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Tuesday, September 25, 2018 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 48, Issue 307

In the news 2 Fairbanks hunters killed in airplane crash FAIRBANKS — A crash of a small airplane killed two Fairbanks men on a hunting trip.

Alaska State Troopers say an airplane belonging to 45-year-old Timothy Sonnenberg was spotted crashed and burned south of Gold Creek.

Sonnenberg and 43-yearold Jason Roberts were reported overdue on Friday morning from a hunting trip to the Nenana River.

A pilot reported the crash Saturday.

A military helicopter reached the site Sunday and crew members confirmed two bodies in the wreckage.

Troopers say efforts to recover the bodies are underway. The state medical examiner will conduct autopsies.

Troopers find Fort Wainwright soldier’s body in car FAIRBANKS — Alaska State Troopers say they found the body of a Fort Wainwright soldier who had been missing for nearly a week.

The Fairbanks Daily News Miner reports Alaska State Troopers were at Harding Lake on Saturday investigating a report of an apparently abandoned vehicle.

A statement by the Alaska State Troopers says the vehicle belonged to Mason Heimer. His body was found in the vehicle.

Troopers say no foul play is suspected.

Heimer’s next of kin has been notified. His body has been sent to the Alaska State Medical Examiner’s office for an autopsy.

Heimer’s father, Doug, travelled from Texas to help local law enforcement agencies look for his 22-year-old son.

He says Heimer lived on Fort Wainwright, where he was a construction engineer and had been stationed for eight months.

— Associated Press

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In race for House, Galvin looks for upset

By JAMES BROOKS Juneau Empire

When Don Young was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1973, Alyse Galvin was 8 years old.

Forty-five years later, the 53-year-old Galvin is attempting to unseat the longest actively serving member of the House.

It’s not an easy task: Since winning that first election, Young has defeated 46 other opponents, often by wide margins. Thus far, Galvin has held her own against the experienced Young.

According to Federal Elections Commission reports, Galvin has more campaign cash on hand. Through Aug. 1, Galvin has raised $601,000 for her campaign and spent about $349,000. During the same period, Young has raised $801,000 and spent about $636,000.

In a Sept. 17 debate hosted by the Anchorage Chamber of

“I’m running because I want to make sure that we have a place where my children and your children can be living in a sustainable state where they feel that they can find a place to their way to a good job,” Galvin said, adding that preserving Alaska’s “fresh water and fish and air and incredible trails” is also important.

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Alyse Galvin, indpendent candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, right, speaks with Marilyn Orr during a “town-hall-style coffee and conversation” on Friday in Juneau. Galvin is running against Republican incumbent Rep. Don Young. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Commerce, Young appeared to be caught off guard by Galvin at one point and echoed President Donald Trump by referring to Galvin as a “nasty woman.”

Galvin promptly shared a video of the exchange in fundraising

emails.

Polling released thus far gives Young the edge in the head-to-head matchup on Nov. 6, but Galvin would earn the victory if she convinces enough voters in the remaining month

and a half before Election Day. Before heading to the Anchorage debate, Galvin made a campaign stop in the capital city and spoke about campaign issues with Empire editor Emily Russo Miller.

A mother of four, Galvin holds a degree from the University of California San Diego.

She is married to Pat Galvin, who was revenue commissioner under Gov. Sarah Palin and now works as an oil executive.

Before becoming commissioner, Galvin worked for the state in other roles and brought his family to Juneau. For two years, Alyse Galvin and her four children lived in the capital city and formed ties they still have.

Galvin is the godmother of Callie Conerton and has been a See HOUSE, page A2

Fireweed Guild weaves festival Garden club grows

more than flowers

By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion

Local fiber enthusiasts are getting their shears and crafting tools ready for this weekend’s Fireweed FiberFest at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex.

On Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Fireweed FiberFest will host a celebration of natural fibers for the “serious and curious,” said event organizer Nancy Field of the Fireweed Fiber Guild, the event’s hosts. Admission is free and open to the public.

“Our guild has quite a few members from Sterling, Ninilchik, Anchor Point, Nikiski and more,” Field said. “So we are getting together and showing some of our products, how are products are made, how we spin yarn.”

FiberFest will include vendors, food booths, different classes for children and adults and livestock exhibits.

“I’m really jazzed about it because we have a lot of talented artists on the peninsula,” Field said. “It’s a great way for them to launch their stuff.”

In addition to vendors, there will be a cord-making class from 1 to 3 p.m. and a fur-dyeing class from 3 to 4 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday for an additional fee. Supplies are included with the fee.

The festival will host a sheepshearing demonstration at 3 p.m. each day and there will be

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

Karen Porter, a member of the Fireweed Fiber Guild, prepares some fibers while spinning yarn with other guild members Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, at the 2017 Kenai Peninsula Fair in Ninilchik.

The guild will host the Fireweed FiberFest on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 29 and 30, at the Soldotna Sports Complex in Soldotna . (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

other livestock on hand, including cashmere goats and Angora rabbits, so festival goers can have a better understanding of where natural fibers come from and how they are taken from each animal.

“Each vendor will also have a demonstration going on at different times,” Field said. “There will be some activities for children too. Both of those will be ongoing through the day on both days.”

The Fireweed Fiber Guild has hosted large events in the past, but Field said they are excited to have one large event in

a centralized location, allowing members from across the Kenai Peninsula to attend and share their fiber crafts. The guild meets once a month throughout the year, with schedule changes in the summer and around holidays.

“It’s about networking and socializing,” Field said. “We teach each other how to work with different fibers, what to do with different fibers. We’ll get together, dye with different techniques… We just love to teach people. We’re fiber enthusiasts — people who love natural fibers.”

Since 2007, the Central Peninsula Garden Club has been educating and connecting gardeners in the area.

Renae Wall has been serving as the nonprofit’s president for three years. She said the group has been steadily growing over the last several years.

“Originally we met in the Cook Inlet Aquaculture building and that served us well, but we outgrew it and moved to the Peninsula Grace Church,” Wall said. “We’re starting our second year there. It’s really nice. I think space was a limitation for people, between finding parking and a place to sit. It’s a good problem to have.”

Today, the program has more than 200 members. They offer monthly programs, workshops in May, summer garden tours, a yearly plant sale and more.

Q: What is the mission of the Central Peninsula Garden Club?

A: To educate and exchange reliable information about all aspects of gardening on the Kenai Peninsula.

Q: What can people expect from the monthly programs?

Shop Talk A: The monthly programs run from September to April on the second Tuesday of the month. It’s focused on a different topic every month. Our last one was about growing fruit trees. In October we will be learning about growing corn on the Kenai. We have programs on starting seeds, growing perennials, what to do to your soil to improve it, how to preserve your harvest and more. It’s different every year. Anywhere from 80 to 100 people show up. There are always refreshments and door prizes and it’s really a social thing. People really enjoy getting to know other gardeners.

It’s a good way to network and get out.

Q: How has the club changed since starting in 2007?

A: When the club first started it sounded like it was more focused on flowers, landscaping and gardening. Now with the increase in high tunnels, there’s just been a lot more interest in growing food. We’ve had a lot more programs about growing food than we did at the beginning of the club.

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Man charged with murder in 10-year-old girl’s slaying

By RACHEL D’ORO Associated Press

ANCHORAGE — An Alaska man tied to the disappearance of a 10-year-old girl who was later found dead was charged Monday with her slaying.

State prosecutors charged Peter Wilson of Kotzebue with first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual abuse of a minor and tampering with evidence Monday in connection with the death of Ashley JohnsonBarr. An autopsy revealed signs of strangulation and sexual abuse, and DNA evidence also linked him to the crime, according to prosecutors.

Wilson, 41, pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges of making false statements as FBI agents and others searched for Ashley in Kotzebue, a remote Inupiat town on Alaska’s northwestern coast.

The girl disappeared Sept.

6. Her remains were found eight days later in rugged tundra accessible only by a fourwheeler or on foot.

The charges come after Ashley’s family had asked that any further legal action be delayed until after the girl’s funeral Saturday, said John Skidmore, criminal division director for the state Department of Law. Wilson took a cellphone from Ashley and lied when

This undated file photo shows Ashley Johnson-Barr. (Scotty Barr via AP)

he said he had found it on the ground, according to an indictment filed last week from a federal grand jury. The in-

dictment also says Wilson lied about knowing the girl and using a four-wheeler the day she vanished.

Ashley had her cellphone with her when she was last seen playing with friends at a park. The phone was found later that day in the pocket of a jacket belonging to Wilson, a woman named in an FBI affidavit only by the initials of JJ told authorities. The woman said Wilson often stayed at her home.

Wilson told authorities that he found the phone on the ground about a half-mile from the park.

On the afternoon the girl went missing, Wilson also dis-

appeared with a four-wheeler for about two hours, according to authorities. The FBI affidavit said the girl’s body was found on tundra outside Kotzebue, in an area concealed by thick alder and willow brush.

After the girl disappeared, Kotzebue residents helped search for her, holding vigils at the park where she was last seen. Similar prayer vigils were held across Alaska. The FBI sent 17 agents to help investigate.

Kotzebue is 26 miles north of the Arctic Circle and 550 miles northwest of Anchorage.

It serves as a regional hub for northwest Alaska villages.

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A: Our membership prices aren’t too bad. It’s $20 for an individual and $30 for a family, for the year. Membership dues help support the club.

Sometimes it goes towards helping to pay for presenters that we bring up. At our new location, we do need to pay rent and have insurance so it helps us pay for those ex-

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penses. We also support other agricultural projects on the peninsula. We’ve given money to Soldotna Montessori School to help create their raised beds there. We’ve given some money to the Kenai Peninsula Fair for prizes and for the 4-H club. Last year they used donations to add flowerbeds near the entrance. There are different projects every year we support. We’ve donated to the Sterling Community Center for their greenhouse, and the Funny River Community Center made a bed at their building.

Another thing we do that’s a lot of fun is our workshops, which are every weekend in May. They focus on all kinds of different topics, and they are in smaller groups at different locations. Past workshops have covered how to tap birch trees to make syrup, how to prune a tree, how to take care of your lawn, build a raised bed, how to make relish or sauerkraut, how to make a hanging flower basket and others. It is more of a hands-on, small-group learning experience. Members get the first choice to sign up for May workshops, which fill up

tably Democrat Dimitri Shein) in the August primary for the Democratic nomination. Despite that win, she will be listed on the ballot as an “undeclared” independent, having taken advantage of an Alaska Supreme Court ruling allowing parties to give their nomination to independent candidates.

it. We know that fish are not as healthy or plentiful. We know that we have entire villages dropping into the water. So climate change is real there’s no question about it,” she said.

She said she would like to see more research efforts devoted to the Arctic, something that would in turn boost Alaska’s ability to host high-technology industries.

Galvin said she worries that some of President Trump’s policies, particularly his strategies on foreign trade, are harming Alaskans and Alaska industry.

“The executive orders around tariffs are greatly affecting Alaskans,” she said.

She is also alarmed by his attitudes toward immigrants.

“He’s called them animals.

I’m very worried for that sort of behavior. That’s disrespectful and harmful,” she said.

“I think that we need to have a comprehensive immigration plan that keeps Americans safe,” she said, but Trump’s wall isn’t the answer.

“We need to figure out a way to live side by side, and I think there’s a way to get to a full plan where we all feel safe on both sides of the border and respected.”

Galvin is bullish on the idea that the United States needs to improve its electronic defenses.

“We need to make sure that we are fired up and ready to have our best defense around our cybersecurity issues,” she said. “That’s going to take dollars, and we need to put it where it’s at.”

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quickly. Only members can go on summer garden tours, which is going to someone’s home and getting a tour of their garden. It’s just fascinating to see what people do. We also have a monthly newsletter, which has articles from local growers or good information we picked up elsewhere.

The next monthly program is open to the public and will focus on growing corn. The program is at 7 p.m., Oct. 9 at the Peninsula Grace Brethren Church, 44175 Kalifonsky Beach Road.

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regular presence in the Capitol, lobbying for increased education funding. In a 2007 letter published in the Empire, she shared a complaint common to the capital city when she objected to the high price of Alaska Airlines fares and hoped for competition at Juneau International Airport.

Not long after she left Juneau, Galvin helped found Great Alaska Schools, a nonpartisan statewide group that advocates for more education funding. For the past five years, she has led the group.

In 2014, she was a member of new Gov. Bill Walker’s transition team for education. After the 2016 election of President Donald Trump, she was among a group of people who went around Anchorage, posting signs declaring “All are welcome here,” in explicit rejection of the president’s immigration policy. Versions also have popped up across Juneau.

Last year, in addition to pushing the Legislature to increase schools funding, she organized rallies against the U.S. Senate confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, contributing to U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s vote against the confirmation. (It was approved with a tiebreaking vote

by Vice President Mike Pence.)

Galvin announced her campaign in January and defeated a series of challengers (most no-

Education a top priority

Education remains Galvin’s top priority, and while talking to the Empire, she said she believes Alaska has the potential for high-technology industries, given an educated population and economic success. She supports construction of the trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline, calling natural gas “a good, important, clean bridge fuel that we’re going to need.”

Asked about gun violence and gun safety issues, Galvin said she believes “there’s some common-sense measures like growing background checks” and focusing on keeping firearms away from the mentally ill.

She pointed out that the majority of Alaska’s firearms deaths are due to suicide, rather than crime, which indicates that should be an area of attention.

