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Tuesday, August 7, 2018 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 48, Issue 266

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In the news

Outside group is courting Alaskans

Austria man dies in packrafting accident

Campaign asks residents to reach out to Murkowski about Supreme Court vote

ANCHORAGE (AP) — An Austria man has died in a pack-rafting accident in Alaska.

National Park Service officials say 22-year-old Aidan Don of Salzburg, Austria, died Thursday in WrangellSt. Elias National Park and Preserve. His body was recovered Friday from the Nizina River.

Don and a friend were dropped off by plane Thursday around a lake at the base of the Nizina Glacier for a daylong trip on the river.

Officials say the novice pack-rafters became separated a few miles downriver.

The surviving rafter made an emergency call for help after seeing Don’s capsized raft but no sign of him.

According to officials, aerial searchers located Don’s body and also picked up the survivor. Because of the difficulty reaching the body, a helicopter was required to recover the body the next day.

By ALEX MCCARTHY Juneau Empire

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is in the spotlight in the ongoing national health care debate, and one nationwide organization is putting a concerted effort into motivating Alaskans to share their personal stories with Murkowski about how health care affects their lives.

Protect Our Care, a national campaign that works to preserve and improve the Affordable Care Act, is particularly intent on opposing President

Donald Trump’s selection of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. Those at the campaign believe Kavanaugh will use his position to repeal ACA and possibly Roe v. Wade.

A date has not yet been set in stone for a vote confirming Kavanaugh’s appointment to the court, but many believe Murkowski, as well as Maine Sen. Susan Collins, could be a vital swing vote. Among those is Andy Slavitt, the former acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid

Services (CMS).

Every vote is vital, Slavitt said. Republicans hold a 5149 majority in the Senate, but Arizona Sen. John McCain is at home fighting cancer.

“You can expect that this is a very, very close vote decided by one vote, potentially, given that there are 50 Republicans if you don’t count John McCain that will vote on this,” Slavitt said in a phone interview. “If one of them chooses not to vote to support Judge Kavanaugh, I think that could be very important.”

Proponents of Kavanaugh have said he’s a highly qualified candidate, having spent 12 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and spending time as a staff secretary for President George W. Bush. Justin Walker, an assistant professor of law at the University of Louisville’s Brandeis School of Law, clerked for Kavanaugh from 2010-2011 and said Kavanaugh’s previous decisions and writings suggest Kavanaugh will not be a rubber-stamp justice for the president.

4 charged in illegal commercial fishing in bay near Homer

By ELIZABETH EARL Peninsula Clarion

Work in progress A fresh coat of concrete and new classrooms are going up at the Trinity Christian Center on the hill outside Soldotna. The church, recognizable for its distinctive dome sanctuary, is in the midst of a renovation and construction project, with volunteer crews adding a new layer of concrete to the surface of the signature dome building that currently houses the church and preparing to build a new wing that will house several new classrooms, with plans to finish the construction by the end of this season. Future plans also include a new sanctuary, though that won’t be finished this year. The church has been on the hill outside Soldotna for about 30 years. (Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion)

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The state has filed charges against four commercial fishermen accused of illegal harvesting salmon in a bay south of Homer.

Alaska Wildlife Troopers wrote in a dispatch Monday that Eric Winslow, 61, Paul Roth, 35, and Mark Roth, 64, all of Homer, and Robert Roth, 39, of Anchor Point, are charged with working together to illegally drive salmon out of a closed area near the mouth of a creek in Dog Fish Bay into an open fishing area, where they harvested them. Altogether, 33,328 pounds of salmon were illegally harvested, according t the dispatch.

A wildlife trooper spotted five commercial fishing vessels — the Little Star, the See FISH, page A7

TipsyGypsy Coffee takes artisan New restaurant to food, drinks on the move come to Kenai Airport

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

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Troopers release name of man killed in village shooting ANCHORAGE (AP) — Alaska State Troopers have released the name of an officer who fatally shot a suspect last week.

Troopers say Sgt. Brent Hatch, a 10-year veteran, fired and killed 28-year-old Carl Tyson of Saint Mary’s.

Troopers say Tyson was armed with a knife when he died.

A Saint Mary’s village police officer on Thursday night responded to a domestic violence report and called for assistance.

Hatch arrived, and with the village police officer, pursued as Tyson ran from the scene.

Troopers say Tyson turned, advanced with a knife in his hand and ignored commands to drop the knife.

Hatch fired and Tyson died at the scene.

The trooper was placed on 72-hours mandatory administrative leave.

Saint Mary’s is a village of 566 about 450 miles (725 kilometers) northwest of Anchorage.

“They demonstrate that he faithfully applies the text of the statues and the Constitution and he goes wherever the law leads,” Wilson said in a phone interview.

Wilson was recently in Alaska to speak about Kavanaugh and said he heard a good deal of positive feedback on Kavanaugh from the Alaskans with whom he spoke. Specifically in regard to the ACA, Wilson said Kavanaugh “will go without any passion or prejudice” for either party or either side of the

After selling Veronica’s Cafe about three years ago, Diane Hooper still found she had a passion for food and people, prompting her to open TipsyGypsy Coffee Shop about six weeks ago.

Hooper said when she was a child she dreamed of being a gypsy. So she named her cart the TipsyGypsy and decorated the cart to resemble a caravan wagon. The wagon currently sits right off of the Sterling Highway in Soldotna adjacent to Artzy Junkin.

Q: What do you sell?

A: My menu changes every day. I offer two different paninis. It’s a pretty simple menu, but it’s good. Yogurt parfaits have been extremely popular. I fill them with fresh fruit that I pick up on the way to work. I also put a drizzle of wild fireweed syrup and Alaska birch syrup on them. They’ve been going out of here like hotcakes, and not just in the early morn-

By BEN BOETTGER Peninsula Clarion

Diane Hooper opened TipsyGypsy Coffee Shop earlier this summer to pursue her passion for food and people on Friday in Soldotna. (Phot by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

Shop Talk ings but in the afternoons and evenings as well. Then I have coffee and a lot of cool drinks, like smoothies and other drinks people enjoy.

Q: Why start a food cart?

A: After I sold Veronica’s, I really did miss it. I missed the people. I missed making people’s tummies happy. I was

down in Homer last fall visiting my daughter and grandchildren, and I saw this little cart out in a field and it had a for sale sign on it. I thought, ‘You know what, I think I can turn that into something special.’ So I did. I brought it home, dressed it up and I’ve had more fun doing this.

Q: What’s been the biggest differences and similarities See SHOP, page A7

The new business Brothers’ Cafe is moving into the Kenai Municipal Airport terminal’s restaurant space.

Jim Hamilton, who co-owns the new business with his brother, chef Lyndell Hamilton, said Brothers’ Cafe will have its soft opening in late August and a grand opening in early September.

The restaurant will serve “comfort food, coffee, and deserts,” Jim Hamilton said.

Jim Hamilton already works on the Kenai Airport as executive director of the Kenai Airport-based missionary aviation nonprofit Arctic Barnabas. A pastor and marketing consultant, Hamilton said his family’s company, Situlla LLC, already operates small businesses in Texas and Michigan, and had been looking to open a restaurant and coffee shop for about a year before the terminal became open. Lyndell Hamilton later decided to move to Kenai from Texas to to run the restaurant, while Jim Hamilton said his work “will be more on the people side.”

The Hamiltons’ niece and nephew had also been planning a move to Alaska to open a coffee shop — their nephew will run the coffee shop side of the business as a barista, Jim Hamilton said.

Part of the proceeds for the grand opening in September, Jim Hamilton said, will go to the Christian nonprofit Love INC, which helps families in need of food and housing. He hopes that Brothers’ Cafe will work with other nonprofits See KENAI, page A7

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

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Juneau 61/55

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Locally severe storms will extend from the interior Northeast to the middle Mississippi Valley today. Slow-moving storms will drench parts of the southern High Plains and southern Rockies.

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Anchorage 63/52

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CA blazes now largest in state history LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) — Twin Northern California blazes fueled by dry vegetation and hot, windy weather grew Monday to become the largest wildfire in state history, becoming the norm as climate change makes the fire season longer and more severe.

The two fires burning a few miles apart and known as the Mendocino Complex are being treated as one incident. It has scorched 443 square miles (1,148.4 square kilometers), fire officials said Monday.

The fires, north of San Francisco, have burned 75 homes and is only 30 percent contained.

The size of the fires surpasses a blaze last December in Southern California that burned 440.5 square miles (1,140.8 kilometers). It killed two people, including a firefighter, and destroyed more than 1,000 buildings before being fully contained on Jan. 12.

Hotter weather attributed to climate change is drying out vegetation, creating more intense fires that spread quickly from rural areas to city subdivisions, climate and fire experts say. But they also blame cities and towns that are expanding housing into previously undeveloped areas.

More than 14,000 firefighters are battling over a dozen major blazes throughout California, state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Scott McLean said.

“I can remember a couple of years ago when we saw 10 to 12,000 firefighters in the states of California, Oregon and Washington and never the 14,000 we see now,” he said.

Crews did make progress over the weekend against one of the two blazes in the Mendocino Complex with help from water-dropping aircraft, Cal Fire operations chief Charlie Blankenheim said in a video on Facebook.

But the other one is growing after spreading into the Mendocino National Forest.

The complex of fire has been

A U.S. Air Force plane drops fire retardant on a burning hillside in the Ranch Fire in Clearlake Oaks, Calif., Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Josh Edelson)

less destructive to property than some of the other wildfires in the state because it is mostly raging in remote areas. But officials say the twin fires threaten 11,300 buildings and some new evacuations were ordered over the weekend as the flames spread.

A new fire erupted Monday in Orange County, south of Los Angeles, and prompted the evacuation of two canyons and some campgrounds as it expanded into the Cleveland National Forest. By nightfall, the fire had burned 4,000 acres (6 square miles or 16 square kilometers) of chaparral-covered hillsides and destroyed one building.

Farther north, crews gained ground against a deadly blaze that has destroyed more than 1,000 homes in and around Redding. It was nearly halfway

contained, Cal Fire said.

The wildfire about 225 miles (360 kilometers) north of San Francisco started more than two weeks ago by sparks from the steel wheel of a towed-trailer’s flat tire. It killed two firefighters and four residents and displaced more than 38,000 people.

Officials began allowing some residents to return to their neighborhoods. But tens of thousands of others were still evacuated.

The fires in Northern California have created such a haze of smoke in the Central Valley that Sacramento County health officials advised residents to avoid outdoor activities for the entire week.

Another blaze that ignited last week has damaged a historic Northern California resort in the Stanislaus National Forest.

The nearly century-old Dardanelle Resort has sustained massive structural damage, though the details were unclear, the Sacramento Bee newspaper reported.

The rustic lodge 180 miles (290 kilometers) east of San Francisco is nestled in the Sierra Nevada mountains and offers cabin and motel rentals along with RV sites, a store and restaurant.

The U.S. Forest Service reported that the fire crossed a highway Sunday evening, forcing crews to retreat from the fire’s edge.

The resort owners said in a Facebook post that “at this point it has been confirmed that there is ‘massive structural damage.’ We are heartbroken and struggling with this news.”

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Around the Peninsula

Harvest Moon Festival vendor applications open 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.

Charles Grabowski

Nikiski Recreation Center activities

Soldotna resident Mr. Charles Grabowski, 73, died Sunday, August 5, 2018 at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna.

Private services will be held at a later date.

Arrangements made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel & Crematory.

— Cardboard and duct tape challenge: Gather your team together and build a boat out of cardboard and duct tape and race it across the pool! Prizes for winners. Registration deadline for this event will be Aug. 10 and this exciting event will be held on Monday, Aug. 13 beginning at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 7768800.

— Nikiski Recreation is hosting Strong by Zumba classes on Mondays and Thursdays from 9:30-10:30 a.m. For more information or to register call 776-8800.

— Open registration for swim lessons is ongoing at the Nikiski Pool. Lesson registration will be available for beginners, advanced beginners, intermediates, tiny tots and semi-private lessons. For Kenai Senior Center activities more information, call 776-8800.

— The Nikiski Community Recreation Center will be hosting —Aug. 7, 12:30–4 p.m.:.. Mystery Drive. $5 ride fee.

Yoga in the park beginning in May. Come join instructor Lacey —Aug. 8, 11:30 a.m.: Presentation by Access Alaska. $7 sugStock at 10 a.m on Wednesdays for this FREE reviving class. gested donation.

—NCRC Open Gym Nights: Teen Center, Monday—Friday, —Aug. 13, 4:30 p.m.: No-host dinner to Stop-n-go in Nikiski.

2:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Full Swing Golf, Monday—Friday. 10 a.m.-8 $3 ride fee ≠ your dinner p.m.

—Aug. 16, 10:30 a.m.: Old Timer’s Luncheon, $7 suggested donation —Aug. 17, 1–6:30 p.m. (ish): Ninilchik Fair. $15.

Salmon Run Series to take off

Service announcement Steve “Butch” Butler A memorial service for Steve “Butch” Butler will be held at the Kenai Cemetery at 2 p.m. Friday.

Community Calendar Today 8 a.m.

• Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 398-9440.

• Alcoholics Anonymous Unity Group, 35260 Kenai Spur Highway.

9:30 a.m.

• Aqua Zumba classes held at the Nikiski Pool.

10 a.m.

• Full Swing Golf is held until 8 p.m. at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center.

10:30 a.m.

• Take Off Pounds Sensibly, for all ages, meets at the Kenai Senior Center. For more information call 907-283-3451.

