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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2014 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 127

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By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

In the news Fisheries disaster aid on the way

Alaska is set to receive $20.8 million in federal aid more than a year after three regions of the state were declared fisheries disaster areas following the 2012 fishing season. The funds come out of a nationwide appropriation of $75 million to six fisheries disaster areas declared in 2012 and 2013, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Alaska’s Yukon, Kuskokwim and Cook Inlet fisheries join commercial fisheries in American Samoa, Mississippi, New England, Florid New York and New Jersey in divvying the money. The commercial fishery failure was a first for Cook Inlet however fishers in the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers have both experienced multiple years of fishery resource disasters. Alaska’s Senate delegation wrote the Department of Commerce expressing support for the declaration when Gov. Sean Parnell submitted it, the group cited a drop in revenue of nearly 90 percent for east side setnetters in the Cook Inlet and a 50 percent reduction for northern district fishers. Funds can be used for activities that “restore the fishery or prevent a similar failure in the future, and assist a fishing community affected by such failure,” according to a NOAA media release. — Staff report

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Chelsea Springer, freshman, works on a cardboard form for her sculpture class Wednesday at Kenai Peninsula College Kenai River Campus in Soldotna. The assignment began with students building a smaller form and transforming it into a larger piece. “It’s pretty abstract, but I think it kind of looks like a reclining person. Or an octopus. It’s open to interpretation,” she said.

Hearing set for setnet lawsuit By Molly Dischner Morris News Service-Alaska Alaska Journal of Commerce

Oral argument in the Alaska Fisheries Conservation Alliance’s appeal of the Lieutenant Governor’s decision not to certify its proposed ballot initiative is scheduled for April 22 in Anchorage. The alliance, or AFCA, wants to ask voters whether to ban setnets in urban parts of the state. If the initiative made it on to the ballot and passed, it would eliminate setnetters in Cook Inlet. Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell struck down the initiative in January based on a Department of Law opinion that declared it was a prohibited appropriation of state resources. AFCA, however, has said

that the effort is conservationfocused, and filed an appeal of Treadwell’s decision in Alaska Superior Court. Even if the initiative is certified, the group still must collect signatures before it goes on the ballot. Judge Catherine Easter met with attorneys for the alliance and Treadwell, who is represented by the state Department of Law, today to schedule oral argument and discuss other issues that could arise. Under the timeline approved in early February, both sides are expected to file motions for summary judgment on March 7, with opposition briefs due March 21. If reply briefs are needed, those will be due April 2. The April 22 hearing is See SUIT, page A-10

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Justin Cramer, left, untangles sockeye salmon from a setnet with the help of Domino, a hired deckhand from California, right, Aug. 1, 2011 in Cook Inlet, near the mouth of the Kenai River. Cook Inlet setnetters have been targeted in a lawsuit by an organization seeking to ban the gear type in what it defines as “urban” parts of the state.

Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting goers were greeted by two people — one of whom was dressed in a green frog costume — asking to save Kenai Peninsula College’s funding. The duo was protesting a resolution to put an advisory proposition on the 2014 ballot asking voters if the assembly should continue to fund nondepartmentals, including nonprofits and post secondary programs. The resolution, sponsored by assembly members Kelly Wolf, Wayne Ogle and Charlie Pierce, saw a full house and drew about an hour and 40 minutes of testimony from about 20 people. Following public comments and assembly discussion, the resolution failed with Wolf and Pierce casting the only votes in favor of putting the question out for an advisory vote. Most of the testimony was specific to KPC funding and the programs it provides. In 1990 voters chose to give the borough the authority to fund post-secondary schools up to 0.1 mills. KPC Director Gary Turner said the borough money the college receives makes up about 4 percent of its revenues, or about $697,000. Turner said the money specifically goes toward the college’s Resurrection Bay Extension site courses, career center, library support at the Kenai River Campus and Kachemak Bay Campus, a veterans services coordinator, tutors at both campuses, and the JumpStart program, which allows high See VOTE, page A-10

Man arrested with Rodell: Risks high in stolen truck, drugs By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

An Anchorage man is behind bars after Soldotna Police found him sleeping in a stolen truck armed with a handgun and carrying $22,000 worth of drugs Monday morning. Rodney Godwin, 39, was slumped over the wheel of a 2010 Ford F350 pickup with the engine running parked behind the Kenai Peninsula Borough building on Binkley Street when Soldotna Police Officer Steven Clary approached him at 7:25 a.m., according to Clary’s police report. Police dispatch informed Clary that the pickup had been reported stolen from Alaska Sales and Service in Wasilla and valued at $44,000. Inside the vehicle, Godwin was in possession of a loaded .45 caliber pistol, 59 grams of methamphetamine, 23 grams of marijuana, 5 grams of heroin, 2 grams of cocaine and more than $3,000 in cash. The street value is estimated at $22,000, accord-

ing to the police report. Godwin had previously been arrested for felony driving under the influence, had a revoked driver’s license and was currently on felony probation, according to the report. Police arrested Godwin on nine felony charges and three misdemeanors. He was taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility and held without bail. Godwin was arraigned on 12 charges at the Kenai Courthouse on Tuesday. The charges include: felony driving under the influence of a controlled substance, driving while license revoked, first-degree theft, two counts of second-degree misconduct involving a weapon, third-degree and fourth-degree misconduct involving weapons, two counts of second-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance, and thirddegree, fourth-degree and fifthdegree misconduct involving a controlled substance. Two felony charges are related to having a controlled See ARREST, page A-10

pursuing gas line alone By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — The state could face some difficult decisions, and tight budgets, as it pursues a major liquefied natural gas project. Revenue Commissioner Angela Rodell told the House Resources Committee on Wednesday that if the state pursues the gas treatment plant and pipeline project without TransCanada Corp. as a partner, Alaska’s share of project costs could be more than half the state’s unrestricted general fund revenue near the start of construction, around 2020. With TransCanada involved, the state could be giving up about $300 million in annual revenue once gas started to flow, Rodell said. While there’s more upside to going it alone, she said that option presents high risks. The cost C

of that lost revenue, she said, “is worth the insurance policy basically.” Lawmakers are considering legislation aimed at moving the mega-project into the phase of preliminary engineering and design. The state is mulling an equity stake of 20 percent to 25 percent, which would be determined by its royalty share and the gas tax rate, which would be set in the bill. The bill speaks to terms already agreed upon by state officials and TransCanada, the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., or AGDC, and the major North Slope players: BP PLC, ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil Corp. The agreements are subject to passage of enabling legislation deemed acceptable by the parties. The state has signed a separate agreement with TransCanada to manage its inter-

est in a gas treatment plant and pipeline. While the state would have an equity buyback option, the arrangement is seen as a way for the state to not have to shoulder as much in upfront costs as it would without TransCanada. The agreement also would serve as a transition from the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act. TransCanada has been pursuing a pipeline with Exxon Mobil for years under that law, but Gov. Sean Parnell has said it no longer fits with the current situation. For a project estimated at $45 billion to more than $65 billion, the state’s share will be significant. While estimates have been somewhat fluid, information provided to the committee Wednesday showed that with a 20 percent stake, the state was looking at a potential equity investment of $5.6 billion to $11 billion. See GAS, page A-10

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Report: Global warming worsening By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON — Manmade global warming is worsening and will disrupt both the natural world and human society, warns a joint report of two of the world’s leading scientific organizations. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society, which is the national scientific academy of the United Kingdom, are releasing an unusual plain language report on climate change that addressed 20 issues in a question-andanswer format.

“People do have persistent questions all about climate change,” said study author Ben Santer of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California. “This is a one-stop shop for many of those questions.” The report, released on Thursday, addresses new issues such as the recent slowing in the increase of world temperatures and how heat-trapping gases are connected to extreme weather. Increases in extreme weather, melting glaciers, rising seas and oceans getting more acidic are already happening, the 36page report said. And those changes “are ex-

pected to increase greater warming and will threaten food production, freshwater supplies, coastal infrastructure and especially the welfare of the huge population currently living in low-lying areas,” the report said. The report said that while the rate of warming is slower in the 2000s than it was in the 1990s it doesn’t negate the 150 years of observations that show the world is warming. The report also says that more the 90 percent of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases lately has been absorbed into the oceans’ deep water, which for a while slows surface warming but not

the long-term trend. There is enough evidence on the science to warrant action, Sir Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society, said in a news release. “We’ve changed the chemical composition of the atmosphere; that’s not a belief system. We know that beyond shadow of a doubt,” Santer said in an interview. “We ignore this at our peril.” Online: U.S. National Academy of Science: http://nationalacademies.org/ Royal Society: http://royalsociety.org/

Man charged with murder says woman died in fall ANCHORAGE (AP) — A Quinhagak man charged in the death of a village woman told investigators she fell from the steps of his porch, hit her head and died. But state prosecutors say an autopsy indicated Lisa Johnson, 25, died of strangulation, not from a blow to the head. They have charged Harold Smith, 26, with first-degree murder and evidence tampering in the case, the Anchorage Daily News reported. Johnson was a substitute teacher and the mother of a 6-year-old girl. She was last

seen by family members Jan. 31. Her mother, Annie Johnson, told investigators that Lisa Johnson answered a call and left the house. She was reported missing Feb. 2. Police in Quinhagak, a village of nearly 700 about 71 miles southwest of Bethel, launched a search and found Johnson’s body off a trail near a village runway. Tracks from a snowmobile that appeared to be pulling a sled were found 30 feet from the body, investigators said. The tracks circled and returned to the trail.

Wednesday Stocks Company Final Change ACS.......................... 2.17 +0.01 Agrium Inc................91.56 +0.20 Alaska Air Group...... 85.88 +0.79 AT&T........................ 32.00 -0.17 BP ........................... 50.42 -0.25 Chevron...................115.51 +0.54 ConocoPhillips......... 66.13 -0.39 1st Natl. Bank AK...1,752.00 — Forest Oil...................2.01 -1.22 Fred Meyer.............. 40.03 +0.38 GCI.......................... 10.31 +0.07 Harley-Davidson...... 64.35 +0.36 Home Depot.............81.70 +0.72 Key Bank..................13.01 +0.11 McDonald’s.............. 95.89 -0.73 National Oilwell.........74.34 -0.49 Shell Oil................... 72.97 -0.32 Safeway................... 36.96 -0.17 Tesoro.......................51.47 -0.15 Walmart....................74.78 +1.43 Wells Fargo.............. 46.05 -0.03 Gold closed............1,328.79 -11.85 C

Silver closed.............21.25 -0.61 Dow Jones avg..... 16,196.41 +18.75 NASDAQ................4,292.06 +4.48 S&P 500................ 1,845.16 +0.04 Stock prices provided by the Kenai Peninsula Edward Jones offices.

Oil Prices Tuesday’s prices North Slope crude: $108.37, down from $108.49 on Monday West Texas Int.: $102.13, down from $103.17 on Monday

Phone records indicated Smith called Annie Johnson’s home the night she disappeared. Smith told investigators he had tried to call Lisa Johnson’s brother. An autopsy Feb. 5 indicated

hemorrhaging on Lisa Johnson’s throat and tongue, according to charging documents, and the coroner in a preliminary conclusion said the cause of death was asphyxiation caused by strangulation.

Peninsula Clarion, Thursday, February 27, 2014

Obituary

Around the Peninsula

Dale J. Trombley

Autism walk planning under way

Longtime Alaskan and Soldotna resident Dale J. Trombley, 90, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna with his family by his side. A viewing will take place 5-7 p.m. Friday with a rosary recited at 7 p.m. at Peninsula Memorial Chapel in Kenai. A funeral mass will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, 2111 Muldoon Road, Anchorage. Viewing will be one hour prior to services at the church. Archbishop Francis Hurley and Father Dan Herbert will serve the mass. Burial will be at a later date at Fort Richardson National Cemetery. Dale was born Feb. 9, 1924 in Grand Rapids, Mich. He moved to Louisville, Ky., at age 13. From there he went into the U.S. Army Corps Services. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1942. He was a pilot on the B-17, T-6, C-47, C-119, C-82 and B-25. He was a fighter pilot during WWII going on many combat and food drop missions in the Netherlands. He retired in 1969 at Elmendorf AFB after 27 years of service. He then began working for the Pioneer Paper Company of which he eventually bought out. He then worked for Yukon Office Supply until he retired again. He also worked for Hertz Rental Cars for a short time after retiring. In his retirement years, he enjoyed traveling and building doll houses, log cabins and caches. He was very proud of his doll houses he had built for his granddaughters and great-granddaughters. He married Rita Clare Payne on Jan. 16, 1945 and they had six children together. Rita passed away on March 23, 1990. He married Barbara Reed Bradrick in Homer on May 10, 1992 and Alesya came into their lives and gave them a great delight. Dale served as Second Knights of Columbus Master in Alaska, as Faithful Navigator of Our Lady of the Snow Council #4859 and as Honor Guard many, many times including when Pope John Paul II visited Alaska in 1981. Dale also coordinated and volunteered for the “Walk for Hope” for 24 years. He also enjoyed fishing on the Kenai River and his dog, Charlie. Dale is survived by his wife, Barbara of Soldotna; children and spouses, Dr. Dale J. and Marie Nell Trombley II of Anchorage, Ruth and Thomas Newsom of Soldotna, John E. and Deborah Trombley of Fargo, N.D., James R. and Helen Beka Trombley of Kenai, Rosemary and David Langford of Ripon, Calif., Glen A. and Denise Trombley of Chugiak, and Alesya S. Trombley and Jesse Thomson of Portland, Ore.; stepsons and spouse, Douglas P. and Delores Willcox of North Bend, Neb., and Jeffrey W Willcox-Bradrick of Soldotna; half-brother, Eugene Trombley of Grafton, Wis., and half-sister Linda Goodbar of Nashville, Tenn.; grandchildren, Bryan, Aaron, Adam, Blake, Kody and Alexis Trombley, Christine and Rebecca Langford, and Zeke Thomson; step-grandchildren, Deborah, Danielle, Derrick, Denise, Dustin and Alyssa Willcox, Eric and Alan Eggleston; greatgrandchildren, Theodore, Mila, Brianna, Ashton, Wyatt, Tatum, Tess and Ayden. Arrangements were by Peninsula Memorial Chapel in Kenai.

The Annual Alaska Walk for Autism is coming back to the Peninsula. The first official meeting will be held at Hope Community Center Tuesday, March 4 at 5:30 p.m. The walk is scheduled for April 19 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at Soldotna Middle School. Volunteers are neededto help with coordinating, planning and volunteering on the walk. The walk is sponsored by the Autism Society of Alaska; this is a non-profit organization run by volunteers. The money raised is used to provide support and information for families, caregivers and professionals who work with persons with autism. All money stays in the state of Alaska, with a majority of the money raised staying here on the Peninsula. Donations of items and/or funds for the door prizes and raffles are welcomed. There will be booth spaces for related agencies and vendors that have information, products and services. Please contact Jerri Braun at 260-3926, Tonja Updike at 398-4214 or email penautismwalk@yahoo.com for more information.

Peninsula Clarion death notice and obituary guidelines: The Peninsula Clarion strives to report the deaths of all current and former Peninsula residents. Notices should be received within three months of the death. Pending service/Death notices are brief notices listing full name, age, date and place of death; and time, date and place of service. These are published at no charge. Obituaries are prepared by families, funeral homes, crematoriums, and are edited by our staff according to newspaper guidelines. The fee for obituaries up to 500 words with one black and white photo ranges from $50 to $100. Obituaries outside these guidelines are handled by the Clarion advertising department. Funeral homes and crematoriums routinely submit completed obituaries to the newspaper. Obituaries may also be submitted directly to the Clarion with prepayment, online at www.peninsulaclarion.com, or by mail to: Peninsula Clarion, P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, Alaska, 99611. The deadline for Tuesday – Friday editions is 2 p.m. the previous day. Submissions for Sunday and Monday editions must be received by 3 p.m. Friday. We do not process obituaries on Saturdays or Sundays unless submitted by funeral homes or crematoriums. Obituaries are placed on a space-available basis, prioritized by dates of local services. For more information, call the Clarion at 907-283-7551.

KFAC hosts presentation on beer’s significance On Friday, Feb. 28, The Kenai Fine Arts Center will host “The Impact of Beer Upon History,” a talk and discussion about how the brewing of beer has had a surprising and significant impact upon the evolution of human culture, by nationally prominent beer writer and connoisseur Bill Howell, who teaches this course at Kenai Peninsula College, with an emphasis upon Alaska craft brewers. Bring a snack and your own beverages. KFAC provides free bottled water, coffee, tea and cookies. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. with the talk to follow.

