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Wednesday, December 19, 2018 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 49, Issue 69

In the news Man with stab wound dies near mental health services office ANCHORAGE — A man suffering a stab wound died outside an Anchorage building that offers mental health services.

Anchorage police say the man was found Tuesday afternoon outside the Alaska Mental Health Consumer Web building on Gambell Street near 12th Avenue.

Staff members called the Anchorage Safety Patrol for a man who appeared to be intoxicated.

As medics assessed the man, he indicated he had been stabbed.

Medics found a stab wound on the man’s upper body. Soon after, the man died.

Police say they have no suspect information. Police are asking for witnesses to come forward.

Man found dead outside burning motorhome near Fairbanks FAIRBANKS — The state fire marshal’s office is investigating the death of a man outside a burned motorhome near Fairbanks.

Alaska State Troopers say Chena-Goldstream Fire and Rescue on Saturday responded to a call of a home fire on a street west of the city.

Firefighters arrived to find a fully engulfed motorhome.

As crews extinguished the fire, they found the man dead outside the motorhome.

The state medical examiner conducted an autopsy to confirm the man’s identity.

Former manager charged with embezzling from village utility ANCHORAGE — A southwest Alaska woman has been charged with embezzling more than $500,000 from a village utility company.

The Anchorage Daily News reports 60-year-old Donna Vukich of Naknek is charged in federal court with embezzling from the Naknek Electric Association and lying about it on tax returns.

Vukich is the utility’s former general manager.

A civil lawsuit filed by the utility claims Vukich spent $970,358 on company credit cards from 2004 to 2016.

The criminal charges cover 2011 to 2015.

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Soldotna wins concert series grant

By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion

Soldotna’s Music in the Park will rock even more in 2019, thanks to a $25,000 matching grant.

The city of Soldotna was one of 15 annual winners of the 2019 Levitt AMP Grant. The matching grant is presented to nonprofits in small to mid-sized towns to host the Levitt AMP Music Series, 10 free and diverse concerts.

“We’re very excited,” said Executive Director for the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce Shannon Davis. “We really have done a great job of showing the development of Soldotna Creek Park and having Music in the Park grow every year, so we are thrilled to take it to a whole new level in 2019.”

The grant was awarded to Vision Soldotna, a 501(c)3 that focuses its efforts to better Soldotna through a visitor’s and community center and by en- Musician Mika Day performs for market attendees at this year’s final Wednesday Market, on See PARK, page A3 Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

Dunleavy to examine LNG project before weighing in ANCHORAGE (AP) — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy is learning more about the $43 billion liquefied natural gas project before he sets a course, his administration said.

Brett Huber, the new Republican governor’s senior policy adviser, told the Anchorage Daily News that Dunleavy “will withhold judgment” on the project until the “administration can fully understand the costs, risks, and potential benefits.”

The project includes an 800mile pipeline to move North See LNG, page A3

Industry forum slated for 2019 Stocks waver; plunging

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

The Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District is hosting the upcoming Industry Outlook Forum next month.

The Jan. 9 forum is an allday event that will feature presentations from a wide range of local industries. The event features over 15 speakers, including representatives from the University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska’s tourism industry, South Peninsula Hospital, The Pebble Partnership, Alaska Gasline Development Corporation, local farms and more.

The forum has been happening for more than 10 years, Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District Executive Director Tim Dillon said.

Tim Dillon is the executive director of the Kenai Economic Development District.

Dillon said the event will help educate residents about what is happening in local industries, and what they can ex-

pect in the coming year.

“It’s a great opportunity to get information,” Dillon said.

Three years ago, the forum saw some major changes.

It was changed to a one-day event, gained the support of peninsula cities and chambers of commerce and recruited speakers and presenters from a more varied selection of local industries.

“We were starting to hear (the forum) wasn’t as diverse as it could have been,” Dillon said. “Now when you look at the agenda you can see almost every industry represented.”

For the first time, Tyonek will be represented at the forum, with a presentation from CEO Leo Barlow of the Tyonek Native Corporation.

See FORUM, page A3

Juneau schools continue drug testing of student athletes JUNEAU (AP) — The Juneau School District has been conducting random drug tests on student athletes for nearly a decade, but officials said there is little evidence to show the program’s effectiveness.

The district started random drug testing in 2009, checking students for substances ranging from tobacco and alcohol to cocaine and marijuana, KTOO

Public Media in Juneau reported this week.

The district has spent anywhere from $11,000 to $46,000 each year on testing. The program began as a way to address growing drug use among high school students, and the policy stayed in place despite budget cuts in 2013.

As much as 15 percent of each sport’s athletes are ran-

domly tested once a week during the season, depending on budget constraints. If a student tests positive for a substance, consequences include suspension from sports and completing an online course on substance abuse.

The district does not maintain yearly records of the number of positive results the tests See TEST, page A3

oil prices pull energy stocks even lower

By MARLEY JAY AP Markets Writer

NEW YORK — After two days of huge losses, U.S. stocks ended the day back where they started on Tuesday. Energy companies sank as crude oil plunged 7 percent, but technology and consumerfocused companies climbed.

U.S. crude oil fell to its lowest price since August 2017, and it has now fallen almost 40 percent since early October.

Investors are worried that supplies continue to increase and that demand is slowing as the global economy weakens. The plunge in oil prices has crushed energy company stocks in recent weeks.

Energy stocks including Exxon Mobil fell again on Tuesday, but some of those losses were offset by gains in Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Boeing. Boeing raised its quarterly dividend and said it will buy back another $20 billion of its own stock. Boeing has tumbled on worries that the global trade war will hit its profits particularly hard.

The Federal Reserve started its last meeting of the year. Investors expect it to raise interest rates on Wednesday when the meeting concludes. That

would be its fourth increase this year, and its ninth in three years. Investors are hoping the Fed will say the increases are going to slow down in 2019 in light of recent signs that economic growth is slowing.

Trading was turbulent. Two days of widespread market declines had knocked 1,004 points off the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and on Tuesday, investors couldn’t find a convincing reason for stock prices to go higher. On the other hand they didn’t see cause for another big decline, either.

There haven’t been any big developments in U.S.-China trade talks, a major focus for markets, since the beginning of this month. JJ Kinahan, chief markets strategist for TD Ameritrade, said that’s left investors confused about the state of the trade dispute and reluctant to commit to stocks, while businesses aren’t spending.

“We don’t know the rules of the game,” he said. “People can’t plan. When you can’t plan, you’re not anxious to buy stocks.”

The S&P 500 index inched up 0.22 points to 2,546.16, but is still trading at its lowest levels in 14 months. The Dow industrials added 82.66 points, See OIL, page A5

Judge delays Flynn sentencing, ‘not hiding disgust’

By ERIC TUCKER and CHAD DAY Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A federal judge Tuesday abruptly postponed the sentencing of President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, declaring himself disgusted and disdainful of Flynn’s crime of lying to the FBI and raising the unexpected prospect of sending the retired Army lieutenant general to prison.

Lawyers for Flynn, who admitted lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts, requested the delay during the stunning hearing in which U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan told the former Trump aide in a blistering rebuke that “arguably you sold your country out.”

This courtroom sketch depicts former President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, standing center, flanked by his lawyers, inside the federal court in Washington, Tuesday. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

“I can’t make any guarantees, my disdain for this criminal ofbut I’m not hiding my disgust, fense,” Sullivan said.

The postponement gives Flynn a chance to continue cooperating with the government in hopes of staving off prison and proving his value as a witness, including in a foreign lobbying prosecution brought this week. The possibility of prison had seemed remote for Flynn, who was smiling and upbeat as he entered the courtroom, since prosecutors had praised his extensive cooperation and didn’t recommend any time behind bars.

But the judge’s upbraiding suggested otherwise and made clear that even defendants like Flynn who have cooperated in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation may nonetheless be shadowed by the crimes that brought them into court in the first place. The

hearing upset what had been a carefully crafted agreement and pushed months into the future a resolution of one of Mueller’s signature prosecutions.

“This is a very serious offense.

A high-ranking senior official of the government making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation while on the physical premises of the White House,” Sullivan said.

He later softened his tone, apologizing for suggesting that Flynn had worked as a foreign agent, “undermining everything this flag over here stands for” while in the White House when that other work had actually already ended. He also backpedaled on an earlier question on whether Flynn’s transgressions See FLYNN, page A5

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NASA’s 1st flight to moon, Apollo 8, marks 50th anniversary

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Fifty years ago on Christmas Eve, a tumultuous year of assassinations, riots and war drew to a close in heroic and hopeful fashion with the three Apollo 8 astronauts reading from the Book of Genesis on live TV as they orbited the moon.

To this day, that 1968 mission is considered to be NASA’s boldest and perhaps most dangerous undertaking. That first voyage by humans to another world set the stage for the still grander Apollo 11 moon landing seven months later.

There was unprecedented and unfathomable risk to putting three men atop a mon- In this Dec. 18, 1968, file photo, Apollo 8 astronauts, from left, James Lovell, command module strous new rocket for the first pilot; William Anders, lunar module pilot; and Frank Borman, commander, stand in front of mistime and sending them all the sion simulator prior to training in exercise for their scheduled six-day lunar orbital mission at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (AP Photo/File) See APOLLO, page A3

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November 19, 1939 - December 14, 2018 Diana H. Covey, age 79 passed away on Friday December 14, 2018 in Soldotna, Alaska. She was born on November 19, 1939 in Pensacola, Florida to Chester and Susie (Watson) Hicks. Diana has been a resident of Alaska since 1967. She worked for the U.S. Navy Payroll Clerk from 1958 – 1961 in Pensacola, FL, U.S. Navy Civil Service from 1965 – 1967 in Whidbey Island, WA, U.S Geological Survey from 1988 – 1995 in Denver, CO, U.S Geological Survey-U.S. Air Force Civil ServiceElmendorf AFB in Anchorage, AK Ä¨ĆŒĹ˝Ĺľ ϭϾϾϹ ĂŜĚ ĆŒÄžĆ&#x;ĆŒÄžÄš Ĺ?Ĺś ĎŽĎŹĎŹĎąÍ˜ ^ŚĞ was awarded – Civilian of the Year in 2000 at Elmendorf AFB and broke the sound barrier in an Air Force F-15.

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way to the moon. The mission was whipped together in just four months in order to reach the moon by year’s end, before the Soviet Union.

There was the Old Testament reading by commander Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders.

Lastly, there was the photo named “Earthrise,� showing our blue and white ball — humanity’s home — rising above the bleak, gray lunar landscape and 240,000 miles in the distance.

Humans had never set eyes on the far side of the moon, or on our planet as a cosmic oasis, surrounded completely by the black void of space. A halfcentury later, only 24 U.S. astronauts who flew to the moon have witnessed these wondrous sights in person.

The Apollo 8 crew is still around: Borman and Lovell are 90, Anders is 85.

To Lovell, the journey had the thrill and romance of true exploration, and provided an uplifting cap for Americans to a painful, contentious year marked by the assassinations

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have produced, but “anecdotally we have few positive,� said Bridget Weiss, the interim superintendent.

Jake Jacoby, Thunder Mountain High School’s activities director, said the number of positive tests have stayed low during his time at the school.

Drug testing is a “pretty serious deterrent� to drug use, he said. “I would say at least half of the maybe 8 to 10 positive tests

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Slope gas to Nikiski, where a plant would liquefy it for shipment. Most sales will be targeted for buyers in the Asia market.

Dunleavy’s new administration last week rolled out a budget that keeps former Gov. Bill Walker’s proposed $22 million on gas line spending.

The budget proposal is a starting point for discussions with the state Legislature and not intended to show support for the project, said Laura Cramer, deputy director of the state Office of Management and Budget.

of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, nationwide riots and protests of the Vietnam War. The mission’s impact was perhaps best summed up in a four-word telegram received

by Borman. “Thanks, you saved 1968.�

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine — who at age 43 missed Apollo — marvels over the gutsy decision in August that year to launch astronauts to the moon in four months’ time. He’s pushing for a return to the moon, but with real sustainability this next go-around.

The space agency flipped missions and decided that instead of orbiting Earth, Borman and his crew would fly to the moon to beat the Soviets and pave the way for the lunar landings to come. And that was despite on its previous test flight, the Saturn V rocket lost parts and engines failed. “Even more worrisome than all of this,� Bridenstine noted earlier this month, Apollo 8 would be in orbit around the moon on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. “In other words, if there was a failure here, it would wreck Christmas not only for everybody in the United States, but for everybody in the world.�

we’ve had in the last four years have been tobacco-related,� Jacoby said.

Drug testing gives student a way to opt out of drug use, especially when peer pressure is involved, said Rhonda Hickok, assistant principal at Thunder Mountain. “We know peer pressure is pretty high, and it could be a challenge for some kids to not be able to say ‘no,’� Hickok said. “Well now they had an out that they could say, ‘No, I participate in this program and I could be drug tested, so I can’t do this.’�

Dunleavy is the third governor to oversee the project, which launched in 2012 under former Gov. Sean Parnell, who is serving as Dunleavy’s gas line adviser during the transition of administrations.

Parnell said the project should keep proceeding until it obtains approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. That approval isn’t expected until February 2020. “What’s important now is getting something of value to the state for all the time and money (invested),� Parnell said.

Parnell said he has put in about 100 hours reviewing documents and materials on the project. He met with Dunleavy last week, briefing him on his findings, he said.

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Around the Peninsula James Dryden celebrates 98th birthday Jim Dryden will be 98 on Friday, Dec. 21 and will celebrate from 2 -4 p.m. with friends and family at Riverside Assisted Living, 390 Lovers Lane in Soldotna. Jim is a WWII veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor. He and his family moved to Alaska in 1964, and then to Soldotna, with his late wife Eleanor in 2003.

50th anniversary celebration for John and Sharon Williams A public open house and reception will be held to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of John and Sharon Williams on Sunday, Dec. 23 from 2-4 p.m. at Paradisos restaurant.

Al-Anon support group meetings Al-Anon support group meetings are held at the Central Peninsula Hospital in the Kasilof Room (second floor) of the River Tower building on Monday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. Park around back by the ER and enter through the 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.

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Heroin overdoses are on the rise in Alaska. Narcan is an easy medication you can give to someone who is overdosing. It may Deck the Halls with Mike Morgan and Friends save their life.

