and networking a trade show provides. “Plus it’s a learning environment — you can see what your competitors are doing, attend free education sessions and interact with your peers.” Callahan said. “You can’t get that from the internet. We think the trade show model is healthy and here to stay.” Pacific Marine Expo is Nov. 20 to 22 in Seattle. For more information visit www.pacificmarineexpo.

Fish bucks give back American Seafoods Co. is again calling for applications for

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ALASKA’S LARGEST ENGINEERING FIRMS Ranked by licensed engineers in 2012

Rank

Business/address/phone/web

Total Employees

CH2M Hill 949 E. 36th Avenue Suite 500 Anchorage, AK 99508 P: (907)762-1500 F: (907)762-1544 www.ch2m.com

DOWL HKM 4041 B Street Anchorage, AK 99503 P: (907)562-2000 F: (907)563-3953 www.dowlhkm.com

PND Engineers Inc. 1506 W 36th Avenue Anchorage, AK 99503 P: (907)561-1011 F: (907)563-4220 www.pndengineers.com

USKH Inc. 2515 A Street Anchorage, AK 99503 P: (907)276-4245 F: (907)258-4653 www.uskh.com

CRW Engineering Group LLC 3940 Arctic Blvd. Suite 300 Anchorage, AK 99503 P: (907)562-3252 F: (907)561-2273 www.crweng.com

R & M Consultants Inc. 9101 Vanguard Drive Anchorage, AK 99507 P: (907)522-1707 F: (907)522-3403 www.rmconsult.com

HDR Alaska Inc. 2525 C Street Suite 305 Anchorage, AK 99503 P: (907)644-2000 F: (907)644-2022 www.hdrinc.com

URS Corporation 560 E 34th Avenue Suite 100 Anchorage, AK 99503 P: (907)562-3366 F: (907)562-1297 www.urscorp.com

09*

Design Alaska 601 College Road Fairbanks, AK 99701 P: (907)452-1241 F: (907)456-6883 www.designalaska.com

09*

AMC Engineers 701 E Tudor Road Suite 250 Anchorage, AK 99503 P: (907)257-9100 F: (907)257-9191 www.amc-engineers.com

RSA Engineering Inc. 2522 Arctic Blvd. Suite 200 Anchorage, AK 99503 P: (907)276-0521 F: (907)276-1751 www.rsa-ak.com

Michael Baker Jr Inc. 1400 W Bensons Blvd. Suite 200 Anchorage, AK 99503 P: (907)273-1600 F: (907)273-1699 www.mbakercorp.com

Lounsbury & Associates Inc. 5300 A Street Anchorage, AK 99518 P: (907)272-5451 F: (907)72-9065 www.lounsburyinc.com

14*

WHPacific Inc. 300 W 31st Avenue Anchorage, AK 99503 P: (907)339-6500 F: (907)339-5327 www.whpacific.com

BBFM Engineers Inc. 510 L Street Suite 200 Anchorage, AK 99501 P: (907)274-2236 F: (907)274-2520 www.bbfm.com

Shannon & Wilson Inc. 5430 Fairbanks Street Suite 3 Anchorage, AK 99518 P: (907)561-2120 F: (907)561-4483 www.shannonwilson.com

Hattenburg Dilley & Linnell 3335 Arctic Blvd. Suite 100 Anchorage, AK 99503 P: (907)564-2120 F: (907)564-2122 www.hdalaska.com

2,900

380

108

130

100

Licensed Engineering Engineers Classification

Notable Projects

Multi-discipline

trans-Alaska pipeline system; construction of more than 1,000 truckable and sealift modular oil production units; North Slope oil and gas clients

Civil

New Home Hospital, Southwest Area Transportation Plan, Ambler Mining District Access Study, Haines Highway Upgrade and more

Civil, Structural, Marine, Arctic, Coastal, Geotechnical

Point Thomson Project, Akutan Airport, Carl E. Moses Boat Harbor

Glacier highway Improvements Civil, Structural, Projects, Kotzebue Airport Runway mechanical, electri- Safety Area Improvements, Nome cal, environmental Airport Hydrology Study and more

Civil and Electrical

Quinhagak Water and Sewer Project. Anchorage International Drain Improvements, Kipnuk Boardwalk

Civil, structural, geotechnical, waterfront engineering

UAA Seawolves Sports Arena, Water Street Viaduct Replacement, Interior Alaska Veterans Cemetery and more

Civil and Structural

Civil, Structural, Waterfront

Sport Fish, Elmore Reservoir Design Build

N/A

Year Top Local Founded Executive and Locally Title

1968

Services

Consulting, engineering, procurement, logistics, Mark Lasswell, fabrication, construction Alaska President and management, operations and General Manager maintenance services

1962

Stewart Osgood, P.E President

Civil, structural, transportation and geotechnical engineering, land survey, land use planning, transportation planning and more

1979

John Pickering, P.E Senior Vice President

Full service general civil, structural, arctic, geotech, hydrology, and marine firm

1972

Timothy Vig, P.E President

Architecture, mechanical engineering, structural engineering, environmental engineering, landscape engineering

1981

Mike Rabe, P.E

Engineering and surveying services

Bret Coburn – Chief Executive Officer

Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Waterfront Engineering, Hydrology, Environmental, Geology and more

1990

Duane Hippe, P.E Senior Vice President

Civil and structural engineering, environmental services (fisheries, biology, wetlands, water quality, cultural resources, hydrology) and more

1904

Joe Hegna, Alaska Operations Manager/VP

Full service environmental engineer

Jack Wilbur, PE – President

Architecture; Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Fire Protection, Electrical, and Environmental Engineering; Landscape Architecture and more

1969

Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Architectural

FTW 336B Barracks, UAF Greenhouse, UAF Dining and Dormitory, TCC Clinic 1957

Mechanical, Electrical, Telecommunications, Plumbing and more

UAA Health Sciences Building, Ketchikan Aquatic Center, Alaska Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory 1981

Pat Cusick, PE/ President

Engineering and design, construction contract administration, commissioning, LEED consulting services

Mechanical, Electrical

Anchorage Museum Expansion, Pt. Lay Power Plant, Elmendorf F-22 7-Bay Aircraft Shelter, DMVA Bethel Readiness Center

1983

Mack W. Bergstedt, P.E. President/ Timothy E. Hall P.E. Vice President/ Mark R. Frischkorn, P.E. Vice President

Mechanical, electrical consulting engineering

Multi Discipline

N/R

1943

Jeff Baker, P.E.

Pipeline, civil, mechanical, hydrological, geotechnical, GIS

Civil

N/A

1949

Jim Sawhill, President

N/R

Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Transportation

Shotgun Cove Road in Whittier, UAA Wendy Williamson Architectural Lighting, Homer East End Road, New Halen Street Lighting

1981

John Rense, President

Civil engineering, architecture and engineering

Civil, Structural

UAA New Sports Arena, Anchorage Neighborhood Health Clinic, Three Cedars Office Building, Kodiak Library, Ketchikan Pool

1996

Dennis Berry, Senior Principal and President

Structural

Professional Engineer

N/A

1954

Stafford Glashan, Vice President

Geotechnical and environmental engineering

Scott Hattenburg, Principal Civil Engineer

Civil, geotechnical, transportation arctic engineering, environmental and earth science, surveying and construction management and more

Civil

See The List,Merrill Page Field 10 Airport, Parks Highway, MP 44-52, Kenai Water Treatment Plant, Tenakee, Geothermal and more

2000

P: (907)272-5451 F: (907)72-9065 www.lounsburyinc.com

Civil

WHPacific Inc.

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14*

Anchorage, AK 99503 P: (907)339-6500 F: (907)339-5327 www.whpacific.com

BBFM Engineers Inc. 510 L Street Suite 200 Anchorage, AK 99501 P: (907)274-2236 F: (907)274-2520 www.bbfm.com

Mechanical, Electrical, Transportation

N/A

1949

Jim Sawhill, President

N/R

Shotgun Cove Road in Whittier, UAA Wendy Williamson Architectural Lighting, Homer East End Road, New Halen Street Lighting

1981

John Rense, President

Civil engineering, architecture and engineering

Dennis Berry, Senior Principal and President

Structural

UAA New Sports Arena, Anchorage Neighborhood Health Clinic, Three Cedars Office Building, Kodiak Library, Ketchikan Pool

ALASKA’S LARGEST ENGINEERING FIRMS 16 11 Civil, Structural 1996 Ranked by licensed engineers in 2012

Shannon & Wilson Inc. 5430 Fairbanks Street Suite 3 Total Year Top Local Anchorage, AK 99518 EmployLicensed Engineering Founded Executive and P: (907)561-2120 F: (907)561-4483 Professional Stafford Glashan, Geotechnical and environmenRank Business/address/phone/web ees Engineers Engineer Classification Notable Projects Locally Vice TitlePresident Services www.shannonwilson.com 50 10 N/A 1954 tal engineering CH2M Hill trans-Alaska pipeline system; Consulting, engineering, Hattenburg Dilley & Linnell Civil, geotechnical, transporta949 E. 36th Avenue Suite 500 construction of more than 1,000 procurement, logistics, 3335 Arctic Blvd. Suite 100 Merrill Field Airport, Parks tion arctic engineering, enviAnchorage, AK 99508 truckable and sealift modular oil Mark Lasswell, fabrication, construction Anchorage, AK 99503 Highway, MP 44-52, Kenai Water Scott Hattenburg, ronmental and earth science, P: (907)762-1500 F: (907)762-1544 production units; North Slope oil Alaska President and management, operations and P: (907)564-2120 F: (907)564-2122 Treatment Plant, Tenakee, GeoPrincipal Civil surveying and construction www.ch2m.com 2,900 48 Multi-discipline and gas clients 1968 General Manager maintenance services www.hdalaska.com 52 9 Civil thermal and more 2000 Engineer management and more DOWL HKM New Home Hospital, Southwest Civil, structural, transportation MBA Consulting Engineers Inc. Design for mechanical 4041 B Street Area Transportation Plan, Ambler and geotechnical engineering, 3812 Spenard Road Suite 200 Anchorage Fish Hatchery, ASD and electrical engineering, Anchorage, AK 99503 Mining District Access Study, land survey, land use planAnchorage, AK 99517 Seismic Gas Valves, Homer construction administration, P: (907)562-2000 F: (907)563-3953 Haines Highway Upgrade and Stewart Osgood, P.E ning, transportation planning P: (907)274-2622 F: (907)274-0914 Mechanical and Electric Battle Creek Diversion and quality control and mechaniwww.dowlhkm.com 380 34 Civil more 1962 President and more N/R 16 6 Electrical more 1989 Ronald Aksamit P.E. cal and electrical inspections PND Engineers Inc. MWH 1506 W 36th Avenue Civil, Structural, 1835 S. Bragaw Street Suite 350 Anchorage, AK 99503 Marine, Arctic, Point Thomson Project, Akutan John Pickering, Full service general civil, Anchorage, AK 99508 Full servicearctic, consulting, enP: (907)561-1011 F: (907)563-4220 Coastal, GeotechAirport, Carl E. Moses Boat P.E Senior Vice structural, geotech, P: (907)248-8883 F: (907)248-8884 Chris Brown, Alaska vironmental engineering and www.pndengineers.com 73 30 nical Harbor 1979 President hydrology, and marine firm www.mwhglobal.com 35 6 Civil N/R 1975 Region Manager construction firm USKH Inc. EEIS 2515Consulting A Street Engineers Inc. Glacier highway Improvements Architecture, mechanical enPO BOX 92169 Anchorage, AK 99503 Civil, Structural, Projects, Kotzebue Airport Runway gineering, structural engineerAnchorage, AK 99509-2169 Structural, Structural, Architectural, P: (907)276-4245 F: (907)258-4653 mechanical,Archielectri- Safety Area Improvements, Nome Timothy Vig, P.E ing, environmental engineerP: (907)258-3231 F: (907)272-1288 tectural, Mechani- Airport Hydrology Study and more 1972 Mechanical, Electrical engiwww.uskh.com 90 28 cal, environmental President ing, landscape engineering www.eeis.net 10 5 cal, Civil N/R 1988 Richard Button, P. E neering CRW Engineering Group LLC NORTECH 3940 ArcticInc. Blvd. Suite 300 Quinhagak Water and Sewer 2400 CollegeAKRoad Environmental engineering, Anchorage, 99503 Project. 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Civil and structural engineering, Doyon 2525 CEmerald Street Suite 305 environmental services (fisheries, 11500 C Street Suite 150 DDI New Rig 25 Build Project, Anchorage, AK 99503 Duane Hippe, P.E biology, wetlands, water quality, Anchorage, AK 99515 NASA PokerElmore Slats environmental Multi-disciplinary Engineering P: (907)644-2000 F: (907)644-2022 Sport Fish, Reservoir Senior Vice Presicultural resources, hydrology) P: (907)258-8137 F: (907)258-8124 Chemical/Process, Assessment, In-State Gas Pipe Troy A. Johnson, Services, Program Managewww.hdrinc.com 130 25 Civil and Structural Design Build 1990 dent and more www.doyonemerald.com 22 4 Mechanical line Project and more 1996 President ment, Project Management URS Corporation Schneider Engineers Inc. 560 E 34th Structural Avenue Suite 100 4060 B Street Anchorage, AK 99503 Joe Hegna, Alaska Anchorage, AK 99503 P: (907)562-3366 F: (907)562-1297 Civil, Structural, Operations ManFull service environmental P: (907)561-2135 F: (907)561-2136 Structural Engineering, Dewww.urscorp.com 100 19 Waterfront N/A 1904 ager/VP engineer www.sastructural.com 10 4 Structural State Library Archives Museum 2003 Jeff Robertson, P. 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Mack W. Bergstedt, P.E. EHS Inc. Suite 200 Engineering Consulting 2522Alaska Arctic Blvd. Anchorage Museum Expansion, President/ Timothy E. 11901 Business Blvd. Suite 208 Anchorage, AK 99503 Pt. Lay Power Plant, Elmendorf Hall P.E. Vice President/ Services, Hazardous Materials Eagle River, AK 99577 Design Engineering, P: (907)276-0521 F: (907)276-1751 Mechanical, ElecF-22 7-Bay Aircraft Shelter, DMVA Mark R. Frischkorn, P.E. Mechanical, electricalHazardconsultP: (907)694-1383 F: (907)694-1382 Kodiak High school, UAA Beatrice ous Materials www.rsa-ak.com 45 15 trical Bethel Readiness Center 1983 Vice President ing engineeringConsulting www.ehs_alaska.com 9 2 Environmental McDonald 1986 Robert A. French, PE Services and more Michael Baker Jr Inc. Great Northern 1400 W BensonsEngineering Blvd. Suite LLC 200 137 E ArcticAK Avenue Anchorage, 99503 Palmer, AK 99654 F: (907)273-1699 P: (907)273-1600 Pipeline, civil, mechanical, hyP: (907)745-6988 F: (907)745-0591 John H. Riggs, www.mbakercorp.com 37 14 Multi Discipline N/R 1943 Jeff Baker, P.E. P.E. drological, geotechnical, GIS www.greatnorthernengineering.com 27 2 Consultants N/A 1982 General Manager N/A Lounsbury & Associates Inc. Rockwell Engineering & 5300 A Street Construction Anchorage, AKServices 99518 Inc. 2375 University Avenue South P: (907)272-5451 F: (907)72-9065 Jim Sawhill, PresiFairbanks, AK 99709 Septic Dirt www.lounsburyinc.com 65 13 Civil N/A System-Valdez, Building 1949 dent N/R work, Septic Systems, P: (907)457-7625 F: (907)457-7620 Foundations Eielson Air force Lisa Rockwell, Vice Tank Removals, Civil EngiWHPacifi c Inc. www.rockwellgr.com 3 1 Civil Base, Tank Removal Jobs 1995 President neering 300 W 31st Avenue Civil, Structural, Shotgun Cove Road in Whittier, Garness Engineering Anchorage, AK 99503 Group Ltd. 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COMMERCE CORNER Medicaid expansion endorsed; Enroll Alaska resumes sign-ups By Tim Bradner Alaska Journal of Commerce

The heat is building on Gov. Sean Parnell over the his pending decision to expand or not to expand Alaska Medicaid under terms of the federal Affordable Care Act. Medicaid is a state-managed health care program for low-income and disadvantaged Alaskans that is about half-funded by the federal government. The federal Affordable Care Act gives states the option to expand coverage to include more low-income people with the federal government picking up 100 percent of the tab for the additions for the first three years and then 90 percent of costs thereafter. The expansion would also provide coverage to certain individuals, such as single men without children, who are currently not eligible for Medicaid. Governors must decide on the expansion and many states led by Republican governors have opted not to expand. Parnell, also Republican, is still weighing his decision and said he will make an announcement when he submits his proposed Fiscal Year 2015 budget on Dec. 15. Meanwhile, influential Alaska business groups are now weighing in on the issue. The Anchorage Chamber of Commerce is now on board favoring the Medicaid expansion following a similar recommendation adopted by the statewide members of the Alaska Chamber at their annual meeting last month. The Alaska Chamber listed Medicaid expansion as its number three priority among five state policy recommendations. “Improving community health along with the significant economic benefits that accompany the expansion of Medicaid will have a positive effect on the local economy,” Anchorage Chamber of Commerce President Andrew Halcro said in a statement. “The expansion of Medicaid would provide basic health coverage for thousands of working families in Anchorage, while adding almost $2 billion in value to the economy.” The state’s health care providers, who are stuck paying for care provided to people without insurance, also strongly support the expansion along with groups like the NAACP. Alaska Native groups, led by the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, have also asked Parnell to allow the expansion because it would provide additional coverage for Alaska Natives. Federal tribal health programs do not completely cover the cost of care for Alaska Natives, Val Davidson, ANTHC’s government affairs director, has said. Parnell has cited concerns over longer-term costs to the state of expanded coverage. Meanwhile, the governor is keeping a lid on a state-funded consultant study that was commissioned to estimate the costs and benefits of the expansion. Parnell has had a copy of the study, by Lewin Group, since last April. Several requests made for the study under the public records act, such as one from the Alaska chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons, were rejected by the state. While the Anchorage chamber is officially on board favoring the expansion, Halcro said the group also encourages the governor and the state Legislature to explore alternatives to expanded Medicaid such as the “Arkansas model,” where the expanded Medicaid population receives coverage through a health insurance marketplace. See Health, Page 32

Photo/J. Scott Applewhite/AP

President Barack Obama walks from the White House to board Marine One for as he heads to New Orleans, in Washington, on Nov. 8. Obama is facing enormous criticism and political heat for having repeatedly made a promise he couldn’t keep — that his health care overhaul would allow Americans to keep their health insurance plans. Obama has apologized to the at least 3.5 million people who are losing their coverage under the new law.

Health care law could be liability for Democrats By Michael J. Mishak Associated Press

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Rep. Patrick Murphy had been a cautious defender of President Barack Obama’s health care law for much of the last year, telling constituents in his swing-voting district that the far-from-perfect measure is critical to helping cover uninsured Americans. Then the new health care law made its disastrous debut. The federal health care website repeatedly crashed, blocking millions from browsing insurance plans. Questions about its security mounted. And cancellation notices hit people who buy their own plans, undercutting the president’s vow that those who liked their coverage could keep it. Now the South Florida lawmaker — one of nine Democrats representing districts Republican Mitt Romney won in 2012 — is distancing himself from the administration and heeding GOP calls to delay key parts of the health care law, illustrating the Democratic Party’s challenge as it fights to keep control of the Senate and retake the House next year. “It’s a complete embarrassment,” the Democratic freshman said recently. “There are no excuses for what happened here.” Nationwide, Democrats are nervous about the implications of defending an already unpopular law in the wake of the botched rollout, particularly in swingvoting districts and states. Last week, 16 Senate Democrats talked with Obama about fears the problems could hamper their re-election prospects, a day after two gubernatorial elections highlighted the party’s struggles. Mirroring national polls, half of New Jersey voters and 53 percent of Virginia voters said they oppose the law. The Democratic nominees in those races won 11 percent and 14 percent of those voters, respectively. Republicans attributed Virginia nominee Ken Cuccinelli’s late surge in his failed bid to his vociferous opposi-

tion to the health care law. Hoping for political gain heading into 2014, the GOP’s top campaign committees are tying Democrats to the law’s messy launch in a series of ads targeting women, who tend to vote Democratic and often make their families’ health decisions. Murphy and other Democrats anxious about the issue face a test on Friday, when the House is scheduled to vote on a bill to extend the life of individual health insurance policies that otherwise face cancellation under the new law on Jan. 1 because they don’t meet minimum coverage standards. The legislation isn’t likely to become law, but it’s the latest GOP tactic to take advantage of the law’s rocky launch. Seeking to blunt the fallout, Murphy and other Democrats likely facing tough re-election challenges are pushing legislation to delay the requirement that virtually all Americans have health insurance or pay a fine until the website is certified as fully operational. “I am angry that this website is not functioning — and until it is completely fixed, it is simply unfair to threaten people with fines,” Rep. Ron Barber, D-Ariz., a top target for Republicans, said in a statement. Some of those same Democrats also have called on the Justice Department to investigate the government contractors who built HealthCare.gov. “If the government has purchased faulty or defective services, the taxpayers deserve and should demand their money back,” Democratic lawmakers from Texas, Arizona and Illinois wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder. In the Senate, 10 Democrats are lobbying for an unspecified extension of the enrollment period. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., has introduced a bill that would force insurers to reinstate canceled policies that Obama had vowed that people could keep, saying on the Senate floor: “This is not to undermine the Affordable Care Act. It is to strengthen it and to keep our promise.” Others, like Murphy, are calling for the firings of government officials over-

seeing the rollout. “If I was in charge, I would make sure that some people went ahead and found a new job after this,” he told The Associated Press recently. He also pledged to work with Republicans to change the law, saying “It’s not perfect but it’s not going anywhere. Let’s focus on fixing it.” The Democrat has sought middle ground since his victory last year in one of the country’s closest — and most costly — races. He was among 22 House Democrats who joined Republicans in voting for a one-year delay of the insurance mandate for individuals. He also has supported measures to repeal both a new fee on insurance companies and a tax on medical devices. His swing-voting district hugs much of Florida’s Treasure Coast and stretches from the affluent beach towns and gated communities of Palm Beach and Martin counties to the more modest St. Lucie County. Public frustration with the rollout was palpable recently at the Palm Beach County Medical Society, where more than two dozen sought help signing up for insurance. Some waited nearly two hours to talk with a health care counselor, often described as navigators, after failing to enroll through HealthCare.gov. Floridians are largely reliant on the federal website because Republican Gov. Rick Scott has opposed the law and the state declined to set up its own online exchange where consumers could shop for insurance. Officials also banned navigators from assisting people at county health departments. “We in this country, we’re running out of patience,” said Janneth Diaz, 59, as she sat in a waiting room. “Whoever Obama hired, it’s turning into a big mess.” She hasn’t had insurance since May, when she was laid off from her job. She tried logging onto the federal website. It crashed. A Democrat, she voted for Obama. But she now says her experience with the health care law will color her vote next year. “It sounded like a good thing for the country,” she said. “We’ll see.”

