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Thursday, December 6, 2018 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Vol. 49, Issue 58
In the news Alaska spaceport plans new building as demand increases KODIAK (AP) — The Alaska Aerospace Corporation plans to construct a temporary building to support launch operations at the spaceport on Kodiak Island. Officials solicited bids last month for the manufacture and delivery of materials to construct a 4,000-square-foot building at the Pacific Spaceport Complex, the Kodiak Daily Mirror reported Tuesday. The new building will provide staff and customer personnel with shelter to “work on rockets and related hardware,” said Mark Lester, the president of the corporation. The building is planned for the complex’s Area 3, where several launch pads are located. The materials requested include a “pre-engineered system of standard metal framing components and membrane enclosure,” according to the bid document. The new construction is needed because the spaceport expects demand to increase, Lester said. “We are experiencing a renaissance in commercial and government interest in affordable access to space,” Lester said. “Multiple rocket developers and integrators are planning on launching small rockets from the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska at Kodiak in the upcoming years. This has prompted Alaska Aerospace Corporation to look at our operational capabilities to ensure we can meet anticipated demand.” The corporation is currently working with about six companies that are at various stages in preparing for launches, Lester said. He declined to name them. Astra Inc. is the only company currently licensed to launch from the Alaska spaceport, but Arizona-based Vector Launch Inc. has announced plans to test a rocket by the spring. “Due to the competitive nature of the commercial space launch market, most commercial companies are not willing to be identified at this time,” Lester said. “This is not an uncommon practice for emerging technology programs. We expect this to change for companies that establish routine operations.” The spaceport is expecting 3 to 6 launches next year, but launch demand is anticipated to reach about 24 commercial launches annually. The spaceport is also expecting to have one to two government launches each year.
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Collapsed Anchorage ramp reopens Mayor gives borough update By DAN JOLING Associated Press
ANCHORAGE — A collapsed off-ramp in Alaska’s largest city that became an iconic image of the destructive force of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake was rebuilt and reopened four days after its destruction. The ramp, which leads to Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, reopened between 1:30 and 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, said Shannon McCarthy, spokeswoman for the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. The earthquake struck at 8:29 a.m. Friday and was followed by a magnitude 5.7 quake. Aftershocks of 4.0 or larger were regular occurrences afterward. When rocking from the first quake stopped, McCarthy said, highway officials recognized they had multiple breaks in “essential travel.” They identified eight sites of highest priority. One was the off-ramp that carried traffic from south An-
By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion
In this Friday file photo, workers inspect a road that collapsed during an earthquake in Anchorage. The off-ramp connecting Minnesota Drive and Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport reopened Tuesday, with shoulder work completed Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mike Dinneen, File)
chorage and the Kenai Peninsula to the state’s largest airport. A small station wagon on the ramp when it collapsed
dropped down at least 6 feet of earth. No one inside was but came to rest upright on injured. a flat piece of roadway surPresident Donald Trump See RAMP, page A2 rounded by jumbled sections
Dunleavy names public safety team By ALEX MCCARTHY Juneau Empire
Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced his public safety team at a press conference Wednesday, selecting a new attorney general and new leaders of corrections and public safety departments. Dunleavy tabbed Anchorage attorney Kevin Clarkson for the role of attorney general. Amanda Price, who was part of Dunleavy’s campaign staff, will be the head of the Department of Public Safety. House District 13 Rep. Nancy Dahlstrom will leave her House seat to become the Department of Corrections director. The announcement came
peated his hope that his administration will repeal Senate Bill 91 — a criminal justice reform bill that promotes alternatives to long prison terms — and said he wants to make sure that public safety will be “the first thing we budget” in the budget process. “Public safety was the No. 1 issue for this campaign,” Dunleavy said, “and I believe it’s the No. 1 issue for Alaskans.” Clarkson replaces Jahna Lindemuth as attorney general. Clarkson is an attorney with Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks to the crowd in Noorvik after be- the Anchorage firm Brena, Bell ing sworn in earlier on Dec. 3 in Kotzebue. (Photo/Stanley and Clarkson, P.C. He was in the news earlier this year when Wright/Office of the Governor) he represented the Downtown two days after Dunleavy was governor. During Wednesday’s Hope Center, a shelter in AnSee SAFETY, page A3 sworn in as the state’s 12th press conference, Dunleavy re-
Dodge to appeal results of House race By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press
JUNEAU — The Democrat who lost a recount by one vote in a contested Alaska House race said Wednesday she will challenge the results. Kathryn Dodge said she disagreed with decisions the
Division of Elections made on some ballots and will file required paperwork with the Alaska Supreme Court. A recount, held Friday in the Fairbanks race, showed Republican Bart LeBon winning by one vote. During the recount, Dodge picked up another vote, while LeBon picked up
two. “This race has gone back and forth, favoring me and my opponent at one time or another during a lengthy process,” Dodge said in a statement. “I believe that it is important to follow the process through so that absolutely no doubt remains about this incredibly
close result.” Republicans have been in the minority in the House the past two years. They rushed to claim control of the chamber days after the election, when LeBon held a larger lead, only to see the margin go back and forth as more ballots were See DODGE, page A2
Wednesday, Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Charlie Pierce gave an update at a Joint Kenai/ Soldotna Chamber Luncheon, where he spoke about various borough projects his administration plans to tackle in the coming year. “We have a board in the office that we call the whiteboard, and on that whiteboard we have a list of 50-60 different things we’ve worked on in the last year,” Pierce said. “Some are completed, some are still pending.” The mayor listed several projects the borough plans to take on, including working with the planning department on gated communities, revising the borough’s See MAYOR, page A3
Spots open for 2019 borough meeting invocations By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion
At Tuesday’s Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting, President Wayne Ogle announced there were eight openings to give invocations next calendar year. “We have 12 assigned invocation spots throughout the year and we have eight that remain to be assigned,” Ogle said at Tuesday’s meeting. “Those spots are open.” Ogle said interested residents who sign up for invocations through the borough clerk will be selected on a first-come, firstserved basis, through email. The borough’s invocation was updated since it was passed at the Nov. 20 assembly meeting to include a limitation of four invocations per person per calendar year and a rule mandating the provider must perform their scheduled invocation before signing up for another spot. “I think that was a very wise thing to do, because I think it really did open it up for the maximum amount of people to participate,” Ogle said.
City of Homer The Moose Is Loose brings wastewater operator back holiday confections earns state acclaim By MEGAN PACER Homer News
Homer’s lead water distribution and wastewater collection operator has earned a top honor for his work with the city. Richard Klopp was named Wastewater Operator of the Year by the Alaska Rural Water Association. Members of the Homer City Council and city employees celebrated Klopp’s achievement with a recognition at the Nov. 26 council meeting. Klopp has been a lead op-
erator in Homer for the last five years. Since then, he’s made “major” improvements to the city’s distribution and collections system preventative maintenance program, according to the city website. This includes “smoke testing the collection system to quickly detect and repair structural damages, leaking joints and other problems in sewer pipes,” according to the site. “What stands out to me as a citizen of Homer — and we’re always looking for ways to reduce and save — is that Mr. See WATER, page A3
By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion
The holiday season has arrived and so have the spirited confections at The Moose Is Loose bakery in Soldotna. For those looking for a little early Christmas spirit in sweet, sugary form, look no further than to the popular bakery shop in midtown Soldotna. The Moose Is Loose bakery has spent 17 years catering to central peninsula residents. Since opening the shop in A pan of holiday-themed cookies from The Moose Is Loose 2001, owners Bob and Diane is displayed Tuesday afternoon at the popular bakery in SolSee MOOSE, page A3 dotna. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)
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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna
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First Dec 15
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24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.00" Month to date ........................... 0.75" Normal month to date ............. 0.23" Year to date ............................ 19.80" Normal year to date ................ 17.09" Record today ................. 0.97" (1978) Record for Dec. ............. 3.96" (1988) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963) Snowfall 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. Trace Month to date ........................... Trace Season to date ........................... 0.6"
Valdez Kenai/ 38/36 Soldotna Homer
Dillingham 33/26
Juneau 38/31
National Extremes Kodiak 44/39
Sitka 41/37
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Flurries and locally heavier snow showers will push from the Midwest to the interior Northeast today. Rain showers are in store for the southern Plains, while heavy rain pushes inland over the Southwest.
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and former Gov. Bill Walker declared emergencies, allowing highway officials to order reconstruction immediately. “We basically called the contracting community, and we split up the sites between multiple contractors and our construction staff,” McCarthy said. Anchorage asphalt plants had been shut down for the season in late October. It can take more than a week to get them up and running, McCarthy said, depending on the moisture content in the rock incorporated into the mix. “As soon as the quake happened, as soon as the contractors felt their asphalt plants were safe, they ran over and started up their asphalt plants,” she said. Earthwork at the off-ramp began before the sun set Friday. By the time heavy equipment had filled in and packed down the ramp, asphalt was ready to be laid down, a feat not often attempted in December. “That’s almost unheard of,” McCarthy said. Crews applied paint while the asphalt was
A car ascends a newly repaired off-ramp of Minnesota Drive on Wednesday in Anchorage. A massive 7.0 earthquake and its aftershocks rocked buildings and buckled roads Friday, including the road that’s a route to Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. Alaska transportation officials made rebuilding the ramp a priority. It reopened Tuesday, and a crew completed shoulder work Wednesday. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)
warm. Temperatures in mid-November had dropped to single digits. But over the weekend, temperatures stayed near or above freezing “Still not great, but a little bit warmer,” McCarthy said.
Work at other sites is progressing. The Glenn Highway, the only highway leading north from Anchorage, fully reopened Wednesday morning. Two sinkholes created crescent-shape craters near Mirror Lake and got bigger with every
4.0 aftershock, McCarthy said. It took until Wednesday to repair all six lanes. The department will monitor that site, where the speed limit is 65 mph, for dips as winter progresses. Permanent repairs will be made in spring, she said.
as his public safety commissioner and Kevin Clarkson as his attorney general. Price was an adviser to former Gov. Bill Walker on crime policy and worked for a time on Dunleavy’s campaign. Clarkson has been involved in conservative causes, including helping represent a faith-based women’s shelter in its lawsuit against the city of Anchorage over a requirement that it accept transgender women. He also represented the Kenai Peninsula Borough in a lawsuit challenging a borough policy restricting who could give invocations at assembly meetings. Dunleavy’s appointments are subject to legislative confirmation. When there is a legislative vacancy, state law calls for the person appointed be from the same party as the person who left. Traditionally, the parties
send a list of finalists they’ve vetted to the governor for consideration. Once a vacancy occurs, the governor has 30 days to make an appointment. Department of Law spokeswoman Cori Mills said by email that the vacancy in this case would not occur until the new legislative term begins. The new Legislature convenes Jan. 15. A coalition, composed largely of Democrats, took control of the House from Republicans after the 2016 elections. Republicans control the state Senate. Elections director Josie Bahnke said the vote picked up by Dodge during the recount was a ballot marked with a highlighter and not read by the machine. LeBon picked up a vote that was initially rejected, after officials determined the voter was eligible to vote. He picked up another vote when officials determined the person who cast
the ballot lived in the district. Not tallied in the recount was a ballot that officials said was found on a voting precinct table in a secrecy sleeve on Election Day and later included in ballot materials sent to Juneau, where an election review was conducted. Officials determined it to be a so-called spoiled ballot that should have been destroyed. A voter made a mistake on the spoiled ballot, and a new ballot was requested and cast, Bahnke said. Jay Parmley, executive director of the Alaska Democratic Party, said he feels good about Dodge’s chances. “It’s certainly not going to hurt anything” to let the Supreme Court work it out, he said, adding: “It’s a lot easier to accept the outcome at that point, that every vote has been sort of debated and argued and thought about.”
