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Monday, February 4, 2019 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 49, Issue 131

Iditarod 2019 Peninsula mushers’ progress as of 7:09 p.m. Sunday: 31. Mitch Seavey, Seward, out of Willow 48.Ryan Santiago, Sterling, out of Willow 50. Travis Beals, Seward, out of Willow 51. Sarah Stokey, Seward, out of Willow

Alaskans weigh in on ‘super-sized’ PFD Borough back dividend bills.

“This plan will take to ask money that our state needs More than 120 Alasfor government services state to kans from all over the state like the (Alaska Marine weighed-in on a pair of Highway System) and bills that would require the education,” Amy Sweenie support state to pay out a “superof Sitka said, adding that sized” Alaska Permanent she did not want Alaska to peninsula Fund dividend, incremen“become like a third world tally, over the next three country.” years, during a Senate Many of those who tes- college State Affairs Committee tified against the bills ofBy KEVIN BAIRD Juneau Empire

meeting Thursday night.

From 2016-2018, dividends were capped and a portion of the Permanent Fund earnings were used to balance the state’s operating budget. Gov. Mike Dunleavy introduced Sen Find more Iditarod cover- ate Bills 23 and 24 to make good on a campaign promage on Page A7.

In the news Sitka to look at options for police department investigation SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Sitka city officials plan to look at options for a thirdparty investigation of the local police department.

The Sitka Assembly decision follows lawsuits by two officers and a former jailer.

The Daily Sitka Sentinel reports the officers sued the city, police chief and department, alleging, among other things, they were punished for speaking out. The former jailer alleges he resigned over a hostile work environment in the department.

During a recent meeting, Assembly members Valorie Nelson and Kevin Mosher said the lawsuits and comments from others in the department suggested the need for an outside review.

The Assembly discussed waiting for the legal process to play out before deciding on an outside investigation but after an executive session agreed to explore the options.

Sitka Police Chief Jeff Ankerfelt declined comment.

‘The president’s view is he gave nothing away.

That’s what matters, not my view.’ ... See Nation, A6

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Laura Stats of Juneau testifies against Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s payback dividend bills, Senate Bills 23 and 24, during a Senate State Affairs Committee meeting Thursday night. (Kevin Baird/Juneau Empire).

ise to pay back Alaskans been given a full dividend. the money they would The majority of callers have received had they testified against the pay-

fered similar a sentiment.

If SB 23 and SB 24 were to pass it would cost upward of $2.4 billion over three years. In exchange, government services would have to be cut. Most callers said they’d rather fund education and other state See PFD, page A2

Iditarod champ defends title with a smile

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press

WILLOW — Joar Leifseth Ulsom may not be flashy or brash, but he has sled cred.

The quiet, unassuming 32-year-old defending champion of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race leads the field of 52 mushers hoping to be the first to reach Alaska’s western coast after a thousandmile trek across the wilderness.

Most of the contestants are Americans, but the lineup also features international mushers: two from Norway, including Ulsom; four from Canada; and one each from

See TITLE, page A3

Defending champion Joar Leifseth Ulsom is greeted by local fan Ole Andersson during the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Saturday in Anchorage. (AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

A resolution asking the state to continue funding the Kenai Peninsula College will be introduced at Tuesday’s Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting.

Gov. Dunleavy’s proposed budget has reduced the University of Alaska’s budget by more than 40 percent. Such a cut would result in several campus closures, including a potential closure of the Kenai Peninsula College campus.

Assembly members Wayne Ogle, Dale Bagley and Hal Smalley will introduce a resolution supporting the community’s campus, which was founded in 1964.

The Kenai Peninsula College is responsible for all postsecondary education within the borough’s boundaries. With an average of 5,700 students enrolled annually, the college is the largest University of Alaska community campus and is even larger than the Juneau campus in enrollment and student credit hours.

See KPC, page A3

Borough questions state oil and gas tax proposal

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

A resolution modifying state bills that could repeal the levy of tax by municipalities on oil and gas exploration, production and pipeline transportation property will be introduced at Tuesday,

Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting.

When Gov. Mike Dunleavy released his proposed state budget, he submitted two bills, SB 57 and HB 59 to the Legislature, which would repeal the credit for municipal payments against the state levy of tax on oil

property and allow the state to retain all tax on oil and gas exploration, production and pipeline transportation property, with estimated tax revenues of $450 million to the state next fiscal year.

Revenues from oil and gas properties provide the borough with an estimated

$15 million per year — more than 18 percent of the borough’s revenues for 2020.

The loss in revenue would cripple the borough’s ability to fund education, maintain and improve roads throughout the borough, provide services like 911, hospital, solid waste, fire and emergency

medical, senior citizen, and recreational services to visitors and residents in the borough, according to the borough’s resolution.

“This measure would cause the Kenai Peninsula Borough to seek other sources of revenue to fund basic See TAX, page A3

Fairbanks woman saves yesterday’s news for today’s readers

By KRIS CAPPS Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

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FAIRBANKS — An important period of Alaska history is now preserved and available online thanks to longtime Fairbanksan Colleen Redman.

Redman’s brother, pioneer journalist Tom Snapp, was publisher of the AllAlaska Weekly, a newspaper that printed news of Alaska from 1970 to 1987 in Fairbanks. Snapp was relentless in his passion for covering news of

the day and known for his diligence — not to mention the All-Alaska Weekly masthead was often emblazoned in red ink. He specialized in police and political reporting.

Snapp worked as a reporter for the Fairbanks

Daily News-Miner from 1960-1962 after coming north from Virginia to visit his sister. He never left.

He co-founded the Tundra Times newspaper with Howard Rock in 19621963, worked as editor of the pioneer newspaper

Jessen’s Weekly, and then founded the All-Alaska Weekly in 1970. He died in Fairbanks in 1995 at the age of 66.

“Ever since he died, I wanted people to see what he had put all his time into See NEWS, page A2

House Majority: Tax increase off the table Coast Guard releases report

By KEVIN BAIRD for deadly crab boat sinking Juneau Empire

The House Majority Coalition says a tax is off the table this year, and there will be budget cuts.

“The sheer complexity of taking on the proposed change to the budget itself will consume most our time going forward,” House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, I-Dillingham, said in a morning press conference. “To take on the issue of new revenues as we did in 2017 takes a lot of time, a lot of energy, a lot of agency participation.”

Edgmon said he’s asked caucus members to “help share the pain.”

In this February file photo, then-Speaker Pro Tempore Neal Foster, D-Nome, right, shakes hands with newly elected Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon, D-Dillingham, in the House. (Michael Penn/Juneau Empire)

“Not everybody’s going to be happy with this budget this year,” Edgmon said during a Friday

press conference. “Some are going to think we’ve cut too much, others are

See HOUSE page A2

SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. Coast Guard report blames a crab boat’s owner and captain for a fatal 2017 voyage in the Bering Sea. The Seattle-based fishing vessel Destination went missing Feb. 11, 2017, off a remote Alaska island.

The bodies of its six crew members have not been found. It was the worst Alaska crab-boat disaster in more than a decade.

The Coast Guard’s 138-page document was made public Sunday after a private Saturday meeting that Coast Guard officials scheduled in Seattle for the families of the lost crew, The Seattle Times reported.

The report concluded the boat was overloaded when it left port; the captain set out in freezing spray with a fatigued crew that failed to remove a heavy buildup of ice on the hull and gear; and an open hatch would have allowed rapid flooding.

The vessel started to capsize within a matter of minutes, leaving the crew very little time to react, the report said.

The sinking prompted the Coast Guard to form a three-person marine board to understand what happened and make recommendations. It’s the latest Coast Guard investigation See CRAB, page A3

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and written, and it was so historical,” Redman said.

She did more than think about it. She made it happen.

An old bus in her backyard, given to her by pioneer Bobby Miller, held 40 years’ worth of historical documents from Snapp and the All-Alaska Weekly. It also held original copies of Jessen’s Weekly, tape-recorded interviews, photographs and more.

“So Tom inherited all this stuff; then I had it,” she said.

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bonfire would solve all her problems. But then she heard about a local professional organizer and hired Rita Butteri to help make sense of it all. It took two years, but all the work finally paid off.

The bus contained many hard copies of the All-Alaska Weekly, but only two complete sets of every issue — enough for 18 volumes to be shared in a special collection at the Alaska State Library in Juneau.

That is the only state archive that agreed to preserve the hard copies. Every other archive encouraged her to put them on microfilm and throw away the hard copies. According

to Redman, the archives in Fairbanks don’t have staff to record the historical documents.

“Nobody here is digitizing,” she said. “They don’t have the staff.”

She arranged personally for every page to be digitzed. Readers can now access the All-Alaska Weekly online at allalaskaweekly.newspaperarchive.com. Her hope is that libraries throughout Alaska will subscribe to newspaperarchive.com, and anyone will be able to read copies of the AllAlaska Weekly free of charge.

And Redman is not done yet. She plans to preserve and document hun-

dreds of tape recordings that Snapp made over the years.

“The main thing is he did them in the open, so no signatures are required,” she said. “He did them in the open during press club or for interviews for newspapers.”

He recorded interviews with historical figures including state leaders Wally Hickel, Steve Cowper, John Butrovich and more.

“I just want him to be honored,” she said. “He was never married. All of his time, all he wanted to do was journalism. His adrenaline would start running when he was on a big story. I just think that ought to be preserved.”

ent opinion on what constitutes a cut.

During the press conference, Rep. Neal Foster, D-Nome, who co-chairs the finance committee, said Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposed cut of $1.6 billion is not a simple cut. For example, he noted a component of that figure is shifting more than $500 million to local governments. This shift of cost is due to Dunleavy’s proposals to repeal the reve-

nue sharing provisions in the fisheries business tax, repealing the local property tax on oil and gas infrastructure and the debt reimbursement on school construction.

Foster also pointed out another component is using budget reserves, although not the Constitutional Budget Reserve.

“It’s not just cuts we’re looking at here,” Foster said. “We’re trying to figure out what the impacts of pulling half

of (the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority’s) reserves are, and the statutory budget reserve. Is drawing from the SBR and AIDEA, is that considered savings?… Technically in my opinion that breaks the governor’s commitment to not go into savings… I think legislators will have different interpretations of that. We have to flesh that out to see where folks stand before we move the body.”

dends.

Scott McManus of Tok said he’d received every PFD but he is “strongly against the super-sized” dividend. McManus said the PFD has “become a wedge issue” and it’s dividing Alaskans.

Some callers who supported the legislation argued its the will of the people to pass SB 23 and 24 since the people elected Dunleavy.

“The governor’s doing exactly what he said he would do and we elected him. The governor said he was going to balance the budget,” said Fred Sturman of Soldotna. “I expect him to do what he was go-

ing to do. People, don’t cry about it. The governor’s doing what he said he’d do.”

Other callers like Mike Prax of North Pole argued the state owed Alaskans the backpay PFD because using the Permanent Fund earnings to fund government services was against the law.

“I urge you to pass them out of committee as soon as possible,” Prax said. Prax went on to call Gov. Bill Walker’s use of the Permanent Fund earnings to fund government one of the “most egregious acts against public trust.”

At about 8 p.m. Sen.

Mike Shower, R-Wasilla, ended the meeting with more than 30 callers still waiting to testify. Shower said there will be another chance for the public to testify next week.

If the tandem of PFD bills were to pass, Alaskans would be eligible to receive the following payments: r "MBTLBOT XIP XFSF eligible for the 2016 PFD would receive an additional $1,061 in their 2019. r 5IF SFUSPBDUJWF 1'% payment from 2017 would be $1,289 in 2020. r "OE JG ZPV SFDFJWFE your PFD in 2018 you would receive $1,328 in 2021.

