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Thursday, August 9, 2018 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Vol. 48, Issue 268
In the news Anchorage airport sees air cargo traffic increase this year ANCHORAGE — Officials say air cargo traffic at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport has increased during the first half of this year. KTVA-TV reports data from the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities shows air tonnage increased by 5.2 percent to more than 1.34 million metric tons from January to June. According to the data, more than 150 wide-body freighter aircraft pass through the airport each day, ranking it among the busiest cargo airports in the world. Airport manager Jim Szczesniak says the airport is in a strategic location, giving air cargo operators the ability to fly fully-loaded aircraft between the U.S., Asia, Europe and Latin America. The airport’s cargo network is also strengthened by a provision allowing airlines to transfer cargo like they would passengers who make connecting flights.
Power outages threaten subsistence harvests in Tuluksak BETHEL — An ongoing power outage in the community of Tuluksak in western Alaska has caused some residents to lose their summer subsistence harvest. The lack of electricity in the community on the lower Kuskokwim River means freezers storing the salmon harvests are largely not functioning, KYUK-AM reported Friday. Resident Angela Alexie said power has been out for about a week, and it was also out for a week in July. Some homes in Tuluksak have installed generators to adapt to the frequent multiday outages. Alexie said she got a generator about two years ago after losing her fall and winter subsistence catch to an outage, but it can only power a few small appliances and not her freezer. “I had to take some of my fish out and take it over to my parents’ freezer before I lost everything,” Alexie said. Alexie has lost about a quarter of her subsistence fish, which is shared among her parents and sisters. Alexie is hoping for a strong silver salmon run to help replace the lost catch, but the August weather is not expected to be as favorable as it was during the earlier harvest. The Tuluksak Native Community operates the power plant and expects repair parts to reach Alaska this week.
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Supreme Court approves Stand for Salmon initiative for November ballot By James Brooks Juneau Empire
The Alaska Supreme Court on Wednesday approved the Stand for Salmon ballot initiative for November’s statewide election, but not before deleting some provisions that violate the Alaska Constitution. The decision marks only the second time in state history that the Supreme Court has used its power to delete portions of a ballot initiative in order to certify the rest. “We conclude that the initiative would encroach on the discretion over allocation decisions delegated to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game by the legislature, and that the initiative as written therefore effects an unconstitutional appropriation,” the judges wrote in their ruling, “But we conclude that the problematic sections may be severed from the remainder of the initiative.”
Supporters of the proposed Ballot Measure 1 — commonly known as the Stand for Salmon initiative — march in the Soldotna Progress Days Parade on Saturday, July 28 in Soldotna. Some of the initiative, which would tighten the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s permitting for construction in potential salmon habitat, will be on the Nov. 6 general election ballot after the Alaska Supreme Court issued a decision Wednesday ruling that parts of the original initiative would make unconstitutional resources appropriations and should be stricken out. (Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion).
Supreme Court judge Daniel Winfree offered a partial dissent, disagreeing with how much should have been deleted by the court.The ruling is the latest success for ballot measure proponents, who have been consistently opposed by the State of Alaska and a multimillion-dollar ‘vote no’ effort. Since the measure was suggested in May 2017, state attorneys have raised objections to its scope, which they view as overly broad and a violation of the Alaska Constitution. The Constitution allows ballot measures, but it prohibits those measures from making appropriations of money or resources. After an abortive first attempt, backers withdrew their measure and rewrote it. Despite that, the Alaska Department of Law said it was unconstitutional, and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott refused to certify it for the ballot. See SALMON, page A9
Borough considers buying land for new Soldotna Central Emergency Services station By ELIZABETH EARL Peninsula Clarion
Central Emergency Services is moving forward with plans to purchase land for a new central fire station in Soldotna. The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly introduced an ordinance Tuesday night that would purchase property on the corner of East Redoubt Avenue and Homestead Lane — across the street from the Petco store in Soldotna — for the new station for about $1.5 million. The assembly is scheduled to consider the ordinance in a public hearing at its Sept. 4 meeting. A site selection committee with members from the Kenai Peninsula Borough, the Central Emergency Service Area and the city of Soldotna identified the site as the best for the new station, which would replace the current Station 1 on Binkley Street across from Safeway. The proposed purchase involves two different property owners — Stanley and Sons, LLC and Soldier Creek Corp.,
both based in Anchorage — and would need a realignment of Homestead Lane, which runs toward the Kenai River from Redoubt Avenue, according to a memo sent to the assembly from Land Management Officer Marcus Mueller and CES Chief Roy Browning. The funding for the purchase itself would come through a loan from the Land Trust Investment Fund, they wrote in the memo. That fund doesn’t technically exist yet — the assembly is also considering an ordinance to establish the Land Trust Investment Fund, also scheduled for hearing on Sept. 4. The investment fund, if established, would be partly invested in an endowment-type fund to generate enough money to pay for the borough’s land management department and to provide some additional funds to the borough’s general fund, with a number of parameters set on it, according to a memo sent to the assembly from Mueller, Finance Director Brandi Harbaugh and Land Trust Project
This concept drawing shows the proposed new location for Central Emergency Services’ Station 1 on East Redoubt Road in Soldotna, Alaska. Central Emergency Services, the main emergency medical and fire service provider for the central Kenai Peninsula communities of Sterling, Kasilof, Kalifornsky, Soldotna and Funny River, is exploring options to move its central station from its current home on Binkley Street near the intersection with the Sterling Highway to provide more room and an updated facility. (Courtesy the Kenai Peninsula Borough)
Lead Larry Semmens. CES’s project planning, facility in the memo. “Securing the “The acquisition of a proj- design, and pursuit of funding,” site in advance of CES’ capital See CES, page A9 ect site is an important step for Mueller and Browning wrote
Soldotna to host annual beer festival Saturday By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion
The eighth-annual Kenai Peninsula Beer Festival will celebrate community and locally crafted brewing this Saturday. More than 25 breweries, distributors, wineries and a cidery will gather for a night of tasting, fundraising, music and food. The festival will kick off at 5 p.m. with a one-hour connoisseur event offering unlimited
tastings, including specialty beers provided by breweries, to those who purchase VIP tickets. The connoisseur hour is limited to 200 tickets, which allow patrons early entry to the festival. The event for general admission begins at 6 p.m. and includes a commemorative glass, eight 4-ounce sample tokens and live music. Additional drink tokens can be purchased at the event. When the festival kicked off in 2011, only a handful of breweries were involved, and it
was hosted at a smaller venue. This year, the festival will reach a record number of participating breweries, cideries, wineries and distributors, Matthew Pyhala, the festival coordinator, said. “This year we have new breweries that haven’t participated before, a lot of them are because they are brand new,” he said. Headlining the evening is Colorado-based rock and country band Great American Taxi, followed by a few local bands,
Pyhala said. Attendees will have nine different food vendors to choose from, some of which are also brand new to the festival. The festival is the main fundraiser for the Soldotna Rotary Club, and all of the proceeds going towards local projects, Pyhala said. “(The festival) came out of a brainstorming session of fundraising ideas that were a little out of the box,” Pyhala said. According to the festival’s website, proceeds in the past
have gone to help the Soldotna Rotary Club in setting up a RAFT Fund, which pays for travel to and from local hospitals for those who don’t have transportation. Last year, the festival had between 1,000 and 1,200 attendees. Pyhala expects a similar turnout. Tickets can be purchased at St. Elias Brewing, Kassik’s Brewery, Kenai River Brewing Co. and at the door. VIP tickets are $50. General admission tickets are $30.
Report: Opioids have killed hundreds in Alaska since 2010 By ERIN THOMPSON Peninsula Clarion
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The rate of Alaskans who died from opioid overdoses increased 77 percent over the last decade, with the highest overall rate of deaths reported in the last year, according to a report issued this week by the Alaska
Department of Health and Social Services. The Health Impacts of Opioid Misuse in Alaska report found that 623 people died from opioid overdoses between 2010 and 2017, with a 661 total opioid-related deaths. The highest rate of opioidrelated death was reported in
2017 — with 108 total deaths and 100 overdose deaths. In 2010, 55 people died from opioid overdoses. Opioids, which dampen pain receptors and increase pleasure by releasing dopamine into the body, were involved in more than 42,000 U.S. deaths in 2016, according to the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those deaths, 40 percent involved a prescription drug, the CDC reports. Released Wednesday, the DHSS report looked the use of heroin, natural or semi-synthetic opioids — such as morphine, codeine, hydromorphone, oxycodone and hydrocone — and
synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, carfentanil, tramadol, propoxyphene and mepederine. Methadone was included in its own category. While overall rates of death from opioid overdose increased significantly between 2010 and See OPIOID, page A9
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Korean War medic’s dog tag returned By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer
WASHINGTON — The lone military identification tag that North Korea provided with 55 boxes of human remains last month belonged to Master Sgt. Charles H. McDaniel, an Army medic from Indiana who was killed in the opening months of the Korean War. The Army on Wednesday handed McDaniel’s slightly corroded dog tag to his sons, Charles Jr. and Larry, who were so young when their father perished that they have little memory of him. Charles, 71, told reporters he was moved to tears when he got the phone call at home in Indianapolis last week informing him that his father’s dog tag had been returned. “It’s a very mixed, jumbled moment for us,” he said, referring to the emotions he and his brother feel so many years after having grown up without their biological father, never knowing for sure what happened to him in a war many Americans have forgotten. “At least we have this,” he said, pointing to the dog tag, imprinted with the name, Charles Hobert McDaniel, and a service number. Charles Jr., of Indianapolis, told reporters he has no recollection of what his family was told when his father was reported missing in action. Larry, 70, of Jacksonville, Florida, said he has no memory at all of his father, but “I’m proud of what he did and what he accomplished.” The dog tag is no assurance that McDaniel’s remains are among those contained in the 55 boxes that the North Korean army turned over the U.S. officials at Wonsan, North Korea, on July 27. John Byrd, director of the Defense Department laboratory in Hawaii that is beginning the process of attempting to identify the remains, said the condition of the bones is judged to be “moderate to poor preservation,” meaning few are whole bones and all are quite old.
Larry McDaniel, of Jacksonville, Fla., left, and his brother, Charles McDaniel, of Indianapolis, sons of Master Sgt. Charles Hobert McDaniel who died in the Korean War in 1950, are presented their father’s dog tag by an official of the Army’s Past Conflicts Casualty Office Wednesday in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
No personal effects were handed over by the North Koreans aside from the McDaniel dog tag. The boxes contained a number of U.S.-issued military items such as helmets, gloves and canteens, but none are associated with any specific individual. North Korea returned the remains as part of an agreement reached by its leader, Kim Jong Un, at his Singapore summit with President Donald Trump in June. Kim also agreed to cooperate with the U.S. in searching for and excavating additional remains in North Korea, where an estimated 5,300 U.S. servicemen are believed to have fallen and not been recovered. Negotiations on the terms of such future operations have not yet begun, American officials said. A key tool in identifying war remains is matching DNA extracted from the bones with DNA samples provided by family members of the missing. As part of that process, the director of a DNA laboratory in Dover, Delaware, that will be attempting to make such matches, Dr. Timothy P. Mc-
Mahon, took swabs of saliva from Larry’s mouth as news cameras snapped pictures. Charles McDaniel Jr. was three years old and Larry was two when their father was sent to South Korea in August 1950 from Japan, where he was a member of the U.S. occupation forces that had been stationed there since the end of World War II. At the time, North Korean forces had driven U.S. troops almost off the Korean peninsula at Pusan before Gen. Douglas MacArthur engineered the first big U.S. victory with an amphibious landing at Inchon in September. McDaniel was a medic with 3rd Battalion, 8th Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, which was called on to reinforce South Korean army units overrun by Chinese forces in late October 1950 at Unsan, about 60 miles north of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. In “This Savage War: MacArthur’s Korea,” author Arthur F. Dorie wrote that the only escape route from Unsan after the Chinese fought their way into the town was closed before the 3rd Battal-
ion, known as “Scrappy Blue,” could withdraw. “Living up to the standard of their regimental motto, ‘Honor and Courage,’ the men of the 3rd Battalion organized a perimeter defense, and for four days and nights they turned back wave upon wave of Chinese commandos, infantrymen and cavalrymen,” he wrote. Ultimately, hundreds of U.S. troops were killed or captured. A Pentagon profile of McDaniel says there is no evidence that he was captured by the Chinese and held as a prisoner of war. An eyewitness interviewed after the battles at Unsan — another medic assigned to McDaniel’s battalion — said he believed McDaniel was killed in action. Byrd, the lab director, said it was too early to estimate how many individuals may be represented by the bones returned in the boxes. Suggesting that it might be more than 55, Byrd said that 208 boxes returned by North Korea between 1990 and 1994 turned out to contain remains from about 400 individuals, not all of whom have yet been identified.
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Service announcement Diana Hodges A celebration of life for Diana Hodges will be held at 4 Royal Parkers in Soldotna on Sunday, Aug. 12, from 2–5 p.m. It will be a potluck and attendees can bring a dish.
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Community Calendar Today 8 a.m. n Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 398-9440. n Alcoholics Anonymous Unity Group, 35260 Kenai Spur Highway. 8:30 a.m. n TOPS AK No. 220 Kasilof weigh-in at CES Station 6, 58260 Sterling Highway. Meeting starts at 9 a.m. Call 262-7319 or 2523436. 9:30 a.m. n Zumba, held at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center. For more information call 776-8800. 10 a.m. n TOPS AK No. 164 Soldotna weigh-in at First Baptist Church, 159 S. Binkley. Meeting starts at 10 a.m. Call 262-7339. n Narcotics Anonymous PJ Meeting, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. n Men’s Wellness Group С A group for male combat veterans at the Kenai Vet Center. n Full Swing Golf is held at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center. 10:30 a.m. n Preschool Story Time (3-5 Years) at the Soldotna Public Library. Come share stories, songs, and other learning fun! 11 a.m. n Tot Time, held at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center. Noon n Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. n Alcoholics Anonymous Unity Group, 35260 Kenai Spur Highway. 12:30 p.m. n The local chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society meets at Heritage Place in Soldotna, 232 Rockwell Ave. Call Terrie Butcher at 907-756-1282 or Tim Reed at 907-252-0432. 1 p.m. n Home School Gym is hosted at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center. 2:30 p.m. n The Teen Center is open until 8 p.m. at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center. 6 p.m. n Alcoholics Anonymous Step Sisters women’s meeting at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, O’Neill Hall, 222 W. Redoubt, Soldotna. Call 262-2304. n TOPS AK 20, Soldotna, weigh-in at Christ Lutheran Church, 128 North Soldotna Avenue, Soldotna. Meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. Call 262-1557. 6:30 p.m. n The Soldotna Lions Club meets at Don Jose’s at 44109 Sterling Highway, Soldotna. For more information, call 776-5339. 6:45 p.m. n Water volleyball at the Nikiski Pool. 7 p.m. n Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Dopeless Hope Fiends,” 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. n Square dance group at Ninilchik Senior Center. n Alcoholics Anonymous Unity Group/“Men’s Stag,” at 35260 Kenai Spur Highway. n AA North Roaders Group at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 907-398-0670. n Alcoholics Anonymous Ninichick support group at United Methodist Church, 15811 Sterling Highway, Ninilchik. Call 907567-3574. The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations.To have your event listed, email organization name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone number to news@peninsulaclarion.com.
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Around the Peninsula Soldotna Youth Sports Willie Boat drawing Drawing is to be held 5:30 pm Friday August 10, 2018 at Soldotna Trustworthy Hardware 44648 Sterling Hwy.
Disabled American Veterans event A Department Service Officer for the Disabled American Veterans organization will be providing free, professional assistance to veterans and their families in obtaining benefits and services earned through military service and provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs at the Kenai Vet Center on August 15 from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Please call 907-257-7426 to get an appointment or just walk in.
Run for Women
dotna Regional Sports Complex on Kalifornsky Beach Road from 6–11 p.m with a potluck with soft drinks if desired, a catered bar and live music. All classes are welcome. There is a $10 cost per persn at the door Saturday. For more information call 394-1850.
Harvest Moon Festival vendor applications Kenai Local Food Connection is accepting vendor applications for its Harvest Moon Local Food Festival, to be held 10 am – 6 pm, Saturday, Sept. 15 at Soldotna Creek Park in Soldotna. It’s the Kenai Peninsula’s biggest local food celebration of the year, with live music, food demonstrations, guest speakers, kids’ activities, food trucks featuring healthy, local ingredients, and all sorts of Alaska Grown and Made in Alaska food and wellness products. In keeping with the festival mission, the festival is open to vendors of food (grown, harvested or made in Alaska) and medicinal/wellness/personal care products made from locally grown or wild-harvested ingredients. The Early Bird rate is $10 per 10’ x 10’ tent space. Fees double after Sept. 1 and space is limited, so please apply early. The vendor application is on-line at https:// www.kenailocalfood.org/projects.
The LeeShore Center’s 31st Annual Kenai Peninsula Run for Women will be held Saturday, August 11, 2018. Main Street Loop between Cohoe Avenue and Barnacle Way to Willow Street Kenai Senior Center activities will be closed from 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Please watch for road closure —Aug. 13, 4:30 p.m.: No-host dinner to Stop-n-go in Nikiski. signs, barricades, cones, and people flagging. Please contact the Education & Training Assistant at 283-9479 for further informa- $3 ride fee ≠ your dinner —Aug. 16, 10:30 a.m.: Old Timer’s Luncheon, $7 suggested tion. donation —Aug. 17, 1–6:30 p.m. (ish): Ninilchik Fair. $15. KPC College Council seeks member Kenai Peninsula College is seeking an interested community member to fill a Seward-area at-large seat on its College Council. The borough-wide council serves as an advisory board to the college director and advocates for the interests of the college to the community and legislature; members serve 3-year terms. Sewardarea residents interested in serving should submit a letter of interest and resume by August 28 to: College Director, Kenai Peninsula College, 156 College Rd., Soldotna AK 99669. Interested individuals with questions can call 262-0318.
Kenai Community Library events
The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center is open every day from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. on Ski Hill Road near Soldotna. For more information, call 260-2820. —Discovery hikes, Fridays at 1 p.m. Aug. 10, Upper Kenai River Trail. —Daily wildlife movies at the visitors center. 11 a.m., noon and 2 p.m.—Refuge film, 1 p.m.—Raptor force, 3 p.m.— Moose: Life of a twig eater —Aug. 18 — Wild Berry fun day — Drop in for ID walks, indoor exploration stations and kids crafts. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. —Aug. 25 — Tale of Two Cabins — Hear stories of life one the Kenai and explore two renovated log cabins from the 1920s and 1940s. Easy, short walk on a gravel path. 2 p.m. —Sept. 1— Cuba’s endemic birds— Guides speaker Ernesto Reyes. 2 p.m.