• Toddler Story Time (18 Months-PreK) in the Children’s Area at the Soldotna Public Library. Get up and get moving with stories, songs, and silly fun that encourages your toddler’s language skills! For more information, call 907-262-4227.

• Wee Read Story Time: Designed for children ages 0-3. Enjoy a program full of stories, songs, finger play and more at the Kenai Community Library. No registration required.

11 a.m.

• Tot Time is held until 12:30 p.m. at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center.

11:30 a.m.

• Wise Elders Living Longer exercise (W.E.L.L.). Call instructor Mary Olson at 907-776-3745 for details. Held at the Nikiski Pool. Come join them!

Noon • Overeaters anonymous, a 12-step program for eating disorders, meets Tuesdays from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. at the Soldotna United Methodist church, 158 S. Binkley St. For more information, call Chris at 322-2778.

• Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 110 South Spruce Street at St. Francis by the Sea in Kenai.

• Alcoholics Anonymous Unity Group, 35260 Kenai Spur Highway.

2:30 p.m.

• The Teen Center is open until 8 p.m. at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center.

4 p.m.

• LEGO Club (Ages 6 and up) on Tuesdays in the Community Room at the Soldotna Library. Tell your stories and build your world with Legos. Bring a friend with you and let your imagination go wild. Adult supervision needed for those under the age of 10.

• Chess Club at the Kenai Community Library. Get ready to rook the house. The Kenai Community Library is proud to offer a casual program for chess players of all ages and levels. Chess boards will be provided.

5 p.m.

• Board game night in the Conference room at the Soldotna Public Library. Call 262-4227.

6 p.m.

• Weight Watchers, Woodruef Building, 155 Smith Way, Soldotna. Doors open at 5:15; joining members should arrive by 5:30; Getting Started session for newcomers at 6:30. Call 907262-4892.

• ICAN (International Cesarean Awareness Network) meets in Old Town Kenai. Contact Niki at 394-9166 for directions. Kids are welcome at this potluck type event.

• Women’s basketball open gym at Nikiski Community Rec Center.

6:30 p.m.

• Narcotics Anonymous “Speaking of Solutions” group at Central Peninsula Hospital, Redoubt Room, Soldotna.

• Kenai River Rotary meets at Froso’s Restaurant in Soldotna.

7 p.m.

• Lost & Found Grief Self Help Group at Christ Lutheran Church, 128 Soldotna Ave. For more information, call 907-4203979.

• AA North Roaders Group Step and Traditions Study at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 907398-0670.

• Alcoholics Anonymous open meeting, at Funny River Community Lutheran Church, on Rabbit Run Road.

• Alcoholics Anonymous Ninichik support group at United Methodist Church, 15811 Sterling Highway, Ninilchik. Call 907567-3574.

8 p.m.

• Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “It works” at URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai.

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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The Salmon Run Series includes 5 weeks of 5K races on the Tsalteshi Trails behind Skyview Middle School from July 11–Aug. 8. Registration begins at 5 p.m., a 1K race for kids at 6 p.m. followed by the adults’ 5K race. Adult registration is available for the entire series or for individual races on the Kenai Watershed Forum’s website. Registration for the kids’ races is on-site only. All proceeds go to the benefit the Kenai Watershed Forum. For more information, visit kenaiwatershed.org or call Tami at 260-5449.

Purple Heart Day event to come to Soldotna The Kenai Peninsula Chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart will hold an ceremony honoring Kenai Peninsula Purple Heart recipients at Soldotna Creek Park’s Purple Heart Monument on Tuesday, Aug. 7 at 2 p.m. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Sen. Peter Micciche and Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs Deputy Commissioner Doehl are scheduled to give remarks, with the Soldotna VFW Color Guard presenting the colors, offering a 21-gun salute and sounding the TAPS. For more information, contact Jim at 980-5433.

Disabled American Veterans event

Grief recovery methods workshop available Peninsula Community Health Services will host a nine-week program on “The Grief Recovery Method Workshop: The action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce and Other Losses” on Wednesday evenings from 6–9 p.m. from Aug. 29–Oct. 24.

The program is a closed group that meets at Peninsula Community Health Services in Soldotna at 230 E. Marydale Ave. The program costs $95, and there are scholarships available. To register or for futher information, call Gail Kennedy at 602-9944.

Edward Jones financial advisors to host coffee club Josselyn O’Connor and Nolan Rose, local Edward Jones financial advisors, will host a coffee club at 1–2 p.m. on August 8 at Ninilchik Senior Center in Ninilchik. At the meeting, they will discuss market conditions. For mor einformation, call Josselyn O’Connor at 262-6336.

Soldotna Elementary School registration

New student registration for Soldotna Elementary School will A Department Service Officer for the Disabled American Veter- be held 8:30 a,m, to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 9 ans organization will be providing free, professional assistance to and 10. Class lists will be posted at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17. 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 1968 Kenai Central High School 50-year p.m. Please call 907-257-7426 to get an appointment or just walk class reunion in.

The event starts at 5 p.m. on Aug. 17 at Paradiso’s in Kenai, with dinner orders at 6 p.m. Price range is $25–28, plus drinks if deCaregiver support group to meet sired. On Saturday, Aug. 18, the event will continue at the Soldotna The Caregiver Support Group will meet Tuesday, Aug. 7, 1 p.m. Regional Sports Complex on Kalifornsky Beach Road from 6–11 at the Sterling Senior Center. The topic will be “Part 1 Training p.m with a potluck with soft drinks if desired, a catered bar and live DVD from The Pines of Sarasota Education and Training Institute” music. All classes are welcome. There is a $10 cost per persn at the as we learn from dementia expert Teepa Snow about “Designing a door Saturday. For more information call 394-1850.

Supportive Dementia Care Environment.” Please join to share experiences as a caregiver, or to support someone who is a caregiver. Pickleball tournament Call Sharon or Judy at (907) 262-1280 for more information.

The Second Annual Kenai River Pickleball Tournament will be held on August 25 at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. This Kenai National Wildlife Refuge activities is a round robin tournament with a single elimination finals bracket.

The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center is open ev- There will be three skill divisions that include Advanced (4.0-5.0), ery day from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. on Ski Hill Road near Soldotna. For Intermediate (3.5), and Novice (2.0-3.0). This is an non-sanctioned tournament but USAPA rules will be used. Women’s doubles tourmore information, call 260-2820.

—Discovery hikes, Fridays at 1 p.m. Aug. 3, Marsh Lake Trail; nament will be from 8:00 am to noon and the Men’s Doubles Tournament will be 1– 5 p.m. For more information or to register visit Aug. 10, Upper Kenai River Trail.

—Daily wildlife movies at the visitors center. 11 a.m., noon and www.soldotna.org or call 907-714-1211.

2 p.m.—Refuge film, 1 p.m.—Raptor force, 3 p.m.— Moose: Life of a twig eater —Aug. 8 — Nature through the camer lans — Capture the Kenaitze Early Childhood Center accepting season in photos during this short guided nature walk. The walk goes from 2–3 pm., with an art project from 3–4 p.m. Pre-registra- applications tion is required: call 260-2820.

The Kenaitze Indian Tribe’s Early Childhood Center is accept—Aug. 18 — Wild Berry fun day — Drop in for ID walks, ing applications for the Early Head Start and Head Start preschool indoor exploration stations and kids crafts. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. programs for the upcoming school year. Early Head Start is a no—Aug. 25 — Tale of Two Cabins — Hear stories of life fee, home-based program serving pregnant mothers, infants and one the Kenai and explore two renovated log cabins from the 1920s toddlers up to age 3. Early Head Start staff schedule weekday home and 1940s. Easy, short walk on a gravel path. 2 p.m. visits year-round. Head Start/Alaska Native Education Preschool —Sept. 1— Cuba’s endemic birds— Guides speaker Er- is a no-fee, classroom program for children age 3 or 4 by Sept. 1. nesto Reyes. 2 p.m.

Head Start preschool classes run from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday–Thursday at the Early Childhood Center during the school year. Early Head Start and Head Start services are open to Native HAVE-Alaska dinner/fundraiser/live music and non-Native children, regardless of household income. School HAVE-Alaska, an Alaska-based nonprofit dedicated to promot- tours are always available and staff is available to answer any quesing the physical and psychological rehabilitation of American Vet- tions may have about enrolling a child in the program. Applications erans injured in service to our country through outdoor activities are available at many community locations, as well as the Early and travel, will host a dinner/fundraiser event at the Kenai Elks Childhood Center, 130 North Willow Street in Kenai, and on the Lodge on Aug. 25 from 5–9 p.m. All proceeds will go to our 2019 Kenaitze Indian Tribe’s website, www.kenaitze.org.

Veteran events. All money is used in Alaska for Alaska events.

For more information, please contact the main line at 335-7260.

Tickets are $30.

National Night Out event in Kenai looking for volunteers Peninsula Clarion death notice and obituary guidelines: The Peninsula Clarion strives to report the deaths of all current and former Peninsula residents. Notices should be received within three months of the death.

We offer two types of death reports: Pending service/Death notices: Brief notices listing full name, age, date and place of death; and time, date and place of service. These are published at no charge.

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Obituaries are prepared by families, funeral homes, crematoriums, and are edited by our staff according to newspaper guidelines. Obituaries up to 300 words are charged $50, which includes a one-year online guest book memoriam to on Legacy. com. Obituaries up to 500 words are charged $100, which also includes the one-year online guest book memoriam. Tax is not included. All charges include publication of a black and white photo. Obituaries outside these guidelines are handled by the Clarion advertising department.

How to submit: Funeral homes and crematoriums routinely submit completed obituaries to the newspaper. Obituaries may also be submitted directly to the Clarion, online at www.peninsulaclarion.com, or by mail to: Peninsula Clarion, P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, Alaska, 99611. Pre-payment must accompany all submissions not already handled by a funeral home or crematorium.

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The Kenai PAL Club Chapter of the Boys and Girls Club of the Kenai Peninsula will be hosting a National Night Out event on Tuesday, Aug. 7 from 5-8 p.m. at the Kenai Recreation Center and is looking for members of the community who would like to volunteer for this fun event.

National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie. N.P.A.L. Club, (National Police Athletic League), is a sports-oriented club that serves as a youth crime prevention program that uses sports and recreation activities to create trust between police officers and youth.

The event will include barbecue and refreshments, reduced price health physicals for student athletes, carnival games, face painting, cake walk, door prizes, a police obstacle course with McGruff the Crime Dog, public safety demonstrations from police and firefighters, a dunk tank, Alaska’s Wildest Magic with Don Russell, and meet and greet with athletes from the Kenai River Brown Bears hockey team and Kenai River Wolfpack Rugby Club. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Dan Balmer or Kim Dent at 907 283-2682 or email kdent@positiveplaceforkids.com

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What Others Say

If the president wants to talk, let him talk If there’s one thing we know

about Donald Trump, it’s that he’s a people person. On Monday he said he’d “certainly meet” with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani if the Iranian leader was interested.

With that meeting, we will have run out of “Axis of Evil” heads of state with whom President Trump can press the flesh.

The president declared that he’d meet with the Iranian “anytime they want to.”

“I’ll meet with anybody,” he said. “There’s nothing wrong with meeting.”

For his willingness to enter into a confab with just about anybody, President Trump has taken fire from critics from both sides of the aisle. Indeed, Barack Obama was lambasted by Hillary Clinton for suggesting that he’d negotiate with Iran without conditions.

President Trump does not care for the established political protocol in such matters and will do what he will do.

It is fair to assess that Trump the businessman built his success on establishing good relationships. To build a skyscraper in New York City, he would have had to negotiate with city officials, organized labor, vendors, interest groups and any number of factions in order to move the project forward.

Trump’s style is not that of a statesman because he is not a statesman. The people elected Donald Trump, so why not let him be Donald Trump.

He is the president, and if he wants to talk with foreign leaders we should let him. There is little risk. Trump is anomalous and his term will always be treated as such. Chances are, the next man or woman to be elected president will be a standard-issue politician and they can do things the old way if the Trump way doesn’t work out.

If he wants to talk to people, let him talk to people.

—Boston Herald, Aug. 1, 2018

Classic Doonesbury, 1990

By GARRY TRUDEAU

The Matrix at 20

Next year marks the 20th anniversary of the sci-fi movie classic “The Matrix,” which depicts powerful machines attempting to subdue the human race.

Sometimes art imitates life, and sometimes it’s the other way around. On occasion, art can be prophetic. “The Matrix” is such a film. It warns of a future in which the power and worth of the individual is subsumed into one giant interconnected world run by a tiny elite, who rob individuals of their liberty and ability to think freely.

In his new book, “World without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech” (Penguin Press), Franklin Foer, a national correspondent for The Atlantic and former editor of The New Republic, expands on the film’s warnings. Foer asserts that technology is replacing thought and relationships. He specifically warns of the goals of Google, Facebook, Amazon and other corporate tech giants, charging them with being “monopolists who want access to every facet of our identities and influence over every corner of our decision-making.”

Sometimes employing language that recalls ancient biblical prophecies and the end times foreseen in Revelation, Foer warns these companies eventually want to insert devices in our bodies to allow others to think for us. “Google Glass and the Apple Watch,” he says, “prefigure the day when these companies implant their arti-

ficial intelligence within our bodies.”

How will this be “sold” to the public? Foer writes it will be sold just like any other product or service: “…they justify monopoly with their well-ar- Cal Thomas ticulated belief that competition undermines our pursuit of the common good and ambitions.”

