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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2014 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 118

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Doubt dooms study of rail link to North Slope

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In the news Alaska sets new wind chill record of -97 degrees

ANCHORAGE — The National Weather Service says a new Alaska wind chill record of -97 degrees has been set in remote Howard Pass in the Brooks Range. The Weather Service’s Facebook page says the threshold was broken at 3:39 p.m. Friday. A temperature of -42 degrees with a sustained northern wind of 71 mph was recorded. Howard Pass is uninhabited. Meteorologist Eddie Zingone in Anchorage said Saturday the area had wind chills of -90 or below for much of the day. Zingone says a National Park Service sensor picked up the reading, and other nearby sensors are rare. The agency says the previous record of -96 degrees was set in Prudhoe Bay/ARCO on Jan. 28, 1989. The Brooks Range has winter weather and wind chill advisories in effect until 6 a.m. Sunday. — The Associated Press

Inside ‘We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.’ ... See page A-2

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Reps. Kurt Olson, R-Kenai, and House Speaker Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski listen to David Caswell talk about making the Honor and Remember Flag a national symbol to recognize those who have died as a result of serving in the U.S. military. The representatives heard from a handful of central peninsula residents on Saturday at a town hall meeting in Soldotna.

Locals get face time with reps By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

Local representatives listened to central Kenai Peninsula residents’ concerns and comments about various state and peninsula issues at a town hall meeting Saturday. About one dozen people stopped by the meeting at the George A. Navarre Borough Administration Building in Soldotna where Reps. Kurt

Olson, R-Kenai, and House Speaker Mike Chenault, RNikiski, heard public comment that focused on the fishing and energy industries. Robert Ruffner, with the Kenai Watershed Forum, Brian Gabriel Sr., Kenai city council member and commercial fisherman, and Megan Smith, a Cook Inlet setnetter, all testified to the representatives about their disappointment with the Board of Fish and the meet-

ing process. Ruffner said while the Kenai Peninsula Borough is doing well in its efforts, the State of Alaska is failing the central peninsula with king salmon habitat preservation. “I think we’re going to lose those fish if we don’t have some pretty extraordinary measures,” he said. Chenault said he’s also frustrated by the process and with no attempt to protect habitat, other species will

start depleting as well. Gabriel said the structure of the meeting was problematic and items concerning habitat should have been on the forefront of the agenda. This year’s meeting was the first Smith attended. She was part of the public use committee and she thought the group had generated a lot of good ideas, but at the meeting they “got slaughtered.”

See REPS, page A-10

FAIRBANKS (AP) — A North Pole legislator wants money to see whether a railroad extension to far northern Alaska is feasible, but his colleagues dismissed the idea as welfare for university projects. Rep. Doug Isaacson proposed spending $2 million on a feasibility study by the University of Alaska Fairbanks analyzing a potential railroad connection between Fairbanks and Deadhorse. House Transportation Committee members reacted skeptically, The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported. Isaacson said the rail extension could lead to new oildrilling and mining opportunities and reduce the high cost of doing business on the North Slope. “We’re so addicted to oil, that’s all we can see,” Isaacson said. “We need to diversify. This can help with getting new oil, this can help with getting new mines open, this can help with expanding other economic opportunities for the state, (this) would be a very, very, very good use of money.” Rep. Eric Feige, R-Chickaloon, said such an extension could make sense in the future, See RAIL, page A-10

Exploration off 38%, producing mines strong BY TIM BRADNER Morris News Service-Alaska Alaska Journal of Commerce

JUNEAU — Mining is good for Alaska’s economy, but while the state’s six producing mines are holding up well, and some even expanding, a sharp 38 percent drop in exploration spending last year is having ripple effects. Overall, mining employed 4,600 Alaskans directly last year and the overall employment impact totaled 9,100 including indirect jobs created by the spending. Direct payrolls of mining companies totaled $630

million in 2013. The 2013 total employment and payroll numbers are down a bit from employment in 2012, however, which is likely due to the falloff in exploration. Minerals companies spent about $180 million in exploration in 2013 compared with $275 million in 2012. The data was gathered by McDowell Group, a Juneaubased consulting firm, for the Alaska Miners Association and the Council of Alaska Producers, two minerals industry trade associations. The information was presented to the House and Sen-

ate Resources committees in Juneau Feb. 5, by Karen Matthias, director of the producers’ council, and Deantha Crockett, executive director of the Alaska Miners Association. McDowell Group’s 2013 figures were released that day. On an upbeat note, one of Alaska’s producing mines, the Fort Knox Mine near Fairbanks, achieved another milestone in December 2013, when the mine produced its six millionth ounce of gold, Matthias said. Fort Knox is a large surface mine northwest of Fairbanks that began production in 1996.

In another development, the Greens Creek Mine in Southeast Alaska secured federal approval for an expansion of the mine tailings storage facility, Matthias said. It will be in construction this year and, when completed, will give the mine the capacity to store tailings if new resources are added to the mine, she said. Greens Creek is an underground silver mine on Admiralty Island near Juneau. Some more sobering news for the industry, however, was the decision by Anglo American, a large mining company, to withdraw as a partner in the

large Pebble copper/gold project near Iliamna, southwest of Anchorage. Pebble’s owner, Northern Dynasty Minerals, is now looking for another partner to develop the mine. As for exploration, lower gold prices explain most of the drop, Matthias said. Prices for that metal have dropped from almost $1,800 per ounce in September 2012 to about $1,200 a year later, she said, and haven’t changed much since. Silver has also declined. Base metals like copper, zinc See MINES, page A-10

Lawmakers to mull over bill for concealed carry on campus By MATT WOOLBRIGHT Morris News Service-Alaska Juneau Empire

Fittingly, the bill introduced Friday that would prohibit the University of Alaska Board of Regents from banning concealed weapons on campus actually is the result of campus discussions. Intern Hans Rodvik approached Sen. John Coghill, RNorth Pole, about the proposal earlier this session. The Senate majority leader agreed to carry SB176 under one condition — Rodvik would be in charge of seeing it through the legislative process. “The university created a policy contradictory to state

law,” Coghill said. “We’re asking them to give us a good reason the right to bear arms should be infringed.” In addition to barring the University of Alaska Board of Regents from prohibiting the concealed carry of firearms, the proposal forbids any policy from being adopted that is not identical to state law. “We’re talking about the fundamental right to keep and bear arms,” said Rodvik, a junior political science major at the Anchorage campus. “The Board of Regents is flat out ignoring the constitution and state law.” A news release from Coghill’s office states: “Current state law does not prohibit law abiding citizens from carry-

ing concealed firearms on UA Campuses.” The bill does allow for exceptions, however. For example, university officials can prohibit firearms and knives in restricted areas in certain buildings — areas that require some sort of security clearance before entering. University officials can also ban the discharge of a firearm, so long as the policy allows for the firearm to be used in a selfdefense situation. “The Alaska Constitution affords us many rights, including the right to carry a firearm,” Coghill said in the news release. “Individuals do not lose See BILL, page A-10 C

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Happy birthday, George A U.S. flag in front of the Nikiski Fire Department ripples in the wind Sunday. Today is President’s Day, a federal holiday honoring the birthday of the nation’s first President George Washington.

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

Barrow -22/-30

Today

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Cold with a little Cold with periods Cold with clouds snow at times of snow, 1-3" and limited sun

Rather cloudy, snow possible; cold

Cloudy with snow showers possible

Hi: 25 Lo: 14

Hi: 32 Lo: 18

Hi: 25

Tuesday

Lo: 4

Hi: 25 Lo: 12

Hi: 26

Lo: 2

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

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13 19 18 21

Daylight Length of Day - 9 hrs., 19 min., 17 sec. Daylight gained - 5 min., 30 sec.

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Nome 0/-17 Unalakleet McGrath 1/-16 -5/-28

Full Mar 16 Tomorrow 11:23 p.m. 9:08 a.m.

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Dillingham 7/-8

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24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. Trace Month to date ........................... 0.01" Normal month to date ............. 0.51" Year to date .............................. 2.29" Normal year to date .................. 1.47" Record today ................. 0.24" (1968) Record for Feb. ............. 2.80" (1955) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963) Snowfall 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. Trace Month to date ............................. 0.3" Season to date ......................... 39.7"

Juneau 36/21

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Kodiak 22/12

Sitka 36/28

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89 at San Angelo, Texas -31 at Embarrass,

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Ketchikan 39/29

39 at Hydaburg and Ketchikan -42 at Deadhorse

Today’s Forecast

(Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation)

Disruptive snow will spread across the Great Lakes today with an icy mix just to the south. The Northeast will be dry and cold. Rain and mountain snow will move through the Northwest as California is dry.

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Valdez Kenai/ 25/12 Soldotna Homer

Cold Bay 24/12

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High ............................................... 20 Low .................................................. 6 Normal high .................................. 29 Normal low .................................... 11 Record high ........................ 40 (2010) Record low ....................... -31 (1954)

Anchorage 23/14

Bethel -7/-22

National Cities Yesterday Today Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W

Fairbanks -4/-22

Talkeetna 20/-4 Glennallen 14/-19

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Unalaska 27/24

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Today’s activity: Quiet Where: Auroral activity will be quiet. Weather permitting, quiet displays will be visible directly overhead from Barrow to Fort Yukon and visible low on the horizon from Fairbanks to as far south as Nome, Talkeetna and Whitehorse, Canada.

Temperature

Tomorrow 8:37 a.m. 6:02 p.m.

First Mar 8

Prudhoe Bay -22/-47

Anaktuvuk Pass -26/-33

Kotzebue -14/-29

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Kerry mocks deniers of climate change By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer

JAKARTA, Indonesia — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday called climate change perhaps the world’s “most fearsome” destructive weapon and mocked those who deny its existence or question its causes, comparing them to people who insist the Earth is flat. In a speech to Indonesian students, civic leaders and government officials, Kerry tore into climate change skeptics. He accused them of using shoddy science and scientists to delay steps needed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases at the risk of imperiling the planet. A day earlier, the U.S. and China announced an agreement to cooperate more closely on combating climate change. American officials hope that will help encourage others, including developing countries like Indonesia and India, to follow suit. China and the United States are the biggest sources of emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that cause the atmosphere to trap solar heat and alter the climate. Scientists say such changes are leading to drought, wildfires, rising sea levels, melting polar ice, plant and animal extinctions and other extreme conditions. Also in the Jakarta speech,

Kerry said everyone and every country must take responsibility for the problem and act immediately. “We simply don’t have time to let a few loud interest groups hijack the climate conversation,” he said, referring to what he called “big companies” that “don’t want to change and spend a lot of money” to act to reduce the risks. Kerry later singled out major oil and coal concerns as the primary offenders. “We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts,” Kerry told the audience at a U.S. Embassy-run American Center in a shopping mall. “Nor should we allow any room for those who think that the costs associated with doing the right thing outweigh the benefits.” “The science is unequivocal, and those who refuse to believe it are simply burying their heads in the sand,” Kerry said. “We don’t have time for a meeting anywhere of the Flat Earth Society,” Kerry said the cost of inaction will far outweigh the significant expense of reducing greenhouse gas emissions that trap solar heat in the atmosphere and contribute to the Earth’s rising temperatures. He outlined a litany of recent

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Oil Prices Wednesday’s prices North Slope crude: $105.30, up from $104.77 on Tuesday West Texas Int.: $100.37, up from $99.94 on Tuesday

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Secretary of State John Kerry sits with a group of students as he is introduced to deliver a speech on climate change on Sunday in Jakarta. Climate change may be the world’s “most fearsome” weapon of mass destruction and urgent global action is needed to combat it, Kerry said on Sunday, comparing those who deny its existence or question its causes to people who insist the Earth is flat.

‘The science is unequivocal, and those who refuse to believe it are simply burying their heads in the sand.’ — John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State weather disasters, particularly flooding and typhoons in Asia, and their impact on commerce, agriculture, fishing and daily living conditions for billions of people. “This city, this country, this region, is really on the front lines of climate change,” Kerry said. “It’s not an exaggeration to say that your entire way of life here is at risk.” He added: “In a sense, climate change can now be considered the world’s largest weapon of mass destruction, perhaps even, the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.” The solution, Kerry said, is a new global energy policy that shifts reliance from fossil fuels to cleaner technologies. He noted the President Barack Obama is championing such a shift and encouraged others to appeal to their leaders to join. The U.S.-China statement issued just after Kerry left

Beijing on Saturday said the two countries agreed on steps to carry out commitments to curb greenhouse gases, including reducing vehicle emissions, improving energy efficiency of buildings and other measures. Beijing and Washington launched a climate change discussion last year, promising progress in five areas: reducing vehicle emissions; advanced electric power grids; capturing and storing carbon emissions; gathering greenhouse gas data; and building efficiency. Kerry was in Indonesia on the last leg of a three-nation tour of Asia that started in South Korea. After leaving Indonesia on Monday, he planned to visit Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Before the climate change speech, Kerry toured Jakarta’s Istiqlal Mosque, one of the largest in the world, to pay his respects to Indonesia’s Muslim majority population.

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

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Nuns release album By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press

GOWER, Mo. — Eight times a day, a group of nuns files into a chapel in their rural northwest Missouri monastery to chant and worship. Quite unexpectedly, this private, prayerful pursuit has made the Benedictines of Mary a chart-topping recording industry curiosity. After being named Billboard’s No. 1 Classical Traditional Artist of 2012 and 2013, the nuns released their third album, called “Lent At Ephesus,” Feb. 11 on the De Montfort Music/Decca/Universal Classics label. Matt Abramovitz, program director for New York classical radio station WQXR, which has featured the new album on air, said the station didn’t know what to make of it when the nuns’ first record arrived. “They’re not professional singers,” he said. “They aren’t singing traditional classical repertoire, which is what we normally play, but we gave it a listen, and we were stunned by the quality of the performance and

the sincerity. And they really were a hit with our audience.” The latest album includes a capella chants, intricate harmonies and hymns of glory and redemption, all designed to capture the Christian season of preparation before Easter. How this album and the nuns’ earlier releases — “Advent at Ephesus” and “Angels and Saints at Ephesus” — came to develop a following among classical and religious music lovers is something the monastery’s prioress can only explain in religious terms. “With God,” said Mother Cecilia Snell, “all things are possible.” The 22 nuns, with an average age of 29, live modestly at the monastery surrounded by about 280 acres of northwest Missouri farmland. They model their existence after life in the early sixth-century monasteries and still wear the black and white habits that were largely abandoned half a century ago. Few get a glimpse into the nuns’ daily life, with the exception of visiting priests who come to the area to recharge.

Around the Peninsula Violinist, pianist to perform in Soldotna

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awards ceremony will be held in the Central Peninsula Mall on Feb. 22 at 12:30 p.m. to present medals to winners, followed by a no-host dinner at Ginger’s Restaurant.

The Performing Arts Society presents the Sitka Summer Music Festival Musicians in concert on Monday at 7:30 p.m. at Soldotna Christ Lutheran Church. Violinist Paul Rosenthal and Pianist Piers Lane will perform music of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. Tickets are $20 general admission and $10 student, and available at River City Books, Northcountry Fair, Already Read Books and Country Liquor, and at the door.

The Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board meeting has been rescheduled this month. The KRSMA board will meet on February 20, from 5:30-7:00 p.m. at the Gilman River Center in Soldotna. The public is welcome to attend. For more information, please call the state parks office, 262-5581.

