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Sunday, March 31, 2019 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 49, Issue 154

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Klawock hits temperature milestone JUNEAU — A small Southeast Alaska community reached 70 degrees last week, which weather data suggests is the earliest point that temperature has been reached in the state.

National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Bezenek says Klawock hit the mark March 19.

He says the earliest that records indicate a community in Alaska hit 60 was Jan. 14, 2018, when the temperature at Annette Island, also in southeast Alaska, reached 66.

The U.S. Drought Monitor, which weekly tracks drought conditions, shows much of southeast Alaska with abnormally dry conditions to some level of drought.

Bezenek says the region currently is experiencing an “extreme anomaly” with blocking highs shunting storm tracks the area typically would get.

He says this has allowed warmer air to be pushed into southeast Alaska.

Half of Fort Wainwright’s largest unit will deploy this year FAIRBANKS — Officials say about half of the largest unit on the Army post in Fairbanks will deploy to Iraq later this year.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that the Army announced Friday that the Fort Wainwright soldiers will replace the Fort Campbell, Kentucky-based 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division.

The unit, the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, numbers about 4,500 soldiers.

The Fairbanks soldiers will work to stabilize an area previously controlled by the Islamic State group now known officially by the U.S. and its allies as the Arabic term Daech.

This will be the brigade’s third deployment to Iraq.

Brigade spokesman Maj. Charlie Dietz says leaders haven’t said which soldiers will deploy.

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Dunleavy talks education

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

Ahead of last week’s forum in Kenai, Gov. Mike Dunleavy and his team sat down with Clarion reporters Brian Mazurek and Victoria Petersen to discuss his recently proposed budget, education, local industry, public safety and more. In the second part of this series, we look at the governor’s approach to education.

Increased class sizes, no more sports and the closure of several schools are just a handful of the steps the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District has said they might have to take to meet Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposed $300 million reductions to state funding for education.

Should the governor’s proposed budget pass through the state Legislature, the district would face a $22.4 million cut.

Clarion reporter Victoria Petersen: Many residents are expressing concerns about education

By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion

Gov. Mike Dunleavy, center, speaks about education with Clarion reporters Brian Mazurek and Victoria Petersen (not pictured) on Monday, in Kenai. The governor answered questions on a wide range of topics, including public safety, education, industry and his proposed budget. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)

funding at town halls, assembly meetings and school board meetings, both at the K-12 level, and university level. Several teachers I’ve

spoken to have mentioned they’re looking for other jobs out of state where they offer more attractive benefits and retirement, better

salaries, et cetera. What can the state do to retain skilled teachers with these drastic cuts to education?

See TALKS, page A6

Judge restores Obama-era drilling ban in Arctic

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press

President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he reversed bans on offshore drilling in vast parts of the Arctic Ocean and dozens of canyons in the Atlantic Ocean, a U.S. judge said in a ruling that restored the Obama-era restrictions.

U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason in a decision late Friday threw out Trump’s executive order that overturned the bans that comprised a key part of Obama’s environmental legacy.

Presidents have the power under a federal law to remove certain lands from development but cannot revoke those removals, Gleason said.

See DRILL, page A6

Mount Marathon deadline tonight

In this Feb. 15, 2018, file photo, Judith Enck, center, former regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency addresses those gathered at a protest against President Trump’s plan to expand offshore drilling for oil and gas in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/David Klepper, File)

Those hoping to run the 92nd Mount Marathon Race in Seward, which will take them from 4th Avenue up about 3,022 feet to the mountain’s race point, have until Sunday night to register for the race and race lottery.

Registration for the race closes at 11:59 p.m. on March 31, and no late registration is allowed.

Each year, the first 225 eligible finishers from the previous year’s race gain priority racer status and are invited to register again.

Previous first place winners, those with 10-year racer status and junior-to-adult racers who age into the adult race are also invited to register as priority racers.

As of Thursday, 291 men and 254 women had registered under priority racer status. There are 350 bibs available for each race. Nearly 200 juniors have registered for the 300 race spots. The remaining spots in each race will be filled through the lottery selection.

Registration for the lottery, which also closes Sunday night, has reached just over 1,000 applicants but that shouldn’t discourage anyone from applying, according to the Seward Chamber of Commerce’s Communications Director Jen Leahy.

“New runners get entry to the race every year,” Leahy said. “If you’re remotely interested, put your hat in the ring.”

The lottery system is weighted, giving those who have entered to run the race previous years have more of a chance to win a bib.

“An overwhelming majority of runners are getting in (to the race in) three to four years,” Leahy said. “And the lottery rewards consecutive See RACE, page A2

Homer rallies around bistro after racist vandalism

By MEGAN PACER Homer News

When Wasabi’s Bistro just outside of Homer was vandalized with a racist message sometime between last Wednesday night and Thursday morning, some in the Homer community were shocked. Others weren’t.

But most were supportive of the restaurant owners, and showed it by filling the place up for the next few nights.

The Alaska State Troopers are investigating the crime after the restaurant’s owners, Colt Belmonte, who is white, and his wife Dali Frazier, who is black,

Messages of support surround the door to Wasabi’s Bistro on Thursday, in Homer.

discovered the graffiti last Thursday morning.

By Thursday night, the community had a plan for

rallying around Belmonte, Frazier and their family.

Signs of acceptance were put up outside the building

and a few other area businesses posted to their Facebook accounts encouraging the public to give their patronage to Wasabi’s.

“I don’t typically use our facebook (sic) page to try to send business to other restaurants, but this post is the exception,” read a status posted by Alice’s Champagne Palace. “I encourage (everybody) to go have a nice dinner or a drink (at) Wasabi’s.”

And that’s what people did.

Looking over a menu, John Mahoney said he had been at Wasabi’s earlier in the evening the night the

graffiti happened.

“I have a small business in town,” he said. “They support me and I support them.”

Mahoney said that while he knows people have strong opinions, he was surprised by the racist message.

“To have something painted on a building like that, I was surprised,” he said.

Hayley Walters and Joseph Lapp sat at a table with their 2-year-old daughter, Vida. Walters had gone up to Frazier just minutes before with a bouquet of flowers, and said Vida made the restaurant owners a card.

See RALLY, page A2

Anchorage Assembly evaluating Kenai man charged with stealing snowmachine $1.9B port cost estimate ANCHORAGE (AP) — The Anchorage Assembly is working to determine if it needs to spend about $1.9 billion to rebuild the city’s deteriorating port.

Assembly member Christopher Constant said at a March 21 Assembly committee meeting that the group needs to look closely

at whether there are ways to save on cost, the Alaska Journal of Commerce reported on Wednesday.

Constant has started a reexamination of the Anchorage Port modernization program as co-chair of the Assembly’s Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee.

Current estimates show it will cost about $1.9 billion to replace and upgrade the port’s cargo, petroleum, cement terminals and other facilities.

Initial estimates were pegged at just less than $500 million in 2014. That cost estimate grew to more See PORT, page A8

By BRIAN MAZUREK Peninsula Clarion

A Kenai man has been charged with burglarizing a home in Nikiski and stealing a snowmachine, according to an affidavit filed by Alaska State Troopers at the Kenai Courthouse on March 22.

On March 12, a man

called state troopers to report that his neighbor’s house had been burglarized. According to the affidavit, troopers went to the residence to investigate and noticed snowmachine tracks leading from the garage of the residence to the road. Troopers also noticed signs of forced entry See SNOW, page A3

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“I know that it’s hard to be a person of color in this town,” Walters said. “It’s really unfortunate that this happened, and we wanted to support them the best we could.”

Unlike others, Lapp, who moved to the area in 2005, was not shocked by the display of racism in Homer.

“I’ve always thought that Homer is a very racist community,” he said. “… It’s often quiet if you’re not a person of color because it doesn’t impact you. Yeah, it doesn’t surprise me. It’s horrible, but at the same time, I think this is a dangerous and scary place to be for some (people).”

Melody Barrett, a friend of Belmonte and Frazier’s, sat at the bar with a drink.

She described her friends as a great couple who “do so much for the community.”

“They’re just as much a part of Homer as anyone else is,” Barrett said. “And so, whether you like a business or you don’t like a business, it still isn’t any excuse … for racist behavior, negative behavior, hurtful behavior. It’s not.”

Barrett said racism is a condition of their world we

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live in, and that it always has been.

“But it would be really nice if we could grow up,” she said.

At a table in the corner, Cameron Forbes, who lives just down the road from the restaurant, pulled up a chair with couple Alex and Cindy Koplin.

“I was just shocked,” Cindy Koplin said. “It was just such a bold, hateful statement that I just was so surprised to see in this loving town.”

Alex Koplin said his family has been frequenting the venue since before it was called Wasabi’s.

“It made me very angry, very upset,” he said of the graffiti.

Forbes said he heard about it through friends.

“Part of me was shocked, part of me was hurt,” he said.

“Very hurt. But then again, I also recognized it as something that’s happening in other places as well.”

Forbes said dealing with the racist vandalism is twofold. On the one hand, people may be shocked, but on the other, he said this is something familiar that people have seen before.

“To the extent that we know what this is, I think … that’s why we’re here this evening,” Forbes said. “To say

that we know what this is, and this really has to go in a different direction.”

At the Homer City Council meeting held Tuesday, March 26, Council member Donna Aderhold spoke about the incident during her closing comments. She said it has given the community an opportunity in which people can take time to reflect on their own biases. It’s something the community needs to address, she said.

“We all have them,” she said. “… It’s just a time for self reflection as well.”

The vandalism is currently being investigated as a criminal mischief crime for damage to property, according to Sgt. Daniel Cox of the Anchor Point trooper post. He said that if new evidence points to any additional crimes, they could be added.

“We look for evidence, we look for any video or witnesses,” Cox said.

Specifically, Cox said troopers want to know if anyone was at Wasabi’s over the course of Wednesday night.

“Basically we’re just asking if anybody saw a person or a vehicle at Wasabi’s between 11:30 p.m. last night to 7 (a.m.) this morning, to contact us and hopefully we can match up a person or a vehicle that was there and talk

to them,” he said.

Cox said the investigation is ongoing and that troopers will publish any additional updates as they come.

According to Jill Burnham, who is the Evening Programs Coordinator for the Kachemak Bay Campus, local businesses are also coming together to help.

“Local businesses including The Grog Shop, Alice’s Champagne Palace and the Homer Bookstore are coordinating to create a reward for the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible which will be managed and administered through Peninsula Crime Stoppers,” she wrote in an email.

Peninsula Crime Stoppers is a nonprofit on the Kenai Peninsula that coordinates with law enforcement, the media and the general community to provide a flow of information to help in the arrest of criminals. The graffiti is listed as “crime of the week.”

“If you have information about this crime, you can report (anonymously if you like) by calling the PCS hotline at 283-TIPS (8477), visiting the website www.peninsulacrimestoppers.com, or downloading the P3 TIPS app on your smartphone,” Burnham wrote.

Reach Megan Pacer at mpacer@homernews.com.

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entries, so it is particularly important to keep applying.”

The fee structure for this year’s race changed, lowering lottery application fees from $35 to $20 and increasing race registration fees from $65 to $85.

“These changes do not significantly change our revenue,” according to the chamber’s website. “We’re simply shifting more of the expenses to runners who are getting to enjoy the race experience, as opposed to unsuccessful lottery applicants. We have kept the cost of the junior race the same to encourage entire families to continue participating.”

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Rosalie Evangeline Albrant January 28, 1941 - March 20, 2019

Rosalie Evangeline Albrant, age 78 passed away in Soldotna, Alaska on March 20, 2019. She was born in Zion, Illinois on January 28, 1941 to Levi and Caroline (Andrews) Hedman.

A Celebration of Life will be held at 4:00 pm on April 6, 2019 at Peninsula Christian Center in Soldotna.

Pastor Chase Musick will be officiating.

A resident of Soldotna, Rosi moved to Alaska in 1971, lived in Tok and the Kenai Peninsula. She loved spending time with family, eating out and raising horses. Rosi was an adventurer of travel, especially Africa. Her family and close friends added that, “Rosi was the centerpiece to our family, a true matriarch.” “She was the kindest and warmest person I have ever known.” “A devout follower of God.” “Gram would endlessly find complements to give out, she loved making everyone around her feel happy.” “A best friend and bringer of joy.” “She was so strong, strong of will and heart.” “Rosi would never complain or cry out, she wanted to be strong for those around her.“ “The depth of love for her children was powerful beyond words.”

She was preceded in death by her parents Levi and Caroline Hedman.

She is survived by her children Leitha Mallatt of Sterling, AK, Melinda Leichliter of Soldotna, Charles Coulman of Tok, AK, Robert Coulman of Soldotna, AK, numerous grandchildren, family and friends.

LIO Schedule

Around the Peninsula Opioids & Narcan Community Education Series PCHS & the Division of Public Health Nursing invite you to a Community Education Series focusing on Opioids & Narcan on Thursday, April 25 from 5:30 – 6 p.m. at PCHS at 230 E. Marydale Ave., Soldotna. There will be a short presentation on the science of opioids and opioid addiction as well as information about the lifesaving medication, Narcan. For more information, contact Fred Koski at 907‐262‐3119. All those attending will receive a FREE Narcan Kit.

Alaska Farm Bureau meets

Kenai Peninsula Chapter of the Alaska Farm Bureau meets at 6 p.m., Thursday, April 4 at the Homer Public Library. There will be election of officers and consideration of by-law changes. All Farm Bureau members and other interested persons are invited to attend. A Zoom set-up will be available for those unable to attend in person. For sign on information, emailkpchapterfb@gmail. com.

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.

Monday, April 1

Al-Anon support group meetings

1:30 p.m.: The Senate Health & Social Services Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss SB 93 Medical Provider Incentives / Loan Repayment and SB 1 Repeal Certificate of Need Program. Testimony will be taken.

3:15 p.m.: The House Labor & Commerce Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss HB 45 Extend Board of Dental Examiners, HB 79 Peace Officer / Firefighter Retire Benefits, Confirmation: Board of Nursing, Alaska State Board of Public Accountancy, Board of Dental Examiners, Board of Barbers & Hairdressers, Alaska Labor Relations Agency, Board of Marital & Family Therapy. Testimony will be taken.

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 2520558 for more information.

Tuesday, April 2

9 a.m.: The Senate Education Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss Confirmation: University of Alaska Board of Regents - John Bania, Darroll Hargraves and State Board of Education & Early Development - Bob Griffin, Tiffany Scott, Sally Stickhausen. Testimony will be taken.

3:30 p.m.: The Senate State Affairs Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss SJR 5 Constitutional Amendment: Permanent Fund & Dividend and Confirmation: Alaska Public Offices Commission - Rick Stillie; Alaska Parole Board - Edie Grunwald; Alaska Police Standards Council - Stephen Dutra, Burke Waldron, Rebecca Hamon, Joseph White; Chief Administrative Law Judge - Kathleen Frederick. Testimony will be taken.

Wednesday, April 3

8 a.m.: The House Education Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss Confirmation: University of Alaska Board of Regents - John Bania, Darroll Hargraves. Testimony will be taken.

1 p.m.: The House Resources Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss HB 27 Regulation of Flame Retardant Chemicals and HB 3 State Land Sale; PFD Voucher & Assignment. Testimony will be taken.

3:15 p.m.: The House Labor & Commerce Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss Confirmation: Board of Massage Therapists; Board of Certified Direct-Entry Midwives; Occupational Safety & Health Review Board; Board of Examiners in Optometry; Board of Nursing; Board of Pharmacy; Board of Physical & Occupational Therapy; Alaska Workers’ Compensation Board; Board of Psychologists & Psychological Associate Examiners; Board of Social Work Examiners, Board of Certified Real Estate Appraisers; Board of Veterinary Examiners; Real Estate Commission; & State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, & Land Surveyors, HB 91 Naturopaths: Licensing; Practice and HB 102 Rental Vehicle by Private Owner. Testimony will be taken.

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on the back door, and a Jeep inside the garage had one of its windows broken, according to the affidavit.

Troopers reported that later that day they found Joshua Brewer, 36, driving the stolen snowmachine. The Troopers tried to stop Brewer, but after initially pulling over at the trooper’s instructions, Brewer fled into the woods on the snowmachine, according to the affidavit.

On March 21, security at the Tesoro refinery in Nikiski called troopers to report lost tools and a briefcase on a snowmachine trail on the

Tesoro property. According to the affidavit, Tesoro security found documents in the briefcase belonging to Brewer and called him to come pick up his property. Troopers were on scene when Brewer arrived to collect the briefcase from Tesoro. Brewer was wanted on prior charges of stealing cellphones from the Nikiski Pool.

They placed him under arrest, according to the affidavit.

Brewer is facing one count of first-degree burglary, a class B felony, one count of second-degree vehicle theft, a class A misdemeanor, one count of third-degree criminal mischief, a class C felony, and one count of failure to stop at the direction of an officer while driving a stolen vehicle, a class C felony.

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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.

—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.

—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.

—NCRC Open Gym Nights: Teen Center, Monday – Friday, 2:30-8 p.m.

—Full Swing Golf, Monday – Friday. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

Narcan kits available at Kenai Public Health Heroin overdoses are on the rise in Alaska. Narcan is an easy medication you can give to someone who is overdosing. It may save their life. Adults can get free Narcan nasal spray kits at the Kenai Public Health Center at 630 Barnacle Way, Suite A, in Kenai. For additional information call Kenai Public Health at 335-3400.

Kenai Community Library events —Lego Maker Mondays from 4-5 p.m. Why not join us to build LEGO creations based on new themes each week and inspired by children’s books! Lego Makers, Mondays from 4–5 p.m. Designed for children ages 6-12; children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.

—Wee Read Story Time, Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.

Designed for children ages 0-3. Every Tuesday enjoy a program full of stories, songs, finger play and more! No registration required.

—Chess Club, Tuesdays at 4 p.m. Get ready to ROOK the HOUSE every Monday! Do you like playing Chess, or would you like to learn how? The Kenai Community Library is proud to offer a casual program for chess players of all ages and levels. Chessboards will be provided.

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—Preschool Story Time, Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.

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Kenai Senior Center activities The Kenai Senior Center is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Monday to Friday, and are open until 9:30 p.m. on Thursdays. Community meals are served Monday to Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost for lunch is $7 suggested donation for individuals 60 or older, $14 for those under 60. Call 907-283-4156 for more information.

Soldotna Public Library activities For more information, contact the library at Soldotna Public Library at 262-4227.

—Food for Fines for National Library Week, April 8-13: Bring undamaged, unexpired canned or boxed nonperishable food items to the Soldotna Public Library service desk during open hours and receive a $1 per item credit toward the reduction of your existing Soldotna Library fines. Don’t forget to bring your library card!

Events for Children: All ages are welcome at our children’s programs. Children under 10 must bring a responsible buddy.

—Make Your Own Board Game, Friday, April 5 at 4 p.m.: Roll an advantage and make your own themed board game to take home and play against your family and friends.

—Kenaitze Pride Dancers, Thursday, April 11, 4 p.m.: The talented Kenaitze Pride Dancers are celebrating the spirit and beauty of their rich cultural history, and you’re invited! All ages welcome.

—Lunch and Learn on Earth Day, Monday, April 22 at 12 p.m.: What do penguins and polar bears have in common? Doctor Kristin Mitchell can tell you! She’ll be here to talk science and tell stories about her recent trip to Antarctica.

—Code Club, Mondays at 4 p.m.: Interested in learning Scratch, Python, Java, HTML, or more? Join Code Club and learn to build websites, games, and basic apps.

Absolute beginner-friendly, laptops provided. Ages 1018 welcome!

—Big Play Date (infant to preschool), the first Monday of the month at 10:30 a.m.: Bubble wrap, streamer tunnels, Duplo Blocks, and more! This is an open-play hour of fun with plenty of activities to stimulate growth, learning, and imagination.

Toddler Story Time (18 months-3 years), Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.: Get up and get moving at the library with stories, songs, and silly fun that encourages your toddler’s language skills!

—LEGO® Brick Club, Tuesdays at 4 p.m.: Tell your stories and build your world with Lego® bricks. Bring a friend with you and let your imagination go wild. Adult supervision needed for those under the age of 10.

—Bouncing Babies Story Time (birth-18 months), Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.: Come share songs, stories, and snuggle time with Bouncing Babies.

—Preschool Story Time (3-5 years), Thursdays at 10:30 a.m.: Come share stories, songs, and other learning fun!

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What Others Say

Not a witch hunt President Trump and his defenders are understandably exulting now that the

Justice Department has released a summary of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s principal conclusions about his investigation of Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election. But, all too characteristically, the president is portraying Mueller’s findings as a “total exoneration.”

It’s no such thing.

The summary of Mueller’s conclusions came in a letter Atty. Gen. William Barr sent to Congress Sunday. According to Barr, Mueller did not establish that the Trump campaign “conspired or coordinated with” the Russian government or a Russian “troll farm” in two notorious operations: the social-media disinformation campaign launched by the Internet Research Agency and the hacking of Democratic email accounts and the release of embarrassing emails via WikiLeaks.

Of course that’s a victory for the president. For that matter, it’s also good news for the country.

Even Trump’s critics should welcome a finding that the president and his campaign officials didn’t break the law by conspiring with Russians to subvert the election.

But Trump wasn’t content to welcome this finding. On Twitter he suggested that Mueller’s message was “No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION.” In fact, Mueller didn’t absolve the president of obstructing justice. Instead, according to Barr, Mueller “did not reach a conclusion — one way or the other” about whether actions by Trump constituted obstruction. Barr quoted Mueller as saying: “While this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”

Barr and Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein then made their own quick determination that the evidence that Mueller amassed over the course of a two-year investigation wasn’t enough to establish that Trump committed an obstructionof-justice offense.

These contrasting perspectives, as well as a profusion of other as-yet unanswered questions, are a reminder that it is absolutely vital that Congress — and the public — be given access to Mueller’s complete report, with only minimal redactions to protect legitimate national security secrets.

That Mueller cleared the Trump campaign of colluding criminally with Russia doesn’t mean that his investigation was a wasteful “witch hunt” or that people in Trump’s orbit didn’t engage in questionable contacts with Russians, as Trump and his allies contend. The guilty pleas and convictions obtained by Mueller belie that.

And, of course, the end of Mueller’s investigation doesn’t mean that other investigations related to the Trump campaign — including those underway in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere — won’t uncover information about criminal activity by Trump or his aides.

The president is entitled to take satisfaction in some of what Mueller concluded. But Congress must not take Barr’s summary of Mueller’s conclusions as “total exoneration” of the president or a substitute for Congress’ own responsibility to investigate important matters. They include the president’s firing of former FBI director James B. Comey and Comey’s allegation that Trump pressured him to drop an investigation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

It isn’t second-guessing Mueller to insist that Congress and the public receive access to his complete report, not just the snippets that appeared in Barr’s letter.

And one other point. There is a long list of reasons why we think Trump is unfit for the presidency and dangerous for the country. The only thing we learned from Barr’s summary is that colluding with Russia is no longer on it.

— Los Angeles Times, March 24

Offense to defense

Donald Trump’s enemies are in agony after Bob Mueller’s probe did not uncover sufficient evidence that candidate Trump and his people had colluded with the Russians. Meanwhile, he and his supporters are in a vengeful bliss.

But not so fast: There is ample evidence of collusion, all right — of President Trump colluding with the Democrats. That could be the explanation for what possessed the Trump Department of Justice to file a legal brief in support of doing away entirely with Obamacare.

Actually, what Justice did — over the reported objections of Attorney General William Barr (you remember him: the guy who glossed over the Mueller report) — was to abandon its position defending the Affordable Care Act from elimination before an appeals court considering just that.

If that position prevailed, it would be “Goodbye, ACA,” along with its hugely popular protection for patients with pre-existing conditions.

Can you believe it? Obamacare has gotten popular over the years. So the Republicans had gotten pummeled in the midterm election over their longstanding efforts to “repeal and replace” it. Their years of attempting to sabotage what is now accepted as a better-than-nothing health care system had caught up with them.

Never mind that. There are those in the GOP who just can’t let go of their hostility to anything Obama. Those die-hards were able to sway the president. Suddenly Trump, who was riding

high after Mueller apparently wasn’t able to prove a case against him, let his accusers off the hook in mid-squirm with his health care legal action. In doing so, he violated Bob Franken a political commandment: Thou shalt never step on thine own message.

He and his anti-Obamacare zealots stepped in something with their decision to gut a structure that, if it went away, could leave an additional 28 million Americans without insurance and, in so many cases, unable to afford treatment.

Suddenly, the Republicans were playing defense. Some of those in the president’s own GOP actually criticized the Justice Department decision. Others simply went into hiding or were insisting that they’d come up with a health care program for the country that was even better. Trump himself proclaimed that “The Republican Party will become the party of health care!”

If you think you’ve heard that kind of promise before from the Grand Old Party’s leaders, it is because their efforts to come up with an adequate replacement for Obamacare have been a grand old flop. Democrats, who were being stomped because of the Mueller decision, were able to do a little stomping of their own. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in full “I told you

so” mode when she addressed a private meeting of House Democrats: “We must, with all that is going on, stay focused on our purpose ‘For the People’ — lower health care costs, bigger paychecks and cleaner government.”

Pelosi has been the one to argue that the Democrats she leads, particularly the ones on the left wing, should tread very cautiously when they promise to remove Trump from office. The impeachment passion has been subdued by the independent counsel’s lack of proven “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors” or even low ones, at least as far as we know.

Pelosi has a Plan B, and it’s a revolutionary one: How about running on the issues? Now that all the investigations her party was planning could well be considered flogging a dead horse, why not focus on the rear end of the horse, and bash the administration on substance; what policies Trump’s put in place or proposed. It’s not that his outlandish personal characteristics are off-limits, nor his hateful demagoguery, but there are genuine issues to argue about, like taxes, immigration and, yes, health care.

For the moment, it appears Donald Trump will be running for a second term; he’ll still be around. The Democrats will have to beat him, if they can avoid their normal tendency to beat themselves by snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. What they can count on is Donald Trump getting so wound up that he cannot resist doing just that to himself.

Help youth understand risks of vaping Remember Joe Camel, the 1980s and 90s advertising mascot for Camel cigarettes? Or the Journal of the American Medical Association study that found children were just as familiar with the cartoon camel-man and his cigarettes as they were with Mickey Mouse? You might also recall the lawsuit that followed and how the ad campaign was eventually shut down because of Joe Camel’s appeal to children.

E-cigarettes are this generation’s Joe Camel. With kid-friendly flavors like mango and cool mint and intriguing shapes that can look like USB sticks or even toys, e-cigarettes are alluring to young people. In 2017 in Alaska, the number of high school students who had smoked at least one day in the last 30 days was at an all-time low – just 10 percent, nearly half the rate from a decade before, according to the Youth Behavior Risk Survey.

That same year, however, 40 percent of high school students reported trying e-cigarettes at least once.

E-cigarette use has skyrocketed among youth, introducing a whole new generation to nicotine and possible further tobacco use. This is a serious public health concern for our youth.

