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A cosmopolitan St. Patrick’s Day on the peninsula

The Sterling Senior Center will be serving breakfast on Saturday, March 30 from 9 a.m. to noon. The menu includes sausage, bacon, ham, scrambled eggs, pancakes and biscuits and gravy. $10 for Adults, $5 for children. Everyone is welcome. All proceeds benefit the center. For further information call 262-6808.

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The Seward Fish & Game Advisory Committee will hold an election meeting on Thursday, April 4 at 7 p.m. at the City Council Chambers, located at 410 Adams Street in Seward. Agenda will also include a review of the BOF meeting, discussion of BOF Cook Inlet proposals to submit, and any other items of business that may properly come before the committee. For more information contact Jim McCracken at 362-3701.

LeeShore Center monthly board meeting The LeeShore Center will be holding its monthly board meeting at The LeeShore Center on Wednesday, March 28. The meeting is open to the public and begins at 6 p.m. For further information call 2839479.

Twenty eight years ago, Soldotna Chamber of Commerce member Mike Sweeney launched the first St. Patrick’s Day parade. “We wanted an early event to get people out and shopping locally,” said Sweeney, who is the founder of “the working man’s store” in Soldotna. “We had about six or seven guys on the committee and we thought, ‘Why not?’ Everybody got behind it and it has become the only St. Patrick’s Parade in Alaska and has grown every,” said Swee-

ney. Candy is an incentive for the hundreds of families that line the Kenai Spur Highway, but participants are more likely to hand out the candy rather than throw it from floats and cars — to keep it out of the mud and slush, said Sweeney. From unseasonably warm days that have had folks marching in shorts and flip flops to some of the worst winter storms, weather patterns have always been precarious for the early spring parade,

but that has never deterred participants. “About three years ago we probably had one of the biggest storms of the year. It just happens but we always have a great time and celebrate the wearing of the green,” Sweeney said. This year, the luck of the Irish prevailed with Mother Nature clearing the skies by mid-afternoon and turning the snow berms to slush. “Sure, I’ll take credit for the weather. I got up this morning and said, ‘Let’s have a nice day’ and

we did,” laughed Sweeney, as the parade got underway. He estimated about 400 folks participated in the parade with hundreds more watching and collecting candy along the parade route. VFW Post 10046 led the parade — followed by the Order of the Purple Heart. “This is the first parade of the year and I really enjoy this one. It’s a kickoff for family fun. And look at all these kids running around. It’s beautiful,”

said past post commander Mike Meredith. The Redmond family has marched in green Irish attire for each of the 28 parades. This year three generations of the family splashed in the slush and handed out candy. Now in their teens, members of the third generation have been in every parade since they were born. The Sterling community joined the St. Patrick’s Day weekend celebration by hosting their first dinner and music fundraising See PARADE, page A2

Creating a Tyrannosaurus Rex from egg cartons at Redoubt The kids in Tammy Flanders’ structured elementary classroom grades K-4 at Redoubt Elementary School may have created the first Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever made from egg cartons. “Our group was very creative and we decided to have them figure out a way to make a huge dinosaur out of found or recycled material. In our supply room we had a lot of egg cartons, so they painted and cut up the cartons to look like the bones of a dinosaur,” Flanders told the Dispatch in an interview. “Each child was assigned a different dinosaur to research and write

a report (on), and then as a culminating project they all worked together on the T-rex. The teachers sort of chose the T-rex so that there wouldn’t be any arguing if it wasn’t the dinosaur they researched. We then printed out photos of a T-rex skeleton and every day for about a week our students laid down those egg cartons, mapped out the dinosaur bones and every day they picked it up without gluing it down and then the next day would lay them down in a different way. And finally about the fifth or sixth day they came up with the final design, which we glued down, and is what is See REX, page A2

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event that included Tacos from Yo Tacos!, and hula dancing by the Murray Girls. “This year we decided to partner with the Yo Tacos!, who have become so popular at the local Wednesday markets and catered events in Soldotna. They are unbelievably community-minded people and so were the perfect match for people like us that like to do things for our community,” explained Debbie Debnam, a board member at the Sterling Community Center. “We opened in 2014 and have been able to accommodate a variety of events each year — from fiber festivals to pickleball and zumba. The community center is open for new ideas and new people who have something they can teach or do. We would love to sit down and talk with them,” added board member Melissa Daugherty. Sterling is certainly a cosmopolitan community where everyone is welcome to join in the fun.

The pink gorilla goes with a hula theme for St. Pat’s Day.

A Redoubt Rex created by structured elementary students.

Local Girl Scouts wear green all year long.

Cookie Monster goes green for St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

Tammy Flanders’ structured elementary class shows a T-Rex dinosaur students created from egg cartons.

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Murray Girls bring Aloha & Hula dancing at Sterling’s St. Patrick’s Day Taco dinner.

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Canine Good Citizen Advanced (CGCA) test

Kenai Kennel Club will be offering a Canine Good Citizen Advanced (CGCA) test on Sunday March 31 at 10:30 a.m. at Kenai Kennel Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Hwy Unit 21 (behind Home Gallery in the mall Job Center is in). Your dog must have successfully passed the CGC test before testing for CGCA. To register for the CGCA test or with any questions, contact Paula at paulalovett@yahoo.com.

Kenai/Soldotna Fish & Game Advisory Committee election meeting The Kenai/Soldotna Fish & Game Advisory Committee will hold an election meeting on Thursday, April 4 at the Kenai River Center at 6 p.m. Also on the agenda will be preparing BOF proposals, and any other business that may come before the committee. For more information contact Mike Crawford at 252-2919.

Combat fishing auction The Armed Services YMCA of Alaska, and the Seward Charter Fleet invite you to our 13th Annual Armed Services Combat Fishing Auction will take place Thursday, March 28 at 3720 Bellanca Way, Unit B in Anchorage. Begins at 5 p.m. Cocktails at 6 p.m. Live Auction. Hors d’Oeuvres. No cover charge. Bid online now: www.asymca.org/alaskacft-auction. All proceeds go to support active duty, guard, and reserve military members stationed in Alaska. For more information about this event or to inquire about tournament sponsorship opportunities, please contact the ASYMCA at 907.552.9622 or Welcome.Center@akasymca.org To learn more about the Combat Fishing Tournament, visit: www. asymca.org/alaska-cft.

CIRCAC board of directors meeting Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council (CIRCAC) represents citizens in promoting environmentally safe marine transportation and oil facility operations in Cook Inlet. CIRCAC is holding its Board of Directors Meeting on Friday, April 5 at 9 a.m. at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association building, 40610 Kalifornsky Beach Road, Kenai, AK 99611. The public is welcome to attend. For an agenda, directions or more information, call 907-283-7222 or toll free 800-652-7222. Meeting materials will be posted online at www.circac.org.

Trauma Workshop A Trauma Workshop will take place on March 30, 1-4 p.m. at Soldotna United Methodist Church with Trauma Specialist, Lisa Schmitter. This workshop will explain trauma and the physiological and psychological impact it can have. It will provide you with tools to regulate and begin to heal from the trauma. Traumas can be recent or from years ago. Lisa Schmitter, a trauma specialist who has 35 years experience, will share the latest research and neuro hacks for moving from PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) to Post Traumatic Growth. Visit the Facebook page for the Trauma Workshop at https://www.facebook.com/ events/2327680134135110/.

Kenai Peninsula Foundation grant cycle opening Kenai Peninsula Foundation 2019 competitive grants cycle is open from March 6 to April 3. We are currently accepting applications. Please direct general questions to KPF’s Program Manager, Hadassah Knight, at hknight@alaskacf. org. Please direct eligibility and technical questions about the online grant system to The Alaska Community Foundation at grants@alaskacf.org.

now on display in the hallway at Redoubt Elementary,” explained Flanders. It’s obvious in seeing the egg carton T-rex that the students put a lot of thought and creativity into the project. “The shapes for the bone structure for the most part was the work of the

SPEAK meeting SPEAK (Support Group for families of children who live though disabilities) will be meeting the third Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Love Inc. building 44410 K-Beach Rd. Parents, Grandparents, Guardians, and care givers service providers and resource representatives are encouraged and welcome to come and participate. This is great way to connect with others through their overcoming successes as parents, grandparents, and caregivers. SPEAK is a resource-based group. Please no children, childcare is not available. Questions call 907-252-2558 or 907-953-6325.

Al-Anon support group meetings Al-Anon support group meetings are held at the Central Peninsula Hospital in the Kasilof Room (second floor) of the River Tower building on Monday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. Park around back by the ER and enter through the River Tower entrance and follow the signs. Contact Tony Oliver at 252-0558 for more information.

CIRCAC scholarship deadline CIRCAC is giving away two $2,500 scholarships to graduating high school and college-age students pursuing coursework in environmental sciences or maritime technical and vocational studies. Applications can be filled in online at https://www.circac.org/outreach/scholarship-program/. For more information, call 907-283-7222. The deadline to apply is March 26.

Seeking host families The Central Peninsula AFS chapter is seeking host families for the 2019-20 school year. There are currently seven high school exchange students hosted by local families, and we will be sending four local students abroad next year. We have a strong organization and lots of support for host families. If you are interested in learning more, contact Eileen at 690-2779 or Laura at 394-6949.

The Nikiski Community Recreation Center —Call out to local vendors: It’s time to reserve your space! Booth Space is available for the annual Family Fun in the Midnight Sun/Nikiski Days Event scheduled for Saturday, June 15. Interested vendors are encouraged to contact us early. Applications will be available online www. northpenrec.com —American Red Cross Lifeguard class: The Nikiski Pool is looking for lifeguards. Class will be held April 8 through April 12 from 5-10 p.m. For more information, call 776-8800. —Aqua Hiit: Nikiski Pool is offering a new aquatic fitness class for Heart & Lung health. This is a low-impact, instructor-led cardio and pulmonary exercise that is beginner friendly. Class is free with pool admission. Class will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10-11 a.m. March 19 through May 9. For more information, please call 776-8800. —Spring clean community garage sale: The annual NCRC community garage sale will be held Saturday, March 29 from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Make sure to pre-register for this

students. The best part of my job as a special education teacher, which I have been doing since 2004, is helping the students be successful and seeing their faces light up when they find success. “This whole project is part of the districtwide personalized learning initiative — where teachers are encouraged to give students a choice and a voice in their learning. We actu-

ally let our students choose what they want to research next and they vote. The dinosaur reports is one of the things they chose to do. We’ll be saving all of our science projects and we’re going to actually have a science museum at the end of the school year and have the students invite their parents to visit our science museum,” said Flanders.

event. Forms can be picked up from NCRC or the Pool or they can be printed off of the website. For more information, call 776-8800 or check out our Facebook page. —NPRSA spring craft fair: The annual NPRSA spring craft fair will be held Saturday, April 13 from 10 a.m.4 p.m. Come see what local craftsmen and artisans have made! Vendor booths are available, but they fill up quickly so reserve your space today. Call 776-8800 for more information. —Lifeguard prep class: Nikiski Pool will be hosting a Lifeguard Prep class for those 13 years and older from March 19 through April 4 on Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 5-6 p.m. This class is for anyone interested in lifeguarding or wanting to work on their water skills. —Indoor soccer: NPRSA is now registering youth ages 4th through 5th grade for Indoor Soccer. Practices will start after Spring Break and games will begin in April. For more information or to register, please call 776-8800. —Fitness classes: NPRSA has many offerings to help you meet your health goals in 2019. The following fitness classes are held at NCRC: Strong by Zumba with Samantha Pate: Mondays at 9:30 a.m. and Fridays at 9:30 a.m.; Yoga with Lacey Stock: Mondays at 6 p.m. and Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.; Body Blast with Lacey Stock: Tuesdays at 6 p.m. —Spin Class with Teri Langston: Wednesdays at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 9:30 a.m. —Tuesday night log rolling: The Nikiski Pool hosts log rolling on Tuesday nights from 6:45-7:45 p.m. This FREE family-friendly event is for ages 5 and up. Come try out your skills on the key log! For more information, please call 776-8800. —NCRC Open Gym Nights: Teen Center, Monday – Friday, 2:30-8 p.m. —Full Swing Golf, Monday – Friday. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

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In the news Driver suspected of hitting children faces assault charges ANCHORAGE — State prosecutors have filed felony assault charges against an Eagle River woman suspected of driving onto a sidewalk while intoxicated and striking two children on bicycles. The Anchorage Daily News reports 60-yearold Vicie Zielinski also is charged with driving under the influence for the incident Sunday afternoon in Eagle River. Online court records do not list her attorney. The boy and girl suffered broken bones and facial injuries. Prosecutors say the children were riding on the sidewalk of the Old Glenn Highway, Eagle River’s main street, when Zielinski’s car struck them head-on. The children were taken to Providence Alaska Medical Center, where Zielinski is employed as a nurse. Prosecutors say Zielinski’s blood alcohol content registered at more than twice the legal limit. A magistrate judge set bail at $10,000.

Sled dog’s death caused by pneumonia, vet says ANCHORAGE — The death of a competition sled dog in last month’s Yukon Quest race was due to pneumonia contracted by inhaling stomach contents, according to a race veterinarian. The 5-year-old male dog on Misha Wiljes’ team died Feb. 11 from aspiration pneumonia “caused by inhaling vomited stomach contents,” KTUU reported Monday. The dog named Joker died on the trail about 3 miles after a checkpoint, but was in “good body condition” and had no health defects, according to Yukon Quest head veterinarian Cristina Hansen. Hansen had said in a preliminary report that Joker’s cause of death was aspiration from a fluid or foreign body being inhaled into the lungs. The final determination came after a more thorough evaluation. — Associated Press

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Gov. Mike Dunleavy gives a presentation about his proposed budget at the Cannery Lodge in Kenai on Monday. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Gov. Mike Dunleavy launched his statewide roadshow on Monday with a presentation and panel discussion at the Cannery Lodge in Kenai.

Dunleavy and several members of his administration, including Chief of Staff Jeremy Price, Office of Management and Budget Director Donna Arduin, Attorney General Kevin Clarkson and Revenue Commissioner Bruce Tangeman, are traveling

around the state as part of a statewide discussion on the state’s fiscal issues. The roadshow is funded in part by Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political advocacy group funded by the Koch brothers. “What we want to do is

have an honest conversation about how we got here and what the path forward is,” Price said in his introduction to the governor. During the presentation, Dunleavy and his staff gave an explanation of Alaska’s current fiscal situation, deSee SHOW, page A2

ANCHORAGE — The National Park Service improperly banned an Alaska moose hunter from using a hovercraft on a river through a national preserve, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a unanimous decision. The court limited the National Park Service’s authority to enforce laws and regulations on state-owned rivers in Alaska. Justices rejected the agency’s argument that the river was “public land” for regulatory authority and that the agency’s water rights interest gave it rule-making authority. The outcome was a victory for moose hunter John Sturgeon of Anchorage, who had sued and lost in lower court rulings. “We reverse the decision below and wish Sturgeon good hunting,” Justice Elena Kagan said in reading a summary of the decision. Sturgeon called it “a See MOOSE, page A16

School board proposes FY 2020 budget By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

Assistant Superintendent Dave Jones announced the school district’s preliminary FY 2020 budget at a special Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meeting Thursday. Jones said the budget is based on status quo flat funding from the state using the base student allocation, last year’s onetime funding appropriated by the Legislature and a request for maximum funding from the borough. Last April, the preliminary budget passed by the school board allocated over $142 million in gen-

Dustin Poindexter, of Anchor Point, speaks to the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education in support of his children’s school, Chapman School, on Thursday, in Soldotna. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/ Peninsula Clarion)

eral fund revenue across the district. On a state level, the

district has been operating under the assumption of flat funding from the

base student allocation of nearly $6,000 per student from the Foundation Funding Formula, totaling just under $80 million in state funding. The school board meeting was planned after Gov. Mike Dunleavy introduced his proposed budget. The district would face a loss of more than $22 million if Dunleavy’s proposed budget passes. The school board will formally introduce their budget at the April 1 meeting. “It’s a unique year,” Jones said at the meeting. At the borough level, the district is asking for about $52 million. The borough is required by law to contribute nearly $29 million at least.