Explore Kenai Peninsula history Longtime resident Al Hershberger will speak on peninsula area history from his very personal perspective from noon-1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28 in borough assembly chambers in Soldotna. Al has lived on the peninsula since 1948 and has documented many of the area’s changes through photos and engaging stories. This is the first in a series of “brown bag lunch” presentations being sponsored by the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s Land Management Division on local area activities, looking into the past and looking forward at the future. Bring your own bag lunch or RSVP by Feb. 27 and pay $5 for a pizza lunch. Coffee, tea and water will be provided. For more information or to RSVP for the pizza lunch contact Ann Shirnberg, 714-2213 or ashirnberg@borough. kenai.ak.us.

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Tax help available AARP Tax-Aide volunteers will be available to provide free tax preparation services at the Sterling Area Senior Center starting Feb. 4. Volunteers will be available every Tuesday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tax preparers will be available by appointment on Feb. 8, March 8 and April 12 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Tax filers should bring a copy of last year’s tax return, W-2 forms from each employer, unemployment compensation statements, SSA1099 (Social Security), all 1099 forms (1099-INT, 1099-DIV, 1099-B, etc.) showing interest or dividends and documentation showing original purchase price of sold assets, 1099-MISC showing miscellaneous income; 1099-R (pension), forms showing federal income tax paid, dependent care provider information, receipts or canceled checks if itemizing deductions, Social Security cards or other official documentation, and a picture ID for yourself and spouse if married filing jointly. Volunteers are not able to do rental property with depreciation, business with inventory or business use of a home. For more information or to make an appointment, call the Senior Center at 262-6808.

Cinderella getting ready for the prom Cinderella’s Closet is opening March 18, 20, 25, and 27 from 2:30-4:30 p.m. in the theater dressing rooms at Soldotna High School. This program helps local ladies in need with free prom dresses, shoes, and accessories. Last year, Cinderella’s Closet provided items to 92 local students from Soldotna High, Cook Inlet Academy, Skyview High, River City Academy, Kenai Central High, Nanwalek, Port Graham, Susan B. English (Seldovia), and Nikiski High. Donations can be dropped off at the Soldotna High School office from 8:00 a.m.-2:45 p.m. The program is in need of formal dresses, accessories, and shoes.

Totem Tracers explore family trees The Kenai Totem Tracers Genealogical Society and The Kenai Community Library will present “Your Family Tree — Getting Started,” Saturday, March 8, at 1:00 p.m. in the Kenai Community Library meeting room. The presentation will include instructions on how to use pedigree charts and family group sheets to begin tracing your family tree. Attendees will be partnered with a Kenai Totem Tracer member as a mentor. The group will be exposed to internet research through Ancestry.com and Find a Grave and two genealogy software programs. Tips on finding living relatives will be shared. Participants should bring a writing implement and whatever information they have on their family.

Adventure Camps at Challenger Center

The Challenger Center is gearing up for Spring Break camps. Debuting is a new Survival 101 Camp with a supervised outdoor survival night for grades 7-12. STEM Adventure camps Free tax assistance available for K-3rd and 4th-6th graders are always a blast. Overnight opIRS-certified volunteers from the Kenaitze Indian Tribe tions for grades 4-12. To register, visit www.akchallenger.org are offering free tax preparation services to Alaska Native and or call 907-283-2000. American Indian people who make $52,000 or less and need assistance preparing their own 2013 income tax returns. This service will be available each Saturday, from 9 a.m to 4 Idita-Swim at Nikiski Pool p.m., through March 1 at the tribe’s administration office at 150 The Nikiski Pool’s annual Idita-Swim competition starts N. Willow St. in Kenai. Tuesday March 4 through April 30. Come swim or water-walk For complete information, pick up a flyer at the tribe’s ad- your way to fitness all in the spirit of the Last Great Race. Evministration office Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 ery 50-yard lap counts as 1 mile toward your trip to Nome. p.m., or visit the “news and notices” page on the tribe’s web- The registration fee includes an Idita-Swim T-shirt. For more site. The website address is www.kenaitze.org. information please contact Nigel at 776-8800.

at 6 p.m.; Recovery Lesson at 6:30 p.m.; Open Share groups at 7:15 p.m. Email rking4@mac.com or call260-3292. 7 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Dopeless Hope Fiends” at Today 607 Frontage Road, Kenai. 8:30 a.m. • TOPS AK No. 220 Kasilof weigh-in at CES Station 6, 58260 Ster- • Square dance group at Ninilchik Senior Center. • Alcoholics Anonymous “Unity Men’s Group” meets downstairs the ling Highway. Meeting starts at 9 a.m. Call 262-7319 or 252-3436. Salvation Army building in Soldotna. 10 a.m. • TOPS AK No. 164 Soldotna weigh-in at First Baptist Church, 159 8 p.m. • AA Attitude of Gratitude at URS Club, 405 Overland Drive. Call S. Binkley. Meeting starts at 11 a.m. Call 262-7339. 283-3777. Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at URS Club, 405 Over- • AA North Roaders Group at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 242-9477. land Drive. Call 262-1917. • Alcoholics Anonymous Ninichick support group at United Methodist Church, 15811 Sterling Highway, Ninilchik. Call 907-567-3574. 5:30 p.m. • Free Seated Zumba Gold at the Kenai Senior Center. New participants, active older adults, and chair-bound or limited mobility par- The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations. To have your event listed, email organization ticipants are encouraged. name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact 6 p.m. phone number to news@peninsulaclarion.com. • AA Step Sisters at Central Peninsula Hospital. Call 262-2304. • Weight Watchers, Woodruef Building, 155 Smith Way, Soldotna. Doors open at 5:15; joining members should arrive by 5:30; Getting Started session for newcomers at 6:30. • TOPS AK 20, Soldotna, weigh-in at Christ Lutheran Church, 128 North Soldotna Avenue, Soldotna. Meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. Call 262-1557. • Celebrate Recovery, Midnight Son Seventh-day Adventist church on the corner of Swires Rd. and Kenai Spur Hwy in Kenai. Dinner is

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What Others Say

A piece of the pipe Giving Alaskans a piece of the pipe is

an excellent idea. Sen. Lesil McGuire of Anchorage suggests that Alaskans be allowed to invest a part of their Permanent Fund dividends in a North Slope natural gas pipeline. Senate Bill 164 wouldn’t require it. It would only make it possible for Alaskans interested in a personal investment in Alaska and development of its natural gas. The investment potentially would benefit Alaskans and Alaska. All permanent fund dividend recipients would be eligible. Eligible Alaskans would be allowed to designate an amount to be deducted from each permanent fund dividend, just as contributions already are made. Investments would be made on the date the permanent fund is issued to an eligible Alaskan. The commissioner of revenue would provide a written notice in the form of a certificate of ownership or description of the stock held for the companies advancing the pipeline. The certificate could be transferrable or assigned by the initial investor to another person. Investments’ success would be the responsibility of each Alaskan investor. Any interest or gain would be reportable to the Internal Revenue Service. The commissioner would provide a list of publicly traded corporations involved in the pipeline development. Corporations would be required to apply to be included on the list, identifying their interest in the development. This is an excellent way to engage Alaskans in the development of the natural gas pipeline. — Ketchikan Daily News, Feb. 19

A military budget of delusion

The Obama administration says that we need to end what it calls “the era of austerity” in Washington. Notably excluded from this admonition is the one department of government that is actually experiencing austerity worthy of the name. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel unveiled a military budget that will reduce the U.S. Army to pre-World War II levels. The spin is that this will be a smarter force better suited to 21st-century challenges, but everyone knows that it is all about accommodating the trillion dollars in defense cuts adopted during the recent Beltway budgetary wars. The Pentagon has been a bipartisan target of opportunity. Democrats oppose defense spending because it’s defense spending; Republicans oppose it because it is spending. We obviously aren’t at the same point as the British in the 19th century, when Bismarck scoffed that if the British army invaded, he’d have it arrested. But 570,000 troops were barely enough to fight the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and the Hagel budget will take us to 450,000, or — if the defense sequester isn’t further relaxed — even fewer. Most defense secretaries aspire to be the next George Marshall. Secretary Hagel evidently wants to be the next Harold Brown, who presided over the Carter-era hollowed-out military. It is not quite true that the cuts are undertaken without any strategic thought.

The Obama administration’s strategic thought is ... that we need no strategic thought. It is said that the British acquired an empire through a fit of absent-mindedness. We are losing our global influ- Rich Lowry ence the same way. Because we can’t be bothered. Understandably, we don’t want to fight another grinding ground war. But this doesn’t mean we won’t have to, or we won’t experience other nasty surprises. It is an unfortunate part of the American tradition to convince ourselves, when we find it convenient, that the world is not a dangerous place that always demands our attention, or else. In 1939, the United States had an Army of 185,000 men on the cusp of history’s most cataclysmic war. We believed conflicts could always be worked out among nations, and that war served no one’s interests, and so it was a thing of the past. “It was odd,” the late historian Stephen Ambrose writes, “that a nation that had come into existence through a victorious war, gained large portions of its territory through war, established its industrial revolution and national unity through a bloody civil war, and won a colonial empire through war, could believe that war profited no one.”

But so it did. As soon as World War II ended, we embarked on a carelessly precipitous demobilization that junked one of the most fearsome Western armies ever assembled. Just having liberated Europe, we still managed to find ourselves unprepared for the onset of the Korean War. Defenders of the current defense cuts say that we still spend more on our military than anyone else in the world. True, but we aren’t a mere regional power. Unless we want to outsource patrolling the global sea lanes to China and the security of Europe to Russia, we will always have to spend substantially more than anyone else does. Our allies aren’t in any position to pick up the slack. When the French army wants to go anywhere, we have to fly it. The entire British navy is smaller than the fleet sent to take back the Falklands in the 1980s. President Barack Obama is a devoted believer in the efficacy of government spending as government spending — on everything but defense. In 2009, it was $800 billion for stimulus but not a cent for defense. In his wisdom, he is perfectly content to slash a function of government that is indisputably constitutional, that is the basis of our freedom, and that is, relative to domestic entitlements, a drop in the budgetary bucket. We may not regret it this year or the next. But regret it we will. Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.

Quotable “There’s a glimmer of hope.” — Epidemiologist Cynthia Ogden, one of the authors of a study showing that obesity among American children ages 2 to 5 has decreased — to 8 percent, from 14 percent a decade ago.

GOP tax plan lowers rates, repeals breaks By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press

“It’s like they found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.” — Veteran coin dealer Don Kagin, on a northern WASHINGTON — A sweeping House California couple who stumbled across a modern-day Republican plan to overhaul the nation’s bonanza: $10 million in rare, mint-condition tax laws would wipe out a slew of popugold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree. lar tax breaks to help pay for lower over“Life is all about playing the hand that is dealt you. Actually, all tax rates, a politically risky move in an I would love somebody to deal me another hand right about now election year that drew quick opposition Wednesday. — in more ways than one.” The plan would repeal deductions for — PBS science correspondent Miles O’Brien, whose state and local taxes, medical expenses left arm was amputated recently above the elbow and moving expenses. Tax credits for child after an apparently minor injury put his life in jeopardy. care, adoption services and energy-efficient upgrades to homes would be gone. The mortgage interest deduction would be reduced for people buying houses costing more than $500,000. The deduction for By GARRY TRUDEAU charitable giving would be limited to contributions that exceed 2 percent of a taxpayer’s income. In exchange, income tax rates would be cut and the standard deduction, which is used by most taxpayers, would be nearly doubled. The child tax credit would be increased and a complicated series of tax breaks for education expenses would be consolidated and simplified. The plan would mark the first overhaul of the tax code since 1986. It borrows ideas from President Barack Obama and other Democrats. But here’s a reality check: It has almost no chance of becoming law this year. Even House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, distanced himself from the details Wednesday. Still, it could become an important political document as congressional elections approach in November. Should Republicans embrace the plan, they could use it to highlight their efforts to simplify tax laws and spur economic growth. “We need to be the party of growth, opportunity, restoring the American dream. And I think this is something Americans have hungered for,” said the plan’s author, Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. “Look, we have an obligation to debate the big issues of the day.” Democrats quickly revealed their election-year strategy, pointing out cherished tax breaks that would be cut.

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AP News Extra “Any proposal that eliminates the deduction for state and local taxes, as the Republican plan would do, is dead on arrival,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Boehner, already wary of some of the unpleasant details, would not promise a vote in the House this year. When asked about the details, Boehner said: “Blah, blah, blah, blah. Listen, there’s a conversation that needs to begin. This is the beginning of the conversation.” When asked whether the Republican Party stood behind the plan, Boehner said, “You’re getting a little bit ahead of yourself.” The White House was more upbeat. Spokesman Josh Earnest said there are “a couple of aspects of congressman Camp’s proposal that are encouraging.” Earnest said the White House was concerned about cuts to the Earned Income Tax Credit, one of the federal government’s largest anti-poverty programs. Republicans noted that the cut is offset by other provisions that would help the working poor, including a larger standard deduction. Under the plan, investment managers, big banks and owners of corporate jets would get hit with new or higher taxes, billions would be set aside for public works projects, and some wealthy business partners would no longer be able to avoid Medicare taxes. Those are ideas championed by Obama, who would direct the new revenue toward more government spending. Republicans, meanwhile, would use it to lower income tax rates for most families and corporations. The top income tax rate would drop from 39.6 percent to 25 percent, but the plan would impose a new 10 percent surtax on income above $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for married couples. The top corporate income tax rate would fall from 35 percent to 25 percent. The plan would increase the standard deduction from $12,400 to $22,000 for married couples, essentially exempting families that make less from paying federal

income taxes. The child tax credit would be increased from $1,000 to $1,500. The plan is designed to encourage more taxpayers to take the simpler standard deduction rather than itemizing. As a result, 95 percent of filers would take the standard deduction rather than itemize, according to analysis by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation. Currently, about one-third of filers itemize their deductions. Investment income currently has a top tax rate of 20 percent. Under Camp’s plan, capital gains and qualified dividends would be taxed like regular income, but investors could exempt 40 percent of their earnings. That would result in a 15 percent tax rate for many investors. The superrich would have a top tax rate of 21 percent on their investments. The plan is designed to raise about the same amount of tax revenue as the current system, though the overhauled system would be much simpler. It also is designed so that different income groups continue to pay about the same as they do today. Individual taxpayers, however, could see big changes, depending on their circumstances.

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Business news Chambers set schedules n The Soldotna Chamber of Commerce meets at noon on Tuesday at Frosos Restaurant. RSVP to 262-9814. n The Kenai Chamber of Commerce next meets at noon on Wednesday, March 12 at the Kenai Visitor Center. A presentation on the Polar Bear Project at the Alaska Zoo by Eileen Floyd is planned. RSVP to 283-1991.

Nomination period open for seats on HEA Board of Directors

Putting the pieces together

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Charis Place Administrator Colleen McNulty and caregiver Valerie Smith find the missing piece as they share life with residents at the new 21-bed assisted living community now open for business on North Forest Drive in Kenai. For more information, call 907-3352050.

For business, vans in demand By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer

DETROIT — To deliver bouquets in and around Washington, D.C., Karin’s Florist has two big vans, two small ones and a boxy little wagon that’s clinging to life. After the Valentine’s Day rush, the Vienna, Va., business plans to get a new van to replace the wagon, a Toyota Scion xB with 180,000 miles on it that has faithfully made its rounds since 2006. “We’ve got it sewn together with rubber bands and paper clips,” said Maris Angolia, president of the family owned business named after her sister. The van purchase, the second for Karin’s in the past four months, is evidence that small business owners — once too suspect of a wobbly economy to make big-ticket purchases — are starting to invest in their companies again. The willingness to spend is good news for the auto industry and a positive sign for the broader economy. The spending is coming for two reasons: Aging vans are simply wearing out. Plus business confidence is growing. A January survey taken for Wells Fargo found that optimism among small-business owners hit the highest level in five years. Most expect increased cash flow and hiring this year. Also, oncetight credit for small businesses has loosened, a nd borrowing rose in the second half of last year, according to research by Experian and Moody’s. Commercial van sales last year were up more than 40 percent since 2010, and they rose 9 percent in January even as U.S. auto sales dropped 3 percent, according to Ward’s AutoInfoBank. “A lot of these contractors have been trying to keep their old products as long as they can,” said Peter Bedrosian, senior manager of product planning for Nissan North America. “The vehicles are really nearing the end of their useful life.” Van sales are a bellwether for the broader economic recovery since small businesses are reluctant to spend after a recession, said Mike Jackson, director of North American forecasting for the IHS Automotive consulting firm, which predicts commercial van sales will grow 27 percent between 2013 and 2015 to nearly 400,000 per year. Auto companies have spotted the trend, and they’re moving quickly to enter a market once dominated by Ford, General Motors and Mercedes. Nissan entered the market with the NV full-size van in 2011 and the NV200, as small van, last year. Chrysler’s Ram brand started selling a full-size van last year and has plans for a small van. More products are coming from GM and Ford. Ford’s Transit Connect, a van built on the guts of a compact car, created a new market for small vans when it was introduced in 2009. Before it arrived on the scene, businesses had to buy big vans even if they didn’t

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In this Friday photo, Maris Angolia, president of Karin’s Florist, stands with two of Karin’s Florist’s delivery vehicles, a 2006 Scion xB, front, and a 2011 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, behind, outside Karin’s Florist, in Vienna, Va.

