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Sunday, December 9, 2018 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 49, Issue 60

In the news State Rep. Knopp leaving GOP caucus in bid for coalition KENAI — State Rep. Gary Knopp will not be part of any majority party in the Alaska House’s upcoming session.

KINY radio reports the Kenai Republican announced Saturday that he is parting with the GOP caucus in hopes of forcing a consensus among lawmakers.

Knopp’s decision leaves the Republicans and Democrats in the House in a 20-20 split.

Knopp, who won the seat held by retiring Republican Rep. Kurt Olson in 2016, says a coalition is needed to ensure the House will function.

He says with a 21-member majority, everyone would have to be in agreement on every decision.

The Legislature will reconvene Jan. 15.

Alaska high court appoints special master in ballot dispute JUNEAU — The Alaska Supreme Court has appointed a special master to weigh ballot questions raised by a Democratic state House candidate.

Democrat Kathryn Dodge is challenging the result of a recount that showed her losing by one vote to Republican Bart LeBon in a Fairbanks House race.

The Supreme Court appointed Anchorage Superior Court Judge Eric Aarseth as a special master to conduct hearings and any other proceedings necessary to issue a report by Dec. 21.

The court sets out a filing schedule for any objections to Aarseth’s findings and oral argument for Jan. 8.

Dodge has asked the court to rule by Jan. 14, the day before the new legislative session begins.

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Kenai OKs new fire engine Hilcorp contractor employee dies on North Slope

By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion

The Kenai City Council has authorized the purchase of a new fire engine for the Kenai Fire Department, to be built by Hughes Fire Equipment, Inc. in Florida.

The council unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday night authorizing the purchase with about $581,000 from the city’s Equipment Replacement Fund.This price tag includes the total amount of the vehicle, about $27,000 as a contingency and $9,000 to travel to the facility before, during and after the engine’s Kenai Fire Department is photographed earlier this year. Kenai construction.

City Council has authorized the purchase of a new fire engine See FIRE, page A3 for the department. (Photo by Erin Thompson)

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An employee of Hilcorp Alaska drilling contractor, Kuukpik Drilling, was fatally injured at Milne Point on Alaska’s North Slope on Thursday night, Lori Nelson, manager of public affairs for Hilcorp Alaska, said in a statement.

“We are deeply saddened by this news and our thoughts and prayers are

with their family and loved ones,” she said.

The cause of the incident is unknown at this time, but Hilcorp and Kuukpik are working with agencies to conduct a full investigation.

“The safety and protection of our personnel and community where we operate is our top priority,” Nelson said.

Drilling operations have been suspended where the incident took place.

limits use of cruise passenger fees by Juneau

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

Doug Hogue, the owner of Kenai River Brewing Company, said he has always hated pumpkin beers. Two local home brewers recently changed his mind with a recipe for an Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Stout Beer.

“They came in and we brewed it together,” Hogue said. “I love this pumpkin beer.”

Residents can taste this beer, and other seasonal beers like their Spruce Tip Double IPA and their Winter Warlock malt-based, English-style beer at the Kenai River Brewing Company taproom.

Winter brings several locally brewed seasonal beers and ales for residents to enjoy during this special time of year.

Just down the street from Kenai River Brewing Company is St. Elias Brewing Company, where brewer and part-owner Zach Henry has created three specialty beers for the winter season.

The Whipsaw Double IPA has twice the hops and showcases Columbus, Mosaic and

A bartender pours a beer at Kenai River Brewing Company on Saturday in Soldotna. Kenai River is serving a chocolate pumpkin porter beer as part of their seasonal offerings, (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

El Dorado hops, Henry said.

The Ladybug Lambic has been aged for two years in oak barrels. Henry said it was made with red and black currants.

“It’s a nice refreshing fruit

beer,” Henry said.

The Chocolate Raspberry Porter is an English-style porter made with cocoa beans and has notes of chocolate and raspberry.

Henry said all these seasonal beers can be found at the taproom and can be taken home in a growler, or a crowler, which is a 32-ounce can, equal to See BREW, page A3

‘Very low’ chinook forecast for Taku River Numbers released last week by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game forecast “very low” numbers of chinook salmon will spawn this summer on the Taku and Stikine rivers.

This is the fourth straight year that too few salmon were expected for there to be an allowable catch.

“It’s been trending down for quite awhile,” said David Harris, area management biologist for Juneau for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game commercial fishers division.

“Hopefully things start to improve.”

ADF&G expects 9,050 adult chinook will spawn on the Taku River, which means there is no allowable catch expected because the ex-

pected number is well below the escapement goal range of 19,000-36,000 fish, according to the report. The report forecasts 8,250 chinook will spawn on the Stikine River, which is below the escapement goal range of 14,000-28,000 fish.

“Due to the very low forecasts and recent poor runs to these transboundary rivers, all salmon fisheries in Districts 8 and 11 will have extensive

conservation measures in effect through the duration of the chinook salmon runs in 2019,” states the ADF&G report, which was issued by the division of commercial fisheries.

Escapement goal ranges represent the number of chinook the ADF&G estimates are needed to keep the run healthy. This is the fourth year in a row that the ADF&G has See TAKU, page A3

JUNEAU(AP) — The use of fees collected from cruise ship passengers by the City and Borough of Juneau must be connected to the ship, a federal judge has ruled.

The cruise industry had challenged the legality of $8 per passenger fees and alleged the city spends the money too freely, Coast Alaska reported.

The money has gone toward building bigger docks for cruise ships but also for such things as extra crossing guards, public bathrooms and a sea walk that runs past the downtown docks. The city even used some of the money in fighting the lawsuit.

U.S. District Court Judge H. Russel Holland ruled Thursday that while Juneau can keep collecting the fees, their use must constitute a service to the ship.

For example, he said a gangplank would be a service to the vessel, but sidewalk repairs and access to the public library’s internet that passengers share with the general public likely would not be.

City Manager Rorie Watt said officials were reviewing the ruling. The city recently began soliciting public proposals for how to spend the next round of cruise passenger fees.

“We’re going to be closely reading Judge Holland’s order in figuring out what our next steps are,” Watt said.

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DNR commissioner rescinds Anchorage Assembly adoption of new Kachemak approves $1B sale Bay parks management plan of city-owned utility

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The new Department of Natural Resources commissioner on Friday rescinded a last-minute adoption of the Kachemak Bay State Park and Kachemak Bay State Park Management Plan. In a determination issued Dec. 7, DNR Commissioner Corri A. Feige clarified the status of the plan adopted by former DNR Com-

missioner Andrew T. Mack on Dec. 2.

Mack, former Gov. Bill Walker’s commissioner, adopted the plan the day before Walker’s administration ended on Dec. 3. However, Feige wrote in the determination that because of office closures related to the Nov. 30 earthquake, Mack did not issue a notice of his action. Feige became commissioner after Gov. Mike Dunleavy was inaugurat-

ed on Dec. 3.

“No action has been taken to implement the December 2nd Plan,” Feige wrote in her determination.

In her determination, Feige also reinstated the former 1995 management plan. Kachemak Bay State Park and Kachemak Bay State Wilderness Park will continue to be managed under the guidelines of the 1995 plan and pending completion of the See PLAN, page A3

ANCHORAGE (AP) — The Anchorage Assembly has signed off on a $1 billion deal for Chugach Electric Association to buy the city-owned electric utility.

The city officials unanimously approved the sale of Municipal Light and Power on Tuesday, sending the deal to the next step — gaining approval from the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, the Anchorage Daily News reported .

The parties plan to file with

the commission by the end of January, said Julie Hasquet, Chugach Electric’s director of corporate communications. It could take six months or longer to get the deal approved.

“It will be a significant filing with a lot of material the RCA will need and want to see,” Hasquet said.

Anchorage voters approved the deal in April. The transaction is not expected to cause layoffs or increase base electric See SALE page A2

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Around the Peninsula Christmas Concert featuring The Tune Weavers The Sterling Senior Center presents a Christmas Concert featuring The Tune Weavers on Saturday, Dec. 15 at 7 p.m. Music is Bluegrass and Country Classic. Cookies and hot cocoa will be shared with an appearance from Mr & Mrs Claus. A donation of $10 is requested to assist with our Share in the Giving community project. For further info, call 262-6808. Everyone welcome!

Support Meeting and Christmas Tea

Local An Evening of Christmas The Kenai Peninsula Orchestra presents “An Evening of Christmas,” Friday, Dec. 14, at 7 p.m. at the KCHS Renee C. Henderson Auditorium. This is a fun-filled evening full of holiday songs and audience sing-alongs. Performing groups include the Redoubt Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Tammy Vollom-Matturro, and the Kenai Peninsula Singers under the direction of Simon Nissen, with special guests from the Anchorage Civic Orchestra. The KCHS Jazz Band, under the direction of Deborah Sounart, will perform during intermission. Tickets are available at the door. $15 general admission, all youth 18 and under are free.

The Homer Fish & Game Advisory Committee

Soldotna Senior Center Caregiver Support Meeting and meeting Christmas Tea will take place Tuesday, Dec. 11 at 1 p.m. Discussion on the 10 keys to Creating Healthy Holidays. Please The Homer Fish & Game Advisory Committee will meet on being a snack to share and canned or boxed goods to give to the Tuesday, Dec. 11 at the KBRR building located at 2181 KacheKenai Peninsula Food Bank. mak Drive at 6 p.m. Agenda will include Statewide BOF proposals, and any other business that may properly come before the committee. The public is encouraged to attend. For more League of Women Voters meeting information contact Dave Lyon at 399-2340.

The Central Peninsula League of Women Voters will hold a regular meeting on Thursday, Dec. 13 at noon at the Soldotna Hospice Memorial Tree Public Library on Binkley Street. For additional information call Lois Pillifant at 907-209-6041.

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 Pioneers of Alaska Igloos Holiday Social with an ornament placed on our tree! No donation is too small Pioneers of Alaska Igloos 33 and 16 will hold their Holiday to receive as many ornaments as you would like. Stop by the Social on Monday, Dec. 10 at the Kenai Elks. Event begins at tree in the Mall during Mall hours, stop by Hospice’s office, 6 p.m. Members and guests are welcome. Please bring finger or request an ornament online at www.hospiceofcentralpeninfoods or your favorite holiday desserts to share. sula.com.

Donations will be accepted for gifting to the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank.

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 —Kenai National Wildlife 77 years of conservation celebration. Saturday, Dec. 15 from noon to 4 p.m. at the Kenai Refuge Visitor Center in Soldotna. Open house, refreshments, kids activities, nature crafts.

—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 First-Aid 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 nights from 7-9 p.m. This is a drop-in game as is only $2 per night.

Kenai Performers is selling chocolate Wonka bars as a proFor more information please call 907-714-1211. motional fundraiser. Funds raised will help pay production costs for the spring musical, “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka.”

Hidden among the candy bars are five Golden Tickets. Finders Kenai Community Library events of the tickets will win FREE admission to one of the shows.

—Retro Video Game Bash, Saturday, Dec. 10 at 3 p.m. We’ll These Wonka bars are 4.5 ounces of scrumptious milk choco- be digging out some retro systems from the 90s for a race and late, big enough to share with the whole family, and are $5 battle bonanza. There will be a variety of multiplayer games, each. Candy bars are available at Curtain Call Consignment trivia, art pages and more. Free. Open to all ages. Children unBoutique in Kenai and at our booth at the Black Friday Holi- der 8 must be accompanied by an adult. day Bazaar at the Challenger Learning Center on Friday-Sat—Let’s Draw! Wednesday, Dec. 12 at 4 p.m. Have fun drawurday, Nov. 23-24, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thank you Country Foods ing Olaf, Charlie Brown, and more cartoon friends in this interfor sponsoring our fundraiser! For more information, please active class. We will be learning about organic and geometric call Terri at 252-6808. shapes in drawing. If you plan to attend please sign up at the

Kenai Performers Wonka bars sale

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.

Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board meeting The Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board will meet on Thursday, Dec. 13 at 5:30 p.m. at the Gilman River Center on Funny River Road, Soldotna. Agenda topics include committee and agency reports. The public is welcome to attend.

If you have any questions about the meeting you can contact Jack Blackwell at 907-262-5581, Ext 21.

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Dog that survived wildfire guarded home for weeks

By DAISY NGUYEN Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — A dog that survived the catastrophic wildfire in Northern California apparently protected the ruins of his home for almost a month until his owner returned.

Madison was there waiting when Andrea Gaylord was allowed back to check on her burned property in Paradise this week.

Gaylord fled when the Nov. 8 fire broke out and decimated the town of 27,000. An animal rescuer who responded to Gaylord’s request to check on Madison first spotted the male Anatolian shepherd mix several days later.

Shayla Sullivan said the outdoor guard dog was apprehensive and kept his distance.

Sullivan left food and water for him regularly until Gaylord got back on Wednesday. She also helped locate Madison’s brother Miguel, another Anatolian shepherd mix that was taken

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rates, city and utility officials have said.

Under the deal, Chugach Electric will pay $768 million up front and then make annual payments to the city lasting decades.

The city plans to use part of the money to pay down the utility’s debt, replace lost tax revenue and fill a city trust fund.

Selling the utility aims to strengthen the city’s financial position and provide unified electric service throughout the Anchorage area, Mayor Ethan Berkowitz said in a statement.

“A lot of people worked very hard to make this happen,” Berkowitz said.

An asset purchase agreement and other documents are expected to be signed later this month after the auditing of Municipal Light and Power’s financial statements is completed.

This photo provided Shayla Sullivan shows “Madison,” the Anatolian shepherd dog that apparently guarded his burned home for nearly a month until his owner returned in Paradise, Calif. Sullivan, an animal rescuer, left food and water for Madison during his wait. (Shayla Sullivan via AP)

to a shelter 85 miles away in the confusing aftermath of the wildfire.

“If (the evacuees) can’t be there I’m going to be and I’m not going to give up on their animal until they can get back

in,” Sullivan said.

The dogs reunited Friday when Gaylord came back to the property with Miguel and brought Madison his favorite treat: a box of Wheat Thin crackers.

Gaylord told news station ABC10 she couldn’t ask for a better animal.

“Imagine the loyalty of hanging in in the worst of circumstances and being here waiting,” she said.

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Diana Lynn Searle

Robert Joseph Kirsch

January 29, 1952 - November 30, 2018

December 31, 1940 - November 29, 2018

Soldotna resident, Ms. Diana Lynn Searle, 66, died Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 at Heritage Place in Soldotna.

Memorial services will be held 11:00 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 15th, 2018 at Heritage Place, 232 West Rockwell Ave. – Soldotna, Alaska 99669.

Diana was born January 29, 1952 in Ogden, Utah. She attended high school at La Grande High School in La Grande, Oregon. She just recently moved to Soldotna in Sept. of 2017. In 1989 she lived in Ketchikan where she drove school bus for many years. Diana also drove as a cross-country semitruck driver while living in Phoenix, AZ. After driving truck, she turned to driving for the city and then drove for the Airport Shuttle Bus which she loved most. She retired from driving at the Airport Shuttle Bus in Phoenix in 2008.

Diana always attended the local Baptist Church and was a foster parent while she lived in Elgin, Oregon. She loved photography and sewing.

The family wrote, “Diana was very independent and Always did everything her way. She was the oldest of 11 children.”

She was preceded in death by her father, Earl Searle; sister, Rebecca Stokes and both grandparents.

She is survived by her son, Jim Mattison of Anacortis, WA; mother, Kathyrn Searle of Kenai; sisters, Cathy Henderson of Kenai, Janie (Curtis) Young of Soldotna, Jean Raymond of Stanfield, Oregon, Deborah (Tom) Birch of Tahuya, WA, Barbara (Rocky) Henry of Soldotna and Christy (Jeff) Perez of Ketchikan; brothers, Danny Searle of Tucson, AZ, Eddie (Patience) Searle Hermiston, OR and Michael Searle of Hermiston, Oregon.

Memorial donations may be made in memory of Diana C/O Cathy Henderson – P.O. Box 3176 – Kenai, Alaska 99611.

Arrangements made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel & Crematory. Please sign or visit her online guestbook at AlaskanFuneral.com.

Robert Joseph Kirsch, 77 passed away on November 29, 2018 in Soldotna, Alaska. A potluck and bonfire memorial will be held at 2Pm on December 15, 2018 at is home, 48876 Dority Circle, N. Kenai, Ak. He was born in Wimber, PA to Robert Kirsch, Sr and Kathleen Kirsch on December 31, 1940, but grew up in the west.

Bob and his wife Mary have been residents of Alaska since 1969, living in Anchorage, Chicken, and finally Kenai in 1979. They had owned and operated many businesses in Chicken and Kenai.

Bob had a structural engineering degree, was a commercial and private pilot, and could fix anything that ran. He retired in 2003 and mined, until Alzihmer’s slowed him down. He was preceded in by his father, Robert “Bob” Kirsch, Sr. mother, Kathleen “Kay” Kirsch, brothers, Denis and Timothy Kirsch. Bob is survived by his wife, Mary Kirsch of N. Kenai, AK, son’s, Rob Kirsch of McCall, ID, Timothy Kirsch of Sterling, AK, Ty Kirsch of Kenai, AK, daughter’s, Christina Kirsch of Sammamish, WA, Melinda Harrington of Melba, ID, Kimber Kirsch of Pulman, WA, Kathleen King of Kenai, AK, Angie Camp of Wasilla, AK, Amanda Beevox of Kenai, AK, brother’s, Jim Kirsch of Purma, ID, Larry Kirsch of Bullhead, AZ, Martin Kirsch of Merichan, ID, sisters, Margaret Morrison of Boise, ID, Mary Melton of Napa, ID, Michaelle Powel of Sand Hollow, ID, uncle, Jim “Sonny” Kirsch, Sr. of Yukon, OK, aunt, Ethal Eufelenhavs of Cleveland, OH, 36 grandchildren, and 6 great grandchildren.

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Park users had raised concerns about the draft plan. A nonprofit group supporting the parks, the Friends of Kachemak Bay State Park, criticized the plan. Among the issues they raised are changes to the Tutka Bay Hatchery, changes in recreational and natural zones, and proposals to allow helicopter skiing and drone use.

According to Feige, DNR staff will prepare an issue response summary to address public comments received for the draft management plan. A list of recommended revisions to the draft plan will also be prepared. Once that is done, the public will have an opportunity to review and comment on a new Intent to Adopt version of the plan.

planning process in developing a new plan, Feige wrote.

The draft management plan would have updated the 1995 plan. The draft plan includes management guidance and recommendations for the two parks covering much of the lower Kenai Peninsula along Kachemak Bay and around the tip of the peninsula. The draft plan also includes the Diamond Creek State Recreation Site, Eveline State Recreation Site and Overlook Park State Recreation Site in the Homer area.

The plan also includes a trail management plan with recommendations for trail sustainability, design and management Reach Michael Armstrong at criteria. marmstrong@homernews.com.

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“The fire department is going to make three separate trips to the facility,” said Kenai City Manager Paul Ostrander. “One a prebuild, one a midbuild and one after it’s constructed. Primarily during that prebuild, there may be items that need to be added or subtracted, and that contingency fund allows for that.”

The purchase order adds 5 percent, an additional $27,218, to Hughes’ bid of nearly $544, 365, to give the flexibility to add to the cost of that fire engine if needed.

About $400,000 of the purchase will be reimbursed through a State of Alaska Grant, according to city documents.

The new fire engine will have a 2,000-gallon water tank on board, allowing the fire department to use the new truck whenever they respond to a structure fire even if there is not fire hydrant on site. It will also

have updated safety equipment so that it will always be the first response to all structure fires.

The fire engine will be replacing a 35-year-old truck that the Kenai Fire Department has used since 1983. The replacement will allow the fire department to effectively respond to emergencies and eliminate the expenses of upkeeping the older piece of equipment, according to city documents.

It is still in good condition, according to the fire department, but is outdated. There are several options for what the city will do with the old truck, but Ostrander said a donation is likely.

“The fire chief told me specifically that putting fire engines up for auction don’t particularly get good results,” Ostrander said. “We’ll probably look to donate it.”

Ostrander said they would look to donating to another fire department in the state, but that they will decide following more internal discussions.

Reach Kat Sorensen at ksorensen@peninsulaclarion.com.

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estimated too few chinook will return to the Taku and Stikine rivers.

The estimated terminal run size represents how many Chinook the agency expects to spawn every summer based on data gathered from fisheries during the summer months. The report is issued annually in December.

“For the fourth year in a row, the Alaska Department of Fish & Game has forecasted that too few Chinook will return to the Taku and Stikine rivers to support commercial fishing,” said Jill Weitz, Salmon Beyond Borders Campaign Director, in a statement. “This forecast adds urgency to the need to address abandoned, operating, and planned British Columbia large-scale mines upstream from Alaska in the Taku and Stikine watersheds, about which Alaskans have had very little meaningful input — despite receiving all of the risk and none of the benefits from these projects.”

While the numbers are lower than usual, they are an increase from last year’s predictions, which forecast some of the lowest figures since the mid-1970s. In 2018, ADF&G expected only 4,700 Chinook will spawn on the Taku River and only 6,900 Chinook were expected.

“The forecasts are much improved from last year, but they’re still among the worst,” Harris said. “They’re probably the second worst ever.”

Harris said the numbers go back to 1995.

The reason for the low number of fish seems to be mainly driven by what happens to the fish once they

leave fresh water systems, Harris said.

“It’s circling around ocean survival right now,” Harris said. “There’s no evidence the freshwater portion of a fish’s life cycle is compromised.

Once they go out to sea, they’re just not coming back.”

Harris said there’s many factors, including predation and pollution, that could be impacting the salmon.

“We’ve improved from last year,” Harris said.“We’ve taken of really the only thing we can control and that’s harvest.”

Weitz expressed the hope that those who can control other environmental factors take action.

“It is Salmon Beyond Borders’ hope that Governor Mike Dunleavy joins the Alaska congressional delegation in pushing B.C. and Canada to follow through on decades of promises to clean up the abandoned, polluting Tulsequah Chief Mine in the Taku River watershed, and in defending Alaska’s fishing communities and Southeast Alaska’s overall economy,” Weitz said in a statement.

“Alaska must have a strong role in establishing binding protections for transboundary salmon rivers like the Taku, Stikine and Unuk.”

It’s unknown whether the improved forecast represents an actual improvement or if last year’s forecast’s were so abysmal that some regression was unavoidable.

Whether the numbers are improving won’t become clear for several more seasons when more data is available.

“This year, there were some glimmers of hope,” Harris said. “We’re all kind of holding our breath. We just don’t know what to expect in a lot of cases.”

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November 29, 2018

Longtime resident Peggie J. Smith, 79, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018 in her home.

Peggie’s family said that Peggie liked a quote from Helen Keller, “What we have once enjoyed deeply, we can never lose.

All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

Peggie is survived by her grieving family, daughter, Shannon Smith; grandsons, Noah and Bailey Deutsch; ex-husband and best friend, Joe Smith.

Arrangements were made

by Peninsula Memorial Chapel in Kenai.

Death Announcement Barbara J Ferrell, 71 passed away December 6, 2018 at the Providence Horizon House, Anchorage. Full obituary later. Arrangements by Cremation Society of Alaska.

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about two pints of beer.

Up the north road to Kassik’s Brewery, residents can find several seasonal beers.