“We are dying up here by gun, by firearms. And when we peel apart what the problem is up here, it’s mental health,” she said.

While her husband is an oil executive, Galvin said there is no doubt that climate change is real and must be addressed.

“The water’s warmer. We know the water has more acid in

Health care and local issues

With regard to health care, Galvin said she believes the federal government should be much more aggressive in negotiating with pharmaceutical companies that provide medication to Americans.

“With regard to pharmaceuticals, I have no idea why our current delegation has not stood up to pharmaceutical (companies),” Galvin said.

“We have been buying power when it comes to Medicare dollars spent in Medicaid.”

Galvin isn’t opposed to a single-payer health care system, but her bottom line is “every single Alaskan … and American getting a comprehensive health care plan. I’m open to whatever way it is that gets us there.”

Turning to local issues, Galvin said she needs to research the Juneau Access Project more to understand whether she supports a Juneau road or not.

Even without that research, she said she supports the Alaska Marine Highway System and wants to see reliable ferry service across the region.

When it comes to Tongass issues, she said she isn’t opposed to an Alaska-specific Roadless Rule, but “it’s really important that we strike a balance between conservation of old-growth areas and allowing the timber industry to economically harvest large areas previously disturbed.”

Alaska’s general election is Nov. 6.

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Around the Peninsula Fall festival The Kenai United Pentecostal Church will host its annual fall festival on Saturday, Sept. 29. Theevent will feature games, food and entertainment and is free and open to everyone. The festival will take place at mile 16.5 on the Kenai Spur Highway. For more information contact Pastor Rodney Whicker at 907-2834949.

The Nikiski Community Council The Nikiski Community Council will be meeting Monday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. at the Lake Marie Nikiski Senior Center on Holt-Lamplight Road. Residents will make recommendations on how the State of Alaska FY19 Community Assistance Program (CAP) funds will be distributed for public projects or programs. All residents of the Nikiski community are invited to attend.”

Evening of Classics The Redoubt Chamber Orchestra and other local musicians will perform solos and ensembles on Friday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m at Christ Lutheran Church. It will be a fun music-filled evening with a feature a ‘Bid on the baton’ — a chance to conduct the orchestra. For further information please consult https://www. facebook.com/KenaiPeninsulaOrchestra/ or Marion Parrish 907- 420-7179.

Soldotna Historical Society Fall Fling

Kenai Peninsula Historical Association fall meeting

necessary. Call Christie Gibbs (Geneva Woods) 907-262-2540 or Betty Rieth (Alaska Health Fair) 907-278-0234.

The Kenai Peninsula Historical Association will hold its fall Homeschool fall fundraiser meeting at the Donald E. Gilman Kenai River Center on SaturThe Kenai Peninsual Homeschool activities committee will day, Oct. 6 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Speaker Betty Epps Arnett will present “22 and the Mother of 11” about herr experiences host a fall fundraiser on Saturday, Oct. 20 from 11 a.m. to 6 as a housemother to 11 boys at the Jesse Lee Home in Seward. p.m. at Hope Community Resources in Soldotna. The event will include a craft/vendor fair and silent auction. To be a vendor call Contact Bill Nelson at 283-5194 for more information.

907-513-9469.

Family Caregiver open house and workshop The Kenai Peninsula Family Caregiver Support Program will host an Open House & Workshop in the Blazy Mall, Suite # 209 on Tuesday, Sept. 25 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. See how we may best serve you via access to our lending library, durable goods loan closet, gain information and assistance. Dani Kebschull from Frontier Community Services’ Forget-Me-Not Adult Day Center will give a presentation at 11 a.m. Please call Sharon or Judy at (907) 2621280, for more information on how we may help you.

100+ Women Who Care group The Soldotna/Kenai 100+ Women Who Care group will be meeting Sept. 27 from 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. at the Don Gillman Kenai River Center on Funny River Road. This will be our 3rd quarter meeting. All members in good standing will have a chance to pitch for a cause or nonprofit they support. Three names will be drawn — those three will make their pitch, and the group will vote on the cause that receives the funds from the meeting. All money stays local, for more information find us on Facebook. If you are a member, bring a friend! We hope to reach 100 women very soon! To date, we have raised over $10,000!

The Soldotna Historical Society will host its Fall Fling on Saturday, Sept. 29 at the Donald E. Gilman Kenai River Center Community transportation meeting from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Speaker Carroll Knutson will present Change 4 the Kenai will host a public meeting on community “History of Alaska Homesteading.” Contact Carmen at 262- transportation needs on Oct. 9, 2018 from 3–5 p.m. at the Kenai 2791 for more information.

Public Library. Call in number 1-888-392-4560 Code 5749741.

For more information, call 714-4521 or visit http://www.change4kenai.org/s-3-contest.html.

Sterling community breakfast The Sterling Senior Center is serving breakfast on Saturday, Sept. 29 from 9 a.m. to noon. Menu includes bacon, sausage, Refuge campgrounds to close ham, scrambled eggs, pancakes and biscuits and gravy. EveryDolly Varden Campground and Swanson Landing Campone welcome. Adults $10. Children $5. All proceeds benefit the grounds in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge will be closed startcenter. Call 262-6808. ing Sept. 30. The closings are intended to allow sawyer crews time to fell dead standing spruce trees. The campgrounds will remain KDLL membership drive closed until all hazard trees are removed. Both campgrounds will The KDLL 91.9 FM Fall Membership Drive will be on air be available for the public for firewood starting Oct. 9. from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 11 and 12, featuring all-original, alllocal special programming and raffle prizes. For more informa- Refuge woodcutting permits tion, visit KDLL 91.9 FM on Facebook or www.kdll.org.

The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is offering personal use firewood permits for several woodcutting locations around the refNikiski Senior Center fall fundraiser uge. These permits are for collection of dead and downed wood, The Nikiski Senior Center will host its fall fundraiser on Sat- beginning Oct. 9. Permits with maps and instructions can be oburday, Oct. 6. Tickets are $40 for prime rib or chicken cordon tained beginning Oct. 9 at the Refuge Headquarters on Ski Hill bleu. Event will include live and silent acutions, a wall of guns, Road in Soldotna. For further information, visit Kenai National a raffle for 100,000 Alaska Airlines miles, and prizes. Doors Wildlife Refuge, or call (907) 262-7021. open at 4 p.m. Dinner served at 6 p.m. Call 776-7654 for more information.

Food bank farmers market continues

New Life Assembly of God classes The Kenai New Life Assembly of God church is offering the following two classes this fall on Wednesdays, Sept. 12–Dec 19 at 6:30 p.m. at Kenai New Life Assembly of God 209 Princess St.. Childcare provided. Register at office@kenainewlife.org or call 907-283-7752.

—DivorceCare: A 13 week class for those who are separated or going through divorce.

—Single and Parenting: A 13-week class for those who are experiencing parenting alone.

Nikiski Recreation Center activities —The Nikiski Pool will be closed for annual maintenance from September 3–24. The pool will reopen Sept. 26 for our normal winter hours. For more information, please check our Facebook page or our website.

— American Red Cross Lifeguard Class: Class will be held Oct. 8-12 from 5-10 p.m. For more information call 776-8800.

Spin class: Beginning Oct. 3, the Nikiski Community Recreation Center will offer spin class twice a week. Classes are Wednesdays at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. Bring water.

Call 776-8800.

—Fall swim lessons: Swim lesson registration will begin Monday, September 24 at noon. Classes are offered for: Beginners, Advanced Beginners, Intermediates, Semi-Privates, Tiny Tots and Log Rolling. For more information, call 776-8800 —Youth flag football: 4th-8th grade boys and girls flag football season begins Aug. 20 and will run through September.

Games are held Monday and Thursday nights at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center Fields. For more information, please call 776-8800.

— Toddler time: The Nikiski Community Recreation Center will be hosting Toddler Time on Mondays, Tuesdays & Thursdays from 11am-12:30pm. For more information, please contact 776-8800.

— Women’s league basketball: Games will be held on Tuesday and/or Friday nights with games beginning in September.

For more information, call 776-8800.

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

Diabetes support group to meet The Diabetes Support Group meets the last Tuesday of every month in the River Tower of Central Peninsula Hospital.

Meetings are free and open to the public. The group often has speakers on a variety of relevant topics. Please call Ruth Clare at 714-4726 if you have questions or need more information.

New Kenai River rotary meeting place

Due to continued harvesting of fresh produce, the Kenai Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month, the Kenai River Peninsula Food Bank Farmers Fresh Market will host a farmers Rotary Club will meet at Siam Noodles in Soldotna.

Hospice of the Central Peninsula is currently registering marken on Tuesday, Sept. 25 from 3-6 p.m. For more informafor their upcoming volunteer training. Training will take place tion contact 262-3111.

Kenai National Wildlife Refuge activities in the Denali Room of the Central Peninsula General Hospital. Oct. 5 at 5-9 p.m., Oct. 6 at 9 a.m.-5 p.m., October 12 at LeeShore board meeting The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center is open 5-9 p.m., and Oct. 13 at 5-9 p.m. All dates must be attended to every day from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. on Ski Hill Road near Soldotna.

The LeeShore Center will be holding its monthly board For more information, call 260-2820. All events are free. complete training. Lunch and snacks are provided. There is a $20 registration fee. This is a great way to find out more about meeting at The LeeShore Center on Wednesday Sept. 26. The — Drop-in craft and self-guided trail walk, different each our Hospice Program and give back to our community. Visit our meeting is open to the public and begins at 6 p.m. For further week website www.hospiceofcentralpeninsula.com for more informa- information call 283-9479.

—Wildlife movies daily through Sept 10, then Saturdays tion and to register. only: Sept. 29. All events are FREE!!

—The Refuge Visitor Center is currently open daily from 9 Alaska Regional Convention of Narc Anonymous a.m.–5 p.m. but will switch to winter hours on Sept. 11. Winter Blessing and Appreciation of the Animals Narcotics Anonymous XXXIV will host a weekend conven- hours are Tuesdays through Saturday (closed Sun/Mon) from St. Francis by the Sea and Our Lady of Angels will host a tion from Friday Oct. 5 to Sunday, Oct. 7 at the Lands End Re- 10 a.m-5 p.m. The Headquarters/Administrative office will conBlessing and Appreciation of the Animals on Sunday, Oct. 7 sort in Homer. Go to akna.org for more information. tinue to be open 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. from 1-4 p.m. at 110 South Spruce Street in Kenai. Parking, coffee, hospitality and treats for all the animals will be avail- ‘Willy Wonka’ auditions Women’s exercise group able. All are welcome.

Kenai Performers will be holding open auditions for “Roald A women’s exercise group meets from 7:15 – 8 a.m. each Dahl’s Willy Wonka,” on Sept. 28, starting at 6 p.m. and finish- Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Soldotna in the cultural hall ing at 9 p.m. and on Sept. 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Auditions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Maryare open to youth age 8 and above and adults. Please arrive 20 dale Ave. It’s a free 45 minutes of aerobics and strength trainminutes early to complete paperwork. All youth under 18 years ing geared for the “more mature” ladies in the community. Call of age must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. You Sally at 262-6637 for more information. don’t have to prepare anything in advance or attend both days of auditions. Please wear comfortable clothing to move around in Mrs. Peggy Joyce (Courtney) Rounds and bring your own water bottle. Location: 44045 Kalifornsky Kenai Community Library events Soldotna resident, Mrs. Peggy Joyce (Courtney) Rounds, Beach Road (backside of Subway). Performance dates are Feb. —Lego Brick Club, Tuesdays at 4 p.m. Why not join us to 79, died Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018 at Heritage Place in Soldotna.

21-24, Feb. 28 and March 1-3. For more information Call Terri build LEGO creations based on new themes each week and inNo services will be held at this time. at 252-6808 or Donna at 398-4205. spired by children’s books! Lego Makers, Mondays from 4–5 Peggy was born May 31, 1939 in Artesia, New Mexico. p.m. Designed for children ages 6-12; children under 8 must be In 1975 she moved to Kenai, where she stayed up until accompanied by an adult.

Auxiliary holiday bazaar vendor applications 1988. She left state in 1988 and returned to Alaska in 2010.

—Wee Read Story Time, Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. Designed The CPH Auxiliary is accepting vendor applications for the for children ages0-3. Every Tuesday enjoy a program full of stoShe was the greatest shoe sales person ever. She was raised 14th Annual Holiday Bazaar and Bake Sale which will take place ries, songs, finger play and more! No registration required.

Southern Baptist. Peggy was a member of the Women’s AuxNov. 1 and 2 in the Denali Room at the hospital. Interested pariliary (V.F.W.) in Clovis, New Mexico. She loved dancing —Chess Club, Mondays at 4 p.m. Get ready to ROOK the ties can pick up an application at the Care Package Gift Shop at HOUSE every Monday! Do you like playing Chess, or would and singing in the name of the Lord. the hospital. Applications are due returned to the gift shop no you like to learn how? The Kenai Community Library is proud The family wrote, “Her twinkling eyes and mischievous later than 4 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 28. smile always lit up a room.” to offer a casual program for chess players of all ages and levShe was preceded in death by her parents, Lloyd and els. Chess boards will be provided. -Preschool Story Time, Nancy Crouch; ex-husband, Bill Courtney; daughters, Altha Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.Designed for children ages 3-5. Every Nikiski Senior Center bingo nights Majeske and Theresa Wiley; and many brothers and sisters.