‘A lot of these contractors have been trying to keep their old products as long as they can. The vehicles are really nearing the end of their useful life.’ — Peter Bedrosian, senior manager of product planning, Nissan North America need them. Now, if owners want better gas mileage and maneuverability but don’t need huge cargo space, they have choices. Earlier this month, GM’s Chevrolet unveiled its own Nissan-made small van, the City Express, at the Chicago Auto Show. GM contracted with Nissan so it could bring a van to market quickly to take advantage of growth, said Ed Peper, the company’s vice president of commercial sales. Ford sold only 8,800 Transit Connects when it was introduced in 2009, but that grew

to almost 40,000 last year. Nissan’s NV 200 and the Ram Cargo Van, a modified minivan, joined the market, pushing total small van sales to more than 53,000 in 2013. Big vans saw even larger growth, with sales rising from 159,000 in 2009 to nearly 259,000 last year. Van sales began taking off in 2012 and 2013, and now they are accelerating, Peper said. “We’ve seen just a lot more activity, a lot more confidence,” he said. “There’s more (price) quoting. To me that’s a very good sign.” While Karin’s may be confident enough to pull the trigger on a new van, others are still waiting. Kessler Plumbing near Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles is still running eight older-model Ford E-Series vans, some of which have more than 200,000 miles on them. The company’s owner has been against making a purchase, and Kessler hasn’t bought any vans since 2008, said Matt Martinez, a company supervisor. “It’s been tough since the recession,” Martinez said. “We’ve been crawling out of that. This year is starting off strong, so we’ll see.”

Homer Electric Association (HEA) is accepting nominations from members interested in running for a seat on the cooperative’s Board of Directors. The cooperative’s Board is made up of nine directors, three from each of the three districts that make up the service area. This year, the District 1 (Kenai-Nikiskiparts of Soldotna) seat held by Kenai resident Kelly Bookey will be on the ballot. In District 2 (Soldotna-Sterling-Kasilof area) the seat currently held by Sterling resident Dick Waisanen will be up for election. In District 3 (Kasilof-Homer-Seldovia area), HEA members will vote for the seat currently held by Don Seelinger of Seldovia. HEA directors are elected by district, with members voting only for the director in their respective district. Members interested in being on the ballot must fill out a Candidacy Packet that requires the candidate to gather at least 15 signatures from current HEA members that live in the district where the candidate resides. The Candidacy Packet is available at HEA offices in Kenai and Homer and online at www.homerelectric.com The deadline to submit the Candidacy Packet is 5 p.m. on Feb. 28. Completed packets can be dropped off at either the Kenai or Homer HEA office. Ballots will be mailed out to HEA members on March 28 and the results will be tabulated and announced at the Annual Meeting on May 1 at the Soldotna High School. For additional information contact Joe Gallagher at 907-283-2324.

Small Business Development Center plans seminar To register for Alaska SBDC seminars got to http://aksbdc.ecenterdirect.com and click on “Training Events.” Scroll down to “Centers Location” and select “Kenai Peninsula”; click on “Browse” to find the workshop, then click “Sign Up” and complete the information needed. Call Bunny 260-5629 for questions. Profit Mastery ($200 limited time offer) — On March 18 and March 19 from 9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bryan Zak will present a 2-day Profit Mastery workshop in the Red Diamond Center, Suite 12, in Soldotna. This is your best opportunity for knowledge-driven financial management education. This 16-hour hands-on course will help you set goals for the future of your business, control spending and pricing, and leave with a process to assess the performance of your business and a strategy to implement change. In addition to the program content, you will master the material through quizzes, lively discussion, guided practice, and real-life application to your own business. To qualify for job bill funding’s limited time offer of $200, you must register online before March 10. Only five openings left. You can use our secure UPAY for MasterCard or VISA, or contact Bunny if you prefer to pay by cash or check. If you are a veteran with DD-214 identification, contact Bunny before making payment.

Job center hosts classes

The Peninsula Job Center will offer the following workshops the week of March 3: Monday, March 3 — 9:30 a.m., ALEXsys Job Leads; 10:30 a.m., Introduction to ALEXsys and the Job Center; 2:30 p.m., Resume Writing Workshop Tuesday, March 4 — 10:30 a.m., Job Prep Workshop Wednesday, March 5 — 10:30 a.m., CareerReady 101 Lab; 1:30 p.m., WorkKeys® Testing; 3:00 p.m., Job Search Strategies for the Ex-Offender Thursday, March 6 — 10:30 a.m., Interviewing Skills Workshop Friday, March 7 — No workshops offered. All workshops are free of charge to the public. Citizens’ Advisory Council Those interested in attending any of the recertification application workshops offered at the Peninsula Job Center can call 335-3010 or visit the job center available for public review located in Kenai at 11312 Kenai Spur HighThe Prince William Sound Regional Citi- way, Suite No. 2. zens’ Advisory Council is seeking recertification as the alternative voluntary advisory group for Prince William Sound, as autho- What’s new in your business? rized under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 Have you opened a new business, moved (OPA 90). The application has been submitto a new location, hired a new person or proted to the U.S. Coast Guard, which is charged moted an employee? The community wants to with assessing whether the council fosters the general goals and purposes of OPA 90 and is know, and so do we. Send us your informabroadly representative of communities and in- tion at news@peninsulaclarion.com, fax it to 907-283-3299, or drop it by the Clarion at 150 terests as envisioned under OPA 90. The application is open for public review Trading Bay in Kenai. Questions? Call 907until March 7 under federal register docket 335-1251. number USCG-2013-1003. The full text of the federal register notice can be found at Record bonuses for Alaska www.regulation.gov using the docket number. Airlines employees Comments may be submitted on line at that SEATTLE (AP) — Alaska Airlines and website. The recertification application is available Horizon Air employees received an annual for public review on the council’s website at bonus Wednesday totaling $84 million. Seattle-based Alaska Air Group says the inwww.pwsrcac.org. To obtain a printed copy, contact the Prince William Sound Regional centive pay amounts to about 9 percent of anCitizens’ Advisory Council, 3709 Spenard nual pay or five weeks’ pay for most workers. More than $51 million goes to 6,400 AlasRoad, Suite 100, Anchorage, Alaska 99503. Call 907-277-7222 or toll-free 800-478- ka and Horizon employees in the Puget Sound area. Another $11 million goes to about 2,000 7221. Comments on the application may be sent employees in the Portland area. And $8 milto: Commander, 17th Coast Guard District lion goes to 1,700 employees in the state of (Dp), PO Box 25517, Juneau AK 99802, Attn: Alaska. The rest goes to airline workers at LT Tomas Pauser, Inspections & Investiga- other locations. The annual bonus is in addition to monthly tions. Comments also can be forwarded to the bonuses last year that totaled about $21 mildocket manager at the address indicated. All lion. The combined $105 million is the highcorrespondence must include the docket num- est in company history. ber. Submit business news to news@peninsulaThe Coast Guard will be taking comment clarion.com. until March 7.

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Heroin overdose antidote: for who?

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Registered Nurse Babette Richter, with the South Jersey AIDS Alliance, holds up a container of the heroin overdose antidote, naloxone, also known by its brand name Narcan, in Camden, N.J. on Saturday, Feb. 22. By KATIE ZEZIMA Associated Press

CAMDEN, N.J. — As deaths from heroin and powerful painkillers skyrocket nationwide, governments and clinics are working to put a drug that can reverse an opiate overdose into the hands of more paramedics, police officers and the people advocates say are the most critical group — people who abuse drugs, and their friends and families. Supporters say the opportunity to save potentially thousands of lives outweighs any fears by critics that the promise of a nearby antidote would only encourage drug abuse. At least 17 states and the District of Columbia allow naloxone — commonly known by the brand name Narcan — to be distributed to the public, said Jeffrey Levi, executive director of Trust for America’s Health, a national nonprofit that focuses on preventive health care. And at least 10 of those states allow for third parties, such as a family member or friend of an intravenous drug user, to be prescribed it. Among them is New Jersey, which passed a law last year that allows members of the public to carry naloxone — administered through a nasal spray or injection into a muscle — after getting

training. About 20 people, most of them related to overdose victims or people who currently abuse heroin, crowded into a clinic last weekend in Camden, a drugplagued city across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, to learn about the antidote. Jane Stiuv, whose daughter survived a heroin overdose in 2011, listened as a nurse described the signs of an overdose and when to administer naloxone. Stiuv, who found her daughter slumped over the side of a bathtub with a needle in her arm hours after her release from prison, said she wanted to learn how to reverse an overdose should it happen again. Each attendee received a kit containing two syringes, a small vial of naloxone, alcohol swabs and a face shield for rescue breathing. “I was a little shaky. It brings me back to the times she overdosed,” Stiuv said of the training. “But it makes me feel better that it can help her and do something about overdose prevention.” Naloxone is regarded within the medical community as highly effective when used properly. A study conducted during a statesupported pilot of naloxone distribution and overdose education in Massachusetts showed it was 98 percent effective in attempts to

rescue a person who overdosed. Police in Quincy, Mass., have been carrying naloxone nasal spray since 2010 and said in July 2013 that they used naloxone 179 times, reversing 170 of those overdoses — a 95 percent success rate. According to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the number of overdose deaths involving prescription drugs increased 21 percent from 2006 to 2010; the number of overdose deaths involving heroin increased 45 percent. Bills are pending in at least seven states to increase access to naloxone. In Tennessee and Utah, doctors would be allowed to prescribe it, and civil liability for those who administer it would be dropped. A Wisconsin bill seeks to broaden access to naloxone and, as New Jersey also does, provide legal immunity to drug users reporting an overdose. Marty Walsh, the new mayor of Boston, this month called for all first responders to carry naloxone. Police in Indianapolis, where heroin overdose deaths have doubled since 2011, have started a pilot program to have officers carry the drug. In Ocean County, N.J., police are being trained in how to use it. The White House drug policy office is also urging all first responders to have naloxone on hand. In 2012, the Food and Drug Administration held hearings on making naloxone available over the counter, but it has not yet done so. Naloxone is available by prescription in the United Kingdom, but an advisory council has called for over-the-counter distribution. Prescription take-home programs are in place in Australia, Canada, Estonia and Russia. Norway plans to distribute nasal spray kits to drug users in its two largest cities. But not everyone is sold on the idea of making it more widely available. In Maine, where heroin overdoses increased fourfold from 2011 to 2012, Gov. Paul LePage opposes a bill that would allow health care professionals to prescribe it and allow more emergen-

Texas gay marriage ban debated By CHRIS TOMLINSON Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge declared a same-sex marriage ban in deeply conservative Texas unconstitutional on Wednesday, but will allow the nation’s second-most populous state to enforce the law pending an appeal that will likely go to the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Orlando Garcia issued the preliminary injunction after two gay couples challenged a state constitutional amendment and a longstanding law. His ruling is the latest in a tangled web of lawsuits across the country expected to end up in the Supreme Court next year. “Without a rational relation to a legitimate governmental purpose, state-imposed inequality can find no refuge in our United States Constitution,” Garcia wrote. “These Texas laws deny plaintiffs access to the institution of marriage and its numerous rights, privileges, and responsibilities for the sole reason that Plaintiffs wish to be married to a person of the same sex.” Garcia said the couples are

likely to win their case and the ban should be lifted, but said he would not enforce his ruling pending one by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which already is hearing two other states’ cases. He also will give Texas time to appeal to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Garcia, appointed by President Bill Clinton, is the first judge in the conservative 5th Circuit to reach such a decision. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who also is the leading Republican candidate to succeed Gov. Rick Perry, promised to appeal the decision to the New Orleans court. “This is an issue on which there are good, well-meaning people on both sides,” Abbott said in a statement. “The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled over and over again that States have the authority to define and regulate marriage.” The ruling is the latest in a series of victories for gay rights activists following similar decisions in Utah, Oklahoma and Virginia. The U.S. Supreme Court put the Utah ruling on hold until the 10th Circuit can consider an appeal,

and Garcia said he would respect that order as well. Mark Phariss and Victor Holmes filed their federal civil rights lawsuit saying Texas’ ban unconstitutionally denied them the fundamental right to marry because of their sexual orientation. Cleopatra De Leon and Nicole Dimetman filed a lawsuit saying Texas officials violated their rights by not recognizing their marriage conducted in a state where gay marriage is legal. “Having been together almost 17 years, we look forward to the day when we can get married and when all gay Texans enjoy equal rights to marry as well,” Phariss and Holmes said in a statement. Dimetman and De Leon said they hope to retake their vows in Texas. Todd Staples, a candidate for lieutenant governor who drafted the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, denounced the court’s decision. “I am disappointed that judicial activism is once again trying to trump the will of the people. This ruling is the poster child of the culture war occurring in America today,” he said.

Detroit mayor announces demolition of vacant homes DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said Wednesday that “strategic demolition” of some fire-damaged vacant homes will begin within 30 days. The announcement came at the start of Duggan’s first State of the City address and the first such speech since Detroit was allowed to enter bankruptcy. Duggan said his administration and the City Council are both working to improve the city. “The change has started and the change in Detroit is real,” he said. Duggan said the demolition will be paid for using $20 million in an unused escrow fund earmarked for burned houses. “If you drive through most of the neighborhoods today, you wouldn’t know there was a national recovery,” Duggan said in his Wednesday evening address. “People in this community see parts of the country doing well and even parts of the city doing well and others are left behind.” Duggan, a former medical center chief, was elected in November. His power is restricted while Detroit remains under state oversight, but blight removal and demolition of what could be 70,000 or more vacant houses and other buildings are under his control. Detroit is going through the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, and Duggan’s address came less than a week after state-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr filed his plan to pay creditors while providing money for city services and improvements in the coming years. Under a deal with Orr, Duggan has charge over financial matters relating to day-to-day functions of city government. But most of the power once exclusive to the mayor’s office now resides with Orr, who has complete control over all city finances, how much is spent and what the money is spent on. C

cy responders to carry the drug. LePage, who wants to add 14 new drug enforcement agents in the state, cites concerns that it would raise Medicaid costs. He also has said the drug provides “a false sense of security that abusers are somehow safe from overdose if they have a prescription nearby.” “This bill would make it easier for those who have substance abuse problems to push themselves to the edge, or beyond,” LePage wrote in a letter last year explaining his veto of a similar bill designed to expand access to naloxone. “Offering temporary relief without medical or treatment oversight will not combat drug use.” Dr. Marcus Romanello, the chief of the emergency room at Fort Hamilton Hospital in Hamilton, Ohio, said he believes police should carry naloxone but is leery of giving it to the public. There is no disputing, however, that it works, he said. “They are pulled back from the jaws of death, as we say, by the Narcan,” he said. An overdose of opiates essentially makes the body forget to breathe. Naloxone works by blocking the brain receptors that opiates latch onto and helping the body “remember” to take in air. The antidote’s effects wear off in about a half hour, and multiple doses may be needed. The drug’s backers say it’s crucial to train relatives or friends of addicts because the person overdosing is likely sick or unconscious and unable to self-administer the antidote. It also must be given within a certain window; most overdoses occur within a half-hour to three hours after injecting too much of a drug. Naloxone wouldn’t, therefore, have helped actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died of an apparent heroin overdose this month in his New York apartment and is believed to have been alone as he took drugs; he was already dead when discovered.

Around the Nation US warns Russia against ‘grave mistake’ in Ukraine, offers aid and nudges Georgia toward West WASHINGTON — The United States on Wednesday warned Russia against a military intervention in Ukraine, saying such a move would be a “grave mistake,” as troops in western Russia were placed on high alert for massive new war games in the area, including near the Russian-Ukrainian border. In delivering the blunt message, Secretary of State John Kerry also announced that the Obama administration was planning $1 billion in loan guarantees for Ukraine and would consider additional direct assistance for the former Soviet republic following unrest that led to the ouster of its Russian-backed president. Kerry also renewed U.S. demands that Moscow withdraw troops from disputed enclaves in another former Soviet republic, Georgia, and urged Georgia to further integrate with Europe and NATO. The warning, aid announcement and nudge westward for Georgia all came amid growing tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine and were likely to fuel already-heightened Russian suspicions over Western intentions in its backyard. Kerry insisted, however, that that U.S. policy toward Ukraine, Georgia and the other states that once made up the Soviet Union was not aimed at reducing Russia’s influence in its neighborhood.