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Oil & Gas

NordAq Energy dominates North Slope sales By Tim Bradner Alaska Journal of Commerce

NordAq Energy LLC, a small Alaska-based independent, has emerged as one of the state’s most aggressive oil and gas explorers. The company dominated the North Slope state and federal lease sales held Nov. 6, walking away with large new acreage positions on the Slope. NordAq has been active in Cook Inlet exploration for some time and is now working to develop a natural gas discovery on the Kenai Peninsula. However, another Alaskabased independent, AVCG LLC, was the high-bidder in the state lease sale, paying $576,000 for a tract west of the Kuparuk River field and narrowing beating out a bid by four major oil companies bidding together, ConocoPhillips, BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil, who also own the Kapruk field. AVCG has been exploring for several years in the area and is developing a small oil field, “Mustang,” through its operating sub-

sidiary Brooks Range Petroleum. In its lease sale, the state auctioned off 90 North Slope tracts covering 162,163 acres, netting the state treasury $5.51 million in apparent high bids. The state had made about 4.6 million acres available for bids in the central North Slope and state-owned coastal por-

lion in high bids offered. BLM had put up 4.58 million acres up for bid in the sale. The state and federal North Slope sales are typically held on the same day every year, usually in November, so companies can bid more efficiently on state and federal lands that are adjacent in

the undeveloped Kavik gas discovery made decades ago. However, the large block of leases is also at the eastern end of large shale formations, leading some observers to think that NordAq may be planning to explore for shale oil. Great Bear Petroleum, also Alaska-based, was high bidder on

There are very few ‘doughnut’ holes of unleased land left in the central North Slope area. Now we’ll see what the companies do, and hopefully our rental rates will encourage them to get busy. – Jonne Slemons, deputy director, Division of Oil and Gas

tions of the Beaufort Sea, said Elizabeth Bluemink, spokeswoman for the state Department of Natural Resources. In a separate lease sale held later Wednesday the U.S. Bureau of Land Management sold 22 tracts covering 245,293 acres in the National Petroleum ReserveAlaska, with a total of $2.89 mil-

many areas. NordAq Energy was by far the most aggressive bidder in both sales, submitting high bids on 52 tracts of 92 offered by the state, and 17 tracts of 22 offered by BLM in the NPR-A sales. Most of NordAq’s leases were inland on the slope and southeast of the Prudhoe Bay field, and near

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12 tracts in the state sale, adding to a substantial lease holdings the company also owns. Great Bear is promoting an oil shale play on its leases but has recently been exploring for conventional oil. ConocoPhillips was the only major North Slope operator to bid on leases, and was high bidder on 14 state tracts near the southeast boundary of the large Prudhoe Bay field, where the company is a major owner with BP and ExxonMobil. Other independents winning

leases included Denver-based Savant Alaska LLC, which secured one tract near the border of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and Burgandy Xploration LLC, a Houston-based company interested in unconventional resources and new to the North Slope. One surprise in the state sale was a close bid for one open tract west of the Kuparuk River field sought by Kuparuk field owners, ConocoPhillips, BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil. The large companies were beat out by another small Alaska-based independent, AVCG LLC, which bid $225 per acre for the tract, $5 per acre more than the bid by the four majors, who bid jointly. That bid, for Tract 1069, was also the highest total bid in the state sale at $576,000. Most bidding was in the $20 per acre range, near the state’s minimum bid. Only two offshore state tracts were bid on and sold, in a block of state-owned submerged lands extending offshore, to the state’s three-mile territorial limit. Those tracts, near Eni Petroleum’s producing Nikaitchuq offshore field, were acquired by an affiliate of Denver-based independent Armstrong Oil and Gas, which has been active on the North Slope onshore. Jonne Slemons, deputy director of the Division of Oil and Gas said state officials were encouraged by the turnout by industry. “We were very pleased to see this much response in a welldeveloped area,” Slemons said. “There are very few ‘doughnut’ holes of unleased land left in the central North Slope area. Now we’ll see what the companies do, and hopefully our rental rates will encourage them to get busy.” The state has an escalating schedule of lease rental rates that increases substantially in the ninth and tenth years of a 10-year lease, an incentive for companies to explore early, Slemons said. In the federal NPR-A sale independent NordAq dominated but ConocoPhillips bid on and won two tracts adjacent to acreage the company already holds with Anadarko Petroleum Co. in the Moose’s Tooth Unit in the reserve. In addition to NordAq’s bidding, individuals bid on and won three NPR-A tracts. “We’re pleased that this sale came off in the context of our new NPR-A land management plan, which was adopted in February. Now we have a road-map for future lease sales in the reserve,” said acting U.S. BLM director Neal Kornze, who attended the Wednesday sale. BLM’s sale is the 13th lease sale BLM has had in the NPRA since the reserve was opened to private leasing in the 1980s, Alaska Deputy BLM director Ted Murphy said. The NPR-A covers a 23-million-acre area of the western Alaska North Slope but only the central and northeast part of the reserve is open for leasing.

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The Alaska Support Industry Alliance

Terminals: Operating & Under Construction

By the Alaska Support Industry Alliance

Editor’s note: This is the sixth of a 10-part series produced by the Alaska Support Industry Alliance to educate the public about liquefied natural gas. As of October 2013, there are 32 on-stream LNG liquefaction plants in the world, with 13 under construction and 17 others planned. There are 96 on-stream regasification terminals, with 18 under construction and 25 others planned. The global list of regasification terminals in the planning stage has shrunk from an all-time high of 47 to 25 in the last year, as several potential projects have either been suspended or canceled. Liquefaction plants in the planning stage were reduced from 21 to 17 in the same time period. Australia and Malaysia each have three on-stream LNG liquefaction plants. Qatar leads the way with six. Australia is poised to surpass Qatar with seven new plants under construction and six more in the planning phase. New Australian projects have been getting approved at a quick pace. More than $180 billion worth of LNG export projects are now being built, putting the country on track to quadruple its LNG exports by the end of the decade. Upon completion of the $34 billion Ichthys project, Australia is positioned to overtake Qatar as the world’s top exporter of LNG by 2017. Australia’s first LNG project began in 1980 when six major producers united to form the North West Shelf Venture, or NWSV. Located north of Perth, and with capital expenditures of about $27 billion, the project was commissioned in 1984 for domestic supply, followed in 1989 by the first shipment of LNG to Japan. The NWSV project represents Australia’s largest oil and gas resource development and currently accounts for more than 40 percent of Australia’s oil and gas production. Japan leads the way for on-stream regasification terminals with 28. They also have three under construction and two others in the planning phase. China has six on-stream regasification terminals with eight under construction. The United States has 11 on-stream regasification terminals with none currently under construction and only two in the planning phase. Eleven U.S. projects that were in the planning phase have either been canceled or suspended. In the United States, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, is responsible for authorizing the location and construction of onshore and near-shore LNG import or export facilities under Section 3 of the Natural Gas Act.

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Source: BG Group data: public reports, Wood Mackenzie The Commission also issues certificates of public convenience and necessity for LNG facilities engaged in interstate natural gas transportation by pipeline. As required by the National Environmental Policy Act, FERC prepares environmental assessments or impact statements for proposed LNG terminals. According to the FERC website, “there are more than 110 LNG facilities operating in the U.S. performing a variety of services. Some facilities export natural gas from the U.S., some provide natural gas supply to the interstate pipeline system or local distribution companies, while others are used to store natural gas for periods of peak demand. There are also facilities which produce LNG for vehicle fuel or for industrial use. Depending on location and use, an LNG facility may be regulated by several federal agencies and by state utility regulatory agencies.” LNG terminals that are approved and built are subject to FERC oversight for as long as the facility is in operation.

FERC currently regulates 24 operational LNG facilities in the United States. In April 2012, Charif Souki, the chief executive of Cheniere Energy, told the Financial Times, “This is the beginning. It is the dawn of the global significance of North America as a gas exporter,” in regard to their Sabine Pass project on the Gulf of Mexico. Cheniere has already signed deals with companies in the United Kingdom, Spain, India and Korea to take a total of 16 million tons of LNG per year, equivalent to about 89 percent of Sabine Pass’s planned maximum capacity. Cheniere is expecting Sabine Pass to deliver its first LNG cargo late in 2015. The push for more LNG terminals in some countries, while others are suspending or canceling projects is certainly one indicator of the sensitivities surrounding the LNG market. In our next issue, we’ll look at the role LNG is expected to play in world energy supplies.

‘Vote no on 1’ group forms to oppose repeal of oil tax reform By the Alaska Journal of Commerce

A group of Alaskans has formed to oppose the repeal of a bill reducing state oil taxes. The “Vote No on 1” campaign was announced Nov. 12 by Alaska business and labor leaders to fight a ballot measure that would appear on the August 2014 primary election ballot asking voters to repeal Senate Bill 21, which was passed by the Legislature in April. The bill changes the state oil production tax, reducing the tax in an effort to stimulate new investment in aging North Slope oil fields and in exploration. Oil production on the slope is now declining at about 6 percent a year and investment has flagged compared with other U.S. states. Shortly after the Legislature passed the bill, critics formed “Vote Yes! Repeal the Giveaway” and organized a petition drive for a ballot proposition to repeal the measure. Enough signatures were gathered and the proposition has now been approved to appear on the ballot.

“No on 1” co-chairs are Bob Berto of Ketchikan; Rick Boyles of Anchorage; Leslie Wien Hajdukovich of Fairbanks; Linda Leary of Anchorage; and Rick Mystrom of Anchorage. The treasurer is Chuck Spinelli of Anchorage. The group expects to add supporters in the coming weeks, and plans to formally kick

Rick Boyles, another Vote No on 1 co-chair. Berto, 60, of Ketchikan, has longtime experience in tourism, aviation and marine services in Southeast Alaska. He is currently president of Coastal Helicopters and TEMSCO Helicopters with operations in Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan, Wrangell and Petersburg.

banks North Star Borough School District for six years, including a term as board president from 2007 to 2010. She also has helped lead local school bond ballot measures and served as a school PTA president. She is a lifelong resident of Fairbanks. Her husband, Bob, is the president and CEO of Era Alaska.

Our goal will be to ensure voters understand the complex issues at stake, have accurate information, and ultimately make a decision to oppose the repeal measure. – Rick Boyles, another Vote No on 1 co-chair

off its campaign later this year. “This is an issue that deeply impacts Alaska’s economic future, and there will be spirited debate over the next ten months,” said Leslie Wien Hajdukovich, one of the Vote No on 1 group co-chairs. “Our goal will be to ensure voters understand the complex issues at stake, have accurate information, and ultimately make a decision to oppose the repeal measure,” added

Boyles, 56, of Anchorage, has held leadership positions in organized labor in Alaska for more than 20 years, and now serves as the Principal Officer of the Teamsters Local 959, based in Anchorage. He also serves as a Trustee for the Fairbanks Pipeline Training Center Trust and the Teamsters’ Pension and Health & Welfare Trusts. Hajdukovich, 47, has served on the school board in the Fair-

Leary, 53, of Anchorage recently worked for 28 years in Alaska’s transportation industry, serving as a part-owner and president of Carlile Transportations Systems. Leary currently serves as the chair of the Alaska Railroad Board and on the Rasmuson Foundation Board. Mystrom, 69, is a former twoterm mayor of Anchorage. For many years, Mystrom ran a successful advertising agency, and

was recognized as Alaska’s Small Business Person of the Year and as an Alaska Business Hall of Fame inductee. He has been a trustee of the University of Alaska Foundation and was founder of the Bridge Builders, a group that promotes cultural diversity. Treasurer Chuck Spinelli, 64, is head of family-owned Spinell Homes of Anchorage, Alaska’s largest homebuilder. Spinell Homes has been in business in Alaska since 1987, and Chuck Spinelli previously has served as president of the Alaska State Home Builders Association and the Anchorage Home Builders Association. Willis Lyford, an Anchorage marketing and public affairs executive, will serve as Vote No on 1’s campaign director. “Our campaign will bring together Alaskans from across the state. Over the coming months we will expand our organization to provide information about the benefits of oil tax reform passed by the Alaska Legislature this spring, and how they positively impact Alaska’s economic future,” said Lyford.

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Kings drive news, but sockeye users drive Inlet economy CONSERVING the

KENAI KING

By Rashah McChesney Morris News Service-Alaska/Peninsula Clarion

Editor’s note: This is the third in the Morris Communications series “The case for conserving the Kenai king salmon.” There are very few things that can immediately quantify the declining value of sport fishing for Kenai River king salmon as quickly as the shelves at Trustworthy Hardware in Soldotna. Shelves that once held Kwikfish K16 lures in 75 color combinations — tailor-made for fishing on the deep-swimming king salmon— are now crowded with sockeye and silver salmon gear. Newly crafted Kenai River king salmon fishing rods that generated excitement from guides after debuting with new actions and a low-price point sit in rows gathering dust. “The guides got real cautious about buying and then of course people are just going to make do with what they have,” said Scott Miller, co-owner of the store. “If the fishing is not good they’re just not going to go out and buy rods. They’re going to buy fly rods or rods for silvers… We’re selling more (king salmon rods) in Washington and Oregon now because they’re having a good run of kings.” Nearly two years ago, just prior to the disastrous 2012 fishing season, Trustworthy hardware debuted the $300 TW Elite king salmon rod. “We sold 200 of them before the season,” Miller said. Now there are $30,000 worth of the rods in the $1.5 million in fishing tackle Miller said he carried over from last year’s lack of sales. “It’s just the surety of fish,” he said. “We’ve been very lucky. We deal with the guys down in the Northwest a lot, we buy from them, we have other stores that we talk to down there and they’ve gone through this cycle for a long time where it’s up and down and they don’t know if they’re going to fish from one year to the next.” And, while a king salmon pulled out of the river and flopping in the bottom of a boat does not have a fixed dollar amount attached to the time and effort it took to land, the economic impact is measurable in other, more nebulous ways. Where it could once be measured in the number luxurious fishing lodges and rental cabins lining the river, it can now be seen in For Sale signs piling up — six alone in front of lodges on Kenai’s Angler Drive. Businessmen and visitors alike sounded the alarm in 2012 when the fishing season for king salmon was closed by emergency order before the season was officially over. “You’ve got to go to the top, you’ve got to write your letters because I want my son — when his 18-year-old son graduates, my grandson graduates — I want to be able to say ‘Hey let me take

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Droves of dipnetters crowd the beach along the Kenai River this past summer looking to fill their freezers with sockeye salmon in the personal use fishery open only to Alaska residents. The 2013 season featured a single-day record of nearly 250,000 sockeye entering the river on July 16, but many who missed out on that Tuesday bonanza had difficulty reaching their limit of 25 reds for a head of household and 10 for each additional family member.

you to the biggest king salmon in the world. Let’s go to the Kenai and lets spend a few more thousand dollars to catch a king,” said David Burk, of Arlington, Texas, who described himself as an angler who spent $10,000 in 2012 go catch a king, only to see the late run season closed early and bring his trip to a premature close. Steven Anderson, owner of the Soldotna Bed and Breakfast lodge, estimated at least $50,000 in losses during the unprecedented king salmon fishing closure in 2012. “How much of that money would have gotten spent locally? The majority would go to guides. There’s lunches, fishing licenses, fish shipping boxes, welcome gifts that we supply, all that stuff,” Anderson said in August 2012 Peninsula Clarion article. “That’s probably about $40,000 out of the $50,000. That’s what I can measure that I know we lost. But what about stuff that I can’t measure, that we’ll never know because those people never came?” A booming guided fishing industry targeting the world-famous king salmon has become, for some, a series of cobbled together trips where would-be king anglers are instead taken out fishing for silvers, sockeye or halibut. Businesses that once relied on the Kenai king salmon for a healthy percentage of yearly profits now find themselves diversifying to make up for the loss in revenue.

Sockeye salmon are the Inlet engine While fishermen and businessowners in the Inlet find it increasingly difficult to bank on a stable king salmon season, the potential for other fish to make up for the deficit is there. The average king salmon fisherman spends more money in Miller’s store, but the sheer volume of sockeye salmon fishermen drives

his business in the summer. “When it comes to overall money, I think it always has been (sockeye salmon fishing),” he said. “There have always been more people, more money spent just because of the limits. You can go out and catch three fish every day so it keeps people here longer.” The sockeye fishermen may not be spending the same amount of money per fish as the king salmon fisherman, but sheer volume can make up the deficit. While Miller’s business can take a hit and diversify, others may not be as lucky. “Talk to a guide or a lodge that’s on the river and obviously for a king salmon guide, that’s his business. This year, we’ve seen hundreds of guides that come in every day and say ‘is there anybody to take out?” Miller said. Guides that have been established in the region for decades are having to change the way they offer trips. “Now are they going to make a living doing that? No. Because nobody is going to pay $200 to $300 to go sockeye fishing,” Miller said. Joe Hanes, owner and operator of the Fish Magnet Guide service, said before the 2013 season that the closure to king fishing had been devastating to his business. “When they close us, we lose our bookings for weeks,” he said. “When they reopen we can’t just call people and tell them to come back.” Alex Douthit, owner and operator of Salmon Buster’s Guide Service said in an interview before the 2013 season that the king season being increasingly restricted made it harder to plan bookings. Even planning trips for the last two weeks of July — the height of the late run of Kenai River king salmon — can be problematic. In 2013, the river was restricted to catch and release and trophy

fishing by July 23 and closed to king fishing entirely by July 26. Miller said a king salmon guide would see fewer and fewer king salmon fishermen on the Kenai River in the coming years. “It’s quite an investment, even if you’re a private fisherman. You’ve got to have a boat,” he said. “ You’re spending a ton of time out there and it’s not a meat fishery anymore. I think people are starting to look at it as just, more of a true sport fishery where you’re out there to hook and release.” Ken Tarbox, retired ADFG research biologist, said understanding that sport fishing had more economic value than commercial fishing in the Cook Inlet did not mean that chinook, or king, salmon were the most valuable fish in the Inlet. “We have 30,000 families that are participating in the personal use fishery, we have a very robust sport fishery that is taking half a million sockeye and a commercial fishery that targets them,” he said. “Our community is driven by sockeye and sockeye users now, guides are even switching to sockeye.” While the downturn of king salmon in the Cook Inlet has dominated public discussions of the fisheries, Tarbox does not believe the social and political focus will remain on the species indefinitely. Rather, sockeye salmon, which are harvested by more fishermen, will begin to dominate the discussion again. “I’m not making the argument that it’s commercial versus sport king fishing, I’m arguing that it’s sport and personal use sockeye fishermen that will drive sport chinook fishermen to the backburner,” he said. The 2013 fishing season, Tarbox said, could be a harbinger of years to come. Personal use fishermen who

came to the Kenai River dipnet fishery in droves had a difficult year, several blamed their unproductive fishing effort on the commercial fishing fleet whose boats were visible from the mouth of the river. Tarbox said the backlash was loud. “It was a good example of what a poor run might produce … the user group started to raise up,” Tarbox said. “A manager is foolish in my mind if he tries to ignore 30,000 household permits for personal use fishermen and a half a million sockeye caught in the sport fishery and think that chinook will come out on top.”

A rush to the Peninsula Fishers, whether they be commercial, sport, personal use or subsistence, can agree that king salmon are an important piece of Alaska’s economy. Beyond that consensus, the specifics of how big a piece — are murky. What is clear is that each year, the bulk of the sportfishing effort in Alaska is felt by Kenai Peninsula residents and a significant portion of that effort is spent on the Kenai River. According to Alaska Department of Fish and Game data on angler days of effort expended by recreational anglers, the Northern Kenai Peninsula Management Area containing the Kenai River saw nearly a quarter of all of the fishing effort in the state in 2012. Of that, 82 percent of the angler days of effort — a measurement of the time spent fishing by any one person — were on spent on the Kenai River. A 2008 study by the Kenai River Sportfishing Association estimated that recreational salmon fishing in the Upper Cook Inlet generated 3,400 average annual jobs producSee Salman, Page 15

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Weight of the decline When commercial and sportfishermen are kept out of the water due to king conservation concerns, the effects are immediate: they stop buying goods and services from businesses set up to support the fishing industry. One such business — fish processing — has seen a steady decline in the number of king salmon brought in to be cleaned, packaged and sent home with a successful angler. For processers who charge by the pound, the loss of king revenue comes down to weight. Sockeye, or red salmon, usually weigh about six pounds while kings are the largest of the Pacific salmon and typically weigh about 36 pounds, according to ADFG data. “We’re checking in 15- to 20-pound fish instead of 60- to 80-pound fish,” said Lisa Hanson, owner of Custom Seafood Processors. “It has been a gradual decrease, I would say over the last five or six years.” Soldotna’s Trustworthy Hardware store has been open for 27 years, before that it was Ellington’s and before that, it was Penn’s Hardware. Miller grew up in Soldotna, watching the king salmon fishery evolve. “I used to fish every day before ball practice down at Centennial (Park),” he said. “I could hook, as a kid, six or seven kings, land a couple every night,” he said. “The guys down there now, they’ve got better gear, they’re better fishermen. They can go weeks without catching a fish down there.” For selling fishing merchandise, a struggling fishery can sometimes be seen in the volume of fishing tackle sold. “The harder the fishing gets the more lures you sell because people want something different,” Miller said. In the early 1990s, people would by two or three colors of Kwikfish lures, he said. “Silver, chartreuse and silver, and silver with a red tail,” Miller said. “Silver chartreuse was the most popular. People started ask-

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“The second run, the predictions this year weren’t real good; that’s why they shut it down early,” he said of ADFG management of the Kenai River. “But they come out with those predictions so late and that’s part of the problem for businesses is that they, the department waits so long to come out with them.” In recent years, anglers expected a closure on the ailing early run of king salmon in May and June, but not the late run in July, Miller said. The early run in 2013 of less than 6,000 kings was the lowest on record and despite a total closure to sport fishing the minimum escapement goal for fish to reach the spawning grounds was not met. There is no commercial fishing on the early run of kings. “It may not be the greatest run in the world for fish,” Miller said of the late run, “but we fish it and people buy. They come because it’s open and they can fish.

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ing more than $100 million in income annually. While those numbers are certain to have changed in recent years due to natural fluctuations in the tourism industry caused by the national recession that dramatically reduced visitor traffic to Alaska, and the unpredictability of Kenai River king salmon fishery, Kenai River Sportfishing Association Executive Director Ricky Gease said the study was designed to be a convincing argument regardless of the numbers. “The basic concept is that Cook Inlet is unique in the regions of Alaska in that the values of the noncommercial fisheries far outweigh the economic values of the commercial fisheries,” he said. “That’s unique in the state of Alaska, you don’t find that disparity anywhere else in the state.” A recent report produced by Northern Economics for the Cook Inlet commercial fishing and processor advocacy group Alaska Salmon Alliance measured the ex-vessel, or dockside, value of the commercial fishery in the Cook Inlet at $54 million in 2011 and $102 million in direct value to the area. While there are other king runs in Upper Cook Inlet, the key to the Kenai River’s popularity lies, at least partially, in its accessibility, said Pat Shields, ADFG commercial area biologist. “Literally, you can fly from, say, Miami, Florida, on a jet and land in Anchorage, get on a plane or a car and be down to the Kenai River on the same day that you left,” Shields, said. “The Kenai River has multiple access points with a run of large kings.” People may be headed to Southcentral Alaska to fish, but they are not attempting to catch as many king salmon in recent years. According to ADFG data on license and king salmon stamp sales from 2002 to 2011, the amount of revenue generated by those sales has dropped dramatically since its peak in 2006 when it topped out at 68,234 stamps sold generating $1.2 million in revenue. In 2011, just more than 48,000 king salmon stamps were sold, generating $846,000. While that loss in revenue on the king fishing side can potentially be made up in other fisheries, it can be a hard sell to anglers who travel to the area for a chance at a Kenai king. Dave Blackley, owner of Caribou Run Alaska Fishing Adventures, said he guided dipnet fishing trips, sockeye and trout fishing trips — just about anything he could do to accommodate clients who wanted to catch king salmon — and still he lost a third of his bookings in 2012 when the Kenai king salmon season was closed early in July. Several guides said they were no longer able to make a living off of guiding alone and had second jobs outside of the fishing industry. Miller of Trustworthy Hardware thinks the uncertainty of seasons is what keeps fishermen from wanting to commit to a king salmon trip in the area.