The Spice Cream Ale is a cream ale made with nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon. Owner Debbie Kassik said the brewery’s barleywine should be ready in the next week or two.

She said during the holiday season, the brewery will bring out specialty aged beers. During Thanksgiving, the brewery brought out their Statney beer, and Kassik said they may do that again this season. Residents can also look forward to a Russian Imperial aged in rye whiskey barrels. All these beers can be found in the taproom in Nikiski, with the exception of the Spice Cream Ale, which can be found in 22-ounce bombers at local liquor stores.

All can be found at the Taproom, and area ale can be found in 22-ounce bombers in local liquor stores.

At the end of the peninsula in Homer, Patrick Miller, assis-

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Maritime lawyer Joe Geldhof, who wrote the initiative passed by Juneau voters creating the fee, saw the ruling as “rebuking the sort of undisciplined spending on the part of the city and borough and the recommendations by the city and borough staff.”

Other coastal communities have their own passenger fees,

tant brewer at Homer Brewing, said the brewery four seasonal beers to choose from.

The Extra Special Bitter beer is a happier beer with an amber color. The Holiday Spiced Belgian also called the Celestiale, is made with chai. The Imperial Stout is the biggest beer the brewery produces, Miller said.

The Oatmeal Stout is described

by Miller as creamy and smooth. All of these beers can be found at the Homer Brewing Company tap room.

At Grace Ridge Brewing Company, owner Don Stead said their Scottish beer is out now, and has low-bitterness, and is an easy drinking amber-looking ale. The Winter Cranberry beer is made with rosemary and cranberries. The Honey Baltic Porter is a clean, smooth porter, and leaves a honey flavor on the tongue, Stead said. The Pale Ale is made with hops grown in the Homer area.

“The hops are very fresh, so it has an interesting aroma,” Stead said.

These beers can be found at the Grace Ridge Brewing Company taproom or the Grog Shop.

and there is a state head tax, too.

Geldhof said the Alaska attorney general needs to provide guidance on how such revenue should be spent in the future.

John Binkley, president of Cruise Lines International Association Alaska, said in a statement that the organization was pleased with the ruling.

“Our primary goal was to seek guidance from the court so both the industry and communities understand the rules going forward,” he said.

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Congress should debate and vote before the US goes to war For too long, Congress has abdicated its constitutional obligations with respect to

war powers.

On Nov. 28, the Senate took an important step toward reasserting this authority by voting 63 to 37 in favor of moving ahead on a resolution directing the removal of US armed forces from hostilities in Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress.

The resolution, introduced by Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, indicates an overdue willingness on the part of senators across the political spectrum to finally debate American involvement in a conflict that the United States has long been involved in.

Under the presidencies of Barack Obama and Donald Trump, the United States has aided a coalition of nations led by Saudi Arabia as they’ve intervened in a brutal civil war which has ravaged Yemen.

Since 2015, the United States has provided logistical and intelligence support, including mid-air refueling of coalition jets. This has continued despite numerous reports of atrocities by the coalition, including the Oct. 8, 2016 bombing of a funeral in Sana’a which killed upward of 155 people. More recently, an American-made bomb was used by the Saudi-led coalition in the bombing of a school bus on Aug. 9 which killed 40 children.

All of this has gone on without so much as a vote from Congress as to whether the United States actually needs to be involved in the conflict.

In March, the Senate actually voted 55 to 44 to table the resolution it voted to advance last week. To their credit, both Sen. Kamala Harris and Sen. Dianne Feinstein voted against tabling the resolution in March and recently voted to advance the resolution.

For their part, the White House has opposed efforts to scale back unchecked war-making. On Nov. 28, the Trump administration issued a statement threatening to veto S.J. Res. 54, arguing “the joint resolution would.negatively impact the ability of the United States to prevent the spread of violent extremist organizations” like al-Qaida.

No one should fall for such a hollow excuse. If America is going to be involved in a conflict, the case should be made, debates and voted up or down in Congress. That’s what the Constitution demands.

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Yes, voter fraud is real

Maybe ballot security isn’t such a bad thing after all.

Democrats, who the day before yesterday were insisting that voter fraud didn’t exist, now believe that it was used to steal a North Carolina congressional seat from them — and they may well be right.

Republican Mark Harris has a 905-vote lead over Democrat Dan McCready in the state’s 9th Congressional District, a slender victory that the State Board of Elections has refused to certify given credible allegations of cheating.

A consulting firm working for Harris contracted with an operative named McCrae Dowless based on his get-out-thevote work, mostly involving his strange prowess with absentee ballots.

Dowless has a shady background that includes criminal convictions and a prior investigation of his election practices. His methods were seamy, at best. Working from a storefront, he employed a crew to go door to door urging people to request absentee ballots. When they did, his team returned to collect the ballots, purportedly to deliver them to election officials but apparently to hand them over to Dowless first. This is itself against the law in North Carolina, and rightly so. It destroys any chain of custody and creates the opportunity for more abuse and corruption. There is evidence that Dowless may have availed himself of it.

Bladen County, the largely rural area where Dowless focused his work, outpaced other counties in absentee-ballot requests

— with 7.5 percent of registered voters making a request, higher than the 2 percent or so in most of the rest of the counties.

Weirdly, only 19 percent of absentee ballots in Bladen Rich Lowry were submitted by Republicans, yet Harris managed to win 61 percent of the absentee vote there. He didn’t win absentees in any other county. The implication is that Dowless may have pocketed absentee ballots not to his liking, particularly from black Democrats. If so, this would truly be a damnable — and literal — instance of “voter suppression.”

The Harris margin over McCready in Bladen County (162 votes) is considerably less than his overall margin. Yet there was almost certainly illegality in a very close election, and if Dowless was discarding or destroying ballots, the number of affected votes may go higher.

North Carolina law sets a standard for a revote that doesn’t require a finding that cheating changed the outcome. The election board can order a new election if improprieties occurred that “taint the result” and “cast doubt on its fairness.” Pending the conclusion of the board’s investigation, it’s hard to see how that standard won’t be met.

Republicans won’t like it, but they

should probably want to start over, for the sake of the integrity of their own nominating process, if nothing else. In the GOP primary for the seat, Harris won an equally narrow victory over the Republican incumbent and an even more smashing Dowlessengineered victory in Bladen absentee ballots, 437 to 17.

The larger lesson here is that people will exploit vulnerabilities in the election system, and it should be as secure as possible.

Absentee voting is a particular soft spot. It occurs outside the watch of election officials, and it’s impossible to determine what happens to the ballot in between the time it leaves and returns. Although usually not as extensive or consequential as what may have transpired in North Carolina’s 9th District, vote fraud often involves absentee voting, and exploiting poor and vulnerable voters. In October, four people were indicted in Texas on 30 felony counts of targeting elderly voters in a fraudulent mail-in voter scheme.

Rules should be rigorous, and it’s insane that the sort of vote harvesting that Dowless engaged in — i.e., a private party collecting the ballots of voters — is perfectly legal in California.

The North Carolina race demonstrates how even relatively small-scale cheating — no one will ever mistake McCrae Dowless for a major player — can undermine faith in our system. And how, if anyone doubted it, voter fraud is real.

Rich Lowry can be reached via email at comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he wants a battle-hardened commander who oversaw troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to be the nation’s next top military adviser.

If confirmed by the Senate, Gen. Mark Milley, who has been chief of the Army since August 2015, would succeed Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Dunford’s term doesn’t end until Oct. 1. Trump said the date of transition is “to be determined.”

Trump used an early morning tweet to reveal his choice. “I am thankful to both of these incredible men for their service to our Country!” he said. Later Saturday, as the president left the White House for the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, he called Milley “a great gentleman and a great patriot.”

Dunford is a former commandant of the Marine Corps and commander of coalition troops in Afghanistan. Milley commanded troops during several tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Dunford’s spokesman, Col. Patrick Ryder, said all indications are that Dunford

will serve his full term. Ryder referred other questions to the White House. He said Dunford congratulated Milley on his nomination.

“He has served with Gen. Milley in peacetime and in combat and has the highest regard for his leadership.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement that Milley was “a battletested commander and Pentagon reformer who will be a worthy successor” to Dunford. That committee would consider a Joint Chiefs nomination.

The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee praised Milley for his “direct, insightful military assessments based upon his intellect and years of experience.” Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, also noted that the Joint Chiefs chairman serves Congress as well as the president and defense secretary.

Trump’s decision, announced before leaving Washington for the annual Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, had caught some in the Pentagon by surprise when unofficial word spread Friday after he had tweeted that a succession announcement was coming.

Normally an announcement on a new chairman wouldn’t be expected until early next year. Officials had said the Air Force

chief, Gen. David Goldfein, was also a strong contender for the job.

Milley is known as a charismatic, outgoing leader who has not been afraid to offer candid and sometimes blunt assessments to Congress. Last year he admonished the House Armed Services Committee for its inability to approve a defense budget, slamming it as “professional malpractice.” In 2016, he told lawmakers, in answer to a direct question, that women should also have to register for the draft now that they are allowed to serve in all combat jobs.

As the Army’s top leader, he helped shepherd the groundbreaking move of women into front-line infantry and other combat positions, while warning that it would take time to do it right. More recently, he has worked with his senior officers to reverse a shortfall in Army recruiting when the service fell far short of its annual goal this year.

He also played a role in one of the Army’s more contentious criminal cases. While serving as head of U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Milley was assigned to review the case of former Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who abandoned his post in Afghanistan and was held captive by the Taliban for five years.

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Closer legal peril for Trump in probes Stocks drop 4 percent in rocky week on trade, growth worries

By ERIC TUCKER, CHAD DAY and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was in touch as far back as 2015 with a Russian who offered “political synergy” with the Trump election campaign and proposed a meeting between the candidate and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the federal special counsel said.

Court filings from prosecutors in New York and special counsel Robert Mueller’s office Friday laid out previously undisclosed contacts between Trump associates and Russian intermediaries and suggested the Kremlin aimed early on to influence Trump and his campaign by playing to both his political aspirations and his personal business interests.

The filings, in cases involving Cohen and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort , capped a dramatic week of revelations in Mueller’s probe into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. They bring the legal peril from multiple investigations closer than ever to Trump, tying him to an illegal hush money payment scheme and contradicting his claims that he had nothing to do with Russia.

Trump was undeterred, tweeting early Saturday: “AFTER TWO YEARS AND MILLIONS OF PAGES OF DOCUMENTS (and a cost of over $30,000,000), NO COLLUSION!” Just before leaving Washington on Saturday afternoon for the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia, Trump told reporters “we’re very happy with what we are reading because there was no collusion whatsoever. There never has been.

The last thing I want is help from Russia on a campaign.”

Trump described the investigation as a “very one-sided situation, but I think it’s all turning around very nicely. As

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Michael Cohen, former lawyer to President Donald Trump, leaves his apartment building on New York’s Park Avenue, Friday. In the latest filings Friday, prosecutors will weigh in on whether Cohen deserves prison time and, if so, how much. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

far as the reports that we see, according to everybody I’ve spoken to, I have not read it, there’s absolutely no collusion, which is very excellent.”

The court documents make clear how witnesses previously close to Trump — Cohen once declared he’d “take a bullet” for the president — have since provided damaging information about him in efforts to come clean to the government and in some cases get lighter prison sentences.

One defendant, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, provided so much information to prosecutors that Mueller this week said he shouldn’t serve any prison time.

In hours of interviews with prosecutors, witnesses have offered up information about pivotal episodes under examination, including possible collusion with Russia and payments during the campaign to silence a porn star and Playboy model who said they had sex with Trump a decade earlier.

In one of the filings, Mueller details how Cohen spoke to

a Russian who “claimed to be a ‘trusted person’ in the Russian Federation who could offer the campaign ‘political synergy’ and ‘synergy on a government level.’”

The person repeatedly dangled a meeting between Trump and Putin, saying such a meeting could have a “phenomenal” impact “not only in political but in a business dimension as well.”

That was a reference to a proposed Moscow real estate deal that prosecutors say could have netted Trump’s business hundreds of millions of dollars. Cohen admitted last week to lying to Congress by saying discussions about a Trump Tower in Moscow ended in January 2016 when in fact they stretched into that June, well into the U.S. campaign.

Cohen told prosecutors he never followed up on the Putin invitation, though the offer bore echoes of a March 2016 proposal presented by Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who broached to other advisers the idea of a Putin encounter.

Prosecutors said probation officials recommended a sentence for Cohen of threeand-a-half years in prison. His lawyers want the 52-year-old attorney to avoid prison time altogether.

In an additional filing Friday evening, prosecutors said Manafort lied about his contacts with a Russian associate and Trump administration officials, including in 2018.

The court papers say Manafort initially told prosecutors he didn’t have contact with any people while they were in the Trump administration. But prosecutors say they recovered “electronic documents” showing contacts with multiple administration officials not identified in the filings.

Manafort, who has pleaded guilty to several counts, violated his plea agreement by telling “multiple discernible lies” to prosecutors, they said.

Manafort resigned from his job on the Trump campaign as questions swirled about his lobbying work for a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine.

FBI: Man charged in kidnapping, death of teen LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) — Police have arrested and charged a man with killing a 13-year-old girl who was kidnapped last month from a North Carolina mobile home park.

The FBI said early Saturday that Michael Ray McLellan has been charged in connection with the kidnapping and murder of Hania Noelia Aguilar. The announcement comes the same day that a memorial service for Aguilar is set to take place at a local high school.

The 34-year-old McLellan faces first-degree murder, rape and eight other felony charges.

He’d been released from prison in June and was still on parole from a 2017 felony breaking and entering conviction, according to the News & Observer of Raleigh.

He was previously convicted in 2007 of assault with a deadly

weapon and was released on parole in 2016, the newspaper reported.

He is being held without bond in the Robeson County Detention Center. He will appear in court at the Robeson County Courthouse on Monday.

McLellan was in custody at the time of his arrest on charges unrelated to the Aguilar case, police said.

On Nov. 5, police said Aguilar went outside to start a relative’s SUV to prepare to leave for the bus stop when a man forced her into the vehicle and fled.

Her disappearance sparked an intensive search. Drones, dogs, and scores of searchers on foot spent the following weeks combing the area. Police found her body several weeks later in a body of water about

10 miles (16 kilometers) south of the mobile home park where she was kidnapped.

“This is the outcome that we all feared,” Lumberton Police Chief Michael McNeill told reporters after the body was found. “We did not want to hear this. We wanted to bring Hania back home and bring her back home alive to our community. It hurts.”

Police said they followed more than 850 leads and conducted nearly 500 interviews.

The FBI’s lab at Quantico, Virginia did a forensic exam on the stolen SUV, which was recovered a few days after Aguilar’s initial disappearance. The North Carolina State Crime Lab provided test results on Aguilar’s body. Police said the exams helped result in the charges against McLellan.

A large turnout is expected

at Aguilar’s funeral Saturday at Lumberton High School.

Her father, who lives in Guatemala, was denied an expedited visa to attend his daughter’s funeral.

Wall Street capped a turbulent week of trading Friday with the biggest weekly loss since March as traders fret over rising trade tensions between Washington and Beijing and signals of slower economic growth.

The latest wave of selling erased more than 550 points from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, bringing its three-day loss to more than 1,400. For the week, major indexes are down more than 4 percent.

Worries that the testy U.S.China trade dispute and higher interest rates will slow the economy have made investors uneasy, leading to volatile swings in the market from one day to the next.

On Monday, news that the U.S. and China had agreed to a 90-day truce in their escalating trade conflict drove stocks sharply higher, adding to strong gains the week before. The next day, as doubts mounted over the likelihood of a swift resolution to the trade dispute, stocks sank.

That sell-off extended to Thursday, when U.S. stock markets reopened for trading after a national day of mourning for former President George H.W. Bush. An early plunge knocked 700 points off the Dow as investors worried the arrest of a senior Chinese technology company official would undermine trade negotiations between Washington and Beijing, but stocks bounced nearly all the way back by the end of the day on news that the Federal Reserve was considering a wait-and-see approach to its interest rate hikes.

That optimism fueled a rally early Friday, which faded into another sharp drop.

“We’re in a market where investors just want to sell any upside that they see,” said Lindsey Bell, investment strategist at CFRA. “The volatility we’ve seen the last couple of weeks has been pretty extreme in both directions.”

The S&P 500 index fell 2.3 percent. The index has ended lower three out of the last four weeks. The Dow dropped 2.2 percent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite slid 3 percent.

The S&P 500 and Dow are now in the red for the year again. The Nasdaq was holding on to a modest gain.

The current bull market for stocks, which began in March 2009, has shown signs of sputtering this year, with the S&P 500 entering into a correction, or drop of 10 percent from a recent high, twice this year. The index is now down 10.2 percent from its all-time high on Sept.

20.

The market is now on track for its worst year since 2008, when the S&P 500 ended with a 38.5 percent loss.

Volatility has gripped the market since early October, reflecting investors’ worries that the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates too aggressively as it tries to keep inflation in check, potentially slowing economic growth.

“The Fed has taken the punch bowl away in getting back to rates where they are today,” said Doug Cote, chief market strategist for Voya Investment Management. “We’re also going to get back to more normal volatility.”

Traders also fear that a prolonged trade dispute between the U.S. and China could crimp corporate profits and that tariffs will raise costs for businesses and consumers. Uncertainty over those issues helped drive the market’s sell-off this week.

The U.S. has announced tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese imports this year, with the tax rate on many products set to rise Jan. 1, while China put new taxes on $110 billion in U.S. goods.

Last weekend, President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed over dinner at the G-20 summit in Argentina to a temporary, 90-day stand-down in the two nations’ trade conflict to allow time to smooth out a dispute over Chinese technology policies that the U.S. and other trading partners consider predatory.

Trump agreed to hold off on plans to raise tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods. In return, Xi agreed to buy a “very substantial amount” of agricultural, energy and industrial products from the U.S. to reduce its large trade deficit with China.

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By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press

TIJUANA, Mexico — Before dawn each morning, migrants slip away from a Tijuana shelter within sight of the U.S. border to head to jobs across this sprawling city. Moving solo or in pairs, they are easily recognized by their determined strides as people with someplace to be.

By sunrise, another crowd has gathered at a corner near the shelter to wait for job offers. On a recent morning, a dozen migrants scrambled into the bed of a Dodge pickup, their enthusiasm bringing a chuckle from the driver. The migrants didn’t even know where they were going or when they’d be back — some carried bedrolls — but said the work would be peeling tomatoes.

Facing a likely months-long wait in Tijuana before even getting the chance to request asylum in the United States, many migrants are looking for work. Others who have already decided to stay in Mexico have applied for, and in some cases received, permits to work in Mexico. It’s something the Mexican authorities have encouraged all the migrants to do in the hopes that jobs will help them put down roots here rather than crossing into the U.S. In most cases the migrants are relieved to have something that takes them away from the miserable conditions in the overcrowded shelter, where the hours pass slowly, and puts some money in their pockets.

“Here you make a little

Rebel delegates at Yemen peace talks report progress

By IVANA BZGANOVIC and HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press

In this Nov. 27 photo, migrants Nelson Landaverde, left, Angel Lemus, center, and Erick Canales, who traveled with a caravan of Central American migrants, pose for a photo at their new job as car washers, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

money,” said Nelson David Landaverde, a 21-year-old Honduran who was out looking for food for his 16-month old son when someone approached and asked if he wanted to work at a car wash. He didn’t think twice. He and his pregnant wife have put their names on an informal list of thousands of potential applicants for asylum in the U.S., but in the meantime he’s eager to earn money to make their lives a little easier in Tijuana.

The job pays about 75

cents per car, and by washing as many as 10 cars on a good day he hopes to take in more than Mexico’s minimum wage, which is less than $5 a day.

While authorities have closed the shelter near the border and relocated many of the migrants to another more distant shelter, hundreds have refused to leave the old one and are camped outside. The reason many give is that they have found jobs nearby.

Marco Rosales, a Honduran immigrant who has lived in Ti-

juana for eight years, stood in the street surrounded by Central American migrants eager for his job advice.

“Don’t come here with the mentality of Honduras,” he said. “This is a new country, a new state where you can change yourself if you want to.”

He only had room that morning for a handful to work at another nearby car wash, but he was sure he could find work for more later if they were willing.

RIMBO, Sweden — Yemeni rebel delegates at talks underway in Sweden to try end their country’s ruinous civil war reported progress on Saturday on the key issues of reopening the airport at the capital, Sanaa, and the implementation of an agreement reached earlier this week on the exchange of prisoners.

U.N. special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, struck a positive note, saying in a brief statement read to reporters that the two sides were demonstrating a “positive spirit” in the talks, held at a castle in the town of Rimbo, north of Stockholm.

Yemen’s four-year conflict, which has pushed the country to the brink of famine, pits the country’s Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, against Yemen’s internationally recognized government supported by a Saudi-led coalition. The United Nations has long led a push to resolve the conflict but past attempts at constructive talks have led nowhere.

“The two parties are engaged in a serious and constructive way in discussing the details of confidence-building measures,” Griffiths said. “We hope we will achieve progress during this round of consultations.”

Also speaking on Saturday, the third day of the talks, rebel delegate Abdul-Malik Al-Hajri said enough progress has been made on the airport issue that some “positive results” could be announced as early as Sun-

day.

“There was a wide-ranging discussion yesterday and today on the re-opening of Sanaa airport and, God willing, there will be some positive results tomorrow on a comprehensive scenario for the reopening of Sanaa airport,” he told a news conference.

He gave no details except that one proposal made by the rebels was for Sanaa-bound aircraft to stop at another city in the region for inspection before they proceed to the Yemeni capital. He suggested Amman, Jordan’s capital, as a candidate for an inspection stopover.

The Houthis captured Sanaa in 2014, forcing the government into exile and plunging the impoverished Arab nation into civil war. With the Houthis in control of most of the country, a Saudiled, U.S.-backed coalition entered the war in March 2015 on the side President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s government. The Houthis now control the north of the country while the government side controls the south.

The war has killed tens of thousands and made Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis with 22 of its 29 million people in need of aid, according to the U.N. The airport in rebel-held Sanaa has been closed since August 2016 by order of the Saudi-led coalition, leaving the rebel-held north of Yemen heavily relying on the Red Sea port of Hodeida, which is controlled by the Houthis, for delivery of muchneeded humanitarian aid and fuel supplies.

Protesters march as UN climate talks hit fossil fuel snag

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press

KATOWICE, Poland — Thousands of people from around the world marched Saturday through the southern Polish city that’s hosting this year’s U.N. climate talks, demanding that their governments take tougher action to curb global warming.

Protesters included farmers from Latin America, environmentalists from Asia, students from the United States and families from Europe, many of whom said climate change is already affecting their lives.

“Climate change is the thing that frightens me the most,” said Michal Dabrowski from Warsaw, who brought his young daughter to the march.

“I’m a father and it’s kind of crucial that she will have a decent life.”

Marchers gathered in one of Katowice’s main squares before setting off for the conference center where delegates from almost 200 countries are haggling over the fine print of

Climate activists shout slogans as they stop in front of the COP24 UN Climate Change Conference venue during the March for Climate in a protest against global warming in Katowice, Poland, Saturday. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

the 2015 Paris accord to fight climate change.