AmVets meetings scheduled

Pilot safety seminar on tap

KRSMA board to meet

AmVets Post 4, AmVets Auxiliary and the Sons of Amvets A pilot safety seminar will take place Thursday, Feb. 20, meet Tuesday at Post 4 in the Red Diamond Center on K-Beach. 2014 from 7-9:30 p.m. at the Missionary Air Repair Center The ladies meet at 6:30 p.m. and the men meet at 7:00 p.m. For (MARC) on Funny River Road in Soldotna. Speakers will inmore information call 262-3540. clude Dean Eichholz of the Alaska Aviation Safety Foundation, David Swartz and Al Wilson from the Aircraft Certification Office, and Alaskan aviator Bill Compton. The seminar is availParents of children with special needs gather able for Wings Credit. Cookies and coffee will be provided. For more information, contact Dean Eichholz at 262-3872 or for support 398-6228. A Parents of Special Needs Children Support Group meeting will take place Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Kenai River Center on Funny River Road across the street from Soldotna Airport. Explore Australia without leaving Alaska If your child has special circumstances that makes others look Visit Australia via a multimedia slide and music presenor speak of them differently then you need to come to our meettation by Greg and Jan Daniels from their trips to the “Land ing and get acquainted with other parents that are dealing with Down Under” Feb. 21 at the Kenai Visitor Center. Doors open the same issues. Discuss the issues of everyday life, school and acceptance in society. For more information contact Peggy Lar- at 6 p.m.; show starts at 7 p.m. The show will include images of exotic animals, birds, plants, scenic hotspots, local culture, and son at: 260-3621/394-6310 or peggysuelee@gmail.com travel around this huge continent. Children will enjoy the show too, and Australian animal cookies, coffee, and drink will be served. All proceeds will go to the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank. Peninsula Senior Games take center stage Tickets are $5 per person, ages 10 and under are free. Senior centers on the Kenai Peninsula will be holding the annual Senior Olympic Games from Tuesday, Feb. 18 through Feb. 22. There are 13 diffeent events, including pool, water Wrestling club plans winter picnic walk, cribbage, bridge, darts, walk-a-thon, hand-n-foot, bowlThe Nikiski Freestyle Wrestling Club will be hosting a winter ing, basketball, pinochle, dominos, ping pong, and poker. The events will be held at various locations in the Nikiski, Kenai picnic fundraiser on Feb. 22nd from 6-8 p.m. at the Nikiski Comand Soldotna areas. The Senior Olympics are open to all Pen- munity Center in the Banquet Room. The Uptown Motel will insula seniors 55 years of age and older. Local senior centers be providing pulled pork sandwiches, coleslaw and baked beans have details on the games and sign-up sheets for all events. An with M&M supplying ice cream cones. Cost is $10/plate.

Snake-handling pastor dies from bite MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (AP) — Jamie Coots, a snakehandling Kentucky pastor who appeared on the National Geographic television reality show “Snake Salvation,” died Saturday after being bitten by a snake. Coots was handling a rattlesnake during a Saturday night service at his Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name Church in Middlesboro when he was bitten, another preacher, Cody Winn, told WBIR-TV. “Jamie went across the floor. He had one of the rattlers in his hand, he came over and he was standing beside me. It was plain view, it just turned its head and bit him in the back of the hand ... within a second,” Winn said. When an ambulance arrived at the church at 8:30 p.m., they were told Coots had gone home, the Middlesboro Police Department said in a news release. Contacted at his house, Coots refused medical treatment. Emergency workers left about 9:10 p.m. When they returned about an hour later, Coots was dead from a venomous snake bite, police said. In January 2013, Coots was caught transporting three rattlesnakes and two copperheads through Knoxville, Tenn. Wildlife officials confiscated the snakes, and Coots pleaded guilty to illegally wildlife possession. He was given one year of unsupervised probation. Coots said then he needed the snakes for religious reasons, citing a Bible passage in the book of Mark that reads, in part: “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not

hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” Coots said he took the passage at face value. “We literally believe they want us to take up snakes,” Coots told The Associated Press in February 2013. “We’ve been serpent handling for the past 20 or 21 years.” After he was bitten Saturday night, Coots dropped the snakes, but then picked them back up and continued on. Within minutes, Winn said Coots headed to the bathroom. His son, Cody, told the television station his dad had been bit eight times before, but never had such a severe reaction. Cody Coots said he thought the bite would be just like all the others. “We’re going to go home, he’s going to lay on the couch, he’s going to hurt, he’s going to pray for a while and he’s going to get better. That’s what happened every other time, except this time was just so quick and it was crazy, it was really crazy,” Cody Coots said. National Geographic said in a statement it was struck by Coots’ “devout religious convictions despite the health and legal peril he often faced.” “Those risks were always worth it to him and his congregants as a means to demonstrate their unwavering faith,” the statement said. “We were honored to be allowed such unique access to pastor Jamie and his congregation during the course of our show, and give context to his method of worship.” In 1995, 28-year-old Melinda Brown, of Parrottsville, Tenn., died after being bitten at Coot’s church by a 4-footlong timber rattlesnake. Her relatives disputed accounts

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In this 2013 photo provided by National Geographic Channel, Jamie Coots, a pastor in Middlesboro, Ky., who appeared on the National Geographic television reality show “Snake Salvation,” poses for a photo. Coots died Sunday, Feb. 16, after being bitten by a snake.

that the mother of five had been holding the snake that bit her and disagreed with witnesses who said she refused medical treatment as she suffered the effects of the venom for two days at Coots’ home. The Bell County attorney at the time wanted to prosecute under a 1942 state law that made it illegal to handle or display snakes during religious services. But the judge refused to sign the criminal complaint. “If the court thought that a trial would act to deter future snake handling in church, my decision would be different,” Bell District Judge James Bowling Jr. wrote to the coun-

ty attorney. “But you and I both know that this practice is not going to stop until either rattlesnakes or snake handlers become extinct.”

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President Obama rewriting ObamaCare “ObamaCare” is useful shorthand for the Affordable Care Act not least because the law increasingly means whatever President Obama says it does on any given day. His latest lawless rewrite arrived on Monday as the White House decided to delay the law’s employer mandate for another year and in some cases maybe forever. ObamaCare requires businesses with 50 or more workers to offer health insurance to their workers or pay a penalty, but last summer the Treasury offered a year-long delay until 2015 despite having no statutory authorization. Like the individual mandate, the employer decree is central to ObamaCare’s claim of universal coverage, but employers said the new labor costs — and the onerous reporting and tax-enforcement rules — would damage job creation and the economy. Liberals insisted that such arguments were false if not beneath contempt, but then all of a sudden the White House implicitly endorsed the other side. Now the new delay arrives amid a furious debate about jobs after a damning Congressional Budget Office report last week, only this time with liberals celebrating ObamaCare’s supposed benefits to the job market. Well, which is it? Either ObamaCare is ushering in a worker’s paradise, in which case by the White House’s own logic exempting businesses from its ministrations is harming employees. Or else the mandate really is leading business to cut back on hiring, hours and shifting workers to part-time as the evidence in the real economy suggests. Under the new Treasury rule, firms with 50 to 99 full-time workers are free from the mandate until 2016. And firms with 100 or more workers now also only need cover 70 percent of full-time workers in 2015 and 95 percent in 2016 and after, not the 100 percent specified in the law. The new rule also relaxes the mandate for certain occupations and industries that were at particular risk for disruption, like volunteer firefighters, teachers, adjunct faculty members and seasonal employees. Oh, and the Treasury also notes that, “As these limited transition rules take effect, we will consider whether it is necessary to further extend any of them beyond 2015.” So the law may be suspended indefinitely if the White House feels like it. By now ObamaCare’s proliferating delays, exemptions and administrative retrofits are too numerous to count, most of them of dubious legality. The text of the Affordable Care Act specifically says when the mandate must take effect_”after December 31, 2013” — and does not give the White House the authority to change the terms. Changing an unambiguous statutory mandate requires the approval of Congress, but then this President has often decided the law is whatever he says it is. His Administration’s cavalier notions about law enforcement are especially notable here for their bias for corporations over people. The White House has refused to suspend the individual insurance mandate, despite the harm caused to millions who are losing their previous coverage. Liberals say the law isn’t harming jobs or economic growth, but everything this White House does screams the opposite. — Wall Street Journal, Feb. 10

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Lawmaking from on high

We were told that President Barack Obama would wield his executive power this year to defy Congress. Instead, he is defying his own health-care law. The Obama administration announced this week it is delaying and changing the law’s employer mandate, the latest in a series of seat-of-the-pants revisions to Obamacare. The president was eager to highlight steps he was taking to bypass Congress in his State of the Union last month, but left this one out. If he had demanded congressional action to delay the employer mandate, he surely would have gotten a bipartisan bill on his desk forthwith. His call for executive unilateralism should be amended: “Even if Congress will act ... I still prefer to act on my own.” Congress long ago ceded too much authority to the regulatory apparatus of the administrative state, but this is different. This is the executive branch affirmatively rewriting law in defiance of our constitutional system and the rule of law. Obamacare is quite clear that the employer mandate “shall apply” after Dec. 31, 2013. Nonetheless, the Obama administration delayed it for a year last July. The latest move is even more brazen. It creates a distinction between employers with fewer and more than 100 employees that doesn’t exist in the law, and delays the mandate for another year for businesses with 50-99 employees. At the same time, it changes the obligation on employers with more than 100 employees.

These aren’t waivers or delays, but detailed revisions. Last year, the Treasury Department justified the delay as “transition relief,” a euphemism right up there with “shared responsibility payments,” Rich Lowry the administration’s favored term for fines on employers. The examples that the department cites of prior transition relief are so tiny that they are beneath notice. One provision of the Small Business and Work Opportunity Act of 2007 changed the standards that tax preparers had to follow to avoid penalties. The new rules went into effect in May 2007, but in June of that year Treasury said it would follow the old standards for returns filed before Dec. 31, 2007. What the administration is doing now is unilaterally changing a law four years after its passage to try to delay the economic and political pain past a congressional election. Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute points out that the law authorizes waivers of the employer mandate only for states and, more specifically, “only if the state enacts a law that would provide equally comprehensive health insurance to as many residents, and only if that law would impose no additional cost to the federal government, and only if there is a ‘meaningful level of pub-

lic input’ over the waiver and its approval, and even then not until 2017.” Why did anyone bother to write this stuff? Just think of all the lawyering and negotiating that went into the provisions of the employer mandate — the careful definition of terms, the precisely calculated fines — only to be cast aside with a dismissive wave of the hand from on high. President Obama seems to share something of the attitude of King James I of England, who once confided to the Spanish ambassador of Parliament, “I am surprised that my ancestors should ever have permitted such an institution to come into existence.” But, he sighed, “I am obliged to put up with what I cannot get rid of.” What makes the president’s cavalier treatment of the legislature’s handiwork in this instance so remarkable is that Congress did his bidding. It passed the law he desperately wanted. Yet he still treats it as a series of suggestions and little more. President Obama’s hero Abraham Lincoln had a famously worshipful view of the rule of law. “Let reverence for the laws,” he said in his Lyceum Address, “be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap — let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges.” President Obama’s implicit rejoinder: “Whatever.” Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.

Democrats seek to turn stand on issues into votes By CHARLES BABINGTON Associated Press

CAMBRIDGE, Md. — Congressional Democrats held a retreat this week seeking inspiration. But they left as befuddled as ever by an America that arguably likes their issues but not always the party. This fall’s elections seem likely to leave Democrats in the House minority, and may rob them of their Senate majority. Republicans hope to gain six net seats to control the Senate. At a three-day retreat by the Chesapeake Bay, House Democrats struggled to explain this political landscape while also insisting the public supports their agenda on immigration, income, women’s rights and other priorities. Friday pep talks by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden did little to solve the riddle. Obama said Congress should act on issues “where the American people are on our side.” He said those include a higher federal minimum wage and “smart immigration policy” that would bring people “out of the shadows.” Biden, who spoke ahead of the president, went further. “On every major issue,” he said, “the American people agree with the Democratic Party.” Biden cited Democratic positions on the minimum wage, debt ceiling, same-sex marriage, early childhood education, infrastructure spending and “pay equity” for women. He said 90 percent of Americans support stricter background checks on gun buyers, an issue that went nowhere in the Democratic-controlled Senate, let alone the GOP-run House. “I can’t think of a time when the issues that most affect the American people, most affect the middle class, overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly, they support us,” Biden said. Republicans scoff at such sentiments. They note that voters have handed them control of the House and the governorships of swing states such as Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida. Biden’s comments reflect “a 50,000foot view” rather than political realities on the ground in key states that will determine C

AP News Extra control of the Senate, said GOP consultant Brian Walsh. “What’s popular in California isn’t necessarily popular in Louisiana, Arkansas and North Carolina,” he said. Those are among the seven states that Obama lost in 2012 and where Democrats are trying to protect Senate seats this fall. The Democrats’ happy talk in Maryland, Walsh said, ignores the fact that Obama’s health care overhaul “is deeply unpopular in those states.” Polls suggest that Americans care more about the health care law — which divides them — and pocketbook issues than some of the topics that dominated the Democrats’ retreat. An AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll on government priorities for 2014 found that, in general, the issues Democrats cite as their strong points -- including the minimum wage, unemployment benefits and immigration -- aren’t particularly important to people. Asked to list the top 10 issues they’d like government to act on this year, 52 percent mentioned the health care overhaul, while just 7 percent named the minimum wage or other wage issues. And 28 percent mentioned immigration. Unemployment ranked near the top of issues for the government to tackle, at 42 percent. But only one of the 1,141 adults surveyed mentioned extending unemployment benefits, a proposal that seems popular but not highly important. Some Democrats say the party often does a poor messaging job, which helps explain why supposedly popular issues don’t always translate into election wins. Particularly frustrating, they say, is Republicans’ ability to portray the pre-Obama health care system as far superior to the nation’s new health insurance, when in fact many Americans strongly criticized it in 2008. Conversations with top Democrats at the retreat also suggested they are better at naming popular issues than devising a coherent strategy for shaping them into win-

ning campaign strategies. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi told reporters that most Americans support her party’s agenda for women. It includes better childhood education, affordable childcare and “equal pay for equal work.” But Pelosi demurred when asked to explain why, in light of that, Democrats aren’t on a stronger track in midterm elections. “This is about policy, this is about people,” she said. “We’ll leave the third P, politics, to another day.” Democrats disagree on how to discuss the growing divide between high-income earners and middle-class workers whose wages have largely stayed flat for many years. One top Democratic lawmaker, who would discuss the sensitive issue only on condition of anonymity, said he is incensed when his party’s candidates denounce “income equality,” because many voters see it as contrary to the American dream of advancing and benefiting from hard work. Yet Biden jumped right in Friday. “They talk about the fact that we shouldn’t be talking about income inequality,” he told House Democrats. “I think it would be a sin if we didn’t talk about income inequality.” When he was elected to the Senate in 1972, Biden said, “a CEO made about 25 times more than the lowest-paid employee.” Now, he said, it’s 240 times greater. Democrats also showed divisions on which GOP-blocked initiatives to highlight later this month. Sen. Charles Schumer, DN.Y., called on Democrats to start a “discharge petition” to try to force House Republican leaders to bring a Senate-passed immigration bill to a House vote. But Pelosi announced this week the Democrats’ discharge effort will focus on a bid to raise the minimum wage instead. Any successful discharge petition would require Democrats — who hold 200 of the House’s 435 seats — to stay united and to gain nearly two dozen Republican signatures, to reach a majority. That’s a tough goal in a chamber controlled by Republicans, who say they are confident about November’s elections, no matter how often Democrats say the public is on their side.