“It’s a big ask, but we’re doing that so we can present this status quo budget — as far as programs and facilities that we deliver … across the peninsula,” Jones said. About 30 percent of the district’s budget comes from the borough, while about 69 percent comes from the state, Jones said. “We won’t really know until the end of June what’s going to happen at the legislative and the governor level,” Jones said. After Jones gave his budget update, the next hour was devoted to public comment, which was dominated by educators, staff, parents and Anchor See 2020, page A15

Dunleavy meets with chief justice on nominees By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — Gov. Mike Dunleavy met Tuesday with the chief justice of the Alaska Supreme Court in a dispute over judicial nominations, though details of the meeting weren’t immediate-

ly available. The executive director of the Alaska Judicial Council expected a statement later Tuesday. Dunleavy spokesman Matt Shuckerow said he had not had a chance to discuss the meeting with the governor before Dunleavy headed into a radio inter-

view. Dunleavy last week filled one Palmer Superior Court seat but refused to fill a second. In a letter to members of the Alaska Judicial Council, which sent him three finalists for the two seats, Dunleavy said he would “not be selecting a second candidate from

Roadless Rule supported statewide, nationally By ALEX MCCARTHY Juneau Empire

Members of the public near and far have expressed their support for the 2001 Roadless Rule in recent months, both to the U.S. Forest Service and to a national survey organization. The USFS is currently

considering making an Alaska-specific version of the Roadless Rule, a federal law that prevents timber harvest and the building of roads on National Forest Service areas throughout the country, including 7.4 million acres of roadless lands in Southeast Alaska. The Alaska-specific Road-

less Rule has yet to be written, and is scheduled to be released in June 2020, according to the latest Roadless Rule bulletin from the USFS. That bulletin also said the majority of comments received during the recent public comment period See ROAD, page A16

this truncated list.” Chief Justice Joel Bolger has countered that founders of the state’s constitution intended for a governor to appoint for judgeships candidates nominated by the council and defended the council’s process for vetting and nominating candidates.

“We concur that we have to pick from the list. The question is, is there a way to broaden that list, especially going into the future because there are a lot of qualified applicants for these positions?” Dunleavy told Alaska Public Media’s Talk of Alaska See MEET, page A16

Seward close to hiring new city manager By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion

The Seward City Council has chosen the final two candidates in the search for the next city manager. Scott Meszaros, the former town manager of Meeker, Colorado, and Erin Reinders, the current assistant city manager of Un-

alaska, have been invited to Seward for in-person interviews with the council. The interviews are expected to be held on March 28 and will include a tour of city facilities, an interview with city council and a question-and-answer session with the public. The date is subject to change. See CITY, page A2

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number one. Erin was number two but it was 50-50,” said Vice Mayor Sue McClure. Continued from page A1 “I think Erin is number one,” said Council member Sheryl At a meeting last Wednes- Seese. “I think she’ll be fresh air day, the council was evenly split in our town.” between the two candidates. After the departure of inter“I picked Meszaros as my im City Manager Jeff Bridges

on March 17, Harbormaster Norm Regis stepped into the role of acting city manager until the city decides on a permanent replacement. The role has been vacant since the resignation of former City Manager Jim Hunt in August of 2018.

The city council hired GovHR, a recruiting firm, to conduct the search for Seward’s new city manager. Video interviews with both of the candidates are available online at https://www.sparkhire. com/shared/dda04a72-33e04196-b217-97860599a0a0.

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from asking the governor why he has introduced such drastic cuts, to asking OMB director Arduin if she had specific ways that Alaskan educators can improve the outcome for students with a significantly reduced budget. Dunleavy maintained that cuts of that magnitude and a permanent reduction in spending is necessary to stabilize Alaska’s economy and to draw potential investors to the state. Arduin did not have specific ideas to offer, but did say that the administration will be rolling out several initiatives in the coming weeks focusing on improving education outcomes through technology. Arduin and the rest of Dunleavy’s team also said throughout the event that an increase in education spending has not resulted in better outcomes for students, which is part of the reason they have decided to reduce the budget for public education. During the panel the director’s of Americans for Prosperity and the Alaska Policy Forum were also given opportunities to speak and give their perspectives on the budget. While the room was filled mostly with supporters of Dunleavy and his decisions, the “Make Alaska Great Again” hats inside were contrasted by protest signs outside criticizing potential cuts to education and other social services. As attendees pulled up to the gates of the Cannery Lodge, roughly 50 protesters were there with signs and chants. Many of the signs were advocating for education funding, while others were criticizing the event’s sponsorship. One protester, Susanna

Larock, said she came to the event to fight for her son’s school in Moose Pass, which could be closed or consolidated if Dunleavy’s proposed budget passes. “I’m here to fight for my son’s school,” Larock said. “It’s a wonderful school. He thrives there and I want him to keep thriving there.” Laura Johnson said she also came out to support funding for education. “We need to look for other sources of revenue and not cut schools,” Johnson said. “I would give up my PFD. Put an income tax or a sales tax; let’s not cut the schools.” Protestors like David Coray were frustrated that the governor’s event wasn’t fully open to the public. “The secretive nature of how this whole set up was being organized and conducted — that it wasn’t really a fair public hearing — that is one of the main reasons for why I’m here,” Coray said. Protester David Anthons said he wanted the event to have a better, more democratic process. “This is sponsored by Americans for Prosperity and the Koch Brothers,” Anthons said. “It’s not an Alaskan group. You know, they destroyed schools and destroyed jobs in Kansas where I’m from. I’m pretty familiar with it. I just want to see democracy and this is not a democratic process.” Dunleavy’s statewide tour will take him to Anchorage, Nome, Fairbanks and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough over the next couple weeks before eventually returning to Juneau.

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fended the reasoning behind his budget proposal, and laid out several constitutional amendments being pushed by the administration. Dunleavy started by attributing the current $1.6 billion dollar deficit to the beginning of former Gov. Bill Walker’s administration when oil prices dropped to about $26 per barrel. “We’ve been trying to figure out ever since how to deal with it. Under the previous administration, their approach was to use part of the Permanent Fund and also try taxes,” Dunleavy said. Oil prices and production have not rebounded the way that lawmakers expected, said Dunleavy, and as a result the deficit issue remained unsolved year to year. Dunleavy said that because oil revenues are not expected to reach levels that can sustain Alaska’s budget as they have in the past, he opted to cut spending by $1.6 billion so that it matched the current revenue stream. The cuts translate to a major reduction in funding for almost every public sector, and the drastic size of these cuts have spurred community input from all over the state. Beyond just cutting spending, Dunleavy wants to pass several constitutional amendments in order to prevent a similar budget crisis from happening in the future. The first amendment proposed would put a cap on the amount that the state can spend each year, with that cap rising at about 2.5

percent each year adjusted for population and inflation change. If revenue exceeds that spending cap in a given year, the excess would be put into savings. It also allows exceptions to the spending cap for the PFD and disaster spending. The second amendment proposed would require a vote by the general population to approve any new tax proposed by the Legislature. It would also require any tax passed through an initiative by the people to be approved by the Legislature. The third amendment proposed would “constitutionally enshrine the PFD,” according to Dunleavy’s presentation. This amendment would no longer require the PFD to be appropriated by the Legislature, but rather taken out automatically each year from the Alaska Permanent Fund. It also would make vetoing the PFD impossible, and require any change of the PFD to be approved by the voters. All three of these amendments will require a two-thirds vote by both chambers of the Legislature followed by a majority vote by the citizens of Alaska before they are ratified. Dunleavy’s presentation was followed by a questionand-answer panel. In between the presentation and the panel, attendees were asked to fill out question cards that were distributed by Americans for Prosperity. A representative from Americans for Prosperity then fielded some of these questions to the panel, which consisted of Dunleavy, his team, the regional director for Americans for Prosperity and the director of operations for the Alaska Policy Forum. The questions ranged

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Roxane Mathewson Percival

Sophie Ann Grabowski

Born in Missoula, Montana, of Charlotte Russell and Bill Richardson, Roxane enjoyed an independent childhood as the sole child of sometimes single parents. In an act of ambivalent symbolism, she gave up that independence on America’s bicentennial, July 4, 1976, marrying crazy but loveable roughneck Harry Higgs. They kicked around some. Roxy moved to Alaska in 1979, working the slope and various Anchorage nightclubs. She married oilpatch coworker Al Mathewson in the mid-80s; together they built and sold several homes, started a trucking company and finally settled down with a charter fishing outfit in Kasilof. Challenged in recent years by house fires, suicides, ill-health and divorce, Roxane remained buoyant with laughter and faith that even these misfortunes expressed a glorious greater plan. Her sketchy early exposure to religion had matured into a defining commitment to the Christian community and her Savior’s love. An interesting Facebook encounter led Roxy to wed Steven Percival, a Montana acquaintance of 40 years on October 25, 2014. They would remain inseparable until her death. Rozane is survived by nieces Iris and Lily, nephews Chris and Montana, and dog Gator; her life will be celebrated on March 28 at the Gallery Lodge, 22536 Terrace Dr, Kasilof, AK. Service begins at 3 o’clock; directions online or at 9079539683; all are welcome. Please direct donations to local pet rescue efforts.

Sophie Ann Grabowski, age 98, resident of Kenai and Soldotna, Alaska passed away on March 23, 2019. Born in North Carolina, she and her husband Edwin Grabowski homesteaded in Ninilchik in the 1950s. They moved with their family to Seattle, Washington in 1963, while Edwin was working in the king crab industry. She returned to the Kenai/Soldotna area in 2009 to rejoin family that was still here. Sophie is survived by her children: Mike Grabowski, Jordan Gray, Marq Grabowski, Lori Grabowski; grandchildren: Kari Grabowski, Aron Grabowski, Nathan Grabowski, Rachel Grabowski, Joy Bartlett and Wyatt Bartlett. A family memorial will be held at a later date.

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Death announcement Thomas Israel Throop Thomas Israel Throop, 89, passed away on March 19, 2019 in Anchorage, Alaska. He will be buried in Ninilchik, Alaska.

Soldotna Historical Society & Homestead Museum meeting Our board meeting will be held April 2 at 9 a.m. at the museum, 461 Centennial Park road. Please consider volunteering! Questions? Contact Carmen at 262-2791.

GPS for Mariners class The USCG Auxiliary Kenai Flotilla will be conducting a GPS for Mariners class on Saturday, March 30 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Center located at 40610 Kalifornsky Beach Road, Soldotna, next to Spenard Builders. The class is an introduction to GPS navigation to aid the boater in operating their vessel using supplement type of navigation tool. For more information and registration, please contact Mike Chase at 907-2011792.

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Seward Fish & Game Advisory Committee election meeting

30th Anniversary of Visual Feast The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Visual Feast, the annual districtwide student art show. Featuring work from across the peninsula, this show highlights the best high school and middle school artists from a wide variety of schools. This show is a revelation every year, showcasing the amazing talent that exists on the Kenai Peninsula in both 3-D and 2-D work. The show will run the month of April at the Kenai Fine Arts Center with an opening reception on Thursday, April 4 at 5 p.m.

Soldotna/Kenai 100+ Women Who Care The Soldotna/Kenai 100+ Women Who Care group will be meeting March 28 from 6-7 p.m. at the Kenai Visitor Center in Kenai. This will be our 1st quarter meeting. All members in good standing will have a chance to pitch for a cause or nonprofit they support. Three names will be drawn — those three will make their pitch, and the group will vote on the cause that receives the funds from the meeting. All the money stays local, if you are a member, bring a friend!!!! We hope to reach 100 women very soon! Local nonprofits who benefited in 2018 are the Kenai Watershed Forum, Hospice of Central Peninsula, Students in Transition and the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank, over $20,000 raised to date! For more information find us on Facebook.

Kenai Peninsula Fish Habitat Partnership 2019 Symposium The Kenai Peninsula Fish Habitat Partnership 2019 Symposium will take place on Thursday, April 18 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Cannery Lodge. RSVP required. Join us for discussions about habitat protections on the Kenai Peninsula, including defining the future of fish

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Thursday, March 28 1:30 p.m.: The Senate Labor & Commerce Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss SB 52 Alcoholic Beverage Control; Alcohol Regulation. Testimony will be taken.

Friday, March 29

All teleconferences are held at the Kenai LIO 145 Main St Lp #217, Kenai, AK 99611 unless otherwise noted. To confirm call 283-2030 or email Kenai.LIO@akleg.gov. To listen / watch online go to http://alaskalegislature.tv/

CIRCAC board of directors meeting Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council (CIRCAC) is holding its Board of Directors Meeting on Friday, April 5 at 9 a.m. at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association building, 40610 Kalifornsky Beach Road, Kenai, AK 99611. The public is welcome to attend. For an agenda, directions or more information, call 907-283-7222 or toll free 800-652-7222. Meeting materials will be posted online at www.circac.org.

LeeShore Center monthly board meeting

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Anti-vaxxers ignore science, put us at risk The measles vaccine saves lives.

And it does not cause autism. The researchers and medical professionals who have been trying for years to convince parents of those truths just got what ought to be enough evidence to end the misinformation campaign that’s threatening the health and safety of increasing numbers of American children. Researchers in Denmark have published a major paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine with findings of a massive study of data on more than half a million Danish children born over the span of a decade. Their findings are clear: There is no link between the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella and autism. But then, this latest data simply bolsters what earlier research has shown. Epidemiologists have been telling us there is no link at least since 2010, when a British medical tribunal found that Andrew Wakefield, a former gastroenterologist, had acted “dishonestly and irresponsibly” as the lead author of a study claiming to have found a link between autism and the MMR vaccine. Wakefield lost his right to practice medicine in the United Kingdom, and The Lancet, the medical journal that had published his “study” in 1998, fully retracted it as false, saying the editors had been deceived. There were reports that Wakefield had “undisclosed” financial interests in making his claims. And yet, the damage that started with Wakefield’s initial study continues to spread. Here in the United States, where he moved in 2004, there’s an alarming resurgence in measles cases. There are six outbreaks right now, with Washington state especially hard hit. In recent days, there have been two congressional hearings into the problem of falling vaccination rates and the surge in measles cases. The problem is particularly frustrating because it is so unnecessary. Vaccines had all but eradicated measles in the United State by 2000. Before a vaccine was introduced in 1963, measles killed 400 to 500 Americans each year, mostly children, sent many more to hospitals and left many with lasting problems including blindness and neurological damage. That doesn’t have to happen again. But the anti-vaccine movement that started in part because of Wakefield has picked up steam recently. Like so many things in American society, the fear and rumors are spread on Facebook and other social media. One of the witnesses at a recent Senate hearing was Andrew Lindenberger, an Ohio high school student who recently became famous by having himself vaccinated when he turned 18, against the wishes of his mother, who believes in vaccine conspiracies. Lindenberger said his mother got most of her false information from Facebook. Ironically, probably one reason the anti-vaxxer movement has swayed so many people is because the vaccines for childhood diseases have been so successful. Most of today’s parents have never experienced the damage they can do. It’s not just measles. Chickenpox, which can necessitate amputations, lead to shingles later in life, and even be fatal in infants, pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems, has also resurfaced. There was a major chickenpox outbreak in Asheville, N.C., last November. Some parents think it’s OK to skip vaccinations for their children because of “herd Immunity” — since most kids are vaccinated, theirs should be OK. But that’s a selfish approach that can endanger people who for some health reason can’t be vaccinated. Others, like Lindenberger’s mother, have bought into the anti-vaxxer scare. Witnesses at the recent congressional hearings called for a major public relations campaign to combat the persistent misinformation. Social media sites are being urged to exercise more responsibility.

