Peninsula Clarion, January 27, 2014 by Sound Publishing

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MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2014 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 100

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3 things to watch in Alaska: gas line, pay, oil

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By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

On the web Photos by Kaylee Osowski/Peninsula Clarion

Beer and Bacon Festival goers choose from a selection of samples at the Kenai Peninsula Brewing and Tasting Society event on Saturday at the Challenger Learning Center of Alaska in Kenai.

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Brewing and Tasting Society holds first Beer and Bacon Festival By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

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In the news Rider flown out of Hatcher Pass ANCHORAGE — Officials say a 30-year-old injured snowmachine rider was injured in a collision and had to be flown out of Hatcher Pass Saturday. A spokeswoman for LifeMed Alaska says the backcountry crash was reported around noon. She did not know the circumstances or extent of the unidentified man’s injuries. The Anchorage Daily News reports the victim was taken to an Anchorage hospital and was reported in stable condition Saturday. —The Associated Press

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Two things brought 100 Central Peninsula residents together Saturday evening — beer and bacon. The Kenai Peninsula Brewing and Tasting Society hosted its first Beer and Bacon Festival at the Challenger Learning Center of Alaska in Kenai this past weekend. “There’s nothing better than beer and bacon,” Soldotna resident James Whiting, who attended the event, said. Event goers voted to select

the best home brew as well as best appetizer and entrée at the novice and professional levels. Soldotna home brewer Josh Herald, who has brewed more than 50 different beers in seven years, brought his chocolate stout to the event. “I used to like drinking beer and decided I could make it better,” he said. Kenai resident Chris Zoda sampled Kenai River Brewing Company’s Morning Bacon brew garnished with bacon. “It’s really, really good,” he Cinnamon rolls were just one of the many different beer and said. bacon infused foods at the Beer and Bacon Festival on See FEST, page A-8 Saturday in Kenai.

JUNEAU — The Alaska Legislature starts its first full week of work of this session Monday, with lawmakers set to dig into details of plans to advance a natural gas pipeline project and salary increases for top officials. The fight over oil taxes also is expected to continue casting a shadow over discussion on issues such as state spending. The scheduled 90-day session is set to end April 20, Easter Sunday. Senate President Charlie Huggins told reporters last week he’d like to be done before then — and Good Friday — if possible. Here are three things to watch for this week:

Gas line

At least seven hearings are scheduled this week related to the major gas line project that Gov. Sean Parnell’s administration is proposing the state take an equity stake in. That doesn’t include a consultants’ overview of the liquefied natural gas business scheduled for Tuesday. The Senate Finance and House and Senate Resources committees are slated to hear presentations on the pipeline services agreement between the state and TransCanada Corp. and the commercial agreement involving them, BP, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil Corp., and the Alaska See STATE, page A-8

Gov. Parnell wants school choices expanded By MIKE COPPOCK Associated Press

JUNEAU — Staff members at Aquarian Charter School in Anchorage are ecstatic that their school was spotlighted by Gov. Sean Parnell in his recent State of the State address. The old green building hidden behind a strip mall at the corner of Anchorage’s Minnesota and Benson boulevards is busting at the seams with 378 students and fifteen teachers. Aquarian offers a program for students reaching their academic ability with emphasis on

the arts. There are 800 names of potential students on a waiting list this year who had hoped to get into its K-6 program. “It’s been that way for a number of years now,” says 34-year-old Principal Lucas Saltzman. “We already have hundreds asking to get in for next year.” Parnell said he wants to give parents more options for their children’s education than traditional public schools in the form of state assistance for charter schools, private schools and boarding schools. Alaska currently has 27 char-

ter schools across the state from Nome to Ketchikan and over 70 private schools handling anywhere from 5,639 to 11,000 students, depending on who is doing the counting. Alaska also has six boarding schools. The there are several distinctions between the three. Charter schools are public schools operating under the authority of both the local school board and the state school board. They receive their funding through the local school board. A charter school is created for focusing on a specific aspect of development such as

the arts or science as an example. Private schools in Alaska are usually religious-oriented and receive no state funding. Their sizes range from around 600 students enrolled at Anchorage’s Grace Christian School to 80 attending Holy Name Catholic School in Ketchikan. The Roman Catholic Church also maintains schools in Anchorage and Fairbanks. Anchorage Catholic schools have a population of 437 students across five schools, said Les Kramer, Director of Catholic Schools. Fairbanks’ Monroe

High School, a private Catholic school, has over 200 students. However, not all private schools are religiously affiliated. Alaska has six Montessori schools ranging from Anchorage to Douglas. While state funding per student for public education is $5,680, tuition for private schools may be higher or lower than state funding depending on location. For instance, Private School Review reports Alaska’s average tuition is $4,909 per student while Anchorage’s See CHOICE, page A-8

Murder suspect makes bail, victim’s family concerned By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

The family of Genghis Muskox, the victim in a Dec. 5, 2013 shooting in Cooper Landing, cannot fathom that Paul Vermillion, accused of Muskox’s murder, is out on bail less than two months later. Kenai Superior Court Judge Charles Huguelet granted Vermillion, 30, be released under the watch of a third party custodian on a $1 million cash performance bond on Jan. 22 at the Kenai Courthouse. Vermillion is charged with first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder and

one count of manslaughter. Vermillion, an Iraq War veteran, has pleaded not guilty and claimed self-defense in the killing of Muskox. Susan Muskat, the victim’s mother said she was disappointed to learn that Alaska State Law does not hold murder suspects without bail. Given the fact that Vermillion has suffered an injury in the war, she is concerned he will not be punished to the extend she feels he deserves. “I do have some compassion for him,” she said. “People should not be sent off and experience the horrors of war. There have been so many cases of soldiers coming back and committing violence. “

Muskat, who lives in Minnesota, said it was at a Jan. 15 bail hearing, which she attended telephonically, when she heard new details that her son was attacked with an ice pick during the night of the murder. “We were shocked to hear that,” she said. “Before we saw our son’s body we were warned in advance he suffered extraordinary trauma, but we didn’t know how he was attacked.” Muskox’s friend Jenna Miller also spoke at the bail hearing about a previous altercation between the two men where Vermillion allegedly threatened Muskox with a gun. Muskat said she wants people C

to understand her son was not a violent person and never sought out conflict. “He went back in friendship,” she said. “He had no weapons and did not go to fight.” At the Jan. 15 hearing, the court approved Gregory Thompson as third party custodian, but postponed bail until a GPS tracking monitor could be obtained. The court approved Denali Electronic Monitoring Services out of Palmer to fit Vermillion with an ankle-bracelet. Denali EMS owner Heather Betts said they will be aware of Vermillion’s location at all times and would be alerted if he goes outside of his exclusion zone.

Thompson is a friend of the Vermillion family who lives in Houston in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. As custodian, he is to be the eyes and ears of the court and must ensure the defendant abides by all court-ordered conditions while in his supervision. Vermillion will be staying at Thompson’s house while awaiting trial. The court ordered Vermillion stay within the Wasilla area with the exception of traveling to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and to Kenai for further court dates. Huguelet defined the exclusion area as north of Healy See BAIL, page A-8

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

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Daylight Length of Day - 7 hrs., 28 min., 40 sec. Daylight gained - 4 min., 51 sec.

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24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.00" Month to date ........................... 2.28" Normal month to date ............. 0.80" Year to date .............................. 2.28" Normal year to date ................. 0.80" Record today ................ 0.26" (2000) Record for Jan. ............. 3.03" (1980) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963) Snowfall 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. .. 0.0" Month to date ............................. 6.6" Season to date ......................... 39.4"

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Snow showers will move through the Northeast today as biting winds drive fresh frigid air across the Midwest and Plains. The Southwest will stay dry, but rain will finally return to the Oregon coastline.

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High ............................................... 48 Low ................................................ 37 Normal high .................................. 25 Normal low ...................................... 8 Record high ........................ 48 (2014) Record low ....................... -39 (1973)

Anchorage 40/32

Bethel 42/35

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Talkeetna 41/29 Glennallen 29/20

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Anaktuvuk Pass 26/15

Kotzebue 36/30

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Weather could bring Yukon Quest changes FAIRBANKS (AP) — A Yukon Quest race official says unseasonably warm weather has affected trail conditions, but the 1,000-mile Fairbanks-to-Whitehorse sled dog race will start Feb. 1 as planned. Race Marshal Doug Grilliot posted a race update on the Yukon Quest website saying “there have been absolutely no discussions to cancel or delay the race.” He says changes could be made if conditions warrant. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the start location, normally on the Chena River in downtown Fairbanks, could be moved or modified. The trail could also be rerouted. Grilliot said trail crews in both Alaska and the Yukon were in the process of doing a thorough review of trail conditions.

Oil Prices Thursday’s prices North Slope crude: $105.43, up from $105.39 on Wednesday West Texas Int.: $97.37, up from $96.78 on Wednesday

Friday Stocks Company Final Change ACS.......................... 2.27 -0.14 Agrium Inc............... 89.19 -1.97 Alaska Air Group...... 79.65 -1.70 AT&T........................ 33.42 -0.38 BP ............................47.75 -0.88 Chevron...................116.29 -2.10 ConocoPhillips......... 66.57 -1.28 1st Natl. Bank AK... 1,751.00 -1.00 Forest Oil.................. 3.46 -0.02 Fred Meyer.............. 36.08 -0.32 GCI.......................... 10.32 -0.23 Harley-Davidson...... 64.02 -1.87 Home Depot............ 79.16 -1.08 Key Bank................. 12.93 -0.75 McDonald’s.............. 94.43 -0.89 National Oilwell.........74.00 -2.12 Shell Oil....................71.05 -1.32 Safeway................... 30.98 -0.30 Tesoro...................... 50.57 -1.76 Walmart....................74.42 -0.54 Wells Fargo.............. 45.48 -0.87 Gold closed............ 1,267.80 +3.66 Silver closed............ 19,90 -0.14 Dow Jones avg..... 15,879.11 -318.24 NASDAQ................ 4,128.17 -90.70 S&P 500................1,790.29 -38.17 Stock prices provided by the Kenai Peninsula Edward Jones offices. C

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Community Calendar Today 4 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous support group “Twisted Sisters” at URS Club, 405 Overland Drive, Kenai. 7 p.m. • Alcoholics Anonymous Freedom Group meets at the Soldotna United Methodist Church, 158 S. Binkley, Soldotna. 8 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous support group “Men’s Stag” at URS Club, 405 Overland Drive, Kenai. The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations. To have your event listed, email organization name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone number to news@peninsulaclarion.com.

Peninsula Clarion death notice and obituary guidelines: The Peninsula Clarion strives to report the deaths of all current and former Peninsula residents. Notices should be received within three months of the death. We offer two types of death reports: Pending service/Death notices: Brief notices listing full name, age, date and place of death; and time, date and place of service. These are published at no charge. Obituaries: The Clarion charges a fee to publish obituaries. Obituaries are prepared by families, funeral homes, crematoriums, and are edited by our staff according to newspaper guidelines. Obituaries up to 300 words are charged $50, which includes a one-year online guest book memoriam to on Legacy. com. Obituaries up to 500 words are charged $100, which also includes the one-year online guest book memoriam. Tax is not included. All charges include publication of a black and white photo. Obituaries outside these guidelines are handled by the Clarion advertising department. How to submit: Funeral homes and crematoriums routinely submit completed obituaries to the newspaper. Obituaries may also be submitted directly to the Clarion, online at www.peninsulaclarion.com, or by mail to: Peninsula Clarion, P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, Alaska, 99611. Pre-payment must accompany all submissions not already handled by a funeral home or crematorium. Deadlines: Submissions for Tuesday – Friday editions must be received by 2 p.m. the previous day. Submissions for Sunday and Monday editions must be received by 3 p.m. Friday. We do not process obituaries on Saturdays or Sundays unless submitted by funeral homes or crematoriums. Obituaries are placed on a space-available basis, prioritized by dates of local services. Copyright: All death notices and obituaries become property of the Clarion and may not be republished in any format. For more information, call the Clarion at 907-283-7551.

Around the Peninsula Nikiski Community Council to meet The Nikiski Community Council will hold its next meeting on Monday at 7:00 p.m. at the former Nikiski Senior Center on Island Lake Road. The meeting is open to the public and community members are encouraged to attend.

Kachemak Bay comments due The Alaska Department of Natural Resources held an Open House in Homer on Nov. 13, 2013 to kick off a planning process to revise the Kachemak Bay State Park and Kachemak Bay State Wilderness Park Management Plan. Additionally, the public was encouraged to complete the Recreational, Use, Facilities and Access Questionnaire to help the planning team get a feel for how the park is being used. As a reminder, the deadline for submitting the questionnaire is fast approaching. The deadline to submit questionnaires is Jan. 31. To view the existing park plan, fill out the questionnaire, and learn more about the process, visit: http://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/plans/ kbay/kbayplan.htm

Kenai Kennel Club hosts obedience classes Starting Feb. 1, the Kenai Kennel Club will host a six-week session of dog obedience classes, with Beginning Family Dog Obedience from 1-2 p.m. and Advanced Obedience from 2:303:30 p.m. Kenai Kennel Club is located in the Kenai Mall in Kenai. Please leave your dog in the car while registering and bring your dog records. For more information call the club at 335-2552 or email kenaikennelclub@gmail.com.

Sterling Community Center offers activities The Sterling Community Center now offers Co-ed Basketball on Sundays, 6-8 p.m., and Competitive-style Volleyball on Mondays, 7-9 p.m. for high school age and adults. The center is located next to Sterling Elementary School.For more info, call 262-7224, www.sterlingcommunityclub.com, or facebook Sterling Community Center.

Sterling Community Center plans Valentine’s dinner, dance

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by calling the Sterling Community Center at 262-7224.

Sweetheart Dinner for Veterans planned Tom and Adele Bearup are planning a Sweetheart Dinner for Veterans at their home on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14. The Bearups are inviting veterans and their spouses or girlfriends on for a date night and nice romantic dinner from 6-10 p.m. Their home is located at 41212 Sterling Highway, mile 91, between Lynden Transport and Solid Rock Bible Camp. There is no charge for the event, but donations are appreciated. RSVP to 907-953-9233 by Feb. 7.

Hospice schedules volunteer training Hospice of the Central Peninsula has scheduled volunteer core training for compassionate, caring people who are willing to volunteer 2 to 4 hours per week as Hospice volunteers. Training sessions will be held at, Christ Lutheran Church 128 Soldotna Avenue, Soldotna, from 6-9 p.m. on Feb. 7 and 21, and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Feb. 8 and 22. The fee is $25, scholarship assistance is available. Registration is required. For information and to register call 262-0453 or email hospice.admin@ alaska.net.