Some protesters were dressed as endangered orangutans while others wore breathing masks to highlight the air pollution in Katowice, which lies at the heart of Poland’s coal mining region of Silesia.

A group wearing polar bear costumes was expelled from the march after suggesting that fossil fuels should be replaced

by nuclear power, a technology that many environmentalists object to.

Chanting “Wake up! It’s time to save our home!” and holding banners including one reading “Make the planet great again,” protesters marched through Katowice accompanied by a heavy police presence that included officers on horseback.

The “March for Climate” passed largely peacefully,

though three people were detained after a small scuffle with police, a Katowice police spokeswoman said.

Earlier Saturday, environmental groups had complained that some of their activists were being turned back at the Polish border or deported. One Belgian activist was allowed to enter the country after her country’s ambassador intervened with Polish authorities.

Poland has introduced temporary random identity checks ahead of the U.N. climate conference, arguing they were needed for security.

Inside the U.N. meeting, negotiators were concluding the first week of talks, which are focused on finalizing the Paris rulebook that determines how signatories to the 2015 deal record and report their greenhouse gas emissions.

In a recent report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said drastic action would be needed to achieve the Paris accord’s most ambitious target of keeping global warming below 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.

Illustrating the sensitivity of this message for some governments, major oil exporting countries including Saudi Arabia and Russia objected to “welcoming” the IPCC’s report. The issue is now one of several that will be left to government ministers, who begin arriving in Katowice on Monday to try to break remaining deadlocks.

Environmental groups want countries to send a strong signal that they’re ready for more ambitious action in the years ahead, but some protesters Saturday felt that governments alone would not do enough to fight climate change.

“I’ve had enough of just sitting and looking at politicians deciding things for us. It’s time for us to tell them what we want and to start a grassroots revolution,” said Anna Zalikowska.

Similar marches for the environment took place in France on Saturday, but those were overshadowed by a larger “yellow vest” protest in Paris staged by people angry over fuel tax increases.

The tax rise, now put on

hold, was aimed at encouraging drivers to reduce their use of fossil fuels, a measure experts say is necessary to nudge consumers toward cleaner alternatives.

Resistance to the fuel tax is a blow to French President Emmanuel Macron, who sees himself as the guarantor of the Paris accord.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who has announced he’s pulling the United States out of the agreement, claimed Saturday that “people do not want to pay large sums of money … in order to maybe protect the environment.”

Economists say the price of curbing climate change is actually far lower than the eventual cost of coping with the catastrophic famines, storms and sea level rises that will happen with a warming climate.

The Climate Action Network, an umbrella group for environmental organizations, on Saturday gave its Fossil of the Day award to the United States after Washington’s diplomats objected to linking human rights to climate change.

Concert stampede in Italy leaves 6 dead, over 50 hurt

By DIANA MALTAGLIATI and FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press

Veterans Town Hall with Alaska VA Healthcare System Director Dr. Timothy D. Ballard, MD December 12th, from 6 - 7:30 p.m. at the Anchor Point Senior Center 72750 Milo Fritz Ave • Anchor Point, AK 99556 POCs: Samuel G. Hudson at 907-257-5490 or Samuel.hudson@va.gov

CORINALDO, Italy — Teenagers panicked before a rap concert at a jammed Italian disco, setting off a stampede that killed five of them and a mother who had brought her daughter to the event, authorities and survivors said. Fiftythree people were reported injured, including 13 in very serious condition.

Several survivors said panic spread through the late-night crowd after someone unleashed an irritant spray. Investigators said they were checking those reports.

Video on state TV RaiNews24 showed scores of teenagers rushing out a door and surging toward a low wall near an exit at the Blue Lantern

disco in the central Italian town of Corinaldo, near Ancona on the Adriatic coast. The barrier then gives way and a cascade of teenagers tumble over it, falling on top of each other.

The bodies of the trampled victims were all found near a low wall, Ancona Firefighters Cmdr. Dino Poggiali told Sky TG24 News. State radio said most of the dead had their skulls crushed in the melee.

The victims — three girls and two boys — ranged in age from 14 to 16 and the mother who was killed was 39, said Col. Cristian Carrozza, commander of the Ancona province Carabinieri paramilitary police.

“Close down the place, convict someone. Who’s going to give me back my son?” Giuseppe Orlandi, fighting back tears, told reporters after he had identified the body of his

son, Mattia, 15, in a hospital morgue.

The stampede occurred shortly after 1 a.m., less than 30 minutes before the concert

by Italian rapper Sfera Ebbasta was to begin.

Authorities said organizers had sold far too many tickets for the space. Ancona Chief Prosecutor Monica Garulli told reporters that about 1,400 tickets were sold but the disco was only able to hold about 870 people.

Later, Premier Giuseppe Conte, who visited the scene, said the disco had three rooms but inexplicably only used one for the concert, and it only holds 469 people.

While prosecutors investigate “the government must ask itself what to so that such tragedies must never happen again,” Conte said.

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Court reports The following judgments were recently handed down in Kenai District Court: n Nick Leon Sacaloff, 34, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree assault, a domestic violence offense committed Aug. 5. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $50 jail surcharge, ordered to pay restitution, and forfeited items seized. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Dalton J. Driver, 27, of Nikiski, pleaded guilty to seconddegree criminal trespass (upon premises), committed May 27.

He was fined a $50 court surcharge and placed on probation for six months. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Warren Eide, 50, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal trespass (upon premises), committed May. 28. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to have no contact with Kenai Safeway, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Warren Edwin Eide, 50, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to violating condition of release, committed June 9. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Savanna Enix, 32, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to fourthdegree misconduct involving a controlled substance, committed Aug. 23. She was fined a $50 court surcharge, ordered not to consume, possess or buy controlled substances unless with valid prescription, taken as prescribed, and kept in original container, ordered to complete a substance/alcohol abuse assessment and follow all recommendations, forfeited items seized, and was placed on probation for 12 months. n Corey Sherman Green, 24, of Nikiski, pleaded guilty to improper use of registration, title or plates, committed Apr. 25. He was fined $150 and a $50 court surcharge. n David Allen Hancock, 32, address unknown, pleaded guilty to resisting or interfering with arrest, committed May 6.

He was fined $1,000 with $750 suspended, a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered not to consume or buy alcohol or enter any bars or liquor stores for 12 months, and was placed on probation for 12 months. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Andrew Hoke, 21, of Nikiski, pleaded guilty to fourthdegree misconduct involving a controlled substance, committed May 13. He was fined $500, a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete a substance/alcohol abuse assessment and follow all recommendations, forfeited items seized, and was placed on probation for 12 months. n Derrick Leon Hurd, 25, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to fourthdegree misconduct involving a controlled substance, committed June 29, 2017. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete a substance/ alcohol abuse assessment and follow all recommendations, forfeited heroin and syringe seized, and was placed on probation for 12 months. n Derrick Leon Hurd, 25, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to false information or report, committed Jan. 31. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Michelle Marjorie Ann Inger, 37, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, committed Mar. 9. She was sentenced to 30 days in jail or under electronic monitoring with 27 days suspended, fined $2,000 with $500 suspended, a $75 court surcharge, a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and $66 for the first three days plus $14 for each additional day of monitoring ordered, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had her license revoked for 90 days, ordered ignition interlock for six months, and placed on probation for one year. n Megan Ann Middleton, 25, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of attempted first-degree vehicle theft, committed Dec. 12. She was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 178 days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge

with $100 suspended, ordered to pay restitution to U-Haul, had her license revoked for 30 days, and was placed on probation for 12 months. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Jesse S. Miller, 45, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to fourthdegree misconduct involving a controlled substance, committed May 9. He was fined a $50 court surcharge, ordered not to consume or buy controlled substances for 12 months unless with valid prescription, taken as prescribed, and kept in original container, ordered to complete a substance/alcohol abuse assessment and follow all recommendations, forfeited items seized, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Jacob Franklin Moody, 26, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to one count of an amended charge of fourth-degree assault (causing fear of injury), and one count of an amended charge of fourth-degree criminal mischief, committed Apr. 4. On the count of fourthdegree assault, he was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete a domestic violence intervention program and a mental health assessment and follow all recommendations, ordered to pay restitution, ordered to have no contact with victim except through an approved third party and limited to the care and welfare of minor child, and was placed on probation for 24 months. On the count of fourth-degree criminal mischief, he was ordered to complete a domestic violence intervention program and a mental health assessment and follow all recommendations, ordered to pay restitution, ordered to have no contact with victim except through an approved third party and limited to the care and welfare of minor child, and was placed on probation for 24 months. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Jacob Franklin Moody, Jr., 26, of Sterling, pleaded guilty to violating condition of release, committed May 28. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and placed on probation for 12 months. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Heather Ann Ossig, 46, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to fourthdegree misconduct involving a controlled substance, committed May 26. She was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete a substance/alcohol abuse assessment and follow all recommendations, forfeited items seized, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Heather Ann Ossig, 46, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of fourth-degree assault, committed Sept.

22. She was sentenced to 270 days in jail with 240 days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete a mental health assessment and follow all recommendations, forfeited items seized, forfeited interest in the firearm seized, which may be returned to the rightful owner, ordered to have no contact with four specifically named people, and placed on probation for 36 months. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Heather Ann Ossig, 46, of Nikiski, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of first-degree harassment, committed Feb. 18.

She was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and placed on probation for 12 months. n Timothy Peter Ozhuwan, 42, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to violating custodian’s duty regarding a felony, committed Feb. 19. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, may not serve as a court appointed third-party custodian while on probation in this case, and was placed on probation for 12 months. n Scott David Phillips, 55, of Kasilof, pleaded guilty to driving while license cancelled, revoked or suspended, committed May 21. He was fined $1,000, a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Adam Darius Pringle, 35, of Moose pass, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of attempted failure to appear, committed Oct. 4. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and placed on probation for one year. n Patsy Louise Ramos, 29, of Anacortes, Washington,

pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, committed May 2, 2016. She was sentenced to 30 days or under electronic monitoring with 27 days suspended (time served), fined $2,000 with $500 suspended, a $75 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, has complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had her license revoked for 90 days, ordered ignition interlock for six months, and was placed on probation for one year. n Jeremiah Terrel, 32, address unknown, pleaded guilty to violating condition of release, committed June 7. He was sentenced to five days in jail and fined a $50 court surcharge and a $50 jail surcharge. n Penny Rae Vansky, 49, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of disorderly conduct, committed May 15.

She was fined $150 and a $50 court surcharge. n Patrick M. Wright, 63, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to driving while license cancelled, revoked or suspended, committed May 22. He was fined $1,000 with $750 suspended and a $50 court surcharge and placed on probation for 12 months. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Janelle Alexandria Anderson, 28, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to false information or report, committed Mar. 29. She was fined a $50 court surcharge, ordered to complete 25 hours of community work service, ordered to pay restitution, ordered to pay cost of appointed counsel, and placed on probation for 12 months. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Janelle Alexandra Anderson, 28, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to false information or report, committed May 12. She was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete 25 hours of community work service, and placed on probation for 12 months. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Joshua Tyson Bird, 34, of Anchorage, pleaded guilty to violating a domestic violence protective order, committed May 26. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail with all but time served suspended, fined $3,000 with $2,000 suspended, a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to have no contact with victim unless directed by the Office of Child Services, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Diane Martha Britton, 48, of Quinhagak, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of seconddegree harassment, committed May 29. She was sentenced to one day in jail and fined a $50 court surcharge and a $50 jail surcharge. n Robert L. Burns, 26, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, committed May 8. He was sentenced to 30 days under electronic monitoring with 27 days suspended, fined $2,000 with $500 suspended, a $75 court surcharge, a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and $66 for the first three days plus $14 for each additional day of monitoring ordered, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had his license revoked for 90 days, ordered ignition interlock for six months, and placed on probation for one year. n John Christian Devries, 26, of Palmer, pleaded guilty to one count of an amended charge of third-degree theft, one count of fourth-degree criminal mischief, and one count of seconddegree criminal trespass (vehicle), committed Oct. 19. On the count of third-degree theft, he was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 170 days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to pay restitution, forfeited items seized, ordered to have no contact with victim, and placed on probation for 12 months. On the count of fourth-degree criminal mischief, he was sentenced to 30 days in jail with 20 days suspended, fined $250, ordered to pay restitution, forfeited items seized, ordered to have no contact with victim, and placed on probation for 12 months. On the count of second-degree criminal trespass, he was sentenced to five days in jail, fined $250, ordered to pay restitution, and forfeited items seized. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Jeannie J. Elder, 46, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, committed May 8. She was sentenced to 30 days under electronic moni-

toring with 27 days suspended, fined $2,000 with $500 suspended, a $75 court surcharge, a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and $66 for the first three days plus $14 for each additional day of monitoring ordered, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had her license revoked for 90 days, ordered ignition interlock for six months, and placed on probation for one year. n Anton Christopher Ericsson, 22, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, committed Oct. 27. He was sentenced to 30 days under electronic monitoring with 27 days suspended, fined $2,000 with $500 suspended, a $75 court surcharge, a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and $66 for the first three days plus $14 for each additional day of monitoring ordered, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had his license revoked for 90 days, ordered ignition interlock for six months, and placed on probation for one year. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n David Roland Goulet, 46, of San Pedro, California, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, committed Apr. 18. He was sentenced to 30 days under electronic monitoring, fined $2,000 with $500 suspended, a $75 court surcharge, a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and $66 for the first three days plus $14 for each additional day of monitoring ordered, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had his license revoked for 90 days, ordered ignition interlock for six months, and placed on probation for one year. n Kayla Marie Gore, 28, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to thirddegree theft, committed May 8.

She was fined a $50 court surcharge, ordered to pay restitution, ordered to have no contact with Kenai Walmart, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Raymond Miguel Harris, 36, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of fourth-degree assault (causing fear), committed Jan. 9. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete a mental health assessment and follow all recommendations, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Kurry Leslie Hull, 21, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to thirddegree theft, committed May 8.

Hull was fined a $50 court surcharge, ordered to pay restitution, ordered to have no contact with Kenai Walmart, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Travis M. Johnson, 37, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to thirddegree theft, committed May 9. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 85 days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to pay restitution, forfeited items seized, ordered to have no contact with Kenai Safeway or Soldotna Fred Meyer store, and was placed on probation for 12 months. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Donna R. Juliussen, 31, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to seconddegree criminal trespass, committed May 3. She was fined a $50 court surcharge, ordered to have no contact with Kenai Walmart, and placed on probation for 12 months. n William Jack Knowles, 36, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to unlawful contact per condition of parole, a domestic violence offense committed Jan. 6, 2017. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to have no contact with victim unless approved by the felony probation officer in another case, and was placed on probation for one year. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Teslin C. Little, 26, of Nikiski, pleaded guilty to third-degree theft, committed Apr. 17. n Little was fined a $50 court surcharge, ordered to pay restitution, ordered to have no contact with Kenai Walmart, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Jeremy Morrison, 41, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to fourthdegree misconduct involving weapons (firing gun by a highway), committed Apr. 29. He was fined $150 and a $50 court surcharge and forfeited any possessory interest in the firearm seized, which may be returned to the primary owner. n Derek Ray Newton, 39, of Sterling, pleaded guilty to improper use of registration, title or plates, committed May 3. He was fined $150 and a $50 court surcharge. n Andrew Theodore O’Brien,

27, of Anchorage, pleaded guilty to third-degree theft, committed May 11. He was fined a $50 court surcharge, ordered to pay restitution, ordered to have no contact with the AT&T store in Soldotna, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Christopher Domanick Perry, 27, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree theft and one count of fourth-degree criminal mischief, committed June 29, 2017. On count one, he was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to pay restitution, forfeited all items seized, ordered to have no contact with victims, and placed on probation for 12 months. On count two, he was ordered to pay restitution, forfeited items seized, ordered to have no contact with victims, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Chase Preston Poole, 20, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, committed Mar. 21. He was sentenced to 30 days under electronic monitoring with 27 days suspended, fined $3,000 with $1,500 suspended, a $75 court surcharge, a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and $66 for the first three days plus $14 for each additional day of monitoring ordered, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had his license revoked for 90 days, ordered ignition interlock for six moths, and placed on probation for one year.

All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Daniel Kale Rankin, 39, of Sterling, pleaded guilty to firstdegree criminal trespass (on land, intend crime), committed Mar. 31. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to pay restitution, ordered to have no contact with victim or victim’s property, and was placed on probation for 12 months. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Daniel Kale Rankin, 39, of Sterling, pleaded guilty to second-degree failure to stop at the direction of an officer, committed Apr. 26. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and placed on probation for 12 months. n Athena Marie Claire Robinson, 19, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of reckless driving, committed Dec. 3.

She was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete a substance/alcohol abuse assessment and follow all recommendations, had her license revoked for 30 days, and was placed on probation for 12 months. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Robert Lee Scheetz, Jr., 34, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of second-degree harassment, committed Apr. 17. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete an anger management program (not online), ordered to pay restitution, and placed on probation for 12 months. n Jeremiah Terrel, 32, of Willow, pleaded guilty to one count of violating condition of release and one count of an amended charge of fourth-degree criminal mischief, a domestic violence offense committed May 4. On count one, he was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to pay restitution, ordered to have no contact with victim, and placed on probation for 12 months. On count two, he was sentenced to 30 days in jail with 30 days suspended. n Derick M. Williams, 29, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to one count of fourth-degree assault (recklessly injure), a domestic violence offense committed Feb. 3, 2017. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 150 days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered not to consume or buy alcohol for three years, ordered to complete a domestic violence intervention program and a mental health assessment and follow all recommendations, and placed on probation for three years. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Kayla Kae Anderson, 21, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to fraud (use of expired, cancelled or revoked access device), committed Jan. 16. She was fined $1,000 with $500 suspended and a $50 court surcharge, ordered to pay restitution, ordered to have no contact with the Caribou Restaurant in Soldotna, and placed on probation for 12 months. All other charges in this case were dismissed.

Today in History Today is Sunday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2018. There are 22 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 9, 1987, the first Palestinian intefadeh, or uprising, began as riots broke out in Gaza and spread to the West Bank, triggering a strong Israeli response.

On this date: In 1608, English poet John Milton was born in London.

In 1917, British forces captured Jerusalem from the Ottoman Turks.

In 1935, the Downtown Athletic Club of New York honored college football player Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago with the DAC Trophy, which later became known as the Heisman Trophy.

In 1940, British troops opened their first major offensive in North Africa during World War II. In 1958, the anti-communist John Birch Society was formed in Indianapolis.

In 1962, the Petrified Forest in Arizona was designated a national park.

In 1965, “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” the first animated TV special featuring characters from the “Peanuts” comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, premiered on CBS. In 1975, President Gerald R. Ford signed a $2.3 billion seasonal loanauthorization that officials of New York City and State said would prevent a city default.

In 1984, the five-day-old hijacking of a Kuwaiti jetliner that claimed the lives of two Americans ended as Iranian security men seized control of the plane, which was parked at Tehran airport.

In 1990, Solidarity founder Lech Walesa (lek vah-WEN’-sah) won Poland’s presidential runoff by a landslide.

In 1992, Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation. (The couple’s divorce became final in Aug. 1996.)

In 2000, the U-S Supreme Court ordered a temporary halt in the Florida vote count on which Al Gore pinned his best hopes of winning the White House.

Ten years ago: Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (blah-GOY’-uh-vich) was arrested after prosecutors said he was caught on wiretaps scheming to sell Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat for cash or a plum job for himself in the new administration.(Blagojevich was convicted of wideranging corruption in 2011 and sentenced to 14 years in prison.) NBC announced that “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno would be moving to prime time.

Five years ago: North Korea announced it had sacked leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle, Jang Song Thaek, long considered the country’s No. 2 power, for leading a “dissolute and depraved life” (Jang was reportedly executed three days later). Scientists revealed that NASA’s Curiosity rover had uncovered signs of an ancient freshwater lake on Mars. Retired managers Joe Torre, Tony La Russa and Bobby Cox were unanimously elected to the baseball Hall of Fame by the expansion era committee. Actress Eleanor Parker, 91, who played a scheming baroness in “The Sound of Music,” died in Palm Springs, California.

One year ago: After more than three years of combat operations, Iraq announced that the fight against the Islamic State group was over, and that Iraq’s security forces had driven the extremists from all of the territory they once held. Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield became the sixth Sooner to win college football’s Heisman Trophy.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Kirk Douglas is 102. Actor-writer Buck Henry is 88. Actress Dame Judi Dench is 84. Actor Beau Bridges is 77. Football Hall of Famer Dick Butkus is 76. Comedian-songwriter Neil Innes is 74. Actor Michael Nouri is 73. Former Sen. Thomas Daschle, D-S.D., is 71. World Golf Hall of Famer Tom Kite is 69. Singer Joan Armatrading is 68. Actor Michael Dorn is 66. Actor John Malkovich is 65. Country singer Sylvia is 62. Singer Donny Osmond is 61. Rock musician Nick Seymour (Crowded House) is 60. Comedian Mario Cantone is 59. Actor David Anthony Higgins is 57. Actor Joe Lando is 57. Actress Felicity Huffman is 56. Crown Princess Masako of Japan is 55. Country musician Jerry Hughes (Yankee Grey) is 53. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is 52. Rock singer-musician Thomas Flowers (Oleander) is 51. Rock musician Brian Bell (Weezer) is 50. Rock singer-musician Jakob Dylan (Wallflowers) is 49. TV personality-businessperson Lori Greiner (TV: “Shark Tank”) is 49. Country musician Brian Hayes (Cole Deggs and the Lonesome) is 49. Actress Allison Smith is 49. Songwriter and former “American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi (dee-oh-GWAHR’-dee) is 48. Country singer David Kersh is 48. Actress Reiko (RAY’-koh) Aylesworth is 46. Rock musician Tre Cool (Green Day) is 46. Rapper Canibus is 44. Actor Kevin Daniels is 42. Actor-writer-director Mark Duplass is 42. Rock musician Eric Zamora (Save Ferris) is 42. Rock singer Imogen Heap is 41. Actor Jesse Metcalfe is 40. Actor Simon Helberg is 38. Actress Jolene Purdy is 35. Actor Joshua Sasse is 31. Actress Ashleigh Brewer is 28. Olympic gold and silver medal gymnast McKayla Maroney is 23.

Thought for Today: “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” -- Friedrich Nietzsche (NEE’chuh), German philosopher (1844-1900).

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SoHi takes 3rd at NLC meet Hutchison, Faletoi, Lloyd, Wylie pile up individual titles

By JEREMIAH BARTZ Frontiersman.com

Soldotna’s Gideon Hutchison works to get near fall points against Colony’s Kayden Payne in the 130-pound final of the Northern Lights Conference meet Saturdy at Palmer High School. (Photo by Jeremiah Bartz/Frontiersman)

PALMER — Soldotna crowned three champions, boasted an all-Stars heavyweight final and SoHi mentor Neldon Gardner earned Coach of the Year honors during the final day of the Northern Lights Conference Championships wrestling tournament Saturday at Palmer High School.

Soldotna’s Gideon Hutchison earned his third region title in four years, beating Colony’s Kayden Payne 5-0, and Aaron Faletoi and Melvin Lloyd each won their first individual championship for the Stars. Faletoi used a late effort to get by Colony’s Jamar Toston in the 215-final. Faletoi scored a reversal with 32 seconds left in the match, and held on for a 3-2 victory. Lloyd pinned teammate Eli Floyd in the all-Soldotna heavyweight

final.

