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Thursday, January 3, 2019 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Vol. 49, Issue 80
In the news Man wounded in New Year’s Day early morning shooting ANCHORAGE — A man was wounded in an early morning shooting at an Anchorage bar on New Year’s Day. Anchorage police say patrol officers at 3:10 a.m. Tuesday were called to a disturbance downtown at the Ultra Lounge & Grill. While on the way, dispatchers received reports of shots fired. Police found multiple people had been involved in a large fight. They found a man shot one in the upper body. Police say the wound did not appear to be life-threatening. The man was transported to a hospital.
Southwest Alaska man charged with assault in stabbing ANCHORAGE — A man suspected of stabbing a member of his household in a southwest Alaska village has been charged with felony assault. Alaska State Troopers say 23-year-old John Thompson was arrested Monday morning. Troopers did not release the name, age or gender of the victim. The person was medically evacuated from St. Mary’s for treatment. Troopers transported Thompson to Yukon Kuskokwim Correctional Facility in Bethel.
Alaska woman sentenced to probation for Medicaid fraud FAIRBANKS — A former personal care attendant in Alaska has been sentenced to three years of probation for fraudulently billing more than $50,000 to Medicaid. The Fairbanks Daily NewsMiner reports 57-year-old Sirje Kulakevich was sentenced last week in Fairbanks Superior Court after pleading guilty to one count of felony medical assistance fraud. Kulakevich was employed with Alaska Home Care in Delta Junction from 2010 to 2016. According to court documents, she took lengthy absences from work but was still paid after submitting time sheets and notes on the conditions of her clients. Kulakevich was ordered to pay back the money and perform 72 hours of community service. A judge could sentence her to up to 18 months in prison if she fails to meet the conditions of her probation. — Associated Press
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Soldotna train car eatery opens doors Federal
shutdown affects fisheries
By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion
Soldotna’s newest restaurant, Addie Camp Train Car Eatery and Wine Bar, is having its grand opening today. Local cookbook author Maya Wilson is the restaurant’s chef. Elements from her popular cookbook, Alaska from Scratch, can be seen throughout the menu, whether it’s the black cod, udon noodle soup or the butterscotch bread pudding. Wilson said she wanted to develop all-new recipes for the restaurant, but wanted to give a nod to fans of her cookbook. “There are a couple of familiar things for fans of mine,” Wilson said. “I do adapt them a bit and make them a little chef-ier, a little more upscale from the cookbook, even if they are basically drawn from there.” For diners who are new to See RAIL, page A8
By CRISTY FRY For the Homer News
Addie Camp Train Car Eatery and Wine Bar, part building part train car, with railroad inspiration throughout the decor, is photographed on Monday, in Soldotna. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/ Peninsula Clarion)
A journey told through ice ‘Panta Rhei’ photo exhibition opens at Kenai Fine Arts Center By BRIAN MAZUREK Peninsula Clarion
The Kenai Fine Arts Center is kicking off the new year with a photography show that features the work of local artists Ben Boettger and Elizabeth Earl. The show is titled “Panta Rhei” and features a photo series of six different glaciers on the Kenai Peninsula. The upcoming photography exhibit will have the photos arranged by glacier and takes the viewer on a comprehensive tour of all the glacial fields in the area. Boettger and Earl’s images emphasize both the scale and the movement of these natural wonders. Their photos are intended to give anyone who views them the realization that these glaciers truly are constantly on the move. The title of the show is Greek in origin and roughly translates to “everything flows.” Boettger had the idea for the title while he and Earl were exploring and working
An image from the upcoming photography show by artist Elizabeth Earl features Byron Glacier in Chugach National Forest in August 2018. (Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Courtesy of Elizabeth Earl)
on the project. Earl remarked that studying the glaciers up close allowed them to really take note of the evidence of
movement in the landscape. in the 1950s, the Portage GlaAt a glance, these behemoths cier was practically adjacent seem to be at a standstill. to the highway on the way to See RHEI, page A2 Some locals will recall that
Coast Guard, Homer celebrate 50 years By MCKIBBEN JACKINSKY For the Homer News
If you look way back in Homer’s history, back to last century, back before statehood, back all the way to November 1948, you’d see the 269foot U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northwind sail into Kachemak Bay. Its mission was to provide health care, provisioning, justice and personal transport services to Alaska’s remote communities, according to Darrell van Ness, curator of the Coast Guard Museum Northwest in Seattle. That visit marked the start of Homer’s connection with the U.S. Coast Guard, a relationship founded 50 years ago with the arrival on Jan. 5, 1969, of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ironwood, the first ship to be homeported in Homer. This year, Homer celebrates the silver anniversary of the Coast
er, a civil trial was conducted Guard in Homer. The Northwind served as a aboard ship, Judge Kehoe prefloating court. While in HomSee COAST, page A8
See FISH, page A3
Security concerns prompt closing of dividend applications By DAN JOLING Associated Press
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Roanoke Island is moored at the Homer Harbor on June 2, 2015, in Homer. Commissioned in 1992, the 110-foot Island class cutter was decommissioned that month. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
While federal fisheries are expected to open on time despite the ongoing partial shutdown of the government, there will be effects on fisheries in Alaska. National Marine Fisheries Services offices have few people available to answer phones and questions, and while their enforcement arm is open for business, their research arm is shut down. The move throws a serious wrench into ongoing studies, which require regular data collection, and hampers data collection for determining future quotas. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries website that deals with renewing permits has a notice banner alerting users that the site will not be updated, but notes that “NOAA websites and social media channels necessary to protect lives and property will be maintained,” including marine weather forecasting. No new permits will be issued during the shutdown. The federal fisheries are highly regulated and require frequent inspections of equipment such as scales and monitoring equipment that tracks vessel locations as well as type and number of fish. Those inspections are not happening until the stalemate in Washington, D.C., is resolved, and boats cannot legally fish without them. KTOO Public Media reports that the shutdown would only have to affect a small number of Bering Sea boats for the economic impact to be substantial — a single fishing trip for a large factory trawler can be worth millions of dollars. While most of the Bering Sea cod fleet had their inspections done before the shutdown, the pollock season that begins Jan. 20 could be affected if it lingers. And one vessel, the 180foot Baranof, has more than two dozen crew members who flew out to Dutch Harbor for the winter fishing season. They had planned to start fishing for red crab on Jan. 1, but are unable to leave the dock without having an electronic
ANCHORAGE — Alaska revenue officials shut down online applications for annual oil wealth checks after personal information of other users popped up on applicants’ computer screens. The private information from other applicants included names, addresses and Social Security numbers. The Alaska Department of Revenue shut down the application process Tuesday, the day it opened for 2019 checks. Revenue Commissioner Bruce Tangeman said Wednesday he is apologizing for the problem every chance
he gets. “The permanent fund dividend is a big deal in Alaska,” he said. “It means a lot to people, and we are very sorry that we’re going through this right now and putting them through this right now.” The Alaska Permanent Fund was created by a vote of residents in 1976 when a flood of money for state coffers from oil development was on the horizon. The goal was a fund that would be out of reach for day-to-day government spending that would generate income in future years, according to the fund website. State leaders also wanted See PFD, page A2
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Light snow will fall in New England today with rain, some heavy, across the Southeast. Some snow and ice are likely for northern Texas and Oklahoma, while rain falls in Washington.
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Snow on saguaros: Desert cities in US Southwest see freeze PHOENIX (AP) — The weather was flipped Wednesday throughout much of the U.S. West, with snow falling on cactuses in the Arizona desert and Anchorage seeing balmy weather — at least by Alaska standards. In Phoenix, the overnight low was 30 degrees for the first time in five years and more cold temperatures were expected Thursday. The Tucson area saw as much as 6 inches of snow. “It was pretty magical,” said Jessica Howard, a resident of the Tucson suburb of Vail who took her 8- and 5-year-old children to play in the snow. “My social media feeds are like 100 percent snow pictures right now.” Snow dusted cactuses and mountains in southern Arizona and covered the Grand Canyon in the north. Elsewhere, the National Weather Service issued a freeze warning in the Nevada county where Las Vegas is located. Snow fell and stuck Tuesday on a desert highway over a mountain just 20 minutes outside Sin City. Albuquerque, New Mexico, saw heavy snowfall and icy roads that caused many government agencies and schools to close. The cold weather and snow
The Empire Mountains emerge from cloud cover after the second round of winter storms brought snowfall to the surrounding metro Tucson area and southeast Arizona, Jan. 2, south of Vail, Ariz. (Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star via AP)
is “quite uncommon” for the area, said Glenn Lader, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Tucson. Nogales, an Arizona city on the Mexico border, had about 6 inches of snow, he said. Even Southern California got a bit of the action, with rain expected as part of already
cold, windy weather. Meanwhile, some parts of Alaska rang in the new year with relatively balmy weather for the region that helped melt snow in Anchorage. A change in the jet stream brought warmer air from the south, taking the temperature to 42 degrees on New Year’s Day.
It was a nice respite from a winter mix that left 32.6 inches of snow on the ground in Anchorage in December, with most of it falling during the last half of the month. Colder weather was in the forecast, with high temperatures dropping to the teens or even single digits.
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1 missing, 16 rescued after ship catches fire in Pacific By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press
HONOLULU — The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday suspended its search for a crewmember who abandoned a vessel that caught fire in the Pacific Ocean while carrying cars from Japan to Hawaii. Sixteen others were rescued, while four crewmembers were listed as unresponsive after rescue ships spotted them and lowered life rings but got no reply. The Sincerity Ace, a 650-foot
car carrier, had 21 crew members on board when the fire started Monday while traveling to Hawaii from Japan. The U.S. Coast Guard coordinated with merchant ships on the rescue effort as the Sincerity Ace was 2,071 miles northwest of Honolulu. The ships were able to rescue 16 of the crew members. The ships also threw down life rings attached to lines to four crewmembers who didn’t pull themselves up to safety. “If the person in the water
can’t grab onto something there’s not much these … vessels can do for them,” said Coast Guard spokesman Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew West. The lowest deck on some of the massive vessels is 25 feet to the water, he explained. The four were not in life rafts, West said. Japanese shipping company Shoei Kisen Kaisha Ltd. owns the Panamanian-flagged vessel. The vessel was still on fire Wednesday, company spokesman Darrell Wilson said in a statement.
Coast Guard and U.S. Navy aircraft are searching a 6,711mile area for the missing crewmember, but they don’t have any ability to land, West said. The nearest Coast Guard ships are days away, he said. It’s not clear what plans are in place to retrieve the four who were unresponsive. The company, based in Imabari, Japan, has dispatched commercial tugs to the vessel, which are estimated to be four-tofive days away, Wilson said. The cause of the fire was unknown.
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Karen Nadine Syvrud
Robert Frank Smith, Sr.
February 12, 1938 - December 12, 2018
May 30, 1940 - December 23, 2018
Karen Nadine Syvrud, 80, of Kenai died in the early hours of December 12, 2018 after a brief series of health complications. A service will be held on January 5, 2019 at 2pm at Christ Lutheran Church. Karen was born on February 12, 1938 in Aberdeen, South Dakota to Arnold and Pearl Larson, a high school band teacher and homemaker/seamstress who raised their family in Mandan, North Dakota. Karen learned to play the piano and the flute from an early age and started to play the organ for church services at age 15. Karen attended Dickinson State College in Dickinson, North Dakota and earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree in 1959. She taught music in Sidney, Montana for two years after graduating. She and Richard Syvrud married on August 17, 1962. She and Richard grew up down the street from each other. He first asked her to marry him on the playground ice rink when he was in the fourth grade and she was in the third. After Richard’s graduation from welding school in 1973, the Syvruds moved to Alaska and raised their family in Kenai. Over the years, Karen was an active member of the musical community and played church organ, and taught piano and flute lessons. She taught music for several years at Sears Elementary, and substitute taught in local school music classrooms for years afterward. She was a founding member of the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra and played for over 30 years, as well participating in pit orchestras for local theater productions. Karen loved the clarity and perfect pitch of hand bells, and helped to start several choirs in local churches. She was a skilled cook, an avid quilter and knitter, and was always willing to use her seamstress skills on a rip or a hem. Karen is preceded in death by her father Arnold and her brother Peter. Karen is survived by a large extended family, including her mother, Pearl Larson of Kenai, her husband, Richard Syvrud of Kenai, and brothers David Larson of Boise, Idaho and Mark Larson of Kenai, and their families. She also leaves behind her daughters and son-in-laws, Leslie and Pat Cooper of Kenai, Tana and Jim Butler of Kenai, and son, Wade Syvrud, of Ashland, Kentucky, and her ten grandchildren, all of whom look forward to meeting her again in glory. If you wish to honor her memory, donations may be made to The Bible Project. www.thebibleproject.com. Arrangements were made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel.
Nikiski resident, Mr. Robert Frank Smith, Sr., 78, died Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018 at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage. Funeral Services will be held 12:00 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4th, 2019 at Peninsula Memorial Chapel & Crematory – 5839 Kenai Spur Hwy – Kenai. A viewing will be held 1 hour prior to services from 11:00 to 12:00 p.m. Following services, a reception will be held at the funeral home. Graveside services will be held at the Kenai City Cemetery where Robert will be laid to rest next to his wife and son. Chaplain Frank Alioto will be officiating. Pallbearers will include: Justin Smith, Race Rusk, Kyle Hilleary, Sonny Clemmons, and Rick Smith. Robert was born May 30, 1940 in El Centro, California. He joined the military when he was 20 years old, serving 2 years in the U.S. Army. In 1971 Robert moved to Alaska first living in Kasilof, then Wasilla and finally Nikiski in 1991. He owned and operated the Alaska Lead Shed up until 2005. Robert loved boating, 4 wheeling, spending time with his grandbabies. He was preceded in death by his son, Robert Frank Smith, Jr; wife, Peggy Jean Smith; brothers, John and Junior Smith; sisters, Lucy Atwood and Sue Garret and parents, John and Edith Smith. He is survived by his grandkids, Amber Hilleary and Kevin Smith of Kenai and Nikiski; brother, Ronald (Shirley) Smith of Soldotna; sons, Rick Smith of Port Angeles, Washington, Jewell Bradford of Anchorage, and Joel Bradford of Spokane, Washington; daughter, Karen Barngrover of Kenai and great grand babies Tristen and Hadley Hilleary both of Nikiski ad many more loved ones near and far. Arrangements made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel & Crematory. Please sign or visit his online guestbook at AlaskanFuneral.com.
Around the Peninsula 23rd Annual Hospice Wine event and Auction 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.
Kenai Soil & Water Board Meeting The monthly meeting of the Kenai Soil & Water Conservation District’s Board of Supervisors will be held Wednesday, Jan. 9, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at the District office located at 110 Trading Bay, Suite 140. For information, call 283-8732 x5.
Musher hosts needed T200 Looking for volunteers and host families for mushers! Race Weekend is Jan. 26-27. We have scheduled two volunteer meetings: Soldotna — Jan. 17 at the River Center on Funny River Road, 6 p.m. Homer — Jan. 19 at Captain Coffee, 3 p.m. Sign up to volunteer or host a musher online at tustumena200.com.
Soldotna Historical Society & Homestead Museum The Soldotna Historical Society & Homestead Museum board meeting is on Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 8:30 a.m. The meeting will be held at Fine Thyme Cafe. Questions? Contact Carmen 262-2791.
‘Voice of Democracy’ and ‘Patriot’s Pen’ winners
Kenai Historical Society The Kenai Historical Society will meet on Sunday, Jan. 6 at 1:30 in the Kenai Visitors Center. Ron Walden, local author and pioneer will speak after the business meeting. Everyone is invited. For more information call June at 283-1946.
Testify at a School Board meeting from Homer or Seward The KPBSD Board of Education will open two additional locations for public testimony via video during a school board meeting. Homer Middle School and Seward Elementary School sites will be open — if there are advance signups — starting with the Jan. 14 school board meeting. Sign up no later than 3 p.m. the Friday prior to a Board of Education meeting to guarantee the remote site will be open and staffed.
Anchorage Fish & Game Advisory Committee The Anchorage Fish & Game Advisory Committee will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 8 at Cabela’s conference room, located at 155 W 104th Avenue at 6:30 p.m. Agenda will include preparation of comment on statewide finfish proposals 161-173, select an AC rep for that meeting, and any other business that may properly come before the committee. The public is invited to address any concerns they have. For more information contact Martin Weiser at mweiser@crsalaska.com.
Kenai Kennel Club will be offering an AKC Star Puppy class beginning Thursday, Jan. 10 at 6 p.m. This is a six-week class, and you can receive a Star Puppy Certificate at the end. We will also be offering a Family Dog Obedience class beginning Thursday, Jan. 10 at 7 p.m. Please email kenaikennelclub@gmail.com with questions or to register. Go to Kenaikennelclub.com for the class schedule and more information.
SEES candy fundraiser Annual SEES candy fundraiser is going on now at Soldotna Professional Pharmacy while supplies last. All proceeds go to the PCD foundation (Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia).
Cook Inlet Pipeline Infrastructure Risk Assessment deadline Experts wishing to participate in the Cook Inlet Pipeline Infrastructure Risk Assessment expert panel on pipeline integrity and safety now have until Jan. 18, 2019, to apply. The previous deadline was Jan. 5, 2019.
Central Peninsula Garden Club presentation
Al-Anon support group meetings
Soil Testing for Optimum Plant Health on Tuesday, Jan. 8 from 7–8:30 p.m. Dr. Casey Matney, Assistant Professor and Cooperative Extension Service Agent on the complexities of soil health, the basics of soil testing, plant nutritional needs, and best practices for improving garden soil fertility. Immediately preceding Dr. Matney’s presentation, a brief annual business meeting of the Central Peninsula Garden Club will begin at 7 p.m. for the purpose of electing directors to the CPGC board. Free and open to the public; bring a friend! Refreshments and sometimes door prizes. Location: Peninsula Grace Church, 44175 Kalifornsky Beach Road (at Mile 19.5, across the road from Craig Taylor Equipment), Soldotna. Membership and general club information is available at www.cenpengardenclub.org, on facebook, or contact Renae Wall at cenpengardenclub@gmail.com.