Another weekend busted

One lesson the Washington reporter learns very quickly is that he or she should never EVER have unbreakable plans for the weekend. It’s a major strain on the relationships that newspersons have with significant others who can accept only so many disappointments resulting from the Friday night news dump. The unpredictable dump has become sadly predictable. For good reasons and bad, officials wait until most people have stopped paying attention because they’re focusing on their Saturday and Sunday activities, errands and fun stuff, and not on the incessant scandals that define politics. That’s why Friday evening becomes the preferred time to release the definitive reports, to minimize embarrassment when sane people aren’t watching. But we are, and must scramble to cover the new developments. To be fair, there are honorable reasons to delay the blockbusters; for instance, to reduce the jolt to the financial markets, which are always looking for some reason to crater but are closed until Monday, when the impact of overcoverage might have dulled. So it was with news that the final report from special counsel Robert Mueller had been delivered to Attorney General William Barr at about 5 p.m. Friday. When that happens, the nightly newscasts and cable news channels go bonkers. They go into panic mode, scrambling to report everything they know, and bringing in every pundit

and “expert” to tell the world what they know. This time, in both cases, they didn’t know much. That’s because all we really got was an announcement that Barr had reBob Franken ceived Mueller’s report and that he would decide how much he’d publicly release of it once he’d read it. That’s the legally required choreography. It didn’t stop the endless parade of pontificating panelists and members of Congress from breathlessly expressing their uninformed opinions about what they didn’t know. The only indication we got from the attorney general was that he was reading the report and he’d get back to us. All that does is goad us into more of a frenzy of reporting where there was little to report, in a tizzy about the possibility that the competition will have more information than we have. There is little more that is demeaning to a journalist than a call from the boss asking, “How come we didn’t have that?” in reference to some scoop the other guys had. Pity the poor booking person. Each network is crawling with them, those who are pressured by executive producers to arrange the best guests. It is not uncommon for some booker to tell a primo prospect that “If you don’t agree to come on our show, I’ll lose

my job.” Sometimes, the most vicious battles involve a poisonous competition between the various programs at the same network. Whether it’s intramural or intermural, it’s a nasty business, arranging for the top newsmakers, who will be forceful or affable, but most importantly, whose remarks on your telecast will be widely quoted. The way it usually plays out is that the story will have worked its way out by the Sunday talk shows — “Meet the Press,” “Face the Nation,” “This Week,” “Fox News Sunday.” Many of us call them “The Game Shows.” They are supposed to put an exclamation point on the big story du weekend, before we stop paying attention to this madness and focus on college basketball’s March Madness. That was not the case this time around. William Barr hadn’t gotten the memo about deadlines and announced he’d have no announcement in time for The Game Shows. He waited till Sunday afternoon to make his sensational written declaration: President Donald Trump, the man who put him in office, had been effectively let off the hook by Mueller. Most Donald Trump stories evaporate, but this one will not. Trump will be taking a victory lap that will last until Election Day. Democrats will continue trying to trip him up with their investigations. And reporters will work many more weekends.

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Appeals court tilts against Trump in Twitter fight NEW YORK — Judges on a federal appeals court in New York seemed skeptical Tuesday as they heard a lawyer argue that President Donald Trump can legally ban critics from his Twitter account. The three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did not immediately rule on whether to uphold a lower-court judge’s conclusion that Trump is violating the First Amendment when he blocks critics. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald’s decision last year came after the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University sued on behalf of seven individuals blocked by Trump after they criticized his policies. Attorney Jennifer Utrecht, arguing for the president, noted that @realDonaldTrump, with nearly 60 million followers, was created long before Trump was president. She said Trump sometimes tweets official announcements but acts in a private capacity when he blocks individuals. Circuit Judge Peter W. Hall cited the president’s repeated use of the so-

cial media platform to make official announcements. Hall noted that Trump in recent days had tweeted that he was revoking sanctions against North Korea, signing a proclamation pertaining to Israel, announcing a Federal Reserve Board appointment and sharing his White House celebration with hockey’s Stanley Cup winners. “Those aren’t official actions?” Hall asked. Utrecht conceded official statements are regularly made, but argued that does not change the private nature of Trump’s decision to block certain individuals from his account. “Are you seriously urging us to believe that the president is not acting in his official capacity when he is tweeting?” asked Circuit Judge Barrington D. Parker. Parker said Trump’s tweets occur amid a “worldwide dialogue on matters of transcendent public importance.” “And what the blocking does ... is subtract from that discussion points of view that the president doesn’t like. Why isn’t that just a quintessential First Amendment violation?” the

judge asked. Utrecht responded that Trump’s critics can still engage in Twitter debates with others about subjects the president tweets about. “The fact that someone can go down the street and express a point of view is not a defense to government suppressing a particular point of view in a forum,” Parker said. Hall agreed with Parker. “If it’s more burdensome at all, if you have to move down the street, it violates the First Amendment,” Hall said. Circuit Judge Christopher F. Droney noted that it might be possible to conclude Trump’s Twitter account is a public forum by the fact the U.S. Justice Department represents him. “Your very presence here represents the fact that this is a public forum,” he told Utrecht. Jameel Jaffer, the Knight Institute’s executive director, faced some tough questions from the judges as well, though not to the same degree. At one point, Parker asked if the president could block racist or anti-Semitic material that others might send him. Jaffer said he probably could.

There also have been calls for tougher vaccination laws, with fewer exemptions. Most states, including Virginia, allow exemptions for religious reasons. Some parents have legitimate religious objections to vaccinations, but there’s considerable evidence that oth-

ers, misled by junk science, take the religious exemption because it’s easy to do so. The measles vaccine saves lives. It’s been proved beyond any reasonable doubt that it does not cause autism. For the sake of their children and everyone in the community,

parents should listen to doctors and researchers and allow their children to have these important vaccines. Any death of a child is terrible. An easily preventable death is even worse.

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press

— The Virginian-Pilot, March 19

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Nation

Dems cry foul as Trump calls for ending ‘Obamacare’ By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has told a federal appeals court it wants the entire Affordable Care Act struck down, an outcome that could leave millions uninsured and reignite a winning political issue for Democrats. The administration, in a terse filing Monday with the court in New Orleans, said it agrees that former President Barack Obama’s health care law should be declared unconstitutional after Congress repealed one part of it — unpopular fines on people who remain uninsured. That position is at odds with previous statements by leading congressional Republicans who said they did not intend to repeal other parts of the law when they cut out its fines, effective this year. It’s also a departure from the administration’s earlier stance in a lower court, where it had argued that only federal protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions and limits on premiums charged to older, sick-

er people should be struck down. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the turnabout shows that Republicans “say one thing and they do another.” Democrats have been casting about for a message after Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no conspiracy between candidate Donald Trump and the Russian government to sway the 2016 election. “This is actually an opportunity for us to speak to the American people with clarity,” Pelosi said. “Republicans did say during the campaign that they weren’t there to undermine the pre-existing condition benefit.” “Then they go to court to strip it and strip the whole bill,” she continued. If the entire ACA is repealed, popular provisions such as coverage for adult children on parental insurance until age 26 would go, Pelosi said. Seeming to react to the pushback, Trump said on Twitter, “The Republican Party will become “The Party of Healthcare!” As president-elect Trump promised “insurance for

President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he arrives for a Senate Republican policy lunch on Capitol Hill.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

everybody,” but the White House never presented a comprehensive plan. The Justice Department did not explain its reasoning in a two-sentence letter to the court, but promised a full and timely explanation for the appeals judges. It’s rare for Justice to decline to defend a federal law. The case brought by Texas and a group of GOPled states seems headed for the Supreme Court. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth earlier ruled in favor of the plaintiff states, and Democratic-led states have appealed to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in

New Orleans. The Supreme Court has twice upheld the Obamaera law. Five justices — a majority — who upheld the law in 2012 are still on the bench. They are Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s four liberals. Repeal of the ACA in its entirety would risk making more than 20 million people uninsured. That includes some 12 million low-income people covered through its Medicaid expansion, and some 11 million purchasing subsidized private health insurance through HealthCare. gov and state-run insurance markets.

Prosecutors abandon criminal case against Jussie Smollett By AMANDA SEITZ and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press

CHICAGO — Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped all charges against Jussie Smollett, an astonishing reversal that the “Empire” actor called vindication, but that the Chicago mayor angrily dismissed as a “whitewash” of allegations that Smollett lied about being the target of a racist, antigay attack. Authorities said they still believe Smollett concocted the attack, and they offered little explanation for the decision to abandon the case barely five weeks after charges were filed. In return for the dismissal, Smollett agreed to do community service and to forfeit the $10,000 he paid to get out of jail. The mayor and police chief blasted the move and stood by the investigation that concluded Smollett staged a hoax. Mayor Rahm Emanuel lashed out at Smollett, saying he had dragged the city’s reputa-

Actor Jussie Smollett talks to the media before leaving Cook County Court after his charges were dropped in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

tion “through the mud” in a quest to advance his career. At one point he asked, “Is there no decency in this man?” Smollett’s attorneys said his record was “wiped clean” of the 16 felony counts related to making a false report that he was assaulted by two men. The actor insisted that he had “been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one.” “I would not be my mother’s son if I was capable of one drop of what

I was being accused of,” he told reporters after a court hearing. He thanked the state of Illinois “for attempting to do what’s right.” In a statement, a spokeswoman for the Cook County prosecutors’ office said the dismissal came “after reviewing all of the facts and circumstances of the case.” Tandra Simonton called it “a just disposition and appropriate resolution” but also said it not an exoneration. In some dropped cases,

Senator urges White House to fill top Pentagon post

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan testifies at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the fiscal year 2020 Pentagon budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is coming under increasing pressure to nominate someone to lead the Pentagon, nearly three months after President Donald Trump’s first secretary of defense, Jim Mattis, resigned in a policy dispute. Patrick Shanahan, who has been the acting secretary since Mattis left Dec. 31, was thought to be Trump’s likely choice for the nomination. But expectations have become clouded in recent weeks, in part by the launching of a Defense Department watchdog investigation of alleged Shanahan bias in favor of his former longtime employer, Boeing

Co., which is a major defense contractor. It is highly unusual for the Pentagon to be led by an acting secretary. Shanahan is only the third person to perform the job in that capacity since the Defense Department was created in 1947. It is less uncommon elsewhere in government, and Trump has an outsize number of Cabinet secretaries and other advisers with “acting” in their titles. In the case of the Defense Department, the absence of a confirmed secretary is a sore point with the Senate. “We need to have a nominee for the secretary of defense, and I would like to see that nomination come from the White House soon,” Sen. James Inhofe, the Republican

chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Tuesday. Inhofe’s House counterpart, Rep. Adam Smith, a Washington state Democrat, tried to inject a little humor into the awkward circumstance facing Shanahan. With Shanahan seated at the House Armed Services Committee witness table, preparing to testify on the administration’s 2020 defense budget request, Smith said “there’s getting to be sort of a Bud Selig joke here.” He was referring to Selig serving as interim commissioner of major league baseball for six years before finally being named the official commissioner. “We are hoping that doesn’t happen in your case as well,” Smith said. In a statement provided by his office, Inhofe also said that if Trump nominates Shanahan, there should be a “thorough but expeditious examination of any outstanding issues” by the Defense Department inspector general. That appeared to be a reference to the inspector general opening an investigation last week into a complaint by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington that Shanahan has used his office to promote Boeing.

prosecutors will insist that the defendant accept at least a measure of responsibility. Outside court, neither Smollett nor his legal team appeared to concede anything about his original report in January. Defense attorney Patricia Brown Holmes said Smollett was “attacked by two people he was unable to identify” and “was a victim who was vilified and made to appear as a perpetrator.” Authorities alleged that Smollett, who is black and gay, knew the men and arranged for them to pretend to attack him. Emanuel, who is in his final weeks in office after two terms, said the hoax could endanger other gay people who report hate crimes. “Now this casts a shadow of whether they’re telling the truth, and he did this all in the name of self-promotion,” he said. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson stood by the department’s investigation and said Chicago is “is still owed an apology.”

California crab fisheries to close early to protect whales SAN FRANCISCO — California crab fisheries will close for the season in April when whales are feeding off the state’s coast as part of an effort to keep Dungeness crab fishery gear from killing protected whales, officials announced Tuesday. The April 15 closure, three months before the crab fishing season normally ends, is part of a settlement reached by the Center for Biological Diversity and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The center sued the state agency in 2017, saying it was liable for a surge in entanglement of endangered whales and sea turtles because it oversees operation of the fishery on state and federal waters off California’s coast. “This is a great victory for the whales and sea turtles that come to feed off the coast of California in very large numbers every single spring season,” said Kristen Monsell, a Center for Biological Diversity attorney. Dungeness crab season will close April 1 in 2020 and 2021 in the Monterey Bay area and along the Sonoma and Mendocino counties line, both spots where whales amass to feed in the spring as they make their journey north, according to the settlement. The agreement also establishes criteria that could prompt an even earlier closure, including one confirmed whale entanglement in Dungeness crab fishing gear or two confirmed entanglements in other fishing gear or the presence of 20 or more whales in a spot. The number of humpbacks, blue and other endangered or threatened species of whale entangled by the ropes, buoys and anchors of fishing gear on the West Coast has broken records in recent years as climate change pushes the mammals closer to shore — and fishing gear — in their search for food. A preliminary count for 2018 shows 45 whale entanglements on the West Coast compared with 31 confirmed entanglements in 2017. Between 2000 and 2014, the West Coast saw an average of 10 entanglements per year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The accidental entanglements can gouge whales’ flesh and mouth, weaken the animals, drown them, or kill them painfully, over months. Dungeness crab pots are the single largest identifiable source of fishing gear entangling whales on the West Coast. Crab pots and the lines can get carried away by waves or by vessels that accidentally snag them. Sometimes fishermen abandon their pots or lose them. As part of the settlement, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife will issue rules by November on the retrieval of crab gear that is left in the water or is broken-down and abandoned and on marking all fishing gear with unique identifiers for each fishery. “This agreement represents hours of intense negotiation to help ensure (whale entanglements) don’t happen while supporting the resiliency of the crab fishery in the long run,” Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Chuck Bonham said. Early crab fishing closures won’t apply for those crabbers who have rope-less gear. Bonham said during a call Monday that his department will continue to support the development of that technology. “The crab caught off our coast is going to be caught with greater care for endangered wildlife,” he said. Noah Oppenheim, executive director of Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, which also was a party to the negotiations as an intervener, said that existing rope-less technology is “extraordinarily expensive” and that fisheries will see a significant revenue hit for the 2019 season. But, he said, fisheries agree the early closures and a working group looking for solutions that includes them is the best option “for a very difficult problem.” “We have arguably the most progressive, the most collaborative effort to address whale entanglement in the country and perhaps in the world, right here in California. We’re proud of that. Our organization and this fleet is proud of that,” he said. — The Associated Press

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Israel launches fresh strikes on Gaza

Palestinians gather in front of destroyed multi-story building of Hamas-affiliated insurance company, in Gaza City, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) By Tamara Zieve and Sara Lemel dpa

TEL AVIV —Israel launched fresh strikes on the Gaza Strip late Tuesday, in retaliation for rockets fired from the Palestinian territory into Israel and following an exchange of fire the night before. “Our airforce just struck several Hamas terror targets in Gaza,” the Israeli army said in a tweet. It also said

that air-raid sirens were “sounding across southern Israel.” Police said a rocket fired from Gaza had been intercepted by its Iron Dome missile defense system. Palestinian militants had also earlier flouted an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire by sending balloons carrying explosives across the border, Israeli media reported. Tensions between Israel and Hamas, which has gov-

erned the Gaza Strip since 2007, are escalating just two weeks before hotly contested parliamentary elections in Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier cut short a visit to Washington, where he had been scheduled to attend the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, conference. In a live video address to the gathering, he said Israel had responded with “great force” to a rocket fired from Gaza on Monday that injured seven Israelis and was “prepared to do a lot more.” Israel boosted troop numbers on the Gaza border on Tuesday, sending another infantry brigade as well as an artillery battalion after saying it would deploy two additional brigades the day before. Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi has also approved the drafting of more reserve soldiers, the army said. There had been a tense

quiet along the Israel-Gaza border during Tuesday daytime, following an exchange of fire during the night that continued even after a Hamas spokesman said Egypt had succeeded in brokering the ceasefire between the two sides. Palestinian militants had fired 60 rockets from Gaza into Israeli territory surrounding the coastal enclave since Monday, according to the army. The Gaza Government media office meanwhile said that the Israeli army had conducted more than 50 airstrikes on Gaza from Monday afternoon through to the early hours of Tuesday morning. This included a strike on the office of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. The Gaza Health Ministry said that seven Palestinians were injured. Netanyahu has faced criticism from politicians on the left and the right for being too soft on Hamas.

