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Friday-Saturday, December 28-29, 2018 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 49, Issue 76

In the news Magnitude 4.9 aftershock strikes near site of Alaska quake ANCHORAGE — A magnitude 4.9 aftershock has shaken an area of south central Alaska near where a powerful temblor jolted the region last month. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake occurred at 5:21 a.m. Thursday and was centered 10.5 miles northwest of Anchorage. The Alaska Earthquake Center tweets that the aftershock was closer to Anchorage than most others have been, which may explain why some people thought it was stronger than it actually was. On Nov. 30, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck 7 miles north of Anchorage, damaging roads and structures Thousands of aftershocks have followed. The Anchorage Daily News reports preliminary assessments have found the big quake cause $76 million in damage.

Man held after using front-end loader to make get-away ANCHORAGE — Police have arrested a 42-year-old Anchorage man suspected of stealing a front-end loader and using it as his get-away vehicle after a burglary. Police say Brian Petross was held Wednesday on suspicion of vehicle theft, burglary, theft, reckless driving and criminal mischief. Online court documents do not list his attorney. A person walking a dog Wednesday morning reported a broken door at a westside hair salon. Officers determined someone drove a front-end loader to the salon, picked up a frozen planter, smashed the front door window, entered the business and stole numerous items. While responding to another burglary, officers spotted the front-end loader and conducted a traffic stop. They arrested Petross and determined he had stolen the heavy equipment Saturday from a secured lot on the city’s east side. — Associated Press

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Government shutdown continues; some local services affected By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

A partial government shutdown that could extend into next year has shuttered several federal operations on the peninsula, and left other government employees working without pay. Federal Aviation Administration employees, which include air traffic controllers and technicians at the Kenai airport, are still performing essential duties, but without pay, Greg Martin, a spokesperson with the FAA, said. Martin said FAA employees in Kenai, and around the nation, remain on the job to retain public safety. “There’s no operational impact for Kenai because air traffic controllers and technicians remain on the job,” Martin said. The shutdown started Saturday after President Donald Trump and lawmakers reached an impasse over the president’s demand for $5 billion to fund a border wall. Funding lapsed for nine Cabinet-level departments and dozens of agencies, including the departments of Homeland

Seafood industry faces more uncertainty By CRISTY FRY For the Homer News

A sign is posted outside the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center that lets residents know that due to the partial government shutdown, refuge employees and visitor services are unavailable and that visitors should enter the refuge at their own risk, on Thursday, in Soldotna. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

Security, Transportation, Inte- working unpaid, while an ad- tial or otherwise exempted rior, Agriculture, State and Jus- ditional 380,000 have been fur- from their respective agency tice. Roughly 420,000 workers loughed. See GOV, page A16 Employees deemed essenwere deemed essential and are

As another year draws to a close, the seafood industry seems to be facing even more uncertainty than usual, with some groundfish stocks cratering, salmon runs behaving in historically strange ways, trade wars with China imposing some tariffs on a variety of products, and the state being on the forefront of climate change. The year started out with a Pacific cod quota cut of 80 percent in the Gulf of Alaska, an unexpected drop after a strong year class from 2012 suffered unusually high mortality due to a warm period from 2014 to 2016. Overall, GOA groundfish quotas dropped 21 percent. Bering Sea crabbers started the year with a 19.5 millionpound opilio quota that proved difficult for some boats, with scratchy fishing and bad weather that cost a few boats their windows. However, prices over $4 per pound for both bairdi See SEA, page A16

Environmental groups object to Prince of Wales timber sale By ALEX MCCARTHY Juneau Empire

Environmental organizations in the state and around the country are opposing a major timber sale on Prince of Wales Island. Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental law organization, filed a formal objection to the Prince of Wales Landscape Level Analysis Project (POW LLA) on Dec. 21. It filed the opposition on behalf of nine conservation organizations, including Defenders of Wildlife, a national organization. Defenders of Wildlife filed an additional objection Thursday. The POW LLA project is being done through the U.S. Forest Service, which writes on its website that the project

Moss covers old growth trees along Auke Lake on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

is to improve ecosystem health tives in order to provide ecoin the Craig and Thorne Bay nomic development.” Ranger Districts while “meetEnvironmental groups have ing multiple resource objec- opposed this project, asserting

that it paves the way for the logging of old-growth forest and road-building throughout the region. The Earthjustice objection called the proposal “the largest logging project in the entire country in more than a generation.” The proposal could allow up to 235 million board feet of old-growth forest to be harvested over 15 years, Defenders of Wildlife said in a press release Thursday. The public comment period is currently open but closes Monday, Dec. 31. People can comment by emailing Project Manager Delilah Brigham at dbrigham@ fs.fed.us. Forest Service officials were not available to speak Thursday, as emails and calls went unreturned and the voice-

mail greeting at the Tongass National Forest headquarters stated that the office was closed due to the current government shutdown. The writers of the Earthjustice objection asserted that the Forest Service is not telling members of the public enough details about the project, including where the project area is or when the 15-year project timeframe is taking place. The project page on the Forest Service website doesn’t mention the word “timber” once, for example. The objection also claims this project will help improve the Prince of Wales forest ecosystem, but does not appear to be willing to fund aspects of the project about restoring habitat. See SALE, page A16

Senator: Big issues in Legislature will be PFD, budget cuts By MICHAEL ARMSTRONG Homer News

Heading into his 19th year as a state senator, Sen. Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, has some advice for Homer’s newest legislator, Rep.-elect Sarah Vance. She’s the third Homer representative he will work

with after Rep. Drew Scalzi and Rep. Paul Seaton, who Vance defeated to win election to District 31. “It’s probably good to be quiet for awhile, just to figure out the lay of the land and how things work,” Stevens said. “… Make sure what’s going on and then take advice

from your senator, too.” Stevens, 77, met with Homer News staff last Thursday on a trip to Homer. He had planned to visit earlier, but had to cancel because his flight couldn’t make it into Homer. Stevens also met with the Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center, the

Juneau Native Corp. selected for $6.1 billion Army contract BY BEN HOHENSTATT Juneau Empire

Goldbelt Inc. was selected as one of eight companies to perform work with the U.S. Army under a contract that could be worth as much as $6.1 billion over 10 years, the for-profit Alaska Native urban corporation headquartered in Juneau announced Thursday. Goldbelt Glacier Health Services, a subsidiary of Goldbelt Inc., was selected for the Human Resources Solutions-

Personnel Lifecycle Support contract to provide human resources services to the Army, and other Goldbelt companies will work as subcontractors. Goldbelt Inc. CEO and President Chuck Wimberly said in a Thursday interview it’s likely the contract reaches its ceiling for value and length. “The government and the Army have the opportunity to cancel the contract on a 30-day notice,” Wimberly said. “The likelihood of the government canceling that is fairly low. We

live with that option to cancel without cause. At the end of the day, I think this is an effort by the army to streamline the services they need for human resources.” The human resources services include: access card issuance, benefit paperwork processing, hiring civilian support staff and more. The new contract is not affected by the ongoing government shutdown. “The Department of Defense See CORP., page A16

North Pacific Fisheries Association, local school principals, and the Homer City Council, and stopped by an open house at the Legislative Information Office. When he heads to Juneau on Jan. 15, Stevens will be working with new Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a slightly differ-

ent Senate, and a House still unorganized as a seat that Republican Bart LeBon of Fairbanks won by one vote faces a challenge in the Alaska Supreme Court. Rep. Gary Knopp, R-Soldotna, also has said he won’t join a potential 21-member Republican See ISSUES, page A3

Business owner finds burglary suspect after police leave FAIRBANKS (AP) — Persistence paid off for the owner of a Fairbanks car dealership after police investigated a suspected burglary in progress but departed without finding a suspect. Lane Nichols, owner of Gene’s Chrysler, and his son continued the search Monday night in the dealership’s storage yard and found a man hiding in an SUV, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported. ‘You know, you can only be violated so many times, and I was just so happy that we got one of the bad guys,” Nichols said. “He was dressed for Arc-

tic weather and he systematically went through (the) entire lot. The video is actually pretty informative.” The 29-year-old suspect faces misdemeanor theft and trespassing charges. Security cameras sent an alert to the dealership manager at 10 p.m. Monday and captured footage of a man rummaging through vehicles. Nichols met police at the business. They searched the car the suspect was last seen entering but could not find him. The officers left but Nichols and his son decided to keep See SUSPECT, page A2

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

Utqiagvik -7/-14

Today

Saturday

Cloudy, a bit of snow in the p.m.

A bit of a.m. snow; mostly cloudy

Hi: 27 Lo: 20

Hi: 24 Lo: 10

Sunday

A little icy mix in An a.m. shower; the afternoon otherwise, some sun Hi: 31 Lo: 27

The patented AccuWeather.com RealFeel Temperature® is an exclusive index of the effects of temperature, wind, Sunrise humidity, sunshine intensity, cloudiness, precipitation, Sunset pressure and elevation on the human body.

10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m.

15 16 13 13

Daylight Length of Day - 5 hrs., 45 min., 32 sec. Daylight gained - 1 min., 10 sec.

Alaska Cities Yesterday Hi/Lo/W

Adak* Anchorage Barrow Bethel Cold Bay Cordova Delta Junction Denali N. P. Dillingham Dutch Harbor Fairbanks Fort Yukon Glennallen* Gulkana Haines Homer Juneau Ketchikan Kiana King Salmon Klawock Kodiak

Tuesday

Prudhoe Bay -9/-16

Considerable cloudiness

Hi: 39 Lo: 26

Hi: 33 Lo: 26

Last Dec 29

Today 10:13 a.m. 3:59 p.m.

New Jan 5

Moonrise Moonset

Today none 1:14 p.m.

Unalakleet McGrath 7/-5 9/-13

Tomorrow 1:01 a.m. 1:26 p.m.

Kotzebue 4/1/c 33/28/sf 36/33/sn McGrath 4/-9/sf 26/23/sn 24/21/sn Metlakatla 45/42/r 1/-13/c -7/-14/c Nome 4/-5/c 9/5/sn -3/-16/pc North Pole -5/-10/pc 35/22/c 25/18/sn Northway -12/-25/pc 41/30/sn 37/27/r Palmer 27/22/sn 7/5/pc 6/1/c Petersburg 40/34/r 14/7/pc 9/3/c Prudhoe Bay* -4/-17/c 26/20/sn 22/-15/sn Saint Paul 25/14/sn 34/33/sn 30/28/pc Seward 36/31/sn -5/-8/pc -2/-8/c Sitka 48/42/r -14/-22/pc -14/-19/pc Skagway 35/29/sn 11/-12/sn 20/15/sn Talkeetna 26/25/c 0/-14/pc 6/-3/sn Tanana 7/0/c 33/24/i 38/24/sn Tok* -8/-14/pc 33/24/sn 35/21/sn Unalakleet 7/5/c 40/31/r 39/26/c Valdez 30/23/sn 44/41/r 43/37/r Wasilla 26/23/sn 7/3/c 5/-3/sn Whittier 35/33/sn 44/23/sn 30/-14/sn Willow* 24/19/sn 45/39/r 43/36/r Yakutat 43/25/sn 39/24/sn 41/20/sn Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

Today Hi/Lo/W 3/-6/sn 9/-13/sn 44/38/r -5/-14/sn 0/-9/c -5/-15/pc 25/20/c 40/32/r -9/-16/c 22/19/sf 32/29/sn 40/33/r 40/27/sn 21/15/c 1/-6/c -4/-9/c 7/-5/sn 29/21/sn 24/19/sn 32/30/sn 21/16/sn 40/27/sn

Albany, NY Albuquerque Amarillo Asheville Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Buffalo, NY Casper Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Charlotte, NC Chicago Cheyenne Cincinnati

31/25/pc 42/26/pc 41/29/sn 43/33/r 54/47/c 47/26/s 71/49/s 51/26/pc 21/10/sn 64/52/r 14/10/sn 36/31/pc 38/31/pc 41/23/pc 18/-9/sn 67/47/c 54/28/sh 48/39/c 50/39/r 20/12/sn 51/36/r

50/40/r 28/12/sn 30/19/c 63/43/r 69/50/r 60/50/r 59/38/s 60/47/r 27/18/c 66/42/r 8/-2/c 34/22/s 52/47/r 55/34/r 19/3/c 71/63/r 65/37/r 67/51/r 44/24/c 18/7/c 59/29/pc

Precipitation

From the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai

24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.05" Month to date ............................ 1.81" Normal month to date .............. 1.20" Year to date ............................ 20.86" Normal year to date ............... 18.06" Record today ................. 0.61" (1960) Record for Dec. ............. 3.96" (1988) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963) Snowfall 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. .. 0.5" Month to date ........................... 12.2" Season to date ......................... 12.8"

Dillingham 22/-15

Juneau 39/26

National Extremes Kodiak 41/20

Sitka 40/33

(For the 48 contiguous states)

High yesterday Low yesterday

84 at Marathon, Fla. -18 at Antero Reservoir, Colo.

State Extremes High yesterday Low yesterday

Cold Bay 25/18

Ketchikan 43/37

49 at King Salmon -26 at Northway

Today’s Forecast

(Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation)

Rain will soak much of the eastern part of the nation as snow and cold rain affect part of the Southwest today. Rain and mountain snow will skirt the Northwest. Cold winds will rattle the Plains and California.

World Cities

City Cleveland Columbia, SC Columbus, OH Concord, NH Dallas Dayton Denver Des Moines Detroit Duluth El Paso Fargo Flagstaff Grand Rapids Great Falls Hartford Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jackson, MS

Yesterday Today Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W 48/31/r 57/41/c 48/34/r 32/21/s 62/52/pc 48/35/r 30/13/pc 54/37/t 43/34/r 35/27/sn 54/42/pc 23/19/sn 30/16/sn 47/33/r 22/12/sn 37/30/pc 29/18/sn 85/71/pc 72/55/r 50/35/r 66/56/t

60/32/r 73/57/r 60/31/r 43/39/sn 50/32/s 58/29/pc 23/8/c 26/9/c 56/29/sh 20/-4/sn 48/32/sh 3/-11/c 28/7/sn 50/26/c 30/21/s 51/44/r 28/16/pc 79/67/t 64/46/s 53/28/pc 62/43/pc

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High ............................................... 29 Low ................................................ 17 Normal high .................................. 26 Normal low .................................... 10 Record high ........................ 45 (1982) Record low ....................... -40 (1961)

Anchorage 24/21

Bethel -3/-16

National Cities City

Fairbanks -2/-8

Talkeetna 21/15 Glennallen 20/15

Unalaska 28/22 Yesterday Today Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W

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Nome -5/-14

Full Jan 20

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Almanac From Kenai Municipal Airport

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Internet: www.gedds.alaska.edu/auroraforecast

Today’s activity: MODERATE Where: Auroral activity will be moderate. Weather permitting, displays will be visible overhead from Barrow to as far south as Talkeetna and low on the horizon as far south as Bethel, Soldotna and southeast Alaska.

Temperature

Tomorrow 10:13 a.m. 4:00 p.m.

First Jan 13

Anaktuvuk Pass -3/-9

Kotzebue 3/-6

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Indonesia raises alert, widens danger zone around volcano By SYAWALLUDIN ZAIN and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press

CARITA, Indonesia — Indonesia raised the danger level for an island volcano that triggered a tsunami on the weekend, killing at least 430 people in Sumatra and Java, and widened its no-go zone. The country’s volcanology agency on Thursday increased the Anak Krakatau volcano’s alert status to the second-highest and more than doubled the exclusion zone to a 3-mile radius. The eruption on Saturday evening caused part of the island in the Sunda Strait to collapse into the sea, apparently generating tsunami waves of more than 6 1/2 feet. Most tsunamis are caused by earthquakes. The government has warned communities in the strait to stay a kilometer away from the coastline because of the risk of another tsunami triggered by Anak Krakatau’s eruptions. A navy vessel was expected to pass by the island, which could give scientists more information about the risks of a second collapse. “There’s still a chance of a landslide, even under the sea level or on the sea level,” said Rudy Sunendar, head of the Energy Ministry’s Geology Department. “Based on the satellite imagery interpretation, there is collapse of some area of Mount Anak Krakatau,” he told The Associated Press at the volcano’s monitoring post. Saturday’s disaster struck without warning, surprising people in a country that regularly suffers landslides, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. No earthquake shook the ground beforehand, and the waves surged inland at night on a holiday weekend while people were enjoying concerts and other beachside activities. Indonesia’s tsunami warning system relies on land seismometers and buoys connected to tidal gauges and is not equipped

Local residents clean the debris from his house at a tsunami-hit area in Carita, Indonesia, Thursday. Indonesia has widened the no-go zone around an island volcano that triggered a tsunami on the weekend, killing hundreds of people in Sumatra and Java. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

to detect underwater landslides. The system, in any case, has not operated for years because the buoys have been vandalized or not maintained because of low funding. Heavy rains and high seas have hampered the search for victims. Some bodies were found at sea and at least 159 people are missing. On Thursday, residents of badly affected Banten province on Java island were searching through the debris of destroyed or damaged homes for anything salvageable. “I’ve lost everything I have, my house and all belongings inside it,” said farmer Muhamad Sarta. “I just hope for some help from the government,” he said. “Hopefully there will be some repairs. I have nowhere to go. I have no money. Whatever I had was lost in the water.” Radar data from satellites, converted into images, shows

Anak Krakatau shrunk dramatically following Saturday’s eruption. Satellite photos aren’t available because of cloud cover but radar images from a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency satellite taken before and after the eruption show the volcano’s southwestern flank has disappeared. JAXA’s post-eruption image shows concentric waves radiating from the island, which experts say is caused by its ongoing eruptions. Dave Petley, head of research and innovation at Sheffield University who analyzed similar images from a European Space Agency satellite, said they support the theory that a landslide, most of it undersea, caused the tsunami. “The challenge now is to interpret what might be happening on the volcano, and what might happen next,” he wrote in a blog.

Anak Krakatau, which means Child of Krakatau, is the offspring of the infamous Krakatau volcano that affected the global climate with a massive eruption in 1883.

. . . Suspect Continued from page A1

looking. They soon got a call from the manager, who was still monitoring security footage. The manager directed them to a sport utility vehicle, where Nichols and his son found the suspect lying on the secondrow floorboard, facing the back seat. The man was bundled up for Arctic conditions and wore a headlamp. Nichols implied he had a weapon and told the man not to move. Police arrived and made the arrest.

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Around the Peninsula Panta Rhei: Everything Flows Kenai Fine Art Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s January exhibit will be Panta Rhei: Everything Flows, a dual artist show by Elizabeth Earl and Ben Boettger featuring Southcentral glaciers and their relationship to the Alaskan landscape and people. Opening reception will take place Jan. 3 from 5-7 p.m. The Kenai Fine Art Center is located across from the Oilerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bingo Hall and next to the Historic Cabins. For more information contact 283-7040 or go to www. kenaifineart.com.

Kenai Historical Society The Kenai Historical Society will meet on Sunday, Jan. 6 at 1:30 in the Kenai Visitors Center. Ron Walden, local author and pioneer will speak after the business meeting. Everyone is invited. For more information call June at 283-1946.

Auditions for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Crucibleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Kenai Performers will hold open auditions for â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Crucibleâ&#x20AC;? by Arthur Miller, directed by Rebecca Gilman. There are roles for: 10 adult men, 5 adult women, 4 teenage girls and 1 girl, age 8-12. Auditions will consist of reading selected scenes and monologues from the play. There will be two days of auditions: Friday, Jan. 4, 6-8 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 5, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m., with possible call backs on Sunday, Jan. 6. Auditions will be held in our rental space on K-Beach Road (backside of Subway restaurant). Performance dates: May 9-11 and 16-18, 2019. Rehearsals will start the week of March 18. If you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it to these audition dates/times, please contact Rebecca Gilman for more information at rflogiman@gmail.com or call, 3982951. Character descriptions available on our website: www. kenaiperformers.org.

day, Jan. 10 at 7 p.m. Please email kenaikennelclub@gmail.com with questions or to register. Go to Kenaikennelclub.com for the class schedule and more information.

The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is hosting a Wilderness First-Aid course on Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 12-13, 2019. Course cost $185, plus $45 extra for CPR. For more information contact Grief Recovery Method Workshop Michelle Ostrowski at michelleostrowski@fws.gov or debajango@ The Grief Recovery Method Workshop: The Action Program gmail.com. Must be 16 or older. for Moving beyond Death, Divorce and Other Losses 9-week program/Closed group will take place on Wednesday evenings Nikiski Recreation Center activities from 6-8 p.m. Jan. 2019: 9, 16, 23, 30. February 2019: 7, 13, â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Facilities Closures: The Nikiski Pool and Community 20, 27. March 2019: 6. Takes place at PCHS 230 E. Marydale Soldotna (conference room upstairs). Sponsored by PCHS. Fee: Recreation Center will be closed for Christmas Eve, Christmas $95.00 (scholarships available). To register or for further infor- Day and New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Swim Lessons: Open registration for lesson will begin at NBUJPO DBMM (BJM ,FOOFEZ r $FSUJĂ FE (SJFG 3FDPWFSZ 4QFDJBMnoon on Jan. 2. Lessons available will be group and semi-private JTUÂĄr for beginners, advanced beginners and intermediates. Tiny Tots and Pre-School Aquatic play will also be available for registraSEES candy fundraiser tion. Lessons will be available January to April. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Spin class: The Nikiski Community Recreation Center ofAnnual SEES candy fundraiser is going on now at Soldotna Professional Pharmacy while supplies last. All proceeds go to fers spin class twice a week. Classes are Wednesdays at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. Bring water. the PCD foundation (Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia). â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Youth Winter Camps: Camp for K through fifth-grade students and a camp for middle school students Jan. 2-3 from 10 Cook Inlet Pipeline Infrastructure Risk a.m. to 2 p.m. Camps will be $10 per day with various activities, Assessment deadline including: games, outside activities and cooking. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Open gym nights: Teen Center, Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Friday, 2:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 Experts wishing to participate in the Cook Inlet Pipeline Inp.m. Full Swing Golf, Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Friday, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. Call frastructure Risk Assessment expert panel on pipeline integrity 776-8800 for more info. and safety now have until Jan. 18, 2019, to apply. The previous deadline was Jan. 5, 2019.