Adults can get free Narcan nasal spray kits at Mike Morgan and Friends will be “Decking the Halls� at the Kenai Public Health Center at 630 Barnacle Way, Suite A, “Classic Kaladi Bros. Coffee,� 315 S. Kobuk St. in Soldotna, in Kenai. For additional information call Kenai Public Health on Saturday, Dec. 22, from 6 to 9 p.m. Come join us for great at 335-3400. coffee, tea, hot cocoa and an evening of caroling by the fire with friends and family. Lyric sheets will be provided for all, so Kenai Community Library holiday events you’ll have all the words to your favorite holiday songs! Call We are full of holiday spirit here at the library! Join us for Kaladi’s at 907.262.5980 for more info. one of our holiday-themed programs which include: Apple Butter Workshop, Candy Cane Family Craft, and Christmas Carols Cook Inlet Pipeline Infrastructure Risk at the Library. As always these classes are free but you must preAssessment deadline register; so stop by or give us a call to sign up. Also, between Experts wishing to participate in the Cook Inlet Pipeline In- Dec. 26-29 we have a Scavenger Hunt Drop-In planned for pafrastructure Risk Assessment expert panel on pipeline integrity trons to find famous characters throughout the library and earn a and safety now have until Jan. 18, 2019, to apply. The previous small prize! Keep an eye out for all of our upcoming events and programs by “Liking� us on Facebook. deadline was Jan. 5, 2019.

The Matanuska Valley Fish & Game Advisory Committee meeting The Matanuska Valley Fish & Game Advisory Committee will meet on Wednesday, Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. at the MTA building, located at 480 Commercial Drive in Palmer to consider Southeast Region Board of Game proposals 41 – 43, 47, 49, 52, create a list of proposals for upcoming BOF meetings and any other business that may properly come before the committee. The public is encouraged to attend. For more information contact Herb Mansavage at 841-8928.

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.

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A presentation from the Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District Board of Directors will get businesses to start thinking about disaster planning. “We’ve been planning this

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hancing the city’s vibrancy and diversity. “We submitted the grant application back in September,�

Davis said. “And we were selected by the committee to move on to the second phase, online voting.�

During the voting, Soldotna was up against a long list of communities with much larger populations and had to place in the top 25 of voting. “We worked it hard to get the word out, to encourage residents and even our friends from far away to vote for Soldotna,�

Davis said. â€œâ€Ś We came in 24 out of 25, we’re proud of get-

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.

for three or four months and then we just had that earthquake,� Dillon said. “We want to try and get people to think about how could their business survive in case we had another earthquake or an even bigger earthquake, or something like that.�

The forum begins at 8:45 a.m. and ends at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 9, at Christian

Community Church in Homer. See a complete agenda at KPEDD.org.

The forum is free for anyone, but registration is required through the Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District’s website. A complimentary continental breakfast and lunch are offered during the event.

Dillon said people who are

ting there with how small our community is.�

During the third phase of voting, the Levitt Foundation, a private foundation to support arts, culture and education, selected the top 15 cities. “In the third round, they looked to see that we met the goals of the grant such as amplifying community pride and enriching lives,� Davis said.

The grant is a dollar-for-dollar match from the foundation, with a minimum contribution from the Soldotna Chamber of $25,000. Davis said that this increased budget and guidelines set forth by the Levitt Foundation will open up the choice of acts that Soldotna Creek Park will see next summer. “It’s going to take a while to

develop our lineup,� Davis said. “We have to have one national act and we have to make sure our lineup is very diverse and covers a wide range of music styles and cultures — to bring in acts we haven’t been able to have before.�

Davis said concertgoers should expect some new tunes, but that fan favorites will find their way to the stage. “It’s a little be hard since we have local bands that we absolutely love, but we’ll branch out a little more and hopefully the chamber will have other ways to showcase them,� Davis said.

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What Others Say

Online harassment has consequences Trolls, haters, bullies — they’re

everywhere on the internet. What does it accomplish to send brazen insults across internet?

If you have spent much time on social media or the internet you have probably been insulted by a stranger or friend. News stories about the way people interact on social media can be appalling. For example, Zelda Williams, the daughter of comedian Robin Williams, quit social media after her father’s death. She did this because so many strangers were making rude comments about Mr. Williams’ suicide. But other bullying campaigns have ended tragically. In 2017, a 12-year-old girl in New Jersey killed herself after months of social media harassment from her classmates, despite pleas for it to stop.

Danny Wallace, an author who wrote a book on the culture of rudeness, said, “(The anonymity factor contributes to online rudeness and trolls), but the latest research says that it’s actually a lack of eye contact that allows us to be particularly rude to people.”

It makes sense. You don’t have to see the pain in someone’s face as you unleash a string of f-word laden insults over Twitter. Nor do you have to see the consequence of your action.

If you are not sure where to draw the line in making online comments, perhaps you should picture saying your comment to that person’s face. How will they react? How would you react if the same thing were said to you? What will this person say to you in return? Could you carry on a conversation with that person? What will your insult accomplish?

There is a better way to handle things than insulting people on the internet.

If Taylor Swift produces an album you don’t like, don’t listen to it. You don’t have to tell her it made your eardrums burst.

If you’re angry with a politician’s actions, try writing your elected officials well-thought emails and explain why you’re angry. Help them understand your point of view. It would certainly accomplish more than calling them millennial-snowflake socialists or fascist-Nazi pigs on Twitter.

If someone makes a comment you don’t agree with at Newsminer.com, offer a counterpoint to the argument rather than insulting the writer’s intelligence.

If you don’t like someone’s photos on Instagram, unfollow that person. You don’t have to say the person is ugly.

There is no need to be so insulting on the internet and social media. At best, your trolling is a waste of your time. Or worse, you could be causing emotional trauma.

— Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Dec. 16

Lame-duck mucking around

OK, I get it. After an election, when the incumbent is about to be transformed into the former, we need a transition period.

All in all, it’s a good idea. It allows for a smooth changeover. Yada, yada, yada. But like all bright ideas, this one is invariably tarnished, because humans are involved.

(How’s that for Yuletide cheer?)

As we all know, the time between outgoing and incoming is called the “lame duck” period. But do you know why? Do you care why? Boredom alert: In American politics, it dates back to the 19th century, when somebody or other referred to “lame ducks or broken-down politicians.” Maybe that’s a bit harsh, or maybe not, considering what so many leave behind before they have flown the coop. (Ducks can have coops too. I looked it up.)

Consider the current flock of them. Actually, it’s flocks. In Wisconsin and Michigan, the Democrats who were victorious in winning the governor’s races and other statewide races are crying “fowl” because of the Republican tactics to change the rules of engagement, as they have in other states.

The way it’s supposed to work is that the voters choose between not only candidates but policies. Another long-familiar expression is they can elect to “throw the rascals out.” The new rascals get to implement their approaches, changing those of the old ones because, and prepare to suffer through still another cliche, “to the victor goes the

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came known as “Pardongate” (what else?) because his former wife Denise Eisenberg Rich had made big-time donations to both the Clinton Library and Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign. Even after he left office, Bill Clinton was formally scrutinized but ultimately cleared. Interestingly, the head of the investigation who legally exonerated him was none other than James Comey — yup, the very same guy, all of which proves there’s nothing new in politics, and also that Comey has a real knack for keeping his profile sky-high.

Of course, our current president is no slouch at that; he’s probably the ultimate self-promoter. Unfortunately for him, once Congress gets past its current lame-duck status, the Democrats, with their new majority in the House, give every indication that they will make his first two years in office look tame by comparison. For the most part, they’re avoiding the “I-word” — oh, let’s just say it, the “impeachment” word — particularly since they don’t want to look overly anxious. Besides, they have Robert Mueller doing all their heavy lifting. But assuming that Donald Trump avoids removal, he’ll presumably run for re-election against a Democratic someone.

Democratic candidate TBD will be determined to make him a lame duck. Imagine how dangerous he will be if he feels like he has nothing left to lose.

News and Politics

Nevada becomes 1st US state with female-majority Legislature

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press

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spoils.” But these GOP lame ducks in Wisconsin and Michigan are spoiling things. With their fading quacks, they are trying to override the voice of the people by duck-walking over Bob Franken the new guys before they take control.

They are using partisan sleight of hand to feather their nests with their rich patrons, and otherwise taking some important ruling powers away from those who will replace them. It’s not just a state problem. In Washington, we have a Congress with Republicans ruling both roosts until next month. The lame ducks, and there are a lot of them, are trying to pull a fast one and jam through a budget and other priorities of the gaggle up at the other end of the street.

It’s not a pretty sight, nor is there much hope that it will improve when the Democrats take over one of these animal houses, the House of Representatives. If anything, the barnyard squalling will get louder. It’s not just the Republicans who abuse their lame-duck status. Bill Clinton issued 140 pardons on his last day in office, including one for fugitive Marc Rich, who had been prosecuted for massive tax fraud and evaded arrest by residing in Switzerland. It be-

LAS VEGAS — Nevada became the first state in the U.S. with an overall female majority in the Legislature on Tuesday when county officials in Las Vegas appointed two women to fill vacancies in the state Assembly.

The appointments of Democrats Rochelle Thuy Nguyen and Beatrice “Bea” Angela Duran to two Las Vegas-area legislative seats give women 51 percent of the 63 seats in the Legislature.

Women will hold nine of 21 seats in the state Senate, falling short of a majority in that chamber. But they will hold 24 of 42 seats in the Assembly, comprising 57 percent in that chamber and giving women enough numbers to make the two chambers an overall female majority.

No state has previously had a femalemajority or even a 50 percent-female Legislature, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, which tracks women’s political representation.

Women picked up seats in the Nevada Assembly and Senate during the 2018 November election but fell short of an overall majority. Vacancies created by lawmakers who won election to other offices in November, along with one sitting female lawmaker then allowed

women to gain additional seats.

Before 2018, New Hampshire was the first state to have a female majority in any legislative chamber, when women held a majority in the New Hampshire state Senate in 2009 and 2010.

With the 2018 election, women cracked the 50 percent threshold in the Nevada state Assembly and Colorado State House, but no overall majority was reached until the Nevada appointments.

“It is unprecedented at this point to see a majority female legislature overall,” said Kelly Dittmar, an assistant professor of political science at RutgersCamden.

With the two Nevada appointments, women will make up 28.6 percent of state legislators nationwide when new legislators are sworn into office in 2019, according to data from the Center for American Women and Politics.

Women made up 24.3 percent of state legislators in the U.S. a decade ago, the center said.

Studies of women who have served in Congress are probably comparable to female gains in state legislatures, she said, and the studies have found that “the more women you have in the body, the more that their perspectives and life experiences are integrated into policy debates and deliberations.”

Dittmar said the milestone in Nevada

could help change attitudes of what a state Legislature should like.

“That might influence young people.

It might influence other women to see that body as both friendlier to them as well as more responsive to their concerns,” she said.

Nguyen, an attorney, and Duran, a grievance specialist with the state’s casino workers union, will hold their seats until the next general election in 2020.

“It’s a great victory,” Duran told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “Women are proving to have more knowledge and aren’t afraid to show that power that they have.”

Duran has been a staff member since 1999 at the powerful Culinary Workers Union Local 226, a key political organization in the state.

Nguyen, a criminal defense lawyer, said called the milestone “fantastic.”

“When women do better, I think families are stronger,” Nguyen said.

The Speaker of the Assembly, Democrat Jason Frierson, said in a statement that the chamber is proud to welcome both women.

“In addition to a diversity of backgrounds and life experiences,” he said, “both Rochelle and Beatrice bring passion, energy, and knowledge to the State Legislature that will better serve our state and our constituents.”

Nation

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Trump administration to ban bump stocks

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration moved Tuesday to officially ban bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like automatic firearms, and has made them illegal to possess beginning in late March.

The devices will be banned under a federal law that prohibits machine guns, according to a senior Justice Department official.

Bump stocks became a focal point of the national gun control debate after they were used in October 2017 when a man opened fired from his Las Vegas hotel suite into a crowd at a country music concert below, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds more in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

The regulation, which was signed by Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on Tuesday morning, will go into effect 90 days after it is formally published in the Federal Register, which is expected to happen on Friday, the Justice Department official said.

The official wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly

ahead of the regulation’s formal publication and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

In March, President Donald Trump said his administration would “ban” the devices, which he said “turn legal weapons into illegal machines.”

Shortly after the president’s comments, the Justice Department announced that it had started the process to amend federal firearms regulations to define bump stocks as machine guns. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives sought public comment on the proposal, drawing more than 35,000 comments.

The amended regulations reverse a 2010 ATF decision that found bump stocks did not amount to machine guns and could not be regulated unless Congress changed existing firearms law or passed a new one.

In the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting, there was a growing push by some members of Congress to ban bump stocks, but no legislation was passed.

At least 10 states have sought their own restrictions on the devices.

People who own bump stocks will be required to either surrender them to the ATF or destroy them by late March, the official

In this photo, a little-known device called a “bump stock” is attached to a semi-automatic rifle at the Gun Vault store and shooting range in South Jordan, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

said. The change has undergone a legal review and the Justice Department and ATF are ready to fight any legal challenge that may be brought, the official added.

The amended rule was met almost immediately with resistance from gun rights advocates, including Gun Owners of America, which said it would file a lawsuit against the Justice Department and ATF in order to protect gun owners from the “unconstitutional regulations.”

“These regulations implicate Second Amendment rights, and courts should be highly suspect when an agency changes its ‘in-

terpretation’ of a statute in order to impair the exercise of enumerated constitutional rights,” the organization’s executive director, Erich Pratt, said.

Police said the gunman in the Las Vegas massacre, Stephen Paddock, fired for more than 10 minutes using multiple weapons outfitted with target scopes and bump stocks. Paddock fatally shot himself after the shooting and there were 23 assault-style weapons, including 14 fitted with rapid-fire “bump stock” devices, strewn about the room near his body on the floor of his 32nd-floor hotel suite at the Mandalay Bay casino-hotel.

‘Laverne & Shirley’ star, ‘Big’ director Penny Marshall dies

Michelle Bega, a spokeswoman for the Marshall family, said Tuesday that Marshall died in her Los Angeles home on Monday night due to complications from diabetes. Marshall earlier fought lung cancer, which went into remission in 2013. “Our family is heartbroken,” the Marshall family said in a statement.

In “Laverne & Shirley,”

among television’s biggest hits for much of its eight-season run between 1976-1983, the nasalvoiced, Bronx-born Marshall starred as Laverne DeFazio alongside Cindy Williams as a pair of blue-collar roommates toiling on the assembly line of a Milwaukee brewery. A spinoff of “Happy Days,” the series was the rare network hit about working-class characters, and its self-empowering opening song (“Give us any chance, we’ll take it/ Read us any rule, we’ll break it”) foreshadowed Marshall’s own path as a pioneering female filmmaker in the male-dominated movie business.

“Almost everyone had a theory about why ‘Laverne & Shirley’ took off,” Marshall wrote in her 2012 memoir “My Mother Was Nuts.” ”I thought it was simply because Laverne and Shirley were poor and there were no poor people on TV, but there were plenty of them sitting at home and watching TV.” Marshall directed several episodes of “Laverne & Shirley,”

rel in London.