Algerian army chief calls for president to be declared unfit By AOMAR OUALI Associated Press

ALGIERS, Algeria — Algeria’s powerful army chief called Tuesday for starting the constitutional process to have President Abdelaziz Bouteflika declared unfit for office, possibly paving the way for the ailing president’s ouster after 20 years in power. Gen. Ahmed Gaid Salah’s statement comes after more than a month of mass protests against Bouteflika’s long rule. The 82-year-old leader has rarely been seen in public since he suffered a stroke in 2013. Gaid Salah said in remarks carried on Algerian television that “the only guarantee for political stability” is to apply the article of the Algerian constitution that empowers the Constitutional Council to determine if the president is too ill to do his job, and to ask lawmakers to declare him unfit. His remarks, which he made during a stop at an army base in southern Algeria, carried special weight since the army chief is one of the country’s top power

In this file picture, Algerian chief of staff Gen. Ahmed Gaid Salah presides a military parade in Algiers. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul, File)

brokers and deeply loyal to Bouteflika. Yet the general’s comments were met with little joy in the streets, where protesters have been demanding the overhaul of a system that has safeguarded a leader who hasn’t addressed the nation in years. In massive marches each Friday since Feb. 22, demonstrators have demanded that Bouteflika step down, accusing him and his entourage of corruption, hoarding the gas-rich country’s wealth and being out of touch with ordinary Alge-

rians, especially struggling youth. “In this context, it becomes necessary, even imperative, to adopt a solution to get out of the crisis which reflects the legitimate demands of the Algerian people,” Gaid Salah said in his televised address from a military base in the southern city of Ouargla. In what seemed like paradox, some of Bouteflika’s top supporters welcomed the general’s proposal, while opposition parties railed against it. They included the Front for

Socialist Forces, which denounced what it dubbed a move against “the popular will … the departure of the system and its men, not just the head of state.” Another opposition group, the Rally for Culture and Democracy denounced, what it called “an attempted coup d’etat.” “Gaid Salah is part of our misfortune. He can in no way be the solution,” party spokesman Yassine Aissiouane said in a statement. The main moderate Islamist party, the Movement for a Peaceful Society, said the army chief’s proposal could lead to a solution — but only if the people’s demands are answered first. “The military institution should be limited to the role of an accompanist,” a party statement said. The army chief’s speeches have been watched closely as he travels from region to region to inspect bases. The army has held a top role in the country’s power structure since Algeria won independence from France in 1962 after a brutal sevenyear war.

Spain: FBI was offered data stolen in North Korean Embassy raid MADRID — Spain has issued at least two international arrest warrants for members of a selfproclaimed human rights group who allegedly led a mysterious raid at the North Korean Embassy in Madrid last month and offered the FBI stolen data from the break-in. A National Court judge who lifted a secrecy order in the case Tuesday said an investigation of the Feb. 22 attack uncovered evidence that “a criminal organization” shackled and gagged embassy staff members before escaping with computers, harddrives and documents. The intruders also urged North Korea’s only accredited diplomat in Spain, business envoy So Yun Sok, to defect, Judge Jose de la Mata said in a written report on the Spanish investigation. So refused to do so and was gagged, according to the report. The assailants identified themselves as “members of an association or movement of human rights for the liberation of North Korea.” That group is the Cheollima Civil Defense, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the incident. The shadowy activists have the self-declared mission of helping defectors from North Korean. De la Mata identified citizens of Mexico, the United States and South Korean as the main suspects being investigated on charges that include of causing injuries, making threats and burglary. He named Adrian Hong Chang, a Mexican citizen living in the United States, as the break-in’s leader. Hong Chang flew to the U.S. on Feb. 23, got in touch with the FBI and offered to share material and videos with federal investigators, according to the court report. The document did not say what type of information the items contained or whether the FBI accepted the offer. The FBI said in a statement that its standard practice is to neither confirm nor deny the existence of investigations. The agency added that “the FBI enjoys a strong working relationship with our Spanish law enforcement partners.” An official with Spain’s National Police who wasn’t authorized to be named in media reports confirmed to The Associated Press that arrest warrants were issued for Hong Chang and one other suspect. No one had been charged as of Tuesday. The assailants purchased knives and handgun mock-ups when they visited Madrid in early February and used them during the attack, according to the investigation document. While in Madrid, Hong Chang also applied for a new passport at the Mexican Embassy, the investigation found, and used the name “Oswaldo Trump” to register in the Uber ride-hailing app. The North Korean Embassy hasn’t pressed charges in Spain, and officials in Pyongyang haven’t officially commented on the attack. Spanish police learned about the break-in after the wife of an embassy employee escaped by jumping from a window. When officers went to check on the situation, Hong Chang allegedly greeted them at the door and pretended to be a diplomatic official, the investigation found. He sent the officers away with assurances everything was fine, paving the way for the invading group to make a getaway in the embassy’s cars. A police investigator with knowledge of the case told the AP that “this attack, whatever it is, would have gone unnoticed if it wasn’t for the woman who escaped.” — The Associated Press

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Weary Venezuelans adapt to more nationwide power cuts

People jockey to enter a bus during a power outage that suspended the subway service in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) By JORGE RUEDA and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelans reacted with despair and resourcefulness on Tuesday as nationwide power cuts closed schools and businesses, paralyzing a nation that was only starting to recover from its worst blackouts earlier this month. The new outages, which began Monday, forced people to follow now-familiar routines: scour neighborhoods for food in the few shops that were open or seek out the few spots where they could find a signal on their mobile phones and get in touch with family and friends. The collapse of the power grid was yet another setback for a country whose oil reserves made it one of Latin America’s wealthiest decades ago.

“Venezuela doesn’t stand a chance anymore, there is no life here,” said Johnny Vargas, a frustrated restaurant worker who said he wishes he could leave the country. “People can’t work anymore; we can’t do anything.” In Caracas, lights flickered on and off in various districts, raising hopes and then dashing them as people once again reflected on divergent explanations from the government of President Nicolas Maduro, which alleged sabotage, and the U.S.-backed opposition, which said state corruption and incompetence is to blame. Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez posted a video of a fireman training a hose on smoking equipment at a power facility, seeking to reinforce his claims that Venezuela is under attack by “terrorists” executing a U.S.-led

scheme to sow chaos. The U.S. and Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido say allegations of sabotage are an attempt to deflect attention from government failures. The government’s allegations aren’t credible in part because it said the military had deployed to protect the entire power grid after the last blackouts, Guaido said. Jose Aguilar, an expert on the Venezuelan electrical grid, said images of a blaze shared by the government as well as information from engineers on the ground indicate the fire began inside one of three critical transformers near the Guri dam, which provides most of the country’s electricity. He attributed the blaze to neglect, saying equipment that facilitates an electrical current’s passage was not regularly maintained. Sitting on a bench in a plaza, 72-year-old Armando Taioli gestured at people walking in the streets or traveling in buses and said they were adapting as best they could to the power outages, but that he fears social unrest if the situation deteriorates. “That calm, you have to be worried about it,” Taioli said. Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said schools and industries would be suspended for a second day on Wednesday as officials work to restore electricity.

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About Estes Park, Bernie and bikinis Estes Park, Colorado, 1995 Estes Park had changed. On a trip back to Estes Park it was so crowded and full of stores, I did not recognize it. The only thing I did recognize was the taffy store and the little section of the river that is now the middle of town, where we had our picnics in 1945. Ginger drove Mom, Bernie and me up to Estes Park. As we were walking down the street, we ran into our niece Jill, who was working at Highlands Park Church Camp. We had so much fun and Mom, who had the first stages of Alzheimer’s, did too in her quiet little world. She grinned from ear to ear as she licked on a hand-dipped ice cream cone. We all joined her, licking away! It was so good. Then Bernie spotted a photography place where they had nice-looking, beautiful, curvy bodies on a background cardboard photograph and you stuck your head through the cutout and they photographed your face on the body. We got to pick out the body we wanted. Bernie picked the skinny, curvy body with blond hair and I picked a curvy brunette. They both had skimpy bikinis on. That would be See ANNIE, page A8

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Rethinking pasta primavera to make it taste like spring By America’s Test Kitchen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

You’d never know that pasta primavera, a pseudoItalian dish that appears on virtually every chain restaurant menu, actually has roots in French haute cuisine. The usual reproduction—a random jumble of produce tossed with noodles in a heavy, flavourdeadening cream sauce— tastes nothing like spring. Surprisingly, when we dug up the original recipe from New York’s famed Le Cirque restaurant, our colleagues found it wasn’t all that inspiring either, despite taking about 2 hours to prepare and dirtying five pans. First, the vegetables (which had been painstakingly blanched one by one) were bland. Second, the cream-, butter-, and cheeseenriched sauce dulled flavour and didn’t really unify the dish. If we wanted a true springvegetable pasta—with a few thoughtfully chosen vegetables and a light, but full-bodied sauce that clung well to the noodles and brought the dish together—we’d have to start from the beginning.

SPRING VEGETABLE PASTA Servings: 4-6 Start to finish: 1 hour 1 1/2 pounds leeks, white and light green parts halved lengthwise, sliced 1/2 inch thick, and washed thoroughly, plus 3 cups coarsely chopped dark green parts, washed thoroughly 1 pound asparagus, tough ends trimmed, chopped coarse, and reserved spears cut on bias into 1/2 inch lengths 2 cups frozen peas, thawed 4 cups vegetable broth

1 cup water 4 garlic cloves, minced 2 tablespoons minced fresh mint 2 tablespoons minced fresh chives 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon zest plus 2 tablespoons juice 6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil Salt and pepper 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes 1 pound campanelle (farfalle and penne are acceptable substitutes) 1 cup dry white wine 1 ounce Parmesan cheese, grated (1/2 cup), plus extra for serving Bring leek greens, asparagus trimmings, 1 cup peas, broth, water, and half of garlic to boil in large saucepan. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer gently for 10 minutes. While broth simmers, combine mint, chives, and lemon zest in bowl set aside. Strain broth through fine-mesh strainer into 8 cup liquid measuring cup, pressing on solids to extract as much liquid as possible (you should have 5 cups broth add water as needed to equal 5 cups). Discard solids and return broth to saucepan. Cover and keep warm. Heat 2 tablespoons oil in Dutch oven over medium heat until shimmering. Add leeks and pinch salt and cook, covered, stirring occasionally, until leeks begin to brown, about 5 minutes. Add asparagus spears and cook until asparagus is crisp-tender, 4 to 6 minutes. Add pepper flakes and remaining garlic and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add remaining 1 cup peas and continue to cook for 1 minute longer. Transfer vegetables to bowl and set aside. Wipe out pot with paper towels. Heat remaining 1/4 cup

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oil in now-empty pot over medium heat until shimmering. Add pasta and cook, stirring often, until just beginning to brown, about 5 minutes. Add wine and cook, stirring constantly, until absorbed, about 2 minutes. When wine is fully absorbed, add warm broth

and bring to boil. Cook, stirring frequently, until most of liquid is absorbed and pasta is al dente, 8 to 10 minutes. Off heat, stir in Parmesan, lemon juice, vegetables, and half of herb mixture. Season with salt and pepper to taste, and serve immediately, passing extra Parmesan

and remaining herb mixture separately. ——— Nutrition information per serving: 605 calories 155 calories from fat 17 g fat (2 g saturated 0 g trans fats) 4 mg cholesterol 436 mg sodium 88 g carbohydrate 10 g fiber 13 g sugar 18 g protein.

Tame your spaghetti monster with this easy garlicky dish

This undated photo provided by America’s Test Kitchen shows Garlicky Spaghetti. (Carl Tremblay/America’s Test Kitchen via AP) By America’s Test Kitchen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The late-night spaghetti monster will be tamed with this flavour-packed pasta that comes together quickly from pantry ingredients. The key here is making the most of the garlic. We toasted a whopping 2 tablespoons of minced garlic in extra-virgin olive oil over low heat just until it cooked to a sweet and buttery pale golden brown. (Be careful not to let it go any

darker or it will be harsh.) Also, we cooked the spaghetti in just 2 quarts of salted water to ensure that the cooking water ended up loaded with starch adding some of that starchy water back to the finished spaghetti gave our simple pantry sauce lots of body and texture. Finally, adding a little minced raw garlic right at the end of the cooking time created a garlicky duality between the buttery sweetness of the toasted garlic

and the fire of the raw garlic. This is endlessly adaptable, depending on what you have in your pantry. (No Parmesan? Toast up some bread crumbs instead. No basil? Try parsley, or leave it out. If you’re really hungry, add a can of tuna at the end. And don’t forget about the variations that follow.)

GARLICKY SPAGHETTI WITH LEMON AND PINE NUTS

Servings: 4 Start to finish: 40 minutes 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons plus 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes 1 pound spaghetti Salt and pepper 2 teaspoons grated lemon zest plus 2 tablespoons juice 1 cup chopped fresh basil 1 ounce Parmesan, grated (1/2 cup), plus extra for serving

1/2 cup pine nuts, toasted Combine oil and 2 tablespoons garlic in 8 inch nonstick skillet. Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until garlic is pale golden brown, 9 to 12 minutes. Off heat, stir in pepper flakes set aside. Bring 2 quarts water to boil in large pot. Add pasta and 2 teaspoons salt and cook, stirring frequently, until al dente. Reserve 1 cup cooking water, then drain pasta and return it to pot. Add remaining 1/2

teaspoon garlic, lemon zest and juice, reserved garlicoil mixture, and reserved cooking water to pasta in pot. Stir until pasta is well coated with oil and no water remains in bottom of pot. Add basil, Parmesan, and pine nuts and toss to combine. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve, passing extra Parmesan separately. Variations: — Garlicky Spaghetti with Capers and Currants: Omit lemon zest, basil, and pine nuts. Reduce lemon juice to 1 tablespoon. Stir 3 tablespoons capers, rinsed and minced 3 tablespoons currants, minced and 2 anchovy fillets, rinsed, patted dry, and minced, into pasta with lemon juice. — Garlicky Spaghetti with Green Olives and Almonds: Omit lemon zest and reduce lemon juice to 1 tablespoon. Stir 1 cup green olives, chopped fine, into pasta with lemon juice. Substitute Pecorino Romano for Parmesan and toasted sliced almonds for pine nuts. — Garlicky Spaghetti with Clams: Omit lemon zest and pine nuts. Reduce lemon juice to 2 teaspoons. Stir 2 (6 1/2 ounce) cans whole clams, drained and chopped, and 4 anchovy fillets, rinsed, patted dry, and minced, into pasta with lemon juice. Increase Parmesan to 3/4 cup and substitute 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley for basil. ——— Nutrition information per serving: 720 calories 271 calories from fat 30 g fat (4 g saturated 0 g trans fats) 6 mg cholesterol 426 mg sodium 91 g carbohydrate 5 g fiber 4 g sugar 20 g protein.