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counted and the race deadlocked, prompting the recount. The current House speaker, Democrat Bryce Edgmon, has said the rush to organize was premature. With LeBon, Republicans said they had the minimum 21 votes needed to control the 40-member House. The number included Nancy Dahlstrom, who was elected to the Eagle River seat held by Republican Rep. Dan Saddler. Saddler did not seek re-election but instead made a failed bid for state Senate. Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy named Dahlstrom as his corrections commissioner Wednesday. Dunleavy also named victims’ advocate Amanda Price
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Around the Peninsula
An Evening of Christmas
Kenai National Wildlife Refuge: December
The Kenai Peninsula Orchestra presents “An Evening of Christmas,” Friday, Dec. 14, at 7 p.m. at the KCHS Renee C. HenderLeague of Women Voters meeting son Auditorium. This is a fun-filled evening full of holiday songs The Central Peninsula League of Women Voters will hold a and audience sing-alongs. Performing groups include the Redoubt regular meeting on Thursday, Dec. 13 at noon at the Soldotna Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Tammy Vollom-MatturPublic Library on Binkley Street. For additional information ro, and the Kenai Peninsula Singers under the direction of Simon Nissen, with special guests from the Anchorage Civic Orchestra. call Lois Pillifant at 907-209-6041. The KCHS Jazz Band, under the direction of Deborah Sounart, will perform during intermission. Tickets are available at the door. $15 Pioneers of Alaska Igloos Holiday Social general admission, all youth 18 and under are free. Pioneers of Alaska Igloos 33 and 16 will hold their Holiday Social on Monday, Dec. 10 at the Kenai Elks. Event begins at Christmas pottery sale 6 p.m. Members and guests are welcome. Please bring finger The Kenai Potters Guild Annual Christmas Pottery Sale will be foods or your favorite holiday desserts to share. Donations will be accepted for gifting to the Kenai Peninsula held on Saturday, Dec. 8 beginning at 10 a.m. at 816B Cook Avenue in the Kenai Fine Arts Center in Old Town. The potters have worked Food Bank. very hard to provide a wide variety of pottery styles and colors. The proceeds from this event help pay the expenses for this organization. Kenai Totem Tracers Christmas Social Doors close at 4 p.m. The Kenai Totem Tracers Genealogical Society will meet in the Kenai Community Library on Saturday, Dec. 8 from 1-3 The Homer Fish & Game Advisory Committee p.m. for their annual Christmas social. Please bring your favorite finger food or snack. Also, bring along a Christmas memento or meeting a favorite Christmas memory to share with the group, although The Homer Fish & Game Advisory Committee will meet on this isn’t a requirement to attend the social. After the food and Tuesday, Dec. 11 at the KBRR building located at 2181 Kachemak conversation, “Genealogy M&M Bingo” will be played. Family, Drive at 6 p.m. Agenda will include Statewide BOF proposals, and friends, and the public are welcome to attend. any other business that may properly come before the committee. The public is encouraged to attend. For more information contact Dave Lyon at 399-2340. Lions Club Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser The Lions Club will host a Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser on Saturday, Dec. 8 from 5-7:30 p.m. at Christ Lutheran Church at AKC Canine Good Citizen test 128 N. Soldotna Ave. in Soldotna. Pre-pay $15 per person, $18 The Kenai Kennel Club will be holding an AKC Canine Good at the door. Contact Footworks shoe store at 907-283-2224 to Citizen test Dec. 8 at 1 p.m. at the Kenai Kennel Club training builduse a Visa or Mastercard. Includes silent auction, split-the-pot. ing in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai (behind Home Gallery). The 10step CGC test is a non-competitive test for all dogs, including purebreds and mixed breeds. Cost is $25. For more information contact Kenai Community Library holiday events Kenai Kennel Club at kenaikennelclub@gmail.com. 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 Li- Hospice Memorial Tree brary. As always these classes are free but you must pre-register; so From Nov. 23 – Dec. 23 Hospice of the Central Peninsula will stop by or give us a call to sign up. Also, between Dec. 26-29 we have a Memorial Tree standing in the Peninsula Center Mall. Comhave a Scavenger Hunt Drop-In planned for patrons to find famous munity Members may remember their loved ones with an ornament characters throughout the library and earn a small prize! Keep an placed on our tree! No donation is too small to receive as many oreye out for all of our upcoming events and programs by “Liking” naments as you would like. Stop by the tree in the Mall during Mall us on Facebook. hours, stop by Hospice’s office, or request an ornament online at www.hospiceofcentralpeninsula.com.
Woodturner’s meeting
The Kenai Peninsula Woodturner’s hold their monthly meeting at 1 p.m. this Saturday, Dec. 8. Location is the log building, Mile 100 on the Sterling Highway, just a few miles south of Soldotna where Echo Lake Road meets the highway. There will be a woodturning demonstration. Non-members are welcome. Questions? Call 801543-9122.
Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board meeting
Soldotna Senior Center Sweetness Bazaar The first annual Holiday Sweetness Bazaar will be held at the Soldotna Senior Center on Saturday, Dec. 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This bazaar is limited to vendors of food items. Cottage food producers are welcome and encouraged. The kitchen will be open for purchase of hamburgers, hot dogs, milkshakes and other snack bar foods. Raffle tickets for a KitchenAid mixer will be on sale, with the drawing to be held on Dec. 21. Contact the Soldotna Senior Center at 262-2322 for more information or to reserve a vendor table.
The Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board Habitat for Humanity seeking family partner will meet on Thursday, Dec. 13 at 5:30 p.m. at the Gilman River The Central Peninsula Habitat for Humanity is now looking for Center on Funny River Road, Soldotna. Agenda topics include committee and agency reports. The public is welcome to attend. a family to partner with for their 2019 building season. If you would If you have any questions about the meeting you can contact like more information, please contact Carri at 283-7797, or visit our website: https://hfhcentralpeninsula.org to apply online! Jack Blackwell at 907-262-5581, Ext 21.
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trash and throw it up into the dumpster,” Pierce said. “We want to make it more user-friendly and safer, and build a ramp so they can throw it down.” One of the bigger projects Pierce’s administration plans to evaluate is reviewing the existing Seward Flood Mitigation Plan to make it more effective. Pierce said he also wants to develop more leadership in the area. “This is a problem we’ve been kicking down the road in Seward for the last 50 years,” Pierce said. “We know it’s going to flood, why not some put some engineers on the problem, and some money behind the problem and fix it?” Pierce said another major project his office is tackling is the borough’s 2020 fiscal year budget, which starts next month.
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chorage where someone turned away a transgender individual. He has represented pro-religion causes and groups in the past, including anti-abortion cases. A release from the Dunleavy administration stated Clarkson specializes in civil litigation, business, construction matters and contracts. Price, who replaces Walt Monegan as the DPS head, was formerly a senior crime policy advisor to Gov. Bill Walker. Prior to that, she served as the executive director at Standing Together Against Rape and the Alaska chapter of the American Heart Association. Dahlstrom, who replaces Dean Williams as the DOC commissioner, is a Republican representative for House District 13, representing Eagle Water and Sewer Superinten- River, Chugiak, Joint Base dent Todd Cook was named Wastewater Operator of the Continued from page A1 Year for a population of more than 1,000 last year. The city Klopp’s involvements have re- was also recognized that same sulted in a reduced cost in oper- year for Source Water System ations and reduced emergency of the Year for a population of Continued from page A1 callouts for operators, reducing more than 1,000. labor costs,” said Mayor Ken The city’s drinking water Wallace have made it a tradiCastner at the meeting. “His en- comes from the Bridge Creek tion every Christmas season ergy conservation efforts have Reservoir near Skyline Drive. to add holiday touches to resulted in over $50,000 in sav- Homer takes proactive mea- their products in a variety of ings since 2015.” sures to protect the watershed ways, and that’s kept customKlopp had few words after through a source water protec- ers salivating for more. accepting his award. tion plan. Cook told the Homer “We’re as busy as we can “I have a really good team News last year that this plan manage,” said Diane Wallace. that we work with, and makes it was on file with the Alaska “We’re just very blessed by all possible,” he said. Department of Environmental the business we have and the This isn’t the first time Hom- Conservation before such a plan community brings the super has been recognized for its was even required by the state port. We’re very grateful for water and wastewater systems. of Alaska. that.” The holiday treats that The Moose Is Loose traditionally spruces up with a seasonal look include gingerbread men and snowman cookies, as well as rum butter balls and bourPeninsula Memorial Chapels & Crematory bon balls, which Wallace said Kenai 283-3333 • Soldotna 260-3333 • Homer 235-6861 are a crowd favorite. Call or stop by and talk to Grant or B.J. and let them guide you Wallace also brings in a through the pre-arranging process. Have them show you the amazing special recipe that her father benefits of planning your funeral ahead of time. If you’re not sure if taught her — Stollen bread, a you want to come in or not, flip a coin to help make your decision. traditional German bread loaf Heads you Win. Tails you Win. that is filled with a variety of comprehensive plan and developing an agricultural ordinance. Pierce elaborated on a project that would review and improve the usefulness of anadromous stream ordinances. “What I’d like to do is make it a little more usable and put a little more common sense into it as well,” Pierce said. “Let’s protect fish habitat. Let’s make sure we don’t go backward here. Let’s make sure we protect the fish. Let’s also make sure that we are delivering services in a more reasonable way.” Pierce also said the administration would improve the Funny River Solid Waste Collection Site next summer. “This is one where they take the
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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 —AR Sandbox Saturday Showcase, Dec. 8 from 2-3 p.m. Drop in to design your own watershed with Ranger Leah using the hands-on augmented reality sandbox. —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”
Kenai Community Library events —Retro Video Game Bash, Saturday, Dec. 10 at 3 p.m. We’ll be digging out some retro systems from the 90s for a race and battle bonanza. There will be a variety of multiplayer games, trivia, art pages and more. Free. Open to all ages. Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. —Let’s Draw! Wednesday, Dec. 12 at 4 p.m. Have fun drawing Olaf, Charlie Brown, and more cartoon friends in this interactive class. We will be learning about organic and geometric shapes in drawing. If you plan to attend please sign up at the front desk! Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. For more information please call James at 283-8210. — Apple Butter Workshop, Thursday, Dec. 13 at 5:30 p.m. Come to this interactive workshop and learn how to make a delicious apple butter! All participants will go home with their own jar of butter that we make during the class. This is a FREE class but you must pre-register. Sign up at the front desk or call Bethany at 283-8208! — Imagine and Play, Friday, Dec. 14 at 10:30 a.m. Join us for a SANTA-themed story time, some songs, and PLAY! Appropriate for children ages 1-4. Must have a parent present. —Candy Cane Family Craft, Friday, Dec. 14th at 4 p.m. Parents: Sign your children up at the front desk to make these simple and colorful clay Christmas ornaments! This is a family craft, designed for parents and their children to do together. Limited to 16 participants, sign up at the front desk. — American Girl Club, Monday, Dec. 17 at 4 p.m. Join us at the Kenai Community Library for our monthly American Girl Club! We will be making Christmas stockings for your doll! Bring your doll (doesn’t have to be an American Girl) or use one of ours! The doll house will be out for everyone to play with. Meets at the same time and place as LEGO Club. —I Like Your Smile Special Story Time, Wednesday, Dec. 19 at 10:30 a.m. Children’s book author and upcoming dental hygienist Willow-Haven Walaszek will be reading her new book “I Like Your Smile! as well as other stories for a special Preschool Story Time event! “I Like Your Smile!” offers a step by step story of what young ones can expect when they go to the dentist. This story time will include songs, games, and an arts and craft activity!
Elmendorf-Richardson and Anchorage. She won re-election in the Nov. 6 general election. She will resign her position with the Alaska Legislature in order to take this position, according to the release. Dahlstrom is currently a consultant for WEKA (which stands for Wisdom, Experience, Knowledge and Abilities), which is a security, personal safety and secure transport provider. Dunleavy and the new directors answered a handful of questions at Wednesday’s press conference, which was held at the Alaska Crime Lab. He said the effort to repeal SB 91 will likely be a group effort. “I think you’ll have some legislators that are going to be looking at a repeal and rewrite, and our office is in the process of going through that as well,” Dunleavy said. “Hopefully we’ll have conversations with legislators and maybe meet up some ideas and a bill.”
He was also asked about the roughly 800 at-will state employees (including attorneys) who were asked to submit their resignations. He said about 750 of those people turned in their resignation, and “just a couple” of those employees have said they don’t want to work for the department. He didn’t specify who these employees were or if anybody has been let go, but he said “the vast majority” of the employees who turned in resignations will likely be back working for the administration. Deputy commissioners also named Treg Taylor will serve as the deputy attorney general and will lead the Department of Law Civil Division. Taylor is currently senior corporate counsel for Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation. His expertise is in negotiating, drafting and finalizing contracts, according to the administration’s release. DPS Deputy Commissioner
candied fruits and nuts, along with a special almond filling that Wallace uses. Wallace said she and her husband Bob have made careers in the food industry. Diane learned the business working in her father’s bakery in Poulsbo, Washington, just miles from downtown Seattle. “Sluy’s Poulsbo Bakery” is still operating, now owned by her brother Dan Sluys. Wallace has carried the knowledge and experience gleaned from working in her father’s bakery and put it to good use by treating the greater Kenai and Soldotna communities to delicious breads, donuts and cookies. “I think it’s the spirit of the place too,” Wallace said. “It’s very important that each person feels welcome in our business. And maintaining that positive spirit of love and Christian care for people is very important, and more important than the product you sell. We try to keep that in
A pan of holiday-themed cookies sit in the window Tuesday afternoon at the Moose is Loose bakery in Soldotna. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)
mind as we try to bring a little bit of sunshine and love into your life.” The Moose Is Loose also features a seasonal line of clothing with Christmas designs and patterns, and Wallace said the more popular items include pajama wear and sweaters. Wallace said the company decided to branch out to clothing several years after opening by introduc-
Michael Duxbury is currently the captain of the Alaska Bureau of Investigation and the Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit, according to the release. Colonel Doug Massie, who has been a leader in the Public Safety Employees Association for 13 years, will head up the Division of Alaska Wildlife Troopers. Major Andy Greenstreet was named the acting director of the Alaska State Troopers. He has worked in Alaska public safety for 25 years, according to the release. Working under Dahlstrom in the DOC will be Leitoni Tupou and Dan Carothers, who will both serve as deputy commissioners. Tupou has been with the department for 18 years and is currently the director of the Division of Institutions, which supervises correctional superintendents and program coordinators in the DOC. Carothers has been a correctional superintendent, probation officer and probation officer during his 28 years with the department and owns Alaska Polygraph, LLC.
ing a range of T-shirts, which sold out in a week. “I didn’t realize how popular that would be,” she said. “It just skyrocketed from there.” The Moose Is Loose also allows customers to enjoy their offerings in their cafe area with a free cup of coffee with the purchase of a donut, as long as they bring their own mug to use.