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going to think the Permanent Fund Dividend isn’t big enough, and others may think we have not protected core services to the extent that we might have.”

And budget cuts may not be as simple as the Dunleavy administration has told it. At least one representative has a differ-

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services than receive this extra money.

Laura Stats of Juneau said the bills would create “chaos” and an “exodus” of Alaskans.

Marie McConnell of Sterling said she was originally in favor of these PFD payments until she learned what it would do to the state budget.

“I think this is analogous to being on a diet and being fiscally fit and then eating and gaining it all back,” McConnell said about issuing these divi-

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Around the Peninsula Kenai Soil & Water Board Meeting

Refuge Accepting Applications for Summer Youth Conservation Corps Jobs

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!

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

Farm Bureau Annual Meeting

Saving and Storing Seeds for Your Garden

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 p.m, at the District office located at 110 Trading Bay, Suite 140. For information, call 283-8732 x5.

Wild and Scenic Film Festival

Kenai Peninsula Chapter of the Alaska Farm Bureau will hold its Annual Meeting at 6 p.m., Thursday, March 7 at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Building on K-Beach Road. All Farm Bureau members and those wishing to join should attend. For Zoom sign on information, email kpchapterfb@gmail.com.

Soldotna Historical Society & Homestead Museum board meeting Soldotna Historical Society & Homestead Museum board meeting will take place Tuesday, March 5 at 8:30 a.m. at the Fine Thyme Cafe. Questions? Carmen 2622791.

KPC Showcase: Memories of an Alaska Homesteader’s Son

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.

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Sweden and France.

Their quest officially began Sunday when the mushers took off from a frozen lake about 50 miles north of Anchorage. A ceremonial start designed to be a fanfriendly experience was held Saturday in downtown Anchorage.

The winner is expected in Nome, an old Gold Rush town on Alaska’s Bering Sea coast, in about nine days.

The Iditarod seems to go in streaks. Lance Mackey in 2007 won his first of four straight before health problems began to set in.

Two years after Mackey’s run, the Seavey legacy took hold, with mushers Mitch and his son, Dallas, combining to win the next

six races.

Ulsom broke the Seaveys’ string last year.

If that came as a shock to anyone, they weren’t paying attention to his career.

His worst Iditarod finish was seventh place in 2013, his rookie year.

Since then, he’s had two sixth place finishes and a couple of fourths.

It’s all part of his strategy.

“Basically since I came to Alaska, I kind of had a good plan,” he said. He tweaks it little by little every year, but he hasn’t made any wholesale changes to his training now that he’s the defending champion.

What has changed for the musher living in Willow, Alaska’s dogmushing capital, was the instant fame his victor status granted him, not only in Alaska but in his

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Central Peninsula Hospital is holding a Health Fair on March 23 from 8 a.m. to Noon in the River Tower on the CPH campus. Blood Chemistry Panels, Thyroid, Prostate, Vitamin D (D2&D3) and A1C tests will be available.

You must be 18 years or older to have blood work done.

Community health partners are invited to participate as a vendor. Contact Camille Sorensen at 714-4600 or csorensen@cpgh.org for an application. Deadline for vendor registration is March 18.

Hospice Spring Volunteer Training Registration is open for Hospice of the Central Peninsula’s Spring Volunteer Training. Training is over two weekends, March 22-23 and 29-30 at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna. Volunteers must be 18 years or older and be able to pass a background check.

Lunch and snacks are provided. Call the office at 2620453 or visit www.hospiceofcentralpeninsula.com for more info.

Ninilchik Community Neighborhood Watch

The Ninilchik Community Neighborhood Watch would like to give public notice that we are now workDr. Pat Holloway, Professor Emeritus of Horticulture ing together for a safer community. We encourage at UAF will present a lecture on how to harvest, handle, support and participation. Contact your local nonprofsave, and store flower, vegetable, and native plant seeds it organization at 907-202-2103 or 907-398-8067. for later use in your garden on Tuesday, March 12 from 7–8:30 p.m. at Peninsula Grace Church, 44175 Kaliforn- Trick Dog class sky Beach Road (at Mile 19.5, across the road from Craig Kenai Kennel Club will be offering a Trick Dog Taylor Equipment) in Soldotna. Free and open to the pub- class beginning March 12 and ending April 16. This lic; bring a friend! Refreshments and sometimes door is an introductory class so no prior experience is necprizes. Membership and general club information is essary but it would be beneficial if the dogs already available at www.cenpengardenclub.org, on facebook, know basics like sit, down and can work on a flat or contact Phyllis Boskofsky at cenpengardenclub@ collar and leash. Class is at 5:30 p.m. for Novice & gmail.com.

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KPC College Council meeting

aknewberrys@gmail.com. More information about Trick Dog can be found at http://www.akc.org/aboutKenai Peninsula College Council meeting schedtrick-dog/ uled The College Council will hold their next meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 7 at KPC’s Kachemak Soldotna Little League baseball clinics Bay Campus in Homer in Pioneer room 202. The ColSoldotna Little League will be starting baseball lege Council is advisory in nature and members are recruited from all sectors of the Kenai Peninsula to clinics on Mondays and Wednesdays through April provide input to KPC administration. The meeting is from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Skyview Middle School. open to the public. For a copy of the agenda, contact You must be registered with Soldotna Little League the director’s assistant at 262-0318 or visit this link: for the 2019 season. We have early bird savings if you http://www.kpc.alaska.edu/about/college_council/re- register before March 31. You can save up to $50 per person. ports/.

MAP volunteers needed

Parents experienced with raising children with Chronic Medical Conditions and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities are needed as MAP volunteers to help Mentor, Advocate and Partner with new parents in similar situations. Please join our volunteers in providing free Parent-to-Parent support in our community. Register for training this week by visiting https://www.stonesoupgroup.org/event/mentor-advoGirl Scout Reunion Tea Current and former Girl Scouts in Service Unit cate-partner-map-training-soldotna/ or call 907-953941, formerly named Kalgin Service Unit on the Ke- 8480 to inquire about more information on how you nai Peninsula, are invited to a Girl Scout Reunion Tea can help. to observe the 60th Anniversary of our Service Unit on Sunday, March 31 from 2:30-5:30 p.m. at Soldotna Land Management letters of interest Methodist Church, Binkley Street. Bring your Scouting The Kenai Peninsula Borough’s Land Management memorabilia. For more info contact Rosemary Pilatti at Division is calling for letters of interest from people 907-776-8916 or wrangell86@gmail.com. looking for new agricultural land. The hope is that people will share some details that the borough can use to Free In-Person Tax Preparation inform the program design. The kinds of major points Available officials think would be helpful in a letter include the Free income tax return preparation is available again size and general location needed, along with any other this year at the Soldotna Library from Feb. 9 to April criteria that would be essential for the person’s produc13. This AARP Foundation-sponsored program is open tion plans, and maybe an indication of the time frames to low-and moderate-income taxpayers of all ages, with that people are thinking if they were to take on an area special attention to those age 60 and older. AARP mem- of land with production goals. Letters should be adbership is not required. Call 907-420-4308 to schedule dressed to KPB Land Manager, 144 North Binkley St., an appointment. For more information, email taxprep- Soldotna AK 99669. More information can be found at soldotna@gmail.com. kpb.us/land

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Norway.

“It’s definitely been a bigger deal winning the race than I thought it was going to be,” he said.

Ulsom traveled to Norway twice last summer for dog symposiums where his victory was celebrated alongside those of other winter athletes. Norway won the most medals at last year’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

There is “definitely a lot of pride in Norway from the Olympics and for me winning the race because mushing, I think, is second to Alaska in popularity,” he said. “It’s a big deal in Norway, and they have some good races over there.”

But he promises it hasn’t changed him or gone to his head.

“It was a lot of fun, and people are excited and stuff, but nothing crazy,” he said. “I’m still just a normal goofball.”

One of Norway’s big sled dog races is the Finnmarkslopet, which starts about a week after the Iditarod. Ulsom said it draws mushers from across Europe, but for the second year in a row, it has one of the top American mushers.

Four-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey took his team to Norway last year in protest after Iditarod officials said some of his dogs tested positive in 2017 for an opioid painkiller, an al-

legation he adamantly denied. New members were later placed on the Iditarod’s governing board, and they reversed the decision, clearing Seavey of any wrongdoing.

Yet Seavey chose to race again this year in Norway, telling The Associated Press he had unfinished business there after placing third last year. He said he would eventually return to the Alaska race.

The Iditarod has suffered other recent setbacks, many related to the animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals pressuring national sponsors to drop the race.

When national sponsors drop out, smaller Alaska-based companies fill the void, but the race has been hurt financially.

The winning musher will earn about $50,000 and a new pickup, the same as last year. But it’s down about $20,000 from the winner’s purse in 2017.

The total purse this year is again $500,000 — about $250,000 below the 2017 purse.

Ulsom calls the PETA activism “kind of ridiculous when you start looking into it,” adding that mushers take “exceptional” care of the dogs and use them for what they’re meant to be used for.

“These dogs have it in them that they want to run, and so that’s what they’re bred and meant do, and they love it,” he said.

Classical chamber music with pianist Eduard Zilberkant 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.

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper St. Francis by the Sea Episcopal Church is hosting a Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper on Tuesday, March 5 from 5:30-8 p.m. The Supper will be held at the church located at 110 S. Spruce Street. Tickets are available at the door for $3 each. The Supper benefits the Kenai United Methodist Church Food Pantry.

Prom Expo Get everything you need for prom. A peninsula Prom Expo will take Friday, March 15 2-8 p.m. at the Soldotna Sports Complex.

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into the fishing industry, where crew jobs rank as one of the most dangerous occupations in the nation.

Some family members questioned why the Coast Guard would not pursue criminal penalties against the boat’s owners.

“Six people lost their lives,” said Gayle Andrew, mother of crewman Darrik Seibold. “This is just not

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Last year, the borough provided $817,775 to support the college. The borough and the city of Valdez are the only municipalities

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services, which would likely be in the form of radical increases in local taxes and fees,” the resolution said.

The general property tax levied by the borough is currently 4.7 mils with service area mils added on to the property located in service areas and city taxes added on to property located within city boundaries. The highest prop-

right.”

A sonar image taken by the crew of a federal research vessel in the summer of 2017 located the Destination lying on its side more than 250 feet down on the ocean floor.

The National Transportation Safety Board also investigated and found that the accident was caused by the captain’s decision to head out in hazardous conditions and then failing to have the crew combat ice buildup that made the boat top-heavy.

that provide monetary funding to their colleges.

The resolution asks the state to continue current funding the Kenai Peninsula College. The resolution will be provided to the governor, the state Legislature and the University of Alaska Board of Regents.

erty tax rate levied against any oil and gas property in the borough is 10.33 mils and the lowest is 4.7 mils.

The resolution calls for a more equitable approach, allowing municipalities to levy a tax up to 10 mils on oil and gas property. The resolution said this would ensure the state would receive half of the 20 mils allowed.

The resolution was brought to the assembly by Mayor Charlie Pierce and Assembly Vice President Dale Bagley.

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What Others Say

Catholic Church must take responsibility for abuse To many Roman Catholics

worldwide, the very fact of senior bishops listening to victims of clerical sexual abuse and the pope condemning the evil in vivid language no doubt came as a shock. The main body of the church has long shifted away from the United States and Western Europe, and the faithful in Africa, Asia and Latin America have not yet confronted the blight of predatory clergymen and institutional deafness to the extent of Americans or Europeans.