In the girls division, Amanda Wylie earned the title at 160 pounds with a pin in the final.

The Stars finished third overall.

For Valley power Colony, mononucleosis nearly shut down Eric Christy’s senior season and a major earthquake has temporarily closed down his school, but Christy found a way back on to the mat to win his third straight region championship and help lead the Knights to their sixth straight team title.

Christy beat Kodiak senior Josh Nummer 3-0 in the 171-pound final.

“It felt good. It was a good day,” Christy said right before the tournament’s awards ceremony.

The match featured a pair of defending state champions. Christy won the title at 170 pounds last year. Nummer won it all at 160.

“It was not an easy match,” Christy said.

Christy scored his lone takedown of the match near the edge of the circle during the final seconds of the first period, and stretched his lead to 3-0 with an escape in the second. It’s the second straight season Christy needed to beat a defending state champ to score a region crown.

As a junior Christy edged Palmer’s Levi Farris 5-4 to win a title. With the victory, Christy also won his third consecutive region title and his 49th straight match. As a junior last season, Christy finished 39-0. Christy has not suffered a loss since the consolation semifinals of the state tournament during his sophomore season.

The championship final was also only his ninth match of his senior year, after missing most of the season See NLC, page B4

Magicians get 2 from Bears Staff report Peninsula Clarion

The visiting Kenai River Brown Bears lost a pair of 4-3 games to the Minnesota Magicians on Friday and Saturday in North American Hockey League play.

The Bears fall to 11-15-2-1 and remain in fourth place in the Midwest Division, while Minnesota increases its division-leading mark to 20-7-0-0.

The Bears stay on the road to face the Chippewa (Wisconsin) Steel on Friday and Saturday at 4:10 p.m. AST. Eight of Kenai River’s last 10 contests have now been decided by one goal.

“There’s just not a lot of separation in our division,” Kenai River head coach Josh Petrich said. “It’s going to come down to who has the best goaltending

during the stretch and who has the most timely scoring.”

Wasilla’s Porter Schachle, assisted by Markuss Komuls and Laudon Poellinger, got the Bears started with a power-play goal Saturday, but Minnesota would score three times in the first period and again early in the second for a 4-1 lead.

Petrich said his squad was playing a ninth game in 16 days and would have to scrap for 60 minutes to get the win. As it was, the coach said the Bears scrapped for 35 or 40 and the final score showed it.

But Kenai River got powerplay goals from Johan Bok, assisted by Connor Scahill and Trey LeBarge, and Andy Walker, assisted by LeBarge and Scahill, to cut the gap to 4-3 heading into the third.

“We don’t have any quit See BEARS, page B2

Nikiski’s Koleman McCaughey wrestles against Grace’s Gabe Martin on Saturday in the 160-pound championship at the Kachemak Conference wrestling tournament at Grace Christian High School in Anchorage. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

Homer nabs 4th straight title Homer’s Tyler Gilliland controls the puck while four Soldotna High School skaters close in on him during a Friday, Dec. 7, 2018, game at the Kevin Bell Arena in Homer, Alaska. The game, which the Stars won 4-0, was a fundraiser to raise money for the Big Lake Rec Center in the Mat-Su Valley, which was damaged by the Nov. 30 earthquake. (Photo by Megan Pacer/ Homer News)

Soldotna skaters defeat Mariners Game serves as fundraiser for Big Lake Lions Rec Center Staff report Peninsula Clarion

When it came to Big Lake Lions Community Rec Center, the Soldotna hockey program was in a giving mood Friday at the Kevin Bell Arena in Homer.

When it came to goals, though, the Stars were downright stingy.

The Stars topped Homer 4-0 in a Railbelt Conference game that was put together to raise money for the Big Lake Rec Center.

Soldotna and Homer had been scheduled to play this game Tuesday, but the Nov. 30 earthquake changed that.

The earthquake canceled a tournament for the Stars that was to take place at the Big Lake Rec Center and also ended up scratching a pair of games Homer was supposed to play this weekend in Anchorage.

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Mariners roll up total of 10 Kachemak individual titles

By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

There’s a reason why Saturday’s Kachemak Conference wrestling finals looked more like a Homer Mariners practice room than a tournament championship round.

It’s because Homer’s practice room is more like a tournament finals anyway.

The Mariners wrestling dynasty continued to roll with a fourth straight boys team championship at Anchorage’s Grace Christian High School, prevailing over the host Grizzlies by a slim margin of 229.5 to 220 points.

Homer also won the girls team championship by a scant two points, a 73-71 margin over Redington.

For head coaches Chris Perk and Bubba Wells, it was all in a day’s work.

“I hope the crowd had fun watching,” Perk said after the final round wrapped up.

Nikiski improved five spots over last year with a third-place team finish, racking up 185 points thanks in

part to two region champions in 103-pound winner Griffin Gray and 215-pound winner Dustin Mullins.

Voznesenka took fifth in the team race with two conference champs in Max Kusnetsov at 119 pounds and Dia Martishev at 145.

Kenai Central finished sixth with 84 points and also claimed a girls championship with Olivia Easley at 130 pounds.

Seward rounded out the peninsula teams in ninth place with 39 points, and picked up a girls crown with Naomi Ifflander at 112 pounds.

The tournament was relocated to Grace Christian after the original hosting site, Redington High, suffered damage in the 7.0 magnitude earthquake on Nov. 30.

While they cruised seemingly effortlessly to the Kachemak title last year by over 100 points, the Mariners had to sweat it out Saturday to clinch the boys title. The Grizzlies led the points tally before the round of finals be-

from the two programs got together and decided to move up the game to Friday. Ice would be donated, as would the time of the referees. The gate would go to the Big Lake Rec Center, which is doing fundraising on gofundme.com.

The Friday game raised more than $1,000 for the center. Not including the Soldotna-Homer donation, the center had raised about $3,500 of its $75,000 goal as of Friday night.

“Hockey is like one big family,” Homer coach Steve Nevak told the Homer News. “… We have a rink, especially in our own division, that gets damaged where the kids can’t play, you know, that affects everyone.”

Nevak gave credit to every- Staff report one involved in making the Peninsula Clarion game together.

Travis Cooper, a 2015 graduate of Ke“I like the overall message that it sends,” Nevak told the nai Central High School, made his InterHomer News. “Because these national Biathlon Union World Cup debut See PUCK, page B2 Thursday in Pokljuka, Slovenia.

See CHAMP, page B4

Homer’s Wayne Newman gains an advantage on Redington’s Gavin Metcalf on Saturday in the 140-pound championship at the Kachemak Conference wrestling tournament at Grace Christian High School in Anchorage. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

Kenai’s Cooper makes World Cup debut Cooper finished 105th of 109 competitors in the 20-kilometer individual. Martin Fourcade of France won at 47 minutes, 9.2 seconds, while Cooper was 10:02.0 behind. In the 20K individual, competitors shoot 20 times and have one minute added on for each miss. Fourcade and the oth-

ers in the top three were all perfect on the range, while Cooper had six misses.

Friday, Cooper raced again in the 10-kilometer sprint and finished 103rd of 110 racers. Johannes Thingnes Bo of Norway won at 23:46.3, while Cooper was 3:57.4 See WC, page B3

B2 | Sunday, December 9, 2018 | Peninsula Clarion

Murray earns Heisman Trophy

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer

NEW YORK — Kyler Murray waited three years to fulfill the five-star potential he brought to college football.

With one shot to deliver, Murray replaced a Heisman Trophy winner by becoming a Heisman Trophy winner.

The Oklahoma quarterback won college football’s most prestigious individual award Saturday night, beating out Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa and setting up a College Football Playoff matchup of Heisman winner versus runner-up.

“This is crazy,” Murray said in his acceptance speech. “This is an honor, something that I’ll never forget. Something that I’ll always cherish for the rest of my life.”

The fourth-ranked Sooners play the top-ranked Crimson Tide in the Orange Bowl semifinal Dec. 29 in the seventh bowl matchup of Heisman winner and runner-up, and first since second-place finisher Vince Young and Texas beat Reggie Bush and Southern California in the 2006 Rose Bowl.

This season, Murray stepped into the starting job at Oklahoma held by last year’s Heisman winner and first overall NFL draft pick, Baker Mayfield.

Oklahoma is the first school with have Heisman-winning quarterbacks in consecutive seasons and the fifth overall with winners in back-to-back

Tampa Bay Lightning center Steven Stamkos (91) prepares to score on Colorado Avalanche goaltender Semyon Varlamov (1) during the first period of an NHL hockey game Saturday in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)

Lightning bolt past Avalanche

By The Associated Press

TAMPA, Fla. — Steven Stamkos had two goals and two assists and the NHLleading Tampa Bay Lightning won their sixth consecutive game, beating the Colorado Avalanche 7-1 on Saturday night.

Stamkos scored twice in the first period and had two second-period assists. It was his franchise-best 13th fourpoint game.

Tampa Bay also got two goals from Ondrej Palat, and Louis Domingue made 29 saves. Tyler Johnson, Alex Killorn and Anthony Cirelli added goals.

Nathan MacKinnon scored for the Avalanche. Semyon Varlamov was pulled midway through the second period after allowing five goals on 23 shots. Colorado’s Mikko Rantanen got his NHL-leading 48th point with an assist that extended his points streak to 11 games (14 assists, 19 points).

CAPITALS 4, BLUE JACKETS 0 COLUMBUS, Ohio — Alex Ovechkin scored his NHL-leading 22nd goal and Braden Holtby got his 34th career shutout in Washington’s victory over Columbus.

Holtby finished with 28 saves.

Travis Boyd had a goal and an

assist, and Brett Connolly and Dmitrij Jaskin also scored for the defending Stanley Cup champions.

Ovechkin extended his points streak to 11 straight games, with 10 goals and six assists during the stretch. He also picked up an assist on Boyd’s third-period goal.

FLYERS 6, SABRES 2 BUFFALO, N.Y. — Claude Giroux had a goal and three assists to lead Philadelphia past Buffalo.

James van Riemsdyk added a goal and an assist to help the Flyers open a five-game trip with their third win in 10 games. Ivan Provorov, Wayne Simmonds, Dale Weise and Travis Konecny also scored, Michael Raffl had two assists, and Anthony Stolarz made 28 saves.

Jack Eichel scored twice for Buffalo. The Sabres have lost five in a row after winning 10 straight.

KINGS 5, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 1 LOS ANGELES — Derek Forbort had a goal and an assist, Jonathan Quick made 29 saves and Los Angeles beat Vegas.

Nikita Scherbak, Matt Luff, Jeff Carter and Nate Thompson also scored to help the Kings tie their season high from a 5-2 victory over Edmonton on Nov. 25.

They have two wins in their last five games, and have a leaguelow 23 points and 65 goals.

Oscar Lindberg scored for dersen was pulled early in the Vegas. The Golden Knights had third after giving up six goals on won seven of eight.

28 shots.

RANGERS 5, PANTHERS 4, SO

SENATORS 2, PENGUINS 1, OT

SUNRISE, Fla. — Kevin Hayes had the deciding goal in the third round of the shootout, lifting New York past Florida.

After Mika Zibanejad and Kevin Shattenkirk scored in the shootout for New York and Jonathan Huberdeau tallied for Florida, Hayes beat Roberto Luongo to end the Rangers’ three-game losing streak.

Hayes also had a pair of assists.

Zibanejad, Vladislav Namestnikov, Matt Beleskey and Fredric Claesson scored in regulation for the Rangers. Keith Yandle, Huberdeau, Aaron Ekblad and Aleksander Barkov scored for the Panthers, and Huberdeau added a pair of assists.

OTTAWA, Ontario — Ryan Dzingel scored on a power play at 1:20 of overtime to lift Ottawa past Pittsburgh.

The Penguins were called for too many men on the ice, setting up the winning power play.

Thomas Chabot scored in regulation, Mark Stone assisted on both goals and Craig Anderson made 35 shots. Jean-Sebastien Dea scored for Pittsburgh, and Casey DeSmith stopped 27 shot.

BRUINS 6, MAPLE LEAFS 3

Atlanta topples Timbers for Cup

SHARKS 5, COYOTES 3 GLENDALE, Ariz. — Lukas Radil scored his first NHL goal to break a tie with 5:47 to play in San Jose’s victory over Arizona.

Joe Pavelski, Logan Couture, Evander Kane and Tomas Hertl also scored for San Jose. Aaron Dell, playing for the first time since Nov. 28, stopped 17 shots.

Brad Richardson had a goal and assist, and Nick Schmaltz and Richard Panik also scored for Arizona. Adin Hill made 28 saves.

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer

BOSTON — David Krejci had a goal and assist to move past Hall of Famer Cam Neely for 10th on the Bruins’ career scoring list, and Boston beat Toronto to snap a three-game losing streak.

Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson, David Backes, Ryan Donato, ToISLANDERS 3, rey Krug and Danton Heinen also RED WINGS 2 scored for the Bruins, and JaroDETROIT — Matt Martin slav Halak stopped 29 shots.

Auston Matthews, Travis broke a tie with 16:36 remaining, Dermott and Andreas Johnsson capping New York’s comeback scored for Toronto. Frederik An- victory over Detroit.

Army beats Navy for 3rd straight time PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Army coach Jeff Monken hopped on top of a wall and pumped his fist toward stoked cadets set to belt out the alma mater. Monken brought the party to locker room and waved an “Army Football” flag as the Black Knights bounced around him.

Army ditched its mundane routines and cut loose like a bunch of rowdy civilians.

And why not? The setting was right after Army beat Navy for the third straight

game, this time in front of a packed house and the president.

“I don’t ever want our guys to stop celebrating,” Monken said. “I promise you, I’ll be celebrating every year if we win this thing because I know how hard it is.”

Monken resuscitated the Black Knights and turned a program that suffered annual losses to the Midshipmen into a bowlbound team that can keep the Commanderin-Chief’s Trophy back at West Point.

. . . Puck Continued from page B1

kids are going to grow up and hopefully have kids of their own that play hockey, and it just continues that trend of what the hockey community and culture is all about.”

When it came to the game, though, Nevak was not nearly has happy.

“They (Soldotna) wanted every single puck,”

. . . Bears Continued from page B1

in our locker room,” Petrich said.

“They’re a resilient group and they battled it out. You know what? We had a lot of chances in the third period to tie it up but their goalie made some good saves.”

Ethan Haider made 40 saves for the Magicians, while Gavin Enright stopped 32 for the Bears. Enright was playing for a sixth game in 16 days.

Friday, the Bears had a two-game winning streak snapped in a back-andforth game.

“I feel like it helps the guys prepare to play in the playoffs,” Kenai River assistant Dan Bogdan said of the close contests. “We’ve been playing games that feel like the playoffs every weekend. Our guys know how to show up every night and work hard.”

Bogdan said the only reason Friday

The No. 22 Black Knights recovered two fumbles in the fourth quarter, Kelvin Hopkins Jr. had two rushing touchdowns and Army beat Navy 17-10 on Saturday to win its third straight game in the series.

President Donald Trump attended the 119th game between the rivals and flipped the coin before spending a half on each side in a show of impartiality.

No matter his view, Army (10-2) always had the edge.

Nevak told the Homer News. “They had more urgency. They played hockey. And for some reason, we sat back and we just got in this downward spiral between periods. … I just don’t know.”

Homer outshot Soldotna 29-23, but Josh Tree saved all 29 for the Stars while Hunter Warren stopped 19 for the Mariners.

Journey Miller, Trent Powell, Galen Brantley III and Wyatt Medcoff all scored for the Stars.

Soldotna coach Indy Walton said he has developed a healthy respect for the Homer program

did not have an exact playoff feel is both teams were a little sloppy, leading to multiple chances.

“They got the last chance and converted it,” Bogdan said.

Komuls scored 6 minutes, 11 seconds, into the game for the Bears, assisted by Wasilla’s Schachle and Cody Moline.

“It was good to see Markuss Komuls back on the scoresheet,” Bogdan said. “He’s always one of the best players on the ice, if not the best player, every time out there.”

After John Keranen tied it on the power play for Minnesota, Eagle River’s Zach Krajnik, assisted by Walker and Scahill, gave the Bears the lead on the power play. Krajnik leads the Bears with 22 points, coming on eight goals and 14 assists.

Bogdan said Minnesota goalie Jack Robbel had a huge save to keep it from becoming 3-1, then the Magicians struck twice in the second period to take a 3-2 lead into the third.

ATLANTA — The players bounced up and down on a hastily erected stage in the middle of the field, confetti falling all around as they hoisted the championship trophy.

It’s a familiar scene at the end of any season.

Only this time, a team from Atlanta was doing the honors .

The title drought in over in the A-T-L. Josef Martinez and Franco Escobar scored goals, Brad Guzan came up with a couple of clutch saves and Atlanta United gave the city its first championship since 1995 with a 2-0 victory over the Portland Timbers in the MLS Cup final Saturday night.

Cheered on by the largest crowd in franchise history, United captured the crown in just its second season to set off a huge celebration in a city that has known so much sporting heartbreak. Owner Arthur Blank lifted a trophy and got soaked with champagne — less than two years after his other team, the NFL’s Atlanta Fal-

and its players while coaching youth hockey in the area. Walton said Homer lost some key players from last season, while Soldotna didn’t.

The Stars have been able to build and build a successful on-ice system.

“A big part of our game that we’ve been working on is the forecheck and keeping pressure on them,” Walton told the Homer News. “And that’s something Homer hasn’t seen from us because, you know, we’ve been building the team.”

With 15:39 to play, Moline, assisted by Justin Daly and Schachle, tied it up. Moline was a high school star in Minnesota last season.

“That was the first goal for Moline as a Brown Bear,” Bogdan said. “He’s been working really hard for us and swimming around the net for weeks.”

Andrew Kruse potted the gamewinner for Minnesota with 4:10 left.

Dennis Westergard saved 32 for the Bears, while Robbel stopped 26 for the Magicians.

“As a coaching staff and organization, we’re all staying pretty positive,” Bogdan said. “We’re happy with the effort put forth in the loss.”

The Bears have acquired Trey LeBarge and Brendan White and both played Friday.

White is from the National Collegiate Development Conference, a tuition-free Tier III league on the East Coast. He is a left-handed forward in his last year of junior eligibility and has 30 games of NAHL experience

years. Mayfield was also a finalist in 2016.

“Luckily, we’ve been here three years in a row,” Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley said.

“We’re going to have to start paying taxes here.”

Unlike most seasons, the winner was no foregone conclusion, but Murray (517 firstplace votes and 2,167 points) ended up with a fairly comfortable margin of 296 points over Tagovailoa. Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins, the other finalists, was a distant third with 783 points. Three more quarterbacks followed: Will Grier of West Virginia, Gardner Minshew II of Washington State and McKenzie Milton of Central Florida.

Murray appeared on 92 percent of the Heisman ballots, third most all time. Tagovailoa’s 1,871 points was the most for a runner-up in the 84year history of the Heisman.

Murray, a pinpoint passer and explosive runner, surpassed the production of Mayfield.

Murray has averaged 380 yards of offense per game and accounted for 51 touchdowns in leading the Sooners the Big 12 title and the playoff. Mayfield averaged 353 yards of offense and accounted for 49 touchdowns as Oklahoma won the conference and lost a playoff semifinal to Georgia.

“This didn’t just happen,” Murray said later during a news conference. “I’ve put so much time and effort into this game.”

Friday

cons, squandered a 25-point lead in an epic Super Bowl collapse.

“My first night in my new house in Atlanta, I went to bed at halftime of the Super Bowl,” defender Jeff Larentowicz said.

“I woke up and I read the headlines and I couldn’t believe what I saw.”

Now, United had written a new headline.

Champs .

“Hopefully, we can transcend that past,” Larentowicz said, “and move on to a new future for the city.”

Martinez, capping the greatest goal-scoring season in MLS history, put United ahead in 39th minute. Escobar added an insurance goal in the 54th, turning the final minutes into a raucous, flag-waving celebration and sending coach Tata Martino out with a title in his final game as coach. He’s reportedly headed to Mexico to take over as that country’s national coach.

“If I had to choose the way to leave somewhere, this is the best way,” Martino said. “This is the way I wanted it to happen.”

Stars 4, Mariners 0

Soldotna 0 3 1 — 4 Homer 0 0 0 — 0 First period — none. Penalties — Soldotna 1 for 2:00; Homer 1 for 2:00.

Second period — 1. Soldotna, Miller (Haakenson), 8:57; 2. Soldotna, Powell (un.), 13:06; 3. Soldotna, Brantley III (Walton, Kline), 14:07. Penalties — Soldotna 1 for 2:00.

Third period — 4. Soldotna, Medcoff (A. Montague, Urban), 10:37.

Penalties — Soldotna 3 for 6:00; Homer 3 for 6:00.

Shots on goal — Soldotna 6-8-9—23; Homer 12-9-8—29.

Goalies — Soldotna, Tree (29 shots, 29 saves); Homer, Warren (23 shots, 19 saves).

under his belt.

“He’s great off faceoffs and provides a lot of depth to our lineup,” Bogdan said.

LeBarge came to the Bears from the United States Hockey League in a trade for Jack Conroy. LeBarge has one season of junior eligibility left after this season. He is left-handed and can play forward and defense. Bogdan said LeBarge has great character and can fit into any role.

“It was an easy move to make, promoting Jack to the next level,” Bogdan said.

Petrich said LeBarge had two big assists Saturday to show what an asset he will be to the team.

Friday Magicians 4, Brown Bears 3 Kenai River 2 0 1 — 3 Minnesota 1 2 1 — 4 First period — 1. Kenai River, Komuls (Schachle, Moline), 6:11; 2. Minnesota, Keranen (Buhl, Kruse), pp, 11:32; 3. Kenai River, Krajnik (Walker, Scahill), pp, 15:03. Penalties — Kenai River 3 for 6:00; Minnesota 2 for 4:00.

Second period — 4. Minnesota, Buhl (Keranen, Stanton), 0:26; 5. Minnestoa, Pavey (Severson, Klein), 14:18. Penalties — Kenai River 3 for 6:00; Minnesota 1 for 2:00.

Third period — 6. Kenai River, Moline (Daly, Schachle), 4:21; 7. Minnesota, Kruse (Karenen, Lundeen), 15:50. Penalties — Kenai River 1 for 2:00; Minnesota 2 for 4:00.

Shots on goal — Kenai River 11-8-10—29; Minnesota 12-13-11—36.

Goalies — Kenai River, Westergard (36 shots, 32 saves); Minnesota, Robbel (29 shots, 26 saves).

Power plays — Kenai River 1 for 4:00; Minnesota 1 for 6:00.

Saturday Magicians 4, Brown Bears 3 Kenai River 1 2 0 — 3 Minnesota 3 1 0 — 4 First period — 1. Kenai River, Schachle (Komuls, Poellinger), pp, 1:34; 2. Minnesota, Dahl (Buhl, Kruse), 11:35; 3. Minnesota, Kruse (Konin, Pavey), 17:51; 4. Minnesota, Buhl (Klein), 19:38. Penalties — Kenai River 2 for 4:00; Minnesota 3 for 6:00.

