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In the news Measure funding Native language programs supported in Alaska FAIRBANKS — Native studies officials at the University of Alaska Fairbanks are praising efforts to reauthorize federal legislation funding immersion programs for Native American languages. Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and others this week have introduced a measure reauthorizing the funding for Native language learning initiatives, including immersion programs, language teacher training, and additional teaching materials and curriculum, the Fairbanks Daily NewsMiner reported. It would also maintain two national programs and expand programs to smaller tribes, as well as lengthen grant periods. The reauthorization measure is a positive step for Alaska Native languages, said Sandra Kowalski, the university’s director of Indigenous Programs for Rural, Community and Native Education. “There are 20 distinct and formally recognized Alaska Native languages that are in various states of decline,” Kowalski said. “Decades of colonialism and recent globalization have created chasms between older first language speakers and younger generations.” But language education is on the rise, giving hope for a more culturally connected future, Kowalski said. “Alaskan Native individuals whose first language is English have, through immersion programs, master-apprentice partnerships and some working individually, become proficient in their own Alaska Native language,” Kowalski said. “These second language speakers’ stories have inspired interest and demand for opportunities for other Alaska Natives to learn to speak their own language at home and throughout the community.” Culture is intertwined with language, making the revitalization of Native languages important, Murkowski said. “We understand our past, ourselves and our relationships with our family and community through our language,” Murkowski said in a statement. “For Native peoples, language is truly the foundation of their cultures and their identity.” — Associated Press
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Kenai asks Board of Teachers, unions frustrated by lack of progress Fish to rescind Teachers and representatives from the unions that meeting represent them are speaking up about their frustrations decision with the current contract neBy MEGAN PACER Homer News
gotiations with the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, a negotiation that has left teachers working without a contract for more than 100 days. District educators and classified staff (teacher support positions) have been without a renewed contract since July 1. That means they are currently working without knowing exactly what they will end up making for the year because a new contract hasn’t been negotiated yet. Initial offers were made last year by both the school district and the two unions representing staff: the Kenai
By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion
A group of teachers gather outside the entrance to West Homer Elementary and Big Fireweed Academy wearing “red for ed” Wednesday in Homer. Teachers around the Kenai Peninsula demonstrated this week to bring awareness to the contract negotiation situation with the school district. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
Peninsula Education Association and the Kenai Peninsula Education Support Association. Leaders of those unions have accused the district representatives of not being communicative or willing to
come to the table. The district made a proposal in October 2018, said KPBSD Media Liaison Pegge Erkeneff in an email. It was a Memorandum of Agreement to use one-time funds to increase employee
compensation in current year FY19, without increasing the salary schedule. That was rejected by both associations. At this point, both sides have declared an impasse, See Ed, page A3
Kasilof woman writes and illustrates her 1st children’s book By BRIAN MAZUREK Peninsula Clarion
Longtime Kasilof resident Ann Mercer has just published her first children’s book, “Miss Lucy Moose Fell Down in the Swamp.” As the title suggests, the story is about a moose who falls down in some swampland during a slushy Alaska winter and is unable to get out, but after some significant effort manages to free herself. It hit the digital shelves of Amazon as well as the actual shelves of Soldotna’s River City Books in December of last year. Mercer is a retired nurse practitioner, and at 77 years old it had never occurred to her to write a book of any kind, let alone a children’s book. Like so many great ideas, her story of Miss Lucy Moose seemingly hit her out of nowhere. Mercer said she
Local author Ann Mercer poses with her book, “Miss Lucy Moose Falls Down in the Swamp” at River City Books in Soldotna on Wednesday. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/ Peninsula Clarion)
was out in her yard last winter when inspiration struck. “Last winter around this time it was really mushy and we’d been freezing and
thawing … And suddenly, I could picture the story. So I went in the house and wrote it down within an hour and a half or so.”
Mercer ended up only changing a few words here and there from the original story, adding more alliteraSee BOOK, page A2
Kenai City Council has joined the chorus of peninsula voices asking the Alaska Board of Fisheries to rescind their decision to move the Upper Cook Inlet 2020 Finfish meeting. At Wednesday night’s council meeting, the council passed a resolution encouraging the Board of Fisheries to rescind their decision due to a lack of reasonable public notice. In January, in an unexpected vote, the board decided to move the regulatory meeting from the Kenai Peninsula to Anchorage. The meeting was originally going to be held in Anchorage, but a March 2018 vote moved the meeting to the KenaiSoldotna area. The Kenai City Council joins the city of Soldotna, the Kenai Peninsula Delegation to the Alaska State Legislature, Kenai City Manager Paul Ostrander, Soldotna City Manager Stephanie Queen and Borough Mayor Charlie Pierce in requesting the board revisit their decision. The resolution states that prior to the Jan. 18 ArcticYukon-Kuskokwim finfish meeting, there was no advance notice given to the public that the Upper Cook Inlet 2020 meeting location would be revisited. Beyond the bureaucratic failures, the resolution also claims the vote was taken despite personal assurances from Board Chairman Reed Moriskey See FISH, page A3
Amazon now collecting borough sales tax By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion
Amazon.com is among the first online vendors collecting sales tax for the Kenai Peninsula Borough since the borough progressed efforts to establish a system of collecting sales taxes from online merchants.
At the Jan. 22 assembly meeting, the borough passed an ordinance appropriating $10,000 to support the Alaska Municipal League in setting up a workgroup, which would find efficient ways of collecting sales tax from online sellers. The borough estimates online tax collection could produce an annual
$1.5 million in additional sales tax revenue. A recent decision by the United States Supreme Court known as the Wayfair Case allows municipalities that fulfill certain requirements to tax remote vendors through online sales. At Tuesday’s assembly meeting, assembly member
Willy Dunne said concerned constituents have been reaching out to him after Amazon began collecting taxes on purchases “Folks want to know if the tax being collected by amazon is being transferred back to the borough,” Dunne said. Borough Financial Direc-
tor Brandi Harbaugh said Amazon voluntarily registered with the borough. “We have contacted and discussed, with (Amazon), our code and the intricacies of it, our cap and the various rates throughout the jurisdictions in the borough,” Harbaugh said. “They are regisSee TAX, page A2
Opioid crisis costs $1.2 billion a year Alaska tops list of most By ALEX MCCARTHY Juneau Empire
Senate Finance Committee meetings generally are heavy on numbers, but Co-Chair Sen. Natasha Von Imhof began Thursday morning’s meeting with a comment that went beyond statistics. Von Imhof, a Republican from Anchorage, said she knows a family that lost a 42-year-old father of three to an accidental drug overdose recently. “They’re planning his funeral now,” Von Imhof said, “so this is very real.” For the next two hours, she and other senators listened to a presentation and asked questions about the
costs of the opioid epidemic in Alaska. The main takeaways from experts at Thursday’s meeting was that this problem isn’t going away, and there isn’t an easy fix. The overall economic impact of the opioid epidemic in Alaska, according to the McDowell Group, is about $1.2 billion per year. The largest portion of that ($542 million), according to the 2017 McDowell study, is due to the “loss in productivity” due to drug use. The largest portion of that loss in productivity, $391 million, is due to premature death. Other major costs, according to the study, included traffic crashes ($396 million), criminal justice and protective services ($136 million), and
health care ($134 million). The state’s opioid overdose death rate increased by 77 percent from 2010 to 2017, according to a State of Alaska Epidemiology Bulletin released in August 2018. From 2013-2017, the state’s opioid overdose death rate was 11.3 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS). Director of the DHSS Office of Substance Misuse Andy Jones — one of the presenters Thursday — has become one of the faces of the state’s response to the opioid epidemic, as he’s traveled all over the state leading informational sessions and gathering feedback. Sen. See COSTS, page A2
reports of snowmobile thefts ANCHORAGE (AP) — Three areas in Alaska topped the list of most reports of snowmobile thefts in the U.S., according to an analysis of national crime figures. The analysis by the National Insurance Crime Bureau shows Alaska recorded 128 snowmobile thefts from 2015 to 2017, about 8 per cent of all reported snowmobile thefts from across the country, the Anchorage Daily News reported Wednesday. Anchorage recorded the most thefts in the U.S. with 46, followed by the Fairbanks North Star Borough with 44. The MatanuskaSusitna Borough recorded 23, tying for third with
Anoka County outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Illinois-based bureau has tracked thefts of other vehicles, but this is the first report on snowmobiles, said Frank Scafidi, the non-profit’s director of public affairs. “We wanted to see what would happen if we looked at snowmobiles,” Scafidi said. “Would we find anything weird, like a bunch of thefts reported in Florida?” The results were as expected: Snowmobiles were mostly reported stolen in places where they are typically used. Following Alaska, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin and Washington had the See THEFT, page A2
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Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, asked Jones during Thursday’s meeting about whether he can make an estimate about what the economic impact might be in the next couple years. Jones said it’s difficult to even make an educated guess. “It’s a moving cycle,” Jones said. “If it’s not opioids, it’s going to be some other (drug).” Department of Public Safety (DPS) Deputy Commissioner Michael Duxbury and Department of Corrections (DOC) Director of
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tered and they will be filing on a quarterly basis. We will have more information probably in the month of May.” Amazon is only collecting sales tax on products sold by Amazon.com or through Amazon warehouses, not on
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tion and giving the story a bit of its own rhythm. While publishing it as a children’s book was not yet on her radar, she did decide to record herself telling the story and acting out Miss Lucy Moose’s struggle to make it out of the swamp. “There I am by myself in my cabin, acting like a moose … I thought I might have lost it.” Mercer shared the video with her family, and after she received a lot of positive feedback, her nephew encouraged her to turn the story into a book. While it was not part of the original plan, she decided to go for it and went to work on the illustrations. The image on the cover was her first one, which she said she was able to do fairly quickly because
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Health and Rehabilitation Laura Brooks were also presenting, and said it’s key for multiple state departments to collaborate in battling the epidemic. Sen. Click Bishop, R-Fairbanks, asked Duxbury about committing more money to stopping the flow of drugs so the state could possibly save money on treatment by cutting down on the number of drugs available. Duxbury said it isn’t that easy. “I think we could throw money at this problem at this point in our history and it wouldn’t necessarily solve the issue,” Duxbury said. “… We have to look at two things here. One is, you can’t arrest
your way out of this and is also part of being compassionate toward people who have gotten into an addiction situation and need help.” Duxbury, who was an Alaska State Trooper for 30 years before his recent appointment to deputy commissioner, said the estimated cost to the public from crime related to the opioid crisis is about $61 million per year. Von Imhof read off statistics at the start of the meeting saying state agencies spent $70 million in 2018 on direct spending for opioid treatment. Of that, DHSS spent $60 million. Meth enforcement still costly
Though the opioid epidemic is more of a talking point among legislators and state officials, methamphetamine continues to dwarf opioids in terms of how many incidents law enforcement officers respond to. In 2018, for example, Troopers responded to 1,904 incidents related to meth use compared to 746 incidents related to opioid usage. The cost of responding to these 2018 incidents was nearly $840,000 for opioid response and more than $2.1 million for responding to meth incidents for DPS. Since 2010, DPS has spent more than $15 million on methrelated incidents.
products through independent vendors or third party entities. Harbaugh said some residents have concerns about being charged incorrect rates based on their zip code. Individuals outside of city limits, and exempt from a higher sales tax rate, can contact the borough for a letter confirming the resident’s physical address and correct tax rate. Once sent to Amazon, the let-
ter will be associated with the resident’s Amazon account to ensure the correct sales tax. Not everyone is welcoming the borough’s efforts to collect sales tax through internet sales. George Pierce of Kasilof used his public comment to voice his frustrations at Tuesday’s assembly meeting. “Now you’re paying somebody some money to
figure out how we can take advantage of the people who don’t want to pay taxes,” Pierce said. “Pretty schemey I think. Shame on all of you.” Harbaugh said several online vendors, such as Netflix, Overstock.com and others, have been registered with the borough and collecting sales tax voluntarily, long before the Wayfair case.
she wanted to keep the images simple. The next two illustrations she attempted, however, she said took significantly more time and energy. At the risk of overwhelming herself, she stepped away from the project for a few months before coming back to finish the rest of the illustrations. Miss Lucy Moose was brought to life through colorful brushstrokes, and the story had taken shape in ways that Mercer had not anticipated. Something else that was not planned by Mercer is the story’s underlying lesson. “Underneath the fun of this story is a victory story,” said Mercer, and she explained how Miss Lucy Moose’s perseverance in pulling herself out of the swamp is a reminder for kids to never give up, even when they might feel hopeless or stuck. By December of 2018, Mercer had made her book available online via Ama-
zon as well as at River City Books, a local bookstore in Soldotna. She has plans to start selling her book at other local vendors soon, and in March she is scheduled to read “Miss Lucy Moose Fell Down in the Swamp” aloud for children at the public libraries in Kenai and Soldotna, moose noises and all. Samples of her illustrations are also on display at the Kenai Fine Arts Center as part of its February exhibit. When asked if there are more children’s books in her future, Mercer did not rule out the possibility. She is currently illustrating a book for a friend, and as far as Miss Lucy Moose is concerned, Mercer said she is considering a sequel of some kind. “I think I need to get Miss Lucy Moose going first,” said Mercer. Her plan at the moment is to widen her audience before deciding what sort of adventures Miss Lucy Moose will get into next.
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highest numbers of snowmobiles reported stolen, according to the report. Law enforcement agencies took at least one snowmobile report in 32 states, including Texas. The report did not have 2018 numbers, but Anchorage police said Alaska’s biggest city had five reports of stolen snowmobiles last year. “I think we have a huge percentage of people that own snowmobiles, and as a consequence, there’s a demand for not just used sleds but for parts,” said Tim Cook, president of the Anchorage Snowmobile Club. Snowmobiles are not required to have titles in Alaska. They are required to be registered with the state, but “unfortunately we don’t register as many sleds as we should,” Cook said.