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Al-Anon support group meetings Al-Anon support group meetings are held at the Central Peninsula Hospital in the Kasilof Room (second floor) of the River Tower building on Monday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. Park around back by the ER and enter through the River Tower entrance and follow the signs. Contact Tony Oliver at 252-0558 for more information.

Testify at a School Board meeting from Homer or Seward Kenai Peninsula College holiday schedule The KPBSD Board of Education will open two additional locations for public testimony via video during a school board meeting. Homer Middle School and Seward Elementary School sites will be open â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if there are advance signups â&#x20AC;&#x201D; starting with the Jan. 14 school board meeting. Sign up no later than 3 p.m. the Friday prior to a Board of Education meeting to guarantee the remote site will be open and staffed.

KPCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two campuses (Kenai River and Kachemak Bay) and Seward extension site (Resurrection Bay) will be closed for the holidays from Dec. 22, 2018 to Jan. 2, 2019. Registration for the upcoming spring semester is available online at www.kpc. alaska.edu. Classes start on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2019.

Narcan kits available at Kenai Public Health

Heroin overdoses are on the rise in Alaska. Narcan is an easy medication you can give to someone who is overdosing. It may save their life. Adults can get free Narcan nasal spray kits at the The Anchorage Fish & Game Advisory Committee will meet Kenai Public Health Center at 630 Barnacle Way, Suite A, in on Tuesday, Jan. 8 at Cabelaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conference room, located at 155 Kenai. For additional information call Kenai Public Health at W 104th Avenue at 6:30 p.m. Agenda will include preparation 335-3400. of comment on statewide finfish proposals 161-173, select an AC rep for that meeting, and any other business that may prop- Kenai Community Library holiday events erly come before the committee. The public is invited to address We are full of holiday spirit here at the library! Join us for any concerns they have. For more information contact Martin one of our holiday-themed programs which include: Apple ButWeiser at mweiser@crsalaska.com. ter Workshop, Candy Cane Family Craft, and Christmas Carols at the Library. As always these classes are free but you must preAKC Star Puppy class register; so stop by or give us a call to sign up. Also, between Kenai Kennel Club will be offering an AKC Star Puppy class Dec. 26-29 we have a Scavenger Hunt Drop-In planned for pabeginning Thursday, Jan. 10 at 6 p.m. This is a six-week class, trons to find famous characters throughout the library and earn a and you can receive a Star Puppy Certificate at the end. We will small prize! Keep an eye out for all of our upcoming events and also be offering a Family Dog Obedience class beginning Thurs- programs by â&#x20AC;&#x153;Likingâ&#x20AC;? us on Facebook.

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majority and seeks to form a bipartisan coalition. Fellow Republican Dunleavy should be allowed to try to do what he promised and what 51 percent of the voters who elected him expect, Stevens said: fund the Permanent Fund Dividend to the traditional formula, cut government spending and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t create new revenues through taxes like an income or sales tax. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think you have to let Dunleavy be Dunleavy,â&#x20AC;? Stevens said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He won resoundingly. We have to support him in so many ways.â&#x20AC;? The PFD and how to fund it will be a big issue, Stevens said. The state has about $16 billion in the Permanent Fund reserve that can be used to fund a $3,000 PFD, though thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at the cost of inflation proofing that hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been paid for a few years and hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allowed the fund to grow as much as it could. The state also once had $16 billion in the Constitutional Budget Reserve, a rainy-day account built up during years of high oil prices. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spent it down to about $2 billion now,â&#x20AC;? Stevens said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got in a really tough spot where we hardly have any savings left.â&#x20AC;? What will be harder is to fund a $6,000 retroactive PFD to pay back citizens lower PFDs from when former Gov.

Walker vetoed part of a PFD and the Legislature used a portion of it to help fund government. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That will be a killer,â&#x20AC;? Stevens said of a $6,000 PFD. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I understand why he (Dunleavy) wants it, I understand why the public wants it, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think folks realize what a dangerous position thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s putting us in in terms of paying for government.â&#x20AC;? Dunleavyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s promise to cut government also needs to be considered. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to let him try,â&#x20AC;? Stevens said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;ŚI had a friend tell me the budget will be a jaw-dropping budget.â&#x20AC;? The Legislature most likely will resist cuts, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t defend everything in that budget, but everything in the budget is something someone feels is important,â&#x20AC;? Stevens said. Dunleavy has the upper hand and an important tool: the line-item veto. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Say he cuts public radio,â&#x20AC;? Stevens said. â&#x20AC;&#x153; â&#x20AC;Ś We put it back in. He gets the line-item veto. The only only way we can override him is with a three-quarters vote. We have 20 members. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think we can even get 15 votes.â&#x20AC;? One potential cut Stevens said he thinks Dunleavy will try is the Department of Health and Social Services budget, one of the biggest parts of the budget. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We spend a lot of money on social services,â&#x20AC;? Stevens said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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misspent, but I think we will see some cuts there.â&#x20AC;? One worry Stevens said he has is cuts to the Alaska Marine Highway System. Coastal communities like Homer, Kodiak, Seward, Dutch Harbor, and the Southeast cities understand its importance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really crucial. It is a highway,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Ś I know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a difficult issue because folks in Anchorage, the Valley and Fairbanks are not particularly concerned about the Marine Highway System.â&#x20AC;? The Legislature this session wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be likely to increase oil taxes or consider new revenue taxes like an income tax or a sales tax, Stevens said. The public voted for Dunleavy so there wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be an income tax. Some day new revenues will be necessary, Stevens said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a realist. If you look at our savings and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gone, the only way to get revenue is an income or sales tax,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Ś If we keep spending down our savings, in four or five years weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to face the piper.â&#x20AC;? Stevens said he enjoyed knowing and working with the previous two Homer representatives, Scalzi and Seaton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drew was just the best friend. You meet somebody, you think you knew him all your life,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the world of Paul. â&#x20AC;Ś He did a great job. I depended on him of course to tell me what the needs of Homer were.â&#x20AC;? With Vance, Stevens said he also hopes to have a good relationship. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know it has to be,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are some senators who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get along with their reps. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a terrible mistake. If you want to protect your community, you have to make sure that you get along, that you work together. â&#x20AC;Ś Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking forward to working with her.â&#x20AC;? As the Legislature grinds through the next session, Ste-

For more information, contact the library at Soldotna Public Library at 262-4227. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Window Painting, Friday, Dec. 28 at 4 p.m. Have a favorite quote, your best superhero, or an alien landscape to share? Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got window markers and big, boring windows in the teen area. Come help us decorate! â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Noon Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve Story Time, Monday, Dec. 31 at 11 a.m. If you have kids who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite make it all the way to midnight, hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great alternative! We have stories, songs, and a craft, and then help us countdown to noon and the big balloon drop. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Family Movie at the Library, Thursday, Jan. 2 at 2 p.m. Join us for a movie and popcorn! We will be showing Disneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christopher Robin. Rated PG â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Pac-ManÂŽ Tag (Teens), Friday, Jan. 4 at 5:45 p.m. Man vs ghosts: the final showdown. Who will win? Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re turning you loose in the library to find out. This program is after-hours and will go until 7:15. Please arrive by 5:45! â&#x20AC;&#x201D; STEAM Program: Lava Bottles, Friday, Jan. 4 at 2 p.m. Come learn how to make DIY lava bottles and the science that goes behind it! â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Movies @ the Library, Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 5:30 p.m. Join us for a movie and popcorn! We will be showing Ant Man and the Wasp. Rated PG-13. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Soldotna Library Friends Board Meeting, Wednesday, Jan. 9 at 4:30 p.m. Join the Soldotna Library Friends Board in their discussion of ongoing library fundraising efforts. Open to all members of the Soldotna Library Friends. The Friends are currently seeking new board members. Call us or stop on by for more information. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Library Five Year Celebration, Friday, Jan. 11 at 4 p.m. Help us celebrate 5 years in our new building! Visit with library staff while enjoying cake and a slideshow of the last five years. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Coffee, Donuts, and a Show, Saturday, Jan. 12 at 10:30 a.m. Start your weekend off right! Relax and enjoy coffee and donuts while watching a film on a Saturday morning. We will be showing E.T.

vens said he expects it to end by the 120-day limit on when per diem gets paid. Under a new law, legislators canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t collect per diem that pays food and lodging past 120 days. That will make it tough for Legislators, especially considering Juneauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high cost of living. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is expensive,â&#x20AC;? Stevens said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;ŚIf you have to live in Juneau without per diem, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not doable.â&#x20AC;? Beyond the end of the session, Steven said he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet ready to answer the big question about his job: Is he going to run for re-election? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m keeping it â&#x20AC;Ś sort of thinking about it,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a great experience. It really is an honor. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned so much. I really love it.â&#x20AC;?

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Opinion

Trump should chill about the stock market

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Serving the Kenai Peninsula since 1970 Terry R. Ward Publisher

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What Others Say

Enough with the activist bullying The progressive mob is on the march,

again. Its goal is almost always to shut down conflicting speech by decrying any dissenter as a racist or misogynist or other form of hater. When they’ve got a media type in the crosshairs, the preferred method used to silence the person they deem offensive is to intimidate advertisers. Now, it’s Tucker Carlson. On his Dec. 13 show, Carlson discussed the migrant caravan that had arrived in Tijuana, Mexico, and the immigration crisis at large. He said that there’s pressure from “our leaders” to accept immigrants “even if it makes our own country poorer and dirtier and more divided.” Monday he continued the theme, saying that in the Southwest, “thanks to illegal immigration, huge swaths of the region are covered with garbage and waste that degrade the soil and kill wildlife.” On several recent shows, Carlson has interviewed Genaro Lopez, an elected official. In Tijuana, Lopez lamented the fact that members of the caravan were “trashing the street.” During a Dec. 3 broadcast, Lopez told Carlson that “there’s a lot of trash” and later explained that trash, along with home break-ins, drug possession and public drunkenness had caused local schools to be closed. Immediately though, progressive groups called for Carlson to be blacklisted for using the word “dirtier.” They hassled Carlson’s advertisers and some have dropped the show as a result. Carlson did not call migrants “dirty.” We should not ascribe to him nefarious motives based on our own knee-jerk oversensitivity. We should condemn bullying, blacklisting and boycotts pushed by activist groups. It will harm people on all sides of the political spectrum if this continues and only speech deemed risk-free by advertisers will see the light of day. The result will be less debate and discussion. Debate is healthy and we need more of it, now more than ever.

Donald Trump may watch the stock market more closely than any day trader. For a president who underlined the increasing importance of working-class whites to the GOP coalition and who trampled so much bipartisan economic orthodoxy during the campaign, to be so overtly obsessed with the stock market is a strange disconnect. In fact, no president in memory has so publicly staked himself to the market. Trump has, in contrast, paid relatively little public attention to wage growth, which is the measure that more closely tracks with his particular political project (especially considering that his election prospects may again depend on Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin). Why the focus on the stock market? For one thing, it’s impossible to avoid. The stock market numbers run in little boxes in the bottom right-hand corner of cable-news TV screens. Big gains or drops make frontpage news. The market’s performance affects how people feel about the economy on any given day. On top of all this, the market clearly acts for Trump like poll numbers or TV ratings — immediate, easily digestible feedback on his perceived worth, or that of his economic stewardship. This isn’t how he should view it, and it was shortsighted to be so boastful about the good times. The stock market goes up and down. Trump didn’t have sole responsibility for the run-up in the market after his election (although taking the regulatory boot off

the economy helped) and doesn’t deserve the blame for the downward trend now (although the contention with China and general sense of chaos don’t help). Trump has lashed out at Federal ReRich Lowry serve Chairman Jerome Powell for being too tight on interest rates, and he might be right. But the president should be less beholden to the gyrations of the market. Wages would be a worthy new object of his attention. Trump has the ability to shift the public conversation onto ground of his choosing, and it’d be better if wages didn’t often take a back seat to the stock market and GDP growth. Trump has a story to tell here. A historically low unemployment rate is having an effect. Wages grew at a 3.1 percent rate year over year in October and November, the highest level since 2009. When Trump hears complaints from employers that they are having trouble hiring, his answer should be: “Good. Pay your workers more.” On the other hand, the political downside of focusing on wages is twofold: Like the stock market, it is a metric that the president doesn’t have direct control over, and unlike the stock market, it hasn’t mostly enjoyed strong upward momentum over the past couple of decades. Oren Cass of the Manhattan Institute

and author of the thought-provoking new book “The Once and Future Worker” argues that the point of comparison shouldn’t be whether wages are better than they were in post-crisis 2010, but how they are doing compared with business-cycle peaks in 2007, 2000 and 1989. Here they are lagging. Wages are ultimately related to productivity growth, which has been growing more slowly than in the golden age of the American economy in the mid-20th century. Robert Atkinson of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation argues forcefully that policymakers should make fostering productivity growth their foremost goal. For his part, Cass suggests a workerfriendly, longer-term agenda of reforming education to put more emphasis on the interests of students who won’t go on to get a four-year college degree; changing our immigration system to keep the lower end of the labor market as tight as possible; and exploring innovative models of unionization to give workers more leverage. Maybe these particular initiatives aren’t to the liking of the White House, but a working-class Republican should have an agenda very specifically tailored to the interests of workers. Alternately bragging and complaining about the stock market isn’t a substitute. Rich Lowry can be reached via email at comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.

— The Boston Herald, Dec. 24

News and Politics

Defying pundits, GOP share of Latino vote steady under Trump By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press

LITTLETON, Colo. — Pedro Gonzalez has faith in Donald Trump and his party. The 55-year-old Colombian immigrant is a pastor at an evangelical church in suburban Denver. Initially repelled by Trump in 2016, he’s been heartened by the president’s steps to protect religious groups and appoint judges who oppose abortion rights. More important, Gonzalez sees Trump’s presidency as part of a divine plan. “It doesn’t matter what I think,” Gonzalez said of the president. “He was put there.” Though Latino voters are a key part of the Democratic coalition, there is a larger bloc of reliable Republican Latinos than many think. And the GOP’s position among Latinos has not weakened during the Trump administration, despite the president’s rhetoric against immigrants and the party’s shift to the right on immigration. In November’s elections, 32 percent of Latinos voted for Republicans, according to AP VoteCast data. The survey of more than 115,000 midterm voters — including 7,738 Latino voters — was conducted for The Associated Press by NORC at the University of Chicago. Other surveys also found roughly one-third of Latinos supporting the GOP. Data from the Pew Research Center and from exit polls suggests that a comparable share of about 3 in 10 Latino voters supported Trump in 2016. That tracks the share of Latinos supporting Republicans for the last decade. The stability of Republicans’ share of the Latino vote frustrates Democrats, who say actions like Trump’s family separation policy and his demonization of an immigrant caravan should drive Latinos out of the GOP.

“The question is not are Democrats winning the Hispanic vote — it’s why aren’t Democrats winning the Hispanic vote 80-20 or 90-10 the way black voters are?” said Fernand Amandi, a Miami-based Democratic pollster. He argues Democrats must invest more in winning Latino voters. The VoteCast data shows that, like white voters, Latinos are split by gender — 61 percent of men voted Democratic in November, while 69 percent of women did. And while Republicanleaning Latinos can be found everywhere in the country, two groups stand out as especially likely to back the GOP — evangelicals and veterans. Evangelicals comprised about one-quarter of Latino voters, and veterans were 13 percent. Both groups were about evenly split between the two parties. Mike Madrid, a Republican strategist in California, said those groups have reliably provided the GOP with many Latino votes for years. “They stick and they do not go away,” Madrid said. Much as with Trump’s own core white voters, attacks on the president and other Republicans for being anti-immigrant “just make them dig in even more,” he added. Sacramento-based Rev. Sam Rodriguez, one of Trump’s spiritual advisers, said evangelical Latinos have a clear reason to vote Republican. “Why do 30 percent of Latinos still support Trump? Because of the Democratic Party’s obsession with abortion,” Rodriguez said. “It’s life and religious liberty and everything else follows.” Some conservative Latinos say their political leanings make them feel more like a minority than their ethnicity does. Irina Vilariño, 43, a Miami restauranteur and Cuban immigrant,

said she had presidential bumper stickers for Sen. John McCain, Mitt Romney and Trump scratched off her car. She said she never suffered from discrimination growing up in a predominantly white south Florida community, “but I remember during the McCain campaign being discriminated against because I supported him.” The 2018 election was good to Democrats, but Florida disappointed them. They couldn’t convince enough of the state’s often right-leaning Cuban-American voters to support Sen. Bill Nelson, who was ousted by the GOP’s Spanishspeaking Gov. Rick Scott, or rally behind Democrats’ gubernatorial candidate, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, who lost to Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis. Still, in the rest of the country, there were signs that pleased Democrats. Latinos voted at high rates in an election that saw record-setting turnout among all demographic groups. Latinos normally have among the worst midterm turnout rates, and while official data won’t be available for months, a number of formerly-Republican congressional districts in California and New Mexico flipped Democratic. That’s why Republicans shouldn’t take solace from being able to consistently win about one-third of Latinos, said Madrid. They’re still losing two-thirds of an electorate that’s being goaded into the voting booth by Trump. “That is contributing to the death spiral of the Republican Party — even if it holds at 30 percent,” Madrid said. “That’s a route to death, it’s just a slower one.” Gonzalez, the pastor, sees the trend in Colorado. He distributed literature across Spanishspeaking congregations supporting Republican gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton, who

was crushed by Democratic Rep. Jared Polis as the GOP lost every race for statewide office. Gonzalez understands the anger among some Latinos at the GOP and Trump for what he says is a false impression of a solely hardline immigration stance. “In the community that is not informed, that is following the rhetoric of the media, there’s a view that Donald Trump is a bad guy,” Gonzalez said. Evangelicals “understand that he’s there to defend values.” Gonzalez’s church is Iglesia Embajada del Reino, or Church of the Kingdom’s Embassy. On a recent Saturday night, an eight-piece band played Spanish-language Christian rock before Gonzalez walked to the podium. Wearing a blue corduroy blazer, blue shirt and grey slacks, Gonzalez, a onetime member of a Marxist group in Colombia, told his congregants that they were ambassadors of a higher power — the kingdom of God. “It’s important that your political opinions, your social opinions,” not enter into it, Gonzalez said. “We need to represent the position of ‘The Kingdom.’ “ Gonzalez did not mention Trump in his sermon, though he spoke about the Bible as a book of governance. Afterward the congregation gathered for bowls of posole, a traditional Mexican soup. When politics came up, church-goers struggled to balance their enthusiasm for some of Trump’s judicial appointments with their distaste at his rhetoric and actions. “I think the president has good, Christian principles,” said Jose Larios, a parks worker. “But we feel as Latinos that he doesn’t embrace our community, and our community is good and hard-working.”

Nation

Pluto explorer ushering in new year at more distant world By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The spacecraft team that brought us close-ups of Pluto will ring in the new year by exploring an even more distant and mysterious world. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will zip past the scrawny, icy object nicknamed Ultima Thule (TOO-lee) soon after the stroke of midnight. One billion miles beyond Pluto and an astounding 4 billion miles from Earth, Ultima Thule will be the farthest world ever explored by humankind. That’s what makes this deepfreeze target so enticing; it’s a preserved relic dating all the way back to our solar system’s origin 4.5 billion years ago. No spacecraft has visited anything so primitive. “What could be more exciting than that?” said project scientist Hal Weaver of Johns Hopkins University, part of the New Horizons team. Lead scientist Alan Stern of Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, expects the New Year’s encounter to be riskier and more difficult than the rendezvous with Pluto: The spacecraft is older, the target is smaller, the flyby is closer and the distance from us is greater. NASA launched the spacecraft in 2006; it’s about the size of a baby grand piano. It flew past Pluto in 2015, providing the first close-up views of the dwarf planet. With the wildly successful flyby behind them, mission planners won an extension from NASA and set their sights on a destination deep inside the Kuiper Belt. As distant as it is, Pluto is barely in the Kuiper Belt, the so-called Twilight Zone stretching beyond Neptune. Ultima Thule is in the Twilight Zone’s heart. This Kuiper Belt object was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014. Offi-

This image made available by NASA on July 24, 2015 shows a combination of images captured by the New Horizons spacecraft with enhanced colors to show differences in the composition and texture of Pluto’s surface. The images were taken when the spacecraft was 280,000 miles away. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP)

cially known as 2014 MU69, it got the nickname Ultima Thule in an online vote. In classic and medieval literature, Thule was the most distant, northernmost place beyond the known world. When New Horizons first glimpsed the rocky iceball in August it was just a dot. Good close-up pictures should be available the day after the flyby. New Horizons will make its closest approach in the wee hours of Jan. 1 — 12:33 a.m. EST. The spacecraft will zoom within 2,200 miles of Ultima Thule, its seven science instruments going full blast. The coast should be clear: Scientists have yet to find any rings or moons around it that could batter the spacecraft. New Horizons hurtles through space at 31,500 mph, and even something as minuscule as a grain of rice could demolish it. “There’s some danger and some suspense,” Stern said at a fall meeting of astronomers. It will take about 10 hours

to get confirmation that the spacecraft completed — and survived — the encounter. Scientists speculate Ultima Thule could be two objects closely orbiting one another. If a solo act, it’s likely 20 miles (32 kilometers) long at most. Envision a baked potato. “Cucumber, whatever. Pick your favorite vegetable,” said astronomer Carey Lisse of Johns Hopkins. It could even be two bodies connected by a neck. If twins, each could be 9 miles to 12 miles in diameter. Scientists will map Ultima Thule every possible way. They anticipate impact craters, possibly also pits and sinkholes, but its surface also could prove to be smooth. As for color, Ultima Thule should be darker than coal, burned by eons of cosmic rays, with a reddish hue. Nothing is certain, though, including its orbit, so big that it takes almost 300 of our Earth years to circle the sun. Scientists say they know just enough about the orbit to intercept it.