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Court reports The following judgments were recently handed down in Superior Court in Kenai: n Vincent William Greer, 37, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to one count of fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance, committed April 4. He was sentenced to 48 months in prison with 39 days suspended, fined a $100 court surcharge and a $200 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, forfeited all items seized, ordered, among other conditions of probation, not to consume alcohol to excess, not to use or possess any illegal controlled substances, including synthetic drugs, spice, bath salts and marijuana, not to possess any paraphernalia normally associated with the illicit use of drugs, including pipes and syringes, not to reside where illegal controlled substances are present, not to possess, apply for or obtain a medical marijuana card or act as a caregiver while under supervision, to complete a substance abuse evaluation and comply with treatment recommendations, to submit so a search directed by a probation officer, with or without probably cause, for the presence of controlled substances, drug paraphernalia, evidence of controlled substance transactions or weapons and was placed on probation for five years after serving any term of incarceration imposed. Another charge of fourth-degree misconduct involving controlled substances was dismissed. n Kathleen Denise Flemming, 56, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to second-degree theft – access device, committed July 27. She was sentenced to three years in prison, fined a $100 court surcharge and a $100 jail surcharge and was recommended to participate in a Residential Substance Abuse Program. All other charges in this case were dismissed. The following judgments recently were handed down in District Court in Kenai:

n Cyle J. Charbonneau, 28, of Kenai, pleaded guilty

to driving under the influence, committed Nov. 16. He was sentenced to 120 days in jail with 100 days suspended, fined $4,000 with $1,000 suspended, a $75 court surcharge, $1,467 cost of imprisonment and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had his license revoked for one year, ordered ignition interlock for 12 months and placed on probation for two years. n Devon O. Corbell, 22, address unknown, pleaded guilty to reckless driving, committed June 4. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail with 28 days suspended (credit for time served), fined $1,000 with $500 suspended, a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, forfeited items seized, had his license revoked for 30 days, ordered to possess no controlled substances without a valid prescription, ordered to complete a mental health evaluation and program recommended and placed on probation for one year. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Courtney Nicole Dukowitz, 25, of Nikiski, pleaded guilty to third-degree theft, committed July 12. She was sentenced to 100 days in jail with 80 days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, forfeited all items seized and placed on probation for three years. n George Franklin Hopper, 53, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to driving while license revoked, committed July 31. He was sentenced to 12 months in jail with eight months suspended, fined $1,000, a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, had his license revoked for 90 days and placed on probation for three years. n Matthew Kidd, 33, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to driving while license cancelled, suspended, revoked or limited, committed Dec. 26. He was sentenced to 20 days in jail with 10 days suspended (credit for time served), fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail sur-

charge with $100 suspended, had his license revoked for 90 days and placed on probation for one year. n Stacy L. Nielsen, 44, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to one count of driving under the influence, one count of first degree endangering the welfare of a child and one count of violating conditions of release, committed Jan. 31. On the count of driving under the influence, she was sentenced to 240 days in jail with 220 days suspended, fined $4,000 with $1,000 suspended, a $75 court surcharge, $1,467 cost of imprisonment and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had her license revoked for one year, ordered ignition interlock for 12 months, ordered not to possess or consume alcohol for three years and placed on probation for three years. On the count of endangering the welfare of a child, she was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 85 days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, ordered not to consume alcohol during probation and placed on probation for three years. On the count of violating conditions of release, she was fined $150 and a $50 court surcharge. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Cindy Rae Nitsche, 61, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to driving while license cancelled, suspended, revoked or limited, committed Jan. 2. She was sentenced to 20 days in jail with 10 days suspended, may perform 80 hours of community work service in lieu of jail time, was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, had her license revoked for 90 days and placed on probation for two years. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Merissa B. Osmar, 19, of Ninilchik, pleaded guilty to violating a protective order, committed Oct. 4. Imposition of sentence was suspended and she was placed on probation for one year, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and ordered to have no contact with victim.

Police reports n On Feb. 7 at 8:17 p.m., Alaska State Troopers stopped a white Chevrolet pickup near Mile 85 of the Seward Highway after receiving a REDDI (Report Every Dangerous Driver Immediately) complaint on the pickup. Investigation revealed that Shayne Baringer, 49, of Anchor Point, was driving under the influence of narcotics. He was arrested for driving under the influence and taken to Anchorage Jail on $500 bail. n On Feb. 2 at 12:07 a.m., troopers were notified of a disturbance in the Salmon Creek Trailer Park, located in Seward. Investigation revealed that Clark Lane, 43, of Seward, had smashed a windshield, window and slashed the tires of another person’s vehicle, causing over $500 in damages. Lane had fled the scene prior to troopers’ arrival. Troopers located Lane a short time later at his residence on Nash Road in Seward. During the contact, Lane became belligerent and aggressive, creating a disturbance and an unjustified hazard for the trooper. Lane was arrested for third-degree criminal mischief and disorderly conduct and was taken at the Seward Jail without bail. n On Jan. 31 at about 22:20 p.m., troopers conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle for a moving violation near Mile 12.5 of the Seward Highway. Investigation revealed that Jeff Rice, 44, of Seward, was operating the motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol. Investigation further revealed that Rice was in possession of schedule IV controlled substance. Rice was arrested for driving under the influence and fifth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance and taken at the Seward Jail on $1,000 bail. n On Feb. 4 at 8:18 p.m., Alaska State Troopers received a report of theft and criminal mischief on Sunrise Avenue in Soldotna. Investigation revealed items stolen and broken from the residence. Jessup Hawkins, 18, of Soldotna, and Casey Johnson, 18, of Soldotna, have been charged, awaiting arraignment.

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Alaska Briefs Man sentenced to 3 years for negligent homicide KETCHIKAN — A man who accidentally killed his friend when he put him in a chokehold has been sentenced to three years in prison, with two years suspended. The Ketchikan Daily News reports 35-year-old Steven S. Cook put Thomas Guthrie IV in a chokehold on May 28, 2012. The two men, both of whom were intoxicated, grew up together in the southeast Alaska town. Guthrie was 32 when he died. Guthrie’s death was initially ruled a heart attack before an autopsy. Ketchikan Superior Court Judge William Carey called the case “emotionally wrenching” before handing down the sentence for criminally negligent homicide and second-degree assault. Cook is legally forbidden from drinking alcohol during his sentence.

Anti-crime activist cleared of sex assault ANCHORAGE — An Anchorage man once known an as anti-crime crusader has been acquitted of two sexual assault charges, though jurors deadlocked on a third count, leaving open the possibility of a new trial. Dwight “Sam” O’Connor, 54, served a decade on the Anchorage Public Safety Advisory Commission before he was accused of rape in 2011. The woman who accused O’Connor said she was picked up early one morning by a man she didn’t know, taken to a locked construction yard and raped. She provided a description of the man to police. An Anchorage Superior Court jury returned its verdict Friday after a two-week trial, The Anchorage Daily News reported. Prosecutors said they expect to decide by early next month whether to retry O’Connor on the third count. “We have to consult with the victim, who of course would have to go through it again. That’s a factor we have to consider,” Deputy District Attorney Clint Campion said. The woman testified at the trial. “Nobody is in a right frame of mind after a verdict to make a final decision,” Campion said. O’Connor, now 54, did not testify at the trial, but he presented a defense that the encounter was consensual, the prosecutor said. The allegations stunned Anchorage political and community leaders. As head of the Westside Community Patrol, he made a name for himself trying to eradicate prostitution in the Spenard neighborhood. Mayor Dan Sullivan said he was saddened by the arrest. Some who knew O’Connor well, including an ex-wife, said at the time of his arrest that they doubted the charges were true. The woman who accused him said she had asked for a ride to a friend’s house, but she was taken to the construction yard instead. The man dropped her off near a friend’s house afterward, she said. — The Associated Press

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Verdict in Florida again raises self-defense issue By DEREK KINNER Associated Press

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A verdict in the city of Jacksonville is again raising the issue of self-defense and race in Florida, just seven months after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting of a black teenager, Trayvon Martin. Michael Dunn, a white 47-year-old software developer, could face 60 years in prison following his conviction Saturday on multiple counts of attempted murder for shooting into a carful of teenagers outside a Jacksonville convenience store in 2012. Jordan Davis, a black 17 year old, was killed in the shooting, but the jury couldn’t reach a verdict on the first-degree murder charge against Dunn. A mistrial was declared on that count. The verdict is a far cry from one delivered in the Zimmerman case, when he was acquitted in July in the shooting death of 17-year-old Martin in Sanford, about 125 miles south of Jacksonville. Like Zimmerman, Dunn said he felt his life was in danger when he fired the shots. But the verdict suggested the jury struggled to see it that way. Following an argument over loud music coming from the

car that Davis was in, Dunn said he shot at the car with his 9mm handgun — he said he was afraid and thought he saw a shotgun in the car. Legal experts say it’s likely that at least one member of the jury believed Dunn’s story — about being scared, pulling a gun in self-defense and firing the first few shots, which killed Davis. After more than 30 hours of deliberations over four days, the jury couldn’t agree on the first-degree murder charge. “Although I don’t think the evidence supports this, it is possible that the jury felt that Dunn was proper to stand his ground as to Davis, but his shooting of the others in the car was excessive,” said Kenneth Nunn, a law professor at the University of Florida. Nunn and other experts said Sunday that it’s possible the jury was confused regarding first-degree murder and the concept that it must be “premeditated.” Another area of confusion for the general public is Florida’s stand your ground defense law, which was a flashpoint during the Zimmerman case and, to a lesser degree, in this case. Zimmerman told police he shot Martin only after the African-American teenager physically attacked him; Martin’s

family and supporters say Zimmerman, who identifies himself as Hispanic, marked Martin as a potential criminal because he was black. In both the Dunn and Zimmerman trials, lawyers decided not to pursue a pretrial immunity hearing allowed by Florida’s stand-your-ground law. But in each case, jurors were told by the judges that they should acquit if they found the defendant had no duty to retreat and had the right to “stand his ground.” That phrase is part of standard instructions given jurors when they weigh a case involving a claim of self-defense. But the state’s stand your ground law was technically not part of either trial. “Dunn’s attorney argued selfdefense, which has been around forever,” said Miami defense lawyer and former assistant U.S. Attorney David Weinstein. “I think people will say that because some of the language from the stand your ground statute gets embedded into the jury instructions, that stand your ground has an effect.” Judge Russell L. Healey could impose a 60-year sentence — state statutes call for a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years on each second-degree attempted murder conviction. But the Florida Supreme

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Phyllis Parker chants outside of the Duval County Courthouse as the jury enters the fourth day of deliberations in the trail of Michael Dunn, Saturday, Feb. 15, in Jacksonville, Fla. Large crowds gathered outside the courthouse to wait for a verdict in the Dunn trial. Dunn was convicted Saturday of attempted murder in the shooting death of a teenager during an argument over loud music, but jurors could not agree on the most serious charge of first-degree murder.

Court could reduce the total sentence to 20 years if it decides that consecutive sentences are not appropriate when the sentences arise from one criminal episode, said Weinstein. “This will make the decision

to retry Dunn on the murder charge a little more complicated,” Weinstein said. “Agreeing on a sentence of less than 60 years and forgoing an appeal might be something that Dunn would be willing to do and it

would provide finality for the Davis family.” Dunn could also face 15 years in prison for shooting into the car. A sentencing date won’t be set until a hearing next month.

Killer heroin causing fatal overdoses in East By KATIE ZEZIMA Associated Press

POINT PLEASANT, N.J. — On an icy night last month, a man entered a grocery store here, walked past the displays of cake mix and paper towels, and went into the bathroom, where he injected himself with heroin. Hours later, the man was found dead in the bathroom with a needle still in his arm, authorities said. They believe the man was one of more than 80 across the country who have died in recent weeks after injecting heroin laced with fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opiate. As the number of people who use, and fatally overdose on, heroin has skyrocketed in recent years, authorities are seeing the return of an alarming development: heroin that, often unbeknownst to the user, is spiked with fentanyl. Fentanyl is a narcotic that is typically administered to people in chronic pain, including endstage cancer patients. It is also used as an anesthetic. It is considered 80 times more powerful than morphine and can kill by inhibiting breathing.

“The dealers push this as being a super high, which it is, but it’s also lethal,” said Ellen Unterwald, director of the Center for Substance Abuse Research at the Temple University School of Medicine. Users typically don’t know how much fentanyl is mixed in, and she said just a small amount can be fatal because the drug is so potent. “A very small amount can exert a very significant effect,” said Eric Strain, director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and Research at Johns Hopkins University. In Maryland, at least 37 people have died from the combined drugs, according to the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and in western Pennsylvania, authorities said they caused 22 deaths in recent weeks. In Rhode Island, 25 people have died from the laced heroin, and in Vermont state police have warned that pure fentanyl is being sold as heroin. After Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead with a syringe in his arm this month, investigators in New York tested the heroin found in his apart-

ment for fentanyl, but found that it did not include the additive. With more and more addicts turning to heroin because crackdowns on powerful prescription opiate painkillers have made them more expensive and inaccessible, there is concern that more people may be exposed to fentanyl-laced heroin during this wave than in previous ones, including in 2006 when hundreds of people from Chicago to Philadelphia died after injecting the drugs. Last month the Drug Enforcement Administration put out a bulletin warning local authorities of what it dubbed “killer heroin,” a mixture that was up to half fentanyl. It urged first responders to “exercise extreme caution” when coming into contact with any heroin because Fentanyl can be absorbed through the skin. It is unclear where the fentanyl is coming from. It is typically only distributed in hospitals. It can be administered in the form of a patch, a drip or a lollipop, which patients in pain suck on. Heroin dealers put so-called stamps on the bags that hold their product, allowing users

NSA leaks reporters wins award NEW YORK (AP) — Four journalists who reported on the extent of the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden are among the winners of the 65th annual George Polk Awards in Journalism. Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras of The Guardian and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post will receive the award for national security reporting for stories based on secret documents leaked by Snowden, a former intelligence analyst. The awards were announced Sunday by Long Island University. Journalists who wrote about massive traffic jams caused by bridge lane closures in New Jersey, a catastrophic garment factory collapse in Bangladesh and the struggles of a homeless family in Brooklyn also will be among those honored. The Polk Awards were created in 1949 in honor of CBS reporter George W. Polk, who was killed while covering the Greek civil war. This year’s awards will be given out April 11. Kimberly Dozier of The Associated Press will read the citations at the ceremony. James Yardley of The New York Times will be honored for foreign reporting for coverage of the Rana Plaza collapse in Ban-

gladesh, which killed more than 1,100 clothing workers. The award for national reporting will go to Eli Saslow of The Washington Post for stories about some of the 47 million Americans who receive aid from the federal food stamp program. Shawn Boburg of The Record of Northern New Jersey will be recognized in the state reporting category for articles on lane closures on the George Washington Bridge in September that created a monumental traffic jam in Fort Lee, N.J., and set the stage for later stories on the involvement of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s office. Andrea Elliott of The New York Times will receive the award for local reporting for “Invisible Child,” her five-part series focusing on Dasani Coates, one of 22,000 homeless children in New York City. The award for political reporting will go to Rosalind Helderman, Laura Vozzella and Carol Leonnig of The Washington Post for reporting on the relationship between former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and a wealthy entrepreneur. Their stories spurred a federal investigation that resulted in a 14-count indictment of McDonnell and his wife, Maureen. Two entries examining treatment of the mentally ill will share the award for medical reporting.

Meg Kissinger of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel will be honored for a series of stories on the Milwaukee County mental health system, and Cynthia Hubert and Phillip Reese of the Sacramento Bee will be cited for their expose of a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital’s practice of exporting patients to locales across the country via Greyhound bus. Reporters Frances Robles, Sharon Otterman, Michael Powell and N. R. Kleinfield of The New York Times will receive the award for justice reporting for uncovering evidence that a Brooklyn homicide detective used false confessions, tainted testimony and coercive tactics to convict dozens of defendants. Tim Elfrink of the Miami New Times will receive the award for sports reporting for showing that Biogenesis, an anti-aging clinic in Coral Gables, Fla., supplied some of baseball’s biggest stars with performance-enhancing drugs. The George Polk Award for Business Reporting will go to Alison Fitzgerald, Daniel Wagner, Lauren Kyger and John Dunbar of The Center for Public Integrity for “After the Meltdown,” a three-part series demonstrating that regulators have failed to hold a single major player on Wall Street accountable for the behavior that sparked the 2008 financial crisis. C

to delineate between different batches. Oftentimes they are product logos. Authorities said bags bearing the stamps “Bud Light,” ‘’Theraflu” and “Income Tax” have tested positive for fentanyl. “A lot of those people thought that Bud Light was really hot, it’s really good stuff, it sends you over the edge,” said Ocean County, N.J. Prosecutor Joseph Coronato. “It’s a marketing tool,

almost.” Ocean County has been besieged by heroin and prescription drug overdoses in the past two years; in 2012 there were 53 overdoses in the county that hugs the Jersey Shore and last year there were 112. “The demand is so high. That’s the problem that’s out there,” Coronato said. T.J. Smith, a spokesman for the police in Anne Arundel

County, Md., said there have been four cases within the last year of heroin found with fentanyl in it, which he called an “unusually high number” in the county. Smith said heroin — both pure and laced with fentanyl — is driving a major increase in property crime. He said the drug has undergone a major change in the past year, with more potentially fatal doses found with fentanyl.

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Syria: US created negative climate By BARBARA SURK Associated Press

BEIRUT — Syria’s foreign minister accused the United States of trying to create a “negative climate” for dialogue at the second round of peace talks in Geneva, while Secretary of State John Kerry blamed “the Assad regime’s obstruction” for making the tense talks even more difficult. The comments by Walid alMoallem on Sunday came a day after the meetings between Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government and the opposition seeking his ouster ended without finding a way of breaking the impasse in the nearly threeyear-old conflict. Al-Moallem spoke to the state news service about the talks as the Syrian delegation was returning from Switzerland to Damascus. He said the U.S. tried to “create a very negative climate for dialogue in Geneva.” Kerry’s statement late Sunday repeated the U.S. commitment to finding a political solution to the conflict, and he praised the opposition’s “mature seriousness of purpose and willingness to discuss all aspects of the conflict.” In contrast, Kerry said, “while it stalled in Geneva, the regime intensified its barbaric assault on its civilian population with barrel bombs and starvation. It has even gone as far as to add some of the opposition delegates at Geneva to a terrorist list and seize their assets. This is reprehensible.” Syria’s conflict started as largely peaceful protests against Assad in March 2011 but later degenerated into a civil war in which more than 140,000 people have been killed, according to activists.

