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Vol. 49, Issue 104

In the news Regents board nominee withdraws amid social media scrutiny FAIRBANKS — A University of Alaska Board of Regents nominee who faced criticism for social media posts has withdrawn from consideration for the job.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports Tammy Randolph shared the letter she sent to Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Wednesday.

Randolph, in the letter, says she did not want to distract from the board’s business. She says she was grateful for the opportunity but decided her family and her businesses in Fairbanks must take precedence.

Her appointment was subject to legislative confirmation.

Randolph previously apologized for “rude and severe language” on her Twitter feed. The paper reported that posts and retweets on her feed included referring to former first lady Michelle Obama as a man.

Randolph could not immediately be reached for comment by The Associated Press after hours Wednesday.

AG says he can set aside personal views JUNEAU— Alaska’s attorney general says he can set aside his personal views on issues like abortion in performing his duties.

During a confirmation hearing Tuesday, Kevin Clarkson said the attorney general’s job is to respect the law, not bring personal views to work.

The longtime attorney has handled an array of cases. But his work on cases involving social issues has drawn attention, with some gay rights and abortion rights advocates raising concerns.

Clarkson has said he helped draft the 1998 state constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. But he notes the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage is now the law.

He says the right to abortion is protected under the Alaska constitution’s privacy provision.

Several fellow attorneys praised Clarkson’s skills and professionalism.

— Associated Press

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ACLU bills borough $80,000

Dunleavy amendments Borough must pay legal fees for failed invocation lawsuit look to issue.”

Lance Hunt, an athe- shift power ist, Iris Fontana, a member of The Kenai Peninsula BorThe Satanic Temple, and Elise away from ough will pay $80,000 in atBoyer, a member of the small lawmakers torney’s fees to the American Jewish community in Homer,

By MICHAEL ARMSTRONG Homer News

Civil Liberties Union-Alaska as a result of the borough’s failed attempt to defend the assembly’s former invocation policy. It also will pay $401.65 in court costs.

In a Stipulation and Order agreed upon by the borough and the ACLU-Alaska, and signed by Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson on Jan. 25, the borough agreed to pay the fees and to not appeal Peterson’s decision that the invocation policy was unconstitutional.

“It’s frustrating to have

Community member Kalliste Edeen offers an invocation at the Tuesday, Jan. 8 Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion) had to spend so much taxpayer sents the lower peninsula. “I money,” said Assembly mem- think this will be the last bill we ber Willy Dunne, who repre- have to pay on the invocation

challenged the former policy in October 2016 after they were denied the chance to give an invocation because they did not belong to official organizations with an established presence on the peninsula — one of the requirements for a person to give an invocation under the former policy.

With the assistance of the ACLU-Alaska, the plaintiffs filed a suit alleging the invocation policy violated the establishment clause, free speech See FEES, page A2

Cops and citizens meet for coffee

By BRIAN MAZUREK Peninsula Clarion

With everyone relaxing on couches, sipping coffee and sharing their mutual frustration with LED headlights, the only things that separated the police from the community Wednesday morning were the badges and uniforms.

Law enforcement officers and peninsula residents were gathered at the Ammo Can coffeehouse for candid conversations over freshly brewed coffee.

The Soldotna Police, Kenai Police and Alaska State Troopers organized the community outreach program — aptly named “Coffee with a Cop” — as an opportunity for citizens to discuss their questions and concerns with officers without needing to fill out a

Kenai Police Chief David Ross answers questions from citizens at Ammo Can Coffee in Soldotna on Wednesday. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

form or flag down a patrol car.

Several representatives

from each police department were present at the event, including Soldotna

Chief Pete Mylnarik, Kenai Chief David Ross and CapSee COP, page A2

By ALEX MCCARTHY Juneau Empire

Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s trio of constitutional amendments released Wednesday followed up on his campaign promises, but there’s doubt even within his own party about whether the amendments can get enough support in this session to become law.

The theme of all three amendments, Dunleavy said in a press conference Wednesday, is to shift power from the Legislature to the people.

“We are limiting the Legislature,” Dunleavy said.

“That’s the purpose of the Constitution.”

The first of the three amendments would protect the Permanent Fund Dividend, guarding it from appropriations, the Legislature or a governor’s veto. Any changes to the PFD formula would require a vote of the people.

The second proposed amendment states that any new tax or tax rate increase passed by the Legislature would also require a vote from the people. It also requires that any new tax or tax increase passed by voters on a ballot initiative would also require approval by the Legislature.

The final amendment unveiled Wednesday would essentially establish a spending cap for the state. The cap would be the result of a formula that uses a three-year average of state spending, See GOV , page A3

Mine closure could serve as cautionary tale for Alaska

By ALEX MCCARTHY Juneau Empire

In the wake of a prominent British Columbia mine ceasing operations, some in Southeast Alaska have expressed concerns about what it signals for the region’s future.

B.C. company Imperial Metals announced earlier this month that the Mount Polley Mine will stop production indefinitely due to declining copper prices. The mine became well known in 2014 after the dam on its tailings pond broke and dumped years of mining waste into nearby Polley Lake and rivers in the watershed.

The mine isn’t closing for good, according to the announcement, and that op-

The wall of the Red Chris tailings pond is a little less than 350 feet, or about the height of a 35-story building.

(Courtesy Photo | Garth Lenz via Salmon State)

erations will resume “once the economics of mining at Mount Polley improve.” The announcement also stated that the company will continue its economic monitoring and

mitigation efforts.

Imperial Metals — which also owns the Red Chris and Huckleberry mines and half owns the Ruddock Creek Mine, all in B.C. — has had

Refuge spared shutdown damage

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

After 35 days of a partial federal government shutdown, the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is back on its normal schedule.

Across the country, many public lands remained open for residents to use. Joshua Tree National Park in California was forced to close midshutdown after the park was vandalized. The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge See SPARE, page A3

well publicized financial issues lately, as detailed in a September report from the Empire. Through the end of September 2018, the company reported a net loss of more than $61 million in U.S. currency ($81 million Canadian) during 2018.

The company also reported debt of $658.5 million U.S. ($873.8 million Canadian), according to its third-quarter report for 2018. According to a December 2018 report from Reuters, Imperial Metals’ stock has fallen for five consecutive years and the stock was down 63 percent in 2018 alone.

Looking for stronger regulations The company’s overall financial status has Alaska conservationists and even one of

See MINE, page A3

Coast Guard searches for overdue medical flight

By MOLLIE BARNES Juneau Empire

Paved sidewalks and trails are maintained at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge in Soldotna, on Wednesday, after the partial government shutdown ended last week.

(Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

the state’s U.S. senators concerned.

Jill Weitz, the director of environmental advocacy group Salmon Beyond Borders, cautioned that outdated B.C. mining regulations could allow for a mining company to declare bankruptcy and walk away without being responsible for cleaning up the mining materials left behind.

“We hope that that’s not the case,” Weitz said. “We hope that they’ll be held to ensuring proper mitigation and closure of the site. Again, that stuff doesn’t exist in (British Columbia’s) regulatory framework at this time.”

Over the years, many have pointed out problems with the province’s regulations. Canadian economist Robyn Allan

Debris from a plane has been located in the water approximately 22 miles west of Kake, near the south tip of Admiralty Island in Chatham Strait.

However, the Coast Guard cannot confirm the debris is from the medical airplane that went missing on Tuesday with three people aboard while en route to pick up a patient in Kake, said U.S. Coast

Guard Chief Petty Officer Charly Hengen.

“We have received reports of debris in the water and are concentrating search efforts near that area,” said Captain Stephen White, Coast Guard Sector Juneau commander in a press release.

“Through our coordinated efforts with all involved we continue to actively search, we are thankful for the assistance rendered.”

See FLIGHT, page A3

A2 | Thursday, January 31, 2019 | Peninsula Clarion AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

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tain Maurice Hughes with the Alaska State Troopers.

Around two dozen members of the community visited the coffeehouse during the scheduled time, each with their own areas of concern.

Some people asked for clarification about traffic laws; others wanted to know about the departments’ hiring and recruitment processes, and a few simply came to tell the officers to keep up the good work.

“I really appreciate what

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clause and equal protection clause of the Alaska Constitution. Peterson ruled in October 2018 that the borough’s invocation policy violates the establishment clause, which refers to the mandate in the Constitution banning the government from establishing an official religion or favoring one religion or belief over another.

“The Resolution is inclusive of tax-exempt religious association(s) serving residents of the borough. It is not inclusive of every religious view or belief practiced by the residents of the Kenai Peninsula Borough,” Peterson wrote in his decision.

“Plaintiffs Hunt, Fontana, and Boyer are all examples of borough residents whose religions’ values are excluded and disfavored by the Resolution.”

After Peterson’s decision, the assembly voted not to appeal and changed its invocation policy to make it more inclusive. Now anyone can sign up with the clerk’s office to make an invocation. Dunne noted that recent invocations have included a nature-based talk by a Wiccan and a talk by a yoga teacher that included breathing exercises.

In January 2017, the assembly passed a resolution appropriating $50,000 to an account to defend its former

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they’re doing here,” said a man who attends church with one of the officers.

“I’m just here for support.”

One man had with him a number of photos and documents related to a specific case that he felt was mishandled by police and other agencies. While not directly involved, he has nonetheless been fighting passionately for months for justice in the case. He used the meetup as an opportunity to air his grievances directly, and many of the officers present took the time to listen to his story and look over related documents and case files he brought with him.

Capt. Hughes spoke about the importance of of-

ficers getting to know the community they are sworn to protect and serve.

“People knowing you makes the job a lot easier,” Hughes said, and explained that people more readily trust and respect the officers when they know them on a personal level.

Officer Mike Zweifel also spoke on the concept of respect and said that with regards to policing, respect has to be a two-way street.

“The way we approach people makes all the difference,” Zweifel explained.

He used as an example the issue of ATV riders creating dust clouds in the summer that reduce visibility on the highways.

While technically not illegal, the dust clouds can still cause dangerous road conditions. Zweifel said that he has approached ATV riders and politely explained to them what happens when they kick up too much dust.

Most of the riders, according to Zweifel, were not even aware of the problem.

No citations were issued and no one was arrested, but the riders were more conscious of their actions and the roads became a little clearer as a result.

People who were asked felt that the event was beneficial and productive, and the citizens have encouraged the officers to do more events like it in the future.

invocation policy. The borough later entered into a contract with the Alliance Defending Freedom — a Scottsdale, Arizona, based religious rights organization — to defend it in the Hunt et al. lawsuit. The alliance provided legal support through Anchorage attorney Kevin Clarkson, now the Alaska Attorney General, who then was in practice with the law firm of Brena, Bell & Clarkson.

To pay the balance of the $80,401.65 in attorney’s fees and court costs due the ACLUAlaska, at its Feb. 2 meeting, the assembly will consider an ordinance, 2018-19-29, appropriating another $70,400 from the general fund to that account — meaning the borough has spent almost $40,000 from that account to defend the invocation policy. If the $70,400 appropriation passes, the borough will have spent $120,400 on defending the Hunt et al. lawsuit, according to Brenda Ahlberg, borough community and fiscal projects manager.

In the whereas clauses, the ordinance notes that Hunt et al. could recover attorneys’ fees and costs under Alaska law saying the court shall award such fees “to a party that prevails in a civil action asserting the establishment, protection or enforcement of a civil right under the United States Constitution or the Constitution of the State of Alaska.” It also notes the ACLU-Alaska agreed to reduce its fees.

Under its contract with the borough, the alliance agreed to donate time for its attorney fees to offset the cost of defending the Hunt et. al lawsuit. That didn’t include the other side’s fees in the event the borough lost, said Brett Harvey, lead counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom in Scottsdale.

“Ethical rules prevent us to cover them in the event the court orders them to pay for the other side’s attorney fees,” Harvey said Monday.

Borough attorney Colette Thompson confirmed that. In an email, she wrote that ADF’s agreement included a provision stating it would not be responsible for payment of the plaintiffs’ fees and costs.

“This is consistent with the Rules of Professional Conduct that govern attorneys, which preclude an attorney from agreeing to indemnify a client for costs and fees ordered by a court to be paid to the other side of litigation,” Thompson wrote.

The borough also entered into a separate agreement with Brena, Bell & Clarkson (BBC) in which it agreed to pay fees and costs not paid for by ADF, Thompson wrote.

“The ADF was not obligated to pay BBC’s attorney’s fees and costs, but did pay a significant portion of them through its internal grant program,” Thompson wrote.

Harvey said the alliance would have gone forward with an appeal if the borough had

wanted to. Dunne also recovered $10,000 in attorney’s fees when he challenged a clause in the alliance contract he said prohibited him from writing an opinion piece about the former invocation policy. Added together, the borough has spent at least $130,400 in legal and other fees related to the invocation policy.

“We could have hired a couple of teachers for that,” Dunne said. “It’s frustrating.”

After Hunt et al. filed their lawsuit, Dunne and Assembly member Kelly Cooper, who represents Homer and Kachemak City, tried to either eliminate the invocation or pass a more inclusive invocation policy. Those efforts failed, and the current inclusive policy didn’t happen until after the lawsuit ended.

“That’s how we got to where are today,” Cooper said of the latest bill.

Cooper said many of her constituents favored either no invocation or something like a moment of silence, but that the more inclusive, constitutionally allowable invocation was the one that had the votes to pass.

“Sometimes we have to reach that compromise we can all live with,” she said. “It’s always been my position that everyone can give the invocation or no one. I continue to believe that.”

Reach Michael Armstrong at marmstrong@ homernews.com.

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Teresa Ann Werner

Candi Lee Isaak (Uribe)

June 29, 1956 - January 12, 2019

May 17, 1961 - January 7, 2019

Teresa Ann Werner of Depoe Bay, Oregon, died Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019, at Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital after a three-year battle with breast cancer. She was 62.

Teresa was born June 29, 1956, in Spokane, Washington, to Simon and Patricia Werner, where Teresa was raised along with one sister and one brother.