There’s more, much more. “The tech companies are destroying something precious, which is the possibility of contemplation. They have created a world in which we are constantly watched and always distracted. Through their accumulation of data they have constructed a portrait of our minds, which they use to invisibly guide mass behavior (and increasingly individual behavior), to further their financial interests.” This, he believes, is a threat to thought and democracy.

Foer says these tech giants have a vision that supersedes their financial goals. That vision, he says, was hatched in the 1960s (though conceived by the French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes in the 17th century) and includes a world without borders. It is their view that only they can save the world by concentrating

all power in a select few. They see themselves as saviors of the world. In technology they — and we — must trust.

Students of Scripture will immediately think of the “anti-Christ,” who rises to power with the ability to perform miracles and who wins the allegiance of the Earth’s inhabitants; except he might not be a person at all. “He” might be a machine.

In his sobering prologue, Foer writes: “The time has arrived to consider the consequences of these monopolies, to reassert our own role in determining the human path. Once we cross certain thresholds — once we transform the values of institutions, once we abandon privacy — there’s no turning back, no restoring our lost individuality.”

We have been warned before and are now being warned again in Foer’s excellent book. The tech giants openly state their goals. How many are listening?

In the final scene of “The Matrix,” Neo, the lead character and redeemer figure, says: “I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin. … I’m going to show them … a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.”

Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

Skilled workers are the backbone of communities, economy Throughout the course of our daily lives we depend on the skills and services of others. From bookkeepers, nursing aides and security personnel to welders, small engine repair and heavy equipment mechanics, Alaska thrives when there is a dedicated workforce that serves our communities.

You may be surprised to learn that these jobs require some form of postsecondary training, which can be earned through the University of Alaska now at a reduced tuition rate.

UA is cutting tuition on select occupational programs and career and technical education (CTE) courses by 25 percent.

The discount applies to 50 programs and more than 300 courses at all three universities including community campuses.

Eligible programs range from pharmacy technology to welding and mine mechanics; many courses can be taken online to accommodate employed Alaskans looking to refresh skills or embark on a new career.

The university is the No. 1 provider of workforce development programs in the state, and training a skilled workforce to meet the state’s needs is one of UA’s top goals. While UA’s tuition is low compared to peer universities in the western United States, its tuition for CTE programs has been considered to be high compared to community college systems Outside.

By providing a discount for these CTE courses, UA hopes to enroll Alaskans who want to refresh or earn new skills and those who want to return to college to complete a workforce training program.

With excellent faculty throughout the state, the opportunity to prepare for a new career has never been better.

For example, health care is one of the few economic sectors in Alaska that is growing, and future needs extend far beyond more doctors and nurses. Billing and medical coding technicians, medical office receptionists, nurse aides and phlebotomists also are critical positions

V oices of

A laska M ichele S talder that do not require the expense of several years of study. In fact, occupational endorsements in these fields can be earned in as few as 9 credits and include handson training experiences that lead directly to employment opportunities.

Most hands-on careers now require higher skill levels and knowledge of technology. Not just jobs in IT fields – although the discount-eligible Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) training program is a great step through that door – even traditional trade jobs including fishing, mining and automotive repair incorporate new technology and require basic understanding of computers and electronics in addition to traditional trade skills. Modern CTE course work embraces current technological trends and prepares students for today’s trades.

According to projections by the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, by 2020, 65 percent of the jobs in Alaska’s economy will require some post-secondary certificate or degree. The last time this was measured, the rate was just 37 percent, indicating that Alaska’s economy is changing and the demand for advanced skilled labor is increasing. But as these highly compact occupational endorsement programs prove, it’s not about getting any credential, it’s about getting the right credential for the work that is desired and available.

In order to incorporate new technologies into traditional technical career programs, the university partners with businesses around the state. The university is working closely with industry councils

and work teams to develop nimble training programs that meet evolving industry standards and produce the right number of skilled graduates to satisfy employers’ needs.

The university also is adapting programs to work with the technology and lifestyles of students in a technologically advanced world by offering more courses online and incorporating apprenticeship models for training to allow students to ‘earn while they learn’ and make school more affordable. Campuses are working together closely to avoid unnecessary duplication of programs as well as simplify the navigation process for students throughout the university system.

Anyone interested can find a complete list of eligible courses and programs at www.alaska.edu/starthere/cte. The university’s tuition reduction will be applied at the time of registration on a course-bycourse basis. For example, for most locations, tuition is $212 per credit, so the applied reduction is $53 per credit. There is no reduction to assessed fees, surcharges or other costs.

College life and a four-year degree isn’t for everyone, but career and technical training after high school is expected to be the trend for many jobs in the future. The University of Alaska is the place to go for this training. If UA can prepare Alaskans for these jobs, Alaskans will fill them. Otherwise, skilled employees will be hired from outside the state.

It’s a great time to get more for less, and the university wants to help Alaskans prepare for a profitable future. Anyone wanting to register for fall classes should do so before registration closes on September 7. We hope to see you on a UA campus this fall!

Michele Stalder is the dean of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Community and Technical College. Its purpose is preparing workforce-ready graduates and community-driven education.

Nation Trump changes story on meeting

By JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Donald Trump appears to have changed his story about a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that is pivotal to the special counsel’s investigation, tweeting that his son met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer to collect information about his political opponent.

“Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower,” Trump wrote in a Sunday tweet. “This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!”

That is a far different explanation than Trump gave 13 months ago, when a statement dictated by the president but released under the name of Donald Trump Jr., read: “We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago.”

The misdirection came amid a series of searing tweets sent from his New Jersey golf club, in which he tore into two of his favorite targets, the news media and Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation into possible links between the president’s campaign and Russia. Trump

unleashed particular fury at reports that he was anxious about the Trump Tower meeting attended by Donald Trump Jr. and other senior campaign officials.

Trump’s critics immediately pounced on the new story, the latest of several versions of events about a meeting for which emails were discovered between the president’s eldest son and an intermediary from the Russian government offering damaging information about Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton. Betraying no surprise or misgivings about the offer from a hostile foreign power, Trump Jr. replied: “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.”

Sunday’s tweet was Trump’s clearest statement yet on the purpose of the meeting, which has become a focal point of Mueller’s investigation even as the president and his lawyers try to downplay its significance and pummel the Mueller probe with attacks. On Sunday, Trump again suggested without evidence that Mueller was biased against him, declaring, “This is the most one sided Witch Hunt in the history of our country.”

And as Trump and his allies have tried to discredit the probe, a new talking point has emerged: that even if that meeting was held to collect damaging information, none was provided and “collusion” — Trump’s go-to description of

what Mueller is investigating — never occurred.

“The question is what law, statute or rule or regulation has been violated, and nobody has pointed to one,” said Jay Sekulow, one of Trump’s attorneys, on ABC’s “This Week.”

But legal experts have pointed out several possible criminal charges, including conspiracy against the United States and aiding and abetting a conspiracy.

Federal campaign finance law makes it illegal for a campaign to accept a “thing of value,” such as a financial contribution, from foreign nationals. Opposition research could be counted by investigators as a “thing of value,” experts have said.

Opposition research — collecting information on an opponent — is not illegal and is a common practice in political campaigns.

But “willfully soliciting a foreign contribution is a crime,” Rick Hasen, a campaign finance expert and law professor at the University of California, Irvine, said in an email Monday. “You have to know you are doing something illegal and the courts would have to consider the opposition research from Russian agents a “thing of value” for campaign finance purposes.”

Beyond any criminal implications, a meeting such as the Trump Tower one would be of interest for counterintelligence reasons as investigators try to

understand foreign efforts to penetrate an American campaign or sway public policy.

And despite Trump’s public Twitter denial, the president has expressed worry that his son may face legal exposure even as he believes he did nothing wrong, according to three people close to the White House familiar with the president’s thinking but not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.

Sekulow acknowledged that the public explanation for the meeting has changed but insisted that the White House has been very clear with the special counsel’s office. He said he was not aware of Trump Jr. facing any legal exposure.

“I don’t represent Don Jr.,” Sekulow said, “but I will tell you I have no knowledge at all of Don Jr. being told that he’s a target of any investigation, and I have no knowledge of him being interviewed by the special counsel.”

Democrats hammered away at the president’s admission.

“The Russians offered damaging info on your opponent.

Your campaign accepted. And the Russians delivered,” tweeted Rep. Adam Schiff, top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. “You then misled the country about the purpose of the Trump Tower meeting when it became public. Now you say you didn’t know in advance. None of this is normal or credible.”

Oregon police review use of force at protest

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press

SALEM, Ore. — Portland police were accused Sunday of being heavy-handed against people protesting a rally by extreme-right demonstrators, reportedly injuring some counter-protesters and prompting the city’s new police chief to order a review of officers’ use of force.

Police in riot gear tried to keep the two groups apart, many of whom had come on Saturday dressed for battle in helmets and protective clothing. Dozens of the extremeright protesters were bussed to Portland, one of America’s most liberal cities, from nearby Vancouver, Washington.

Saturday’s clashes were the most recent of several this year in the city as right-wing militants converged, met by counter-protesters, including members of anti-fascist, or “antifa,” groups. City officials have struggled with striking a balance between free speech and keeping events from spiraling out of control.

But on Saturday, some said police seemed to act mostly against those protesting the presence of the extreme-right demonstrators, using stun grenades and what appeared to be rubber bullets against them.

Police “targeted Portland residents peacefully counter-

protesting against racist farright groups, including white supremacists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazi gangs,” the Oregon chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Portland chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America said in a statement. It called on officials to investigate.

The head of the Oregon branch of the American Civil Liberties Union also criticized the way the Portland Police Bureau handled the demonstrations.

“The Portland Police Bureau’s response to protest is completely unacceptable in a free society,” David Rogers said in a statement issued Sunday night. “The repeated use of excessive force, and the targeting of demonstrators based on political beliefs are a danger to the First Amendment rights of all people. We call on the Portland Police Bureau, Mayor Wheeler, and Chief Outlaw to immediately end the use of weapons, munitions, and explosives against protesters.”

Police ordered the counter-protesters to disperse, then moved in behind a volley of stun grenades. One of the rounds reportedly hit a counter-protester in the head, becoming embedded in his helmet and injuring him. One woman was taken to a hospital after being hit in the arm and chest with a “flash-bang”

Police deploy flash bang grenades during a rally in Portland, Ore., Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018. (AP Photo/John Rudoff)

grenade, local media reported.

The blasts echoed through downtown Portland.

Four people were arrested.

Police Chief Danielle Outlaw, who assumed command less than a year ago as Portland’s first African-American female police chief, said in a statement Sunday she takes all use-of-force cases seriously.

Outlaw directed the professional standards division to begin gathering evidence to determine if the force used was within policy and training guidelines. The Office of Independent Police Review will be provided with the information for review and investigation.

Saturday’s incidents started with demonstrators aligned with Patriot Prayer and an affiliated group, the Proud Boys,

gathering in a riverfront park.

The Proud Boys has been characterized as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is “dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society.”

Hundreds of counter-demonstrators faced them from across the street, holding banners and signs with messages such as “Alt right scum not welcome in Portland.” Some chanted “Nazis go home.”

Officers stood in the middle of a four-lane boulevard, essentially forming a wall to keep the two sides separated.

The counter-protesters were made up of a coalition of labor unions, immigrant rights advocates, democratic socialists and other groups.

Kids found in rags in New Mexico compound

By MARY HUDETZ and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A raid on a New Mexico desert compound turned up 11 children wearing rags and living in filth, and also broke open a bizarre tale of guns, exorcism, and a search for a missing young boy who suffers from seizures and is nowhere to be found.

The boy’s father was among five people arrested after the raid near the border with Colorado. Documents made public in a court filing Monday said the father told the boy’s mother before fleeing Georgia that he wanted to perform an exorcism on the child because he believed he was possessed by the devil.

Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said deputies arrested the father, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, and four other adults on child abuse charges after finding the 11 children Friday inside a makeshift compound in the tiny community of Amalia, near the Colorado border. It was littered with “odorous trash” and lack-

ing clean water, authorities said.

Inside, Wahhaj, 39, was found heavily armed with multiple firearms, including a loaded AR-15, before he was taken into custody, the sheriff said.

His son, Abdul-ghani, who was 3 when he disappeared last December, was not among the children found. But Hogrefe said authorities have reason to believe the boy was at the compound several weeks ago.

Hogrefe’s deputies are searching for the child, along with the FBI and Georgia authorities in Clayton County, where officials say the boy was living before his father took him around Dec. 1, 2017.

The boy’s mother told authorities the boy suffers from seizures, cannot walk because of severe medical issues, and requires constant attention.

She told police in December that Wahhaj had taken the boy for a trip to a park and never returned.

Clayton County police said in a missing persons bulletin that Wahhaj and his son were last seen Dec. 13 in Alabama,

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Around the Nation Congress watchdog: Border wall may cost more, take longer SAN DIEGO — The Trump administration’s plans to erect hundreds of miles of border barriers with Mexico fails to adequately consider costs, a congressional watchdog agency said Monday, potentially raising the price and creating delays.

The administration has estimated it will cost $18 billion for 722 miles (1162 kilometers) of barriers but that was based on an average cost per mile. The Government Accountability Office said costs can vary considerably based on the slope and topography, land acquisition costs and other factors.

Without more information, the Department of Homeland Security “faces an increased risk that the Border Wall System Program will cost more than projected, take longer than planned, or not fully perform as expected,” the GAO wrote.