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 252-0558 for more information.
Free Diabetes Screenings
Narcan kits available at Kenai Public Health
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Anchorage. Now that same glacier is about 5 miles away. Earl says that studying the path of a glacier is like “looking back in time.” “Once you know what to look for, the evidence is all around you,” Earl said. She also notes that Alaska has a unique relationship with glaciers compared to other places around the world. Many glaciers in Montana or Washington, for example, either pale in comparison or are all but gone already. Alaska’s climate has allowed glaciers all over the state to retain their size while moving hundreds, even thousands of miles. With
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scale certified by federal regulators. Those regulators are on the ground in Dutch Harbor, willing to do the job, but unable because of the shutdown. Doug Wells, government affairs director for Romanzof Fishing Co., which owns the boat,
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to share oil wealth with Alaskans. The first dividends, paid from a portion of fund earnings, were paid out in 1982 and have been distributed annually ever since. The first checks were for $1,000. The smallest checks were $331.29 in 1984. They peaked in 2015 at $2,072. The 2018 dividend was $1,600. Alaskans must reapply every year, and the process opens Jan. 1. “A lot of people get on there as soon as it’s available,” Tangeman said. “They like to try to be the first ones in to apply.” As some Alaskans tried to apply Tuesday, the informa-
this show, Boettger and Earl wanted to highlight the impact these glaciers have on the landscape as they make their slow journey across the peninsula. “Panta Rhei” will have its opening reception on Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Kenai Fine Arts Center, located next to the Oilers Bingo Hall in Old Town Kenai. The reception is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served during the event. The Fine Arts Center hosts a different show every month and has an opening reception on the first Thursday of each month. The show by Boettger and Earl will be on display all through January. The Fine Arts Center’s regular hours are Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 5 p.m.
told KTOO, “It’s infuriating. These are just guys that have done a ton of work and are sitting there ready to go, and are being prevented by a bunch of politicians.” The red crab fishery closes in mid-January, and if the Baranof can’t make its catch by then, the company’s losses would be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, Wells said. tion boxes on their screens filled with data from previous applicants. It has not been determined whether the system experienced a glitch or a hack, and Tangeman did not want to speculate. “We want to establish what the problem is. Then we’re going to fix the problem. Then we’re going to do a very deep dive on the security side to make sure it is secure before we put it back up on the website,” he said. An online counter indicated that fewer than 100 people had applied for dividends when the system was shut down, he said. He is hoping the system will be back on line in a few days. ” It’s all hands on deck, 247, getting to the root cause of the problem, fixing it and then making sure the security is in place,” Tangeman said.
AKC Star Puppy class
Winners of the “Voice of Democracy” and “Patriot’s Pen” essay competition will present their essays to the public on Tuesday Jan. 8 at 5:30 p.m. at the VFW post at 134 Birch Street in Soldotna. The public is welcome. For more info contact 907-262-2722.
Homer Medical Center is offering free Diabetes Screenings in the month of January for patients without a current diabetes diagnosis. The screening includes a Point of Care diabetes screening blood test (HbA1C), a 30-minute visit with Peggy Ellen Kleinleder, RN, Certified Diabetes Nurse Educator, a review of test results, diabetes education on healthy eating for pre-diabetes, diabetes and diabetes prevention, a blood pressure check and free take-home materials. Daytime and evening appointments available. Call Homer Medical Center 235-8586 and ask for the New Year’s Free Diabetes Screening. It is free, and no insurance is necessary. January 2019: 9, 16, 23, 30. February 2019: 7, 13, 20, 27. March 2019: 6.
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Kenai Peninsula College holiday schedule KPC’s two campuses (Kenai River and Kachemak Bay) and Seward extension site (Resurrection Bay) will be closed for the holidays from Dec. 22, 2018 to Jan. 2, 2019. Registration for the upcoming spring semester is available online at www.kpc. alaska.edu. Classes start on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2019.
Heroin overdoses are on the rise in Alaska. Narcan is an easy medication you can give to someone who is overdosing. It may save their life. Adults can get free Narcan nasal spray kits at the Kenai Public Health Center at 630 Barnacle Way, Suite A, in Kenai. For additional information call Kenai Public Health at 335-3400.
Habitat for Humanity seeking family partner The Central Peninsula Habitat for Humanity is now looking for a family to partner with for their 2019 building season. If you would like more information, please contact Carri at 283-7797, or visit our website: https://hfhcentralpeninsula.org to apply online!
Wilderness First Aid course The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is hosting a Wilderness First-Aid course on Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 12-13, 2019. Course cost $185, plus $45 extra for CPR. For more information contact Michelle Ostrowski at michelleostrowski@fws.gov or debajango@gmail.com. Must be 16 or older.
Today in History Today is Thursday, Jan. 3, the third day of 2019. There are 362 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 3, 1977, Apple Computer was incorporated in Cupertino, California, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Mike Makkula Jr. On this date: In 1521, Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X. In 1777, Gen. George Washington’s army routed the British in the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey. In 1868, Japan’s Meiji (may-jee) Restoration re-established the authority of the emperor and heralded the fall of the military rulers known as shoguns; the upheaval paved the way for Japan’s drive toward becoming a modern power. In 1938, the March of Dimes campaign to fight polio was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who himself had been afflicted with the crippling disease. In 1958, the first six members of the newly formed U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held their first meeting at the White House. In 1959, Alaska became the 49th state as President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation. In 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced the United States was formally terminating diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba. In 1967, Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, died in a Dallas hospital. In 1980, conservationist Joy Adamson, author of “Born Free,” was killed in northern Kenya by a former employee. In 1993, President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the START II missile-reduction treaty in Moscow. (However, the agreement ultimately fell apart.) In 2008, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama won Democratic caucuses in Iowa, while Mike Huckabee won the Republican caucuses. In 2013, students from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, reconvened at a different building in the town of Monroe about three weeks after the massacre that had claimed the lives of 20 first-graders and six educators. The new 113th Congress opened for business, with House Speaker John Boehner re-elected to his post despite a mini-revolt in Republican ranks. Ten years ago: After seven days of pummeling the Gaza Strip from the air, Israel launched a ground offensive; Hamas vowed that Gaza would be a “graveyard” for the Israelis. Veteran actor Pat Hingle died in Carolina Beach, N.C., at age 84. Five years ago: The secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled again that the National Security Agency could keep collecting every American’s telephone records every day. Phil Everly, who with his brother Don formed an influential harmony duo, died in Burbank, California, at age 74. No. 12 Clemson rallied to beat No. 7 Ohio State 40-35 in the Orange Bowl. One year ago: President Donald Trump signed an executive order disbanding the controversial voter fraud commission he had set up to investigate the 2016 presidential election after alleging without evidence that voting fraud cost him the popular vote; the White House blamed the decision to end the panel on more than a dozen states that refused to cooperate. A brutal winter storm delivered a rare blast of snow and ice to the coastal Southeast, giving parts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina their heaviest snowfall in nearly three decades. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Dabney Coleman is 87. Journalistauthor Betty Rollin is 83. Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Hull is 80. Singer-songwriter-producer Van Dyke Parks is 76. Musician Stephen Stills is 74. Rock musician John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) is 73. Actress Victoria Principal is 69. Actor-director Mel Gibson is 63. Actress Shannon Sturges is 51. Actor John Ales is 50. Jazz musician James Carter is 50. Contemporary Christian singer Nichole Nordeman is 47. Musician Thomas Bangalter (Daft Punk) is 44. Actor Jason Marsden is 44. Actress Danica McKellar is 44. Actor Nicholas Gonzalez is 43. Singer Kimberley Locke (TV: “American Idol”) is 41. Actress Kate Levering is 40. NFL quarterback Eli Manning is 38. Actress Nicole Beharie is 34. Pop musician Mark Pontius (Foster the People) is 34. Rhythm-and-blues singer Lloyd is 33. Pop-rock musician Nash Overstreet (Hot Chelle (shel) Rae) is 33. Actor Alex D. Linz is 30. Thought for Today: “The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.” -- Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (18131887).
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What Others Say
No end in sight for shutdown Like previous government shutdowns,
the current one — which enters its 13th day on Thursday — has had less impact than you might expect. About two-thirds of government spending is for benefits such as Medicare and Social Security, which are unaffected by shutdowns. Also unaffected are the jobs of federal workers considered “essential.” Lessening the impact even further, Congress did manage to pass a measure financing the Pentagon, the Department of Health and Human Services and several other large agencies. None of this should obscure the fact that this shutdown is both destructive and inane, perhaps more so because Congress, President Donald Trump and even much of the American public seem inured to these periodic events. The shutdown is affecting a number of loan programs from the Small Business Administration and other agencies. (Initially, it prevented the issuance of federal flood insurance policies, which are necessary for mortgages in many parts of the country, but the government has apparently found a workaround.) Smithsonian museums are shuttered, and national parks are a mess. The proximate cause of the shutdown is a dispute over funding for Trump’s border wall, the one Mexico was supposed to pay for. Physical barriers (though not concrete walls) are an important component of border security in certain places along the 2,000-mile border. But much of today’s illegal immigration problem involves people who overstay their visas or who wish to be apprehended so they can apply for asylum or refugee status. Trump seemed to comprehend this when he initially signaled he would compromise. But he beat a hasty retreat when he started coming under attack from hard-line conservative pundits and power brokers. Trump has been seeking $5 billion for the wall; Democrats have been offering $1.3 billion for border security. A deal in this case would not be difficult to envision, as the numbers involved are dwarfed by the $3.8 trillion budget. Ideally, in return for the Democrats meeting him partway on border security, Trump would agree to end his policy of threatening “Dreamers” — young adults who were brought here illegally as children — with deportation once their court protection ends. This fight over border funding, however, has larger overtones that might stand in the way of a quick resolution. Wednesday’s meeting at the White House with congressional leaders ended with no signs of progress. Democrats, who take control of the House on Thursday, are happy to finally be in the position of being able to say no to Trump and want to display that power to their rank-and-file voters. They plan to offer a measure funding the Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 8 and the rest of the government for the remainder of the fiscal year. Trump, meanwhile, has spent his first two years catering to his base and ignoring or insulting just about everyone else. He does not appear inclined to change that now. This leaves much of the country wondering when this desultory fight over a relatively small matter will come to an end. From the looks of things, the answer is: not very soon.
It’s decision time on Brexit
LONDON — To Brexit, or not to Brexit, that is the question (apologies to Shakespeare). The answer to whether the UK will pull out of the European Union as a majority of voters favored in a 2016 referendum will be decided this month. Maybe. Prime Minister Theresa May told Parliament that debate on the deal would resume on January 7. She has scheduled a vote for the following week. The vote had originally been set for December 11, but May pulled it, fearing the measure would be soundly defeated. She has been engaged since then in intense lobbying with parliamentarians who favor staying within the European Union. She has offered special posts to those who end their opposition. This tactic appears to have worked with several members of parliament who have flipped from “no” to “yes,” prompting strong criticism from anti-Brexit members. There is no guarantee May has the votes to proceed and some are speculating she may again call for a delay, further demonstrating a leadership weakness that was revealed last month when she barely survived a no-confidence vote. London Times columnist Matthew Parris is a leading anti-Brexit voice. In a December 29 column, Parris claims voters were “misled” in the run-up to the 2016 vote. He favors another vote, believing the outcome would be different. Liam Fox, the international trade secretary and a leading Brexit supporter, told the Sunday Times the chances of Britain leav-
foolishly) pressed ahead anyway, saying that she is simply carrying out the wishes of a majority of voters. History can be amusing. This is not the first referendum on Britain’s relationship with Europe. That occurred in 1975 when the Conservative Party — now favoring withdrawal — enthusiastically supported Britain’s continued membership in what was then called the European Economic Community (EEC). The party’s new leader, Margaret Thatcher, called for a “massive Yes” to remain in the EEC and led a nationwide campaign in its favor. On the withdrawal side was the liberal Labour Party, which now wishes to remain. Several leading newspapers that now favor a divorce from Europe, then campaigned to keep Britain aligned with Europe. Scheduled implementation of Brexit is set for March 29, but that presumes a yes vote in Parliament, assuming there are not more delays. The prime minister’s call for a snap election last year caused a loss in her party’s overall majority, necessitating negotiations with Parliament’s various factions to produce a deal that can pass. Bookies are not a reliable guide. In 2016, they claimed a 60 percent chance voters would reject Brexit. They lost. Today, as Liam Fox says, the odds are just 50-50. Place your bets and take your chances seems to be the attitude. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.
Whither away, America?
Where are we, as a nation, going? Now comes the natural question: “Just why are you asking that question?” But first, let’s look briefly at what we may learn from history. According to Today in Christian History (12-17-2018): “December 17, 1917: Bolsheviks confiscate all property of the Russian Orthodox Church and abolish religious instruction in the schools. Within two decades, at least 45,000 priests were reportedly martyred in the country.” In the 101 years since that time, some four generations of Russians have grown up without biblical training, or even the slightest bit of instruction regarding biblical Christianity. Why should we be surprised if there is a dearth of adherence to biblical standards of conduct or morality in that nation? (Let me reassure you with this fact: God has not left Himself without a witness, despite the dark days of the past 101 years in Russia. He still has a remnant of believers who have not “bowed the knee to Baal” [so to speak]. There are yet individuals and — USA Today, Jan. 2 families that name the Name of Jesus, the Christ of God. Regretfully, their impact on the spiritual and social life of the Russian people has been greatly diminished by the prevalence of a God-forsaking majority in Russia. Yet there is a light, be it ever so small and hindered in effectiveness.) E-mail: Finally, the state of social mores in Russia has become so low that even Russian news@peninsulaclarion.com leaders recognize the lack of spiritual and Write: Fax: moral standards. This awareness has led fiPeninsula Clarion 907-283-3299 nally to State mandated instruction in reliP.O. Box 3009 Questions? Call: Kenai, AK 99611 907-283-7551 gion. Just what that will mean for Evangelical Christian individuals and missions is yet to be seen. Beginning in the 1990s and
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ing the EU are “5050,” if MPs reject the deal. The issue is complicated because it involves money, power and the future of Northern Ireland. No one wants to see the restoration of a Cal Thomas border between the North and the Republic of Ireland, which almost certainly would lead to the violence that mostly ended following the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, negotiated with the help of the Clinton administration. There is a “backstop” strategy in case next week’s vote goes against May. It would effectively keep the entire UK in the EU customs union for a limited period until another vote could be taken, which, the government hopes after perhaps more horse trading, would produce a positive outcome. As with the U.S. government shutdown, passions are strong on both sides when it comes to Brexit. One side fears Britain will effectively be shut out of Europe should the break occur, while the other is fed-up with Brussels dictating policies that contribute to what they see as diminished British sovereignty. May was saddled with an issue about which she was not fully, or even mainly, onboard. She has bravely (some critics say
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P eninsula C huck T hornton continued under Putin, the state allowed the teaching of religion in schools (parents are provided with a choice for their children to learn the basics of one of the traditional religions or secular ethics). However, the situation in Russia is somewhat comparable to that in the Roman world at the time of Christ and the early church. It is also similar to the days in which we Americans of the 21st Century live. As recently as 75 years ago, it was not uncommon to have the Bible taught in the elementary schools of our land. This author recalls the weekly appearances of the Bible Teacher at our one room school in rural Missouri. The Bible lessons were the basis for instruction in ethical, practical, and even godly living. However, by the second decade of the 21st Century, in most of the United States, Bible teaching (along with its contribution to courteous, ethical living) has essentially gone “by the wayside.” Common conversations are, often sprinkled liberally with coarse, even lewd, language. Such language had its beginning in the social discourse among groups of young men (or women). It then crept into the presence of children who, given their proclivity to imitation, began using the same terminology. Today, the language that once would
have called for “having one’s mouth washed out with soap” has become so common that, even in places and among people who give leadership to our nation, we see it as being normal. Cal Thomas (“And now the Boy Scouts” — Dec. 18, 2018 — Peninsula Clarion), speaks: “The erosion of what many Americans once believed were the foundations of our country continues apace…”. He added: “Some of the alleged abuses go back to the ‘60s, according to The Wall Street Journal, but that is precisely where the rending of American culture began. The cultural decline was facilitated by court rulings banning prayer and Bible reading in public schools and the Playboy philosophy of Hugh Hefner and his counterpart, Helen Gurley Brown, who told female readers of Cosmopolitan magazine they could be as promiscuous as men.” Baring a return to a society that respects the standards of the Bible (upon which the foundation of our great country stands), we stand to move in the exact direction Russia has gone. Unless there is a return to a respect for, and honor of, our nations foundational principles, we stand to continue at an ever-increasing rate down the path to destruction as a “Nation under God.” Again, let us listen to Cal Thomas: “Given the lowering of standards in the scouting program [US society], it should be no surprise that the Boy Scouts of America [USA] is headed for the ash heap that has claimed other “morally straight” entities.” So now , in conclusion, where are we, as a nation, going? Chuck Thornton is retired from the pastoral ministry at Peninsula Grace Church and lives in Kenai.