In 1990, Teresa began working for the United States Postal Service in Kasilof, Alaska; she worked at several post offices over the course of 25 years, retiring as the Post Master of Depoe Bay. In 2011, Teresa started her business, “Worthy Garments,” in Grants Pass, Oregon. She had a passion for sewing and fashion her entire life; her love of fine clothing led to the opening of her business.

In 2017, Teresa wrote, illustrated, and published the book, “CELLTOONS: The Story of Cancer at a Cellular Level.” This book can be found in numerous hospitals, dispensaries, post offices, and establishments throughout Oregon. In 2017 and 2018, she wrote articles for Cozy by Sweet Starlight. As an author, she used writing to send positive messages and express her creativity.

She died in the company of her mother, Pat Werner. Her last days were spent with her daughter, Hetta Quade. She was known as an exceptionally kind and creative woman, often giving gifts and cards to others, with a special warmth and love.

Teresa is survived by children Wesley Wade Theodore Quade of Homer, Alaska, Wyatt Will Simon Quade of Copperas Cove, Texas, Hetta O’Della Susan Quade of Augusta, Georgia; sister Janice Werner of Vancouver, Wash., mother Patricia Werner, brother Robert Werner, and nephews Alex and Kyle Werner of Spokane, Washington.

She was preceded in death by former husband of 20 years Paul Quade and father Simon Werner.

Private Services will be held at a later date.

Condolences may be sent to 822 Turning Leaf Circle Augusta, GA 30909.

Arrangements were made by Pacific View Memorial Chapel in Otis, Oregon.

Our Beloved Our Beloved Daughter, Sister, and friend Candi Lee Isaak Went on to her eternal rest all too soon.

Born in Seattle Washington, raised in Walla Walla Washington and longtime resident of Kenai Ak.

She left behind mother Amy Selby of Walla Walla WA, Father Bill and his wife Sharon Schwalm, Joseph and Irene Selby, Scott, Elizabeth, Thomas and Debra Isaak, as well as Sara and Yussef. Friends Mike and Sherrie Reid, and Don Weller.

Services will be held on Feb 9th @ 1:00 pm at

Peninsula Memorial Chapel, 5839 Kenai Spur Hwy. Kenai.

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Federal accident investigators have reviewed the radar flight information.

Clint Johnson, chief of the National Transportation Safety Board in Alaska, said no clues have been immediately found in the electronic search Wednesday of archived data showing the flight pattern of the missing King Air 200 plane operated by Guardian Flight.

“The electronic locating transmitter on the aircraft is not broadcasting,” Randy Lyman, senior vice president of operations for Guardian Flight, said in an interview with the Empire Wednesday.

The search for the plane is still ongoing. The plane

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wrote in a 2017 report to the Alaska Legislature that the “dysfunctional” environmental assessment and monitoring system in B.C. “places the environment and the public on both sides of the Canadian and U.S. borders at serious long-term risk.”

Imperial Metals’ financial situation could threaten the operations of the Red Chris Mine as well, which sits in the Stikine River’s watershed.

The Stikine River supports an average annual run of about 40,000 adult Chinook salmon, according to the Empire’s report in September.

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and lawmakers could only exceed that amount by a small amount. That amount of increase would be either 2 percent or an amount determined by the state’s inflation or population change, whichever is smaller.

The amendment would also establish a new savings fund called the Constitutional Savings Fund, which would require only a 51 percent majority from the Legislature if

had taken off from Anchorage on Tuesday and was expected to land in Kake at 6:19 p.m., but never arrived.

“We don’t know where the aircraft is yet,” said Hengen in a Wednesday morning interview with Empire.

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Anacapa and an Air Station Sitka MH60 Jayhawk helicopter crew continue the search, along with a Juneau-based Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 rescue helicopter, Guardian Flight spokesman Jim Gregory said. The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Bailey Barco was en route to the search area at 1 p.m. on Wednesday. Others helping with the search are Petersburg Search and Rescue, Kake Search and Rescue.

The Coast Guard said Alaska state ferries also have joined in the search.

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was spared any major vandalism, Steve Miller, deputy refuge manager said.

“There were no major incidents to report,” Miller said. “We’re still trying to dig out of the snow though.”

Out of any time of the year, he said January was the best time for the shutdown to happen. Most visitors come to the refuge in the summertime. The roads weren’t maintained, which could have also prevented visitors from getting to the refuge.

Residents who entered

the refuge cleaned up after themselves, Miller said.

“It’s mostly local people who were using (the refuge) and they did a good job of taking care of it,” Miller said.

Visitors helped to clean refuge cabins, which are normally maintained by refuge staff.

“It seems like people sort of adopted the cabins,” Miller said. “It looks like people did an exceptional job of cleaning up after themselves, and leaving the cabins ready for the next visitor.”

The refuge’s winter hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday. The refuge is closed Sundays, Mondays and federal holidays.

‘Show Us Your Heart’ exhibit Come join us at Kenai Fine Art Center for the February exhibit opening of “Show Us Your Heart.” The opening reception is Feb 7, 5-7 p.m. Refreshments, music, free and open to the public. The Kenai Fine Art Center is located across from the Oiler’s Bingo Hall and next to the Historic Cabins. Call 283-7040 or visit www.kenaifineart. com. The show will hang until Feb. 28.

Winter blues? Itching for spring? Courtney Ruckel of Forget-Me-Not Nursery in Indian will enchant us with how to enjoy tulip and crocus blooms through the spring snow, and sedum or other beautiful varieties late into the fall. Bring a list of your garden favorites and of varieties you’d love to have but can’t find. Free and open to the public; bring a ‘Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka’ friend! Refreshments and sometimes door prizes. Tuesday, Kenai Performers presents “Roald Dahl’s Willy Feb. 12 from 7-8:30 p.m. at Peninsula Grace Church, 44175 Wonka” on Feb. 21, 22, 23, 24, Feb. 28 and March 1, 2, Kalifornsky Beach Road (at Mile 19.5, across the road from 3 at the Renee C. Henderson Auditorium at Kenai CenCraig Taylor Equipment), Soldotna. tral High School. 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m.

Sunday matinee. $26 General Admission, $21 Children, Kenai Soil & Water Board Meeting Seniors, Military and $16 Thursday Economy nights.

The monthly meeting of the Kenai Soil & Water Con- Tickets available online, at River City Books, The Flats servation District’s Board of Supervisors will be held Bistro, Curtain Call Consignment Boutique, and at the Wednesday, Feb. 6, 5:30 to 7:30 pm, at the District of- door. Call 252-6808 or 398-4205 or visit www.kenaiperfice located at 110 Trading Bay, Suite 140. For informa- formers.org tion, call 283-8732 x5.

Pink for Pako cancer fundraiser A fundraiser in support of Pako Whannell will take place on Saturday, Feb. 2 from 2-5 p.m. at the Kenai Visitor Center. Taco bar $5 under 13 yars, $7 adults.

Live music with Eric Doucet. Auctions, split the pot, raffle.

Caregiver Support Meeting

Local Food Directory Deadline

March 1 is the deadline for farmers, fishers, local food businesses and sponsors to sign up to be included in the 2019 Kenai Loves Local Food Directory. The directory is published annually by Kenai Local Food Connection and Kenai Soil & Water Conservation District. For more information, go to www.kenaisoilandwater.org or call Heidi Chay at 283-8732 x 5.

KPC Showcase: Symphony of the Soil

Tuesday, February 5, 2019, 1:00 pm Sterling Senior A new documentary from the director of The Future Center, Caregiver Support Meeting Training: Part 2 of DVD presentation with Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAO- of Food, Symphony of Soil will be screened at 6:30pm, TA: Progression of Dementia Seeing Gems-Not Just Feb. 7, at the Kenai Peninsula College KRC McLane Loss. Training covers appropriate levels of care needed Commons. This event is free and open to the public. during different stages, which types of behaviors to expect, appropriate activity, and much more.

Al-Anon support group meetings

Soldotna Library Friends board member Join the Soldotna Library Friends Board. We have board positions waiting for a volunteer to fill them.

Contact 907-252-5812 for more information. Come to the Annual Meeting on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 2 p.m. at the Soldotna Public Library Joyce Carver Community Room.

Al-Anon support group meetings are held at the Central Peninsula Hospital in the Kasilof Room (second floor) of the River Tower building on Monday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. Park around back by the ER and enter through the River Tower entrance and follow the signs. Contact Tony Oliver at 2520558 for more information.

regulations,” Weitz said. “For the last 100 years, the mining industry has basically run the show and it’s time to change that.”

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, RAlaska, has a long history of being vocal on transboundary mining issues. As a former commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources and now a sitting senator, he’s worked for years on trying to find a balance between the economic opportunities mining presents and the environmental challenges mining brings.

In a statement to the Empire, Sullivan said the closure of the Mount Polley Mine underscores why the two federal governments must work together.

“This announcement is another reminder of the vital importance of the efforts by the Alaska delegation, along

with the U.S. Department of State, to engage with the government of Canada and British Columbia (B.C.) to push for binding protections, joint water quality monitoring and durable financial assurances related to B.C. mining,” Sullivan said in a statement to the Empire. “These action are critical to protecting our communities, watersheds, and world-class fisheries in Southeast.”

Examining the industry itself Guy Archibald, the staff scientist for the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (SEACC), said in a recent interview that Imperial Metals’ situation could serve as a cautionary tale for mines everywhere. First of all, he said, it’s extremely difficult for a mine to rebound from a disaster on the scale of the Mount Polley Mine’s dam

break, which sent almost 24 million cubic metres of waste into its watershed. The mine did not resume full operations for nearly two years.

Secondly, he said, with mines so dependent on factors outside of their control — copper prices, for example — he believes it’s hard to depend on mining for steady economic impact.

“I think that shows that not only are metal prices very volatile, and that also means jobs associated with mines are very volatile,” Archibald said.

Mike Satre, the manager of government and community relations for the Greens Creek Mine in Juneau, said via email that it’s impossible to compare the Mount Polley Mine’s situation to those in Southeast. He acknowledged that markets can be volatile, but a well run company can

survive the low points and continue to adapt.

“These conditions rise and fall due to factors beyond an operator’s control and it doesn’t matter if you are a miner, logger or fisherman, you have to be prepared for lean economic times,” Satre said in an email. “Innovation and efficiency are key to long-term survival in all industries and at Greens Creek we believe we are well situated to responsibly operate for many years to come.”

The mining sector is one of a few industries in Southeast that is experiencing economic growth, according to research firm Rain Coast Data. In its annual Southeast by the Numbers report (done for Southeast Conference), Rain Coast Data reported that mining jobs increased by 11 percent in 2017 and the mining sector is expect-

ed to continue to see modest growth.

Less than half of mining employees in Southeast actually live in Southeast, though, according to Rain Coast Data’s report. Just 47 percent of mine employees are Juneau residents, according to the Alaska Department of Labor (which defines residency as being eligible for a Permanent Fund Dividend).

Jan Trigg, public relations and IT manager for Coeur Alaska, explained that many of their departments operate on a two week on/two week off schedule, which sometimes results in people living elsewhere. Trigg said they try to hire local, and that 64 percent of their employees currently live in Alaska. Satre said 65 percent of Greens Creek’s employees live in Alaska.

lawmakers wanted to draw from it. This is compared to a three-quarter majority that’s currently required by the Constitutional Budget Reserve. Attorney General Kevin Clarkson explained at Wednesday’s press conference that while this account is easier to access, the Constitutional Savings Fund can only be used below the spending cap set by the earlier part of the amendment.

Dunleavy’s campaign leaned heavily on providing a robust PFD for Alaskans, and he has talked about finding a way to a balanced budget

that doesn’t require reducing PFDs or instituting new taxes.

The amendments square with those priorities, and Dunleavy said he believes these changes need to be made sooner rather than later to help the state out of its current economic downturn.

“This is going to right the ship,” Dunleavy said. “It’s not going to be easy, but I think intuitively, we all know it needs to be done. We need to fix this now. We don’t have tomorrow.”

Will they get enough support?

To pass an amendment into effect, it must receive two-thirds vote in each the House and Senate and then be approved by the voters in the following general election.

Dunleavy, a Republican, said he was hopeful that the amendments can get enough support from the Legislature, including the House, which

is so divided that it still hasn’t formed a majority through the first 16 days of session.

Others on both sides of the aisle aren’t confident that the amendments will get that kind of support. Sen. John Coghill, R-North Pole, said the proposed amendments do a good job of raising questions for the future, but the chances of one of them making it through the Legislature during this session are slim.

“I have a feeling that it’s going to be very difficult to get the higher majority, the two-thirds majority vote, to get it through both bodies this session,” Coghill said. “That gives us two years to look at it and probably have an engaged conversation both with the governor and with the rest of the people in Alaska.”

Coghill said one of the main questions these amendments raise is whether Alaskans want to live in a rep-

resentative democracy or a true democracy. With these amendments giving so much power to voters, Coghill said, they would signal a shift away from putting the power in the hands of elected legislators.

He said these amendments would put Legislators in a “defensive position.”

A side effect of a weaker Legislature Putting the Legislature in a weakened position, argued Rep. Matt Claman, inherently gives more power to the governor. Claman, a Democrat from Anchorage, said he believes it’s vital for the Legislature to be a check and balance to the executive branch.

“Knowing that we have a strong governor form of government, I’m very hesitant to support anything that even further limits the power of the Legislature to provide that check and balance,” Claman said in a press conference

Wednesday.

Claman didn’t want to speculate on whether the amendment would be able to get the kind of support necessary to bring it into effect, but said he’s learned in his four years in the Capitol that it’s extremely difficult to get that kind of support for a huge change like this.

There have been 28 amendments to Alaska’s constitution, but only one in the past 21 years. The most recent approved amendment was in 2004, when an amendment increased the number of districts that have to be represented on a petition for an initiative to be put on the ballot. The most recent amendment that got approval from the Legislature was in 2010 — which would have increased the number of legislators and districts — but the public voted it down.

