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Iditarod 2014 Peninsula mushers’ progress as of 8 p.m.

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In the news Parnell names members to Medicaid advisory group JUNEAU (AP) — Gov. Sean Parnell has named nine members to a group created to recommended changes to Alaska’s Medicaid program.

Health commissioner Bill Streur will lead the Medicaid Reform Advisory Group.

The group is charged with reaching out to health care interests, insurers and constituents. A report to lawmakers is due by Nov. 15.

Members include Republican Sen. John Coghill and Rep. Pete Higgins, who’s a dentist. Also chosen were Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Mike Navarre and John Torgerson, chairman of the Alaska Redistricting Board.

The other members are Renae Axelson, Dr. Ilona Farr, Sandra Heffern, Gene Peltola and Kevin Turkington.

Parnell spokeswoman Sharon Leighow said some people applied or were recommended. She said Parnell’s office did some outreach and legislative leadership weighed in.

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By MATT WOOLBRIGHT Morris News Service-Alaska Juneau Empire

Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion

Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, answers questions from a capacity crowd Saturday at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly Chambers in Soldotna. This past weekend, the former Soldotna mayor returned from Juneau to give an overview of his work at the mid-point in the legislative session.

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Micciche addresses range of topics at town hall meeting

By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

State Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, returned from Juneau to answer questions at a wide-ranging town hall meeting in Soldotna Saturday afternoon.

After meeting in Homer Friday, the former Soldotna mayor was greeted by a capacity crowd at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly Chambers. He gave an overview of his work at the mid-point in the legislative session and fielded questions on a number of issues, with the most popular topic referring to House Bill 77.

The bill, from Gov. Sean Parnell, is expansive, hitting on issues of land exchange, water use and permitting procedures. As it is currently written, it would remove the ability of groups to apply for water reservations to protect fish habitat and water quality while allowing the Natural Resources commissioner more authority to issue permits if the commissioner finds activity to unlikely cause “significant or irreparable harm” to state land or resources.

The measure, which passed the House last spring, is currently in the Senate Resources Committee, of which Micciche

is a member. The committee will discuss the bill Monday. Several people in the audience Saturday were concerned about having enough time to read changes to the bill before being able to give public testimony.

The public has expressed displeasure for two portions of HB77: the restriction of public input on permits and the loss of personal access to water reservation.

Micciche said when he first read HB77, he did not support it and asked members of the Kenai Watershed Forum to review it and see how it would impact the Kenai See UPDATE, page A-10

Lawmakers will increase school funding this year — but with the majority of the session in the books, no one is saying by how much.

In the fight over the per-student Base Student Allocation, the final result likely will be a compromise between Republican and Democratic proposals.

School districts are scheduled to receive $5,680 per student in fiscal year 2014. That amount has not changed since 2011, and school districts say they need more money to balance rising costs.

Republican Gov. Sean Parnell has recommended adding $85 next year and $58 each of the two following years. The Democrat-backed proposal would add $404 this year and automatically increase the perstudent payment to follow inflation.

The end result likely won’t be known until the very end of the legislative session, as it’s a significant factor in the overall state budget picture, House See SCHOOL, page A-10

404(c) veto of Pebble would be unprecedented

By ELWOOD BREHMER Morris News Service-Alaska Alaska Journal of Commerce

The Environmental Protection Agency set a potentially unprecedented process in motion when it began work on Feb. 28 to preemptively block Pebble mine as an effort to protect Bristol Bay fisheries.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said in a formal statement the agency was initiating action to invoke its authority to veto the proposed Iliamna-area copper-gold mine under the

seldom-used Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act. The regional U.S. Army Corps of Engineers handles Section 404 permit applications for all projects, public or private, that could impact wetlands.

Subsection 404(c) of the Clean Water Act gives the EPA the authority to veto Section 404 applications and the agency has issued 13 final veto determinations nationwide since the act became law in 1972. All of the prior veto actions came after a Section 404 permit ap-

plication had been submitted, meaning Pebble would be the first case in which use of the veto power occurred without a permit application.

The entire process usually takes at least a year.

“Extensive scientific study has given us ample reason to believe that the Pebble mine would likely have significant and irreversible impacts on the Bristol Bay watershed and its abundant salmon fisheries,” McCarthy said in an EPA release.

If fully developed, the Peb-

ble deposits could become one of the largest surface coppergold mines in the world.

EPA’s most recent action comes after the agency issued its final watershed risk assessment of Bristol Bay in January that found large-scale mining could have “potentially destructive impacts to salmon and other fish” in the region.

Bristol Bay is home to the world’s largest commercial sockeye fishery; the 2013 exvessel value for all commercial salmon harvested in Bristol Bay was $140.5 million, according

to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

The move drew immediate praise from fishing groups — sport and commercial — as a conservation-minded approach to development, as well as criticism from some political leaders.

In statements from their offices, Rep. Don Young and Sen. Lisa Murkowski both spoke out against EPA’s intent to begin blocking the mine prior to a mine plan or environmental permits being submitted.

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Gas line, permitting bills on the agenda

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — With the Legislature more than halfway through its scheduled 90-day session, major bills are starting to take shape — and a controversial bill from the past has reemerged.

House Finance is set to complete its version of the state operating budget with a floor vote expected later this week. The committee took public comment last week after unveiling a $9.1 billion proposal that included $41 million less in unrestricted general funds that Gov. Sean Parnell’s proposal and $1.3 billion less than the authorized level of spending at the start of the current year.

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unfunded pension obligation.

Parnell has proposed moving $3 billion from savings toward helping pay down the roughly $12-billion liability for the public employees’ and teachers’ retirement systems.

Senate Finance Committee co-chair Pete Kelly said he sees that as a different discussion than determining what the cost of government operations for next year will be. But he said the pension discussion will have to happen.

Here are three other things to watch for: n GAS LINE: Senate Fi-

Noteworthy performance

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion

Classical guitarist Valeria Hartzell grins at the audience after her opening piece — an adaption of the prelude for Bach’s unaccompanied cello suite 1 — Friday in Soldotna.

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Researchers delve into coffee DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — University of California students who drink coffee to get through the day will soon be able to study the science behind the beverage.

Next week the University of California, Davis will host a research conference run by its recently founded Coffee Center.

The center is currently without a dedicated home, but the university hopes to formalize the research in coming years and eventually offer a major in coffee science, The Sacramento Bee reported Friday.

J. Bruce German, director of the university’s Foods for

Health Institute, says the conference is first step toward establishing a dedicated coffee research study center — similar to the school’s Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science.

“We think there is sufficient interest given the fact that so many people have consumed coffee so regularly across the world, for so long,” German said. “Coffee is not an insignificant contributor to the agricultural footprint.”

The March 11 conference will cover topics such as the genetics of coffee, sustainability in coffee growing and the sensory perception of coffee

drinkers.

Coffee production and consumption have been growing in recent years, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts global production will reach 150.5 million bags this year. The International Coffee Association reports coffee is the most widely traded tropical agricultural commodity and the largest food import in the United States.

One of the center’s first steps will be to build and operate a greenhouse to grow coffee plants for research, German said. Researchers expect to focus on sustainability in every step along the coffee produc-

tion chain, from land use to waste concerns.

“What we’re looking to do is start a relationship with coffee and move knowledge of all aspects of coffee forward,” German said. “That knowledge will be driven by scientists and industry.”

Currently the center is being funded by the university’s Foods for Health Institute, but German said he hopes the funding model will change through teaming up with the coffee industry. Ultimately, he expects the school will develop a coffee science major once there is funding for early stage research.

AWG athletes encourage kids to be active

By WESTON MORROW Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

FAIRBANKS (AP) — Arctic Winter Games athletes are taking their game to students.

Athletes from the Alaska team arrived at Woodriver Elementary School to work out with kids and talk about the importance of active play every day.

Athletes and students competed side by side in a complex obstacle course comprised of activities including hockey, basketball, gymnastics and the school’s title sport: unicycling.

The athletes came to Woodriver as part of the Play Every Day campaign. The campaign, operated by Healthy Futures and the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, seeks to raise awareness about childhood obesity and encourage kids to stay active.

“We try to have a lot of fun,” said Harlow Robinson, Healthy Futures’ executive director. “Our message is that being physically active is fun. It doesn’t mean that you have to join a sports team. It doesn’t mean that you have to do rigorous training and run a marathon.”

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forms logging their activity for a three-month period in the autumn and received prizes accordingly. The spring activity period is just beginning.

Play Every Day, which operated partnerships with 168 schools in Alaska this school year, often makes visits to its dedicated schools, and Woodriver has been one of the most active. The school has participated in the Healthy Futures Challenge nearly since it began more than 10 years ago.

“I know it’s something our kids spend a lot of time doing,” Principal Grant Guy said. “It definitely relates to success in the classroom.”

The program Wednesday also served as a kickoff event for the Arctic Winter Games, which are set to take place this year in Fairbanks between March 15 and 22. In addition to the team Alaska athletes, winter games mascot Ravee the Raven attended the event and interacted with students.

Many Fairbanks-area schools will act as housing and staging locations for athletes from around the northern world when the games start. Guy said some of his staff has been involved with the games as volunteers and were excited to be able to participate in a kickoff

event.

The visit should serve as a celebration of the effort of both Woodriver and its students, Harlow said.

“It’s in part to recognize

some of the schools around the state that have been champions of our program,” Harlow said.

More than 15,000 students participated in Play Every Day in the fall program this school year.

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Peninsula Clarion, Monday, March 10, 2014

Community Calendar Today Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at URS Club, 405 Overland Drive. Call 262-1917.

5 p.m.

• TOPS group 182 meets at the Sterling Senior Center. Call 260-7606.

6 p.m.

• Kenai Bridge Club plays duplicate bridge at the Kenai Senior Center. Call 252-9330 or 283-7609.

7 p.m.

• Women’s Barbershop sings at the Soldotna Church of God on the corner of Redoubt and Binkley. For more information, call 335-6789 or 262-4504.

• Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Middle of the Road” at United Methodist Church, 15811 Sterling Highway, Ninilchik.

• Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Dopeless Hope Fiends” at 607 Frontage Road, Kenai.

• Alcoholics Anonymous “Into Action” group, VFW basement Birch Street, Soldotna, 907-262-0995.

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• Al-Anon Support Group at Central Peninsula Hospital in the Augustine Room, Soldotna. Call 252-0558.

The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations.To have your event listed, email organization name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone number to news@peninsulaclarion.com.

‘Wild Bill’ Guarnere dead at 90 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — William “Wild Bill” Guarnere, one of the World War II veterans whose exploits were dramatized in the TV miniseries “Band of Brothers,” has died. He was 90.

His son, William Guarnere Jr., confirmed Sunday that his father died at Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.