Second period — 5. Minnesota, Lundeen (Trifone, Seitz), 1:12; 6. Kenai River, Bok (Scahill, LeBarge), pp, 11:49; 7. Kenai River, Walker (LeBarge, Scahill), 16:15. Penalties — Kenai River 2 for 4:00; Minnesota 6 for 33:00.

Third period — none. Penalties — Minnesota 1 for 2:00.

Shots on goal — Kenai River 13-17-13—43; Minnesota 15-11-10—36.

Goalies — Kenai River, Enright (36 shots, 32 saves); Minnesota, Haider (43 shots, 40 saves).

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Sports Briefs Shiffrin wins another speed race ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — Mikaela Shiffrin won a World Cup super-G on Saturday, confirming the slalom great’s arrival as a pure speed racer and all-round threat.

Shiffrin, who got her first career super-G win last weekend, was 0.28 seconds faster than Lara Gut-Behrami and 0.42 clear of thirdplaced Tina Weirather on the sun-soaked Engiadina course in St. Moritz.

Saturday’s race was just Shiffrin’s 10th super-G start in her nine seasons on the World Cup circuit, and the win days ago at Lake Louise, Canada, had been her first podium finish in the discipline.

“I did not expect to win today,” Shiffrin said, acknowledging the confidence boost she brought from Canada to Switzerland.

“Something is working right now and I’m enjoying it. Coming into this race I thought, ‘Yeah, now I have no excuses.’”

Victory was a 47th on the World Cup tour for the 23-year-old American. Her fourth victory in eight races this season already gives her a runaway lead in defense of her overall World Cup title.

With a maximum 200 points from the two super-G races this season, Shiffrin can afford to avoid some speed races.

Holloway stops Ortega at UFC 231 TORONTO — Featherweight champion Max Holloway stopped top contender Brian Ortega by TKO at UFC 231 on Saturday night The fight was stopped by the doctor after four rounds. Ortega’s left eye was almost closed, his face bloodied.

The skills of Holloway, who was returning from an injuryplagued year, were too much for Ortega, who had rallied in the third round but was unable to take Holloway down or use his vaunted jiu-jitsu. UFC president Dana White applauded the decision to end the fight.

“That fifth round should never have happened and I’m glad it didn’t,” he said. “The fight needed to be stopped. For us all of in here that have been in the fight game for a long time, that’s what you call too tough for your own good.

“I believe he could have done the fifth round. I believe he would have done the fifth round. But it should have never happened ...

He’s a young talented guy and I think going into that fifth round would have been very bad for him health-wise. The fourth round wasn’t good for him health-wise.”

US women’s soccer draws Sweden again PARIS — U.S. national coach Jill Ellis was asked before the Women’s World Cup draw whether she thought her team would be grouped with Sweden for the fifth straight time.

“Oh, we will,” Ellis laughed, recalling her reply.

Turned out she was right.

The defending champion Americans were grouped — again — with Sweden for next summer’s showcase tournament in France.

The draw to set the group stage for the 24 teams was held Saturday at a gala event in Paris amid a backdrop of unrest in the country.

Host France will open the World Cup on June 7 against South Korea in Paris.

The Americans defeated Japan 5-2 — highlighted by Carli Lloyd’s hat trick — in Canada in 2015. The U.S. has played in every World Cup since the competition started in 1991, winning the inaugural event and also in 1999.

— The Associated Press

Mavs nip Rockets and 10 rebounds. Wayne Selden DALLAS — Luka Doncic led Memphis with 17 points.

By The Associated Press

shrugged off a rough shooting night with 11 straight points to erase an eight-point deficit late in the fourth quarter and the Dallas Mavericks went on to their ninth consecutive home victory, 107-104 over the Houston Rockets on Saturday.

Doncic was 3 of 13 before hitting back-to-back 3-pointers to get Dallas within two.

After Chris Paul missed two free throws, Doncic hit a floater in the lane for a tie, then followed an air-ball 3 from James Harden with another from long range for a 105-102 lead. It was 26th lead change.

CAVALIERS 116, WIZARDS 101

PACERS 107, KINGS 97 INDIANAPOLIS — Thaddeus Young had a season-high 20 points and nine rebounds, and Bojan Bogdanovic added 18 points to help Indiana beat Sacramento.

Playing their 10th straight game without injured All-Star Victor Oladipo, the Pacers relied on defense and scoring balance. Myles Turner contributed nine points, 13 rebounds and four blocked shots, while Domantas Sabonis and Darren Collison each scored 14 points.

HEAT 121, CLIPPERS 98 LOS ANGELES — Dwyane Wade scored 25 points in his 1,000th career game, leading Miami past the Clippers.

Wade was 8 for 21 from the field and 5 for 10 from 3-point range. The veteran guard will play his final regular-season game in Los Angeles on Monday against the Los Angeles Lakers.

CLEVELAND — Rookie Collin Sexton matched a career high with 29 points, Tristan Thompson had 23 points and 19 rebounds and Cleveland beat Washington.

Wizards guard John Wall was held to a career low one point in 26 minutes — a free throw early in the HAWKS 106, NUGGETS 98 third quarter with Cleveland holdATLANTA — John Collins ing a 74-48 lead. Wall returned after missing Washington’s victory scored a career-high 30 points and Wednesday night over Atlanta be- reserves Vince Carter and DeAndre’ Bembry fueled a third-quarter cause of personal reasons. rally to help Atlanta beat Denver.

Collins also had 12 rebounds and five assists.

CELTICS 133, BULLS 77 CHICAGO — Jaylen Brown scored 23 points, Daniel Theis added a career-high 22 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and Boston routed Chicago for its fifth straight victory.

The 56-point loss was the worst in Bulls’ history, eclipsing a 53-point (127-74) defeat at Minnesota on Nov. 8, 2001.

LAKERS 111, GRIZZLIES 88 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — LeBron James had 20 points, nine assists and eight rebounds, Kyle Kuzma added 20 points and nine rebounds, and Los Angeles dominated Memphis.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Josh Hart added 16 points apiece, and JaVale McGee had 10 points

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back. In the sprint, racers take 10 shots and ski a 150-meter penalty loop for each miss. Bo had one miss, while Cooper had five.

Cooper had staked his claim

NETS 112, KNICKS 104 NEW YORK — Spencer Dinwiddie scored 25 points and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson added 20 in Brooklyn’s victory over New York.

Allen Crabbe scored 17 points, and Jarrett Allen added 14 points and 12 rebounds.

TRAIL BLAZERS 113, TIMBERWOLVES 105 PORTLAND, Ore. — Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum each hit 3-pointers in the final minute to give Portland a victory over Minnesota.

Lillard finished with 28 points and eight assists, while McCollum added 19 points. Jusuf Nurkic matched his season-high with 22 points and 11 rebounds.

to World Cup racing at the U.S. Biathlon team trials, held on roller skis at Soldier Hollow in Midway, Utah. On Oct. 30, Cooper was third in the 10-kilometer sprint. On Nov. 2, he was third in the 13.5-kilometer mass start.

Cooper is a member of the National Guard biathlon team and the U.S. Biathlon national development team.

Carolina with 18.

By The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Dedric Lawson had 20 points and 10 rebounds, and No. 2 Kansas beat New Mexico State 63-60 in the Jayhawk Shootout on Saturday night.

The Jayhawks’ offense stalled after a hot start in their first game without injured center Udoka Azubuike, going scoreless for over five minutes in the first half. But they put it together late.

Marcus Garrett added 10 points for Kansas (8-0).

The Aggies (7-2) had a chance to tie it on a 3-pointer with 6 seconds to go, but JoJo Zamora’s attempt bounced off the rim and they didn’t get another look.

NO. 3 DUKE 91, YALE 58 DURHAM, N.C. — RJ Barrett had 30 points, seven rebounds and six assists, and Duke pulled away for the win.

Zion Williamson scored 20 points for the Blue Devils, who led 41-32 at halftime but hit their first six shots after the break to finally stretch out the lead. Duke (9-1) shot 57 percent after halftime and 49 percent overall for its fourth straight win.

Miye Oni had 12 points and nine rebounds for the Bulldogs (43).

NO. 5 MICHIGAN 89, SOUTH CAROLINA 78 ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Jordan Poole scored 19 of his 26 points in the second half, and Michigan remained unbeaten.

The Gamecocks (4-5) scored more points than any team all season against Michigan. But the Wolverines (10-0) were ahead by six at halftime, and they led comfortably for most of the second half.

Iggy Brazdeikis scored 17 points and Jon Teske added 15 for Michigan. Chris Silva led South

a reverse layup on the Spartans’ and nine rebounds as Buffalo (9-0) next possession. added to its best start to a season Xavier Tillman led the Spartans since going 15-0 in 1930-31.

(8-2) with 14 points and nine rebounds.

NO. 8 AUBURN 82, DAYTON 72 AUBURN, Ala. — Bryce Brown scored a career-high 34 points and made six 3-pointers to lead Auburn to the win.

Brown got into a groove late in the first half, making four straight 3s over the final 2:29 to give the Tigers a 51-32 lead.

Jared Harper had 20 points and seven assists for Auburn (8-1).

Ryan Mikesell led Dayton (5-4) with 15 points. Josh Cunningham scored 14.

SETON HALL 84, NO. 9 KENTUCKY 83, OT NEW YORK — Myles Cale hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 9.5 seconds left in overtime and Seton Hall overcame Keldon Johnson’s half-court heave that tied the score at the regulation buzzer.

In one of the most exciting finishes of the season, Johnson had a chance to win it for the Wildcats (7-2), but his 3-point try with a second remaining was blocked by Quincy McKnight.

Myles Powell scored 25 of his 28 points after halftime for Seton Hall (6-3), including a tiebreaking 3 in the final seconds of the second half at Madison Square Garden.

NO. 10 MICHIGAN STATE 63, FLORIDA 59

NO. 11 FLORIDA STATE 79, CONNECTICUT 71 NEWARK, N.J. — Terance Mann scored 20 points, reserve David Nichols had 16 and Florida State beat Connecticut in the second game of the Never Forget Tribute Classic.

Mfiondu Kabengele added 15 points for Florida State (8-1), which has won three in a row.

Christ Koumadje finished with seven points and 10 rebounds.

MARQUETTE 74, NO. 12 WISCONSIN 69 MILWAUKEE — Markus Howard scored 27 points, freshman Joey Hauser added 15 and Marquette grinded out the overtime win.

Sam Hauser had 13 points and 14 rebounds for the Golden Eagles (8-2). But it was his little brother, Joey, who came up clutch playing in his first game in the heated instate rivalry.

TULSA 47, NO. 16 KANSAS STATE 46 TULSA, Okla. — Martins Igbanu made a go-ahead jump hook with 1:51 remaining, lifting Tulsa to the victory.

Curran Scott scored 14 points for Tulsa (7-3), and Igbanu had nine points and six rebounds. The Hurricane got their second straight victory against the Big 12, also topping Oklahoma State 74-71 on Wednesday.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Kyle Ahrens scored Michigan State’s final seven points, including a two-handed jam with 8.7 seconds remaining.

Ahrens barely beat the shot clock with his baseline slam, giving the Spartans the final points in a game the Gators made close NO. 17 BUFFALO 80, ST. thanks mostly to freshman Andrew BONAVENTURE 62 Nembhard late.

OLEAN, N.Y. — Jayvon Florida (5-4) cut Michigan State’s lead to 56-53 on KeVaughn Graves hit a career-best five Allen’s 3-pointer with 3:24 to play, 3-pointers and scored 19 points, but Ahrens answered from the cor- helping Buffalo to another win.

CJ Massinburg had 14 points ner on the other end. Ahrens added

NO. 21 VILLANOVA 70, SAINT JOSEPH’S 58

VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — Eric Paschall had 14 points and nine rebounds, and Villanova earned its 25th straight Big 5 victory.

Joe Cremo and Phil Booth scored 12 points apiece as the Wildcats (8-2) continued their dominance of the long-standing city series with Philadelphia rivals Saint Joseph’s, Penn, La Salle and Temple. Jermaine Samuels added 11 points.

NO. 22 MISSISSIPPI STATE 82, CLEMSON 71 NEWARK, N.J. — Lamar Peters scored 28 points to lead Mississippi State to its fifth straight win.

NO. 23 MARYLAND 55, LOYOLA OF CHICAGO 41 BALTIMORE — Anthony Cowan scored 17 points and Maryland overcame a sluggish start.

NO. 24 NEBRASKA 94, CREIGHTON 75 LINCOLN, Neb. — James Palmer scored 30 points, Thomas Allen had a career-high 18 and Nebraska stopped a seven-game losing streak to its in-state rival.

NO. 25 FURMAN 74, SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE 60 SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Jordan Lyons had 20 points and Noah Gurley added 15 points and six rebounds, powering Furman to the win.

The surprise mid-major of the season, the Paladins (10-0) got through the program’s first-ever week in the AP Top 25 unscathed after a slow start.

Scoreboard Football College Football Major Scores EAST Army 17, Navy 10 SOUTH S. Dakota St. 27, Kennesaw St. 17 MIDWEST N. Dakota St. 35, Colgate 0 FAR WEST E. Washington 34, UC Davis 29

NFL Standings AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 9 3 0 .750 331 259 Miami 6 6 0 .500 244 300 4 8 0 .333 178 293 Buffalo N.Y. Jets 3 9 0 .250 243 307 South Houston 9 3 0 .750 302 235 Tennessee 7 6 0 .538 251 254 Indianapolis 6 6 0 .500 325 279 Jacksonville 4 9 0 .308 212 273 North Pittsburgh 7 4 1 .625 346 282 Baltimore 7 5 0 .583 297 214 5 7 0 .417 286 371 Cincinnati Cleveland 4 7 1 .375 266 312 West Kansas City 10 2 0 .833 444 327 L.A. Chargers 9 3 0 .750 340 249 6 6 0 .500 276 262 Denver Oakland 2 10 0 .167 220 367

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East 7 5 0 .583 247 223 Dallas Philadelphia 6 6 0 .500 258 266 Washington 6 6 0 .500 233 257 N.Y. Giants 4 8 0 .333 267 315 South New Orleans 10 2 0 .833 419 269 Carolina 6 6 0 .500 304 306 Tampa Bay 5 7 0 .417 318 355 Atlanta 4 8 0 .333 296 333 North Chicago 8 4 0 .667 344 241 Minnesota 6 5 1 .542 275 270 Green Bay 4 7 1 .375 281 287 Detroit 4 8 0 .333 254 316 West y-L.A. Rams 11 1 0 .917 419 298 Seattle 7 5 0 .583 319 259 Arizona 3 9 0 .250 175 310 San Francisco 2 10 0 .167 255 336 y-clinched division

Central Division Milwaukee 16 8 .667 — Indiana 16 10 .615 1 Detroit 13 10 .565 2½ Cleveland 6 20 .231 11 Chicago 6 21 .222 11½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Memphis 15 10 .600 — Dallas 13 11 .542 1½ New Orleans 13 14 .481 3 San Antonio 12 14 .462 3½ Houston 11 14 .440 4 Northwest Division Oklahoma City 16 8 .667 — Denver 17 9 .654 — Portland 15 11 .577 2 Minnesota 13 13 .500 4 Utah 13 13 .500 4 Pacific Division Golden State 18 9 .667 — L.A. Clippers 16 9 .640 1 L.A. Lakers 16 10 .615 1½ Sacramento 13 12 .520 4 Phoenix 4 22 .154 13½ Friday’s Games Charlotte 113, Denver 107 Indiana 112, Orlando 90 Philadelphia 117, Detroit 111 Brooklyn 106, Toronto 105, OT Sacramento 129, Cleveland 110 Chicago 114, Oklahoma City 112 Memphis 107, New Orleans 103 San Antonio 133, L.A. Lakers 120 Miami 115, Phoenix 98 Golden State 105, Milwaukee 95 Saturday’s Games Dallas 107, Houston 104 Indiana 107, Sacramento 97 Atlanta 106, Denver 98 Brooklyn 112, New York 104 Cleveland 116, Washington 101 Boston 133, Chicago 77 L.A. Lakers 111, Memphis 88 Portland 113, Minnesota 105 Miami 121, L.A. Clippers 98 Sunday’s Games New Orleans at Detroit, 11:30 a.m.

Milwaukee at Toronto, 2 p.m.

Utah at San Antonio, 3 p.m.

Charlotte at New York, 3:30 p.m.

All Times AST

Men’s Scores EAST

NBA Standings

Albany (NY) 82, Monmouth (NJ) 63 Brown 71, Stony Brook 69 Buffalo 80, St. Bonaventure 62 CCSU 79, Penn State WilkesBarre 58 Dartmouth 78, Maine 52 Florida St. 79, UConn 71 Fordham 78, Rutgers 70 Hofstra 89, Rider 73 Jacksonville St. 81, Delaware St. 54 LIU Brooklyn 74, St. Peter’s 58 Lehigh 85, Mount St. Mary’s 78 Loyola (Md.) 83, Binghamton 65 Morgan St. 74, Towson 69 NJIT 82, St. Francis Brooklyn 60 Northeastern 92, Oakland 83 Penn 83, La Salle 65 Penn St. 76, Colgate 65 Quinnipiac 88, Lafayette 77 Rhode Island 79, Holy Cross 63 Siena 74, Robert Morris 71 Syracuse 72, Georgetown 71 UMBC 91, Drexel 76 Valparaiso 82, George Washington 79 Vermont 71, Harvard 65 Villanova 70, Saint Joseph’s 58 West Virginia 69, Pittsburgh 59

EASTERN CONFERENCE

SOUTH

Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 21 6 .778 — Philadelphia 18 9 .667 3 Boston 15 10 .600 5 Brooklyn 10 18 .357 11½ New York 8 19 .296 13 Southeast Division Charlotte 12 13 .480 — Orlando 12 14 .462 ½ Miami 11 14 .440 1 Washington 11 15 .423 1½ Atlanta 6 20 .231 6½

Alcorn St. 109, Champion Christian College 45 Appalachian St. 82, NC Central 73 Auburn 82, Dayton 72 Austin Peay 116, Calvary University 33 Duke 91, Yale 58 E. Kentucky 76, N. Kentucky 74 ETSU 80, UT Martin 62 Furman 74, SC-Upstate 60 Gardner-Webb 102, Johnson & Wales (NC) 55

Thursday’s Games Tennessee 30, Jacksonville 9 Sunday’s Games New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 9 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at Washington, 9 a.m.

Atlanta at Green Bay, 9 a.m.

Indianapolis at Houston, 9 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 9 a.m.

Carolina at Cleveland, 9 a.m.

New England at Miami, 9 a.m.

Baltimore at Kansas City, 9 a.m.

Cincinnati at L.A. Chargers, 12:05 p.m.

Denver at San Francisco, 12:05 p.m.

Detroit at Arizona, 12:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 12:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Oakland, 12:25 p.m.

L.A. Rams at Chicago, 4:20 p.m.

Monday’s Games Minnesota at Seattle, 4:15 p.m.

All Times AST

Basketball

Georgia Southern 89, Mercer 74 Howard 85, American U. 83 Jacksonville 100, Middle Georgia State 57 Marist 79, Stetson 75 Maryland 55, Loyola of Chicago 41 Memphis 94, UAB 76 Michigan St. 63, Florida 59 Mississippi St. 82, Clemson 71 Murray St. 64, Middle Tennessee 42 NC A&T 92, Greensboro 67 Seton Hall 84, Kentucky 83, OT South Alabama 81, Tulane 60 Toledo 75, Marshall 74, OT UCF 70, Grambling St. 45 W. Carolina 71, UNC-Asheville 59 William & Mary 76, Hampton 71 MIDWEST Bowling Green 97, Green Bay 68 Butler 95, N. Illinois 68 Cent. Michigan 95, S. Utah 86 Cincinnati 62, Xavier 47 E. Illinois 74, W. Illinois 67 E. Michigan 105, Central State 53 Illinois 77, UNLV 74 Indiana 68, Louisville 67 Indiana St. 77, Truman State 69 Kansas 63, New Mexico St. 60 Kent St. 83, Wright St. 76 Marquette 74, Wisconsin 69, OT Miami (Ohio) 85, Purdue Fort Wayne 79 Michigan 89, South Carolina 78 Minnesota 72, Arkansas St. 56 Mississippi 81, Illinois St. 74 N. Dakota St. 74, E. Washington 67 N. Iowa 75, Dubuque 67 Nebraska 94, Creighton 75 Northwestern 75, DePaul 68 Ohio 78, Radford 69 S. Illinois 83, SE Missouri 73 SIU-Edwardsville 92, HarrisStowe State 87 UMKC 65, South Dakota 63 W. Michigan 88, Youngstown St. 77 SOUTHWEST Abilene Christian 93, Schreiner 53 Cent. Arkansas 85, UALR 82 Houston 63, Oklahoma St. 53 North Texas 63, Texas-Arlington 61 Oklahoma 80, Wichita St. 48 Texas Southern 107, Concordia (TX) 70 Texas State 90, Houston Baptist 80 Tulsa 47, Kansas St. 46 UTSA 104, Mid-America Christian 74 W. Kentucky 78, Arkansas 77 FAR WEST Army 66, Air Force 61 BYU 74, Utah 59 Boise St. 82, Central Washington 62 CS Bakersfield 73, Idaho 67 Cal Poly 80, Bethune-Cookman 78, OT California 89, San Diego St. 83 California Baptist 87, California Institute of Technology 48 Colorado 84, Ill.-Chicago 72 Colorado St. 71, Sam Houston St. 65 Fresno St. 92, Long Beach St. 71 Nevada 72, Arizona St. 66 Oregon 84, Nebraska-Omaha 61 Pepperdine 69, Jackson St. 66 Portland 76, Sacramento St. 67 UC Irvine 60, Montana 51 UC Santa Barbara 55, Ark.-Pine Bluff 45 UCLA 65, Notre Dame 62 Utah St. 76, Weber St. 67 Utah Valley 98, N. Arizona 78

Women’s Scores EAST Army 61, Wagner 46 Bowling Green 74, Canisius 53 Lafayette 73, Monmouth (NJ) 69 Lehigh 70, Sacred Heart 66 Maine 102, Brown 96 Marist 74, Albany (NY) 56 NC State 76, Georgetown 65

Penn 66, Iona 43 Princeton 54, Quinnipiac 42 Providence 71, Mass.-Lowell 47 Rider 62, Binghamton 57 Rutgers 60, Harvard 49 Stony Brook 63, Fairleigh Dickinson 49 UConn 99, Seton Hall 61 West Virginia 77, Pittsburgh 43 Wright St. 71, Drexel 63 Yale 58, Vermont 55 SOUTH Alabama 69, Tulane 58 Alcorn St. 67, Fisk 64 Clemson 80, Rhode Island 67 Coastal Carolina 126, NC Wesleyan 65 Furman 70, Gardner-Webb 57 Marshall 86, Cleveland St. 64 Maryland 87, James Madison 63 Mercer 57, Charlotte 40 Mississippi 74, Savannah St. 51 Northwestern St. 94, Centenary College of Louisiana 51 Old Dominion 83, William & Mary 69 Radford 57, Virginia 44 Richmond 67, Howard 60 SC State 58, UNLV 49 SC-Upstate 101, Bob Jones 53 Sam Houston St. 68, LouisianaLafayette 62 UAB 91, McNeese St. 48 W. Kentucky 95, Bellarmine 57 Wake Forest 78, Md.-Eastern Shore 67 Wofford 101, Longwood 72 MIDWEST Butler 63, Akron 47 Creighton 83, Wichita St. 71 E. Michigan 87, Purdue Fort Wayne 72 Green Bay 55, Wisconsin 46 Indiana St. 60, Ill.-Chicago 53 Iowa 72, IUPUI 58 Miami (Ohio) 68, Valparaiso 47 N. Illinois 86, W. Illinois 61 Nebraska 96, San Jose St. 63 Notre Dame 72, Toledo 56 Ohio 87, Coppin St. 62 S. Dakota St. 80, Drake 71 S. Illinois 73, E. Illinois 59 SE Missouri 54, Evansville 50 SIU-Edwardsville 82, Chicago St. 66 Texas Southern 69, Rio Grande 55 Youngstown St. 80, St. Francis (Pa.) 56 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 80, Abilene Christian 68 Kansas St. 53, UALR 47 Oklahoma St. 77, Houston Baptist 44 Rice 68, Prairie View 58 TCU 71, Montana St. 49 Texas A&M 84, Cent. Arkansas 27 Texas A&M-CC 84, Texas A&M International 36 Utah St. 57, North Texas 41 FAR WEST California 81, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 78 California Baptist 93, Fresno Pacific 71 Denver 71, S. Utah 70 Idaho St. 65, Pepperdine 63 New Mexico 84, N. Arizona 55 Pacific 69, UC Santa Barbara 53 Utah 78, BYU 67 Wyoming 64, Idaho 61

Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 31 23 7 1 47 124 88 Toronto 30 20 9 1 41 109 84 Buffalo 30 17 9 4 38 91 88 Boston 29 15 10 4 34 79 75 Montreal 29 14 10 5 33 93 92 30 13 13 4 30 88 100 Detroit Ottawa 30 13 14 3 29 104 120 Florida 28 11 11 6 28 93 101 Metropolitan Division Washington 29 17 9 3 37 106 90 29 16 11 2 34 100 99 Columbus

N.Y. Islanders 28 N.Y. Rangers 29 28 Carolina Pittsburgh 28 Philadelphia 27 New Jersey 27

14 11 14 12 13 11 12 10 12 12 10 12

3 3 4 6 3 5

31 82 31 85 30 71 30 96 27 85 25 81

83 92 77 91 94 94

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Nashville 30 19 10 1 39 95 77 30 17 8 5 39 108 88 Colorado Winnipeg 28 17 9 2 36 94 79 Dallas 29 16 10 3 35 81 74 29 15 12 2 32 88 87 Minnesota St. Louis 27 10 13 4 24 77 88 30 9 16 5 23 82 112 Chicago Pacific Division Calgary 30 19 9 2 40 107 84 31 15 11 5 35 75 89 Anaheim San Jose 31 15 11 5 35 97 96 31 16 14 1 33 92 89 Vegas Edmonton 29 15 12 2 32 81 87 Arizona 28 13 13 2 28 73 76 Vancouver 31 12 16 3 27 89 108 Los Angeles 30 11 18 1 23 67 91 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.

