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Thursday, February 28, 2019 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 49, Issue 128

In the news Fairbanks adds equal rights protections for LGBTQ residents FAIRBANKS (AP) — The city of Fairbanks has passed sweeping new equal rights protections for the LGBTQ community.

The Fairbanks City Council this week approved an ordinance that extends anti-discrimination protections for employment, housing and public accommodations to people based on sexual orientation and gender identity, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported.

The measure also provides a means for people to challenge in court the practices they believe are discriminatory.

“We’ve crafted something that’s not perfect for any of us, but I think will do well for the city,” Councilwoman Kathryn Ottersten said after the vote Monday night.

Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, also has protections for LGBTQ residents. The Alaska Municipal League did not have a count on how many other Alaska cities might have similar protections.

The topic in Fairbanks was contentious. Members of the public began signing up to comment at 10:30 a.m. for the Monday evening meeting.

The council chambers filled to capacity of 103 people, and others listened by live stream from hallways on both floors of City Hall. Three extra officers from the Fairbanks Police Department were on hand for crowd control.

Approximately 35 people testified, with a small majority voicing opposition.

Ottersten unsuccessfully tried to remove two possible exemptions of the Federal Fair Housing Act, including one known informally known as “Mrs. Murphy’s Exemption.” It allows people to deny housing in residences up to a fourplex if the owner occupies one of the apartments.

Mayor Jim Matherly broke a tie and voted to keep the exemption.

With Matherly again breaking a tie, the council adopted dress code language. The measure See LGBTQ, page A3

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Unions rally against job cuts

By KEVIN BAIRD Juneau Empire

Union employees and supporters gathered in front of the Alaska State Capitol to let the Dunleavy administration and Legislature know they oppose the proposed cuts to the operating budget that would eliminate hundreds of jobs. Many state workers belong to unions.

“2-4-6-8, We need to save our state,” the group of about 150 people chanted at noon Wednesday.

The ferry system is facing a $97 million cut that could eliminate 253 union jobs, prompting the Inland Boatman’s Union to participate in the rally too.

Most union members who

Sen. Jesse Kiehl, D-Juneau, speaks during a rally of state union workers in front of the Alaska Capitol in Juneau on Wednesday. (Michael Penn/Juneau Empire)

were approached were apprehensive to speak to the Empire, and others would only do so off-record.

But they made their

voices heard with their signs in front of the Capitol. Conan Leegard, an IBU member who stands 6-foot, 11-inches tall, held

a sign that read, “Stand Tall for Ferries.” Another IBU member carried a sign that read, “Alaskans for the Ferries, Ferries for Alaskans.”

IBU member Robb Arnold, who has worked for the ferry system since 2006, said he has never seen better turnout from the local IBU members.

“I was very impressed by the turnout,” Arnold said. “The Inland Boatman’s Union really cares.

People are seeing the importance of what it means to the community.”

“We want to work with the governor. It’s one of our main messages,” Arnold added.

Among the rally’s speakers was Sen. Jesse See UNION, page A2

Cohen assails Trump before Congress Former lawyer calls president ‘racist,’ ‘con man’

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press

WASHINGTON — In a damning depiction of Donald Trump, the president’s former lawyer on Wednesday cast him as a racist and a con man who used his inner circle to cover up politically damaging allegations about sex, and who lied throughout the 2016 election campaign about his business interests in Russia.

Michael Cohen, who previously pleaded guilty to lying to Congress, told lawmakers that Trump had advance knowledge and embraced the news that emails damaging to Hillary Clinton would be released during the See COHEN, page A3

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, is sworn in to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Damaged section of Kenai Spur Highway to remain unpaved for now

By BRIAN MAZUREK Peninsula Clarion

A damaged section of the Kenai Spur Highway in Nikiski likely won’t see repairs until spring.

Most residents of Nikiski have become wellacquainted with the rough section of roadway, which is located just south of Miller Loop Road, near Mile 19. The approximately 200 feet of road was damaged by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Southcentral on Nov. 30, 2018.

Following the quake, the Department of Transportation removed the damaged asphalt and replaced it with ground asphalt, but several months of winter weather and daily commutes have left the area riddled with potholes. Drivers are forced to slow down significantly while going over the roadway to avoid damaging their vehicles or making the road worse.

Brian Gabriel, Soldotna Station foreman with DOT, has said that fixing the section of road is the first project on their list, but repaving the section will likely have to wait until May at the earliest. The local asphalt production plants cannot start operating until winter is over, which means that DOT must wait for spring to begin repairs.

See ROAD, page A3

Kenai estimates 6-figure revenues Cinderella’s Closet seeking donations of formal wear from new Amazon sales taxes

By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion

Amazon has started charging sales tax in the Kenai Peninsula Borough and municipalities are struggling to work out the logistics.

Earlier this month, Amazon filed to start collecting and paying sales taxes but

zip codes in the borough overlap between borough and cities, making it difficult to separate purchases made inside and outside of city limits.

At last week’s Kenai City Council meeting, the mayor and council discussed the online retailers taxation policies.

“I’m for a fair playing

field,” said Mayor Brian Gabirel. “I think by working toward taxing products bought online but originate here, point of sale within our community, that we are at least leveling the playing field and being more fair to our brick and mortar stores that have come here, invested in the comSee TAX, page A3

Getting ready for disaster

By BRIAN MAZUREK Peninsula Clarion

Between the flooding that occurred in Seward last October to the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck last November, the Kenai Peninsula has seen its fair share of natural disasters recently.

In an effort to help residents prepare for the worst, the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s Office of Emergency Management is holding a Community Resilience Fair on Saturday at the Peninsula Center Mall. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will feature 17

different local organizations, including the Red Cross, the Independent Living Center and Central Emergency Services.

These organizations will offer skills training, emergency supplies, and information about disaster preparedness.

See READY, page A3

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

Soldotna High School is collecting formal wear and accessories for the district’s Cinderella’s Closet program.

The program, which provides free dresses, shoes and accessories to district area high school students, is also looking for a new home, a Soldotna High School news brief states.

The program has provided formal wear to more than 850 people in the last 11 years. Last year, 145 people were provided outfits for both prom and homecoming. Donations of gently used prom dresses, suits of all sizes, dress shirts, men’s dress shoes and accessories are accepted year-round at Soldotna High School or Soldotna Prep between 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Donations

outside of the central peninsula can be dropped by the closest school in the district.

All sizes are welcome, but dresses sized 12 to 18 are particularly needed, the brief said.

A new location is needed for the opening of Cinderella’s Closet. Finding a space that can also be used to store donations year-round is also needed.

“We really care about this project because we see year after year how many students we have been able to help,” the brief said. “We confide in the support of our community for finding a suitable location for hosting the Cinderella’s Closet of our school district.”

Questions can be directed to epokryfky@kpbsd.org.

More information can be found on the Cinderella’s Closet Facebook page.

Homer general store told resident cat violates code

By MEGAN PACER Homer News

A beloved cat that has long been a fixture of a general store near Homer just got served an eviction notice by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, and many locals aren’t happy about it.

Stormy, a black, slightly

overweight female cat, has called the Fritz Creek General Store home since being relocated there in 2012. She can often be seen lounging around on one of the large, wooden chairs in the center of the store, or tottering up to a customer for a pat or two on the head.

Kady-Lee Hackett is the cat’s original owner. She got

Stormy from the animal shelter along with her sister, Rain, when they were both kittens.

Hackett said she re-homed Stormy to the general store in 2012 because she was having problems being over dominating with the other cat.

Fritz Creek General Store is owned and operated

by Sean Maryott and Diana Carbonell. The Alaska DEC’s

Food Safety and Sanitation Program gave the owners notice that having Stormy in the store violates the state’s food safety code.

“We did receive a complaint (about the cat),” said Jeremy Ayers, section manager for the DEC’s Food Safety and Sanitation Program.

The owners of Fritz Creek General Store didn’t

return a call for comment by press time. Bridget Maryott, Sean’s sister, said her family will be taking Stormy in and that she can live out the rest of her days with them.

One argument local residents have been making over social media is that Stormy’s eviction isn’t fair considering the long reign Mayor Stubbs, See CAT page A2

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an orange Manx mix who was considered the in-name-only mayor of the unincorporated community of Talkeetna, had in a local establishment there called Nagley’s Store. Stubbs was known to frequent both the store and West Rib Pub & Grill. The owners who took over both establishments in 2015 actually signed a contract that stipulated the cat must stay with the store.

As it turns out, Stubbs was never actually allowed to be there, either. Having a pet like a cat or dog in a facility that serves food is in violation of Alaska’s code for food safety, according to Ayers. He oversees the areas of Anchorage, Ketchikan, Sitka, Juneau, Dutch Harbor and Western Alaska.

Though he is not in charge of the area that includes Nagley’s Store where Mayor Stubbs lived out his days, Ayers said he knows a staff member from the Wasilla office did contact the establishment in the past to let them know the cat was not allowed to be there.

“That cat was technically never allowed to live in that facility,” he said of Stubbs.

According to the Alaska food code, food establishment

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Kiehl, D-Juneau. Kiehl said the proposed job cuts would “see the neediest left out in the cold.”

“We’re in a fight for Alaska’s future,” Kiehl told the crowd from the steps of the Capitol. “So if we want healthy families, and a prosperous economy, the kind of Alaska where want to live, or want to raise our kids or we want grandkids to do well, we can’t afford this budget!”

Kiehl reminded the crowd the budget proposal is not set in stone.