Wednesday enjoy a program full of stories, songs, movement Bingo and Pulltabs are back at the Nikiski Senior Center! and more! No registration required.

She is survived by her daughter, Mary “Beth” ( Robert) Bingo and pulltabs will be on Saturday, Sept. 29 at 6 p.m. (doors McCabe of Soldotna; grandsons, Matthew Vasilie of Soldot—Fermented Dill Pickles Workshop: Thursday, Oct. 4 at 4 open at 5 p.m.). Saturday bingos are potluck so bring your fa- p.m. Come learn how to make delicious and tangy lacto-ferna, Michael (Bethany) Vasilie of Pierre, South Dakota, Cory vorite dish! Call 907-776-7654 for more information.

Majeske of Michigan, and T.J. Majeske of California; grandmented dill pickles! Not only are the probiotics wonderful for daughters, Kyra McCabe of Hammond, Louisiana, Leah Mcyour digestive health but this method keeps the pickles crunchy Cabe of Phoenix, Arizona and Jennifer Majeske of Texas; and fresh! Must pre-register at the front desk. Class size limited Kenai Peninsula College Council seeks new great grandchildren, Hannah Vasilie of Pierre, South Dakota, to 10 participants. members Jonathan Vasilie of Pierre, South Dakota, Noah Vasilie of —Raspberry Pi Club: Friday, Oct. 5 at 4 p.m. Come Join us Pierre, South Dakota, Ellis Dupre of Hammond, Louisiana Kenai Peninsula College is seeking interested community at the library to create games, inventions, learn how to program, and Grayson Majeske of California and sister, Altha Crouch members to fill a Seward-area at-large seat and a Central Pen- make music with Sonic Pi, meet new friends, and more! Whethof Rio Rancho, New Mexico. insula-area at-large seat on its College Council. The borough- er you want to hone your skills or are learning about Pi’s for Memorial donations may be made to The American Diawide council serves as an advisory board to the college director the first time, the Raspberry Pi club is the perfect place for you! betes Association. and advocates for the interests of the college to the community Arrangement made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel & and legislature; members serve 3-year terms. Seward area and Crematory. Please sign or visit her online guestbook at AlasCentral Peninsula residents interested in serving should submit kanFuneral.com. a letter of interest and resume by Oct. 1, 2018 to: College Director, Kenai Peninsula College, 156 College Rd., Soldotna AK 99669. Interested individuals with questions can call 262-0318.

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Alaskans must work together to help those struggling with addiction When we talk about the behavioral health challenges facing our state — whether it’s alcohol addition, opioids, or suicide — most of us think of individuals who we love. In my family, and in too many Alaska families, we have seen firsthand the devastating impacts of addiction. We have also seen the beauty and grace of recovery.

I truly believe Alaskans are a more resilient people than most. And when confronted with the enormity of the challenges we face as a state, I draw hope and inspiration from the thousands of Alaskans who are living proof that recovery is possible. During our hardest moments, let us not forget that. Recovery is possible.

As we approach the end of this Recovery Month, a national observance dedicated to increasing understanding of mental health and substance misuse and celebrating those Alaskans who have chosen the path to recovery, let us continuously celebrate those who have struggled and come out the other side stronger. They are sitting next you in the office; they are raising successful children; they are children returning home.

More investment in prevention and treatment is critical. I was pleased to see the legislature fund the administration’s request for more behavioral health grants. But if we’re going to turn the tide, every Alaskan must step up.

First, we must change the way we talk about addiction. People choose to use drugs, but nobody chooses addiction. It’s a disease, a disease that we cannot effectively treat through the barricade of stigma.

Second, we must change how we talk about recovery.

Nobody can be forced to recover. But that doesn’t mean everyone else is off the hook. Whether someone is battling alcohol addiction or misuse of another substance, each of us has the ability to be a positive influence on their journey to sobriety, whether it’s directly as a friend or family member, or indirectly by offering support services and resources as an employer.

Third, and crucially, we must celebrate recovery.

Recovery is a lifelong process and a daily commitment, and support is helpful through every step of that journey.

I am encouraged to see strides being made every day to help Alaskans choose sobriety. There is a larger conversation happening about substance misuse, sobriety and recovery — both nationwide and here in our state — which is helping to reduce the stigma that exists around this topic. Recently, Cook Inlet Tribal Council opened a brand-new residential treatment center in Eklutna, dedicated to helping Alaskans overcome drug and alcohol addiction. Our state is also fortunate to have organizations like Recover Alaska and Alaska 2-1-1, which are committed to connecting Alaskans with lifesaving resources throughout every step toward sobriety.

To those who feel overwhelmed by the challenge before us, remember this: while our state’s recovery will be built one Alaskan at a time, none of us are going through it alone. Offer love and support to the people in your life. Be brave enough to accept it when you need it. Together, we can create a support system that stretches from coast to coast.

— First Lady Donna Walker

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Letters to the Editor Stop playing games with the Kavanaugh nomination When Judge Kavanaugh was appointed to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals 12 years ago, there was not such a circus as the Democrats are presenting for us now with his consideration for the Supreme Court.

Chuck Schumer and other Democrats vowed to do everything possible to defeat any nominee President Trump would select, even before they knew who the nominee was. With all the eleventh-hour shenanigans, it’s easy to see through the smoke and mirrors to the real agenda. Is it unreasonable to expect our elected officials to act like mature adults? What happened to judging a man by the content of his character? What happened to setting personal and petty differences aside in order to conduct the peoples’ business?

Judge Kavanaugh is a man of integrity and the smear campaign being conducted against him is shameful. Evidence shows that it’s about as baseless as some of the letters I’ve recently read denouncing Kavanaugh as bad for Alaska and its people.

Any judge with a proven track record of interpreting the law from the Constitution and who refuses to legislate from the bench is a good nomination to the Supreme Court. It may not be what the Democrats want, but they gave us their nominee for president and they lost the election.

Tit for tat is a playground behavior we try to help our elementary school kids to rise above. Hopefully, for the good of our nation and the integrity of our political process, we can all judge people by the content of their character. Judge Kavanaugh has a long and impressive record not just in judicial matters, but as a man of honor and true grit.

It’s high time we stop playing childish games and weigh the man and his unquestionable qualifications against the ideals of what we’re looking for in a Supreme Court justice. Senator Murkowski, please help end the madness by again coming to the support of Judge Brent Kavanaugh — this time for Supreme Court!

— Greg Madden, Soldotna

Vote no on Prop 1 Borough elections are on Tuesday, Oct. 2. As citizens of the Kenai Peninsula Borough it is really crucial that we voters take the time to know the issues and vote. Actually, you can vote now by going to any borough office, or on election day vote at any poling place using the question-ballot process. There is no excuse for not voting.

Proposition one … the proposed new school for the Kachemak-Selo Russian vil-

lage who have 43 to 50 students this year will obligate all of us to pay a $5.5 million bond as our share of a $15 million school.

The selling point is that the state is kicking in $10 million but the state has already overspent and stole our PFD too. There are three schools in the off-road area, so when will the other two petition for new schools? If people choose to live so remote they must be prepared to take more responsibility for themselves and their kids. The school board can offer a very successful “computer-based education” through the Connections Program.

Let’s not spend money we don’t have.

Join me in voting NO on Proposition #1.

— Ruby Denison, Ninilchik

Think twice on Prop 1 At first glance ballot Proposition 1 on the Oct. 2 municipal election might seem like an issue worthy of your support, but on closer examination that may not be the case at all.

This is about building a $15 million school in the Russian village of Kachemak Selo to serve 45 students. Do they need a new school? Possibly. Do they need a $15 million school? Definitely NOT. The State of Alaska, with its long history of overspending, has decided on the size, specifications, cost of this school and now wants voters of the Kenai Borough to buy into their madness.

Sure, the first $10 million is coming from the state, so we only need to come up with $5 million. But wait, I thought the state was short of money? Just maybe it is because the legislature refuses to control spending on projects like this one.

As you know, the Kenai Peninsula Borough does NOT have $5 million available and will be forced to bond for that amount.

Which means taxpayers will pony up the cash. This $5 million will be on top of the $179,210,293 the borough and local service areas are already indebted for.

Maybe it is time to say NO to the crazy spending habits of our government and force them to come back with a more reasonable alternative.

Please join me voting NO on ballot Proposition 1 Oct. 2.

— Mike McBride, North Kenai

Don’t be fooled on Ballot Measure 1 One of the most important things citizens can do is make an informed vote.

That’s not always an easy task. Sometimes issues seem purposefully muddled to attract the votes of the unwary. In this day of allegations of “Fake News,” the use of vast amounts of corporate money to sway outcomes, and frequent tactics to obscure truth, it is crucial that people take time to dig below the headlines and understand is-

sues that will affect our lives.

At first look, Ballot Measure 1 can be confusing. Commercials touting “Stand for Alaska,” with gillnetters hauling out salmon in the background, urge us to vote No. They claim stricter standards to protect anadromous waterways are “foolish and unwise” because they will stymie development. Another commercial of a guy catching and releasing a fish ends with”salmon deserve better.” These are deceptive statements. The biggest threat to salmon is the potential degradation of their habitat by the mining, logging, and other industries that support the “Stand for Alaska” platform and don’t want new regulations. I hope people won’t be fooled by the glossy commercials and confusing rhetoric that the No side is perpetuating with their nearly eighttimes greater campaign budget.

Salmon do deserve better and so do Alaskans. It would be foolish not to take measures to protect this vital resource that supports so many Alaskans in so many ways. If you think so too, please go to the polls and vote “YES” on Ballot Measure 1 to Stand for Salmon.

— Steve Hughes, 35-year resident of Kachemak Bay

David Lewis: A candidate with heart The things I look for in a candidate for any office are a big heart, a sound mind, and an honest humility that does not exclude a strong sense of what is good for the community.

Compassion, practical problem-solving skills and the humility to listen and respond are hallmarks of mayoral candidate David Lewis — whether he’s teaching in the public schools, serving on the city council or the hockey board, or just being a good neighbor.

From asking the Navy to change the dates of its exercises, which went clear to the Pentagon, to leading Homer and the state of Alaska in taking a stand for the health of our oceans by banning plastic grocery bags, from keeping the community-use HERC building open for Boys and Girls Clubs and other kids activities, to helping get the Kevin Bell Arena built, David Lewis serves his community always with compassion, humility and a view to what will be most helpful to Homer and to all who live here.

If you love joining in activities at SPARC, if you or someone you care about is handicapped and needs access to public places, or if you enjoy a stroll down the sidewalk on Soundview, David Lewis has your interests at heart.

And it’s a very big heart. I’m voting for David Lewis for mayor on Oct. 2. (Don’t YOU forget to vote.)

— Carol Ford, Homer

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Peninsula Clarion | Tuesday, September 25, 2018 | A5

Deputy AG Rosenstein still has his job — for now

By ZEKE MILLER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — After a long weekend spent wondering if he should resign or would be fired, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein still has his job — for now.

President Donald Trump gave Rosenstein a three-day reprieve pending their face-toface White House showdown on Thursday. That’s when the man who oversees the TrumpRussia investigation will respond to reports that he had discussed secretly recording the president and possibly using constitutional procedures to remove him from office.

The revelation that Rosenstein last year had broached the idea of taping the president touched off a dramatic weekend of conversations with the White House in which he offered to one official to resign and confided to another that he was considering doing so, according to two people familiar with the discussions who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

Even as he took issue with the reports, Rosenstein arrived at the White House on Monday expecting to be fired, according to another person who spoke on condition of anonymity. In-

stead, after he met with chief of staff John Kelly and spoke by phone to Trump himself, questions about his future were effectively tabled until the personal meeting on Thursday.

The position of deputy attorney general is ordinarily a relatively low-visibility one in Washington, but Rosenstein has assumed outsized significance given his appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate potential ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Any firing or resignation spells immediate uncertainty for an investigation that Rosenstein oversees and would place that responsibility in the hands of a replacement who Democrats fear would be less respectful of Mueller’s independence and mandate. Even some congressional Republicans and Trump aides have warned for months against firing Rosenstein for fear that it could lead to impeachment.

The commotion about Rosenstein’s future adds to the turmoil roiling the administration, just six weeks before midterm elections with control of Congress at stake. In addition to dealing with the Mueller investigation, the White House is also struggling to win confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the wake of

Congress takes aim at shrinking seats, legroom on airplanes

In this 2018 file photo, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

sexual misconduct allegations.

The Trump-Rosenstein meeting will be on the same day as an extraordinary Senate committee hearing featuring Kavanaugh and a woman who has accused him of sexually assaulting her when they were in high school.

Questions about Rosenstein’s future, long simmering, took on new life Friday with a New York Times report that in May 2017 discussions with FBI and Justice Department officials he suggested the idea of secretly recording Trump — remarks his defenders insist were merely sarcastic — and of invoking the Constitution to have the Cabinet consider removing

him from office.

Rosenstein was summoned to the White House on Friday evening for a conversation with chief of staff Kelly after which he issued a denial meant to be even sharper in tone than the one the Justice Department sent out hours earlier.

In conversations over the weekend, he offered to Kelly to resign, though the terms were unclear. He also told White House Counsel Don McGahn that he was considering doing so. McGahn told Rosenstein they should discuss the issue Monday, said the person who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private conversation.

Trump leads aggressive drive to save Kavanaugh

By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO Associated Press

WASHINGTON — After a long weekend spent wondering if he should resign or would be fired, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein still has his job — for now.

