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MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2014 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 82

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Gov, Senate stir political winds

Question What type of New Year’s resolutions are you planning to make? n Lose weight, eat healthier or exercise more; n Quit smoking or drinking; n Better manage your finances; n Improve your education or career; n Volunteer; n Other; n None. To place your vote and comment, visit our Web site at www. peninsulaclarion. com. Results and selected comments will be posted each Tuesday in the Clarion, and a new question will be asked.

In the news

Cross-over crash sends 7 to hospital HOMER — A cross-over accident on the Sterling Highway sent seven people to the hospital, including one with life-threatening injuries. The Alaska State Troopers say the accident occurred Saturday morning when a northbound vehicle crossed the centerline and struck a southbound van. Authorities say 53-year-old Dale Keefer was a passenger in the southbound vehicle. The Anchor Point man was sent to South Peninsula Hospital with life threatening injuries. The driver of the southbound vehicle was also sent to the hospital. The driver of the northbound vehicle and four children who were passengers were also transported to the hospital with minor injuries. Authorities are still investigating the crash. — The Associated Press

By Tim Bradner Morris News Service-Alaska Alaska Journal of Commerce

Photos by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion

Above: Brenda Ahlberg tries out her skate skis while receiving instruction from Kent Peterson Sunday afternoon at Tsalteshi Trails. Peterson, who is a ski coach at Skyview, volunteered his time to teach beginners proper technique over the weekend. Below: A group practices skate skiing on Sunday at Tsalteshi Trails.

Picking up ski tips Coach offers lessons to locals By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

While out skiing at Tsalteshi Trails the weekend after Christmas, Kent Peterson noticed a few people on the hill testing out their new skate skis. Peterson, who is a cross-country ski coach at Skyview High School, saw that the novice skiers could use a little help. “I know its that time of year when people get new gear for Christmas and probably are

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with the turnout. Ten people came out Saturday and 12 skiers showed up on Sunday. Peterson said he saw several people with rented gear from Beemun’s and Wilderness Way, which he recommends as a good way to try out the sport before making the investment

to purchase the equipment. Rob Carson, who attended the ski clinic both days, said he rented his skate skis, boots and poles from Beemun’s for $30 for the entire weekend. Carson said he and his wife have looked into buying their own See SKI, page A-12

See GOV, page A-12

Education task force report gives few answers By JENNIFER CANFIELD Morris News Service-Alaska Juneau Empire

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making New Year’s resolutions to get in shape,” Peterson said. “So I thought since I had some free time during the winter break it would be awesome to offer some tips. Otherwise people would get frustrated and quit and the skis would sit in the attic.” Peterson sent out a Facebook post through both the Tsalteshi Trails and Beemun’s Ski Loft page to offer free one-hour lessons on Saturday and Sunday. He was pleasantly surprised

August and November seem a long way off but the political winds will be stirring soon for the primary and general elections. The hot topics for the primary election, which is often a snoozer in Alaska, is the ballot referendum on Senate Bill 21, the oil tax reform bill passed by the Legislature last April, and the square-off between Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell, former Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan and 2010 Republican Senate nominee Joe Miller for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Democrat Mark Begich. Whoever wins in the Treadwell-Sullivan-Miller primary will face Begich in November. However, there is one other primary contest featuring a Dan Sullivan, this one Anchorage’s current mayor, who is running for lieutenant governor in the Republican primary against Anchorage state Sen. Lesil McGuire. Gov. Sean Parnell is standing for reelection in 2014 and so far has no primary challenge in August, but he faces two challengers in the November general election, one being former Valdez Mayor Bill Walker, running as an independent, and the other the Democrat candidate Byron Mallott. Walker and Mallot are likely to run energetic, lively campaigns, and Parnell may benefit from a three-way race where his opponents may split votes while he enjoys a consolidated base.

A two-page report by the state’s education task force released Thursday has left a lot to be desired by Juneau’s legislative delegation. House Sustainable Education Task Force co-chair Rep. Lynn Gattis, R-Wasilla, said the report was only preliminary and that the group has until 2015 to complete a full report. The task force was created by a House resolution in the last days of the 2013 session. It was

appropriated $250,000 and was tasked with performing an analysis of public education funding. The resolution that created the task force was detailed in what the report needed to include. Cost estimates, evaluations and comparisons of everything from pension, health care, energy and pupil transportation costs to core academic requirements and the base student allocation were listed as items that should be in the task force’s report. While the resolution specifies that the group will expire Jan. 1, 2015, it also says that “a report of findings and recommendations

of the task force and submitting additional reports the task force considers advisable” be submitted to the governor, the Legislature and the Department of Education and Early Development by Jan. 1, 2014. “It’s a big, big subject and to think that a group of people could answer all the questions — to not only a nationally huge question, but also Alaska, and we’re so different in different areas — we would be doing a disservice to public education if we thought we had all the answers in five or six months,” Gattis said Friday. The task force hasn’t set dead-

lines to develop the many complicated aspects of the report, but Gattis said that it will be completed. “The next step is to utilize both of the committees, the Education Committee and the Finance committee, to explore some other unanswered questions, to have a couple more task force meetings, and to, quite frankly, produce legislation that our caucus can move forward and say ‘This is what we need to do,’” Gattis said. Gattis chairs the House Education Committee and the task force’s other co-chair, Tammie Wilson, is on the House Finance

Committee. The 650-word report released Thursday includes seven bullet points that outline the task force’s declaration that “Achieving a sustainable future will require new ways of thinking.” • Invest in technology that is compatible with local infrastructure. • Establish regional residential education centers to enhance secondary education . • Expand public choice in education opportunities to include: boarding, charter, virtual, homeschool and neighborhood See REPORT, page A-12

Jury finds Tyonek man not guilty of all charges By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

After hearing the alleged victim’s and the defendant’s accounts of a September incident, a Kenai Superior Court jury found a Tyonek man accused of kidnapping and assault not guilty of all charges on Friday. The state had alleged Virgil McCord, 37, had beaten his then girlfriend, Valerie Sigourney, 44, of Anchorage, on Sept. 20, 2013 in Tyonek. It charged him with kidnapping and two felony

assault charges as well as two misdemeanor charges — fourthdegree assault and fourth-degree criminal mischief. Public Defender Andy Pevehouse called two witnesses Friday, McCord’s grandfather, who appeared telephonically, and the defendant. McCord told the jury about his relationship with Sigourney, saying he had liked that Sigourney was active, sweet and loved kids. But he said they had arguments about her drinking, and he didn’t like when she spent

time with certain people in the village because they influenced her drinking. He said he also had an issue with the amount of attention she gave to one of her friend’s husbands, but he wasn’t jealous. Then Pevehouse questioned McCord about the September incident. McCord said he picked Sigourney up from her friend’s home to go for a drive and to go moose hunting. He said she had started drinking at her friend’s house and brought a bottle of whiskey with for the drive. McC

Cord testified he had a little bit to drink but not enough to get drunk or even buzzed, but he said Sigourney became intoxicated. McCord said it was getting dark when the couple got into an argument about Sigourney’s drinking. He thought she drank too much. He said she asked him to take her home. He testified he said “OK” and planned to turn around at the airstrip about half of a mile ahead. Before he got there, he said Sigourney jumped out of the pickup while he was

driving. He said he tried to stop her by grabbing her sweatshirt. “When my arm popped out (of its socket), I let go,” he said. McCord said he had little mobility in his right arm. He testified that he thought he put the pickup in park and got out after Sigourney, who had jumped out of the truck and was lying in the road. But the truck wasn’t in park so he tried to go after it, and it got stuck in the ditch. McCord said when he got to Sigourney she looked See TRIAL, page A-12

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

Barrow -1/-8

Today

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Cloudy with snow at times

Snow or flurries possible

Remaining cloudy

Times of clouds and sun

Mostly cloudy

Hi: 36 Lo: 29

Hi: 35 Lo: 29

Hi: 34 Lo: 25

Hi: 31 Lo: 20

Hi: 28 Lo: 15

The patented AccuWeather.com RealFeel Temperature® is an exclusive index of the effects of temperature, wind, Sunrise humidity, sunshine intensity, cloudiness, precipitation, Sunset pressure and elevation on the human body.

10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m.

29 32 36 33

Daylight Length of Day - 6 hrs., 4 min., 28 sec. Daylight gained - 2 min., 44 sec.

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City Adak* Anchorage Barrow Bethel Cold Bay Cordova Delta Junction Denali N. P. Dillingham Dutch Harbor Fairbanks Fort Yukon Glennallen* Gulkana Haines Homer Juneau Ketchikan Kiana King Salmon Klawock Kodiak

First Jan 7

Today 10:08 a.m. 4:13 p.m.

Full Jan 15

Moonrise Moonset

Last Jan 23

Today 11:38 a.m. none

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Kotzebue 19/7/pc 37/23/c 37/30/c McGrath 21/10/sf 33/29/sf 34/28/sf Metlakatla 43/36/c -3/-6/s -1/-8/pc Nome 27/21/sf 34/22/i 33/25/c North Pole 18/8/sn 40/37/sf 41/36/sn Northway 7/-3/pc 42/38/sn 41/33/sf Palmer 37/32/sf 18/8/c 19/9/sf Petersburg 43/34/sn 37/28/sf 29/7/sf Prudhoe Bay* 2/-4/pc 37/34/c 35/29/sf Saint Paul 33/24/sn 39/36/r 41/38/sf Seward 41/35/sf 23/12/sf 12/1/sf Sitka 44/41/sn 10/-18/c -3/-12/s Skagway 39/28/sn 19/14/sf 26/14/sf Talkeetna 33/30/sf 19/11/sn 18/3/sf Tanana 15/3/sf 36/30/sn 33/27/sn Tok* 8/2/pc 46/40/sf 39/32/sf Unalakleet 23/19/c 38/33/c 38/33/sn Valdez 35/28/c 40/34/pc 41/35/sn Wasilla 39/36/c 13/10/pc 13/7/sf Whittier 38/34/c 42/37/sf 38/29/sn Willow* 35/27/pc 42/36/c 43/37/sn Yakutat 39/33/sn 43/39/sn 39/34/sn Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

Unalakleet McGrath 28/22 17/9

Tomorrow 11:54 a.m. 1:00 a.m.

Fairbanks 12/1

Kenai/ Soldotna 36/29 Seward 38/33 Homer 39/32

Talkeetna 34/23 Glennallen 26/14

Today Hi/Lo/W 16/9/sf 17/9/c 42/35/sn 29/23/sf 14/0/sf 5/-7/sf 33/25/sf 39/35/sn 4/-7/sf 38/34/sf 38/33/sf 43/38/sn 35/32/c 34/23/sf 9/-1/c 11/-6/sf 28/22/sf 33/21/sf 31/22/sf 37/34/sf 33/21/sf 38/36/sn

High ............................................... 35 Low ................................................ 32 Normal high .................................. 25 Normal low ...................................... 8 Record high ........................ 43 (1953) Record low ....................... -45 (1975)

Precipitation

From the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai

24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. Trace Month to date ........................... 0.51" Normal month to date ............. 0.17" Year to date .............................. 0.51" Normal year to date ................. 0.17" Record today ................. 0.83" (1951) Record for Jan. ............. 3.03" (1980) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963) Snowfall 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. Trace Month to date ............................. 0.3" Season to date ......................... 33.1"

Anchorage 34/28

Bethel 33/25

Valdez Kenai/ 33/21 Soldotna Homer

Dillingham 35/29

Juneau 38/33

National Extremes

Kodiak 39/34

Sitka 43/38

(For the 48 contiguous states)

High yesterday Low yesterday

84 at Hollywood, Fla. -38 at Crane Lake,

State Extremes High yesterday Low yesterday

Cold Bay 41/36

Ketchikan 41/35

46 at Homer -18 at Fort Yukon

Today’s Forecast

(Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation)

Frigid air will continue to blast into the East today while dangerous wind chills persist in the northern Plains. Lake-effect snows will pile up downwind of the Great Lakes while it remains dry in the West.

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34/2/pc 43/5/sn 39/22/pc 41/22/s 24/12/s 35/14/pc 46/34/sh 27/-2/sf 46/34/c 27/6/pc 53/14/c 52/5/pc 58/38/pc 43/14/pc 36/17/i 46/9/sh 8/-4/s 27/21/pc 58/37/r 23/7/pc -7/-15/sn -14/-19/pc 35/15/s 32/23/pc 37/24/r 52/15/r 37/32/c 26/-3/sf 5/-10/sn 26/17/pc 71/43/c 60/19/sh 52/23/c 20/-6/c 43/33/sh 44/8/pc 29/6/sn -12/-15/c 9/1/sn 31/22/pc 48/29/r -4/-12/c

Cleveland 39/33/sn Columbia, SC 48/38/c Columbus, OH 50/25/r Concord, NH 34/-4/pc Dallas 50/29/pc Dayton 37/32/sn Denver 12/1/sn Des Moines 7/2/pc Detroit 32/27/sn Duluth -9/-21/s El Paso 57/37/c Fargo -13/-19/sn Flagstaff 39/11/s Grand Rapids 29/28/sn Great Falls 2/-21/sn Hartford 32/4/i Helena 7/-1/sn Honolulu 78/65/pc Houston 65/42/sh Indianapolis 32/30/sn Jackson, MS 65/45/r

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Nome 29/23

National Cities

Almanac From Kenai Municipal Airport

New Jan 30

Unalaska 40/36

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Temperature

Tomorrow 10:07 a.m. 4:15 p.m.

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Today’s activity: Low Where: Auroral activity will be low. Weather permitting, low-level displays will be visible overhead from Barrow to Fairbanks and visible low on the northern horizon from as far south as Anchorage and Juneau.