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Source: Alaska Department Fish/AJOC and Game Statewide Harvest Surveys. There is no data for the Kasilof River from 1977-80. Chart/NadyaofGilmore Photo/File/AP

Since the early 1980s, angler effort in Alaska has gravitated toward the Kenai River while declining on the Kasilof and Russian rivers. From 62 percent of angler effort in 1982, the Kenai River amounted to 82 percent of all angler days spent in the Northern Kenai Peninsula Management Area during 2012.

ing for different colors … it built all the way up to maybe 2003-2004 when it peaked. “ Fishing was still open and people were getting desperate to catch them. “You would have a guide come in and he would get six of this and six of that,” Miller said. “At one point we carried 75 colors of that one lure. This year, we carried 26 maybe. That’s just out of necessity for me to retract and go back to old numbers of what we were selling. “ So a fishery that once made up about 20 percent of Miller’s business has dropped to somewhere between 5 percent and 8 percent, he said.

Commercial vs. sport values Perhaps no other economic question has been asked, answered, and asked again in recent years more than which group of fishermen in the Inlet bring in more money. Commercial fishermen and sport fishermen have addressed it time and time again with the answer being dependent on which of the two user groups was speaking. The uncertainty of the issue continues when a hodge-podge of data is released each year reporting on what people spent, how they spent it, who bought it, who sold it, who processed it and — above all — where did the money go? In terms of hard numbers, commercial fishermen can rely on catches and prices to quantify the baseline economic impact of their fishery. According to data from the National Marine Fisheries Service, from 2010 to 2011, three Cook Inlet ports — Seward, Homer and Kenai — are among the top 30 highest valued commercial fishery landings in the U.S. The estimated ex-vessel, or

dockside, value of the 2013 commercial harvest in the Upper Cook Inlet was $39 million according to ADFG data. Sockeye salmon were the most valuable commercially making up more than 75 percent of the ex-vessel value in the Upper Cook Inlet since 1960 according to the ADFG 2013 post season report. Just more than 5,000 king salmon were harvested by all commercial users in Upper Cook Inlet, generating an ex-vessel value of about $180,000 or about 0.5 percent of the total commercial fishery, according to the report. Despite the enormity of value to the region, Kenai Peninsula Borough residents only represented about 8 percent of gross earnings in Alaska’s fisheries, according to a presentation to the borough by fisheries economist Gunnar Knapp. Sport fishing, by contrast is harder to quantify and economic studies come with questions about methodology. An economist charged with assigning value to the sport fishery might interview a tourist about the amount of money spent in the state but how does that amount get divided into categories like transportation, fuel, food and fishing. “There are some judgment calls that have to be made,” Shields said. “When you get into those types of economic analysis … they come with a significant challenge.” According to Kenai Penin-

sula Borough data from 2008, fishing guides had gross sales of about $60 million annually from 2003 to 2008. By 2008, there were 435 registered guides and about 75 percent of them were residents, meaning the money they brought into the local economy stayed. A 2007 Fish and Game study on the economic impacts and contributions of sportfishing estimated that anglers spent about $277 per day on fishing trips in Alaska. But a direct comparison between the value of a sockeye salmon — the target for most commercial fishermen in the Cook Inlet — and a chinook salmon is unclear. Gease of the Kenai River Sportfishing Association said despite the inability to directly compare the value of the two fish, it was still clear that sportfishing and personal use fishing brought more money into the Cook Inlet than commercial fishing. Acknowledging the difficulty in making direct comparisons between the value of sport fishing and the value of commercial fishing in the inlet, Knapp wrote in 2012 that both were hugely important to the Cook Inlet economy. Next week: A look at king salmon on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers. Clarion file material was used in this article. Rashah McChesney can be reached at rashah.mcchesney@ peninsulaclarion.com. Comments on this article can also be sent to kenaikings@morris.com.

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RDC’s 34th Annual Conference Agenda Alaska Resources Conference November 20-21, 2013 • Dena’ina Civic & Convention Center Wednesday, Nov. 20 7:00 a.m. Registration/ Check-in/Exhibits Open Eye-Opener Breakfast in Exhibit Area – Sponsored by Holland America Line 8:00 Opening Remarks Phil Cochrane, RDC President, Vice President, External Affairs, BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc. Mayor Dan Sullivan, Municipality of Anchorage Alaskan Economic Trends: 2014 Outlook Neal Fried, Economist, Alaska Department of Labor Alaska Industry 2013 Year in Review and 2014 Outlook Oil & Gas: Kara Moriarty, Executive Director, Alaska Oil and Gas

Association Fisheries: Greg Baker, Chief Executive Officer, Westward Fishing Company Forestry: Shelly Wright, Executive Director, Southeast Conference Mining: Karen Matthias, Executive Director, Council of Alaska Producers Tourism: Ralph Samuels, Vice President, Government and Community Relations, Holland America Line 10:00 Gourmet Break – Sponsored by ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. 10:30 Getting Alaska Back on the Global Energy Map Trond-Erik Johansen, President, ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. North Slope Resources, Big Opportunities, Big Challenges

Dave LaChance, Vice President, Reservoir Development, Alaska, BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc. 11:30 Networking Break Noon Keynote Luncheon: Sponsored by Northrim Bank Red Dog, Donlin, and Beyond: Native Corporations Engaged in Resource Development Marie Greene, President/CEO, NANA Regional Corporation Andrew Guy, President/CEO, Calista Corporation 1:30 p.m. Alaska’s Crucial Role in North American Energy Security Senator Ron Wyden, Chairman, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senator Lisa Murkowski, Ranking Member, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee

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William Morris, Regional Supervisor, Habitat Division, Alaska Department of Fish and Game Dan Billman, Vice President and Senior Engineer, HDR Alaska, Inc. 11:30 Network Break Noon Keynote Luncheon: Sponsored by Pebble Partnership Pebble and Alaska: The Investment Case Ron Thiessen, Chief Executive Officer, Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. 1:30 p.m. Coexistence: A Case Study Admiral Tom Barrett, President, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Mayor David Cobb, City of Valdez The Preoccupation of NGOs with Alaska Resources: Past, Present, and Future Ryan Steen, Partner, Stoel Rives LLP More Alaska Production Act: Already Making A Difference Doug Smith, President, LRS Corporation Rick Boyles, Secretary-Treasurer, Teamsters Local 959 Maynard Gates, President/CEO, Alaska Steel 3:30 Grand Raffle Drawing Send-off Champagne Toast – Sponsored by the Alaska Oil and Gas Association As of Nov. 7, 2013. Agenda subject to revision. Please check www. akrdc.org for updates.

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on common problems. In no other Alaska organization do top union officials, mayors and industry executives sit down together. The annual conference, and 2013 will be no exception, is typically the place where new announcements are made by company leaders. This year, for example, top BP and ConocoPhillips managers will review their plans for 2014, mining companies will do the same, and the latest on planning for the large North Slope gas pipeline and LNG project will be offered. RDC was formed 38 years ago as OMAR, the Organization for the Management of Alaska’s Resources, to promote an Alaska natural gas pipeline. Its name was changed a few years later to reflect a broader focus, although the gas pipeline is still a major concern. One of the organization’s important functions, however, is at the staff level where RDC monitors important regulatory issues, usually in the environmental arena, that affect the state’s businesses and industries. Rick Rogers, RDC’s executive director, said that a major priority this year is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to maintain permitting jurisdiction over wetlands and small, isolated water bodies under the authority of the federal Clean Water Act. Following a setback for the EPA in a U.S. Supreme Court decision in its assertion of jurisdiction, the agency has initiated a science review panel on the hydrology and connections between wetlands and larger streams including navigable waters that fall under the Clean Water Act. RDC is involved in this issue, monitoring the EPA’s efforts and submitting comments on behalf of its mem-

bers, Rogers said. Many Alaskan businesses and organizations may not have the staff or resources to track issues like these, but RDC can and does because it represents the broad interests of members. Rogers said the outcome of the EPA initiative is still uncertain. The panel is to conclude its work by the end of the year, and there may be new EPA rules resulting from the effort. Another issue engaged by RDC was the EPA’s implementation of a 200-mile Emission Control Area off the coasts of Alaska and Canada under an international shipping pollution treaty. The agency used the treaty known as Marpol as a basis to require shippers operating within 200 miles to use clean fuels or to adopt new emissions control technology, both of which are expensive. The scientific basis for this was never demonstrated, for example why the zone was 200 miles as compared with 50 miles. Alaska is uniquely affected because most of the state’s food and other goods are shipped north on ships and barges that operate within 200 miles of the coast for the total voyage, which means that a clean fuel or technology requirement could add significantly to transportation costs for consumable goods. The state’s tourism industry is also affected because cruise ships must operate in Alaska waters, and within the zone, during the summer tourist season. The State of Alaska challenged this rule in court with RDC as an intervenor. Although the court challenge failed, the process has encouraged EPA to reach reasonable settlements with shipping groups, including major cruise operators, on the adoption of affordable technologies to meet the standards.

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ated that it wants to start a statewide discussion, but said it couldn’t talk about the allocative issues. A discussion about the number of kings caught by setnetters versus in-river fishermen was limited because of concerns about talking about allocative issues. But the proposal, according to others, is an allocative one because the organization wants to ban setnetters, not all fishing. In a Nov. 12 response to the action, the United Fishermen of Alaska, or UFA, wrote that the initiative is allocative, and the Board of Fisheries would be the better place for discussion. UFA represents 36 commercial fishing organizations around the state. “AFCA has established their actions as a conservation issue, however the initiative is actually a purely allocative issue and only seeks to ban nets in urban areas,” wrote UFA. “Eliminating nets doesn’t target the problem, which is in-river and ocean survival of small chinook salmon.” Connors said setnetters are the target because they are the problem, and that in-river users are already restricted. He said he would absolutely accept in-river restrictions as well, but they weren’t part of the initiative because ADFG has implemented them already. This past summer, both in-river users and setnetters faced fishing restrictions. If setnetters were eliminated, the drift fleet would see increased fishing opportunity as it did in 2012 when those boats took nearly the entire sockeye harvest for the Kenai and Kasilof rivers because the setnetters were closed for king salmon conservation reasons. The in-river king salmon anglers were also prohibited from taking any kings that summer, leading to a disaster declaration by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Were the initiative to succeed, the effect would be to allocate sockeye from the setnetters to the drift fleet and additional sockeye and king salmon to in-river users. Although the new group has said that the effort to shut down setnetting in Cook Inlet is conservation-driven, at least one member has been working on that effort since before there was a concern about king salmon. In its Nov. 8 statement, the Kenai Peninsula Fishermen’s Association called the initiative, “the latest incarnation of Bob Penney’s long-running effort to put more than 720 families and small business owners who work in Cook Inlet’s Setnet fishery out of business.” In 2007, the Kenai River Sportfishing Association asked the Board of Fisheries to shift the allocations in Cook Inlet so that 85 percent of salmon were reserved for sport, personal use and subsistence fishermen. Penney, a founder of both KRSA and the new AFCA, was at the forefront of that effort. “If the board doesn’t pass this, this is going to become a public issue in the next three to five years while I’m still on this earth. We’re going to see that take place and be put to a vote of the people in some way,” Penney told Bob Tkacz, a Journal correspondent writing for Fishermen’s News at that time. At that time, there were no

conservation issues. King returns peaked at 125,872 fish in 2005, according to ADFG data, and remained well beyond the escapement goal range at 77,176 kings in 2006 before KRSA and Penney took their proposal to the board. The proposal didn’t pass then, and now Penney has brought it forward again but outside the Board of Fisheries process. The Upper Cook Inlet board meeting, which lasts two weeks, begins at the end of January 2014 in Anchorage.

Gearing up for a fight The new organization has already begun its work to lobby the legislature on the issue. On Nov. 6, the same day the alliance submitted its ballot initiative, Penney contacted members of the Alaska legislature about the same issue. “We hope you will take a stand in support of our efforts,” Penney wrote in email sent from his Penco Properties office. The email outlines the initiative, asserts that it is needed for conservation, and says that setnetters have “the largest amount of bycatch of any fishery.”

That’s not true, however. Setnetters are allowed to harvest kings as part of their fishing operation. Bycatch is a term that refers to prohibited species catch, and setnet-caught kings are not prohibited. In fact, setnetters are encouraged to keep the kings, report them, and sell them. In the email, Penney also wrote that if the initiative passes, setnetters “will receive fair compensation for the value of their permits.” But the initiative’s language does not contain any provisions for a buyback or other compensation program, and it is not guaranteed that the state would choose to enact one. KRSA, which Penney founded, has a history of lobbying the legislature. This past session, an intense lobbying effort by the organization successfully blocked Bristol Bay setnet fisherman Vince Webster’s reappointment to the Alaska Board of Fisheries. Ultimately, he was rejected by a 30-29 vote with many legislators saying they were treating the vote as a referendum on ADFG Commissioner Cora Campbell and management of Cook Inlet fisheries in general. Several legislators cited the KRSA talking points against Web-

ster, particularly over how a Cook Inlet task force created to identify possible solutions to king salmon issues failed to reach a consensus, and for a unanimous board decision to adopt a new escapement goal for late-run Kenai king salmon based on the use of new sonar counters. Webster was co-chair of the task force along with fellow board member Tom Kluberton, who was unanimously confirmed for another term by the legislature. The board was also required by law to adopt the ADFG escapement goal for late-run Kenai kings, but Webster was targeted by KRSA for both outcomes. After the vote, Gov. Sean Parnell expressed his disappointment with the vote and criticized the KRSA campaign tactics. “It is disappointing, discouraging and disheartening when bad information or politics prevent a qualified Alaskan from serving our state,” Parnell said at the time. Another legislative effort aimed at setnetters failed, however, last spring. The state Senate was considering an uncontroversial resolution to urge the federal North Pacific Fishery Management Council to limit king salmon bycatch, but Rep. Bill

Stoltze, R-Chugiak, introduced an amendment to limit setnetter “bycatch” as well. The Stoltze amendment led to the failure of the resolution, which was headed toward easy passage until his language was added. Other fishing organizations, including the Alaska Salmon Alliance, or ASA, have questioned the use of the legislature and referendums for changing fisheries management. “Abandoning the expertise of ADFG and the citizen-driven board process without due consideration for science is a recipe for resource management disaster for future generations of Alaskans,” said Arni Thomson, executive director of the Kenai-based ASA, after the initiative was announced. The ASA, which is also registered as 501(c)6 nonprofit, has talked about building consensus on Cook Inlet fisheries issues, including hosting roundtables recently to bring fishermen together in Anchorage and Palmer. Thomson said the initiative is a diversion from that effort, and one that wouldn’t help the regional fish wars. “We were totally taken by surprise,” he said.

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Despite challenging times, state miners remain upbeat By Tim Bradner Alaska Journal of Commerce

Miners are an optimistic bunch, and although metals are still in a slump, exploration is down and capital extremely tight, the mood remained upbeat at the annual Alaska Miners Association annual convention in Anchorage Nov. 4 to 10. “I was pleasantly surprised. I was expecting things to be somber,” said Steve Borel, former executive director of the association, who attended the conference. About 850 people crowded into the Anchorage Sheraton Hotel for the meeting, about 55 more than last year. There were 124 exhibitors in the AMA’s trade show, which spilled out through all available space in the hotel. Gold prices are still down, about 30 percent from two years ago, which is one damper. Borel, now retired but still working as a consultant, said the tight market for investment capital is a world-wide problem for mining companies and while the declining gold price is a factor, Borel said he was puzzled given the improving outlook for other kinds of businesses like retail or technology. “A lot of people think it has something to do with quantitative easing,” he said, referring to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy of buying up bonds at a rate of $85 billion per month, pumping up the money supply in an effort to keep interest rates low and encourage consumer buying for an economy not growing fast enough. “The government is just printing money, and it is hiding the terrible condition of the underlying economy,” Borel said, and distracting investors away from industries with hard assets, like minerals. One manifestation of this is that many of the world’s largest mining companies are unable to fund as many projects as they

would like, and are scaling back, Borel said. Anglo American is one example. The company lost its CEO and the board told the new boss to halve the number of new projects. Anglo’s surprise withdrawal from the big Pebble project is one result of this, he said. Barrick Gold is another major mining company that is having its share of troubles, which is a matter of concern given the company’s stake in the big Donlin Creek gold mine, a major project now in the permit stage in Western Alaska. Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse, CEO of NovaCopper, told the AMA conference in a luncheon address that Anglo’s decision on Pebble and the less-than-stellar feasibility study results on the large International Tower Hills gold mine at Livengood have cast a shadow on Alaska. On the other hand, however, the market fundamentals for many metals haven’t changed. For copper, there is rising demand in fast-developing economies like China, and shrinking supply as large mines play out. This works to Alaska’s long-range advantage, Van Nieuwenhuyse said. Besides Pebble, Alaska has several major undeveloped copper accumulations, including NovaCopper’s own Ambler and Bornite projects in the western Brooks Range that is being explored in a joint-venture with NANA Regional Corp. Borel agreed Alaska has gotten some negative press but there are positive experiences with mines, too. For mining industry people in the know, the stellar success of the Pogo gold mine north of Delta, where more and more gold resources are being found, is a story that is not well known. “Pogo is the poster child for mining in Alaska, a project where everything is going well. They (mine owner Sumintomo) are continuing to find new ore zones within a stone’s throw of

the mill. There are other companies with properties to the west, north and east, and it’s very exciting,” Borel said. “This should offset the negative press from Anglo’s withdrawal. Pogo is a home run, a huge success.” Other operating mines are doing well, such as the Kensington gold mine and the Greens Creek Mine, both near Juneau. The Fort Knox Mine near Fairbanks is still expanding after years of production and was Alaska’s largest gold producer in 2012, narrowly edging out Pogo for the top spot. In his luncheon talk, Van Nieuwenhuyse highlighted the increasing difficulty of the world’s producing copper mines to keep up with supply. The largest and most productive surface mines are being depleted and more copper will have to come from underground mines, where costs will be higher. The grade of ore being mines is declining, too. “Copper producers have undershot their projections for supply by about 10 percent in recent years,” Van Nieuwenhuyse told the AMA. Another factor is that many undeveloped copper prospects are in unstable nations. “The biggest risk seen today for the mining industry is nationalization,” Van Nieuwenhuyse said. Although it is infrastructure-short, Alaska has a major advantage in that it is a place where there is a stable, secure legal system. As for infrastructure, Van Nieuwenhuyse said the financial strength of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, the state development corporation, is another key asset for Alaska. AIDEA is now partnering with resource developers on infrastructure projects. “The authority is able to finance at 3 percent to 4 percent interest rates. If I were to do it, the cost would be double,” Van

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Nieuwenhuyse said. On the demand side, China’s appetite for metals, among other developing countries, looks certain to continue to grow. China annually consumes 6 kilograms of copper per capita and that is expected to double in the next ten years as wages rise and consumer purchases grow, he said. “Unless there is some unexpected structural change in China, they will continue to develop their economy. It’s a planned economy, so there are a lot of ways they can make adjustments,” Van Nieuwenhuyse said in a later interview. Van Nieuwenhuyse touched on NovaCopper’s Ambler mining district exploration in the western Brooks Range, one of the state’s brightest exploration prospects, although it is remote. Higher grades of copper are now being found at Bornite, which along with the Arctic deposit constitute the projects being explored by NovaCopper in its joint-venture with NANA. The Arctic deposit is the first priority for development because it has a high grade of ore, about 6 percent copper-equivalent (the blended value of metals) in a deposit that can be mined by efficient open-pit methods. NovaCopper plans more drilling next year to advance the Arctic project to a pre-feasibility study phase, which will be done in 2015. If the feasibility studies are positive and permits can be obtained, and a road can be built, the decision to develop Arctic could occur in 2018, he said. Bornite development could follow Arctic because the known resource that can be mined at the surface is lower-grade, about 1 percent copper-equivalent, and higher-grade copper being found deeper would require more expensive underground mining, Van Nieuwenhuyse said. Still, the news about Bornite is encouraging. In a statement made accompanying release of the most recent drill results, Van Nieuwenhuyse said: “The 2013 exploration campaign at Bornite continues to produce impressive high-grade drill results. We are encouraged by the fact that the deeper high-grade copper mineralization at the Ruby Creek zone (in Bornite) appear to be linked with similar high-grade mineralization at the South Reef zone (also at Bornite) potentially yielding a continuous, thick zone of mineralization approximately one kilometer down dip and over one kilometer along strike.” “This new finding from the 2013 drilling campaign could greatly expand the mineral resources at Bornite, which are potentially exploitable by underground mining methods. This year’s program is also expected to result in the expansion of the near-surface, potentially ‘open-pittable’ mineralization at Bornite.” Exploration in the Ambler mining region has a long history. Copper was originally discovered at Bornite, on the upper Kobuk

River, by Kennecott Minerals in the 1960s. A test shaft was built to assess the shallow ore body, but work was discontinued after the shaft flooded. Kennecott meanwhile had discovered another very attractive copper prospect at Arctic, a few miles northeast. Work continued for years on that, on and off, until Kennecott finally sold it to NovaGold Resources, from which NovaCopper is a spin-off company. Meanwhile NANA Regional Corp., which owns extensive lands in the area, purchased the original Bornite claims from Kennecott and initiated exploration. A joint-venture was formed with NovaCopper in which NANA can participate in any development of Arctic. Van Nieuwenhuyse said having support of the people of the NANA region is crucial to the development at Arctic or Bornite. Meanwhile, the state development authority, AIDEA, is continuing its work on an industrial road to provide access to the Ambler mining district. Karsten Rodvik, AIDEA’s spokesman, said the authority is still doing environmental work and finalizing route studies, as well as doing consultation with small villages in the area. The authority hopes to begin an environmental impact statement, or EIS, process in spring 2014, and to get a completed and approved EIS and other permits in 2016. That would allow a “gono go” decision in 2017 and a possible start of construction in 2018, Rodvik said. The road, approximately 200 miles in length, would go from a junction with the Dalton Highway west to the Ambler district where NovaCopper is working, and also passing near where other companies are at work. Rodvik said AIDEA intends to develop a “public-private partnership” ownership structure for the road, so that there would be private investment capital as well as a state investment. The investment would be repaid by tolls on the road similar to what is now done with the Red Dog Mine road and port, which are owned by AIDEA and used by Teck, operator of the Red Dog Mine. As for Pebble, the big copper/ gold project near Iliamna, the remaining partner in the project, Northern Dynasty Minerals, isn’t giving up on the project after Anglo American’s withdrawal, Pebble Partnership spokesman Mike Heatwole told the mining convention. Northern Dynasty will soon have more to say about the future of the project, he said. “We remain committed to advancing the project, including preparing for a permit application. We anticipate sharing an update to this and our timeline when at (Northern Dynasty CEO) Ron Thiessen’s presentation at the Resource Development Council,” in late November, Heatwole said. Tim Bradner can be reached at tim.bradner@alaskajournal.com.

