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Thursday, December 20, 2018 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Vol. 49, Issue 70
In the news Woman sentenced for distribution of fentanyl in prison JUNEAU — The U.S. attorney’s office says an Anchorage woman has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for distributing fentanyl to other inmates while in prison. The office says Dorothy Elizabeth Lantz was sentenced Wednesday to 40 months in prison and three years of supervised release. She had previously pleaded guilty to three counts of distribution of a controlled substance. Lantz was accused of distributing fentanyl to three inmates after being transferred to Hiland Mountain Correctional Center following an alleged probation violation. Over two days in October 2017, four inmates overdosed after taking fentanyl, including one who overdosed twice. All four inmates survived. The U.S. attorney’s office the investigation showed Lantz traded the drugs for commissary items.
Search continues for couple on snowmobiles missing in Mat-Su ANCHORAGE — A search will resume Wednesday for a couple missing on snowmobiles in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Anchorage television station KTUU reports LaVerne and Van Pettigen planned an afternoon ride Friday out of Big Lake. Family members became concerned when the couple missed an appointment Sunday and a flight Monday. The couple has a condominium in Big Lake. Neighbors found personal items inside and the couple’s two cars outside. Their snowmobiles were gone. LaTisha Pettigen says she spoke to her father by phone Friday and her mother left a voice message Sunday morning. Pettigen says her parents are experienced riders and know the trails around Big Lake. Alaska State Troopers and the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center have searched. Big Lake Trails Inc., a nonprofit trail advocacy group, planned another search Wednesday. —Associated Press
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Speaking for those who can’t Sitka woman testifies in DC about missing, murdered Alaska Native women By ALEX MCCARTHY Juneau Empire
When she got to the names of the victims, Patricia Alexander’s voice began to break. Alexander, the co-chair of the Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska’s (CCTHITA) Violence Against Women Task Force, was testifying before the U.S. Senate Commitee on Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. The committee was holding a hearing specifically about missing and murdered American Indian and Alaska Native women. Alexander, who was one of three women testifying, first thanked the senators for allowing her to speak. Then she began naming Alaska Native women in Southeast who have died in unsolved circumstances in just the past two and a half years. The emotion hung heavily in her voice as she read their names. Jade Williams, 19, of Kake. Francile Turpin, 37, of Klawock. See DC, page A8
Amber Crotty from Window Rock, Ariz., left, a delegate of the Navajo Nation Council, and Patricia Alexander of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, right, exchange words of encouragement to each other before testifying as the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs holds a hearing to examine concerns about investigations into the deaths and disappearance of Native American women, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday. (AP Photo | J. Scott Applewhite)
Kenai, Soldotna awarded for bike friendliness By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion
Kenai and Soldotna were both recently awarded bronzelevel status by the League of American Bicyclists for meeting standards set by its Bicycle Friendly Community Program. The two peninsula communities are now two of only 464 nationwide that have been given the status of a bicyclefriendly community, and join three other Alaskan towns that have been recognized. Juneau also holds a bronze-level status, while Anchorage and Sitka have both been granted silverlevel status. In 2018, 80 new and renewing applicants sent in submissions, with 61 of those being given a status award. With a population of 4,333, Soldotna is the fourth-smallest community to be recognized on the
Catriona Reynolds finishes off a victory in the 10-mile bike at the Mouth to Mouth Wild Run and Ride on Monday, May 28, 2018, at the Kenai beach. On Reynolds’ tail is Sky Carver. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
most recent list, which was re- for not only the cycling comleased in the organization’s fall munity, but the local economy 2018 conclusion. as well. The recognition is a big deal “It’s about getting the mo-
mentum to make biking safer, which increases businesses to have a volume of customers come in,” said Matt Pyhala, owner and chiropractor at Alaska Advanced Care Chiropractic. “They’ve shown that communities which are bike friendly, the businesses thrive.” Pyhala is part of Bike In Kenai and Soldotna (BIK&S), a community cycling advocacy group, which Pyhala referred to as a “bit of a grassroots” group. Members of BIK&S worked diligently with local businesses and organizations to piece together a road map of cycling in Kenai and Soldotna. Founded in 1880, the League of American Bicyclists advocates for safer roads and promotes a mode of transportation that is beneficial as a lifelong activity. The league, which promotepoc a vision of “a nation See BIKE, page A3
Alcohol office recommends state fair lose liquor license JUNEAU (AP) — Alcohol regulators will consider a recommendation to reject the renewal of the Alaska State Fair’s liquor license — a move that fair officials said would be “devastating” and could lead to higher ticket prices. The state Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office made the recommendation, aiming to crack down on longtime recreational site licenses that might not be used as intended under state law, the Anchorage Daily News reported this week. The fair would need to “greatly increase” admission prices if it loses its ability to sell beer and wine, said Stephen Brown, president of the fair board. In the past, legislative auditors have faulted the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board for issuing recreational site licenses to events like the fair. Under state law, recreational site licenses allow beer and wine to be served at locations that host “baseball games, car races, hockey games, dog sled racing events, or curling matches.” The board has previously stretched the legal definition to grant licenses for ski areas. The fair has held a recreational site license since 1981. The board approved a recreational site license renewal for Arctic Valley Ski Area in August, going against the recommendation of the Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office. Two months later, the board voted against a recreational site license for Eaglecrest Ski Area. The board has delayed consideration of the fair’s liquor license until February. While discussing the fair’s license this week, board chairman Bob Klein suggested the state Legislature might need an incentive because it has been reluctant to fix problematic alcohol legislation. “There is some merit in holding this license hostage,” Klein said.
Trump pulling all US troops from Syria President declares victory over the Islamic State, contradicting own experts By LOLITA C. BALDOR, ROBERT BURNS and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is pulling all 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria, officials announced Wednesday as the president suddenly declared victory over
the Islamic State, contradicting his own experts’ assessments and sparking surprise and outrage from his party’s lawmakers who called his action rash and dangerous. The U.S. began airstrikes in Syria in 2014, and ground troops moved in the following year to battle the Islamic State,
or ISIS, and train Syrian rebels in a country torn apart by civil war. Trump abruptly declared their mission accomplished in a tweet. “We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency,” he said as Vice President Mike Pence met with top
Holiday escape is a cabin away By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion
As the holidays near, stress levels rise. From last-minute shopping to cleaning the house for guests, the holiday to-do list can seem neverending. This year, counteract the stress and use up those last few vacation days by heading to one of the many cabins located on or around the Kenai Peninsula. The cabins offer the bare Romig Cabin, seen here in November 2017, is located off of essentials with bunk beds and Resurrection Trail on Juneau Lake. (Photo by Kat Sorensen/ See CABIN, page A8 Peninsula Clarion)
leaders at the Pentagon. U.S. officials said many details of the troop withdrawal had not yet been finalized, but they expect American forces to be out by mid-January. Later Wednesday, Trump posted a video on Twitter in which he said is “heartbreaking” to have to write letters and
make calls to the loved ones of those killed in battle. “Now it’s time for our troops to come back home,” he said. A senior administration official, speaking to reporters on condition of anonymity, said Trump made the decision based on his belief that U.S.
See SYRIA, page A5
St. Paul Island works to keep air service after airline sale ANCHORAGE (AP) — Residents of a remote western Alaska island are concerned about a possible lapse in air service after PenAir was purchased by another airline. PenAir provided regular flights to St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea, but the company filed for bankruptcy and Ravn Alaska agreed to buy it earlier this year, KTVA-TV reported this week. “Once the asset sale of PenAir is complete it is uncertain if flights to St. Paul will con-
tinue,” said Missy Roberts, a spokeswoman for PenAir. “As we receive further information we will inform our customers and the community of St. Paul.” The sale is expected to close this week. The uncertainty has locals like Larry Nutter worried. “My major concern is the quality of life for the people on the island,” Nutter, who manages the only grocery store in the largely Aleut community,
See SALE, page A8
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Sinking Greek village highlights nation’s addiction to coal By COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press
PTOLEMAIDA, Greece — If earthquakes struck in slow motion, the results might be visible in a place like the Greek village of Anargyri, a hardscrabble enclave in a black landscape gutted by coal mining. The village in northern Greece once had more than 400 people. Now it has fewer than 50, after being torn apart over decades. Its roads are slowly buckling, its door frames have shifted, its walls and home foundations have cracked beyond repair. Residents are leaving not in panic but out of desperation. One after another, the tiny villages in Greece’s lignite belt have been destroyed by mining as the ground becomes too unsteady to hold homes upright. Bells at one church in the area are not rung regularly for fear of causing more cracks in the walls. Cattle farmer Michalis Bitas first noticed the damage to homes in Anargyri in 1986. “That’s when mining started locally. It slowly began to eat up the houses before it went on to eat us up too,” he said. Bitas is from one of the few dozen households in the village who have refused a power company’s offer to move them to a rented apartment in a nearby town. These villagers are demanding full compensation for their homes — a right only granted by law if mining occurs directly below a settlement. “I have sheep and machinery. What am I supposed to do? Move them into an apartment?” Bitas said. Heavy-duty coal excavators and vehicles on the horizon near the village look like toy trucks, dwarfed by the scale of the blackened mining fields. Greek is still hooked on coal, despite warnings about the dire consequences of global warming issued both by a new
In this Wednesday, Dec. 12 photo, a crack is seen over religious icons inside the Greek Orthodox church of Agios Nikolaos in the village of Rodonas near Amynatio town, northern Greece. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
scientific report and experts at the recent U.N. climate talks in Poland and despite ambitious European Union-wide targets to replace coal use with renewable energy. Greece is currently the world’s 12th largest producer of lignite — known as brown coal — mining 36 million tons annually, according to U.S. federal government energy data. Lignite is a low-grade coal that throws off higher carbon dioxide emissions than black coal. It is often burned near where it is mined since its low energy density makes it too expensive to transport very far. Nearly a third of Greece’s electricity is produced by coalfired plants and the country has no phase-out plan to stop using domestically produced coal, unlike most parts of Western Europe. Despite abundant wind and sun, only around 15 percent of Greece’s energy is produced by renewable sources. Most of its reduction in coal use in recent years has been offset by an
increased use of imported natural gas. Under measures hammered out with Greece’s bailout creditors, the state-controlled power company, PPC, will privatize three coal-fired electricity plants, prolonging their life. Also, contrary to many of its EU neighbors, Greece is on course to expand its dependence on oil and gas as the nation tries to attract overseas investment to counter a financial crisis that lasted nearly a decade. The Greek government has embarked on a major exploration drive for oil and gas off its western and southern coasts. The oil and gas ventures have alarmed environmental groups, which have issued an urgent plea to the Greek government to reverse its course and switch investments to the renewable sources like solar and wind power. “We must act directly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but our country is mov-
ing in the opposite direction,” a letter addressed to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said. It was signed by 34 environmental and human rights groups, including Greenpeace, the World Wide Fund for Nature, Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders. Greece is planning to invest “in fossil fuels for decades, along with worrying delivery of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, on and offshore, for hydrocarbon extraction,” the letter said. “This would surrender the country to the nightmare consequences of climate change.” In Anargyri, despite the destruction of their homes, residents have mixed feelings about coal, since PPC is a key employer that provides 5,000 local jobs. The other attraction is that lignite, mined domestically, is not vulnerable to financial market swings or geopolitical shocks, unlike imported oil and gas, which in Greece mostly comes from Russia.
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Orvada Louise Churchill
August 30, 1943 - December 17, 2018 Orvada Louise Churchill, 75, of Palmer, Alaska, died Monday, December 17, 2018 at Matsu Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Churchill was born August 30, 1943, in Doniphan, Missouri, to John and Ruth Gallion. She graduated from Wentzville High School in 1961, graduated from Apostolic Bible Institute in 1965, and graduated from the University of Minnesota at Winona with a double bachelor’s degree in education and music in 1967. On August 12, 1967, she married Stuart Churchill of St. Paul, Minnesota. They began a life of ministry together that took them to Dover, Delaware, where Orvada taught school for 16 years. After a short time of teaching at their alma mater in St. Paul, they accepted the pastorate of Kenai United Pentecostal Church in June of 1984. Mrs. Churchill’s passion for Christian education led her to start Kenai Christian Academy, and later, to teach at Kalifornsky Christian School. Mrs. Churchill was a licensed minister with the United Pentecostal Church International and served as the Ladies Ministries Director for the Alaska/Yukon District for 17 years. Her leadership and vision led her to establish a summer missions program with the youth of the Alaska/Yukon District reaching numerous villages and rural communities across the state. In June of 2018, after 34 years of pastoring and teaching, Stuart and Orvada retired to Palmer, Alaska where they were actively involved in their new church, Palmer Pentecostal Church. In addition to teaching and ministering, Mrs. Churchill loved being surrounded by her family, enjoying road trips, camping, and family dinners in their home. Mrs. Churchill was preceded in death by her parents, John and Ruth Gallion. She is survived by husband, Stuart Churchill of Palmer, Alaska; daughter, Kristen (Chester) Rathbun of Jacksonville, Florida; son, Matthew (Heather) Churchill of Salem, Oregon; and daughter Kimberly Churchill of Nikiski, Alaska; and her loving grandchildren, Peyton Rathbun, Ellis Churchill, Jane Churchill, Stuart Rathbun, Colby Rathbun, and Jillian Churchill. She is also survived by her brothers, John (Donna) Gallion of Doniphan, Missouri and Tom (Darlene) Gallion of Macon, Illinois. Funeral services will be held at Life Church, Anchorage, Alaska, 12245 Jerome Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99516 at 2:00 pm on Friday, December 21, 2018. Funeral arrangements were handled by Kehl’s Palmer Mortuary in Palmer, AK.
Around the Peninsula James Dryden celebrates 98th birthday in Soldotna
Jim Dryden will be 98 on Friday, Dec. 21 and will celebrate Wilderness First Aid course from 2 -4 p.m. with friends and family at Riverside Assisted The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is hosting a Wilderness Living, 390 Lovers Lane in Soldotna. Jim is a WWII veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor. He and his family moved to Alaska First-Aid course on Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 12-13, 2019. Course in 1964, and then to Soldotna, with his late wife Eleanor in cost $185, plus $45 extra for CPR. For more information contact Michelle Ostrowski at michelleostrowski@fws.gov or debajan2003. go@gmail.com. Must be 16 or older.
50th anniversary celebration for John and Sharon Williams
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where everyone recognizes and enjoys the many benefits and opportunities of bicycling,” occasionally merits communities across the nation with one of five levels of cycling recognition — bronze, silver, gold, platinum and diamond. The award level a community receives is derived from about a dozen key metrics that create a healthy cycling community. The league doesn’t dole out awards on its own accord. If a community wishes to be recognized and receive a Bicycle Friendly Community status, it must submit an application that provides enough information on how cycling is impacted and how it impacts that community. The organization highlights a quintet of key building blocks that allow for a positive cycling community, the five “E”s — engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement and evaluation. The status a town or city receives isn’t permanent. A community must resubmit its application every four years to either maintain its status or move up to the next level. Sarah Pyhala, Matt’s wife, was part of the subcommittee that was set up by the city of Kenai to evaluate the current state of cycling on the peninsula, and said it took six months to complete an application that could be sent to the League of American Bicyclists for review. Pyhala said she worked with a handful of sources, including Kenai Police Chief David Ross, Kenai City Planner Elizabeth Appleby and head of Kenai Parks and Recreation Bob Frates, to collect and analyze data points such as the total mileage of bike paths and trails, biking programs, cycling infrastructure, education in schools, community events and others. “The fact that both cities were given that is a delightful surprise,” she said. “We’re just trying to make biking fun and increase exposure, learning the rules of the road instead of taking things into their own hands.” Pyhala made the award announcement last week at the Soldotna City Council meeting, while the announcement was made at a Tsalteshi Trails Association meeting with Cook Inlet
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—Adult & High School indoor soccer every Wednesday night A public open house and reception will be held to celebrate from 7-9 p.m. This is a drop-in game as is only $2 per night. the 50th wedding anniversary of John and Sharon Williams on For more information please call 907-714-1211. Sunday, Dec. 23 from 2-4 p.m. at Paradisos restaurant.
Deck the Halls with Mike Morgan and Friends 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.
Cook Inlet Pipeline Infrastructure Risk Assessment deadline Experts wishing to participate in the Cook Inlet Pipeline Infrastructure Risk Assessment expert panel on pipeline integrity and safety now have until Jan. 18, 2019, to apply. The previous deadline was Jan. 5, 2019.