President Donald Trump gave Rosenstein a three-day reprieve pending their face-to-face White House showdown on Thursday.

That’s when the man who oversees the Trump-Russia investigation will respond to reports that he had discussed secretly recording the president and possibly using constitutional procedures to remove him from office.

The revelation that Rosenstein last year had broached the idea of taping the president touched off a dramatic weekend of conversations with the White House in which he offered to one official to resign and confided to another that he was considering doing so, according to two people familiar with the discussions who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

Even as he took issue with the reports, Rosenstein arrived at the White House on Monday expecting to be fired, according to another person who spoke on condition of anonymity. Instead, after he met with chief of staff

John Kelly and spoke by phone to Trump himself, questions about his future were effectively tabled until the personal meeting on Thursday.

The position of deputy attorney general is ordinarily a relatively low-visibility one in Washington, but Rosenstein has assumed outsized significance given his appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate potential ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Any firing or resignation spells immediate uncertainty for an investigation that Rosenstein oversees and would place that responsibility in the hands of a replacement who Democrats fear would be less respectful of Mueller’s independence and mandate. Even some congressional Republicans and Trump aides have warned for months against firing Rosenstein for fear that it could lead to impeachment.

The commotion about Rosenstein’s future adds to the turmoil roiling the administration, just six weeks before midterm elections with control of Congress at stake. In addition to dealing with the Mueller investigation, the White House is also struggling to win confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations.

WASHINGTON — Farmers across the United States will soon begin receiving government checks as part of a billiondollar bailout to buoy growers experiencing financial strain from President Donald Trump’s trade disputes with China.

But even those poised for big payouts worry it won’t be enough. And while support for Trump is near unwavering in the heartland, some growers say that with the November election nearing, such disappointing aid outcomes could potentially affect their vote.

“It’s pretty obvious that the rural agriculture communities helped elect this administration, but the way things are going I believe farmers are going to have to vote with their checkbook when it comes time,” said Kevin Skunes, a corn and soybean grower from Arthur, North Dakota and president of the National Corn Growers Association.

Corn farmers get the smallest slice of the aid pie. Corn groups

estimate a loss of 44 cents per bushel, but they’re poised to receive just a single penny per bushel.

“If these issues haven’t been resolved, there could be a change in the way farmers vote,” Skunes said. “A person has to consider all things.”

Farmers are already feeling the impact of Trump’s trade tiffs with China and other countries.

China has hit back hard, responding with its own set of tariffs on U.S. agricultural products and other goods.

The Trump administration is providing up to $12 billion in emergency relief funds for American farmers, with roughly $6 billion in an initial round.

The three-pronged plan includes $4.7 billion in payments to corn, cotton, soybean, dairy, pork and sorghum farmers. The rest is for developing new foreign markets for American-grown commodities and purchasing more than two dozen select products, including certain fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, meat and dairy.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced last month that soybean growers will get the

WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration would be required to set new minimum requirements for seats on airplanes under legislation to be considered in the House this week, possibly giving passengers a break from ever-shrinking legroom and cramped quarters.

The regulation of seat width and legroom is part of a five-year extension of federal aviation programs announced early Saturday by Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate committees that oversee the nation’s air travel.

Congress faces a Sept. 30 deadline to keep FAA programs running. The Senate will also need to take up the bill this week or both chambers will need to pass a short-term extension.

The bill would prohibit the involuntary bumping of passengers who have already boarded a plane. But in a nod to the power of the commercial airliners, lawmakers declined to include language that would have prohibited airlines from imposing fees deemed “not reasonable and proportional.”

Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida said lawmakers from both chambers agreed it was time to take action on “ever-shrinking seats.”

“Relief could soon be on the way for weary airline passengers facing smaller and smaller seats,” Nelson said.

In July, the FAA rejected the idea of setting minimum standards for airlines seats and legroom as a safety measure.

But Congress appears determined to require the FAA to do so.

The room between rows — measured from a point on one seat to the same point on the seat in the next row — has been shrinking for many years as airlines squeeze more seats onto their planes. It was once commonly 34 or 35 inches, and is now less than 30 inches on some planes.

Lawmakers also included several provisions to address concerns about increased airport noise levels caused by new flight paths. The bill would require the FAA to study the potential health impacts of flight noise and the feasibility of amending existing departure procedures.

The bill would also mandate that flight attendants get a minimum of 10 hours of rest between their work shifts and require airlines to communicate better with customers during mass flight cancellations and groundings.

Agency says two-headed snake may go to educational facility WAYNESBORO, Va. — A wildlife and conservation research hospital says a two-headed snake recently found near the nation’s capital may be sent to an educational facility.

The Wildlife Center of Virginia says the two-headed Eastern Copperhead was found in a northern Virginia neighborhood last week. It says a state herpetologist brought the snake to the hospital Thursday for an examination.

A hospital release says the two heads were found to have two tracheas and two esophagi, but share one heart and set of lungs. The Charlotte Observer reports state biologists believe both heads are capable of biting and distributing venom.

— The Associated Press

Brett Kavanaugh, with his wife Ashley Estes Kavanaugh, answers questions during a FOX News interview, Monday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Trump-Rosenstein meeting will be on the same day as an extraordinary Senate committee hearing featuring Kavanaugh and a woman who has accused him of sexually assaulting her when they were in high school.

Questions about Rosenstein’s future, long simmering, took on new life Friday with a New York Times report that in May 2017 discussions with FBI and Justice Department officials he suggested the idea of secretly recording Trump — remarks his defenders insist were merely sarcastic — and of invoking the Constitution to have the Cabinet consider removing him from office.

Rosenstein was summoned to the White House on Friday evening for a conversation with chief of staff Kelly after which he issued a denial meant to be even sharper in tone than the one the Justice Department sent out hours earlier.

In conversations over the weekend, he offered to Kelly to resign, though the terms were unclear. He also told White House Counsel Don McGahn that he was considering doing so. McGahn told Rosenstein they should discuss the issue Monday, said the person who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private conversation.

Some farmers worry bailout won’t be enough

By JULIET LINDERMAN Associated Press

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largest checks, at $1.65 per bushel for a total of $3.6 billion. China is the world’s leading buyer of American soybeans, purchasing roughly 60 percent of the U.S. crop. But since Beijing imposed a 25 percent tariff on soybean, imports prices have plunged.

The lack of initial detail about how the calculations were made left farmers scratching their heads.

Asked about the confusion, Rob Johansson, the Agriculture Department’s chief economist, responded that the USDA took into account a number of factors “including the share of production that is exported and the value of trade directly affected by the retaliatory tariffs.”

“The level of damage is not the same for each commodity,” he said in a written response to questions submitted by The Associated Press.

He estimated that there would be more than 784,000 applications for relief.

The USDA has since released a detailed analysis of how the department made its calculations.

The breakdown has stunned corn and wheat farmers who

say the payments are uneven and won’t do much of anything to help keep struggling farms afloat.

A lobbying group that represents wheat growers is challenging the way the administration determined payments for wheat farmers, who are set to receive 14 cents a bushel. Chandler Goule, CEO of the National Association of Wheat Growers, said the USDA assumed U.S. wheat would be sold to China this year when it made its calculations. But the assumption was flawed, he said.

China typically makes its requests for American wheat between March and June. U.S. wheat farmers have sold, on average, 20 million bushels of wheat to China over the past three years. But none came this year, Goule said, as Trump escalated his threatening rhetoric on trade with Beijing. He hopes the per-bushel rate for wheat goes up if there’s a second round of payments.

“I am very certain that we will not sell any wheat to China this year,” Goule said. “The window we sell in has come and gone.”

Today in History Today is Tuesday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2018. There are 97 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 25, 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.

On this date: In 1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean.

In 1690, one of the earliest American newspapers, Publick Occurrences, published its first -- and last -- edition in Boston.

In 1775, American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen was captured by the British as he led an attack on Montreal. (Allen was released by the British in 1778.)

In 1789, the first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.)

In 1911, ground was broken for Boston’s Fenway Park.

In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, Colo., during a national speaking tour in support of the Treaty of Versailles (vehr-SY’).

In 1956, the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable officially went into service with a three-way ceremonial call between New York, Ottawa and London.

In 1957, nine black students who’d been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, because of unruly white crowds were escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division.

In 1974, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Tommy John underwent an experimental graft reconstruction of the ulnar collateral ligament in the elbow of his throwing arm to repair a career-ending injury; the procedure, which proved successful, is now referred to as “Tommy John surgery.”

In 1978, 144 people were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a private plane collided over San Diego.

In 1992, NASA’s Mars Observer blasted off on a $980 million mission to the red planet (the probe disappeared just before entering Martian orbit in August 1993).

In 1997, President Bill Clinton pulled open the door of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, as he welcomed nine blacks who had faced hate-filled mobs 40 years earlier.

Ten years ago: Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama sat down with President George W. Bush at the White House to discuss a multibillion-dollar Wall Street bailout plan, but the session, which also included top congressional leaders, devolved into what the McCain campaign described afterward as a “contentious shouting match.” Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin defended her remark that the close proximity of Russia to her home state of Alaska gave her foreign policy experience, explaining in a CBS interview that “we have trade missions back and forth.” Anti-apartheid activist Kgalema Motlanthe (KHAH’-lee-mah mooKAN’-tay) became the third president of South Africa since the end of white rule. After a 43-year wait, Paul McCartney performed his first concert in Israel, saying he was on a mission of peace for Israel and the Palestinians.

Five years ago: Nearly a dozen of Syria’s powerful rebel factions, including one linked to al-Qaida, formally broke with the main opposition group in exile and called for Islamic law in the country, dealing a severe blow to the Western-backed coalition. Skipper Jimmy Spithill and Oracle Team USA won the America’s Cup with one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, speeding past Dean Barker and Emirates Team New Zealand in the winner-take-all Race 19 on San Francisco Bay. One year ago: Former congressman Anthony Weiner was sentenced to 21 months behind bars for illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl.

North Korea’s top diplomat said his country had the right to shoot down U.S. warplanes, after President Donald Trump’s weekend tweet suggesting that the North’s Kim Jong Un “won’t be around much longer.” Britain’s Prince Harry and girlfriend Meghan Markle made their first public appearance as a couple, attending a wheelchair tennis event at the Invictus Games for wounded veterans in Toronto.

Today’s Birthdays: Broadcast journalist Barbara Walters is 89. Folk singer Ian Tyson is 85. Polka bandleader Jimmy Sturr is 77. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates is 75. Actor Josh Taylor is 75. Actor Robert Walden is 75. Actor-producer Michael Douglas is 74. Model Cheryl Tiegs is 71. Actress Mimi Kennedy is 70. Movie director Pedro Almodovar is 69.

Actor-director Anson Williams is 69. Actor Mark Hamill is 67. Basketball Hall of Famer Bob McAdoo is 67. Actor Colin Friels is 66. Actor Michael Madsen is 60. Actress Heather Locklear is 57. Actress Aida Turturro is 56. Actor Tate Donovan is 55. TV personality Keely Shaye Smith is 55. Actress Maria Doyle Kennedy is 54. Basketball Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen is 53. Actor Jason Flemyng is 52. Actor Will Smith is 50. Actor Hal Sparks is 49. Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is 49. Rock musician Mike Luce (Drowning Pool) is 47. Actress Bridgette Wilson-Sampras is 45. Actress Clea DuVall is 41. Actor Robbie Jones is 41. Actor Joel David Moore is 41. Actor Chris Owen is 38. Rapper T. I. is 38. Actor Van Hansis is 37. Actor Lee Norris is 37. Actor/ rapper Donald Glover (AKA Childish Gambino) is 35. Actor Zach Woods is 34. Actor Jordan Gavaris is 29. Olympic silver medal figure skater Mao Asada is 28. Actress Emmy Clarke is 27.

Thought for Today: “History is too serious to be left to historians.” -- Iain Macleod, British politician (1913-1970).

A6 | Tuesday, September 25, 2018 | Peninsula Clarion

World

Iran fears plot by US and its Gulf allies

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — On the same day Arab separatists killed at least 25 people in an attack targeting a military parade in southwestern Iran, President Donald Trump’s lawyer mounted a stage in New York to declare that the government would be toppled.

“I don’t know when we’re going to overthrow them. It could be in a few days, months or a couple of years, but it’s going to happen,” former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Saturday. “They are going to be overthrown. The people of Iran obviously have had enough.”

For Iran’s Shiite theocracy, comments like these only fuel fears that America and its Gulf Arab allies are plotting to tear the Islamic Republic apart.

Those threats so far haven’t led to a military confrontation or violence, but the risk is rising.

“Undoubtedly the Islamic Republic of Iran will not ignore this crime. It is absolutely clear for us who did that, what group they are and with whom they are affiliated,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned before leaving for New York for the United Nations General Assembly. “All of those small mercenary countries that we see in this region are backed

by America. It is Americans who instigate them and provide them with necessary means to commit these crimes.”

Rouhani is a relative moderate who was elected twice on promises to improve relations with West, and who signed the 2015 nuclear agreement. At the U.N. General Assembly that year, he declared that “a new chapter had started in Iran’s relations with the world.”

“For the first time, two sides

rather than negotiating peace after war, engaged in dialogue and understanding before the eruption of conflict.”

An eruption now seems more likely. What changed in the meantime seems to be the politics of the region and the U.S. While America’s Sunni Gulf Arab allies in the region criticized the nuclear deal, many later acknowledged that it did what it was designed to do.