Obama asking Congress for $300B for road, railway work he says will help put Americans to work ST. PAUL, Minn. — President Barack Obama said Wednesday he will ask Congress for $300 billion to update aging roads and railways, arguing that the taxpayer investment is a worthy one that will pay dividends by attracting businesses and helping put people to work. Obama announced his plan at the Union Depot rail and bus station after touring a light rail maintenance facility. Funding for surface transportation programs expires later this year, and the White House says 700,000 jobs could be at risk unless Congress renews them. “At a time when companies are saying they intend to hire more people this year, we need to make that decision easier for them,” Obama said, by rebuilding aging transportation systems, power grids, communications networks and other projects that ease commerce. “The bottom line is there’s work to be done, workers ready to do it,” he said, adding that one of Congress’ major responsibilities is to help states and cities pay for such projects. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx warned Wednesday of a “transportation cliff” coming in August or September when the Highway Trust Fund, which finances federal highway and transit projects, is forecast to go broke. - The Associated Press

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US Joint Chiefs chairman Dempsey sees grim future for Afghanistan without US security pact BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Depicting a grim future for Afghanistan without U.S. help, the top U.S. military officer said Wednesday that Afghanistan’s refusal to sign a security agreement with the United States may make the fight more difficult this year, embolden the enemy and prompt some Afghan security forces to cooperate with the Taliban to “hedge their bets.” Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spent the day with his commanders and troops in Afghanistan working to manage the after-effects of President Barack Obama’s order Tuesday to begin actively planning for a total withdrawal of U.S. troops by the end of the year. In back-to-back meetings, he urged them to focus on the considerable military work they have to do and not worry about next year. Dempsey told The Associated Press in an interview that the possible exit of all U.S. troops was making Afghan military leaders anxious and eating away at their troops’ confidence. He said he spoke with some Afghan leaders after the Tuesday announcement, and they asked him to stay committed to an enduring U.S. presence, and told him they were doing all they could to get the agreement signed. Frustrated with Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai, Obama ordered the Pentagon to accelerate planning for a full U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of this year. But Obama is also holding out hope that Afghanistan’s next president, to be elected this spring, may eventually sign a stalled security agreement that could prevent the U.S. from having to take that step. The administration would like to leave up to 10,000 troops in Afghanistan after combat operations end on Dec. 31 to continue training Afghan forces and conduct counterterrorism missions. But without the agreement that would give international forces legal standing to stay in Afghanistan, Obama has threatened to pull all troops out, and NATO forces would follow suit.

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JERUSALEM — Israel has opened a new front in its attempts to halt weapons smuggling to Hezbollah, striking one of the group’s positions inside Lebanon for the first time since the sides fought a war eight years ago. This week’s airstrike, meant to prevent the Islamic militant group from obtaining sophisticated missiles, is part of a risky policy that could easily backfire by triggering retaliation. But at a time when the Syrian opposition says Hezbollah has struck a major blow for President Bashar Assad’s government in neighboring Syria by ambushing al-Qaida-linked fighters there, it shows the strategic importance for Israel of trying to break the Syria-Hezbollah axis. For now, the odds of a direct conflagration between Israel and Hezbollah appear low. The group has sent hundreds of fighters to Syria and is preoccupied with saving Assad’s embattled regime. Syrian state media reported that army troops killed 175 rebels, many of them al-Qaida-linked fighters, near Damascus on Wednesday, but the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a prominent opposition group, said it was Hezbollah forces that carried out the dawn ambush. Israel considers both Hezbollah and the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front to be grave threats. With a lack of good choices, Israel has avoided taking sides in the Syrian war, and in the short term, is content watching the two sides beat each other up. In the long run, officials have expressed concerns about the battlefield expertise that Hezbollah has gained. Officials also suspect that despite repeated Israeli airstrikes on suspected arms shipments, Hezbollah has managed to get its hands on many sophisticated weapons, including Russian-made antiaircraft and anti-ship missiles, ensuring that any future conflict with Israel will be far more intense than previous rounds of fighting.

Syrian state media say army troops killed 175 rebels in one of deadliest attacks near Damascus DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian army troops on Wednesday killed 175 rebels, many of them al-Qaida-linked fighters, in an ambush described as one of the deadliest attacks by government forces against fighters near Damascus, according to state media. An opposition group said the dawn ambush — part of a government effort to secure the capital — was carried out by the Lebanese Hezbollah group, which has been instrumental in helping President Bashar Assad’s regime push back rebels entrenched in the suburbs of the capital city. Syrian state news agency SANA quoted a field commander in the eastern Ghouta area as saying most of the rebels killed in the assault near Oteibah lake southeast of Damascus belonged to the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front rebel group. The report said several of those killed were foreign fighters who came to Syria from Saudi Arabia, Chechnya and Qatar. SANA said the operation dealt “a smashing blow to terrorists,” a term Syrian state media uses for rebels. The agency posted several photographs on its website showing dozens of bodies of men, some with leg wounds, lying in a dirt track of an open field. Some were wearing fatigues, but most wore civilian clothes and appeared to have been carrying bags of clothes and bottles of water that were scattered on the ground, suggesting they were changing locations when they were ambushed.

By GRANT PECK Associated Press

BANGKOK — Supporters of Thailand’s embattled prime minister chained shut the headquarters of the National Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday, a day before it plans to charge her with mishandling a government rice subsidy program. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s supporters, called Red Shirts, are copying the tactics of her opponents, who have blocked roads and government agencies since December to pressure her to resign. The Red Shirts believe the anti-graft agency is persecuting the prime minister. They have built a stage at their demonstration site and said they will bar the anticorruption commissioners from their offices Thursday. Several also chained themselves to the office’s gates. The rice subsidy program — a flagship policy of Yingluck’s administration that helped win the votes of millions of farmers — has accumulated losses of at least $4.4 billion and has been dogged by corruption allegations. Payments to farmers have been delayed by many months. Yingluck’s opponents want to replace her government with an appointed council that would introduce vaguely described anticorruption reforms. The Red Shirts have generally kept a low profile during the months of anti-government protests, but as Yingluck’s government comes under greater threat of legal action that might force it from office, they have said they

will respond in force, if necessary. Yingluck could eventually face impeachment by the Senate or criminal charges if the commission delivers a final ruling against her. She is in northern Thailand and is planning to send a representative to hear the charges against her Thursday. The aggressive street protests by anti-government demonstrators have already disrupted the ability of the government to function, with Yingluck also limited in her powers because she is now a caretaker prime minister after calling early elections. The volatile situation has worsened with recently, with shootings and grenade attacks on anti-government protest sites. Along with earlier clashes involving battles with police, 22 people have died and hundreds have been hurt in the political violence. The deaths of four children in attacks this past weekend caused widespread shock and sorrow, but seem to have only hardened the positions of both sides. A grenade believed to have been fired from a M79 launcher exploded in the parking lot of public TV broadcaster TPBS on Wednesday night, damaging several cars but causing no casualties. Thai media reported that another two grenades were apparently fired at the nearby offices of the government’s emergency peacekeeping task force but failed to explode. Anti-government protesters dressed in black gathered earlier Wednesday outside National Police headquarters to demand

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Anti-government protesters wave national flags at the gates of the police headquarters during a memorial for the children killed in recent bomb blasts in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Feb. 26. Violence spread Tuesday to another anti-government protest site in Thailand’s capital following weekend explosions that left five people dead, including four children, security officials said.

justice for victims of the attacks. The protesters, who employ their own unofficial armed guards, generally bar police from their protest sites. They have successfully sued in sympathetic courts to prevent police from acting against them even when they are in flagrant breach of the law. Although tension is high, with shootings at several protest sites over the past few nights, the situation is not yet as dire as it was in 2010, when Red Shirts were occupying Bangkok’s streets and were backed by a mysterious armed militia. They were seeking to oust the government at that time, led by the now-opposition Democrat Party. In response, the army garrisoned a large part of downtown

Bangkok, and finally cleared the protesters out in a full-scale military operation. Violence during the two months of protests left more than 90 people dead and more than 1,500 injured. The army, which is generally sympathetic to the current anti-government protesters, announced Wednesday it would set up checkpoints in Bangkok to help maintain safety. Thailand has seen political conflict since 2006, when thenPrime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Yingluck’s brother, was ousted by a military coup after being accused of corruption and abuse of power. Thaksin’s supporters and opponents have since taken to the streets for extended periods in a power struggle.

Man guilty of slaying UK soldier By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press

LONDON — An al-Qaidainspired extremist was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday for hacking an offduty British soldier to death on a London street in front of horrified passers-by. Images of Michael Adebolajo, 29, holding a butcher knife and cleaver with bloodied hands in the moments after the May 22 killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby shocked people around the world and sparked fears of Islamist terrorism in Britain. The self-described “soldier of Allah” was sentenced at Central Criminal Court along with his accomplice, 22-year-old Michael Adebowale, who was sentenced to life with a minimum of 45 years in jail because of his age and lesser role in the murder. The day ended in drama when both men were pinned to the ground and led out of the courtroom after scuffling with guards and shouting at the judge moments before their sentences were read out. Adebolajo yelled “Allahu akbar” — “God is great” — while

Adebowale called out “that’s a lie” as the judge told them they had been radicalized. Outside the court, protesters from two far-right groups erected gallows and demanded capital punishment for the two men. The pair was convicted in December of murdering Rigby, 25, who was walking near his barracks in south London when the men ran him over with a car. They then dragged his body onto the road, and repeatedly stabbed him with knives. Adebowale attacked his torso, while Adebolajo attempted to cut off the soldier’s head with a cleaver. Moments after the killing, Adebolajo was filmed by onlookers delivering a rambling monologue justifying the attack as he held the bloodied weapons. Rigby was killed because “Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers” — “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth,” he said in the video, which was broadcast around the world. In his testimony, Adebolajo told the court that he loved alQaida — though he never met its members. He also said he and Adebowale had decided to kill a

Assailant hacks ex-Hong Kong editor with cleaver HONG KONG — The former editor of a Hong Kong newspaper whose abrupt dismissal in January sparked protests over press freedom is in critical condition after being hacked Wednesday by an assailant with a meat cleaver, police said. Police said a man wearing a motorcycle helmet attacked Kevin Lau in a residential neighborhood and then fled on a motorcycle driven by another man. Lau was hospitalized in critical condition with slashes in his back and legs, said Kwan King-pan, acting superintendent of Hong Kong Police. Police did not announce any motive for the attack and appealed to the public for information. -The Associated Press

British soldier and Rigby was the first they came across. Judge Nigel Sweeney said their actions were “sickening and pitiless” and resulted in a “bloodbath.” He added that he was certain Adebolajo had no hope of rehabilitation. “You decided, between you, and in order to advance your

extremist cause, to murder a soldier in public in broad daylight and to do so in a way that would generate maximum media coverage,” he said. “You both gloried in what you had done.” Rigby’s family said after the sentencing that they were satisfied justice has been served.

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Brown Bears not out of the woods quite yet

Team still out of playoff chase even after solid stretch of hockey, but will get 3 games with Wild By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

If the old maxim that everything evens out in life is true, the Kenai River Brown Bears must have had some awfully easy roads to the playoffs in the past. The Bears, fighting to make the playoffs for the sixth time in their seventh season, indeed have made the playoffs on three occasions before the puck drop on opening night, because there were only four teams in the division. This year’s outfit is paying the price.

Kenai River came off of holiday break on Dec. 27 in fifth place in the North American Hockey League Midwest Division. Since then, the Bears have picked up a point in 13 of 19 games, playing teams currently over .500 in 15 of those 19 games. The reward for that relatively solid stretch of hockey? Fifth place in the Midwest Division, which would currently put the Bears out of the playoffs. And it’s not about to get any easier. The Bears have 11 games remaining. Nine of those games are on the road, and nine of those games are against

teams currently over .500. Four of those games are against Fairbanks, the top team in the league. The Bears will end up playing Fairbanks 16 times out of a 60-game schedule. The Bears are 2-10 against the Ice Dogs thus far. The crucial 11-game finale begins today with a 6:05 p.m. AST tilt at the Wenatchee (Wash.) Wild. The Bears stay in Wenatchee for a 6:05 p.m. game Saturday and 2:05 p.m. game Sunday. The Wild are currently in fourth place in the Midwest with 56 points, while Kenai River has played two less games than Wenatchee and has 54

points. The Coulee Region (Wis.) Chill are in third with 58 points and have played one less game than Kenai River. The Minnesota Wilderness (65 points) and Ice Dogs (77 points) lead the division. The Bears (24-19-6) are still smarting from a 7-1 loss in Fairbanks on Saturday. The loss came on the heels of a 3-2 overtime victory over the Ice Dogs on Friday. “We didn’t do a lot of the little things we did Friday,” Kenai River head coach Geoff Beauparlant said. “Give Fairbanks credit, they played a solid hockey game. They were skating, they were physical and they took

the puck into difficult areas. “We got caught watching instead of playing.” Beauparlant said the team was disappointed Saturday night, but in a better mood Sunday. “We’re trying to use it as a rallying point,” Beauparlant said. “It could be a huge wakeup call for our guys that they need to be ready to go and play with a little bit more urgency. “We had two pretty solid days of practice preparing for what arguably could be the biggest weekend of the year.” The Bears won the first five games See BEARS, page A-9

Arizona gets its revenge on Cal The Associated Press

Buffalo Sabres’ Matt Moulson (26) redirects a puck while Boston Bruins’ Kevan Miller (86) and Chad Johnson (30) defend during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Buffalo, N.Y., Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Buffalo won in overtime 5-4. (AP Photo/Gary Wiepert)

Sabres upset Bruins in OT

Buffalo loses early 3-1 lead but D’Agostini nets gamewinner The Associated Press

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Matt D’Agostini outraced Zdeno Chara to a loose puck and scored 22 seconds into overtime, lifting the Buffalo Sabres to a 5-4 win over the Boston Bruins on Wednesday night. Matt Moulson forced overtime by scoring with 53 seconds left in regulation in a game the Sabres won after squandering a 3-1 secondperiod lead. Brian Flynn had a goal and assist, while Tyler Myers and Zemgus Girgensons also scored for Buffalo. Coming off a 3-2 win over Carolina on Tuesday, the Sabres (17-34-8) won consecutive games for only the third time this season, and first since Dec. 17-19. Chara, Milan Lucic, Brad

Marchand and Chris Kelly scored for the Atlantic Division-leading Bruins (37-165), in their first game after the NHL’s two-week Olympic break. RED WINGS 2, CANADIENS 1, OT MONTREAL — Gustav Nyquist scored on a rebound with 28 seconds left in overtime to give the Detroit Red Wings a win over the Montreal Canadiens in the first post-Olympic game for both teams. Montreal had goalie Peter Budaj pulled for an extra attacker when captain Brian Gionta scored with 29 seconds left in regulation to force overtime. A team coached by Detroit’s Mike Babcock, who led Canada to the gold medal, had not allowed a goal since Lauris Darzins

got one at 15:41 of the first period of Canada’s 2-1 win over Latvia in the quarterfinals in Sochi. Todd Bertuzzi scored in the first period for Detroit.

CANUCKS 1, BLUES 0 VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Jannik Hansen scored the game’s only goal and Eddie Lack made 20 saves for his third shutout of the season as the Vancouver Canucks blanked the St. Louis Blues. The Canucks ended their losing streak at seven games while moving into sole possession of eighth place in the Western Conference. The Blues dropped their third straight decision to Vancouver this season. Hansen broke a scoreless deadlock at 11:13 of the third period. He took a backhand stretch pass from Tom Sestito from deep

in the Vancouver zone just past center ice, raced in on a breakaway and beat Jaroslav Halak with a high shot.

KINGS 6, AVALANCHE 4 DENVER — Anze Kopitar had two goals, including the decisive score in the third period, and the Los Angeles Kings rallied to beat the Colorado Avalanche. Kopitar’s second goal of the night and 19th of the season put the Kings, who trailed by two goals midway through the second period, back in front. The Kings were on the power play when Jeff Carter, in the middle of a scramble in front of the net, swung at a loose puck, sending it straight up in the air. When the puck hit the ice, Kopitar got his stick on it and sent it into the net past goalie Jean-Sebastian Giguere at 3:13 of the third period.