Boys and Girls Club indoor soccer kicks off Registration for the 2014 Boys and Girls Club indoor soccer season is under way at the Kenai Recreation Center and runs through Feb. 14. Indoor soccer is open to players from age 4 through fifth grade. Registration is $60 for pre-K and kindergartners, $85 for first- through fifth-graders. For more information call 283-3318.

Redoubt Elementary plans winter carnival The Redoubt Elementary School PTA will host their second annual “Winter Carnival” Feb. 15. The event will inlcude a silent auction, dunk tank, games, food, door prizes and raffles. Big ticket raffle items include a 32GB iPad Air, Camp and Play wagon filled with camping supplies, and a student Grand Gift basket. Tickets for the iPad are $10 each. Only 150 tickets will be sold. Tickets are available at the school office or the day of the carnival. Volunteers will be needed to help with our Winter Carnival. If you would like to help, or if you own a business and would like to donate goods or services, please contact the school office at 260-4300. This is a family fun event that is open to the community.

A Valentine’s Day Dinner and Dance will take place February 14, 7:00 p.m., at the Sterling Community Center, next to the Sterling Elementary School. Menu includes tenderloin steak and prawns. No host bar. Dance music provided by Jay C. Smith. Child Care available for $10 per child (please RSVP). This will Grief support available be a night you won’t want to miss! Tickets are $35, available at Individuals struggling with grief may call Fred Kehl at 907River City Books in Soldotna, the Sterling Senior Center in Ster420-3979 for free counseling sessions with a certified counselor. ling, C-Cups Café in Kenai (inside Already Read Book Store), or

Mystery cruise Volunteers test flu vaccine effects ship sickness By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer

By DAVID McFADDEN Associated Press

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Royal Caribbean cruise line on Sunday ended a ship’s 10-day trip in the Caribbean early after hundreds of passengers and crew members were sickened with a gastrointestinal illness. The Miami-based company made the announcement a few hours after officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention boarded the Explorer of the Seas during its U.S. Virgin Islands port call to investigate the illness and evaluate the outbreak response. “New reports of illness have decreased day-over-day, and many guests are again up and about. Nevertheless, the disruptions caused by the early wave of illness means that we were unable to deliver the vacation our guests were expecting,” Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. said in a statement. The decision to end the trip came after consultation between CDC officials and members of the company’s medical team, the company said. The CDC said earlier that 281, or nearly 10 percent, of the 3,050 passengers aboard the 15-deck ship reported get-

ting sick during the cruise that left Cape Liberty, New Jersey, on Tuesday. Twenty-two crew members also reported feeling ill, according to a Friday statement from the health agency. On Sunday evening, the cruise line said the outbreak of the gastrointestinal illness with vomiting and diarrhea “spiked over the weekend,” but it did not disclose a tally of sickened people. Tests would have to confirm what caused the outbreak, but fast-spreading norovirus is often to blame for similar symptoms sweeping closed quarters like those on cruise ships. Royal Caribbean said special cleaning products and disinfectants proven to kill norovirus were being used to clean ship before it returned to the U.S. It said a full sanitization program would be carried out after the Explorer of the Seas reached its home port Wednesday. Janet Diaz, a company spokeswoman, said CDC representatives boarded the ship when it docked in St. Thomas. During the previous port call in Puerto Rico, the ship underwent “extensive and thorough sanitizing” to help prevent more people from getting sick, she said.

BETHESDA, Md. — Forget being sneezed on: Government scientists are deliberately giving dozens of volunteers the flu by squirting the live virus straight up their noses. It may sound bizarre, but the rare type of research is a step in the quest for better flu vaccines. It turns out that how the body fends off influenza remains something of a mystery. “Vaccines are working, but we could do better,” said Dr. Matthew Memoli of the National Institutes of Health, who is leading the study that aims to infect up to 100 adults over the next year. Wait a minute: Flu is sweeping the country, so why not just study the already sick? That wouldn’t let scientists measure how the immune system reacts through each step of infection, starting with that first exposure to the virus. It’s not an experiment to be taken lightly. After all, the flu kills thousands of Americans a year. For safety, Memoli chose a dose that produces mild to moderate symptoms — and accepts only volunteers who are healthy and no older than 50. And to avoid spreading the germs, participants must spend at least nine days quarantined inside a special isolation ward at the NIH hospital, their health

closely monitored. They’re not released until nasal tests prove they’re no longer contagious. The incentive: About $3,000 to compensate for their time. “I received a very scolding email from my mother” about signing up, Daniel Bennett, 26, said with a grin. “Their standards are so high, I don’t believe I’m in danger,” added Bennett, a restaurant worker from College Park, Md. “I don’t get sick that often.” A masked and gloved Memoli had Bennett lie flat for about a minute. “It will taste salty. Some will drip down the back of your throat,” Memoli said, before squeezing a syringe filled with millions of microscopic virus particles, floating in salt water, into each nostril. Sure enough, a few days later Bennett had the runny nose and achiness of mild flu. The best defense against influenza is a yearly vaccine, but it’s far from perfect. In fact, the vaccine is least effective in peo-

ple age 65 and older — the group most susceptible to flu — probably because the immune system weakens with age. Understanding how younger adults’ bodies fight flu may help scientists determine what the more vulnerable elderly are missing, clues to help develop more protective vaccines for everyone, Memoli explained. Here’s the issue: The vaccine is designed to raise people’s levels of a particular flu-fighting antibody. It targets a protein that acts like the virus’ coat, called hemagglutinin — the “H’’ in H1N1, the strain that caused the 2009 pandemic and that is causing the most illness so far this winter, too. But it’s not clear what antibody level is best to aim for — or whether a certain amount means you’re protected against getting sick at all, or that you’d get a mild case instead of a severe one. “As mind-boggling as it is, we

don’t know the answer to that,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “We made some assumptions that we knew everything about flu.” Just targeting hemagglutinin probably isn’t enough, Memoli added. Already, some people in his study didn’t get sick, despite remarkably low antibody levels, meaning something else must be protecting them. Could it be antibodies against the “N’’ in flu’s name, the neuraminidase protein? Specific T cells that are activated to fight infection? Genes that switch on and off when a virus invades? To begin finding out, Memoli first developed a laboratorygrown copy of the H1N1 flu strain and sprayed different amounts into volunteers’ noses until he found the right dose to trigger mild flu. He hopes eventually to test the harsher H3N2 strain, too.

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Military spending important to Alaska, nation Alaska is integral to the military

well-being of the nation. With that in mind, the state is expecting more than $200 million for major military capital projects. The money is included in the 2014 Omnibus Appropriations bill along with funds for Alaska’s veterans. The bill would restore full military retirement benefits to working-age medically retired veterans, according to Sen. Lisa Murkowski. This is a result of the last federal-government shutdown, which included a 1-percent reduction in the cost of living adjustment for military retirees until they turn 62; at that age, they would receive full retirement benefits. The projects that would be funded with passage of the bill include $45 million for an aviation battalion complex and $58 million for an aviation storage hangar at Fort Wainright; $17.2 million for a ballistic missile defense system upgrade of early warning radar at Clear Air Force Station, and $82 million to replace a mechanicalelectrical building at Fort Greely. Murkowski has stressed the importance of equipping Alaska in light of increasing national threats coming out of Asia and the Pacific. The Pentagon has been focused on the Pacific Rim. Alaska is strategically located for protecting the nation from harm coming from that direction. It is imperative that the military forces are supplied with the infrastructure necessary to do its jobs, and its as equally important to demonstrate a commitment to those who serve and treat them fairly when their service ends. Their treatment affects not only the morale of the retired, but those in service who one day will be. Alaska’s leadership and Alaskans understand the importance of the military to the state and the nation. — Ketchikan Daily News, Jan. 16

Wendy Davis stretches the truth

Perhaps the slogan of the Wendy Davis campaign should be that behind every successful woman is a good man. The Texas gubernatorial candidate needs no introduction. Her filibuster of a bill to ban abortion in Texas after 20 weeks made her an instant star for progressives and much of the media — because few things are as stirring as a principled stand in favor of near-infanticide. Her personal story also was catnip for the press, thrilled by the trajectory of the former teen mom who lived in a mobile home and eventually earned a law degree at Harvard. It’s as if the protagonist of a Horatio Alger novel pulled himself up by his bootstraps and onto the board of Planned Parenthood. Given her enormous wave of positive coverage, it’s remarkable that Wendy Davis felt the need to gild the lily, but so she did. “By 19,” her website said, “Wendy was a single mother.” Actually, as Wayne Slater of The Dallas Morning News reported, she didn’t get divorced from her first husband until age 21. She lived in a mobile home alone for a few months after the two separated, before moving in with her mom and then into her own apartment. According to her website, she got through school “with the help of academic scholarships and student loans.” This is true, but elides the fact that after she married Jeff Davis, a successful lawyer 13

years her senior, he paid for her last two years at Texas Christian University, and cashed in his 401(k) and took out a loan to put her through Harvard. The marriage eventually hit the Rich Lowry rocks. He tells Slater: “It was ironic. I made the last payment, and it was the next day she left.” When they divorced, Jeff Davis was awarded parental custody of the kids, rare in Texas. None of this need necessarily be damning — in any case, it’s not unusual for ambitious politicians to take advantage of supportive spouses — but it wasn’t the story Davis told about herself. In part, she must have exaggerated for simple dramatic effect. In a profile just last week, the “Today” show accompanied her back to the mobile home as if it were taking Abraham Lincoln back to his log cabin. Of course, there was no visit to, let alone mention of, the “historic home in the Mistletoe Heights neighborhood of Fort Worth” (in Slater’s words), where she was living with Jeff Davis by age 24. But her version of her story also carries an ideological charge. So much of her allure for her feminist political base is her status as a go-it-alone single mom. That she

benefited from the stability and resources of marriage can’t be allowed to muddy the picture. Davis and her hagiographers in the media want to make her out more as Julia, the Obama-campaign-generated cartoon dependent on government for help, than as a real person who relied on the most basic institution of civil society, family. In her witless pushback, Davis blamed her opponent, Attorney General Greg Abbott, for the Dallas Morning News story. Slater tweeted that “in researching, I talked to no — zero — Abbott people.” When the Abbott campaign naturally seized on the report, Davis fumed on Twitter, “These attacks show that Greg Abbott’s completely out of touch with the struggles that I faced and so many Texans face.” To suggest that Abbott is unfamiliar with struggle is offensively stupid. When he was a law student in his 20s, he was out jogging when a tree fell on him, shattering his spine. He spent months recovering in the hospital and has been confined to a wheelchair ever since. Supporters of Wendy Davis have risen to her defense on the novel theory that it is sexist to demand that a newly minted feminist icon avoid misleading people. For them, all that really matters is her abortion extremism. Everything else is a detail, including her life story. Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.

Quotable “Personnel failures within this force threaten to jeopardize the trust the American people have placed in us to keep our nuclear weapons safe and secure.” — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, in a memo to a dozen top officials, including heads of the Air Force and Navy, ordering immediate actions to define the depth of trouble inside the nation’s nuclear force. “Assad is responsible for the potential disintegration of Syria. He is a one-man super-magnet for terrorism.” — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, deriding the notion that Syrian President Bashar Assad should stay in power to fight terrorists.

Doonesbury By GARRY TRUDEAU

Changes to oil tax encourage production Few issues affect Alaskans more than the health of our economy. During the 42 years my family and I have lived here, we’ve experienced both good and bad economic times. As a two-term Anchorage mayor, as a businessman, as a parent and now as a grandparent, I know and appreciate the benefits of a thriving economy. Since the beginning of Alaska’s partnership with the oil industry we’ve had long periods of healthy economic times accompanied by prosperity in both the private and public sectors of our economy. Schools have been built around the state, our university system has grown dramatically, and health and human services facilities have been built debt-free, all largely funded by the oil industry/State of Alaska partnership. In Anchorage alone, we built the Sullivan Arena, the Loussac Library, the Alaska Center for Performing Arts, the Egan Center and the Dena’ina Convention Center — all without any debt. The partnership has worked well for Alaska and has given us an unmatched quality of life. All of this was accomplished with an oil tax rate that was more competitive and far lower than the old tax system, ACES. In addition, that partnership has allowed us to accumulate over $76 billion in liquid assets including $50 billion in the Permanent Fund. The fund has paid every Alaskan who has lived here since its inception more than $35,000 in dividends — that’s $175,000 for a family of five. And that fund has nothing to do with taxes. It’s funded with 25 percent of Alaska’s fixed royalty. If production increases, our royalty share goes up. If production goes down, our royalty share into the Permanent Fund goes down. But we’ve also had shorter periods of unhealthy economic times accompanied by hardship for tens of thousands of AlasC

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billion in new projects since Senate Bill 21 was passed and signed by the governor. Now comes another very important decision point for Alaskans — a decision that will determine Alaska’s future for years to come. In August we will vote on a ballot issue that asks whether we want to encourage our healthy partnership that provides 90 percent of our state government’s funding or discourage it. Do we want to keep the new tax passed by the Legislature last year which has already resulted in new investment and new jobs, or do we want to return to the failed tax of the previous administration that contained some of the highest taxes in the world and it did nothing to encourage production of a single, new drop of oil on the North Slope? If we vote to repeal our current tax and return to the old tax, not only will our oil partner’s investments go to other states and our production continue its decline, but it would also be likely to end plans for a large-diameter natural gas pipeline and LNG plant to get North Slope natural gas to Alaska communities along a pipeline route and to profitable markets in Asia. In August, I’m voting to keep our economy and our permanent fund healthy. I’m voting against repealing our tax structure. I’m voting “no” on Ballot Measure 1.

kans. In the mid-80s when the price of oil dropped from $30 to $9 a barrel, the state, the oil industry and our citizens all suffered. Thousands of our neighbors lost their homes, businesses went bankrupt, banks closed and left the state and citizens left our state. Anchorage lost 13 percent of its population and 25 percent of its assessed value. The Interior, the Mat-Su Valley, the Kenai and the rest of Alaska suffered equally. But the State of Alaska/oil Industry partnership survived, and in the late 80’s we began a long period of sustained, gradual growth. The continuation of our economic growth is now threatened. We’re facing a $2 billion deficit. This deficit is the direct result of lower oil prices and decreased production. The claim that this deficit is a result of the new tax structure is a myth. The deficit would be virtually the same under either the old tax structure (ACES) or the new tax structure now in place. Rick Mystrom is a former two-term We can’t do anything about oil prices mayor of Anchorage, a former member of but we can do something about produc- the Anchorage Assembly, and a successful tion. We can discourage it or encourage businessman. it. ACES discouraged production. We’ve watched our oil partners’ investments and oil service companies’ employees move to Texas, California, North Dakota, and other E-mail: news@peninsulaclarion.com states who welcome their investment dolWrite: Fax: lars and our employees. The tax structure Peninsula Clarion 907-283-3299 now in place, created by Senate Bill 21, P.O. Box 3009 Questions? Call: encourages production. Our North Slope Kenai, AK 99611 907-283-7551 partners have already committed to $4.5

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Nation & World Around the World Maryland mall gunman was avid skater, no criminal record prior to deadly attack COLUMBIA, Md. — The gunman who killed two people at a Maryland mall was a teenage skateboarding enthusiast who had no criminal record before he showed up at the shopping center armed with a shotgun, plenty of ammunition and a backpack filled with crude homemade explosives, authorities said Sunday. Darion Marcus Aguilar, 19, took a taxi to the Mall in Columbia in suburban Baltimore on Saturday morning and entered the building near Zumiez, a shop that sells skateboarding gear. He went downstairs to a food court directly below the store, then returned less than an hour later, dumped the backpack in a dressing room and started shooting, police said. Shoppers fled in a panic or barricaded themselves behind closed doors. When police arrived, they found three people dead — two store employees and Aguilar, who had killed himself, authorities said. The shooting baffled investigators and acquaintances of Aguilar, a quiet, skinny teenager who graduated from high school less than a year ago and had no previous run-ins with law enforcement. Police spent Sunday trying to piece together his motive, but it remained elusive. Aguilar, who had concealed the shotgun in a bag, fired six to nine times. One victim, Brianna Benlolo, a 21-year-old single mother, lived half a mile away from Aguilar in the same College Park neighborhood, but police said they were still trying to determine what, if any, relationship they had.