Prudhoe Bay 4/-7

Anaktuvuk Pass 8/-2

Kotzebue 16/9

Sun and Moon

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76/50/c 15/7/c 83/71/pc 57/35/s 54/47/r 77/45/s 55/32/r 52/26/i 82/72/pc 44/25/s 14/13/sn -2/-12/sn 58/32/r 70/48/sh 37/27/i 64/34/sh 25/19/sn 11/0/sn 82/59/c 39/16/i 67/42/s

61/22/pc 2/-6/pc 79/52/sh 56/38/s 20/11/pc 76/51/pc 1/-7/c 13/9/pc 82/41/sh 38/17/pc -9/-16/c -16/-22/c 8/-1/c 40/22/pc 50/8/sh 60/13/sh 23/12/pc 0/-10/pc 68/28/c 49/6/sh 67/42/s

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Pittsburgh Portland, ME Portland, OR Rapid City Reno Sacramento Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Santa Fe Seattle Sioux Falls, SD Spokane Syracuse Tampa Topeka Tucson Tulsa Wash., DC Wichita

43/20/c 32/5/sn 46/25/s 0/-2/sn 47/19/s 66/31/s 34/11/pc 56/44/pc 74/50/pc 66/44/s 33/11/s 47/31/pc -2/-11/sn 34/15/pc 36/19/i 78/58/pc 13/10/sn 64/40/s 30/18/sn 40/34/sn 14/10/sn

21/-9/sf 47/11/r 42/34/c 10/1/pc 45/27/pc 63/35/pc 29/17/pc 44/16/pc 72/47/s 62/45/pc 37/18/s 47/39/c -13/-17/c 27/21/c 37/2/sf 67/32/pc 8/-4/pc 65/37/s 17/7/pc 43/4/sn 17/4/pc

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Acapulco 89/73/s Athens 59/39/pc Auckland 74/68/r Baghdad 48/45/r Berlin 45/37/sh Hong Kong 65/58/s Jerusalem 53/43/pc Johannesburg78/60/pc London 52/36/r Madrid 48/36/c Magadan 8/-1/sn Mexico City 72/47/pc Montreal 23/9/c Moscow 34/28/sf Paris 48/39/pc Rome 59/57/r Seoul 39/23/pc Singapore 79/73/t Sydney 84/70/pc Tokyo 45/39/c Vancouver 39/27/pc

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Report: Great Lakes region gains wetlands By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer

MONROE, Mich. — Honking geese soar overhead in a V formation, buffeted by bitter gusts off nearby Lake Erie, while flocks of mallards bob along the shore. Even blanketed in snow, the sprawling wetland in southeastern Michigan is a magnet for water birds — one reason a public-private project is underway to improve it. Crews are building levees, canals and pumps that will regulate water levels and upgrade fish passageways in a 946-acre section of Erie Marsh, making it a better home for wildlife and limiting the spread of invasive plants. It’s an example of decadesold efforts by government agencies and private groups to rebuild Great Lakes coastal wetlands such as swamps, bogs and marshes that have been depleted by development. A federal report released in November suggests the work is beginning to pay off. The eight-state Great Lakes

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region — extending from western New York to eastern Minnesota— was the only section of the U.S. where coastal wetland acreage increased during a fiveyear period when scientists took extensive measurements with satellites and field photography. The gain was modest — 13,610 acres, an area not quite as large as the New York City borough of Manhattan. Yet it happened as the rest of the nation’s coastal wetlands shrank by 360,720 acres. The loss amounted to less than 1 percent of the U.S. total, but continued a longtime negative trend. Wetlands don’t have the cachet of spectacular natural features that oceans and mountains do. They’re sometimes dismissed as worthless, especially by those wanting to cover them with shopping centers or highways. But they are immensely valuable, helping prevent floods by absorbing excessive rainwater. They are known as “nature’s kidneys,” filtering out pollutants that otherwise would wash into lakes and rivers, and also provide vital wildlife habitat — nesting grounds for ducks and geese, temporary refuges for migratory birds, spawning areas for fish. Scientists say the continental U.S. has lost roughly half the wetland acreage that existed prior to the European settlement era. They’ve been relentlessly filled and drained for farms, housing and cities. The biggest losses from 2004-09, the period covered by the study, were along the Gulf of Mexico, where coastal wetlands form a crucial buffer against storm surge floodwaters during hurricanes. They have been battered by decades of erosion and salt water intrusion caused largely by flood-control projects and development. Atlantic coast acreage also dropped substantially. Replacing wetlands is a primary goal of an Obama administration program called the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative that is focusing on the region’s biggest environmental problems. Separately, the U.S. and Canada signed an agreement last year to

‘If there’s a cure-all for the Great Lakes, wetland restoration is just about the highest on the list as anything gets.’ — Cameron Davis, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency upgrade the lakes’ water quality that calls for boosting wetlands. “If there’s a cure-all for the Great Lakes, wetland restoration is just about the highest on the list as anything gets,” said Cameron Davis, a senior adviser with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Experts say the gains in the Great Lakes region reflected in the study resulted partially from a prolonged drop in water levels, which created new wetland areas as vegetation sprouted along shorelines in places that had been submerged. Some of that acreage could disappear if the lakes rise again in coming years, said Tom Dahl, a scientist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and one of the report’s authors. Great Lakes coastal wetlands also face continuing development threats. Many are along shorelines that would be prime locations for hotels or condominiums. Regulations designed to protect them have drawn legal challenges from critics who say they stifle economic growth and violate property rights. “It’s important to make sure that we don’t resume losing wetlands to a greater extent than we can restore them,” said Susan-Marie Stedman, a NOAA biologist who wrote the national report with Dahl. As those battles continue, other government programs encourage voluntary wetlands restoration through means such as flooding unused cropland. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service has worked with landowners to revive over 40,000 wetland acres in Michigan alone since 1995, spokesman Brian Buehler said. “Regulations slow the loss. But if we’re going to turn the tide and have a net gain, we

need to re-establish wetland acres,” said Jim Hudgins, who coordinates such projects for the Fish and Wildlife Service. “We can work with people to maintain the values and functions of wetlands in ways that benefit the landowners.” One such project is Erie Marsh, a network of wetlands, farm fields and open water along Lake Erie’s North Maumee Bay. The Nature Conservancy bought the property from a private hunting club and is working with Ducks Unlimited to improve natural features that make it hospitable for waterfowl and fish. Culverts, gates and other infrastructure are being installed to re-establish a connection with the bay that was cut off decades ago by construction of dikes. Group leaders hope the project will be completed by 2017, enabling fish to reach the wetlands for spawning and foraging. Farther up the coast, the Fish and Wildlife Service has bought dozens of acres of corn and soybean fields that will be partially flooded to create wetlands and prairie, becoming part of a wildlife refuge covering 48 miles along the Detroit River and Lake Erie. “You look at it now and wonder how it could be a wetland,” Ducks Unlimited conservation programs manager Jason Hill said, surveying a snow-covered field on a recent afternoon. But once the water level rises, it will teem with swamp vegetation, aquatic birds and critters such as muskrats and snakes — all within a half-hour’s drive of the Detroit metro area, where millions rely on the river and the lake for drinking water. “Having functioning wetlands in urban areas is good for migratory birds and endangered species ... but it also improves water quality for people,” Hill said.

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Community Calendar Today Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at URS Club, 405 Overland Drive. Call 262-1917. 5 p.m. • TOPS group 182 meets at the Sterling Senior Center. Call 260-7606. 5:30 p.m. • Cardiac Patient Support Group at Central Peninsula Hospital, Redoubt Room. Call 398-7763. 6 p.m. • Kenai Bridge Club plays duplicate bridge at the Kenai Senior Center. Call 252-9330 or 283-7609. 7 p.m. • Women’s Barbershop sings at the Soldotna Church of God on the corner of Redoubt and Binkley. For more information, call 335-6789 or 262-4504. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Middle of the Road” at United Methodist Church, 15811 Sterling Highway, Ninilchik. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Dopeless Hope Fiends” at 607 Frontage Road, Kenai. 8 p.m. • Al-Anon Support Group at Central Peninsula Hospital in the Augustine Room, Soldotna. Call 252-0558. The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations. To have your event listed, email organization name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone number to news@ peninsulaclarion.com.

Town councilman resigns — in Klingon INDIAN TRAIL, N.C. (AP) — Call it a politician boldly going where no one has gone before. On Thursday, David Waddell used the Klingon language to write his letter of resignation from the Indian Trail Town Council in North Carolina. Waddell says he opted to use Klingon, the language of a warrior race on the “Star Trek” TV shows and movies, as an inside joke. Mayor Michael Alvarez is calling the letter unprofessional. Waddell says he is resigning at the end of this month. His four-year term expires in December 2015. Waddell says he also needs to devote time to mounting a write-in campaign on the Constitution Party’s platform against U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan.

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Spaghetti feed and auction to benefit wrestling tournament

The Central Peninsula Hospital Service Area Board will hold a special meeting today at 5:30 p.m., downstairs in the The Soldotna Whalers Freestyle Wrestling Club will host a Redoubt-Spur conference rooms at Central Peninsula Hospital. This special meeting has been called for the purpose of consid- Spaghetti Feed and Silent Auction on Friday, at Christ Lutheran Church, 128 Soldotna Ave. in Soldotna from 6-9 p.m. There ering Resolutions 2014-006 and 2014-008. are more than 30 auction items generously donated from local businesses around the community available for bidding. Funds Cardiac Support Group meets today raised will be used to host a tournament on March 1. Tickets are The Cardiac Support Group will meet today from 5:30-7:00 $12 per person. Purchase them in advance or make a donation p.m. in the Augustine Room at Central Peninsula Hospital. For by calling Andrea Bock at 252-2559. Tickets will also be sold at the door. more information, call 262-5547 or 252-1018.

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Re-Group will meet Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in the conferThe Caribou Hills Cabin Hoppers will be holding their monthly general meeting for club members on Tuesday down- ence room at K-Beach Subway. Plans for spring and summer stairs at Mykel’s restaurant, at 6:30 p.m. With elections for all events will be discussed. For more info contact Jan at 262officers and several board members scheduled for April, this is 2773. an excellent opportunity for members to express their concerns and interests in the positions and in the club. Judo club hosting classes in Sterling

Coast Guard Auxiliary plans monthly meeting The Kenai Flotilla of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will conduct its monthly meeting on Jan. 18 at 1:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Nikiski Fire Station No. 1, 44800 Kenai Spur Highway. The public is cordially invited attend and take part in a Change of Watch ceremony in which elected officers take the Oath of Office. For more information, contact the Flo-

The Sterling Judo Club will host classes Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. in the Sterling Elementary School Gym for children 8 years old to adults beginning Jan. 7. Annual registration is $60. New student registration will take place Jan. 7, 9 and 14. For more information, contact Bob Brink at 907242-9940 or obobo1a@gmail.com. Those interested can also call Clayton Holland at 907-394-1823. The club is on Facebook.

Americans foresee a downhill slide to 2050 By CONNIE CASS Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Ask people to imagine American life in 2050, and you’ll get some dreary visions. Whether they foresee runaway technology or runaway government, rampant poverty or vanishing morality, a majority of Americans predict a future worse than today. Whites are particularly gloomy: Only 1 in 6 expects better times over the next four decades. Also notably pessimistic are middle-age and older people, those who earn midlevel incomes and Protestants, a new national poll finds. “I really worry about my grandchildren, I do,” says 74-year-old Penny Trusty of Rockville, Md., a retired software designer and grandmother of five. “I worry about the lowering of morals and the corruption and the confusion that’s just raining down on them.” Even groups with comparatively sunny outlooks — racial and ethnic minorities, the young and the nonreligious — are much more likely to say things will be the same or get worse than to predict a brighter future. “Changes will come, and some of them are scary,” says Kelly Miller, 22, a freshly minted University of Minnesota sports management grad. She looks forward to some wonderful things, like 3D printers creating organs for transplant patients. But Miller envisions Americans in 2050 blindly relying on robots and technology for everything from cooking dinner to managing their money. Overall, 54 percent of those surveyed expect American life to go downhill, while 23 percent think it will improve, according to a December survey

from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Only 21 percent predict life will stay about the same. That minority may be onto something, however. While no one can say what catastrophes or human triumphs are to come, contentment at a personal level has proven remarkably stable over the past four decades. Interviews by the federally funded General Social Survey, one of the nation’s longest-running surveys of social trends, show Americans’ overall happiness as well as satisfaction with their jobs and marriages barely fluctuating since 1972. Those decades spanned the sexual revolution and the women’s rights movement, race riots and civil rights advances, the resignation of one president and impeachment of another, wars from Vietnam through Afghanistan, the birth of the home computer and the smartphone, boom times and hard times. Despite the recent shift toward negativity about the state of the nation, the portion of U.S. residents rating themselves very or pretty happy stayed around 9 out of 10. “Most people evaluate their lives very stably from year to year,” said Tom W. Smith, who has been director since 1980 of the GSS, conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago. “You don’t want massive surges and falls in personal happiness, and the fact that we don’t see that is reassuring.” The GSS, conducted once every two years, will send interviewers back into the field in 2014. The AP-NORC Center survey asked people to rate the change in American life during the period tracked by the GSS, from 1972 to 2012. A majority — 54 percent — say life in America is worse today than four decades ago.