—Summer Reading Grand Finale Party!: Thursday, August 9 at 3 p.m. at the Green Strip (by the softball fields off Main Street Loop) Join us for the 2018 Summer Reading Grand Finale Party! There will be Prize Drawings! Games! Refreshments! And more! Remember, you must be present to win the prizes you put your tickets in for. For more information please contact James at 283-8210.—Bookmark Coloring Class: Saturday, August 11 at 12 p.m. Free! All materials supplied. Suitable for all ages. We will laminate your choice of one bookmarker and add a ribbon or yarn tie. You may color as many as you wish for yourself but you must also color one to give away for each one that you color for yourself. —Berry Identification 101: Tuesday, August 14 at 4 p.m. Learn about Alaska’s edible berries just in time for harvest. We’ll learn about berry identification, safe picking practices, and more! Example plants will be provided along with scrumptious recipes to try at home. This is a FREE program no registration required. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. —Summertime Slime for Teens and Tweens: Wednesday, August 15 at 4 p.m. It’s SLIME TIME at the library! In this interactive class we will be making slime and putting it to the test in our Slime Olympics. Space is limited so sign up today! —Fireweed Honey Workshop: Thursday, August 16 at 4 p.m. Come learn how to make delicious honey out of the beautiful fireweed that blooms on the peninsula! Class size is limited to 12 people, and children must have an adult helper. Must pre-register at the front desk. For more information call Ryanna at 283-8208. —American Girl Club: Monday, August 20 at 4 p.m. Join us at the Kenai Community Library for our monthly American Girl Club! We will be making a back to school clip board for your doll! Bring your doll (doesn’t have to be an American Girl) or use one of ours! The doll house will be out for everyone to play with. Meets at the same time and place as LEGO Club.
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Soldotna Public Library activities
Woodturners meeting The Kenai Peninsula Woodturner’s Chapter will hold its August meeting at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug.11. Location is the log building, Mile 100 on the Sterling Highway, just a few miles south of Soldotna where Echo Lake Road meets the highway. There will be a woodturning demonstration. Non-members are welcome. Questions? Call 801-543-9122.
Kenai National Wildlife Refuge activities
Peninsula Community Health Services will host a nine-week For more information, contact the library at Soldotna Public program on “The Grief Recovery Method Workshop: The action Library at 262-4227. Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce and Other Losses” Navy Band Northwest Concert on Wednesday evenings from 6–9 p.m. from Aug. 29–Oct. 24. Thursday, Aug. 9—4 p.m. — Listen to a wonderful summer The program is a closed group that meets at Peninsula Commu- concert with us. nity Health Services in Soldotna at 230 E. Marydale Ave. The Back to School Crafts program costs $95, and there are scholarships available. To regisFriday, Aug. 10—2:30 p.m.—Join us as we get ready for ter or for futher information, call Gail Kennedy at 602-9944. school. We will be making pencil holders, bookmarks and a special book to take with you to school. Pizza Story Time & Party Heritage Place garage sale Thursday, August 16— 10:30 a.m.—Papa Murphy’s Pizza is Heritage Place will host a garage sale Friday and Saturday partnering with us to have a fun pizza story time and party! from 9 a.m.–3 p.m. at the facility at 232 W. Rockwell Ave. in SolMovies @ the Library dotna. All proceeds go to support the Resident Council. —Tuesday, Aug. 14— 5:30 p.m. — A poor teen competes in a contest to win control of a virtual-reality world called the OASIS. After unlocking the first key to the prize, he is targeted by an evil Soldotna Elementary School registration corporation and must enlist his friends’ help to fight back. PopNew student registration for Soldotna Elementary School will corn will be served. Rated PG-13. be held 8:30 a,m, to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 9 DIY Bullet Journals and 10. Class lists will be posted at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17. —Friday, Aug. 17 — 3 p.m. — Can’t find a journal or a planner that works for you? Come create your own to help you keep track of everything from homework to weird dreams to bucket Mountain View registration lists. Snacks provided. Mountain View Elementary will be holding open registration Soldotna Library Friends Board Meeting for Kindergarten and all new students on Monday & Tuesday, Au—Wednesday, Aug. 8 at 2:30 p.m. — Join the Soldotna Library gust 13 & 14, from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Class lists will be posted at 4 Friends Board in their discussion of ongoing library fundraising p.m. on Friday, Aug. 17. Students are invited to come meet their efforts. Open to all members of the Soldotna Library Friends. teacher on Monday, August 20 from 5–6 p.m. The first day of Coffee, Donuts, and a Show school is Tuesday, Aug. 21. Doors open and morning recess be—Saturday, Aug. 11 — 10:30 a.m. — Start your weekend off gins at 8:20 a.m. If you have any questions, please call 283-8600. right! Relax and enjoy coffee and donuts while watching a film on a Saturday morning. A frustrated composer finds his calling in teaching while raising a hearing-impaired son. Rated PG. Soldotna Prep registration Movies @ the Library Soldotna Prep School 9th grade student registration and check —Tuesday, Aug. 14 — 5:30 p.m. — A poor teen competes in a in will be Monday, August 13 from 8:30-11 a.m. and noon-2:30 contest to win control of a virtual-reality world called the OASIS. p.m. Please call the school office for more information at 260-2300. After unlocking the first key to the prize, he is targeted by an evil corporation and must enlist his friends’ help to fight back. Popcorn will be served. Rated PG-13. Kenai Alt interviews Book Club Kenai Alternative High School is currently scheduling inter— Tuesday, Aug. 21 at 6 p.m. — This month we will be disviews for our 1st Rotation. Interviews will be held the week of Au- cussing “The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir” by Jennifer Ryan. For gust 14-17. Classes for the 1st Rotation begin August 21. Students more information about the book club and a full reading list, conwho are interested in scheduling an interview are asked to call the tact Reilly at rselmser@soldotna.org. school at 335-2870 between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
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Time for a law The Roadless Rule, which prohibited
road building and timber harvest on nearly 60 million acres of roadless areas in the national forest system, is a good example of a bad executive order. It’s resulted in about 20 years of discord, with lawsuits and court costs into the millions of dollars. It has cost Alaska and its communities the opportunities that come with accessing natural resources and building an economy. But that might be about to change. While the Roadless Rule was accepted and welcomed in some states, it was anything but in Alaska, particularly when it came to the Tongass National Forest. It also pertained to the Chugach National Forest. Congressman Don Young, perhaps Alaska’s most passionate congressional member, has done a yeoman’s job of attaching an amendment that would exempt Alaska from the Roadless Rule to the House version of the Farm Bill. That bill has moved from the House to the Senate where Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan will do the heavy lifting. Discussions that led to the 2001 Clinton-era Roadless Rule started about 1998. Bill Clinton established the rule as an executive order at the conclusion of his presidency. It was entered into the Federal Register a couple weeks before former President George W. Bush entered office. Bush immediately delayed implementation of the Roadless Rule. But after consideration, his administration decided to allow the rule and amend it later. The Roadless Rule brought litigation from multiple states. Some favored it and fought for it to stand. Others, like Alaska, fought against it. The Bush Administration decided to exempt Alaska from the Roadless Rule in 2003. It wanted to give states authority to determine whether to adopt the rule. That same year a federal court in Wyoming determined the rule to be illegal and issued an injunction. The Roadless Rule was reinstated by the federal court system in 2006. Meanwhile, the Tongass Land Management Plan was being discussed, and it was released in 2008. By then former President Barack Obama was in the White House. His administration started to review all plans for building roads and for timber harvest in roadless areas. The administration didn’t interfere with previously planned timber sales and, such as it was, Alaska had a reprieve until 2011 when an Alaska District Court vacated the Tongass exemption and reinstated the Roadless Rule. Alaska challenged the District Court’s vacation. In 2013, a Washington, D.C. District Court ended Alaska’s case and ruled that no further challenges to the rule would be allowed due to the statute of limitations. But, once again, another court intervened. This time in 2014, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals — three members — reversed the Alaska District Court and exempted the Tongass from the Roadless Rule. But before year’s end the 9th Circuit agreed to rehear the case of the Tongass exemption and its larger contingent ruled in 2015 that the exemption was illegal. Yet again another court weighed in. In 2017, the District of Columbia court’s ruling regarding statute of limitations was overruled on appeal. This week the U.S. Forest Service and the State of Alaska announced they would create an “Alaska statespecific” roadless rule over the next 18-24 months. But the ultimate goal is to enshrine the Alaska exemption into law, which is what Congressman Young has been attempting, and with success when it concerns the House. The Senate’s concurrence might be difficult to achieve, but it is imperative for the future of communities in and around the Tongass and Chugach national forests. The Roadless Rule isn’t a one-size-fits-all way of doing business. It’s one way for some states. It’s completely inappropriate for others; Alaska is one of the latter. The Roadless Rule exemption for Alaska should be settled once and for all — and to end the discord and expenditures in time and money — by becoming law. —The Ketchikan Daily News, Aug. 4, 2018
Elizabeth Warren’s lie
Elizabeth Warren is branching out. The Massachusetts senator, who has made a career of unfairly maligning bankers and other alleged capitalist malefactors, is now smearing the criminal justice system, too. In a speech at a historically black college in New Orleans, she declared that “the hard truth about our criminal justice system: It’s racist … I mean front to back.” Her riff is a sign that the Democrats are going to leaven their lurch toward socialism with a condemnation of America as fundamentally racist. After helping fuel Donald Trump’s rise in 2016 with loose rhetoric about the bigotry of cops, Democrats hope to dislodge him in 2020 with even more sweeping accusations of systematic racism. The U.S. criminal justice system is obviously a legitimate topic of debate. The war on drugs has been a blunderbuss mistake, and we should be reconsidering how many people we jail, and how we do it and why. But the contention that U.S. law enforcement is a product of racial hatred is a paranoid lie, from top to bottom, from beginning to end, from front to back. The basis of the racism charge is the obvious disparities in the numbers. Blacks are 13 percent of the population, yet they account for 38 percent of state prisoners, and for more than roughly 30 percent of fatal police shootings. The driver for mass incarceration, we are always told, is a racist war on drugs.
But this is a myth. In his book “Locked In,” John Pfaff notes that at its height in 1990, the share of state prisoners serving time for drugs was just 22 percent. The proportion fell to less than 16 percent in 2014. So you could Rich Lowry release all drug offenders and still leave mass incarceration intact. And you wouldn’t just be releasing black prisoners — 33 percent of white inmates in state prisons are drug offenders, a slightly smaller percentage than the 38 percent of black inmates who are drug offenders. It is true that the incarceration rates for drug offenses are much higher for blacks. This may be a product of enforcement bias, or other factors such as whites are more prone to use private, as opposed to openair, drug markets. “Little rigorous empirical work has been done to test these theories,” Pfaff writes. “It’s not uncommon to see someone simply assert that the proportions of whites and blacks who use and sell drugs are the same, but with very little data to support the claim.” The biggest reason for the overall disparity in incarceration is different rates of offending. Blacks account for about 50 percent of homicides. It’s not that the police are simply making up these crimes. The num-
bers for violent crime accord with reports from crime victims of the race of their assailants. The same applies to police shootings. Joseph Cesario, a professor of psychology at Michigan State University, writes that “the differences in involvement in criminal situations between black and white citizens fully explains the population-level disparity in fatal police shootings.” Now, it’s entirely fair to argue that different rates of offending are a function of the vestiges of racism, and that it is urgent to pursue criminal justice reform given how the status quo affects black families and communities. But the idea that we are living in a latter-day apartheid South Africa, with a system designed to jail and immiserate blacks out of sheer maliciousness, is contemptible, poisonous and wrong. It is telling that Elizabeth Warren is going there. There are two reasons. One is that she has a Bernie Sanders problem: She is (to all appearances) a white politician who has overwhelmingly devoted herself to economic issues. She needs to play identity politics catch-up. Two, in reaction to Trump, the left is embracing a sweeping indictment of America as undemocratic and racist at the core. Warren’s performance shows that the party is prepared to consider no critique of America too radical or out of bounds. Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.
Celebrate Wild Salmon Day by protecting them In 2018, Bristol Bay broke the record of returning wild sockeye salmon. As the rest of the state closes to salmon fishing, Bristol Bay is breaking records. I’m stunned by this and keep repeating it to myself over and over. Bristol Bay broke the record. Celebrating Wild Salmon Day means a lot to me. As a sportfishing guide at Bear Trail Lodge in King Salmon, I routinely take clients who are filled to the brim with awe, wonder and respect for the resource we are lucky to enjoy here in Alaska. But as a resident of Wasilla, the rest of the year, I’m concerned. I know the returns on my home rivers have been low and are getting worse. On one hand, I’m so proud of the management and caretaking that has been done in Bristol Bay, and on the other I’m worried about what’s been happening in the rest of the state and wondering if it’s too late. I don’t have the scientific background to weigh in on increasing the returns in the Mat-Su, Kenai, or southeast. But I do have the common sense to know that in Bristol Bay, we have a chance to get the wild salmon story right, and that 2018 is the time to do it. I know that mining has a role in Alaska’s economy and of course, we can always use more jobs. But this fight requires us to look
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A laska H eidi W ild at the bigger picture. If we have any appreciation for the industries that economically sustain the entire region, for the resource that upholds Native cultures, that provides for my family, if we have any regard for the well-being of future generations of Alaskans, we’ll work together to stop the Pebble mine. In honor of a state holiday near and dear to my heart, Alaska Wild Salmon Day, what follows is how I’ll be celebrating in hopes that you’ll join me. First, come November 6, I’ll be voting yes on ballot measure one, the Salmon Habitat Initiative. This would update Alaska’s laws that dictate how projects like roads, mines, or dams move forward when they’re planned for areas that have salmon habitat. The initiative allows the responsible projects to advance but takes a much closer look at ones that could be
Classic Doonesbury, 1990
harmful. If the project will harm salmon habitat, the developer will have to adjust its plans or look elsewhere. If it won’t harm salmon habitat, the project will move forward. These are the kinds of sensible laws Alaska needs to protect our salmon. Second, I’m going to be following Pebble’s permitting process closely and weighing in every chance I can get. The process we’ve seen thus far is nowhere near thorough enough for what’s at stake with this proposal. Though I’ve commented dozens of times in the past, I’m going to keep doing so. After all, without our voices speaking up over the past ten years, Pebble mine could already be operating in Bristol Bay. Third, I’m going to enjoy the resource and enable others to enjoy it too. Our salmon are beautiful, incredible, tasty, and a cultural cornerstone. They make the amazing fishing upon which my job depends possible. They are the bedrock of our state. It’s up to us to ensure it remains that way. For these reasons, I am excited to celebrate Alaska Wild Salmon Day, and will work to ensure this holiday is one in celebration of salmon, and not in memory of them, for many, many years to come. Heidi Wild is a resident of Wasilla, a fly fishing guide, owner of Wild on the Fly, and a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.
By GARRY TRUDEAU
Nation Congressman charged with insider trading By TOM HAYS Associated Press
NEW YORK — Republican U.S. Rep. Christopher Collins of western New York state was arrested Wednesday on charges he fed inside information he gleaned from sitting on the board of a biotechnology company to his son, helping family and friends dodge hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses when bad news came out. Collins, 68, is a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump who was among the first two sitting members of Congress to endorse his candidacy for the White House. He pleaded not guilty to an indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court. The indictment charges Collins, the congressman’s son and the father of the son’s fiancee with conspiracy, securities fraud, wire fraud and making false statements to the FBI. Prosecutors said the charges stem from Collins’ decision to share with his son insider information about Innate Immunotherapeutics Limited, a biotechnology company headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with offices in Auckland, New Zealand. Collins was the company’s largest shareholder, with nearly 17 percent of its shares, and sat on its board. According to the indictment, Collins was attending the Con-
gressional Picnic at the White House on June 22, 2017, when he received an email from the company’s chief executive saying that a trial of a drug the company developed to treat multiple sclerosis was a clinical failure. Collins responded to the email saying: “Wow. Makes no sense. How are these results even possible???” the indictment said. It said he then called his son, Cameron, and, after several missed calls, they spoke for more than six minutes. The next morning, according to the indictment, Cameron Collins began selling his shares, unloading enough over a two-day period to avoid $570,900 in losses before a public announcement of the drug trial results. After the announcement, the company’s stock price plunged 92 percent. Prosecutors said the son passed the information to a third defendant, Stephen Zarsky. Their combined trades avoided over $768,000 in losses, authorities said. They said Zarsky traded on it and tipped off at least three others. U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman told a news conference that Collins was supposed to keep the trial results secret. “Instead, he decided to commit a crime,” he said. “Representative Collins, who, by virtue of his office, helps write the
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. — A Chinese company’s announcement two years ago that it would spend more than $1 billion and hire hundreds of workers for a paper mill on the outskirts of this rural college town was seen as a muchneeded shot in the arm for the region’s economy. A web video promoting Arkadelphia — “It’s a great place to call home!” — continues to tout the Sun Paper project and its potential to generate jobs and boost development. But optimism has been giving way to concern in recent months amid President Donald Trump’s escalating trade dispute with China. The threat of a full-blown trade war has delayed the project further and prompted the state’s governor to send his top economic development official to China to make sure it stays on track. It also has caused other Chinese companies considering investing in Arkansas to put their plans on hold. “It’s like a dark cloud hanging over the future of the project,” Stephen Bell, the president and chief executive officer of the Arkadelphia Area Chamber of Commerce. “Right now, the clouds are off on the horizon. But I think no one knows where the trade situation is going right now.”
The uncertainty in Arkansas, where voters overwhelmingly supported Trump in the 2016 president election, highlights how U.S. states are trying to ease the sting of the president’s threatened trade war by appealing directly to Chinese companies. Those companies invested $29 billion in the U.S. last year, virtually all of which was related to corporate mergers and acquisitions, according to the research firm Rhodium Group. While that was down from a record $46 billion in 2016, those investments remain crucial for local economies. Trump’s trade dispute has squeezed U.S. states and communities in at least two ways: It has slowed direct investment, as in Arkansas, and the retaliatory tariffs imposed by other countries have made it harder for local farmers and manufacturers to sell abroad. Political leaders from both parties have objected. Governors from Nevada, Colorado, Massachusetts and North Carolina, for example, protested tariffs on imported solar-energy components, saying it would cost tens of thousands of U.S. jobs. Trump went forward with those tariffs, anyway. In Arkansas alone, retaliatory tariffs from China, the European Union, Mexico and Canada threaten $339 million in exports, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
In this July 19, 2016 photo, Rep. Chris Collins, R-NY. speaks in Cleveland. Collins was indicted on charges that he used inside information about a biotechnology company to make illicit stock trades. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
laws of this country, acted as if the law did not apply to him.” Collins, a conservative first elected in 2012 to represent parts of western New York between Buffalo and Rochester, has denied wrongdoing. When the House Ethics Committee began investigating the stock trades a year ago, his spokeswoman called it a “partisan witch hunt.” “We will answer the charges filed against Congressman Collins in court and will mount a vigorous defense to clear his good name,” his attorneys, Jonathan Barr and Jonathan New, said in a statement Wednesday. “It is notable that even the government does not allege that Congressman Collins traded a
single share of Innate Therapeutics stock. We are confident he will be completely vindicated and exonerated.” All three defendants were expected to be freed on $500,000 bail Wednesday after they pleaded not guilty. Collins has a track record of publicly backing Trump, most recently calling for an end to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into campaign collusion and blaming the Obama administration for failing to push back on Russia. “I share President Trump’s continued frustration as the left continues to try to nullify the 2016 Presidential election with claims of Russian interference,” he said.