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THOMAS VARIEUR
September 27, 1943 - January 20, 2019 After an unexpected and yet courageous battle with cancer, Thomas Varieur, 75, passed peacefully with his children and grandchildren lovingly at his side on Ja nuary 20, 2019 at Providence Alaska Medical Center, Anchorage, where he received compassionate care beyond his family’s expectations. Born September 27, 1943 in New Bedford, Massachusetts to Aimee & Mary (Newsham) Varieur, he was proceeded in death by his parents, his wife Clara Varieur, and his twin brother who was given what would have been Thom’s middle name, William, because his parents were surprised and blessed with twins. Thom moved his family to Alaska in 1974 and fulfilled his life-long dream of living off the land after hearing about Alaska’s wonderous beauty from his sister Patricia. Thom honorably served in the Army performing repairs and maintenance for helicopters, and was top in his class for precision shooting and held many medals. After the army, Thom successfully worked in the logistics and trucking industry, entrepreneurial pursuits, and helped many, many people with his generous heart and giving nature. Thom enjoyed outdoor activities and passed his love of the outdoors on to his children and grandchildren. Thom is survived by his sister Patricia Browning, and his five children Victor & Diana Varieur, Roberta & Darren Richardson, Shane Varieur, Darrell Suzuki & Lisa Long, and Lydia & Donny Beals. Thom’s grandchildren include Christina Boggs, Vincent, Jonathan, Matthew and Michael Varieur, Derrick Baker, Gabriel Suzuki, and Natily and Ninia Beals, and was blessed with four greatgrandchildren. Thom declared Christ as his Savior and is now in Heaven where will we will one day see him again. A celebration of life will be held in the spring/summer of 2019.
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Around the Peninsula Sterling Rec Center annual meeting Attention Sterling residents! Would you like to meet new people, have fun, and help make decisions on new and old programs for the Sterling Community Rec Center? The annual meeting will be held on Thursday, Feb. 21 at the Sterling Community Center at 12 p.m. We need people that are interested in being on the Board of Directors to call the Center at 262-7224.
The Kenai/Soldotna Fish & Game Advisory Committee The Kenai/Soldotna Fish & Game Advisory Committee will meet be on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the Kenai River Center, located at 514 Funny River Road. Agenda will include Joint Board proposals, Board of Game proposals, and any other business that may properly come before the committee. For more information contact Mike Crawford at 252-2919.
CHARR membership and board meeting
The Kenai Peninsula Borough’s Land Management Division is calling for letters of interest from people looking for new agricultural land. The hope is that people will share some details that the borough can use to inform the program design. The kinds of major points officials think would be helpful in a letter include the size and general location needed, along with any other criteria that would be essential for the person’s production plans, and maybe an indication of the time frames that people are thinking if they were to take on an area of land with production goals. Letters should be addressed to KPB Land Manager, 144 North Binkley St., Soldotna AK 99669. More information can be found at kpb. us/land
KCHS 1969 reunion The KCHS 1969 50th High School Reunion will take place on July 26 at 6 p.m. at Pizza Paradisos. Dorothy Lou Hermansen, Maryam Gray House and Sheryl House Martin are serving as the event’s planning committee. Visit the Facebook page “KCHS 1969 50th Reunion” for more information. Graduates may register through that page, or by emailing Dorothy Hermansen at hootowl@ chugach.net.
Kenai Peninsula CHARR Annual Membership and Board Meeting will be held Monday, Feb. 11 at 2 p.m. at the Albatros Cook Inlet Aquaculture Assoc. meeting Bar, Kenai. All members and interested members are welcome. Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association Board of DirecWe will be conducting annual officer elections reviewing budtors will meet Saturday, Feb. 16 at 10 a.m., in the confergets and covering other topics of member interest. ence room at its Kenai office located at 40610 Kalifornsky Beach Road. The meeting is open to the public and Kenai River Special Management Area an agenda will be posted at www.ciaanet.org.
Advisory Board meeting
The Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board will meet on Thursday, Feb. 14 at 5:30 p.m. at the Gilman River Center on Funny River Road, Soldotna.Agenda topics include committee and agency reports. The public is welcome to attend. If you have any questions about the meeting you can contact Jack Blackwell at 907-262-5581, Ext 21.
‘Show Us Your Heart’ exhibit Come join us at Kenai Fine Art Center for the February exhibit opening of “Show Us Your Heart.” The Kenai Fine Art Center is located across from the Oiler’s Bingo Hall and next to the Historic Cabins. 283-7040, www.kenaifineart.com The show will hang until February 28th.
Friday. “They need to understand that government bodies need Continued from page A1 to work in a transparent fashion,” Kenai Mayor Brian Gathat no vote would be taken briel said. “We always talk
about this. But, this was certainly not transparent whatsoever.” The resolution states that the board’s actions has the potential to erode public
trust in the Board of Fisheries process and that “all Alaskans deserve consistency, openness, legal compliance and transparency when engaging with their
government during any deliberative decision making process.” The resolution asks that the board rescind the decision in order to restore trust.
A copy of the resolution has been forwarded to Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Moriskey, Board of Fisheries Director Glenn Haight and the Board of Fisheries members.
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bring their kids to school and help spread awareness, she said. “They know what it is what we do,” she said. “It’s that they don’t know that we don’t have a (renewed) contract, they don’t know all of these other things that are going on that are taking up our time and our energy.” Bynagle, too, hit on health care as a major issue facing teachers working in the district. “Our health care costs are skyrocketing and that takes a huge percentage out of our pay that we get,” Bynagle said. “So people might look at what we make and think, ‘Oh, that’s a lot,’ but the reality is, when you’re having hundreds, and hundreds and hundreds (of dollars) taken out in insurance every month, it makes it hard.” The school district has a traditional plan and a high-deductible health plan. Teachers have criticized what they see as repercussions of that twoplan system, which they say has split up the pool of people paying in to the plan, making it harder to support. Stephanie Zuniga teaches mainly math and science to third- through sixth-graders at Big Fireweed Academy. She said the purpose of the stand ins is to raise awareness of the situation to both local community members and officials at the borough and state level. “I understand that there’s deficits in our budget,” Zuniga said. “But those deficits … our kids don’t need to have the burden of those deficits. The teachers, really dedicated teachers, should not be the ones to take those burdens of the deficits.” Zuniga said she’d like to see the district administration volunteering to share that burden more with educators in terms of budgeting an salaries. Rachel Sinclair, president of the Kenai Peninsula Education Support Association, said the two unions helped teachers
organize the demonstrations, helping them abide by certain rules and time constraints. “We’re all in it together and we all have to stand together in this,” Sinclair said. Sinclair also expressed frustration at what she sees as lack of cooperation from the district. “There’s been nothing worth our while to accept to come up with a contract,” she said. Sinclair said that if the negotiations go to arbitration, she hopes the arbiter comes back with a decision in the educators’ favor. “We’re not asking for 25-percent raises,” she said. “We’re not asking for 5-percent raises.” In their initial offers, the unions asked for a three-year contract. They asked for a 0.5-percent raise for the first year (the current school year), a 1-percent raise in the next year and a 2-percent raise in the third, according to Brighton. John Sharp is another teacher at West Homer Elementary, who did not participate in the demonstrations. He said he understands where the unions are coming from, but that it’s also important to understand the fiscal situation of the state overall. “It’s a complex process,” he said of the negotiations. “In my experience with the district, this is not unusual for the district to go into arbitration.” Sharp suggested that the district could potentially be holding back in negotiations because members of its administration aren’t sure what they’ll be getting out of Juneau. Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced on Jan. 28 a proposed cut to education statewide of $20 million that the Alaska Legislature had appropriated the previous year. If that proposal passes, the local school district would lose $1.4 million it had already included in its budget planning. “We are now working with
the legislature to ensure this year’s (FY19) one-time funding remains in place to provide the services and staff we budgeted last spring,” Erkeneff wrote. “Everyone is waiting for the Governor’s revised FY20 Budget and by all indications, there will be a proposal to match revenues with expenditures, which could mean fiscal and-or programmatic or operational cuts to education. Additionally, in our work with the Kenai Peninsula Borough (KPB), the district is also concerned there may be funding reductions to public education on the peninsula.” From Sharp’s perspective, both sides need to be more communicative and cooperative with each other. “People just need to sit down and be real with each other,” he said. “They need to stop doing this standoff thing.” Sinclair said many teachers from across the peninsula are planning to attend the next Board of Education meeting, scheduled for Monday, Feb. 11 in Soldotna. She said transportation is being provided to Seward and Homer to make it easier for teachers there to make the trip. Zuniga said it’s telling that teachers from the southern peninsula will be making the several-hour trip to Soldotna and back to make their voices heard that night, when they have to be at school at 7:30 a.m. the next morning. Erkeneff said it’s important for the public to know the district’s school board doesn’t have the power to directly raise funds for the district.
“They have to depend on the Kenai Peninsula Borough and the State of Alaska to provide educational funding,” she wrote. “The district requests that people make the time to participate with those two elected bodies to ensure education-funding revenue is allocated and dispersed for the FY19, and FY20 budgets.” “We are in the advisory arbitration phase of the process,” she also wrote. “And I think it is fair to say that everyone would like a new, fair negotiated agreement in place, so the focus can return to teaching and our students.”
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said KPEA President David Brighton. “The district has made no effort to meet us in the middle,” he said. The offers made by the unions so far have been rejected, Brighton said. “Every time we go to negotiations, it’s a frustrating experience,” he said. “It’s long, it’s slow. It feels like the district doesn’t want to make any significant offers.” The district recognized that it’s a slow process and pointed out that all parties agreed to wait for an arbiter since the last meetings in October 2018. “There has been a long time gap between the last time everyone met at the bargaining table in mid-October, and when an arbitrator could be available to meet with the district and associations later this month,” Erkeneff wrote. “All three parties, KPESA, KPEA, and the district, agreed to the delay when arbitration was planned instead of searching for a different arbiter.” Brighton said that, so far, the unions and district have been able to work through and agree on smaller things like language changes in the contract. Tentative agreements in the collective bargaining, as well as initial offers, can be viewed here: communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12. ak.us/2018/09/20/collectivebargaining-tentative-agreements-ta/ “What we haven’t agreed on is salary and benefits,” he said. Health care is the major sticking point, along with pay for teachers and support staff. They have been the major sticking points for the last few negotiations. According to Erkeneff, both staff associations asked the district to look into switching to providing health care through the Public Education
Health Trust. An analysis was completed, but after receiving the quote and rate information, none of the three parties proposed going with health insurance through the trust. The last contract for the school district took a year and a half to come to fruition, and also had to go to arbitration. “Certainly we are willing to go to arbitration, and we’ll probably spend those two days with an arbitrator,” Brighton said. Arbitration is currently scheduled for the end of February. The arbiter meets with both the district and unions, and later presents a compromise contract. That contract, however, isn’t binding, Brighton said. If neither party is satisfied with what the arbiter comes up with, they could essentially be back where they started. If the district and unions do participate in arbitration, the soonest a decision could be expected is the end of April, Brighton said. To show their frustration at the slow pace of negotiations, teachers at several schools around the peninsula have been performing “stand ins,” in which they gather outside their schools in the morning before their official contracted time starts. Teachers from West Homer Elementary and Big Fireweed Academy gathered before school on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, all wearing the color red. This comes from the national “Red for Ed” campaign that supports educators. Katie Bynagle, a fourthgrade teacher, said the negotiations so far have been “really frustrating.” She said what she sees as lack of cooperation from the district shows a certain level of disrespect for teachers and support staff. Bynagle said she and other teachers realized many parents in the community weren’t aware of the contract situation. The demonstrations in front of the school are a good way to engage with parents as they
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Northam must step down Despite threats, pleas,
and entreaties from senators and citizens, Democrats and Republicans, former governors and most of the General Assembly, Ralph Northam remains Virginia’s chief executive — at least the last time we checked. And it appears, according to the law, that might not change anytime soon. The University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato, a relentlessly reliable source when it comes to the commonwealth’s politics, has opined that in Virginia “you can’t force a Governor to resign if he doesn’t want to.” Since Northam’s actions took place decades before he became governor, Sabato added, the impeachment criteria in the state constitution “don’t seem to apply” and a provision for removing a disabled governor “certainly doesn’t.” So the decision whether to stay or go appears to rest primarily in the hands of Ralph Northam. The Times-Dispatch Editorial Page called for his resignation after he apologized Friday night for appearing in a photograph in which he wore either blackface or KKK robes. We also noted his troubling remarks about late-term abortion late last week. The governor’s rambling, disjointed press conference on Saturday — in which he retracted the admission that he was in the offensive photo, but admitted to appearing in blackface on another occasion in 1984 — did nothing to reverse our belief that he has lost the ability to effectively serve the commonwealth. The public calls for him to step down from Democratic Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner — both former governors — along with those from Reps. Bobby Scott and Donald McEachin, reinforce our conviction. It is time for Northam to resume his life in the private sector. Every moment he continues to cling to power diminishes his reputation, credibility, and otherwise impressive record of service to country and commonwealth. His attempts to save his career suggest a growing sense of desperation. He is wrong, for instance, when he implies that many Virginians in 1984 did not understand how appalling it is to dress in blackface. Most of his contemporaries know — and knew — better. He should have too. We bear no animus toward the governor. But for the good of his state, he must return his high office to the people. He has lost their confidence.