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operators shall ensure “live animals are not in the establishment, except for edible fish, crustacea or molluscan shellfish, fish in aquariums, patrol dogs accompanying police officers, or service animals accompanying persons with disabilities.”

Since Stubbs died in 2017, the store has replaced the symbolic mayor with Denali, who, according to an Instagram page dedicated to the cat, is now in the Nagley’s Store.

Having an animal in a facility that serves food violates Alaska code, but Ayers said this isn’t an infraction members of the Food Safety and Sanitation Program actively go looking for. It’s not high on their list of priorities compared to high-risk health and safety violations.

The only reason the DEC would investigate a pet in something like a general store would be if it received a complaint about that animal, or if an environmental health officer happened to see one while doing a facility inspection.

In addition to the department receiving a complaint about Stormy, Ayers said an environmental health officer who was recently at the Fritz Creek General Store did see the cat as well.

“If an EHO sees it, they need to take action,” Ayers said.

Ayers said an environmental health officer stationed in Soldtona has followed up with the general store and notified the owners that Stormy cannot be there. Other than that, there are a number of steps the department can take if an establishment doesn’t get back in compliance with code.

Some locals, however, don’t feel the rules laid out in the state’s food code make sense when applied to certain traditional aspects of rural Alaska life. Linda Chamberlain and Al Breitzman live down East End Road, and frequent Fritz Creek General Store often.

“I’m in there every day, and it just seems like if the DEC is concerned about hygienics, having the cat there is a lot more hygienic than not having the cat there, because the cat keeps the rodent population down,” Breitzman said.

He and Chamberlain added that Stormy is very much a part of the social culture of the store and greater East End Road community.

In a place like that, everybody sees everybody, they said — and Stormy is part of that everybody.

Chamberlain said several people go into the store to connect with the cat. She said it’s disappointing that certain regulations can be applied without considering the spe-

cial circumstances of a different lifestyle. It makes sense to have these kinds of health and safety regulations and apply them to metropolitan areas, Chamberlain said, but they don’t always translate well to unique situations like Fritz Creek General Store.

“I’m glad that I knew Stormy and I got to see this kind of … wonderful tradition and social connection,” she said.

Breitzman pointed out that, with an older building like the one the general store is in, rodents can often be a problem.

“Part of the point of having a cat is cleanliness,” he said.

Since pets in food establishments aren’t a high priority compared to more serious health violations, Ayers said staff don’t always have the resources to be able to follow up on them right away. He said, if it was discovered later on that a facility still had an animal after being warned to get rid of it, they would likely get a letter from the DEC letting them know there could be consequences for not complying with code.

If the situation continued, there are actions the DEC can take against a facility, he said, such as permit suspension.

American Republic, 200 and some-odd years ago. They’d read about tyrants,” Kiehl said. “They know you don’t put all the power in any one person, or their out-of-state budget director. This proposal is just that. It’s a proposal.

Now we get to work, your elected leaders.”

Kiehl encouraged the crowd to call their representatives and senators and make their voices heard.

“Let your elected leaders know, Alaskans can’t afford the Dunleavy budget,” Kiehl said.

Laura Mulgrew, who is president of the Juneau Education Association and member of the National Education Association, spoke too, saying this is an attack

on education. Dunleavy’s budget proposal would cut more than $300 million from the state’s education budget, which is about a quarter of the education budget. The Base Student Allocation would be lowered from about $5,930 per student to $4,800 per student. The Juneau School District alone would lose more than $13 million, which would result in a cutting more than 100 teachers and staff.

“The price of a barrel of oil is no way to determine the worth of our students,” Mulgrew told the crowd.

Alaska State Employees Association Local 52 President Dawn Burdick, said she was concerned for the budget.

“I’m here to encourage our legislators to support working families, fund contracts, and support our state workers,” Burdick said.

Alaska AFL-CIO President Vince Beltrami, was not at the rally but issued a written statement Tuesday. ”We built Alaska. We love Alaska. We educate Alaskans. We protect Alaska. And now we are going to have to step up and protect her from this attack on our state and our values. Alaskans, regardless of party want the same things: good schools, safe communities, a high quality of life and a safe place to raise our kids.

This budget fails in every respect,” Beltrami said.

Reach Megan Pacer at mpacer@homernews.com.

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Around the Peninsula Girl Scout Reunion Tea Current and former Girl Scouts in Service Unit 941, formerly named Kalgin Service Unit on the Kenai Peninsula, are invited to a Girl Scout Reunion Tea to observe the 60th Anniversary of our Service Unit on Sunday, March 31 from 2:30-5:30 p.m. at Soldotna Methodist Church, Binkley Street. Bring your Scouting memorabilia. For more info contact Rosemary Pilatti at 907-776-8916 or wrangell86@ gmail.com.

Kenai Soil & Water Board Meeting The monthly meeting of the Kenai Soil & Water Conservation District’s Board of Supervisors will be held Wednesday, Mar. 6, 5:30 to 7:30 pm, at the District office located at 110 Trading Bay, Suite 140. For information, call 283-8732 x5.

Farm Bureau Annual Meeting

Wild and Scenic Film Festival

visitor information services. For additional information, please contact the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge office Join the Kenai Watershed Forum at Snug Harbor Sea- during regular business hours at (907) 262-7021. foods on K-Beach for the Wild and Scenic Film Festival on Saturday, March 23 from 6-9 p.m. Price is $25, in- Saving and Storing Seeds for Your Garden cludes a Cooper Landing Brew, food and fun!

Dr. Pat Holloway, Professor Emeritus of Horticulture at UAF will present a lecture on how to harvest, handle, KPC Showcase: Letters From Happy save, and store flower, vegetable, and native plant seeds Valley for later use in your garden on Tuesday, March 12 from 7–8:30 p.m. at Peninsula Grace Church, 44175 KaliKPC Showcase presents: Letters From Happy Valley: fornsky Beach Road (at Mile 19.5, across the road from Memories of an Alaska Homesteader’s Son, an evening Craig Taylor Equipment) in Soldotna. Free and open to with Alaskan author Dan Walker on Thursday, March the public; bring a friend! Refreshments and sometimes 7 at 6:30 p.m. at McLane Commons. Fifty years after door prizes. Membership and general club information is leaving the family homestead in Happy Valley, Dan available at www.cenpengardenclub.org, on facebook, or Walker unexpectedly received a shoebox full of letters contact Phyllis Boskofsky at cenpengardenclub@gmail. penned in 1958 by his parents as they traveled north com. from Sugar Tree Ridge, Ohio, to build a new life on the Last Frontier.

Garden Club March Round Tables

Refuge Accepting Applications for Summer Youth Conservation Corps Jobs

Kenai Peninsula Chapter of the Alaska Farm Bureau will hold its Annual Meeting at 6 p.m., Thursday, March 7 at the Cook Inlet Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is accepting applicaAquaculture Building on K-Beach Road. All Farm Bureau memtions for summer jobs for the Youth Conservation Corps bers and those wishing to join should attend. For Zoom sign on (YCC).

Eligible applicants will be youth 15-18 years of information, email kpchapterfb@gmail.com. age and who live in or have lodging available in the local commuting area. Applications are available at the KeSoldotna Historical Society & Homestead nai National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center, the Alaska Museum board meeting Employment Service Office in Kenai, or from local high Soldotna Historical Society & Homestead Museum board school career counseling offices. Applications will be acmeeting will take place Tuesday, March 5 at 8:30 a.m. at the Fine cepted from March 4 through April 12. All applications must be received at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Thyme Cafe. Questions? Carmen 262-2791 Headquarters on Ski Hill Road by 4:30 p.m. (close of Local Food Directory Deadline March 1 business), on April 12. The positions will be filled via a March 1 is the deadline for farmers, fishers, local food busi- random selection process and selected applicants will be nesses and sponsors to sign up to be included in the 2019 Kenai notified by phone no later than April 26. Youth will work Loves Local Food Directory. The directory is published annu- 40 hours each week from June 3 through July 26, and ally by Kenai Local Food Connection and Kenai Soil & Water receive $9.90 per hour. Job duties will include trail mainConservation District. For more information, go to www.kenai- tenance and rehabilitation, cabin restoration, campground maintenance, litter collection, biological assistance, and soilandwater.org or call Heidi Chay at 283-8732 x 5.

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Jade Gamble, program director for emergency management, said that the focus of the event will be teaching people how to put together emergency kits and how to formulate emergency response plans. “We’re doing this so our community can withstand and respond quickly to emergencies,” Gamble said.

The idea for the event first came about as a response to the flooding in Seward, and it was only two days after OEM had

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campaign. But he also said he had no “direct evidence” that Trump or his aides colluded with Russia to get him elected, the primary question of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Cohen, shaking off incessant criticism from Republicans anxious to paint him as a felon and liar, became the first Trump insider to pull back the curtain on a version of the inner workings of Trump’s political and business operations. He likened the president to a “mobster” who demanded blind loyalty from underlings and expected them to lie on his behalf to conceal information and protect him — even if it meant breaking the law.

“I am not protecting Mr. Trump anymore,” Cohen declared.

“My loyalty to Mr. Trump has cost me everything: my family’s happiness, friendships, my law license, my company, my livelihood, my honor, my reputation, and soon my freedom,” Cohen said. “I will not sit back say nothing and allow him to do the same to the country.”

Cohen’s matter-of-fact testimony about secret payments and lies unfolded as Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. At

call 907-262-2199 to report when the damage gets too severe. He also recommended driving slowly — around 20 miles per hour — to prevent creating more potholes. Gabriel said that the transition between the paved road and the ground asphalt is particularly sus-

ceptible to potholes, and drivers should be aware of the “lip” that is created by the transition.