LOS ANGELES — Nearly two dozen people were arrested Wednesday and charged with using small aircraft to smuggle heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine over the U.S. border at the behest of one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels, authorities said. The arrests of 22 suspects come on the heels of a nearly three-year investigation into three drug trafficking organizations that authorities say were working on behalf of the Sinaloa cartel. The groups, which received the drugs from the cartel in northern Mexico, would then stash them in soup cans, inside hidden compartments in cars and used small aircraft — though authorities wouldn’t say whether they were manned or drones — to transport the drugs over the border, officials said. “More than seizing the drugs and the money, this investigation was able to identify the top
level Mexico-based traffickers who directed the transactions and who thought they were using secure communications to commit the crimes,” said Tracy Wilkison, the first assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles. Authorities seized 850 pounds (385 kilograms) of methamphetamine, nearly a ton (907 kilograms) of cocaine, 93 pounds (42 kilograms) of heroin, almost 50 pounds (23 kilograms) of marijuana and $1.42 million. Once the drugs were brought into the U.S., they would be stored in stash houses in the Los Angeles area, said Paul Delacourt, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s field office in Los Angeles. The drugs were sold in Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere in the U.S., prosecutors said. The suspects are also charged with trying to smuggle large amounts of cash back into Mexico to pay the Sinaloa Cartel, Wilkison said. Delacourt touted cooperation from Mexican authorities
NEW YORK — The Sinclair broadcasting company says it’s in talks with Tribune Media on how to overcome regulatory hurdles to its $3.9 billion deal to buy Tribune’s 42 TV stations. The deadline for either party to walk away from the deal is midnight on Wednesday. Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley said Wednesday morning that the companies are working to find approaches that are best for the company, employees and shareholders. He made the comments as Sinclair reported quarterly financial results. In July, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai raised concerns about the deal and ordered a hearing. Although Sinclair has proposed selling some stations to address potential antitrust concerns, Pai said Sinclair might still be able to operate the stations “in practice, even if not in name.” At the time, one potential buyer was the Cunningham Group, which has ties to Sinclair’s founding family. Sinclair has said it will no longer sell two stations to Cunningham and will instead seek FCC permission to sell them to another unrelated party. Sinclair and its proposed deal for Tribune received widespread attention after news reports in April showed dozens of Sinclair news anchors reading an identical script expressing concern about “one-sided news stories plaguing the country.” At the time, President Donald Trump tweeted his support of the company. Sinclair defended the effort as a way to distinguish its news shows from unreliable stories on social media.
Vermont city employs goats to get rid of poison ivy MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont’s capital city is trying a natural way to get rid of poison ivy — grazing goats. On Wednesday, three goats munched on the plants along the small city’s bike path behind the high school and near a river. The goats graze on the poison ivy, causing stress to the plants so that they retreat, said the goat’s owner Mary Beth Herbert, of Moretown. It’s expected to take several years of cyclical grazing to eradicate the poison ivy, she said. The goats named Ruth, Bader and Ginsburg, got their start. Herbert brought the 6-month-old Kiko goats in her Subaru, and enclosed them in fencing where they grazed while an occasional bicyclist passed by. The poison ivy doesn’t harm the goats, she said. The city had tried to eradicate the poison ivy but has been unable to do it using organic treatments, said assistant city manager Susan Allen. The poison ivy has been so bad this year that the city posted signs warning bikers and walkers about it. “The city did not want to ramp up to chemical treatments for many reasons, including the fact that the path runs next to the river, and young children and dogs might get over into the undergrowth,” she said. — The Associated Press
In this July 25 photo, Stephen Bell, president and CEO of the Arkadelphia Area Chamber of Commerce, talks about a new railroad spur that is being built to support the needs of what he hopes will be a new paper mill, one of several Chinese-backed deals Arkansas has landed in recent years, in Arkadelphia, Ark. (AP Photo/Karen E. Segrave)
The tariffs Trump imposed on China were estimated to add $150 million to the original $1.8 billion price tag of the Sun Paper plant in Arkadelphia, prompting the company to delay its plans. State and local officials have been trying to reassure Sun Paper, with Gov. Asa Hutchinson sending his top economic development adviser to China. The governor, a Republican, says the Trump administration has assured him it will work with them on tariff exemptions for the facility. State and local officials say they remain optimistic about the paper mill, but the governor says the trade fight isn’t
good for luring new industry. “It’s obvious that with uncertainty, businesses hesitate to invest in new projects. That’s whether you’re a United States businessman or whether you’re a China investor,” the governor said. Arkadelphia, about an hour’s drive southwest of Little Rock, and the state have a lot riding on the plant, which — if built — will produce liner board for cardboard boxes. A state university and Baptist college have been the main economic drivers in the town of less than 11,000 people, which is still recovering from a devastating tornado that wiped out much of the downtown 20 years ago.
Authorities busted Mexico-to-US drug ring By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press
Around the Nation Sinclair, Tribune in talks to overcome regulatory hurdles
Concern in Arkansas highlights trade fears By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press
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Paul Delacourt, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s field office in Los Angeles, right, speaks with reporters at a news conference in Los Angeles Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mike Balsamo)
and said they were helping to locate suspects who may still be in the country. In total, 59 people have been charged as part of the indictments unsealed Wednesday and about three dozen suspects were still being sought by authorities. The Sinaloa cartel, a Mexican drug gang with one of the
largest footprints in the U.S., was formerly run by notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who was extradited to the United States last year. In an unrelated case, Guzman has pleaded not guilty to charges that his cartel laundered billions of dollars and oversaw a ruthless campaign of murders and kidnappings.
Today in History Today is Thursday, Aug. 9, the 221st day of 2018. There are 144 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On August 9, 1974, Vice President Gerald R. Ford became the nation’s 38th chief executive as President Richard Nixon’s resignation took effect. On this date: In 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden,” which described Thoreau’s experiences while living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts, was first published. In 1902, Edward VII was crowned king of Britain following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria. In 1936, Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics as the United States took first place in the 400-meter relay. In 1944, 258 African-American sailors based at Port Chicago, California, refused to load a munitions ship following a cargo vessel explosion that killed 320 men, many of them black. (Fifty of the sailors were convicted of mutiny, fined and imprisoned.) In 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, a U.S. B-29 Superfortress code-named Bockscar dropped a nuclear device (“Fat Man”) over Nagasaki, killing an estimated 74,000 people. In 1969, actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found brutally slain at Tate’s Los Angeles home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his followers were later convicted of the crime. In 1982, a federal judge in Washington ordered John W. Hinckley Jr., who’d been acquitted of shooting President Ronald Reagan and three others by reason of insanity, committed to a mental hospital. In 1992, closing ceremonies were held for the Barcelona Summer Olympics, with the Unified Team of former Soviet republics winning 112 medals, the United States 108. In 1995, Jerry Garcia, lead singer of the Grateful Dead, died in Forest Knolls, California, of a heart attack at age 53. In 1997, Haitian immigrant Abner Louima was brutalized in a Brooklyn, New York, stationhouse by Officer Justin Volpe, who raped him with a broken broomstick. (Volpe was later sentenced to 30 years in prison.) An Amtrak train with more than 300 people aboard derailed on a bridge near Kingman, Arizona; 183 people were injured. In 2004, Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, addressing a court for the first time, asked victims of the blast for forgiveness as a judge sentenced him to 161 consecutive life sentences. In 2014, Michael Brown Jr., an unarmed 18-year-old black man, was shot to death by a police officer following an altercation in Ferguson, Missouri; Brown’s death led to sometimes-violent protests in Ferguson and other U.S. cities. Ten years ago: Todd Bachman, the father of 2004 volleyball Olympian Elisabeth “Wiz” Bachman, was stabbed to death by a Chinese man in Beijing in an apparently random attack just hours after the start of the Olympic Games. (The assailant took his own life.) Mariel Zagunis led a U.S. sweep of the women’s saber fencing for the first American medals of the Games. Comedian Bernie Mac died in Chicago at age 50. Five years ago: President Barack Obama promised to work with Congress on “appropriate reforms” for the domestic surveillance programs that stirred criticism at home and abroad. President Obama signed into law a measure restoring lower interest rates for student loans. Infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero walked free after 28 years in prison when a Mexican court overturned his 40-year sentence for the 1985 kidnap and killing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agent Enrique Camarena. One year ago: North Korea’s army said it was studying a plan to create an “enveloping fire” in areas around the U.S. territory of Guam with medium- to long-range ballistic missiles. Prosecutors in Florida said golfer Tiger Woods had agreed to plead guilty to reckless driving and would enter a diversion program that would allow him to have his record wiped clean; he’d been charged with DUI in May when he was found asleep in his car, apparently under the influence of a prescription painkiller and sleeping medication. Today’s Birthdays: Basketball Hall of Famer Bob Cousy is 90. Actress Cynthia Harris is 84. Tennis Hall of Famer Rod Laver is 80. Jazz musician Jack DeJohnette is 76. Comedian-director David Steinberg is 76. Actor Sam Elliott is 74. Singer Barbara Mason is 71. Former MLB All-Star pitcher Bill Campbell is 70. College Football Hall of Famer and former NFL player John Cappelletti is 66. College Football Hall of Famer and former NFL player Doug Williams is 63. Actress Melanie Griffith is 61. Actress Amanda Bearse is 60. Rapper Kurtis Blow is 59. Hockey Hall of Famer Brett Hull is 54. TV host Hoda Kotb (HOH’-duh KAHT’-bee) is 54. Actor Pat Petersen is 52. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders is 51. Actress Gillian Anderson is 50. Actor Eric Bana is 50. Producer-director McG (aka Joseph McGinty Nichol) is 50. NHL player-turned-assistant coach Rod Brind’Amour is 48. TV anchor Chris Cuomo is 48. Actor Thomas Lennon is 48. Rock musician Arion Salazar is 48. Rapper Mack 10 is 47. Actress Nikki Schieler Ziering is 47. Latin rock singer Juanes is 46. Actress Liz Vassey is 46. Actor Kevin McKidd is 45. Actress Rhona Mitra (ROH’-nuh MEE’-truh) is 43. Actor Texas Battle is 42. Actress Jessica Capshaw is 42. Actress Ashley Johnson is 35. Actress Anna Kendrick is 33. Thought for Today: “The truth is lived, not taught.” -- Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet and author (born 1877, died this date in 1962).
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Bangladesh concerned over Rohingya By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Bangladesh is accusing Myanmar of failing to tackle the concerns of over 1 million Rohingya Muslims who fled the country and is urging the U.N. Security Council to take action to ensure their safe return home. Bangladesh’s U.N. ambassador, Masud Bin Momen, said in a letter to the council circulated Tuesday that while his government continues to engage with Myanmar “in good faith” on arrangements to return the Rohingya, “we regret that the necessary conditions for safe and sustainable return do not exist in Myanmar.” “Nor has Myanmar taken any demonstrable effort to address the concerns of the Rohingyas and the international community,” Momen said in the letter. The Rohingya face official and social discrimination in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, which denies most of them citizenship and basic rights because they are looked on as immigrants from Bangladesh even though the families of many settled in Myanmar generations ago. Dire conditions led more than 200,000 to flee the country between 2012 and 2015. The latest crisis began with attacks by Rohingya insurgents on Myanmar security personnel last Aug. 25. The military re-
sponded with counterinsurgency sweeps and a scorched-earth campaign against Rohingya villages. It was accused of widespread human rights violations, including rape, murder, torture and the burning of Rohingya homes. Thousands are believed to have died and about 700,000 fled to Bangladesh. The U.N. human rights chief, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, has insisted that the possibility of genocide against Rohingya was real and has called for the issue to be referred to the International Criminal Court. Momen urged the Security Council to adopt a resolution and take “concerted and determined action to address the Rohingya crisis” so the refugees in Bangladesh can return to Myanmar. He accused Myanmar of attempting to play down “the catastrophic scale of the crisis and its grave impact on Bangladesh” by saying the number of people who fled the country can’t be higher than a half million. Momen also called Myanmar’s claim that Bangladesh is violating a 1998 demarcation treaty by building bunkers within 150 feet of the border “false and baseless.” He said the closest bunker is 654 feet from the border line. The Security Council is planning to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Myanmar’s violent crackdown on
2 white lion cubs on display at Mexico zoo
FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2018, file photo, Rohingya Muslim women with their children stand in a queue outside a food distribution center at Balukhali refugee camp 50 kilometers (32 miles) from, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)
the Rohingya at an open meeting Aug. 28 to be addressed by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who has called the Rohingya crisis “ethnic cleansing.” British Ambassador Karen Pierce, this month’s council president, said the U.K. wants the meeting to focus on gaining “unconditional access” to Myanmar for the U.N. refugee and development agencies so they can work with the Myanmar and Bangladesh governments “to make a credible plan to get the refugees back home in safety, dignity and security.” Momen said Bangladesh wants the council to ensure those conditions in Myanmar
so the Rohingya can return. He called the framework for cooperation between the U.N. and the Myanmar government “a step in the right direction.” “There is, however, a need for transparency and a demonstration of concrete deliverables so that the Rohingyas can gain the required trust and confidence that, upon returning to their homes in Rakhine State, they will not be subject to further discrimination and violence,” Momen said. He also stressed that “it is of the utmost important” that the Rohingyas still in Rakhine “are guaranteed unconditional protection” through the creation of United Nations-administered “safe zones.”
Venezuela cracks down on lawmakers By SCOTT SMITH Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s pro-government constitutional assembly stripped two opposition lawmakers of their immunity from prosecution on Wednesday, accusing them of having roles in a drone attack that authorities say was an attempt to kill socialist President Nicolas Maduro. The National Constituent Assembly voted unanimously to lift the protection for Julio Borges and Juan Requesens, who have seats in the oppositioncontrolled legislature. The move came after the Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Borges, who lives in in exile in Colombia’s capital, Bogota. Requesens was arrested on Tuesday. Maduro has accused the two of being tied to a weekend incident in which two drones loaded with explosives exploded while he spoke at an outdoor military celebration. Wednesday’s developments threaten to deepen Venezuela’s political crisis as opposition lawmakers accuse the government’s ruling party of using the alleged attack to clamp down on the opposition. Constituent Assembly leader Diosdado Cabello said Borges and Requesens were just the first lawmakers to be accused in the investigation of the incident. “These are the first two who appear to be involved, but the investigation continues,” Cabello said. “Justice is coming.”
In ordering the 48-year-old Borges’ arrest, the supreme court accused him of “flagrant crimes,” including public incitement, treason to the fatherland and attempted homicide. During a national television broadcast on Tuesday, Maduro accused Requesens, 29, and Borges of complicity in the weekend drone explosions. Maduro said statements from some of the six suspects arrested earlier had implicated the two lawmakers, as well as key financiers. “Several of the declarations indicated Julio Borges. The investigations point to him,” Maduro said, though he provided no details of Borges’ alleged role. On Wednesday, Borges, who has rejected the accusation, met with top lawmakers in Colombia, which has blamed Maduro’s government for causing the crisis that has led to masses of Venezuelans fleeing across the border into the neighboring country. “We want to see you out of power, imprisoned for the violation of human rights, imprisoned for the destruction of democracy,” Borges said. “The only promoter of violence is a man named Nicolas Maduro.” Antonio Ledezma, an opposition leader and exiled mayor of Caracas who now lives in Spain, stood alongside Borges in Bogota. “Neither the deputy Borges, nor the deputy Requesens — no Venezuelan parliamentarians are involved in this type of scheme cooked up by the
ROME — Sicilian gangsters dropped 25-kilo (55-pound) cast-iron weights on the limbs of drug addicts, alcoholics and other vulnerable people to obtain insurance payments for fake car accidents worth hundreds of thousands of euros, police said Wednesday after making 11 arrests in the case. Among those arrested was a nurse at a Palermo hospital who Italian police allege procured mild anesthetics from her workplace to tamp down the pain. The weights, like those used in gyms, were violently dropped onto an arm or leg, which had been immobilized by being held between blocks of cement, prosecutors alleged, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. Sometime ice was the only thing used to try to deaden
the pain before the limbs were crushed. Police said electronic surveillance of some of the suspects’ locations picked up the screams of those being mutilated, in private homes or warehouses. They released a video of some of the intercepted conversations indicating the ring had accomplices in several of Palermo’s clinics and hospitals. In one call, one suspect told another that both an ambulance and a wheelchair would be needed the next day. After the limbs were smashed, the injured were taken to hospitals where accomplices in the scheme would handle their cases, authorities said. Rodolfo Ruperti, who heads the Palermo police operations squad, said the suspects would go to the Sicilian capital’s train station to recruit drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally dis-
TLAXCALA, Mexico — A zoo in central Mexico is growing its population of rare white lions with hopes of eventually establishing a sanctuary featuring the animals. The Altiplano Zoo in Tlaxcala, about two hours east of Mexico City, recently began publicly showing two white lion cubs that were born in March. Just about a dozen white lions remain in the wild, according to the Global While Lion Protection Trust, based in South Africa, though several hundred are held in zoos around the world, including several in Mexico. They are not albinos, but have coloration that results from a genetic rarity. The Tlaxcala Zoo, run by the state government, has five other white lions, including three adults and a cub born last year. Cesar Toriz, the zoo’s director, says the cubs’ mother rejected them so they had to be bottle fed formula for their first few months. They were the second litter of white lions for Miztli and Thonatiu, the parents, who are white lions themselves. Toriz says the cubs are gaining weight — now about 44 pounds and 23 inches long — and eat chicken and milk. The zoo is holding a naming contest for them and Toriz hopes that in a few years they can find them mates.
Historic presidential medallion stolen, recovered in Bolivia LA PAZ, Bolivia — Officials in Bolivia say a valuable, nearly two-century old medallion symbolizing presidential power was stolen, then quickly recovered. Bolivia’s first Congress gave the diamond-encrusted golden medallion in the early 19th Century to South American independence hero Simon Bolivar, for whom the country is named. Presidents wear it at the most solemn official ceremonies. Police Col. Jhonny Aguilera says a soldier left the medallion inside a bag in his car in a crime-ridden neighborhood of Los Altos late Tuesday. Security cameras showed thieves break in and grab it. The thieves later called a television station to say they’d left it abandoned outside a church in La Paz, the capital. President Evo Morales had to appear without the medal Wednesday at a military parade. The medal’s guardian is under investigation.