That is likely to be the explanation given by the Vatican for the lack of concrete measures to combat the crisis after a meeting heralded as a mighty counterattack by hierarchy and its activist pope against the evil ravaging their church: The global flock needs to see and hear first, and the change must arise from their own episcopate, they’ll say.

It doesn’t wash.

And not only because activists in the West are fed up with pledges of change in the 17 years since The Boston Globe revealed systematic abuse in the Boston diocese. The revelations have accelerated in recent years — the grand jury report from Pennsylvania of abuse by hundreds of priests over many years; a similar report from Illinois; nuns finally speaking out about what they’ve been subjected to.

As the revelations have escalated, so has the rhetoric. “Prepare for divine justice,” Pope Francis warned abusive priests at Christmas. “Ravenous wolves,” he called them in his speech to the Vatican gathering. But when it came to action, the talk was once again of changing hearts and minds, of changing a centuries-old culture.

It doesn’t wash because what is happening is not a personal moral lapse, to be treated as a sin to address through penitence and prayer, but a crime in which the church has been an accomplice.

Priests who are credibly shown to abuse children should be thrown out of the pulpit and identified to civil authority; bishops who cover up their actions should be laicized and exposed, and the order to do so must come from the top, from the pontiff.

The church has always been harsh on matters of sex, whether demanding celibacy of its priests, condemning birth control or prohibiting homosexual sex. Once the pope publicly acknowledges that priestly pedophilia is prevalent, the shock will not be softened by deferring action.

Of course, it is important that the church investigate what in its culture gives rise to such perversity. Pope Francis has demonstrated an admirable openness on many once-taboo issues, and his anguished remarks on the clerical abuse scandal no doubt come from the heart.

But a malignancy whose primary victims are trusting children must be treated by immediate and radical measures, not by appeals or handwringing. The time for that is past.

— The New York Times, Feb. 25

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Parsing the news via FAQ

I’ve always appreciated the Frequently Asked Questions format.

There are few techniques that offer the kind of superficial understanding I prefer like FAQs. So here is my Michael Cohen FAQ finder discussion: Q. Whom do you believe: Michael Cohen, or Donald Trump and the Republican members of Congress who spoke out for the president at that televised hearing? None of them.

When Cohen claims that he’s seeking “redemption” for his decade of lying for Trump, he’s really saying that he’s still seeking still more sentence reduction by cooperating with investigators and spilling his guts wherever it works to his advantage. He’s miraculously transformed from the most offensive defender of his client (Trump) to a virtuous protector of our nation. As for the GOP members of the House Judiciary Committee who nearly foamed at the mouth as they made those very points, they were singularly motivated by their efforts to curry favor with The Donald. In other words, they know who controls their party, and they know that they must kiss the ring of their Don. Still, some of them, in the midst of their tirades, did manage to ask good questions; like Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C.: “Are you really sorry for what you did, or you just got caught?” The answer to that one seems to be that Cohen is “really sorry” he “got caught.” He’s trying to make the most of it by biting the hand that fed

him, then try to survive prison and — if he maintains his sanity after looking over his shoulders for some Trump supporter paid to do him harm — work any sort of deal afBob Franken ter he’s served his sentence. Maybe a book will be in the cards, perhaps even a movie. To demonstrate that he has no shame whatsoever, Cohen might even consider becoming a pundit. It doesn’t get lower than that.

Q. Did the president’s failure while he tried to work a deal with North Korea in Vietnam have anything to do with Kim Jong Un’s perception of him as a weakened leader? Absobloominlutely!

You can bet that Kim and his handlers watched every second of the “Michael Cohen Show.” It would not be hard for them to conclude that Trump is desperate. He’s been having a rough go of it lately. His effort to bully Congress into giving him billions of dollars for the border wall caused misery for the million-plus federal employees and contractors who were caught up in the historic government shutdown. He didn’t get his way, and his destructive antics blew up in his face. So, Kim and his gang couldn’t help but be emboldened to hang tough. Putting it another way, for all their smiles, North

Korea’s leaders were intent on rubbing the American leader’s nose in it. They insisted on quids far larger than the U.S. quos. Now the Trumpster has a lot more face-saving to do. He’s running out of face.

Q. Back to the Cohen spectacle: Was it simply “political theater”?

Of course. Congressional hearings fit into two categories. Most of them are totally boring. A handful have high entertainment value — a precious few of those actually are circuses that accomplish something. Think Watergate.

Was Michael Cohen’s appearance on that level? Good grief, no. As someone who has snoozed through hundreds, with only a few like the dramatic Clarence Thomas hearings, I can tell you Michael Cohen’s melodrama didn’t come close. And before you say that Clarence Thomas survived his “hightech lynching” (low-tech, by today’s standards), at least the proceedings pushed sexual harassment onto America’s consciousness.

Q. Well then, what will Michael Cohen’s hearing mean to the Trump presidency?

It’s just another nail. Unless Cohen was right when he told committee members that after all his years of experience with Donald Trump, he believes “there will never be a peaceful transition of power.” Then the most Frequently Asked Question might be, why bother with charade hearings?

And why bother with democracy?

Inupiat values can help us succeed In December, my husband chose to hold his inauguration in my home village of Noorvik because it expressed our deep respect and love for the people of rural Alaska. I will forever be grateful to the people of my home village, the people of Kotzebue and the all the people of the Northwest Arctic region for hosting the governor, Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer, our families and all who attended that amazing, historic event as guests and received the tremendous hospitality and kindness our people are known for.

The event was held at a school named after my late father, Robert Aqqaluk Newlin Sr. My father was the first chairman of the NANA board of directors and a former mayor of Noorvik. Our family is honored that his portrait and a quotation of his, highlighting the importance of hard work, hangs in the school. That quotation and its location in the school illustrate two very important values that our people and the Native people of Alaska share: the value of education and hard work.

Those are the same values I share with my husband and rural residents because those values are important to have if Alaska is going to attract new businesses and investment.

Critics have called the governor’s proposed budget unfair to rural Alaska.

Would you like to know what is really unfair to rural Alaska? Previous state budgets that used up $14 billion in reserves and employed budgetary smoke and mirror tactics to avoid making the tough choices that we now must make.

As the first chairman of the board of the for-profit regional corporation for the Northwest Arctic, my father committed to the mission of NANA, to provide economic opportunities for the more than 14,300 Inupiat shareholders and to protect and enhance NANA lands.

Since its earliest days NANA has done just that, creating a profit for the

corporation and the people through the development of businesses from construction, to hotels and apartments, to fuel sales and mining. And we have done so while preserving and protecting our lands and our traditional way of life. I am proud that for 17 years my father helped lead NANA to become both a successful business and a guardian of our culture.

In the 1980s, the Robert Aqqaluk Newlin Sr. Memorial Trust was founded by NANA to help provide shareholders with university scholarships and vocational training and to help preserve our cultural values and way of life.

Even after his death, my father’s legacy remains to promote education and hard work.

NANA is not alone in its success.

We and other Native peoples throughout Alaska have taken our traditional values and used them to develop successful businesses throughout this great state and to partner with others.

I’d like to mention a few more of those values. You may have seen posters of the 12 traditional Inupiat values, but I’d like to touch on just a few that I believe we all share in common and that are the foundation of the beliefs that have guided me all my life and that guide my husband in his work. Inupiat values include: Avoidance of Conflict – we are encouraged to try not to argue or fight. I think you can see the benefit that value can bring to business and government!

• Humility — to not be boastful; • Spirituality — reliance on our individual beliefs about God or the Creator; • Cooperation — willingly working together, • Compassion — understanding, kindness and love for others.

• Above all we value respect, for elders, for nature, for each other, for family; • And we value humor and the ability to laugh at something without

hurting anyone.

These values are what have allowed us to build success for ourselves, for each other and for the state. And I believe they are the values that both the success of good business and good government are based.

Dunleavy has pledged that Alaska is open for business, and he has pledged to Alaskans living in rural villages throughout our state that they will not be forgotten.

Our state and all our people throughout Alaska are ready, able and willing to work hard, to receive the training and education needed to succeed in the jobs that are provided, and to do so while respecting our land and our environment.

We all know the dignity and the selfrespect that jobs provide. We know that social problems and family problems are made better when people’s economic needs are met and when people have the self-respect and self-determination that good jobs provide.

In his State of the State address, my husband noted a staggering statistic.

While our country has been adding jobs, Alaska’s economy has remained stagnant. In fact, Alaska has the worst unemployment in the nation.

He said, “There are no circumstances where that statistic is acceptable,” and he pledged that Alaska can and will do better.

If we all work together, that pledge will be realized.

It is my hope and my prayer that in these next four years, as we grow Alaska’s business sector, and as we live our lives in service to all people in this state, that the future generations of Alaskans will count us, our lives and our work as worthy.

Rose Dunleavy is the first lady of the State of Alaska. This column was adopted from a speech she gave at the Lincoln Day Dinner in Anchorage on Feb. 22.

Schools

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Soldotna High school Cinderella’s Closet needs donations and a new home!

Soldotna High School is collecting gently used formal dresses, shoes, and accessories for Cinderella’s Closet 2019. This is a program which helps ALL area high school students (KPBSD and home schooled) with free dresses, shoes, and accessories for prom and homecoming. We have helped over 850 ladies in the past 11 years, 145 last year between prom and homecoming! We accept year around donations of prom and homecoming dresses, suits of all sizes, dress shirts, male dress shoes, and accessories. All sizes are welcome, however, we are in particular need of dresses in size 12 to 18. Items can be dropped off at the main office of Soldotna High School or Soldotna Prep School between 8am-3pm. If you are not in the central peninsula, drop items at the closest KPBSD school’s office and ask them to send them through KPBSD district mail to SoPrep, attention Cinderella Closet.

Since the donations are made to a school, tax donation forms can be issued by SoHi upon request. If you have any questions, please email epokryfky@kpbsd.org for more info or visit and like us on Facebook: @cinderellacloset.kenai Over the years this project has received tremendous support from our community and local businesses, such as Walgreens, PayLess Shoes, Fred Meyer, Walmart, Summit Cleaner, and so many residents donating items and or their time. Unfortunately this year we are in need of a new location for opening the Cinderella Closet to our students. It would be fantastic if we could find a permanent location for storing and collecting donations yearround and open the doors to students in need at regular times of the year, for Prom and Homecoming (or other formal school events). We really care about this project because we see year after year how many students we have been able to help. We confide in the support of our community for finding a suitable location for hosting the Cinderella’s Closet of our school district. Thank you on behalf of our students The after-school tutoring buses will start running on 8/28. There are 2 buses that leave at 4:15 pm. You must be on the route list to ride the bus. See Ms. Wear in the library to find out more information and/or get on the bus list. You can also email her at twear@kpbsd.k12.ak.us or call 260-7036 Soldotna Stars Letterman Jackets are available to order at www.neffco.com. Click on Varsity Jackets, find our school by State, select Soldotna High School, starting at $149 you can personalize it anyway you would like.

Makes a great Christmas gift!

SoHi Pool Schedule M,W,F Morning Lap 6:30-7:30 a.m.

Sport Calendar - http://www.arbiterlive.com/ Teams?entityId=21192 or http://www.asaa365.com/ There are two ways to order a transcript. Each way serves a different purpose.

If you need a transcript sent to a college or NCAA or a similar agency, then you will need to log on to: www. parchment.com to order transcripts to be sent. The request is then forwarded to SoHi. After processing, it then goes through cyberspace… rather than the US mail… to get to its destination, which is much faster! ALL transcripts that are headed for NCAA, colleges, etc. have to be processed this way!