Friday’s Games St. Louis 1, Winnipeg 0 Dallas 3, San Jose 2 Edmonton 7, Minnesota 2 Carolina 4, Anaheim 1 Saturday’s Games Philadelphia 6, Buffalo 2 Los Angeles 5, Vegas 1 N.Y. Islanders 3, Detroit 2 Tampa Bay 7, Colorado 1 Ottawa 2, Pittsburgh 1, OT N.Y. Rangers 5, Florida 4, SO Washington 4, Columbus 0 Boston 6, Toronto 3 San Jose 5, Arizona 3 Calgary 5, Nashville 2 Sunday’s Games Vancouver at St. Louis, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at Winnipeg, 11 a.m.

Boston at Ottawa, 1 p.m.

Montreal at Chicago, 2 p.m.

New Jersey at Anaheim, 4 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Vegas, 5 p.m.

All Times AST

Transactions BASEBALL National League PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Signed C Adony Mejia to a minor league contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed WR Da’Mari Scott from the practice squad.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Placed TE Pharaoh Brown on injured reserve. Activated DB Terrance Mitchell from injured reserve.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Placed S Raven Greene on injured reserve. Signed OL Adam Pankey from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Signed general manager Bob Murray to a two-year contract extension through the 2021-22 season.

CALGARY FLAMES — Recalled F Alan Quine and D Rinat Valiev from Stockton (AHL).

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Reassigned F Saku Maenalanen and G Alex Nedeljkovic to Charlotte (AHL).

OTTAWA SENATORS — Placed F Bobby Ryan on injured reserve.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Assigned D Oleg Sosunov and Matthew Spencer to Orlando (ECHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer NEW YORK CITY FC — Signed D Maxime Chanot to a multiyear contract.

COLLEGE RUTGERS — Named Jim McElderry men’s soccer coach.

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with mono.

“It started in the middle of September and I figured it out at the end of October,” Christy said. “It was horrible. Constant congestion, runny nose, head always hurt, body ached all the time. Hot and cold, I’d wake up dripping with sweat in the middle of the night.”

Christy said at one point, he was afraid he’d miss his entire senior season of wrestling.

“At first I was, but made a quick recovery,” Christy said.

“Feeling great now.”

If mono wasn’t enough for Christy, he and his teammates missed about a week of official team practices because of the 7.0 earthquake that struck Southcentral Alaska Nov. 30.

Christy managed to make his way into Anchorage the day after the earthquake to compete in the Grace Christian Invitational, his first action of the year. Christy won his weight class.

“I needed matches. It was good to get in there, get a tournament in before regions,”

Christy said.

Christy was the only Valley wrestler in the tournament.

Prior to regions, Colony head coach Todd Hopkins said his athletes have been working out on their own while the school has been temporarily closed following the earthquake. Hopkins said the Knights were able to host a team practice offsite on Dec. 6, the day prior to regions. Colony High is not scheduled to reopen to students until Dec. 14.

But the Knights made the most of their time in the Palmer High gym during the twoday tourney, winning their sixth straight team title with 411 total points. Christy was one of a half-dozen Knights to win individual titles Saturday. The group also includes senior Trace Severson, who was named Most Outstanding Wrestler following the tournament. In the finals, Severson earned a win by major decision, beating Wasilla junior Sterling Uhlenhake 10-0 in the 145-pound final. Serverson, who improved to 20-4 with the win, handed Uhlenhake just his fourth loss of the year.

Carter Silva (112), Jared

Hopkins (125), Rush Fannon (140) and Levi Hopkins (189) also earned individual championships for Colony. Carter Jasper (103), Alex Logsdon (119) and Hunter Hayes (135) won their weight classes for Wasilla.

Asa Barnes was Palmer’s lone champion, with the senior winning it all at 152.

Contact Frontiersman editor Jeremiah Bartz at sports@frontiersman.com.

Northern Lights Conference Championships

Friday-Saturday, Palmer High School Team scores: 1. Colony 411; 2. Wasilla 308; 3. Soldotna 191; 4. Palmer 157.5; 5. Kodiak 79.

Championship finals: 103 pounds — C. Jasper, Was m.d. W. Nelson, Was 12-0; 112 — C. Silva, Col p.

T. Clapp, Col 1:58; 119 — A. Logsdon, Was d. A. Ehmann, Was 4-1; 125 — J. Hopkins, Col p. P. Portney, Pal 4:51; 130 — G. Hutchison, Sol d. K. Payne, Col 5-0; 135 — H. Hayes, Was d. V. Cramer, Col 9-4; 140 — R. Fannon, Col p. W. Wolff, Was 3:33; 145 — T. Severson, Col m.d. S. Uhlenhake, was 10-0; 152 — A. Barnes, Pal d. D. Taylor, Sol 3-1; 160 — J. Goodman, Kod d. A. Hacker, Was 3-2; 171 — E. Christy, Col d. J. Nummer, Kod 3-0; 189 — L. Hopkins, Col p. B. Werner, Sol 1:31; 215 — A. Faletoi, Sol d.

J. Toston, Col 3-2; 285 — M. Lloyd, Sol p. E. Floyd, Sol 2:53.

Third-place matches: 103 — E. Cordell, Col d. J. Ritz, Col 9-4; 112 — L. Craig, Sol p. L. Hayes, Was 2:03; 119 — J. Harvey, Col p. T. Foss, Was 4:34; 125 — Z. Loutzenhiser, Col d. F. Elvsaas, Was

Colony senior Levi Hopkins battles Soldotna senior Brennan Werner early in the 189-pound title match of the Northern Lights Conference meet Saturday at Palmer High. (Photo by Jeremiah Bartz/Frontiersman) 7-3; 130 — B. Stevens, Kod p. R. Gallgher, Col; 135 — I. Rodman, Was d. O. Manley, Pal 4-2; 140 — H. Sasser, Col d. N. Williams, Was 5-4; 145 — G. Dean, Was p. Z. Deemer, Pal 2:47; 152 — J. Tolsten, Col d.

J. Mathews, Was 5-2; 160 — L. Erwin, Col p. R. Bailey, Was 0:43; 170 — C. Lindquist, Was won by fft L. Farris, Pal; 189 — C. Roberts, Col d. D. Parker, Kod 4-2; 215 — J. Palmer, Was p. L. Frank, Pal 1:35; 285 — E. Connaker, Col p. D. Van Slyke, Col 2:31.

Fifth-place matches: 112 — C. Jones, Was won by fft G. Lorring, Kod; 119 — G. Blydenurgh, Pal t.f. B.

Mason, Pal 16-1; 125 — B. Booth, Sol p. A. Corbridge, Pal 2:05; 130 — W. Fraker, Was p. S. Logsdon, was 2:55; 135 — J. Christianson, Pal t.f. R. Birbilas, Kod 15-0; 140 — S. Watchus, Pal p. B. Owens, Pal 2:32; 145 — B. Wolfe, Sol won by fft B. LestenkofChapman, Col; 152 — T. Thornill, Col d. B. Keeney, was 6-5; 160 — M. Floresta, Col p.

M. Godwin, Pal 1:26; 171 — S. Babitt, Sol p.

D. Vroman, Was 1:58; 189 — J. Acree, Pal p. C. Boyd, Sol 0:24; 215 — M. Rogers, Sol p. R. Westover, Col 4:11; 285 — G. Aderman, Pal p. H. Buckley, Pal 4:11.

Girls championship finals:

103 — T. Pendergrass, Pal p. A. Boucher, Was 1:49; 112 — G. Stigen, Col p. H. Simpson, Was 1:35; 119 — H. Warner, Was p.

C. Maxon, Col 1:08; 125 — K. Gerasimyuk, Was p. Z. Covington, Col 1:19; 130 — O. Troxell, Kod p. V. Baker, Sol 4:10; 135 — E. Lorring, Kod bye; 145 — K. Laasch-Gray, Col bye; 160 — A. Wylie, Sol p. R. Toston, Col 0:20; 235 — A. Brown, Pal p. J. Agbayani, Pal 0:42.

Girls third-place matches: 119 — J. Robbins, Col bye; 125 — K. Hutchings, Col bye; 130 — I. Underhill, Pal bye;

Voznesenka’s Anthony Kalugin locks horns with Eliot Merriner of Grace Saturday in the 171-pound championship at the Kachemak Conference wrestling tournament at Grace Christian High School in Anchorage. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

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gan early Saturday afternoon, due to a large number of Grace wrestlers that racked up points in the tournament’s consolation matches.

However, Homer managed to jam pack the finals with Mariner wrestlers, putting nine into a possible 28 slots. Grace only put four kids into finals, and emerged with two victories.

Homer claimed six region champions out of nine finals that had a Mariners wrestler competing, including two title matches that featured an allHomer cast — the 152-pound final that went to Josh Bradshaw over teammate Mose Hayes, and the heavyweight final that went to Jadin Mann over teammate Alex Hicks.

Perk said with the team race coming down to a tight finish, it all came down to who could finagle a win. Perk said that when junior Ryan Hicks picked up the 189-pound title on a technical fall over Grace’s Jackson Tanner, an opponent that had beaten Hicks earlier this season, it provided a massive boost

to the team’s chances.

“That was big,” Perk said.

“That’s a 10-point swing right there, and we lost by only nine?”

Homer senior McKenzie Cook was awarded the Kachemak Conference Girls Outstanding Wrestler, while Homer teammate Wayne Newman took home the boys honor. Both Cook and Newman collected their fourth Kachemak Conference championship Saturday.

Coach of the Year honors went to Grace Christian’s Ben DeVries.

On a night full of Homer highlights, Perk credited the dedication and passion of the Mariners weight room for clicking off a four-peat of conference titles.

After winning their respective region crowns, it became clear how Newman and 125-pound champion Seth Inama became so dominant.

The two friends have spent the last five years sharpening their skills by practicing against each other on a near daily basis, champion against champion, flint against flint.

“Seth and I are about at the same level,” Newman said.

“My goal is to spread what I know to the rest of the team.

Kenai Central wrestler Talon Whicker fights against Nikiski’s Griffin Gray Saturday at the Kachemak Conference wrestling tournament at Grace Christian High School in Anchorage. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

A few of us go to (offseason) camps and I want to share that with the rest of the room.”

Inama, Newman and Cook celebrated four region titles apiece Saturday.

“We get at it in practices,” Inama said. “We have a couple studs in the weight room.”

Homer senior Luciano Fasulo celebrated his third straight region title with a dominant performance in the 135-pound bracket, pinning his way to the title with three pins, and he extended his three-year winning streak to 107 straight matches.

But this year’s region triumph was no easy task after Fasulo hurt his knee in the preseason

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Fasulo will be gunning for a third state title next weekend and said he’ll be focusing on nothing but the win.

“I really want it,” he said.

The 152-pound final between Homer teammates Mose Hayes and Josh Bradshaw went to an overtime period. Bradshaw went up 3-2 in the match with just 15 seconds left on a takedown, but Hayes responded just before the buzzer with an escape to tie it up.

In overtime, Bradshaw scored a takedown with four seconds left in the 60-second period to clinch his first conference title.

The heavyweight showdown between Mariners teammates Jadin Mann and Alex Hicks was decided quickly as Mann pinned his man just 37 seconds into the final.

Kenai’s lone finalist in the boys tournament came courtesy of freshman Talon Whicker at 103 pounds. Whicker lost a close battle to fellow Nikiski freshman Griffin Gray in a 5-3 final.

Whicker had pinned Gray all three times the two had met this season, but Gray had the last laugh Saturday.

“I was just more prepared this time,” Gray explained. “I didn’t know if I could beat him.”

Gray said he was able to learn some things in his three previous meetings with Whicker, and put that knowledge to use over the past week by working on several moves.

“I wasn’t nervous before,” Gray said. “But now I’m just out of breath.”

Nikiski’s other conference champ, Dustin Mullins, collected his title with a pin over Homer’s Hunter Harrington with just 20

seconds left in the second round of the 215-pound final.

Along with Whickers’ second-place finish, Kenai got points from three third-place finishes — Brandon Kroto at 152 pounds, Tucker Vann at 160 and Rocky Sherbahn at 215. All three are significant because only the top-three finishers in each weight class advance to state.

Kardinals head coach Stan Steffensen said he was happy to see five Kenai kids headed to the big dance next week, including his girls champion Olivia Easley.

“Kroto’s (third-place) match came before Olivia’s, and Kroto beat that kid that had beaten him three times this year,” Steffensen said. “I think that kind of motivated Olivia.”

Easley said she took up wrestling for one year in fourth grade, then picked up volleyball in middle school before returning to the sport this season in high school.

Easley’s girls title was her first on her debut as a freshman, and she said she was not expecting a conference championship in her first year.

“It’s really, really, really good,” Easley said. “I thought I was going to lose. I thought I was going to throw up.”

Other girls champions included 119-pound champion Sadie Blake from Homer, 125-pound champ Mina Cavasos of Homer, 160-pound champ Mariah Grimes of Homer and Cook, who said her Most Outstanding award meant the most.

“I’ve worked hard for it,” she said. “You’ve got to have your heart in it, and we all do. … It’s exciting but sad because it’s my senior year.”

Kachemak Conference tournament

at Grace Christian BOYS Team scores — 1. Homer, 229.5 points; 2. Grace Christian, 220; 3. Nikiski, 185; 4.

Redington, 173; 5. Voznesenka, 109.5; 6.

Kenai, 84; 7. Anchorage Christian, 55; 8.

Houston, 45; 9. Seward, 39; 10. Cordova, 20; 11. Holy Rosary, 2.

Championship rounds 103 — Griffin Gray, Nik, 5-3 dec. Talon Whicker, Ken; 112 — Caleb O’Hara, 7-0

dec. Jaryn Zoda, Nik; 119 — Max Kusnetsov, Voz, inj. Boston Postishek, Red; 125 — Seth Inama, Hom, 21-5 TF James Paris, Red; 130 — Charles Severance, Red, 3-0 dec. Matt Bohlman, ACS; 135 — Luciano Fasulo, Hom, pin 1:20 August Jewell, Cor; 140 — Wayne Newman, Hom, pin 3:27 Gavin Metcalf, Red; 145 — Dia Martishev, Voz, 11-2 dec. Logan Crotts, Gra; 152 — Josh Bradshaw, Hom, 5-3 OT Mose Hayes, Hom; 160 — Gabe Martin, Gra, 10-1 dec. Koleman McCaughey, Nik; 171 — Eliot Merriner, Gra, 4-2 dec. Anthony Kalugin, Voz; 189 — Ryan Hicks, Hom, TF 19-4 Jackson Tanner, Gra; 215 — Dustin Mullins, Nik, pin 3:40 Hunter Harrington, Hom; 285 — Jadin Mann, Hom, pin :37 Alex Hicks, Hom. 3rd-place matches 103 — Justin Dick, Red, 10-5 dec. John Harris, Gra; 112 — Austin Cline, Hom, pin 1:12 Christian Ewing, Red; 119 — Jonathan Kirby, Red, 10-0 dec. Owen Ford, Gra; 125 — Jude Merriner, Gra, 10-2 dec. Jordan Fleming, Nik; 130 — Ian Stovall, Hom, 12-4 dec. Jackson Reger, Gra; 135 — Colton Dow, Gra, pin 3:58 Dakota Bolduc, Hou; 140 — Afony Reutov, Voz, 10-4 dec. Andrew Beveridge, Gra; 145 — Dia Martishev, Voz, 11-2 dec. Logan Crotts, Gra; 152 — Brandon Kroto, Ken, 2-1 OT Daniel Anufriev, Voz; 160 — Tucker Vann, Ken, pin :56 Jonathan Whitt, Gra; 171 — Jeremy DeVries, Gra, 7-0 dec. Caileb Payne, Nik; 189 — Jesus Garcia, Red, pin 3:09 Malcolm Yerkes, Nik; 215 — Rocky Sherbahn, Ken, pin 1:24 Joseph McLeod, Nik; 285 — Ethan Hack, Nik, pin :32 Kekoa Albino, Sew. 5th-place matches 103 — Riesen Ghill Seyer, Hou, pin 1:04 Caleb Evans, Hom; 112 — Adam Snow, Gra, 9-0 dec. Logan Seymore, Red; 119 — Chase Olsen, Nik, 9-6 dec. Nestor Kalugin, Voz; 125 — Kennan Metzger, Gra, 10-6 dec. Luke Hofacker, ACS; 130 — Thomas Ooka, Sew, 14-3 dec. Aiden Zingone, Gra; 135 — Vinney Mahoney, Hou, 8-1 dec. Caleb Weeks, Nik; 140 — Jonathan Dailey, Red, pin 1:42 Kaleb Boyce, Gra; 145 — David Weisser, Hom, pin 3:00 Dylan Harris, Gra; 152 — Jaden Van Dyke, Sew, pin 1:27 Garren Magestro, Gra; 160 — Porter Jones, Red, forf. Brandon Plaster, Gra; 171 — Isaiah Hall, Red, pin 3:30 Steven Harshman, Sew; 189 — Dallas Smith, Red, pin 3:43 Kade Jager, Red; 215 — Kobe Little, Hou, pin 5:10 Grant Trotter, Gra; 285 — bye.

GIRLS Championship matches 112 — Naomi Ifflander, Sew, pin 1:19 Haley Fairbanks, Red; 119 — Sadie Blake, Hom, pin 1:59 Danielle Lord, Hou; 125 — Mina Cavasos, Hom, pin 2:33 Destiny Martin, Nik; 130 — Olivia Easley, Ken, 6-4 dec.

Jessie Merrick, Hou; 135 — Zya Taylor, Cor, pin 2:50 Bryanna Crawford, Red; 145 — McKenzie Cook, Hom, bye; 160 — Mariah Grimes, Hom, pin 4:37 Twyla Anderstrom, Red; 189 — Tahtianna Tupua, Red, bye.

2nd-place matches 112 — Haley Fairbanks, Red, rule Ann Graham, Hom; 125 — Destiny Martin, Nik, rule Hope Walker, Red; 135 — Bryanna Crawford, Red, pin 3:11 Priscilla Stoltz, Sew; 160 — Twyla Anderstrom, Red, rule Sierra Lancaster, Hou. 3rd-place matches 125 — Hope Walker, Red, pin 1:16 Anika Witsoe, Cor; 135 — Priscilla Stoltz, Sew, pin 2:57 Olivia Hess, Red.

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Scrooge-ing, or trying to get into the Christmas spirit V irginia W alters

L ife in the P edestrian L ane The first Christmas column I wrote in “The Pedestrian Lane” was about the fudge my dad always made. Later years, I wrote about Christmas cactus, mincemeat, certain carols, traditions and “Christmas Comes to Kenai.”

Obviously, I have been looking back, trying to get in the mood. I’m not sure if it is the late and fickle snow or general malaise, but Christmas is taking a little longer to arrive this year.

But, the bear is up on the corner of Leif Hansen Park, and the lights are turned on on the trees across from the fire station on Main Street Loop. They need some TLC, however, because one of them is not lit in the center.

Remember the old strings of Christmas tree lights we used to get? If one went out, they all went out.

Then it was try and find the bad one.

Sometimes it only needed tightened in the socket, but if that didn’t work, it was take a good bulb (and every smart dad had a fresh packet of bulbs before the day of decorating — probably left over from the year before) and sort through the bulbs to find the bad one.

Luckily, the string was usually only about 10 or 12 lights in length so it wasn’t a big project (unless you had a little brother who was a real pain in the

neck), and it was always fun to be the one to get them going again. You had to be sure to replace the burned-out bulb with one of the same color or the whole tree would be out of whack, according to the chief engineer named Mom. I doubt the strings of lights on the big trees on Main Street Loop are the same, but they do need a caring hand or a Mom. We used to go find a tree, or sometimes Dad would just bring one home from his excursion out and about the farm. We lived in a semi-forested area populated by various species of fir — the primary, perfect Christmas tree. Once in a while we’d cut a little blue spruce — the ultimate tree. But Dad preferred to leave them grow if in a prime spot.

Decorating the tree was the real beginning of our holiday celebration and was carried out with much ceremony. In later years, we deferred to the granddaughters and our tree (artificial) was a conglomeration of style, but still a celebration of the season as expressed by little hands.

