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In the news Lawmaker’s spouse takes $185K job with governor JUNEAU (AP) — Gov. Mike Dunleavy has signed a contract with the wife of a Republican legislator and the owner of an Anchorage advertising, marketing and political strategy firm to work as his acting communications director.

Mary Ann Pruitt’s contract with the Republican governor’s administration calls for her to be paid $15,400 a month, or $185,000 a year, Alaska’s Energy Desk reported.

Pruitt is president of PS Strategies. She is married to Rep. Lance Pruitt.

Dunleavy also signed a contract with Mike Nizich, the former chief of staff to Republican governors Sarah Palin and Sean Parnell. Nizich was hired to review the state Constitution, laws and regulations, consult with Dunleavy and senior staffers and analyze budgets and organizational structures.

His two-month contract is capped at $34,500. Nizich declined comment on the contract.

Dunleavy spokesman Matt Shuckerow said Pruitt’s contract does not have an end date but that Pruitt does not plan to permanently stay in the job.

“Her contract is focused on building out the governor’s communications team and the messaging behind his agenda,” he said by email.

Pruitt remains sole owner and president of Anchorage-based PS Strategies, according to documents filed with the state Division of Corporations. Pruitt said she still has “some involvement,” but that it entails limited oversight work such as approving payroll.

“My main focus right now is in the governor’s office,” said Pruitt, She does not see her outside work conflicting with her state job, she said. Most of the firm’s clients are from outside of Alaska, she said.

The state contract calls for her to work 37.5 hours a week, without benefits or vacation. In a phone interview Friday, Pruitt said she’s working 12 hours a day.

See $185K, page A3

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A conversation with the governor

By MOLLIE BARNES Juneau Empire

Legislators have been speaking about it. Alaskans have been speaking about it, and now Gov. Mike Dunleavy is speaking about it.

The governor sat down to talk about his budget and the proposals to cut expenditures in it. Read the full interview below. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Juneau Empire reporter Kevin Baird: Governor, when you campaigned, you voiced some support for the ferry system, even calling it the ‘backbone’ of the Southeast. (This is in reference to an article in the Ketchikan Daily News).

There’s concern over the closure after October, and whether or not the ferry system would be able to open afterward without funding to do so. How do you justify the campaign message with the proposal to Alaskans in the Southeast?

Gov. Mike Dunleavy: During the campaign we were told we were looking

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

Juneau Empire reporters Kevin Baird, left, and Mollie Barnes interview Gov. Mike Dunleavy at the Capitol on Tuesday. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

at $75 a barrel oil. Obviously that wasn’t the case.

We’re down at $64 barrel oil, and we’re hoping that stays in the neighborhood of $60-64 a barrel. Even at that, we have a $1.6 billion deficit. This is a budget we put together that was an open budget, an honest budget for all Alaskans to look at in terms of what re-

ally are the fiscal realities we’re looking at. We’re also talking about the fact that we only have $2 billion left in our CBR, and the problems that will occur if we start to go into the earnings reserve at any great length or any depth, how that’s going to impact the fund going forward. Again, during the campaign we were told

Local doctor to share tale of Antarctic journey

By BRIAN MAZUREK Peninsula Clarion

Most Alaskans take the harsh winter months as an opportunity to travel to warmer climes like Hawaii or Florida. One of Soldotna’s resident physicians, however, recently went as far south as south can go.

Dr. Kristin Mitchell, Medical Director of the Sleep Laboratory at Central Peninsula Hospital, spent 20 days on a boat navigating the coast of Antarctica this past January and will be giving a presentation at the Kenai Visitors and Cultural Center on Thursday about her experience.

The presentation is part of

Kenai VA clinic closed due to structural damage

Kristin Mitchell smiles for the camera at Paradise Bay, Antarctica, on Jan. 12, 2019. (Photo courtesy of Kristin Mitchell)

KDLL’s Adventure Talks series, which aims to put a spotlight on the travels and trials of Kenai Peninsula

residents.

Mitchell traveled to Antarctica as part of the See TALE, page A3

$75 barrel oil. We even had people tell us $80-85 barrel oil. That’s been revised, as a result we’ve had to revise this budget. And it’s a budget that’s going to impact all Alaskans. There’s going to be no group that is not going to be touched by the fiscal deficit that we’re looking at.

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The Kenai Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinic is closed due to structural instability until further notice.

Samuel Hudson, director of Public Affairs and Congressional Affairs for the Alaska VA Healthcare System, said last Thursday the clinic was informed of the building’s compromised structural integrity.

Hudson said the staff was asked to evacuate last week, and appointments were canceled on Friday.

Appointments have been canceled until Thursday.

Hudson did not know what caused the structural damage, or if it affected other nearby businesses.

The clinic is located in a large strip mall, which See VA page A6

DHSS warns of flu risk, encourages vaccine

By BRIAN MAZUREK Peninsula Clarion

With flu season in full swing, Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) is encouraging Alaskans to get their flu shots in order to avoid this year’s strain of the virus. Leslie Felts, nurse manager at the Alaska Division of Public Health in Kenai, said that the two most common strains identified so far this year have been Influenza A H1 and Influenza A H3.

Public health nurse Tami Marsters said that the “A” flu types come with more severe symptoms than “B” types and Alaskans should take every precaution they

can to prevent the virus from spreading.

Flu season is typically associated with the winter months, and because Alaskan winters often last longer than what the Lower 48 experiences, Alaskan flu season also lasts significantly longer. Felts said that over the past few years April has been the peak month for the virus in Alaska, so anyone who thinks they may be too late in getting their flu shot still has plenty of time.

According to a press release by DHSS, getting a flu shot can reduce the risk of contracting the virus by about 50 percent. Felts said that the shot takes

See FLU, page A6

Tariffs a challenge for Alaska seafood, new markets emerge

By KEVIN BAIRD Juneau Empire

Alaska’s fishing industry provides more jobs than any private sector in the state. On Tuesday, the House Special Committee on Fisheries received

an update from the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.

The tariff war with China remains a concern. The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute put a lot of effort into selling Alaska’s seafood to China, said Jer-

emy Woodrow, the interim executive director of the ASMI. For every $10,000 spent on marketing in China, the Alaska seafood industry gets $1 million. But with the tariff war between the U.S. and China, Woodrow said, “We are expect-

ing big drop offs in our Chinese market.”

However, Woodrow had plenty of positive news to report. In December, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan was able to add a provision to the Farm Bill that would require Alaska seafood

pollock to be used in fish sticks in American school lunches. Previously, fish sticks in American school lunches were comprised of Russian pollock. Woodrow said this would equate to about $30 million a year.

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Budget cut approval ‘unrealistic’ without more analysis

By MOLLIE BARNES Juneau Empire

Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget proposes making a lot of cuts. There’s been outcry. There have been protests.

But has there been enough analysis? The budget director with over 20 years of experience working in Alaska thinks not, and that there needs to be more caution in accepting these cuts.

David Teal, the budget director of the non-partisan Legislative Finance Division, presented an overview of the governor’s proposed FY20 budget and said there is no way that the Office of

David Teal, Director of the Legislative Finance Division, gives his analysis of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s state budget to the Senate Finance Committee at the Capitol on Tuesday. (Michael Penn/Juneau Empire)

Budget and Management or the budget given that the the Legislature could pos- session is almost halfway sibly analyze the effects of over already.

“It seems many of you share my disappointment in the lack of analysis done to support the government’s proposals,” Teal said. “I think (the) budget shouldn’t simply be a math problem … you cannot make good policy or budget decisions without full information.

All cuts are not equal,” he said, adding that the OMB has justified many of the cuts by stating the most important thing is to address the deficit, and that it is not their job to do analysis of the effects on independent bodies such as municipalities or school districts.

He said the Legislature would have a difficult time even if all the analysis that

is needed to make this decision was available right now.

“Maybe creating chaos is just a clever way to force a conversation that needs to happen to move forward,” said Teal. “Maybe people are going to see these budget reductions that are required to pay a $3,000 dividend, and they’re going to come in and plead to reduce the dividend to avoid the consequences of the budget cuts.”

When questioned about this statement in a later interview with the Empire, the governor said chaos was not his intention.

“Chaos — that wasn’t See CUT, page A2

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Alaska pollock makes up the bulk of the Alaska’s fishing harvest volume: 57 percent of the 5.9 billion pounds of seafood harvested in a year.

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the intent ‌ but certainly the budget is a conversation to have with the people of Alaska and the Legislature as to what we value, what we want to fund, what we can fund and how we fund it,� Dunleavy said.

In order to be more transparent, Teal said he thinks that all revenues and expenditures should be included in the budget discussion, including the fiscal notes of the governor’s proposed crime bills and the separate amendments the governor proposed to pay out a supersized dividend over three years. “I look at the budget as it’s not simply the operating capital bill — the budget is the full fiscal plan,�

Teal said. “It includes all revenue measures. It includes any of the bills that might affect either appropriations themselves or the fiscal notes.�

Dunleavy said Tuesday afternoon others are going to propose to bridge the deficit using the PFD or taxes, but he said he thinks this causes more problems. “Alaska with 730,000 people, high unemployment rate, lack of investment in the state of Alaska, I think if we go down the road of taxing or taking money out of the pockets of Alaskans, we’ll see more of an exodus out of the state,� Dunleavy said.

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bargo on U.S. fish about five years ago, Woodrow said this market has been steadily growing. “It’s not a giant market, but we’re trying to expand our markets,� Woodrow said. “You know how China tariffs have impacted our markets. You don’t want to have all your eggs in one basket.�

Alaska Seafood exports 60 percent of its products to foreign countries, ac-

cording to Woodrow. He said Alaskans are not the people buying Alaska seafood, because Alaskans typically catch their own fish.

AMSI is a public-private entity that receives federal and commercial dollars to promote Alaska seafood in markets outside of Alaska.

Commercial fishing members pay a fee to have their products promoted and use the Alaska seafood label,

too. The State of Alaska was contributing more than $4,000 in Fiscal Year 2016, but that number dwindled until the state quit contributing to AMS in fiscal 2019.

The fisheries committee consists of Reps. Sarah Vance, R-Anchorage; Geran Tarr, D-Anchorage; Louise Stutes, R-Kenai; Chuck Kopp, R-Anchorage; Jonathan Kreiss Tomkins, DSitka; and Lance Pruitt, RAnchorage.

“If we start taking more money out of the pockets of Alaskans, it’s going to force more people to decide if they want to stay or go, and I believe that more and more people will leave.�

Sen. Donald Olson, DGolovin, said in the morning meeting the budget the governor proposed was unrealistic. Teal said the cuts themselves aren’t unrealistic, but approving them without analysis is. “The unrealistic part to me is any expectation that you have enough time to really consider these, especially considering the fact that the information is not available to you now,�

Teal said.

Alaska is really looking at losing about 5,000 jobs,

not the roughly 700 number that OMB originally gave the day of the budget release, Teal said. “I consider government to be state, local and school districts, because schools are funding by the government,� Teal said. “You’re looking at significant job loss. And I don’t know when the economists are coming, but it will be interesting.�

The committee also discussed the proposed cuts to the Alaska Marine Highway System. “The ferry system has stopped taking reservations after Sep. 30,� said Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage. “Can the governor just do that on his own? We’re the appropriating body,� he said,

noting they haven’t passed any legislation to stop funding the ferries.

Teal said whether or not Gov. Mike Dunleavy can, he did.

He said much of the balancing of the budget comes by shifting the burden to municipalities. “If revenue is volatile, how will the budget be more predictable than oil prices themselves?� Teal said. “Are we going to cut the budget every time revenue from oil falls? I don’t see how saying expenditures equal revenue makes the budget any more predictable. It seems to me the governor took two of the three normal budget balancing tools (adding revenue and pulling money from reserves) off the table.�

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Bruce Phillip Warnecke

October 1, 1950 - February 23, 2019 Kenai, Alaska resident and former Wisconsin resident, Mr. Bruce Phillip Warnecke, 68, died Saturday, February 23, 2019 at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna.

Memorial Services will be held 4:00 p.m.

Friday, March 1, 2019 at Kathryn and Paul Walukewicz home – 51904 Holt Lamplight Road in Nikiski. Military Honors will be performed by the V.F.W. Post #10046 and American Legion Post #20.

Bruce was born Oct. 1, 1950 in Oconto, Wisconsin. He served in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1972 serving in Vietnam and Germany before being honorably discharged. He loved hunting, fishing, gardening, and all outdoor activities.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Kenneth and Eileen (Phillippe) Warnecke and sister, Cherie Hoehnke.

He is survived by his daughters, Angela (Mike) Finley of Cedarburg, WI and Kathryn (Paul) Walukewicz of Kenai, AK; grandson, Korbin Bruce Walukewicz of Kenai, AK; significant other, Patricia Hensel of Kenai; brothers, Craig (Sandy) Warnecke of Wisconsin, Brian Warnecke of Wisconsin, and Keith (Kathy) Warnecke of Kentucky; sister, Deb (Paul) Daugherty of Tennessee and other family members and many friends.

Memorial donations may be made to P.O. Box 8264 – Nikiski, AK 99635 C/O Kathryn Walukewicz.

Arrangements made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel & Crematory. Please sign or visit his online guestbook at AlaskanFuneral.com.

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Homeward Bound initiative, whose stated goal is to “heighten the influence and impact of women in making the decisions that shape our planet,” according to their website. Mitchell said that she was one of 80 women hailing from 23 different nationalities that were a part of the Antarctic journey, with each of them specializing in various fields of science, engineering, technology and mathematics. One woman was the European Union representative for the International Whaling Commission, while another was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, and another was a key architect in the crafting of the Paris Climate Accords.

Mitchell said that the purpose of the trip was not about a specific research project in Antarctica, but rather it was an opportunity for women in STEM industries to develop both on a personal and professional level. By the end of the

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PS Strategies creates advertising campaigns and helps clients decide where and how to broadcast them.

The firm worked for a superPAC-type group that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads on Dunleavy’s behalf during the gubernatorial election, with support from the Washington D.C.-based Republican Governors Association.

excursion, they had honed their leadership skills and acquired international connections that would allow them to make an even greater impact in their respective fields.

Because Mitchell hails from Alaska, she was uniquely prepared for the challenging weather that the group dealt with during their 20 days sailing around the South Pole, and she said that the Antarctic summer is similar to an Alaskan winter. For her, the bigger challenge came from having to constantly analyze herself and reflect on her own growth. “We were all on an internal journey as well as a physical one. Everyone wanted to grow as much as possible and figure out how we can all be more effective in our fields.”

Anyone interested in hearing more about Mitchell’s journey can attend her Adventure Talk on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Admission is $5 or free for KDLL members. Mitchell will also be talking with KDLL at 10 a.m. today for a live interview.