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Freezing temps, warming earth With frigid Arctic weather

descending on tens of millions of Americans, states have declared emergencies, mail carriers are staying inside, and there’s a risk of frostbite for exposed skin in Chicago in as little as five minutes.

Little wonder that global warming is the last thing on people’s minds and that from some sectors — most notably (and predictably) the president of the United States — a familiar mocking of climate science has resumed. “What the hell is going on with Global Wa(r)ming?” Donald Trump tweeted Monday. “Please come back fast, we need you!”

Trump’s tweet might have been meant mainly as a tongue-in-cheek way of making liberal heads explode, but the fact is global warming hasn’t gone anywhere.

Much as one day of falling stocks doesn’t portend a recession, 48 hours of record-setting cold doesn’t negate decades of accumulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

That buildup, created by the burning of fossil fuels since the dawn of the industrial age, is leading to a steady rise in average global temperatures.

“Winter storms don’t prove that global warming isn’t happening,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tweeted Tuesday.

The past four years were the planet’s warmest since modern record-keeping began in 1850. And oceans are heating up even faster.

What is tragically lost on the president and others is that weather (short-term changes in the atmosphere) and climate (average weather over time) are two different things. And a crucial hallmark of man-made climate disruption, scientists agree, is that it can multiply and intensify extreme weather events.

So even as a zone of frigid air known as the polar vortex slips south into the United States this week, Australia endures record heat that has touched off devastating fires on the island of Tasmania.

Extra heat in the oceans and atmosphere can cause hurricanes to grow more intense and raise the frequency of both flooding rains and droughts. The Camp Fire that all but destroyed Paradise, California, last year was the world’s costliest natural disaster of 2018. Wildfires raking the state led California’s largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric Corp., to file for bankruptcy this week.

It’s too early to say whether this week’s Arctic outbreak had anything to do with climate change, but there’s emerging science that it can trigger extreme temperature shifts. Years of record-keeping show that the Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet, as heat-reflecting ice is replaced with heat-absorbing open ocean waters, intensifying this cycle.

One result, according to recent studies, could be changes in the jet stream that otherwise holds the polar vortex over the Arctic, allowing lobes of frigid cold to descend farther south, as happened this week.

The feel of Arctic air against the skin is real and scary. But equally undeniable is the growing accumulation of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels.

It has risen from 280 parts per million in the late 1800s to 410 parts per million last year.

This frigid outbreak (to be followed by a rapid weekend warmup) isn’t a refutation of global warming; it’s a harbinger of weather extremes to come.

— USA Today, Jan. 30

What became of country before party?

One of the few advantages of changing addresses is that you sometimes discover long-forgotten items.

In a recent move, I found an old recording that contained an interview of Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-MT) by Paul Duke for NBC’s “Today” show.

The year was 1968. Richard Nixon had just been elected president. Duke asked Mansfield how much cooperation the president-elect should expect from Congress. Mansfield’s response to this and subsequent questions, compared to what we hear from the mouths of contemporary Democrats, is a shocking reminder of how far we have fallen in the last 50 years.

After saying that congressional cooperation depends on the kinds of programs Nixon would propose, Mansfield said this: “…we will lean over backward to give him whatever support we possibly can and because he will be president of the United States, he will represent all of us and we will endeavor at all times to put the future of the nation ahead of the future of the party.”

Read the last part of that sentence again. Mansfield was no milquetoast when it came to his beliefs, but to my knowledge no one ever accused him of putting party before country. Many Democrats used to feel the same.

Later in the interview, Duke noted that Nixon had a considerable number of “enemies” in Congress and won-

dered whether that might result in a brief presidential honeymoon?

While ack n ow l e d g i n g such a possibility, Mansfield added, “We Cal Thomas will go more than halfway to work with President-elect Nixon in the interest of the nation.”

Again, Mansfield put the country first.

Asked by Duke what kind of president Mansfield thought Nixon would make, he replied that Nixon’s years of experience will make him “a good president. … I wish him the best of everything in the years ahead because he will be the president of all of us and what he does or doesn’t do will determine our destiny for a long time to come.”

Everyone knows what the Nixon presidency became, but that is not the point here. The point is to contrast Mansfield’s comments with those being made by today’s Democrat leaders. Before the 2016 election and since, Democrats — with perhaps one or two exceptions (but not the party or congressional leadership as a whole) — have not had a single pleasant word for President Trump, much less acknowledge he is president of us all.

No bending over backward for him, no way. It’s more like kick him in the backside and stomp on him when he’s down. Sadly, for many Republicans and conservatives, it was the same when President Obama was in office (and Bill Clinton, too).

What happened to Democrats like Mansfield and the late Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson (D-WA), and similar patriots? These and many Democrats who preceded them were strong anticommunists, nearly always putting the nation ahead of their party and personal interests. In the end, those priorities had the effect of helping them politically. For Democrats today, it seems that too often their careers, fundraising, appeals to the liberal base and reelection prospects matter more than the health and stability of the nation.

What changed? Plenty, including the failure to teach civics in too many schools, the absence of models of civility in public life, teaching respect for others, even when one disagrees with their position, and the 24/7 news cycle and social media, which allow anyone to say anything negative, and spew falsehoods with little, if any, consequences.

Where have the likes of Mike Mansfield gone? Longtime passing.

This year marks Cal Thomas’ 35th year as a syndicated columnist. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

UAA remains committed to quality education We appreciate that UAA students choose to invest in us for their education and their futures. We are grateful to the extended UAA community that invests in us every day through valuable partnerships, the support of our programs and employment of our graduates. To everyone who has put their trust in us, I am sorry. The loss of accreditation in the School of Education is unacceptable. It is my mission to do everything within my power to help each and every one of our students succeed. I can’t change what happened, but I am committed to solving the problem so our students are confident in the high-quality education they receive at UAA. Our first concern and highest priority is to address the needs of our students. UAA is working with the University of Alaska System and the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development (DEED) to come up with solutions, and DEED announced on Jan. 15 that spring and summer 2019 graduates will still be recommended for licensure by the Alaska State Board of Education.

We will continue these efforts and work to obtain approval for teacher licensure for all affected students, no matter when they are scheduled to complete their program.

We are also assisting UAA students who choose to complete their education degrees at the University of Alaska Fairbanks or University of Alaska Southeast, both of which have accredited education programs. We hope students will choose to stay at UAA, but we will do everything we can to ensure that transfers can occur, and that students are informed throughout the

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subject-specific assessment and support system developed at the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning and Equity.

To make sure this does not happen in other programs, UAA is investing to ensure that the additional data and reporting needs of programs with specialized accreditation are addressed.

The first priority will be to focus on the education programs.

I know there’s a lot of work to be done. It’s one thing to restore confidence in UAA among those of you directly affected in the School of Education. But I’m also very conscious of a need to assure the rest of our students and our community that problems of this magnitude are not the norm.

The loss of the School of Education’s accreditation has no impact or bearing on the accreditation of any other programs at UAA. UAA just successfully completed a rigorous, institutional-level accreditation process with the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.

That process forces us to be conscious of the need to continuously improve.

When and where we can identify potential problems — particularly those that would impede any student’s ability to achieve his or her educational aspirations — we are committed to resolving them.

As the chancellor of UAA, I will do what needs to be done to make sure the educational experience we are providing is worthy of the hard work, time, money and faith each and every student invests in UAA.

entire process.

The UA Board of Regents is planning to meet with students, the education faculty and the public on Feb. 12 to hear concerns and to make sure they are supported through this difficult situation.

While we focus on addressing the immediate needs of affected students, we are also taking the necessary steps to ensure Alaskans who choose to become teachers will have high-quality programs available to them here at UAA. As those following the issue know, UAA did not lose accreditation because of a failure with the quality of our programs in the School of Education, but because we failed to demonstrate how we used the proper data to show what our programs have achieved. The fact is that UAA teachers are among the very best in the state.

The last two teachers of the year in Alaska are graduates of our programs.

And as you may have seen in the news just last week, one of four finalists for teacher of the year for the entire nation is a UAA graduate.

To ensure our data collection, analysis and reporting meet the necessary standards going forward, all programs in the School of Education have ad— Cathy Sandeen, Chancellor of opted a nationally respected system University of Alaska Anchorage called edTPA, a performance-based,

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Foxconn reconsiders manufacturing hub

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. — Electronics giant Foxconn reversed course and announced Wednesday that the massive Wisconsin operation that was supposed to bring a bounty of bluecollar manufacturing jobs back to the Midwest — and was offered billions of dollars in incentives from the state — will instead be devoted mostly to research and development.

The much-ballyhooed facility was heralded by President Donald Trump and former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker as a once-ina-generation opportunity .

Foxconn, a major supplier to Apple, is the world’s largest contract maker of electronics and China’s largest private employer.

In a statement Wednesday, Foxconn said it remains committed to the project, the creation of 13,000 jobs and “to our long-term investment in Wisconsin.” But because the global market environment that existed when the project was first announced in 2017 has shifted, “this has necessitated the adjustment of plans for all projects, including Wisconsin.”

In this file photo, President Donald Trump, center, along with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, left, and Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou participate in a groundbreaking event for the new Foxconn facility in Mt. Pleasant, Wis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Foxconn previously said it could invest as much as $10 billion in the project.

It did not recommit to that number in its statement Wednesday, but Wisconsin leaders said Foxconn leaders had pledged to spend that much.

Louis Woo, special assistant to Foxconn CEO Terry Gou, told Reuters that it’s scaling back and possibly shelving plans to build liquid crystal display panel screens in Wisconsin.

“In terms of TV, we have no place in the U.S.,” Woo told Reuters. “We can’t compete.”

Woo said a factory would not be built in Wis-

consin: “You can’t use a factory to view our Wisconsin investment.”

Instead, Woo said Foxconn wants to create a “technology hub” that would largely consist of research facilities along with packaging and assembly operations. Woo said about three-quarters of the jobs created will be in research and development and design, rather than blue-collar manufacturing jobs.

Marc Levine, senior fellow and founding director of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Center of Economic Development, called it “one enormous bait and switch.”

And he scoffed at the idea that Foxconn, known for manufacturing, could transform into a researchand-development giant.

“That’s simply not what Foxconn is,” Levine said in an email. “So the notion that there will be 13,000 research jobs at Foxconn is highly, highly unlikely.”

Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz, a Democrat, said it was another example of Foxconn overpromising and underdelivering.

“This news is devastating for the taxpayers of Wisconsin. We were promised manufacturing jobs. We were promised state of the art LCD production. We were promised a game-changing economic opportunity for our state. And now, it appears Foxconn is living up to their failed track record in the U.S. — leaving another state and community high and dry,” Hintz said.

Walker, who brokered the deal, emphasized in a tweet Wednesday that Foxconn only earns tax credits for actual investment and job creation.

“No jobs/investment?

No credits. Period,” Walker tweeted.

Judge: PG&E put profits over wildfire safety

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — A U.S. judge berated Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. on Wednesday, accusing the nation’s largest utility of enriching shareholders instead of clearing trees that can fall on its power lines and start fires and making “excuses” to avoid turning off electricity when fire risk is high.

Judge William Alsup in San Francisco did not immediately order PG&E to take any of the dramatic measures he has proposed to try to stop more wildfires.

But he warned that he was not ruling out at least some new requirements on the company if it did not come up with a plan to “solve” the problem of catastrophic wildfires in California.

“To my mind, there’s a very clear-cut pattern here: that PG&E is starting these fires,” Alsup said. “What do we do? Does the judge just turn a blind eye and say, ‘PG&E continue your business as usual. Kill more people by starting more fires.’”

Alsup is overseeing a criminal conviction against PG&E on pipeline safety

charges stemming from a 2010 gas line explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes.

He proposed earlier this month as part of PG&E’s probation that it remove or trim all trees that could fall onto its power lines in highwind conditions and shut off power when fire is a risk regardless of the inconvenience to customers or loss of profit. Alsup said his goal was to prevent PG&E equipment from causing any wildfires during the 2019 fire season.

PG&E shot back in a court filing last week that the judge’s proposals would endanger lives and could cost as much as $150 billion to implement.

Kevin Orsini, an attorney for the company, said PG&E shared the judge’s concerns about wildfire and was working to reduce risk. But there weren’t enough qualified tree trimmers, and shutting off power would have “repercussions that affect the community,” he said.

Power cutoffs impact first responders, critical medical care and phone service and are potentially fatal, the util-

Jessica Tovar, right, speaks at a rally before a California Public Utilities Commission meeting in San Francisco, Monday. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

ity said in its court filing.

“PG&E is facing a fundamental problem. The state is facing a fundamental problem,” Orsini said.

PG&E announced last year that it would cut off power preemptively when fire danger was high and did so for the first time in October for about 60,000 customers in Northern California. The move prompted complaints and demands for reimbursement from some customers.

Attorneys for wildfire victims, California regulators and the U.S. Department of Justice also spoke at

By DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press

In this 2018 photo, Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers carry out an exercise during a live firing at the Afghan Military Academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

A negotiated settlement to America’s longest war poses a dilemma for Trump.

He has often declared he wants to end lengthy overseas military entanglements, something he made clear in December by declaring the Islamic State group defeated in Syria and announcing he was pulling 2,000 American troops from that country over the objections of his top foreign policy advisers.

The stakes are higher in Afghanistan, a conflict that has cost 2,400 American lives and hundreds of bil-

Al-Qaida’s advance in northern Syria threatens fragile truce BEIRUT — It only took a few days for al-Qaidalinked militants to seize more than two dozen towns and villages in northern Syria from rival insurgents earlier this month, expanding and cementing their control over an area the size of neighboring Lebanon.

The advance by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or the Levant Liberation Committee, was the most serious blow yet to a September cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey that averted a major government offensive in Idlib province, the last main stronghold of the Syrian opposition.