Those old enough to remember the early ‘70s are especially nostalgic, as are tea party supporters and people who live in the countryside. Those who say U.S. life has declined are more apt to name politics, the economy, moral values or changes in families as the biggest difference. The 3 in 10 who think life is better are more likely to point to computers and technology as the big change. Racial and ethnic minorities are apt to cite domestic issues, including civil rights. The GSS offers a look at the real-time changes in American opinion, along with things that have stayed the same, and hints for the future:

Love and family In 1972, the sexual revolution was ablaze. That year the Supreme Court ruled that unmarried couples had a right to birth control. “The Joy of Sex” manual was published. And then there’s “Maude,” the sitcom character who shocked Americans by getting an abortion. Still, a third of Americans back then disapproved of a woman working if she had a husband to support her. The GSS no longer bothers asking that one. Americans today are more worried about divorce and the increasing number of nevermarried moms. Nearly 4 out of 10 women who gave birth in 2011 were unmarried, according to the census. Despite the social turmoil, 98 percent of married people today say their union is happy, including two-thirds who are “very happy.” And marital fidelity remains an ideal endorsed by nearly all Americans.

God Through those decades of moral tumult, the vast majority of Americans held onto belief in God or some higher power. Fewer than 1 in 10 say there’s no God or no way to know. Yet ties to organized religion are slipping. Since 1972, the number of Americans who name no faith preference has quadrupled to 20 percent. “Maybe it just means people are thinking for themselves and not following blindly,” says Hicks, a Tennessee state worker and Methodist churchgoer. “But I do think the church gives families a foundation.”

Money Recession, a stock market crash, runaway inflation and an oil crisis marred the U.S. economy in the early 1970s. Forty years later, those look like the good times to many. Before the Great Recession hit in 2007, most people consistently said their family finances were getting better instead of worse. That’s not the case anymore. Americans are more likely to consider themselves “lower class” than ever in GSS history — 8 percent say that.

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though it is easy to understand why some of us want to be as free from listening to disembodied conversations as we are from secondhand smoke in confined spaces. The five largest U.S. airlines have weighed in against the removal of Federal Communications Commission restrictions on the use of cellular phones in flight. Customers are against it, they say, as are most of their employees. As Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson said, “Delta employees, particularly our in-flight crews, have told us definitively that they are not in favor of voice calls on board.” No surprise there. What flight attendant wants to try to separate someone from his or her inalienable right to talk on the phone? While the FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, personally agrees that problems could arise, earlier this month he said, “I get it. I don’t want the person in the seat next to me yapping at 35,000 feet any more than anyone else.” But he added, the FCC is charged with regulating the technology, not social convention. The airlines do not want to be the arbiters, or invest in the technology needed to support cellphone use, but the federal government should not enforce a blanket ban on cellphones. Cellphone conversations are not the health hazard that secondhand smoke is, and airlines should make their own decisions on how obtrusive technology is used on board their flights, not Congress. The Department of Transportation should give the responsibility to each airline on how they restrict cellphone usage. It is too infrequent that regulators ease their restrictions, and we should not be too quick to relinquish choices to a political and bureaucratic infrastructure that we may later regret. Technologies change, and airlines might find solutions that work for all, but not if legal and regulatory hurdles prevent even thinking about innovation. — The Tennessean, Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 26

America’s great equalizers

BY RICH LOWRY New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a St. Crispin’s Day speech for progressives at his New Year’s Day inauguration ceremony. He evoked a city ravaged by a crisis of inequality. What Rudy Giuliani was to out-of-control crime, de Blasio wants to be to rampant inequality — its scourge and vanquisher. Yet for all his impassioned egalitarianism, the new mayor neglected the great equalizers, those qualities that are the bedrock of success in America and the key to mobility. Like so many others on the left, de Blasio is loath to detract from the false but ideologically congenial narrative of the rich dispossessing the poor. So he gives short shrift to the basics of marriage, education and work — all grounded in an ethic of personal responsibility — that make it possible for people to escape and avoid poverty. Anyone can be a victim of bad luck — especially in a weak economy — but the essential formula for eluding poverty isn’t complicated: Graduate from high school, get a job and get married before having children. Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution writes in the journal National Affairs, “Census data show that if all Americans finished high school, worked full time at whatever job they then qualified for with their education, and married at the same rate as Americans had married in 1970, the poverty rate would be cut by around 70 percent — without additional government spending.” The breakdown of marriage, in particu-

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come, which equals poverty. If the amount of work performed by poor families with children was increased to the equivalent of one adult working full time throughout the year, the poverty rate among these families would drop by two-thirds.” The bottom line is success ultimately depends on habits that money can’t buy. In a book-length study of the influence of parental income on the prospects of children, Susan Mayer found a complicated picture. She writes that “parental characteristics that employers value and are willing to pay for, such as skills, diligence, honesty, good health, and reliability, also improve children’s life chances, independent of their effect on parents’ income. Children of parents with these attributes do well even when their parents do not have much income.” This is the rub — and the dishonesty at the center of de Blasio’s vision. The rich aren’t causing anyone to have children out of wedlock, or drop out of high school, or stop looking for a job. They aren’t undermining discipline or eroding industriousness. They have nothing to do with failing schools or dangerous neighborhoods. Even if you believe their incomes are too high and their taxes too low, they don’t make it harder for anyone else to get ahead. In other words, they don’t cut anyone off from the foundations of success that are the country’s great equalizers. Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.

Some schools want to stop serving as voting sites By NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press

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lar, drives impoverishment. The poverty rate is about six times higher for singleparent families than two-parent families. About 70 percent of all poor families with children are single-parent fami- Rich Lowry lies. According to Robert Rector of The Heritage Foundation, if single mothers were to marry the fathers of the children, about two-thirds of them would no longer be poor, in a stupendously effective antipoverty program. Then there’s education. A college degree is a rocket booster on income mobility. Among children from families in the bottom fifth of the income distribution, 84 percent of those who go on to get a college degree will escape the bottom fifth, and 19 percent will make it all the way to the top fifth, according to Haskins. Among kids from those families who don’t get a degree, 45 percent will remain in the bottom fifth. (In his speech, de Blasio did cite his highestprofile educational initiative, more funding for pre-K education.) And, finally, there’s work. “Even in good economic times,” Robert Rector writes, “the average poor family with children has only 800 hours of total parental work per year — the equivalent of one adult working 16 hours per week. The math is fairly simple: Little work equals little in-

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GLEN RIDGE, N.J. — Some schools want to end their traditional role as polling places because of security concerns since the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, leaving their communities without easy alternatives for voting sites. A presidential commission has been hearing from election officials across the country worried about schools trying to move balloting out of their buildings. Among them is the Glen Ridge School District, a prosperous community less than 20 miles from Manhattan where the Linden Avenue and Forest Avenue Elementary Schools are now closed to balloting. The picturesque two-story schoolhouses in quiet neighborhoods had long welcomed residents on Election Day. Now, red signs posted at entrances instruct visitors they must ring the bell and show photo ID to cameras above the doors before they can be buzzed in. The district strengthened access control last year after administrators, police and an outside security consultant conducted a review in the wake of the December 2012 shooting in Newtown, Conn., and the locked doors also were closed to voters. A gunman had shot his way into the locked Sandy Hook and killed 20 first-graders and six adults in a matter of minutes, so leaving schools open to voters suddenly seemed too risky in Glen Ridge. “After the Newtown tragedy, as you can imagine, we had many, many, many parents who were concerned about security on Election Day,” said Elisabeth Ginsburg, president of the Glen Ridge Public Schools Board of Education. C

The district’s two elementary schools house children in prekindergarten through second grade, while the middle and high schools weren’t used as polling places. “Particularly the parents of very young children, you can imagine how Newtown resonated with them,” she said. Similar moves have been made elsewhere, and that’s caught the attention of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. The commission plans to make recommendations this month to President Barack Obama about ways to improve access to the polls, and hopes to encourage schools to stay open for voting, among many other suggestions. “Schools are in many ways a perfect polling place because of accessibility concerns, they usually have adequate parking, they’re large facilities, large rooms, they’ve historically been used as polling places, and they’re ubiquitous,” the commission’s senior research director, Nathaniel Persily, told commissioners as he summarized months of research at their final public meeting Dec. 3. “The closing of schools poses a real problem for finding adequate facilities for polling places.” Conway Belangia, elections director for South Carolina’s Greenville County, struggled to find replacement sites after he had to move polling out of eight city schools this past year. He faced budget constraints to rent other facilities and said the move was a hardship on voters confused about the change. But he said most voters understood the need, and it was clear to him after Sandy Hook that balloting didn’t need to be in the schools. “The schools have mandated that any

visitor must go through a security check. That would be impossible for voters coming in to pass ballots,” Belangia said in a telephone interview. “Hopefully those security measures will thwart shootings happening in this part of the country.” After the 1999 Columbine shooting in Colorado, voting in schools was banned in Jefferson County, the state’s third-largest county with more than 400,000 people, according to state elections director Judd Choate. It’s hard to tell how widespread school voting restrictions have become since Sandy Hook. None of the national school associations contacted by The Associated Press tracks the issue, and the commission doesn’t have figures. A search of news articles from the past year found that more than three dozen U.S. schools either had closed to voting or considered it because of Sandy Hook, and election officials repeatedly testified at the commission’s public meetings that it’s a growing problem. “Schools are less and less inclined to want to make those facilities locations for voting, because you have access from people coming in off the street,” Ohio Secretary of State John Husted testified at the commission’s Cincinnati meeting in September. He said most schools are accommodating and some have been motivated to stay open because they rely financially on taxes that have to be approved by the voters. Some studies have shown that voters are more likely to support a school funding proposal if they are casting a ballot in a school. In some other states, schools are required to be available on Election Day, although there was an effort in the past year in some states to allow schools to close.

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Kerry: US will support Iraq, but without troops By DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press

JERUSALEM — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that the United States will support Iraq’s fight against al-Qaida-linked militants who have overrun two cities, but won’t send in American troops. Kerry said the militants are trying to destabilize the region and undermine a democratic process in Iraq, and that the U.S. is in contact with tribal leaders in Anbar province who are standing up to the terrorists. But, he said, “this is a fight that belongs to the Iraqis. That is exactly what the president and the world decided some time ago when we left Iraq, so we are not obviously contemplating returning. We are not contemplating putting boots on the ground. This is their fight. ... We will help them in their

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah before their meeting in Rawdat Khurayim, a secluded royal hunting retreat in Saudi Arabia, Sunday.

fight, but this fight, in the end, they will have to win and I am confident they can.” Al-Qaida linked gunmen have largely taken over the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi in an uprising that has been a blow

to the Shiite-led government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri alMaliki. Bombings in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killed at least 20 people Sunday. Anbar, a vast desert area on the borders with Syria and Jor-

dan, was the heartland of the Sunni insurgency that rose up against American troops and the Iraqi government after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. In 2004, insurgents in Fallujah killed four American security contractors, hanging their burned bodies from a bridge. Ramadi and other cities have remained battlegrounds as sectarian bloodshed has mounted, with Shiite militias killing Sunnis. “We are very, very concerned about the efforts of alQaida and the Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant, which is affiliated with al-Qaida, who are trying to assert their authority not just in Iraq, but in Syria,” Kerry said. “These are the most dangerous players in that region. Their barbarism against the civilians in Ramadi and Fallujah and against Iraqi security forces is on display for everyone in the

world to see.” Kerry made the comments as he left Jerusalem for talks with leaders in Jordan and Saudi Arabia about his Mideast peacemaking efforts after three days of lengthy meetings with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Kerry said some progress was made in what he described as “very serious, very intensive conversations,” but key hurdles are yet to be overcome. His talks with Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh covered the peace process, Syria and Iraq. After his short stay in Amman, Kerry flew to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and then took a 30-minute helicopter ride to King Abdullah’s desert palace. The Saudi leader developed an initiative in 2002 in which the Arab world offered comprehensive peace with Israel in exchange for a full pullout from

all territories it captured in the 1967 Mideast war. The initiative, revolutionary when it was introduced, has been endorsed by the Arab League and, technically, remains in effect. “Saudi Arabia’s initiative holds out the prospect that if the parties could arrive at a peaceful resolution, you could instantaneously have peace between the 22 Arab nations and 35 Muslim nations, all of whom have said they will recognize Israel if peace is achieved,” Kerry said. “Imagine how that changes the dynamics of travel, of business, of education, of opportunity in this region, of stability. Imagine what peace could mean for trade and tourism, what it could mean for developing technology and talent, for job opportunities for the younger generation, for generations in all of these countries,” Kerry said.

Pope to travel to 1 killed, 2 injured in Colo., plane crash Holy Land in May By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis says his upcoming trip to the Holy Land aims to boost relations with Orthodox Christians. But the three-day visit in May also underscores Francis’ close ties to the Jewish community, his outreach to Muslims and the Vatican’s longstanding call for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The announcement was made Sunday just as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry wrapped up three days of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in a new U.S. bid for peace. Francis told thousands gathered in the rain for his weekly Sunday blessing that he would visit Amman, Bethlehem and Jerusalem on May 24-26. It is the only papal trip confirmed so far for 2014 and the second foreign trip of Francis’ pontificate, following his 2013 visit to Brazil for World Youth Day. Francis, an Argentine Jesuit, will be the fourth pope to visit the Holy Land after Paul VI’s landmark visit in 1964. In his Christmas address, Francis singled out the Holy Land for prayers, saying “Bless the land where you chose to come into the world, and grant a favorable outcome to the peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.” As archbishop of Buenos Aires, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio — now Pope Francis — made interreligious dialogue a top priority, hosting an annual interfaith ceremony in the Argentine capital’s cathedral to promote religious harmony and writing a book on faith with his good friend, Rabbi Abraham Skorka. “We are hoping for a new glimmer of light from this visit in relations with the Orthodox, with Muslims and Jews,” Monsignor William Shomali, auxiliary bishop in Jerusalem, told Vatican Radio on Sun-

day. All three governments welcomed the papal visit. The Palestinian news agency Wafa said President Mahmoud Abbas hoped it would “contribute to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people who aspire for freedom, justice and independence.” In Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Ministry Yigal Palmor said Francis was “will be greeted as warmly as his predecessors were.” Jordan’s Royal Palace said the Amman leg of Francis’ visit — on May 24 — would mark a “significant milestone for brotherhood and forgiveness between Muslims and Christians and consolidates the message of peace.” Francis said his prime aim was to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic meeting in Jerusalem between Pope Paul VI and the thenspiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, Ecumenical Patriarch Atengora. Catholics and Orthodox have been divided since the Great Schism of 1054, precipitated largely by disagreements over the primacy of the pope. Francis will be joined in Jerusalem by the current ecumenical patriarch, Bartholomew, who became the first ecumenical leader to attend a papal installation since the schism when he traveled to Rome for Francis’ inaugural Mass in March. They will celebrate Mass together at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where the faithful believe Jesus was crucified and buried. Francis’ full itinerary hasn’t been released, but Rabbi Skorka said he hopes the pope will stop at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem. The Catholic Church in the Holy Land said the visit was aimed “mainly at spreading and promoting love, cooperation and peace among all inhabitants.”