Trout, Angels agree to 1-year deal JIM RICHARDS Associated Press

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Mike Trout has his first seven-figure contract. Up ahead is what figures to be a nine-figure deal. “It feels good,” Trout said Wednesday after agreeing to a $1 million, one-year contract

with the Los Angeles Angels. The salary is the highest for a one-year major league contract for a player not yet eligible for arbitration who wasn’t coming to the big leagues from Japan or Cuba or wasn’t required to have a larger amount because of the maximum cut rule. Ryan Howard earned $900,000 with

Philadelphia in 2007 and Albert Pujols with St. Louis in 2003. Trout will become eligible for arbitration after this season and could become a free agent after the 2017 World Series. The sides are thought to be discussing an agreement through 2020 in the $150 million range. Trout wouldn’t talk about

the possibility of a multiyear contract. “I just go out there to play the game,” he said. “If the money is where it’s at, that’s where it’s going to be.” By agreeing to a one-year contract now with the 22-yearold, the Angels avoid having See TROUT, page A-9

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Nick Johnson scored 22 points, Kaleb Tarczewski added 16 and No. 3 Arizona turned its rematch with California into an 87-59 rout Wednesday night. Cal won the first meeting 6058 on a last-second jumper by Justin Cobbs that sent the students pouring onto the court. Arizona (26-2, 13-2 Pac-12) ran away from the Bears early in the rematch, using a big firsthalf run and good shooting (50 percent) all game to prevent the season sweep. T.J. McConnell had 13 points and six assists, and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson provided a lift off the bench with 12 points and 10 rebounds. Johnson also had seven rebounds and five assists after struggling the first game against the Bears. Cobbs had 12 points for Cal (18-10, 9-6), which lost for the 17th time in 19 games at McKale Center. No. 8 VILLANOVA 67, BUTLER 48 VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — Darrun Hilliard and James Bell scored 11 points each to lead Villanova. The Wildcats (25-3, 13-2 Big East) survived one of their worst 20 minutes of the season to win for the ninth time in 10 games. They needed almost the first 10 minutes of the game to score 10 points, missed eight of their first nine 3-point attempts, and didn’t have a player reach double digits in scoring until midway through the second half. The Bulldogs (12-16, 2-14) were even worse, shooting 26 percent in the first half, and they lost their seventh straight game.

Naz Long had 15 points on five 3-pointers for the Cyclones (22-5, 10-5 Big 12), who have recorded three straight 10-win seasons in league play for the first time. Iowa State rolled despite playing nearly the entire second half without star Melvin Ejim, who sat because of foul trouble. Dustin Hogue helped cover for Ejim’s absence inside with 15 points and nine rebounds, including a rare 3 with 3:17 left that put the Cyclones ahead 79-65.

No. 16 MICHIGAN 77, PURDUE 76, OT WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Glenn Robinson III got a late bank shot to roll in as time expired in overtime for Michigan. The shot capped a remarkable rally. Michigan (20-7, 12-3 Big Ten) trailed by as many as 19 points in the first half, 13 at halftime and never led until the opening basket of overtime. Robinson, whose father was a star at Purdue, finished with 17 points while Nik Stauskas had 15. Terone Johnson had a seasonhigh 22 points for Purdue (15-13, C 5-10) while his brother Ronnie added 21. The Boilermakers have Y lost three straight.

No. 19 N. CAROLINA 85, N.C. STATE 84, OT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Marcus Paige hit a driving basket with 0.9 seconds left in overtime to cap a career night and help North Carolina to its 10th straight win. Paige finished with 35 points — 31 after halftime — and seven 3-pointers for the Tar Heels (21-7, 11-4 Atlantic Coast Conference), who needed every bit of that production to outlast the Wolfpack (17-11, 7-8) and league-leading scorer T.J. Warren, who had a career-high 36 points. The Tar Heels were down 11 No. 12 VIRGINIA 65, points in the first half and by six with 2 minutes left in overtime, but MIAMI 40 clawed back to win in a classic finCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. ish between nearby rivals. (AP) — London Perrantes scored a career-high 15 points and Virginia No. 24 TEXAS 74, opened the second half with a 16-5 BAYLOR 69 run on the way to its 12th consecutive win. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — CamPerrantes hit all four of his eron Ridley had 20 points and 10 3-point attempts and Malcolm rebounds and made a big defensive Brogdon also scored 15 points for play with a block in the final minVirginia (24-5, 15-1 Atlantic Coast ute as Texas held on. Conference). The victory was VirJavan Felix scored 21 points on ginia’s school-record 17th straight seven 3-pointers for Texas, which at home in conference play and as- led by 18 points in the first half but sured them of one of the top two saw Baylor pull within one late. seeds in next month’s conference Isaiah Taylor scored 13 points tournament. for the Longhorns (21-7, 10-5 Big 12), including a twisting lefthanded layup that put Texas ahead No. 15 IOWA ST. 83, 72-69. Ridley blocked a layup by WEST VIRGINIA 66 Kenny Chery before Taylor made AMES, Iowa (AP) — Georges two free throws. Niang scored 24 points and DeAnTexas got a much-needed win to dre Kane had 17 and 11 rebounds restore its confidence after losing three as Iowa State got its seventh win in of its previous five games, including eight games. two blowout losses on the road.

Irving comes up big to help Cavs upset Thunder OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Kyrie Irving scored 14 of his 31 points in the fourth quarter to help the Cleveland Cavaliers beat Oklahoma City 114-104 Wednesday night, giving the Thunder their third straight loss since the All-Star break. Jarrett Jack scored 21 points, Spencer Hawes had 19 and Tristan Thompson added 11 points and 11 rebounds for the Cavaliers, who snapped a threegame losing streak. Cleveland shot 14 for 21 from the field in the fourth quarter against the Western Conference-leading Thunder. Kevin Durant had 28 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists, Russell Westbrook had 24 points and nine assists, and Serge Ibaka added 16 points and 13 rebounds for the Thunder. Okla-

homa City is 0-3 since Westbrook re- in the first half because of a left calf strain. Golden State’s four-game win streak to an spin move and finished with a left-handed He had eight points in 15 minutes. emphatic end. finger roll in the first half. turned from his latest knee surgery. CLIPPERS 101, ROCKETS 93 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blake Griffin had 23 points and 16 rebounds and reserve Darren Collison scored seven of his 19 points in the final 2:09 to lift Los Angeles past Houston. The Clippers won for the sixth time in eight games, converting 20 Houston turnovers into 30 points. DeAndre Jordan had 13 points and 10 rebounds for his 30th double-double. His previous career high was 12 last season. Jamal Crawford, who had a seasonhigh seven 3-pointers Monday night in a win at New Orleans, was 1 for 6 behind the arc against the Rockets and left the game for good with 13 seconds remaining

Dwight Howard had 23 points and 11 Jordan Crawford scored 16 points for rebounds, and James Harden added 18 the Warriors and David Lee came off the points for the Rockets. bench to get 11 points in 20 minutes after being hospitalized with a stomach flu and missing two games, but Curry tied BULLS 103, WARRIORS 83 a season low with five points on 2-of-10 CHICAGO (AP) — Taj Gibson scored shooting. 21 points, Carlos Boozer added 15 points and 13 rebounds, and Chicago used a big MAVERICKS 108, PELICANS 89 third-quarter run to win for the seventh DALLAS (AP) — Dirk Nowitzki shook time in eight games by pounding Golden off an early shoulder issue to finish with 18 State. Jimmy Butler scored 16 points after points in Dallas’ victory and New Orleans missing two games with bruised ribs, Mike All-Star Anthony Davis was knocked out Dunleavy Jr. added 15, and Joakim Noah of the game with a similar problem. Nowitzki went to the locker room 31 grabbed 17 rebounds for the Bulls. They also dominated on the glass 56- seconds into the game holding his left 41, forced 16 turnovers and held All-Star shoulder but emerged a short time later Stephen Curry in check while bringing and returned to the game. He even had a C

Davis, the Pelicans’ leading scorer and rebounder, was holding his sprained left shoulder on his way to play defense and didn’t return after leaving the game during a New Orleans timeout with 4:13 left in the first half. The Mavericks (36-23) are a seasonhigh 13 games over .500 after their fourth straight win, and the Pelicans stayed winless since the All-Star break at 0-5.

TRAIL BLAZERS 124, NETS 80 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Will Barton had a season-high 20 points and career-high 11 rebounds, providing a spark off the bench for short-handed Portland in its rout of Brooklyn. See NBA, page A-9

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of the season against Wenatchee, but lost the last four, including a three-game sweep at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex from Jan. 30 to Feb. 1. The Bears have won all three games in Wenatchee. Beauparlant said the Bears must improve upon special teams and tempo in order to halt the losing streak against the Wild. The Wild have the third-best power play in the league and seventh-best penalty kill, while the Bears are 12th on the power play and 15th on the penalty kill. “At times when we play Wenatchee, we get caught up in a run-and-gun style,” Beauparlant said. “They like to get up and go and trade chances, while we want to play a more controlled game and take advantage of opportunities when presented.” The series will feature two of the top four scorers in the

league. Kenai River’s Alec Butcher leads the league with 55 points, while Wenatchee’s Troy Loggins is tied for third with 51. “When he is on his game, he is one of the best players in the league,” Beauparlant said of Butcher. “But it is going to take more than just him.” The coach said Tyler Andrews has been playing well on defense, blocking about five shots a night for the last five to eight games. Defenseman Ben Campbell also is settling in nicely after coming in a trade. On offense, Beauparlant said the workhorse types like Conor Deal, Jack Gessert and Matt Rudin will have to contribute, particularly because gritty forward Zack Zulkanycz is out indefinitely with a concussion. Seven of the nine games between the Bears and Wild have been decided by one goal. Four have been decided by overtime or shootout. “It’s been an exciting hockey series,” Beauparlant said. “Both teams play with a lot of skill and speed. It’s very entertaining hockey.”

. . . Trout

“The Angels could have easily just done the same thing that they did last year,” Trout said. Continued from page A-8 “It makes you feel good inside. It makes you feel like they rea long-term deal count toward ally want you here. It means a lot to me.” their 2014 luxury tax payroll. “It’s a landmark to do a $1 million with a two-plus player,” Hamilton still hurt Angels general manager Jerry TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Los Dipoto said. “I think it’s fitting and Mike’s earned that and Angeles Angels outfielder Josh we’re glad to provide that for Hamilton will be sidelined for at least two weeks because of a him.” Trout was voted AL Rookie strained calf muscle, and pitchof the Year and finished second er C.J. Wilson does not appear in MVP voting in 2012, when to be seriously hurt after gethe hit .326 with 30 homers and ting struck on the head by a line 83 RBIs, and led the majors drive in batting practice. Both players were injured with 129 runs and 49 steals. He was second again to Detroit’s during a spring training workMiguel Cabrera in MVP voting out Tuesday. Hamilton struggled in his last year, when he batted .323 with a .432 on-base percent- first season with the Angels afage, 27 homers, 97 RBIs and ter agreeing to a $125 million, five-year contract, hitting .250 33 steals. “We thought his performance with 21 homers and 79 RBIs. was exceptional,” Dipoto said. The 2010 AL MVP reported “There are players that force to spring training 20 pounds you to break rules. What he heavier than last year after losdid for two consecutive years ing about 25 pounds following forced us to break our own rule. the 2012 season. Hamilton left the clubhouse His performance certainly merited us to do differently than on crutches Tuesday after getting hurt during a baserunning any of the others.” Trout had a $482,500 sal- drill. “It’s something that will ary as a rookie and earned a $10,000 bonus for winning definitely heal on its own and Rookie of the Year. The Angels it’s just going to take some time renewed his contract last year and the timeframe we’re getting for $510,000 — just $20,000 is the minimum of a couple of above the major league mini- weeks,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia said Wednesday. mum at the time.

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The Blazers won their fourth straight game despite missing forward LaMarcus Aldridge. The team’s top scorer and rebounder has been out five games with a left groin sprain. Jason Collins, who became the NBA’s first openly gay player when he signed a 10-day contract with the Nets on Sunday, entered the game without fan reaction and played a pair of scoreless stretches in the fourth quarter. Mo Williams scored 21 points and Nicolas Batum had 19 to lead seven Portland players in double figures.

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his career-best with 16 for the Suns.

GRIZZLIES 108, LAKERS 103 MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Courtney Lee scored 18 points, Marc Gasol had 14 points and 12 rebounds, and Memphis weathered Los Angeles’ late 3-point shooting display. Tony Allen added 17 points, James Johnson 14 and Zach Randolph 13 for Memphis. Jodie Meeks led the Lakers with 19 points, Wesley Johnson added 18 and Pau Gasol had 17 points and 10 rebounds.

CELTICS 115, HAWKS 104 BOSTON (AP) — Jerryd Bayless scored a season-high 29 points in a rare start, and Rajon Rondo added 22 points and 11 assists to help Boston break a five-game losing streak with a victory over slumping Atlanta. Six players scored in double figures for Boston. Rondo’s double-double was his second straight and fifth overall since he returned from a knee injury on Jan. 17. Jeff Teague had 26 points and DeMarre Carroll scored 24 off the bench for Atlanta, which lost for the 10th time in 11 games.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Marco Belinelli had 20 points to lead eight San Antonio players in double figures, and the Spurs worked through a lethargic start to beat Detroit. Kawhi Leonard had 15 points in his return from a 14-game absence due to a broken finger. Manu Ginobili scored 16 points, Tim Duncan and Tiago Splitter had 13 apiece, Boris Diaw added 12, Patty Mills 11 and Cory Joseph 10. Josh Smith scored 24 points for Detroit, which has lost three MAGIC 101, 76ERS 90 straight. Will Bynum added 18 points, Rodney Stuckey 17 and PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Andre Drummond had 16 points Jameer Nelson scored 12 of his 16 and 17 rebounds. points in the fourth quarter and Nik Vucevic had 21 points and 13 rebounds to help Orlando snap a 16JAZZ 109, SUNS 86 game road losing streak. Nelson added 12 assists for the SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gordon Hayward had 17 points, 10 Magic, who last won on the road rebounds and nine assists to lead a at Chicago on Dec. 16. Victor Olabalanced offense and Utah cruised dipo added 17 points, and Maurice to victory over slumping Phoenix. Harkless and Tobias Harris scored Richard Jefferson scored 17 13 apiece. Thaddeus Young had 19 points points, Diante Garrett had a careerhigh 15 and the Jazz had seven for the Sixers, who lost their 12th straight overall and 11th in a row players in double figures. The Jazz shot 57.5 percent from at home. Tony Wroten scored 15 the field, the highest mark of any points, Eric Maynor 13 and Henry Sims 10 for Philadelphia, which Phoenix opponent this season. Gerald Green had 17 points and bought out the contract of Danny rookie Archie Goodwin matched Granger earlier Wednesday.