It highlighted the growing threat posed by al-Qaida at a time when its rival, the Islamic State group, is on the verge of defeat and the U.S. is preparing to withdraw its 2,000 troops from Syria. Although HTS has formally severed ties with al-Qaida, experts say it is still closely linked to the global network founded by Osama bin Laden and could use its base in Syria to launch attacks in the West.

Fawaz Gerges, professor of Middle Eastern politics at the London School of Economics, says there is a “real danger” that the group’s advance “will not only worsen the humanitarian crisis for the 3 million inhabitants there, but also give (President Bashar) Assad and his allies the justification to assault the province.”

“Such a scenario would be as devastatingly bloody as the battle for Aleppo,” he said, referring to the months of heavy fighting over Syria’s largest city in 2016, which killed thousands of people and ended with government forces and their allies capturing the rebel-held east.

HTS includes large numbers of battle-hardened alQaida fighters, and its capture of most of rebel-held Syria could force aid agencies to withdraw, leaving tens of thousands of civilians to fend for themselves.

The opposition’s Free Aleppo Medical Directorate said that some 250,000 people will lose medical support after 43 facilities it runs cease operations due to a drop in aid from Western agencies after the latest HTS offensive.

The government has meanwhile stepped up its bombardment of Idlib and neighboring rebel-held areas. Pro-government media say Defense Minister Gen. Ali Ayoub and Brig. Gen. Suheil al-Hassan, who commands the elite Tiger Force, have recently visited the front lines with Idlib, raising fears of a new government offensive.

HTS now controls an area of about 9,000 square kilometers (3,475 square miles) or about 5 percent of Syria’s territory. The area is home to some 3 million people, many of whom have been displaced from other parts of the country.

Turkey has nearly a dozen observation posts in Idlib, but has shifted its focus further east, where it is preparing to launch an offensive against Syrian Kurdish forces.

— The Associated Press

Wednesday’s hearing.

Alsup was also critical of the California Public Utilities Commission, accusing it of working slowly and using former PG&E employees.

The judge later apologized for those comments but still questioned how so many fires broke out under the CPUC’s watch.

An attorney with the CPUC, Christine Hammond, said she couldn’t comment on fires that were still under investigation. But she said wildfires in California were an incredible challenge that involved factors such as climate change.

Peace with the Taliban? President warned of risks WASHINGTON — Trump administration claims of progress in talks with the Taliban have sparked fears even among the president’s allies that his impatience with the war in Afghanistan will lead him to withdraw troops too soon, leaving the country at risk of returning to the same volatile condition that prompted the invasion in the first place.

Discussions between a U.S. envoy and the Taliban are advancing weeks after the administration said it wanted to begin drawing down troops in Afghanistan. That has prompted some critics to note that President Donald Trump is telegraphing a withdrawal — the same thing he accused President Barack Obama of doing by saying he wanted to end the American combat mission in 2014.

“It’s an effort to put lipstick on what will be a U.S. withdrawal,” said Ryan Crocker, a former U.S. ambassador to Kabul under Obama.

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lions in taxpayer dollars.

The U.S. invaded the country to oust the Taliban and al-Qaida in October 2001 in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and the CIA director warned as recently as Tuesday that Afghanistan could once again become a terrorist haven.

But now even fellow Republicans worry that reports of progress will embolden Trump to withdraw troops from Afghanistan before the region is stable and will reintroduce the conditions that first ensnared America in the conflict. The Taliban

now control nearly half the country and carry out neardaily attacks, and foreignpolicy experts fear that any progress on protecting women and minorities in the country could be lost if the militant group is once again part of the government.

The top Republican in Congress, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, cautioned the president against a hasty exit from the war.

“While it is tempting to retreat to the comfort and security of our own shores, there is still a great deal of work to be done,” McConnell said Tuesday. “And we know that left untended, these conflicts will reverberate in our own cities.”

James Dobbins, special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan during the Obama administration, said Trump “seems to have abandoned” the conditionsbased strategy he espoused in 2017. The future of troops in Afghanistan is anybody’s guess, he said.

“I don’t think anybody, including probably him, can predict his behavior,” Dobbins said.

Today in History Today is Thursday, Jan. 31, the 31st day of 2019. There are 334 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 31, 1971, astronauts Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa blasted off aboard Apollo 14 on a mission to the moon.

On this date: In 1606, Englishman Guy Fawkes, convicted of high treason for his part in the “Gunpowder Plot,” was set to be hanged, drawn and quartered, but broke his neck after falling or jumping from the scaffold.

In 1863, during the Civil War, the First South Carolina Volunteers, an all-black Union regiment composed of former slaves, was mustered into federal service at Beaufort, South Carolina.

In 1865, the U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing slavery, sending it to states for ratification. (The amendment was adopted in December 1865.) Gen. Robert E. Lee was named general-in-chief of the Confederate States Army by President Jefferson Davis.

In 1917, during World War I, Germany served notice that it was beginning a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.

In 1929, revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his family were expelled from the Soviet Union.

In 1945, Pvt. Eddie Slovik, 24, became the first U.S. soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion as he was shot by an American firing squad in France.

In 1950, President Harry S. Truman announced he had ordered development of the hydrogen bomb.

In 1958, the United States entered the Space Age with its first successful launch of a satellite, Explorer 1, from Cape Canaveral.

In 1961, NASA launched Ham the Chimp aboard a MercuryRedstone rocket from Cape Canaveral; Ham was recovered safely from the Atlantic Ocean following his 16 1/2-minute suborbital flight.

In 1990, McDonald’s Corp. opened its first fast-food restaurant in Moscow.

In 2000, an Alaska Airlines MD-83 jet crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Port Hueneme (wy-NEE’-mee), California, killing all 88 people aboard.

In 2005, Jury selection began in Santa Maria, California, for Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial. (Jackson was later acquitted.)

Ten years ago: Iraqis passed through security checkpoints and razor-wire cordons to vote in provincial elections considered a crucial test of the nation’s stability. A gasoline spill from a crashed truck erupted into flames in Molo, Kenya, killing at least 115 people.

Serena Williams routed Dinara Safina 6-0, 6-3 to win her fourth Australian Open. Bruce Smith and Rod Woodson were elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility; they were joined by Bob Hayes, Randall McDaniel, Derrick Thomas and Buffalo owner Ralph Wilson.

Five years ago: The long-delayed, controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline cleared a major hurdle toward approval as the U.S. State Department reported no major environmental objections to the proposed $7 billion project. A week of peace talks aimed at stemming Syria’s civil war ended in Geneva with no concrete progress.

One year ago: A train carrying dozens of Republican members of Congress to a strategy retreat crashed into a garbage truck in rural Virginia, killing one person in the truck and injuring others; there were no serious injuries aboard the chartered Amtrak train.

Republican congressman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, who became known for leading a House panel’s investigation into the 2012 attacks against Americans in Benghazi, Libya, announced that he would be retiring from Congress after his term expired. Much of the world was treated to a rare triple lunar treat - a total lunar eclipse combined with a particularly close full moon that was also the second full moon of the month.

Today’s Birthdays: Composer Philip Glass is 82. Former Interior Secretary James Watt is 81. Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, the former queen regent, is 81. Actor Stuart Margolin is 79. Actress Jessica Walter is 78. Former U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., is 78. Blues singer-musician Charlie Musselwhite is 75. Actor Glynn Turman is 73. Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan is 72. Actor Jonathan Banks is 72. Singer-musician Harry Wayne Casey (KC and the Sunshine Band) is 68. Rock singer Johnny Rotten is 63. Actress Kelly Lynch is 60. Actor Anthony LaPaglia is 60. Singer-musician Lloyd Cole is 58. Actress Paulette Braxton is 54. Rock musician Al Jaworski (Jesus Jones) is 53. Actress Minnie Driver is 49. Actress Portia de Rossi is 46. Actor-comedian Bobby Moynihan is 42.

Actress Kerry Washington is 42. Bluegrass singer-musician Becky Buller is 40. Singer Justin Timberlake is 38. Actor Tyler Ritter is 34.

Country singer Tyler Hubbard (Florida Georgia Line) is 32. Folkrock singer-musician Marcus Mumford (Mumford and Sons) is 32.

Actor Joel Courtney is 23.

Thought for Today: “We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.” -- R.D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (1927-1989).

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SoHi, Homer ready to make some history Peninsula teams never won a state hockey crown could see that drought quenched this weekend

By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

Division II state hockey championships At Curtis Menard Sports Complex, Wasilla

Both peninsula programs competing in the Division II state hockey championships this weekend have never won a state title, but it could all change Saturday night.

The Soldotna Stars are the No. 1 seed this weekend at the Div. II tournament, just one year after finishing in last place in their conference, while the Homer Mariners are seeded third in the eightteam field. The tournament runs today, Friday and Saturday at the Curtis Menard Sports Complex in Wasilla.

SoHi opens the tournament today at 12 p.m. against the No. 8 seeded Delta Huskies, while Homer starts at 2:30 p.m. against No. 6 seed Glennallen.

SoHi has never won a state hockey title, while Homer has never even appeared in a state tournament in its school history. It sets up for a potentially momentous occasion this weekend.

“I guess we’ll find out,” said Soldotna head coach Indy Walton about what’s at stake this weekend. “I’m not a betting guy, I have faith in my team that they’ll play their best efforts, but the competition is going to do the same, but anyone can win it.

“It’s up for grabs.”

Before 2018, all Kenai Peninsula hockey teams battled with the big schools statewide to get into the big dance, a road made difficult with schools twice or three times the size of Soldotna, Homer and Kenai Central. When peninsula teams did qualify to state, it usually didn’t turn out well. In the big schools tournament, no peninsula team had ever won its first-round game.

When the announcement came that a second di-

Thursday games Game 1 — Soldotna (1) vs. Delta (8), 12 p.m.

Game 2 — Homer (3) vs. Glennallen (6), 2:30 p.m.

Game 3 — Palmer (4) vs. North Pole (5), 5 p.m.

Game 4 — Juneau (2) vs. Tri-Valley (7), 7:30 p.m.

Friday games Game 5 — Game 1 loser vs. Game 3 loser, 12 p.m.

Game 6 — Game 2 loser vs. Game 4 loser, 2:30 p.m.

Game 7 — Game 1 winner vs. Game 3 winner, 5 p.m.

Game 8 — Game 2 winner vs. Game 4 winner, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday games Game 9 — Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner, 12 p.m.

(4th place) Game 10 — Game 7 loser vs. Game 8 loser, 2:30 p.m.

(3rd place) Game 11 — Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner, 5 p.m.

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vision would be created to decide a smaller school state champion, the door opened for history to change on the peninsula.

Homer head coach Steve Nevak, in his first year manning the helm after several campaigns as an assistant, is happy that his Mariners get to play their first ever postseason contest, but said the team has bigger goals than simply qualifying for state.

“We just had to make the show,” Nevak said. “The kids say, yeah, they kind of knew at the beginning of year that it’d be huge if we didn’t go to the state tournament … but it’s not a big deal.”

A state championship would also mean an automatic berth in the following weekend’s Div. I state hockey tournament.

So who might be celebrating Saturday

Homer goalie Hunter Warren fends off a shot by Soldotna’s Galen Brantley III Jan. 15, 2019, at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

night with the Alaska School Activities Association First National Cup? As the top seed, Walton’s Stars are one of the targets for the other seven teams. Walton said SoHi reached its goal of clinching a top three seed for the tourney, which helped put them in the most advantageous spot possible,

with some of the toughest competition on the other side of the bracket in Homer and Juneau.

“I think there’s a good four, five teams that could win this thing,” Walton said. “We’ve played Palmer really tight, Homer has gone both directions, See STATE, page A7

Celtics destroy Hornets with Kyrie on bench

By The Associated Press

Butler’s Paul Jorgensen (5) is defended by Marquette’s Markus Howard (0) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Wednesday in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

No. 10 Marquette beats Butler

By The Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — Markus Howard scored 32 points and Sam Hauser added 19 to help No. 10 Marquette pull away from Butler for a 76-58 victory Wednesday night.

The Golden Eagles (19-3, 8-1 Big East) have won eight straight overall and picked up their first win at Hinkle Fieldhouse since the 1989-90 season. Howard finished 14 for 23

from the field and had five rebounds.

Kamar Baldwin led Butler (1210, 3-6) with 16 points. The Bulldogs have lost three in a row and five of seven.

high with 25 points and added a highlight-reel assist as Virginia Tech shot 59 percent to beat Miami.

Justin Robinson scored 17 points for the Hokies but limped to the locker room midway through the second half.

He watched the final seconds from the bench with his left foot in a boot. VirginNo. 12 VIRGINIA TECH 82, ia Tech coach Buzz Williams declined MIAMI 70 to discuss the nature or severity of the CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — injury.

Nickeil Alexander-Walker tied a season See HOOPS, page A7

BOSTON — Jaylen Brown had 24 points and 10 rebounds, Jayson Tatum scored 20 points and the Boston Celtics rolled over the Charlotte Hornets 126-94 on Wednesday night despite Kyrie Irving’s absence.

Terry Rozier had 17 points and tied a career high with 10 assists in place of Irving, the star guard who missed his second straight game with a left hip strain.

Marcus Morris scored 15 points, Al Horford had 14 and Gordon Hayward 12 to help Celtics win for the seventh time in eight games. Kemba Walker had 21 points for Charlotte.

NUGGETS 105, PELICANS 99

career-high 21 for the scrappy Pelicans. For the second night in a row, they played without four usual starters and a top reserve. Their only available starter, Jrue Holiday, had 22 points.

TIMBERWOLVES 99, GRIZZLIES 97, OT MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Karl-Anthony Towns hit a buzzer-beating desperation shot in overtime to lift Minnesota past Memphis.

Memphis led twice during overtime, but Towns helped Minnesota closed it out. On the final possession, Andrew Wiggins ran the clock down to six seconds before shooting a pull-up 3. The rebound fell to the right side, where Towns grabbed it, dribbled once and floated up a shot as he faded toward the corner.