The firm’s website lists past clients that include the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, an oil and mining industry group, telecommunications firms GCI and Alaska Communications and environmental and health care organizations.

Pruitt did not list the firm’s current clients on her official financial disclosure.

Officials at the Public Offices Commission said they are assessing a request by Pruitt’s attorney that she be exempted from identifying those clients.

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in Soldotna. Workshop topics include growing garlic, fermentation, berry growing, composting, square foot gardening, seed starting, high tunnels, perennials, a kids “Barley Soldotna Historical Society & Homestead Buddies” table, and seed catalogs for you to look through!

Membership and general club information is available at Museum board meeting www.cenpengardenclub.org, on facebook, or contact PhylSoldotna Historical Society & Homestead Museum lis Boskofsky at cenpengardenclub@gmail.com. board meeting will take place Tuesday, March 5 at 8:30 a.m. at the Fine Thyme Cafe. Questions? Carmen 262-2791.

KPC College Council meeting

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

Wild and Scenic Film Festival

Kenai Peninsula College Council meeting scheduled The College Council will hold their next meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 7 at KPC’s Kachemak Bay Campus in Homer in Pioneer room 202. The College Council is advisory in nature and members are recruited from all sectors of the Kenai Peninsula to provide input to KPC administration.

The meeting is open to the public. For a copy of the agenda, contact the director’s assistant at 262-0318 or visit this link: http://www.kpc.alaska.edu/about/college_council/reports/.

MAP volunteers needed

Join the Kenai Watershed Forum at Snug Harbor Seafoods on K-Beach for the Wild and Scenic Film Festival on Saturday, March 23 from 6-9 p.m. This year’s films combine stellar filmmaking, beautiful cinematography and first-rate storytelling to inform, inspire and ignite solutions and possibilities to restore the earth and human communities while creating a positive future for the next generation.The Wild & Scenic Film Festival is a fundraiser for the Kenai Watershed Forum and a way to support our mission of working together for healthy watersheds on the Kenai Peninsula. Price is $25, includes a Cooper Landing Brew, food and fun!

Parents experienced with raising children with Chronic Medical Conditions and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities are needed as MAP volunteers to help Mentor, Advocate and Partner with new parents in similar situations.

Please join our volunteers in providing free Parent-to-Parent support in our community. Register for training this week by visiting https://www.stonesoupgroup.org/event/mentor-advocate-partner-map-training-soldotna/ or call 907-953-8480 to inquire about more information on how you can help.

KPC Showcase presents: Letters From Happy Valley: Memories of an Alaska Homesteader’s Son

Free income tax return preparation is available again this year at the Soldotna Library from Feb. 9 to April 13. This AARP Foundation-sponsored program is open to low-and moderate-income taxpayers of all ages, with special attention to those age 60 and older. AARP membership is not required. Call 907-420-4308 to schedule an appointment. For more information, email taxprepsoldotna@gmail.com.

KPC Showcase presents: Letters From Happy Valley: Memories of an Alaska Homesteader’s Son, an evening with Alaskan author Dan Walker on Thursday, March 7 at 6:30 p.m. at McLane Commons. Fifty years after leaving the family homestead in Happy Valley, Dan Walker unexpectedly received a shoebox full of letters penned in 1958 by his parents as they traveled north from Sugar Tree Ridge, Ohio, to build a new life on the Last Frontier. The letters ignited Walker’s memory and he remembered how, as a small boy, he watched with wonder as his family built a home, harvested moose, and learned the ways of the north country. A quiet thread of melancholy weaves through Walker’s story as he remembers how his father’s untimely death forced their large family to leave behind the life he loved.

Refuge accepting applications for summer Youth Conservation Corps jobs Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is accepting applications for summer jobs for the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC). Eligible applicants will be youth 15-18 years of age and who live in or have lodging available in the local commuting area. Applications are available at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center, the Alaska Employment Service Office in Kenai, or from local high school career counseling offices. Applications will be accepted from March 4 through April 12. All applications must be received at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters on Ski Hill Road by 4:30 p.m. (close of business), on April 12. The positions will be filled via a random selection process and selected applicants will be notified by phone no later than April 26. Youth will work 40 hours each week from June 3 through July 26, and receive $9.90 per hour. Job duties will include trail maintenance and rehabilitation, cabin restoration, campground maintenance, litter collection, biological assistance, and visitor information services. For additional information, please contact the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge office during regular business hours at (907) 262-7021.

Saving and storing seeds for your garden Dr. Pat Holloway, Professor Emeritus of Horticulture at UAF will present a lecture on how to harvest, handle, save, and store flower, vegetable, and native plant seeds for later use in your garden on Tuesday, March 12 from 7–8:30 p.m. at Peninsula Grace Church, 44175 Kalifornsky Beach Road (at Mile 19.5, across the road from Craig Taylor Equipment) in Soldotna. Free and open to the public; bring a friend! Refreshments and sometimes door prizes. Membership and general club information is available at www.cenpengardenclub.org, on facebook, or contact Phyllis Boskofsky at cenpengardenclub@gmail.com.

Garden Club March Round Tables Come join the Central Peninsula Garden Club for our annual March Round Table event taught by a panel of expert gardeners on Saturday, March 2 from 12-3 p.m. at Peninsula Grace Brethren Church at 44175 Kalifornsky Beach Road (at Mile 19.5, across the road from Craig Taylor Equipment)

Free in-person tax preparation available

Kenai Historical Society meeting Kenai Historical Society will meet Sunday, March 3 at 1:30 at the Kenai Visitors Center. The speaker will be Teri Wilson with a video presentation on the 1964 Earthquake.

Everyone welcome. For more information, call June at 283-1946.

Land Management letters of interest The Kenai Peninsula Borough’s Land Management Division is calling for letters of interest from people looking for new agricultural land. The hope is that people will share some details that the borough can use to inform the program design. The kinds of major points officials think would be helpful in a letter include the size and general location needed, along with any other criteria that would be essential for the person’s production plans, and maybe an indication of the time frames that people are thinking if they were to take on an area of land with production goals. Letters should be addressed to KPB Land Manager, 144 North Binkley St., Soldotna AK 99669. More information can be found at kpb.us/land

Meet the author Last Frontier Freethinkers will be hosting a luncheon for Dan Barker, co-president of Freedom from Religion Foundation, at Odies Deli on Friday, March 1 at 2 p.m.

Dan has written a new book called “Mere Morality” and will be discussing God and Government: Protecting the wall between church and state. For more information please contact info@lastfrontierfreethinkers.org.

Central Peninsula Hospital Health Fair Central Peninsula Hospital is holding a Health Fair on March 23 from 8 a.m. to noon in the River Tower on the CPH campus. Blood Chemistry Panels, Thyroid, Prostate, Vitamin D (D2&D3) and A1C tests will be available. You must be 18 years or older to have blood work done. Community health partners are invited to participate as a vendor. Contact Camille Sorensen at 714-4600 or csorensen@cpgh.org for an application. Deadline for vendor registration is March 18.

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Serving the Kenai Peninsula since 1970 Jeff Hayden Publisher ERIN THOMPSON......................................................... Editor DOUG MUNN........................................... Circulation Director FRANK GOLDTHWAITE......................... Production Manager

What Others Say

Churches must make themselves safe spaces The news reports out of Texas describing hundreds of Southern Baptist leaders and workers who were accused of sexual misconduct yet allowed to work at churches is disturbing at the very least.

That some churches knowingly let people with a background of sexual misconduct teach children or youth is unbelievable. Yet it happened in churches throughout the country.

It shows that sexual abuse is a problem for all faiths and all denominations. No church is immune to sin. But some of the instances described in the reports by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News can’t be chalked up to ignorance.

Some churches may have unknowingly employed predators. Others did so with full knowledge of their backgrounds.

The Southern Baptist Convention was the subject of the newspapers’ investigation, but the problem is not constrained only to that denomination. But SBC leaders could have — and should have — done more to prevent these horrors.

Going back at least a decade, SBC leaders were asked to track sexual predators so they could not move from church to church. The convention was also asked to act against congregations that harbored or concealed abusers.

Those policies were not put into place. And the result is what was reported by the newspapers.

The Rev. J.D. Greear, who was elected as the SBC’s president last year, said the abuses described in the news report “are pure evil.”

“I am broken over what was revealed today,” Greear wrote in a series of posts on Twitter. “The voices in this article should be heard as a warning sent from God, calling the church to repent.”

“We leaders in the SBC should have listened to the warnings of those who tried to call attention to this,” Greear tweeted. “I am committed to doing everything possible to ensure we never make these mistakes again.”

SBC churches are autonomous, meaning the convention has little authority over them. But the SBC has the authority to “disassociate” with churches that knowingly hire or protect abusers.

The convention can also create a database of abusers to give churches more information about the people they hire or allow to volunteer.

The two newspapers in Texas were able to create an offender database with limited resources.

Surely the largest Protestant denomination in the country can do the same. Churches — of any denomination or faith — should be places were people are safe and protected, not victimized and shamed.

— The Daily Leader (Mississippi), Feb. 18

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Equal-opportunity skepticism

Let’s be fair to Donald Trump.

No, seriously. That’s not a joke.

When it comes time to judge the presidential candidates, we should remember what they say about geese and ganders, and apply the same standards to all members of this growing gaggle.

Both males and females of this species should get equal treatment, in other words. That’s where the fairness to the biggest goose of all comes in. A presidential campaign by anyone should be a brutal trial by fire.

We hear nonstop from those who want Trump out of the White House that anything goes, even to the point of judging his opponents less harshly. This particularly applies to those of the female persuasion. Already we are hearing complaints that women candidates are being required to cope with personal questions that the men are not. Who they slept with in the past is one (Kamala Harris); how abusive they have been to their subordinates is another (Amy Klobuchar). “Double standard,” their supporters bellow. “Guys are not held to the same criteria.” Certainly Donald Trump has been. In fact, he built up his brand by bragging about his sexual adventures, most of them anyway. That’s not counting the stripper who showed up late in the game, nor that Playboy model. The

demands he puts on his staff is the stuff of dark legend, to say nothing of the way he’s stiffed those with whom he’s done business.

His life is an open book titled Bob Franken “The Art of SelfAggrandizement” or something like that. No one can claim that he’s being judged differently because he’s a man. It’s a toxic but gender-neutral story, hanging out there for all to compare.

What it means to the others is that there really isn’t a question that’s too impertinent to ask.

Let’s face it, personality issues are far and away the most important of all, particularly in an age when TV news coverage looks like “Access Hollywood” or “Entertainment Tonight,” and where it goes downhill from there to the sewers of social media.

Even so, it’s the other stuff about Trump that’s been much more difficult to extricate, like his hideously complex or hidden financial dealings. Has his history with unsavory characters slopped over into lawbreaking? What effect did they have on his alleged collusion with the Russians? Was their collusion with

the Russians done to throw the election his way? We might soon find out. We should work just as hard to try to unearth any chicanery by each and every one of those who declare themselves fit for the highest office in the land and not be dissuaded by any complaints that such scrutiny is intrusive. Once elected, a person’s decisions as chief executive intrude on every aspect of our lives. Sadly, at the bottom of this list is the substance. What a shame that we are too lazy and unwilling to plow through the weeds of policy recommendations. Who among us has really gotten past the demagogic name-calling to deflect serious discussion about complex issues like governmentprovided health care, tax policies or climate change, just to mention a few? It’s all about the catchy sound bite or clever tweet, meaning that those who want to make a quick buck can slip in and bamboozle their way into billions of quick bucks, at our expense.

Man or woman, our leader is going to be required to try to make America great again after the Make America Great Again debacle. Man or woman, the stakes are too high to allow anyone to forfeit the next election. A fair fight for power this time around could well determine the future of this country, or if we even have a future.

Time for budget honesty The editorial boards of two of Alaska’s newspapers weren’t surprised by the magnitude of spending cuts in the budget proposed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy. The descriptors “bomb” and shock” were about public reaction, as captured by the question posed in the Fairbanks Daily-News Miner: “Now, Alaskans, will you finally pay attention to the fiscal crisis?”

I think the most prominent person who received that wake-up call is the governor himself.

While serving on the Senate Finance Committee in January 2017, Dunleavy put together a budget plan that would have spread out $1.1 billion in budget cuts over four years. “It does not require new taxes,” he told the Empire. And “it does not require the taking or manipulation of the dividend.”

His colleagues in the Senate’s majority caucus didn’t agree. They reduced the PFD to help pay for the $4 billion spending plan they passed in April. Just before voting against that, Dunleavy withdrew from the caucus.

Three months later, he announced his candidacy for governor. And before the 2018 legislative session began, he resigned from the Senate to focus on a campaign where his budget plan would take center stage.

Essentially, he’s had two full years to refine his vision founded on a commitment to no new taxes or reductions to the PFD. Long enough to realize how severe he’d have to cut the University of Alaska, K-12 education and Alaska’s ferries. And to have given voters a range of the cuts he planned to implement.

The $98 million he wants to take out of the Alaska Marine Highway System might be Dunleavy’s biggest broken campaign pledge. The twothirds reduction doesn’t align at all

division’s positions.

Those unfilled jobs are not only unfunded. As Fisher told Dunleavy and the committee two years later, laska oices “increasing the vacancy factor” could be used as a cost control measure.

Dunleavy isn’t the first candidate R ich M oniak for governor who struggled with the intricacies of government budgeting.

Lacking that expertise explains why with telling voters he’d “make sure that it remains the backbone of trans- he chose Donna Arduin, who has a history of helping other governors portation in Southeast.”

I wouldn’t suggest he deliberately solve their fiscal problems, as his OMB director. misled anyone though. I think he And since Dunleavy hadn’t yet honestly expected there was sigdeveloped a detailed budget plan, nificant savings that could be found throughout the state bureaucracy. For it’s unlikely he gave Arduin specific directions about cutting the marine instance, he claimed during a debate highway budget. last October there was $200 million But he may have expected her to for “2,000 funded but unfilled state target that $200 million he believed jobs” that could easily be cut.

But as longtime Alaska journalist was being wasted on unfilled state jobs. It’s not mentioned press release Dermot Cole argued the next day, though, where they most certainly “Dunleavy appears to be unaware would have highlighted it as evidence that the number of positions funded by the Legislature is always less than of bureaucratic inefficiency and the number of total authorized posi- waste.

Instead, Arduin had to find that tions — that is what the state calls the vacancy factor.” And it’s inexcus- amount, and probably more, from other places, forcing their claws able, Cole suggests, that “anyone deeper into the marine highway and who spent years warming a chair other program budgets. in the Senate Finance Committee “As your governor, I will always room” doesn’t understand that.

