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Friday-Saturday, December 21-22, 2018 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Vol. 49, Issue 71
In the news Longtime head of Alaska’s Iditarod sled dog race is leaving ANCHORAGE — The longtime head of Alaska’s 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is resigning in mid-January after 25 years on the job. Iditarod Trail Committee CEO Stan Hooley said Thursday he is leaving the post he held since 1993 to take on a new opportunity outside the state. The 61-year-old Hooley says he’s not at liberty to say what the opportunity is until January. Hooley says his resignation has nothing to do with the Iditarod coming off a difficult time for race organizers, who have faced the loss of major sponsors, financial hardships and the first-ever dog doping scandal. Earlier this month, race officials cleared four-time champion Dallas Seavey of any wrongdoing in a dogdoping scandal that followed the sled dog race last year. The committee’s chief operating officer, Chas St. George, will serve as acting CEO until a replacement is found.
2 men accused of assaulting Anchorage crash victim ANCHORAGE — Two men are under arrest in Anchorage, accused of assaulting the driver of a pickup truck that was struck by the vehicle they were traveling in. Police say a Honda that 24-year-old Jordan Campbell and 24-year-old Vidal Burney were traveling in rearended the victim’s truck late Wednesday night. Police say Campbell and Burney got out of their vehicle and began hitting the victim, then Burney stole a gun from the truck’s front seat before the men took off. Campbell and Burney were located and arrested early Thursday on charges of robbery, theft and assault, and Burney also was charged with weapons misconduct and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Online court records don’t list attorneys for the men. Police say the victim had visible injuries but did not need medical care. — Associated Press
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Control board approves rules for onsite marijuana use By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press
JUNEAU — Alaska regulators on Thursday approved rules for onsite consumption of marijuana at specially designated shops, a significant step for the cannabis industry in the state after years of debate. The 3-2 vote by the Marijuana Control Board does not mean people can light up at shops right away. Rather, interested businesses would have to apply for a special onsite use endorsement and devise plans that would meet ventilation and other standards for onsite use and pass muster with the board. “It’s not like people are going to be opening these up in the next week,” said Cary
The open sign for Uncle Herb’s, Homer’s first marijuana retail store, lights up on opening day, Thursday, May 24, 2018 on Ocean Drive in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
Carrigan, the executive direc- rigan nonetheless called the tor of the Alaska Marijuana vote significant and a positive Industry Association. Car- step.
The adopted rules also must be reviewed by the state Department of Law before they can be finalized. Chris Lindsey, senior legislative counsel with the Marijuana Policy Project, said Alaska would have the first regulatory framework for onsite use at the state level. He called the adopted rules smart and said they could be a model for other states. The Marijuana Control Board has gone back and forth on the issue since passing regulations in 2015 that contemplated allowing for onsite consumption in designated areas of authorized retail marijuana stores. However, it wasn’t until Thursday that the board adopted rules for how onsite use would work.
See BOARD, page A3
Airport remodel on schedule despite asbestos By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion
Construction at the Kenai Airport continues, but costs are creeping higher than anticipated. At Wednesday’s city council meeting, City Manager Paul Ostrander warned the council that he will most likely bring a resolution for more funds in the new year. “Because of asbestos that was not found during the design process, it appears we’re going to have to do a serious amount of abatement,” Ostrander said. “And it looks like we’re going to burn through a significant portion of our contingency.” See AIRPORT, page A3
Giving the gift of experience for the holidays By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion
Still trying to find the perfect gift for friends and family on your shopping list? Consider gifting them an experience. In 2010, researchers from Cornell University found people are more satisfied with the gift of experience, compared to material purchases. This doesn’t necessarily mean doling out thousands of dollars for a once-in-a-lifetime vacation. It can be as simple as a complimentary car wash or an all-expenses-paid weekend at a public use cabin. For the busy bees Let the workaholics, stressedout moms and friends constantly on the go have a day off. A day at the spa is the perfect gift for the person who needs pampering. At Bare Skin Spa in Soldotna, treat your weary friend or family member to a facial, pedicure or manicure, massage or body scrubs. They have several spa packages available, like the Cleopatra-for-a-day special, which includes a 24K gold facial, a milk and honey foot facial, a
This May 4, 2018, photo shows the “Art Shack,” an art studio space owned by Sue Mann, in Soldotna. (Clarion file photo)
60-minute grapeseed oil mas- Spa range from $159-$299. At Renewal Skin Studio in sage, a warm paraffin dip and sparkling cider or hot tea and Soldotna choose from a wide vagrapes to complete the experi- riety of facials and body scrubs. Also, choose from several spa ence. Spa packages at Bare Skin
packages at Karlene’s Day Spa. The Purely Pampering Package includes a one-hour full body hot rock massage, foot scrub and hand paraffin dip. Packages range
from $140-$395. Does the busy bee in your life need a new haircut or a fresh manicure? Affinity Salon and Day Spa in Kenai offers dozens of hair services, from beard trims to perms to styling. Do you know someone who commutes? Treat them to an auto detail. There are several auto body shops in town that offer this service, such as Hutchings Auto Spa and Beau’s Detailing and Mobile Powerwashing in Soldotna. For the person who loves to move Treat your active friends and loved ones to some yoga classes. Tides Yoga Studio in Kenai and Yoga Sol and The Yoga Yurt near Soldotna offer several kinds of yoga classes. Want to give the gift of selfdefense and exercise? There are several martial arts facilities on the central peninsula, including Challenge Martial Arts in Nikiski, Redemption Mixed Martial Arts in Soldotna and White Crane Academy in Kenai. It will be some time before the See GIFT, page A2
Judge backs Alaska elections division in recount By DAN JOLING Associated Press
ANCHORAGE — The Alaska Division of Elections properly recounted votes in a state House race decided by one vote, a Superior Court judge decided Thursday. The Alaska Supreme Court named Judge Eric Aarseth as
a special master to prepare a report on the recount appeal by Democrat Kathryn Dodge. The recount showed her losing by one vote to Republican Bart LeBon in a race for a seat from Fairbanks in the Alaska House. Aarseth will turn in a written report Friday and the state Supreme Court will have the final say after a hearing next month.
Aarseth from the bench after a hearing Thursday said elections officials followed the law as set up by legislators. There may be times, he said, when a vote is counted even though it was cast by someone who is not a resident. However, state lawmakers set up election law to ensure the continuity of leadership in the state without
Permanent Fund seeks incentive pay for managers JUNEAU (AP) — The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. wants to pay its investment managers incentive compensation, which officials said is needed to recruit and retain talented employees. The board presiding over the nearly $64 billion fund adopted a policy earlier this year to start paying incentives worth up to 50 percent of investment managers’ salaries, KTOO Public Media and Alaska Public Media reported this week.
The board’s incentive compensation request is included in its annual budget request, which must be approved by Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration and the state Legislature. The state employees who manage the fund’s investments would receive incentive pay based on a combination of how the fund and the assets they manage perform. Incentive pay would be based on performance over the last five years.
Incentive compensation systems can be complicated, but the corporation aimed to keep it concise, CEO Angela Rodell said. “Let’s keep it very simple and straightforward and very tangible for people to grasp that investors making investment decisions will benefit from the positive decisions that they make and they won’t benefit from the negative decisions they make,” Rodell said.
See PFD, page A3
long delays, he said. “The Legislature has made the emphasis that a prompt decision, in my words, is more important than perfection in the election process itself,” Aarseth said. LeBon did not attend the hearing. Dodge said afterward she was evaluating the decision and had no immediate com-
ment. The crux of Dodge’s appeal came down to two ballots accepted by election officials and one that was rejected. Elections officials received two absentee ballots listing Fairbanks addresses that did not appear to be residences, she testified. One was from a doc-
See COUNT, page A3
Stores sell CBD products as rules are worked out ANCHORAGE (AP) — Products containing cannabidiol have been offered in stores and coffee shops in Alaska, but CBD oil has not been approved to be used in food, drinks or edibles, state regulators said. Regulations governing CBD items are still being written, and the state has been warning residents to be cautious about what they ingest, the Anchorage Daily News reported Wednesday. Uncle Leroy’s Coffee shop in Anchorage had offered
costumers doses of CBD oil in their coffee, but the shop pulled it from the menu after the owners received a warning letter from the state. “People still ask if we have it,” said Austin Schwartz, an owner of Uncle Leroy’s. “So I think there is a desire. I mean, there are a group of people out there that want it.” CBD products such as bags of gummy bears and vaping pens are still displayed at gas stations and other shops as the legality of the products See CBD, page A3
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golfers in our lives will be able to hit the greens again. Get them excited for summer tee time with nine holes, 18 holes, lessons or even a season pass paid for. At Kenai Golf Course, lessons range from $20 for a half an hour session and $30 for an hour session. At Birch Ridge Golf Course in Soldotna, standard lessons begin at $1 a minute, rounding down to the nearest five-minute interval. They also offer playing lessons for $100 for nine holes and $150 for 18 holes, with greens fee, range balls and carts included. Frequent player cards are available at Bird Homestead Golf Course in Funny River. The card offers 10 nine hole rounds, at $150 for adults, $130 for seniors and $100 for children. Give the gift of free parking for the hiking fiend in your life with a state park annual parking pass ($50 at dnr.alaska.gov/ parks). For the artist Artzy Junkin in Soldotna is offering art classes of all kinds. A list of their classes and events can be found through their Facebook page. At Cabin Fever Creations in Soldotna, treat your friends and family to the unique experience of creating ceramic art of your own. Have a child who can’t stop moving? Consider enrolling them in a dance class. At Forever Dance near Soldotna, both adults and children can take ballet, tap and hip-hop. At Encore Dance Academy in Kenai, punchers can be purchased for jazz and musical theater dance classes for adults. The academy features several tap, ballet, jazz, hip-hop and modern dance classes for children. Give the gift of music by providing the opportunity for music lessons. Forever Dance near Soldotna offers piano lessons. Local music stores Whiteys Music Shoppe near Soldotna, and Old Town Music in Kenai can provide instruments and resources for local instructors. Have a friend who just loves local art? A membership to the Kenai Fine Arts Center supports
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the center and artists and allows the member to receive discounts on entry fees and group exhibitions and discounted workshop fees. A single membership starts at $30. For the adventurous Give a getaway with reservations to a public-use cabin. There are more than 200 cabins across the state to reserve all year round. Some are easy enough to drive right up to and offer handicap access, while others require you to trek for miles or fly in. Prices
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range from $20 to $50, and some are even free. Reserve at dnr.alaska.gov/parks/cabins. Know someone who’s dreamed of taking flight? Teach them how to fly. For $150, Missionary Aviation Repair Center in Soldotna offers an introductory flight course. Want to introduce your child to horseback riding? There are several local stables to get you started, like Alaska C&C Horse Adventures in Soldotna or Rollin West Ranch Trail Rides in Funny
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River, which offers both day rides and overnight pack trips ranging from $60-$225. For the foodie Pick a favorite restaurant and take your friends out for dinner and drinks. Most restaurants also offer gift cards, which can be used whenever the recipient needs a night off from cooking. Treat your children to a tea party at Piroshki’s Russian Tea Shoppe, where they offer full tea parties, call 907-420-0832 for more details.
Peninsula Clarion | Friday, December 21, 2018 | A3
Around the Peninsula
James Dryden celebrates 98th birthday in Soldotna
Testify at a School Board meeting from Homer or Seward
Jim Dryden will be 98 on Friday, Dec. 21 and will celebrate from 2 -4 p.m. with friends and family at Riverside Assisted Living, 390 Lovers Lane in Soldotna. Jim is a WWII veteran and The KPBSD Board of Education will open two additional Pearl Harbor survivor. He and his family moved to Alaska in locations for public testimony via video during a school board 1964, and then to Soldotna, with his late wife Eleanor in 2003. meeting. Homer Middle School and Seward Elementary School sites will be open — if there are advance signups — starting 50th anniversary celebration for John and 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 guar- Sharon Williams antee the remote site will be open and staffed. A public open house and reception will be held to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of John and Sharon Williams on Sunday, Dec. 23 from 2-4 p.m. at Paradisos restaurant. The Anchorage Fish & Game Advisory
Committee
The Anchorage Fish & Game Advisory Committee will meet on Tuesday, January 8th at Cabela’s conference room, located at 155 W 104th Avenue at 6:30 pm. Agenda will include preparation of comment on statewide finfish proposals 161-173, select an AC rep for that meeting, and any other business that may properly come before the committee. The public is invited to address any concerns they have. For more information contact Martin Weiser at mweiser@crsalaska.com.
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 Kenai Public Health Center at 630 Barnacle Way, Suite A, in Kenai. For additional information call Kenai Public Health at 335-3400.
Kenai Community Library holiday events
Mike Morgan and Friends will be “Decking the Halls” at “Classic Kaladi Bros. Coffee,” 315 S. Kobuk St. in Soldotna, on Saturday, Dec. 22, from 6 to 9 p.m. Come join us for great coffee, tea, hot cocoa and an evening of caroling by the fire with friends and family. Lyric sheets will be provided for all, so you’ll have all the words to your favorite holiday songs! Call Kaladi’s at 907.262.5980 for more info.
We are full of holiday spirit here at the library! Join us for one of our holiday-themed programs which include: Apple Butter Workshop, Candy Cane Family Craft, and Christmas Carols at the Library. As always these classes are free but you must preregister; so stop by or give us a call to sign up. Also, between Dec. 26-29 we have a Scavenger Hunt Drop-In planned for patrons to find famous characters throughout the library and earn a small prize! Keep an eye out for all of our upcoming events and programs by “Liking” us on Facebook.
Kenai Kennel Club will be offering an AKC Star Puppy class beginning Thursday, Jan. 10 at 6 p.m. This is a six-week class, Experts wishing to participate in the Cook Inlet Pipeline Inand you can receive a Star Puppy Certificate at the end. We will frastructure Risk Assessment expert panel on pipeline integrity also be offering a Family Dog Obedience class beginning Thurs- and safety now have until Jan. 18, 2019, to apply. The previous day, Jan. 10 at 7 p.m. Please email kenaikennelclub@gmail.com deadline was Jan. 5, 2019. with questions or to register. Go to Kenaikennelclub.com for the class schedule and more information.
Grief Recovery Method Workshop
KPC’s two campuses (Kenai River and Kachemak Bay) and Seward extension site (Resurrection Bay) will be closed for the holidays from Dec. 22, 2018 to Jan. 2, 2019. Registration for the upcoming spring semester is available online at www.kpc. alaska.edu. Classes start on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2019.
Deck the Halls with Mike Morgan and Friends
Cook Inlet Pipeline Infrastructure Risk Assessment deadline
AKC Star Puppy class
Kenai Peninsula College holiday schedule
Soldotna/Kenai 100+ Women Who Care meeting
Hospice Memorial Tree From Nov. 23 – Dec. 23 Hospice of the Central Peninsula will have a Memorial Tree standing in the Peninsula Center Mall. Community Members may remember their loved ones with an ornament placed on our tree! No donation is too small to receive as many ornaments as you would like. Stop by the tree in the Mall during Mall hours, stop by Hospice’s office, or request an ornament online at www.hospiceofcentralpeninsula.com.