New Horizons will get considerably closer to Ultima Thule than it did to Pluto: 2,220 miles versus 7,770 miles. At the same time, Ultima Thule is 100 times smaller than Pluto and therefore harder to track, making everything more challenging. It took 4 ½ hours, each way, for flight controllers at Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland, to get a message to or from New Horizons at Pluto. Compare that with more than six hours at Ultima Thule. It will take almost two years for New Horizons to beam back all its data on Ultima Thule. A flyby of an even more distant world could be in the offing in the 2020s, if NASA approves another mission extension and the spacecraft remains healthy. At the very least, the nuclearpowered New Horizons will continue to observe objects from afar, as it pushes deeper into the Kuiper Belt. There are countless objects out there, waiting to be explored.

Father of dead Guatemalan boy heard rumors they could cross By SONIA PEREZ D. Associated Press

GUATEMALA CITY — The father of an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody took his son to the border after hearing rumors that parents and their children would be allowed to migrate to the United States and escape the poverty in their homeland, the boy’s stepsister told The Associated Press. Felipe Gomez Alonzo died Monday at a New Mexico hospital after suffering coughing, vomiting and fever, authorities said. It was the second such death this month. Another Guatemalan child, 7-year-old Jakelin Caal, died in U.S. custody on Dec. 8. Both deaths are under investigation. “We heard rumors that they could pass (into the United States). They said they could pass with the children,” said Catarina Gomez Lucas, the boy’s 21-year-old stepsister, explaining why Felipe and his father, Agustin Gomez, made the dangerous journey. Gomez Lucas would not say who spread the rumors or who transported the father and son to the border from Yalambojoch in Huehuetenango province, a poor community of returnees from Mexico who had fled Guatemala in the bloodiest years of that country’s 19601996 civil war. The stepsister spoke to the AP on Wednesday by telephone from Yalambo-

joch. The boy’s death came during an ongoing dispute over border security and with the U.S. government partially shut down over President Donald Trump’s insistence on funding for a longer border wall. The Trump administration has long argued smugglers capitalize on vulnerable parents because of “loopholes” in American law, such as antitrafficking legislation passed in 2008 that effectively prevents the immediate deportations of Central American children. After hearing the rumors, Agustin Gomez thought he should take advantage of “the opportunity” to fulfill his son’s dreams. He grabbed a few changes of clothing, bought the boy new shoes and left with what money he had, Gomez Lucas said. Felipe “always wanted a bicycle,” and in the U.S. he wouldn’t have to endure the poverty and lack of opportunity in Guatemala, she said. The boy’s mother, 31-yearold Catarina Alonzo Perez, said she spoke with her son the day before they arrived at the U.S. border. “He wasn’t sick on the way; he wasn’t sick here,” she said through her stepdaughter in the Mayan language known as Chuj. Both Felipe and Jakelin came from rural communities with extreme poverty. Both were taken to the border by

their parents and detained by the U.S. Border Patrol before they fell ill. It appears Felipe got sick after authorities moved him from El Paso, Texas, to Alamogordo, New Mexico, because of overcrowding. “He was very happy to leave” on the voyage, Gomez Lucas said, so the family does not understand what happened. She said the family stopped hearing from Felipe’s father on Dec. 18, when he and the boy were detained. On Dec. 25, he called to say the boy had died in a hospital. “He told us that (Felipe) was fine all day, that he was playing with other children. But then he said he felt bad and his stomach ached,” the stepsister said. Felipe told his father he did not know what was wrong with him and that it felt like something was stuck in his throat, Gomez Lucas said. The father said Felipe asked him not to cry because he “was not going to get better,” according to the boy’s stepsister. Felipe was taken to a hospital, and the father said he gave the boy to doctors, who soon informed him his son had died. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the boy displayed signs of illness Monday and was taken with his father to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with a cold and a fever and prescribed amoxicillin and ibuprofen. He was released

that afternoon but returned in the evening with nausea and vomiting and died there just after midnight, CBP said. After the two deaths, the government announced that it would conduct additional medical screening for children and consider other changes. Agustin Gomez was drowning in debt, Gomez Lucas said. He sold a piece of land to survive, but the money was not enough, so he decided to take out a loan and travel to the United States. Felipe is survived by five siblings, two from his father’s first marriage and three from his stepmother and father. The boy lived with his father’s family in a small wooden house with earthen floors. It lacked basic services. Gomez Lucas said Felipe’s father earned about $6 a day through temporary farm jobs or harvesting coffee, which was not enough to support the family. As with Jakelin’s family, Felipe’s relatives now must deal with the death of a child, a debt and their continued worry about the fate of Agustin Gomez. Oscar Padilla, the Guatemalan consul in Phoenix, confirmed that the father is still detained by the Border Patrol. “My father is suffering because of the boy. We do not know what will happen. We have nothing to live with. We do not have money,” Gomez Lucas said.

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Elon Musk asks judge to toss diver’s lawsuit By AMANDA LEE MYERS Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Elon Musk is asking a California judge to throw out a lawsuit filed against him by a British diver the tech entrepreneur called a pedophile on Twitter, arguing that it was nothing more than a “schoolyard spat on social media” that no reasonable reader took seriously. Musk’s motion to dismiss, filed in court on Wednesday, argues that “the public knew from the outset that Musk’s insults were not intended to be statements of fact.” Musk called diver Vernon Unsworth a “pedo” in a tweet to 22.5 million followers after Unsworth criticized Musk on CNN in July, saying his efforts to help rescue young soccer players trapped in a cave in Thailand amounted to “a PR stunt.” Musk and engineers from his rocket company, SpaceX, built a small submarine and shipped it to Thailand to help with the rescue. The device wasn’t used and Unsworth said on CNN that it wouldn’t have worked to free the boys who were trapped in the flooded cave. He added: “(Musk) can stick his submarine somewhere where it hurts.” Musk later deleted his tweets about Unsworth and apologized, tweeting that his words were “spoken in anger” and that the sub was built out of kindness according to specifications from the dive team leader. But on Aug. 30, Musk emailed a BuzzFeed News reporter, suggesting he investigate Unsworth and “stop defending child rapists,” according to the lawsuit. “He’s an old, single white guy from England who’s been travel-

ing or living in Thailand for 30 to 40 years,” Musk wrote, adding that Unsworth moved to Thailand “for a child bride who was about 12 years old at the time,” according to the lawsuit. “Mr. Unsworth is not a pedophile. Mr. Unsworth has never engaged in an act of pedophilia. Mr. Unsworth is not a child rapist,” the lawsuit said, adding that Unsworth has never been married to a minor. Unsworth lives in Thailand with his “significant other,” a 40-year-old woman, and started going to Thailand in 2011 to explore and map caves, the lawsuit said. Musk’s motion to dismiss argues that the email to BuzzFeed was supposed to be off the record, but the news outlet reported at the time that its reporters had made no such agreement — a standard practice among journalists before publishing anything without attribution. “While many readers criticized Musk for lodging what they understood to be groundless accusations, not a single reader seemed to construe Musk’s statements literally,” Musk’s attorneys wrote. The attorneys are arguing that reasonable readers would not take any of Musk’s statements as objective facts but rather, “nonactionable opinion.” “Here, the reasonable reader would not have believed that Musk — without having ever met Unsworth, in the midst of a schoolyard spat on social media, and from 8,000 miles afar — was conveying that he was in possession of private knowledge that Unsworth was sexually attracted to children or engaged in sex acts with children,” according to Musk’s filing.

Deaths of police officers on duty on the rise in the US By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — More police officers have died in the line of duty this year in the United States than in 2017, according to data released Thursday. The most common cause of death was gunfire, and vehicular accidents claimed nearly as many officers’ lives. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund said in a report that 144 federal, state and local officers have died so far in 2018. That figure represents roughly a 12 percent increase from the 129 who died in 2017. The majority of the officers who died were either shot — 52 this year, up from 46 in 2017 — or fatally injured in car or motorcycle crashes, which accounted for 50 deaths. Other fatalities involved heart attacks, strokes, drownings and cancer and other illnesses among those who responded to the 9/11 World Trade Center attack. Of the officers who were shot, eight were killed during investigative activity and six were killed while responding to calls of a domestic or public disturbance, according to the report. Two were

fatally shot while serving warrants, two died while handling or transporting prisoners and two others were inadvertently shot by other officers. Craig Floyd, the fund’s chief executive officer, called the increase in deaths disappointing after a decline in 2017. “Sadly this reminds us that public safety is a dangerous job and can come at a very steep price,” Floyd said in a statement accompanying the report. “We must never take the service and sacrifice of law enforcement officers for granted, and we must remember the families of the fallen who are left behind.” Of the officers who died in traffic-related incidents, 32 were killed in crashes involving another vehicle and 14 were struck while outside their vehicle. An additional four were killed in motorcycle crashes. The officers who died in 2018 include a sheriff’s deputy in Sacramento County, California, killed in a shootout at an auto parts store; a Greensboro, North Carolina, police officer killed in a car crash while responding to a call for a robbery; and a Greene County, Missouri, sheriff’s deputy who drowned when his car was swept away by rising water.

Around the Nation Nation’s oldest World War II vet dies in Texas at age 112 AUSTIN, Texas — A family member says the nation’s oldest World War II veteran who was also believed to be oldest living man in the U.S. has died in Texas. Richard Overton was 112. Shirley Overton, whose husband was Richard’s cousin, says the Army veteran died Thursday evening at a rehab facility in Austin. Overton had been recently hospitalized with pneumonia. Overton was in his 30s when he volunteered for the Army and was at Pearl Harbor just after the Japanese attack in 1941. He once said that one secret to his long life was smoking cigars and drinking whiskey, which he often was found doing on the porch of his Austin home. In 2013, he was honored by former President Barack Obama at a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. — Associated Press

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Religion Briefs Clothes Quarters open weekly Clothes Quarters at Our Lady of the Angels is open every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the first Saturday of every month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 907-283-4555.

Religion

Pope’s Christmas wish: World fraternity despite differences

Calvary Baptist Church offers Awana Kids Club All kids from third to sixth grade are invited to the Awana Kids Club. The club meets on Sundays from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Kenai Middle School. Please use the rear entrance. Schedule information can be found at calvarykenai.org/awana. Contact club director Jon Henry at pastorjon@calvarykenai.org.

Soldotna Food Pantry open weekly The Soldotna Food Pantry is open every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for residents in the community who are experiencing food shortages. The Food Pantry is located at the Soldotna United Methodist Church at 158 South Binkley Street, and all are welcome. Non-perishable food items or monetary donations may be dropped off at the church on Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. or on Sunday from 9 a.m. until noon. For more information call 262-4657.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help sets place at table A Place at the Table, a new outreach ministry of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Soldotna continues to offer a hot meal and fellowship and blood pressure checks to anyone interested. The meal is every fourth Sunday of the month, from 4-6 p.m. at Fireweed Hall, located on campus at 222 West Redoubt Avenue, Soldotna. The Abundant Life Assembly of God church, Sterling, will be joining us in this ministry and providing a hot meal on the second Sunday of the month at 4-6 p.m. at Fireweed Hall. Our Lady of Perpetual Help would like to invite other churches who would like to join this ministry to perhaps pick up one of the other Sunday evenings in the month. Call 262-5542.

Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for ‘to the city and to the world’ ) Christmas’ day blessing from the main balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

United Methodist Church food pantry

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press

The Kenai United Methodist Church provides a food pantry for those in need every Monday from noon to 3 p.m. The Methodist Church is located on the Kenai Spur Highway next to the Boys and Girls Club. The entrance to the Food Pantry is through the side door. The Pantry closes for holidays. For more information contact the church at 907-283-7868.

‘Celebrate Recovery’ at Peninsula Grace Church Celebrate Recovery meets each Wednesday from 6:30-8 p.m. at Peninsula Grace Church, 44175 Kalifornsky Beach Rd., Soldotna, upstairs in room 5-6 in the worship center. Celebrate Recovery is a Biblically based 12-step program that provides a safe place to share your hurts, habits and hang-ups, in a Christ-centered recovery atmosphere. Come early for a free meal, served at 5:45. There is no charge, but donations are welcomed. Questions? Contact: 907-598-0563. Due to Christmas holiday there will be no meal served on Dec. 26 or Jan. 2. Come at 6:15 for coffee before the 6:30 meeting! Submit announcements to news@peninsulaclarion.com. Submissions are due the Wednesday prior to publication. For more information, call 907-283-7551.

Editor’s note: The Minister’s Message was not available for today’s edition of the Clarion. The column will return next week.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis offered a Christmas wish for fraternity among people of different nations, cultures, faiths, races or ideas, describing the world’s differences as a richness, not a danger, and championing the rights of religious minorities. His plea Tuesday for stronger bonds among peoples came as nationalism and a suspicion of migrants are gaining traction across much of the globe. The long war in Syria, famine amid warfare in Yemen, social strife in Venezuela and Nicaragua, conflicts in Ukraine and tensions on the Korean Peninsula were among the pope’s concerns in his Christmas Day message, which he read from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. Addressing some 50,000

tourists, pilgrims and Romans who flocked to St. Peter’s Square on a mild, sunny day, Francis said the universal message of Christmas is that “God is a good Father and we are all brothers and sisters.” “This truth is the basis of the Christian vision of humanity,” Francis said in the traditional papal “Urbi et Orbi” (“to the city and the world”) message. Without fraternity, he said, “even our best plans and projects risk being soulless and empty.” He called for that spirit among individuals of “every nation and culture” as well as among people “with different ideas, yet capable of respecting and listening to one another.” “Our differences, then, are not a detriment or a danger; they are a source of richness,” Francis said. Francis prayed that all minorities have their right to religious freedom respected, noting

that some Christians were celebrating Christmas “in difficult, if not hostile, situations.” Communist China is witnessing a systematic suppression of religion, including some restrictions on Christmas celebrations this year. The government’s suppression campaign includes re-education camps for Uighur Muslims and a crackdown on Christian churches. Without specifying religions or countries, Francis prayed for “all those people who experience ideological, cultural and economic forms of colonization and see their freedom and identity compromised.” Francis urged the international community to find a political solution that “can put aside divisions and partisan interests” and end the war in Syria. He said he hoped that an internationally-brokered truce for Yemen would bring relief to that country’s people, especially

children, “exhausted by war and famine.” He encouraged dialogue among Israelis and Palestinians to end conflict “that for over 70 years has rent the land chosen by the Lord to show his face of love.” In Africa, Francis recalled the millions fleeing warfare or in need of food, and prayed for “a new dawn of fraternity to arise over the entire continent.” Francis urged Venezuelans to “work fraternally for the country’s development and to aid the most vulnerable.” Millions of Venezuelans are fleeing their country’s economic and humanitarian crisis in what has become the largest exodus in modern Latin American history, according to the United Nations. On Monday night, the 82-year-old pope celebrated Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Religious Services Assembly of God

Church of Christ

Lutheran

Church of Christ

Soldotna Church Of Christ

Christ Lutheran Church (ELCA)

Mile 1/4 Funny River Road, Soldotna

209 Princess St., Kenai 283-7752 Pastor Stephen Brown Sunday..9:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.................6:30 p.m. www.kenainewlife.org

Peninsula Christian Center

161 Farnsworth Blvd (Behind the Salvation Army) Soldotna, AK 99669 Pastor Jon Watson 262-7416 Sunday ....................... 10:30 a.m. www.penccalaska.org Nursery is provided

The Charis Fellowship Sterling Grace Community Church

Dr. Roger E. Holl, Pastor 907-862-0330 Meeting at the Sterling Senior Center, 34453 Sterling Highway Sunday Morning ........10:30 a.m.

262-2202 / 262-4316 Mile 91.7 Sterling Hwy. Minister - Nathan Morrison 262-5577 Sunday Worship ........10:00 a.m. Minister Tony Cloud Bible Study..................11:15 a.m. Sunday Services Evening Worship ........ 6:00 p.m. Bible Study..................10:00 a.m. Wed. Bible .................... 7:00 p.m. Morning Worship ......11:00 a.m. Evening Worship ....... 6:00 p.m. Kenai Fellowship Wednesday Service Bible Study.................... 7:00 p.m Mile 8.5 Kenai Spur Hwy.

Church 283-7682

Classes All Ages ........10:00 a.m. Worship Service.........11:15 a.m. Wed. Service ................ 7:00 p.m. www.kenaifellowship.org

Nikiski Church Of Christ 50750 Kenai Spur Hwy (mile 24.5) 776-7660 Sunday Services Bible Study..................10:00 a.m. Morning Worship ......11:00 a.m. Fellowship Meal....... 12:30 p.m. Afternoon Worship ... 1:30 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study.................... 7:00 p.m

Funny River Community Lutheran Church Andy Carlson, Pastor Missouri Synod 35575 Rabbit Run Road off Funny River Rd. Phone 262-7434 Sunday Worship ........11:00 a.m. www.funnyriverlutheran.org

Sterling Lutheran Church LCMS 35100 McCall Rd. Behind Sterling Elementary School Worship: Sunday .... 11:00 a.m. Bill Hilgendorf, Pastor 907-740-3060

Non Denominational

Southern Baptist

Kalifonsky Christian Center

College Heights Baptist Church

Mile 17 K-Beach Rd. 283-9452 Pastor Steve Toliver Pastor Charles Pribbenow Sunday Worship .......10:30 a.m. Youth Group Wed. ..... 7:00 p.m. Passion for Jesus Compassion for Others

Kenai Bible Church

Kenai United Methodist Church

604 Main St. 283-7821 Pastor Vance Wonser Sunday School..............9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship ........11:00 a.m. Evening Service .......... 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Service .... 6:30 p.m.

Corner of Spur Hwy. & Bluff St., Kenai

North Kenai Chapel

Methodist

283-7868 Pastor Bailey Brawner Sunday Worship ........11:30 a.m. Food Pantry Mon...Noon - 3 pm

North Star United Methodist Church

Nazarene

First Baptist Church of Kenai

12815 Kenai Spur Hwy, Kenai 283-7672 Sunday School..............9:30 a.m. Morning Worship ......10:45 a.m. Evening Service .......... 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Prayer ..... 6:30 p.m.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help

283-6040 Connecting Community to Christ 229 E. Beluga Ave. soldotnanazarene.com Pastor: Dave Dial Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. Wednesday Dinner & Discipleship 6:00 p.m.

776-8732 NSUMC@alaska.net Sunday Worship ..........9:30 a.m.

110 S. Spruce St. at Spur Hwy. - Kenai • 283-6040 Sunday Services Worship Service.........10:30 a.m. Eucharistic Services on the 1st & 4th Sundays

Star Of The North Lutheran Church L.C.M.S. Dustin Atkinson, Pastor Sponsor of the Lutheran Hour 216 N. Forest Drive, Kenai 283-4153 Sunday School..............9:30 a.m. Worship Service.........11:00 a.m. You Are Invited! Wheelchair Accessible

Sunday School .......9:00 & 10:30 a.m. Morn. Worship .......9:00 & 10:30 a.m. Sunday Evening - Home Groups. Nursery provided

Sunday Worship...................10:30 am Wed. Share-a-Dish/Video.....6:30 pm

Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Hwy, Nikiski

St. Francis By The Sea

44440 K-Beach Road Pastor: Scott Coffman Associate Pastor: Jonah Huckaby 262-3220 www.collegeheightsbc.com

Pastor Wayne Coggins 776-8797 Mile 29 Kenai Spur Hwy

“Whoever is thirsty, let him come”

Catholic 222 W. Redoubt, Soldotna Oblates of Mary Immaculate 262-4749 Daily Mass Tues.-Fri. .................... 12:05 p.m. Saturday Vigil ........... 5:00 p.m. Reconciliation Saturday................4:15 - 4:45 p.m. Sunday Mass ............ 10:00 a.m.

Episcopal

Mile ¼ Kenai Spur Box 568, Soldotna, AK 99669 262-4757 Pastor Meredith Harber Worship ............11 a.m. & 6 p.m. Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month

Lutheran

300 W. Marydale • Soldotna 262-4865 John Rysdyk - Pastor/Teacher Sunday: Morning Worship ................9:30 a.m. Sunday School....................11:00 a.m. Sunday Evening Worship ..6:00 p.m.