That’s because the subject was dis- be honest with you,” Dunleavy wrote cussed numerous times during Senate in an Empire My Turn a few days before he released his budget. So, it’s Finance Committee meetings that fair to ask now whether he deliberDunleavy attended. For instance, on ately misled voters about maintaining March 4, 2015, Sheldon Fisher, the the operational integrity of the marine commissioner of Administration in highway system. Or was he not well the prior administration, specifically addressed Dunleavy’s questions about enough informed to make those it. Fisher explained that the Office of promises.

Rich Moniak is a Juneau resident Management and Budget mandates and retired civil engineer with more “certain vacancy factors for every than 25 years of experience working department.” As an example, he said if “a vacancy factor of 5 percent were in the public sector. He contributes a weekly “My Turn” to the Juneau applied, the budget would only need to reflect funding for 95” percent of a Empire.

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Senators chastise drug companies

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Channeling the ire of constituents and drawing from personal experience, senators chastised drug company executives Tuesday over the high cost of prescription medications, while the CEOs warned that government price controls could stifle breakthroughs on diseases like Alzheimer’s.

The Senate Finance Committee hearing marked the first time lawmakers have called the industry’s top executives to account for rising prices, which are a drain on Medicare and Medicaid and a burden to millions of Americans. The extraordinary public accounting was a sign that Congress and the White House are moving toward legislation this year to curb costs.

Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., who has Parkinson’s, said the cost of one of his longtime medications had jumped by $90 when he went to refill it recently. “I can’t explain it,” said Isakson, who credits prescription drugs for allowing him to keep working. He started making calls

and found a whole range of prices for the medication.

The second-ranking Senate Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, expressed disbelief that Humira, a blockbuster drug for immune system conditions from AbbVie, is protected by more than 130 patents that cumulatively translate to decades of roadblocks for generic competitors. AbbVie CEO Richard Gonzalez responded that each new FDA-approved use of the drug represents an investment by the company in research, even if the medication is the same.

“At some point that patent has to end so that the patient can get access to that drug at much cheaper cost,” Cronyn said.

Drug costs are squeezing Americans in a number of ways: New medicines for cancer and other diseases often launch with prices exceeding $100,000 per year even as employers are shifting more pharmacy costs onto workers. Less expensive drugs for common ailments like diabetes and asthma often see price hikes of around 10 percent annually. Meanwhile some drugmakers have been buying up once-cheap medicines and hiking prices by 1,000 percent or more.

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Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, attends a hearing on drug prices, Tuesday, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The pharmaceutical executives expressed a general desire to lower costs for patients, but made no firm commitments. Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier warned that “outrageous solutions” could sacrifice industry innovation. He said lung cancer patients in the United Kingdom are still waiting for a drug available here that can cut deaths in half among those newly diagnosed.

Sanofi CEO Olivier Brandicourt said using government “price controls” would not be enough to make medicines affordable.

Senators seemed to be looking for a balance between protecting innovation and closing off legal and

policy loopholes that have enabled savvy companies to game the markets.

New Jersey Democrat Bob Menendez, considered an ally of the industry, delivered what he called a friendly warning: “If you don’t undertake meaningful action to reduce pharmaceutical costs, policymakers are going to do it for you.”

Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Congress intends to respond to the drug price problem in a “measured and effective way” and he is planning to question other industry actors including health insurance companies and middlemen called pharmacy benefit managers.

US general says no military threat on southern border

In this April 17, 2018 file photo, Air Force Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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WASHINGTON — Under pointed questioning from senators, the top U.S. general for homeland defense said Tuesday that he sees no military threat coming from the southern border with Mexico, but his focus in on “very real” threats from China and Russia in the north.

Air Force Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy, commander, U.S. Northern Command

and North American Aerospace Defense Command, told a Senate committee that proposed barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border could increase security against any potential military threats coming from the south. But he said Russia’s advancements in training and capabilities, and its intent to hold the U.S. at risk, present an urgent threat to America.

President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency along the southern

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border to fund his proposed wall, and he plans to use Defense Department funds from military construction and counter-drug programs to pay for it. Members of Congress are challenging that.

Democratic senators on the Senate Armed Services Committee peppered O’Shaughnessy with questions about the need to divert the money from existing projects and questioned the validity of a national emergency declaration.

“I’m concerned, very frankly, that this administration is politicizing our military and militarizing our immigration policy - in effect, using the troops under your command as political props, both in terms of declaring a fake emergency but also compromising our potential security by diverting them away from other assignments and missions that are absolutely necessary,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, DConn.

The meeting comes as the Democratic-controlled House was planning a vote

Tuesday to revoke Trump’s emergency declaration, and send legislation to the Republican-held Senate, where it would take only a handful of GOP defections to pass it.

O’Shaughnessy, who visited the southern border on Saturday with Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, was careful to defer any assessment of the southern threat to the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection. He said that those agencies believe that more fencing can impact the movement of drugs across the border.

O’Shaughnessy said he would defer to DHS “on the character of the threat,” adding that Northern Command is trying to “be a good partner” as the other agencies take on the drug trafficking challenge. Asked if it is a national emergency, he said, it is a “national issue” that requires a “whole-of-government approach.”

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SALEM, Ore. — An Amtrak train traveling from Seattle to Los Angeles with 183 passengers got stranded in the snowy mountains of Oregon for at least 36 hours, putting a strain on passengers as food, patience and even diapers ran short.

The train came to stop after crew members spotted trees on the tracks. Railroad officials decided to keep the passengers onboard instead of letting them scatter in a town of 3,200 people that was dealing with its own problems — a blackout, snow and debris-covered roads.

“This is hell and it’s getting worse,” Rebekah Dodson posted on Facebook along with a photo of other passengers smiling into the camera after they had been stuck for 30 hours.

The Coast Starlight train came to a halt about 6:20 p.m. Sunday outside Oakridge, 1,200 feet (366 meters) high in the Cascade Range as a snowstorm descended on the region.

The train had electricity, heat and food. Passengers were able to communicate with the outside world. Some took the long unscheduled stop with a sense of humor.

Amtrak Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Scot Naparstek said the railroad regrets the extended delay “due to extreme weather issues.”

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RALEIGH, N.C. — The Republican candidate whose apparent victory in a North Carolina congressional race was thrown out because of suspicions of ballot fraud announced Tuesday he will not run in the newly ordered do-over election, saying he needs surgery late next month.

In a statement, Mark Harris said he’s skipping the upcoming re-do election in North Carolina’s 9th congressional district for health reasons. He did not mention the alleged ballot fraud scandal.

Harris led Democrat Dan McCready by just 905 votes after November’s election, but the outcome was never certified. State election officials grew concerned about reports that an operative working for Harris was illegally tampering with absentee ballots.

Harris last week stopped a state elections board hearing into ballot fraud by declaring he couldn’t continue to testify. He cited health problems caused by a blood infection that required hospitalization and led to two strokes. He also said he agreed that a new election should be called.

The elections board ordered a new contest after evidence that a Harris operative may have illegally collected mail-in ballots.

A date for the new election has not been announced.

On Tuesday, Harris encouraged his supporters to rally around Stony Rushing, a commissioner in Union County. The local official from the Charlotte suburbs would “stand firm on so many of the issues that concern us, including the issue of life, our national security, and religious freedom,” Harris said.

Rushing, a firing range owner and licensed gun seller, has been a county commissioner off and on for more than eight years, first taking office in 2002. He didn’t return a phone call to his shooting range seeking comment on Tuesday.

Only one other GOP candidate — former state Sen. Tommy Tucker of Union County — has publicly expressed interest in running for the seat. Former Gov. Pat McCrory said Monday he wouldn’t seek the seat.

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is also home to the Alaska Job Center Network and a Home Gallery lighting and furniture store. The job center appeared open, while other businesses in the mall were closed, including a state office of Public Advocacy for F. Jon Iannaccone, which had a note taped on the door saying the office was closed due to structural damage.

The clinic hopes to be open again on Thursday, whether in their current office or in a new location.

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about two weeks to become effective, meaning that if someone has unknowingly contracted the virus before receiving the shot or within those first two weeks they are still at risk of infection.

Felts also said that the vaccine uses a dead strain of the virus, meaning there is no risk of the shot directly infecting someone with a weaker immune system.

The shot is safe for anyone over six months of age and is the best way to prevent the virus from spread-

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Empire reporter Mollie Barnes: You said that Alaska’s open for business.

Do you have anything to say to business owners who are maybe scared of the ferry system closing down who rely on this?

Dunleavy: Once we get our structural deficit deficit dealt with, our $1.6 billion deficit dealt with, then we’ll have fiscal certainty moving forward. When we have that fiscal certainty moving forward, I’ve been told by many businesses that investment that’s been sitting on the sideline will start to come into Alaska — large amounts I’ve been told. What businesses are concerned about now, investors are concerned about now, is if we don’t get our fiscal house in order, we’re going to impose a predatory tax on these businesses, existing businesses and new businesses. So the biggest issue facing us right now is this gap, how we’re going to deal with it, and do we eliminate it moving forward. But the businesses I’ve talked to said, barring that, they’re hesitant to invest in the state of Alaska.

Barnes: I don’t know if you heard anything about the Senate Finance meeting this morning, but earlier today David Teal speculated that maybe your budget was a way to create chaos and force the Legislature to make the hard decisions and have this conversation about what is really worth it. Was that your intention?

Dunleavy: The first part, chaos — that wasn’t the intent that was to sow chaos, but certainly the budget is

“So this Thursday, hopefully, we’ll start appointments again, but there are some things to take care of to make sure things are correct and safe,” Hudson said.

Hudson said administration staff was relocated to the Kenai National Guard, where they continue to work with patients.

Veterans in need of service can visit the office in Homer, or work with the clinic to receive local primary care. In case of an emergency, veterans should call 911, and contact integrated care at 907-257-6904 within 72 hours.

Hudson said there has been no break in service.

ing, according to Felts and Marsters. Beyond that, they said that the best ways to stop the flu in its tracks are frequent handwashing and staying home from work or school when sick.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the flu virus killed about 80,000 Americans over the course of the 2017-2018 season. In less severe cases, symptoms often include headaches, fatigue, fever and chills.

Felts said that Alaskans still have a few months of flu season remaining and should take every precaution to keep their families healthy.

a conversation to have with the people of Alaska and the Legislature as to what we value, what we want to fund, what we can fund and how we fund it. This was a budget that was a balanced budget. We proposed a balanced budget. And part of that balancing act is the reductions of $1.6 billion. There are those that will propose we use the PFD, there will be those that propose we use taxes. I just think that causes more problems moving forward. Alaska with 730,000 people, high unemployment rate, lack of investment in the state of Alaska, I think if we start going down the road of taxing or taking money out of the pockets of Alaskans, we’ll see more of an exodus out of the state.

New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California, Connecticut — there was a report this morning that says that’s exactly what’s happening in those states. There’s an exodus of individuals that are part of the tax base that make money, and they are leaving those states, net outmigration. We can’t afford that in Alaska, we’re already a high cost state. If we start taking more money out of the pockets of Alaskans, it’s going to force more people to decide if they want to stay or go, and I believe that more and more people will leave.

We just went through a period of four years of spending an excess of $2 billion a year out of the CBR roughly, actually it was more than that. And yet, we’re still in a recession, and we still have individuals leaving the state of Alaska. We’ve got to get our fiscal house in order.

We’ve got to get the structural deficit taken care of, and we have to do it sooner than later.

Baird: Going back to

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Court reports The following judgments were recently handed down in Kenai District Court: n Randall Scott Cronce, 45, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance, committed Apr. 28. He was fined a $50 court surcharge, ordered not to consume or buy controlled substances for 12 months, unless with a prescription and taken as prescribed only for 12 months, ordered to complete a substance/alcohol abuse assessment and follow all recommendations, forfeited items seized, and placed on probation for 12 months.

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revenue for the state, so one of the things you’ve called your budget proposal is “predictable” and “sustainable,” and it heavily relies upon oil and gas revenue.

Oil, we’ve already seen the fluctuations of per barrel oil price. Do you think it’s as predictable, do you think this budget formula that you’re working with is as predictable as you’ve sold it to Alaskans?

Dunleavy: If we close the $1.6 billion gap, and our expenditures and revenues meet, that’s a predictable budget. If we allow the people of Alaska to vote on the constitutional amendments that hem us in through an appropriation and savings limit as to the growth of this budget, that will help with predictability. If we allow the people of Alaska to decide if they want their PFD taken or any changes in the permanent fund, that will help with predictability.

Another one of the amendments was if we contemplate a tax, do we ask the people of Alaska if they agree with that tax? That will help with predictability. You know the question is, what happens if oil goes to $5 a barrel, then that blows a hole through almost any program. And that’s a hypothetical, and we’d have to deal with that when that occurs. But I can tell you now, if we don’t reduce our spending, what is predictable is we’re going to spend down our CBR, constitutional budget reserve, that has $2 billion dollars left in it, we’ll spend that down in a little more than a year. If we don’t reduce our spending after that, we’ll go into the earnings reserve, and we’ll start to spend that down. That’s predictable.

But that’s something that’s predictable that I hope we don’t want to have happen.

So by reducing our expenditures, we get in line with revenues at $64 a barrel.

If oil drops after that we’ll have to have that discussion on how we’re going to deal

35, of Anchorage, pleaded guilty to two counts of seconddegree indecent exposure, committed Aug. 4. On the first count, he was sentenced to 10 days in jail with five days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered not consume or buy alcohol for 12 months, ordered to complete a substance/alcohol abuse assessment and follow all recommendations, ordered to have no contact with any victims in this case, and placed on probation for 12 months. On the second count, he was sentenced to 10 days in jail with five days suspended, ordered not to consume or buy alcohol for 12 months, ordered to complete a substance/alcohol abuse assessment and follow all recommendations, ordered to have no contact with any victims in this case, and placed on probation for 12 months. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Devin Jay Jas, 21, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal trespass, committed July 14. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to pay restitution, forfeited items seized, ordered to have no contact with victim, and placed on probation for 12 months. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Devin Jas, 21, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to fourthdegree misconduct involving a controlled substance, committed Sept. 25. He was

fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered not to consume or buy controlled substances, ordered to complete a substance/alcohol abuse assessment and follow all recommendations, forfeited items seized, and placed on probation for 12 months.

Devin Jas, 21, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to violating condition of release, committed Nov. 19. He was fined $150, a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended. n Jarryl Edward Judice, 55, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of second-degree harassment, committed Mar. 14. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete a substance/alcohol abuse assessment and follow all recommendations, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Klayton Nolan George Justice, 21, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to violating condition of release, a domestic violence offense committed July 6. He was sentenced to five days in jail and fined a $50 court surcharge and a $50 jail surcharge. n Klayton Justice, 21, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to violating condition of release, committed Oct. 7. He was sentenced to five days in jail and fined a $50 court surcharge and a $50 jail surcharge. n Michael Wayne Lacy, 51, of Anchorage, pleaded

guilty to driving under the influence, committed Aug. 11.