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Mueller investigation comes into tighter focus It is almost a truism in criminal
investigations that those who flip early and help prosecutors build their case against higher-ranking figures are shown greater leniency than those who try to gut it out. Michael Flynn, who served briefly as President Trump’s national security adviser, is Exhibit A in the special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. If other players, such as Paul Manafort and George Papadopoulos, have worked only grudgingly with the special counsel, and some, like Roger Stone, are still holding out, we now know, thanks to a sentencing recommendation that the office filed late on Tuesday in federal court, that Mr. Flynn provided “substantial assistance” to federal investigators working to unravel the Russia mystery. Mr. Flynn pleaded guilty to a single count of lying to the F.B.I. last December and has been cooperating with investigators ever since. Perhaps he is motivated by a hope for leniency, perhaps by fidelity to the institutions he spent much of his lifetime serving. One day we may know. Mr. Flynn’s assistance must give pause to the president, who has complained that “flipping” to testify against others should be illegal and has denigrated the work of law enforcement agencies. Just this week Mr. Trump praised Mr. Stone for having the “guts” not to cooperate with the Mueller investigation. The president has said little about Mr. Flynn since he left his employ. The words “substantial assistance” are a legal term of art and carry significant weight in sentencing decisions. Mr. Flynn, who resigned as national security adviser in February 2017 after serving only 24 days in the job, sat for 19 interviews with Mr. Mueller’s prosecutors, assisting in several investigations, including the special counsel’s inquiry. (The details of those investigations are not provided in the sentencing memorandum.) For Mr. Flynn, this means that it is now “appropriate and warranted,” in the special counsel’s view, that he receive a light sentence — perhaps no jail time at all. Since Mr. Mueller began obtaining indictments and convictions for a constellation of figures associated with Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign — as well as Russian actors trying to influence it — this is the first time that the special counsel’s office has offered glowing praise for one of its targets and credited the value of cooperating early and often. Mr. Flynn should take comfort in that, but that’s not to say his misdeeds were minor. As lawyers for Mr. Mueller’s office noted in their sentencing submission, Mr. Flynn’s crime was “serious.” On several occasions during a fateful interview at the White House just days into the new administration, the former national security adviser lied to F.B.I. agents about his contacts during the transition with the former Russian ambassador. Mr. Flynn and the ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, discussed ways to undercut Obama administration policy in the Middle East and toward Russia. We do not yet know whether Mr. Flynn, a former Army lieutenant general and director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, did this on his own initiative or on orders from Mr. Trump or someone close to him. After that fiasco, Mr. Flynn found himself in further legal jeopardy when he hid from the Justice Department the true extent of his lobbying work for Turkey, for which he acted as a foreign agent during the campaign and in support of which he wrote an op-ed published on Election Day 2016. That Mr. Mueller didn’t charge Mr. Flynn for this violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act was part of the sentencing deal — and a reason Mr. Flynn may have felt compelled to tell the special counsel everything he knows. And what he knows, apparently, is quite a lot, as Mr. Mueller’s filing to the judge who will be sentencing Mr. Flynn indicates, with heavy redactions detailing nonpublic aspects of the Russia investigation plus a continuing criminal probe that seems unrelated to the larger inquiry. We won’t know until we know, but it is
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Michigan GOP moves to strip Democratic officeholders’ power By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press
LANSING, Mich. — Republicans who control Michigan’s Legislature voted Wednesday to advance a measure that strips campaign-finance oversight power from the Democratic secretary of stateelect, and they moved to give lawmakers authority to stand up for GOP-backed laws if they think the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general are not adequately defending the state’s interests. The lame-duck moves followed within hours of similar efforts in Wisconsin, where lawmakers voted earlier Wednesday to shift clout to the Republican-controlled Legislature and weaken the Democrat replacing the GOP governor. Michigan Democrats in January will jointly hold the governor, attorney general and secretary offices for the first time in 28 years, but the Legislature will continue to be controlled by Republicans. A day after GOP lawmakers finalized an unprecedented maneuver to gut minimum wage and paid sick leave laws, a Senate panel passed legislation that would create the Fair Political Practices Commission to enforce the campaign-finance law rather than Secretary of State-elect Jocelyn Benson, who ran in part on a pledge to advocate
for election transparency. Democrats called the bill, which could clear the full Senate on Thursday, a blatant power grab that would fly in the face of voters. Republican Gov. Rick Snyder has not taken a position on the measure or others. “At no point did voters say they wanted the rules manipulated. At no point did they say they wanted bills rushed through a hasty lame-duck session,” said Patrick Schuh, state director for the liberal group America Votes. He questioned the timing, saying such a commission was not proposed until a Democrat is on the verge of leading the secretary of state office for the first time in two-dozen years. Republicans defended the legislation, saying the six-member panel of three Democrats and three Republicans would initially be appointed by Democratic Gov.-elect Gretchen Whitmer. Eric Doster, a former long-time lawyer for the state GOP, testified that the commission would operate similarly to those in other states and said “now the time is right.” Other critics of the bill, however, contended that the commission would be ineffectual, saying its members would deadlock and be accountable to political parties that would submit a list of possible appointees to the governor. Also Wednesday, the House voted 58-50
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for legislation that would empower the Legislature, House or Senate to intervene in any suit at any stage, a right already granted to the attorney general. A bill that won Senate approval on a 25-12 vote over Democrats’ objections would influence how Benson implements a new voter-approved constitutional amendment that establishes an independent redistricting commission to draw congressional and legislative maps instead of the partisan Legislature. The former measure is seen as a maneuver to ensure that Republicans could support laws if Democratic Gov.-elect Gretchen Whitmer and Democratic Attorney General-elect Nessel are lukewarm about GOP-passed measures and drop appeals in cases the state loses. Nessel, for example, has said she probably will not defend a law allowing faithbased groups to refuse to serve same-sex couples who want to adopt children. There could also be cases where legislators want to take the same side as the attorney general but make a different legal argument. Republicans disputed criticism that the legislation would undermine the role of the attorney general. The sponsor, Rep. Rob VerHeulen of Walker, said it would simply let the Legislature intervene without the court approval that it currently needs, regardless of which party is in power.
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Changes are happening in the Democratic Party People may not be aware of the change that has occurred in the Democratic Party. People who are not Democrats can run under the party’s umbrella as an independent or nonpartisan. The party is opening up to be more inclusive. Paul Seaton ran as a nonpartisan and Alyse Galvin ran as an independent. Neither are Democrats, but they were the most popular candidates so the Democrats ran them. The party has the mechanism in place to do so. Both were in control of their own campaigns and raised funds independently. Paul Seaton left the Republican Party, but did not become a Democrat. As we know from years of service, he’s an intelligent, pragmatic, reasonable person willing to compromise, working across party lines, to reach the best solutions for the people. He called himself nonpartisan. The Democrats allowed him to run on their ticket. Alyse Galvin was not beholden to either party. She won in the primary against the democratic candidate so the Democrats allowed her to run on their ticket. She called herself independent. I can almost see there being only one party, but the bigmoneyed corporations want their own.
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undeniable that Mr. Flynn was useful to the special counsel. And lest we forget: Mr. Flynn himself is the reason there is a special counsel. Had it not been for Mr. Trump’s desire to interfere with the F.B.I.’s pursuit of the man who led chants of “lock her up” at the
Republican National Convention — and the subsequent firing of James Comey over his refusal to let go of the broader counterintelligence investigation — Mr. Mueller would not have been appointed. Mr. Flynn always played a central role in this sprawling saga, and his own Rus-
sia connections never ceased to be problematic. His coming sentencing after a year of valuable cooperation with prosecutors brings us a step closer to learning why Mr. Trump was so invested in him. — The New York Times, Dec. 5
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Police arrest 84 in European crackdown on Italian mob
By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — In an investigation that underscored an Italian crime syndicate’s role as a leading player in international cocaine trafficking, police in four countries arrested at least 84 suspected mobsters Wednesday in a series of carefully coordinated raids. Those detained allegedly work for the Italian ‘ndrangheta criminal network that traffics in cocaine on a global scale. “It’s almost a cliche, but the operation carried out today confirms again the great danger of the ‘ndrangheta, not just in drug trafficking, where it’s the undisputed leader, but (also) in the financial sphere,” said Francesco Ratta, a top police official in the southern Italian region of Calabria. “It’s an evolved ‘ndrangheta, that we can say knows no borders … It’s an ‘ndrangheta that day by day changes its skin … but still keeps ties” to its home base in Calabria. European officials announced the arrests at the Hague headquarters of Eurojust, the European Union prosecutors agency set up to bolster the fight against cross-border crime in
Masked police stand in an ice parlor in Duisburg, western Germany, Wednesday, as authorities conduct coordinated raids in Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands in a crackdown on the Italian mafia. (Christoph Reichwein/dpa via AP)
the 28-nation bloc. Eurojust and EU police agency Europol coordinated the raids. “Today we send a clear message to organized crime groups across Europe,” said Filippo Spiezia, vice president of Eurojust, the EU prosecution agency that coordinated the raids.
“They are not the only ones able to operate across borders; so are Europe’s judiciary and law enforcement communities.” As well as arresting dozens of suspected mobsters in Italy, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, police seized drugs and around $2.3 million.
It was the second significant mob takedown in as many days. On Tuesday, Italian authorities said they had dismantled the rebuilt upper echelons of the Mafia in the Sicilian capital of Palermo by arresting 46 people, including the man presumed to have taken over as provincial kingpin.
Global carbon pollution up in 2018 WASHINGTON (AP) — After several years of little growth, global emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide experienced their largest jump in seven years, discouraging scientists. World carbon dioxide emissions are estimated to have risen 2.7 percent from 2017 to 2018, according to three studies released Wednesday from the Global Carbon Project , an international scientific collaboration of academics, governments and industry that tracks greenhouse gas emissions. The calculations,
announced during negotiations to put the 2015 Paris climate accord into effect, puts some of the landmark agreement’s goals nearly out of reach, scientists said. “This is terrible news,” said Andrew Jones, co-director of Climate Interactive, which models greenhouse gas emissions and temperatures but was not part of the research. “Every year that we delay serious climate action, the Paris goals become more difficult to meet.” The studies concluded that this year the world would spew
40.9 billion tons of carbon dioxide, up from 39.8 billion tons last year. The margin of error is about one percentage point on either side. The Global Carbon Project uses government and industry reports to come up with final emission figures for 2017 and projections for 2018 based on the four biggest polluters: China, the United States, India and the European Union. The U.S., which had been steadily decreasing its carbon pollution, showed a significant
rise in emissions — up 2.5 percent — for the first time since 2013. China, the globe’s biggest carbon emitter, saw its largest increase since 2011: 4.6 percent. Study lead author Corinne Le Quere, a climate change researcher at the University of East Anglia in England, said the increase is a surprising “reality check” after a few years of smaller emission increases. But she also doesn’t think the world will return to the even larger increases seen from 2003 to 2008. She believes unusual factors are at play this year.
Border Patrol agent charged with capital murder By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press
DALLAS — A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been charged with capital murder after telling investigators he killed four sex workers whom he considered worthless and that he thought he was performing a service for his Texas border hometown, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Webb County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz said he will seek the death penalty if Juan David Ortiz is found guilty in the September slayings. “The scheme in this case, from Ortiz’s own words, was to clean up the streets of Laredo by targeting this community of individuals who he perceived to be disposable, that no one would miss and that he did not give value to,” Alaniz said at a news conference. Ortiz, 35, thought he was doing his civic service by killing the women, the prosecutor said. A suspect can be charged with capital murder if he is suspected in more than one killing in the same scheme with an overarching motive, Alaniz said. Three of the women were shot to death and one died of blunt force trauma. “The evidence that was pre-
This file photo provided by the Webb County Sheriff’s Office shows U.S. Border Patrol agent Juan David Ortiz. Ortiz, who confessed to shooting four women in the head and leaving their bodies on rural Texas roadsides, was indicted Wednesday on a capital murder charge. (Webb County Sheriff’s Office via AP, File)
sented to the grand jury this morning showed that he killed these four innocent individuals in a cold, callous and calculating way,” he said. Alaniz said the horrific nature of the killings and Ortiz’s vigilante mentality were factors in his decision to pursue the death penalty. Ortiz, who has been held in Webb County jail on a $2.5 million bond since his Sept. 15 arrest in Laredo, presents a clear danger to society, he
said. The Border Patrol intel supervisor and Navy veteran seemed to be living a typical suburban life with his wife and two children when the killings occurred. After the first slaying, Ortiz continued going to work as usual. He was only arrested after one victim was able to escape him and asked a state trooper for help. “By day, he was a family man. The evidence shows that he was a supervisor, that he would go about
his daily activities like anybody here. He appeared normal by all accounts and circumstances,” Alaniz said. “At the nighttime, he was somebody else — hunting the streets … for this community of people and arbitrarily deciding who he was going to kill next.” Authorities have said Ortiz knew some of the victims and that he targeted them for their vulnerability. Melissa Ramirez, 29, was slain on Sept. 3, and 42-year-old Claudine Luera was killed on Sept. 13. On Sept. 14, he picked up another woman, Erika Pena, who told investigators that Ortiz acted oddly when she brought up Ramirez’s slaying and later pointed a gun at her in a gas station, according to court documents. Pena said Ortiz grabbed her shirt as she tried to get out of his truck, but she pulled it off and ran, finding a state trooper who was refueling his vehicle. Ortiz fled and, he later told investigators, he then picked up and killed his last two victims — 35-year-old Guiselda Alicia Cantu and 28-year-old Janelle Ortiz, a transgender woman whose birth name was Humberto Ortiz. With Pena’s help, authorities were able to track Ortiz to a hotel parking garage where he was arrested.