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No deal to end shutdown By LISA MASCARO and CATHERINE LUCEY Associated Press
WASHINGTON — No one budged at President Donald Trump’s White House meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday, so the partial government shutdown persisted through a 12th day over his demand for billions of dollars to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. They’ll try again Friday. In one big change, the new Congress convenes Thursday with Democrats taking majority control of the House, and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said outside the White House that there would be rapid passage of legislation to re-open the government — without funds for the border wall. But the White House has rejected that package, and Trump said ahead of the session with the congressional leaders that the partial shutdown will last “as long as it takes” to get the funding he wants. “Could be a long time or could be quickly,” Trump said during lengthy comments at a Cabinet meeting at the White House, his first public appearance of the new year. Meanwhile, the shutdown dragged through a second week, closing
House Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., walk to speak with reporters after a meeting with President Donald Trump on border security at the White House. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
some parks and leaving hundreds of thousands of federal employees without pay. Democrats said they asked Trump directly during Wednesday’s private meeting held in the Situation Room why he wouldn’t consider their package of bills. One measure would open most of the shuttered government departments at funding levels already agreed to by all sides. The other would provide temporary funding for
Homeland Security, through Feb. 8, allowing talks to continue over border security. “I said, Mr. President, Give me one good reason why you should continue your shutdown,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said afterward. “He could not give a good answer.” Added Schumer, “We would hope they would reconsider.” House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said there’s no
need to prolong the shutdown and he was disappointed the talks did not produce a resolution. He complained that Democrats interrupted Homeland Security officials who were trying to describe a dire situation at the border. “We were hopeful that we could get more of a negotiation,” said McCarthy. He said the leaders plan to return to the White House Friday to continue negotiations.
New GOP rivalry? Romney blasts Trump By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and incoming Utah senator, has quickly set himself apart from other Republicans in the new Congress with a blistering attack on President Donald Trump’s leadership and character. Romney put to rest expectations that he would take his time getting his footing in Washington. Instead, in a Washington Post column published two days before Romney was sworn into office, he said Trump’s “conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions last month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office.” Trump, in a Twitter response, said he hoped Romney wouldn’t follow in the footsteps of Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who often criticized Trump and paid the price, opting to retire rather than risk defeat in a GOP primary in 2018. “Would much prefer that Mitt focus on Border Security and so many other things where he can be helpful,” Trump tweeted. “I won big, and he didn’t. He should be happy for all Republicans. Be a TEAM player & WIN!”
This photo shows Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney answering a question about tariffs in the America First Event Center in Cedar City, Utah. (James M. Dobson/The Spectrum via AP, File)
Romney’s remarks prompted swift backlash from allies of the president in the Republican Party — including his own niece, Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee. McDaniel retweeted Trump’s remarks about Romney and added that the president is constantly “attacked and obstructed” by the media and Democrats. “For an incoming Republican freshman senator to attack” Trump @realdonaldtrump as their first act feeds into what the Democrats and media want and is disappointing and unpro-
ductive,” McDaniel tweeted. GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said the 2020 election hopes of many Republicans in the Senate and House will be tied to Trump. He said that the criticisms were bad for the Republican Party and made it harder to get things done in the Senate. “I don’t think the president deserves a new senator coming in attacking his character,” Paul said. Romney will be sworn in as a senator on Thursday. By taking on Trump so early in his Senate career, Romney could be picking up where
Flake and Sen. Bob Corker, RTenn., another retiring senator, left off. Their retirements left some wondering whether any other Republicans would be willing to publicly criticize the president. Sen. Dick Durbin, DIll., noted that almost half the Senate Republicans are up for re-election in 2020 and some may feel the need to push back against Trump. “They just saw what happened in 2018,” Durbin said, referring to Republicans losing the House majority in November. “I think, once they do polling back home, not all of them but many of them will find that independence is being rewarded.” Romney has had his public run-ins with the president before and tried to prevent him from winning the GOP nomination in 2016. In one speech, Romney said there was plenty of evidence that Trump was “a con man, a fake.” In that same speech, he said, “Dishonesty is Donald Trump’s hallmark.” But after the presidential election, Romney eased off the criticism and interviewed to become Trump’s secretary of state. Trump picked former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who lasted about 14 months before Trump fired him.
Border clash was at least 2nd use of tear gas since November
A migrant jumps the border fence to get into the U.S. side to San Diego, Calif., from Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday. (AP Photo/ Daniel Ochoa de Olza) By DANIEL OCHOA DE OLZA and JULIE WATSON Associated Press
TIJUANA, Mexico — Just after people raised their glasses to ring in the New Year, about 150 migrants gathered at a section of border wall in Tijuana to try to cross into the United States, many of them asylum seekers fed up with the long wait to have their claims processed. On the other side, U.S. Border Patrol agents wearing camouflage and night-vision goggles and carrying assault-style rifles yelled, “Don’t jump. It’s
dangerous. Get back!” in Spanish. American activists accompanying the migrants shouted at agents in English not to fire tear gas because children were present. Several migrants tried to climb the metal wall, prompting agents to fire the first volley of tear gas. When migrants approached the wall again, authorities fired a second round and then a third. The migrants fled, screaming, crying and coughing. One mother was hysterical after briefly losing her children in the thick smoke and darkness.
“The children were crying,” said Jose Fajardo Anariba, 16, from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. “They couldn’t tolerate it.” Tuesday’s confrontation was at least the second time in a little over a month that U.S. authorities have fired tear gas into Tijuana. The action drew sharp criticism from politicians and activists on both sides of the border and raised questions about the use of force against migrants. Instead of offering the asylum seekers protection, “border agents are firing tear gas at vulnerable families with children,” Andrea Guerrero, head of the advocacy group, Alliance San Diego, said in a statement. At a Cabinet meeting Wednesday at the White House, President Donald Trump said the clash showed that “people tried to charge the border and couldn’t.” With a complete wall, no one could enter unless that person was a “champion pole vaulter.” He described the border as being “like a sieve” and noted that the tear gas was “flying” to deter the migrants and added that it’s “very tough” to keep immigrants out. Trump was making his case for $5.6 billion from Congress for a wall at the border and vowing that the partial gov-
ernment shutdown now in its 12th day will last “as long as it takes” to get the money. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said tear gas, pepper spray and smoke were used to target rock throwers, not the migrants who were trying to cross. The agency said it could not help small children who were being passed over the concertina wire from getting hurt because of the rocks being thrown. Several teenagers, wrapped in heavy jackets, blankets and rubber mats, were also put over the concertina wire. An Associated Press photographer saw rocks thrown only after U.S. agents fired the tear gas. Customs and Border Protection said the incident would be reviewed to ensure compliance with the agency’s use-offorce policy. The agency said 25 migrants were detained while others crawled back into Mexico through a hole under the fence. An AP photographer saw migrants put their hands up or behind their heads once they crossed the border as agents approached. Anariba said he would try to climb the border wall again. His mother was killed in Honduras, and he has nothing in his homeland, he said.
Around the World 6 die in Denmark’s worst train accident since 1988 COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Six passengers were killed when a Danish train sustained damage while crossing a bridge that was closed to cars because of high wind Wednesday, and authorities investigated if falling cargo from a freight train caused Denmark’s deadliest railway accident in 30 years. Authorities said the two trains were traveling in opposite directions on the bridge linking s Denmark’s islands. Aerial TV footage showed a front side of the passenger train ripped open. Photos showed crates of beer on the freight train and a tarpaulin on top torn in pieces. Jesper Nielsen told Denmark’s TV2 he was riding on the passenger train and it “was out on the bridge when there was a huge ‘bang’ … very quickly thereafter, the train braked.” The rail operator, Danish Railways, told Denmark’s TV2 the victims were passengers on a train going from the city of Odense, on the central Danish island of Funen, to the capital of Copenhagen when the accident took place about 8 a.m. Police declined to comment directly on a report from Denmark’s TV2 channel that a large freight container had likely fallen off the cargo train. “It is much too early to speculate as to what might have caused it,” chief police investigator Joergen Andersen told reporters. “It has been a pretty serious accident.” The accident, in which 16 people were injured, took place on a road-and-rail bridge, part of the Storebaelt system of bridges and a tunnel that link the Danish islands of Zealand and Funen. The system was closed to cars overnight because of strong winds but trains were allowed to continue using it. Police spokesman Lars Braemhoej said one possible cause of the “considerable damage” on the passenger train was getting struck by cargo from the freight train, but noted that authorities “do not know precisely what caused the accident.” Kasper Elbjoern, spokesman for the Danish brewery group Carlsberg, confirmed that a freight train transporting its cargo was involved in the accident. Police urged passengers to contact relatives and tell them if they were safe and urged people not to share photos or videos of the accident. Flemming Jensen, the CEO of state-owned Danish Railways, said police and the Danish Accident Investigation Board were investigating. He said the operator “will contribute everything that we can to the investigation.” Bo Haaning of the Danish Accident Investigation Board was quoted as saying it could take months before the cause of the accident could be determined. The government agency responsible for Danish railways said on Twitter that no further trains would cross the Storebaelt link on Wednesday, adding it was aiming to allow train crossings to resume Thursday. Road traffic resumed Wednesday with a 31 mph speed limit. “Ordinary Danes on their way to work or heading home from the Christmas holidays have had their lives smashed,” Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said as he issued his condolences. Denmark’s Queen Margrethe said the “terrible accident … touches me deeply.” In 1988, eight people were killed and 72 injured when a train derailed because of high speed near Soroe, west of Copenhagen. Denmark’s worst train accident occurred in 1919, when an express train collided with a stopped train in Copenhagen due to a dispatcher error. A total of 40 people were killed and some 60 were injured.
Brazil’s Bolsonaro targets minorities on 1st day in office SAO PAULO — Newly installed President Jair Bolsonaro issued executive orders targeting Brazil’s indigenous groups, descendants of slaves and the LGBT community in the first hours of his administration, moving quickly after a campaign in which the far-right leader said he would radically overhaul many aspects of life in Latin America’s largest nation. One of the orders issued late Tuesday, hours after his inauguration, likely will make it all but impossible for new lands to be identified and demarcated for indigenous communities. Areas set aside for “Quilombolas,” as descendants of former slaves are known, are also affected by the decision. Another order removed the concerns of the LGBT community from consideration by the new human rights ministry. In a move favorable to his allies in agribusiness, which have criticized giving large swaths of lands to the indigenous, Bolsonaro transferred the responsibilities for delineating indigenous territories from the Justice Ministry to the Agriculture Ministry. The new agriculture minister, Tereza Cristina, is part of the agribusiness caucus in Brazil’s lower house and has opposed requests from native communities. Bolsonaro, a former army captain and longtime congressman, said during his presidential campaign that he would stop making what he calls concessions to native Brazilians and quilombolas. “Less than one million people live in those places isolated from the real Brazil,” Bolsonaro tweeted Wednesday. “They are explored and manipulated by nonprofits. Together we will integrate those citizens and give value to all Brazilians.” The Justice Ministry previously handled demarcation of indigenous lands through the FUNAI agency, which also oversees other initiatives for indigenous communities such as health care, housing and language preservation. Bolsonaro’s order is raising uncertainties about FUNAI by shifting it to a new ministry for family, women and human rights that is headed by an ultraconservative evangelical pastor. Indigenous leader Sonia Guajajara said the presidential order aims to dismantle protections for Brazil’s indigenous communities. “Does anyone still doubt his promises to exclude us during the campaign?” she asked on Twitter. Bolsonaro said last year that he also wants to annul land demarcation decisions made by previous administrations, but legal experts say recent Brazilian Supreme Court rulings could block such move. New Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta, meanwhile, suggested on Wednesday that there will be spending cuts in health care for the indigenous. “We have figures for the general public that are much below what is spent on health care for the indigenous,” he said, without providing details. In removing LGBT concerns from the responsibilities of the human rights ministry, Bolsonaro did not name any agency to consider such things. He has strongly criticized what he calls “gender-based ideology,” saying it is a threat to Brazil’s Christian values. LGBT activist Symmy Larrat said she doesn’t expect reasonable treatment from the Bolsonaro administration. — The Associated Press
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Penguins rip Rangers for 7th straight win By The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Matt Murray stopped 28 shots to keep up his strong play since returning from an injury, and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the New York Rangers 7-2 on Wednesday night for their season-high seventh straight victory. Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Jake Guentzel, Kris Letang and Dominik Simon each had a goal and an assist. Zach Aston-Reese and Tanner Pearson also scored to help the Penguins win for the ninth time in 10 games. Patric Hornqvist had two assists. Murray improved to 6-0 with a 1.49 goals-against average in six games since coming back from a lower-body injury Dec. 15. He also moved to 8-0 in his career against the Rangers, including the playoffs. Ryan Strome and Pavel Buchnevich scored for the Rangers. They are
2-0-2 in their previous four games and 2-0-5 in their past seven at home. Henrik Lundqvist, picked as an AllStar for the fifth time earlier in the day, gave up six goals on 18 shots before he was pulled less than five minutes into the third period. Alexandar Georgiev replaced him and finished with six saves. OILERS 3, COYOTES 1 GLENDALE, Ariz. — Connor McDavid scored two goals and assisted on another to help Edmonton beat Arizona to end a six-game losing streak. McDavid raised his team-leading total to 61 points (23 goals, 38 assists). He began the night fourth in the NHL in scoring, and has 12 points in the past five games. Leon Draisaitl scored his 22nd of the season for Edmonton, his sixth goal in five games. Draisaitl also had an assist and Mikko Koskinen stopped 29 shots for his 12th win.
Brad Richardson scored for Arizona.
CANUCKS 4, SENATORS 3, OT
including a third-period tiebreaker, to lift Dallas past New Jersey. Heiskanen and Tyler Seguin each scored twice after Jamie Benn tied it at 1 in the first period. Heiskanen, a 19-yearold rookie defenseman, has nine goals. Seguin and Benn have been under scrutiny since Stars CEO Jim Lites ripped Dallas’ highest-paid players Friday for “terrible play.” Seguin ended a five-game goal drought that dated almost two weeks. Benn scored in his second straight game but didn’t play for most of the final two periods because of an upper-body injury. Kyle Palmieri, Jesper Bratt, Drew Stafford and Brian Boyle scored for New Jersey.
OTTAWA, Ontario — Elias Pettersson completed a hat trick in overtime and Vancouver held off Ottawa. Pettersson’s second goal put Vancouver ahead 3-1 early in the third period, but Christian Wolanin and Mark Stone scored for Ottawa, with Stone tying it with 50 seconds left. Pettersson won it by burying a 2-on-1 feed from Brock Boeser. Pettersson was named an All-Star for the first time earlier in the day. The 20-year-old rookie has 22 goals. FLAMES 5, RED WINGS 3 Sven Baertschi also scored for the Canucks, and Jacob Markstrom stopped 30 DETROIT — Johnny Gaudreau’s powshots. Matt Duchene also scored for the er-play goal with 10:23 left lifted Calgary Senators. past Detroit. Detroit led 2-0 after one period, but the Flames rallied to hand the Red Wings their STARS 5, DEVILS 4 sixth straight loss. Sean Monahan, TJ BroDALLAS — Miro Heiskanen celebrat- die, Elias Lindholm and Michael Frolik ed his first All-Star nod with two goals, also scored for Calgary.
Darren Helm, Jacob de la Rose and Andreas Athanasiou scored for Detroit. Gaudreau put the Flames ahead 4-3 after a slick play by Matthew Tkachuk, who stickhandled below the goal line and then slipped a pass between goalie Jimmy Howard and the side of the net. Gaudreau was in front to tap in the puck for his 22nd goal of the season.
SHARKS 5, AVALANCHE 4 DENVER — Joe Pavelski and Brent Burns each had a goal and three assists, Martin Jones made 31 saves and San Jose held off Colorado. Evander Kane, Joonas Donskoi and Lukas Radil also scored for the Sharks. They extended Colorado’s recent slide after a 9-0-2 stretch lifted the Avalanche into first place in the Central Division in early December. Tyson Jost scored twice, and Matt Calvert and Tyson Barrie also had goals for Colorado. The Avalanche have dropped six in a row, two in overtime, and are 3-83 since Dec. 4.
No. 5 Kansas stops Sooners By The Associated Press
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Dedric Lawson had 13 points and 15 rebounds, Kansas’ young backcourt made enough crucial plays when it mattered, and the No. 5 Jayhawks held off No. 23 Oklahoma 70-63 on Wednesday night in the Big 12 opener for both teams. Devon Dotson added 16 points and fellow freshman Quentin Grimes had 14 for the Jayhawks (12-1), who survived a nervy final minute to win their 28th consecutive conference opener. No. 6 NEVADA 72, UTAH STATE 49 RENO, Nev. — Jordan Caroline scored 15 points and Nevada matched a school record with its 14th straight victory to begin the season. Cody Martin and Tre’Shawn Thurman had 14 points apiece in the Mountain West Conference opener for the Wolf Pack (14-0, 1-0), one of four undefeated teams in the nation.
No. 8 MICHIGAN STATE 81, NORTHWESTERN 55 EAST LANSING, Mich. — Nick Ward scored all 21 of his points in the first half to help Michigan State build a big lead and beat Northwestern. The Spartans (12-2, 3-0 Big Ten) have won seven straight this season and 10 consecutive games against the Wildcats. Northwestern (9-5, 0-3) had won three of four, losing only to No. 23 Oklahoma in overtime.
No. 11 TEXAS TECH 62, WEST VIRGINIA 59 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Jarrett Culver scored all of his 18 points in the second half, and Texas Tech overcame some early shooting troubles to beat West Vir-
ginia in their Big 12 opener. Matt Mooney added 14 points and Davide Moretti had 12 for Texas Tech (12-1).
No. 15 NORTH CAROLINA 77, HARVARD 57 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Luke Maye scored 14 points to help North Carolina beat Harvard. Cameron Johnson and Coby White added 13 points apiece in the Tar Heels’ final nonconference game. North Carolina led 4439 early in the second half before pulling away with a 22-3 run. Harvard missed 11 consecutive shots from the floor as North Carolina extended its lead to 66-42 with 6:20 to play.