He was sentenced to 120 days in jail with all but time served suspended, fined $6,000 with $3,000 suspended, a $75 court surcharge, a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and $1,467 cost of imprisonment, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Abuse Program treatment, had his license revoked for one year, ordered to pay restitution, forfeited drugs and paraphernalia, ordered to have no contact with victim, and placed on probation for two years.

All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Tyler Craig Lewis, 32, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of thirddegree theft, committed Oct. 26. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 170 days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete a substance/alcohol abuse assessment and follow all recommendations, ordered to pay restitution, forfeited items seized, ordered to have only conditional contact with victim, and was placed on probation for 12 months. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Tyler Craig Lewis, 32, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to false information or report, committed Oct. 26. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and placed on probation for 12 months.

with it.

Baird: While we’re on this topic, do you plan on introducing any more budget related bills?

Dunleavy: We do, we’re working on that. As we start to roll them out, we’ll let you folks know.

Barnes: So is it predictable in the sense that, if oil prices do go down next year, that then your plan would be to just cut again. Or is there going to be any sort of minimum point?

Dunleavy: We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. Again, we’re dealing with a hypothetical, we have to see what that is. We’d have to cross that bridge when we come to it.

Baird: Yesterday, Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, sent out a press release about a legal opinion he’d got concerning some language giving OMB power to transfer funds across appropriations. I reached out to your press secretary for a comment on that. So here we are, and I was curious what your thought process behind that was.

Dunleavy: I’m not sure of the question.

Baird: So Bill Wielechowski sent out a press release yesterday that he’d gotten a legal opinion regarding some language in the budget bill that under each department it says something to the effect of the OMB would have the ability to move funds around within the department, and he called it a power grab. I talked to Senator Bert Stedman and he said he wasn’t worried about it. I was just kind of curious if you knew why that language was in there, and kind of what the thought process was.

Dunleavy: We’ve got two folks over here that can answer that.

Office of Budget and Management Policy Director Mike Barnhill: So there’s precedent for this.

The most recent precedence … we call it rolling up the

budget. The university’s budget, so it used to have several appropriations and now it’s rolled up, or at least last year it was rolled up, into one appropriation.

And the idea, the budget rationale behind rolling up a budget is to give the department, or in this case the university, more budgeting flexibility to move money across component lines.

And that’s the reason why the university proposed it.

And that’s the reason why the OMB proposed that for all departments, so in times where we’re reducing the amount of revenues available for all departments, we’re giving them enhanced flexibility, so they can meet those challenges that are posed in the current budget environment. In terms of the legality of it, the Department of Law has looked at this. Attorney General may want to comment.

Attorney General Designee Kevin Clarkson: The Legislature fully has the power to delegate that authority if they so choose.

And that’s the point of the appropriation bill, the Legislature would have to pass it. If they delegate that authority to the executive branch, they can do that.

Barnes: Earlier today, also, David Teal said that your proposals to repeal the oil/gas property taxes and some of the fish business taxes would simply be shifting the burden from the state to local municipalities and other governments. Do you think it was misleading to say that there would be no tax hikes?

Dunleavy: When I ran for office?

Barnes: Yes. Dunleavy: No I don’t think it was misleading.

Again, we have no intention of imposing taxes at the state level on Alaskans.

Local municipalities are going to have to decide, as we are right now. They’re going to have to have the same conversation, what is important to them, what are the programs and services that they wish to fund and how do they wish to fund them? That’s their decision at the local level. So no, I don’t think it was misleading at all. We’re sticking with our campaign promises to deal with this fiscal issue.

Baird: Switching over to some crime-related stuff, there’s a national shortage of police officers. Departments all over the country are having trouble filling positions. I was curious with the public safety initiatives if your administra-

tion was taking an approach to maybe attract more law enforcement officers to this state.

Dunleavy: That was one of our campaign promises, as well, that we’re going to improve the public safety outcomes for Alaskans. We understand that that means we will be putting more money into public safety, which we are. We’re in conversations with the corrections officers’ associations, as well as the Troopers and others, on how do we recruit and retain individuals to be part of this public safety approach, Troopers, corrections officers and others. So we’re having those conversations, and we’re fully prepared to put more resources into that, because we need to.

Baird: Does that mean higher salary compensation packages for State Troopers or?

Dunleavy: There’s all kinds of possibilities.

Governor Spokesman Matt Shuckerow: And we can get you the specifics.

Barnes: Switching topics a little bit, proposing to eliminate the Marijuana Control Board, how do you see that functioning then under the Department of Commerce, the regulation of that industry?

Dunleavy: I’m hoping that it streamlines the process, and that decisions can be made quicker for that industry. That’s the hope.

Barnes: Can you elaborate on that? What types of decisions and who would be involved with that?

Dunleavy: The commissioners, the commissioner that’s overseeing that department. Again, we’re trying to streamline government across the board, and this is one approach that we’re hoping helps streamline the process so that any regulations that come out, come out in a manner that’s going to support any of these industries or all of these industries.

Shuckerow: In addition, there’s legislation forthcoming, so some of those details will be contained in the bill. Other states regulate marijuana at an agency level. Colorado does it. There is a rule making process that things would follow. So I’m happy to send you information on that, as well.

Barnes: OK, thank you.

Baird: How soon might we expect more crime bills to come forth?

Dunleavy: General?

Clarkson: I think you’ve got the package.

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About the cure for the cough and cold Bob and I have suffered from head colds, sinus congestion and coughing. Bob especially has had trouble with the cough. Boiling water and Fisherman’s cough drops have helped. Lots and lots of Powerade, Gatorade, grape juice and orange juice— vitamin C, hot tea with honey helped. Plus aspirin — or such medications.

This morning as I was trying to come up with a theme for this article, Susan suggested all the old remedies that kept the cold and flu at bay! She also suggested I get an expectorant syrup for Bob’s cough. Good idea.

Bob’s mom smeared his chest and throat with Vic’s. She pinned his dad’s wool sock around his neck. (Our Mom did this too!) Tea with honey and lemon. And at times a bowl full of boiling water with Vic’s floating in it, seated at the table with his head over the bowl with a towel draped over his head and around the bowl. We also did that out our house.

Grandpa Cogswell went back another generation for cures. Honey in hot water or tea, lemon juice and a few drops of kerosene. YUP. It was so nasty that you swore up and down you were NOT sick! Sometimes he would find his old bottle of whiskey hidden in the coat closet and we would get that in some hot water, with honey stirred in.

Grandma would rub our chest and back with Vic’s: wrap Grandpa’s old scratchy woolen sock around our neck, pin it with a large safety pin.

And if you were really sick, she would warm an old towel and put it under your shirt after she plastered your back with Vic’s. Lemon and honey in tea was good to drink from her.

Oh by the way — if you had a splinter, a cut or a large bruise — they both rubbed kerosene on it. YUP, we smelled so good! Kerosene, Vic’s and whiskey!!

Mom fixed us up with the Vic’s, and we got the more modern remedies — horrible tasting cough syrup (that terrible tasting cherry flavor) and baby aspirin that was orangeflavored. We got tea and honey — orange juice also. And we got Jell-O of every flavor to eat. Maybe that is why I do not care for Jell-O! Her homemade chicken noodle soup was always good! But if you were real sick you got the scratchy wool sock of Dad’s pinned around your neck and you had to spend all day in bed. If you were well enough to get up and play, you were well enough to go to school. Very simple remedy! I stayed in bed a lot!

Nowadays we have the doctor’s cure for everything and prescriptions for some pretty expensive medications. I am not sure of the cure but it sure rattles the pocketbook. Have you checked the over-thecounter medications this year? OH MY Goodness!

When the kids were little, my doctor told me once — Vic’s don’t work — just smells bad! Well, it does work, I am living proof, I use it almost every day!

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A pasta dish that’ll have your family asking for seconds

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There is something magical about this recipe, which coaxes the ultimate flavour out of just a few humble supermarket ingredients, turning them into a rich-tasting and well-balanced pasta dish that will have your family reaching for seconds.

After browning the sausage, we sauteed a hefty amount of sliced onions, along with sliced fennel, which added texture and flavour to the dish. And while it may seem like a mistake to add an entire can of tomato paste and no other tomato product to make the sauce, the concentrated, bold flavour of the tomato paste intensified during cooking and added rich notes to the dish.

To pull everything together, we added 2 cups of boiling water, simmering the mixture until thick.

Sharp Pecorino cheese, added to the sausage-onion mixture, enriched the sauce by giving it a salty bite.

Chopped fennel fronds added pleasant anise notes upon serving.

ZITI WITH FENNEL AND ITALIAN SAUSAGE Servings: 4-6 Start to finish: 30 minutes 1 pound sweet or hot Italian sausage, casings removed 2 onions, halved and sliced thin 1 fennel bulb, fronds

This undated photo provided by America’s Test Kitchen shows Ziti with Fennel and Italian Sausage in Brookline, Mass. (Daniel J. van Ackere/America’s Test Kitchen via AP)

chopped, stalks discarded, bulb halved, cored, and sliced into 1/2-inch pieces 1 (6-ounce) can tomato paste 1 pound ziti Salt and pepper 1 ounce Pecorino Romano cheese, grated (1/2 cup), plus extra for serving Bring 4 quarts water to boil in large pot for pasta.

Cook sausage in Dutch oven over medium-high

heat, breaking up meat with wooden spoon, until no longer pink, about 4 minutes. Stir in onions and fennel, cover, and cook until softened, about 5 minutes.

Uncover, reduce heat to medium, and continue to cook until vegetables are golden, 10 to 12 minutes.

Add tomato paste and cook until darkened, about 3 minutes. Stir in 2 cups boiling pasta water and sim-

mer until thickened, about 5 minutes.

Meanwhile, add pasta and 1 tablespoon salt to boiling water and cook, stirring often, until al dente.

Reserve 1 1/2 cups cooking water, then drain pasta and return it to pot. Add sausage mixture, Pecorino, and 1 cup reserved cooking water and toss to combine. Season with salt and pepper to taste and add remaining cooking

water as needed to adjust consistency. Sprinkle individual portions with fennel fronds and extra Pecorino before serving.

——— Nutrition information per serving: 550 calories 187 calories from fat 21 g fat ( g saturated 7 g trans fats) 48 mg cholesterol 929 mg sodium 68 g carbohydrate 6 g fiber 9 g sugar 21 g protein.

A silky-smooth soup with a big dose of healthy greens We were happy with the soup’s depth of flavour, but it was watery and too thin.

Many pureed soups call for excessive amounts of cream to create a velvety consistency.

Instead, we used Arborio rice: The rice’s high starch content thickened our soup perfectly and without dulling the bright flavours of the greens. And rather than adding dairy richness by the cupful, we drizzled each bowl with just a tablespoon or two of yogurt enlivened with lemon and tarragon.

SUPER GREENS SOUP This undated photo provided by America’s Test Kitchen shows Super Greens Soup in Brookline, Mass. (Joe Keller/America’s Test Kitchen via AP)

By America’s Test Kitchen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

When considering uses for sturdy greens like kale and Swiss chard, a smooth pureed soup may not immediately come to mind.

But we had high hopes for a silky-smooth soup that delivered a big dose of healthy greens packed with essential nutrients.

First, we built a flavourful foundation of sweet caramelized onions and earthy sauteed mushrooms.

We added broth, water and lots of leafy greens (we liked a mix of chard, kale, arugula, and parsley, each with unique nutritional qualities), and simmered the greens until tender before blending them until smooth.

Servings: 6 Start to finish: 1 hour, 20 minutes 1/2 cup organic plain lowfat yogurt 2 tablespoons plus 1/2 teaspoon cold-pressed extravirgin olive oil 1/2 teaspoon minced fresh tarragon 1/4 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest plus 1/2 teaspoon juice Salt and pepper 1 onion, halved through root end and sliced thin 3/4 teaspoon light brown

sugar 3 ounces white mushrooms, trimmed and sliced thin 2 garlic cloves, minced Pinch cayenne pepper 3 cups water 3 cups homemade or lowsodium chicken or vegetable broth 1/3 cup Arborio rice 12 ounces Swiss chard, stemmed and chopped coarse 9 ounces kale, stemmed and chopped coarse 1/4 cup fresh parsley leaves 2 ounces (2 cups) baby arugula Combine yogurt, 1/2 teaspoon oil, tarragon, and lemon zest and juice in bowl.

Season with salt and pepper to taste, cover, and refrigerate until ready to serve.

Heat remaining 2 tablespoons oil in Dutch oven over medium-high heat until shimmering. Stir in onion, sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon salt and cook, stirring occasionally, until onion releases some moisture, about 5 minutes.

Reduce heat to low and cook, stirring often and scraping up any browned bits, until onion is deeply browned and slightly sticky, about 30 minutes. (If onion is sizzling or

scorching, reduce heat. If onion is not browning after 15 to 20 minutes, increase heat.)

Stir in mushrooms and cook until they have released their moisture, about 5 minutes. Stir in garlic and cayenne and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Stir in water, broth, and rice, scraping up any browned bits, and bring to boil. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer for 15 minutes.

Stir in chard, kale, and parsley, 1 handful at a time, until wilted and submerged in liquid. Return to simmer, cover, and cook until greens are tender, about 10 minutes.

Off heat, stir in arugula until wilted. Working in batches, process soup in blender until smooth, about 1 minute. Return pureed soup to clean pot and season with salt and pepper to taste.

Drizzle individual portions with lemon-tarragon yogurt, and serve.

——— Nutrition information per serving: 152 calories 52 calories from fat 6 g fat (1 g saturated 0 g trans fats) 0 mg cholesterol 388 mg sodium 20 g carbohydrate 3 g fiber 5 g sugar 7 g protein.

Try a meatless chili that treats tempeh like ground meat

By America’s Test Kitchen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

There are countless ways to make a meatless chili, and for a diabetic-friendly version we turned to tempeh as our starting point.

Tempeh, which is made from cooked and fermented soybeans, is high in protein, vitamins, and minerals, but low in sodium and carbs. We treated it like ground meat, crumbling it and cooking it in a little oil until browned, then building a flavourful base for our chili.

A hefty tablespoon of cumin seeds added a bold flavour backbone while traditional aromatics rounded out the classic chili flavour profile. A chopped bell pepper and a couple of cut-up carrots added texture and a subtle sweetness that paired well with the tempeh.