Soldotna/Kenai 100+ Women Who Care meeting 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 meeting. All members in good standing will have a chance to pitch for a cause or nonprofit they support. Three names will be drawn; those three will make their pitch, and the group will vote on the cause that receives the funds from the meeting.
Al-Anon support group meetings Keeper member Kaitlin Vadla and Jenn Tabor. Some of the cycling community’s growth is owed to people like Tabor, who played a part in creating the Tsalteshi Sprockets program last summer, a weekly session for youth riders to introduce them to the sport and improve their expertise. Sarah Pyhala noted that Soldotna holds events like the Full Moon Bike Ride — a monthly ride held during the full moon — and that some Kenai schools have cycling curriculum, such as biking P.E. classes at Kenai Middle School. On its newly acquired report card produced by the league, the city of Kenai received good marks on education in schools, total bicycle network mileage compared to road network mileage, and safety promotion and enforcement. Kenai scored 2.9 out of 10 on enforcement, which focuses on promoting safety and protecting bicyclist’ rights, and scored 2.5 out of 10 on education, which focuses on motorist awareness and bicycling skills. Soldotna fared similarly well, scoring a 2.7 out of 10 on enforcement and 2.2 out of 10 on two other categories; encouragement and evaluation and planning. The report also recognized Beemun’s Bike and Ski Loft in Soldotna as a bicycle-friendly business. The most impressive mark of all for both Kenai and Soldotna was its fatality rate — neither community has recorded a single fatality per 10,000 bicycle commuters. In order to upgrade to silver, the report indicates that both Kenai and Soldotna could improve event coordination such as biketo-work days, and both communities could establish active bicycle advisory committees that meet regularly. Matt Pyhala said, in general, the report was quite positive. “We’re pretty happy to achieve this,” he said. For the long-term outlook, the bronze-level status gives Kenai and Soldotna another way of attracting tourism and avid cyclists to the community. “Just bringing some attention to the peninsula with opportunities for biking is something that we can absolutely market for tourism,” Pyhala said. “We’re also just looking forward to improving trails and build that cycling community here.”
based on the “Into Alaska” TV program showing Monday nights on Animal Planet. Every week until Saturday, Dec. 22 —Saturday Wildlife Movies: 11 a.m., noon, 2 p.m.: “Refuge Film”; 1 p.m.: “Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom”; 3 p.m.: “Alone in the Wilderness II”
Al-Anon support group meetings are held at the Central Peninsula Hospital in the Kasilof Room (second floor) of the River Tower building on Monday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. Park around back by the ER and enter through the Rive Tower entrance and follow the signs. Contact Tony Oliver at 252-0558 for more information.
Kenai Peninsula College holiday schedule 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.
Kenai Community Library events —DIY Bath Bombs Workshop, Thursday, Dec. 20 at 4 p.m. Learn how to make your own soothing and energizing bath bombs! Made with sweet almond oil, baking soda, Epsom salt, essential oils, and dried lavender flowers. Class size limited to 10 people! Register at the front desk. —Christmas Carols at the Library, Friday, Dec. 21 at 4:30 p.m. Join a friendly librarian at the Kenai Community Library for some holiday songs around the fireplace. We’ll be passing out song sheets so everyone can participate. Sing the songs you know, or just come and listen. It’s sure to be fun for the whole family. Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. —Drop-in Scavenger Hunt, Dec. 26-29. ALL DAY. Pick up a Scavenger Hunt clue sheet at the front desk and find hidden characters throughout the library! A prize awaits you if you get them all right! All ages are welcome to play. —2019 Vision Boards, Thursday, Jan. 3 at 4 p.m. Start the year off right with this fun goal setting program designed for teens and adults! Take a moment and plan for 2019! Limited space available so sign up today. For more information please contact James at 283-8210 or visit us on Facebook. —Raspberry Pi Club, Friday, Jan. 4 at 4 p.m. Come join us at the library to create games and inventions, learn how to program, make music with Sonic Pi, meet new friends, and more! Whether you want to hone your skills or are learning about Pi for the first time, the Raspberry Pi club is the perfect place for you! —Lego Maker Mondays from 4-5 p.m. Why not join us to build LEGO creations based on new themes each week and inspired by children’s books! Lego Makers, Mondays from 4–5 p.m. Designed for children ages 6-12; children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. —Wee Read Story Time, Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. Designed for children ages 0-3. Every Tuesday enjoy a program full of stories,songs, finger play and more! No registration required. —Chess Club, Tuesdays at 4 p.m. Get ready to ROOK the HOUSE every Monday! Do you like playing Chess, or would you like to learn how? The Kenai Community Library is proud to offer a casual program for chess players of all ages and levels. Chessboards will be provided. —Preschool Story Time, Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. Designed for children ages 3-5. Every Wednesday enjoy a program full of stories, songs, movement and more! No registration required.
Kenai Senior Center activities
The Kenai Senior Center is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday, and are open until 9:30 p.m. on Thursdays. CommuNarcan kits available at Kenai Public Health nity meals are served Monday to Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 Heroin overdoses are on the rise in Alaska. Narcan is an easy p.m. Cost for lunch is $7 suggested donation for individuals 60 medication you can give to someone who is overdosing. It may or older, $14 for those under 60. Call 907-283-4156 for more save their life. Adults can get free Narcan nasal spray kits at information. 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 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 pre-register; 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.
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.
Kenai Performers Wonka bars sale Kenai Performers is selling chocolate Wonka bars as a promotional fundraiser. Funds raised will help pay production costs for their spring musical, “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka.” Hidden among the candy bars are five, special Golden Tickets. Finders of the tickets will win FREE admission to one of the shows. The Wonka bars are 4.5 ounces of scrumptious milk chocolate, big enough to share with the whole family, and are $5 each. Candy bars are available at Curtain Call Consignment Boutique in Kenai and at River City Books in Soldotna. Thank you, Country Foods for sponsoring our fundraiser! For more information, please call Terri at 252-6808.
Habitat for Humanity seeking family partner The Central Peninsula Habitat for Humanity is now looking for a family to partner with for their 2019 building season. If you would like more information, please contact Carri at 283-7797, or visit our website: https://hfhcentralpeninsula. org to apply online!
Kenai National Wildlife Refuge: December The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center is open every day from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. on Ski Hill Road near Soldotna. For more information, call 260-2820. All events are free. — Drop-in craft and self-guided trail walk, different each week —PEEPS, Preschool Environmental Education Programs, Thursday, Dec. 20 at 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Enjoy an hour of hands-on games, crafts, storytime and snacks all about polar bears. Perfect for ages 2-5. —Solstice Walk, Friday, Dec. 21 from 4-5 p.m. Meet up with Ranger Michelle for a winter walk on the Keen Eye Trail under the moon. Bring warm layers, flashlight and boots. Snowshoes or ice cleats will be provided. Pre-register 907-260-2820. —Into Alaska Kids’ Crafts: Explore a new topic every week
Today in History
Today is Thursday, Dec. 20, the 354th day of 2018. There are 11 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 20, 1989, the United States launched Operation Just Cause, sending troops into Panama to topple the government of Gen. Manuel Noriega. On this date: In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase was completed as ownership of the territory was formally transferred from France to the United States. In 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union as all 169 delegates to a special convention in Charleston voted in favor of separation. In 1864, Confederate forces evacuated Savannah, Georgia, as Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman nearly completed his “March to the Sea.” In 1924, Adolf Hitler was released from prison after serving nine months for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch. In 1963, the Berlin Wall was opened for the first time to West Berliners, who were allowed one-day visits to relatives in the Eastern sector for the holidays. In 1968, author John Steinbeck died in New York at age 66. In 1987, more than 4,300 people were killed when the Dona Paz, a Philippine passenger ship, collided with the tanker Vector off Mindoro island. In 1995, an American Airlines Boeing 757 en route to Cali, Colombia, slammed into a mountain, killing all but four of the 163 people aboard. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, NATO began its peacekeeping mission, taking over from the United Nations. In 1996, Astronomer Carl Sagan died in Seattle at age 62. In 1999, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that homosexual couples were entitled to the same benefits and protections as wedded couples of the opposite sex. In 2001, the U.N. Security Council authorized a multinational force for Afghanistan. In 2005, a federal judge ruled that “intelligent design” could not be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, delivering a stinging attack on the Dover Area School Board. Ten years ago: A Continental Airlines Boeing 737-500 taking off from Denver veered off the runway into a ravine, injuring 37 people. Olga Lepeshinskaya, the Bolshoi Ballet’s prima ballerina for three decades during Soviet times, died in Moscow at age 92. Movie director Robert Mulligan (“To Kill a Mockingbird”) died in Lyme, Conn. at age 83. Five years ago: Russian President Vladimir Putin pardoned jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky (mih-hah-EEL’ khoh-dohr-KAHV’skee), who had spent 10 years in prison on charges of tax evasion and embezzlement. A federal judge struck down Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage. One year ago: The House gave final congressional approval to a $1.5 trillion tax overhaul, the biggest package of tax changes in a generation and the first major legislative achievement of President Donald Trump and House and Senate Republicans; some Republicans warned of a potential backlash against an overhaul that offered corporations and wealthy taxpayers the biggest benefits. Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston, died in Rome at the age of 86; his failure to stop child molesters in the priesthood had triggered a crisis in American Catholicism. Today’s Birthdays: Original Mouseketeer Tommy Cole (TV: “The Mickey Mouse Club”) is 77. Rhythm and blues singer-musician Walter “Wolfman” Washington is 75. Rock musician-music producer Bobby Colomby is 74. Rock musician Peter Criss is 73. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is 72. Psychic/illusionist Uri Geller is 72. Producer Dick Wolf (“Law & Order”) is 72. Rock musician Alan Parsons is 70. Actress Jenny Agutter is 66. Actor Michael Badalucco is 64. Actress Blanche Baker is 62. Rock singer Billy Bragg is 61. Rock singer-musician Mike Watt (The Secondmen, Minutemen, fIREHOSE) is 61. Actor Joel Gretsch is 55. Country singer Kris Tyler is 54. Rock singer Chris Robinson is 52. Actress Nicole deBoer is 48. Movie director Todd Phillips is 48. Singer David Cook (“American Idol”) is 36. Actor Jonah Hill is 35. Actor Bob Morley is 34. Singer JoJo is 28. Actor Colin Woodell is 27. Thought for Today: “Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.” -- Clifton Fadiman, American author, editor and radio personality (1904-1999).
Opinion
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What Others Say
The rule of law applies to everyone A bit of common sense and common
decency intruded on Tuesday into the crazy world of Donald Trump. In New York, the state attorney general announced that the president had agreed that the “charity” he used as a piggy bank has no reason to exist. In Washington, a federal judge let a former top presidential aide know that you can parrot political spin or you can tell the truth, but you can’t do both to someone who can send you to prison. Michael Flynn, Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, appeared before Judge Emmet Sullivan to be sentenced to what he expected would be a term of probation, after pleading guilty to lying to federal investigators about conversations with the Russian ambassador. The office of the special counsel, Robert Mueller, had earlier filed a memo that said it would be right for Mr. Flynn to avoid prison after his extensive cooperation in the investigation of Trump ties to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign and after. Then last week, in a memo about their client’s sentencing, Mr. Flynn’s lawyers implied that he had been tricked into lying and that the F.B.I. acted improperly in interviewing him — points raised by proTrump commentators elaborating on the president’s claims of being victimized by a witch hunt. Judge Sullivan was having none of it. “I cannot recall an instance of a court ever accepting a guilty plea from someone who did not maintain he was guilty,” Judge Sullivan said, “and I do not intend to start today.” Chastened, Mr. Flynn told the judge that nobody tricked him, that he lied and that he knew he shouldn’t have. The judge was not upset only about Mr. Flynn’s sneaky prevarication. He said he felt “disgust” at Mr. Flynn’s offenses, that a retired three-star general would lie to the F.B.I. “while on the physical premises of the White House,” and, acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign country, Turkey, while he was an adviser to Mr. Trump (to which he admitted but was not charged). It was a bracing reminder of the brazenness of his misdeeds and of the standards the public should be able to expect of those who serve them. Realizing that Judge Sullivan was considering a term of up to six months in prison, Mr. Flynn accepted his offer to delay the sentencing for 90 days until he has completed his cooperation with the special counsel. “Good luck today in court to General Michael Flynn,” Mr. Trump had tweeted first thing Tuesday morning. “Thanks for nothing, Mr. President,” Mr. Flynn might have thought as he left court. Mr. Flynn should be grateful the judge offered him the chance to come clean. By contrast, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, a charity that provided no charity, quite properly received none from the New York attorney general’s office. Attorney General Barbara Underwood accused it of “a shocking pattern of illegality” that “amounted to the Trump Foundation functioning as little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump’s business and political interests.” Whatever money that remains will be disbursed under the supervision of Ms. Underwood’s office and the judge overseeing the continuing lawsuit her office filed in June, seeking $2.8 million in restitution and a ban on Mr. Trump and his three oldest children serving on the boards of other nonprofit organizations. In a series of stories exposing the foundation’s true nature, The Washington Post found that its largest donation was to fix a fountain in front of the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, which Mr. Trump owned at the time, that its funds were used to buy a portrait of Mr. Trump, and that it illegally provided political donations and paid for personal legal settlements. All this comes just days after prosecutors announced that they believed that Mr. Trump had
Does Trump care that he’s president?
The office of the presidency is known for wearing down the mere mortals who hold it. At the very least, it prematurely ages its occupants. Often, it humiliates them, forcing them to rehabilitate their reputations later (George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter). In the worst case, it chews them up and spits them out (Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon). It is a journalistic trope that this is happening to Donald Trump before our eyes. The media constantly write stories about how the president is panicked and cornered, barely able to handle his duties, as the walls perpetually “close in.” But as far as any outside observer can tell, he’s as ebullient and combative as ever, and has never blinked no matter how intense the pressure of any given controversy. Far from getting crushed by the weight of the office, Trump doesn’t seem to feel it at all. Never has any president been as outwardly unfazed by the majesty of the presidency, or made less accommodation to its trappings and norms. President Trump still acts like he’s Celebrity Trump fighting a vicious flame war with Rosie O’Donnell, except his targets now might be another head of state, or his own attorney general, or losing members of his own party. The idea that he’s a representative of the nation apparently makes very little impression on him. He never stops to think that any given gibe might be unworthy of
the office, or maybe that he, blessed with more power and showered with more attention than anyone on the planet, has an obligation to be elevating and restrained, even if no one else is. One Rich Lowry of the attractions of the presidency to him appears to be that he can continue to punch down — but do it from a higher altitude than ever before. To draw on examples from just this past weekend, he inveighed against stupid skits mocking him on “Saturday Night Live,” questioning their legality. He called Michael Cohen “a rat,” using terminology favored by the mob (although usually in private). And he commented on the pending prosecution of Maj. Matt Golsteyn. Even after two years, he hasn’t lost his capacity to surprise. Did the president of the United States really render the last name of the incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, as an expletive? Did he call that TV anchor “low IQ”? Did he insult the looks of the porn star he had an affair with? Did he call his former secretary of state dumb? Of course he did. In the competition between blurting out whatever happens to be bothering him and paying a little heed to acting presidential,
it’s never a contest. This doesn’t mean that Trump should give up his enormously powerful megaphone on Twitter, or pretend to be something he’s not (even if he could). He just shouldn’t go out of his way to affirmatively advertise his animosities and half-baked opinions. Much of this is ephemera, but collectively and over time it creates a lasting impression. A major factor in the drubbing that Republicans suffered in the suburbs in November was a reaction against Trump’s persona, as underlined by his own conduct and tweets. If he cares about keeping the presidency — and he surely does — he should care a little more about respecting the dignity of the office. The great advantage of the presidency is that it is naturally set up to invest people elected to it with a certain grandeur, via the White House, saluting Marines, Air Force One, “Hail to the Chief” and ceremonial events large and small. All it requires is showing up and, very often, reading from a script. Rather than simply pocketing this benefit, Trump tends to undercut it 280 characters at a time. If he’s ever brought low, it’s less likely to be from the pressures of his responsibilities than his cussed inability or unwillingness to make a minimal effort to conform to his role. Rich Lowry can be reached via email at comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.