The twin fears of slower global economic growth and rising stockpiles are bad for crude prices. While OPEC and several other countries recently agreed to cut production of oil in 2019, that hasn’t stemmed the decline in prices. Traders have doubts that the cut is large enough to balance supply and demand.

“They’re not the only game in town anymore,” Kinahan said of OPEC. He said rising oil production in the U.S. and a combination of alternative fuels and greater efficiency by businesses has reduced OPEC’s ability to sway the oil market.

On Tuesday, the Energy In-

formation Administration said U.S. shale oil production will keep climbing in January, and the Wall Street Journal reported that oil production in Russia reached a record high in December.

The Federal Reserve recently forecast three more increases in interest rates next year, but investors doubt that’s going to happen. The Fed’s rates help set borrowing costs for various types of loans. Higher rates can slow economic growth, and that’s something investors have been worrying about as China and Europe have suggested growth is slowing, and the U.S. economy is also expected to cool off in 2019.

implicated by federal prosecutors in New York this month in hush-money payments involving his former lawyer to cover up extramarital affairs. Nearly a half-dozen former aides and advisers have pleaded guilty or agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. Some, like Flynn, have been tripped up by concealing Russian contacts.

Flynn’s help in the probes, including 19 meetings with investigators, has been especially notable. Yet he’s nonetheless enjoyed Trump’s continued sympathy, thanks in part to a sentencing memo last week that tapped into the president’s suspicion of law enforcement and took aim at the FBI’s conduct during the investigation.

Trump tweeted “good luck” to his first national security adviser hours before the sentencing and said: “Will be interesting to see what he has to say, despite tremendous pressure being put on him, about Russian Collusion in our great and, obviously,

highly successful political campaign. There was no Collusion!”

At the White House afterward, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked if the administration had changed its stance on Flynn or the FBI after his admissions and guilty plea.

“Maybe he did do those things, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the president,” she said. “It’s perfectly acceptable for the president to make a positive comment about somebody while we wait to see what the court’s determination is.”

Sanders repeated her allegation that the FBI “ambushed” Flynn in an interview in which he lied. Of Trump’s earlier criticism of the agency, she said, “We don’t have any reason to want to walk that back.”

Flynn’s legal woes stem from transition-period calls with thenRussian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that raised intelligence community alarms even before Trump took office.

In this 1984 file photo, actress Penny Marshall arrives for the 56th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer

NEW YORK — Penny Marshall, who indelibly starred in the top-rated sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” before becoming the trailblazing director of smashhit big-screen comedies such as “Big” and “A League of Their Own,” has died. She was 75.

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or 0.4 percent, to 23,675.64.

The Nasdaq composite gained 30.18 points, or 0.4 percent, to 6,783.91.

The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies lost another 0.97 points, or 0.1 percent, to 1,377.18. The index is 21 percent below the peak it set in August, meaning it’s in what Wall Street calls a “bear market.”

Benchmark U.S. crude plunged 7.3 percent to $46.24 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, used to price international oils, sank 5.6 percent to $56.26 a bar-

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amounted to treason, saying he didn’t mean to suggest they did.

Flynn was to have been the first White House official sentenced in Mueller’s ongoing investigation into possible coordination between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.

The hearing, though incomplete, marked a remarkable fall after a three-decade military career that included Flynn’s tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and oversight of the Defense Intelligence Agency during the Obama administration. Though he served only briefly in Trump’s White House, he campaigned vigorously before the election and attracted attention for memorably leading a Republican National Convention crowd in a “Lock Her Up” chant about Hillary Clinton.

It all comes amid escalating legal peril for Trump, who was

which her older brother, the late filmmaker-producer Garry Marshall, created. Those episodes helped launch Marshall as a filmmaker. When Whoopi Goldberg clashed with director Howard Zieff, she brought in Marshall to direct “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” the 1986 comedy starring Goldberg.

“Jumpin’ Jack Flash” did fair business, but Marshall’s next film, “Big,” was a major success, making her the first woman to direct a film that grossed more than $100 million. The 1988 comedy, starring Tom Hanks, is about a 12-year-old boy who wakes up in the body of a 30-year-old New York City man.

The film, which earned Hanks an Oscar nomination, grossed $151 million worldwide, or about $320 million accounting for inflation.

The honor meant only so much to the typically self-deprecating Marshall. “They didn’t give ME the money,” Marshall later joked to The New Yorker.

Around the Nation Sex assault case dropped, judge cites drunken prosecutor OSCEOLA, Iowa — An Iowa judge cited the courthouse arrest of a drunken prosecutor in dismissing charges against a man accused of sexually assaulting a 13-yearold boy.

Judge Marti Mertz issued the ruling Monday and chastised Clarke County Attorney Michelle Rivera. The prosecutor’s unavailability at a recent hearing in the case “was the finale following unexplained periods of inactivity and lack of responsiveness” since the man’s arrest more than a year ago, the judge said.

A sheriff’s deputy arrested Rivera for being drunk in an Osceola courtroom on Oct. 18, just moments before the man was scheduled to enter a new plea and be sentenced in the case.

The man later sought a dismissal because he hadn’t been tried within a year of his arraignment. He was initially charged with sex assault and telephone dissemination of obscene material to a minor. Investigators say he admitted engaging in sex act with a minor in August 2017.

The state can’t refile the same charges against the man, said Mark Pennington, a former Polk County prosecutor not involved in the case “Everybody should be upset about it,” Pennington said.

“That’s why you have to hold elected officials, including county attorneys, to a high standard.”

Drake University law professor Robert Rigg, a criminal law expert, said there are options if the state wants to pursue charges.

Clarke County prosecutors could attempt to file different charges, such as lascivious acts against a child. Or they could allow federal prosecutors to file their separate charges to get around the double-jeopardy protections the man now has at the state level.

“He may end up winning the battle and losing the war,” Rigg said.

Rivera and her attorney didn’t immediately return messages from The Associated Press on Tuesday seeking comment about the case. Attempts by the AP to reach the victim’s parents and their attorney were unsuccessful.

Rivera pleaded guilty in the courthouse intoxication incident and was fined $65.

The man’s attorney, Marshall Orsini, told television station KCCI that his client’s release from jail was long overdue.

“If the defendant is not put on trial (and) is not tried within a year, you have the potential to have that case dismissed, and that’s what happened here,” Orsini said.

Prada withdraws luxury trinkets over blackface controversy NEW YORK — Prada is no longer selling a line of accessories and displays following complaints they featured blackface-style imagery.

The controversy began last week when a New Yorker complained in a viral Facebook posting after walking past a Prada boutique in Manhattan’s SoHo district and noticing what she described as a “racist and denigrating” caricature in the storefront.

The Italian fashion house had recently launched a series of luxury keychains and trinkets, including one showing a character with brown skin and exaggerated red lips.

Prada Group released a statement saying that it “abhors all forms of racism” and that the imaginary creatures were not intended to “have any reference to the real world and certainly not blackface.”

— The Associated Press

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Belgian PM offers to resign after migration tears government

By LORNE COOK Associated Press

BRUSSELS — Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel submitted his resignation Tuesday amid pressure on his government after the biggest coalition party quit over Michel’s support for a United Nations compact on international migration.

“I am taking the decision to offer my resignation. I am now going to see the king” to inform him,” Michel told Belgian lawmakers.

Before the prime minister gave his notice, lawmakers had been demanding he submit his new minority government to a confidence vote. But Michel refused, and a confrontation this week seemed likely.

Michel tried to convince the Chamber of Representatives of the reshaped government’s plans and said he would be ready to work with the opposition, but his overtures were rejected. His 2019 budget was among the sensitive topics up for debate.

Some in the assembly pushed for an election to be held before the regularly scheduled one in May. Michel again refused, saying it would only lead to “stagnation for the whole of 2019.”

After a short break for reflection, he announced he was resigning instead.

As lawmakers applauded, he picked up his briefcase, shook the hands of a number of government ministers, and left. Michel made no comment to reporters upon entering and leaving Belgian King Philippe’s residence, the Palace of Laeken in Brussels.

The king holds a largely symbolic role in Belgium but becomes a pivotal figure after inconclusive elections or disputes like the current one require the formation of new governments.

In a tweet, the Royal Palace said Philippe had received Michel and was “withholding his decision” about what steps to take next.

Belgian media said the king would meet party leaders Wednesday before deciding whether to accept the resignation the prime minister tendered on behalf of himself and his government.

Michel could be invited to lead a caretaker government until an election can be held.

It’s the first time the king has faced such a crisis. He ascended to the throne in 2013 after his father, King Albert II, abdicated for health reasons.

The right-wing N-VA party

In this photo, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel arrives for an EU summit in Brussels. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, FILE)

quit the government after Michel sought parliamentary approval to support the U.N. compact against its wishes, branding his minority government “the Marrakech coalition,” after the city where the migration treaty was signed just over a week ago.

The accord is non-binding, but the N-VA said it still went too far and would give even migrants who were in Belgium without authorization many additional rights.

The party launched an inyour-face social media campaign against the compact, featuring pictures of Muslim

women with their faces covered and claiming that the accord focused on allowing migrants to retain the cultural practices of their homelands. But it quickly withdrew the materials after the campaign received widespread criticism.

A number of governments refused to sign the U.N. Global Compact Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. They included the United States, but also a group of European Union countries, among them Austria which holds the EU’s rotating presidency until Dec. 31.

Greek lawmakers approve new budget — with more austerity

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece — Greek lawmakers approved the heavily indebted country’s budget for 2019 late Tuesday, the first since Greece exited an eightyear bailout program.

The budget lawmakers passed with a 154-143 vote still is heavy on austerity measures to ensure Greece registers a hefty surplus, in compliance with its debt relief deal with international creditors.

Earlier Tuesday, government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said the proposed budget was Greece’s first in 10 years to be drafted “under circumstances of relative financial and political freedom” from bailout creditors.

“Today we have the opportunity to vote for a budget that now reflects the priorities of the Greek government, and not of (its) supervising institutions,” he said during a parliamentary debate.

As the debate drew to a close, more than 2,000 people demonstrated peacefully outside parliament in two separate protests called by labor unions.

The budget submitted by the left-led government foresees Greece’s battered economy growing 2.1 percent in 2018 and 2.5 percent in 2019. The debt load is set to decline from 180.4 percent of output this

Members of the Communist-affiliated PAME labor union hold flags during a protest in central Athens on Tuesday as the Greek lawmakers are debating the heavily-indebted country’s draft budget for 2019. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

year to 167.8 percent next year.

Greece owes most of that debt to European partners and the International Monetary Fund. The debt relief deal secured favorable repayment terms, but in return the country must achieve budget surpluses for decades to come.

The country also secured a cash buffer from creditors so it would not have to tap bond markets until the rates demanded by investors to buy Greek government bonds drop.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told lawmakers Tuesday that the country is not locked out of bond markets by high borrowing costs — even though his government has so

far shelved stated plans to issue bonds shortly after the end of Greece’s last bailout, in August. “(It) is a myth” that Greece can’t tap bond markets, Tsipras said. “You can be certain that we will again make a market exit, with a very good rate.”

Greece depended on bailout loans from 2010 until August 2018, and imposed crippling cutbacks to secure the money.

Its finances are still subject to creditor scrutiny, albeit less intense than before.

Tsipras’ government is playing up citizen assistance programs that are intended to bring some 900 million euros in tax cuts and welfare benefits to less well-off Greeks. The money for

the relief measures is supposed to come from a surplus generated by high taxes and constrained public spending.

However, labor unions say that’s not enough.

“Funding in the budget both for education and for health is much lower than our expectations,” Giannis Paidas, head of the Adedy civil servants’ union, said during the smaller of Tuesday’s two central Athens protests.

“It is the same and worse as during previous bailout-era years,” Paidas added. “There will be a 1 billion-euro increase in taxation. As you understand, this increase will burden working Greeks.”

Around the World Spanish court gears up for high-stakes trial of separatists MADRID — A preliminary hearing in a rebellion case against Catalan separatists Tuesday displayed some of the dynamics between defense and prosecutors expected during a trial that is likely to dominate Spanish politics.

Altogether, 18 former politicians and activists from the Catalonia region are charged with rebellion, sedition, disobedience and misuse of public funds for their parts in an attempt to secede from Spain last year.

At Tuesday’s hearing, a panel of seven magistrates heard from defense attorneys who argued the trial should be heard by the top regional court in Catalonia rather than Spain’s highest court in Madrid.

Prosecutors countered that Madrid was the proper venue, saying the events that led regional lawmakers to make a unilateral declaration of independence on Oct. 27, 2017 had ramifications outside of Catalonia.

The country’s top court also has jurisdiction, prosecutors argued, because the secession attempt affected all Spaniards.

Supreme Court judges rejected similar defense appeals during the investigative stage of the case. A final decision is expected later this week.

If the top court keeps the case, former Catalan Vice President Oriol Junqueras, activist-turned-politician Jordi Sanchez and 16 other defendants are expected to appear there when the trial proceedings get underway at the end of January.

Four defendants are three weeks into a prison hunger strike to protest what they deem unfair treatment by Spain’s judiciary. Central government authorities say there is no reason for the strike and the defendants’ rights are guaranteed by Spain’s independent judiciary.

The “trial of the century,” as it’s been labeled by domestic media, has taken a high political significance. Separatists in the northeastern region have made clear that they will use proceedings to prove that they are being tried for their ideas, and in particular for advancing a secessionist agenda.

Major powers report progress on new Syria constitution body GENEVA — The foreign ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey agreed Tuesday to facilitate convening the first session of a committee to draft a new Syrian constitution early next year, saying they hoped it will lead to the launch of a “viable and lasting” peace process.

In a joint statement read out by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, they said the work of the committee should be governed by a “sense of compromise and constructive engagement.”

But U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said “there is an extra mile to go in the marathon effort” to ensure a credible, balanced and inclusive constitutional committee.

He refused to elaborate in his comments to reporters in Geneva following the meeting.

De Mistura, who is stepping down on Dec. 31, is scheduled to brief the Security Council on Thursday.

The 150-member committee, which has been a year in the making, is intended to represent the government, the opposition and civil society and is seen by the U.N. and U.S. as key to holding free elections and ending the seven-year civil war that has killed more than 450,000 people.

The U.N. Syria envoy was authorized to put together such a committee at a Russian-hosted peace conference in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Jan. 30 but its formation has been hindered by disagreements and the U.N. has accused the Syrian government of blocking efforts to draft a new constitution.

At issue is the 50-member delegation representing civil society, experts, independents, tribal leaders and women which the government has been objecting to. There is already agreement on the 50-member delegation from the government and the 50-member delegation from the opposition.