No. 19 HOUSTON 74, TULSA 56 HOUSTON — Corey Davis Jr. scored 21 points and hit six 3-pointers and Houston remained undefeated, beating Tulsa 74-56 night in the American Athletic Conference opener for both teams. Houston (14-0) extended the longest home winning streak in the nation to 27 games.
MARYLAND 74, No. 24 NEBRASKA 72 COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Jalen Smith made a driving layup with 3.8 seconds left to break a tie, and Maryland used a late push to get past Nebraska. Bruno Fernando had 18 points and 17 rebounds, Anthony Cowan Jr. scored 19 points and Smith accounted for Maryland’s final seven points to finish with 15. Maryland (11-3, 2-1 Big Ten) trailed 71-70 before Smith made a follow-shot off a 3-point try by Cowan with 28 seconds left. After James Palmer converted 1 of 2 free throws for Nebraska, Smith drove the middle of the lane for his decisive layup. Following a timeout, Nebraska (11-3, 1-2) tried to work the ball up the court before Ricky Lindo Jr. knocked away a pass under the basket.
Kenai River Brown Bears forward Alex Klekotka controls the puck Nov. 9, 2018, against the Minnesota Magicians at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
Klekotka nabs Star of Week By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion
Kenai River Brown Bears forward Alex Klekotka has been named the Bauer Hockey Midwest Division Star of the Week by the North American Hockey League. Klekotka, 20, had two goals and an assist in a weekend split at the Janesville (Wisconsin) Jets that put the Brown Bears back into fourth place and the final playoff spot in the Midwest Division. The 6-foot-0, 195-pound forward out of Grand Rapids, Michigan, who is in his
third year with the club, had the gamewinning goal and an assist in Friday’s 5-4 win. He scored again in Saturday’s 3-2 loss. Kenai River head coach Josh Petrich said Klekotka has been a huge part of changing the culture of the Brown Bears. For instance, Petrich sent out a text message to notify the team of Klekotka’s award because the team is currently on break. “He texted back, ‘Thanks boys. Appreciate it, but this is a team award. Let’s have a big second half,’” Petrich said. “That speaks for his character and who
he is. He’s the last guy to ask for accolades and the first guy to put the work in.” Petrich said Klekotka has a nice release on his shot and that this should be the start of big things to come as he finishes his junior eligibility. “He’s an unbelievable human being and a very underrated player on the roster,” Petrich said. “I expect him to have a huge second half of the season. I expect this to jump-start the kid.” The Brown Bears host the Chippewa (Wisconsin) Steel at 7:30 p.m. at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex on Jan. 11 and 12.
Nets use huge first half to hold off Davis, Pelicans By The Associated Press
NEW YORK — D’Angelo Russell had 22 points and 13 assists, and the Brooklyn Nets built up a big enough lead with a 73-point first half to withstand Anthony Davis’ monstrous return to the lineup, beating the New Orleans Pelicans 126-121 on Wednesday night. Davis finished with 34 points and a career-high 26 rebounds after a one-game absence, but there weren’t enough rebounds to get in the first half, when the Nets opened a 24-point lead during their highest-scoring first half at home in 17 years. Joe Harris added 21 points for the Nets, who had 105 points through three quarters, then got consecutive baskets by Harris when New Orleans trimmed the down to seven with under 5 minutes remaining. The Nets made nine of their first 15 3-point attempts during their highestscoring first half at home since getting 75 against Golden State on Feb. 19, 2002. They finished with seven players in double figures, with DeMarre Carroll (19) and Spencer Dinwiddie (18) leading strong efforts off the bench. Elfrid Payton scored 25 points for New Orleans in his second game back after missing more than a month with
a broken finger. Julius Randle had 21, Redick 27 for the 76ers, who were with- NBA-worst 2-16 road record, compared to Reggie Jackson added 16 points, and Regout Jimmy Butler and Wilson Chandler, 15-3 at home. gie Bullock and Luke Kennard had 13 and Jrue Holiday 20. both due to an upper respiratory infection. Devin Booker scored 37 points for THUNDER 107, LAKERS 100 the Suns. Deandre Ayton added 18 points LOS ANGELES — Paul George scored and 11 boards and Josh Jackson scored 16 37 points while getting booed whenever he points. touched the ball by Lakers fans still angry he didn’t choose their team in free agency, CELTICS 115, leading Oklahoma City over Los Angeles. TIMBERWOLVES 102 Russell Westbrook had 14 points, 16 BOSTON — Gordon Hayward came rebounds and 10 assists despite 3-for-20 shooting, but his fellow Southern Califor- off the bench to score a season-high 35 nia native was the center of attention in points in Boston’s victory over Minnesota. Terry Rozier scored 11 of his 16 points the Thunder’s only visit to the Lakers this in the first quarter while making his third season. George scored nine points in the fourth start of the season because Kyrie Irving quarter while the Thunder rallied from a scratched both of his eyes in Monday’s five-point deficit and easily held on for game against San Antonio. Hayward took over from there, with 13 in the second their seventh win in 10 games. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 18 quarter and 15 in the third to finish with of his 25 points in the first half for the Lak- his highest-scoring game with the Celtics. ers, who dropped to 1-3 during LeBron James’ absence with a groin injury. Los Angeles has lost six of nine overall after MAVERICKS 122, HORNETS 84 its offense managed just six field goals in CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Luka Donthe fourth quarter, along with the Lakers’ cic and Dennis Smith Jr. fueled an early usual awful free-throw shooting. long-range shooting spree and Dallas beat Charlotte to end a nine-game road skid. 76ERS 132, SUNS 127 Doncic and Smith each had 18 points, PHOENIX — Joel Embiid, playing de- and Harrison Barnes added 17. The Mavspite a sore left knee, matched his season ericks hit 10 first-quarter 3-pointers — high with 42 points, 30 in the first half, three from Doncic and two from Smith — and grabbed 18 rebounds and Philadelphia and finished with 18 overall. held off Phoenix. Dallas won for the first time on the road Ben Simmons added 29 points and J.J. since Nov. 28. It entered the game with a
Dwight Powell scored 15 points, Wesley Matthews had 11, and DeAndre Jordan had eight points and 13 rebounds. Doncic added 10 rebounds and Smith seven assists. Kemba Walker led Charlotte with 11 points.
HEAT 117, CAVALIERS 92 CLEVELAND — Josh Richardson scored 24 points and Miami — playing with Dwyane Wade sidelined by an illness — rolled past Cleveland. Miami hit 16 of 31 3-pointers. Tyler Johnson added 16 points, and Derrick Jones Jr. had 13. The Heat have won seven of nine to reach the .500 mark at 18-18. Cleveland dropped to 8-30 — the worst record in the NBA — with its seventh straight loss. Tristan Thompson and Rodney Hood returned from injuries and started for the Cavaliers, but it mattered little in their ninth loss in 10 games. Thompson had 14 points, and Hood added 13.
PISTONS 101, GRIZZLIES 94 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Blake Griffin had 26 points, eight rebounds and seven assists and Detroit beat Memphis to snap a threegame skid. Griffin closed out a 13-0 Detroit run in the fourth quarter to put it out of reach,
each. Jaren Jackson Jr. led Memphis with 26 points and 10 rebounds, and Kyle Anderson scored 15 points. Dillon Brooks finished with 14 points off the bench as the Grizzlies dropped their third straight.
WIZARDS 114, HAWKS 98 WASHINGTON — Bradley Beal had 24 points, Jeff Green added 22 and Thomas Bryant had 16 points and a career-high 15 rebounds in Washington’s victory over Atlanta Hawks 114-98 on Wednesday night. Tomas Satoransky had 14 points and a career-best 11 rebounds for the Wizards. Alex Len led Atlanya with a season-high 24 points and 11 rebounds. John Collins scored 21 points.
MAGIC 112, BULLS 84 CHICAGO — Nikola Vucevic had 22 points and 12 rebounds before sitting out the fourth quarter, Aaron Gordon added 18 points and a career-high nine assists, and Orlando routed Chicago. Terrence Ross scored 15 off the bench and Evan Fournier had 13 points and seven assists for Orlando. The Magic shot 58 percent from the field. Zach LaVine had 16 points, and Lauri Markkanen and Kris Dunn added 14 apiece for Chicago.
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Can defenses still lead way to NFL championship? By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer
From Pittsburgh’s Steel Curtain in the 1970s to Chicago’s Monsters of the Midway in the ‘80s to Seattle’s Legion of Boom more recently, dominant defenses have often been the story of the NFL postseason. High-powered offenses might generate the highlights, the fantasy points and victories in the regular season. But more often than not the top defenses have managed to hold those dynamic offenses in check when the weather turns colder and the games get more important in the postseason. Yet, after one of the most prolific offensive regular seasons in NFL history, the question is can defenses still lead the way to a championship? “I have no idea,” said San Francisco cornerback Richard Sherman, a key member of Seattle’s 2013 championship defense. “I don’t think the league really wants that or cares to have that thing again. They care more about offensive football, so that’s what they’ll get. To have a special defensive group to play that well for so long would be very difficult to do because of the style
of defense and the rules. ... I think it’s going to be harder and harder to make the Hall of Fame from defense.” Playing defense in the NFL perhaps has never been harder, with the intimidating hits on receivers and quarterbacks now outlawed, even the most minor downfield contact resulting in penalties, and quarterbacks more accurate and efficient than ever while running the new spread offenses. This year featured the highest passer rating (92.9), most yards per play (5.6) and second-most points per game (46.7) in NFL history. It seems like playing great defense is almost impossible. “You can’t use it as an excuse because they still let us hit, OK?” said Dallas defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli, an assistant on the 2002 Tampa Bay team that won a Super Bowl behind its defense. “I’ve always believed in the speed of the defense. And that’s the hitting. They’ve got holes. We’ve got to hit the holes. We’ve got to hit them. And we’ve got to make it a physical game. We’ve got be smart, helmet to helmet, got to be smart on the quarterback, some of those things. And you try to teach it, keep our
Pulisic moves to Chelsea for $73 million DORTMUND, Germany — Christian Pulisic became the most expensive American soccer player in history after completing a transfer to English club Chelsea from Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday. Chelsea paid 64 million euros ($73 million) for the 20-year-old United States winger, who will be loaned back to Dortmund for the rest of this season. The German club won’t have to pay Chelsea for the loan. The fee is easily the biggest paid for an American player, surpassing the reported 20 million euros ($22.5 million) spent by German team Wolfsburg for John Brooks in 2017. “It was always Christian’s big dream to play in the Premier League,” Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc said. “That certainly has to do with his American origins, and so it wasn’t possible for us to extend his contract.” The Hershey, Pennsylvania-native’s contract with Dortmund was due to expire at the end of next season. “It is a privilege to have signed for such a legendary club,” Pulisic said of the London team that has won five Premier League titles since 2005. He thanked Dortmund for “finding a solution that was win-win for everyone.” Pulisic had long been linked with a move to a Premier League club, while Dortmund’s league rival Bayern Munich was also reportedly interested. Despite the price tag, the signing could be somewhat of a coup for Chelsea if it helps the club establish a larger American fan base.
Ovechkin will skip All-Star game Alex Ovechkin will skip the NHL’s All-Star Weekend in San Jose to get some extra rest and serve an automatic one-game suspension. The Washington Capitals announced Ovechkin’s decision Wednesday, hours before the league unveiled the full All-Star rosters. The team said the NHL’s leading goal-scorer wants to take advantage of the adjoining bye week to prepare for the second half of the season. “My body needs a rest,” Ovechkin said after practice Wednesday. The 33-year-old Russian has played in 202 consecutive regular-season games and leads the Capitals with 45 points in 33 games this season. Washington’s final game before the All-Star break is Jan. 23 at Toronto. The All-Star game is Jan. 26, and the Capitals don’t play again until Feb. 1 against Calgary. Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly confirmed Ovechkin must miss either the game before or after the All-Star break. The NHL recently instituted an automatic one-game suspension for players who chose not to participate in All-Star Weekend, except in cases of injury. Fans voted Ovechkin, the reigning playoff MVP, as the captain of the Metropolitan Division All-Star team. With Ovechkin not going, the defending Stanley Cup champions will be represented by goaltender Braden Holtby and defenseman John Carlson on a Metropolitan team that also includes Penguins captain Sidney Crosby and Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist. Toronto’s Auston Matthews is captain for the Atlantic Division team that includes teammate John Tavares, Nikita Kucherov and Steven Stamkos from the league-leading Lightning and Buffalo’s Jack Eichel. Along with Central Division captain Nathan MacKinnon, Colorado teammate Mikko Rantanen was named an All-Star along with Chicago’s Patrick Kane and Nashville’s Pekka Rinne and Roman Josi. Edmonton’s Connor McDavid is the captain of the Pacific Division team that includes three players from the host San Jose Sharks: captain Joe Pavelski and defensemen Brent Burns and Erik Karlsson. — The Associated Press
Owens crosses 1st at Freezer Food Series Tyle Owens, Amber Bethe and Landen Showalter won the sixth race of the Freezer Food Series on Sunday at the Slikok Trails. The race was done in a cyclocross format on fat bikes, with racers trying to get in as many laps as possible in a time window. Owens won the overall with five laps in 30 minutes, 39 seconds. The second- and third-place finishers, Nathan Kincaid and Mike Crawford, also did five laps, in 35:29 and 36:23, respectively. The top woman, and fourth overall, was Bethe with four laps in 32:24. Morgan Aldridge, the second woman, did four laps in 38:28, while Jen Showalter nabbed third with three laps in 33:38. Landen Showalter was the top youth rider with three laps in 33:26. The Freezer Food Series
“I think it’s still definitely possible,” said Broncos linebacker Todd Davis, a member of that title-winning team. “I don’t feel like it has to be 5154. It really doesn’t. I feel like you can really stop teams if you play close defense, you play tight on receivers, play great in man coverage and you can really stop people.” Many of the teams playing this weekend have shown that ability this season, led by the NFL’s top-ranked scoring defense in Chicago. An already-strong unit only got better with the acquisition of elite pass rusher Khalil Mack before the season. With Mack and Akiem Hicks wreaking havoc up front and Eddie Jackson and Kyle Fuller providing big plays from the secondary, the Bears appear to have the defense best equipped for a long postseason run, starting with Sunday’s home game against defending champion Philadelphia. “Dominant, that’s it,” Hicks said. “We are aggressive. We like to hit. All the stuff that I was (saying) before the season started, we’re everything that we said we were. And hopefully we can get to another level for these playoffs.” The Bears aren’t alone. Six of those
10 most efficient defenses are playing this weekend: Baltimore, Houston, the Chargers, Dallas and Indianapolis. Ball-control offense and dominant defense have been a tried-and-true formula for teams like Baltimore and Seattle, who have combined for three Super Bowl championships and five appearances in the title game this century with that recipe. The Seahawks still have that capability despite the absence of most of the stalwarts from the Legion of Boom such as Sherman, Earl Thomas, Kam Chancellor, Michael Bennett and Cliff Avril. But Bobby Wagner remains at middle linebacker, Frank Clark has been an elite pass rusher, and coach Pete Carroll’s scheme is still effective after all these years. “You either believe in something or you don’t,” Carroll said. “I think just staying the course and knowing we’re on to something. Believing in the history. We know what we’re capable of doing. We’ve shown it over a lot of years. You’re always adapting, but it’s staying what you’re true to. I think that’s what is happening. We look like a team that we have seen before, and that’s powerful.”
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speed and playing fast. Some of the things down the field, push-offs and all that stuff, it’s tough.” The story of this NFL season has been the offenses, with the highlight being a 54-51 win for the Los Angeles Rams over the Kansas City Chiefs back in November. That’s been part of a season that had first-year starter Patrick Mahomes throwing for 50 TD passes and more than 5,000 yards for Kansas City, Drew Brees set more records at age 39 in New Orleans, Tom Brady maintain his winning ways in his 40s for New England, and Sean McVay’s offense tormenting opposing teams all year long for the Rams. But those teams that feature four of the five most efficient offenses in the league, according to Football Outsiders, and defenses that have been far less consistent will get the opening weekend of the postseason off. That will provide a bit of a throwback look on wild-card weekend with many of the league’s top defenses taking center stage in hopes that they can get on a run like the one the Denver Broncos had three years ago to win a Super Bowl.
continues with another fat bike race on Sunday at 2 p.m., this time at the Wolverine trail head. It will be an individual start race involving the singletrack and the Wolverine loop. The race series aims to raise money for the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank. With donation, prices are $5 for Tsalteshi Trails Association members and $6 for nonmembers. Without donation, those prices bump up to $10 and $12. Registration starts at 1:30 p.m. Freezer Food Series Race 6
Kringle Kross at Tsalteshi Trails 1. Tyle Owens, 5 laps, 30 minutes, 39 seconds; 2. Nathan Kincaid, 5, 35:29; 3. Mike Crawford, 5, 36:23; 4. Amber Bethe (1st place woman), 4, 32:24; 5. Sean Dunham, 4, 32:24; 6. Morgan Aldridge (2nd place woman), 4, 38:28; 7. Brennan Jackson, 4, 40:35; 8. Jon Iannoccone, 3, 31:17; 9. Landen Showalter (1st place youth), 3, 33:26; 10. Jen Showalter (3rd place woman), 3, 33:38; 11. Hans Schlegel, 3, 36:22; 12. Jen Tabor, 3, 36:45; 13. Kevin Calhoun, 3, 38:11; 14. John Tabor, 3, 41:06; 15. Angie Sulley, 2, 23:16; 16. Darrell Kincaid, 2, 28:07; 17. Dani Calhoun, 2, 32:14; 18. Hope Derkevorkian, 1, 13:04; 19. Wanda Kincaid, 1; 20. Carl Kincaid, mechanical.