What’s so dangerous about nicotine? No matter how it’s delivered, nicotine is highly addictive. E-cigarettes have helped some smokers quit traditional cigarettes but e-cigarettes can deliver just as much nicotine or more, and have not been shown to be effec-

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A New England Journal of Medicine study found that e-cigarettes were more successful than other methods at getting smokers off cigarettes. However, after a year, 80 percent of participants who used e-cigarettes to quit smoking were still on nicotine, while only 9 percent of those who used other forms of nicotine replacement therapy (gums, patches, medication) still used nicotine. We know long-term nicotine use is linked with heart disease and an increased risk of certain cancers.

It may increase the risk of stroke and chronic kidney disease.

One brand, JUUL, has pods that contain as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes, but unfortunately many teens don’t know it. Nicotine is especially dangerous for young people whose brains are still developing. It can change the way brain synapses are formed and harm the parts of the brain that control attention, impulse control and learning. Emerging evidence shows nicotine addiction can strengthen the dopamine reward pathways that prime the brain for further addictions.

The vape fluid that produces e-cigarette aerosols is not harmless; we keep

learning more about the heavy metals, ultrafine particles, and other toxic or cancer-causing substances contained in e-cigarettes and their possible long-term health effects. Exposure to highly concentrated e-cigarette liquid causes hundreds of poisonings every year nationwide, with more than half of those in children under age five.

What’s more, the devices themselves can be used to deliver marijuana or other drugs, have been shown to have misleading labeling and on occasions have exploded, causing injury.

What can be done about teen vaping? While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is in the process of implementing new regulations governing e-cigarettes, Alaskans should know it’s currently illegal for youth under the age of 19 to possess an electronic smoking product. Enforcement is critical and so is education. Health care providers, parents and adults who work with teens all play an important role in helping youth understand the risks of e-cigarettes. Teens need to learn the facts so they don’t fall prey to advertising, and can be a trusted source when sharing information with friends.

This is our generation’s “Joe Camel” and it’s up to all of us to keep Alaska’s youth healthy and safe.

Dr. Lily Lou, M.D. is a physician, board certified in pediatrics and neonatology, and is Alaska’s Chief Medical Officer. Adam Crum, M.S.P.H., is Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.

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Senate GOP wary in Trump’s revived health care battle

By LISA MASCARO and CATHERINE LUCEY Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s decision to revive the fight over the Affordable Care Act has stirred a political and policy debate among Republicans on how best to approach the divisive issue heading into the 2020 election.

Failing to repeal and replace the ACA, otherwise known as Obamacare, is one of the biggest shortcomings of the president’s first term in meeting its goals. It left Republicans with a broken campaign promise, dismal approval ratings and a narrative they haven’t been able to shake — that they don’t support protecting those with pre-existing medical conditions from high-cost care. In some races, it cost Republican seats last fall, flipping House control to Democrats.

For Trump, the reset he wants is clear. “The Republican Party will soon be known as the party of health care,” he said on Capitol Hill . “You watch!”

But among Republican senators, there’s reluctance to embrace Trump’s new priority. Usually tight-lipped Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who was given little advance notice of the president’s new push, spoke volumes when asked about it.

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In this March 28, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. Trump’s surprise decision to stop defending the Affordable Care Act in court has opened a new debate among Republicans about how to approach health care heading into the 2020 elections, with some fearing the issue remains a vulnerability for the party. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

proposing,” McConnell told Politico.

And in the House, it’s a mixed bag. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy initially panned Trump’s move, questioning the timing that collided with Trump’s bounce from the end of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

But the GOP leader does see value in kick-starting a health care debate, said a person granted anonymity to discuss the situation.

House Republicans continue to be asked about it back home and a new GOP health care bill could improve their standing with

voters, the person said.

What’s unclear is whether a Trump-Care bill will emerge from the White House or Capitol Hill to replace the Affordable Care Act or if the president’s push for a policy outcome fades to little more than a topic for the campaign trail.

Trump discussed health care at length during a rally in Michigan Thursday and again during an appearance in Florida Friday.

“We are going to have a plan that’s so much better than Obamacare,” the president promised after touring an aging dike in South Florida.

For Trump, returning to health care shows his commitment to a 2016 campaign pledge and his desire to frame the 2020 debate on his terms.

Stung by the Democratic gains in November and sparked by another ACA legal challenge that could make its way to the Supreme Court, the president dug into the issue this past week, deciding to fight. He feels that it is an important battle to take on, said two people familiar with White House thinking who were not authorized to speak publicly.

The president has been actively engaged in conver-

sations about health care, dialing up lawmakers in the House and Senate, and the White House is expected to lay out further details on his goals in the coming days.

“We are working very hard on that,” said Trump as he was heading out to the Michigan rally, singling out Republican senators John Barrasso, Rick Scott and Bill Cassidy among those involved.

“They are going to work together to come up with something that’s really spectacular,” the president said.

But in truth, there is no grand Republican plan on Capitol Hill to replace Obamacare.

The day after Trump dropped the new priority during a private Senate GOP lunch, a top ally, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., convened an evening meeting of senators to discuss options, according to those familiar with the talks.

Graham had helped spark the idea with Trump during a golf outing at Mar-a-Lago.

The group he assembled back on Capitol Hill included two former governors well versed in health care policy — Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, whose Romneycare in Massachusetts was a precursor to Obamacare, and Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, a former health care executive.

But McConnell has made it clear he would rather see Republicans spend their time attacking the Demo-

cratic plans to expand existing health care programs, namely the Medicare for All plans embraced by some of the Democrats running to unseat Trump. He sees it as their best option for reversing public opinion heading toward 2020 when he, too, faces re-election. McConnell derides the high cost of a government-run system as “Medicare for None.”

The thinking among McConnell and other leading Republicans is that it’s best to avoid another messy legislative battle. Republicans are loath to repeat the undertaking that consumed much of 2017. At that time, Republicans could never agree on a new health care plan and the months-long exercise ended in failure when John McCain joined others in rejecting one last-ditch effort, dooming the yearslong campaign to repeal and replace Obamacare.

They would rather simply wait out the White House with an expectation that no actual legislation emerges, according to those familiar with the GOP thinking.

House Republicans, though, face a different calculus. They lost dozens of seats last fall in part because Democrats successfully attacked them over the GOP proposals to replace Obamacare. Americans have warmed to the 2010 health care law and, in particular, its provision that prevents insurers from charging more to patients pre-existing conditions.

Number of asylum seekers sent back over border to grow

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Border officials are aiming to more than quadruple the number of asylum seekers sent back over the southern border each day, a major expansion of a top government effort to address the swelling number of Central Americans arriving in the country, a Trump administration official said Saturday.

It was the latest attempt to ease a straining immigration system that officials say is at the breaking point. Hundreds of officers who usually screen cargo and vehicles at ports of entry were reassigned to help manage migrants. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen asked for volunteers from non-immigration agencies within her department, sent a letter to Congress late this past week requesting resources and broader authority to deport families faster, and she met with Central American and Mexican officials.

The efforts are being made while President Donald Trump is doubling down on threats to shutter the U.S.Mexico border entirely, a

move that would have serious economic repercussions for both the U.S. and Mexico but wouldn’t stop migrants from crossing between ports.

His administration also announced it was cutting aid to the Central American countries home to most of the migrants.

Right now, about 60 asylum seekers a day are returned to Mexico at the San Ysidro, Calexico and El Paso ports to wait out their cases, the official said. They are allowed to return to the U.S. for court dates. The plan was announced Jan. 29, partially to deter false claimants from coming across the border.

With a backlog of more than 700,000 immigration cases, asylum seekers can wait years for their cases to progress, and officials say some people game the system in order to live in the U.S. Officials hope to have as many as 300 people returned per day by the end of the week, focusing particularly on those who come in between ports of entry, said the official, who had knowledge of the plans but was unauthorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press

Around the Nation Police: Man killed teen who knocked on wrong door

ATLANTA — A man fatally shot a teenager who accidentally knocked on the wrong apartment door in Atlanta, a television station reported.

It happened about 12:30 a.m. Friday at The Retreat apartment complex in southwest Atlanta, according to WSB-TV .

Omarian Banks, 19, was dropped off by a Lyft near the wrong breezeway in the complex, the television station quoted police as saying. Banks and his girlfriend had just moved to the complex and Banks wasn’t familiar with the area, police said. Banks was using FaceTime to talk with his girlfriend when he knocked on the door he thought was his. Shortly after, he walked away.

The man inside, Darryl Bynes, 32, grabbed a gun and went onto his balcony to confront Banks, police said.

They said after a short conversation, Bynes shot him. Police said Bynes told them he shot Banks in self-defense.

Family friend Michael Wallace described Banks as a hard-working man who never bothered anybody.

“This is a 19-year-old child that didn’t even deserve to die, that hasn’t even lived his life,” Wallace told WSB. Bynes is charged with murder. The TV station didn’t say if he has an attorney.

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But the process so far has been slow-going, and such a sizeable increase may be difficult to achieve. The plan has already been marred by confusion, scheduling glitches and an inability by some attorneys to reach their clients.

In San Ysidro alone, Mexico had been prepared to accept up to 120 asylum seekers per week, but for the first six weeks only 40 people per week were returned.

Plus, U.S. officials must check if asylum seekers have any felony convictions and notify Mexico at least 12 hours before they are returned. Those who cross illegally must have come as single adults, though the administration is in talks with the Mexican government to include families. Children are not returned.

Homeland Security officials have been grappling with an ever-growing number of Central American children and families coming over the border. Arrests soared in February to a 12-year-high and more than half of those stopped arrived as families, many of them asylum seekers who generally turn them-

selves in instead of trying to elude capture. Guatemala and Honduras have replaced Mexico as the top countries, a remarkable shift from only a few years ago. Migrants from Central America cannot be easily deported, unlike people crossing from Mexico.

Mexico has been treading lightly on the subject.

After Trump lashed out, saying Mexico and the Central American nations were “doing nothing” about illegal immigration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said his country would do everything it could to help to maintain a “very respectful relationship” with the U.S. government and Trump.

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Democratic congressional leaders expressed deep concern, saying the administration wanted to revive “horrific” and “immoral” plans, noting its failed hard-

line border policies have created “senseless heartbreak and horror.”

“Democrats reject any effort to let the administration deport little children, and we reject all anti-immigrant and anti-family attacks from this President,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement.

Today in History

Today is Sunday, March 31, the 90th day of 2019. There are 275 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 31, 2005, Terri Schiavo (SHY’-voh), 41, died at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed in a wrenching right-to-die court fight.

On this date: In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued an edict expelling Jews from Spanish soil, except those willing to convert to Christianity.

In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Emergency Conservation Work Act, which created the Civilian Conservation Corps.

In 1943, “Oklahoma!,” the first musical play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opened on Broadway.

In 1968, at the conclusion of a nationally broadcast address on Vietnam, President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned listeners by declaring, “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”

In 1975, “Gunsmoke” closed out 20 seasons on CBS with its final first-run episode, “The Sharecroppers.”

In 1976, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Karen Ann Quinlan, a young woman in a persistent vegetative state, could be disconnected from her respirator. (Quinlan, who remained unconscious, died in 1985.)

In 1986, 167 people died when a Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashed in a remote mountainous region of Mexico.

In 1991, the Warsaw Pact was formally dissolved.

In 1993, actor Brandon Lee, 28, was accidentally shot to death during the filming of a movie in Wilmington, North Carolina, when he was hit by a bullet fragment that had become lodged inside a prop gun.

In 1995, Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez, 23, was shot to death in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the founder of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

In 2004, Four American civilian contractors were killed in Fallujah, Iraq; frenzied crowds dragged the burned, mutilated bodies and strung two of them from a bridge.

In 2008, HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson announced his resignation amid the wreckage of the national housing crisis.

Ten years ago: President Barack Obama arrived in London with his wife, Michelle, at the start of a trip to Europe, his first journey across the Atlantic since taking office two months earlier. Benjamin Netanyahu took office as Israel’s new prime minister after the Knesset approved his government.

Former Argentine President Raul Alfonsin died at age 82.

Five years ago: In a flood of last-minute sign-ups, hundreds of thousands of Americans rushed to apply for health insurance as deadline day for President Barack Obama’s overhaul brought long waits and a new spate of website ills. An umpire’s call was overturned for the first time under Major League Baseball’s expanded replay system, with Milwaukee Brewers star Ryan Braun ruled out instead of safe in a game against the Atlanta Braves.

(The Brewers won, 2-0.) Charles H. Keating Jr., 90, the notorious financier who’d served prison time and was disgraced for his role in the costliest savings and loan failure in the U.S., died in Phoenix.

One year ago: Amid tight security, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and her family returned to her hometown in Pakistan for the first time since she was shot in the head in 2012 for her work as an advocate for young women’s education. The Mormon church injected some diversity into what had been an all-white leadership panel by selecting the first-ever Latin American apostle and the first-ever apostle of Asian ancestry. Hundreds of well-wishers lined the streets of Cambridge, England, as a hearse carried the remains of physicist and author Stephen Hawking to a private funeral.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor William Daniels is 92. Actor Richard Chamberlain is 85. Actress Shirley Jones is 85. Musician Herb Alpert is 84. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is 79. Former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., is 79. Actor Christopher Walken is 76. Comedian Gabe Kaplan is 75. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, is 75. Rock musician Mick Ralphs (Bad Company; Mott the Hoople) is 75. Former Vice President Al Gore is 72. Author David Eisenhower is 71.

Actress Rhea Perlman is 71. Actor Robbie Coltrane is 69. Actor Ed Marinaro is 69. Rock musician Angus Young (AC/DC) is 64. Actor Marc McClure is 62.

Actor William McNamara is 54. Alt-country musician Bob Crawford (The Avett (AY’-veht) Brothers) is 48. Actor Ewan (YOO’-en) McGregor is 48. Actress Judi Shekoni is 41. Rapper Tony Yayo is 41. Actress Kate Micucci is 39. Actor Brian Tyree Henry (TV: “Atlanta” Stage: “Book of Mormon”) is 37. Actress Melissa Ordway is 36. Jazz musician Christian Scott is 36. Pop musician Jack Antonoff (fun.) is 35. Actress Jessica Szohr is 34.

Thought for Today: “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” — Rene Descartes (ren-AY’ day-KART’), French philosopher and mathematician (born this date in 1596, died in 1650).

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Dunleavy: So education is a local affair. This figure gives the 53 school districts monies for the budget. A lot of the decisions were made at the local level. In other words, how many administrators you’re going to have, what do you pay administration, what do you pay teachers, what are the health care benefits? These things are not necessarily controlled by the state or Juneau or myself or the Legislature.

These are controlled by local school boards. Local school boards are going to have to make decisions as to where they allocate their money. We hope they allocate their money in the classroom for teachers, especially around the areas of reading and in mathematics. If they decide at the local level they want to spend money elsewhere, that’s a decision they’re making. We understand there is going to be reductions across the board. We understand it will impact school districts. I was a superintendent. I was a school board president in Mat-Su. We made decisions.

Oftentimes when I was a superintendent and school board president, we got lower budgets. We were given less funding and we had to figure out ways to do our best to make sure that the classrooms — to the best of our ability — stay funded.

We would reduce travel. We might reduce other activities, other programs. School districts can make a choice where they want to put their money.

Office of Budget and Management Director Donna Arduin: You’ve probably heard our statistics from the Census Bureau, that 54 percent of Alaska’s K-12 funding goes to the classroom, goes to instruction, which is a very poor number relative to the rest of the country.

Petersen: How much of that is due to Alaska’s high

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“The wording of President Obama’s 2015 and 2016 withdrawals indicates that he intended them to extend indefinitely, and therefore be revocable only by an act of Congress,” said Glea-

costs of travel, the high cost of fuel?

Dunleavy: You know, I think probably a certain segment, but certainly not almost 50 percent. That’s 50 percent overhead. Most of your administrative overhead in any program is 14, 16, 24 percent. That would seem high. When you’re almost at 40 plus, 47 percent, it’s kind of high. Those are decisions that again, school boards are making. We don’t make those decisions for them. The other thing we’re doing for school districts — and we’re going to be rolling out some educational initiatives here in a couple of weeks — we’re going to be asking school boards, superintendents, teachers, ‘what are regulations that we can change and get off the books to free up what they do in the classroom so it’s not so confining and so restrictive.’ In the face of less money, we’re going to ask school districts what are some laws and bills that we can change to help give them more flexibility, maybe less redundancy and paperwork and duplication.

Petersen: From your proposed budget, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District has actually made their best case scenario, which is the closure of six schools. An increase in the pupil-to-teacher ratio, the elimination of sports and activities. Several students, as well as educators and community members, have come out really concerned about that. Is this what you envision for Alaska’s school districts? How do you envision Alaska’s schools?

Dunleavy: I would hope we have schools that ensure all kids are reading by the time they leave third grade.

I would hope we would have schools making sure all kids are proficient in algebra, which is a gatekeeper course for any sciences. I would hope they would be focusing on those issues. The last several years there’s actually been an increase in funding, but the outcomes have not been met. So I would hope

we can take a step back, look at the things we have been doing and why we aren’t getting the outcomes we want and understanding that we have a $1.6 billion fiscal gap we have to deal with. How do we go about doing that? I think there are ways to do business differently and education in Alaska. I look forward to having a conversation with folks, especially when we roll out these initiatives here in a couple of weeks.

Petersen: Teacher retention has been a big issue in rural Alaska, specifically, and it’s getting worse. How can we bring, proficient teachers up here, especially now that the school of education at the University of Alaska Anchorage lost their accreditation? How can we bring teachers up here? How can we supply rural Alaska with a skilled staff?

Dunleavy: I’ve been here since 1983. Rural Alaska has always had a teacher retention problem, even when we were the highest paid in the nation. We’re paying folks the, most, so it’s not necessarily a money issue.

We’d have to look at the job conditions, housing conditions. Think we have to do an in-depth exit interview with teachers as to why they came and then why they’re leaving. I think it’s much deeper than just money, because if the issue was just money we would be having much better outcomes statewide. We would not have a teacher retention issue if it was just money.

Petersen: Do you have any kind of recruitment project that you want to implement?

Dunleavy: Well, we’re looking at potentially doing things differently with certification, and once again, those initiatives will be coming out here in the next week or two so people can take a look at them. We’re really concerned about the educational outcomes of kids and we’re willing to roll up our sleeves and work with the educators across the board, school boards,

to deal with this new fiscal reality, but also get the outcomes that we all know we should get.

Petersen: School infrastructure is a big cost here.

One of our communities, K-Selo, has been has been working on getting a new school. The district has determined the school is not in a condition it should be and has made it their number one priority capital project.

Roughly 30 percent of the schools on the peninsula are over 50 years old, and half of the schools are 30 years or older. Of course, it costs money to build new schools.

How can we deal with Alaska’s burgeoning education infrastructure issues?

Dunleavy: So the question is going into the future, do we want to school children or do we want to educate children, because you got a lot of improvements in the way to deliver education through technology. For example, in Mat-Su, we were really focused on increasing our technological reach in terms of online classes, live classes from all over the country, all over the world.

Using low-cost alternatives, like Khan Academy, which is free online. Sometimes we get hung up on buildings in schooling and less so on educational outcomes. I think there’s a tremendous opportunity within this budget discussion to look at ways in which we can educate kids, not necessarily in just a building. Could they take courses at the university? We have a very robust and increasing public home-school approach to education. More and more parents want to look at that so they can develop ILPs, individual learning plans, and use private vendors within the public school context to educate their kids. There’s a whole bunch of different things we can do which you’re not necessarily tied to a building. Are we going to try and work with school districts to make sure that where there are places they need buildings that those buildings are

safe and sound? Yes. We’re going to continue to have those discussions and work with school districts.

Clarion editor Erin Thompson: On the idea that we can move to technology and have more people doing distance learning, I see that as a great idea if you’ve got resources as a parent to maybe sit at home with a kid and do home schooling. What do you do for parents who maybe don’t have the resources for that? If I’m a working parent, how do I handle that and what are we going to do for parents if we’re looking at taking kids out of those brick and mortar buildings?

Dunleavy: Well, there’s always going to be a place in the brick and mortar buildings for kids that need a teacher in front of them.

But, for example, we have things called AP courses, advanced placement courses. Oftentimes in school, the advanced placement courses are taught by the very best teacher to the very best kids in the smallest class size. That should be flipped. Those 14 kids should have an opportunity to take college courses, take college courses online, take other courses online because they’re usually your best or most independent-minded students. In other words, they could do these things.

If they give them the opportunity that frees up that best teacher and then split a class with the teacher next door who maybe is a first-year teacher teaching 35 kids the same class. I also believe, for example, we could have more tests for credit. There was a time in Alaska, and I still think it exists in some of our schools, where if you’re a fluent Spanish speaking child, you still have to take two years of foreign languages in the classroom setting. Why can’t they just test out for credit? Get the credit so you’re not wasting space and resources on an individual that already speaks a language. Why not do that with mathematics, language arts? There’s a whole host

of things we could do we’ve never thought about doing it because we don’t believe it can be done. I would suggest there’ll be tremendous opportunities for educational co-ops to spring up, or 10, 15 kids that want to take online courses — they could get together in buildings other than school buildings. I don’t think everyone is in the same boat that they all have to go to a brick and mortar school. We’re seeing tremendous growth, again, in our public home-school opportunities. We’re seeing more and more kids take college courses before they graduate. Up in the Mat-Valley, we have middle college campuses, Anchorage has a middle college campus where you can take both high school and college courses and it’s cheaper, it’s less expensive and those kids don’t have to take AP courses.

Thompson: Just to backtrack a little bit, you were talking about regulations, and you were going to talk to educators about what kind of stuff could be eliminated? Do you have ideas right now of what kinds of things you maybe are looking at eliminating?

Arduin: We’re talking about a lot of paperwork. We’ve caused them to have to fill out a lot of paperwork. So our commissioner of education is going through those.

Dunleavy: I think the opportunity to shrink the time in which a teacher can get certification, I think that’s an opportunity given this budget issue that we’re in. I just think there is again, a test for credit, instead of having 25 or 35 kids in your classroom.

Are five of them potentially eligible for tests for credit or more? That would free up teacher time and less paperwork. I think there’s a number of different things we can take a look at. In about a week or two weeks at the most, you’ll see what our initiatives are.

son, who was nominated to the bench by Obama.

A Department of Justice spokesman, Jeremy Edwards, declined comment Saturday.

The American Petroleum Institute, a defendant in the case, disagreed with the ruling.

“In addition to bringing supplies of affordable ener-

gy to consumers for decades to come, developing our abundant offshore resources can provide billions in government revenue, create thousands of jobs and will also strengthen our national security,” it said in a statement.

Erik Grafe, an attorney with Earthjustice, welcomed the ruling, saying it “shows

that the president cannot just trample on the Constitution to do the bidding of his cronies in the fossil fuel industry at the expense of our oceans, wildlife and climate.”

Earthjustice represented numerous environmental groups that sued the Trump administration over the April 2017 executive order reversing the drilling bans.

At issue in the case was the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. Acting Assistant U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey

Wood said during a hearing before Gleason in November that environmental groups were misinterpreting the intent of the law written in 1953. He said it is meant to be flexible and sensible and not intended to bind one president with decisions made by another when determining offshore stewardship as needs and realities change over time.

In 2015, Obama halted exploration in coastal areas of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas and the Hanna Shoal, an important area for walrus. In

late 2016, he withdrew most other potential Arctic Ocean lease areas — about 98 percent of the Arctic outer continental shelf.

The bans were intended to protect polar bears, walruses, ice seals and Alaska Native villages that depend on the animals.

In the Atlantic, Obama banned exploration in 5,937 square miles of underwater canyon complexes, citing their importance for marine mammals, deep-water corals, valuable fish populations and migratory whales.

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than $700 million in 2017 and was updated to approximately $1.9 billion earlier this year.

The Assembly on March 19 unanimously approved spending up to $100,000 from the port’s operating funds to hire experts to evaluate the overall cost of the current plan as well as whether the remaining development from a first, failed port project is usable.

A masked protester waves his national flag near the fence of the Gaza Strip border with Israel, marking first anniversary of Gaza border protests east of Gaza City, Saturday. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Cities go dark for Earth Hour NEW YORK (AP) — Cities around the world marked Earth Hour on Saturday by turning off lights at 8:30 p.m. local time in a call for global action on climate change.

Earth Hour, spearheaded by the World Wildlife Fund, calls for greater awareness and more sparing use of

resources, especially fossil fuels that produce carbon gases and lead to global warming. Beginning in Sydney in 2007, Earth Hour has spread to more than 180 countries, with tens of millions of people joining in.

The Empire State Building participated as clocks hit 8:30 p.m. on the U.S.

East Coast with a dimming of the skyscrapers’ lights.

In Hong Kong, major buildings along Victoria Harbour turned off their non-essential lights and the city’s popular tourist attraction known as the Symphony of Lights was canceled.

Over 3,000 corpora-

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Hamas, meanwhile, faces growing unrest in Gaza as a result of worsening conditions after more than a decade of an Israeli-Egyptian blockade. The two countries imposed the blockade in 2007 after Hamas, an Islamic militant group that seeks Israel’s destruction, seized control of Gaza from the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority.

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Hamas had pledged to keep the crowds a safe distance from the fence as Egyptian mediators were working to cement a deal that Hamas hopes will ease a crippling Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the crowded territory. Hamas officials say that Israel is offering a package of economic incentives in exchange for calm along the volatile border.

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The Kenai River Brown Bears came back from 4-1 and 5-3 deficits to defeat the Fairbanks Ice Dogs 6-5 in a shootout Friday at the Big Dipper Ice Arena in Fairbanks.

That was the crowning highlight for the Brown Bears in the last weekend of regular season play in the North American Hockey League. The Ice Dogs returned Saturday night to shut out the Bears 3-0 in a feisty contest that saw a combined 46 penalty minutes in the first period alone.

With the NAHL playoff picture set, both teams were playing for pride against their in-state rivals.

“We kept working throughout the game and believed it was our game to win as long as we kept doing what we were supposed to do,” said interim head coach Dan Bogdan, who finished his stint at 8-8-1-1 this year.

The Bears, at 23-31-3-3, will miss the playoffs and finish fifth in the Midwest Division. The Ice Dogs, at 37-16-3-4, clinched the Midwest Division title earlier Friday when the Janesville (Wisconsin) Jets defeated the Minnesota Magicians 7-4.

Fairbanks also has laid claim to the Ravn Cup, the seasonlong battle between the two teams. The Ice Dogs wrapped up the season series at 9-3.

Trey LaBarge bookended the Friday victory. LaBarge scored unassisted just 12 seconds into the game, then would wrap things up several hours later with the gamewinning goal in the shootout.

“It’s always a tough call to choose the guys in the shootout,” Bogdan said. “I thought Trey would be the right way to end it, if that was the way it was going to go.

“I made a gut call and Trey

looked at me with all the confidence in the world and executed.”

After LaBarge scored in the first, Tyler Deweese, Trenton Woods and Matt Koethe closed with first-period goals for a 3-1 Fairbanks advantage. Laker Aldridge then scored to start the second period for a 4-1 lead.

Alex Klekotka, assisted by Connor Scahill, and Jackson Nauss, assisted by Justin Daly and Markuss Komuls, got the Bears back to 4-3 a little past the midway mark in the second.

“It was just simple plays — getting the puck to the front of the net,” Bogdan said.

With 3 minutes, 11 seconds, left in the second, Koethe scored on the power play for a 5-3 lead.

Bogdan said the team did well to give up just that goal during a four-minute power play.