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the only time I would ever wear a skimpy bikini. Continued from page A7 The cardboard bathing beauties were surrounded by a couple of hunka-men in skimpy bathing trunks. We had our photos taken with the crowd of people peering in the shop window, watching these two grown ladies, Bernie and I, laughing until the tears rolled down checks. “Wait until King and Bob see us!” (Bernie has that tears-rolling-down-your cheeks effect on me whenever we go and whatever we are doing!) Bernie was going to take her photo home to Alaska in her suitcase and show it to King. I had a better plan. When we got back to Ginger’s house in Boulder from Estes Park, brother Jim was there from Grand Junction. I asked him to mail the picture from Grand Junction, when he got back home. I wanted to see Bob’s reaction when he got a sexy photo of two lovely gals in bikinis in the mail, with a postmark Grand Junction, Colorado. When we got back to Alaska, and not without many incidents — as you see I was traveling with Bernie — the envelope arrived from Grand Junction, marked Mr. Robert Ricks and the words “confidential” written in big red letters on the bottom. As I am the controller of the post office key, I had this situation under control! I eagerly waited for him to open the big envelope, not appearing to be too snoopy or anxious. He pulled the photo half way out, looked at me and I thought the game was over! Instead he said to me, “YOU are not going to believe this!” I innocently asked why? He stuttered, ” Now-now… I don’t know these gals!” Then he pulled the photo of Bernie and me in our bikinis out of the envelope. Then he looked and looked and then he had another look and then looked at me. I just knew the jig was up! He handed the photo to me and said, “Do you know who these gals are?” I took my time and looked and said, “No, but the guys are sure nicelooking hunk-a-hunks!” He shot me a sideways glace. He said, “and the girls?” I said, “I don’t know who they are.” He replied in total innocence, “I wonder who would send this to me?” as he looked at the postmark. “Oh, from Grand Junction, must’ve been from your brother.” I said, “No, he is in Boulder with Mom and Ginger”— a big white lie! I said, “Are you sure you don’t know them? AND then he said “The blond (Bernie) isn’t too bad looking but that brunette, (me!) as he was studying the bodies, and continued saying, “not a nice face, but a good body, guess I prefer the blonde!” I almost grabbed the photo and smacking him with it and almost told him who the brunette AND who the blond was, but that would’ve spoiled all the fun — even though I was fuming inside. Serves me right! I personally think Bob never recognized either one of us, as he never looked at our faces, just a skimpy bikini-clad bodies. This little game went on for months. Every once in a while he would say, “wonder who sent those photos?” and I’d say, “what are you going to do with the picture?” “I don’t know,” he would say and put it back in his little drawer of things he has kept for years. Finally, at one of our fall bonfires with our old bonfire gang standing around, Bernie and I could not stand it any longer. We had to tell Bob! I went and got the photo, passed it around to everybody standing around the bonfire, asking the question, “do you know these people?” The remark from the gals at the bonfire, was “look at the bods on those on the guys!” And the guys would say, “look at those gals in bikinis.” Then when it got back to Bob he took another look. I am sure he only looked at the skimpy bikini bodies! Finally I said, “look at her face.” he said “OK, I still don’t recognize her.” Bernie and me at the same time yelled, “It’s me!” He looked at the faces, I am sure for the first time, then looked at us and started laughing. I’m not sure if he was laughing at us or with us! We all had a good laugh and the photo got passed around again! P.S. When Bernie got home from our trip she showed King and ask him if he knew they were. He knew it was Bernie right away. I still think Bob studied the bodies in the bikinis and didn’t give a second look at our face. Well, he can dream; touching is what will hurt him!

OXTAIL SOUP This is a recipe that is marked 1931, the year the Empire State building opened. 1933: Perhaps the movie King Kong was inspired by this building. 1936: Mickey Mouse was 8 years old when he was joined on the screen by his pal, Donald Duck. Brown 2 oxtails (beef tails) in 3 tablespoons bacon drippings with: 1 large onion, chopped 1 carrot diced 2 stalks celery sliced Add: 2 quarts water Bring to boil and add: 2 tablespoons pearl barley 1 bay leaf Simmer 4 hours. Remove bones and thicken soup with: 1 tablespoon flour 2 tablespoons water Stir to dissolve flour so it is not lumpy. Stir into hot soup and simmer 10 minutes until it slightly thickened. Season “rather highly with salt and pepper.” Serve in large soup bowls.

LONG-BRANCH POTATOES or FRENCH FRIES This recipe is marked 1935: Peel good-sized potatoes and cut into strips about 1/4inch- or 1/2-inch wide. Soak in cold water for about an hour. Drain and dry thoroughly. Fry in hot lard until browned BUT … When making a large amount for a crowd, fry them only until the are tender, but not browned. Drain on newspaper or paper sack. Let them sit on counter until ready to serve. Fry them again in the lard at about 375 degrees. Drain, sprinkle with salt and serve right away. Most people like them with ketchup, but in Canada they pour brown beef gravy over them.

CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER SHEET CAKE I collect sheet cake recipes. This is at the top of the list. Oil a 9 x 13-inch baking pan. In a bowl whisk: 2 cups flour 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt Set aside. In a sauce pan combine: 1 cup water

1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter 1/4 cup cocoa Bring to boil and add to flour mixture, stirring just to moisten. In a small bowl, whisk: 3 eggs 1/2 cup sour cream 2 teaspoon vanilla Add to the flour mixture, stirring constantly until smooth. Transfer to oiled pan. Bake in preheated oven at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes or until tooth pick comes out clean.

PEANUT BUTTER FROSTING Prepare frosting while cake is baking: In a large bowl beat or stir: 3 cups powdered sugar 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter 1/2 cup milk 1/2 teaspoon vanilla Stir until smooth. Remove cake from oven and place on wire rack — immediately spread the frosting over hot cake. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup salted chopped peanuts. Enjoy and take a piece of cake to Pam Martinez at M&M Market in Nikiski.

BANANA SPLIT DESSERT You will need: 1 box of Jell-O No Bake Cheesecake 2 instant banana pudding packages 1 large can pineapple, drained 3 bananas Pour the 2 cups of graham crumbs that are in the cheesecake package into a 9 x 13-inch pan. Mix with 1 stick butter. 1/2 cup sugar Press in bottom pan and up the sides. Bake 10 minutes and let cool. After cooled, slice three bananas on top of crumbs. Mix cheesecake as directed and fold in 1 small package of instant banana pudding Jell-O mix with 1 1/2 cups of milk. Drain 1 large can crushed pineapple. Press to get most of moisture out and fold into the cheesecake-pudding mix. Pour onto the cold crumbs and bananas. Frost with: 1 small package instant banana pudding* using 1 1/2 cups cold milk. Fold in 1 cup of Cool Whip. Spread over top of dessert. Sprinkle liberally with crushed pecans. Chill at least 4 hours before cutting and enjoying. *I could not find instant banana pudding this last time so I used instant coconut Jell-O pudding. ENJOY!

Ditch the pan: Braising is a great way to add flavor to cod

This undated photo provided by America’s Test Kitchen shows Braised Cod With Leeks. (Daniel J. van Ackere/America’s Test Kitchen via AP) By America’s Test Kitchen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

You may be used to pansearing thick-cut white fish fillets any time you take them home from the market and want a quick dinner, but it’s worth it to try a

different technique. Braising is a great way to add flavour to mildtasting fish, it’s a mess-free alternative to cooking in oil in a skillet, and it doesn’t take much longer to execute with fish. Using cherry tomatoes and making a white wine sauce in the pan made the dish fresh and bright—perfect for pristine white fish. Cooking the fillets among sauteed leeks imparted a subtle sweet flavour to the fish. To ensure the fish cooked through gently and evenly, we turned down the heat and covered the skillet so the fish both simmered and steamed. A pat of butter swirled into the resulting sauce contributed richness. Haddock, snapper, tilapia, bluefish, monkfish, and sea bass fillets are good substitutes for the cod.

BRAISED COD WITH LEEKS AND CHERRY TOMATOES Servings: 4 Start to finish: 30 minutes 3 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 pound leeks, white and light green parts only, halved lengthwise, sliced thin and washed thoroughly Salt and pepper 4 garlic cloves, minced 12 ounces cherry tomatoes, halved 1/2 cup dry white wine or dry vermouth 4 (6- to 8 ounce) skinless cod fillets, 1 to 1 1/2 inches thick Melt 2 tablespoons butter in 12 inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add leeks and 1/4 teaspoon salt and cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Stir in garlic and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds.

Stir in tomatoes, wine, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper and bring to simmer. Pat cod dry with paper towels and season with salt and pepper. Nestle cod into skillet and spoon some vegetables and sauce over top. Cover and reduce heat to medium-low. Cook until fish flakes apart when gently prodded with paring knife and registers 140 F, 10 to 12 minutes. Carefully transfer cod to platter. Stir remaining 1 tablespoon butter into vegetables, season with salt and pepper to taste, and spoon vegetables and sauce over cod. Serve. ——— Nutrition information per serving: 372 calories 95 calories from fat 11 g fat (6 g saturated 0 g trans fats) 120 mg cholesterol 443 mg sodium 20 g carbohydrate 3 g fiber 7 g sugar 43 g protein.

Use salmon’s skin to stop it from drying out, release fat By America’s Test Kitchen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Starting salmon with the skin side down in a pan is a neat way to cook fish. The skin protects the fish from drying out. The skin also releases fat into the pan, which is then used to cook the second side until it is golden brown, no extra oil needed. To help keep the fish

from sticking and allow the fat to puddle under the fish (and not just around it), sprinkle a thin layer of salt and pepper over the cold pan before adding the fish. And make sure to use a nonstick pan. Follow this recipe with your kids.

SWEET AND TANGY GLAZED SALMON Servings: 4 Start to finish: 35 minutes

(Prep time: 10 minutes) Prepare Ingredients: 1/4 cup maple syrup 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 tablespoon lime juice, squeezed from 1 lime 2 garlic cloves, peeled and minced Salt and pepper 4 (6-ounce) skin-on salmon fillets 1 lime, cut into wedges

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Gather Cooking Equipment: Medium saucepan 12-inch nonstick skillet Tongs Spatula Instant-read thermometer Serving platter Aluminum foil Rubber spatula Large spoon Start Cooking! In medium saucepan, combine maple syrup, vinegar, soy sauce, lime juice, and garlic. Set aside. In a 12-inch nonstick skillet, sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in even layer. Place salmon fillets, skin side down, in skillet. Wash your hands. Sprinkle tops of fillets with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Cook salmon over medium heat, without moving salmon, until fat begins to puddle around fillets and skin begins to brown, 6 to 8 minutes. Use tongs and spatula to carefully flip fillets. Cook, without moving fillets, until centre of each fillet registers 125 F on the instant-read thermometer, 6 to 8 minutes. Turn off heat. Transfer fillets, skin side down, to serving platter. Cover platter with aluminum foil.

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Cook maple syrup mixture in saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally with rubber spatula, until thick and syrupy, 4 to 6 minutes (sauce will be very bubbly when it thickens). Turn off heat. Spoon glaze evenly over salmon. Serve with lime wedges. Chef’s Note: To flip fish, gently slide spatula under

fish to loosen skin from skillet, then use tongs to flip fish. ——— Nutrition information per serving: 326 calories 112 calories from fat 12 g fat (2 g saturated 0 g trans fats) 109 mg cholesterol 691 mg sodium 16 g carbohydrate 0 g fiber 13 g sugar 38 g protein.

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NFL meetings decide pass interference rule NFL owners nearly unanimous in giving teams challenges in final 2 minutes of games By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer

PHOENIX (AP) — Roger Goodell laid down the law, and the owners readily changed NFL rules on reviewing pass interference, whether flagged or not. As the league concluded its spring meeting one day early, the owners passed by a shockingly overwhelming 31-1 margin that interference can be challenged by coaches and reviewed by officials next season. Owners voted on a oneyear trial basis to include those often-controversial penalties in the officiating replay review system. Coaches still will have two challenges per game, and in the final two minutes of a half or fourth quarter or for all of overtime,

the replay official can order a review of offensive or defensive pass interference. The major change — owners traditionally have been highly reluctant to include any penalties in the replay process — stems from an egregious missed call in the NFC championship game that likely led to the Rams making the Super Bowl and the Saints falling short. “I told the owners we need to get to a place, and I felt strongly we should have OPI and DPI and that we should be able to throw flags (that were not thrown on the field,” Goodell said. “Everyone in there finally got to understand through a long process and a lot of discussion, everyone wanted to get it right. Some had to remove themselves from long-shared views.”

The competition committee, which recommends rules changes to the ownership, had been split 4-4 on adding interference penalties, particularly non-flagged ones, to replay. But they tweaked the proposal, and it remains part of the overall replay system, which was a critical component. Falcons President Rich McKay, chairman of the competition committee, said the analytics also played a role in the rules change. Of the 50 most incorrect on-field calls as determined by officiating director Al Riveron and his staff that were impactful, half of them were for defensive pass interference. “We felt this was a place to start,” McKay added. “There New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton speaks to the media during the was a lot of discussion and NFC/AFC coaches breakfast during the annual NFL football owners meetings, See CHANGES, page A10 Tuesday, March 26, 2019, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Miami raises Bosh jersey By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer

Minnesota Timberwolves’ Josh Okogie, center, tries to get past Los Angeles Clippers’ Danilo Gallinari, left, as Patrick Beverley in the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Clippers clinch playoff spot Surging L.A. runs win streak to 6, secures Western berth MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Danilo Gallinari scored 25 points and the Los Angeles Clippers clinched a playoff spot Tuesday night with a 122-111 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. Coach Doc Rivers’ club is back in the postseason after falling short last year. Los Angeles finished 4240 last season, missing the playoffs after making it six straight years — four under Rivers. The Clippers (45-30) became the fifth Western Conference team to secure a postseason berth. Lou Williams added 20 points off the bench for the Clippers, who outscored Minnesota’s reserves 53-25. The Clippers have won six in a row, the longest active streak in the NBA, and 10 of 11 overall. Karl-Anthony Towns led Minnesota with 24 points and 13 rebounds. BUCKS 108, ROCKETS 94 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Eric Bledsoe scored 23 points, including 16 in the decisive third quarter as Milwaukee topped Houston. Giannis Antetokounmpo had 19 points and 14 rebounds for the Bucks,

who improved to an NBA-best 56-19. James Harden scored 23 and Chris Paul 19 for the Rockets, who lost for just the third time in 17 games. Harden shot 9 of 26, including 1 for 9 from 3-point range with Bledsoe closely guarding him throughout most of the game.

Al Horford had 19 points, including eight in the fourth quarter and the goahead layup early in the period. The Celtics ended the game with a 24-14 run also sparked by three-point plays from Smart and Marcus Morris to pull away.

MAGIC 104, HEAT 99

HORNETS 125, SPURS 116, OT

MIAMI (AP) — Nikola Vucevic had 24 points and 16 rebounds, Jonathan Issac added 19 points and Orlando extended its longest winning streak in eight years to six games by downing Miami. D.J. Augustin scored 17 points and Aaron Gordon finished with 14 points and 10 rebounds for the Magic (3738), who won the season series 3-1 and moved past the Heat (36-38) into eighth place in the Eastern Conference playoff race.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kemba Walker scored 11 of his 38 points in overtime and Charlotte outlasted San Antonio to stretch its longest winning streak of the season to four games. Walker took over in the extra period, scoring Charlotte’s first seven points and going 4 of 4 from the field, including a pair of clutch 3-pointers. He barely missed his third career triple-double, finishing with 11 assists and nine rebounds. It was Charlotte’s first overtime win this season in five tries. Dwayne Bacon established a career CELTICS 116, CAVALIERS 106 high for the second straight game, pourCLEVELAND (AP) — Jayson Ta- ing in 24 points with four 3-pointers. tum and Marcus Smart each scored 21 points, and Boston broke away from a RAPTORS 112, fourth-quarter tie to defeat Cleveland. BULLS 103 Kyrie Irving (rest) didn’t play for Boston, but the Celtics snapped a fourTORONTO (AP) — Norman Powgame losing streak and are 11-2 without ell scored 20 points, Serge Ibaka had See NBA, page A10 their leading scorer.