— Hassan Nasrallah, militant group leader

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Syrian chief negotiator Bashar Jaafari, Ambassador of the Permanent Representative Mission of Syria to the UN in New York, speaks to the media during a news conference after the second round of negotiations between the Syrian government and the opposition at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday. U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi ended direct talks between the Syrian government and opposition Saturday without finding a way of breaking the impasse in peace talks.

the Syrian Arab Red Crescent said its workers have entered the western Damascus suburb of Moadamiyeh to deliver food for the first time in 15 months of government blockade. Khaled Erksoussi, the head of operations with the Red Crescent told The Associated Press that the agency was allowed to take 500 food parcels into the suburb. A truce has been in place in the area for two months, Erksoussi said, but Moadamiyah remains surrounded by army checkpoints and troops. Erksoussi appealed for more aid to be allowed for at least 10,000 residents of the suburb that was attacked by chemical weapons in August. The leader of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, pledged to fight on alongside Assad’s troops until Sunni Muslim extremists fighting with the rebels

are defeated. “We will remain where we should be, our policy hasn’t changed,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech to commemorate the death of three of the group’s leaders, including top military commander Imad Mughniyeh who was killed in a Damascus car bombing in 2008. Hezbollah fighters have been key to the Syrian army’s success on the battlefield since June, when they helped Assad’s forces dislodge rebels from the opposition stronghold of Qusair near the border with Lebanon. Nasrallah said Hezbollah fighters have also been fighting in the Syrian capital. He acknowledged that some have fallen, but said it was a worthy sacrifice because the group is “gaining experience and strength in Syria.” “We will be victorious. It’s only a matter of time,” Nasrallah said.

South African miners refuse rescue By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG — They refused to be rescued. Emergency workers in South Africa cleared a mine shaft entrance of debris on Sunday, allowing miners who had been trapped below the chance to escape. The only problem was that the miners were working illegally at the abandoned mine, and some stayed underground because they feared arrest if they came out, according to officials. At least 11 miners were escorted to safety at the mine in Benoni, on the outskirts of Johannesburg, but an undetermined number of their comrades were still in the gold mine, emergency responder Kobus Du Plooy said by telephone late Sunday. Police were preparing to

question those who came out about anyone left underground, local media reported. After nightfall, some mine security officials remained at the site, but rescue workers had packed up and left, leaving behind a ladder in the shaft for those still below. “Should they have a change of heart and mind, they then have at least some access to get out of the shaft,” Du Plooy said. He said he didn’t know how many people were still in the shaft. Earlier, reports said more than 200 miners had been trapped. But the ones who emerged were tightlipped about the colleagues they left behind, apparently concerned about trouble with the police. “They don’t want to give away too much information,” Du Plooy said. It was unclear how long the holdouts, who seemed to have few options,

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‘We will be victorious. It’s only a matter of time.’

The U.N.’s human rights office said in January it has stopped updating the death toll from the war, confirming that it can no longer verify the sources of information that led to its last count of at least 100,000 in late July. Millions have been driven out of their homes, seeking shelter in neighboring countries and in safer parts of their homeland. Washington, its European and Persian Gulf allies are backing the opposition in Syria’s conflict. Russia and Iran are supporting Assad’s government. U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi apologized to the Syrian people for failing to reach progress. “I am very, very sorry, and I apologize to the Syrian people that their hopes, which were very, very high that something will happen here,” Brahimi said Sunday. More than 5,792 people have reportedly have been killed in Syria since the Geneva talks began on Jan. 22, activists said. The talks’ modest achievement has been a U.N.-brokered truce in the central city of Homs that has allowed aid workers to deliver some food and medicine for hundreds trapped in the rebel-held areas. More than 1,000 people were also evacuated from the city, which has been under government blockade for more than a year. On Sunday, an official with

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planned to prolong their stay in the mine. Some of the 11 who came out were dehydrated but otherwise in good health. They were believed to have been trapped since Saturday morning and police patrolling in the area heard their screams for help, the South African Press Association reported. Rescue vehicles and equipment were brought to the site to stabilize the ground before the removal of the rubble began. Illegal mining is common in South Africa, a major producer of gold and platinum. Workers brave unsafe conditions below ground amid reports of the involvement of organized crime and even clashes between rival groups seeking to extract precious metal from the shafts. Authorities suspect the miners in Benoni were robbed

by a rival group that blocked the mine exit, reported Eyewitness News, a South African media outlet. Illegal mining remains a serious concern, despite progress in curbing it, South Africa’s mineral resources department said in a statement. It attributed the improvement to “illegal mining forums,” in which stakeholders in the mining industry seal open shafts and seek to detain illegal miners, according to the South African Press Association. Some analysts say the problem could increase if legal mines close or downsize, forcing skilled workers who have lost their jobs to turn to illegal activities. South Africa’s mining industry, a pillar of the economy, is struggling with rising costs. Tens of thousands of workers in the platinum sector are currently on strike.

CAIRO — An explosion tore through a bus filled with South Korean sightseers in the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, killing at least four people and raising fears that Islamic militants have renewed a bloody campaign to wreck Egypt’s tourism industry. The bombing near the tip of the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aqaba was the first attack against tourists in Sinai in nearly a decade. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But the blast bore the hallmarks of attacks blamed on the al-Qaidalinked militant groups that have been battling government forces in Sinai’s restive north for years. At least three South Korean tourists were killed and 12 seriously wounded, according to Egyptian security officials. The Egyptian bus driver was among the dead, the officials said. “I am deeply saddened by the incident,” Tourism Minister Hesham Zazou told state TV. The Egyptian presidency called the attack a “despicable act of cowardice” and vowed to bring the culprits to justice.

Ukrainian protesters leave Kiev City Hall after nearly 3-month occupation KIEV, Ukraine — Anti-government demonstrators in Ukraine’s capital ended their nearly three-month occupation of Kiev City Hall on Sunday as promised in exchange for the release of all 234 jailed protesters. But tensions remained high as hundreds stayed outside the building, vowing to retake it if the government failed to drop all charges against the protesters. Late that night, after a meeting with opposition leaders, Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka said the criminal cases would be closed Monday. Prospects for an easing of the standoff between the opposition and President Viktor Yanukovych, however, were still unclear. Yanukovych is expected to nominate a new prime minister in the near future, and Western officials have been advocating for a coalition government drawn from the ruling party and the opposition. However, opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk said he will not agree to take the post, which Yanukovych offered him last month, unless the president makes further concessions, including a constitutional reform that reduces presidential powers.

Bomb derails train in south Pakistan, kills 8 KARACHI, Pakistan — A bomb placed by an ethnic separatist group derailed a train in southwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing eight people, police and the militants said. Three of the dead were children and another 20 people were wounded by the blast in Kashmor district, which caused several train cars to run off the track, said police official Mohammad Azeem. Kashmor is in Sindh province but adjoins insurgency-hit Baluchistan. One of several ethnic Baluch separatist groups operating in the resource-rich province, the Baluch Republican Army, claimed responsibility. Al-Qaida-linked militants also have a presence there. - The Associated Press

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Sports

Nebraska upsets Spartans By The Associated Press

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Terran Petteway scored 23 points and Walter Pitchford added 18 and Nebraska topped No. 9 Michigan State 60-51 on Sunday. Petteway had 16 points in the last 20 minutes after Pitchford had scored 12 before the break for the Cornhuskers (14-10, 6-6 Big Ten). Gary Harris had 18 points and Adreian Payne 11 for the Spartans (21-5, 10-3), who remain in a first-place tie with Michigan. Harris was 5 for 15 from the field. Michigan State shot 34 percent from the field

and 20.8 percent on 3-pointers. The Cornhuskers led 32-25 at the half and held off a second-half surge with a 9-2 closing run. NO. 21 WISCONSIN 75, NO. 15 MICHIGAN 62 ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Frank Kaminsky had 25 points and 11 rebounds, and No. 21 Wisconsin smothered No. 15 Michigan in the first half before holding on. The Wolverines (18-7, 10-3 Big Ten) cut an 18-point deficit to three in the second half, but Kaminsky personally went on a 7-2 run after that, helping Wisconsin regain control. The Badgers (21-5, 8-5)

have won four straight — and they committed only two turnovers. Caris LeVert scored 17 of his 25 points in the second half for Michigan. Sam Dekker had 15 points for Wisconsin. The Badgers led 34-19 at halftime after holding Michigan without an assist in the first half.

TEMPLE 71, No. 23 SMU 64 PHILADELPHIA — Dalton Pepper scored 24 points and Temple upset SMU. Playing without injured starter and leading rebounder in Anthony Lee, Temple (7-17, 2-10 American Athletic Conference) knocked a

top-25 opponent for the first time since March 10 against No. 21 VCU. The Owls were 0-5 against the Top 25 this season, but have now beaten a ranked opponent in each of the last seven seasons. The Mustangs (20-6, 9-4) had a four-game winning streak snapped at the end of what has been an eventful week for coach Larry Brown’s team. It started with SMU entering the AP rankings for the first time in 29 years. The Mustangs had their game at Rutgers pushed back from Thursday to Friday because of a winter storm in the northeast. They then made a short trip from Piscataway, N.J., to Philadelphia, and lost on the road for the sixth time this season.

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East Team’s LeBron James dunks the ball against the West Team during the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday in New Orleans.

East finally beats West BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer

NEW ORLEANS — The Eastern Conference finally stopped Kevin Durant and Blake Griffin — then stopped its losing streak at the NBA All-Star game. Kyrie Irving had 31 points and 14 assists and was voted the game’s MVP, Carmelo Anthony made a record eight 3-pointers and scored 30 points, and the East rallied for a 163-155 victory over the West on Sunday night in the highest-scoring All-Star game ever. “It’s a great honor,” Irving said. “We had a few MVPs. Everyone out here today is an MVP.” Durant and Griffin each finished with 38 points, four shy of Wilt Chamberlain’s All-Star game record. But the East scored the final 10 points to pull out a game it trailed by 18. “We wanted it,” LeBron James said. “I’ve been a part of the last three and in defeat.” Irving scored 15 points in the fourth quarter as the East ended a three-game losing streak. James had 22 points, seven rebounds and seven assists. “The superstars of our league were just telling us to compete on every play,” Irving said. “Trying to play as much defense as possible. You know, sticking to our game plan. We had a game plan going in and we executed.” The 318 points broke the record of 303 set in 1987. Griffin shot 19 of 23, while Durant finished with 10 re-

bounds and six assists. But the West was shut out after Durant’s 3-pointer gave it a 155-153 lead with 1:59 left. Indiana’s Paul George made three free throws, Anthony nailed his final 3-pointer, and James scored to make it 161155. George closed it out with two more free throws and finished with 18 points. The game that usually doesn’t get tight until the final minutes was close throughout the fourth quarter, neither team leading by more than four until the final minute. Chris Paul had 11 points and 13 assists, and first-time All-Star Stephen Curry had 12 points and 11 assists for the West. But the best point guard on the floor was Irving, who shot 14 of 17 and helped the East ring up 87 points in the second half after it surrendered a record 89 in the first. In a colorful tribute to New Orleans, players wore sneakers and socks that ranged from green and blue to orange and purple, making the game look like a Mardi Gras parade. The parade was one of layups and dunks for the West, which scored 44 points in the first quarter and 45 in the second. Griffin had 18 points in the first quarter and Durant had 22 at halftime, both two shy of records set by Glen Rice in 1997. And there was plenty of music, the rosters and starting lineups introduced around a concert by Pharrell Williams, who was joined by his own All-Stars in Nelly, Busta Rhymes, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Snoop Dogg.

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Russia forward Ilya Kovalchuk flips the puck past Slovakia goaltender Jan Laco to win a shootout during a men’s ice hockey game at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Sunday in Sochi, Russia. Russia won 1-0.

Russia survives in shootout DAVID PACE Associated Press

SOCHI, Russia — Russia is having a tough time winning on the Olympic ice, and the Netherlands can’t seem to lose. The Russians were forced into a second straight shootout on Sunday and now must play an extra game to reach the men’s hockey quarterfinals. The Dutch speedskaters have fared much better, earning a third sweep of the podium at the Sochi Games. With hockey-crazed Russian crowds packing the arenas, Canada, Sweden, the United States and Finland advanced to the hockey quarterfinals. They’ll be joined by the winners of a four-game qualifying round next Tuesday among the eight remaining teams. Russia lost its chance to skip the qualifying round when it was forced into a shootout by

Slovakia, winning 1-0. That allowed Finland to claim the bye on goal difference. Canada, Sweden and the U.S. all finished the qualifying round undefeated. At the Adler Arena, Dutch skaters swept the podium in the women’s 1,500 meters. Overall, the Dutch have won an astounding 16 speedskating medals in Sochi out of 24 awarded so far, smashing the Olympic record of 13 set by East Germany at the 1988 Calgary Games. Two snowboarders were taken off the slope on stretchers Sunday following crashes during qualifying rounds for the snowboardcross finals. One suffered a concussion, the other an injured knee. It was the same slope where Russian skicross racer Maria Komissarova fractured a vertebra in her back during a training crash Saturday. She was airlifted to a German hospital Sunday for further

treatment. Elsewhere on Day 10 of the Sochi Olympics, Norwegian skier Kjetil Jansrud earned his country’s fourth consecutive Olympic title in men’s super-G; Czech snowboarder Eva Samkova won her country’s first gold medal of the games; and Sweden took gold in the men’s 4x10-kilometer cross-country relay. ALPINE SKIING: Jansrud continued Norway’s dominance in super-G, outracing two Americans and a Canadian for the Scandinavian country’s fifth gold in the event in the past seven games. Andrew Weibrecht earned the silver medal, while American teammate Bode Miller and Jan Hudec of Canada tied for bronze. It was Miller’s sixth Olympic medal, moving him two behind all-time Alpine leader Kjetil Andre Aamodt of Norway. At 36, Miller is the oldest Alpine

skier to medal. SNOWBOARDING: Samkova won the women’s snowboardcross, the first gold of the games for the Czech Republic. Samkova led from start to finish in all three qualifying and elimination races. Lindsey Jacobellis of the U.S. crashed while leading her semifinal, the third straight disappointing Olympic finish for the eighttime X Games winner. Jacobellis had gold in hand in Turin in 2006 only to fall with a big lead in the final while attempting a fancy grab. She recovered for silver. Four years ago in Vancouver, she washed out early in her semifinal run. CROSS-COUNTRY: Sweden’s win in the 4x10-kilometer relay came one day after the Swedish women had won gold in the same race. No country has won both relays since the old Soviet Union did it 42 years See SOCHI, Page A-9

Waston goes 64-64 on weekend to claim Northern Trust DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer

LOS ANGELES — Bubba Watson lost track of time. He didn’t realize it had been nearly two years and 41 tournaments since his last victory. A reminder came Sunday afternoon, after he birdied the 18th hole to win the Northern Trust Open by two shots. Walking up the steps to the clubhouse he saw his son, Caleb, who was adopted shortly before Watson won the 2012 Masters. Watson was alone in his green jacket that day. This time, wife and son were at Riviera to watch a masterpiece. He played the final 39 holes without a bogey. He had a 64-64 weekend. He made up a four-shot deficit in six holes, and closed with the lowest round by a winner of this tournament in 28 years. This wasn’t “Bubba” golf. It simply was great golf. And he couldn’t wait to celebrate.