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Scoreboard basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 32 25 .561 — Brooklyn 26 29 .473 5 New York 21 36 .368 11 Boston 20 39 .339 13 Philadelphia 15 43 .259 17½ Southeast Division Miami 40 14 .741 — Washington 29 28 .509 12½ Charlotte 27 30 .474 14½ Atlanta 26 31 .456 15½ Orlando 18 42 .300 25 Central Division Indiana 43 13 .768 — Chicago 31 26 .544 12½ Detroit 23 35 .397 21 Cleveland 23 36 .390 21½ Milwaukee 11 45 .196 32 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division San Antonio 41 16 .719 — Houston 39 19 .672 2½ Dallas 36 23 .610 6 Memphis 32 24 .571 8½ New Orleans 23 34 .404 18 Northwest Division Oklahoma City 43 15 .741 — Portland 40 18 .690 3 Minnesota 28 29 .491 14½ Denver 25 31 .446 17 Utah 21 36 .368 21½ Pacific Division L.A. Clippers 40 20 .667 — Golden State 35 23 .603 4 Phoenix 33 24 .579 5½ Sacramento 20 37 .351 18½ L.A. Lakers 19 39 .328 20 Wednesday’s Games Orlando 101, Philadelphia 90 Boston 115, Atlanta 104 Chicago 103, Golden State 83 Dallas 108, New Orleans 89 Cleveland 114, Oklahoma City 104 Memphis 108, L.A. Lakers 103 San Antonio 120, Detroit 110 Utah 109, Phoenix 86

Portland 124, Brooklyn 80 L.A. Clippers 101, Houston 93 Thursday’s Games Milwaukee at Indiana, 3 p.m. Washington at Toronto, 3 p.m. New York at Miami, 4 p.m. Brooklyn at Denver, 6:30 p.m. All Times ADT

Top-25 College

1. Florida (26-2) 2. Wichita State (30-0) 3. Arizona (26-2) 4. Syracuse (26-2) 5. Kansas (22-6) 6. Duke (23-6) 7. Louisville (23-4) 8. Villanova (25-3) 9. Creighton (23-4) 10. Saint Louis (25-2) 11. Cincinnati (24-4) 12. Virginia (24-5) 13. San Diego State (24-3) 14. Wisconsin (23-5) 15. Iowa State (22-5) 16. Michigan (20-7) 17. Kentucky (21-6) 18. Michigan State (22-6) 19. North Carolina (21-7) 20. Iowa (19-8) 21. Memphis (21-6) 22. Ohio State (22-6) 23. SMU (22-6) 24. Texas (21-7) 25. New Mexico (22-5)

hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Boston 58 37 16 5 79 Tampa Bay 58 33 20 5 71 Montreal 60 32 21 7 71 Toronto 60 32 22 6 70 Detroit 59 27 20 12 66 Ottawa 59 26 22 11 63 Florida 58 22 29 7 51 Buffalo 59 17 34 8 42 Metropolitan Division Pittsburgh 58 40 15 3 83

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Transactions BASEBALL American League

CHICAGO WHITE SOX Claimed RHP Maikel Cleto off waivers from Kansas City. Designated INF Jake Elmore for assignment. LOS ANGELES ANGELS Agreed to terms with OF Mike Trout on a one-year contract. TEXAS RANGERS Agreed to terms with LHPs Pedro Figueroa, Michael Kirkman, Joseph Ortiz and Robbie Ross, Jr., RHPs Miles Mikolas, Ben Rowen, Nick Tepesch, Shawn Tolleson and Matt West, C Robinson Chirinos, INF Jurickson Profar and OF Alex Castellanos on one-year contracts. Minor League Baseball MILB Named Dusty Dellinger interim director of Professional Baseball Umpire Corp. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES Reassigned G Jamaal Franklin to Fort Wayne (NBADL). SACRAMENTO KINGS Signed G Orlando Johnson to a 10-day contract. WASHINGTON WIZARDS Signed Drew Gooden to a 10-day contract. FOOTBALL National Football League CLEVELAND BROWNS Released LB D’Qwell Jackson. GREEN BAY PACKERS Signed RB Michael Hill. Re-signed S Chris Banjo. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES Agreed to terms with OT Jason Peters on a five-year contract. HOCKEY National Hockey League COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS Activated F Marian Gaborik off injured reserve. Recalled D Cody Goloubef from Springfield (AHL). DETROIT RED WINGS Assigned D Ryan Sproul to Grand Rapids (AHL). MINNESOTA WILD Acquired F Brad Winchester from Chicago

for D Brian Connelly. Recalled G John Curry and F Stephane Veilleux from Iowa (AHL). Placed D Marco Scandella and F Jason Zucker on injured reserve. MONTREAL CANADIENS Recalled G Dustin Tokarski from Hamilton (AHL). NASHVILLE PREDATORS Assigned G Pekka Rinne to Norfolk on a conditioning assignment. OTTAWA SENATORS Recalled G Andrew Hammond from Binghamton (AHL). TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING Recalled F Vladislav Namestnikov from Syracuse (AHL). Assigned G Anders Lindback to Syracuse for conditioning. WASHINGTON CAPITALS Recalled LW Nicolas Deschamps and D Julien Brouillette from Hershey (AHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS Named Nelson Rodriguez president of Chivas USA. SEATTLE SOUNDERS Signed D Jimmy Ockford and loaned him to New York (NASL) for the 2014 season. COLLEGE NCAA Named Janet Cone and Bernard Muir to the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee, effective for the 2014-15 academic year. OHIO Named Deane Webb volleyball coach. CONCORDIA (ILL.) Named Joe Jacoby offensive line coach. SLIPPERY ROCK Announced the resignation of defensive backs coach and recruiting coordinator Jason Makrinos to become codefensive coordinator/defensive backs coach at Duquesne. ST. NORBERT Named Dan McCarty defensive coordinator and Greg Rabas offensive assistant coach. WINSTON-SALEM STATE Announced the retirement of athletic director Bill Hayes.

Sterling Judo Club places 5th at tourney Staff report Peninsula Clarion

The 2014 Mat-Su Judo Invitational, held Feb. 15 in Wasilla, featured a number of competitors from the Sterling Judo Club. Alaska’s second largest Judo tournament featured five Judo clubs from Sterling, the Matanuska-Susitna Valley and Anchorage, and had over 20 divisions and over 50 competitors. Peyton Lawton won the seven- to eight-year-old boys open division. Nick McConnell placed third in the nine- to 10-year-old boys middle division, Kaliesha Hart finished second in the 11-12 year old

girls light division, Jacob McConnell was third in the 11-12 year old boys middle division, Kianna Holland was third in the 12-14 year old girls light division, Jordan Merrill placed third in the 11-13 year old boys heavy exhibition event, and Paul McConnell took second in the senior men heavy division. All mentioned competitors hail from the Sterling Judo Club. 5-6 year old light — 1. Nelson Haidyn, MatSu; 2. Tori Raynovic, Mat-Su; 3. Regan Campbell, Mat-Su. 7-8 coed middle — 1. Olijah Armstrong, Mountain View (MV); 2. Liam Rogers, MatSu; 3. Natalie Arneson, Mat-Su. 7-8 girls light — 1. Robyn Sutcliffe, Mat-Su; 2. Natalie Arneson, Mat-Su. 7-8 boys heavy — 1. Logan Arneson, MatSu; 2. Eby Fischer, Fireweed.

7-8 boys open — 1. Peyton Lawton, Sterling; 2. Trevor Dobbels, Anchorage (Anc). 8-10 boys open — 1. Landon Shooshanian, Anc; 2. Bailey Allison, Mat-Su. 9-10 girls light — 1. Sara Campbell, MatSu. 9-10 girls middle — 1. Kalie Ondelacy, Anc; 2. Mackenzie Campbell, Mat-Su. 9-10 girls open — 1 Amy Sutcliffe, Mat-Su; 2. Kalie Ondelacy, Anc; 3. Abbi Bridge, MV. 9-10 boys lights — 1. Gavin Mellon, MV; 2. Garrett Gaydos, MV. 9-10 boys middle — 1. Jeffrey Barnes, MatSu; 2. Isaiah Dempsey, Anc; 3. Nick McConnell, Sterling; 4. Garrett Gaydos, MV. 9-10 boys open — 1. Brock Case, Mat-Su; 2. Connor Green, Mat-Su. 11-12 girls light — 1. Abby Harvey, Fireweed; 2. Kaliesha Hart, Sterling; 3. Tommie Poorbaugh, Mat-Su. 11-12 boys middle — 1. Steven Sutcliffe, Mat-Su; 2. Carl Malagodi, MV; 3. Jacob McConnell. 11-12 boys open — 1. Dorian Mellon, MV; 2. Z Hanson, Mat-Su. 12-14 girls light — 1. Danielle Barnes, MatSu; 2. Megan Barnes, Mat-Su; 3. Kianna Holland, Sterling. 13-14 girls middle — 1. Mackenzie Harvey,

Fireweed; 2. Rachel LaForest, Mat-Su. 11-13 boys heavy exhibition — 1. Dorian Mellon, MV; 2. Z Hanson, Mat-Su; 3. Jordan Merrill, Sterling. 15-16 boys light — 1. Leif Thurmond, MatSu; 2. Blake Poorbaugh, Mat-Su. 15-16 boys middle — 1. Dominic Waters, MV; 2. Blake Poorbaugh, Mat-Su. 14-16 boys heavy exhibition — 1. Jonathan Raynovic, Mat-Su; 2. Ione John Fategoai, MV. Senior men light — 1. Lane LaForest, MatSu; 2. Harold Yutuc, MV; 3. Adiz Azimov, MV. Senior men middle — 1. Joey Fategoai, MV; 2. Jonathan Raynovic, Mat-Su; 3. Brandon Nelson, Mat-Su. Senior mne heavy — 1. Willy Rumbo, MatSu; 2. Paul McConnell, Sterling. Best technique awards: Junior boys — Olijah Armstrong, MV. Junior girls — Abby Harvey, FJ. Senior men — Harold Yutuc, MV. Overall team/Dojo champions — 1. Mat-Su Judo; 2. Mountain View Judo; 3. Anchorage Judo; 4. Fireweed Judo; 5. Sterling Judo Club.

Former Indy 500 champ returns claimed the 1997 world championship. At that point, American open-wheel racing wasn’t even INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — on the radar. His journey back to North Jacques Villeneuve is ready to America began in 2007 when Vilmake an IndyCar comeback. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports said Wednesday it has hired Villeneuve to race in this year’s Indianapolis 500, 19 years after the Canadian driver first drank the milk in Victory Lane. “IndyCar is growing again and that’s why last year when I started watching races again, every time I watched I felt almost angry I wasn’t there,” the 1995 race winner said on a satellite hookup from France during a news conference held at the team’s Indy headquarters. At age 42, Villeneuve seemed content being a television analyst, musician and RallyCross driver. But when Schmidt and co-owner Rick Peterson, also from Canada, made a serious offer, he couldn’t refuse. The 500 is scheduled for May 25. Villeneuve certainly has a compelling resume. As an Indy rookie in 1994, he qualified fourth and finished second to Al Unser Jr., and was named the race’s rookie of the year. The next season, the reigning CART rookie of the year was even better. He qualified fifth at Indy, forced Scott Goodyear into a costly mistake on the final restart and eventually held off Christian Fittipaldi to become the first and only Canadian winner of the race. Villeneuve completed all 400 laps at Indy in those two starts and won the 1995 CART title, too. But after starting 33 races, winning six poles and five races in two IndyCar seasons, Villeneuve had a chance to become an international star. So he headed to Europe and joined Formula One — the series that made his late father, Gilles, a household name. Like his dad, who died in a 1982 F1 qualifying crash, Villeneuve excelled on the world stage. In 163 career starts between 1996 and 2006, the younger Villeneuve reached the podium 23 times, won 11 races, 13 poles and MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer

leneuve made the move to American stock cars. Over the next seven seasons, he dabbled in Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Le Mans series as well as sports cars. Villeneuve regained interest

in IndyCars last season as he watched how close and competitive the races had become. To him, it reminded him of the series he left almost two decades earlier.

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scheduled for 3:30, and expected to take an hour. Both parties have agreed that there likely will not be a dispute over facts in the case or any need for discovery. AFCA lawyer Robert Misulich said the proposed timeline would meet AFCA’s desire to have the case heard at the state Superior and Supreme courts this year, so that the alliance could still collect signatures in 2015 and get the ban on the ballot in 2016. It’s likely a final decision will come from the Alaska Supreme Court, as either the State or the AFCA can appeal the Superior Court’s decision to that body. If there is a dispute over facts, however, Easter said the schedule may need to be changed to

accommodate an evidentiary hearing, which could make it difficult to proceed on AFCA’s requested timeline. Easter also agreed that briefs in the case could be 30 pages, but said any longer was not necessary because it is a fairly limited question of law. That was at the request of state Assistant Attorney General Libby Bakalar, who called into the hearing from Anchorage and said that the byzantine issues of elections law and fisheries law would take more than 20 pages, the usual limit, to explain. The Department of Law will also file its response to AFCA’s original complaint by the end of business Friday. Bakalar said she thought the schedule agreed to by the State and AFCA called for motions for summary judgment in lieu of a response, but Misulich and Easter asked for the response, as well.

Treadwell certifies minimum wage initiative JUNEAU (AP) — Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell has certified an initiative that proposes to raise Alaska’s minimum wage by two dollars an hour over two years. That brings to three the number of initiatives that will appear on the August primary ballot. There also are proposals to legalize recreational use of marijuana for those at least 21 years of age and to require legislative approval for a large-scale metallic sulfide mining operation within the watershed of the Bristol Bay Fisheries Reserve. The marijuana initiative was certified last week and the Bristol Bay measure in December. Lawmakers can pre-empt an initiative from appearing on the ballot by passing substantially similar legislation. The odds of that appear quite slim. Voters in August also will be asked to decide a referendum on Alaska’s oil tax structure.

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substance and felon with a gun in proximity of a school. Godwin was parked across the street from Soldotna Elementary School at the time of his arrest Monday morning. Soldotna Police Chief Peter Mlynarik said there is no connection as to why he would be parked behind the Borough building, but because he was under the influence of drugs, he may not have known where he was.

“Sometimes people do crazy things under the influence of drugs and try to elude police,” he said. “We are glad it got resolved peacefully. We would not want someone driving in his condition.” Mlynarik said Soldotna is a passing through point for a lot of illicit drugs coming from Anchorage and the driver could have been driving south. The case is still under investigation. Godwin is scheduled to be in court for a preliminary hearing March 3, at the Kenai Courthouse.

Around Alaska Alaska Air National Guard rescues 3 snowmobilers ANCHORAGE — An Alaska Air National Guard helicopter crew has rescued three snowmobilers who got stranded in the Talkeetna Mountains. KTUU-TV reports that Alaska State Troopers were unable to rescue the trio Tuesday night due to darkness. Guard spokesman Sgt. Edward Eagerton says a Pave Hawk helicopter hoisted the three and flew them to Talkeetna, where they were released to troopers. They declined any medical treatment. The unidentified trio had said by cellphone that they didn’t have any survival gear or means to start a fire. They were cold, wet and tired when they called for help.

Panel advances proposed education amendment JUNEAU — The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday advanced a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow for state funds to support private and religious schools. Rep. Wes Keller, R-Wasilla, and the sponsor of HJR1, said the purpose of the proposal is to remove the so-called Blaine Amendment from the Alaska Constitution. Keller contends the section of the constitution forbidding state funds from going to private and religious schools was targeted against Catholics in the late 1800s and every territory seeking admission into the Union was required to have it in their state constitution. Rep. Max Gruenberg, D-Anchorage, said he opposed removing that section of the constitution because doing so would remove a separation of church and state. Gruenberg said he would vote no when the measure reached the floor. Proposed constitutional amendments require two-thirds vote in each the House and Senate before they can qualify for the ballot. A similar proposal is pending on the Senate side, with the sponsor attempting to build sufficient support. Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux, R-Anchorage, asked Gruenberg how the current language in question within the state constitution reconciles with state scholarships going to private and religious schools. Gruenberg said such state scholarships are seen as contributions to individual students rather than funds going to private and reli-

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school students to take KPC classes at a reduced cost, among other services and positions. Multiple KPC students and staff members testified to how the programs the $697,000 provides has helped students be successful during their time at KPC. Scott Sellers, a seventh semester KPC student and resident advisor, said the borough money has had a personal impact on his college career. He said he would not have a high grade point average without help from tutors. “As good as I am at writing an essay,” he said, “I’m horrible at algebra and without the tutors you guys pay for I wouldn’t have a 3.81. … As a resident advisor, it’s very easy for me to walk one of my students over, take them into the math lab and know that they’re going to be OK.” Adjunct KPC professor and Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education member Penny Vadla said the JumpStart program is “phenomenal” and needs to continue. “In my mind an educated society is an informed society and an informed society generally

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The lower end reflected TransCanada’s involvement and the higher end is if the state goes it alone. While the cash terms look daunting, Rodell said, the project is worth pursuing because of the potential revenue it could bring the state. She said the state can mitigate its exposure through different financing options and possibly even bringing in new partners. Rep. Craig Johnson, RAnchorage, said one of the reasons the companies have seemed excited is that the state has expressed willingness to put “skin in the game.” But he said he keeps hearing that the state is “peeling that skin off” by pursuing partners. He said he would like to know from the companies at what level the

gious schools. In earlier public testimony on the measure, many scoffed that the motivation for the bill was to remove an anti-Catholic plank with the state constitution as Keller contends. “I am Irish and I am Catholic and I am Caucasian and I find it hilarious that at this stage of my life that I discover I have been discriminated against,” said Mark Wiggins of Anchorage. Wiggins said labeling the separation of the church and state section of the Alaska Constitution by calling it the Blaine Amendment was merely a way for advocates of the bill to hide their true motivations. The bill now goes to the House Finance Committee.

Proposals for adjutant general drawings sought JUNEAU — The state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs is soliciting proposals for an artist to draw and frame renderings of about 15 past and present adjutant generals. The request for proposals was issued Tuesday. The budget for the project is estimated at between $8,000 and $15,000. According to the solicitation, the renderings would be hung in the main hall of the Alaska National Guard Armory at Joint Base Elemendorf-Richardson. Messages seeking comment were left for a department spokesperson.