FINAL TRANSCRIPTS! A final transcript is one that shows your second semester grades… If you order your transcript when we are IN second semester, you will need to make sure you choose “next grading period” when you go on to Parchment… that way your transcript request will wait until the grades are in at the end of the year before it is sent.

Connections SPRING BREAK: MARCH 11-15: Homer & Seward office closed. Soldotna office will be open with no advisors available and closed for lunch 12:00-1:00pm.

Dates To Remember: 03/05 & 03/06 - Mr. Parrett will be in the Seward Office 03/05 - Soldotna Office: Nikiski Pool - FREE for Connections Students 12-1:30 p.m.

03/06 – High School Eligibility Due 03/06 – Homer Office: Registration DEADLINE March 6th for HOMER SAFE SITTER CLASS on Friday March 8 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. at South Peninsula Hospital for students in grades 6th – 8th.

03/07 – Seward Office Closed 03/07 - Soldotna Office: Art Share theme: Over The Rainbow! 3-4 p.m. (more info below) 03/07 – Homer: “Salmon in the Classroom” Ice Fishing Day – 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Homer Reservoir with ADFG. Please contact Derek Bynagle dbynagle@kpbsd. org to sign up 03/20 & 03/21 - Mr. Parrett will be in the Seward Office 04/10 - High School Eligibility Due 04/18 - Soldotna Office: Art Share from 3-4 p.m. (more info below) 04/23 – GYM TIME: Earth Day clean up 04/30 – 2019 Home-school Talent Show (more info below) 05/03 & 05/04 – FULL: Overnight Trip to Kasitsna Bay Laboratory with Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies contact Derek Bynagle for more info 05/06 – Kenai Fjords Marine Science Explorer Tour – Please Contact Julie Lindquist for More Details jlindquist@kpbsd.k12.ak.us or (907) 224-9035 Iditaread Starts March 1st: Our annual Iditaread program starts March 1! So get out your favorite books or those you haven’t read yet and start keeping track of your reading minutes. When you’ve read your way to Nome and crossed the finish line, see your Connections Office for a prize! If you have any

questions, please call the Connections office (714-8880) or email:cnolden@kpbsd.org for more information and how to log onto the Iditarod Insider. Happy reading and MUSH ON! Outdoor Club: Snowshoeing at the National Wildlife Refuge: Join Connections at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters on March 1st from 1-3pm for a fun snowshoeing activity, to be led by a KNWR education specialist. No experience is necessary, and this activity is open to all 2nd-7th grade Connections students. Please bring warm clothing including warm socks, gloves, and a stocking hat. Space is limited, so please RSVP as soon as possible by emailing Mark Wackler at mwackler@kpbsd. org Soldotna Office: Thursday Art Share: The Soldotna office is celebrating student art, grades K-12, every month! Paintings, drawings, ceramics, photography, digital art, etc… all are welcome and encouraged! Submissions can be dropped off anytime during the month, an art activity will start promptly at 3:15 pm. on the Art Share day, see below for dates.

March: Over the Rainbow theme! Thursday, March 7 from 3-4 p.m.

April: Green Earth theme! Thursday, April 18 from 3-4 p.m. **please note: any and all submissions are welcome regardless of theme** 2019 Homeschool Talent Show: The 2019 Homeschool Talent Show will be on Tuesday, April 30 from 5-6:30 p.m. at the Soldotna High School Auditorium. Connections is looking for homeschool students to join the show and display their talents (singing, instrumental, art, skits, whatever!). Talents of all types and ability levels are encouraged and there will also be an art display at the entrance to show off Connections student’s artistic abilities as well. Please contact Mark Wackler at the Soldotna Connections office if you are interested in participating in the talent show, or to get more info – mwackler@kpbsd.org Soldotna Office – Free Tutoring: Connections is very excited to have Sara Hadfield and Rebecca Weaver, from the Kenai Peninsula College, at the Soldotna office every week to offer free tutoring to families.

Sara specializes in English as a Second Language (ESL) and language arts. Her schedule will be Wednesdays from 1:30-3 p.m. starting Wednesday, Feb. 13.

Rebecca specializes in a variety of subjects: math, physics, chemistry and science. Her schedule is Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

If you are a parent or a student that needs help in any of these areas, please call our office at 714-8880 to schedule an appointment.

Kaleidoscope The Life Skill we are focusing on this week is Responsibility – To respond when appropriate; to be accountable for one’s actions.

Monday, March 4 APC meeting @ 4:15 p.m.

Tuesday, March 9:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Kindergarten are going to Kenai Wildlife Refuge in Soldotna Sky Night starts at 5:30 p.m.

3rd & 4th grade Celebration starts @ 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 7 Yearbook ads, Love lines & 5th grade baby pictures are due Friday, March 8 In-service – No School Monday, March 11 – Friday, March 15 Spring Break - No school Upcoming Events March 18 – Student placement forms will be available in the magazine rack in front of the office.

March 20 – Volunteer Appreciation Celebration @ 8:30 a.m.

March 22 – Spring Pictures *Only students that have prepaid packets will have pictures taken. Younger siblings can come in and have pictures taken from 12-1 p.m..

Volunteers Volunteers are welcome any time at Kaleidoscope!

Background checks and Volunteer Training are required for each school year to be an approved volunteer. Go to http://kaleidoscope.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/wpmu/volunteers for the 2 links. Background checks may take up to 2 weeks to be processed. Volunteer Indemnification forms are to be completed 2 days before each study trip.

K-Beach Elementary Mr. Daniels’s Class is learning how to make a spreadsheet document. They are using historical Slikok Creek measurement data to create a Google Sheets document.

Then they will turn the spreadsheet data into a chart to display data for presentations. The class also created a mock TV weather report and posted the videos on their Seesaw page online. Students learned about 8 different weather phenomena and how they are formed. Then, they wrote a weather report script to use in front of the camera.

Finally, they ran a background video while they were giving their report to illustrate their weather phenomena to the “public”. Parents can view the mock weather reports by logging into the class Seesaw page.

March 8: Inservice Day, NO SCHOOL March 11-15: Spring Break, NO SCHOOL Redoubt Elementary Mr. Popper’s Penguins Family night will be March 5 from 6-7:30 p.m. as we wrap up our “One School, One Book” program, we would love for everyone to come join us.

Our 6th grade Alaska Museum will be March 6 from 1-3 p.m., please come and see our wonderful exhibits that our students have been working so hard on.

March 8 there will be no school for students and Inservice day for staff. March 11-15will be Spring break for students, we hope you have a wonderful and safe break!

Our next early release day is April 3 @ 1:45 p.m., there will be Boys & Girls club after school. Please make sure your child knows how they are getting home that day.

Pre- K forms are available in our office, applicants must be 4 years old on or before Sept. 1, and must be within our attendance area. Screenings will be held in April.

Pre-enrollment forms (pink) went home recently.

Please take the time to fill out the form and let us know that your child(ren) will be attending Redoubt next year.

Soldotna Elementary Mark your calendars for these upcoming events: March 8 Teacher Work Day- No School for Students March 11-15 Spring Break March 19 Spring Pictures

March 19 Parent PACK Meeting (7:30 a.m. or 4:30 p.m.)

March 23 Soldotna Super Carnival 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Soldotna Elementary is proud to present the 2019 Spelling Bee Champion, Regan Hunt! Congratulations to our school finalists: Aimee Goans (2nd Place), Ashley Simmons, Liddle Kennamer, Niki Carson, Leif Johnson, Rebekah Pieh, Dailehn Gares, Alexis Collins, Draiden Mullican, Jax Nash, Odin Swearingen, Dalton Armstrong, Dax Walden and Luke Poland.

Soldotna Elementary is currently accepting applications for its 2019-2020 Title 1 Pre-K program.

Students must be 4 years old by Sept. 1 and live in the Soldotna Elementary boundary.

Applications are located at the front office.

Soldotna Elementary and Soldotna Montessori Charter School will hold The Soldotna Super Carnival on March 23 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. There are many volunteer opportunities available. Please contact Kimberly at kimberlyrhaas@ gmail.com to volunteer.

Mountain View Elementary Congratulations to our Soaring Eagles for the month of February. They are Jamel Barnes, Leo Bishop, Tayla Cole, Evelyn Cooper, Lydia Day-Bontly, Jared Duncan, Gage Engle, Tenley Fabian, Talia Greenstreet, Luchian Hawkins-Allen, Annie Hayes, Serenity Hickman, Sophia Kocinski, Cooper Medcoff, Grady Merveldt, Stolz Mueller, Alexander Nichol, Makalani Nicholas-Silvira, Sepa Nicholas-Silvira, Brayden Slaton, & Katie Van Sky. Friday, March 8 is an inservice day. There is no school for students.

Spring Break is the week of March 11 – March 15.

School will resume on Monday, March 18.

There will be a PTA meeting on Thursday, March 21 at 4 p.m. in the Library.

Friday, March 22 is “Decades Day”.

Skyview Last week of the Third Quarter!

No School for Students – Friday, March 8 to Sunday, March 17 – Spring Break Winter Sports have ended. Spring Sport - Track and Field begins on Monday, April 1.

Third quarter is coming to an end, and all class fees for this quarter are now due. Class fees can be paid by card online, or at the school with cash or check. If you have questions regarding your student’s fees, please contact the office at 260-2500.

Congratulations to the February Students of the Month!

Kael Aamodt, Kadee Adams, Raevin Alexan, Andrew Arthur, Bay Bloom, Montana Bowman, Patience Brandon, Gracie Bras, Jakob Brown, Zachary Buckbee, Danika Buffan, Desiree Bunts, Trista Burk, Alina Carrillo Kompkoff, Mackenzie Carson, Riley Caston, Archer Chadburn, Angelina Chavarria, Issac Chavarria, Landen Chumley, Avery Ciufo, Trystan Cole, Cooper Collier, Johnathan Connelly Welch, Bailey Conner, Sarah Coon, Jesse Cooper, Michael Cornell, Isabella Croom, Ryleigh Cummings, Ashley Dahlman, Jordyn Davis, Jarek Derleth, Trinity Donovan, Brianna Ehret, Ben Engebretsen, Regan Evans, Ashlee Fann, Kaleb Fidai, Shaun Firmin, Brook Fischer, Jacob Fleming, Aiden Freeman, Jillian Gagnon, Hunter Galleguillos, Aidan Gavalis, Kaitlyn Grimaldi, Joshua Hall, Paige Hammerle, Shane Harmon, Adam Harper, Liam Harris, Logan Hart, Owen Hart, Darek Hatten, Brooklyn Hegwer, Cody Henley, Andi Hiler, Kristen Houser, Rebekah Hudson, Hamilton Hunt, Emma Hunter, Jose Iraheta Sorto, Aurora Jacobs, Anita Jelliff, Wesley Johnson, Ben Johnson, Derrick Jones, Bryce Kampstra, Logan Katzenberger, Emma Knowles, Chasce Langvardt, Lyrad Larson, Morgan Lemm, Amara Lewis, Corey Lewis, Breanna Lewis, Axel Locke, Finnley Loop, Emerson Lorring, Ethan Lowry, Elissa Lyons, Brandi Martin, Kyle Matson, Kaytlin McAnelly, Molly McMillan, Taylor McNeel, Miah Mead, Avrie Medina, Liberty Miller, Sunny Miller, Sonia Montague, Katelyn Morrison, Tori Morse, Alyssa Murphy, Grayden Musgrave, Tristen Abby Nelson, Morgan Noyes, Josiah Nyman, Jessica Phegley, Andrew Pieh, Zayra Poage, Jester Powell, Cole Radeck, Ryan Rapp, Max Reece, Madison Richmond, Jolene Riske, Allehya Roberts, Emilia Rodriguez, Daisy Rogers, Kiana Rohr, Parker Rose, Natalie Schneider, Aryanna Schneider, Josie Sheridan, Mandi Sisley, Alvin Solomona, Will Stang, Sydney Steadman, Tate Stewart, Moriah Stitt, Carter Tennison, Violet Truesdell, Caleb Tugan, Ala Tuisaula, Emma Updike, Tori Verba, Rylen Weed, Catlynne White, Joseph Whittom, Haiden Wilkinson, Avery Willets, Danika Winslow, Liam Wurst Soldotna Prep Soldotna Prep is happily hosting local professionals to come speak to our students about their career paths.