“When I won the Masters, it was just me,” Watson said. “Family members were there, but not my wife and not my son, who was just adopted at that point, and now is two weeks away from being 2 years old. What a thrill. We’ll have some pictures with him and my wife and the trophy, so it’s nice.” Watson won by two shots over Dustin Johnson, who closed with a 66 for the second straight week and got the same result — second place. Johnson finished one shot behind Jimmy Walker last week at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. “When you shoot 14 under on the weekend, it’s tough to beat that,” Johnson said. Watson, who started the final round four shots behind William McGirt, made up ground so quickly that he broke out of a four-way tie for the lead with a birdie on the eighth hole and made the turn in 30. Equally critical were a pair of par saves with 7-foot putts on the 12th

and 13th holes. It was quite a turnaround from his last event, the Phoenix Open, where Watson made two late bogeys and finished one shot behind Kevin Stadler. Presented another chance, he wasn’t about to let this one get away. Watson finished at 15-under 269, and he wasn’t the only big winner. Jason Allred, who went to college up the coast at Pepperdine, played bogey-free for a 68 and tied for third with Brian Harman, who also had a 68. Allred was a Monday qualifier, and this was his first regular PGA Tour event since he last had his card in 2008. The tie for third was a career-best for the 33-year-old Allred. He earned $388,600, which is more than he had made in his entire career, which included two full seasons on the PGA Tour. He now is exempt into the Honda Classic, which starts in two C

weeks — about the time his wife is due with their third child. “We’ll have fun figuring out what that looks like,” Allred said. Watson won for the fifth time in his career, and he had to earn it. With no margin for error over the closing holes, he managed to get out of a deep fairway bunker on the 15th hole to the front edge of the green. He smartly played to the middle of the green on the par-3 16th hole for a par. Facing the uphill tee shot on the 18th, he blasted his drive down the middle of the fairway and hit wedge into 15 feet to the right of the pin. Johnson, meanwhile, now has finished among the top six in all four tournaments this season — including a win in Shanghai and consecutive runner-up finishes. His other start was at Kapalua, where he tied for sixth. “I had a chance there on the back nine, I just didn’t have good looks on 16, 17 and 18 to give myself a

chance,” he said. “I was still right there. That’s all you can ask for.” McGirt, who had a two-shot lead to start the final round as he tried to win for the first time, opened with a birdie and stalled after that. And on yet another gorgeous day at Riviera, this was not a day to stall. The pack behind took aim and made birdies, particularly Watson. Watson hit a perfect tee shot on the par-3 fourth that rode the slope to 15 feet for birdie. He holed a bunker shot from left of the sixth green for birdie. And a 15-footer on the eighth gave Watson his fifth birdie of the round, and the outright lead. He never gave it back. McGirt closed with a 73 and tied for sixth. Jordan Spieth, one shot out of the lead through seven holes, had four bogeys on the back nine and shot 71 to tie for 12th. Jimmy Walker, a three-time winner this season, closed with a 73 and tied for 20th.

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Report challenges NFL ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer

Now that the NFL knows the scope of the racially charged Miami Dolphins bullying scandal, the league has been left to grapple with what its next steps should be. A report released Friday on the Miami case concluded with a one-paragraph call to action: “As all must surely recognize, the NFL is not an ordinary workplace. Professional football is a rough, contact sport played by men of exceptional size, speed, strength and athleticism. But even the largest, strongest and fleetest person may be driven to despair by bullying, taunting and constant insults. We encourage the creation of new workplace conduct rules and guidelines that will help ensure that players respect each other as professionals and people.” League executives agree steps need to be taken, and have vowed to take action. But it may be difficult to regulate locker room behavior by determining when something a player con-

siders to be harmless locker room nonsense crosses the line. Players are part of a team, but they are also individuals with different levels of sensitivity. And as the report’s call to action points out, the NFL is not an ordinary workplace — and locker rooms are sanctuaries within those workplaces where even without the kinds of vicious taunts and racist insults cited in the report, behavior that would not be accepted in society is tolerated, and even condoned or encouraged. Still, Dolphins owner Stephen Ross wants his organization to lead the way to change the culture. “I have made it clear to everyone within our organization that this situation must never happen again,” Ross said in a statement released through the team after the report was released. “We are committed to address this issue forcefully and to take a leadership role in establishing a standard that will be a benchmark in all of sports.” Before the Super Bowl, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell had said he’d be out in front on

the issue of hazing. “Our No. 1 priority has to make sure that we have a workplace environment that’s professional, recognizing that we have some unique circumstances. But we have to make sure that our players, (and) other employees, have that kind of professional workplace environment,” Goodell said then. After the report was released, the NFL did not mention any possible punishment stemming from the case in a statement emailed by a league spokesman. The NFL Players Association said it will review the findings closely, confer with players and all relevant parties involved. The report by lawyer Ted Wells said “the behavior that occurred here was harmful to the players, the team and the league,” but he noted the investigators weren’t asked to recommend discipline or determine legal liability for the bullying. Wells concluded that offensive linemen John Jerry and Mike Pouncey joined Richie

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Incognito in harassing Jonathan Martin, who left the team in October, and position coach Jim Turner participated in the taunting of a second player. That player is Andrew McDonald, now with the Carolina Panthers. The report found no evidence that the Dolphins front office or head coach Joe Philbin were aware of the conduct Martin found abusive. “There are lines — even in a football locker room — that should not be crossed, as they were here,” the report said. “We leave the determination of precisely where to draw those lines to those who spend their lives playing, coaching and managing the game of professional football.” Players would like to police themselves. It is, after all, their locker room. Teams want a big say in setting those parameters. Like any other employer, they are responsible for maintaining a safe and respectful work environment that adheres to both the league’s policies and federal law.

Scoreboard Golf Northern Trust Open

Sunday At Riviera Country Club Los Angeles Purse: $6.7 million Yardage: 7,349; Par 71 Final Bubba Watson (500), $1,206,000 70-71-64-64—269 Dustin Johnson (300), $723,600 66-70-69-66—271 Jason Allred (0), $388,600 73-64-67-68—272 Brian Harman (163), $388,600 67-69-68-68—272 Charl Schwartzel (110), $268,000 69-68-68-68—273 Bryce Molder (89), $216,913 69-69-69-67—274 Matt Every (89), $216,913 69-69-69-67—274 William McGirt (89), $216,913 69-67-65-73—274 George McNeill (89), $216,913 69-68-66-71—274 Harris English (73), $174,200 70-69-69-67—275 Brendan Steele (73), $174,200 68-71-67-69—275 K.J. Choi (58), $127,300 69-72-67-68—276 Charley Hoffman (58), $127,300 67-71-68-70—276 Sang-Moon Bae (58), $127,300 67-66-72-71—276 Cameron Tringale (58), $127,300 68-70-67-71—276 Jordan Spieth (58), $127,300 72-66-67-71—276 Charlie Beljan (58), $127,300 67-68-68-73—276 Aaron Baddeley (53), $97,150 69-65-72-71—277 John Senden (53), $97,150 71-70-66-70—277

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NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Toronto 28 24 Brooklyn 24 27 New York 20 32 Boston 19 35 Philadelphia 15 39 Southeast Division Miami 37 14 Atlanta 25 26 Washington 25 27 Charlotte 23 30 Orlando 16 38 Central Division Indiana 40 12 Chicago 27 25 Detroit 22 30 Cleveland 20 33 Milwaukee 9 43

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division San Antonio 38 15 Houston 36 17 Dallas 32 22 Memphis 29 23 New Orleans 23 29 Northwest Division Oklahoma City 43 12 Portland 36 17 Minnesota 25 28 Denver 24 27 Utah 19 33 Pacific Division L.A. Clippers 37 18 Phoenix 30 21 Golden State 31 22 L.A. Lakers 18 35 Sacramento 18 35

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Keegan Bradley (50), $80,847 68-70-72-68—278 Lee Westwood (50), $80,847 69-70-68-71—278 Jimmy Walker (50), $80,847 67-71-67-73—278 Kevin Chappell (46), $57,955 71-70-69-69—279 Kevin Stadler (46), $57,955 69-69-74-67—279 Jim Furyk (46), $57,955 68-68-71-72—279 Robert Garrigus (46), $57,955 67-67-73-72—279 Hideki Matsuyama (46), $57,955 70-69-69-71—279 Bill Haas (46), $57,955 72-67-67-73—279 Robert Allenby (40), $42,601 71-69-71-69—280 Daniel Summerhays (40), $42,601 71-72-66-71—280 Geoff Ogilvy (40), $42,601 74-68-69-69—280 Blake Adams (40), $42,601 67-70-71-72—280 David Lingmerth (40), $42,601 70-69-70-71—280 James Hahn (40), $42,601 71-72-65-72—280 Brendon Todd (34), $33,031 71-70-69-71—281 Ernie Els (34), $33,031 71-70-68-72—281 Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (34), $33,031 71-70-71-69—281 Kevin Streelman (34), $33,031 72-69-73-67—281 John Huh (34), $33,031 71-71-72-67—281 J.J. Henry (29), $26,130 70-69-71-72—282 Victor Dubuisson (0), $26,130 70-72-68-72—282 Jhonattan Vegas (29), $26,130 70-69-71-72—282 Francesco Molinari (0), $26,130 67-73-71-71—282 Luke Guthrie (29), $26,130 71-69-67-75—282 Justin Rose (23), $18,779 70-72-68-73—283 Stuart Appleby (23), $18,779 72-71-67-73—283 Scott Stallings (23), $18,779 67-72-72-72—283 Scott Brown (23), $18,779 70-67-74-72—283

Sunday’s Games East 163, West 155 Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games Atlanta at Indiana, 3 p.m. Cleveland at Philadelphia, 3 p.m. Toronto at Washington, 3 p.m. Charlotte at Detroit, 3:30 p.m. Orlando at Milwaukee, 4 p.m. New York at Memphis, 4 p.m. Miami at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. Phoenix at Denver, 5 p.m. San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 6:30 p.m. All Times AST

Men’s Scores EAST Canisius 92, Siena 88, 3OT Drexel 74, Hofstra 63 LIU Brooklyn 69, St. Francis (NY) 68 Manhattan 90, Niagara 72 Marist 96, Monmouth (NJ) 92, 2OT Notre Dame 73, Boston College 69 Quinnipiac 74, St. Peter’s 64 St. John’s 82, Georgetown 60 Temple 71, SMU 64 Wagner 73, Bryant 61 SOUTH Lipscomb 76, Kennesaw St. 73 Louisville 102, Rutgers 54 McNeese St. 72, New Orleans 69 Mercer 89, N. Kentucky 67 W. Carolina 82, UNC Greensboro 77, OT MIDWEST Creighton 101, Villanova 80

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ago. Swedish anchor Marcus Hellner skied alone for the entire fourth leg and grabbed a Swedish flag to wave as he entered the stadium. Russia took silver in front of President Vladimir Putin. France finished third. SPEEDSKATING: Jorien ter Mors earned the gold in the Dutch sweep of the women’s 1,500. Pre-race favorite Ireen Wust settled for silver, with bronze going to Lotte van Beek. If there had been a medal for fourth place, the Dutch would have won that, too, with Marrit Leenstra finishing just after Van Beek. Ter Mors turned in a stunning time of 1 minute, 53.51 seconds, an Olympic record and the second-fastest ever at sea level. CURLING: Sweden and Canada became the first men’s teams to qualify for the semifinals. Norway, Britain and China are battling for the other two spots. The Swedes and Canadians also advanced to the semifinals in the women’s tournament. China, Britain, Switzerland and Japan still have a chance for the remaining two

Minnesota 54, Northwestern 48 Nebraska 60, Michigan St. 51 Wichita St. 84, Evansville 68 Wisconsin 75, Michigan 62 Wright St. 72, Oakland 71 SOUTHWEST No major team scores reported. FAR WEST Colorado 83, Southern Cal 74 Oregon 93, Oregon St. 83

Women’s Scores EAST Albany (NY) 58, Maine 56 Delaware 52, Towson 43 Iona 73, Rider 66 James Madison 69, Drexel 58 New Hampshire 76, Hartford 71, OT Penn St. 78, Wisconsin 68 Pittsburgh 56, Clemson 43 Quinnipiac 83, Monmouth (NJ) 50 Syracuse 71, Boston College 47 UMBC 77, Vermont 62 West Virginia 61, TCU 57 SOUTH Coll. of Charleston 87, Hofstra 74 Georgia 67, Florida 58 Kentucky 75, Tennessee 71 Louisville 82, Memphis 66 McNeese St. 84, New Orleans 54 Miami 76, Florida St. 73 Mississippi St. 64, Vanderbilt 62 Missouri 68, Auburn 58 North Carolina 89, NC State 82 South Carolina 73, LSU 57 Texas A&M 71, Alabama 46 UConn 63, South Florida 38 Virginia 80, Virginia Tech 64 William & Mary 97, UNC Wilming-

Vijay Singh (23), $18,779 Richard H. Lee (23), $18,779 Davis Love III (23), $18,779 Angel Cabrera (16), $15,467 Ken Duke (16), $15,467 Justin Leonard (16), $15,467 J.B. Holmes (16), $15,467 Will MacKenzie (16), $15,467 Hunter Mahan (16), $15,467 Billy Hurley III (16), $15,467 David Lynn (10), $14,539 Matt Jones (10), $14,539 Erik Compton (10), $14,539 Ian Poulter (10), $14,539 Jason Gore (10), $14,539 Marc Leishman (10), $14,539 Martin Laird (5), $13,869 Retief Goosen (5), $13,869 Tim Wilkinson (5), $13,869 Jason Dufner (5), $13,869 Ben Crane (2), $13,534 Harold Varner III (0), $13,199 Martin Flores (1), $13,199 Webb Simpson (1), $13,199 Graham DeLaet (1), $13,199 Michael Putnam (1), $12,864 Pat Perez (1), $12,730 Ben Curtis (1), $12,596 Scott Piercy (1), $12,462

ton 44 MIDWEST Drake 79, Missouri St. 69 Evansville 63, Indiana St. 56 Illinois St. 68, S. Illinois 63, OT Michigan 70, Illinois 63 N. Iowa 80, Wichita St. 71 Nebraska 76, Indiana 61 Purdue 74, Iowa 73 SOUTHWEST Baylor 72, Texas 56 Oklahoma St. 73, Oklahoma 57 FAR WEST California 74, Arizona St. 63 Oregon St. 58, Southern Cal 48 Stanford 74, Arizona 48 Washington 67, Utah 66 Washington St. 80, Colorado 77

Olympics Medals Table

At Sochi, Russia Through, Sunday, Feb. 16 (55 of 98 events) Nation G S B Tot Germany 7 3 2 12 Netherlands 5 5 7 17 Norway 5 3 6 14 Switzerland 5 1 1 7 Russia 4 7 5 16 Canada 4 6 4 14 United States 4 4 8 16 Poland 4 0 0 4 China 3 2 0 5 Belarus 3 0 1 4 Sweden 2 5 2 9 Austria 2 4 1 7 France 2 0 4 6 Japan 1 3 1 5 Czech Republic 1 2 1 4

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Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with RHP Francisco Cordero on a minor league contract. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Agreed to terms with OF Josh Reddick on a one-year contract. National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with RHP Craig Kimbrel on a four-year contract. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Agreed to terms with RHP A.J. Burnett to a one-year contract. Designated LHP Joe Savery for assignment. HOCKEY American Hockey League PROVIDENCE BRUINS — Recalled F Scott Campbell from South Carolina (ECHL). COLLEGE LAMAR — Fired men’s basketball coach Pat Knight. Promoted assistant coach Tic Price to interim coach.

semifinal spots. HOCKEY: Phil Kessel is the first American in more than a decade to score a hat trick in an Olympic hockey tournament. He’s more interested in something no American has accomplished on Olympic ice since 1980 — winning a gold medal. Kessel scored two of his three goals within the opening five minutes to lead the U.S. to a 5-1 win against Slovenia on Sunday. The U.S. is undefeated through three games and if it can win three more, the nation will celebrate its first Olympic championship in hockey since the “Miracle on Ice” at the Lake Placid Games. “It’s about the wins, right?” Kessel asked, rhetorically. “We just want to win games.” No members of Team USA were alive when the U.S. beat the Soviet Union in 1980 in one of the biggest upsets in sports history. Canada defeated Finland 2-1 in overtime, while Austria won its first men’s Olympic hockey game in a dozen years, defeating Norway 3-1. In the women’s preliminaries, Finland topped Germany 2-1 and Russia beat Japan 6-2. All four had already been eliminated from medal contention. C

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Soldotna senior goalie Cody Harvey made the all-tournament team at the Alaska Schools Activities Association state hockey tournament. The Stars opened the tournament with a 2-1 loss to Chugiak in triple overtime Thursday, then nipped Lathrop 2-1 on Friday to move into the fourth-place game. SoHi then lost 5-0 to Dimond in the fourth-place game Saturday.