Saudi Arabia executes Myanmar man convicted of murder DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia says it has executed and “crucified” a Myanmar man convicted of killing a woman and carrying out other crimes. The state-run Saudi Press Agency reported Wednesday the execution was carried out in the Muslim holy city of Mecca. It said Elias Abulkalaam Jamaleddeen entered a Myanmar woman’s home firing a gun, then stabbed her to death. He was convicted of robbing her home and another home, attempted rape, and stealing firearms and ammunition. The report said his conviction was upheld by the courts and his execution was endorsed by King Salman. Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s top executioners, though what it calls “crucifixions” — in which the condemned is usually beheaded and then the body put on display, arms outstretched as if crucified — are rare.
President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a event marking the 81st anniversary of the National Guard, in Caracas, Venezuela, on Saturday. (Miraflores Presidential Palace via AP)
regime,” Ledezma said. “This is another parody of Maduro.” The six suspects arrested earlier face charges of treason, attempted murder and terrorism. Investigators have linked a total of 19 people to the attack, Chief Prosecutor Tarek William Saab said Wednesday. Critics of Maduro’s socialist government said immediately after the drone explosions that they feared the unpopular leader would use the incident as an excuse to round up opponents as he seeks to dampen spreading discontent over Venezuela’s devastating economic collapse. The events come as Venezuela’s economy continues to hemorrhage and thousands flee to neighboring nations seeking food and medical care. Maduro
has grown increasingly isolated, with the United States and other foreign powers slapping economic sanctions on a growing list of high-ranking Venezuelan officials and criticizing his government of being an autocratic regime. The International Monetary Fund projects inflation could top 1 million percent by year’s end. During Maduro’s two-hour speech, videos were displayed showing alleged suspects and images of the drones exploding. One video included a purported confession by a handcuffed suspect, whose face was blurred out. The president also displayed wanted posters with names and pictures of other suspects who he said are living in the United States and Colombia.
Police say Sicily gangsters crushed limbs By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press
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abled and poor people desperate for money. “They were attracted by the mirage” of a lot of money, Ruperti told RAI state TV. But in reality those who agreed to participate in the scheme by having a leg or arm or both smashed, generally received only a few hundred euros (dollars), while the gangsters kept hundreds of thousands of euros in insurance payments, the authorities said. “They were both accomplices in the scheme and victims,” Ruperti said of those who agreed to have their limbs broken. A smashed “arm and a leg” could bring as much as a 150,000 euro in claim payments, Ruperti told The Associated Press in a phone interview. Investigators are trying to determine if the Sicilian Mafia had a hand in the fraud racket,
Ruperti said. Cosa Nostra often has accomplices or associates in local institutions including clinics. Ruperti said just how much money had been defrauded in total isn’t yet known because investigators are still trying to determine how many years the racket has been going on. SkyTG24 TV said some 70 people are known to have had limbs smashed in the racket. The investigation was triggered by the discovery, in January 2017, of the mutilated body of a Tunisian man on a Palermo street. Initially presumed to be victim of a road accident, he was later determined to have died of a heart attack suffered after having his limbs deliberately smashed. Ruperti said the racket employed a network of accomplices, including those who agreed to falsely say they had witnessed a car hitting someone.
Romanian authorities report bear attacks on tourists BUCHAREST, Romania — Romanian authorities say brown bears have either attacked or startled several tourists in the Carpathian mountains. The Prahova Ambulance service said a man camping in a forest in a tourist area received medical aid for a hand injury Wednesday after a bear, which was looking for food, attacked him as he slept. Separately, a 39-year-old tourist camping in a forest sustained injuries to his arms Tuesday after a bear entered his tent. Mountain rescue officials helped five tourists to safety Tuesday after they were chased by a bear with her cubs in the Prahova valley. The bears ripped apart their knapsacks. Last week, two men were hospitalized with serious injuries after a bear attacked them in central Romania. There are believed to be more than 6,000 brown bears in Romania.
Turkey’s president to meet Merkel in Germany next month BERLIN — Germany’s government says Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet Turkey’s president when he makes a state visit next month and discuss the countries’ differences. The German president’s office says Recep Tayyip Erdogan will come to Berlin Sept. 28-29, a trip that comes after a difficult period in German-Turkish relations. Merkel spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer said Wednesday the chancellor will meet him and “all the important issues, including differences, will be addressed.” She added that details of the visit have yet to be worked out. Turkey’s detention of German citizens for what Berlin considers political reasons in the aftermath of the failed 2016 coup attempt in Turkey has been a major irritant in relations. Foreign Ministry spokesman Rainer Breul said seven are currently in detention.
China sentences 6 in graduate exam cheating scheme BEIJING — Six people have been imprisoned for up to four years for their part in a scheme to cheat on China’s national graduate school exam, state media reported Wednesday. Exam takers were provided with wireless transmitters and receivers and told to read the questions out loud, according to the reports. Researchers off-site would then find the answers in textbooks and read them to the test takers through their receivers. Among those sentenced Tuesday were two exam takers who helped recruit clients. It wasn’t clear how much the cheaters paid for the service or what punishment they received, although permanent disqualification from the exams is the usual sanction in such cases. The six defendants were sentenced to between 20 months and four years and fined up to 40,000 yuan ($5,900). They could have faced as much as seven years in prison under a 2015 amendment to the law. Exam scores make up the overwhelming preponderance of criteria for acceptance in the Chinese education system from early education onward. — The Associated Press
Sports
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Lindor goes yard to send Tribe to victory By The Associated Press
CLEVELAND — Francisco Lindor connected for a three-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning as the Cleveland Indians again moved 10 games ahead of Minnesota in the AL Central with a 5-2 win over the Twins on Wednesday night. Lindor, who struck out with the winning run at second base in the ninth in a loss on Tuesday, drove the first pitch from Trevor Hildenberger (2-3) over the wall in right to trigger a wild celebration. Jason Kipnis singled with one out in the ninth before Twins right fielder Max Kepler robbed Yan Gomes of extra bases with a leaping catch before crashing into the wall. Brandon Guyer followed with a single to bring up Lindor, who capped a wild ninth inning with his 29th homer.
the Arizona Diamondbacks rolled over the Philadelphia Phillies 6-0 on Wednesday. Corbin (10-4) had the Phillies guessing most of the game, allowing four hits in 7 1/3 innings while reaching a career-high 183 strikeouts this season. The left-hander did not give up a home run for the ninth straight start, the longest stretch by an Arizoba Diamondbacks pitcher since Brandon Webb in 2003.
ning when Khris Davis hit a fielder’s choice grounder off Dodgers reliever J.T. Chargois (2-3), scoring Marcus Semien from third.
RANGERS 11, MARINERS 7
York finished a sweep of Chicago.
PIRATES 4, ROCKIES 3 ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Joey Gallo homered twice and drove in four DENVER (AP) — Adam Frazier had METS 8, REDS 0 runs, Yovani Gallardo won his fourth three hits and made a run-saving play in the NEW YORK (AP) — Jacob deGrom straight start and Texas held off Seattle. field in Pittsburgh’s victory over Colorado. struck out 10 in six innings, received rare significant run support and earned his first ANGELS 6, TIGERS 0 BREWERS 8, PADRES 4 win in nearly two months as New York ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Justin UpMILWAUKEE (AP) — Jesus Aguilar, beat Cincinnati. DeGrom (6-7) ended a seven-start Travis Shaw and Eric Thames hit consecu- ton and Albert Pujols hit back-to-back BRAVES 8, NATIONALS 3 winless streak, allowing four hits in a tive first-inning homers to spoil the debut homers in the fifth inning, and Los Angeles completed a three-game sweep of WASHINGTON — Ronald Acuna Jr. 100-pitch outing and lowering his major of San Diego’s Brett Kennedy. Detroit. league-leading ERA to 1.77. He won for hit one of Atlanta’s three homers, then took away a long ball from Washington to the first time since June 18 at Colorado. RED SOX 10, BLUE JAYS 5 ROYALS 9, CUBS 0 back Mike Foltynewicz (9-7). TORONTO (AP) — Rafael Devers Charlie Culberson and Tyler Flowers CARDINALS 7, MARLINS 1 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Heath returned from the disabled list and hit a also went deep for the Braves. Culberson MIAMI (AP) — Matt Carpenter hit a two-run home run, Brian Johnson pitched Fillmyer allowed three singles over sevhit a three-run drive off Tommy Milone (1en innings for his first major league win, 1) in the second inning, and it was 7-1 by tiebreaking homer for the second consecu- a season-high seven innings to win his secAdalberto Mondesi and Drew Butera each the fourth. Culberson has homered in three tive night, and St. Louis won its fourth se- ond straight start and Boston extended its drove in three, and Kansas City beat Chiries in a row by beating Miami. winning streak to six games. straight games. cago. Carpenter put St. Louis ahead with a home run leading off the sixth inning, his YANKEES 7, WHITE SOX 3 ATHLETICS 3, DODGERS 2 NL-leading 31st. The Cardinals’ Yadier ORIOLES 5, RAYS 4 DIAMONDBACKS 6, PHILLIES 0 Molina hit his 15th homer in the first and CHICAGO (AP) — Luis Severino OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Newly acST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Trey PHOENIX — Patrick Corbin struck quired Mike Fiers pitched 5 1/3 strong in- doubled home two runs in the ninth. Mar- pitched seven effective innings in his first Mancini hit a go-ahead two-run double in cell Ozuna doubled home a run in the sixth out nine in a combined four-hitter, David nings and the Athletics beat the Dodgers. and went 6 for 11 in the series against his win in a month, Giancarlo Stanton hit his the ninth inning, and Baltimore beat TamPeralta had four hits and two RBIs, and first grand slam in four years and New pa Bay despite committing five errors. The A’s broke a 2-2 in the eighth in- former team.
DiMarzio keeps Soggy Bottom title in local hands Seward cyclist wins Soggy Bottom, Owens takes 3rd By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion
What Kenai Peninsula riders lacked in quantity was made up with quality Saturday at the Soggy Bottom Challenge, a mountain bike race of just over 100 miles on the Resurrection Pass and Devil’s Creek trails. Seward’s Chaz DiMarzio won the men’s race in 9 hours, 26 minutes and 50 seconds, to keep the title on the peninsula for the fourth time in six years. DiMarzio also won in 2013, while Soldotna’s Adam Reimer, who did not race this year, triumphed in 2016 and 2017. “I’m proud to keep the title on the Kenai Peninsula, where it belongs,” DiMarzio, 38, said. The peninsula had just three out of the 23 finishers in the men’s race, but Sterling’s Tyle Owens, just 16, turned heads by grabbing third in 10:00:46, while Anchorage’s Owen Ala was second in 9:45:10. The women’s race had just one finisher, but the finish was notable with Chugiak’s Kinsey Loan lowering the women’s course record to 10:32:37. The final peninsula finisher was Scott Summers, who was 21st in 14:05:36. DiMarzio has started every Soggy Bottom but one since the event started in 2004. He has only failed to finish two of the races he started. He said the unique feature of over 100 miles of singletrack will keep him coming back as long as he can. “I gotta keep the streak alive,” he said. “Unless I’m out of town or have other plans, I’m doing the race.” The event starts in Hope and takes the Resurrection Pass Trail to Cooper Landing. There, riders turn around and take Resurrection Pass to the Devil’s Creek trail, dipping to that trail head and turning around. From there, the Devil’s Creek and then Resurrection
Pass trails are ridden back to Hope. The elevation gain registered 10,234 feet on Owens’ Strava account. DiMarzio said he was happy to win, especially after his summer got off to a difficult start on May 31, when a truck pulled out in front of him and stopped. DiMarzio and his bike hit the truck going about 25 mph, but DiMarzio still came back to take 34th in 56:14 in the Mount Marathon Race on July 4. This set him up for his second Soggy victory. “It didn’t mean as much for a couple reasons, the main one being I won it before,” said DiMarzio, also 2017 Tour of Tsalteshi 40-kilometer champion. “It was a very different race. The field wasn’t as fast as in previous years. “2013 was a different race. I beat a bunch of guys who are typically faster than me. This time I was the favorite and set the pace from start to finish.” Ala was within five minutes of DiMarzio on the first two legs, but DiMarzio won the race from the Devil’s Creek trail head to Hope to the tune of 3:08:15 to 3:24:22. DiMarzio said the trail conditions were difficult, with massive puddles from Juneau Lake to Juneau Falls, a stream on the trail down to East Creek and heavy brush on the climb right after Swan Lake. While the weather was perfect, he said the trail conditions cost him 15 minutes. Due to the tough start to the summer, DiMarzio said he was not as fit as when he clocked his personal best of 8:58 in the race. “It’s always about who shows up,” said DiMarzio, who still marvels at the course record of 8:33:02 that Reimer nailed down last year. “Typically, 9:26 is not fast enough to win. At the same time, there were times I backed off to go a little slower because the last thing I wanted was to cut the
side wall of a tire.” DiMarzio will finish his racing season on Aug. 25 at the Capitol Forest 100 in the state of Washington. Owens got respect from DiMarzio and other racers after lowering his time from 11:38:37 last year to just over 10 hours this year. “It’s super, super impressive,” DiMarzio said. “Did you see his Strava? It says he has 4,000 miles of riding this year. I have maybe 1,000.” Also impressive is that Owens downed some pickle juice to ward off any potential cramps after the first leg of the race. “It was absolutely horrendous stuff,” Owens said. Owens battled with Casey Fagerquist for third place. Coming out of the Devil’s Creek trail head, where Owens picked up ghost rider Mike Crawford of Kenai, Fagerquist was right on the tail of Owens. “Mike was my ghost rider and I can’t thank him enough for doing that for me,” Owens said. “I thought that was Mike right behind me.” Owens ended up putting more than 10 minutes on Fagerquist by riding the last leg in 3:13:16, which was the second-best solo ride of the day on that leg. “I just really like that leg,” Owens said. “I’m so tired I don’t touch the brakes in 20 miles of descending and it works out really well.” Owens, a junior, is homeschooled. He will graduate a year early and enroll at AVTEC to study electrical engineering. “Electrical engineering is the goal, cycling is something I love doing,” Owens said. “I Chaz DiMarzio holds up the winning trophy in Saturday’s Soggy Bottom 100 bicycle race in love chasing better race times.” Hope. (Photo provided by Chaz DiMarzio) Soggy Bottom Challenge
Saturday Solo male — 1. Chaz DiMarzio, 9 hours, 26 minutes, 50 seconds; 2. Owen Ala, 9:45:10; 3. Tyle Owens, 10:00:46; 4. Casey Fagerquist, 10:14:05; 5. Kevin Murphy, 10:14:06; 6. Caleb Helkenn, 10:27:00; 7. Chet Fehrman, 10:39:25; 8. James Howery, 10:58:09; 9. Patrick Crabb, 10:58:10;
10. Oliver Sternicki, 11:01:08; 11. Clinton Hodges III, 11:24:24; 12. Ryan Thrasher, 11:42:16; 13. Mike Filipowski, 11:50:35; 14. Timothy Jameson, 12:31:26; 15. Nick Herman, 13:00:18; 16. Bernhard Stechaunes, 13:34:17; 17. David Kingston, 13:34:18; 18. Sam Delamere, 13:55:36; 19. Peter Delamere, 13:55:58; 20. Mike Beiergrohslein,
14:04:32; 21. Scott Summers, 14:05:36; 22. Fred Stewart, 16:31:47; 23. Cody Lee, 17:28:21. Solo female — 1. Kinsey Loan, 10:32:37. Team male — 1. Tim Bernston, Chris Jung, Greg Matyas, 9:07:26; 2. David Stanfield, Travis Stueber, Jack Gadamus, 10:16:23; 3. Ruyedell Jones, Ed Wise, Craig Walker,
10:52:21; 4. Jacque Drumm, Brandon Hoxie, Chris Dennis, 11:22:24; 5. Jon Berke, Brian Hudson, David Slyker, 11:46:16; 6. Jim Jager, Jacques Boutet, Craig Medred, 11:54:33; 7. Jamey Stehn, Ryan Carroll, Larry Harmon, 12:34:06. Team Male/Female — 1. Lee Hall, Martha Stam, Adam Cross, 12:58:26.
Mayfield debuts, Luck returns as NFL preseason gears up By The Associated Press
Welcome to the NFL, Baker Mayfield. And welcome back to the league, Andrew Luck. While the opening preseason game for most teams carries little intrigue as players from the back end of the roster try to strut their stuff, several story lines will be worth following Thursday night. Start in the New Jersey Meadowlands and in Seattle. Top overall draft pick Mayfield will see some action against the Giants, who have their own prized rookie in second overall selection Saquon Barkley. The Browns might not be counting on too much from Mayfield early on as veteran Tyrod Taylor is Cleveland’s starter, but New York expects a huge boost for its offense from the Penn State running back. On the other coast, the Colts plan for their recently luckless quarterback to take some snaps against the Se-
ahawks. Luck hurt the right shoulder in September 2015 against Tennessee, missed two games, then returned to make four more starts before sustaining a season-ending lacerated kidney. He played through shoulder pain in 2016, then had surgery that sidelined him for all of last season. It’s been roughly 600 days between starts for the Colts star. Elsewhere on the first full night of preseason games, it’s Carolina at Buffalo, Chicago at Cincinnati, New Orleans at Jacksonville, Tampa Bay at Miami, Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, the Los Angeles Rams at Baltimore, Washington at New England, Tennessee at Green Bay, Houston at Kansas City, and Dallas at San Francisco. What to look for Thursday night around the league: BAKER AND BARKLEY Brimming with optimism coming off a 0-16 season, Cleveland’s plan is to have Mayfield sit and learn as a rookie behind Taylor, who will start at
MetLife Stadium and play one or two series before giving way to Mayfield, who is expected to play two quarters. “When you get the energy level up, you’ve got to be able to execute, so that’s why I’m excited about Thursday as well,” Mayfield said. “You get people hyped up, you actually get some contact in and you can focus in and do your job when there are distractions around.” New Giants coach Pat Shurmur, who led the Browns in 2011-12, hasn’t indicated how much Barkley will play. “I am hoping I am good to go for that game,” Barkley said. “I am more than capable to playing now. I am just happy inside to play in my first NFL game. Hopefully I can maximize every rep.” LUCKY COLTS Luck is expected to play most of the first quarter, likely one or two series playing in a revamped offense with an overhauled offensive line. “I’ll be excited and a little ner-
vous,” Luck said. “There were one or two moments where I wondered if, ‘Am I ever going to be able to do this again?’” Seattle is also revamped. The names Sherman, Avril, Bennett and Chancellor that used to don the backs of jerseys are no longer around. It’ll be the first look at an overhauled defense where the big questions center on the secondary — star safety Earl Thomas is holding out — and what kind of pass rush can be generated. VRABEL’S DEBUT Mike Vrabel says he really hasn’t spent much time thinking of any pregame speech in his debut as Titans coach. “Never really got a great motivational speech as a professional athlete,” Vrabel said. “Just had a job to do, was prepared, knew the game plan and went out and played.” Another man with Patriots ties, cornerback Malcolm Butler, plays his first game for Tennessee. He most
memorably was benched on defense for the Super Bowl in February even as New England’s secondary was torn apart by Philadelphia. A season-ending knee injury to Packers inside linebacker Jake Ryan left a hole in the run defense. Thirdround pick Oren Burks will get the first chance at replacing Ryan in the base defense. FLORIDA MATCHUP Miami’s eyes will be on Ryan Tannehill, who like Luck sat out last season when injured. He’ll make a brief appearance against Tampa Bay, which won’t have top draftee DT Vita Vea (calf injury). PENNSYLVANIA MATCHUP Two teams with Super Bowl possibilities, though the regulars barely will get on the field. Pittsburgh, of course, is without outstanding running back Le’Veon Bell, who is holding out. All-Pro receiver Antonio Brown and QB Ben Roethlisberger will sit.