News and Politics
New voter ID law immediately challenged in court RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina law detailing a new voter photo identification requirement got challenged in court Wednesday mere moments after the Republican-led General Assembly completed the override of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the measure. Six voters filed the lawsuit in Wake County court less than 15 minutes after the state House finished the override in a mostly partyline 72-40 vote. The Senate already voted to override Tuesday. The photo ID law implements a constitutional amendment approved in a referendum last month that mandates photo identification to vote in person, with exceptions allowed. Still, the plaintiffs contend the law violates the state constitution and should be blocked, saying it retains requirements within a 2013 photo ID law that federal judges struck down. The voters — five black residents and one described as biracial — say the restrictions
will harm African-American and American Indian residents disproportionately and unduly burden the right to vote. It also creates a financial cost to voting in the form of lost work times and the need to secure transportation to obtain an ID, the lawsuit said. “The General Assembly has simply reproduced the court-identified racially discriminatory intent it manifested a mere five years ago when it enacted a very similar voter ID requirement,” according to the plaintiffs’ lawyers. Some of the attorneys work for an organization that helped challenge the 2013 law. That litigation took nearly four years to resolve. Before and after the lawsuit was filed Wednesday, Republican lawmakers said the implementing legislation carries out what 55 percent of voters who supported the referendum in November wanted. GOP legislators rejected Cooper’s veto message that the bill was a “sinister and cynical” attempt to suppress the voting rights of minorities, the poor and the elderly. Rather, they said, it was designed to discourage voter fraud and increase
the public’s confidence in elections. “You have betrayed the majority of the hard-working, honest people of North Carolina who put this provision into our constitution,” Rep. Jimmy Dixon, a Duplin County Republican, referring to Cooper. “You should hang your head in shame.” The measure expands the number of qualifying IDs that could be used when voting compared to the 2013 law, including the creation of a new free voter photo card produced by county elections board. Student IDs for public and private colleges and universities and community colleges, as well as employee ID cards for state and local governments, would now qualify if they meet certain security thresholds. People having trouble obtaining an ID could fill out forms at the polling site, and their ballots likely would be counted, too, supporters said. The law also directs state election officials to determine how to comply the ID rules to people seeking to vote with mail-in absentee ballots.
conspired with the owner of The National Enquirer and his fixer Michael Cohen to violate campaign finance laws by paying hush money to two women who said they had affairs with him. It’s also just been reported that prosecutors are investigating spending by the Trump inaugural committee. The president still faces lawsuits on the constitutionality of his enriching himself while in office.
Meanwhile, the special counsel’s inquiry may be expanding rather than winding down. It’s fitting that despite all his bluster and threats, a president who’s demonstrated such contempt for the rule of law is finding it so formidable. That this goes to the essence of American governance was best summed up by Paula Duncan, the Trump enthusiast who was among
the jurors who found Mr. Trump’s former campaign chief Paul Manafort guilty of fraud, even though she had hoped he wouldn’t be convicted. Explaining her decision after the verdict, she told Fox News, “No one’s above the law.”
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press
— The New York Times, Dec. 18
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Nation/World US sanctions Russians for election meddling By MICHAEL BALSAMO and RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department imposed new sanctions on Wednesday against 15 Russians over hacking, interference in U.S. elections and a nerve agent attack in England. In a separate action, the agency also announced plans to lift sanctions on the aluminum manufacturing giant Rusal. It comes after the department approved a plan that severed Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s control of the company. The sanctions include actions against nine Russian intelligence officers who were indicted over the summer and are accused of hacking into Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic Party and releasing tens of thousands of private communications. The case against them was brought by special counsel Robert Mueller, whose office is investigating Russian interfer-
ence in the 2016 election. The Treasury Department said Russia’s “continued disregard for international norms” necessitated the sanctions. “The United States will continue to work with international allies and partners to take collective action to deter and defend against sustained malign activity by Russia, its proxies, and intelligence agencies,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. Sanctions were also levied against Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, who have been charged by British officials with the botched assassination attempt on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal. Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed any insinuation his government was involved in the attack and has said Russia had no reason to attack Skripal. The sanctions were also imposed on Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, who was charged by the Justice Depart-
ment in October with running a Russian troll farm that prosecutors say was aimed at sowing division between Americans and interfering in the 2018 midterm elections. The sanctions would mean that any assets the targets have in the U.S. could be frozen, and U.S. companies and banks are generally prohibited from doing business with them. The Treasury Department said it notified Congress about the move to terminate sanctions against Rusal, which would take effect in 30 days, unless Congress acts to block it. Deripaska will remain blacklisted as part of an array of measures announced in early April that targeted tycoons close to the Kremlin, officials said. In spelling out the penalties, the department said Deripaska had been accused of illegal wiretaps, extortion, racketeering, money laundering and even death threats against business rivals. Treasury officials said sanctions against EN+ Group, the
holding company that owns nearly 50 percent of Rusal, and Russian power company JSC EuroSibEnergo also will be lifted. “Treasury sanctioned these companies because of their ownership and control by sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, not for the conduct of the companies themselves,” Mnuchin said. “These companies have committed to significantly diminish Deripaska’s ownership and sever his control.” The announcement follows a lobbying campaign paid for by the chairman of EN+’s board, Gregory Barker, a conservative member of Britain’s House of Lords, to persuade the Trump administration to lift the sanctions against the companies. Barker, a former British energy minister, hired the U.S. firm Mercury LLC in May to support his efforts to negotiate Deripaska’s exit from the EN+ board and “the reduction of his ownership interest in the company.”
Illinois AG finds 500 more Catholic clergy accused of abuse By DON BABWIN and JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press
CHICAGO — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Wednesday issued a blistering report about clergy sexual abuse, saying that Catholic dioceses in Illinois has not released the names of at least 500 clergy accused of sexually abusing children. The preliminary report found that the church’s six archdioceses have done a woefully inadequate job of investigating allegations and in some cases did not investigate them at all or notify the state’s child welfare agency. Madigan’s office said that while the dioceses have disclosed 45 more names of those credibly accused, the total number of names disclosed is only 185 and raises questions about the church’s response to the crisis. “By choosing not to thoroughly investigate allegations, the Catholic Church has failed in its moral obligation to provide survivors, parishioners and the public a complete and accurate accounting of all sexually inappropriate behavior involving priests in Illinois,” Madigan said in a statement. “The failure to investigate also means that the Catholic Church has never made
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troops have no role in Syria beyond combatting Islamic State, whose fighters are now believed to hold about 1 percent of the territory they did at the peak of their power. The president informed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of his decision in a telephone call, the official said. Turkey has recently warned that it would launch combat operations across its southern border into northeastern Syria against Kurdish forces who have been allied with the U.S. in the fight against the Islamic State. Trump’s declaration of victory was far from unanimous, and officials said U.S. defense and military leaders were trying to dissuade him from ordering the withdrawal right up until the last minute. His decision immediately triggered demands from Congress — including leading Republicans — for more information and a formal briefing on the matter. Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, just returned from Afghanistan, said he was meeting with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis late in the day. Graham, typically a Trump backer, said he was “blindsided” by the report and called the decision “a disaster in the making.” He said, “The biggest winners in this are ISIS and Iran.” The decision will fulfill Trump’s long-stated goal of bringing troops home from Syria, but military leaders have pushed back for months, arguing that the IS group remains
an effort to determine whether the conduct of the accused priests was ignored or covered up by superiors.” The report does not include some key details such as when the allegations were made. It also does not accuse the dioceses of withholding the names of ‘credibly” accused clergy, only that the list of names of accused clergy is far longer than has been made public. A Madigan spokeswoman said that the allegations date back decades and include some priests who are now deceased. The Illinois disclosures are a new blow to the credibility of the church, which has struggled to contain the scandal amid mounting accusations of negligence. In August, a Pennsylvania grand jury report alleged that hundreds of priests abused at least 1,000 children over seven decades in that state. The report prompted Pope Francis to call U.S. bishops for a retreat at a suburban Chicago seminary next month to debate how to respond. Larry Antonsen, a Chicago leader of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said Madigan is doing the right thing and needs to continue. He said Illinois should convene a grand jury with subpoena power, as in Pennsylvania. “There’s more that needs to a threat and could regroup in Syria’s long-running civil war. U.S. policy has been to keep troops in place until the extremists are eradicated. The senior administration official said American forces would still work with allies to fight the Islamic State or other extremists in the country but gave no details on what that might entail. Another official said it still is not clear to defense leaders whether U.S. airstrikes against IS insurgents will continue in Syria after the American troops leave. U.S. military officials worry that American-backed Kurdish troops will be targeted by Turkey and the Syrian government, leaving no ally on the ground to help direct the strikes. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who remains concerned about Iranian efforts in the area, reacted in noncommittal fashion after talking with Trump by telephone. “This is, of course, an American decision,” he said. No matter what, he said, “we will safeguard the security of Israel and protect ourselves from this arena.” Leading Republican senators reacted with displeasure to the news. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said the withdrawal would be a “grave error” and that Kurdish fighters will stop fighting the Islamic State when they must confront Turkish troops crossing the border into Syria. “This is a bad idea because it goes against the fight against ISIS and potentially helps ISIS,” he said, warning it could trigger a broader conflict in the
Around the World Stocks skid to 15-month low after Fed raises rates again NEW YORK — Stocks gave up a big rally and took a dive in afternoon trading Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates again and signaled it’s likely to keep raising them next year. The market finished at its lowest level since September 2017. The U.S. central bank said it expects to increase interest rates at a slightly slower pace next year, and also said it isn’t planning any changes in the gradual shrinking of its large bond portfolio. But investors appeared to hope the Fed would unveil a sharper slowdown in interest rate hikes and other credit tightening policies because economic growth is likely to slow down. The Dow Jones Industrial Average swung from a gain of 381 points right before the Fed’s decision was announced at 2 p.m. Eastern time to a closing loss of 351 points. The index is down almost 9 percent in December. The rate increase, to a range of 2.25 percent to 2.5 percent, was the Fed’s fourth this year. Its benchmark interest rate is at its highest point since 2008, which means higher borrowing costs for many consumers and businesses. Bond prices rose, sending yields sharply lower. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.77 percent from 2.84 percent immediately before the Fed’s announcement and 2.82 late Tuesday. That’s a substantial move for that benchmark lending rate. Bonds yields are benchmarks for many kinds of long-term loans including mortgages. The Fed is now forecasting two increases in rates in 2019 instead of three. The central bank expects the long-term level of its main interest rate will be 2.8 percent, down from an earlier projection of 3 percent. The yo-yo movements for the stock market were a result of markets trying to parse Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s comments, which essentially were: The economy is strong enough to warrant a rate increase now, but not so strong to need three rate increases, as the Fed had indicated a few months ago.
London’s Gatwick Airport completely shut after drones seen
In a file photo, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan outlines a federal lawsuit her office filed against Suburban Express Inc. during a news conference in Chicago. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)
be done. The Catholic Church does not do a good job of policing itself, and you can’t expect them to do that,” Antonsen said. “It’s hard to know what to believe because so much of what they’re doing is in secret and not out in the open, but this is a step in the right direction.” A leading attorney who has represented survivors of abuse called for the additional names of priests to be made public. “The Illinois Bishops must release these names immediately so that survivors can heal and no other kids are harmed,” said Minneapolis-based Jeff Anderson.
region. Just last week, the U.S. special envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition, Brett McGurk, said U.S. troops would remain in Syria even after the Islamic State was driven from its strongholds. “I think it’s fair to say Americans will remain on the ground after the physical defeat of the caliphate, until we have the pieces in place to ensure that that defeat is enduring,” McGurk told reporters on Dec. 11. “Nobody is declaring a mission accomplished. Defeating a physical caliphate is one phase of a much longer-term campaign.” And two weeks ago Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the U.S. still has a long way to go in training local Syrian forces to prevent a resurgence of IS and stabilize the country. He said it will take 35,000 to 40,000 local troops in northeastern Syria to maintain security over the long term, but only about 20 percent of that number have been trained. Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, said in September that the U.S. would keep a military presence in Syria as long as Iran was active there. “We’re not going to leave as long as Iranian troops are outside Iranian borders and that includes Iranian proxies and militias,” he said. James Stavridis, a former Navy admiral who served as top NATO commander, tweeted Wednesday that “Pulling troops out of Syria in an ongoing fight is a big mistake. Like walking away from a forest fire that is still smoldering underfoot. Big winner is Iran, then Russia, then Assad. Wrong move.”
Madigan’s office said the problems went beyond a lack of effort. In some cases, the report found, efforts were made to work against the accusers. “When the Illinois Dioceses investigated an allegation, they frequently found reasons not to deem an allegation ‘credible’ or ‘substantiated,’” according to the report. Not only did Madigan’s office find a “pattern” of dioceses failing to substantiate allegations that came from one person, “The dioceses also often found reasons to discredit survivors’ stories of abuse by focusing on the survivors’ personal lives.”
LONDON — London’s Gatwick Airport shut down late Wednesday while officials urgently investigated reports that two drones were flying above the airfield. The airport suspended all flights, causing severe disruptions just days before Christmas during one of the heaviest travel times of the year. Police and aviation authorities were still investigating early Thursday as incoming flights were diverted to other locations in Britain and nearby countries. Passengers complained on Twitter that their flights had landed at London Heathrow, Manchester, Birmingham and other cities. Other flights were sent to France and the Netherlands. One traveler whose flight was diverted tweeted that passengers were not being told when they could continue to their destination. Gatwick advised travelers via Twitter to check flights scheduled for Thursday before heading to the airport. It also advised anyone planning to pick up arriving passengers to check first. Any problem at Gatwick causes a ripple effect throughout Britain and continental Europe, particularly during a holiday period when the air traffic control system is under strain. It is a busy airport 27 miles (43 kilometers) south of London, hosting a variety of short- and long-haul flights and serving as a major hub for the budget carrier easyJet. Gatwick normally operates throughout the night but the number of flights is restricted because of noise limitations. The airport website says it usually handles 18 to 20 flights overnight during the winter months. — The Associated Press
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Surging Suns topple Celtics to win 4th straight By The Associated Press
BOSTON — Devin Booker had 25 points and eight assists, and Deandre Ayton added 23 points and 18 rebounds to lead the suddenly resurgent Phoenix Suns past the Boston Celtics 111-103 on Wednesday night. It was the fourth consecutive victory for the Suns since opening the season 4-24. Phoenix has its first four-game winning streak since March 2015. T.J. Warren scored 21 points and Kelly Oubre Jr. had 13 for the Suns. Kyrie Irving led Boston with 29 points and Jayson Tatum had 18. The Celtics lost their second straight after winning eight in a row. Boston center Aron Baynes broke a bone in his left hand early in the game and the team announced that he’ll be side-
lined indefinitely. ROCKETS 136, WIZARDS 118 HOUSTON (AP) — James Harden scored 35 points as Houston set an NBA record with 26 3-pointers and won its fifth straight game. A 3 by Gary Clark tied the record with 2:42 left. The Rockets missed their next four tries before Michael Carter-Williams hit one with 31.1 seconds left and was greeted with loud cheers. The previous record was held by the Cleveland Cavaliers, who made 25 against Atlanta on March 3, 2017.
THUNDER 132, KINGS 113 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Paul George scored 43 points, Russell Westbrook had a tripledouble and Steven Adams grabbed a career-high 23 rebounds in Okla-
homa City’s win over Sacramento ond triple-double in three games to cord in the NBA at 24-9, avoided game skid. in a matchup of short-handed lead Philadelphia. their second three-game slump of teams. the season.
HORNETS 110, CAVALIERS 99
SPURS 129, MAGIC 90 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — LeMarcus Aldridge scored 20 points and five San Antonio players scored in double figures in the win. The Spurs, the NBA’s leading 3-point shooting team, went 12 of 19 from behind the arc and 50 for 77 overall (64.9 percent) to win for the sixth time in seven games.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kemba Walker had 30 points and six assists to help Charlotte rally past Cleveland. Walker was coming off a season-low four points in Saturday’s 128-100 home loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in which he shot 2 for 13 from the field and missed all five 3-point tries. After missing his RAPTORS 99, PACERS 96 first seven shots against Cleveland, TORONTO (AP) — Fred VanWalker got untracked and Char- Vleet hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with lotte evened its season record to 25 seconds left and Toronto rallied .500 (15-15). from a 17-point deficit to beat Indiana. Kawhi Leonard scored 28 76ERS 131, KNICKS 109 points, Pascal Siakam had 17 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joel and Greg Monroe 13 as Toronto Embiid had 24 points and 10 re- snapped a two-game losing streak. bounds, Ben Simmons got his sec- The Raptors, who have the best re-
BUCKS 123, PELICANS 115 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 25 points and Milwaukee dispatched New Orleans. Antetokounmpo added eight assists and eight rebounds for Milwaukee, which improved to 21-9.
PISTONS 129, TIMBERWOLVES 123, OT
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Blake Griffin scored 34 points and Reggie Bullock added a career-high 33 as Detroit topped Minnesota in overtime.