MIAMI (AP) — Chris Bosh stood at center court, looked out at the Miami Heat fans and just let the words flow. He spoke about his health scare in 2015. He spoke of his grandfather, the one he called Daddy Jack, the one who told his first grandson that he was going to be special one day. And was Daddy Jack ever right. In Heat history, his grandson is now officially immortal. Wearing a Heat championship ring on both hands, Bosh watched a giant banner bearing his name and No. 1 raised to the rafters of AmericanAirlines Arena on Tuesday night — then delivered an emotional address to the crowd, part of it even in Spanish as a show of respect to the Latin culture of Miami. “My name, my family name up here, that’s something I used to get laughed at for dreaming of,” Bosh said. “So never let anyone tell you that you can’t accomplish your dream. Those four letters on the back of that jersey are my wife’s name, my kids’ name, my father’s name, my grandfather’s name. We’re not just carrying on for another generation. But now, Daddy Jack, we’re up there forever.” The ceremony came a little more than three years after Bosh played his final game of a 13-year career, 11 of those good enough for All-Star nods, four of them culminating in trips to the NBA Finals, two of them capped by championships. He is the fourth player to have his number retired by the Heat, joining Alonzo Mourning, Tim Hardaway and Shaquille O’Neal. “Forever, and for always, a lifer of the Miami

Heat,” Heat President Pat Riley said, moments before Bosh’s banner was unfurled and hoisted. Riley called Bosh’s rebound and assist late in regulation of Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals — the ones that set up Ray Allen’s game-tying, series-saving 3-pointer — the biggest in Heat history. Bosh went a step further. “The biggest rebound in NBA history,” Bosh said. There will be, at minimum, three more Heat jersey retirements in the not-so-distant future — Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Udonis Haslem are all locks to see their name and number swaying over the court not long after their careers end. Wade and Haslem were on the court for the celebration. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra decided long ago that, even with Tuesday’s Miami-Orlando matchup being such a big game in terms of playoff hopes, his players were going to be out on the floor to see the Bosh ceremony. Wade introduced Bosh, telling stories of how he learned Spanish off Rosetta Stone CDs and how he became an outstanding selftaught guitar player who wound up jamming with the legendary Buddy Guy. He also talked about how much he admires the way Bosh embraces being a father and husband. “The person who made the ‘Big 3’ era legendary,” Wade said. Spoelstra tells stories of his time with Bosh all the time. One of his favorites — the night Bosh, after a playoff loss in Indiana put the Heat down 2-1 in a series, knocked on the door of his hotel suite at 2 a.m. with beers in hand. They sipped and talked for 45 minutes, not a word said about basketball. The Heat won Game 4, and the series.

NASCAR makes sweeping changes to 2020 schedule By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR made the first significant changes to its schedule in years by shuffling the 2020 season into a freshened new sequence that tries to meet the wants of fans to the best of NASCAR’s current ability. “The fans and the industry as a whole have been vocal about the desire for sweeping changes to the schedule, and the 2020 slate is a reflection of our efforts to execute against that feedback,” said Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR executive

vice president and chief racing development officer. The 2020 schedule was released Tuesday at ISM Raceway outside Phoenix, which got the season finale following a $175 million renovation to ISM Raceway. Indianapolis Motor Speedway got July 5th to give the iconic track back-to-back summer holiday weekends; the event will follow the Indianapolis 500, a mere 42 days after that Memorial Day staple. IMS President Doug Boles said the Brickyard was the correct “venue to throw a massive party for our nation’s birthday.” The July 4th holiday had be-

longed to Daytona International Speedway, but it gave up the traditional and often rain-wrecked event to claim the final race of the regular season, Aug. 29 when the championship field is finalized. Daytona track President Chip Wile said the July race now created a chance at a “potential walkoff home run moment for a driver to solidify a playoff berth.” Pocono Raceway will run both its 400-mile races on back-to-back June afternoons, Martinsville Speedway got a Mother’s Day race under the lights and also a slot in the playoffs — one of three short tracks featured in NASCAR’s 10-

race playoffs. Even better for Martinsville, it got the penultimate race for the championship finale. Bristol and Richmond short tracks both joined the playoffs, as did Darlington Raceway. Martinsville in 2017 became the first major motorsports facility in the U.S. with a state-of-theart LED Lighting system and will finally get to use them for a bigleague event on the Saturday night before Mother’s Day. Speedway President Clay Campbell noted fans have asked “literally every single day since we installed the lights” when Martinsville would have a Cup race at night.

The season ends one week shorter than usual, but still includes 38 events that run from a Feb. 9 exhibition race at Daytona through the finale on Nov. 8 at renovated ISM Raceway outside of Phoenix. That includes consecutive weekends off for the first time in the modern era so that NBC Sports can focus on the Tokyo Olympics. Charlotte Motor Speedway retained the All-Star race, but Speedway Motorsports chairman Marcus Smith told The Associated Press he was amenable to moving the event to Nashville in 2021. See NASCAR, page A10

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Scoreboard

basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB x-Toronto 52 23 .693 — x-Philadelphia 47 27 .635 4½ x-Boston 44 31 .587 8 Brooklyn 38 37 .507 14 New York 14 60 .189 37½ Southeast Division Orlando 37 38 .493 — Miami 36 38 .486 ½ Charlotte 35 39 .473 1½ Washington 30 45 .400 7 Atlanta 27 48 .360 10 Central Division y-Milwaukee 56 19 .747 — x-Indiana 45 29 .608 10½ Detroit 37 37 .500 18½ Chicago 21 54 .280 35 Cleveland 19 56 .253 37 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division x-Houston 47 28 .627 — San Antonio 43 32 .573 4 New Orleans 31 45 .408 16½ Memphis 30 44 .405 16½ Dallas 29 45 .392 17½ Northwest Division x-Denver 50 23 .685 — x-Portland 46 27 .630 4 Utah 44 30 .595 6½ Oklahoma City 43 31 .581 7½ Minnesota 33 41 .446 17½ Pacific Division x-Golden State 50 23 .685 — x-L.A. Clippers 45 30 .600 6 Sacramento 37 37 .500 13½ L.A. Lakers 33 41 .446 17½ Phoenix 17 58 .227 34 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Tuesday’s Games Boston 116, Cleveland 106 Charlotte 125, San Antonio 116, OT Orlando 104, Miami 99 Toronto 112, Chicago 103 Atlanta 130, New Orleans 120 L.A. Clippers 122, Minnesota 111 Milwaukee 108, Houston 94 Sacramento 125, Dallas 121 Denver 95, Detroit 92 L.A. Lakers 124, Washington 106 Wednesday’s Games Golden State at Memphis, 4 p.m. Indiana at Oklahoma City, 4 p.m. Portland at Chicago, 4 p.m. Washington at Phoenix, 6 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Utah, 6:30 p.m. All Times ADT

NIT Glance Quarterfinals Tuesday, March 26 Wichita State 73, Indiana 63 TCU 71, Creighton 58 Wednesday, March 27 Lipscomb (27-7) at N.C. State (2411), 5 p.m. Colorado (23-12) at Texas (18-16), 5 p.m. Semifinals At Madison Square Garden New York Tuesday, April 2 Wichita State (22-14) vs. Lipscomb-N.C. State winner, 3 or 5:30 p.m. TCU (23-13) vs. Colorado-Texas winner, 3 or 5:30 p.m. Championship At Madison Square Garden New York Thursday, April 4

Semifinal winners, 3 p.m.

hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA z-Tampa Bay 77 59 14 4 122 306 206 x-Boston 76 46 21 9 101 237 194 Toronto 76 45 25 6 96 271 228 Montreal 77 41 28 8 90 233 220 Florida 77 33 32 12 78 249 268 Buffalo 76 31 36 9 71 207 251 Detroit 76 28 38 10 66 206 258 Ottawa 76 27 43 6 60 226 278 Metropolitan Division Washington 77 45 24 8 98 264 235 N.Y. Islanders 77 44 26 7 95 212 188 Pittsburgh 77 42 24 11 95 261 228 Carolina 76 42 27 7 91 226 210 Columbus 76 42 30 4 88 232 218 Philadelphia 76 36 32 8 80 229 252 N.Y. Rangers 75 29 33 13 71 208 250 New Jersey 77 29 39 9 67 211 260

Chicago Cubs at Texas, 12:05 p.m. L.A. Angels at Oakland, 12:07 p.m. Cleveland at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 12:15 p.m. Boston at Seattle, 3:10 p.m. National League Thursday’s Games N.Y. Mets at Washington, 9:05 a.m. St. Louis at Milwaukee, 10:10 a.m. Atlanta at Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m. Chicago Cubs at Texas, 12:05 p.m. Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 12:10 p.m. Colorado at Miami, 12:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 12:10 p.m. San Francisco at San Diego, 12:10 p.m.

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division x-Winnipeg 76 45 27 4 94 256 223 x-Nashville 77 43 28 6 92 224 202 St. Louis 76 41 27 8 90 226 206 Dallas 76 39 31 6 84 193 188 Colorado 76 34 29 13 81 240 229 Minnesota 77 35 33 9 79 203 224 Chicago 76 33 33 10 76 248 272 Pacific Division x-Calgary 76 47 22 7 101 268 213 x-San Jose 76 43 24 9 95 268 240 Vegas 76 42 28 6 90 235 209 Arizona 77 37 33 7 81 200 212 Edmonton 76 34 34 8 76 221 253 Vancouver 77 32 35 10 74 211 242 Anaheim 78 32 36 10 74 185 241 Los Angeles 76 28 40 8 64 185 243 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs. x-clinched playoff spot z-clinched conference

Tuesday’s Games Columbus 4, N.Y. Islanders 0 Washington 4, Carolina 1 Ottawa 4, Buffalo 0 Montreal 6, Florida 1 Edmonton 8, Los Angeles 4 Arizona 1, Chicago 0 Anaheim 5, Vancouver 4 Wednesday’s Games Toronto at Philadelphia, 3 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Boston, 3:30 p.m. Dallas at Calgary, 5:30 p.m. Vegas at Colorado, 6 p.m. All Times ADT

baseball MLB Spring Training

Tuesday’s Games Tampa Bay 9, Detroit 3 Atlanta 7, Cincinnati 5 Colorado 5, Minnesota 5 Texas 5, Cleveland 4 Pittsburgh 5, Houston 1 Chicago Cubs 16, Boston 7 Chicago White Sox 7, Arizona 1 San Diego 1, Seattle 0 Toronto 2, Milwaukee 0 Oakland 4, San Francisco 2 L.A. Dodgers 9, L.A. Angels 2

Regular season American League Thursday’s Games Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 9:05 a.m. Detroit at Toronto, 11:37 a.m. Houston at Tampa Bay, 12:00 p.m.

NASCAR Cup 2019 schedule (winners)

Sunday, Feb. 10 — x-Advance Auto Parts Clash (Jimmie Johnson) Thursday, Feb. 14 — x-Duel 1 at Daytona (Kevin Harvick) Thursday, Feb. 14 — x_Duel 2 at Daytona (Joey Logano) Sunday, Feb. 17 — Daytona 500 (Denny Hamlin) Sunday, Feb. 24 — Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 (Brad Keselowski) Sunday, March 3 — Pennzoil 400 (Joey Logano) Sunday, March 10 — TicketGuardian 500 (Kyle Busch) Sunday, March 17 — Auto Club 400 (Kyle Busch) Sunday, March 24 — STP 500 (Brad Keselowski) Sunday, March 31 — O’Reilly Auto Parts 500, Fort Worth, Texas Sunday, April 7 — Food City 500, Bristol, Tenn. Saturday, April 13 — Toyota Owners 400, Richmond, Va. Sunday, April 28 — Geico 500, Talladega, Ala. Sunday, May 5 — MENCS race, Dover, Del. Saturday, May 11 — MENCS race, Kansas City, Kan. Saturday, May 18 — x-Monster Energy Open, Concord, N.C. Saturday, May 18 — x-Monster Energy All-Star Race, Concord, N.C. Sunday, May 26 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C. Sunday, June 2 — Pocono 400, Long Pond, Pa. Sunday, June 9 — FireKeepers Casino 400, Brooklyn, Mich. Sunday, June 23 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif. Sunday, June 30 — Camping World 400, Joliet, Ill. Saturday, July 6 — Coke Zero Sugar 400, Daytona Beach, Fla. Saturday, July 13 — Quaker State 400, Sparta, Ky. Sunday, July 21 — Foxwoods Resort Casino 301, Loudon, N.H. Sunday, July 28 — Gander Outdoors 400, Long Pond, Pa. Sunday, Aug. 4 — Go Bowling at The Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y. Sunday, Aug. 11 — Consumers Energy 400, Brooklyn, Mich. Saturday, Aug. 17 — Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race, Bristol, Tenn.

Today in History Today is Wednesday, March 27, the 86th day of 2019. There are 279 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 27, 1977, in aviation’s worst disaster, 583 people were killed when a KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off in heavy fog, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on an airport runway on the Canary Island of Tenerife (ten-uh-REEF’). On this date: In 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon (hwahn pahns duh LEE’-ohn) sighted present-day Florida. In 1625, Charles I acceded to the English throne upon the death of James I. In 1933, Japan officially withdrew from the League of Nations. In 1942, during World War II, Congress granted American servicemen free first-class mailing privileges. In 1958, Nikita Khrushchev became Soviet premier in addition to First Secretary of the Communist Party. In 1964, Alaska was hit by a magnitude 9.2 earthquake (the strongest on record in North America) and tsunamis that together claimed about 130 lives. In 1968, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (gah-GAH’-rihn), the first man to orbit the Earth in 1961, died when his MiG-15 jet crashed during a routine training flight near Moscow; he was 34. In 1975, construction began on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which was completed two years later. In 1980, 123 workers died when a North Sea floating oil field platform, the Alexander Kielland, capsized during a storm. In 1995, “Forrest Gump” won six Academy Awards, including best picture and a second consecutive best actor Oscar for Tom Hanks; Jessica Lange won best actress for “Blue Sky.” In 2006, Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui (zak-uhREE’-uhs moo-SOW’-ee) testified at his federal trial that he was supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House. Ten years ago: President Barack Obama launched a fresh effort to defeat al-Qaida terrorists in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, ordering in 4,000 more troops. A suicide bomber set off an explosion at a packed mosque in Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing at least 48 people. The rising Red River broke a 112-year record and threatened the dikes fortifying Fargo, N.D. The main suspect in the Phoenix serial shooter attacks, Dale Hausner, was sentenced to death for six murders that had put the city on edge for nearly two years. (Hausner committed suicide in an isolation cell in June 2013.) Five years ago: Face to face at the Vatican for the first time, President Barack Obama and Pope Francis focused on their mutual respect and shared concern for the poor. The U.S. Air Force took the extraordinary step of firing nine midlevel nuclear commanders and announcing it would discipline dozens of junior officers at a nuclear missile base, responding firmly to an exam-cheating scandal. A judge in Missoula, Montana, sentenced Jordan Graham to more than 30 years in prison for killing Cody Johnson, her husband of eight days, by pushing him from a cliff in Glacier National Park. James Schlesinger, 85, who’d held a long string of Cabinet and other high-level positions in three U.S. administrations, died in Baltimore. One year ago: Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, in an essay on The New York Times website, called for the repeal of the Second Amendment to allow for significant gun control legislation. The co-owner of a Kansas water park and a ride designer were charged with reckless second-degree murder in the decapitation of a 10-year-old boy on the ride in 2016. (A judge dismissed the charges last month, finding that state prosecutors had shown inadmissible evidence to grand jurors.) Today’s Birthdays: Actor Julian Glover is 84. Actor Jerry Lacy is 83. Hall of Fame racer Cale Yarborough is 80. Actordirector Austin Pendleton is 79. Actor Michael York is 77. Rock musician Tony Banks (Genesis) is 69. Rock musician Andrew Farriss (INXS) is 60. Actor Brian Tarantina is 60. Jazz musician Dave Koz (kahz) is 56. Movie director Quentin Tarantino is 56. Rock musician Derrick McKenzie (Jamiroquai) is 55. Rock musician Johnny April (Staind) is 54. Actress Talisa Soto is 52. Actor Ben Koldyke is 51. Actress Pauley Perrette is 50. Singer Mariah Carey is 49. Rock musician Brendan Hill (Blues Traveler) is 49. Actress Elizabeth Mitchell is 49. Actor Nathan Fillion is 48. Hiphop singer Fergie is 44. Jazz musician Tia Fuller is 43. Actress Emily Ann Lloyd is 35. San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey is 32. Actress Brenda Song is 31. Pop singer-songwriter Kimbra is 29. Actress Taylor Atelian is 24. Classical crossover singer Amira Willighagen (TV: “Holland’s Got Talent”) is 15. Thought for Today: “Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.” -- George Santayana, American philosopher (1863-1952).