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As PGA champion, Thomas is out of Spieth’s shadow By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer
ST. LOUIS — A walk from the driving range to the 10th tee at Bellerive took longer than usual for Justin Thomas. One marshal wanted an autograph. Another wanted a selfie. He made it under the tunnel to find two more people stopping him for pictures. Thomas eventually made it up the stairs, onto the putting green and up a slight hill to the tee box with thousands of fans crammed on both sides and every seat in the grandstands occupied. That’s where some degree of normalcy returned. He was playing with Tiger Woods. This was only Wednesday afternoon, and it’s certain to be far more boisterous for the start of the 100th PGA Championship when Thomas tries to become only the second player in 60 years of stroke play to successfully defend his title. The other was Woods, who has done it twice. “Being the deepest field in golf and
a great golf course and a lot of players trying to knock off that major here at the end of the year that haven’t gotten one yet this year ... any tournament is a tough one to win, but this one especially is,” Thomas said. Thomas is coming off his first World Golf Championship title last week at Firestone and is among the favorites at Bellerive, which was starting to dry out from downpours earlier in the week. A year ago, Thomas was one of those guys who had yet to win a major, and he wasn’t getting much attention because it had been seven months since his last victory. Any mention of Thomas included that he was “Jordan Spieth’s buddy.” Thomas hasn’t heard that in a while. He won the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow (Spieth was among those who hung around to share in the moment) added a FedEx Cup playoff event (Spieth was the runner-up), captured the FedEx Cup and the $10 million bonus and swept all the big awards, just like Spieth had done two
years earlier. Dating to last year at the PGA, Thomas has won five times. Spieth has gone more than a year without winning. Thomas has come into his own. “My last couple of wins, or maybe last year probably is when ... I started to get out of that shadow,” Thomas said. This is a deep friendship that transcends any rivalry, and Thomas was never overly bothered by the mention of being Spieth’s close friend. He understood that Spieth, who turned pro a year earlier and effectively had a twoyear start on him, has more majors, has won more tournaments, reached No. 1 first and stayed there longer. “I’ve always been my own guy,” Thomas said, “but I was perceived by the media as his buddy. Which is fine.” There remains another shadow that was even stronger at Bellerive, and Thomas fully expects that. Playing with Woods — along with Brooks Koepka, J.B. Holmes and what felt like half the state of Missouri — made it a true practice round. Thomas plays the opening two days with Woods and Rory McIlroy.
Woods might be bigger now than when he was winning, perhaps because fans had every right to wonder if they would ever see him again, or see him when he was capable of posting low scores. Coming off a fourth back surgery, Woods has made it through eight months without any health issues — though he did have an ice bath after a long week in the heat at Firestone — and has shown flashes. The most recent was at the British Open, when he had the lead in the final round for two holes in the final round until fading to a tie for sixth. All that did was ratchet up the hysteria that perhaps another major is in the cards. This is his first PGA Championship since 2015, which was the first one Thomas played. “It will be pretty crazy out there,” Thomas said. “There’s going to be a lot of people, I know that. ... So yeah, it will be a cool week. It will be cool for him to be back, and he obviously has a lot of great success in this tournament, as he does most of the ones he’s played in.” The players with Woods on
Wednesday — and for the next two days — were telling. Koepka has won the last two U.S. Opens. Thomas is the PGA champion and No. 2 player in the world. McIlroy began his run of four majors in a fouryear stretch about the time Woods began dealing with injuries. And there are plenty more like them, from Dustin Johnson growing impatient about not winning a major in two years to Spieth getting another crack at the career Grand Slam, to Rickie Fowler trying to shed the label as among the best without a major. “It’s the last opportunity to win one,” Justin Rose said. “A good year becomes a phenomenal year with a major championship. It’s what I build my year around. So absolutely, you’re very keenly aware that this is the last opportunity. ... If you find yourself in contention down the stretch, you’ll be fully aware of what this means.” For Thomas, a place in the record book with Woods. For Spieth, a place among the most elite group in golf. For Woods, the defining moment of a comeback.
NCAA adopts reforms for agents, NBA draft By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer
RALEIGH, N.C. — The NCAA is taking steps to try to clean up college basketball, carving out a limited role for agents to work with players and changing pivotal parts of its rules-enforcement system as part of numerous reforms in the wake of a corruption scandal. The Indianapolis-based governing body for college sports announced Wednesday that its Board of Governors and Division I Board of Directors had adopted a “series of significant policy and legislative changes” as part of an effort to “fundamentally” change the NCAA’s structure. Some are immediate, while others first require action from other agencies — such as the NBA changing the age limit for draft-eligible players that has fueled the wave of “one and done” at the college level. That follows late-April recommendations from the commission headed by former U.S.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice following a federal investigation into alleged bribes and kickbacks designed to influence recruits on choosing a school, agent or apparel company. Georgia Tech president and Board of Directors chairman Bud Peterson said the NCAA had pushed through changes in about 3 1/2 months that would “normally take us about two years through the governance process.” “Today was obviously a very important day for the NCAA and especially for men’s basketball, and ... Division I,” NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a teleconference with reporters Wednesday afternoon. While many agree the reforms are a step in the right direction, it is unclear how effective they will be. “It’s important to be mindful that we won’t reach perfection; however, we can’t let that stand in the way of significant progress,” Atlantic Coast Conference John Swofford said in a
Sports Briefs Saban: Hurts’ comments don’t affect team TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama coach Nick Saban responded Wednesday to quarterback Jalen Hurts, saying the QB’s recent comments about his treatment by the staff aren’t an issue for the team and won’t have any bearing on the competition for the starting job. Hurts expressed some disappointment Saturday in the coaches’ communication with him about the quarterback battle between he and Tua Tagovailoa. Hurts said the staff never “asked how I felt.” He hadn’t previously been allowed to speak to reporters since the night of the title game and said now “the narrative has already been created.” The comments made national headlines, but Saban downplayed the impact on the Crimson Tide team. “Every player has a right to express what he feels and what he thinks, and I think he has every right to do that with every coach or anybody in the organization who he has relationships with, which we certainly do quite often with all players at all positions,” Saban said after Wednesday’s practice. “Look, this is probably a lot more important to people outside this organization than it is to people inside. I don’t think it has any effect on our team. I’ve talked to a lot of our team leaders. The players are focused on what they need to do.” Hurts is 26-2 as a starter but then-freshman Tagovailoa replaced him in last year’s national championship game and led a secondhalf rally against Georgia. Now, Tagovailoa is regarded as the front-runner for the job. Regardless, Saban said Hurts’ comments won’t decide who emerges as the starter. “The rhetoric will not have anything to do with who’s the quarterback,” the coach said. “That will obviously be decided on the field by how people execute, how they do their job. The same parameters that we’ve talked about before in terms of who wins the team. And winning the team goes along with execution, leadership, players having confidence and belief. “And that’s not going to change. I don’t really have any more to say about it than that. I don’t think it is anything that has affected our team one way or the other.”
Jarrod Lyle loses long cancer battle MELBOURNE, Australia — With a contagious smile, a sense of humor and a deep determination to keep playing golf, Jarrod Lyle endeared himself to people around the world during a long struggle against cancer. The 36-year-old Australian golfer died Wednesday night at his home near Melbourne among family and close friends, the week after opting to forego further treatment and enter palliative care. “It breaks my heart to tell everyone that Jarrod is no longer with us,” his wife, Briony Lyle, said in a statement released by Golf Australia on Thursday. “He asked that I provide a simple message: ‘Thanks for your support, it meant the world. My time was short, but if I’ve helped people think and act on behalf of those families who suffer through cancer, hopefully it wasn’t wasted.’” Lyle, who won twice on the Nationwide Tour in 2008, was first diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia as a teenager and suffered recurrences in 2012 and 2017. He was survived by Briony and two daughters. “Lusi, Jemma and I are filled with grief and now must confront our lives without the greatest husband and father we could ever have wished for,” Briony Lyle said. “At the same time, we have been blessed and overwhelmed with the messages and actions of support from around the world and feel comforted that Jarrod was able to happily impact so many people.” Golf Australia paid respects with a video and said the game “has lost one of its greatest characters.” Lyle was diagnosed in 1999 and spent much of the next nine months in a hospital in Melbourne. — The Associated Press
statement. In terms of agents, the changes are as much about transparency and offering a legitimate avenue for communication or advice that previously could’ve taken place in the shadows — and raised the likelihood of attracting unscrupulous characters. Now college basketball players can work with an NCAAcertified agent while testing the waters of declaring for the NBA draft. College players first would have to request an evaluation from the NBA Undergraduate Advisory Committee about their draft prospects after the season, and that would clear the way to enter into a written agreement — disclosed to the NCAA or school — with the agent. That agreement must end if the player returns to school. Agents would be allowed to cover minimal expenses such as meals and transportation associated with meetings or workouts with pro teams, but that could be complicated. The
NCAA noted that might first require revisions to the Uniform Athlete Agent Act — a version of which is in place in more than 40 states to regulate unethical agent conduct. And because pro teams previously could cover some of those expenses, the monetary benefit could be minimal. The agents would have to be certified by the NCAA by no later than August 2020, agents certified by the NBA players’ union would qualify until a formal deadline is set. The NCAA included a provision allowing agent relationships for high school players identified as an elite prospect by USA Basketball beginning July 1 before their senior year, though only if the NBA changes its age-limit restrictions. If the NBA and its players’ union decide to lower the age limit of draft-eligible players to 18, it would clear the way for elite players to go from preps to pros. It’s unclear when — and if that would happen — or what
impact that would have on colleges recruiting NBA-ready prospects. The changes also include allowing a player to return to school if undrafted, but only if he sought the NBA advisory evaluation and participated in the scouting combine — a number that NCAA senior vice president of men’s basketball Dan Gavitt said would be “very limited in scope.” That, too, would first require tweaks to NBA and players’ union rules. At least one prominent coach, Kentucky’s John Calipari, wondered aloud as to how that will work. “My question is, what if there are no scholarships at that school because they gave the scholarships away because they thought he was leaving?” Calipari said in an interview on ESPN. “What does that kid do now? Does he go to another school?” There were also significant changes to the enforcement process to handle cases of rules
violations. That included the appointment of Rice-recommended independent groups to handle and resolve complex cases, with Emmert estimating it would apply to maybe five cases annually. The changes also allow the NCAA to accept outside information that has been “established by another administrative body or a commission authorized by a school.” The NCAA says that will save time since investigators would no longer have to independently confirm those details, which could apply to the current corruption case with federal investigators having access to information through subpoenas and wiretaps — tools the NCAA doesn’t possess. The changes also include requiring school presidents and athletics staff to commit “contractually” to cooperate fully with investigations, stiffer penalties for violations and regulation of the summer recruiting circuit.
Scoreboard Baseball AL Standings
Rangers 11, Mariners 7 Sea. Tex.
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East Division W L Pct GB Boston 81 34 .704 — New York 71 42 .628 9 Tampa Bay 57 57 .500 23½ Toronto 51 62 .451 29 Baltimore 35 79 .307 45½ Central Division Cleveland 63 50 .558 — Minnesota 53 60 .469 10 Detroit 47 68 .409 17 Chicago 41 73 .360 22½ Kansas City 35 79 .307 28½ West Division Houston 73 42 .635 — Oakland 68 47 .591 5 Seattle 65 50 .565 8 Los Angeles 58 58 .500 15½ Texas 51 65 .440 22½
Gonzales, Tuivailala (6), Pazos (6), Duke (7), Bradford (7) and Zunino; Gallardo, Claudio (7), Gearrin (7), Butler (8) and KinerFalefa. W_Gallardo 7-1. L_Gonzales 12-7. HRs_Seattle, Zunino 2 (16). Texas, Gallo 2 (31).
Wednesday’s Games Texas 11, Seattle 7 L.A. Angels 6, Detroit 0 Boston 10, Toronto 5 Baltimore 5, Tampa Bay 4 Cleveland 5, Minnesota 2 N.Y. Yankees 7, Chicago White Sox 3 Kansas City 9, Chicago Cubs 0 Oakland 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 Thursday’s Games Minnesota (Berrios 11-8) at Cleveland (Kluber 14-6), 9:10 a.m. Texas (Jurado 2-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Happ 11-6), 3:05 p.m. Boston (Porcello 14-4) at Toronto (Borucki 1-2), 3:07 p.m. Baltimore (Hess 2-6) at Tampa Bay (Wood 0-0), 3:10 p.m. Seattle (Paxton 9-5) at Houston (Verlander 11-6), 4:10 p.m. All Times ADT
Orioles 5, Rays 4
NL Standings
East Division W L Pct GB Philadelphia 64 50 .561 — Atlanta 62 49 .559 ½ Washington 58 56 .509 6 New York 47 65 .420 16 Miami 47 69 .405 18 Central Division Chicago 66 48 .579 — Milwaukee 66 51 .564 1½ St. Louis 60 55 .522 6½ Pittsburgh 59 56 .513 7½ Cincinnati 50 65 .435 16½ West Division Arizona 64 52 .552 — Los Angeles 63 52 .548 ½ Colorado 60 54 .526 3 San Francisco 57 58 .496 6½ San Diego 45 71 .388 19 Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Mets 8, Cincinnati 0 Pittsburgh 4, Colorado 3 Arizona 6, Philadelphia 0 Atlanta 8, Washington 3 St. Louis 7, Miami 1 Milwaukee 8, San Diego 4 Kansas City 9, Chicago Cubs 0 Oakland 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 Thursday’s Games Atlanta (Sanchez 6-3) at Washington (Gonzalez 6-8), 9:05 a.m. San Diego (Erlin 2-3) at Milwaukee (Guerra 6-7), 10:10 a.m. L.A. Dodgers (Stripling 8-3) at Colorado (Anderson 6-4), 4:40 p.m. Pittsburgh (Nova 6-6) at San Francisco (Suarez 4-7), 6:15 p.m. All Times ADT
Angels 6, Tigers 5 Det. LA
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Hardy, Lewicki (6) and McCann; Barria, Cole (6), Robles (8), Ramirez (9) and Briceno. W_Barria 7-7. L_Hardy 4-4. HRs_Los Angeles, Upton (23), Calhoun (15), Pujols (18).
Bal. TB
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Cashner, Scott (8), Wright Jr. (8), Givens (9) and Joseph; Stanek, Beeks (3), Castillo (8), Romo (9), Alvarado (9) and Perez. W_Wright Jr. 3-0. L_Romo 2-3. Sv_Givens (3). HRs_Baltimore, Jones (12), Beckham (6), Trumbo (16).
Red Sox 10, Blue Jays 5 Bos. Tor.
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Johnson, Brasier (8), Kelly (9) and Leon; Hauschild, Santos (3), Petricka (5), Barnes (7), Biagini (8), J.Garcia (9) and Martin. W_Johnson 3-3. L_Hauschild 1-1. HRs_ Boston, Devers (16). Toronto, Hernandez (17), Grichuk (15).
Indians 5, Twins 2 Min. Cle.
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Odorizzi, May (5), Magill (7), Rogers (8), Hildenberger (9) and Garver; Clevinger, Hand (8), Allen (9) and Gomes. W_Allen 4-4. L_Hildenberger 2-3. HRs_Minnesota, Sano (8). Cleveland, Lindor (29).
Yankees 7, White Sox 3 NY Chi.
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Severino, Green (8), Holder (9) and Au.Romine; Giolito, J.Gomez (6), Santiago (7) and K.Smith. W_Severino 15-5. L_Giolito 7-9. HRs_New York, Hicks (19), Stanton (27). Chicago, Anderson (15).
Royals 9, Cubs 0 Chi. KC
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Quintana, Chatwood (7) and Contreras; Fillmyer, McCarthy (8), Wi.Peralta (9) and Butera. W_Fillmyer 1-1. L_Quintana 10-8. HRs_Kansas City, Mondesi (4).
Athletics 3, Dodgers 2 LA Oak.
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Familia (8), Treinen (9) and Lucroy. W_Familia 7-4. L_Chargois 2-3. Sv_Treinen (29). HRs_Los Angeles, Grandal (20).
Mets 8, Reds 0 Cin. NY
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1 1
Stephenson, Lorenzen (5), Wa.Peralta (6), Mella (7), Ervin (8) and Casali; deGrom, Lugo (7), Blevins (8), Gsellman (9) and Mesoraco. W_deGrom 6-7. L_Stephenson 0-1.
Pirates 4, Rockies 3 Pit. Col.
201 000 010—4 11 0 000 200 010—3 9 2
Archer, E.Santana (6), Kela (7), Crick (8), Vazquez (8) and Cervelli, E.Diaz; Marquez, Oh (7), Ottavino (8), Musgrave (9) and Wolters, Iannetta. W_Archer 4-5. L_Marquez 9-9. Sv_Vazquez (26). HRs_Colorado, Dahl (5).
Diamondbacks 6, Phillies 0 Phi. Ari.
000 000 000—0 4 1 003 100 20x—6 13 0
Velasquez, A.Davis (5), Morgan (6), De Los Santos (7) and Knapp; Corbin, Ziegler (8), Andriese (9) and Avila. W_Corbin 9-4. L_Velasquez 8-9.
Cardinals 7, Marlins 1 SL Mia.
100 002 022—7 9 010 000 000—1 3
0 0
Gant, Shreve (7), Hudson (7), Mayers (9) and Molina; Richards, J.Garcia (6), Barraclough (8), Graves (9) and Realmuto. W_Gant 4-4. L_Richards 3-7. HRs_St. Louis, Molina (15), Carpenter (31).
Braves 8, Nationals 3 Atl. Was.
030 400 100—8 12 2 100 011 000—3 10 0
Foltynewicz, L.Jackson (6), Winkler (7), Brach (9) and Flowers; Milone, Grace (7), Holland (8), Solis (9) and Wieters. W_Foltynewicz 9-7. L_Milone 1-1. HRs_Atlanta, Culberson (8), Acuna (12), Flowers (5). Washington, Harper (28).