World

UAE reopens embassy in Syrian capital closed in 2011 By BASSEM MROUE and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press

BEIRUT — The United Arab Emirates reopened its embassy in Syria’s capital on Thursday for the first time in seven years, a reflection of improved relations between President Bashar Assad and some of his Arab foes as the war winds down. On Thursday afternoon, UAE’s charge d’affaires AbdulHakim Naimi visited the embassy and witnessed his country’s flag being raised again on the compound in central Damascus. The move provides a major boost to Assad, whose forces have won a series of military victories in recent years with the help of Russia and Iran. Sudan’s President Omar Bashir visited Damascus earlier this month, becoming the first Arab head of state to visit Syria since the start of the war. UAE’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that “the step confirms that the UAE government is keen to restore relations between the two brotherly countries back to normal.” It added that the move is “to activate the Arab role in supporting Syria’s independence, sovereignty, unity and safety and prevent the dangers of regional intervention in Syria’s Arab affairs.” “The opening of our embassy is a first step for the return of other Arab embassies,” Naimi told reporters outside the compound. The United Arab Emirates was a supporter of the Syrian opposition, which is now largely confined to the northern Idlib province after losing its strongholds elsewhere. Some opposition fighters have joined Turkey for an expected assault

Around the World

3 British tourists die in Iceland crash, 4 severely hurt By EGILL BJARNASON Associated Press

Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Sudan’s President Omar Bashir in Damascus, Syria. Syria said the United Arab Emirates will reopen its embassy in Damascus on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018, for the first time in seven years, a reflection of improved relations between President Bashar Assad and some of his Arab foes as the war winds down. Bashir became the first Arab head of state to visit Syria since the start of the war. (SANA via AP, File)

on Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria. The UAE and other Gulf Arab supporters of the Syrian opposition view Turkey with suspicion because of its embrace of regional Islamists. In October, Assad told a little-known Kuwaiti newspaper that Syria had reached a “major understanding” with Arab states after years of hostility. He did not name the Arab countries in the interview, which was his first with a Gulf paper since the war erupted, but said Arab and Western delegations had begun visiting Syria to prepare for the reopening of diplomatic and other missions. The interview came on the heels of a surprisingly warm meeting between the Syrian foreign minister and his Bahraini counterpart on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in September. The meeting turned

heads because it featured hugs between the two ministers. The encounter raised questions about whether the Gulf countries, most of them sworn enemies of Assad ally Iran, are reconsidering their relations with Syria. Anwar Gargash, who is No. 2 at UAE’s Foreign Ministry, tweeted that an Arab role in Syria is necessary now to face Iran and Turkey’s intervention. He added that UAE through its presence in Damascus is trying to activate the Arab role in what would “contribute to ending war and strengthening opportunities for peace and stability for the Syrian people.” The UAE recalled its ambassador from Syria in 2011 after the start of the popular uprising against Assad. The Syrian Embassy in the UAE remained open. There are also direct

flights on Syria’s national carrier to Dubai and between the port city of Latakia and the emirate of Sharjah. Oman, with its policy of quiet diplomacy, is the only Gulf Arab country to have kept its embassy in Damascus open throughout the civil war. In March, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem visited Oman on a rare trip by a Syrian official to the Arabian Peninsula. Syria was expelled from the 22-member Arab League in 2011. Arab countries have sanctioned Damascus and condemned its use of military force against the opposition. Also on Thursday, pro-government news outlets in Syria reported the first flight in years between Damascus and Tunisia’s capital by Syria’s private Sham Wings.

Official: Russian weapon 27 times faster than speed of sound By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press

MOSCOW — Russia’s new strategic weapon has rendered any missile defenses useless at a small fraction of their cost, officials said Thursday. The Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle flies 27 times faster than the speed of sound, making it impossible to intercept, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told Russian state television. The new weapon “essentially makes missile defenses useless,” he said. Borisov spoke a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw what he described as the conclusive successful test of the Avangard and hailed it as a reliable guarantee of Russia’s security for decades to come. In Wednesday’s test, the weapon was launched from the Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains. The Kremlin said it successfully hit a practice target on the Kura shooting range on Kamchatka, 3,700 miles away. The Defense Ministry released footage from the test launch, in which a ballistic missile could be seen blasting from a silo in a cloud of smoke, but it hasn’t released any images of the vehicle itself. Putin said the Avangard will enter service with the Russian Strategic Missile Forces next year. The test comes amid bitter tensions in Russia-U.S. relations, which have been strained over the Ukrainian crisis, the war in Syria and the allegations of Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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REYKJAVIK, Iceland — An SUV carrying seven people from two British families plunged off a bridge Thursday in Iceland, killing three people and critically injuring the others, authorities said. Icelandic police said one child was among the dead and two, aged 7 and 9, were among the injured. Police initially said the injured were from one family but updated the information later. The crash occurred about 9.30 a.m. Thursday when the vehicle slammed through a railing on the one-lane bridge at Skeidararsandur, a vast sand plain in southern Iceland. The car landed on a rocky river bank. Police say it remains unclear what caused the British driver to lose control of the vehicle but temperatures were around freezing at the time. The crash occurred before this North Atlantic island’s sunrise at past 11 a.m. Tour guide Adolf Erlingsson was among the first on the scene. “It was horrible,” he told The Associated Press. “The car seemed to have hit the ground many meters from where it stopped. We struggled getting everyone out.”

Police only identified the victims as British; their names and ages have not been released. The four who survived were flown by helicopter to a hospital in Reykjavik. Chief Superintendent of south Iceland Police Sveinn Kristjan Runarsson said the four people hospitalized have serious injuries. “We haven’t been able to talk to them about what happened,” he said. The crash took place on Road No. 1, which runs for 830 miles as it connects coastal towns and villages on this volcanic island of 350,000 people. Iceland has seen a gigantic tourist boom in the last several years but its infrastructure has not always kept up. Roads are usually narrow, with many one-lane bridges. Of the 18 people who have died in traffic crashes in Iceland this year, half of them have been foreign nationals. Last year was the first on record when more foreigners died than residents, according to the Icelandic Transport Authority. This year 2.5 million tourists visited Iceland, compared with half a million in 2011, according to the Icelandic Tourist Board.

Frenchman trying to cross Atlantic in barrel capsule In this photograph taken Saturday Dec. 22, 2018, Frenchman Jean-Jacques Savin, 71-year-old, stands on top of his 10-foot long, 7-foot wide resin-coated plywood capsule, which will use ocean currents alone to propel him across the sea. Savin set off from El Hierro in Spain’s Canary Islands on Wednesday and is aiming to complete his 2,800-mile journey to the Caribbean in about three months. (Courtesy of Jean-Jacques A Savin via AP)

PARIS (AP) — 71-year-old Frenchman has departed on a journey across the Atlantic in a specially designed barrel capsule, which will use ocean currents alone to propel him across the sea. Jean-Jacques Savin set off from El Hierro in Spain’s Canary Islands on Wednesday and is aiming to complete his 2,800-mile journey to the Caribbean in about three months. Savin will drop markers from his 10-foot long, 7-foot wide resin-coated plywood capsule along the trip to assist oceanographers in their study of currents in the Atlantic Ocean. The barrel is equipped with a kitchen area, and a mattress with straps to keep him from being thrown about by rough seas.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, Chief of General Staff of Russia Valery Gerasimov, background center, and special representative on questions of ecology and transport, Sergei Ivanov, right, talk to each other as they come to oversee the test launch of the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle from the Defense Ministry’s control room in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Boy, 12, survives avalanche that buried him for 40 minutes

Sergei Ivanov, a former Russian defense minister, said in televised comments that the Avangard constantly changes its course and altitude as it flies through the atmosphere. He emphasized that unlike previous nuclear warheads fitted to intercontinental ballistic missiles that follow a predictable trajectory allowing it to calculate the spot where they can be intercepted, the Avangard chaotically zigzags on its path to its target, making it impossible to predict the weapon’s location. A smiling Ivanov likened the weapon’s flight through the atmosphere to a pebble skipping off the surface of water. Ivanov, who now serves as

PARIS (AP) — A 12-yearold boy in the French Alps was found alive and uninjured after being buried under an avalanche for 40 minutes, an event his rescuers are calling a true “miracle.” French police in the town of Bourg Saint-Maurice said the boy was skiing off piste at the La Plagne ski resort in a group of seven skiers Wednesday when he was swept away. The boy started going down ahead of the others and was the only one caught when a large section of snow detached and roared down the mountain, police said. He was dragged at least 110 yards by the force of the avalanche.

Putin’s adviser, said the Avangard could be fitted to the Soviet-made UR-100UTTKh intercontinental ballistic missile, which is code-named SS-19 Stiletto by NATO. He noted that Russia has a stockpile of several dozen such missiles, which are in a factorymint condition and not filled with fuel, allowing them to serve for a long time to come. Ivanov added that they could be put in existing silos, sharply reducing the costs of Avangard’s deployment. “The Avangard has cost hundreds of times less than what the U.S. has spent on its missile defense,” Ivanov said. He noted that Russia began

to develop the Avangard after the 2002 U.S. withdrew from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and started to develop defenses against ballistic missiles. Moscow feared that the U.S. missile shield could erode its nuclear deterrent, and Putin announced in 2004 that Russia was working on a new hypersonic weapon. Ivanov recalled that when Russian officials warned their U.S. counterparts about the new weapon program at the time, American officials were openly skeptical about Russia’s ability to carry out its plan. “We aren’t involved in saber-rattling, we simply ensured our security for decades to come,” he said.

Rescue workers flew in a helicopter to the avalanche scene, which was at 7,875 feet altitude. A sniffer dog found the boy, whose winter jacket was not equipped with an avalanche detector. Rescue workers described the operation as “miraculous” because they said chances of survival are minuscule after 15 minutes under the snow. Police said among the reasons the boy survived is that his airways were not blocked by snow. “We can call it a miracle. A day after Christmas, there was another gift in store,” Captain Patrice Ribes said. The boy was still sent to a local hospital for a checkup.

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A strong economy translates into big sales this holiday

In this Dec. 24 file photo, discount placards stand in the window of a clothing store as last-minute shoppers finish up their Christmas gift lists at the Cherry Creek Mall in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans buoyed by a strong economy pushed holiday sales growth to a sixyear high. Retail sales rose 5.1 percent between Nov. 1 and Dec. 24 from a year ago, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, which tracked spending online and in stores across all payment types, including those who paid by cash or check. Total sales topped $850 billion this year, Mastercard said. “From shopping aisles to online carts, consumer confidence translated into holiday cheer for retail,” said Steve Sadove, a senior adviser at Mastercard and the former CEO of the department store chain Saks. Online sales continued to grow, up more than 19 percent from a year ago. Last

week, Mastercard said online sales made up 13 percent of total retail sales. Clothing sold well this year — up nearly 8 percent from last year, the biggest growth for apparel sales since 2010, Mastercard said. Home furniture sales rose 2.3 percent, while electronics and appliances slipped 0.7 percent. Shoppers spent less at department stores, which Mastercard said was partly due to store closings. But shoppers did head to the websites of department stores, where sales rose 10.2 percent, Mastercard said. Traditional retailers have been updating their websites and smartphone apps, as well as making it easier for shoppers to buy online and then pick up their items in store.

US consumer confidence tumbles By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer confidence tumbled this month as Americans began to worry that economic growth will moderate next year. But consumer spirits are still high by historic standards. The Conference Board, a business research group, said Thursday that its consumer confidence index fell to 128.1 in December, down from 136.4 in November and lowest since July. The index measures consumers’ assessment of current economic conditions and their outlook for the next six months. Both fell in December. Consumers’ expectations for the future dropped to the lowest level since November 2016. The December readings “still suggest that the economy will continue expanding at a solid pace in the short-term,” said Lynn Franco, the Confer-

ence Board’s senior director of economic indicators. “While consumers are ending 2018 on a strong note, back-to-back declines in expectations are reflective of an increasing concern that the pace of economic growth will begin moderating in the first half of 2019.” For now, the U.S. economy is solid. Economic growth clocked in at a healthy 3.4 percent annual pace from July through September after surging 4.2 percent in the second quarter. At 3.7 percent, the unemployment rate is the lowest in nearly five decades. But the U.S. stock market has dropped sharply since early October. Investors have plenty to worry about. The Federal Reserve has gradually been raising interest rates. The economic boost from year-old tax cuts is expected to fade in 2019. Global growth is sputtering. And the U.S. and China — the world’s two biggest economies — are locked in a trade war that threatens to disrupt global commerce.

In brief China says plans made for US trade talks BEIJING — China’s government said Thursday it has made plans with Washington for talks in January aimed at ending a tariff battle that threatens to depress global trade. The two sides have “made specific arrangements for faceto-face meetings” and are talking by phone, said a Ministry of Commerce spokesman, Gao Feng. Gao gave no details. Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agreed Dec. 1 to postpone more tariff hikes for 90 days while their governments negotiate over U.S. complaints Beijing steals or pressures foreign companies to hand over technology. Trump agreed to postpone tariff hikes on $200 billion of Chinese imports planned for Jan. 1. Beijing responded by announcing a delay in a 25 percent duty on imported U.S. vehicles. Preparations for talks have proceeded despite the Dec. 1 arrest in Canada of an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei on U.S. charges related to possible violations of trade sanctions on Iran. Companies and investors worry the dispute might depress global trade at a time of rising anxiety about signs economic growth might be slowing. The two sides are maintaining “close communication,” said Gao. — Associated Press

Business

US stocks stage big rally, erase 600 point drop in Dow By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer

Wall Street staged a swift, last-minute turnaround Thursday that rescued stocks from a steep dive and put the market on track to end a topsy-turvy, volatile week with a gain. The comeback reversed a 611 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq eked out modest gains after having been down 2.8 and 3.3 percent, respectively. Thursday’s sharp swing in stocks followed their best day in 10 years. Even so, the market remains headed for what could be its steepest annual loss since the financial crisis. The market’s sharp downturn that began in October has intensified this month, erasing all of its 2018 gains and nudging the S&P 500 closer to its worst year since 2008. Even with the two-day winning streak, the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq are all down more than 9 percent for the month and stocks are on track for their worst December since 1931. “There are reasons we should be volatile, including a lot of unknowns as we head into 2019, starting with tariffs,”

Trader Gregory Rowe, left, and specialist Mario Picone work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

said JJ Kinahan, chief markets strategist for TD Ameritrade, noting that below-average trading volume this time of year is also contributing to the market’s volatility this week. Prior to the two-day rally, the S&P 500 had fallen in 11 of 16 trading sessions in December, with five of the declines by 2 percent or more. Investors had grown worried that the testy U.S.-China trade dispute and higher interest rates would slow the economy, hurting corporate profits. “The last two days are really demonstrable of what the

market is struggling with,” said Tom Martin, senior portfolio manager of Globalt Investments. “It’s looking for a bottom. It’s looking for a reason to gain a little more confidence. And it’s also looking for opportunities to reposition and lessen risk.” Health care and technology companies, banks and industrial stocks accounted for much of the broad gains. The S&P 500 index rose 21.13 points, or 0.9 percent, to 2,488.83. Earlier, it had been down more than 69 points. The Dow gained 260.37 points, or 1.1 percent, to 23,138.82. Both indexes rose

about 5 percent Wednesday, when the Dow had its biggestever single-day point gain. The tech-heavy Nasdaq added 25.14 points, or 0.4 percent, to 6,579.49. The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks picked up 2.01 points, or 0.2 percent, 1,331.82. Bonds prices rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury slipped to 2.78 percent from 2.79 percent late Wednesday, although the yield dropped as low as 2.73 percent when stocks were near their lowest levels as investors sought safer investments. Benchmark U.S. crude dropped 3.5 percent to settle at $44.61 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, used to price international oils, lost 4.2 percent to $52.16 a barrel in London. The dollar fell to 110.74 yen from 111.36 yen on Wednesday. The euro strengthened to $1.1449 from $1.1351. Gold edged up 0.6 percent to $1,281.10 an ounce and silver gained 1.2 percent to $15.31 an ounce. Copper fell 1.2 percent to $2.67 a pound. Overseas, major indexes in Europe closed lower while markets in Asia mostly rose. The German DAX slid 2.4 percent, while the Nikkei 225 index rebounded 3.9 percent.

FBI steps up efforts against ‘money mules’ By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The email caught the executive at a small company by surprise one morning in 2016. The company’s owner, or so he thought, was requesting a money transfer to pay for supplies from a new vendor. It wasn’t until that night when the executive, hours after the money had been transferred and still puzzled by the out-of-the-blue demand, texted the owner to make sure he’d heard the request correctly. The befuddled reply was disheartening: “I just saw your message about a wire transfer today. What is that about?” It was all part of a fraud scam that targeted companies, schools and nonprofits in Connecticut and elsewhere in the United States and that resulted this month in a 45-month prison sentence for one of the culprits. The case is part of a seemingly endless cycle of money laundering schemes that law enforcement officials say they’re scrambling to slow through a combination of prosecution and public awareness. Beyond the run-of-the-mill plots, officials say, is a particularly concerning trend involving “money mules” — people who, unwittingly or not, use their own bank accounts to move money for criminals for purposes they think are legitimate or even noble. The “mule” concept has attracted renewed attention with this month’s release of Clint Eastwood’s “The Mule,” a real-life tale of an elderly horticulturist who smuggled cocaine for a Mexican cartel. But the modern-day mules of most concern to the FBI are people who get themselves entangled in complicated, international money laundering schemes that cause huge economic losses and show no signs of stopping. “They trial and error this stuff and they see what works and they see what doesn’t,” FBI supervisory special agent James Abbott said in an interview. “It’s a much higher success rate when you have a lot of money using somebody else’s account going through there instead of trying to cross the border with a physical transportation of cash.” The FBI and international law enforcement agencies

In this June 14 file photo, the FBI seal is seen before a news conference at FBI headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

have stepped up efforts against the fraud and say they’re building bigger cases than before. Europol said this month it had identified 1,504 money mules, arresting 168, in a continentwide bust. The FBI in June announced the arrests of 74 people, including 29 in Nigeria, for schemes targeting businesses and the elderly, and has launched a publicity campaign called “Don’t Be a Mule.” The money mule cases are an offshoot of more generic frauds encountered by the FBI, including schemes that dupe people into thinking they’ve won the lottery and can claim their prizes by wiring an advance payment, or that trick the unsuspecting into believing a relative has been arrested and needs urgent bail money or that a supposed paramour they’ve met online requires cash. In cases like the Connecticut one, fraudsters assume identities of executives and scam employees into wiring cash. That’s what happened in 2016 at Beacon Systems, a Texas company where a new employee received emails from someone she thought was the chief executive officer instructing her to transfer nearly $100,000 for a vendor-related payment. Several weeks later, Kerry Williams, the CEO whose identity was impersonated,

was on her way to the airport when the FBI contacted her and explained how the company had been victimized as part of a much broader swindle. A dual Nigerian-U.S. citizen was ultimately sentenced to four years in prison in connection with the scheme. “It makes you kind of paranoid,” Williams said, describing how the experience also made the SAP consulting firm more vigilant. “Even to this day, we’re overly cautious about everything. I think you kind of go to that extreme.” As for money mules, they’re persuaded, sometimes with the incentive of keeping a cut of the funds, into allowing money transfers into their own bank accounts at the direction of a fraudster they may mistake for an online friend or romantic partner, a military officer overseas or an employer. They’re then instructed to transfer those funds elsewhere, into accounts controlled by criminals. In one example, the FBI says, a fraudster posing as an Army captain stationed overseas recruited a man he met online to be a money mule, saying he was making arrangements to travel home and needed the man’s help receiving and sending some funds. The FBI says $10,000 was wired into the man’s account. He was then instructed to withdraw it in small increments and send it to a

woman in Texas. The mules are sometimes witting conspirators. Other times, they’re elderly, lonely or just confused. The ones the FBI concludes are merely unwitting are given stern warnings but generally avoid prosecution. “When we approach them and talk to them and explain to them what they’ve been doing, a lot of times, the horror is there, said Steven D’Antuono, an FBI section chief specializing in financial crimes. “It’s all walks of life, all educational levels. Anyone can fall victim to this.” In the Connecticut case, the executive recounted those horrors in a letter to the judge before the sentencing of one of the defendants earlier this year. The executive, whose name and company are redacted in the letter, described feeling initially apprehensive about the money transfer instructions and advising the company owner that it was a “lot of money for supplies.” That night, he described the interactions to his wife, who asked if he was really certain the emails were legitimate. He suddenly wasn’t so sure, realizing for the first time he may have been duped. “Because of crimes like these,” he wrote, “our society is losing much of the trust and openness that we once experienced.”

Sports T angled Up In B lue K at S orensen

O Holy Night! E

ach year at Christmas Eve dinner, my grandmother sings an operatic rendition of ‘O Holy Night.’ Her wavering crescendo has been the soundtrack to every holiday, paired with a chorus of laughs from the kid’s table. A younger me would stifle laughter while avoiding my cousin’s eyes since the gaggle of us could never keep a straight face past “a new glorious morn!” What’s so funny about the carol? I haven’t the slightest idea, but after a while even the anticipation of the song could make me chuckle. Through the years, my grandmother’s sensitivity to our laughter rose and fell with the melody, laughing along with us at the end or scorning us and swearing this was the last year she would sing (it never was). I found a surefire way to avoid my cousins’ eye contact though — move to Alaska. I’ve spent the past two Christmases listening to my grandmother croon about the weary world rejoicing through my phone’s speaker, but that’s all I hear. My cousins have kids of their own now, still too young to see the hilarity in it all, and my brother has gotten good at donning stoicism. And me? I’m busy hodge-podging together a Christmas celebration of my own in Seward, a town full of potlucks and White Elephant exchanges. This Christmas Eve was a bit different than ones with Grandma. Pizza was the main course and Fast and the Furious was the soundtrack to a gift exchange with newspaper taped around thrift store or backof-the-closet finds. A far cry from a night divine, my dad’s steak dinner and Aunt Sue’s perfectly wrapped, gifted homemade bread, but it was Christmas just the same. On Christmas Day, instead of waltzing down the stairs to my dad brewing a pot of coffee to lure my brother, mother and I awake, I made my own coffee and opened the gift my parents sent to me by way of USPS. (The Seward post office employees work harder than Santa or any elf in the days leading up to Christmas.) Then I went out and skied, just like I did last year. It’s not a tradition in the traditional sense — “a belief or behavior passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special signifiSee BLUE, page A10

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Recreation

Local hoops teams visit tourneys SoHi girls, boys and Nikiski boys land in Ketchikan; Ninilchik goes to Kodiak Staff report Peninsula Clarion

Holiday vacation doesn’t mean there’s nothing happening for prep basketball teams. Peninsula teams began weekend tournaments Thursday with the Clarke Cochrane Christmas Classic in Ketchikan and the Joe Floyd Christmas tournament in Kodiak. In Ketchikan, the Soldotna girls got

the weekend underway with a 71-30 victory over Craig, sending the Stars to Friday’s semifinals with a 4 p.m. date with Thunder Mountain. Brittani Blossom scored a gamehigh 22 points for SoHi while Aliann Schmidt netted 18, Ituau Tuisaula had 12 and Danica Schmidt posted 11. Soldotna used stifling defense in the first half to grab a 43-13 lead, which helped the Stars cruise to the win in the final 16 minutes.