To give our chili a burst of freshness and colour, we

added zucchini and frozen corn at the end along with the cooked tempeh. We prefer 5-grain tempeh in this chili, but any type of tempeh will work well.

VEGETARIAN CHILI Servings: 6 Start to finish: 1 hour, 15 minutes 4 teaspoons canola oil 1 (8 ounce) package 5 grain tempeh, crumbled into 1/4 inch pieces 1 tablespoon cumin seeds 2 carrots, peeled and cut into 1/2 inch pieces 1 onion, chopped fine 1 red bell pepper, stemmed, seeded, and cut into 1/2 inch pieces 9 garlic cloves, minced 2 tablespoons chili powder 1 teaspoon minced canned chipotle chile in adobo sauce Salt and pepper 3 cups water 1 (28 ounce) can no-salt-

added crushed tomatoes 1 (15 ounce) can no-saltadded kidney beans, rinsed 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 cup frozen corn 1 zucchini, halved lengthwise, seeded, and cut into 1/2 inch pieces 1/2 cup minced fresh cilantro Lime wedges Heat 1 teaspoon oil in Dutch oven over mediumhigh heat until shimmering.

Add tempeh and cook until browned, about 5 minutes transfer to plate and set aside.

Add cumin seeds to nowempty pot and cook over medium heat, stirring often, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in remaining 1 tablespoon oil, carrots, onion, bell pepper, garlic, chili powder, chipotle, and 1/4 teaspoon salt and cook until vegetables are softened, 8 to 10 minutes.

Stir in water, tomatoes, beans, and oregano, scraping up any browned bits.

This undated photo provided by America’s Test Kitchen shows Vegetarian Chili in Brookline, Mass. (Joe Keller/ America’s Test Kitchen via AP)

Bring to simmer and cook until chili is slightly thickened, about 45 minutes.

Stir in corn, zucchini, and tempeh and cook until zucchini is tender, 5 to 10 minutes. Stir in cilantro and season with pepper to taste.

Serve with lime wedges.

——— Nutrition information per serving: 295 calories 80 calories from fat 9 g fat (1 g saturated 0 g trans fats) 0 mg cholesterol 714 mg sodium 42 g carbohydrate 11 g fiber 11 g sugar 17 g protein.

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. . . Annie

extract of honey and olive oil.

Continued from page A7 THEN you add one washed egg.

Drop it unbroken in the jar. Then 24 hours later the egg shell was dissolved and then you remove the tough inside skin and the whole egg. (MY question is — why not just drop the broken shell in the jar??)

The remedy goes on — stir and warm well enough. Bottle it. Keep in cool place.

Dose: A teaspoonful frequently! Are you confused — I had to re read this!

The cure for pneumonia is worse: “Six to 10 onions, chopped fine. Put in skillet over hot fire. Add equal amounts of rye meal and vinegar to make a thick paste.

Stir into onions and let simmer 5-10 minutes. Put in cotton bag large enough to cover the lungs and apply to the chest as hot as the patient can bear. When this gets cool, heat and reapply and continue reheating the poultices, and in a few hours the patient will be out of danger. This remedy has never failed in this too-often fatal malady. Unusually four application will do, but be sure and continue until perspiration starts freely.”

I think I would prefer the Vic’s smell or even the kerosene smell and yes, the Whiskey smell, over the reheated fried onion smell heated over and over. YOU just HAD to get well!

I am grateful for modern medicines. I am grateful for the over-the-counter medications, and also grateful for the remedies of my ancestors. I still boil water, or use a steamer. I use Vic’s and rely on cough drops, tea, lemon and honey. And orange juice and fortified vitamin C. We are feeling better; I am a day or two ahead of Bob. We have eaten our share of soup out of a can. I also have made a LOT of soup. I am about ready for a good piece or fried chicken or a taco!!

The disclaimer of home remedies says: “Cure what ails ya — people did the best they could. However, we make no claims as to their effectiveness and suggest you seek a doctor’s advice. Please do not try this at home!”

I have lots of home remedy books, and most of them say hydration — especially in young children — is the very best remedy like tea, hot broth, soups and lots of water. Of course that applies today!

Enjoy the sunshine and go for a walk. I am going to do just that today!

GRANNIE ANNIE’S CHILI This is the closest I have ever come to the way my Mom’s chili tasted. She used Brick Chili con-carne that she bought from Steels Grocery store. I do not see it on the market these days, but it may as well be around.

Brown: 1 1/2 pounds of lean hamburger 1 onion chopped 1 jalapeno diced, optional Stir in: 1 tablespoon chili powder 1/2 tablespoon garlic powder 1/2 tablespoon ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon each of garlic salt and pepper When hamburger is done (drain if too much fat) Add: 1 can diced tomatoes 1 can Nally’s Hot Chili with beans 1 can Bush’s Chili Beans with pinto beans Simmer an hour.

So good and so fast. Of course it gets better with age.

You can put this in your slow cooker, but it is done so fast why dirty another pot!

I plan on doubling this and freezing it in portions for later use.

HOT GERMAN POTATO SALAD This is a 1930s version.* 3 slices bacon, diced and fried slowly until crisp and brown Beat in bowl: 1 egg

By America’s Test Kitchen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Roasting might just be the best way to cook vegetables. Roasting is a fancy term for cooking food in a hot oven. The intense heat causes excess moisture to evaporate, leaving a crispy, browned exterior. And all that browning makes food taste better.

Roasting is a great way to cook cauliflower, winter squash, carrots, and Brussels sprouts. Cut veggies into bite-sized pieces, toss with olive oil, and then spread out on a rimmed baking sheet. When veggies are lightly browned, they are ready to enjoy.

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CHINESE CHICKEN SALAD 2 cups cooked shredded chicken or turkey 1/2 head of iceberg lettuce or cabbage, thinly shredded 1/2 red bell pepper, thinly sliced 1/4 cup red onion, thinly sliced OR green onion sliced 1/2 package of fried chow mien noodles — about 2 cups 1/4 cup shitake mushrooms, soaked in warm water until soft. Drain and slice thin.

OR regular mushrooms, sliced thin 2 tablespoons sesame seeds DRESSING: 1/4 cup natural rice wine vinegar 1/4 cup vegetable or corn oil 2 tablespoons sesame oil 2 tablespoons soy sauce 2 tablespoons sugar 1/4 teaspoon each of salt and pepper Combine all ingredients and mix well.

Toss salad ingredients with dressing just before serving.

PEANUT BUTTER BARS THIS IS FOR Pam Martinez — she likes peanut butter anything.

Makes 2 dozen.

Set oven at 350 degrees Prepare a 9 x 13 baking dish with nonstick spray.

Stir in a small bowl: 1 1/2 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt Beat in mixer bowl: 1 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup white sugar 1/2 cup room temp butter 1/4 cup peanut butter Mix until smooth and creamy Add: 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla Stir in flour until well blended Add 1/2 cup unsalted peanuts (you can use salted — just omit the salt in the recipe) Pour batter in pan. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.

Cool in pan and frost.

1/4 cup chocolate chips 1/2 teaspoon butter 1/2 teaspoon peanut butter Melt in microwave just one minute. Stir and drizzle over cooled bars.

Enjoy Pam!!

How to roast broccoli florets and get them crispy browned

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2 TB. Unsalted butter 3 TB. Olive Oil 1- 4LB. Bottom round roast Salt to taste Freshly ground pepper to taste

1/2 teaspoon each: salt and sugar 1/8 teaspoon dry mustard 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar Pour slowly into bacon fat, stirring constantly until smooth and thick.

Pour hot dressing over 2 cups hot potatoes, Mix quickly.

Add 2 hard-cooked, diced boiled eggs 1 small onion chopped fine Stir in and serve immediately warm.

It is not as good cold but still tasty. *Have everything ready — the boiled potatoes and eggs. Mix the dressing in bowl.

1/2 cup Laird’s Applejack Brandy 2 Cups beef stock 3 cups Chianti or other full bodied red wine

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Heat the butter and oil in a Dutch oven over medium high heat. Rub the roast all over with salt and pepper. Brown the beef on all sides in the hot butter and oil.

It should take about 10 minutes. Pour Applejack into pan, warm it and ignite.

When the flame dies, pour in the stock and 1/2 cup of wine. Cover the pan and simmer over low heat for about 3 hours, adding more wine so there is always about one cup of liquid in the pan.

Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature. Remove beef and shred into small pieces, following the grain.

Return shredded beef to liquid in the pan. Heat until warmed through. Serve as is, sprinkled with parsley on toast, or as a base for a cheesesteak sandwich.

6-8 servings

cial paper that has been treated so it can go in the oven without burning (called parchment paper) is a good idea when baking anything that might stick—everything from cookies to roasted vegetables. The paper also makes cleanup a snap.

When the baking sheet is cool, just remove the parchment and throw it in the trash. In a pinch, you can use foil in place of parchment (it’s better than nothing), but waxed paper is not designed to go into the oven and is not an option. Follow this recipe with your kids.

ROASTED BROCCOLI Servings: 4 Start to finish: 35 minutes Prepare Ingredients: 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil 1/4 teaspoon salt Pinch pepper 6 cups broccoli florets, large florets cut in half 1 lemon, cut into wedges Gather Cooking Equipment: Rimmed baking sheet

Parchment paper Large bowl Whisk Oven mitts Cooling rack Spatula Serving dish Start Cooking!

Adjust oven rack to lowest position and heat oven to 450 F. Line rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.

In large bowl, whisk together oil, salt, and pepper. Add broccoli to bowl and use your hands to toss until broccoli is evenly coated with oil mixture.

Transfer broccoli to baking sheet. Arrange broccoli in single layer, placing flat sides down when possible.

Place baking sheet in oven and roast broccoli until lightly browned, about 10 minutes.

Use oven mitts to remove baking sheet from oven (ask an adult for help) and place on cooling rack. Use spatula to transfer broccoli to serving dish. Serve broccoli with lemon wedges.

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Sports

Several girls hoops teams protest dominance of ACS

By MEGAN PACER Homer News

Several high school girls basketball programs in the Southcentral Conference are protesting games that were scheduled against a private school in Anchorage,

saying the disparity between them and the rest of the conference is not fair to players.

Chad Felice, Homer High School girls head coach, said Anchorage Christian Schools has dominated the league for the five years that he’s been in his posi-

tion, but that the conversation surrounding equity in the sport is an old one.

To protest the perceived lack of parity, the girls basketball program at Joe Redington High School recently canceled a game it was scheduled to play against

ACS. Then the girls program at Houston High School followed suit. The Homer girls team canceled its Feb. 23 game with ACS, and the Seward girls team, as of last Friday, is set to play ACS under protest this coming weekend.

Felice and assistant coach Wen-

dy Todd said the issue comes down to the fact that private schools like ACS have access to more resources than public schools, both financially and in where their students (and players) can come from.

Public schools, like West, See ACS, page A10

Stars sweep again Kards fall in nonconference affairs

By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

The Soldotna basketball teams broke out the brooms against Kenai Central for a second time in three days Tuesday with a pair of nonconference victories at Soldotna High School.

The SoHi girls defeated Kenai Central 44-28, then were followed by a 51-34 SoHi boys victory over the Kardinals. Both Stars teams had pulled off wins Saturday at KCHS. Having already wrapped up their Northern Lights Conference regular season schedule, the Class 4A Stars end the regular season with four straight matchups against Class 3A competition — two against Kenai and one each against Nikiski and Homer — but that doesn’t mean SoHi can skate through to the end.

“They’re not easy,” said boys head coach Nolan Rose.

“The idea that 3A teams are country bumpkins doesn’t work.”

In the girls game, SoHi junior Ituau Tuisaula commanded the court with a game-high 18 points and played a big role during a pivotal third-quarter stretch that ultimately helped seal Kenai’s fate.

The win pushed SoHi to its sixth straight win and a 22-2

overall record, while Kenai dropped to 15-9 overall. The SoHi boys moved to 13-9 and Kenai went to 12-11.

Leading 21-13 at halftime, the SoHi girls burst out of the gates in the second half as Tuisaula pumped in three unanswered baskets from the post to give the Stars a 28-15 advantage, but to hear Tuisaula tell it, the night could’ve had more fireworks.

“We know we can do a lot better,” Tuisaula said. “I was getting a little frustrated there, a little out of control. I try not to do it out of frustration.”

Tuisaula’s frustration came from missed shots she took that led to empty possessions, but SoHi head coach Kyle McFall said the defensive pressure by the team more than made up for it.

“If teams single-cover (Tuisaula), she’s going to score on them,” he said. “We had really good moments in the game, but Kenai will throw you off your game, and at times we still had too many turnovers.”

Kenai was led by senior Jaycie Calvert, who scored all 12 of her points on the 3-ball.

The Kardinals struggled, however, to get production from their usual suspects, as senior guard Hayley Maw finished with three points and Brooke Satathite managed just one field goal for four

points.

“SoHi just offensively challenged us today,” said Kenai head coach Cary Calvert.

“They gave us so many different looks. They’re so wellcoached, and we couldn’t get into a rhythm.”

Maw and Calvert helped make up lost ground after a slow start for Kenai, which trailed 7-0 early. SoHi’s Brittani Blossom and Tuisuala combined for 15 of Soldotna’s 21 first-half points as the Stars were able to break Kenai’s press, particularly in transition. Blossom ended up with 15 points.

Tuisuala’s eight points in the third quarter played a big role as the Stars outscored the Kards 15-7 to take a 3620 lead into the fourth. In the final quarter, Blossom connected on two 3-pointers in one minute to pad the lead and ice the win.

Jersey Truesdell once again led the SoHi boys to a win over Kenai, this time doing it with 24 points. Saturday, Truesdell posted 29 against Kenai with five 3s.

Tuesday became Truesday as the SoHi junior sunk four 3s and had nine points during a crucial stretch in the third and fourth quarters when the Stars outscored Kenai 18-5.

“Our defense executed well in the second half,” Rose said. “We were phenomenal See RIVAL, page A10

Soldotna’s David Michael puts a block on Kenai’s Connor Felchle on Tuesday at Soldotna High School. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

Peninsula Conference coaches expect wild ride Class 1A tournament at Cook Inlet Academy shaping up to feature a lot of parity

By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

When contacted for a season preview, Peninsula Conference coaches expected a fierce battle for the two girls and two boys state berths come tournament time.

With the conference tournament set to run today through Saturday at Cook Inlet Academy in Soldotna, witnessing a regular season has not changed those coaches’ minds.

On the boys side, Nikolaevsk enters with the top seed at 11-1. The Warriors have gone to state five straight seasons, courtesy of a runner-up finish each time. Steve Klaich, in his 30th season leading the team, is not resting easy.

“We’re in a tough conference with a lot of competitive teams,” Klaich said. “We had all our games against conference competition be very close games.”