According to Gabriel, there is no structural damage to the culvert underneath the road, but it could potentially be replaced while repairs are made later this year.

started planning for the event that the earthquake hit, Gamble said.

Gamble and her team took this as a sign that they needed to put this resilience fair together as soon as possible. While OEM has not done anything like this in recent memory, Gamble said that several more of these could happen over the next year depending on the response from the community and the resources available.

Each organization that is participating will bring something different to the table. Central Emergency Services will be teaching ways to safely heat your home when the power is

out. The National Guard will be giving hands-on training in disaster first aid. Soldotna Public Safety Communications Center will be giving information on how to receive alerts from the borough during and after a disaster. Gamble said that OEM has tried to provide as many resources as possible for the event, because the community can never be too prepared for all of the different ways disaster can strike.

The Community Resiliency Fair will take place on Saturday, March 2 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Peninsula Center Mall in Soldotna. The event is free to the public.

a Vietnam hotel and unable to ignore the drama thousands of miles away, Trump lashed out on Twitter, saying Cohen “did bad things unrelated to Trump” and “is lying in order to reduce his prison time.”

In testimony that cut to the heart of federal investigations encircling the White House, Cohen said he arranged a hush money payment to a porn actress at the president’s behest and agreed to lie about it to the public and the First Lady. He said he had lied by claiming that Trump was “not knowledgeable” about the transaction even though the president had directly arranged for his reimbursement.

And he said he was left with the unmistakable impression Trump wanted him to lie to Congress about a Moscow real estate project, though the president never directly told him so.

In one revelation, Cohen said prosecutors in New York were investigating conversations Trump or his advisers had with him after his office and hotel room were raided by the FBI last April. Cohen said he could not discuss that conversation, the last contact he said he has had with the president or anyone acting on his behalf, because it remains under investigation.

The appearance marked the latest step in Cohen’s evolution from legal fixer for the president — he once boasted he’d “take a bullet” for Trump

— to a foe who has implicated him in federal campaign finance violations. The hearing proceeded along parallel tracks, with Democrats focusing on allegations against Trump while Republicans sought to undermine Cohen’s credibility and the proceeding itself.

As Republicans blasted him as a convicted liar, a mostly unrattled Cohen sought to blunt the attacks by repeatedly acknowledging his own failings. He called himself a “fool,” warned lawmakers of the perils of blind loyalty to a leader undeserving of it and pronounced himself ashamed of what he’d done to protect Trump.

Cohen is due to begin a three-year prison sentence in May, and described himself as cooperative with multiple investigations in hopes of reducing his time behind bars.

He is seen as a vital witness for federal prosecutors be-

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states that employers “may establish dress code policies that are consistently used for all employees.” Opponents said the language could be used as a loophole for discrimination.

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munity and provided their services.”

Gabriel said Amazon’s move is fair to both local businesses and to the city.

“I can imagine it is pretty discouraging for them, when they’ve made an investment into the community and have to charge more than somebody else has to charge online. It’s an unfair advantage,” he continued.

According to City Mancause of his proximity to the president during key episodes under investigation and their decade-long professional relationship.

The first of six Trump aides charged in the TrumpRussia investigation to testify publicly about crimes committed during the 2016 campaign and in the months that followed, Cohen also delivered biting personal commentary on a president he said never expected to win in the first place.

“He never expected to win the primary. He never expected to win the general election,” Cohen said. “The campaign — for him — was always a marketing opportunity.”

He recounted how Trump made him threaten schools he attended to not release his grades and SAT scores and denigrated blacks as “too stupid” to vote for him. He said Trump once confided

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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) in Soldotna. Membership and general club information is available at www.cenpengardenclub. org, on facebook, or contact Phyllis Boskofsky at cenpengardenclub@gmail.com.

KPC College Council meeting 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/.

language that allows a hiring exemption for religious corporations, associations, educational institutions or societies.

Businesses with three or fewer employees will be exempt from the law.

Councilmen Jerry Cleworth and David Pruhs voted against ordinance. Cleworth supported language that would have required

aggrieved individuals to seek recourse through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or the Alaska Human Rights Commission before filing a lawsuit.

“That’s a horrible way to construct a law. We made some good progress tonight on it as a whole, but just going straight to litigation is problematic,” Cleworth said.

ager Paul Ostrander, Kenai is projecting six-figure revenues from the changes to Amazon’s sales taxes. This estimate is based on similar projections from municipalities throughout the state.

“Juneau is projecting a significant amount of revenue based on their 5 percent sales tax within their municipality. Based on their numbers, if you are going to look at our population and our sales tax rate, we are likely going to see …

We’re going to see at least six-figure revenues from this change with Amazon

here in the city of Kenai,” Ostrander said.

The discussion was spurred by a previous council discussion where Council Member Tim Navarre expressed his concerns that residents are being taxed unfairly due to their postal codes.

In response, City Attorney Scott Bloom said that customers who believe they’ve been improperly taxed can reach out to the borough and Amazon to address the issue.

Reach Kat Sorensen at ksorensen@peninsulaclarion.com.

to him that, despite his public explanation of a medical deferment from the Vietnam War because of bone spurs, he never had any intention of fighting there.

“I find it ironic, President Trump, that you are in Vietnam right now,” Cohen said.

Cohen gave lawmakers his first-person account of how he arranged to buy the silence of a porn actress and a Playboy model who said they had sex with Trump. He described a February 2017 conversation with Trump in the Oval Office in which the president reassured him that reimbursement checks sent through Federal Express were coming but would take some time to get through the

White House system.

He said the president spoke to him a year later to discuss the public messaging around the transaction, and had even once put his wife, Melania, on the phone so that Cohen could lie to her.

“Lying to the first lady is one of my biggest regrets,” Cohen said. “She is a kind, good person. I respect her greatly, and she did not deserve that.”

In an allegation relating to Mueller’s probe, Cohen said he overheard Trump confidant Roger Stone telling the candidate in the summer of 2016 that WikiLeaks would dump damaging information about Clinton.

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A portrait of breathtaking, unsurprising dishonesty Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s Wednesday hearing before the House Oversight Committee was explosive not for what was new — but, depressingly, what was not new to anyone watching this administration with clear eyes. The takeaway: President Trump is a liar with a defective character — and, possibly, a criminal.

Corroborating allegations previously revealed in court documents, the president’s former fixer said Mr. Trump was deeply involved in the felony campaign finance violation to which Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty in a Manhattan courtroom. Mr. Cohen said Mr. Trump asked him to pay adultfilm star Stephanie Clifford $130,000 shortly before the 2016 election to keep her silent about an alleged affair. Mr. Cohen provided a copy of a check, signed by the president, reimbursing him for the illegal payoff. “I am going to jail in part because of my decision to help Mr. Trump hide that payment from the American people before they voted a few days later,” Mr. Cohen said. “He knew about everything.”

Mr. Cohen also insisted that Mr. Trump got advance notice in July 2016 from GOP trickster Roger Stone that WikiLeaks was planning to publish documents damaging to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. If true, this means that Mr. Trump lied to the country when he denied ever speaking with Mr. Stone, who is now under indictment, about WikiLeaks.

Mr. Cohen offered a similar account of the president’s dishonesty on the question of whether Mr. Trump pursued a Trump Tower in Moscow during the campaign. “Mr. Trump knew of and directed the Trump Moscow negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it,” Mr. Cohen said.

He stipulated that Mr. Trump did not order him to lie to Congress about the matter, as Mr. Cohen did, but explained that he “made clear to me, through his personal statements to me that we both knew were false and through his lies to the country, that he wanted me to lie.”

In other words, according to Mr. Cohen, the president’s record of lies and concealment is substantial, and on far weightier issues than misstating a fact here or there. This is not the truthbending that used to pass as normal for Washington politicians, but dishonesty that is far more breathtaking.

Mr. Cohen’s also offered a dishearteningly believable account of Mr. Trump’s character. Calling the president “a racist,” ”a conman” and “a cheat,” Mr. Cohen recounted that “while we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in Chicago, he commented that only black people could live that way. And he told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid.”

For their part, Republicans spent nearly all of their time attacking Mr. Cohen rather than defending the president — with one going so far as to childishly recite the rhyme, “liar, liar, pants on fire.” Yet Mr. Cohen repeatedly admitted guilt and apologized for his own role in the activities he described.

Rather than ignore Mr. Cohen’s allegations, House Republicans might have taken his warning, learned over a decade carrying water for the president: “The more people that follow Mr. Trump, as I did blindly are going to suffer the same consequences that I’m suffering.”

— The Washington Post, Feb. 27

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Kudos to Dianne Feinstein

Here’s a sentence I never thought I would write: Dianne Feinstein was right.

A small group of middle- and high-school children from the San Francisco Bay area visited the Democratic senator from California last week to demand she support the “Green New Deal,” a collection of environmental policies even some Democrats find too extreme, too costly and too fantastical.

What followed was the kind of lecture that is almost absent in a modern culture that overemphasizes youth.

One of the students, an unidentified 16-year-old, was quoted by The Washington Post: “…we have come to a point where our Earth is dying, and it is literally a pricey and ambitious plan that is needed to deal with the magnitude of that issue, so we’re asking you to vote ‘yes’ on the resolution for the Green New Deal because…”

Feinstein interrupted: “That resolution will not pass the Senate, and you can take that back to whoever sent you here.” She added, “I know what can pass, and I know what can’t pass.”