All statewide officials in the Commonwealth of Virginia should resign if Democrats are held to their own standards. Even if Gov. Ralph Northam didn’t appear in blackface in an image in his medical-school yearbook, he confessed to once darkening his face as part of a Michael Jackson costume. Attorney General Mark Herring, who called Northam’s conduct indefensible, also used blackface once. Meanwhile, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax has been accused of sexual assault. If ever wearing blackface — even in the 1980s, as both Northam and Herring did — is a career-ender, and if we are supposed to “believe all women,” then all three of these Democrats have to go. Virginia is an indication of an inflamed and unforgiving Democratic mood that will define the party’s battle for the 2020 presidential nomination. Democrats are about to embark on the first “woke” primary, a gantlet of political correctness that will routinely wring abject apologies out of candidates and find fault in even the most sure-footed. The passage of time will be no defense. Nor the best of intentions. Nor anything else. Any lapses will be interpreted through the most hostile lens, made all the more brutal by the competition of a large field of candidates vying for the approval of a radicalized base. The Democrat nomination battle might as well be fought on the campus of Oberlin College and officiated by the director of the Office of Equity, Diversity and In-
clusion. Being a progressive hero of long-standing doesn’t afford any protection. Consider Elizabeth Warren. She certainly deserves all the Rich Lowry grief she gets for her laughable identification of herself over the years as an American Indian. But for the identity-politics left, her fault runs deeper. After taking a DNA test to prove her (distant) Native American ancestry, she stood accused, in the words of a member of a tribe in South Dakota, of “privileging nonindigenous definitions of being indigenous.” According to The New York Times, she had also tread “too far into the fraught area of racial science — a field that has, at times, been used to justify the subjugation of racial minorities and Native Americans.” Yes, Warren stood exposed as implicitly in league with the oppressors of Native Americans — and here she had just wanted Donald Trump to stop calling her Pocahontas. Cherokee Nation activist Rebecca Nagle told CNN last week that Warren needed to apologize “to the tribes that she has harmed and to Native people broadly.” Sure enough, she apologized, and presumably will keep on doing it as long as she’s running. It’s a season of apologies. When recently announced candidate Kirsten Gillibrand went on “The Rachel
Maddow Show,” the MSNBC host hit her for having in the past used the term “illegal alien,” although it was standard and technically correct usage. Gillibrand allowed that she was embarrassed by her past positions on immigration. In this environment, being a white male, particularly a white male not obsessed with gender and race, is a risk factor. This is a major vulnerability of Bernie Sanders’. Segments of the left jumped on him this week for doing his own State of the Union response after the official reply by the African-American activist Stacey Abrams. Marc Lamont Hill called Sanders’ choice “racially tone-deaf.” In every presidential campaign, candidates have to explain and backfill to get with the party’s latest program. What will make this process so much more intense for Democrats is the belief that even past mistakes involving the choice of words or symbolism are affirmatively injurious of other people. And that such mistakes represent deep sins to be repented of. Even Kamala Harris, who calls racism, sexism and transphobia matters of “national security,” isn’t safe. She was once a prosecutor, after all. Reviewing her record, a New York Times op-ed writer said that “she needs to radically break with her past.” Who doesn’t? No one will be woke enough to emerge from this process unscathed. Rich Lowry can be reached via email at comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.
— Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch, Feb. 4
Build Alaska’s economy on the strengths of its university system Years ago a friend and I were talking about a political geography class I was teaching at the university. I shared my excitement about the class and, particularly, my interest in the many variables that go into understanding a country’s politics — climate, population, global location, economy, transportation, culture, religion just to name a few. My friend politely recognized all those variables, but offered another view. He said, “Jim, there’s only one thing you need to know about a country; the rest is details. And that one thing is, are people trying to get in or trying to get out?” The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development reports that for the last six years in a row Alaska’s population has declined. People are getting out. They are voting with their feet. They are taking their skills, ideas, families, savings, careers, and futures “Outside.” Most likely they are migrating to a place with a stronger and more balanced and vibrant economy, with plentiful job opportunities, lower health and energy costs, good schools, less crime, and a hopeful vision for the future. I commend Governor Mike Dunleavy’s campaign commitment, reiterated in his State of the State address: Alaska is open for business. While policy details to realize that commitment are yet to come, Alaska’s approach to generating an open business climate would include the following: • streamlining and standardizing regulatory and permitting processes so companies seeking to invest in development in Alaska can do so without undue cost and delay • ensuring that our government and legal system provide public safety and protect
A laska V oices J ames R. J ohnsen private property rights, free markets, worker health and safety, and the environment • providing a transportation, energy, and communication infrastructure that enables resource development, commerce, health care, and education • supporting a culture of respect across Alaska, where we make sure all of our people have an equal opportunity to live a safe and meaningful life • implementing a revenue plan that is balanced across economic sectors and sufficient to support the variety of services we expect from government • encouraging a long term and inclusive view of Alaska’s future, a view that values our strong independent streak and the imperative that, in this tough country, we must work together • investing in a high quality education system, preschool through university, that provides a skilled workforce for the state’s businesses, schools, and health care industry; and also encourages creativity, innovation and development of new products and services that drive business development and enhance our productivity and quality
of life We know these strategies work based on what we’ve learned from states and countries with strong economies. In particular, Alaska needs to build on the strengths of its university system, because a strong state requires a strong university. It is as simple, true, and powerful as that. At the University of Alaska, our budgets have been cut, our programs reduced, our faculty and staff laid off, and our enrollment declined. The recent loss of program accreditation within the UAA School of Education presents yet another challenge to recruiting and retaining students and faculty in our high priority programs. We are managing through that challenge by putting our students first, making sure that they have a path to becoming a teacher here in Alaska. Students graduating this spring and summer will be licensed, and we are working on convenient, high quality options for other students, whether in Anchorage, or if they choose, in Juneau and Fairbanks. The University of Alaska plays a critical role in diversifying our economy, growing an Alaskan workforce, and solving real world problems through world-class research. Our campuses in rural communities are small but powerful, giving Alaskans from Ketchikan to Kotzebue access to opportunities for a better life that come from education and training. Our urban universities also play a big role in moving the state forward. UAA is our largest university with excellent programs in nursing, engineering, business, social work, and more. UAA also is the home
of UA’s first ever Rhodes Scholar, the single most prestigious accolade given to a student anywhere in the world. UAA also recently received notice that its institutional accreditation was approved, with several commendations, for another seven years. UA Southeast does great work in educating students for important jobs in mining, marine-oriented and other industries in Southeast Alaska. UAS also extends its reach across the state in teacher education and through numerous online programs. And UAF, Alaska’s first university, continues to build on its world renowned strengths in Arctic research, oceanography, biology, fisheries, mining, engineering, geophysics, and many other fields, while also encouraging workforce development, indigenous studies, business, and Alaska’s quality of life through excellence in its art and music programs. And at all of our campuses — whether in rural or urban Alaska — people young and old, from all walks of life and from all cultures across our state, are welcome. So let’s invest in our university and in the opportunities it provides our people here in Alaska. With a strong commitment to education — pre-school through high school and on to our community colleges and the university — Alaskans will vote with their feet and stay in the state, and invest their skills, ideas, aspirations, families, and their futures here in Alaska. Then, and only then, will we truly be “open for business.” James R. Johnsen is president of the University of Alaska.
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Virginia Democrats struggle with interlocking crises By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia’s Democrats struggled to find their way out of three interlocking political crises Thursday that could bring down the party’s top elected officials and put a Republican in the governor’s chair. With Gov. Ralph Northam’s career in peril over a racist photo in his 1984 medical school yearbook, the state attorney general acknowledged on Wednesday that he put on blackface when he was in college, and a woman publicly accused the lieutenant governor of sexually assaulting her 15 years ago. While nearly the entire Democratic establishment rose up against Northam over the past week to demand he resign, party members largely withheld judgment on the two latest developments, which threaten to cause a political chain reaction that could make a GOP legislative leader the governor. President Donald Trump accused the Democrats of a double standard, tweeting: “If the three failing pols were Republicans, far stronger action would be taken.” Some clarity on the way forward could come from Virginia’s Legislative Black Caucus, which was preparing a statement on the crisis.
The caucus has been calling for Northam’s resignation but was silent about Attorney General Mark Herring and Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, who would become Virginia’s second black governor if Northam stepped down. The caucus chairman, Del. Lamont Bagby, said the group needs time to sort out the series of revelations. Many Democrats are likely to follow the group’s cues. Quentin Kidd, a political science professor at Christopher Newport University, had initially predicted Northam would be unable to hang on to office for more than a week. Now, with all three top Democrats in trouble, the equation has changed, he said. He said it is possible all three could survive just out of political necessity because conservative Republican House Speaker Kirk Cox would be next in line for governor if they all resigned. The Democrats’ “moral clarity” last week has given way to the realization they could “lose power completely at the executive level,” Kidd said. He likened the situation to three sinking boats “that suddenly lash themselves together and find they can float.” Several top Democratic female lawmakers in Virginia declined to comment Thursday on an allegation
Stanford probes faculty ties to China gene-edited baby work
In this file photo, Virginia Gov.-elect, Lt. Gov Ralph Northam, center, walks down the reviewing stand with Lt. Gov-elect, Justin Fairfax, right, and Attorney General Mark Herring at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/ Steve Helber, File)
of sexual assault that California college professor Vanessa Tyson made against Fairfax. Tyson said Fairfax forced her to perform oral sex at a hotel in 2004 during the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Fairfax has denied the allegations, casting them as a political smear. State Sen. Barbara Favola said “it’s still a he-said, she-said” and suggested an investigation should be done in Massachusetts. In Washington, Virginia’s Democratic Senator Tim Kaine said he, too, would prefer to know more before reaching a conclusion. He said that the accuser offered “a very compelling and detailed statement of a serious, serious charge,” while Fairfax has given “a very unequivocal denial.”
Asked whether Northam should stay in office, Kaine replied: “No. We’ve reached a conclusion and we’ve made a recommendation.” Meanwhile, the Rev. Al Sharpton said in a fiery speech at historically black Virginia Union University that Northam and Herring must step down over their blackface admissions, and the allegations against Fairfax should be investigated thoroughly. The civil rights leader said he came to Richmond to deliver a message to the governor: “I’m not going to be your minstrel!” Members of the crowd of 300 students, faculty, clergy and political leaders shouted in agreement and jumped to their feet several times during Sharpton’s speech.
Key GOP negotiator: Trump ‘very reasonable’ on border talks By LISA MASCARO, ALAN FRAM and ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump appears to be taking a more positive view of Capitol Hill talks on border security, according to negotiators who struck a distinctly optimistic tone after a White House meeting with Republicans on the broad parameters of a potential bipartisan agreement. Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby of Alabama said Thursday’s session in the Oval Office was “the most positive meeting I’ve had in a long time” and that the president was “very reasonable.” Trump had previously said he doesn’t expect the talks to produce much, and he’s threatened to declare a national emergency to bypass Congress and build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. But Shelby said Trump during their meeting “urged me to get to yes” on an agreement. The meeting included no Democrats.
Sen. Richard Shelby is joined by Sen. John Hoeven, left, and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, right, as they speak with reporters after a briefing with officials about the USMexico border, on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Publicly on Thursday Trump took a wait-and-see approach. “I certainly hear that they are working on something and both sides are moving along,” Trump said. “We’ll see what happens. We need border security. We have to have it, it’s not an option. Let’s see what happens.” Both Democratic and GOP negotiators said a deal could come as early as this weekend to make a Feb. 15 government shutdown deadline. Beyond the bor-
der security negotiations, the measure is likely to contain seven appropriations bills funding domestic agencies and the foreign aid budget, as well as disaster aid for victims of last year’s hurricanes and western wildfires. “I’m hopeful,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “I do like the idea of getting all of last year’s work finished and I hope that’s where it ends up.” At a White House event
Germany to Facebook: Stop forcing users to share their data By DAVID RISING and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press
BERLIN — Facebook is pushing back against a German ruling that could make it harder for the company to combine data from all the services it runs in order to target ads even more precisely. Thursday’s ruling, though aimed at current practices, hints at potential troubles ahead if Facebook follows through with plans to integrate the messaging functions of WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger as early as next year. German antitrust authorities ruled Thursday that Facebook was exploiting its dominance in social media to force users to share data from other Facebookowned services like WhatsApp and Instagram, as well as third-party websites through the “Like” and “Share” buttons. The Federal Cartel Office, or Bundeskartellamt, isn’t contesting Facebook’s use of customer data to target ads on the main
Facebook service. Rather, the ruling said Facebook should have to get permission separately before using customer data from other apps and websites to do so. Facebook said it would appeal. The company currently collects data on users’ activities on Facebook and the other apps it owns, along with third-party websites. So, what someone views, likes or shares on Instagram — or the broader web — could be used to show that person an ad on Facebook. Facebook also has been moving to further integrate WhatsApp and Instagram into its main service after initially promising to keep both as stand-alone companies when it bought them. Although Facebook hasn’t given many details on its plans to integrate messaging, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said recently that the idea is to help users message one another more easily, without having to worry about who’s on which service. The company also said it would encrypt all the messaging
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services, something it does by default only with WhatsApp. But critics have raised another possible reason — the threat of antitrust crackdowns. Essentially, if Facebook combines its messaging services so that they are different in name and design only, it will be much more difficult, if not impossible, to then separate out and spin off Instagram and WhatsApp as separate companies. Combining the three services also lets Facebook build more complete data profiles on all of its users. Already, businesses can already target Facebook and Instagram users together with the same ad campaign, and ads are likely coming to WhatsApp eventually. Then there’s competition from other messaging services, such as Apple’s or Google’s. Users are more likely to stay within Facebook’s properties if they can easily message their friends across different services, rather than having to switch between Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram.
with law enforcement officers on Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence hinted that the option of declaring a national emergency and shifting billions of dollars from previously approved funding is very much alive. “Let me assure you: We will not rest or relent until we have the technology, the personnel and the barriers required to secure our southern border. We will build that wall one way or another,” Pence said. It’s clear that Trump won’t get anything close to the $5.7 billion he’s demanded for wall construction, just as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will have to depart from her view that there shouldn’t be any wall funding at all. Last year, a bipartisan Senate panel approved $1.6 billion for 65 miles of pedestrian fencing in Texas — in line with Trump’s official request — but newly empowered House Democrats were looking to restrict use of the money, and a key negotiator, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said those details haven’t been worked out.