By WAYNE PARRY and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The race to legalize sports betting is on now that the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed it in all 50 states, but will it provide enough extra tax revenue to make much of a difference for schools, roads or pension debt? Don’t bet on it. Just look to the states that capitalized immediately after the court’s ruling last spring and to Nevada, which previously had an effective monopoly on sports gambling. Even though the market is still developing, the returns to date have been modest. In Nevada, revenue from sports betting has accounted for roughly one half of 1 percent of the entire state budget. “Everything I’ve seen so far suggests that this would not be what one would consider to be a pot of gold,” said Ohio state Sen. John Eklund, a Republican who introduced legislation to legalize sports betting in his state. Delaware, Mississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, and West Virginia legalized sports betting last year after the Supreme Court decision, as did the District of Columbia. Although New Mexico has not passed a sports betting law, the Santa Ana Star Casino & Hotel started taking bets in October through a tribal gambling compact. Lawmakers in Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia already have filed bills to allow sports betting, and those who track the industry expect a total of 30 states to consider similar ones this year. The expected stampede of states seeking to legalize it has parallels to the growing trend toward legalizing recreational marijuana, which 10 states have done and others are considering. As with marijuana, lawmakers say they are motivated in large part because sports betting has been a black market activity outside Nevada. Legalizing it would allow states to impose regulations and take in at least some money. “I keep telling them this is not like a craps table or a slot machine,” said Mark Sickles, a
Democratic state lawmaker in Virginia who has sponsored a bill that would place a 15 percent tax on sports betting in the state. “My main purpose is to take something that’s currently being done illegally and get some tax revenue from it.” Revenue from legalized pot makes up just a small portion of state revenue, even in the states with the most mature markets — about 2 percent in Colorado and a little over 1 percent in Washington, according to a May report from Moody’s Investors Service. That’s still a far larger portion of revenue than even the most optimistic projections for sports betting. New Jersey was the first state to legalize sports betting after the Supreme Court decision last May. The state’s gambling industry took in $928 million worth of sports bets since the first one was taken on June 14 through the end of November. From that, the state received less than $8 million in tax revenue. Even if the state meets its projection of $25 million in sports betting tax revenue for a full
year, that would amount to well under one 10th of 1 percent of the state’s $37.4 billion budget. Former New Jersey state Sen. Raymond Lesniak began the effort to legalize sports betting there 10 years ago with what at the time seemed like a quixotic lawsuit against the federal government. He said sports gambling was not supposed to be a big moneymaker for the state. “It wasn’t intended to do that,” he said. “I was driven by the fact that the Atlantic City casino industry was dying and the horse racing industry was on life support. It needed an injection of new money and new people that would come, fill up rooms, eat in restaurants, spend money.” Lesniak expects sports betting to eventually generate over $100 million in taxes for the state once all New Jersey’s casinos and racetracks have sports books up and running for a full year. That would be 10 times the level of tax revenue being generated right now, when many sports betting operations in New Jersey are in their infancy.
Scoreboard Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 40 31 7 2 64 168 117 39 26 11 2 54 144 109 Toronto Boston 40 22 14 4 48 114 105 Buffalo 40 21 13 6 48 115 115 40 21 14 5 47 128 128 Montreal Florida 38 17 15 6 40 124 134 Detroit 42 15 20 7 37 118 145 Ottawa 41 15 21 5 35 129 163 Metropolitan Division Washington 38 24 11 3 51 138 112 Pittsburgh 40 22 12 6 50 140 117 39 23 13 3 49 129 119 Columbus N.Y. Islanders 38 21 13 4 46 114 102 N.Y. Rangers 39 17 15 7 41 113 130 38 16 17 5 37 94 109 Carolina New Jersey 39 15 17 7 37 117 132 Philadelphia 39 15 19 5 35 111 140
WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Winnipeg 39 25 12 2 52 134 111 Nashville 41 24 15 2 50 124 104 Dallas 41 21 16 4 46 113 110 Colorado 41 19 14 8 46 138 128 Minnesota 38 18 17 3 39 110 108 Chicago 42 15 21 6 36 121 153 St. Louis 37 15 18 4 34 102 123 Pacific Division Calgary 41 25 12 4 54 146 115 Vegas 43 24 15 4 52 130 115 San Jose 42 22 13 7 51 145 133 Anaheim 41 19 15 7 45 102 120 Vancouver 43 20 19 4 44 128 136 Edmonton 40 19 18 3 41 114 127 Arizona 40 17 21 2 36 101 115 Los Angeles 41 16 22 3 35 92 121 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. Wednesday’s Games Pittsburgh 7, N.Y. Rangers 2 Calgary 5, Detroit 3 Vancouver 4, Ottawa 3, OT Dallas 5, New Jersey 4 Edmonton 3, Arizona 1 San Jose 5, Colorado 4 Thursday’s Games Minnesota at Toronto, 10 a.m. Carolina at Philadelphia, 3 p.m. Florida at Buffalo, 3 p.m. Calgary at Boston, 3 p.m. Chicago vs. N.Y. Islanders at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, 3:30 p.m. Vancouver at Montreal, 3:30 p.m. Washington at St. Louis, 4 p.m. Tampa Bay at Los Angeles, 6:30 p.m. All Times AST
Basketball Men’s Scores EAST American U. 86, Boston U. 74 Brown 75, Maine 67 Bucknell 64, Army 63 Columbia 65, Binghamton 63 Lehigh 86, Lafayette 83 Texas Tech 62, West Virginia 59 Vermont 73, Dartmouth 59 Villanova 73, DePaul 68 Yale 92, Kennesaw St. 65
SOUTH Campbell 95, Allen 48 Georgia Tech 79, SC-Upstate 63 High Point 101, Washington College (MD) 60 Maryland 74, Nebraska 72 Nicholls 78, Northwestern St. 72 North Carolina 77, Harvard 57 North Florida 104, Florida National 76 Presbyterian 72, SC State 70 South Florida 76, UConn 68 UCF 78, Temple 73 Wake Forest 83, Cornell 61 MIDWEST Cincinnati 93, Tulane 61 Evansville 82, Drake 77, 2OT Georgetown 84, Butler 76 Kansas 70, Oklahoma 63 Loyola of Chicago 79, Indiana St. 44 Michigan St. 81, Northwestern 55 N. Iowa 65, Bradley 47 Nebraska-Omaha 90, N. Dakota St. 77 S. Illinois 75, Missouri St. 70 Seton Hall 80, Xavier 70 Texas 67, Kansas St. 47 Valparaiso 58, Illinois St. 56 SOUTHWEST Abilene Christian 68, New Orleans 58 Houston 74, Tulsa 56 Houston Baptist 88, Lamar 82, OT Iowa St. 69, Oklahoma St. 63 McNeese St. 88, Incarnate Word 77 Prairie View 81, Huston-Tillotson 65 SMU 82, East Carolina 54 Stephen F. Austin 65, SE Louisiana 60 Texas A&M-CC 87, Cent. Arkansas 75 FAR WEST Boise St. 69, Wyoming 55 Fresno St. 73, San Jose St. 53 New Mexico 65, Air Force 58 South Dakota 71, Denver 70 UC Santa Barbara 109, Bethesda 47 UNLV 78, Colorado St. 76
Women’s Scores EAST Albany (NY) 61, Binghamton 56 Columbia 88, Hampton 63 Duquesne 54, Temple 53 Hartford 64, Stony Brook 36 Maine 67, New Hampshire 46 Mass.-Lowell 54, Vermont 51 Mount St. Mary’s 89, Radford 77 SOUTH Abilene Christian 59, New Orleans 52 Furman 76, Presbyterian 68 Gardner-Webb 62, W. Carolina 52 Incarnate Word 68, McNeese St. 66 Jacksonville 71, Mercer 66 Liberty 61, West Chester 42 NC Central 55, Wilberforce 49 Nicholls 97, Northwestern St. 86 Richmond 59, UNC-Greensboro 48 Stephen F. Austin 62, SE Louisiana 51
MIDWEST Iowa St. 96, Kansas St. 58 SOUTHWEST Lamar 63, Houston Baptist 50 North Dakota 75, Oral Roberts 67 Oklahoma 66, Texas Tech 61 TCU 62, West Virginia 48 Texas 60, Oklahoma St. 51 FAR WEST Boise St. 72, Wyoming 64 Colorado St. 52, UNLV 49 Fresno St. 77, San Jose St. 48 New Mexico 78, Air Force 57 Utah St. 79, Nevada 76
NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 28 11 .718 — Philadelphia 25 14 .641 3 Boston 22 15 .595 5 Brooklyn 18 21 .462 10 New York 9 29 .237 18½ Southeast Division Miami 18 18 .500 — Charlotte 18 19 .486 ½ Orlando 17 20 .459 1½ Washington 15 23 .395 4 Atlanta 11 26 .297 7½ Central Division Milwaukee 26 10 .722 — Indiana 25 12 .676 1½ Detroit 17 19 .472 9 Chicago 10 28 .263 17 Cleveland 8 30 .211 19 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Houston 21 15 .583 — San Antonio 21 17 .553 1 Memphis 18 19 .486 3½ Dallas 18 19 .486 3½ New Orleans 17 22 .436 5½ Northwest Division Denver 24 11 .686 — Oklahoma City 24 13 .649 1 Portland 22 16 .579 3½ Utah 18 20 .474 7½ Minnesota 17 21 .447 8½ Pacific Division Golden State 25 13 .658 — L.A. Clippers 21 16 .568 3½ L.A. Lakers 21 17 .553 4 Sacramento 19 18 .514 5½ Phoenix 9 30 .231 16½ Wednesday’s Games Dallas 122, Charlotte 84 Miami 117, Cleveland 92 Washington 114, Atlanta 98 Brooklyn 126, New Orleans 121 Boston 115, Minnesota 102 Detroit 101, Memphis 94 Orlando 112, Chicago 84 Philadelphia 132, Phoenix 127 Oklahoma City 107, L.A. Lakers 100 Thursday’s Games Toronto at San Antonio, 4 p.m. Denver at Sacramento, 6 p.m. Houston at Golden State, 6:30 p.m. All Times AST
Transactions BASEBALL American League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Named Koby Perez senior director/international scouting. MINNESOTA TWINS — Signed DH Nelson Cruz to a one-year contract. SEATTLE MARINERS — Signed LHP Yusei Kikuchi to a four-year contract. National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Named Mike Maroth pitching coach, Bobby Magallanes hitting coach and Einar Diaz coach of Gwinnett (IL); Alfredo Amezaga coach of Mississippi (SL); Barrett Kleinknect manager, Dan Meyer pitching coach and Doug DeVore hitting coach of Florida (FSL); Matt Tuiasosopo manager of Rome (SAL); Anthony Nunez manager, Danny Santiesteban hitting coach, Connor Narron coach and Koji Kanemura trainer of Danville (Appalachian); Barbaro Garbey second hitting coach, Angel Flores coach and Austin Smith trainer of the GCL Braves; and Doug Mansolino minor league field coordinator. CHICAGO CUBS — Named Mark Loretta bench coach and Bob Tewksbury coordinator, mental skills. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Promoted chief operating officer Erik Greupner to president of business operations. FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Fired offensive line coach Juan Castillo and receivers coach Terry Robiskie. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed DT Andrew Brown to a reserve/future contract. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed DL Daniel Ekuale and Devaroe Lawrence, OL Kyle Friend and Brad Seaton, RB Devante Mays, WR Daniel Williams and DBs Robert Jackson, Lenzy Pipkins and Tigie Sankoh to reserve/ future contracts. DETROIT LIONS — Signed RB Mark Thompson to a reserve/future contract. HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed S A.J. Hendy from the practice squad. Placed S Mike Tyson on injured reserve. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed WR Jeff Badet, LB Reshard Cliett, DT Curtis Cothran, C Cornelius Edison, TE Cole Hikutini, CB Jalen Myrick, DE Ifeadi Odenigbo, RB Roc Thomas and OTs Adam Bisnowaty and Storm Norton to reserve/future contracts. NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed LS Taybor Pepper, RB Robert Martin, DB Ronald Zamort, LB Jonathan Anderson, WR Brittan Golden, DEs Myles Humphrey and Jake Ceresna and OTs Victor Salako and Jylan Ware to reserve/future contracts. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed TE Marcus Lucas, CB Tarvarus McFadden, WR Jordan Smallwood, S Terrell Williams Jr. and OL Christian DiLauro and Najee Toran to reserve/future
contracts. TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed DL Dee Liner to a reserve/future contract. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed WR Tre McBride to a reserve/future contract. Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Released DL Jake Ceresna. HOCKEY National Hockey League CALGARY FLAMES — Recalled G Jon Gillies from Stockton (AHL). DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled D Brian Lashoff from Grand Rapids (AHL). ST. LOUIS BLUES — Assigned D Chris Butler and F Jordan Nolan to San Antonio (AHL). VANCOUVER CANUCKS — Traded G Anders Nilsson and F Darren Archibald to Ottawa for SG Mike McKenna, F Tom Pyatt and a 2019 sixth-round draft pick. ECHL ECHL — Suspended Brampton’s Jordan Henry one game and fined him an undisclosed for his actions during a Dec. 31 game at Fort Wayne. Suspended Newfoundland’s Emerson Clark two games and fined him an undisclosed for his actions during a Dec. 31 game at Adirondack. Suspended Idaho’s Kale Kessy for one game and fined him an undisclosed for his actions during a Dec. 31 game at Rapid City. Suspended Allen coach Steve Martinson for two games and fined him an undisclosed for multiple post-game abuse of officials game misconducts. OLYMPIC SPORTS UNITED STATES OLYMPIC COMMITTEE — Announced Rich Bender, Brad Snyder and Beth Brooke-Marciniak have been named to the board of directors. SOCCER Major League Soccer LA GALAXY — Named Guillermo Barros Schelotto coach. LOS ANGELES FC — Re-signed D Jordan Harvey. National Premier Soccer League NEW YORK COSMOS — Named Carlos Mendes coach. COLLEGE FLORIDA — LB Vosean Joseph will enter the NFL draft. GEORGIA TECH — Named Nathan Burton co-defensive coordinator and Jeff Popovich cornerbacks coach and kickoff and punt coverage coordinator. HOUSTON — Named Dana Holgorsen football coach. MICHIGAN — CB David Long will enter the NFL draft. OKLAHOMA — WR Marquise Brown will enter the NFL draft. ST. JOHN’S — Promoted interim head softball coach Bob Guerriero to permanent head coach. WASHINGTON — S Taylor Rapp will enter the NFL draft. WISCONSIN — OT David Edwards will enter the NFL draft.