The Soldotna/Kenai 100+ Women Who Care group will be meeting Dec. 27 from 6-7 p.m. at the Don Gillman Kenai River Center on Funny River Road. This will be our fourth quarter Kenai Performers Wonka bars sale meeting. All members in good standing will have a chance to Kenai Performers is selling chocolate Wonka bars as a propitch for a cause or nonprofit they support. Three names will be motional fundraiser. Funds raised will help pay production costs drawn; those three will make their pitch, and the group will vote for their spring musical, “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka.” Hidden on the cause that receives the funds from the meeting. among the candy bars are five, special Golden Tickets. Finders of the tickets will win FREE admission to one of the shows. Al-Anon support group meetings The Wonka bars are 4.5 ounces of scrumptious milk chocolate, big enough to share with the whole family, and are $5 each. Al-Anon support group meetings are held at the Central Candy bars are available at Curtain Call Consignment Boutique Peninsula Hospital in the Kasilof Room (second floor) of the in Kenai and at River City Books in Soldotna. Thank you, CounSEES candy fundraiser River Tower building on Monday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 7 p.m. try Foods for sponsoring our fundraiser! For more information, Annual SEES candy fundraiser is going on now at Soldotna and Saturday at 9 a.m. Park around back by the ER and enter please call Terri at 252-6808. Professional Pharmacy while supplies last. All proceeds go to through the Rive Tower entrance and follow the signs. Contact Tony Oliver at 252-0558 for more information. the PCD foundation (Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia).
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The adopted rules call for consumption areas that are outdoors or that are separated from a marijuana retail store by walls and a secure door
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The funds will be eligible for reimbursement from the federal government, though. “The positive on that, of course, is that the majority of those costs will be ultimately paid for by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration),” Ostrander said. “But it is unfortunate that it appears there is a significant amount of asbestos.” The city included a $500,000 contingency when budgeting
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tor who listed a suite in a strip mall as his residence. “It appeared to me to be a space in an industrial park, not a residence,” Dodge said. Contacted after the recount, the doctor in an affidavit said he works in both California and Alaska, that he did not live at the listed address in 2018, and that his actual Fairbanks home was in another political district. The second ballot Dodge questioned was from a woman who listed her residence as a repair shop for automobile glass. The testimony touched off discussion of the obligation of election officials to investigate
and meet ventilation requirements. The board would have to find a proposed outdoor site is compatible with the surrounding area. People could not bring their own marijuana to a consumption area. Stores with onsite use would have to have a smoke-free place for em-
the projected, which is expected to cost about $12 million when completed. The construction still remains on schedule, despite the asbestos. Council member Henry Knacksteadt reported that the construction is going well otherwise. A few temporary offices near the restaurants are almost completed, for the car agencies to relocate during construction. “There’s not going to be any decorations this year, due to construction though,” Knacksteadt said. “It’s kind of ‘bah humbug’ over at the airport, but there’s a lot of other great things going on there.”
claims that voters were not actual residents of a district. State attorneys argued that it’s beyond the scope of a recount for election officials to launch investigations into questioned residencies, and that matching addresses on absentee ballots to a voter’s official registration satisfied the requirement of the law. Attorneys for Dodge also questioned the rejection of a ballot filled out by a voter whose residency address changed without his knowledge when he applied for an Alaska Permanent Fund dividend. Robert Beconovich testified that he showed up at his usual polling place and was told he was no longer registered in the district. He gets his mail at his office, he said, and when his office moved, he changed the
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it as a way to give tourists a place to partake. But the proposal got pushback from public health advocates, including the state health commissioner and anti-smoking activists. The board’s two industry representatives, Brandon Emmett and Nicholas Miller,
get sorted out, causing confusion for customers and retailers. The state Division of Agriculture oversees all industrial hemp products, which includes CBD oil. The industrial hemp bill that passed earlier this year put the state in the position to create a pilot program to regulate, but rules are not yet in place, division director Arthur Keyes said.
“Until those regulations are created, that umbrella doesn’t exist,” Keyes said. The state does not have enough enforcement resources, so shops are still selling CBD products, said Rob Carter, manager of the Alaska Plant Materials Center. “(CBD) is at gas stations and health food stores and coffee shops and pet food stores,” Carter said. “We’ve decided it’s in the best interest of the industry, and to protect the consumer, to get our framework in place, and then get people into compliance with these regulations.”
address for his dividend check. He did not realize, he said, that voter residency also would change under an Alaska law that took effect in 2017. Election officials rejected the questioned ballot he cast. Under questioning by Aarseth, Beconovich acknowledged that he was responsible for thoroughly reading the divi-
dend application. The case carries importance beyond a single House seat. The ballot dispute comes as the House struggles to organize a majority ahead of the start of next month’s legislative session. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case on Jan. 4.
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supported the proposal, as did Sitka Police Chief Jeff Ankerfelt, who holds the public safety seat. Loren Jones, who has the board’s public health seat, said advancing the rules would be a mistake. He said there are too many unknowns and suggested the board was
overstepping. Board Chairman Mark Springer, who with Jones voted “no,” said the Legislature still could weigh in on the issue. He said he sees onsite use benefiting a relatively small number of retail businesses.
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The corporation has struggled to recruit and retain investment managers because it lacked an incentive compensation system, officials said. “We are on the fourth chief investment officer in the last 10 years, so that’s a pretty high turnover for that position, and that one in particular concerns the board,” Rodell said. Providing incentive compensation is a reasonable discussion to have, said state Revenue Commissioner Bruce Tangeman, a member of the corporation’s board. “Obviously, the permanent fund is a rather large endowment,” he said. “And it’s critical that we have the best and brightest managing that on our behalf.”
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What Others Say
Ruling striking down Affordable Care Act may strengthen law No one opposes ObamaCare more than
we do, and Democrats are now confirming that it was designed as a way-station to government-run health care. But a federal judge’s ruling that the law is unconstitutional is likely to be overturned on appeal and may boomerang politically on Republicans. Judge Reed O’Connor ruled for some 20 state plaintiffs that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is no longer legal because Republicans repealed its financial penalty as part of the 2017 tax reform. Recall that Chief Justice John Roberts joined four Justices to say ObamaCare’s mandate was illegal as a command to individuals to buy insurance under the Commerce Clause. “The Framers gave Congress the power to regulate commerce, not to compel it,” he wrote. Yet the Chief famously salvaged ObamaCare by unilaterally rewriting the mandate to be a “tax” that was within Congress’s power. Never mind that Democrats had expressly said the penalty was not a tax. Majority Leader Roberts declared it to be so. Enter Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who argues in Texas v. U.S. that since Congress has repealed the mandate, the tax is no longer a tax, and ObamaCare is thus illegal. Judge O’Connor agreed with that logic, and he went further in ruling that since Congress said the mandate is crucial to the structure of ObamaCare, then all of ObamaCare must fall along with the mandate. We’ll admit to a certain satisfaction in seeing the Chief Justice hoist on his own logic. But his ruling in NFIB v. Sebelius was in 2012 and there is more at issue legally now than the “tax” issue in that opinion. One legal complication is that Congress in 2017 repealed the financial part of the individual mandate, not the structure of the mandate itself. Republicans used budget rules to pass tax reform so they couldn’t repeal the mandate’s express language. The Affordable Care Act has also been up and running since 2014, which means so-called reliance interests come into play when considering a precedent. Millions of people now rely on ObamaCare’s subsidies and rules, which argues against judges repealing the law by fiat. Judge O’Connor breezes past this like a liberal Ninth Circuit appeals judge handling a Donald Trump appeal. He’s right that Democrats claimed the individual mandate was essential to the Affordable Care Act. But when Congress killed the financial penalty in 2017 it left the rest of ObamaCare intact. When judging congressional intent, a judge must account for the amending Congress as well as the original Congress. In any case, the Supreme Court’s “severability” doctrine calls for restraint in declaring an entire law illegal merely because one part of it is. Our guess is that even the right-leaning Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judges will overturn Judge O’Connor on this point. As for the politics, Democrats claim to be alarmed by the ruling but the truth is they’re elated. They want to use it to further pound Republicans for denying health insurance for pre-existing conditions if the law is overturned. Democrats campaigned across the country against Mr. Paxton’s lawsuit to gain House and Senate seats in November, and they will now press votes in Congress so they can compound the gains in 2020. President Trump hailed the ruling in a tweet, but he has never understood the Affordable Care Act. His Administration has done good work revising regulations to reduce health-care costs and increase access, but the risk is that the lawsuit will cause Republicans in Congress to panic politically and strike a deal with Democrats that reinforces ObamaCare. This is what happens when conservatives fall into the liberal trap of thinking they can use the courts to achieve policy goals that need to be won in Congress.
Tough on criminal justice reform
Republicans and conservatives dating back at least to Richard Nixon have used the slogan “tough on crime” and its corollary “lock ‘em up and throw away the key” as electoral red meat. The problem is what to do when inmates are released with few skills, fewer job prospects and a bleak future that leads some to commit new crimes that land them in prison again at taxpayers’ expense. The Senate, in what may be the only bipartisan act during the remaining two years of President Trump’s first and possibly only term, has overwhelmingly passed legislation that would significantly reform the criminal justice system, which is often more criminal than just. The measure revises a number of sentencing laws, including the “three strikes” penalty for drug felonies, reducing what is now a mandatory life sentence to 25 years. It also retroactively limits the disparity in sentencing guidelines between crack and powder cocaine offenses. Civil rights groups have long argued that this disparity disproportionally impacted African-American offenders because they are more likely to use crack than powdered cocaine. According to the Republican Policy Committee, the measure strives to “reduce recidivism by allowing low, or minimumrisk prisoners to earn time credits toward earlier transfer to prerelease custody such as a halfway house if they participate in certain recidivism-reducing programs
while in prison.” As the Associated Press reported, according to the Congressional Budget Office, “the bill would not cover state jails and prisons, (but) would reduce the federal inmate population by about 53,000 Cal Thomas people in one year.” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) seemed to acknowledge that current sentencing guidelines are not good for either the offender or the public when he said the legislation is “about being smart on crime and getting the best results.” Quovadis Marshall, 38, lobbied Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for reform. Marshall served more than seven years in prison for robbing a Waterloo convenience store. In a telephone interview, Marshall told me the bill not only restores to judges more leeway in sentencing, but it also allows for the convicted to be sent to prisons closer to their homes, preserving family ties. Marshall believes intact families are the key to keeping people from returning to prison. One out of 28 children has a parent or relative in prison, he says, but that in the black community, it is one out of nine. Marshall is now pastor of a church in Waterloo, Iowa. The church sits across the street from the store he robbed. It is a daily
reminder, Marshall says, of his deed and how far he’s come. He supports the bill because it also expands opportunities for faith-based programs, which he believes are key to reducing the recidivism rate. Statistics bear this out. Like most legislation, this bill isn’t perfect, but it’s a start. It should not be the end. Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and John Kennedy (R-La.) offered three amendments they said would protect the public from violent offenders. The amendments, reported Politico, “would bar more offenders from participating in the bill’s earnedtime credit program and would require the Bureau of Prisons to notify victims when a prisoner is released early. The amendments also would require authorities to track arrests of ex-convicts after they’re released from prison early.” All were defeated by a wide margin. Reforming the way we handle criminal offenders gives people hope that they can turn their lives around and that prison need not be the final verdict. Growing numbers of Republicans are finally on the right side of criminal justice reform. They can help themselves politically and ensure a brighter future for exoffenders by telling stories of redeemed criminals. Quovadis Marshall is one such story that can offer hope to others. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.
News and Politics
Florida election officials prepare to register former felons By GARY FINEOUT Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Many of Florida’s local election officials — who have been unable to get any clear instructions recently from the state — said they will start adding voters to the rolls in January even if they had been convicted of felony crimes. The state’s voters in November approved Amendment 4, which says most felons will automatically have their voting rights restored when they complete their sentences. The passage of the measure, which does not apply to those convicted of sex offenses and murder, could upend elections in the battleground state where elections have been decided by razor-thin margins. As many as 1.4 million former felons could become eligible. Yet since the amendment passed with nearly 65 percent of the vote, there has been an argument over whether the amendment takes effect automatically Jan. 8. Some of the groups that pushed the amendment have said they are ready to go to court if there are any delays. Republican Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis suggested recently that the amendment will not take effect until the Florida Legislature acts. Lawmakers don’t start their annual session until March. Outgoing Gov. Rick Scott, through a spokesman, said it is not to up him since he’s leaving office. Secretary of State Ken Detzner, who oversees the state’s division of elections, has provided no guidance to — The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 16 the state’s 67 election supervisors.
Many election supervisors across the state have responded by saying they plan to accept registration applications and it will be up to the state to determine if the applicants are ineligible. The existing application in Florida requires someone to sign under oath that they have had their rights restored. “We take the people at their word and register them to vote,” said Mark Earley, the supervisor for Leon County. Paul Lux, the Republican election supervisor of Okaloosa County, added that “it’s on the voter” and that they check their status before they register. One notable supervisor who has not said what he plans to do is Peter Antonacci, the Broward elections supervisor who was appointed by Scott after he suspended Brenda Snipes from the job. Antonacci, who used to be Scott’s general counsel, said he was waiting until January before deciding what to do. Broward is a Democratic stronghold. But he did disagree with the supporters that the amendment automatically takes effect Jan. 8. “This idea that the amendment is self-executing is wishful thinking,” said Antonacci. Until the amendment passed, Florida’s constitution automatically barred felons from being able to vote after leaving prison. The state’s clemency process allows the governor and three elected Cabinet members to restore voting rights, although the governor can unilaterally veto any request. The process has changed over the years.
Shortly after taking office in 2007, thenRepublican Gov. Charlie Crist convinced two of the state’s three Cabinet members to approve rules that would allow the parole commission to restore voting rights for nonviolent felons without hearings, and within a year, more than 100,000 felons were granted voting rights. Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi and other state officials changed the system in 2011 and since then, fewer than 3,000 former prisoners have had their rights restored. Florida’s next governor came under fire after he gave an interview earlier this month where he maintained that the amendment could not go into effect until after the Legislature took action. DeSantis, who was opposed to the Amendment 4, has not further explained his remarks. But Dave Vasquez, a spokesman for DeSantis, said Thursday that “the governorelect intends for the will of the voters to be implemented but will look to the Legislature to clarify the various questions that have been raised.” Some critics of the amendment have said that legislators need to step in to define exactly what crimes would make someone ineligible. Melba Pearson, interim executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union on Florida, said that last week that “a delay would be in direct opposition of the will of Florida voters. The only responsibility Gov.elect Ron DeSantis has right now is to direct state agencies to proceed without delay to register voters consistent with state law, including Amendment 4.”
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Nation/World Mattis resigning as Pentagon chief
Disgraced German reporter stripped of awards, returns others
By ZEKE MILLER and LOLITA BALDOR Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigned Thursday after clashing with President Donald Trump over the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria and after two years of deep disagreements over America’s role in the world. Mattis, perhaps the most respected foreign policy official in Trump’s administration, will leave by the end of February after two tumultuous years struggling to soften and moderate the president’s hardline and sometimes sharply changing policies. He told Trump in a letter that he was leaving because “you have a right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours.” His departure was immediately lamented by foreign policy hands and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, who viewed the retired Marine general as a sober voice of experience in the ear of a president who had never held political office or served in the military. Even Trump allies expressed fear over Mattis’ decision to quit, believing him to be an
In this file photo, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis waits outside the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
important moderating force on the president. “Just read Gen. Mattis resignation letter ,” tweeted Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. “It makes it abundantly clear that we are headed toward a series of grave policy errors which will endanger our nation, damage our alliances & empower our adversaries.”