Stanford University has started a review of interactions that some faculty members had with He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who claims to have helped make gene-edited babies. Several Stanford professors have said they knew or strongly suspected He wanted to try gene editing on embryos intended for pregnancy. The work has been widely criticized since November, when He revealed the births of twins whose DNA he said he altered to try to help them resist possible future infection with the AIDS virus. Most scientists think gene editing for reproductive purposes is too risky to be tried yet because of the danger of harming other genes and because the DNA changes may be passed to future generations. He did postdoctoral research at Stanford and began the gene editing project after returning to his homeland for a job at Southern University of Science and Technology of China in Shenzhen. Several Stanford professors including He’s former adviser, Stephen Quake; bioethicist Dr. William Hurlbut and genetics expert Dr. Matthew Porteus have said they were in contact with He over the last year. Hurlbut and Porteus said they disapproved of and discouraged any such experiment. Quake said he only discussed the matter in broad, general terms with He. After He’s work was revealed, Rice University in Houston announced an investigation into interactions between He and his former adviser at that school, Michael Deem. On Thursday, Stanford spokesman E.J. Miranda said in an email that Stanford is reviewing “the circumstances around Dr. He’s interactions with researchers at the university.” Miranda said he had no additional information on questions about who would do the review, what would be examined and how long it would take. Hurlbut said Thursday that university officials suggested that he refer inquiries to them instead of responding himself. Porteus declined to comment. Quake did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Last month, Chinese investigators said He had evaded supervision of his work and violated research norms because he wanted to be famous. The report said He could face consequences, although it didn’t say which regulations he may have broken.
Morocco freezes involvement in Saudiled coalition in Yemen RABAT, Morocco — Government officials say Morocco has stopped taking part in military action with the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s war, and has recalled its ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Tensions have been mounting between Morocco and Saudi Arabia, amid international concerns about Saudi actions in the Yemen war and other issues. A Moroccan government official said Thursday that Morocco no longer takes part in military interventions or ministerial meetings in the Saudi-led coalition. The official didn’t elaborate. Morocco’s government has not divulged details of its military’s participation in the coalition, which has been at war in Yemen against Iran-aligned Houthi rebels since 2015. The war has killed thousands and displaced over 3 million people. Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said in an interview last month with Qatar-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera that Morocco’s participation in Yemen had “changed.” Bourita also hinted that Rabat had serious reservations about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s recent tour of other Arab countries, amid international condemnation of the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul. According to one of the sources, Morocco declined to host the Saudi crown prince in an unusual snub, citing the Moroccan king’s “busy agenda.” After Bourita’s interview, Saudi television channel Al-Arabiya aired a documentary on the disputed Western Sahara, supporting claims that Morocco invaded it after Spanish colonizers left in 1975. Morocco considers the Western Sahara its southern territories. — The Associated Press
Religion
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Don’t forget your main gig — loving others is loving God V oices of F aith Minister Rick Cupp
Last year Harvard Business Review published an article, “Thriving in the Gig Economy.” They noted that around 150 million people in North America and Western Europe have left the more traditional workforce to become independent contractors, that is, to join the Gig Economy. In addition to them, many of today’s workers have their regular jobs plus a side gig, with an
estimated 35 percent of millennials doing a side hustle. They drive for Uber or Lyft. Others rent their cars through Turo or their homes through Homeaway.com and are involved in many different enterprises: Zazzle, Fiverr, Vayable and Tradesy. I’m in favor of side gigs. I love them! You can make extra money or simply dig into a passion. Photography is one of my side gigs. And with young people facing a trillion dollars in student loans, extra money is sorely needed by many.
I love side gigs and recommend them. In the work world, a side gig we are passionate about can even turn into our main gig. This is wonderful! But in the spiritual realm, our God has only one unchanging main gig: he is a loving Father, and he wants to bring his children home. In the New Testament in our Bibles, Paul says the world was created the way it is to inspire our hearts to reach out to God because we are his children. God knew how this world would turn out. If he created us with free will we would be able
to love him. He also knew that would allow us to turn our backs on him and each other and there would be pain and loneliness, suffering and goodbyes. But even those parts of our existence he permitted. He did so in hopes they would drive us to seek him and come back home. This is why Jesus came to earth. He came to open a way for all God’s children to come home. And by all, God means all. The Bible is clear. God loves everyone. God loves every person in every corner of the world who ever lived or ever will live.
closes for holidays. For more information contact the church at 907-283-7868.
Church Briefs Our Lady of Perpetual Help sets place at table A Place at the Table, a new outreach ministry of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Soldotna continues to offer a hot meal and fellowship and blood pressure checks to anyone interested. The meal is the second, third and fourth Sunday of each month, from 4-6 p.m. at Fireweed Hall, located on campus at 222 West Redoubt Avenue, Soldotna. The Abundant Life Assembly of God church, Sterling, will be joining us in this ministry and providing a hot meal on the second Sunday of the month at 4-6 p.m. at Fireweed Hall. The Soldotna Church of the Nazarene will offer the meal on the third Sunday of each month. Our Lady of Perpetual Help will offer on the fourth Sunday of each month. Our Lady of Perpetual Help would like to invite other churches who would like to join this ministry to perhaps pick up one of the other Sunday evenings in the month.Call 262-5542.
Calvary Baptist Church offers Awana Kids Club All kids from third to sixth grade are invited to the Awana Kids Club. The club meets on Sundays from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Kenai Middle School. Please use the rear entrance. Schedule information can be found at calvarykenai.org/awana. Contact club director Jon Henry at pastorjon@calvarykenai.org.
United Methodist Church food pantry The Kenai United Methodist Church provides a food pantry for those in need every Monday from noon to 3 p.m. The Methodist Church is located on the Kenai Spur Highway next to the Boys and Girls Club. The entrance to the Food Pantry is through the side door. The Pantry
Soldotna Food Pantry open weekly The Soldotna Food Pantry is open every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for residents in the community who are experiencing food shortages. The Food Pantry is located at the Soldotna United Methodist Church at 158 South Binkley Street,and all are welcome. Nonperishable food items or monetary donations may be dropped off at the church on Tuesday from 10a.m. to 1 p.m. and Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. or on Sunday from 9 a.m. until noon. For more information call 262-4657.
‘Celebrate Recovery’ at Peninsula Grace Church Celebrate Recovery meets each Wednesday from 6:30-8 p.m. at Peninsula Grace Church, 44175 Kalifornsky Beach Rd.,Soldotna, upstairs in room 5-6 in the worship center. Celebrate Recovery is a Biblically based 12-step program that provides a safe place to share your hurts, habits and hang-ups, in a Christcentered recovery atmosphere. Come early for a free meal,served at 5:45. There is no charge, but donations are welcomed. Questions? Contact: 907-598-0563. Due to Christmasholiday there will be no meal served on Dec. 26 or Jan. 2. Come at 6:15 for coffee before the 6:30 meeting!
Clothes Quarters open weekly Clothes Quarters at Our Lady of the Angels is open every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the first Saturday of every month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 907-283-4555. Submit announcements to news@peninsulaclarion. com. Submissions are due the Wednesday prior to publication. For moreinformation, call 907-283-7551.
This means anything we can do to help someone else get home is a part of the main Gig. This means that every smile, every kindness, every service, every good word, every ounce of faithfulness that in any way, shape, or form helps someone else is a part of the main gig and is not a side gig. Jesus summed it up in two simple commands: Love God and love your neighbor as yourself. And one reminder: Don’t forget that Jesus defines your neighbor as anyone who needs help, not just the person next door.
Ed Viesturs, a Mt. Everest guide who witnessed some die on the mountain, said this: “Getting to the top is optional, but getting down is mandatory. A lot of people get focused on the summit and forget that.” Don’t lose focus and die in the side gigs. Love God. Love your neighbor as yourself. Sunday Bible classes for all ages are held at 10 a.m. at Kenai Fellowship. Sunday worship at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday meal at 6:15 p.m. Worship and Bible classes at 7 p.m.
Pope senses ‘good will’ in UAE for Yemen peace process ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis said Tuesday he sensed “good will to bring about a process of peace” in Yemen during his meetings with officials from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia’s key ally in the war. Francis acknowledged that after only two days in Abu Dhabi and discussions with only a few people “it’s difficult to offer an opinion.” But speaking to reporters en route home, he said: “I found good will to bring about a process of peace” in the conflict. Francis was also asked what he made of the Emirates’ military-heavy welcome ceremony, which featured an artillery salute and an aircraft flyover that trailed the yellow and white smoke of the Holy See. Even by the UAE’s excessive standards, the welcome was unusually grand and not exactly in Francis’ simple style. Francis, who was making the first-ever visit to the Arabian Peninsula by a pope, said he viewed the ceremony as a gesture of good will that was appropriate for the culture of his hosts. “What I found here was a welcome so big that they wanted to do everything, big and little things, to show that the pope’s visit was good,” he said. “They wanted to make me feel that I was welcome.” Francis added that he did indeed feel welcome, and was struck in particular by the wisdom of the Muslim elders with whom he met and the wide diversity of people who live in the Emirates. He also praised the courage of a little girl who broke through the police barricades to hand-deliver a letter to the pope as he zoomed around Abu Dhabi’s sports stadium before Mass in his pope mobile. The child dashed so quickly that police couldn’t catch her. “This child has a future!” Francis exclaimed. “I liked that. You have to have courage to do that.” He laughed and added, “Dare I say, ‘Her poor husband …’” — The Associated Press
Religious Services Assembly of God
Church of Christ
Church of Christ
Church of Christ
Soldotna Church Of Christ
Mile 1/4 Funny River Road, Soldotna
209 Princess St., Kenai 283-7752 Pastor Stephen Brown Sunday..9:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.................6:30 p.m. www.kenainewlife.org
Peninsula Christian Center
161 Farnsworth Blvd (Behind the Salvation Army) Soldotna, AK 99669 Pastor Jon Watson 262-7416 Sunday ....................... 10:30 a.m. Wednesday..................6:30 p.m. www.penccalaska.org Nursery is provided
The Charis Fellowship Sterling Grace Community Church
Dr. Roger E. Holl, Pastor 907-862-0330 Meeting at the Sterling Senior Center, 34453 Sterling Highway Sunday Morning ........10:30 a.m.
262-2202 / 262-4316 Minister - Nathan Morrison Sunday Worship ........10:00 a.m. Bible Study..................11:15 a.m. Evening Worship ........ 6:00 p.m. Wed. Bible .................... 7:00 p.m.
Kenai Fellowship Mile 8.5 Kenai Spur Hwy.
Church 283-7682
Classes All Ages ........10:00 a.m. Worship Service.........11:15 a.m. Wed. Service ................ 7:00 p.m. www.kenaifellowship.org
Episcopal
50750 Kenai Spur Hwy (mile 24.5) 776-7660 Sunday Services Bible Study..................10:00 a.m. Morning Worship ......11:00 a.m. Fellowship Meal....... 12:30 p.m. Afternoon Worship ... 1:30 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study.................... 7:00 p.m
Nazarene
Connecting Community to Christ 229 E. Beluga Ave. soldotnanazarene.com Pastor: Dave Dial Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. Wednesday Dinner & Discipleship 6:00 p.m.
Funny River Community Lutheran Church
Kenai United Methodist Church
Andy Carlson, Pastor Missouri Synod 35575 Rabbit Run Road off Funny River Rd. Phone 262-7434 Sunday Worship ........11:00 a.m. www.funnyriverlutheran.org
Star Of The North Lutheran Church L.C.M.S.
You Are Invited! Wheelchair Accessible
St. Francis By The Sea
110 S. Spruce St. at Spur Hwy. - Kenai • 283-6040 Sunday Services Worship Service.........10:30 a.m. Eucharistic Services on the 1st & 4th Sundays
283-6040
Lutheran
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Methodist
Dustin Atkinson, Pastor Sponsor of the Lutheran Hour 216 N. Forest Drive, Kenai 283-4153 Sunday School..............9:30 a.m. Worship Service.........11:00 a.m.
Nikiski Church Of Christ
Catholic 222 W. Redoubt, Soldotna Oblates of Mary Immaculate 262-4749 Daily Mass Tues.-Fri. .................... 12:05 p.m. Saturday Vigil ........... 5:00 p.m. Reconciliation Saturday................4:15 - 4:45 p.m. Sunday Mass ............ 10:00 a.m.
Mile 91.7 Sterling Hwy. 262-5577 Minister Tony Cloud Sunday Services Bible Study..................10:00 a.m. Morning Worship ......11:00 a.m. Evening Worship ....... 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Service Bible Study.................... 7:00 p.m
Lutheran
Christ Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Mile ¼ Kenai Spur Box 568, Soldotna, AK 99669 262-4757 Pastor Meredith Harber Worship ............11 a.m. & 6 p.m. Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month
Sterling Lutheran Church LCMS 35100 McCall Rd. Behind Sterling Elementary School Worship: Sunday .... 11:00 a.m. Bill Hilgendorf, Pastor 907-740-3060
Non Denominational
Corner of Spur Hwy. & Bluff St., Kenai
283-7868 Pastor Bailey Brawner Sunday Worship ........11:30 a.m. Food Pantry Mon...Noon - 3 pm
North Star United Methodist Church Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Hwy,
300 W. Marydale • Soldotna 262-4865 John Rysdyk - Pastor/Teacher Sunday: Morning Worship ................9:30 a.m. Sunday School....................11:00 a.m. Sunday Evening Worship ..6:00 p.m.
Nikiski “Whoever is thirsty, let him come”
776-8732 NSUMC@alaska.net Sunday Worship ..........9:30 a.m.
Non Denominational Kalifonsky Christian Center
Mile 17 K-Beach Rd. 283-9452 Pastor Steve Toliver Pastor Charles Pribbenow Sunday Worship .......10:30 a.m. Youth Group Wed. ..... 7:00 p.m. Passion for Jesus Compassion for Others
Kenai Bible Church
604 Main St. 283-7821 Pastor Vance Wonser Sunday School..............9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship ........11:00 a.m. Evening Service .......... 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Service .... 6:30 p.m.