We are calling this our “VLPs”, short for Visiting Local Professionals. Our speakers were chosen per their Alaska state recognized “career cluster”. We have sixteen career clusters and so far have had speakers from two clusters: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, and Business Management and Administration. Thanks to the diligent weekly work of Karen Ruebsamen, Jade Mann, and Rebecca Sumrall, we have been able to identify interest areas for each and every student of ours to take advantage of this opportunity. We are thrilled to meet more of our community members and learn their stories. Thank you to those who have spoken and those who are coming throughout the semester. Our VLPs take place on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and we do have some spots available if anyone is interested in sharing how they got to where they are today and what a day in the life looks like for them. If interested, please contact Rebecca Sumrall at rsumrall@kpbsd.k12.ak.usor call the school at 260-2300 ext. 2349.

After school tutoring is held Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in the library from 2:30-3:30 pm (except for early release and no school days). This is a great opportunity to receive help if students are behind, or just want some extra time to work on classroom assignments.

Make sure transportation is arranged and students are picked up promptly at 3:30.

Students and parents are reminded to check Soldotna Prep’s Facebook page for school news and updated information: Soldotna Prep Facebook Page: https://www.facebook. com/SoldotnaPrep/ Soldotna Prep Web Page:http://soldotnaprep.blogs. kpbsd.k12.ak.us/ Dates to Remember: March 7-9 – Region III Northern Lights Conference Basketball Tournament hosted at Soldotna High School See BRIEFS, page A6 March 8 – End of 3rd

Nation/World

A6 | Monday, March 4, 2019 | Peninsula Clarion

Adviser: Trump ‘gave nothing away’ in talks At least 14 dead on

day of tornadoes

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The White House national security adviser on Sunday described President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a success despite the lack of an agreement providing for verifiable dismantling of the North’s nuclear sites.

John Bolton, in three television interviews, tried to make that case that Trump advanced America’s national security interests by rejecting a bad agreement while working to persuade Kim to take “the big deal that really could make a difference for North Korea.”

The U.S. and North Korea have offered contradictory accounts of why last week’s summit in Vietnam broke down, though both pointed to American sanctions as a sticking point.

Bolton said the leaders left on good terms and that Trump made an important point to North Korea and other countries that negotiate with him.

“He’s not desperate for a deal, not with North Korea, not with anybody if it’s contrary to American national interests,” Bolton said.

Bolton also sought to explain Trump’s comments

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Feb. 27 file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

about taking Kim’s word about Otto Warmbier, the American college student who was held prisoner in North Korea, then sent home in a vegetative state. Trump said he didn’t believe Kim knew about or would have allowed what happened to Warmbier.

“He tells me that he didn’t know about it, and I will take him at his word,” Trump said at a news conference last week.

Bolton said Trump’s “got a difficult line to walk to” in

negotiating with North Korea.

“It doesn’t mean that he accepts it as reality. It means that he accepts that’s what Kim Jong Un said,” Bolton said.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., a close Trump ally, broke with the president.

“I think Kim knew what happened, which was wrong,” McCarthy said.

Some have been critical for Trump letting Kim stand with him on the world stage given North Korea’s poor hu-

man rights record. Kim will be able to portray himself to his people and supporters as the charismatic head of a nuclear-armed power, not an international pariah that starves its citizens so it can build weapons.

But Bolton said that Trump’s view is that he “gave nothing away.”

Asked whether that was his view, too, Bolton replied: “The president’s view is he gave nothing away. That’s what matters, not my view.”

US closes Jerusalem consulate

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press

JERUSALEM — The United States has officially shuttered its consulate in Jerusalem, downgrading the status of its main diplomatic mission to the Palestinians by folding it into the U.S. Embassy to Israel.

For decades, the consulate functioned as a de facto embassy to the Palestinians.

Now, that outreach will be handled by a Palestinian af-

fairs unit, under the command of the embassy.

The symbolic shift hands authority over U.S. diplomatic channels with the West Bank and Gaza to ambassador David Friedman, a longtime supporter and fundraiser for the West Bank settler movement and fierce critic of the Palestinian leadership.

The announcement from the State Department came early Monday in Jerusalem, the merger effective that day.

“This decision was driven by

our global efforts to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of our diplomatic engagements and operations,” State Department spokesman Robert Palladino said in a statement.

“It does not signal a change of U.S. policy on Jerusalem, the West Bank, or the Gaza Strip.”

When first announced by U.S. Secretary Mike Pompeo in October, the move infuriated Palestinians, fueling their suspicions that the U.S. was recognizing Israeli control

over east Jerusalem and the West Bank, territories that Palestinians seek for a future state.

Palestinian official Saeb Erekat called the move “the final nail in the coffin” for the U.S. role in peacemaking.

The downgrade is just the latest in a string of divisive decisions by the Trump administration that have backed Israel and alienated the Palestinians, who say they have lost faith in the U.S. administration’s role as a neutral arbiter in peace process.

House to query 60 Trump officials

By HOPE YEN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Declaring it’s “very clear” President Donald Trump obstructed justice, the chairman of the House committee that would be in charge of impeachment says the panel is requesting documents Monday from more than 60 people from Trump’s administration, family and business as part of a rapidly expanding Russia investigation.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, DN.Y., said the House Judiciary Committee wants to review documents from the Justice Department, the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. and Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg. Former White House chief of staff John Kelly and former White House counsel Don McGahn also are likely targets, he said.

“We are going to initiate

investigations into abuses of power, into corruption and into obstruction of justice,” Nadler said. “We will do everything we can to get that evidence.”

Asked if he believed Trump obstructed justice, Nadler said, “Yes, I do.”

Nadler isn’t calling the inquiry an impeachment investigation but said House Democrats, now in the majority, are simply doing “our job to protect the rule of law” after Republicans during the first two years of Trump’s term were “shielding the president from any proper accountability.”

“We’re far from making decisions” about impeachment, he said.

In a tweet on Sunday, Trump blasted anew the Russia investigation, calling it a partisan probe unfairly aimed at discrediting his win in the 2016 presidential election. “I am an innocent

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Quarter, no school for students March 11–15 – Spring Break April 1-5 – PEAKS Testing April 3 – Early Release Nikiski Middle/High Congratulations to the following students who represented their classes at the 2019 NNS spelling bee: Madison Iyatungak, Cameron Schwin, Lorelai Kimbell, Miles Warnke, Sadie Porter, Abby White, Joey Nightingale, Teagan Pate, Amara Stoerck, Ryenne Douglas, Kaydence Wolf, Noah Larisch, Kelty Evoy, Eva Elias, Radlei Curtiss, Gracie Wolf, Carter Eiter, Jackson Cooper, Kayleb Estremera, and Vaughn Johnson. Third place went to (tie) Miles warnke, Sadie Porter, Eva Elias and Carter Eiter. Second place was Noah Larisch and the first place champion is Cameron Schwin. Cameron will have the opportunity to represent NNS at the state spelling bee in Anchorage in March. Good luck Cameron!

There is no school for students on Fri-

man being persecuted by some very bad, conflicted & corrupt people in a Witch Hunt that is illegal & should never have been allowed to start - And only because I won the Election!” he wrote.

Nadler’s comments follow a bad political week for Trump. He emerged emptyhanded from a high-profile summit with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un on denuclearization and Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, in three days of congressional testimony, publicly characterized the president as a “con man” and “cheat.”

Newly empowered House Democrats are flexing their strength with blossoming investigations. A half-dozen House committees are now probing alleged coordination between Trump associates and Russia’s efforts to sway the 2016 election, Trump’s tax returns and

day, March 8 because of inservice for teachers and staff. Spring break begins on Monday, March 11 and ends on Friday, March 15. School will resume on Monday, March 18. NNS wishes each of our families a very safe, restful and fun spring break!

Kenai Central Spring Sports began last week at KCHS! Boys’ and girls’ soccer, track and field, baseball and softball will be holding practices this week. With a bit of snow still piled up outside and with the Kardnial basketballers still finishing their season, practice schedules will vary by team. If you have any questions you can feel free to contact KCHS and find the specific coach for the sport you would like more information about The Kards Basketball teams will put their hard work and planning to the test this weekend at the Region Tournament that will be held in Seward. The top two teams from the boys and girls brackets will get an automatic state bid, while those teams outside of the final will wait for ASAA to select two at large bids. Wish the Kardinal teams luck as they travel this weekend and work for a

possible conflicts of interest involving the Trump family business and policy-making.

The House oversight committee, for instance, has set a Monday deadline for the White House to turn over documents related to security clearances after The New York Times reported that the president ordered officials to grant his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s clearance over the objections of national security officials.

Nadler’s added lines of inquiry also come as special counsel Robert Mueller is believed to be wrapping up his work into possible questions of Trump campaign collusion and obstruction in the Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. In his testimony, Cohen acknowledged he did not witness or know directly of collusion between Trump aides and Russia but had his “suspicions.”

BEAUREGARD, Ala. — An apparent tornado roared into southeast Alabama and killed at least 14 people and injured several others Sunday, part of a severe storm system that destroyed homes, snapped trees and unleashed other tornadoes around the Southeast.

Dozens of emergency responders rushed to join search and rescue efforts in hard-hit Lee County, Alabama, after what forecasters said they think was a large tornado touched down Sunday afternoon, unleashed by a powerful storm system that raked its way across parts of Georgia, South Carolina and Florida.

“I can confirm 14 fatalities,” Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones told The Associated Press on the scene in Beauregard, the area of apparently greatest destruction. He told reporters that children were among the dead and that some people are still believed missing and that a search and rescue operation was continuing.

“Unfortunately we believe that number is going to

go up,” Jones said of the fatalities. He said the apparent twister traveled straight down a key local artery, Highway 51, and that the path of damage and destruction appeared at least a half mile wide.

Radar and video evidence showed what looked like a large tornado crossing the area near Beauregard shortly after 2 p.m. Sunday, said meteorologist Meredith Wyatt with the Birmingham, Alabama, office of the National Weather Service. Beauregard is a community about 60 miles (95 kilometers) east of Montgomery, Alabama’s capital city.

“It appears it stayed on the ground for at least a mile and maybe longer,” Jones told AP. He said single-family homes and mobile homes were among the buildings destroyed. He had told reporters earlier that several people in the county were taken to hospitals, some with “very serious injuries.”

After nightfall Sunday, the rain had stopped and pieces of metal debris and tree branches littered roadways in Beauregard. Two sheriff’s vehicles blocked reporters and others from reaching the worst-hit area. Power appeared out to be out in many places.

Around the Nation Police: Husband, not panhandler, killed woman in Baltimore BALTIMORE — A Maryland woman whose death last year was blamed on an attack by a panhandler was actually killed by her husband and his adult daughter, police said Sunday.

Keith Smith, 52, had told police that his wife, Jacquelyn, an engineer from Harford County, was trying to give money to a panhandler at a traffic light when she was robbed and fatally stabbed.