On the boys side of the bracket, SoHi came agonizingly short of toppling a Class 4A team from Oregon, the Philomath Warriors, falling 56-54 in overtime thanks to a buzzer-beater bucket. Philomath outscored SoHi 5-3 in the extra period, with SoHi’s only points coming on a Ray Chumley 3-pointer. The loss left the Stars in a 2:15 p.m. Friday matchup with the winner of Thursday’s late game between Metlakatla and Ketchikan.

SoHi head coach Nolan Rose said in a text that Soldotna had a free-throw attempt with a chance to break a tied game with seven seconds left in OT, but the Warriors rebounded the missed foul shot and drove the length of the floor to sink the winning shot. Rose said that not only is Soldotna playing its first varsity game of the year against a team that played its See HOOPS, page A11

Harden fuels Rockets to win with 45 points By The Associated Press

HOUSTON — James Harden had 45 points and six assists, Clint Capela added 24 points and 18 rebounds, and the Houston Rockets beat the Boston Celtics 127-113 on Thursday night for their eighth win in nine games. Harden, who was playing on a bruised left calf, had 17 points in the first quarter and finished 11 of 26 from the field, including 9 of 18 on 3-pointers. Eric Gordon scored 20 points for Houston, which shot 48 percent while improving to a season-high four games above .500. Houston finished 18 of 45 on 3-pointers. Harden has scored at least 30 points in eight straight games, the longest such streak since Russell Westbrook had eight straight 30-point games in November 2016. Harden has scored at least 35 points in six straight games, the longest streak since Carmelo Anthony had six straight in April 2013. KINGS 117, LAKERS 116 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Bogdan Bogdanovic made a 3-pointer at the buzzer and Sacramento rallied from 15 points down in the fourth quarter to beat Los Angeles in the Lakers’ first game this season without LeBron James. Bogdanovic finished with 23 points and De’Aaron Fox

added 15 points, 12 assists and nine rebounds. Willie Cauley-Stein had 19 points and eight rebounds, while Iman Shumpert scored 18 points and matched his career high with six 3s.

TRAIL BLAZERS 110, WARRIORS 109, OT OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Damian Lillard hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 6.3 seconds left in overtime and scored 21 points in his final regular-season game at home in Oakland, sending Portland past Golden State in a wild one. Kevin Durant missed a 13-footer off the front rim as the final buzzer sounded but finished with his second tripledouble of the season: 26 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds.

76ERS 114, JAZZ 97 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — JJ Redick scored 24 points and Joel Embiid had 23 points, 15 rebounds and five blocks to help Philadelphia cruise past Utah. Ben Simmons, who was selected over Utah’s Donovan Mitchell as Rookie of the Year last season, had his fifth tripledouble of the season with 13 points, 14 rebounds and 12 assists.

BUCKS 112, KNICKS 96 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo had 31 points and 14 rebounds, Khris Middleton added 25 Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving (11) shoots as Houston Rockets guard James Harden defends points and Milwaukee beat during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday in Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Christian New York for its sixth win in Smith) seven games.

LeBron named AP Male Athlete of the Year By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer

LeBron James went to the NBA Finals for the eighth consecutive year. He changed addresses again, leaving his Cleveland home for the second time to join the Los Angeles Lakers in the biggest move of free agency over the summer. He remained arguably

the dominant player in the basketball, adding even more glitz on a legacy that reached epic status long ago. It was, by any measure, a fantastic year for James. And even without a title, it may have been his most significant year. For the third time, James has been selected as The Associated Press Male Athlete

of the Year — after 2018 saw him continue to excel on the court, open the “I Promise” school for at-risk children in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, and further use his voice as an activist who bristled at being told to “shut up and dribble.” “I would describe it as a success because I was able to inspire so many people

throughout the year,” James said. “I got to go back to China, to Paris, to Berlin, I opened up a school. And all these kids I was able to see, all over the world and in my hometown, I was able to inspire, to make them think they can be so much more than what they think they’re capable of being. That was my outlook for 2018.”

James received 78 points in balloting by U.S. editors and news directors announced Thursday, while Boston Red Sox star Mookie Betts was second with 46. Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals was third, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was fourth and Triple Crown winner Justify was See JAMES, page A10

Blackwood backs Devils for 1st NHL win against Bruins By The Associated Press

BOSTON — Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 40 shots for his first NHL victory, Blake Coleman scored twice and the New Jersey Devils beat the Boston Bruins 5-2 on Thursday night. Damon Severson scored 25 seconds into the game and Kyle Palmieri added his team-high 19th goal for the Devils, who won on the road for just the fourth time this season. Nico Hirschier had a goal and an assist and Andy Greene had a pair of assists as New Jersey got its first win in Boston in five years. Patrice Bergeron and Chris Wagner scored for Boston, and Jaroslav Halak had 28 saves. Severson’s early goal on a wrist shot from the right circle gave the rookie Blackwood a lead the Devils never relinquished. Blackwood, who was making his second career start, stopped 18 of 19 shots in the second period to help stave off the Bruins. CAPITALS 3, HURRICANES 1 WASHINGTON (AP) — T.J. Oshie scored his 11th goal and John Carlson had an empty-netter as Washington won its third straight game. Chandler Stephenson added his second goal in three games for the Capitals, winners of 15 of their last 18 games.

Braden Holtby stopped 28 shots for the Metropolitan Division leaders. The Capitals killed all four Hurricanes penalties, including a high-sticking minor on Michal Kempny with 3:46 remaining.

PENGUINS 5, RED WINGS 2

hat trick, Brandon Saad scored twice and Chicago picked up its fourth win in five games. Collin Delia made 46 saves, and Jonathan Toews, Erik Gustafsson and Dylan Strome each had two assists for Chicago, tied for last place with St. Louis in the Central Division. Kane completed his first hat trick since March 2017. He leads the Blackhawks with 20 goals and 47 points and has five goals and five assists during a six-game point streak.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Phil Kessel scored two power-play goals and Derick Brassard added two scores as Pittsburgh ran its winning streak to four games. Patric Hornqvist scored his 13th of the season. Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin each finished with two assists. Crosby CANUCKS 4, OILERS 2 has registered points in nine of his last 11 EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Elias home games and has 24 points in his last 18 games. Matt Murray stopped 27 shots Pettersson and Antoine Roussel each had for his fourth straight win since returning a goal and an assist for Vancouver. The Canucks scored four goals on their from a lower-body injury. first six shots. Tyler Motte and Brock Boeser also scored for Vancouver, which is BLUE JACKETS 4, 7-2-1 in its last 10 games. RANGERS 3 OT Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Leon Draisaitl scored for the Oilers, who have lost NEW YORK (AP) — Pierre-Luc Du- four straight. bois scored 31 seconds into overtime and Columbus won its fifth straight victory. LIGHTNING 6, FLYERS 5 OT Dubois’ 14th goal came after Columbus tied the game with less than three TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Alex Killorn minutes left in regulation. Blue Jackets scored 18 seconds into overtime and Tambackup goaltender Joonas Korpisalo made pa Bay, after blowing a three-goal lead in 19 saves for the win. Oliver Bjorkstrand, David Savard and the third period, extended its point streak Zach Werenski also scored for the Blue to 13 games. Steven Stamkos had two goals and two Jackets. assists, and Nikita Kucherov added a goal and three assists for the Lightning, who are 12-0-1 during their current run. BLACKHAWKS 5, WILD 2 Brayden Point and Tyler Johnson had CHICAGO (AP) — Patrick Kane had a the other Tampa Bay goals, and Andrei

Vasilevskiy made 28 saves.

BLUES 4, SABRES 1 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Robert Thomas had a goal and an assist and Jake Allen made 30 saves to lead St. Louis past Buffalo. Jay Bouwmeester, Pat Maroon and Ryan O’Reilly scored for the Blues. Jack Eichel scored his 15th goal of the season in the second period for the Sabres. Carter Hutton stopped 28 of 32 shots in his first appearance against St. Louis after spending the previous two seasons with the Blues.

Adam Lowry scored for the Jets, who had won their previous two games and had a four-game win streak at home halted.

GOLDEN KNIGHTS 2, AVALANCHE 1 LAS VEGAS (AP) — Brandon Pirri scored his fourth goal of the season midway through the third period to send Vegas past Colorado. Pirri, recalled from the AHL’s Chicago Wolves earlier in the day, blistered a shot from the point past goaltender Philipp Grubauer with 9:49 left.

SHARKS 4, DUCKS 2 STARS 2, PREDATORS 0 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Anton Khudobin made a career-high 49 saves to lead Dallas over slumping Nashville. Tyler Pitlick and Mattias Janmark scored for Dallas, which has won two of three. Pekka Rinne stopped 28 shots for the Predators, who have lost five straight. Khudobin posted his first shutout of the season and seventh of his career.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Brent Burns scored midway through the third period of his 1,000th career game and led San Jose to a victory over Anaheim. Burns scored his fifth goal at 10:21 of the third period to break a 2-2 tie, and the Sharks snapped a three-game losing streak. The 33-year-old Burns was playing in his 428th consecutive regular-season game. The 2017 Norris Trophy winner as the league’s top defenseman hasn’t missed a game since November 2013.

FLAMES 4, JETS 1

KINGS 2, COYOTES 1

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Johnny Gaudreau had a hat trick as Calgary ended a three-game winless streak. Mark Jankowski had a short-handed, third-period goal for Calgary. Sean Monahan contributed three assists and Elias Lindholm added a pair.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dustin Brown scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period for Los Angeles. Jake Muzzin also scored for the lastplace Kings, who have won a season-high four consecutive games. Jonathan Quick made 26 saves.

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cance.” Last year, I skied around the Kenai Wildlife Refuge while on the phone with my dad. This year, I skied around Trail River with a friend and some borrowed dogs, saying ‘Merry Christmas’ to every person we skied past. It wasn’t passed down to me, but it’s gained a special significance. It’s a way to get out of the house in the middle of Christmas Day. It’s a way to bring myself joy when I’m so far away from all the familial traditions I grew up with, so far from the family that can find laughter in the oddest of places. It’s a way to slow down in the midst of the holidays, by skating along the trails in a true winter wonderland. It’s a way to fill the time I used to spend trying out all the latest toys and gadgets Santa had left under the tree, after the excitement of unwrapping and before the comatose from a second holiday meal. And this year, like last, the snow was great, the trails were fun and I got home tired and hungry. But before I could head to the next potluck of the Seward holiday season, I had to dig through my house for one last White Elephant gift (I went with the unwanted cactus on my shelf) and wash the snow fueled sweat off my skin. And I’m sure, if anyone had heard me singing in the shower, they would’ve been stifling a laugh or two. “A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn Fall on your knees oh, hear the angel voices O night divine, O night when Christ was born”

Zeke wants to play Giants, but do Cowboys? By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Pro Football Writer

FRISCO, Texas — Ezekiel Elliott insists he’s playing and has no hesitation saying the NFL rushing title is on his mind with the Dallas Cowboys locked into the fourth playoff seed as NFC East champions going into their regular-season finale at the New York Giants. If the league rushing leader does play, it won’t be because coach Jason Garrett wants him to hold off Todd Gurley of the Los Angeles Rams and rookie Saquon Barkley, who will be on the opposing sideline with the Giants (5-10) on Sunday. “We don’t talk very much about individual statistics for any of our players,” Garrett said. “What we’re trying to do is prepare the right way and play the right way each week to make our team the best it could be. And that’s really where our sole focus is.” With 1,434 yards rushing, Elliott is 183 ahead of Gurley, who could miss the game against San Francisco with a minor knee injury as the Rams try to secure a firstround bye along with top-seeded New Orleans. Barkley trails by 236 yards, so even if Elliott doesn’t play, it would take a huge game from one of the two behind him to keep the former Ohio State star from winning his second rushing title in three years. Elliott led the NFL as a rookie with 1,631 yards in 2016, and had the highest yards-per-game average last season when he served a six-game suspension for domestic violence allegations. The 2016 All-Pro said it’s easier to consider individual honors with the focus already shifting to the playoffs before a Week 17 game with nothing on the line. He just doesn’t want anyone mistaking that honesty for him being comfortable with the subject matter. “I don’t really like talking about these other little things,” Elliott said. “I think we all know what the big goal in mind is, and I think that’s what’s most important. I think that’s what should be talked about.” Elliott is on the verge of joining Earl Campbell, Eric Dickerson, Emmitt Smith and Edgerrin James as backs to win at least two rushing titles in their first three seasons since the 1970 merger.

File-This Dec. 23, 2018, file photo shows Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott (21) attempting to evade a tackle by Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety Jordan Whitehead (31) after Elliott caught a pass in the first half time of an NFL football game in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Roger Steinman, File)

Campbell, a Hall of Famer along with Dickerson and NFL career rushing leader and former Dallas star Smith, is the only one in that group to do it all three years. “I think Zeke’s had a great year,” offensive coordinator Scott Linehan said. “He’s earned it. He’s had some games where he’s had to grind out, old school, 100-yard games. It’s not like he had three or four games where he had 200 yards. He’s had consistently around 100 each game.” Elliott wants to play because he believes the Cowboys (9-6) need to maintain the momentum of six wins in seven games, a surge that took them from 3-5 to the division title. Dallas played from ahead after an

11-game winning streak while winning the NFC East two years ago, led by the sensational debuts of Elliott and quarterback Dak Prescott, the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year that season. Prescott missed his backfield mate when the Cowboys lost their first three games without the suspended Elliott last season, a skid that ultimately kept them out of the playoffs even though Dallas wasn’t eliminated until Elliott’s first game back. Now things look a lot like they did two years ago: Dallas headed to the postseason with the NFL’s leading rusher. “He doesn’t really talk about it too much,” Prescott said. “I know he’s not

a big stats guy but obviously him being the competitor, I know inside he wants it. I know he really wants it as I want it for him and I’m pretty sure the offensive line and everybody on this team wants it for him.” And Elliott wants to play to get it, not sit and wait for it as he did two years ago in a meaningless regularseason finale against Philadelphia before a playoff bye and divisional loss to Green Bay. “We are built a little bit different,” Elliott said. “We definitely rely more on our intensity and how hard we play and be in a groove. This is the right thing to do.” And by that Elliott means playing the star running back.

Baylor completes turnaround with Texas Bowl win By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer

HOUSTON — Before Baylor faced Vanderbilt in the Texas Bowl on Thursday night, coach Matt Rhule asked his players to think about where they were a year ago after the team finished 1-11. After taking a moment to reflect on that, the Bears returned their focus to 2018 and finished an impressive turnaround with a huge performance from quarterback Charlie Brewer in a 45-38 win. Brewer threw for 384 yards and two touchdowns, the second a tiebreaking 52-yarder in the fourth quarter, and ran for 109 yards and another score. Brewer, who was selected MVP, connected with Marques Jones for the 52yard stroke that that made it 45-38 with less than two minutes left. The Bears then stopped Vanderbilt on fourth-and-5 to secure the win. Brewer’s other touchdown pass was a 75-yarder earlier in the fourth quarter, and he scored on a 1-yard run in the third. The Bears finished 7-6 a year after losing all but one game in Rhule’s first season. “They’ve just continued to evolve every week into a good team and battled through adversity,” he said. “They did it by working hard and working together.” Brewer compared his first two seasons at Baylor. “It feels a lot better to be in this posi-

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fifth. On the court, James remained dominant. He averaged 28.7 points, 8.8 rebounds and 8.4 assists in 2018 between his time with the Cavaliers and Lakers, playing in 102 games through Thursday. “In addition to being on everyone’s short list as one of the league’s all-time greatest players, LeBron is among the hardest working players and is a thoughtful and impactful leader,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. “He serves on the executive committee of the Players Association even as he builds an impressive media company of his own. And what’s most inspiring, and no surprise given his talent and focus, is how he’s done all of this while embracing his unique opportunity to positively impact communities in need.” James becomes the third

tion than in the position we were in last year,” he said. Vanderbilt (6-7) was led by Kyle Shurmur, who threw for 286 yards and a touchdown, and Ke’Shawn Vaughn , who ran for two touchdowns and set a Texas Bowl record with 243 yards rushing — which ranks second in school history. Shurmur moved past Jay Cutler (8,697) for most career yards passing in school history with 8,865. Baylor led by three with about 10 1/2 minutes left when a pass intended for Denzel Mims bounced off him as he fell in the end zone and was intercepted by Randall Haynie, who grabbed the ball and stood on tiptoes before falling backward out of the end zone. Two plays later, Vaughn ran 66 yards to get Vanderbilt to the 1, and Khari Blasingame ran it in on the next play to put the Commodores up 35-31. The Bears regained the lead when Trestan Ebner scored on a 75-yard catch and run on the first play of the next drive. Vanderbilt tied it on a 33-yard field goal with 3 1/2 minutes remaining.

PINSTRIPE BOWL WISCONSIN 35, MIAMI 3 NEW YORK (AP) — Jonathan Taylor ran for 205 yards and a touchdown and topped the 2,000-yard season mark to help Wisconsin rout Miami 35-3 in a chilly Pinstripe Bowl on Thursday night. Taylor, just a sophomore, ripped off runs

man to win the award at least three times, joining Lance Armstrong (a four-time winner from 2002 through 2005), Tiger Woods (1997, 1999, 2000 and 2006) and Michael Jordan (1991, 1992 and 1993). Armstrong won the Tour de France in each of his years as the AP recipient, — though he was later stripped of the titles in a doping scandal. Woods won at least one major and was the PGA’s Player of the Year in all four of his AP-winning years. Jordan’s three awards coincided with his first three NBA championships in Chicago. And James’ first two times getting the award were in 2013 and 2016, years where his fingerprints mussed up the Larry O’Brien Trophy in a title celebration. And James’ closest rivals in the AP balloting this year — Betts and Ovechkin — also won titles in 2018. James’ year included no championship, no scoring title, no MVP award. But some of the people closest to James still considered 2018 to be his finest

of 39 and 41 yards and was sensational at Yankee Stadium and combined with a defense that forced five turnovers to help a Wisconsin (8-5) team ranked fourth in the first AP Top 25 poll salvage its fifth straight bowl victory. Last season. Taylor ran for 130 yards in Wisconsin’s 34-24 win over Miama in the Orange Bowl. The Badgers, certainly used to the cold, came out swinging for the fences — they scored two touchdowns just 3 1/2 minutes into the game and seemingly knocked the will out of Miami (7-6).

INDEPENDENCE BOWL DUKE 56, TEMPLE 27 SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Daniel Jones threw for 423 yards and five touchdowns, T.J. Rahming caught 12 passes for 240 yards and two scores, and Duke blew past Temple in the Independence Bowl. Duke (8-5) snapped a two-game losing streak, scoring touchdowns on seven straight drives. The Blue Devils flipped a 27-14 deficit in the second quarter to a 5627 lead by midway through the fourth. Jones set Independence Bowl records with the five touchdown passes and 423 yards passing, and Duke also had the most points in the event’s history. Coach David Cutcliffe won his fourth Independence Bowl. He led Ole Miss to victories in Shreveport in 1998, 1999 and 2002 and is already enshrined in the bowl’s Hall of Honor. Anthony Russo passed for 228 yards and a score for Temple (8-5).

year yet. “I like to talk about generations,” said Miami guard Dwyane Wade, one of James’ best friends. “There will never be another Michael Jordan because he was the first to be a global superstar, the first to take the NBA to another level. There will never be another LeBron James, and a lot of it is from what he’s done away from the game. Him understanding his voice has been so refreshing and so important to the culture and his friends.” The “I Promise” school is perhaps James’ most prized accomplishment yet. It opened in July for 240 third- and fourthgraders, a public school in Akron that is perhaps like none other. Families — not just the kids — get support there, whether it’s by helping put food on the table or providing adult education or even legal assistance. And this is just the start. James and his LeBron James Family Foundation have enormous plans for the school in the years ahead.