Customs and Border Protection, an agency within Homeland Security, “does not have complete information to determine whether it is using limited resources in the most cost-effective manner and does not have important cost information that would help it develop future budget requests,” the report continues.

Homeland Security official Jim Crumpacker, in a response included as an appendix to the GAO report, said authorities are “following best practices in evaluating costs, budget, and financial impact of border segments.” He said financial costs were considered after an operational assessment of where walls were most needed.

Katie Waldman, a Homeland Security Department spokeswoman, said walls have proven “extremely effective.”

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat and ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee who requested the report, said, “In moving too fast, they have ignored necessary and established acquisitions protocols and plan to build a multibillion-dollar border wall where their own analysis shows it is not a priority. To be blunt, this Administration has no clue what it is doing and must be held accountable.”

Lemonade stand robber on the run; DNA could help track him MONROE, N.C. — A teenager who held up a North Carolina lemonade stand for $17 was still at large Monday, and authorities said they hoped to track him through surveillance footage and possible DNA and fingerprint tests.

Neighbors were asked to check their home security cameras for possible clues, said Union County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Tony Underwood. He said a camouflage hat and BB pistol found along with a metal cash box was found in some nearby woods and could be checked for fingerprints and DNA. The 9-year-old lemonade vendor said a teenager wearing a similar hat and a black shirt pointed a black handgun at him and took his cash box Saturday afternoon in Monroe, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of Charlotte.

“We think we are making positive traction” in the investigation, Underwood said.

Neighbor Kelly Smith said she noticed the boy’s stand with its yellow sign offering “organic lemonade” at a traffic roundabout at the entrance to her planned community as she left to pick up her daughter at taekwondo class. She said she intended on patronizing the boy’s business when she returned, only to find him gone and a half-dozen patrol cars on her street.

“It’s heart-wrenching. That little boy will never be the same,” Smith said.

Smith said she suspects the robber may be from her neighborhood because there are no stores or much of anything else nearby.

Local resident James Castellano said he bought a drink from the boy Saturday morning and snagged one of the young entrepreneur’s business cards. The boy’s card describes him as an “organic lemonade stand operator, designer, dog walker, reptile caregiver, lawn mower, professional ring bearer.”

The 9-year-old set up his lemonade stand again at the neighborhood pool on Sunday and did a brisk business, Smith said.

Louisiana to hunters: Deer urine lures might spread disease BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana wildlife officials are cautioning hunters that deer urine lures might carry malformed proteins that can spread a fatal brain infection called chronic wasting disease.

Seven states — Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Virginia — have banned such lures, which are used to attract deer, a Department of Wildlife and Fisheries news release Friday noted.

The infectious disease is spread by malformed proteins called prions. It has been found in most deer species, including moose, elk, mule deer and white-tailed deer, and in 25 states and two Canadian provinces.

Dozens of companies sell deer urine lures.

“There is no rapid, cost effective test to determine if commercial urine contains prions,” said the agency’s veterinarian, Dr. Jim LaCour.

Prions can be found in an infected deer’s saliva, feces, urine, blood and antler velvet, and can be shed during the year or two before symptoms show.

The lures are made by collecting captive animals’ urine through grates. The agency says that allows mixing with saliva and feces, which typically hold more prions than urine.

The agency’s statement says no state or federal agency regulates urine production and sale.

So far, the disease hasn’t shown up in Louisiana. Wildllife and Fisheries has tested 9,000 deer since 2002.

Wells Fargo: Mistake contributed to hundreds of foreclosures This Aug. 5, 2018 photo shows a “no trespassing” sign outside the location where people camped near Amalia, N.M. (Jesse Moya/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP)

traveling with five other children and two adults.

Georgia authorities said Wahhaj was traveling through Chilton County on Dec. 13 with seven children and another adult when their car overturned.

Wahhaj told police the group was traveling from Georgia to New Mexico to go camping.

The trooper who wrote the report said he found no camping equipment in or near the vehicle

but that Wahhaj was in possession of three handguns, two rifles, a bag of ammunition, and a bulletproof vest. Wahhaj told the trooper that he owned the guns legally and had a Georgia permit to carry concealed weapons.

“Mr. Wahhaj seemed to be very concerned about his weapons and stated several times that they were his property and that he owned them legally,” the report said.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Wells Fargo says a company mistake contributed to hundreds of foreclosures because it miscalculated customers’ eligibility for mortgage modifications.

The bank said in a filing Friday the error caused about 625 customers to be denied, or not offered, loan modifications they otherwise qualified for. Foreclosures were completed in about 400 of the cases.

The customers had been using federal programs that helped families at risk of losing homes. Spokesman Tom Goyda says there’s no breakdown of where the foreclosures occurred.

The error in the bank’s underwriting tool lasted from 2010 until it was fixed in late 2015, an internal review found.

The bank said it set aside $8 million this year to help the affected customers.

With its main corporate office in San Francisco, the bank employs thousands in Charlotte.

–The Associated Press

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Maduro supporters rally after attack

By SCOTT SMITH and CHRISTINE ARMARIO Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Pro-government factions mobilized thousands of Venezuelans dressed in red — the color of the ruling socialist party — onto the streets of the capital on Monday in a bid to show the country remains united around President Nicolas Maduro after what the government described as a thwarted assassination attempt.

“This river of red,” Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza declared as the crowd waved flags and carried posters with Maduro’s image. “It could have been another red running through these streets.”

Authorities say they have now captured all those behind the attack using two drones armed with explosives. The names of those detained have not been released, but chief prosecutor Tarek William Saab said the six people arrested could face charges including treason, attempted homicide and terrorism.

“They need to pay the penalty Venezuela’s law calls for,” Diosdado Cabello, a high-ranking socialist party leader, told the crowd of thousands. “There won’t be any more forgiveness.”

Public employees are required to attend such progovernment rallies to ensure a strong show of support.

Yet, even as Venezuelan leaders sought to project a nation united behind Maduro, analysts warned the incident makes the already unpopular leader even more vulnerable as he struggles to reverse a crippling humanitarian and economic crisis considered worse than the Great Depression.

Diego Moya-Ocampos, a Venezuelan analyst with the London-based consulting firm IHS Markit, warned Saturday’s failed attack could be a sign that low-level insurgent groups that have in the past expressed their frustration by throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at the National Guard during protests are now escalating to a more violent approach.

“This is a manifestation of institutions not being able to channel the political, economic and social crisis that Venezuela is going through,” he said.

Maduro was addressing hundreds of uniformed soldiers Saturday in a speech celebrating the 81st anniversary of the National Guard when an explosion pierced the air. Authorities say two drones, each packed with a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of C-4 plastic explosive, were aimed at the stage

EU ready to protect European firms from US sanctions on Iran

A supporter Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro holds up an image of him outside Miraflores presidential palace during a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Aug. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/ Ariana Cubillos)

where Maduro, his wife and a slate of the nation’s highestranking government leaders were gathered.

The military managed to knock one of the drones off course electronically and the other craft crashed into an apartment building two blocks away.

Images captured on live television showed Maduro and his wife looking up at the sky as the explosion struck and then hundreds of soldiers scrambling from the scene, an image of panic in stark contrast to the one of power and control the government tries to project.

Saab said Monday that two suspects were detained quickly on Saturday after witnesses saw them operating one of the drones from a vehicle. He added that there was evidence that the attack was linked to an ongoing investigating related to a “terrorist attack” last year.

The comment appeared to be a reference to rogue police officer Oscar Perez, who flew a stolen helicopter over the capital in June 2017 and launched grenades at several government buildings. He and several comrades were killed in a gun battle with police after months on the lam.

Yemen: US allies strike deals with al-Qaida

By MAGGIE MICHAEL, TRISH WILSON and LEE KEATH Associated Press

ATAQ, Yemen — A military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the United States has cut secret deals with al-Qaida fighters, paying some to leave key cities and towns the militants had seized across Yemen and letting others retreat with weapons, equipment and wads of looted cash, an investigation by The Associated Press has found. Hundreds more were recruited to join the coalition itself.

Again and again over the past two years, the coalition has claimed to win decisive victories that drove al-Qaida militants from their strongholds and shattered their ability to attack the West. What the victors didn’t disclose: many of those conquests came without firing a shot.

The compromises and alliances have allowed al-Qaida militants to survive to fight another day — and risk strengthening the most dangerous

branch of the terror network that carried out the 9/11 attacks.

Key participants in the pacts said the U.S. was aware of the arrangements and held off on any drone strikes as the al-Qaida fighters retreated in plain sight.

The AP’s findings are based on reporting in Yemen and interviews with two dozen officials, including Yemeni security officers, militia commanders, tribal mediators and four members of al-Qaida’s branch. All but a few of those sources spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing reprisals.

Emirati-backed factions, like most armed groups in Yemen, have been accused of abducting or killing their critics.

The deals uncovered by the AP reflect the contradictory interests of the two wars being waged simultaneously in this southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula.

In one conflict, the U.S. is working with its Arab allies — particularly the United Arab Emirates — with the

KIEV, Ukraine — After attackers charged into a Roma encampment on the outskirts of Kiev, beating the residents and chasing them away, a leader of an ultranationalist group posted photos of his colleagues clearing the site and burning tents left behind.

The camp’s former dwellers took off “after persuasive legal arguments,” Serhiy Mazur, an activist with the C14 organization, wrote on Facebook. Mazur added: “Further raids are planned.”

The April attack was the first of 11 forced removals that ultranationalists in Ukraine have carried out this year at settlements of Roma. Radical nationalist groups claimed responsibility for all of the raids and asserted they acted in concert with police. Police deny involvement.

“We were called garbage and dirt, kicked and driven off,” Aza Rustik, who fled during the first raid, said. “I just managed to grab the children and a bag with documents.”

During an especially vicious assault in a wooded area in western Ukraine, a gang armed with chains and pieces of metal pipe killed a 23-year-old man and injured four others outside the city of Lviv.

After the April camp invasion, C14’s Mazur was charged with hooliganism. Two lawmakers spoke on his behalf, and

he was released to await trial under house arrest.

“I would like to hear from the police and the neighborhood administrative officials, who many times asked us for help,” he said when he appeared in court last month.

The attacks and the prospect of more violence are terrifying to Ukraine’s estimated 100,000 Roma.

“They threw stones at us, and when we jumped out of the tent, they beat us indiscriminately,” recalled Klara Gaga, a survivor of the fatal attack outside Lviv.

Four suspects were detained in the Lviv attack. Twelve people also were detained after Roma had guns fired at them in Ternopil; the suspects subsequently were released.

“Not a single person has been sentenced in attacks on the Roma in Ukraine. That illustrates better than any words the attitude of the authorities,” Zola Kondur, a leader of Roma organization Chiricli, said.

Representatives of extremist groups justify the actions by saying they liquidate illegal Roma settlements because authorities have not. Right-wing nationalist groups such as C14 have seen their popularity and power grow in recent years amid Ukraine’s confrontations with Russia and corruptionriddled domestic politics.

“State institutions are weak, the police are ineffective and the government is forced to resort more and more to the services of

BRUSSELS — The European Union on Monday said that new measures are ready to take effect to protect European businesses from the impact of U.S. sanctions on Iran.

The measures also aim to save the agreement meant to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions after the U.S abandoned the pact. The EU insists the deal is important for global security and is trying to keep economic and financial supply lines to Tehran open.

The EU’s executive Commission said Monday that the “blocking statute” will take effect beginning at midnight Washington time (0400 GMT Tuesday).

The mechanism stops European companies from complying with the U.S. sanctions unless they have authorization from the Commission. National governments could impose “effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties” on any of their companies that cave in.

The statute also blocks the effects of U.S. court actions in Europe and allows European firms to recover damages arising from the sanctions from anyone who causes them.

In a statement, the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany — the European guarantors of the Iran nuclear deal — together with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said “we deeply regret the re-imposition of sanctions by the U.S.” They said the deal “is working and delivering on its goal” and that “we are determined to protect European economic operators engaged in legitimate business with Iran.”

U.S. President Donald Trump decided in May to pull out of the U.N. Security Council-sanctioned agreement, saying it did nothing to stop Iran developing missiles or destabilizing the Middle East and Gulf regions. The Europeans argue that it was only ever meant to curb the development of nuclear weapons.

A first set of U.S. sanctions that had been eased by the Obama administration under the terms of the landmark 2015 deal take effect again late Monday. Those sanctions target Iran’s automotive sector as well as gold and other metals, but EU officials say it remains unclear exactly what impact they will have on European companies.

Sen. Rand Paul invites Russian lawmakers to Washington MOSCOW — A United States senator who met with Russian lawmakers in Moscow said he invited them to visit Washington and they accepted Monday.

Sen. Rand Paul said during a trip to Russia that American and Russian legislators need closer contact, noting that “our biggest problem right now is no dialogue.”

The Kentucky Republican said after meeting with members of the foreign affairs committee for Russia’s upper house of parliament that he invited them to come to the U.S. capital. Paul added that lawmakers from the two countries could also meet in a neutral third nation.

“Those who believe in either country that we should not have diplomacy are greatly mistaken,” he said.

Konstantin Kosachev, the head of the foreign affairs committee in the Federation Council, the upper house, strongly backed Paul’s effort to promote contacts.

– The Associated Press

Coalition-backed fighters advance on Yemen’s Red Sea port town of Mocha in this Jan. 11 2017, photo. (AP Photo)

aim of eliminating the extremists known as Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP. But the larger mission is to win the civil war against the Houthis, Iranian-backed Shiite rebels. In that fight, al-Qaida is effectively on the same side as the coalition — and, by extension, the United States.