Teen sentenced in hit-and-run with pedestrian FAIRBANKS — A 19-year-old Fairbanks driver who left the scene of a crash with a pedestrian has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports Rashid Glasco on Sept. 16 was driving on Lathrop Street when he heard a bump and saw that he had struck a 7-year-old girl. He said in a statement that he became scared and took off. Superior Court Judge Douglas Blankenship says Glasco didn’t act with criminal negligence when he hit the girl but committed a crime when he took off. Glasco pleaded guilty to leaving the scene and to possession of cocaine when he was arrested a week later. The girl’s mother says the girl has made a full recovery other than scarring on her face. — The Associated Press C

makes wise decision. … The more young people we can educate and the more young people we can encourage to stay in this community, the better the community will become,” Vadla said. Representatives from nonprofits that work to develop the economy of the peninsula spoke to the assembly about the importance of continued funding for their organizations. Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District Executive Director Rick Roeske said the organization gets some federal funding and the borough matches those funds. He said if the borough were to cut back on funding KPEDD, it would have a “serious impact.” “(KPEDD) has done great work in the past. With your funding going forward, if this isn’t adopted, then we’ll continue that,” he said to the assembly. Kenai Peninsula Tourism and Marketing Council representatives Michelle Glaves, council president, and Shanon Hamrick, executive director, each testified to the assembly about the council’s work and its efforts to become self-sustaining. Hamrick said the council works to promote tourism on the peninsula to drive sales tax dollars and be competitive with other regions in the state. The council is in the prelimi-

nary stages of developing a bed tax to fund it, Glaves said. Hamrick said the council will be asking for money in the upcoming budget, but once a bed tax is established, the council or whichever agency the borough contracts to market the peninsula, will receive those funds. Following public comments, the assembly discussed the resolution and considered two amendments. Assembly President Hal Smalley said he cannot imagine cutting funding to agencies that contribute to the economy of the borough. “(They’re) significantly important to our borough, to our way of life,” he said. Wolf said the non-profits on the peninsula have a purpose and he didn’t want the issue to go to a “hard vote, ” so he requested an advisory vote. Assembly member Dale Bagley proposed to amend the resolution to ask voters if the borough should continue to fund certain non-departmentals including: KPEDD, KPTMC, KPC, Central Area Rural Transit System and Small Business Development Center. Pierce said listing specific agencies changes the intent of the resolution. Assembly member Wayne Ogle agreed with Pierce and said he doesn’t want to target individual organiza-

tions. The amendment failed by one vote with assembly members Bagley, Brent Johnson, Sue McClure and Bill Smith casting the four votes in favor of the amendment. Johnson then moved to amend the resolution by revising the question to ask the public to vote individually on three organizations — CARTS, SBDC and KPEDD — as to whether they want the borough to continue funding them. He said he removed KPC from the list based on the 1990 vote to fund the college up to 0.1 mills. Johnson removed KPTMC from the resolution because the council is seeking funding via a bed tax. Johnson and Smith cast the only two votes in favor of the amendment. The assembly then considered the original resolution. Before the vote Pierce said he thinks the resolution is dead and hopes during the budget process the assembly can do a good job determining what to fund and by how much. Wolf said the people who testified made their opinions clear. “I think we let this dog die,” he said.

current alignment on a project could be lost. The figures used in Wednesday’s presentation did not take into account the potential future costs of other big-ticket projects the state has been pursuing. It also didn’t look at the cost of things like roads needed for work on the gas line project or the demands on state services by project workers and their families. Questions also were raised about potential cost overruns and how much would be left in the state’s savings accounts as the state looks to finance the project. Rep. Geran Tarr, D-Anchorage, asked if the state might be in a situation of “optimism bias.” Rodell said there may be some of that. But she said a lot

of that has to do with the companies being willing to work with the state in a way they haven’t before, and seeing a potential to commercialize gas. “I think we have to take advantage of that while we can, learn what we can from this project and recognize that we may be suffering from a little bit of optimism bias and it may not go forward in 2015 for other reasons. But I think we owe it to Alaskans and we owe it to ourselves to at least get through the next stage,” she said. There are built-in decision points as plans proceed, and no guarantee a project will be built. Earlier in the day, in the Senate Finance Committee, Bill McMahon Jr., an executive with ExxonMobil Production Co., said the parties behind the

project hope to file an exportlicense application later this year. He said a license would need to be in hand for the parties to make a final investment decision around 2018 or 2019. An issue raised during that hearing was whether a federal loan guarantee was still on the table. Larry Persily, the federal coordinator for Alaska gas pipeline projects, said in an interview it was not. Persily said the $18 billion loan guarantee, passed in 2004 and adjusted for inflation, applied only to a line that would serve North American markets. While that had been a focus of TransCanada under the inducement act, the project now being pursued, because of market changes, would allow for liquefied natural gas exports overseas.

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

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n The Triumvirate Theatre presents “Aladdin,” Feb. 28, March 1, 7 and 8 at Triumvirate North, five miles north of Kenai. Shows are at 7:00 p.m. on Fridays and 2:00 p.m. on Saturdays. Tickets are $5 for 12 and under and $10 for adults. Tickets available at Triumvirate Theatre in the Peninsula Center Mall and at Nikiski High School. n The Triumvirate Theatre presents “Faked Alaska,” Feb. 28 and March 1 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 each and are available at Triumvirate Theatre in the Peninsula Center Mall. n A major exhibit of sophisticated art works by Kenai Peninsula College’s art is on display at the Kenai Fine Arts Center, 816 Cook Avenue, Kenai. Gallery hours for February are noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday. n Kenai Fine Art Center is calling for artists to submit pieces for its statewide all-media juried show. Artist Jim Evenson juries this year’s all-media show. Submissions are due not later than 4 p.m, Saturday, March 1, at the Kenai Fine Art Center, with a free public opening reception the following Friday evening, March 7, from 6-8 p.m. For more information, contact Joe Kashi, kashi@alaska.net or Shauna Thorton, shaunat@gci.net. n The Performing Arts Society is proud to present Valerie Hartzell, Classical Guitar, in concert on Friday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m., at Soldotna Christ Lutheran Church. Ms. Hartzell has taught and performed all over the United States and has won competitions in Italy and France. She is the creator and director of the “Classical Minds” Guitar Institute at Moores School of Music, University of Houston, Texas. Currently she lives in Bedfordshire, UK. Tickets will be $20 General Admission and $10 Students, available at River City Books, Northcountry Fair, Already Read Books, Country Liquor, and at the door. n Alaska Christian College in Soldotna will host the One Hundred Year Celebration of the Alaska Native Brotherhood and Alaska Native Sisterhood Travelling Exhibition. Feb. 26-March 8, in the Learning Resource Center (LRC) between 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. A reception for the public will be held on Thursday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. at the LRC with special guest Harriet Beleal, former president of the Alaska Native Sisterhood. This exhibition was created by the Sitka Historical Society and Museum in collaboration with the Alaska Native Brotherhood and Alaska Native Sisterhood camps of Sitka to honor the one-hundred year anniversary of the founding of the Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Alaska Native Sisterhood, the oldest indigenous civil rights organizations in the nation. With its a myriad of historic images, brief bios, quotes, and text, the exhibit provides an overview of the ANS’s and ANB’s rich history, the challenges they faced and overcame, and their tremendous contributions to champion the rights and improve the general well-being and lives of Native peoples. Alaska Christian College is located on Royal Place off of Poppy Lane.

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Happy Place By Nancy Whiting, Kenai

When asked where is my ‘happy place’ I thought I did not know. It could be doing needlework or snowshoeing through the snow. With books upon books I found it, helping the library get in place; Moving, stacking on the shelf, to change from case to case. I worked alone among the stories, sorting the children’s section. For letters “N” through “C” I have some real affection. A job well done as requested, books are in their places proper. The time that follows I discover the thing that is the topper. Stamp the address, stamp the date, affix the barcode, then protect. Stamp the address, stamp the date, affix the barcode, then protect.

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This image released by Warner Bros. shows Jessica Brown Findlay, right, and Colin Farrell in a scene from “Winter’s Tale.”

Is there a miracle to save this ‘Tale’? “Winter’s Tale” Village Roadshow Pictures 1 hour, 58 minutes I’ve never read Mark Helprin’s 1983 novel, “Winter’s Tale,” upon which this week’s big screen romance is based, but I understand it has a rather strong following. After watching the movie, a charming and earnest mess starring Colin Farrell and Russell Crowe, I can see hints of a grand and beautiful love story — unfortunately hindered on the big screen by the necessity to depict whimsical fantasy elements in a very literal fashion. It’s just about the time that Farrell’s hero Peter Lake escapes from a vicious gang of toughs on a white horse which flies him to safety over the rooftops of turn-of-the-century New York City that you start to think, maybe, just maybe, this

R eeling It In C hris J enness story should have stayed on the page. The movie doesn’t really work, but it’s not for a lack of trying. Farrell, who has always reminded me of a cartoon character, what with those dark lines and big, soulful eyes, certainly has charisma, and Russell Crowe, as Pearly Soames, the demon boss enforcer of New York, brings a real sense of menace to an otherwise gauzy story. The best part of the movie, however,

comes in the person of Jessica Brown Findlay, as Beverly Penn, the tragic object of young Peter’s affection. Findlay does a fine job, but for myself, and thousands of saps like me, seeing her on the big screen was one more chance to spend time with Lady Sybil, the very best of the Crawely clan, who was abruptly taken from us during season 3 of “Downton Abbey.” Findlay left the PBS drama when her contract was up, and she took all of our hearts with her. Mock me if you will, non-Downton converts, but that show can get ahold of you. Peter, who begins his story by being put to sea as a baby by his parents in a wooden model of a ship, is a thief, and a darned good one. That life has gone sour, however, and when we meet him as an adult, he’s on the run from Pearly and his boys, only to See MOVIE, page B-2

Red carpet looks take lots of work By SANDY COHEN AP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES — The flawless looks about to be unveiled on the Oscars red carpet have been months in the making and require an army of experts. With perhaps the highest concentration of cameras anywhere in the world that night, plus millions of viewers keenly critiquing every outfit, Oscar’s red carpet is the ultimate runway, where designers and their muses are discovered and celebrated. Hair and makeup trends are established. New style-setting stars are crowned. And sartorial scorn is heaped upon those who make even the slightest misstep. All that perfection takes a lot of preparation. Here’s a look at the standard steps and secret tricks that stars employ to get red carpet ready:

The skin That dewy complexion isn’t all makeup. Stars spend at least a week prepping for an Oscar appearance, says celebrity makeup artist Melanie Mills. They might do a cleanse to expel toxins and drop weight, she said, along with seaweed wraps to further detoxify and slim down. Mills also recommends a traditional Korean spa-style body scrub a few days prior to the show “to really get that skin exfoliated and super glowing.” A facial and

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In this Feb. 10 file photo, actor Jared Leto arrives at the 86th Oscars Nominees Luncheon, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Leto is nominated for an Academy Award for performance by an actor in a supporting role in the film, “The Dallas Buyer’s Club.” The key to making a red carpet splash is color; and men are getting more colorful like Leto at the nominees luncheon.

spray tan follow. that stays on all day — and won’t transfer Show-day makeup takes about two onto men’s jackets during the many indushours, she said. One of her secrets: us- try-requisite hugs. ing body makeup before foundation for a “You should also mist yourself with a “sunny, gorgeous, lit-from-within glow” See LOOK, page B-2

Hear the music from ‘The Orphan Choir’

our neighbor loves heavy rock and roll. He has all the CDs of all the major metal bands. It’s impressive, really, the determination he used to find them, starting with the earliest and the heaviest. He listens to them every weekend. Over and over, loudly. Which would be nice, except you hate heavy metal. So, aside from buying a boxful of earplugs, what can you do about a noisy neighbor? You could move, of course, but as you’ll see in “The Orphan Choir” by Sophie Hannah (c.2014, Picador, $25, 277 pages), sometimes that doesn’t even help … It didn’t happen every night — or every weekend, for that matter. But it happened often enough for Louise Beeston to become a bit unhinged over the loud music that her neighbor, Justin Clay, spewed from his stereo. In the several times that Louise had complained, Clay was polite, but she

Repetition in working details is where I find myself. Order brought from disarray like lining books upon a shelf. My ‘happy place’ is not the room, and it’s not chaos control; It’s that quiet concentration I find in play, work, or a stroll. It matters not the place I be, It’s not important what I do. My happy place is in my mind; I think I always knew. Poems must include the writer’s name, phone number and address. They should be kept to no more than 300 words. Submission of a poem does not guarantee publication. Poems may be e-mailed to news@peninsulaclarion. com, faxed to 283-3299, delivered to the Clarion at 150 Trading Bay Road or mailed to P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, AK 99611. C

The Bookworm Sez could see that he was as annoyed at her as she was at him. Stuart, Louise’s husband, didn’t seem to be bothered by the din, so he was no help at all. And though it pained Louise that he was gone, she considered it a minor blessing that her 7-year-old son Joseph was away at Saviour College on choir scholarship. He’d never have to endure the noise. No, the cacophony irritated Louise the most and it only got worse. Not only did Clay start blasting music more frequently, but he upped the battle by playing choir music: the kind that Joseph sang at Saviour College! Clay must’ve known how Louise was suffering over Joseph’s absence. It was surely some sort of torture. To escape this awful neighbor, Louise convinced Stuart that they needed a second home in an exclusive enclave where privacy, neatness, and silence were See ORPHAN, page B-2

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Oscar predictions: What will win and should win A seemingly endless movie awards season finally concludes Sunday with the Academy Awards. By now, many of the front-runners have established themselves, but the night’s big honor — best picture — remains a dramatic question mark. Associated Press film writers Jake Coyle and Jessica Herndon both see “12 Years a Slave” eking out the win. But they have plenty to say about not only who will win, but who should win and who should have been a contender.

Best picture The Nominees: “American Hustle,” ‘’Captain Phillips,” ‘’Dallas Buyers Club,” ‘’Gravity,” ‘’Her,” ‘’Nebraska,” ‘’Philomena,” ‘’12 Years a Slave,” ‘’The Wolf of Wall Street.” COYLE Will Win: “American Hustle” feels too light — actors in wigs having a ball. And “Gravity,” for all its galactic splendor, lacks the force of a solid story. So it must be “12 Years a Slave,” the candidate with the heft of history. But make no mistake: There’s no certainty in this close contest. Should Win: “12 Years a Slave.” It’s an unforgettable odyssey, a reckoning of past movie portrayals of slavery and a uniquely unflinching tale of perseverance. Should Have Been a Contender:

Best actress

Few movies capture boyhood like Jeff Nichols’ soulful Mississippi River coming-of-age tale “Mud.” HERNDON Will Win: Since “Gravity” stood out as an innovative prodigy advancing visual and 3-D possibilities, it’ll clean up in the tech categories and will be crowned the night’s big victor. Should Win: “12 Years a Slave.” With its disturbing subject matter and factual significance, it’s the year’s most epic and vital narrative. Should Have Been a Contender: “Before Midnight.” A deliciously candid look at the dark and deeply romantic evolution of love.

Best actor The Nominees: Christian Bale, “American Hustle”; Bruce Dern, “Nebraska”; Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of Wall Street”; Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years a Slave”; Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club.” HERNDON Will Win: McConaughey. He ditched vanity and became the favorite. But DiCaprio may just pull through with the win here. The academy loves to crown excess, even if an actor’s previous roles dug deeper. (We all remember Denzel’s win for “Training Day” — and his snubs for “Malcolm X” and “Philadelphia.”) Should Win: DiCaprio may not

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This film image released by Paramount Pictures shows Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort in a scene from “The Wolf of Wall Street.” The movie is nominated for an Oscar for best motion picture of the year as well as four other nominations.

have abandoned his good looks for this role, but he was aggressive, hilarious and the hedonism made him repulsive. Should Have Been a Contender: Joaquin Phoenix, “Her.” Carrying most of his scenes solo, since Scarlett Johansson didn’t clock any physical screen time, he was the heart and soul of Spike Jonze’s gentle romance. COYLE Will Win: McConaughey. Holly-

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run across the aforementioned horse. Peter is somewhat taken aback by the fact that his new friend, who he calls simply “Horse,” can fly, but unusual things are par for the course in this pseudo-fairy tale New York City. He may not be fully aware that the world around him is populated by demons, angels and magical quadrupeds, but it probably wouldn’t surprise him, either. In an attempt to gather a stash that will allow him to be able to afford to flee the city, Peter and Horse embark on a little burglary spree over the course of one night, finishing at dawn with a large, seemingly

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setting spray,” she said, “especially if you’re going to be schmoozing with a lot of men in black tuxedoes.”