1 dead, 1 hurt in NYC high-rise fire NEW YORK (AP) — One man was killed and another was injured in a three-alarm high-rise apartment fire in midtown Manhattan on Sunday, authorities said. Firefighter spokesman Danny Glover said the fire was reported shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday in an apartment on the 20th floor of a building at 43rd Street and 10th Avenue. About 150 firefighters battled the fire and brought it under control shortly before 1 p.m., Glover said. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, which spread heavy smoke to several apartments around

the affected apartment, Glover said. Police said one of the victims, 27-year-old Daniel McClung, was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. The other victim, a 32-year-old male, was hospitalized in stable condition, police said. Assistant Fire Chief John Sudhik told the Daily News the victims were overcome by smoke and flames in the stairwell. Five firefighters suffered minor injuries battling the blaze and several civilians were injured but refused to go to the hospital, a fire official said.

DENVER — A fiery plane crash at the Aspen airport Sunday afternoon killed one person and injured two others, one severely, Colorado authorities said. Officials said the flight originated in Mexico and all three aboard were pilots and Mexican men. Alex Burchetta, director of operations for the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office, identified the man who died as Sergio Carranza Brabata of Mexico. He did not release the names of the two injured, and he did not know where in Mexico the 54-year-old Brabata lived. Burchetta said the plane went off the right side of the runway, flipped over and burst

into flames. “The injuries were traumatic in nature, but they were not thermal,” he said. “So the fire never reached inside the cabin as far as we can tell.” Ginny Dyche, a spokeswoman for Aspen Valley Hospital, said the facility received two patients who were involved in the crash. She later said one patient in fair condition and another in critical condition were transferred elsewhere. Peter Knudson, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, confirmed the plane was a Canadair CL-600, a midsized private jet. The aircraft is registered to the Bank of Utah in Salt Lake City, according to Federal Aviation Administration records. Bank officials did not immediately respond to phone and email messages

Around the World Iraqi troops battle al-Qaida militants in fighting that kills 34; deadly bombs hit Baghdad BAGHDAD — The Iraqi military tried to dislodge alQaida militants in Sunni-dominated Anbar province Sunday, unleashing airstrikes and besieging the regional capital in fighting that killed at least 34 people, officials said. A series of bombs in Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad, meanwhile, killed at least 20 people. The recent gains by the insurgents have been a blow to the Shiite-led government — as sectarian violence has escalated since the U.S. withdrawal. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington was “very, very concerned” by the fighting but would not send in American troops. Video of the airstrikes in Anbar — apparently taken by aircraft at night — was released by Iraq’s Defense Ministry showing al-Qaida hideouts being bombarded. It showed men gathered around a vehicle, then running away as the site was struck. A ministry statement said the air force struck a militants’ hideout overnight, identifying them as belonging to the alQaida-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, which the government refers to as “terrorists.” The army and allied tribesmen also fought al-Qaida militants around the provincial capital of Ramadi on Sunday, two Anbar government officials told The Associated Press by telephone. They said 22 soldiers and 12 civilians were killed, along with an unknown number of militants, and 58 people were wounded. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.

With Congress returning to work, electionyear politics are certain to shape limited agenda WASHINGTON — Congress returns to work Monday with election-year politics certain to shape an already limited agenda. Republicans intend to focus on every facet of President Barack Obama’s health care law. They see a political boost in its problem-plagued rollout as the GOP looks to maintain its House majority and seize control of the Democratic-led Senate. First up in the House, according to Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., is legislation addressing the security of personal data, part of his party’s effort “to protect the American people from the harmful effects of Obamacare.” Republicans also promise closer scrutiny of the administration’s tally of enrollment numbers in the program. Democrats will press to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour and extend unemployment benefits, trying to cast the party as more concerned with the less fortunate and intent on dealing with income inequality. The issues resonate with liberals, the core Democratic voters crucial in low-turnout midterm elections. — The Associated Press

seeking comment. Allen Kenitzer, an FAA spokesman, said the plane was headed from Tucson, Ariz., and crashed upon landing. Officials said the crash happened at 12:22 p.m. MST. A plane with the same tail number took off at 6 a.m. MST from the airport in Toluca, a city 35 miles west of Mexico City, before stopping in Tucson, according to a Mexican federal official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. The official said the passengers aboard were three Mexican men. He declined to release their names, citing security reasons. Tucson International Airport officials didn’t immediately have more information.

Attempts by The Associated Press to reach airport officials in Colorado were not immediately successful. The crash prompted Twitter responses from two celebrity witnesses, who confirmed to The Associated Press that they sent the tweets. Country singer LeAnn Rimes Cibrian tweeted via @ leannrimes on Sunday: “So sad! Horrible plane crash we just saw happen at the Aspen airport.” Comedian Kevin Nealon sent a series of tweets about the crash through @kevin_nealon. His first one said, “Horrible plane crash here at Aspen airport. Exploded into flames as it was landing. I think it was a private jet.” Later he tweeted, “Airport is closed now. I think I’ll drive back to LA after seeing that.”

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Pens’ Malkin returns to take down Jets By The Associated Press

PITTSBURGH — Evgeni Malkin scored twice in his return from injury, and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Winnipeg Jets 6-5 on Sunday. James Neal added two goals for Pittsburgh, which matched a club record by winning its 12th straight home game. Jussi Jokinen scored his third goal in two games, and Matt Niskanen put in the winner with less than 8 minutes left. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 29 shots, and coach Dan Bylsma won his 232nd game with Pittsburgh. He moved into a tie with Eddie Johnston for the most victories in franchise history. Evander Kane had two goals and an assist for the Jets. Jacob Trouba, Blake Wheeler and Mark Scheifele also scored, but Winnipeg remained winless in Pittsburgh since 2006. Al Montoya made 33 saves, but couldn’t make an early two-goal lead stand.

of a back-to-back set for the first time this to extend his club-record and career-best Malkin missed nine games with a lower-body injury. Defensemen Niklas Hjalmarsson and season. winning streak to 11. lower leg injury, yet hardly looked rusty. Staal, who missed his first game since Ryan Kesler and Henrik Sedin scored He scored his 10th and 11th goals of the Michal Rozsival scored in the third period for the Blackhawks, who have earned at Feb. 26, 2011, had played in 191 consecupower-play goals 2 minutes apart in the season and added an assist. least one point in their last 10 games.

SHARKS 3, BLACKHAWKS 2, SO CHICAGO — Logan Couture and Joe Pavelski scored in a shootout, and San Jose earned its first victory in Chicago in three years. Alex Stalock made 33 saves through overtime as San Jose bounced back from a loss at Colorado on Saturday. Jason Demers scored in the first period, and Brett Burns had a tying goal in the third. Couture beat Corey Crawford with a shot into the right side of the net after Stalock stopped Chicago captain Jonathan Toews leading off the shootout. Patrick Sharp then shot wide before Pavelski scored to give the Sharks their first win at the United Center since a 5-3 victory on Dec. 30, 2010. Crawford made 40 saves in his first home start since he left Chicago’s 6-2 victory over Florida on Dec. 8 because of a

HURRICANES 2, PREDATORS 1 RALEIGH, N.C. — Alexander Semin and Jeff Skinner both had a goal and an assist, and Anton Khudobin made 31 saves to lift Carolina to its season-high fourth straight win. Skinner netted the winner with 3:31 left on a shot from the right wing that slipped under goalie Carter Hutton’s pads for his team-leading 20th goal. Patric Hornqvist had tied it for Nashville with a power-play goal at 6:46 of the third period. The Predators, who had earned points in four straight games, dropped their third in a row. The Hurricanes played without injured captain Eric Staal. Khudobin, filling in for injured goalie Cam Ward, improved to 5-0 this season and helped the Hurricanes win both ends

tive regular-season games — the third lon- first, and defenseman Kevin Bieksa scored gest streak in franchise history. in the third for the Canucks. Canucks rookie Eddie Lack made a career-high 45 saves one night after Roberto DUCKS 4, CANUCKS 3, OT Luongo had 45 in a loss to Los Angeles. ANAHEIM, Calif. — Corey Perry scored his NHL-leading eighth game-winning goal OILERS 5, LIGHTNING 3 of the season with 1.3 seconds on the clock EDMONTON, Alberta — Jordan in overtime, giving Anaheim a come-fromEberle scored two goals, and Edmonton behind victory over Vancouver. The Ducks, off to a franchise-best 31- snapped a four-game losing streak by 8-5 start and 17-0-2 at Honda Center, are beating Tampa Bay. Taylor Hall, Luke Gazdic, and Boyd the only team in the league without a regulation loss at home. Anaheim is also the Gordon also scored for the Oilers (14-26third NHL team to open a season with a 5), who have won three of 13. Edmonton avoided its fourth five-game losing streak home point streak of at least 19 games. The Ducks have also won 13 of 14 of the season. It was the Oilers’ first win against a since losing back-to-back shootout deciteam above the playoff cutline in a month. sions against San Jose and Los Angeles. Nikita Kucherov, Victor Hedman and Nick Bonino scored the tying goal with 1:27 left in regulation. Saku Koivu Valtteri Filppula had goals for the Lightand Matt Beleskey scored in the second ning (25-13-4), whose five-game winning period, and Jonas Hiller stopped 17 shots streak on the road ended.

Chargers get road upset Bengals fall again in playoffs JOE KAY AP Sports Writer

CINCINNATI — Philip Rivers’ gloved hands found the right touch in the January cold. The Bengals? Still can’t do anything right when it’s playoff time. San Diego took advantage of Andy Dalton’s three turnovers in the second half on Sunday, pulling away to a 27-10 victory that extended the Bengals’ stretch of playoff misery to 23 years and counting. With Rivers making accurate throws in the chilling rain, the Chargers (10-7) won their fifth in a row, beating the last team that had knocked them off. They’ll play next Sunday in Denver, which has the AFC’s top seed. It was a shocking finish for the Bengals (11-6), who won the AFC North, went unbeaten at home and had their topranked defense for the playoffs. With everything in their favor, they fell apart, getting outscored 20-0 in the second half. “We asked a lot of our defense today and they came up with three big turnovers,” said Rivers, who was 12 of 16 for 128 yards with a touchdown and no interceptions. “We didn’t turn it over, which is always big in the playoffs.” The Bengals now have the sixth-longest streak of playoff futility in NFL history, stretching all the way back to the 1990 season. They’ve lost their playoff opener three straight years, matching a league record as well, according to STATS

LLC. Coach Marvin Lewis fell to 0-5 in the playoffs during his 11 seasons as head coach, but is expected to stick around and get another chance to try again. A lot of it fell on Dalton, who has a trilogy of bad playoff games. He fumbled and threw two interceptions in the second half that set up San Diego’s win. Dalton finished 29 of 51 for 334 yards with a belowaverage passer rating of 67. Combined with the Saints’ victory over the Eagles on Saturday night, the two No. 6 playoff seeds won for the first time since 2010, when the Packers won the Super Bowl. And the Chargers are thinking: Why not us? “We talked all week about this being the fifth round,” Rivers said, referring to their fivegame winning streak. “So the sixth round will be in Denver next week.” This one was a reversal from the last time they met. The Bengals forced three turnovers for a 17-10 win in San Diego on Dec. 1, which became the Chargers’ turning point. The Bengals got the rematch at home, where they had scored 49, 41, 41, 42 and 34 points in their last five regular season games. They were blanked in the second half on Sunday, when Dalton went 17 of 34 for 170 yards with two interceptions, a fumble and three sacks. In first-round playoff losses each of the past three seasons, Dalton has thrown one touchdown pass and six interceptions.

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49ers kicker Phil Dawson strikes his game-winning field goal through the arms of Packers cornerback Davon House (31) at the conclusion of an NFL wild-card playoff football game Sunday in Green Bay, Wis.

49ers put Pack in deep freeze GENARO C. ARMAS AP Sports Writer

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Under pressure in subzero weather, Colin Kaepernick kept his cool. Facing a blitz on third-and-8, the elusive San Francisco 49ers quarterback scrambled 11 yards out of trouble to set up Phil Dawson’s 33-yard field goal as time expired for a 2320 win Sunday over the Green Bay Packers in an NFC wild-

card game. Doesn’t matter where or when — the 49ers keep figuring out how to beat Green Bay. “Didn’t think we were going to pull it out, did you?” coach Jim Harbaugh said. When it’s Kaepernick and the 49ers facing the Packers, the game is never over. Even in the meat locker that was Lambeau Field, where the temperature at kickoff was 5 degrees, with a wind chill of minus-10. No sweat for Kaepernick.