On the girls side, Nikolaevsk took the top seed at 7-1. The Warriors, who have won four conference titles in six years, had a string of six straight state trips snapped last season.

Nikolaevsk looked ready to roll to state again — until Friday. That’s when a Warriors team that had blown out conference competition all season lost 31-27 to Cook Inlet Academy at Nikolaevsk. The Warriors had defeated the Eagles 5225 on Dec. 14 at Cook Inlet Academy.

“I won’t say I was surprised because I knew CIA had a lot of athletic girls with not a lot of experience at the beginning of the year, and I knew they were coming on strong,” said Bea Klaich, in her 13th year at

the helm. “I didn’t expect to lose, though.

“It was a good wakeup call for us.”

Cook Inlet Academy, the No. 2 seed at 5-3, also split its games with No. 3 seed Birchwood and No. 4 seed Lumen Christi. All of a sudden the tournament is looking a lot more interesting.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if there are a few upsets in this tournament,” CIA coach Josh Hawley said.

“Every team has to show up with their A game and bring the intensity or anything is possible.”

The following is a closer look at the boys and girls tournaments: BOYS Steve Klaich said the Warriors have had to come from behind to claim victories against No. 2 seed Lumen Christi, No. 3 seed Ninilchik and No. 4 seed Birchwood Christian.

Birchwood is the defending tournament champion.

Making things even tougher for the No. 1 seed is Zachary Trail and Randy Boquecosa, who were both starters at the beginning of the year, are out due to injury. The Warriors get Wednesday off due to a bye, then face the BirchwoodNanwalek winner at 4 p.m.

Thursday.

Klaich said Nikolaevsk’s biggest struggle right now is consistency, particularly with defensive intensity.

“It’s going to be a team effort,” Klaich said. “I think we have enough talent if they jell as a team and have that competitive fire I’m looking for.”

Nanwalek, the No. 5 seed at 2-10, take on Birchwood (8-4) at 7 p.m. today. Klaich

Peninsula Conference tournament at Cook Inlet Academy GIRLS Wednesday’s games Game 1 — Lumen vs. Ninilchik, 2:30 p.m.

Game 2 — Birchwood vs. CIA, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday’s games Game 3 — Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser, 2:30 p.m.

Game 4 — Game 1 winner vs.

Nikolaevsk, 5:30 p.m.

Friday’s games Game 5 — Game 3 winner vs.

Game 4 loser, 2:30 p.m.

Game 6 (championship) — Game 4 winner vs. Game 2 winner, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games Game 7 (2nd place) — Game 6 loser vs. Game 5 winner, 2:30 p.m.

BOYS

said the Eagles are dangerous because they bring together players from three schools. This means they don’t get as much practice time, but can really blossom once they do get practice and games under their belts.

Friday, Nanwalek just dropped a 56-51 decision at Birchwood.

Eagles coach Kevin Seville, whose lone conference win came against Cook Inlet Academy, said his squad must minimize turnovers, protect the glass and rebound.

“I like our chances and think it will be an exciting tournament,” Seville wrote.

Ninilchik, which finished 8-4 in the league, plays CIA (2-10) at 4 p.m. today. Ninilchik, conference and 1A state champs in 2016 and 2017, beat CIA three times this season, with league losses coming to Nikolaevsk and Lumen Christi. Wolverines coach Dick Hawkins said the last game against the Eagles was close, so nothing can be taken for granted.

“If we get to state, it’s

Wednesday’s games Game 1 — Birchwood vs. Nanwalek, 7 p.m.

Game 2 — Ninilchik vs. CIA, 4 p.m.

Game 3 — Lumen vs. Kodiak ESS, 1 p.m.

Thursday’s games Game 4 — Game 2 loser vs. Game 3 loser, 1 p.m.

Game 5 — Nikolaevsk vs. Game 1 winner, 4 p.m.

Game 6 — Game 2 winner vs.

Game 3 winner, 7 p.m.

Friday’s games Game 7 — Game 4 winner vs.

Game 5 loser, 1 p.m.

Game 8 — Game 6 loser vs. Game 1 loser, 4 p.m.

Game 9 (Championship) — Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner, 6 p.m.

Saturday’s games Game 10 — Game 7 winner vs.

Game 8 winner, noon Game 11 (2nd place) — Game 10 winner vs. Game 9 loser, 4 p.m.

because we played three or four games and 32 minutes each game as a team,” Hawkins said. “We passed well, shot well and handled the ball the way we can.”

Hawkins said playing as a team means leading scorer Garrett Koch doesn’t feel like he must carry the whole load. Big men Jake Clark and Jacob Mumey provide support underneath, while George Nelson can open the floor with his 3-point shooting.

CIA boys coach Ryan McMilin said his team has improved this year, particularly as freshmen Mason Zeigler, who stands 6-foot4, and James Boyd have gained experience. Senior captain Hunter Moos also is providing great leadership.

“They’re figuring out what we want to do as a team and executing it, especially defensively,” McMilin said. “We’re peaking at the right time.”

McMilin said his team won’t be the favorite in many games, but he thinks the Eagles can match up well with any team, except

for Lumen Christi.

The coach said the other two big keys for the Eagles will be rebounding and protecting the ball. CIA has averaged over 20 turnovers per game. The reason the Eagles were able to be within two points of Ninilchik in the fourth quarter in midFebruary is CIA had just 16 turnovers in that game.

The final boys first-round game pits Lumen Christi (9-3) against No. 7 Kodiak ESS (2-10) at 1 p.m. today.

GIRLS Bea Klaich is eager to see how her team responds to the loss to CIA. Nikolaevsk gets a bye Wednesday, then gets the winner of No. 4 seed Lumen — the defending conference champion — and No. 5 seed Ninichik — tournament runner-up last season — Thursday at 5:30 p.m.

“Not that it was on purpose, but I think the girls let their guard down,” Klaich said. “Now this week, I think they’re ready to take care of business.”

The coach said her team shot poorly against CIA, which happens, but also didn’t hustle on the boards.

The Warriors have a team goal of 40 rebounds per game and got just 26 against CIA, a number Klaich called unacceptable.

Klaich said the team needs to be balanced to be successful, but said Elizabeth Fefelov sets the tone scoring and rebounding, while Markiana Yakunin sets the tone for hustling.

The Eagles open with Birchwood today at 5:30 p.m. and a victory there moves them into the championship game. Hawley said the contest with Birchwood

is like most contests in the tournament — not playing hard, shooting well and hustling on defense will result in a loss.

“The biggest thing for us is to keep the intensity up on the defensive side and be patient on offense,” Hawley said.

He said intensity on defense keyed the victory over Nikolaevsk, especially getting hands in passing lanes and getting deflections.

Hawley said if the Eagles manage to make it past Birchwood, a showdown with Nikolaevsk would be welcomed.

“I know coach Bea would like to play us one more time and take it to us and make it seem like that game was a fluke, although I know that’s not how she’d put it,” Hawley said. “She won’t hold back, and her players won’t hold back.”

The final girls game today is Lumen Christi (35) against Ninilchik (0-8).

The Wolverines have been to state three straight years but were hit this season with losing Olivia Delgado to graduation and DeeAnn White to transfer. That has led to a string of close losses.

“They’ve had to adjust to not having DeeAnn and Olivia, strong players like they are used to,” Ninilchik coach Tessa Lemons said.

“Their focus and drive has come a long way.

“They are definitely underdogs, but they can do this if they get out and push themselves.”

Lemons said key players will be Madi Cooper, Isabella Koch and Jade Robuck, as well as the continued improvement and maturation of freshmen Rebecca Okonek and Rian Osstad.

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In the third quarter, Trujillo the victory.

3-point FG — Kenai 6 (Calvert 4, Maw 1, L. Tuesday girls connected on a trey with 3:24 Satathite 1); Soldotna 2 (Blossom 2).

Stars 44, Kardinals 28 Team fouls — Kenai 12; Soldotna 7. Fouled left in the frame to cut Kenai’s 3 10 7 8 —28 out — none.

Continued from page A9 deficit to 29-24, but the Stars Kenai Soldotna 7 14 15 8 —44 tightened their grip on defense KENAI (28) — Calvert 12, Galloway 0, HamilTuesday boys Stars 51, Kardinals 34 on defense.” and held the Kards to five points ton 2, Maw 3, Hanson 2, Streiff 0, L. Satathite Kenai 13 6 8 7 —34 Adam Trujillo tallied 12 points to lead Ke- over the next 8:40 of game time. 5, Severson 0, B. Satathite 4.

(44) — McGillivray 1, Buckbee Soldotna 13 9 11 18 —51 nai’s attack.

SoHi streaked out on a 12-0 run SOLDOTNA 0, Blossom 15, A. Schmidt 6, Bouschor 2, TuThe Kardinals led 18-13 midway through in the fourth quarter to help seal isaula 18, Holland 0, Crosby-Schneider 2, D. KENAI (34) — Dunham 0, Efta 6, Felchle 0, the second quarter as Trujillo and Evan Stockton heated up. Trujillo and Stockton are listed as 6-foot-3 and 6-foot-4, respectively, but flaunted some long range depth by hitting a pair of 3s to Pittsburgh 5, Columbus 2 L.A. Clippers at Utah, 5 p.m.

UConn 84, Wichita St. 47 put the Kards up five.

Philadelphia 5, Buffalo 2 at Sacramento, 6 p.m.

SOUTHWEST However, Truesdell answered with a trio of Basketball Milwaukee Montreal 8, Detroit 1 New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 6:30 Iowa St. 64, Texas Tech 62 St. Louis 2, Nashville 0 buckets, including a drive to the post with 1:21 p.m.

NBA Standings Minnesota 3, Winnipeg 2 All Times AST left in the first half to put SoHi ahead. The Stars EASTERN CONFERENCE Arizona 4, Florida 3, SO led 22-19 at the half.

Atlantic Division Hockey Vegas 4, Dallas 1 Men’s Scores

Baker 1, Custodio 0, Bezdecny 5, McEnerney 3, Stockton 5, Trujillo 12, Stafford 0, Pitsch 2, McKibben 0.

SOLDOTNA (51) — Rich 5, Morrison 4, Hanson 2, Chumley 5, Truesdell 24, Kant 6, Wells 0, Rosin 0, Michael 5, Denna 0, Whitaker 0.

3-point FG — Kenai 5 (Trujillo 2, Stockton 1, McEnerney 1, Bezdecny 1); Soldotna 7 (Truesdell 4, Kant 2, Rich 1).

Team fouls — Kenai 13; Soldotna 13. Fouled out — none.

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Ostrander earns performer of meet Staff report Peninsula Clarion

Allie Ostrander was named Women’s Outstanding Performer of the meet following last weekend’s Mountain West Indoor Track and Field Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The redshirt junior scored 20.5 points for Boise State to help the Broncos finish fifth in the women’s team race with 62 total points.

Ostrander earned the award after winning the 3,000-meter title in a meet record time of 9 minutes, 11.61 seconds, finishing second in the women’s mile and anchoring the winning women’s distance medley relay, which captured its fourth straight MW title.

The NCAA also announced Tuesday night that Ostrander can compete in three different events at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field National Championships in Birmingham, Alabama, from March 8 to 9.

For the second time in her career, Ostrander will attempt a double at 3,000 and 5,000 meters. The redshirt junior also qualified for both events as a true freshman during the 2015-16 season. Ostrander is seeded fourth in both events at this year’s national championship.

Ostrander also will join Alexis Fuller, MaLeigha Menegatti and Kristie Schoffield in the distance medley relay. The quartet is seeded third at the national championships.

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South and East high schools in Anchorage, have certain boundaries from which their student populations come. A student in the boundary for East, for example, wouldn’t normally go to South. ACS, on the

W L Pct GB Toronto 45 17 .726 — Philadelphia 39 22 .639 5½ Boston 37 24 .607 7½ Brooklyn 32 30 .516 13 New York 13 48 .213 31½ Southeast Division Charlotte 28 32 .467 — Orlando 28 34 .452 1 Miami 26 33 .441 1½ Washington 24 36 .400 4 Atlanta 20 41 .328 8½ Central Division Milwaukee 46 14 .767 — Indiana 40 21 .656 6½ Detroit 29 30 .492 16½ Chicago 16 45 .262 30½ Cleveland 14 47 .230 32½ WESTERN CONFERENCE

Southwest Division Houston 35 25 .583 — San Antonio 33 29 .532 3 New Orleans 27 35 .435 9 Dallas 26 34 .433 9 Memphis 24 38 .387 12 Northwest Division 42 18 .700 — Denver Oklahoma City 38 22 .633 4 Portland 37 23 .617 5 Utah 33 26 .559 8½ Minnesota 29 31 .483 13 Pacific Division Golden State 43 17 .717 — L.A. Clippers 34 28 .548 10 Sacramento 31 29 .517 12 L.A. Lakers 29 31 .483 14 Phoenix 12 50 .194 32 Tuesday’s Games New York 108, Orlando 103 Toronto 118, Boston 95 Denver 121, Oklahoma City 112 Wednesday’s Games Houston at Charlotte, 3 p.m.

Golden State at Miami, 3:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Atlanta, 3:30 p.m.

Washington at Brooklyn, 3:30 p.m.

Chicago at Memphis, 4 p.m.

Portland at Boston, 4 p.m.

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

Indiana at Dallas, 4:30 p.m.

other hand, does not have those kinds of boundaries and can have students from anywhere in Anchorage.

“They have a financial advantage,” Todd said.

“They can go out and recruit players if they choose to. The other thing that is difficult is that Anchorage has a lot more resources and these kids are not only in a private school setting

Today in History Today is Wednesday, Feb. 27, the 58th day of 2019. There are 307 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 27, 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, was ratified.

On this date: In 1801, the District of Columbia was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress.

In 1911, inventor Charles F. Kettering demonstrated his electric automobile starter in Detroit by starting a Cadillac’s motor with just the press of a switch, instead of hand-cranking.

In 1922, the Supreme Court, in Leser v. Garnett, unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote.

In 1933, Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag (RYKS’-tahg), was gutted by fire; Chancellor Adolf Hitler, blaming the Communists, used the fire to justify suspending civil liberties.

In 1943, during World War II, Norwegian commandos launched a successful raid to sabotage a German-operated heavy water plant in Norway.

An explosion inside a coal mine near Bearcreek, Montana, killed 74 miners and one rescue worker. The U.S. government, responding to a copper shortage, began circulating one-cent coins made of steel plated with zinc (the steel pennies proved unpopular, since they were easily mistaken for dimes).