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Mat-Su Borough approves salmon protections for culverts By Molly Dischner Alaska Journal of Commerce

As fishing organizations throughout Southcentral gear up for the contentious Cook Inlet fisheries meetings this winter, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough has taken its own action toward improving fish runs. In August, the Mat-Su Borough Assembly passed an ordinance requiring fish-friendly culverts for new roads that cross anadromous water bodies. That came after about a decade of work to improve fish passage throughout the borough by several partners. During 2013, the borough replaced three culverts, reopening more than 13 miles of upstream habitat, according to Bill Rice, who works on culvert issues through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In the next two years, at least six more culverts are fully funded for replacement, Rice wrote in a Nov. 5 email. About $6 million has been spent at 80 sites so far, mostly on Mat-Su Borough roads, but also including work with private landowners, Rice wrote. At a Nov. 5 assembly meeting, the borough took the next step by accepting money from the legislature intended for work to improve fish passage. The borough received $2.5 million at that meeting for “fisheries and fish protection,” but did not come to an agreement on how much will be used for fish passage, or culverts, and how much will be used for genetics. The Anchorage Daily News reported that initial discussion looked at spending $900,000 on culvert work. No matter how much is spent, the borough’s workload will start to lighten as old culverts are replaced, and the new ones won’t have to be. Most of the problem culverts, Rice said, are those built 30 or

more years ago. Back then, they were built to withstand 10- to 25-year water flows, and as a result, cannot always handle larger amounts of water. “This may be a result of sparse data compared to now, as we now have a much better idea of flood flow magnitude than ever before,” Rice wrote. The new standards mean that borough roads now must have a larger culvert that enables salmon to swim through it if the road crosses an anadramous stream. The new standard is part of the borough’s Subdivision Construction manual. Frankie Barker, an environmental planner for the borough, said a committee that looked at the manual as a whole developed the standards. Members of that committee, which was convened by the Public Works department, included borough engineers, private contractors, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel. “The standards were based on the procedures used to size culverts for culvert restoration projects,” Barker wrote in an email. Rice said modern culverts are generally built for 50- or 100-year flows. There’s also a side benefit to culvert replacement, according to both Rice and Barker. During the 2012 borough flood disaster, none of the restored culverts flooded because they had enough room for the water to flow. “This fact helps immensely to keep roads open during large flood events, helping reduce costs to infrastructure and assisting emergency services with public safety issues during large floods,” Rice wrote. The culvert replacement effort is part of a partnership between the borough and several other entities that addresses salmon habitat issues. The Mat-Su Basin Salmon Habitat Partnership identified

Photo/Patty Sullivan/Matanuska-Susitna Borough

Workers replace a culvert at Government Creek to improve fish passage. The Matanuska-Susitna Borough, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other partners have spent about $6 million replacing culverts and improving passage for the past decade.

fish passage as an issue for salmon in a 2008 strategic plan, and has been working to address that for the past several years. Culvert work has included replacing smaller culverts with larger ones, such as at Cottonwood Creek, or replacing arches with bridges, such as at Wasilla Creek. In 2010, there were $1.2 million in active grants for culvert work throughout the borough. Other entities, including The Nature Conservancy and the Chickaloon Village Traditional Council have also worked with private landowners on culvert replacements, Barker wrote, including on some driveways. The Alaska Railroad Corp. has also participated in some fish passage work.

Last year, the railroad worked with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to replace a culvert with a bridge at Sunshine Creek, which has a significant sport fishery, according to Rice. The ordinance passed with support from a host of organizations, including the borough’s planning commission, the MatSu salmon habitat partnership, the Alaska Salmon Alliance, and others. Upper Cook Inlet salmon runs have been limited for years, and the borough is just one of several organizations interested in trying to restore them. Although the culvert work improves fish passage, the borough is quick to note that it believes the issues with salmon returns are

not solely problems with habitat — and culverts are not the only habitat issue at play. A June 2013 report by the United Cook Inlet Drift Association attributed most of the issues to habitat and other problems, like the Northern Pike invasion, parasites and beavers, but the borough wants to do further research to find out what is going on in the ocean. The legislative funding the borough received will also go towards looking at what happens when salmon bound for Cook Inlet spend time in the ocean. The borough wants to know the path salmon take as they swim up the Inlet. Molly Dischner can be reached at molly.dischner@alaskajournal.com.

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State considers taking control of wetland permit process By Elwood Brehmer Alaska Journal of Commerce

A group of state agencies is evaluating what it would mean for the state to manage wetlands permitting for development projects. Wetlands permitting has largely been controlled by the Environmental Protection Agency under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act since it was passed in 1972. It is locally overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Section 404 requires “anyone discharging dredged or fill material in waters of the United States” to obtain a permit to do so from the Corps of Engineers. The state currently has a similar Certification of Reasonable Assurance granted it under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act that gives states the ability to review federal wetlands permit applications. In its last session, the Legislature passed Senate Bill 27, which directed the state to begin the process of filing the necessary applications with EPA and the Corps of Engineers to obtain wetlands oversight, or primacy. SB 27 also allocated resources to add staff to the Department of

Natural Resources and the Department of Environmental Conservation to undertake the task. DEC Division of Water Director Michelle Hale told the Alaska Miners Association during a Nov. 7 presentation that DNR has five people working full-time on the effort and her agency has two with further help from Department of Law staff. Right now the agencies are going through a cost-benefit analysis to see if taking on more permitting responsibility is worth it for the state, she said. Since the Clean Water Act was amended in 1977 to give states the option of wetlands primacy, only Michigan and New Jersey have taken advantage. DNR Deputy Commissioner Ed Fogels has said obtaining wetlands primacy would add about 30 fulltime positions to the agency group and that cost is something that must be considered. Hale said the move would be right for Alaska, given the fact that the state holds 65 percent of the nation’s wetlands, which make up 43 percent of the state. Being the only state with permafrost, Alaska has wetlands that aren’t found anywhere else in the

country, she added. “Decisions in Alaska — if we assume the 404 program — made by Alaskans, accountable to the State of Alaska,” Hale said. The state has recent experience in shifting permitting jurisdiction since it fully took over the Section 402, the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System program, in 2012. The application process for the primacy in NPDES began in 2003, Hale said, and the federal to state transition began in 2008. The Section 404 primacy process should be expected to take just as long as both require “many binders” worth of paperwork being sent to the Corps of Engineers and EPA, said Ruth Hamilton Heese, a senior assistant attorney with the Department of Law. Because the state already has primacy over Section 402 permits it could potentially combine the permits and issue one public notice period, Hale said. “It provides us an opportunity to create clear and consistent regulations and there’s a real opportunity for regulatory integration,” she said.

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Regardless of who controls Section 404 primacy, the federal standards those working in wetlands must adhere to likely won’t change, and if they do, it would be to the side of environmental protection. The Clean Water Act requires state standards to be “no less stringent” than federal guidelines. The state also would not assume primacy over all wetlands inside its borders. Waterways considered navigable for commercial use and adjacent wetlands would remain under Corps of Engineers jurisdiction. Defining “adjacent” will be part of the back-and-forth of the primacy process, Hamilton Heese said. An area of the Section 404 permit that often causes con-

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sternation for project managers is its wetlands mitigation requirements. Anyone disturbing wetlands is required to improve an equal area elsewhere or pay the federal agencies for wetlands disruption. Hamilton Heese said the state would look at creative ways to “maximize the flexibility we can get in terms of (wetlands) mitigation” and still meet federal requirements. She suggested solutions such as fixing “perched” culverts in salmon streams to allow fish easier passage as a mitigation tool the state could allow that hasn’t been previously considered. Elwood Brehmer can be reached at elwood.brehmer@alaskajournal.com.

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rights, and that it must have those rights to continue. Certain Southcentral communities will continue to see KTUU on GCI cable, however. Transmission in Anchorage, Girdwood, Homer, Kenai, Seward, Soldotna and Matanuska-Susitna Borough will continue under a must-carry agreement, according to a GCI statement. Programming on other stations is still up in the air. GCI subsidiary Denali Media Southeast recently bought the NBC affiliates in Juneau and Sitka, which previously broadcast KTUU’s programming, including both news and national NBC content. The two companies agreed to extend the deadline for hammering out a deal about transmission of KTUU’s signal for those stations until Nov. 22, Morris said. GCI’s Denali Media Anchorage also purchased KTVA, in Anchorage, at the same time. Lowber said the company was working on its own news programming and a plan to consolidate cable and over-the-air advertising in the coming weeks. Those changes will likely

show up on air beginning Dec. 1, and in the company’s fourth quarter results. GCI also made progress on another major endeavor recently, finishing its TERRA-NW extension to Nome. “All three of the necessary mountaintops sites have now been completed, with an antenna and radio installed at the new Nome hospital,” Lowber said. “The new link between Shaktoolik and Nome has undergone radio testing since Oct. 4, and we’re now redirecting satellite traffic onto the network well ahead of schedule.” The TERRA network is a terrestrial broadband connection, with faster speeds for rural Alaska users along the route through much of Southwest and Northwest Alaska. Next, the company will expand the network to Kotzebue by the end of 2014, Lowber said. GCI’s stock closed at $9.77 Nov. 12, a bit less than the 52-week high of $10.08 Molly Dischner can be reached at molly.dischner@alaskajournal.com.

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Yakutat looks to wave power as relief to high power costs By Elwood Brehmer Alaska Journal of Commerce

When Bill Staby first arrived in Yakutat he drew a quick realization from a small tube of toothpaste on a store shelf: life in Yakutat is expensive. The toothpaste was $4. “Not only did I think, ‘gee, that’s really expensive,’ but I wondered how many of these the shopkeeper needs to sell to pay the light bill, to keep the place warm,” Staby said. “It was a very visceral kind of thing.” That trip to the isolated coastal community of about 650 residents was in February 2012. As CEO of Boston-based Resolute Marine Energy, Staby was in Yakutat to evaluate the viability of harnessing wave energy for electricity production. While countless communities dot Alaska’s seemingly endless coastline, Yakutat is one of the only to have an unobstructed view of open-ocean without the restriction of seasonal ice from its locale on the Gulf of Alaska. That, combined with other factors, led Staby to conclude that Yakutat is primed for wave power. Alaska Energy Authority’s Alan Baldivieso came to a similar conclusion as Staby. “Yakutat is far and away the best place to do a wave project if we’re going to do one,” in Alaska, Baldivieso said. He manages hydrokinetic and emerging energy technology projects for AEA, and the Yakutat project is both. Hundreds of miles of open water, or fetch, in the Gulf provides consistent and predictable wave action near-shore. Subsequently, Yakutat is also one of the epicenters for surfing in Alaska. The leading “other factor” is the cost of diesel, or fuel oil, generated power in the town, which in late October was going for 53 cents per kilowatt-hour, or kWh. By comparison, Anchorage’s Municipal Light and Power was charging 14 cents per kWh, and electricity from Golden Valley Electric Association in Fairbanks was 20 cents per kWh for small users. Yakutat Power Manager Scott Newlun said many residents spend upwards of $200 per month on power for small homes. The cost of power has long been a hurdle for fish processors in Yakutat, one of the town’s main commercial ventures. With his company’s wave energy converters, Staby said he hopes harnessing wave energy can eventually produce up to a megawatt of power to cut into the 400,000-plus gallons of fuel oil the boroughrun utility burns every year, and in turn, cut energy costs in the town. “It’s very interesting for me and rewarding to see the potential impact of cutting electrical prices in half in Yakutat — our goal — and what the economic impact that could have on the community,” he said. “The positive social and economic ef-

Photo/Courtesy/Resolute Marine

A team of workers from the Boston-based renewable energy company Resolute Marine prepares to launch a wave energy converter at the Army Corps of Engineers research facility near Duck, N.C. The City and Borough of Yakutat hopes to employ similar technology in the Gulf of Alaska to convert wave energy into affordable electricity for its residents.

fects are very tangible.” Staby is confident the wave energy technology can help bring power costs below 30 cents per kWh in Yakutat, he said. The wave converters planned for Yakutat have flaps that protrude up from a base set on the ocean floor of 8 meters wide and 5.5 meters high. Set in 30 meters of water, each converter can produce up to 50 kilowatts of power. Renewable energy companies in Scotland are using flaps up to 30 meters wide on the shores of Scotland, he said. The power is generated as the flap oscillates in the wave current. That motion is used to force seawater through a tube and a past small onshore turbine, which finally turns a generator. “All of the power generation equipment is onshore and the wave energy converters located offshore are simply described as pumps,” Staby said. A gently sloping seabed near Yakutat should make for easy installation of the converters, an added site bonus, he said. Staby called the movement of the flaps “benign” to marine life, but added the wave energy project needs to go through the same regulatory process as any other energy or development project. So that, along with site modeling, is what’s being worked through now. Preliminary study permits from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission were approved in January. If all goes well, Staby foresees converters being towed into the ocean by late summer 2015. Renewable energy coordinator for the borough, Ian Fisk, said the City and Borough of Yakutat has spent about $150,000 on the project mainly through in-kind contributions of vessel and equipment use. The borough also leased an acoustic Doppler current profiler from the Alaska

Center for Energy and Power, or ACEP, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. The Doppler device con-

tinuously records a multitude of undersea measurements including current, salinity, water pressure and depth to deter-

mine wave height. It was installed in September and will be in the water for a year and pulled every couple months for data retrieval. AEA’s Baldivieso said the state agency contributed $150,000 to ACEP to fund two years worth of wave-action modeling began recently in conjunction with the first retrieval of Doppler information. The Army Corps of Engineers is also conducting sedimentation for the project. Additionally, Fisk said 10 state and federal agencies were represented at the first scoping meeting the borough held on the project. The process of providing Yakutat with wave-generated power involves so many groups because it’s a true pilot project, Baldivieso said. Wave energy has not been harnessed anywhere else in the country and rarely have projects gotten to Yakutat’s stage. “From our perspective we don’t want to benefit just a single community; we want the approach of — we’re going to advance this project but this See Yakutat, Page 32

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University of Alaska Regents approve budget, tuition hike By Elwood Brehmer Alaska Journal of Commerce

It will cost University of Alaska System students a little more to attend class next fall. The UA Board of Regents approved varying tuition increases by an 8-2 vote for the 2015 academic year, which begins in fall 2014, during a Nov. 6 meeting in Anchorage. Resident undergraduate students at all system campuses will pay $6 more per credit. The course rate changes equate to a 3.6 percent increase to $174 per credit for first and second-year courses, and a 2.9 percent hike to $210 for upper-level courses at the Anchorage, Fairbanks and Southeast campuses. In total, tuition will cost students taking a full-time 15-credit course load $2,610 to $3,240 each semester. That is a $90 increase versus this year.

Campus-specific fees can add to the total cost of attendance and vary between schools. To graduate in four years most UA academic programs require undergraduate students to average 15 credits per semester. Despite the increase, UA tuition remains among the lowest among Western state university systems, according to a system release. “Tuition should be the last place we go when trying to balance the budget,” UA President Pat Gamble said in a formal statement. A $12 per credit increase was approved for resident graduate students and all nonresident students. Resident grad students will pay $403 per credit — up 3.1 percent — next year. For non-resident undergraduates the rate goes up from $612 to $648 per credit and $811 for non-resident

graduates students from states outside of the Western Graduate Exchange program which offers reduced out-of-state tuition rates for students from 14 Western states. In September 2012 the regents approved a 2 percent tuition increase for resident undergraduates and all graduate students, and a 4 percent hike for non-resident undergraduates. Those increases went into effect this fall.

Budgets Along with approving the tuition changes, the board of regents approved the capital and operating budget requests for the system’s 33 statewide campuses. The operating budget request for the 2015 fiscal year is $936.1 million. It would be a 2.6 percent increase over the final fiscal 2014 operating budget of $911.7 million if approved by the Legislature. Last

year, the regents requested a $963.4 million operating budget. The state appropriation portion of the latest proposal is $388.3 million, up 3.1 percent. The remaining $547.7 million would be covered by university system revenues. One portion of the operating budget that is up in the air is how much salaries for some university faculty and staff will cost. The university system’s contract with the Alaska Public Employees Association Local 6070, the union that represents UA maintenance workers, expired at the end of 2012 and a new contract has not been signed. Contracts for adjunct faculty and faculty represented by the United Academics union expire Dec. 31 and negotiations with these groups are just beginning, according to the report. The regents’ capital request

to the Legislature is for $403.8 million. State appropriations would cover $319.3 million of the request under the proposal. Nearly two-thirds of the appropriations request is for a complete overhaul of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ combined heat and power plant. At a total estimated cost of $245 million for a new coal-fired plant, UAF officials have said the school could finance $50 million of it through bonds, leaving $195 million to be funded by the state capital budget. Other noteworthy projects in need of funding are the engineering buildings being built in Anchorage and Fairbanks. To fully-fund both construction projects, a combined request of $78.9 million was approved. Of that, $33.3 million for UAF would close the funding gap on its $108.9 million, 119,100-square foot facility. At UAA, the engineering building and an associated 500-space parking ramp needed to comply with Municipality of Anchorage code, is expected to cost $123.2 million. The board of regents is requesting $45.6 million in the state’s 2015 fiscal year budget to complete the project. Construction is underway on the Anchorage engineering building and the parking garage has been designed and awaits further funding. If the UA Fairbanks project is fully funded in the next legislative session it could be completed by January 2016, according to the budget report. A total of $2.9 million in appropriations requests were approved for proposed resource development programs. An Arctic Center for Oil Spill Response Research at UAF would develop a curriculum around risk mitigation for offshore activity. Funding to complete UAF’s resource mapping portion of the Statewide Digital Mapping Initiative by the end of 2014 was also sought. Deferred maintenance projects account for $37.5 million of the capital proposal, with $22 million for UAF’s main campus. The board also put out a notice to the Legislature in its 10year capital improvement plan about projects it hopes will happen down the road. Part of the plan is for a $109 million UAA Health Sciences building by 2024 to meet a growing demand for health care professionals, the regents stated. The board will likely also make a request to for $24.3 million to build a Kodiak Career and Technical Education Center by fiscal year 2019. The current Vocational Technology Center Building in Kodiak was built in 1973. A request for $13 million by fiscal year 2018 to build a new commons building on the UA Southeast campus is also in the works. Elwood Brehmer can be reached at elwood.brehmer@alaskajournal.com.

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NOTICE TO MISSING BENEFICIARIES / HEIRS TO: TELESFORO JIMENEZ-CALDAS, believed to have resided in Bethel, Aniak and/or Anchorage, Alaska, and the spouse of PAMELA ANN TOM JIMENEZ, deceased. TO: THE CHILD/CHILDREN OF SONG HUI-CHA SAMUELSON (formerly Hui Cha Samuelson), deceased, and JOHN SAMUELSON SR., deceased, believed to have resided in Bethel and/or Anchorage, Alaska. TO: THE FAMILY OF BARTHOLOMEW PIUS AZZION, deceased, believed to have resided in Mountain Village, Alaska and/or Bethel, Alaska. TO: THE CHILD/CHILDREN OF MARIE HUNTER , deceased believed to have resided in Fairbanks, Alaska, SHIRLEY BARNS, CLAUDE KEOGH, ELIZABETH ROSE, CHARLES WOODS, ALTONA RATHBERN, ELAINE ELLPSON, LAWRENCE NICHOLS, PRICILLA MONTANELLEI, AND EDWARD HUNTER. It is requested that the above-named individuals or anyone knowing of their current location or whereabouts, please contact: Calista Native Corporation, Attn: Rosalie Kairaiuak, shareholder Relations Department, 301 Calista Court, Suite A, Anchorage, Alaska 99518; Phone: (907) 279-5516; Fax: (907) 272-5060; toll Free Phone: (800) 277-5516; Email: rkairaiuak@calistacorp.com , no later than twenty-one (21) days after the date of last publication. Pub: 11/3, 10, 17 & 24, 2013. Ad#10180561

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT ANCHORAGE In the Matter of the Adoption of: Savannah Fruean, CASE NO: 3AN-13-01932 PR NOTICE OF HEARING Event: Adoption Hearing Judge: 3AN Master 2 Location: Courtroom 203, Nesbett Courthouse, 825 W. 4th Ave. Anchorage, AK 99501. Date: 12/06/2013 Time: 10:30 am Dated: October 16, 2013 By:/s/JDavis, Deputy Clerk Hearing/Event information for this case may also be available online at courts.alaska.gov. Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180319

Notice to Creditors IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT PALMER In the Matter of the Estate of Leland Edward Twing. Deceased Case No. 3PA-13-227 PR NOTICE TO CREDITORS ALL PERSONS take notice that Kevin Brew has been appointed personal representative of the Estate of Leland Twing. All persons or entities having claims against Leland Twing or this Estate must present their claim within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or the claim will be forever barred. Claims must

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be presented in writing to the Estate of Eric Conard, 832 S. Colony Way, Palmer AK 99645, or a claim may be filed with the Palmer Superior Court, 435 S Denali Street, Palmer, AK 99645. Dated: 11/09/13. By:/s/Eric Conard, Esq. AK Bar #0006036 Counsel to Mr. Brew Pub: 11/17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10181031

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS OF TRI-VALLEY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC. DISSOLUTION

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

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT ANCHORAGE In the Matter of the Estate of Kathy B. Wen, Deceased. Case No. 3AN-13-02676PR NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that Diane E. Harrison has been appointed as the personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. DATED this 13th day of October, 2013. By:/s/Diane E. Harrison, Personal Representative. 1732 Wrangler Court Henderson, NV 89014 Pub: 11/17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180942

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT ANCHORAGE In the Matter of the ESTATE of RICHARD W. CULBERTSON Deceased Case No. 3AN-13-2666 PR NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice IS HEREBY GIVEN that JAMES ANDREW BROWN has been ap pointed Personal Representative of the estate of RICHARD W. CULBERTSON. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the Personal Representative at the offices of the attorney for the estate, the Law Offices of Janet L. Bolvin, 4141 B Street, Suite 206., Anchorage, Alaska, 99503, or filed with the court. DATED AND SIGNED this 6th day of November, 2013. By:/s/Janet L. Bolvin ABA No. 8206008 Pub: 11/10, 17 & 24, 2013. Ad#10180940

SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN PROBATE In the Matter of the Estate of JAMES MARRIS, Deceased Case No. 3AN-13-02455PR NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above captioned estate. All persons who have claims against the estate of the deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to Shirley Marris Personal Representative of the Estate, c/o Sheila Gal lagher, Lawyer, of Counsel Nosek Law Group LLC, 200 West 34th Ave., Anchorage, Alaska, 99503, Sheila Gallagher Lawyer of the above address or filed with the court. Dated this 1st day of November, 2013

7POST MORTEM ADMINISTRATION OF THE DAVID ALBERT & NINA L. BROWN LIVING TRUST DATED APRIL 3, 1982 NOTICE TO CREDITORS PURSUANT TO AS 13.36.368, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Linda Rae Baker has been appointed as Successor Trustee of the David Albert & Nina L. Brown Living Trust, dated April, 1982. All persons having claims against Nina L. Brown or the said trust are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to David Albert & Nina L. Brown Trust, PO Box 34016, Juneau, AK 99803. Linda R. Baker, Trustee, David Albert & Nina L. Brown Living Trust. Dated this 4th day of November, 2013. Pub: 11/10, 17 & 24, 2013. Ad#10180913