Iran limited its enrichment of uranium, making it virtually impossible for it to quickly develop nuclear weapons, something the government insists it has never sought. In exchange, some international sanctions were lifted, allowing Iran to rejoin the global financial system and sell its crude oil to American allies.

Over time, however, Gulf states adopted an increasingly harder tone with Iran. Officials in Tehran point to comments

by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now next in line to the throne in Iran’s Mideast archrival.

“We know we are a main target of Iran,” Prince Mohammed said in a 2017 interview, shortly before becoming crown prince.

“We are not waiting until there becomes a battle in Saudi Arabia, so we will work so that it becomes a battle for them in Iran and not in Saudi Arabia.”

He did not elaborate, though the kingdom and its allies were mired then as they are now — in a war in Yemen against Iranaligned Shiite rebels. While Iran denies arming the rebels, known as Houthis, U.N. investigators, analysts and Western nations all say Tehran supplies weapons ranging from assault rifles to the ballistic missiles, which have been fired deep into Saudi territory.

After Prince Mohammed’s comments last year, Saudi-

UK’s Labour opposition says it might back new Brexit vote

President Hassan Rouhani, center, leaves for New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly, at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran, Sunday. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

aligned satellite news channels began playing up stories about Iranian opposition and exile groups. They also began publicizing the nighttime pipeline attacks by Arab separatists in Khuzestan, Iran’s oil-rich southwestern province, which Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein tried to seize in his 1980s war with Iran.

Those separatists claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack in Ahvaz, Khuzestan’s capital, which struck one of many parades in the country marking the start of the 1980s war. Iranian officials, who blame the separatists for the attack, say the militants wore military uniforms and hid their weapons along the parade route ahead of time — showing a level of sophistication previously unseen by the separatists.

There has been no direct evidence linking the separatists to Saudi Arabia. However, Iranian officials have seized on the fact the separatists immediately made their claim of responsibility on a Saudi-linked, Farsi-language satellite news channel based in Britain.

The United States has meanwhile been ramping up pressure on Iran since Trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement in May, restoring crippling sanctions and voicing support for anti-government protests fueled by economic woes.

The Trump administration has said its actions aren’t aimed at toppling Iran’s government. But in the meantime, Giuliani has continued speaking before meetings of an exiled Iranian opposition group.

Before being appointed national security adviser earlier this year, John Bolton gave impassioned speeches calling for regime change.

“The declared policy of the United States of America should be the overthrow of the mullahs’ regime in Tehran,” Bolton told Iranian exiles in July 2017. “The behavior and the objectives of the regime are not going to change, and therefore, the only solution is to change the regime itself.

He added, to cheers: “And that’s why before 2019, we here will celebrate in Tehran.”

Trump lauds Kim in United Nations return

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — President Donald Trump raised hopes at the United Nations on Monday that a second meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un could occur “quite soon,” striking a conciliatory tone one year after he used his debut at the U.N. to deride the autocrat as “Little Rocket Man” and threaten to “totally destroy North Korea.”

Trump praised Kim as “very open” and “terrific,” despite the glacial pace of progress toward denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula.

U.S. officials defended Trump’s strategy of engagement with the erstwhile pariah state as the president embarked on a week of meetings with world leaders. The softer tone toward North Korea — once threatened with “fire and fury” — has been replaced by rosy optimism, with Trump reserving tough rhetoric for another potential nuclear aspirant and strategic foe: Iran.

“It was a different world,” Trump said Monday of his onetime moniker for the North Korean leader. “That was a dangerous time. This is one year later, a much different time.”

Trump began his second visit to the U.N. with a brief meeting on the global drug trade before sitting down with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who delivered a personal message to Trump from Kim after their inter-Korean talks last week in Pyongyang.

“You are the only person who can solve this problem,” Moon said to Trump, relaying Kim’s words.

Trump, for his part, said: “We are in no rush. We are in no hurry” to bring about a nuclear agreement. U.S. officials are insisting that economic sanctions remain in place against the North until it eliminates its nuclear program.

Trump said Secretary of

State Mike Pompeo has been tasked with bringing about the second summit, despite an assessment by U.S. officials that the North has not followed through on its commitments to take steps toward denuclearization. Pompeo defended Trump’s decision to seek another meeting despite the slow progress.

“We’ve been at this the other way an awfully long time and failed,” he said, adding: “We tried to do details. We tried to do step for step. We tried to do trade for trade. Each of those failed.”

“We’re bringing the two senior leaders, the individuals who can actually make the decisions that will move this process forward,” in hopes they can make a breakthrough, he said.

Trump said the location for the second summit is still to be determined, but officials have said the U.S. leader is holding out hope it could take place on American soil. Such a move would itself present a complex political and logistical challenge for the North Korean leader. His trip to Singapore in June for the inaugural summit was anything but trivial.

Trump has often fondly invoked the Singapore summit, a made-for-TV event that attracted the world’s media attention and largely received positive marks from cable pundits — reviews that were not repeated for his summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Helsinki the following month.

Trump and Moon on Monday signed a new version of the U.S.-South Korean trade agreement, marking one of Trump’s first successes in his effort to renegotiate economic deals on more favorable terms for the U.S. Trump labeled it a “very big deal” and says the new agreement makes significant improvements to reduce the trade deficit between the countries and create new opportunities to export American products to South Korea. He says U.S. automobiles, phar-

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United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, left, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, right, listen as President Donald Trump speaks during the “Global Call to Action on the World Drug Problem” at the United Nations General Assembly, Monday at U.N. Headquarters. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

maceuticals and agricultural products will gain better access to Korean markets.

Even so, some U.S. officials worry that South Korea’s eagerness to restore relations with the North — known as its “sunshine policy” — could reduce sanctions pressure on Kim’s government, hampering efforts to negotiate a nuclear accord.

The nuclear threat also was on the agenda at Trump’s first meeting in New York, a dinner with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday night.

Abe stands first among world leaders in cultivating a close relationship with the president through displays of flattery that he has used to advance his efforts to influence the unpredictable American leader.

Trump is set to address the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday morning and will chair a meeting of the Security Council Wednesday on counter-proliferation. In both venues, U.S. officials say, he is expected to offer a contrast between the path of negotiation chosen by North Korea and that of Iran.

Trump earlier this year bucked allies and removed the U.S. from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, citing Iran’s malign influence in the region and support for terrorist groups like Hez-

bollah. The next round of tough sanctions on Iran is set to go into effect in November.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is in New York to attend U.N. meetings. U.S. officials said Trump is not seeking a meeting with the Iranian leader, but is not opposed to talking if Iran requests a session.

Rouhani, appearing on NBC on Monday, cited the threat of more U.S. sanctions in stating, “There is no such program for a meeting.”

In keeping with his “America First” pronouncements, Trump’s return tour to the annual diplomatic summit was eclipsed before it began by domestic political crises. The fate of Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee was cast into doubt over the weekend amid new allegations of sexual misconduct. Drama also swirled Monday around the status of his deputy attorney general.

Rod Rosenstein was revealed last week to have floated the idea of secretly recording Trump last year and to have raised the idea of using the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. Rosenstein has denied the reports. Trump said he will meet with Rosenstein on Thursday upon his return to Washington.

LONDON — Britain’s main opposition party took a step at its annual conference toward backing a new referendum on Brexit — but stopped short of saying the vote should include an option not to leave the European Union at all.

Delegates at the Labour Party conference in the northwestern English city of Liverpool will debate a motion Tuesday saying that if Parliament rejects the government’s Brexit deal, “Labour must support all options remaining on the table, including campaigning for a public vote.”

The motion, whose wording was argued over during a five-hour meeting late Sunday, does not specify that a new referendum should include an option to remain in the EU, as many party members want.

Most of the party’s half-million members voted in 2016 to remain in the EU. But many of its 257 lawmakers represent areas that supported leaving, so Brexit poses an electoral dilemma for the left-of-center party.

With the U.K. and the EU now at an impasse in divorce talks, and just six months to go until Britain officially leaves on March 29, many Labour members think the party should try to force a new referendum that could reverse Britain’s decision to quit the 28-nation bloc.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and other party chiefs oppose that idea, saying Labour must honor voters’ 2016 decision to leave. They say a better option would be a general election and a Labour government.

Party finance spokesman John McDonnell said Monday that “we argued for ‘remain’ in the past but we lost that vote so we have to respect that.”

But Labour lawmaker David Lammy, who backs a second vote, said a referendum offering the choice between “no deal or a bad deal” would be “farcical.”

“It absolutely must include the right to stay in the EU,” he said.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny sent back to jail MOSCOW — Immediately after being released from jail at the end of a 30-day sentence, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained again on Monday and ordered to spend 20 more days behind bars.

Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most visible opponent, has served numerous jail sentences for spearheading a series of unsanctioned protests across Russia.

Just as he walked out of a detention center in Moscow for organizing an unauthorized rally earlier this year, a police officer took him away.

The Simonovsky District Court later sentenced him to 20 days in custody on charges of staging another rally earlier this month that caused bodily harm to police officers and damaged a patrol vehicle. Navalny denied the allegation, saying that as he was serving the 30-day jail sentence he couldn’t have organized the unsanctioned rally.

Navalny’s further detention comes amid a wave of popular discontent against an increase in the retirement age, an issue that angered Russians across the political spectrum.

A drop in approval ratings for Putin and outrage at the changes in the pension system have weighed heavily on Kremlin candidates running in regional elections in Russian regions.

Early results from runoff votes in Sunday’s gubernatorial elections in two Russian regions see opposition candidates beating Kremlin incumbents.

A week earlier, an opposition candidate for governor in the Far East mounted protests following widespread reports of vote-rigging in favor of the Kremlin candidate.

Several days later, election authorities canceled the results of the elections and called a new vote.

Vietnam jails activist for anti-government posts on Facebook HANOI, Vietnam — A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced an activist to 27 months in prison for Facebook posts that judges say insulted the ruling Communist Party and government and called for anti-government protests.

Doan Khanh Vinh Quang, 42, was convicted “abuse of democratic freedom to infringe on the legitimate interests of the state” by the People’s Court in Ninh Kieu District in Can Tho province after a one-day trial Monday, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

The agency quoted judges as saying Quang’s actions “actively abetted hostile and reactionary forces from inside and outside the country” who want to overthrow the party and government.

Court officials were not available for comment Tuesday.

The conviction comes as communist authorities step up a crackdown on dissent. Quang was third activist to be jailed in a week on similar charges.

On Saturday, Nguyen Hong Nguyen and Truong Dinh Khang, were convicted of insulting the Communist Party and its leaders, including late founding President Ho Chi Minh, and sentenced to two years and one year respectively in separate cases in Can Tho province.

Despite sweeping economic reforms over the past 30 years that opened Vietnam to foreign investment and trade that made it one of fastest growing economies in the region, the Communist Party tolerates no challenge to its one-party rule.

Some Western governments and international human rights groups criticize Vietnam for jailing people for peacefully expressing their views. Hanoi says only lawbreakers are put behind bars.

Some 97 activists were in jail as of April this year, according to Amnesty International.

—The Associated Press

Peninsula Clarion | Tuesday, September 25, 2018 | A7

Sports

Big Ben carries Steelers past Bucs TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — It was not the way Ben Roethlisberger would draw it up, but the Pittsburgh Steelers will take it.

In desperate need of a win, the two-time defending AFC North champions capped a tumultuous week in which star receiver Antonio Brown made headlines by shouting at an assistant coach on the sidelines and getting into a spat on social media with a 30-27 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday night.

The Steelers (1-1-1) built a 20-point lead held on for their first win despite not scoring after halftime.

“I don’t feel like we had the ball much in the second half. Three possessions maybe. We need to do a better job putting it away,” Roethlisberger said.

“At the end of the day we just wanted to get out of here with a win,” cornerback Joe Haden added. “It wasn’t a good-looking win at all.

They made a lot of plays on us, but at the end we made some big stops.”

Roethlisberger threw for 353 yards and three touchdowns, with all but 80 yards of that production coming while the Steelers were building a 30-10 halftime lead.

Vance McDonald scored on a 75-yard pass play and finished with four catches for 112 yards. Brown and Ryan Switzer also had first-half TD receptions for Pittsburgh, which had been winless

through two games for the first time since 2013.

The Pittsburgh defense did its part, too, forcing four turnovers, including three first-half interceptions of Ryan Fitzpatrick, the 35-year-old journeyman who threw for 819 yards and eight touchdowns in two victories to begin Tampa Bay’s season.

Fitzpatrick, the only player in NFL history to open a season with consecutive games with over 400 yards passing and four touchdowns, tried his best to create “FitzMagic” again in his third start in place of the suspended Jameis Winston.

He led a long field goal drive in the third quarter, and then tossed fourth-quarter TD passes of 4 yards to Chris Godwin and 24 yards to Mike Evans to rally the Bucs (2-1) within 30-27 with 5:43 remaining.

“We obviously dug ourselves a pretty big hole,” Fitzpatrick said. “The great thing to me coming out of this game is again the belief in the huddle in the second half and guys not wavering and not blinking and having the feeling the whole time that we were going to come back and win the game.”

The Bucs got the ball back with just over three minutes left; however, the Steelers forced a punt and Roethlisberger ran out the clock.

Fitzpatrick, sacked three times, finished 30 of 50 for 411 yards and three TDs.

Warm weather pleases golfers

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n a beautiful Indian summer morning on Sept. 17, 12 senior men (over 50) came out to play their own game (handicapped).