The U.S. has sent the coalition billions of dollars in weapons to fight the Houthis, and American jets provide air-to-

air refueling for coalition war planes. The U.S. does not fund the coalition, however, and there is no evidence that American money went to AQAP militants.

“Elements of the U.S. military are clearly aware that much of what the U.S. is doing in Yemen is aiding AQAP and there is much angst about that,” said Michael Horton, a fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, a U.S. analysis group that tracks terrorism.

Ukraine’s Roma live in fear of nationalist attacks

By YURAS KARMANAU and EVGENY MALOLETKA Associated Press

Around the World

In this photo taken on Monday, June 4, 2018 and provided by OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine Press Service, Roma people walk inside a Roma encampment on the outskirts of Uzhgorod, western Ukraine. (Evgeniy Malolletka,OSCE Project Co-ordinator Press Service via AP)

right-wing groups, giving them a carte blanche in return,” said Vadim Karasev, director of independent Kiev-based think tank Institute of Global Strategies.

Arthur Sokolov, who is the lead investigator in the Mazur case, rejected the C14 member’s claim that asked the group for help. He said he didn’t know anything about C14 ties with local authorities and police.

“There were no preliminary agreements between the police and other formations,” Sokolov he said in response to a question from The Associated Press about Mazur’s assertion.

But Eugene Savvateev, who for several years was involved in the training and integration of Roma children, alleged that police and the nationalists work together.

Savvateev said he heard from Roma that police drove them away when they returned to the

former camp site to retrieve remaining belongings. They also recalled that C14 members accompanied local officials who visited the camp before it was destroyed, Savvateev said.

“The authorities do not want to dirty their hands, so they use C14,” he said. “Police came to the settlement after the attack to drive Roma away, and after that Roma certainly don’t trust police and believe they work in sync with the attackers.”

Animosity toward Roma — an ethnic group, also known as Gypsies, that faces discrimination and disdain in much of Europe — is high in Ukraine.

Many residents say they resent messy Roma encampments and unsightly fixed settlements such as the Radvanka district in Uzhhorod, where houses made of stones, plywood and polystyrene resemble sheds and children play in piles of garbage.

Today in History Today is Tuesday, Aug. 7, the 219th day of 2018. There are 146 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.

On this date: In 1782, Gen. George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart, a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and noncommissioned officers.

In 1789, the U.S. Department of War was established by Congress.

In 1882, the famous feud between the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky erupted into full-scale violence.

In 1942, U.S. and other allied forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II. (Japanese forces abandoned the island the following February.)

In 1959, the United States launched the Explorer 6 satellite, which sent back images of Earth.

In 1989, a plane carrying U.S. Rep. Mickey Leland, D-Texas, and 14 others disappeared over Ethiopia. (The wreckage of the plane was found six days later; there were no survivors.)

In 1990, President George H.W. Bush ordered U.S. troops and warplanes to Saudi Arabia to guard the oil-rich desert kingdom against a possible invasion by Iraq.

In 1998, terrorist bombs at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.

In 2000, Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore selected Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman as his running mate; Lieberman became the first Jew on a major party’s presidential ticket.

In 2007, San Francisco’s Barry Bonds hit home run No. 756 to break Hank Aaron’s storied record with one out in the fifth inning of a game against the Washington Nationals, who won, 8-6.

In 2010, Elena Kagan was sworn in as the 112th justice and fourth woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Ten years ago: President George W. Bush, speaking in Bangkok, Thailand, praised the spread of freedom in Asia while sharply criticizing oppression and human rights abuses in China, Myanmar and North Korea; the president then traveled to Beijing to attend the opening of the Olympic games.

Five years ago: President Barack Obama’s five-year effort to reboot U.S.-Russian relations crashed as the White House abruptly canceled his planned face-to-face summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. The Major League Baseball Players Association formally appealed Alex Rodriguez’s drug probe suspension, sending the case to an independent arbitrator.

(The suspension was withheld.)

One year ago: Chicago filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s policy of withholding public safety grants from sanctuary cities, which chose to limit cooperation with government enforcement of immigration laws. (A federal appeals court later ruled that the federal government cannot set new conditions to awarding those grants.) Medical examiners said the remains of a man who’d been killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11 had been identified, nearly 16 years after the attacks. An indictment against Damaso Lopez Nunez, a leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, was unsealed by federal prosecutors in Virginia on the same day his son pleaded not guilty to drug charges in federal court in San Diego.

(Lopez, who had been in custody in Mexico, was later extradited to the United States, where he was considered a potential key witness against Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.)

Today’s Birthdays: Magician, author and lecturer James Randi is 90.

Former MLB pitcher Don Larsen is 89. Actress Verna Bloom is 80. Humorist Garrison Keillor is 76. Singer B.J. Thomas is 76. Singer Lana Cantrell is 75. Former FBI Director Robert Mueller is 74. Actor John Glover is 74. Actor David Rasche is 74. Former diplomat, talk show host and activist Alan Keyes is 68. Country singer Rodney Crowell is 68. Actress Caroline Aaron is 66. Comedian Alexei Sayle is 66. Actor Wayne Knight is 63. Rock singer Bruce Dickinson is 60. Marathon runner Alberto Salazar is 60. Actor David Duchovny is 58. Country musician Michael Mahler (Wild Horses) is 57. Actress Delane Matthews is 57. Actor Harold Perrineau is 55. Jazz musician Marcus Roberts is 55. Country singer Raul Malo is 53. Actor David Mann is 52. Actress Charlotte Lewis is 51. Actress Sydney Penny is 47. Actor Greg Serano is 46. Actor Michael Shannon is 44. Actress Charlize Theron (shahr-LEES’ THAYR’-ehn) is 43. Rock musician Barry Kerch (Shinedown) is 42. Actor Eric Johnson is 39. Actor Randy Wayne is 37. Actor-writer Brit Marling is 36. Actor Liam James is 22.

Thought for Today: “You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about -- the more you have left when anything happens.” -- Ethel Barrymore, American actress (1879-1959).

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between your time working in a larger cafe setting, to a small, mobile caravan?

A: It’s a lot different because it’s such a small space, only 80 square feet. I don’t have quite as much storage. I have a menu that’s very simple. Every night I kind of just figure out exactly what I want to do the next day and on my way here I stop by the grocery store and pick up everything I need so it’s all nice and fresh. The difference is it’s very small scale, and the similarity is the people. The people come here and they remember me from Veronica’s and I enjoy it. I enjoy making their tum-

mies smile and happy.

Q: Is this going to be a year-round operation?

A: No. I won’t be open in the winter, and the reason for that is that it’s on a trailer and I don’t think I’ll be winterizing it. I don’t want everything to freeze up. This is just going to be my little summer thing. I’ll try to stay open as long as I can.

Q: Does the location work for you?

A: I’m very excited to be here with Artzy Junkin. I think it’s the perfect fit. I think it’s doing just fine. However, I do have that gypsy spirit and I want to pull it around and go other places. My goal is to move around next summer.

Reach Victoria Petersen at vpetersen@peninsulaclarion. com.

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Police reports n On July 26, Anchorage wildlife troopers cited Karl Deutscher, 34, of Anchorage, for failing to log salmon on his personal use permit as required. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 26, Tok wildlife troopers cited Gary Grant, 54, of Eagle River, for failing to record fish caught during a personal use fishery. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 25, Anchorage wildlife troopers cited Thais Rector, 46, of Anchorage, for failing to record salmon on the personal use permit. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 25, Anchorage wildlife troopers cited Sammilynn Pedro, 54, of Anchorage, for failing to log salmon on the personal use permit as required. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 25, Anchorage wildlife troopers cited Dennis Hixson, 47, of Anchorage, for failing to log salmon on his personal use permit as required. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 25, Anchorage wildlife troopers cited Abbygail Sio, 28, of Anchorage, for failing to log salmon on her personal use permit as required. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 25, Anchorage wildlife troopers cited Steven May, 55, of Anchorage, for failing to log salmon on his personal use permit as required. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 25, Anchorage wildlife troopers cited Daniela Fawcett, 39, of Anchorage, for failing to log salmon on her personal use permit as required. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 25, Anchorage wildlife troopers cited Michael Rauert, 49, of Sterling, for failing to log salmon on his personal use permit as required. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 25 at 1:42 p.m., Alaska State Troopers in Seward received a report of a theft near Mile 5.0 of the Seward Highway. Troopers contacted the 57-year-old complainant, who reported that $1,100 worth of vehicle parts were stolen from his property. Troopers were able to obtain several photographs of two male suspects and identify them.

Charges against the two males are being sent to the Kenai District Attorney for review. n On July 24 at 2:24 p.m., troopers in Seward received a report of a theft on Lowell Point Road. A 38-year-old male, of King Salmon, reported that his boat had been broken into and items stolen: a black Riovi laptop valued at $1,000 and clothes, tools, and a chart plotter. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Alaska State Troopers in Seward at 907-224-3346. n On July 24 at 11:25 a.m., Soldotna Dispatch received a report of a theft from a cabin near Seward. Seward Alaska State Troopers contacted the owner of the cabin and was told that the theft occurred sometime in the last year. Stolen items included moose antlers, Dall sheep horns, and camping items valued at $1,000. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Alaska State Troopers in Seward at 907-224-3346. n On July 27 at 12:35 a.m., Alaska State Troopers responded to a report of a disturbance and shots fired on Opal Street in Nikiski. On scene, troopers contacted Jeremy Bichler, 37, of Nikiski. Investigation revealed that Bichler had engaged in a confrontation with two individuals who live on Opal Street, then went to his house to retrieve a firearm, then returned and continued the confrontation. During the course of the incident, Bichler fired a shot from a handgun.

Bichler was arrested and taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility on charges of second-degree, third-degree and fourth-degree misconduct involving weapons, two counts of third-degree assault, and one count of driving under the influence. Bichler is being held without bail, pending arraignment. n On July 26, Anchorage wildlife troopers cited Stephen Morgan, 39, of Anchorage, for failing to log salmon on his personal use permit as required. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 26, Anchorage wildlife troopers cited Tini Utoafili, 55, of Anchorage, for failing to log salmon on the personal use permit and failure to clip and mark fins as required. Bail was set at $110 and $85 in Kenai District Court. n On July 26, Anchorage wildlife troopers cited Liza McCafferty, 49, of Wasilla, for failing to log salmon on her personal use permit as required. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 26, Anchorage wildlife troopers cited Theodore Missig, 64, of Anchorage, for failing to log salmon on his personal use permit as required. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On July 26 at about 7:40 p.m., Alaska Wildlife Troopers contacted Joel Norris, 46, of Cooper Landing, on the Kenai Lake beach, off Snug Harbor Road. Norris was fishing without a fishing license in possession and was issued a citation. n On July 26 at 3:55 p.m., Kenai police received a report regarding a vehicle that was involved in a theft at a local business. As a result, Steven K. Johnson, 57, of Chugiak, was arrested for second-degree theft and taken to Wildwood Pretrial.

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debate.

In a statement immediately after Trump selected Kavanaugh, Murkowski has said she’s looking to sit down with Kavanaugh and give careful consideration to her vote.

Protect Our Care Alaska has mostly focused its efforts in Anchorage thus far, but is expanding its campaign to Southeast. Amber Lee, the state coordinator for the campaign, said it’s important for Murkowski to hear from Southeast residents.

“It’s a very strategic place for us because Murkowski’s

Peninsula Clarion | Tuesday, August 7, 2018 | A7 originally from Ketchikan,” Lee said, “and there are a lot of strong voices there.”

Murkowski, a republican, has proven to be a key figure in recent health care votes and debates. She’s been a vocal supporter of women’s reproductive rights and case a key “no” vote during a July 2017 vote to repeal and replace the ACA. Lee is hoping Alaskans reach out to Murkowski with personal stories about how ACA and the Medicaid expansion in Alaska in 2015 have positively affected their lives.

The hope is that these personal stories will show Murkowski just how much her constituents will lose if ACA is repealed.

There are numerous ways

to get in touch with Murkowski’s office, Lee said. People can write to Murkowski, call her Washington, D.C. office at (202) 224-6665, visit her office in Anchorage or even tweet at @lisamurkowski. Lee encouraged people to use the hashtags #StandUpLisa and #StopKavanaugh.

Protect Our Care is airing television and radio advertisements with a personal twist as well, presenting the image of a woman who is fighting cancer and “shouldn’t have to fight to keep her health care.”

The ACA includes provisions that provide financial security for people with socalled pre-existing conditions such as cancer, diabetes and asthma. According to numbers

from the Center for American Progress in 2017, about half of non-elderly Alaskans (upwards of 326,000) have a pre-existing condition.

Gov. Bill Walker accepted federal funds to expand Medicaid in 2015, and Slavitt said that expansion has helped people in rural Alaska get access to medical care. Lee said the issue of health care affects everybody sooner or later, and Slavitt said Kavanaugh’s selection to the Supreme Court could have long-term ramifications for those in need of health care.

“If people do care about these issues,” Slavitt said, “this is a seminal, I think, event in the life of their access to health care.”

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Relentless, the Northstar, the Windstar and the Maranatha — while out on patrol in the bay on July 20, according to the dispatch. The Maranatha was present and used to illegally transport some of the fish illegally caught while the other four were driving and catching the fish.