Towns scored all 16 of his points after halftime. Jerryd Bayless had 19 points and a career-high 12 assists for the Timberwolves on a frigid night with an announced crowd of 13,615 in Minnesota.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nikola Jokic had 20 points, 13 rebound and 10 assists for his eighth triple-double of the season and Denver beat undermanned New Orleans, Malik Beasley scored 22 MAVERICKS 114, points, and Monte Morris KNICKS 90 added 20 to help the Northwest Division-leading NugNEW YORK (AP) — Dirk gets win their fourth straight. Nowitzki scored a seasonKenrich Williams hit five of high 14 points in what might nine 3-point shots and scored a See NBA, page A7

Penguins show they can still contend with win over Lightning

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer

PITTSBURGH — After a baffling loss to a last-place team and with a visit from the NHL’s best club looming, the Pittsburgh Penguins called a players-only meeting on Tuesday in an effort to clear the air.

“We needed an answer,” defenseman Kris Letang said.

For a night, they found one.

Playing with an edge they lacked two nights earlier against struggling New Jersey, the Penguins turned away the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-2 on Wednesday to send a message that when they are fully engaged, they remain as dangerous as ever.

“We all know that Tampa Bay right now is at the top of the league,” Letang said. “They’re a really good measuring stick for any team. Tonight was important, especially (after) the two points that slipped the night before. It was a good effort, and I think it brought the best out of us.”

Matt Murray finished with 33 saves to keep the NHL’s highest scoring team in check, and Letang tied Hall of Famer Paul Coffey’s franchise record for career goals by a defenseman. Letang’s shot from the right circle 6:02 into the second period beat Andrei Vasilevskiy to give him 12 goals on the season and 108 since his NHL debut in 2007.

Letang, a five-time All-Star, called the milestone “surreal.”

He’s still a long way off from Coffey’s 396 career goals over 21 NHL seasons.

“Growing up watching him, I never thought I would have my name next to his,” Letang said.

Riley Sheahan, Phil Kessel and Sidney Crosby scored during a first-period outburst by Pittsburgh.

Evgeni Malkin picked up two assists to become the fifth Russianborn player in league history to reach 600 career assists then drew a 5-minute fighting major in the third period after tussling with Tampa Bay star Steven Stamkos.

“That’s (his) best game in a

while,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said of Malkin. “He was on the puck. You notice him. He was a presence every shift.”

Murray withstood an early barrage by Tampa Bay to hand the Lighting just their fourth regulation loss in their last 25 games.

Vasilevskiy allowed three goals on five shots before settling down to finish with 18 saves, but Tampa Bay couldn’t recover in its return from a 10-day break. J.T. Miller and Stamkos scored late in the third period to keep the Lighting from being shut out for the first time this season, but it wasn’t nearly enough to prevent Tampa Bay from falling to 2-12-2 in its last 14 regular-season visits to Pittsburgh.

“We just kind of got behind the eight-ball and they capitalized on it their couple chances they got,” Stamkos said. “It was just an uphill battle from there. So I thought we stuck with it, but just too sloppy to start the game.”

Sullivan expressed frustration at his team’s scattershot play

against the Devils, when turnovers and disinterested play in front of Murray dropped Pittsburgh to 1-71 against last-place teams. Two days later against an opponent with the inside track to claim the Presidents’ Trophy, the effort and the results were far different.

Sheahan gave the Penguins the lead 3:25 into the game when he pounced on a rebound of Garrett Wilson’s wraparound attempt and flipped it past Vasilevskiy. Kessel’s 21st goal of the season less than five minutes later came in much the same fashion. Kessel and Bryan Rust broke in 2-on-1 and Rust attempted to skate across the crease and beat Vasilevskiy with a backhand only to lose control of the puck. No matter. Kessel, standing at the left post, tapped it in to make it 2-0.

Pittsburgh needed just 16 seconds to push the advantage to 3-0. Jake Guentzel forced a turnover behind the Tampa Bay net.

Dominik Simon jumped on the loose puck and fed Crosby all alone in front.

The Lightning opted to stick with Vasilevskiy and turned up the pressure on the other end of the ice. Pittsburgh went more than 17 minutes without a shot on net at one point, but Tampa Bay couldn’t figure out a way to beat Murray. By the time the Lightning finally broke through on Miller’s goal with 4:05 remaining in the third, the outcome was already decided.

“I just thought we lost our legs a little bit in the second, gained it back in the third, clawed back a little bit,” Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. “But still you’re down four, it’s tough.”

STARS 1, SABRES 0 DALLAS (AP) — Ben Bishop stopped all 30 Buffalo shots, and Jamie Benn had a first-period goal for Dallas.

Bishop made 13 saves in the third period, getting his third shutout this season and 27th of his career.

Linus Ullmark made 26 saves for Buffalo.

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Juneau was really tight, and North Pole made it tight with their goalie.

“I think it’s anyone’s tournament.”

The Stars enter the weekend on the heels of a remarkable turnaround from 2017, when the team recorded a 1-9 conference record. This year’s squad captured the Railbelt Conference title at 9-1, but Walton said the huge turnaround by SoHi hasn’t been as miraculous as it seems.

“We were climbing the hill from the beginning of the season last year to now,” he explained. “We’ve been building and growing, so I wouldn’t say we flipped it over, we’ve just been climbing the hill. The early part of that hill was rough, and here we are at the end of the hill winning games.”

In hindsight, two wins over Juneau on consecutive days in mid-December loom large for SoHi this year. Walton said

those two victories (3-0 and 1-0) provided much of the cushion the Stars had in helping them win the conference and top state seed.

Juneau, which is stacked with a large and talented senior class that understands the game, has been tabbed by both Walton and Nevak as one of the best teams at state. The Crimson Bears defeated Homer two weeks ago with scores of 4-3 and 7-3, putting the rest of the state on notice of the kind of offensive firepower they hold.

Walton said a potential Friday semifinal between Homer and Juneau will be must-see.

“That’s going to be a battle, that possible Juneau and Homer game,” he said. “That could be the championship game … if we play the winner of that game, I hope they don’t have any gas in their tank.”

Walton said Thursday’s first-round matchup with Delta is a bit of mystery, having not played a school that lies so far north, but believes in all phases of the SoHi game to get the job done and advance.

Part of that game includes a

trio of goaltenders in returning talent Corbin Wirz and McKenzie Powell and Kenai transfer Josh Tree, who Walton said has boosted the competitiveness of all three goalies.

“What that has done is just pushed Corbin and Kenzie and it’s pushed Josh as well,” he said. “If you were to ask my team who was the better goaltender, I think you’d find a pretty split decision.”

The stinginess of the Stars defense has also been complimented by its star power up front, which during the course of one road weekend to the Valley had 14 different players score a goal between six varsity and JV games.

Walton said that’s due to SoHi’s practice atmosphere, which is no-nonsense.

“Our practices are pretty intense, I don’t put up with a lot of horseplay,” he said. “We really focus on our weaknesses.”

Perhaps that mentality will lead SoHi to its first state hockey crown.

One of its biggest friendly rivals will have something to say about that. The Homer Mari-

ners enter this weekend looking to erase the harsh memories of last year’s North Star Conference tournament, which ended in a semifinal loss to Wasilla that denied Homer its first state berth ever.

Nevak said in order to make a deep postseason run, the Mariners need to shine on the front line.

“The message I’ve been giving the team is our superstars have to show up,” Nevak said.

Among the star talent Nevak referred to is junior Ethan Pitzman, one of the top skaters on the team, and junior Isaiah Nevak, who racked up five assists on Palmer last weekend.

Add to that goalie Hunter Warren as one of the top goaltenders in the conference and the Mariners are ready to do battle.

Coach Nevak said Homer may be without senior forward Lee Lowe due to a broken collarbone and senior wing Ali McCarron to a concussion, but otherwise said the rest of the team is healthy.

“It’s a perfect time to be all healthy,” he said. “That’s probably a first this year.”

Saints coach retreats to Netflix, ice cream after loss

By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer

METAIRIE, La. — Saints coach Sean Payton turned to ice cream, binge-watching and seclusion after his team’s football season came to an excruciating end.

Payton was finally ready on Wednesday to stand in front of reporters for his NFL-mandated, end-of-season media availability, some 10 days after New Orleans’ 26-23 overtime loss in an NFC championship game marred by one of the most glaring officiating errors in NFL history — the non-call of pass interference and helmetto-helmet contact penalties committed by a Los Angeles Rams defensive back late in the fourth quarter.

“I would say, honestly, after the game for two to three days, much like normal people, I sat and probably didn’t come out of my room, ate Jeni’s ice cream and watched Netflix,” Payton said. “There’s certain vices you gravitate to. For me, it’s probably sugar.

“I don’t know that

you ever really get over it, but you do get past it,” Payton added. “This time away is healthy.”

Payton said he probably would watch this Sunday’s Super Bowl between the Rams and New England Patriots because it’s what people in his profession do.

Payton also said he’d received countless phone calls, emails and text messages of support since the game, including a call from Raiders coach Jon Gruden, who was able to relate with Payton on some level.

Gruden was coaching Oakland in the 2001-02 playoffs, when an apparent lost fumble by New England’s Tom Brady was infamously ruled an incomplete pass on video review. The overturned call allowed New England to tie the game late and eventually win en route to the franchise’s first Super Bowl triumph.

But there was only so much Gruden or anyone else could do or say to console the Saints’ coach.

“There aren’t too many people you can call that

would be able to reflect on a situation like that,” Payton said. “You hang up the phone and the news is still what it was before you called though.”

Had the penalty been called on the Rams’ Nickell Robey-Coleman for hitting receiver Tommylee Lewis in the helmet before Drew Brees’ third-down pass arrived, the Saints could have run the clock down to the final seconds before attempting a go-ahead field goal. Instead, the Saints kicked with 1:45 to go, leaving the Rams time to drive for a tying field goal.

Payton sits on the NFL’s competition committee, which reviews proposed rule changes.

Currently, penalties, or missed penalties, cannot be reviewed by video replay, but whether they should be is all but certain to be discussed this offseason.

“If you look throughout the history of our game — the forward fumble by the Raiders (in 1978, known as the ‘Holly Roller’) — there’s been these events that at times potentially

change rules,” Payton said. “I like the fact that I’m part of that committee and every offseason we all sit down and really try to grind on how to make this game better, safer and then present it to ownership and the other coaches.

“Certainly there’ll be topics like this that’ll be brought up,” Payton continued. “The solution is the more challenging thing that we’re all looking for.”

Payton did not offer any specific proposals, but said advancements in technology should figure into officiating in general.

In New Orleans, Saints fans have responded to the missed call with everything from lawsuits filed on behalf of ticket holders to proposals for a Saintsthemed Mardi Grasstyle parade at the same time as the Super Bowl.

Area politicians have written letters of protest to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

Payton said he hadn’t closely followed fans’ and politicians’ manifestations, but said he

hoped they would eventually move on the same way he is trying to do.

Players coalition gives 6 grants ATLANTA (AP) — The Players Coalition has announced the recipients of grants totaling $2 million given to six national nonprofit organizations.

National Juvenile Defender Center, Communities In Schools, The Justice Collaborative, Year Up, Center for Policing Equity and Advancement Project National Office received the grants.

“Our goal has always been to work hand in hand with groups that can provide evidencebased solutions to achieve change and make a lasting difference on impacted citizens,” said Anquan Boldin, a co-founder of the coalition.

Boldin and fellow cofounder Malcolm Jenkins, a Pro Bowl safety with the Philadelphia Eagles, highlighted the coalition’s goals and plans to impact racial and social inequality.

NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 37 15 .712 — Philadelphia 33 18 .647 3½ Boston 32 19 .627 4½ Brooklyn 28 24 .538 9 New York 10 40 .200 26 Southeast Division Miami 24 25 .490 — Charlotte 24 26 .480 ½ Washington 22 29 .431 3 Orlando 20 31 .392 5 Atlanta 16 34 .320 8½ Central Division Milwaukee 36 13 .735 — Indiana 32 18 .640 4½ Detroit 21 28 .429 15 Chicago 12 40 .231 25½ Cleveland 11 41 .212 26½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Houston 29 21 .580 — San Antonio 30 22 .577 — Dallas 23 27 .460 6 New Orleans 23 29 .442 7 Memphis 20 32 .385 10 Northwest Division Denver 35 15 .700 — Oklahoma City 32 18 .640 3 Portland 32 20 .615 4 Utah 29 23 .558 7 Minnesota 25 26 .490 10½ Pacific Division Golden State 36 14 .720 — L.A. Clippers 28 23 .549 8½ L.A. Lakers 26 25 .510 10½ Sacramento 26 25 .510 10½ Phoenix 11 42 .208 26½ Wednesday’s Games Boston 126, Charlotte 94 Chicago 105, Miami 89 Dallas 114, New York 90 Denver 105, New Orleans 99 Minnesota 99, Memphis 97, OT Washington 107, Indiana 89 Sacramento 135, Atlanta 113 Portland 132, Utah 105 Thursday’s Games Dallas at Detroit, 3 p.m.

Indiana at Orlando, 3 p.m.

Milwaukee at Toronto, 4 p.m.

Brooklyn at San Antonio, 4:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers, 6:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Golden State, 6:30 p.m.

All Times AST

College Scores EAST Albany (NY) 62, New Hampshire 42 American U. 74, Loyola (Md.) 68

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Virginia Tech (17-3, 6-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) closed within one game of the league lead, but now it might be without Robinson, who holds the school record for career assists and scored a career-high 35 points last week against Syracuse.

The Hurricanes (9-11, 1-7) lost their fourth in a row and are off to their worst start in conference play since 1993-94, when they went 0-18 in the Big East.

No. 14 VILLANOVA 86, DEPAUL 74 CHICAGO (AP) — Eric Paschall scored 20 points, Phil Booth added 19 points and eight assists, and Villanova won its ninth straight game by beating DePaul.