Behind the student group is an organization known as the Sunrise Movement, which describes itself as “…a movement to stop climate change and create millions of new jobs in the process.” There is more gobbledygook about an army of young people who are scared about the “climate crisis” and the familiar condemnation of fossil fuels, corpo-

rate executives and “their influence on our politics.”

In other words, they are e nv i r o n m e n t a l extremists.

Sunrise criticized Feinstein Cal Thomas for being callous toward the young people. In fact, this grown-up gave them a reality lesson.

Another child, and that’s what they are in law and biology, one Alexandria Villasenor, a 13-yearold seventh-grader, has spent the last nine Fridays sitting on a bench outside the United Nations in New York demanding action on climate change. On March 15 (beware the Ides of March), she will be part of a “school strikes for climate” demonstration. The Post reports the worldwide demonstrations will be supported by some of the world’s biggest environmental groups.

How does a 13-year-old, and other teens, acquire such knowledge?

Most likely they are simply parroting what their teachers have been telling them. Climate change is simply the latest fad, like tattoos and body piercing once were.

When I was their age, skipping school meant a call to my parents from the principal’s office with quick punishment to follow.

The problem in too many of our public schools, universities and much of culture is that we have hand-

ed over control to people who don’t know what they are talking about.

Adults — at least ones thought to have acquired wisdom, which is different from knowledge — were once tasked with leading the young. Now, in too many instances, we seem to be following them. What happened?

This is a case of the climatechange chickens coming home to roost. Which political party has promoted end-of-the-world scare tactics for decades? Not Republicans.

But, like Nostradamus and other apocalyptic prognosticators, when the world doesn’t end on the date predicted, the sky-is-falling crowd simply moves on to the next prediction.

Sen. Feinstein said to the children, some of whom spouted familiar slogans, as if they were programmed: “You know what’s interesting about this group is I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I know what I’m doing. …

You come in here and say, ‘It has to be my way or the highway.’ I don’t respond to that.”

That’s called acting like an adult.

In today’s culture, older adults are thought to lack knowledge, because they didn’t grow up with the internet. A little humility and more study might benefit these kids, as would different teachers, textbooks or even a change in schools.

This year marks Cal Thomas’ 35th year as a syndicated columnist.

Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

Homer News: Dunleavy’s Procrustean budget Gov. Mike Dunleavy deserves both acclaim and criticism for his proposed fiscal year 2020 budget.

While he’s not the first governor to present a budget fully paid for by state revenues — hello, Sarah Palin! — he’s the first governor since oil revenues started plummeting to propose a budget that matches revenues. When he ran for governor, he said he would do that, so no one should be surprised that he’s lived up to his promise.

Dunleavy deserves credit for making real what had been imagined: a budget that makes the deep cuts necessary if you don’t seek new revenues like an income tax, don’t change our oil and gas tax structure, and don’t use Permanent Fund earnings.

Like Procrustes, the demigod of Greek mythology who made travelers fit into his bed by chopping off limbs, Dunleavy has crafted a small frame and forced the budget to fit.

The wailing you hear from the North Slope to Ketchikan is of Alaskans contemplating a future with Dunleavy’s Procrustean budget.

During his campaign, Dunleavy

was careful never to say exactly how he would cut the budget. He said he would restore our Permanent Fund Dividends and he would not ask for new taxes. You don’t win votes by telling citizens you will cut ferry service, take away revenue sharing, cut education funding, close prisons and eliminate good paying jobs.

Dunleavy has forced a conversation Alaskans didn’t want to have. If you don’t raise revenues by a statewide income tax or sales tax, and if you don’t dip into Permanent Fund earnings, what kind of government results? Dunleavy and Donna Arduin, his loyal budget hawk — more a velociraptor actually — have done that.

They also have proposed a budget that lacks any analysis of the shortterm economic impact on Alaska.

While Dunleavy shows great imagination in contemplating a leaner, stingier future, he hasn’t done the harder job of considering what that will mean to Alaska’s economy, not exactly in stellar shape at the moment. When you cut spending, lay off state employees, cut ferry schedules, fire teachers and professors,

and reduce health care benefits to the poor, there’s bound to be some economic effect. Will that be offset by the economic boost of $3,000 dividends next fall? That’s a good question pesky legislators have asked of Dunleavy and he hasn’t answered.

Is it better to maintain a status quo government that doesn’t make cuts to education? Can the people best determine their economic future if the government lets them spend the money it gives them? Those are the questions Dunleavy has set forth.

Before we didn’t know what a tight budget looked like. Now we know.

Now we and our legislators can determine if that’s a future we want to make and live in.

But Gov. Dunleavy also should remember the ending to the story of Procrustes. The hero Theseus ended his reign of terror by capturing Procrustes, and punished him by making him fit into his own bed.

Right or wrong, Dunleavy has made his bed, and he will have to lie in it.

— Michael Armstrong, editor

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Trump, at North Korea summit, distracted by Cohen

President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Wednesday,, in Hanoi. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

By JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press

HANOI, Vietnam — The moment was meant to be a grand diplomatic triumph, a headline-dominating spectacle that could lead to the disarmament of a dangerous nation while delivering a vital political victory.

Instead, President Donald Trump’s high-stakes summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Vietnam on Wednesday was in danger of being upstaged by a monumental betrayal unfolding half a world away in Washington.

Hours after Trump sat face-to-face with Kim in Vietnam, his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, sat before Congress and testified that his longtime boss was a “conman” and a

“racist” who lied about having advanced knowledge of Wikileaks plans to release an opponent’s stolen emails.

The spectacle was proof the Trump presidency has not yet exhausted its ability to surprise. As the president staged a historic summit abroad, a former confidante delivered testimony, both detailed and taunting, that threatened to humiliate the president and undermine his foreign policy goals.

The drama drew Trump’s attention even amid sensitive denuclearization talks.

Even before the hearing began, the president unleashed an attack on his former fixer, who has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress and campaign finance violations and has been sentenced to three years. In a tweet, Trump downplayed

Cohen’s influence and claimed he was “lying in order to reduce his prison time.”

Later, as he sat for a photo with Kim, Trump bristled at reporters’ questions about Cohen. After the event, the White House took the extraordinary step of barring four U.S. reporters, including one from The Associated Press, from Trump’s dinner with Kim, citing the “sensitivities” of the meeting.

Democrats consider Cohen their star witness as they kick off investigations into Trump’s business practices, presidential campaign and embattled charitable foundation, including any payments relating to efforts to influence the 2016 election. He was initially due on Capitol Hill earlier this month, but his appearance was delayed. The president’s son Donald Jr. accused Democrats of timing the hearing to interfere with Trump’s trip abroad.

Cohen’s testimony appeared designed to get under Trump’s skin.

Reading from his prepared remarks, Cohen said Trump instructed him to threaten schools that Trump attended to prevent release of his grades or SAT scores.

Cohen also described discussing the Vietnam War with his former boss, who

didn’t serve because he received a medical deferment for bone spurs. But Cohen says Trump could not provide any medical records and said: “You think I’m stupid, I wasn’t going to Vietnam.”

Added Cohen, addressing the president thousands of miles away: “I find it ironic, President Trump, that you are in Vietnam right now.”

The hearing began just before midnight in Hanoi. It was not clear whether Trump stayed up late to watch. The president did spend some of the downtime at his hotel before his dinner with Kim watching the coverage of Cohen’s prepared testimony, which was released the evening before his Capitol Hill appearance.

In the written testimony released in advance of the appearance, the president’s former lawyer and fixer acknowledged he organized a cover up of potentially damaging allegations of infidelity, which Trump denies, and listened to Trump’s racist remarks. Cohen claimed Trump was told by an associate, Roger Stone, that WikiLeaks had emails damaging to his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign and planned to release them. Trump has previously denied knowing anything about Stone’s communications with WikiLeaks.

Floods isolate 2 California towns; storm dumps snow in West

By HAVEN DALEY and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press

GUERNEVILLE, Calif. — Two communities in Northern California’s wine country were accessible only by boat Wednesday after a rain-swollen river overflowed its banks following a relentless downpour across an already waterlogged region.

The small city of Guerneville north of San Francisco “is officially an island,” with the overflowing Russian River forecast to hit its highest level in about 25 years, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

“Nobody is coming or going from the Guerneville area at this time,” said sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Crum. The nearby town of Monte Rio was also isolated by floodwaters and all roads leading to it were swamped.

The still rising Russian River was engorged by days of rain from western U.S. storms that have also dumped heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada, throughout the Pacific Northwest and into Montana, where Gov. Steve Bullock signed an emergency order to help

Jonathan Von Renner checks on his son Jonathan Jr., and friend Emilio Ontivares in lower Guerneville, Calif., Wednesday. (Kent Porter/The Press Democrat via AP)

keep up the supply of heating fuel amid frigid temperatures.

Snow from the storms closed roads and schools and toppled trucks and trees from Oregon to Montana and an avalanche in the Sierra prompted Amtrak to suspend rail service between Sacramento and Reno, Nevada.

The Russian River topped 42 feet (13 meters) Wednesday afternoon, when television helicopter footage showed homes underwater and cars submerged. It could crest at more than 46 feet (14 meters) by Wednesday night, officials said. About 4,000

residents in two dozen river communities were ordered to evacuate Tuesday evening but officials estimate only about half heeded the orders, Crum said.

Jeff Bridges, co-owner of the R3 Hotel in Guerneville, said he and others who stayed behind were well prepared to ride out the storm.