North Kenai Chapel Pastor Wayne Coggins 776-8797 Mile 29 Kenai Spur Hwy
Sunday Worship...................10:30 am Wed. Share-a-Dish/Video.....6:30 pm
Southern Baptist College Heights Baptist Church
44440 K-Beach Road Pastor: Scott Coffman Associate Pastor: Jonah Huckaby 262-3220 www.collegeheightsbc.com
Sunday School .......9:00 & 10:30 a.m. Morn. Worship .......9:00 & 10:30 a.m. Sunday Evening - Home Groups. Nursery provided
First Baptist Church of Kenai
12815 Kenai Spur Hwy, Kenai 283-7672 Sunday School..............9:30 a.m. Morning Worship ......10:45 a.m. Evening Service .......... 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Prayer ..... 6:30 p.m.
Sports T angled U p in B lue K at S orensen
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oming up to an unknown cabin in the woods is an engaging experience. Throughout the windy, snow-covered roads of Ohlson Mountain in Homer, my friends and I couldn’t stop debating what our home away from home would look like. We knew it was a dry cabin and that it was just barely off the beaten path, but we went back and forth on what the outhouse situation would be like and who would be sleeping on the floor. Our debate was debunked as we pulled into the driveway. The unknown became known and it was decidedly perfect. The sun was setting on a blanket of fresh snow, just as untouched as our weekend abode. The rustic cabin had all the right amenities — enough beds for each of us, enough heat for the whole night and enough windows to watch the sunrise while drinking a fresh cup of coffee. The unknown treated us well and set a base camp for a weekend out of town. Whenever I leave Seward, I try to make a list of things to accomplish. If I’m by a movie theater, I’ll catch the latest release. If I’m by a Fred Meyer, I’ll grab my favorite socks and some fresh, ground peanut butter. My hopes for the Cosmic Hamlet by the Sea? To see some snow and eat some food. I accomplished the first goal by the time we reached Tern Lake. Turns out, Seward really is a temperate rain forest, keeping the snow from falling with its rising temperatures. When we got to the cabin, I postholed through a foot or so of snow, for once happy to feel the snow break below my feet! Soon after, a fire was burning and we were gearing up to go skiing. But, ski conditions can be just as elusive as an unknown cabin in the woods. Sure, there are Facebook posts and word of mouth to tell you when it’s good or when it’s bad, but you don’t know until you go. So, we went. Two for two, the trails were perfect. We spent the rest of the weekend in between loops around Lookout. I got lost on unfamiliar trails, spending an extra four miles alone with my thoughts gliding along a perfect corduroy. I didn’t even worry about what kind of climbs I would run into along the way (maybe I should have, or at least packed some almonds in my pocket). My best friend visiting from the East Coast didn’t join me after the first few hills, but circling back around I found her as she found her stride. She’s new to cross-country skiing and it’s been a fun experience, sharing a passion with someone you love. It’s an even better experience when the two of you can spend some time apart, enjoying the See AWAY, page A8
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Peninsula schools look to extend streak Skiers have won at least 1 title for last 19 years The stage is set for an unpredictable snow showdown this weekend at the Region III cross-country ski meet at Palmer’s Government Peak Recreation Area. On one end of it, there is the unbroken streak of 19 straight team titles won by peninsula schools, dating back to 2000. Between the Soldotna, Kenai Central, Homer and Seward ski teams, every year since the turn of the century has seen at least a boys or girls team champion belonging to the peninsula, including the last three years on the boys side with Soldotna. “I would love to snag a fourth,” said Soldotna head coach Isaac Erhardt. “There are some sicknesses going around the school so we’re praying we make it healthy, but our top four guys are healthy and skiing well so we stand a decent chance of a fourth year in a row.” The girls team title has been won by
Kenai in three of the past four years, but with the graduation of two stellar racers last spring in Addison Gibson and Riana Boonstra, the Kardinals will need to find some depth to stave off the likes of Homer and Palmer. “We always want to challenge for it,” said Kenai head coach Brad Nyquist. “We have some individuals who will keep up with top skiers, but Homer’s looking really strong this year. They’ve been consistently ahead of us, but you never know what can happen on any given day.” There is also the unpredictable nature of who might show up to steal the team or individual races. The combination of early low snowfall and inconsistent trail conditions plaguing this winter has shifted the original schedule around and thus no meet this season has brought together all Region III teams, leaving some doubt as to who See SKI, page A8
Kenai Central’s Mickinzie Ticknor competes at Besh Cup 3 at Tsalteshi Trails on Jan. 20, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
Changing very little Bears stick with practices that snapped skid By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion
“I was looking for more playing time so I could get more looks from colleges. “I knew I could play a bigger role than I was playing there.” Kenai River head coach Josh Petrich said the Bears were looking for a player that could score goals, and LaBarge has delivered. He has five goals and three assists in 12 games. “Trey is a great player that has not played a ton,” Petrich said.
Kenai River Brown Bears head coach, and New England Patriots fan, Josh Petrich was watching the Super Bowl on Sunday with his team captains when he asked them what should be done in practice this week. Not surprisingly, the captains said the previous week of practice had been great and they didn’t want to change much heading into 7:30 p.m. games Friday and Saturday against the Corpus Christi (Texas) IceRays at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. The desire not to change could have been that they were watching a coach and quarterback in their 19th year together win a sixth Super Bowl, but more than likely it was the twogame sweep the Bears had just completed against the Topeka (Kansas) Pilots. The twin wins put an end to an 11-game losing streak on home ice and also snapped a six-game losing streak. “We did a good job focusing on the details and little things
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Trey LaBarge (far right) celebrates his first-period goal against the Topeka (Kansas) Pilots with teammates Friday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
Tough decision pays off LaBarge gets college looks by dropping down to NAHL By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion
Why would Kenai River Brown Bears forward Trey LaBarge be fine with leaving the United States Hockey League, the best junior league in America, to come to the North American Hockey League, which is the second best in this country? The answers lie in a 2002 study conducted by USA Hockey during the Salt Lake City Winter Olym-
pics and the Tier I Youth National Championships. The best players at both events — think Joe Sakic, Mike Modano, Phil Kessel and Zach Parise — handled the puck for about 1 minute, 6 seconds. That explains why LaBarge was fine with the Madison (Wisconsin) Capitals of the USHL trading him to the Bears of the NAHL in early December. “I didn’t fit in well with the organization and what coach wanted from me,” LaBarge said.
SoHi girls lose for 1st time this season Staff report Peninsula Clarion
The undefeated season came to an end Thursday for the Soldotna girls basketball team, but they didn’t go quietly. The Stars lost 56-49 to one of the elite teams in the state, the Dimond girls, in the Lady Lynx Prep Shootout Gold Bracket quarterfinals. Dimond star guard Alissa Pili poured in a staggering 38 points to lead the Lynx to
the win. The Stars (16-1 overall) will face West Valley today at 4:30 p.m. and will try to advance into Saturday’s fourth-place game. Pili ran rampant over the SoHi defense, scoring 11 points in the first quarter, eight in the second, 10 in the third and nine in the fourth. Pili accounted for 15 of her team’s made field goals and was 5 for 5 from the foul line. The Stars were paced by Danica Schmidt
with 14 points, Ituau Tuisaula with 13 and Brittani Blossom with 12. The two sides stayed very even throughout the game, with Dimond edging out to a 26-24 lead at halftime and a 45-42 lead after three quarters. Blossom buried a 3-pointer in the first minute of the fourth quarter to put SoHi ahead briefly at 45-44, but Pili continued to use her size and height to get to the rim for the Lynx. See HOOPS, page A9
To feed or not to feed?
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Two Black-capped Chickadees visit a feeder in Soldotna on Wednesday. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
s the snow continues to pile up, I have had some unwanted guests at my bird feeder. A cow moose and her stubborn little calf have been visiting in the cloak of darkness and eating all my bird seed. My intent was to feed birds, not moose, so for now I have suspended my feeding operation until I get a better system they cannot reach. Times can get tough, but moose are better off foraging on their own than supplementing with sunflower seeds. However, there can be unintended consequences when we dabble with things like supplemental feeding. My break from watching
R efuge N otebook T odd E skelin the birds gave me a chance to dig into the research and address some of those nagging questions that always come up about feeding birds. Does it help them? Will they become dependent on my feeder? Will it shortstop birds and keep them from migrating? I found more substantive research on the issue since the last time I did this exercise, but you be the judge and jury as to its appropri-
ateness for your yard. There are several very nice papers describing methods to measure if fed birds become dependent on the artificial food source. It basically comes down to how you measure success in a wild bird. In my mind, birds have two main goals to evaluate success. They must survive from year to year. This is pretty obvious — if you die, you failed at your mission. Second, they must rear young to replace themselves when they do die and they must raise more than two in their lifetime if they are to grow their population or account for a percentage of See FEED, page A8
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can beat who. Erhardt said this weekend will be the first true glance into what to expect at the state meet in two weeks. “We just haven’t had a full race of teams yet,” Erhardt said. “There are still people we haven’t raced against yet in the region, so it’s hard to get a gauge on that.” The races themselves will certainly separate the field. The varsity girls fields will run a 5K interval-start classic race Friday and a 5K mass-start skate race Saturday, while the varsity boys will race a 5K classic Friday and 7.5K skate event Saturday. All courses are full of hills, and the relentless climbing is predicted to weed out the pretenders from the contenders. Homer head coach Alison O’Hara said her girls squad has struggled at times on hilly courses, but said she shared some important advice with the team prior to
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“He couldn’t find the right spot in the USHL. What I always tell kids is, ‘Do you want to wear a sweater more than a suit jacket?’” The coach said there is simply no substitute for game time for a developing player, because even in a full game, even the best players get just over a minute with the puck. “You can have the best practices and the best skills coach,” Petrich said. “You still have to touch the puck in a game, you still have to learn to read and react in a game.” The coach added that this is a good time of the year to be in the NAHL for college looks, because 80 to 90
the weekend’s events. “I said attack each hill like it’s its own individual race,” O’Hara said. “Attack it knowing when you crest over the top you get a small break. It’s just a mental thing. It’s going to hurt but it’s not going to be that long.” O’Hara also explained how to prepare for hills by choosing the correct “gearing” by adjusting a skiers technique and tempo with poling on each side. For central peninsula programs Kenai and Soldotna, the hills are also expected to play a big role in determining winners. Erhardt said the Stars have missed out on valuable training time on the biggest hills at Tsalteshi due to periods of low snow in December and January, and now the time to train is past. “It’s been hard to train on big hills like Bear and Goat, but they’d been icy,” Erhardt said. “Usually we like doing intervals there, but instead we’ve been working more on technique work on the flatter courses.” The Homer girls enter as a dark horse that could knock off some
percent of those on USHL rosters have Division I commitments by the middle of October. “We still have a lot of uncommitted players,” Petrich said. “They can come and watch all of those players, plus watch four young guys for two or three years down the road.” LaBarge, a 20-year-old with one year of junior eligibility left after this season, said the decision to leave Madison was tough because he has roots in the area. “I played with their youth organization when I was younger,” he said. “I have a lot of friends and family in Madison. It was definitely hard on my family, but I feel I made the right decision.” LaBarge, the son of Barb and Troy LaBarge of Cottage Grove, Wisconsin, was born and raised in Madison.
serious contenders. Last week at the Homer Invitational at the Lookout Mountain trails, the Mariners swept the girls team races for both days, led by two individual victories by junior Autumn Daigle. O’Hara said Daigle, the 2017 Class 1-2-3A cross-country running champion, is strong enough to ski to the front, and in intervalstart races has the engine to make a difference, but also warned of Palmer skier Katie Houser. Houser won both races at the Government Peak Recreational Invite in mid-January in a show of strength, but O’Hara said if Homer can win the classic day of racing and hold serve in the skate events, the team title could be theirs. “Classic is their thing,” O’Hara said. “We dialed in the wax really well (at the Homer Invite). … I watched the Toko wax guide videos, so my social life has deteriorated.” O’Hara added Katia Holmes, Zoe Stonorov and Brita Restad as expected scoring skiers for this weekend. Kenai senior Maria Salzetti was second in the skate race that week-
He got his love of hockey from his grandfather, who used to take him to Chicago Blackhawks games. For high school, the LaBarges moved to Hudson, Wisconsin, where Trey played for Hudson High School and then Team Wisconsin before and after the high school season. He credited Team Wisconsin, a Midget AAA team, for honing his game for the top levels. Late in his junior year of high school, LaBarge tore his anterior cruciate ligament in May playing something called Nerf wars. The game was organized by a friend and had 50 teams of five, with a $3,000 award for first place. The idea is not to get shot by Nerf guns. Under attack in a Walmart parking lot, LaBarge stopped and his
end, but the Palmer girls still won the team race both days. Soldotna took second in the girls team race on the freestyle day, giving Erhardt confidence his Stars could make a run at it. “They’ve been pretty energetic this week in practice, they’re chomping at the bit,” he said. “Last weekend in Homer, the (Homer) girls team beat us, but not by a landslide. If they can put it together, they can have a good race and the potential to get them.” Four weeks ago at Government Peak, the SoHi boys won the team race each day, leaving the Stars as favorites this weekend. Jeremy Kupferschmid won the classic race that weekend, and Erhardt said Kupferschmid is strong enough in both styles to claim his first Region III Skimeister award. However, Erhardt also expects a strong fight from Joseph Walling from Palmer and Luke Fritzel from Grace Christian, both of whom have beaten Kupferschmid this year. Behind Kupferschmid, Erhardt said the Stars are looking strong
knee buckled. “When I tell people I tore my ACL, they always expect some hockey story,” LaBarge said. “I have to tell them it happened during Nerf wars.” LaBarge couldn’t play with Team Wisconsin due to the injury, but he caught on with the Capitols 18U team, then played with the Capitols USHL squad last season and this season before the trade. While LaBarge has made the tough decision to come to the NAHL, the hockey world in general still has not decided if he is a defenseman or forward. He played forward at the beginning of this season for the Capitols before getting moved to defense due to injuries. The Brown Bears are loaded with quality defensemen but are second last in the league in goals, so now LaBarge is back at forward.
with depth from Bradley Walters, Jack Harris and Lance Chilton. Erhardt said the SoHi girls have two skiers that could make a top-five showing in the individual races, but the Stars will need big days from deeper down the lineup to contend for the team title. Leading the way is sophomore Erika Arthur and senior Hannah Delker, who will be joined by Katie Delker, Cameron Blackwell, Sonora Martin and the sixth skier Isabella Dammeyer. Nyquist said his two seniors Maria Salzetti and Mickinzie Ticknor would like to break into the top 10 for the Region III meet, while freshmen Leah Fallon and Summer Foster could finish top 15 if a top 10 is out of their grasp. For the Kenai boys, Nyquist tabbed Josh Foster as a capable top-10 placer, while Tyler Hipchen should ski strong as the second placer on the team. Nyquist also said Billy Morrow is likely to return from an injury to contest the classic race, but his leadership has been a boon for the Kards this year.