“Slowly, we are reaching a conclusion,” said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, suggesting there were still disagreements over which civil society groups would participate.

“We have reached an important step in our work toward the Syrian constitutional committee,” he told reporters.

The Damascus government has previously told the U.N. envoy the constitution is a “sovereign” matter and that Damascus will not allow any foreign meddling in it.

The opposition has called for a new constitution that would allow for a political transition away from the Assad family’s decades of rule. But after a string of major victories, the government shows little interest in making any concessions and has said it will only accept amendments to the current constitution.

On Monday, Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said that it’s premature to talk about the start of the constitutional committee’s work “due to the attempt of some western countries to intervene in its work.”

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About Christmas Past: On the farm

NORTHERN COLORADO 1940s and 50s It was always Dad’s job to go get the tree. We lived on a farm with cottonwood trees so that caused a dilemma — go 14 miles into town to buy a tree or go 20 or 30 miles to cut a tree down “up in the mountains,” a trip that took a lot of planning in “the olden days.”

First Dad had chores and cattle to feed, a cow to milk and in earlier years pigs to contend with. The car was checked over, tires kicked, sandwiches made by Mom. He would load my brother and me in the car and off we would go to get a “Chrisst-amus” tree for the living room. Mom would give Dad last minute instructions: “A big full tree, not too tall, but nice.” Dad’s reply would be “OK Loretta.”

Mom had a million excuses not go to: Ginger was a baby, she had cookies to bake, she had some sewing to get done before Christmas and she HAD to get supper. Actually, she enjoyed her time alone when we would go with Dad. I do not remember too much about the two or three trips to the mountains, but I do remember Dad saying, “When I get the money, we will buy us a tree.”

Dad would stuff the tree in the trunk of the old black Chevy, as the trunk was large enough to “put a cow in.” (We had a neighbor who transported her calves and pigs to town in the trunk of her old car.

Thus, the saying “to put a cow in.”

And if she had to sell a calf she just put the calf in the backseat of the old car.

Dad’s other job was to make a stand for the tree — two cross pieces of wood, nailed and nailed and nailed into the tree. (It was always Dad’s fault if the tree tipped over in the living room (not that someone put too many ornaments in one spot or pulled on a branch to put tinsel on).

One year Mom hit on the idea: put that tree in a bucket of sand!

OK, Dad said. He shoveled sand and dirt into the big 5-gallon bucket, shoved the tree into it — and more dirt around it. He carried the whole thing into the living room.

“Now John, don’t get needles or dirt on the living room rug!”

Dad was all bent over carrying the bucket in one hand and the tree waving around covering most of him. Johnny (Butch) opened the doors so Dad could back in, holding branches so he could get through the door, with Mom wringing her hands. (Dad wanted to put the bucket of sand-dirt in the house and then put the tree in. “OH No!” said my Mom. “You will get sand-dirt all over the rug!!”).

The tree and bucket were placed on a big white sheet with a tree skirt on it. Dad got it situated just so, with the full branches in front.

Mom would instruct: “Now turn it a little … OK that’s it … Thank you, John.”

Dad finally could stand up straight, get his bearings, stand back and admire his all day’s work.

As they were admiring the tree, Johnny and I were running around with ornaments in our hands. The tree slowly tipped forward. Not comprehending what was happening, Dad, Mom, Johnny and I watched it tip over! Dad rushed to push it back up. Mom said “NO! NO! John, “Take that back out and put on the wooden stands.”

I am sure there were stares, snuffs, huffs and puffs coming out of Dad, but he picked it up, bucket and all, and repeated backward, getting the tree back out the door.

With the wooden stand made and nailed in place the whole process was repeated over again, except Dad could stand up this time coming through the door.

Mom worked for a week before getting ready for Christmas Eve See ANNIE, page A8

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A trio of ways to make white chicken chili pop with flavor

By AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN

White chicken chili is a fresher, lighter cousin of the thick red chili most of us know and love. Its appeal is not surprising because it is a healthier alternative and, when made well, packed with vibrant flavors and spiciness. All too often, however, this chili is lackluster.

We found not one but three solutions to bland chicken chili recipes.

To fix what is often a watery sauce, we pureed some of our sauteed chile-onion mixture and beans with the broth to thicken the base.

To avoid floating bits of rubbery chicken, we browned, poached, and shredded bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts, which gave the chicken a hearty texture and full flavor.

And to solve the problem of insufficient chile flavor, we used a trio of fresh chiles: jalapeno, poblano, and Anaheim. For a spicier chile, add the jalapeño seeds. If you can’t find Anaheim chiles, add an additional poblano and jalapeno to the chili.

WHITE CHICKEN CHILI Servings: 8 Start to finish: 1 hour 2 onions, chopped 3 Anaheim chiles, stemmed, seeded, and chopped 3 poblano chiles, stemmed, seeded, and chopped 3 jalapeno chiles, stemmed, seeded, and minced 3 pounds bone-in split chicken breasts, trimmed 2 tablespoons canola oil 6 garlic cloves, minced 1 tablespoon ground cumin 1 1/2 teaspoons ground coriander Salt and pepper 2 (15 ounce) cans no-salt-added cannellini beans, rinsed 4 cups unsalted chicken broth 1/4 cup minced fresh cilantro 4 scallions, sliced thin 2 tablespoons lime juice, plus lime wedges for serving 1 tablespoon minced fresh oregano Toss onions, Anaheims, poblanos, and two-thirds of jalapenos together in bowl. Working in two batches, pulse vegetables in food processor to consistency of chunky salsa, about 12 pulses; set aside.

This photo shows White Chicken Chili in Brookline, Mass. (Carl Tremblay/America’s Test Kitchen via AP)

Pat chicken dry with paper towels.

Heat oil in Dutch oven over mediumhigh heat until just smoking. Brown chicken, 3 to 5 minutes per side; transfer to plate and discard skin.

Add processed vegetable mixture, garlic, cumin, coriander, 3/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper to fat left in pot and cook over medium heat, stirring often, until vegetables are softened, about 10 minutes.

Remove pot from heat.

Process 1 cup cooked vegetable mixture, 1 cup beans, and 1 cup broth in food processor until smooth, about

20 seconds, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Return pureed mixture to pot and stir in remaining 3 cups broth, scraping up any browned bits.

Nestle chicken into pot along with any accumulated juices and bring to simmer. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and cook until chicken registers 160 F, 10 to 15 minutes.

Transfer chicken to carving board, let cool slightly, then shred into bitesize pieces using 2 forks; discard bones.

Stir remaining beans into chili, bring to simmer over medium heat,

and cook, uncovered, until chili has thickened slightly, about 10 minutes.

Off heat, stir in chicken and let sit until heated through, about 5 minutes. Stir in cilantro, scallions, lime juice, oregano, and remaining jalapeno and season with pepper to taste.

Serve with lime wedges.

——— Nutrition information per serving: 290 calories; 67 calories from fat; 8 g fat (1 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 81 mg cholesterol; 245 mg sodium; 23 g carbohydrate; 6 g fiber; 4 g sugar; 32 g protein.

A flavorful, flourless chocolate cake without all the fuss

This photo shows Flourless Chocolate Cake in Brookline, Mass. (Joe Keller/America’s Test Kitchen via AP)

By AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN

Incredibly rich and impossibly smooth, flourless chocolate cake is elegant, refined, and universally beloved.

But recipes for this intense, deeply chocolate dessert typically require complicated techniques. Our take on this indulgent cake minimizes fuss without sacrificing flavor or texture.

We began by gently melting chocolate and butter in the microwave before incorporating the remaining ingredients. In the absence of flour, we called

on eggs for structure, cornstarch for body, and water for a moist, smooth texture. Vanilla and espresso powder underscored the chocolate flavor and deepened its impact.

Ensuring a crack-free surface was as easy as straining and resting the batter before tapping out bubbles that rose to the surface. Baking the cake in a low oven produced a perfectly smooth top.

This cake needs to chill for at least 6 hours, so we recommend making it the day before serving. An accurate oven thermometer is essential here. We pre-

fer this cake made with 60 percent bittersweet chocolate; our favorite brands are Ghirardelli and Callebaut. To slice, dip a sharp knife in very hot water and wipe dry before and after each cut.

FLOURLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE Servings: 10-12 Start to finish: 1 hour 45 minutes (Plus at least 6 hours to chill) 12 ounces bittersweet chocolate, broken into 1-inch pieces

16 tablespoons unsalted butter 6 large eggs 1 cup (7 ounces) sugar 1/2 cup water 1 tablespoon cornstarch 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon instant espresso powder 1/2 teaspoon salt Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 275 F. Spray 9-inch springform pan with vegetable oil spray. Microwave chocolate and butter in bowl at 50 percent power, stirring occasionally, until melted, about 4 minutes. Let chocolate mixture cool for 5 minutes.

Whisk eggs, sugar, water, cornstarch, vanilla, espresso powder, and salt in large bowl until thoroughly combined, about 30 seconds. Whisk in chocolate mixture until smooth and slightly thickened, about 45 seconds. Strain batter through finemesh strainer into prepared pan, pressing against strainer with rubber spatula or back of ladle to help batter pass through. Gently tap pan on counter to release air bubbles; let sit on counter for 10 minutes to allow air bubbles to rise to top. Use tines of fork to gently pop any air bubbles that have risen to surface.

Bake until edges are set and center jiggles slightly when cake is shaken gently, 45 to 50 minutes.

Let cake cool in pan on wire rack for 5 minutes; run thin knife around edge of pan to loosen cake. Let cake cool on rack until barely warm, about 30 minutes. Cover cake tightly with plastic wrap, poke small hole in top, and refrigerate until cold and firmly set, at least 6 hours or up to 2 days.

Remove sides of pan and slide thin metal spatula between cake bottom and pan bottom to loosen, then slide cake onto platter. Let cake stand at room temperature for 30 minutes before serving.

——— Nutrition information per serving: 460 calories; 318 calories from fat; 36 g fat (21 g saturated; 1 g trans fats); 178 mg cholesterol; 158 mg sodium; 38 g carbohydrate; 4 g fiber; 30 g sugar; 7 g protein.

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. . . Annie Continued from page A7

dinner: getting presents wrapped, cleaning the house from the very top to the very bottom. It was spotless!

Mom’s usual menu for Christmas Eve was homemade noodles for chicken noodle soup. And there was oyster stew and chili also. Homemade parkerhouse rolls, a big salad, home-canned pickles, dill, bread and butter and sweet, sweet pickles.

Then she baked the dessert! That took all day. Apple, cherry, chocolate, lemon meringue and peach pie canned from the peaches my Uncle Guy brought to her from the western slope of Colorado. BUT, most of all, mincemeat pie for Dad and Grandpa Cogswell.

In later years we all learned to like mincemeat pie — only the way Mom made it. She canned the mincemeat from the venison Dad got during deer season. It took all day in the fall to cook it down, and then the great spices with vinegar and sugar were added along with raisins. Then she canned it in quart jars. The smell was wonderful!

When she made the pies she added sliced apples and baked it in her homemade pie crust. My uncle Marvin loved that pie also. At the insistence of my Dad, every Christmas he would invite us to try it. We all learned to eat warm mincemeat pie with vanilla ice cream piled high on top.

After the china and silverware was washed, dried and put away, we all gathered around the Christmas tree to exchange gifts. One year grandma made me feed-sack doll clothes and Grandpa made me a closet out of a wooden orange crate, complete with rod and little tiny hangers to hand those little doll clothes on.

Today, many years later, I can still remember how delighted I was and how many years I played with it.

I have NO idea what happened to it.

That is one thing I wish I had hung on to! Grandma sewed all those clothes either by hand or by her old treadle machine. They had lace and ric-rack on then. And a very pretty doll to go with it.

Everyone enjoyed their Christmas Eve, but no one enjoyed it more than Dad. He laughed and joked, stole other people gifts, put Mom’s new pajamas on his head, teased little kids and hugged them all good night as they hurried out the door to get in bed before Santa Clause came to their house to bring them gifts on Christmas morning.

Today is our Mother, Loretta Cogswell McClures, heavenly birthday. Born 1915 to 1999. She loved to get birthday presents, but we could not wrap them in Christmas paper.

She would just put them under the tree. Fond memories abound!

Thank you for your support.

Don’t forget to invite an orphan to dinner! Say Prayers for the less fortunate and remember to thank God Our America is still FREE. Merry Christmas to all! Grannie Annie and Bobtoo

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Let out your inner artist: Grab the kids to make pancakes

By AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN

Pancakes are a blank canvas, so bring out your inner artist. You can work your magic at the table with maple syrup, honey, confectioners’ sugar, cinnamon sugar, fresh fruit and/ or softened butter. Or you can cook your artistry right into the pancakes by adding chocolate chips, chopped nuts, shredded coconut, sliced bananas, or raspberries instead of the blueberries.

Use 1 tablespoon of add-ins per pancake. Have fun and try your own combinations.

Pancakes 101: If you have an electric griddle, it’s perfect for this recipe. Just set the griddle to 350 F. You should be able to make all eight pancakes in one batch. This recipe can be doubled if you want to cook for a big crowd. Follow this recipe with your kids.

ANYTIME FLUFFY BLUEBERRY PANCAKES Serves 2-4 (Makes 8 pancakes) Start to finish: 35 minutes (Active Time: 15 minutes) Prepare Ingredients: 1 cup all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup milk 1 large egg 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract Vegetable oil spray 1/2 cup blueberries Gather Cooking Equipment: 2 bowls (1 medium, 1 small) Whisk Rubber spatula 12-inch nonstick skillet 1/4-cup dry measuring cup 1 tablespoon measuring spoon Spatula Plate Start Cooking:

This photo shows Blueberry Pancakes in Brookline, Mass. (Carl Tremblay/America’s Test Kitchen via AP)

In medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In small bowl, whisk milk, egg, oil, and vanilla until well combined.

Add milk mixture to flour mixture and stir gently with rubber spatula until just combined (batter should remain lumpy). Let batter sit for 10 minutes before cooking.

Spray 12-inch nonstick skillet with vegetable oil spray and heat

over medium heat until hot, about 1 minute.

Use 1/4-cup dry measuring cup to scoop 1/4 cup batter into skillet.

Repeat 2 more times, leaving space between mounds of batter (you want 3 pancakes to cook up separate from one another).

Sprinkle each pancake with 1 tablespoon blueberries. Cook until bubbles on surface begin to pop, 2 to 3 minutes.

Use spatula to flip pancakes and cook until golden brown, 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer pancakes to plate. Repeat with remaining batter in 2 more batches. Turn off heat. Serve.

——— Nutrition information per serving: 260 calories; 87 calories from fat; 10 g fat (2 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 58 mg cholesterol; 681 mg sodium; 37 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 10 g sugar; 6 g protein.