Freshman forward Saddiq Bey matched a career high with 16 points and set one with 11 rebounds for Villanova. He shot 4 of 6 on 3-pointers.

The Wildcats (17-4, 8-0 Big East) hit 15 from beyond the arc after making 17 in a romp over Seton Hall on Sunday. The defending national champions beat DePaul (11-9, 3-6) for the 18th straight time.

Femi Olujobi led the Blue Demons with 20 points and eight rebounds. Eli Cain scored 17, but DePaul lost for the fourth time in five games despite shooting 53 percent.

No. 15 LOUISVILLE 82, WAKE FOREST 54 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Jordan Nwora scored 20 points and Louisville routed Wake Forest for its sixth straight victory.

Dwayne Sutton added 17 points and 10 rebounds, Malik Williams finished with 13 points and Ryan McMahon had 12 on four 3-pointers for the Cardinals (16-5, 7-1 Atlantic Coast Conference). They shot 52 percent and led by 35 while staying even with No. 2 Duke, No. 3 Virginia and No. 9 North Carolina atop the ACC. Brandon Childress scored 13 for the Demon Deacons (8-12, 1-7), who shot a season-worst 27 percent and missed 13 of their first 14 3-pointers.

They have lost seven of eight and are off to their fourth 1-7 start to league play in five years under coach Danny Manning.

No. 19 LSU 72, TEXAS A&M 57 COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Tremont Waters scored a season-high 36 points and made a career-best six 3-pointers to carry LSU past Texas A&M for its 10th straight victory.

Waters was hot early, making five of seven 3-point attempts and piling up 23 points by halftime. He cooled down a bit after the break, but did enough to lead LSU (17-3, 7-0 Southeastern Conference) to the victory on a night when much of the team struggled offensively.

The Tigers led by three early in the second half before using a 10-2 run to make it 51-40 with 15 minutes to go. Naz Reid took over during that stretch, scoring seven points with a dunk and a three-point play.

No. 20 IOWA STATE 93, WEST VIRGINIA 68 AMES, Iowa (AP) — Lindell Wigginton scored a season-high 28 points off the bench and Iowa State cruised past West Virginia for its fourth win in five games.

Marial Shayok had 18 points for the surging Cyclones (16-5, 5-3 Big 12), who shot 26 of 40 inside the 3-point line and 29 of 32 from the free throw line. Nick Weiler-Babb had 14 points with six rebounds and four steals for Iowa State.

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Boston U. 68, Holy Cross 54 Bucknell 69, Navy 57 Colgate 76, Army 56 Duquesne 75, Rhode Island 72 George Washington 79, Fordham 61 Hartford 86, Binghamton 60 La Salle 60, UMass 51 Lehigh 93, Lafayette 86, OT Maine 78, Mass.-Lowell 59 NJIT 66, Florida Gulf Coast 54 Niagara 78, Canisius 70 Rutgers 66, Indiana 58 Seton Hall 65, Providence 63 Syracuse 77, Boston College 71 UMBC 57, Stony Brook 49 SOUTH Auburn 92, Missouri 58 Campbell 68, Radford 67 Charleston Southern 85, Presbyterian 84 Florida 90, Mississippi 86, OT Gardner-Webb 69, High Point 67 Hampton 96, Longwood 83 Jacksonville 72, Stetson 57 Kennesaw St. 81, North Florida 64 Lamar 90, Nicholls 69 Louisville 82, Wake Forest 54 Middle Tennessee 71, UAB 65 New Orleans 72, Northwestern St. 64 Sam Houston St. 62, SE Louisiana 52 UNC-Asheville 71, SC-Upstate 62 Virginia Tech 82, Miami 70 MIDWEST Bradley 81, Evansville 73 Illinois St. 69, Drake 55 Iowa St. 93, West Virginia 68 Loyola of Chicago 61, N. Iowa 60 Marquette 76, Butler 58 Minnesota 86, Illinois 75 Purdue Fort Wayne 102, South Dakota 71 Richmond 84, Saint Louis 81 S. Illinois 88, Indiana St. 73 St. John’s 83, Creighton 67 Villanova 86, DePaul 74 Wichita St. 85, SMU 83 SOUTHWEST Abilene Christian 78, Texas A&MCC 71 Houston Baptist 96, Incarnate Word 92 LSU 72, Texas A&M 57 Stephen F. Austin 105, Cent. Arkansas 99, OT Tulsa 95, Memphis 79 FAR WEST Cal St.-Fullerton 78, CS Northridge 71 Fresno St. 75, Wyoming 62 San Diego St. 66, Air Force 51 UCLA 87, Washington St. 67 Utah St. 103, San Jose St. 73 Utah Valley 79, California Baptist 62 Washington 75, Southern Cal 62

Women’s College Scores EAST Albany (NY) 59, New Hampshire 41 American U. 70, Holy Cross 58 Binghamton 73, Hartford 62 Boston U. 47, Lafayette 44 Bucknell 77, Navy 43 Colgate 70, Army 58 Lehigh 51, Loyola (Md.) 42 Maine 79, Mass.-Lowell 45 Rider 68, Marist 58 St. Bonaventure 84, Rhode Island 68 Stony Brook 57, UMBC 44 SOUTH Cincinnati 57, South Florida 56 New Orleans 67, Northwestern St. 62 Tulane 62, Memphis 61 UCF 58, Houston 56 VCU 52, UMass 48 MIDWEST Kansas 88, Oklahoma 79 Miami (Ohio) 67, Ohio 61 Nebraska-Omaha 91, Peru State 44 TCU 61, Kansas St. 47 SOUTHWEST Abilene Christian 72, Texas A&MCC 68 Baylor 66, Oklahoma St. 58 Houston Baptist 60, Incarnate Word 59 Lamar 78, Nicholls 65 Oral Roberts 66, Purdue Fort Wayne 56 Sam Houston St. 94, SE Louisiana 63 Stephen F. Austin 59, Cent. Arkansas 53 FAR WEST Air Force 75, San Diego St. 66 Boise St. 70, Colorado St. 57 Nevada 70, UNLV 62 San Jose St. 68, Utah St. 59 Wyoming 63, Fresno St. 56

hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 50 37 11 2 76 201 144 Toronto 49 30 17 2 62 174 140 Montreal 51 28 18 5 61 154 149 Boston 50 27 17 6 60 146 132 Buffalo 50 25 19 6 56 145 149 Florida 48 20 20 8 48 152 170 Detroit 51 19 25 7 45 145 172 Ottawa 50 19 26 5 43 156 187 Metropolitan Division N.Y. Islanders 49 29 15 5 63 147 122

Pittsburgh 50 Washington 50 Columbus 49 Carolina 50 N.Y. Rangers 49 Philadelphia 50 New Jersey 49

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60 176 154 60 171 162 59 158 151 54 140 149 49 139 165 48 143 170 45 146 167

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division 50 32 16 2 66 172 140 52 30 18 4 64 161 135 50 26 21 3 55 142 142 50 25 21 4 54 127 128 50 22 20 8 52 169 162 49 22 22 5 49 139 149 51 18 24 9 45 156 190 Pacific Division Calgary 51 33 13 5 71 190 145 San Jose 52 29 16 7 65 187 167 Vegas 52 29 19 4 62 157 140 Vancouver 51 23 22 6 52 147 161 Anaheim 51 21 21 9 51 120 153 Arizona 50 23 23 4 50 132 142 Edmonton 50 23 24 3 49 144 163 Los Angeles 50 20 26 4 44 114 150 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.

Winnipeg Nashville Minnesota Dallas Colorado St. Louis Chicago

Wednesday’s Games Pittsburgh 4, Tampa Bay 2 Dallas 1, Buffalo 0 Thursday’s Games N.Y. Rangers at New Jersey, 3 p.m.

Philadelphia at Boston, 3 p.m.

Columbus at Winnipeg, 4 p.m.

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transactions BASEBALL American League MINNESOTA TWINS — Signed LHP Martín Pérez to a one-year contract.

National League CINCINNATI REDS — Signed LHP Ian Krol to a minor league contract. Named Cristian Perez assistant bullpen/advance scouting coach.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Agreed to terms with 1B Mark Reynolds on a minor league contract.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms on minor league contracts with RHP Brandon Maurer and OF J.B. Shuck.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Named Jack McKeon senior adviser to the general manager.

FOOTBALL National Football League DENVER BRONCOS — Named T.C. McCartney quarterbacks coach.

GREEN BAY PACKERS —

Named Alvis Whitted wide receivers coach.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Named Chris Strausser offensive line coach and Jason Michael tight ends coach.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Named Rob Ryan inside linebackers coach.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled F Michael Bunting from Tucson (AHL).

CALGARY FLAMES — Recalled F Andrew Mangiapane from Stockton (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Placed C Michael Rasmussen on longterm injured reserve, retroactive to Jan. 4, and assigned him to Grand Rapids (AHL) for conditioning.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Acquired D Ryan Murphy from the Minnesota Wild for D Michael Kapla.

SOCCER Major League Soccer FC DALLAS — Named Andre Zanotta technical director.

LA FOOTBALL CLUB — Signed F Rodolfo Zelaya.

NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION — Acquired M Carles Gil by transfer from Deportivo de La Coruna (Segunda Division-Spain) and signed him to a multi-year contract.

National Premier Soccer League NEW YORK COSMOS — Signed D Pedro Galvao.

National Women’s Soccer League SKY BLUE FC — Re-signed D Mandy Freeman and MD Madison Tiernan.

COLLEGE NCAA — Placed Arizona’s swimming and diving program on two years’ probation for multiple recruiting violations by former diving coach Omar Ojeda.

FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON — Named Brad Hurlbut director of athletics.

N.C. STATE — Named Boo Corrigan athletic director, effective May 1.

OKLAHOMA — Extended the contract of football coach Lincoln Riley through the 2023 season.

STOCKTON — Named Joe Welsh and BJ Fox assistant rowing coaches.

WASHINGTON STATE — Agreed to terms with football coach Mike Leach on a contract extension through the 2023 season and defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys on a three-year contract.

finished January with a 2-13 record — the franchise’s secondworst mark ever in that Continued from page A1 month. Tyler Johnson have been his final ap- scored 15 points for pearance at Madison Miami.

Square Garden, Luka Doncic warmed up KINGS 135, after an airball on his HAWKS 113 first shot in the arena to score 16 points, and SACRAMENTO, Dallas routed New Calif. (AP) — Harry York.

Giles came off the bench and scored 12 of his season-high 20 WIZARDS 107, points in the third quarPACERS 89 ter, Marvin Bagley III WA S H I N G T O N added 17 points and (AP) — Bradley Beal 12 rebounds, and Sacscored 25 points, Jeff ramento romped past Green added 23 to lead Atlanta behind its two another productive prized rookies. night from WashingBogdan Bogdaton’s bench, and the novic had 16 points Wizards beat Indiana. and seven assists for Green had 16 points the Kings, who pulled in the first half to help away in the third thanks spell Beal, who came to Giles. Buddy Hield in second in the NBA scored 18 and Nemanja in minutes at 37.2 per Bjelica added 12 points game, and the Wiz- and eight rebounds. ards’ reserves scored 58 points. Washington’s second unit also TRAIL BLAZERS 132, JAZZ 105 led a fourth-quarter rally that just fell short PORTLAND, Ore. against Cleveland a (AP) — Damian Lilnight earlier. lard had 36 points and Thaddeus Young 11 assists to lead the scored 13 points for the Trail Blazers to a win Pacers. They are 0-3 over the Jazz. since a victory over ToLillard’s backcourt ronto in which leading mate CJ McCollum scorer Victor Oladipo was excellent as well, suffered a season-end- scoring 30 points in the ing knee injury. win.

Donovan Mitchell had 22 points to lead BULLS 105, Utah.

HEAT 89 McCollum, only MIAMI (AP) — one game removed Bobby Portis scored from his first career tri22 of his 26 points in ple-double, stayed red the second half, Wayne hot. The Blazers guard Selden added 20 and made all nine of his Chicago ran away in shots in the first quarter the second half to beat and had 20 by the end Miami. of the period.

The Bulls, who

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What’s Happening Events and Exhibitions

n Kenai Performers presents Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka Feb. 21, 22, 23, 24, Feb. 28 and March 1, 2, 3 at the Renee C. Henderson Auditorium at Kenai Central High School. Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. Directed by Terri Burdick and Donna Shirnberg. Conducted by Kent Peterson. 7 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday matinee. $26 General Admission, $21 Children, Seniors, Military and $16 Thursday Economy nights. Tickets available online, at River City Books, The Flats Bistro, Curtain Call Consignment Boutique, and at the door.

Adapted for the stage by Leslie Bricusse and Timothy Allen McDonald. Based on the book, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are supplied by MTI; www.

MTIShows.com. Need more information? Call 2526808 or 398-4205 or visit www.kenaiperformers.org n Please join Kenai Peninsula College again this year for “A Winter Concert of Traditional Irish Music,” featuring John Walsh, Pat Broaders, and Rose Flanagan at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1 in the Ward Building of the Kenai River Campus. This event is open to the public and is a food drive event for the food pantry at the KRC Residence Hall. Please bring a nonperishable food item. In lieu of food items cash donations will also be welcome. n The Performing Arts Society will present mezzo/ contralto singer, Rehanna Thelwell, and pianist Maria Allison in concert on Saturday, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m. at Soldotna Christ Lutheran Church. Tickets are $20 general admission and $10 for students. Ms. Thelwell has performed in solo recitals as well as in operas. In undergraduate school, she performed in the operas, The Masked Ball, and Sister Angelica, and in her graduate program, she performed in Julius Caesar, Gianni Schicchi and Rusalka. In 2016 she premiered the opera workshop production of Bright Sheng’s Dream of the Red Chamber as Lady Wang. In summer 2019, she will be an artist in the Wagner Institute in Miami’s Summer Music Festival. Peninsula audiences heard her perform in the KPO/KPS performances of “Alexander Nevsky” in 2017. Maria Allison is well known in our communities as a fine concert pianist. n Ticket sales for the 23rd Annual Hospice Wine event and Auction will begin Jan. 7. Price is $150 each for this over-21 event. Event date is Feb. 9 at the Soldotna Catholic Church. Hospice Office number is 262-0453 to purchase tickets.