JAZZ 108, WARRIORS 103
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Joe Ingles scored 20 points while Rudy Gobert had 17 points and 15 CHICAGO (AP) — Spencer rebounds to lead Utah. Dinwiddie scored 27 points off the bench and made a critical defenTRAIL BLAZERS 99, sive play in the final seconds to lift GRIZZLIES 92 Brooklyn to its seventh consecutive victory. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Jarrett Allen had 16 points and Damian Lillard had 24 points, 12 rebounds for the resurgent Nets including 15 in the third quarter, (15-18), who have put together and Portland handed Memphis its the NBA’s longest active winning fourth straight loss. streak on the heels of an eight-
NETS 96, BULLS 93
Johnson leads NC State to surprise win over Auburn By The Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — Markell Johnson had career highs of 27 points and five 3-pointers to help North Carolina State upset No. 7 Auburn 78-71 on Wednesday night. Devon Daniels scored all 15 of his points after halftime for the Wolfpack (10-1), who led nearly all night before pushing ahead for good in the final 10 minutes. N.C. State shot 58 percent after halftime behind Johnson and Daniels. Johnson stood out with 19 points after the break, including a run of 10 straight points — a 3-pointer, a four-point play and pullup 3 in transition — during one critical 75-second sequence. By the time Daniels scored twice followed by Johnson’s layup, the Wolfpack had pushed the lead to a
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Lamar dozen near the four-minute mark on ginia added to its perfect start with a vic- Mann had 17 points, including several alley-oop dunks, as the Seminoles domi- Peters and Aric Holman each scored 19 the way to another big upset under tory over South Carolina. The Cavaliers improved to 10-0 for nated inside. They finished with 64 points points, and No. 17 Mississippi State beat second-year coach Kevin Keatts.
NO. 3 TENNESSEE 83, SAMFORD 70 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jordan Bone set career highs with 24 points and 11 assists, and No. 3 Tennessee beat Samford 83-70 for its fifth consecutive victory. Bone shot 11 of 16 and committed only two turnovers. Admiral Schofield scored 18 points and Grant Williams had 13 of his 16 points after halftime to help the Volunteers (9-1) snap Samford’s three-game winning streak. Kyle Alexander added 10 points.
NO. 5 VIRGINIA 69, SOUTH CAROLINA 52 COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Ty Jerome had a season-high 25 points and No. 5 Vir-
Brown Bears promote Hedlund Staff report Peninsula Clarion
The Kenai River Brown Bears have promoted Chris Hedlund from Director of Hockey Operations to Associate General Manager. According to a press release from the Brown Bears, Hedlund will now be more heavily involved in day-to-day operations of the team and management of the overall organization. “While continuing my involvement with the Brown Bears, I am excited to have Chris take over many facets of our organization,” General Manager Nate Kiel said in a statement released by the Brown Bears. “He has proven to be a large contributor to our success this past season and has a strong passion to see the Bears thrive on the Peninsula. “His strong, off ice, focus has been on keeping us moving forward as he has been instrumental in many aspects of our business.” Executive Administrative Assistant Lisa Zulkanycz agreed: “Chris is an asset to the
Bears and will prove invaluable in this role.” Hedlund joined the Kenai River organization for the 2016-17 season, when he served as a regional scout for the Minnesota and Midwest region. Hedlund is from Anoka, Minnesota, where he lives with his wife, Teresa, and their three children. He has also coached AAA youth hockey and been a scout for the NA3HL power Granite City Lumberjacks, who are located in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. Hedlund also has experience at Versatex Building Products as regional sales manager for the Western United States and Canada, which the press release said has added valuable business experience to Kenai River’s hockey operations. The Brown Bears are currently on Christmas break. Their next game is Dec. 28 at the Janesville (Wisconsin) Jets at 4:05 AST. Kenai River will return home Jan. 11 at 7:30 p.m. to face the Chippewa (Wisconsin) Steel at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex.
Penguins beat Caps By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Sidney Crosby and Bryan Rust scored and the Pittsburgh Penguins ended hot streaks by Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals with a 2-1 victory Wednesday night. The third meeting this season between these longtime rivals featured tight checking, strong goaltending and more than a few punches. Rust broke a 1-1 tie late in the second period with his sixth goal in five games, and the Penguins held on against the defending Stanley Cup champions. Playing in his second game since returning from a lower body injury, Pittsburgh goalie Matt Murray stopped 31 shots. Lars Eller scored the lone goal for the Capitals. They had won five in a row. Ovechkin was held without a goal for the first time in seven games and had his career-high
run of games with a point end at 14. In addition, Washington’s Evgeny Kuznetsov had his streak of eight straight games with an assist come to an end, one shy of the franchise record. AVALANCHE 2, CANADIENS 1 DENVER (AP) — Gabriel Landeskog broke a tie 35 seconds into the third period by batting in a goal, Philipp Grubauer stopped 35 shots and Colorado beat Montreal. Mikko Rantanen had a goal and an assist to give him an NHLleading 58 points. He’s followed by teammate Nathan MacKinnon, who has 55 points after a two-assist evening. Landeskog, the third member of their highflying line, scored his team-best 23rd goal. Carey Price, who stopped 24 shots, came up short in his bid for his 300th career victory. He’s trying to become the 35th goaltender to reach that milestone.
the first time since they opened with 19 in the paint. straight wins on their way to the Atlantic Coast Conference title for the 2014-15 NO. 13 VIR. TECH 82, season. They showed off their usual stout N. CAROLINA A&T 60 defense while sending the Gamecocks (4BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Nick6) to their third straight loss — and second in a row to a No. 5 team after falling at eil Alexander-Walker scored 12 of his 20 points in the second half, and No. 13 Virthen fifth-ranked Michigan on Dec. 8. ginia Tech beat North Carolina A&T for its fifth consecutive victory. NO. 11 FLORIDA STATE 95, The Hokies (10-1) went 15 for 17 at NORTH FLORIDA 81 the free-throw line and enjoyed a 42-20 rebounding advantage over the Aggies. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — MfionKerry Blackshear Jr. had 17 points and du Kabengele scored a career-high 24 nine rebounds, and Justin Robinson finpoints and No. 11 Florida State pulled ished with 14 points, seven boards and six away for a win against North Florida. assists. Kabengele made 7 of 12 shots from the floor, 10 of 10 free throws and pulled NO. 17 MISSISSIPPI ST. 98, down seven rebounds as Florida State (10WOFFORD 87 1) earned its fifth straight victory. Terance
Wofford for its seventh consecutive win. The Bulldogs (10-1) rallied from a 12-point deficit early in the second half. Quinndary Weatherspoon made 14 of 15 foul shots on his way to 18 points, and Nick Weatherspoon and Reggie Perry each had 12 points for the Bulldogs.
NO. 22 INDIANA 86, CENTRAL ARKANSAS 53 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Devonte Green scored 19 points, freshman Romeo Langford recorded his second double-double and No. 22 Indiana beat Central Arkansas. The Hoosiers (10-2) have won five straight, though this was their first victory by more than three points during the streak. They’ve also won eight straight home games.
Scoreboard basketball NBA Standings EASTERN C
ONFERENCE
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 13 16 .448 1½ 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 Houston 16 14 .533 — San Antonio 17 15 .531 — Dallas 15 14 .517 ½ Memphis 16 15 .516 ½ New Orleans 15 17 .469 2 Northwest Division Denver 21 9 .700 — 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 17 13 .567 3 Sacramento 16 15 .516 4½ Phoenix 8 24 .250 13 Wednesday’s Games Charlotte 110, Cleveland 99 Philadelphia 131, New York 109 San Antonio 129, Orlando 90 Phoenix 111, Boston 103 Toronto 99, Indiana 96 Brooklyn 96, Chicago 93 Detroit 129, Minnesota 123, OT Houston 136, Washington 118 Milwaukee 123, New Orleans 115 Utah 108, Golden State 103 Oklahoma City 132, Sacramento 113 Portland 99, Memphis 92 Thursday’s Games Houston at Miami, 4 p.m. Dallas at L.A. Clippers, 6:30 p.m. All Times AST
College Scores EAST Delaware St. 73, Delaware 71 Fairleigh Dickinson 83, St. Peter’s 74 Hofstra 71, Stony Brook 64 Lafayette 95, Rosemont 54 Marist 58, New Hampshire 49 Penn St. 73, Duquesne 67 Quinnipiac 87, Bethune-Cookman 63 Seton Hall 90, Sacred Heart 76 St. John’s 86, St. Francis Brooklyn 52 SOUTH Belmont 80, W. Kentucky 74 California Baptist 79, Southern U. 76 FAU 76, Florida College 64 Florida Gulf Coast 87, Keiser 85 Florida St. 95, North Florida 81 Gardner-Webb 106, Brevard College 29 Georgia St. 86, UNC-Wilmington 71 Grambling St. 69, SE Louisiana 68 Memphis 99, UALR 89 Miami 80, Houston Baptist 73 Mississippi St. 98, Wofford 87 NC State 78, Auburn 71 Old Dominion 63, Richmond 54 SC-Upstate 85, Truett-McConnell
54 South Alabama 79, Alabama A&M 67 Tennessee 83, Samford 70 Virginia 69, South Carolina 52 Virginia Tech 82, NC A&T 60 MIDWEST Cent. Michigan 81, UMKC 72 Cincinnati 93, UCLA 64 Cleveland St. 82, Niagara 60 Dayton 85, W. Michigan 72 DePaul 81, Incarnate Word 71 Drake 76, Rider 58 Grand Canyon 73, N. Iowa 62 Indiana 86, Cent. Arkansas 53 Kansas St. 55, Southern Miss. 51 N. Dakota St. 90, Northland College 43 Nebraska-Omaha 85, UC Santa Barbara 74 Saint Louis 74, NC Central 65 Toledo 86, Cornell 70 UC Irvine 52, E. Michigan 48 Wichita St. 84, Oral Roberts 63 SOUTHWEST Georgia Tech 69, Arkansas 65 Lamar 80, Texas Southern 72 Texas A&M 71, Valparaiso 49 FAR WEST Arizona 61, Montana 42 Fresno St. 95, California 73 Loyola Marymount 70, Boise St. 69 New Mexico St. 92, CS Northridge 57 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 85, Bucknell 56 San Francisco 76, N. Arizona 60 UC Riverside 87, Life Pacific College 50 Utah Valley 88, Idaho St. 77 Washington St. 89, SIU-Edwardsville 73
Women’s College Scores EAST Holy Cross 61, Manhattan 53 Monmouth (NJ) 68, Navy 67 Princeton 83, St. Francis Brooklyn 64 Providence 66, Pepperdine 47 Quinnipiac 65, Richmond 48 St. Francis (Pa.) 89, Morehead St. 83 SOUTH Coll. of Charleston 79, Charleston Southern 52 East Carolina 61, Longwood 52 Florida Gulf Coast 93, Coppin St. 61 Georgia 77, Lipscomb 45 La Salle 74, N. Kentucky 56 McNeese St. 86, Louisiana College 68 Radford 54, VCU 49 Stephen F. Austin 70, Hampton 68 Stetson 74, North Dakota 63 Troy 71, Mississippi 54 UT Martin 100, Alabama Huntsville 69 Wake Forest 58, SC State 44 Wofford 106, Brevard College 52 MIDWEST Bradley 67, Cleveland St. 65 Indiana 67, Loyola Marymount 43 Iowa St. 94, Prairie View 46 N. Iowa 73, Minnesota StateMankato 56 Northwestern 65, Wichita St. 43 Notre Dame 94, W. Kentucky 53 Purdue 53, Albany (NY) 41 San Francisco 75, N. Dakota St. 42 South Dakota 67, Grambling St. 53 UCLA 78, Ill.-Chicago 47 Valparaiso 68, Purdue Fort Wayne 64 SOUTHWEST Houston Baptist 68, LouisianaMonroe 60 SMU 49, CS Bakersfield 43 Texas A&M 71, Southern Cal 51
UConn 72, Oklahoma 63 FAR WEST Boise St. 88, S. Utah 53 CS Northridge 76, San Jose St. 40 California Baptist 76, UC Santa Barbara 64 Hawaii 66, UNLV 61 Kansas 71, Washington St. 63 New Mexico 85, Sacramento St. 53 Samford 87, Denver 83
hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 35 26 7 2 54 143 99 Toronto 34 22 10 2 46 124 95 Buffalo 35 20 10 5 45 107 103 34 18 12 4 40 94 88 Boston Montreal 35 17 13 5 39 109 113 35 15 16 4 34 116 135 Ottawa 35 14 16 5 33 100 118 Detroit Florida 32 13 13 6 32 106 115 Metropolitan Division Washington 33 20 10 3 43 123 102 Columbus 33 18 12 3 39 108 105 N.Y. Islanders 33 17 12 4 38 96 93 Pittsburgh 34 16 12 6 38 114 109 N.Y. Rangers 33 15 13 5 35 97 107 Carolina 32 14 13 5 33 84 93 Philadelphia 32 13 15 4 30 96 118 New Jersey 32 11 14 7 29 96 118
WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division 34 22 10 2 46 122 98 35 22 11 2 46 108 88 35 19 10 6 44 124 107 34 17 14 3 37 94 93 33 17 14 2 36 101 95 32 13 15 4 30 92 108 36 11 19 6 28 101 136 Pacific Division 35 22 11 2 46 122 95 Calgary San Jose 35 19 11 5 43 116 103 Anaheim 36 19 12 5 43 94 103 Vegas 36 19 15 2 40 107 102 Edmonton 35 18 14 3 39 99 105 Vancouver 37 16 17 4 36 112 123 Arizona 33 14 17 2 30 82 92 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. Winnipeg Nashville Colorado Dallas Minnesota St. Louis Chicago
Wednesday’s Games Pittsburgh 2, Washington 1 Colorado 2, Montreal 1 Thursday’s Games Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 3 p.m. Detroit at Carolina, 3 p.m. Anaheim at Boston, 3 p.m. New Jersey at Columbus, 3 p.m. Florida at Toronto, 3 p.m. Nashville at Philadelphia, 3 p.m. Chicago at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. Montreal at Arizona, 5 p.m. Tampa Bay at Calgary, 5 p.m. St. Louis at Vancouver, 6 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Vegas, 6 p.m. Winnipeg at San Jose, 6:30 p.m. All Times AST
football NFL Standings AMERICAN CONFERENCE New England Miami Buffalo N.Y. Jets Houston Indianapolis Tennessee Jacksonville Pittsburgh
East W L T Pct PF PA 9 5 0 .643 374 310 7 7 0 .500 295 374 5 9 0 .357 215 333 4 10 0 .286 292 359 South 10 4 0 .714 352 281 8 6 0 .571 372 300 8 6 0 .571 268 254 4 10 0 .286 225 289 North 8 5 1 .607 384 316
Baltimore Cleveland Cincinnati
8 6 0 .571 341 253 6 7 1 .464 309 348 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 6 8 0 .429 306 299 Denver Oakland 3 11 0 .214 260 418
NATIONAL CONFERENCE East 8 6 0 .571 276 269 7 7 0 .500 311 318 7 7 0 .500 265 310 5 9 0 .357 307 348 South y-New Orleans 12 2 0 .857 459 292 Carolina 6 8 0 .429 333 344 5 9 0 .357 356 381 Atlanta Tampa Bay 5 9 0 .357 344 403 North y-Chicago 10 4 0 .714 383 264 7 6 1 .536 323 308 Minnesota 5 8 1 .393 332 331 Green Bay Detroit 5 9 0 .357 284 333 West y-L.A. Rams 11 3 0 .786 448 343 Seattle 8 6 0 .571 363 292 San Francisco 4 10 0 .286 301 373 Arizona 3 11 0 .214 192 367 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Dallas Philadelphia Washington N.Y. Giants
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 Game Denver at Oakland, 4:15 p.m. All Times AST
transactions BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with C James McCann on a one-year contract. CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with RHP Cody Anderson on a one-year contract. DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Eduardo Paredes and Chris Smith and LHP Nick Ramirez on minor league contracts. HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with OF Michael Brantley on a two-year contract. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Named Joe Garagiola Jr. special adviser to the president and CEO. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Signed RHP Chris Dula to a minor league contract. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association SACRAMENTO KINGS — Assigned F Harry Giles to Stockton (NBAGL). Transferred F Troy Williams to Stockton. FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Released OL Justin Evans from the practice squad. Signed LB Pete Robertson and S Fish Smithson to the practice squad. Claimed WR Pharoh Cooper off waivers from the L.A. Rams.