Iron Dog takes off The 2,000-mile Iron Dog snowmachine race started Sunday in Big Lake. The 37 teams will go to Nome and then to Fairbanks, arriving at the finish Saturday. Dusty VanMeter of Kasilof and Marc McKenna of Anchorage are going for a third-straight title. There have only been two times in race history that riders have won three straight. VanMeter, who has five titles, and McKenna were in third place as of Sunday night, taking a 14-hour layover in McGrath. They got to McGrath 31 minutes behind the leaders. Soldotna’s Scott Davis, a seven-time champ, is riding with Aaron Bartel of Anchorage this year. Davis and Bartel are in fifth place and laying over in McGrath. They arrived 46 minutes after the leaders. Soldotna’s Cory Davis, the son of Scott, also is doing the race this year with Ryan Simons of Alberta. That squad also is in McGrath, arriving 1:29 after the leaders. Kenai’s Devin Labarbera is doing the race as a rookie. His team was 18th as of Sunday night.

Dillon qualifies 1st for Daytona 500 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — With the famed No. 3 on his car and memories of the late Dale Earnhardt fresh in his mind, Austin Dillon took the fabled number out of hibernation and straight to the top at Daytona. Dillon reawakened the days of The Intimidator and proved he can handle the spotlight thrust on his ride in the 3, winning the pole Sunday for the season-opening Daytona 500. He took the top spot with a lap at 196.019 mph in NASCAR’s season opener in a car Richard Childress has refused to field at NASCAR’s top level since Earnhardt’s fatal accident on the last lap of the 2001 race. But with his 23-year-old grandson ready to move to the Sprint Cup Series, Childress allowed Dillon to use the number widely associated with the seven-time champion. Earnhardt won 67 races, six championships and the 1998 Daytona 500 driving the No. 3. Dillon was a kid when he posed for a picture with Earnhardt in Victory Lane following his breakthrough 1998 win. He’ll have many more memories from this milestone, like the congratulatory handshake he received from Richard Petty when qualifying ended. NASCAR’s family roots run deep, so Childress never had to leave the family tree to find the right driver for the number.

Ravens’ Rice arrested ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Police in Atlantic City say Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was arrested at a casino there after an argument with his fiance turned physical. Atlantic City police said that Rice and Janay Palmer were both arrested on simple assault charges and were released on a summons after an incident at the Revel Casino early Saturday morning. Both Rice and Palmer declined medical attention and neither reported any injuries. Michael Diamondstein, an attorney for Rice, says that he’s hopeful that after an investigation “the matter turns out to be little more than a misunderstanding.” The Ravens released a statement Sunday night. “We are aware of the Friday night situation with Ray Rice and his fiance,” the Ravens said. “We have spoken with Ray, and know that they returned home together after being detained.”

Eisenhower Tree removed from Augusta The Eisenhower Tree, so much a part of Augusta National that not even a sitting U.S. president could have it taken down, was removed from the 17th hole this weekend because of damage from an ice storm, the club said Sunday. “The loss of the Eisenhower Tree is difficult news to accept,” club chairman Billy Payne said. “We obtained opinions from the best arborists available and, unfortunately, were advised that no recovery was possible.”

— Staff and wire reports

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and lead have been more stable, at least in recent months, but it is gold that drives much of the Alaska exploration. Alaska isn’t alone in experiencing the drop in exploration. The trend is global, Matthias said, with world exploration spending at $15.2 billion in 2013 compared with $21.5 billion in 2012, a 29 percent decline. While metals prices are weak, costs for mining and mining equipment continue to climb. Crockett cited some examples: A 40-ton underground haul truck, of the type used in Alaska underground mines, climbed in cost from $560,000 in 2003 to $1.3 million in 2013, she said. The price for a 6-yard underground loader went from

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the right to bear a concealed firearm simply because they enter a public university.” Aside from one intimidation case, the University of Alaska, Southeast campus did not have any criminal or hate crimes committed in 2010 or 2012. In 2011, there were three robberies on campus or in residential facilities. The Fairbanks campus has not been as fortunate. From 2010 to 2012, UAF police reported 26 cases of forcible sexual assault, two cases on nonforcible sexual assault and 14 burglaries. UAF also experienced a motor vehicle theft on campus in 2011, and three cases of ag-

$570,000 in 2003 to $1.1 million in 2013. Labor costs are climbing also. In 2003, the average Alaska mining wage was $70,750 per year. In 2013 it was $100,000 per year, Crockett said. Fuel and other energy prices are high. Fort Knox spent about $4 million per month to purchase electricity from Golden Valley Electric Association, the Interior regional utility, and about an equal amount on fuel for equipment used in the mine, Matthias said. The Red Dog Mine, in northwest Alaska, has a hefty fuel bill, too. Teck Alaska, the mine operator, uses about 20 million gallons of fuel per year that must all be shipped in by barge during the summer and then trucked inland to the mine. The Kensington gold mine near Juneau is powered by diesel also, and has a huge fuel bill. Greens Creek has the ben-

efit of being able to tap into Juneau’s electric grid with its inexpensive hydro power, but the mine must switch to diesel during periods when the hydro projects have low water and produce less power. Meanwhile, mines continue to be good taxpayers for local governments. In 2013, producing mines paid $16.8 million to municipal governments in Fairbanks, Juneau, Nome, the Northwest Arctic Borough and the Denali Borough, according to the McDowell Group data. About $100.2 million was paid to the state of Alaska in mining royalties, taxes, fees and rents, according to data from the consulting firm. This includes $21.1 million paid to the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, the state development corporation, in fees for use of the Red Dog Mine road and port and the Skagway Ore Terminal, facilities

which are owned by AIDEA. About $23.8 million was also paid to the state-owned Alaska Railroad for the movement of coal, sand and gravel. On final note, Mathias and Crockett noted the royalties paid by the Red Dog Mine continues to NANA Regional Corp., the landowner, which are shared with other Alaska Native regional and village corporations under terms of the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. From 1989, when its production started, through 2013, Red Dog has paid a total of $1.04 billion in royalties to NANA. About $609 million of this was shared with other Alaska Native corporations. Also, 56 percent of the employees at Red Dog are shareholders of NANA, and other NANA shareholders work for joint-venture companies that provide support and services to the mine.

gravated assault over the threeyear span. The UA campus in Alaska’s largest city reported eight forcible sex assault cases from 2010 to 2012, along with four burglary cases and six aggravated assaults. Over the three-year span, UAA police reported a robbery, motor vehicle theft and 273 larceny thefts, according to crime data reports from the UA system websites. Sill, in light of the rash of mass shootings across the country over the last several years, Coghill said allowing students to carry on campus could deter such a tragedy from happening in Alaska. “In the most horrific shootings, often times (the shooters) have lost their cognitive thinking abilities and they may have some mental problems,” Cog-

hill said. “They go to places where people can’t defend themselves, and campuses are a prime target.” University officials hadn’t evaluated the entirety of the bill when reached for comment Friday afternoon, but did defend the policy that has been in place since 1995 that bans concealed carry on campus. “The university considers itself to be similarly situated to other places where weapons are not allowed,” said Kate Wattum, the assistant director of public affairs for the University of Alaska system. Wattum explained that high school tours and other visitation events often have children on campus like a K-12 campus might, and that there are daycares and places that sell liquor on or near campuses. “Dorms are not really con-

sidered to be safe places for weapons storage as well,” Wattum continued. “Students tend to leave those unlocked, there are a number of visitors in-andout and older students may have alcohol inside.” The Board of Regents will be in discussions with campus administration personnel as the bill makes its way through the Legislature, Wattum said. The legislation was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and is awaiting being scheduled for its first hearing. The idea for SB176 was formed on the University of Alaska, Anchorage campus last fall when Rodvik learned he had been accepted for the internship with Coghill’s office for the second year of the 28th Legislature. “It really came out of the student body,” Coghill said.

Students learn safety, leadership on patrol By MARJORIE CLARK Ketchikan Daily News

KETCHIKAN — Safety and Pride Patrol leaders at the Tongass School of Arts and Sciences officially suited up for the first time Monday, donning orange vests, hats and gloves with reflectors and flashing lights. They had trained for this moment for three weeks, and they felt ready and up to the task. Fifth-grade students August Cooper, Joleyn Cobbs, Skyla Stone and Henry Clark took their positions in the snow around the school to help usher younger schoolmates to the bus and crosswalk safely. Ashley Moulton and Bella Ortiz also are members of the safety patrol, but were unable to participate on Monday due to other activities. As Clark and Stone took their positions on the sidewalk to ward off bike-riders, runners and snowball throwers, Cobbs and Cooper headed to a gate down the small hill to help usher the younger kids to the bus. Each student had a two-way radio in hand, and frequently checked in with school administrator and program adviser Cindy Moody. “They are so excited for this,” she laughed. “They are on the radios all the time.” Moody and special education paraprofessional Adrienne

“Being a safety patrol kid is like being a leader of the ‘Being a safety patrol kid is like being a school,” Nappier said. “It’s leader of the school.’ teaching our children to go home and help out somebody — Adrienne Nappier, Tongass School else who might not be doing of Arts and Sciences what they’re supposed to be doing.” Nappier are heading up the new program, which started this week with funding from the school district’s wellness program and a donation from Vigor Alaska. Moody said the group consists of fifth grade students who expressed interest in joining the program. Each student received signatures from their teacher and parents, and then received training on safety measures and procedures. “We got vests, lights, reflectors and signs for them so they are visible to people and traffic,” Moody said. She emphasized that the students are not crossing guards, and will not be going out into the street. Nappier said the walk to the bus stop is not unsafe, but having the older students actively reminding younger students to use their “hallway walk” and lifelong guidelines — such as active listening, no put-downs and personal best — will help keep the young kids on task and doing the right thing. “It’s a program to teach responsibility, sportsmanship and

leadership, and it’s a program they can grow from,” Nappier said. “And it will help outside of the building, and in the community because they know right from wrong, and what’s the right thing to do.” Clark took his role in stride as he asked a younger student not to throw snowballs while walking with another student down the sidewalk. “It’s fun to do it,” Clark said. “I’m excited. We’ve been talking about it for a couple weeks and today is the day.” Cobbs said she was excited to be in the program because this is her first year at TSAS, and she thought participating would help her get to know people. “I thought it would be really fun to help little kids if they needed help,” Cobbs said. Nappier said they hope to take the students to visit the fire department and police station to learn more about safety and what to do in an emergency. They are also planning trips to other schools in the district to talk about starting a safety patrol program.

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Inlet is the Tesoro and Cook Inlet Energy subsea pipeline crossing the body of water. In a previous Clarion interview, Jerry Romback, CIRCAC director of administration said the proposed 29-mile pipeline is a safer method of transporting oil across the inlet than by tanker. Nikiski resident William “Bill” Warren also addressed energy industry related concerns. He said he’s worried about ExxonMobil’s role in the Alaska Pipeline Project and would like to see the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation take over all gas projects. Chenault said he has concerns about the project moving forward and how AGDC will fit in and the legislation is working with administration to make sure AGDC is part of the project. Warren said he thinks the state is in a “full-blown emergency” and wants to see interim gas needs addressed. While permitting for the pipeline project could take two to three years, Chenault said that the industry is very active in the inlet with recent investments and new technology to explore and open old wells. Olson said with Hillcorp making commitments to fulfill gas needs with local utilities into 2018, he has no doubt it has the ability to meet those contracts.

She wants to know how to fix a process and board that’s broken. Olson agreed and said the fish board definitely isn’t working. Chenault said he’s been toying with the idea of a professional board and he thinks that’s the only way to get anywhere. He said he wishes biologists were making more decisions. Mike Munger, Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council executive director, spoke to the representatives about the Department of Environmental Conservation’s Spill Prevention and Response Division fund. The division’s operations rely on hydrocarbon production receiving funds via a nickel-per-barrel tax. Due to inflation, decreased oil through the pipeline and funds diverted to other programs like contaminated site cleanups, the division could face a funding shortfall within a few years, according to the council’s website. Munger said for the agency to adequately respond to situations, it needs money. Chenault agreed funding for the agency needs to be ensured whether by increasing the tax per barrel by another nickel or finding a different Kaylee Osowski can be solution. A project Munger said reached at kaylee.osowski@ makes good sense in Cook peninsulaclarion.com.

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but university researchers are better off studying something with more immediate returns. “It’s also not our job to come up with welfare-type projects to keep university researchers engaged,” Feige said. UAF researcher Paul Metz found that the high cost of doing business on the North Slope could be significantly reduced by building the 450-mile rail extension.

Shipping costs would go from $1 per ton per mile for trucking to just $0.10 per ton per mile by rail. That would reduce the cost of trucking a well from $5.6 million to just $540,000, his report states. Some questioned why the government would even pay for something that could fall instead to private interests. “If there is feasibility and economic imperative for oil industry or mineral development,” said Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, D-Sitka, “why has private industry not already explored it?”

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Being kind on the bus Chance Percival

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 dtressleratkpbsd.k12.ak.us no later than three business days before the meeting date. The board will meet: n March 3; n April 14; n May 5 (at Seward High School); n June 2; n June 3 (Board Planning Session). School district plans budget meetings The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is holding Public Budget Meetings at the following locations: n February 18, at 5:30 p.m. in the Seward High School library n February 19 at 5:30 p.m. in the Soldotna High School library n February 25 at 5:30 p.m. in the Homer High School library Everyone interested is encouraged to attend one of the meetings. If there are questions, please contact Lassie Nelson at 714-8838.

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: Feb. 26; and Apr. 16. C

Scholarship available to Nikiski students If you will be a graduate in 2014, live in the community of Nikiski, and plan on continuing your education after graduation, please consider applying for the Thelma McConnell Scholarship. Applications are available at Nikiski Middle-High School. The deadline for applications is March 31. If you have questions, please contact Patti Floyd at the Nikiski Senior Center at 907-776-7654.

Teachers ride with students to promote good behavior By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

Mountain View Elementary School teachers spent a little extra time with students on Wednesday by riding the bus routes with the kids. Assistant Principal Karl Kircher has lead a year-long effort to encourage bus safety and good bus behavior. Bringing teachers aboard the afternoon buses to display safety and behavior brought that effort to the next level that both educators and students were excited to execute. As he got ready to board a bus, Jonathan Dillon, music teacher at Mountain View, said he thought it was a great idea to have the teachers model the school’s three basic bus rules — stay seated, keep arms and legs inside and talk with a quiet, nice voice. Kircher said along with the kids getting to see teachers promote the rules, they got to bond with their classroom teachers or teachers from other grades. The conversations teachers got to have and the friendships they formed with students outside of their classes were added benefits, he said. “I spend most of my trip reenacting ‘Lilo and Stitch’ with a 7-year-old — complete with silly voices, motions and the student helping me rehearse my lines,” Dillon wrote in an email. “She was the teacher, and I was the student.” The new bonds with students help to foster the community feeling within the school, Kircher said. Theresa Rose, a special education teacher, wrote in an email that she talked with the students about their families and riding the bus, but when they found out she plays the videogame Minecraft with her own kids, “they went a little nuts.” She said they were having such a great

Infant and preschooler screening available The KPBSD Child Find Program and Frontier Community Services Infant Learning will be offering free screenings for children 5 years old and younger. The screening will be on Feb. 21 from 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. at the Frontier Community Services, Suite 14 in the Red Diamond Center. Your child will be screened for early development, motor skills, speech, early learning concepts, vision and hearing. To make an appointment or for more information, call 714-6647.

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.

Science program delves into force Dynamic home-school program STEAM ahead, session IV explores the uses of force and motion and begins Feb. 11 at the Challenger Learning Center of Alaska. Science curriculum is delivered to your home-schooler in a format designed for maximum engagement. Three classes per session, $149, for kindergarten through eighth grades. For more information, call 907-283-2000 or email spring.larrowatakchallenger.org www. akchallenger.org.

KPBSD to hold first National Braille Challenge Public is welcome to check out how your neighbors who read and write Braille do to command their future in communication and academics. Beginning at 1:15 p.m, Feb. 21, at the Soldotna Public Library, Community Room there will be a display with assistive technology devices and historical information concerning the development of Braille as well as a variety of presentations offered through Braille users of how Braille functions and creates a great system for their own success in the academic and daily working world. Children to Adults will find this display informative and fun to understand how their friends See SCHOOLS, page B-2

Photos by Kaylee Osowski/Peninsula Clarion

Mountain View Elementary School students start boarding the bus Wednesday afternoon in Kenai. Teachers joined the students for the end-of-the-school-day routes to model bus safety and good bus behavior.