A classic risotto is creamy and indulgent, thanks to saffron

By AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN

Risotto is a simple rice dish elevated beyond the prosaic by its voluptuously creamy texture. Of the many risotto dishes that dot northern Italy, risotto alla milanese is at once one of the simplest and most luxurious, because it’s flavored with the most globally prized spice, saffron, which perfumes the dish with its floral aroma.

The dish’s origin is a subject of debate: One legend claims that it was invented in the 1500s by a Milanese glassmaker who earned the nickname “Zafferano” because he used saffron often to make gold stain. When he was jokingly challenged to add it to risotto, he did!

However, the recipe’s first appearance in an Italian cookbook wasn’t until the 1800s. Perhaps it originated from Milan’s ties to Spain, or a Milanese affinity for the golden color, or possibly the idea that saffron was beneficial to health.

Risotto — Milanese or otherwise — achieves its creamy texture through constant stirring, which causes the rice to release its starch.

We toasted the saffron in butter, which magnified its flavor, helped break up the threads, and distributed it throughout the rice.

This dish is traditionally prepared using Carnaroli rice, but you can substitute Arborio rice. You may have broth left over once the rice is finished cooking; different rice products cook differently, and we prefer to err on the side of slightly too much broth rather than too little. If you do use all the broth and the rice has not finished cooking, add hot water as needed.

This photo shows Saffron Risotto in Brookline, Mass. (Steve Klise/America’s Test Kitchen via AP)

SAFFRON RISOTTO Servings: 6 Start to finish: 1 hour 3 1/2 cups chicken broth 3 cups water 4 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 onion, chopped fine Salt and pepper 2 cups Carnaroli rice 1/4 teaspoon saffron threads, crumbled 1 cup dry white wine 2 ounces Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, grated (1 cup) Bring broth and water to simmer in medium saucepan. Cover and keep warm over low heat.

Melt butter in Dutch oven over medium heat. Add onion and 1/2 teaspoon salt and cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Add rice and saffron and cook, stirring frequently, until grain edges begin to turn translucent, about 5 minutes.

Add wine and cook, stirring frequently, until fully absorbed, about 2 minutes. Stir in 3 1/2 cups warm broth, bring to simmer, and cook, stirring occasionally, until almost fully absorbed, 10 to 12 minutes.

Continue to cook rice, stirring frequently and adding warm broth, 1 cup at a time, every few minutes as liquid is absorbed, until rice is creamy and cooked through but still somewhat firm in center, 14 to 18 minutes. Remove pot from heat, cover, and let sit for 5 minutes. Adjust consistency with remaining warm broth as needed (you may have broth left over). Stir in Parmigiano and season with salt and pepper to taste before serving.

——— Nutrition information per serving: 378 calories; 94 calories from fat; 11 g fat (7 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 30 mg cholesterol; 583 mg sodium; 51 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 1 g sugar; 9 g protein.

Sports

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Chargers lead Pro Bowl roster with 7 starters NEW YORK (AP) — The Los Angeles Chargers placed seven players in the Pro Bowl, including safety Derwin James, one of six rookies across the league to make the game.

James, a first-round draft choice, will be joined on the AFC squad by veteran quarterback Philip Rivers, wide receiver Keenan Allen, running back Melvin Gordon, defensive end Melvin Ingram, center Mike Pouncey and special-teamer Adrian Phillips for the game, which will be played Jan. 27 in Orlando. James and Phillips are the only starters, though.

Rivers is a backup to Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes, one of 29 first-time Pro Bowlers. That, of course, includes all the rookies: James, Giants running back Saquon Barkley, Seahawks punt-

er Michael Dickson, Broncos running back Phillip Lindsay, Indianapolis guard Quenton Nelson and Cleveland cornerback Denzel Wads. Lindsay is an undrafted player.

New England’s Tom Brady is the other AFC quarterback, making it for the 14th time. Noticeably missing is the Colts’ Andrew Luck.

New Orleans, led by quarterback Drew Brees, Dallas and Chicago paced the NFC with five players each.

Brees is the starter, backed up by Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers and the Rams’ Jared Goff.

Buffalo, Oakland and Tampa Bay had no Pro Bowl selections.

Pittsburgh and Kansas City each had six players chosen, including such first-timers as Steelers running back

James Conner and Mahomes, both having breakthrough years.

Cleveland has a first overall draft choice in the game — not Baker Mayfield, but 2017 top pick Myles Garrett at defensive end.

“Football is a team game and you can’t do it on your own,” said Garrett, who leads the Browns with 12½ sacks. “I’m happy to be able to share this experience with Denzel because this honor is really a testament to our entire defense.”

Among the perennial AFC choices returning to the game are Houston DE J.J. Watt, Pittsburgh WR Antonio Brown, Baltimore guard Marshal Yanda and safety Eric Weddle, Cincinnati DT Geno Atkins and Denver LB Von Miller.

“To get recognized by your peers,

the coaches and the fans, it means a lot,” Weddle said. “It’s always special to put in the hard work and to try your best and then get recognized. The Pro Bowl is something I never take for granted, and I’m pretty stoked about it. Each year you just work hard and try to play your very best. To receive recognition for what you do on the field, even if it may not show up in other areas, is awesome.”

For the NFC, frequent repeaters include Atlanta WR Julio Jones and C Alex Mack, Dallas tackle Tyron Smith, inside LBs Luke Kuechly of Carolina and Bobby Wagner of Seattle, Arizona CB Patrick Peterson, Rams DT Aaron Donald and Bears LB Khalil Mack.

One of the newcomers, Chicago DT Akiem Hicks, sounded overwhelmed

by the honor.

“I have played the game of football my entire life and this is the greatest accolade I’ve ever achieved,” he said.

There will be a brother combination at center for the AFC as Maurkice Pouncey of Pittsburgh is the starter ahead of Mike Pouncey.

The Jets, despite a 4-10 record, have three Pro Bowlers in safety Jamal Adams, kicker Jason Myers and return specialist Andre Roberts — all first-timers.

Pro Bowl coaching staffs will be from the losing teams in the AFC and NFC divisional playoffs with the best regular-season records. Each player on the winning Pro Bowl team receives $67,000, while each player on the losing squad earns $34,000.

No. 1 Jayhawks Nets win 6th straight over Lakers rout S. Dakota Brooklyn catches fire with Russell

for Texas-Arlington (3-8), which LAWRENCE, Kan. — De- has lost seven straight. They fell to dric Lawson had 16 points and 1-31 against ranked teams.

By The Associated Press

14 rebounds, Charlie Moore made six 3-pointers en route to 18 points, and top-ranked Kansas pulled away in the second half for an 89-53 victory over plucky but overmatched South Dakota on Tuesday night.

Freshman forward David McCormack added a careerbest 12 points off the bench for the Jayhawks (10-0), helping to soak up minutes while Udoka Azubuike is sidelined with a sprained ankle.

Kansas has won 40 consecutive games in Allen Fieldhouse as the nation’s No. 1 team.

Stanley Umude scored a game-high 28 points to lead the Coyotes (6-6), who have never defeated a ranked team in seven tries.

NO. 2 DUKE 101, PRINCETON 50 DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — RJ Barrett continued his rookie-season scoring rush, finishing with 27 points to help Duke beat Princeton.

Fellow freshman Zion Williamson had 17 points and 10 rebounds in the Blue Devils’ first game in more than a week due to an exam break. Duke (10-1) got off to a cold start and didn’t take its first lead until more than 14 minutes in, but eventually got rolling and handed the Tigers their most lopsided loss in program history.

Myles Stephens had 19 points for Princeton (5-5), which scored the game’s first eight points and led 18-16 before Duke put together an 11-0 run.

NO. 8 GONZAGA 89, TEXAS-ARLINGTON 55 SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Rui Hachimura had 20 points and 11 rebounds, and Gonzaga beat Texas-Arlington, ending a two-game skid that toppled the Bulldogs from No. 1 in the AP Top 25.

Brandon Clarke added 17 points, 13 rebounds and three blocks for Gonzaga (10-2), which lost to No. 3 Tennessee and No. 9 North Carolina last week.

Brian Warren scored 12 points

NO. 14 BUFFALO 71, SYRACUSE 59 SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — CJ Massinburg scored 25 points, Jeremy Harris added 18 and Buffalo rallied past Syracuse to remain unbeaten.

It was the first win over the Orange since January 1963 for Buffalo (11-0), one of only nine undefeated teams of the 353 that play in Division I. Syracuse (7-4), coming off a crushing home loss to Old Dominion, folded down the stretch against the Bulls.

Elijah Hughes had 16 points and Frank Howard scored 13 to lead Syracuse. Leading scorer Tyus Battle finished with 11.

NO. 15 OHIO STATE 75, YOUNGSTOWN STATE 56 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Kaleb Wesson had a career-high 31 points as Ohio State overcame a terrible start and beat Youngstown State.

Wesson was dominant in the second half, scoring 26 points as the Buckeyes (10-1) were again forced to win in come-from-behind fashion.

NO. 20 MARQUETTE 92, NORTH DAKOTA 66 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Markus Howard scored 26 points, including 19 over the final 10:22 of the first half to help stabilize Marquette after a sloppy start in a 9266 win over North Dakota.

Howard, a sharpshooting guard, was 9 of 13 from the field and 4 of 6 from behind the 3-point line.

Sam Hauser added 21 points for Marquette (9-2).

NO. 23 IOWA 78, WESTERN CAROLINA 60 IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Tyler Cook scored 18 points, Luka Garza added 15 and Iowa beat Western Carolina for its third consecutive win.

Freshman Joe Wieskamp scored 10 points for the Hawkeyes (9-2), who forced 26 turnovers and led by as many as 27 points.

By The Associated Press

NEW YORK — D’Angelo Russell had 22 points and a career high-tying 13 assists against his former team, and the Brooklyn Nets ran the NBA’s longest winning streak to six games by beating the Los Angeles Lakers 115-110 on Tuesday night.

Joe Harris added 19 points and Spencer Dinwiddie scored 18 for the Nets, who last won six in a row from March 25 to April 3, 2015. Rondae Hollis-Jefferson finished with 17 points and Jared Dudley made some big baskets down the stretch to score 13.

LeBron James bounced back from his lowest-scoring game of the season with 36 points, 13 rebounds and eight assists, but the Lakers finished 1-3 on their road trip. Kyle Kuzma had 22 points and 11 rebounds, while Lonzo Ball scored 23.

Brooklyn continued its recovery from an eight-game skid by holding on in front of a loud, large crowd that alternated cheering when the Lakers seized the momentum and when the Nets regained it.

NUGGETS 126, MAVERICKS 118 DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic had 32 points and 16 rebounds, Jamal Murray dished out a career-high 15 assists and Denver extended its home winning streak to seven games by beating Dallas.

At 21-9, the Nuggets matched the 1976-77 squad for the best start through 30 games in the franchise’s NBA history. They also remain on top of the Western Conference by percentage points over Golden State. This is rarefied air for the Nuggets: The last time they had played more than 25 games and were alone in first place in the conference was March 1977.

Murray contributed 22 points for the injury-depleted Nuggets, including 10 in the fourth quarter.

Luka Doncic had a big game for Dallas with 23 points and a career-best 12 assists, while Harrison Barnes scored 30. The Mavericks hit 15 3-pointers against the NBA’s

Brooklyn Nets’ D’Angelo Russell (1) shoots over Los Angeles Lakers’ Kyle Kuzma (0) during the second half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday in New York. The Nets won 115110. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) top long-range defense.

CAVALIERS 92, PACERS 91 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Larry Nance Jr.’s buzzer-beating tip-in for Cleveland snapped Indiana’s seven-game winning streak.

Nance finished with 15 points and a career-high 16 rebounds in the Cavaliers’ third road win of the season. Rodney Hood scored 17 to lead Cleveland (8-23).

The Pacers (20-11) were led by Domantas Sabonis’ 17 points, but they never took control long

enough to pull away. Victor Oladipo missed two free throws with 9.5 seconds left, failing to extend Indiana’s 91-90 lead.

HAWKS 118, WIZARDS 110 ATLANTA (AP) — Jeremy Lin scored 12 of his 16 points in the final period and Atlanta overcame Bradley Beal’s 29 points for Washington.

Seven players scored in double figures to help the last-place Hawks (7-23) stop a three-game skid. John Collins had 20 points and 13 rebounds, while rookie Trae Young scored 19.

Hart debuts with Philly to help Flyers snap losing skid

By The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — Carter Hart made 22 saves in his NHL debut and Shayne Gostisbehere and James van Riemsdyk each had a goal and an assist as the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 on Tuesday night and made interim coach Scott Gordon a winner in his first game.

Radko Gudas also scored for Philadelphia, which snapped a four-game losing streak.

The Flyers were playing their first game since head coach Dave Hakstol was fired on Monday, a more that capped a tumultuous few weeks.

General manager Ron Hextall was fired last month and new GM Chuck Fletcher ended Hakstol’s four-year tenure after a 1-4 road trip was punctuated by Saturday’s 5-1 loss at Vancouver. The Flyers entered the game last in the Eastern Conference with 28 points.

Fletcher promoted Gordon from the Flyers’ AHL Lehigh Valley affiliate.

Dennis Cholowski and Jacob de la Rose scored for Detroit, which has

lost four in a row and five of six.

MAPLE LEAFS 7, DEVILS 2 NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — John Tavares, Auston Matthews and Patrick Marleau scored in the opening 13:38 to lead Toronto.

Nazem Kadri matched his career high with three assists and Mitch Marner and Morgan Rielly added second-period goals as Toronto embarrassed New Jersey for the second time this season and won for the seventh time in 11 games. Tyler Ennis scored two late goals.

Frederik Andersen made 27 saves in winning for the second time in his last five starts.

Sami Vatanen and Nico Hischier scored for the struggling Devils, who are 3-6-6 in their last 15 games. Keith Kinkaid gave up five goals on 21 shots before being lifted with New Jersey down 5-1 after 40 minutes.

PANTHERS 5, SABRES 2 BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Evgenii Dadonov had two goals and an assist to pace Florida.

Troy Brouwer, Aleksander Barkov and Frank Vatrano also scored for the Panthers, who scored three goals in a span of 2:44 in the third period. Roberto Luongo made 30 saves.

Jeff Skinner and Rasmus Ristolainen scored for Buffalo, which lost to Florida for the seventh consecutive time. Carter Hutton made 30 saves.

SHARKS 4, WILD 0

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Logan Couture scored twice and Martin Jones made 26 saves for his first shutout this season and the 20th of his career in San Jose’s win over Minnesota.

Joe Pavelski added his 21st goal for San Jose, which has won five straight games and seven of eight. Sharks rookie RANGERS 3, DUCKS 1 Lukas Radil had an empty-net goal and one assist.

NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Hayes Devan Dubnyk stopped 21 shots for scored on a short-handed breakaway with Minnesota, which has lost seven of 10.

40 seconds remaining and New York rallied to beat Anaheim.

Vladislav Namestnikov had a goal BLACKHAWKS 2, PREDATORS 1 and two assists, and Filip Chytil added an CHICAGO (AP) — Cam Ward made empty-netter in the Rangers’ three-goal third period. Alexandar Georgiev, called 30 saves in his first start since Corey up on Sunday after a stint in the minors, Crawford was sidelined by a concussion, stopped 14 shots to help New York win for helping Chicago top Nashville.

Defensemen Gustav Forsling and Erik the second time in eight games (2-3-3).

Pontus Aberg scored on a deflection in Gustafsson scored for last-place Chicago, the second period for the Ducks, who had which had dropped 10 of 11. Patrick Kane won nine of their previous 10 games. Chad picked up an assist on Gustafsson’s tieJohnson, claimed off waivers from St. breaking goal in the second period, giving Louis on Dec. 11, finished with 21 saves him at least one point in seven of his last eight games. in his Anaheim debut.

Kevin Fiala scored for the Predators,

who dropped to 0-6-2 in their last eight road games. Pekka Rinne had 34 stops.

STARS 2, FLAMES 0 DALLAS (AP) — Ben Bishop got help from backup Anton Khudobin in a combined shutout and Dallas beat Pacific Division-leading Calgary.

Jamie Benn and Radek Faksa scored for the Stars.

Bishop was injured with 6:23 remaining in the second period when Garnet Hathaway skated into him behind the net.

Khudobin closed out the period with three saves, and Bishop returned for the third, when he made 12 of his 21 stops. Hathaway was penalized for goaltender interference.

Dallas returned from an 0-4 trip to win their fifth straight home game. The Flames had won three straight and eight of nine.

David Rittich stopped 26 shots for the Flames.

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LIGHTNING 5, CANUCKS 2

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Nikita Kucherov had a goal and an assist to reach 50 points this season and lead Tampa Bay. A feisty Canucks squad kept pace with Tampa Bay in a heated game marked by a flurry of fights, but couldn’t overpower the top team in the NHL. Cedric Paquette, Adam Erne, Steven Stamkos and Ondrej Palat also scored for the Lightning (267-2). Tampa Bay has not lost in regulation since Nov. 27.

Tyler Motte and Chris Tanev had the goals for the Canucks (1617-4).

Anders Nilsson stopped 34 of 38 shots for Vancouver, and AnBLUES 4, OILERS 1 drei Vasilevskiy made 36 saves for EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Tampa Bay. Pat Maroon was credited with the tiebreaking goal following a replay KINGS 4, JETS 1 review early in the third period, and St. Louis went on to beat EdLOS ANGELES (AP) — Ausmonton. tin Wagner scored twice and Los David Perron, Vladimir Angeles snapped a four-game losTarasenko and Jaden Schwartz ing streak. also scored for the Blues, who Alex Iafallo and Nate Thomphave won three of four. Brayden son each had a goal and Jonathan Schenn had three assists.

Quick made 27 saves for the Kings, Jesse Puljujarvi scored for the who ended Winnipeg’s five-game Oilers, who had won six straight winning streak. home games.

Mathieu Perreault scored for Maroon’s goal came 2:19 into the fifth straight game and Connor the final period. Officials de- Hellebuyck stopped 27 shots as the clared the puck crossed the line Jets lost for only the second time in during a goal-mouth scramble, 11 games. Winnipeg also had won even though initially no goal was five in a row on the road.

villier scored his fourth goal in five games and New York beat struggling Arizona.

Arizona’s Mario Kempe scored in the first period, but Joshua HoSang answered and Brock Nelson put New York ahead with a goal early in the second.

Beauvillier made it a two-goal lead and Ryan Pulock had two assists for the Islanders, who withstood a late power play to win their third straight.

Darcy Kuemper stopped 29 shots for the Coyotes in their sixth loss in seven games since a fourgame winning streak.

Ducks down Bulldogs

By The Associated Press

EUGENE, Ore. — Sabrina Ionescu scored 29 points, including all 17 of her free throws, and No. 7 Oregon handed No. 4 Mississippi State its first loss this season, 82-74 on Tuesday night.

The Bulldogs (10-1) had won 46 regular-season nonconference games, but couldn’t catch up once the Ducks (91) started to pull away in the fourth quarter, boosted by their home fans. Maite Cazorla added 20 points for the Ducks.

Anriel Howard led Mississippi State with a career-high 30 points. Oregon held senior Teaira McCowan to five points, but she had 11 rebounds.

career-high 33 points and pulled down 13 rebounds as Stanford defeated Tennessee for the Cardinal’s second victory over a top-10 team in four days.

Stanford (8-1) was coming off a 68-63 home victory over previously unbeaten Baylor, a result that dropped the Lady Bears from third to sixth in the AP Top 25.

Kiana Williams and Alanna Smith each added 16 points for Stanford. Lacie Hull scored 14 and Maya Dodson had 10.

NO. 18 KENTUCKY 99, WESTERN CAROLINA 39

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Rhyne Howard scored 18 points, Tatyana Wyatt had 16 and Kentucky coasted past Western Carolina.

Six players scored in double figures for the Wildcats (11-1), NO. 8 STANFORD 95, with Howard grabbing eight reNO. 9 TENNESSEE 85 bounds and Taylor Murray dishing KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) seven assists with five steals to go — DiJonai Carrington scored a with her 11 points.

Scoreboard basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 23 9 .719 — Philadelphia 20 12 .625 3 Boston 18 11 .621 3½ Brooklyn 14 18 .438 9 New York 9 23 .281 14 Southeast Division Charlotte 14 15 .483 — Orlando 14 15 .483 — Miami 13 16 .448 1 Washington 12 19 .387 3 Atlanta 7 23 .233 7½ Central Division Milwaukee 20 9 .690 — Indiana 20 11 .645 1 Detroit 14 14 .500 5½ Cleveland 8 23 .258 13 Chicago 7 24 .226 14 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Memphis 16 14 .533 — Dallas 15 14 .517 ½ Houston 15 14 .517 ½ San Antonio 16 15 .516 ½ New Orleans 15 16 .484 1½ Northwest Division Denver 21 9 .700 — Oklahoma City 19 10 .655 1½ Portland 17 13 .567 4 Minnesota 14 16 .467 7 Utah 14 17 .452 7½ Pacific Division Golden State 21 10 .677 — L.A. Lakers 18 13 .581 3 L.A. Clippers 17 13 .567 3½ Sacramento 16 14 .533 4½ Phoenix 7 24 .226 14 Tuesday’s Games Cleveland 92, Indiana 91 Atlanta 118, Washington 110 Brooklyn 115, L.A. Lakers 110 Denver 126, Dallas 118 Wednesday’s Games Cleveland at Charlotte, 3 p.m.

New York at Philadelphia, 3 p.m.

San Antonio at Orlando, 3 p.m.

Indiana at Toronto, 3:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Boston, 3:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Chicago, 4 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 4 p.m.

New Orleans at Milwaukee, 4 p.m.

Washington at Houston, 4 p.m.

Golden State at Utah, 5 p.m.

Memphis at Portland, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Sacramento, 6 p.m.

All Times AST

College Scores EAST Buffalo 71, Syracuse 59 Coll. of Charleston 83, Siena 58 Georgetown 83, Appalachian St. 73 Mount St. Mary’s 56, American U. 55 Providence 73, Albany (NY) 43 St. Francis (Pa.) 96, Franciscan University of Steubenville 63 UConn 97, Drexel 65 Vermont 83, St. Bonaventure 76, 2OT SOUTH Alabama 84, Liberty 75 Charlotte 55, East Carolina 49 Clemson 78, Charleston South-

ern 51 Duke 101, Princeton 50 Elon 76, Kennesaw St. 67 Florida 71, Mercer 63 Georgia 81, Oakland 69 Georgia Southern 79, Bradley 74, OT Jacksonville St. 64, North Alabama 50 Louisiana-Lafayette 80, McNeese St. 67 Louisiana-Monroe 95, Nicholls 68 Murray St. 66, Evansville 64 New Orleans 90, Williams Baptist 62 Northwestern St. 84, Louisiana College 64 South Florida 82, FIU 73 Stetson 80, UNC-Asheville 74 The Citadel 82, Campbell 76 UAB 76, Alcorn St. 49 UNC-Greensboro 65, Radford 58 UT Martin 75, Chattanooga 72 MIDWEST Akron 82, Tennessee St. 60 Butler 76, Presbyterian 67 Iowa 78, W. Carolina 60 Kansas 89, South Dakota 53 Loyola of Chicago 75, Benedictine 47 Marquette 92, North Dakota 66 Missouri 71, Xavier 56 Notre Dame 69, Binghamton 56 Ohio St. 75, Youngstown St. 56 Purdue Fort Wayne 87, IUPUI 77 Rice 75, Rio Grande 67 Wright St. 78, Morehead St. 67 SOUTHWEST Arkansas St. 71, Missouri St. 63 Oklahoma 83, Creighton 70 Sam Houston St. 78, Alabama St. 57 Stephen F. Austin 59, Baylor 58 Texas A&M-CC 81, Huston-Tillotson 63 FAR WEST CS Bakersfield 74, Cal Poly 61 Denver 76, Montana St. 64 Gonzaga 89, Texas-Arlington 55 North Texas 74, New Mexico 65 Oregon 71, Florida A&M 64 S. Dakota St. 74, E. Washington 64 Santa Clara 102, Southern Cal 92, 2OT Stanford 78, San Jose St. 73

Women’s College Scores EAST Bucknell 73, Youngstown St. 68 Buffalo 75, Dartmouth 69 Delaware 69, Gardner-Webb 45 Marist 90, Northeastern 84 Pittsburgh 60, UNC-Wilmington 56 Robert Morris 64, Delaware St. 63 West Virginia 72, Morgan St. 37 SOUTH Auburn 84, Coastal Carolina 78 Charlotte 88, Wright St. 85 Clemson 68, Marshall 54 Davidson 83, Presbyterian 56 E. Kentucky 70, Brescia 41 Elon 73, NC A&T 64 Georgia Southern 64, Winthrop 55 Kentucky 99, W. Carolina 39 LSU 76, Nicholls 44 Mercer 85, Howard 70 Miami (Ohio) 58, Jacksonville St. 41 Norfolk St. 71, Saint Augustine’s

Today is Wednesday, Dec. 19, the 353rd day of 2018. There are 12 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 19, 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached by the Republican-controlled House for perjury and obstruction of justice (he was subsequently acquitted by the Senate).

On this date: In 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, Gen. George Washington led his army of about 11,000 men to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to camp for the winter.

In 1813, British forces captured Fort Niagara during the War of 1812.

In 1907, 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.

In 1946, war broke out in Indochina as troops under Ho Chi Minh launched widespread attacks against the French.

In 1950, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was named commander of the military forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

In 1957, Meredith Willson’s musical play “The Music Man” opened on Broadway.

In 1972, Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, winding up the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.

In 1974, Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st vice president of the United States in the U.S. Senate chamber by Chief Justice Warren Burger with President Gerald R. Ford looking on.

In 1975, John Paul Stevens was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 1986, the Soviet Union announced it had freed dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile, and pardoned his wife, Yelena Bonner.

Lawrence E. Walsh was appointed independent counsel to investigate the Iran-Contra affair.

In 2001, the fires that had burned beneath the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York City for the previous three months were declared extinguished except for a few scattered hot spots.

In 2002, Secretary of State Colin Powell declared Iraq in “material breach” of a U.N. disarmament resolution.

Ten years ago: Citing imminent danger to the national economy, President George W. Bush ordered an emergency bailout of the U.S. auto industry. An unwavering Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (blahGOY’-uh-vich) served notice he had no intention of quitting over his corruption arrest, declaring: “I have done nothing wrong.” Militants in Gaza fired rockets into Israel as Hamas ended a six-month truce.

Five years ago: Discount retailer Target announced that data connected to about 40 million credit and debit card accounts had been stolen as part of a breach that began over the Thanksgiving weekend. The ceiling partially collapsed onto a packed audience at the Apollo Theatre in London, injuring almost 80 people, seven of them seriously. Al Goldstein, 77, the publisher of Screw magazine who smashed down legal barriers against pornography, died in New York.

One year ago: A bus carrying cruise ship passengers on an excursion to Mayan ruins in southeastern Mexico flipped over on a narrow highway, killing 11 travelers and their guide and injuring about 20 others; eight Americans were among those killed. U.S. health officials approved the nation’s first gene therapy for an inherited disease, a treatment that improves the sight of patients with a rare form of blindness. David Wright, a Massachusetts man who was convicted of leading a plot inspired by the Islamic State to behead conservative blogger Pamela Geller, was sentenced in Boston to 28 years in prison.

Today’s Birthdays: Former game show contestant Herb Stempel is 92. Actress Elaine Joyce is 75. Actor Tim Reid is 74. Paleontologist Richard E. Leakey is 74. Musician John McEuen is 73. Singer Janie Fricke is 71. Jazz musician Lenny White is 69. Actor Mike Lookinland is 58. Actress Jennifer Beals is 55. Actor Scott Cohen is 54. Actor Robert MacNaughton is 52. Magician Criss Angel is 51. Rock musician Klaus Eichstadt (Ugly Kid Joe) is 51. Actor Ken Marino is 50.

Actor Elvis Nolasco is 50. Rock musician Kevin Shepard is 50. Actor Derek Webster is 50. Actress Kristy Swanson is 49. Model Tyson Beckford is 48. Actress Amy Locane is 47. Pro Football Hall of Famer Warren Sapp is 46. Actress Rosa Blasi is 46. Actress Alyssa Milano is 46. Actress Tara Summers is 39. Actor Jake Gyllenhaal (JIH’-lihnhahl) is 38. Actress Marla Sokoloff is 38. Rapper Lady Sovereign is 33. Journalist Ronan Farrow is 31. Actor Nik Dodani is 25.

Thought for Today: “Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.” -Jean Genet (1910-1986).