“Four commercial fishing seine vessels were observed to be working together to drive salmon out of the closed water area towards the open water area, and illegally harvesting and transporting those fish,” the dispatch states. “The vessels themselves as well as hand plungers were used by the fishermen in closed waters to drive the fish. The fish were caught by a set that occurred in open and closed waters.”

The waters at the mouth of the creek were closed to help protect salmon returning to spawn. The Alaska Wildlife Troopers had received calls with concerns that someone might go out and target the fish holed up there waiting to go upstream, said Rex Leath, a captain with the Alaska Wildlife Troopers.

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in the area once it’s established.

Brothers’ Cafe will be the third restaurant to occupy the space since early 2014, when Odie’s Deli took over the airport restaurant concession from PJ’s Diner under a fiveyear contract in which it paid $38,400 annual rent. Though that contract would have given the space to Odie’s until December of this year, Odie’s owner Megan Schaafsma wrote to Kenai airport manager Mary Bondurant in a May 2016 that her restaurant would be focusing on its original Soldotna location instead. Of her reason

This screenshot taken from Google Maps shows Koyuktolik Bay, known as Dog Fish Bay, south of Homer on the Kenai Peninsula. Four commercial fishermen from the Homer area are charged with illegally commercial fishing in Dog Fish Bay. (Courtesy Alphabet Inc)

“The boats went in there, they found out there was a lot of fish in that area, and four boats worked together to push these fish into a ball, and push that fish toward a set,” he said.

Once the fish were driven out of the area in a ball, a seine net was able to scoop them up efficiently. The troopers receive complaints of this type of targeted commercial fishing — nicknamed “creek robbing” — often, unfortunately, Leath said.

Troopers seized the fish tickets for the 33,328 pounds of

salmon once the fish were delivered to the processor. That’s a normal process for that amount of fish, Leath said — that way, the fish don’t go to waste and the state seizes the proceeds until the court can decide what the proper course of action is.

Winslow was charged with driving salmon, failure to provide information to a fish transporter, and failure to display vessel license numbers. Paul Roth was charged with driving salmon, commercial fishing in closed waters, and failure to provide information to the fish

transporter. Robert Roth was charged with failure to obtain a fish transporter permit, failure to complete fish tickets and unlawful possession of commercial fish. Mark Roth was charged with driving salmon, failure to complete a fish ticket, and failure to display vessel license numbers.

Troopers filed the charges in Homer court but the documents were not available at the courthouse on Monday.

for leaving the airport, Schaafsma wrote that “ultimately I believe it boils down to us being mismatched for the airport’s needs.”

Double O Express took over the lease from Odie’s in July 2016. Since leaving the airport July 2 of this year, Double O has been operating as a mobile vendor. Double O co-owner Tammy Olson declined an interview.

The request for restaurant proposals that the city of Kenai put in June was unlike its previous arrangement with terminal restaurant concessionaires — instead of bidding with an offer of annual rent, applicants bid by promising a percentage of their gross monthly receipts.

The bid form allowed them to

offer two rates — one for their first two months of operation, with a minimum of 5 percent, and another to take effect after September 2018, with a minimum of 10 percent.

The Hamiltons’ company Situla, LLC submitted the only response, offering the minimum for both rates. The Kenai City council unanimously awarded the Hamiltons the concession at its Aug. 1 meeting.

Fewer people are coming through the Kenai Municipal Airport these days. According to historical data included in Kenai’s request for proposal, the Kenai airport terminal’s annual passenger boardings have been dropping since 2014, when 100,929 passengers boarded there. In 2017, the ter-

minal boarded 93,844 passengers. The receipts of the restaurant have also declined in that time — from $302,658 in 2014 to $141,299 in 2017.

Jim Hamilton said leasing on a percentage basis rather than a flat rent “creates some incentives for a win-win, because (the airport terminal) is out of the way a bit, and it hasn’t had great success — it has continued to decline over the years.”

“I think we can turn that around,” he said. “The first year might be a little difficult, but it’s all about building a loyal customer base. Everything’s about relationships in Kenai.”

Reach Elizabeth Earl at eearl@peninsulaclarion.com.

Reach Ben Boettger at bboettger@peninsulaclarion. com.

Polish tourists killed in flightseeing trip in Denali National Park

By DAN JOLING Associated Press

ANCHORAGE — Searchers on Monday found four people dead in a sightseeing airplane carrying Polish tourists in Alaska’s Denali National Park — a day and a half after thick clouds hampered the response to distress calls.

Another person is missing and presumed dead after the crash Saturday evening on a mountain ridge about 14 miles (23 kilometers) southwest of Denali, North America’s tallest mountain. After going down, the pilot, identified Monday as Craig Layson, reported by satellite phone that passengers suffered injuries, but the connection failed before he could give details.

The airplane was stocked with sleeping bags, a stove and food, giving hope that survivors would be found despite terrain described by the National Park Service as “extremely steep and a mix of near-vertical rock, ice and snow.”

Low-lying clouds and rainy conditions prevented crews from spotting the wreckage until a break in the clouds Monday allowed a helicopter to

reach the crash site.

A park service ranger was lowered down on a line from the copter and dug through snow that had filled the aircraft to find the bodies of four people. There were no footprints or other disturbances in the snow that would have indicated anyone made it out of the plane, the park service said.

The ranger was pulled out after confirming the deaths. A park service spokeswoman said she could not comment on recovery plans.

“We’re working that out right now,” Katherine Belcher said.

The plane operated by K2 Aviation had taken off Saturday evening with Layson and four passengers from Poland for a tour of Kahiltna Glacier, the jumping off point for climbers attempting to climb Denali.

It crashed around near the top of 10,900-foot (3,300-meter) Thunder Mountain, which rises above the glacier and is described by the park service as more of a milelong ridge than a mountain.

Immediately after crashing, Layson used a satellite phone to call the K2 office in the community of Talkeetna. He made

a second call about an hour later, Belcher said. On one of the calls, he said passengers were injured, but the connection failed.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.

Ideally, an investigator would travel to the crash site and keep analyzing the wreckage when it was removed from the mountain, spokesman Clint Johnson said.

A recovery likely will not occur until later this week at the earliest because of foul weather and the dangerous location, he said.

“My understanding is that it’s in a crevasse-laden area,” Johnson said, adding that reaching the site will “require technical climbing experience.”

Layson was from Saline, Michigan, the Saline Post reported. He also owned Stony Creek Collision in nearby Ypsilanti, Michigan, manager Bobby Seldkamp told The Associated Press by phone Monday evening.

Belcher said the park officials were working to contact family members in Poland before identifications would be released. Belcher said the tour

had been arranged by a tour operator in Poland with K2 Aviation.

Jason Martin, director of operations for American Alpine Institute, said more crevasses appear with summer snow melt and climbing generally ends in mid-July.

“Everything becomes harder because of the amount of crevasses opening and the weaker snow bridges,” he said.

But sightseeing flights can still land on the glacier, allowing visitors to walk on the ice field, officials said.

Temperatures on the mountain at 11,000 feet (3,353 meters) can be warm if the sun is out but likely below freezing at night, he said. His company regularly flies with K2 Aviation for Denali climbs, and before taking off, pilots give passengers a briefing on emergency gear stowed in the back of the airplanes, he said.

K2 Aviation suspended all sightseeing flights after the crash and said it’s cooperating with the investigation. The company is owned by Suzanne and Todd Rust and has been family-owned and operated for 55 years, according to a statement.

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France takes leave after DWI, drug arrest SAG HARBOR, N.Y. (AP) — NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France announced on Monday he was taking an indefinite leave of absence following his arrest in the Hamptons on charges of driving while intoxicated and criminal possession of oxycodone.

France was seen blowing through a stop sign in Sag Harbor on Sunday and later had a blood-alcohol content that was more than twice the legal limit for driving, smelled of booze and slurred his words, police said.

He said in a statement on Monday that effective immediately he would be taking a leave of absence from his position “to focus on my personal af-

fairs.”

“I apologize to our fans, our industry and my family for the impact of my actions last night,” he said.

France has been NASCAR’s chairman and CEO since 2003. His uncle Jim France, a vice chairman and executive vice president, will take over those roles on an interim basis.

France, 56, spent the night in jail and was arraigned at Sag Harbor Village Justice Court. He was released on his own recognizance and is due back in court Sept. 14.

His lawyer referred reporters to a NASCAR statement on the matter.

The organization said it takes his arrest “as a serious matter and will is-

sue a statement after we have all of the facts.”

France was pulled over and arrested at about 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Police said they saw his 2017 Lexus roll through a stop sign near the Sag Harbor waterfront.

His eyes were red and glassy, and he struggled to keep his balance during field sobriety tests, police said.

Tests showed his blood-alcohol content was 0.18, police said. The legal limit for driving in New York is 0.08.

Officers found five oxycodone pills during a subsequent search, police said.

France is a third-generation leader of NASCAR. His late grandfather Bill

France Sr. founded the company in 1948.

He’s introduced a playoff system, overhauled the design of its cars and pushed for diversity within the circuit’s predominantly white, male ranks.

In recent years, he’s been dealing with plunging attendance and TV ratings and departing sponsors, attributing the downturn to the challenge of connecting with a new, younger generation of fans.

France last month characterized as “rumors” reports that his family was looking into selling its racing properties.

“The France family is locked and

loaded in its dedication to NASCAR,” France told SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “We’re focused on ruling and managing NASCAR. There’s nothing to report on that. Rumors are always interesting, but they’re seldom right.”

France was charged with reckless driving in Seminole County, Florida, in 2005 and was ordered to pay a $760 fine and complete an aggressive-driver program, court records show.

The following year, according to a police report, he crashed his Lexus into a tree after entering a restaurant parking lot in Daytona Beach, Florida.

France later told an officer called to his home that he was drinking a soda and “bumped into something.”

Yanks rebound from weekend by blanking White Sox

By The Associated Press

CHICAGO — Lance Lynn pitched two-hit ball into the eighth inning in his first start with New York, and the Yankees rebounded from their tough weekend in Boston by beating the Chicago White Sox 7-0 on Monday night.

Lynn provided a big boost for New York after it dropped a season-high five straight games, including a four-game sweep by the major leagueleading Red Sox. The series concluded with Aroldis Chapman blowing a save opportunity in a 10-inning loss at Fenway Park late Sunday night.

Enter Lynn (8-8), who was acquired in a trade with Minnesota on July 30 and tossed 4 1/3 scoreless innings in relief in his Yankees debut Wednesday. The veteran right-hander, who replaced Sonny Gray in New York’s rotation, retired 19 in a row before Nicky Delmonico led off the eighth with a single to right.

INDIANS 10, TWINS 0

deficit in the ninth to beat the Phillies.

The Diamondbacks had the winning run in scoring position in the ninth through 13th innings and couldn’t get the hit they needed.

Peralta finally ended it, hitting the first pitch he saw from Austin Davis (1-2) off the wall and out in left-center. Peralta was mobbed at the plate after ending the Phillies’ six-game winning streak with one swing.

ROCKIES 2, PIRATES 0 DENVER — Kyle Freeland and the Colorado bullpen combined on a two-hitter to help the Rockies beat the Pirates in a game that was interrupted 32 minutes by rain.

Freeland (10-7) allowed two hits and struck out five over seven stellar innings. Relievers Seunghwan Oh and Wade Davis combined to close out the win.

Davis pitched a perfect ninth for his 32nd save in 38 chances.

It was a positive step for a beleaguered bullpen that endured three walk-off losses — two by Davis — during a 2-5 road swing.

CLEVELAND — Trevor Bauer struck out 11 and allowed three hits in six innings, and the Cleveland CUBS 3, ROYALS 1 Indians hit four home runs in routing the Minnesota Twins 10-0 on Monday night.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Javier Baez went deep, Bauer (11-6) has 206 strikeouts this season, one Cole Hamels pitched six strong innings and the Cubs behind Boston’s Chris Sale for the AL lead. The righthander has 10 double-figure strikeout games, tying beat the Royals.

Baez hit the first pitch from reliever Kevin Mchim with Sale for the league lead. Bauer also leads Carthy (4-4) in the sixth inning to center for his 25th the AL with 159 2/3 innings pitched. home run, putting the Cubs ahead 2-1.

DIAMONDBACKS 3, PHILLIES 2

METS 6, REDS 4

PHOENIX — David Peralta hit his second solo NEW YORK — Rookie Jeff McNeil homered in homer off the game off the top of the wall in the 14th inning and the Diamondbacks rallied from a two-run getting three more hits with his most unusual bat,

leading Noah Syndergaard and the Mets over the Reds in a matchup of struggling teams.

Wilmer Flores, playing on his 27th birthday, and Austin Jackson each had three hits and Kevin Plawecki homered for the Mets.

MARLINS 2, CARDINALS 1

Osuna (1-0) hadn’t pitch in the majors since May 6 while serving a 75-game suspension for violating MLB’s domestic violence policy. Osuna was acquired from the Toronto Blue Jays last Monday in a deal that sent back closer Ken Giles, and he became eligible to pitch Sunday. A few fans booed when he entered the game in the eighth inning. He retired the side in order on five pitches.

Hector Rondon closed out the 2-hour, 26-minute game with his 12th save in 15 chances.

San Francisco closer Will Smith (1-2) blew his second save in nine opportunities after issuing walks to Alex Bregman and Yuli Gurriel. Gonzalez followed with a towering drive to left for his 10th homer.

MIAMI — Javy Guerra cleaned up a ninth-inning mess created by struggling closer Kyle Barraclough, getting Yadier Molina to hit into a double play to end the Marlins’ victory over the Cardinals.