BUFFALO SABRES — Placed F Patrik Berglund on unconditional waivers for the purpose of terminating his contract. DENVER BRONCOS — Placed CB Chris Harris Jr. on injured reserve. Signed CB Craig Mager. DETROIT LIONS — Placed RB Kerryon Johnson on injured reserve. Released G Salesi Uhatafe from the practice squad. Activated CB Jamal Agnew from injured reserve. Signed RB Justin Stockton to the practice squad. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Placed RB Frank Gore on injured reserve. Signed DT Kendrick Norton. NEW YORK GIANTS — Placed DB Antonio Hamilton on injured reserve. Activated WR Cody Latimer from injured reserve. NEW YORK JETS — Placed OT Brandon Shell on injured reserve. Claimed LB Emmanuel Lamur off waivers from Oakland. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed QB Nathan Peterman and LB Cayson Collins to the practice squad. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed DT Jeremiah Ledbetter from the practice squad and DEs Farrington Huguenin and Alec James to the practice squad. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Placed CB Danny Johnson on injured reserve. Signed DB Jeremy Reaves from the practice squad and DB Jack Tocho to the practice squad. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Fined St. Louis D Vince Dunn $1,942.20 for crosschecking Edmonton F Jujhar Khaira and suspended Khaira two games without pay, for crosschecking Dunn. ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned G Adin Hill and F Conor Garland to Tucson (AHL). DALLAS STARS — Reassigned D Joel Hanley to Texas (AHL). NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Recalled D Devon Toews from Bridgeport (AHL). TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Signed C Gabriel Fortier to a three-year, entry-level contract. HORSE RACING NTRA — Named Alicia WinczeHughes director of communications. OLYMPIC SPORTS U.S. ANTI-DOPING AGENCY — Announced American gymnast Laura Zeng has accepted a sixmonth suspension for an antidoping rule violation. SOCCER Major League Soccer LA GALAXY — Re-signed M Chris Pontius. ORLANDO SC — Traded G Earl Edwards Jr. to D.C. United for a 2019 second-round draft pick. PHILADELPHIA UNION — Traded D Keegan Rosenberry to Colorado for general and targeted allocation money. COLLEGE CHATTANOOGA — Named Rusty Wright football coach. CLARKE — Named Marq Hicks men’s and women’s bowling coach. MICHIGAN — LB Devin Bush will enter the NFL draft. NEW MEXICO — Announced the contract of volleyball coach Jeff Nelson will not be renewed. NORTH CAROLINA — Signed men’s basketball coach Roy Williams to an eight-year contract extension through the 2027-28 season. YALE — Named Brendan Faherty women’s soccer coach.
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Pigskin Pick‘em Ravens, Chargers can take division leads by winning
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hen they meet Saturday night in one of several intriguing games in the penultimate week of the NFL season, the Ravens and Chargers will be chasers. By Sunday night, they could be leaders. Baltimore (8-6) trails Pittsburgh (8-5-1) by a half-game in the AFC North. The Chargers (11-3) are tied with Kansas City for the AFC West lead — and the conference’s best record — but the Chiefs hold the tiebreaker. So the winner will be in solid position for the playoffs; LA already is in. Plus, the Steelers and Chiefs have very difficult road tests. “They’re playing outstanding football,” Ravens safety Eric Weddle said of his former team. “We’ve got everything in our hands, as do they, so it’s going to be an amazing game, one that will define where our season goes from there.” Baltimore, ranked 12th in the AP Pro32 poll, is a 4½-point underdog at the No. 2 Chargers, who have had an extended rest after a sensational comeback win at Kansas City on
Dec. 13. CHARGERS, 27-24 KNOCKOUT POOL: Baltimore struggled a bit but then “Lamared” the Bucs. Next up, try TENNESSEE.
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No. 27 Cincinnati (plus 7) at No. 16 Cleveland
No. 6 Houston (plus 2 1-2) at No. 15 Philadelphia
No. 22 Atlanta (plus 3) at No. 19 Carolina
Ron Rivera deserves better than what players have delivered. Dan Quinn, too. PANTHERS, 21-20 Dallas came back to Earth last week, should soar this week. No. 21 Denver (minus 2 1-2) at COWBOYS, 26-13 No. 31 Oakland, Monday night No. 25 (tie) Buffalo (plus 13) at Last home game in Bay Area for No. 7 New England Raiders? BRONCOS, 19-13 No more road nightmares for Patriots, who are 6-0 at Foxborough. No. 30 Jacksonville (plus 4 1-2) at PATRIOTS, 30-23 No. 17 Miami No. 13 Minnesota (minus 5 1-2) at At least it should be sunny for this No. 25 (tie) Detroit one. DOLPHINS, 23-20 Wild-card spot could depend on 2018 RECORD: win here for Vikings. Last Week: Against spread (7-8-1). VIKINGS, 26-14 Straight up (9-7) Season Totals: Against spread No. 4 Chicago (minus 3 1-2) at (110-101-8). Straight up: (145-77-2) No. 28 San Francisco Best Bet: 5-10 against spread, 10-5 straight up Niners won’t be intimidated by Upset special: 8-7 against spread, Bears’ D after handling Seahawks’ D. 7-7-1 straight up BEARS, 17-13 No. 24 Tampa Bay (plus 7) at No. 11 Dallas
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Hard to believe we’re going with Such a huge game for both sides. Browns as our top choice. We are. In Foles we trust. BEST BET: BROWNS, 23-13 EAGLES, 24-23 No. 20 Green Bay (minus 1) at No. 29 New York Jets
Titans believe they are playoff bound. Redskins won’t get in way. TITANS, 22-15
No. 3 Kansas City (minus 2 1-2) at No. 10 Seattle
Tempted by Houston and Seattle, Chiefs could go from No. 1 seed to but see this as ... wild card, especially if they lose here. UPSET SPECIAL: J-E-T-S, 20-17 SEAHAWKS, 26-24 No. 5 Los Angeles Rams (minus 14) at No. 32 Arizona No. 23 New York Giants (plus 9 Rams’ offense needs to wake up 1-2) at No. 9 Indianapolis for 60 minutes. This is the time. RAMS, 40-10 Colts believe they are playoff bound. Giants won’t get in way. COLTS, 30-20 No. 8 Pittsburgh (plus 5 1-2) at No. 1 New Orleans No. 18 Washington (plus 10) at Saints’ offense needs to wake up No. 14 Tennessee, Saturday for 60 minutes. This is the time. SAINTS, 34-24
Colts LB Leonard hopes to turn Pro Bowl snub into success tackles this week, and I told him that’s humanly impossible,” tight end Eric Ebron said Wednesday. But if the Colts (8-6) have learned anything about their star rookie, it’s not to discount anything he says. When South Carolina State played Clemson in 2016, Leonard had 19 tackles against the eventual national champs and his childhood favorite, which never offered him a scholarship. His performance that day
By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer
INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis Colts linebacker Darius Leonard was disappointed when his name didn’t appear on the AFC’s Pro Bowl roster Tuesday night. Now the league’s leading tackler intends to make all future opponents pay for the perceived snub. “He told me he’d have 40
earned him the nickname “Maniac” around campus, a nickname he still clings to, and put him on the radar of Colts general manager Chris Ballard. Throughout the draft process, he heard from the critics again. This time they were questioning the level of competition he faced in college; how long it would take to make the transition from FCS to the NFL; and whether Ballard reached when he took Leonard at No.
36 overall, four picks into the second round, in April. Others questioned whether missing all of the Colts’ spring and summer workouts because of a bad hamstring would slow him down this season. Leonard has proved all of them wrong. Despite missing one game, at New England, he continues to lead the league with 146 tackles and needs 15 over the final two games to break Jeff Herrod’s single-sea-
son franchise record (160), a mark that has stood since 1991. And if Leonard’s play matches the hype, Herrod’s record could go down Sunday against the New York Giants (5-9). “It adds more fuel to the fire,” Leonard said when asked about missing the Pro Bowl. “It gives me more reason to go out and keep fighting. With everything I did and knowing it’s still not enough, I’ve got to put more on my resume.”
Leonard views it as more of a promise than a warning and it fits his personality. While he revels in the underdog role, he routinely plays with a chip on his shoulder and continually sets his standards high. His goal each week is to get 25 tackles and he’s finished in double digits in seven of the Colts’ 14 games. He’s tied with Carolina’s Luke Kuechly for the most games with 10 or more tackles this season.
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Elon Musk’s new tunnel ‘a little rough around the edges’ By AMANDA LEE MYERS Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Elon Musk unveiled his underground transportation tunnel on Tuesday, allowing reporters and invited guests to take some of the first rides in the revolutionary albeit bumpy subterranean tube — the tech entrepreneur’s answer to what he calls “souldestroying traffic.” Guests boarded Musk’s Tesla Model X and rode along Los Angeles-area surface streets about a mile away to what’s known as O’Leary Station. The station, smack dab in the middle of a residential neighborhood — “basically in someone’s backyard,” Musk says — consists of a wall-less elevator that slowly took the car down a wide shaft, roughly 30 feet below the surface. The sky slowly fell away and the surprisingly narrow tunnel emerged. “We’re clear,” said the driver, who sped up and zipped into the tunnel when a red track light turned green, making the tube look like something from space or a dance club. The car jostled significantly during the ride, which was bumpy enough to give one reporter motion sickness while another yelled, “Woo!” Musk described his first ride
Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., speaks during an unveiling event for the Boring Company Hawthorne test tunnel in Hawthorne, Calif., on Tuesday. (Robyn Beck/Pool Photo via AP)
as “epic.” “For me it was a eureka moment,” he told a room full of reporters. “I was like, ‘This thing is going to damn well work.’” He said the rides are bumpy now because “we kind of ran
out of time” and there were some problems with the speed of his paving machine. “It’ll be smooth as glass,” he said of future systems. “This is just a prototype. That’s why it’s a little rough around the edges.”
Later in the day, Musk emerged from the tunnel himself inside one of his cars. He high-fived guests and pumped his fists in the air before delivering a speech in the green glow of the tunnel about the technol-
ogy and why it makes sense. The demo rides were considerably slower — 40 mph — than what Musk says the future system will run at: 150 mph. Still, it took only three minutes to go just over a mile from the beginning to the end of the tunnel, the same amount of time it took to accomplish a right-hand turn out of the parking lot and onto a surface street even before the height of Los Angeles’ notorious rush-hour traffic. The tunnel is just a test to prove the technology works and could one day cure traffic. Tuesday’s reveal comes almost two years to the day since Musk announced on Twitter that “traffic is driving me nuts” and he was “going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging.” “I am actually going to do this,” he added in response to initial skepticism. Soon after, he began The Boring Company, tongue in cheek intentional. Since then, Musk has only revealed a handful of photos and videos of the tunnel’s progress. On Tuesday, he explained for the first time in detail just how the system, which he simply calls “loop,” could work on a larger scale beneath cities across the globe. Autonomous, electric vehicles could be lowered into the system on wall-
less elevators the size of two cars or spiral ramps. The elevators could be placed almost anywhere cars can go. A number of autonomous cars would remain inside the tunnel system just for pedestrians and bicyclists. Once on the main arteries of the system, every car could run at top speed except when entering and exiting. “It’s much more like an underground highway than it is a subway,” Musk said. Cars would have to be fitted with specially designed side wheels that pop out perpendicular to the car’s regular tires and run along the tunnel’s track. They would run about $200 or $300 a car, Musk said. The cars would have to be autonomous to work in the system but not Teslas specifically, and they would have to be electric because of the fumes from gas, Musk said. He said tunnels are the safest place to be in earthquakes — sort of how a submarine during a hurricane is safest beneath the surface — and addressed other concerns such as the noise and disruption of building the tunnels, which he completely dismissed. When workers bored through the end of the test tunnel, for instance, the people in the home 20 feet away “didn’t even stop watching TV.”
DC slaps Facebook with latest suit targeting privacy lapses
hope this lawsuit will ensure Facebook takes better care with its data.” Facebook said it’s reviewing the complaint and will continue to hold discussions with Racine
and attorneys general scattered across the country who have raised red flags about the company’s mishandling of personal information. The lawsuit is the latest blow
to Facebook in a year fraught with privacy scandals and other problems for the world’s biggest social network. Facebook already has been buried in an avalanche of other lawsuits filed in federal and state courts, as well as regulatory investigations in both U.S. and Europe into whether the company has violated laws by repeatedly allowing unauthorized access to the personal information of the nearly 2.3 billion people on its private network. Most of the headaches began in March after revelations that Cambridge Analytica, which had been working with the 2016 campaign of President Donald Trump, had been able to vacuum up potentially valuable information about U.S. voters off of Facebook profiles. That bombshell triggered congressional hearings and changes in what sorts of data
on goods flown in, Nutter said. With the store, most of the inventory is barged in on monthly runs. A cargo carrier flies in perishable foods through a program that allows mail to bypass the Postal Service, with goods flown from Anchorage and Fairbanks to communities off the road system. But that cargo carrier has an arrangement with PenAir, and it’s unclear how it will be affected by the sale, Nutter said.
And the Opilio crab season, among fisheries made famous by Discovery Channel reality show “Deadliest Catch,” is again expected to bring fishing crews to St. Paul in a couple weeks. The crews arrive in their vessels, but processing workers must be flown there, Nutter said. “Without processors, that could slow the start of the season,” he said. Ravn is working to obtain
certification for its plane to fly over water to service the area, but that certification is not expected until February, city manager Phillip Zavadil said. “Our community is working together to do everything we can to prevent any lapse in service,” Zavadil said. City and tribal leaders are planning to meet with the federal transportation officials to request help in maintaining air service, said Amos Philemonoff, presi-
dent of the Aleut Community of St. Paul. “We are the only community that has so much water between us and the mainland that PenAir serves,” Philemonoff said. Officials are hoping the U.S. Department of Transportation might expedite the certification for Ravn’s aircraft, or issue a “hold in order” and pay for the current plane servicing St. Paul to continue until Ravn can take over operations.
Philemonoff said he is concerned about the immediate need for groceries and supplies that are delivered by air and access to medical services that aren’t available in St. Paul. About 450 people live on the island. “We live out in the middle of the Bering Sea and all we have is a clinic with mid-level care,” Philemonoff said. “If anything serious happens, we need to get them on a plane and to a higher level of care.”
oil heater which takes kerosene or diesel fuel. The Tonsina Cabin is the easier of the three to get to, with a 2- mile trek from the Lowell Point State Recreation Area parking lot. There are several public use cabins in the Cooper Landing area along the Resurrection Trail including Romig Cabin on Juneau Lake, which can be rented for $50 a night. “It is surrounded by willow and spruce and overlooks the lake and surrounding mountains,” according to the state. “A variety of wildlife makes its home in the area.” There are also cabins located along the Russian Lakes Trail, including Barber Cabin about 2 miles into the trail. The rustic cabin is located in a flat area along the eastern shore of Lower Russian Lake. It sleeps eight and is heated by a wood stove. For a full list of cabins and their availability, visit https:// www.recreation.gov/ Reach Kat Sorensen at ksorensen@peninsulaclarion.com.
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bit since her last time there — 43 years ago. She didn’t get to be a tourist much, as she was meeting with people and preparing her testimony. She wore a vest with a blacklegged kitty wake — the crest of the T’akdeintaan of Hoonah — on the back when she testified in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Two others testified alongside her: Amber Kanazah Crotty, a delegate from the 23rd Navajo Nation Council; and Kimberly Loring Heavy Runner, a woman whose sister Ashley went missing in June 2017. Alexander, who lives in Sitka, talked at length in her testimony and her interview with the Empire about the fact that law enforcement agencies aren’t doing a good enough job of collecting data about missing and murdered Native women. A recent study from the Urban Indian Health Institute in Seattle supported this, finding that police departments nationwide are not keeping robust enough statistics. Alexander accentuated the point that in cases of missing and murdered women, authori-
ties sometimes forget about the victim. “What we were trying to get across is, just because a perpetrators cannot be identified and arrested, does not mean the victim cannot be identified and served,” Alexander said. “The rights of the victim should not be denied just because law enforcement fails to apprehend perpetrators.” Alexander was adamant that law enforcement agencies in Alaska in particular need more federal support. The training manual for the Alaska State Troopers is decades old, she said, and much of the academy training is focused on wildlife management instead of dealing with missing people or murder cases. She pointed to rural communities as well, some of which have Village Public Safety Officers (VPSOs), and some of which don’t even have that line of defense. “We don’t even have 911 in the villages,” Alexander said. “You’re on your own. There’s no amber alert when children go missing.” The senators on the com-
mittee, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, asked questions of the panelists and tried to get a better understanding of how the federal government can make a difference in these small communities. Alexander said she was encouraged by the apparent commitment the senators are making to understand these systematic issues and get them fixed. By the time she got back to Sitka on Thursday night, Alexander was a little jet-lagged but also more positive about the challenge at hand. She said the fact that the senators want to have more hearings like this — so called boots-onthe-ground hearings to speak with people who are personally affected by these cases of missing and murdered women — might be the start of making progress. “I think it’s going to take all of us to try to resolve these issues,” Alexander said. “We’re going to have to work together and I want to re-emphasize that I’m not taking issue with the Alaska State Troopers or the VPSOs or those that are trying to do this work. They need resources, so we’ll work to do what we can to get more resources up to Alaska.”