White House advisers warn Congress WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will work with Congress where he can and circumvent lawmakers where he must, his top advisers warned Sunday in previewing Tuesday’s State of the Union speech. Obama faces a politically divided Congress on Tuesday and will use his annual address to demand expanded economic opportunity. Absent legislative action, the White House is telling lawmakers that the president is ready to take unilateral action to close the gap between rich and poor Americans. “I think the way we have to think about this year is we have a divided government,” said Dan Pfeiffer, a longtime Obama adviser. “The Republican Congress is not going to rubber-stamp the president’s agenda. The president is not going to sign the Republican Congress’ agenda.” So the White House is eyeing compromise on some priorities, Obama advisers said. But the president is also looking at executive orders that can be enacted without Congress’ approal. “The president sees this as a year of action to work with Congress where he can and to bypass Congress where necessary,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said.

Syria peace talks yield narrow deal on besieged city, government ‘red line’ on Assad C

GENEVA — Two days of face-to-face peace talks yielded a narrow and tentative agreement Sunday for women and children trapped in a besieged Syrian city, and the government said President Bashar Assad had no intention of giving up “the keys to Damascus.” With little progress to show after months of international pressure for the conference in Geneva, the U.N. mediator hoping to broker an end to Syria’s civil war defended their pace. “I think being too slow is a better way than going too fast,” Lakhdar Brahimi said. “If you run, you may gain one hour and lose one week.” The limited agreement to let women and children leave a blockaded part of the old city of Homs, under negotiation for at least two days, fell far short of expectations and was called into question by multiple reports of government shelling. The talks have yet to touch upon the issue of a possible transitional government — their purpose according to terms laid out when they were first conceived. But the government was unequivocal that Assad’s future was assured in the country led by his family since 1970.

Family of brain-dead, pregnant Texas woman says hospital has removed life support FORT WORTH, Texas — A brain-dead, pregnant Texas woman’s body was removed from life support Sunday, as the hospital keeping her on machines against her family’s wishes acceded to a judge’s ruling that it was misapplying state law. Marlise Munoz’s body soon will be buried by her husband and parents, after John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth announced it would not fight Judge R.H. Wallace Jr.’s Friday order to pronounce her dead and return her body to her family. The 23-week-old fetus she was carrying will not be born. The hospital’s decision Sunday brings an apparent end to a case that became a touchstone for national debates about the beginning and end of life, and whether a pregnant woman who is considered legally and medically dead should be kept on life support for the sake of a fetus. Munoz’s husband, Erick Munoz, sued the hospital because it would not remove life support as he said his wife would have wanted in such a situation. Erick and Marlise Munoz worked as paramedics and were familiar with end-of-life issues, and Erick said his wife had told him she would not want to be kept alive under such circumstances. But the hospital refused his request, citing Texas law that says life-sustaining treatment cannot be withdrawn from a pregnant patient, regardless of her end-of-life wishes.

Asian stocks dive as jitters continue to mount over world economy, Fed tightening HONG KONG — Asian stock markets tumbled Monday as investors factored in the possibility of slowing growth in China and a further reduction in U.S. central bank stimulus. The global sell-off that is roiling world markets was triggered by preliminary results Thursday of a survey showing that China’s manufacturing would contract in January. Investors are also awaiting a two-day meeting by the U.S. Federal Reserve starting Tuesday, where officials are widely expected to reduce their monthly bond buying by another $10 billion to $65 billion. Turmoil in individual emerging markets such as Argentina, where the peso dropped 16 percent over two days last week, is also spooking investors. Japan’s Nikkei 225 sank 2.6 percent to 14,993.89 as investors sought out havens such as the Japanese yen, causing it to rise against the dollar which is negative for export stocks. — The Associated Press

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Tunisia passes constitution By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — After decades of dictatorship and two years of arguments and compromises, Tunisians on Sunday finally have a new constitution laying the foundations for a new democracy. The document is groundbreaking as one of the most progressive constitutions in the Arab world — and for the fact that it got written at all. It passed late Sunday by 200 votes out of 216 in the Muslim Mediterranean country that inspired uprisings across the region after overthrowing a dictator in 2011. “This constitution, without being perfect, is one of consensus,” assembly speaker Mustapha Ben Jaafar said after the vote. “We had today a new rendezvous with history to build a democracy founded on rights and equality.” The constitution enshrining freedom of religion and women’s rights took two years to finish. During that period, the country was battered by high unemployment, protests, terrorist attacks, political assassinations and politicians who seemed more interested in posturing than finishing the charter. At the same time, Egypt wrote two constitutions — and went through a military coup against an elected government. Egypt’s charters were quickly drafted by appointed committees and involved little public debate or input. In Tunisia, an elected assembly of Tunisian Islamists, leftists and liberals worked on a detailed roadmap for their political future. Tunisians hope its care in drafting the constitution makes a difference in returning stability to the country and reassuring investors and allies such as the U.S. “We needed time to get this constitution as it is today,” said Amira Yahyaoui, who has closely followed the assembly’s activities with her monitoring

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Interim Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa addresses the media after the new government presentation ceremony at the presidential palace in Carthage near Tunis, Sunday. Tunisia’s interim prime minister announced on Sunday his new government following a 24-hour delay over the post of interior minister. Mehdi Jomaa, the interim prime minister, had been working since Jan. 10 to form a government of technocrats to guide the country to new elections after a political crisis that began last year between Islamists and the opposition following the assassination of an opposition politician.

group Bawsala. “Clearly, writing this constitution to do a real transformation of the minds of people needed time and I absolutely don’t regret these two years and I am happy we had time to discuss and think about all the arguments.” The new constitution sets out to make the North African country of 11 million people a democracy, with a civil state whose laws are not based on Islamic law, unlike many other Arab constitutions. An entire chapter of the document, some 28 articles, is dedicated to protecting citizens’ rights, including protection from torture, the right to due process, and freedom of worship. It guarantees equality between men and women before the law and the state commits itself to protecting women’s rights. “This is the real revolution,

Law proposed for vanished autistic boy NEW YORK (AP) — The federal government would pay for GPS tracking devices for autistic children under legislation proposed Sunday by Sen. Chuck Schumer and named for a New York City boy who wandered away from his school three months ago and was found dead in a city river. “Avonte’s Law,” named for 14-year-old Avonte Oquendo, would provide $10 million to pay for the high-tech device that could be worn on the wrist, kept in a wallet or sewn into clothing. Avonte walked away from his Queens school in October and his body was found in the East River earlier this month. About 200 mourners gathered Saturday for his funeral and investigators are still trying to determine how he died. “We can’t change the past, but we can take necessary steps to ensure we learn from this and put in place programs that will ensure that no parent and no child has to go through a similar nightmare in the future,” Schumer said at a news conference in his Manhattan office, joined by Avonte’s mother, Vanessa Fontaine, and grandmother Doris McCoy. About half of autistic children are prone to wandering, according to research published in 2012 in the journal Pediatrics, and wandering has led to the deaths of more than 60 autistic children since 2008. About 90 percent of the wandering fatalities in recent years have been drowning victims, according to the National Autism Association. Groups that advocate for autism-affected families have made it a priority to increase awareness of wandering. The study found that half of parents with autistic children never received advice or guidance from a professional on how to cope

with wandering. Experts have recommended precautionary measures, including autistic children wearing ID bracelets or tracking devices. “Lord knows, if we had known within a matter of minutes where this boy was when he had walked out in a school, we might not be here,” said David Perecman, an attorney for Avonte’s family who has been speaking on their behalf. “Never again.” Avonte’s mother smiled faintly as she listened to Schumer’s proposal, which he said might have saved her son’s life. He plans to introduce the legislation on Monday. The program would resemble one that Schumer said has successfully kept track of people with Alzheimer’s disease using a computer-programmed alert system. That program signals police departments when someone wearing the device leaves a place where they are supposed to be. Each device costs about $85, plus a few dollars in monthly fees, the senator said, adding that hundreds of families with autistic children already have used privately funded tracking devices. Michael Rosen, executive director of New York-based Autism Speaks, attended the news conference with his 26-year-old autistic son, Nicky. As a child, “he would race across the street to a neighbor’s living room ... and he’d end up all of a sudden tearing apart their living room, or he’d be across the street on a roof because he was attracted to heights,” Rosen said of his son. “You can’t turn your back for one second.” One in 88 American children had some form of autism spectrum disorder in 2008, according to the latest estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s a 78 percent increase compared to 2002. C

many democratic constitution don’t even have that,” said Yahyaoui. “It will have a real impact on the rest of the Arab region, because finally we can say that women’s rights are not a Western concept only, but also exist in Tunisia.” Tunisia has always had the most progressive legislation on women’s rights in the Arab world and Yahyaoui believes the long period of writing has made people comfortable with its contents. One of the most hotly debated articles guarantees “freedom of belief and conscience,” which would permit atheism and the practice of non-Abrahamic religions frowned upon in other Islamic countries. It also bans incitement to violence and declaring a Muslim an apostate — a fallen Muslim — which leaves them open to death threats. In

response, conservative law makers insisted that “attacks on the sacred” be forbidden, which many see as a threat to freedom of expression. “This formulation is vague and gives too much leeway to the legislators to trample other rights such as the right to free expression, artistic creation and academic freedoms,” warned Amna Guelleli, the Human Rights Watch representative in Tunisia. “However, the risk is reduced given the strong safeguards (in other articles) against overly broad interpretations.” Since the revolution, there has been a rise in convictions for so-called attacks on religion, especially by artists. A Tunisian cartoonist is in the second year of a seven-year sentence for posting cartoons insulting to the Prophet Muhammad on Facebook.

Somali militant killed in attack By ABDI GULED Associated Press

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A member of Somali rebel group al-Shabab was killed Sunday by a missile fired by a suspected drone, a rebel commander said, blaming the U.S. for the strike. Abu Mohamed told The Associated Press that Sahal Iskudhuq, a militant commander who was believed to be close to al-Shabab’s top leader, was killed when his car was hit by a missile in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region. The attack took place in a village called Hawai, he said. A Somali intelligence official confirmed the attack, describing the victim as a “dangerous” militant. His driver was also killed in the attack, the official said on

condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to reveal the information. Mohamed blamed the attack on the U.S., which flies drones over Somalia that occasionally fire at one of alShabab’s top leaders. Two U.S. military officials confirm that there was a missile strike against a senior al-Shabab leader in Somalia today. The officials wouldn’t identify the target of the strike, and one of the officials said U.S. intelligence is still “assessing the effectiveness of the strike.” The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. Last October, a U.S. military strike hit a vehicle carrying senior members of the al-Qaida-linked group, killing its top explosives expert.

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Sports

Wawrinka tops hurting Nadal for title JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer

MELBOURNE, Australia — Stan Wawrinka added a win over Rafael Nadal to his list of firsts in a stunning run to his maiden Grand Slam title, extending his rival’s injury-cursed run at the Australian Open with a 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 upset in Sunday’s final. The 28-year-old Wawrinka had never taken a set off Nadal in 12 previous meetings, but attacked from the start against the 13-time major winner and regained his nerve after dropping the third set against the injured Spaniard. Nadal appeared to be on the verge of retiring in the second set, when he hurt his back and needed a medical time out, but he refused to quit. “It’s really not the way you want to win a tennis match, but in a Grand

Slam final I’ll take it,” said Wawrinka, the first man in 21 years to beat the No. 1 and No. 2 ranked players en route to a Grand Slam title. Nadal was a hot favorite to win at Melbourne Park and become the first man to win each of the four Grand Slam tournaments twice in the Open era — instead, his injury curse struck again. It remains the only major he’s hasn’t won at least two times. “Rafa, I’m really sorry for you, I hope your back is going to be fine, you’re a really great guy, good friend and really amazing champion,” Wawrinka said as he accepted his first major trophy. “Last year I had a crazy match, I lost it. I was crying a lot after the match. But in one year a lot happened — I still don’t know if I’m dreaming or not but we’ll see tomorrow morning.”

Wawrinka lost in five sets to Novak Djokovic in the fourth round of the 2013 Australian Open, in the longest Grand Slam match of the season. Djokovic went on to win his third consecutive title at Melbourne Park, and then beat Wawrinka again in five sets in the U.S. Open semifinals. But Wawrinka avenged those losses this time, beating Djokovic in five sets in the quarterfinals — ending a run of 14 straight losses to the Serbian player. Now he’ll move from No. 8 to No. 3. In doing so, he’ll surpass Federer, a 17-time Grand Slam winner who lost to Nadal in the semifinals — to become the highest-ranked Swiss player for the first time in his career. A constant supporter of his countryman, Federer was one of the first people to call and congratulate Wawrinka

after his win. Wawrinka also broke up a sequence of wins for the Big Four — with 34 of the previous 35 majors going to either Nadal, Djokovic, Roger Federer or Andy Murray. “Stan, you really deserve it,” Nadal said. “Luck was against me today but you really deserve it. “Last thing that I wanted to do was retire. I hate to do that, especially in a final. Same time, is tough to see yourself during the whole year you are working for a moment like this, and arrives the moment and you feel that you are not able to play at your best. “ Nadal has had a terrible stretch with injuries at the Australian Open, and has described it as his unluckiest Grand Slam. He won the title in 2009, and lost an epic five-set final to Djokovic in 2012. But he missed the 2013

edition during a seven-month layoff with knee injuries and illness, and his quarterfinal losses in 2010 and 2011 were affected by injuries. “It has been a very emotional two weeks — I’m sorry to finish this way,” he told the Rod Laver Arena crowd. “I tried very, very hard — this year was one of the more emotional tournaments in my career.” A possible retirement was looming when Nadal was serving at 0-2 in the second set. He bent over at the waist to stretch his back and then grabbed his lower back with his hand and grimaced in pain. His serve immediately dipped to 141 kph (87 mph). When Nadal took a medical timeout after falling behind a set and a break, and returned to a chorus of boos without a shirt after 7 minutes, it seemed that an early finish was on the cards.