MIDWEST Evansville 56, Austin Peay 52 Green Bay 81, UW-Parkside 32 Toledo 80, Stony Brook 48 Xavier 87, Alabama St. 58 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 84, Nebraska 80 New Mexico St. 67, Texas A&MCC 65 Philander Smith 53, Ark.-Pine Bluff 48 Texas Tech 76, Southern U. 58 FAR WEST Oregon 82, Mississippi St. 74 Portland 79, Air Force 60 S. Dakota St. 88, Montana St. 67 UC Irvine 73, Portland St. 68 Utah Valley 65, Weber St. 59

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 Boston 34 18 12 4 40 94 88 Montreal 34 17 12 5 39 108 111 Ottawa 35 15 16 4 34 116 135 Detroit 35 14 16 5 33 100 118 Florida 32 13 13 6 32 106 115 Metropolitan Division Washington 32 20 9 3 43 122 100 Columbus 33 18 12 3 39 108 105 N.Y. Islanders 33 17 12 4 38 96 93 Pittsburgh 33 15 12 6 36 112 108 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 34 18 10 6 42 122 106 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 Calgary 35 22 11 2 46 122 95 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 33 14 17 2 30 82 92 Arizona 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

Tuesday’s Games Florida 5, Buffalo 2 Philadelphia 3, Detroit 2 Toronto 7, New Jersey 2 N.Y. Rangers 3, Anaheim 1 San Jose 4, Minnesota 0 Dallas 2, Calgary 0 Chicago 2, Nashville 1 St. Louis 4, Edmonton 1 N.Y. Islanders 3, Arizona 1 Tampa Bay 5, Vancouver 2 Los Angeles 4, Winnipeg 1

Wednesday’s Games Pittsburgh at Washington, 4 p.m.

Montreal at Colorado, 4:30 p.m.

All Times AST

transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Announced the resignation of executive vice president Chris Park, effective Dec. 31.

American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Designated INF/OF Rosell Herrera for assignment. Agreed to terms with OF Terrance Gore on a one-year contract and with OF Bubba Starling, 1B Samir Duenez and RHP Jason Adam on minor league contracts.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Named Carlos Beltran special adviser.

TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Lance Lynn on a three-year contract.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with INF Daniel Descalso on a two-year contract.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to terms with 1B Matt Adams on a one-year contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Toronto coach Nick Nurse $15,000 for public criticism of officiating and Atlanta G Kent Bazemore $10,000 for throwing the ball into the stands.

PHOENIX SUNS — Waived G Austin Rivers.

WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Assigned F Okaro White to Capital City (NBAGL). Signed G Chasson Randle from Capital City.

WNBA DALLAS WINGS — Named Brian Agler coach.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Released LB Jonathan Anderson and CBs Dontae Johnson and Quinten Rollins. Signed CBs Chris Jones and Deatrick Nichols from the practice squad. Resigned CB Jonathan Moxey to the practice squad.

ATLANTA FALCONS — Placed RB Ito Smith on injured reserve.

Waived WR Julian Williams from the practice squad. Signed RB Jeremy Langford from the practice squad and WR Christian Blake and OL Chris Durant to the practice squad.

BUFFALO BILLS — Placed RB Marcus Murphy on injured reserve. Signed WR Victor Bolden from San Francisco’s practice squad.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Placed LB Malik Jefferson on injured reserve. Signed LB Chris Worley from the practice squad and S Chris Cooper to the practice squad.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed OL Kyle Friend to the practice squad.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Placed RB Aaron Jones on injured reserve and TE Ethan Wolf on the practice squad injured list.

Signed WR Allen Lazard from

Jacksonville’s practice squad and DL Eric Cotton and CB D.J. Killings to the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed LB Skai Moore and DT Al Woods on injured reserve. Signed S J.J. Wilcox. Signed LB Tegray Scales to the practice squad.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Placed G Gabe Jackson on injured reserve. Waived LB Emmanuel Lamur. Signed DB Rico Gafford and DT Gabe Wright from the practice squad.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Placed CB Ahkello Witherspoon on injured reserve. Signed DB Tyvis Powell to a one-year contract.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Placed G Jordan Simmons on injured reserve. Signed RB Bo Scarbrough from Jacksonville’s practice squad.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Placed TE Alan Cross and S Justin Evans on injured reserve.

Signed TE Donnie Ernsberger from the practice squad.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Placed CB Logan Ryan on injured reserve. Signed CB Kenneth Durden from the practice squad and LB Gimel President to the practice squad.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Placed CB Joshua Holsey on injured reserve. Signed DB Harlan Miller. Signed DB Alex Carter, RB Russell Hansbrough and WR Montay Crockett to the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CALGARY FLAMES — Assigned G Nick Schneider from Stockton (AHL) to Kansas City (ECHL).

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Assigned D Josh Anderson from Colorado (AHL) to Utah (ECHL).

OLYMPIC SPORTS U.S. ANTI-DOPING AGENCY — Named Skip Gilbert managing director of operations, marketing and development.

SOCCER Major League Soccer FC DALLAS — Signed F Zdenek Ondrasek from Wisla Krakow (Ekstraklasa-Poland).

LA GALAXY — Signed F Zlatan Ibrahimovic and M Juninho.

NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION — Traded M Kelyn Rowe to Colorado for D Edgar Castillo.

SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Signed D Botond Barath to a twoyear contract. Traded F Diego Rubio to Colorado for M Kelyn Rowe and $300,000 in allocation money.

COLLEGE LOUISVILLE — Named Dwayne Ledford offensive coordinator and line coach and Stu Holt tight ends and special teams coach.

LOYOLA (MD.) — Named Joe Mallia women’s soccer coach.

SOUTH CAROLINA — Signed football coach Will Muschamp to a one-year contract extension through 2024, offensive coordinator Bryan McClendon to a two-year contract extension and defensive coordinator Travaris Robinson and quarterbacks coach Dan Werner to one-year contract extensions.

UAB ends year with Boca Raton Bowl win

By HARVEY FIALKOV Associated Press

Today in History

38 North Carolina 71, Rice 50 S. Illinois 65, Murray St. 59 SC-Upstate 71, Brevard College 53 Southern Miss. 84, Blue Mountain 38 Stanford 95, Tennessee 85 Tennessee Tech 60, UNC-Asheville 53

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Two seasons after shutting down its football program, UAB closed out the year on an electrifying note.

Tyler Johnston III threw for 373 yards and four touchdowns, three of them to Xavier Ubosi, and UAB beat Northern Illinois 37-13 in the Boca Raton Bowl

on Tuesday night.

Ubosi had seven catches for 227 yards for the Conference USA champion Blazers (11-3), who got their first-ever bowl victory in three appearances.

UAB played in its second consecutive bowl since the program was reinstated after the self-imposed hiatus.

“I guess in our wildest dreams we dreamed of winning a conference championship

and then cap it off with a bowl win, so it’s really that sweet,” UAB coach Bill Clark said. “I don’t think it could have gone any better for us, so I’m very proud.”

Northern Illinois (8-6), the Mid-American Conference champion, has lost six consecutive bowl games since beating Arkansas in the 2012 GoDaddy.com Bowl.

“It really comes down to three things. We gave up three touchdowns on three deep balls,” NIU coach Rod Carey said. “Old-fashioned go routes.

Give those guys credit. They ran by us. They threw it, caught it. That’s the difference. If not, it’s 16-13. In the fourth quarter, I like our chances.

“We have to own it as coaches. We have to own it as players.

We didn’t coach good enough.

We didn’t play good enough.

Thirteen points isn’t winning football. Bummer.”

Johnston, who took over the starting job for the injured A.J. Erdely at midseason, set career highs in passing yards and touchdown passes, and Ubosi’s 227 yards were the third-most receiving in a game in school

history. Ubosi came into the game ranked second in the country at 21.8 yards per catch, and his TD receptions covered 70, 46 and 66 yards.

“I’m surprised but at the same time you work for it,” Ubosi said. “Just practice hard and whatever you do in practice you’ll do in the game.”

All-American Spencer Brown, who entered with 1,167 rushing yards and a school-record 16 touchdowns, caught a 3-yard shovel pass for a score and had 78 yards on the ground.

UAB’s 10th-ranked defense harassed Huskes quarterback Marcus Childers, sacking him five times and forcing two fumbles (one lost). He finished 22 of 29 for 179 yards and had 35 yards rushing on 18 carries.

NIU led the nation with 50 sacks, but never got to Johnston.

Johnston hit Ubosi in stride for a 70-yard TD just 18 seconds after the opening kickoff.

“It made it easier for me,” Johnston said. “Everyone wants to score on the first play of the game. I trusted (Ubosi).

He said, ‘Just put it in front of me and I’ll go get it.’”

Hawks dealt blow

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer

CHICAGO — The Chicago Blackhawks added another difficult question to their long list of problems when Corey Crawford suffered another concussion.

Suddenly, their goaltending situation is completely up in the air.

There was no update on Crawford’s status a day after he was placed on injured reserve.

The two-time All-Star got hurt in the first period of Sunday’s 7-3 loss to San Jose when the back of his head struck the right post during a scary goalmouth pileup.

“He just needs time to get better,” Blackhawks coach Jeremy Colliton said before Tuesday’s 2-1 victory over Nashville. “Obviously you feel for him and want him, first of all as

a person, just get back to 100 percent as quick as he can. Until then we’ll keep battling.”

Crawford, who helped the Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup in 2013 and 2015, also missed most of last year and the start of this season because of a concussion. The pair of head injuries in a relatively short time period raises questions about whether he might play again.

“It looks rough, how he hit his head on the post,” defenseman Connor Murphy said, “especially a guy like that who battled so hard to come back and was such a big part of our team. To me, he was our best player. ... Hopefully he’s back soon.”

Collin Delia was recalled from Rockford of the American Hockey League on an emergency basis when Crawford went on IR.

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Case No. 3KN-18-00298 PR NOTICE TO CREDITOR NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

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The project documents may be obtained from the City of Soldotna beginning December 14, 2018 for a non-refundable fee of $10.00 (without tax). An additional non-refundable fee of $5.00 will be required if mailing is requested. Project documents may be downloaded from the City of Soldotna web site at www.soldotna.org . To receive project addendums, you must be on the planholders list. To be placed on the planholders list, please contact Suzanne Lagasse either by phone (262-9107) or email (PublicWorks@soldotna.org).

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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI In the Matter of the Estate of KIM DEE HUGHES, Deceased.

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Claims must be presented to the undersigned Personal Representative of the estate, at DOLIFKA & ASSOCIATES, P.C., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, P.O. Box 498, Soldotna, Alaska, 99669.

DATED this 17th day of December, 2018.

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Charmed ‘PG’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ “American Sniper” (2014) Bradley Cooper.

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Sparks fail to fly for mom dating her perfect match find the answers within herself, some sessions with a licensed mental health professional may be in order.

DEAR ABBY: My husband invited his good friend (an artist) to stay with us for two nights because he is coming to our city to give a speech. He accepted.

We tried to contact him two weeks ago, one week Abigail Van Buren ago, three days ago, yesterday and this morning to find out what time he’ll arrive so we can plan our schedule and prepare the food. He still hasn’t gotten back to us. I had planned to go to church and a concert afterward. My husband doesn’t want me to leave.

I am very frustrated about the man’s lack of consideration. My husband considers him a good friend, but after the way we are being treated, I’m not convinced.

-- STILL WAITING IN CALIFORNIA DEAR STILL WAITING: I don’t blame you for being miffed. Good friends don’t treat each other so rudely. They answer their messages and show up when they’re expected. Unless the man was in

the hospital, solitary confinement or dead, there’s no excuse for his poor manners. Because your husband considers him a good friend, he should have stayed home to welcome “the artist” and let you off the hook.

DEAR ABBY: My son and daughter-in-law are “horrified” that we refer to our 3-year-old grandson’s penis using the correct terminology. Should we relent and refer to that part of his body as something else?

-- UNSURE IN THE SOUTH DEAR UNSURE: Not in my opinion. Children should be taught the correct terms for their body parts as soon as they are aware enough to identify -- and pronounce -- them. To do this will prevent confusion and possibly embarrassment later.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018: This year you might have more fun than you thought was possible. The unexpected occurs, often suddenly; however, don’t lose your sense of direction. If you are single, you meet people with ease. Around the midpoint of your birthday year, someone quite intriguing could enter your life. If you are attached, you and your partner have many long-desired dreams that you want to realize. Work toward one of them this year. TAURUS pushes you hard, which frequently annoys you.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 20-April 19) HHHH You might wonder about a growing feeling of possessiveness.

You easily could be off-kilter due to all of the activity and pressure around you. Your imagination might go haywire, as you are dealing with a certain element of unpredictability. Tonight: Do some holiday shopping.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Others could have information they don’t know what to do with.

You know what works, so you will pitch in and help. You are looking at the possibility of realizing a long-term goal. Keep your focus. An unexpected development helps clarify your perspective. Tonight: Say “yes.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Know what is going on behind the scenes. Fatigue could affect your perspective. What a perfect excuse to take a nap! Approach the remainder of the day more energized. Still, you might choose to clear up a disagreement. Tonight: Take some much-

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Enjoy the moment and all the people around you. You could have a lot of ground to cover. Prioritize, and you will find the right direction in which to head. A child needs a lot of your time, so get him or her involved in your tasks. Tonight: Let go, and enjoy the moment.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Pressure builds, and your mood reflects your stress level. Find a few moments alone to ground yourself. You might have to step away in the next 24 hours, as you could find yourself caught in the middle of a family issue. Try not to make the situation worse than it is. Tonight: Help an older friend or relative.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHHH Keep reaching out to a friend at a distance. This person appreciates your thoughtfulness. You might be surprised at the unexpected news he or she drops on you. Approach a difficult child in a novel way.

The outcome will be worthwhile. Tonight: Near music.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Deal with a partner directly.

The concern that will arise between you stems from having two different perspectives. Establish boundaries.

Both of you will be smiling until later in the day, when the other party decides to change his or her mind. Tonight: Indulge a family member.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Others might be contentious and could try to use their manipulative styles to get what they want.

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Vocalize your feelings and your message. Tonight: Accept an offer.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Finishing what others left undone might not be glamorous, but it is necessary. Once you are clear, you can control how you spend your time. Make choices that put a smile on your face. A decision based on your instincts is right-on. Tonight: Treat this day like any other Sunday.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH Your creativity emerges through your choices and actions.

You can go with the flow and not be so concerned about others’ reactions.

Give up the need to be politically correct at this moment in time. Tonight: As a “free spirit” for a day, what would you choose to do?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Stay centered. Choose to stay close to home because it feels good. You also will level out others’ hyper energy that way. Attend to last-minute details, and make sure you have everything you need. Tonight: Enjoy the tree and nibble on a cookie while visiting with a loved one.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Know that it is important to choose the right words and say the right things at the right times. If you mess up, don’t get too uptight. Just allow it all to wash over you. Someone could stun you with his or her words.

Maintain your sense of humor. Tonight: Trust your intuition.

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STICKY EGGS Dear Heloise: For plastic foam egg cartons, I put a little water in each egg “cell” just in case an egg may have gotten stuck to the carton. The water dissolves any dried or stuck egg whites and prevents the eggs from adhering to the carton. This trick has saved me many eggs!