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia has fired the latest legal salvo against Facebook with a lawsuit seeking to punish the social networking company for allowing data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica to improperly access data from as many as 87 million users. The complaint filed Wednesday by Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine alleges that Facebook misled users about the security of their data and failed for years to properly monitor third-party apps. “We’re seeking to hold Facebook accountable for jeopardizing and exposing the personal information of tens of millions of its users,” Racine said. “We
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said Wednesday. Nutter, who is not Aleut, is most worried for St. Paul’s many elders, who must fly to Anchorage 750 miles to the east, for doctors’ appointments. The village only has a clinic for minor ailments, he said. Another worry is the impact
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a heating source (wood is not guaranteed though), meaning guests must bring their own gear including sleeping bags, food, cooking utensils, light sources, etc. The state of Alaska offers 84 cabins and eight ice huts across the state. On the peninsula, they operate the Caines Head State Recreation Area near Seward, where there are three cabins available to rent from $80 a night. The Callisto Canyon Cabin, Derby Cover Cabin and Tonsina Cabin are near Resurrection Bay and can be accessed by a trail from Lowell Point or by boat. “These cabins are difficult to reach during the winter months due to wind, rain and heavy seas,” according to the state, but have the amenities to make the trip worthwhile. Derby Cove and Callisto Canyon have wood-heating stoves, Tonsina Cabin has an
In this March 15, 2013, file photo, a man walks past a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California. (AP Photo/ Jeff Chiu, File)
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Judylee Guthrie, 28, of Klawock. “The future of Indian country depends on whether all of us work together to ensure that Native women live in environments that are free of such rampant, unaccountable violence,” Alexander said. Speaking with the Empire by phone Friday, Alexander said CCTHITA’s General Counsel Madeline Soboleff-Levy was contacted about finding someone to testify, and Soboleff-Levy reached out to Alexander. Alexander has extensive experience in the health and social services world, she said, and has worked closely with Native populations in Southeast Alaska and in Arizona. Alexander prepared her testimony by consulting others including CCTHITA Tribal Court Chief Justice Michelle Demmert. On Tuesday night, Alexander arrived in the nation’s capital for a whirlwind couple of days. She said the city had changed quite a
Facebook lets outside developers access. The Washington lawsuit alleges that about half of the District of Columbia’s roughly 700,000 residents had their data scooped up by Cambridge Analytica in violation of local laws. That is a relatively small number, but the case could attract outsized attention, given it will unfold in the nation’s capital, where U.S. lawmakers are mulling imposing new regulations restricting how much personal information Facebook and other internet companies can collect on their mostly free services. “Every time we see another lawsuit, or investigation, it helps keep attention on what has been happening and should help create a framework for holding Facebook accountable,” said Mike Chapple, an associate teaching professor of information technology, analyt-
ics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. “People are getting fed up with having their information mishandled.” It remains unclear, however, whether the allegations that are being made against Facebook in the District of Columbia and in other complaints were against the law at the time, said Dora Kingsley Vertenten, professor of public policy at the University of Southern California. “It looks like they are throwing spaghetti against the wall and seeing what sticks,” she said. Facebook has repeatedly assured lawmakers, regulators and the media that it is battening down its hatches in an effort to do a better job preventing unauthorized access to the pictures, thoughts and other personal information that its nearly 2.3 billion users typically intend to share only with friends and family.
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What’s Happening Events and Exhibitions n 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. n Kenai Community Library holiday events: 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. n Kenai Performers is selling chocolate Wonka bars as a promotional fundraiser. Funds raised will help pay production costs for their spring musical, “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka.” Hidden among the candy bars are five, special Golden Tickets. Finders of the tickets will win FREE admission to one of the shows. The Wonka bars are 4.5 ounces of scrumptious milk chocolate, big enough to share with the whole family, and are $5 each. Candy bars are available at Curtain Call Consignment Boutique in Kenai and at River City Books in Soldotna. Thank you, Country Foods for sponsoring our fundraiser! For more information, please call Terri at 252-6808.
Entertainment
n Veronica’s in Old Town Kenai has Open Mic from 6-8 p.m. Friday. Call Veronica’s at 283-2725.
n The Flats Bistro presents Mike Morgan on Fridays starting at 6:30 p.m. n The Alaska Roadhouse Bar and Grill hosts open horseshoe tournaments Thursday nights at the bar on Golddust Drive. For more information, call 262-9887. n Acapulco, 43543 Sterling Highway in Soldotna, has live music at 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays starting at 5 p.m. n A bluegrass jam takes place on the first Sunday of the month at from 1-4 p.m. at the Mount Redoubt Baptist Church on South Lovers Loop in Nikiski. n An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday. The jam takes place at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thursday of the month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the month. Jam starts at 6:30 p.m. n AmVets Post 4 has reopened in its brand new building on Kalifornsky Beach across from Jumpin’ Junction. Eligible veterans and their families are invited to stop by to find out more about AmVets and their involvement in the Veteran community. For members and invited guests, Friday night dance to “Running with Scissors,” and Saturday Burn your own steak and karaoke with Cowboy Don. n Odie’s Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. n The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays.
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10x10 show encourages collecting and gifting By MICHAEL ARMSTRONG Homer News
Like some other Homer galleries, Bunnell Street Arts Center periodically opens up its walls to community art. With its 10x10 Member’s Show, Bunnell does so with a twist and two conditions: 1) The art must be by Bunnell members, and 2) All art must be no larger than 10-inches-by-10-inches square or 10-inches cubed. Now in its fourth year, the show draws an eclectic group of experienced as well as emerging artists. While paintings dominate in the show, media includes photography, pen and ink, found objects, fiber art, and even wood burning. “We’ve enjoyed putting on a show that features a growing number of artists,” said Bunnell artistic director Asia Freeman on Dec. 7 for the First Friday opening. “We’ve felt it’s even better than previous years.” An open-call show runs the risk of having a mediocre show, but the caliber of work by established artists tends to challenge newer artists to excell. The collection builds bridges between abilities and not walls.
Some of the works in Bunnell Street Arts Center’s 10x10 show in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
“I feel like the 10x10 show is a really great way to connect with the community, and anybody can,” artist Maria Bernier said during last Friday at the opening. With 83 works by 43 artists, the opening was a whirlwind of viewing and meeting artists. Bunnell’s openings always feature artist talks, usually informal discussions of
The Bookwork Sez What should you do? When relationships break down, what then? Or you lose your job and your bank account is depleted, your home is in foreclosure, you’re a victim of discrimination, what do you do? You ask yourself “What next?” and then you reach for help, and with the new book “If You Ask Me” by Eleanor Roosevelt, edited by Mary Jo Binker,the advice you get might be decades old. Arguments on immigration, world issues, patriotism, and messy politics. Minority issues, equal pay, family problems, and Constitutional matters. Though these things may seem to be problems strictly of the modern age, from 1921 until 1962, Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of our 32nd president, also tackled these same topics in her books and magazine articles. In those 41 years, she ultimately penned more than 600 pieces. People from every walk of life consulted Mrs. Roosevelt for advice: politicians asked her and women sought her out. Men looked toward her wisdom and, says Binker, she had a par-
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She said she wants to balance realism and impressionism. For such a small space, Bernier showed how artists can pack a lot of meaning and intensity in their work. “In this community I feel like we are all connected to the water and have had a moment where we stare at the See 10X10, page B2
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the show, the artist’s aesthetic vision and sometimes lively questions. For the 10x10, Bunnell invited the artists to speak a bit about their work. Bernier, a student of Freeman in her Kachemak Bay Campus painting classes, spoke about her work, “Chop,” a tight focus on the ocean and waves.
ticular affection for teenagers (and vice versa). Though she wrote the words in this book generations ago, her advice is still relevant, even when contemporary viewpoints are taken into consideration. “She genuinely cared about people and their problems,” says Binker, consulting editor for the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project and editor of this book. Mrs. Roosevelt’s words were comforting, but she did not suffer fools. In 1944, she wrote that she believed women should receive equal pay for doing “men’s jobs.” She was a big proponent of organized labor, as she stated later that same year, and she was famously, vociferously pro-racial equality and against anti-Semitism. Politically, Roosevelt used her experiences as first lady to back up her beliefs on democracy, the office of President, eliminating the electoral college, and on dealing with political rifts within families. She hoped that national health care would become a reality. She called for calm in times of trouble. She See BOOK, page B2
Spider-Man’s theory of everything — An animated sequel that works in any universe R eeling It In C hris J enness
It’s rare for a movie to go so far against my expectations for me to be actually floored by the time the credits roll, but this week’s “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” is one of those times. What looked to be a cheap animated knockoff and last-ditch cash grab from Sony before Marvel and Disney get around to releasing their “Spider-Man: Homecoming” sequel next year is actually one of the most inventive, inclusive and entertaining superhero movies of this or any year. And not only is it a good movie in its own right, it does something that sequels and spinoffs rarely do — it manages to elevate all the other “Spider” material out there. What a feat. The movie opens with the “Spider-Man” story you already know. In a quick recap, we go over all the basic “Spider-Man” origin highlights — radioactive spider bite, dead Uncle Ben,
“with great power… yada yada.” You’ll notice that this seems to be taken from the Tobey Maguire “Spider-Man.” The events depicted are pretty similar to the ones in those movies, even down to the goofy dance number. But, if you’re watching carefully, you’ll notice that things are subtly different. For one, the big red flashing billboard in the background is advertising “KoKa Soda,” and Peter Parker, when we see his face, is decidedly blonde. This may not be exactly our world, and this definitely isn’t Peter’s story. Enter young Miles Morales, attendee of a Manhattan prep school and, despite his best efforts, an awkward teenager. Miles is a black kid struggling with the same thing I imagine a lot of youth are dealing with — how do I satisfy the expectations of my parents and my peers simultaneously? Miles’ father is in the NYPD and his beloved uncle Aaron walks a decidedly different path. Miles wants to be accepted, to be cool, to not have to go to nerd school, but mostly he just wants to be like his hero, SpiderMan.
Sooner rather than later, Miles is going to get his shot. Precipitating that event is Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin, who is using his vast resources to employ a team of scientists tasked with opening a connection with the multiverse — the infinite number of parallel universes that exist side by side with our own. While Fisk’s reasons are personal, the danger to all of reality draws out our friendly neighbor-
hood wall-crawler to try and stop it. Unfortunately, things go wrong and all hell breaks loose. The multiverse is open and, due to Spider-Man’s interference, a very particular type breed of creature is being summoned to this world. Miles finds himself bitten by the very same kind of spider that bit Peter Parker and, if that weren’t enough, a different, somehow more deadbeat, SpiderSee REEL, page B2
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water and noticed the patterns or the lack of patterns,” she said. Continued from page B1 Ann-Margret Wimmerstedt, one of Alaska’s small group of encaustic artists who work with the medium of beeswax, tree resin and pigment, spoke about how bees figure in her painting. “It’s inspired by a friend who said that all the women I know have been carrying the anger in their bodies and it feels like everybody is going to open their mouths at once and our anger will be released like bees,” Wimmerstedt said. “Bees have always been a part of my work; anger hasn’t been. … Bees represented this thing to me, to release. “The other part of it is women’s anger has always changed the world and no time like the present.” Retired clothing designer Jack Packer, who turns 90 this month, showed work with his artist daughter, Sharlene Cline. Packer, formerly of Miami, used to design men’s swimwear. His pen-and-ink paintings, “Viking 1” and “Viking 2,” have the bold patterns and vivid colors one might see in Miami Beach. “My past has been a designer of clothing, and I’ve done it for quite a few years and I never knew what I was doing when I started, but it always came out, good,” Packer said of his work. “It’s the same with this one. I don’t know what I’m doing, but I keep on doing it.” Cline showed one of her Chinese brush paintings, “Poppies.” “I had a wedding and she (the bride) requested poppies,” Cline said. “Every time I go to do a new subject of Chinese painting, you have to like really be one with the subject, so I have to paint it over and over again. …I have been playing a lot with layering and painting and layering.” Tattoo artist Sarah Frary’s work graces the body of many Homer people. Her two 10x10 paintings, “Anatomical Landscape,” are companion pieces. They show a human arm with its veins and muscles looking like a mountain range or ocean waves. She said her main focus on art is environmental concerns and connections. “It’s hard not to notice that the condition of our landscape is reflective of what’s going on in our bodies as well,” Frary said. “… It was just an exploration. I thought it would be fun to spread it across the two pieces, to feel clinical and visceral and emotional and wrap up all those elements in the painting.” Some artists spoke about how the 10x10 show allowed them to try new techniques. Gundega Snepste said she has been playing around with rusty objects and fabric. “This show is great,” she said. “It’s like little experimentations, little doodlings, so that’s how it came out.” Freeman mentioned another aspect of the 10x10 show. Opening this month, it gives holiday gift shoppers an opportunity to buy original art priced between $100 and $300. People who buy art can pick it up before Christmas, Freeman said — even if they’re buying for themselves. “That’s the whole idea — promoting local collecting,” she said. Reach Michael Armstrong at marmstrong@homernews. com.
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firmly favored birth control, and believed that the future would turn out alright. Continued from page B1 The surprise inside “If You Ask Me” is twofold: In reading the words that editor Mary Jo Binker collected, one is reminded by their shiny relevance that everything old is new again. Seventy-five years have passed and the same old issues have returned like sharks to chum, giving readers a dreadful, treading-water feeling. So what’s changed? In a word, us: In the other half of the surprise is a quaint, sweetly amusing look at a time when good girls weren’t “necking,” businesswomen in “taverns” was worrisome, and the first lady believed that “rock ‘n’ roll” was a “fad [that] will probably pass,” and that parents “needn’t take it too seriously.” The amusement also comes from Roosevelt’s wit and her ladylike rebukes that could be delivered on razor blades. Yes, she “cared about people”… but she could cut, too. This book is obviously perfect for historians but anyone can enjoy what’s inside these mostly still-applicable words. It’s easy to browse and fun, too, so read “If You Ask Me.” That’s what you should do.
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Man arrives on the scene. And, as it turns out, he’s only the first. Continued from page B1 Before we go into the specifics of what makes the movie so good, we should talk about my favorite thing about it. Due to the existence of multiple universes — a Spider-Verse, in this case — all previous iterations of the character are rendered both canon, and their differences or continuity issues, meaningless. Did you like the Tobey Maguire version and not the Andrew Garfield approach? No problem — they both exist. Is Tom Holland your guy, or do you like it old school — à la 1970s era animation? Either one is great. All Spider-Men are welcome here. Even Spider-Women — as in both Gwen Stacy’s version, and Peni Parker and her Spider-Robot, SP//dr, from somewhere in the future. Inclusivity is the name of the game, not only for characters, but also animation styles, a brilliant, sometimes chaotic mixing of anime, Looney Tunes, and comic book aesthetics. You would think the goofy nature of Spider-Ham wouldn’t mix well with the hard-edged style of much of the rest of the film, but it works beautifully. Directors Bob Persichetti and Peter Ramsey, along with phenomenal duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, have achieved something pretty amazing with this movie. So often, the animated versions of these series, though they have their defenders, are basically cheap, quick versions, meant for the home market and that don’t tie into the rest of the canon. But this film goes the other way completely – it not only ties in, but it ties everything together. As a Peter Parker, Jake Johnson isn’t the most obvious choice – he’s typically a professional sidekick, but here he works well, as do Hailee Steinfeld as Gwen Stacy and John Mulaney as Spider-Ham. Nicholas Cage steals all of his scenes as the overly dramatic Spider-Man Noir. Mahershala Ali is great in a small role as Miles’ uncle Aaron, but the real star of the show is Shameik Moore as our newest Spider-Man. He plays Miles Morales with a real balance of confidence and youthful reticence. Miles is really on the edge of going from being a kid to a young adult and all the changes with his new Spider powers just enhance that. It’s an obvious metaphor, but it works very well. I can’t say enough good about this film. There were a few things that bothered me, but it may be more my issue than the films. The style is pretty frenetic. It makes sense, but it is a little distracting, at least in the beginning. The plot is pretty solid, but there are few leaps that require a suspension of disbelief. These are minor issues, however. “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” is a real achievement. It should be a shoo-in for, at the very least, a nomination for Best Animated Film, if not an undisputed win. This is a film that is good for kids, for adults, for lovers of comic books and comic book films. If you have even the vaguest sense that you might enjoy it, drop what you’re doing and go to the theater. You won’t regret it. Grade: A “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” is rated PG for comic book violence and mild language.