The trees around town are colorful with glitter lights, and at the senior center they have put up the big tree with the gold ornaments and red ribbons with the angel on top. The entry is decorated with snowmen and a lovely Nativity scene on the mantel. Christmas tree centerpieces grace every table.

At the library, the wreath and lights are in the windows and the snowman is lighting the sidewalk. The magic chariot is in the entryway and a selection of holiday titles greets you as you walk into the main section. Kenai generally has dressed up for the season, so I feel a little out of the loop.

But, so far no one has brought out the ugly Christmas sweaters, and I haven’t

seen any reindeer earrings yet, so I may not be lagging too far behind in Christmas Spirit.

In the past, I have complained about starting Christmas before it’s time. I noticed a certain reserve in early November about introducing Santa before the pilgrims were gone. While hints of the impending celebration were all round, at least locally we kept it focused on Thanksgiving until Christmas came to Kenai.

Most years, the bazaars and the fireworks and the general happy atmosphere get me going on the season. When our across-the-street neighbor lights his yard, usually right after Thanksgiving, I am jazzed to welcome the holiday feeling. But this year, for whatever reason, I can’t quite muster the same enthusiasm.

So I guess it’s time for the foolproof remedy… food!

Fruit cakes, stollen bread, candied walnuts, mincemeat pie, and I might try Dad’s fudge — although I know it will sugar.

But that gives me an excuse to call all the sisters and ask what the heck I did wrong, and each one will tell me theirs failed too and they think Dad is watching and laughing at us.

We’ll commiserate a little, and laugh a lot about this and that — replaying a Christmas here and there.

And when I call Brother later he’ll say he’s sure getting popular because all the sisters have called and harassed him and he had to have an eggnog to settle his nerves after spending so much time on the phone.

Santa Claus listens to requests from children Saturday, Dec. 1 at the ChristWhich reminds me that maybe that is mas in the Park tree-lighting ceremony at Soldotna Creek Park, in Soldotna, what I need to get in the mood.

Alaska. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion) Merry Christmas!!

The Kenai Peninsula Food Bank expresses gratitude The Kenai Peninsula Food Bank faced significant challenges this Thanksgiving due to high pricing of turkeys and cutbacks on funding. That is when the Kenai Refinery Marathon Petroleum team came to our aid.

Thanks to the generous hearts of the employees as well as the Marathon Employee Match Program and Marathon Government and Public Affairs gift, the Food Bank was able to provide turkeys to our local community and a Thanksgiving feast in the Fireweed Diner.

In addition, the Kenai Peninsula community provided donations of turkeys and the rest of the Thanksgiving Dinner fixings. Many organizations and businesses have also been organizing food drives throughout the community providing much-needed food supplies.

Thank you for all the generosity that enabled hundreds of our neighbors to have a wonderful Thanksgiving Meal. The Food Bank is very Kenai Peninsula Food Bank hosts an early Thanksgiving meal on Wednesgrateful for your support and care of day Nov. 21, 2018, near Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Penour community. insula Clarion)

The Recycling Bin Getting butts out of the ecosystem Around the world, 5 trillion filter cigarettes are smoked annually. Over 287 billion cigarettes are sold in the U.S. and two out of three smoked cigarettes, approximately 1.69 billion pounds, end up dropped on our streets, parks, beaches and waterways.

Toxic and non-biodegradable, cigarette butts are the No. 1 littered item in the world, poisoning wildlife and children, igniting destructive, deadly fires, and consuming tax dollars for cleanup and disposal.

Terracycle works to recycle items that are challenging to recycle such as diapers, coffee pods and cigarette butts. With funding help from the tobacco industry, Terracycle recycles cigarette butts into park benches and shipping pallets.

And as an incentive for folks to recycle their cigarette butts, Terracycle donates $1 to the Keep America Beautiful Cigarette litter Prevention Program for every pound of cigarette butts they receive.

Information provided by ReGroup, a nonprofit educational group formed in 1989 to develop public awareness, reuse, and recycling benefit on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. Find ReGroup on Facebook or contact us atregroupkenaipeninsula@gmail.com.

Thanks I would like to thank the young fellow who picked up my $20 bill and returned it to me at “Forever Christmas” on Saturday, Dec. 1.

Thank you so much.

— Lee Sparlin

Nebraska quadruplets building toward top Scouting rank

By JULIE BLUM The Grand Island Independent

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — Ben, Elijah, Aaron and Ethan Kelley are hoping to accomplish a rare feat.

Each is striving to earn the Eagle Scout rank.

It would be a big accomplishment as only about 4 percent of Boy Scouts earn the organization’s highest rank.

What would make that achievement for them even more rare and special is that they would be reaching that honor as quadruplets.

The 16-year-old brothers are members of Troop 114 and want to all become Eagle Scouts so they can take part in the award ceremony together, The Grand Island Independent reported.

Only one of the four has a firm idea for his Eagle Scout project. Ben is planning on creating a picnic area with pavers and tables at CHI Health St. Francis. His brothers are still thinking about what service project — a requirement to earn the rank — they will undertake.

Scouting is one area the siblings have in common.

Despite sharing the same birthday, April 3, which also happens to be their father’s birthday, and a few hobbies, they couldn’t be more different. They aren’t identical. In fact, they look so unlike each other that some can’t tell they are brothers.

Their parents, Sean and Cindy Kelley, said their sons each have their own personalities, too.

“When they were born we had a Winnie the Pooh theme,” Sean said, adding that the nature of those fictional characters was used to describe their sons.

“Ben was Tigger because he was such an extrovert. Elijah was Pooh Bear because he was a mama’s boy.

Aaron was Rabbit because he was the first one to do everything and hit milestones. Ethan was the anti-Eeyore because he was always happy and smiling,” Sean said.

Those characteristics have mostly held true as they have grown and are now juniors at Northwest High School.

Developing their own identities has been important to the siblings and to their parents.

Having multiples wasn’t a surprise to the Kelleys because twins run in Cindy’s family. Quadruplets, though, was a shock.

They didn’t know Cindy was carrying four at once until she was 14 weeks pregnant. At 33 1/2 weeks, the brothers were born. Within two weeks, all were healthy and at home.

The family lived in Seward at the time and had a lot of help and support from the community during those first few months. In 2005 when the quadruplets were 3 years old, the Kelleys moved to Grand Island.

Though they do have their differences, Scouting has remained a constant connection for the brothers.

They have been involved in the organization since signing up in first or second grade and have risen up the ranks together. They said there is no competition between them to see who can earn the most merit badges. Having each other there to support one another does help their individual quests They have until the age of 18 to earn to become Eagle Scouts. the needed merit badges and complete Scouting, they said, has taught them their service projects to meet the revaluable lessons, such as respect, life quirements for the Eagle Scout rank. skills and to always practice kindness.

Ethan said hopes are they will be

able to celebrate each one reaching that honor and will take part in an Eagle Scout ceremony at the same time.

Elijah said achieving that goal will give him a sense of accomplishment.

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Holiday pet precautions picture of her Sargent -- a dachshund and poodle mix (“doodle”?). He is 4 years old and jealous; Tina’s husband can’t even hug her! To see Sargent and our other Pet Pals, visit www.Heloise.com and click on “Pet of the Week.”

-- Heloise MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE?

out for a date to a classy restaurant. Lately, we have been “serenaded” by the screams of at least one or more small children.

I suggested to the management that when families with children arrive, they should place them in the back area of the restaurant, away from the rest of the diners.

They tell me they can’t do that. What can we do?

-- Robin and Diane M., Riverside, Calif.

Perhaps a call to a district manager could yield some solutions. Readers?

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DEAR ABBY: Recently a family member, an exsister-in-law, sent Abigail Van Buren out invitations on Facebook for her retirement party. A week after everyone had accepted, she posted that in order to attend, guests would have to buy a ticket for $50. I find this very tacky.

It’s not so much the $50, but the way it was presented. This woman was a professional with a great job. She has a large home and drives a luxury car. When I asked other family members and friends how they felt, for the most part they agreed with me.

Needless to say, I will not be going. What do you think?

-- APPALLED OUT WEST DEAR APPALLED: I think that, under the circumstances, you should inform your former sister-in-law that since you received the invitation your plans have changed, so you will be unable to attend after all. And when you do, don’t forget to wish her well in her retirement.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

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-- STUCK IN THE MIDWEST DEAR STUCK: Obviously, you and your family aren’t close. What is he holding over your head? The fact that you were married? Your family can’t miss something they have never had -in this instance, a relationship with the spouse you hid from them. So although they may be disappointed that you withheld the information, don’t expect them to grieve his “loss.”

You didn’t mention how long you’ve been involved with this other man, but you should not rush into another marriage. Perhaps this mess will teach you how important it is to live openly and honestly and not sweep things -- like a husband -- under the rug.

DEAR ABBY: Crazy question, but a serious one. Christmas is coming, so please answer quickly. When carolers come to the door, what’s the polite response to them?

Where we live it’s usually bitter cold and snowy. Do you stand out there on your porch, just keep the door ajar, invite them inside, serve them hot chocolate, coffee?

I’ve been ill at ease for years, and although it’s a tradition that seems to be falling by the wayside, I’d like to know what you have to say about it. Thank you so much. I enjoy reading your column.

-- MARCIA IN EASTERN WASHINGTON DEAR MARCIA: All you need to do is give the carolers a heartfelt thank you for their efforts. While one might be tempted to offer them a hot beverage -- coffee or tea -- a milky drink is not good for a per-

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Dear Heloise: When my mother was older and living alone, she came up with an excellent security idea. She went to the thrift store SPIRIT SPOTS and bought a used pair of size 16 or 18 tennis shoes.

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Jaqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018: This year you might be working through some issues involving self-discipline and organization. Understand that you can’t help but lag at times. If you are single, someone you care about could find you to be a little crazy as you attempt to work through these issues. Someone you choose to be with now might not be the person you want to be with a year from now. If you are attached, your sweetie will support you in whatever you want to do. Know that you need to be just as nurturing with him or her. CAPRICORN has a lot of opinions.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH What is great about you is the way in which you accept and execute responsibility. Suddenly, you might find yourself in charge of a holiday gathering or event. Use your energy and imagination to ensure that a good time is had by all. Tonight: Let your hair down.

This Week: Friends and meetings dominate your days.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You could be unaware of how demanding you are.

You also might be somewhat remote and distant. Do not be surprised if a loved one tries to provoke an argument in order to encourage you to focus on him or her. Consider scheduling a getaway. Tonight: Where your mind can drift.

This Week: Others count on you to “keep it together.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH One-on-one relating seems to be extremely gratifying to you at the present moment. Whether you are wrapping presents with someone, watching a holiday movie or even just enjoying a glass of eggnog, you radiate contentment. Tonight: Togetherness is the theme.

This Week: Your mind wanders to taking off on a spontaneous trip.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You could be close to your limit with handling holiday errands and to-dos. Distract yourself for the day and grab your favorite person. Go off to the movies together. Indulge in a non-holiday activity. Once more, you will feel renewed.

Tonight: Did you hang the mistletoe?

This Week: You work best with individuals, not groups.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Dive into the day with the intention of clearing out as much as you possibly can. Your pace could be unusually hectic, leaving you with little time to just gaze at holiday decorations. What you complete could free you up for more time to enjoy the holiday. Tonight: Relax at home.

This Week: Others seek you out.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You could be trying to lift someone’s spirits, but be careful, as you might drain yourself in the process. Take

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Dear Readers: How can we keep our pets safe around our HOLIDAY DECORATIONS? Here are a few suggestions: * Live plants such as holly and mistletoe can be ingested and cause stomach upset. Artificial plants are a better bet. * Don’t hang shimmery tinsel. It catches the light, but cats like to catch it, too, and may ingest it, which can cause digestive problems. * Make sure the Christmas tree is secure and can’t be knocked over and fall on your pets. * Real candles are an accident waiting to happen -- look for flameless candles. * Be vigilant for loose wires and broken glass ornaments.

Holiday fun and safety for your pets can go together!

-- Heloise P.S. Fatty, spicy, rich, sugary foods and alcohol are not healthy and should be kept away from pets.

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better care of yourself in general. Go off and take a brisk walk with the dog or go skating. You will feel much better. Tonight: Let the other party make the first move.

This Week: Wrap up as much as you can by Thursday, when a distraction appears.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH You might be more anchored than you realize. When someone encourages you to try something totally new, your answer easily could be “no.” Your routine and habits stabilize you, but you also love adventure. Go for it, even if it is not on your terms. Tonight: Order in.

This Week: You feel like a kid again.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH Your intensity melts others’ resistance quickly.

The question remains: Do you want to charm them into being more responsive? You like intensity. You understand that to feel good, you sometimes need to feel bad. Let a friend have some space. Tonight: Off with a loved one.

This Week: Get involved in a domestic matter.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Be aware of your discipline when it comes to indulgences. You could discover that making something a habit might take some time. As long as you are willing to go overboard, go for it. A family member actually could decide to join you. Tonight: No regrets -- just do what you must.

This Week: You do not want to be accused of gossiping.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH Wherever you are, others wish they were too.

You seem to let go of the seriousness you are usually associated with. Confusion surrounds your plans or a conversation.

For some reason, the situation suddenly hits you as hysterical. Tonight: Out on the town.

This Week: Keep a close eye on your spending.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Vanish for a day. Do not be findable. With the holidays approaching, you have a built-in excuse. You might need some downtime alone or with one special person. Keep a lid on your spending, and you will be a lot happier in the long run. Tonight: Mystery becomes you.

This Week: You are the cat’s meow through Wednesday.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHH A particular group of friends is serious-minded, but they are fun to be with. Get together with this particular circle and toss yourself into what is happening. You might want to hear some holiday music, so make it a possibility.

Tonight: Forget self-discipline, and go for the moment.

This Week: Not being available will make you more desired.

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“The 12 Dogs of Christmas” (2005, Children’s) John BillPaid Program Raw Travel ingsley, Bonita Friedericy, Jordan-Claire Green. A girl plans a ‘G’ ‘PG’ holiday pageant to help dogs.

NFL PostNFL PostThe 2018 Gamers’ Choice Texas Music Paid Program game (N) game (N) Awards (N) ‘G’ (:25) NFL Football Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys. (N) (Live)

Cops “New Cops ‘PG’ Cops ‘PG’ Cops ‘PG’ Cops ‘14’ Cops “Texas” Cops ‘14’ Cops ‘14’ “Full Metal Jacket” (1987) Jersey” ‘14’ ‘14’ Matthew Modine.

In the Kitchen With David “David’s 25th Anniversary” Cooking and fun with David Venable. Dyson Cleaning (N) (Live) ‘G’ IT Cosmetics “All Easy Pay Clever & Unique Creations Great Gifts “Dyson” (N) (Live) ‘G’ (N) (Live) ‘G’ Offers” (N) (Live) ‘G’

by Lori Greiner ‘G’ Joel Osteen Paid Program “All About Christmas Eve” (2012, Comedy) Haylie Duff, “Christmas in the City” (2013, Drama) Ashley Williams, “Christmas Harmony” (2018, Comedy-Drama) Kelley Jakle, “A Country Christmas ‘PG’ ‘G’ Chris Carmack, Connie Sellecca. Evelyn lives out two posAshanti, Jon Prescott. A woman brings the Christmas spirit Chandra Wilson, Adam Mayfield. A woman rediscovers the Story” (2013) Dolly Parton, sible futures in parallel. ‘14’ back to her store. ‘PG’ magic of spending Christmas at home.

Desiree Ross.

Law & Order: Special VicLaw & Order: Special VicLaw & Order: Special VicLaw & Order: Special VicLaw & Order: Special VicLaw & Order: Special VicLaw & Order: Special VicLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit ‘14’ tims Unit ‘14’ tims Unit ‘14’ tims Unit ‘14’ tims Unit ‘14’ tims Unit ‘14’ tims Unit ‘14’ tims Unit ‘14’ Friends ‘PG’ “My Best Friend’s Wedding” (1997, Romance-Comedy) Ju- “Father of the Bride” (1991, Comedy) Steve Martin, Diane “Father of the Bride Part II” (1995, Comedy) Steve Martin, “Love Actually” (2003) Hugh Grant, Laura lia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney. A food critic seeks to sabotage Keaton, Kimberly Williams. A doting dad deals with his daugh- Diane Keaton, Martin Short. Dual pregnancies play havoc with Linney, Colin Firth. Various people deal with her buddy’s nuptials. ter’s impending wedding. an anxious family man. relationships in London.

NCIS: New Orleans “No “Terminator Salvation” (2009) Christian Bale. Humanity “Sky High” (2005) Michael Angarano. Two superheroes send (:15) “X-Men: First Class” (2011, Action) James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne.

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Bundesliga Soccer FC Bayern Munich vs FC Nuremberg.

XTERRA Ad‘G’ ‘G’ ‘G’ Arena in Charlottesville, Va. (N) (Live) (Taped) From Allianz Arena in Munich. (Taped) ventures Engine Power Xtreme Off Truck Tech Detroit Mus- Bar Rescue Jon attempts to Bar Rescue “On the Rocks” Bar Rescue “Jon T, He Don’t Bar Rescue A live music bar Bar Rescue An owner is Bar Rescue ‘PG’ ‘PG’ Road ‘PG’ ‘PG’ cle ‘PG’ rescue a biker bar. ‘PG’ ‘PG’ Like It” ‘PG’ owner struggles. ‘PG’ drinking away profits. ‘PG’ (7:30) “Gremlins” (1984, Fantasy) Zach Galligan. A lovable “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005) Johnny Depp. Five children “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (1971, Children’s) Gene Wilder. “Jingle All the Way” (1996, little creature spawns hundreds of evil beings. tour the wondrous factory of an odd confectioner.

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Curtis. A couple scramble to assemble a holiday celebration.

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Elf’s Christmas sabotage her buddy’s nuptials.

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“X-Men: First Class” (2011, Action) James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender.

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Hanks, Michael Jeter, Nona Gaye.

The U.S. Olympic hockey team beats the Soviet team.

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Issue 49, 2018

Founded by Betty Debnam

Polar Bears in Trouble

Helping polar bears

Mini Fact:

Experts say people can do a lot to change things for the better. People have saved other animals in danger in the past.

Much of our energy comes from fossil fuels such as oil and gas. When these fuels are burned by cars or in buildings, they give off carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide acts like a blanket, trapping heat around our planet, disrupting the climate and melting Arctic sea ice.

Here are some things you can do to help the polar bears and other animals right now: • Start a no idling campaign at your school. Ask parents to turn off their cars while they wait to pick you up.

• Organize your classmates to bike to school.

• Write a letter to your congressional representatives to let them know you care about polar bears and people too. A heartfelt letter from a kid can have a big impact, and letters from lots of kids would have an even bigger impact!

• Talk! Share what you’ve learned by talking to friends, family and local businesses about how we can all make a difference outside our own households and influence decisions on where our energy comes from.

Polar bears have lots of body fat, which helps keep them warm in the water and helps them float. photos courtesy U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Habitat

Polar bears can live only in places where the sea is covered with ice most of the year.

They use the ice to access their main food, seals. Their home is in the north, the Arctic.

There are about 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears in the world. More than two-thirds of them live in North America. There are five countries that have polar bears: the United States (northern Alaska), Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia.

Many polar bears stay on sea ice all year, spending only short periods on land. Scientists say there has been more ice loss than normal in the last 30 years. In the last decade, the melting has sped up even more.

Polar bear bodies

Polar bears are totally adapted for life in Arctic areas. They are better suited for swimming or walking on the ice than for walking on land.

They depend on the huge number of calories provided from the fat of the seals they eat. Land animals do not provide enough calories to keep polar bears alive.

Mother bears start coming out of their dens to hunt around March. They have been living on their body fat and may not have had anything to eat for about eight months. They need food fast to survive and help their cubs. If there is not enough nearby ice, the mother may have to swim to new areas, which can be dangerous for tiny cubs.

photo courtesy Utah Department of Environmental Quality

The beautiful, powerful polar bear is in danger. Polar bears spend most of their lives on floating ice in the sea. But that ice is melting, and polar bears have nowhere else to go.

Since 2008, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has listed polar bears as “threatened” to give more protection to them and their habitat.

The importance of ice

In Alaska, bears do much of their hunting from ice close to, or attached to, the shoreline.

Now, however, much of the ice is far from land. It can be 200 miles out during the summer. Polar bears are good swimmers, but they cannot swim endlessly or in high waves for very long. If they swim too long, they could drown before reaching the next ice floe.

In one of the main polar bear habitats in Canada, scientists have found that ice is melting four weeks earlier than it did 30 years ago. This means there is less time for bears to hunt seals.

They are not getting enough to eat. Bears in this area have been losing weight they need.

Resources

An uncertain future

On the Web:

Most experts believe climate change is the reason polar bears are in trouble. A small population of polar bears will probably survive into 2100, but they will completely disappear if we lose all the sea ice. Luckily, we have the power to change this.

• bit.ly/MPpolarbears • bit.ly/MPhelpbears

At the library:

• “Polar Bear: Shrinking Ice” by Stephen Person

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Try ’n’ Find

Mini Jokes

Words that remind us of polar bears are hidden in this puzzle. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally, and some letters are used twice. See if you can find: ADAPTED, ARCTIC, BEAR, BIKE, CHANGE, CLIMATE, CUBS, DEN, FAT, FLOE, FOSSIL, FUEL, HABITAT, HUNT, ICE, IDLING, LAND, LOSS, POLAR, SEALS, SWIM, THREATENED, WRITE.

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Eco Note Usually when solids form, atoms get closer together to form something denser. This is why most solids sink in water. But solid water, or ice, is actually less dense.

Water molecules form rings when water freezes. All that space makes ice less dense, so it floats. Ice floating on top of a body of water lets the rest of it stay liquid. If ice sank, whole oceans could adapted from climatekids.nasa.gov freeze solid!

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3. Scoop into a container and chill before serving. Serve with berries or sprinkled with shredded coconut or crushed nuts. Serves 4 to 6.

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Cook’s Corner

Thank You The Mini Page thanks Marissa Krouse, program manager for Polar Bears International, for help with this issue.

Teachers:

For standards-based activities to accompany this feature, visit: bit.ly/MPstandards. And follow The Mini Page on Facebook!

Answers: Wyldstyle, beetle, roof, coast, medal, exercise, helpless.

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G ardening LEE REICH

For ‘weedless gardening’ next spring, begin now

This undated photo shows a mulched flower bed in Scarsdale, N.Y. (Lee Reich via AP)

I take a four-pronged approach to keeping my vegetable and flower gardens free of weed problems, and suggest you try it.

First, keep dormant weed seeds asleep by not tilling or otherwise churning the soil.

(All soils contain many weed seeds that lie dormant until they are exposed to light, which happens when soils are tilled.)

Second, avoid soil compaction by using beds and paths, or stepping stones, to make permanent areas for planting and for walking.

Third, lay down a thin, weed-free, organic mulch to snuff out weeds that wind or birds carry into your garden.

And fourth, wherever regular watering is needed, use drip irrigation so that weeds are not encouraged in paths or between widely spaced plants.

Of course, the “weedless” garden that results is not totally maintenance-free. What fun would a garden be, anyway, with nothing to do in it? So some maintenance is required, and now is a good time to begin.

APPLY ORGANIC FERTILIZER NOW Perhaps your garden will need fertilizer in spring. Apply an organic fertilizer such as soybean meal now and it won’t wash away.