Guarnere was rushed to the hospital early Saturday and died of a ruptured aneurysm early Saturday night.

“He had a good, long life,” his son said.

The HBO miniseries, based on a book by Stephen Ambrose, followed the members of Easy Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division from training in Georgia in 1942 through some of the war’s fiercest European battles through the war’s end in 1945.

Its producers included Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.

Guarnere was portrayed by the actor Frank John Hughes.

Guarnere, whose combat exploits earned him his nickname, lost a leg while trying to help a wounded solider during the Battle of the Bulge. His commendations included the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts.

In 2007, Guarnere helped write a nationally best-selling memoir called, “Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends,” with fellow south Philadelphian veteran Edward J. “Babe” Heffron and journalist Robyn Post.

William Guarnere Jr. said his father and Heffron met during the war and remained friends until Heffron died in December.

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Coast Guard Auxiliary to discuss boating

The Kenai Flotilla of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will conduct it’s monthly meeting on Saturday, March 15 at 1 p.m.

CPH service area board to meet at the Nikiski Fire Station No. 1, 44800 Kenai Spur Highway.

The Central Kenai Peninsula Hospital Service Area Board The public is cordially invited to join us to share ideas and inforwill hold its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, March 10, mation about boating. For more information, contact the Flotilla at 5:30 p.m. in the Redoubt-Spurr conference rooms downstairs Commander at 776-8522 or the Vice Flotilla Commander at 776in Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna.

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Fly-tying demonstration planned

Family Caregiver Support meeting looks at diet tips Kenai Peninsula Family Caregiver Support Meeting, Tuesday, March 11 at 1 p.m. at the Soldotna Senior Center. The presentation will include a video from the Mayo Clinic, “Eat Well to Feel Well,” and some tips from the Mediterranean Diet. Come share your experiences as a family caregiver with others. Call Shelley at 907-262-1280.

The Kenai Peninsula Chapter of Trout Unlimited and Sportsman’s Warehouse present “Bar Flies 2, Tie One On: An Evening of Free Fly tying Instruction and Demonstration.” The event will be hosted by Brendyn Shiflea, KPTU Board member and avid fly fisher, at the Main Street Grill in Kenai, Tuesday, March 18, 6:30 p.m.

St. Patrick’s Day parade steps off

Soldotna’s 23rd annual St. Patrick’s Day parade is scheduled to start at 4:40 p.m. Monday, March 17. The parade starts at the The Central Peninsula Garden Club will host a presentation Bailey’s Furniture parking lot and proceeds down the Kenai Spur on “What’s New With the High Tunnel Program — LOTS!” at 7 Highway toward the Y. p.m. Tuesday, March 11 at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Building, Mile 16.5 Kalifornsky Beach Road. Soil Conservationist Pam Bear baiting clinics scheduled Voeller will share new program details and a panel of experiThe Alaska Department of Fish and Game will host four black/ enced, local tunnel growers will show and tell what has worked brown bear baiting clinics on the Kenai Peninsula. Hunters may for them. The presentation is free and open to the public, with establish bait stations in certain areas, including areas within refreshments and sometimes door prizes.

Game Management Units 7 and 15, after successfully completing a Fish and Game-approved bear baiting clinic. Hunter who Court Appointed Special Advocates needed already have been certified are not required to re-certify. The The Kenaitze Indian Tribe will hold a meeting to provide clinic is 3 hours long and proved free of charge to the public.

Clinic dates, times and locations: information to people interested in becoming Court Appointed — Wednesday, March 26 at 6 p.m. at the education center Special Advocate (CASA) volunteers. CASA volunteers advoat the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge headquarters on Ski Hill cate for abused and neglected children in both tribal and state Road in Soldotna; courts.

— Thursday, March 27 at 6 p.m. in the NERRS Building, Learn how to be the voice of a child in need Tuesday, March 18 at 5:30 p.m. The meeting will be at the Kenatize Indian Tribe’s 2181 Kachemak Drive in Homer; — Tuesday, April 15 at 6 p.m. in the Cook Inlet Aquaculture administration building at 150 N. Willow St. in Kenai.

Building, 40610 Kalifornsky Beach Road in Kenai; For more information about the Kenai Peninsula CASA pro— Friday, May 2 at 6 p.m. during the Kenai Peninsula Sport, gram, contact Tyler Nichols at 335-7229 or at tnichols@kenaiRec and Trade Show at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. tze.org.

An online bear bait clinic is available for anyone 16 and older wishing to become certified to register a bait station. Visit www. adfg.alaska.gov for more information or call 907-262-9368 in Nikiski Pool posts spring break hours Soldotna or 907-235-8191 in Homer.

The Nikiski Pool will be open one hour later for swimming Tuesday-Thursday during school vacation, 7 a.m.-5 p.m. and 6-9 Build skills at KPC p.m. with the waterslide open daily at 1 p.m.; Friday, 7 a.m.-5 Free basic skill building help in math, writing and reading is p.m. and 6-9 p.m., with the waterslide open all day; and Saturday available in the Learning Center at Kenai Peninsula College in and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. with the waterslide open all Room 153.

For more information, call the Learning Center at day. The pool is closed on Mondays. Please call 776-8800 for 262-0327. more information.

Garden Club talks high tunnels

LIO Schedule Monday 1 p.m.

The House Resources Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 334 Oil & Gas Transferable Tax Credit Certification, HB 344 Invasive Aquatic Plant Species Control, HB 351 Uses of Nancy Lake State Recreation Area and HJR 30 Izembek Land Exchange. 3 minute testimony limit.

Monday 3:15 p.m.

The House Labor & Commerce Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 316 Workers’ Compensation Medical Fees, HB 152 PERS Termination Costs, HB 328 Board / Licensing of Massage Therapists and HCR 15 Task Force on Unmanned Aircraft. Testimony will be taken.

Tuesday 8:30 a.m.

The House Finance Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 112 Repeal Film Production Tax Credit. Listen only.

Tuesday 9 a.m.

The Senate Finance Committee will sponsor a public

hearing to discuss SB 64 Omnibus Crime / Corrections Bill. 2 minute testimony limit.

Wednesday 8:30 a.m.

The House Finance Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 266 Appropriations: Operating Budget / Loans / Funds, HB 267 Appropriations: Mental Health Budget and HB 306 Evaluate Indirect Expenditures; Tax Credits. Testimony will be taken on HB 306; listen only for HB 266 & HB 267.

Wednesday 9 a.m.

The Senate Finance Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss SB 98 VPSO Firearms, SB 105 Quitclaim Land to United States, SB 77 Big Game Hunting with Children and HB 231 Cattle Brand Registration. Testimony will be taken.

Wednesday 1:30 p.m.

The Senate Health & Social Services Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 263 Extend Senior Benefits Payment Program. 3 minute testimony

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Wednesday 3:15 p.m.

The House Labor & Commerce Committee will sponsor a public hearing for an Update: “Alaska LNG Project” by Steve Butt, Project Manager. Testimony by invitation only.

Wednesday 3:30 p.m.

The Senate Resources Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 77 Land Use / Disposal / Exchanges; Water Rights. 2 minute testimony limit.

Thursday 8 a.m.

The State Board of Education will hold their regular quarterly meeting and will take Public Comment on agenda items. For complete information go to the Board’s website: http:// www.eed.state.ak.us/State_ Board/ Thursday 3 p.m.

The House Health & Social Services Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 134 Medicaid Payment for Mediset Prescription, HB 250 Medical Malpractice Actions, HCR 18 Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative and HCR 19 Supporting Efforts of Recover Alaska. 3 minute testimony limit.

Friday 3:15 p.m.

The House Labor & Commerce Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 203 Reimbursement of Health Insurance Claims, HB 282 Landlord and Tenant Act, HB 230 AIDEA Bonds for Processing Facilities and HB 316 Workers’ Compensation Medical Fees. Testimony will be taken.

All teleconferences are held at the Kenai Legislative Information Office, 145 Main Street Loop No. 217, Kenai, unless otherwise noted. To confirm call 283-2030 or email Kenai.LIO@akleg. gov. To listen or watch online go to http://alaskalegislature.tv/.

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What Others Say

The D.C. virus strikes again When the nation’s governors gath-

ered in the U.S. capital, they tried to deliver a bipartisan message that gridlock in Washington is impairing efforts to govern at the state level.

Too bad their efforts to drive home that point were undercut by their own displays of partisanship.

Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, chairman of the National Governor’s Association, delivered the script.

“While Washington remains mostly gridlocked — preventing long-term solutions — we are addressing challenges by reforming education, building infrastructure, improving health care and developing energy resources.

Governors do not have the luxury of standing still. Our hope is that our federal partners will do their part and take action,” said Fallin, a Republican.

Chiming in was Gov. Steve Beshear of Kentucky, a Democrat. “The whole country’s frustrated with this place,” he said.

Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado, a Democrat who is vice chairman of the association, pointed out that “unlike what you see in Congress,” state officials “love to share and steal ideas from each other and see them improved.”

A month previously when delivering the governors’ State of the States address, Hickenlooper pointed out that more than 26 percent of most state budgets come from the federal government. “The politics of fiscal responsibility can no longer be centered around crisis and deadlines,” Hickenlooper said.

By the time the governors had disbanded, however, it was apparent that the same divisions that are hamstringing Washington are also interfering with cooperation among states.

After a group of Democratic governors met with President Barack Obama, they tore into Republicans. Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, a Democrat, said Republican governors “have been distracted by a more radical social agenda that gives tax cuts to the wealthy (and) asks the middle class to pay for them while they cut education and the opportunities that allow us to grow jobs.”

Shumlin tried to return to the script several days later in a bipartisan media briefing after governors met with Obama. “We governors actually have to get things done.

It’s not like Congress down here,” Shumlin said.

That’s when Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana launched his now-famous tirade against Obama. “The Obama economy is now the minimum wage economy,” Jindal said, drawing gasps that he had broken protocol. Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy, a Democrat, claimed Jindal’s remark was “the most insane statement I’ve ever heard.”

To Americans more removed from the scene, however, it seemed like the visiting governors had succumbed to whatever virus infects Washington. It’s unfortunate the governors couldn’t stay on point. It’s a message Washington needs to hear.

— Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star, March 3

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The Russian reset to nowhere

The “reset” with Russia had a brief, unhappy life. It began with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presenting her Russian counterpart with a mistranslated reset button reading “overcharged.” It ended with current Secretary of State John Kerry denying knowledge of the late, unlamented policy on “Meet the Press”: “Well, I don’t know what you mean by the reset.”

Memories are short in Foggy Bottom.

And understandably. Who wouldn’t try to forget a geopolitical initiative that has been exposed as willful naivete and strategic obtuseness from the beginning?