Baylor running back John Lovett (7) slips through the tackle-attempt by Vanderbilt linebacker Josh Smith (25) to score during the first half of the Texas Bowl NCAA college football game in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

“It is already such a success,” James said. “And it’s something that I never thought was possible until we made it happen. So yes, it’s been a pretty good year.” A busy year, too. He had a documentary series called “Shut Up and Dribble,” which discusses the role athletes have in the current political and cultural climate. His show “The Shop,” featuring James and friends talking about life in the backdrop of a barbershop, has been enormously popular. James has faced criticism in recent days for posting rap lyrics that included the phrase “Jewish money,” for which he apologized, and even rival coaches have spoken out about how he’s used his fame for good. “To this day, he hasn’t missed a step,” San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich said earlier this year. “He hasn’t fallen off the ledge and he’s been a brilliant example for millions of kids, especially kids with lesser opportunity and haven’t had the same advantages as

others.” On the court, he was already an icon. Off the court, he’s looking to be one as well in the years ahead. “The next star is out there,” James said. “And I’m not just talking sports. Doctor, nurse, pilots, they’re out there. The one thing they need is knowing that people care about them and care about their lives. I believe it’s part of my job, and I take it very seriously, to try to tap into that.”

James games streak ends at 156 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — LeBron James was held out of the Lakers’ game against the Sacramento Kings on Thursday night with a groin injury, ending his consecutive games played streak at 156. James was injured during the Lakers’ 127-101 victory over two-time defending NBA champion Golden State on Christmas when he slipped while going for a loose ball.

An MRI showed that James suffered a left groin strain rather than a tear, but no timetable has been set for his return. Lakers coach Luke Walton said the team will take a cautious approach with the four-time MVP. “It’s one of those things we want to make sure he’s healthy before we get him back out there,” Walton said Thursday. “That could be an injury where if you come back too early you re-injure it and then you’re out longer. We’ll be careful and cautious when he starts playing again.” James, who remained in Los Angeles while his teammates flew to Sacramento, has played in every game since the final game of the 2016-17 regular season, when he sat out to rest. His last extended absence due to injury was an eight-game stint to deal with back and knee aches midway through the 2014-15 season. James is averaging 27.3 points, 8.3 rebounds and 7.1 assists this season, his 16th in the NBA and first with the Lakers.

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In the boys contest, Roberto Giron went off for 20 points, including 10 in the second Continued from page A9 quarter, to fuel the Bears. The Wolverines were paced by Garninth, but Stars junior point rett Koch’s 12 points. guard Jersey Truesdell fouled Thursday girls out of the game with two minStars 71, Panthers 30 utes left in regulation, leaving 20 23 15 13 —71 one of SoHi’s most potent scor- Soldotna Craig 10 3 11 6 —30 ers on the bench at the end. SOLDOTNA (71) — McGillivray 0, Buckbee Chumley finished with a 0, Blossom 22, A. Schmidt 18, Bouscher 2, team-high 18 points for SoHi, Tuisaula 12, Leadens 2, Crosby-Schneider D. Schmidt 11. while Truesdell and Tommy 4, CRAIG (30) — Johnson 0, Ruenham 0, Wells scored 11 apiece. Yates 8, Hansen 7, Bird 0, Johnson 5, Philomath led 39-33 head- Skan-Allen 8, Stumph 2, Bird 0. field goals — Soldotna 3 (Blossom ing into the fourth quarter, but 3-point 2, D. Schmidt 1); Craig 2 (Skan-Allen 2). SoHi used an 18-12 rally in the Team fouls — Soldotna 13; Craig 10. fourth quarter to tie it at 51-all Fouled out — none. and force OT. Bears 30, Wolverines 20 Also in Ketchikan, the Niki- Ninilchik 2 3 6 9 —20 ski boys lost to the Lewis and Kodiak 8 4 6 12 —30 Clark Tigers 71-26. The Tigers NINILCHIK (20) — Okonek 2, Jasper 0, are from Spokane, Washington. Calabrese 5, Robuck 2, Corey 5, Cooper S. Calabrese0, DehBoer 0, Ofstad 0, The loss dropped Nikiski into the 6, Okonek 0. fourth-place bracket with a Fri- KODIAK (30) — Taboy 0, Quiambao 5, Me0, Fangonilo 0, Gumtang 2, Bartel 6, day matchup with Bishop Blan- drano Berg 6, Mangrobang 10, Nixon 1. chet at 10:45 a.m. Bishop Blan- 3-point field goals — Ninilchik 0; Kodiak 1 (Quiambao). chet lost Thursday to Palmer. fouls — Ninilchik 14; Kodiak 13. Nikiski struggled to break Team Fouled out — none. through the Lewis and Clark Thursday boys defense, as Shane Weathers led Warriors 56, Stars 54 the Bulldogs with nine points. 12 14 7 18 3 —54 Senior guard Jace Kornstad Soldotna Philomath 18 8 13 12 5 —56 was held to six points, all in the (54) — Rich 5, Morrison 3, first quarter, and Noah Litke SOLDOTNA Chumley 18, Truesdell 11, Kant 2, Wells 11, also had six. Lewis and Clark Rosin 0, Michael 4, Denna 0. (56) — Lundy 4, Snuggerud had four players in double-digit PHILOMATH 15, Hellesto 0, Stueve 6, Kantor 2, Manscoring, led by Griffin Effen- ning 6, Reams 4, Bennett 2, Bratt 17, Roe 0, Edwards 0. berger’s 16 points. field goals — Soldotna 10 (Chumley The Tigers went up 32-11 on 3-point 3, Truesdell 3, Wells 3, Rich 1); Philomath Nikiski at halftime, then out- 1 (Snuggerud). scored the Bulldogs 23-8 in the Team fouls — Soldotn 17; Philomath 13. third quarter to stake a 55-19 Fouled out — Truesdell, Stueve. Tigers 71, Bulldogs 26 lead en route to the win. Joe Floyd Christmas tournament Down in Kodiak, the Ninilchik girls lost 30-20 to Kodiak, while the Ninilchik boys lost to Kodiak 63-25. Friday’s action in Kodiak tips off with the Ninilchik boys taking on Bethel at 1 p.m. and the Ninilchik girls taking their shot at 4:30 p.m. against Bethel’s girls team. In the girls game, Madi Cooper led the Wolverines with six points, while teammates Autumn Calabrese and Jancee Corey netted five points each. Against the Class 4A Bears, Ninilchik kept it close but had trouble scoring as Kodiak led 12-5 at halftime and 18-11 after the third quarter.

Lewis/Clark 19 13 23 16 —71 Nikiski 8 3 8 7 —26 LEWIS/CLARK (71) — Proost 7, Effenberger 16, Cleary 4, Merritt 15, Guillory 11, Scarlett 2, Sayer 5, Flaherty 1, Blockman 0, Carney 0, Schofield 10. NIKISKI (26) — Mysing 3, Weathers 9, Smith 0, Kornstad 6, Handley 0, Litke 6, Payne 0, DeSiena 0, Gray 2. 3-point field goals — Nikiski 5 (Litke 2, Kornstad 1, Weathers 1, Mysing 1); Lewis and Clark 5 (Effenberger 3, Merritt 1, Sayer 1). Team fouls — Nikiski 7; Lewis and Clark 9. Fouled out — none. Bears 63, Wolverines 25 Ninilchik 8 5 9 3 —25 Kodiak 14 22 20 7 —63 NINILCHIK (25) — Nelson 3, Hadro 5, Koch 12, Clark 2, Moore 0, Devila 0, Lemons 3, Moto 0, Mumey 0. KODIAK (63) — Giron 20, Galindo 7, Penamora 8, Vinberg-Barnett 1, Caldejon 4, Nocon 11, Macatuno 10, Docolaro 2, Bartel 0. 3-point field goals — Ninilchik 2 (Nelson 1, Koch 1); Kodiak 7 (Nocon 3, Macatuno 2, Penamora 1, Galindo 1). Team fouls — Ninilchik 11; Kodiak 14. Fouled out — Koch.

Sanchez signs 2-year deal with Washington WASHINGTON (AP) — Anibal Sanchez has a new team and his same catcher. The Washington Nationals agreed to terms on a twoyear, $19 million contract with right-hander Anibal Sanchez on Thursday. The deal includes a team option for 2021. Sanchez, 34, will add depth to Washington’s new-look rotation after boosting his appeal with a comeback season for NL East rival Atlanta. The Nationals signed Patrick Corbin to a six-year deal earlier this month. Sanchez said the two-year deal was important at his age. He said another factor was maintaining his relationship with catcher Kurt Suzuki, who he said was important to his success with the Braves in 2018. Suzuki signed a twoyear, $10 million deal with Washington last month. “That’s a big thing for me,

especially because the way I pitch in 2018, Suzuki was involved in every change I made,” Sanchez said in a conference call with reporters. “Every sequence that we work for, Suzuki was very involved. ... I know the pitches he calls for. We’ve got a really good relationship between pitcher and catcher in the game.” Sanchez, a native of Maracay, Venezuela, was perhaps the Braves’ most consistent starter as he posted a 2.83 ERA in 25 games, including 24 starts. He was 7-6 and had 135 strikeouts in 136 2/3 innings. It was a remarkable turnaround after Sanchez struggled in 2017 with a 6.41 ERA with Detroit. The 2018 ERA was the second-best of his career, behind his 2.57 mark in 2013 with Detroit, and sixth-lowest among NL pitchers with at least 24 starts.

Pens re-sign Guentzel PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Penguins re-signed forward Jake Guentzel to a five-year, $30 million contract extension Thursday. The extension runs through 2023-24. The 24-year-old Guentzel joined the team midway through the 2016-17 season, helping the Penguins win the Stanley Cup. He led all players

in the playoffs that season with 13 goals, second-most by a rookie in league history. He had 21 points to tie the NHL rookie record and five game-winning goals to set an NHL rookie mark. During the playoffs last season, he had 10 goals and 11 assists in 12 games. A third-round pick in 2013, he has 15 goals and 18 assists in 36 games this season.

Cobb returns to field with future looming GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Cleared from the concussion protocol, receiver Randall Cobb expects to play in the Green Bay Packers’ season finale. It could be his final game with the team. “I’m human so I can’t say

that it hasn’t crossed my mind,” Cobb said on Thursday. A second-round pick in 2011, Cobb had a big 2014 season with 91 catches for 1,287 yards and 12 touchdowns. That led to Cobb signing a four-year, $40 million contract in free agency.

Scoreboard Scores

basketball NBA Standings

SOUTH LSU 72, SE Louisiana 52

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 26 10 .722 — Philadelphia 23 13 .639 3 Boston 20 14 .588 5 Brooklyn 17 19 .472 9 New York 9 27 .250 17 Southeast Division Charlotte 16 17 .485 — Miami 16 17 .485 — Orlando 14 19 .424 2 Washington 13 22 .371 4 Atlanta 9 24 .273 7 Central Division Milwaukee 24 10 .706 — Indiana 23 12 .657 1½ Detroit 16 16 .500 7 Chicago 9 26 .257 15½ 8 27 .229 16½ Cleveland WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Houston 19 15 .559 — San Antonio 19 16 .543 ½ Memphis 18 16 .529 1 Dallas 16 17 .485 2½ New Orleans 15 20 .429 4½ Northwest Division Denver 21 11 .656 — Oklahoma City 21 12 .636 ½ Portland 20 15 .571 2½ Utah 17 19 .472 6 Minnesota 16 18 .471 6 Pacific Division Golden State 23 13 .639 — L.A. Clippers 20 14 .588 2 L.A. Lakers 20 15 .571 2½ Sacramento 19 16 .543 3½ Phoenix 9 26 .257 13½ Thursday’s Games Houston 127, Boston 113 Milwaukee 112, New York 96 Sacramento 117, L.A. Lakers 116 Philadelphia 114, Utah 97 Portland 110, Golden State 109, OT Friday’s Games Brooklyn at Charlotte, 3 p.m. Chicago at Washington, 3 p.m. Detroit at Indiana, 3 p.m. Toronto at Orlando, 3 p.m. Atlanta at Minnesota, 4 p.m. Cleveland at Miami, 4 p.m. Dallas at New Orleans, 4 p.m. Oklahoma City at Phoenix, 5 p.m. San Antonio at Denver, 5 p.m. L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers, 6:30 p.m. Saturday’s Games Brooklyn at Milwaukee, 1 p.m. Charlotte at Washington, 3 p.m. Houston at New Orleans, 3 p.m. Cleveland at Atlanta, 3:30 p.m. Boston at Memphis, 4 p.m. New York at Utah, 4 p.m. Denver at Phoenix, 5 p.m. Golden State at Portland, 6 p.m. San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 6:30 p.m. All Times AST

College Scores MIDWEST Creighton 89, UMKC 53

Women’s College

hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 38 29 7 2 60 160 111 Toronto 37 25 10 2 52 140 103 Buffalo 38 21 12 5 47 112 109 Boston 38 20 14 4 44 107 101 Montreal 37 19 13 5 43 115 117 Florida 35 15 14 6 36 115 125 Detroit 39 15 18 6 36 111 131 Ottawa 37 15 18 4 34 118 144 Metropolitan Division Washington 36 23 10 3 49 132 104 Columbus 37 22 12 3 47 121 112 Pittsburgh 37 19 12 6 44 124 112 N.Y. Islanders 35 18 13 4 40 101 98 N.Y. Rangers 36 15 14 7 37 105 119 Philadelphia 36 15 16 5 35 109 131 Carolina 36 15 16 5 35 91 106 New Jersey 36 13 16 7 33 107 127

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division 37 24 11 2 50 129 105 38 22 14 2 46 111 97 38 19 13 6 44 130 117 38 19 16 3 41 101 102 36 17 16 3 37 105 104 35 15 16 4 34 100 115 40 14 20 6 34 116 147 Pacific Division Calgary 38 23 12 3 49 131 104 San Jose 39 20 12 7 47 128 117 Vegas 40 21 15 4 46 119 113 Anaheim 39 19 15 5 43 97 113 Vancouver 40 18 18 4 40 121 127 Edmonton 37 18 16 3 39 104 115 Arizona 37 16 19 2 34 94 103 Los Angeles 38 15 20 3 33 88 113 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs. Winnipeg Nashville Colorado Dallas Minnesota St. Louis Chicago

Thursday’s Games New Jersey 5, Boston 2 Columbus 4, N.Y. Rangers 3, OT Pittsburgh 5, Detroit 2 Washington 3, Carolina 1 Tampa Bay 6, Philadelphia 5, OT St. Louis 4, Buffalo 1 Calgary 4, Winnipeg 1 Dallas 2, Nashville 0 Chicago 5, Minnesota 2 Vancouver 4, Edmonton 2 Vegas 2, Colorado 1 San Jose 4, Anaheim 2 Los Angeles 2, Arizona 1 Friday’s Games Montreal at Florida, 3 p.m. Toronto at Columbus, 3 p.m. Ottawa at N.Y. Islanders, 3 p.m. Saturday’s Games Carolina at New Jersey, 9 a.m. San Jose at Edmonton, 12 p.m. Minnesota at Winnipeg, 12 p.m. Vegas at Los Angeles, 12 p.m. Boston at Buffalo, 3 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Toronto, 3 p.m. Montreal at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m. Philadelphia at Florida, 3 p.m. Washington at Ottawa, 3 p.m. Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 4 p.m. Detroit at Dallas, 4 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Nashville, 4 p.m. Chicago at Colorado, 5 p.m. Arizona at Anaheim, 6 p.m. Vancouver at Calgary, 6 p.m. All Times AST

football College Bowls

Thursday, Dec. 27 Independence Bowl Shreveport, La. Duke 56, Temple 27 Pinstripe Bowl New York Wisconsin 35, Miami 3 Texas Bowl Houston Baylor 45, Vanderbilt 38 Friday, Dec. 28 Music City Bowl Nashville, Tenn. Purdue (6-6) vs. Auburn (7-5), 9:30 a.m. (ESPN) Camping World Bowl Orlando, Fla. West Virginia (8-3) vs. Syracuse (9-3), 1:15 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl San Antonio Iowa State (8-4) vs. Washington State (10-2), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 29 Peach Bowl Atlanta Florida (9-3) vs. Michigan (10-2), 8 a.m. (ESPN) Belk Bowl Charlotte, N.C. South Carolina (7-5) vs. Virginia (7-5), 8 a.m. (ABC) Arizona Bowl Tucson, Ariz. Arkansas State (8-4) vs. Nevada (7-5), 9:15 a.m. (CBSSN) Cotton Bowl Classic Arlington, Texas CFP Semifinal, Notre Dame (120) vs. Clemson (13-0), 12 p.m. (ESPN) Orange Bowl Miami Gardens, Fla. CFP Semifinal, Oklahoma (121) vs. Alabama (13-0), 4 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 31 Military Bowl Annapolis, Md. Cincinnati (10-2) vs. Virginia Tech (6-6), 8 a.m. (ESPN) Sun Bowl El Paso, Texas Stanford (8-4) vs. Pittsburgh (7-6), 10 a.m. (CBS) Redbox Bowl Santa Clara, Calif. Michigan State (7-5) vs. Oregon (8-4), 11 a.m. (FOX) Liberty Bowl Memphis, Tenn. Missouri (8-4) vs. Oklahoma State (6-6), 11:45 a.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl San Diego Northwestern (8-5) vs. Utah (9-4), 3 p.m. (FS1) Gator Bowl Jacksonville, Fla. NC State (9-3) vs. Texas A&M (84), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Jan. 1 Outback Bowl Tampa, Fla.

Mississippi State (8-4) vs. Iowa (8-4), 8 a.m. (ESPN2) Citrus Bowl Orlando, Fla. Kentucky (9-3) vs. Penn State (93), 9 a.m. (ABC) Fiesta Bowl Glendale, Ariz. LSU (9-3) vs. UCF (12-0), 9 a.m. (ESPN) Rose Bowl Pasadena, Calif. Washington (10-3) vs. Ohio State (12-1), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Sugar Bowl New Orleans Texas (9-4) vs. Georgia (11-2), 4:45 p.m. (ESPN) All Times AST

NFL Standings AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA y-New England 10 5 0 .667 398 322 Miami 7 8 0 .467 302 391 Buffalo 5 10 0 .333 227 357 N.Y. Jets 4 11 0 .267 330 403 South .667 382 313 x-Houston 10 5 0 Indianapolis 9 6 0 .600 400 327 Tennessee 9 6 0 .600 293 270 Jacksonville 5 10 0 .333 242 296 North 9 6 0 .600 363 263 Baltimore Pittsburgh 8 6 1 .567 412 347 Cleveland 7 7 1 .500 335 366 Cincinnati 6 9 0 .400 355 439 West .733 530 418 x-Kansas City 11 4 0 x-L.A. Chargers 11 4 0 .733 405 320 Denver 6 9 0 .400 320 326 Oakland 4 11 0 .267 287 432

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East 9 6 0 .600 303 289 8 7 0 .533 343 348 7 8 0 .467 281 335 5 10 0 .333 334 376 South y-New Orleans 13 2 0 .867 490 320 Atlanta 6 9 0 .400 380 391 Carolina 6 9 0 .400 343 368 Tampa Bay 5 10 0 .333 364 430 North 11 4 0 .733 397 273 y-Chicago Minnesota 8 6 1 .567 350 317 Green Bay 6 8 1 .433 376 369 Detroit 5 10 0 .333 293 360 West y-L.A. Rams 12 3 0 .800 479 352 x-Seattle 9 6 0 .600 401 323 San Francisco 4 11 0 .267 310 387 Arizona 3 12 0 .200 201 398 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division y-Dallas Philadelphia Washington N.Y. Giants

Sunday’s Games Miami at Buffalo, 9 a.m. Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 9 a.m. Jacksonville at Houston, 9 a.m. Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 9 a.m. Detroit at Green Bay, 9 a.m. N.Y. Jets at New England, 9 a.m. Carolina at New Orleans, 9 a.m. Arizona at Seattle, 12:25 p.m. L.A. Chargers at Denver, 12:25 p.m. Oakland at Kansas City, 12:25 p.m. San Francisco at L.A. Rams, 12:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 12:25 p.m. Chicago at Minnesota, 12:25 p.m. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 12:25 p.m. Cleveland at Baltimore, 12:25 p.m. Indianapolis at Tennessee, 4:20 p.m. All Times AST

transactions BASEBALL National League WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Anibal Sanchez on a two-year contract. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association ATLANTA HAWKS — Transferred G Jaylen Adams to Erie (NBAGL). CHICAGO BULLS — Signed G Brandon Sampson to a two-way contract. Waived G Tyler Ulis. NBA — Fined Orlando F-G Terrence Ross $25,000 for throwing a ball into the stands following a Dec. 26 game against Phoenix. FOOTBALL National Football League HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed LB Josh Keyes. NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed P Brock Miller to the practice squad. Placed TE Hakeem Valles on the practice squad/injured list. NEW YORK JETS — Placed TE Eric Tomlinson on injured reserve. Signed TE Clive Walford. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed DE Marcus Smith and DB Alex Carter. Placed QB Colt McCoy and TE Jordan Reed on injured reserve. HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled G Adin Hill and Fs Michael Bunting and Conor Garland from Tucson (AHL). PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Re-signed F Jake Guentzel to a five-year extension through the 2023-24 season. WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled D Tyler Lewington from Hershey (AHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer COLUMBUS CREW — Signed G Joe Bendik. PORTLAND TIMBERS — Acquired $250,000 in General Allocation Money from FC Cincinnati for D Alvas Powell and retain a percentage of the international transfer value on Powell. COLLEGE NCAA — Suspended Clemson DT Dexter Lawrence, OT Zach Giella and TE Braden Galloway from the Dec. 29 Cotton Bowl for failed tests for performance-enhancing drugs. Suspended Alabama G Deonte Brown, TE Kedrick James and OL Elliot Baker from the Dec. 29 Orange Bowl for NCAA violations. BARUCH — Named Joseph Braun softball coach. BELMONT — Named David Costa men’s soccer coach.