Kenai River battled back with a JJ Boucher goal, assisted by Eagle River’s Zach Krajnik and Michael Spethmann, with 1:38 left in the second, then Cody Moline, assisted by Daly and Eagle River’s Connor Canterbury, tied the game with 13:43 left to play.

Bogdan said he normally wouldn’t want Boucher, a defenseman, next to the offensive net, See BEARS, page B3

Woods falls to Bjerregaard

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer

AUSTIN, Texas — The conditions were severe. The high stakes put a premium on every shot down the stretch.

Tiger Woods was in his element.

Only this time, he was a spectator.

Woods finally met his match Saturday in the Dell Technologies Match Play, and it wasn’t Rory McIlroy.

Lucas Bjerregaard delivered the clutch shots so often seen from Woods in their quarterfinal match. He holed a 30-foot eagle putt to tie the match on the par-5 16th. He holed a 12-foot birdie putt that snapped hard to the right at the end on No. 17, knowing Woods was in tight for a certain birdie.

And on the final hole, Woods blinked first.

His lob wedge from a fluffy lie in the rough came out soft, short and in a bunker. Given a chance to send the match to overtime, Woods missed a 4-foot putt.

“It’s a shame it had to end the way it did,” Bjerregaard said. “Our match didn’t deserve that. But I’m happy to be on the winning side.”

Bjerregaard considers Woods his golfing hero, and he used to take his book to the range in Denmark with hopes of copying his swing.

He never could get it just right, though the 27-year-

old Dane showed plenty of Woods’ mettle.

Equally surprising was how Woods won earlier Saturday against McIlroy, a big match between the two biggest stars left at Austin Country Club. McIlroy was on the verge of squaring the match on the 16th hole when he had a short iron for his second shot into the par-5 16th.

He made 7 and Woods closed him out on the next hole.

McIlroy was so angry he walked briskly away into a cart, and wouldn’t make eye contact on his way to the car.

Woods knows the feeling.

“This is going to sting for a few days,” Woods said in his last event before the Masters.

Bjerregaard, who won his first European Tour title last fall at St. Andrews in the Dunhill Links, next faces Matt Kuchar on Sunday morning in the semifinals.

Kuchar had to cope with a contentious moment in his 2-up victory over Sergio Garcia, two players in the news this year for all the wrong reasons.

Garcia had an 8-foot par putt on No. 7 to win the hole to square the match. He left it just short, and then casually stabbed at it from the other side as it rimmed around the cup. Such putts typically are conceded. Kuchar said that was his intention. But under the rules, a putt can’t be conceded after a player hits it.

Ostrander runs scorching 10,000 Staff report Peninsula Clarion

Boise State’s Allie Ostrander posted the 10thfastest outdoor time in NCAA history for the women’s 10,000 meters with a scorching run Friday at the Stanford Invitational at Cobb Track and Angell Field in California.

Ostrander, a redshirt junior, finished third in a loaded field that included professional athletes with a time of 32 minutes, 6.71 seconds.

The time also broke the Boise State school record, formerly held by Emma Bates, and the Mountain West Conference record by nearly seven seconds.

The 2015 Kenai Central grad was the top collegiate runner in the race, following pro runners Emily Sisson (first place at 30:49.57) and runner-up Molly Huddle (30:58.46). Fourth place went to Syracuse’s Paige Stoner in 32:07.36 and fifth went to UAA’s Caroline Kurgat in 32:08.09.

Kenai Central junior Jarett Wilson eyes the finish of the boys 110-meter hurdles Saturday, April 21, 2018, at Homer High School. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

SoHi girls ready for title defense Kenai Central eager for move to Division II track and field

By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

The towering snow piles are quickly melting away and the spring sun is radiating down on high school track and field teams around the Kenai Peninsula.

So what does that mean for competitors around Alaska? Time to get in as much training as possible in a short season that ends May 25 for most. The peninsula schedule offers an almost weekly load of opportunities to set a new PR. The track season truly gets roaring next weekend with the statewide Big C Relays at The Dome in Anchorage, and from there, local teams will get chances to tune up at the Colony Invitational April 19 and 20, the Region Preview meet at Soldotna High School April 27, the Kenai Invitational May 4, the Kenai Peninsula Borough Championships at Homer May 10 and 11 and the Region III Championships at Soldotna May 17 and 18. The Division I and II state championships will be held at Palmer High for a third consecutive year, May 24 and 25.

Among the biggest changes this year, Kenai is making its debut

at the Division II level following a large realignment change after school population numbers dropped most KCHS sports programs into a smaller classification.

With the kind of depth that landed Kenai a runner-up result among the big schools at the Region III championships last spring, the Kardinal girls appear to be headed to a strong region performance at the smaller schools level this season, but head coach Jesse Settlemyer isn’t calling anything yet.

“At this point, we’re just focusing on the kids themselves,” Settlemyer said. “We’re just trying to improve collectively and they’re setting goals for themselves.”

Settlemyer pointed to rival schools that have historically brought deep programs to the region and state championships and contended for team hardware. Teams like Homer, Grace Christian and Anchorage Christian Schools.

“It’s hard to crunch the numbers right now,” he said.

Other peninsula teams are making use of the Big C Relays as an earlier test of where they sit competitively. Soldotna head coach Phil Leck is anticipating a return to The

Dome after missing out on the previous two years — officials had to cancel the Big C in 2017 after the inflatable roof collapsed due to excess snowfall, and the Stars did not make the trip in 2018.

“For most of our kids, it’ll be the first time running it,” Leck said. “We have some seniors who were good enough to go as freshmen but 95 percent of our team has never run there.”

Soldotna won the Region III girls team championship last May, while Kenai Central finished solidly in second by a scoring margin of 150116, to accentuate the strength of the girls peninsula programs.

The following is a detailed look at each peninsula program: SOLDOTNA STARS The reigning Region III girls team champions return with eyes on repeating, but it’ll take a deep pool to contend for another region title.

After winning the region crown last May, the Stars finished fourth at state, behind girls team champions South Anchorage.

Leck said the team is brimming with 85 athletes on the roster, with See TRACK, page B3

Virginia survives Purdue

By The Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — From embarrassment to exhilaration. From early exit to regional champ. From bracket busters to net cutters.

Virginia, the first No. 1 seed to lose to a 16 seed a year ago, survived overtime and Carsen Edwards’ staggering 3-point show Saturday night to make it to the Final Four for the first time since 1984.

The top-seeded Cavaliers needed a last-ditch buzzerbeater to send the game to overtime and finally contained Edwards in the extra period to hang on for an 8075 victory over Purdue in the South Region final.

The Cavaliers (33-3) redeemed themselves from last year’s loss to UMBC by relying on veterans, sound defense, poise, controlling the ball and a failure to be rattled even when the Boilermakers had the chance to ice the game in regulation at the foul line.

Texas Tech 75, Gonzaga 69 ANAHEIM, Calif. — One player came all the way from Italy. Another arrived from rural Illinois after a stop in South Dakota. Still another could’ve gone a lot of places but chose to stay home and see if he could

help Texas Tech make the big time.

It can’t get much bigger than this.

Coach Chris Beard and his group of unheralded grinders notched a victory for everyone with a chip on their shoulder Saturday, gutting out a 75-69 win over Gonzaga that’s sending the Red Raiders to the Final Four.

Davide Moretti of Bologna, Italy, made the two most important 3-pointers of his life to open a sliver of a cushion, then defense sealed the deal - and wrapped up a trip to college basketball’s biggest stage for the first time in the 94-year history of the program.

Virginia’s Mamadi Diakite, center, reacts with teammates Kyle Guy and Jack Salt (33) after hitting a shot to send the game into overtime in the men’s NCAA Tournament college basketball South Regional final game against Purdue on Saturday in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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Harper homers, Phillies get win

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PHILADELPHIA — Bryce Harper homered deep into the second deck in right-center field for his first hit with Philadelphia and celebrated with an emphatic curtain call, highlighting the Phillies’ 8-6 win over the Atlanta Braves on Saturday.

Hitless over five at-bats this season after signing a $330 million, 13-year deal, Harper crushed Jesse Biddle’s fastball 465 feet with two outs in the seventh.

Fans gave Harper a standing ovation and chanted “MVP! MVP!” After getting high fives in the dugout, Harper climbed out for a curtain call, throwing both fists in the air and shouting “Let’s go!”

BREWERS 4, CARDINALS 2 MILWAUKEE — Christian Yelich became the first MVP to homer in the first three games of the following season, Josh Hader closed things out with an immaculate inning and Milwaukee beat St. Louis.

Travis Shaw and Mike Moustakas also homered off Cardinals starter Dakota Hudson, and Brandon Woodruff (1-0) struck out five while pitching five innings of tworun ball.

its first victory this season.

ATHLETICS 4, ANGELS 2 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Mark Canha hit a two-run homer in the fourth that held up for Brett Anderson, and Oakland beat Los Angeles.

DODGERS 18, DIAMONDBACKS 5 LOS ANGELES — Cody Bellinger hit two homers and drove in a career high-tying six runs, Justin Turner added five RBIs and Los Angeles rebounded splendidly from a 13-inning loss.

ORIOLES 5, YANKEES 3 NEW YORK — Brandon Hyde earned his first win as Baltimore’s manager when slow-footed catcher Jesus Sucre was aggressive on the bases to score the go-ahead run, then added three late RBIs.

INDIANS 2, TWINS 1 MINNEAPOLIS — Greg Allen hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth inning, then Cleveland reliever Brad Hand escaped a basesloaded jam. It was 34 degrees for the start at Target Field.

BLUE JAYS 3, TIGERS 0 TORONTO — Aaron Sanchez and four relievers combined to pitch Toronto’s second straight shutout.

MARINERS 6, RED SOX 5

METS 11, NATIONALS 8

SEATTLE — Jay Bruce hit his first home run for Seattle, a three-run shot to center field, and the heavy-hitting Mariners continued to dominate Boston’s starting pitching.

WASHINGTON — J.D. Davis delivered a tiebreaking two-run single in the eighth inning and rookie Pete Alonso contributed three hits and two RBIs for the new-look Mets.

RANGERS 8, CUBS 6

ROYALS 8, WHITE SOX 6

ARLINGTON, Texas — Joey Gallo hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning and Texas rallied long after Chicago’s Yu Darvish flopped in the former Rangers ace’s return to his first home in the majors.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jorge Soler had three hits and three RBIs, Alex Gordon scored three runs despite not getting a hit and Kansas City used its speed to win.

RAYS 3, ASTROS 1

MARLINS 7, ROCKIES 3

MIAMI — Miguel Rojas ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Tyler Glasnow and four reliev- and Martin Prado each had ers shut down Houston after three hits and Miami won for Alex Bregman’s first-inning the first time this season.

Rockies first baseman Danhomer. iel Murphy said after the game he will be out indefinitely with GIANTS 3, PADRES 2 a broken left index finger.

Limited to a total of six hits SAN DIEGO — Reyes Moronta struck out five in two in- in a pair of losses to Colorado nings of lights-out relief work, earlier this week, the Marlins including Manny Machado broke loose for 16 hits against and Fernando Tatis Jr., and San starter Tyler Anderson (0-1) Francisco beat San Diego for and four relievers.

Washington Capitals center Nicklas Backstrom (19) celebrates his goal against the Tampa Bay Lightning with left wing Alex Ovechkin (8) during the first period of an NHL hockey game Saturday in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/ Chris O’Meara)

Lightning topple Capitals

By The Associated Press

TAMPA, Fla. — Alex Ovechkin scored his 50th and 51st goals of the season, leading the Washington Capitals to a 6-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday night.

Nicklas Backstrom and T.J. Oshie also scored twice and Braden Holtby made 25 saves to help the defending champion Capitals win their fourth consecutive game.

Backstrom became the seventh Washington player to reach 20 goals this season.

ISLANDERS 5, SABRES 1 UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Jordan Eberle continued his scoring surge with another goal, Anthony Beauvillier added two of his own and New York beat Buffalo to clinch a playoff berth for the first time since 2016.

Michael Dal Colle and Ryan Pulock also scored for the Islanders. They have 99 points in their first season under coach Barry Trotz and secured a postseason spot in March for the first time since 1990.

SHARKS 4, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 3, OT SAN JOSE, Calif. — Brent Burns scored on a power play at 22 seconds of overtime and San Jose beat Vegas to snap a seven-game losing streak.

The Sharks clinched second place in the Pacific Division and home ice in the first round of the playoffs, ending their longest skid of the season and sending Vegas to its franchise-worst fifth straight loss.

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PANTHERS 4, BRUINS 1 BOSTON — Troy Brouwer scored a short-handed goal, Roberto Luongo stopped 30 shots and Florida beat Boston to end the Bruins’ home winning streak at 12.

Evgenii Dadonov scored twice and Riley Sheahan added a goal for Florida.

Eliminated from playoff contention, the Panthers have won two straight.

HURRICANES 5, FLYERS 2 RALEIGH, N.C. — Teuvo Teravainen and Dougie Hamilton scored 21 seconds apart in the first period, and Carolina beat Philadelphia to boost its playoff hopes and eliminate the Flyers from contention.

Justin Faulk, Jaccob Slavin and Brock McGinn and Petr Mrazek made 30 saves for Carolina. The Hurricanes are in position for the first Eastern Conference wild card.

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and Boone Jenner also had goals, and Sergei Bobrovsky made 23 saves for Columbus. The Blue Jackets maintained their hold on the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference playoff race.

CANADIENS 3, JETS 1 WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Joel Armia, Jeff Petry and Jordan Weal scored and Montreal beat Winnipeg to improve its playoff hopes.

SENATORS 4, MAPLE LEAFS 2 OTTAWA, Ontario — Anthony Duclair scored twice and Craig Anderson made 42 saves to help last-place Ottawa beat Toronto.

KINGS 3, BLACKHAWKS 2, OT LOS ANGELES — Drew Doughty scored a power-play goal with 11.6 seconds remaining in overtime for the Kings.

BLUES 3, DEVILS 2, OT NEWARK, N.J. — Defenseman Vince Dunn scored in close with 2.8 seconds left in overtime and St. Louis beat New Jersey for the 11th straight time.

BLUE JACKETS 5, PREDATORS 2 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Cam Atkinson scored twice and Artemi Panarin had four assists to lead Columbus past Nashville for its fourth straight victory.

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CANUCKS 3, STARS 2, SO VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Markus Granlund scored in the eighth round of the shootout, leading the Canucks over the Dallas Stars.

DUCKS 5, OILERS 1 EDMONTON, Alberta — Rickard Rakell scored three goals in the second period, powering Anaheim to the victory.

Corey Perry and Devin Shore also scored for the Ducks, who have won two of their last three.

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Marc-Edouard Vlasic also scored for San Jose, and Martin Jones made 23 saves.

HOUSTON — James Harden had 50 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists, scoring 10 straight Houston points down the stretch to help the Rockets beat the Sacramento Kings 119-108 on Saturday.

Harden had his 42nd career triple-double and third 50-point game in the last six.

He made seven 3-pointers to become the ninth player in NBA history to reach 2,000 career 3s.

76ERS 118, TIMBERWOLVES 109 MINNEAPOLIS —Tobias Harris scored 25 points for Philadelphia in Jimmy Butler’s jeer-filled return to Minnesota, helping the 76ers hang on and move one step closer toward solidifying the No. 3 seed for the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Ben Simmons pitched in 20 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists for the Sixers (4927), who stretched their lead over Boston and Indiana to 4½ games with eight games to go.

They’re still four games behind second-place Toronto.

NETS 110, CELTICS 96 NEW YORK — D’Angelo Russell scored 20 of his 29 points in another blistering third quarter against Boston, leading Brooklyn over the short-handed Celtics.

Back from a seven-game trip that lasted more than two weeks, the Nets had a happy homecoming thanks largely to Russell, who added 10 assists and finished with 25 points after halftime.

PISTONS 99, TRAIL BLAZERS 90 DETROIT — Reggie Jackson scored 28 points, Andre Drummond had 22 points and 19 rebounds, and Detroit ended Portland’s six-game winning streak.

The Pistons were missing Blake Griffin, who was scratched moments before game time with a sore left knee, but were able to maintain a half-game lead over the Brooklyn Nets for the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference.

Detroit has won 11 straight at home.

MAGIC 121, PACERS 116 INDIANAPOLIS — Aaron Gordon had 23 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, and Orlando racked up a seasonhigh 37 assists in a win over Indiana to keep pace in the Eastern Conference playoff race.

HEAT 100, KNICKS 92 NEW YORK — Dion Waiters scored 28 points, Dwyane Wade added 16 in his last game at Madison Square Garden, and Miami beat New York.

Hassan Whiteside finished with 17 points and 13 rebounds for the Heat, while Kelly Olynyk chipped in 12 points and 11 rebounds. Goran Dragic had 10 points and 10 assists.

RAPTORS 124, BULLS 101 CHICAGO — Serge Ibaka had 23 points and 12 rebounds, Fred VanVleet also scored 23 and Toronto routed Chicago despite playing without Kawhi Leonard and Pascal Siakam.

Marc Gasol had 17 points, eight rebounds and six assists as Toronto won its third straight.

GRIZZLIES 120, SUNS 115 PHOENIX — Jonas Valanciunas scored a career-high 34 points and grabbed 20 rebounds, Mike Conley added 33 points and Memphis overcame 48 from Devin Booker to beat Phoenix.

Valanciunas scored 10 points in the final 4 1/2 minutes as the Grizzlies finished on a 16-9 run. They had lost five of seven.

CLIPPERS 132, CAVALIERS 108 LOS ANGELES — Montrezl Harrell scored 23 points, rookie Shai Gilgeous-Alexander added 22 points and eight assists, and playoff-bound Los Angeles beat Cleveland.

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more trickling in from the basketball teams that recently wrapped up state runs.

“It’s been pretty normal, pretty typical spring sports in Alaska,” he said.

With good roster numbers come good depth, but Leck also knows the Stars lost some top-end talent to graduation as well, namely two-time boys state 400-meter champion Brenner Furlong for the boys, and girls state discus champ Emily Pieh, who dethroned Dimond throwing superstar Alissa Pili last spring at the state meet.

Leck said he hopes to make up for that with some of the other returning talent, as well as a “decent sophomore group,” along with a few junior speedsters.

For one, senior Sophie Thomas is back for a run at the girls hurdles. Leck said Thomas was the top girls points scorer for the team last year, and was a regular podium finisher in both the 100- and 300-meter hurdle races. Thomas was a state finalist in both events.

Also back for more glory is senior sprinter Brittany Taylor, who won the girls 400 meter Region III crown and finished second in the event at state in 2018.

“Her goals are high,” Leck said about Taylor. “She’s looking at signing to run in college, so she wants to have a good senior season.”

Plus, the Stars still return a loaded throwing crew, headlined by juniors Ituau Tuisaula, Bailey Leach and Rachel Spence. Tuis-

Peninsula Clarion | Sunday, March 31, 2019 | B3 aula had the best shot put throw in the region in 2018.

“Sure we graduated the state champion, but Ituau could walk out of here being the second-best thrower from our school behind Paige Blackburn,” Leck said, referencing the 2008 SoHi grad that won four state titles in shot put and discus. “She could challenge Alissa (Pili) for a state title.”

On the boys side, SoHi boasts juniors Galen Brantley III, Aaron Faletoi and Melvin Lloyd as dangerous throwers. Leck said Faletoi is focusing solely on the shot put but has football strength to back it up, while Brantley and Lloyd are double threats in both shot and discus. Seniors Cody Nye and Levi Benner both add depth to the throwing team.

In the hurdling events, Thomas will be backed by juniors Holleigh Jaime and Kylie Ness. Jaime was a top-four hurdler in the region last year and Ness, while just focusing on the 100 hurdles, will be a contender. Leck said Ness is also making runs in some relays and the girls long jump.

On the boys side, junior Wyatt Medcoff will add depth as a 300 hurdler.

In the boys sprints, junior Ben Booth and sophomore Eli Cravens will be competitive among Region III racers.

Leck said the SoHi distance team has added more names this year. Leading the way for the boys is a trio of cross-country contenders in senior Bradley Walters, Jack Harris and Mekbeb Denbrock, while the girls return sophomore Erika Arthur, last year’s Region III runner-up in the 3,200 meters, and

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but the coach said the defenseman showed good awareness in jumping in the play.

Moline’s goal came when the led the rush and made a pass for a shot that was blocked.

The puck kicked right to Moline and he onetimed it home.

The overtime started with a slow couple of minutes, but Bogdan said things got crazy quickly.

“The last few minutes were up and down and back and forth,” Bogdan said. “It was heartwrenching, but as a coach you can just watch it happen. You can’t control it. You just have to expect the players will do the best they can.”

In the shootout, Krajnik failed to score on Nate Reid and Deweese couldn’t solve Gavin Enright. Kenai River’s Andy Walker and Fairbanks’ Trenton Woods both dotted the second round with goals. Bogdan said Walker has worked a lot lately on improving his already steady shootout skills and it paid off.

LaBarge then scored in the third round through the five-hole. Enright denied Ty Proffitt for the victory.

Enright sparkled with 48 saves for Kenai River, while Reid stopped 22 for the Ice Dogs.

The shots total was lopsided, but Bogdan said his team did a great job earning Grade A chances and that’s what matters.

“He was pressed during quite a few moments and he stayed resilient and stuck to his guns,” Bogdan said of Enright. “I can’t speak enough of the way he performed in the shootout.”

Saturday night was won by the stellar goaltending of Fairbanks’ Mattias Sholl, who posted a 24-save shutout to send the Ice Dogs to the postseason with big momentum. Bogdan said Enright faced about 35 shots in goal in the losing effort.

Fairbanks lit the lamp twice in the second period to break open a scoreless game. Parker Brown tallied the opener just 73 seconds into the frame with help from Jonathan Sorenson and Noah Wilson, then was followed by Matt Koethe just past the midway point of the period.

The opening period saw 46 combined penalty minutes by the two teams, mainly due to a confrontation between Kenai River’s Justin Daly and Fairbanks’ Lucas Erickson.

Fairbanks capped the night with an emptynetter off the stick of Trenton Woods with 45 seconds left in the game. Bogdan also thanked a group of Kenai River supporters that made the trip north to support the team.

Saturday Ice Dogs 3, Brown Bears 0

Kenai River 0 0 0 —0 Fairbanks 0 2 1 —3 First period — no scoring. Penalties — Kenai River 3 for 17:00; Fairbanks 4 for 29:00.

Second period — 1. Fairbanks, Brown (Sorenson, Wilson), 1:13; 2. Fairbanks, Koethe (Ciolli, Borgida), 10:48. Penalties — Kenai River 1 for 2:00.

Third period — 3. Fairbanks, Woods (unassisted), EN, 19:15.

Penalties — none.

Shots on goal — Kenai River 12-6-6—24; Fairbanks N/A. Goalies — Kenai River, Enright (N/A); Fairbanks, Sholl (24 shots, 24 saves).

Power plays — Kenai River 0 for 2; Fairbanks 0 for 2.

Friday Brown Bears 6, Ice Dogs 5, SO Kenai River 1 3 1 0 1 — 6 Fairbanks 3 2 0 0 0 — 5 First period — 1. Kenai River, LaBarge (un.), 0:12; 2. Fairbanks, Deweese (Woods, Proffitt), 1:50; 3. Fairbanks, Woods (Koethe, Sorenson), 6:08; 4. Fairbanks, Koethe (Sorenson, Brown), 18:59.

Penalties — Kenai River 1 for 2:00.

Second period — 5. Fairbanks, Aldridge (Wilson), 2:53; 6. Kenai River, Klekotka (Scahill), 8:40; 7. Kenai River, Nauss (Daly, Komuls), 11:05; 8. Fairbanks, Koethe (MacLaren, Mobley), pp, 16:49; 9. Kenai River, Boucher ( Krajnik, Spethmann), 18:22.

Penalties — Kenai River 4 for 16:00; Fairbanks 3 for 14:00.

Third period — 10. Kenai River, Moline (Daly, Canterbury), 6:17.

Penalites — Kenai River 1 for 2:00; Fairbanks 2 for 4:00.

Shootout — Kenai River 2 (Krajnik NG, Walker G, LaBarge G); Fairbanks 1 (Deweese NG, Woods G, Proffitt NG).

Shots on goal — Kenai River 8-6-9-4—27; Fairbanks 17-18-117—53.

Goalies — Kenai River, Enright (53 shots, 48 saves); Fairbanks, Reid (27 shots, 22 saves).

Power plays — Kenai River 0 for 3; Fairbanks 1 for 4.

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In the jumping pit, SoHi features senior sisters Aliann and Danica Schmidt. Both are known for their length on the basketball court, but Leck said they make for natural high jumpers. Last year, Aliann took second in the high jump at the Region III meet and Danica took third. The Schmidts will be joined by Kylie Ness and Mikayla Leadens.

The boys jumping crew includes Tyler Morrison for the long and triple jumps, Zach Hanson for the long and Brian Whitaker for the triple.

KENAI CENTRAL KARDINALS A move down into the Division II field may pay big dividends for the Kardinals track team this season. A runner-up finish at the 2018 Region III meet against the bigger schools may make Kenai the instant favorites to contend for a Division II team title.

If anything, Settlemyer said this year feels better competing at the Division II level.

“We feel like we’re a Division II school now, we’re where we belong and the kids will get a solid level playing field against other schools,” Settlemyer said. “We’re hoping for some team success, and hopefully we can qualify more kids to region and state.”

The Kardinals get to host their annual meet, the Kenai Invite, on May 4, and will also have two more meets across town at Soldotna with the Region Preview and the Region III Championships.

Starting with the lady sprinters, Kenai returns senior Hayley

Maw, the girls school record holder in the 100-meter dash at 12.71 seconds. Maw racked up a pair of third-place finishes in the 100 and 200 at last year’s region meet and took fourth in the 100 at state.

Maw is joined by sophomore Kylie-Anne Raye and junior Chelsea Plagge in the sprints.

Kenai’s girls distance crew includes a pair of heavyweight contenders in seniors Jaycie Calvert and Brooke Satathite, both of whom carry state championship pedigrees in cross-country, with two state team titles to their names. Calvert won the Div. II cross-country state title last fall, and in the spring won both the 1,600- and 3,200-meter titles at the Region III meet. Settlemyer said junior Lydia Marlowe also returns with experience and could contend for points.

The girls hurdle corps will be led by junior Savanna Wilson, who Settlemyer expects to continue the good vibes from last year in the 100 and 300 hurdles. Wilson finished third at regions in the 100 hurdles, and fourth at state in the same event.

Plagge returns for more in the girls jumping events. Settlemyer said Plagge had a breakout long jump campaign in 2018, a year she finished fifth in the long jump at the Region III meet.

“I think she’s going to be in the mix,” Settlemyer said. “She has a combination of speed and power, it reminds me of our school record-holder from a couple years ago Julie-Anne Wilson.”

Settlemyer added that Kylie Anne-Raye will join Plagge and try out for the triple jump.

In the throwing events, Settlemyer said sophomore Grace Morrow leads the charge on the girls side. Morrow led the Kenai girls in 2018 as a freshman with the Kardinals’ top throws of the year.

On the boys side, Settlemyer tabbed seniors Elias Machen-Gray and Jarett Wilson as two of the top sprint specialists on the team, and said both could come in handy for the relays.