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siding. “Thus it is honest to say that Coast Guard’s historical relationship with Homer began at least 70 years ago,” van Ness said in an email. The Northwind’s visit to Homer was just that, however: a visit. Beginning with the arrival of the USCGC Ironwood, its six officers and 47 enlisted men, the Coast Guard and Homer began a decades-long relationship that has grown stronger over the years. “Since the very beginning, the Coast Guard has had a special bond with the community and culture of Homer,” said Rear Admiral Matthew T. Bell Jr., 17th District Commander. “The bond continues today with the crews of Cutters Hickory, Naushon and Marine Safety Detachment Homer. We are committed to protecting the people and environment surrounding Homer and Alaska.” The headline on the Homer News, Jan. 2, 1969, read, “Ironwood to arrive Jan. 5.” Invitations to a celebration marking the arrival of the ship and its crew and sponsored by the Homer Chamber of Commerce reflected the community’s excitement at having a Coast Guard ship homeported in Homer. Among those invited were Gov. Walter J. Hickel, Sen. Bob Palmer, R-Ninilchik, and Rep. Clem Tillion, R-Halibut Cove, as well as Coast Guard, borough and city officials, and the general public. Tillion had worked hard convincing others of the need to have a Coast Guard presence in the area. With the discovery of the Swanson River oil field on the Kenai Peninsula in 1957 and Cook Inlet natural gas beginning production in 1961, activity on the inlet was increasing. With foreign fishing fleets just off shore, Alaska’s salmon runs plummeted and were considered a federal disaster by the late 1950s. “The oil companies were dumping their waste oil and junk. The Japanese were running riot along our coast. I needed cops,” Tillion said. Tillion’s idea was for Seldovia to serve as the Coast Guard’s area base of operations. With the demise of that community’s fish canning industry after the 1964 earthquake, Seldovia was in need of a boost. It offered “a whole harbor, docks, everything. I thought it would be the perfect place,” Tillion said. Another plus were winter conditions milder than Homer’s. “You could reach anywhere in the inlet and not worry about the ice.” There was just one problem: no road. That didn’t sit well with “the captain’s wife. She
A member of the U.S. Coast Guard tosses candy to children and families lining Pioneer Avenue during the annual Independence Day parade July 4, 2018 in Homer. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
wanted to be able to drive to Anchorage,” said Tillion. And so it was Homer, rather than Seldovia, that was selected as the Ironwood’s homeport. “One of the fellows in the Legislature said, you get them (Coast Guard) up there and they’ll hassle you with life jackets, inspecting your boat and all that kind of stuff. He was right, they did, but it wasn’t that bad. … If you want to have a civilized world, you have to have policemen,” said Tillion of what turned out to be “a very nice arrangement for Homer. The Coast Guard has become part of the community. They have a bigger impact on the town than the town realizes.” In a half century, Homer has continually provided a home for the branch of the military whose motto is “Semper Paratus,” a Latin phrase meaning “always ready.” The USCGC Sedge, a buoy tender, was in Homer from 1974-2002; the Roanoke Island, a patrol vessel, in Homer from 1992-2015; the USCGC Hickory, a buoy tender, in Homer since 2003; the Marine Safety Detachment in Homer since 2012; and the USCGC Sapelo in Homer for a short period before arrival of the USCGC Naushon, a patrol vessel, in June 2016. During that time, the Coast Guard has worked its way into the heart of Homer as each ship and the Marine Safety Detachment have fulfilled the Coast Guard District 17’s mission to “serve and safeguard the public, protect the environment and its resources, and defend the Nation’s interests in the Alaskan
maritime region.” “The Coast Guard helped out with the funding for the Pioneer Dock and over the years the city has been involved with any improvements that the Coast Guard has made to the dock,” said Homer Harbormaster Bryan Hawkins. The Coast Guard leases land in the uplands for a buoy yard and shop for the Hickory and also for the Naushon’s office at Ramp 8. Dredging is required to keep the Hickory moored at the dock, an activity requiring a cooperative effort between the city, the Coast Guard and the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. “If anything, our relationship with the Coast Guard has only gotten stronger over the years,” Hawkins said. “As our understanding of their mission and range of responsibility has grown so has our support both locally and when we look towards future expansion. …(W) e are working hard at expanding our port facilities by creating a large vessel harbor, and one of the first goals for this new facility is to make space for the Coast Guard vessels. Let’s get the Hickory off the dock and into the harbor.” Other activities have snagged the public’s attention and appreciation. The Roanoke helped evacuate tourists and provided emergency personnel after the 1998 explosion and fire of Icicle Seafoods on the Homer Spit. In 2006, it transported scientists near an erupting Augustine Volcano so monitoring sensors could be deployed. The Hickory assisted in recovering items from the Torrent, a three-
masted wooden vessel that was shipwrecked in Kachemak Bay in 1868 and discovered in 2007. Coast Guard personnel coach sports, mentor students and volunteer for nonprofits. They’ve chopped and provided firewood for local residents. Spouses join the workforce. Families add to school enrollments. Halloween festivities for the public began on the Sedge, continued on the Hickory and, as a result, have become known as the Haunted Hickory. With a donated food item as admission, the event has proven a substantial boost to the Homer Community Food Pantry. “Homer is an extremely supportive community for the Coast Guard members who live here,” said Cory Sonnega, operations officer aboard the Hickory. “We get over 1,000 residents of Homer coming to the ship each Halloween and raise over 70 percent of the Homer food bank’s yearly canned goods supply.” Ben Mitchell completed his Coast Guard career with an assignment in Homer. While he served as chief boatswain mate aboard the Sedge, his wife Kate, who also had served in the Coast Guard, launched a small business that has grown into NOMAR and their two children attended Homer schools. Staying in Homer after his retirement “was the easy thing to do,” said Kate, who has documented the family’s story in her newly published book, “Bag Lady At the End of the Road.” Marshall Bullock served on the Roanoke, then the Sedge, and was on the first crew aboard
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Wilson’s cookbook, signed copies are for sale at the restaurant. To prepare for the grand opening, the restaurant hosted three soft openings, which Wilson said went great. “There’s always things that you need to adjust or you discover once you get in the swing of things that aren’t going to work,” Wilson said, “Overall, the reception has been really positive and it’s been very exciting to finally be able to open the doors.” The menu isn’t set in stone. Wilson said as local food becomes in season and more available, the menu will change to reflect what’s most fresh. Wilson tries to incorporate some element of local food in her menu items, especially the greens and herbs grown in the restaurant’s hydroponic farm, Fresh 365. “The menu will change seasonally,” Wilson said. “In the summer (local food) will increase because the farms will be open. We’ll also have halibut and salmon and stuff like that.” Wilson said diners can find greens from the hydroponic farm in almost every dish, even on the dessert menu. “We have our fresh mint cheesecake, where we steep a ton of that fresh mint into the cream and bake it into the cake,” Wilson said. “I try to in-
Addie Camp Train Car Eatery and Wine Bar is led by chef Maya Wilson, a local cookbook author, and her team in the kitchen on Wednesday, in Soldotna. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/ Peninsula Clarion)
corporate the greens as much as possible.” All of the beer Addie Camp Eatery offers are from local breweries. Even Anchoragebased coffee roaster SteamDot finds its way onto the rub of the restaurant’s rib-eye. Products from the Kenai Peninsula have found their way on to the menu, like the local seafood. The oysters come from Jackalof Bay. The char-
cuterie board features cheeses from Soldotna’s Lucy’s Market and pickles made by Joe Spady of Joe’s Meatball Shoppe. Wilson said they plan to use Alaska Berries haskap jelly and syrup during their Sunday brunch. One unique ingredient Addie Camp has incorporated into their dishes is a historic sourdough starter. The starter comes from one of the restaurant’s cooks, Kiel Nichols, who
received the starter from his mom, who got it from a friend of hers, who knew a homesteader named Dick Proenneke from Twin Lakes in Lake Clark National Park. Proenneke was born in 1916, and lived alone for more than 30 years in his cabin on the shores of Twin Lakes. Proenneke’s homestead has since been preserved as a museum and was added to the National Register of Historic
the Hickory. After retiring from the Coast Guard in Honolulu, he returned to Homer in 2011. For him, the decision to return to Homer “just felt right,” he said. “It’s a great community, an educated community with a common-sense way of life.” After settling in Homer, Bullock worked with the Kachemak Bay Campus to develop marine trades classes and is active with the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Homer Flotilla. “I love to teach and help people learn about boats,” Bullock said. “If I’m showing someone how to tie a knot or how to get a boat underway in a big wind and not cream the dock, I’m very happy.” There are currently 23 members of the Homer Flotilla. When its charter was signed May 11, 1969, four months after the Ironwood’s arrival, its 22 volunteers committed to promoting boating safety. Craig Forrest joined the auxiliary after moving to Homer in 1979. “We help the Coast Guard with fundraising, the Haunted Hickory food drive; we’ve done beach searches and we back up the Coast Guard in radio communications,” Forrest said. The year Forrest joined the Auxiliary, the flotilla provided 400 assists. Forty years later, Forrest has the distinction of being in Homer’s flotilla longer than anyone and recently accepted a plaque commemorating the Auxiliary’s 50-year tenure in Homer. The Homer Flotilla also teaches an annual boating safety class, offered through the city of Homer Parks and Recreation
Places. His experience has been adapted into a book and into a movie, both titled “Alone in the Wilderness.” “(Proenneke) … walked out and built his own cabin, built all his own tools,” Nichols said. “My mom ended up with it from her friend that knew him and now it’s passed down to me, and now (Addie Camp Eatery).” The sourdough starter will be used to make a German apple pancake and toast featured on the brunch menu. So far, the restaurant is only offering dinner service. Wilson said Sunday brunch will start soon. This is Wilson’s first experience as a chef and opening a restaurant. She said the experience thus far has been a whirlwind. Her biggest surprise so far has been just how little she actually gets to cook. “As a head chef I’m not able to cook as much as I used to because I’m doing so much other administrative stuff and I’m teaching my cooks how to make my food,” Wilson said. “I’m not in there cooking as much as I thought I would be.” She said the most rewarding part so far has been the feedback she’s getting. “(Seeing) smiling faces, clean plates coming in through the kitchen and seeing people are really enjoying the food and atmosphere… that’s what all this work has been for, for people to sit down at a plate of food and enjoy it and want to come back for more,” Wilson said.
Department. The class meets from 7-9 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday, Jan. 8 through March 7. The curriculum includes “everything you need to know to be safe on the water,” Forrest said. Within a 3.8 million squaremile area known in the Coast Guard as District 17, on an average month the Coast Guard saves 22 lives, assists 53 people, reports and investigates 25 marine casualties, boards 74 living marine resources, responds to 22 pollution incidents, services 93 buoys and fixed aids to navigation, conducts 13 security boardings and 22 security patrols, performs 143 commercial fishing vessel safety exams, saves more than $1.65 million in property, teaches 375 kids about wearing life jackets, and performs 95 marine inspections. On Feb. 9, the Coast Guard’s 50 years in Homer will be honored during the Homer Winter Carnival, sponsored by the Homer Chamber of Commerce. “We want to thank them for all that they do, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year,” said Debbie Speakman, the chamber and visitor center’s executive director. The Coast Guard’s presence is a plus for Homer, considering the area’s strong maritime relationship. “Kachemak Bay connects with Cook Inlet and having the Coast Guard stationed close, we know in an emergency the Coast Guard is close by. They provide education on safety and enforcement for federally managed fisheries,” Speakman said, adding that the CG’s presence is “great for economic development where they spend monies for rent, groceries and other services.” “The Coast Guard are good neighbors to have,” Hawkins said. “They fit into our community, are trained to respond to emergencies, and have proven their commitment to our community by the fact that they have been here for more than 50 years. … A lot of people still see them as temporary for some reason. They’ve been here 50 years. I don’t think we can call them ‘temporary’ anymore.” The Ironwood was decommissioned in Kodiak in October 2000, but continues to serve. It is now a training vessel for the Job Corps’ Tongue Point Seamanship Academy in Astoria, Oregon. “We use it every day and every Thursday it takes students out to train,” said Chris Gibbs, a security officer at the academy. “It’s the largest of the three ships we have.” McKibben Jackinsky is a freelance writer and former reporter for the Homer News. She and her husband, Sandy, were married in 2009 by Greg Tlapa, former commanding officer of the USCGC Hickory.
The restaurant is owned by Mary and Henry Krull, who opened Brew@602 in a neighboring train car last year. The restaurant is a two-story building featuring large picture windows with views of Soldotna and the Kenai Mountains, two outdoor decks, a bar and plenty of inspiration from the railroad industry, including rail-tie siding from the Alaska Railroad, telegraph insulator chandeliers, a train bell that alerts staff when an order is up and, of course, the train car that will accommodate a more intimate dining experience. The 1913 rail car, named Addie Camp, came from Addie Mine in Hill City, South Dakota. Wilson said the owners plan to preserve as much of the car’s original detail as possible. The Krulls rode in the car many times over the years before it was taken out of service in 2008. It was part of a tourist excursion in South Dakota. Right now, the restaurant can seat around 80 people, but as the weather gets warmer the deck will open up and the restaurant will accommodate closer to 100 people. Wilson said she anticipates Thursday’s grand opening to be quite busy, and encourages people to make reservations or grab a beer at the bar while they wait for an open table. Right now, the restaurant will be open 5-9 p.m. on Thursday and 5-10 p.m. on Friday. When brunch service is ready, it will be from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sundays.
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Here there be monsters her usual work. “It has been quite a journey,” Ramirez said. “I am not from the ’70s, so I have to listen to a lot of music and get into the groove of the whole situation. It’s going to be the whole Black Box, so it should be like a full immersion.”
n Kenai Performers is selling chocolate Wonka bars as a promotional fundraiser. Funds raised will help pay production costs for their spring musical, “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka.” Hidden among the candy bars are five, special Golden Tickets. Finders of the tickets will win FREE admission to one of the shows. The Wonka bars are 4.5 ounces of scrumptious milk chocolate, big enough to share with the whole family, and are $5 each. Candy bars are available at Curtain Call Consignment Boutique in Kenai and at River City Books in Soldotna. Thank you, Country Foods for sponsoring our fundraiser! For more information, please call Terri at 252-6808. n Kenai Performers is hosting a Comedy Writing Workshop with international performer, Chelsea Hart on Thursday, Jan. 10, noon-3 p.m. This workshop is open to adults, age 18 and up. Fee: $30 per participant. Workshop is being held at 44045 K-Beach Road (backside of Subway restaurant/same building). Minimum 5/Maximum 10 students. There will be an open mic at 6:30 p.m., open to the public. This is a smoke free/no alcohol venue. Entrance fee: pay-as-you-can at the door. To register please contact us by email: www.kenaiperformers@gmail.com OR call Terri at 252-6808. n Kenai Fine Art Center’s January exhibit will be Panta Rhei: Everything Flows, a dual artist show by Elizabeth Earl and Ben Boettger featuring Southcentral glaciers and their relationship to the Alaskan landscape and people. Opening reception will take place Jan. 3 from 5-7 p.m. The Kenai Fine Art Center is located across from the Oiler’s Bingo Hall and next to the Historic Cabins. For more information contact 283-7040 or go to www.kenaifineart.com. n Kenai Performers will hold open auditions for “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, directed by Rebecca Gilman. There are roles for: 10 adult men, 5 adult women, 4 teenage girls and 1 girl, age 8-12. Auditions will consist of reading selected scenes and monologues from the play. There will be two days of auditions: Friday, Jan. 4, 6-8 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 5, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m., with possible call backs on Sunday, Jan. 6. Auditions will be held in our rental space on K-Beach Road (backside of Subway restaurant). Performance dates: May 9-11 and 16-18, 2019. Rehearsals will start the week of March 18. If you can’t make it to these audition dates/times, please contact Rebecca Gilman for more information at rflogiman@gmail.com or call, 398-2951. Character descriptions available on our website: www.kenaiperformers.org.
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n Vagabond Inn will host live music featuring Rob Justice Band on Saturday, Jan. 5 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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. 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 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 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. n The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays.
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By Marty Myre • Kenai, Alaska Walking, skating — Jumping some rope Tension Released So the mind can cope Shopping, Cleaning — Making the bed Naturally done Without being said Thoughtful, caring — Positive in mind Less energy For one to be kind Working at home — Flying all day Producing in life So one can play Up before light — Home after dark Shoes back on Taking the kids to the park Hours, days — Years flow past Actions created So the love will last Priorities done — Plan your next day Black and white rules Stay out of the grey When acting wrong One gets kicked to the curb Check yourself Because — LOVE IS A VERB
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Glo Ramirez shows off her artwork at her Juneau apartment on Monday, Dec. 31, 2018. (Michael Penn | Capital City Weekly) BY BEN HOHENSTATT Capital City Weekly
This is already shaping up to be a monster year for Glo Ramirez. Ramirez, a Juneau artist who’s known for cuddly and playful creature designs you may have seen on postcards at Alaska Robotics Gallery, is anticipating at least two showings of her work in 2019. “It was a great year, and I’m looking forward to the next one,” Ramirez said. “I didn’t think I’d have any shows in 2019.” “I’ve been trying to be more organized on the business part,” she added. “I can do the art, but honestly the business part has
been quite tricky.” Ramirez said she doesn’t have a theme picked out for the shows — she also works in ceramics and creates abstract works — but her signature-style monsters will be featured. “They’re awesomely cute like a bunch of ninja kittens,” Ramirez said. “It’s basically my tagline.” She’s also the scenic designer for Perseverance Theatre’s Young Company production of “Disco Alice: The Wonderland Remix.” Ramirez said making a set with eraappropriate flourishes for “Alice,” which opens in March, has been a departure from
The blank-eyed, fuzzy creatures Ramirez creates tend to elicit the same response as Jim Henson’s most child-pleasing Muppets. They’re technically monsters, but they’re far from ferocious. “I like her work, it’s sort of whimsical and funny, and it makes me smile, which I sort of appreciate in art,” Inari Kylanen, store manager for Alaska Robotics Gallery. However, the work has its roots in feelings of frustration, sleep deprivation, anxieties and fear. “I started with that because I couldn’t sleep,” Ramirez said. “It started that way, just trying to let go of those fears and putting it on paper.” The monsters also owe their existence to Ramirez, who is originally from Puerto Rico, relocating to Juneau almost three years ago. “It started when I actually decided to stay in Alaska,” Ramirez said. “It was the summer, and I went to visit some friends, and then it was a beautiful, beautiful summer. It trapped me.” While she was enchanted enough to stay, the long daylight hours were less than ideal for Ramirez’s sleep cycle. That bled into her artwork, and See ART, page B2
Reading, writing and drinking — ‘A Sidecar Named Desire’ offers the perfect trio The Bookwork Sez The holiday season started with a cup of cheer. Then there was a sip of wassail, some mistletoe and wine, and rummy-tum-tum along the way. It’ll likely end with a cup of kindness yet for Auld Lang Syne and a pretty nice headache. The only thing left to do, then, as in the new book “A Sidecar Named Desire” by Greg Clarke and Monte Beauchamp, is to write about it. Imagine the surprise felt by one of our ancient ancestors who put a few grapes aside for a snack later. She must’ve been angry at first — and then pleasantly surprised. Her discovery, and those that came after her, have been decried by “temperance zealots” throughout the years; Prohibition was a big thing and abstinence is promoted even now. And yet, say Clarke and Beauchamp, “considerable” evidence points to a tie between drinking and “great writing.” Ancient Roman poets loved their wine, for instance, and Shakespeare was a big fan. Thomas Jefferson ordered cases and cases of it on a visit to France, and author Roald Dahl not only drank it, but he wrote a short story about wine, too. Beer was once used in lieu of a paycheck in ancient Egypt, but Greeks and Romans claimed that beer was “inferior” to wine. Even so, say the authors, Jack London loved his suds and Jane Austen made beer using a common ingredient available in her back yard. Norman Mailer claimed to “need” a beer every afternoon. If you’ve ever wondered which came first, author Michael Veach says bourbon’s name came from Bourbon Street. LangsSee BOOK, page B2
Netflix brings cinema to streaming with dark, blood-soaked ‘The Night Comes for Us’ R eeling It In C hris J enness
It’s true that there are a slew of movies new in theaters that are probably worth watching, but I am in that rare occasion of being nowhere near a theater at the moment. I am both writing this to you from the past (it’s currently Dec. 31, 2018 and the ball has yet to drop) and from the jungle (well, that’s perhaps overstating it — I’m in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, for Christmas break). I’m sure I will see “Mary Poppins” and “Bumblebee” and “Vice” eventually, but for now let me tell you about one of the most grisly, yet compelling action movies I’ve seen in a long time. “The Night Comes for Us” is the latest in an amazing string of action films
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Netflix criticized for yanking comedian’s episode in Saudi Arabia
In this file photo, Muslim-American comedian Hasan Minhaj cracks jokes for the audience after New York Mayor Bill de Blasio proclaimed May 10th as “Hasan Minhaj Day,” at Gracie Mansion, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File) By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer
NEW YORK — Netflix faced criticism Wednesday from human rights groups for pulling an episode in Saudi Arabia of comedian Hasan Minhaj’s “Patriot Act” series that criticized the kingdom’s powerful crown prince. The American comedian used his second episode, released Oct. 28, to criticize Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi and the Saudi-led coalition at war in Ye-
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Ramirez drew a sleepy monster she dubbed Nix the Monster, Mother of the Night. She sports moose antlers and a constellation body inspired by the Alaska night sky and state flag. Other fuzzy, masked anxieties soon followed. Visualizing worries as tiny, adorable creatures has a way of making them manageable. “They’re cute and they’re cuddly and nice, and they’re a way of saying if my fears or this small I can hang out with them,” Ramirez said. “They have masks because you never know what’s going on behind a mask.”