George Kennan wrote the famous “Long Telegram” at the outset of the Cold War. President Barack Obama would have needed only “A Very Brief Telegram” at the outset of his administration: “Bush’s fault.”

This was a perverse misreading of history. Of all President George W. Bush’s failings, not giving the Russians a chance wasn’t one of them. He notoriously looked into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s eyes at the beginning of his presidency and saw sweetness and light. By the end, his illusions were shattered by the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008.

President Obama picked up like this Russian act of aggression had been perpetrated long ago by the Grand Duke of Muscovy, instead of by the very regime he was resetting with.

In a 2009 visit to Moscow, the springtime of reset, President Obama professed his belief “that Americans and Russians have a common interest in the development of rule of law, the strengthening of

democracy, and the protection of human rights.” He was 0 for 3.

It didn’t take a student of Russian history, or of international relations or even of the model U.N., to know that this would Rich Lowry end in ashes.

At one level, the Obama administration was guilty of the human impulse of wanting to see the world as you would like it to be rather than as it is.

At another, the president is not particularly interested in international relations. It was appropriate that one of his statements on the crisis came at an elementary school while announcing his latest budget, which reduces the U.S. Army to pre-World War II levels. Because we all know that we will never face an unexpected, unpredictable international crisis again.

This gets to the deeper ambition. The president thought Putin would help him manage an American stand-down from global leadership. Putin was happy to do so — on his own terms.

Whereas Obama has the left’s traditional discomfort with American power, Putin has no such guilty conscience. Whereas Obama believes we’ve entered a paradisiacal new period in history when everyone can be constrained by international norms, Putin has no such delusions.

Consider the New START treaty. Ac-

cording to nuclear expert Keith Payne, it didn’t require any cuts of deployed warheads or strategic launchers by Russia, which was already under the agreement’s limits, only by the United States.

Still, the administration treats the treaty as a signal triumph of American diplomacy.

You can imagine Russian national-security analysts arguing over whether this is more pathetic or hilarious.

The attitudes behind the reset linger.

John Kerry’s plaintive observation that the invasion of Crimea is “a 19th-century act in the 21st century” carries the quaint assumption that raw power politics and nationalist pride are things we left behind two centuries ago.

In a similar vein, President Obama said last week that Ukraine’s stability and success are “in Russia’s interest.” Not if you are Vladimir Putin and stung by the humiliation of the Russian empire’s diminishment after the end of the Cold War and informed by Catherine the Great’s belief that the only way to secure Russia borders is to extend them.

President Obama declares that Russia is on the wrong side of history. That may be a clinching argument in a debate over gay marriage at Wesleyan University, but won’t carry much weight with Putin. He thinks he can make history move with lies, thuggery and iron.

It’s now Obama’s challenge to prove him wrong.

Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.

Kachemak Bay Research Reserve in jeopardy Budget cuts recently requested by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) will close the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve (KBRR). Of course that’s not the way ADF&G would prefer to say it, but that’s the reality. Last week ADF&G’s Sport Fish Division (SFD), which “manages” KBRR, requested that the House Finance Fish and Game Subcommittee delete $175,000 in General Funds from KBRR’s FY 2015 budget — which the subcommittee agreed to. The significance is that this funding provides the match KBRR needs to secure a much larger amount of funding from NOAA. Remove the match and there is a domino effect that not only loses NOAA funding but also project funding that depends on operational support. It could even impact operations of the Island and Oceans Visitors Center. In April the state needs to renew KBRR’s five year lease with the Visitors Center, which now has uncertainty.

What will end if the House and Senate Finance Committees accept ADF&G’s requests are some highly beneficial research and monitoring programs within Kachemak Bay watersheds and coastal areas, popular education programs such as the Discovery Labs, and the informative Coastal Training Program’s workshops and training for scientists and the public.

Last December the Community Council was informed by the SFD that it wanted to divest itself of KBRR. Director Charlie Swanton and Assistant Director Lisa Evans told us that reduced SFD funding, primarily because of fewer sport fish license sales, was forcing further budget cuts. In addition, reductions in state funding was looming on the horizon.

We were told that KBRR did not contribute anything meaningful to the management of Alaska’s sport fisheries and was therefore expendable. We questioned that, pointing out that KBRR’s professionally acclaimed research in local headwater streams should allow SFD to estimate how many salmon could be produced by that habitat, but Charlie said that this research C

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Now our only hope of saving the KBRR program is to convince the House and Senate Finance Committees that while there is need for budget cuts there is no need for closure of an agency, particularly one that has not only provided well respected and publicly supported research and educational programs, but returns about three dollars for every dollar of GF support it receives.

At this desperate moment in time the KBRR Community Council is asking all local residents who have benefitted from KBRR’s research and/or educational programs to send a quick email of support to the House Finance Committee and ask that HB 266 include KBRR’s essential GF match. This funding will not only allow KBRR to keep its doors open, but allow the time needed to arrange a more understanding partnership. Both Representative Seaton and Senator Micciche are actively and effectively engaged in this issue, but they need our help.

was not useful. We also pointed out that the mission of National Estuarine Research Reserve program (under which KBRR was organized) was broader than SFD’s and that KBRR’s funding should not be tied to sport fish licenses sales — but to no avail.

Restricting KBRR to SFD’s mission misses a lot of opportunity.

In a follow-up letter to Lisa we questioned why KBRR’s budget is in the same component as the SFD. This lack of transparency commingles agencies having significantly different missions and funding sources. The letter was never answered.

Given a rather nonnegotiable situation, we asked how much time is available to find another partner that would be a better fit for KBRR. We were told that the budget for the second half of this fiscal year was firm and that about the same amount of GF funding was included in the Governor’s budget for next year. While 18 months George Matz is Chair of the Kachemak isn’t much for a change that needs time Bay Research Reserve Community Counconsuming levels of approval, we vowed cil. to see what can be accomplished. The SFD said that by mid-January they would have a plan for the vacant KBRR manager’s position as well as potential partners and keep stakeholders informed. But no news was E-mail: news@peninsulaclarion.com forthcoming. At the Community Council Write: Fax: quarterly meeting on Feb. 25th we learned Peninsula Clarion 907-283-3299 that nothing has been done.

P.O. Box 3009 Questions? Call: Then two days later council members Kenai, AK 99611 907-283-7551 were asked to attend an emergency conference call with Charlie. He informed n All letters must include the writer’s council and staff that the legislature was name, phone number and address. asking each department for more budget n Letters are limited to 500 words cuts and SFD decided to recommend that and may be edited to fit available all of KBRR’s GF match be cut. Now inspace. stead of having 18 months to find a new

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“This expansive, jurisdictional power-grab proposed by the EPA severely jeopardizes not only Alaska’s sovereignty, but the rights of states and all private property owners nationwide,” Young said. “Today’s (Feb. 28) announcement for review under Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act show an agency corrupted by politics — one with no regard for the state or federal permitting processes found in the statute.”

State Attorney General Michael Geraghty sent a letter to McCarthy and EPA Regional Administrator Dennis McLerran Feb. 28 asking agency leaders to suspend the 15-day period that the state, applicant and the Corps of Engineers have to respond to the action until after permits are submitted by Pebble.

Geraghty wrote that the January watershed assessment is more than 1,000 pages long and that the state has not had a chance to fully vet it, thus making an appropriate response to the Section 404(c) action difficult.

All Pebble Limited Partnership claims are on state land, which requires state involvement in the process.

Pebble CEO Tom Collier said in a release that the group is confident in its project and will continue to work with the state and the EPA, while calling the move a step that has turned the federal permitting process “on its head.”

“The steps taken by the EPA to date have gone well outside its normal practice, have been biased throughout and have been unduly influenced by environmental advocacy organizations,” Collier said.

EPA’s announcement is the latest blow to Pebble. In September, London-based Anglo American Plc, a 50 percent owner in the Pebble Partnership announced it would pull out of the project after it had invested more than $540 million in exploration and planning.

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is expected to unveil its version of SB138 as early as Monday.

The bill, from Parnell, would help set the state’s equity share in a major liquefied natural gas project and allow the project to advance to a stage of preliminary engineering and design.

The state signed an agreement with pipeline company TransCanada Corp., BP, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil Corp., and the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., setting broad terms for moving forward. The state signed a separate agreement with TransCanada to manage the state’s interest in a pipeline and gas treatment plant. The agreements are subject to passage of enabling legislation deemed acceptable by the parties.

Kelly, R-Fairbanks, said Thursday he didn’t think the bill would change that much.

He said issues that needed to be figured out included the state’s participation rate and concerns raised by municipalities about having a say on project terms that would affect them, such as payments in lieu of property tax.

He said the temptation with lawmakers has been to start discussing “THE gas line” when the bill would allow simply to move to the next step in exploring a project. But some lawmakers have argued for limits to be incorporated into the bill for what can — and can’t — be up for negotiation as part of the project-enabling contracts that would be brought back to the Legislature for approval, to make clear what the Legislature would be willing to accept. Sen. Hollis French, D-Anchorage, has said oil taxes should be off the bargaining table.

With the state eyeing a role, questions have been raised about the kind of cash the state would have to come up with and what the state might get in return for its investment. While lawmakers have been given answers, the numbers depend on the potential equity stake and other assumptions. It’s not clear what the gas price will be.

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Ron Thiessen has said the company would continue to pursue other partners in Pebble.

Political leaders have asked for a yet-to-be released formal mine plan from Pebble so the decision process on the proposal can begin.

The United Tribes of Bristol Bay issued a statement saying the EPA action is “the first step toward fulfilling (the agency’s) trust responsibility to Bristol Bay’s tribes and the subsistence way of life.”

Sen. Mark Begich took a stance against Pebble shortly after the January watershed assessment was released. When asked by the Journal whether or not he thought the project should be allowed to enter the permitting process, he responded with a formal statement from his office: “Pebble Limited Partnership has had years to present a final mine plan and file for permits. Even after prodding by my colleague, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, this fall, they failed to do that. Right now, the project can still apply for all of its state and federal permits.

“As I understand it, once the 404c process is underway, the company can apply for but not receive a wetlands fill permit until the process reaches an end. I made my decision, after reviewing the science and hearing from Alaskans, that this is the wrong mine in the wrong place. Residents of Bristol Bay need certainty about how to plan their future and deserve not to have this issue hanging over them forever.”

Murkowski and Young sent a letter to EPA Inspector General Arthur Elkins Jr. Feb. 12 asking him to follow up on a request by the Pebble Partnership to investigate the origination and content of the Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment, or BBWA. “We believe the BBWA sets a terrible precedent for future development not just in our home state but throughout the nation.

We therefore ask you to look into the allegations that have been raised about the BBWA, and to determine whether it is in fact impartial, based on sound science, and compliant with all relevant federal and EPA quality standards,” the letter states.