Wilson returns as one of the top hurdlers in the region, with finishes of second and third in the boys 300 and 110 hurdles, respectively, in 2018. Wilson finished sixth at state in the 110 hurdles last spring.

“I definitely think he’s in the mix for a region championship,” Settlemyer said. “And for a state championship. It’s not hyperbole to be looking that far down the line and thinking he won’t be in that final heat.”

Settlemyer said the boys distance crew features a large incoming crowd of young freshmen and sophomores, but will definitely be led by sophomore Maison Dunham, who finished last season with the secondfastest time of the year in the 3,200, and the only boy faster than him graduated. Dunham is joined by potential distance runners in freshmen Samuel Roberts and Nathan Haakenson and juniors Josh Foster and Tucker Mueller.

Among the top throwers, Settlemyer said junior Ben Grossl is currently healing from a shoulder injury, but senior Billy Morrow returns to lead the group.

The Kenai boys jumping circuit will likely be led by senior Kaden McKibben.

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Scoreboard Basketball NCAA Tournament EAST REGIONAL Regional Semifinals Friday, March 29 Michigan State 80, LSU 63 Duke 75, Virginia Tech 73 Regional Championship Sunday, March 31 Michigan State (31-6) vs. Duke (32-5), 1:05 p.m.

SOUTH REGIONAL Regional Semifinals Thursday, March 28 Purdue 99, Tennessee 94, OT Virginia 53, Oregon 49 Regional Championship Saturday, March 30 Virginia 80, Purdue 75, OT MIDWEST REGIONAL Regional Semifinals Friday, March 29 Auburn 97, North Carolina 80 Kentucky 62, Houston 58 Regional Championship Sunday, March 31 Auburn (29-9) vs. Kentucky (306), 10:20 a.m.

WEST REGIONAL Regional Semifinals Thursday, March 28 Gonzaga 72, Florida State 58 Texas Tech 63, Michigan 44 Regional Championship Saturday, March 30 Texas Tech 75, Gonzaga 69 FINAL FOUR At U.S. Bank Stadium Minneapolis National Semifinals Saturday, April 6 East champion vs. Texas Tech (30-6) Virginia (33-3) vs. Midwest champion National Championship Monday, April 8 Semifinal winners All Times ADT

NCAA Women’s Tournament GREENSBORO REGIONAL Regional Semifinals Saturday, March 30 At Greensboro, N.C. Iowa 79, N.C. State 61 Baylor 93, South Carolina 68 Regional Championship Monday, April 1 Iowa (29-6) vs. Baylor (34-1), 3 p.m.

PORTLAND REGIONAL Regional Semifinals Friday, March 29 Mississippi State 76, Arizona State 53 Oregon 63, South Dakota State 53 Regional Championship Sunday, March 31 Mississippi State (33-2) vs. Oregon (32-4), 10 a.m.

CHICAGO REGIONAL Regional Semifinals Saturday, March 30 Notre Dame 87, Texas A&M 80 Stanford 55, Missouri State 46 Regional Championship Monday, April 1 Notre Dame (33-3) vs. Stanford (31-4), 5 p.m.

ALBANY REGIONAL Regional Semifinals Friday, March 29 UConn 69, UCLA 61 Louisville 61, Oregon State 44 Regional Championship Sunday, March 31 UConn (34-2) vs. Louisville (323), 8 a.m.

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NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB x-Toronto 54 23 .701 — x-Philadelphia 49 27 .645 4½ x-Boston 45 32 .584 9 Brooklyn 39 38 .506 15 New York 14 62 .184 39½ Southeast Division Miami 38 38 .500 — Orlando 38 39 .494 ½ Charlotte 35 40 .467 2½ Washington 31 46 .403 7½

Atlanta 27 49 .355 11 Central Division y-Milwaukee 57 19 .750 — x-Indiana 45 32 .584 12½ Detroit 39 37 .513 18 Chicago 21 56 .273 36½ Cleveland 19 58 .247 38½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division x-Houston 49 28 .636 — x-San Antonio 44 32 .579 4½ New Orleans 32 45 .416 17 Memphis 31 45 .408 17½ Dallas 29 46 .387 19 Northwest Division x-Denver 51 24 .680 — x-Portland 48 28 .632 3½ x-Utah 46 30 .605 5½ x-Oklahoma City 44 32 .579 7½ Minnesota 34 42 .447 17½ Pacific Division x-Golden State 51 24 .680 — x-L.A. Clippers 46 31 .597 6 Sacramento 37 39 .487 14½ L.A. Lakers 34 42 .447 17½ Phoenix 17 60 .221 35 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Friday’s Games Boston 114, Indiana 112 Portland 118, Atlanta 98 Denver 115, Oklahoma City 105 Minnesota 131, Golden State 130, OT Utah 128, Washington 124 L.A. Lakers 129, Charlotte 115 Saturday’s Games L.A. Clippers 132, Cleveland 108 Brooklyn 110, Boston 96 Houston 119, Sacramento 108 Detroit 99, Portland 90 Orlando 121, Indiana 116 Miami 100, New York 92 Philadelphia 118, Minnesota 109 Toronto 124, Chicago 101 Memphis 120, Phoenix 115 Sunday’s Games Milwaukee at Atlanta, 8:30 a.m.

Dallas at Oklahoma City, 11:30 a.m.

L.A. Lakers at New Orleans, 2 p.m.

Sacramento at San Antonio, 3 p.m.

Washington at Denver, 4 p.m.

Charlotte at Golden State, 4:30 p.m.

Memphis at L.A. Clippers, 6:30 p.m.

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Baseball AL Standings

East Division W Tampa Bay 2 Toronto 2 Baltimore 1 New York 1 Boston 1 Central Division Kansas City 2 Cleveland 1 Minnesota 1 Detroit 1 Chicago 0 West Division Seattle 4 Texas 1 Oakland 2 Houston 1 Los Angeles 1

L Pct GB 1 .667 — 1 .667 — 1 .500 ½ 1 .500 ½ 2 .333 1 0 1.000 — 1 .500 1 1 .500 1 2 .333 1½ 2 .000 2 1 .800 — 1 .500 1½ 3 .400 2 2 .333 2 2 .333 2

Friday’s Games Toronto 6, Detroit 0 Tampa Bay 4, Houston 2 L.A. Angels 6, Oakland 2 Boston 7, Seattle 6 Saturday’s Games Baltimore 5, N.Y. Yankees 3 Cleveland 2, Minnesota 1 Kansas City 8, Chicago White Sox 6 Toronto 3, Detroit 0 Tampa Bay 3, Houston 1 Texas 8, Chicago Cubs 6 Oakland 4, L.A. Angels 2 Seattle 6, Boston 5 Sunday’s Games Baltimore (Bundy 0-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Happ 0-0), 9:05 a.m.

Detroit (Moore 0-0) at Toronto (Thornton 0-0), 9:07 a.m.

Houston (Miley 0-0) at Tampa Bay (TBD), 9:10 a.m.

Cleveland (Carrasco 0-0) at Minnesota (Pineda 0-0), 10:10 a.m.

Chicago White Sox (Giolito 0-0) at Kansas City (Lopez 0-0), 10:15 a.m.

Chicago Cubs (Hamels 0-0) at Texas (Lynn 0-0), 12:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Skaggs 0-0) at Oak-

land (Montas 0-0), 12:07 p.m.

Boston (Porcello 0-0) at Seattle (LeBlanc 0-0), 12:10 p.m.

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NL Standings

East Division W New York 2 Philadelphia 2 Miami 1 Atlanta 0 Washington 0 Central Division Cincinnati 1 Milwaukee 2 Chicago 1 St. Louis 1 Pittsburgh 0 West Division Colorado 2 Los Angeles 2 San Diego 2 Arizona 1 San Francisco 1

HRs_Houston, Bregman (1).

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L Pct GB 0 1.000 — 0 1.000 — 2 .333 1½ 2 .000 2 2 .000 2

Pena, Ramirez (4), J.Anderson (6), L.Garcia (8) and Lucroy; B.Anderson, Wendelken (7), Treinen (8) and Phegley. W_B.Anderson 1-0. L_Pena 0-1. Sv_Treinen (1). HRs_Oakland, Canha (1).

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Friday’s Games Colorado 6, Miami 1 St. Louis 9, Milwaukee 5 Arizona 5, L.A. Dodgers 4, 13 innings San Diego 4, San Francisco 1 Saturday’s Games Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, ppd.

N.Y. Mets 11, Washington 8 Philadelphia 8, Atlanta 6 Miami 7, Colorado 3 Milwaukee 4, St. Louis 2 Texas 8, Chicago Cubs 6 San Francisco 3, San Diego 2 L.A. Dodgers 18, Arizona 5 Sunday’s Games Colorado (Gray 0-0) at Miami (Alcantara 0-0), 9:10 a.m.

Pittsburgh (Musgrove 0-0) at Cincinnati (Gray 0-0), 9:10 a.m.

N.Y. Mets (Wheeler 0-0) at Washington (Corbin 0-0), 9:35 a.m.

St. Louis (Wacha 0-0) at Milwaukee (Burnes 0-0), 10:10 a.m.

Chicago Cubs (Hamels 0-0) at Texas (Lynn 0-0), 12:05 p.m.

Arizona (Weaver 0-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Buehler 0-0), 12:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Samardzija 0-0) at San Diego (Paddack 0-0), 12:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Wright 0-0) at Philadelphia (Arrieta 0-0), 3:05 p.m.

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Orioles 5, Yankees 3 Bal. 000 002 102—5 9 0 NY 000 100 002—3 10 3 Karns, Yacabonis (3), M.Castro (6), Givens (8), Bleier (9), Wright (9) and Sucre; Paxton, Ottavino (6), Green (7), Holder (8) and G.Sanchez. W_Yacabonis 1-0.

L_Paxton 0-1. Sv_Wright (1).

HRs_New York, Tulowitzki (1).

Indians 2, Twins 1 Cle. 000 100 001—2 4 1 Min. 000 100 000—1 2 0 Bauer, Olson (8), Edwards (8), Hand (9) and Perez; Odorizzi, May (7), A.Mejia (7), Rogers (8), Parker (9) and Garver. W_Edwards 1-0. L_Parker 0-1. Sv_Hand (1). HRs_Cleveland, Ramirez (1).

Royals 8, White Sox 6 Chi. 000 003 300—6 10 1 KC 003 014 00x—8 10 0 Lopez, Banuelos (5), N.Jones (6), Fry (6), K.Herrera (7), Colome (8) and Castillo; Junis, Hill (6), Boxberger (7), Diekman (8), Kennedy (9) and Maldonado. W_Junis 1-0.

L_Lopez 0-1. Sv_Kennedy (1).

HRs_Chicago, Abreu (1), Moncada (1).

Blue Jays 3, Tigers 0 Det. 000 000 000—0 5 0 Tor. 000 300 00x—3 6 0 Turnbull, Norris (6), Alcantara (8) and Greiner; Sanchez, Mayza (6), Dan.Hudson (6), Biagini (7), Giles (9) and Jansen. W_Sanchez 1-0. L_Turnbull 0-1. Sv_Giles (1).

HRs_Toronto, Smoak (1).

Rays 3, Astros 1 Hou. 100 000 000—1 8 1 TB 000 020 01x—3 7 0 McHugh, Harris (6), Devenski (7) and Chirinos; Glasnow, Stanek (6), Roe (8), Kolarek (8), Alvarado (9) and Perez. W_Glasnow 1-0.

L_McHugh 0-1. Sv_Alvarado (2).

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E.Rodriguez, Hembree (5), Thornburg (7), Velazquez (8) and Swihart; Leake, Brennan (7), Rosscup (9), Rumbelow (9) and T.Murphy. W_Leake 1-0. L_E.Rodriguez 0-1. Sv_Rumbelow (1).

HRs_Seattle, Bruce (1).

Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L z-Tampa Bay 78 59 15 x-Boston 78 47 22 Toronto 78 45 26 Montreal 79 42 29 Florida 79 35 32 Buffalo 78 31 37 Detroit 78 30 38 Ottawa 78 28 44 Metropolitan Division x-Washington 79 47 24 x-N.Y. Islanders 79 46 26 Pittsburgh 78 42 25 Carolina 78 43 28 Columbus 78 44 30 Philadelphia 78 37 33 N.Y. Rangers 77 30 34 New Jersey 79 29 40

OT Pts GF GA 4 122 309 212 9 103 244 201 7 97 277 237 8 92 238 227 12 82 258 271 10 72 212 261 10 70 215 262 6 62 232 285 8 102 273 240 7 99 222 193 11 95 262 231 7 93 233 215 4 92 243 222 8 82 236 261 13 73 215 258 10 68 213 267

Rangers 8, Cubs 6

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Chi. 301 020 000—6 9 0 Tex. 012 000 23x—8 11 0

Central Division x-Winnipeg 78 45 29 4 94 261 231 x-Nashville 79 44 29 6 94 229 208 x-St. Louis 78 42 28 8 92 231 212 Dallas 79 41 31 7 89 200 194 Colorado 78 36 29 13 85 247 234 Minnesota 78 36 33 9 81 206 226 Chicago 78 34 33 11 79 255 279 Pacific Division x-Calgary 78 48 23 7 103 275 216 x-San Jose 78 44 25 9 97 276 248 x-Vegas 79 42 30 7 91 243 220 Arizona 78 37 33 8 82 202 215 Vancouver 79 34 35 10 78 217 246 Edmonton 78 34 35 9 77 224 261 Anaheim 80 33 37 10 76 191 248 Los Angeles 78 29 40 9 67 190 248 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

Darvish, Cishek (3), Quintana (4), Edwards Jr. (8), Kintzler (8) and Contreras; Volquez, Gomez (5), Springs (6), Kelley (7), Leclerc (9) and Kiner-Falefa. W_Kelley 1-0.

L_Edwards Jr. 0-1. Sv_Leclerc (1). HRs_Chicago, Schwarber (1).

Texas, Gallo (1), Cabrera (1).

Mets 11, Nationals 8 NY 310 000 043—11 14 2 Was. 102 001 004—8 9 1 Syndergaard, J.Wilson (7), Familia (8), Lugo (8), E.Diaz (9) and Ramos; Strasburg, Sipp (7), Rosenthal (8), Barraclough (8), Grace (8), Suero (9) and Suzuki.

W_J.Wilson 1-0. L_Rosenthal 0-1.

Sv_E.Diaz (2). HRs_Washington, Robles (1).

Phillies 8, Braves 6 Atl. 120 010 002—6 10 0 Phi. 010 320 11x—8 9 0 B.Wilson, Parsons (4), Venters (5), Biddle (6), Tomlin (8) and Flowers; Pivetta, Morgan (5), Nicasio (6), Alvarez (7), Neshek (7), Dominguez (8), Dav.Robertson (9) and Realmuto. W_Morgan 1-0. L_Parsons 0-1. HRs_Atlanta, Swanson (1), Culberson (1). Philadelphia, Franco (2), Realmuto (1), Harper (1).

Marlins 7, Rockies 3 Col. 002 001 000—3 8 1 Mia. 020 300 20x—7 16 0 T.Anderson, McGee (6), Johnson (7), Dunn (7), B.Shaw (8) and Iannetta; Lopez, Kinley (6), Conley (7), Romo (7), N.Anderson (8), Steckenrider (9) and Wallach.

W_Lopez 1-0. L_T.Anderson 0-1.

Brewers 4, Cardinals 2 SL 001 100 000—2 7 1 Mil. 103 000 00x—4 8 0 Dak.Hudson, Mayers (5), Leone (7) and Molina; Woodruff, Guerra (6), Claudio (7), A.Wilson (7), Hader (9) and Grandal. W_ Woodruff 1-0. L_Dak.Hudson 0-1.

Sv_Hader (2). HRs_Milwaukee, Moustakas (2), Yelich (3), Shaw (1).

Giants 3, Padres 2 SF 000 003 000—3 9 1 SD 000 002 000—2 8 0 D.Rodriguez, Bergen (6), Moronta (6), Watson (8), W.Smith (9) and Posey; Margevicius, Stock (6), Erlin (6), Loup (8), Maton (9) and F.Mejia. W_D.Rodriguez 1-0. L_ Margevicius 0-1. Sv_W.Smith (1).

Dodgers 18, Diamondbacks 5 Ari. 100 010 120—5 7 1 LA 104 015 07x—18 19 0 Godley, Koch (6), J.Murphy (7) and Avila, Kelly; Maeda, B.Stewart (7), Ru.Martin (9) and Barnes. W_Maeda 1-0. L_Godley 0-1. HRs_Arizona, Peralta (1), Jones (2), Avila (1), Dyson (1).

Los Angeles, Barnes (2), Pederson (3), Bellinger 2 (3).

Friday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 4, St. Louis 2 Nashville 3, Pittsburgh 1 Detroit 4, New Jersey 0 Calgary 6, Anaheim 1 Colorado 3, Arizona 2, SO Minnesota 3, Vegas 2 Saturday’s Games Florida 4, Boston 1 Carolina 5, Philadelphia 2 Montreal 3, Winnipeg 1 Ottawa 4, Toronto 2 N.Y. Islanders 5, Buffalo 1 Washington 6, Tampa Bay 3 St. Louis 3, New Jersey 2, OT Columbus 5, Nashville 2 San Jose 4, Vegas 3, OT Anaheim 5, Edmonton 1 Vancouver 3, Dallas 2, SO Los Angeles 3, Chicago 2, OT Sunday’s Games N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, 8:30 a.m.

Minnesota at Arizona, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Columbus at Buffalo, 2 p.m.

Boston at Detroit, 3:30 p.m.

Calgary at San Jose, 4 p.m.

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Transactions BASEBALL American League SEATTLE MARINERS — Selected RHP David McKay from Tacoma (PCL). Placed RHP Hunter Strickland on the 10-day IL. Transferred INF Kyle Seager to the 60-day IL. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Signed G Dusty Hannahs to a 10-day contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Signed F Nick Schmaltz to a seven-year contract extension.

CALGARY FLAMES — Signed LW Dmitry Zavgorodniy to a three year entry level contract.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned G Kaden Fulcher from Toledo (ECHL) to the Grand Rapids (AHL).

COLLEGE KANSAS — Announced sophomore men’s basketball G Charlie Moore will transfer.

NEBRASKA — Named Fred Hoiberg men’s basketball coach.

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NIKISKI BULLDOGS The Bulldogs are getting a new head coaching presence in Eli Porter, who has worked extensively with the Nikiski wrestling team for several years.

Porter has experience coaching track and crosscountry running at the middle school in the state of Washington prior to making the move to Alaska, and said he is anticipating an exciting season for the Bulldogs.

“To get a chance to be outside and be with these kids, you can’t be more excited about it,” Porter said.

“I’ve got a pretty good gig.”

With a team of about 25 athletes, Porter said he expects some challenges in contending for a team title at regions, where the Bulldogs picked up finishes of fourth for the boys and sixth for the girls in 2018, but said what he wants to see most is athletes hitting their goals.

“It’s not always about competing against others, but it’s competing against yourself,” he said. “I’d like to see this team learn to have some fun under duress, and hopefully build a team that enjoys hard work and the grit of sport, and not being afraid and still performing.”

Nikiski boys finished fifth among 20 teams at the Div. II state meet last year, but lost a handful of senior stars on the sprint teams.

The boys won the 400 and 800-meter relays at state, but lost Jack Sullenger and Aaron McCollum to graduation and lost current senior Jace Kornstad to soccer.

Still, Porter said the points can be made up in other ways.

“I have a hunch we have some good jumpers,” he said.

The girls team will likely see big points days from Destiny Martin in the sprints, senior Bethany Carstens in the high jump and junior Kaitlyn Johnson in the discus.

“I have high hopes and

expectations for (Johnson),” Porter said. “She’s amazing, she’s definitely dedicated and obviously powerful.

And of course she’s in the Johnson line.”

Johnson picked up two podium finishes in the 2018 Region III meet, with a third in the shot put and a runnerup in the discus. Carstens, meanwhile, was second in the girls high jump at regions.

Porter said Martin will also contest the long jump.

Martin finished fifth in the long jump at the Region III meet last year.

On the boys side, Porter tabbed senior Justin Harris as a returning whiz in the sprints. Harris took fourth last year at the Region III meet in the 100 dash. Porter also said junior Bryan McCollum could show some flash in the 400.

HOMER MARINERS

At the end of Kachemak Bay, the Mariners are getting ready for another stab at the Region III and Division II state hardware. The Mariner girls lay claim to the Region III team title last May among Division II schools, then finished second at the Division II state meet, behind only team champions Sitka by a score of 107-87. The Homer boys finished fourth at state last year.

Head coach Bob Ostrom, back for his second year at the helm, said warm and sunny skies have quickly melted what little snow the track received this winter, so the Mariners have had plenty of time to prepare.

“We’ve been coming along the last week,” Ostrom said. “We’re already outside working on relays and handoffs and in the jumping pit.”

Homer already got a meet under its belt in 2019 with the Pro/Whit Invite Friday and Saturday at the Dome in Anchorage.

Ostrom said his girls team is once again eyeing the team championships at the Region III meet this year.

The Mariners are not hosting their traditional Homer Invitational this

year, but will be hosting the in the shot and discus at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Pro/Whit Invite this weekend.

Championships May 11.

In the jumping pit, OsAmong the leading points trom said junior Marina Carscorers returning to Homer is roll and Inama will combine sophomore sprint ace Laura to form a formidable duo. In Inama, who tallied a pair 2018, Carroll finished second of second-place finishes at at state in the high jump and last year’s region meet and a third in the triple, while Inapair of fourth-place finishes ma took second in the long at the Division II state meet jump. in the 100 and 200 sprints.

At the Pro/Whit meet this Inama also finished fourth weekend, Carroll won the this weekend at the Pro/Whit high jump and finished third meet in the 200. in the triple, while Inama In the distance crew, took second in the long jump. sophomore Brooke Miller On the boys side, Homer and junior Autumn Daigle suffered big hits with gradulead the way. Ostrom said ation, plus seniors Luciano Miller is working on the Fasulo and Bill Rich not re800 and 1,600 events and turning. Fasulo was the 800 Daigle is returning to the state champ, but Ostrom 800, 1,600 and 3,200 races. said he’s hoping to get big Daigle has a cross-country seasons from a few up-andrunning title already under coming runners. her belt, and in 2018, she ran Ostrom said senior Corbin to finishes of third and fifth Mattingly is making the jump in the 3,200 at the region and from the cross-country team state meets, respectively. Os- and will be joined by potentrom said Daigle is looking tial 400-meter relay members fast already due to her exten- Eli King, Silas McGhee, sesive Nordic skiing training nior Evan Welty and senior this winter.

Hunter Patton.

Miller, meanwhile, racked Patton will return to take up finishes of third and fourth on the hurdles, Ostrom in the 800 and 1,600 races said. Patton was second last at the region meet last year, year in the 110 hurdles at then capped the year with a regions, and third at state. runner-up finish in the 800 at This weekend at the Pro/ the state meet.

Whit meet, Patton was ninth The distance duo ran in the 110 hurdles. well at the Pro/Whit meet “He’s gearing up and this weekend, with Daigle ready to go,” Ostrom said. “It leading Miller across the takes a lot of flexibility and line in sixth and seventh, re- he’s one of the most flexible spectively, in the girls 800. people I’ve seen … he floats Daigle also finished second above those hurdles.” out of 21 in the girls 3,200.

Ostrom said his throwing In the hurdles, Ostrom crew could use some help, said sophomore Anna God- but senior Kaelen Molodih frey would be a contender will lead the way, along this year, but is healing from with junior Josh Manwiller. a broken foot.

In the jumping pit, the Ostrom hopes to make up Mariners junior Eli King for that in the girls throwing, and Silas McGhee as the top where senior Anna Brock athletes. returns to defend her Division II state shot and discus SEWARD SEAHAWKS championships.

The Seahawks welcome “She’s back and already throwing close to PRs,” Os- a familiar face to the head trom said of Brock. “She coaching spot with 2001 changed her style a little Seward grad Solomon D’ bit and she worked hard all Amico, who takes over the track team in 2019. winter lifting weights.”

With 22 athletes on the Prior to her state title double in 2018, Brock alsoB:11.5”current roster — 11 boys and claimed the Region III crowns 11 girls — D’ Amico said he T:11.5” is looking to mold a team of in both shot and discus.

Brock swept the victoriesS:11.5”potential individual stars.

“One of our goals is to help kids understand what their bodies are capable of,” he said. “One of our goals is to teach the kids how to listen to their bodies and rest when needed.”

After spending time outside the state, D’ Amico said he returned to Seward and took up opportunities to volunteer coach starting in 2010, including stints with the boys basketball team and swim teams, and has considerable coaching experience with the club and USA Swimming programs in Seward.

In the sport of track and field, D’ Amico has coached the Seahawks in the past, giving time to the throwing crew, sprint and hurdles teams. Under his guidance, 2013 grad Tessa Adelmann won two of her four state Class 3A throwing titles.

D’ Amico said several members of the current senior class have made the transition to Seward this spring much easier.

“It’s an honor just to be able to work with these kids,” D’ Amico said. “So that makes it more palatable.”

Seward will skip the Big C Relays in favor of targeting the Colony Invite as the team’s first competition of the year. Seward also will host its own meet April 23.

Among returning names that could provide a scoring punch for Seward are senior Beau Freiberg and junior Connor Spanos. Both were part of the state championship 1,600-meter relay team that won a state title in 2017, but Spanos is back after a year off from track.

D’ Amico said both runners have good speed and experience that will help fill out one or two relay squads.

Senior Chris Kingsland also returns as a sprinter and will provide depth for the boys team.

On the girls side, senior Coral Petrosius returns as one of the more experienced members of the team and will challenge for points in the sprints and throwing events. Petrosius uncorked the sixth-farthest throw among Region III opponents in the discus last

spring at the state meet, and also finished tied for fifthbest high jump in 2018.

D’ Amico said Petrosius is joined by senior Sadie Lindquist — who is looking like a threat in the middle distance races — and freshman Lydia Jacoby, who could get experience in the girls sprint events.

COOK INLET ACADEMY The Eagles don’t have much in the way of quantity, but first-year head coach Lacy West believes they make up for that with quality.

“So far so great,” West said. “I think the kids are really coachable. In two days we’ve gone from zero to one hundred.”

CIA features three athletes — senior Brianna Hammond, sophomore Isaac Johnson and freshman Grizzly Beard — and West said each of them are eyeing big seasons to post PRs. West herself is a former track athlete, having grown up in Girdwood before her family made the move to Florida, where she competed in the pole vault for East Bay High School in Gibsonton. West said she had a Division III athletic opportunity but turned it down in favor of a Division I academic ride at the University of South Florida.

West said working with the three athletes at CIA is an experience she is hoping to make worthwhile.

“I looked up to my coaches a lot,” West said.

“So to get to make a difference for other kids is pretty remarkable.”

West said Hammond is a sprinter and competes in the 100 and 200 dashes, where she hopes to be a contender.

“Now’s her one last big chance to shine,” West said.

Johnson is a potential distance contender, West said, but was also a finalist in the Region II championships last year in the boys 100, 200 and 400 races.

Beard is also a possible distance runner, West said, but will also focus on the discus and long jump events.