In 1960, the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets, 3-2, at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, California. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)

In 1968, at the conclusion of a CBS News special report on the Vietnam War, Walter Cronkite delivered a commentary in which he said that the conflict appeared “mired in stalemate.” Former teen singing idol Frankie Lymon, known for such songs as “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” and “Goody Goody,” was found dead of a drug overdose in New York at age 25.

In 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. (The occupation lasted until the following May.) In 1982, Wayne Williams was found guilty of murdering two of the 28 young blacks whose bodies were found in the Atlanta area over a 22-month period. (Williams, who was also blamed for 22 other deaths, has maintained his innocence.)

In 1991, Operation Desert Storm came to a conclusion as President George H.W. Bush declared that “Kuwait is liberated, Iraq’s army is defeated,” and announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight, Eastern time.

In 1998, with the approval of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s House of Lords agreed to end 1,000 years of male preference by giving a monarch’s first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son.

In 1999, The Reverend Henry Lyons, president of the National Baptist Convention USA, was convicted in Largo, Fla., of swindling millions of dollars from companies seeking to do business with his followers. (Lyons, who served nearly five years in prison, was released in 2003.)

Ten years ago: President Barack Obama told Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C. that he would end combat operations in Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010 and open a new era of diplomacy in the Middle East. The Rocky Mountain News ceased publishing after nearly 150 years in business.

Five years ago: President Barack Obama kicked off his “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative from the White House East Room, calling for vigorous efforts to reverse underachievement among young black and Hispanic males. Masked gunmen stormed parliament in Ukraine’s strategic Crimean region while the newly formed interim government pledged to prevent a breakup with strong backing for the West.

One year ago: According to two people informed of the decision, the security clearance of White House senior adviser and presidential sonin-law Jared Kushner had been downgraded, significantly reducing his access to classified information. (Kushner’s status was restored in May after the completion of his background check.) A five-hour truce ordered

by Syria’s Russian allies to let civilians flee a besieged rebel-held enclave near Damascus failed to result in aid deliveries or medical evacuations, as deadly airstrikes and shelling continued. President Donald Trump named former digital adviser Brad Parscale as campaign manager for his 2020 re-election bid. The Anti-Defamation League reported a 57 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States during 2017.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Joanne Woodward is 89. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader is 85. Opera singer Mirella Freni is 84. Actress Barbara Babcock is 82. Actor Howard Hesseman is 79. Actress Debra Monk is 70. Rock singer-musician Neal Schon (Journey) is 65. Rock musician Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden) is 62. Actor Timothy Spall is 62. Rock musician Paul Humphreys (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) is 59. Country singer Johnny Van Zant (Van Zant) is 59. Rock musician Leon Mobley (Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals) is 58. Basketball Hall of Famer James Worthy is 58. Actor Adam Baldwin is 57. Actor Grant Show is 57.

Rock musician Mike Cross (Sponge) is 54. Actor Noah Emmerich is 54.

Actor Donal Logue (DOH’-nuhl LOHG) is 53. Rhythm-and-blues singer Chilli (TLC) is 48. Rock musician Jeremy Dean (Nine Days) is 47. Rhythmand-blues singer Roderick Clark is 46. Country-rock musician Shonna Tucker is 41. Chelsea Clinton is 39. Actor Brandon Beemer is 39. Rock musician Cyrus Bolooki (New Found Glory) is 39. Rock musician Jake Clemons (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band) is 39. Rhythm-andblues singer Bobby Valentino is 39. Singer Josh Groban is 38. Banjoist Noam (cq) Pikelny is 38. Rock musician Jared Champion (Cage the Elephant) is 36. Actress Kate Mara is 36. TV personality JWoww (AKA Jenni Farley) is 33. Actress Lindsey Morgan is 29.

Thought for Today: “He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.” -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (born this date in 1807, died in 1882).

EAST

NHL Glance

Buffalo 77, Akron 64 Dayton 72, UMass 48 Rhode Island 80, George Washington 53 West Virginia 104, TCU 96, 3OT SOUTH Alabama 68, South Carolina 62 Kentucky 70, Arkansas 66 LSU 66, Texas A&M 55 Liberty 76, Kennesaw St. 59 Memphis 81, Temple 73 Mississippi St. 68, Missouri 49 North Alabama 69, Jacksonville 55 North Carolina 93, Syracuse 85 North Florida 77, Stetson 67 VCU 71, Saint Louis 65 Virginia Tech 77, Duke 72 Wake Forest 76, Miami 75 MIDWEST Cent. Michigan 77, E. Michigan 66 Indiana 75, Wisconsin 73, 2OT Kent St. 78, Ohio 73 Miami (Ohio) 82, Bowling Green 69 N. Illinois 70, W. Michigan 65 Ohio St. 90, Iowa 70 Providence 73, Butler 67, OT Toledo 80, Ball St. 72 FAR WEST San Jose St. 89, New Mexico 82 Utah St. 70, San Diego St. 54 Utah Valley 77, Seattle 68

Women’s Scores EAST Princeton 68, Penn 53 SOUTH Charleston Southern 66, GardnerWebb 58 Hampton 82, Presbyterian 68 High Point 70, Longwood 47 Liberty 68, Kennesaw St. 55 Radford 45, UNC-Asheville 44 SC-Upstate 58, Winthrop 49 MIDWEST Northwestern 69, Indiana 49

but they’re given the resources and such to play year-round.”

Felice and Todd say this adds up to a lack of parity when teams from private schools play teams from public schools. There are two additional private schools within the Class 3A school size — Monroe Catholic High School in Fairbanks and Grace Christian School in Anchorage.

The teams that canceled their games with ACS did so as a way to protest what they see as unfair playing circumstances.

“We don’t want to take anything away from those girls and those players at ACS, because they’ve put in the time, and blood, sweat and tears in the gym and gotten to the point where they’re at,” Felice said. “It’s

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 63 48 11 4 100 248 166 Boston 63 37 17 9 83 189 160 Toronto 62 38 20 4 80 221 176 Montreal 64 34 23 7 75 196 186 Buffalo 63 29 26 8 66 181 199 Florida 62 28 25 9 65 197 211 Detroit 64 23 32 9 55 178 220 Ottawa 63 22 36 5 49 189 235 Metropolitan Division N.Y. Islanders 62 36 19 7 79 179 149 Washington 64 36 21 7 79 220 205 Carolina 63 34 23 6 74 187 171 Pittsburgh 63 33 22 8 74 218 197 Columbus 62 35 24 3 73 197 185 Philadelphia 63 30 26 7 67 188 211 N.Y. Rangers 62 27 26 9 63 183 207 New Jersey 63 25 30 8 58 184 214

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Nashville 66 37 24 5 79 196 173 Winnipeg 63 37 22 4 78 212 188 St. Louis 63 34 23 6 74 184 172 Minnesota 64 31 27 6 68 176 186 Dallas 63 31 27 5 67 158 166 Colorado 63 27 24 12 66 209 200 Chicago 63 26 28 9 61 211 236 Pacific Division Calgary 63 40 16 7 87 228 181 San Jose 64 37 19 8 82 229 201 Vegas 64 33 26 5 71 189 182 Arizona 63 30 28 5 65 168 180 Vancouver 63 27 28 8 62 176 195 Edmonton 62 26 29 7 59 173 205 Anaheim 63 24 30 9 57 139 195 Los Angeles 63 23 33 7 53 149 200 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.

Tuesday’s Games Calgary 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 Boston 4, San Jose 1 Washington 7, Ottawa 2 Carolina 6, Los Angeles 1

just to the point where nobody gets anything out of winning by 80 (points) or losing by 80.”

“Enough’s enough,” he continued. “We need a little parity in 3A basketball.”

In addition to canceling their Feb. 23 game, the Homer program sent a letter of proposals to the Alaska School Activities Association, the regulating body for high school interscholastic activities.

“Maybe the private schools could be in a … region of their own and get one bid to a state tournament from that region,” Todd said. “Or maybe they should play in … the 4A league.”

“So rather than count the number of kids that actually go to the school, count the number of people in the

Wednesday’s Games Edmonton at Toronto, 3 p.m.

Calgary at New Jersey, 3 p.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Rangers, 3:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Colorado, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at Anaheim, 6 p.m.

All Times AST

Baseball Spring Training

Tuesday’s Games Miami 3, Houston 0 St. Louis 6, Washington 1 Tampa Bay 11, Baltimore 5 Atlanta 4, N.Y. Mets (ss) 3 Minnesota 6, Pittsburgh 5 Philadelphia at N.Y. Yankees, cancelled Boston at Toronto, cancelled Detroit 14, N.Y. Mets (ss) 4 San Francisco 4, Cincinnati 3 Arizona 5, Chicago Cubs 4 Chicago White Sox 9, Kansas City (ss) 7 San Diego 3, Milwaukee 1 L.A. Angels 17, Oakland 5 Kansas City (ss) 8, L.A. Dodgers 2 Cleveland 5, Colorado 3 Texas 4, Seattle 4, 10 innings

Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Signed INF Hanley Ramirez to a minor league contract.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Announced the retirement of infield coach Bobby Knoop.

TEXAS RANGERS — Signed INF Logan Forsythe to a minor league contract.

National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Agreed to terms with 3B Nolan Arenado on an eight-year contract.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Mike Mikolas to

borders where they can get kids to come in and play,” Felice added.

He said another option could be to give private schools the same parameters to follow as public schools, such as only being able to pull students/players from the district where the school is located.

Todd and Felice first talked to their players about the issue to find out how they felt, and then had a parent meeting, Todd said.

“This was all a process,” she said. “And I think just knowing how they felt when they walked off the court, when they didn’t feel like they learned anything from that experience, didn’t make it very enjoyable for them. And high school athletics should be enjoyable.”

“There should be some character-building where you’re going to lose games and whatnot,” Felice said.

“But there also needs to be a fine line between character-building and just getting beat down.”

Rylee Doughty, a Homer junior, is one of the Mariners’ co-captains. She said it feels good that the team is doing something after several years of the status quo.

“I feel like it’s a good step on our part, because it’s kind of taking a stand for our team,” she said.

Doughty said she likes that canceling the game is a civil way of “showing that we don’t really agree with their sportsmanship and the things that they’re doing.”

She said losing to private schools by a very large number of points feels dif-

a four-year contract from 2020-23.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Dallas DE Randy Gregory indefinitely for violating the league’s substanceabuse policy.

CHICAGO BEARS — Agreed to terms with G Kyle Long on a restructured contract.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed TE Ross Travis to a one-year contract extension.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Placed the franchise tag on PK Robbie Gould.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed RB Larry Rose III. HOCKEY National Hockey League LOS ANGELES KINGS — Recalled D Kurtis MacDermid from Ontario (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled D Filip Pyrochta from Atlanta (ECHL) to Milwaukee (AHL).

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Recalled F Sammy Blais from San Antonio (AHL) under emergency conditions.

OLYMPIC SPORTS USADA — Announced American weightlifter Cheyenne Schenk accepted a six-month suspension for an anti-doping rule violation.

SOCCER Major League Soccer DC UNITED — Signed F Dante Sealy and loaned him to North Texas (USL).

NEW YORK CITY FC — Traded the right of first refusal to D Saad Abdul-Salaam to Seattle for targeted allocation money.

SEATTLE SOUNDERS — Released D Jordan McCrary. Signed D Saad Abdul-Salaam.

COLLEGE EMORY & HENRY — Announced the resignation of men’s basketball coach David Willson.

NEBRASKA — Named Tony Tuioti defensive line coach.

OLD WESTBURY — Named Brendan Gaghan women’s assistant lacrosse coach.

WAGNER — Named Del Smith associate head football coach/defensive coordinator.

ferent than losing to another team in the conference, or another Kenai Peninsula team like Kenai Central or Nikiski. If being beaten by 80-or-so points happened once, Doughty said it’s a way to learn what that feels like. It’s when it starts happening over and over that things change.

“It’s like discouraging. I don’t know how else to say it I guess,” she said. “It’s a different kind of lose. It’s not like, oh, we can bounce back from that. It’s kind of just like well that really …. it just feels different I guess.”

Jason Hofacker, principal at ACS, said the school understands that the other girls teams in the region are protesting their games.

“We’re disappointed that they’re forfeiting,” he said.

Hofacker said the school has reached out to the other basketball programs, mainly through their athletic directors, and talked with them about the protest.

The school has turned the issue over to ASAA, Hofacker said, which will deal with how to handle the forfeitures. Aside from that, Hofacker said ACS is trying to stay out of it.

“We’re disappointed that they didn’t play us, but that’s their decision and now ASAA will follow up,” he said.

The Seward girls basketball team coach did not return a call for comment by the time this story went to press.

Reach Megan Pacer at mpacer@homernews.com.

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“Rocky II” (1979, Drama) Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire.

“Die Hard With a Vengeance” (1995, Action) Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons.

Stooges “Rocky II” (1979, Drama) Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire.

“Live Free or Die Hard” (2007, Action) Bruce Willis, Justin Long.

“Deep Impact” (1998) Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni.

Stooges “Alien 3” (1992) Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton.

“Die Hard 2” (1990, Action) Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia.

“Colombiana” (2011, Action) Zoe Saldana, Jordi Mollà. (:15) The Three Stooges “Jerry Maguire” (1996) Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renee Zellweger.

“Sixteen Candles” (1984) Molly Ringwald. (:05) “The Breakfast Club” (1985) Stooges M*A*S*H M*A*S*H (:20) “Concussion” (2015, Drama) Will Smith, Alec Baldwin. (:20) “A Bronx Tale” (1993, Drama) Robert De Niro.

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Because there are “a lot of assets” involved, consult an attorney about what your spousal rights are in the event that a continued partnership is not what your husband wants for the rest of his life. Then tell him you know what Abigail Van Buren has been going on and offer him the option of marriage counseling so the two of you can repair your marriage.

His reaction will tell you what you need to do next.

DEAR ABBY: My mom and I had a very close relationship until two years ago when I found out she was hanging out with my exhusband. This man ruined me financially with his gambling habit, and Mom was first in line telling me to divorce him. From day one she never liked him. My ex went on to make my life a living hell for many years by not paying child support or spending time with our three kids.

All these years later, they now go to the casino together, and she’s got him going to her church. I feel hurt and angry. She sings his

praises -- “he’s a changed man!” I had to finally stop my daily calls and the many texts we shared all day long because, even after I told her how much this behavior hurt me, she told me she was sorry I felt that way. She claims there is nothing to their relationship except friendship. How do I get past feeling replaced and disrespected?

-- MISERABLE IN MINNESOTA DEAR MISERABLE: Your mother may consider your ex to be “changed,” but I have to question how much someone with a gambling problem has changed if he is accompanying her to a casino. She must be desperate for company to befriend someone who treated her daughter -- and grandchildren -- so badly.