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT In the Matter of the Estate of VIRGINIA MARY FRITZ, Deceased. Case No. 3AN-13-2636 PR NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are re quired to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be presented to Amrit Kaur Khalsa, attorney for the personal representative of the estate, at 4141 B Street, Suite 402, Anchorage, Alaska 99503, or filed with the court. Dated this 1st day of November, 2013. By:/s/John H. Miller, Personal Representative Pub: 11/10, 17 & 24, 2013. Ad#10180798

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN PROBATE In the Matter of the Estate of OLGA T. STEGER, Deceased. Case No. 4FA-13-003531 PR NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be presented to Cathleen Keyes, Personal Representative, c/o Woelber, Jacobson & Passard, LLC, Attention: Christina M. Passard, 4241 B Street, Suite 201, Anchorage, AK 99503, or filed with the Court. Dated this 1st day of November, 2013. Woelber, Jacobson & Passard, LLC Attorneys for Personal Representative By:/s/Christina M. Passard Alaska Bar No. 0511095 Pub: 11/10, 17 & 24, 2013. Ad#10180822

Notice is hereby given that Tri-Valley Electric Cooperative (hereinafter referred to as “Tri-Vec” is currently in the process of dissolving. Any creditors or claimants having claims against Tri-Vec must present a claim immediately to Tri-Vec and include the following information: • the name and address of the creditor or claimant including telephone number; • the amount of the claim • the basis of the claim • the date on which the claim arose; and • provide documentation for the claim Claims against the cooperative should be addressed and mailed as follows: Tri-Vally Electric Cooperative, Inc. Attn. Karen A. Day, 758 Illinois Street Fairbanks, Alaska 99701 Pub: 11/10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180780

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT ANCHORAGE In the Matter of the Estate of Mary J. Peot, Deceased. Case No. 3AN-13-2631 PR NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that James J. Peot has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be presented to the law offices of FOLEY & FOLEY, A Professional Corporation, 11001 O’Malley Centre Drive, Suite 201, Anchorage, Alaska 99515, or filed with the court. DATED this 29th day of October, 2013, at Anchorage, Alaska. Foley & Foley, P.C. Attorneys for James J. Peot By:/s/William Michael Pearson Alaska Bar No. 0312086 Pub: 11/10, 17 & 24, 2013. Ad#10180782

POST MORTEM ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAWRENCE CROSBY, JR. AND STEPHANIE MORTON LIVING TRUST DATED JUNE 26, 2009 NOTICE TO CREDITORS PURSUANT TO AS 13.36.368, Notice is hereby given that Stephanie L. Morton has been appointed as Successor Trustee of the Lawrence Crosby, Jr. and Stephanie Morton Living Trust. All persons having claims against Lawrence Crosby, Jr. or the said Trust are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the law offices of FOLEY & FOLEY, A Professional Corporation, 11001 O’Malley Centre Dr., Suite 201, Anchorage, AK 99515. Dated this 28th day of October, 2013. Foley & Foley, P.C. Attorneys for Stephanie L. Morton Successor Trustee of the Lawrence Crosby, Jr. Stephanie Morton Living Trust, dated June 26, 2009. By:/s/William M. Pearson AK Bar No. 0312086 FOLEY & FOLEY, P.C. 11001 O’Malley Centre Dr., Suite 201 Anchorage, AK 99515 (907) 522-2272 Pub: 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180695

In the Matter of the Estate of: HOWARD JOHN NELSON, Decedent. Case No. 3AN-13-2418 PR NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that Sherry Nelson has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the Decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the Personal Representative, or the attorney for the Personal Representative: Fortier & Mikko P.C. at 1600 A street, Suite 101, Anchorage, AK 99501, or filed with the above-named Court. DATED at Anchorage, Alaska, this 22nd day of October, 2013. Fortier & Mikko, P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By:/s/Samuel J. Fortier ABA No. 8211115 Pub: 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180522

Judgment for Name Change

Petition for Change of Name NOTICE OF PETITION TO CHANGE NAME A petition has been filed in the Superior Court (Case #3AN-13-10011CI) requesting a name change from (current name) Mary Elizabeth Groot Bluemink to Elizabeth Bluemink Cannon. A hearing on this request will be held on December 14, 2013 at 12:00 pm at Courtroom 15 Boney Court house, 303 K Street., Anchorage, AK. Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180420

NOTICE OF PETITION TO CHANGE NAME A petition has been filed in the Superior Court (Case #3AN-13-09920CI) requesting a name change from (current name) Raymond Gale Callahan to Raymond Gale Jones. A hearing on this request will be held on December 10, 2013 at 1:30 pm at Courtroom 15 Boney Courthouse, 303 K Street., Anchorage, AK. Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180317

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A judgment has been issued by the Superior Court in Anchorage, Alaska, in (Case #3AN-11-10368CI) ordering that the petitioner's name will be changed from Lee Joe Leong to Joseph Lee Leong, effective on the effective date stated in the clerk's Certificate of Name Change. Pub: 11/17/2013. Ad#10180941

A petition has been filed in the Superior Court (Case #3AN-13-09751CI) requesting a name change from (current name) Madeleine Elyse Gotkin to Madeleine Elyse Wenzell. A hearing on this request will be held on De cember 05, 2013 at 1:30 pm at Courtroom 15 Boney Courthouse, 303 K Street., Anchorage, AK. Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180302

Petition for Change of Name NOTICE OF PETITION TO CHANGE NAME A petition has been filed in the Superior Court (Case #3AN-13-09209CI) requesting a name change from (current name Sofuying Komoyee Mouges to Sofuying Zongkoua Moua. A hearing on this request will be held on December 29, 2013 at 12:00 pm at Courtroom 15 Boney Courthouse, 303 K Street., Anchorage, AK. Pub: 11/3, 10, 17 & 24, 2013. Ad#10180999

NOTICE OF PETITION TO CHANGE NAME A petition has been filed in the Superior Court (Case #3AN-13-10008CI) requesting a name change from (current name) Herman Maurice Thomas to Nisan Adam Saleite. A hearing on this request will be held on December 12, 2013 at 1:30 pm at Courtroom 15 Boney Courthouse, 303 K Street., Anchorage, AK. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180710

NOTICE OF PETITION TO CHANGE NAME A petition has been filed in the Superior Court (Case #3AN-13-10138CI) requesting a name change from (current name) Mary Frances Mearig to Mary Frances Mathisen. A hearing on this request will be held on December 17, 2013 at 1:30 pm at Courtroom 15 Boney Courthouse, 303 K Street., Anchorage, AK. Pub: 11/3, 10, 17 & 24, 2013. Ad#10180679

Notice to Absent Defendant IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA AT ANCHORAGE WILLIAM AZAR and JUNG AZAR, Plaintiff(s), vs. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE CO., and MICHAEL G. LITTLE, Defendant(s). Case No. 3AN-13-8488 CI NOTICE TO ABSENT DEFENDANT To Defendant: MICHAEL G. LITTLE, You are hereby summoned and required to file with the court an answer to the complaint filed in this case. Your answer must be filed with the court at 825 W. 4th Avenue., Anchorage, AK 99501 within 30 days after the last date of publication of this notice. In addition, a copy of your answer must be sent to the plaintiff’s attorney, Jeff Barber whose address is: 821 “N” Street, Suite 103, Anchorage, AK 99501. If you fail to file your answer within the required time, a default judgment may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. This is an action for personal injuries that plaintiffs received in an automobile collision on 8/2/11 for which defendants was allegedly negligent in causing. The relief demanded is greater than $100,000.00 plus attorney fees and costs and any other relief as the court deems just. You have been made a party to this action because you were the driver of the vehicle that struck plaintiff’s vehicle on the above-named collision. Date: 11/06/13 By:/s/Deputy Clerk of Court Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10181003

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Notice of Sale and Default

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

accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, INSIDE THE FRONT DOORS OF THE NESBITT MEMORIAL COURTHOUSE, 825 W. 4TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK, on February 3, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 10/29/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/MELANIE BEAMAN, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10181095

In the Matter of the Dissolution of the Marriage of: Splendora Annselici Ulukivaiola and Charles Moises Diaz. Case No: 3AN-13-10258CI NOTICE TO ABSENT SPOUSE To: Charles Moises Diaz You are hereby notified that a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage was filed in this court by Splendora Annselici Ulukivaiola on 10/28/2013. The petition states that an incompatibility of temperament has caused the irremediable breakdown of your marriage and that your whereabouts are unknown. You must make your whereabouts known to the court at this address: Anchorage Trial Court Nesbett Courthouse, 825 W. 4th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501. Failure to do so within 30 days after the last date of publication/posting of this notice may result in the court granting a decree of dissolution of marriage as requested in the petition. Dated: 10/28/2013 By:/s/ ACameron, Deputy Clerk of Court Pub: 11/3, 10, 17 & 24, 2013. Ad#10180678

Notice of Sale and Default NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-RCF-128066 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by GILDA DORSEY, A MARRIED PERSON, as Trustor, to ALASKA USA TITLE AGENCY, LLC, as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR ALASKA USA MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 9/22/2011, recorded 9/30/2011 under Instrument No. 2011-046822-0, in the ANCHORAGE Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to ALASKA USA FEDERAL CREDIT UNION and the record owner of the property is purported to be GILDA DORSEY, A MARRIED PERSON. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: LOT 9, BLOCK 1, TALUS WEST SUBDIVISION, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, FILED UNDER PLAT NO. 71-139, RECORDS OF THE ANCHORAGE RECORDING DISTRICT, THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, STATE OF ALASKA. Commonly referred to as 11915 WILDERNESS DRIVE, , ANCHORAGE, AK 99516. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $1,195.01 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *2/1/2013*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $166,476.12, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AlaskaUSA Title Agency, Trustee, will sell Lot 18, Block 2, KEMPTON HILLS SUBD., ADDITION NO. 3, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat No. 83-549, records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; 2840 Kempton Hills Drive, Anchorage, AK 99516 to the highest, best bidder on January 7, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in the main lobby of the Nesbett Memorial Courthouse, 825 W. 4th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, together with other sales. The sale will be held pursuant to a Deed of Trust naming Corrine T. Danner and Scott K. Danner, Trustors, recorded February 29, 2012, as Instrument No. 2012-010306-0, An chorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, encumbering said real property. The principal amount of $476,379.00 is due, plus interest, costs and other charges. Go to alaskajournal.com for the complete Notice of Default. Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10181014

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AlaskaUSA Title Agency, Trustee, will sell Unit 1, WELLS MANOR CONDOMINIUM, according to the official maps and floor plans filed as Plat No. 75-39 and as described in Declaration recorded April 3, 1975, Book 9 at Page 592 and any amendments thereto, records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; 804 P Street #1, Anchorage, AK 99501 to the highest, best bidder on January 8, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in the main lobby of the Nesbett Memorial Courthouse, 825 W. 4th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, together with other sales. The sale will be held pursuant to a Deed of Trust naming Gregory G. Wolf, Trustor, recorded October 17, 2002, as Instrument No. 2002-074577-0, An chorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, encumbering said real property. The principal amount of $129,436.74 is due, plus interest, costs and other charges. Go to alaskajournal.com for the complete Notice of Default. Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10181017

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY Alaska USA Title Agency, Trustee, will sell Lot 3, Block 5, EAGLERIDGE SUBDIVISION - PHASE A, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat No. 81-292, records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; EX CEPTING THEREFROM the Subsurface Estate therein, and all rights, privileges, immunities and appurtenances of whatsoever nature, accruing unto said estate pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of December 18, 1971 (85 Stat. 688, 704; 43 U.S.C. 1601, 1613 (f) (1976) as reserved by the United States of America.; 17351 Laoana Court, Eagle River, AK 99577 to the highest, best bidder on January 8, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in the main lobby of the Nesbett Memorial Courthouse, 825 W. 4th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, together with other sales. The sale will be held pursuant to a Deed of Trust naming Nolverto Nieto, Jr. and Lorie Lee Nieto, Trustors, recorded December 8, 2009, as Instrument No. 2009-077202-0, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, encumbering said real property. The principal amount of $286,100.23 is due, plus interest, costs and other charges. Go to alaskajournal.com for the complete Notice of Default. Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10181019

Notice of Sale and Default

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Yukon Title Company, Inc., Trustee, will sell Lot 8 of CAMPUS ACRES SUBDIVISION, according to the plat filed October 21, 2003 as Plat No. 2003-115; Records of the Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska; 2440 Maria Street, Fairbanks, AK 99709 to the highest, best bidder on January 9, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in the main lobby of the Fairbanks Superior Courthouse, 101 Lacey Street, Fairbanks, Alaska, together with other sales. The sale will be held pursuant to a Deed of Trust naming Michael P. Crites and Nicole E. Crites, Trustors, recorded December 22, 2004, as Instrument No. 2004-028504-0, Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska, encumbering said real property. The principal amount of $133,139.45 is due, plus interest, costs and other charges. Go to alaskajournal.com for the complete Notice of Default. Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10181021

Fidelity Title Agency of Alaska, Trustee, will sell Lot 12, Block 1, HEATHER MEADOWS, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 68-7, in the records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; 521 E. 46th Place, Anchorage, AK 99503 to the highest, best bidder on January 8, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in the main lobby of the Nesbett Memorial Courthouse, 825 W. 4th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, together with other sales. The sale will be held pursuant to a Deed of Trust naming Timothy P. Kennedy and Jennifer L. Kennedy, Trustors, recorded January 17, 2008, as Instrument No. 2008-002673-0, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, encumbering said real property. The principal amount of $40,378.16 is due, plus interest, costs and other charges. Go to alaskajournal.com for the complete Notice of Default. Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10181008

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY Fidelity Title Agency of Alaska, Trustee, will sell Lot 5, Block 1, TUNDRA ROSE ESTATES PHASE I, according to Plat No. 2000-88, located in the Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; 5226 W. Northern Rose Lane, Wasilla, AK 99654 to the highest, best bidder on January 9, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in the main lobby of the Nesbett Memorial Courthouse, 825 W. 4th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, together with other sales. The sale will be held pursuant to a Deed of Trust naming Mabel F. Moses, Trustor, recorded October 15, 2010, as Instrument No. 2010-020452-0, Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, encumbering said real property. The principal amount of $111,840.82 is due, plus interest, costs and other charges. Go to alaskajournal.com for the complete Notice of Default. Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10181023

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY First American Title, Trustee, will sell Lot 7, Block 14, COTTONWOOD SHORES, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 73-48, Records of the Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; 2040 N. Cottonwood Loop, Wasilla, AK 99654 to the highest, best bidder on January 7, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in the main lobby of the Nesbett Memorial Courthouse, 825 W. 4th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, together with other sales. The sale will be held pursuant to a Deed of Trust naming Eileen M. Richter, Trustor, recorded October 13, 2010, as Instrument No. 2010-020332-0, Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, encumbering said real property. The principal amount of $223,451.47 is due, plus interest, costs and other charges. Go to alaskajournal.com for the complete Notice of Default. Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10181012

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY Fidelity Title Agency of Alaska, Trustee, will sell Lot 3, KREST SUBDIVISION, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 71-125, in the records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; 420 S. Pine Street, Anchorage, AK 99508 to the highest, best bidder on January 7, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in the main lobby of the Nesbett Memorial Courthouse, 825 W. 4th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, together with other sales. The sale will be held pursuant to a Deed of Trust naming Veronica Toumoua, Viliamu Toumoua and Taupeaafe Toumoua, Trustors, recorded August 24, 2007, as Instrument No. 2007-054108-0, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, encumbering said real property. The principal amount of $173,575.34 is due, plus interest, costs and other charges. Go to alaskajournal.com for the complete Notice of Default. Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10181010

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY First American Title of Alaska, Trustee, will sell Lot 1, Block 1, VICKI LYNN ESTATES, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 84-248, Records of the Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; 4280 S. Headvic Court, Wasilla, AK 99654 to the highest, best bidder on January 8, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in the main lobby of the Nesbett Memorial Courthouse, 825 W. 4th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, together with other sales. The sale will be held pursuant to a Deed of Trust naming Dalas R. Kelley, Trustor, recorded July 15, 2011, as Instru ment No. 2011-013334-0, Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, encumbering said real property. The principal amount of $145,915.01 is due, plus interest, costs and other charges. Go to alaskajournal.com for the complete Notice of Default. Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10181006

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-BT-129739 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by ROSANNE L SMITH, as Trustor, to CTC REAL ESTATE SERVICES, as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC, ITS SUCCES SORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 12/20/2006, recorded 1/2/2007 under Instrument No. 2007-000002-0, in the FAIRBANKS Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK,AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-23 and the record owner of the property is purported to be ROSANNE L SMITH. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: LOT TWENTY-FOUR (24), BLOCK FIFTY-FOUR 'B' (54B), BJERREMARK HOMESTEAD SUBDIVISION, AC CORDING TO THE REPLAT FILED AUGUST 9, 1950 AS INSTRUMENT NUMBER 119.811; RECORDS OF THE FAIRBANKS RECORDING DISTRICT, FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, STATE OF ALAKSA. Commonly referred to as 2208 GILLAM WAY, FAIRBANKS, AK 99701. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $1,316.70 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *2/1/2013*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $124,603.20,

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plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, IN THE LOBBY OF THE FAIRBANKS COURTHOUSE, 101 LACEY STREET, FAIRBANKS, AK, on January 27, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 10/22/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/MELANIE BEAMAN, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10181004

under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, INSIDE THE FRONT DOORS OF THE NESBITT MEMORIAL COURTHOUSE, 825 W. 4TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK, on January 27, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 10/23/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/MELANIE BEAMAN, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10180978

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-BT-129754 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by JOHN C GOSLEE, AND PATRICIA D GOSLEE, HUSBAND AND WIFE, as Trustor, to RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE BANK, FSB ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 3/13/2009, recorded 3/23/2013 under Instrument No. 2009-006076-0, in the PALMER Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. and the record owner of the property is purported to be JOHN C GOSLEE, AND PATRICIA D GOSLEE, HUSBAND AND WIFE. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: LOT 20, BLOCK 3, EQUESTRAIN ACRES, PHASE 1, ACCORDING TO PLAT NO. 85-27, LOCATED IN THE PALMER RECORDING DISTRICT, THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, STATE OF ALASKA. Commonly referred to as 2025 N KENTUCKY DERBY DR, , PALMER, AK 99645. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $1,475.59 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *1/1/2012*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $199,464.60, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on January 6, 2014, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Eugene A. Avessuk an unmarried person, Trustor, Eugene A. Avessuk, a married man, Record Owner, recorded on January 27, 1999 in Book 996, on Page 402, Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, de scribing: Lot 9, Block 20, SETTLERS BAY SUBDIVISION, UNIT NO. 2, according to Plat No. 77-17, located in the Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; more accurately described as Lot 9, Block 20, SETTLERS BAY SUBDIVISION, UNIT NO. 2, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 77-17, Records of the Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 6670 S SET TLERS BAY DR, WASILLA, AK 99654. $57,653.01 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10180968

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on January 2, 2014, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Matthew J. Livingston and Marta Z. Livingston, husband and wife, Trustor, Matthew J. Livingston and Marta Z. Livingston, husband and wife, Record Owner, recorded on June 15, 2005 under Reception No. 2005-040598-0, AN CHORAGE Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 79, SCHROEDER SUBDIVISION, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 63-50, Records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 16630 DAVIS ST, EAGLE RIVER, AK 99577. $208,379.03 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10180963

November 17, 2013 • Alaska Journal of Commerce November 17, 2013 • Alaska Journal of Commerce Notice of Sale and Default State of Alaska, a/k/a 53390 BOREALIS AVE, KASILOF, AK 99610. $157,588.56 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10180970

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-BT-128799 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by ROY L. TAYLOR, AN UNMARRIED PERSON AND DEGEE A. DOBSON, AN UNMARRIED PERSON, as Trustor, to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE OF ALASKA, as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE, LLC, A LIMITED LIABILITY CORPORATION ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 4/18/2007, re corded 5/2/2007 under Instrument No. 2007-000076-0, in the SELDOVIA Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. and the record owner of the property is purported to be ROY L. TAYLOR, AN UNMARRIED PERSON AND DEGEE A. DOBSON, AN UNMARRIED PERSON. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: LOT 2B, EAST ADDITION TOWNSITE OF SELDOVIA LOT 2A REPLAT, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF FILED UNDER PLAT NUMBER 85-2, RECORDS OF THE SELDOVIA RECORDING DISTRICT, THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, STATE OF ALASKA. Commonly referred to as 355 C STREET, SELDOVIA, AK 99663. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $1,837.51 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *8/1/2010*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $226,102.65, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, INSIDE THE FRONT DOORS OF THE NESBITT MEMORIAL COURTHOUSE, 825 W. 4TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, , on January 28, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 10/25/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/MELANIE BEAMAN, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10180958

Notice of Sale and Default NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on January 3, 2014, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Ron J. Conner, an unmarried person, Trustor, Estate of Ron J. Conner, deceased, Record Owner, recorded on September 06, 2011 under Reception No. 2011-017036-0, Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 3, Block A, SWARTZ SUBDIVISION ADDITION NO. 1, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat No. 68-13, in the records of the Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; more accurately described as Lot 3, Block A, SWARTZ SUBDIVISION ADDITION NO. 1, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 68-13, Records of the Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 14620 S KNIK GOOSE BAY RD, WASILLA, AK 99654. $136,477.88 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10180962

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on January 6, 2014, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Marcus C. Colvin, an unmarried person, Trustor, Marcus C. Colvin, unmarried, Record Owner, recorded on June 12, 2009 under Reception No. 2009-039216-0, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Unit D-6 of ALPINE VILLAGE CONDOMINIUMS, as shown on the floor plans filed in the Office of the Re corder for the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, under Plat No. 79-126, and as identified in the Declaration re corded August 10, 1979, in Book 426 at Page 535, and any amendments thereto; more accurately described as Unit D-6 of ALPINE VILLAGE CONDOMINIUM, as shown on the floor plans filed in the office of the Recorder of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, under Plat No. 79-126, and as identified in the Declaration recorded August 10, 1979, Book 426, Page 535, and any amendments thereof, a/k/a 8512 BOUNDARY AVENUE UNIT D 6, ANCHORAGE, AK 99504. $89,251.85 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10180967

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on January 3, 2014, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Courtney D. Bell, an unmarried person, Trustor, Courtney D. Bell, who also appears of record as Courtney D. McKay, an unmarried person, Record Owner, recorded on October 17, 2006 under Reception No. 2006-070368-0, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Unit No. A-17, GREENTREE EAST CONDOMINIUMS, PHASE I, as shown on floor plans filed under Plat No. 82-385, in the records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, and as described in the Declaration recorded November 8, 1982, in Book 805 at Page 351 and amendments thereto, if any; more accurately described as Unit No. A-17, GREENTREE EAST CONDOMINIUMS, PHASE I, according to the official maps and floor plans filed as Plat No. 82-385 and as described in Declaration recorded November 8, 1982, in Book 805 at Page 351 and amendments thereto, re cords of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 4651 REKA DRIVE, Anchorage, AK 99508. $86,847.45 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10180964

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on January 3, 2014, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may

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be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Phillip G. Peters, a married person, Trustor, Phillip G. Peters, an unmarried person, Record Owner, recorded on June 29, 2012 under Reception No. 2012-013591-0, Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 14, Block 6, HOLLANRIDGE, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat No. 2004-20, Records of the Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; more accurately described as Lot 14, Block 6, HOLLANRIDGE, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 2004-20, Records of the Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 4800 W CLARION AVE, WASILLA, AK 99623. $142,382.10 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10180966

heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 10/17/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/MELANIE BEAMAN, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 11/17, 24, 12/1 & 8, 2013. Ad#10180954