Mattis did not mention the dispute over Syria in his letter or proposed deep cuts to U.S. forces in Afghanistan, another significant policy dispute. He noted his “core belief” that American strength is “inextricably linked” with the nation’s alliances with other countries, a position seemingly at odds with the “America First” pol-
icy of the president. The defense secretary also said China and Russia want to spread their “authoritarian model” and promote their interests at the expense of America and its allies. “That is why we must use all the tools of American power to provide for the common defense,” he wrote.
Putin issues ominous warning on rising nuclear war threat
Russian President Vladimir speaks during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a chilling warning Thursday about the rising threat of a nuclear war, putting the blame squarely on the U.S., which he accused of irresponsibly pulling out of arms control treaties. Speaking at his annual news conference, Putin warned that “it could lead to the destruction of civilization as a whole and maybe even our planet.” He pointed at Washington’s intention to walk away from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or INF, and its reluctance to negotiate the extension of the 2010 New START agreement, which expires in 2021 unless the two countries agree to extend it. “We are witnessing the breakup of the arms control system,” he said. Moscow and Washington have been at loggerheads over the INF, which bans an entire class of weapons — all nucle-
ar and conventional groundlaunched ballistic and cruise missiles of intermediate range. U.S. officials say Washington’s withdrawal from the pact was prompted by Russian violations of the treaty, which Moscow vehemently denies. Earlier this month NATO, at U.S. request formally declared Russia to be in violation of the INF and demanded that it halt activity that breaches it. The move put the full weight of the alliance behind the U.S., which has given Russia until February to come into compliance or trigger Washington’s withdrawal from the treaty.” Officials in both Russia and the U.S. have given mixed signals about the future of the New START treaty, signed by President Barack Obama and then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev amid a brief thaw in Russia-U.S. ties. U.S.-Russian strategic nuclear weapons — those capable of striking each other’s territory — are governed by New Start.
During the nearly four-hour news conference, Putin maintained Russia was not interested in “gaining unilateral advantages. We aren’t seeking advantages, we are trying to preserve the balance and ensure our security.” Russia-U.S. ties have sunk to their lowest levels since the Cold war times over the Ukrainian crisis, the war in Syria and the allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, among other disputes. The U.S. and European nations have repeatedly called out Russia and imposed sanctions on it for its support of separatists in eastern Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea in 2014. At the same time the West has harshly criticized Russia for its military and political support for Syrian President Bashar Assad, which U.S. officials say has prolonged the war in Syria and the suffering of its people. The Russian leader scoffed at the allegations, rejecting them as part of a smear campaign driven by domestic policy in the U.S. and elsewhere in the West. He dismissed claims that Russia is interfering abroad, from a nerve agent poisoning in Britain to an alleged effort to infiltrate the U.S. National Rifle Association, charging that those accusations are part of U.S.-led efforts to malign Russia to strengthen the Western allies’ unity. “They need an external threat to cement NATO unity,” Putin said, accusing the U.S. and its allies of exploiting “phobias of the past” to achieve domestic political goals.
US charges 2 hackers with alleged Chinese intelligence ties By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials on Thursday said two alleged Chinese hackers carried out an extensive campaign on behalf of Beijing’s main intelligence agency to steal trade secrets and other information from government agencies and “a who’s who” of major corporations in the United States and nearly a dozen other nations. The indictment is the latest in a series of Justice Department criminal cases targeting Chinese cyberespionage and coincided with an announcement by Britain blaming China’s Ministry of State Security for trade-secret pilfering affecting Western nations. The alleged hackers, one of whom is nicknamed “Godkiller,” are accused of breaching computer networks beginning as early as 2006 in a range of industries, including aviation
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and space, finance, biotechnology oil and gas, satellites and pharmaceuticals. Prosecutors say they also obtained the names, Social Security numbers and other personal information of more than 100,000 Navy personnel. In a new twist reflecting corporate computing’s evolution, the hackers often infiltrated cloud computing companies and other major technology providers to indirectly reach clients’ valuable documents. Prosecutors said the alleged hackers stole “hundreds of gigabytes” of data, breaching computers of more than 45 entities in 12 states including NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and Goddard Space Center. The hackers, identified as members of the group APT10, or “Stone Panda,” are not in custody. Prosecutors said their names are Zhu Hua and Zhang Shillong. U.S. law enforcement officials say the case is part of a
trend of state-sponsored hackers breaking into American networks and stealing trade secrets and other confidential information. More than 90 percent of Justice Department economic espionage cases over the past seven years involve China, said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and more than two-thirds of trade secrets cases are connected to the country. “China’s state-sponsored actors are the most active perpetrators of economic espionage,” FBI Director Chris Wray said in announcing the case. “While we welcome fair competition, we cannot and will not tolerate illegal hacking, stealing or cheating.” “China’s goal, simply put, is to replace the U.S. as the world’s leading superpower, and they’re using illegal methods to get there,” Wray said. While none of the “victim companies” was named, Wray called them a “who’s who of the global economy.”
“As for ruling the world, we know where the headquarters trying to do that are located, and the place isn’t Moscow,” he said, noting that the Pentagon’s annual budget of over $700 billion dwarfs Russia’s defense spending of $46 billion. Russia’s hopes for repairing ties with the U.S. under President Donald Trump have fizzled amid the allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election — charges Putin has denied. He noted that he’s still keeping the door open for a meeting with Trump, but added that the prospect for that looks increasingly dim in view of the Democrats winning control of the House. “You can predict new attacks on the president with 100-percent probability,” Putin said. “I don’t know if he could engage in a direct dialogue with Russia in such conditions.” He charged that that the continuing U.S. political infighting reflects a “lack of respect for the voters” who elected Trump. “They don’t want to acknowledge his victory and do everything to delegitimize the president,” Putin added. He insisted that a Russian woman in U.S. custody has not carried out any mission for the Russian government, even though she pleaded guilty this month to acting as a covert agent of the government. Putin claimed that Maria Butina — accused of trying to infiltrate the NRA and American conservative circles around the time of Trump’s election — entered the guilty plea because of the threat of a long prison sentence in the case, which Putin described as fabricated.
BERLIN — A German journalist who was found to have made up information for numerous published articles is being stripped of two awards he received in 2014 from CNN International, the broadcaster said Thursday. In a statement to The Associated Press, CNN International said the independent panel of judges that gave Claas Relotius the “Journalist of the Year” and “Print Journalist of the Year” prizes decided unanimously to rescind the honors following the reporting fraud revelations. The German Reporters Forum said Relotius contacted the group about returning the four awards it gave him in recent years and to apologize. German magazine Der Spiegel announced Wednesday that Relotius, who worked for the publication first as a freelancer and later full-time, had fabricated interviews and facts in at least 14 articles. The fraud, which Spiegel described as “a low point” in its 70-year history, was widely condemned in Germany but also drew rebuke in the United States, where Relotius claimed to have reported many of his articles. In a lengthy blog post , two Minnesota residents described the suspicions they had about Relotius’ work after he visited the town of Fergus Falls in 2017. Michele Anderson and Jake Krohn listed what they said were 11 inaccurate claims made by the Spiegel reporter in his article, which focused on the town’s conservative voters following the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Spiegel, one of Germany’s leading news outlets, said it is still investigating the case , including how its fact-checking department failed to spot the yearslong deception by one of the magazine’s star journalists. Other fabrications included elements of an article about an American woman who Relotius said volunteered to witness the executions of death row inmates and an interview with the parents of quarterback Colin Kaepernick that Spiegel said likely never took place. The publication said concerns were first raised in November by a fellow reporter who worked with Relotius on a story about a border militia in Arizona and discovered that interviews supposedly conducted for the piece had never taken place.
Morocco arrests 3 more suspects in Nordic hikers’ killing COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Authorities arrested three more suspects Thursday in the deaths of two Scandinavian university students who were killed in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains. Moroccan authorities said the men detained in Marrakech and a fourth suspect pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group in a video. The office of Morocco’s prosecutor said four men seen in the video that was circulating on Twitter and recorded last week were the same four in custody for the slayings of the young women, whose bodies were discovered Monday. Moroccan authorities had said they considered the killings in a remote region of the Atlas Mountains to be a terrorist act and were investigating if the suspects had extremist ties, but hadn’t named a particular group. Other tourists found the two women, one from Norway and the other from Denmark, with stab wounds in their necks, according to national media in Morocco. Investigators have video surveillance footage showing three people putting up a tent near the victims’ tent, the media outlets said. The footage also shows the three leaving the area, near a village that is a frequent starting point for treks to Mount Toubkal, North Africa’s highest peak, the outlets said. Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen confirmed the identities of the victims, 24-year-old Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, of Denmark, and Norwegian citizen Maren Ueland, 28. The University of South-Eastern Norway said both women were students at its campus in Boe, southern Norway. “What should have been a holiday trip turned into a nightmare” for the women, Loekke Rasmussen told reporters in Denmark. Earlier Thursday, Denmark’s domestic security agency told The Associated Press that preliminary findings the investigation “indicate, according to Moroccan authorities, that the killings may be related to the terrorist organization the Islamic State group.” The killings were “politically motivated and thus an act of terror,” Denmark’s Loekke Rasmussen said, without identifying the potential motives. “There are still dark forces that want to fight our values” and “we must not give in.” In neighboring Norway, Prime Minister Erna Solberg said terrorism “is not the only lead that is being investigated in Morocco,” but the case “emphasizes the importance of combating violent extremism.” — The Associated Press
50th Wedding Anniversary Celebration John & Sharon Williams Please join the Williams family as we celebrate 50 years of life and love on the Kenai Public Reception Sunday, December 23, 2018, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Paradisos Restaurant Banquet Room 811 Main Street, Kenai, Alaska No gifts, please!
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Religion
The Light has come Today is the day — December 21st — the longest day of darkness. Throughout the ages and the world’s vast geography the presence of light has regulated how people live, conduct activities, and spend their time. Light, for many positive reasons, is associated with things that are good while darkness is often seen as negative. Light exposes, while darkness hides. In Alaska, we can applaud the “winter solstice” as now the hours of daylight are longer, but it often feels in life that there is more darkness than light. It still seems that in darkness there is a longing or something missing. Who hasn’t spent hours
V oices of F aith F rank A lioto awake at night focusing on the undone, waiting for the light of a new day? Think of all the children this time of year, waiting to open and see their gifts that are under the Christmas tree. A Christmas tradition celebrated by many is called Advent. It is a Latin term meaning “waiting for the arrival,” as people remember and wait to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Often weeks before Christ-
mas people will light a candle on an Advent wreath each Sunday to look forward to trait that God would share with His creation. Candles would be lit for joy, peace, hope and love. In the Bible we read about God’s love for people and his plan to be back in relationship with His creation. God’s plan was to send himself in the divine person of Jesus Christ. This plan was foreshadowed in Isaiah 9:2: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.” God chose to send himself, “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will
be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6). Jesus wrapped himself in humility and divinity as He was born in stable on Christmas. While His parents, angels and shepherds rejoiced that night, the light of that celebration reaches throughout eternity. Christmas means that God was willing to come into a dark place and bring the light of salvation. Because of Jesus, all of God’s creation has an opportunity to be in relationship with the living God. Jesus described His mission on earth as He declared in John 8:12, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows
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.
Church Briefs A Child Is Born
You are invited to join the people of the Kenai United Methodist Church as they celebrate the birth of Jesus through candlelight, lessons and carols on Monday, Dec. 24 at 5 p.m. The Our Lady of Perpetual Help sets place at table church is located at 607 Frontage Road across from Wells Fargo A Place at the Table, a new outreach ministry of Our Lady of PerBank. Pastor Bailey Brawner will lead the service. All are wel- petual Help Catholic Church, Soldotna continues to offer a hot meal come. 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 Clothes Quarters open weekly Abundant Life Assembly of God church, Sterling, will be joining us Clothes Quarters at Our Lady of the Angels is open every Wednes- in this ministry and providing a hot meal on the second Sunday of the day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the first Saturday of every month from 11 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 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 907-283-4555. perhaps pick up one of the other Sunday evenings in the month. Call 262-5542.
Calvary Baptist Church offers Awana Kids Club
All kids from third to sixth grade are invited to the Awana Kids United Methodist Church food pantry Club. The club meets on Sundays from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Kenai The Kenai United Methodist Church provides a food pantry for Middle School. Please use the rear entrance. Schedule information can be found at calvarykenai.org/awana. Contact club director Jon 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 Henry at pastorjon@calvarykenai.org. Girls Club. The entrance to the Food Pantry is through the side door. The Pantry closes for holidays. For more information contact the Apostolic Assembly of Jesus Christ events church at 907-283-7868. —On Sunday, Dec. 23 at 5:30 p.m. the Apostolic Assembly of Jesus Christ Choir will present its annual cantata “The Way He Came.” There will be more special music and a Christmas ‘Celebrate Recovery’ at Peninsula Grace Church message concluding the service. Celebrate Recovery meets each Wednesday from 6:30-8 p.m. at —The Apostolic Assembly of Jesus Christ church will hold a Peninsula Grace Church, 44175 Kalifornsky Beach Rd., Soldotna, birthday party for Jesus with special music and the giving of gifts to the work of our Lord. This celebration of Jesus’ birth will be held on 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 Wednesday, Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. All are welcome to attend these services celebrating the birth of 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, Jesus Christ. For questions, please call 252-1230. Located at Mile but donations are welcomed. Questions? Contact: 907-598-0563. Post 89.5 Seward Highway (39322 Dudley Avenue, Soldotna). Due to Christmas holiday there will be no meal served on Dec. 26 or
Soldotna Food Pantry open weekly
Jan. 2. Come at 6:15 for coffee before the 6:30 meeting!
Submit announcements to news@peninsulaclarion.com. SubThe Soldotna Food Pantry is open every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 missions are due the Wednesday prior to publication. For more p.m. for residents in the community who are experiencing food shortages. information, call 907-283-7551.
me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” Your life may feel dark and lifeless, but Jesus has provided a way to be in relationship with God as Jesus is the Light of the world. When one makes Jesus Christ both Savior and Lord, the little babe born in Bethlehem comes in and turns on the light. It is then life begins as He gives us eternal life. This Christmas celebrate the Light, by letting Jesus Christ be your source for life because, “The Light has come.” Frank Alioto is a pastor and serves as a chaplain with Central Peninsula Hospital and Central Emergency Services.
Organization wants Indiana county to remove Nativity scene The Associated Press
BROWNSTOWN, Ind. — An organization that promotes the separation of church and state wants a southern Indiana county to immediately remove a Nativity scene from its courthouse lawn, but local officials have no plans to take it down before Christmas. An attorney for the Madison, Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation said in a letter to Jackson County’s commissioners that a “concerned local citizen” contacted the group about the lighted display outside the courthouse in Brownstown. Attorney Ryan D. Jayne’s letter requested the immediate removal of the Nativity display, which spans both sides of the courthouse lawn in the city about 60 miles (96 kilometers) south of Indianapolis, The (Seymour) Tribune reported. The scene includes a lighted Mary and Joseph, the baby Jesus, wise men, animals and angels, but no other holiday decorations. Jayne called it a “crystal clear constitutional violation,” and said that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled it is “impermissible to place a Nativity scene as the sole focus of a display on government property.”