After Wei-Yin Chen pitched 5 2/3 innings of onehit ball, Miami led 2-0 going into the ninth and handed the game off to Barraclough.

Paul DeJong and Harrison Bader opened the inANGELS 6, TIGERS 2 ning with hard-hit singles, then Yairo Munoz walked.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Andrelton Simmons hit a Pinch-hitter Kolten Wong struck out swinging, but Matt Carpenter drew a bases-loaded walk to make it two-run homer and made several spectacular defensive plays to lead the Angels to a victory over the Ti2-1 and end Barraclough’s night. gers.

Eric Young Jr. hit his first homer of the season, MARINERS 4, RANGERS 3 drove in two runs and made a diving catch in deep ARLINGTON, Texas — Ryon Healy had a go- center field to end the eighth inning for the Angels, ahead RBI single with two outs in the 12th inning and who won for just the second time in eight games.

Simmons stepped up with two key hits and two the Mariners beat the Rangers after blowing an early runs while Mike Trout missed his fifth consecutive three-run lead.

Mitch Haniger scored from second base when game with a sore right wrist for the Angels. The twoHealy hit a hard grounder through the left side of the time AL MVP’s injury absence is the second-longest infield. Haniger had doubled into the left field corner of his big-league career, surpassed only by the 39 off Eddie Butler (2-2) a pitch after Jean Segura was games he missed last season with a torn thumb ligament. thrown out trying to steal second base.

Nicholas Castellanos hit a first-inning homer, but the Tigers managed just three hits as their offensive ASTROS 3, GIANTS 1 slump continued.

SAN FRANCISCO — Roberto Osuna got the win Nick Tropeano (5-6) pitched five innings of onein his first appearance with Houston after Marwin hit ball and retired 12 of his final 13 batters before Gonzalez hit a three-run homer with two outs in the heading to the clubhouse after just 62 pitches with ninth inning, lifting the Astros over the Giants. shoulder tightness.

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Sports Briefs Serena announces postpartum struggles Serena Williams says she’s been struggling with postpartum emotions and wants other new moms to know they are “totally normal.”

The 23-time Grand Slam champion suffered the most lopsided defeat of her career, a 6-1, 6-0 loss to Johanna Konta in San Jose, California, last Tuesday. She then withdrew from this week’s Rogers Cup in Montreal, citing personal reasons.

“Last week was not easy for me. Not only was I accepting some tough personal stuff, but I just was in a funk. Mostly, I felt like I was not a good mom,” Williams said in an Instagram post Monday.

“I read several articles that said postpartum emotions can last up to 3 years if not dealt with. I like communication best. Talking things through with my mom, my sisters, my friends let me know that my feelings are totally normal.”

The 36-year-old Williams was the runner-up at Wimbledon last month. That was just her fourth tournament since returning to the tour after having a baby in September and dealing with a health scare related to blood clots.

“It’s totally normal to feel like I’m not doing enough for my baby,” she added. “Although I have been with her every day of her life, I’m not around as much as I would like to be. Most of you moms deal with the same thing. Whether stay-at-home or working, finding that balance with kids is a true art. You are the true heroes.”

A’s get Fiers from Tigers Mike Fiers may end up with another chance to pitch in the postseason.

The Oakland Athletics acquired the right-hander from the Detroit Tigers on Monday for two players to be named or cash. The 33-year-old Fiers is 7-6 with a 3.48 ERA this season.

Fiers was with the World Series champion Astros last year, but he was not included on any of Houston’s postseason rosters. He did make one relief appearance for the Astros in the 2015 Division Series.

The rebuilding Tigers picked Fiers up before the season on a $6 million, one-year contract , and he pitched well enough that he became a candidate to be traded to a contender.

Detroit traded outfielder Leonys Martin to Cleveland, and general manager Al Avila said last week that Oakland and Milwaukee had shown interest in Fiers. But the Tigers weren’t able to work out a deal before the non-waiver trade deadline.

Now the Tigers have sent Fiers to an Oakland team that, if the season ended now, would be the American League’s second wild card.

“There’s always opportunity in August,” Avila said Monday.

“There’s going to be plenty of players that were available at the deadline that were not traded.”

The A’s have had 12 different pitchers make at least one start this year. Sean Manaea is 10-7 with a 3.38 ERA, and Trevor Cahill has been solid when healthy. Oakland recently added veteran Edwin Jackson, who is 3-2 with a 2.87 ERA in eight starts for the A’s.

Fiers enters that mix, and he’s enjoyed a nice stretch of late.

He’s 2-2 with a 1.96 ERA over his last seven starts.

“Mike is happy to get an opportunity to go pitch in a playoff race, and we’re losing a really good pitcher that did a lot of good things here for us,” Detroit manager Ron Gardenhire said in Anaheim before the Tigers opened a three-game series against the Angels. “So now we’ve got to fill a hole, but I’m happy for him to get this opportunity. It’s a pretty nice time to pitch in the playoffs, and on a run like this, and try to win a World Series ring, so good for him.”

Fiers left his most recent outing, Wednesday against Cincinnati, with a bruised left shin, but he was not expected to miss any more time. Gardenhire believes Fiers played an important role with the Tigers’ young pitching staff during his short time in Detroit.

— The Associated Press

Baseball AL Standings

East Division W L Pct GB Boston 79 34 .699 — New York 69 42 .622 9 Tampa Bay 56 56 .500 22½ Toronto 51 60 .459 27 Baltimore 34 78 .304 44½ Central Division Cleveland 62 49 .559 — Minnesota 52 59 .468 10 Detroit 47 66 .416 16 Chicago 41 71 .366 21½ Kansas City 34 78 .304 28½ West Division Houston 72 42 .632 — Oakland 67 46 .593 4½ Seattle 65 48 .575 6½ Los Angeles 56 58 .491 16 Texas 49 65 .430 23 Monday’s Games Cleveland 10, Minnesota 0 Seattle 4, Texas 3, 12 innings N.Y. Yankees 7, Chicago White Sox 0 Chicago Cubs 3, Kansas City 1 L.A. Angels 6, Detroit 2 Houston 3, San Francisco 1 Tuesday’s Games Houston (Keuchel 9-9) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 4-4), 11:45 a.m.

Boston (Pomeranz 1-5) at Toronto (Stroman 4-8), 3:07 p.m.

Baltimore (Cobb 3-14) at Tampa Bay (Glasnow 1-2), 3:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Mejia 1-0) at Cleveland (Carrasco 13-5), 3:10 p.m.

Seattle (Hernandez 8-9) at Texas (Colon 5-10), 4:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 6-4) at Chicago White Sox (Lopez 4-9), 4:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Montgomery 3-4) at Kansas City (Keller 4-4), 4:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Hill 4-4) at Oakland (Manaea 10-7), 6:05 p.m.

Detroit (Turner 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Heaney 6-7), 6:07 p.m.

All Times ADT

NL Standings

East Division W L Pct GB Philadelphia 63 48 .568 — Atlanta 60 48 .556 1½ Washington 57 54 .514 6 New York 46 64 .418 16½ Miami 47 67 .412 17½ Central Division 65 47 .580 — Chicago Milwaukee 65 50 .565 1½ St. Louis 58 55 .513 7½ Pittsburgh 57 56 .504 8½ Cincinnati 49 64 .434 16½ West Division Arizona 62 51 .549 — Los Angeles 62 51 .549 — Colorado 60 52 .536 1½ San Francisco 57 57 .500 5½ San Diego 44 70 .386 18½ Monday’s Games Miami 2, St. Louis 1 N.Y. Mets 6, Cincinnati 4 Chicago Cubs 3, Kansas City 1 Colorado 2, Pittsburgh 0 Houston 3, San Francisco 1 Philadelphia at Arizona, late Tuesday’s Games Atlanta (Fried 1-4) at Washington (Rodriguez 0-1), 9:05 a.m., 1st game

Houston (Keuchel 9-9) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 4-4), 11:45 a.m.

Atlanta (Newcomb 10-5) at Washington (Scherzer 15-5), 3:05 p.m., 2nd game Cincinnati (Romano 6-9) at N.Y. Mets (Vargas 2-7), 3:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Mikolas 11-3) at Miami (Lopez 2-2), 3:10 p.m.

San Diego (Richard 7-10) at Milwaukee (Anderson 7-7), 4:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Montgomery 3-4) at Kansas City (Keller 4-4), 4:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Taillon 8-8) at Colorado (Bettis 5-1), 4:40 p.m.

Philadelphia (Pivetta 6-9) at Arizona (Greinke 12-6), 5:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Hill 4-4) at Oakland (Manaea 10-7), 6:05 p.m.

All Times ADT

Indians 10, Twins 0 Min. Cle.

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Gibson, Belisle (6), Garver (8) and Wilson; Bauer, Cimber (7), O.Perez (8), Otero (9) and R.Perez. W_Bauer 11-6. L_Gibson 5-9. HRs_Cleveland, Kipnis (11), Guyer (6), Alonso (19), Encarnacion (25).

Yankees 7, White Sox 0 NY Chi.

Marlins 2, Cardinals 1 SL Mia.

Angels 6, Tigers 2 0 0

Boyd, Coleman (6), Stumpf (7), Greene (8) and McCann; Tropeano, Ramirez (6), Bedrosian (6), Robles (7), J.Anderson (9) and Briceno. W_Tropeano 5-6. L_ Boyd 6-10. HRs_Detroit, Castellanos (16). Los Angeles, Simmons (7), Young Jr. (1).

Cubs 3, Royals 1 000 101 010—3 010 000 000—1

9 8

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7 8

0 1

Weaver, Webb (7) and Molina; Chen, Hernandez (6), Guerrero (7), Steckenrider (8), Barraclough (9), Guerra (9) and Realmuto.

W_Chen 4-8. L_Weaver 6-10.

Sv_Guerra (1). HRs_Miami, Castro (9).

Mets 6, Reds 4 Cin. NY

000 000 400—4 7 300 201 00x—6 16

0 0

Bailey, Peralta (4), Mella (5), Hughes (7), R.Iglesias (8) and Barnhart; Syndergaard, Wahl (7), Gsellman (7), Blevins (9) and Plawecki. W_Syndergaard 7-2. L_Bailey 1-9. Sv_Blevins (1).

HRs_New York, Plawecki (3), McNeil (2).

Pit. Col.

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2 5

1 0

Musgrove, Santana (8) and Diaz; Freeland, Oh (8), W.Davis (9) and Iannetta. W_Freeland 10-7. L_ Musgrove 4-6. Sv_W.Davis (32).

WNBA Standings

LeBlanc, Warren (7), Duke (7), Colome (7), Vincent (9), Pazos (10), Tuivailala (11), Diaz (12) and Zunino; M.Perez, Martin (8), Leclerc (9), Gearrin (10), Claudio (11), Butler (12) and Kiner-Falefa.

W_Tuivailala 4-3. L_Butler 2-2.

Sv_Diaz (42). HRs_Seattle, Zunino (14).

Chi. KC

0 0

Basketball

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3 8

4 4

Rockies 2, Pirates 0

Mariners 4, Rangers 3, 12 inn.

100 001 000—2 010 210 20x—6

000 000 003—3 000 001 000—1

Morton, Osuna (8), Rondon (9) and Maldonado, Stassi; Rodriguez, Moronta (8), W.Smith (9) and Posey. W_Osuna 1-0. L_W. Smith 1-2. Sv_Rondon (12). HRs_ Houston, Gonzalez (10). San Francisco, Crawford (11).

000 220 030—7 10 0 000 000 000—0 3 0

Lynn, Cole (8) and Higashioka; Covey, Avilan (7), Vieira (8), Davidson (9) and K.Smith. W_Lynn 8-8. L_Covey 4-8. HRs_New York, Torres (18), Walker (4).

Det. LA

Astros 3, Giants 1 Hou. SF

0 0

Hamels, Cishek (7), Kintzler (8), Strop (9) and Contreras; Junis, McCarthy (6), Hill (7), Flynn (8), Hammel (8) and S.Perez.

W_Hamels 7-9. L_McCarthy 4-4.

Sv_Strop (8). HRs_Chicago, Baez (25).

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlanta Washington Connecticut Chicago New York Indiana

W L Pct GB 18 10 .643 — 16 11 .593 1½ 16 12 .571 2 10 18 .357 8 7 21 .250 11 5 23 .179 13

WESTERN CONFERENCE x-Seattle 22 7 .759 — Los Angeles 17 11 .607 4½ Phoenix 16 13 .552 6 Minnesota 15 13 .536 6½ Dallas 14 14 .500 7½ Las Vegas 12 15 .444 9 x-clinched playoff spot Monday’s Games Seattle 96, New York 80 Tuesday’s Games Seattle at Indiana, 3 p.m.

Las Vegas at Atlanta, 3 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 4:30 p.m.

Washington at Phoenix, 6 p.m.

All Times ADT

Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Sent 3B Rafael Devers to Lowell (NYP) for a rehab assignment.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned C Dustin Garneau to Charlotte (IL). Placed OF Leury Garcia on the 10-day DL. Recalled OF Ryan LaMarre from Charlotte.

Reinstated C Kevan Smith from paternity leave.