Lifelong interest in art While Ramirez has only been drawing her monsters for the past few years, her interest in art goes back much further.
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out of Indonesia that includes “The Raid,” “The Raid 2” and “Headshot” among others. These movies don’t pull any punches, but manage to pack a lot of plot and character in among the blood. The film brings back stars Joe Taslim and Iko Uwais, the amazing martial artists who anchored “The Raid” so well. Taslim plays Ito, an enforcer for a large mafia organization who makes the mistake of letting his conscience get in the way at a crucial moment. The bosses had ordered the massacre of a village and for the one little girl left alive, Ito finds he can’t pull the trigger. Now he is the target, and finds himself on a desperate quest to survive — and, short of that, to maybe redeem himself for the wrong he’s done.
men. Human rights group Amnesty International said Saudi Arabia’s censorship of Netflix is “further proof of a relentless crackdown on freedom of expression.” Netflix said it was simply complying with a local law. Khashoggi, who wrote critically of the crown prince in columns for the newspaper, was killed and dismembered by Saudi agents inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year. The U.S. Senate has said it believes the crown prince is responsible for the grisly killing,
despite insistence by the kingdom that he had no knowledge of the operation. “It blows my mind that it took the killing of a Washington Post journalist for everyone to go: ‘Oh I guess he’s not really a reformer,’” Minhaj said in the episode. Netflix, in a statement Wednesday, said the episode was removed from the kingdom as a result of a legal request from authorities and not due to its content. “We strongly support artistic freedom worldwide and removed this episode only in Sau-
di Arabia after we had received a valid legal demand from the government — and to comply with local law,” the streaming giant said. Minhaj, a former correspondent with “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, told The Associated Press this summer that his Netflix show would fuse his personal narrative as a first-generation Indian-American with the current political and social backdrop to examine deep issues confronting the world. In the roughly 18-minute now-censored “Patriot Act” monologue, Minhaj also men-
tions the ruling Al Saud family and its vast wealth, saying: “Saudi Arabia is crazy. One giant family controls everything.” The Saudi-led coalition’s airstrikes in Yemen have also come under intense scrutiny since Khashoggi’s killing. The war, which began in March 2015, has killed thousands of civilians and pushed millions to the brink of famine. The Financial Times first reported that Netflix yanked the episode. The episode had been available in Saudi Arabia since late October but was pulled in December after the legal re-
quest. Only the second episode has been pulled and it is available to subscribers elsewhere. The kingdom’s Communication and Information Technology Commission said the episode was in violation of Article 6, Paragraph 1 of the Anti-Cyber Crime Law in Saudi Arabia. Officials at the commission could not be immediately reached for comment. But Samah Hadid at Amnesty International said “Netflix is in danger of facilitating the kingdom’s zero-tolerance policy on freedom of expression and assisting the authorities in denying people’s right to freely access information.” The Saudi cyber-crime law states that “production, preparation, transmission, or storage of material impinging on public order, religious values, public morals, and privacy, through the information network or computers” is a crime punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine, according to rights group Amnesty International. Saudi prosecutors have used the broadly worded law to imprison rights activists, poets and others who have expressed views deemed critical of the government or its policies on social media. Since Prince Mohammed was named heir to the throne in mid-2017, dozens of writers, activists and moderate clerics have been jailed. Among those detained since May of last year are women’s rights activists who had long pushed for more freedoms, including the right to drive before it became legal in June. Several people with knowledge of their arrest have told The Associated Press that some of the women detained have been subjected to caning, electrocution, and others were also sexually assaulted. Netflix’s streaming service expanded into Saudi Arabia three years ago. The company doesn’t give subscriber numbers for any country besides the U.S. but the number of customers it has in Saudi Arabia accounts for an extremely small fraction of its 137 million worldwide subscribers.
She couldn’t paint on the walls, but Ramirez said her parents would hang up large sheets of paper that she could decorate. “My parents were very supportive, just giving me art supplies all the time,” Ramirez said. Despite the support, Ramirez had the idea that art was not a viable career deeply entrenched in her head. “I tried to study other stuff, like computer programming,” Ramirez said. “One thing I kept repeating is, ‘Oh, if I have time to start drawing again.’” Eight years ago, while still in Puerto Rico, she lost her job, and suddenly, she did have that time. Ramirez began working on her art and went to Puerto Rican comic conventions and developed her style. “In the beginning, even as an adult, I tried a lot of being inspired by other people’s art, but I think the great part of those little monsters, what I’ve been doing now is they’re easy to find a personality with them,” Glo Ramirez’s monsters tend to be more friendly than fearsome. (Courtesy Photo | Glo Ramirez) Ramirez said. Along the way he’ll reunite with old friends, some of whom will do anything to protect him. His friend Arian (Uwais), however, is climbing the mafia ladder and finds himself in a tough spot where Ito is concerned. Much of the film is made up of long, bloody, and incredibly choreographed fight scenes involving a dozen or more people. These are a spectacle to behold, even as they are difficult to watch at times. I know the subtitles may keep some people away, but truly, if you’re a fan of action movies, you should give this film a chance. “The Night Comes for Us” is a movie that would be wellserved by viewing on the big screen, but, unfortunately, is only available on Netflix. I say unfortunately, but maybe not — because without the option to watch this movie at home, I doubt I’d have seen it at all.
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It’s not like they’re playing a lot of Indonesian cinema around here. Netflix has scored quite a few big profile movies this year, from the Coen’s “Ballad of Buster Scruggs” to Alphonso Cuaron’s “Roma” to the hit thriller “Bird Box” starring Sandra Bullock. Considering the company’s output it’s not surprising that “Night” is of such high quality despite being “straight to video.”
While I should caution that this movie is not for everyone, I would say that if you’re a fan of compelling drama and incredible action you could do much worse than to give this movie a chance. Next week I’ll be back on track with my regularly scheduled review, but for now… Grade: B+ “The Night Comes For Us” is rated R for gruesome violence, and language.
ton Hughes was said to have love a glass of it, and William Faulkner listed whiskey as one of his writing tools. Gin and tonic seems to have been a P.G. Wodehouse creation. E.B. White had a martini when suffering from writer’s block and Ian Fleming “inadvertently” helped vodka sales with James Bond’s martini instructions. Among other things, Hemingway loved Bloody Marys, Kerouac enjoyed margaritas, Steven King once said that alcohol use made for a “better writer,” and Hunter S. Thompson drank (mostly) bourbon and scotch. And Tolstoy? Nope, he was a teetotaler. A roaring fire, a glass of wine, and a good book. Is there a better trio? When the book is “A Sidecar Named
Desire,” the answer is an emphatic “no.” In beginning each chapter with a history of the proceeding alcohol at hand, authors Greg Clarke and Monte Beauchamp peek into the glasses of writers from antiquity to modern-day, literature to light reading. These are tasty sip-at-leisure chapters, more continuous sidebar than paragraphical, and perfect for browsing or a quick dip made possible by drawings that indicate a jigger of lightheartedness is shaken, not stirred in. And if you really like to get involved in your reading and want the full experience, there are recipes to try. Salud! Imbibers and abstainers alike will love learning about their favorite writers in “A Sidecar Named Desire,” so have a little serving. Auld acquaintance may’ve been “forgot” but this is a book you won’t.
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I don’t want to get all buff and then intimidate people at the beach. It just doesn’t suit my hermit lifestyle. I’m just not sure who to listen to – my stomach or my doctor. Exercising just seems so 1980s. What if I like working out too much and I lose my job? I have an addictive personality, and that would probably apply to working out too. If we84 were supposed to eat onlyprediabetes. healthy things, how come bad food tastes so good? million Americans have Know where you stand. I don’t like the names of healthy foods. I have a prime parking spot at work, so why would I walk to work? I like to leave things up to fate.
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(7:00) “William & Kate” “Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance” (2018) ‘PG’ “The Bucket List” (2007) Jack Nicholson. “Secretariat” (2010, Drama) Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Dylan Walsh. “Lakeview Terrace” (2008, Suspense) Samuel L. 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Dad Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Burgers Burgers Burgers Burgers Seinfeld Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ “The Change-Up” (2011) Ryan Reynolds. “The Family Man” (2000) Nicolas Cage, Tea Leoni. “The Wedding Singer” (1998) Seinfeld Seinfeld Seinfeld Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Seinfeld Seinfeld Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Seinfeld Seinfeld Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Charmed ‘PG’ Supernatural ‘14’ “Austin Powers: Man of Mystery” (:45) “I Love You, Man” (2009) Paul Rudd. “Old School” (2003) Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell. Hangover III Charmed ‘PG’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ “Gone in Sixty Seconds” (2000) Nicolas Cage. (:10) “Man of Steel” (2013, Action) Henry Cavill, Amy Adams. Charmed ‘PG’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ “Greek Wedding” Charmed ‘PG’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Charmed ‘PG’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ College Football Military Bowl -- Cincinnati vs Virginia Tech. (N) (Live) (:45) College Football AutoZone Liberty Bowl -- Missouri vs Oklahoma State. (N) (Live) Scoreboard Football (6:00) Championship Drive PlayStation Fiesta Bowl LSU vs Central Florida. (N) (Live) Bowl Game Rose Bowl Washington vs Ohio State. (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) Outside NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption SportsCenter (N) (Live) NBA Countdown (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) Outside NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption SportsCenter (N) (Live) College Basketball SportsCenter (N) (Live) Outside NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption SportsCenter (N) (Live) NBA Countdown (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter Special (N) NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportCtr Outside College Football Outback Bowl -- Iowa vs Mississippi State. (N) (Live) NFL Live (N) (Live) Intention (:10) Rose Bowl Washington vs Ohio State. (N) (Live) First Take (N) Jalen & Jacoby (N) NFL Live (N) Intention College Football Live (N) High School Football College Basketball First Take (N) Jalen & Jacoby (N) NFL Live (N) Intention College Football Live (N) High School Football First Take (N) Jalen & Jacoby (N) NFL Live (N) Intention College Football Live (N) Around Interruption College Basketball Undeniable College Basketball Marshall at Virginia. (N) (Live) Paid Prog. Paid Prog. The Dan Patrick Show (N) Ship Shape Focused The Rich Eisen Show (N) (Live) ‘PG’ Paid Prog. Paid Prog. The Dan Patrick Show (N) ‘PG’ Ship Shape Bensinger The Rich Eisen Show (N) (Live) ‘PG’ Paid Prog. Paid Prog. The Dan Patrick Show (N) ‘PG’ College Basketball The Rich Eisen Show (N) (Live) ‘PG’ Paid Prog. Paid Prog. The Dan Patrick Show (N) ‘PG’ Wm. Basketball The Rich Eisen Show (N) (Live) ‘PG’ Paid Prog. Paid Prog. The Dan Patrick Show (N) XTERRA Charlie (9:00) Bar Rescue Bar Rescue Bar Rescue Varied Bar Rescue Bar Rescue Two Men Two Men Two Men Two Men Mom (:31) Mom The Walking Dead ‘MA’ (:07) The Walking Dead (:13) The Walking Dead (:14) The Walking Dead ‘MA’ (:40) The Walking Dead “Mercy” ‘MA’ (1:48) The Walking Dead (2:48) The Walking Dead The Walking Dead ‘MA’ (:13) The Walking Dead “Wrath” ‘MA’ (:23) The Walking Dead ‘MA’ (11:48) The Walking Dead (12:53) The Walking Dead (1:59) The Walking Dead (:03) The Walking Dead “Marked for Death” (1990) Steven Seagal. “Inside Man” (2006, Suspense) Denzel Washington, Clive Owen. “The Matrix” (1999, Science Fiction) Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne. Stooges (:40) “The Walk” (2015) Kelly Downes, James Robinson. (:10) “The Mist” (2007, Horror) Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden. (1:55) “Double Jeopardy” (1999) Ashley Judd Stooges Stooges (8:55) “Outbreak” (1995, Suspense) Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo. (11:55) “Deep Impact” (1998) Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni. (:25) “The Day After Tomorrow” Unikitty ‘Y7’ Gumball Gumball We Bare Teen Titans Teen Titans Ben 10 ‘G’ Gumball Total Drama Total Drama Craig Total Drama Teen Titans Teen Titans We Bare Steven Univ. 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Transylvania Transylvania Transylvania Transylvania Transylvania PJ Masks Puppy Pals Muppet Vampirina Fancy PJ Masks Puppy Pals Puppy Pals Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ DuckTales Big City Gravity Falls Transylvania Raven Raven PJ Masks Mickey Muppet Doc Doc Fancy Puppy Pals Puppy Pals Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ DuckTales Big City Gravity Falls Transylvania Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol Abby PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob PAW Patrol ‘Y’ Abby PAW Patrol Bubble Guppies ‘Y’ PAW Patrol Butterbean PAW Patrol PAW Patrol “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” (2009) SpongeBob SquarePants PAW Patrol PAW Patrol Abby PAW Patrol Bubble Guppies ‘Y’ PAW Patrol Butterbean PAW Patrol PAW Patrol “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water” SpongeBob SpongeBob PAW Patrol PAW Patrol Abby PAW Patrol Bubble Guppies ‘Y’ PAW Patrol Butterbean PAW Patrol PAW Patrol “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” (2008) SpongeBob SpongeBob PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” (2009) SpongeBob SquarePants Varied 700 Club The 700 Club Movie Varied Programs The Middle The Middle The Middle The Middle Varied Programs Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Untold Stories of the E.R. Untold Stories of the E.R. Untold Stories of the E.R. (:28) Dr. Pimple Popper ‘14’ Dr. Pimple Popper ‘14’ Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Addiction Addiction Addiction Addiction Addiction Addiction Addiction Addiction My 600-lb Life: Dr. Now’s My 600-lb Life: Dr. Now’s Most Memorable Cases (N) My 600-lb Life: Dr. Now’s Most Memorable Cases (N) My 600-lb Life: Dr. Now’s Most Memorable Cases (N) My 600-lb Life: Dr. Now’s 90 Day Fiancé ‘PG’ 40-Year-Old Child Paralyzed and Pregnant Hoarding: Buried Alive Hoarding: Buried Alive Dr. Pimple Popper ‘14’ Dr. Pimple Popper ‘14’ Dr. Pimple Popper ‘14’ Return to Amish ‘14’ Obese and Pregnant ‘PG’ Family by the Ton ‘14’ Hoarding: Buried Alive Hoarding: Buried Alive My 600-Lb. Life “Michael’s Story” ‘PG’ Say Yes Say Yes
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“Double (:25) “Twister” (1996, Action) Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes. Storm “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004, Action) Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal. (:35) “Deep Impact” (1998, Drama) Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Elijah Wood. A 131 254 Jeopardy” (43) chasers race to test a new tornado-monitoring device. Global warming leads to worldwide natural disasters. large comet is on a collision course with Earth. Samurai Jack American American Bob’s Burg- Bob’s Burg- Family Guy Family Guy Rick and Robot Chick- Aqua Teen Mr. Pickles American Family Guy Family Guy Rick and Robot Chick176 296 ‘14’ (46) Dad ‘14’ Dad ‘14’ ers ‘14’ ers ‘PG’ ‘14’ ‘14’ Morty ‘14’ en ‘14’ Hunger ‘MA’ Dad ‘14’ ‘14’ ‘14’ Morty ‘14’ en ‘14’ Pit Bulls and Parolees Tia The Secret Life of the Zoo The Secret Life of the Zoo Crikey! It’s the Irwins ‘PG’ The Secret Life of the Zoo The Secret Life of the Zoo The Zoo An elephant requires The Secret Life of the Zoo 184 282 hires new parolees. ‘PG’ (47) “New Arrival” ‘PG’ “Mate for Life” ‘PG’ “Growing Pains” (N) “Rhino Romance” treatment. ‘PG’ “Growing Pains” Raven’s Raven’s Movie (:40) Movie (:10) Raven’s (:35) Bunk’d Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Raven’s Raven’s Bizaardvark Bizaardvark 173 291 Home ‘G’ (49) Home ‘G’ Home ‘G’ Home ‘G’ Home ‘G’ ‘G’ ‘G’ The Loud The Loud The Loud The Loud Henry Danger “Back to the SpongeBob SpongeBob “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” (2008, Children’s) Voices of Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘PG’ 171 300 House ‘Y7’ (50) House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ Danger” ‘G’ Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer. The Middle The Middle “Miss Congeniality” (2000, Comedy) Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine. A “Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous” (2005, Comedy) Sandra Bull- The 700 Club Keith and “Another Cinderella Story” 180 311 ‘PG’ (51) ‘PG’ clumsy FBI agent goes under cover at a beauty pageant. ock, Regina King, Enrique Murciano. Kristyn Getty. (2008, Children’s) Dr. Pimple Popper “The Li- Dr. Pimple Popper “An Family by the Ton ‘14’ Dr. Pimple Popper: Count- Dr. Pimple Popper “Nose No To Be Announced Sweet Home Sextuplets ‘PG’ Dr. Pimple Popper: Count183 280 poma Whisperer” ‘14’ (55) American Tail” ‘14’ down to the New Season Bounds” (N) ‘14’ down to the New Season Building Off the Grid: Maine Building Off the Grid: Mon- Building Off the Grid: Bottle Building Off the Grid: Island To Be Announced Building Off the Grid: Cabin To Be Announced 182 278 Lighthouse ‘G’ (56) tana Earth Home ‘G’ Island ‘G’ Oasis ‘G’ of No Return ‘G’ The Dead Files Disturbing The Dead Files ‘PG’ The Dead Files ‘PG’ The Dead Files ‘PG’ The Dead Files ‘PG’ The Dead Files (N) ‘PG’ Most Haunted ‘PG’ The Dead Files ‘PG’ 196 277 paranormal activity. ‘PG’ (57) American Pickers The Geor- American Pickers “Bound for American Pickers Frank American Pickers: Bonus Hitler’s Secret Tunnels Tunnels that may contain Nazi se(:05) American Pickers “Law (:03) Hitler’s Secret Tun120 269 gia Gambler. ‘PG’ (58) Badness” ‘PG’ meets an old friend. ‘PG’ Buys (N) ‘PG’ crets. (N) ‘PG’ & Hoarder” ‘PG’ nels ‘PG’
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Ex-inmate to keep making podcast that helped him win freedom By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — In California, inmates typically are granted parole by doing good deeds or showing they have been rehabilitated by becoming pastors, drug counselors or youth advocates. For Walter “Earlonne” Woods, the path to freedom was podcasting. Woods, 47, was recently released from San Quentin State Prison after California Gov. Jerry Brown commuted his 31-years-to-life sentence for attempted armed robbery. Brown cited Woods’ leadership in helping other inmates and his work at “Ear Hustle,” a podcast he co-hosts and co-produces that documents everyday life inside the prison. Woods has since been hired as a full-time producer for the often funny and at times heartwrenching podcast, which has been a smashing success since its launch in 2017. The show’s roughly 30 episodes have been downloaded 20 million times by fans all over the world. Listeners have praised “Ear Hustle” online as “eye-opening” and “incredibly humanizing.” For Woods, one of the most meaningful reviews came from the governor’s office when they called with the good news. “The one thing that the lady said, you know, she told me, ‘We love the podcast in this office,’” Woods told The Associated Press of the commutation call from Brown’s office. “I don’t know if the governor listens, but people in his office listen. People really like what we do.” During their podcast, Woods and fellow creator and outside co-host, prison volunteer Nigel Poor, give listeners a peek into the hardships and small joys of men incarcerated at the medium-security facility. In interviews with the hosts, inmates discuss struggles such
as finding a compatible cellmate to share a 5- by 10-foot (1.5- by 3-meter) cell, share why they take care of frogs or black widow spiders as if they were pets, or describe the impact of solitary confinement or being on death row. Woods, an affable man with a quick smile and a sharp sense of humor, helps listeners understand prison life, while Poor brings an outsider’s perspective, asking insightful questions that at times push inmates to reflect on what put them behind bars. The podcast offers listeners an intimate look into lives society doesn’t spend much time thinking about, said Woods, who spent 21 years behind bars. “People get to see the car chases. They get to see the trial. But they don’t know what happens after you get to prison,” Woods said. “We’ve been able to really humanize people, and people realize that those in prison are just people who made dumb decisions.” Brown agreed, and in his commutation letter, issued the day before Thanksgiving, the governor said Woods “has clearly shown that he is no longer the man he was when he committed this crime.” “He has set a positive example for his peers and, through his podcast, has shared meaningful stories from those inside prison,” Brown wrote. The podcast project started after Poor, a San Francisco Bay Area artist who has volunteered at San Quentin since 2011, approached Woods. In 2016, Poor saw Public Radio Exchange’s Radiotopia network was sponsoring a podcast talent contest, and she asked Lt. Sam Robinson, San Quentin’s spokesman, for permission to enter. Another cocreator, Antwan Williams, who is serving 15 years for armed robbery, came on board to do its sound design. Their pitch beat more than
In this photo, Earlonne Woods shows recording equipment similar to what he used in San Quentin State Prison to produce his podcasts, during an interview in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
1,500 contestants from 53 countries, and they received the backing of a group of radio professionals, Poor said. “Everyone was shocked when we won, especially the prison. Lt. Robinson told me he let us enter because he never thought we would win,” she said, laughing. “Ear Hustle,” — eavesdropping, in prison slang — has found international success, with fans sending cards and letters from as far as New Zealand, Qatar in the Middle East, and Mauritius in East Africa. The free show also can be accessed in prisons throughout California and the United Kingdom.