Her death attracted national attention and prompted many to regard panhandlers warily. Even Oprah Winfrey, whose early career included several years covering Baltimore news, commented that she would “think twice” about giving to panhandlers after reading about Jacquelyn’s death.

But at a news conference Sunday, Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said the panhandler story is not true. He announced first-degree murder charges against Keith Smith and his daughter, Valeria Smith, 28.

Both were arrested in Harlingen, Texas, near the Mexico border. Harrison said the two were preparing to leave the country.

‘Absolute miracle:’ Rescuers find missing California sisters LOS ANGELES — Armed with some outdoor survival training, granola bars and pink rubber boots, 5- and 8-year-old sisters survived 44 hours in rugged Northern California wilderness before they were found dehydrated and cold but in good spirits on Sunday, authorities said.

A fire chief and firefighter from a local volunteer department found Leia and Caroline Carrico in a wooded area about 1½ miles from their home in the small community of Benbow, where they had last been seen Friday afternoon, Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal said.

Benbow is about 200 miles northwest of Sacramento.

The girls were “safe and sound” and uninjured, thanks in part to survival training they got with their local 4-H club, Honsal said.

“This is an absolute miracle,” he said. “This is rugged territory, this is an extreme environment. How they were out there for 44 hours is pretty amazing.”

chance to play in the State Tournament later this month!

KCHS students will finish the third quarter of the school year this week and will get a week to rest and recover before they come back to school on March 18.

There will be no school for students on Friday March 8, and they will return to school on Monday March 18.

Thursday: 3/7 Region Basketball @ Seward (Girls and Boys Varsity) Friday 3/8: Region Basketball @ Seward (Girls and Boys Varsity) No School for Students Saturday 3/9: Region Basketball @ Seward (Girls and Boys Varsity) Kenai Middle School 6th Grade Volleyball Intramurals begin today and ends March 20. Students must have a completed sports packet turned in prior to participating. 6th Grade Basketball Intramurals will follow, beginning on March 21 and ending on March 29.

Practices times are the same and again, students must have a completed packet turned in for basketball prior to participating. Packets are available at the KMS office.

— Associated Press

Monday, March 4 is the Spring Band Concert in the KMS gym. Beginning band is at 5:30 p.m., Intermediate Band is at 6:15 p.m. and Concert Band is at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, March 5 is the Spring Choir at KCHS. The Concert begins at 7 p.m.

Don’t miss it!

Tuesday is also Spring Picture Day. Pictures will only be taken for students who choose to have pictures taken.

7th & 8th Grade ‘A” teams will have their end of season Volleyball party this afternoon from 2:30 -3:30 p.m.

On Wednesday, March 6 select 8th graders will be participating in the NAEP assessment.

This is the last week of After School Tutoring. Tutoring is Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 2:30 – 4 p.m.

There is no school for students on Friday, March 8. It is an In-Service for teachers. This also begins Spring Break!

We hope you all spend a relaxing week with your families; we will see you back at school on March 18.

Save-the-Date March 7- End of Quarter April 1- Track Begins

Sports

Logano nabs Vegas victory LAS VEGAS (AP) — Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski were side by side off the fourth turn, two teammates fighting for the last burst of speed on the final lap at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Logano barely managed to block Keselowski’s move, and the defending NASCAR Cup Series champion hung on for his first win in his title defense season.

“That was more intense than I wanted it to be,” Logano said.

Logano held off Keselowski on Sunday for his first Cup victory in Vegas, driving his Team Penske Ford to his 22nd career win.

“There’s been plenty of times here when we’ve led a lot of laps here, but we’ve never won, and that’s the most important stat to have,” Logano said.

“Something happens at the end, and Brad becomes the fastest car and he wins. I looked in the mirror, and I was

like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is happening again.’”

But after narrowly answering Keselowski’s last-lap passing attempt, Logano celebrated his victory in NASCAR’s first race under its full new rules package designed to foster tight racing and excitement.

“What a great race,” Logano said.

“Brad and I were so evenly matched, and you just can’t pull away (under the new rules). My heart is still running.”

Excitement is exactly what NASCAR got on the final lap, although the quality of the 266 laps before that sharply divided drivers and observers — no surprise in a sport that rarely agrees on much of anything.

The Vegas race featured no cautions, which meant the thrilling restarts expected under the new rules were limited to a couple of wild laps after the two segment breaks.

“There towards the end, the way this drafting package, these rules work, it was intense,” Logano said. “You can’t get away. You’re constantly looking around. Mentally, I’m exhausted right now. ... It proves you don’t need crashes to have an exciting race. There’s so much strategy that goes into driving these race cars now. I thought it was as entertaining as can be. I don’t really know what to say if you don’t like that.”

Keselowski drove up from 19th to take the lead with 27 laps left, but his hopes for back-to-back victories were dashed when Logano passed him while getting held up by lapped traffic.

“I’d like to have one more lap,” said Keselowski, who won the playoff race in Vegas last September. “It was a good battle, and we were both fighting really hard at the top. It seemed like it came down to what the lapped cars were going to do.”

Scoreboard Golf Honda Classic

Sunday at PGA National (Champions) Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Purse: $6.8 million Yardage: 7,125; Par: 70 Final Keith Mitchell (500), $1,224,000 68-66-70-67—271 Rickie Fowler (245), $598,400 67-72-66-67—272 Brooks Koepka (245), $598,400 67-69-70-66—272 Lucas Glover (123), $299,200 66-69-72-66—273 Ryan Palmer (123), $299,200 70-71-69-63—273 Vijay Singh (100), $244,800 70-69-65-70—274 Wyndham Clark (88), $219,300 69-67-67-72—275 Kyoung-Hoon Lee (88), $219,300 67-69-68-71—275 Jim Furyk (75), $183,600 69-72-68-67—276 Sergio Garcia (75), $183,600 67-70-70-69—276 69-71-68-68—276 Jason Kokrak (75), $183,600 68-68-70-71—277 Ryan Armour (59), $137,700 Lucas Bjerregaard, $137,700 70-68-72-67—277 Bud Cauley (59), $137,700 67-71-71-68—277 70-71-68-68—277 Harris English (59), $137,700 Billy Horschel (50), $105,400 67-71-73-67—278 Charl Schwartzel (50), $105,400 67-70-72-69—278 M. Thompson (50), $105,400 71-69-66-72—278 Jhonattan Vegas (50), $105,400 64-73-69-72—278 Scott Brown (37), $64,736 70-70-70-69—279 Roberto Castro (37), $64,736 67-70-69-73—279 Ernie Els (37), $64,736 66-73-71-69—279

Basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 46 18 .719 — Philadelphia 40 23 .635 5½ Boston 38 26 .594 8 Brooklyn 32 33 .492 14½ New York 13 50 .206 32½ Southeast Division Orlando 30 35 .462 — Charlotte 29 34 .460 — Miami 28 34 .452 ½ Washington 26 37 .413 3 Atlanta 22 42 .344 7½ Central Division x-Milwaukee 48 15 .762 — Indiana 41 23 .641 7½ Detroit 31 31 .500 16½ Chicago 18 46 .281 30½ Cleveland 16 48 .250 32½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Houston 38 25 .603 — San Antonio 35 29 .547 3½ New Orleans 29 36 .446 10 Dallas 27 35 .435 10½ Memphis 25 40 .385 14 Northwest Division Denver 42 20 .677 — Oklahoma City 39 24 .619 3½ Portland 39 24 .619 3½ Utah 36 26 .581 6 Minnesota 29 34 .460 13½ Pacific Division Golden State 44 19 .698 — L.A. Clippers 36 29 .554 9 Sacramento 31 31 .500 12½ L.A. Lakers 30 33 .476 14 Phoenix 13 51 .203 31½ x-clinched playoff spot Sunday’s Games Portland 118, Charlotte 108 Atlanta 123, Chicago 118 Houston 115, Boston 104 L.A. Clippers 128, New York 107 Cleveland 107, Orlando 93 Detroit 112, Toronto 107, OT Washington 135, Minnesota 121 Oklahoma City 99, Memphis 95 Monday’s Games Atlanta at Miami, 3:30 p.m.

Dallas at Brooklyn, 3:30 p.m.

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

Milwaukee at Phoenix, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Utah, 5 p.m.

New York at Sacramento, 6 p.m.

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

All Times AST

Men’s Major Scores EAST Manhattan 62, Quinnipiac 58 Rider 75, Marist 64 Siena 72, Niagara 65, OT St. Peter’s 62, Fairfield 52 Temple 80, Tulane 69 UConn 60, South Florida 58 SOUTH Appalachian St. 90, Louisiana-Lafayette 80 Charlotte 68, UTEP 58 FIU 83, Louisiana Tech 76 Georgia Tech 81, Boston College 78, OT Louisville 75, Notre Dame 61 Michigan 69, Maryland 62 W. Kentucky 76, Southern Miss. 71 MIDWEST Creighton 66, Marquette 60 DePaul 92, St. John’s 83 Illinois 81, Northwestern 76 SOUTHWEST Marshall 85, North Texas 82 Rice 67, Middle Tennessee 61 Tulsa 91, East Carolina 78 UTSA 76, UAB 70

Brian Gay (37), $64,736 Talor Gooch (37), $64,736 Chesson Hadley (37), $64,736 Russell Henley (37), $64,736 Max Homa (37), $64,736 Brian Stuard (37), $64,736 Matt Wallace, $64,736 Kramer Hickok (24), $41,310 Patrick Rodgers (24), $41,310 Adam Schenk (24), $41,310 Roger Sloan (24), $41,310 Nick Taylor (24), $41,310 Justin Thomas (24), $41,310 Byeong Hun An (14), $25,346 Daniel Berger (14), $25,346 Jonas Blixt (14), $25,346 Julián Etulain (14), $25,346 Danny Lee (14), $25,346 Sebastián Muñoz (14), $25,346 J.T. Poston (14), $25,346 Sam Saunders (14), $25,346 Ben Silverman (14), $25,346 Webb Simpson (14), $25,346 Matt Jones (14), $25,346 Peter Malnati (14), $25,346 Rory Sabbatini (14), $25,346 Cameron Tringale (14), $25,346 Gary Woodland (14), $25,346 Bill Haas (6), $15,827 Sungjae Im (6), $15,827 Sung Kang (6), $15,827

Wichita St. 67, SMU 55 FAR WEST Arizona St. 74, Oregon St. 71 CS Northridge 84, Hawaii 73 Washington 62, Stanford 61

Women’s Scores EAST Delaware 68, William & Mary 52 Drexel 68, Elon 45 James Madison 63, Towson 56 Louisville 67, Pittsburgh 40 Marquette 80, Providence 57 Northeastern 81, Coll. of Charleston 69 Seton Hall 76, St. John’s 72 Syracuse 76, Boston College 59 UNC-Wilmington 61, Hofstra 51 SOUTH Auburn 56, LSU 46 Duke 62, North Carolina 44 Florida 78, Vanderbilt 66 Florida St. 64, Georgia Tech 55 Kentucky 58, Georgia 53 Mississippi St. 68, South Carolina 64 NC State 70, Miami 68 Tennessee 81, Mississippi 56 Virginia Tech 69, Wake Forest 57 MIDWEST Butler 62, Villanova 60 DePaul 74, Creighton 67 Drake 70, Missouri St. 61 Georgetown 67, Xavier 64 Illinois St. 74, Valparaiso 53 Indiana 73, Purdue 51 Iowa 74, Northwestern 50 Michigan 59, Wisconsin 49 Minnesota 81, Michigan St. 63 Missouri 82, Alabama 47 N. Iowa 76, S. Illinois 67 Notre Dame 103, Virginia 66 Rutgers 66, Ohio St. 56 SOUTHWEST Texas A&M 66, Arkansas 53 FAR WEST California 80, Washington St. 58 Oregon 66, Arizona St. 59 Oregon St. 65, Arizona 60 Southern Cal 83, Utah 77 Stanford 72, Washington 53 UCLA 84, Colorado 50

Racing Pennzoil 400

Sunday At Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas Lap length: 1.5 miles (Starting position in parentheses) 1. (10) Joey Logano, Ford, 267.