Brewers 8, Padres 4 SD Mil.
000 012 100—4 9 0 510 011 00x—8 14 1
Kennedy, Hughes (5), Wingenter (8) and Hedges; Chacin, Soria (7), Jeffress (8), Knebel (9) and Kratz. W_Chacin 11-4. L_Kennedy 0-1. HRs_San Diego, Renfroe (11). Milwaukee, Arcia (3), Yelich (18), Aguilar (28), Thames (16), Shaw (23).
Basketball WNBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE
0 0
Kershaw, Chargois (7), Floro (8) and Grandal; Fiers, Trivino (6),
W L Pct GB x-Atlanta 19 10 .655 — x-Washington 18 11 .621 1 Connecticut 17 12 .586 2 Chicago 10 19 .345 9
New York Indiana
7 22 .241 5 24 .172
12 14
WESTERN CONFERENCE x-Seattle 23 7 .767 x-Los Angeles 18 11 .621 Minnesota 16 13 .552 Phoenix 16 14 .533 Dallas 14 15 .483 Las Vegas 12 17 .414 x-clinched playoff spot
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Wednesday’s Games Los Angeles 82, New York 81 Connecticut 101, Dallas 92 Thursday’s Games Seattle at Washington, 7:30 a.m. Los Angeles at Atlanta, 3 p.m. Minnesota at Las Vegas, 6 p.m. All Times ADT
Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Sent OF Craig Gentry to Bowie (EL) for a rehab assignment. BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned INF Tony Renda to Pawtucket (IL). Reinstated 3B Rafael Devers from the 10-day DL. CLEVELAND INDIANS — Released RHP Zach McAllister. Signed RHP Luis Sanchez to a minor league contract. DETROIT TIGERS — Placed 1B John Hicks on the 10-day DL, retroactive to Tuesday. Optioned LHP Daniel Stumpf to Toledo (IL). Recalled C Grayson Greiner and RHP Artie Lewicki from Toledo. Selected the contract of RHP Jacob Turner from Toledo. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Placed RHP Nick Tropeano on the 10-day DL. Released 3B Luis Valbuena. Recalled LHP Williams Jerez from Salt Lake (PCL). Sent C Rene Rivera to Inland Empire (Cal) for a rehab assignment. NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned RHP Chance Adams to Scranton Wilkes-Barre (IL). OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Signed 1B Viosergy Rosa to a minor league contract. National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Placed RHP Shane Carle and LHP Max Fried on the 10-day DL. Optioned LHP Kolby Allard to Gwinnett (IL). Assigned RHP Jason Hursh outright to Mississippi (SL). CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned RHP Jesus Reyes to Louisville (IL). Recalled RHP Robert Stephenson from Louisville. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled SP Pat Venditte from Oklahoma City (PCL). Sent RHP Josh Fields to the AZL Dodgers and LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu to Oklahoma City for rehab assignments. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Traded RHP Jon Perrin to Kansas City for RHP Sal Biasi. PHILADEPLHIA PHILLIES — Optioned OF Dylan Cozens to Lehigh Valley (IL). Recalled RHP Enyel De Los Santos from Lehigh Valley. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Placed 2B Sean Rodriguez on the 10-day DL, retroactive to Monday. Optioned 1B Jose Osuna to Indianapolis (IL). Designated OF
Christopher Bostick for assignment. Reinstated 1B Josh Bell from the 10-day DL. Claimed LHP Buddy Boshers off waivers from Houston. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Placed RHP Kelvin Herrera on the 10-day DL. Optioned RHP Jefry Rodriguez to Syracuse (IL). Recalled RHP Koda Glover from Syracuse. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Named Dr. Rick Celebrini director of sports medicine and performance. DALLAS MAVERICKS — Signed G Devin Harris to a one-year contract. FOOTBALL National Football League CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed OL Tyler Larsen to a twoyear contract extension. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed LB James Crawford. NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed S Mike Basile. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Waived/injured CB David Rivers. Signed DT Nathan Bazata. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Waived/injured DL Tavaris Barnes and LB Alex McCalister. Signed DL Dante Sawyer and LB Cassanova McKinzy. Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Released WR Miles Shuler. WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Released WR Brisly Estime from the practice roster. SOCCER Major League Soccer D.C. UNITED — Acquired G Bill Hamid on a year-and-a-half loan from FC Midtjylland (SuperligaDenmark). PORTLAND TIMBERS — Traded D Vytautas Andriuskevicius to D.C. United for targeted allocation money. SEATTLE SOUNDERS — Acquired D Brad Smith on loan from AFC Bournemouth (Premier League-England). United Soccer League LA GALAXY II — Signed D Justin Fiddes. TENNIS TENNIS INTEGRITY UNIT — Fined Peng Shuai $10,000 and suspended her six months, with $5,000 and three months suspended, and suspended the credentials of her coach, Bertrand Perret, three months for attempting to change her doubles partner at Wimbledon 2017. COLLEGE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON — Named Samantha Davis and Andy Russo assistant trainers and Greylin Cleary, Quentin Mullen and Sara Steckman graduate assistant trainers. Announced the retirement of equestrian coach Bob Story. IOWA — Suspended OT Alaric Jackson and DL Cedrick Lattimore one game. XAVIER, N.O. — Named Yhann Plummer men’s and women’s track and field and cross country coach.
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Police reports n On July 26 at about 11:30 a.m., Soldotna police responded to a residence on Birch Street for a disturbance. Carl W. Kalmakoff, 47, of Soldotna, was arrested for fourth-degree assault and taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility. n On July 26, Tok Alaska Wildlife Troopers cited Gunnar Cantwell, 32, of Anchorage, for failing to record fish caught during a personal use fishery. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 26, Tok wildlife troopers cited Christopher Park, 35, of Wasilla, for failing to record fish caught during a personal use fishery. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 26, Tok wildlife troopers cited Reynaldo Moreno, 55, of Anchorage, for failing to record fish caught during a personal use fishery. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 25 at 4:15 p.m., Soldotna police received a report of a hit-and-run collision at Soldotna Creek Park. Investigation led to Michayl Wilshusen, 18, of Soldotna, being issued a criminal citation for leaving the scene of an accident and released. n On July 25 at 9:15 a.m., Alaska State Troopers received a report of a disturbance at 33567 Nash Road in Seward. Investigation revealed that Shawn Corn, 36, of Seward, had assaulted a family member. Corn was arrested for two counts of fourth-degree assault and taken to the Seward City Jail. n On July 24, a Fairbanks Alaska Wildlife Trooper contacted April Vanderlinden, 27, of Anchorage. Vanderlinden was issued a citation for failing to record eight salmon and one flounder on her 2018 Upper Cook Inlet Personal Use Fishing Permit before concealing fish from plain view and taking fish from the fishing site. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 25, a Fairbanks wildlife trooper contacted Joseph Gibson, 42, of Palmer. Investigation revealed that Gibson was personal use fishing on the Kenai river and unlawfully retained a king salmon. The king salmon was seized, and Gibson was issued a citation for illegal retention of king salmon during a time of king salmon conservation per emergency order. Bail was set at $260 in Kenai District Court. n On July 25, Tok wildlife troopers cited Benjamin Belknap, 38, of Eagle River, for failing to record fish caught during a personal use fishery. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court.
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funding is enabled by a loan from the Land Trust Investment Fund.” The CES property purchase is part of a long-term project to construct a new building for Station 1. The current building dates back to 1957, before either the borough or the city of Soldotna existed. Today, it handles about 3,000 medical and fire calls per year, or about eight per day, the most of any of the service area’s stations. It doesn’t have enough room for the staff, to house volunteers or to store equipment. The borough and service area plan to look for grant funding to help pay for the construction of the station itself, estimated at $11 million, or may go to the borough to request a bond issue.
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2017, rates per drug category varied. Natural and synthetic opioid overdose death rates increased 38 percent during that eightyear period. Between 2011 and 2016, heroin overdose death rates, which were too small to be reliably reported in 2010, increased four fold — from 1.4 to 6.5 per 100,000 people. In 2017, however, heroin overdose rates decreased by 25 percent. Inversely, synthetic opioid overdose deaths increased from 2016 to 2017 by three fold, rising from 1.1 per
n On July 25, Tok wildlife troopers cited Ubon Boutsomsi, 39, of Anchorage, for failing to record fish caught during a personal use fishery. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 25, Tok wildlife troopers cited Kao Hsi, 70, of Anchorage, for failing to record fish caught during a personal use fishery. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 25, Tok wildlife troopers cited Alejandro Aviles, 39, of Anchorage, for failing to record fish caught during a personal use fishery. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 25, Tok wildlife troopers cited Bryan Wachter, 47, of Anchorage, for fishing in a personal use fishery without the required permit. Bail was set at $210 in Kenai District Court. n On July 24, a Fairbanks wildlife trooper contacted Joshua Cantrell, 38, of Chugiak. Cantrell was issued a citation for failing to record six salmon on the 2018 Upper Cook Inlet Personal Use Fishing Permit before concealing fish from plain view and taking fish from the fishing site. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 24, a Fairbanks wildlife trooper contacted Patrick Baker, 48, of Chugiak. Baker was issued a citation for failing to record five salmon on the 2018 Upper Cook Inlet Personal Use Fishing Permit before concealing fish from plain view and taking fish from the fishing site. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 24, a Fairbanks wildlife trooper contacted William Doss, 52, of Wasilla. Doss was issued a citation for failing to record harvested salmon on the 2018 Upper Cook Inlet Personal Use Fishing Permit before concealing fish from plain view and taking fish from the fishing site. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 24, a Fairbanks wildlife trooper contacted Lloyd Stiassny, 61, of Anchorage. Stiassny was issued a citation for failing to record harvested salmon on the 2018 Upper Cook Inlet Personal Use Fishing Permit before concealing fish from plain view and taking fish from the fishing site. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 23, a Fairbanks wildlife trooper contacted Nick Gilila, 57, of Anchorage. Gilila was issued a citation for failing to record harvested salmon on the 2018 Upper Cook Inlet Personal Use Fishing Permit before concealing fish from plain view and taking fish from the fishing site. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 23, a Fairbanks wildlife trooper contacted Joseph Oliver, 40, of Wasilla. Oliver was issued a citation
for failing to record harvested salmon on the 2018 Upper Cook Inlet Personal Use Fishing Permit before concealing fish from plain view and taking fish from the fishing site. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 23, a Fairbanks wildlife trooper contacted Pele Alboro, 36, of Wasilla. Alboro was issued a citation for failing to record all harvested salmon on the 2018 Upper Cook Inlet Personal Use Fishing Permit before concealing fish from plain view and taking fish from the fishing site. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 27 at 6:57 p.m.., Kenai police received a call regarding a domestic violence issue between two individuals. Tony M. Lashley, 35, of Kenai, was arrested for fourth-degree assault (domestic violence related). In addition, after a records check, Theresa A. Murphy, 41, of Clam Gulch, was arrested on a Soldotna Alaska State Troopers warrant for failure to satisfy judgment on the original charge of third-degree theft. Both Lashley and Murphy were taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On July 27, Fairbanks wildlife troopers cited Sun Kim, 56, of Anchorage, for failing to record all harvested salmon on the 2018 Upper Cook Inlet personal use fishing permit before concealing fish from plain view and taking fish from the fishing site. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 27, Fairbanks wildlife troopers cited Tyson Wetzel, 43, of Anchorage, for failing to record all harvested salmon on the 2018 Upper Cook Inlet personal use fishing permit before concealing fish from plain view and taking fish from the fishing site. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 27, Fairbanks wildlife troopers cited Paul Selanoff, 66, of Valdez, for failing to record all harvested salmon on his 2018 Upper Cook Inlet personal use fishing permit before concealing fish from plain view and taking fish from the fishing site. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 27, Fairbanks wildlife troopers cited Glenn Smith, 67, of Palmer, for failing to record all harvested salmon on his 2018 Upper Cook Inlet personal use fishing permit before concealing fish from plain view and taking fish from the fishing site. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 27, Fairbanks wildlife troopers cited Ernesto Patiag, 66, of Anchorage, for failing to record all harvested salmon on his 2018 Upper Cook Inlet personal use fishing permit before concealing fish from plain view and taking fish
from the fishing site. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 27, Fairbanks wildlife troopers cited Anthony Hall, 51, of Anchorage, for failing to record all harvested salmon on his 2018 Upper Cook Inlet personal use fishing permit before concealing fish from plain view and taking fish from the fishing site. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 27, Tok wildlife troopers cited Ty Hampton, 39, of Anchorage, for failing to record fish caught during a personal use fishery. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 27, Tok wildlife troopers cited Joel Delmundo, 45, of Anchorage, for failing to record fish caught during a personal use fishery. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 27, Tok wildlife troopers cited James Dommek, 61, of Anchorage, for failing to record fish caught during a personal use fishery. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 27, Tok wildlife troopers cited Kevin Saechow, 35, of Wasilla, for failing to record fish caught during a personal use fishery. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 27, Tok wildlife troopers cited Eric Broome, 28, of Anchorage, for failing to record fish caught during a personal use fishery. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 27, Tok wildlife troopers cited Bikky Shrestha, 39, of Anchorage, for failing to record fish caught during a personal use fishery. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 27, Tok wildlife troopers cited Rudion Tolmachev, 28, of Wasilla, for failing to possess a fishing license during a personal use fishery. Bail was set at $210 in Kenai District Court. n On July 27, Tok wildlife troopers cited Antony Cook, 52, of Anchorage, for failing to mark and clip the tails of personal use fish as required. Bail was set at $85 in Kenai District Court. n On July 30 at 8:08 p.m., Soldotna Alaska State Troopers arrested Joanna SamsonSills, 44, of Soldotna, on an outstanding warrant. She was contacted at her residence in Soldotna and taken in to custody without incident. The arrest warrant was for five counts of second-degree theft and one count of fourth-degree theft, with a bail amount of $5,000. Also located, hiding in a bedroom, was Bridget Samson, 28, of Soldotna who was found to have three outstanding arrest warrants. Bridget Samson was taken in to custody without further incident. Her warrants were for failing to remand for first-degree forgery and sec-
ond-degree theft, without bail; failing to remand for seconddegree forgery, second-degree theft, and third-degree theft, without bail; and for five counts of second-degree theft and one count of fourth-degree theft, with a bail amount of $5,000. Both Joanna Samson-Sills and Bridget Samson were taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility. n On July 30 at 8:27 p.m., Alaska State Troopers contacted Teri Lynn Bannach, 42, of Soldotna, at a residence on Vonda Street. She was found to have an outstanding warrant for her arrest for multiple counts of second-degree theft and fraudulent use of an access device. When taken to Wildwood Pretrial, she was found to have heroin concealed on her person, so was additionally charged with fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance and first-degree promoting contraband. Bannach was held without bail, pending arraignment. n On July 30 at 9:49 p.m., Soldotna Alaska State Troopers responded to a disturbance in the Island Lake Road area of Nikiski. While responding, the source of the disturbance fled the residence and was subsequently located on Island Lake Road and Graham Street. The driver, who was identified as Marty Myre, 50, of Kenai, was arrested for driving under the influence. Myre was also found to have an outstanding warrant for his arrest for failing to remand on the original charge of second-degree theft. Myre was taken in to custody without incident and taken to Wildwood Pretrial. During the driving under the influence investigation, Myre was additionally charged with refusal to submit to a chemical test. When Myre was taken to Wildwood Pretrial, he was held on $500 each for the driving under the influence and refusal charges and held without bail on the arrest warrant. n On Juy 29 at about 7:30 p.m., Jessica Spurgeon, 39, of Kenai, was contacted at her residence and arrested without incident by Soldotna Alaska State Troopers on an outstanding arrest warrant for failure to appear for arraignment on original charges of fourth-degree theft and second-degree criminal trespass. She was taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility on $25 bail. n On July 29 at 8:54 p.m., Kenai police responded to a report of an assault at a local apartment complex. Officers arrived and contacted all parties involved. After investigation, George L. Flemmings, 61, of Kenai, was arrested for fourthdegree assault (domestic violence) and taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility. n On July 29 at 6:49 p.m., Kenai police received a report
of a female who had left a local business without paying for the items. Officer located the female in a vehicle still in the parking lot. After speaking with the female, Brittney H. Mackey, 28, of Kasilof, was arrested for fourth-degree theft, violating condition of release, and false report and was taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On July 28 at 11:15 p.m., Kenai police received a call regarding a possible assault at a local business. Kailie N. Nelson, 28, of Kenai, was arrested on a Soldotna Alaska State Troopers misdemeanor arrest warrant for failure to contact Department of Correction for remand on the original charge of driving under the influence and was taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On July 29 at about 2:30 p.m., while on patrol in Resurrection Bay, Alaska Wildlife Troopers contacted Stephen O’Hara, 50, of Anchorage, aboard a sailing vessel. O’Hara was fishing in Resurrection Bay without a fishing license in possession and was issued a citation. n On July 28, a Fairbanks Wildlife Trooper was on patrol on the Kasilof River when he contacted Vladimir Kurteev, 63, of Anchorage, who had been dipnetting. Investigation revealed that Kurteev was unlawfully personal use fishing in a closed area. He was issued a citation, with bail set at $210 in Kenai District Court. n On July 28, a Fairbanks Wildlife Trooper was on patrol on the Kasilof River when he contacted Douglas Selvester, 34, of Anchorage, who had been dipnetting. Investigation revealed that Selvester was unlawfully personal use fishing in a closed area. He was issued a citation, with bail set at $210 in Kenai District Court. n On July 28 at about 4:30 p.m., Alaska Wildlife Troopers contacted Steven Thomas, 49, of Anchorage, on the Spring Creek beach, in Seward. Thomas was fishing without a fishing license in possession and was issued a citation. n On July 27 at 3:41 p.m., Kenai police received a call regarding a male holding a bottle of liquor and being disorderly. Bryan W. Keys, 53, of Kenai, was arrested for violating conditions of release and taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On July 30 at about 12:00 a.m. Kenai police responded to a business near the corner of the Kenai Spur Highway and Main Street Loop on the report of an assault. Investigation led to the arrest of Hannes J. Grace, 30, of Kenai, on charges of fourthdegree assault (domestic violence) and violating conditions of release. Grace was taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility.