2 US warplanes crash off Japan; 1 rescued, 6 missing By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
TOKYO — Two American warplanes crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Japan’s southwestern coast after a midair collision early Thursday, and rescuers found one of the seven crew members in stable condition while searching for the others, officials said.
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The U.S. Marine Corps said that the 2 a.m. crash involved an F/A-18 fighter jet and a KC-130 refueling aircraft during regular training after the planes took off from their base in Iwakuni, near Hiroshima in western Japan. The crash took place 200 miles off the coast. Japan’s Defense Ministry said the aircraft carrying seven
crew members in total collided and crashed into the sea south of the Muroto Cape on Shikoku island in southwestern Japan. The Maritime Self-Defense Force, which dispatched aircraft and vessels to join in the search operation, said Japanese rescuers found one of the crew members in stable condition. The Marine Corps said
the rescued crew was taken to a hospital at its base in Iwakuni and was being treated, but did not provide any other details. Japanese officials said two crew members were in the F/A-18, and five others in the KC-130. The crash is the latest in recent series of accidents involving the U.S. military deployed to and near Japan.
USA Gymnastics is turning to bankruptcy in an attempt to ensure its survival. The embattled organization filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition on Wednesday in an effort to reach settlements in the dozens of sex-abuse lawsuits it faces and to avoid its potential demise at the hands of the U.S. Olympic Committee. USA Gymnastics filed the petition in Indianapolis, where it is based. It faces 100 lawsuits representing over 350 athletes in various courts across the country who blame the group for failing to supervise Larry Nassar, a team doctor accused of molesting them. Nassar, 55, worked at USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University for decades. He is serving effective life sentences for child porn possession and molesting young women and girls under the guise of medical treatment. Kathryn Carson, the recently elected chairwoman of USA Gymnastics’ board of directors, said the organization’s goal is to speed things up after mediation attempts failed to gain traction. “Those discussions were not moving at any pace,” Carson said. “We as a board felt this was a critical imperative and decided to take this action.” The filing does not affect the amount of money available to victims, which would come from previously purchased insurance coverage, she said. Carson said the insurance companies “are aware we’re taking this action and our expectation is they will come to the table and pay on our coverage.” Carson added: “This is not a liquidation. This is a reorganization.” John Manly, an attorney representing dozens of women who have pending lawsuits
against USA Gymnastics, chastised the organization for continuing to “inflict unimaginable pain on survivors” and encouraged law enforcement officials to “redouble” their investigative efforts. “Today’s bankruptcy filing by USA Gymnastics was the inevitable result of the inability of this organization to meet its core responsibility of protecting its athlete members from abuse,” Manly said in a statement. “The leadership of USA Gymnastics has proven itself to be both morally and financially bankrupt.” USA Gymnastics insists that’s not the case, stressing that the filing is based on legal expediency, not fiscal distress. While Carson acknowledged that sponsorship is down since the first women came forward against Nassar in the fall of 2016, she described the financial condition of USA Gymnastics as “stable.” USA Gymnastics reported assets in a range of $50 million to $100 million and a similar range of liabilities, with 1,000 to 5,000 creditors. The organization said its largest unsecured creditor is former president and CEO Steve Penny, who is owed $339,999.96. USA Gymnastics is disputing Penny’s claim, though attorney Cathy Steege declined to get into the specific nature of the dispute. Penny resigned under pressure from the USOC in March 2017. Two other presidents — Kerry Perry and former U.S. Rep. Mary Bono — have followed in what has become a revolving door amid the organization’s hierarchy. It’s that chaos at the top that led the USOC to initiate the process of removing USA Gymnastics as the sport’s national governing body at the Olympic level — a step that’s taken only under the most extreme circumstances.
Today in History Today is Thursday, Dec. 6, the 340th day of 2018. There are 25 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On Dec. 6, 1907, the worst mining disaster in U.S. history occurred as 362 men and boys died in a coal mine explosion in Monongah, West Virginia. On this date: In 1790, Congress moved to Philadelphia from New York. In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery, was ratified as Georgia became the 27th state to endorse it. In 1884, Army engineers completed construction of the Washington Monument by setting an aluminum capstone atop the obelisk. In 1917, some 2,000 people were killed when an explosives-laden French cargo ship, the Mont Blanc, collided with the Norwegian vessel Imo at the harbor in Halifax, Nova Scotia, setting off a blast that devastated the Canadian city. Finland declared its independence from Russia. In 1923, a presidential address was broadcast on radio for the first time as President Coolidge spoke to a joint session of Congress. In 1947, Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by President Harry S. Truman. In 1957, America’s first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit failed as Vanguard TV3 rose about four feet off a Cape Canaveral launch pad before crashing down and exploding. In 1973, House minority leader Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew. In 1982, 11 soldiers and six civilians were killed when an Irish National Liberation Army bomb exploded at a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland. In 1989, 14 women were shot to death at the University of Montreal’s school of engineering by a man who then took his own life. In 1998, in Venezuela, former Lt. Col. Hugo Chavez (OO’-goh CHAH’vez), who had staged a bloody coup attempt against the government six years earlier, was elected president. In 2001, The House of Representatives, by a one-vote margin, gave President George W. Bush more power to negotiate global trade deals. President Bush dedicated the national Christmas tree to those who had died on Sept. 11 and to service members who had died in the line of duty. Ten years ago: President-elect Barack Obama said in a Saturday radio and Internet address that he’d asked his economic team for a recovery plan that would save or create more than 2 million jobs. Indicted Democratic U.S. Rep. William Jefferson was ousted from his New Orleans area district in a special election won by Republican attorney Anh “Joseph” Cao, who became the first Vietnamese-American in Congress. Heiress Martha “Sunny” von Bulow, who’d spent the last 28 years of her life in a coma, died in New York City at age 76. Five years ago: A day after Nelson Mandela’s death at 95, South Africans of all colors erupted in song, dance and tears in emotional celebrations of the life of the man who had bridged the country’s black-white divide and helped avert a race war. The Fender Stratocaster that Bob Dylan played at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival was sold at Christie’s for nearly $1 million -- the highest price ever paid for a guitar at auction. One year ago: President Donald Trump declared Jerusalem to be Israel’s capital, defying warnings from the Palestinians and others around the world that he would be destroying hopes for Mideast peace. Time magazine named as its Person of the Year the “Silence Breakers” - those who had shared their stories about sexual assault and harassment. A wildfire erupted in the exclusive Bel-Air section of Los Angeles, the latest neighborhood of Southern California to find itself under siege from an outbreak of wind-driven blazes. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he would seek re-election, putting him on track to become Russia’s longest-serving ruler since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Today’s Birthdays: Comedy performer David Ossman is 82. Actor Patrick Bauchau is 80. Country singer Helen Cornelius is 77. Actor James Naughton is 73. Former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is 73. Rhythm-and-blues singer Frankie Beverly (Maze) is 72. Former Sen. Don Nickles, R-Okla., is 70. Actress JoBeth Williams is 70. Actor Tom Hulce is 65. Actor Wil Shriner is 65. Actor Kin Shriner is 65. Actor Miles Chapin is 64. Rock musician Rick Buckler (The Jam) is 63. Comedian Steven Wright is 63. Country singer Bill Lloyd is 63. Singer Tish Hinojosa is 63. Rock musician Peter Buck (R.E.M.) is 62. Rock musician David Lovering (Pixies) is 57. Actress Janine Turner is 56. Rock musician Ben Watt (Everything But The Girl) is 56. Writer-director Judd Apatow is 51. Rock musician Ulf “Buddha” Ekberg (Ace of Base) is 48. Writer-director Craig Brewer is 47. Actress Colleen Haskell is 42. Actress Lindsay Price is 42. Actress Ashley Madekwe is 37. Actress Nora Kirkpatrick is 34. Christian rock musician Jacob Chesnut (Rush of Fools) is 29. Tennis player CoCo Vandeweghe is 27. Football quarterback Johnny Manziel is 26. Thought for Today: “Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.” -- Kathleen Norris, American author (18801960).
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Cardinals trade for D-Backs superstar Goldschmidt By BOB BAUM AP Sports Writer
PHOENIX — The St. Louis Cardinals struck gold in their search for a big hitter, acquiring slugging first baseman Paul Goldschmidt in a blockbuster trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday. Eager to push for the playoffs after a three-year absence, St. Louis sent pitcher Luke Weaver, catcher Carson Kelly, minor league infielder Andy Young and a 2019 draft pick to Arizona. A six-time All-Star and three-time Gold Glove winner at 31, Goldschmidt was among the top players available in the trade market. He hit .290 with 33 home runs and 83 RBIs last season. “We’ve been busy this offseason working to upgrade our lineup, and today we are excited to announce the
acquisition of one of the game’s premier players,” Cardinals President of Baseball Operations John Mozeliak said in a statement. Goldschmidt has a $14.5 million salary next year, receives a $1 million assignment bonus for the trade and will be eligible for free agency after next season. The Cardinals have a history of acquiring top hitters and then signing them to long-term deals, including Mark McGwire and Matt Holliday. St. Louis went 88-74 last season and felt it needed a boost in the middle of a lineup that includes Matt Carpenter, Marcell Ozuna and Yadier Molina to compete with the likes of Milwaukee and the Chicago Cubs in the NL Central. The Cardinals’ postseason drought is their longest since 1997-99. Free-agent slugger Bryce Harper has supposedly been on the Cards’
wish list, too, with the winter meetings coming up this weekend. Last offseason, the Cardinals had worked out a deal with Miami for NL MVP Giancarlo Stanton, but he refused to waive his no-trade clause. Arizona went 82-80 in the NL West and finished behind the Los Angeles Dodgers and Colorado, which both made the playoffs. The Diamondbacks parted ways with a homegrown player who grew to be the face of the franchise but is nearing the end of an extremely teamfriendly contract. The quiet slugger was selected by Arizona in the eighth round of the 2009 draft and made his major league debut in 2011. In 2013, Goldschmidt hit 36 home runs and drove in 125. In 2017, he matched that home-run high with 36 and drove in 120. He is a .297 career hitter with 209 home runs, and was
runner-up in the NL MVP voting in 2013 and 2015. “Certainly this is a bittersweet decision on our part,” Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen said on a conference call. “I don’t think I could overestimate the impact that Paul had on our team.” Hazen said the key to the deal was what the Cardinals offered in return. If there was no trade, the Diamondbacks faced the prospect of Goldschmidt leaving as a free agent after next season. “There are decisions you want to do and there are decisions you know you have to do,” Hazen said. He said he understood fans’ disappointment. “Paul is possibly the best player in the National League,” Hazen said. “We understand that. We’ve understood that for a long time.”
Despite an awful start to last season, he bounced back to once again become a powerful force. Goldschmidt was the Diamondbacks’ franchise leader in slugging percentage and on-base percentage. “This was an extremely difficult decision given how much Paul has meant to our team both on and off the field. He represents everything it means to be a D-back, and we are very thankful to him for all that he has done for our franchise and our fans,” Diamondbacks President Derrick Hall said. Weaver, a 25-year-old right-hander, was 7-11 with a 4.95 ERA last season. He was long rated among the top St. Louis prospects and Hazen expects him to immediately join the rotation. The 24-year-old Kelly has played for the Cardinals in parts of the past three seasons, batting .154. He is highly regarded for his defensive ability.
Hockey teams join Ducks beat struggling Blackhawks in to raise funds for quake repairs By The Associated Press
By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion
The Soldotna and Homer high school hockey programs are coming together to help the Big Lake Lions Community Rec Center. The Mariners will host the Stars at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Kevin Bell Arena in Homer, with all proceeds from the gate going to help the Big Lake Lions Community Rec Center pay for damages from the recent earthquake. This will be the conference game for the two sides that had been scheduled for Tuesday. The idea started with the Soldotna hockey booster club. Soldotna was supposed to play this weekend in a tournament at the Big Lake Lions Community Rec Center, but the tournament was canceled. Homer was supposed to play a couple of games in Anchorage this weekend, but those games were in limbo due to the earthquake. So the two programs got together and decided to play Friday’s game for the Big Lake
Lions Community Rec Center. The Kevin Bell Arena has donated the ice time, while the referees also have donated their time. “Condolences to all people affected by the earthquake,” SoHi hockey coach Indy Walton said. “We had very little damage done down here, but it has very far-reaching consequences in the lives of people we all know up there.” Both Walton and Homer coach Steve Nevak said this is a chance for the players to learn a good lesson. “We talked in the locker room and I mentioned hockey is one big family,” Nevak said. “No matter where you go in the world, if you have a hockey bag and a stick you’ll be welcomed in any rink. “That’s what separates our sport.” Those fans that cannot make it to the game wishing to donate can do so on gofundme.com by searching for “Big Lake Rec Center.” The center is trying to raise $75,000 for repairs. As of Wednesday night, less than $3,000 had been raised.