He went sleeveless, and didn’t wear gloves. “I’ve played in cold-weather games before,” he said. “I feel like it’s more mental than anything.” San Francisco plays at Carolina next Sunday in the divisional round. Kaepernick threw for 227 yards, including a 28-yard TD pass to Vernon Davis, and ran for another 98, while Michael Crabtree had eight catches for 125 yards for San Francisco.

In a back-and-forth fourth quarter, the 49ers (13-4) threw the final punch. Kaepernick escaped a blitz to get to the 27 with 1:13 left. “Just trying to figure out a way to get that first down,” Kaepernick said. “Had a play called, we didn’t get the look that we wanted. It worked out for us.” Dawson nailed the winning kick five plays later — but only after nearly being blocked by See NFL, Page A-7

No. 4 Wisconsin tops No. 22 Iowa to stay perfect By The Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. — Ben Brust scored 19 points and No. 4 Wisconsin remained unbeaten with a 75-71 victory over No. 22 Iowa on Sunday night. Wisconsin (15-0, 2-0 Big Ten) matched the best start in school history, tying the 191112 and 1913-14 teams. The game was physical at times, drawing loud protests from both coaches. But Iowa coach Fran McCaffery boiled over after a foul was called on Gabriel Olaseni that sent Nigel Hayes to the line. McCaffery was ejected with 12 minutes to play after two technical fouls were called. He continued to confront the officials as his assistants tried to restrain him. Brust then hit all four free throws off the technical fouls, and Hayes converted one of two on the personal. That turned a 41-39 Iowa lead into 44-41 Wisconsin advantage. Hayes then scored on a drive to cap off a 12-2 run. Roy Marble, who led

Iowa (12-3, 1-1) with 27 points, drilled a 3 to pull the Hawkeyes within 64-63 with just less than 3 minutes to go. But Sam Dekker answered right back with a 3 to put Wisconsin up 67-63. No. 8 WICHITA ST. 67, N. IOWA 53 WICHITA, Kan. — Fred VanVleet had a season-high 22 points to lead Wichita State to its 15th straight win. Cleanthony Early had 18 points for Wichita State (15-0, 2-0 Missouri Valley), which established a school record for consecutive wins and extended the best start in school history. The previous record winning streak of 14 games came in 195354. Deon Mitchell had 16 points for Northern Iowa (7-7, 1-1). Wichita State shot 38.1 percent from the field, but VanVleet continued his hot streak. In the last four games, he averaged 18.3 points while compiling 21 assists and just one turnover. Early scored 11 of Wichita State’s first 13 points in the second half. His third 3-pointer in a 5-min-

ute span gave the Shockers a 4333 lead with 14:05 remaining. Northern Iowa cut Wichita State’s lead to 43-39 with 12:17 to play but VanVleet made a jumper with 8:11 remaining and then dribbled past two Panthers and slithered between two more for a winding layup to go up 5744 with 6:28 remaining.

No. 20 COLORADO 100, No. 10 OREGON 91 BOULDER, Colo. — Askia Booker scored a career-high 27 points, 11 in the last 4:40, and Colorado rallied in the second half to hand Oregon its first loss of the season. Spencer Dinwiddie added 23 points and Xavier Johnson and Josh Scott had 15 points apiece for Colorado (13-2, 2-0 Pac-12), which is off to its best start since the 1968-69 team began the season 13-2. Scott had 12 rebounds for the Buffaloes, who remain unbeaten in 11 home games this season. Mike Moser had 24 points to lead Oregon (13-1, 1-1), which was denied its first 14-0 start since 1937-38. Joseph Young and Damyean Dotson both added 16 points. Leading the nation in scoring, Oregon, one of seven unC

beaten Division I teams entering the day, could not keep up with Colorado. Young connected on a 3-pointer for Oregon with 1:24 left but that proved to be the Ducks’ final field goal as Colorado made six of eight free throws down the stretch to seal the win.

No. 11 VILLANOVA 91, PROVIDENCE 61 VILLANOVA, Pa. — JayVaughn Pinkston scored 19 points and Dylan Ennis had 17 for Villanova. Pinkston dunked off the opening tip, and the Wildcats (13-1, 2-0 Big East) dominated from there, thrashing the Friars (10-5, 0-2), who beat them twice last season. The Wildcats opened on a 9-0 run, and hit 10 of their first 11 shots to build a 24-point lead. The Wildcats were shooting 32 percent from 3-point range this season, but connected with ease in the first half. Darrun Hilliard, Josh Hart and Ennis all hit two to help the Wildcats go 7 of 13 in the first half. They made 14 of 26 overall. Bryce Cotton scored 25 points and was the lone highlight for the Friars. Cotton made all three 3s in the first half for 16 points.

Jayhawks, who had won 112 of their last 114 games at their venerable on-campus home. Joel Embiid finished with 12 points LAWRENCE, Kan. — Xavier and 12 rebounds. Thames scored 16 points, four on free throws in the closing sec- WAKE FOREST 73, No. 19 onds, and San Diego State held NORTH CAROLINA 67 on to end Kansas’ 68-game nonWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — conference winning streak at AlTravis McKie scored 10 of his 16 len Fieldhouse. Kansas (9-4) had a chance to points in the second half for Wake tie the game when Perry Ellis Forest in the Atlantic Coast Conwent to the free throw line with ference opener for both teams. Codi Miller-McIntyre added 11.9 seconds left. He made his first free throw 12 points for the Demon Deacons but, after San Diego State (12-1) (11-3, 1-0), who took control called a timeout to ice him, Ellis with a 15-2 run midway through missed the second and the Jay- the second half to build a doubledigit lead. hawks were forced to foul. The Tar Heels (10-4, 0-1) Thames made both free throws to give San Diego State a three- made a late push to cut the defipoint lead, and the Aztecs fouled cit to 64-61 with about 2 minutes rather than allow Kansas to at- left, but got no closer as the Demon Deacons held on for their tempt a tying 3-pointer. Frank Mason missed the first third win against a ranked oppoand made the second, and Thames nent under fourth-year coach Jeff made two more foul shots with Bzdelik. The win also snapped a four4.6 seconds left to seal the win. Skylar Spencer finished with game losing streak in the long13 points for the Aztecs, who running series, giving Wake have won 11 straight since los- Forest its first win against North ing to No. 1 Arizona on Nov. 14. Carolina since 2010. James Michael McAdoo had That streak is tied for the secondbest in school history and trails 13 points and eight rebounds only the 20-0 start of the 2010-11 to lead the Tar Heels, while J.P. Tokoto and Brice Johnson both team. Andrew Wiggins and Mason added 12 points and nine rescored 14 points apiece for the bounds.

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edge rusher Davon House. He was whistled for being offside on the play, but the 49ers declined the penalty with the win in hand. Mason Crosby’s 24-yard field goal tied it at 20 for the Packers (8-8-1) with 5:06 left before the 49ers’ final drive. Until then, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers did his best to turn into “Captain Comeback” again. After a slow first quarter, Rodgers finished 17 of 26 for 177 yards and touchdown. “Very disappointing, personally,” Rodgers said. “It’s frustrating not to play your best game in tough conditions. Defense holds them to 23 points. We should win that game.” Kaepernick connected with a spinning Davis down the seam for a score with 10:39 left. The TD quickly answered John Kuhn’s 1-yard run that briefly gave the Packers a fourpoint lead. That touchdown was set up

after Rodgers, in the clutches of a 49ers defender, somehow managed to escape a sack on fourth-and-2 and found Randall Cobb for a 26-yard gain to the Niners 4. Eddie Lacy ran for 81 yards on 21 carries for the Packers, while Frank Gore had 66 yards and a touchdown on 20 carries for the 49ers. But it was Kaepernick who was the difference-maker once again in San Francisco’s fourth straight win over Green Bay. He finished 16 of 30 with the touchdown and an interception. For the second year in a row, the Packers’ season has started and ended with losses to the 49ers. The latest edition of what’s turned into a chippy and heated rivalry took place on the worn, frozen turf of Lambeau Field. An injury-filled season for the Packers came to an end. A depleted Packers defense — already playing without linebacker Clay Matthews — lost two more starters Sunday in cornerback Sam Shields and linebacker Mike Neal — but still managed to hold its own against the Niners.

Sports Briefs Simpson, Spieth, Johnson share lead KAPALUA, Hawaii — Webb Simpson might have pulled out of the Tournament of Champions to be with his caddie if he were not on an island in the middle of the Pacific. Reassurance came from Paul Tesori, his caddie and close friend whose newborn son is in intensive care in a Florida hospital. “Paul sent me a text this morning, just told me he loved me and wanted to go out and fight as hard as I would any other day,” Simpson said Sunday after doing just that. Simpson made four birdies in a five-hole stretch on the back nine at Kapalua for a 5-under 68, giving him a share of the lead with defending champion Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth going into the final round Monday on the Plantation Course.

Hewitt gets best of Federer BRISBANE, Australia — With the Fanatics in bright yellow and raucously chanting for Lleyton Hewitt to stay on top of Roger Federer, the Brisbane International final had the surreal feel of a journey back in time. It wouldn’t have seemed out of context a decade ago, when Hewitt spent 80 weeks atop the tennis rankings and Federer was yet to win a Grand Slam title. But Hewitt’s 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 win Sunday over his longest-standing rival on tour was clearly an upset, and delivered him his first title since 2010. The 32-year-old former No. 1s have met 27 times dating back to 1999, and Hewitt has now improved his record to nine wins against the 17-time Grand Slam champion. — The Associated Press

Scoreboard Football Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 4 Indianapolis 45, Kansas City 44 New Orleans 26, Philadelphia 24 Sunday, Jan. 5 San Diego 27, Cincinnati 10 San Francisco 23, Green Bay 20 Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 11 New Orleans at Seattle, 12:35 p.m. (FOX) Indianpolis at New England, 4:15 p.m. (CBS) Sunday, Jan. 12 San Francisco at Carolina, 9:05 a.m. (FOX) San Diego at Denver, 12:40 p.m. (CBS) All Times AST

49ers 23, Packers 20 SF GB

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First Quarter SF—FG Dawson 22, 9:00. SF—FG Dawson 25, 2:17. Second Quarter GB—Nelson 5 pass from Rodgers (Crosby kick), 5:50. SF—Gore 10 run (Dawson kick), 2:48. GB—FG Crosby 34, :00. Fourth Quarter GB—Kuhn 1 run (Crosby kick), 12:06. SF—V.Davis 28 pass from Kaepernick (Dawson kick), 10:31. GB—FG Crosby 24, 5:06. SF—FG Dawson 33, :00. A—77,525. SF GB First downs 22 18 Total Net Yards 381 281 Rushes-yards 30-167 31-124 Passing 214 157 Punt Returns 2-20 0-0 Kickoff Returns 3-78 5-105 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-17 Comp-Att-Int 16-30-1 17-26-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-13 4-20 Punts 3-36.7 5-39.4 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 2-0 Penalties-Yards 2-10 3-20 Time of Possession 29:06 30:54 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—San Francisco, Kaepernick 7-98, Gore 20-66, Hunter 2-4, Patton 1-(minus 1). Green Bay, Lacy 21-81, Starks 5-29, Rodgers 2-11, Kuhn 2-2, Cobb 1-1. PASSING—San Francisco, Kaepernick 16-30-1-227. Green Bay, Rodgers 17-26-0-177. RECEIVING—San Francisco,

Crabtree 8-125, Boldin 3-38, V.Davis 2-37, Gore 1-11, Dixon 1-10, Celek 1-6. Green Bay, Nelson 7-62, Cobb 2-51, J.Jones 2-20, Kuhn 2-16, Lacy 2-7, Starks 1-13, Quarless 1-8. MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

Chargers 27, Bengals 10 SD Cin.

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First Quarter SD—Woodhead 5 run (Novak kick), :48. Second Quarter Cin—Gresham 4 pass from Dalton (Nugent kick), 5:59. Cin—FG Nugent 46, :00. Third Quarter SD—Green 4 pass from Rivers (Novak kick), 6:46. SD—FG Novak 25, 2:00. Fourth Quarter SD—FG Novak 23, 14:16. SD—R.Brown 58 run (Novak kick), 2:17. A—62,277. SD Cin First downs 16 27 Total Net Yards 318 439 Rushes-yards 40-196 25-113 Passing 122 326 Punt Returns 0-0 3-6 Kickoff Returns 1-23 6-151 Interceptions Ret. 2-33 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 12-16-0 29-51-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-6 3-8 Punts 6-43.2 3-39.3 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 3-2 Penalties-Yards 5-28 4-38 Time of Possession 29:28 30:32 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—San Diego, R.Brown 8-77, Woodhead 15-54, Mathews 13-52, Royal 1-9, Rivers 2-4, McClain 1-0. Cincinnati, Bernard 1245, Green-Ellis 8-42, Dalton 5-26. PASSING—San Diego, Rivers 12-16-0-128. Cincinnati, Dalton 29-51-2-334. RECEIVING—San Diego, Green 3-34, Allen 2-21, Woodhead 2-14, Mathews 2-12, Royal 1-33, R.Brown 1-9, Gates 1-5. Cincinnati, M.Jones 8-130, Bernard 7-73, Gresham 7-64, Green 3-34, Hawkins 3-20, Sanu 1-13. MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

Bowl Glance Sunday, Jan. 5 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Arkansas State 23, Ball State 20 Monday, Jan. 6 BCS National Championship At Pasadena, Calif. Florida State (13-0) vs. Auburn

Thunder nip Timberwolves By The Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS — Kevin Durant scored 23 of his seasonhigh 48 points in the fourth quarter and hit the winner with 4 seconds to play to rally the Oklahoma City Thunder from 13 points down in a 115-111 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night. Durant went 7 for 11 from the field and hit four 3-pointers in the final quarter to help the Thunder rebound from two straight losses at home. Kevin Love played the entire second half and finished with 30 points, 14 rebounds and five assists for the Wolves. But he missed four free throws in the final 27 seconds to let this one slip away. The last three came when he was fouled on a 3-pointer with 2.2 seconds to go and the Wolves down two. SPURS 116, CLIPPERS 92 SAN ANTONIO — Tiago Splitter had 22 points before leaving with a right shoulder injury, Tim Duncan added 19 points and 11 rebounds, and San Antonio beat Los Angeles in the Clippers’ first game without injured All-Star Chris Paul. Tony Parker had 17 points for San Antonio (26-8). Splitter left with 9:37 remaining after charging into Ryan Hollins’ chest. Jamal Crawford scored 24 points for Los Angeles, and Blake Griffin had 19. Darren Collison added 14 points and six assists while starting in place of Paul, who separated his right shoulder Friday

night against Dallas.