With ‘Bumblebee,’ John Cena finds his stride in Hollywood By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer
LOS ANGELES — John Cena doesn’t believe in ego. How could he when he’s used to tens of thousands of WWE fans chanting “John Cena sucks” every time he walks out to the ring? It’s a philosophy that’s helped him survive both the demands of professional wrestling, where he was never supposed to be a success, and now Hollywood, where he’s made a miraculous comeback from some terrible films in the earlier 2000s. In the past three years, Cena has become a reliable highlight of whatever project he’s in, whether as a boyfriend who bares it all in “Trainwreck,” as an overprotective father to a teenager in this year’s “Blockers,” or even as a military man with some great one-liners in a big budget Transformers movie like “Bumblebee,” which hits theaters Friday. “I’m not afraid to fall on my face, I’m not afraid to look ridiculous,” Cena said on a recent afternoon in Los Angeles. “My ego lies with the moviegoer…I want to entertain folks. I want to make people happy.” And Cena is finally achieving that goal in films after a rocky start. Up until a few years ago, Cena’s Rotten Tomatoes scores for forgettable and generically-titled action pics like “12 Rounds,” ”The Marine” and “Legendary” barely broke 30 percent. But ever the athlete, he didn’t crumble under the weight of negative reviews, he learned from it. “My heart wasn’t in them. I wanted to be somewhere else. I did those movies because it was good for a business model,” Cena said. “What I learned from that is do what you love.” And he got his chance with the 2015 Amy Schumer relationship comedy “Trainwreck,” which, following a divorce, he
This image released by Paramount Pictures shows John Cena as Agent Burns in a scene from “Bumblebee.” (Paramount Pictures via AP)
found he “totally related to.” That breakout role as the sortof boyfriend of Schumer’s character put him on the map as not only novelty casting, but a veritable talent as well, leading to roles in “Sisters,” ”Daddy’s Home 2” and “Blockers.” And now there’s “Bumblebee,” his biggest and, at 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, highest-rated movie yet. Cena wasn’t looking for a franchise, or an action film to do when the script for “Bumblebee” came across his desk. He didn’t even care much about Transformers. But then he read it and found a sweet story about a misfit teenage girl (played by Hailee Steinfeld) and a robot that was more E.T. than Michael Bay, and decided it was something he wanted to do. “I was like ‘I’ll be Bumblebee’s spare tire, I don’t even care,’” Cena said. “I wanted to do something in the movie.” He and director Travis Knight settled on Agent Burns, who might have the dressings of a cartoon villain, but also has some surprises, and humor up his sleeve. Steinfeld marveled at how prepared Cena was every day and his “infectious energy.”
In all of his films, Cena considers himself at the service of the story and the director. “I became successful in WWE by always learning and evolving. I believe that the people around me are smarter than me,” he said. “Same thing in movies. I never watch playback. I never give feedback. I take feedback.” It’s something of a director’s dream to have someone so open to constructive criticism. “I love him. He is so coachable. He would do anything I asked him. And I’m saying anything,” said “Blockers” director Kay Cannon. “If there was a time where he felt like he didn’t give what I wanted, he would text or call or checkin and apologize, like, ‘I’m so sorry, I’ll do better next time.’ He’s very much an athlete.” His biggest learning curve in films thus far has been adapting to performing without an immediate audience of thousands in front of him. “I just started telling directors, ‘Hey don’t be afraid to tell me to turn it down. You’re going to have to do that because of the world I come from,’” he said. “Tell me I suck and tell me what you need.”
It’s not uncommon, he said, for a director to come from behind the monitor and say, “You’re at a 10, I need you to be at a 1.” “I’m humble and vulnerable enough to say I’m still learning,” Cena said. One person he’s learned a lot from is Jackie Chan, who he is co-starring with in a 2019 action film from Scott Waugh. “I firmly believe he’s a robot because he does not know the word stop,” Cena said. For now, he’s still happy juggling both the WWE and his rising film career, and every time he has a spare minute, he’s either looking for another acting project or looking for a WWE engagement. He was supposed to have a month off after “Bumblebee” came out before his next film starts shooting, but he decided find out what WWE events are happening instead. Now, he’ll be doing that right up until he has to leave for the film. “None of those are televised,” he said. “I just want to go back because I love it. When that process becomes too much, I’ll be at the precipice of a choice. But it’s not right now and I’m enjoying it.”
Football dominates television viewing as holiday nears By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer
NEW YORK — Professional football — the lifeblood of live television this time of year — illustrated its dominance in the ratings this past week. Four NFL games finished among the Nielsen company’s 20 most popular prime-time programs, with NBC’s Sunday night and Fox’s Thursday contests the top two. Both games featured Los Angeles teams. Add in three pre-game shows, and football accounted for seven of Nielsen’s entries. The games usually dwarf regular programming. For example, Fox drew 17.4 million to its Thursday night game. Its next most popular show, “Last Man Standing,” had 12 million fewer viewers. Similarly, the 18.1 million people who watched NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” were nearly 10 million more than “The Voice.” CBS’ lineup has a broader base of support and no pro football in prime-time, but it should be noted that its highest-rated show, “60 Minutes,”
comes on after football on the East Coast. CBS won the week in prime time, averaging 7.2 million viewers. NBC had 6.2 million viewers, Fox had 5.1 million, ABC had 3.6 million, Univision had 1.4 million, ION Television had 1.3 million, the CW had 1.2 million and Telemundo had 1.1 million. ESPN was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.4 million people in prime time. Fox News Channel had 2.04 million, Hallmark had 2.02 million, MSNBC had 1.91 million and USA had 1.31 million. ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.9 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” was second with 8.6 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.4 million For the week of Dec. 10-16, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: NFL Football: Philadelphia at L.A. Rams, NBC, 18.12 million; NFL Football: L.A. Chargers at Kansas City, Fox, 17.41 million; “60 Minutes,” CBS, 14.55
Philadelphia Eagles free safety Corey Graham (24) celebrates with teammates after recovering a fumble by Los Angeles Rams quarterback Jared Goff sduring the second half in an NFL football game in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
million; “NCIS,” CBS, 12.28 million; “NFL Pregame,” NBC, 11.66 million; NFL Football: Minnesota at Seattle, ESPN, 11.63 million; “NFL Pregame,” Fox, 10.34 million; “Football Night in America,” NBC, 9.22 million; “FBI,” CBS, 9.04 million; “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 8.97 million. ——— ABC is owned by The Walt
Disney Co. CBS is owned by CBS Corp. CW is a joint venture of Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp. Fox is owned by 21st Century Fox. NBC and Telemundo are owned by Comcast Corp. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks. ——— Online: http://www.nielsen.com
Sandra Bullock’s Oscars host solution: Call on random actors By JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press
Sandra Bullock attends a screening of “Bird Box” at Alice Tully Hall on Monday in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
NEW YORK — Sandra Bullock has an impromptu idea for how to solve the Oscars host problem, and it involves a lot of improvisation. The Oscar-winning actress told The Associated Press Monday at a screening of her new film “Bird Box ” that she thinks random actors should be pulled out of the audience and read what’s on the teleprompter to cover a segment of the show. Organizers “don’t even have to tell them it’s happening, just put up the teleprompter, and go, ‘it’s your turn,’” Bullock said. “You’re an actor, figure it out.”
Bullock says it’s a genius solution that everyone in the room is perfectly suited to handle. Well, almost everyone — Bullock says she’s not attending next year’s ceremony, but would participate in her idea if she was. No host for February’s Academy Awards has been announced since Kevin Hart backed out of emcee duties earlier this month over backlash to his old homophobic tweets. Bullock’s idea relied on a bit of improvisation. She told the AP, “I just pulled that out of my butt. It’s amazing.” By the end of the red carpet for “Bird Box,” it already had the support of some of Bullock’s co-stars.
“I don’t think we need a host anymore, man. I really believe it should be a show that we just do,” Lil Rel Howery said. “Maybe if you can get celebrities to do some really funny sketches instead of one person. Something fun.” Actor BD Wong said if anyone can pull off Bullock’s idea, it’s her. “She’s got tons of good ideas. First of all, she’s the life of every party,” Wong said. “I would just give her the gig to figure out how to organize it because she would be the person to figure out how to do it.” “Bird Box” has a limited theatrical release and will be on Netflix on Friday. The Oscars will be held Feb. 24.
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GMA Day Divorce Divorce The Talk ‘14’ Paternity Simpsons Days of our Lives ‘14’ Pinkalicious Go Luna
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In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night Blue Bloods ‘14’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ M*A*S*H M*A*S*H In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night Blue Bloods ‘14’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ Cops ‘14’ Cops ‘14’ In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night Blue Bloods ‘14’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ Last Man Last Man In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night Blue Bloods ‘14’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ “Grumpy Old Men” (7:00) Great Gifts (N) (Live) ‘G’ From Designers to Diamonique (N) (Live) ‘G’ Great Gifts (N) (Live) ‘G’ Diamonique Must-Have Gifts (N) ‘G’ Bose Sound Innovations Must-Have Gifts “Bose” The season’s hottest gifts. (N) (Live) ‘G’ Gift Guide “Bose” Must-have gifts. (N) (Live) ‘G’ Bose Sound Innovations Affinity Diamond Jewelry Honora Jewelry Collection Judith Ripka Jewelry (N) (Live) ‘G’ Affinity Diamond Jewelry Jill’s 25th Anniversary Special - Diamonds, Designers & Diamonique (N) ‘G’ Simple Home Solutions Or Paz: Silver Jewelry From Israel (N) (Live) ‘G’ Cold Weather Must-Haves Calista - Hair Isaac Mizrahi Live! (N) ‘G’ Simple Home Solutions (N) (Live) ‘G’ hairdo by HairUWear ‘G’ JAI Jewelry (N) (Live) ‘G’ Beauty We Love (N) ‘G’ Susan Graver Style (N) (Live) ‘G’ Kitchen Clearance “All Easy Pay Offers” (N) (Live) ‘G’ (7:00) “The Santa Con” “A Very Merry Toy Store” (2017) Mario Lopez ‘PG’ “Noel” (2004) Penélope Cruz, Susan Sarandon. “A Christmas Wedding Date” (2012, Romance) ‘PG’ “A Christmas Proposal” “A Star for Christmas” “A Dad for Christmas” (2006) Kristopher Turner. ‘PG’ “His and Her Christmas” (2005) ‘PG’ “A Twist of Christmas” (2018) Vanessa Lachey. “All Christmas” “Will You Merry Me?” “A Christmas Wedding” (2006) Eric Mabius “On Strike for Christmas” (2010) Daphne Zuniga. “The Spirit of Christmas” (2015) Jen Lilley. ‘PG’ “Last Chance” “Very Merry Daughter” “All She Wants for Christmas” (2006) Monica Keena. “Heaven Sent” (2016, Drama) Christian Kane. ‘PG’ “A Perfect Christmas List” (2014) Ellen Hollman. ‘PG’ “A Christmas Reunion” “The Christmas Shoes” “All About Christmas Eve” (2012) Haylie Duff. ‘14’ “Holiday Wishes” (2006) Amber Benson. “Finding Mrs. Claus” (2012) Mira Sorvino. ‘PG’ “12 Men of Christmas” NCIS “Bulletproof” ‘14’ NCIS ‘PG’ NCIS “Alleged” ‘14’ NCIS “Shooter” ‘PG’ NCIS ‘14’ NCIS ‘PG’ NCIS “So It Goes” ‘PG’ NCIS “Choke Hold” ‘14’ Chrisley Chrisley Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Chicago Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law-SVU NCIS “Leap of Faith” ‘14’ NCIS “Chimera” ‘14’ NCIS “Nine Lives” ‘PG’ NCIS ‘14’ NCIS “Cloak” ‘14’ NCIS “Dagger” ‘14’ NCIS “Road Kill” ‘PG’ NCIS “Silent Night” ‘14’ Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Burgers Burgers Seinfeld ‘G’ Seinfeld Seinfeld ‘G’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Seinfeld Seinfeld Seinfeld Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Seinfeld ‘G’ Seinfeld Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Seinfeld Seinfeld Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Charmed ‘PG’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ “How to Be Single” (2016) Dakota Johnson. Charmed ‘PG’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ “Safe House” (2012) Denzel Washington. Charmed ‘PG’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ “American Sniper” (2014) Bradley Cooper. Charmed ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Charmed ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ SportsCenter (N) (Live) NFL PrimeTime (N) (Live) NFL Live (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption Monday Night Countdown (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) Outside NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption SportsCenter (N) (Live) College Football SportsCenter (N) (Live) Outside NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) Outside NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportCtr College Football Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl -- Florida International vs Toledo. (N) (Live) College Football Famous Idaho Potato Bowl -- BYU vs Western Michigan. (N) (Live) NBA First Take Jalen & Jacoby (N) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) Football NFL Live (N) SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) First Take Jalen & Jacoby (N) NFL Live (N) Football High Noon Question College Basketball Princeton at Duke. (N) (Live) First Take Jalen & Jacoby (N) College Football Live (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption College Basketball First Take Jalen & Jacoby (N) College Football Live (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption College Basketball First Take Outside NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) Outside NFL Live SportsCenter (N) (Live) College Basketball The Rich Eisen Show (N) (Live) ‘PG’ Paid Prog. Paid Prog. The Dan Patrick Show (N) Ship Shape Surfing The Rich Eisen Show (N) (Live) ‘PG’ Pain Solved Paid Prog. The Dan Patrick Show (N) ‘PG’ Surfing The Rich Eisen Show (N) (Live) ‘PG’ Paid Prog. Paid Prog. The Dan Patrick Show (N) ‘PG’ Ship Shape West Coast The Rich Eisen Show (N) (Live) ‘PG’ Paid Prog. Paid Prog. The Dan Patrick Show (N) ‘PG’ Chase Hawks Rough The Rich Eisen Show (N) (Live) ‘PG’ Paid Prog. Paid Prog. The Dan Patrick Show (N) College Basketball Bar Rescue ‘PG’ Bar Rescue ‘PG’ Bar Rescue ‘PG’ Bar Rescue ‘PG’ Bar Rescue ‘PG’ Roseanne Roseanne Roseanne Roseanne Mom ‘14’ Mom ‘14’ “All I Want for Christmas” (1991) Thora Birch “Happy Feet” (2006) Voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams. “Ice Age: The Meltdown” (2006, Children’s) Rudolph’s Shiny Year Without M*A*S*H “One Magic Christmas” (1985, Children’s) “Miracle” (2004, Drama) Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Noah Emmerich. “Mr. Popper’s Penguins” (2011) Jim Carrey. Willy Wonka “Buster & Chauncey” (:15) “12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue” (2012) (:45) “Uncle Buck” (1989) John Candy, Amy Madigan. “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” (1987) “White Christmas” (1954) Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye. (:45) “Miracle on 34th Street” (1947) Maureen O’Hara. “Gremlins” (1984, Fantasy) Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates. Charlie Christmas ’Twas Night “Miracle on 34th Street” (1947, Fantasy) (:15) “To Grandmother’s House We Go” ‘G’ (:15) Jack Frost ‘G’ Rudolph’s Shiny Year Without Teen Titans Teen Titans Gumball Gumball Teen Titans Teen Titans Ben 10 ‘G’ Gumball Gumball Gumball Craig Total Drama Teen Titans The Elf on We Bare Steven Univ. Teen Titans Go! ‘PG’ Gumball Gumball Teen Titans Teen Titans Ben 10 ‘G’ Gumball Gumball Gumball Craig Total Drama Teen Titans Teen Titans We Bare Total Drama Teen Titans Teen Titans Gumball Gumball Teen Titans Teen Titans Ben 10 ‘G’ Gumball Gumball Gumball Craig Total Drama Teen Titans Teen Titans We Bare Total Drama Teen Titans Teen Titans Gumball Gumball Teen Titans Teen Titans Ben 10 ‘G’ Gumball Gumball Gumball Craig Total Drama Teen Titans Go! ‘PG’ We Bare Total Drama Teen Titans Teen Titans Teen Titans Teen Titans Teen Titans Teen Titans Teen Titans Go! ‘PG’ “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip” Teen Titans Unikitty ‘Y7’ We Bare Total Drama Varied Programs Puppy Pals Puppy Pals Toy Story Mickey Party Coop Coop Coop Raven Raven Raven Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ “Finding Nemo” Puppy Pals Puppy Pals DuckTales Big City Raven Raven Raven Raven Coop Coop Jessie ‘G’ Jessie ‘G’ Jessie ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Puppy Pals Puppy Pals DuckTales Big City Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Stuck in the Middle ‘G’ Stuck Raven Raven Raven Raven Coop Coop Puppy Pals Puppy Pals “Mickey’s Christmas” Mickey Jessie ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Bizaardvark Bizaardvark Bizaardvark Stuck Stuck Stuck “Mickey’s Christmas” “Mickey’s Twice Upon” Mickey Mickey Party Bizaardvark Bizaardvark Stuck in the Middle ‘G’ Raven Raven Raven Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Peppa Pig Team Umiz. Bubble Bubble Top Wing PAW Patrol Blaze Butterbean PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob Peppa Pig Team Umiz. Bubble Bubble Top Wing PAW Patrol Blaze Butterbean PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob Peppa Pig Team Umiz. Bubble Bubble Top Wing PAW Patrol Blaze Butterbean PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob Peppa Pig Team Umiz. Bubble Bubble Top Wing PAW Patrol Blaze Butterbean PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol Blaze Top Wing PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol PAW Patrol SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob (7:30) Movie Varied Programs (:15) Movie Varied Programs Long Lost Family ‘PG’ Long Lost Family “A Hole in My Soul” ‘PG’ Couponing: Holiday Extreme Extreme Extreme Extreme Extreme Extreme Extreme Extreme Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes 7 Little Johnstons ‘PG’ 7 Little Johnstons ‘PG’ 7 Little Johnstons ‘PG’ 7 Little Johnstons ‘PG’ 7 Little Johnstons ‘PG’ Extreme Christmas Trees Say Yes The 12 Pops of Christmas My 600-Lb. Life ‘PG’ My 600-Lb. Life ‘PG’ My 600-Lb. Life ‘PG’ Outdaughtered ‘PG’ Outdaughtered ‘PG’ Outdaughtered ‘PG’ Four Weddings ‘PG’ Four Weddings ‘PG’ Four Weddings ‘PG’ Four Weddings ‘PG’ Four Weddings ‘PG’ Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes American Gypsy Wedding American Gypsy Wedding American Gypsy Wedding American Gypsy Wedding American Gypsy Wedding