Rice gets win in Pro Bowl OSKAR GARCIA Associated Press

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Devils right wing Jaromir Jagr (68) controls the puck as Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh (27) defends in the third period of an NHL outdoor hockey game at Yankee Stadium in New York, Sunday.

HONOLULU — Jerry Rice has fresh bragging rights on Deion Sanders nearly a decade after both players retired from the NFL. Dallas running back DeMarco Murray caught a 20-yard touchdown pass with 41 seconds left and Carolina running back Mike Tolbert plunged into the end zone for a 2-point conversion to give Rice a 22-21 win over Sanders in the first schoolyard-style Pro Bowl on Sunday. “They called my number the whole way,” Tolbert said on the field after the game. “Philip (Rivers) told them to give it to me. My old teammate, he told them to give it to me.” Baltimore’s Justin Tucker missed a 67-yard field goal on the game’s final play after missing a 66-yarder earlier in the

game. The touchdown and conversion gave Rice a comeback after Philadelphia quarterback Nick Foles threw a 12-yard touchdown to Cleveland tight end Jordan Cameron with less than 5 minutes to play to give Sanders a 21-14 lead. The touchdowns by Cameron and Murray were the only scores of the second half in a game that had eight turnovers — including six interceptions — and nine sacks. “It was definitely sloppy. There was a lot of turnovers because of the weather,” said Houston defensive end J.J. Watt, who was a captain on Sanders’ team. “There was a lot of rain, so obviously that factored into it.” The game was played in consistent rain, but little wind and warm temperatures in the high 70s.

Rangers win at Yankee Stadium No. 1 Arizona By The Associated Press

NEW YORK — After sun reflecting off the ice delayed the first hockey game at Yankee Stadium, the New York Rangers and pinstriped goalie Henrik Lundqvist beat the New Jersey Devils 7-3 in snow and cold Sunday. Rick Nash scored for the fifth straight game, and the Rangers used a four-goal second period against Martin Brodeur to take the lead for good. After Dominic Moore and Marc Staal had goals in the first for the Rangers, Mats Zuccarello scored two straight to put New York ahead for the first time. Carl Hagelin and Nash found the net, too. Lundqvist, who sported stylish pinstriped pads for the occasion, stumbled through a difficult first but settled down

and made 19 saves. PANTHERS 5, RED WINGS 4, SO DETROIT — Nick Bjugstad scored in a shootout and Tim Thomas denied Detroit three times, lifting the Panthers to a win over the Red Wings after trailing by two goals twice in regulation. Brad Boyes scored a game-tying, short-handed goal with 3:46 left in the third period a couple minutes after teammate Drew Shore scored. Detroit’s Gustav Nyquist and Daniel Alfredsson scored 1:19 apart midway through the second and Riley Sheahan had a goal late in the second period.

Jets rallied to beat the slumping Blackhawks. Blake Wheeler had two thirdperiod goals as Winnipeg won for the second straight day and improved to 6-1 under new coach Paul Maurice. Brandon Bollig scored in the first for the Blackhawks, and Corey Crawford had 18 saves.

CANUCKS 5, COYOTES 4, OT

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Kevin Bieksa scored his second goal of the game at 2:15 of overtime, lifting the Canucks to a victory over the Coyotes. Zac Dalpe and Chris Higgins each had goal and an assist for Vancouver, and Jannik HanJETS 3, BLACKHAWKS 1 sen also scored. Bieksa also had an assist and Roberto Luongo, CHICAGO — Al Montoya shaky at times, made 29 saves for made 34 saves, Andrew Ladd the Canucks. On the winner, Bieksa chipped scored his 150th goal and the

his fourth goal of the season over Phoenix goalie Mike Smith just as a Coyotes power play expired. Antoine Vermette had a hat trick for Phoenix, and Shane Doan added a goal and an assist. Smith finished with 20 saves.

OILERS 5, PREDATORS 1 EDMONTON, Alberta — Ryan Smyth had a goal and an assist, and the Oilers snapped a season-high six-game losing streak with a victory over the Predators. Justin Schultz, Jordan Eberle and Ryan Nugent Hopkins each had a goal and an assist and Nail Yakupov also scored for the Oilers (16-32-7), who won for the fifth time in 22 games. Edmonton has had five losing streaks of at least five games this season. David Legwand scored for the Predators (23-23-8), who have lost two in a row.

moves to 20-0 By The Associated Press

TUCSON, Ariz. — Nick Johnson scored 22 points and Aaron Gordon provided a huge boost despite a rough shooting night, helping top-ranked Arizona pull away from Utah 6556 Sunday night for its schoolrecord 20th straight win. Arizona (20-0, 7-0 Pac-12) struggled early in both halves before Gordon made key plays with his hustle during a deciding second-half run. He finished with 10 points on 3-of-13 shooting and grabbed 12 rebounds. No. 13 MASSACHUSETTS 90, FORDHAM 52

assists and Massachusetts rebounded from a loss earlier this week. Raphiael Putney and Trey Davis both had 13 points and Maxie Esho had 10 points and six rebounds for the Minutemen (17-2, 4-1 Atlantic-10), who lost at Richmond on Wednesday.

No. 15 CINCINNATI 80, TEMPLE 76 PHILADELPHIA — Sean Kilpatrick scored a season-high 29 points and Cincinnati staved off a Temple comeback to remain undefeated in the American Athletic Conference.

No. 23 MEMPHIS 80, SOUTH FLORIDA 58

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Chris Crawford scored 15 points and AMHERST, Mass. — Chaz converted five of Memphis’ seaWilliams had 18 points and eight son-high 10 3-pointers.

With Wade used as reserve, Heat cruise past Spurs By The Associated Press

MIAMI — Chris Bosh scored 24 points on 9-for-10 shooting, LeBron James added 18 points and the Miami Heat rolled past the San Antonio Spurs 113-101 on Sunday in an NBA Finals rematch from last season. Mario Chalmers scored 16 points for Miami, which used Dwyane Wade as a reserve for the first time since Jan. 6, 2008. Wade — an All-Star starter again this season — had not played in any of two-time defending champion Miami’s most recent four games while dealing with ongoing knee rehabilitation. He had eight points and five assists in 24 minutes. Michael Beasley scored 12 points, Norris Cole had 11 and Ray Allen added 10 for Miami. Bosh has made 17 of his last 18 shots from the floor. WARRIORS 103, TRAIL BLAZERS 88 OAKLAND, Calif. — Stephen Curry had 38 points, eight assists and seven rebounds, and Golden State used a smothering defense to beat Portland. The newly elected All-Star starting

point guard, wearing shiny gold shoes, shot 13 of 23 from the floor to carry the offensive load. The Warriors did it all on defense, too, building a 22-point lead midway through the fourth quarter to put the game out of reach. Golden State outshot Portland 41.8 percent to 33.7 percent and forced 15 turnovers while committing nine.

NETS 85, CELTICS 79

points each.

The Nuggets went ahead late in the third quarter and never trailed again. Denver was coming off a 109-96 home win KNICKS 110, LAKERS 103 Saturday night over Indiana, which has the NEW YORK — Carmelo Anthony fol- best record in the NBA. lowed his 62-point game with 35 more, and New York beat Los Angeles. PELICANS 100, MAGIC 92 Anthony finished with two points fewNEW ORLEANS — Anthony Davis er than he had at halftime of his recordsetting night Friday, but he scored six had 22 points, a career-high 19 rebounds straight New York points down the stretch and seven blocked shots, and New Orleans after the Lakers had cut the Knicks’ lead to beat Orlando to win its second straight game. two with just over 5 minutes left. Davis’ statistical line marked the first And he had plenty of help as the Knicks won their second straight following a five- time since the franchise was founded as the Hornets in Charlotte in 1988 that a game losing streak. Raymond Felton scored 20 points, Tim player on the club had that many points, Hardaway Jr. had 18 and J.R. Smith 16 for rebounds and blocks in the same game. Tyreke Evans scored 13 of his 23 points the Knicks. Tyson Chandler had 13 points in the fourth quarter to keep struggling Orand 14 rebounds. Jodie Meeks scored 24 points for the lando at bay. Led by Arron Afflalo’s 25 points, the Lakers. Pau Gasol had 20 points and 13 rebounds as the Lakers dropped their fourth Magic twice got as close as three points straight to finish 2-5 on their Grammy late in the fourth quarter. Brian Roberts had 15 points and Eric Awards trip. Gordon 14 for the Pelicans.

BOSTON — Andray Blatche scored 17 points to lead Brooklyn to victory in the first visit by Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett to Boston since they were traded last July. The cornerstones of the Celtics’ 2008 championship team received video tributes early in the game with career highlights shown on the scoreboard. They didn’t have any highlights on the court until Garnett stole the ball from Rajon Rondo and dribbled ahead of the field for a layup that ended Boston’s last threat. That put the Nets ahead 82-77 with 20 seconds left and secured their 10th win in 11 games. NUGGETS 125, KINGS 117 The Celtics, losing for the 17th time in SUNS 99, CAVALIERS 90 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Ty Lawson 20 games, were led by Brandon Bass with 17 points and Rondo with 13 points, eight scored 27 points, Wilson Chandler had 20 CLEVELAND — Markieff Morand Denver defeated short-handed Sacra- ris scored 27 points and Phoenix rallied rebounds and eight assists. Pierce and Garnett scored just six mento for its second straight victory. from an 18-point halftime deficit to defeat C

Cleveland. The Suns turned in a dominant second half, outscoring the Cavaliers 56-29. Channing Frye finished with 16 points, including four 3-pointers after halftime, and Goran Dragic scored 15 to help Phoenix pull off the comeback on the first stop of a four-game road trip. The Cavaliers, who led by 20 late in the second quarter, fell to 1-3 on a five-game homestand considered crucial to their chances of staying in the Eastern Conference playoff race. Kyrie Irving scored 24 points and Luol Deng added 18 for Cleveland.

MAVERICKS 116, PISTONS 106 DALLAS — Dirk Nowitzki scored 28 points and Devin Harris had a season-high 14 for the second straight game to carry Dallas past Detroit. Nowitzki was 10 of 16 from the field in his second straight game wearing a sleeve on his sore left knee after sitting out a loss in Toronto. It’s not the knee that required surgery and sidelined him the first 27 games last season. Harris scored five straight points in the final minute of the third quarter to break a 79-all tie. His 3-pointer early in the fourth capped a 15-2 run for a 94-81 Dallas lead.

Peninsula Clarion, Monday, January 27, 2014

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Sports Briefs Nikiski girls win Cordova Tip Off The Nikiski girls basketball team won the Cordova Tip Off Tournament this weekend, finishing the round robin 3-0. The Bulldogs wrapped up the title Saturday with a 61-20 victory over Seldovia. Nikiski led 27-4 after the first quarter. The Bulldogs put 11 players in the scoring column, led by Emily Lynch with 14. Lynch was named the MVP of the tournament, while Rachel Thompson, Alyssa Darch and Katie Costello also made the alltournament team. Jenna Crosby paced the Sea Otters with 20 points. Xandria Swick was Seldovia’s representative on the all-tournament team. The Nikiski boys finished second at the tournament with a 2-1 record. Both the Bulldogs and Seldovia were 1-1 headed into their game Saturday. Nikiski notched a 63-53 win. The Bulldogs led 18-12 after one quarter, but Seldovia had a 29-26 lead at the break. Nikiski was up 44-41 after three, then closed it out. Seth Carstens had 21 for the Bulldogs, while Luke Johnson had 19 and Cade Anderson had 16. For Seldovia, Aidan Philpot had 18 and Dylan Waterbury had 15. Johnson and Carstens made the all-tournament team for Nikiski, while Philpot and Calem Collier were honored for Seldovia. Host Cordova won the boys tournament. Tip Off Awards

Skill competitions Free throws — Katie Costello, Nikiski; Andrew Werner, Cordova. Hot shot — Seth Carstens, Nikiski; Emily Lynch, Nikiski. 3-point — Rachel Thompson, Nikiski; Hunter Holloway, Nikiski. Girls sportsmanship award — Seldovia Sea Otters. Girls MVP — Emily Lynch, Nikiski. Girls all-tournament — Marina Olsen, Unalaska; Dariah Songer, Cordova; Rachel Thompson, Nikiski; Alyssa Darch, Nikiski; Lindsay Phillips, Cordova; Katie Costello, Nikiski; Amber Vernon, Unalaska; Xandria Swick, Seldovia. Boys sportsmanship award — Unalaska Raiders. Boys MVP — Eli Beedle, Cordova. Boys all-tournament — Luke Johnson, Nikiski; Cooper Jewell, Cordova; Seth Carstens, Nikiski; Aiden Philpot, Seldovia; Ben Enlow, Unalaska; Zach Songer, Cordova; Andrew Muma, Cordova; Caleb Collier, Seldovia. Saturday girls Bulldogs 61, Sea Otters 20 Nikiski Seldovia

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NIKISKI (61) — Riddall 3 0-0 6, Vollertsen 1 0-0 2, Cook 4 0-0 8, Costello 3 0-0 7, Litke 1 0-0 2, Lynch 7 0-0 14, Thompson 2 0-1 4, Parrish 0 0-2 0, Kornstad 2 0-0 4, Kaser 1 0-0 2, Litzen 1 4-4 6, Darch 3 0-0 6. Totals — 28 4-7 61. SELDOVIA (20) — Chissus 2 4-6 8, Omar 0 0-0 0, Mitchell 0 0-0 0, Waterbury 0 0-0 0, Swick 0 0-0 0, Turner 1 0-0 3, Crosby 4 0-0 9. Totals — 7 4-6 20. 3-point goals — Nikiski 1 (Costello); Seldovia 2 (Turner, Crosby). Team fouls — Nikiski 7, Seldovia 7. Fouled out — none. Saturday boys Bulldogs 63, Sea Otters 53 Nikiski Seldovia

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NIKISKI (63) — Stangel 1 0-1 2, Anderson 6 2-2 16, Johnson 5 9-10 19, Castro 0 0-0 0, Holloway 0 1-2 1, Tauriainen 1 1-2 3, S. Carstens 10 1-1 21, N. Carstens 0 0-0 0, Jackson 0 1-2 1, Pamplin 0 0-0 0. Totals — 23 15-20 63. SELDOVIA (53) — R. Waterbury 0 0-0 0, Crosby 0 0-0 0, Sidibe 0 0-0 0, D. Waterbury 5 5-7 15, Collier 2 3-5 7, Haller 0 2-3 2, Philpot 8 0-0 18, O’Leary 3 3-6 9. Totals — 18 13-21 53. 3-point goals — Nikiski 2 (Anderson 2); Seldovia 2 (Philpot 2). Team fouls — Nikiski 20, Seldovia 20. Fouled out — S. Carstens.