See EVENTS, page A9

Poet’s

Corner GRACE BATS LAST! by norm olson My sin had filled the error squares On the game card of my life.

With heaven requiring a perfect score Fear stabbed me like a knife.

My bases were already loaded With good works that filled each one, All my ceremony and sacrifice Piled with other things I’ve done.

Destiny signaled me to the plate I had to give it one more try.

I had to do something that would last, To win God’s favor before I die.

But I hadn’t done enough for God! I would miss that heavenly throng!

I had failed to do things properly And my reasons all were wrong!

I had made such a mess of my pitiful life, All the time I thought how to rebel, And now I’ve come to my last “At-Bat” Deserving of nothing, but a loser’s hell.

If I could just take the swing That would bring my runner home I’d win the game of life at last And show God what I have done But I’m 3 runs back in the final inning Two outs, the count’s full, one more try.

If I could just hit that homer And “walk-off” before I die…

But just before that fateful swing, My eternity on the line, A shout came from the Dug Out And the shouted name was mine.

I stopped just before I would have swung Risking eternity on a final swing of fate, When Jesus said, “I’m Pinch Hitting here” And carried a rugged bat to the plate.

Then he looked at the wood and said to all, “Remember what you behold this day!”

As He gripped the cross with nail-pierced hands Crying, “It is finished!” and swung away.

So, no matter how you’ve played the game, The truth to those in Christ is revealed: That there’ll be great joy in heaven As you walk with Jesus from the field.

Don’t worry as contrary winds prevail, For all hope of heaven can be confidently cast On the One Who will always bring you home: For with God, GRACE ALWAYS BATS LAST! Poems must include the writer’s name, phone number and address. They should be kept to no more than 300 words. Submission of a poem does not guarantee publication. Poems may be e-mailed to news@peninsulaclarion.com, faxed to 283-3299, delivered to the Clarion at 150 Trading Bay Road or mailed to P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, AK 99611.

Carley Thayer, who sells goods as Bering Sea Designs wears a pair of sea otter fur earrings, Jan. 24,2019. (Ben Hohenstatt | Capital City Weekly)

BY BEN HOHENSTATT CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY

Carley Thayer’s work is connected to both distant and immediate relatives.

Thayer makes earrings and accessories from harvested sea otter fur and pays homage to her Aleut forefathers under the banner of Bering Sea Designs.

“I’m from the Aleutian Islands originally,” Thayer said. “Just the first two years of my life, but my dad grew up there, and that’s where my ances-

tors are from, and they were huge sea otter hunters, and that’s kind of what inspired the name.”

Thayer and her family, now of Juneau, are sea otter hunters, too.

Alaska Natives are allowed to harvest sea otters for subsistence purposes or the creation and sale of handicraft and harvesting. Otherwise, it would be prevented by the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act. In May, a group effort replenished Thayer’s fur supply. She and her family harvested eight otters near Hoonah, about 40 miles southwest of Juneau.

Otters have been hunted by the Aluets for their food and their pelt for generations. Thayer said in her case the otters are primarily harvested for the fur although the meat is occasionally eaten.

“It was a family hunting trip,” Thayer said. “I got to see my (13-yearold) brother get his first kill, which was cool.”

Thayer said she harvested two or three otters herself.

“The family hunts have not been a very frequent thing, however, that may change now that I am working with them,” Thayer said.

That fur should last for a while.

While she did not have an exact figure ready, Thayer estimated “a few hundred” earrings could be produced from a single otter.

“Everything I’ve done so far has primarily been from one sea otter,” Thayer said.

That otter was harvested by her father about a decade ago, and its fur had been waiting for a use.

“You get to produce a lot from one otter,” Thayer said.

So far, Thayer said public reaction to her otter fur earrings has been positive.

“It’s surprising,” Thayer said. “I was expecting a little bit more negative comments because they’re such cute animals.”

However, in Southeast Alaska, fur and skin sewing are fairly well-known Alaska Native art forms with workshops offered in the area. Plus, not everyone is smitten by sea otters.

The otters are prodigious eaters, and a resurgent population has made See OTTER, page A9

‘No Sunscreen for the Dead’ — Hilarity with a side of mystery The Bookwork Sez You didn’t recognize the number.

So you didn’t answer the phone.

That’s how you operate these days: accept calls you know, and keep your money in your wallet. You never know who’s going to try to take it, and in the new book “No Sunscreen for the Dead”

by Tim Dorsey, not everyone has a hero to get it back.

Serge Storms and his sidekick, Coleman, have retired.

Serge had always wanted to, and there was no better time than when they were touring Florida’s Gulf-side “Retirement Coast.” The tour was also a great excuse to meet senior “heroes” — veterans and once-upon-a-time volunteers — and to right some wrongs that Serge knew had been done.

It seemed that door-to-door salesmen were selling Sarasota-area seniors a pile of unneeded items — restaurant-grade kitchens, monster-sized humidifiers, tchotchkes and dust-collectors — and emptying their wallets in the meantime.

Serge had a soft spot in his heart for those elders because he knew their sacrifices and besides, they knew where to find the best pie and the cheapest earlyearly-bird specials.

And so, in his Serge-like way (violently, that is, but with science and style), he would get their money returned, and make sure that nobody scammed his new friends again.

Forty-six-year-old Benmont Pinch knew that he was a dinosaur.

Most of his colleagues at Life-Armor were Millennials who’d practically been born with computers in their cribs. Benmont, on the other hand, was a numbers guy and that was probably why his employers kept him around: given the information and an hour, there wasn’t a statistic he couldn’t get or an answer he couldn’t tease out. That was apparently more than his younger co-workers could do.

This talent never led to a raise, but it did give him opportunities to work with local law officials: they fed him what he needed, and he gave them a statisticallylikely-criminal’s name. When dozens of senior couples along the East Coast were found murdered, though, Benmont couldn’t believe what the stats told him.

Their Social Security information had to be all wrong — or was it?

Decisions, decisions: start a new mystery tonight, or dig into something funny? Why not have the best of both by layering on “No Sunscreen for the Dead”?

For whodunit fans, this novel contains a long, head-scratching, maze-like mystery linked to older Floridians — a side-story that would be too wild in any other novel. Its solution is offered quickly and the why remains to be solved, but don’t work yourself up too much. The real reason for coming to a Serge Storm See BOOK, page A9

‘The Kid Who Would be King’ — a surprisingly good kids movie for our time R eeling It In C hris J enness

You could say that every era has movies that fit perfectly there and nowhere else. “The French Connection” is a brilliant movie, but would it work if it were released today?

Not necessarily. It is emblematic of 1970s filmmaking.

Some of that comes from the actors involved. That movie is peak Gene Hackman. Some of it comes from the director. But much of it is simply the feeling you get when you watch it — an esoteric, hard-todescribe quality that just makes the movie feel right.

When I was a kid, there were a series of those movies, aimed directly at my age group, that just worked.

The greatest of those, “E.T.”, was a little transcendent, but the others, like “The Goonies,” “Explorers,” were serviceable, solid and perfect for the time.

Not every movie for 12-yearolds released in 1984 was good, of course, but that special few have stuck in our imaginations. This week

I saw a movie that may stand as “The Goonies” of this generation. “The Kid Who Would be King” is a terrible title, but that’s about the only criticism I could make of it.

The story begins with Alex, a short, somewhat nerdy London schoolboy whose struggles with bullies Lance and Kay are about to take a turn for the better. After an altercation with his tormentors, Alex finds refuge in a construction site near his home. There, quite without ceremony, our hero comes across a tall broadsword, sticking out of a block

of concrete. He pulls it free without difficulty, and thereafter, everything changes.

A wobbly owl shows up and transforms into a gangly teen named “Merton,” and at night, fiery skeletons stalk the neighborhood. Alex must gather his allies, Merton and the lovable loser Bedders, and his enemies, Lance and Kay, together to forge a defense against the rising evil of Morgana, the original witch of Arthurian legend, trapped below the See REEL, page A9

. . . Events

n Registration is open for the 4th semi-annual Alaska Food Festival & Continued from page A8 Conference, which will take place at Land’s End Resort in Homer on March 8 and 9. Session topics will cover Alaska’s vast and diverse food system: farmers market issues, food security, policy, production, harvesting, business, education, community, tradition, sovereignty, fermenting, subsistence, growing, and more! Chef demonstrations, hands-on activities, vendor booths, and a Friday night social round out the event. This event is sponsored by the Alaska Food Policy Council and the Alaska Farmers Market Association. For program and registration information, go to https://www.akfoodpolicycouncil. org/2019-conference/. n Ammo Can Coffee will host open mic nights from 7-11 p.m. on Jan. 26/7, February 1/2, 8/9, 15/16, 22/23 and March 1/2. n The Kenai Peninsula Homeschool Activities Committee will host a Community Craft and Vendor Show on Feb. 2 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Soldotna Sports Center. For vendor information visit www. facebook.com/kphomeschoolactivities or call 907-513-9469.

Entertainment n The Place Motel Bar & Grill will be hosting its annual Super Bowl Party on Sunday Feb. 3. Will be raffling off prizes throughout the game and there are lots of drink specials. After the game stick around for live music preformed by The Mika Day Show. n The Flats Bistro presents live dinner music every Thursday through Saturday from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., featuring Garrett Mayer on Thursdays, Mike Morgan & Matt Boyle on Fridays, and Derek Poppin on Saturdays. Starting Feb. 1, The Flats Bistro will present after-dinner music on alternate Fridays and Saturdays from 9-11 p.m. On Friday, Feb. 1 and 15, Matt Boyle and Mike Morgan host Open Mic Friday from 9-11 p.m. On Saturday, Feb. 9, Derek Poppin and Garrett Mayer host “Later on Saturday,” featuring special guest Kelsey Shields, 9-11 p.m. Watch this space for more music at The Flats. For reservations call The Flats Bistro at 907.335.1010. n Veronica’s in Old Town Kenai has Open Mic from 6-8 p.m. Friday. Call Veronica’s at 283-2725. n The Flats Bistro presents Mike Morgan on Fridays starting at 6:30 p.m. n The Alaska Roadhouse Bar and Grill hosts open horseshoe tournaments Thursday nights at the bar on Golddust Drive. For more information, call 262-9887. n Acapulco, 43543 Sterling Highway in Soldotna, has live music at 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays starting at 5 p.m.

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them a nuisance animal in the eyes of some Alaskan fisherman.

In past summers, Thayer has fished commercially with her father, and she said that’s definitely colored her perception of the largest member of the weasel family.

It means the relative cuteness of the otters doesn’t particularly trouble Thayer when one is harvested for her business.

“Not really,” she said. “I am who I am.”

Parental push and Public Market Thayer’s business received doses of inspiration from her parents.

“My dad, maybe 15 years ago, bought a skin sewing machine with the intention of maybe doing something with sea otters because it’s absolutely beautiful fur,” Thayer said.

A skin sewing machine is a hefty sort of a sewing machine that can work with animal hides.

“I was kind of in between jobs, and so I just started fiddling around with it and decided I absolutely loved it,” Thayer said.

While the machine is not used in the creation of Thayer’s earrings, she said its presence did inspire her creations.

“I don’t even remember the first pair of earrings I made, it just kind of happened,” Thayer said. “My mom, she wore the earrings and said, ‘What are those? I want those.’ She was definitely my cheerleader.”

Now, Thayer said she likes to make batches of about 20 earrings at a time. Each batch takes about a week of “pretty meticulous” work.

Each earring requires cutting metal, cutting fur and securing the fur with glue and jump rings.

“It’s better to be more secure,” Thayer said. “I make everything. I

Carley Thayer makes and sells multiple types of sea otter fur earrings. These are part of her angular collection, which are on the larger side of what she makes.(Ben Hohenstatt | Capital City Weekly)

make the ear wires, I make the jump rings.”

Thayer’s first public showing of her wares was December’s Public Market, a citywide arts and crafts Christmas market.

During Public Market the earrings came to the attention of artist and Kindred Post owner Christy NaMee Eriksen. Kindred Post, which is a store, post office and gift shop in downtown Juneau, now carries Thayer’s earrings.

“Carley’s work immediately caught my eye as a fresh twist on a traditional material,” Eriksen said. “She keeps the integrity of the fur while playing on new shapes — I love how it looks both playful and elegant.”

Veronica Buness, Kindred Post media specialist, said she had not previously seen similar items around Juneau.

People can’t keep their hands off of them.

“One of the things to do is pull them out of the case on the wall and let people feel how incredibly soft they are,” Buness said. “It’s kind of unfathomable if you haven’t felt it before.”

n An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday.

The jam takes place at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thursday of the month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the month.

Jam starts at 6:30 p.m. n AmVets Post 4 has reopened in its brand new building on Kalifornsky Beach across from Jumpin’ Junction. Eligible veterans and their families are invited to stop by to find out more about AmVets and their involvement in the Veteran community. For members and invited guests, Friday night dance to “Running with Scissors,” and Saturday Burn your own steak and karaoke with Cowboy Don.

n The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m.

Thursdays.

. . . Reel

earth for the last 1,500 years.

Much of what works Continued from page A8 about this movie is a quality that might not work in a lesser film. “The Kid Who Would be King” is earnest and sincere, never feeling the need to be edgy, or necessarily “about” anything more than the simple moral lessons it espouses.

The kids are funny, but not annoying. They also seem real somehow — realer, anyway, than the wisecracking miniature 30-year-olds that populate most kids movies. Director Joe Cornish, who made his big splash with “Attack the Block,” is accustomed to working with kids, and you can tell. The actors seem comfortable and natural onscreen.