DETROIT TIGERS — Traded RHP Mike Fiers to Oakland for two players to be named or cash.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned RHP Deck McGuire to Salt Lake (PCL). Recalled INF Jose Fernandez from Salt Lake.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed OF Robbie Grossman on the 10day DL. Recalled OF Johnny Field from Rochester (IL). Sent RHP Michael Pineda to the GCL Twins for a rehab assignment.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Recalled OF Jake Smolinski from Nashville (PCL) and placed him on the 60-day DL. Designated LHP Jeremy Bleich for assignment.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Traded SS Adeiny Hechavarria to Pittsburgh for RHP Matt Seelinger and assigned Seelinger to Bowling Green (MWL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Assigned OF Darnell Sweeney outright to Buffalo (IL).

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Sent RHP Yimi Garcia to the AZL Dodgers for a rehab assignment.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Assigned 3B Trevor Plouffe outright to Lehigh Valley (IL).

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Placed OF Tyler O’Neill on the 10day DL, retroactive to Saturday, Aug. 4. Selected the contract of OF Adolis Garcia from Memphis (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Sent RHP Joe Ross to the GCL Nationals for a rehab assignment.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DALLAS MAVERICKS — Waived C Chinanu Onuaku. Signed G-F Ryan Broekhoff.

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Agreed to terms with S Ricardo Allen on a three-year contract extension.

DETROIT LIONS — Removed DE Ziggy Ansah from the PUP list.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Placed LBs Jake Ryan and C.J. Johnson on injured reserve. Released G Ethan Cooper. Signed RB Akeem Judd.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released WR Malcolm Mitchell.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Terminated the contract of CB Teddy Williams.

NEW YORK JETS — Waived OL Austin Golson. Signed OL Alex Balducci.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Waived/ injured DB Shaquille Richardson.

Signed CB Raysean Pringle.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Released DL Rakim Cox and DB Maurice McKnight.

HOCKEY National Hockey League

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Named Scott Arniel and Reid Cashman assistant coaches.

MOTORSPORTS NASCAR — Announced chairman Brian France has taken a leave of absence following his arrest on DWI, drug possession charges.

SOCCER Major League Soccer LOS ANGELES FOOTBALL CLUB — Acquired F Christian Ramirez from Minnesota United FC for $250,000 in general allocation money in 2018 and 2019, $100,000 in targeted allocation money in 2018, $200,000 in targeted allocation money in 2019, and up to $200,000 in future allocation money based on the player’s performance with the club.

SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Acquired F Krisztian Nemeth from New England for $250,000 in targeted allocation money, $100,000 in general allocation money and a 2020 first-round SuperDraft pick.

COLLEGE SOUTHERN CONFERENCE — Named Paul Lollis assistant commissioner for video productions, Haley Shotwell director of creative services, Hannah Bradley assistant director of media relations, Emily Fulton external operations assistant, Carl Mattox championships assistant, and Hannah Simmons media relations assistant.

CHARLESTON SOUTHERN — Named Anca Dumitrescu women’s tennis coach.

EDINBORO — Named LeighAnn Stauffer women’s lacrosse coach.

NORTH ALABAMA — Named Anna Milwee athletics academic adviser.

NORTH CAROLINA — Suspended OL Brian Anderson, Quiron Johnson and Jordan Tucker; WR Beau Corrales; DEs Malik Carney, Tomon Fox and Tyrone Hopper; LB Malik Robinson; and QB Chazz Surratt four games; DBs Greg Ross and Tre Shaw two games; and QB Jack Davidson and OL Jonah Melton one game.

PENNSYLVANIA — Promoted Lauren Procopio to assistant athletic director/student development and enrichment services.

PRESBYTERIAN — Named Kaitlin Winnie women’s lacrosse assistant coach.

RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE — Named Robert Nelson assistant men’s basketball coach and Mark Holmes coordinator of men’s basketball operations.

TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY — Promoted assistant baseball coach Russell Raley to associate head coach.

TUSCULUM — Named Chelsea Parker assistant women’s soccer coach and Kayla Walker graduate assistant women’s soccer coach.

WAGNER — Named Kaitlyn Beaver women’s diving coach.

WILLIAM & MARY — Announced football coach Jimmye Laycock will retire at the end of the season.

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INVITATION TO BID HOMER ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION, INC. SNOW PLOWING, REMOVAL & SANDING SERVICES Homer Electric Association, Inc. (HEA) is seeking bids from qualified service providers to provide snow plowing, snow removal, sanding, and walkway clearing services for our facilities located in Kenai, Soldotna, Sterling, Kasilof, and Nikiski.

To qualify, responders must provide a current Alaska business license and certification of insurance as follows: • General (Public) Liability Insurance $1,000,000 • Auto Liability Insurance - $1,000,000 • Workers’ Compensation / Employers’ Liability Insurance - as required by law To request a bid package contact Karin Holbrook at: 907-399-1249 or email your request to: kholbrook@homerelectric.com.

A mandatory pre-bid conference will be held at HEA’s Central Peninsula Service Center in Kenai on Monday, August 13th at 11:00 AM. Email kholbrook@homerelectric.com with intention to attend. Bids from vendors that do not attend will not be considered.

Electronic bids will be accepted until 3:00 PM Tuesday, August 28th, 2018. Please email the completed packets to the following address: kholbrook@homerelectric.com.

Proposals may also be hand delivered to the Central Peninsula Service Center at 280 Airport Way, Kenai. Attention: Becky Scudder.

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Case No.: 3KN-18-00152 PR NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Dennis Johnson has been appointed the personal representative of the Estate of Michael Leonard Johnson.

All persons having claims against the Decedent are required to present their claims within four months from the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be presented to the personal representative c/o the Law Offices of Gilman & Pevehouse, 130 S. Willow St., Suite 3, Kenai, Alaska 99611, or the Clerk of the Court.

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Case No.: 3KN-18-00099 PR NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Rosanna Shelden has been appointed the personal representative of the Estate of Denton Tilford Shelden. All persons having claims against the Decedent are required to present their claims within four months from the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the personal representative c/o the Law Offices of Gilman & Pevehouse, 130 S. Willow St., Suite 3, Kenai, Alaska 99611, or the Clerk of the Court.

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Wife’s attraction to woman throws life into confusion DEAR ABBY: I am a 50-year-old woman. I have been married to my husband for 28 years and never cheated. We have a good life together, and our sex life has always been great, but I have recently fallen in love with another woman.

I haven’t told anyone, not even her. She has made several comments and advances toward me, but she frequently makes comments like, “I don’t swim in the lady pond.”

The two of us recently went out of town together.

When she kissed me on my neck, I pulled away and nothing more happened. I am positive that if I hadn’t, something would have happened.

I feel like I’m going crazy because I think about her every minute. We talk on the phone several times a day.

She’s married (to a man) and has been for 30 years.

Is it possible for two straight women to suddenly fall in love with each other? Should I tell her how I feel?

Please help me. I’m confused, lost and in turmoil.

-- FALLING IN LOVE DEAR FALLING: Yes, it is possible for members of both sexes to become attracted to someone of the same sex and fall in love. Have an honest conversation with the woman. Tell her you are confused about what happened on the trip. I’m not sure she was completely honest about her “swimming” habits, but you may or

may not be the first woman she has become attracted to.

I hesitate to advise what steps to take beyond that since you are both in longtime, committed relationships. Much will depend upon what she has to say.

DEAR ABBY: I have been dating my boyfriend for two years. We are the same age and have children from previous marriages. His are teenagers, Abigail Van Buren and I have twin boys at home who are 6. Early on we discussed blending our families.

Although he has been eager to be a part of my life and my family, he has been less than enthusiastic about opening up his own life to me. He takes vacations with his children and leaves me out. He also travels alone to places we have discussed going to together. If I say anything, he accuses me of being selfish. But if I plan anything with my own children, he always expects to be included.

I’m getting fed up with it. I feel resentful living on the fringes of his world, while he expects to be at the center of mine. Am I selfish, or do I have a legitimate complaint?

-- OFF BALANCE IN VIRGINIA

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sider different possibilities, but remember that time is on your side.

Tonight: Enjoy music.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH One-on-one relating leads to an interesting conversation. Be careful, though, as your mind is likely to float to other times and faraway places. A close friend could have an attitude, which you might want to bypass for now. Tonight: Time for fun and games.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH Others seek you out.

In fact, you could be surprised by what comes down the pike toward you. Be flattered. How you juggle friends and a love interest could amaze many people. You need to check in with an older person. Tonight: Sort through invitations.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH You might want to say “no” to a project. Of course, you might decide to throw an impromptu party instead. A child or loved one might want some extra time with you. Do your best to make this possible. Tonight: Recognize when you are too tired to go on.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Your imagination might be going overboard when dealing with a loved one. The unexpected occurs with the finances of a partnership. You might want to indulge in a major purchase, but your timing is off. Tonight: Have a chat with a family member.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HH Move through a last-minute hassle that could interrupt the flow of an event. Do your best to stay in sync with a neighbor or relative

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DEAR OFF BALANCE: You and your boyfriend should both be spending some separate vacation time with your children, but not to the exclusion of each other. That he would take trips you had planned together without you seems peculiar, and I don’t think you are selfish to be bothered by it.

Although you have been seeing each other for two years, he does not appear to be anywhere near ready to jump into the kind of relationship you are wishing for. You do have a legitimate complaint.

Continue the discussion about this because something does appear to be off balance.

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.

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018: This year you will experience a powerful year, where you feel as if it is all or nothing. Often you get two different options for one choice.

Slow down and evaluate. If you are single, you have the time and volition to meet someone special. The closer you get to your next birthday, the better your odds are of meeting Mr. or Ms. Right. If you are attached, you often are challenged as a couple to pitch in and help others.

You will discover the importance of working together. Listen to SCORPIO more often.

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 You are full of energy.

You even might consider bringing friends together for a fun competition. You have a way of pulling people in. Organizing a happening could be a piece of cake. Follow your instincts. Tonight: A party could start from out of nowhere.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Your creativity helps you organize a situation much more effectively than you’d thought possible. This new perspective comes from a strong willingness to grow.

You also see events and people in a different light. Tonight: Be as lively as you can be.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You might be thinking of someone at a distance, or perhaps you decide to take a trip. Know that you will not satisfy this need until you are mentally prepared. Con-

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who appears to be closed down.

You might not realize how little you are sharing as well. Tonight: Invite some friends over.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You could be making a difference where it counts. Others appreciate your generous spirit.

Speak your mind when having a discussion with a sibling or a close neighbor. Be sure to schedule time for a lengthy visit. Tonight: Rock the neighborhood with music!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You tend to indulge a lot, and you’ll feel relieved that the time has come to enjoy your weekend.

Deal with the unexpected. If you can use this event to create more of what you want, by all means, do.

Tonight: Treat a family member to a favorite dinner.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH You attract what you desire. Indulge in a lively afternoon.

You easily could have various invitations to sort through. You will want to do what feels right, but you might opt to follow your heart. Tonight: Express your feelings to a partner.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHH You might be more demanding than you realize. If you find yourself in the middle of an argument, ask yourself why you are pushing others so hard. Make amends by explaining the vision behind what you are fighting for. Tonight: Hang out and relax.

BORN TODAY Actress Blake Lively (1987), film director Tim Burton (1958), musician Gene Simmons (1949)

NEVER A LENDER NOR A BORROWER BE Dear Heloise: Please tell your readers that if they borrow anything (furniture, china, tools, sports equipment, clothes, jewelry, books, etc.) and they damage it, they owe at least the replacement cost of the damaged item.

Moral of this story: Do not borrow unless you know you can pay the replacement cost.

-- Virginia C. in Houston WHAT’S THE BIG DIFFERENCE? Dear Heloise: Can you settle an argument? What’s the difference between an antique and a collectible? -- Harriet B. in Ohio Harriet, this is an interesting topic! An antique is an object that is desirable because of its age and importance. An antique is defined as being at least 100 years old, rare and in great condition.

A collectible also is valuable, but it’s typically a trendy item, something less than 100 years old, relatable to popular culture perhaps, and may go up or down in its worth. It usually is not as valuable as an antique may be.

-- Heloise P.S. The term “vintage” is used for something that’s “in” again after a short period -25 years!

ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE Dear Heloise: Merchants, hoteliers, restaurateurs and others may offer discounts, but they may not be advertised! For example, if you are a college or high school student, current or retired military, or a senior citizen, ask for a discount!

-- William H. in Los Angeles LETTER OF LAUGHTER Dear Heloise: I was excited to retire and have some downtime, but my “honey-do” list is way overdue! Instead of spending eight hours at the office, I’m working 16 hours at home!

-- Charles D., Decatur, Ill. Relax a little bit, Charles; you’ve earned it! All that work will wait for you!

-- Heloise

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A12 |Tuesday,August7,2018 |Peninsula C larion

Pets Tails a-wagging: Year later, missing pooch and owner reunite

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press

This Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018 photo provided by Esther Atkins shows Ratchet, a 4-yearold pit bull found by Atkins in Greenville, S.C. (Esther Atkins via AP)

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Call it a tail-wagging ending to a doggone good story.

After a year — and dozens of miles — apart, a pit bull named Ratchet was reunited on

Friday with his owner, thanks to the dogged determination of another South Carolina dog lover.

Esther Atkins was walking her border collie mix, Grace, this week near their Greenville home when they both noticed a sturdy brown and white pup cowering in a mud puddle. After some gentle cajoling, Atkins said that the timid canine followed her home, where she went to work on social media trying to find his owner.

After ultimately taking the dog to have him scanned for a tracking microchip, Atkins said that she got in touch with a woman in Greenwood, some 70 miles (113 kilometers) away. It turns out that the 4-year-old, purebred pit bull named Ratch-

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