ANCHORAGE — Fourtime champion Jeff King took a razor-thin lead in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday, trading places with his closest rival by departing a checkpoint one minute earlier on Alaska’s wind-scoured western coast.

Aliy Zirkle led hours before when she arrived at the Norton Bay village of Koyuk one minute ahead of King on Sunday afternoon.

King rested his 12-dog team at the checkpoint for three hours and 42 minutes, while Zirkle and her 11 dogs took a break for three hours and 44 minutes.

King departed Koyuk at 5:50 p.m. Sunday, and Zirkle got back on the trail at 5:51 p.m.

They are on a 48-mile dash to the next checkpoint of Elim on Golovin Bay, 123 miles from the finish line in Nome.

King last won in 2006 and is trying to be only the second musher to win five races.

Zirkle has come in second place the last two years in the nearly 1,000-mile race. She is seeking to become only the third woman to win the race and the first woman since the late Susan Butcher in 1990.

Zirkle arrived at Koyuk at 2:07 p.m. Sunday after a 50mile run from the previous checkpoint at Shaktoolik. King arrived close behind at 2:08 p.m.

Other front-runners Sunday were four-time champion Martin Buser, who arrived in Koyuk in third place at 4:20 p.m. Sunday, followed 13 minutes later by 2012 Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey. Veteran musher Sonny Lindner arrived in fifth place at 4:47 p.m., followed by defending champion Mitch Seavey, father of Dallas Seavey, at 5:23 p.m.

Veteran Aaron Burmeister had been sixth out of Shaktoolik but arrived in Koyuk at 5:58 p.m., after Mitch Seavey.

The racers, who have two more checkpoints after Elim and before Nome, are expected

goes over budget? How much will be left in savings when the state will have to make its cash calls, and what will those cash calls mean for other parts of the budget?

Sen. Click Bishop, R-Fairbanks, called it the fear of the unknown. He said he wanted to make sure the state wasn’t looking at the project through “rose-colored glasses” and said he would have to feel confident in the state’s ability to meet its financial obligations to the project moving forward. But first, he said, a bill has to move out to allow for work on project estimates to continue.

Senate President Charlie Huggins, R-Wasilla, said he took comfort in the stepped approach. “We don’t have to be too bold in the first step,” he said, “but we have to have a bit of courage.” n PERMITTING BILL: HB77, also from Parnell, has resurfaced and is scheduled for hearing by Senate Resources.

The bill, which has been billed as a way to improve the permitting process, passed the House last year but stalled in the Senate amid lack of support.

Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, asked that the bill be sent

to Senate Resources for further review after hearing concerns from his constituents during the interim.

Critics say the bill court hurt the public’s ability to participate in permitting decisions and give the Natural Resources commissioner too much power.

Wyn Menefee, chief of operations for the state Division of Mining, Land and Water, said there was misunderstanding about the public comment portion. He said the administration was not trying to limit public participation but rather was trying to get people involved in the process early so their concerns could be addressed. He said that could also help cut down on project delays for companies.

The bill also said the Natural Resources commissioner — “notwithstanding any other provision of law” — could authorize an activity on state land by issuing a general permit if the commissioner finds that the activity unlikely to result in “significant and irreparable” harm to state land or resources. Some viewed that language as given the commissioner broad discretion but Menefee said it was

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Aliy Zirkle drives her dog team across the portage from Kaltag to Unalakleet. Zirkle was the first musher to reach the Bering Sea in Unalakleet during the 2014 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Saturday.

to begin arriving in Nome no later than Tuesday.

While the front-runners were gunning up the Bering Sea coast, volunteers and Nome city crews were busily preparing the old Gold Rush town for the coming onslaught of dog teams and spectators. Dog lots were being readied, and volunteers at the town’s mini convention center were folding souvenir T-shirts to be sold. Early Sunday morning, the famed burled arch marking the finish line was moved by bulldozer from a city parking lot to its yearly spot on Front Street.

Temperatures in Nome hovered slightly above zero Sunday, which brought clear conditions and brilliant sunshine. Snowfall has been light this winter in the frontier town of nearly 3,700, so the city has been stockpiling snow, which was being trucked to Front Street for the final stretch to the finish line.

The race began March 2 in Willow with 69 teams. As of Sunday afternoon, 16 mushers had scratched, leaving 53 teams on the trail, which was marked by long stretches of bare and rocky ground that made for an icy, treacherous trail in the early part of the race.

Zirkle on Saturday was the first musher to reach the coastal community of Unalakleet. But she thought she was running second behind Buser, learning only later that he was resting at a cabin. Thinking she was running second, she wasn’t all hyped up thinking she was first, Zirkle said before taking off from the Unalakleet Saturday night.

“I made the run really mellow,” she said in a video posted on the Iditarod website.

King left Unalakleet 69 minutes later, saying he and his dogs were feeling great. King, 58,

has been battling a stiff back, shoulders and arms all winter, but he was feeling “loose as a cucumber now,” King said in an Iditarod video.

“Man, my aches and pains go way when I rattle down the trail,” he said. “I swear it.”

The first to reach Nome wins $50,000 and a new truck. The 29 teams after that win cash prizes decreasing on a sliding scale. All other teams finishing the race receive $1,049.

meant as an efficiency tool — not an attempt to get around environmental or other laws.

He expected that language to be addressed.

He said the types of activities that would fall under that category are fairly small, things like boat storage on a river or a filming operation on state land.

Lindsey Bloom, a fisheries consultant and critic of the bill, said if all that is the intent, it should be made clear in the bill so as not to leave the language open to interpretation. n BUILDING DESIGNS: HB343, from Rep. Charisse Millett, R-Anchorage, calls for standardized designs for public

buildings to optimize efficiency.

In her sponsor statement, she says this would lead to a reduction in the design and planning phase of buildings, “inevitably leading to a cost savings for the state.”

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Iditarod musher Wade Marrs, from Wasilla, puts straw down for his dogs at the Unalakleet checkpoint at sunrise on Sunday.

Associated Press writer Mark Thiessen contributed to this report from Nome.

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Around the Nation Record second felony convictions by counties undermine California prison goals SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California counties are confounding the state’s court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of people with second felony convictions.

The surge in offenders requiring state prison sentences is undermining a nearly 3-year-old law pushed by Gov. Jerry Brown.

The legislation restructured California’s criminal justice system to keep lower-level felons in county jails while reserving state prison cells for serious, violent and sexual offenders.

The law initially reduced the state prison population by 25,000 inmates and brought it close to the level demanded by a special panel of three federal judges who ruled that a reduction in crowding was the best way to improve treatment of inmates.

But the inmate population is rising again, led by a record increase in the number of second felony convictions for those who already had a prior conviction for a serious crime.

Counties, where prosecutors have discretion in filing such charges, sent nearly 5,500 people with second felony convictions to state prisons during the 2013-14 fiscal year, a 33 percent increase over the previous year and the most since California enacted the nation’s first three-strikes law in 1994 that required life sentences for offenders convicted of three felonies.

30-40 people hurt as stage collapses at Southern California high school ANAHEIM, Calif. — A stage at a Southern California high school collapsed during a student event and 30-40 people were rushed to hospitals with mainly minor injuries, authorities said.

Police, firefighters and medics responded to a call shortly before 11 p.m. PST Saturday after the stage gave way at Servite High School, according to the Anaheim Fire Department.

The dispatch supervisory office told The Associated Press that 30-40 people were transported to hospitals. Most of the injuries are minor and none is life threatening.

Kerry, Cruz and Crist poke fun at each other, journalists at 129th annual Gridiron Dinner WASHINGTON — Politicians poked fun at adversaries and themselves Saturday night at the annual Gridiron dinner, a gathering of journalists and public figures.

Conservative Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, joked about his clashes with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Cruz, not known to closely follow party leaders’ instructions, told the crowd that McConnell had asked him to represent the GOP “and when Leader McConnell wants something, who am I to say no?”

Cruz mentioned his recent filibuster opposing President Barack Obama’s health care law. It featured 21 hours of “nothing but my favorite sound” Cruz said of his lengthy talk.

Charlie Crist, who was Florida governor as a Republican and seeks to regain the job as a Democrat — spoke for his new party. Crist said he checked his big ego by reminding himself that John McCain found Sarah Palin a worthier running mate in 2008. And he took a jab at Cruz, saying the Texas tea partyer’s followers wear “tri-cornered aluminum hats.”

Shoe-bomb witness to speak from London at NY trial of bin Laden’s son-in-law NEW YORK — The trial of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and al-Qaida spokesman after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks resumes Monday with the airing of testimony from a London resident who says he participated in a 2001 shoe-bomb plot.

Saajid Badat will testify live via videotape from London at the New York trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith about his experiences with al-Qaida after the attacks that demolished the World Trade Center. Some of the lawyers in the case flew to London on Friday to pose questions.

Prosecutors are using the testimony to try to show that Abu Ghaith knew of al-Qaida’s plans when he promised in videotapes sent across the world in the weeks after the Sept.

11 attacks that “the storm of airplanes will not abate” against Americans and advised Muslims in America and Great Britain to stay off aircraft.

Abu Ghaith, born in Kuwait, faces a possible life prison sentence if he is convicted of conspiring to kill Americans and of providing material support to al-Qaida. His trial began in federal court in Manhattan last week, a year after he was captured in Turkey and brought to the United States for trial.

About five years ago, he married bin Laden’s eldest daughter, Fatima.

Badat was expected to testify Monday after defense lawyers cross-examine another witness, Sahim Alwan. The Lackawanna, N.Y., man testified Friday that he met bin Laden three times and heard Abu Ghaith speak to al-Qaida recruits while undergoing training in Afghanistan several months before the 2001 attacks.

Alwan pleaded guilty in 2003 to providing material support to terrorists by attending bin Laden’s al-Farooq camp and served about seven years in prison.

Badat was convicted in London in a 2001 plot to down an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami with explosives hidden in his shoes.

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70 arrested in UMass St. Pat’s parties AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — The chaos at the University of Massachusetts over the weekend during a pre-St. Patrick’s Day celebration brought new attention to an old problem affecting colleges across the country: How to deal with alcohol-fueled revelers during the March festivities.

Celebrations near the UMass campus in Amherst spiraled out of control Saturday as police dealt with thousands of drunken and unruly people during the annual “Blarney Blowout.” More than 70 were arrested and four officers suffered minor injuries.

Like other colleges and towns, UMass and Amherst officials took action to try to prevent problems. The university warned students last week that there would be an increased police presence Saturday, and Amherst police prepared for largescale disturbances based on past problems. Six people were arrested in Amherst last year.