Barbosa takes Rolex 24

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — After more than 2,400 miles and 23 1/2 hours of racing, the most prestigious North American sports car race came down to eight minutes and a final five-lap sprint. The first race of the unified United SportsCar Championship — the NASCAR-owned and IMSA-sanctioned series born from the merger between American Le Mans and Grand-AM — ended with a NASCAR flair. A late, full-course caution swallowed Joao Barbosa’s 13-seccond lead and gave Max Angelelli a last-ditch chance to win the Rolex 24 at Daytona. — Staff and wire reports

Football

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NFL Playoffs

Farmers Insurane Open

Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 26 At Honolulu Team Rice 22, Team Sanders 21 Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 2 At East Rutherford, N.J. Denver vs. Seattle, 2:30 p.m. AST (FOX)

Rice 22, Sanders 21 Team Rice 0 14 Team Sanders 7 7

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First Quarter SAN_Jackson 36 pass from Luck (Tucker kick), 10:10. Second Quarter RIC_Graham 8 pass from Brees (Gostkowski kick), 9:05. SAN_Newton 1 run (Tucker kick), 5:42. RIC_Gordon 10 pass from Rivers (Gostkowski kick), :36. Fourth Quarter SAN_Cameron 12 pass from Foles (Tucker kick), 4:41. RIC_Murray 20 pass from A.Smith (Tolbert run), :41. A_47,270. RIC SAN First downs 24 14 Total Net Yards 384 285 Rushes-yards 20-114 17-62 Passing 270 223 Punt Returns 5-56 3-8 Kickoff Returns 0-0 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 2-0 4-101 Comp-Att-Int 26-54-4 20-34-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-21 5-41 Punts 4-49.0 5-49.2 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 3-1 Penalties-Yards 4-20 2-10 Time of Possession 32:47 27:13 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Team Rice, Forte 6-31, Murray 4-25, L.McCoy 3-14, Tolbert 3-14, Gordon 1-13, A.Smith 1-13, Brees 2-4. Team Sanders, Charles 5-43, Lacy 7-14, Morris 2-4, Newton 2-1, Luck 1-0. PASSING_Team Rice, A.Smith 9-22-1-116, Rivers 8-13-2-94, Brees 9-19-1-81. Team Sanders, Newton 8-17-1-95, Foles 7-10-089, Luck 5-7-1-80. RECEIVING_Team Rice, Gordon 6-66, Graham 5-51, Murray 4-37, Gonzalez 3-50, Forte 3-24, Jeffery 2-22, Marshall 1-21, L.McCoy 1-18, McCluster 1-2. Team Sanders, Morris 4-69, Jackson 3-40, Cameron 3-27, Reece 2-31, Witten 2-26, Bryant 2-12, A.Brown 1-39, Lacy 1-9, Green 1-7, Charles 1-4. MISSED FIELD GOALS_Team Rice, Gostkowski 53 (WR). Team Sanders, Tucker 66 (SH), 67 (SH).

Tennis Australian Open

Sunday At Melbourne Park Melbourne, Australia Purse: $29.72 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles Men Championship Stanislas Wawrinka (8), Switzerland, def. Rafael Nadal (1), Spain, 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.

Sunday s-Torrey Pines, South Course (7,698 yards, par 72) n-Torrey Pines, North Course (7,052 yards, par 72) San Diego Purse: $6.1 million Final Scott Stallings (500), $1,098,000 72s-67n-72-68—279 K.J. Choi (167), $366,000 74s-70n-70-66—280 Graham DeLaet (167), $366,000 70n-73s-69-68—280 Jason Day (167), $366,000 66n-73s-73-68—280 Pat Perez (167), $366,000 67s-71n-72-70—280 Marc Leishman (167), $366,000 66n-71s-72-71—280 Charley Hoffman (85), $190,117 69s-70n-75-67—281 Ryo Ishikawa (85), $190,117 72s-70n-69-70—281 Will MacKenzie (85), $190,117 72s-69n-70-70—281 Trevor Immelman (64), $135,217 68n-74s-71-69—282 Seung-Yul Noh (64), $135,217 68n-73s-72-69—282 Russell Knox (64), $135,217 71s-67n-74-70—282 Justin Thomas (0), $135,217 68n-73s-72-69—282

Basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Toronto 22 21 Brooklyn 20 22 New York 17 27 Boston 15 31 Philadelphia 14 30 Southeast Division Miami 32 12 Atlanta 23 20 Washington 21 22 Charlotte 19 27 Orlando 12 33 Central Division Indiana 34 9 Chicago 22 21 Detroit 17 27 Cleveland 16 28 Milwaukee 8 35

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division San Antonio 33 11 Houston 29 17 Dallas 26 20 Memphis 22 20 New Orleans 18 25 Northwest Division Oklahoma City 35 10 Portland 33 12 Denver 22 21 Minnesota 21 22 Utah 15 29 Pacific Division L.A. Clippers 31 15 Golden State 27 18 Phoenix 25 18 L.A. Lakers 16 29 Sacramento 15 28

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Sunday’s Games Miami 113, San Antonio 101 New York 110, L.A. Lakers 103 New Orleans 100, Orlando 92 Phoenix 99, Cleveland 90 Brooklyn 85, Boston 79 Dallas 116, Detroit 106 Golden State 103, Portland 88 Denver 125, Sacramento 117 Monday’s Games Phoenix at Philadelphia, 3 p.m. Toronto at Brooklyn, 3:30 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago, 4 p.m. Atlanta at Oklahoma City, 4 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Milwaukee, 4 p.m. Sacramento at Utah, 5 p.m. All Times AST

Women’s scores EAST Canisius 75, Siena 66

Stallings triumphs at Torrey SAN DIEGO (AP) — Scott Stallings was in the 18th fairway at Torrey Pines, 222 yards from the front of the green, needing a birdie to give himself a shot at outright victory Sunday in the Farmers Insurance Open. That’s when his caddie told him, “Let’s see what you’ve got.” Above all, he had experience. One year and one week ago, Stallings was in a similar situation at the Humana Challenge. He hit a 6-iron from 220 yards, forgetting to account for a hanging lie until the ball sailed left and bounded into the water, the final mistake on a day he blew a five-shot lead. He didn’t make the same mistake twice. Stallings hammered a 4-iron that narrowly cleared the water and set up two putts from 40 feet for a birdie. It gave him a 4-under 68 and a one-shot lead that turned into a victory when no one could catch him. “I don’t think one would happen without the other,” Stallings said. “I actually thought about 18 at Humana the whole time on 18 today. Not that I was like, ‘Oh, don’t hit it in the water.’ But it was, ‘Just make sure you pay attention to everything that’s going on.’” His final birdie capped off a wild day at Torrey Pines, one that didn’t include Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson for the first time in two decades. Nine players had a share of the lead at one point. Eight players still had a reasonable chance in the final hour. Stallings emerged the winner with one big shot, and now he’s headed back to the Masters. K.J. Choi had the best score of the week on the South Course with a 66 and was among five players who tied for second. C

Drexel 55, Northeastern 52 Fairfield 61, Quinnipiac 52 Iona 66, St. Peter’s 54 Monmouth (NJ) 75, Manhattan 70 New Hampshire 75, Mass.-Lowell 68 Penn St. 83, Minnesota 53 Saint Joseph’s 75, Dayton 63 St. John’s 66, Georgetown 63 Stony Brook 65, Maine 49 Syracuse 84, Virginia 75 UConn 81, South Florida 53 Vermont 65, Binghamton 57 Wake Forest 56, Boston College 50 SOUTH Alabama 69, Georgia 66 Clemson 60, Miami 52 Coll. of Charleston 68, Delaware 66 Duke 111, Pittsburgh 67 Florida 87, Auburn 69 Florida St. 70, Virginia Tech 54 James Madison 77, UNC Wilmington 41 Kentucky 68, Arkansas 58 LSU 66, Mississippi 56 Louisville 88, Memphis 61 Mississippi St. 69, Missouri 62 NC State 80, Georgia Tech 73 South Carolina 61, Vanderbilt 57 UNC Asheville 73, Charleston Southern 48 William & Mary 69, Towson 60 MIDWEST Akron 101, E. Michigan 79 Bowling Green 57, N. Illinois 44 Buffalo 73, Ball St. 69 Drake 97, Bradley 77 Michigan 60, Wisconsin 44 Michigan St. 82, Ohio St. 68 N. Iowa 70, Loyola of Chicago 59 Northwestern 63, Nebraska 59 S. Illinois 66, Evansville 57 SOUTHWEST Baylor 69, Oklahoma St. 66, OT Tennessee 76, Texas A&M 55 FAR WEST Arizona St. 68, Colorado 66 California 69, UCLA 53 Denver 87, W. Illinois 83 Oregon 101, Washington 85 Oregon St. 72, Washington St. 57 Utah 60, Arizona 57

Men’s scores EAST Canisius 78, Marist 65 Cincinnati 80, Temple 76 Harvard 80, Dartmouth 50 Iona 71, St. Peter’s 63 New Hampshire 61, Mass.-Lowell 32

Brad Fritsch (64), $135,217 Gary Woodland (64), $135,217 Hideki Matsuyama (54), $97,600 Keegan Bradley (54), $97,600 Morgan Hoffmann (54), $97,600 Erik Compton (51), $76,555 Robert Streb (51), $76,555 Nicolas Colsaerts (51), $76,555 Jordan Spieth (51), $76,555 J.B. Holmes (46), $54,290 Billy Horschel (46), $54,290 Luke Guthrie (46), $54,290 Bubba Watson (46), $54,290 Rory Sabbatini (46), $54,290 Stewart Cink (39), $38,023 Jamie Lovemark (39), $38,023 Justin Leonard (39), $38,023 Sang-Moon Bae (39), $38,023 Robert Garrigus (39), $38,023 Brendan Steele (39), $38,023 Y.E. Yang (39), $38,023 Chad Collins (39), $38,023 Brian Stuard (39), $38,023

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Princeton 84, Kean 54 Quinnipiac 90, Manhattan 86, OT Rider 77, Monmouth (NJ) 71, OT Siena 64, Fairfield 56 Stony Brook 79, Maine 61 UMass 90, Fordham 52 Vermont 72, Binghamton 39

Vancouver 53 27 17 9 63 135 134 Phoenix 52 24 18 10 58 151 160 Calgary 52 18 27 7 43 119 165 Edmonton 54 16 32 6 38 140 188 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

SOUTH

Sunday’s Games Florida 5, Detroit 4, SO N.Y. Rangers 7, New Jersey 3 Winnipeg 3, Chicago 1 Edmonton 5, Nashville 1 Vancouver 5, Phoenix 4, OT Monday’s Games Boston at N.Y. Islanders, 3 p.m. Columbus at Carolina, 3 p.m. Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 3:30 p.m. Colorado at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. Edmonton at Vancouver, 6 p.m. Los Angeles at San Jose, 6 p.m. All Times AST

Memphis 80, South Florida 58 NC State 80, Georgia Tech 78, OT North Carolina 80, Clemson 61 MIDWEST Evansville 66, Bradley 60 Green Bay 62, Detroit 52 Indiana 56, Illinois 46 Nebraska 82, Minnesota 78 Toledo 81, Kent St. 78 W. Michigan 62, Ball St. 53 SOUTHWEST SMU 75, Houston 68

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FAR WEST Arizona 65, Utah 56 Oregon 71, Washington St. 44 Stanford 79, Southern Cal 71, OT UCLA 76, California 64

Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L Boston 50 32 15 Tampa Bay 52 31 16 Toronto 54 27 21 Montreal 52 27 20 Detroit 52 23 18 Ottawa 52 22 20 Florida 52 21 24 Buffalo 50 14 29 Metropolitan Division Pittsburgh 52 36 14 N.Y. Rangers 54 28 23 Columbus 51 26 21 Philadelphia 53 25 22 Carolina 51 23 19 New Jersey 53 22 20 Washington 52 23 21 N.Y. Islanders 54 21 25

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Chicago 54 St. Louis 51 Colorado 51 Minnesota 54 Dallas 52 Winnipeg 54 Nashville 54 Pacific Division Anaheim 54 San Jose 52 Los Angeles 53

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BASEBALL National League MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Agreed to terms with 2B Joe Thurston and OF Jeremy Hermida on minor league contracts. FOOTBALL National Football League MIAMI DOLPHINS — Named Dennis Hickey general manager. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Named Randy Jordan running backs coach. HOCKEY National Hockey League COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Activated F Blake Comeau from injured reserve. Recalled D Tim Erixon from Springfield (AHL). Assigned F Cody Bass to Springfield. DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned RW Mikael Samuelsson to Grand Rapids (AHL). FLORIDA PANTHERS — Activated D Alex Petrovic from injured reserve and assigned him to San Antonio (AHL). ECHL ECHL — Suspended Wheeling F Chaz Johnson and Cincinnati D David MacDonald indefinitely, Elmira F Corey Bellamy one game and Florida D Charles Landry and Toledo F Aaron Bogosian and fined them, along with Wheeling coach Clark Donatelli undisclosed amounts for their actions during recent games. COLLEGE FLORIDA STATE — Announced QB Jacob Coker will transfer to Alabama.