Court reports The following dismissals were recently handed down in Kenai District Court: n A charge of fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance against Dakoda Dallas Neely, 23, of Kenai, was dismissed. Date of the charge was July 15. n Charges of three counts of third-degree misconduct involving weapons (in house of felon) against Travis D. Fine, 33, of Soldotna, were dismissed. Date of the charges was July 25, 2017. n A charge of fourth-degree assault (domestic violence) against Jessica E.P. Segura, 20, of Kenai, was dismissed. Date of the charge was July 24. The following judgments were recently handed down in Kenai Superior Court: n A jury found John Francis
James Harris, 69, address unknown, guilty of second-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance, committed from April 16 to May 16, 2016. He was sentenced to three years in prison, fined a $100 court surcharge and a $100 jail surcharge, and ordered to pay $2,500 cost of appointed counsel. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Gerald Shaun Kelly Williams, 42, of Anchorage, pleaded guilty to second-degree burglary, committed Sept 24, 2016. He was fined a $100 court surcharge and a $200 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to pay restitution, forfeited all items seized, ordered, among other conditions of probation, not to consume alcohol to excess, to have no contact with victims in this case, to submit to search directed by a probation officer, with or without probable cause, for the
presence of stolen property and weapons, ordered not to use or possess any illegal controlled substances, including synthetic drugs, and was placed on probation for three years after serving any term of incarceration imposed. All other charges in this case were dismissed.
for 36 months. n Bryce Michael Moeglein, 21, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to no motor vehicle liability insurance, committed July 14. He was fined $500 and a $50 court surcharge. n Stephen Patrick Alexander, 49, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, committed Apr. 8. He was sentenced to 30 days under electronic monitoring with 27 days suspended (time served), fined $2,000 with $500 suspended, a $75 court surcharge, a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and $66 for the three days of electronic monitoring ordered, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had his license revoked for 90 days, ordered ignition interlock for six months, and placed on probation for one year. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Michael F. Kinkopf, 81,
of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence committed July 19, 2017. He was sentenced to 30 days under electronic monitoring with 27 days suspended (time served), fined $2,000 with $500 suspended, a $75 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had his license revoked for 90 days, ordered ignition interlock for six months, and placed on probation for one year. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Hunter Travis Emery, 19, pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal trespass (on land, intend crime), committed May 24. he was fined a $50 court surcharge, ordered to have no contact with K-Beach Alyeska Tire, and placed on probation for 12 months. All other charges in this case were dismissed.
100,000 people in 2016 to 4.9 in 2017. Geographically, the Anchorage Region showed the highest rates of opioid overdose death, rising from 12.5 people per 100,000 in 2010 to 20.4 people in 2017. The Gulf Coast Region, made up of the Kenai Peninsula Borough, Kodiak Island Borough and Valdez-Cordova Census Area, showed a decrease in the rates of opioid overdose deaths between 2010 and 2017 — from 11.4 percent to 10 percent. Overall, however, the Gulf Coast region came in third in total overdose deaths between that period, with 60 people dying from overdose. In Anchorage, 211 people died; 61 died
in the Mat-Su Region. Medical care for opioidrelated issues also increased in recent years. Between 2016 and 2017, the rate of opioidrelated emergency discharges increased 22 percent. Opioidrelated hospitalizations rates by region were highest in the Gulf Coast, followed by Anchorage, Mat-Su and Northern regions. In 2016-2017, total inpatient charges for opioid-related hospitalizations was more than $23 million. The median charge for opioid-related inpatient hospitalizations was $36,228. Reach Erin Thompson at ethompson@peninsulaclarion. com.
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the judges didn’t give any indication how they might rule, but they did indicate they might approve an edited version of the measure. That came to pass on Wednesday. The court deleted two separate sections of the measure, each of which state that the Alaska Department of Fish and Game cannot permit a project under specific circumstances. “They are problematic,” the court wrote, “because — however they are interpreted — they bar the commissioner from granting a permit to a project that would ‘cause substantial damage’ or have one of the listed effects, even if in the commissioner’s — or the leg-
islature’s — considered judgement the public benefits of that particular project outweigh its effects on fish habitat.” In the court’s determination, a ballot measure may place restrictions on permitted projects, but it cannot expressly forbid those projects. That kind of decision is up to the Legislature alone. In making that decision, the Supreme Court reversed a prior decision that had permitted a 2008 ballot measure known as the Alaska Clean Water Initiative. That measure would have blocked construction of large mines if they affected salmon or state waters. (Voters ultimately rejected the measure.)
The following judgments were recently handed down in Kenai District Court: n Brandon Michael Knight, 23, address unknown, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of fourth-degree assault, committed Apr. 26. He was sentenced to 360 days in jail with 300 days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete an anger management program and follow all recommendations, ordered to pay restitution, ordered to have no contact with victim, and placed on probation
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The state argued that the initiative’s eight pages of dense text create legislation that effectively allocates state waters for fisheries, excluding other development that might affect rivers, streams and lakes. Proponents challenged that ruling in Alaska Superior Court, and in October 2017, Judge Mark Rindner ruled against the state, saying the measure did not amount to an appropriation. The state appealed to the Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments in April. At the time,
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Coming up silver on the Kenai By ELIZABETH EARL Peninsula Clarion
Weekend Almanac The silver salmon tease the fishermen on the Kenai River. A few inches away from an angler’s bobber, a silver salmon’s dark back will flick the surface, sending jewel-bright droplets of water into the air. The fisherman lets out a sigh as he keeps walking down the boardwalk, hoping that a less clever salmon will take a snap at the eggs balled up on the end of his hook. He can’t stop too long, though, as the conveyor-belt line of fishermen keeps moving along the boardwalk, with each angler following his bobber down before reeling in and starting back at the top of the line. Some of the fishermen in Soldotna early Wednesday morning were having good luck hooking silvers from the boardwalk behind the Soldotna Visitors Center, just below the David A. Douthit Veterans Memorial Bridge over the river. Joseph Barba of California had landed both his silver salmon before 7:30 a.m. Hoisting them up out of the water, the boy asked his father with a smile to take the fish because they were too heavy. Shortly afterward, several fishermen hooked into fish in the same area, with some netting silvers and others seeing pink salmon. Silver salmon run in the Kenai River in general from August through October, though fish are coming in all throughout the fall and into the winter. Kenai River anglers are allowed to keep up to two fish 16 inches or longer per day with two in possession until Aug. 31, when the bag limit increases to three per day with six in possession. But after getting the bag limit for silvers, anglers have to put up their gear and can’t fish for the rest of the day downstream of the Soldotna bridge. Gear recommendations for silvers depends on who you talk to. Some anglers have good luck using eggs and bobbers; others use chunks of halibut or herring, while still others use simple flies or spinners. Tactics depends on river location, too. While the anglers in Soldotna use bobbers and spinners with light weights, the anglers downstream at Kenai’s Cunningham Park — which is in the tidally influenced area of the river — use heavier weights and plugs. On the eastern side of the peninsula, the annual Seward Silver Salmon Derby is set to kick off Saturday morning. Anglers can start at 6 a.m. Saturday, but not a moment before, said Seward Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Cindy Clock. “One of the policemen fires off a gun (to start the derby),” she said. “We do have a prize for the first fish caught.” The derby features the regular wide array of prizes — including $10,000 for the heaviest fish caught, $5,000 for the second heaviest and $2,500 for third, as well as prizes for special tagged fish and the top three winners getting the fish’s weight in coffee from Kaladi Brothers Coffee — and runs from Saturday through the following Sunday, Aug. 19. Tickets cost $10 per day or $50 for the whole derby. Prizes will be distributed Sunday at a ceremony held at the Breeze Inn at 3 p.m. The Seward Chamber of Commerce presells tickets, but anglers still have
Friday
67/49 High tides: 2:50 a.m. 3:50 p.m. Low tides: 9:26 a.m. 9:41 p.m.
21.6 feet 20.4 feet -4.0 feet 1.6 feet
(Tide information for Deep Creek)
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to get them punched at the weigh-in station near the harbormaster’s office at the Seward harbor to validate them, Clock said. Fishing for coho salmon has been slow for many anglers in Resurrection Bay, with some reporting success while fishing deeper, according to an Alaska Department of Fish and Game sportfishing report for the area dated Aug. 2. Clock said the silver fishing had been reportedly good early in the season before hitting a lag, according to the local anglers and guides. “Now they’re starting to come back in,” she said. Though silver salmon fishing is a highlight of the late summer, there are still other species to angle for. The majority of the mainstem Kenai River is closed to sockeye salmon fishing by emergency order effective Aug. 4, but a small section near the Russian River confluence is still open, as the late run Russian River sockeye numbers are looking good. As of Tuesday, 29,204 sockeye had passed the weir on Lower Russian Lake, significantly more than the 19,440 on the same date last year. The Kasilof River personal-use dipnet fishery closed Tuesday, but sockeye are still headed up the river in good numbers. Fish and Game doubled the bag and possession limits for Kasilof River sockeye in an emergency order issued Friday, with anglers allowed to have up to six per day with 12 in possession, though no more than two salmon per day and two in possession can be silvers. As of Tuesday, 371,658 sockeye had passed the sonar on the Kasilof River, getting close to the upper end of the optimal escapement goal of 160,000–390,000. Fish and Game also opened the commercial fishery in the Kasilof River Special Harvest Area — a small terminal harvest area around the mouth of the river — on Wednesday as a way to help control sockeye salmon escapement into the river and provide commercial
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Fish Counts Kenai River early run kings: The daily sonar passage estimate for Tuesday was 699 kings. The cumulative estimate through Aug. 7 is 13,552. Kasilof sockeye: Monday: 5,936 Tuesday: 16,507 Since June 15: 371,658 Russian sockeye: Monday: 1,175 Tuesday: 1,341 Since July 15: 29,204 Kenai sockeye: Monday: 30,190 Tuesday: 55,768 Since July 1: 661,881 — Alaska Department of Fish and Game
ABOVE: Joseph Barba of California holds up the two silver salmon he caught on the Kenai River from the boardwalk near the Soldotna Visitors Center on Wednesday in Soldotna. (Photos by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion) TOP: A Kenai River silver salmon peers out from an angler’s net on the boardwalk near the Soldotna Visitors Center on Wednesday in Soldotna.
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What’s Happening Events and Exhibitions n The Kenai Fine Art Center presents August exhibit, “Art Quilts Extraordinaire,” a judged show with multiple Alaksan fiber artists. The Kenai Fine Art Center is located across from the Oiler’s Bingo Hall in downtown Kenai. n ARTspace Drawer is on display at the Soldotna Library, the first annual collection of locally created 2D art. The first of its kind in Alaska, this display is made possible by a partnership between Soldotna Rotary, ARTspace Inc., and the Soldotna Public Library. n The Kenai Peninsula Orchestra begins its summer concert series this week. The performances are scheduled as follows: —Aug. 9: Anchorage Bowl Chamber Orchestra, Kenai Fine Arts Center, Kenai, 12 p.m. —Aug. 9: U.S. Navy Woodwind trio, Soldotna Public Library, 4 p.m. The gala concerts, entitled “Celebrating the Americas,” feature Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to Candide, and includes Arturo Márquez’s Danzon No. 2. The audience will be treated to a viewing of Charlie Chaplin’s silent film, The Rink, for which the orchestra provides the soundtrack of ragtime pieces and well-timed percussion effects. Guest artist Dr. Oleg Proskurnya, adjunct professor at UAA and director of the UAA Sinfonia and Anchorage Civic Orchestra, performs Ástor Piazzolla’s violin concerto, The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. —Aug. 10: Homer Gala Performance, Homer Mariner Theater, 7:30–9 p.m. —Aug. 11: Kenai Gala Performance, Renee C. Henderson Auditorium at Kenai Central High School, 7:30–9 p.m. For more information, visit kpoalaska.com or call 2354899.
Entertainment n The Vagabond Inn on Kalifornsky Beach Road has live music Friday and Saturday nights. n Veronica’s in Old Town Kenai has Open Mic from 6-8 p.m. Friday. Call Veronica’s at 283-2725. n The Alaska Roadhouse Bar and Grill hosts open horseshoe tournaments Thursday nights at the bar on Golddust Drive. For more information, call 262-9887. n The Goody2Shoes Dancehall and Cafe at Milepost 132.6 Sterling Hwy in Ninilchik will have live music Saturday from the Tune Weavers Band between 6–9 p.m. Doors open at 5. Serving great food, beer and wine. To see the complete weekly schedule, www.goody2shoes.us or call 907-252-6326 for more information. The Goody2Shoes is a nonsmoking establishment. n Acapulco, 43543 Sterling Highway in Soldotna, has live music at 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays starting at 5 p.m. n A bluegrass jam takes place on the first Sunday of the month at from 1-4 p.m. at the Mount Redoubt Baptist Church on South Lovers Loop in Nikiski.
Where songs and salmon meet Festival continues tradition of highlighting female artists, promoting fish activism By MEGAN PACER Homer News
Continuing a tradition of promoting female musicians, the Salmonfest brought thousands of music lovers and a popular national act to the Ocean Stage in Ninilchik this past weekend. Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile took the stage as this year’s headliner, marking her second appearance at the annual three-day festival since 2013. She joined several other acts with prominent female members, national acts and bands from right here in Alaska. Homer’s own Nikos Kilcher made an appearance at the Headwaters Stage on Friday. Most people who have been to Salmonfest — or See FEST, page B2
ABOVE: Blackwater Railroad Company, of Seward, performs to a dancing crowd on the Ocean Stage at this year’s Salmonfest on Saturday in Ninilchik. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News) TOP: An art and music performance during Salmonfest on Saturday featured women on stilts dressed as mermaids, salmon sculptures and the LowDown Brass Band. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
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Out of the door By Hedy-Jo Huss, Soldotna Outdoorsy. It simply is NOT my cup of tea. We are off to Denali? Wunderbar! We’re camping there? ...oh my– Necessity is the mother of invention. There are lodges, hotels and motels In contention.
I much prefer indoor plumbing to outdoor bumbling. Oh, to sleep like a bear when nary a one is there. Fresh air? Turn off the A/C. I merely open a window, you see. Before I hit the sheets, I’ll stroll by a campsite. A s’more would be right. I’m set for the night! I’ll trail blaze — (after in-room coffee) for continental breakfast. I CAN find the lobby. Say camping ‘never more.’ Forgive me, Alaskans. This is the way I go out the door. Poems must include the writer’s name, phone number and address. They should be kept to no more than 300 words. Submission of a poem does not guarantee publication. Poems may be e-mailed to news@peninsulaclarion. com, faxed to 283-3299, delivered to the Clarion at 150 Trading Bay Road or mailed to P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, AK 99611.
Orchestra concert to celebrate the Americas On Saturday the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra will play a concert of music by 20th century composers from the American continent — two North Americans and two South Americans — at Kenai Central High School’s Renee C. Henderson Auditorium. Conductor Tammy Vollum-Matturro said the concert’s theme, “Celebrating the Americas,” refers to many aspects of the program, but it began with the idea of doing something the orchestra has never done before: providing a live soundtrack to a silent film. A few years ago the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra played Sergei Prokofiev’s score to the 1938 silent film Alexander Nevsky, recalled percussionist Scott Bartlett. Bartlett, also an orchestra board member, said he thought at the time that it’d be neat to play a score alongside an actual showing of its film. He suggested the idea to Vollom-Matturro, and this Saturday it will come to fruition. The concert will include a screening of the 1916 silent slapstick short “The Rink,” featuring Charlie Chaplin on roller skates and Bartlett on sound effects. “It kinds of falls into the tradition
of Foley sound effects for live radio,” Bartlett said. “In live broadcast radio theatre — the one everybody knows is “A Prairie Home Companion” — those live theatre pieces have live sound effects accompaniment by a Foley artist who’s making all the sounds in real time. I used to work in radio production and did sound effects, but it was in post production. I haven’t done this sort of live action sound effects project before.” Instead of a score, Bartlett said he has “a number of cues that are timed out with the film — like at four minutes thirty seconds someone gets hit in the head so you play the woodblock, that kind of thing.” “There’s a lot of flexibility in how to interpret that, and I can add some extra sounds as it goes,” he said. Bartlett said he’ll be playing “a kind of a pared-down drum set — the sort of thing someone would have used to accompany a film like this in the 1910s, 1920s” along with “a table full of stuff, like a slide whistle, a siren, a lot of The Kenai Peninsula Orchestra will be playing a ragtime score alongside things.” a screening of the silent 1916 Charlie See MUSIC, page B2 Chaplin short “The Rink” at their Saturday concert. (Image public domain).
‘Christopher Robin’ an off-target film about our favorite bear R eeling It In C hris J enness “Christopher Robin” I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for “Winnie the Pooh.” Being a Christopher myself, I’m often referred to as Christopher Robin, often by older female relatives. The original Milne illustrations are charming and the Disney version is sweet and funny. Since the company started making Pooh shorts and films in 1966, there have been dozens of episodes, of varying levels of quality. Actually, I thought the latest animated big screen version, in 2011, was really pretty good. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same for this week’s somber dirge of a movie, “Christo- This still released by Disney Enterprises shows Ewan McGregor (right) and Jim pher Robin.” Cummings (as Winnie the Pooh) in “Christopher Robin.” (Courtesy Disney EnterSee REEL, page B2 prises)
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n An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday. The jam is at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thurs- day of the month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the month. Jam starts at 6:30 p.m. n AmVets Post 4 has reopened in its brand new building on Kalifornsky Beach across from Jumpin’ Junction. Eligible veterans and their families are invited to stop by to find out more about AmVets and their involvement in the Veteran community. For members and invited guests, Friday night dance to “Running with Scissors,” and Saturday Burn your own steak and karaoke with Cowboy Don. n Odie’s Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. nThe Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays and live music Fridays, Saturdays at 10 p.m. n The Duck Inn on Kalifornsky Beach Road has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and DJ Arisen on Satur- days.
Salmonstock, as it was originally called — know it’s about more than music. Each year, there’s usually an environmental or salmon-related issue the organizers focus on to galvanize support from the public. After the Pebble Mine project took a hit earlier this year when major financial investor First Quantum Minerals Ltd. pulled out, festival producer Jim Stearns said the focus of this year’s event shifted to the “Stand for Salmon” initiative. It’s a proposition on the ballot for the November general election that seeks to alter much of Alaska’s statute regarding protections for anadromous streams. Carlile, an activist herself, appeared on stage sporting a large anti-Pebble Mine sticker on her romper along with bandmates Tim and Phil Hanseroth. Carlile, who has a wife and two daughters, is an avid supporter of the LGBTQ community. She also performed at the March for Our Lives in Seattle, Washington, and a dollar from every ticket sale for one of her shows goes to the foundation she started, Looking Out. While Carlile and the twins performed a range of songs from their new Album, “By the Way, I Forgive You,” and from their early years, some listeners waved rainbow flags and one yelled out, “Love is love.”