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Good Morning America The View ‘14’ The Doctors ‘14’ Channel 2 Morning Ed Dateline ‘PG’ Providence Providence (7:00) CBS This Morning Let’s Make a Deal ‘PG’ The Price Is Right ‘G’ Hatchett The People’s Court ‘PG’ Judge Mathis ‘PG’ The Real ‘PG’ (7:00) Today ‘G’ Today Third Hour ‘G’ Today-Kathie Lee & Hoda Go Luna Daniel Tiger Daniel Tiger Pinkalicious Sesame St. Splash
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Chicago P.D. “All Cylinders How I Met Firing” Platt is physically as- Your Mother saulted. ‘14’ ‘14’ The Ellen DeGeneres Show KTVA 5 p.m. (N) ‘G’ First Take Two and a Entertainment Funny You Half Men ‘14’ Tonight Should Ask ‘PG’ Judge Judy Judge Judy Channel 2 ‘PG’ ‘PG’ News 5:00 Report (N) NOVA “Ghosts of StoneBBC World henge” Clues about who built News ‘G’ Stonehenge. ‘PG’
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Channel 2 (:34) The Tonight Show Star- (:37) Late News: Late ring Jimmy Fallon (N) ‘14’ Night With (10) NBC Edition (N) Seth Meyers Secrets of Underground Amanpour and Company (N) London The wonders beneath (12) PBS London. ‘PG’
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Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Married ... Married ... Married ... Married ... Married ... How I Met How I Met Elementary A retired FBI (8) WGN Standing Standing Standing Standing Standing With With With With With Your Mother Your Mother agent is murdered. ‘14’ Shoe Shopping With Jane Or Paz: Silver Jewelry From Now That’s Cool With Jane hairdo by HairUWear (N) Or Paz: Silver Jewelry From Israel (N) (Live) ‘G’ Beauty We Love “Bose” (N) (20) QV (N) (Live) ‘G’ Israel (N) (Live) ‘G’ (N) (Live) ‘G’ (Live) ‘G’ (Live) ‘G’ (3:00) “A Christmas Re“Kristin’s Christmas Past” (2013, Children’s) Shiri Appleby, “My Christmas Inn” (2018, Drama) Tia Mowry-Hardrict, Rob (:03) “Santa’s Boots” (2018, Romance) Megan Hilty, Noah (:01) “My Christmas Inn” union” (2015, Romance) Judd Nelson, Debby Ryan. A time-traveling woman tries to Mayes, Jackée Harry. A woman from San Francisco inherits a Mills, Teryl Rothery. Holly is put to work as Santa’s elf at her (2018, Drama) Tia Mowry (23) LIF Denise Richards. ‘PG’ change her past. ‘PG’ cozy inn in Alaska. family’s store. Hardrict, Rob Mayes. NCIS Gibbs’ father visits for NCIS A witness in a murder NCIS Investigating a Navy NCIS Tony’s father visits for WWE Monday Night RAW WWE Superstars perform in front Miz & Mrs ‘14’ Miz & Mrs ‘14’ Miz & Mrs ‘14’ Miz & Mrs ‘14’ (28) US the holidays. ‘PG’ trial disappears. ‘PG’ captain’s death. ‘14’ Christmas. ‘PG’ of U.S. soldiers. (N) ‘PG’ American American Family Guy Family Guy Seinfeld “The Seinfeld ‘PG’ Seinfeld “The Seinfeld “The The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang Full Frontal (:33) Seinfeld (:03) Seinfeld (:33) Brooklyn Nine-Nine ‘14’ (30) TB Dad ‘14’ Dad ‘14’ ‘14’ “Blind Ambi- Pledge Drive” Couch” ‘PG’ Gymnast” ‘PG’ Theory ‘PG’ Theory ‘PG’ Theory ‘PG’ Theory ‘PG’ With Saman- ‘PG’ “The Soup” tion” ‘14’ ‘G’ tha Bee ‘PG’ NBA Basketball Houston Rockets at Miami Heat. From the AmericanAirlines NBA Basketball Dallas Mavericks at Los Angeles Clippers. From Staples Inside the NBA (N) (Live) NBA Basketball Houston Rockets at Miami Heat. From the (31) TN Arena in Miami. (N Subject to Blackout) (Live) Center in Los Angeles. (N Subject to Blackout) (Live) AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami. College Football Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl -- South Florida vs Marshall. (N) (Live) SportsCenter With Scott Van Pelt (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) College Football: Bad Boy (34) ESP Mowers Gasparilla Bowl
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NFL: Best of Countdown (N) SportsCenter X Games Street League Skateboarding Stop. First Take SportsCenter (35) ESP (N) (Taped) Hot Rod: The Untold Story of Hot Rod Hundley Seahawks Seahawks Fantasy Football Hour College Basketball Coe at Creighton. From CHI Health Cen (36) ROO Press Pass Press Pass ’18 (N) ter in Omaha, Neb. (N Same-day Tape) Mom ‘14’ Mom ‘14’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘14’ “Bad Santa” (2003, Comedy) Billy Bob Thornton. Two crimi- “A Merry Friggin’ Christmas” (2014, Comedy) Joel McHale, “Bad Santa” (2003) Billy Bob (38) PAR nals disguise themselves as St. Nick and an elf. Robin Williams, Lauren Graham. Thornton, Tony Cox. (3:30) “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005, Chil“The Santa Clause 2” (2002, Children’s) Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell. Santa “The Santa Clause 2” (2002, Children’s) Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell. Santa “Charlie and the Chocolate (43) AM dren’s) Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore. must get married in order to keep his job. must get married in order to keep his job. Factory” (2005) World of World of American American Bob’s Burg- Bob’s Burg- Family Guy Family Guy Rick and Robot Chick- Aqua Teen Bob’s Burg- Bob’s Burg- Family Guy Family Guy Rick and (46) TOO Gumball Gumball Dad ‘14’ Dad ‘14’ ers ‘14’ ers ‘PG’ ‘14’ ‘14’ Morty ‘14’ en ‘14’ Hunger ers ‘14’ ers ‘PG’ ‘14’ ‘14’ Morty ‘14’ Treehouse Masters “The Owl Treehouse Masters “City Treehouse Masters ‘PG’ Crikey! It’s the Irwins “It’s a The Secret Life of the Zoo The Secret Life of the Zoo The Secret Life of the Zoo The Secret Life of the Zoo (47) ANP Treehouse” ‘PG’ Sleeker Treehouse” ‘PG’ Baby Giraffe!” ‘PG’ Raven’s Raven’s Raven’s Coop & Cami Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Raven’s Raven’s Bizaardvark Stuck in the Bunk’d ‘G’ Bunk’d ‘G’ Raven’s Raven’s Bizaardvark Bizaardvark (49) DIS Home ‘G’ Home ‘G’ Home ‘G’ Home ‘G’ Home ‘G’ ‘G’ Middle ‘G’ Home ‘G’ Home ‘G’ ‘G’ ‘G’ The Loud The Loud The Loud The Loud The Loud The Loud SpongeBob SpongeBob “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water” (2015) Friends ‘PG’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ (50) NIC House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ House ‘Y7’ Voices of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke. “Santa (:35) “Santa Claus Is Com- (:40) “The Incredibles” (2004, Children’s) Voices of Craig T. 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Widower ready to live alone is pained to leave aunt behind cluding her son -- has the right to physically or emotionally abuse her. Encourage her to call the National Domestic Violence Hotline (the toll-free number is 800-799-7233) and talk to someone there. I’m sorry you didn’t mention who is supporting whom, but she should not remain in a home where Abigail Van Buren her safety may be threatened. And if her son raises a hand to her in your presence, you shouldn’t hesitate to call 911. If he does it when you’re not around, impress upon her that she must call. DEAR ABBY: I recently received an email from my ex-husband, who lives in the same state as my daughter. (I am remarried.) In it he asked me to agree to a budget he has given my daughter for her upcoming wedding. There was no discussion with me regarding the amount. Abby, he gave her a budget of $100,000 and expects me to pay half! When I emailed him back and
asked how he arrived at such a crazy number, he responded that his brother had spent that amount on his two daughters. Wow!!! I said absolutely not, the number was flat-out ridiculous, and he should never have promised that figure to begin with, let alone without consulting me. Your thoughts? -- NOW THE BAD ONE DEAR “BAD ONE”: I think the same way you do. He should never have promised any amount of money without first discussing it with you. I also think it is time to bring your daughter and her fiance into the conversation. Many modern couples split the cost of their wedding between themselves, so don’t feel defensive when you do it. 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. To order “How to Write Letters for All Occasions,” send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby -- Letter Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 610540447. Shipping and handling are included in the price.
Hints from Heloise
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018: This year you won’t be bored. You often see both sides of an issue. Try to help the other party understand where you are coming from, but show interest in his or her thoughts as well. If you are single, you will tune into someone who likes to travel and chat. This person expresses him- or herself in a powerful way. If you are attached, the attraction between you and your partner soars; however, you challenge each other quite a lot mentally. You will learn to respect each other’s ideas, which could be very different. GEMINI can’t stop teasing you. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You could be challenged to keep up the present pace. You might want to detach and look at the big picture. Relax while you can; by the end of the day, you might feel pulled in two different directions. Follow your sixth sense. Tonight: Hang with friends. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH You generally get your way. In fact, part of your stubbornness might come from past experiences that involved successfully holding out in order to get more of what you wanted. A friend inspires you to go for what you want. Tonight: Use care with spending. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You feel as though you’re in your element. If you keep going and don’t stop, fatigue could overcome you. You feel challenged and delight-
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ed by others’ company. Take a brisk walk, and you will feel refreshed. Tonight: Time to wish upon a star. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH You sense the energy of a Full Moon. Your sign is ruled by the Moon. In the next few days, you could be even more sensitive than you normally are. Know that this, too, shall pass. Be patient with a close friend or loved one. Tonight: Have no expectations. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You flourish in your private dream world, where you play out what could happen this holiday season. Necessity jolts you out of this reverie. Be grateful for these flights of fancy, as you once more return to reality. Tonight: Enjoy music and sweet-smelling candles. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You seem practical and together. You know what to do, and when you should do it. The one exception might be a child’s tantrum or a loved one’s Scrooge-like attitude. Don’t allow this person’s negativity to get to you. Tonight: A must appearance. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Your sensitivity emerges when dealing with a partner. While you might’ve thought you had everything handled, you’ll discover otherwise. If a fight erupts, step back. You do not want this scenario to mar your holiday. Tonight: Finally, all is well. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH You could get into being the one who is centered, as everyone around you is stressed. You Scorpios can be tough, but you also
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can be very caring. Maintain a positive attitude as you return calls, and maybe toss in an errand or two. Tonight: The only answer is “yes.” SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH You seem determined to handle everything perfectly in the next few days. On another level, you feel inspired by a family member. Together, you’ll create a dreamy holiday for you and your immediate circle. Tonight: Play it low-key, if possible. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH The kid in you emerges, which delights many people. Think positively about all the potential proposals you could make. Your mind could still be on work. Let go, and reorient yourself. You know what others need. Tonight: Don’t forget to pull the shades down. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH A child makes you laugh. Clearly, this person has a strong sense of mischief that seems to emerge no matter what you do. Let someone know you completely. Share your friendship and the fact that you love to walk on the wild side. Tonight: Till the wee hours. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Today’s building Full Moon could make you very testy; however, you might not be aware of the extent of your mood. In fact, you might trigger a lot of upset without realizing it. The real you emerges from behind the mask. Tonight: Host a get-together. BORN TODAY Film director George Roy Hill (1921), actress Irene Dunne (1898), actor Jonah Hill (1983)
TIMESAVER Dear Heloise: When a pan is going to have to soak overnight (stuck meatloaf or casserole), I drop a tablespoon of dishwasher detergent into the pan and fill with hot water. The next morning, it’s super easy to clean! -- Tippi D., San Pedro, Calif. PLENTY OF POWER Dear Heloise: I make sure we have lots of batteries on hand this time of year. How sad to have a disappointed kid who can’t play with a toy because there are no batteries! -- Helene C. in Maine EASY MONEY Dear Heloise: One year, I was trying to save money for a graduation gift for my granddaughter. Every time I got a $5 bill, I threw it in my desk drawer. At graduation time, I gave my granddaughter a check for over $1,600! -- June R., via email It adds up quickly! Keep it in a safe place. This would work for holiday time, too! -- Heloise PICKLE MAKER Dear Heloise: Upon using up a jar of bread-and-butter pickles, I save the liquid and fill the jar with freshly sliced cucumbers. I screw the cap back on tightly and stand the jar upside down in the fridge. Two days later, I have crispy new pickles. -- Carl H., Glendale, Calif. CLEAN CRYSTAL Dear Heloise: If I have a crystal or glass vase that is difficult to clean, I’ve discovered an easy way to make it look like new: I drop in a denture cleaner tablet and add 1 cup of hot water. After an hour or so, I rinse the vase. -- Peg N., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio DON’T DO IT Dear Readers: As tempting and thoughtful as it is, don’t leave a handwritten note and a plate of cookies inside your neighbor’s mailbox. The mailbox is for postage-bearing mail only. -- Heloise
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DEAR ABBY: I am a 61-year-old widower. A year ago I faced a bleak future and expressed a desire to kill myself. My cousin in another state, whom I hadn’t seen since childhood, invited me to move in with him and his mother -- my late mother’s sister. I now have plans for the future, which include returning to the state I left. The thing is, my cousin resolves disputes with his fists. I know that when I move, my aunt will want to come with me. My aunt is sweet, but she’s not my intellectual equal. Frankly, I prefer to be alone in my home when I move. I’ll want cats; she’s allergic. She smokes; I don’t. The job I want will have me on the road for days at a time. While it would be nice to have someone in the house while I’m away, I’d rather have it be empty than have her there. I’m sorry her only child is abusive, but am I really the solution? (Both mother and son are twice divorced. They have only each other.) Moving is about a year away, but this dilemma bothers me. I don’t want to abandon her, but I don’t want to be her savior, either. When it’s time to relocate, what can I tell her? -- MULLING IT OVER IN MISSISSIPPI DEAR MULLING: Start talking privately with your aunt and impress upon her that no one -- in-
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