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Granger came off the bench to score 13 and George Hill added 10 for Indiana. Eric Gordon finished with 21 points for the Pelicans after scoring 17 in the first half. Alexis Ajinca scored 17 points, reserve Tyreke Evans added 12 and Anthony Davis 10 for New Orleans. Five different Pacers scored as Indiana went on a 14-0 run over a 4:12 span of the third quarter. The Pelicans, meanwhile, missed seven straight field goals.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Thaddeus Young had 30 points and Philadelphia held on for its fourth straight win, all on the road. Evan Turner added 23 points and rookie star Michael CarterWilliams had 16, but fell hard on the court at the final buzzer when he was trying to keep Damian Lillard from scoring the tying basket. Carter-Williams appeared to hit NETS 89, CAVALIERS 82 his head and stayed down for several NEW YORK — Deron Wilmoments while his teammates held off their celebration. When he finally liams scored 21 points for Brooklyn, and Paul Pierce added 17 rose, he held his hand to his head. while moving past Allen Iverson into 19th place on the NBA’s caHEAT 110, MAGIC 94 reer scoring list. Andray Blatche had 12 points ORLANDO, Fla. — Dwyane in his return from a four-game abWade and Chris Bosh each had 20 points, helping Miami rally for the sence as the Nets won their second straight for just their second winwin. Rashard Lewis added 18 points ning streak of the season. They and LeBron James finished with limited a Cleveland team playing 15 points, eight rebounds and eight without star guard Kyrie Irving to 37 percent shooting and matched assists. The Heat’s win was their eighth their best defensive performance straight over the Magic. It was also of the season. Miami’s 22nd consecutive divisional victory, leaving it just one BOBCATS 113, KINGS 103 win short of tying Boston’s NBA SACRAMENTO, Calif. — record of 23 set in 1961. Kemba Walker scored 30 points, Jefferson had a season-high 27 PACERS 99, PELICANS 82 Al and the Charlotte snapped a seaINDIANAPOLIS — Paul son-high five-game losing streak. The Bobcats had lost their preGeorge had 24 points and 10 rebounds to lead four Pacers in vious two games by a combined 57 double figures, and Indiana rallied points, but took the lead in this one from a seven-point halftime deficit with 17 unanswered points in the second quarter. It was Charlotte’s for the win. Lance Stephenson scored 19 only win on its five-game road points on 8-of-12 shooting, Danny trip.

Arkansas St. edges Ball St. DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer

MOBILE, Ala. — Allen Muse caught a 13-yard touchdown pass from backup quarterback Fredi Knighten with 32 seconds remaining to lift Arkansas State past Ball State 23-20 at the GoDaddy Bowl on Sunday night. Ball State had a chance to tie at the end of regulation, but Scott Secor’s 38-yard field goal attempt was blocked as time expired. Arkansas State (8-5) won the GoDaddy Bowl for a sec-

ond straight season, despite losing starting quarterback Adam Kennedy to a knee injury in the second quarter. It was the Red Wolves’ third straight trip to Mobile. Knighten had 115 yards passing and 97 yards rushing. Muse, who considered quitting football following his father’s suicide, wound up with the biggest catch of the night just five plays Ball State took a four-point lead that looked as if it could have held up. Ball State (10-3) went ahead

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20-16 with 1:33 remaining on a 1-yard touchdown run by Jahwan Edwards, but couldn’t hold the lead. Edwards finished with a game-high 146 yards rushing. Keith Wenning capped his Ball State career with 215 yards passing, one touchdown and one interception. He’s the first Ball State quarterback to throw for 4,000 yards in a season. For a second straight season, Arkansas State shrugged off a coaching change to win the GoDaddy Bowl. C

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Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 42 28 12 2 58 124 89 Tampa Bay 42 25 13 4 54 119 100 Montreal 43 24 14 5 53 112 102 Detroit 43 19 14 10 48 114 121 Toronto 43 21 17 5 47 119 127 Ottawa 44 19 18 7 45 126 141 Florida 42 16 20 6 38 101 134 Buffalo 42 12 26 4 28 74 118 Metropolitan Division Pittsburgh 44 31 12 1 63 142 103 Philadelphia 42 21 17 4 46 111 116 Washington 42 20 16 6 46 128 128 Carolina 43 18 16 9 45 105 124 N.Y. Rangers 43 21 20 2 44 105 115 New Jersey 43 17 18 8 42 101 110 Columbus 42 18 20 4 40 113 123 N.Y. Islanders 43 14 22 7 35 112 143

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Chicago 45 29 7 9 67 167 124 St. Louis 41 29 7 5 63 150 95 Colorado 41 26 11 4 56 120 104 Minnesota 44 22 17 5 49 106 113 Dallas 41 20 14 7 47 120 124 Winnipeg 45 19 21 5 43 123 135 Nashville 43 18 19 6 42 102 129 Pacific Division Anaheim 44 31 8 5 67 146 111 San Jose 43 27 10 6 60 142 111 Los Angeles 43 26 13 4 56 113 89 Vancouver 44 23 13 8 54 117 108 Phoenix 41 20 12 9 49 123 127 Calgary 41 14 21 6 34 96 128 Edmonton 45 14 26 5 33 117 156 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Sunday’s Games San Jose 3, Chicago 2, SO Pittsburgh 6, Winnipeg 5 Carolina 2, Nashville 1 Edmonton 5, Tampa Bay 3 Anaheim 4, Vancouver 3, OT Monday’s Games Dallas at N.Y. Islanders, 3 p.m. Columbus at N.Y. Rangers, 3 p.m. Florida at Montreal, 3:30 p.m. Calgary at Colorado, 5 p.m. All Times AST

Basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Toronto 16 16 Boston 13 21 Brooklyn 12 21 Philadelphia 12 21 New York 11 22 Southeast Division Miami 26 8 Atlanta 18 16 Washington 14 17 Charlotte 15 20 Orlando 10 23 Central Division W L Pct GB Indiana 27 6 Chicago 14 18 Detroit 14 20 Cleveland 11 23 Milwaukee 7 26

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Sunday’s Games Memphis 112, Detroit 84 Golden State 112, Washington 96 Indiana 82, Cleveland 78 Miami 102, Toronto 97 Oklahoma City 119, Boston 96 New York 92, Dallas 80 Denver 137, L.A. Lakers 115 Monday’s Games Minnesota at Philadelphia, 3 p.m. Atlanta at Brooklyn, 3:30 p.m. Orlando at L.A. Clippers, 6:30 p.m. All Times AST

Women’s Scores EAST Army 66, Loyola (Md.) 62, OT Boston College 70, Virginia Tech 63 Boston U. 71, Lehigh 64 Bucknell 88, Colgate 72 Canisius 48, St. Peter’s 47 Delaware 71, Hofstra 66, OT Fairfield 72, Quinnipiac 71 Fordham 75, UMass 61 George Washington 74, Saint Joseph’s 67 Holy Cross 63, American U. 60 Iona 94, Niagara 84 Marshall 57, NJIT 56 Navy 67, Lafayette 53 Penn 79, Norfolk St. 49 Rider 64, Monmouth (NJ) 53 Siena 82, Manhattan 58 Stony Brook 57, Columbia 54 Yale 86, Maine 85 SOUTH Auburn 82, Mississippi St. 74 Duke 64, Georgia Tech 47 FIU 78, Palm Beach Atlantic 44 Florida 83, Kentucky 73 LSU 63, Tulane 35 Maryland 79, North Carolina 70 NC State 67, Syracuse 61 Old Dominion 68, NC Central 44 Pittsburgh 79, Virginia 75 Richmond 49, Rhode Island 43 South Carolina 76, Vanderbilt 66 Tennessee 85, Georgia 70 MIDWEST Arkansas 69, Missouri 66 Indiana St. 90, Drake 81 Michigan 64, Ohio St. 49 Milwaukee 68, Nebraska-Omaha 48 N. Iowa 83, Illinois St. 63 Notre Dame 71, Clemson 51 Penn St. 87, Iowa 71 Wichita St. 98, Missouri St. 68 Wright St. 82, Detroit 57 Xavier 70, St. John’s 65 SOUTHWEST Baylor 75, Kansas 55 Iowa St. 82, Oklahoma 75, OT TCU 65, Texas Tech 54 Texas 67, Kansas St. 53 Texas A&M 73, Alabama 58 FAR WEST

Arizona St. 78, Washington 60 California 101, Oregon 98, OT Colorado 61, UCLA 59 Colorado St. 62, New Mexico 50 Long Beach St. 88, Denver 68 Southern Cal 55, Utah 47 Stanford 89, Oregon St. 67 Washington St. 61, Arizona 59

Men’s Scores EAST American U. 69, Holy Cross 54< Army 91, Loyola (Md.) 82< Boston U. 67, Lehigh 66< Bucknell 68, Colgate 57< Fairleigh Dickinson 86, Hofstra 67< Maine 82, Binghamton 66< Mass.-Lowell 59, UMBC 54< Navy 79, Lafayette 71< Villanova 91, Providence 61< SOUTH Florida Gulf Coast 68, Stetson 55 Marshall 77, Presbyterian 49< Murray St. 91, UT-Martin 77< Wake Forest 73, North Carolina 67< FAR WEST Arizona St. 66, Washington St. 47< Colorado 100, Oregon 91< UCLA 107, Southern Cal 73< MIDWEST Illinois St. 66, S. Illinois 48< Loyola of Chicago 89, Missouri St. 57< Michigan 74, Northwestern 51< Minnesota 82, Purdue 79< San Diego St. 61, Kansas 57< Wichita St. 67, N. Iowa 53< Wisconsin 75, Iowa 71<

Transactions BASKETBALL National Basketball Association LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS — Waived G Maalik Wayns. PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Assigned G Elliot Williams to Delaware (NBADL). FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined Seattle RB Marshawn Lynch $50,000 for violating the league’s media policy. HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS — Reassigned F Chris Mueller to Texas (AHL). LOS ANGELES KINGS — Assigned G Martin Jones to Manchester (AHL). NEW YORK RANGERS — Assigned D Conor Allen to Hartford (AHL). COLLEGE CHOWAN — Named Chris Whalley men’s soccer coach. TEXAS — Named Charlie Strong football coach.

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Big G Electric & Engineering, Inc. is currently looking to fill the following positions for our North Slope operations:

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Corporate Safety Instrument FCO Electrical FCO

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Quality Control Supervisor

The schedule will be 2x2, salary DOE. Please send all resumes to shanson@biggelectric.com or fax to (907)262-1011 Attn: Sarah

General Employment

SOLDOTNA- AFTER THE BELL Tutor & Staff positions open for after school program. Starting wages $12 per hour or more, depending on experience. Contact Will Richardson, (907)953-0229 EOE

General Employment

FINANCIAL Auctions Business for Sale Financial Opportunities Mortgage/Loans

Office & Clerical

EXPRO is currently offering Rotating Schedules for qualified candidates to complement our team for the following positions: CASED HOLE ELECTRIC WIRELINE OPERATORS & FIELD ENGINEERS As members of our team, you will be involved in the preparation, maintenance, and operation of Wireline operations, in a safe and environmentally responsible manner. As potential candidates for these positions, the following training and experience are preferred: • Onshore and/or Offshore Wireline operations experience, to include: • Knowledge and skill to perform Wireline operations and trouble shoot any situation that arises related to Wireline. • Maintain and service Expro equipment as per company policy while on location. • Knowledge of running Real Time Cased Hole Service tools to include Production Logging Tools, Perforating, Plug Setting, CBL Tools. • Possession of the current NSTC card, TWIC card, and CDL would be beneficial In addition candidates will be required to submit to • A background check • A drug & alcohol screening • A full functional physical EXPRO will provide additional training as necessary to develop and enhance the skill set required to enable the selected applicants to perform successfully in the field. The successful candidates will be based out of our Kenai, AK facility, primarily to support operations statewide; however they may be requested periodically to assist with Expro operations in other locations. Qualified residents of the Kenai area will be given first consideration in the staffing of these positions. However, we are accepting applications from all areas. These will be permanent full-time positions offering a competitive pay and benefits package, as well as an opportunity to grow and develop as our company expands operations to support the local and global industry. Please submit your resume in confidence by E-mail or Fax: E-Mail: Employment.Alaska1@exprogroup.com Fax: (907)344-5079 EXPRO appreciates all responses however; only candidates under consideration will be contacted. No phone calls please. The Company complies with equal opportunity legislation, unfair discrimination or harassment based on race, culture, nationality, disability, sex, sexual orientation, age or other non-job-related criteria are unacceptable. Instead, principles of equal opportunity, openness of communication and objectivity in selection and reward processes shall be followed. In the formulation of the criteria required for any vacancy please ensure that there is no direct or indirect infringement of these principles.