In contrast to most “chemical” fertilizers, which can leach away as they wash down through the soil, organic fertilizers remain in place until spring’s warmth and moisture start their decomposition and release of nutrients. This works out nicely because this same warmth and moisture also get plants growing — and hungry — in spring.

Most gardening books tell you to dig or at least scratch fertilizer into the soil. Forget about it: Do as Mother Nature does and sprinkle it on the surface of the soil. Water and time will work it down.

MORE MULCH The next thing to do for your weedless garden is to replenish mulches. The inch of compost with which I blanket planting beds in my vegetable garden quells weeds at the same time it fertilizes my garden, so I apply it yearly.

Wood chips in the paths are there only to quell weeds, so I replenish them only as needed to keep bare soil from peeking through.

The same holds true for the leaf mold or wood chip mulch on my flowerbeds.

CLEAN UP Now is also a good time to thoroughly clean up spent garden plants. I minimize soil disruption in removing such plants as old marigolds and cabbages by giving each plant a quick twist, leaving me with stems, leaves and coarse roots in hand. The fine roots remain in the soil to decompose and naturally break it up.

To clean up more robust plants such as corn or cosmos without discombobulating the soil, I cut straight down with a garden knife all around them, give a quick twist, and out they come.

AND … WEED My final bit of autumnal maintenance is — dare I say it? — weeding. I remove larger weeds in the same way that I remove larger vegetable or flower plants, yanking them out after severing the larger roots with a twist or a knife. I might take a hoe, one with a sharp blade that runs parallel to and just a hair below the ground, to do in colonies of small weeds. Or I might drop to my knees and rip back clumps of ground ivy trying to creep in from the garden’s edges.

There. The garden is right and ready for spring. Charles Dudley Warner suggested in his 1870 classic “My Summer in the Garden” that we put “the garden in complete order before the snow comes, so that its last days shall not present a scene of melancholy ruin and decay.” Besides the garden looking nice with few weed problems, there’ll be no delays to spring planting.

ASK A DESIGNER: Comfort is on trend for decor in 2019

By MELISSA RAYWORTH Associated Press

What trends will dominate home decorating in 2019?

When we asked interior designers about the colors, fabrics and styles likely to be popular this year, one message came through loud and clear: People are seeking comfort at home.

But rather than casual, farmhouse-style comfort, these designers are seeing a trend toward a sophisticated, elegant comfort achieved through things like warm wall colors, antique wooden items with a patina of age, and rounded corners on furniture.

Along with the physical coziness these items bring, many folks seem to be seeking a degree of emotional comfort in their home decor.

“Someone just asked us if we would do an ombre carpet up their stairs, working with the ombre wallpaper up the wall,” says New Yorkbased furniture and wallcovering designer Brett Beldock. “They want this cocoon feeling. Our surroundings have to be really warm and comforting now … everything is crazy and we’re all up in the air.”

We’ve asked Beldock and two other interior designers — Washington D.C.-based Marika Meyer and New Yorker Dan Mazzarini — for details on what we’ll see in home design in the coming year.

COMFORTING SPACES For years, Americans were in love with open floor plans and large furniture. Now, “people want more intimately scaled spaces,” says Mazzarini. “Not Victorian-small, but not this kind of ‘everything open’ living.”

In response, we’re seeing “a temporary pause on oversized things,” he says, as people feel like nesting.

Along the way, the color palette is becoming equally cozy. Popular neutral colors have “been so cool for a number of years,” Meyer says.

As 2019 approaches, “we’re coming back into more warm neutrals.”

And Beldock sees furniture shapes changing: We’re seeing a return to rounded edges and pieces of furniture with big, soft, rounded arms.

PATTERNS and PAPERS Expect to see lots of paper and fabric coverings on walls and ceilings in 2019. Beldock says murals are popular, as are patterns that can be mixed to create a vibrant space and give walls an appearance of depth.

Meyer agrees that patterns are increasingly important. As part of a “return to traditionalism” in home design, she sees many people opting for “heavy layering of very traditional patterns.”

Although many patterns incorporate a mix of colors, expect to see plenty of rich shades of green in fabric and wallpaper patterns. While blues and indigos have been huge in recent years, Meyer says that in 2019 “green is the new blue.” It’s likely to be used in everything from upholstery patterns to kitchen furnishings.

WARM WOODS AND TRADITIONAL STYLES Antiques and second-hand items are also having a moment.

“There have always been the antique lovers that we’ve worked with,” says Mazzarini. But now, a growing number of people “are responding more positively to things that have an actual sense of history.”

Meyer agrees: “More and more clients say to me they’re interested in a beautiful wood antique chest,” she says.

This trend is quite practical in the smallerscale homes and condos favored these days, Meyer says, because people have a real need

These photos provided by Marika Meyer Interiors shows a living room in McLean, Va. (Angie Seckinger/Marika Meyer Interiors via AP)

for storage space. If a client chooses an antique wooden chest instead of a Parsons table, “it’s concealed storage.”

Traditional skirted tables are becoming popular again for the same reason: Under the soft folds of a fabric table cloth that reach to the floor, you can store items out of sight.

Even for homeowners who prefer a more modern style, warm wood tones are increasingly popular, Beldock says.

“Everyone’s using warm woods and walnuts,” she says, or “actually doing a fireplace, and around the fireplace having your extra wood in a niche on each side that’s the height of the whole wall.”

Some clients continue asking for lighter wood tones, Mazzarini says. But even when paired with white items for a very clean look, the wood grain brings a degree of warmth to a room.

How to revitalize an aging sofa Couches are an important component of living rooms and dens, serving as comfortable places to relax. Sofas will be sat on, slept on and, if young children are in the house, sometimes jumped on.

Homeowners looking for new sofas often prioritize comfort, but they also want a sofa that can withstand the test of time. Although there’s no magic formula, a sturdy sofa should have a lifespan of around 10 years. According to Houzz, quality sofas should feel solid and heavy. They should have joints that are double doweled and fitted with corner blocks that are both glued and screwed (not stapled) into place. Over time, even the sturdiest couch can start to show its age and look a bit past its prime. Don’t fret. There are some easy ways to give that aging sofa a makeover.

Begin by reviewing the service agreement. If you purchased an extended warranty or protection plan on the furniture, you may be eligible for repairs at no cost. Stores will restrict just what is covered under such service plans, and regular wear and tear may be excluded. However, rips, certain stains or opening seams may be eligible for repair. Covered costs means not having to spend any money out of pocket.

Cleaning may be another simple fix. Check with the manufacturer’s guidelines for cleaning. Certain fabrics require specific cleaning solutions. If you are ever unsure about what to use to clean the sofa, use a mild solution of

soap and water in an inconspicuous spot first.

Many carpet and upholstery cleaning solutions can be used on furniture. Use sparingly and test for color-fastness before cleaning the entire couch. For those who are skittish about cleaning the sofa on their own, consult with a professional upholstery cleaning service.

Slipcovers are another option to revitalizing the look of an aging sofa. Fitted slipcovers slide right over the existing couch cushions and can change an outdated sofa into one that looks brand new. Measuring correctly and buying accordingly will help achieve a seamless look.

There also are some easy do-it-yourself fixes for couches that may be sagging or looking deflated. If seat cushions can be removed, consider placing firm cardboard or wood on top of the springs to provide more firmness.

Cushions may begin to sag when the springs underneath begin to lose their elasticity. If the cushions are the problem, replacing the foam in the cushions or the loose-fill stuffing in the pillows can breathe new life into the couch.

Foam can begin to disintegrate and lose its shape and integrity. Craft stores, home improvement centers and fabric stores often carry foam products, but those you can’t find might be available via online orders.

Do not give up on a sofa just yet. It may be repaired or given a fresh look to make it appear like new.

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For comfort and energy savings, address those drafty windows rable plastic sheets that attach to window casings and create a barrier of trapped air. These products, which cost about $5 to $7 per window, keep out drafts. An added benefit is that you can remove them at the end of the season.

Another option is sealing cracks or crevices with latex caulking, which will handle the window’s expansion and contraction with changing temperatures. If you have larger cracks, you may need to opt for expandable foam.

If you enlist a contractor, get two to three estimates, said Steve Walowitz, owner of NuConcepts, a window repair and reconstruction business in the Chicago suburb of Northbrook.

Consider not just your budget but the climate where you live, your home value and the age of the house, among other things.

Walowitz said a window’s installation is just as important as the product, if not more so.

The highest quality replacement window may be installed poorly, and you’ll still have drafty windows.

For older homes, restoring windows to their former glory is worth exploring.

There are plenty of reasons “A window replacement has to fix or replace windows, but a life span of 10 to 20 years,” wintry temperatures push many said Chris Fullan, a historic homeowners to get the job done. window restoration expert and Besides the discomfort they owner of Forever Hung Wincause, drafty windows can add dows in Philadelphia. “Historic hundreds of dollars to your enwindows are a superior product. ergy bill over the course of a They’ve stood the test of time.”

A window restoration, Fullan winter.

“A great test is to hold a said, is often a bit more expenlighted match, or even better a sive than replacement windows. stick of old-fashioned incense, With restoration, regular mainnear the window and watch the tenance is required. And since flame,” said Danny Lipford, a the original glass is single-pane, home improvement expert and a storm window is needed to host of the syndicated TV and help keep frigid temperatures radio show Today’s Homeout.

When Aaron and Tracy Caowner with Danny Lipford. “If hall moved into their Bel Air, it flickers, then you know your Maryland, home in 2013, they window does not have a tight knew that replacing the original seal and is allowing cold air to windows — 17 in total — was creep in.”

You have a few options for a priority. The colonial home, fixing those drafty windows. built in 1968, had endured deSome are inexpensive, easy cades of East Coast winters with steps that any homeowner can single-pane glass, and were not do to improve the efficiency of only drafty but flaking paint.

“They were drafty in the windows, Lipford said. For inwinter, and let in heat during the stance, there are roll-on window summer,” said Aaron Cahall, 36. insulation kits that include duThe couple started last month by replacing four of the windows, in their children’s bedrooms. The cost totaled roughly $2,000 for four middle-grade windows.

“We’ve only had the windows in for a few days, but I think there’s a difference,” Aaron said. “The room temperatures seem a bit more comfortable, though we won’t know whether we’re saving any money from increased efficiency for a while.”

One immediate improvement is a reduction of noise from passing cars and occasional loud sounds from the street.

Fixing your home’s windows can also add money to a home’s value.

Yet nothing seems to motivate homeowners like cold.

“We get a lot of inquiries for windows in the spring,” said Jody Finglas, a windows restoration expert and owner of NYC Fine Finishes, Inc., in Crotonon-Hudson, New York. “People This undated photo shows Fullan restoring the windows on a Langhorne Borough, Pa., building. This undated photo shows a set of windows on a project before go through a rough winter and by spring they’re sick of it.” being restored in New York. (Jody Finglass via AP) (Chris Fullan via AP)

By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH Associated Press

US household wealth jumps $2T, led by rising stock market

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON — A stock market rally, which has since reversed, propelled U.S. household net worth to a record high of $109 trillion in the July-September quarter.

The Federal Reserve said Thursday that the value of Americans’ stock and mutual fund holdings soared $1.2 trillion. Home values rose $200 billion. Other assets, such as bank accounts, also increased. Total net worth climbed $2 trillion from nearly $107 trillion in the AprilJune quarter.

Greater household wealth can help the economy by lifting consumer spending. Yet wealth has been increasingly concentrated since the Great Recession, with just 10 percent of U.S. population owning 84 percent of stocks.

Richer households are less likely to spend from additional wealth compared with poorer ones.

The figure reflects the value of assets like homes, bank accounts and stocks minus debts like mortgages and credit cards. The figures aren’t adjusted for inflation or population growth.

Since the July-September quarter covered by the Fed’s report, household wealth has suffered a sharp blow, and may be on track to decline in the final three months of 2018.

The S&P 500 stock market index reached a record high Sept. 20, only to fall steadily through October and November. It has also fallen sharply this week over fears of a worsening trade fight between the United States and China and a potential slowdown in U.S. and global economic growth.

On Thursday, the S&P 500 fell sharply through most of the day before recovering after a news report suggested that the Federal Reserve could slow its current pace of interest rate hikes. The index closed down just 4 points, or 0.2 percent, at 2,696.

The increasing importance of stock ownership to building wealth, compared with owning a home, has exacerbated wealth inequality since the recession.

For most middle-class Americans, real estate ownership is the main source of wealth.

While home prices have risen at a robust pace for the past five years, they haven’t increased as much as stocks. And home price growth has slowed this year, along with sales.

Strong gains in household wealth haven’t spurred as much spending in the past decade as in previous years. Historically, in what economists call the “wealth effect,” an additional dollar in financial or real estate wealth has lifted spending by 3 to 5 cents, which accelerates the economy.

But since the recession, Americans have been more reluctant to spend from their wealth. Economists suggest that households increasingly see wealth gains as potentially temporary and are more cautious about spending it as a result.

US average mortgage rates fall; 30-year loan at 4.75% WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. long-term mortgage rates fell this week amid a steep decline in stock prices.

Continued slides in the stock market and tumbling oil prices have been pushing mortgage rates lower, although home borrowing rates remain much higher than a year ago. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate on the benchmark 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage dipped to 4.75% from 4.81% last week. The key rate stood at 3.94% a year ago.

The rate on 15-year fixedrate loans declined to 4.21% from 4.25% the previous week.

The fall in mortgage rates “is a welcome relief to prospective homebuyers who have recently experienced rising rates and rising home prices,” Freddie Mac chief economist Sam Khater said.

The plunge in global stock markets, which have been roiled by trade tensions between the U.S. and China, initially deepened Thursday.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost as much as 784 points in volatile trading, after plummeting some 800 points on Tuesday. But the market staged a recovery later in the day, and the Dow average finished only 79.40 points lower.

U.S. markets were closed Wednesday because of the national day of mourning for President George H.W. Bush.

Thursday’s broad decline came as news of the arrest of a senior Chinese technology executive overshadowed some positive comments on trade from Beijing, threatening to worsen U.S.-China trade tensions.

With stocks sliding, traders continued to channel money into bonds — a signal

that they see weakness in the economy ahead. The yield on the key 10-year Treasury note, which tends to influence mortgage rates, dropped to 2.86% Thursday morning from 2.92% on Tuesday as bond prices rose.

To calculate average mortgage rates, Freddie Mac surveys lenders across the country between Monday and Wednesday each week.

The average doesn’t include extra fees, known as points, which most borrowers must pay to get the lowest rates.

The average fee on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages was unchanged this week at 0.5 point.

The fee on 15-year mortgages held steady at 0.4 point.

The average rate for fiveyear adjustable-rate mortgages fell to 4.07% from 4.12% last week. The fee remained at 0.3 point.

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Sea reefs and sunsets: Living Coral is color of the year

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press

NEW YORK — It’s the color of underwater reefs hanging on for dear life. The sky at dusk.

Some of the latest iPhones and the latest looks on the runways of Marc Jacobs and other top fashion designers. Living Coral has been chosen by the Pantone Color Institute as its 2019 color of the year.

Can a color be convivial?

Laurie Pressman, the company’s vice president, considers this saturated orange base with a golden undertone not only warm and welcoming but versatile and life-affirming. It energizes with a softer edge than, say, its pastel and neon color cousins. “With everything that’s going on today, we’re looking for those humanizing qualities because we’re seeing online life dehumanizing a lot of things,�

Pressman told The Associated Press ahead of Wednesday’s This 2018 file photo shows a model wearing a coral outfit from annual color unveiling. “We’re the Marc Jacobs spring 2019 collection during Fashion Week looking toward those colors in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen) that bring nourishment and the

comfort and familiarity that make us feel good. It’s not too heavy. We want to play. We want to be uplifted.�

But do we want to run toward this color of grandmothers? Pressman also sees a retro vibe to Living Coral, in the same way a softer version of the 2018 pick, Ultra Violet, is the shade of some gray heads when hair toners bring on a turn to purple. “It’s the emotional nourishment. It’s a big hug,� she said of Living Coral.

How important color analysis is when weighed against, well, the rest of the world is in the eye of the beholder. Pantone is a for-profit enterprise that forecasts color trends, analyzes the psychology of color and advises companies on color for product packaging and brand identity. Its wares come with price tags, but nearly 20 years of choosing colors of the year has been a useful marketing strategy and free, free, free.

Living Coral is ascending, Pressman said, at a time when bleaching due to climate

How to fight post-workout fatigue Many people begin an exercise regimen to fight the kind of fatigue that can result from a sedentary lifestyle. But what about the fatigue that can settle in after a workout? Post-workout fatigue may be a byproduct of several things, but the good news is that combatting exhaustion after a workout can be somewhat simple. r %PO U QVTI ZPVSTFMG TP hard. Many people, especially those who have resolved to be more physically active, make the mistake of pushing themselves too hard during a workout. While it’s great to break a sweat when exercising, you don’t want to be so tired after a workout that you have no energy. One of the benefits of routine exercise is that it makes active men and women feel more energized, so if your workout is having an adverse effect on your energy levels you might be going too hard. Endurance is something that builds over time, and as you grow more acclimated to exercise, you likely won’t feel as fatigued. If you are not new to physical activity but still feel drained after your workouts, lower the intensity of your workouts and take more brief breaks between exercises and repetitions when strength training. r 3FWJTJU ZPVS XPSLPVU schedule. Your post-workout

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While early morning workouts boost many people’s energy levels throughout the day, that’s not the case for everyone, especially people who tend to function more effectively later in the day. If you like to workout at night but are finding it difficult to sleep at night, you might be more suited to working out earlier in the day. Conventional wisdom has long suggested that working out at night can negatively affect sleep, but the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center notes that the best time of day to workout varies from individual to individual based on each person’s circadian rhythm. Simply put, adults who want to find the best time of day to workout may need to do some trial and error. In addition, recognize that exercising daily is more important than when you exercise, so find the time that’s right for you and stick with it. r %SJOL XBUFS CFGPSF XPSLing out. Dehydration can have a very negative impact on your energy levels, so working out while dehydrated may tire your muscles out before you even lift a single weight, and that fatigue may still be present postworkout. If you workout in the evening after work, then drink

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Puzzles are fun and entertaining, but their benefits go beyond simple recreation. In fact, playing and solving puzzles on a regular basis can benefit adults and children in various ways.

Puzzles often stimulate problem-solving centers in the brain and can improve brain health.

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Organization examines tiny homes as Alaska housing solution BETHEL (AP) — A regional fisheries organization is examining tiny homes as a solution to the housing shortage in western Alaska.

The Coastal Villages Region Fund has constructed a 320-square-foot energy efficient home in the village of Eek to test whether tiny homes could address the area’s housing crisis, KYUK-AM reported.

The home has a bedroom, a bathroom and a common area serving as the living room and kitchen, said Bob Marquez, the organization’s products and services manager.

The Coastal Villages Region Fund is the offshore fish-

eries community development quota holder for 20 communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region. In a survey earlier this year, the organization asked area residents about their biggest challenges. Nearly a third of people surveyed said housing.

The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta area needs about 3,000 new homes, but fewer than 30 are built each year, according to housing assessment by the state Housing Finance Corporation. Most of the area’s new homebuilding is funded by federal funding through the regional housing authority.

A federally funded home typically costs about $200 per

month for the homeowner, according to organization’s research. The organization looked into what mortgages individual homebuyers could afford if they also qualified for federal funds and grants from the organization. “We were really just trying to show that mortgages were possible,� Marquez said.

Marquez said they worked back from the $200 a month, landing on an overall cost about $75,000. That translated into the 320-square-foot house.

The organization is looking to create a model for coastal communities to use to increase housing.

after a workout is a good idea.

Protein helps muscles recover and grow after a workout, and that recovery can help combat post-workout fatigue. If you do not typically feel hungry after working out, as little as 10 to 20 grams of protein can do the trick. A single serving of Greek yogurt provides roughly 17 grams of protein, and that won’t make you feel full.

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Coming up with such color standards is one of those other things Pantone does when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not announcing colors of the year.

Before Ultra Violet was chosen for 2018, there was Greenery the year before. In 2016, Pantone picked a duo for the first time: Serenity (a baby blue) and Rose Quartz (a light pink).

The selection process spans the year. Pantoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experts travel the world in search of color influences that gained momentum, from the entertainment industry and traveling art collections to fashion and beauty trends, travel destinations and specialty shows for design and decor.

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How puzzles promote health and wellness Researchers have found that, by completing crossword puzzles, playing challenging games or doing other puzzle-related activities, individuals may be less likely to develop brain plaques that have been tied to Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease. Data published in the Archives of Neurology found a distinct connection between people who exercised their minds with stimulating activities in their early and middle years and brain health. This group had less Beta-amyloid protein uptake in their brains, which is linked to the onset of Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, than those who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t engage in puzzles during the same time frame.

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change continues to rob actual coral reefs of their rainbows.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a color that seems to work for everybody, across the gender spectrum in apparel and across segments, from art and housewares to home interiors and industrial design.

The color also points to a long and often painful slog over the last decade or so through financial market scares and political crises to environmental chaos and the rise of social media, where saturated color presides, Pressman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing so much more saturated color,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the influence of social media because people want things to stand out. This is definitely a color you see on social media.â&#x20AC;?

Living Coral is vivifying, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;not so overpowering and in your face,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bright enough, and engaging.â&#x20AC;?

Officially, Living Coral is Pantone 16-1546. Ever wonder what those Pantone numbers are all about? Well, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re broken into three pairs and re-

NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The national school lunch program is making room on menus again for noodles, biscuits, tortillas and other foods made mostly of refined grains.

The Trump administration is scaling back contested school lunch standards implemented under the Obama administration including one that required only whole grains be served. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday only half the grains served will need to be whole grains, a change it said will do away with the current bureaucracy of requiring schools to obtain special waivers to serve select items made with refined grains.

Low-fat chocolate milk will also be allowed again and a goal for limiting sodium will be scrapped. Previously, only fat-free milk could be flavored, although that rule had also been temporarily waived.

The School Nutrition Association, which represents local cafeteria operators and companies like Dominoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizza, Kellogg and PepsiCo, had called for the scale back of the whole grain-only requirement, saying it was too difficult for some districts to meet.

Diane Pratt-Heavner, a spokeswoman for the association, said whole-grain bread and buns generally arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a problem. But she said stu-

dents complained about other items, in many cases because of cultural or regional preferences.

Whole-grain biscuits and grits are also a challenge in the U.S. South, she said, while tortillas are a challenge in the Southwest.

Not everyone welcomed the relaxed rules.

The American Heart Association encouraged schools to â&#x20AC;&#x153;stay the courseâ&#x20AC;? and commit to meeting the stricter standards that started going into effect in 2012. The Center for Science in the Public Interest also said the decision to roll back the whole-grain requirement makes no sense because most schools were already in compliance.

Those still struggling to do so would have eventually been able to comply as well, said Colin Schwartz, the centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deputy director of legislative affairs.

For the current school year, the USDA said 20 percent of school food authorities were applying for exemptions to the whole-grain rule. Pasta, tortillas, biscuits and grits were the most commonly requested items for exemption, it said.

The USDA school lunch program provides low-cost or free lunches in public schools and other institutions. Last year, it served an estimated 30 million children.

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