He and employees spent most of the night moving computers, business records and furniture to second-floor room. Reached by telephone, Bridges said there was about 7 feet (2 meters) of water at his two-story home in Guerneville Wednesday but was not worried.

“As long as everybody is safe, dry and warm, it’s all fine. You just ride it out,” said Bridges, noting that this flood was the fourth he’s experienced in 33 years.

He added: “People in Florida have hurricanes, people in Maine have blizzards; we have floods,” he said. “It’s the price we have to pay to live in paradise.”

Several areas in California set record-high rainfall totals, including nearby Santa Rosa, which had nearly 8 inches (20 centimeters) of rain in one day. The often-waterlogged Venado weather station 5 miles (8 kilometers) from Guerneville recorded more than 20 inches (50 centimeters) of rain in 48 hours.

In the Sierra Nevada, which has already seen a month of heavy snow, two Amtrak trains together carrying nearly 300 passengers stopped and reversed directions because of an avalanche that closed railroad tracks. Service on Amtrak’s California Zephyr between Reno and Sacramento, California, has been suspended until weather conditions improve, Amtrak spokeswoman Kimberly Woods said.

Walmart is getting rid of greeters, worrying the disabled

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press

As Walmart moves to phase out its familiar bluevested “greeters” at some 1,000 stores nationwide, disabled workers who fill many of those jobs say they’re being ill-treated by a chain that styles itself as community-minded and inclusive.

Walmart told greeters around the country last week that their positions would be eliminated on April 26 in favor of an expanded, more physically demanding “customer host” role. To qualify, they will need to be able to lift 25-pound (11-kilogram) packages, climb ladders and stand for long periods.

That came as a heavy blow to greeters with cerebral palsy, spina bifida and other physical disabilities.

For them, a job at Walmart has provided needed income, served as a source of pride and offered a connection to the community.

Now Walmart, America’s largest private employer, is facing a backlash as cus-

tomers rally around some of the chain’s most visible and beloved employees.

Walmart says it is striving to place greeters in other jobs at the company, but workers with disabilities are worried.

Donny Fagnano, 56, who has worked at Walmart for more than 21 years, said he cried when a manager at the store in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, called him into the office last week and told him his job was going away.

“I like working,” he said.

“It’s better than sitting at home.”

Fagnano, who has spina bifida, said he was offered a severance package. He hopes to stay on at Walmart and clean bathrooms instead.

Walmart greeters have been around for decades, allowing the retail giant to put a friendly face at the front of its stores. Then, in 2016, Walmart began replacing greeters with hosts, with responsibilities that include not only welcoming customers but helping with returns, checking receipts to deter shoplifters and keep-

In this 2018 photo provided by Rachel Wasser, Walmart greeter John Combs works at a Walmart store in Vancouver, Wash. (Rachel Wasser via AP)

ing the front of the store clean. Walmart and other chains have been redefining roles at stores as they compete with Amazon.

The effect of the greeter phase-out on disabled and elderly employees — who have traditionally gravitated toward the role as one they were well-suited to doing — largely escaped public notice until last week, when Walmart launched a second round of cuts.

As word spread, first on social media and then in local and national news

outlets, outraged customers began calling Walmart to complain. Tens of thousands of people signed petitions. Facebook groups sprang up with names like “Team Adam” and “Save Lesley.” A second-grade class in California wrote letters to Walmart’s CEO on behalf of Adam Catlin, a disabled greeter in Pennsylvania whose mother had written an impassioned Facebook post about his plight. Walmart said it has offered another job to Catlin.

Around the World Egypt says fight between conductors led to crash killing 25 CAIRO — A fight between two train conductors unleashed a speeding, unmanned locomotive that slammed into a barrier and exploded in the Egyptian capital’s main train station Wednesday, killing at least 25 people, authorities said.

Railway officials said the single railcar collided head-on with the buffer stop, causing a huge explosion and fire. At least 47 people were also injured, many of them critically, and officials said the death toll could rise.

The deadly blaze blasted through people on the platform in the busy Ramses Station in downtown Cairo. A surveillance video showed the moment of impact when the car barreled past men and women walking by and engulfed them in flames and smoke. Charred bodies lay on the platform, and a man in flames ran down a staircase in panic, according to other photos and videos posted on social media.

Egypt’s Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek said investigators determined the locomotive’s conductor had left his car to fight with another conductor whose railcar was blocking his.

But the conductor left without putting on the brakes and the other car began moving backward, freeing the locomotive, which then gathered speed and hit the concrete-and-metal barrier, exploding.

“The driver left the railcar without taking any measures to brake it,” Sadek said in a statement.

Sadek put the death toll at 20 while health officials said at least 25 people were killed and dozens more were injured in the crash and ensuing fire. Some of the bodies were burnt beyond recognition and DNA tests were carried out to determine identities.

The driver of the railcar has been under interrogation and Sadek said the investigation was continuing.

The deadly accident prompted Transportation Minister Hisham Arafat to resign his post, according to a statement released by the Cabinet office.

The Ramses district is among the busiest and most crowded areas of Cairo. The state railway agency briefly halted all train traffic and ordered the evacuation of the station.

The accident triggered an online debate among many Egyptians, with many blaming the government for not improving railway services in Egypt, even after a series of deadly accidents. Several noted previous statements by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi arguing about spending billions of pounds on improving trains.

Video from surveillance cameras showed flames ravaging the station’s interior. One video that surfaced on social media showed men and women carrying bags and personal belongings and walking on the rail platforms as the train car crashes and explodes.

Another showed men and women running and searching for exits after the explosion. A man is seen running back and forth, his shirt on fire, until another man rushes to pour water on him.

Mohammed Said, head of the Cairo Railroad hospital, said at least 25 were killed but that the death toll could rise.

Many of the wounded were in critical condition, mostly suffering severe burns, said Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed.

Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli vowed harsh punishment for those behind the accident.

Egypt’s railway system has a history of badly maintained equipment and poor management. Official figures show that 1,793 train accidents took place in 2017 across the country.

In July 2018, a passenger train derailed near the southern city of Aswan, injuring at least six people and prompting authorities to fire the chief of the country’s railways.

In March last year, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said the government lacks about 250 billion Egyptian pounds, or $14.1 billion, to overhaul the run-down rail system. El-Sissi spoke a day after a passenger train collided with a cargo train, killing at least 12 people, including a child.

In August 2017, two passenger trains collided just outside the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, killing 43 people. In 2016, at least 51 people were killed when two commuter trains collided near Cairo.

The deadliest train crash took place in 2002 when over 300 people were killed when fire erupted in speeding train traveling from Cairo to southern Egypt.

Turkish president holds talks with Jared Kushner ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Wednesday with Jared Kushner for talks focused on the Trump administration’s planned but as-yet unveiled Middle East peace initiative.

Erdogan’s office said the meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump’s adviser and son-in-law was also attended by Turkey’s Economy Minister Berat Albayrak, who is Erdogan’s son-in-law.

Kushner has said he plans to release details of the plan sometime after Israel’s April 9 Israeli election. But he has said it will address all “final status” issues, including borders, and require compromises by all sides.

He has made no mention of establishing a separate Palestinian state and said the plan would focus heavily on offering economic “opportunities” to the Palestinians.

His comments about the initiative have received a cool reception from Israeli and Palestinian leaders and his trip to Ankara is part of a Mideast tour aimed at building support for the plan.

On Tuesday, Kushner and his peace plan partner Jason Greenblatt met with Saudi Arabia’s king and crown prince.

The White House said Wednesday that Kushner and U.S. officials met with King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss cooperation between the two countries and the peace plan.

The White House readout did not say if they spoke about the brutal killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The murder drew international condemnation and heighted the scrutiny of the relationship between the Saudi royals and the Trump administration.

— The Associated Press

Arts&Entertainment

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What’s Happening Events and Exhibitions

n 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! n 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. n The Performing Arts Society is pleased to announce the return of pianist Eduard Zilberkant, who has charmed our audiences several times in the past.

Joining him are Bryan Emmon Hall, violin; Gail Johansen, viola; and Ryan Fitzpatrick, cello. They will be performing works by Beethoven, Turina, and Arensky. Please join us for this classical chamber music on Saturday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. at Soldotna Christ Lutheran Church. Tickets are $20 general admission and $10 for students and may be purchased in advance in Soldotna at River City Books and Northcountry Fair or in Kenai at Already Read Books and Country Liquor or at the door. n Forever Dance Alaska will present “The Best of Broadway” annual showcase on March 29-30 at 7 p.m. at the Renee C. Henderson Auditorium. Tickets are $15, includes $1 KPBSD seat charge. Call 262-1641 or email info@foreverdancealaska.com. n 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. n Join KDLL Adventure Talks at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Kenai Visitors and Cultural Center for photos and stories from Soldotna Dr. Kristin Mitchell, who just returned from a monthlong trip to Antarctica. And tune in to KDLL 91.9 FM at 10 a.m. Feb. 27 for an onair interview with Dr. Mitchell about the Homeward Bound program, a leadership collaboration between women working in STEMM. Admission is free for KDLL members or $5 for nonmembers. For more information, visit www.kdll.org or KDLL 91.9 FM on Facebook, or call Jenny at 283-8433. n Kenai Performers presents Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka Feb. 28 and March 1, 2, 3 at the Renee C. Henderson Auditorium at Kenai Central High School. Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. Directed

by Terri Burdick and Donna Shirnberg. Conducted by Kent Peterson. 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m.

Sunday matinee. $26 General Admission, $21 Children, Seniors, Military and $16 Thursday Economy nights.