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Grace Christian’s tuition, an urban school, is $8,000 per academic year. As for boarding schools, the six in Alaska normally only serve the purpose of housing out-of-area students and offering them courses not offered at

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the host school. Sitka’s Mount Edgecumbe High School, founded in 1947, has 420 students, 90 percent being Alaska Native. Over 90 percent of graduates go on to college. Its science program has such a strong reputation that IBM now offers an internship through the school. Anchorage-based Chugach School District operates a boarding house in the city

usually for a two-week period for instructing life skills not only for its own students from Prince William Sound villages, but also leases out the facility to rural school districts for the same purpose. The Lower Kuskokwim School District operates the 100 student Bethel Alternative Boarding School. The Nenana City School District maintains the Nenana

Student Living Center for 88 students, which essentially is a boarding house for rural students there to attend high school. Last semester, the Nenana Student Living center was instructing aviation in a pilot program. The Galena Interior Learning Center operates under the Galena City School District, but its 210 students come from 75 different villages, said Principal John Riddle. “Our big-

gest strengths right now is in instructing health sciences and construction skills,” he said. Kodiak’s St. Innocent Academy is a home for boys operated by members of the Eastern Orthodox Church. They attend the Kodiak City School District. The home has housed as many as nine students, but currently has only one. Alaska boarding schools do have to abide by state pub-

lic school regulations and are granted licenses by the state. The state also does oversight of boarding schools. For example, the state suspended Nenana’s license in February 2010 due to inappropriate activities of a dormitory parent. Nenana had to obtain a one-year conditional license in 2010 before the state would grant Nenana a standard operating license.

event, said the event was born from a brainstorming session and beer and bacon seemed like an obvious event choice. When they only sold 40 of the society’s 100 tickets at the beginning of the week, Olcott said the group was a little concerned if the event would turn out a crowd, but the society sold out that night. Olcott also took part in the event. He made boneless ribs marinated in coffee stout, maple syrup, liquid smoke and barbecue sauce. Paul Winford, who helped to coordinate the event, said next year they hope to make Beer and Bacon Festival bigger and better. Proceeds from the $25 tickets went to the Challenger Center.

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permitted in Thompson’s house. The court allowed Vermillion to work with Thompson on his properties in Houston and Lake Louise. John Cox, Muskox’s father, said he is concerned about Vermillion’s mental stability. “No one person can watch someone who went berserk,” he said. “My biggest disappointment with all this how his parents did nothing while this disabled vet drank himself into a stupor and had access to loaded weapons.” Vermillion lived in a house owned by his parents in Cooper Landing where the fight oc-

curred. In the police affidavit, Vermillion called 911 and stated, “I killed somebody.” According to the affidavit, a trooper arrived at the scene and found Muskox deceased with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head. After receiving his Miranda advisement, Vermillion said, “I was in a fight to the death and I executed the threat.” Vermillion is due back in court Feb. 7 at the Kenai Courthouse. Muskat said her son, who moved to Alaska last spring from California was adventurous and liked to take risks and challenge

himself. She said he loved to be outdoors, fish and be self-sufficient. She said Muskox called her four days prior to his death and sounded happy. “He had just moved into a cabin ready for the winter,” she said. “He had plans to do a lot more. He was looking to get settled and loved life.”

Zoda said he came to the event because Herald his coworker was bringing his brew and beer and bacon are the “best two things in the world.” Using bacon and a local or home brew, five local restaurants competed against one another, as did about 15 novice chefs for the top entrée or appetizer. Creations ranged from bacon brownies to bacon wrapped chicken soaked in coffee stout. Denise McCamon with Main Street Tap and Grill in Kenai experimented with bacon jam for the first time, using it as the finishing touch on her pan-seared scallop topped Kaylee Osowski can be polenta cakes. Greg Olcott, who worked reached at kaylee.osowski@ on the subcommittee for the peninsulaclarion.com.

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Gasline Development Corp. The resources committees also plan to get an update on the project itself. The companies have said the project being pursued, which includes a roughly 800mile pipeline and would allow for overseas exports, could cost from $45 billion to more than $65 billion. The agreement with TransCanada has been cast as providing a transition from terms of the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, which Parnell has said is no longer a good fit. The commercial agreement has been billed as a statement of intent for how the parties will move through a phase that includes preliminary engineering and refinement of costs. It is contingent upon passage of enabling legislation introduced Friday. Parnell said the state’s share for that phase would be between $70 million and $90 million. Parnell has promised a phased approach to the long hoped-for project, which he said would be more transparent than past efforts. Senate Minority Leader Hollis French said Democrats’ approach to evaluating the proposal is simple: “Gas line, yes. Giveaway, no.” French opposed the oil tax cut championed by Parnell last year, seeing it as a giveaway to industry, and said he viewed the gas line approach with some skepticism after that.

Salary increases

Senate Finance on Friday plans to hear a committeesponsored bill that would reject proposed pay increases for top state officials. The State Officers Compensation Commission last year proposed raising salaries for the governor, lieutenant governor and heads of the 14 main state departments. Parnell in December said he would decline a pay raise for himself, in light of state budget constraints, but believed salary increases for agency heads were warranted. The committee bill is one of several such bills pending. A final report by the commission was due by the end of this week. For the raises to be rejected, a bill disapproving the recommendations would have to be enacted into law within 60 days after the recommendations are submitted, according to the director of the state Division of Personnel and Labor Relations.

Oil taxes

Oil taxes aren’t on the Legislature’s docket this year, but that doesn’t mean the issue, and legislators’ position on the tax change, haven’t shaded discussions on things such as the budget and gas line. Expect more of the same, with

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and east of Sutton. Patrice Vermillion, the defendant’s mother, posted 10 of $1 million percent appearance bond, including a $50,000 cash performance for Vermillion to be released from jail. Vermillion testified he never owned a passport, therefore could not turn one in. Under the conditions of the court, Vermillion is not allowed near Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and firearms and alcohol are not

voters slated to decide later this year whether to keep the new tax structure in place, and many legislators and the governor facing re-election. On Wednesday, Huggins, R-Wasilla, blamed the former tax structure, known as ACES, for the expected $2 billion loss in unrestricted general fund revenues between last year and this year. “That was the tax regime,” Huggins told reporters. “So, you know, we got less money, and if that’s the regime, you have to take responsibility for it. I didn’t vote for ACES, so I’m not a supporter of it, period.” The Revenue Department has cited several factors for the decline, including lower-thanexpected oil prices, declining production, residual effects of the outgoing tax system, such as the closeout of credits, and higher-than-expected deductible lease expenditures. On Thursday, Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, a critic of the oil tax cut passed last year, honed in on Revenue Commissioner Angela Rodell’s acknowledgment, in response to a question during a committee hearing, that she could not say if oil production would begin leveling off and increasing beyond fiscal year 2023. Rodell said the department does not look that far into the future and could not say one way or the other, whether that would happen. Wielechowski said people were promised 1 million barrels of oil a day if the state would “give up” billions of dollars for its oil resources, and promised billions more in profits. He said the administration contends the production estimates are conservative and that more oil than is projected is expected. But he said instead, “the best case scenario” projected is a continued decline. The Parnell administration several years ago set a goal of 1 million barrels of oil a day over 10 years. The Department of Natural Resources in 2012 said over that period, that target could include sources like development of smaller pools of conventional oil, production from shale and heavy oil plays and production from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which some state officials and members of the congressional delegation have been pushing to have opened to drilling but remains off limits. Oil companies during the tax debate last year said they believed the tax cut would lead to more production, but it wasn’t clear just how much more, when. Rodell said she sees “great upside” potential and noted a flurry of activity following the tax cut’s passage. Legislative testimony over the last several years suggested that to eat into or reverse the long-standing trend of declining oil could require additional multibillion-dollar annual investments. C

Editor’s note: Jenna Miller was employed at The Clarion at the time of Genghis Muskox’s death. Dan Balmer can be reached at daniel.balmer@peninsulaclarion.com

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School board to meet The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meets at 7 p.m. in the borough building at 148 N. Binkley Street in Soldotna (unless otherwise noted). For more information, call 907-714-8888 or visit http://www. kpbsd.k12.ak.us/board.aspx?id=28035. The agenda and packet items are posted on Wednesday afternoon prior to the date of the Board Meeting. Persons with disabilities who need accommodations to participate at School Board meetings should contact Debbie Tressler at 907-714-8836 or email dtressler@kpbsd. k12.ak.us no later than three business days before the meeting date. The board will meet: n February 3; n March 3; n April 14; n May 5 (at Seward High School); n June 2; n June 3 (Board Planning Session).

Early release dates for KPBSD schools Six times throughout the academic year, on a Wednesday, schools will meet the minimum day, so that teachers may have approximately 90 minutes of additional time to work on improvement strategies. On these early release dates, school will end 90 minutes earlier. Bus transportation will be adjusted by 90 minutes. Upcoming early release dates are: February 26; and April 16.

Photos by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion

Local LEGO League team the “Legoettes” watch as their robot performs a program they designed on Thursday in Soldotna.

Teamwork and tiaras All-girl LEGO League team competes in Anchorage, proposes flood solution ‘It’s kind of challenging to get the robot to do exactly what you want.’

Career and Tech training offered

KPBSD Career and Tech Department is offering free after school academies to train students in the Welding, Construction and Medical Field. Upcoming Academies for the 2013-2014 school year include Welding. Any high school student is able to participate in any of our academies. If a student successfully completes the 60 hour academy they will receive 1/2 practical art credit. At the Workforce Development Center (located behind KCHS) there will be a welding academy with Mr. Widaman. This academy runs Feb. 10-May 1. Class days will be Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 2:30-4:30. There will be a summer construction academy at the Workforce Development Center. Students will be constructing a green house. Class days will be May 28-30 and June 2-6. Class times TBA. To sign up go to http://onestop.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/ For more information call Debbie Pearson at 283-2145 or see your counselor. Funding for the Alaska Construction Academies comes from a grant from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development and the Alaska Youth First Program.

Connections Dates To Remember: Jan. 27-31: Aims Web Assessment for Homer Students: K-3rd Grade please call for appointment 226-1880 Jan. 27-31: Aims Web Assessment for Seward Students: K-6th Grade please call for appointment 224-4803 Jan. 31: Aims Web Assessment for Central Peninsula Students: K-6th Grade please call for appointment 714-8880 Feb. 3: Connections Science Fair (last day to register) Feb. 7: High School Eligibility Due Feb. 19: Fish and Game Ice Fishing Field Trip Sport Lake. Meet at boat ramp at Sports Lake at 10:00 a.m. Feb. 24: Science Fair Projects due to office Feb. 28: Science Fair Project Prizes Awarded March 7: High School Eligibility Due March 31: Last Day To Turn In Connection Orders March 31: Last day to turn in Iditaread minutes April: Enrollment for 2014/2015 begins. Connections is now scheduling the Winter/January AIMS Web Assessments (Literacy & Math). The Homer office will assess Kindergarten to 3rd grade, Soldotna and Seward offices will assess Kindergarten to 6th grade. The dates are listed above. Please call the Connections Offices (Soldotna: 714-8880, Seward: 224-9080 and Homer: 226-1880) to schedule a time for your student to meet with their advisor; this assessment and conversation will take approximately 25 minutes. The Connections Spelling Bee is coming up. The date and location have changed. We will now meet on Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. in the Borough Assembly room in the Borough Building on Binkley in Soldotna. Please contact Lennie Yoter at 714-8880 or eyoter@kpbsd.k12.ak.us if you have questions. The Connections Science Fair is open to all Connections Students. Please check with an advisor for rules/guidelines before planning or executing your science fair project. The science fair is not a contest, and all participants will receive a prize for their efforts. If you have any questions please contact Mark Wackler at the Soldotna office (mwackler@ kpbsd.k12.ak.us) Join Alaska Fish and Game and your Connections advisors for an hour of ice fishing on February 19 at Sport Lake. We will meet at the boat ramp on Sport Lake at 10 a.m. Sport Lake is located one mile outside of Soldotna off the Kenai Spur Highway. ADF&G will have the fishing rods and Connections will have the bait. All you need is warm clothes and a fishing license for anglers 16 and older. All are welcome but we do request that you RSVP with Reubin Payne at the Connections office (rpayne@kpbsd.k12.ak.us) 714-8880. Thank you for participating in this event. Attentions all readers: the 2014 Iditaread is just around the corner and it’s time again for Connections Homeschool’s Iditaread Challenge to all K-6th grade students! Connections Homeschool’s Iditaread Challenge will begin See SCHOOLS, page B-2

— Rebekah Petty, Legoette

LEGO League pieces and parts are placed in specific spots on a board where student-programmed robots can interact with them.

By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

A local group of preteens have challenged Mother Nature’s wrath with a possible solution for an Alaskan village’s flood problem. With “Nature’s Fury” as this year’s theme for the FIRST LEGO League competition a team from Interior Distance Education of Alaska Homeschool designed a fix for Galena’s natural disaster last spring. The all-girl team — a rare sight in the LEGO League world — took first place in the project area at the local competition in November 2013 at the Challenger Learn-

ing Center of Alaska in Kenai qualifying the girls for the state competition in Anchorage. The Legoettes competed against 55 other teams from throughout the state in project, core values, robot design and robot performance. The team of six, five of who were new to LEGO League this fall, finished 12th in the robot mission competition and got an extemporary ranking on their project, Dawn Hoogenboom, adult leader said. “That’s not bad for a first-year team,” she said. The girls began working on the project near the beginning of the school year

with the help of leaders Hoogenboom and Billie Loehr, who have both worked with LEGO League teams for a handful of years. With the entire project focused on natural disasters, the girls not only created a solution to Galena’s flooding issue, but also programed a robot to complete missions related to natural disasters. Rebekah Petty, 12 worked on programing the robot. “It’s kind of challenging to get the robot to do exactly what you want,” she said. Each team is allotted 2 minutes and 30 seconds to run the missions like getting the LEGO truck filled with supplies to the LEGO people at the end of the mat. The team members are only allowed to touch the robot to prepare it for each mission when it is in home base otherwise the team gets a touch penalty. If that happens, an obstacle is set up on the plane runway on the board, so the team doesn’t get “clear runway” points, Loehr said. The girls, wearing their team uniforms — pink sashes and sequin tiaras — pair up and take turns leading different missions making sure to line up the robot so it goes exactly where it’s programmed to go. For their presentation, which has a time limit of five minutes, each girl holds a large photo pertaining to the flooding in Galena or their solution and takes turns See LEGO, page B-2

Art students prepare for trip to Europe Members from KPC’s Kenai River Campus’ Art Students’ League Association are preparing to become international jetsetters with a trip to Europe this summer. While airfare for the trip has been funded, the club is still looking to raise funds to cover lodging during the trip as well as art supplies that will be used to create original work for two gallery shows scheduled to open upon their return to Soldotna. The Art Students’ League Association was founded in 2004 and has served as the driving force behind the professional development and artistic enculturation of KPC art students within the community. The club stays busy during the academic year, offering art workshops to students with nationally recognized artists in a variety of mediums; organizing their annual ‘Art Extravaganza’ auction that provides students with a professional buying/selling experience; hosting artist talks covering such subjects as Café, LinkedIn and website development; and training students to prepare, organize, set and hang artwork per gallery standards. The ASLA’s mission is to “embrace the arts, have a blast and prepare art students to enter the professional arena.” The Art Students’ League Association’s upcoming trip to Europe will allow members to experience some of the world’s most influential artwork, providing professional and creative inspiration and enrichment. Individuals interested in contributing toward their trip can donate online via

K enai P eninsula C ollege A round C ampus www.kickstarter.com (search “Artists: Students to Professionals with Gallery Credentials!”) or by cash or check (payable to ASLA), mailed to: ASLA, Kenai Peninsula College, 156 College Rd., Soldotna, AK 99669. For further information, please contact ASLA Treasurer Brandi Kerley at 262-0353 or ASLA President Nicole Lopez at 262-0361.