Steve Hammarstrom and Tom Hodel tied for first with a 33.

Closest to the pin at the sixth was Steve Hammarstrom and at the eighth was Mike Hollingsworth.

There was also a least putts contest and that went to Steve Hammarstrom and Tom Hodel, which proves the most valuable club in your bag is the putter.

Five ladies showed to play golf on Sept. 18. They evidently played “plinko golf and spending time on the beach.”

(I don’t have a clue as to what that means.) Low gross went to Rita Geller, and Denise Cox and Cheryl Hammarstrom shared low net. Cheryl Hammarstrom also won fewest putts and the mystery hole.

Wednesday, 15 men came out to play Men’s Night — a blind-draw scramble. First place with a 33 went to the team of Darrel Jelsma, Bill Engberg and Steve Hammarstrom, second went to the team of Kevin O’Fallon, Jay Kriner and John Davis, and third went to the team of Jeff Selinger, Max Conradi and Kevin Downs.

Long drive was Kevin Downs, the greenie on No. 6 went to Robert Stiver and on No. 8 to Aaron Cooper. Max Conradi won the pure birdie.

The Cold Weather Classic was played Saturday. The format is a man and woman team playing a Scotch Double, meaning they both hit their drives then choose which one to hit second, then alternate shots into the hole.

Seven lovebirds showed up on another beautiful Indian summer day and the scores were very close except one couple who had a worse day than the rest of us. (Names are withheld to protect the innocent.)

Most of the net scores were between 68 and 72. First low gross was Mike and Vicki Hollingsworth (87), second low gross went to George and Sue Stein. Low net went to Sid and Denise Cox (68) and second

B irch R idge G olf R eport P at C owan low net went to Gary Dawkins and Lori Riggs Bishop.

Two birdies were scored, one by the Chenaults and one by the Coxes. Closest to the pin went to Sibolboros on No. 6 and the Steins on No. 17.

The new pro shop hours are 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Starting Oct. 1, hours will switch to opening 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Men’s night this week is at 5:45 p.m. and next week probably 5:30 p.m.

All prices are now seasonally reduced and many items are on sale. According to the weather forecast, weather still is supposed unseasonably warm until Oct. 16. Come out and enjoy fall golf on Birch Ridge Golf Course.

On Tap Peninsula high school sports Tuesday Volleyball Kenai at Nikiski, 5 p.m.

Thursday Volleyball Redington at Seward, 5 p.m.

Soccer CIA at Borealis Conference Championship Friday Swimming Soldotna at Valdez Invite, 4 p.m.

Volleyball Soldotna at Colony, 5:30 p.m.

Kenai at Seward, 5 p.m.

Redington at Homer, 6:30 p.m.

Houston at Nikiski, 5 p.m.

Soccer CIA at Borealis Conference Championship Saturday Football Kenai at Soldotna, 2 p.m.

Homer at Nikiski, 2 p.m.

Seward at Ketchikan, TBA Cross-country State championships at Bartlett, noon Division II girls, 12:45 p.m.

Division I girls, 1:30 p.m. Division II boys, 2:15 p.m. Division I boys Swimming Soldotna at Valdez Invite, 10:30 a.m.

Homer, Kenai at Seward Invite, 10 a.m.

Volleyball Soldotna at Colony, 12:30 p.m.

Houston at Homer, 1:30 p.m.

Redington at Nikiski, noon

A’s clinch spot in playoffs

By The Associated Press

SEATTLE — The Oakland Athletics clinched their first playoff berth since 2014, then beat the Seattle Mariners 7-3 Monday night behind Khris Davis’ major league-leading 46th home run.

Jonathan Lucroy, Jed Lowrie and Matt Chapman also homered for the A’s, assured no worse than a wild-card berth.

Oakland.

winner for the Central Division lost 5-1 to Pittsburgh. champions since Cliff Lee went 22-3 in 2008.

PIRATES 5, CUBS 1

PADRES 5, GIANTS 0

CHICAGO — Jameson Taillon outpitched Cole Hamels, Francisco Cervelli hit a two-run homer and Pittsburgh made Chicago wait at least another day to clinch a playoff spot.

The Cubs needed a win plus a loss by Colorado to Philadelphia to assure a franchise-record fourth straight trip to the playoffs, a run that includes a drought-busting YANKEES 4, RAYS 1 World Series championship in ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) 2016.

— Aaron Hicks injured his left hamstring running up the first-base ASTROS 5, BLUE JAYS 3 line in the Yankees’ win , another concern for New York heading into TORONTO — Brian McCann next week’s AL wild-card game. and Josh Reddick hit back-to-back Hicks’ 11th-inning double home runs, and Houston beat Toon Saturday drove Didi Grego- ronto to move one step closer to its rius with the run that clinched a second straight AL West title. postseason berth, and on Sunday The defending World Series the Yankees learned Sunday that champions began the day with Gregorius had torn cartilage in a magic number of three over his right wrist during his headfirst Oakland to clinch the division — slide across the plate. which would set up a best-of-five postseason matchup against AL Central champion Cleveland. The RED SOX 6, ORIOLES 2 Athletics, who played later in Seattle, clinched at least a wild-card BOSTON — Boston broke playoff spot when Tampa Bay lost a 106-year-old franchise record to the New York Yankees. with its 106th victory, clinching home-field advantage through the postseason thanks to a pair of hits INDIANS 4, WHITE SOX 0 from major league batting leader CHICAGO — Corey Kluber Mookie Betts. struck out 11 in seven scoreless inNathan Eovaldi struck out 10 hapless Baltimore batters to assure nings and won his 20th game, and the Red Sox of the best record in Brandon Guyer hit a go-ahead solo baseball this season and home- homer in the seventh as Cleveland field advantage through the World beat Chicago.

Kluber (20-7) reached 20 victoSeries, if they make it that far. For ries for the first time after recordnow, they know they will open the Division Series at Fenway Park on ing 19 wins last season and 18 Oct. 5 against the winner of the AL victories the two previous seasons wild-card game between the New and in 2004. The reigning AL CY York Yankees and mostly likely Young winner is the first 20-game

NATIONALS 7, MARLINS 3 WASHINGTON — Anthony Rendon homered and drove four runs, Bryce Harper reached 100 RBIs in a season for the first time and Washington beat Miami.

Juan Soto and Matt Wieters also homered for Washington, which broke it open with four runs on three pitches in the fourth inning.

ROCKIES 10, PHILLIES 1 DENVER — Jon Gray pitched seven crisp innings and drew a bases-loaded walk as part of a five-run third to lead Colorado.

Colorado won its fourth straight game since being swept in Los Angeles by the NL West-leading Dodgers, who beat Arizona 7-4 and maintained a 1½-game advantage over the Rockies in the division. Colorado closed within a half-game of St. Louis for the second wild card. The Cardinals lost to Milwaukee 6-4.

BREWERS 6, CARDINALS 4 ST. LOUIS — Eric Thames scored on reliever Bud Norris’ throwing error in the eighth inning and the Milwaukee Brewers improved their playoff positioning by topping St. Louis.

Ryan Braun homered and Christian Yelich drove in two runs as Milwaukee won for the fourth time in five games. The Brewers (90-67) opened a three-game lead over St. Louis for the top spot in the wild-card standings and pulled within 1 1/2 games of the NL Central-leading Chicago Cubs, who

SAN FRANCISCO — Bryan Mitchell struck out seven in 8 2/3 strong innings, Jose Pirela had a homer among his three hits to lead San Diego.

The Giants lost their fifth straight game hours after the team announced the dismissal of general manager Bobby Evans. The move comes amid a Giants team freefall.

Mitchell (2-4) walked just three in what was by far his best start of an uneven season.

ANGELS 5, RANGERS 4 ANAHEIM, Calif. — Jose Briceno delivered a pinch-hit homer leading off the 11th inning, and Los Angeles snapped its five-game skid.

After Taylor Cole (3-2) retired the Rangers in the 11th, the Angels’ rookie catcher walked off with his fifth career homer to center off Matt Moore (3-8).

DODGERS 7, DIAMONDBACKS 4 PHOENIX — David Freese homered and had three hits, leading Clayton Kershaw as Los Angeles maintained its lead in the NL West.

Manny Machado had two RBIs for the Dodgers, including a groundout deep into the shortstop hole with the bases loaded in the seventh inning that brought in Yasiel Puig with the go-ahead run. Los Angeles added three ninth-inning runs to stay 1½ games ahead of Colorado, which routed Philadelphia 10-1.

The defending NL champions have won six of seven.

Scoreboard Football NFL Standings AMERICAN CONFERENCE East Miami New England Buffalo N.Y. Jets South Tennessee Jacksonville Indianapolis Houston North Cincinnati Baltimore Cleveland Pittsburgh West Kansas City Denver L.A. Chargers Oakland

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PA 52 77 84 58

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Monday’s Games Pittsburgh 30, Tampa Bay 27 Thursday, Sept. 27 Minnesota at L.A. Rams, 4:20 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 30 Cincinnati at Atlanta, 9 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Chicago, 9 a.m.

Houston at Indianapolis, 9 a.m.

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

Miami at New England, 9 a.m.

Detroit at Dallas, 9 a.m.

Buffalo at Green Bay, 9 a.m.

Philadelphia at Tennessee, 9 a.m.

Seattle at Arizona, 12:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Oakland, 12:05 p.m.

New Orleans at N.Y. Giants, 12:25 p.m.

San Francisco at L.A. Chargers, 12:25 p.m.

Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 4:20 p.m.

Open: Washington, Carolina Monday, Oct. 1 Kansas City at Denver, 4:15 p.m.

All Times ADT

Hockey NHL Preseason EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 6 5 0 1 11 21 14 Detroit 4 4 0 0 8 14 9 Montreal 5 4 1 0 8 18 11 Toronto 5 4 1 0 8 17 12 Tampa Bay 4 2 2 0 4 12 13 Buffalo 4 2 2 0 4 12 11 Florida 4 2 2 0 4 12 15 Ottawa 4 0 4 0 0 6 16 Metropolitan Division N.Y. Islanders 6 4 2 0 8 15 12 Philadelphia 6 3 2 1 7 19 16 Carolina 3 3 0 0 6 15 3 N.Y. Rangers 4 2 2 0 4 14 17 Pittsburgh 4 1 2 1 3 13 12 New Jersey 4 0 2 2 2 7 13 Columbus 5 1 4 0 2 9 20 Washington 4 0 3 1 1 6 17

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Winnipeg 5 Dallas 4 St. Louis 4 Nashville 4 Colorado 3

4 1 3 0 3 1 2 2 1 2

0 1 0 0 0

8 19 18 7 16 11 6 14 8 4 13 13 2 6 15

Chicago 3 1 2 0 2 8 10 Minnesota 5 1 4 0 2 14 13 Pacific Division Vegas 5 4 1 0 8 27 14 Calgary 7 2 2 3 7 24 26 4 3 1 0 6 21 14 Edmonton Arizona 5 3 2 0 6 18 17 3 2 0 1 5 15 9 San Jose Los Angeles 5 1 3 1 3 14 20 Anaheim 4 1 3 0 2 9 19 Vancouver 5 1 4 0 2 10 20 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.

Monday’s Games Boston 4, Philadelphia 3 N.Y. Rangers 4, New Jersey 3, OT Montreal 5, Toronto 1 Dallas 5, Minnesota 3 Winnipeg 5, Calgary 4, OT Los Angeles 4, Vancouver 1 Colorado 5, Vegas 3 Anaheim 4, Arizona 2 Tuesday’s Games Columbus vs. Buffalo at Clinton Arena, 3 p.m.

Florida at Tampa Bay, 3:30 p.m.

Washington at St. Louis, 4 p.m.

Carolina at Nashville, 4 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 4:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Edmonton, 5 p.m.

San Jose at Calgary, 5 p.m.

All Times ADT

Baseball AL Standings

East Division W L Pct GB x-Boston 106 51 .675 — y-New York 96 60 .615 9½ Tampa Bay 87 69 .558 18½ Toronto 71 86 .452 35 Baltimore 45 111 .288 60½ Central Division x-Cleveland 88 68 .564 — Minnesota 72 83 .465 15½ Detroit 63 93 .404 25 Chicago 61 95 .391 27 Kansas City 54 102 .346 34 West Division z-Houston 99 57 .635 — z-Oakland 95 62 .605 4½ Seattle 85 71 .545 14 Los Angeles 76 81 .484 23½ Texas 66 90 .423 33 z-clinched playoff berth x-clinched division y-clinched wild card Monday’s Games Houston 5, Toronto 3 Boston 6, Baltimore 2 N.Y. Yankees 4, Tampa Bay 1 Cleveland 4, Chicago White Sox 0 L.A. Angels 5, Texas 4, 11 innings Oakland 7, Seattle 3 Tuesday’s Games Kansas City (Skoglund 1-5) at Cincinnati (Harvey 7-9), 2:40 p.m.

Houston (James 1-0) at Toronto (Gaviglio 3-8), 3:07 p.m.

Baltimore (Yacabonis 0-2) at Boston (Price 15-7), 3:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Severino 18-8) at Tampa Bay (Faria 4-3), 3:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Bauer 12-6) at Chicago White Sox (Shields 7-16), 4:10 p.m.

Detroit (Turnbull 0-1) at Minnesota (Stewart 2-1), 4:10 p.m.

Texas (Gallardo 8-6) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 2-2), 6:07 p.m.