Markets, Fairs and Bazaars n Local farmers markets will be held across the Kenai Peninsula this summer. Locations are as follows: —The Kenai Peninsula Food Bank hosts the Farmers Fresh Market on Tuesdays from 3–5 p.m. through Aug. 29. —The Homer Farmers Market runs Saturdays from 10 a.m.– 3 p.m. and Wednesdays from 2 p.m.–5 p.m. through Sept. 29. —The Soldotna Saturday Farmers Market takes place every Saturday from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. in the lot next to Soldotna Elementary School on the Kenai Spur Highway. — Ninilchik Farmers Market is open Mondays, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. at the Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds in Ninilchik July 2–30. n The Sterling Community Center is launching a new summer event, the “Sterling Friday Market,” beginning June 15 and continuing on every Friday through July. Spaces will be available for $10. The market will offer fruit and vegetable vendors, crafters, vendors, and second hand booths. Plus, entertainment for the kids. For more information call 2627224. n Music in the Park and the Wednesday Markets will run in Soldotna Creek Park on the Sterling Highway in Soldotna every Wednesday from June 6–Aug. 29, with music beginning a 6 p.m. A beer and wine garden is available for those 21 or older. The market opens at 11 a.m. n Kenai Saturday Market is open Saturdays, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., in the Kenai Visitor & Cultural Center parking lot, 11471 Kenai Spur Highway, through Sept. 1.
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While Bartlett adds sound to Chaplin’s silent world, the orchestra will be playing ragtime music from the period of the movie’s release, arranged for orchestra and set to the Down the Road film by composer Andrew n The Pratt Museum in Homer is from noon-5 p.m. Tues- Green. “Some of the rags people day- Saturday. Fo more information, call 907-435-3334, or won’t know, and some of go online at www.prattmuseum.org them people might recog Submissions may be emailed to news@peninsulaclarion. nize,” Vollom-Matturro said. “… Like when (Chaplin) is com.The deadline is 5 p.m. Mondays. roller skating, the music will change to a waltz — the Skater’s Waltz, and I think a lot of people will know the Skater’s Waltz. And when a fight breaks out, the music isn’t ragtime anymore — it changes to more dramatic music.” In addition to the ragtime Backlash folows the addition of ‘popular soundtrack, Vollom-Matturro film’ Oscar category said she’d also wanted to have the orchestra play the rhythLOS ANGELES — Big changes are coming to the mic Danzon No.2 by MexiAcademy Awards, including the addition of a popular film can composer Arturo Maraward category and the promise of a shorter ceremony in quez. The theme of American an effort to combat declining viewership and criticisms that music, north and south, grew the awards are out of touch with the mainstream. But the Wednesday morning announcement was also met with immediate backlash online, raising questions about what the new category would mean for a film like “Black Panther,” a global blockbuster which has also been talked about as a favorite contender for the best picture Oscar. John Bailey, the newly re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Film Academy Continued from page B1 CEO Dawn Hudson said in an email to members Wednesday morning that the Board of Governors met Tuesday night to Ewan McGregor stars as approve the changes, which also included bumping the 2020 the titular Robin, who as a boy ceremony up to Feb. 9. The date for the 2019 show, Feb. 24, would escape into the Hundred remains unchanged. Acre Wood to play with his “We have heard from many of you about improvements friends Pooh, Piglet, Eyore, needed to keep the Oscars and our Academy relevant in a and the rest, but at the openchanging world,” Hudson and Bailey wrote. ing of the film is being shipped The new film category quickly drew negative attention, off to boarding school, never with “popular film” becoming a trending topic on Twitter by to see his friends again. With Wednesday afternoon. that chipper beginning out of “Five Came Back” author Mark Harris tweeted that the the way, we proceed to watch a popular film award, “Is a ghetto and will be perceived that montage depicting the difficult way.” life our boy has in store, from Actor Rob Lowe tweeted that “The film business passed the death of his father, to fightaway today with the announcement of the “popular” film ing in the war, to eventually Oscar. It had been in poor health for a number of years. It winding up in a joyless posiis survived by sequels, tent-poles, and vertical integration.” tion as a middle-manager in a The addition of the popular film category, a clear effort to struggling luggage company. attract a larger audience to the ABC broadcast by honoring His patient wife and quick-witbigger and more seen films, led many to wonder whether a ted daughter do their best, but film like “Black Panther” would be ineligible for best picChristopher is just a sad, workture and relegated to the popular film award because of its weary dad. And to make things size and success, or lead to inadvertent segmenting by film worse, his smarmy boss has academy voters. just made it clear that a good Bailey and Hudson said eligibility requirements will be deal of his staff will have to be determined at a later date, but it is worth nothing that other fired unless our hero can find top film categories like best animated feature and best forother places to cut. eign language film don’t prohibit a best picture nomination. About this time, we cut “Toy Story 3” was nominated for both best picture and best back to Pooh, waking up in his animated feature. It also wasn’t specified whether it would quaint little home in the Hunbe added for the 91st Academy Awards this February. dred Acre Wood, only to find The division is not without precedent either. The first that all his friends have disapAcademy Awards ceremony in 1929 actually did give out peared. Deciding that Christotwo top awards, one for Outstanding Picture and one for pher Robin is the only one who Unique and Artistic Picture to recognize both art films and can solve this mystery, the little epics, but the Unique and Artistic category was dropped the stuffed bear makes his way to next year. London enlist his old friend’s Ratings for the 90th Academy Awards fell to an all-time help. That last sentence actulow of 26.5 million viewers, down 19 percent from the previally sounds sweet and fun, but ous year and the first time the glitzy awards ceremony had be assured that director Marc fewer than 30 million viewers since 2008. Hosted by Jimmy Forster avoids those sentiments Kimmel, the ceremony also clocked it at nearly four hours, at all costs. Robin must return making it the longest show in over a decade. with Pooh, find his friends, n Call Orca Theaters at 262-7003 or visit http://www.orcatheater.com for listings and times. n Visit Kenai Cinema at www.catheatres.com for listings and times.
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An art and music performance during Salmonfest on Saturday featured women on stilts dressed as mermaids, salmon sculptures and the LowDown Brass Band. Salmonfest attendees enjoyed warm sunny weather on Saturday at the Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds in Ninilchik, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
But Carlile was not the only hit at this year’s festival. A large and lively crowd converged on the Ocean Stage on Saturday to watch Seward’s Blackwater Railroad Company. Cheers and clapping gave way to full-on jig dancing, and one onlooker threw a large peony onto the stage, which the band’s violinist picked up and wore on the collar of her dress. Saturday closed out with a performance from Michael Franti, who treated the late night crowd to his popular hits before ending the night with rousing version of “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing.” The salmon causeway, which boasts about a doz-
with the addition of the iconic U.S composer Leonard Bernstein, who would have turned 100 on August 25 and whose centennial is being celebrated with a variety of nationwide events. The Kenai Peninsula Orchestra will be playing the overture of his opera Candide. The second South American piece is the violin concerto Four Seasons of Buenos Aires by Argentinian tango composer Astor Piazzolla. The later will feature as a guest violin soloist Oleg Proskurnya, an adjunct professor at University of Alaska Anchorage and director of the UAA Sinfonia and the Anchorage Civic Orchestra. Vollom-Matturro said Four Seasons of Buenos Aires contains “hints” of another seasonally-inspired violin concerto — Vivaldi’s Four Seasons — as well as “some really cool effects.” “They use special effects on the violins and cellos and basses and violas — some really cool things that you don’t ever usually hear in
save his marriage and his job, and get back in time for the big meeting. There’s a lot going on, but unfortunately, not a lot of thought went into this project at the forefront. For one, there is a lot of confusion about the true nature of Pooh and co. In the books it was very apparent that these animals were Christopher Robin’s toys and that the adventures they had were all part of his youthful imagination. Most of the Disney cartoons that followed gloss over that fact, giving the characters independent lives, but always within the confines of the Hundred Acre Wood, so the question of whether they are real or not is immaterial. This movie seems to want to have it both ways. The brilliant CG animation of Pooh, Piglet and the rest is an amazing achievement — not only emulating the original illustrations, but looking for all the world like actual stuffed animals come to life. You would imagine this would suggest they are creatures of Robin’s imagination, but instead they appear to be actual, living, stuffed animal creatures, as when the gang goes to London, everyone can see them move and talk, and are understandably shocked at the sight. It’s very strange and suggests a real lack of planning. Are they magic? Why did they disappear and reappear? Is Christopher Robin some kind of wizard who can bring his imagination to life? If so, that requires a whole different movie. Also questionable is the
en activist and educational booths, mostly dedicated to the environment, was buzzing with activity throughout the festival. From poetry readings about fish to musical performances to women dressed as mermaids stalking around on stilts, the causeway provided its own brand of entertainment. Festival goers also got to participate in the annual aerial art project organized by local artist Mavis Muller. For the last eight years, Muller has designed an art piece, always having to do with fish or water. It ends up being made from arranged fabric and people from the festival who lay down on the ground around
the piece for an aerial photo. The message of this year’s piece was “Water is life. Yes for salmon,” Muller said. In the piece, a salmon leaps through a giant drop of water. “Now, more than ever before, we need the language of art,” Muller said. “That takes us out of our heads and into our hearts, where we are guided by the compass of our heart, rather than our thinking brains. And so, I’m a believer in the language of art as far as communication, that with our art we can inspire new possibilities, we can influence sustainable solutions, and we come together to collaborate. And we’re stronger when we collaborate.”
The American composer Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday would have been on August 25, had he not died in 1990. The Kenai Peninsula Orchestra will open their Saturday concert in Kenai with the overture to Bernstein’s opera Candide. (Paul de Hueck, courtesy the Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc.)
classical music,” VollomMatturro said. “They sound like guiros, they do these wierd glissandos, they screech, they use their bows upside down, they hit their instruments. The Piazzolla’s go-
ing to be one of those pieces where people go ‘wow.’” Reach Ben Boettger at bboettger@peninsulaclarion. com.
decision to shoot the film in muted tones of blue and gray and the frustrating lack of humor, even in places where the script clearly calls for it. Forster seems to be swinging for the Award fences here, with his gritty war scenes and tender emotional moments with Pooh, lost and alone, but it makes you wonder who this film is for? It doesn’t feel like it’s for kids. It’s not inappropriate, but it’s not fun either. If it’s not for kids, then I guess it’s for adults, but Winnie the Pooh has been associated with the Disney cartoon characters for the last fifty years, at least, so if the filmmakers are hoping to draw in a crowd that fondly remembers the original Milne versions, it’s a pretty small market group they’re shooting for. Even the voices of the characters are approximations of the Disney cartoon voices. Speaking of that, I have to say there was one aspect of the animation that kind of creeped me out. Winnie the Pooh has a soft, whisper of a voice, often spouting non-sequiturs and strange little bits of disconnected wisdom. With the cartoon version, and all the expression the animators can give that silly old bear, it’s cute and endearing. Here, with Pooh’s glass eyes and very limited facial movement, his lines take on a disturbing air. I know it’s completely unintentional, but I didn’t feel it with any of the other characters. Maybe because they all have eyebrows to give them expression. At one point I whispered
to my son, “I think Pooh is crazy…” The movie does pick up somewhat in the last fifteen or twenty minutes, and I even found myself smiling occasionally. The plot, however, never makes any sense, even managing to mess up your basic “save the company” conclusion. (The solution to the company’s money woes is to, wait for it, give all their employees paid holidays for which said employees will naturally need to purchase luggage. Of course!) Oddly, there is a very similar movie that was released last year that has been almost completely forgotten. “Goodbye Christopher Robin,” starring Domnhall Gleeson as A.A. Milne, is a historical look at the creation of Winnie the Pooh, as the author was inspired by the play of his son, Christopher. I missed that movie, but it looks a heck of a lot more interesting than this odd mishmash of history and fantasy, drama and comedy all wrapped up in a somber seriousness that is almost laughable in itself. Forster even has his Pooh character recreate the infamous walking through the wheat scene from “Gladiator” for goodness sake. A lot of work went into this movie, but I’m sad to say it does not translate. Grade: D+ “Christopher Robin” is rated PG for mild action, including a scene of war. Chris Jenness is an art teacher and movie buff who lives in Nikiski.
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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. Claims must be presented to the undersigned Personal Representative of the estate, at DOLIFKA & ASSOCIATES, P.C., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, P.O. Box 498, Soldotna, Alaska, 99669. DATED this 31th day of July, 2018. PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES /s/CANDI LEE ISAAK Pub: 8/2, 9 & 16/2018 819715 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI In the Matter of the Estate of JUDITH AGNES SNELL, Deceased. Case No. 3KN-18-00175 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. Claims must be presented to the undersigned Personal Representative of the estate, at DOLIFKA & ASSOCIATES, P.C., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, P.O. Box 498, Soldotna, Alaska, 99669. DATED this 31th day of July, 2018. PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES /s/CYNTHIA ANN NAGLE Pub: 8/2, 9 & 16/2018 819707
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The City of Soldotna has an opening for an oncall part-time Animal Control Assistant. This position is responsible for providing support to the Animal Control Officer by enforcing animal control ordinances, assisting with clerical duties and kennel maintenance, as well as providing support of the animal control shelter operations. Schedule will be a minimum of 4 hours per week up to 40 hours as needed, including weekends. A pre-employment drug test will be required. A complete job description is available on the City’s website at www.soldotna.org/jobs. Must submit City application, resume and cover letter to Human Resources at 177 N. Birch Street, Soldotna, by email joreagan@soldotna.org, or fax 866-595-3359 by 5 p.m. August 15, 2018. The City of Soldotna is an EEO employer.
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Mom charges daughter-in-law rent even after the wedding DEAR ABBY: My mother-in-law owns the building my husband and I live in. I moved in with him about a year ago, before we were married. Because she owns the building, she doesn’t charge her son rent to live there but asks that he help manage the building, which takes about three hours a month. (He has a fulltime job outside of managing the building.) When I moved in, his mom asked that I pay rent. I guess in the back of my mind I thought it would change after we got married. Do you think I’m a brat for thinking I shouldn’t have to pay rent? The amount she’s charging me is about what I would pay if we lived in another building and split the rent between us. I don’t know how to approach this, or if I’d be stepping out of line to request living somewhere rent-free. Please help. -- RENT-FREE IN CALIFORNIA DEAR RENT-FREE: You are being treated like a tenant, not a daughter-in-law. As a member of the family, you should be treated the same as her son. By all means discuss this with him, and while you’re at it, suggest he split your share of the rent 50/50 because you are all family now. DEAR ABBY: My 30-year-old daughter has extremely high expectations for her birthday. No one in
the family has ever given her a gift that she liked, so now we actually have to get the gift approved by her husband first! She doesn’t like gift cards, and our budget is small. Although she barely acknowledges anyone else’s birthday, she still expects the “perfect” present for her own. We love her and want to celebrate Abigail Van Buren with her, but the expectations and confrontations make her birthdays miserable for everyone -- including her. How do we stop this? -- BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION DEAR BIRTHDAY: Who created this self-entitled monster? Remind your daughter and her husband that you are all adults now, and because of that, “the family” has decided from now on to mark milestones with greeting cards instead of gifts. Period. If you want to celebrate with her in addition, fine, but her behavior “takes the cake.” DEAR ABBY: I am wondering about current eti-
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quette concerning work emails. I work in the office of a financial institution and receive multiple emails from customers and fellow employees every day. Our e-mail system recognizes when a word is spelled incorrectly. If I receive an email that has a misspelled word in it and I must reply to it, is it rude to correct the other person’s spelling error? -- UNSURE IN ILLINOIS DEAR UNSURE: If you do what you are contemplating, the recipient may find it insulting, so I don’t recommend it. However well-intentioned, it could lose the company a client or annoy your coworkers. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. Abby shares more than 100 of her favorite recipes in two booklets: “Abby’s Favorite Recipes” and “More Favorite Recipes by Dear Abby.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $14 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Cookbooklet Set, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)
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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018: This year you sense emotional undercurrents, no matter which way you turn. Many of these undercurrents are actually reflective of your feelings, fears and desires. Because you notice these moods, you will be able to get to the bottom of what motivates you. If you are single, you could attract someone who might not be emotionally available. Recognize what you are doing to yourself. If you are attached, you could be weighing the pros and cons of your relationship. You will both benefit from well-spent private time together. CANCER understands you better than you think. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Your emotions seem close to the surface right now. Your intuition lets you know which way to go in order to achieve the results you desire. Pressure could build, forcing you to make a decision not only for others’ comfort, but also for yours. Tonight: Get past a sense of insecurity. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH Speak your mind and open up to fast changes. When wanting to touch base with someone at a distance, you could feel frustrated. You might want to distance yourself from a controlling person. Tonight: Reach out to a neighbor or sibling; you have a lot of news to catch up on. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Be careful with your finances. Double-check all figures and money agreements. You might find that an associate or a close loved
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can drive a hard bargain if you want to. Be honest with yourself; perhaps this situation does not interest you enough to make you fight for what you want. Tonight: Free yourself of obstacles. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You could be surprisingly content dealing with one person directly. You might not understand what is motivating you to settle in, but you will -- given time. A discussion about finances could be uncomfortable, but important. Tonight: Relax over a favorite meal. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You’ll want to greet someone you care about with more warmth, especially if you want him or her to get the message. You often get tied up in work or challenging situations. Try focusing on other important matters. Allow a relationship to flourish. Tonight: Happy at home. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Your playfulness plays a big role in what is happening. You know what to do and when to move on a key issue. How much of a role will you want in a power play? You will recognize what to do when you have answered that question. Tonight: Know when to call it a night. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHH You seem to have the right words for a partner or potential sweetie. To this person, your words seem magical; he or she will try hard to keep you close to him or her. A friend could be distraught that you are not making him or her more of a priority. Tonight: Do what you want. BORN TODAY Singer Whitney Houston (1963), actor Sam Elliott (1944), actress Melanie Griffith (1957)
FAUCET FIX Dear Heloise: To avoid germs, after washing my hands in a public restroom, I use a paper towel to turn off the faucet. -- Nancy T., Hagerstown, Md. Many public faucets have a motion-detector system for the water to come on, for the soap to dispense and for the paper towel to pop out, so you don’t have to touch things if you don’t want to. -- Heloise FROZEN SAUCE Dear Heloise: I like tomato sauce, but I can never finish the big jar. I pour the sauce into a dedicated ice cube tray and freeze. -- Simone P., West Palm Beach, Fla. GUNKY GASKET Dear Heloise: By accident, I found that the rubber guard under the garbage disposal is soiled. I wipe under the rubber to clean and sanitize it. -- R.A. in New York Yes, the rubber sink gasket can get gunky! Here’s an easy way to really keep it clean: Fill the sink with enough water to cover the gasket (which should release easily), and add a couple of drops of liquid dishwashing detergent and a careful but generous glub-glub of chlorine bleach. Soak for 20 minutes. Rinse and reattach. -- Heloise NIFTY NOODLES Dear Heloise: When I make boxed mac and cheese, I put more macaroni in it from my pantry to stretch it further, and I also put these nifty noodles in chili or soup to do the same! -- Betty D., Faulkton, S.D. LIPSTICK FIX Dear Readers: Got a broken lipstick? Don’t despair - here’s a solution: Heat the raw edge with a match until soft, and set the piece back in the tube gently but firmly, then wait five minutes before rolling it down the tube. Place the tube into the freezer for 10 minutes to seal the repaired parts. -- Heloise
SUDOKU
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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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