Save the date: annual winter community health fair Feb. 12

coma checks and body mass index readings. Individuals 18 years of age and older will have access to high quality, low cost blood tests (9 a.m.-1 p.m. in WARD 107), including the following: comprehensive blood test (27 panels, CMP, CBC and lipids panel) for $45; thyroid stimulating hormone for $30; estimated average glucose (A1C) for $25; prostate specific antigen for $25; vitamin D levels for $50; and ABO/RH blood typing for $20. For more information, please contact Kathy Becher, KPC’s advanced nurse practitioner, at 262-0362 or e-mail kbecher@kpc.alaska.edu.

Learn about the new GED series at the Learning Center With the New Year came a new version of the GED test, replacing the 2002 series. Learn about the changes made in the new version by visiting the KRC Learning Center. The dedicated staff there offers free GED support to all interested in obtaining their diploma. Support includes instruction, study materials and computer basics. For further information, please contact the Learning Center at 262-0327. The Learning Center is open from 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Fridays.

KPC’s Kenai River Campus will be hosting their annual winter community health fair from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Feb. 12 in the McLane and Brockel Building Commons. The event is organized by Alaska Health Fair, Inc. in conjunction with the KRC Student Health Clinic. The fair will offer free health education materials presented and distributed by local educators and health and safety providers, including local representatives for the Affordable Care Act. Attendees will have access to many This column was provided by Hannah free health screenings, including blood Parker, Advancement Assistant at Kenai pressure measurement, vision and GlauPeninsula College.

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report, the village of Galena flooded last year due to an ice jam stopping up the Yukon River causing waters to Continued from page B-1 rise and flooded the village. The Legoettes proposed solution telling the judges about their project. is to construct a pier structure made According to the group’s project up of heated concrete columns spaced

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February 28.

at 12-foot intervals to catch large ice slabs and melt making the pieces too small to create a jam. The pillars would run on geothermal energy or natural gas. Mackenzie Hoogenboom, 9, said the group decided against solar pan-

els as an energy source because it’s not sunny enough in Alaska. The project report also proposes making use of a global satellite system as an early warning system. The satellite can measure the thickness of the ice and let residents know via

FAFSA event — The counseling department is hosting a FAFSA completion event Feb. 6 during evening Parent Teacher conferences from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Parents and their students can bring in their tax information and get help filling out their FAFSA. Nikiski Tip Off Tournament – The Nikiski High School gym was a busy place last weekend as teams and fans from Dillingham, Houston, and Homer joined the Nikiski Bulldogs for the annual Tip Off Tournament. The Nikiski Girls Basketball Team captured the 1st place trophy after winning all three of their games. The Homer Mariners took first place for the boys tournament. Representing the Nikiski Bulldogs on the girls All Tournament Team were Rachel Thompson and Emily Lynch. Seth Carstens was selected for the Boys All Tournament Team. Nikiski’s Katie Costello won the free throw competition for the girls making 22 out of 25 free throws. Congratulations to both teams for a great weekend of basketball!

Stop by your local Connections Office between now and then for more information and to get your sled ready to hit the trail! The challenge will run through March 31. It’s time to start thinking about our annual Talent Show again! This has been such an awesome event for the last few years, and has become something our program looks forward to year after year. The show will be held on an evening in mid/late April and contains acts of all sorts including singing, dancing, instrumental, and much more! Any and all Connections students are welcome to participate, including all ages and ability levels. If you’re interested please let Connections know at your earliest convenience. The date for the Talent Show: April 29, Nikiski North Star show starts at 5:30pm at the SoHi Auditorium. If you are interested or Congratulations to the 2014 NNS Geography Bee Champion Trinhave any questions please email Mark Wackler at mwackler@kpbsd. ity Langston! Placing second is Griffin Gray and third place is David k12.ak.us or call 714-8880. Hadella. Also congratulations to all the other school finalists: Joseph Sylvester, Brenden Boehme, Millie Fisher, Braylee Smith, Tye Kuhr, IDEA Homeschool and Vincent Hooper. The school Spelling Bee will take place on Friday in the school IDEA families remember Tuesday is our Pool Day at the Nikiski library. Pool. Join in the fun from 1:00pm until 4:00pm. Families may bring Safety Seal will be visiting our school tomorrow. Thank you to balls and floats for the kiddie pool. Nurse Deni for always helping to keep our students safe. If you have not signed up for the trip to the Seward Sea Life Center February is ‘Love of Reading Month’. We will be having a Schoon Wednesday, February 5th, call the office or go online and use the lastic Book Fair in the library beginning on Monday, February 3rd and google doc in the email. This will be a great opportunity for your fam- ending on Friday, February 7th. There is always a great selection of ily to learn all about the amazing marine life and habitats of our great books, so we encourage our families to support your child’s love of state. Enjoy hands-on exhibits and touch tanks. Arrive in Seward any- reading. The fair will be open during the school day and also during time between 10am-5pm to take advantage of this opportunity. parent/teacher conferences. Students in grades 3-8 now is the time to sign up for the Scripps Spelling Bee. This annual event challenges students to learn spelling rules and apply them to both common and uncommon words. Register Redoubt Elementary by calling the office at 260-7555 and plan to participate February 7th. Redoubt PTA is hosting their second annual “Winter Carnival” from noon to 4 p.m. February 15. Don’t miss out on the silent auction; dunk Kaleidoscope School of Arts and Science tank, games, food, door prizes and raffles. Raffle items include a 32GB iPad Air (value $600.00), wagon filled with camping supplies, and a Monday — 4:00 pm-5:00 pm -APC work session student Grand Gift basket. iPad 32GB tickets are available to purchase Wednesday — Cooking Club and Backcountry Snow Club are at the school office now or can be purchased the day of the carnival. meeting from 3:45-4:45. Tickets for the iPad are $10.00 each. Only 150 tickets will be sold. You Thursday — Tap Dance Club is meeting from 3:45-4:45. can purchase your tickets at the school office. Friday — Kinders through 3rd graders will be learning about Dental Volunteers are needed to help with our Winter Carnival. If you Health with a visit from Dr. Kobylar’s office. would like to help, or if you own a business and would like to donate PTA is in need of gently used books for Bingo For books Night goods or services, please contact the school office. (February 13). If you would like to donate books please drop them by Box Top Winners last week – Kali Massey, Jessica Phegley, Linthe library. coln Saito and Taylor Estes. Keep those Box Tops for Education comPTA will be having a raffle for beautiful baskets of gifts on Febru- ing. ary 13 during Bingo For Books. A note came home last week with Congratulations to Parker Kincaid, Parker took first place in this information, including the theme for your child’s classroom basket. year’s Geography Bee. Fiona Bertelsen placed second, nice job. The Families are asked to bring in an item that fits their theme to help fill following students deserve a round of applause for making it to the up the basket. Proceeds will support Kaleidoscope’s 10th anniversary final round, Levi Rosin, Tyler Morrison, Brooke Belluomini, Matthew celebration, including the wonderful tie dye t-shirts we all received in Lewis and David Schramm. the Fall. Bingo for Books will be held February 4, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. All stuRe-enrollment forms were mailed January 14. They are due back dents must be accompanied by an adult. There will be free snacks, free to the school by February 14 in order to reserve your child’s position books and free fun for the whole family. in Kaleidoscope. If your child is not returning to Kaleidoscope, even Thank you to our local Nurse volunteers who helped with our stuif it’s because he is moving on to 7th grade, please return the form dent vision and hearing screenings last week, Trina Tachik, Susan Olwith the back side filled out so the office knows where to forward his son and Tana Butler. records. PBIS Goal Celebration – Students enjoyed an extra outdoor recess Conferences are February 5-7. Be sure to sign up with your child’s last week to celebrate another goal. Students and staff enjoyed sledteacher. ding, tobogganing and playing in the snow. Thank you for being ReKaleidoscope School of Arts and Science is requesting propos- spectful, Responsible and Safe. als from artists interested in creating art to be located in front of the Yearbooks are on sale, please pre-order your year book before school. For more information, go to http://kaleidoscope.blogs.kpbsd. March 31st. Cost to purchase a yearbook is $15.00. A limited number k12.ak.us/wpmu/ or email ksasartproject@gmail.com. of yearbooks will be ordered. Order forms have been sent home with The LifeSkill we are focusing on this week is Perseverance: To keep students. at it. February 6 and 7 are Parent Teacher Conferences; no school for students.

Kenai Central High

We are well into second quarter, if you are starting to fall behind, please make plans to receive extra help and attend the afterschool study hall in the library. The study hall is open Monday through Thursday from 2:30-3:30. For more information, please contact Mrs. Bisset. Monday and Tuesday is Mass Band at SoHi. Band students will attend a band rehearsal with all selected band students in the district. The performance will be held at SoHi at 6:30 Tuesday night. Wednesday KCHS will be on an afternoon assembly schedule to recognize our hockey, wrestling, and cross-country ski teams, as well as our music and drama students. Thursday the Culinary II class is making an excellent meal for our December Students-of-the-Month. Congratulations to the December Student-of-the-Month Students Rotary – Bradley Hamilton; Chamber – Caleb Caldwell; Elks – Josephine Jones; Kard-of-the-Deck – Hanah Hoff; Super-Staffer – Ms. Kristen Davis; Chemestry – Ashleigh Bodolosky; Calculus – Jeremy Ruggiero; Advanced Spanish – Celestina Castro, LA 12 – James Jean, Strength Training – Justice English, Pre-Calculus – Gunner Smith, LA 10 – Drew Peterson, Woodworking – Kyle Hunter, Study Skills – Brianna Bushnell, Performing Arts/Music/Choir – James Butler, Geometry – Alexis Baker, LA 11 – JeNeal DuPerron, Health – Nick Beeson, Band – Brad Hamilton, World History – Sarah Every.

Kenai Middle The KMS Geography Bee school wide competition was held on January 14th. The 2014 Contestants were: 6th grade — Gary Dent, Creed Sandahl, Hunter Beck; Alternates: Dustin Bishop, Jeremy Souder. 7th grade — William Morrow, Clayton Koroll, Jaycie Calvert; Alternates: Connor Felchle, Jonathan Hermann. 8th grade — Annabelle Schneiders, Denali Lockwood, Tekaiya Rich, Raleigh Van Natta, Alyssa Stanton. Our winners were Annabelle Schneiders taking first place, Raleigh Van Natta won second with Takaiya Rich coming in third. Competitive Volleyball begins this Wednesday. There will be a wrestling meet at SMS on Saturday starting at 9 a.m. Our 25th annual Talent Show will be held Thursday at KCHS auditorium beginning at 7p.m. Come and be amazed at what KMS kids can do! Congratulations to our Character Counts winners last week: Jaycee Herrmann and Jonathan Ray. Keep up the great work!

River City Academy Batik students wrapped up their Interim for 2014 with a plethora of finished batiks. Students in this course used the “dye, wax, repeat” model to create beautiful projects. From the most basic of silhouettes to complex fades, waxes and dyes RCA’s students showcased their amazing talents. At the same time, the best part of batik is that they also are able to practice leadership. Seasoned batikers become the student instructors for this class, all the while exploring and adapting their own batik style. In the end, the students are most anxious to show off their works of art to the community. As Interims come to a close, the office will be sending out emails to those that still owe an Interim fee. These fees are collected to pay for the cost of a particular class and also the cost of using Skyview’s shop. If this is a hardship or there are any questions, please give us a call. No school February 6-7 for parent/teacher conferences. First Aid training is coming up for our upper high school students on February 20. More information to follow as it becomes available. RCA is currently accepting applications for students in grades 7-12 who are interested in a unique school experience. Students who demonstrate skills in being self-motivated, successful time managers and advocate on their own behalf are often an ideal fit for RCA. The performance-based model offers students choice in their education inside of a consistent standards-based curriculum. For more information, please call 714-8945.

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Both the boys and girls basketball teams defeated CIA. Hayley Ramsell led Skyview with 12 points to a 31-26 win and for the boys Micah Hilbish scored 18 points and Chad Harley scored 10 points to a 55-27 victory. Winter Ball Royalty: Queen: Madison White, King: Iisha Oftedal, Senior Princess: Samantha Reynolds, Senior Prince: Brandon Rice, Junior Princess: Sage Link, Junior Prince: Logan Hemphill, Sophomore Princess: Jacy Rouse, Sophomore Prince: Gage Norman, Freshman Princess: Alicia McLelland, Freshman Prince: Collin Lindley Taylor Ferguson, Josh Henderson, Jeremiah Hudson, and Meghan Ussing were selected to participate in the KPBSD Honor Band. Daniel Bukvitch is the guest conductor for both the honor band and mass band at the festival held at Soldotna High School on January 27-28. Both ensembles will have the privilege of performing music written by Bukvitch including the premier of “False Illusions of Cool,” written for the KPBSD Honor Band. Concert will be held at 6:00 pm on January Mountain View Elementary 28 at Soldotna High School. Admission charged at the door. Parent/Teacher conferences will be held on Feb. 6 - 7. There will be Skyview will be bussing students to SoHi to enter their course reno school for students. quests for next year. Juniors will go on February 3. Sophomores will go The Library will be holding a book fair Feb. 3 – Feb. 7 during school on February 4. Juniors will go on February 5. Mr. Neill, Mr. Andrews, hours and parent-teacher conferences. If you would like to volunteer to and several other teachers and staff will accompany our students as help with the book fair please call the office at 283-8600. they enter requests for next year’s classes. The student council and the Mountain View PTA are collecting box tops for the “Box Tops for Education” project. Please turn your pink box tops from participating products in to the office. It was decided Soldotna Elementary by the student council that the funds collected would be split equally Reading Counts Contest winners for week 2: Andrew Stoner, Bella among P.E., Music, and Library. Twidwell, Daniel McRorie, Briley Morton, Rhys Cannava, Josh Pieh,

Nikiski Middle-High Monday — C Team Basketball at Seward, Girls – 3:00 p.m., Boys – 4:15 p.m.; JV Boys Basketball vs. Cook Inlet Academy at Soldotna High School – 4:30 p.m. Tuesday — High School Mass Band Thursday-Saturday — Boys and Girls Varsity Basketball at Bethel Tournament TBA Friday — Middle School Cross Country Skiing at Homer – 3:00 p.m. Saturday — Middle School Wrestling at Soldotna middle School – 9:00 a.m.; High School Cross Country Skiing at Seward – 12:00 p.m. Parent Teacher Conferences will be Feb. 6. 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

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Site Council meeting on February 4 at 3:45 p.m. in the conference room. Please join us. Our next PTA meeting will be in the library on February 17, and childcare will be provided. Hope to see you there. Title 1 Pre-Kindergarten program is accepting applications for the 2014/2015 school year. Please stop by the office to pick one up if you’re interested. To be eligible, students must be 4 years old by September 1, 2013. Please contact Katrina Cannava at 260-5142. If you’re interested in ordering a SoEl t-shirt or sweatshirt, you may do so at the school office. Orders need to be received at the office by February 14, Valentine’s Day. We are still in the aluminum can recycling mode. There will be one more collection day, in April. This program set up at Central Peninsula Landfill, pays money directly to the school. You may drop off bagged cans at Soldotna Elementary. Thank you to Miss Renee and Miss Mercedes for all your hard work crushing, bagging, and delivering the cans to the landfill! Lots of new and amazing art projects are on the walls here at SOEL. One of my favorites are the Inuksuit (which is the plural form) outside Mrs. Straw’s classroom. An Inuksuk is a stone landmark or cairn built by humans, used by the Inuit, Inupiat, Kalaallit, Yupik, and other peoples of the Arctic region of North America. These structures are used for many purposes: as directional aids, to indicate a place of respect or memorial for a person, or to indicate migration routes or places where fish can be found. We don’t have the actual structures outside the classrooms, but you will see lovely torn paper representations. The kids did such a nice job that I have decided to build one this summer.