99501, ph: 907-770-7773. FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPNAY By:/s/Laurie Downing, Authorized Signator Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180916

trict, State of Alaska, a/k/a 3071 Brookridge Circle, Anchorage, AK 99504-4180. $90,938.52 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180820

NOTICE OF SALE

Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 27, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Catherine J. Meszaros-Liverance, an unmarried person, Trustor, Catherine J. Meszaros-Liverance, an unmarried person who acquired title as Catherine Jill Meszaros-Liverance, a married person, Record Owner, recorded on June 21, 2004 under Reception No. 2004-045536-0, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lots 31 & 32, Block 1, BIRCH TREE ESTATES, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat No. 71-215, in the records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 5121 Woodhaven, Anchorage, AK 99505. $162,907.34 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180804

Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 101 Lacey Street (Fairbanks Courthouse) on January 3, 2014, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Jack N. Hendrickson, a single person, Trustor, The Heirs and Devisees of Jack N. Hendrickson, Record Owner, re corded on May 30, 2008 under Reception No. 2008-010929-0, Fair banks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot Six (6), Block Three (3), PEEDE COUNTRY ESTATES, according to the plat filed October 8, 1974 as Plat Number 74-105; Records of the Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 1155 VINCENT CT, NORTH POLE, AK 99705. $139,940.94 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180818

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-BT-129740 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by AARON M. ALLISON AND TRACIE E. ALLISON, HUSBAND AND WIFE, as Trustor, to CTC REAL ESTATE SERVICES, as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 4/1/2005, recorded 4/4/2005 under Instrument No. 2005-007814-0, in the PALMER Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. and the record owner of the property is purported to be AARON M. ALLISON AND TRACIE E. ALLISON, HUSBAND AND WIFE. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: LOT THIRTEEN (13), BLOCK THIRTEEN (13), CEDAR HILLS SUBDVISION, UNIT NO. 2, PHASE I, AC CORDING TO PLAT NO. 2000-66, LOCATED IN THE PALMER RECORDING DISTRICT, THIRD JUDICIAL DIS TRICT, STATE OF ALASKA. Commonly referred to as 680 WEST MONTANA DRIVE, , PALMER, AK 99645. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $1,186.94 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *7/1/2010*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $144,915.33, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, INSIDE THE FRONT DOORS OF THE NESBITT MEMORIAL COURTHOUSE, 825 W. 4TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK, on January 21, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be

EDWARD JAMES and PATRICIA JAMES, Beneficiaries, v. ANTHONY FITZHUGH CRESSWELL and PENNY LEE CRESSWELL, Husband and Wife, Trustors. NOTICE OF SALE FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, the Trustee will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 West 4th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 30, 2013, at 10:00 am. together with other sales that may be conducted. The sale will be pursuant to the Deed of Trust naming AN THONY FITZHUGH CRESWELL and PENNY LEE CRESSWELL, Husband and Wife, Trustors, recorded October 10, 2006, as Serial No. 2006-068590-0, in the records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, which encumbers the following described real property: Lot Forty-Three (43), U.S. Survey 3045, records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska The principal amount of $246,674.66, is due, plus interest at 7% per annum in the amount of $45,161.43 as of September 6, 2013, ($47.3072 per day), plus late charges, costs ac crued, real property taxes, penalties and interest and additional necessary expenses, including reasonable actual attorney fees herein incurred. Go to Alaskajournal.com for the complete Notice of Default and Sale. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180918

** NOTICE OF SALE ** Real property will be sold for cash (meaning currency of the United States of America, Cashier's Check(s) from a bank with a branch in Anchorage, Alaska, or Post Office money order), to the highest bidder, in the main lobby of the Nesbett Memorial Courthouse, 825 West Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, on February 6, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. Proceeds will be applied to costs, expenses and attorney's fees incurred in the foreclosure and to satisfy amounts due under the Deed of Trust naming VUI GIU TSEN, Trustor, and Clay E. Murphy and Virginia A. Murphy, Beneficiaries. The undersigned is trustee with power of sale under the Deed of Trust. The Deed of Trust was recorded January 23, 2009, R/No. 2009-003781-0. Beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to AMERICAN EAGLE MORTGAGE 600, LLC, by instrument recorded 7/29/2011, R/N 2011-035080-0. The Notice of Default and Sale was recorded November 1, 2013, R/No. 2013-061204-0, and should be consulted for important details regarding bidding rules and procedures well prior to the day of the sale. The real property covered by the Deed of Trust and to be sold is described as: Lot 13, KLUANE TERRACE TRAILER ESTATES SUBDIVISION NO. 1, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 64-88, records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska. Street addr: 600 Cherry Street, Anchorage, AK 99504 (Cherry Street was formerly known as "Jean Drive") The amount due under the deed of trust is the principal sum of $55,268.00, plus interest accruing at 8% per annum from September 12, 2012, until paid in full, plus late charges $24.46 beginning with the month of September, 2012, plus any sums properly advanced or expended under the terms of the Deed of Trust with interest as therein provided. Beneficiary will have the right to bid by offset without cash in an amount not greater than the balance owed on the obligation at the time of sale including all sums expended by beneficiary and trustee under the deed of trust, with interest thereon. Except for said offset bid(s), no one will be permitted to bid until the person conducting the sale for the trustee has verified that the prospective bidder has "cash" funds (as defined above) equal to their bid amount, on hand at the time of the sale Direct inquiries to the Law Office of James H. McCollum, LLC, 510 L Street, Suite 740, Anchorage, Alaska

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 101 Lacey Street (Fairbanks Courthouse) on December 6, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Tara R. Peterson and Kurt T. Peterson, Trustor, Tara R. Peterson and Kurt T. Peterson, wife and husband, Record Owner, recorded on May 22, 2008 under Reception No. 2008-010270-0, Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 10B, Block 2 of LEEALTON SUBDIVISION, according to the replat of Lot 10, Block 2 filed November 18, 1985 as Plat Number 85-263; Re cords of the Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska; more accurately described as Lot 10B, Block 2 of LEEALTON SUBDIVISION, according to the plat filed November 18, 1985 as Plat No. 85-263; Records of the Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 409 BEECHWOOD ST, FAIRBANKS, AK 99712. $168,595.33 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180814 NOTICE OF SALE TO THE HEIRS OF Billee J. Bankston: Sheryl G. Bankston, Smitty Bankston Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 20, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Billee J. Bankston, an unmarried woman, Trustor, Estate of Billee J. Bankston, Record Owner, recorded on June 10, 2002 under Reception No. 2002-038402-0, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 15A, Block 2, BROOKRIDGE SUBDIVISION ADDITION NO. 1, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 82-253, Records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 3071 Brookridge Circle, Anchorage, AK 99504-4180. $90,938.52 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180821

NOTICE OF SALE TO THE HEIRS OF LUIS G. SERRANO: Jocelyn Lopez Serrano Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on January 3, 2014, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Luis G. Serrano, a married person, Trustor, The Estate of Luis G. Serrano, Record Owner, recorded on December 11, 2006 under Reception No. 2006-083203-0, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Unit 13 of FIRE EAGLE CONDOMINIUM PHASE 1, as shown on the Development Plan and Unit Survey filed in the office of the Recorder for the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, under Plat Number 2003-2, and as identified in the Declaration recorded January 15, 2003 Serial Number 2003-004516, and in any amendments thereof, EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE SUBSURFACE ESTATE and all rights, privileges, immunities and appurtenances of whatsoever nature accruing unto said estate pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 12-18-71 (85 Stat 688,704; 43 U.S.C. 1601, 1613 (f) (1976) as reserved by the United States of America; more accurately described as Unit 13 of FIRE EAGLE CONDOMINIUM, PHASE I, as shown on the Floor Plans filed in the office of the Recorder of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, under Plat No. 2003-29, and as identified in the Declaration recorded January 15, 2003, Serial Number 2003-004516-0, and in any amendments thereof. EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE SUBSURFACE ESTATE and all rights, privileges, immunities and appurtenances of whatsoever nature accruing unto said estate pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 12-18-71 (85 Stat 688, 704; 43 U.S.C. 1601, 1613(f) (1976) as reserved by the United States of America, a/k/a 17546 Silverwood Way #13, Eagle River, AK 99577. $198,818.37 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180817

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on January 3, 2014, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Luis G. Serrano, a married person, Trustor, The Estate of Luis G. Serrano, Record Owner, recorded on December 11, 2006 under Reception No. 2006-083203-0, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Unit 13 of FIRE EAGLE CONDOMINIUM PHASE 1, as shown on the Development Plan and Unit Survey filed in the office of the Recorder for the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, under Plat Number 2003-2, and as identified in the Declaration recorded January 15, 2003 Serial Number 2003-004516, and in any amendments thereof, EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE SUBSURFACE ES-

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TATE and all rights, privileges, immunities and appurtenances of whatsoever nature accruing unto said estate pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 12-18-71 (85 Stat 688,704; 43 U.S.C. 1601, 1613 (f) (1976) as reserved by the United States of America; more accurately described as Unit 13 of FIRE EAGLE CONDOMINIUM, PHASE I, as shown on the Floor Plans filed in the office of the Recorder of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, under Plat No. 2003-29, and as identified in the Declaration recorded January 15, 2003, Serial Number 2003-004516-0, and in any amendments thereof. EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE SUBSURFACE ESTATE and all rights, privileges, immunities and appurtenances of whatsoever nature accruing unto said estate pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 12-18-71 (85 Stat 688, 704; 43 U.S.C. 1601, 1613(f) (1976) as reserved by the United States of America, a/k/a 17546 Silverwood Way #13, Eagle River, AK 99577. $198,818.37 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180816

of the Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 9580 E BREEN ST, PALMER, AK 99645. $163,581.30 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180812

August 23, 1952 as Instrument No. 133.925; Records of the Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 147 8TH AVE, NORTH POLE, AK 99705. $147,046.74 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180802

nances of what so ever nature accruing unto said estate pursuant to the terms of the Quit Claim Deed re corded June 16, 2005 as Instrument No. 2005-000470-0; more accurately described as Lot 4, Block 1, YE DATENE NA SUBDIVISION, according to the plat filed September 4, 2009 as Plat No. 2009-11, Records of the Nenana Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska; EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE SUBSURFACE ESTATE and all rights, privileges, immunities and appurtenances of what so ever nature accruing unto said estate pursuant to the terms of the Quit Claim Deed recorded June 16, 2005 as Instrument No. 2005-000470-0;, a/k/a MILE 135 DENALI HWY, CANTWELL, AK 99729. $88,806.66 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180807

and facilities; more accurately de scribed as Unit C-6 of ALPINE VILLAGE CONDOMINIUMS, as shown on the Floor Plans file in the office of the Recorder of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, under Plat No. 79-126, and as identified in the Declaration re corded August 10, 1979, Book 426, Page 535; and any amendments thereof, a/k/a 8508 BOUNDARY AVE #C6, ANCHORAGE, AK 99504. $19,636.93 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180810

other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, INSIDE THE FRONT DOORS OF THE NESBITT MEMORIAL COURTHOUSE, 825 W. 4TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK, on January 21, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 10/15/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/MELANIE BEAMAN, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180783

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 101 Lacey Street (Fairbanks Courthouse) on December 19, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Raymon H. Armitage, a married person, Trustor, Raymon H. Armitage, a married person, Record Owner, recorded on October 12, 2006 under Reception No. 2006-026223-0, Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 1, Block 52 of BJERREMARK SUBDIVISION, according to the plat filed March 2, 1945 as Instrument Number 96-934, Records of the Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska; more accurately described as Lot 1, Block 52 of BJERREMARK SUBDIVISION, according to the plat filed March 2, 1945 as Instrument No. 96-934, Records of the Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 1104 21ST AVENUE, FAIRBANKS, AK 99701. $117,372.77 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180815

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 27, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming James J. Stelling, an unmarried man, Trustor, James J. Stelling, a married person, Record Owner, recorded on October 13, 2006 under Reception No. 2006-069652-0, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 1, Block 4, KNIK VIEW SUBDIVISION, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 99-47, Records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE SUBSURFACE ESTATE and all rights, privileges, immunities and appurtenances of whatsoever nature accruing unto said estate pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 12/18/71 (85 Stat 688,704; 43 U.S.C. 1601, 1613 (f) (1976) as reserved by the United States of America in the Patent to said land., a/k/a 22231 Birch Creek Drive, Chugiak, AK 99567. $358,848.13 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180813

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 26, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Carmelo Ramirez-Bedoya, a married man, Trustor, Carmel Ramirez-Bedoya and Heather Ramirez-Nunn, husband and wife, Record Owner, recorded on March 16, 2009 under Reception No. 2009-005519-0, Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 1, Block 4, MOUN TIAN VIEW GRANDE PHASE 1, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat No. 2006-14, Records

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on January 3, 2014, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Michael C. Savant and Britny J. Savant, husband and wife, Trustor, Michael C. Savant and Britny J. Savant, husband and wife, Tenants by the Entirety, Record Owner, recorded on December 19, 2008 under Reception No. 2008-068439-0, ANCHORAGE Re cording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Unit No. G-2, MOUNTAIN ASH CONDOMINIUMS, as identified in the declaration recorded April 21, 1993 in Book 2406 at Page 537 and amendments thereto and as shown on floor plans and as built survey filed under Plat No. 72-171, in the records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; more accurately described as Unit G-2 of MOUNTAIN ASH CONDOMINIUMS, as shown on the Floor Plans filed in the office of the Re corder of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, under Plat No. 72-171, and as identified in the Declaration re corded April 21, 1993, Book 2406 Page 537, and amendments thereof, a/k/a 4012 REKA DRIVE, ANCHORAGE, AK 99508. $120,511.34 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180799

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 101 Lacey Street (Fairbanks Courthouse) on January 3, 2014, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Amanda J. Floto, a married person, Trustor, Amanda J. Floto, a married person, Record Owner, recorded on June 29, 2012 under Reception No. 2012-012317-0, Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 16, Block 24 of the NORTHWEST PORTION OF HAMILTON ACRES SUBDIVISION, according to the plat filed August 13, 1952, as Instrument No. 133.741; Records of the Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 218 FAREWELL AVENUE, FAIRBANKS, AK 99701. $184,683.70 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180800

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on January 3, 2014, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Tomas Siller, a married person, Trustor, Tomas Siller, a married, Record Owner, recorded on October 29, 2012 under Reception No. 2012-023461-0, Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 2, RINKEVAGE SUBDIVISION, according to the official plat thereof filed under Plat No. 93-74, in the records of the Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 203 W SCHROCK ROAD, WASILLA, AK 99654. $238,068.39 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180801

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 101 Lacey Street (Fairbanks Courthouse) on December 18, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Daniel Hayden, single person, Trustor, Daniel Hayden, a single person, Record Owner, recorded on March 08, 2005 under Reception No. 2005-004499-0, Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 40 of STILLMEYER ESTATES, according to the revised plat filed September 3, 1985 as Plat No. 85-214, RECORDS OF THE Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 841 Nordic St, North Pole, AK 99705. $110,883.70 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180803

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 16, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Roland W. Wiggans, an unmarried person, Trustor, Roland W. Wiggans, an unmarried person, Record Owner, recorded on November 03, 2009 under Reception No. 2009-070097-0, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Unit 11 of ORCA ARMS CONDOMINIUMS, as shown on the Floor Plans filed in the office of the Recorder for the Anchorage Recording District Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, under Plat Number 83-462, and as identified in the Declaration recorded November 07, 1983, in Book 997 at Page 362, and in any amendments thereof, a/k/a 1441 E 17th Ave, Unit #11, Anchorage, AK 99501. $81,092.98 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180805

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 17, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Kimi Fehrer, an single person, Trustor, Kimi Fehrer, an unmarried person, Record Owner, recorded on August 17, 2004 under Reception No. 2004-008073-0, Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot Nine (9), Block two (2), ROBINSON LOOP SUBDIVISION, according to Plat No. 87-9, Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; more accurately described as Lot 9, Block 2, ROBINSON LOOP SUBDIVISION, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 87-9, Records of the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 39270 REDMAN STREET, STERLING, AK 99672. $76,790.67 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180806

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 16, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Kelly Ann Mahoney, an unmarried person, Trustor, Kelly Ann Mahoney, an unmarried woman, Record Owner, recorded on March 03, 2006 under Reception No. 2006-013389-0, ANCHORAGE Re cording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Unit No. A-69, EASTSIDE ESTATES CONDOMINIUMS, PHASE III, as identified in the Declaration recorded December 13, 1982, in Book 820, at Page 824, and amendments thereto and as shown on floor Plans and as-built survey filed under Plat No. 84-120, in the office of the Recorder for the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; more accurately described as Unit No. A-69, EASTSIDE ESTATES CONDOMINIUMS, PHASE III, according to the official maps and floor plans filed as Plat No. 84-120 and as described in Declaration recorded December 13, 1982, in Book 820, at Page 824, and amendments thereto, records of Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 4045 E 20TH AVE #69A, ANCHORAGE, AK 99508. $71,838.97 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180808

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 17, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Leslie M. Couture, an unmarried person, Trustor, Leslie M. Couture, a single woman, Record Owner, recorded on May 14, 2009 under Reception No. 2009-004667-0, Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 6, Block 4, ROBINSON LOOP SUBDIVISION, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 87-9, Records of the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 37786 EAGLESON AVE, STERLING, AK 99672. $162,450.70 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180809

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 16, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming James M. Titre, a married person, Trustor, James M. Titre, a married person, Record Owner, recorded on January 08, 2001 in Book 3747, on Page 266, ANCHORAGE Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Unit C-6 of ALPINE VILLAGE CONDOMINIUMS, as shown on the survey maps and floor plans filed in the office of the Recorder for the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, under Plat No. 79-126, and as identified in the Declaration Submitting Property to the Horizontal Property Regimes Act recorded August 10, 1979, in Book 426 at Page 535; and any amendments thereto; Together with the limited common areas and facilities appurtenant to and reserved for the use of such Unit; and together with an undivided interest in the common areas

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 101 Lacey Street (Fairbanks Courthouse) on December 17, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Christopher N. Wood, an unmarried person, Trustor, Christopher N. Wood, an unmarried person, Record Owner, recorded on November 06, 2006 under Reception No. 2006-028525-0, Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot Five (5), Block Four (4), PEEDE SUBDIVISION, FIRST ADDITION, according to the plat filed September 15, 1978 as Plat Number 78-150; Records of the Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska; more accurately described as Lot 5, Block 4 PEEDE SUBDIVISION, FIRST ADDITION, according to the plat filed September 15, 1978 as Plat No. 78-150; Records of the Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 2209 W STEPHEN CIR, NORTH POLE, AK 99705. $131,029.53 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180811

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-BT-129603 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by CHRISTOPHER L. SANNER, A SINGLE MAN, as Trustor, to RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC. ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 1/8/2007, recorded 1/22/2007 under Instrument No. 2007-001598-0, in the PALMER Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OF CWABS INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-2 and the record owner of the property is purported to be CHRISTOPHER L. SANNER, A SINGLE MAN. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: LOT 10, BLOCK 1, PROSPECTOR HILLS SUBDIVISION, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF FILED UNDER PLAT NO. 75-29, IN THE PALMER RECORDING DISTRICT, THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, STATE OF ALASKA. Commonly referred to as 1031 WEST NUGGET AVENUE, , WASILLA, AK 99654. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $1,271.10 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *12/1/2012*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $183,437.73, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default,

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-RCF-128591 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by TERRY J. KINJERSKI, A MARRIED PERSON, as Trustor, to ALASKA USA TITLE AGENCY, LLC, as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR ALASKA USA MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 1/27/2012, recorded 2/3/2012 under Instrument No. 2012-005751-0, in the ANCHORAGE Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to ALASKA USA FEDERAL CREDIT UNION and the record owner of the property is purported to be TERRY J. KINJERSKI, A MARRIED PERSON. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: UNIT 5, CORONADO PLACE CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL MAPS AND FLOOR PLANS FILED AS PLAT NO. 97-101 AND AS DESCRIBED IN DECLARATION RECORDED OCTOBER 16, 1997, IN BOOK 3140 PAGE 146 AND AMENDMENTS THERETO, IF ANY, RECORDS OF THE ANCHORAGE RECORDING DISTRICT, THIRD JUDICIAL DIS TRICT, STATE OF ALASKA. Commonly referred to as 17315 CORONADO ROAD, EAGLE RIVER, AK 99577. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $1,166.68 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *4/1/2013*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $183,200.53, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and con-

November 17, 2013 • Alaska Journal of Commerce November 17, 2013 • Alaska Journal of Commerce Notice of Sale and Default tinue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, INSIDE THE FRONT DOORS OF THE NESBITT MEMORIAL COURTHOUSE, 825 W. 4TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK, on January 21, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 10/17/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/BRIAN WELT, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180788

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 13, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Joseph K. Gladney Sr. and LaVonne L. Gladney, husband and wife, Trustor, Joseph K. Gladney, Sr. and Lavonne L. Gladney, husband and wife, Record Owner, recorded on September 17, 1999 in Book 3536, on Page 46, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 20, Block 1, RAPPE PARK SUBDIVISION, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat No. 65-49, Records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 733 RAPPE COURT, ANCHORAGE, AK 99518. $88,467.39 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180766

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 16, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Sheryl A. Stone, a married person, Trustor, Sheryl A. Stone, a married woman, who also appears of record as Sheryl Ann Sorensen, a single person, Record Owner, recorded on November 30, 1998 in Book 3376, on Page 365, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 13, Block 1, GRAZELDA SUBDIVISION, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat No. 84-219, Records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; more accurately described as Lot 13, Block 1, GRAZELDA SUBDIVISION, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 84-219, Records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 3101 UNO CIRCLE, ANCHORAGE, AK 99508. $109,738.32 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180770

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 23, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Tim Widger and Mona McVeigh, husband and wife, Trustor, Tim Widger and Mona McVeigh, husband and wife, Record Owner, recorded on January 31, 1994 in Book 2587, on Page 250, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 2, Tract 2B, CHESTER HEIGHTS ADDITION NO. 1, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 71-98, Records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; more accurately described as Lot 2, Tract 2B, CHESTER HEIGHTS ADDITION 1, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 71-98, Records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 7430 AUGUSTINE DR, ANCHORAGE, AK 99504. $115,166.48 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180767

Notice of Sale and Default NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 101 Lacey Street (Fairbanks Courthouse) on December 18, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Thomas E. Munson, a married person, Trustor, Thomas E. Munson, a married person, Record Owner, recorded on July 29, 2011 under Reception No. 2011-013654-0, Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 2, Block 7 of HAYSTACK EXTENSION ALASKA STATE LAND SURVEY NO. 80-117, according to the plat filed January 19, 1982 as Plat No 82-13; Records of the Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska; more accurately described as Lot 2, Block 7 of HAYSTACK EXTENSION ALASKA STATE LAND SURVEY NO. 80-117, according to the plat filed January 19, 1982 as Plat No 82-13; Records of the Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska; more accurately described as Lot 2, Block 7 of HAYSTACK SUBDIVISION, ALASKA STATE LAND SURVEY NO. 80-117, according to the plat filed January 19, 1982 as Plat No 82-13; Records of the Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 6075 HAYSTACK DRIVE, FAIRBANKS, AK 99712. $226,378.24 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180768

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 20, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Merian E. Jansson, an unmarried woman, Trustor, Estate of Merian E. Jansson, deceased, Record Owner, recorded on June 08, 2011 under Reception No. 2011-010830-0, Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 1, Block 12, SHOREWOOD SUBDIVISION, according to Refiled Plat No. 2007-96, located in the Palmer Recording District Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; more accurately described as Lot 1, Block 12, SHOREWOOD SUBDIVISION, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 2007-96, Records of the Palmer Recording District Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 3350 N ENGSTROM RD, WASILLA, AK 99654. $110,446.20 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180765

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 101 Lacey Street (Fairbanks Courthouse) on January 3, 2014, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Rufus D. King, a married man as his sole and separate property, Trustor, Rufus D. King, a married person, Record Owner, recorded on June 11, 2007 under Reception No. 2007-012582-0, Fair banks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot Three (3), Block Eight (8), TAKU SUBDIVISION, FIRST ADDITION, according to the plat filed June 7, 1960 as Instrument Number 60-4443; Re cords of the Fairbanks Recording Dis-

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trict, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 1177 NENANA STREET, FAIRBANKS, AK 99709. $244,253.68 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180771

#252E FAIRBANKS RECORDING DISTRICT SUBJECT TO ALL EASE MENTS, COVENANTS, CONDITIONS, RESERVATIONS, LEASES AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, ALL LEGAL HIGHWAYS, ALL RIGHTS OF WAY, ALL ZONING, BUILDING AND OTHER LAWS, ORDINANCES AND REGULATIONS, ALL RIGHTS OF TENNANTS IN POSSESSION, AND ALL REAL ESTATE TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS NOT YET DUE PAYABLE. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CON VEYED BY DEED RECORDED IN DOCUMENT NO. 2012-018074-0, OF THE FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH, ALASKA RECORDS.