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Your houseplants are getting hungry some feeding tips

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No matter what the weather outdoors, plants indoors are getting hungrier and thirstier this time of year. How are you going to give them the food they need to keep growth apace with burgeoning sunlight?

If the plants are new to your home or you just repotted them, the potting soil itself might supply food — for a while, at least. Compost in potting mixes slowly releases a smorgasbord of nutrients, sparing you — if there’s enough compost — the need to even think about having to feed a plant for a year or more. Most potting mixes that you buy or that new plants come in, however, do not contain compost.

Still, even a compost-less potting mix might provide extended sustenance if it contains some slowly available food source, either an organic one such as soybean meal or a specially formulated, slow-release chemical one. Those little glass-like beads you may have noticed on the soil beneath commercial plants? That’s probably a slow-release chemical fertilizer.

ONE OPTION: SPRINKLE FERTILIZER ON THE SOIL Feeding is eventually necessary, and the most straightforward way to do it is to just sprinkle plant food on the surface of the potting soil. If there’s room below the rim of the pot, a half-inch or so of compost will do the job and confer other benefits of a compost mulch: better water infiltration, smothering of small weeds, and some protection against pests.

Your plants won’t get these other benefits with the previously mentioned soybean meal fertilizer, the slowrelease chemical, or other concentrated fertilizers.

Nutrients in the compost, soybean meal or slowrelease chemical fertilizer percolate into the soil when you water from above.

Some gardeners water their houseplants from below, filling the saucers beneath the pots so water is drawn up into the pots. In this case, fertilizer applied on the soil’s surface won’t get down to plant roots. Furthermore, if water is applied from below too frequently, salts build up in the soil, damaging roots. So it’s always a good idea to water from above at least occasionally.

ANOTHER OPTION: FERTILIZE WITH YOUR WATERING Another way to fertilize houseplants is to feed them as you water them. You need a food that dissolves readily in water. Many gardeners use one of the popular brands of water-soluble, chemical fertilizer, but they all work well as long as you follow their specific application directions.

If you’d rather “grow organically,” then use one of the commercially available seaweed or fish extracts, or make your own extract by steeping compost or manure in water until the water turns the colour of tea. Once everything greens up in spring, you can even make a nourishing “tea” by steeping a nutrient-rich plant such as stinging nettles in water for a few days.

As long as your “tea” or water-soluble fertilizer is not too concentrated, go ahead and use it to water your plants every time they are thirsty. Alternatively, feed periodically — once every two weeks, for example — with a more concentrated solution.

YET MORE WAYS TO FERTILIZE HOUSEPLANTS Wander along the fertilizer aisle of any store selling gardening products and you’ll see that there are fancier ways to feed your houseplants. You can buy marblesize balls or spikes of compressed fertilizer that begin to slowly bleed nutrients after you push them into the soil.

Leaves can absorb nutrients to some degree, and foliar feeding provides yet another way to nourish your plants. However, foliar sprays are best reserved for emergency use on starving plants because they’re not very efficient and can damage leaves.

In fact, any fertilizer can cause damage. (Compost cannot damage plants, but it has a low nutrient content so is technically an “amendment” rather than a “fertilizer”.) Just as you would not eat the same amount of calorie-rich ice cream as calorie-poor broccoli, you should not feed your plants the same amount of a rich food — such as a concentrated chemical fertilizer — as a leaner food, such as seaweed extract. And, furthering the comparison, ice cream — even in the correct dose — is not better for you than broccoli, just more concentrated in calories.

Your plants are at your mercy, so follow feeding rates on fertilizer packaging with even more care than you follow “serving size” recommendations on that carton of ice cream.

This photo shows Montreal photographer Paul-Emile Rioux’s ocean horizon series at the Architectural Digest Design show in New York. (Kim Cook via AP)

By KIM COOK Associated Press

NEW YORK — Intrepid visitors to the Architectural Digest Design Show here this month braved lashings of chilly rain to get there.

But inside, the elements were the source of inspiration.

Water, wind, earth, light — artists found clever ways to showcase these natural elements in art for the home.

In the “Made” section of the show, where independent designers were set up, creativity was at every turn.

Photographer Susan Richman of Dobbs Ferry, New York, is intrigued by ephemeral qualities in an environment. She has shot dilapidated buildings through mirrors and Mylar. In her newest collection, ReFormations, she combines dyes with botanical material she finds on walks — “grasses, seedpods and hydrangea petals,” among others - and then freezes them. As they thaw, she photographs their transformation.

Chicago-based Mitchell Black showed a large mural called Mountain. It was reminiscent of a vintage black-and-white illustration from a good book that might take its reader deep into a mysterious forest.

In a wallpaper collection called Storms, charcoal drawings of roiling clouds and dust become beautifully transcendent wall art. The company is known for avant garde wallpapers that include oversize python-skin prints, captured imagery of sound waves, and spattered rain.

Tempaper’s creative director Jennifer Matthews drew inspiration from Asian jungles for Utopia, a panoramic mural with lush trees and creatures.

Sisyphus Industries drew visitors to their tables that held magnetized steel balls tracing intricate patterns in silica sand, under glass tops.

The tables come in several sizes, and each is loaded with a selection of programmed tracks that guide the robot-controlled balls.

Lynn Savarese’s Ode to the Sea series of photo-

graphs paid homage to water, in all its frothy, tumultuous forms.

Simon Johns of Quebec brought his blackened-ash Shale console, a dramatic piece crafted using hand and machine to carve out the crumbling, textural details of a cliff’s facade.

Hollie Heller , who splits her time between New Jersey and a teaching studio in Costa Rica, was displaying artworks made from found materials. She gathers things like shells and beads, and cuts up old playing cards, documents, fabrics and photos, carefully layering, manipulating and composing them into mixed media art.

“I’m thinking of progression when I begin arranging,” Heller says. “It’s a drawing using objects, a journey where the details become clearer upon closer inspection.”

Brooklyn, New Yorkbased Richard Clarkson Studio made the Sagittarius lighting fixture mounted on the booth’s ceiling. It’s one of the Light System series of brass, LED and mono-filament pendants representing the zodiac constellations.

The sky has frequently been a source of inspiration for the New Zealand-born Clarkson; he’s got a billowy, cloud-shaped fixture in his lineup as well. He grew up admiring the night sky over Waimarama Beach, and aimed to recapture that magic in the collection.

“We’ve all been left aweinspired by the stars at some point in our lives,” he says.

Another intriguing piece in his booth: a limitededition wall panel made of glass, aluminum and acrylic on a wood frame. More than 700 tiny lights twinkle behind the laser-etched, backpainted glass face. Clarkson created it to commemorate the night of July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Eagle lunar module on the moon, and Armstrong took those first steps.

“The Panel is an accurate map of the stars and constellations from New York’s perspective on that very night,” he says.

This photo shows a Warp & Weft’s wool rug from their Tidal Collection at the Architectural Digest Design show in New York. (Kim Cook via AP)

This photo shows a piece by Susan Richman at the Architectural Digest Design show in New York. (Kim Cook via AP)

Tips for your next basement remodelling project A basement remodeling project can add valuable and usable space to a home. For many years, homeowners overlooked the potential of a basement remodel, perhaps thinking it would not be a smart return on investment. But that’s no longer the case.

The latest “Cost vs. Value” report from Remodeling magazine says the average basement remodel can cost around $61,000 with a 70.3 percent recoup rate.

In addition, HGTV says architects and contractors indicate the cost of redoing a basement is roughly onethird to one-half less than

the price of putting an addition on a home.

Before remodeling a basement, homeowners should think about how they want to use the space.

Homeowners also must focus on some potential obstacles in a basement that will need to be addressed so that the area can be as functional as possible.

Basements can be chilly and damp. That means moisture issues and heating and cooling needs must be addressed prior to any construction. Homeowners may have to consider the installation of a dehumidifier and run venting

through the basement to allow for proper climate control. If a basement takes on water, either through the walls or a concrete slab, a professional waterproofing company can come in and fix these issues so they will not damage drywall and flooring afterwards.

The presence of insects and pests also must be addressed. Exterminators can help homeowners figure out which insects are in their basements and how to make the space less hospitable to these unwelcome guests so that the room will become comfortable for human occupants.

Space is often at a premium in basements, which may contain HVAC units, water heaters, filtration devices, ductwork, pipes, and the other appliances.

Qualified contractors can suggest solutions for cordoning off appliances and camouflaging pipes and wires so they won’t detract from the finished product.

However, building access panels into the design will make it easier to service or repair features as necessary. Homeowners also may want to wrap pipes before drywall is installed to quiet noisy drainage pipes.

Uneven basement flooring will need to be smoothed out and flattened before carpeting or tile can be laid down. A self-leveling underlayment can be applied to fill in gullies, while larger crack and holes will need to be patched.

Once the structure of the basement is addressed, then the design work can begin. Many professionals advise against drop ceilings, which can take away from ceiling height and look cheap. Basements can be dark, so the addition of plenty of lighting can help brighten the room. Small

basement windows can be replaced with larger ones to add more light as well.

Homeowners can mimic built-ins and architectural details from elsewhere in the home so the basement is aesthetically cohesive and doesn’t seem like an addition. Bookcases and shelving can add valuable storage space as well. Decorate the basement with bright, neutral colors so they make the space feel more inviting.

With some effort and financial investment, basements can be as beautiful and functional as other rooms in a home.

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US begins organ transplants from living donors who have HIV

In this image made from video provided by Johns Hopkins Medicine, Nina Martinez of Atlanta is wheeled into a Baltimore operating room to become who is thought to be the world’s first kidney transplant living donor with HIV. (Johns Hopkins Medicine via AP)

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer

WASHINGTON — Surgeons in Baltimore have performed what’s thought to be the world’s first kidney transplant from a living donor with HIV, a milestone for people with the AIDS virus

— and one that could free up space on the transplant waiting list for everyone.

Nina Martinez of Atlanta traveled to Johns Hopkins University to donate a kidney to an HIVpositive stranger, saying she “wanted to make a difference in somebody else’s life” and counter

the stigma that too often still surrounds HIV infection.

Many people think “somebody with HIV is supposed to look sick,” Martinez, 35, told The Associated Press before the operation. “It’s a powerful statement to show somebody like myself who’s

healthy enough to be a living organ donor.”

At a news conference Thursday, Martinez said she was “feeling good” and hopes she’s opened doors for other would-be donors.

“To be able to leave this kind of medical legacy for me was quite important,” she said.

The recipient of Martinez’s kidney, who chose to remain anonymous, also is recovering well, Hopkins said.

“Here’s a disease that in the past was a death sentence and now has been so well controlled that it offers people with that disease an opportunity to save somebody else,” said Dr. Dorry Segev, a Hopkins surgeon who pushed for the HIV Organ Policy Equity, or HOPE, Act that lifted a 25-year U.S. ban on transplants between people with HIV. There’s no count of how many HIV-positive patients are among the 113,000 people on the nation’s waiting list for an organ transplant.

HIV-positive patients can receive transplants from HIV-negative donors just like anyone else.

Only in the last few years, spurred by some pioneering operations in South Africa, have doctors begun transplanting organs from deceased donors with HIV

into patients who also have the virus, organs that once would have been thrown away.

Since 2016, 116 such kidney and liver transplants have been performed in the U.S. as part of a research study, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, or UNOS, which oversees the transplant system. One question is whether receiving an organ from someone with a different strain of HIV than their own poses any risks, but so far there have been no safety problems, said UNOS chief medical officer Dr. David Klassen.

Hopkins’ Segev said Monday’s kidney transplant was a world first.

Doctors had hesitated to allow people still living with HIV to donate because of concern that their remaining kidney would be at risk of damage from the virus or older medications used to treat it.

But newer anti-HIV medications are safer and more effective, Segev said.

His team recently studied the kidney health of 40,000 HIV-positive people and concluded that those with well-controlled HIV and no other kidney-harming ailments like high blood pressure should face the same risks from living donation as someone without HIV.

“There are potentially tens of thousands of people living with HIV right now who could be living kidney donors,” said Segev, who has advised some other hospitals considering the approach.

Generally, kidneys from living donors last longer, added Dr. Niraj Desai, the Hopkins surgeon caring for the recipient. And if more people living with HIV wind up donating, it helps more than HIV-positive patients who need a kidney.

“That’s one less person waiting for a limited resource,” Desai said. “That helps everybody on the list.”

Martinez, a public health consultant, became interested in living donation even before HIV-to-HIV transplants began. Then last summer she learned that an HIV-positive friend needed a transplant, and tracked down Segev to ask if she could donate.

Her friend died before Martinez finished the required health tests but she decided to honor him by donating to someone she didn’t know.

A runner who plans on making this fall’s Marine Corps Marathon, “I knew I was probably just as healthy as someone not living with HIV who was being evaluated as a kidney donor,” Martinez said. “I’ve never been surer of anything.”

For twins, gender inequities may start in the womb, a new study finds

By Rita Giordano The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)

Does the battle of the sexes begin in utero?

A new study has found that women who have shared a womb with a twin brother are less likely to graduate from high school or college, may earn less money and will have lower marriage and fertility rates than twins who were both female.

A possible culprit?

Blame it on the male hormone testosterone manspreading its way into female twins’ amniotic sacks.

The researchers, who hail from Northwestern

University and the Norwegian School of Economics, looked at data on about 13,800 twins born in Norway from 1967 to 1978, and tracked their lives over three decades.

“Nobody has been able to study how male twins impact their twin sisters at such a large scale,” said economist Krzysztof Karbownik, a study author and research associate at Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research. “This is the first study to track people for more than 30 years, from birth through schooling and adulthood, to show that being exposed in utero to a male twin influences important out-

comes in their twin sister.”

The findings published last week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) show that girls with a male twin are about 15 percent less likely to graduate from high school that a girl with a twin sister and almost 4 percent less likely to complete college.

The women with male twins also had on average nearly nine percent lower earnings by their early 30s than female twins with sisters, about six percent lower fertility rates and 12 percent lower marriage rates.

No long-term negative impact on the male twins was found as a result of

sharing space with a female twin.

The rate of twin births in the U.S. has nearly doubled since 1980, a development attributed to women having babies later in life and increased reliance on in vitro fertilization.

Karbownik said it is known from other studies that once a male fetus’s testes start developing, there is a spike in testosterone in his amniotic sack, and some of it goes into his sister’s.

In addition, Karbownik said women pregnant with a male child have a higher level of testosterone in their blood than women carrying a girl, or female twins.

What the initial study does not get into is how much of the later-life outcomes are due to the biological effect of the testosterone, versus how much is due to how the girl is socialized, Karbownik said.

To get a better sense of the prenatal testosterone’s impact, the team repeated their study focusing on female twins whose twin siblings — either a sister or a brother — died shortly after birth. The results were the same as for the twins raised with their sibling.

To the researchers, that was clear evidence that the long-term effects documented by the study were due to prenatal testoster-

one exposure, rather than postnatal socialization.

Karbownik said he believes the issue of prenatal exposure as opposed to postnatal socialization merits further study.

A next step, the author said, could be to look at whether the results are consistent across different cultures and time frames.

“The fact that we can distinguish between prenatal and post-natal exposure doesn’t mean post-natal channels are not responsible for (some of) what we observed,” Karbownik said. “It just means that growing up with a brother is not responsible for this.”

Health Officials’ Plug For Next FDA Chief: Go Big On E-Cig Regulation Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News Kaiser Health News

In an almost uniform response to the impending exit of Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, city and county public health officials are urging the Trump administration to go bigger in its response to adolescents’ growing use of e-cigarettes.

The issue, they say, is reaching crisis levels and many worry the FDA’s much-touted efforts are falling short.

Gottlieb, whose almost two-year tenure heading the agency won praise for advancing key regulations in an administration geared toward deregulation, plans to leave April 5, with his farewell tour emphasizing his work on e-cigarettes.

His departure, though, highlights a complicated, two-track story.

In Washington, Gottlieb has been credited with taking on Big Tobacco and the e-cigarette industry.

But health officials on the front lines say they want more federal action.

“We were encouraged by some of the statements and actions of the [outgoing] FDA commissioner,” said Bill Snook, a spokesman at the health department in Kansas City, Mo. But Dr. Sara Cody, who runs the Santa Clara County, Calif., health department, views the steps taken by the FDA as “too little and too late.” She pointed to proposed regulations that haven’t taken effect and to limits on how flavored vapes are sold that she and others argued did not go far enough.

Gretchen Musicant,

who heads Minneapolis’ health department, agreed.

“Their action so far is not demonstrable,” she said.

Now, they are waiting to see what Gottlieb’s permanent successor — who has yet to be named — will do. (Dr. Norman “Ned” Sharpless, director of the National Cancer Institute, will fill Gottlieb’s role on an interim basis and has been a vocal supporter of efforts to curb e-cigarette use.)

Experts see youth vaping rates at epidemic levels: In 2018, about 1 in 5 high school-age students were reported to use electronic cigarettes, according to data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“There’s an entire generation of youth becoming addicted to nicotine,” Cody said.

And the consequences are vast. Jerry Berkson, an assistant principal at Palo Alto High School in California, said his desk is full of vapes he has confiscated from students. For more than a month this school year, the administration had to shut down certain bathrooms during class time so that students wouldn’t go there to smoke. Increasingly, students have missed large chunks of class because illicit e-cigarettes keep setting off the fire alarm.

It’s a complex issue for federal regulators, though.

E-cigarettes, which don’t burn tobacco but do contain nicotine, have found champions among adult smokers trying to quit.

Many say the devices provide a less damaging alternative — and are more effective than nicotine patches or nicotine gum.

But use by adolescents, who appear to be lured by the flavored juices that fuel these vapes, pose a concern. Even without tobacco, nicotine addiction and exposure can severely damage a young person’s brain. Plus, some users will, medical experts say, end up transitioning to tobacco-filled products.

As vaping rates among teens climb, the FDA has made a high-profile effort to address the public health concern without trampling on adults’ rights.

The agency in 2016 classified electronic cigarettes as tobacco products that fall under its regulatory jurisdiction.

Gottlieb has threatened e-cig manufacturers, saying the FDA would ban their products if companies didn’t take steps to combat youth vaping. His declaration that youth vaping constituted an “epidemic” has brought attention to the issue, said Samir Soneji, an associate professor of health policy at the Dartmouth Institute.

And, during a recent wide-ranging interview with KHN, Gottlieb reiterated his expectation that “the FDA is prepared to look at banning” these products, specifically mentioning the products that use flavored pods, or cartridges, “because those are the ones kids are abusing.”

Last week, the agency put out a draft guidance that would bar the sale of fruit- and candy-flavored e-cigarettes in places easily accessible to young people. It would also require manufacturers to submit documentation by 2021 showing that flavored products meet public health standards in order

to gain the FDA’s approval. Until then, those flavors could stay on the market.

Those steps have won praise from some experts.

“These actions show … an appropriate response to the rapidly escalating youth e-cigarette epidemic,” said Steven Kelder, an epidemiology professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Austin.

But others worry this is part of a broader pattern: federal action that takes too long and is too narrow to have the needed effect.

Critics say that giving manufacturers until 2021 to get a federal OK — and leaving flavored products on the market until then — means more years for children to develop nicotine addictions or transition from electronic cigarettes to conventional tobacco products.

“They’re proposing things and putting them off into the future. But the actual enactment of their recommendations has not happened yet,” said Minneapolis’ Musicant.

Also, the restrictions on flavors don’t touch menthol- or mint-flavored products, which are used by more than 50 percent of young vapers, according to CDC data.

Multiple local public health advocates highlighted mint and menthol flavors as a major concern when it comes to youth use but note that federal regulators have not addressed the issue. This was a theme at a recent gathering in Washington, D.C., of the Big Cities Health Coalition, an organization of health departments from around the country.

“They need to be in-

cluded in the ban,” said Snook, of Kansas City.

Other health lobbies, such as the American Heart Association and the Campaign for TobaccoFree Kids, have made the same argument.

In a statement, Gottlieb suggested that the FDA would take a harder look at those flavors if they continued to pose a problem — and said the agency is not restricting them, for now, because of their appeal to adults trying to quit tobacco.

“We won’t ignore data regarding the popularity of mint- and mentholflavored [vapes] among kids, should the concern rise,” Gottlieb said. “We’ll continue to use all available resources to monitor the rates and use patterns among youth and adults for these products, and we’ll reconsider our policies with respect to these products, if appropriate.”

States and counties have taken steps on their own.

The FDA’s response so far, Musicant said, spurred Minneapolis to take action — restricting the sale of flavored products to stores where only adults 18 and older can enter and raising the tobacco age to 21. But there are limits to what the city and even state can do.

(Online sales, for instance, are a major vape source for young people and can’t be addressed without federal input.)

San Francisco has banned the sale of any flavored tobacco product, a law encompassing e-cigarettes and conventional ones, and it is weighing a ban on e-cig sales altogether, until the products have FDA approval. In Santa Clara County, only

adult vape shops can sell e-cigs, Cody said.

Locally based policies will quickly hit a ceiling, Soneji said. They create a potential for a “black market” — a San Francisco resident could pick up e-cigarettes in neighboring Oakland, for instance.

That problem doesn’t exist if the federal government steps in, he added.

And delays matter substantially, especially given the speed with which adolescent vaping has taken off.

“The pace at which this epidemic is developing is shockingly fast,” Cody said. “That means the response has to be so fast — and it’s not.”

Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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US begins organ transplants from living donors who have HIV

In this image made from video provided by Johns Hopkins Medicine, Nina Martinez of Atlanta is wheeled into a Baltimore operating room to become who is thought to be the world’s first kidney transplant living donor with HIV. (Johns Hopkins Medicine via AP)

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer

WASHINGTON — Surgeons in Baltimore have performed what’s thought to be the world’s first kidney transplant from a living donor with HIV, a milestone for people with the AIDS virus

— and one that could free up space on the transplant waiting list for everyone.

Nina Martinez of Atlanta traveled to Johns Hopkins University to donate a kidney to an HIVpositive stranger, saying she “wanted to make a difference in somebody else’s life” and counter

the stigma that too often still surrounds HIV infection.

Many people think “somebody with HIV is supposed to look sick,” Martinez, 35, told The Associated Press before the operation. “It’s a powerful statement to show somebody like myself who’s

healthy enough to be a living organ donor.”

At a news conference Thursday, Martinez said she was “feeling good” and hopes she’s opened doors for other would-be donors.

“To be able to leave this kind of medical legacy for me was quite important,” she said.

The recipient of Martinez’s kidney, who chose to remain anonymous, also is recovering well, Hopkins said.

“Here’s a disease that in the past was a death sentence and now has been so well controlled that it offers people with that disease an opportunity to save somebody else,” said Dr. Dorry Segev, a Hopkins surgeon who pushed for the HIV Organ Policy Equity, or HOPE, Act that lifted a 25-year U.S. ban on transplants between people with HIV. There’s no count of how many HIV-positive patients are among the 113,000 people on the nation’s waiting list for an organ transplant.

HIV-positive patients can receive transplants from HIV-negative donors just like anyone else.

Only in the last few years, spurred by some pioneering operations in South Africa, have doctors begun transplanting organs from deceased donors with HIV

into patients who also have the virus, organs that once would have been thrown away.

Since 2016, 116 such kidney and liver transplants have been performed in the U.S. as part of a research study, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, or UNOS, which oversees the transplant system. One question is whether receiving an organ from someone with a different strain of HIV than their own poses any risks, but so far there have been no safety problems, said UNOS chief medical officer Dr. David Klassen.

Hopkins’ Segev said Monday’s kidney transplant was a world first.

Doctors had hesitated to allow people still living with HIV to donate because of concern that their remaining kidney would be at risk of damage from the virus or older medications used to treat it.

But newer anti-HIV medications are safer and more effective, Segev said.

His team recently studied the kidney health of 40,000 HIV-positive people and concluded that those with well-controlled HIV and no other kidney-harming ailments like high blood pressure should face the same risks from living donation as someone without HIV.

“There are potentially tens of thousands of people living with HIV right now who could be living kidney donors,” said Segev, who has advised some other hospitals considering the approach.

Generally, kidneys from living donors last longer, added Dr. Niraj Desai, the Hopkins surgeon caring for the recipient. And if more people living with HIV wind up donating, it helps more than HIV-positive patients who need a kidney.

“That’s one less person waiting for a limited resource,” Desai said. “That helps everybody on the list.”

Martinez, a public health consultant, became interested in living donation even before HIV-to-HIV transplants began. Then last summer she learned that an HIV-positive friend needed a transplant, and tracked down Segev to ask if she could donate.

Her friend died before Martinez finished the required health tests but she decided to honor him by donating to someone she didn’t know.

A runner who plans on making this fall’s Marine Corps Marathon, “I knew I was probably just as healthy as someone not living with HIV who was being evaluated as a kidney donor,” Martinez said. “I’ve never been surer of anything.”

For twins, gender inequities may start in the womb, a new study finds

By Rita Giordano The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)

Does the battle of the sexes begin in utero?

A new study has found that women who have shared a womb with a twin brother are less likely to graduate from high school or college, may earn less money and will have lower marriage and fertility rates than twins who were both female.

A possible culprit?

Blame it on the male hormone testosterone manspreading its way into female twins’ amniotic sacks.

The researchers, who hail from Northwestern

University and the Norwegian School of Economics, looked at data on about 13,800 twins born in Norway from 1967 to 1978, and tracked their lives over three decades.

“Nobody has been able to study how male twins impact their twin sisters at such a large scale,” said economist Krzysztof Karbownik, a study author and research associate at Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research. “This is the first study to track people for more than 30 years, from birth through schooling and adulthood, to show that being exposed in utero to a male twin influences important out-

comes in their twin sister.”

The findings published last week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) show that girls with a male twin are about 15 percent less likely to graduate from high school that a girl with a twin sister and almost 4 percent less likely to complete college.

The women with male twins also had on average nearly nine percent lower earnings by their early 30s than female twins with sisters, about six percent lower fertility rates and 12 percent lower marriage rates.

No long-term negative impact on the male twins was found as a result of

sharing space with a female twin.

The rate of twin births in the U.S. has nearly doubled since 1980, a development attributed to women having babies later in life and increased reliance on in vitro fertilization.

Karbownik said it is known from other studies that once a male fetus’s testes start developing, there is a spike in testosterone in his amniotic sack, and some of it goes into his sister’s.

In addition, Karbownik said women pregnant with a male child have a higher level of testosterone in their blood than women carrying a girl, or female twins.

What the initial study does not get into is how much of the later-life outcomes are due to the biological effect of the testosterone, versus how much is due to how the girl is socialized, Karbownik said.

To get a better sense of the prenatal testosterone’s impact, the team repeated their study focusing on female twins whose twin siblings — either a sister or a brother — died shortly after birth. The results were the same as for the twins raised with their sibling.

To the researchers, that was clear evidence that the long-term effects documented by the study were due to prenatal testoster-

one exposure, rather than postnatal socialization.

Karbownik said he believes the issue of prenatal exposure as opposed to postnatal socialization merits further study.

A next step, the author said, could be to look at whether the results are consistent across different cultures and time frames.

“The fact that we can distinguish between prenatal and post-natal exposure doesn’t mean post-natal channels are not responsible for (some of) what we observed,” Karbownik said. “It just means that growing up with a brother is not responsible for this.”

Health Officials’ Plug For Next FDA Chief: Go Big On E-Cig Regulation Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News Kaiser Health News

In an almost uniform response to the impending exit of Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, city and county public health officials are urging the Trump administration to go bigger in its response to adolescents’ growing use of e-cigarettes.