2. (19) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 267.

3. (3) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 267.

4. (1) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 267.

5. (28) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 267.

6. (8) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 267.

7. (25) Aric Almirola, Ford, 267.

8. (23) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 267.

9. (12) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 267.

10. (2) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 267.

11. (11) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 267.

12. (7) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 267.

13. (18) Erik Jones, Toyota, 267.

14. (17) Clint Bowyer, Ford, 267.

15. (15) Paul Menard, Ford, 267.

16. (20) William Byron, Chev-

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rolet, 267.

17. (22) Daniel Suarez, Ford, 267.

18. (27) Chris Buescher, Chevrolet, 267.

19. (9) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 266.

20. (4) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 266.

21. (26) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 266.

22. (13) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 266.

23. (5) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 265.

24. (29) Ryan Newman, Ford, 265.

25. (24) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet, 265.

26. (21) Bubba Wallace, Chevrolet, 265.

27. (30) Corey LaJoie, Ford, 264.

28. (6) David Ragan, Ford, 264.

29. (14) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 264.

30. (16) Michael McDowell, Ford, 263.

31. (32) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, 263.

32. (31) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 260.

33. (38) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 259.

34. (35) Matt Tifft, Ford, 259.

35. (33) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, 253.

36. (37) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 252.

37. (34) BJ McLeod, Ford, 220.

38. (36) Joey Gase, Toyota, Engine, 10.

Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 154.849 mph.

Time of Race: 2 Hours, 35 Minutes, 11 Seconds. Margin of Victory: .236 Seconds.

Caution Flags: 2 for 12 laps.

Lead Changes: 19 among 9 drivers.

Lap Leaders: K. Harvick 1-43;J. Logano 44-49;D. Suarez 50-61;K. Harvick 6283;B. Keselowski 84-96;J. Logano 97-119;K. Busch 120128;W. Byron 129-149;J. Logano 150-163;K. Busch 164168;J. Logano 169;K. Busch 170-187;K. Harvick 188-210;J. Logano 211-215;K. Busch 216-219;R. Stenhouse Jr. 220-224;A. Dillon 225-226;J. Logano 227-239;B. Keselowski 240-243;J. Logano 244-267.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led): Kevin Harvick 3 times for 88 laps; Joey Logano 7 times for 86 laps; Kurt Busch 2 times for 23 laps; William Byron 1 time for 21 laps; Brad Keselowski 2 times for 17 laps; Kyle Busch 2 times for 13 laps; Daniel Suarez 1 time for 12 laps; Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 1 time for 5 laps; Austin Dillon 1 time for 2 laps.

Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 66 50 12 4 104 258 174 Boston 65 39 17 9 87 194 161 Toronto 65 40 21 4 84 233 186 Montreal 66 35 24 7 77 201 193 Buffalo 65 30 27 8 68 187 207 Florida 65 28 26 11 67 207 224 Detroit 65 23 33 9 55 179 223 Ottawa 66 23 38 5 51 195 246 Metropolitan Division Washington 66 38 21 7 83 226 208 N.Y. Islanders 65 37 21 7 81 187 157 Carolina 65 36 23 6 78 196 176 Pittsburgh 65 34 22 9 77 226 202 Columbus 65 36 26 3 75 203 197

Russell Knox (6), $15,827 Trey Mullinax (6), $15,827 Harold Varner III (6), $15,827 Nick Watney (6), $15,827 Chase Wright (6), $15,827 Bronson Burgoon (5), $14,620 Cameron Davis (5), $14,620 John Huh (5), $14,620 Zach Johnson (5), $14,620 Anirban Lahiri (5), $14,620 Joaquin Niemann (5), $14,620 Adam Svensson (5), $14,620 Vaughn Taylor (5), $14,620 Martin Kaymer (4), $14,008 Freddie Jacobson (3), $13,804 Grayson Murray (3), $13,804 Hank Lebioda (3), $13,600 Made Cut Did Not Finish Tyler Duncan (3), $13,396 Kevin Streelman (3), $13,396 Sam Burns (3), $13,124 Hudson Swafford (3), $13,124 Stewart Cink (2), $12,784 Austin Cook (2), $12,784 Jason Dufner (2), $12,784 Ryan Blaum (2), $12,308 Stephan Jaeger (2), $12,308 Jim Knous (2), $12,308 Richy Werenski (2), $12,308 Graeme McDowell (2), $11,968 Drew Nesbitt, $11,832

Philadelphia 66 32 26 8 72 201 219 N.Y. Rangers 65 27 27 11 65 190 218 New Jersey 66 25 33 8 58 188 223

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division 65 39 22 4 82 222 193 Winnipeg Nashville 68 38 25 5 81 202 180 65 34 25 6 74 187 181 St. Louis Dallas 65 33 27 5 71 166 170 Minnesota 66 32 27 7 71 182 191 Colorado 66 28 26 12 68 216 208 Chicago 66 27 30 9 63 220 250 Pacific Division Calgary 65 41 17 7 89 232 186 San Jose 66 39 19 8 86 238 206 67 36 26 5 77 201 187 Vegas Arizona 65 32 28 5 69 176 183 Edmonton 65 28 30 7 63 183 213 Vancouver 66 27 30 9 63 180 206 Anaheim 66 25 32 9 59 144 203 Los Angeles 65 24 33 8 56 158 207 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

Sunday’s Games Washington 3, N.Y. Rangers 2, SO Philadelphia 4, N.Y. Islanders 1 Vegas 3, Vancouver 0 Anaheim 2, Colorado 1 Ottawa 3, Florida 2 Winnipeg 5, Columbus 2 Nashville 3, Minnesota 2, SO San Jose 5, Chicago 2 Monday’s Games Edmonton at Buffalo, 3 p.m.

Toronto at Calgary, 5 p.m.

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Soccer MLS Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GA Toronto FC 1 0 0 3 3 1 D.C. United 1 0 0 3 2 0 Montreal 1 0 0 3 2 1 NYCity FC 0 0 1 1 2 2 Orlando City 0 0 1 1 2 2 Columbus 0 0 1 1 1 1 New York 0 0 1 1 1 1 New England 0 0 1 1 1 1 Chicago 0 1 0 0 1 2 Philadelphia 0 1 0 0 1 3 Atlanta 0 1 0 0 0 2 Cincinnati 0 1 0 0 1 4

WESTERN CONFERENCE Seattle 1 0 0 3 4 1 Minnesota U. 1 0 0 3 3 2 LA Galaxy 1 0 0 3 2 1 Los Angeles FC 1 0 0 3 2 1 Portland 0 0 1 1 3 3 Colorado 0 0 1 1 3 3 Real Salt Lake 0 0 1 1 1 1 FC Dallas 0 0 1 1 1 1 Houston 0 0 1 1 1 1 Vancouver 0 1 0 0 2 3 S. Kansas City 0 1 0 0 1 2 San Jose 0 1 0 0 1 2 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Sunday, March 3 D.C. United 2, Atlanta 0 Los Angeles FC 2, Sporting Kansas City 1 Saturday, March 9 Orlando City at Chicago, 9 a.m.

Colorado at New England, 10 a.m.

Columbus at New England, 10 a.m.

LA Galaxy at FC Dallas, 11:30 a.m.

Montreal at Houston, 1 p.m.

Vancouver at Real Salt Lake, 2 p.m.

Minnesota United at San Jose, 4 p.m.

Colorado at Seattle, 6 p.m.

Sunday, March 10 D.C. United at New York City FC, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at Sporting Kansas City, 11 a.m.

Cincinnati at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Portland at Los Angeles FC, 3:30 p.m.

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Baseball Spring Training results

Sunday’s Games

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Boston 9, Minnesota (ss) 7 Washington 4, Houston 2 Tampa Bay 10, Pittsburgh 4 Atlanta 6, Miami 5 N.Y. Yankees (ss) 7, Detroit (ss) 1 Philadelphia 3, Minnesota (ss) 3 N.Y. Mets 10, St. Louis 8 Toronto 5, N.Y. Yankees (ss) 2 Baltimore 7, Detroit (ss) 5 L.A. Dodgers 6, Texas (ss) 3 Chicago Cubs 13, Chicago White Sox 4 Kansas City 13, Cleveland 7 Texas (ss) 11, San Diego 3 Cincinnati 11, Milwaukee 5 Seattle 7, Arizona 3 L.A. Angels 4, Oakland 1 Colorado 9, San Francisco 3

Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned RHP Hunter Harvey to Norfolk (IL). Reassigned C Cael Brockmeyer, LHP Chris Lee, RHPs Zach Pop and Dean Kremer, INF Zack Vincej and OFs Ryan McKenna and Mike Yastrzemski to minor league camp.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Traded OF Zack Granite to Texas for RHP Xavier Moore and cash and traded Moore to Baltimore for international signing bonus pool allocation.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Optioned RHP Grant Holmes, INF Jorge Mateo and OFs Luis Barrera and Syke Bolt to Las Vegas (PCL). Reassigned LHPs Dean Kiekhefer and Kyle Lobstein; RHPs Parker Bridwell, Jake Buchanan, Kyle Finnegan, Miguel Romero and Norge Ruiz; Cs Jonah Heim and Beau Taylor and INF Corban Joseph to their minor league camp.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Optioned OF/1B Joey Curletta to Tacoma (PCL).

TEXAS RANGERS — Placed OF Scott Heineman on the 60day DL. National League CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with INF David Bote; LHPs Randy Rosario and Justin Steele; Cs Victor Caratini, Willson Contreras and Taylor Davis; OFs Albert Almora Jr., Ian Happ and Mark Zagunis; and RHPs Adbert Alzolay, Oscar De La Cruz, Dillon Maples, Alec Mills, James Norwood, Jen-Ho Tseng, Duane Underwood Jr. and Rowan Wick on one-year contracts.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Signed C Pau Gasol.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled D Jason Demers from Tucson (AHL).

American Hockey League MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Returned G Adam Carlson to Rapid City (ECHL).

SAN DIEGO GULLS — Released G Christian Frey from his professional tryout agreement.

TORONTO MARLIES — recalled D Kristians Rubins from Newfoundland (ECHL).

COLLEGE WAKE FOREST — Announced the retirement of athletic director Ron Wellman, effective May 1. Named John Currie athletic director.

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Rockets, Harden take down Celtics

By The Associated Press

BOSTON — James Harden had 42 points before fouling out late in the fourth quarter and the Houston Rockets held on the beat the Boston Celtics 115-104 on Sunday for their fifth straight victory.

Harden made six 3-pointers and scored 40 or more points for the 24th time this season. Houston entered the day in fifth place in the Western Conference standings, a game behind of fourth-place Oklahoma City.

PISTONS 112, RAPTORS 107, OT DETROIT — Blake Griffin scored 14 of his 27 points in the first quarter and Detroit outlasted Toronto.

Detroit took advantage of Toronto resting star forward Kawhi Leonard less than 48 hours after he made the go-ahead shot in the closing seconds in a victory over Portland.

five 3-pointers.

CLIPPERS 128, KNICKS 107 LOS ANGELES — Rookie Landry Shamet scored all of his 21 points on 3-pointers, Danilo Gallinari added 20 and Los Angeles sent New York to its 50th loss of the season.