Tickets available online, at River City Books, The Flats Bistro, Curtain Call Consignment Boutique, and at the door. Adapted for the stage by Leslie Bricusse and Timothy Allen McDonald. Based on the book, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl.

Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

All authorized performance materials are supplied by MTI; www.MTIShows.com. Need more information?

Call 252-6808 or 398-4205 or visit www.kenaiperformers.org.

For many, ‘Green Book’ win was a confounding Oscar climax

Jim Burke, from left, Charles B. Wessler, Nick Vallelonga, Peter Farrelly, and Brian Currie pose with the award for best picture for “Green Book” in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/ Invision/AP)

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer

LOS ANGELES — An Academy Awards that sparkled with more women and African-American winners than ever before came to a screeching halt with the night’s final honor.

Some would even call it a “Crash.”

In a twist ending that shocked many of the Dolby Theatre attendees and those watching at home, Peter Farrelly’s hotly debated buddy road-trip dramedy “Green Book” triumphed at the 91st Oscars, complicating the story line on a night that had, until that moment, belonged to cultural milestones like Ryan Coogler’s

“Black Panther” and Alfonso Cuaron’s borderbreaking Netflix release, “Roma.”

It’s not unusual for the announcement of an Oscar winner to provoke a grimace or two. It’s less ordinary to see members of the crowd leap to their feet, wave their arms in disgust and nearly stomp out of the theater.

The cameras missed it, but that was how Spike Lee responded in the Dolby Theatre. After all, Lee has seen it before. Almost exactly 30 years ago, “Driving Miss Daisy” — a movie with a similarly simplistic view of race that is often compared to “Green Book” — won best picture in the

The Bookwork Sez Growing older is a very good thing.

First of all, there’s a secret to it: aging isn’t as important as are the perks of aging. Free desserts. Discounts everywhere. Better parking spots. Interesting memories. And, as in the new book “An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good” by Helene Tursten, the chance to get away with murder.

No matter what they did, Maud was staying put.

Her apartment had been home for 88 years, thanks to lawyers who’d drawn up a contract when Maud’s father died seven decades ago, leaving her mother near penniless. Then, kindly new buyers for the apartment’s building had agreed to allow the widow and her daughters to stay, rent-free, for as long as they wished – of course, never dreaming any agreement could last so long. It wasn’t a very

Poet’s The Weather

By Marty Myre Constantly changing With each day — brings new Open your eyes — look to the window You’ll see what’s true Temperatures rise As the snow — begins to fall God has a plan It’s a blanket over all No matter the day One must hold its hand Snow, rain or shine Alaska’s weather is grand As the snowflakes fall Light as a feather Another beautiful day Get out and enjoy the weather!

Poems must include the writer’s name, phone number and address. They should be kept to no more than 300 words. Submission of a poem does not guarantee publication. Poems may be e-mailed to news@peninsulaclarion.com, faxed to 283-3299, delivered to the Clarion at 150 Trading Bay Road or mailed to P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, AK 99611.

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same year Lee’s incendiary “Do the Right Thing” came out. Backstage, Lee joked on the win for “Green Book” that “the ref made a bad call.”

“I’m snake bit. Every time somebody is driving somebody, I lose!” Lee, who won his first competitive Oscar for the script to “BlacKkKlansmn,” told reporters, laughing. “But they changed the seating arrangement.”

Lee was far from alone in his reaction. “Green Book” is the most divisive, and by some measure, most critically derided best-picture winner in more than a decade. Its win was greeted by many as a sign that Hollywood may have changed

enough to honor the second and third black female nonacting Oscar winners (as it did Sunday with costume designer Ruth E. Carter and production designer Hannah Beachler for “Black Panther”), but it hadn’t progressed so far that it didn’t hand the industry’s top award to a movie criticized for portraying a retrograde view of race as seen through a white protagonist’s eyes.

“Many of us in the black community would like to see greater recognition for movies about the black experience and not just for movies that make the black experience comfortable for white audiences,” television commentator and author Keith Boykin wrote.

Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang called it “the worst best picture winner since ‘Crash’” and, further, “insultingly glib and hucksterish, a self-satisfied crock masquerading as an olive branch.” According to the review-aggregation website Metacritic, not since 2004’s “Crash” — another movie about race relations made primarily by white men — has there been a winner with worse reviews.

But the backlash to “Green Book” — a film about the erudite jazz pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali, who won best supporting actor) and the Bronx-native bouncerturned-chauffer Tony “Lip” Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) — goes much

big place but a renegotiated small fee and the cost of utilities was all Maud paid to live there.

So no, she wasn’t going anywhere.

She was especially not moving downstairs, though that’s what famous-for-being-famous Jasmin Schimmerhof wanted Maud to do. Jasmin had a tiny apartment below Maud’s home, but she wanted Maud’s spacious flat so there’d be room for more “art.” Subtlety, Jasmin believed, would get her what she wanted but Maud saw through Jasmin’s ruse – and she killed her.

Ah, but Maud wasn’t always so ill-tempered and churlish. Once, when she was a girl, she fell in love with a man whose family ended the engagement when they realized that Maud’s family was poor.

She never forgot her beloved Gustaf, and because she’d kept track of him over the years, she knew that his See BOOK, page A9

Not just another Harry Potter knockoff — ‘Mary and the Witch’s Flower’ brings a fresh take on a familiar narrative R eeling It In C hris J enness

This week saw this release of yet another major children’s film, the finale to a major kid trilogy and I’ve heard almost nothing in response.

There was some slight early buzz that the third film in the “How to Train Your Dragon” series was supposed to be really good, but since it came out I’ve heard nothing. That doesn’t mean anything in and of itself.

Maybe I’m just distracted.

But usually, when a new release of this size comes out my kids are clamoring for it, birthday parties are being planned — it’s a whole thing. Not so here.

It could be that there is a little bit of fatigue toward this kind of movie right

now. Regardless, this week I chose to write about a different kind of animated movie, one that is a bit of a gateway into an art form I had previously avoided.

“Mary and the Witch’s Flower” is not, as I assumed, a product of Studio Ghibli, the creators of such classic anime as “Spirited Away” and “My Neighbor Totoro,” but is, instead, from a graduate of that program.

I was pretty hesitant about watching this movie, but we’d had a good experience with a similar film, “Howl’s Moving Castle,” so I decided to give it a shot.

I don’t why I’ve been so resistant — I think the animation style sort of turned me off, bringing up images of cheap Pokemon rip-offs and old “Speed Racer” cartoons in my mind. I have to say, though the anime is pretty conspicuous and

took some getting used to, the story and the extremely imaginative tone of both these films make it easily worth the effort.

“Witch’s Flower” tells a story that, at first, seemed derivative of “Harry Potter.” Mary, a young girl stuck at her maiden aunt’s country home with no

friends and nothing to do, discovers a magical broom which transports her, along with a cranky neighbor cat, to an amazing island which is the home to a school very much like Hogwarts.

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. . . Events

n Registration is open for the 4th semi-annual Alaska Food Festival & Continued from page A8 Conference, which will take place at Land’s End Resort in Homer on March 8 and 9. Session topics will cover Alaska’s vast and diverse food system: farmers market issues, food security, policy, production, harvesting, business, education, community, tradition, sovereignty, fermenting, subsistence, growing, and more! Chef demonstrations, hands-on activities, vendor booths, and a Friday night social round out the event. This event is sponsored by the Alaska Food Policy Council and the Alaska Farmers Market Association. For program and registration information, go to https://www.akfoodpolicycouncil.org/2019-conference/.

Entertainment n The Vagabond is having live music on Saturday, March 2. The music starts at 9 p.m. and the band is Running With Scissors. n Saturday, March 2 The Place Bar will have Karaoke starting at 9 p.m. n Ammo Can Coffee will host open mic nights from 7-11 p.m. on March 1/2. n The Flats Bistro in Kenai presents live dinner music every Thursday thru Saturday from 6:30-8:30 p.m., featuring Garrett Mayer on Thursdays, Mike Morgan on Fridays, and Derek Poppin on Saturdays. The Flats Bistro also presents after-dinner music on alternate Fridays and Saturdays from 9-11 p.m. This Friday, March 1, from 9-11:00 p.m., Mike Morgan and Friends host “Friday Night Live” featuring Robert Pepper, Mark Hutton, Lee Johnson and many other local musicians.

Watch this space for more music at The Flats. For reservations call The Flats Bistro at 907-335-1010.

n Veronica’s in Old Town Kenai has Open Mic from 6-8 p.m. Friday. Call Veronica’s at 283-2725. n The Alaska Roadhouse Bar and Grill hosts open horseshoe tournaments Thursday nights at the bar on Golddust Drive. For more information, call 262-9887. n Acapulco, 43543 Sterling Highway in Soldotna, has live music at 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. n A bluegrass jam takes place on the first Sunday of the month at from 1-4 p.m. at the Mount Redoubt Baptist Church on South Lovers Loop in Nikiski. n An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday. The jam takes place at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thursday of the month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the month. Jam starts at 6:30 p.m. n AmVets Post 4 has reopened in its brand new building on Kalifornsky Beach across from Jumpin’ Junction.

Eligible veterans and their families are invited to stop by to find out more about AmVets and their involvement in the Veteran community. For members and invited guests, Friday night dance to “Running with Scissors,” and Saturday Burn your own steak and karaoke with Cowboy Don. n Odie’s Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. n The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays. n Vagabond Inn has live music Sat. Feb. 9th. Troubadour North starting @ 9pm

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utes I was disappointed that what seemed creative and strange was Continued from page A7 going to turn out to be a knockoff. I couldn’t have been more wrong. The Potter similarities are slight and things go awry almost immediately as our hero discovers that the masters of the school have their own agenda in mind — one that has very little to do with education.