“I absolutely enjoy him,” Petrich said. “When he got here, he told me, ‘Coach, let me know what you need me to do and I’ll do it.’” LaBarge, who is 6-foot1, 192 pounds, said pleasing coaches is the top priority, but he also said he prefers using his physicality, skating and puck-moving abilities as a defenseman. He said colleges are looking at him for both positions. “It’s kind of frustrating,” he said. “I’m 20 years old and I still could be a defenseman or a forward.” Petrich and LaBarge agree playing both positions helps make him a smarter and more versatile player. Petrich said LaBarge is a complete goal scorer, getting goals jabbing at a goalie’s pads, sniping from outside or tipping the puck in the net.
“It’s helped me understand what forwards and defensemen are trying to do,” LaBarge said. The billet son of Sam and Mandy Clyde of Soldotna has made the adjustment to living far from home as quickly as he can adjust to playing different positions on the ice. “I love the people up here,” LaBarge said. “I love the billets and I love the landscape. It’s nice getting away from the city. The home games also have a nice atmosphere.” He said he’s on the right track to finding a college — and a position. “Now that I’m getting more playing time, I’m getting more looks from colleges and that’s every encouraging,” he said. “I’m planning on settling in, and hopefully a college commitment comes with it.”
Toronto, Milwaukee, Philly make moves at deadline By BRIAN MAHONE AP Basketball Writer
Toronto, Milwaukee and Philadelphia made their moves. Anthony Davis will have to wait until the summer for his. The New Orleans Pelicans held onto Davis but dealt Nikola Mirotic to the Bucks, one of the Eastern Conference contenders who fortified their teams Thursday before the NBA trade deadline. The Raptors are getting former All-Star center Marc Gasol from Memphis. The 76ers, a day after acquiring
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their offspring not making it to rear their own young. A paper by Egan and Brittingham in 1994 measured monthly survival rates of fed and unfed Black-capped Chickadees in Pennsylvania and found that feeding had significantly increased the short-term survival of these birds. Brittingham and Temple had previously looked at dependency on feeders by taking feeders away from fed populations of chickadees and found that there was no difference in survival rates between fed birds that were cut off and unfed birds. Many other researchers have documented problems associated with feeding including increased predation by both wild and domestic species, disease and parasite transmission, nontarget species congregating at supplemental feeding sites (my moose problem) and increased window strikes. The ongoing deformed
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beauty of your environment in your own way while still cultivating that shared experience. And we continued our shared experience over dinner, breakfast, lunch
forward Tobias Harris from the Clippers, sent Markelle Fultz to Orlando and will hope Jonathan Simmons can provide some production where the former No. 1 pick couldn’t. “Those teams were already really good. And the assumption would only be that they’d only benefit from those moves,” Boston coach Brad Stevens said. “It will be quite a challenge. As we knew it would be.” A busy swap season that included Dallas’ acquisition of Kristaps Porzingis from New York ended without a
move for Davis, the player who dominated the discussion in recent weeks. The Pelicans didn’t find a deal for Davis, who had requested a trade and informed the team he wouldn’t sign a contract extension this s ummer. But the Lakers couldn’t put together a strong enough package to the Pelicans’ liking for the All-Star forward, who will go back into the trade market after the season ends. There will be other marquee names available then with a free agent class that could be highlighted by players such as Kevin Du-
rant, Kyrie Irving and Kawhi Leonard. Boston didn’t jump into the trading deadline fray but may try to get involved in the summer. For now, the Celtics appear to feel they have enough to win the East. The other conference contenders looked for upgrades — and went out and got some that likely will fit well. Milwaukee (40-13) already has the NBA’s best record and Mirotic’s outsideshooting ability for a big man would appear to fit perfectly in a lineup around superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo.
bill problem seen in chickadees in Southcentral Alaska appears to be the result of a virus and was first identified at feeders. Questions still remain as to how it is transmitted as it is also prevalent in wild populations, far from any contact with feeders (https://mbio.asm.org/ content/7/4/e00874-16). On the pro side, many relevant papers describe the economic value of feeding, which is a multibillion dollar industry in the United States. About 40 percent of American households routinely provide food for birds. In addition to the economic value, there are social implications to the value people derive from feeding birds because an appreciation is gained that is only possible from watching birds at close range outside their windows. We will likely never know what goes on inside bird brains, so a definitive answer as to whether birds “decide” not to migrate because of supplemental feeding is nebulous. We do know that migrant birds like hummingbirds and sparrows that
visit feeders continue to migrate and return. Banded birds have returned to feeders up to eight years, only during migration. So we have to presume that this is not an issue. It is obvious there are many pros and cons to this activity. I think the best way to go about this business is to make sure you are doing everything you can to protect the safety and wellbeing of the birds you feed. Some people may decide against feeding, alternatively landscaping their backyard environment to support more birds “naturally.” Some do’s and don’ts to supplemental bird feeding are provided below. 1. Do not feed birds if you have a domestic cat that you allow to go outside unaccompanied. 2. Remove feeders at appropriate times in the spring to avoid unwanted visitors like bears. 3. Clean your feeders regularly to reduce disease and parasite transmission. 4. If you see sick birds or predators hanging around, pull feeders so you are not
contributing to unnaturally concentrating birds. 5. In addition to the feeders, provide shrub cover or brush piles nearby, giving birds hiding spots from avian predators. If you would like more info on best practices for feeding birds during inclement weather, this article is a good read; https://www. birdwatchersdigest.com/ bwdsite/learn/top10/top10-ways-to-help-birds-inbad-weather.php . If supplemental feeding is just too much work or not your thing, but you want to create a bird friendly yard and the following link has some great info on things to consider; https://www. audubon.org/magazine/july-august-2013/how-createbird-friendly-yard.
and dinner again. We ran circles around the food in town, continually hinting at what we hoped our next meal would be even after promising that we’d “cook one meal in the cabin,” a lie that I was fine telling myself. That’s three for three on the weekend, but I stopped counting after the fourth
slice of pizza. And just like that we packed up and set our course back to Seward. We left the cabin as bare as we found it, with just enough heat to seep out throughout the day. I bet it was below freezing in there by the time we drove through Ninilchik. I think the old adage is
true though. We got back to Seward with a peanut butter sandwich in hand, fresh ground thanks to Soldotna’s Fred Meyer, and a fresh blanket of snow. Maybe there is no place like home.
Todd Eskelin is a Wildlife Biologist at Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Find more Refuge Notebook articles (1999-present) at https:// www.fws.gov/Refuge/Kenai/ community/Refuge_notebook.html or other info at http://www.facebook.com/ kenainationalwildliferefuge.
Reach Kat Sorensen at katsorensen@peninsulaclarion.com
“He is a skilled, two-way player who fits extremely well into our system,” Bucks general manager Jon Horst said in a statement. “He
shoots at a high percentage from beyond the arc, rebounds and defends at his position and provides depth to our frontcourt.”
Today in History Today is Friday, Feb. 8, the 39th day of 2019. There are 326 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On Feb. 8, 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. On this date: In 1693, a charter was granted for the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg in the Virginia Colony. In 1862, the Civil War Battle of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, ended in victory for Union forces led by Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. In 1904, the Russo-Japanese War, a conflict over control of Manchuria and Korea, began as Japanese forces attacked Port Arthur. In 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated. In 1922, President Warren G. Harding had a radio installed in the White House. In 1924, the first execution by gas in the United States took place at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City as Gee Jon, a Chinese immigrant convicted of murder, was put to death. In 1952, Queen Elizabeth II proclaimed her accession to the British throne following the death of her father, King George VI. In 1965, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663, a DC-7, crashed shortly after takeoff from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport; all 84 people on board were killed. The Supremes’ record “Stop! In the Name of Love!” was released by Motown. In 1968, three college students were killed in a confrontation between demonstrators and highway patrolmen at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg in the wake of protests over a whites-only bowling alley. The science-fiction film “Planet of the Apes,” starring Charlton Heston, had its world premiere in New York (it went into general release the following April.) In 1989, 144 people were killed when an American-chartered Boeing 707 filled with Italian tourists slammed into a fog-covered mountain in the Azores. In 1992, the XVI Olympic Winter Games opened in Albertville, France. In 1993, General Motors sued NBC, alleging that “Dateline NBC” had rigged two car-truck crashes to show that 1973-to-87 GM pickups were prone to fires in side impact crashes. (NBC settled the lawsuit the following day and apologized for its “unscientific demonstration.”) Ten years ago: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss won five Grammys, including album of the year, for “Raising Sand.” R&B singer Chris Brown was arrested on suspicion of making a criminal threat (he was later sentenced to five years of probation for beating his longtime girlfriend, singer Rihanna). The NFC rallied to a 30-21 victory over the AFC in the Pro Bowl. Five years ago: In an assertion of same-sex marriage rights, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that same-sex spouses could not be compelled to testify against each other, should be eligible to file for bankruptcy jointly and were entitled to the same rights and privileges as federal prison inmates in opposite-sex marriages. On the first day of medal competition at the Sochi Winter Olympics, Sven Kramer of the Netherlands led a clean sweep by the Dutch in the men’s 5,000-meter speed skating while in slopestyle’s Olympic debut, U.S. snowboarder Sage Kotsenburg won the first gold medal of the games. One year ago: The federal government stumbled into a shutdown that would end by morning, its second in less than a month, as rogue Senate Republicans blocked a speedy vote on a massive, bipartisan, budget-busting spending deal. For the second time in a week, the Dow Jones industrials plunged by more than 1,000 points as a sell-off in the stock market deepened. Hundreds of thousands lined the streets of Philadelphia as the Eagles celebrated their Super Bowl victory with a parade. Today’s Birthdays: Composer-conductor John Williams is 87. Newscaster Ted Koppel is 79. Actor Nick Nolte is 78. Comedian Robert Klein is 77. Actor-rock musician Creed Bratton is 76. Singer Ron Tyson is 71. Actress Brooke Adams is 70. Actress Mary Steenburgen is 66. Author John Grisham is 64. Retired NBA All-Star and College Basketball Hall of Famer Marques Johnson is 63. Actor Henry Czerny is 60. The former president of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III, is 59. Rock singer Vince Neil (Motley Crue) is 58. Rock singer-musician Sammy Llanas (YAH’-nus) (The BoDeans) is 58. Former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa P. Jackson is 57. Movie producer Toby Emmerich is 56. Actress Missy Yager is 51. Actress Mary McCormack is 50. Rock musician Keith Nelson is 50. Basketball Hall of Famer Alonzo Mourning is 49. Actress Susan Misner is 48. Dance musician Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (Daft Punk) is 45. Actor Seth Green is 45. Actor Josh Morrow is 45. Rock musician Phoenix (Linkin Park) is 42. Actor William Jackson Harper is 39. Actor Jim Parrack is 38. Folk singer-musician Joey Ryan (Milk Carton Kids) is 37. Actress-comedian Cecily Strong is 35. Rock musician Jeremy Davis is 34. Hip-hop artist Anderson.Paak is 33. Rock musician Max Grahn (Carolina Liar) is 31. Actor Ryan Pinkston is 31. Professional surfer Bethany Hamilton is 29. Actress Karle Warren is 27. Thought for Today: “If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own... how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.” -- William Allen White, American journalist (1868-1944).
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Scoreboard Hockey NHL Glance EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 54 39 11 4 82 207 150 Toronto 53 33 17 3 69 190 150 Montreal 55 31 18 6 68 169 158 Boston 54 29 17 8 66 155 140 Buffalo 53 26 20 7 59 158 166 52 22 22 8 52 161 180 Florida Detroit 54 21 26 7 49 153 178 Ottawa 54 20 29 5 45 167 199 Metropolitan Division N.Y. Islanders 53 31 16 6 68 154 129 Washington 54 30 18 6 66 182 171 Columbus 53 30 20 3 63 173 164 54 28 19 7 63 185 167 Pittsburgh Carolina 54 27 21 6 60 158 160 Philadelphia 54 24 23 7 55 155 180 N.Y. Rangers 53 23 22 8 54 152 178 New Jersey 53 20 25 8 48 154 180
WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Winnipeg 54 34 17 3 71 189 154 56 33 19 4 70 174 143 Nashville Dallas 54 28 21 5 61 140 137 Minnesota 54 26 23 5 57 151 158 St. Louis 52 25 22 5 55 147 153 Colorado 53 22 22 9 53 176 177 55 22 24 9 53 177 201 Chicago Pacific Division Calgary 54 34 15 5 73 199 157 San Jose 55 32 16 7 71 198 173 Vegas 56 31 21 4 66 167 153 55 24 24 7 55 158 171 Vancouver Edmonton 54 24 25 5 53 157 179 54 23 26 5 51 142 159 Arizona Anaheim 55 21 25 9 51 125 176 Los Angeles 54 23 27 4 50 128 160 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs. Thursday’s Games Los Angeles 3, Philadelphia 2, SO Florida 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT N.Y. Islanders 2, New Jersey 1, SO Washington 4, Colorado 3, OT Carolina 6, Buffalo 5, OT Ottawa 4, Anaheim 0 Montreal 5, Winnipeg 2 St. Louis 1, Tampa Bay 0, OT Vegas 4, Detroit 3 Edmonton 4, Minnesota 1 Nashville 3, Dallas 2, OT Chicago 4, Vancouver 3, OT Columbus 4, Arizona 2 San Jose 5, Calgary 2 Friday’s Games Carolina at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m. Saturday’s Games Anaheim at Philadelphia, 9 a.m.