“It is unlawful for the county to maintain, erect or host a holiday display that consists solely of a Nativity scene, thus singling out, showing preference for and endorsing one religion,” Jayne wrote. He said the county remains vulnerable to a lawsuit as long the religious display remains up. The scene, which remained on display this week, has been erected on the courthouse lawn for a number of years during the holiday season in the rural county. Commissioners President Matt Reedy said the county plans to remove it after Christmas. He said he would not speculate about whether it will be placed on the courthouse lawn again next year. Reedy said the resident who contacted the organization should have instead brought the issue to the commissioners during one of their meetings. “You can get on the agenda and share your concerns,” Reedy said. “We take everyone’s concerns seriously.” He said he wouldn’t give much consideration to the letter because the commissioners handle requests from people, not letters. “Letters signed by groups — or anonymous — do not merit much attention,” he said.
Religious Services Assembly of God
Church of Christ
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 Minister - Nathan Morrison Sunday Worship ........10:00 a.m. Bible Study..................11:15 a.m. Evening Worship ........ 6:00 p.m. Wed. Bible .................... 7:00 p.m.
Kenai Fellowship 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
Episcopal
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
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
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.
Mile 91.7 Sterling Hwy. 262-5577 Minister Tony Cloud Sunday Services Bible Study..................10:00 a.m. Morning Worship ......11:00 a.m. Evening Worship ....... 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Service Bible Study.................... 7:00 p.m
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.
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nniversaries are strange things — in many ways they are arbitrary, days we mark on a calendar to keep us from forgetting that we have been here before. Today is the solstice — an anniversary of a thing that always happens, twice a year in fact, but that always seems like it should be marked with reflection. A year ago on the solstice I was living in a tiny, cold cabin a stone’s throw away from a frozen river — 10 days into a new job and a new place, whose darkness, icy streets and cantankerous people were more formidable than I had expected. Two years ago I was in what can most accurately be described as a jungle hermitage — in a half-built house surrounded by spiders, so many spiders — with my afternoons spent hiding indoors from the heat and creatures and my evenings spent walking a darkened beach, smelling barbecue and listening to the waves as tourists’ feet padded beside me. Three years ago there was Christmas and family — 10 dogs, several children, presents, a tree and lights — in a Midwestern enclave made of things safe and easy. I think I worked at my brother’s used electronics store, surrounded by dirty gaming equipment and dirtier gamers, and took photos of clothing at night in between trips out to cornfields for shots of more picturesque scenescapes. In my head I can go back like that — year before year — and come up with a place, vague memories, the texture and colors of things I touched, with only a few, single, distinct moments thrown in of any one particular day. Today, as I sit in an unkept office — one string of Christmas lights hung around empty desks, with stale sugar cookies and much-less stale gingerbread laid out for the taking — I am thinking about my year in Alaska, with all the events mixed into that same vague jumble. I’ve covered a remarkable distance — or would have in a normally sized state. In August, I drove to Valdez, which was all fog and waterfalls, in the middle of the night, not realizing the staggering height of mountain passes until the trip home. In September, I circumnavigated the peninsula with my little sister — who mostly wanted to take photos of herself in bright lipstick in front of mountains and rivers and plan impractical hikes that would likely have killed us both. She settled for oysters at a beachside restaurant in Homer and a trip to a glacier. I’ve driven to Denali, seen the mountain, and ventured in and out of the park in fits — once in the spring when snow was still everywhere and the expanse was white. Once, in summer, in a See OFFICE, page A8
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Class 1A coaches expect parity By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion
Preseason prognostication at the Class 1A level can either be really easy or really hard. Easy is when there is a team so dominant that it is safe to assume no school with 60 students or less is going to match them. That was the case in the 2016-17 season, when a Ninilchik boys team coming off Peninsula Conference and 1A state titles returned with a solid group of seniors around University of Alaska Anchorage recruit Austin White. Hard is years like this year, where there is no favorite. It’s not like these teams, based at places from Kodiak Island to Nanwalek to the Kenai Peninsula to Anchorage to the MatanuskaSusitna valleys, are getting together for a fall basketball league. The balance of power in Class 1A
Today: Class 1A season preview Sunday: 3A, 4A season previews is so wobbly that just one player or coach moving out of any of the small towns can have a major impact. Same with just one player transferring to a school. “We’re all just going to have to have a chance to play each other and feel each other out,” Nanwalek boys coach Kevin Seville said. Cook Inlet Academy boys coach Ryan McMilin said that before the conference tournament the past two years, he could have filled out a brackSee 1A, page A9
Cook Inlet Academy’s Anna Henderson keeps the ball away from Nikolaevsk’s Markiana Yakunin at the Cook Inlet Classic on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, at Cook Inlet Academy in Soldotna. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
Warriors sweep Ninilchik Staff report Peninsula Clarion
The host Nikolaevsk girls and boys basketball teams swept Ninilchik in a key early season Peninsula Conference matchup. The Wolverines were playing their first games, while the Warriors boys are now 4-0 and 3-0 in the league, and the Warriors girls are 4-0 and 2-0 in the league. The Warriors boys edged the Wolverines 57-53. Nikolaevsk led 20-16 after the first quarter, but the game was tied at 28 at the half. The Warriors then won the third quarter 17-16 and fourth quarter 12-9. Zachary Trail had a monster game for the Warriors with 32 points, including 14 in the first quarter. Michael Trail pitched in 15. For the Wolverines, Garrett Koch had 20 and Jake Clark added 15. The Nikolaevsk girls notched a 47-24 victory. The Warriors led 20-15 at halftime, but then won the second half 27-9. Elizabeth Fefelov had 23 for Nikolaevsk, 16 in the second half. Markiana Yakunin pitched in 11. For the Ninilchik girls, Isabella Koch led the way with seven points. Also Thursday in Seward, the Seahawks girls lost to Nome 4536 while the Seward boys defeatSoldotna’s Josh O’Lena attempts to steal the puck from Kenai Central’s Aidan Milburn (13) Thursday evening at the Kenai ed Nome 54-52. Thursday girls Multi-Purpose Facility. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion) Warriors 47, Wolverines 24
SoHi skaters blank Kenai Soldotna runs shutout streak to 4 straight games By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to score on the Soldotna Stars these days. The SoHi hockey team used a complete effort Thursday night to put away Railbelt Conference rivals Kenai Central 11-0 at the Kenai Multi-Purpose Facility. The game was SoHi’s fourth straight shutout, a streak that includes victo-
ries over conference opponents Juneau (twice) and Homer. The Stars have outscored the opposition 19-0 over that span. “I think we’ve put a target on our heads,” said Soldotna coach Indy Walton. “It was just everybody tonight.” Senior goaltender Mackenzie Powell became the third different SoHi goalie to record a shutout during the streak, joining Josh Tree and Corbin Wirz with a 17-save shutout.
“I would adopt her if I could,” said Walton. The offense did its part too. Seven different players scored for SoHi, led by four names with two goals each — Galen Brantley III, Braxton Urban, Wyatt Medcoff and David Aley. Brantley III got the offense going by netting the first goal of the evening almost eight minutes into the contest with a back door wrist shot by Kenai goalie See PUCK, page A8
Ninilchik 8 7 4 5 — 24 Nikolaevsk 10 10 13 14 — 47 NINILCHIK (24) — Re. Okonek 3, Jasper 0, A. Calabrese 2, Robuck 6, Koch 7, Cooper 4, S. Calabrese 0, DenBoer 0, Ofstad 0, Ra. Okonek 2. Totals — 10 4-10 24. NIKOLAEVSK (47) — Klaich 2, Z. Fefelov 0, Lasiter 0, Yakunin 11, Kalugin 2, J. Fefelov 9, E. Fefelov 23. Totals — 19 6-12 47. 3-point goals — Nikolaevsk 3 (J. Fefelov 3). Team fouls — Ninilchik 8, Nikolaevsk 9. Fouled out — J. Fefelov. Thursday boys Warriors 57, Wolverines 53 Ninilchik 16 12 16 9 — 53 Nikolaevsk 20 8 17 12 — 57 NINILCHIK (53) — Hadro 6, Koch 20, Clark 15, Moore 2, Devila 0, Lemons 2, Mumey 8. Totals — 21 6-13 53. NIKOLAEVSK (57) — Boquecosa 4, Brown 0, J. Trail 2, Kalugin 4, Z. Trail 32, M. Trail 15. Totals — 26 1-3 57. 3-point goals — Ninilchik 5 (Koch 4, Hadro 1); Nikolaevsk 4 (Z. Trail 3, M. Trail 1). Team fouls — Ninilchik 8, Nikolaevsk 10. Fouled out — none.
Building new trail builds community
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rom Lunch Mountain, on Kachemak Bay State Park’s Tutka Backdoor Trail, Mount Iliamna appears perfectly framed between the fjord’s forested slopes. We wrapped up our last day of trail work this year on Sept. 27, enjoying lucky fall weather and this incredible view. Behind us, a trail wound through unnamed mountains before spilling onto the remote coast of Taylor Bay. A dozen volunteers stood atop a retaining wall of unreasonably heavy and painstakingly placed rocks that replaced a bit of trail which had previously been a shimmy on a 4-inch-wide ledge. We snapped a photo, then hiked four miles back to the beach, rock bars and Looking east toward Tutka Bay in late May, snow can still be thick on the top of 1,200-foot Lunch generator in tow. It was good we now knew Mountain. (Photo by Andy Banas)
R efuge N otebook E rin M c K ittrick how to build a proper rock wall, and just as good that we hadn’t known much of anything in 2016, when we set out to build the Tutka Backdoor Trail. If we had, we might never have started. On a small point a mile from the tidal flats at the head of Tutka Bay, streamers of blue and orange flagging decorate a small forest opening. The trail begins there, following the deep rainforest valley eastward before popping out onto Lunch Mountain.
It winds through deer cabbage meadows, past ponds and lakes, through a braided valley of willows, into a playground of tundra and peaks. That’s eight miles that anyone can follow. Beyond that, the trail crosses the river twice, before leaving hikers to make their own way through a four-mile mountain pass, picking up the rest of the marked trail on the eastern side of the Kenai Peninsula. This half of the trail is more remote and rugged, climbing and descending constantly to avoid impassable cliffs, crossing the Taylor River and ending on the beach in Taylor Bay. Since the route was completed at the end of 2017, nearly all through-hikers have done the 20-mile route one way only, See REFUGE, page A9
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Patriots receiver Gordon draws suspension from NFL FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Patriots receiver Josh Gordon was suspended indefinitely Thursday by the NFL for violating an agreement that allowed him to play after multiple drug suspensions, casting doubt on whether the talented but troubled playmaker would ever play in the league again. League officials said Thursday that Gordon was returned to the reserve/commissioner suspended list indefinitely for breaking the terms of his rein-
statement under the NFL substance abuse policy. The news came several hours after Gordon said he was stepping away from football to focus on his mental health. Gordon said on Twitter his decision was spurred by his own feelings that he could have a better grasp on things mentally. He thanked the Patriots for their support and vowed to work his way back. “We support Josh Gordon in his continued efforts to focus
Cooper has best result of season Staff report Peninsula Clarion
Travis Cooper, a 2015 graduate of Kenai Central in his first year at the World Cup biathlon circuit, had his best result of the season Thursday in the men’s 10-kilometer sprint in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic. Cooper finished 56th in the race, missing two of 10 targets.
Johannes Thingnes Boe of Norway won the race with perfect shooting, finishing at 23:09.9. Cooper was 2:28.8 off the pace. His one miss meant he had to ski a 150-meter penalty loop. Crucially, by finishing in the top 60, Cooper earns a spot in Saturday’s 12.5-kilometer pursuit. Cooper had done two sprints previously this season and not qualified for the pursuit.
on his health. His attempt to do so is a private and personal matter, which we intend to respect,” Patriots team officials said. Gordon has been suspended several times by the NFL for violations of its drug policies since being drafted by the Browns in 2012, and missed the entire 2015 and 2016 seasons. After being reinstated by NFL Commissioner Roger
Goodell in 2017, Gordon revealed in an interview with GQ magazine that he drank or used marijuana before games. “Probably every game of my career,” he said. Gordon also said in a 2017 mini-documentary on Uninterreupted.com that he took Xanax, cocaine, marijuana and other narcotics. Gordon’s outlook had improved with New England,
where he landed in September in a trade after the Browns felt it was time to cut ties. He had 40 receptions for 720 yards and three touchdowns with the Patriots, five years removed from an All-Pro season in 2013 with 87 catches for 1,646 yards and nine touchdowns. Special teams captain and receiver Matt Slater said despite his suspension, Gordon still has support inside the Pa-
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make matters worse, Kenai had trouble staying out of the penalty box, being charged with seven penalties to SoHi’s two, and the Stars were able to convert with five power play goals. Kenai head coach Jacob Newton said the penalties made for a tough night. “We have a dinged-up bench, and it killed us,” Newton said. “I don’t agree with all the calls. Some of them were a few dumb mistakes from us, but some others weren’t great calls.” Kenai goaltender Carson Koppes stopped 17 of 26 shots he faced in the first two periods and Jackson Cross saved two of four shots in the third.
Brantley’s opening goal was nick also notched a score. quickly followed up by a secThursday ond one just 10 seconds later Stars 11, Kardinals 0 as the speedy junior skater col- Soldotna 4 5 2 —11 lected the puck moments after Kenai 0 0 0 —0 the mid-ice drop and found First period — 1. Soldotna, Brantley (Kline), Braxton Urban near the slot for 7:02; 2. Soldotna, Urban (Brantley), 7:12; 3. Soldotna, Montague (Urban), PP, 12:18; a 2-0 lead. 4. Soldotna, Aley (Skolnick), 12:32. PenalAlex Montague scored So- ties — Kenai 2 for 4:00; Soldotna 1 for 2:00. period — 5. Soldotna, Aley (SkolHi’s first of five power play Second nick, Dahlgren), :50; 6. Soldotna, Medcoff goals on the night with 2:42 left (Brantley), PP, 6:28; 7. Soldotna, Medcoff in the first period, and Aley got (Kline), PP, 11:21; 8. Soldotna, Skolnick 12:29; 9. Soldotna, Miller (Haakhis first just 14 seconds later for (Medcoff), enson, Brantley), 14:31. Penalties — Kenai a 4-0 Stars lead. Aley notched 4 for 8:00. his second of the night just 50 Third period — 10. Soldotna, Urban (MonKline), PP, :36; 11. Soldotna, Brantseconds into the second period. tague, ley (unassisted), 10:50. Penalties — Kenai SoHi scored three times with 1 for 2:00; Soldotna 1 for 2:00. — Soldotna, Powell (17 shots, the man advantage in the sec- Goalies 17 saves); Kenai, Koppes (26 shots, 17 ond period, getting power play saves), Cross (4 shots, 2 saves). goals from Medcoff (twice) Shots — Soldotna 13-13-4—30; Kenai 9-4and Journey Miller. Sam Skol- 4—17.