The issue, they say, is reaching crisis levels and many worry the FDA’s much-touted efforts are falling short.

Gottlieb, whose almost two-year tenure heading the agency won praise for advancing key regulations in an administration geared toward deregulation, plans to leave April 5, with his farewell tour emphasizing his work on e-cigarettes.

His departure, though, highlights a complicated, two-track story.

In Washington, Gottlieb has been credited with taking on Big Tobacco and the e-cigarette industry.

But health officials on the front lines say they want more federal action.

“We were encouraged by some of the statements and actions of the [outgoing] FDA commissioner,” said Bill Snook, a spokesman at the health department in Kansas City, Mo. But Dr. Sara Cody, who runs the Santa Clara County, Calif., health department, views the steps taken by the FDA as “too little and too late.” She pointed to proposed regulations that haven’t taken effect and to limits on how flavored vapes are sold that she and others argued did not go far enough.

Gretchen Musicant,

who heads Minneapolis’ health department, agreed.

“Their action so far is not demonstrable,” she said.

Now, they are waiting to see what Gottlieb’s permanent successor — who has yet to be named — will do. (Dr. Norman “Ned” Sharpless, director of the National Cancer Institute, will fill Gottlieb’s role on an interim basis and has been a vocal supporter of efforts to curb e-cigarette use.)

Experts see youth vaping rates at epidemic levels: In 2018, about 1 in 5 high school-age students were reported to use electronic cigarettes, according to data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“There’s an entire generation of youth becoming addicted to nicotine,” Cody said.

And the consequences are vast. Jerry Berkson, an assistant principal at Palo Alto High School in California, said his desk is full of vapes he has confiscated from students. For more than a month this school year, the administration had to shut down certain bathrooms during class time so that students wouldn’t go there to smoke. Increasingly, students have missed large chunks of class because illicit e-cigarettes keep setting off the fire alarm.

It’s a complex issue for federal regulators, though.

E-cigarettes, which don’t burn tobacco but do contain nicotine, have found champions among adult smokers trying to quit.

Many say the devices provide a less damaging alternative — and are more effective than nicotine patches or nicotine gum.

But use by adolescents, who appear to be lured by the flavored juices that fuel these vapes, pose a concern. Even without tobacco, nicotine addiction and exposure can severely damage a young person’s brain. Plus, some users will, medical experts say, end up transitioning to tobacco-filled products.

As vaping rates among teens climb, the FDA has made a high-profile effort to address the public health concern without trampling on adults’ rights.

The agency in 2016 classified electronic cigarettes as tobacco products that fall under its regulatory jurisdiction.

Gottlieb has threatened e-cig manufacturers, saying the FDA would ban their products if companies didn’t take steps to combat youth vaping. His declaration that youth vaping constituted an “epidemic” has brought attention to the issue, said Samir Soneji, an associate professor of health policy at the Dartmouth Institute.

And, during a recent wide-ranging interview with KHN, Gottlieb reiterated his expectation that “the FDA is prepared to look at banning” these products, specifically mentioning the products that use flavored pods, or cartridges, “because those are the ones kids are abusing.”

Last week, the agency put out a draft guidance that would bar the sale of fruit- and candy-flavored e-cigarettes in places easily accessible to young people. It would also require manufacturers to submit documentation by 2021 showing that flavored products meet public health standards in order

to gain the FDA’s approval. Until then, those flavors could stay on the market.

Those steps have won praise from some experts.

“These actions show … an appropriate response to the rapidly escalating youth e-cigarette epidemic,” said Steven Kelder, an epidemiology professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Austin.

But others worry this is part of a broader pattern: federal action that takes too long and is too narrow to have the needed effect.

Critics say that giving manufacturers until 2021 to get a federal OK — and leaving flavored products on the market until then — means more years for children to develop nicotine addictions or transition from electronic cigarettes to conventional tobacco products.

“They’re proposing things and putting them off into the future. But the actual enactment of their recommendations has not happened yet,” said Minneapolis’ Musicant.

Also, the restrictions on flavors don’t touch menthol- or mint-flavored products, which are used by more than 50 percent of young vapers, according to CDC data.

Multiple local public health advocates highlighted mint and menthol flavors as a major concern when it comes to youth use but note that federal regulators have not addressed the issue. This was a theme at a recent gathering in Washington, D.C., of the Big Cities Health Coalition, an organization of health departments from around the country.

“They need to be in-

cluded in the ban,” said Snook, of Kansas City.

Other health lobbies, such as the American Heart Association and the Campaign for TobaccoFree Kids, have made the same argument.

In a statement, Gottlieb suggested that the FDA would take a harder look at those flavors if they continued to pose a problem — and said the agency is not restricting them, for now, because of their appeal to adults trying to quit tobacco.

“We won’t ignore data regarding the popularity of mint- and mentholflavored [vapes] among kids, should the concern rise,” Gottlieb said. “We’ll continue to use all available resources to monitor the rates and use patterns among youth and adults for these products, and we’ll reconsider our policies with respect to these products, if appropriate.”

States and counties have taken steps on their own.

The FDA’s response so far, Musicant said, spurred Minneapolis to take action — restricting the sale of flavored products to stores where only adults 18 and older can enter and raising the tobacco age to 21. But there are limits to what the city and even state can do.

(Online sales, for instance, are a major vape source for young people and can’t be addressed without federal input.)

San Francisco has banned the sale of any flavored tobacco product, a law encompassing e-cigarettes and conventional ones, and it is weighing a ban on e-cig sales altogether, until the products have FDA approval. In Santa Clara County, only

adult vape shops can sell e-cigs, Cody said.

Locally based policies will quickly hit a ceiling, Soneji said. They create a potential for a “black market” — a San Francisco resident could pick up e-cigarettes in neighboring Oakland, for instance.

That problem doesn’t exist if the federal government steps in, he added.

And delays matter substantially, especially given the speed with which adolescent vaping has taken off.

“The pace at which this epidemic is developing is shockingly fast,” Cody said. “That means the response has to be so fast — and it’s not.”

Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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Sure, I can only floss in super-slow motion, but have you seen my running man?

A little bit of context: for spring break, we went to Whistler, British Columbia, for a week of skiing, recreation and family bonding. It was fantastic!

It had been 20 years since I last went downhill skiing. And while I try to get in as much cross-country skiing as I can, it really is a different beast altogether.

Needless to say, it took me a few runs to get back into the rhythm — and to get the feel of the new equipment.

Downhill skis have changed a lot in the past 20 years. For one thing, they’re fatter. Then again, so am I. They’re also shaped in a way that makes turning easier. You just have to lift one foot, shift the right way, and you’re turning.

Making easy turns is a good thing for me, because I guess I tend to do a lot of them, meandering my way down the mountainside. Like most of the other outdoor activities I do these days, I’m definitely not in as much of a hurry as I used to be. I’m content to enjoy the fresh air and the surroundings, and I tend not to worry about how fast I can get to the finish.

My kids, however, preferred a more direct route down the mountain, and ended up doing a lot of waiting for me at the lift (or sometimes, not waiting for me at the lift).

At one point during the week, we were out for a walk, and my son started zigzagging back and forth across the path. My wife asked what he was doing, and his response was, “This is the way Dad skis.”

That’s when I pointed out that, while I do make a lot of turns, he was doing it wrong — I actually ski to a waltz.

I was met with baffled, confused looks.

I guess my kids have been too busy practicing the Fortnite dances, and never learned the three-count box step. I remember it from elementary school gym class. It was the same unit where we learned square dancing and an Irish jig.

Anyway, that’s the rhythm I get into when I ski — one-two-three, turn-twothree, turn-two-three. And I waltz my way down the mountain.

My kids weren’t impressed. Waltzing seems to be on the same list as some of the other “Dad” things I do, like making bad jokes and wearing un-stylish jeans. While we were in Whistler, the “Dad” thing I was doing — besides my waltz — was wearing a backpack while skiing. I thought I was doing pretty good. After all, I left the fanny pack at home, and I saw other people skiing with backpacks, too.

Maybe they were all just other dads?

I’d like to think I had the last laugh when both kids asked me to carry their extra layers for them when the temperature warmed up.

The other “Dad” thing I was doing was asking the people we were sharing lifts and gondolas with where they were from. Whistler-Blackcomb attracts people from around the world, and we got to meet people from all over Canada and the U.S., as well as Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

Most of them said they had never met anybody from Alaska, and chuckled when I told them we had come south for the warmth.

On one trip up the mountain, we shared a gondola with a family from Mexico. They were chatting with each other in Spanish, and while I could only pick up a word here and there, I could tell that the kids were not sharing their father’s enthusiasm for their Canadian adventure.

We saw that family again on the slopes. The kids were scooting down on their backsides, rather than riding on their snowboards. I was sure to say hello as I went waltzing by.

Later, my kids, who must’ve paid more attention in Spanish class than they like to let on, told me the kids were saying they missed the sunshine, it was too cold and they weren’t having fun.

I guess there are certain things that are universal to the human experience, no matter your culture, and doing “Dad” things, to the chagrin of your kids, is one of them.

My advice? Just keep on dancing.

Will Morrow lives in Kenai. Email him at wkmorrow@ptialaska.net.

Celebrate our students: Ashley Messer At the Kenai River Campus of Kenai Peninsula College, we like to celebrate our students and share their successes with our community. Here is one of many: Ashley Messer expanded her career potential in the oil and gas industry when she entered Kenai River Campus’ process technology program in the second semester of 2007. She had been in the industry for a number of years before she made the move to improve her education.

After working as a roustabout and insulator helper at the Agrium plant in Nikiski, starting in 2000, she began her North Slope career as a firewatch in 2004 and the following year became a pipefitter/welder and then a scaffold builder.

She began her studies at KRC while still working full time on a maintenance scaffold crew at the Alpine unit on the Colville River delta, near Kuparuk.

“While still going to school my last semester in 2010,” Ashley said, “I was given the opportunity to go over to (the multinational company) ENI and join the startup team. I worked at ENI as an

operator until June of 2013 when I got picked up by ExxonMobil. And I was chosen to come to KPC to encourage recruitment.”

A year after completing her process tech degree, Ashley bought her first home. During her time away from work, she loves to travel, having visited Roatán Island (part of Honduras), Thailand, Japan, Costa Rica, South Korea and much of the United States.

Ashley, a 2000 graduate of Kenai Central High School and now 37, credited her KRC degree for helping her land the position with ExxonMobil, but she also stressed the importance of on-thejob training.

“Don’t just get the degree and expect to get a job on the Slope,” she said. “Put in time as a contractor first. Get your foot in the door as a roustabout, well support, scaffold builder, etc.”

We congratulate Ashley on her career path, one that will not only build her own skills but also continue to help build our state. We are proud of her success, and proud to call her our own.

Ashley Messer expanded her career potential in the oil and gas industry when she entered KRC’s process technology program in the second semester of 2007

Thanks for making the 2019 Job Fair a success!

To all who came to the 2019 Kenai Peninsula Job Fair, we say a big thank you for making this annual event a success!

The Peninsula Job Fair was held on Thursday, March 21 at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex, and 693 job seekers (83 of which were youth) attended this event.

Our gratitude goes out to our sponsors who helped provide a location, supplies, advertisement, food, and refreshments: City of Soldotna Parks and Recreation, Soldotna Chamber of Commerce, Kenai Chamber of Commerce, Peninsula Clarion and Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Additionally, we would like to thank Sweeney’s and the Nikiski Fire Department for advertising the job fair on their reader boards.

We would especially like to acknowledge all of the employers, training providers, and educators who participated in the job fair: 1st Choice Home Healthcare, ABC of Alaska, AJEATT/IBEW, Alaska

Air Guard, Alaska Army National Guard, Alaska Career College, Alaska Carpenters Training Trust, Alaska Christian College, Alaska Driving Academy, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Alaska State Troopers, Anchorage Police Department, Apple Bus Company, ASRC Construction Holding Co., AVTEC, Buddy’s Garage and Semi Towing, Camp Fire Alaska, Carlile Transportation, Central Peninsula Hospital, Charis Place Assisted Living, City of Kenai Parks and Recreation, City of Soldotna Parks and Recreation, Crowley, Diamond M Ranch Resort, Division of Forestry, Division of Juvenile Justice (KPYF), Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, E & E Foods dba Pacific Star Seafoods, Frontier Community Services, GCI, Genacta In-Home Care, GLM Energy Services, High Adventure Air Charter, Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, Kenai Peninsula College, Kenai Peninsula Community Care Center, Kenai Peninsula Driving Instruction, Kenai Po-

Small schools dream big

Seward High School cheerleaders have had a lot to cheer about lately. Seward hosted the South Central Region 3 basketball competition, and we as coaches decided it was time to bring back a regional cheerleading competition to highlight our athleticism, spirit, sportsmanship and dedication.

After resurrecting this competition, we pushed our limits at state and came home with not only the gold, but with a determination to continue raising the bar for cheer in Alaska for small schools.

We, the coaches, being born and raised in the small town of Seward, cheered our high school years as Seahawks. Returning to the cheerleading world as coaches, we knew we had to restore the level of pride that this sport deserves.

By our sixth year coaching, as host school, we made the decision to reinstate the region cheer competition. We recruited non-biased judges, created a score system, purchased the trophies using our own personal funds, and extended the invitation to other cheer teams to compete. All other cheer teams excitedly responded with a resounding “yes.” That’s when we knew others shared our passion for what cheer could look like for our region.

With ACS, Homer, Kenai, and Seward competing, the Seward Seahawks placed runner-up to the Kenai Kardinals 1st place.

With the state competition taking on a new format with a focus on sideline cheer in addition to halftime performance, we wanted to emulate the same aspects of the game.

Cheerleaders could be judged at any game during the tournament.

Cheerleading is very different from your average high school sport. In small squads there are no subs for a tired or injured athlete. Cheer requires all participants to tumble, dance, throw one another in the air, all with a permanent smile on their face. It

takes tenacity to maintain that positive encouragement no matter the outcome of every game or changing environment.

Often, our cheerleaders perform to empty bleachers and quiet stands. Not too long ago, we were cheerleading to crowded, rowdy fans and noisy gyms. The enthusiasm was infectious with a lot of crowd involvement. It’s disheartening to see our cheerleaders not have the support we once had. With our ambition to bring back our region competition, our dream is that school pride and spirit continues to grow and we see those large crowds once again.

We know that ACS will be hosting regions next year, and we hope to see this competition carried forward annually.

When we started coaching six years ago, our first step to achieving our goal was to bring our cheerleaders to compete at state no matter the outcome. With every year, our only goal was to score better than our previous year. This year with only four girls as a team we decided we wanted to beat the odds against schools up to 500 students and squads up to 12 members. We knew no matter our placement, we were out there to represent what small schools can do.

Turns out we can come home with a 1st place state title again. As was the case in 2006, four girls took home the 1st place trophy (I was one of them). This proves once again that a small school with limited resources shouldn’t be counted out.

After working continually through spring break, enduring hardships with injuries, illness, and absences, the hard work paid off. As coaches, we could not be more inspired by our athletes who share our passion and vision. We can’t wait to see what the future holds for small school cheer.

Submitted by Seward High School coaches HaleyHatch and Rebekah Ivy.

lice Department, Kenai Vision Center, Kenaitze Indian Tribe, Kenaitze Education & Career Services, Marathon Petroleum, Mature Alaskans Seeking Skills Training, Microcom, Northern Industrial Training, Northrim Bank, Peninsula Clarion, Peninsula Community Health Services, Peninsula Job Center, Public Employees Local 71, ResCare HomeCare, Schlumberger, South Peninsula Hospital, Surgery Center of Kenai, The Leeshore Center, United States Air Force, United States Army, United States Navy, Walgreens Co., Weaver Brothers Inc., and Westward Seafoods.

The event was incredibly successful in helping local residents find employment and learn about potential apprenticeship and training opportunities.

We hope to see you all next year!

Hanah Burrell and Rachel O’Brien Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development Peninsula Job Center

Self-defense clinician returns to the Kenai Peninsula Ladies from 11 years old and up are welcome to join in a class on self-defense. Sensei Kati Gibler, the popular self-defense teacher and member of the Sterling Judo Club, returns for another annual Kenai Peninsula area-wide clinic.

The two hours of self-defense techniques and situational awareness instruction will take place on Friday evening, April 12 from 6 to 8 p.m. Sterling Elementary School gym has been made available for this special ladies of the community only clinic.

Sensei Gibler is a third-degree judo black belt and first-degree ju jutsu black belt. She has been studying the martial arts with her family under Sensei Bob Brink and others going back to 1985 at Anchorage Dojo. She runs a judo program in Las Vegas as a satellite program of the Sterling Judo Club.

Sensei Gibler will hopefully be joined by her son, Sensei David Gibler. Sensei David Gibler is also a judo black belt. He also instructs law enforcement-type self-defense in Anchorage.

There is no charge to participate, although everyone will be required to sign a waiver and release as a condition of participating. Participants should wear loose-fitting clothing and sturdy socks.

For further information please look to the Sterling Judo Club Facebook page for contact information.

Sensei Gibler coaching her student at the 2017 Alaska State Championships

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Learning for Life

The Recycling Bin

Save more at the grocery store

Protecting the Earth’s future

If your family is like most, one of your highest monthly expenses may be food.

While we can’t stop eating, there are some things we can do to save money on groceries.

First, make a meal plan. Check the weekly ads from your favorite store for sales.

Plan your meals around those sale items, taking advantage of seasonal produce, bulk discounts, store coupons, and reduced-for-quick-sale items.

Second, use your meal plan to help you write a shopping list. Third, eat before you head to the store so you’re not tempted to overspend, and shop alone whenever possible.

Next, always compare unit prices; knowing the price per ounce, pound or other unit of measure on similar products will help you find the best deal. Store brand and larger-size items usually cost less but are not at eye level; look up or down to find these bargains.

Finally, build your menus around whole grains, fruits and vegetables, lean meats and low-fat or non-fat dairy.

Remember that processed foods are less nutritious and more costly, so a little time in the kitchen can add up to big savings. If you find you have a cart full of ingredients rather than pre-packaged foods, both your physical and financial health will benefit!

For more information on smart shopping, stop by our office at 43961 K-Beach Rd., Suite A, Soldotna, AK 99669 for a free handout, or call us at 907-262-5824.

Submitted by, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, Kenai Peninsula District.

In his essay “Wild and Dom e s t i c ,” We n d e l l Berry postulates that reducing consumption is essential in securing a viable future: “Thrift requires attention to carrying capacity, land maintenance, the character of good work, and sustainable rates of use. Thrift would require not only the most careful husbandry of the world’s renewable resources, but also rationing of its exhaustible fuels and ores in accordance with their limited quantities and our actual needs.”

Spoken like a good farmer preserving the essential seeds for posterity.

Kenai Peninsula College will host a National Vietnam War Veterans Day event on Friday, March 29 from 6-7 p.m. at the Ward building at 156 College Rd. in Soldotna. Keynote address by Jim McHale. Colors presented by VFW Post 10046. RSVP to Royce Bird at rlbird@alaska.edu or 907-262-0261.

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 907-201-1792.

Kenai Peninsula Soccer Club tryouts Kenai Peninsula Soccer Club tryouts will be held Saturday and Sunday, March 30 and 31. Register at www.kpsoccerclub.com and see what time your child’s age group is schedule to tryout.

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

provided. This is a FREE event but please register! Visit www.kenaifishpartnership. org.

Kenai Senior Center events

Sterling Senior Center breakfast

—March for Meals Fundraiser will take place Friday, March 29 at the Kenai Senior Center. So No Senior Goes Hungry: Dinner, Pie & Silent Auction, Country Store (opens at 5 p.m.). $30 per person —Activities cancelled/No lunch served: Friday, March 29 8 a.m. to 5 p.m

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 2626808.

Soldotna/Kenai 100+ Women Who Care group 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.

The 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 habitats and few stories from Dr. Kristin Mitchell and Sue Mauger on their trips to Antarctica. Lunch will be

The KPC Showcase presents: An Alaskan Doctor’s Perspectives on Antarctica with Dr. Kristin Mitchell Dr. Kristin Mitchell will present An Alaskan Doctor’s Perspectives on Antarctica on Thursday, April 4 at 6:30 p.m. in the McLane Commons, Kenai Peninsula College. Mitchell recently visited Antarctica as part of the Homeward Bound initiative. She was one of 80 women hailing from 23 different nationalities that were a part of this program, with each of them specializing in various fields of science, engineering, technology and mathematics.

Seward Fish & Game Advisory Committee election meeting 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.

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.

Soldotna Historical Society & Homestead Museum 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.

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.

Photo credit: The Surfjack Hotel & Swim Club

Vietnam Vets Memorial Day

of April at the Kenai Fine Arts Center with an opening reception on Thursday, April 4 at 5 p.m.

Photo credit: The Surfjack Hotel & Swim Club

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Putting the bark on crime

Dear Heloise: I saw an interview with a convicted burglar, and he said the one thing that deterred him from breaking into someone’s house or vehicle was a BARKING DOG. He didn’t want to draw attention to what he was doing.

-- Janine R. in Florida Our best friends, indeed! Other things that scare off burglars: motion-activated lighting, porch cameras and the TV. Of course, always lock the doors to your home and vehicle, and remove valuables from the car.

-- Heloise Dear Readers: Angie H. in Kingston, N.Y., sent a picture of her Woofie. He is sporting some waterproof dog boots and a rain slicker!

Angie says Woofie adapted quite nicely to them, and his feet are clean, warm and dry (no salt or debris accumulation) when he’s outside.

To see Woofie and our other Pet Pals, visit my newly updated website, www.Heloise.com, and click on “Pet of the Week.” Do you have a funny and furry family member? Email a picture and description to Heloise@Heloise.com.

-- Heloise

Dear Heloise: We enjoy reading your column in The Maui (Hawaii) News.

Here is a laundry suggestion that works very well for us: Before placing fitted sheets in the washing machine, we turn two of the four corners inside out. This pretty much eliminates finding a wad of wet clothes wrapped up in one corner after the wash cycle is complete.

-- Patty and Gary R., via email Aloha to my friends in Maui!

-- Heloise

WHO’S GOT THE BUTTON?

Dear Heloise: I don’t throw out buttons (I even cut them off old shirts), frozen treat sticks, shoestrings, pieces of pretty cloth, extra yarn and so on. I donate them to the art teachers at school. They are very appreciative of them. Since they encourage creativity in the classroom, they need miscellaneous items to use in the crafts.

-- Christina M., Athens, Ohio P.S. If I don’t intend to save a greeting card I’ve received, and the inside of the covENOUGH IS ENOUGH er is not written on, I cut the card top off and Dear Heloise: We have a birthday group reuse it when sending a note to someone. of eight ladies. Sometimes, I don’t have any clue what to give or buy them because I’m TRASH CAN LINER always concerned they won’t like the gift. I Dear Heloise: When I open a large bag keep getting lotions and candles -- enough is of dog kibble, I open it so that I can use the enough! Can you give me a clue what ladies empty bag as a kitchen trash can liner -- the in their 50s and 60s like to get?

-- Ingrid in California kibble bag is going in the trash anyway!

Ingrid, try some stationery complete with That’s one less trash can liner to buy and go stamps, a sewing basket or a gift card. Don’t into the trash.

-- Mary H., Arlington, Va. waste time worrying if the receiver will like the gift -- she will.

-- Heloise

New York Times Crossword CODE SWITCHING

By Trenton Charlson Puzzles Edited by Will Shortz

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1 Metaphor for an aggressive political arena 8 Puts away 15 Source of fries 19 One who didn’t even show?

20 Frame part 21 It stayed in Pandora’s box 22 *Ballroom dancing event for Beantown residents?

24 Takes a course 25 Relatives of foils 26 Shade of green 27 Dundee dissent 28 Mother-of-pearl 29 Imperfect service 30 Climax 33 *Annoying member of a New York baseball team?

36 Thrills 37 Family moniker 38 Hydrocarbon gas 39 World capital known as Batavia until 1942 42 “Witches’ Flight” painter 44 Sparkling white wine 46 Pesticide banned in 1972 47 *Wager in which the winner gets the loser’s pants and jersey?

49 They’re not hard to swallow 52 ____ Cuervo (tequila brand) 53 Casanova 55 Slapstick actor Jacques 59 “____ over” 60 Contingency phrase 63 Man’s name that’s the reverse of 60-Down 64 Don hastily 67 *Duo ruling a kingdom on Take Your Daughter to Work Day? 72 It’s higher on the Scoville scale than a jalapeño 73 Skin pic?

74 Pallid 75 Certain 35mm camera 76 Major or minor in astronomy?

77 Like chewing gum in Singapore or wearing blue jeans in North Korea (seriously!)

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O B I E 89 Platform for many T H E O H O T L tablets 92 Building blocks, e.g. E R O D 93 Vegetarian gelatin substitute 95 Property recipient 96 “Looks promising!”

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99 Sailor’s cry 100 *Amusement park named after a “Peanuts” boy?

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my same job and salary. The problem is, it would mean moving away from my family.

I want to give my daughter the chance to grow Honestly, I dread it. These women are up in circumgenerally petty, hypersensitive and hard stances where to talk to about anything of substance. We we aren’t con- Abigail Van Buren share no common interests in our jobs, stantly worried about not buildmusical tastes, television viewing, etc. ing home equity or saving toward retireI don’t want to skip the outings alment. But I worry that taking her away together because I have become good from her extended family will be rough. friends with the guys, and some of them My husband’s relatives live all over will be in our wedding. But if I leave the women’s table and join the men, I’m the world. He has been in so many counafraid I’ll send a message that I’m cling- tries and states that he’s used to not having to Gabriel. That’s not the case. It’s ing family around. He wants us to move that I prefer the men’s conversation to so we can buy a house and save for retirement. What’s your advice? what the women discuss.

Is there a solution? Must I learn to deal with what these women talk about?

Can I join the men without the women thinking I’m a clingy fiancee? I would like to enjoy myself at these parties, even if it means breaking the social norm.

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Couples split according to sex when big group gets together DEAR ABBY: My fiance, “Gabriel,” has a large network of friends who have known each other for a long time. We get together as a group a couple of times a month for birthdays, sports events, etc.

Whenever we do, the men veer away into their own world of conversation, while we women are left to talk to each other and eat dips.

O M E N G I O S S B O O L D O Y S U S R E F A S T A N C Y E

-- RACHEL IN CALIFORNIA

DEAR RACHEL: You have given solid reasons for making the move.

Chief among them is that your child will have a brighter future if she grows up in a safe environment and gets the -- BORED IN BUFFALO best education possible, plus there will be less worry about all of you being DEAR BORED: Discuss this with safe. It is equally important for you and Gabriel to see what advice he has to ofyour husband to be able to accumulate fer. I see no reason why you couldn’t enough in savings that your retirement join the men. However, you should years will be comfortable. make a point of spending some time Listen to your husband because with the women so they won’t get the impression that you are snubbing you have married a smart man. I know family is important, but your daughter them. already knows who they are. You may DEAR ABBY: We live in an area be able to visit with them in person or where rent is very high and buying is out stay in touch via video-chatting. This is of the question. The nearby lower-priced the way many families maintain close areas have terrible schools and aren’t ties, and I hope you will consider it. safe. Because we have a small child, Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van these are real concerns.

Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and We have an opportunity to move to was founded by her mother, Pauline Philanother state where costs are much lower. lips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbWe could buy a nice home, the schools by.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, are excellent, and I could still maintain CA 90069.

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Unpleasantly wet Like child’s play Artist Jean Defeats soundly Greek goddesses of the seasons Signature scent since 1968 Total mess Sword holder Took stock?

Good news for a stockholder Early name for Utah Forensic material Does some grilling What a stiffed server receives ____’acte Noted exile Falls for someone who’s already married?

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Hints from Heloise

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P.S. Readers, any other suggestions for Ingrid?

Like-minded voters Secretary on “The Office” “Hold it!”

Mañana preceder Inundated with Five-star Furious Man’s name that’s the reverse of 63-Across End of a French film Snobbish L.B.J.’s veep “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” heroine Idiot, in British slang “____ Kett” (old comic strip) Something taken in by sailors Infant’s early word ____ Nautilus Ring letters Make a wrong move Change one’s mind about changing Source of many an imported boot, appropriately

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89 Altar offering 90 “C’est magnifique!”

91 Official with a pistol 94 Pygmalion’s beloved 97 Stews (over) 98 One of 32 for Ireland 99 Reformed demon on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” 101 Edith Wharton’s “____ Frome” 102 Composed 103 Having less vermouth, as a martini 105 Shul scholar 106 Dancing partner for Fred 107 Fire extinguisher 111 Puts on a show, for short 113 Plows (into) 115 Vietnamese noodle soup 116 Poet’s “before” 117 Kind of screen, in brief 118 Maven

Jaqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, March 31, 2019: This year life proceeds much more as you might like.

You often become entwined with friends over an emotional concern. You will achieve a long-term goal with the help of a loved one. If single, you love dating and getting to know someone better. If attached, the two of you manifest what you want far more easily as a team. AQUARIUS helps point out subtle perspectives.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH You might have made plans, and others will resort to nearly anything to get you going. Make phone calls reaching out to a close family member. This person might want to join you. You might consider trying a new spot to meet. Tonight: Hanging with friends.

This Week: You might be slow to start, but by Wednesday, you are a force to deal with.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Be direct in how you handle an older person or a supervisor, of sorts. Some of you might go to work to handle a key matter or decide to work on your taxes. You could be extravagant in some form if you are not careful.

Tonight: Indulge a loved one.

This Week: Zero in on what you desire. Do not hold back.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Reach out for another person that you have not visited in a while. A loved one might start to irritate you. Perhaps you have been swallowing some frustration and anger. Work through those feelings first by rooting out the source. Tonight: Meet friends at a new spot.

This Week: Bend to another person’s wishes. He or she might have clout. Wednesday night, the situation reverses.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Deal with finances if you want to get them under better control. Make sure you and another person are on the same page. If not, you might want to consider separate checkbooks. Each of you can be responsible for certain concerns. Tonight: Have a favorite dinner.

This Week: Investigate an opportunity with care.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH You easily could take center stage, yet right now another person seems to dominate. Lie back. This person needs the attention. Support him or her, especially as he or she decides to bring some mutual friends together. Tonight: Where you have a good time.

This Week: A partner dominates until late Wednesday.

You can gain control then.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Others admire your practical and efficient manner. You take on a project that you would like to complete.

Still, make time for an older relative or friend who loves to hear from and see you. You could be surprised at how

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‘KNOT’ A PROBLEM

By Dave Green

warm or generous a friend might be. Tonight: Know when to call it a day.

This Week: Someone lets you know what is wanted from you. To do or not to do?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHH You cannot hold back the child within, especially dealing with a favorite person. Laughter becomes a common sound around you. You see how contagious your good mood is. Others seem generous and might easily start giggling. Tonight: Swap jokes with a neighbor.

This Week: Plunge into work. You have a lot to get done, and someone could distract you late in the week.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Stay close to home, especially if you sense a family member, loved one or roommate needs to speak to you, or you with them. You might need to do some errands.

Use care with spending, which easily could go overboard.

You feel few constraints. Tonight: Make it an early night.

This Week: Allow your ingenuity to take over and add that special touch others value.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Speak your mind, and be clear about what is happening, A loved one, family member or dear friend reaches out for you. This person wants to spend time with you. He or she might have a surprise to share. Say “yes” to an invitation. Tonight: Hang out.

This Week: Getting going this week seems difficult. You might want to stay close to home.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Be more conscious of your spending. Keep your budget even, with few expenditures. Charge your energy into some physical activity. You could work on the yard or get into a favorite game. Tonight: Make a favorite meal.

This Week: Reach out for a loved one. Do not get too tied up in a past argument or situation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH You feel great. Invite a friend or loved one to join you as you indulge in a favorite pastime. You suddenly might discover that a child and/or loved one might want to join in, too. You make the final call as to how many people join in. Tonight: Playful, aren’t we?

This Week: Be careful with spending. You might not like the end results if you go hog wild.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Your mind could go into overdrive dealing with a problem. Make an effort toward someone you might want to visit with. He or she might not always be available to visit or might catch a case of the grumpies. Tonight: Screen calls.

This Week: You are a force to be deal with this week.

You could cause a lot of trouble should someone say “no” to you.

BORN TODAY Singer/actress Shirley Jones (1934), former Vice President Al Gore (1948), actor Richard Chamberlain (1934)

Peninsula Clarion | Sunday, March 31, 2019 | C5

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This recruitment will close on 04/05/19.

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CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA Position Announcement Temporary Parks & Grounds Maintenance Crew Leaders (2) , Temporary Parks & Grounds Maintenance Workers (11) and Temporary Gardener (1) Hourly pay varies depending on position ($12.08 - $13.41). These positions are responsible for assisting with the summer maintenance of grounds, trails, landscapes, amenities, equipment and facilities. Positons also perform a variety of tasks in support of the Kenai Personal Use Fishery. Work performed provides an excellent opportunity to work in a team environment while serving the community. For more information and to apply online, visit the City of Kenai’s Job Opportunities page at www.governmentjobs.com/careers/kenai. Closing date is April 15, 2019. The City of Kenai is an equal opportunity employer.

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LEGALS Marijuana License Application MICHAEL J WELCH is applying under 3 AAC 306.300 for a new Retail Marijuana Store license, license #19834, doing business as COLDSMOKE FARMACY, located at 840 KALIFORNSKY BEACH RD, SUITE B, SOLDOTNA, AK, 99669, UNITED STATES. Interested persons may object to the application by submitting a written statement of reasons for the objection to their local government, the applicant, and the Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office (AMCO) not later than 30 days after the director has determined the application to be complete and has given written notice to the local government. Once an application is determined to be complete, the objection deadline and a copy of the application will be posted on AMCO’s website at https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/amco. Objections should be sent to AMCO at marijuana.licensing@alaska.gov or to 550 W 7th Ave, Suite 1600, Anchorage, AK 99501.

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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI In the Matter of the Estate of MICHAEL A HALLFORD, Deceased.

Case No. 3KN-19-00080 PR NOTICE TO CREDITOR NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

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

DATED this 28th day of March, 2019.

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE /s/JENNIFER L BECKMANN Pub: 3/31, 4/7 & 4/14, 2019 850673 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI In the Matter of the Estate of: EDWARD C GREENHALGH Deceased Case # 3KN-19-00056 PR NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that PAMELA K GREENHALGH has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. 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.

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Issue 13, 2019

Founded by Betty Debnam

A New Kind of First Lady

Beyond first lady

Mini Fact:

Eleanor Roosevelt worked for equality for women and minorities. She tried to help poor people and improve their living conditions. Just after her husband’s election, she went to Puerto Rico to see what homes were like there.

Eleanor was a first lady longer than any other woman. Her husband was elected to four terms as president; they served in the White House from 1933 to 1945.

(Presidents are limited to two terms now.)

She was a journalist, and for many years she wrote a newspaper column called “My Day.” She appeared on TV, had a regular radio show and made many speeches. She was a very active member of the Democratic Party.

After her husband’s death, Eleanor still had a great deal of influence. She was appointed one of the delegates to the United Nations. She served as the chairperson of a committee that Eleanor gives a wrote the International press conference at Declaration of Human the U.N. Rights, setting out the rights of all people. It was adopted in 1948.

Eleanor died in 1962 at her home in New York City. She was 78 years old.

Eleanor taught at a school for girls until her husband became president. photo courtesy FDR Presidential Library and Museum

You have probably heard of Franklin D. Roosevelt, our 32nd president. His wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, was as famous as he was.

In fact, President Harry Truman called her “the first lady of the world.”

Eleanor set an example for first ladies who followed. No other first lady had been so interested and outspoken on so many causes.

She became one of the most-admired women in the world.

An unhappy early life

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City in 1884. Her family was well-to-do.

Her mother died when she was 8. Her father, who was a brother to the 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt, died when she was almost 10. She was brought up by a strict grandmother.

Eleanor had a very unhappy childhood.

Eleanor went away to school in England when Eleanor in a she was 15 years old. She school portrait. had a great teacher, Marie Souvestre, who believed in her and helped her gain self-confidence.

Meeting her mate

Eleanor met and fell in love with a distant cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt. They were married when she was 21 years old. Her uncle, Theodore Roosevelt, who was president at the time, gave the bride away.

Franklin’s mother, Sarah, at first did not approve of the marriage and often tried to run the couple’s life. Franklin became interested in politics. Eleanor supported his interest.

Entering political life

Franklin was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 1920, running alongside James M. Cox. However, the Republicans won the election, and Franklin and Eleanor returned to their lives in New York.

In 1921, Franklin became ill with polio, a disease that causes muscle weakness, making it difficult for people to move. (Today, most kids get a vaccination so that they will not get polio.) Eleanor did not have hope that he would walk again, but she believed he could still be an important political figure.

Franklin became governor of New York in 1929. Eleanor helped him in his campaign and in office, giving speeches and filling in for him when he was too ill or too busy.

A new sort of first lady

When Franklin was elected president in 1932, Eleanor helped in many ways. She traveled to other countries and talked not only to leaders, Eleanor visits soldiers but to regular people. during World War II. She shocked many people by traveling so much. She went everywhere, from fancy receptions to city slums, from political meetings to war zones.

Resources At the library:

• “Eleanor Roosevelt, Fighter for Justice: Her Impact on the Civil Rights Movement, the White House and the World” by Ilene Cooper • “When You Grow Up to Vote” by Eleanor Roosevelt

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Try ’n’ Find

Mini Jokes

Words that remind us of Eleanor Roosevelt are hidden in this puzzle. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally, and some letters are used twice. See if you can find: CAMPAIGN, T D DEMOCRATIC, ELEANOR, K R EXAMPLE, FIRST, E F FRANKLIN, GOVERNOR, L E JOURNALIST, LADY, E K NATIONS, NOMINEE, A E N A OUTSPOKEN, POLIO, O U ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, R N TRAVEL, UNITED, WIFE. T S

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Edward: An address!

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Eco Note A terrarium (tuh-RAREee-um) is like an aquarium, but for plants instead of fish. It has its own miniclimate. The container has just a small opening or sometimes even a lid, which makes it like a greenhouse. Sunlight enters through the glass and warms the air, soil and plants, and the glass holds the warmth in, just as our atmosphere does for Earth. Get instructions to make your own terrarium here: go.nasa. gov/2SVDXie adapted from climatekids.nasa.gov

• 1 cup water • 1/2 cup mushrooms, diced • 1 cup cooked rice • 1/2 cup chopped almonds

What to do: 1. Combine all ingredients except almonds in a large bowl. Mix well.

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3. Sprinkle almond pieces evenly on top.

4. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 30 minutes. Serves 6.

7 Little Words for Kids Use the letters in the boxes to make a word with the same meaning as the clue. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of letters in the solution. Each letter combination can be used only once, but all letter combinations will be necessary to complete the puzzle.

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You’ll need: • 3 cups cooked chicken, shredded • 1 (10.5-ounce) can low-fat and lowsodium cream of mushroom soup • 1 (10.5-ounce) can low-fat and lowsodium cream of celery soup

* You’ll need an adult’s help with this recipe.

Easy Chicken Casserole

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Cook’s Corner

For later: Look in your newspaper for articles about the first lady, Melania Trump, to find out what projects she’s working on.

Teachers: For standards-based activities to accompany this feature, visit: bit.ly/MPstandards. And follow The Mini Page on Facebook!

Answers: wood, zebra, cellar, daughter, loyal, cough, hospital.

Peninsula Clarion | Sunday, March 31, 2019 | C9

Interviews with the Clarion Meet sports and features reporter Joey Klecka

By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion

With seven years under his belt as a sports reporter for the Peninsula Clarion, it’s safe to say Joey Klecka likes sports.

Klecka, who was born in Chicago before moving to Alaska in 1996, is a diehard Chicago fan — Cubs, Bears, Blackhawks and Bulls.

“Seeing the Cubbies win it all in 2016 was a thrilling moment that will never fade with time,” Klecka said. “For Cubs fans, it was a ‘Where were you?’ moment. I hope to see the Bears win a Super Bowl soon, which would be a first in my lifetime.”

racing … anything with four wheels and an engine is good,” he said.

When he’s not reporting on or watching sports, Klecka partakes in sports of his own.

“This year I skied a ton,” Klecka said. “Racing in the Tours of Tsalteshi and Anchorage were pretty cool. I had a blast doing each of them.”

Each year, he also participates in the Mount Marathon Race in Seward, which has become a famPeninsula Clarion sports and features reporter Joey ily affair for him and his Klecka enjoys a little sport of his own. (Photo by Joey two younger sisters.

Klecka/Peninsula Clarion) “My family is a bunch of adventurers,” Klecka said.

“We’re very close-knit, we Klecka’s passions ex- lying in motor sports. tends beyond Chicago, “NASCAR is my main share a lot of inside jokes though, his true passion dig, but I enjoy all auto that go back a long ways,

Learning for Life

I’m probably closer with my two younger sisters than most siblings are, and I love that. We’re all very supportive of each other.”

His older sister has lived in Sweden and Australia, and is studying to be a veterinarian. His youngest sister is currently working in engineering analysis, but sports is prevalent in their lives as well. Both are fantastic soccer players.

If Klecka hadn’t pursued a career in journalism, he thinks he would’ve wound up in front of a camera either as a professional athlete or entertainer.

“If I wasn’t a journalist, I would dream of be-

ing a professional athlete,” Klecka said. “But in reality, I imagine I would’ve pursued a TV/stage acting career. I’ve always enjoyed singing and musicals, and my family has always labelled me the clown among us.”

Hollywood is far off from Alaska, though, and Klecka enjoys all the memories of and future adventures that living in Alaska offers.

“I’ve always looked back fondly on summers when my family would take our annual hike to a “secret” cabin in the woods back in the Eagle River valley where I grew up,” Klecka said. “The Crow Pass trail that connects up with that is a wonderful adventure.”

The Recycling Bin

Save more at the grocery store

Protecting the Earth’s future

If your family is like most, one of your highest monthly expenses may be food.

While we can’t stop eating, there are some things we can do to save money on groceries.

First, make a meal plan. Check the weekly ads from your favorite store for sales.

Plan your meals around those sale items, taking advantage of seasonal produce, bulk discounts, store coupons, and reduced-for-quick-sale items.

Second, use your meal plan to help you write a shopping list. Third, eat before you head to the store so you’re not tempted to overspend, and shop alone whenever possible.

Next, always compare unit prices; knowing the price per ounce, pound or other unit of measure on similar products will help you find the best deal. Store brand and larger-size items usually cost less but are not at eye level; look up or down to find these bargains.

Finally, build your menus around whole grains, fruits and vegetables, lean meats and low-fat or non-fat dairy.

Remember that processed foods are less nutritious and more costly, so a little time in the kitchen can add up to big savings. If you find you have a cart full of ingredients rather than pre-packaged foods, both your physical and financial health will benefit!

For more information on smart shopping, stop by our office at 43961 K-Beach Rd., Suite A, Soldotna, AK 99669 for a free handout, or call us at 907-262-5824.

Submitted by, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, Kenai Peninsula District.

In his essay “Wild and Dom e s t i c ,” We n d e l l Berry postulates that reducing consumption is essential in securing a viable future: “Thrift requires attention to carrying capacity, land maintenance, the character of good work, and sustainable rates of use. Thrift would require not only the most careful husbandry of the world’s renewable resources, but also rationing of its exhaustible fuels and ores in accordance with their limited quantities and our actual needs.”

Spoken like a good farmer preserving the essential seeds for posterity.

The College Council will hold their next meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 11 at KPC’s Resurrection Bay Extension Site in Seward High School. The College Council is advisory in nature and members are recruited from all sectors of the Kenai Peninsula to provide input to KPC administration. The meeting will be held in the library and is open to the public. For a copy of the agenda, contact the director’s assistant at 262-0318 or visit http://www. kpc.alaska.edu/about/college_council/reports/.

Red Cross of Alaska Kenai Peninsula Open House The American Red Cross of Alaska will be hosting an open house on April 5 from 12–4 p.m. at 450 Marathon Rd., Floor 2 in Kenai to celebrate a new Red Cross office space in Kenai! Grilled hot dogs and appetizers will be served and Red Cross volunteers, community members, members of the media and city officials are encouraged to attend and learn more about the Red Cross of Alaska programs and services available on the Kenai Peninsula.

To learn more about the American Red Cross of Alaska, please visit redcross.org/ Alaska.

Share your home with a German college exchange student The Kenai Peninsula College is looking for a host family for the 2019-20 school year or semester. He/she will arrive midAugust. The hosts receive a $225 monthly

Kenai Historical Society Kenai Historical Society will meet on Sunday, April 7, at 1:30 p.m. at the Kenai Visitors Center. Business meeting followed by Ray Rowley telling about growing up on the Peninsula. For more information call June at 283-1946

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.

The Kenai Peninsula Fish Habitat Partnership 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 habitats and few stories from Dr. Kristin Mitchell and Sue Mauger on their trips to Antarctica. Lunch will be provided. This is a FREE event but please register! Visit www.kenaifishpartnership.org.

Showcase: An Alaskan Doctor’s Kenai/Soldotna Fish & Game Perspectives on Antarctica Advisory Committee election Dr. Kristin Mitchell will present An Alaskan Doctor’s Perspectives on Antarctica on Thursday, April 4 at 6:30 p.m. in the McLane Commons, Kenai Peninsula College. Mitchell recently visited Antarctica as part of the Homeward Bound initiative. She was one of 80 women hailing from 23 different nationalities that were a part of this program, with each of them specializing in various fields of science, engineering, technology and mathematics.

Kenai Soil & Water Board Meeting The monthly meeting of the Kenai Soil & Water Conservation District’s Board of Supervisors will be held Wednesday, April 3 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the District office located at 110 Trading Bay, Suite 140. For information, call 283-8732 x5.

Seward Fish & Game Advisory Committee election meeting 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.

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.

Soldotna Historical Society & Homestead Museum 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.

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 800-6527222. Meeting materials will be posted online at www.circac.org.

Photo credit: The Surfjack Hotel & Swim Club

Kenai Peninsula College Council meeting scheduled

stipend and the German Exchange student will have their own car.

For more information, please contact Diane Taylor 262-0328 or Mitch Michaud 907-252-5350.

Photo credit: The Surfjack Hotel & Swim Club

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A Look at the Economy on the Kenai Peninsula

April 2019

Tourism steady on the Kenai Peninsula

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

Exit Glacier Guides operates daily ice climbing trips on Exit Glacier outside of Seward during the summer months.

A guide is seen here, leading a visitor to Seward on a climbing trip into a glacial crevasse in summer 2018. (Photo

by Kat Sorensen/Peninsula Clarion).

As the snow melts and the sun lingers longer and longer every day, travelers from near and far are gearing up to visit the Kenai Peninsula.

In recent years, the peninsula has seen its tourism season balloon to the hundreds of thousands. During the five-month 2016 summer season, nearly 563,000 visitors came to the Kenai Peninsula, according to data from the Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council.

Executive Director of the marketing council Dennis Meadows said that number has gone down slightly since the 2016 season but he’s still expecting a robust turnout comparable to past years.

“I believe it will be a good and successful visi-

tation season this year,” Meadows said.

He said he didn’t have the firm projection numbers, but based on guidebook requests, this summer season should a lot like last year’s, which was only slightly down from previous years.

Seward is expecting more cruise ships to dock this summer, meaning more visitors traveling to the small peninsula town.

Looking into future years, Meadows said the peninsula can expect to see a growing traveler market from Asia.

“As we look forward, that market will impact us without a doubt,” Meadows said.

Within the U.S., Meadows said many travelers are coming to Alaska from the western and southeastern states.

See TOURISM, page D3

Peninsula marijuana industry continues to grow

By BRIAN MAZUREK Peninsula Clarion

Marijuana was first legalized in Alaska thanks to a successful 2014 ballot measure, but it wasn’t until 2016 that the first cultivators and retailers got their licenses and opened for business. In the three years since that time, the Kenai Peninsula has become home to 61 licensed retailers, cultivators, and manufacturers, according to the Marijuana Control Board’s list of active and operating licenses.

Now that the industry has had a few years to take shape, local business owners are experiencing the ups and downs standard to any other industry. Whether they’ve been in the industry from the beginning or just opened their doors in the last year, the peninsula growers and sellers have high hopes for the future of marijuana in the state.

Greatland Ganja, a local cultivator based in Kasilof, is owned by brothers Leif and Art Abel. Their business was the second cultivator to obtain their license back July of 2016, and boasted the first harvest in the state. Back

then, there was only one retailer open to purchase Greatland’s harvest, and it was all the way in Valdez.

Fast forward three years and Greatland is now selling to retailers all over the state, including several on the peninsula.

Now that Greatland has been in operation for three years, Leif said that his company is dealing with the growing pains of any small business. Leif said that they have been focusing on building their team and refining the different departments within their company, from human resources to the cultivation crew to the packaging team. Lief has also put a lot of energy into research and development and expanding their product line beyond just bulk plant material, or “flower.” Art noted that going forward, a key to continued success will be developing a strong brand for their company.

“We always want to have the next best way to consume cannabis,” Leif said.

When it comes to the industry as a whole, Leif believes that it has matured since it began and has become more reliable and dependable for

Co-owner Art Abel stands next to some of Greatland Ganja’s marijuana plants in Kasilof on March 19. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

the businesses operating within it. According the Marijuana Control Board’s list of active licenses, 280 marijuana businesses are currently operating within the state. Leif said that the number of businesses is high enough that ev-

eryone in the industry has more freedom in choosing with whom they do business. And while Leif says that there is still plenty of room for more businesses on every side of the industry, it is not a guaranteed success.

“Any small business has a high chance of failure when they first start, and it’s no different for this industry,” Leif said.

Small farms and some larger operations have gone under over the past three years, and Leif not-

ed that many transfers of ownership have taken place as well.

Leif noted how important it is for local cultivators to work together to stay successful.

“Raw material producSee GROW, page D3

D2 | Sunday, March 31, 2019 | Peninsula Clarion

Fishermen crowd together as they jostle for position on the Kenai River in this file photo. (File photo)

2019 salmon forecast a mixed bag

By KAT SORENSEN Peninsula Clarion

Anglers looking to catch salmon on the Kenai Peninsula this summer will face a mixed bag, with a low king salmon forecast but an optimistic sockeye forecast from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

Those hoping to catch a king salmon this summer will face tighter regulations as the department forecasts a below average year. If projections are realized, this year’s run would rank as the fourth lowest across 34 years.

The department released both the early- and late-run predictions for king salmon in February and called for a below average early run and a

well below average late run for large fish, or king salmon equal to or larger than 34 inches in length, with 3,168 large fish in the early run and 21,746 large fish in the late run for 2019.

This year’s Kenai River outlook is more conservative than 2018’s, which forecasted about 5,499 large fish in the early run, with an approximate actual total run of 3,072 fish, a difference of 44 percent, or 2,400 fewer fish. The department forecasted about 21,503 large fish for the late run, but the Kenai River saw 20 percent fewer fish with a total of about 17,571 large fish.

The department has already responded to the poor outlook, restrict-

ing Kenai River early-run king salmon to catch and release only in hopes of protecting returning king salmon and ensuring fishing opportunities in the future.

Restrictions in the Kenai River drainage downstream of the Skilak Lake outlet will run from May 1 to July 31.

From May 1 to June 30, no king salmon of any size can be retained from the mouth of the Kenai River upstream to the outlet of Skilak Lake.

Starting July 1, anglers will be able to retain king salmon from the mouth of the Kenai River up to a Fish & Game marker located about 300 yards downstream from Slikok Creek.

Anglers may also use bait

in this section, but only on a single hook lure or fly.

Fishing will remain catch and release from the marker up to the Skilak Lake outlet.

“In an effort to protect our king salmon fishery resources, which are important to anglers and our fishery managers, and ensure our fishery management is consistent with the regulatory management plan, the early king salmon run on the Kenai River is restricted to non-retention in an effort to meet our 2019 early-run escapement goal,” stated Area Management Biologist Colton Lipka. “Anglers have noticed that the Kenai River king salmon and other king salmon stocks throughout Cook Inlet are experiencing an extended period of low productivity

and restricting the fishery preseason is warranted.”

The department is more optimistic with the sockeye return.

After a disappointing 2018 return, Fish and Game is forecasted 6 million sockeye through the Upper Cook Inlet, with a range of about 4.8 million to 7.3 million for the total sockeye run. Escapement is forecasted at 2 million while Upper Cook Inlet commercial harvest is estimated at 3 million and other harvest at 1 million.

The Kenai River is forecasted to see 200,000 more fish than the 20-year average, according to Fish and Game’s release, with a run forecast of approximately 3.8 million sockeye salmon. Fish and Game puts the

forecast at a range of 3.1 to 4.5 million. The 20-year average is 3.6 million.

The forecast isn’t a guarantee, though, and last year’s sockeye run proved the unpredictability of the sockeye’s return.

Last year, the estimated total run was 3.1 million, 1.5 million fish below the midpoint forecast of 4.6 million. The estimated run to the Kenai River totaled 1.7 million. The Kasilof River saw about 697,000 fish, the Susitna saw 250,000 and Fish Creek saw 106,000.

The commercial harvest in 2019 is also forecasted 200,000 above the 20-year average. In 2018, the commercial harvest in Upper Cook Inlet of 800,000 was 1.1 million less than the forecasted 1.9 million.

. . . Grow Continued from page D1

ers are always in competition with each other,” Leif said. He went on to say that cultivators will often work together on areas such as transportation or buying packing and fertilizer in bulk. Cultivators also meet regularly to discuss their standard operating procedures and any changes in regulatory practices that affect their business models, he said.

Leif sees plenty of room for growth on the retail side, noting that there is still only one retail location currently in operation in Homer and only a handful outside of the KenaiSoldotna area.

As far as challenges go, Leif said that the biggest burden for cultivators comes from the current tax structure. Currently, cultivators have to pay a flat tax of $800 for every pound of flower harvested, and this tax is collected monthly, sometimes before the product is actually sold to retailers. Leif explained that this creates an artificial cash flow demand for cultivators that is especially hard to meet as the market price fluctuates. Leif said that some in the industry are pushing to change this structure, and he suggested percentagebased sales tax as a potential alternative.