At Penn State, the school paid licensed liquor establishments to stay closed this month during the unofficial drinking holiday known as State Patty’s Day for the second year in a row. State College, Pa., Police Chief Tom King said the strategy, along with a fraternity ban on parties, helped lead to a 75 percent decrease in arrests and citations this year compared to 2011 — the fake holiday’s heyday.

In Champaign, Ill., University of Illinois and local officials have been dealing with the socalled “Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day” for years.

The News-Gazette newspaper reported there were dozens

of arrests and nearly 260 tickets issued for city ordinance violations in Champaign on Saturday, but no major injuries. Students were told of the dangers of binge drinking and the consequences of being arrested during pre-celebration educational campaigns.

In Amherst, this year’s celebrations became unruly in several areas around town despite efforts by UMass officials and local police.

Amherst police Capt. Jennifer Gundersen told The Republican newspaper of Springfield that the daylong partying was “extremely disturbing and unsafe.”

“Perhaps one of the worst scenes we have ever had with drunkenness and unruliness,” Gundersen said. “It is extremely upsetting. It is very dangerous.”

UMass denounced the “unruly behavior” Saturday, and spokesman Ed Blaguszewski said students who were arrested will be reviewed under the school’s code of conduct and sanctions could include suspension or expulsion.

Many UMass students and other young people posted their thoughts and experiences during Blarney Blowout on Twitter.

Some said the police response was excessive, one person said their nose was broken by a beer bottle that someone threw and another said they were “teargassed.”

Longtime Amherst resident Larry Kelley has railed against drunken UMass student partying for the past several years. He reported on Saturday’s events on his blog, “Only in the Republic of Amherst.”

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Police detain a participant in the pre-St. Patrick’s Day “Blarney Blowout” near the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass. on Saturday. Amherst police said early Sunday that 73 people had been arrested after authorities spent most of the day Saturday attempting to disperse several large gathering around the UMass campus for the party traditionally held the Saturday before spring break.

“Yesterday was the worst day in this town for public rowdyism,” Kelley told The Associated Press. “We still had a horrendous experience yesterday, horrendous.”

Police from the city and university and state troopers in riot gear converged on a crowd of about 4,000 people at an apartment complex shortly after noon. Authorities said people were destroying things, and as officers began to disperse the crowd, they were pelted with glass bottles, beer cans and snowballs.

After quieting the disturbance, several thousand people assembled near a frat house.

That gathering became dangerous and out of control, officials

said, and when officers tried to clear the crowd, they again were attacked with bottles, rocks, cans and snowballs.

Pepper spray was used to disperse the crowd because of the size and “assaultive behavior,” police said.

Three officers were hurt when they were hit by bottles, and one was injured while attempting to make an arrest, Gundersen said.

None of the officers were seriously injured.

Police say charges included inciting to riot, failing to disperse, disorderly conduct, liquor law violations and assault and battery on officers. Some of those arrested had been released on bail by early Sunday, police said, while others were held.

State oversight may tame Calif. pot shops

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SAN FRANCISCO — Law and order may soon be coming to the Wild West of weed.

A California lawmaker has introduced legislation to regulate the state’s free-wheeling medical marijuana industry — the farmers that grow the drug, the hundreds of storefront shops that sell it and especially the doctors who write recommendations allowing people to use it.

The state in 1996 was the first to authorize marijuana use for health purposes — there are now 20. But to this day no one knows how many dispensaries and patients California has or what conditions pot is being used to treat because the loosely worded law did not give government agencies a role in tracking the information.

The bill introduced by state Sen. Lou Correa marks a milestone not only because it would provide significant state oversight of the multi-billion dollar industry for the first time, but because it is likely to get serious consideration in Sacramento after years of inaction.

SB1262 is the brainchild of the California Police Chiefs Association and the League of California Cities, two politically influential groups that have stood in the way of previous efforts to legitimize pot growers and dispensaries by subjecting them to state control and taxation.

“This legislation seems counterintuitive, but we polled our membership and over 90 percent of the chiefs felt that, regardless

Skydiver, pilot treated after midair accident MULBERRY, Fla. — A plane became entangled in the strings of a skydiver’s parachute, sending both crashing into the ground near Tampa, Fla., with both the pilot and jumper hospitalized with minor injuries.

Polk County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Carrie Eleazer says 87-year-old pilot Shannon Trembley was doing takeoff and landing maneuvers Saturday in his Cessna at the South Lakeland Airport in Mulberry.

On his third landing pass, the wing of his plane became entangled in the strings of 49-year-old Gainesville skydiver John Frost’s parachute about 75 feet above the ground.

Frost was flung to the ground, and Trembley’s plan nosedived to the surface as well.

Eleazer says neither sustained serious injury, but went to the hospital. Frost was treated and released. Trembley was held for observation.

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of how you felt about the marijuana issue itself, there needed to be a responsible public safety approach to this,” said Covina Police Chief Kim Raney, president of the chiefs association.

Medical marijuana advocates, who have lobbied unsuccessfully for a statewide regulatory scheme they hoped would make the industry less susceptible to federal raids and arrests, is taking a wait-and-see approach on Correa’s legislation.

They prefer a bill held over from last year, co-sponsored by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano and Sens. Darryl Steinberg and Mark Leno, that calls for regulating and taxing medical marijuana like alcohol and places fewer restrictions on doctors than Correa’s measure does, but are prepared to hammer out a compromise, said Lynne Lyman, California director for the Drug Policy Alliance.

“We are very encouraged by law enforcement coming to the table with their proposals and we think we can all work together and come up with some model legislation in the state, finally, 18 years later,” Lyman said.

The police chiefs and cities are getting on the regulatory bandwagon now because they worry that if they don’t champion a plan of their own, marijuana advocates will succeed in getting the Legislature to pass one that aggravates the ongoing concerns of law enforcement and local governments instead of addressing them. Last year alone, the groups beat back three bills that would have required pot shops to be licensed by the state but that

the league feared would make it harder for cities and counties to ban or regulate them.

Meanwhile, public support for legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, as voters in Colorado and Washington have done, is growing and the White House has softened its stance on the issue.

“We were very concerned about the legislation last year,” League of California Cities lobbyist Tim Cromartie said. “We thought it was unwise to purely play defense. We thought we needed to play offense.”

The bill co-sponsored by the league and the police chiefs’ association would require the California Department of Public Health to license dispensaries and cultivation sites but only if they first had secured operating permits from local jurisdictions.

The department also would develop “quality assurance” procedures for testing marijuana for bacteria, mold and nonorganic pesticides, which growers would be prohibited from using.

The legislation also imposes substantial new requirements on doctors. If passed, it would allow medical marijuana recommenda-

tions to be given only by either a patient’s primary care doctor or a licensed specialist to whom the doctor has referred the patient.

The doctor must have completed a certification course that covers substance abuse training.

The issuing doctor also would have to instruct the patient on dosage, whether the marijuana should be smoked, eaten or applied externally, and even what strain to use.

Certified doctors also would have to keep detailed records and to report how many recommendations they give and why to the California Medical Board, which would audit those who issue more than 100 in a year.

The mandates represent a significant departure from the status quo. Doctors currently can recommend marijuana to treat any ailment they choose and do not have to report to the state any information about their patients or the number of recommendations they issue and for what.

California Medical Association spokeswoman Molly Weedn said the organization has not had a chance to review Correa’s bill but would probably take a position on it in coming months.

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Putin defends separatist drive in Crimea as legal

By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Associated Press

KIEV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday defended the separatist drive in the disputed Crimean Peninsula as in keeping with international law, but Ukraine’s prime minister vowed not to relinquish “a single centimeter” of his country’s territory.

Over the weekend, the Kremlin beefed up its military presence in Crimea, a part of Ukraine since 1954, and proRussia forces keep pushing for a vote in favor of reunification with Moscow in a referendum the local parliament has scheduled for next Sunday.

President Barack Obama has warned that the March 16 vote would violate international law.

But in Moscow, Putin made it clear that he supports the referendum in phone calls with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Minister David Cameron.

“The steps taken by the legitimate leadership of Crimea are based on the norms of international law and aim to ensure the legal interests of the population of the peninsula,” said Putin, according to the Kremlin.

Following an extraordinary Sunday meeting of the Ukrainian government, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced that he will meet with Obama in Washington on Wednesday on a “resolution of the situation in Ukraine,” the Interfax news agency reported. The White House confirmed the meeting.

“Our country and our people

are facing the biggest challenges in the history of modern independent Ukraine,” the prime minister said earlier in the day.

“Will we be able to deal with these challenges? There should only be one answer to this question and that is: yes.”

In an emotional climate of crisis, Ukraine on Sunday solemnly commemorated the 200th anniversary of the birth of its greatest poet, Taras Shevchenko, a son of peasant serfs who is a national hero and is considered the father of modern Ukrainian literature.

“This is our land,” Yatsenyuk told a crowd gathered at the Kiev statue to Shevchenko.

“Our fathers and grandfathers have spilled their blood for this land. And we won’t budge a single centimeter from Ukrainian land. Let Russia and its president know this.”

“We’re one country, one family and we’re here together with our kobzar (bard) Taras,” said acting President Oleksandr Turchynov.

Later, Ukrainians in the tens of thousands massed in the Kiev’s center for a multi-faith prayer meeting to display unity and honor Shevchenko. One of the speakers, former imprisoned Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, almost burst into tears as he implored the crowd to believe not all Russians support their country’s recent actions in Ukraine.

“I want you to know there is a completely different Russia,” Khodorkovsky said.

In the eastern city of Luhansk, however, people who

gathered in a square to celebrate Shevchenko’s birthday were attacked by pro-Russia protesters, and some were beaten up, local media reports said.

Chanting “Russia! Russia!” the demonstrators then broke through a police barricade and took over the local government building, where they raised the Russian flag and demanded a citywide referendum on joining Russia, Channel 5 and other local media reported.

But it’s Crimea, a strategic peninsula in the Black Sea, that has become the chief flashpoint in the battle for Ukraine, where three months of protests sparked by President Victor Yanukovych’s decision to ditch a significant treaty with the 28-nation European Union after strong pressure from Russia led to his downfall.

A majority of people in Crimea identify with Russia, and Moscow’s Black Sea Fleet is based in Sevastopol, as is Ukraine’s.

In Simferopol, Crimea’s capital, a crowd of more than 4,000 people turned out Sunday to endorse unification with Russia. On Lenin Square, a naval band played World War II songs as old women sang along, and dozens of tricolor Russian flags fluttered in the cold wind.

“Russians are our brothers,” Crimean Parliament speaker Vladimir Konstantinov said. He asked the crowd how it would vote in the referendum a week hence.

“Russia! Russia!” came the loud answer.

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Ukrainian riot police block the entrance of the regional administrative building during a pro Russian rally in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sunday, March 9. Following an extraordinary meeting of the Ukrainian government, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced he would be flying later this week to the United States for high-level talks on “resolution of the situation in Ukraine,” the Interfax news agency reported Sunday.