Sunday, Sept. 1 — Bogangles’ Southern 500, Darlington, S.C. Sunday, Sept. 8 — Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard, Indianapolis Sunday, Sept. 15 — South Point 400, Las Vegas Saturday, Sept. 21 — Federated Auto Parts 400, Richmond, Va. Sunday, Sept. 29 — Bank of American ROVAL 400, Concord, N.C. Sunday, Oct. 6 — MENCS race, Dover, Del. Sunday, Oct. 13 — 1000Bulbs. com 500, Talladega, Ala. Sunday, Oct. 20 — Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas City, Kan. Sunday, Oct. 27 — First Data 500, Martinsville, Va. Sunday, Nov. 3 — AAA Texas 500, Fort Worth, Texas Sunday, Nov. 10 — MENCS race, Avondale, Ariz. Sunday, Nov. 17 — Ford EcoBoost 400, Homestead, Fla. x-non-points race

NASCAR Xfinity 2019 Schedule (winners)

Saturday, Feb. 16 — NASCAR Racing Experience 300 (Michael Annett) Saturday, Feb. 23 — Rinnai 250 (Christopher Bell) Saturday, March 2 — Boyd Gaming 300 (Kyle Busch) Saturday, March 9 — iK9 Service Dog 200 (Kyle Busch) Saturday, March 16 — Production Alliance Group 300 (Cole Custer) Saturday, March 30 — My Bariatric Solutions 300, Fort Worth, Texas Saturday, April 6 — Alsco 300, Bristol, Tenn. Friday, April 12 — ToyotaCare 250, Richmond, Va. Saturday, April 27 — Talladega 300, Talladega, Ala. All Times ADT

transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended San Francisco Giants president and CEO Larry Baer through July 1. American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed RHP Ian Hamilton and OF Jon Jay on the 10-day IL, retroactive to March 25. Recalled OF Ryan Cordell and OF Eloy Jiménez from Charlotte (IL). Reassigned RHPs Evan Marshall and Zach Thompson, C Alfredo González, INFs Ryan Goins, Danny Mendick and Matt Skole and OF Preston Tucker to minor-league camp. Re-signed OF Brandon Guyer to a minorleague contract. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Announced a two-year extension of their player development contract with Omaha (PCL). LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Traded LHP Williams Jerez to San Francisco for RHP Chris Stratton. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Optioned RHP Emilio Pagan to Durham (IL). TEXAS RANGERS — Claimed RHP Kyle Dowdy off waivers from the N.Y. Mets. Assigned C Jeff Bandy, INFs Chase d’Arnaud, Matt Davidson, and Nolan Fontana, and OF Danny Santana in minor league camp. Released OF Ben Revere from minor league contract.

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National League CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with RHP Kyle Hendricks on a four-year contract for 2020-23. Optioned LHP Kyle Ryan to Iowa (PCL). Reassigned RHP Allen Webster to minor league camp. CINCINNATI REDS — Reassigned RHP Matt Wisler to minor league camp. NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jacob deGrom on a five-year contract. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned LHP Andrew Suarez to Sacramento (PCL). WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Optioned RHP Austen Williams and INF Adrian Sanchez to Fresno (PCL). FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed WR Damiere Byrd to a one-year contract. BALTIMORE RAVENS — Promoted T.J. Weist to assistant special teams coach. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Claimed OT Dillon Gordon off waivers from Kansas City. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed QB Landry Jones. HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Signed D Casey Fitzgerald to a two-year contract. COLORADO AVALANCHE — Assigned F Ty Lewis from Colorado (AHL) to Utah (ECHL). DALLAS STARS — Assigned G Colton Point from Texas (AHL) to Idaho (ECHL). NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Reassigned D Matt Donovan to Milwaukee (AHL). OTTAWA SENATORS — Recalled F Aaron Luchuk from Brampton (ECHL) to Belleville (AHL). TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Signed coach Jon Cooper to a multi-year contract extension. COLLEGE ALABAMA — Graduate men’s basketball G Dazon Ingram intends to transfer. ARKANSAS — Fired men’s basketball coach Mike Anderson. BYU — Announced the retirement of men’s basketball coach Dave Rose. CHARLESTON SOUTHERN — Named David McFatrich volleyball coach. FLORIDA — Announced graduate men’s basketball F Keith Stone will transfer. GEORGIA TECH — Fired women’s basketball coach MaChelle Joseph. HOFSTRA — Announced the resignation of women’s basketball coach Krista Kilburn-Steveskey. IOWA STATE — Agreed to terms with men’s basketball coach Steve Prohm on a three-year contract extension through the 2024-25 season. Announced junior F Cam Lard is leaving the men’s basketball program. NEBRASKA — Fired men’s basketball coach Tim Miles. N.C. STATE — Signed football coach Dave Doeren to a five-year contract. TENNESSEE — Suspended DB Kenneth George Jr. indefinitely from the football team after his arrest. TROY — Named Scott Cross men’s basketball coach.

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definitely a block of people on the committee and in membership concerned about the ability to put a flag on. We got more comfortable as we worked it out that it would be captured in the replay system.” It might have been a pyrrhic victory for Saints coach Sean Payton, a member of the competition committee, but he was a driving force in persuading many people such an alteration was needed. “It’s great when we can arrive at what we think is a good change,” Payton said. “We wouldn’t have any of these on the docket had it not been for one play. I don’t think any of these would be on a replay discussion. “So my point is, I think we need to do a better job thinking forward and preparing, regardless of what’s currently out there. Where do we want to be in 2028? It’s a good way to work and come backward. I think we do that in a lot of other things. But I feel like at times we come in here each year and we’re in a little bit in a reactionary mode.” Not this time. Earlier in the day, the NFL owners voted down a proposal to replace the onside kick with one play from scrimmage, and tabled a suggestion to require each team to have one possession in overtime regardless of what happened on the first series of the extra period.

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Smith said IndyCar was also welcome to negotiate doubleheader weekends with a handful of SMI-owned tracks, among them Las Vegas during its new playoff date in late September that offers cooler temperatures than last year’s sun-roasted playoff opener. IndyCar has not raced at Las Vegas since Dan Wheldon’s fatal 2011 accident. Smith also welcomed talks with IndyCar on the “Roval” at Charlotte Motor Speedway and as a NASCAR companion to Texas during its fall event. IndyCar aims each year to end its season earlier than any of Smith’s ideas for SMI-owned tracks. Although he is open to doubleheaders with IndyCar as soon as next season, Smith was a firm ‘No’ on midweek races. Fans have asked more short tracks, road courses, and even dirt track Eldora Speedway to be added to the stagnant annual schedule, and industry stakeholders have asked for midweek racing during the summer in an attempt to shorten the length of the season.

DENVER (AP) — Jamal Murray scored 33 points, including six in the final minute, and Denver held off Detroit after nearly squandering a 27-point lead. Trailing 66-39 at halftime, the Pistons cut it to one on a 3-pointer by Reggie Jackson with 11.2 seconds remaining before Murray hit a pair of free throws. Blake Griffin’s lastgasp 3-point attempt bounded away. At 50-23, the Nuggets moved into a tie with Golden State for the top spot in the Western Conference. It’s the first 50-win season for Denver since the 2012-13 squad went 57-25.

KINGS 125, MAVERICKS 121 DALLAS (AP) — De’Aaron Fox scored 23 points, including a crucial basket to help Sacramento stay in front in the final minute against Dallas. With the Kings leading by two, Fox drove and missed a layup but got his own rebound and tried again. The second attempt went in for a 121-117 lead with 26 seconds remaining, and the Kings finished 3-0 against Mavericks to sweep the season series for the first time since 1997-98.

HAWKS 130, PELICANS 120 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rookie guard Trae Young had 33 points and 12 assists for his 24th double-double of the season, leading Atlanta past New Orleans. Young finished 12 of 24 from the field, including 5 for 12 from 3-point range, and had one turnover in 31 minutes. DeAndre’ Bembry and Dewayne Dedmon each scored 18 points, and the Hawks shot 19 for 51 from beyond the arc to win their third straight.

LAKERS 124, WIZARDS 106 LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James had 23 points, 14 assists and seven rebounds, and Los Angeles beat Washington for its first back-to-back victories since mid-January. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 29 points and JaVale McGee had 20 points and 15 rebounds for the Lakers, who had lost 20 of 27 and plummeted out of the playoff race since their last set of consecutive wins. Two days after beating Sacramento, the Lakers comfortably won this meeting of 11th-place teams whose playoff dreams have been wrecked by injuries.

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EMPLOYMENT INVITATION TO BID ITB #19-019 Sweeping and Removal of Sand, Gravel and Debris from Various Borough Facility Parking Lots

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The Kenai Peninsula Borough hereby invites qualified firms to submit a firm price for acceptance by the Borough for Sweeping and Removal of Sand, Gravel and Debris from Various Borough Facility Parking Lots. The project consists of the following: Facilities to be swept are located throughout the Borough and are broken down by location into five groups: Group 1: Soldotna Area, Group 2: Kenai Area, Group 3: Nikiski Area, Group 4: Homer Area, and Group 5: Seward Area. Sweeping and Removal of Sand, Gravel and Debris will be conducted in parking lots and driveways and other areas as indicated on the facility drawings. Bidders must bid on all facilities within an individual Group. Bid documents may be obtained beginning March 27, 2019 online at http://www.kpb.us/purchasing/opportunities. Hard copies can be picked up at the KPB Maintenance Department, 47140 E. Poppy Lane, Soldotna, Alaska 99669 (907) 262-4011. One (1) complete set of the bid package may be submitted electronically through BidExpress.com or in hard copy to the Kenai Peninsula Borough, Purchasing and Contracting Department at 47140 E Poppy Lane, Soldotna, Alaska 99669. If submitting a hard copy bid, these forms must be enclosed in a sealed envelope with the bidder’s name on the outside and clearly marked:

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BID: ITB 19-019 Sweeping and Removal of Sand, Gravel and Debris from Various Borough Facility Parking Lots DUE DATE: April 10, 2019, no later than 2:00 PM Kenai Peninsula Borough Pub: March 27, 2019

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District hereby invites qualified vendors to submit a bid for acceptance by the District to purchase Paper. One (1) original of the sealed bid must be submitted to the Purchasing Department, Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, 139 East Park Avenue, Soldotna, AK 99669, no later than 4:00 PM local time on April 23, 2019. Bid can be obtained by calling 907-714-8876 during normal business hours, or from the District website. www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us Kenai Peninsula Borough Code requires that businesses or individuals contracting to do business with the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District be in compliance with Borough tax provisions. Publish: March 27, 2109

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI In the Matter of the Estate of BRUCE PHILLIP WARNECKE, Deceased. Case No. 3KN-19-00057 PR Date of Death: February 23, 2019 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that KATHRYN WALUKEWICZ has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate on March 1, 2019. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims should be presented to the personal representative, KATHRYN WALUKEWICZ, Personal Representative of the estate of BRUCE PHILLIP WARNECKE., through her attorney, KATHERINE ELSNER, 215 Fidalgo Ave, STE 201, Kenai, Alaska, 99611. DATED this 18th day of March, 2019. /s/Katherine Elsner, ABA#1411116 Attorney for Petitioner Pub: March 20. 27 & April 3, 2019 849231

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NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND SALE NAMING TRUSTEE: FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY TRUSTOR: THOMAS C. CARVER, an unmarried person BENEFICIARY: ESTATE OF HERMAN E. FANDEL OWNER OF RECORD: THOMAS C. CARVER, an unmarried person Said Deed of Trust was executed on the 25th day of May, 2017, and recorded on the 1st day of June, 2017, Serial No. 2017-003880. Said Deed of Trust has not been assigned by the Beneficiary. Said documents having been recorded in the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, describing: LOT ONE (1) AND LOT (2), BLOCK FOUR (4), INLET VIEW SUBDIVISION - FIRST REVISION, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat No. K-1515, Records of the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska. The physical address of the real property described above is 702 Lawton Dr., Kenai, Alaska 99611. The undersigned, being the original, or properly substituted Trustee hereby gives notice that a breach of the obligations under the Deed of Trust has occurred in that the Trustor has failed to satisfy the indebtedness secured thereby: FOUR HUNDRED FIFTEEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED NINETY-SEVEN AND 40/100TH DOLLARS ($415,497.40), plus interest, late charges, costs, attorney fees and other foreclosure costs actually incurred, and any future advances thereunder. Said default may be cured and the sale terminated upon payment of the sum of default plus interest, late charges, costs, attorney fees and other foreclosure costs actually incurred, and any future advances thereunder, prior to the sale date. If Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously and default has been cured, the trustee may elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. Upon demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee elects to sell the above-described property, with proceeds to be applied to the total indebtedness secured thereby. Said sale shall be held at public auction at the ALASKA COURT SYSTEM BUILDING, 125 TRADING BAY DR., #100, KENAI, ALASKA, on the 14th day of May, 2019, said sale shall commence at 11:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in conjunction with such other sales that the Trustee or its attorney may conduct. DATED this 6th day of February, 2019. FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY By: KRISTI A. LARSON Title: Authorized Signer 302 Kenai Recording Feb 7, 2019 Serial No. 2019-000919 Pub: March 20, 27, April 3 & 10, 2019 839063

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The successful candidate shall possess a high level of expertise in a wide range of software applications including Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.), document management systems, and Adobe Acrobat. The position also requires the ability to develop a working knowledge of network navigation, document control procedures, and a thorough understanding of the budgetary process. An Associate’s Degree in Business Administration, Office Services or a related field and 4-years of office management experience is desired. This position may require work and/or travel outside of regular business hours.

Applications, positions and complete position descriptions can be found at: www.kpb.us/jobs

All positions require that applicants be 18 years of age and have a valid driver’s license. CITY OF SOLDOTNA EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Provisional Operator Operator I Operator II The City of Soldotna has an immediate opening for an Operator in the Utility Department. Provisional Operator- Range 13 $25.70-$33.23, or Operator I- Range 14 $27.22-$35.20, or Operator II- Range 15 $29.32-$37.93, DOE. Preference may be given to candidates with a valid class B Alaska Commercial Driver’s License.

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A complete job description is available on the City’s website at www.soldotna.org/jobs. Must submit City application, resume and cover letter to Human Resources at 177 N. Birch Street, Soldotna, by email lmetcalf@soldotna.org, or fax 866-596-2994. The position will be open until filled with a first review date of April 3, 2019. The City of Soldotna is an EEO employer.

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Husband fathers a child during couple’s separation part of your life. If he decides to do no more than write support checks, the impact on you will be much less. Frankly, I don’t blame you for feeling worried. If a paternity test hasn’t proved he’s the father of the Abigail Van Buren baby, he should discuss this with a lawyer to insist there be one. DEAR ABBY: When I was 19, I lost custody of my three children to the state. They were adopted out, and I have had no contact since. Over the years I tried to find them without success. Recently, I found their names and addresses using ancestry. com to search their birth records. My son, the oldest, is 18 now, but his sisters are only 15 and 16. I want to write a letter to the adoptive mother, let her know my side of the story and offer to open a line of communication for her and the kids. Would that be selfish?