‘The entire bus ride was a fun and positive experience. I had so much fun myself that I was a little disappointed … when it was over. I hope we have more opportunities to ride along.’ — Theresa Rose, Mountain View Elementary School teacher time that one of the students missed his “The entire bus ride was a fun and stop and had to be dropped off after ev- positive experience,” she wrote. “I had so eryone else. much fun myself that I was a little disappointed … when it was over. I hope we have more opportunities to ride along.” With about 20 to 30 students riding each bus, it can be a challenge for drivers to ensure kids are behaving and being safe. Kircher said along with meeting with drivers to discuss solutions to any problems, he and Principal Norma Holmgaard road the routes earlier in the year. Students also signed behavior contracts and learned the bus rules in a mock bus setup in the gym as well as on actual buses. Kircher said with those projects and programs, along with others, bus kindness has improved. He expects to continue promoting bus kindness because he said like any behavior it has to be continually instilled to ensure students keep practicing it. “It’s a pretty important issue,” Kircher. “That’s an hour of a student’s day and we certainly need to make sure that that’s an emotionally safe part of their day as well.”

Mountain View Elementary School music teacher Jonathan Dillon sits next to student Harley Farabee before the bus takes off for its afternoon route.

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

Enrollment is steady; FAFSA benefits students Five weeks into the 2014 spring semester, KPC’s overall enrollment is up 2.8 percent in student headcount and 0.8 percent in credit hours compared to the same period in 2013. KPC’s financial aid office reports that 243 students have been awarded a total of $2,144,820 (gross) financial aid funds. The accounting department has processed a total disbursement (net) of $1,984,030 directly to students. This is a decrease in compared to spring 2013 ($2,358,076) and spring 2012 ($2,440,888). Scholarships also play an important role in students’ financial aid, especially because the funds awarded do not have to be repaid. KPC has many campusbased scholarships and students are able to apply for a long list of scholarships by completing a single application. There were 126 students who received campusbased, spring scholarships for a total award of $121,054. This is the time of year that all students are urged to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The application is mandatory for all students who are interested in receiving federal aid and many other aid sources also rely on the FAFSA to determine students’ eligibility. February is dubbed FAFSA Frenzy by the University of Alaska and this year UA is providing an incentive for students to complete the

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Craft Beer the New Wine? And If It Is, Is That a Good Thing?” Howell will have his books available for sale and signing. This presentation is free and open to the public. For more information about this and future KPC Showcase events, contact Dave Atcheson at 262-0346.

FAFSA in a timely manner; those who PTK national confersubmit their application by Feb. 28 will be entered into a drawing to win one of ence scholarship recipient six $100 Visa gift cards. For more in- announced formation or help with FAFSA process, Phi Theta Kappa is the national honor contact the Kenai River Campus finansociety for two-year colleges. Admission cial aid office at 262-0332. into the society is predicated on mainUpcoming KPC Showcase taining at least a 3.5 GPA. The purpose explores craft brewing of the honor society is to encourage and recognize members’ academic excelKPC Student Services Director Bill lence. Howell wears many different hats at the Dorothy Gray, KRC assistant profesKenai River Campus, but his passion is sor of English and Phi Theta Kappa adbest illustrated when he is talking, writvisor, has announced that KRC student ing or teaching about the history, science and Phi Theta Kappa member, Jessica and craft of brewing beer. Ramos-Cortes, has been selected to join Howell is well known as an adjunct her at the annual PTK conference from instructor teaching the Art and History April 24-26 in Orlando, FL. of Brewing course every spring semesLocal PTK members interested in ter. Howell has also published two books attending the conference submitted an on his favorite subject, “Beer on the Last essay in order to be considered by a Frontier: The Craft Breweries of Alaska” faculty committee. Ramos-Cortes was (Vol. I and II). ultimately selected by the committee. Howell will present the second KPC According to Professor Gray, “Jessica is Showcase presentation of the semester at a very enthusiastic student and scholar 7 p.m. on Feb. 20 in the KRC McLane which came through loud and clear in commons. The presentation is titled, “Is her writing.”

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develop skill with this technology, so come home school, community leaders, families, and anyone to meet and greet our local students who are excelling in their grades within the school district using this system. Three students are competing earlier in the day with a nationwide competition called “Braille Challenge” where their skills for reading, dictating, writing, and comprehending Braille text will be evaluated. We welcome all to come and check it out. For additional information please call the KPBSD Vision Resource room at 783-1764. Contact: Mrs. Jordana Engebretsen, KPBSD Vision Program, 907-283-1764.

Tustumena Elementary Our school will be sponsoring the district-wide Forensics Match on March 1st. We are looking for volunteers to help with judging and parking so if you have some time that morning, we could certainly use your help. Just contact me at: dhayman@kpbsd.k12.ak.us and I will sign you up. Feb. 18 — PTO Meeting, 4 p.m. Feb. 21 — School Forensics Feb. 24 — Site Council Meeting, 4 p.m. Feb. 27 — Title I Meeting, 3:45-5 p.m.; Last day of X-Country Skiing Mar. 1 — District Wide Forensics @ Tustumena School Mar. 4 — SMS Counselor’s visit the 6th Grade Class Mar. 18 — PTO Meeting, 4 p.m.; 6th Grade Parent Orientation at Skyview, 6:30 p.m.

Soldotna High Congratulations to our Battle of the Books team for winning 3rd place among 9 district high school teams! The final rounds got very intense and the teams were so evenly matched we were wondering if we were going to go into overtime! The team members were Audrey Helgevold, Chloe Kincaid, Sabrina Hilbrink, and Nicole Mills with Ila Cobb as a student/assistance coach and a great help. Sabrina and Carmen Kelly were our cheerleading sisters! SoHi will be well represented on the Alaska Junior National Nordic Team. Sadie Fox & Hannah Pothast will both be competing in Stowe, Vermont the first week in March. Congratulations!! I have created a page on our school website that has updated information about where we are and there are links to the photo replayit. com site and how to order yearbooks and advertising space. 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. 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. 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. After processing, it then goes through cyberspace… rather than the US mail… to get to its destination, which is much faster! ALL transcripts that are headed for NCAA, colleges, etc. have to be processed this way! FINAL TRANSCRIPTS! 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.

Redoubt Elementary Thank you to all of the volunteers and participants who helped make our 2nd Annual Winter Carnival a huge success. A great time was had by everyone. Thank you to all of the families and business that donated items and services for our silent auction. Redoubt’s Beginning Band Concert will be held Feb. 20 in the Redoubt gym at 6-7 p.m. Band students should arrive by 5:30 p.m. Yearbooks are on sale, please pre-order your year book before March 31st. Cost to purchase a yearbook is $15. A limited number of yearbooks will be ordered. Order forms have been sent home with students. Redoubt Elementary 2014/2015 Preschool applications can be picked up at the school office. Children must be 4 years old by Sept. 1. Box Top winners last week were; Xavier West, Rylen Weed, Avery Powell and Lincoln Saito. Keep turning in those Box Tops for Education. Mar. 4 – Wax Museum, presented by Redoubt’s 5th graders

Skyview High Weekend Highlights: The ski team raced at Boroughs Feb. 7 and 8. Mika Morton finished 4th, Mieka Chythlook finished 10th and Brittany Hollers was 16th. Brenner Musgrave finished 8th in Friday’s race, followed by Jeremiah Hudson in 14th, Sky Schlung in 15th, Daniel Shuler in 17th, Sterling Stasak in 19th and Logan Hemphill was 24th. In Saturday’s race, Mika again led the girls with a 2nd place finish, followed by Mieka in 13th and Brittany in 18th. Also on Saturday, Brenner was 7th, Jeremiah was 12th, Sky was 13th, Sterling was 18th, Daniel was 19th and Logan Hemphill finished 22nd. The boys and girls basketball teams both finished 2nd at the Ninilchik Invitational Tournament. The girls defeated Chevak (5047) and Noatak 59-45 before finishing a close second to Unalakleet in the championship game 39-36. The boys team started the tourney with a win over Noorvik 73-51 before being one-upped by Unalakleet Friday (61-46) and in the championship game (70-48). Selected to the All-tournament team for the girls were: Meghan Powers and Sam Reynolds. Selected to the All-tournament team for the boys were: Tim Duke and Jacob Carlson. Jacob Carlson also had the highest score in an individualized All-tournament team shooting competition All World History students at KCHS and Skyview will be taking their 3rd field trip of the year on Feb. 19 from 8:45 to 9:55. They will be traveling back in time to learn about nationalism in Eastern and Western Europe and what impact music had. We will be connecting to the Manhattan School of Music who has put together a program for our students with an expert in this field. The Tunisia Collaboration project involving KCHS and Skyview students have met three times and will be working on a multinational cook book. With recipes from Tunisia and Alaska students hope to hold a community banquet to raise money for people living in poverty in Tunisia and homeless efforts here on the Peninsula. CWOW (Classroom WithOut Walls) co-teacher Greg Zorbas from KCHS has been named the Alaska Society for Technology in Education 2014 Teacher of the Year. Skyview World History students are fortunate to have Mr. Zorbas as one of their teachers.

Nikiski North Star Elementary Love of Reading month is in full swing at NNS! We are participating in the “One School, One Book” activity during the month of February. We have distributed the book, ‘My Father’s Dragon’ by Ruth Stiles Gannett to each family and ask that you read the assigned chapter at home every night and discuss what happened in the chapter. The following day, we will ask questions related to the chapter during morning announcements. There will be prizes awarded to students who answer the questions correctly. This is a wonderful family activity and a way for you to enjoy reading together as a family. Congratulations to the students who submitted entries in the PTA Reflections contest. The theme this year was “Believe, Dream, Inspire”. These students won at the local level: Literature – 1st place, Telon Fallon, 2nd place, Brendan Boehme, and 3rd place, Aubrey Day. Photography – 1st place, Liam Quiner, 2nd place, Aubrey Day, and 3rd place, Cooper Stock. Visual Arts (Primary Division) – 1st place, Aiden Quiner, 2nd place, Thayne Quiner, and 3rd place, Leora Meader. Visual Arts (Intermediate Division) – 1st place, Boden Quiner, 2nd place, Brendan Boehme, and 3rd place, Carter Tennison. It is cinnamon roll time again! Mrs. Matson’s 5th graders will be baking cinnamon rolls/sticky buns as part of their fractions/World of Work studies and also a fundraiser for their spring field trips. The rolls will sell for $1.50 each. Order forms are available in the office or from Mrs. Matson’s students. The Matson Bakery will be open Feb. 19, 20, 21. Please order early because they always sell out. If you need more information, please call the school at 776-2600.

Soldotna Elementary Congratulations to our Reading Counts classroom winners for last week! They were Tori Morse, Willow Duffy, Kaylee Brewer, Brock Poe, Rhys Cannava, Nate Downs, and Ryann Cannava. Keep reading those books and passing the quizzes, kids! We are all proud of you. Child Find Screenings: The KPBSD Child Find Program and Frontier Community Services Infant Learning will be offering free screenings for children 5 years and younger. The screenings will be on Feb. 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Frontier Community Services, Suite 14, in the Red Diamond Center. They will screen your child’s early development, motor skills, speech, early learning concepts, vision and hearing. To make an appointment or for more information, please call 714-6647. Soldotna Elementary recently purchased a television for our foyer featuring our students, activities, upcoming events, etc. We would also love to highlight our students’ extracurricular activities and accomplishments and would like to request that SOEL parents submit photos to display in the foyer slide show. The photos need to be emailed to Dana Cannava at dcannava@kpbsd.k12.ak.us in a jpeg format. Thank you. PTA Meeting tonight, Feb. 17 at 3:45 p.m. in the library. Come join us and help plan activities for the remainder of the school year. Child care will be provided. Another Early Release Day coming up on Wednesday, Feb. 17. Students will be dismissed at 1:55 p.m. Bus schedules will be adjusted by 90 minutes. There will not be an afternoon pre-school class for Mrs. Cannava’s students. Thank you. Congratulations to our wonderful and brilliant Clara Moore who was the top speller in the Soldotna Elementary Spelling Bee held on Feb. 5. Clara will be representing our school at the State Spelling Bee in March. Congratulations also to Tim Cashman who became the alternate winner in the school’s Spelling Bee! Crazy Hair and/or Crazy Socks Day is coming up on Feb. 28. We are accepting Title I 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 1st, 2014. Please contact Katrina Cannava at 260-5142 or katrinacannava@ kpbsd.k12.ak.us. Our 3rd and 4th graders have noticed the picture of Frosty the Snowman ( in the intermediate hallway) who is smoking an old corncob pipe, and they have written letters to Frosty and letters about Frosty’s behavior explaining why they believe old Frosty should kick that nasty habit. These letters are wonderful and show that the kids have been paying attention to the dangers of smoking! Smart kids!

IDEA Home-school IDEA students will be joining the Alaska Department of Fish and Game at Sport Lake on Feb. 19 from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. for a fun hour of ice fishing. Fish and Game will supply the poles and tackle but families are encouraged to bring popcorn shrimp for bait. Anyone over 16 years old that plans to fish must have a fishing license. Please call the office for more information on this great event. Congratulations to several IDEA students for their recent achievements: Hannah Hess, the IDEA Spelling Bee Champ who will travel to anchorage to the Alaska State Spelling Bee, Peter Hilbish, the IDEA Geo Bee winner who will represent us at the Alaska State Geo Bee in April and Dominick Aliotto who will represent IDEA Kenai Peninsula at the statewide Battle of the Books competition later this month. IDEA families plan now to join us for an afternoon learning salmon anatomy and physiology at a special dissection workshop to be held on Feb. 26 at the Soldotna Public Library. This opportunity will encourage students to explore science and learn about the structures of a living organism. Call the office to reserve your spot, 260-7555.

canvas print of her artwork, a plethora of art supplies for home, and a pizza party for her class! A special thank you to Tami Murray from the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce for visiting the classroom and personally awarding Avrie with her print and prizes and for treating her classmates to pizza and soda. Check out the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce Facebook page to see Avrie and her beautiful artwork! Way to go Avrie! Mar. 18 — Band concert in the K-Beach gym at 6:30 p.m.

Kenai Middle The very young Kenai MathCounts team had a fun day of challenging math in Anchorage on Feb. 8 at the Chapter (South-Central Region) Competition. The team consisted of Justin Anderson, Kai McKibben, Kaden McKibben, Maria Salzetti, Sarah Foutty, Tucker Muller (Kaleidoscope) and Dominic Efta (Aurora Borealis). KMS 6th grader Justin Anderson stood out by finishing 9th overall. Because he was the third-place student not on a State-bound team, he qualified for State Finals on March 29th as an individual. Congratulations to all of our Math-letes! Congratulations to Keegan Gardner, Hunter Beck and Gary Dent who represented KMS in the 6th grade Battle of the Books competition last week. They did a fabulous job in the competition narrowly missing the championship rounds!! Way to go guys! Kenai Middle School will be hosting Volleyball twice this week. Tuesday’s game will be at 3 p.m. against Homer and Thursday’s game will be at 3 p.m. against Nikiski. There will be a xc ski meet at SVHS on Friday starting at 3 p.m.. The Borough wrestling meet will be held at Seward Middle School starting at 10 a.m. on Saturday.

Nikiski Middle-High Feb. 17 – B Team Middle School Volleyball at Nikolaevsk at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 18 – Basketball at Skyview. Girls Varsity at 4:30 p.m. Boys Varsity at 6 p.m.; Middle School Volleyball at Soldotna Middle School at 3 p.m. Feb. 20 – Middle School Volleyball at Kenai Middle School at 3 p.m. Feb. 21 – 22 - Middle School Cross Country Skiing Regions at Su-Valley Feb. 21 – Middle School Cross Country Skiing at Soldotna Middle School at 3 p.m.; Basketball at Seward JV Girls at 3 p.m., JV Boys at 4:30 p.m., Varsity Girls at 6 p.m., Varsity Boys at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22 – Middle School Borough Wrestling at Seward at 10 a.m. The NMHS sixth grade team took fourth place in the KPBSD Battle of the Books competition on Tuesday. Good Job sixth graders Joe Yourkoski, Tika Zimmerman, Aura Petrick and Kaycee Bostic. They spent many hours reading and studying their books. Congratulations to Jaylen Uhls and Jamie Yerkes for earning Honorable Mention status in the 22nd annual Peninsula Creative Writing Contest. Jaylen’s recognition came in Grades 7-9 fiction – and Jamie’s recognition came in Grades 7-9 non-fiction. Complete results can be found at http://homerart.org/calendar/events/winners-of-thekenai-peninsula-writers-contest.