Like the other major English language releases of Ghibli films, “Mary and the Witch’s Flower” is dubbed by some relatively major American and British actors.

The cinema snob in me also balked at this, thinking that somehow the film would be feel cheapened as it is altered from its original form.

But, first, the movie is obviously animated and the dubbing appears flawless. There’s no disconnect in the way the character’s mouths move, which means either that animation is so loose that you can’t tell, or that the animators went back and adjusted those parts of the film to fit the English version.

And second, it’s not as though these stories are traditional Japanese folk tales. Most are based on Englishlanguage stories. This one is an adaptation of “The Little Broomstick” by Mary Stewart.

One by one, my preconceived notions and prejudices have proved false. I’ll definitely be checking out the other films in this family that people have, for years, been telling me I have to see.

“Mary and the Witch’s Flower” is beautiful, sweet, strange, and brilliantly unique. It gives you a feeling you get rarely these days, that you are watching a wholly creative vision and not just a rehash of recycled scenes and ideas. It’s definitely worth your time, as is “Howl’s Moving Castle.”

I guess I should have listened to all those people singing the praises of these films over the years. At least I’ve got something to look forward to. Grade A “Mary and the Witch’s Flower” is rated PG for some frightening scenes.

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much-younger new fiance was not to be trusted.

Proving the scam would Continued from page A7 be hard and it might embarrass Gustaf, and so instead Maud found the woman – and she killed her.

Murder, you see, is easy when you’re a fit, healthy almost-ninety-year-old. It takes care of many of the world’s problems and, as Maud knew, nobody would ever suspect an elderly lady of killing anyone… would they?

Grandma always told you to respect your elders. You might grow old someday, she said, leaving the rest to your imagination.

Betcha she never had someone like Maud in mind…

And that’s what makes “An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good” so delightfully grim and howlingly funny: despite stereotypes that author Helene Tursten carefully cultivates on the side, Maud’s no apple-cheeked little Granny. Expletives are quick to her lips, she’s independent as a cat, her schemes are smoothly diabolical, and she’s not above a little larceny if the chance presents itself. A con with a walker, an anti-Jessica-Fletcher, she’s also an Oscar-worthy actress when it comes to avoiding detection. Crimes aside, Maud is basically what we all want to be like when we’re “elderly.”

This is the perfect antidote to nice little mysteries that wrap up sweetly because there’s very little sweetness here. What you’ll find, instead, is gleefully-dark delight in short-story form. For whodunit lovers, “An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good” is very, very good.

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Billy Porter speaks on Oscars gown and social media hate

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press

NEW YORK — Billy Porter, speaking to Vogue before he walked the Oscars red carpet, knew what he was in for among some social media users: “People are going to be really uncomfortable with my black ass in a ball gown, but it’s not anybody’s business but mine.”

The remark from the Tony-winning stage performer, actor and singer was both prescient and disproven. There was mega-praise for his velvet custom tuxedo look by Christian Siriano and outrage over the notion that an African American man in a dress was a threat to black masculinity.

It was just the conversation Porter had hoped to provoke, not to collect virulent hate but to help move along the idea that we all deserve respect, across racial lines and the gender divide.

“I was ready to create the conversation,” Porter told The Associated Press in a phone interview Monday the day after the Oscars.

“We have to teach people how to treat us, we have to teach people how to love us, we have to teach people how to respect us, and the only way we do that is to respect ourselves.”

Porter, the black and gay breakout star of the boundary-expanding FX series “Pose,” spent awards season using fashion as political art, as he describes it.

There were previous dresses, and there was help from powerhouses Tom Ford and Michael Kors in the later weeks, along with smaller designers who embrace a greater gender fluidity in their collections and were

thrilled early on to dress him.

As a nominee at the Golden Globes, Porter’s custom trouser look by Randi Rahm, including a huge, hot pink-lined cape and floral embellishments, grabbed attention, but social media support and disdain after the 49-year-old took to the Oscars carpet took the debate into the stratosphere.

Porter understands where established notions of black masculinity originated, and he understands how toxic they can be. He and his stylist, Sam Ratelle, also realize how rigid gender-driven taboos can be and want to help the walls come down.

“It goes all the way back to the earliest of emasculations, which is slavery, so the only way to sort of overcome that is to be the strongest and the most masculine and the most powerful and now, what has become toxic,” Porter said. “And I don’t think it’s just black people. I think it’s men in general. Every ethnicity has their version of it.”

Porter couldn’t care less about negative comments.

“The comments are not my business. What people think about what I’m doing is not my business. I lived that already,” he said. “I’m inside of my authenticity and the whole point is that you have to respect me as much as I respect you. If you don’t like it, go somewhere else. You don’t have to look. It’s not about you.

I don’t understand why my putting on a dress causes this much strife in your life.”

Ratelle said he began working with Porter about a year ago.

“He said, ‘I want to be a piece of walking art,’ and

Billy Porter arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/ Invision/AP)

we just went from there,” Ratelle said. “It’s been really awesome to work with a bunch of great designers.

Randi Rahm was certainly completely open. Issey Miyake was fantastic for the Radio City show (Porter was a study in white). Christian Siriano, the fact that he did this custom gown in one week, was incredible after saying, ‘Absolutely. There’s no question we’ll do this.’

Michael Kors has been the most gracious human. So has Tom Ford.”

Porter said he’s just getting started in terms of pushing along the conversation.

“People are actually listening,” he said. “I hope it opens up a dialogue of healing. I will always continue to do me. If there’s anything I’ve learned in the 49 years that I’ve lived on this planet, is that being authentic is the only version of the story that anybody should be.”

Porter has always been a fashion lover. This year, he was an ambassador for the Council of Fashion Designers of America for men’s fashion week in New York and attended a variety of

shows featuring a variety of looks, from traditional to gender fluid.

Now that awards season is over, and the fashion week cycle is finishing up in Paris, Porter said he’ll continue to wear whatever he likes, with a great number of designers on board to help with pulls from their lines and custom outfits.

“Pre-Golden Globes it was difficult,” he said of options available to him, considering that he’s not sample size. “After the Golden Globes it has not been difficult. You work with the people who work with you.

You walk through the doors that are open. I’m never a beggar.”

In real life, or at least on live TV during the Oscars, Helen Mirren appeared ready for change, noting that both she and her copresenter, Jason Momoa, were dressed in pink.

“It just goes to show, doesn’t it, that these days a Hawaiian god and a very mature Englishwoman can actually wear the same color. We can both wear pink,” she said to claps.

Momoa agreed: “Finally.

The times are changin’.”

Russian choir draws fire for satirical song about nuking US The Associated Press

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — A choir in the Russian city of St. Petersburg has defended its decision to sing a satirical Soviet-era song about a nuclear attack on the United States after critics said the performance was a poor choice amid heightened tensions between Moscow and Washington.

A video of the St. Petersburg Concert Choir’s performance in the iconic St. Isaac’s Cathedral was posted over the weekend but only attracted attention Tuesday. The choir closed its social media page to comments after it was inundated with indignant remarks

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deeper than that. Though the film’s fans see in Farrelly’s film an often funny, feel-good odd-couple tale, critics of “Green Book” see a movie that trades on racial stereotypes and crassly capitalizes on the Green Book — a segregation-era travel guide for African Americans in the Deep South — with little interest in dramatizing its important history.

Following the win, filmmaker Ava DuVernay tweeted about the guide’s creator, Victor Hugo Green, “for anyone who may interested in what the Green Book actually was.”

“Green Book” was also fiercely criticized for not consulting with Shirley’s family: his last living brother Maurice Shirley and niece Carol Shirley Kimble. Kimble said there was “no due diligence done to afford my family and my deceased uncle the respect of properly representing him, his legacy, his worth and the excellence in which he operated and the excellence in which he lived.”

“It’s once again a depiction of a white man’s version of a black man’s life,” Kimble told Shadow and Act. It was noted, too, that in neither acceptance

During its Saturday concert marking Russia’s military holiday, the choir included the untitled song from 1980 that jokingly describes Soviet submariners and bomber pilots preparing to launch a nuclear attack on the U.S. “for three rubles.”

The choir said in a statement Tuesday that it performs a variety of songs as they originally were written and refuses to “rewrite lyrics for the sake of political correctness.”

St. Isaac’s Cathedral, which hosted the concert, told The Associated Press the song was not on the preapproved program for the St. Petersburg choir’s concert but performed as an encore, and that the cathedral

does not approve of it. .

Underground performer Andrei Kozlovsky wrote the song as a 21-year old university student in 1980 as political satire and it was never known to the broad public. The lyrics include the line, “Forgive us, America, fair America, but 500 years ago they discovered you for nothing.”

Critics of the choir’s performance said that while the song originally was intended to mock the weapons buildup by world superpowers, the satire might be lost on audiences now given the bellicose rhetoric coming from the Kremlin and state TV news programs presenting scenarios for how Russia’s weapons would do in a nuclear war.

President Vladimir Putin sternly warned the United States against deploying missiles in Europe, saying during his state-of-the-nation speech last week that Russia would retaliate with new weapons designed to reach targets rapidly.

Dmitry Kiselyov, an influential state media executive, followed up on Putin’s statement during his Sunday news program. Kiselyov named the U.S. command centers that could be targeted by the new Russian hypersonic missiles.