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 101 Lacey Street (Fairbanks Courthouse) on December 2, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Julia M. Klag and Kirk C. Klag, Trustor, Julia M. Klag, Record Owner, recorded on November 17, 2006 under Reception No. 2006-029752-0, Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, Alaska, describing: The North _ of the Northeast _ of the Northeast _ of the Southeast _, Section 26, Township 1 North, Range 4 East, Fairbanks Meridian; Records of the Fairbanks Recording District, Fourth Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 7460 CHENA HOT SPRINGS RD, FAIR BANKS, AK 99712. $205,926.09 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 11/10, 17, 24 & 12/1, 2013. Ad#10180717

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, v. UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF EMILY H. DEFOREST, DECEASED; ESTATE OF EMILY H. DEFOREST, DECEASED; UNKNOWN PERSONS IN POSSESSION OR CLAIMING RIGHT TO POSSESSION, Defendant(s). NOTICE OF SALE By virtue of a Final Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure issued July 30, 2012, by the Superior Court for the State of Alaska, Third Judicial District, the undersigned shall executed upon a judgment issued in the above-entitled action on July 30, 2012, in favor of the Plaintiff and against the Defendants for the sum of $186,797.90, plus interest and costs of sale. Said execution was directed and delivered to me as a civil process server in and for the State of Alaska. I have levied upon all rights, titles and interest of the above Judgment Debtor, in and to the following described real property, to-wit: LOT 12, BLOCK D, WOODLAND SUBDIVISION PART 1, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, FILED UNDER PLAT NUMBER K-1522, RECORDS OF THE KENAI RECORDING DISTRICT, THIRD JUDICIAL DIS TRICT, STATE OF ALASKA. SAID PROPERTY IS LOCATED AT: 515 Pine Avenue, Kenai, AK 99611 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on January 6, 2014, at 10:00 A.M., the undersigned will sell the above-described real property to the highest bidder for cash, certified funds or money order made payable to ‘Clerk of Court’. The sale will be held in the front lobby of the Nesbett Court house, 825 W. 4th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99501, to satisfy said execution, together with interest and costs of sale. For information regarding said property or sale, please call the undersigned at (907) 258-3211. Dated: 10/23/2013 By:/s/Steve Arturo, Civilian Process Server Pub: 11/3, 10, 17 & 24, 2013. Ad#10180665

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-FKB-128411 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by ROBERT W. DUBIA, UNMARRIED, as Trustor, to KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee, in favor of KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Beneficiary, dated 10/18/2012, recorded 10/31/2012 under Instrument No. 2012-022168-0, in the FAIR BANKS Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION and the record owner of the property is purported to be ROBERT W. DUBIA, UNMARRIED. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: LOT 8 BLOCK F GORDON THIRD ADDITION, PAN #0134031, TWN-RNG

Commonly referred to as 3863 BLESSING AVENUE, , NORTH POLE, AK 99705. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $961.62 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *3/17/2013*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $132,851.29, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, IN THE LOBBY OF THE FAIRBANKS COURTHOUSE, 101 LACEY STREET, FAIRBANKS, AK, on January 14, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 10/11/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/BRIAN WELT, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 11/3, 10, 17 & 24, 2013. Ad#10180609

NOTICE OF SALE Real Property will be sold for cash to the highest bidder at Public Auction at the South Front Door of the SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE, located at 435 SOUTH DENALI STREET, PALMER, AK 99645 on JANUARY 3, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. Proceeds of the sale will be applied to costs incurred in the foreclosure and to satisfy amounts due under the Deed of Trust recorded MARCH 24, 2011, UNDER SERIAL NO. 2011-005555-0 naming, THE HEIRS OR DEVISEE'S OF (DENNIS GLENN SMITH) AND KATHRYN HANSON as Trustors, VALLEY FORECLOSURE SERVICE as Trustee and ROBERT B. FISHER AND BARBARA L. FISHER as Beneficiary's. Said Deed affects real property commonly known as: LOT 2, BLOCK 1, ROLLING ACRES, ACCORDING TO PLAT NO. 99-11, LOCATED IN THE PALMER RECORDING DISTRICT, THIRD JUDICIAL DIS TRICT, STATE OF ALASKA. AKA 3512 N. THREE BEES ROAD, WASILLA, AK 99654 The amount due under the Deed of Trust and Note is: $39,184.20 plus interest, taxes and fees due thereunder, on said real property. VALLEY FORECLOSURE SERVICE By:/s/Kathy James, Owner (907) 357-8700 Pub: 11/3, 10, 17 & 24, 2013. Ad#10180558

Notice of Sale and Default NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-RNM-128198 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by MICHAEL R. BAILEY AND KELLI D. BAILEY, HUSBAND AND WIFE, as Trustor, to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE OF ALASKA, as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR GMAC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND AS SIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 12/13/2002, recorded 12/18/2002 under Instrument No. 2002-096378-0, in the ANCHORAGE Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to Nationstar Mortgage LLC and the record owner of the property is purported to be MICHAEL R. BAILEY AND KELLI D. BAILEY, HUSBAND AND WIFE. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: LOT 4, BLOCK 1, CAMBRIAN PARK ADDITION NO, 1, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, FILED UNDER PLAT NUMBER 74-145, RECORDS OF THE ANCHORIAGE RECORDING DISTRICT, THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRIT, STATE OF ALASKA. Commonly referred to as 8762 FLAMINGO DRIVE, ANCHORAGE, AK 99502. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $1,590.74 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *5/1/2013*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $140,529.34, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, INSIDE THE FRONT DOORS OF THE NESBITT MEMORIAL COURTHOUSE, 825 W. 4TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK, on January 17, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 10/14/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/MELANIE BEAMAN, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180504

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-BT-129471 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by STEPHANIE J. BROLLIER-GODWIN AND PAUL V. GODWIN, WIFE AND HUSBAND, as Trustor, to PACIFIC NORTHWEST TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, as Trustee, in favor of

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Notice of Sale and Default MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR RESIDNETIAL MORTGAGE, LLC, LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 9/29/2009, re corded 9/30/2009 under Instrument No. 2009-063136-0, in the ANCHORAGE Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. and the record owner of the property is purported to be STEPHANIE J. BROL LIER-GODWIN AND PAUL V. GODWIN, WIFE AND HUSBAND. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: LOT 10A, BLOCK 1 OF WINDSOR VILLAGE ADDITION NO.1, ACCORDING TO PLAT 70-24, FILED IN THE ANCHORAGE RECORDING DISTRICT, THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, STATE OF ALASKA. Commonly referred to as 3401 WEST 69TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK 99502. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $1,711.04 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *10/1/2011*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $233,816.45, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, INSIDE THE FRONT DOORS OF THE NESBITT MEMORIAL COURTHOUSE, 825 W. 4TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK, on January 13, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 10/8/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/MELANIE BEAMAN, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180469

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-FHS-126695 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by RONNIE L. WIEBER AND MILDRED C. WIEBER, HUSBAND AND WIFE, as Trustor, to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE, as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR ACCREDITED HOME LENDERS, INC. A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 6/14/2005, re corded 6/20/2005 under Instrument No. 2005-002737-0, in the HOMER Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to VOLT Asset Holdings Trust XVI, by Caliber Home Loans, Inc., solely in its capacity as servicer and the record owner of the property is purported to be

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RONNIE L. WIEBER AND MILDRED C. WIEBER, HUSBAND AND WIFE. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows:

Commonly referred to as 2700 WEST 80TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK 99502.

STRUMENT NO. 129.827; RECORDS OF THE FAIRBANKS RECORDING DISTRICT, FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, STATE OF ALASKA.

WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $284,024.99, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, INSIDE THE FRONT DOORS OF THE NESBITT MEMORIAL COURTHOUSE, 825 W. 4TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK, on January 7, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 10/4/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/BRIAN WELT, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub:10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180404

sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $271,759.74, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, INSIDE THE FRONT DOORS OF THE NESBITT MEMORIAL COURTHOUSE, 825 W. 4TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK, on January 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 10/3/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/;MELANIE BEAMAN, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180393

be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and

LOT 2-A1, DIERICH ADDITION NO. 4, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, FILED UNDER PLAT NUMBER 2001-32, RECORDS OF THE HOMER RECORDING DISTRICT, THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, STATE OF ALASKA. Commonly referred to as 1164 EAST END ROAD, , HOMER, AK 99603. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $936.57WHICH BECAME DUE ON *9/1/2011*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $ 88,408.78, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, INSIDE THE FRONT DOORS OF THE NESBITT MEMORIAL COURTHOUSE, 825 W. 4TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, , on January 7, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 9/30/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/BRIAN WELT, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180386

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-OC-127748 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by KIRBY G. PHILPOTT AND JACQUELINE PHILPOTT, HUSBAND AND WIFE, AN ESTATE IN FEE SIMPLE, as Trustor, to RICHMOND TITLE SERVICES, LP, NPC 1, as Trustee, in favor of AMERIQUEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, as Beneficiary, dated 1/24/2006, re corded 2/27/2006 under Instrument No. 2006-011907-0, in the ANCHORAGE Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Ameriquest Mortgage Securities Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-R2 and the record owner of the property is purported to be KIRBY G. PHILPOTT AND JACQUELINE PHILPOTT, HUSBAND AND WIFE, AN ESTATE IN FEE SIMPLE. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: LOT 43, BLOCK 2, DIMOND-BIRCH SUBDIVISION UNIT NO 2. ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, FILED UNDER PLAT NO. 82-142, RECORDS OF THE ANCHORAGE RECORDING DISTRICT, THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, STATE OF ALASKA.

A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $3,318.94 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *4/1/2013*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $408,981.06, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, INSIDE THE FRONT DOORS OF THE NESBITT MEMORIAL COURTHOUSE, 825 W. 4TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK, on January 7, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 10/4/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/BRIAN WELT, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180409

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-UB-126455 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by SIRIWAT VONGTIP AND SAMANTHA J. VONGTIP, HUSBAND AND WIFE, as Trustor, to KAREN MAWYER USAA FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK, as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR USAA FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 8/27/2012, recorded 9/17/2012 under Instrument No. 2012-018219-0, rerecorded under Auditor's/Recorder's No. 2013-003504-0, in the FAIR BANKS Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to U.S. Bank National Association and the record owner of the property is purported to be SIRIWAT VONGTIP AND SAMANTHA J. VONGTIP, HUSBAND AND WIFE. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: A PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN THE STATE OF ALASKA, COUNTY OF FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR, WITH A STREET LOCATION ADDRESS OF 707 BENTLEY DR; FAIRBANKS, AK 99701-3416 CURRENTLY OWNED BY SIRIWAT VONGTIP HAVING A TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER OF 97659 AND BEING THE SAME PROPERTY MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN BOOK/PAGE OR DOCUMENT NUMBER 99010 DATED 6/10/2010 AND FURTHER DESCRIBED AS SLATER 13 J. WHICH IS CURRENTLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 13, BLOCK 'J' AS SHOWN ON THE REVISED PLAT OF SLATER SUBDIVISION, ACCORDING TO THE PLAY FILED JANUARY 21, 1952 AS IN -

Commonly referred to as 707 BENTLEY DRIVE, , FAIRBANKS, AK 99701. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $1,189.84 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *12/1/2012*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $186,661.66, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, IN THE LOBBY OF THE FAIRBANKS COURTHOUSE, 101 LACEY STREET, FAIRBANKS, AK, on January 7, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 9/30/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/BRIAN WELT, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180389

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-OC-126032 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by JAMES C DUNLOP AN UNMARRIED PER SON, as Trustor, to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE, as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN BROKERS CONDUIT ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 2/9/2007, recorded 2/16/2007 under Instrument No. 2007-010165-0, in the ANCHORAGE Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, formerly known as Bankers Trust Company of California, N.A., as Trustee for American Home Mortgage Investment Trust 2007-1 and the record owner of the property is purported to be JAMES C DUNLOP AN UNMARRIED PERSON. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: LOT 11, BLOCK 1, BROADMOOR ESTATES, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, FILED UNDER PLAT NUMBER P-676A, RECORDS OF THE ANCHORAGE RECORDING DISTRICT, STATE OF ALASKA. Commonly referred to as 2948-2950 WILL RODGERS PLACE, ANCHORAGE, AK 99517. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $1,984.68 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *12/1/2012*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-BT-125284 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by SERGIO NAVA AND MELISSA D NAVA, HUSBAND AND WIFE, as Trustor, to MICKEL LAW FIRM, as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR TAYLOR, BEAN & WHITAKER MORTGAGE CORP. ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 12/15/2008, re corded 12/19/2008 under Instrument No. 2008-068419-0, in the ANCHORAGE Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. and the record owner of the property is purported to be SERGIO NAVA AND MELISSA D. NAVA, HUSBAND AND WIFE. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: Lot 93, Block 4, PARKVIEW TERRACE EAST SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1-A, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 85-158, Records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska. EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE SUBSURFACE ESTATE and all rights, privileges, immunities and appurtenances of whatsoever nature accruing unto said estate pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 12-18-71 (85 Stat 688, 704; 43 U.S.C. 1601, 1613 (f) (1976) as reserved by the United States of America.) Commonly referred to as 8788 KAK ISLAND STREET, , EAGLE RIVER, AK 99577. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $1,805.73 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *5/1/2009*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-FKB-128218 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by DENISE H. GILBERT WIFE, DAVID A. GILBERT HUSBAND, as Trustor, to FIRST AMERICAN HOME EQUITY SERVICES, as Trustee, in favor of KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Beneficiary, dated 5/3/2006, recorded 5/30/2006 under Instrument No. 2006-014458-0, in the PALMER Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION and the record owner of the property is pur ported to be DENISE H. GILBERT WIFE, DAVID A. GILBERT HUSBAND. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: SITUATED IN THE PALMER RECORDING DISTRICT, 3RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AND STATE OF ALASKA: THE EAST 1/2 OF THE EAST 1/2 OF THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 2, TOWNSHIP 16 NORTH, RANGE 2 WEST, SEWARD MERIDIAN, LOCATED IN THE PALMER RECORDING DISTRICT, THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRCIT, STATE OF ALASKA. Commonly referred to as 6105 SOUTH HAYFIELD ROAD , WASILLA, AK 99654. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $580.80 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *3/10/2013*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $ 85,126.71, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not

2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, INSIDE THE FRONT DOORS OF THE NESBITT MEMORIAL COURTHOUSE, 825 W. 4TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK, on January 7, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 10/3/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/BRIAN WELT, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub:10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180399

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-BT-128633 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by CHRIS J OSOWSKI, AND JACQUELINE REINSTEDLER, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS TENANTS BY THE ENTIRETY, WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP, as Trustor, to RECON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 2/21/2007, re corded 3/6/2007 under Instrument No. 2007-013723-0, in the ANCHORAGE Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK,AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OF CWABS INC, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-1 and the record owner of the property is purported to be CHRIS J OSOWSKI, AND JACQUELINE REINSTEDLER, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS TENANTS BY THE ENTIRETY, WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: LOT 13, BLOCK 4, FLYING CROWN SUBDIVISION ADDITION NO.2, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, FILED UNDER PLAT NUMBER 74-94, RECORDS OF THE ANCHORAGE RECORDING DISTRICT, THIRD JUDICIAL DISTIRICT, STATE OF ALASKA. Commonly referred to as 12821 NORA DRIVE, , ANCHORAGE, AK 99515. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $2,272.52 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *1/1/2010*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $302,236.08, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the

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sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, INSIDE THE FRONT DOORS OF THE NESBITT MEMORIAL COURTHOUSE, 825 W. 4TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK, on January 10, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 10/7/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/MELANIE BEAMAN, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180397

associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $ 92,216.27, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, INSIDE THE FRONT DOORS OF THE NESBITT MEMORIAL COURTHOUSE, 825 W. 4TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, , on January 14, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 10/7/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/BRIAN WELT, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 27, 2013 Ad#10180407

GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $233,541.78, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, INSIDE THE FRONT DOORS OF THE NESBITT MEMORIAL COURTHOUSE, 825 W. 4TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK, on January 2, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 9/24/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES C ORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/BRIAN WELT, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180363

wife. The correct spelling is: KURT SCHIMMEL AND KATHY JO SCHIMMEL, HUSBAND & WIFE”

Two "B" (2B), Block One (1), TOWN PARK SUBDIVISION, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat No. 97-129, in the records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska. EXCEPTING THEREFROM the subsurface estate and all rights, privileges, immunities and appurtenances of whatsoever nature accruing unto said estate pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of December 18, 1971 (85 Stat 688,704; 43 USC 1601, 1613 (f) (1976)) as reserved by the United States of America in the Patent of said land; more accurately described as Lot 2B, Block 1, TOWN PARK SUBDIVISION, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 97-129, Records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 12031 TOWN PARK CIRCLE, EAGLE RIVER, AK 99577. $211,092.10 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180327

ber 14, 2011, at Reception No. 2011-055436-0 in the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, conveying real property described as follows: Lot 1, Block 2, CAMPBELL GLEN UNIT NO. 3. according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 73-231, in the records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska. Having a street address commonly known as 601 Highlander Circle, Anchorage, Alaska. Said sale shall be held immediately inside the doors of the main front entrance of the Nesbett Memorial Courthouse, at 825 West Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, on the 19th day of December, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. For cash or certified funds payable to Fidelity Title Agency of Alaska. Trustor has failed to pay an indebtedness for which said Deed of Trust is security. The balance owing on such Note is $44,000.00, plus interest thereon at the rate of 6% per annum from November 10, 2011, plus $9,632.55 paid by Beneficiaries to cure the Trustor’s default under a prior and superior Deed of Trust is now due and owing, plus such other sums as Beneficiary may advance under said Deed of Trust to protect and preserve the property and/or its security interest therein. See a complete copy of the Notice of Default and Notice of Sale including conditions of sale at www.alaskajournal.com/legals. Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180331

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-OC-124895 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by MICHAEL E. PATOW, SR. AND KATHERINE A. PATOW, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS TENANTS BY THE ENTIRETY., as Trustor, to MCKINLEY TITLE AND TRUST, as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR BNC MORTGAGE, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 5/10/2005, recorded 5/20/2005 under Instrument No. 2005-004211-0, in the KENAI Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUC TURED ASSET INVESTMENT LOAN TRUST MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-7 and the record owner of the property is purported to be MICHAEL E. PATOW, SR. AND KATHERINE A. PATOW, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS TENANTS BY THE ENTIRETY.. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: LOT 7, BLOCK 1, LAKE SALAMATOF CRESCENT, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, FILED UNDER PLAT NUMBER K-1557, RECORDS OF THE KENAL RECORDING DISTRICT, THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, STATE OF ALASKA. Commonly referred to as 44350 KENAI SPUR HIGHWAY, KENAI, AK 99611. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $804.47 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *11/1/2012*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-OC-124134 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by JOEDY T WAKE AND LORI A WAKE, HUSBAND AND WIFE, as Trustor, to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FREMONT INVESTMENT & LOAN ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 7/24/2006, re corded 7/28/2006 under Instrument No. 2006-050813-0, in the ANCHORAGE Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for Fremont Home Loan Trust 2006-C, Mortgage-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-C and the record owner of the property is pur ported to be JOEDY T WAKE AND LORI A WAKE, HUSBAND AND WIFE. Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: LOT 15, BLOCK 5, ELMRICH SUBDIVISION ADDITION NO.1, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, FILED UNDER PLAT NUMBER 75-63, RECORDS OF THE ANCHORAGE DISTRICT, THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT. STATE OF ALASKA. Commonly referred to as 6821 EAST 6TH AVENUE, , ANCHORAGE, AK 99504. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $1,745.57 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *7/1/2011*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO -

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL UNDER DEED OF TRUST

Trustee's Sale No: 04-OC-123628 This NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND ELECTION TO SELL is given by REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, as Successor Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by KURT SCHIMMEL AND KATHY JO SHIMMEL, HUSBAND & WIFE, as Trustor, to CHICAGO TITLE, A LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR ACOUSTIC HOME LOANS, LLC ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 3/16/2006, re corded 3/17/2006 under Instrument No. 2006-006675-0, in the PALMER Recording District, State of ALASKA. The beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust has been assigned to U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as trustee under SECURITIZATION SERVICING AGREEMENT Dated as of June 1, 2006 Structured Asset Securities Corporation, Structured Asset Investment Loan Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-4 and the record owner of the property is pur ported to be KURT SCHIMMEL AND KATHY JO SHIMMEL, HUSBAND & WIFE. The Notice of Default recorded on September 30, 2013, under serial number 2013-021290-0, erroneously listed the trustor's as Kurt Schimmell and Kathy Jo Shimmel, husband &

Said Deed of Trust covers real property situated in said Recording District, described as follows: LOTS 8 & 9, BLOCK 6, T.A. SMITH SUBDIVISION, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT ' THEREOF, FILED UNDER PLAT NO. 64-6, PALMER RECORDING DISTRICT, THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, STATE OF ALASKA. Commonly referred to as 216 WEST BEAVER AVENUE, PALMER, AK 99645. A breach of the obligation which said Deed of Trust secures has occurred in that FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT OF $1,441.26 WHICH BECAME DUE ON *1/1/2012*, AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS THEREAFTER, TO GETHER WITH LATE CHARGES AND ADVANCES, IF ANY; ANY ADVANCES WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE; AND ALL OBLIGATIONS AND IN DEBTEDNESSES AS THEY BECOME DUE.. By reason thereof, and under the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has declared all sums so secured to be immediately due and payable, together with any trustee fees, attorney fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. There is presently due and owing the principal balance of $177,227.31, plus interest, late charges, costs and any future advances. If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. if Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured, the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee hereby elects to sell the above described real property to satisfy the obligation, together with all accrued interest and all costs and expenses, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, INSIDE THE FRONT DOORS OF THE NESBITT MEMORIAL COURTHOUSE, 825 W. 4TH AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK, on January 2, 2014 at 10:00 AM. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid at sale without cash. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 9/26/2013 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION, Trustee By:/s/BRIAN WELT, AUTHORIZED AGENT Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180371