The hair

Skilled hairstylists can give stars a temporary eye lift with a lace-front wig, says Michael Shaun Corby, global creative director for Alterna Haircare. Using nylon thread, he sews a patch of lace into tight pincurls, which helps lift the brows and smooth wrinkles around the eyes. “Then we top it with a $7,000 wig and no one knows our little secret!” he said. Hair extensions take hours of preparation, he said, “because Films we carefully sew individual wefts of human hair together in n Call Orca Theaters at 262-7003 for listings and times. a multitude of colors to get the n Call Kambe Cinemas at 283-4554 for listings and times. exact look and texture for the star.” Down the Road “The stars need perfection on the red carpet,” he said, “and n The Pratt Museum in Homer is open Tuesday-Sunday, noon- we give it to them.” 5 p.m. For more information and a schedule of events, visit www.prattmuseum.org. Submissions may be emailed to news@peninsulaclarion.com. The deadline is 5 p.m. Mondays.

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bedside. Is Louise insane? That’s what author Sophie Hannah spurs her readers to ask, and it’s a valid question. Through pages and pages of fussiness, we’re shown that Louise is fretful and difficult, prone to excitability and bordering on hysterical (in a bad way). She’s not someone you’d want to know; in fact, eventually, you’ll want to roll your eyes at cranky Louise — which is about when Hannah cranks up the suspense. Though I thought this book was overly-wordy at times, its gentle shivers make it worth a peek if you want something Scary Lite. Read “The Orphan Choir,” and the only sound you’ll hear is “Eeeeeeeeek.”

valued above all. It would be a lovely weekend retreat for their family, a perfect spot to bring Joseph when he was on holiday. It would be quiet. But then, Louise started hearing the choir again. She began to think that maybe the singing was all in her head. It got louder when she thought about Joseph’s choir director, whom she hated. It started following her when she was outside, in the nearby forest. It got terrifying when she began to see faces … Every now and then, having a little scare is good but you don’t want it to keep you up all The Bookworm is Terri night. That’s when you want Schlichenmeyer. Email her at “The Orphan Choir” at your bookwormsez@yahoo.com.

wood loves a good comeback story. Should Win: Ejiofor. “12 Years a Slave” finds its strength in his deep eyes and commanding dignity. Should Have Been a Contender: Many were left out here, most incredibly Tom Hanks for “Captain Phillips.” But Mads Mikkelsen’s performance as a kindergarten teacher unjustly accused of molesting a friend’s child in “The Hunt” was a haunting portrait of a small-town pariah.

empty home near Central Park. Once inside, however, Peter finds Beverly, beautiful and completely unflappable, due to the fact that she’s dying of consumption. Peter falls for her immediately, and what follows is a lot of folderol about miracles, ancient rules, red-haired mystery women and a quest for the souls of men. If that segue seems abrupt, it’s because the plot details are endlessly complicated and fairly irrelevant. I won’t spoil the last third of the movie, though if you’ve seen the trailers you can guess what happens. Through it all, I really wanted to like the film. And there are moments when I did, loved it in fact, but there are too many of the other moments, moments where a beautiful phrase or image simply falls apart under the weight

The Nominees: Amy Adams, “American Hustle”; Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”; Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”; Judi Dench, “Philomena”; Meryl Streep, “August: Osage County.” COYLE Will Win: Blanchett’s modern-day Blanche DuBois is likely a shoo-in, so long as voters haven’t turned against Woody Allen. Should Win: Blanchett’s performance is the most complex here, playing a bitterly unlikable socialite both before and after her life falls apart. Should Have Been a Contender: The most naked (emotionally, though physically, too) performance of the year was Adele Exarchopoulos in the French drama “Blue Is the Warmest Color.” But what about Melissa McCarthy in “The Heat”? Is anyone funnier right now? HERNDON Will Win: Blanchett, as an unraveling upper class dame, was so pure and direct that her neurosis seemed instinctive. Should Win: Blanchett for her layered dethroned lady. Should Have Been a Contender: Julie Delpy. In “Before Midnight” she was the French everywoman: Nurturing, sensual, feisty and vulnerable. Plus, she had a saucy way with words while arguing topless.

of special effects or, in at least one case, egregious stunt casting. “Winter’s Tale” very much reminded me of the work of Neil Gaiman, an author who was heavily influenced by Helprin’s concept of the “magical city,” and who works his own magic on London in the novel “Neverwhere.” The concept of the mysterious otherworld hidden just under the skin of our own is a fascinating one, but difficult to film due to the utter strangeness of many of the characters and sequences. Clive Barker uses this theme in the horror genre, and has had more success than most in adapting these kind of novels to the screen. It’s a tough sell, however. Guillermo Del Toro achieves a level of it in his “Hellboy”

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Besides a clean diet of healthy smoothies the week before the big show, trainer Harley Pasternak recommends that his Oscar-bound clients take at least 12,000 steps a day and do resistance exercises that improve their posture. “When you’re on the red carpet,” he said, “it’s really all about confidence and posture.” Stars who need last-minute help slimming trouble spots could try VaserShape, a treatment shown to reduce inches from thighs and bellies in about 45 minutes. Botox and facial fillers can be done a few days before the ceremony, but face lifts, liposuction and the increasingly popular butt implants need to be done months in advance, says celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Peter Fodor, who estimates “at least 80 percent” of the stars on the Oscar carpet have done something surgical to enhance their appearance. “If the work is done right, it’s undetectable,” he said.

Stylists scour the fashion shows in New York, London, Paris and Milan to find the freshest looks for the Academy Awards, says stylist Brad Goreski. Once found, what goes underneath and alongside are priorities. Custom and couture dresses have built-in foundations, he said, but other outfits need special consideration. “You never want to see a visible panty line, ever,” he said. “VPL is something I can’t deal with.” The seamless, invisible Commandos are a possibility, as is actually going without any underwear beneath a long dress. Double-stick tape is a stylist’s No. 1 tool. Besides keeping fabric in place, it can also create the appearance of firmer skin, Goreski said. “In a very revealing dress, it can help to tighten the skin in different areas without it seeming that way,” he said. “You know, pull a little wrinkle or something like that.” His key to making a red carpet splash? Color.

series, but those are comic books, not serious love stories. “Winter’s Tale,” I think, tries to straddle the line between marketable and artistic and misses the mark on both. It never goes as far as, I can only imagine, the novel does, but it goes just far enough to alienate much of it’s audience. The film is sweet, and friendly, and I sincerely wish it had been better, but I think it would have taken a miracle, and Hollywood is fresh out. Grade: C+ “Winter’s Tale” is rated PG13 for violence, fantasy scares, and an overlong, though not particularly sexy, love scene. Chris Jenness is a freelance graphic designer, artist and movie buff who lives in Nikiski.

“Bright colors make people happy,” said the stylist. “And those are also the (photos) people will run in the magazines.” Even men are getting more colorful. Supporting-actor nominee Jared Leto wore a bronze jacket to the Oscar Nominees Luncheon, and of course there’s Pharrell Williams’ attentiongetting hat.

The accessories — Shoes: They’re not comfortable and they’re not going to be. “If we feel it makes the look, we go for it,” Goreski said. — Clutch: What actually goes into those impossibly tiny clutch purses? Fitting in the essentials is a major red carpet challenge. The phone goes in first, then money and ID. Corby recommends at least three hairpins and a hairband, plus a miniature can of hairspray, if possible. Mills suggests a “lip product,” clear eyelash glue, blotting papers and a small compact. “It’s a little bit of a puzzle piece,” Goreski said. “It’s like Tetris inside of those purses.”

‘Which (blank) are you?’ Online quizzes go viral By MEGHAN BARR Associated Press

NEW YORK — For a compulsive online quiz-taker like Chrissy Noh, the temptation was too great to resist: “Which sandwich are you?” After answering a series of unscientific, seemingly unrelated questions, which included selecting her favorite doughnut from a lineup of frosted pastries, she had her answer (grilled cheese, for the record). And she’s not the only one who’s comparing herself to sandwiches lately. Go on, admit it: Chances are, you’ve been doing it, too. A recent explosion of silly online personality quizzes, most of them created by the young social media mavens at Buzzfeed.com, has everybody talking about which state they really ought to be living in and which Harry Potter character they really are. Buzzfeed says the quizzes are smashing traffic records C

and generating more Facebook comment threads than any viral posts in the site’s history. Experts say the phenomenon isn’t surprising given the age-old fascination with that central question — “Who AM I?” — and a desire to compare ourselves with others in a social media-obsessed society. On a recent snowy day, the 37-year-old Noh, who lives in New York City, admitted that she and several friends spent the afternoon taking quizzes and texting each other screen shots of the results. “It turned into an all-day group text message fest, where it was just picture after picture of, oh, what rapper are you?” she says, laughing. “What career should you actually have? Which sandwich are you? Which member of One Direction should you marry?” Personality quizzes have been around for decades, gracing the covers of women’s and teen magazines with questions designed to lure us in. Nor are they

new to the Internet, where online quizzes can be found aplenty on sites like Zimbio.com, among others. But the recent wave of quiz popularity can be traced directly to Buzzfeed’s New York City headquarters, where a team of about 100 content creators have been producing one to five quizzes every single day for the past two months. The most popular quiz — “Which State Do You Actually Belong In?” — has generated about 41 million page views. “For our most viral quizzes, the results have to be meaningful in some way,” says Summer Burton, BuzzFeed’s managing editorial director. “It’s not that they are scientific. It’s just that what they say means something to people as far as their own identity.” A scroll through the “QUIZZES” page on Buzzfeed.com reveals a bewildering assortment, many infused with pop culture references. Which celebrity cat are you? Which pop diva? Which “Girls” character?

What career should you actually have? Which generation do you actually belong in? What kind of dog would you be? The intense push to pump out as many quizzes as possible started a couple of months ago after Buzzfeed editors realized that a quiz called “Which ‘Grease’ Pink Lady are you?” ranked among the most-trafficked posts of 2013. Then, in mid-January, a quiz called “Which city should you actually live in?” went viral, and the whole venture just took off like wildfire, Burton says. The ability to create a quiz was encoded into Buzzfeed’s in-house content management system a little more than a year ago. Essentially any staff member has the autonomy to create one. There are no specific rules regarding quiz-making, but each one follows the same age-old general format: You start with the results and work backward based on general personality traits that go with each answer.

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Boss who’s object of gossip needs a word to the wise DEAR ABBY: Should I or shouldn’t I tell my boss that more than a few people have come to me asking if he is fooling around with a young woman here in the office? He is married; she is not. They spend a lot of time together “just visiting,” laughing and obviously flirting. They have also been seen coming and going together, having lunch together every day, etc. My reaction is that whether they are or aren’t, it isn’t my business. A little voice keeps telling me that, as his personal secretary, he may want to be made aware that people are talking about him behind his back, and I do feel protective and a sense of loyalty to him. Understand that I do not want to discuss it with him, have verification, denial or anything else — only to give him the information. — VACILLATING IN OHIO DEAR VACILLATING: If there is anything going on in your employer’s business that distracts from the work his employees are doing, he should be made aware.

However, because of the economy, I may need to rent out my extra room to make ends meet. I have gotten used to a clothing-optional lifestyle and spend most of my time outdoors sunning, swimming and doing yard work in the buff. I also enjoy being indoors lounging, doing chores and sleeping the Abigail Van Buren same way. Would it be OK for me to advertise for someone who also enjoys this? Can I continue my lifestyle “au naturel” or must I go back to covering? — NEVADA NUDE DUDE DEAR NUDE DUDE: While practically anything goes in the want ads and on the Internet, your best bet would be to Google “nudists (or naturists) in Nevada.” When you do, you will find DEAR ABBY: A few years ago, I relocated to a contact information for nudist resorts and clubs, new state and bought my first home. I have enjoyed and your chances of finding a renter who won’t the privacy I have had while living on my own. be shocked or offended will be better.

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mestic matter. Suppressing your irritation on a regular basis could backfire, as you are likely to make yourself sick or so angry that you won’t be able to speak in an effective manner. Tonight: Visit with a loved one. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You will be full of energy. A conversation could start up out of the blue, and you might hear a lot more than you are ready for. It would be wise to think through a personal matter more deeply in order to understand what you want. Tonight: Ask, and you shall receive. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Ask an important question regarding the results of a recent conversation. A partner or close friend will be full of facts and suggestions. Sometimes this person is a well of information. Listen carefully to what he or she has to say. Tonight: Make it your treat. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You have a lot to do, but you also have the energy to meet your responsibilities. Be careful with machinery and electrical equipment, as you could be distracted by the many thoughts in your mind. New information might filter through in a strange way. Tonight: It is your choice. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH You’ll gain a new understanding because of recent conversations and new insights. Still, you might want to keep this to yourself, as your thoughts will continue to evolve. What you think now could change radically. Tonight: Get as much R and R as you can.

A Cheesy Use for Vinegar Dear Readers: Here is a good way to test your hint IQ: Do you know what to do to keep a block of hard cheese, like cheddar, from getting MOLDY? Which of the following should you use? A. A cheesecloth sprinkled with baking soda. B. Sprinkle salt on the cheese. C. A vinegar-dampened cheesecloth. Which answer did you choose? The correct answer is C. Wrap the block of cheese in cheesecloth that has been moistened with just a little vinegar. Then put the covered block in a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator. The taste of the cheese will not be affected by the vinegar. Depending on how long you are storing the cheese, you might need to remoisten the cloth. — Heloise SHOESHINE Dear Heloise: I shine my own dress shoes and find that it’s difficult to get a good shine if they aren’t securely anchored. Placing them on my feet and bending over to buff them is no longer an option. I went to my tool chest and grabbed the 5-pound sledgehammer, put it inside a shoe, then placed it on the edge of the workbench (or countertop). Voila — it provided enough weight to keep the shoe in place while working it over with the chamois cloth. — Kerry E., Orange, Calif. BARGAIN BAKING Dear Heloise: Being economical in baking is more important than ever. I came up with a great hint: Buy chocolate candies after the holidays, when they are on sale. Separate the colors and freeze. When it comes time to make cookies, get out the coordinating colored candies. For example, red for Valentine’s Day and green for St. Patrick’s Day. — Mary L., Schererville, Ind.

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Make an appointment for a checkup at the dentist in the near future. Tonight: Make plans to take a few days off. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Remain playful. A discussion with a partner will point to a dramatic shift in activity. You need variety in terms of focus and energy; otherwise, you could become bored and moodier because of a lack of excitement. Tonight: Opt for togetherness. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Others will present unusual ideas that could force you to think past typical boundaries. Your sixth sense will come out when dealing with today’s issues. How you see a friend or loved one could change as the result of these intense discussions. Tonight: Sort through suggestions. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You have high energy working with your solid focus. Meetings right now will be important in paving your path to success. Someone will push you hard; this person feels as if his or her ideas are better. Avoid a fight or a difficult interaction, if possible. Tonight: Time to relax. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHYou might want to understand what is happening around you, yet you could find others to be evasive. Avoid getting angry with a loved one. Make a point to relax, and you will find the answers you’re looking for. Curb a tendency to be possessive. Tonight: Play it light and easy. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Pressure seems to build around a family member or a do-

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DEAR ABBY: My husband and I love each other and have three beautiful children, but we struggle in our marriage because of the stress of daily life. Lack of money has taken a toll. Sometimes we both work two jobs. Other times we find ourselves faced with difficult choices — like whether to buy groceries, or pay the electric bill or the mortgage. (We often can’t do all three.) I know we’re not the only family in this situation. You often advise people to seek guidance from a professional counselor. Can you share any resources for those of us who do not have the money or the insurance coverage to pay for counseling? — HOLDING ON IN ARKANSAS DEAR HOLDING ON: You are far from the only family who is trying to cope with little money and difficulty finding steady work. Many thousands of families are in the same situation — and it is stressful for marriages and relationships. Because you are unable to afford a private therapist, contact your county department of mental health and ask what services are available for people with limited resources. The psychology department at your nearest college or university may also be able to help during this difficult time.

Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014: This year you often feel like your imagination could be your enemy, as you might have a difficult time focusing on conversations. You inadvertently could trigger your creative process, so keep a notebook handy to jot down your ideas. Use care around machinery, as you are likely to be distracted. If you are single, you suddenly might think that you have met “the one.” Avoid putting this person on a pedestal. If you are attached, your rose-colored glasses could add more magic to your bond. Forget long-distance vacations this year. AQUARIUS is your natural healer. 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) HHHHAn important get-together or meeting will define your mood, and therefore your plans, for the day. Unexpected developments might encourage you to be more spontaneous as well. You could have a lengthy conversation with a dear friend. Tonight: Where the gang is. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Know that all eyes are on you. As a result, people could get an indirect lesson in how to approach the boss. Stay centered when dealing with an associate or close loved one who seems to be even colder than usual. Tonight: A must appearance. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Listen to news with an open mind. Seek out more information by finding people who are more knowledgeable or experienced.

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