A look at some of Sunday’s biggest NFL games By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer

In a wild and crazy season, the biggest remaining tumult is in the AFC South. Houston leads and takes the division title by beating struggling Jacksonville. A Texans loss, however, gives the winner of the prime-time game between the Colts and Titans in Nashville the crown, dropping Houston into a wild card. “When you start off 0-3 and you’re sitting here at 10-5 with a chance to win the division on Sunday you’ve done a lot of good things over the course of those games since we were 0-3,” star defensive end J.J. Watt says. “But we have to make sure that we do what we need to do to make sure that doesn’t all go to waste.” There are two other AFC division crowns to settle, in the North and West, but at least the Chiefs and Chargers already are into the postseason. So while avoiding having to suit up next weekend — and the likelihood of having the conference’s best record — becomes paramount, Kansas City and Los Angeles both have a comfort zone. Baltimore and Pittsburgh do not. If the Ravens win at home over Cleveland, they take the North. If they lose and the Steelers defeat spiraling Cincinnati, Pittsburgh advances. The winner of the night game in Music City will, well, be making sweet music as a playoff qualifier. “We’re just blessed to be in this position to be playing for a playoff game, so that’s all the motivation that guys need,” Titans safety Kevin Byard says. “They’ll be motivated, we’ll be motivated. It’ll be a fun game.” Jacksonville (5-10) at Houston (10-5) Watt needs one-half sack to join Reggie White as the only players since 1982 with four or more seasons with 15 or more sacks. Watt has 4½ sacks and has forced three fumbles in the past four division games. On offense, Deshaun Watson had two touchdown passes and ran for two more scores last week in a loss at Philadelphia. He has nine touchdown passes

and no interceptions in his past four home games. Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles, who was benched after a loss to Buffalo on Nov. 25, will start, perhaps for the last time for Jacksonville. Bortles has 13 TD passes and 10 interceptions this season. Indianapolis (9-6) at Tennessee (9-6) Advantage Andrew Luck in this rivalry: he is 10-0 in his career starts vs. the Titans. He could become the only player since 1970 with an 11-0 mark against one team. Colts K Adam Vinatieri can break a tie with Jeff Feagles (352) for third-most games played in league history and can join George Blanda, Morten Andersen and John Carney as the only players to appear in a game at age 46. Titans QB Marcus Mariota is recovering from a stinger that knocked him out of the last game against Washington. Backup Blaine Gabbert has started twice and come off the bench in three other games this season for Mariota and fared relatively well.

But Tennessee’s route to Cleveland (7-7-1) at the playoffs likely is Derrick Baltimore (9-6) Henry toting the ball. Nobody has more yards rushing or TDs Cleveland certainly has lots in December than Henry, who of incentive, including a winhas 532 yards rushing and eight ning record after going 0-16 in TD runs. 2017, and making an emphatic statement about the work of inCincinnati (6-9) at terim coach Gregg Williams. Pittsburgh (8-6-1) That doesn’t likely trump the motivation of making the Pittsburgh has won 10 of the playoffs, especially in a season past 11 meetings with Bengals, with no overwhelming favorwhile the Bengals are 8-25 vs. ites. The Ravens are 9-1 against the Steelers under coach MarCleveland at home under John vin Lewis. But last year, the Harbaugh, who took over in Bengals won at Baltimore 312008. Ravens QB Lamar Jack27 in the final game, knocking son is 5-1 in his first six career the Ravens out of contention and giving a playoff berth to starts, tied for third-best start in Buffalo. Of course, those Ben- NFL history. RB Gus Edwards gals were a lot more healthy leads Baltimore with 642 yards than this injury-wrecked group. rushing, with Jackson second at Pittsburgh is hopeful Pro 605. Both are rookies. Bowl running back James Conner returns after a three-game absence (sprained left ankle). “It’s out of our control,” says guard David DeCastro. “You’re going to feel a lot worse than you do now if you were to go out there and see Baltimore lose and us lose, too. It’s definitely deflating, it’s been a long season. We’ve put forth a lot of effort.”

Philadelphia (8-7) at Washington (7-8) With last year’s hero, Nick Foles, taking over once more for an injured Carson Wentz, the Eagles have made a late playoffs push. They win here and Minnesota fails and the Eagles get a chance to defend their crown.

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Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Unikitty ‘Y7’ Gumball Gumball We Bare Teen Titans Teen Titans Gumball Gumball Total Drama Total Drama Craig Total Drama Teen Titans Teen Titans We Bare Total Drama Unikitty ‘Y7’ Gumball Gumball We Bare Teen Titans Teen Titans Gumball Gumball Total Drama Total Drama Craig Total Drama Teen Titans Go! ‘PG’ We Bare Total Drama Unikitty ‘Y7’ Gumball Gumball We Bare Teen Titans Teen Titans Gumball Gumball Total Drama Total Drama Craig Total Drama Teen Titans Teen Titans We Bare Total Drama Varied Programs “Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups” DuckTales Mickey Coop Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Jessie ‘G’ Liv-Mad. Cali Style Austin Austin Bizaardvark Bizaardvark Toy Story Mickey DuckTales Transylvania Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Coop Coop Stuck in the Middle ‘G’ Bizaardvark Bizaardvark Liv-Mad. Cali Style K.C. Under. K.C. Under. Puppy Pals Puppy Pals DuckTales Big City Coop Coop Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Jessie ‘G’ Jessie ‘G’ Jessie ‘G’ Stuck Stuck Stuck Puppy Pals Puppy Pals DuckTales Big City Raven Raven Raven Raven Coop Coop Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Jessie ‘G’ Jessie ‘G’ Jessie ‘G’ Puppy Pals Puppy Pals DuckTales Big City Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Raven Raven Raven Stuck in the Middle ‘G’ Bizaardvark Bizaardvark Bizaardvark New Year Peppa Pig Team Umiz. Bubble Bubble Top Wing PAW Patrol PAW Patrol Butterbean PAW Patrol Blaze PAW Patrol SpongeBob SquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants ‘Y7’ Peppa Pig Team Umiz. Bubble Bubble Top Wing PAW Patrol PAW Patrol Butterbean PAW Patrol Blaze PAW Patrol “Albert” (2016, Children’s) SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water” PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol “The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie” SpongeBob PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob (6:30) Movie 700 Club The 700 Club Movie Varied Programs Say Yes to the Dress Say Yes to the Dress Say Yes to the Dress ‘G’ My Crazy Obsession ‘PG’ Invasion: Lights Invasion of Cmas Lights Extreme Christmas Trees Extreme Extreme Invasion: Lights Lottery Changed My Life Lottery Changed My Life Lottery Changed My Life Lottery Changed My Life Untold Stories of the E.R. Untold Stories of the E.R. Untold Stories of the E.R. Hoarding: Buried Alive Hoarding: Buried Alive Hoarding: Buried Alive Hoarding: Buried Alive My 600-Lb. Life “Renee’s Story” ‘PG’ My 600-Lb. Life ‘PG’ My 600-Lb. Life ‘PG’ Pregnant Pregnant Pregnant Pregnant Family by the Ton ‘14’ Family by the Ton ‘14’ Family by the Ton ‘14’ Family by the Ton ‘14’ Family by the Ton ‘14’ Family by the Ton ‘14’ American Gypsy Wedding American Gypsy Wedding American Gypsy Wedding American Gypsy Wedding American Gypsy Wedding American Gypsy Wedding Four Weddings ‘PG’ Four Weddings ‘PG’

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Good Morning America The View The Doctors Varied Channel 2 Morning Ed Dateline ‘PG’ Providence Providence (7:00) CBS This Morning Let’s Make a Deal ‘PG’ The Price Is Right ‘G’ Hatchett The People’s Court ‘PG’ Judge Mathis ‘PG’ The Real ‘PG’ (7:00) Today ‘G’ Today Third Hour ‘G’ Today-Kathie Lee & Hoda Go Luna Daniel Tiger Daniel Tiger Pinkalicious Sesame St. Splash

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ABC World News

Jeopardy! (N) ‘G’

How I Met Your Mother ‘PG’ CBS Evening News Funny You Should Ask ‘PG’ NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt Nightly Business Report ‘G’

Last Man Last Man CSI: Miami “See No Evil” A CSI: Miami “Manhunt” Hora- Dateline ‘PG’ DailyMailTV Standing ‘PG’ Standing ‘PG’ blind man hears a girl’s abtio’s wife’s killer escapes. ‘14’ duction. ‘14’ KTVA 6 p.m. Evening News Garth: Live at Notre Dame! Performance at Notre Dame Blue Bloods A journalist goes KTVA NightStadium. ‘PG’ missing. ‘14’ cast The Big Bang The Big Bang Last Man The Cool Hell’s Kitchen The chefs Fox 4 News at 9 (N) TMZ ‘PG’ Theory ‘14’ Theory ‘PG’ Standing ‘PG’ Kids “TV must prepare Chinese dishes. Heist” ‘14’ ‘14’ Channel 2 Newshour (N) Midnight, Texas “Yasss, Dateline NBC (N) ‘PG’ Channel 2 Queen” Dark witches now rule News: Late over Midnight. (N) ‘14’ Edition (N) PBS NewsHour (N) Washington Alaska InGreat Performances “Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at TangleWeek (N) sight wood” A concert celebrates Leonard Bernstein. (N) ‘G’

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Impractical Jokers ‘14’

Pawn Stars ‘PG’

(:35) The Late Show With James CorStephen Colbert ‘PG’ den TMZ ‘PG’ Entertainment Two and a Tonight Half Men ‘14’ (:34) The Tonight Show Star- (:37) Late ring Jimmy Fallon ‘14’ Night With Seth Meyers Opera Amanpour and Company (N) Reimagined: Animating

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(3:00) “Full Metal Jacket” (1987, War) Mat- “Full Metal Jacket” (1987, War) Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin. Stanley Married ... Married ... Married ... Married ... How I Met How I Met Elementary “A Study in Char (8) WGN-A 239 307 thew Modine, Adam Baldwin. Kubrick’s harrowing portrait of the Vietnam War. With With With With Your Mother Your Mother lotte” ‘14’ (3:00) LOGO by Lori GoldPeace Love World - Fashion Nonstop Style “LOGO” Hottest fashions and accessories. MicrodermMD MicrodermMally: Color Cosmetics (N) La-Z-Boy (N) (Live) ‘G’ Beauty We Love Featuring (20) QVC 137 317 stein (N) (Live) ‘G’ (N) (Live) ‘G’ (N) (Live) ‘G’ abrasion System (N) ‘G’ (Live) ‘G’ Guerlain Fragrances (3:00) “The Stepfather” “Sleeping With the Enemy” (1991, Suspense) Julia Roberts, “Enough” (2002, Suspense) Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Juliette Lewis. A (:33) “Killer Mom” (2017, Suspense) Karen (:01) “Enough” (2002, SusPatrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson. A woman takes drastic mea- woman takes her daughter and flees her abusive husband. Cliche. A mother will do anything to get her pense) Jennifer Lopez, Billy (23) LIFE 108 252 (2009, Suspense) Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward. sures to flee her abusive husband. daughter’s inheritance. ‘14’ Campbell. Law & Order: Special VicLaw & Order: Special VicLaw & Order: Special VicLaw & Order: Special VicLaw & Order: Special VicLaw & Order: Special VicModern Fam- Modern Fam- Modern Fam- Modern Fam (28) USA 105 242 tims Unit ‘14’ tims Unit “Lead” ‘14’ tims Unit “Ballerina” ‘14’ tims Unit “Selfish” ‘14’ tims Unit ‘14’ tims Unit ‘14’ ily ‘PG’ ily ‘PG’ ily ‘PG’ ily ‘PG’ American Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Bob’s Burg- Bob’s Burg- “Captain America: Civil War” (2016, Action) Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Jo- ELEAGUE Rocket League “National Security” (2003, ‘14’ ‘PG’ ‘14’ ers ‘PG’ ers ‘PG’ hansson. Captain America clashes with Iron Man. 2018: Grand Final. (N Same- Comedy) Martin Lawrence, (30) TBS 139 247 Dad ‘14’ day Tape) ‘14’ Steve Zahn, Colm Feore. Bones Brennan assaults a Bones A killer interacts with Bones A murder suspect has “Blended” (2014, Romance-Comedy) Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore. Two “Kindergarten Cop” (1990) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller. A (31) TNT 138 245 person of interest. ‘14’ victims’ bodies. ‘14’ ties to Booth. ‘14’ single-parent families are stuck together at a resort. two-fisted L.A. cop poses as a kindergarten teacher. College Foot- Football College Football Valero Alamo Bowl -- Iowa State vs Washington State. (N) (Live) SportsCenter SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) College Football (34) ESPN 140 206 ball Scoreboard (N) College Basketball IllinoisThe 2018 Outback Bowl SportsCenter SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter College Football Academy Sports & Outdoors Texas Bowl -- Baylor vs SportsCenter (35) ESPN2 144 209 Chicago at Wright State. Dominant 20 (N) Vanderbilt. (Taped) (3:30) PBA Bowling PBA College Basketball North Alabama at Gonzaga. From McCollege Basketball Missouri-Kansas City at Creighton. From Pro Football Seahawks College Basketball North Alabama at Gonzaga. From Mc (36) ROOT 426 687 Clash. (Taped) Carthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Wash. (N) CHI Health Center in Omaha, Neb. Weekly ‘G’ Press Pass Carthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Wash. (2:30) “The Hangover Part II” “Dirty Grandpa” (2016, Comedy) Robert De Niro, Zac Efron, Aubrey Plaza. “The Hangover Part II” (2011, Comedy) Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms. Phil, “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” (2006) Will (38) PARMT 241 241 (2011) Bradley Cooper. A lawyer brings his foulmouthed grandfather to spring break. Stu, Alan and Doug head to Thailand for Stu’s wedding. Ferrell. A NASCAR driver has a new rival. “The Notebook” (2004, Romance) Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner. A man “Cast Away” (2000, Drama) Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy. A courier company exDietland “Pilot” Plum makes (:01) Dietland “Tender Belly” (43) AMC 131 254 tells a story to a woman about two lovers. ecutive is marooned on a remote island. risky choices. ‘14’ ‘14’ World of World of American American Bob’s Burg- Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Joe Pera Eagleheart The Shivering Bob’s Burg- Family Guy Family Guy Joe Pera Black Jesus (46) TOON 176 296 Gumball Gumball Dad ‘14’ Dad ‘14’ ers ‘PG’ ‘14’ ‘14’ ‘14’ Talks w/You ‘14’ Truth ers ‘PG’ ‘14’ ‘14’ Talks w/You ‘MA’ Tanked “Healing Garden Wa- Tanked Chocolate factory Tanked ‘PG’ Tanked: Unfiltered “Napping (:01) Tanked (N) ‘PG’ (:02) Tanked: Superstar Mu- (:02) Tanked “Spin Cycle Tanked Tracy Morgan’s huge (47) ANPL 184 282 terfall” ‘PG’ wants a holiday tank. ‘PG’ With the Fishes” ‘PG’ sicians (N) ‘PG’ Spec-Tank-ular!” ‘PG’ shark aquarium. ‘PG’ Star New Coop & Cami Coop & Cami Raven’s Raven’s Raven’s “The Good Dinosaur” (2015) Voices of Jef- Coop & Cami Coop & Cami Raven’s Raven’s Andi Mack ‘G’ Bizaardvark Bizaardvark (49) DISN 173 291 Year Home ‘G’ Home ‘G’ Home ‘G’ frey Wright, Frances McDormand. Home ‘G’ Home ‘G’ ‘G’ ‘G’ The Loud The Loud The Loud The Loud Henry DanHenry DanSpongeBob SpongeBob “Cheaper by the Dozen 2” (2005) Steve Martin, Bonnie Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ (50) NICK 171 300 House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ ger ‘G’ ger ‘G’ Hunt. The Bakers’ vacation turns competitive. (2:35) “Mon- (:40) “Ratatouille” (2007, Children’s) Voices of Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano. Ani- (:20) “The Incredibles” (2004, Children’s) Voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly The 700 Club “Life-Size 2: A Christmas (51) FREE 180 311 sters, Inc.” mated. A French rat enjoys good food and longs to become a chef. Hunter. Animated. A former superhero gets back into action. Eve” (2018) Tyra Banks. Four Weddings RainbowFour Weddings “... And a Nail Four Weddings “... And a 90 Day Fiancé “Extended: Episode 10” (N) ‘PG’ 90 Day Fiancé My Strange My Strange 90 Day Fiancé 90 Day Fiancé “Extended: (55) TLC 183 280 hued dresses. ‘PG’ in the Head” ‘PG’ Mouthful of Blue” ‘PG’ ‘PG’ Addiction Addiction ‘PG’ Episode 10” ‘PG’ Gold Rush Torrential rains hit Gold Rush Rick starts running Gold Rush “Father’s Day” ‘14’ Gold Rush: Pay Dirt “The Gold Rush: The Dirt “SPX (:01) Gold Rush: White Wa- (:02) Gold Rush The Dakota Gold Rush: Pay Dirt “The (56) DISC 182 278 the Klondike. ‘14’ night shifts. ‘14’ Resurrection” (N) ‘PG’ 1” (N) ‘PG’ ter (N) ‘G’ boys look back. ‘PG’ Resurrection” ‘PG’ Ghost Adventures “Wester- Ghost Adventures “Asylum Ghost Adventures “The Viper Ghost Adventures ‘PG’ Ghost Adventures “Inns of the Dead” A demon lurks beneath Ghost Adventures “The Alley Ghost Adventures “Inns of (57) TRAV 196 277 feld House” ‘PG’ 49” ‘PG’ Room” ‘PG’ an inn. (N) ‘PG’ of Darkness” ‘PG’ the Dead” ‘PG’ Ancient Aliens Ancient archi- Ancient Aliens “Voices of the Ancient Aliens “Aliens in Ancient Aliens “Shiva the (:02) Ancient Aliens “The Sci- (:05) Ancient Aliens “Aliens & (:05) Ancient Aliens “The (:03) Ancient Aliens ‘PG’ (58) HIST 120 269 tectural marvels. ‘PG’ Gods” ‘PG’ America” ‘14’ Destroyer” ‘PG’ ence Wars” ‘PG’ Superheroes” ‘PG’ Von Daniken Legacy” ‘PG’ Live PD “Live PD -- 12.01.17” Riding along with law enforcement. ‘14’ Live PD: Rewind “Live PD: Live PD “Live PD -- 01.06.18” Riding along with law enforcement. (N Same-day Tape) ‘14’ Live PD: Rewind “Live PD: Rewind No. 176” (N) ‘14’ Rewind No. 176” ‘14’ (59) A&E 118 265 (60) HGTV (61) FOOD (65) CNBC (67) FNC (81) COM (82) SYFY

Love It or List It “Urban vs. Dream Home Dream Home Dream Home Dream Home Dream Home Dream Home Dream Home Dream Home House Hunt- Hunters Int’l House Hunt- Hunters Int’l Dream Home Dream Home 112 229 Suburban Living” ‘PG’ ers Family ers ‘G’ Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive 110 231 Deal or No Deal “It Takes 208 355 Two” ‘G’ Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) 205 360

Shark Tank Franchised art studios. ‘14’ Hannity (N) Fox News at Night with Shannon Bream (N) (:15) South Park ‘14’ (:15) South Park “Time to Get (5:50) South (:25) South South Park South Park 107 249 Cereal” ‘14’ Park ‘14’ Park ‘14’ ‘14’ ‘14’ (2:05) “Enemy of the State” (:04) “Need for Speed” (2014, Action) Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots. A street122 244 (1998) Will Smith. car racer wants revenge on a treacherous rival.