Minnesota at New Jersey, 9 a.m. Detroit at Buffalo, 9 a.m. Colorado at N.Y. Islanders, 9 a.m. Los Angeles at Boston, 9 a.m. Winnipeg at Ottawa, 10 a.m. Nashville at St. Louis, 10 a.m. Dallas at Arizona, noon San Jose at Edmonton, 3 p.m. Florida at Washington, 3 p.m. Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m. Toronto at Montreal, 3 p.m. Calgary at Vancouver, 6 p.m. Columbus at Vegas, 6 p.m. All Times AST
Basketball Men’s Scores EAST Coll. of Charleston 83, Delaware 75 Drexel 69, UNC-Wilmington 57 Hofstra 102, Elon 61 LIU Brooklyn 77, Mount St. Mary’s 62 Monmouth (NJ) 53, St. Peter’s 51 Northeastern 72, William & Mary 60 Robert Morris 72, Bryant 59 Sacred Heart 69, Fairleigh Dickinson 63 St. Francis (Pa.) 90, CCSU 85 St. Francis Brooklyn 51, Wagner 44 SOUTH Austin Peay 80, SIU-Edwardsville 45 Belmont 83, E. Kentucky 65 Chattanooga 71, VMI 70 Cincinnati 69, Memphis 64 Furman 64, W. Carolina 45 Gardner-Webb 89, Longwood 88, OT High Point 57, Campbell 56 Houston 77, UCF 68 Middle Tennessee 71, Charlotte 53 Murray St. 86, E. Illinois 75 N. Kentucky 97, Detroit 65 Old Dominion 70, UAB 59 Presbyterian 67, UNC-Asheville 44 Radford 101, Hampton 98, OT South Alabama 70, Arkansas St. 62 Tennessee St. 81, Morehead St. 80, 2OT UALR 84, Troy 70 UNC-Greensboro 75, Samford 67 UT Martin 66, Jacksonville St. 64 Winthrop 76, Charleston Southern 72 Wofford 78, ETSU 76, OT
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Meanwhile, in the Maroon Bracket, the Kenai Central girls topped Ketchikan 49-45. The Kardinals advance to the Maroon semifinals with an 8 p.m. meeting against Lathrop. Homer Winter Carnival The Homer Winter Carnival tournament kicked off Thursday with The Homer boys lost 45-41 to Galena, while the Seward boys beat Sitka 6351. In girls action, Sitka defeated Seward 50-33 and Galena prevailed over Homer 37-20. The action continues today with the Sitka and Galena girls at 3 p.m. and the Sitka and Galena boys at 4:30 p.m. The evening games match up the Seward and Homer girls at 6:30 p.m. and the Seward and Homer boys at 8 p.m. In Thursday’s games, Connor Spanos sparked the Seward boys with 17 points, and was joined by teammate Sam Koster with 12 and Bjorn Nilsson with 10. The Sitka boys led 2623 at halftime, but the Seahawks won the third quarter 20-10 to take a 43-36 lead, then sealed the victory with a 20-15 run in the fourth quarter. The Seward girls were paced by Riley Von Borstel, who led the Seahawks with 12 points, and Shelly Sewell, who pitched in seven. Seward took an early 9-5 lead thanks to seven points from Von Borstel, but by halftime Sitka took the helm 17-15. Sitka won the third quarter 13-6 to pad its lead. The Homer boys got 11 points from Seth Adkins but Galena got 12 points from three different players, led by the 13 from Joe Riddle. The Mariners led 16-13 after one quarter and 23-22 at the half, then extended their lead to 38-28, but Galena used a furious 17-3 kick in the fourth quarter to steal the victory. The Homer girls had trouble keeping up with Galena, which led held the Mariners scoreless in the second quarter to take a 25-8 halftime lead, and hung on from there. Pearle Green led Galena with 20 points, while Shelly Johnson paced the Mariners
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Green Bay 82, Cleveland St. 65 Iowa 77, Indiana 72 Nebraska-Omaha 107, South Dakota 102, OT Ohio St. 74, Penn St. 70 Purdue Fort Wayne 79, W. Illinois 64 SE Missouri 71, Tennessee Tech 66, OT Wright St. 76, Oakland 62 Youngstown St. 72, Milwaukee 71 SOUTHWEST FAU 61, UTEP 48 North Texas 78, Marshall 51 Oral Roberts 78, Denver 65 South Florida 67, SMU 66 Texas State 74, Appalachian St. 71 Texas-Arlington 74, Coastal Carolina 54 UTSA 100, FIU 67 W. Kentucky 92, Rice 85, 2OT FAR WEST
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California Baptist 94, Chicago St. 44 Gonzaga 92, San Francisco 62 Hawaii 77, Long Beach St. 70 Idaho St. 81, N. Arizona 79 Montana 100, Idaho 59 Montana St. 74, E. Washington 66 N. Colorado 80, Portland St. 62 New Mexico St. 71, CS Bakersfield 70, OT Rio Grande 72, Grand Canyon 69 S. Utah 65, Weber St. 53 San Diego 65, Loyola Marymount 63 Santa Clara 79, Pepperdine 71 Stanford 83, Oregon St. 60 UC Davis 63, Cal Poly 53 Washington 67, Arizona 60 Washington St. 91, Arizona St.
California Baptist 93, Chicago St. 67 Green Bay 70, N. Kentucky 42 Iowa 86, Michigan St. 71 Michigan 67, Nebraska 61 Missouri 70, Texas A&M 65 North Dakota 70, N. Dakota St. 58 Purdue 72, Illinois 50 Rio Grande 49, Grand Canyon 42 SE Missouri 62, Tennessee Tech 53 Wright St. 73, Milwaukee 69
Women’s Major Scores EAST Fairfield 72, Canisius 65 Marist 62, Manhattan 51 Quinnipiac 62, Niagara 42 Rider 65, Monmouth (NJ) 50 Siena 66, Iona 45 UMass 69, Duquesne 66 SOUTH Appalachian St. 77, Texas State 56 Austin Peay 77, SIU-Edwardsville 65 Belmont 87, E. Kentucky 52 Clemson 69, Wake Forest 53 Duke 85, North Carolina 69 FIU 51, UTSA 40 Florida 57, Alabama 55 Florida St. 75, NC State 70 Furman 53, W. Carolina 28 Georgia Southern 79, Louisiana-
with eight. Ninilchik Invitational The Ninilchik Wolverines and Cook Inlet Academy Eagles were swept on opening day in a revised Ninilchik tournament. The girls bracket tournament was thrown out in favor of a round-robin format due to the absence of the Aniak girls team, which was unable to make it the trip after the team played a Wednesday game and subsequent bad weather grounded the team, according to Ninilchik girls coach Tessa Lemons. The Wolverine girls will face Cook Inlet Academy today at 4:30 p.m. and will wrap up their weekend Saturday at 1:30 p.m. against King Cove. In girls action, Ninilchik lost 62-28 to Sand Point, while CIA lost 85-24 to King Cove. Sand Point’s Brittany Gardner fueled her team to the win with 20 points, while Ninilchik was paced by Jade Robuck’s 13 points. The Sand Point girls used a 15-4 spurt in the second quarter to take a 34-14 halftime lead, then outscored Ninilchik 16-5 in the third quarter to seal the win. In the boys tournament, King Cove won twice on Thursday, first beating Aniak then dispatching Cook Inlet Academy to reach the semifinals. King Cove will face Sand Point in Friday’s 3 p.m. semifinal. Sand Point defeated the Ninilchik boys 72-68, while the CIA boys lost 95-22 to King Cove. Aniak and CIA will pick up play in the elimination bracket today with a 12 p.m. game, with the winner moving on to play Ninilchik 6 p.m. Friday. Karl Smith had a big day against Ninilchik, scoring 41 points to lead Sand Point. Smith knocked down six treys, and had 21 points on five triples in the first quarter alone. By halftime, Smith had 31 of his team’s 43 points. Garrett Koch scored 28 to lead the Wolverines and teammate Cole Hadro added 18. Sand Point led 64-46 after the third quarter, but Ninilchik came roaring back with a 22-8 fourth quarter run, only to come up short in the end. Nikiski girls 46,
Lafayette 71 Georgia St. 68, Louisiana-Monroe 46 Georgia Tech 67, Pittsburgh 55 Kentucky 78, Auburn 68 LSU 71, Arkansas 34 Louisville 76, Syracuse 51 Marshall 67, North Texas 55 Maryland 72, Northwestern 57 Miami 72, Notre Dame 65 Middle Tennessee 62, Charlotte 55 Morehead St. 71, Tennessee St. 55 Murray St. 60, E. Illinois 51 Rice 68, W. Kentucky 46 South Carolina 76, Mississippi 42 Texas-Arlington 67, Coastal Carolina 64 UAB 69, Old Dominion 61 UT Martin 77, Jacksonville St. 72 UTEP 70, FAU 44 Virginia 79, Boston College 77
SOUTHWEST Arkansas St. 69, South Alabama 58 UALR 76, Troy 72 FAR WEST Arizona 69, Washington 59 Arizona St. 61, Washington St. 46 Hawaii 70, UC Irvine 68 Idaho 76, Montana 68 Loyola Marymount 69, Santa Clara 60 Montana St. 61, E. Washington 47 N. Arizona 81, Idaho St. 77 New Mexico St. 61, CS Bakersfield 48 Pacific 70, San Diego 53 Pepperdine 72, San Francisco 66 Portland St. 74, Sacramento St. 58 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 78, BYU 75 UC Davis 70, UC Santa Barbara 44 UC Riverside 62, Cal St.-Fullerton 59 Weber St. 67, S. Utah 66
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Monroe 42 The Nikiski girls picked up a nonconference victory Thursday at Monroe Catholic to improve to 14-2 overall this season. Monroe is a fellow Class 3A school but competes in the Aurora Conference, meaning the two programs could potentially meet at the Class 3A state tournament in March. Bethany Carstens poured in 24 points to lead Nikiski, including 14 in the fourth quarter, and Kelsey Clark added six points. Katie Bast paced the Rams with 19 points and Grace Hodges chipped in 11. The Bulldogs grabbed the advantage early with a 9-1 lead in the first quarter, but the Rams kept the Bulldogs honest as Nikiski’s lead dwindled to 17-14 at halftime. Monroe boys 62, Nikiski 22 In the boys game, Isaac Garcia propelled the Rams to a blowout win with 18 points and four 3-pointers. Quinn McHenry chipped in by scoring all 12 of his points in the first quarter and Izak Lohrke added 15. Cody Handley and Michael Eiter paced the Bulldogs with six points each, and senior guard Jace Kornstad was held to four points. The Rams raced out to leads of 25-4 in the first quarter and 42-10 at halftime. Thursday girls Lynx 56, Stars 49 Soldotna 13 11 18 7 —49 Dimond 13 13 18 12 —56 SOLDOTNA (49) — McGillivray 2, Buckbee 0, Blossom 12, A. Schmidt 6, Bouschor 0, Tuisaula 13, Holland 2, Crosby-Schneider 0, D. Schmidt 14. DIMOND (56) — Rogers 8, Martinez 0, Schuster 3, Camacho-Villafuerte 4, Roth 0, Parker 1, Rabb 2, K. Pili 0, A. Pili 38. 3-point FG — Soldotna 4 (Blossom 2, D. Schmidt 2); Dimond 4 (A. Pili 3, Schuster 1). Team fouls — Soldotna 12; Dimond 8. Fouled out — none. Sitka 50, Seward 33 Sitka 5 12 13 20 —50 Seward 9 6 6 11 —33 SITKA (50) — Smith 2, Elefante 9, Vidad 9, Jensen 2, Morrison 13, Smith 0, McArthur 4, Forrester 9, Brady 0, Davis 2. SEWARD (33) — Lemme 2, Ambrosiani 2, Schilling 4, Von Borstel 12, Sieverts 4, Jackson 2, Casagranda 0, Sewell 7. 3-point FG — Sitka 1 (Vidad); Seward 1 (Von Borstel). Team fouls — Sitka 16; Seward 12. Fouled out — Sieverts, Ambrosiani. Galena 37, Homer 20 Galena 12 13 7 5 —37 Homer 8 0 9 3 —20 GALENA (37) — Green 20, Tinker 2, Green 10, Cordello 1, Beans 4. HOMER (20) — Rhodes 0, Inama 0,
Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 40 16 .714 — Boston 35 20 .636 4½ Philadelphia 34 20 .630 5 Brooklyn 29 27 .518 11 New York 10 43 .189 28½ Southeast Division Charlotte 26 28 .481 — Miami 25 27 .481 — Orlando 23 32 .418 3½ Washington 22 32 .407 4 Atlanta 18 36 .333 8 Central Division Milwaukee 40 13 .755 — Indiana 36 19 .655 5 Detroit 24 29 .453 16 Chicago 12 42 .222 28½ Cleveland 11 43 .204 29½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Houston 32 22 .593 — San Antonio 32 25 .561 1½ Dallas 25 28 .472 6½ New Orleans 24 31 .436 8½ Memphis 22 34 .393 11 Northwest Division Denver 37 17 .685 — Oklahoma City 35 19 .648 2 Portland 33 21 .611 4 Utah 31 24 .564 6½ Minnesota 25 29 .463 12 Pacific Division Golden State 38 15 .717 — L.A. Clippers 30 26 .536 9½ Sacramento 28 26 .519 10½ L.A. Lakers 28 27 .509 11 Phoenix 11 45 .196 28½ Thursday’s Games Indiana 116, L.A. Clippers 92 Orlando 122, Minnesota 112 Toronto 119, Atlanta 101 L.A. Lakers 129, Boston 128 Oklahoma City 117, Memphis 95 Portland 127, San Antonio 118 Friday’s Games Cleveland at Washington, 3 p.m. Denver at Philadelphia, 3 p.m. New York at Detroit, 3 p.m. Chicago at Brooklyn, 3:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. Golden State at Phoenix, 5 p.m. Minnesota at New Orleans, 5:30 p.m. Miami at Sacramento, 6 p.m. Saturday’s Games San Antonio at Utah, 1 p.m. Cleveland at Indiana, 3 p.m. Charlotte at Atlanta, 3:30 p.m. Toronto at New York, 3:30 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Boston, 4 p.m. New Orleans at Memphis, 4 p.m. Washington at Chicago, 4 p.m. Oklahoma City at Houston, 4:30 p.m. Orlando at Milwaukee, 5 p.m.