Oakland (Anderson 4-5) at Seattle (Leake 10-10), 6:10 p.m.

All Times ADT

NL Standings

East Division W L Pct GB x-Atlanta 88 68 .564 — Washington 79 78 .503 9½ Philadelphia 78 78 .500 10 New York 73 83 .468 15 Miami 62 94 .397 26 Central Division Chicago 91 65 .583 — Milwaukee 90 67 .573 1½ St. Louis 87 70 .554 4½ Pittsburgh 79 76 .510 11½ Cincinnati 66 91 .420 25½ West Division Los Angeles 88 69 .561 —

Colorado 86 70 .551 1½ Arizona 79 78 .503 9 San Francisco 72 85 .459 16 San Diego 63 94 .401 25 x-clinched division Monday’s Games Washington 7, Miami 3 Pittsburgh 5, Chicago Cubs 1 Milwaukee 6, St. Louis 4 Colorado 10, Philadelphia 1 L.A. Dodgers 7, Arizona 4 San Diego 5, San Francisco 0 Tuesday’s Games Kansas City (Skoglund 1-5) at Cincinnati (Harvey 7-9), 2:40 p.m.

Miami (Brigham 0-3) at Washington (Scherzer 17-7), 3:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Toussaint 2-1) at N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 12-4), 3:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Archer 5-8) at Chicago Cubs (Montgomery 5-5), 4:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Gonzalez 9-11) at St. Louis (Gomber 6-1), 4:15 p.m.

Philadelphia (Velasquez 9-11) at Colorado (Bettis 5-2), 4:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Buehler 7-5) at Arizona (Koch 5-5), 5:40 p.m.

San Diego (Erlin 4-7) at San Francisco (Stratton 10-10), 6:15 p.m.

All Times ADT

Yankees 4, Rays 1 NY TB

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1 0

Holder, Tarpley (2), S.Gray (3), Green (5), Robertson (6), Chapman (7), Betances (8), Britton (9) and G.Sanchez; Castillo, Wood (3), Yarbrough (4), Schultz (9) and Ciuffo, Moore. W_S.Gray 11-9.

L_Yarbrough 15-6. Sv_Britton (7).

HRs_New York, McCutchen (5).

Alcantara, Ja.Guerra (5), Graves (8) and Realmuto; Strasburg, J.Miller (5), Grace (6), G.Holland (8), Doolittle (9) and Wieters. W_J. Miller 7-1. L_Alcantara 2-2. HRs_ Washington, Soto (21), Wieters (8), Rendon (23).

Pirates 5, Cubs 1 Pit. Chi.

0 1

Taillon, Rodriguez (8), F.Vazquez (9) and Cervelli; Hamels, J.Garcia (7), Cishek (7), Rosario (8), Mills (8), Duensing (9) and Caratini.

W_Taillon 14-9. L_Hamels 9-11.

HRs_Pittsburgh, Reyes (2), Cervelli (12). Chicago, Hamels (1).

Rockies 10, Phillies 1 Phi. Co.

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Eflin, A.Davis (3), Rios (4), Suarez (5), Eickhoff (8) and Ramos, Knapp; J.Gray, Musgrave (8), Johnson (9) and Wolters. W_J. Gray 12-8. L_Eflin 11-8. HRs_Philadelphia, Hoskins (33). Colorado, Dahl (11).

Brewers 6, Cardinals 4 Mil. SL

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Jennings, Peralta (1), Williams (5), Hader (5), Ju.Guerra (6), Cedeno (7), Burnes (7), Soria (8), Knebel (9) and Pina, Kratz; Flaherty, Hudson (6), J.Hicks (7), Norris (8), Mayers (9), Webb (9), Leone (9) and Molina. W_Burnes 7-0. L_Norris 3-6. Sv_Knebel (16).

HRs_Milwaukee, Braun (16). St. Louis, Martinez (17), Ozuna (23).

Red Sox 6, Orioles 2 Bal. Bos.

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Padres 5, Giants 0

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SD SF

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Bundy, Hart (4), Gilmartin (5) and Ca.Joseph; Eovaldi, Rodriguez (6), Kelly (8), Brasier (8), M.Barnes (9) and C.Vazquez.

W_Eovaldi 6-7. L_Bundy 8-16.

HRs_Boston, Betts (32).

Mitchell, Yates (9) and Mejia; D.Holland, Blach (6), Strickland (9) and Hundley. W_Mitchell 2-4.

L_D.Holland 7-9. Sv_Yates (11).

HRs_San Diego, Pirela (4).

Astros 5, Blue Jays 3

Transactions

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Keuchel, J.Smith (6), Harris (6), Sipp (7), Peacock (7), Pressly (8), R.Osuna (9) and McCann; Estrada, Mayza (5), Tepera (6), Petricka (7), Clippard (8), Biagini (9) and Maile. W_Keuchel 1211. L_Estrada 7-14. Sv_R.Osuna (19). HRs_Houston, Reddick (16), McCann (6). Toronto, Pillar (15).

Indians 4, White Sox 0 Cle. Chi.

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Kluber, A.Miller (8), C.Allen (9) and Gomes; Covey, Hamilton (7), Fry (8), Minaya (8), N.Jones (9), Santiago (9) and K.Smith. W_Kluber 20-7. L_Hamilton 0-2. HRs_ Cleveland, Rosales (1), Guyer (7).

Angels 5, Rangers 4, 11 inn.

Tex. LA

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Sampson, Sadzeck (6), Claudio (6), Butler (8), Martin (9), Leclerc (10), M.Moore (11) and KinerFalefa, Chirinos; Pena, Alvarez (8), Buttrey (9), H.Robles (10), Cole (11) and F.Arcia. W_Cole 3-2. L_M.Moore 3-8. HRs_Texas, Guzman (16), Profar (19). Los Angeles, Hermosillo (1), Ohtani (21), Briceno (5), Marte (6).

Nationals 7, Marlins 3 Mia. Was.

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BASEBALL American League HOUSTON ASTROS — Reinstated RHP Lance McCullers Jr. from the 10-day DL. Recalled LHP Reymin Guduan from Oklahoma City (PCL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Announced a player development contract with West Virginia (SAL) through the 2020 season.

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Reinstated RHP JT Chargois from the 10-day DL. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Announced senior vice president and general manager Bobby Evans will step down from his general manager duties immediately and will be reassigned.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Signed Fs Kaiser Gates and JaKarr Sampson.

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Signed G Tyler Ulis. Promoted Bruce Fraser to assistant coach, Chris DeMafrco to assistant coach/director of player development, Nick U’Ren and Jonnie West directors of basketball operations, James Laughlin director of video operations, Khalid Robinson special assistant to the coach, David Fatoki and Chloe Walkup assistant managers of basketball operations, Jacob Rubin basketball operations assistant and Kyle Barbour assistant performance coach. Named Mike

Dunleavy Jr. pro scout, Nick Kerr assistant video coordinator, Carl Bergstrom performance coach, Gerry Ramogida performance therapist and Brett Ballesteros assistant trainer and assistant performance coach.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Claimed DE Ifeadi Odenigbo off waivers from Cleveland. Released DE Jacquies Smith.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed TE Pharaoh Brown to the practice squad. Released TE Pharaoh McKever from the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Claimed CB Arthur Maulet off waivers from New Orleans. Released RB Christine Michael.

Signed OT Rees Odhiambo and CB Lenzy Pipkins to the practice squad. Released OT Will Holden and CB Tarvarus McFadden from the practice squad.

LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Promoted RB Justin Jackson from the practice squad. Waived RB Detrez Newsome.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Named Chuck Arnold president.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — F Brian Gionta announced his retirement and agreed to be player-development assistant with the Buffalo Sabres.

ANAHEIM DUCKS — Assigned LWs Giovanni Fiore and Jack Kopacka, C Mitch Hults, G Angus Redmond, RW Deven Sideroff and D Keaton Thompson to San Diego (AHL) and G Roman Durny to Des Moines (USHL).

ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned LW Michael Bunting and D Cam Dineen, Dysin Mayo and Dakota Mermis to Tucson (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned C Joe Veleno to Drummondville (QMJHL).

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Assigned G Peter Budaj to Ontario (AHL). Loaned D Jacob Moverare to Frolunda (SHL-Sweden).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned D John Ramage and Brian Strait and Fs Blake Pietila, Kurtis Gabriel and Eric Tangradi to Binghamton (AHL).

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Assigned D Sebastian Aho and Parker Wotherspoon, Fs Kieffer Bellows and Travis St. Denis, LW Michael Dal Colle, C Ben Holmstrom, RW Josh Ho-Sang and G Jeremy Smith to Bridgeport (AHL) and D Noah Dobson to AcadieBathurst (QMJHL).

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Assigned D Mitch Reinke and Fs Klim Kostin, Adam Musil, Chris Butler, Mackenzie MacEachern, Jordan Nolan, and Nolan Stevens to San Antonio (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Signed D Alexander Alexeyev to a three-year entry-level contract.

OLYMPIC SPORTS Diving USA DIVING — Announced the resignation of chief executive officer Lee Walsi Johnson, effective Oct. 5.

COLLEGE ARKANSAS — Announced senior WR Jonathan Nance will redshirt this season and transfer from the program in December.

HOFSTRA — Named Skylar Collins director of women’s basketball operations. Promoted Darius Faulk to women’s assistant basketball coach.

PENNSYLVANIA — Promoted Nat Graham to men’s associate head basketball coach.

WINTHROP — Named Austin Hill volunteer assistant baseball pitching coach.

A8 | Tuesday, September 25, 2018 | Peninsula Clarion

Contact us; www.peninsulaclarion.com, classified@peninsulaclarion.com • To place an ad call 907-283-7551 LEGALS NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND SALE

LEGALS

WHEREAS, on the 24th day of July, 2018 at the Kenai Court Building, 125 Trading Bay Drive, Kenai, Alaska 99611, a nonjudicial foreclosure sale was conducted on the real property described below and Guy B. Brooksbank purchased the property for an offset bid of $54,554.03;

The Northwest one-quarter of the Northwest one-quarter of the Southeast one-quarter (NWI/4 NWl/4 SEl/4) Section 27, Township 4 South, Range 15 West, Seward Meridian, in the Homer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska;

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Trustors, Jason Cavasos and Storm Hansen-Cavasos, executed a Deed of Trust to Kachemak Bay Title Agency, Inc, as Trustee with Guy B. Brooksbank and Cherie L. Brooksbank, husband and wife, as Beneficiaries, recorded on the 7th day of October, 2010, at 2010-003243-0 of the Homer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska to secure a Deed of Trust Note executed on the 4th day of October, 2010. The Trustors breached their obligations under the said Deed of Trust Note for which the Deed of Trust was given as security, according to the terms of said obligation and Deed of Trust. There is presently owed to Beneficiary the sum of $50,508.86 plus interest at the rate of 6% per annum from the 14th day of February, 2018, and all sums expended by Beneficiary and Trustee under the Deed of Trust, with interest thereon.

Physical Address: 32614 Sterling Highway, Anchor Point, Alaska 99556 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default upon the underlying obligation for which said Deed of Trust is security has occurred and that such breach consists of a failure by the Trustor to satisfy certain indebtedness, the payment of which is secured by said Deed of Trust and Deed of Trust Note dated the 28th day of March, 2013, in the original principal amount of FIFTY TWO THOUSAND AND No 1OOTHS DOLLARS {$52,000).The obligations under the Note are in default and the entire amount is deemed due, owing and delinquent under the acceleration provisions of the note. The amount of the principal indebtedness as of August 22,2018 is FORTY THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN and 53/1OOTHS DOLLARS ($40,537.53), together with accrued interest upon the principal balance from the 25th day of July, 2017, at the rate of 5.5% per annum, in the amount equal toTWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED and NINETY FIVE and 12/1OOTHS DOLLARS ($2,395.12) as of August 21, 2018 plus per diem accruing interest of SIX AND 1/1OOTHS DOLLARS ($6.11) per day, plus Kenai Peninsula Borough real property taxes accruing through the date of sale plus all sums expended by Beneficiaries under the Deed of Trust with interest thereupon.

A breach of, and default in, the obligation for which said Deed of Trust is security has occurred because Trustor has failed to timely pay all monthly payments of $522.00 accruing after July 24, 2017 plus failed to timely pay the entirety of the remaining principal and interest due as a final balloon payment on March 31, 2018. The entire amount remaining principal of FORTY THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN and 53/lOOTHS DOLLARS ($40,537.53),due upon the promissory note together with together with accrued interest upon the principal balance from the 25th day of July, 2017, at the rate of 5.5% per annum, in the amount equal to TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED and NINETY FIVE and 12/1OOTHS DOLLARS ($2,395.12) as of August 21,2018 plus per diem accruing interest of SIX AND 1/1OOTHS DOLLARS ($6.11) per day, and delinquent Kenai Peninsula Borough property taxes of$575.10 are now due, owing and delinquent.

ADDITIONALLY, THIS IS A THIRD FORECLOSURE UPON THE ABOVE DEED OF TRUST AND THE TRUSTEE ACCORDINGLY ELECT’S TO PROCEED TO SALE PURSUANT TO AS34.l0.070 (B).

The undersigned Trustee, KACHEMAK BAY TITLE AGENCY, INC., elects to sell the above-described property at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash in lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale upon acceptable bid, to satisfy the obligation on the 4th day of December, 2018, at the hour of 11:00 a.m., at the front door of the Alaska Court System Building, 125 Trading Bay Rd., Kenai, Alaska 99611.