Patricia Patterson is the owner of High Bush Buds, which was one of the first 10 retail locations in the state. After two years of operation, Patterson said that marijuana retail tends to experience the same sales trends as any other retail product. Patterson also owns Lucky Raven Tobacco, and said that her marijuana sales are not comparable because at Lucky Raven she sells an addictive product. Patterson described recreational marijuana as a “discretionary-income product,” meaning that people buy it when they want it and when they have the money to spend.

Winter months, specifically January and February, tend to see a reduction in sales because people have less discretionary income after the holidays.

Summer months bring tourists to the peninsula, which translates to higher sales for marijuana retailers. Patterson experienced some issues with suppliers early on, simply because the number of cultivators was limited, but since ear-

ly 2017 that supply has no longer been an issue, she said.

Patterson said that retailers are immensely affected by regulations and owners have to stay on top of changes as the industry evolves. She noted that small regulatory changes can significantly impact her ability to run her business, and used as an example the MJ-25 form that retailers were required to fill out as of this January.

Filling out that form takes time and money, Patterson said, which directly affects the success of her business.

Overall, Patterson sees some room for growth on the retail side of the industry, but also feels that things will level off soon.

With a relatively low population, retailers will be able to meet the demand on the peninsula quicker than somewhere like Anchorage. Patterson went on to say that the real growth on the peninsula will come from cultivation. Patterson and others believe that the peninsula has turned out to be a good place to grow marijuana effectively, and that the practice has not been a nuisance to neighbors for the most part.

Ryan Tunseth just recently opened his retail establishment, East Rip, in September of 2018. Tunseth agreed with other business owners that marijuana retailers face challenges similar to any other retail businesses. Tunseth said that a big hurdle was the time that it took to obtain his license and open his doors. If people looking to open a cannabis shop aren’t prepared to wait up to a year to go through the process of obtaining the license and the location, Tunseth said it can stop some operations before they get off the ground.

Tunseth said that once he was actually open for business, he was able to breathe a sigh of relief, at least briefly. Tunseth highlighted the importance of accountability for marijuana retailers. One of the most important aspects of sales is checking I.D. and doing everything they can to prevent selling the product to minors, and Tunseth says that maintaining a high standard there is key to maintaining a good reputation in the community.

Tunseth expressed some concern about the fate of the marijuana industry on the state level and pointed to a recent appointment

by Gov. Mike Dunleavy to the marijuana board as

Peninsula Clarion | Sunday, March 31, 2019 | D3

Amanda Thomassen shows off a batch of harvested marijuana at Greatland Ganja in Kasilof on March 19. (Photo

by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

a potential reason to worry. Dunleavy’s appointee, Vivian Stiver, has been criticized by Tunseth and others in the industry for her previous experience pushing for marijuana prohibition in the Fairbanks North Star Borough. Even though some uncertainty exists on the state level, Tunseth said that growth here on the peninsula is strong.

“I feel like I see a new cultivator every day,” said Tunseth, and noted that it is a big positive for the industry to see new businesses starting up and how that translates to dollars for the city of Kenai, the city of Soldotna and the Kenai Peninsula Borough.

Tunseth also pointed out that the Kenai Peninsula Borough has one of the highest concentrations of cultivators in the state.

Forty eight cultivation licenses are currently in operation on the peninsula, according to the Marijuana Control Board’s list of active licenses.

The general consensus among peninsula retailers and cultivators interviewed is that there is plenty of room for growth, as long as the state remains friendly to the industry. On-site consumption was recently approved in the state by Lt. Gov Kevin Meyer, which means that later this year a whole new sort of cannabis business may start cropping up around the peninsula.

Some of Greatland Ganja’s “mother plants” are seen here at Greatland Ganja in Kasilof on March 19. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

Tyler Herding works tends to some of the marijuana plants at Greatland Ganja in Kasilof on March 19. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

. . . Tourism Continued from page D1

Two kayaks sit on a beach in Aialik Bay during a trip with Liquid Adventures kayaking company, based in Seward, in summer 2018. (Photo by Kat Sorensen/Peninsula Clarion)

“In the Southeast, there has been a stronger interest demographic than what has been there historically,” Meadows said.

There has been a stronger interest in birding too, Meadows said.

The three big draws to the Kenai Peninsula have consistently been to see glaciers, wildlife and togo fishing, whether that’s guided or not guided.

More families with young teenagers are coming to visit the Kenai Peninsula, as well, Meadows said. In 2016, the tourism council data showed that the average traveler was in their 50s.

In the summer of 2016, data from the Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council shows that visitors spent $187 million while touring the peninsula, with $61 million of that going towards tours and activities.

Locally, on the central peninsula, the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce is getting ready for a busy summer season. Early this year, the Soldotna Chamber won a $25,000 grant to improve the Music in the Park series, which runs every Wednesday, June through August.

This year, bands will be coming from all over

the country and will be opened by a local band.

Soldotna Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Shannon Davis said the chamber will be marketing the concert series to neighbors in Anchorage in an effort to bring more visitors to Soldotna.

In August, more than 100 community leaders from all over Alaska will visit Soldotna for the Alaska Municipal League Conference, which will be hosted by Soldotna Chamber of Commerce.

Davis said the chamber is hoping to reach more travelers by revamping of their website, which is more than seven years old.

“The chamber is facilitating the creation of a beautiful, world-class responsive chamber of commerce and destination website that captures the spirit of Soldotna,” Davis said. “Our goal is to have clear organization and navigation built on a deep understanding of how people research travel and use online content and tools. We will capture consumers interested in traveling to Alaska and the Kenai Peninsula, then sell them on Soldotna with a wide array of features for travelers, from great social media integrations to trip planners, media galleries, calendars and more.”

D4 | Sunday, March 31, 2019 | Peninsula Clarion

LNG pipeline project is MIA

By Brian Mazurek Peninsula Clarion

Will Nikiski residents ever see an LNG pipeline in their backyard?

The answer to that remains unclear, but those still involved with the project are hoping that the completion of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and the acquisition of necessary permits from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will be enough to attract potential investors, producers and customers.

Jesse Carlstrom, communications manager for Alaska Gasline Development Corp (AGDC), said in an email that the corporation’s board of directors and stakeholders will convene later this spring to review their assessment of Alaska LNG’s economic competitiveness with other LNG projects around the world.

According to Carlstrom and others in the AGDC, as well as the AK LNG Project Advisory Committee, AGDC will only continue to pursue the project as long as it is still an economic benefit to the state.

There is precedent for

this approach, as AGDC interim President Joe Dubler explained during a hearing with the Senate Resources Committee on March 22.

Dubler said that the Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline (ASAP) project is currently on a permanent hold after AGDC determined that operating the ASAP pipeline would require annual subsidies and thus would be a net negative for the state’s budget. If AGDC makes a similar assessment of the LNG project, it could spell the end for any hopes that natural gas will be exported out of Nikiski.

The Alaska LNG pipeline has been in the works since at least January of 2014, when AGDC signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) with ExxonMobil, BP, ConocoPhillips, and TransCanada Corp. The HOA was essentially a non-binding letter of intent that signaled the cooperation of these entities in forming the commercial structure of the project. It was a signal to the people of Alaska that these major energy corporations were on board with exploring the feasibility of the Alaska LNG pipeline. In the four

years since this agreement was signed, the political and economic landscape in Alaska has changed drastically.

In 2015 the state bought out TransCanada’s share of the project, and in 2016 BP, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips backed out of the project as well, leaving the state and AGDC to continue working on the project alone. Dubler said in the March 22 hearing that “economics at the time precluded Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) initiation.”

When asked by Sen. Kawasaki, D-Fairbanks, to elaborate on why the energy companies decided to back out, Dubler explained that costs associated with acquiring permits and determining environmental impact, a process Dubler called “de-risking,” is not a cost that investors typically see as worthwhile. Dubler said that it is traditionally the responsibility of the owner or producer of a resource to “de-risk” the project before investors come into the picture.

The governor’s office has also changed administrations twice since the project was first introduced,

The industrial area of Nikiski, featuring a refinery and currently mothballed LNG and fertilizer plants, was selected by the producer-led consortium of the Alaska LNG Project before the state took over in 2017. (Photo/File/AJOC)

and Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s team has made it clear that reducing the state’s budget is a top priority. When the administration released its budget for fiscal year 2020, it included a significantly reduced $10.1 million budget for AGDC. Dubler said during the March 22 hearing that this funding is sufficient to complete the environmental impact statement

by March of 2020. AGDC has cut back on expenditures by closing their Houston office and consolidating their Anchorage office, Dubler said during the March 22

hearing. To date, AGDC has spent more than $260 million on the Alaska LNG project.

In March 25 interview with the Clarion, Dunleavy was hesitant to commit to the project.

“If AGDC through their economic study determines that it (Alaska LNG) is not economical or it’s not feasible, I’m not sure why we would continue with a non-economic project,” he said. Dunleavy went on to say that he will wait on ADGC’s report, which is due out in about 50 days,

AK LNG Pipeline Timeline • January 15, 2014 • July 21, 2014 • September 9, 2014 Alaska signs commercial Export application Pre-filing request agreements with ExxonMobil, BP, filed with U.S. submitted to FERC to ConocoPhillips and Transcanada Department of begin environmental for Alaska LNG project Energy review • January 22, 2018 • December 4, 2017 AGDC Completes Alaska Signs Letter FERC Data of Intent with Tokyo Responses Gas Co., Ltd.

• February 11, 2015 • December 3, 2015 • June 9, 2016 • January 23, 2017 Draft resource reports 2016 Work Plan and AGDC Appoints AGDC and BP enter filed with FERC, public $230 million budget Keith Meyer as into cooperation engagement process approved President agreement expanded

• November 11, 2017 • November 8, 2017 • June 29, 2017 • April 17, 2017 • April 4, 2017 AGDC signs AGDC files application AGDC meets with AGDC signs Alaska and China sign memorandum of joint development memorandum of with FERC for natural Chinese President Xi understanding with agreement to advance understanding with gas permit Jinping to discuss LNG Project PetroVietnam Gas Alaska LNG Korea Gas Corporation

• March 13, 2018 • October 2, 2018 • January 10, 2019 • February 2019 • September 10, 2018 FERC Releases China and Alaska Gov. Dunleavy removes Keith Meyer FERC extends deadline ExxonMobil and AGDC schedule for Alaska for completion of draft sign binding gas sales reaffirm willingness to as AGDC president, Joe Dubler LNG, Draft EIS expected precedent agreement advance Alaska LNG appointed interim president EIS to June 2019 in March 2019

• March 8, 2019 Alaska LNG Enters Collaboration Agreement with BP & ExxonMobil

before making a final decision.

There are portions of land in Nikiski that BP, ExxonMobil, and ConocoPhillips purchased when they were still involved in the LNG project. Those lands are still owned by the three energy companies even though they gave up their share of the project in 2016. BP and ExxonMobil recently signed a non-binding agreement with AGDC on March 11 that indicated their renewed interest in advancing the Alaska LNG project, but the fate of the lands that have already been purchased has yet to be determined.

AGDC and the state are taking a step back to re-evaluate the economic feasibility of the project and have chosen to focus their currently available resources on completing the Environmental Impact Statement. The EIS remains valid for up to seven years, meaning that completing the process will leave the door open for further development on the LNG project in the years to come. So, while the LNG project is still in the proverbial pipeline, Dubler said that actual pipelines will not be going into the ground any time soon.

Agriculture flourishing on peninsula

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

Farming local food on the Kenai Peninsula is growing.

However, potential programs that support Alaska’s agricultural industry are on the chopping block, such as the Alaska Grown program.

University Cooperative Extension sites, which conduct research and share valuable information with farmers and gardeners, could also be cut. Even Alaska’s last functioning dairy, Havemiester Dairy, is poised to be shut down, should the budget cut the required Dairy Sanitation Program.

However, interest in accessing local foods has increased in recent years. In a 2017 Central Peninsula Agricultural Market Analysis conducted by the Kenai Soil and Water Conservation District, it was found that 70 percent of central peninsula farmers who were surveyed increased their production from 2015 to 2016, and 95 percent of them said they had the ability to further that production. Eighty percent planned to increase production in 2017.

The ability to purchase local food could also boost Alaska and the peninsula’s local economy.

Every year, Alaskans spend about $2 billion on food, and on the Kenai Peninsula, residents spend $31 million on fresh produce alone, according to analysis.

Right now, Alaska imports about 95 percent of its food from the Outside, according to research commissioned by the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.

As recent as 1955, Alaska grew 55 percent of its food, according to the United States Division of Agriculture Alaska Farm Service Agency.

Residents interested in getting involved with food

Robert Gibson harvests barley grown in a vacant gravel pit on Aug. 31, 2018, in Cooper Landing. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

production may struggle with finding usable, affordable land.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough is also hoping to combat the land issue. At the end of January, the borough launched a new agricultural land initiative. The program would turn locally owned spaces into productive agricultural land. The project, called the Kenai Peninsula Agricultural Initiative, came out of the borough’s land management division headed by Marcus Mueller.

“In short, the borough is looking to connect its good ag land with the people who will be doing agricultural production into the future,” Mueller said in the media release.

On the Kenai Peninsula, agriculture is a growing industry, which the borough is working to further progress with the initiative. The release said the borough has seen an increase in public interest for the quality of local products, the use of locally grown foods in

area restaurants and farmers markets. As the need for more locally grown food increases, the need for affordable and effective farmland will also grow.

“The borough is seeing this emergence of activity as a new era in agricultural system development, which may in ways be unique to the Kenai and our growing state,” the release said.

“Several new terms are becoming part of common conversations. Words like peonies, Rhodiola, hemp, and high tunnels expand the vocabulary on the Kenai and with those are created new opportunities. Access to local vegetables is talked about as the ingredients to healthy communities.”

The program is still in the preliminary stage, and the borough is looking to connect with interested farmers to better understand what they might need should the land be made available.

The release is calling for interested residents to send letters of interest to the borough.

O’Brien Gardens and Trees, which has experimented with over 500 varieties of apples, while growing other produce like strawberries, currants and garlic, is pictured on Sept. 4, 2018, in Nikiski. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

Robert Gibson works to create new agricultural land on a plot off East End Road on Sept. 9, 2018, near Homer. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

Peninsula Clarion | Sunday, March 31, 2019 | D5

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I would refer the north side of the Kenai River, 21 1963, making it one of the few airports old“The home ofofLiquid Advenuntil almost January so it’s Base Elmendorf-Richardto it as land-rich,” said Kenai council of which will have views of the Inlet. in Alaska owned by a municipality In this June 23, 2010 file photo a C-17 from Joint tures, a Henry kayak Knackstedt. tour com- Porter Lowe, who said he intends to begin rather than the state, said Knackstedt, son does a touch and go landing at Kenai Municipal this really year. member been Airport really earlier difficult, Miller standsinatShoreline the endHeights of an old Alaska Railroad train in Seward.

The train car will isbe home to Kenai’s municipal airport anthe engine for development in the community. who previously served as acar 20-year and for selling pany.Knackstedt expect demand Liberty property stressful.

Those months of memberHouse. of the city’s airport commisresidential, commercial, and industrial Miller’s new small business, 13expectaRavens Coffee (Photo courtesy Liberty Miller) in early 2015, shares Porter’s “The train carin location asking I know sion. Knackstedt said that for the past of the Industrial Park, leasing two of important space to increase Kenai, and the tion of growth in Kenai. link ineverybody the supply chain of five years, the airport has been a self- Small city sure through that availability fell wants into to mybe lap the park’s lots and for services. its extraction developers working on athe the Seattle area in sula, of the Seward Chamber ofbe from “I thought it would good time the Alaska Busi- 19 tion … There were lotpipeline, of tears. economic entity financially facilities. However, Knackstedt said as well as other projects in the North increases correspondingly. (to buy property) because of the LNG sustaining friends and it was like, yes, Washington, Miller is exCommerce. ness Development Center, These industries cover I’ve always been a pretty independent of the city, funding its opPorter and Knackstedt expect Ke- plant and the mini-boom we’re getting that all the lots have been readied for Kenai area. He said the conveniences erations leases as andoffices park- in nai continue a result of I’mtogoing to growing do this,”asshe development the construction of of Kenaidetermined herthrough home-landwhich would be a draw not so only to Clock said thesaid. chamber cited to bring Soldotna by a wide range of businesses now,” Lowe person, even ing, landing, and fuel fees. The airport access roads and connections to the construction, but to families. oil and gas development in Kenai’s Lowe is developing the subdivision said.

“It has some of the best grown love of coffee to her has seen recent growth.

A and Homer, has a trove of like vacation rentals, enterthough a lot of people said property includes a plot of land that northern neighbor, Nikiski. city’s water and sewer system. Knack“Kenai is in such an excellent powith a specific demographic in mind. views, with the train car sitcity is developing as an industrial The Alaska LNG pipeline, expected home,theSeward.

She’s resources lot of new businesses available. fishing guides and right stedt said that tainment, the park’s proximity to sition withit all devel‘no’now, I know wasthegoing to “I would like tohave target new executives park. to have a terminal in Nikiski, and a gas the airport through convenient roads opment that’s going on,” Knackstedt there, because itbe is higher-dollar land,” ting right on the harbor.” held different positions recently chosen to more “We’re probably Alaska’s more.

Airbnb is boosting happen.”

The Kenai Airport Industrial park will be an incentive for prospective said. “Sandwiched between Anchorline to be created by Apache Energy Lowe said. “A high-end neighborhood The location grew from a lease tobest natural resource along Nikiski’s northisn’t road, just have drawn throughout involved andI’m starthoping usingfor.” the with companies resource for clients, starting a thatvacation rental isbusinesses, Miller’sthebright orange and the city council cur- age and Nikiski, big industrial is what extractor Buccaneer Energy in 2012 rently considering ways to market the area. People are going to need to move investment to the area. Porter that Another group ofand residents Lowe good for the views, Millersaid different Seward while working to- small business or helping Cochran said. The center espresso machine landed in networking construction on these projects will hopes to attract are those from Niki- — a lease now owned by AIX energy, remaining industrial lots to interested somewhere.” said. The coffee is space ward opening 13 Ravens. business growth an existing grow,” is also seeing a rise in food Seward this month and is bought Buccaneer’s assets business fol- businesses. create a demand for house residential ski who haveopportunisold their properties to which lowing Buccaneer’s bankruptcy. and commercial services Knackstedt sees growth Reachready Ben Boettger at in ben.boettconveniently located by as theworkers Apache or LNG. “We have young men ties the chamber offers. said Kenai Peninsula Cen- trucks, farmoccurring and vegetable to start up its new AIX is currently the only occupant bring their families to the peninsula. the airport, as it becomes an ger@peninsulaclarion.com harbor, near the cruise ter“We have seen a growth and women, many of them ter Director Cliffthrough Cochran. production, fishing guides home. minal and the train station. the past couple of years and do have a day job, but this “We have a pool of data for and construction.

“I’ve had a lot of people said.

“It’s completely unique,” I think it’s because people is their passion and they Glaves industry averages, bench“We’re staying busy,” in my life that have helped Maintaining a competitive a huge to everyone’s she said. “It’s pretty cool.” keeps vi- ‘It’s are finding success because edge may have gone away, tried Continued marks …these Wecompanies have some Cochran said. boon “The Kenai me,” she said. “They have from page A-2 able, she said. pocketbook when we have other people Miller is just one of many some other places and then Seward is such a popular ofThe the vast best majority tools out ofthere, Peninsula center is one of helped me in the way of loyounger entrepreneurs and realize they miss Seward,” destination,” Clock said. businesses considered some fantasticare tools that are in thetown.’ busier in the state per encouragement and believFormer Executive Direc- cal meaning they tor The of theKenai Soldotna Chamber small Glaves, former new small business owners Clock said.

Peninsula’s prettybusinesses, pricey, but our clients capita. — Michelle Demographically, ing in executive me. It candirector be very of Commerce Michelle Glaves employ fewer than seven staff Soldotna Chamber of Commerce setting up shop in Seward growth in small Some new members grew said get thematfor most of the startups are from frustrating, anyfree.” given time. because I don’t the reason for businesses the contin- members The second to element to of a success of tourism and the surrounding Kenai up in Seward and have de- ued is boosted bythea local network of According Cochran, Soldotna and Homer … have access to finances … I industry was the ability of local flourishing economy is putting it easier for interested inves“We also know people are Peninsula. localizedto and broader cided to start their business residents the hundreds of new orconex- tors, Seward a This goodeffort amount couldn’t tellabout you ithow into the off-season diversify their reof- effort Queenhas said. has tired of talking and many want sumers, Glaves said. the Small included “We are so thrilled to in their hometown, Clock ferings. sources. isting businesses too, but beautification a little less because of the topeople make I itasked start tohappening,” invest and “The city’s economic strat- downtown area. One of the city’s Queen said. “These things all Guided tours were focused have the young, millen- said. Others have made solely TheonSeward Chamber of egy Business Development Cen- main the population is less.” it was discouraging, but is two-fold, make Soldotna the fishing industry roadways, Binkley Street, bode well for Soldotna’s future, place to raise a kid and grow so long, Glaves As the nial generation of people in Seward their home and are for Commerce offerssaid. a lot of ater works with each year, received Of the nearly 250 clients not even people three mini-roundabouts just in quality that of lifecouldn’t for our dwindle, companies old, and at the same time en- last summer. but for our were economic their twenties and thirties excited to start their small fisheries opportunities small busi- courage there are three industries that the center works with residents, help financially encommercial developare expanding to their services, In a business confidence sur- stability moving forward.” deciding to become cham- business in the community. she Queen out: said. “We do that vey said. from open houses ment,” nesses, that stick accommoeach year, Cochran said couraging, cheering me on given to members of the a huge boon to every- by assisting existing local en- Soldotna Chamber, layout of a Clarion file photo Reach Sullivan at kelber members,” said Cindy social media dations and food services, that they see about 30 or so and Miller falls into the sec- to“Ita isplanned thatKelly is what kept me goIn this July 4, 2013 file photo Kyle Boyles and David Fink work one’s pocketbook when we trepreneurs.” city is considered “overwhelm- ly.sullivan@peninsulaclarion.

Clock, executive directorairport It is the city’s job make ingly course.

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Originally have manufacturing, or to producother people in penintown,” startup businesses ing.” on a portion of the Soldotna project. critical,” Queen each said. year. com

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Physicians and Services Directory C E N T R A L P E N I N S U L A H O S P I TA L’ S

Allergy/Immunology

Internal Medicine

Kristina James, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-2229 Nicholas Berlon, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-8597 John P . Bramante, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-8597 Anesthesia Andrea Caballero, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-5640 Theresa Chihuly, CRNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4404 William J . Kelley, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-8597 Justin Evans, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4404 Kristin M . Mitchell, MD, FACP . . . . . . . 262-8597 Amanda Lee, CRNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4404 Gail Pokorney, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-8597 Rita Lyseng, CRNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4404 George Spady, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . 855-436-7723 Gregg Motonaga, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4404 Rachel Neuendorf, CRNA . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4404 Medical Oncology Brandi Peck, CRNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4404 Darren Mullins, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4490 Judy Rohl, CRNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4404

Certified Nurse Midwives

Linda Duce, CNM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-2602

Dentistry

Neurology

Kristen Jessen, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4090

OB/GYN

Theodore Barton, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-2602 Robert McAlpine, DMD . . . . . . . . . . . . 260-5439 Bobbie Behrens, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-2615 Samantha Mize, DDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260-5439 Maia Danielson, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-3119 Michelle Slezewski, DMD . . . . . . . . . . 283-7759 Lori Lindsay, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-5300 David Stewart, DDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953-2544

Ophthalmology

Dermatology

Mathew Cannava, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-7546

Garret L . Sitenga, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335-3358

Orthopaedics

Herbert Boté, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420-3540 James V . Zirul, DO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283-5400 Scott Innes, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-1080 Daniel Keck, PA-C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-1080 Henry Krull, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-6454 Emergency Medicine Peter Anderson, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4444 Michael Reyes, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4120 Michael Blake, DO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4444 Heidi Sturgill, PA-C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-6454 Kathy Becher, ANP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4444 Anna Bereziewicz, DO . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4444 Physical Medicine & Drew Butki, DO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4444 Rehabilitation Jennifer Henry, ANP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4444 Mark Simonson, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260-5455 James Levine, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4444 Pain Management Michael Levy, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4444 Cynthia Kahn, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-3119 Ned A . Magen, DO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4444 Chris Mickelson, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4444 Pathology Jessica Sieling, DO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4444 Curt Buchholz, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-3557 Angus Warren, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4444 Nicole Nilson, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-3557 Justin Warix, DO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4444 Aaron Wonnacott, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4444 Pediatrics Alex B . Russell, Jr ., MD . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4111 Family Practice Rachel Walden, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4111 David Abel, DO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260-4468 J . Nels Anderson, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-4161 Podiatry Christine Babcock, ANP . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4111 Kristina Lacy, DPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-5312 Marcus Deede, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-9341 Danny Romman, DPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-5312 Brandon Hall, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4111 Psychiatry Peter Hansen, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283-4611 Jeffrey Magee, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-3119 Kristen Lee, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260-4468 Marguerite McIntosh, MD . . . . . . . . . . 262-3119 Radiation Oncology Kali Saxton-Shaw, PA-C . . . . . . . . . . . . 260-3121 John Halligan, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-7762 Katy Sheridan, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260-3121 Allison Smith, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4111 Radiology Danal Snyder, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4111 Jesse Kincaid, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4585

Ear, Nose, Throat

General Surgery

Spine Surgery

David A . King, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260-7776 John Andreshak, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260-5455 Jason Lattin, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-4130 Craig Humphreys, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260-5455 Matt May, RNFA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260-5455 Hand Surgery Susan Reed, PA-C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260-5455 Edwin Vyhmeister, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-6454

Urology

Robert E . Cadoff, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714-5325

Departments/ Services Behavioral Health ....................... 714-4520 Serenity House Treatment Center .................... 714-4521 Business Office ............................ 714-4404 CP Health Foundation .................. 714-4626 Emergency ................................. 714-4444 Employment Job Line .................. 714-4769 Heritage Place ............................ 714-5000 Kenai Health Center .................... 714-4495 Laboratory ................................. 714-4418 Oncology/Infusion ....................... 714-4490 Central Peninsula Rehabilitation CPH .................................................. 714-4725 Soldotna .......................................... 714-4534 Kenai ................................................ 714-4536 Rockwell .......................................... 714-5076 River Tower ....................................... 714-5640 Public Relations .......................... 714-4600 Imaging ..................................... 714-4580 Sleep Center .............................. 714-4439 Spiritual Care .............................. 714-4610 Volunteers ................................. 714-4543 Wound Care ................................. 714-4874

CPH Physician Practices Central Peninsula Family Practice Kenai (506 Lake St.) .......................... 714-4111 Soldotna (245 Binkley St, # 101)....... 714-4111 Cen. Pen. Foot & Ankle Specialist ............................... 714-5312 Cen. Pen. Neurology .................... 714-4090 Cen. Pen. Bone & Joint Center ...... 714-4120 Cen. Pen. Oncology ...................... 714-4490 Cen. Pen. Pediatrics ..................... 714-4111 Cen. Pen. Surgical Associates ....... 714-4130 Cen. Pen. Urology ........................ 714-5325 Cen. Pen. Women’s Health .............714-5300

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