Clerical Crescent Electric Supply Co., one of the nation's largest electrical distributors, has a job opening in Kenai, AK for a Clerical position. This position would be responsible for answering phones, greeting visitors, data entry, and handling general office duties such as filing, making copies, and sending correspondence. High school diploma or GED is required. One to three months related experience. Previous telephone experience preferred, but not required. Good communication skills and clerical skills. **This position will assist with deliveries as needed so the applicant must possess a valid Driver's License. Salary $12/hr. DOE. If interested apply on-line at https://jobscesco.icims.com/jobs/2705/ clerical/job. EOE.

Professional/Management

EXPERIENCED COOK FOR SENIOR CENTER Nikiski Senior Center is seeking an experienced cook to prepare congregate meals (lunches served at the senior center), home delivered meals (M.O.W.) & other food related functions as deemed necessary. Knowledge of dietary & nutritional programs a must. Qualifications: Must have transportation, pass a background check, 2-5 years of relevant experience, possess a current state food worker card, a “ServSafe” certification and prior work references. Responsible for ordering food inventory, supplies, and supervision of staff. Application may be picked up at the Nikiski Sr. Center on 50025 Lake Marie Drive in Nikiski or resume may be submitted via e-mail to: kaileen@nikiskiseniorcenter.org or delivered in person at the senior center. Open until filled. Monday-Friday, 40 hrs/wk. Salary DOE. Nikiski Senior Citizens, Inc. is an EOE.

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MEDICAL RECEPTIONIST/ Clinical Data Coordinator Full-time, experienced in computers, medical terminology, phones, scheduling, filing & verifying insurance eligibility. Must be able to multi-task and work well with the public. Typing test required.

Clinical Reimbursement Coordinator Needed for surgeon’s office. Must have strong clinical background, knowledge of medical terminology and good typing skills. Duties include: Coding, billing, collections, obtaining prior authorizations, answering telephones, assisting physician in clinic. Typing test required. Salary DOE. Send resume to: 220 Spur View Drive Kenai 99611 or fax (907)283-6443 or call (907)283-5400

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Retail/Commercial Space PRIME KENAI RETAIL/ OFFICE SPACE 1,832SqFt to 20,000SqFt. Rates start @ $.50SqFt. Call Carr Gottstein Properties, (907)564-2424 or visit www.carrgottstein.com

Apartments, Unfurnished 3-PLEX 2-Bedroom, dishwasher, washer/dryer. $850 plus electric, deposit. No smoking & no pets. (907)252-1527. 329 SOHI LANE 2-bedroom, carport, storage, cable, utilities/ tax included, $930. (907)262-5760 (907)398-0497 COLONIAL MANOR (907)262-5820 Large 2-Bedroom, Walk-in closet, carport, storage, central location. Onsite manager. REDOUBT VIEW Soldotna’s best value! Quiet, freshly painted, close to schools. 1-Bedroom from $625. 2-Bedroom from $725. 3-Bedroom, 2-bath, from $825. No pets. (907)262-4359. TWO WEEKS RENT FREE! 3-Bedroom, 1-bath on Redoubt (Kenai). Cats Allowed. Non-Smoking. No ASHA. $916. plus electric. $916. Deposit. (907)335-1950

Apartments, Furnished 1-LARGE ROOM Soldotna area. quiet setting, Satellite, limited cooking. (907)394-2543. EXCELLENT OCEAN VIEW! Bay Arm Apartments, Kenai. Accepting applications for 1 & 2 bedroom apartments, utilities included. $25. nonrefundable application fee. No pets. (907)283-4405. EXECUTIVE SUITE 1-Bedroom, view, deck, satellite TV, High-speed Internet, washer/dryer. No Smoking. No Pets. $950. Available until May. (907)262-1361. FURNISHED 1200sqft. 2-bedroom, 2-bath, amenities. Conveniently located in Soldotna. $1,125. monthly, utilities included. (907)262-4359 Seasonal TOWNHOUSE Apartments On the River in Soldotna Fully furnished 1-bedroom, cable, WIFI, from $800. No smoking/ pets. (907)262-7835

Apartments, Furnished SOLDOTNA Furnished 1-Bedroom. Shady Lane Apartments. $650. Heat & cable included. No pets. (907)398-1642, (907)283-5203.

Homes 1-BEDROOM Excellent location. Cable available. Immaculate. $825 plus utilities. (907)262-7881 1-BEDROOM HOUSE in Sterling, full kitchen, full bath. No smoking/ pets. You pay utilities. $700. deposit, $640. per month. (907)262-6093

Murwood K-Beach Ranch Updated K-Beach Ranch Nikiski Cabin Clam Gulch Cabin Spacious Soldotna Ranch Century21 Property Management (907)262-2522 NEW DELUXE 1-BEDROOM Robinson Loop/ Area Pets on approval. Washer/Dryer, Natural Gas. Cable available $700. First/ last plus deposit. (907)394-8907 WHY RENT ????? Why rent when you can own, many low down & zero down payment programs available. Let me help you achieve the dream of home ownership. Call Now !!! Ken Scott, #AK203469. (907)395-4527 or cellular, (907)690-0220. Alaska USA Mortgage Company, #AK157293.

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Office Space PROFESSIONAL OFFICE BUILDING KENAI Across from City Hall. Office space, Class A, approximately 1,100sq.ft., lease negotiable. (907)283-5400

Retail/ Commercial Space RED DIAMOND CENTER K-Beach Rd. 1,200- 2,400sq.ft. Retail or office, high traffic, across from DMV. Please call (907)953-2222 (907)598-8181

Sport Utilities, 4X4 ‘06 JEEP RUBICON LJ Soft/ hard top, $17,500. Firm (907)369-5209

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KENAI KENNEL CLUB

Pawsitive training for all dogs & puppies. Agility, Conformation, Obedience, Privates & Rally. www.kenaikennelclub.com (907)335-2552

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The Kenai Peninsula Borough Capital Projects Department hereby invites qualified firms to submit a firm price for acceptance by the Borough for the KESA Diamond Ridge Fire Station, Phase 2 -Site Finishing and Building Construction. The project consists of the following: Construction of a 2860 SF pre-manufactured metal building construction including concrete spread footings, foundation walls, slab on grade; interior partitions, plumbing fixtures and equipment, HVAC, power distribution and lighting, all utilities, finish grading and site lighting. A pre-bid conference will be held at the KPB Public Works Conference Room, 47140 East Poppy Lane, Soldotna, AK on January 15, 2014 at 10:00 A.M. Attendance at the pre-bid is not mandatory but is strongly recommended. This contract is subject to the provision of State of Alaska, Title 36, Minimum Wage Rates. The subsequent contract will require certificates of insurance and may require performance and payment bonds. Bid documents may be obtained beginning January 6, 2014 at the Capital Projects Department, 47140 East Poppy Lane, Soldotna, AK 99669, 907-262-9657 for a non-refundable fee of $35.00 for each set of documents, $50.00 for any that require shipping and handling. Bid documents may also be downloaded from the web at: http://purchasing.borough.kenai.ak.us/ Opportunities.aspx One (1) complete set of the bid package is to be submitted to the Kenai Peninsula Borough, Purchasing and Contracting Department at 144 North Binkley Street, Soldotna, Alaska 99669. These forms must be enclosed in a sealed envelope with the bidder's name on the outside and clearly marked: BID: KESA Diamond Ridge Fire Station Phase 2 - Site Finishing and Building Construction DUE DATE: January 30, 2014, no later than 2:00 PM PUBLISH: 1/6, 2013

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) ) E.C, 02/24/00 ) K.C, 09/29/05 ) B.C, 10/03/08 ) ) Children Under the Age of ) Eighteen (18) Years ) Case No: 3KN-11-53/54/55 CN NOTICE AND SUMMONS TO ABSENT PARENT To: Tanyalin Christopher (DOB: 12/29/1979) PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under AS 47.10.080(c)(3) has been filed in the Superior Court, Third Judicial District, Kenai, Alaska concerning. E.C. (DOB: 01/24/2000), K.C. (DOB: 09/29/2005), and B.C. (DOB: 10/03/2008), minorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, who are believed to be your children. This petition may result in an order terminating your parental rights. A copy of the petition is on file in the Kenai Courthouse, 125 Trading Bay Rd. Kenai, AK, 99611. A termination trial call hearing is scheduled to be held in the Kenai Courthouse, 125 Trading Bay Rd, Kenai, AK, 99611 on February 7, 2014, at 2:00 p.m. The phone number to the courthouse is (907)283-3110. You have the right to be represented by an attorney. In the event you cannot afford to hire an attorney, an attorney may be appointed to represent you at state expense. If you or your attorney cannot appear at the hearing, you must file with the court a response to the petition within thirty (30) days after the last date of publication of this notice. DATED: Dec. 11, 2013 CLERK OF THE TRIAL COURTS By: Shelly Bird Deputy Clerk PUBLISH: 12/16, 23, 30, 2013, 1/6, 2014

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City of Soldotna Council Meeting Agenda January 8, 2014 177 N. Birch St. Soldotna, AK 99669 4:30 p.m. - Council Portrait Session 5:00 p.m. - Work Session - Special Assessment District Procedure 6:00 p.m. - Regular Meeting CALL TO ORDER APPROVAL OF AGENDA APPROVAL OF MINUTES - December 11, 2013 CONSENT AGENDA Introduction of Ordinances (Setting Public Hearing for 01/22/14) - Ordinance 2014-001 - Establishing Provisions for Disclosure of Public Records (City Manager) - Ordinance 2014-002 - Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $22,000 in the Library Expansion Capital Project Fund for a Matching Grant Received from the Rasmuson Foundation for Use Toward Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment at the Joyce K. Carver Library (City Manager) - Ordinance 2014-003 - Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $12,000 in the Library Expansion Capital Project Fund for a Donation Received from the Friends of the Joyce K Carver Memorial Library (City Manager) Resolutions - Resolution 2014-001 - Expressing Strong Support for Governor Parnell's Proposal to Appropriate $3 Billion from the Constitutional Budget Reserve into the Alaska Retirement Trust Fund in 2015 (Murphy) Other - Mayoral Appointment to Advisory Board Parks & Recreation Advisory Board â&#x20AC;˘ Linda Hutchings, Seat D - Term to Expire 12/31/2016 Kenai River Special Management Area â&#x20AC;˘ Keith Baxter, Alternate PUBLIC COMMENTS AND PRESENTATIONS - Swearing in new Police Officer Ian Koenig - Senator Peter Micciche - Visitor Center Quarterly Report, Michelle Glaves, Executive Director of the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce - Binkley Street Rehabilitation ASSEMBLY/LEGISLATIVE REPORT ORDINANCES Public Hearing and/or Action - Ordinance 2013-040 - Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $578,000 in the General Fund and the Street Construction Fund for Aspen Street Improvements (City Manager) APPEALS & HEARINGS - Resolution 2013-088 Forming a Special Assessment District for North Aspen Road Improvements -(City Manager) RESOLUTIONS - Resolution 2014-002 - Changing the Percent of Market Value Rate of Payout from the Trust Fund to .50% (City Manager) - Resolution 2014-003 - Authorizing the City Manager to Purchase Library Information Technology Equipment from CDW-G for $27,634.99 (City Manager) - Resolution 2014-004 - Adopting the City of Soldotna Recreation & Trails Master Plan (City Manager) OTHER - No Items MAYOR/COUNCIL REPORTS CITY MANAGER'S REPORT - Building Department Year End Report PUBLIC COMMENTS COUNCIL COMMENTS EXECUTIVE SESSION PENDING LEGISLATION - Ordinance 2013-031 - Amending Soldotna Municipal Code Chapter 10.06 Miscellaneous Regulations to Include a New Subsection 040 Commercial Vehicles Prohibited on Certain Streets (City Manager) [Motion to enact on the floor from 10/23/13; postponed until 01/22/14] ADJOURNMENT The next meeting is January 22, 2014, at 6:00 p.m. For agenda items & other information, call the City Clerk's Office at 907-262-9107. PUBLISH: 1/6, 2014

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Hints from Heloise ternoon, your imaginative streak could fall flat or not be as helpful. Your initial idea will prove to be the right one to pursue. Others will be more enthusiastic than you had expected. Tonight: Remain playful. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Touch base with a family member who has a very different perspective from you about a domestic matter. Recognize what is happening with a loved one, as he or she might want you to be more involved with an important project. Tonight: Forget tomorrow. Enjoy today! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You will admire what a close friend thinks about a controversial issue. This person’s neutrality touches you deeply. You might wonder what is needed to make a certain situation easier to handle. Discuss the situation with this person. Tonight: A must appearance. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You could see a situation in a much more relatable and viable way than you had in the past. Recognize the change in your perspective, and explain it in a conversation with one of the parties involved. This will help ease communication between you. Tonight: Hang out. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH When handling your finances, it would be wise to make a decision regarding your limits. What is important to you? The holidays could have wreaked havoc on your budget. Take this opportunity to recalibrate your spending. Tonight: Make a favorite meal.

Retail hours turn shopper sour Dear Readers: Here is this week’s Sound Off, about stores’ operation hours: “My Sound Off is that more stores are opening later in the day, it seems. Stores used to open at 9 a.m.; now it’s 10 a.m. I am sure they are doing it to save money. If they open later, they don’t have to pay employees for that hour. But this is really frustrating for many of us. People who work now have to wait until after work, when traffic is bad, to run some errands. I know it has deterred me a time or two from buying something. — A Reader in Texas” Who knows what the reason is? I’d love to hear from retailers. Is it cost? Cutting back on hours? What about your thoughts, readers? Let me know, and I’ll print as many responses as I can. — Heloise Fast Facts Dear Readers: Here are other uses for plastic laundry scoops: * Hold a small amount of paint instead of a whole can. * Dig holes for planting. * As an easy scoop for birdseed or pet food. * Use to measure fertilizer for plants. * As a finger-paint dish for kids. — Heloise Morning walk Dear Heloise: I was looking for a way to motivate myself to get more exercise. Every morning when my husband leaves for work, he takes me with him. He drops me off a mile or two from our house to walk home. No excuses for not getting my exercise. — Kelli in San Antonio

Friday’s Answer

SUDOKU

By Tom Wilson

Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to Friday.