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Carson Koppes, then added his second with the 11th Stars goal of the night with just over four minutes remaining in the game. Kenai was missing three key players to injury, and Brantley III said that made SoHi’s job a little easier. “They were missing their first line and we got a lot of shots on them,” Brantley said. “We’ve had to play short a guy sometimes and it’s hard.” The Kards were missing Nate Beiser, Jude Gabriel and Bailey Maxson to injury. To
Homer Candy Cane . . . Office ski results posted Staff report Peninsula Clarion
The Homer Candy Cane ski meet was held Dec. 14 at the Lookout Mountain ski trails. The meet, which featured the freestyle technique, was moved to Homer from Tsalteshi Trails at the last minute so results took awhile to compile, but they are now available: Girls long race — 1. Autumn Daigle, Hom, 15 minutes, 41 seconds; 2. Maria Salzetti, Ken, 16:07; 3. Katia Holmes, Hom, 16:46; 4. Hannah Delker, Sol, 17:08; 5. Zoe Stonorov, Hom, 17:14; 6. Erika Arthur, Sol, 17:22; 7. Isabella Dammeyer, Sol, 17:22; 8. Katie Delker, Sol, 17:22; 9. Summer Foster, Ken, 17:57; 10. Leah Fallon, Ken, 18:02; 11. Brita Restad, Hom, 18:03; 12. Jordan Ruffner, Sol, 19:34; 13. Mickinzie Ticknor, Ken, 20:27; 14. Kortney Birch, Sol, 21:04; 15. Betsy Moffett, Ken, 21:19; 16. Gabby Tews, Ken, 21:21; 17. Tanis Lorring, Sol, 21:29; 18. Emmy Reese, Sol, 21:42; 19. Carson Dement, Sol, 21:47; 20. Abigail Moffett, Ken,
22:16; 21. Rachel Koppes, Ken, 22:24; 22. Grace Morrow, Ken, 22:41; 23. Jaala Lopez, Ken, 27:32. Boys long race — 1. Jack Harris, Sol, 14:27; 2. Foster Boze, Sol, 14:46; 3. Josh Foster, Ken, 14:57; 4. Joseph Dammeyer, Sol, 15:13; 5. Lance Chilton, Sol, 15:19; 6. Tristan Summer, Ken, 15:35; 7. Ty Hippchen, Ken, 15:37; 8. Quinn Cox, Sol, 15:43; 9. Samuel Roberts, Ken, 15:52; 10. Johann Carranza, Ken, 15:57; 11. Andrew Super, Hom, 16:24; 12. Tucker Mueller, Ken, 17:11; 13. Kyler Pritchet, Sol, 17:27; 14. Nathan Haakenson, Ken, 17:35; 15. Billy Morrow, Ken, 17:51; 16. Dylan Hogue, Sol, 17:54; 17. Darius Martin, Sol, 18:15; 18. Giovanni Rigutto, Sol, 18:15; 19. Mathew Grzybowski, Ken, 18:59; 20. Luke Cross, Ken, 19:22. Girls short race — 1. Sienna Carey, Hom, 10:02; 2. Shelbie Naylor, Ken, 10:49; 3. Margarida Mendoca, Sol, 11:28; 4. Kara Super, Hom, 11:37; 5. Roos Meijer, Sol, 12:35; 6. Jordan Strausbaugh, Sol, 12:57; 7. Audrey Larson, Ken, 13:03; 8. Mykaela Hall, Ken, 13:30; 9. Madelyn Barkman, Sol, 14:36; 10. Jean Dunham, Ken, 15:40. Boys short race — 1. David Grinestaff, Sol, 8:34; 2. Marcus Dunham, Ken, 10:25; 3. Nathan Pitka, Sol, 11:32; 4. Devin Murphy, Ken, 11:52; 5. Wyatt Dement, Sol, 12:24; 6. Justin Hansen, Sol, 12:33; 7. Fran Gamen, Ken, 14:52; 8. Sorin Sorensen, Ken, 14:52.
ter (the other one) and we had stopped on a trip to Fairbanks to visit the hot springs at a Continued from page A7 ramshackle lodge. The springs were, indeed, hot, smelled of rickety tourist bus that bounced sulfur and full of teenagers. slowly up and down the steep But still, lovely. hills while I craned my neck We stayed at an Iditarodthrough a frame of an awkthemed hotel, by a river, and had wardly placed window trying drive-thru Thai food. And then to take in the tundra. we made our way home on the And once in my own little lonely and largely abandoned car, in October, late in the eve- Richardson Highway — where ning (which was like, 4 p.m.), lakes and mountains and glacial after the tourists had gone outflows have to compete with home for the season and the sheer cliffs and the massive, road was open. It was cold that seemingly unbroken forests. day, and windy — Alaska wind We occasionally tried to has this way of making you orient ourselves as we drove feel like you’ve been punched each stretch of empty road — and everything seemed to alongside unsettlingly eroded shimmer from a low sun castmountain walls. ing light over the peaks. At the top of a ridge someI was traveling with my sis- where between Delta Junction
Today is Friday, Dec. 21, the 355th day of 2018. There are 10 days left in the year. Winter arrives at 5:23 p.m. Eastern time. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 21, 1891, the first basketball game, devised by James Naismith, is believed to have been played at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. (The final score of this experimental game: 1-0.) On this date: In 1620, Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower went ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts. In 1864, during the Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman concluded their “March to the Sea” as they captured Savannah, Georgia. In 1913, the first newspaper crossword puzzle, billed as a “Word-Cross Puzzle,” was published in the New York World. In 1937, Walt Disney’s first animated feature, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” had its world premiere at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles. The first Dr. Seuss book, “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” was published by Vanguard Press. In 1945, U.S. Army Gen. George S. Patton, 60, died in Heidelberg, Germany, 12 days after being seriously injured in a car accident. In 1967, Louis Washkansky, the first human heart transplant recipient, died at a hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, 18 days after receiving the donor organ. The satirical comedy-drama “The Graduate,” starring Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman, was released by Embassy Pictures. In 1968, Apollo 8 was launched on a mission to orbit the moon. In 1969, Vince Lombardi coached his last football game as his team, the Washington Redskins, lost to the Dallas Cowboys, 20-10. In 1976, the Liberian-registered tanker Argo Merchant broke apart near Nantucket Island off Massachusetts almost a week after running aground, spilling 7.5 million gallons of oil into the North Atlantic. In 1988, 270 people were killed when a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pam Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, sending wreckage crashing to the ground. In 1991, eleven of the 12 former Soviet republics proclaimed the birth of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the death of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In 2002, President George W. Bush received a smallpox vaccination, fulfilling a promise he’d made when he ordered inoculations for about a-half million U.S. troops. Ten years ago: A multi-faith ceremony was held to mark the reopening of Mumbai, India’s Oberoi hotel three weeks after it was targeted in a militant rampage. Detroit became the first 0-15 team when it was routed 42-7 by the New Orleans Saints. Playwright Dale Wasserman, who’d written the book for the Tony-winning musical “Man of La Mancha,” died in Paradise Valley, Ariz. at age 94. Five years ago: Director of National Intelligence James Clapper declassified more documents outlining how the National Security Agency was first authorized to start collecting bulk phone and Internet records in the hunt for al-Qaida terrorists and how a court eventually gained oversight of the program. Gunfire hit three U.S. military aircraft trying to evacuate American citizens in a remote region of South Sudan that had become a battleground between the country’s military and renegade troops. Edgar M. Bronfman Sr., 84, the billionaire businessman and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress, died in New York. One year ago: The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to denounce President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, largely ignoring Trump’s threat to cut off aid to any country that went against him. Vice President Mike Pence arrived in Afghanistan for a secret meeting with Afghan leaders and a visit with U.S. troops. Papa John’s announced that founder John Schnatter would step down as CEO; the company had apologized for his comments criticizing the NFL leadership over protests by players who knelt during the national anthem. Today’s Birthdays: Talk show host Phil Donahue is 83. Actress Jane Fonda is 81. Actor Larry Bryggman is 80. Singer Carla Thomas is 76. Musician Albert Lee is 75. Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas is 74. Actor Josh Mostel is 72. Actor Samuel L. Jackson is 70. Rock singer Nick Gilder is 68. Movie producer Jeffrey Katzenberg is 68. Actor Dennis Boutsikaris is 66. Singer Betty Wright is 65. International Tennis Hall of Famer Chris Evert is 64. Actress Jane Kaczmarek is 63. Country singer Lee Roy Parnell is 62. Entertainer Jim Rose is 62. Former child actress Lisa Gerritsen is 61. Actorcomedian Ray Romano is 61. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is 56. Country singer Christy Forester (The Forester Sisters) is 56. Rock musician Murph (The Lemonheads; Dinosaur Jr.) is 54. Actor-comedian Andy Dick is 53. Rock musician Gabrielle Glaser is 53. Actress Michelle Hurd is 52. Actor Kiefer Sutherland is 52. Actress Karri Turner is 52. Actress Khrystyne Haje is 50. Country singer Brad Warren (The Warren Brothers) is 50. Actress Julie Delpy is 49. Country singer-musician Rhean (rehn) Boyer (Carolina Rain) is 48. Contemporary Christian singer Natalie Grant is 47. Actor Glenn Fitzgerald is 47. Singer-musician Brett Scallions is 47. World Golf Hall of Famer Karrie Webb is 44. Rock singer Lukas Rossi (Rock Star Supernova) is 42. Actress Rutina Wesley is 40. Rock musician Anna Bulbrook (Airborne Toxic Event) is 36. Country singer Luke Stricklin is 36. Actor Steven Yeun is 35. Actress Kaitlyn Dever is 22. Thought for Today: “Winter comes but once a year, And when it comes it brings the doctor good cheer.” -- Ogden Nash, American humorist (19021971).
it all to wow me — floor me, even. And it did. Looking out at the view from wherever it was I was standing — the land unbroken and stretched out beneath me, with trees farther than I could see and mountains so high they were nearly indiscernible from clouds — I didn’t just feel awe, but panic. Underneath the noise of my sightseeing and selfies was a quiet voice, mourning the edge of the world. Alaska is vast. And in the last year, in as many hours as I’ve spent in my little car driving up and down highways, I’ve only seen a small section of it. Even so, I can’t help feeling that it is not vast enough to keep the horizon unbroken for future reflection.
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and Glenallen we stopped to walk my newly acquired and very old dog, and eat warm sandwiches. I still don’t know quite where we were. I swore Wrangell St. Elias was to my right. My sister said it was to the left. Likely it was both directions. Or neither. I’m not good at maps. But ahead of us was the landscape equivalent of the Alaska wind. From a pullout on the road we could see a whole section of the world — flat and far, carpeted with trees and punctured with reflective spots I assume were lakes. In the distance we spotted the trans-Alaska oil pipeline — a distinct, silver glimmer snaking across the horizon. I expected the vastness of
triots locker room. “My No. 1 concern is with him as a man,” Slater said. “I’m thankful for the approach he took here, how he was as a teammate. I enjoyed getting to know him in that process and I’ll continue to support him in any way I can.” Safety Devin McCourty said the 27-year-old’s well-being is his biggest concern, not football.
AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 9 5 0 .643 374 310 Miami 7 7 0 .500 295 374 5 9 0 .357 215 333 Buffalo N.Y. Jets 4 10 0 .286 292 359 South Houston 10 4 0 .714 352 281 Indianapolis 8 6 0 .571 372 300 8 6 0 .571 268 254 Tennessee Jacksonville 4 10 0 .286 225 289 North Pittsburgh 8 5 1 .607 384 316 Baltimore 8 6 0 .571 341 253 6 7 1 .464 309 348 Cleveland Cincinnati 6 8 0 .429 337 413 West x-Kansas City 11 3 0 .786 499 380 x-L.A. Chargers 11 3 0 .786 395 298 Denver 6 8 0 .429 306 299 Oakland 3 11 0 .214 260 418
NATIONAL CONFERENCE East 8 6 Dallas Philadelphia 7 7 Washington 7 7 N.Y. Giants 5 9 South y-New Orleans 12 2 Carolina 6 8 Atlanta 5 9 Tampa Bay 5 9 North y-Chicago 10 4 Minnesota 7 6 Green Bay 5 8 5 9 Detroit West y-L.A. Rams 11 3 Seattle 8 6 San Francisco 4 10 Arizona 3 11 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division
0 .571 0 .500 0 .500 0 .357
276 311 265 307
269 318 310 348
0 .857 0 .429 0 .357 0 .357
459 333 356 344
292 344 381 403
0 .714 1 .536 1 .393 0 .357
383 323 332 284
264 308 331 333
0 .786 0 .571 0 .286 0 .214
448 363 301 192
343 292 373 367
Saturday’s Games Washington at Tennessee, 12:30 p.m. Baltimore at L.A. Chargers, 4:20 p.m. Sunday’s Games Atlanta at Carolina, 9 a.m. Houston at Philadelphia, 9 a.m. N.Y. Giants at Indianapolis, 9 a.m. Green Bay at N.Y. Jets, 9 a.m. Minnesota at Detroit, 9 a.m. Buffalo at New England, 9 a.m. Cincinnati at Cleveland, 9 a.m. Jacksonville at Miami, 9 a.m. Tampa Bay at Dallas, 9 a.m. L.A. Rams at Arizona, 12:05 p.m. Chicago at San Francisco, 12:05 p.m. Pittsburgh at New Orleans, 12:25 p.m. Kansas City at Seattle, 4:20 p.m. Monday’s Games Denver at Oakland, 4:15 p.m. All Times AST
Bowl Glance
Saturday, Dec. 15 Celebration Bowl At Atlanta Thursday, Dec. 20 Gasparilla Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. Marshall 38, South Florida 20 Friday, Dec. 21 Bahamas Bowl Nassau Toledo (7-5) vs. FIU (8-4), 8:30 a.m (ESPN) Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Boise Western Michigan (7-5) vs. BYU (6-6), noon (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 22 Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl Memphis (8-5) vs. Wake Forest (6-6), 8 a.m. (ESPN) Armed Forces Bowl
Fort Worth, Texas Houston (8-4) vs. Army (10-2), 11:30 a.m. (ESPN) Dollar General Bowl Mobile, Ala. Buffalo (10-3) vs. Troy (9-3), 3 p.m. (ESPN) Hawaii Bowl Honolulu Louisiana Tech (7-5) vs. Hawaii (85), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) All Times AST
Basketball Men’s major scores EAST Albany (NY) 77, Manhattan 67 Fordham 75, James Madison 48 Holy Cross 65, Canisius 63 Pittsburgh 99, New Orleans 57 Yale 66, Monmouth (NJ) 58 SOUTH Appalachian St. 99, Milligan 60 Duke 69, Texas Tech 58 FIU 108, Florida Memorial 67 Kennesaw St. 90, Southeastern 72 N. Kentucky 65, N. Illinois 62 South Alabama 86, Mobile 47 Tennessee Tech 91, Savannah St. 80 Winthrop 88, Md.-Eastern Shore 74 MIDWEST Ball St. 98, Howard 71 Creighton 110, Coe College 60 Miami (Ohio) 79, SC State 55 Notre Dame 100, Jacksonville 74 Purdue 95, Ohio 67 Purdue Fort Wayne 106, Siena Heights 45 W. Illinois 81, Chicago St. 52 SOUTHWEST Houston 60, Utah St. 50 North Texas 77, Ark.-Pine Bluff 66 UTSA 64, Texas A&M-CC 50 FAR WEST Seattle 102, Prairie View 64
Women’s Major Scores EAST Cornell 62, Lafayette 59 Lehigh 72, LIU Brooklyn 38 Maryland 77, Delaware 53 Md.-Eastern Shore 86, Mount St. Mary’s 73 Providence 48, N. Kentucky 43 Saint Joseph’s 61, Sacred Heart 44 West Virginia 90, Towson 43 Yale 58, CCSU 46 SOUTH Alabama 64, Virginia 52 Alabama A&M 63, North Florida 62 Auburn 86, North Carolina 81 Bethune-Cookman 64, Kennesaw St. 61 Creighton 83, South Florida 76 FIU 75, Alcorn St. 40 Furman 77, Fairfield 70 Georgia St. 65, NC Central 54 Georgia Tech 84, Seton Hall 73 Grambling St. 65, Indiana 62 High Point 66, American U. 61 Jacksonville 105, Warner 55 LSU 76, Louisiana-Lafayette 54 Miami 90, Vanderbilt 65 Middle Tennessee 67, UNC-Asheville 46 Missouri St. 82, Louisiana Tech 70 Rice 56, Coastal Carolina 52 Southern Miss. 59, SE Louisiana 52 Stetson 69, Florida A&M 44