Ski meet scrapped Staff report Peninsula Clarion
Due to low snow conditions, the popular Lynx Loppet high school ski race in Anchorage has been cancelled. The two-day event was
scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Kincaid Park in Anchorage. The Lynx Loppet typically brings in teams from around the state in one of the biggest meets of the year, and it gives coaches a good look at their nordic ski programs against other schools.
Curry sinks 42 points a point shy of his career high, leadCLEVELAND — Stephen ing them to a fourth straight vicCurry made nine 3-pointers and tory in a game they trailed big for scored 42 points, Kevin Durant much of the way. By The Associated Press
added 25 and the Golden State Warriors came back to face a very different looking Cleveland team for the first time since winning another NBA title, and beat the Cavaliers 129-105 on Wednesday night. Curry scored nine points in less than a minute midway through the fourth quarter to help the Warriors pull away for their eighth straight over their former Finals rivals. Curry added nine rebounds, seven assists and appears completely healed after missing 11 games with a strained groin. Durant had 10 rebounds and nine assists. LAKERS 121, SPURS 113
LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James scored 20 of his 42 points in the fourth quarter and Josh Hart hit two clutch 3-pointers in the final minutes as Los Angeles beat San Antonio for its fourth straight victory.
THUNDER 114, NETS 112 NEW YORK (AP) — Paul George scored 25 of his 47 points in a sensational fourth quarter, including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 3.1 seconds left that lifted Oklahoma City past Brooklyn. George rallied the Thunder from a 23-point deficit and finished
RAPTORS 113, 76ERS 102 TORONTO (AP) — Kawhi Leonard had 36 points, Jonas Valanciunas scored 18 of his seasonhigh 26 in the fourth quarter and Toronto handed Philadelphia its 13th consecutive loss in Canada.
NUGGETS 124, MAGIC 118, OT ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Jamal Murray scored 31 points and Denver shut down Orlando in overtime for its seventh straight victory.
TIMBERWOLVES 121, HORNETS 104 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — KarlAnthony Towns scored 35 points, Andrew Wiggins added a seasonhigh 26 points and Minnesota beat Charlotte for its sixth victory in seven games.
PELICANS 132, MAVERICKS 106 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Julius Randle had 27 points and 18 rebounds to help New Orleans beat Dallas. Anthony Davis had 27 points, a career-high nine assists and five blocks despite twisting his ankle and briefly leaving the court for treatment after stepping on Dorian Finney-Smith’s foot.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Ondrej Kase scored four minutes into the third period to lift the Anaheim Ducks over the Chicago Blackhawks 4-2 on Wednesday night for their fifth straight win. Anaheim matched Toronto for the longest active winning streak in the league. Brandon Montour and Daniel Sprong, who was making his Ducks debut, scored 20 seconds apart in the first period, and Jakob Silfverberg added an empty-net goal. John Gibson made 25 saves. Erik Gustafsson and Alex DeBrincat scored in the second period, and Corey Crawford stopped 28 shots for the Blackhawks, who have dropped five straight and seven of eight. The Ducks came into the game nextto-last in the NHL in first-period goals but scored a pair in the first 20 minutes for only the third time this season. Mon-
tour took a pass from Pontus Aberg near the blue line and fired a 54-foot wrist shot past a screened Crawford for his third of the season less than six minutes in. Sprong, who was acquired in a trade from Pittsburgh on Monday, then beat Crawford top shelf with a shot at a sharp angle. SHARKS 5, HURRICANES 1 SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Timo Meier had a goal and two assists in his return to San Jose’s lineup, Martin Jones made 39 saves and the Sharks bounced back from a rough road trip by beating Carolina. Barclay Goodrow and Tomas Hertl got San Jose started with goals in the first period, captain Joe Pavelski added his team-leading 18th in the second period and Marcus Sorensen scored in the third to give the Sharks a convincing victory. Lucas Wallmark scored on the power play
for the Hurricanes, who have scored just five goals in the past five games, losing four of them. Curtis McElhinney made 18 saves. The Sharks had been outscored 20-7 in losing the first four games on their recent road trip before salvaging it a bit with a 3-1 win in Montreal. They built on that momentum against the Hurricanes with Kevin Labanc setting up two goals in the first 10:10 and Jones stopping 17 shots in the first.
OILERS 3, BLUES 2, SO ST. LOUIS (AP) — Connor McDavid scored in the shootout after Oscar Klefbom tied it late in the third period, and Edmonton beat St. Louis. Klefbom scored with 55.2 seconds remaining to tie the game at 2, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and McDavid scored in the shootout. Nugent-Hopkins also scored in the second period, and Edmonton won for the fourth time in five games.
Scoreboard basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 21 5 .808 — Philadelphia 17 9 .654 4 Boston 13 10 .565 6½ New York 8 17 .320 12½ Brooklyn 8 18 .308 13 Southeast Division Orlando 12 13 .480 — Charlotte 11 13 .458 ½ Washington 11 14 .440 1 Miami 9 14 .391 2 Atlanta 5 20 .200 7 Central Division Milwaukee 16 7 .696 — Detroit 13 9 .591 2½ Indiana 14 10 .583 2½ Cleveland 5 19 .208 11½ Chicago 5 20 .200 12 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Memphis 14 9 .609 — Dallas 12 11 .522 2 New Orleans 13 13 .500 2½ Houston 11 12 .478 3 San Antonio 11 14 .440 4 Northwest Division Denver 17 7 .708 — Oklahoma City 16 7 .696 ½ Portland 13 11 .542 4 Minnesota 13 12 .520 4½ Utah 12 13 .480 5½ Pacific Division L.A. Clippers 16 8 .667 — Golden State 17 9 .654 — L.A. Lakers 15 9 .625 1 Sacramento 12 11 .522 3½ Phoenix 4 20 .167 12 Wednesday’s Games Denver 124, Orlando 118, OT Golden State 129, Cleveland 105 Oklahoma City 114, Brooklyn 112 Washington 131, Atlanta 117 Memphis 96, L.A. Clippers 86 Milwaukee 115, Detroit 92 Minnesota 121, Charlotte 104 New Orleans 132, Dallas 106 Toronto 113, Philadelphia 102 L.A. Lakers 121, San Antonio 113 Thursday’s Games New York at Boston, 4 p.m. Phoenix at Portland, 6 p.m. Houston at Utah, 6:30 p.m. All Times AST
College Scores EAST Buffalo 89, Le Moyne 55 Canisius 68, Robert Morris 62 Colgate 64, Columbia 62 Drexel 95, Loyola (Md.) 86 Duquesne 93, Marshall 82 George Washington 68, Towson 64 Hofstra 75, Monmouth (NJ) 73 Navy 80, Delaware 65 Quinnipiac 64, Dartmouth 59 Saint Joseph’s 92, Princeton 82 St. Bonaventure 82, Siena 40 St. John’s 85, Mount St. Mary’s 71 Stony Brook 69, Manhattan 62 UConn 90, Lafayette 63 Villanova 69, Temple 59 Yale 97, Lehigh 87 SOUTH Coastal Carolina 75, Hampton 66 Duke 84, Hartford 54 E. Kentucky 79, SC-Upstate 77 FAU 68, Mercer 64 Louisiana-Lafayette 97, Loyola (NO) 84 Louisville 86, Cent. Arkansas 41 Morgan St. 74, Binghamton 68 NC State 100, W. Carolina 67 New Orleans 71, South Alabama 60 North Carolina 97, UNC-Wilmington 69
Old Dominion 71, William & Mary 53 Richmond 82, Coppin St. 47 Stetson 68, W. Illinois 64 The Citadel 127, Johnson & Wales (NC) 93 Tulane 87, UT Martin 74 Vanderbilt 79, Middle Tennessee 51 Virginia Tech 89, VMI 68 MIDWEST Ball St. 75, Loyola of Chicago 69 Butler 70, Brown 55 Cleveland St. 82, Bowling Green 64 Ill.-Chicago 94, Illinois St. 75 Miami (Ohio) 65, Wright St. 62 Minnesota 85, Nebraska 78 Missouri St. 84, W. Kentucky 78 N. Illinois 71, UC Davis 62 North Texas 80, Indiana St. 69 Ohio St. 77, Illinois 67 Purdue Fort Wayne 68, Akron 65 Rio Grande 70, North Dakota 56 S. Illinois 61, Saint Louis 56 Toledo 101, Detroit 57 Xavier 82, Ohio 61
UAB 66, Samford 41 Virginia 57, American U. 54 Wake Forest 69, Charlotte 43 William & Mary 65, Richmond 55 MIDWEST Akron 67, St. Bonaventure 58 Creighton 66, Nebraska-Omaha 51 DePaul 76, Northwestern 60 E. Michigan 60, Detroit 53 Ill.-Chicago 62, Evansville 54 Illinois 75, Indiana St. 57 Indiana 66, Butler 46 Iowa 73, Iowa St. 70 Kansas St. 73, Lamar 55 Miami (Ohio) 78, Cincinnati 65 Michigan St. 102, Oakland 58 Minnesota 75, Incarnate Word 39 Nebraska 58, Kansas 52 Ohio 80, Purdue 73 Toledo 65, Cleveland St. 60 SOUTHWEST North Texas 100, Houston Baptist 75 Oklahoma 65, Cent. Arkansas 52 Utah St. 62, UTSA 56
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FAR WEST
Florida Gulf Coast 96, Oral Roberts 76 TCU 67, SMU 59 Texas State 61, Texas A&M-CC 55 Texas Tech 65, Ark.-Pine Bluff 47 Tulsa 74, Oklahoma St. 71 VCU 54, Texas 53
Arizona 100, Montana 51 Colorado St. 65, N. Arizona 54 New Mexico 69, UTEP 51 Pepperdine 68, Weber St. 47 San Francisco 86, Sacramento St. 75 Washington 69, Ohio St. 59
FAR WEST Air Force 73, Denver 65 Arkansas 98, Colorado St. 74 BYU 95, Utah St. 80 CS Northridge 76, Cal State San Marcos 72 Fresno St. 71, Weber St. 52 Gonzaga 81, Washington 79 Long Beach St. 82, S. Utah 71 Loyola Marymount 59, Cal St.Fullerton 49 Pacific 74, Texas of the Permian Basin 69 Portland St. 87, Portland 78 San Diego 73, San Diego St. 61 San Francisco 79, California 60 UC Irvine 69, California Baptist 66 Washington St. 90, Idaho 70 Wyoming 73, South Carolina 64
Women’s College Scores EAST Army 62, Fairleigh Dickinson 40 CCSU 60, Albany (NY) 53 Cal St.-Fullerton 61, Columbia 58 Colgate 61, Mass.-Lowell 52 Dartmouth 64, Boston U. 44 Delaware St. 79, Cheyney University (PA) 59 Duquesne 64, Penn St. 58 Florida Gulf Coast 83, St. Francis (Pa.) 69 Holy Cross 72, Hofstra 66 Niagara 79, Binghamton 72 Northeastern 59, Fairfield 50 Penn 65, La Salle 34 Pittsburgh 65, Fordham 62 Syracuse 96, Md.-Eastern Shore 51 SOUTH Campbell 65, William Peace 36 Clemson 83, High Point 64 Coastal Carolina 128, Meredith 39 E. Kentucky 90, Kentucky Christian 35 Elon 73, Davidson 72 Florida 64, Bethune-Cookman 53 Florida St. 57, Mercer 56 Georgia Tech 69, Alabama St. 42 NC State 83, Hampton 51 North Carolina 82, UNC-Wilmington 55 South Alabama 72, Alabama 67 South Carolina 80, Appalachian St. 50 Tennessee 65, Stetson 55
hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 29 21 7 1 43 114 85 Toronto 28 20 8 0 40 102 73 Buffalo 29 17 8 4 38 89 82 Boston 27 14 9 4 32 71 69 Montreal 28 13 10 5 31 88 90 Detroit 28 12 12 4 28 81 93 Florida 26 11 10 5 27 87 91 Ottawa 28 12 13 3 27 100 114 Metropolitan Division Washington 27 15 9 3 33 98 88 Columbus 27 15 10 2 32 96 92 N.Y. Islanders 26 13 10 3 29 77 75 N.Y. Rangers 28 13 12 3 29 80 88 Carolina 27 12 11 4 28 67 76 Pittsburgh 26 11 10 5 27 89 87 Philadelphia 25 11 12 2 24 76 88 New Jersey 26 9 12 5 23 75 91
WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division 28 19 8 1 39 90 67 28 16 7 5 37 102 79 27 17 8 2 36 94 78 28 15 10 3 33 78 72 27 15 10 2 32 86 78 29 9 15 5 23 79 108 26 9 13 4 22 76 88 Pacific Division Calgary 28 17 9 2 36 100 82 30 15 10 5 35 74 85 Anaheim San Jose 29 14 10 5 33 90 90 Vegas 29 15 13 1 31 87 81 Edmonton 28 14 12 2 30 74 85 Arizona 26 13 11 2 28 68 67 Vancouver 30 11 16 3 25 84 105 Los Angeles 28 10 17 1 21 59 84 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.