Shamet and Gallinari combined for 27 of the Clippers’ 38 points in the first quarter when they raced to a 38-20 lead. Shamet scored 18 points in the opening 12 minutes. He tied the franchise record for threes in a quarter (six) and a half (seven), and set a franchise rookie record for 3s in a single game.

TRAIL BLAZERS 118, HORNETS 108

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rodney Hood scored 27 points, Jusuf Nurkic added 26 points and 15 rebounds and Portland beat Charlotte.

Damian Lillard had 23 points to help the Trail Blazers win for the sixth time in seven games. Jeremy Lamb had 23 points, and Kemba THUNDER 99, Walker added 18 points and GRIZZLIES 95 a season-high 12 assists for OKLAHOMA CITY — the Hornets.

Russell Westbrook scored CAVALIERS 107, 12 of his 22 points in the MAGIC 93 fourth quarter and Oklahoma City Thunder overcame CLEVELAND — Jordan a 13-point deficit in the final Clarkson scored 18 points, seven minutes to beat MemKevin Love had 16 points phis. and 14 rebounds and Cleveland pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat OrlanHAWKS 123, do. Nikola Vucevic scored BULLS 118 28 points for Orlando.

CHICAGO — Alex Len scored a season-high WIZARDS 135, 28 points and Atlanta beat TIMBERWOLVES 121 Chicago, two days after the Bulls outlasted the Hawks WASHINGTON — Bob168-161 in quadruple over- by Portis had 26 points and time in Atlanta 12 rebounds and Bradley Len finished three points Beal and Jabari Parker each shy of his career high. He scored 22 points to help also made a personal-best Washington beat Minnesota.

Today in History Today is Monday, March 4, the 63rd day of 2019. There are 302 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 4, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt took office as America’s 32nd president.

On this date: In 1791, Vermont became the 14th state.

In 1793, George Washington was sworn in for a second term as president of the United States during a ceremony in Philadelphia.

In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term of office; with the end of the Civil War in sight, Lincoln declared: “With malice toward none, with charity for all.”

In 1913, the “Buffalo nickel” officially went into circulation.

In 1925, President Calvin Coolidge’s inauguration was broadcast live on 21 radio stations coast-to-coast.

In 1952, Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis were married in San Fernando Valley, California.

In 1974, the first issue of People magazine, then called People Weekly, was published by Time-Life Inc.; on the cover was actress Mia Farrow.

In 1977, some 1,500 people were killed in an earthquake that shook southern and eastern Europe.

In 1987, President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation on the Iran-Contra affair, acknowledging that his overtures to Iran had “deteriorated” into an arms-for-hostages deal.

In 1994, in New York, four extremists were convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people and injured more than a thousand. Actor-comedian John Candy died in Durango, Mexico, at age 43.

In 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that sexual harassment at work can be illegal even when the offender and victim are of the same gender.

In 2005, Martha Stewart, imprisoned for five months for her role in a stock scandal, left federal prison to start five months of home confinement.

Ten years ago: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, addressing a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, called on Americans to look beyond their own tumbling financial markets to see a world gripped by an “economic hurricane” that could be turned around with U.S. help. Playwright Horton Foote, who’d won an Oscar for his screen adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” died in Hartford, Conn. at age 92.

Five years ago: President Barack Obama submitted a $3.9 trillion budget for fiscal 2015. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met in Ukraine with the new government’s leaders in a show of support following Russia’s military incursion into the Crimean Peninsula.

One year ago: “The Shape of Water” won the Oscar for best picture and in three other categories; the top prize was announced by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway a year after they were caught up in the erroneous announcement that “La La Land” and not “Moonlight” had won for best picture. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia would “never” extradite any of the 13 Russians who’d been indicted by the United States for electionmeddling; he also insisted to NBC News that they didn’t act on behalf of his government. Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found unconscious on a bench in the southwestern English city of Salisbury; both survived what British authorities said was a murder attempt using a nerve agent.

Today’s Birthdays: Former Congressional Budget Office director Alice Rivlin is 88. Actress Paula Prentiss is 81. Movie director Adrian Lyne is 78. Singer Shakin’ Stevens is 71. Author James Ellroy is 71. Energy Secretary Rick Perry is 69. Singer Chris Rea is 68. Actor/rock singer-musician Ronn Moss is 67. Actress Kay Lenz is 66. Musician Emilio Estefan is 66. Movie director Scott Hicks is 66. Actress Catherine O’Hara is 65. Actor Mykelti (MY’kul-tee) Williamson is 62. Actress Patricia Heaton is 61. Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., is 61. Actor Steven Weber is 58. Rock musician Jason Newsted is 56. Actress Stacy Edwards is 54. Rapper Grand Puba is 53. Rock musician Patrick Hannan (The Sundays) is 53. Rock singer Evan Dando (Lemonheads) is 52. Actress Patsy Kensit is 51. Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., is 51. Gay rights activist Chaz Bono is 50. Actress Andrea Bendewald is 49. Actor Nick Stabile (stah-BEEL’) is 49. Rock musician Fergal Lawler (The Cranberries) is 48. Country singer Jason Sellers is 48. Jazz musician Jason Marsalis is 42. Actress Jessica Heap is 36. Actor Scott Michael Foster is 34. TV personality Whitney Port is 34.

Actress Audrey Esparza is 33. Actress Margo Harshman is 33.

Actor Josh Bowman is 31. Actress Andrea Bowen is 29. Actress Jenna Boyd is 26.

Thought for Today: “I do not understand the world, but I watch its progress.” -- Katherine Anne Porter, American author (18941980).

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Woman admired for beauty wants men to look deeper only thing that’s bothering me is my husband has never asked me about my past lovers -- never asked how many or any other details.

I have had quite a past. He hasn’t. I feel bad because I feel like I’m hiding it from him. Should I forget about it, unless he mentions it?

Even then, I’m afraid to Abigail Van Buren tell him the real number.

-- TORN UP IN THE EAST DEAR TORN UP: You were entitled to have a life before you met the man you eventually married. These days, most men and women have a past, so please stop flogging yourself with guilt over yours. Your past is over. Concentrate on your present. Your husband obviously loves you exactly the way you are. Your history has made you the person you are.

DEAR ABBY: I need help. I am a middle school drama teacher. Five years ago, one of my eighth graders and a friend snuck out late at night during a sleepover. While attempting to cross an interstate highway, my student was struck by a car and killed.

A few days ago, as I was clearing space off

an old external hard drive, I found a 90-second video of my deceased student doing a play audition a couple of months before her demise. It is a middle close-up (waist to head) and very clear.

It’s probably one of the last videos of her with such high quality. My question is, five years after her funeral, should I reach out to her parents or would that be too painful for them?

-- REACHING OUT DEAR REACHING OUT: I’m glad you asked. Contact the parents, tell them about your discovery and ask whether they would like to have it. I would be very surprised if they didn’t. They will probably regard it as an unexpected gift.

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.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, March 4, 2019: This year, you greet life with more enthusiasm than you’ve had for years. You sense a change coming. At times, you could be overwhelmed and wondering what might be best. Through fall 2019, your strong suits are your public persona and your work. If single, you’ll grow through relationships. You’ll tend to choose people who you need to heal. However, starting in winter 2019, you make better choices. If attached, you’ll find that your sweetie sometimes wants or needs more downtime with you. Don’t hesitate. The long term is far more important than the moment. AQUARIUS could make you uncomfortable with his or her perception.

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 sense a dynamic change or happening that’s about to drop on you.

Your ability to understand beyond most people’s vision emerges. You grasp the implications of what comes down your path. Others don’t see as clearly as you do. Tonight: Where people gather.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You eye the long term with the knowledge that you’re more in control than others believe you are. You could be quite excited about an opportunity that’s heading your direction. A partner or loved one could be involved. Tonight: To the wee hours.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Try not to overthink an issue. You could become compulsive about it and have difficulty letting go, thereby causing a myriad of problems. No matter how offbeat you get, a partner or associate might be quite accommodating. Tonight: Enjoying the moment.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You have the ability to see way beyond the obvious. Enjoy what’s happening around you, but share more with a key person in your life. Your perceptions tend to be valued. This person’s feedback could be more important than you realize.

Tonight: Go with the moment.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Others seem to take over and run with the moment. You have the choice of joining in or going your own direction.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH You’ll be more forthright in handling a difficult matter; however, getting others to listen to your logic and thoughts could be challenging. You might decide to give control to someone else. Tonight: Make it early.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH The words that tumble out of your mouth could surprise even you. Right now, your ingenuity trends toward being offbeat and unique. Willingly walk your own path; express your ideas. You might receive a strong reaction from someone who’s close to you. Tonight: Be a wild thing.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Take your time making up your mind. An idea that revolved around the home front and security might be enticing but expensive. Do you feel that the cost is worth it, both now and in the long run?

Tonight: Play it low-key.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH At this present time, you seem unusually fortunate. You can make a bad choice and come up smelling like roses.

Your sense of humor helps you act like the comeback kid. Tonight: A brainstorm session.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You need to be more skeptical of your choices; however, you’ll land well, no matter what. You could be tired of proceeding as you have, so look for new ways to add more vigor and positive energy into your life. Tonight: Say “yes.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH You beam, knowing that the moment is yours. You have the support of friends and family. You know what you want and understand where you’re heading. You finally have a clear field to move on. Tonight: Doing exactly what you desire.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You see how others respond to a demand. Your response is also appropriate. You could be delighted by the longterm results. A boss or superior of sorts is eyeing your performance. Tonight: In the limelight.

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-- Heloise “Dear Heloise: The internet has made it possible to buy and sell animals online, but there are too many scams out there to trust these people. They will: “* Show a picture of an adorable kitten or puppy, but often this animal’s picture is from some other website. “* Offer to use a ‘courier service,’ but won’t tell you which service. They rarely show a phone number on their website. “* Want money sent to them by Western Union, MoneyGram or some other service, and they may tell you to lie about what the money is for when you’re questioned. “* Have a problem once you pay. They can’t send the pet because the carrier demands insurance or medical clearance, or some other bogus excuse.

“Please tell your readers to NEVER buy a pet online, or at least don’t pay until you have the animal in your arms.

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-- Michelle and Mike H., Defiance, Ohio UTENSILS SLIDE ALL OVER Dear Heloise: All my cooking utensils get tangled up in a drawer. How do I prevent this?

-- Carrie-Ann in Ohio First, put a small hand towel or kitchen towel in the drawer and secure it with thumbtacks. Next, place all utensils upside down in the drawer. This should solve the problem. You also can use a rubberized shelf liner in place of a towel.

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DEAR ABBY: I have always been close to my oldest brother and his wife. I’m 24 years younger than they are. In some ways, I think I was like a child to them because they were never able to have children naturally or through adoption.

Ever since I had my first child two years ago, they have become distant. They skip family occasions and don’t send gifts anymore. (I don’t care about the material items, but they used to send me very thoughtful gifts.) My brother has gotten angry at me over how I feed my son (I don’t give him sweets), and says he will no longer be around me if food is involved. He’s late to return emails I send. This hurts immensely.

My brother is a straight shooter. When I asked him if I did something to offend him, he said no, but his behavior suggests otherwise. I feel like by having children, I have lost part of my family. Is there anything I can do?

-- SAD SIS IN CALIFORNIA DEAR SIS: Because your brother is a “straight shooter,” get to the point and tell him you are hurt because of the change in his behavior. Then ask him to explain what’s going on. Unless you know for sure what has caused it, there is nothing you can do.

DEAR ABBY: I have been married for two years and everything is great. We rarely fight. The

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