In this notice, cash and lawfull money of the United States of America means coin or currency of the United States.United States Post Office Money Order,or Cashier’s Check. Beneficiaries shall have the right to make an off-set bid without cash in an amount equal to the balance owed on the obligation at the time of the sale, including all sums expended by Beneficiaries and Trustee with interest thereupon.

The default may be cured and the sale terminated if payment of all sums set out above as now in default and otherwise owing, together with payment of all attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficial and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in the notice of default.

The Trustee elects to not postpone the sale date.

This communication is part of an attempt to collect a consumer debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Dated this 22nd day of August, 2018.

Kachemak Bay Title Agency, Inc. 3733 Ben Walters Lane #1 Homer, AK 99603 /s/Authorized Signer Pub: 9/18,25,10/2 & 9/2018 826062

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AMENDED NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on the 28th day of March, 2013, EROSION CONTROL OF ALASKA,an Alaskan Limited Partnership, Trustor, executed a Deed ofTrust affecting certain real property to KACHEMAK BAY TITLE AGENCY, INC., as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of ROBIN LIPINSKI and ANITA M. LIPINSKI, husband and wife, as Beneficiaries, which Deed of Trust was recorded on the 29th day of March, 2013 at Serial Number 2013-000942·0, Homer Recording District, Third Judicial District, Alaska, and describing and encumbering land and improvements known as:

And that portion of the Northeast one-quarter of the Northeast one-quarter of the Southwest one-quarter (NEl/4 NEl/4 SWl/4), in Section 27, Township 4 South, Range15 West, Seward Meridian, in the Homer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, lying east of the Sterling Highway Centerline, EXCEPTING THOSE PORTIONS taken by the State of Alaska by Notice of Utilization recorded in Book 17, Page 146, Book 17, Page 206 and Book 17, Page 241, all recorded on August 19, 1959, also described as the North 660 feet of that portion of Lot Four (4), Section 27, Township 4 South, Range 15 West, Seward Meridian, lying East of the center line of the Sterling Highway, as built, according to the USA Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management land status map of Homer area, dated February, 1954, and revised June, 1954.

EMPLOYMENT

WHEREAS, the Amended Notice is to correct a facially defective prior proceeding in that the internet publication for the original Notice of Default and Sale recorded April 24, 2018 at 2018-001114-0 was not made;

Said Deed of Trust conveyed the following described real property: Lot Four (4), Block Three (3) of AMBER HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, according to Plat No. 81-38, records of the Homer Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska.

The address of the property is: 3988 Brenmark Road, Homer, Alaska 99603.

If the default has arisen by failure to make payments required by the trust deed, the default may be cured and the sale may be terminated if: 1. Payment of the sum in default, other than the principal that would not be due if default had not occurred, and attorney and other foreclosure fees and costs actually incurred by the beneficiary and trustee due to the default is made at any time before the sale date stated in this notice or to which the sale is postponed; and 2. If Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously under the same trust deed and the default has been cured the trustee does not elect to refuse payment and continue the sale.

Trustee elects to sell the property at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash in lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale upon closing of bids to satisfy the obligation on the 17th day of December, 2018, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at the front door of the Kenai Court Building, located at 125 Trading Bay Drive, Kenai, Alaska. In this notice “cash in lawful money of the United State of America” means coin or currency of the United States, United States Post Office money orders, or cashier’s checks from a bank having a branch in the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska. Beneficiary will have the right to make an offset bid without cash in an amount equal to the balance owed on the obligation at the time of sale, including all sums expended by Beneficiary and Trustee under the Deed of Trust, with interest thereon.

Dated at Homer, Alaska, this 13th day of September, 2018.

Kachemak Bay Title Agency, Inc. Trustee By: Kathy Hemstreet Its: Vice President Pub: 9/18,25,10/2 & 9/2018 826240

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Case No. 3KN-18-00211 PR NOTICE TO CREDITOR NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

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PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE /s/SUSAN K RANSIER Pub: 9/25,10/2 & 9/2018 827192 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI In the Matter of the Estate of MARLENA ANNE BURNS, Deceased.

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

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Woman is hurt to be left out of best friend’s wedding party from relatives.

Because you feel her questions should more appropriately be answered by the sister, tell your friend -as kindly as possible -- she should be asking her maid of honor, who is “only a phone call away.”

DEAR ABBY: I fell in love with my first crush 30 years ago. We both felt the same way, but because I was Abigail Van Buren six years younger than him, my parents didn’t approve. We lost contact, and over the years, I would sometimes wonder what had happened to him. Last week his cousin found me on Facebook, and I was able to video call him. We were filled with emotion and realized our feelings haven’t changed.

We both have families. I’m divorced with two young adults. He’s married with three young adults. I don’t want to cause him any problems, and yet, I’m willing to let it play out and see what happens. All I want is just to see him again, but I’m afraid of what will happen.

Please tell me what to do!

-- FULL OF EMOTIONS

DEAR FULL OF EMOTIONS: The problem with making important decisions when we are “full of emotions” is they’re usually impulsive and the wrong choice. Consider this: You and this man are adults with responsibilities to others. If you see him and he still feels the same as you stated, it may be the start of an affair and the end of his marriage.

If it’s an affair, you will be his side dish and unable to form a meaningful relationship with anyone else for years. If divorce is involved, his wife and children will be collateral damage. Because I’m not sure you have the strength to keep your distance if you meet him, ask him to include his wife and family when you do, and bring along your children.

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Hints from Heloise

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018: This year you might feel that just as you get close to the finish line, something or someone knocks you down. However, your resilience counts, and you need to not get discouraged. You will be unusually successful, especially when your ability to communicate comes through. If you are single, you meet people with ease. Someone could come along who lights a fire under you. If you are attached, you and your partner often can be found chatting it up together. With plenty of quality time, your bond will flourish. ARIES speaks his or her mind.

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 could feel pressured.

Your anger and ability to communicate take you down a new path.

When eyeing a new direction, you could feel confused, especially because you have been given some information that seems off. Do not commit yet. Tonight: Go back to square one.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HH Digesting some new information might take time. Try to look at the big picture. Your day-to-day routine might be fraught with questions and potential misunderstandings. Do not sign papers or agreements just yet; wait for better timing. Tonight: Go on a one-night retreat!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Lie low and choose to be passive. Listen carefully to a conversation to determine what is being left out. Confusion seems to surround a work-related situation. Let it go; time

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will help you clear up the problem.

Say little and learn a lot. Tonight: Get some extra zzz’s.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH You could feel restricted by someone in authority. A partner could be pushing to handle finances differently. Confusion surrounds both your domestic and professional lives. You also might be too tired to process all of this information. Postpone decisions. Tonight: Make it early.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Pull back a bit. Take in the big picture. Know that what you visualize might not be viable. The more you detach, the better off you will be. At this point in time, don’t make demands. You could gain a more accurate assessment of a situation. Tonight: Take a nap, then decide.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH One-on-one relating elicits some strong reactions, which you might not appreciate.

Do not judge others and their sources of information; just listen.

Another person might have a valid point. Confusion surrounds calls, emails and discussions. Tonight: Stay close to home.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHH You could be tired and withdrawn. Know and establish your limits with others, especially a close associate or loved one. This person might not like what he or she hears.

Let it go. Listen to suggestions from others, but clarify what you are hearing. Tonight: Say “yes” to an invitation.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Communicate what you can about an important project. You

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might not know the best way to handle someone who does not want to hear your message. Pull back. Let this person find you when he or she is prepared to have the discussion.

Be patient. Tonight: Off to the gym.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Deal with a close child or loved one directly. The conversation you have might be confidential, and it could make the other party feel vulnerable. Remain sensitive and deal with others on an individual level. You know what you need to do.

Tonight: Relax to a good movie.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You might be looked at as a stick in the mud because you seem to always have a reason for why an idea or suggestion will not work. You might not be comfortable with what comes up. Learn to voice your concerns kindly and considerately. Tonight: A force to be dealt with.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You need to stay on top of someone else’s request. This person means what he or she says, and knows what he or she is asking for.

To get the results you desire, refuse to push too hard. First, deal with this person directly. You will be more focused afterward. Tonight: Hang out.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Your views on spending need to come forward in a positive way. You might not be able to get certain items as quickly as you might like. Your smile and positive approach help others relax. Remember that you have a lot going for you.

Tonight: Be aware of what you offer.

BORN TODAY Actor Michael Douglas (1944), actor Will Smith (1968), actor Donald Glover (1983)

NO SQUEAKS AND NO GREASE Dear Heloise: I use car-care protectant to stop squeaks. It is a product that is intended to shine up car seats and dashboards. It is slippery, but the main point here: It is NOT GREASY. I can lubricate anything with it and not have a greasy, sticky mess. I just squirt it on the hinges.

-- Tom N., Grand Rapids, Mich.

JEWELRY CARE Dear Readers: Let’s get your jewelry in great shape. Here are some hints: Keep your watches, rings, bracelets, earrings and necklaces away from lotions, perfumes, makeup and shaving creams. Of course, water and moisture can damage metal components of jewelry.

Don’t wear jewelry when working out or doing yardwork or housework.

Microfiber jewelry polishing cloths are the best to clean jewelry with -- soft, and no lint.

-- Heloise SILENT ALARM Dear Heloise: I don’t use “beep” or “honk” alarms when in a hotel parking lot. I always use the old-fashioned key in the door to lock/ unlock my car (as opposed to using the remote key fob that creates honks or beeps).

I’m considerate of others who are not on my same schedule.

-- Raul in Oak View, Calif.

Great when you’re on business and others are on vacation!

-- Heloise TIME-ZONE INFO Dear Readers: There are four time zones in the contiguous United States: Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific.

When it is 4 p.m. in New York, it is 3 p.m. in Texas, 2 p.m. in Utah and 1 p.m. in California.

Daylight saving time (“spring forward”) ends this year on Nov. 4.

-- Heloise

SUDOKU

By Tom Wilson

Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers.

The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to Friday.

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DEAR ABBY: My best friend and I are middle-aged women. Throughout our long friendship, I have been one of the few people in her life who was there for her as she dealt with boyfriend problems, elderly parents, serious illnesses, deaths, etc.

She became engaged for the first time recently, and asked me to go out of town with her to check out a potential wedding venue. While we were there, she looked away (wouldn’t even look me in the eye) and announced that only her sister (with whom she doesn’t get along) would be in her wedding party.

Although I was deeply disappointed, I said nothing.

I was more disappointed about the way she made the announcement.

Since then, she has asked for my advice on everything from invitations to wedding etiquette, etc., instead of asking her sister, who lives out of state. At this point, I just want to be a guest at the wedding and enjoy seeing her get married. How do I bow out of this untitled role she has given me?

-- BOWING OUT IN THE WEST DEAR BOWING OUT: If your friend had felt good about making the announcement, she wouldn’t have hesitated to look you in the eye. I suspect that she included her sister -- who she doesn’t get along with -- in her wedding party because of pressure

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Peninsula Clarion | Tuesday, September 25, 2018 | A11

Pets Colombia honors 14 sniffer dogs at emotional retirement

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press

BOGOTA, Colombia — Fourteen police dogs received medals and diplomas during an emotional retirement ceremony in Colombia’s capital Friday as they wrapped up years of service sniffing out drugs, bombs and bodies.

Some of the German shepherds, pit bulls and golden retrievers were treated to special scented baths before they were retired during the event in an auditorium at the Chief Prosecutor’s Office.

Among the retired dogs was “Canela,� a 12-year-old Labrador who helped investigators undercover 65 mass graves containing the victims of paramilitary violence, and “Negra,� a pit bull mutt who helped detect several tons of cocaine in her eight-year career.

Officials plan to put the dogs up for adoption, placing them with families that will help them live out their retirement years in peace. Some dogs could also be taken in by their former handlers. “We’ve shared a lot of things together and they are like our children,� said David Maldonado, Negra’s handler.

Police dogs in Colombia often participate in dangerous missions, sniffing out landmines for officers who eradicate coca fields, or rescuing bodies in combat zones. “Sombra,� which is Spanish for shadow, was recently relocated from her base on the country’s Caribbean coast, after drug traffickers, angry over her success at sniffing out cocaine shipments, offered a bounty of $7,000 for her head.

Hundreds of dogs serve with Colombia’s police and military.

A canine school run by the police near Bogota also provides

training for dogs and handlers from other Latin American countries.

Colombia’s police dogs are usually retired when they reach eight or nine years old, and in the past they were then kept in kennels where police veterinar-

ians provided them with food, play and medical treatment.

But recently, Colombia’s police have been looking for families to adopt the dogs. Earlier this month, the Anti-Narcotics Police put up 50 of its retired dogs for adoption.

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Meet Gato Calm, quiet girl. Loves to be petted and is inquisitive about new things. She doesn’t care to be around cats but can tolerate them if left alone.

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Meet Tava Very shy right now, she just entered the shelter and is trying to adjust

Meet Roddy Roddy is very friendly. He prefers a yard to roam in and be loose where he can just hang out all day. He is a little too food motivated so will need someone who can keep him on a strict diet as he will need to lose some weight to help his hips.

Meet Mitten This girl is ready to start catching mice, playing with yarn and lounging in a cat tree all day long. She is very mellow as long as she doesn’t have to contend with other cats. She would prefer a home to herself.

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