What’s the right thing to do here? I was very young and stupid when I lost my children. I’m now in my 30s and much wiser. I have lived with this heartbreak for 15 years. I don’t want to disrupt their lives, but I do want them to have my contact information if they would like to have it. I know this situation is delicate. I desperately want to avoid doing the wrong thing. Please advise. -- HEARTBROKEN IN FLORIDA DEAR HEARTBROKEN: Your instincts are on target. The best way to accomplish what you have in mind would be to write to the adoptive mother and allow her to decide what to do with the information you give her. Most adopted children at some point want to know who their birth parents were, if only so they can get a complete medical history. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, Hints from Heloise

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, March 27, 2019: This year, you make important decisions involving your career. Don’t push yourself too hard. You’ll need to take good care of yourself. If single, you might meet someone at work, just being yourself. Be careful about mixing personal life with your work. If you’re attached, share more of what’s happening with your significant other. He or she will be more supportive. CAPRICORN can be very difficult at times. 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 A boss or an authority figure clearly likes how you handle yourself. You might need to make a major adjustment when you approach a new opportunity. Ultimately, you’ll find your choice much simpler. Your role will be clearer. Tonight: In the moment. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH Reach out for someone you care about. Despite the fact that this person is processing, he or she might be unusually verbal. Given time, you might gain a new perspective of this person. Tonight: Follow the music. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You express yourself with innate precision, yet also with sensitivity. A partnership might be changing at this time. Stay mellow and direct in your conversations with a dear friend or loved one. Tonight: Munchies with a favorite person. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You could be at a point where you don’t have a lot of choices. How you deal with a loved one could change because of your obligations elsewhere. Allow a family member or loved one to help handle what you cannot. Tonight: Listen to your inner voice. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You might want to change gears and head in a different direction. The opportunity to reverse a decision is gone, but you might be able to deviate course somewhat. How you deal with a younger associate could change considerably. Tonight: Get a good night’s sleep while you can. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Your precision comes out when you’re dealing with a child, a loved one

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Point community members who were speaking in opposition to the potential closure of Chapman School. The district listed six schools that could be closed or consolidated should the governor’s budget pass, Chapman included. Dustin Poindexter grew up in Anchor Point. His

Police reports Information for this report was taken from publicly available law enforcement and public safety records and includes arrest and citation information. Anyone listed in this report is presumed innocent. n On Mar. 24, Danielle Calhoun, 34, of Sterling, was issued a citation by Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Anchor Point Post, for king salmon fishing without a king salmon stamp. Bail is set at $120 in Homer Court. n On Mar. 22 at 6:43 p.m., Spring Creek Correctional Center staff contacted Alaska State Troopers to report an assault at the facility. Investigation revealed that one inmate had attacked another inmate repeatedly with a pencil. Three counts of second-degree assault have been forwarded to the District Attorney’s Office for review. n On Mar. 25 at 10:21 a.m., Alaska State Troopers responded to an address on Self Street in Sterling to serve an arrest warrant on the owner. Troopers were unable to locate the owner, but did contact Alec Smith, 26, of Kenai, who had an outstanding arrest warrant related to an original charge of fourth-degree theft. Smith was arrested and taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility on $50 bail. n On Mar. 25 at 1:26

committed suicide’ instead say ‘he died by suicide,’” Biela said. “We try to avoid ‘failed or successful attempt,’ it’s either ‘suicide attempt’ or ‘death by suicide.’” Based on 2016 data, on average one person in Alaska dies by suicide every two days, he said. It was the sixth leading cause of death in the state. But new statistics from 2019 highlight the growing problem. On average one person dies by suicide every 44 hours, versus 48 from 2016, and it’s now the fifth leading cause of death in the state. “It’s time for organizations to come together … because for every suicide there’s 25 attempts,” Biela said. “I’ve been out here for 14-15 years, and I just real-

ized that one suicide in a village affects the whole region, the relations, and the guilt behind it.” There was discussion about conversion therapy after a member in the audience said he believes in “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.” That prompted questions from the audience about what the foundation does to help prevent suicide among LGBTQ people, since their suicide rates are generally higher than the average population. A representative from the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention said they are pushing prohibition of conversion therapy, which is one of the leading impacting factors for LGBTQ people who commit suicide.

Contributing factors Research has shown physical differences in the brains of people who die by suicide verses those who die for other reasons, Biela said. “Most people who are suicidal are ambivalent about taking their life,” Biela said. “They don’t really want to die. They’re struggling with the pain that’s inside. … But their pain was too deep, and it got to be too much.” The family history of suicide is real, Biela said. It’s one impacting factor of suicide, along with environmental factors such as access to lethal means, exposure/ contagion, prolonged stress and stressful life events. “Young people are walking around the villages and seeing someone who died by suicide from their house,”

Biela said. “It’s real out there for them.” He said contagion doesn’t have to be right away. Just in the past month, two survivors of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting died by suicide and a father of a Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting victim also died by suicide. He pointed out these deaths as examples of how contagion can work. “We all need support,” Biela said. “The most important thing you can put between a suicidal person and their way of ending their life is time. Bottom line what can you do? You need to have a conversation just like we’re having a conversation today. We need to have it open and directly, you cannot hide it.”

father attended Chapman School, he attended Chapman School and now his children attend. “I love this state,” Poindexter said. “I love my little town. But this potential budget cut, and this body’s potential actions have my wife and I talking about leaving to a state that prioritizes education. We would have to leave our family and everything we know behind.” At the end of his testimony, Poindexter asked to

take a selfie with the school board and with borough Mayor Charlie Pierce. “I am a millennial, so I would like to get a selfie with all of you,” Poindexter said. “Now I have something to show my children about who shuttered their school’s doors, their opportunities, or who helped them succeed.” Summer Birch, a parent of a student at Chapman School, said her family chose Alaska and the Kenai Peninsula for her son to

grow up in because “it was the kind of place we wanted to be.” “From the first day (Chapman School) has become a second home,” Birch said. Conrad Woodhead, the principal of Chapman School, gave an emotional public comment about the school being the heart of the Anchor Point community. “It’s been frustrating to watch just what the proposed budget has done to

our community,” Woodhead said. “I’m really proud of our folks. I think you get a sense of just how important our building is to our community.” School board member Dan Castimore said he hasn’t heard from anyone representing the other five schools on the potential closure list, which include McNeil Canyon School in Homer, Moose Pass School in Moose Pass, Nikiski Middle-High School in Nikiski, Seward Middle

School in Seward and Soldotna Prep in Soldotna. “It means one of two things,” Castimore said. “It means people at the other locations don’t think we’re serious, and if that’s the case I would implore you to consider that we are very serious. Also if nobody knows those communities care, that’s certainly going to have an impact.” The board will see the district’s budget on April 1 at the school board meeting.

p.m., Alaska State Troopers received report of a theft from a vehicle on Chilkat Drive in Nikiski. The complainant report several items missing from the car and stolen mail left at the scene. Anyone with information regarding this incident is encouraged to contact Alaska State Troopers at 907-2624453. n On Mar. 25 at 1:39 p.m., Alaska State Troopers received report of a stolen gun. The caller reported that the handgun was left in a truck at the hockey game at the Soldotna Sports Center on Saturday. Anyone who may have seen anything or have information regarding this case is encouraged to contact Alaska State Troopers at 907-262-4453. n On Mar. 25 at 6:46 p.m., Alaska State Troopers responded to a reported trespassing incident at a residence on Echo Lake Road. Investigation revealed that Ariel Lemmon, 25, of Soldotna, was trespassing at the home. She was arrested for second-degree criminal trespass (domestic violence) and taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail, pending arraignment. n On Mar. 25 at 10:27 p.m., Alaska State Troopers responded to the area of Self Street in Sterling to investigate a suspicious circumstance and followup on information on the whereabouts of Britney Hope Mackey, 29, who has

several outstanding warrants for her arrest. Mackey was not located. However, Daniel Joseph Dobson, 34, of Sterling, was contacted and arrested for an outstanding warrant relating to a fourth-degree theft offense. He was taken to Wildwood Pretrial on $50 bail. Anyone with information about Mackey’s whereabouts may contact Alaska State Troopers at 262-4453 or Crimestoppers. Callers can remain anonymous. n On Mar. 25 at about 2:30 p.m., Kenai police received a call regarding a REDDI (Report Every Dangerous Driver Immediately) vehicle northbound. Officers responded and contacted Dylan R. Adams, 25, of Juneau, who was arrested for driving under the influence, second-degree and fourthdegree misconduct involving a controlled substance, and second-degree and fourth-degree misconduct involving weapons. n On Mar. 25 at 5:33 p.m., Kenai police received a call reporting that a male with an arrest warrant would be getting on a flight out of Kenai that evening. Officers responded to the Kenai Airport, where Daniel Spiers, 32, of Kenai, was contacted and arrested for a failure to comply with conditions warrant and taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility.

n On Mar. 24 at 4:28 a.m., Kenai police received a call regarding a REDDI vehicle on the Kenai Spur Highway. Officers responded and contacted Tammy M. Tepp, 28, of Kenai, who was arrested for driving under the influence. n On Mar. 24 at 6:05 p.m., Kenai police responded to a shoplifting complaint at a local business. The suspect

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ers and urged their support of HB 22/SB 10 to extend the termination date of the Statewide Suicide Prevention Council until the year 2027. They also hosted a candlelight vigil Tuesday night on the Capitol steps. Biela said he’s known five people in one year who died by suicide and that someone dies by suicide every 40 seconds. It’s the 10th leading cause of death in the country. A few hours after the presentation at the Capitol, a 64-year-old man died by suicide after jumping off Douglas Bridge, police said. How people talk about suicide matters, said Biela, because there’s a lot of stigma out there. “Try to avoid using ‘he

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huge win for Alaska.” “What it basically said is that the federal government doesn’t get the manage inholdings including navigable waters in any of the conservation units in Alaska, and that’s huge,” he told The Associated Press. Justices cited the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act that in 1980 set aside 162,500

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were opposed to making changes to the rule. Between Aug. 20, 2018 and Oct. 15, 2018, the Forest Service heard 144,000 comments, including more than 32,000 letters and more than 110,000 signatures on petitions. For Southeast specifically, responses “generally opposed” increasing timber harvesting in the region, according to the Forest Service’s public comment summary. The main reasons given for this, according the

Alaska, prompting questions about how open the forums would be. The events, when first advertised by the group, laid out terms by which participants were to abide. Ryan McKee, state director of Americans for Prosperity-Alaska, has said the group is renting the space and has the right to remove anyone who is disruptive and ensure the venues aren’t over capacity. He said the events are open on a firstcome, first-served basis. Dunleavy said the administration is partnering with “any and all” organizations, some of which have rules, as it outlines its fiscal policy approach. He said he’s trying to save the state money

and doesn’t see a problem with it. Democratic Sen. Donny Olson offered to pay for the venue where Americans for Prosperity-Alaska plan to host an event in Nome provided the group was not involved. In a Facebook post, he said the rental space would cost $173.25. He accused Dunleavy of wanting “a crowd controlled by stipulations that allow for no public input.” Other Senate Democrats who cited concerns with the Americans for ProsperityAlaska-hosted events offered to pay for venues in several cities, including Juneau, which is not on Dunleavy’s posted schedule for

policy events, to “promote stronger public involvement and the people’s faith in government transparency.” Dunleavy’s office hasn’t responded, said Noah Hanson, a spokesman for the caucus. Dunleavy’s budget proposal includes deep cuts to areas like education, health and social service programs and the state ferry system; shifts in the collection of petroleum property and certain fisheries-related taxes that would benefit the state but hurt some communities; no new statewide taxes; and a full payout of the annual check residents receive from the state’s oil-wealth fund, the Alaska Permanent Fund, following three years

of reduced checks. He also is proposing constitutional amendments to limit spending and give voters a say on new or higher taxes passed by the Legislature and changes to the dividend program. Hundreds of people have testified in opposition to certain cuts, like those proposed for the ferry system, with some expressing an openness to being taxed or accepting a lower dividend. Dunleavy, a Republican, has often said the dividend isn’t the problem, and he said Tuesday the state can’t tax or spend its way out of the situation. He said there many details to work out with a tax, including rates,

exemptions and how long it would be in effect. “It’s easy to throw out, ‘Just tax us.’ But when you get down in the details it becomes a lot more complicated,” he said. “I don’t think taking more money out of the private sector until we have made the government more efficient and have decided what we want for outcomes … is the answer.” Dunleavy said he would work with the House and Senate on a budget “that works for everybody.” “But if question is, in the end, will I exercise my constitutional authority to get the budget in line with expenditures? The answer is yes,” he said.

square miles of land for preservation purposes. The law created 10 new national parks, preserves and monuments but said agency rules would not apply on state or private land within the conservation units that are not federally owned. Sturgeon for 40 years hunted moose along the Nation River, a waterway within the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve in northeast Alaska. In 2007, he was using a hovercraft, a loud, blower-powered amphibious vehicle that can

navigate in shallow water or even mud. The agency had banned hovercraft in other states. Three Park Service rangers told Sturgeon it was illegal to operate his hovercraft and he headed home. Sturgeon sued in 2011. After lower courts rejected his arguments, the Supreme Court in 2016 said the 1980 law had carved out numerous Alaska-specific exceptions to the Park Service’s general authority over federally managed preserves, such as snowmobile and

airplane travel between villages. Justices sent the case back for reconsideration but the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals concluded the agency had regulatory authority over a river in a preserve. The Supreme Court justices rejected that conclusion. The 1980 law creating new parks and reserves surrounded more than 28,125 square miles of state, Alaska Native and private land, Kagan wrote. The National Park Service, the court said, has broad authority to ad-

minister lands and waterways within parks across the country. However, Congress in the Alaska law added a provision that only “public” land — the federally owned land and waters — would be subject to the federal regulations, Kagan wrote. The federal government’s reserved water right in the Nation River, she said, allows the National Park Service to protect it from depletion or diversion but not to target hovercraft. “I was very happy that

they kind of really understood Alaska. They recognized that the rivers in Alaska are very often our highways, like (Interstate) 5 that goes through California and Oregon and Washington, and the Yukon is kind of our equivalent of I-5,” Sturgeon said. “Sturgeon can again rev up his hovercraft in search of moose,” Kagan wrote. “I thought that was pretty cool,” Sturgeon said of Kagan’s humorous touches, adding they made the decision feel “real human.”

summary, were: the need for federal government and taxpayer subsidies; the timber industry being a minor contributor to Southeast’s economy; and that exporting timber to overseas markets doesn’t create local employment. Those in Southeast who testified in support of changing the rule pointed to the fact that the decline of the timber industry since the rule went into effect in 2001 hurt the region’s economy. In February, Pew Charitable Trusts commissioned a survey through opinion and market research company SSRS that found that 75 percent of people polled

were in favor of the Road- where it has been critical to less Rule. The poll was protecting the largest temdone via phone and polled perate rainforest on earth, a representative sample of the Tongass National For607 people nationwide, ac- est, which is a haven for fish cording to Pew Charitable and wildlife,” Lavin said via Trusts. email. “The public’s overEnvironmental spokes- whelming support should people in Alaska said they force the Forest Service to weren’t surprised at the rethink its misplaced plans broad support for the mea- to allow roadbuilding and sure. Patrick Lavin, senior old-growth logging in these Alaska representative for priceless roadless habitats.” the Defenders of Wildlife, About 45 percent of the said the Roadless Rule has 17-million-acre Tongass protected forests and wild- National Forest isn’t open life from road building and to timber harvest or the conindustrial logging, and has struction or reconstruction been particularly effective of roads under the Roadless in Alaska. Rule. About 20 percent of “The rule has been espe-B:11.5” that total is Congress-descially important in Alaska,T:11.5” ignated wilderness blocked

from development even under a modified roadless rule. Dan Cannon, the Tongass Forest program manager for the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (SEACC), said keeping these areas from being developed is vital to the longterm future of the Tongass. “Keeping the Tongass healthy and intact by preventing logging roads and clearcut logging will help maintain the region’s resiliency in the face of climate change,” Cannon said via email. “Many of these roadless areas protect watersheds that are critical for our fishing and tourism in-

dustries, the economic heart of Southeast. The 2001 National Roadless Rule also supports the many Southeast Alaskans who rely on subsistence hunting and fishing to fill their freezers each year.” From March to June, the Forest Service will send out monthly updates about its progress on examining the Roadless Rule and will consult with Alaska Native corporations, according to the most recent bulletin. In July or August, the Draft Environmental Impact study should be completed, and there will be public meetings and a 60-day open period for written comments.

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