UAB 86, Coppin St. 61 UMBC 73, Morgan St. 68 Virginia Tech 69, Dayton 57 MIDWEST Akron 74, Jackson St. 57 Butler 66, Ohio St. 53 DePaul 102, Loyola of Chicago 76 Florida St. 87, Milwaukee 62 Illinois St. 72, Saint Louis 67 Kansas 66, Northwestern 57 Kansas St. 70, Cent. Arkansas 54 Louisville 72, Cent. Michigan 68 Michigan St. 89, FAU 74 North Dakota 62, W. Michigan 50 South Dakota 67, Loyola Marymount 40 Texas 81, Rio Grande 66 UMKC 80, SIU-Edwardsville 75 UNC-Greensboro 49, E. Michigan 44 Washington St. 85, Wichita St. 59 Youngstown St. 76, Thiel 53 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 61, Tulsa 59 Lamar 82, Pacific 66 TCU 72, Sam Houston St. 59 Texas A&M-CC 73, Texas Lutheran 49 Texas Southern 72, Huston-Tillotson 36 Texas-Arlington 53, UTSA 48 UTEP 84, W. Illinois 72 FAR WEST Arizona St. 68, Fresno St. 52 Colorado 81, Samford 39 Gonzaga 88, Idaho 51 La Salle 62, Pepperdine 55 Mississippi St. 103, Washington 56 Nevada 67, Seattle 54 New Mexico 74, Stephen F. Austin 33 Oregon 82, Air Force 36 Oregon St. 71, Duke 57 Sacramento St. 65, Hampton 61 Santa Clara 75, Grand Canyon 55 South Alabama 68, New Mexico St. 67 UC Riverside 71, Weber St. 39 Utah 74, Florida 58 Wyoming 77, S. Dakota St. 70
NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 24 9 .727 — Philadelphia 21 12 .636 3 Boston 18 12 .600 4½ Brooklyn 15 18 .455 9 New York 9 24 .273 15 Southeast Division Charlotte 15 15 .500 — Orlando 14 16 .467 1 Miami 14 16 .467 1 Washington 12 20 .375 4 Atlanta 7 23 .233 8 Central Division Milwaukee 21 9 .700 — Indiana 20 12 .625 2 Detroit 15 14 .517 5½ Cleveland 8 24 .250 14 Chicago 7 25 .219 15 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division San Antonio 17 15 .531 — Memphis 16 15 .516 ½ Houston 16 15 .516 ½ Dallas 15 15 .500 1 New Orleans 15 17 .469 2 Northwest Division 21 9 .700 — Denver Oklahoma City 20 10 .667 1 Portland 18 13 .581 3½ Utah 15 17 .469 7 Minnesota 14 17 .452 7½ Pacific Division Golden State 21 11 .656 — L.A. Lakers 18 13 .581 2½
L.A. Clippers 18 13 .581 2½ Sacramento 16 15 .516 4½ Phoenix 8 24 .250 13 Thursday’s Games Miami 101, Houston 99 L.A. Clippers 125, Dallas 121 Friday’s Games Cleveland at Toronto, 3 p.m. Detroit at Charlotte, 3 p.m. Atlanta at New York, 3:30 p.m. Indiana at Brooklyn, 3:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Boston, 4 p.m. Orlando at Chicago, 4 p.m. Minnesota at San Antonio, 4:30 p.m. Memphis at Sacramento, 6 p.m. Utah at Portland, 6 p.m. New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 6:30 p.m. Saturday’s Games Denver at L.A. Clippers, 1 p.m. Phoenix at Washington, 3 p.m. Toronto at Philadelphia, 3:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Miami, 4 p.m. San Antonio at Houston, 4 p.m. Dallas at Golden State, 4:30 p.m. Oklahoma City at Utah, 5 p.m. All Times AST
Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 36 27 7 2 56 148 103 Toronto 35 23 10 2 48 130 96 Buffalo 35 20 10 5 45 107 103 Boston 35 19 12 4 42 97 89 Montreal 36 18 13 5 41 111 114 Detroit 36 15 16 5 35 104 119 Ottawa 35 15 16 4 34 116 135 Florida 33 13 14 6 32 107 121 Metropolitan Division Washington 33 20 10 3 43 123 102 Columbus 34 19 12 3 41 110 106 35 17 12 6 40 116 110 Pittsburgh N.Y. Islanders 34 17 13 4 38 98 97 N.Y. Rangers 33 15 13 5 35 97 107 Carolina 33 14 14 5 33 85 97 Philadelphia 33 14 15 4 32 98 119 New Jersey 33 11 15 7 29 97 120
WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Winnipeg 35 23 10 2 48 127 101 Nashville 36 22 12 2 46 109 90 Colorado 35 19 10 6 44 124 107 35 17 15 3 37 96 98 Dallas Minnesota 34 17 15 2 36 102 97 St. Louis 33 13 16 4 30 93 113 Chicago 37 12 19 6 30 106 138 Pacific Division Calgary 36 22 11 3 47 126 100 San Jose 36 19 12 5 43 119 108 Anaheim 37 19 13 5 43 95 106 Vegas 37 20 15 2 42 111 104 Edmonton 35 18 14 3 39 99 105 Vancouver 38 17 17 4 38 117 124 Arizona 34 14 18 2 30 83 94 Los Angeles 35 12 20 3 27 79 107 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. Thursday’s Games Pittsburgh 2, Minnesota 1 Detroit 4, Carolina 1 Boston 3, Anaheim 1 Columbus 2, New Jersey 1 Toronto 6, Florida 1 Philadelphia 2, Nashville 1 Chicago 5, Dallas 2 Montreal 2, Arizona 1 Tampa Bay 5, Calgary 4, SO Vancouver 5, St. Louis 1 Vegas 4, N.Y. Islanders 2 Winnipeg 5, San Jose 3 Friday’s Games Buffalo at Washington, 3 p.m.
Ottawa at New Jersey, 3 p.m. Chicago at Colorado, 5 p.m. Saturday’s Games Nashville at Boston, 9 a.m. Columbus at Philadelphia, 9 a.m. Florida at Detroit, 10 a.m. St. Louis at Calgary, noon Montreal at Vegas, noon Los Angeles at San Jose, noon Colorado at Arizona, 3 p.m. Anaheim at Buffalo, 3 p.m. Washington at Ottawa, 3 p.m. Pittsburgh at Carolina, 3 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 3 p.m. Dallas at Minnesota, 4 p.m. Winnipeg at Vancouver, 6 p.m. Tampa Bay at Edmonton, 6 p.m. All Times AST
Transactions BASEBALL American League LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with RHP Trevor Cahill on a one-year contract. SEATTLE MARINERS — Agreed to terms with LHP Zac Rosscup on a one-year contract. National League SAN DIEGO PADRES — Agreed to terms with INF Ian Kinsler on a two-year contract. Designated LHP Clayton Richard for assignment. FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended New England WR Josh Gordon indefinitely for violating an agreement that allowed him to play after multiple drug suspensions. ARIZONA CARDINALS — Resigned OL Justin Evans to the practice squad. Released WR Daniel Braverman from the practice squad. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Placed LB Shaq Thompson on injured reserve. Signed QB Kyle Allen from the practice squad. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — WR Josh Gordon announced he is stepping away from football. TENNESSEE TITANS — Placed RB David Fluellen on injured reserve. Signed LB Nigel Harris from the practice squad. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed WR Darvin Kidsy from the practice squad. HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled G Adin Hill and F Conor Garland from Tucson (AHL). CALGARY FLAMES — Recalled Fs Ryan Lomberg and Buddy Robinson from Stockton (AHL). Reassigned F Kerby Rychel to Stockton. NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled F Tyler Gaudet from Milwaukee (AHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer MINNESOTA UNITED — Signed M Jan Gregus. NASHVILLE — Signed F Cameron Lancaster. National Women’s Soccer League SKY BLUE FC — Announced the resignation of vice president of communications John Archibald. COLLEGE NORTH CAROLINA — Extended the contract of Roy Williams men’s basketball coach through the 2027-28 season.
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et before the play started and been 100 percent correct. This year when the tourney convenes at Cook Inlet Academy in March, McMilin expects a lot more parity. “I think there’s going to be a lot of fireworks going on at regions,” CIA girls coach Josh Hawley said. “There will be upsets and heartthrobbing situations. It’s going to be a good time.” One area that always looms as a mystery for coaches from the Kenai Peninsula is any team off of the Kenai Peninsula. Last season, that proved to be a big deal as the boys from Chugiak’s Birchwood Christian and the girls from Anchorage’s Lumen Christi made off with the conference titles. It was the first time two teams from off the Kenai Peninsula won since 2004, when the Lumen Christi boys and Bristol Bay girls wore crowns. While Birchwood Christian lost a bunch of seniors off that title squad, Nikolaevsk girls coach Bea Klaich said Lumen Christi should have enough left from the title team to be a factor again. Nikolaevsk boys coach Steve Klaich also thinks the Lumen Christi boys could be a force to be reckoned with. When it comes to favorites from the peninsula, Nikolaevsk is a good place to start. Steve Klaich is in his 30th year at the helm of the program. The Warriors have made five straight trips to state, all coming due to runner-up finishes at the conference tournament. The Warriors won the season-opening Cook Inlet Classic despite missing three players due to academics. “We could be one of the top teams if I have all my guys,” Klaich said. “If not, there will be a lot of people fighting for the two spots to state.” Bea Klaich, entering her 13th year, had a string of six straight state appearances snapped last season. The Warriors, who have won four of the last six conference titles, return hungry. “They know they won’t be able to just sit back and make state,” Bea Klaich said. “They know they’ll have to work for it, and so far they are.” The Ninilchik girls snapped up the other state berth from the conference last season and went on to win a second consolation title in three years. The Wolverines won the conference
Peninsula Clarion | Friday, December 21, 2018 | A9 in 2016 and also won eight state titles from 1996 to 2006. Conference MVP DeeAnn White, a senior this season, has transferred out of state. Joshua Demlow has stepped down as girls coach and has been replaced by Tessa Lemons. Ninilchik also lost first-team all-conference player Olivia Delgado to graduation. “I can tell the ballplayers here are nervous about them leaving,” Lemons said of White and Delgado. “They were such big players on the team, but the ones who are still here have really stepped it up. They’re very capable.” Demlow also coached the boys team last year as Ninilchik saw a run of two straight conference and state titles come to an end. Dick Hawkins takes over this year. “I’ve told other folks we stand a good chance of doing quite well in conference and possibly going to state,” Hawkins said. The programs at Cook Inlet Academy both have state pedigree and are bursting with numbers after both the girls and boys had to take a year off recently. The girls, the 2013 state champs, had a run of nine straight state berths snapped in 2015-16, then didn’t have a team in 2016-17, before returning last year under Hawley, who won conference coach of the year. The Eagles had just six players last season, but have 11 on the roster this season. The boys, state champs in 1999, 2002 and 2005, had no team in 2015-16, but McMilin is now in his third year of building the program back up and has 12 on the roster. The final squad from the Kenai Peninsula is the Nanwalek boys. The team started as a club and is now in its 11th season. This season, the squad also has players from Port Graham and Seldovia. After having seven players last season, Seville said he could have 13 or 14 this season. “I don’t have enough uniforms,” he said. “I may have to order some at midseason.” The following is a closer look at the Kenai Peninsula’s basketball teams: Cook Inlet Academy girls With five seniors and three juniors on the roster, the Eagles look experienced on paper. But looks can be deceiving. “We have quite a few players that have never played basketball before,” Hawley said. Seniors Adara Warren and
Anna Cizek are not two of those players. Both were named second-team all-conference last season, with Warren also making all-Peninsula Conference tournament. “We’re going to really rely on them,” Hawley said. “They are our captains.” Senior Brianna Hammond and sophomore Emilee Cragg, in her second year of playing, also return as starters. Junior Anna Henderson also gives the team a threat in the middle after transferring from Soldotna High School. Sophomore Jamie Hyatt also is in her second year of playing basketball, while sophomore Genna Nelson, juniors Linnaea Dohse and Anika Castenholtz, and seniors Sophia Nelson and Addie Nelson are playing for the first time. “We have a lot of soccer players,” Hawley said. “I’m just telling them to rely on their instincts and I can coach them off of that.” With so many players, Hawley said the assistance of his wife, Kara, and Melissa Knuth becomes all the more important. “I know things aren’t going to click right away,” Hawley said. “I’m not concerned with wins and losses right now. The goal is to peak at regions.” Cook Inlet Academy boys McMilin returns five starters and three other returners as those in the program, himself included, continue to gain valuable experience. “I was pretty clueless. I had no idea what I was doing,” McMilin said of when he took over the program. “I’d watch NBA games and think, ‘I could do this.’ “Then practice started and I was like, ‘What’d we do in high school again?’” Senior Hunter Moos and juniors Lucas Cragg, Robert Walsh and Josh Boyd, and sophomore Isaac Johnson return as starters. Jiabao Leaf, James Anderson and John Peterson also return. Moos is the captain, but McMilin said Moos will have much more support this season. “We have a lot more depth this year,” McMilin said. “Last year with eight players, if somebody got hurt, ineligible or in foul trouble, it became a problem really quickly.” Alex Van De Grift came over from SoHi to join the team, which also added freshmen James Boyd, Mason Zeigler and Ethan Boyd. Zeigler is 6-foot-4. “He loves playing basketball
Nanwalek boys Not only does this year’s squad have good numbers, but Seville said the middle school has classes of eight or nine kids as well. The coach would like to see Nanwalek field a girls team in the future. “The future looks bright for Nanwalek basketball,” Seville said. The present looks pretty promising, too. It has been three years since Seville had a senior, but this season seniors Isaiah Bales and Uriah Huntsman return as starters. Huntsman was secondteam all-conference last season. Junior Marcus Wilson also returns as a starter, and Seville is hoping to have senior Johnathan Jimmy, who has started in the past, return to the team. Another player that is coming back is Port Graham’s Malachi Joseph, a junior who last played for the team as a freshman. Two years ago in the conference tourney, Joseph scored 21 in a loss to the eventual champs Ninilchik, while Lumen Christi scored just 18 points total in a loss to the Wolverines. Joseph has spent the last two years playing in Anchorage. Also flocking to the team are sophomore Ben Botero of Seldovia and junior Seth Tenape, who returned from Mt. Edgecumbe. Juniors Isaiah Moonin, Charlie Moonin and Evan Evans, and freshman Tikkon Kvasnikof round out the roster. Seville said having so many players in practice is definitely a change, but it is worth it due to the style he likes to play. “I like creating chaos on the floor,” he said. The final exciting development for the program is, due to having a Seldovia player, Nanwalek can use that gym for home games. Nanwalek does not have a gym big enough for official games. Nikolaevsk girls
In effect, Nikolaevsk returns four starters. Juniors Elizabeth Fefelov and Markiana Yakunin, and sophomore Justina Fefelov, started full-time. Junior Sophia Klaich and sophomore Sarafima Mametieff started half of the time. Elizabeth Fefelov made second-team all-conference and all-tournament, while Yakunin was all-tournament. Klaich said 5-foot-9 Elizabeth Fefelov’s game is ready to take on even more dimensions. “We’re trying to utilize her not just inside, but she’s got a pretty good outside shot too,” Klaich said. “If she can draw out the bigs, that can help a lot.” Returners Kerianna Lasiter, a sophomore, and Zoya Fefelov, a freshman, add crucial depth along with newcomer Krtstyana Kalugin, a freshman. That depth will be crucial. “Our goal is to be a fast team and pretty much play full-court defense 24/7,” Klaich said. Nikolaevsk boys Although the Warriors lost conference tournament MVP Kalenik Molodih, three starters and two others return with the valuable experience of what it takes to make state. “It helps in the area of confidence and what it takes to win tough games,” Steve Klaich said. Seniors Michael Trail and JD Mumey, and junior Zachary Trail return as starters. Michael made second-team all-conference, while Mumey, who didn’t have enough practices for the season-opening Cook Inlet Classic, was alltournament. Zachary and Michael Trail are joined by brother and freshman, Justin, to form a potent trio. “Inside, outside, defensive rebounding, everything, they’re going to be key,” Klaich said. Freshman point guard Lukah Kalugin will start, and Klaich is looking forward to seeing what the crafty player will do. Finally, eighth-grader Josiah Brown provided key minutes in the run to the Cook Inlet Classic title. “We’re strong inside,” Klaich said. “We’re not exactly tall, but we’re a physically strong team. Our inside game will be what we rely on.”