The way to get past feeling replaced and disrespected is to get on with your own life and spend as little time as possible looking back. Your mother has made her choice, and she isn’t going to change. Now it’s up to you to find things to fill the void she left.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Hints from Heloise

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019: This year, events often take you by surprise. If single, you will meet a lot of people. You could encounter someone who will be significant to your life within the year. If attached, the two of you appear to be on an even path, but events occur every so often that cause a difference of opinion. If you stay caring, you will benefit. SAGITTARIUS often teases you.

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) HHHH Be more creative. After a meeting, you will want to continue a conversation. You could find a difference of opinion to be somewhat stressful. Your fiery side expresses itself. What you feel is right, but you will get an earful. Tonight: Put on your dancing shoes.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Express your point of view. You might not receive the results you desire.

Make an effort to keep complications out of your life. You could overthink a problem, making you hesitant to take the next step. Tonight: With a favorite loved one.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Reach out for a loved one at a distance. You often wonder what is going on around you, though you enjoy the activity. An element of confusion surrounds you. You need to plug in your high energy to some pastime. Tonight: Relax and let off steam.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You want to move in a new direction emotionally, but you cannot easily catch up on certain details to resolve the present confusion. You might want to relax more than you have in the recent past. You will see your efficiency heightened as a result. Tonight: Squeeze in some exercise.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH You will see what is happening around you, but it might take a touch of creativity. Others have very different ideas that point in another direction.

Confusion could mess up your plans.

Tonight: Deal with someone who often puts you on a pedestal.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You are able to do more than usual. Find out what works for you when

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having a discussion that takes you in a new direction. Listen to news and be willing to change gears if need be. You want to reach out to someone at a distance.

Tonight: Allow others to come forward.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Defer to a co-worker who understands more than you about an immediate problem. You can accomplish the lion’s share of your work. Nevertheless, pay attention to where there could be confusion. Your anger could trigger another party, making a situation difficult.

Tonight: Speak your mind diplomatically.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Curb a tendency to go overboard.

Optimism comes easily at this moment, but make sure you cross your t’s and dot your i’s. Be aware of how drained you might be from recent events. Decide what would be best to do if you’re not feeling well. Tonight: Relax and join a friend.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You can get a lot done and figure out what is going on, but your fatigue builds. Know when to stop and relax. Others will naturally relax as well and get out of your way. Your energy is much stronger than you realize. Tonight: Let your hair down.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You might not be able to handle all the pressure you’re under. If you follow your sixth sense, you will land on your feet. Avoid taking advice; you need to hear your inner voice. Act on this voice. Tonight: Know when to call it a night.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH One-on-one relating draws attention. You could work through a problem involving a friend. You will be a lot happier if going out and joining friends.

When the unexpected occurs, your ability to adapt emerges. Tonight: Where your friends are.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You will be more forthright than you have been for a while. Your ability to move through problems is essential to an offer someone makes you. Today is about how you deal with others. Tonight: Could go to the wee hours.

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-- Jeanette in Texas Jeanette, yes I can. It’s my Southwestern Veggie Rice recipe, which goes well with chicken fajitas and barbecue dishes. You’ll need: 3 tablespoons salad oil 1 large onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced or pressed 1 1/2 cups rice 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper 2 chicken bouillon cubes 2 cups boiling water 10 ounces frozen or canned peas and carrots, thawed 1 1/2 cups peeled, seeded, chopped tomatoes Salt (season to taste) Heat the oil uncovered for 2 minutes on high in a 3-quart microwave-safe casserole dish. Add onion, garlic and rice. Cook uncovered on high for 3 minutes until the onion is limp and the rice is opaque. Stir once.

Stir in cayenne and bouillon cubes that have been dissolved in the boiling water. Cover tightly and cook on high for 4 to 7 minutes, or until liquid begins to boil. Reduce power to medium.

Cook for 10-12 minutes, or until most of the liquid is absorbed and rice is tender. Let stand, covered, for 5 minutes. Don’t peek! Then stir in peas, carrots and tomatoes. -- Heloise SWEET SMELL Dear Heloise: After washing the dishes in the morning, I clean and rinse my sink. Then I spray my sink with some good-smelling cleaner and let it dry. My kitchen smells nice all day!

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DEAR ABBY: I just found out that my husband of 37 years is having an affair. I have supported him in every way I could -- raising our daughters, taking care of the household and holding a full-time job while he traveled for business and his many hobbies.

We both work hard and have developed a good life. We have been discussing retirement and maybe a move to another area. In recent years he has become evasive and has improved his appearance noticeably.

While it’s true that I fell out of love with him several years ago because of his selfishness and lack of respect for me, we have still been good partners and parents and enjoyed doing things together. I do not like him spending our money on another woman and don’t want this to get back to the children as it will really, really hurt them.

Should I continue to pretend I don’t know, or do I confront him? I doubt he would end the affair completely even if he knows it has been found out. And yes, there are a lot of assets involved if this comes to divorce.

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Kenai Historical Society Kenai Historical Society will meet Sunday, March 3 at 1:30 at the Kenai Visitors Center.

The speaker will be Teri Wilson with a video presentation on the 1964 Earthquake. Everyone welsome. For more information, call June at 283-1946.

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Pebble Project updates Kenai Chapter of the Alliance

Sterling Community Rec Center Daily Event Schedule February —Pickleball: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

—Weight room: Open 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4-6 p.m. MondayFriday (Free weights, squat rack, rowing machine, cardio bikes, tread mill, elliptical, and yoga balls/mats) —Zumba: Mondays at 6 p.m.

—Teen Center: Air hockey, fosse ball, video games, Wi-Fi, and gym time.

—Home school gym time: Fridays at 12-2 p.m.

—After school red program: 3:30-5:30 p.m. Monday to Friday.

Registration anytime Call for information 907-262-7224. Adults $3 per visit, seniors $2 per visit, teens $2 per visit, and children $1 per visit

Land Management Division letters of interest The Kenai Peninsula Borough’s Land Management Division is calling for letters of interest from people looking for new agricultural land. The hope is that people will share some details that the borough can use to inform the program design. The kinds of major points officials think would be helpful in a letter include the size and general location needed, along with any other criteria that would be essential for the person’s production plans, and maybe an indication of the time frames that people are thinking if they were to take on an area of land with production goals. Letters should be addressed to KPB Land Manager, 144 North Binkley St., Soldotna AK 99669.

More information can be found at kpb.us/land See EVENTS, page A2

Mike Heatwole, Pebble vice president of public affairs, explains the projects new path forward at a Kenai Alliance meeting.

In an address to the Kenai Chapter of the Alliance Friday, Feb. 15, Mike Heatwole, vice president of public affairs for the Pebble Partnership, discussed the new proposed Pebble Project, which is very different from the original plan.

“What’s interesting about mining and mine plans is that there are many, many iterations. You

change one thing, such as what type of power you are going to use and it has a domino effect. So that is just one of many aspects that goes into the planning.

“Over the years we’ve had many different iterations and changes. We took a long, hard look when our then-partner Anglo-American left us in 2013 and we had a CEO transition and we said, ‘What are some

changes that we may want to consider for the project and what are the stakeholder concerns that we should consider?’

“One issue was the size of the project and could we do something that was smaller and that is what we brought forward,” said Heatwole.

The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Pebble

Project was released by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) last week.

Upon initial review, the Pebble Partnership (PLP) strongly believes it demonstrates that the proposed 20-year mine development plan for the Pebble deposit can be done in an environmentally responsible manner and that it points to a clear path forward for success in permitting the proj-

ect according to Heatwole.

“We’ve reduced the footprint from our earlier iterations by about 50 percent. That’s a significant reduction, but still a substantial project at the end of the day. It’ll be a multibillion dollar construction project and several hundred million-dollar-a-year in terms of economic activity,” he said.

See PEBBLE, page A2

No chirps! No bats! No Jiminy…Cricket wireless comes to Alaska The word “cricket” may evoke many things — memories of a summer cricket symphony echoing through the minds of many who immigrated to Alaska from the Lower 48. Brits may recall the rules of the game that spun off baseball.

Any Disney fan will smile at the thought of the unsquishable Jiminy Cricket.

Well, just brush all those images aside, for there is a new Cricket in Alaska: Cricket Wireless, with plans for the whole family. Wade Liles is the manager for the new store in Soldotna.

“We are a mobile provider that has a nationwide 4G LTE top-of-the-line network. But if you still like the old flip phones we can do that for you as well.

When I was researching the area it became apparent that the market lacked options for customers, and I was impressed with the Cricket brand. It’s simple, straight forward, no contracts, no hidden fees and is a meth-

Wade Liles is the store manager of the new Cricket wireless in Soldotna.

od that truly provides an exceptional service and value,” said Liles in an interview with the Dispatch.

What Liles is the most excited about is the rates Cricket offers.

“We are very competitive. I would challenge anyone to find rates that compete with us really. We have bundle packets that are going on right now, like the See CRICKET, page A2

Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month One in three adolescents in the U.S. is a victim of physical, sexual, emotional or verbal abuse from a dating partner, a figure that far exceeds rates of other types of youth violence.  The severity of intimate partner violence is often greater in cases where the pattern of abuse was established in adolescence.

For more information visit: loveisrespect.org or call The LeeShore Center at 283-9479. 

The LeeShore Center is proud to be a United Way agency

INCOMETAX TAX INCOME PREPERATION PREPARATION Accounting,Bookkeeping & Payroll Services

Mon-Sat 9am-5pm or by appt 10801 Kenai Spur Highway, Kenai (907)283-2203 jmjtaxak@gmail.com

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The new Pebble Project is only half the size of the original.

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four lines for $100 bucks — and that includes unlimited text, talk and data. That is a big seller for us right now, and is a remarkable deal for a family of any size really. We have a great team here. “ I wanted to build the business on great customer service — and the Cricket team is here to help you no matter what the level of

service is that you are looking for or require. We’re here to fixate on a plan that will best work for you after we discover what you do on a daily basis with your device,” he said.

Cricket first opened in Alaska in December and also features a wide variety of accessories for your wireless devices.

“We’re excited to be here. This has been my home now for three years and I was excited about being able to give back to

the community when the Cricket opportunity came up. After my research, I felt like mobile wireless options was something that this community dearly needed, and am happy to be able to bring it here,” said Liles.

You can learn more at cricketwireless.com or by stopping in the new Cricket store at the “Y” in Soldotna and visiting with any of the friendly Cricket Team members or ask for Jiminy if your name is Pinocchio.

Phones, accessories, fast service, low rates you’ll find it at the new Cricket store.

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Classes are limited to 8 students in each class.

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Central Peninsula Hospital Health Fair

KCHS 1969 reunion The KCHS 1969 50th High School Reunion will take place on July 26 at 6 p.m. at Pizza Paradisos.

Dorothy Lou Hermansen, Maryam Gray House and Sheryl House Martin are serving as the event’s planning committee. Visit the Facebook page “KCHS 1969 50th Reunion” for more information. Graduates may register through that page, or by emailing Dorothy Hermansen at hootowl@chugach.net.

Meet the Author Last Frontier Freethinkers will be hosting a luncheon for Dan Barker, co-president of Freedom from Religion Foundation, at Odies Deli on Friday, March 1 at 2 p.m.

Dan has written a new book called “Mere Morality” and will be discussing God and Government: Protecting the wall between church and state. For more information please contact info@lastfrontierfreethinkers.org.

AKC Star Puppy class Kenai Kennel Club will be offering an AKC Star Puppy class beginning Thursday, Feb. 28 at 6 p.m.

We are also offering a Family Dog Obedience class beginning Thursday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. Please contact instructor Melinda at alaskamelinda@gmail.com with any questions or to register.

Central Peninsula Hospital is holding a Health Fair on March 23 from 8 a.m. to Noon in the River Tower on the CPH campus.

Blood Chemistry Panels, Thyroid, Prostate, Vitamin D (D2&D3) and A1C tests will be available. You must be 18 years or older to have blood work done. Community health partners are invited to participate as a vendor.

Contact Camille Sorensen at 714-4600 or csorensen@ cpgh.org for an application.

Deadline for vendor registration is March 18.

Hospice Spring Volunteer Training Registration is open for Hospice of the Central Peninsula’s Spring Volunteer Training. Training is over two weekends, March 2223 and 29-30 at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna.

Volunteers must be 18 years or older and be able to pass a background check. Lunch and snacks are provided.

Call the office at 262-0453 or visit www.hospiceofcentralpeninsula.com for more info.

Ninilchik Community Neighborhood Watch The Ninilchik Community Neighborhood Watch would like to give public notice that we are now working together for a safer community. We encourage support and participation. Contact

your local nonprofit organization at 907-202-2103 or 907-398-8067.

Kenai National Wildlife Refuge: February Winter visitor center hours 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday -Saturday.

—PEEPs (Preschool Environmental Education Program) Enjoy an hour of hands-on wildlife games, crafts, storytime and more.

For ages 2-5. Thursday, Feb. 21. Two sessions: 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

—Winter Walks, 1-hour guided snowshoe walks every Wednesday at 2 p.m. and Fridays at 12:30 p.m.

Snowshoes provided with pre-registration. Call 907260-2820.

—Saturday Wildlife Movies: “Refuge Film” at 11 a.m., noon, 2 p.m. “Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom” at 1 p.m. “Alone in the Wilderness” at 3 p.m.

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If permitted, the reduced mine will not even be the largest in the state, according to Heatwole.

“It would put us on par with the our colleagues over at the Donlin Project in terms of the size, and smaller than the mine at Fort Knox with their recent expansion.”

Over the years, the Pebble Project has invested some $800 million dollars.

“Of which, $150 million has been in environmental studies and decade’s worth of studies have gone into it with heavy focus on thoroughly knowing about the fish and water resources there. Because one of our major premises with our

project is that we must coexist with the fishery and we must be able to demonstrate that we are not going to harm the fish and water resources. And to be able to do that we had to do a lot of what is called baseline environmental work on water quality and everything that is using the water resource. Not all habitat is created equal,” he said.

Another change in the new proposed Pebble Project is that cyanide will not be used in the mineral extraction process.

“We heard a lot at our hearings and took it to heart and said is there a way that we could operate this mine without the use of cyanide, even though cyanide has been used safely and successfully

at many other operations.

But we made a commitment as part of this plan that are not going to use cyanide in what we call secondary gold recovery.

And as a result of that decision we will be actually leaving some of the value on the table, but this is the commitment we were willing to make,” said Heatwole.

Heatwole said that the DEIS is a draft look at the Pebble project and that the next phase is for extensive public review and comment to inform and guide the development of the final EIS and record of decision for the project.

A project overview, executive summary, and the entire DEIS itself can be found at: https://pebbleprojecteis.com

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