8 3 2 4 1 6 5 7 9

7 5 6 8 2 9 1 4 3

9 1 4 5 7 3 8 6 2

1 9 7 3 6 2 4 5 8

4 6 3 9 8 5 2 1 7

5 2 8 1 4 7 3 9 6

6 7 1 2 3 4 9 8 5

3 4 9 7 5 8 6 2 1

Difficulty Level

2 8 5 6 9 1 7 3 4

2014 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

As a result, you could lose your ability to stay centered. Do not allow this to happen. Tonight: In the middle of the action. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You might want to hear the other side of an argument. Though you still might not agree with what is being said, you could see a way of incorporating two ideas that seem in opposition but actually have the same basis. Tonight: Till the wee hours. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHA close associate might have a lot to share. Encourage this person to express his or her intuitive sense more often. You will be able to understand an issue in a new way because of what is shared with you. Proceed accordingly. Tonight: Make plans for the near future. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Rethink a personal decision, especially if someone close to you offers a new insight. Do nothing to damage the situation, and if possible, give yourself some breathing room. Put this decision on hold for now. Tonight: Have an important discussion first. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Understand what you are doing and why. Your need to handle a matter regarding real estate or your personal life is legitimate. Once you clear up this issue, you will find the right direction for you to head in. Tonight: The only answer is “yes.” SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Your creativity seems to be focused on a key issue. By the af-

By Eugene Sheffer

DEAR ABBY: After 25 years, I have finally admitted to myself that I’m married to a workaholic, alcoholic womanizer. I have devoted my entire adult life, my time, effort and energy to my family. Now I feel used, abused and disrespected. I’m grateful to be a member of AlAnon. It has helped me to understand that I cannot change anyone but me. I have raised three great, successful grown kids. I have yet to make a decision for myself. I married for life. Must I continue to suffer in silence? Or do I hope that there is love, kindness and respect out there to be had? — STALLING IN IOWA DEAR STALLING: Let me remind you what you’ve already learned in Al-Anon: You cannot change anyone but yourself. The same is true of your circumstances. You are entitled to receive the same love and respect that you offer to others. I cannot guarantee that you’ll find love. Because your workaholic, alcoholic, womanizing husband hasn’t changed in a quarter of a century, it’s obvious he has no intention of doing so. You don’t need to find another man in order to be happier than you are now. Being alone could give you peace, contentment and happiness. The question you need to answer honestly for yourself is whether you would be happier without your husband’s negative influence in your life.

Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, Jan. 6, 2014: This year you often are very sensitive to others, and you express empathy with ease. You also frequently can be found playing the role of cheerleader, encouraging those around you to go for their dreams. If you are single, you are likely to meet someone very significant to your life’s history. You will know when you meet this person. If you are attached, the two of you enjoy each other’s company, and you seem to have a psychic connection. You know what the other is thinking. ARIES often grinds on your nerves. 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 a firmer grasp on what is happening than the person who informs you of what is going on. This person likes to feel important. Say little. Play it low-key, and you will gather more information. Tonight: Only what you want. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Zero in on what you want during the morning. Don’t hesitate. You might need to consider how you’d like to proceed with a different matter in the afternoon. Consider your options carefully and discuss them with someone you often brainstorm with. Tonight: Not to be found. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Your directness is more desirable than you think. Stay in touch with your goals as discussions ensue. You can identify with others.

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Mallott, an Alaska Native leader from Southeast, is likely to draw heavy support in rural Alaska. Parnell’s support in rural areas, on the other hand, may be weakened by his recent decision on expansion of Medicaid, which would have benefitted tribal health organizations, and his administration’s policies on the powers of tribal courts in family cases. However, Parnell is also credited by many rural leaders for his strong support for measures to reduce domestic violence and to increase law enforcement and security in villages. Walker will focus his campaign, as in a previous run for governor in 2010, on Parnell’s success, or lack thereof, in goading North Slope oil and gas own-

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knocked out. He said he called her name a few times and when she came to, they went back to the truck. McCord said he wanted to stay in the truck overnight because there are a lot of bears in Tyonek and with his injured arm he wouldn’t be able to use his gun. He said Sigourney didn’t argue about staying in the truck. In her testimony on Tuesday, Sigourney said McCord had be-

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schools. • Evaluate the current level of facility cost sharing between the state and localities. Consistent with local control, increased local contribution may not only be necessary but a better way to ensure that facilities are built and maintained efficiently. • Standardize school facilities, with the goal of reducing overall construction and maintenance costs using “recognized best practices.” • Analyze the potential benefit of school district consolidation and shared services between school districts and other entities. • Review and eliminate unnecessary regulations.”It represents a start and I think it needs to be fleshed out,” Rep. Cathy Muñoz, D-Juneau, said of the report. “I think there’s a lot more information and detail that needs to be put into each of the categories.” Muñoz said she thinks the Legislature should be focusing on getting more resources to school districts to decrease class sizes. She also said the report needs to include a cost evaluation of a bill introduced by Sen. Mike Dunleavy, R-Wasilla, that would bring the state’s 20,000

ers to proceed with a large Alaska gas pipeline project. The governor has been frustrated by lack of progress by the large companies, but if things start happening in early 2014 Walker’s criticisms may be muted. The battle over SB 21, the oil tax reform bill, will draw a lot of attention in the August primary, when the ballot referendum to repeal the tax change will appear. Supporters of the repeal will charge Parnell with a tax giveaway to the big producers and will highlight the major reduction in state revenues this year. Opponents of the repeal, and Parnell, will have to explain that the revenue hit would have happened anyway, arguing the tax change had nothing to do with it. It’s a complex issue that doesn’t lend itself to simple explanations. On the other hand, if industry activity is ramping up in re-

sponse to the tax change and voters sense that more Alaskans are going to work, opponents of the repeal will have a big campaign tool. Another initiative on the August ballot would require the state Legislature to approve any plan for large scale mining in the Bristol Bay watershed, an effort that was recently certified and is aimed at stopping the Pebble mine. The campaign to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Begich in November will attract a lot of national attention, and money from Republican national groups hoping to pick up another seat in the Senate. That Alaska is a conservative state where Republicans dominate may not seem to bode well for Begich, but Begich is also a veteran campaigner who, as a two-term former mayor of Anchorage, has also learned how to play to the middle.

As a Democrat he will also carry some baggage for having to defend some of President Barack Obama’s policies in Alaska. However, either Sullivan or Treadwell will carry some baggage, too, from their associations with the Parnell administration and policies, such as tribal rights, that are unpopular in rural parts of the state. Miller will have to deal with the baggage from his mistake-plagued 2010 campaign against Sen. Lisa Murkowski after he won the GOP primary but lost the battle against her as a write-in candidate during the general election. No matter what, the airwaves will be awash in political advertising as Republican and conservative groups pour money into Alaska to try and unseat Begich and Democratic national groups, particularly labor, pour in resources to support him and preserve the Democratic seat in the Senate.

gun hitting her while he was driving and that’s why she jumped out of the pickup. She also said after the truck went in the ditch, McCord choked her and pointed his rifle at her threatening to kill her. She said she didn’t want to stay in the truck overnight. McCord said he never pointed his gun at Sigourney and he didn’t do anything to make her stay in the truck. “Have you ever laid a hand on (Sigourney)?” Pevehouse asked. “No, I (have) not,” McCord said. In her closing argument Assistant District Attorney Kelly

Lawson asked the jury why someone would jump out of a moving truck. “There must have been something really horrible going on inside that truck,” she said. She spoke about Sigourney’s glasses, which were broken down the middle that night, and echoed Sigourney’s testimony that the glasses were broken on purpose by McCord. Pevehouse in his closing argument submitted to the jury that when looking at all the evidence, Sigourney, when she jumped out of the pickup, hit her right side on the ground. He argued that her glasses twisted

and broke when her head hit the road. He argued the sleeve on end of the glasses that hooks over the ear slide off because it was pinned between her head and the road. “Nothing in the physical evidence supports (Sigourney’s) story,” he said. Pevehouse submitted to the jury that Sigourney came up with the domestic violence story because she felt foolish about having jumped out of a moving vehicle.

school district employees and their 30,000 dependents onto the State of Alaska’s health care insurance plan. Muñoz was wary of the task force’s suggestion to expand “public choice in education opportunities.” “It’s interesting that they highlight choice, but they avoided the controversial question of vouchers,” Muñoz said. “A lot of those choice areas that they recommend are doable within the public school framework.” Sen. Dennis Egan, D-Juneau, said that the task force is ineffective without more educators as stakeholders in the group. He said a different approach to determining the needs of Alaska’s education system should be considered. He suggested a joint House and Senate committee. He said a third-party contractor could also be considered. “They got oil company executives telling you how to run the state, come on!” Egan said. “I just think we’re going in the wrong direction if we in fact do anything with this report.” Gattis and Wilson appointed six others to the task force. Members from the business community include oil and gas industry consultant Brad Keithley and Anchorage Chamber of Commerce President Andrew Halcro. Rep. Charisse Millett, R-Anchorage, Andy Baker of Kotzebue, former state education commissioner

Jerry Covey and math teacher David Nees also serve on the task force. During a Dec. 31 teleconference, Halcro was at odds with the other task force members over whether the report should include a statement that says “... Alaskans should be made aware that current education spending is not sustainable.” Halcro argued that it was premature to say spending was unsustainable when the task force hadn’t fully investigated what cost-saving options were available. The task force voted to include the language, with Halcro casting the lone dissenting vote. It’s that language that Egan said he also disagrees with. “It’s appalling to me that we’re talking about a decrease in funding for education when we should be talking about an increase in funding for education,” Egan said. The task force’s suggestion that the state should “invest in technology that is compatible with local infrastructure,” caught the eye of Rep. Beth Kerttula, DJuneau. “Now what does that mean?” Kerttula said. “If it means what I think they mean — which is they’re only going to go so far and not try to push technology in rural Alaska — well, that means we’re going to have a big digital divide.”

Kerttula said she strongly disagrees with some of the findings in the brief report. “This just isn’t going to do it,” Kerttula said. “Sad waste of money in my opinion, and that sounds harsh, but really this misses the mark on what has to happen in Alaska for students.” Kerttula said that she doesn’t have any confidence in the task force going forward. “If this is what they came up with at this point, it shows a very sad lack of understanding in terms of what’s necessary for Alaskan students,” Kerttula said. “They need a new task force, obviously.”

Kaylee Osowski can be reached at kaylee.osowski@ peninsulaclarion.com.

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trails, it’s fun.” Carson said he learned so much from Peterson. “Kent remembers what it’s like to not have a clue what’s going on,” he said. “He stops you on the trail and points out all the bad habits and little things you’re not going to know. He is a good teacher.” Brenda Ahlberg first tried skate skiing last year and purchased her equipment from Wilderness Way when it was cheaper at the end of the season. She said she first got into the sport for her son and received great help and advice buying locally. “I have a lot to learn, but I really enjoy it,” Ahlberg said. “At first this was an investment for my kids, but it has lifelong benefits.” Peterson said despite his busy schedule ramping back up with school resuming again, he will continue offering free lessons on Sundays at about 2 p.m. at Tsalteshi Trails for those interested in developing their skate skiing skills. Peterson said this Tuesday the Midnight Sun Rowing Club will start winter training with skiing from 6-7 p.m. Carson said he started skiing two years ago when his son was of age for the Tsalteshi Trails youth ski program. He bought waxless classics from Beemun’s when they were getting rid of their seasonal skis. Now the whole family goes skiing together and he pulls his young daughter behind in a sled. “This is what my wife loves about winter now,” Carson said.

gear and the same basic setup cost upwards of $600. “I would suggest renting first,” Carson said. “Our goal was for next Christmas we might (buy skate skis) but it might take me some more practice before I’m ready to invest. It is something I want to do and will do.” Peterson started out the lesson by getting all the participants comfortable with skiing around first without poles on a flat path behind Skyview. He went over the proper technique, which requires the skier to push off with their legs in the similar motion as that of a figure skater. The shorter skis and longer poles can propel people faster than classic skiing. After 20 minutes on the flat path, Peterson took the group up the hill and showed them a few wide-open and easy trails to ski down. “The trails can be a little daunting to go out there with the intersections — you don’t know where you’re going,” he said. I showed (Wolf and Moose trails), the easiest trails, in the company of other people so you are not totally lost out there.” Peterson said he is partial to skate skiing as opposed to classic skiing because you can go pretty fast without the best form. “Skate ski requires lots of technique but once you get it down I feel skating is easier because you can have poor technique and still move fast,” he said. “With classic ski racing, if you’re technique Dan Balmer can be reached starts to falter you are going to daniel.balmer@peninsulasuffer a lot. I like to go fast on the at clarion.com

Seafood marketers counter misinformation KODIAK (AP) — The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute says it’s taking steps to counter inflammatory stories on websites that claim Alaska-caught salmon is unsafe. ASMI communications director Tyson Fick says the institute has seen a resurgence of unsubstantiated, scaremongering articles designed to generate advertising revenue

by curious readers clicking on websites. Fick tells the Kodiak Daily Mirror that the latest wave of misinformation claims Alaska fish has been contaminated by radiation from a Japanese nuclear power plant damaged in a 2011 earthquake. Fick says ASMI previously have countered misinformation that Alaska salmon contained mercury or PCBs.