Soldotna High On February 13 from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. we will be holding a College Goal Alaska event, which is geared toward helping students and parents complete the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid). We will be set up in the SoHi library and have FAFSA experts available to help. To complete the FAFSA, you will need your latest tax information. The FAFSA lets students know if they qualify for grants, scholarships, or low-cost loans with flexible repayment options. Plus, the FAFSA is the application for the Alaska Performance Scholarship and Alaska Education Grants. You can begin filling out the FAFSA by going to www.fafsa.ed.gov and selecting the 2014-2015 FAFSA application. In addition to any aid a student might qualify for by filing the FAFSA, all attendees will be entered in a drawing to win a $700 scholarship. For more information about this event, please contact Emily Cotton at 907-260-7083 or by email at ecotton@kpbsd.k12.ak.us. You can also visit www.collegegoalak.org for other College Goal Alaska events near you. Soldotna High School is collecting gently used formal dresses, shoes, and accessories for 2014 Cinderella’s Closet. This is a program which helps all area high school ladies with prom attire for free. Please email mbos@kpbsd.k12.ak.us for more info. All donations can be dropped off to the front office 8am-2pm. Higher Expectations Greater Success Parent Guide (Alaska Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics) is now available at the front office. Alaska’s standards in English and math set high expectations for students from kindergarten to grade 12. Students who meet these goals will be ready for success after high schoolwhether it is in the military, on the job, or in a union apprenticeship, technical school, or college. Your schools will decide how to meet the standards through a local curriculum and teaching methods that respect your community’s cultures. Pool Schedule: Morning lap swim 6-8 Monday – Friday C Evening lap swim 6-7 Mon, Wed, Fri Evening Open swim 7-8:45 Mon and Wed Y Sports Calendar — www.schedulestar.com SoHi will be locking the Parking lot entrance Door during the following hours: 7:50 a.m. to noon and 12:35 p.m. to 2:25 p.m. Also note that during school hours the only open door will be the Front Entrance Commons/Flag Pole doors. The above is to improve our overall school security. There are two ways to order a transcript. Each way serves a different purpose. If you need a transcript sent to a college or NCAA or a similar agency, then you will need to log on to: www.parchment. com to order transcripts to be sent. The request is then forwarded to SoHi. All transcripts that are headed for NCAA, colleges, etc. have to be processed this way. A final transcript is one that shows your second semester grades. If you order your transcript when we are in second semester, you will need to make sure you choose “next grading period” when you go on to Parchment. That way your transcript request will wait until the grades are in at the end of the year before it is sent.

Soldotna Middle Gage Hankins was chosen as the January 8th Grade Chamber Student of the Month. He will be honored at the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Tuesday. Congratulations Gage! Congratulations to SMS School Spelling Bee Winner Jode Sparks and Runner-up Porter Evans! The Alaska State Spelling Bee will be held at the Performing Arts Center on February 28 at 9 a.m. Great job to all Spartan student participants! Breakfast Program News: Volunteers are needed on Tuesdays in February. Volunteers must be cleared through the KPBSD screening process and are needed from 7:10 a.m. to 7:40 a.m. each morning. If you are interested, please email Mrs. Pothast at spothast@kpbsd.k12.ak.us. In the first three weeks (December 2013) of the Breakfast Program, over 260 students came in for breakfast and 475 servings of various meal options were distributed! Thanks to all those who have donated food items, made monetary contributions, and especially to our fantastic volunteers who make it all happen! We appreciate you! Sports this week: Friday — Nordic Skiing at Homer Invitational, 3:00 p.m. Saturday — Wrestling, Soldotna Middle School Invitational Rubber Chicken Classic, 9:00 a.m.

Tustumena Elementary

Congratulations to all the participants in this year’s regional Elk’s Hoop Shoot. Two of our students, Colvin Moore and Kilee Horning placed first in their age groups and will be representing our school at the state competition. Great Job and good luck! Monday — Site Council Meeting, 4 p.m. Monday-Friday — PreRegistration for Kindergarten for 2014-2015 school year. Child must be 5 by September 1, 2014. Please bring immunization record and birth certificate. February 6-7 — Parent Teacher Conferences, no school for students February 7 — Mighty Meatballs Dinner (6th grade fundraiser), $5/ person, 5:30-7 p.m. February 10 — District Battle of Books, Grade 3 & 4 February 11 — District Battle of Books Grades 5 & 6 February 18 — PTO Meeting, 4 p.m. February 21 — School Forensics February 24 — Site Council Meeting, 4 p.m. February 26 — Early Release, 2:10 p.m. Taylor Morse, and Catie O’Dell. Congratulations, Kids, for earning February 27 — Title I Meeting, 3:45-5 p.m.; Last day of X-Country the most points in your classrooms last week! Remember that reading Skiing always makes you a winner! Congratulations also to Rylee Erickson, the winner of last week’s box top drawing. Wing Christian Academy The KPBSD is holding a public budget meeting on February 19, Office of the Week — LLC: Charisma Watkins UUL: Joanna at 5:30 p.m. in the Soldotna High School library. Everyone interested is encouraged to attend. For questions, please call Lassie Nelson at Grant Student of the Month: November: Zane Wade December: Kobe 714-8838. No school for students on February 6-7. Parent/Teacher confer- Miller, enjoyed lunch with Principle/Pastor at Taco Bell on Tuesday. Upcoming Honor Roll trip: Monday, 1-2 p.m. to Cabin Fever Creences will be conducted these days. Also on these 2 days, during parent-teacher conferences in the gym, we will be having a children’s ations, students will enjoying making a figurine. To be announced when weather is conducive for an “all school clothing exchange. Bring your “gently used” and clean clothes your kids have outgrown and exchange them for clothes your kids can sledding day” at Solid Rock Bible Camp. wear. It’s simple, free, and all you need is a shopping bag or two. C

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Celebrate girl’s big birthday without spending big bucks DEAR ABBY: I’m a 14-year-old girl going on 15. I am half-Mexican. In the Mexican culture, a girl’s 15th birthday is the year in which she becomes a woman. Most girls have a “quinceanera” party for this birthday. But these celebrations cost a lot of money — almost as much as a wedding. I have been debating whether or not I should have one. My mom says she would rather put the money toward my college fund. I agree with her, but I also feel like I should acknowledge my Mexican background as much as I do the Caucasian part. I don’t want to pressure my parents, but I also don’t want to be left out when my friends talk about their quinceaneras. What do you think? — PARTY OR NOT IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DEAR PARTY OR NOT: A quinceanera may cost almost as much as a wedding, but there are weddings for every budget. We have all heard of families who have gone into debt to finance a wedding, but I never advise readers to go into debt for something like that. If your primary reason for wanting a quinceanera is so you won’t feel left out of the conversation when friends talk about theirs, consider a small celebration with some of your girlfriends. That way your college fund won’t be depleted, and you’ll

spend fewer years paying off student loans. One of my friends, Fabiola, told me that some godmothers (“madrinas”) help to defray the cost of a quinceanera. There can be a godmother for the cake, another for the dress, etc. But she also told me that although her mother insisted she have a quinceanera, in thinking back about it, she Abigail Van Buren wishes she’d had that money for college. There are other ways to celebrate your Mexican heritage than spending a lot of money, so please give this some serious thought.

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DEAR ABBY: I saw your Christmas column in which you included a note to all your Christian readers, and frankly I found it a little rude. Not only Christian people celebrate Christmas; many of us celebrate it as a secular holiday, a time to celebrate the love and joy in our lives and our family (both blood relatives and the people we make our family). I don’t recall you wishing a Happy Hanukkah, a Blessed Ramadan or a Happy Yule to your Jewish, Muslim and Pagan readers (although I may have missed it). I’m not usually one to care about such things, but since people from all walks of life come to you for advice, it would be nice to see you reach out to all of your readers. DEAR ABBY: I just learned that my unborn child — HAPPY PAGAN CHICK IN DENVER is a boy. Some people tell me that it’s harder to raise a DEAR HAPPY PAGAN CHICK: You must not baby boy, but others tell me differently. I don’t know be a regular reader if you miss all of my holiday who to believe anymore. I am only five months preg- greetings. It has long been my practice to offer good nant and already feeling stressed. wishes to my readers during the major holidays. — 19 AND CONFUSED This includes greetings to my Christian readers at DEAR 19 AND CONFUSED: Your pregnancy Easter and Christmas, my Jewish readers at Yom and subsequent motherhood will be 100 percent eas- Kippur and Hanukkah, and my Muslim readers ier if you stop listening to people who relish putting when the fast of Ramadan is broken.

determined to get where you want to go that you barely can hear anyone else. Slow down, and you’ll get powerful feedback. Be grateful for others’ persistence. Tonight: Hang with a carefree friend. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHHYou might want to try to evolve to a new level of understanding, especially as you sense a roommate’s or close friend’s anxiety rising. Others will offer many suggestions, but one person demonstrates a better understanding of the dynamics. Listen well. Tonight: Show compassion. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You could be surprised by what comes down your path. You tend to work well with unexpected occurrences. Think before you leap, as returning to where you were could be close to impossible. Pace yourself. Tonight: Slow down a little. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Be aware of your limits, especially regarding a difficult situation. Use your instincts with a domestic or personal matter involving your house. Your finances appear to be an issue. Don’t worry — you will find a creative solution. Tonight: Add in more fun. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You have been more direct and far more feisty than usual. Notice how heated someone else becomes when he or she interacts with you. You might not realize how feisty you can be, but look at the reactions of those around you, and you’ll get it. Tonight: Mosey on home. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

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negative thoughts in the heads of others. If you want RELIABLE information about raising your little boy, the person to get it from is your pediatrician.

Ziggy

Hints from Heloise

Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, Jan. 27, 2014: This year you open up to a different way of thinking. As a result, your long-term goals become more possible than in the past. You communicate effectively, and others respond. A better relationship will develop between you and a sibling or neighbor in the next 12 months. If you are single, a trip you take in the next year could be significant. You are likely to meet someone very different who opens you up to change. If you are attached, the two of you become much better friends. Traveling as a couple will bring you much closer. CAPRICORN understands you, perhaps too well. 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) HHHHH A friend or associate expresses his or her high energy, which matches your enthusiasm. A meeting allows an even broader perspective to be gained. Express your appreciation to an older friend or relative who goes to bat for you. Tonight: Say “yes.” There is no room for “no.” TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH The mix of drive, energy and endurance that you manifest will be hard to beat. As a result of your performance, you will establish a newfound rapport with a supervisor. A conversation lets you know how appreciated you are. Tonight: Make it cozy, even if it is Monday. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Consider taking a new route or a different approach. You are so

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HHH Be aware of your finances. You could be swallowing some anger and choose to deal with it by spending money. Slow down, and make an assessment. Learn a more effective way of expressing your more difficult feelings. Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH If you feel pushed, you might be more than happy to go along with a change of pace. You might want to lighten up the moment. Return calls before settling on plans. Be aware of how possessive someone is before getting into a partnership with him or her. Tonight: Your treat. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Understand what is going on around you. Listen to your inner voice when dealing with a boss. Much that happens during the daytime might not be to your liking. Given space, you might recognize that it is all for the better. Tonight: Whatever appeals to you the most. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Focus on friends and your objectives. You will see that your inner circle supports your long-term desires. Be more open in sharing what you desire. Communication will flourish, and you’ll feel unstoppable as a result. Tonight: Not to be found. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Responsibilities drop on you, whether you like it or not. Let a friend or loved one help you. There is no reason for you to carry the weight of this situation alone. Tonight: Find your friends. You simply will not be happy alone.

Ask before you aid Dear Readers: Here is this week’s Sound Off, about asking first before helping someone: “Will you please tell kind folks who want to help an elderly person to ask first if you can help them. I have to lean hard to push open a door, and I had a bad fall after a helper came from behind, reached over me and shoved the door open. So please ask first. — A Reader in Kansas City, Mo.” Hope you are OK! Yes, I’ve addressed this issue before. Please, kind folks, ask if someone needs help before doing anything. Don’t take an arm to help someone down a step or off a curb without asking first. — Heloise Fast Facts Dear Readers: Hints about rolling pins: * Spray the rolling pin with nonstick cooking spray before using. * Keep it in the refrigerator before using so the pastry doesn’t stick. * Use a lightweight version or a plastic plumbing pipe for kids. * Don’t have a rolling pin? Use a straight-sided glass. * Use one to flatten rice-cereal treats before eating. — Heloise Smart smoothie Dear Heloise: The vegetables and fruits that I have left over that are about to rot, I throw in a blender together and make a smoothie out of them. It always tastes different, of course, depending on the ingredients, but they are not wasted. — Yolanda in Dallas

Friday’s Answer

SUDOKU

By Tom Wilson

7 5 1 9 8 4 2 3 6

6 9 2 3 5 7 8 1 4

3 4 8 1 6 2 7 5 9

2 3 7 8 9 6 1 4 5

8 6 4 7 1 5 3 9 2

9 1 5 2 4 3 6 7 8

1 2 6 5 7 9 4 8 3

5 7 3 4 2 8 9 6 1

Difficulty Level

4 8 9 6 3 1 5 2 7

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

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