-- Geraldine W., Columbus, Ohio HELOISE’S OLIVE-NUT DIP OR SANDWICH SPREAD Dear Heloise: Please reprint your Olive-Nut Dip recipe. My family and friends absolutely love it, and it’s so easy to make!

-- Jessica D., Clearwater, Fla. Jessica, this is one of my all-time favorites and seems to be popular with everyone who tries it. You’ll need: 8 ounces cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup real mayonnaise 1/2 cup pecans, chopped 1 cup sliced salad olives (with pimiento) 2 tablespoons juice from the olive jar Dash of pepper (but no salt!)

Mix all the ingredients well and refrigerate for about one hour. Spread this dip on sliced French bread or, if you want to save calories, on a crisp lettuce leaf. Yummy!

-- Heloise ICE-CREAM SCOOP TRICK Dear Heloise: Pouring batter into paper muffin liners was always a messy chore for me. Then I discovered that it’s much easier if I use an ice-cream scoop to transfer the batter to the paper liners. It makes my muffins uniform in size and avoids a mess.

-- Pat B., Altoona, Pa. TRIVET HINT Dear Heloise: I made a huge turkey with dressing for the holidays and suddenly realized I didn’t have a trivet big enough to put this huge platter on. I have a beautiful wooden table and wanted to protect it, so I finally decided to use a muffin tin turned upside down.

-- Carlotta N., Ponca City, Okla.

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She really likes him and would love for this to work and feels conflicted because she doesn’t know how to “light her fire” and find him intimately attractive. She’s afraid she’ll eventually push him away even though she wants the exact opposite. Any advice I can pass along?

-- NEEDING A FRIEND IN THE SOUTHWEST DEAR NEEDING: Your friend needs to understand why she’s having a problem “getting her fire lit.” Could it be related to her divorce? Her feelings about premarital intimacy? Has she seen her doctor to rule out a physical cause? Or could it be that although he looks good on paper, there’s simply no chemistry?

Because intimacy is an important part of marriage, she needs to be honest with herself about why she’s reacting the way she is. If this isn’t the only man this has happened with, and she can’t

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Alaska’s new governor celebrates on the Kenai

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The Matanuska Valley Fish & Game Advisory Committee meeting The Matanuska Valley Fish & Game Advisory Committee will meet on Wednesday, Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. at the MTA building, located at 480 Commercial Drive in Palmer to consider Southeast Region Board of Game proposals 41 – 43, 47, 49, 52, create a list of proposals for upcoming BOF meetings and any other business that may properly come before the committee. The public is encouraged to attend. For more information contact Herb Mansavage at 8418928.

Native dancers from AK Christian College perform at the inaugural celebration.

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 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.

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Alaska’s new governor greets the people of the peninsula.

Residents turned out to celebrate a new administration.

Alaska’s new governor sent a message that he would represent all the people of Alaska as he took his inaugural celebration to rural areas of the largest state in the union.

Although he planned the official swearing in to take place in Noorvik, weather delayed his plans to get to Noorvik.

Thus, Michael Dunleavy officially took the oath of office in Kotzebue.

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day, Dec. 6.

The Peninsula gathering at the Soldotna Regional Sports Center drew over 150 supporters and family members who enjoyed a dance performance

by Alaska Christian College students from villages throughout rural Alaska.

Commenting on the recent earthquake, the governor said it felt like being thrown out his bed. “I actually did get thrown out of my bed. I was in Anchor-

tions, explained Steadman.

“This last year we gave out 23 grants to 21 organizations, so we are doing what we set out to do,” he said.

The idea of giving back to the community is deeply rooted in the tradition of the homesteaders that began an organization called “The Sportsman Association,” back in the 1950s.

“It started in 1955,” said Tim Navarre, whose family was part of that organization, along with other local pioneer families like the McClains and the Farnsworths, the Smiths and many others.

“That group decided to disband, but they had accumulated quite a bit of money and wanted KP Foundation presents the food bank with a big check to help start evening meals. to continue giving back to the There were glad tidings and celebrate, plus we had an opThe idea for the foundation community in a living legacy. great joy at the 10th Anniversa- portunity to make some spe- was to create funds into perpeSee KPF, page A2 ry of the Kenai Peninsula Foun- cial presentations and hear tuity that would grow for the dation held Friday, Dec. 7 at the from special donors,” said Stan purpose of supporting services Cannery Lodge.

Steadman, one of the founders. of local nonprofit organiza“This has been a great evening. A number of people from the community turned out to

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age when it happened after just returning from Phoenix on a late-night flight. (I) went to sleep about 4 a.m. Friday and by 8 a.m. I was on the floor at an in-law’s house and it was quite an experience.

“I was afraid that when I got out of the house I was going to see devastation. When I found out that there were no serious injuries and no one was killed in that event it was almost a miracle. To see how Alaskans

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lagers saw the ceremony as it was streamed live at the Noorvik School.

Gov. Dunleavy did make it to his wife’s village of about 600 on Dec. 3, and a celebration welcomed the new governor and first lady.

Dunleavy and his Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer continued their inaugural events with celebrations in many of the less populated areas of Alaska, including the Kenai Peninsula on Thurs-

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pulled together was amazing and is a testament to the rest of the country. It makes me proud to serve the great people of Alaska and look forward to working together to keep our campaign promises,” he said.

Lt. Gov. Meyer introduced Gov. Dunleavy.

“We’re anxious and ready to get to work,” Meyer said.

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Dispatch Meyer said, “Everyone always says in their campaigns that every vote matters and as eviContinued from page A1 denced in this year’s races people really need to take that seriously.”

As lieutenant governorMeyer is in charge of elections and says there are some changes needed.

“Our machines that tabulate the votes are getting old and we’re going to need to change out our machines. We’re debating about an all mail-in ballot and (are) not a big fan of that, especially in rural Alaska where the mail may be less reliable. But we’ll be discussing that along with some irregularities that happened this election that we’re going to take a close look at.

“District 15, where people who were deceased were requesting ballots. We also had people requesting multiple ballots in the primary. So we have some improvements that have to be made, some training and some equipment, and those improvements will be my focus. My goal is to make our election the best in the country,” said Meyer.

Looking to the New Year and the new administration Meyer said, “Given the recent earthquakes, you can’t predict what Mother Nature has in store for us. But what I have found is that as Alaskans we can work together and overcome whatever differences we may have. We have a wealth of resources to develop and jobs to create, tourism to develop, fishing to enhance, so we have a lot of opportunities ahead of us in the New Year and I can’t wait to get to work,” he said.

Gov. Dunleavy and happy supporters at the peninsula inaugural celebration.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy and his wife Rose at an inaugural celebra- Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyers introduces Gov. Mike Dunleavy at infor- Families get to know their new governor at an inaugural celtion in Soldotna. mal inaugural celebration. ebration in Soldotna.

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Tonight they gave $65,000 to the Kenai Peninsula Foundation to do just that. Those dolContinued from page A1 lars have been matched by the Rasmuson Foundation and is now $130,000 for our community foundation and that’s huge for our community,” said Navarre.

Nathan Grilley is chairman of the Kenai Peninsula Foundation and was on hand to present a big check to the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank that will allow them to expand their lunch program to a dinner program.

“We donated $5,000 toward their first year of being open five nights a week for evening dinners for the homeless,” said Grilley.

“What I like best about this foundation is the people that I am able to meet with on a regular basis. It’s a community connection.

I learned about giving through my family that whenever we heard a knock at the door we made a place at the table. That’s what this foundation is all about. We are a community that gives joyously and that’s why I love serving this organization,” said Barbara Norbeck, a board member of the Kenai Peninsula Foundation.

Even though the foundation celebrated its 10th Anniversary, many residents have never heard about it or know how to become involved.

“Anyone wanting to learn about us should go on the internet and look up kenaipeninsulafoundation.org and you’ll find all our background and how to apply for grants or how to donate. We would like to encourage people to establish their legacy in the community by giving back to the community through the foundation so that money will perpetually be a benefit to our future quality of life. That’s what we are all about,” said Steadman.

KP Foundation presents the food bank with a big check to help start evening meals.

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Narcan kits available at Kenai Public Health

Heroin overdoses are on the rise in Alaska. Narcan is an easy medication you can give to someone who is overdosing. It may save their life. Adults can get free Narcan nasal spray kits at the Kenai Public

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.

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 2837797, 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 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”

Wilderness First Aid course The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is hosting a Wilderness FirstAid course on Saturday-Sunday, January 12-13, 2019. Course cost $185, plus $45 extra for CPR. For more information contact Michelle Ostrowski at michelleostrowski@fws.gov or debajango@gmail.com.

Must be 16 or older.

Soldotna Community Schools Program —Adult & High School indoor soccer every Wednesday night from 7-9 p.m. This is a drop-in game as is only $2 per night.

For more information please call 907-714-1211.

gienist Willow-Haven Walaszek will be reading her new book “I Like Your Smile! as well as other stories for a special Preschool Story Time event! “I Like Your Smile!” offers a step by step story of what young ones can expect when they go to the dentist. This story time will include songs, games, and an arts and craft activity!

—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.

Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month, the Kenai River Rotary Club will meet at Siam Noodles in Soldotna.

Soldotna Public Library activities

For more information, contact the library at Soldotna Public Library at 262-4227.

—Holiday Music Festival, Wednesday, Dec. 19 from 11 a.m.5:45 p.m. Enjoy the melodies of the season around our fireplace!

We will have members from all ages in our community coming in to share music for the entire day. Have a song you’d like to perform? Drop-ins are welcome!

—Family Movie at the Library, Thursday, Dec 20 at 2 p.m.

Gather your friends and families to enjoy a love-a-bull family comedy about a giant bull with a big heart. After being mistaken for a dangerous beast and torn from his home, he rallies a misfit team for an epic adventure to order to return to his family. Rated PG. —Family Movie at the Library, Thursday, Dec. 27 at 2:30 p.m. 14 years ago, an incredible family saved the world. In this long-awaited sequel, it’s Dad’s turn to watch their super-powered kids as Mom heads out to stop the next supervillain. Rated PG. —Window Painting, Friday, Dec. 28 at 4 p.m. Have a favorite quote, your best superhero, or an alien landscape to share?

We’ve got window markers and big, boring windows in the teen area. Come help us decorate!

—Noon Year’s Eve Story Time, Monday, Dec. 31 at 11 a.m.

If you have kids who can’t quite make it all the way to midnight, here’s a great alternative! We have stories, songs, and a craft, and then help us countdown to noon and the big balloon drop.

Ongoing events: —Teen Lounge, every Wednesday at 4 p.m., for middle school and high school students. Join us for PS4, board games, Nerf battles, study sessions, and other fun! Snacks provided.

—Toddler story time, 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays, for children ages 18 months to 3 years.

—Bouncing Babies story time, 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays, for children up to 18 months.

—Preschool story time, 10:30 a.m. Thursdays, for children 3 to 5 years old.

—LEGO Brick Club, 4 p.m. Tuesdays. Tell your story and build a world with LEGO. Adult supervision needed for children under10.

—Do you want to learn how to use a computer or the internet, but just don’t know where to start? We’re offering free courses in partnership with KPC focusing on learning how to use computKenai Senior Center activities ers for everyday tasks such as using documents, finding inforThe Kenai Senior Center is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to mation online, filling out forms, and connecting with friends and Friday, and are open until 9:30 p.m. on Thursdays. Community family through email or social media. Register in person at the meals are served Monday to Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost KPC Learning Center or by phone 262-0327. for lunch is $7 suggested donation for individuals 60 or older, $14 for those under 60. Call 907-283-4156 for more information.

Update your records at Kasilof cemetery

Nikiski Recreation Center activities —Facilities Closures: The Nikiski Pool and Community Recreation Center will be closed for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve. —Women’s League Basketball: Registration is open until Dec. 19. Games will begin mid-January and be held Friday nights/Saturday morning. For more information, call 776-8800.

—Swim Lessons: Open registration for lesson will begin at noon on Jan. 2. Lessons available will be group and semi-private for beginners, advanced beginners and intermediates. Tiny Tots and Pre-School Aquatic play will also be available for registration. Lessons will be available January to April.

—Nikiski Youth Basketball: First- and second-grade coed basketball. Team registration deadline is Dec. 19. Games begin in January.

—Supersonic Ultraviolet Youth Volleyball: For grades fourth through sixth. Team registration deadline is Dec. 19. Games begin in January. Call 776-8800 for more info.

—Spin class: The Nikiski Community Recreation Center offers spin class twice a week. Classes are Wednesdays at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. Bring water.

—Youth Winter Camps: Camp for K through fifth-grade students and a camp for middle school students Jan. 2-3 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Camps will be $10 per day with various activities, including: games, outside activities and cooking.

—Open gym nights: Teen Center, Monday–Friday, 2:30–8 p.m. Full Swing Golf, Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–8 p.m. Call 7768800 for more info.

Diabetes support group to meet

The Diabetes Support Group meets the last Tuesday of every month in the River Tower of Central Peninsula Hospital. Meet—I Like Your Smile Special Story Time, Wednesday, Dec. 19 ings are free and open to the public. The group often has speakers at 10:30 a.m. Children’s book author and upcoming dental hy- on a variety of relevant topics. Please call Ruth Clare at 714-4726 if you have questions or need more information.

Kenai Community Library events

New Kenai River rotary meeting place

The Kasilof-Cohoe Cemetery Association is updating their records. If you have a reserved plot or a family member interred at Spruce Grove Memorial Cemetery in Kasilof, please notify us with your contact information, so we can keep our records current. Updated rules and regulations are also available.

Email SpruceGroveCemetery@gmail.com or send information to Kasilof Cohoe Cemetery Association, P.O.Box 340, Kasilof, AK, 99610.

Women’s exercise group A women’s exercise group meets from 7:15-8 a.m. each Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Soldotna in the cultural hall of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Marydale Ave. It’s a free 45 minutes of aerobics and strength training geared for the “more mature” ladies in the community. Call Sally at 2626637 for more information.

Soldotna Speakers meet The Soldotna Speakers, a group for people to improve their public speaking and leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment, meets the first and third Tuesday of each month from noon-1 p.m. in the upstairs conference room at Peninsula Community Health Services in Soldotna.

Celebrate Recovery at Peninsula Grace Brethren Celebrate Recovery meets each Wednesday, from 6:30-8 p.m., at Peninsula Grace Church, 44175 Kalifornsky Beach Rd., Soldotna, upstairs in room 5-6 in the worship center. Celebrate Recovery is a Biblically based 12-step program that provides a safe place to share your hurts, habits and hang-ups, in a Christ-centered recovery atmosphere. Come early for a free meal,served at 5:45.There is no charge, but donations are welcomed. Questions? Contact: 907-598-0563.

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