Nashville Colorado Winnipeg Dallas Minnesota Chicago St. Louis
Wednesday’s Games Edmonton 3, St. Louis 2, SO Anaheim 4, Chicago 2 San Jose 5, Carolina 1 Thursday’s Games Detroit at Toronto, 3 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Pittsburgh, 3 p.m. Colorado at Florida, 3 p.m. Columbus at Philadelphia, 3 p.m. Montreal at Ottawa, 3:30 p.m. Boston at Tampa Bay, 3:30 p.m. Washington at Arizona, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Calgary, 5 p.m. Nashville at Vancouver, 6 p.m. Chicago at Vegas, 6 p.m. New Jersey at Los Angeles, 6:30 p.m.
All Times AST
football 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 Buffalo 4 8 0 .333 178 293 N.Y. Jets 3 9 0 .250 243 307 South Houston 9 3 0 .750 302 235 Indianapolis 6 6 0 .500 325 279 Tennessee 6 6 0 .500 221 245 Jacksonville 4 8 0 .333 203 243 North Pittsburgh 7 4 1 .625 346 282 Baltimore 7 5 0 .583 297 214 Cincinnati 5 7 0 .417 286 371 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 Denver 6 6 0 .500 276 262 Oakland 2 10 0 .167 220 367
NATIONAL CONFERENCE East 7 5 0 .583 247 223 6 6 0 .500 258 266 6 6 0 .500 233 257 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
Dallas Philadelphia Washington N.Y. Giants
Thursday’s Game Jacksonville at Tennessee, 4:20 p.m. 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 Game Minnesota at Seattle, 4:15 p.m. All Times AST
transactions BASEBALL American League DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Louis Coleman, Cs Kade Scivicque and Bobby Wilson and INF Kody Eaves on minor league contracts. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with INF-OF Chris Owings on a one-year contract. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Acquired RHP Luke Weaver, C Carson Kelly, INF Andrew Young and a 2019 competitive balance round B draft pick (No. 6) from the St. Louis Cardinals for INF Paul Goldschmidt. MIAMI MARLINS — Named Mel Stottlemyre Jr. pitching coach, Trey Hillman first base and infield
coach and Jeff Livesey assistant hitting coach. Promoted Kevin Barr to strength and conditioning coach. BASKETBALL Woman’s National Basketball Association LOS ANGELES SPARKS — Named Derek Fisher coach. FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Placed OL D.J. Humphries on injured reserve. Signed OL Joe Barksdale. Signed OL Rees Odhiambo from the Indianapolis practice squad. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Placed TE Greg Olsen on injured reserve. Signed WR Mose Frazier from the practice squad. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Placed WR A.J. Green on injured reserve. Activated CB Davontae Harris from injured reserve. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed OL Mason Gentry and WR Daniel Williams to the practice squad. Promoted OL Kyle Kalis from the practice squad. Placed DL Daniel Ekuale the reserve/suspended by commissioner list. DETROIT LIONS — Placed LB Jalen Reeves-Maybin on injured reserve. Promoted DE Eric Lee from the practice squad. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Claimed DL Fadol Brown off waivers from Oakland and CB Natrell Jamerson off waivers from Houston. Placed RB Tra Carson and CB Kevin King on injured reserve. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed OT De’Ondre Wesley to the practice squad. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed RB C.J. Anderson, CB Bene Benwikere and DE Kony Ealy. Placed WR Martavis Bryant, LB Shilique Calhoun and S Reggie Nelson on injured reserve. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Placed LB Dekoda Watson on the injured reserve list. Signed LS Colin Holba to a two-year contract. Promoted LB Pita Taumoepenu from the team’s practice squad. Signed S Terrell Williams Jr. to the practice squad. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Placed CB Quinton Dunbar, WR Trey Quinn and G Jonathan Cooper on injured reserve. Signed QB Josh Johnson, G Zac Kerin, C Demetrius Rhaney and DE Marcus Smith. HOCKEY National Hockey League OTTAWA SENATORS — Acquired D Stefan Elliott and F Tobias Lindberg from the Pittsburgh Penguins for D Macoy Erkamps and F Ben Sexton. SOCCER United Soccer League OTTAWA FURY FC — Signed general manager Julian de Guzman to a three-year contract. COLLEGE NCAA — Placed Oregon on two years probation for violating rules related to the men’s and women’s basketball teams and the track and field program and suspended women’s basketball coach Kelly Graves two games. Fined the school $5,000 plus 1 percent of the men’s and women’s basketball budgets. COLORADO — Named Mel Tucker football coach. MISSOURI — Extended the contract of Barry Odom football coach two years. SOUTHERN CAL — Named Kliff Kingsbury offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
Peninsula Clarion | Thursday, December 6, 2018 | A7
Pigskin Pick‘em Pair of 2017 playoff teams, now also-rans, match up for Thursday Jacksonville won the AFC South and Tennessee earned a wild-card playoff berth out of the division last season. Now, they get the prime-time spotlight on Thursday even though both are also-rans. Oh, the Titans (6-6) still are in the playoff chase. But it’s difficult to take serious a team that needs a late rally to beat the Jets. What’s happened to the Jaguars (48) is stunning. One quarter away from winning the AFC in January, they snapped a seven-game slide last Sunday by shutting down Andrew Luck and the Colts 6-0. The Jags will have running back Leonard Fournette, who was suspended for the Indy game. Tennessee has been vulnerable to the run. “Getting him back is going to be a huge boost, especially for our team,” safety Tashaun Gipson says. “We’re a physical team and we want to run the ball, get your playmakers the ball, and obviously he’s the best player we have on the offensive side of the ball.” The Titans’ best offensive player is, well, that’s a tough one. They rank 28th overall in yardage and only four teams have scored fewer than Tennes-
see’s 221 points. No. 16 (tie) Tennessee is a 4½-point favorite over No. 26 Jacksonville. This should be a defensive standoff but, no, we can’t go with 6-0. TITANS, 16-9 KNOCKOUT POOL: Seattle did the job with a romp last week, and now we expect something similar from DENVER.
No. 11 Minnesota (plus 2 1-2) at No. 9 Seattle, Monday night
No. 14 Denver (minus 5 1-2) at No. 32 San Francisco
Winner here has straight road to NFC wild-card spot. SEAHAWKS, 26-21
Broncos believing they have playoff shot. Can’t stumble here. BEST BET: BRONCOS, 27-17
No. 27 Cincinnati (plus 14) at No. 6 Los Angeles Chargers
No. 25 Detroit (minus 2) at No. 29 Arizona
Chargers figure they can win AFC West. Guess what: they still might. CHARGERS, 33-13
Not feeling any good vibes for Lions, especially when favored on road. UPSET SPECIAL: CARDINALS, 19-16
No. 12 Baltimore (plus 6 1-2) at No. 3 Kansas City
No. 15 Indianapolis (plus 4 1-2) at No. 5 Houston Texans can clinch AFC South if Titans lose and they win. TEXANS, 27-24
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Saints, and avenge opening defeat. SAINTS, 41-23
No. 23 (tie) New York Giants (minus 4) at No. 19 Washington
No. 1 Los Angeles Rams (minus 3) at No. 7 Chicago
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Oh, for the days of Bill Parcells vs. Joe Gibbs. GIANTS, 16-13 Toughest remaining test for Rams, who should handle it. No. 16 (tie) Carolina (minus 1 1-2) RAMS, 27-20 at No. 22 Cleveland No. 4 New England (minus 8) at No. 18 Miami
Panthers have lost their mojo. This loss will shatter playoff chances. BROWNS, 22-20 Patriots still eyeing top seed in AFC. No. 23 (tie) Atlanta (plus 5 1-2) at PATRIOTS, 34-24 No. 21 Green Bay No. 13 Philadelphia (plus 4) at No. 10 Dallas
Aaron Rodgers’ first start without Mike McCarthy as coach. PACKERS, 33-31 Cowboys can pretty much waltz away with NFC East with win. Start No. 30 New York Jets (plus 3 1-2) at the music. No. 28 Buffalo COWBOYS, 23-20
Countdown is on for Todd Bowles as next coach fired. BILLS, 20-9 2018 RECORD: Oh, for the days of John Madden Last Week: Against spread (8-8). vs. Chuck Noll. No. 2 New Orleans (minus 8) at Straight up (9-7) STEELERS, 36-30 No. 20 Tampa Bay Season Totals: Against spread (95Time to secure NFC South for 85-7). Straight up: (127-63-2)
Ravens could give Chargers’ hopes a boost. But ... CHIEFS, 31-27
No. 8 Pittsburgh (minus 11) at No. 31 Oakland
Bears QB Trubisky likely back for Sunday night showdown By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Mitchell Trubisky is just about ready to return to the Chicago Bears’ lineup. Trubisky said he is “really close to 100 percent” and expects to play against the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday night after missing the past two games because of a right shoulder injury.
He went through a full practice on Wednesday. Assuming no setbacks, he figures to start when the NFC North leaders host the NFC West champions. “I just gotta show coach that I can play,” he said. “I’m feeling good about where I’m at. As long as I can show them that I can go out there every day and make all the throws and be the player that they know I am, I feel confident that I’ll be able to go.” Nagy said he feels “strong
that he will play,” though he wouldn’t quite commit to it. “I got to see more,” he said. “I feel good about it.” Trubisky was hurt sliding late in a win over Minnesota on Nov. 18. He was hit by the Vikings’ Harrison Smith on the left side, resulting in his throwing shoulder getting driven into the ground. Chase Daniel has started the past two games, a victory at Detroit on Thanksgiving and an
overtime loss at the New York Giants. Assuming he is cleared to return, Trubisky will face quite a task. The league-leading Rams (11-1) became the first team to secure a playoff berth when they beat Detroit to clinch their second straight division title. A win over Chicago (8-4) would give them a first-round bye and move them another step closer to home-field advantage in the
NFC playoffs, with a one-game lead over New Orleans. While the Bears’ defense will have to contain one of the NFL’s most explosive offenses, Trubisky will have to contend with Aaron Donald and Ndamukong Suh. Donald leads the NFL with 16 1/2 sacks and at least two in each of the past three games. Even so, getting Trubisky back naturally would be a boost. Daniel had two interceptions, got
sacked five times and committed four fumbles against the Giants. And the Bears’ five-game win streak came to an end. “(Trubisky) has led us to this point now, to be No. 1 in our division,” receiver Allen Robinson said. “It’s really big for us.” The Bears took a slow approach with Trubisky, just as they did with star pass rusher Khalil Mack and Robinson. Both players missed two games because of injuries earlier this season.
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What’s Happening Events and Exhibitions n The Kenai Potters Guild Annual Christmas Pottery Sale will be held on Saturday, Dec. 8 beginning at 10 a.m. at 816B Cook Avenue in the Kenai Fine Arts Center in Old Town. The potters have worked very hard to provide a wide variety of pottery styles and colors. The proceeds from this event help pay the expenses for this organization. Doors close at 4 p.m. n 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. n The Kenai Peninsula Woodturner’s hold their monthly meeting at 1 p.m. this Saturday, Dec. 8. Location is the log building, Mile100 on the Sterling Highway, just a few miles south of Soldotna where Echo Lake Road meets the highway. There will be a woodturning demonstration. Nonmembers are welcome. Questions? Call 801-543-9122. n Kenai Performers is selling chocolate Wonka bars as a promotional 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 of the tickets will win FREE admission to one of the shows. These Wonka bars are 4.5 ounces of scrumptious milk chocolate, big enough to share with the whole family, and are $5 each. Candy bars are available at Curtain Call Consignment Boutique in Kenai and a tour booth at the Black Friday Holiday Bazaar at the Challenger Learning Center on Friday-Saturday, Nov. 23-24, 10 a.m. to 5p.m. Thank you Country Foods for sponsoring our fundraiser! For more information, please call Terri at 252-6808. n The first annual Holiday Sweetness Bazaar will be held at the Soldotna Senior Center on Saturday, Dec. 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This bazaar is limited to vendors of food items. Cottage food producers are welcome and encouraged. The kitchen will be open for purchase of hamburgers, hot dogs, milkshakes and other snack bar foods. Raffle tickets for a KitchenAid mixer will be on sale, with the drawing to be held on Dec. 21. Contact the Soldotna Senior Center at 262-2322 for more information or to reserve a vendor table. n The Peninsula Art Guild presents “Fact and Fiction,” an art show by James Adcox and Chris Jenness will run for the months of November and December at Kenai Fine Arts Center.