“We are going back home to the motherland,” said Konstantinov.

Across town, at a park where a large bust of Shevchenko stands, around 500 people, some wearing yellow-and-blue Ukrainian flags on their shoulders like capes, came out to oppose unification with Russia.

They chanted “No to the referendum!” and “Ukraine!”

People handed out fliers, one of which listed the economic woes that joining Russia would sup-

posedly cause.

“We will not allow a foreign boot that wants to stand on the heads of our children,” said one of the speakers, Alla Petrova.

“The people are not scared. We are not scared to come out here and speak.”

Some pro-Russians drove by, shouting “Moscow, Moscow!” from their cars, but there was no trouble.

Associated Press reporters in Crimea said all Ukrainian television channels appeared to

have been taken off the air by Sunday evening, save for one that appeared to rebroadcasting programs from Moscow-based Russia-24.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who appeared on the BBC Sunday morning, described Russia’s entering Crimea as a “big miscalculation.”

He also said the March 16 referendum was happening “ridiculously quickly.” Hague added, “The world will not be able to regard that as free or fair.”

Behind jets passenger list is rich human tapestry

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press

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BANGKOK — Numbered 1 to 227, the passenger manifest for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet is an outwardly unremarkable document.

But behind the columns of capitalized names, nationalities and ages are 227 unique stories, part of a rich human tapestry that assembles every time a flight departs. There were middle-aged Australians with wanderlust, an acclaimed Chinese calligrapher, a young Indonesian man heading to begin a new career, and two people traveling on stolen passports.

More than a day and a half has passed since the Boeing 777 disappeared from radar screens in the first hour of a six-hour flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing. From France to Australia and China, families and friends are enduring an agonizing wait for news about Flight MH370.

The flight had a crew of 12, all from Malaysia, a melting pot nation of ethnic Malays, Chinese and Indians. Passengers on the popular business and tourist route were mostly from China and Malaysia, along with smat-

terings of people from other corners of the world: Americans, Australians, Indians, French, Indonesians, Ukrainians and other nationalities.

Some traveled alone, some in groups. They were young sweethearts and wrinkled older couples. Some had business in mind, others thought of art.

Seventy-four years separates the youngest, 2-year-old Moheng Wang, and the oldest, 76-yearold Rusheng Liu. “I can only pray for a miracle,” said Daniel Liau, the organizer of a calligraphic and painting exhibition in Malaysia attended by acclaimed Chinese calligrapher Meng Gaosheng, who boarded the flight with 18 other artists plus six family members and four staff.

“I feel very sad. Even though I knew them for a short time, they have become my friends,” Liau said.

Also traveling as a group were eight Chinese and 12 Malaysian employees of Austin, Texas, semiconductor company Freescale, which said it was assembling “around-the-clock support” for their families.

Each day more than 80,000 flights take off and land around the world without incident. For

seasoned Australian travelers Robert Lawton, 58, and his wife, Catherine, 54, the seemingly routine takeoff of flight MH370 was the beginning of another adventure.

“They mentioned in passing they were going on another big trip and they were really excited,” Caroline Daintith, a neighbor, told Australian Broadcasting Corp. television of the couple described as doting grandparents.

Sharing their adventure was another 50-something Australian couple, Rodney and Mary Burrows. Neighbor Don Stokes said the trip was intended as the beginning of the “next step in their life.”

Among the family groups on board were teenage sweethearts Hadrien Wattrelos, 17, and Zhao Yan, 18, students at a French school in Beijing who were returning from the Malaysian leg of a two-week holiday along with Hadrien’s mother and younger sister.

In December, Zhao changed her Facebook profile photo to one of her and Hadrien. He had commented: “Je t’aime,” followed by a heart, and she had “liked” his comment.

Some boarded the plane with

more serious purposes in mind.

Colleagues of Chandrika Sharma said the 50-year-old director of the Chennai chapter of an organization that works with fishermen was on her way from the southern Indian city to Mongolia for a Food and Agriculture Organization conference.

“There must still be hope,” said a colleague, Venogupal, who like many in India goes by one name.

He seemed, however, to be bracing for the worst. “She was friendly and very loveable, very industrious and astute. We will miss her.”

For 24-year-old Firman Chandra Siregar from Medan, Indonesia, the flight was a new chapter. In Beijing, he was to start a three-year contract with Schlumberger, an oilfield services company.

Dozens of relatives and neighbors gathered at his family’s home, some tearful, praying or watching news of the search and rescue operation. Like Sharma’s colleagues, they were forced to let hope ebb away.

A team from the Indonesian police’s Disaster Victim Identification unit collected DNA samples and medical records from Firman’s family and pho-

Libya says its forces near oil tanker

By MAGGIE MICHAEL Associated Press

TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyan government forces and loyal militia fighters besieged a North Korea-flagged tanker Sunday that a rival militia hoped to use to export oil in defiance of central authorities, officials said.

Al-Habib al-Amin, the country’s culture minister and a top aide to Libya’s prime minister, told reporters in a televised news conference that government forces including navy vessels were deployed to al-Sidra port to stop the tanker.

“It’s final and decisive. Any attempt to move, it will be turned into scrap,” al-Amin said.

The Libya Revolutionary Operation Room, an umbrella group of militias groups that answer to the interim parliament, said in a statement on its official Facebook page that the tanker is at the port and “couldn’t leave because our hero revolutionaries are besieging it and preventing it from leaving.”

“In case it doesn’t surrender, the tanker will be shelled completely,” the statement said. In a second note, the operation room said that 22 fishing vessels mounted with mortar and rocket launchers are surrounding the tanker.

Al-Sidra is one of the biggest ports in the country and has been under militia control since the summer, slowing the country’s oil output, once estimated at 1.6 million barrels a day.

The seizure of the terminals and attempted oil sales show Libya’s security and economic woes which have piled up over the past two years since the toppling of dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.

Gadhafi’s ouster left the country without a functioning government, as well as weak military and police forces. Successive interim governments have tried to rein in rebels by asking them to use them to maintain law and order. However, many of the militias serve their own interests and turned the country into fiefdoms.

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tographed pictures of Firman that hung on the walls of the family home.

The motivation of some on board is murky. Two passengers were traveling with stolen EU passports — fueling speculation that the plane’s disappearance was not an accident.

Yet the documents are just

two of at least 39 million lost and stolen passports around the world. Last year, there were more than 29.3 million flights worldwide. By chance, many of those flights would have a passenger traveling on a stolen passport. They may be criminals, people seeking a better life, or something else.

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Sports Briefs All-Peninsula Conference announced The all-conference awards for the Peninsula Conference were announced at the end of the tournament Saturday. The awards follow: BOYS Coach of the year — Mark Janes, Seldovia.

MVP — Aidan Philpot, Seldovia; Timmy Smithwick, CIA. All-conference first team — Jaruby Nelson, Nikolaevsk; Timmy Smithwick, CIA; Aidan Philpot, Seldovia; John Romanoff, Nanwalek; Connor Knowles, Wasilla Lake; Neil Gordeev, Nikolaevsk.

All-conference second team — Austin White, Ninilchik; Braden Thorn, Wasilla Lake; Calem Collier, Seldovia; Mylon Weems, CIA; Tyler Presley, Ninilchik; Tyler Keifer, Birchwood.

Free throws — Nikit Fefelov, Nikolaevsk, 17.

3-pointers — Calem Collier, Seldovia, 14.

Sportsmanship — Birchwood Christian.

Academic team — Caleb Lyons, CIA; Adam Uchtman, CIA; Tyler Keiffer, Birchwood; Dakota Jones, Birchwood; Collin Becker, Birchwood; Jackson Goforth, Birchwood; Dakota Buyse, Birchwood; Brandon Stiner, Wasilla Lake; Alex Zachry, Birchwood, Walter Cook, Wasilla Lake; Aidan Philpot, Seldovia.

All-tournament team — Calem Collier, Seldovia; John Romanoff, Nanwalek; Jaruby Nelson, Nikolaevsk; Neil Gordeev, Nikolaevsk; Braden Thorn, Wasilla Lake; Walter Cook, Wasilla Lake; Sam Mirales, Ninilchik; Austin White, Ninilchik; Wade Bartleson, Kodiak; Anthony Yakunin, Nikolaevsk.

GIRLS Coach of the Year — Tammie Vickers, Birchwood.

MVP — Bryce Vickers, Birchwood; Nicole Moffis, CIA. First team all-conference — Nianiella Dorvall, Nikolaevsk; Nicole Moffis, CIA; Tori Kruger, Lumen; Bryce Vickers, Birchwood; Jessica Rogers, Ninilchik; Sophia Kalugin, Nikolaevsk.

Second team all-conference — Kaylee Mahler, Wasilla Lake; Kilina Klaich, Nikolaevsk; Richele McGahan, CIA; Jordan Finney, Ninilchik; Serafima Kalugin, Nikolaevsk; Robin Jones, Lumen.

Free throws — Melissa Ehlers, 13.

3-pointers — Nicole Moffis, 12.

Academic team — Joy Clark, Birchwood, Madison Orth, CIA; Audra Roberts, Birchwood; Jayne Hanna, CIA; Aubray Becker, Birchwood; Nianiella Dorvall, Nikolaevsk; Kayla Stafford, Nikolaevsk; Kortney Craig, Birchwood; Megan Childs, Lumen; Natalie Dickhaus, Lumen; Maddie Fuller, Wasilla Lake; Kaylee Mahler, Wasilla Lake; Chelsea Mosier, Wasilla Lake; Hye Joon Song, Wasilla Lake; Annalene Thorn, Wasilla Lake; Krista Sinclair, Ninilchik; Mikayla Clark, Ninilchik; Olivia Turner, Seldovia.

All-tournament team — Kayla Stafford, Nikolaevsk; Jessica Rogers, Ninilchik; Madison Orth, CIA; Emma Nelson, Kodiak; Nianiella Dorvall, Nikolaevsk; Tori Kruger, Lumen; Serafima Kalugin, Nikolaevsk; Krista Sinclair, Ninilchik; Olivia Turner, Seldovia; Marina Chissus, Seldovia; Alanna Goins, Ninilchik.

All-Southcentral Conference announced The All-Southcentral Conference teams were announced following the tournament Saturday in Cordova. The teams follow: GIRLS Coach of the Year — Kyle McFall, Skyview.

MVP — Dallas Dickerson, ACS. Good sport team — Becca Land, ACS; Sara Hamberger, Cordova; Rachel Dunagan, Grace; Shana Barber, Houston; Maggie Koplin, Homer; Jodi Cook, Nikiski; Laura Kromrey, Seward; Moira Pyhala, Skyview.