Kaleidoscipe School of Arts and Science Feb. 17 — Shala Dobson is our visiting artist and will be working with staff and students daily for this week; 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Kindergarten will be having a Winter Celebration and will be sharing music, art, and dance from their study of the sky. Feb. 18 — 5 p.m. is “Play a Part in the KSAS Schoolyard Habitat, Trail & Outdoor Classroom Meeting” in the gym. There is great value in enhancing the habitat and incorporating an outdoor classroom thus enriching our student experience at Kaleidoscope by connecting them to nature right in our backyard. Feb. 19 — School Tours from 9:30-10 a.m. If you know of a family that is interested in attending Kaleidoscope next year, please share this with them; Cooking Club and Backcountry Snow Club are meeting from 3:45-4:45. Feb. 20 — Tap Dance Club is meeting from 3:45-4:45 p.m.; Shala Dobson is giving the Display Workshop at 9:30 a.m. for volunteers; 6 p.m. is an Artist Reception and Parent Night. Feb. 22 — 10 -11 a.m. New Parent Informational Meeting for any families new to Kaleidoscope or entered into our lottery. We ask that you attend a meeting if you have not attended one in the past. PTA Yearbooks are on sale through Apr. 4 for $18. The next general PTA meeting is Mar. 4 at 9:15 a.m. Reminders Please note that Feb. 26 is an early dismissal day and there will be no afterschool activity clubs on this day. The LifeSkill we are focusing on this week is Problem Solving: To create solutions to difficult situations and everyday problems.

Mountain View Elementary

February is “Love of Reading Month” and Mountain View Elementary will celebrate it with the theme of IditaRead. Students will have the opportunity to make the journey to Nome by matching reading minutes to checkpoints along the trail. Students participating in the journey will be entered into a drawing for free books of their choice. Classrooms will also make this reading journey together for a chance to win a classroom special event. Classrooms will “PAWS” for reading from 8:45 to 8:55 am. each Connections Home-school day. Everybody reads. Guest readers will celebrate reading with Dates To Remember: Mountain View students on Feb. 18. Join in the fun and support readFeb. 19 — ADFG Ice Fishing Field Trip Sport Lake - Meet @ ing at home! boat ramp at Sports Lake @ 10:00am: PLEASE RSVP 907-714There will be a site council meeting on Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. The 8880 agenda will include Mountain View start/stop times, Climate ComFeb. 24 - 28 — Science Fair Projects due to office, Projects dis- mittee progress, FY ’15 planning, & Title 1 parent activity plans. played from 24-28 and prizes awarded on 28 Feb. 25 — Movie day! 1 p.m. at Orca Theater featuring The Lego Movie ! RSVP with Shelli Furlong 714-8880 sfurlong@kpbsd.k12. Soldotna Middle ak.us Sports Schedule this week: Mar. 1 — Iditaread Starts! Feb. 18 – Volleyball Soldotna Maroon vs. Nikiski at Soldotna Mar. 7 — High School Eligibility Due Middle School at 3 p.m. Mar. 31 — Last Day to Turn in Connection Orders; Last day to Feb. 19 – Volleyball Soldotna Maroon vs. Soldotna White at Solturn in Iditaread minutes; dotna Middle School at 3 p.m. ADFG Ice Fishing Field Trip Sport Lake: Feb. 21 – Volleyball Homer vs. Soldotna Maroon at Soldotna Hello Connections families, please join Alaska Fish and Game Middle School at 3 p.m. and your Connections advisors for an hour of ice fishing on Feb. 19 Feb. 22 – Volleyball Soldotna White vs. Homer at Homer at 10 at Sport Lake. We will meet at the boat ramp on Sport Lake at 10 a.m. a.m. Sport Lake is located one mile outside of Soldotna off the Kenai Feb. 21 – Skiing Soldotna Invitational at Skyview High School Spur Highway. ADFG will have the fishing rods and Connections at 3 p.m. will have the bait. All you need is warm clothes and a fishing license Feb. 22 – Wrestling Borough Tournament at Seward at 10 a.m. for anglers 16 and older. This event is dependent upon the weather. All are welcome but we do request that you RSVP with Reubin Kenai Central High Payne at the Connections office rpayne@kpbsd.k12.ak.us714-8880. Lights, Camera, Action! It is Homegoing Week at Kenai Central High School. This year’s Connections is planning a Lego Movie get together at the Orca theme is Neon Nights, so students come get your glow on and dance Theater on Feb. 25 1 p.m. I underneath black lights Saturday from 8-10. The cost of the dance Iditaread! is $2 and 3 canned goods or $5 per person. Our assembly will be Attention all readers: the 2014 Iditaread is just around the corner on Thursday from 1:45 - 2:15 p.m. The dress-up days and assembly and it’s time again for Connections Homeschool’s Iditaread Chal- schedule is listed below. lenge to all K-6th grade students! The Iditaread Challenge will begin Monday – Class Colors (Freshmen – Grey, Sophomores-Black , Feb. 28. Stop by your local Connections Office between now and Juniors- Green, Seniors-Camo) then for more information and to get your sled ready to hit the trail! Tuesday-Tacky Tourist Tuesday The challenge will run through Mar. 31. Wednesday- Twin Day Thursday- Urkel Day (Homegoing Assembly) Friday – School Spirit Kalifornsky Beach Elementary Weekly Events Congratulations to Avrie Medina in Mrs. Romatz’s third grade Tuesday-Basketball vs. Homer 6/7:30 p.m. class! She won first place in the Tustumena 200 Art Contest. The Thursday-Basketball vs. Palmer 6/7:30 p.m. race was cancelled due to the lack of snow but the Race CommitFriday-Basketball vs. Colony 6/7:30 p.m. tee decided to award the prizes anyway. Avrie received a beautiful Saturday-Basketball vs. Wasilla (Senior Night) 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. C

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STUDENT SERVICES DIRECTOR Kenai Peninsula College is recruiting for a highly qualified, enthusiastic individual for its Student Services Director position. The KPC Student Services Director will oversee programs and employees in the Student Services Department, facilitate the strategic planning process, adjudicate student requests, and oversee recruitment and retention, student success, and budgetary planning. The successful candidate will represent KPC on a variety of statewide and UAA committees, and in the local community. This is a level 83, fulltime, 12 month, exempt position to begin July 7, 2014. The salary is $2,925.60 bi-weekly and includes benefits and tuition waivers. The review date is 3/03/2014 but applications will be accepted until the position is closed. For more information and to apply for this position go to KPC's employment page at www.kpc.alaska.edu UAA is an AA/EO Employer and Educational Institution.

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LOCAL EQUIPMENT RENTAL COMPANY Looking for 5/2 Operations/ Maintenance/ On-Call Personnel Duties include general Maintenance and inventory control Send resume to: akhelpwanted-personnel@yahoo.com

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Kenai Peninsula College is recruiting for a qualified, energetic individual for its Accounts Payable and Travel Technician position. This position is responsible for processing Accounts Payable, Travel, and for yearly inventory and tracking of property items over $5000.00. This is a level 76, fulltime, 12 month, position to begin March, 2014. The salary is $18.05 hourly and includes benefits and tuition waivers. The review date is 2/25/2014 but applications will be accepted until the position is closed. For more information and to apply for this position go to KPC's employment page at

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Income Property FOR SALE 6-PLEX All 1-Bedrooms, 1-bath 2824 Illiamna St. Kenai $299,000 OBO I am the owner placing this ad. (907)394-2293 HUGE INCOME OPPORTUNITY Recently renovated 6-plex great location: 2824 Illiamna St. Kenai. Reduced price $299,000. Motivated seller, owner finance. (907)398-3864

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Peak is seeking an experienced individual to fill the WASP Facilitator position in the Nikiski office. This position requires 3+ years of oilfield experience and previous experience with Behavioral Based Safety (BBS). This person will be responsible for planning and coordinating the BBS program for all Peak operations in the Cook Inlet. A qualified candidate would have previous facilitator or steering team experience and excellent interpersonal skills. Peak is an equal opportunity employer and offers a competitive salary and benefits package. Post offer/Pre-employment screening including drug testing, functional capacity testing and other pre-employment tests are required. Submit resumes to peakhr@peakalaska.com or fax to (907)263-7041. Include the phrase “WASP Facilitator” in your email subject line and on your resume.

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Waterfront Property

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Apartments, Furnished 1-LARGE ROOM $480. Soldotna, quiet setting, Satellite, limited cooking. (907)394-2543. DOWNTOWN Soldotna on the river. 2-bedroom, 1-bath, Seasonal/ Permanent, furnished/ unfurnished, NO pets/ NO smoking. Credit/ background checks. $850., (907)252-7110

NIKISKI New homes, 3-bedroom, 2-bath, garage, walking distance to Nikiski Rec. Center. Indoor pool & ice rink. $1275. per month. Leave message (907)776-3325 SOLDOTNA/ Endicott Executive home, River front, furnished 3-bedroom, 3-bath, appliances included, long term lease negotiable. (907)252-7110 WHY RENT ????? Why rent when you can own, many low down & zero down payment programs available. Let me help you achieve the dream of home ownership. Call Now !!! Ken Scott, #AK203469. (907)395-4527 or cellular, (907)690-0220. Alaska USA Mortgage Company, #AK157293.

Misc. Rentals K-BEACH FRONTAGE Approx. 1,500 Sq-ft space available. Gas electric, garbage, plowing & sanding included. Call (907)262-4330

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NIKISKI Handicapped accessible, covered ramp, deck. Alaska Housing OK, 3-bedroom, 2-bath utilities included, pets allowed. $1,250./ month. Call (907)776-6563.

EXCELLENT OCEAN VIEW! Bay Arm Apartments, Kenai. Accepting applications for 1 & 2 bedroom apartments, utilities included. $25. nonrefundable application fee. No pets. (907)283-4405.

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

Manufactured/ Mobile Homes

KENAI 1-Bedroom, furnished, heat, cable included. No pets. $675. month. (907)283-5203, (907)398-1642.

Rentals

The Kenai Peninsula Borough is recruiting for Project Manager - Construction (Capital Projects Administrator). Under the general direction and supervision of the Capital Projects Director, the Capital Projects Administrator performs project management and administration functions for capital projects involving selecting and applying accepted and standard architectural and engineering practices associated with the location, planning, design, materials, and construction of buildings, site improvements, utilities or other capital projects. This is a full time, administrative position. Starting salary is $70,000+, DOE, plus excellent benefits. For a complete job description and/or to apply, go to: http://agency.governmentjobs.com/kenaiak/ default.cfm Applications will be accepted through 5 p.m. Friday, 2/21/14

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Dogs PUREBRED GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPPIES with papers for sale! They are papered & will have their first set of shots. They will be ready for their new homes the second week in February. 3 males & 3 females left. Males:$900 Females:$1000 Call, text or email Tera! 907-252-7753 jtmillefamily@gmail.com

Financial

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take my son and leave.) I know it embarrasses him, but most parents thank me because they want to meet the parents of the kids who are in their homes. Times are different for our kids today. I just can’t believe that someone would simply drop off a child and speed away when he/she has absolutely no clue who these people are. I’m not a helicop- Abigail Van Buren ter parent; I’m just a mother who loves my children enough to make sure they’re in good hands. Recently, a ninth-grader in our school district had a house party where 30 kids received underage drinking citations! Sorry — but I’m taking no chances. ParentDEAR ABBY: I just dropped off my 13-year-old ing is not being your child’s best friend. son at a party. He’s a seventh-grader, and when I take Please encourage parents not to be afraid to reach him to a friend’s house, if I haven’t met the parents, I out to other parents. It really does take a village. walk him to the door and introduce him and myself — VIGILANT IN BUCKS COUNTY, PA. to them. DEAR VIGILANT: Your children are fortunate I do this to try and make sure the parents are at to have a mother who is as involved in their lives home and responsible. (Honestly, if they weren’t, I’d as you are. Not all young people are so lucky. Your

DEAR ABBY: I have been married to my wife for 33 years. I recently found a pair of her panties with “Booty Call” printed across the back. I can’t help but wonder. She has never had underwear like that in 33 years. What gives? — SURPRISED TEXAN DEAR SURPRISED: Was your wife wearing the lingerie at the time? If not, how did you discover the panties? The surest way to get to the bottom of this would be to ask your wife this question. She may have thought they were cute and bought them on impulse — or they may have been a gift. Please let me know, because not only am I interested in her answer, but I’m sure millions of readers are curious, too.

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HHH Decisions made in the afternoon might not be as sound as you would like them to be. Listen to news and respond accordingly. Recognize that you need to think carefully about the implications involved, especially after you look at the big picture. Tonight: As you like it. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHYou could be full of energy. In the morning, maintain your focus on an important matter involving your career or an older relative. Your sense of humor emerges when dealing with a friend in the afternoon. A meeting will be instrumental. Tonight: Hang with your friends. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Detaching will help you deal with a volatile situation. Recognize what is happening with a relationship in which information might not be properly communicated between the parties involved. Know that you can change this situation. Tonight: Till the wee hours. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You could discover the benefits of having a conversation in the morning. One-on-one relating resolves a problem better than any other method can. Use this opportunity. With new information, you’ll gain a new perspective. Tonight: Detach and observe. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHRethinkyourinteractionswith a key person. It can be great to act spontaneously, but sometimes you need to think more carefully about the actions you take. Make a point of having an important conversation later in the day. Tonight: A little consideration goes a long way.

Where am I? Dear Readers: Here is this week’s Soundoff, about businesses and posting addresses: “I work for a company that sends me to other towns and a neighboring state. Most of the commercial businesses do not post addresses or business names on their building, or they are too small to read from the street. Some towns do not even have street signs on the corners. Some addresses do not show on our GPS. How do they expect visitors to get around their town? — Pat, via email” Pat, you must be reading my mind! Many times, I have had to park the car and walk up to the door to read the tiny print. — Heloise Send a great hint to: Heloise P.O. Box 795000 San Antonio, TX 78279-5000 Fax: 1-210-HELOISE Email: Heloise(at)Heloise.com Fast Facts Dear Readers: Here are other uses for coffee filters: * Use to make crafts with children. * Make into sachets. * Dampen and use to cover food before microwaving. * Use to line the bottom of plant pots. * Use as a makeshift bowl for snacks. — Heloise Letter of laughter Dear Heloise: This is in response to your comment on where the Box Tops for Education labels are found. Imagine my surprise when I found one on the bottom of a package of adult disposable underwear! I loved it — now they are targeting grandparents! And I’m saving them for my grandkids. Smart marketing! — K.M., Tyler, Texas

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HHHHHYou will clear up a problem only after you detach and look at the big picture. At that point, the solution will permit resolution in an amiable manner. Once the air is cleared, you can direct your energy in a different direction. Tonight: Live life to the fullest. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Listen to your sixth sense when speaking with a close loved one. There might be a lot more going on than meets the eye. This person might not be able to share what the issue is. Give him or her space to work it out. Tonight: In the thick of the moment. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHYou might be concerned with a financial matter that needs to be handled immediately. Your domestic life could point to a different direction and a new possibility. Listen to feedback, and make a decision accordingly. Tonight: Reach out to a favorite person. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHHYou might feel strongly about a certain matter, so don’t hesitate to let others know where you are coming from. Keep a personal matter quiet, and be willing to have a long-overdue conversation. Focus on your finances and effectiveness. Tonight: Beam in what you want. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You might feel out of sync in the morning, but by the afternoon you will draw others to you. Use care with your finances; make smart choices. Your personality and energy are likely to dominate the afternoon. You will be all smiles. Tonight: Visit with a dear loved one. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

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son may find your vigilance embarrassing, but take comfort in knowing that all kids your son’s age find their parents embarrassing. Orchids to you for pointing out the importance of parents networking with each other to ensure that their children are safe and supervised. When an entire “village” is watching, there is less chance of a lamb straying.

Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, Feb. 17, 2014: This year you evolve and grow in a new way. At times you might feel as if you do not have a choice. If you feel that way, stop and rethink your alternatives. Brainstorm more often with people who do not think like you. Seek to achieve your goals. If you are single, you will meet many people. Come summer, the possibility of meeting someone of significance is likely. Do not commit unless you are sure of your choice. If you are attached, your relationship could become even more significant as your sweetie teams up with you to make a dream come true. You will enter a very romantic period during the summer. LIBRA likes the way you think. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You will accomplish more in the morning. In the evening, random calls and perhaps a visit with a loved one could take priority. Your instincts about a situation could be off. Someone might point you in the wrong direction. Tonight: Make nice, and invite others to dinner. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Dive into a dynamic problem. You will enjoy the brainstorming involved with heading in a new direction. You could find that someone is dealing with a level of discomfort during this process. Tonight: Remember that you’re not always comfortable with change, either. GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

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