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Deal or No Deal ‘G’

Shark Tank An entrepreneur refuses an offer. ‘14’ The Ingraham Angle (N)

Shark Tank Guest Shark Nick Shark Tank ‘PG’ Woodman. ‘PG’ Tucker Carlson Tonight Hannity South Park South Park ‘14’ ‘MA’ Z Nation Our heroes break into Altura. (N) ‘14’

Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program ‘G’ ‘G’ ‘G’ ‘G’ The Ingraham Angle Fox News at Night with Shannon Bream South Park South Park South Park South Park South Park (:35) South ‘MA’ ‘MA’ ‘MA’ ‘14’ ‘14’ Park ‘14’ Van Helsing Julius fights the Z Nation Our heroes break Futurama Futurama Sisterhood. (N) ‘14’ into Altura. ‘14’ ‘PG’ ‘PG’

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(3:40) “Isle of Dogs” (2018, Comedy) Voices (:40) “Rampage” (2018, Action) Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Sally4Ever (:10) “Dances With Wolves” (1990, Historical Drama) Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Gra- (:15) “Tomb Raider” (2018, of Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton. ‘PG-13’ Harris, Malin Akerman. Three giant, mutated beasts embark ‘MA’ ham Greene. A Union officer befriends the Lakota. ‘PG-13’ Adventure) Alicia Vikander. on a path of destruction. ‘PG-13’ ‘PG-13’ (3:38) Game (:32) Game of Thrones Dany Game of Thrones A wedding (:27) Game of Thrones Robb (:18) Game of Thrones (:21) Sally“Wonder Woman” (2017, Action) Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen. (:25) “Justice of Thrones exchanges gifts with a slave is held at King’s Landing. ‘MA’ presents himself to Walder “Mhysa” Joffrey challenges 4Ever ‘MA’ Wonder Woman discovers her full powers and true destiny. ‘PG-13’ League” ‘MA’ lord. ‘MA’ Frey. ‘MA’ Tywin. ‘MA’ (3:05) “In the Valley of (:10) “The Bourne Supremacy” (2004, Action) Matt Damon, “Arizona” (2018, Comedy) Danny McBride, (:25) “MacGruber” (2010, Comedy) Will “X2” (2003, Action) Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian Elah” (2007) Tommy Lee Franka Potente. Jason Bourne fights back when the CIA tries Luke Wilson. A disgruntled client kidnaps a Forte. A clueless soldier-of-fortune must find a McKellen. A power-mad militarist pursues the mutants. ‘PGJones. ‘R’ to kill him. ‘PG-13’ real estate agent. ‘NR’ stolen nuke. ‘R’ 13’ (:15) “Daddy’s Little Girls” (2007, Romance) Gabrielle “The Death of Stalin” (2017, Comedy) Steve Buscemi, “Baby Driver” (2017, Action) Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, “Pimp” (2018, Crime Drama) Keke Palmer. A Escape at Union, Idris Elba. A poor mechanic and an attorney share an Andrea Riseborough. A power struggle ensues when dictator Lily James. A doomed heist threatens the life of a young female pimp in the Bronx, N.Y., dreams of a Dannemora unexpected romance. ‘PG-13’ Joseph Stalin dies. ‘R’ getaway driver. ‘R’ better life. ‘NR’ ‘MA’ (3:05) “Cradle (:45) “Queen of the Desert” (2015, Biography) Nicole Kidman, James “The Cider House Rules” (1999, Drama) Tobey Maguire, (:10) “Extraordinary Measures” (2010, Drama) Brendan “Witness” (1985, Crime of ChampiFranco, Robert Pattinson. A history of Gertrude Bell’s life. ‘PG-13’ Charlize Theron. Trained in medicine, an orphaned man Fraser, Harrison Ford, Keri Russell. Two men join forces to Drama) Harrison Ford, Kelly ons” seeks another path. ‘PG-13’ develop a life-saving drug. ‘PG’ McGillis. ‘R’

December 23 - 29, 2018

Clarion TV

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College Football Belk Bowl -- South Carolina vs Virginia. (N) (Live)

World of X Games (N)

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1:30

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Xploration Xploration Outer Space Weird but (N) ‘PG’ True ‘PG’ Animal Res- Dog Tales ‘G’ cue ‘G’ To Be Announced

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Consumer 101 “First Class” ‘G’ Let’s Go Luna! ‘Y’

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139 247

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Wild America Career Day ‘G’ ‘G’

Sports Stars Laura McKen- Pets.TV ‘G’ Exploration of Tomorrow zie’s Traveler W/Jarod (N) ‘G’ Miller “Larger Than Life” (1996, Comedy) Bill Murray. Motivational Wild America Mantracker speaker treks cross-country with elephant. ‘G’ ‘PG’ To Be Announced

Premier League Soccer Liverpool FC vs Arsenal FC. From Anfield in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. (N) (Live) Nature Cat ‘Y’ Ready Jet Go! ‘Y’

Wild Kratts “Sloth Bear Suction” ‘Y’

Premier League Goal Zone (N) ‘G’

Wonderama ‘G’

Best Movies of 2018 ‘G’

Outdoor America

2:30 ABC World News

Outdoor America

3 PM

3:30

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Outdoor America

Wipeout “Totally, Totally Inappropriate” Unbalanced Beams; Spinner. ‘PG’ 2018 XTERRA Pan American Paid Program The James Designing Homes & Championship ‘G’ Brown Show Spaces ‘PG’ Estates

To Be Announced

The Men in Dew Tour ‘PG’ Blazers Show ‘G’

FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup: Men’s Super-G. From Bormio, Italy.

Paid Program Naturally, Vets Saving ‘G’ Danny Seo ‘G’ Pets ‘G’

The Champion Within ‘G’

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M*A*S*H ‘PG’ M*A*S*H ‘PG’ M*A*S*H ‘PG’ M*A*S*H ‘PG’ M*A*S*H ‘PG’ M*A*S*H ‘PG’ M*A*S*H ‘PG’ M*A*S*H ‘PG’ M*A*S*H ‘PG’ M*A*S*H ‘PG’ M*A*S*H ‘PG’ M*A*S*H ‘PG’ Blue Bloods Erin needs a Blue Bloods “In the Box” ‘14’ mob informant’s help. ‘14’ (6:00) Saturday Morning Q (N) (Live) ‘G’ EV Rider Easy Move Folding MicrodermMD MicrodermDooney & Bourke (N) (Live) ‘G’ Perricone MD Skincare (N) MicrodermMD MicrodermTravel Scooter (N) abrasion System (N) ‘G’ (Live) ‘G’ abrasion System (N) ‘G’ Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program “The Good Nanny” (2017, Suspense) Briana “Boyfriend Killer” (2017) Barbie Castro, “Bad Tutor” (2018, Suspense) Vanessa Marcil, Alex Frnka, “Sinister Minister” (2017) ‘G’ ‘G’ ‘G’ ‘G’ Evigan. A nanny begins to suspect her emPatrick Muldoon. A woman suspects her son’s Charles Hittinger. A tutor becomes dangerously obsessed Nikki Alexis Howard, Rachel ployers of something dark. girlfriend planned his death. with a high school student. ‘14’ G. Whittle. ‘14’ NCIS A Navy public affairs of- NCIS An M16 officer is linked NCIS “Pay to Play” ‘PG’ NCIS An undercover operation NCIS The team investigates a NCIS “Nonstop” A petty officer NCIS Abby is found to posNCIS “Twofer” ‘PG’ ficer is killed. ‘PG’ to a murder. ‘14’ is compromised. ‘14’ hit-and-run. ‘14’ is murdered. ‘PG’ sess a real bomb. ‘PG’ Seinfeld “The Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ “Twins” (1988, Comedy) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Pres- “Kindergarten Cop” (1990, Comedy) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope “Money Talks” (1997, ComCafe” ‘PG’ ton. A genetically enhanced man seeks his shortchanged twin. Ann Miller, Pamela Reed. A two-fisted L.A. cop poses as a kindergarten edy) Chris Tucker, Charlie teacher. Sheen. NCIS: New Orleans “Follow NCIS: New Orleans “Let It “Kindergarten Cop” (1990) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller. A “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters” (2013, Children’s) Logan (:45) “Sky High” (2005, Children’s) Michael the Money” ‘14’ Ride” ‘14’ two-fisted L.A. cop poses as a kindergarten teacher. Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson. Angarano, Kurt Russell. Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Florida vs Michigan. (N) (Live) Bowl Game Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic Notre Dame vs Clemson. (N) (Live) Bowl Game

College Basketball Davidson at North Carolina. From the College Basketball Kentucky at Louisville. From the KFC (:10) College Football Playoff Bowl: Teams TBA. (N) (Live) Bowl Game (35) ESPN2 144 209 Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. (N) Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky. (N) (Live) Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program College Basketball Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at Oklahoma College Basketball Campbell at Miami. From Watsco Center WCC AllGraham PBA Bowling PBA Clash. (36) ROOT 426 687 ‘G’ ‘G’ ‘G’ ‘G’ State. (N) (Live) in Coral Gables, Fla. (N) (Live) Access Bensinger From Conroe, Texas. “Spaceballs” (1987) Mel Brooks, John Candy. Mel Brooks’ (:03) “Dumb & Dumber” (1994, Comedy) Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels. Two wit- (:31) “The Waterboy” (1998, Comedy) Adam Sandler. A (:33) “Wedding Crashers” (2005, Comedy) (38) PARMT 241 241 big-budget sendup of science-fiction movies. less wonders take a cash-laden briefcase to Aspen. simpleton’s angry outbursts lead to gridiron glory. 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Man without a romantic bone in his body irks his girlfriend DEAR ABBY: My friend who was suddenly widowed two years ago continues to insert her late husband into every conversation with friends and strangers alike. She’s still depressed, grieving and searching for significance, and she shares it all in person and online. Early on, she had counseling but no longer feels it necessary. She claims it Abigail Van Buren helps her to talk about him constantly. Most of us close to her avoid the elephant in the room. I find myself apologizing for her in group gatherings I take her to. People try to offer sympathy, but are surprised when they realize he’s been gone two years. I endure with love, but wonder if this is the best path. Personally, I want to let him rest in peace. But that’s hard when he’s always “in the room.” Advice? -- WANTING TO MOVE FORWARD DEAR WANTING: Everyone grieves in their own way and on their own timetable. However, your friend may need more support and coun-

seling than you and others she meets socially can offer. She has my sympathy, but that deeply grieving woman needs to hear what you have written to me. Tell her, as kindly as possible, that she needs to vent to a professional so she can get more help through this difficult period. DEAR ABBY: A male family friend who is gay works at a local business my wife and I patronize regularly. We always stop and chat when he’s there, but he does something that irritates me. He addresses my wife as “Sweetie.” My wife thinks I’m being silly because he’s gay; I say one’s sexual orientation doesn’t negate manners and how one man should address another man’s wife. I’m not annoyed to the point that I’d confront the guy, but I promised my wife I’d ask you your opinion. -- BOTHERED IN NEW YORK DEAR BOTHERED: There is nothing rude about a family friend -- gay or straight -- calling someone’s wife “Sweetie.” My opinion is you should lighten up. 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 Friday, Dec. 28, 2018: This year you experience a willingness to take charge. Others respond well to you. If you are willing to move ahead and learn more in your field, a promotion or pay raise could be a possibility. If you are single, you have many choices to make. During the next 12 months, you might want to do some soul-searching about what type of relationship you desire. If you are attached, this year is very romantic. You and your partner cannot seem to get enough time together. LIBRA often gets impatient with you. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH In the morning, you might be more argumentative than you realize. You easily could give someone a piece of your mind. If you want a job done your way, you might need to do it yourself. By midafternoon, you feel a difference. Tonight: At a favorite restaurant. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Get an early start on your day. You might hit an obstacle, but you will bypass it more quickly than you had anticipated. Clear up a disagreement soon, before it becomes worse. Emphasize the positives of your interactions with the other party involved. Tonight: Out with friends. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You could be tired of the holidays and want a change of pace. You do not need to start an argument just to create some excitement; it will happen anyway. By midafternoon, a loved one or potential sweetie drops

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in on you. Go with the flow. Tonight: Celebrate the weekend in style. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Speak your mind, but make sure that your words are not fighting ones. Otherwise, you could hit a problem. You want the other party to hear your message and not get triggered. Later in the day, you might decide to call it early. Tonight: A good time is had by all. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Your ability to move through a problem allows you greater flexibility and contentment. You do not see a situation in the same light that others do. If another party becomes combative, you might choose not to react. Schedule a late lunch; it might go on for hours! Tonight: Out late. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Throughout the week you have perked up considerably; however, someone appears to have an issue with you. Remember that you do not need to react. Accept an invitation to join friends later in the day. All of you have a lot of news to share. Tonight: Let the chatter continue. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH In the morning, you might feel off. You likely will need to clear the air. At first, you could be upset by all the arguing. Later, however, a resolution will help you to calm down. Your mood will be much more upbeat as a result. You can tackle nearly anything. Tonight: Out on the town. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH You could be out with friends or in a meeting at work as you hear an argument start from out of the blue. As you listen to what is being discussed, you are likely to gain a new

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understanding of the parties involved. Tonight: Head home early -- you need some R and R. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH You might find that a boss is being fussy and difficult. Just hang in there. Still, you might find that someone is trying to start an argument around you. It is your call whether you want to get involved. Make plans to be with friends or someone special. Tonight: Swap holiday tales. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH You might want to share more of your vision of what could happen if you were to free yourself up. You could find that a loved one is threatened by what you share, and you might need to talk through this problem together. Both of you will be happier if you do. Tonight: Say “yes.” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH If you are not careful, you could make a big problem for yourself. Deal with a loved one directly. You have a way about you that draws many people toward you. There can be an element of jealousy around you at times. Try to look at the big picture. Tonight: As you like it. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You could be too tired to continue at this present pace. Someone close to you is likely to push your buttons in an attempt to get you energized. Be aware of what this person is doing. Make time for a one-on-one conversation later in the day. Tonight: TGIF with a special friend. BORN TODAY Comedian Seth Meyers (1973), singer/songwriter John Legend (1978), actor Denzel Washington (1954)

A traveling ID? Dear Heloise: Travel has changed dramatically over the past 20 years. Now more than ever, scams are ruining a travel experience for people. One of the worst scams is IDENTITY THEFT. Before you hand over your hard-earned money, check that the travel website URL has a small lock within the search bar. The URL needs to start with “https://” -- an “s” must be at the end. Booking with a secure website adds a little peace of mind to your trip. The absence of a secure website should be a red flag to warn you that you might not be working with a legitimate agency. -- Kathleen A. in Atlanta SOGGY BOTTOM BLUES Dear Heloise: When I make a peach cobbler, I use a ready-made pie crust, but I’m a little disappointed, because the bottom crusts come out uncooked. The top is fine, but I’m not happy with the bottom crust. Someone said to put it on the bottom rack. -- Amy R., Anaheim, Calif. Amy, here are some things you can do: Blind bake: This involves baking the crust before putting the filling in (sometimes covering the pie shell with parchment or foil), or partially baking the crust and finishing up the baking process when you add the filling and top. Use weights on the bottom so the crust doesn’t bubble up. Brush with egg whites: Brush the bottom of an uncooked pie shell with a little egg white mixed with water before adding the filling. As the pie bakes, the egg white proteins will form a moisture barrier. Brush with chocolate: Brush the bottom with melted chocolate and let it sit before adding the filling. This also can add another layer of flavor to your cobblers or pies. Bake on a hot baking sheet: Set the temperature of the oven and put a baking sheet in for about 15 minutes, then place your pie on the hot baking sheet. -- Heloise

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DEAR ABBY: I am 25 and have been with my boyfriend on and off for five years. I love him very much. I often overthink things, and a constant frustration of mine is that he makes no romantic gestures at all. He drowns me in compliments and shows his love in other ways. I always have to take the initiative and suggest he do romantic things like send me cards or flowers, take me to dinner, etc., but he only does them when I ask. It doesn’t feel like enough for me. I worry that when we get married, over time I will grow bored or no longer be attracted to him because he is so unromantic. Am I just overthinking? What should I do? -- ROMANTIC ONE IN AUSTIN DEAR ROMANTIC: From what you have written it seems that you may be more in love with the idea of romantic gestures than you are with the man you have. Many women would be thrilled to have someone who drowns them with compliments and shows his love in other ways. If you are truly worried that you will be bored if you marry him or -- worse -- turned off, then please, turn him loose so he can find someone who appreciates him for who he is, and you can meet someone who will make your dreams come true.

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have a large economic impact on Southeast. “More taxpayer-subsidized logging won’t create many jobs or help Southeast Alaska transition to a sustainable economy,” Lavin said in a statement, “but will threaten wildlife such as the Alexander Archipelago wolf, Sitka black-tailed deer and

northern flying squirrel.” The timber industry currently accounts for less than 1 percent of jobs in the region, according to the annual Southeast by the Numbers report from Southeast Conference. The Alexander Archipelago wolves, which can only be found in Southeast Alaska, were

once feared to be endangered. Numbers dropped to 89 animals in 2014, but population levels have stabled since then. In 2016, wildlife managers estimated that 231 wolves lived on Prince of Wales Island. The wolves rely on the Sitka black-tailed deer for food. This project comes at a time

when state and federal officials are looking to change regulations relating to construction in Alaska’s forests. The 2001 Roadless Rule blocks construction of new roads on areas including millions of acres of the Tongass, and the State of Alaska and the Forest Service have been in talks about adapting the

rule since this summer. Environmental groups recently scored a win in a decadelong legal battle with the Forest Service. In early December, a federal court invalidated four logging projects in the Tongass that would have cut about 33 million board feet of timber from old-growth forest.

tional Wildlife Refuge will be allowed to continue, but no visitor’s services will be availContinued from page A1 able and the refuge warns that entrance into the refuge will be furloughs can’t take any vaca- at the risk of the visitor. tion or sick days. Both Lake Clark National Locally, a handful of federal Park and Kenai Fjords Nationentities will be closed and un- al Park remain accessible to available. visitors, however, access may Activity on the Kenai Na-

change without notice and current conditions will not be updated. Visitors should enter at their own risk. The Kenai office for the United States Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is closed due to the partial government shutdown, according to their office voicemail.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office in Soldotna and the Women Infants and Children office in Kenai are both unaffected by the partial government shutdown. The shutdown will likely extend into next week. The House and Senate gaveled in for a perfunctory session Thursday

but quickly adjourned without action. No votes are expected until next week. Lawmakers are mostly away for the holidays and will be given 24-hour notice to return, with Republican senators saying they won’t vote until all parties, including Trump, agree to a deal. Although furloughed fed-

eral workers have been given back pay in previous shutdowns, it’s not guaranteed. The Senate passed a bill last week to make sure workers will be paid. The House will probably follow suit.

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the season, leaving the U.S and Canadians to set their own limits based on the previous year’s quotas. By regulation if the parties cannot agree then the previous year’s quotas stay in place, but both sides did agree that the quotas needed to come down from a conservation standpoint. The season opened as scheduled on March 24, at least two weeks later than recent start dates, and early pre-season reports had the quota for Alaska waters anticipated to drop by as much as 22 percent; however, when the final ruling came out

only four days before the season opening, quotas coastwide dropped by 10 percent on average, with some areas down more than others. In addition to lower quotas, halibut fishermen saw lower prices all season long, as an eastern Canadian halibut fishery took a bite out of the East Coast market, dropping dock prices in Alaska by as much as $2 per pound in most cases from the previous year. The Sitka Sound herring season fell 8,202 tons short of the 11,128 ton quota, mostly due to fish that were too small for

market requirements and some unusual spawning behavior, but the Togiak seine fishery caught nearly all of their 16,829 ton herring quota. Salmon season brought little comfort for most of the state, with Bristol Bay sockeye being the only real bright spot with a record run of 62.3 million fish and an ex-vessel price that was 142 percent above the most recent 20-year average. Other areas did not fare so well. Chignik did not have a single seine opening, and statewide harvests fell 31 percent below the preseason forecasts.

Run timing complicated things in other areas, such as in Upper Cook Inlet, where over half of the Kenai River sockeye run came in August, only the second time that has happened; Copper River sockeye returned in three distinct pulses, the third coming in mid-July; and even in Bristol Bay things were wacky, with the Kvichak River run peaking 10 days later than normal. As boats headed back to the Bering Sea for the fall Bristol Bay red king crab fishery opening October 15, they faced a quota that was down 35 percent

from last season, at 4.3 million pounds. Last season was already the smallest quota since 1985. Biologists had expected the spring survey to show reduced stocks, but the drop was even greater than anticipated. However, when the fleet heads back out after the Christmas break to start on the opilio crab quota, they will be working on a quota that is up 45 percent, at 27.6 million pounds.

Wimberly said it was known Goldbelt was awarded the contract a week ago Monday, but the news was officially announced in a Thursday press release. “It was 26 months from the first request for proposal to award,” Wimberly said. “In that 26 month period, there was a down select about a year in. It was down selected from 35 to eight companies. From that point on, there were 14 amendments to this contract. We had to revamp our proposal 14 different times. The end proposal ended up being about 500 pages long. It was a lot of anxiety and a lot of sleepless nights on

our team’s effort. It’s great that we were able to land this.” An additional 400 employees are expected to be added as a result of the contract, Wimberly said. Also, some of those employees may already be working in human resources for the Army and will be hired by Goldbelt. None of the employees are likely to work in Juneau, but some of the employees may come from Juneau. Goldbelt has about 3,700 shareholders. “We do have a shareholder hire policy, when a shareholder meets the qualifications for the job, they have the right of first refusal, but they would have to

move to the location of the job,” Wimberly said. Goldbelt also recruits and advertises positions to shareholders, Wimberly said. While hundreds of new jobs may not be created in Juneau, Wimberly said the impact of the contract will be felt locally. “It will mean profits to Goldbelt Inc. to allow Goldbelt Inc. to return dividends to its shareholders and invest in the community,” Wimberly said. “I think the real work now begins. There was a lot of work getting to this point, but then hiring 400 people and making sure we’re providing the services over and above what the Army expects will be a

challenge. We’re ready to stand tall and meet the challenge.” The news continues a trend of financial growth for Goldbelt. As of earlier this year, Goldbelt had more than doubled in size in just six years: Its 2011 annual report showed revenues of $135.2 million; Goldbelt grew to a $229 million corporation in July. That revenue total was three-quarters the size of Sealaska Corp., the regional Alaska Native corporation for Southeast Alaska, which had $293 million in revenue last year. Pierre said an additional $150 million of revenue for Goldbelt would significantly change

those figures. “When you compare us to other Native corporations, we don’t receive any revenue sharing money,” Pierre said Thursday. “We have what we make from our businesses, and that’s revenue through our businesses every year.” According to the July report, 96 percent of Goldbelt’s revenue came from government contracting; the remaining 4 percent came from real estate and tourism businesses such as the iconic Mount Roberts Tramway. Pierre said the new contract means government contracting revenue will climb closer to 100 percent.

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Tanner and opilio crab brought some smiles. Jan. 15 saw 55 boats head out in Kodiak to fish for bairdi Tanner crab, the 400,000-pound quota the first fishable biomass since 2013, a fishery that lasted 4 days. The halibut season got off to a late, rocky and confusing start when the International Pacific Halibut Commission was unable to agree on catch limits for

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budget has been approved, and the partial shutdown doesn’t include the Army,” Wimberly said. Wimberly said it took more than two years of work to earn the contract that is expected to mean $150 million in revenue growth for Goldbelt annually for the next 10 years. That figure is based on projections of work flow inside of the contract, said McHugh Pierre, Vice President of Alaska operations for Goldbelt Inc.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Cristy Fry can be reached at realist468@gmail.com.

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