New episodes are posted every couple of weeks. Julie Shapiro, Radiotopia executive producer, describes the podcast as a “roller coaster of emotions” that challenges what people understand about life in prison. “People don’t expect to have something in common with those telling their stories from prison, but the details of their lives resonate with listeners because they hear these men encounter daily life in some of the same ways that we do,” Shapiro said. The outpouring of love and appreciation for the show has grown since Woods announced
on a Nov. 24 episode that Brown commuted his sentence. The first thing Woods did after walking through the prison gates on Nov. 30 was take in the view of the San Francisco Bay and of the ocean “as far as the eye can see.” An episode featured his first moments as a free man. Since then, he’s been noticing new styles, like women everywhere in yoga pants, and people walking through the streets with their heads bowed. He quickly realized they were looking at their smartphones, which didn’t exist when he started his sentence in 1997. Woods has also spent time
people-watching at a high-end department store, visited Disneyland and recently made eggs for the first time in two decades. The fourth season of “Ear Hustle,” which will be released this summer, will feature stories of his re-entry to society and interviews with other inmates released after long sentences. He and Poor also plan to visit maximum-security prisons and tell the stories of prisoners there. “There’s a lot of people that’s in there that should be out,” Woods said. “I created a podcast, but I’m not the exception.”
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Hello, 2019: Revelry and reflection greet new year By The Associated Press
Fireworks, concerts, spiritual services and political addresses abounded to mark the transition to 2019 as revelers around the globe bid farewell Monday to a year filled with challenges to many of the world’s most basic institutions, including in the realms of politics, trade, alliances and religion. A look at how the world is ushering in 2019:
NEW YORK A drenching rain couldn’t keep crowds from packing Times Square for the traditional crystal ball drop and a string of star performances. Christina Aguilera pumped up the crowd, performing in a snow-white dress and coat while partygoers danced in their rain ponchos. Bebe Rexha sang John Lennon’s “Imagine” just before the midnight ball drop. The celebration took place under tight security. Partygoers were checked for weapons and then herded into pens, ringed by metal barricades, where they waited for the stroke of midnight. But the weather forced police to scrap plans to fly a drone to help keep watch over the crowd. Revelers paid up to $10 for plastic ponchos trying to stay dry. Umbrellas were banned for security reasons.
RIO DE JANEIRO More than 2 million people celebrated the new year on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. A 14-minute fireworks display ushered Brazil into 2019 only hours before far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro will be sworn in as president. Many Brazilians were on the road to the capital of Brasilia on Monday night to watch the former army captain’s inauguration Tuesday afternoon. The last evening of 2018 in Rio was 85 degrees Fahrenheit (29 degrees Celsius), and many Brazilians took a dip in the water and made their offerings to Yemanja, a sea goddess in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble faith.
LONDON Britons ushered in the new year with the familiar chimes of Big Ben, even though the world famous clock has been disconnected for more than a year because of a conservation project. Parliament announced last week that the clock’s massive bell would sound to mark the new year with the help of a specially built electric mechanism to power the hammer, which weighs about 440 pounds (200 kilograms). The clock mechanism, which has kept time since 1859, has been dismantled as part of the renovation work. New Year’s Eve without Big Ben would be positively unBritish. The comforting chimes are used by TV and radio stations throughout Britain to herald the moment of transition from the old to the new year.
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Filipinos cheer during a New Year countdown at the Eastwood Shopping Mall late Monday, Dec. 31, 2018 in suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
Anti-government protesters from the yellow vest movement have issued calls on social media for “festive” demonstrations on the famous avenue. Paris police set up a security perimeter in the area, with bag searches, a ban on alcohol and traffic restrictions. The Interior Ministry said Sunday that the heavy security measures are needed because of a “high terrorist threat” and concerns about “non-declared protests.” President Emmanuel Macron gave his traditional New Year address to briefly lay out his priorities for 2019, as some protesters angry over high taxes and his pro-business policies plan to continue their demonstrations in coming weeks. Ahead of midnight, a light show with the theme of brotherhood took place on the Arc de Triomphe monument at the top of the Champs-Elysees.
BERLIN Tens of thousands of people celebrated the start of 2019 at Berlin’s landmark Brandenburg Gate. The annual New Year’s celebrations took place amid tight security, with about 1,300 officers deployed throughout the heart of the German capital and revelers banned from taking fireworks, bottles or large bags into the fenced-off party zone. By midnight, Berlin police reported fewer incidents than in previous years.
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Pope Francis has rounded Parisians and tourists gathered on the Champs-Elysees to out the most problematic year celebrate New Year’s Eve under of his papacy by presiding over a vespers service and praying heavy security.
before the Vatican’s giant sand sculpture Nativity scene. During his homily Monday, Francis lamented how many people spent 2018 living on the edge of dignity, homeless or forced into modern forms of slavery. Accompanied by his chief alms-giver, Francis then walked out into St. Peter’s Square, where he greeted pilgrims and prayed before the Nativity scene, carved out of 720 tons of packed sand. On Tuesday, Francis will celebrate Mass to mark the start of a new year and officially leave behind 2018, which saw a new eruption of the clergy sex abuse scandal.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Fireworks crackled at Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, as hundreds of thousands of spectators gathered downtown to watch the spectacular display. The fireworks replaced last year’s somewhat anticlimactic LED lightshow that ran down the facade of the 828-meter-tall (2,716-foot-tall) tower. Cafes and restaurants with a view of the Burj Khalifa charge a premium for their locale on New Year’s Eve. Casual sandwich chain Pret a Manger, for example, charged $817 for a table of four. That price gets you hot and cold drinks and some canapes. For burgers near the action, fast food chain Five Guys charged $408 per person for unlimited burgers, hotdogs, fries, milkshakes and soda. Elsewhere in the United Arab Emirates, the emirate of Ras al-
The tradition stems from a Khaimah attempted to set a new Guinness World Record with Chinese-influenced belief that the longest straight-line dis- noise drives away evil and misplay of fireworks reaching 7.35 fortune. Earlier Monday, suspected miles (11.83 kilometers). Muslim militants remotely detTHAILAND onated a bomb near the entrance While many celebrate New of a mall in Cotabato as people Year’s Eve with fireworks, did last-minute shopping ahead hundreds of Thais traveled to of celebrations. Officials said Takien Temple in a suburb of at least two people were killed Bangkok to lie inside coffins for and nearly 30 wounded. traditional funeral rituals. CHINA Participants believe the cereNew Year’s Eve isn’t celemony — symbolizing death and rebirth — helps rid them of bad brated widely in mainland Chiluck and allows them to be born na, where the lunar New Year again for a fresh start in the new in February is a more important holiday. But countdown events year. They held flowers and in- were held in major cities, and cense in their hands as monks some of the faithful headed to covered them with pink sheets Buddhist temples for bell-ringand chanted prayers for the ing and prayers. Beijing held a gala with VIP dead. “It wasn’t scary or anything. guests at the main site of the It is our belief that it will help 2008 Summer Olympics. The us get rid of bad luck and bring event looked ahead to the 2022 good fortune to our life,” said Winter Games, which also will Busaba Yookong, who came to be held in the Chinese capital. Outdoor revelers in Beijing the temple with her family. had to brave temperatures well PHILIPPINES below freezing. Additional police were deDozens of people have been ployed in parts of Shanghai, injured ahead of New Year’s where a New Year’s Eve stamEve, when many across the Philippines set off powerful pede in 2014 killed 36 people. In Hong Kong, festive lights firecrackers in one of Asia’s on skyscrapers provided the most violent celebrations debackdrop for a fireworks, muspite a government scare camsic and light show over Victoria paign and threats of arrests. The Department of Health Harbor on a chilly evening. said it has recorded more than KIRIBATI 50 firecracker injuries in the The Pacific island nation past 10 days. That is expected to increase as Filipinos usher in of Kiribati was the first in the world to welcome the new year, 2019. Officials have urged central- greeting 2019 with muted celized fireworks displays to dis- ebrations after spending 2018 courage wild and sometimes on the front line of the battle against climate change. fatal merrymaking. Kiribati is made up of lowlying atolls along the equator which intersect three time zones, the first of which sees the new year 14 hours before midnight in London. Much of the nation’s land mass, occupied by 110,000 people, is endangered by rising seas that have inundated coastal villages. The rising oceans have turned fresh water sources brackish, imperiling communities and raising doubts the nation will exist at the next New Year. Former President Anote Tong said the only future for Kiribati may be mass migration. The new year was welcomed in the capital, Tarawa, with church services and mostly quiet private celebrations.
AUSTRALIA An estimated million people crowded Sydney Harbor as Australia’s largest city rang in the new year with a spectacular, soul-tinged fireworks celebration. One of the most complex Performers take selfies at the end of a countdown to the new year event in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Ng displays in Australia’s history Han Guan)
included gold, purple and silver fireworks pulsating to the tune of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” made famous by Aretha Franklin, who died in August. The show used 8.5 tons of fireworks and featured more than 100,000 pyrotechnic effects. Earlier, a thunderstorm drenched tens of thousands of people as they gathered for the traditional display, creating a show of its own with dozens of lightning strikes. In Melbourne, 14 tons of fireworks deployed on the ground and on roofs of 22 buildings produced special effects including flying dragons. In Brisbane, people watched as fireworks exploded from five barges moored on the Brisbane River.
SOUTH KOREA After an eventful year that saw three inter-Korean summits and the easing of tensions over North Korea’s nuclear program, South Koreans entered 2019 with hopes that the hardwon detente will expand into a stable peace. Thousands of South Koreans filled the streets of the capital, Seoul, for a traditional bell-tolling ceremony near City Hall. Dignitaries picked to ring the old Bosingak bell at midnight included famous surgeon Lee Guk-jong, who successfully operated on a North Korean soldier who escaped to South Korea in 2017 in a hail of bullets fired by his comrades. A “peace bell” was tolled at Imjingak, a pavilion near the border with North Korea.
LAS VEGAS No place does flashy like Las Vegas. It rang in 2019 with fireworks shot from casino-resorts and superstar performances from Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, Gwen Stefani and others. Celebratory midnight toasts were anchored by an 8-minute firework show on the Las Vegas Strip. The pyrotechnics were choreographed to a soundtrack that includes Frank Sinatra’s “Luck Be a Lady,” Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long” and Dion’s version of “I Drove All Night”. New Year’s Eve is worth more than $400 million to Vegas. Security is a high priority for police on the Las Vegas Strip, where a gunman in 2017 opened fire on a country music festival, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds of others. Police, including rooftop snipers and plainclothes and uniformed officers, were out in full force along with federal agents. Authorities also restricted revelers from bringing backpacks, ice chests, strollers and glass items to the street celebrations.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019: This year you will enter a new luck cycle. You will want to eliminate what does not work in your life in order to open up room for new experiences, which will feel much better. If you are single, you could meet several people who seem emotionally unavailable. The right person will turn the corner soon enough. If you are attached, you might put a lot of emphasis on your relationship. You and your sweetie gain when you spend quality time together. SAGITTARIUS might suggest you take a yoga class. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH Keep reaching out to someone who could be instrumental in at least one facet of your life. You can brainstorm with this person or ask him or her to make suggestions. Understand that a cloud of confusion could surround you for a while. Tonight: Ask important questions. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Deal with a friend or loved one directly. Remain optimistic about a money matter. Several friends might ask if you have a rabbit’s foot in your pocket, as you seem to be luckier than usual. Still, be careful not to be too overindulgent. Tonight: In the midst of the fun. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You might love what a friend or partner suggests. The only possible answer is “yes.” However, as the day continues, confusion about your schedule or this person’s suggestion could arise. Go with the flow,
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be difficult or challenging to accept. Tonight: Meet a friend for munchies, and share recent events. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH Let others share more of what they think. People will tend to go along with your desires anyway, but make a point of giving them the space to make their own decisions. Be confident, and know that everything will work out well. Tonight: Bring your friends together. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You might not be ready to convey important news to those around you just yet. However, you cannot keep this information a secret much longer, as your facial expressions will give you away. Allow your sense of humor to come out in a moment of confusion. Tonight: Catch some zzz’s. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH You might be overwhelmed by the activity that surrounds you. Success comes naturally. Zero in on what you want. Your friends support you in this venture. Do not allow too much thought or confusion to take you away from what you are doing. Tonight: Where your friends are. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You see an opportunity on the horizon, yet you have responsibilities calling. Juggling two different concerns could be difficult, to say the least. Complete one task before addressing the next one. Otherwise, you will experience confusion. Tonight: Out and about till the wee hours. BORN TODAY Actor Mel Gibson (1956), author J.R.R. Tolkien (1892), actress Danica McKellar (1975)
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By Johnny Hart
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Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to Friday.
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B.C.
By Dave Green
Difficulty Level
4
6 7 1/03
By Chad Carpenter
By Chris Cassatt & Gary Brookins
Mother Goose and Grimm
By Michael Peters
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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars
2019 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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