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n The Place Bar will feature live music by Zack Daniels Friday, Dec. 8 at 8 p.m. Karaoke will begin at 9 p.m. on Saturday. n Veronica’s in Old Town Kenai has Open Mic from 6-8 p.m. Friday. Call Veronica’s at 283-2725. n The Flats Bistro presents Mike Morgan on Fridays starting at 6:30 p.m. n The Alaska Roadhouse Bar and Grill hosts open horseshoe tournaments Thursday nights at the bar on Golddust Drive. For more information, call 262-9887. n Acapulco, 43543 Sterling Highway in Soldotna, has live music at 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays starting at 5 p.m. n A bluegrass jam takes place on the first Sunday of the month at from 1-4 p.m. at the Mount Redoubt Baptist Church on South Lovers Loop in Nikiski. See EVENTS, page B2
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Colors with Light By Marty Myre First glimpse of light — I start my day Perceiving nature My own special way Streaks and swirls — Traveling at dazzling speeds Giving to life Its precious needs Spectrum of colors — Separating the blue As the sky and ice Seen only by me and you As the fog rolls in – then rising to clouds Veil of white Creating the shrouds Oranges and pinks — Every hue in between Coloring clouds Developing a picture of serene Easel has risen — Canvas is stretched Painting the day As the sun is fetched Shades and shadows — Cast by the rays Moving slow But never her to stay Sight being created — By spirit alone A beautiful place Alaska’s where I call home Earth spinning round — sun losing its fight God holds the brush As he colors with light
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By BRIAN MAZUREK for the Peninsula Clarion
The Kenai Fine Arts Center will be ending the year with a slight change of pace from their monthly exhibitions. This Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. local artist James Adcox will have his personal printing press on hand for a live demonstration of the printmaking process. He and fellow Kenai artist Chris Jenness will be selling new prints made on the spot,
as well as showing the audience how printmaking works from start to finish. This demonstration is a continuation of November’s exhibition, which is titled “Fact and Fiction” and features paintings from both Adcox and Jenness, highlighting the contrast of the artists’ styles. In addition to the printmaking demonstration by Adcox and Jenness, the Peninsula Art Guild will be hosting an open house for the community. This
event is free and open to the public, and Art Guild member Shannon Olds will be providing cider, cookies and other refreshments. Local artists and craftspeople will also be selling holiday ornaments and other items in the gift gallery. Typically, the Kenai Fine Arts Center changes the artwork on display every month, with the first Thursday of each month being the opening reception for the new exhibition. Because the Fine Arts Center closes for the second half of December, they have decided to extend November’s display through December 15. Kenai Fine Arts Center Vice President Marion Nelson says that the idea for this demonstration and open house came about organically while discussing what to do for the month of December. “It’s just the way it happened,” Nelson explains. “We have a different show every month, but this time we decided to make it a monthand-a-half-long display.” The Art Guild still wanted to have something to offer the community for their first Thursday event, so Adcox volunteered to bring in his printmaker, and Olds volunteered to cater the occasion and turn it into an open house. When asked what prompted him to do this printmaking workshop, Adcox credits his wife for the idea. “With Chris (Jenness) and I having such similar mediums: We both very much enjoy painting, and we both are print-
makers,” Adcox explains. “My wife actually came up with the idea, ‘Why don’t you guys do something with printmaking?’ And we thought that could be a lot of fun.” Adcox has offered printmaking courses before at the Kenai Community Library, where he also works in the children’s section. However, he had never done a workshop at the Fine Arts Center, and realized that the first Thursday of December would be a good opportunity to do so. Adcox describes it as an opportunity to display two very different mediums side by side. “The massive difference in the two mediums, for me, is evident.” Adcox says. “In the oil paintings, you have the latitude to do what you want. It’s just such a free medium. With printmaking it’s so much more technical… You become much more focused on the print turning out the way you want.” Both Adcox and Jenness will be offering guidance and advice for anyone interested in getting into printmaking, or anyone already involved that would like to learn more. The subjects of Adcox’s prints vary from a band of mariachi skeletons, to an antique diver’s helmet, to a lone sandhill crane, and most are in black and white. The printmaking demonstration and open house will take place on Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Kenai Fine Arts Center, located in Old Town Kenai next to the Oilers Bingo Hall.
‘The Noel Stranger’ — a familiar, yet cozy holiday tale The Bookwork Sez You thought you knew what was inside the box. Though it was wrapped, you could tell what it was. You shook it, upended it, and picked at the tape, absolutely positive that you knew what was inside that colorful paper — but as in the new novel “The Noel Stranger” by Richard Paul Evans, mistakes do happen at Christmastime. Maggie Walther was sure that everyone in Utah was staring at her. It was for nothing she did, except to marry Clive all those years ago. Except to stand beside him, supporting him as he dived into politics, throwing fundraisers for him and playing hostess. Except to be the last to know that her husband had another wife and children in another state. Stricken and ashamed, Maggie’d been staying home, away from crowds. She couldn’t sleep, couldn’t run her business, could barely even get dressed and her assistant, Carina, was worried. Couldn’t
Maggie at least manage to put up a Christmas tree? And so, on a freezing preThanksgiving weekend, Maggie went to find a tree. And that’s where the holidays turned for her. He was handsome and funny, and helped her find an easy tree to care for. His name was Andrew, and he offered to deliver the goods when Maggie’s car turned out to be too small for tree-hauling. She offered him a cup of coffee. He offered to help decorate the tree. She made him dinner. They talked and laughed and compared divorce-survivor notes. And in two weeks’ time, they fell in love. It seemed impossible, really, that her heart could leap so quickly after being hurt so much but Maggie was headover-heels. Andrew was responsible, kind, understanding, he was everything she needed. Carina warned her to slow down, especially after Andrew invited Maggie to Cabo for a week, but Maggie couldn’t remember the last time she smiled as much as she did with Andrew around. See BOOK, page B2
‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ — an inventive sequel that brings something new to the table R eeling It In C hris J enness
Sequels used to be an really iffy business. But, “Cars” notwithstanding, the crew over at Disney/Pixar seem to be able to defy the odds again and again, producing interesting, exciting, and often emotional new adventures for characters whose race you thought was run. Case in point, the “WreckIt Ralph” sequel, “Ralph Breaks the Internet” hits emotional beats the original didn’t even hint at and still manages to be fun and inventive all at the same time. This time around Ralph and his little buddy Vanellope, both members of a small but close-knit community of video game characters who populate a suburban video game parlor straight out of 1985, find themselves in trouble when an attempt to change the humdrum routine results in a broken part on the Sugar Rush racing game and a potentially
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homeless horde of candybased characters. Turns out the only way to get the part they need is to try eBay, where a single collector has it for sale. This opens up the video parlor, for the first time, to the larger internet, and Ralph and Vanellope are in for the adventure of a lifetime. As they
make their way through the urban jungle that is the World Wide Web, they are accosted by pop-ups, nearly killed inside a violent racing game, and taken in by a Youtube-style impresario who thinks she can make Ralph a star. For Ralph, the goal is to make enough actual money
to be able to afford the broken part and get his life back to normal, but Vanellope is slowly coming to the realization that maybe “back to normal” isn’t what she wants at all. One of the best things about both of these “Ralph” See REEL, page B2
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Hugh Jackman, the pop star, readies massive world tour
Actor and singer Hugh Jackman performs on NBC’s “Today” show at Rockefeller Plaza on Tuesday in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) By MESFIN FEKADU AP Music Writer
NEW YORK — Hugh Jackman is set to launch a pop starlike tour next year, but he’s done his research: He’s been to a Beyonce concert. A Justin Timberlake concert. AND A
MICHAEL JACKSON CONCERT. “I’ve seen some of the greats,” Jackman said in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday. “And the great performers for me are the ones who can connect with the person in the back and in the
. . . Events
n An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday. The jam takes place at Christ Continued from page B1 Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thursday of the month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the month. Jam starts at 6:30 p.m. n AmVets Post 4 has reopened in its brand new building on Kalifornsky Beach across from Jumpin’ Junction. Eligible veterans and their families are invited to stop by to find out more about AmVets and their involvement in the Veteran community. For members and invited guests, Friday night dance to “Running with Scissors,” and Saturday Burn your own steak and karaoke with Cowboy Don. n Odie’s Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. n The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays.
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Yet, how much did she really know about him? Not much at all, as it turned Continued from page B1 out… First, this: Fans of author Richard Paul Evans. Yes. Go ahead now, get this book. G’wan. Get outta here. Now. If you’re new to Evans’ fiction, what you’ll get inside “The Noel Stranger” is a decent enough romancy-Christmassy tale in which someone has been hurt somehow, but meets someone else who heals them during the holidays. As you will inside other Evans holiday books, you’ll find extremely wellcrafted characters and deep details that make it all seem more real, plus a snowscape and an argument that throws the novel briefly off-course before Happily-Ever-After. That makes this story formulaic, yes, but it’s as traditional and beloved as bulbs on branches and star on treetop, and it’s going to put you in a good Christmas mood. This is a book you can give to your teen and to grandma without reservation. It’s a pretty fast read, and it pairs fairly well with cocoa and a warm blanket on a cold night. For you, or to give, “The Noel Stranger” has it in the box. Terri Schlichenmeyer is the bookworm.
front. And I’ll sometimes sit in the back ‘cause I wanna know am I feeling it back here? ‘Cause I’m from the theater, (so) for me everything I do has to connect to every single person.” The regular concert attendee is hoping to make some strong connections with fans when he
launches his first world tour — dubbed “The Man. The Music. The Show.”— next year. Accompanied by a live orchestra, he will perform songs from “The Greatest Showman,” ”Les Miserables” and Broadway musicals, among other selections. “I’ve always felt strangely at home on a stage, no matter how big the stage is — sometimes even more than in life,” said the actor, known for roles like Wolverine. “Never in my wildest dreams did I think when I turned 50 I would be playing Madison Square Garden or the Hollywood Bowl.” Jackman, who was born in Australia, did an arena tour there three years ago, but he didn’t think he could replicate the success outside his native home. “I had no idea really what the demand is for me. It’s not like I measure it or I ask. I always underplay it,” he said. “At that time three years ago I remember thinking, ‘I’d really love to do this around the world.’ And my agent in L.A. goes, ‘I’d leave it in Australia, dude.’” But then came “The Greatest Showman” — a game changer for Jackman’s music career. The 2017 film was a box-office
shows at The O2 Arena in London, where the album has had even more success than America: The album has spent 48 of 49 weeks in the Top 10 on the U.K. charts, including 21 weeks at No. 1. And it’s currently No. 4 on the charts, a year after its release. The North American leg begins June 18 in Houston. Most tickets go on sale Friday; tickets for the MSG shows go on sale Dec. 10. Jackman hopes to also perform original music on the tour, and he recalls working on an album when he was signed to a record label over a decade ago when he starred in Broadway’s “The Boy from Oz,” for which he won a Tony in 2004. “I had a deal at the time and I hated what I did. It had nothing to do with anyone involved, I had amazing people involved, but at that point I didn’t know what I wanted to say,” he said. “Whether you’re a recording artist or a writer or actor, you’ve got to feel like you have something to say.” Now, he’s ready. “I would love to do a couple of original songs. I do have some things I want to say,” he said.
Pilot error caused crash that killed Troy Gentry By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Pilot error following engine maintenance problems caused the helicopter crash that killed Montgomery Gentry singer Troy Gentry and the pilot at a small airport where he was to perform that night, federal investigators said. The pilot cut the engine too soon as he tried an emergency landing, leading to an uncontrolled descent, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a final report. Instead of reaching the runway at the Flying W Airport in Medford, New Jersey, the helicopter crashed in woods nearby. Gentry, 50, who was half of the award-winning country music duo Montgomery Gentry, was taking a pleasure and orientation flight before the concert at the airport’s resort. The other
half of the duo, Eddie Montgomery, and other band members were at the airport at the time. Several minutes after takeoff, pilot James Evan Robinson told experts on the ground that he couldn’t control the engine. They suggested a shallow, runon landing, but he instead said he planned to cut the engine and try to glide in, a maneuver he said he had done before, the report said. The experts stressed the need to wait until he was over the runway to turn off the engine, but investigators found he instead did so a quarter- to half-mile out. The NTSB said the maintenance crew’s failure to rig the throttle control assembly before the flight contributed to the crash. Gentry was born in Lexington, Kentucky, where he met Montgomery. Montgomery Gentry had success on the country charts and country radio in the 2000s,
In this 2013 file photo, Troy Gentry of the Country Music duo Montgomery Gentry performs on the Rebels On The Run Tour in Lancaster, Pa. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)
scoring No. 1 hits that included “Roll With Me” and “Back When I Knew It All.” Some of their songs even cracked the Top 40 pop charts.
The band mixed country music with Southern rock. It was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2009. It released its debut album, “Tattoos & Scars,” in 1999.