It was refreshing to watch a kids movie that seemed completely appropriate for once. So often either the humor is obnoxious, or the movie is too scary or intense in an effort to appeal to everyone. In this case, however, the humor, the tone, the complexity of the plot, all felt completely appropriate. And that said, I never felt bored and the film never feels dumbed down. It’s like a book being at the proper reading level for the kids reading it. “The Kid” felt that way.

Of course, not everything is perfect. Merlin is a little more annoying than I think the filmmakers probably intended, and there are moments when the special effects are a little wonky. You could tell Cornish wasn’t working with the world’s largest budget on this film, but does a good job with what he had.

All in all, “The Kid Who Would be King” is a huge success, especially considering that the trailer looked terrible. I worry that people will just assume this is a throwaway piece of junk and avoid it. Don’t.

This is a solid film with enough charm and heart to overcome a thousand demons. If only it can overcome the cynical moviegoing public. Grade: A“The Kid Who Would be King” is rated PG for fantasy violence.

. . . Book

book is for the zappaced, profanity-laced, revenge-based humor Continued from page A8 that’s so outrageous, you gotta laugh.

If you’re a fan, you already know that author Tim Dorsey tends to make his novels something akin to putting a hurricane in a blender. “No Sunscreen for the Dead” is all that but, in what may be the least madcap of the bunch, it’s easier to grasp and might be perfect for series newbies. Mystery or humor book, whichever you want, this one’s got your number.

Thayer said Bering Sea Designs has become a big focus for her and her main source of income.

It’s going to stay that way, too.

In the past, Thayer has fished with her father during summers, but this year is different because Thayer is pregnant.

That’s part of what led her to trying her hand at making earrings.

“I needed to find something to do to fill my time and make some extra money,” Thayer said.

Currently, earrings are Thayer’s focus, but online bracelets, necklaces and fur poms are available, and she may expand to other accessories in the future.

While her business is young, Thayer said the plan is for it to have staying power.

Once her child is born, Thayer said the business will be a good way to be home and generating income.

“This is a long-term thing,” Thayer said. “That’s kind of the idea. I’ll be able to be at home and continue my business.”

Police: No footage yet showing ‘Empire’ actor being attacked

n A bluegrass jam takes place on the first Sunday of the month at from 1-4 p.m. at the Mount Redoubt Baptist Church on South Lovers Loop in Nikiski.

n Odie’s Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m.

Got its hooks in

In this 2018 file photo, Jussie Smollett, a cast member in the TV series “Empire,” attends the Fox Networks Group 2018 programming presentation afterparty in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

By DON BABWIN Associated Press

CHICAGO — Detectives have reviewed surveillance footage of “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett walking to his downtown Chicago apartment after an early morning visit to a Subway restaurant, but none of the video they’ve watched so far showed him being attacked, a police official said Wednesday.

Investigators “for the most part” can confirm the route Smollett took early Tuesday when he says he was attacked by two masked men along a street in the Streeterville neighborhood, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. However, there are gaps and none of the footage police have reviewed shows an attack, he said, noting that the review is ongoing.

Smollett, who is black and gay and who plays the gay character Jamal Lyon on the hit Fox television show, said the men beat him, subjected him to racist and homophobic insults, threw an “unknown chemical substance” on him and put a thin

rope around his neck before fleeing.

Guglielmi said detectives, who are investigating the allegations as a possible hate crime, have looked at hundreds of hours of surveillance video from businesses and hotels in the heavily monitored area. But he said they still need to collect and view more. He said they are expanding the search to include footage from public buses and buildings beyond the scene’s immediate vicinity in the hopes of spotting the men who match Smollett’s description of the suspects.

“We haven’t seen anybody, at this point, matching the description he gave, nobody looks menacing and we didn’t find a container anywhere,” Guglielmi said, referring to a container for the liquid that the actor said was thrown at him.

Neither Smollett nor his publicist has spoken publicly about the attack.

Smollett, 36, returned to his apartment and his manager called police from there about 40 minutes later, Guglielmi said. When officers arrived, the actor had cuts and scrapes on his face and the “thin rope” around his neck that he said had been

put there by his assailant, he said.

Smollett later went to Northwestern Memorial Hospital after police advised him to do so.

The FBI is investigating a threatening letter targeting Smollett that was sent last week to the Fox studio in Chicago where “Empire” is filmed, Guglielmi said. The FBI did not immediately return a call seeking comment Wednesday, but Bobby Rush, a Democratic congressman from Chicago, issued a statement calling on the agency to conduct “an immediate and sweeping civil rights investigation into the racist and homophobic attack.”

In addition to his acting career, Smollett has a musical career and is a noted activist, particularly on LBGTQ issues.

There has been a flood of outrage and support for Smollett on social media. Among the many celebrities and politicians who weighed in was California Sen. Kamala Harris, a 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful who knows Smollett. She called the attack “outrageous” and “awful.”

Some of the outrage stems from Smollett’s account to detectives that his attackers yelled that he was in “MAGA country,” an apparent reference to the Trump campaign’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, which some critics of the president have decried as racist and discriminatory.

Chicago has one of the most sophisticated and extensive video surveillance systems in the U.S., with thousands of cameras on street poles, skyscrapers, buses and in train tunnels.

Police say the cameras have helped them make thousands of arrests. In one of the best known examples of the department’s use of the cameras, investigators in 2009 were able to recreate a school board president’s 20-minute drive through the city, singling out his car on a succession of surveillance cameras to help them determine that he committed suicide and had not been followed and killed by someone else, as his friends speculated.

Maroon 5 cancels Super Bowl halftime news conference

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer

ATLANTA — Maroon 5 has canceled its news conference to discuss the band’s Super Bowl halftime performance, choosing to not meet with reporters as most acts have done.

The NFL announced Tuesday that “the artists will let their show do the talking as they prepare to take the stage this Sunday.”

Maroon 5, with frontman Adam Levine, will be joined by Outkast member Big Boi and Houston rapper Travis Scott at halftime of the game between the Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots. The NFL says instead of a news conference with the performers, it will use media platforms to show behind-the-scenes

footage and content.

While Maroon 5 did not give a reason for its decision, it comes as some entertainers have said social injustice needs to be addressed during the Super Bowl.

That has led to some criticism of performers who are holding events in Atlanta. Jermaine Dupri said he was called a “sellout” for hosting a Super Bowl-related event during a meeting with people who had lost family members as result of police brutality. After the meeting, Dupri and the victims’ family members came to a compromise and the music mogul plans to give mothers a platform to speak onstage during his Super Bowl Live event in Atlanta Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick helped start a wave of

In this 2018 file photo, Adam Levine, left, and James Valentine of Maroon 5 perform during the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards in Inglewood, Calif.

(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

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A12 | Thursday, January 31, 2019 | Peninsula Clarion

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Last rites for dying wife were comfort to her family We just found out Stephanie is going to start cutting hair again, and my husband and I want to switch back to seeing her.

The sticky part is, we already have appointments with the new person, and Stephanie’s going to be working at the same salon where she referred us. Is Abigail Van Buren it rude to call and ask to switch our stylist knowing that we will be seeing both of them in the same place?

-- TENTATIVE IN THE MIDWEST DEAR TENTATIVE: No, it is not rude.

Tell your new stylist that you have decided to go back to Stephanie in light of your long relationship. Make the switch as cordial as possible. Explain that it has nothing to do with the quality of the stylists’ work. When you visit the salon, be friendly to both stylists.

That way, if Stephanie decides to quit cutting hair again or even takes a vacation, you will have someone to fall back on.

DEAR ABBY: I have read your column for years and notice that many of the letters come from people who let others run roughshod over

them or do things to them they are not happy with. My suggestion is a simple adage that has helped me through life: “People can only do to you what you ALLOW them to do to you.”

I realize this may not be a panacea for all situations, and for those who have difficulty asserting themselves it may not come easy. But folks will continue doing to you what you allow them to do until you say no. What do you think, Abby?

-- KIP IN AUSTIN, TEXAS DEAR KIP: I think your mantra is a helpful reminder for those who need it. However, many individuals need more support than that, and for them I would recommend assertiveness training because one of the hardest words in the English language to say is NO. 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.

To receive a collection of Abby’s most memorable -- and most frequently requested -- poems and essays, send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $8 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby -- Keepers Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. Shipping and handling are included in the price.

Hints from Heloise

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019: This year you can swing between a workrelated mentality and a devil-may-care attitude. You will enjoy your life and each facet of it more completely. You will learn to balance different parts of your life. If single, you will meet people from various areas of your life. The person you could choose to be with might be a friend first. That could prove to be an excellent foundation for a relationship. If attached, the two of you often can be found out and about together. Still, you prize your privacy as a couple. This anchors your bond.

CAPRICORN always wants to know what is going on.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 20-April 19) HHH You might be more exacting and demanding than you realize. Your feelings need to be positively directed to keep you from feeling frustrated or angry. Understand that others care about how you feel but might be limited in meeting your demands. Tonight: Take a strong role in making plans.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH One-on-one relating remains a strong suit of yours during the workday. You prefer that type of exchange, as it makes you feel more complete. Find out, if you can, what is bothering the other party. This person might not want to open up or might not feel secure enough to reveal what is going on.

Do not make it a big deal. Tonight: Weigh the pros and cons of taking a long-talked-about vacation.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Your sense of direction needs to suffice for the moment. Getting feedback from a loved one or an associate might be difficult at the moment. Others seek you out, resulting in a need to screen calls. Postpone socializing. You have a lot to do. You need to clear out present work before you can relax.

Tonight: Now, catch up with friends.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Your emotional depth helps you identify with a loved one or partner. You might not agree with him or her. However, you do understand where this person is coming from. Keep the moment light, if possible. The other party could feel uncomfortable otherwise. Tonight: Say “yes” to a special offer.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Allow your adventurous spirit to dominate. You enjoy relating to others. Be careful -- a flirtation could begin out of nothing, or the other party might misinterpret your attention. Be aware of how much your charisma draws others toward you and also

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fuels your fantasies. Tonight: Try to make it an early night.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH You could feel as if you cannot move in one direction or another. Use this semistalemate to open up conversations and see where movement is possible. Feelings flow, and suddenly ideas pop up. The unexpected marks a new choice. Tonight: Tap into your imagination when making plans.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Make an effort to have much-needed discussions. You might like agreements, but you need to accept your differences first.

Talks help a negotiation. However, you find someone you are dealing with to be out of sorts or erratic. You will see eye to eye soon enough. Tonight: Head home early.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH Stay in touch with your financial limitations when shopping. You could feel confused by a child or a loved one. Actually, this person works well when a haze surrounds an issue. Goodwill flows between you. You soon will be on the same page. Tonight: Hang out with friends.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH No one can stop you when you decide to go for something. Confusion surrounds others who would like to interfere but cannot. Caring evolves, and with it, people feel less threatened. A family member or a matter around your home could shake up the status quo. Tonight: Make it your treat.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Use the morning to center yourself and rethink a decision. Your gentle manner comes through when dealing with others. It draws a positive response. You could bring others around to your way of thinking if you do not make a hard push. Tonight: Nap, then decide.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Use the daylight hours to focus in on high priorities. A meeting will be successful if scheduled midday. Listen to different opinions. Your caring evolves the more you understand what worries others. Surprises surround you. Tonight: Let it be just for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH You take charge in work-related matters. As a result, you finally see flow and acknowledgment. You express your appreciation for a job well done. Know that you did make a difference here. Finances go back and forth, figuratively speaking. Make a decision accordingly. Tonight: The more people around you, the more fun you will have.

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BUMPY TROUBLE Dear Heloise: I have T-shirts on hangers in my closet. When I pick one to wear, there’s always a bump on either shoulder. How do I get rid of them?

-- Matthew in Calimesa, Calif.

Matthew, this is a good example of “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Fold or roll your T-shirts to store them in your dresser.

As for the existing bumps, a quick rewash on the “Express” setting on your washer will help. Use a dryer sheet to relax and “reset” the fibers.

-- Heloise GLASSES? Dear Heloise: I think my third-grade son may need glasses. He’s squinting a lot. Please tell your readers about more signs to look for to evaluate kids’ eyesight.

-- Mary M. in New York Yes, I’d suggest getting your son in to see the eye doctor. Here are more signs to look for: * Covering one eye when reading. * Headaches. * Sitting too close to the TV. * Slipping grades. * Rubbing the eyes.

-- Heloise P.S. An optometrist is perfect for basic vision care. An ophthalmologist is a medical doctor who can treat glaucoma and cataracts, and perform surgery. Start with the optometrist.

HERE’S A ‘HEADS-UP’ HINT Dear Readers: Popcorn should be cooked only in microwave-safe containers or prepackaged microwave bags, according to the package directions. Kernels can scorch and catch fire if cooked in nonsafe containers such as brown paper bags.

-- Heloise

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DEAR ABBY: My wife, a convert to reform Judaism, died this past year. The day before she passed, while she was in a coma, Roman Catholic family members asked if they could bring in a priest. I said OK because I knew it meant a lot to them. A priest came and administered last rites.

(My wife was born and raised a Catholic.)

I have been having serious second thoughts about my decision. Nobody outside my family knows about this. Did I make the right call, or should I have politely told my wife’s family that I could not agree to their request?

-- TROUBLED REFORM JEW DEAR TROUBLED: Your wife, who had converted to Judaism, was comatose. What happened at her bedside made no difference to her at that point. It was kind and generous of you to allow the priest to come for the sake of your in-laws. You did it for the right reasons, so please do not second-guess yourself now. What happened does not impugn the authenticity of the Jewish rites that you used to bury her.

DEAR ABBY: A year ago, my friend “Stephanie” decided to stop cutting hair as her second job. She had done mine, my husband’s and our son’s hair for years. We switched to a stylist she referred us to and have been satisfied with the service.

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