The Warriors proved they Ninilchik girls want to return to state by attending many individual Lemons went to all of Ninicamps, then getting the whole lchik’s home games last seasquad to show up for a team son, but she said she never camp in June. dreamed she would be coach-
ing the team this year. She played high school basketball in Kentucky, so when the position opened up, her love of being a good role model and working with kids got her to apply. “I was very nervous about taking this over,” Lemons said. “I do know what it means to everyone around here. “Everyone around here has been so helpful.” Senior Isabella Koch, junior Madi Cooper and sophomore Jade Robuck return as starters. Koch is the only senior on the team and made second-team all-conference and all-tournament last season. Rounding out the team are juniors Lily Jasper, Jancee Corey and Samantha Calabrese, sophomore Rachael Okonek, and freshmen Autumn Calabrese, Rian Ofstad, Rebecca Okonek and Mia DenBoer. “We don’t have a lot of height, but we have quite a few that are pretty fast and handle the basketball really well,” Lemons said. Ninilchik boys Hawkins, a 1968 graduate of Ninilchik, has no coaching experience. But he has a lifelong love for basketball that started in Ninilchik, and he taught for 21 years in Anchorage, so all the pieces are in place to be a good coach. “I heard the boys didn’t have a coach this year,” Hawkins said. “I wasn’t going to let the school go without a coach, so I stepped up and everything fell into place.” Hawkins said senior Garrett Koch is the only one to have nailed down a starting spot. Koch was first-team all-conference last season and also made the all-tournament team. “He can do everything,” Hawkins said. “He can drive to the basket, he can rebound and he can make his 10- or 15foot jumper. He’s a very good 3-point shooter and a good leader on the court.” Juniors Jake Clark and Jacob Mumey saw a lot of time last season, while senior Cameron Moore is new to the team. Sophomores Cole Hadro and Damon Davila also bring experience to the table. Hawkins said Mumey, Clark and Koch have played together through high school and should have good chemistry. “Jacob Mumey and Clark are big, not just tall, but big,” Hawkins said. “They take up a lot of space. They’re good rebounders underneath the basket and good post people.”
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most beginning with a floatplane ride to Taylor Bay. In those three seasons, I have spent 80 days living along that 20-mile stretch, with a rotating cast of dozens of volunteers. Seventy individuals have joined us, from babies to grandmothers. They have endured dayslong deluges, toiling for weeks on the promise of nothing more than free beef jerky and granola bars. The adults among them have put in 626 person-days of work, nearly all of it with hand tools and sweat. Why? As one of the trail’s three parents, my initial reasoning was mostly along the lines of, “Hey, wouldn’t that be cool?” It was a route Hig (my spouse) and I had roughed out in our pre-kid, high-speed bushwhacking days. Beautiful alpine valleys, endless stretches of tundra, and a route to the stunning and rarely visited eastern side of the state park. So when the park was mulling over drafts of its new management plan, we drew a few lines on the map. All we had to do was cut a few bushes, and we’d open up a path for all the adventurers who weren’t quite willing to brave the devil’s club to get there. We did have to brave the devil’s club. I spent a whole day in 2017 with an intrepid volunteer, crawling through devil’s club and salmonberries on the side of a cliff above Taylor River, while a half dozen other people fanned out in equally improbable directions, all looking for a single possible route. We crawled through all the bad ways and all the good ways, multiple times, with flagging tape and inclinometers and
and he’s put in a lot of work since he started playing last year,” McMilin said of Zeigler. With all the depth, McMilin said the Eagles want to push the tempo. “We can just try and outrun teams,” he said. “If anyone looks tired, I tell them they’re coming out.”
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The newly constructed Tutka Backdoor Trail treks 20 miles between Tutka Bay and Taylor Bay on the southern tip of the Kenai Peninsula. The dotted line shows a portion of the trail that is not maintained. (Map/Bretwood “Hig” Higman)
pouring rain. We had to uproot devil’s club, hand-saw miles of alder, hack tread into long steep traverses, haul rocks and smash other rocks. Along the way, each of those hard-won miles acquired its own stories. I remember the pond where I surprised a moose, the salmonberry thicket where I sawed through a can of pepper spray, and a debate over the first steep hill that nearly caused us scouts to mutiny. Volunteers leave new names where none were known before. Ugh Hill…Whiskey Knob… Heart Lake Pass. I didn’t know how to build a trail when we started. We learned about grade, controlling drainage, trail psychology and stone-setting from Eric Clarke, the park trail guru, from other experts, and from our own mistakes. Eventually we found ourselves repeating the very same advice we’d chafed at when we started. I was surprised by how much work building 16 miles of trail
turns out to be. I was even more surprised by how many people were eager to do that work. Who would have thought we would collectively spend more than a year and a half volunteering labor? The first time a stranger hiked up the half-built trail to encounter our work crew, I was thrilled. We’d built something others could follow. Something that existed without us. And as I’ve worked on the trail, I realize that we’ve built two things: A line on the ground, and the community that came together to make it. Erin McKittrick is a writer, adventurer and scientist, who lives in Seldovia with her husband and two kids. See http:// www.groundtruthtrekking.org/ tutka_backdoor/ for more information including how to get trail maps. Find more Refuge Notebook articles (1999-present) at https://www.fws.gov/ Refuge/Kenai/community/Refuge_notebook.html.
MIAMI — Josh Richardson scored 22 points, Tyler Johnson added 19 and the Miami Heat held off the Houston Rockets 101-99 on Thursday night for their first three-game winning streak of the season. James Harden scored 35 for the Rockets, whose five-game winning streak was snapped when Eric Gordon’s 3-point try at the buzzer hit the rim and bounced away. The worst part of the night for Houston, however, will likely be the loss of point guard Chris Paul in the second quarter to a strained left hamstring. Gordon’s 3-pointer with 37 seconds left got Houston
within two, and the Rockets got a stop on a long ensuing Heat possession. Dwyane Wade missed, Hassan Whiteside got the offensive rebound and Wade wound up missing again, with the Rockets finally corralling the ball with 3.8 seconds left. The last play went to Gordon, and his 3 — Houston’s 54th attempt of the night from beyond the arc — was off, and Miami escaped. Derrick Jones Jr. scored 15 for Miami, which got 11 from James Johnson and 10 from Wade. Gordon scored 20 for the Rockets, who got 14 from PJ Tucker and 10 from Danuel House Jr.
CLIPPERS 125, MAVERICKS 121 LOS ANGELES — Danilo Gallinari scored 32 points, Lou Williams added 26 and Los Angeles snapped a four-game losing streak by beating Dallas. Rookie Luka Doncic scored a season-high 32 points for the Mavericks and JJ Barea added 19. DeAndre Jordan had 11 points and 22 rebounds in his first game back at Staples Center against his former team. Dallas trailed 89-82 at the start of the fourth quarter before scoring eight straight points to take the lead, with six coming from Devin Harris. That would be the first of six lead changes and four ties over the final 10 minutes.
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Copper River Basin, Alaska MLUP: MLUP/AK 14-005-01 Glennallen 2D (aka Tolsona 2D), Permittee: Global Geophysical Services, Inc., Location: Copper River Meridian, Townships 3-4N, Ranges 4-5W Cook Inlet, Alaska Current Operator: Aurora Gas LLC, Well Name: Endeavour 1, API Number: 50-23120030-0000, Location: Seward Meridian, Township 5S, Range 15W, Section 3 Current Operator: Apache Alaska Corporation, Well Name: Kaldachabuna 2 PB1, API Number: 50-28320169-7000, Location: Seward Meridian, Township 11N, Range 11W, Section 18 Current Operator: Apache Alaska Corporation, Well Name: Kaldachabuna 2 PB2, API Number: 50-28320169-7100, Location: Seward Meridian, Township 11N, Range 11W, Section 18 Current Operator: Apache Alaska Corporation, Well Name: Kaldachabuna 2 PB3, API Number: 50-28320169-7200, Location: Seward Meridian, Township 11N, Range 11W, Section 18 Current Operator: Apache Alaska Corporation, Well Name: Kaldachabuna 2 PB4, API Number: 50-28320169-7300, Location: Seward Meridian, 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105 242
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138 245
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Blue Bloods “Home Sweet Home” ‘14’ Serta (N) (Live) ‘G’
Blue Bloods “Love Stories” Blue Bloods A detective up- Bones Investigation into two Bones “The Daredevil in the Elementary “Fit to Be Tied” Elementary ‘14’ ‘14’ sets Frank. ‘14’ deaths. ‘14’ Mold” ‘14’ ‘14’ You’re Home With Jill “Jill’s 25th Anniversary: MyPillow” Duraflame Heaters (N) Dooney & Bourke (N) (Live) ‘G’ Duraflame Heaters (N) Lifestyle show with Jill Bauer. (N) (Live) ‘G’ (Live) ‘G’ (Live) ‘G’ (3:00) “The Christmas Con- “Christmas Pen Pals” (2018, Romance) Sarah Drew, Niall “A Golden Christmas” (2009, Comedy) Andrea Roth, Bruce (:03) “Hometown Christmas” (2018, Romance) Beverley (:01) “A Golden Christmas” tract” (2018) Hilarie Burton, Matter, Michael Gross. A woman signs up for an anonymous Davison, Alley Mills. A special dog helps a woman reunite Mitchell, Stephen Colletti, Melissa Gilbert. A woman resur(2009, Comedy) Andrea Roth, Danneel Ackles. holiday pen pal service. with a childhood friend. rects her town’s live nativity. Bruce Davison. (3:03) “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” (2004, (:03) “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (2005, Fantasy) Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson. (:29) “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” (2007) Daniel Radcliffe. Children’s) Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint. Voldemort lays a trap for Harry at the Triwizard Tournament. Harry prepares a group of students to fight Voldemort. (:15) “Man of Steel” (2013, Action) Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon. Young The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang Full Frontal (:33) “The Five-Year Engagement” (2012, Clark Kent must protect those he loves from a dire threat. Theory ‘PG’ Theory ‘PG’ Theory ‘PG’ Theory ‘PG’ Theory ‘PG’ Theory ‘PG’ With Saman- Romance-Comedy) Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, tha Bee Rhys Ifans. (2:30) “The Family Man” “A Christmas Carol” (1999, Fantasy) Patrick Stewart, Rich- “The Wizard of Oz” (1939, Children’s) Judy Garland. A tor- (:15) “Fred Claus” (2007, Comedy) Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Miranda Richardson. (2000) Nicolas Cage. ard E. Grant, Joel Grey. ‘G’ nado whisks a Kansas farm girl to a magic land. Santa’s ne’er-do-well brother puts Christmas in jeopardy. (3:00) College Football Dollar General Bowl -- Buffalo vs Troy. (N) (Live) College Football SoFi Hawaii Bowl -- Hawaii vs Louisiana Tech. (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter
College Basketball Vanderbilt College Basketball Kansas at Arizona State. From Wells SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) College Football Jared Birmingham Bowl -- Memphis vs (35) ESPN2 144 209 vs Kansas State. Fargo Arena in Tempe, Ariz. (N) (Live) Wake Forest. (N Same-day Tape) College Basketball Buffalo at Marquette. From Fiserv Forum WCC AllGraham Seahawks Seahawks Fantasy Football Hour ’18 Pro Football Sled Head College Basketball Continental Tire Las Vegas Classic - (36) ROOT 426 687 in Milwaukee. (Taped) Access Bensinger Press Pass Press Pass Weekly ‘G’ 24/7 (N) ‘G’ Drake vs New Mexico State. First semifinal. (1:00) “The Dark Knight “Star Trek Beyond” (2016, Science Fiction) Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban. Kirk “Star Trek Beyond” (2016, Science Fiction) Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban. Kirk “The Dark Knight Rises” (38) PARMT 241 241 Rises” (2012, Action) and his crew face an alien threat on a hostile planet. and his crew face an alien threat on a hostile planet. (2012) Christian Bale. (3:00) “The Polar Express” “Elf” (2003, Children’s) Will Ferrell, James Caan. A man “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (1989, Comedy) (:15) “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (1989) Chevy Chase. A “Miracle” (43) AMC 131 254 (2004, Children’s) leaves Santa’s workshop to search for his family. Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo. traditional Griswold yuletide backfires in comic fashion. (2004) World of World of Dragon Ball Z My Hero Aca- Naruto: Ship- Boruto: Na- Dragon Ball Mob Psycho Attack on JoJo-DiaBlack Clover Hunter X FLCL: Alter- Pop Team Lupin the 3rd Samurai Jack (46) TOON 176 296 Gumball Gumball Kai ‘Y7’ demia puden ruto Next Super ‘PG’ 100 ‘14’ Titan ‘MA’ mond ‘14’ Hunter ‘PG’ native ‘14’ Epic ‘14’ Part 4 ‘14’ Amanda to the Rescue Amanda to the Rescue ‘PG’ Amanda to the Rescue ‘PG’ Amanda to the Rescue: Picks of the Litter Amanda helps The Natural World: Red Ape Amanda to the Rescue Amanda to the Rescue: (47) ANPL 184 282 “Life’s a Dog Beach” ‘PG’ deliver eight Chihuahuas. (N) ‘PG’ “Crates to Couches” ‘PG’ Picks of the Litter ‘PG’ Bizaardvark (:25) Bunk’d (4:50) Bunk’d (:20) “Paddington” (2014, Children’s) Hugh “Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure” (2011) Coop & Cami Coop & Cami Raven’s Raven’s Bizaardvark Bizaardvark Bizaardvark (49) DISN 173 291 ‘G’ ‘G’ ‘G’ Bonneville, Sally Hawkins. Kyle Massey, Munro Chambers. Home ‘G’ Home ‘G’ ‘G’ ‘G’ ‘G’ The Loud The Loud The Loud The Loud The Loud The Loud “Albert” (2016) Voices of SpongeBob SpongeBob Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ (:35) Friends (:10) Friends Rachel has a (50) NICK 171 300 House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ Bobby Moynihan. ‘14’ job interview. ‘14’ (:05) “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000) Jim Carrey. A (:45) “The Santa Clause” (1994, Children’s) Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, (8:50) “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause” (2006, (10:55) “Christmas With the (51) FREE 180 311 curmudgeon hates the Christmas-loving Whos of Whoville. Wendy Crewson. An adman takes over for fallen Santa. Children’s) Tim Allen, Martin Short. Kranks” (2004) Untold Stories of the E.R. Say Yes to the Dress ‘G’ Say Yes to the Dress ‘PG’ Say Yes to the Dress ‘PG’ Say Yes to the Dress ‘PG’ Say Yes to the Dress “I’m Say Yes to the Dress ‘PG’ Say Yes to the Dress ‘PG’ (55) TLC 183 280 “Punched!” ‘PG’ Having a Moment” ‘PG’ Deadliest Catch Mandy Deadliest Catch “No Safe Deadliest Catch “Blood & Deadliest Catch “Storm Border Live “Border Live 12.19.18” ‘14’ Deadliest Catch “Coast Deadliest Catch “Storm (56) DISC 182 278 sparks a battle. ‘PG’ Harbor” ‘PG’ Water” ‘PG’ Surge” ‘PG’ Guard Heroes” ‘PG’ Surge” ‘PG’ Ghost Adventures “Stone Ghost Adventures “Lewis Ghost Adventures ‘PG’ Ghost Adventures “St. Ghost Adventures (N) ‘PG’ Ghost Adventures “Wolf Ghost Adventures “Tintic Ghost Adventures ‘PG’ (57) TRAV 196 277 Lion Inn” ‘PG’ Flats School” ‘PG’ Anne’s Retreat” ‘PG’ Creek Inn” ‘PG’ Mining District” ‘PG’ Forged in Fire “Hollywood Forged in Fire “Makraka” ‘PG’ Forged in Fire Smiths use To Be Announced (:03) Forged in Fire “Wind To Be Announced (58) HIST 120 269 Edition” ‘PG’ nautical equipment. ‘PG’ and Fire Wheels” ‘PG’ (3:00) Live PD “Live PD -- 12.12.18” ‘14’ Live PD The best of “Live PD” Live PD The best of “Live PD” Live PD “Top 40 Moments of 2018, Part 2” The best of “Live (:04) Live PD The best of (:03) Live PD The best of in 2018. ‘14’ in 2018. ‘14’ PD” in 2018. (N Same-day Tape) ‘14’ “Live PD” in 2018. ‘14’ “Live PD” in 2018. ‘14’ (59) A&E 118 265