Second team all-conference — Meghan Powers, Skyview; Dariah Songer, Cordova; Kiana Clemens, Seward; Cassie Warren, ACS; Mary Hagen, Grace; Madison Ealum, ACS; Aurora Waclawski, Homer; Kimberly Quincy, Houston.

First team all-conference — Emily Lynch, Nikiski; Mikayla Shamburger, Grace; Sam Reynolds, Skyview; Michelle Corderre, ACS; Alyssa Darch, Nikiski; Madison Akers, Homer; Ashley VonBorstel, Seward; Tayla Cabana, Homer; Brynn Tennyson, ACS; Savannah Wells, Houston; Rachel Thompson, Nikiski.

BOYS Coach of the Year — Chuck Boerger, Grace.

MVP — Calvin Hoffman, ACS. Good sport team — Bobby Wilson, ACS; Cooper Jewell, Cordova; Josh Laker, Grace; John Walsworth, Homer; Dustin Griffith, Houston; Michael Stangel, Nikiski; Tannen Berry, Seward; Micah Hilbish, Skyview.

Second team all-conference — Christiano Lopez, ACS; Dylan Cheshier, Cordova; Ken Schneider, Homer; Eli Beedle, Cordova; Michael Wolfe, Seward; Jeff Baird, Houston; Josh Laker, Grace; Filip Reutov, Homer; Tim Duke, Skyview.

First-team all conference — Nate Simmers, ACS; Jacob Carlson, Skyview; Hans Karlberg, Grace; Levi Auble, ACS; Matthew Moore, Seward; Seth Carstens, Nikiski; Luke Offord, Grace; Matthew Barron, Houston; Quinn Daugharty, Homer; Immanuel Lopez, ACS; Eric Johnson, Grace.

All-Northern Lights announced The All-Northern Lights Conference teams were announced during the tournament this weekend. The squads follow: All-Northern Lights Conference NLC Girls Player of the Year: Jerica Nelson, Kodiak.

Coach of the Year: Amy Fogle, Kodiak.

First team — Izzy Tweed, Colony; Megen Pyles, Kodiak; Leya DePriest, Palmer; Julie Litchfield, Soldotna; Shayla Johnson, Wasilla; Carissa Cannon, Kodiak; Katelynn Kerkvliet, Soldotna; Hannah Wandersee, Kodiak; Faith Farris, Colony; Jerica Nelson.

Second team — Justice English, Kenai; Kalei DePriest, Palmer; McKenna Dinkel, Wasilla; Jennifer Solano, Colony.

NLC Boys Player of the Year: Damien Fulp, Colony.

Coach of the Year: Matt Johnson, Soldotna.

First team — Daniel McElroy, Soldotna; Graham Dinkel, Colony; Cameron Brown, Wasilla; Alec Canete-Hall, Kodiak; Adam Ramoth, Palmer; Cash McGregor, Wasilla; James Nisbett, Palmer; Bailey West, Colony; Austin Frick, Kodiak; Damien Fulp, Colony.

Second team — Alex Baham, Wasilla; Trevor Shirnberg, Kenai; Colton Young, Soldotna; Antonio Bush, Colony.

Reed wins Cadillac Championship DORAL, Fla. — He wore black pants and a red shirt, his Sunday colors. He took a lead into the final round, quickly expanded it with a pair of birdies and then relied on his short game to keep everyone chasing him. He even played it safe off the 18th tee, caring more about the trophy than the final score.

That script for years belonged to Tiger Woods.

Patrick Reed followed it perfectly to win the Cadillac Championship, replacing Woods as the youngest winner of a World Golf Championship.

“The best player ever to live when I was growing up wore black pants, a red shirt,” Reed said after closing with an even-par 72 for a one-shot victory at Doral. “I was growing up watching him. I always thought, ‘You know, it would be cool to wear black and red coming down on Sunday.

“Just happens to be that we both wear it on Sunday now.”

Only one of them stood out at the new Blue Monster. Even with Woods and his red shirt only three shots behind and in the group directly in front of him, the 23-year-old Reed stretched his lead to four shots at one point until making a pair of bogeys in the final hour. He held off Bubba Watson and Jamie Donaldson of Wales.

Woods, in his best chance this year to win a tournament, said his back flared up after an awkward shot out of the bunker on the sixth hole. He failed to make a birdie in the final round for the first time in his PGA Tour career, and his 78 was his worst Sunday score ever.

“Just let me get through this day, get some treatment and we’ll assess it as time goes on,” Woods said about his back. He withdrew from the Honda Classic after 13 holes of the final round last week because of back spasms.

Reed has three wins in 14 starts and should move to No. 20 in the world. He feels his ranking should be even better. Reed cited an amateur career that includes going 6-0 in matches to lead Augusta State to two NCAA titles, followed by three PGA Tour wins in seven months.

“I don’t see a lot of guys that have done that besides Tiger Woods and the legends of the game,” Reed said. “I believe in myself, especially with how hard I’ve worked. I’m one of the top five players in the world. I feel like I’ve proven myself.”

He joined some exclusive company. Since 1990, only Woods, Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy and Sergio Garcia had three PGA Tour wins before turning 24.

This was not an accident, either.

Reed has had a share of the lead going into the final round of all three of his victories — the Wyndham Championship last August, the Humana Challenge in January and a World Golf Championship at Doral that featured the strongest field so far this year.

— Staff and wire reports

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SoHi girls nab WPI berth

By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

For the second year in a row, the Soldotna girls basketball team was announced Sunday as a Winning Percentage Index qualifier to the Class 4A state basketball tournament.

And this time that status as a qualifier should stay that way through Monday.

Last season, the Alaska School Activities Association announced the Stars were in the state tourney Sunday, only to discover a missing game and knock the Stars from the state tourney in favor of Lathrop on Monday.

“There’s a big enough spread that even if they made a slight mistake, it won’t be enough to change it this year,” Soldotna girls coach Doug Blossom said.

Six berths to the Class 4A

state tournament are automatic berths given out at the conference tournaments. Then two berths are awarded to the next two highest WPI schools, which this year were Soldotna and Dimond.

The Stars finished seventh in the WPI and were able to qualify because the teams in front of them earned automatic berths at their conference tournaments.

“Last year, there were several upsets that threw a monkey wrench in things,” Blossom said.

“This year, the top eight are all in.”

SoHi opens with West, which finished second in WPI, on March 20 at 7 p.m. at the Sullivan Arena.

The Stars built their strong WPI by winning their first 13 games, plus two endowment games.

SoHi has slowed lately, losing both games at the Northern

Lights Conference tournament this weekend.

“Our shooting has affected the rest of our game to some degree,” Blossom said. “Now I can tell the girls the WPI is out the window, and wins and losses are out the window.

“Our record is 0-0 and it’s time to regroup and have some fun.”

The Stars have plenty of state experience, having made the tournament in three of the past four years.

“It’s obviously pretty special for them,” Blossom said. “I’m really happy for them.”

The other Peninsula schools that qualified for the state tournament also learned their spots in the bracket on Sunday.

The Nikiski girls, who finished second at the Southcentral Conference tournament, will open play in the Class 3A tourney

with a 3:30 p.m. game March 20 at Sullivan Arena.

The Seward girls finished third in the Southcentral tourney and play ACS, which won the Southcentral tourney, at 5:15 p.m. March 20 at the Sullivan Arena.

The Peninsula also had four qualifiers to the Class 1A tourney. In that tourney, teams play a game Saturday to determine whether they are in the championship tourney or the consolation tourney.

On the girls side, Nikolaevsk plays Buckland on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at West in Anchorage, and Cook Inlet Academy plays Yakutat at 5:15 p.m. on Saturday at West.

On the boys side, Seldovia plays Selawik at 8 a.m. Saturday at South, and Nikolaevsk plays Klawock at 8:45 p.m. Saturday at West.

Scoreboard Sergio Garcia (51), $90,667 74-76-73-69—292 Louis Oosthuizen (30), $63,500 72-78-71-74—295 Scott Hend, $90,667 72-76-73-71—292 Thomas Bjorn, $60,500 75-75-73-73—296 Henrik Stenson (51), $90,667 73-76-74-69—292 Rickie Fowler (27), $60,500 76-75-74-71—296 Gary Woodland (51), $90,667 72-78-71-71—292 Brandt Snedeker (25), $59,000 73-73-75-76—297 Cadillac Championship Harris English (51), $90,667 69-77-74-72—292 Russell Henley (23), $57,000 72-78-75-73—298 Sunday Zach Johnson (51), $90,667 70-75-71-76—292 Webb Simpson (23), $57,000 80-78-70-70—298 At Trump National Doral (Blue Monster); Doral, Fla. Phil Mickelson (51), $90,667 74-75-69-74—292 Kevin Stadler (23), $57,000 77-76-72-73—298 Purse: $9 million Luke Donald (42), $76,000 70-82-72-69—293 Keegan Bradley (21), $54,500 74-76-75-74—299 Yardage: 7,481; Par: 72; Final Rory McIlroy (42), $76,000 70-74-75-74—293 Billy Horschel (21), $54,500 77-78-71-73—299 Patrick Reed (550), $1,530,000 68-75-69-72—284 Francesco Molinari, $76,000 69-75-76-73—293 Ernie Els (19), $52,500 75-78-73-74—300 Jamie Donaldson, $753,000 74-70-71-70—285 Ryan Moore (42), $76,000 70-79-69-75—293 Ian Poulter (19), $52,500 71-78-73-78—300 Bubba Watson (258), $753,000 73-72-72-68—285 Adam Scott (42), $76,000 75-73-72-73—293 Brendon de Jonge (16), $51,000 76-79-74-72—301 Dustin Johnson (128), $395,000 69-74-73-72—288 Kevin Streelman (42), $76,000 75-74-72-72—293 Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (16), $51,000 77-77-77-70—301 Richard Sterne, $395,000 74-73-70-71—288 Peter Uihlein, $76,000 73-77-71-72—293 Boo Weekley (16), $51,000 75-75-78-73—301 Thongchai Jaidee, $248,333 73-74-74-68—289 Jimmy Walker (42), $76,000 73-77-67-76—293 Steve Stricker (14), $50,000 77-78-71-76—302 Stephen Gallacher, $248,333 75-75-70-69—289 Tiger Woods (42), $76,000 76-73-66-78—293 Roberto Castro (13), $49,250 74-78-78-73—303 Bill Haas (96), $248,333 73-76-69-71—289 Graham DeLaet (35), $68,500 78-72-70-74—294 Martin Kaymer (13), $49,250 75-80-73-75—303 Jason Dufner (76), $151,250 69-77-68-76—290 Hyung-Sung Kim, $68,500 72-74-74-74—294 Jin Jeong, $48,250 75-75-78-77—305 Hunter Mahan (76), $151,250 69-74-71-76—290 Hideki Matsuyama (35), $68,500 72-77-71-74—294 Matteo Manassero, $48,250 76-76-74-79—305 Graeme McDowell (76), $151,250 73-71-73-73—290 Justin Rose (35), $68,500 74-77-70-73—294 Victor Dubuisson, $47,000 72-81-75-78—306 Charl Schwartzel (76), $151,250 70-76-76-68—290 Jordan Spieth (35), $68,500 73-79-73-69—294 Jim Furyk (8), $47,000 78-77-75-76—306 Miguel A. Jimenez, $110,000 70-77-69-75—291 Lee Westwood (35), $68,500 75-79-70-70—294 D.A. Points (8), $47,000 82-76-74-74—306 Matt Kuchar (62), $110,000 69-74-74-74—291 Darren Fichardt, $63,500 73-78-72-72—295 Dawie van der Walt, $46,000 81-83-71-75—310 Joost Luiten, $110,000 76-72-71-72—291 Branden Grace, $63,500 75-74-69-77—295 Brett Rumford, $45,500 83-79-77-74—313 Jonas Blixt (51), $90,667 79-72-75-66—292 Chris Kirk (30), $63,500 75-71-76-73—295 Kiradech Aphibarnrat, $45,000 74-82-79-79—314 George Coetzee, $90,667 74-74-73-71—292 B.Keselowski 20-21; J.Logano Brooklyn 31 30 .508 4 W. Carolina 99, Davidson 97, OT NOTE: Split-squad games count 22-46; J.Johnson 47-76; New York 24 40 .375 12½ Wofford 71, Georgia Southern 57 in the standings; games against Ky.Busch 77-95; D.Earnhardt Boston 22 41 .349 14 Summit League non-major league teams do not.