Bishop 4, Johnson 8, Bales 5, Doughty 3, Todd 0, Parish 0, Carroll 0. 3-point FG — Galena 7 (P. Green 4, N. Green 3); Homer 1 (Johnson). Team fouls — Galena 14; Homer 16. Fouled out — none. Eagles 62, Wolverines 28 Sand Point 19 15 16 12 —62 Ninilchik 10 4 5 9 —28 SAND POINT (62) — Lundgren 11, Gardner 20, Gundersen 0, Karlsen 3, Osterback 0, L. Holmberg 9, A. Holmberg 19. NINILCHIK (28) — Okonek 7, Jasper 0, Calabrese 2, Robuck 13, Corey 0, Koch 3, Calabrese 0, Denboer 2, Okonek 1. 3-point FG — Sand Point 4 (Gardner 2, L. Holmberg 1, A. Holmberg 1); Ninilchik 2 (Robuck 1, Koch 1). Team fouls — Sand Point 12; Ninilchik 18. Fouled out — Corey. Thursday boys
Eagles 72, Wolverines 68 Sand Point 25 18 21 8 —72 Ninilchik 22 12 12 22 —68 SAND POINT (72) — Webster 11, Larsen 12, Golovin 7, Smith 41, Griffin 0, Rohel 0, Hadraki 0, Cumberlidge 1. NINILCHIK (68) — Hadro 18, Koch 28, Clark 11, More 0, Lemons 0, Moto 2, Nelson 9. 3-point FG — Sand Point 9 (Smith 6, Larsen 2, Golovin 1); Ninilchik 10 (Hadro 5, Koch 4, Nelson 1). Team fouls — Sand Point 12; Ninilchik 11. Fouled out — Clark, Golovin. Galena 45, Homer 41 Galena 13 9 6 17 —45 Homer 16 7 15 3 —41 GALENA (45) — Fitka 3, Bergeron 0, Moore 0, Moses 12, Waska 2, Riddle 13, Carlo 0, Wightman 12, Riddle 3. HOMER (41) — Beachy 4, Adkins 11, Reutov 6, McGhee 0, Raymond 0, Anderson 5, Knapp 7, McGhee 1, Swoboda 7. 3-point FG — Galena 6 (Moses 4, Fitka 1, Riddle 1); Homer 2 (Knapp 1, Swoboda 1). Team fouls — Galena 10; Homer 17. Fouled out — Swoboda. Seward 63, Sitka 51 Sitka 17 9 10 15 —51 Seward 14 9 20 20 —63 SITKA (51) — Demmert 0, Daimag 3, Eubanks 11, Taccad 6, Simic 7, Flores 13, Morrison 2, Lass 9. SEWARD (63) — Basalo 3, Spanos 17, Koster 12, Moriarty 7, Cronin 0, Ingalls 3, Pfeiffenberger 9, Jarvis 2, Nilsson 10. 3-point FG — Sitka 6 (Flores 3, Simic 1, Eubanks 2); Seward 6 (Pfeiffenberger 3, Koster 2, Ingalls 1). Team fouls — Sitka 17; Seward 15. Fouled out — Koster.
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we worked on last week in practice,” Petrich said. Forward Trey LaBarge played a big role in Friday’s 3-2 shootout win, scoring two power-play goals, and after that game he said what the Bears had done on the power play had been drilled so well in practice that he was able to do it without thinking about it. Petrich said the Bears worked on putting the puck in specific areas and figuring out how to mount scoring chances from there. “When I coached goalies, I looked at it like they were the toolbox and I was trying to give them as many tools as possible,” Petrich said. “That’s what I was trying to do here, trying to give them tools to score.” Even with the sweep, the Bears have still scored the second fewest goals in the league. They managed to get the two wins while scoring just four goals in six periods and an overtime. Petrich said the signs are there for the team to start scoring more goals. He said the Bears are creating good chances, now they just have to capitalize on them. “Part of what we talked about in the second intermission Friday is you can go out there and do everything right, but if you don’t believe it, it’s not going to happen,” he said. “Those two wins helped with more belief in the locker room and more momentum in the locker room.” In Saturday’s 2-1 victory, both goals came from defensemen. Three of the Bears’ top seven scorers are defensemen, but Petrich is not concerned with the play of his forwards. “Both plays (Saturday) were made by forwards, that’s just what they were leaving open,” Petrich said. “All three goals Friday came from forwards.” The Bears need momentum because the Springfield (Illinois) Jr. Blues have picked up 13 points in their last eight games and now have a 12-point lead over the Bears (14-22-2-2) in the race for the final playoff spot in the Midwest Division. Corpus Christi is 21-21-1-0 and is two points ahead of Topeka for the final playoff spot out of the South Division. Oct. 26 and 27 in Texas, the IceRays defeated the Bears 3-1 and 5-2 in what Petrich called the team’s worst weekend of the season. “Video didn’t do justice to their style of play,” Petrich said. “It’s north-south, fastpaced and they execute on the rush.” Petrich said there are always new wrinkles when teams come to the sports complex, which has the only Olympic-sized ice sheet in the league. The most important fact may be the IceRays have lost six of seven. “We expect a super desperate team that’s going to be tough to play against,” Petrich said. Bears notes: There will be a raffle this weekend to help Terry and Michell Johnston with medical costs. Michell Johnston was diagnosed with a brain tumor early this year. The prize in the raffle, which is $10 per ticket, is a trip for two to watch the Brown Bears play in Fairbanks from March 28 to 30. The package includes two roundtrip tickets from Kenai to Fairbanks, three nights at a hotel, a rental car for the trip and two tickets to all three games. The winner will be drawn in the third period Saturday. “Michell and Terry have been so gracious to the Brown Bears and are a huge part of our family,” Petrich wrote in a text message. “Anything we and this community can do to help them will be greatly appreciated. “It is tough to see great people going through hard times, but we know how tough they are and our thoughts and prayers are always with them.” … The Brown Bears have traded defenseman Johan Bok to the Bismarck (North Dakota) Bobcats for assets. Petrich said the move was made to give Bok the opportunity to showcase himself more to Division I schools.
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Bathroom peeping tom stuns retirement home employee is that of a 4-year-old. She may suffer from dementia. While the woman may have had good judgment in her younger years, clearly she does not now. It may be the reason she is living in that retirement community. I’m curious about Abigail Van Buren how your supervisor reacted when you told her what happened. If you cannot move beyond the trauma, talk to the director of the home and ask for counseling so you can regain some perspective. Filing a police report may not be the way to go. DEAR ABBY: My wife and I are getting ready to retire. We are both employed and will have continued access to health insurance through our employers in retirement. My insurance covers her even if I predecease her, unless she remarries. My wife now says she wants to carry her own health insurance because she feels she might want to remarry sometime after my death. Her new interest about remarrying bothers me, and I feel somewhat guilty about that.
What has me depressed is the question of who she would want to be buried beside -- her new husband or me. We have been married for 38 years, and the possibility of having a final resting place without her seems very lonely and like I am being rejected. It almost feels like a divorce. These are thoughts and feelings I can neither shake off nor rationalize. Your thoughts? -- LIFE GOES ON DEAR LIFE GOES ON: Your wife is trying to keep her options open, which, although it isn’t sentimental, makes sense. There are no guarantees that if you predecease her, she will be swept off her feet, so you may be worrying needlessly. If you haven’t told her how you feel, it might put your mind at ease if you do. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. Good advice for everyone -- teens to seniors -- is in “The Anger in All of Us and How to Deal With It.” To order, send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $8 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Anger Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.) Hints from Heloise
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, Feb. 8, 2019: This year, you evolve, becoming more upbeat and content than you have been in a while. Honor this change and flow with it rather than bucking it off. If single, you might have to work on keeping that status. You might be in the process of defining what kind of relationship you desire. If attached, the two of you will be more impulsive. You might travel more, incorporating a special, long-desired vacation. PISCES understands you nearly better than you do. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHHH Perhaps because it is Friday, you notice that others seem indulgent and quite happy. Make the most of the festivities. Know that both you and others might go overboard celebrating the end of the workweek. Tonight: Do as you like. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH You could be less festive and upbeat than friends and loved ones. You have a lot on your mind, which you might need to work through. Your emotions run high, whether greeting a difficult or pleasant situation. Tonight: Take some much-needed personal time. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Your friends cannot leave you alone. Some of them might want to make plans. Others want to share some news. In either case, you do not mind. You like catching up on others’ news. You draw out a specific friend. Tonight: Be where the crowds are. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH A vital appearance cannot be postponed if someone does not want to go along with a request. Do not push so hard to get your way. “No” means “no.” Honor this person’s feelings. Meanwhile, take the lead with a project. Tonight: Get into TGIF mode. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Others promote the idea that you go with them for a day outing, maybe not today, but in the near future. You’ll find that it will draw you and others closer. Conversations revolve around plans, your caring for a special person and fun times about to happen. Tonight: Live it up.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH One-on-one relating draws you in closer to the other party. Be more indulgent and caring with a child or special person. You make more of a difference to this person than you realize. Be as sensitive to others as you are to this person. Tonight: Be a duo. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH You fall into a rhythm with others. Though someone could be singing the blues, most others around you express an upbeat, content mood. Allow your immediate circle the space and time to be jubilant around you. Tonight: Anything goes -- within reason. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Pace yourself and clear out a problem. Others could be distracting you from your focus, as they might be doing a happy dance in the background. Work through a hassle. Others seem willing to talk and negotiate. Tonight: Head home early. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH You will not stay down for long, no matter what happens. Your lucky and fun personality breaks past problems, helping you let go. Hook up with your friends. Allow your more kidlike personality to emerge. Tonight: Act as if you’re a teenager again. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You might opt to stay close to home, despite an inclination to go out and meet up with friends. You discover that others want to visit with you. Make calls; reach out for a dear friend when you can. Take time to catch up or get together. Tonight: Just be you. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You might believe that you have caught up with someone and his or her news. But others seek you out to catch up on your news and share their recent events. If you need private, quiet time, turn off your ringer. Tonight: Meet a friend for TGIF. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Be aware of someone’s efforts to communicate with you. You could be too busy to take a break, but somehow let this person know that you want to catch up and hear his or her news. Tonight: You’re all smiles as you greet TGIF and friends. BORN TODAY Actor James Dean (1931), author Jules Verne (1828), actor Jack Lemmon (1925)
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Localized knowledge Dear Heloise: My husband and I always plan a vacation far enough ahead so we can read up on the LOCAL CUSTOMS, learn a few words in the native language and find out where things are and how to get there. By learning what is acceptable and what is not, we’ve saved ourselves a lot of embarrassing moments. -- Tom and Joyce M., Tampa, Fla. DOES THAT FIRE EXTINGUISHER WORK? Dear Heloise: We recently had a fire in our kitchen. I pulled out a fire extinguisher we had in a cabinet, and it didn’t work! Please advise your readers to make sure they have a fire extinguisher handy AND that it works properly. Here are some other things we have learned: * Check online to see if you have a fire extinguisher model that’s been recalled. Some have been recalled due to clogging. * Make sure you have the correct size and type for your home. * For a rechargeable extinguisher, have it serviced once a year. * Always pull out the safety pin before operating the squeeze handle. * Aim at the base of the fire, using a sweeping motion. -- Fred A., Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii TATTOO REMOVAL Dear Heloise: It’s not uncommon for people to regret getting a tattoo. They should know that they will get the best results with a laser removal, but it will take more than one session, especially if there is color, such as green, red or yellow. Yes, it’s painful, due to the impact energy from the laser pulse, and laser removal can be quite expensive. Think before you ink! -- Ginger H. in San Francisco
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DEAR ABBY: Something happened at work that has me traumatized. I work at a retirement house for a convent. The nuns are sweet, kind and easy to get along with. But last week while I was using the bathroom, a nun decided to be a Peeping Tom while I was on the toilet. She laughed at me in a taunting manner saying, “I can see you!” I screamed at her to stop, but she just kept looking and laughing at me. When she finally left, I was in shock. I reported the nun to my supervisor as soon as I could, but later in the day I was still so humiliated and upset that I ended up having an anxiety attack. I can’t stop thinking about it. It left me feeling disgusted with the nun and with myself. I want to report her to the police, but I don’t want drama at work. This is my only source of income. I need my job in order to provide for my kids, but I no longer feel comfortable working in a place where there are perverted nuns who don’t respect people’s privacy. What do I do? I’m confused and angry, spending my days in my home crying and contemplating whether to file a police report. Please give me some advice. -- TRAUMATIZED IN THE EAST DEAR TRAUMATIZED: I hope you realize that the behavior the retired nun exhibited
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