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Fixer Upper Chip and Jo start 112 229 flipping again. ‘G’ Guy’s Grocery Games ‘G’ 110 231
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(8:55) “Shrek 2” (2004) Voices of Mike My- “Four Christmases” (2008) Vince Vaughn. “Spielberg” (2017, Documentary) Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Brian “Ready Player One” (2018) Tye Sheridan. A ers. Animated. A green ogre must meet his A couple must somehow fit in four holiday De Palma. Steven Spielberg and his colleagues discuss his movies. ‘NR’ teen finds adventure in a virtual reality world ! HB wife’s parents. ‘PG’ visits with family. ‘PG-13’ in 2045. ‘PG-13’ “Invictus” (2009, Drama) Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, (:15) “Bleed Out” (2018, Documentary) Steve (:45) “The Greatest Showman” (2017, Musical) Hugh Jack- Pete Holmes: Dirty Clean “Fist Fight” (2017, Comedy) Charlie Day. Tony Kgoroge. Nelson Mandela tries to unite South Africa Burrows takes on a profit-driven health care man, Zac Efron. P.T. Barnum creates the Barnum & Bailey The comic confronts personal A fired teacher challenges a snitch to a fight ^ HB through the sport of rugby. ‘PG-13’ system. ‘NR’ circus in the 1800s. ‘PG’ truths. ‘MA’ after school. ‘R’ (6:30) (:20) “Geostorm” (2017, Action) Gerard But- (:10) “Get Out” (2017, Horror) Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Wil- (11:55) “Collateral” (2004, Suspense) Tom Cruise, Jamie (1:55) “X2” (2003, Action) Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, “Arachnopho- ler, Jim Sturgess. A worldwide storm threatens liams, Catherine Keener. A man uncovers a dark secret about Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith. A contract killer uses a cabdriver Ian McKellen. A power-mad militarist pursues the mutants. + MA bia” humanity. ‘PG-13’ his girlfriend’s parents. ‘R’ for his jobs. ‘R’ ‘PG-13’ Shameless “I’m the Liver” Lip Shameless “The Two Lisas” Shameless Frank must trace Shameless “Rite of Passage” Shameless “Crazy Love” Shameless “Tell Me You F... Shameless “Uncle Carl” Gus Shameless Frank has a has his first day of work. ‘MA’ Frank asks Carl to discourage his steps. ‘MA’ Fiona’s announcement plans Jimmy’s return sends Fiona Need Me” Ian is detained. tells Fiona he is going on check up with his doctor. ‘MA’ 5 SHO lesbians. ‘MA’ unravel. ‘MA’ into chaos. ‘MA’ ‘MA’ tour. ‘MA’ (7:30) “First Sunday” (2008, (:10) “Extraordinary Measures” (2010, Drama) Brendan “The Bone Collector” (1999, Suspense) Denzel Wash“The House of Tomorrow” (2017, Comedy- “Gangster Land” (2017, Crime Drama) Sean Comedy) Ice Cube. ‘PG-13’ Fraser, Harrison Ford, Keri Russell. Two men join forces to ington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah. A paralyzed detective Drama) Ellen Burstyn. Two teens bond over Faris. Gangster Al Capone recruits “Machine 8 TM develop a life-saving drug. ‘PG’ guides the hunt for a serial killer. ‘R’ punk rock. ‘NR’ Gun” Jack McGurn. ‘NR’
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(2:30) “Ready Player One” (:05) “Pacific Rim Uprising” (2018, Science Fiction) John “Isle of Dogs” (2018, Comedy) Voices of (:45) “Tomb Raider” (2018, Adventure) Alicia Vikander, To Be An(:15) “Taken” (2008, Action) Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Scarlett Jo- Dominic West. Young Lara Croft seeks a fabled tomb on a nounced Liam Neeson. ‘PG-13’ 504 (2018) Tye Sheridan. ‘PG-13’ Boyega, Scott Eastwood. Young pilots unite to battle otherworldly monsters. ‘PG-13’ hansson. ‘PG-13’ mythical island. ‘PG-13’ Sally4Ever (:35) Sally(:10) Sally(:45) Sally4Ever Emma (:18) Sally(6:51) Sally“Sherlock Holmes” (2009, Action) Robert Downey Jr., Jude (:40) REAL Sports With Bry- (:40) “Once Upon a Time in Mexico” (2003, 4Ever ‘MA’ 4Ever ‘MA’ causes tension on a film 4Ever ‘MA’ 4Ever ‘MA’ Law, Rachel McAdams. The detective and his astute partner ant Gumbel ‘PG’ Action) Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, 505 ‘MA’ set. ‘MA’ face a strange enemy. ‘PG-13’ Johnny Depp. ‘R’ (:10) “Logan” (2017, Action) Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen. Mike Judge “The Bourne Identity” (2002, Action) Matt Damon, Franka “The Bourne Supremacy” (2004, Action) Matt Damon, (10:50) “Sunshine” (2007, Presents: Potente, Chris Cooper. An amnesiac agent is marked for Franka Potente, Brian Cox. Jason Bourne fights back when Science Fiction) Cillian Mur516 Logan must protect a young mutant girl from dark forces. ‘R’ Tales death after a botched hit. ‘PG-13’ the CIA tries to kill him. ‘PG-13’ phy. ‘R’ Shameless “South Side Shameless Frank worries Shameless Frank tries to “Spotlight” (2015, Drama) Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, (:10) “Patriots Day” (2016, Crime Drama) Mark Wahlberg, Kevin Bacon, “American about Bianca’s behavior. ‘MA’ keep Bianca happy. ‘MA’ Rachel McAdams. Journalists investigate sexual abuse in the John Goodman. Investigators search for the Boston Marathon bombers. ‘R’ Dream / 546 Rules” Frank is enjoying his time with Bianca. ‘MA’ Catholic Church. ‘R’ American” “The Professional” (1994, Suspense) Jean Reno, Gary Old- “The Bone Collector” (1999, Suspense) Denzel Wash“Re-Animator” (1985) Jeffrey Combs. A “Dead Night” (2017, Horror) Brea Grant. A “Re-Animator” (1985, Hor554 man, Natalie Portman. A hit man takes an orphan girl under ington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah. A paralyzed detective medical student brings his headless professor mother loses her sanity during one night in the ror) Jeffrey Combs. ‘NR’ his wing. ‘R’ guides the hunt for a serial killer. ‘R’ back from the dead. woods. ‘NR’
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Transgender man has kept full story from his parents slights. I have tried many times to walk away and let the situation go, but I continue being urged by other family members to “be the bigger person,” not give up and “just keep trying.” I married recently and invited her to the wedding. She texted 48 hours beforehand to indicate she would not be there. I’m wondering, is it OK to stop trying Abigail Van Buren now? I mean, how much of this should one person be forced to take? -- JUST ABOUT DONE TRYING DEAR JUST ABOUT DONE: I see nothing to be gained by continuing to tolerate your mother’s passive aggression. If you are asking for my permission to stop doing all the work in the relationship, I am pleased to give it to you now. DEAR ABBY: I have socialized with a group of women for the past 20 years. Our connection has always been our children. Now the children are grown and gone, one woman in our group keeps trying to include spouses each time we get together.
My husband works long hours. He doesn’t enjoy being with these men, and he doesn’t want to go on these outings. I have sympathized with him because I don’t like the changes either. I’d prefer these events stay girlfriends-only. I have gone solo a few times and stayed away a few times. But my friends are commenting now, and I feel stuck and uncomfortable. Do you have any suggestions? -- NO FAN IN MINNESOTA DEAR NO FAN: Yes, be honest. Level with your women friends and say you prefer socializing with them without the husbands. You are entitled to your feelings, and you do not have to elaborate further. 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. For everything you need to know about wedding planning, order “How to Have a Lovely Wedding.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Wedding Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 610540447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)
Hints from Heloise
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, Dec. 21, 2018: This year you are as lucky as a cat with nine lives. You will enter a new life and luck cycle in late 2019. Be willing to let go of what does not work for you. If you do, the quality of your life could be enhanced. You draw many people toward you. If you are single, your popularity soars. Do not formalize a relationship for at least a year. If you are attached, the two of you will always be busy. Your caring is obvious to your sweetie and is mutual. GEMINI might express the observation that you get angry too fast sometimes. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Communication easily could go south if you are not careful. You might be a little lax because you have so many options in front of you. You easily could be overwhelmed. Examine how you can express some ideas you have yet to share. Tonight: Say “yes.” TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Do not allow someone to distract you, especially if you are tired. You might have a difficult time bouncing back. You need a break from everything that is going on. A brainstorming session helps you make a choice. Tonight: Treat a friend to an eggnog. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You feel empowered, though you might need to slow down at some point and take a power nap. You could be surprised by everything that is happening
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around you and delighted by what surfaces. You cannot help but be distracted. Tonight: Do a juggling act. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH A partner is demanding, but you like how he or she is extremely attentive. Be willing to give back. You might feel as if your creativity is falling flat. Just avoid doing any decorating today; instead, send out cards and wrap gifts. Tonight: Follow a loved one’s lead. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH You might be eyeing the implications of following a friend’s suggestion. Everyone has a different opinion as to how to proceed. Recognize that your priorities could be very different from others’. You will approach an issue in your own way. Tonight: Avoid a fight. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Tension mounts, as there could be a difference of opinion. You might talk about the topic for a long time before reaching an agreement. You and the other party involved have different backgrounds and therefore different approaches. Tonight: Out late. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Pressure builds. On some level, you could feel out of sync as you look at the panorama of your life. You will become the ringmaster if you just relax and allow others to help out. Do not make any commitments of your time for a while. Tonight: All smiles. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH You might want to deal with a situation differently from how you have in the past. How you han-
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dle a personal matter could change once some of the intensity of the moment dies down. You could be too demanding. Tonight: Where there is music. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH A creative endeavor takes an unusual turn. A partner could be reactive, especially with finances. You could be making matters worse. Address a low-level depression, and understand that you can handle this problem. Tonight: Answer any questions that are posed. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH You might wonder what is going on with an important person in your life. If you are having difficulty explaining this person’s behavior, don’t get uptight. Understand that he or she might not be able to, either. Tonight: Go along with the program. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You could be past the point of no return when dealing with an associate. You also might give this person an unexpected jolt. Though at first you might feel guilty about it, try to view your words as a wake-up call. Tonight: Get some much-needed R and R. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You experience some mounting tension. Someone might be quite taken with you, yet a problematic situation flows into this relationship. Make a point of going out on the town with friends, especially during the holidays. Tonight: A force to be dealt with. BORN TODAY Actor Samuel L. Jackson (1948), actress Jane Fonda (1937), musician Frank Zappa (1940)
Calling for assistance `Dear Heloise: While installing some lighting, I was up in the attic when it occurred to me that I needed my CELLPHONE so I could call my wife and have her direct me as to where the light should go. I also use my cellphone to call my wife so she can help direct me while I back up our RV into a parking space. Just “eyeballing” chores like these doesn’t work as well as a second pair of eyes. -- William L., White Marsh, Md. Dear Heloise: Working with a dermatologist, I learned a number of ways to help my skin stay firmer and less wrinkled than many other women my age. Here are a few of them: First, don’t touch your face if you don’t have to. Wash your hands before you wash your face. Don’t sleep in your makeup. Gently pat on moisturizers and lotions; never rub your face. Blot oily areas on your face with a clean tissue. Never wipe -- blot. Use sunblock daily, even in winter. -- A Reader, via email PROBLEM WITH RETURNS Dear Heloise: Just a heads-up: Many stores are now denying a return if you make a habit of returning too many things within a set time. A receipt doesn’t matter. If you make too many returns, the stores won’t take an item back. -- Cathy K. in Indianapolis DOGGIE DREAMS Dear Heloise: My vet told me to never wake up dogs while they are having a nightmare. Like people, they need time to fully wake up, and they might be frightened enough to bite. Wait until the dog wakes up, and be there on hand to offer comfort, assuring the dog that everything is OK. -- Hailey Y., Albuquerque, N.M.
SUDOKU
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Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to Friday.
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2018 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars
2018 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
DEAR ABBY: I’m a transgender male who has grown up in an area where many people discourage such things. They view what I am as a sin and me as a sinful, satanic child. My parents are against anything different, including the LGBT community. I have already gone through top surgery, but they don’t know about it. What they do know is that I am bisexual. How do I tell them that I am male? -- SINFUL CHILD DEAR “SINFUL” CHILD: Why do you want to make an announcement? You know what will happen the minute you do. If you feel you must say something, say that you have discovered your true self, which is male, and that you are happier now than you have ever been. After you do that you will be free. You can then start building a family comprised of people who are understanding and accepting, which will be healthier for you than the one you were born into. DEAR ABBY: My mother and I have been estranged for many years for multiple reasons. She has bad-mouthed me in emails to other relatives and then denied having done it, invited my ex-husband to family birthday parties knowing I wouldn’t show up if he was there, and gone months, sometimes years, without speaking to me over things she has perceived as
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