He also displayed interactive maps with calculations of how quickly the Russian missiles could strike targets on the east and west coasts of the United States.

speech did the film’s makers — Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga and Brian Currie, who together also won best screenplay — thank Shirley. Asked about that backstage at the Oscars, Vallelonga, the son of Tony Vallelonga, added his thanks to the pianist and addressed Kimble’s point.

“I wish I could have reached out to Don Shirley’s family,” said Vallelonga. “I didn’t even know they really existed until after we were making the film, and we contacted his estate for music; and then the filmmakers, we invited them all to screenings and discussions. But I personally was not allowed to speak to his family, per Don Shirley’s wishes.”

Later, at the Governor’s Ball, Vallelonga defended his film.

“Some of the attacks are unwarranted and untrue. But we believed in the movie the whole time,” Vallelonga said. “If it wasn’t true in our hearts, I don’t think it would resonate with people. It would come out false.”

And “Green Book” had its boosters. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar praised it in a column for The Hollywood Reporter, arguing that discrepancies that irk family members didn’t matter, and that “filmmakers are history’s interpreters, not its chroniclers.” Ali, who be-

came the second black actor to win two Oscars after Denzel Washington, called the film “a legitimate offering” in a November interview with The Associated Press, saying: “I’m getting some crap from people saying it’s a rosy picture of race, but, you know, it’s just a rosy picture of that relationship, not all race relationships.”

The movie’s win also wasn’t a complete shock.

“Green Book” triumphed at the highly predictive Producers Guild Awards, which, like the Oscars, uses a preferential ballot. And it won one of awards season’s first telling trophies: the Toronto International Film Festival’s audience award, besting “A Star Is Born” and “Roma.”

At the box office, the Universal release (made for a modest $23 million) was also the biggest ticket seller of any best picture nominee since nominations were announced in January. And two of the biggest rivals to “Green Book” at the Oscars — “Roma” and “Black Panther” — both had some academy members deadset against voting for them.

Netflix is seen as a threat to movie theaters since most of its films debut directly on its streaming service.

Others have resentment for superheroes’ dominance in today’s moviemaking.

Following withering #OscarsSoWhite critiques, the film academy has in recent years moved to diversify its largely white and male membership. Even in his disappointment over “Green Book,” Lee credited former academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and April Reign, who coined the hashtag, for opening up the academy.

“So that’s why three black women, if I’m counting correctly, won Oscars,” said Lee, whose tally included Carter, Beachler and Regina King, the supporting actress winner for “If Beale Street Could Talk.” ”That would not have happened without OscarsSoWhite and Cheryl Boone Isaacs. Facts.

As my brother Jay-Z says, facts.”

Kevin Willmott, who cowrote “BlacKkklansman” with Lee, Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz, was less eager to slam “Green Book” and more inclined to celebrate.

“You know, it’s a real breakthrough that any film about race gets to win anything,” said Willmott, who also penned Lee’s “ChiRaq.” ”When I first started in the industry, it was really bad; and we have come a long way since then. And tonight is a huge step forward I think in many different ways. And it’s still frustrating at times, but it’s great to see progress being made.”

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Dad turns sons into weapons in his bitter breakup with mom struggled with how to RSVP to invitations to cocktail parties and/or dinner. Many times I can go and would like to attend, but I can’t be sure my husband will be able to be there. Many times I decline for us both because I worry that it might be awkward for the Abigail Van Buren host/hostess if I accept for myself, but say I’m “not sure” for my husband.

How would you handle this?

-- REALLY WANTS TO GO IN KANSAS DEAR REALLY: If I wanted to attend the gathering, I would call my hosts and explain that I would love to come but couldn’t guarantee my husband would be able to because of his practice. Then I would add that he might drop by later (if that’s feasible). Gracious hosts will welcome you.

DEAR ABBY: I’m a longtime reader and I’m curious. Do you ever receive letters from “the other party”? Has anyone ever read your column, realized the letter is about them and written to tell you their side? Would you ever

print it if they did? There are always two sides to every story.

-- WONDERING IN HOUSTON DEAR WONDERING: The answer is yes. It happens rarely, but it does happen.

Last year I published a letter from a woman who was upset because her ex-husband had promised their daughter a large sum of money for the daughter’s wedding. He had told the daughter her mother would pay half the amount. She felt she should have been consulted first. (I agreed.)

I then heard from the ex-husband, who wanted me to know he had “apologized to her profusely” for not discussing the wedding budget beforehand and that he had offered to lower the budget, but the mother “only wanted to be responsible for paying for the bridal gown.” He closed by saying, “I’m not looking to get this published, just thought you’d like to know the other side of the story and allow myself to blow off a little steam.” I hope this satisfies your curiosity.

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 Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019: This year, you will experience more excitement than you have for a long time. Be careful with financial upset; you could experience a problem. However, upset surrounding day-to-day life and in conversation might be exciting and can be worked with. If single, you find that you meet high-energy people through friends or when you’re in a group. If you’re attached, you and your partner enjoy each other’s company and often can be found chatting away. Listen to advice from CAPRICORN. 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 You assume the lead in whatever you decide to do. Your instincts help you design a situation that encourages others to agree and pitch in. All the positive thinking helps hit a home run, pleasing you and almost everyone. Tonight: A must appearance.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH You have discussed a decision or project with each person involved. The time has come to pitch your idea to those who need to make a decision. Help others see the big picture. You might be quite feisty and touchy, especially by the end of the day. Tonight: Off to the gym. Time for a workout.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You could be stunned by what occurs and the realization that ensues.

You might need to think more in terms of processing rather than blindly making assumptions that have worked for you in the past. Understand that people change. Tonight: Go with a suggestion.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Defer to others, and get down to basics. You have certain errands to run and ideas that need to be executed and completed. Allowing others to deal with the frivolous details could make everyone happy. Tonight: Follow a friend’s lead.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Pace yourself, and move past an unexpected hassle. Try not to get stuck or go over a story again and again. Understand where you’re coming from and what might be needed to make an idea become a reality. Tonight: Be more upbeat.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH A decision is forthcoming. It

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might be easier for you to manipulate a project and situation than you thought possible. If someone is unpredictable, take that behavior as a given; you might find that you’re right. Tonight: Make weekend plans.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH You might want to slow down and do some solid thinking. Sometimes, you move so quickly that you don’t consider the long-run implications. A family member lets you know how uncomfortable he or she is over a domestic matter. Tonight: Relax.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Before you take action, consider your options. When you recognize that the time has come to act on a decision, you smile from ear to ear. Because you decide to make calls and touch base with others, you might be out and about or on your cell. Tonight: Think “weekend plans.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Be aware of the costs of continuing as you have. Others might not agree with your decision; they might let you know. Maintain your sense of humor, as you might receive some offbeat comments and suggestions. Stay secure in your choices. Tonight: Make it your treat.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH You might be difficult to stop.

Someone might feel frustrated. Sometimes, stopping and making an assessment is the only thing that can help. You have far more control and influence than you think. Use it well. Tonight: As you like.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH You might not be pleased by what’s going on, but at the same time, you could feel helpless. Have a long-overdue personal conversation with a key person in your life. If you want this talk to succeed, be vulnerable and open. Your feelings of helplessness will vanish soon enough. Tonight: Get a good night’s sleep.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Dealing with others could be frustrating. If you’re not careful, a conversation easily could misfire. If you want to celebrate a new tie and agreement, then listen, share and be open. Don’t make any situation more difficult. Tonight: Kicking up your heels.

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MATTRESS MATTERS Dear Heloise: Why are most queensize blankets, quilts and comforters made square (90 by 90) when the mattresses are 60 by 80? They are too short to cover the end of the mattress, especially now with the thicker models of mattresses.

-- Sharon H., via email Good question, Sharon. Manufacturers?

-- Heloise HOW TO SAVE A MARRIAGE Dear Heloise: My husband doesn’t get cold, but I do! I needed a lightweight blanket only for my side of our bed, and nothing was working right.

I took an extra flat sheet, folded it in half lengthwise and tucked it in between the top sheet and quilt on my side. It’s just the right weight and doesn’t slide.

-- Mary H., via email HEADS-UP FOR RESTAURANT OWNERS Dear Heloise: Please tell restaurant owners: It would be nice if they had at least one or two vegan items on the menu besides a salad and a baked potato. Maybe a rice dish or a vegetable burger?

Also, we could not find a restaurant open on Thanksgiving that served anything vegan.

-- Doris R., Middletown, Ohio Great points: more vegan variety, and a Thanksgiving vegan-friendly menu! Happy to spread the word.

-- Heloise P.S. Readers, in case you didn’t know, a vegan is someone who does not eat or use animal products in any way.

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DEAR ABBY: My daughter has two boys who treat her like crap. They swear, call her a b----, whore, liar and the f-word. They break things in her house and have no respect for anyone.

The problem started after she broke up with their biological father and married her new boyfriend. The father brainwashes the boys to do these things to make life a living hell with her new husband.

What I cannot understand is why my daughter goes out of her way to please these two ungrateful kids and still cannot see how they are destroying her present household. This is killing me. What can she do to solve the problem?

-- ANGRY IN THE WEST DEAR ANGRY: The first thing your daughter will have to do to solve her problem is acknowledge that there is one, and SHE may be part of it. Then, she will have to quit trying to ingratiate herself with the boys and act more like a parent than a doormat, which means she will have to institute consequences when her sons misbehave and treat her disrespectfully. Unless she is prepared to do that, nothing will change.

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