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 11, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Rene M. DuCharme, an unmarried person, Trustor, Rene M. DuCharme, an unmarried person, Record Owner, recorded on October 16, 2009 under Reception No. 2009-066550-0, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 10, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Jose A. Contreras, an unmarried person, Trustor, Jose A. Contreras, an unmarried person, Record Owner, recorded on December 21, 2006 under Reception No. 2006-085645-0, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 34A, Block 2, SATELLITE PARK SUBDIVISION, ADDITION 1, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 82-88, Records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska; more accurately described as Lot 34A, Block 2, SATELLITE PARK SUBDIVISION, ADDN. 1, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 82-88, Records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 4255 COSMOS DRIVE, ANCHORAGE, AK 99517. $153,925.04 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180324

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 10, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Malcolm G. Brown, a married person, Trustor, Malcolm G. Brown and Bernarda L. Brown, husband and wife, Record Owner, recorded on April 22, 2008 under Reception No. 2008-023196-0, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 46, Block 2, BROOKRIDGE SUBDIVISION, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 84-222; Records of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 8511 BROOKRIDGE DRIVE, ANCHORAGE, AK 99504. $259,854.26 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180326

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND NOTICE OF SALE

Fidelity Title Agency of Alaska, Trustee under a Deed of Trust executed by David C. Littleton, Trustor, to Fidelity Title Agency of Alaska, Trustee, for the benefit of Wayne C. Littleton and Robert B. Littleton, recorded Novem-

NOTICE OF SALE TO THE HEIRS OF WAYNE HART JR.: WAYNE K. HART, SR., ARDITH HART AND DIANA HART Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 16, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Wayne K. Hart Jr., Trustor, The Estate of Wayne K. Hart Jr., Record Owner, recorded on May 05, 2009 under Reception No. 2009-009552-0, Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Lot 2, SPRUCE HEIGHTS ADDITION NO. 1, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat Number 73-22, Records of the Palmer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, a/k/a 13335 W MARGUERITE CIR, WILLOW, AK 99688. $151,038.16 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180329

NOTICE OF SALE Trustee, Alaska Trustee, LLC will sell realty for cash to the highest bidder at 825 W. 4th Ave. (Nesbett Memorial Courthouse) on December 10, 2013, at 10:00 AM with other sales that may be conducted. Proceeds will apply to the Deed of Trust naming Elizabeth T. Pintchuck, an unmarried woman, Trustor, Estate of Elizabeth T. Pintchuck, an unmarried woman, Record Owner, recorded on January 24, 2008 under Reception No. 2008-003845-0, Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, describing: Unit 54 of COLLEGE ALPS CONDOMINIUMS, PHASE 3, as shown on the Floor Plans filed in the office of the Recorder of the Anchorage Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, under Plat No. 82-360, and as identified in the Declaration recorded October 25, 1982, Book 798, Page 498, and in any amendments thereof., a/k/a 4792 MILLS DR #54, ANCHORAGE, AK 99508. $89,424.70 is due, plus interest, advances, etc. Go to usa-foreclosure.com for status. Pub: 10/27, 11/3, 10 & 17, 2013. Ad#10180328

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Tribal council dispute puts Newtok relocation plan in limbo By Rachel D’oro Associated Press

The flood-prone village of Newtok near Alaska’s storm-battered coast is running out of time as coastal erosion creeps ever closer to the Yup’ik Eskimo community. As residents wait for a new village to be built on higher ground nine miles away, a dispute over who is in charge has led to a rare intervention by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which ruled that the sitting tribal council no longer represents the community of 350 as far as the agency is concerned. Council leaders are appealing the BIA’s decision, which gave the funding-administrative power to a new group that claims it is the rightfully elected council. Until the matter is resolved, millions of dollars in government funds for the relocation effort have been halted, as nature’s relentless erosion continues, oblivious to who is in charge. “Who’s suffering here is the community members,” said Scott Ruby, director of the state agency that administers the relocation grants. Newtok is one of Alaska’s most eroded coastal villages and the only one that has begun a physical move, with the raging Ninglick River steadily inching toward homes. Officials estimate Newtok, 480 miles west of Anchorage, has until the end of the decade before erosion causes severe damage. Government funds have been used over the last seven years to build six homes, a barge landing, roads and five storage struc-

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tures at the site of the new village. Now those structures sit as reminders that a community’s dreams of a rebirth are still unrealized. “We’re just falling way back,” said Stanley Tom, a longtime tribal administrator who is part of the group whose authority is no longer recognized. In its ruling, the BIA said required elections were purportedly not held for more than seven years, so the old council had been operating on expired terms. The old council denies the allegations. The new council members were first elected in October 2012. The following month, members of the old council held another election. The resulting dispute reached a boiling point in June when the new council got more votes during a community meeting attended by both sides. That victory carried significant weight in the BIA’s decision, which said its decision applies to such purposes as bureau funding. Members of the new council have not responded to requests from The Associated Press for comment. The state, which is not bound by the BIA decision, has been sitting on $6.5 million in reimbursable grant funds for the relocation effort, including proceeding with building out an evacuation center at the new location called Mertarvik. Any payout has been delayed by the dispute and failure of the new faction to establish an official bank account until recently. The state expects to soon issue $51,000 in revenue sharing funds to the new council that should have been distributed last summer. Relocations funds probably won’t be dis-

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In this 2006 photo provided by the State of Alaska Department of Commerce, wooden boards connect houses in Newtok. The flood-prone village near Alaska’s storm-battered coast is running out of time as coastal erosion creeps ever closer and residents wait for a new village to be built on higher ground nine miles away.

bursed until next spring at the earliest. Adding to the complication, recent audits by the state concluded that the old faction mismanaged the administration of other relocation grants, such as changing the architectural design of the evacuation center after it took over the project from the state in 2011. The audit also noted apparent payroll improprieties, including exorbitant compensation for certain employees. The audit recommends that the tribe return about $300,000 to the state for alleged improprieties including duplicate payments on invoices and retroactive wages for employees. Officials have denied any mismanagement. At the same time, members of the new

council failed to hold a required election last month, saying they wanted to wait until the dispute was resolved, according to Ruby of the state Division of Commerce, Community and Economic Development. He would have liked to have seen an election held so that anyone who wanted to run, including members of the old faction, could have done so. He said the issue will have to be revisited later. For now, there is no time to waste, so the state is recognizing the new council, Ruby said. The Ninglick River is swallowing more and more bank each year just south of the village. Sinking permafrost continues to subject the area to flooding from intensifying storms blamed on climate change.

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Permanent Fund board to meet

The Alaska Permanent Fund Board of Trustees will hold a regular meeting Nov. 20-21 at the Sheraton Anchorage Hotel. Presentations include a review of the Fund’s performance for the first part of the fiscal year, and an educational presentation on areas of concern and opportunity in the stock markets. The public is welcome to attend. A full agenda is available at www.apfc.org. The meeting will be teleconferenced, and may be accessed by dialing 1-877-668-4493 and entering 804 605 440.

Cash available for commercial building audits Commercial property owners can start requesting state incentives for energy efficiency work. The Alaska Energy Authority is soliciting applications for its Commercial Building Energy Audit Program in a Nov. 8 release. Under the program, building owners can apply for grant money to pay for energy audits that highlight structural and operational changes that can be made in a building to save energy, and ultimately money. Large building audits can often cost tens of thousands of dollars. According to AEA, non-residential buildings account for roughly half of the building energy use in the state. “These audits are the first step in reducing energy costs. Previous Commercial Building Energy Audit Program participants have reduced their energy costs by 30 percent by implementing recommended energy efficiency measures,” said Cady Lister, energy efficiency program manager for AEA. Nearly 150 Alaska businesses have received audits through the program since it was implement-

ed in 2011. AEA is accepting applications through Dec. 20. Successful applicants will receive full or partial audit funding depending on the number of applicants and selection criteria such as the cost of energy where the building is located, according to an AEA release. Applications can be found online at www.akenergyauthority.org. The Alaska Housing Finance Corporation offers similar grant programs for public and residential buildings. — Elwood Brehmer Brehmer covers energy issues for the Journal. Contact him with tips and story ideas at elwood.brehmer@ alaskajournal.com.

Energy database launched Statewide energy data is now available in an online database. The Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage developed the database in conjunction with the Alaska Energy Authority. The database contains primarily community-level data from many sources, and can be downloaded in a variety of formats. It is housed at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The institute announced the database in the Oct. 25 research matters publication. “We hope this new site will make it easier for Alaskans—including project developers and researchers—to get the energy information they need to make informed, practical decisions about energy production and use for Alaska communities,” the creators wrote. According the announcement, a U.S. Department of Energy award to look at wind-diesel system costs funded part of the database, with

additional energy info added due to AEA’s contributions. Further expansions are planned. According to the announcement, ISER is also working with the Alaska Center for Energy and Power, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, to add high-resolution engineering data to the site. The database is available at akenergygateway.alaska.edu. — Molly Dischner Dischner is a reporter for the Journal. Contact her with tips and story ideas at molly.dischner@ alaskajournal.com.

Community Health Center funds awarded Alaska communities and organizations will receive $3.98 million for new health clinics throughout the state. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced funding for six Alaska sites Nov. 7. Glenallen, Kodiak, Nome, Seward, Anchorage and Fairbanks will all receive funding from the Affordable Care Act program, which is meant to expand local access to primary care services through community health centers. According to the announcement, the facilities will serve 15,926 patients. Several of the organizations also operate Alaska Native medical facilities. The Tanana Chiefs Conference Andrew Isaac Health Center in Fairbanks will receive the largest award, at $975,000. Kodiak Area Native Association will receive $812,500, Norton Sound Health Corp., in Nome, will receive 650,000, and Anchorage-based Southcentral Foundation will receive $367,792. The city of Seward will receive $775,000, and Glenallen’s Cross Road Medical Center, which is a

Christian nonprofit, will receive $400,000. The new health clinics will serve the entire community, and each must have a community board to oversee it. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the Alaska funding as part of an announcement of $150 million in funding for 236 health care sites around America. “We are committed to providing more people across the country with the quality patient-centered care they deserve,” Sebelius said in a statement. “Health centers are key partners in the improving access to quality, affordable health care services for those who need it most. With new, affordable health insurance options available under the Affordable Care Act, community health centers are also key partners in helping uninsured residents sign up for health coverage — many of whom have been locked out of the health insurance market for years.” According to the announcement, the new health clinics are also meant to help people in those communities access the new health care exchanges run by the federal government. So far, the Alaska exchange largely has not worked. — Molly Dischner Dischner covers health care for the Journal. Contact her with tips and story ideas at molly.dischner@ alaskajournal.com.

Northrim endows scholarship in honor of former COO A new scholarship for University of Alaska accounting students will honor Chris Knudson, former chief operating officer at Northrim Bank. “We wanted to honor Mr. Knudson’s legacy at Northrim Bank and when asked, Chris noted that he wanted to support students who

were in the accounting field,” wrote Northrim President and CEO Joe Beedle in a UA release. “This scholarship will be a lasting tribute to inspire students in accounting throughout the UA system.” Northrim Bank and its affiliate Residential Mortgage endowed the $100,000 scholarship through the UA Foundation. Accounting students will receive $1,500 per year from the fund beginning in 2014. According to an announcement about the scholarships, Northrim will add to the endowment until its earning will support the annual scholarships. Knudson died of cancer in September. He resigned from the bank in August. Knudson most recently served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Northrim, and was also a charter member of the bank in 1990. Prior to Northrim opening, he worked at First National Bank of Fairbanks in the 1970s, at Alaska Pacific Bank in the 1980s and at Key Bancshares from 1985 to 1990. A student from each major UA campus — Fairbanks, Anchorage and Juneau, or affiliated campuses — will receive a scholarship each year. Students must be pursuing an associates, bachelor or master degree. Jo Michalski, chair of the UA Foundation’s Board of Trustees, said the scholarships would help students. “Students from across Alaska will benefit from this contribution, which acknowledges the life work of Chris Knudson while helping to meet the state’s workforce needs,” Michalski said. —Molly Dischner Dischner covers banking for the Journal. Contact her with tips and story ideas at molly.dischner@ alaskajournal.com.

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Less than 27,000 sign up for insurance through fed exchange By Laurie Kellman and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Associated Press

ity Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., invitations in batches, so as not to scheduled an all-Democrats risk any disruptions. White House meeting Nov. 14 with White chief technology officer Todd Park told Congress on Nov. 13 that sysHouse health care officials. tem response times are much fastThe administration has staked WASHINGTON (AP) — Putting er, and error rates have plunged. its credibility on turning the weba statistic on disappointment, the But other signals have raised site around by the end of this month. Obama administration revealed questions. In a blog post on SaturFrom the president on down, officials Nov. 13 that fewer than 27,000 day, Bataille quoted chief White have said that HealthCare.gov will people signed up for private health House troubleshooter Jeff Zients be running smoothly for the vast mainsurance last month in the 36 as saying improvements would jority of users by Nov. 30. states relying on a problem-filled continue in “December, January, Some outside experts are confederal website. February — just like you do with cerned. New government figures show any website.” “People are starting to get ner53 Alaskans enrolled in health Asked whether the Nov. 30 target vous because there is not enough insurance in the first month of the was still achievable, Bataille said indication from the government online marketplace. Nov. 12, “I want to be clear that our that things are on track,” said CarAlaska is one of 36 states that plan remains the same. We are on a oline Pearson, who runs the health has relied on a federally run webpath to make improvements week by reform practice at Avalere Health, site to provide individuals with acweek so that by the end of November, a market analysis firm. “You woncess the marketplace. der if there are still underlying pro- the site will be working for the vast U.S. Rep. Don Young said the gramming problems that are caus- majority of users.” figures show the health care law It’s unlikely that Congress will ing the system to shut down when “is a sinking ship with too many let the effort keep floundering volume is high.” holes to fill.” much beyond Dec. 1. Millions of Administration officials have not The news came on the same lawmakers’ constituents are losspecified what “running smoothly” day that the broker Enroll Alaska ing current individual policies that means, or what would constitute announced it was resuming enrolldon’t meet the law’s requirements. the “vast majority” of users. ments through the marketplace afOn daily media calls, Health To guarantee they don’t experience ter receiving assurances that proband Human Services department a break in coverage they would lems with a subsidy calculation officials have described a situation have to select new plans by Dec. had been fixed. where problems get fixed and then 15. That’s a major political probStates running their own enrollnew issues crop up as consumers lem for Democrats who so far have ment systems did better, signing are able to venture further into the stood by the president. up more than 79,000, for a total The main federal website is website. It’s a bit like traffic headenrollment of over 106,000. central because other enrolling back to a city late on a summer Still, that was barely one-fifth of ment routes, from call centers to Sunday: You get past one jam, and the nearly 500,000 people adminiscounselors to paper applications odds are you run into another. tration officials had projected would received by mail, all depend on There was a hopeful sign Nov. having that access. 12 when Julie Bataille, HHS com“They either need to get munications director for the rollContinued from Page 6 HealthCare.gov up and funcout, said that 275,000 people who tioning smoothly, or they need got hung up in the early days are to come up with work-arounds Those increases resulted in part Communications’ balance sheet, being invited back to try to comso enrollments can be processed from 112 new business broadband Vadapalli said, both in business plete their applications. The adwithout going through the webconnections and 506 new consumer practices and reporting procedures. ministration is sending the email “AWN represents a new operbroadband connections compared ating model for our wireless busito the prior quarter. Other metrics were not as strong. ness,” he said. Closing on the transaction took The company lost about 2 percent of its wireless connections in the a significant portion of the compathird quarter, including 752 Lifeline ny’s time, as well as the financial subscribers due to compliance is- cost, Vadapalli said. Now, the company will receive sues, and 2,453 postpaid connections, although 714 of those were $190 million in preferential distriinternal, non-revenue generating, butions in the next several years connections. There was some growth and report its wireless costs as a monthly wholesale payment to in prepaid connections, however. Vadapalli did note that connec- AWN, Vadapalli said. ACS will tions could decrease again next also no longer receive revenue diyear when a new player, Verizon, is rectly from its backhaul contracts. expected to start selling its service Those were turned over to AWN when the transaction closed. in Alaska. Graham said ACS will continue Vadapalli said the company expected to see continued growth due to to report its proportional earnings the strength of its product and planned as coming from equity, and its disexpansions, including upgraded busi- proportionate earnings, which result ness internet and a new customer from the preferential distribution, portal, $8 million of investments in its separately. The balance sheet will network that will be available in 2014 also show certain funding from the including 50 megabytes per second in- federal communications commission Deadline for nominations ternet for 7,000 businesses and 4,500 as a pass-through, Graham said. ACS also contributed certain caresidential customers, and managed is Jan. 15, 2014. pacity to AWN, which is not being services for businesses. Vadapalli also pointed to the new used currently, but is meant to offer Go to iPhone and the company’s shared data room for long-term growth. Those plans and new prepaid systems as likely rights are recorded as a liability, www.alaskajournal.com/ but will be amortized through the sources of growth on the wireless front. The company also saw an issue next 20 years, Wayne said. 40under40 ACS is still working on finethis quarter with sales outpacing wireline broadband installations, tuning the AWN operations and for nomination form improving customer’s service, and Vadapalli said. Awards event to be held That was driven by a large num- Vadapalli said that more work is April 4, 2014. ber of sales, but not enough staff to planned through the end of 2013 support the installations, as well as and in the new year. “We expect to see significant covby the addition of rural healthcare orders that have a future delivery erage and network quality improvements in 2014,” Vadapalli said. date, Vadapalli said. Alaska Communications stock Closing of the AWN transaction also lead to some changes on Alaska closed at $2.19 Nov. 11. sign up the first month of Obama’s signature program, a numerical rebuke to the administration’s ability to deliver on its promise. The 106,185 people who made it all the way through to selecting a plan represent just 1.5 percent of the 7 million people the administration hopes to enroll by next year. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said things will get better, and quickly. “There is no doubt the level of interest is strong,” she said. The administration said an additional 1 million or so applicants have been found eligible for governmentsubsidized private coverage in new state-level insurance markets, and about half are within sight of having their plans lined up for the start of next year. An additional 396,000 have been found eligible for Medicaid, the safety-net program that is shaping up as the health care law’s early success story. The numbers landed amid a political storm on Capitol Hill. Democrats who had hoped to run for re-election next year on the success of the health care law are increasingly worried. It’s not only the website woes, but a wave of cancellation notices hitting constituents whose individual health insurance policies don’t measure up to the law’s requirements. Senate Major-

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site,” Pearson said. In Congress earlier Nov. 13, the House’s chief investigator plunged into the technical issues behind the dysfunctional rollout. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is investigating a long list of issues: insufficient testing, possible security flaws, design shortcomings — even allegations of political meddling. But as his hearing went on, there didn’t seem to be a “smoking gun” behind the technical failure that has mortified supporters of the health care law and cheered its opponents. The technology’s cost to taxpayers: north of $600 million and climbing. It was the sixth major congressional hearing since computerized insurance markets went live Oct. 1 and millions of consumers encountered frozen screens. The oversight committee was sharply divided along partisan lines. “Established best practices of our government were not used in this case,” said Issa. As a result, the law’s promise of affordable health insurance “does not exist today in a meaningful way.” Like other Republicans, Issa wants the law repealed, not fixed. Ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings of Maryland questioned Issa’s fairness. Addressing Issa directly, Cummings said: “Over the past month, instead of working in a bipartisan manner to improve the website, you’ve politicized this issue by repeatedly making unfounded allegations.”

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is also going to inform what best practices are in developing wave energy,” he said. Resolute Marine is developing wave energy, ocean water desalinization and power projects in Southern Africa. Staby said the company has tested wave converters for the Army Corps of Engineers in North Carolina and is studying wave energy for the Oregon National Guard at Camp Rilea in Northern Oregon. He said the site near Astoria, Ore., has similar characteristics to Yakutat. Staby said his team became aware of the wave potential at Yakutat after reading the report from a 2009 Department of Energy study. The study cataloged wave energy throughout the country and highlighted Yakutat as a community ripe for development of the technology. Yakutat works as a model location because of its highcost of power combined with the available resource, Staby said. Wave power wouldn’t have to compete with low-cost power in the Lower 48, rather just make it more affordable in Yakutat — a scenario common

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Continued from Page 21 across Alaska for other energy resources as well. Fisk stressed that the borough is investing in wave energy as a piece to the proverbial puzzle. It is working to make public buildings as energy efficient as possible and is encouraging residents to do the same, he said. The borough is also investigating localized biomass district heat systems to reduce community dependence on fuel oil. “We believe the borough should contribute to these projects, but we also need the assistance of people like UAF and the Alaska Energy Authority. Those types of partnerships are essential for rural energy development. It’s just too much for small communities to bite off otherwise,” Fisk said. “I think we’re just one of many trying to get to the point were we can be self-sufficient and reduce the amount of imported diesel fuel that we us and that’s what all of these projects are aimed at.”

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Such programs would encourage personal responsibility on behalf of Medicaid recipients, according to the Anchorage chamber statement. Pilot programs on alternatives, similar to Arkansas’ initiative, are proposed by states now participating in expanded Medicaid. Meanwhile, there is a political risk for Parnell if he opts to not allow the expansion. The governor is running for reelection in 2014 and his two opponents, independent Bill Walker and Democrat Byron Mallott, are likely to emphasize the decision as the campaigns heat up. Walker is already on board favoring the expansion. Mallott, an Alaska Native leader, is considered certain to make a similar decision given the position taken by the tribal health groups led by ANTHC.

Enroll Alaska restarts effort to sign up residents Enroll Alaska hopes to be back in business soon signing up health insurance applicants through heathcare.gov, but is meanwhile able to help people find insurance who don’t need the federal subsidies, says Tyann Boling, Northrim Benefit Group’s manager for the project. Enroll Alaska is a division of Northrim Benefits, which is part of Alaska-based Northrim Bank. The group was organized to help people enroll in the new federal health insurance website, but the effort was curtailed when the website failed on its Oct. 1 nationwide launch. “Alaskans who have household income greater than 400 percent of the federal poverty level do not have to wait for healthcare.gov to function to get enrolled into an insurance policy that will take effect Jan. 1,” which is the required date

by which people must be insured to avoid a federal penalty, Boling said in a statement. “Enroll Alaska will help all Alaskans select health insurance plans that are right for them and their families regardless if they qualify for subsidies or not.” Four companies are selling health insurance in the Alaska market outside the federal exchange, and where insurance can purchased now, she said. Enroll Alaska can help customers find the right policy. “There’s a lot of confusion out in the market with people being notified that their insurance is being canceled. We want to get the message out that there are options available,” she said. Boling said Enroll Alaska was able to get two customers signed up on the federal exchange before pausing, and had maintained a list of 2,000 who called seeking help for when technical glitches are solved. One major problem, failure of a feature on the site that was to calculate subsidies, may be corrected, she said. “We were advised that this is now working, but we are testing it ourselves,” Boling said in an interview. There are still other technical problems, however. “We’re hopeful. We’re testing it every day,” she said. Enroll Alaska had hired 25 agents and placed information kiosks at several locations, mainly health care establishments, at the rollout of healthcare.com. However, deployment of kiosks into major retail centers like Walmart and Sam’s Club, had not yet been done. Tim Bradner can be reached at tim.bradner@alaskajournal.com.

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