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films is not the main characters but the ephemera. John C. Reilly and Sarah SilverContinued from page B1 man, consummate entertainers though they are, are kind of my least favorite thing about the movie. Instead, “Ralph Breaks the Internet” is packed with wallto-wall references, in-jokes and tiny hidden details that reward careful viewing. There are blink-and-you’ll-missthem cameos of everyone from Stan Lee to Riley from “Inside Out.” I loved the scene when the Twitter logo flies onto a branch and starts tweeting a meme, which is immediately picked up by all the other birds in the tree. Videos are portrayed as giant concerts and eBay is an endless series of auction rooms. The internet is cool, but the movie really hits its stride when our heroes venture into the Disney portal. So many different properties to play with. It’s in the trailer, but the scene with all the Disney princesses hanging around in a well-appointed lounge is hilarious. Vanellope talks the girls into switching their gowns for lounge-wear and the attention to detail is awesome, from Elsa’s T-shirt sporting the phrase “Just let it go” to Rapunzel’s beanbag-style chair made from her own hair. I really enjoyed this movie, but it’s not perfect. It does a good job of hinting at the darkness of some avenues of the web and you can tell as the environment gets shabbier, Ralph is heading into places he might want to avoid. Where it falls, however, is in addressing the toxic nature of fandom and the cowardly way many people approach comments sections for videos and the like. At one point Ralph, who has become a “BuzzTube” sensation, wanders into a room where he finds walls of ugly comments streaming by, floor to ceiling. “Just try not to read them” is the advice given to our heartsick hero, but that does nothing to address the behavior of the people doing the commenting, some of whom are, presumably watching this movie. This was a missed opportunity to really quash a behavior that is, in my book, reprehensible. Not that I think one movie going to change everyone’s behavior, but it might have made a few people think. Instead, it put the responsibility on Ralph to simply avoid things he doesn’t want to hear. That criticism aside, I liked this movie a lot. I don’t know that I was clamoring for a “Wreck-It Ralph” sequel, but now that I have one, I’m eager for more! Grade: A“Ralph Breaks the Internet” is rated PG for silly cartoon mayhem and mild rude humor.
powerhouse, but so was — and still is — its soundtrack: The album has reached multi-platinum status and is one of the year’s top albums, matching the success of any major rap, pop or rock album. It came in fourth on Billboard’s list of top albums for the year and also made Apple Music’s year-end Top 10 list. “The opportunity to go around the world … I probably wouldn’t have had it if it wasn’t for ‘The Greatest Showman.’ That tipped me over,” Jackman said. “The Greatest Showman” has come a long way: Jackman remembers how the movie only earned $8.6 million in its first week around the time the soundtrack debuted at No. 71 on the Billboard charts. “When we opened, when I saw I didn’t get an email, normally you’ll get a consolation email from your friends, the studios; it was like crickets, like nothing. That’s how bad it was,” he said. “We worked eight years on it … and I always want to remind people the studio took a big risk on it. It wasn’t cheap.” Jackman will kick off his tour in Hamburg, Germany, on May 13. He will play two
2018 Kennedy Center Honorees, front row form left, Wayne Shorter, Cher, Reba McEntire, Philip Glass, back row from left, the co-creators of “Hamilton,” Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Andy Blankenbuehler, Alex Lacamoire pose for the group photo at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors State Department Dinner. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf) By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Last year’s Kennedy Center Honors ceremony was almost overshadowed by controversy surrounding the sitting president. This year’s event took place in the shadow of the death of a former commander-in-chief. Sunday night’s ceremony honoring lifetime artistic achievement featured multiple tributes to former President George H.W. Bush, who died Friday night at age 94. The night kicked off with an extended standing ovation in Bush’s memory at the request of hostess Gloria Estefan. “I think it’s appropriate to recognize the passing of a wonderful man who dedicated his life to service and who graciously attended this event many times during his administration, laughing, applauding, singing along and even shedding a tear from right up there in the presidential box,” said Estefan, who recalled being invited to the White House and how Bush “literally spent 45 minutes patiently talking to my
eight-year-old son” about how the government worked. Within days of that White House visit, Estefan’s tour bus was in a serious accident that left her nearly paralyzed and President Bush called her in the hospital, she said. For the second straight year, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump declined an invitation to the awards. They returned to Washington before dawn Sunday from the Group of 20 summit in Argentina. The Trumps skipped last year’s ceremony after several of the honorees — most notably leftist television producer Norman Lear — threatened to boycott if he attended. This year, nobody issued that kind of overt threat, but the Trumps still announced three weeks ago that they wouldn’t attend. David Rubenstein, the chairman of the board for the Kennedy Center, said after intermission that he often thinks about the values Bush brought to public service. “I never met a more decent man, a more philanthropic person, a more genuine person,” Rubenstein said.
Bush attended the Kennedy Center Honors for most years during his presidency — and even afterward, during his son’s presidency — but like other leaders, he was pulled away by major issues that demanded his time. Bush didn’t attend in 1989 because he was at a summit in Malta. Jimmy Carter missed the 1979 awards because of the Iran hostage crisis. Bill Clinton was on his way to a conference during the 1994 Kennedy Center awards. Trump, however, is the first president to miss them twice. Had he gone to the Kennedy Center, he might have faced opposition from at least some of the honorees, including Cher and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Trump and his administration have put unprecedented distance between themselves and the arts and science communities. No arts or humanities medals have been announced or handed out since September 2016, when Barack Obama was president — the longest gap by months since the awards were established in the mid-1980s. This year’s honorees for lifetime achievements in the arts were Cher, composer Philip Glass, country music legend Reba McEntire and jazz icon Wayne Shorter. An unprecedented special award went to the co-creators of “Hamilton” for their genre-bending musical. McEntire was introduced by music star Kelly Clarkson, who performed McEntire’s hit song “Fancy.” “Sometimes when we meet our heroes, it doesn’t always pan out,” Clarkson told McEntire, “but my friendship with you became one of the highlights of my life.” Shorter was hailed by the Kennedy Center for a six-decade career that included collaborations with Art Blakey, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana and Joni Mitchell.
Jason Moran, the Kennedy Center’s artistic director for jazz, described Shorter’s music in celestial terms. “His sound holds a special place in the galaxy,” Moran said. “I can safely say that somewhere in the galaxy right now, a band is playing one of his pieces.” Glass received his tribute from a fellow Kennedy Center Honors recipient: singer-songwriter Paul Simon. “He can rightfully be described as one of our greatest modern composers,” Simon said. Simon praised Glass for his eclectic body of work, “never settling into one particular style, always developing and exploring.” This year’s event contained a break from tradition by honoring an actual contemporary work of art — the blockbuster musical “Hamilton” — in addition to lifetime achievement awards for late-career artists. Writer and actor Miranda, director Thomas Kail, choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler and music director Alex Lacamoire were honored as “trailblazing creators of a transformative work that defies category.” Comedian Whoopi Goldberg kicked off a tribute to Cher in a flowing sparkly gown that she joked came from the pop music icon’s closet. “She is the true original,” Goldberg said. “She not only marched to the beat of her own drum — honey, she is a onewoman band!” The evening ended with Cyndi Lauper, a longtime friend of Cher’s, performing “If I Could Turn Back Time.” The Honors tribute performers are always kept secret from the recipients, and this was no exception. When Lauper appeared, Cher yelled from her seat, “You told me you were going to Los Angeles!” Lauper shrugged onstage and said, “I lied.”
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Mom makes travel plans without being invited to visit “help” after the delivery, did you tell her how offended you were? Or were you so weak from the struggle to give life that you wilted? If you didn’t tell her how you felt, you have a communication problem. Give your mother one more chance. Welcome her and your stepfather at Christmas and, if she makes a demeaning or unkind com- Abigail Van Buren ment, CALL her on it! And when you do, tell her that in the future you and your husband prefer to invite your houseguests rather than have them descend upon you. DEAR ABBY: Because my husband and I are reaching advanced years, we know we will soon have to downsize to a senior living facility. In anticipation, we have begun distributing keepsakes we have accumulated over the years. Many were gifts with special meaning. Some are heirlooms that have been passed down from previous generations. When I helped my son with his garage sale recently, I was shocked to discover several of the keepsakes on
display. I didn’t know how to react, but I did speak to him about it. Apparently, he doesn’t value them! How should I handle future distribution of keepsakes, as there are more of them, some of which I had intended for him and his family? Apparently, his wife and son also have no interest in them. -- SENTIMENTAL IN WISCONSIN DEAR SENTIMENTAL: You now have two choices. You can either give the items as gifts to other family members, after first ensuring that they will be appreciated and treasured, or sell them and use the money to cover any expenses that may come up in the future. P.S. If they have historical value, consider donating them to a museum or your state historical society. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. For an excellent guide to becoming a better conversationalist and a more sociable person, order “How to Be Popular.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Popularity Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)
Hints from Heloise
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018: This year you will land like a cat, on all fours. The next 12 months could be unusually fortunate for you. You have started a new 12-year luck cycle. If you have a certain goal, go for it. If you are single, you could meet someone who easily becomes a lifelong romantic partner. You will find it easy to get along with this person. If you are attached, the two of you could get into tiff after tiff. Respect your differences, and give your significant other the space to be him- or herself. SAGITTARIUS will experience a new beginning in the next few months. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH You might have been thinking about a plan and finally have come to a conclusion. Once more, you become Mr. or Ms. Friendly. Others will rejoice at seeing the happier you return. Still, someone could become somewhat difficult. Tonight: Weigh the pros and cons of taking a trip. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You will be distancing yourself until it becomes obvious that you need to deal with a situation that could implode. Expressing your caring is important, especially when dealing with an older relative. A call to someone at a distance will mean a lot. Tonight: Till the wee hours. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH A partner seems to have assumed control of a key matter. This change of responsibilities could be all right with you; however, you might want to discuss the long-term implica-
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tions of the situation. A conversation like this is important. Tonight: Choose to do something new. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You’ll be taken aback by a personal matter. The other party could be overly assertive, which might cause you to feel cornered. Initiate an important one-on-one discussion; in fact, insist on it. The balance of power will level off as a result. Tonight: Be with a favorite person. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Your mood quickly changes midday. You are best when networking and socializing. Now is the time to kick back and be spontaneous. You might hear someone express his or her frustration; behind those feelings is an important message. Tonight: Listen to a suggestion. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You could be quite creative in the morning when faced with a difficult situation. Lighten up and have an important discussion once others seem more relaxed. The tone of those around you will be more significant than you might realize. Tonight: Make it early. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You have been tenacious and diligent about getting a project done. You also feel empowered by its completion and by the comments you get. Later today, brainstorm with others to create and firm up a fun idea. Not everything has to be business. Tonight: All smiles. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH You won’t hesitate to express your opinions, but you could come off a lot sterner than you realize. The key to success will be following through
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on a particular situation and maintaining a lighter attitude. Others will open up more easily as a result. Tonight: Get a lot done. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Check out the cost of proceeding as you have been. Someone might be more than ready to chip in and help. Know that all the responsibility does not have to land on your shoulders. Make a point to accept someone’s gesture as it was meant. Tonight: Make weekend plans. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH Zero in on what you want. You’ll have many supporters at the present moment, which increases your chances of achieving what you desire. You come off as far more sensitive than you think. You can’t always hide your feelings. Tonight: Whatever puts a smile on your face. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You might be slow to start, but once you get going, you are a formidable force to stop. You know what you want, and have no intention of settling. Someone at a distance could play a significant role. Tonight: If you can dream it, you are likely to be able to conjure it up. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HH You have a matter that you would prefer to keep under wraps. Someone might try to coax it out of you, but you will resist. Be careful if you don’t want to spill the beans. A partner or associate will make an effort to discuss an issue that you both are well aware of. Tonight: Do for you. BORN TODAY Soccer player Tim Cahill (1979), pianist Dave Brubeck (1920), actress Stefanie Scott (1996)
EASY SEE Dear Heloise: I enjoy your handy hints. I take a marker pen and put the date on condiments and other dry goods when I open each product. This way, I know when to toss them if I’ve held on to them too long, especially items in the fridge. -- Colleen in Hemet, Calif. LETTER OF LAUGHTER Hi, Heloise: I was at lunch with my girlfriend, and she was bemoaning that she had to go home and clean house. I said: “Why clean it? It will just get dirty again!” -- Lorraine L. in Louisiana Ha! Actually, similar to one of my mother’s tenets: Don’t stress too much about housework. It will always be there! -- Heloise COLD AND LOUD Dear Heloise: The wife and I enjoy your column. My question is, why do restaurants have the thermostats set so low that it is COLD in there. While we are at it, the music volume is so high, you can hardly hear each other. We are talking about quality restaurants, not fast-food places. -- Joe D., Chatsworth, Calif. CRACKER CULTURE Dear Heloise: Oyster crackers should be put in a zippered bag! They fall all over the pantry floor in those thin plastic bags that are now used, and they stay fresher in my zippered bag. -- Ruth E., Valparaiso, Ind. CLOGGED COFFEE MAKER Dear Heloise: How do I unclog a coffee maker after it has hard-water deposits inside? -- Ellen Y., Carol City, Fla. Ellen, fill the water reservoir with white vinegar and run a cycle just as you would if making coffee. Repeat if necessary. Be sure to run a few cycles with plain water before making a pot of coffee. -- Heloise
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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars
2018 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
DEAR ABBY: I gave birth to my daughter three months ago, after 44 grueling hours of labor. My mother, assuming I would want her in the delivery room, booked her flight, flew across the country and stayed at my house without asking when I’d like her to come to help me. During her stay, she made comments about how she had flown 2,000 miles to “dog-sit” for me, that she knew she wasn’t wanted, and had she known my daughter wasn’t going to come on time (I was induced), she wouldn’t have “wasted her vacation” to fly in early. The entire visit was miserable. Without consulting my husband and me, she has now booked a flight to come and stay with us for Christmas. Christmas is my favorite holiday, and I’m dreading the thought of her being here and worried this visit will be just as awful as the last. I’d like my daughter’s first Christmas to be a happy occasion. I asked my mother to change her flights and come in after the holiday, only to be met with the accusation “you’re being selfish” from her and my stepfather. How do I tell them that I don’t want them here for Christmas while minimizing hurt feelings? -- PUSHED TOO FAR IN PENNSYLVANIA DEAR PUSHED: It appears you not only have a pushy mother, but also one who has no filter. When she made the comments she did when she came to
By Eugene Sheffer