Jr. 96-97; Ky.Busch 98-129; Philadelphia 15 47 .242 20½ First Round Kobalt 400 Results K.Harvick 130-139; Ky.Busch 140; Southeast Division Denver 71, South Dakota 55 Sunday’s Games Sunday B.Keselowski 141; M.Kenseth Miami 43 17 .717 — S. Dakota St. 71, W. Illinois 50 Baltimore 9, Pittsburgh (ss) 2 At Las Vegas Motor Speedway 142-143; K.Harvick 144-156; Washington 33 29 .532 11 Houston 4, Toronto 3 Las Vegas, Nev. B.Keselowski 157-195; J.Johnson Charlotte 29 34 .460 15½ Boston 4, Pittsburgh (ss) 1 Lap length: 1.5 miles Women’s Scores 196-198; P.Menard 199-204; Atlanta 26 35 .426 17½ N.Y. Yankees 3, Tampa Bay 3, tie, (Start position in parentheses) TOURNAMENT 205; D.Earnhardt Orlando 19 45 .297 26 10 innings 1. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, J.Johnson America East Conference Washington 11, St. Louis 1 267 laps, 134.6 rating, 48 points, Jr. 206-210; C.Edwards 211; Central Division C Semifinals D.Hamlin 212; B.Keselowski 213- x-Indiana 46 17 .730 — Detroit 3, Miami 1 $449,048.

Albany (NY) 65, Hartford 51 35 28 .556 11 Minnesota 1, Philadelphia 1, tie 2. (14) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chev- 222; D.Earnhardt Jr. 223-266; Chicago Y B.Keselowski 267.

Detroit 24 39 .381 22 Stony Brook 79, New Hampshire N.Y. Mets 8, Atlanta 2 rolet, 267, 121.7, 43, $263,005.

59 24 40 .375 22½ San Francisco 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 3. (21) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Cleveland American Athletic Conference Led, Laps Led): B.Keselowski, Milwaukee 12 50 .194 33½ Chicago Cubs 10, Milwaukee (ss) 267, 108.1, 42, $237,719.

Semifinals 8 4. (1) Joey Logano, Ford, 267, 5 times for 53 laps; Ky.Busch, 3 WESTERN CONFERENCE Louisville 60, South Florida 56 times for 52 laps; D.Earnhardt Seattle 9, Texas 8 109.8, 41, $209,596.

Southwest Division UConn 83, Rutgers 57 Oakland 2, Chicago White Sox 5. (11) Carl Edwards, Ford, 267, Jr., 3 times for 51 laps; J.Logano, San Antonio 46 16 .742 — Atlantic 10 Conference 2 times for 44 laps; J.Johnson, 2, tie 88.2, 40, $170,730.

Houston 44 19 .698 2½ Championship Colorado 10, Kansas City 1 6. (5) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 3 times for 34 laps; K.Harvick, Dallas 38 26 .594 9 Fordham 63, Dayton 51 2 times for 23 laps; P.Menard, 1 Cleveland 4, Milwaukee (ss) 2 267, 124.8, 39, $186,831.

Memphis 36 26 .581 10 Atlantic Coast Conference L.A. Angels 3, Cincinnati 1 7. (10) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, time for 6 laps; M.Kenseth, 1 time New Orleans 26 37 .413 20½ Championship for 2 laps; C.Edwards, 1 time for 1 Arizona 2, San Diego 2, tie, 10 267, 94, 37, $134,920.

Northwest Division Notre Dame 69, Duke 53 innings 8. (13) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, lap; D.Hamlin, 1 time for 1 lap.

Oklahoma City 4 6 17 .730 — Big 12 Conference Wins: D.Earnhardt Jr., 1; 267, 91.2, 36, $137,470.

Portland 42 21 .667 4 Semifinals 9. (15) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, K.Harvick, 1; Bra.Keselowski, 1.

Top 12 in Points: 1. D.Earnhardt Minnesota 31 31 .500 14½ Baylor 65, Oklahoma St. 61 267, 102.7, 35, $162,006.

Transactions 27 35 .435 18½ West Virginia 67, Texas 60 10. (29) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, Jr., 133; 2. Bra.Keselowski, 132; 3. Denver Utah 22 41 .349 24 BASEBALL Big East Conference J.Johnson, 117; 4. J.Logano, 116; 267, 92.6, 35, $163,281.

American League Quarterfinals 11. (20) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 267, 5. J.Gordon, 115; 6. C.Edwards, Pacific Division — Creighton 61, Butler 52 BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Reas105; 7. M.Kenseth, 105; 8. L.A. Clippers 44 20 .688 108.1, 34, $164,076.

4 DePaul 78, Georgetown 54 signed RHP Fabio Castillo, RHP 12. (27) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, D.Hamlin, 101; 9. R.Newman, 97; Golden State 40 24 .625 36 26 .581 7 Marquette 56, Villanova 53 Mike Wright, and INF Chris Mar10. Ky.Busch, 95; 11. J.McMurray, Phoenix 267, 83.1, 33, $121,410.

Sacramento 22 41 .349 21½ St. John’s 66, Seton Hall 60 rero to their minor league camp.

13. (9) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 267, 93; 12. G.Biffle, 86.

L.A. Lakers 22 42 .344 22 MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned Big South Conference 83.1, 31, $144,385. x-clinched playoff spot LHPs Logan Darnell, Edgar Ibarra Championship 14. (12) Martin Truex Jr., Chevroand Brooks Raley and RHP TrevWinthrop 87, High Point 74 let, 267, 96.6, 30, $139,068.

Sunday’s Games or May to Rochester (IL); 1B KenBig Ten Conference 15. (7) Jamie McMurray, ChevroChicago 95, Miami 88, OT nys Vargas to New Britain (EL); Championship NHL Glance let, 267, 76.4, 29, $144,474.

L.A. Lakers 114, Oklahoma City Nebraska 72, Iowa 65 INF Jorge Polanco and OF Max 16. (4) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, EASTERN CONFERENCE 110 Kepler to Fort Myers (FSL). ReasMetro Atlantic Athletic Confer267, 82.4, 28, $155,096.

New Orleans 111, Denver 107, OT signed RHPs Alex Meyer, Lester ence 17. (19) Jeff Burton, Toyota, 267, Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Brooklyn 104, Sacramento 89 Oliveros and Yohan Pino; Cs Kyle Semifinals 71.1, 27, $115,960.

64 42 17 5 89 204 143 Boston 118, Detroit 111 Knudson, Matt Koch and Stuart Marist 70, Rider 59 18. (18) A J Allmendinger, Chevro- Boston Montreal 66 35 24 7 77 166 166 Toronto 111, Minnesota 104 Turner; OFs Byron Buxton and Quinnipiac 79, Iona 68 let, 267, 67.7, 26, $125,018.

65 34 23 8 76 193 198 Houston 118, Portland 113, OT Chris Rahl and INF Miguel Sano Northeast Conference 19. (17) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, Toronto Tampa Bay 64 34 24 6 74 183 167 Dallas 105, Indiana 94 to their minor league camp.

First Round 266, 76.6, 25, $132,005.

64 29 22 13 71 171 179 Golden State 113, Phoenix 107 NEW YORK YANKEES — OpBryant 58, St. Francis (NY) 53 20. (34) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 266, Detroit Ottawa 64 28 25 11 67 182 209 Monday’s Games tioned RHP Jose Ramirez to Mount St. Mary’s 75, Wagner 66 65.9, 0, $102,060.

64 24 33 7 55 156 206 Denver at Charlotte, 3 p.m.

Robert Morris 65, LIU Brooklyn Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Reas21. (22) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, Florida Buffalo 64 19 37 8 46 128 188 Toronto at Brooklyn, 3:30 p.m. signed LHP Francisco Rondon to 49 266, 58, 23, $112,060.

Washington at Miami, 3:30 p.m.

St. Francis (Pa.) 132, Sacred their minor league camp.

22. (25) Greg Biffle, Ford, 266, Metropolitan Division Pittsburgh 63 42 17 4 88 201 157 Philadelphia at New York, 3:30 Heart 124, 2OT National League 52.5, 22, $143,435.

CINCINNATI REDS — Named Pacific-12 Conference 23. (3) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 266, N.Y. Rangers 65 35 26 4 74 171 162 p.m.

Philadelphia 64 33 24 7 73 183 188 Orlando at Milwaukee, 4 p.m.

Chris Speier special assistant to Championship 84.4, 21, $141,851. the president of baseball operaSouthern Cal 71, Oregon St. 62 24. (43) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, Columbus 64 33 26 5 71 186 178 Atlanta at Utah, 5 p.m.

Washington 65 30 25 10 70 191 197 Phoenix at L.A. Clippers, 6:30 tions and general manager.

Southeastern Conference 266, 56, 20, $126,680.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Signed Championship 25. (8) Aric Almirola, Ford, 264, New Jersey 65 28 24 13 69 161 167 p.m.

Carolina 64 27 28 9 63 160 184 All Times ADT Tennessee 71, Kentucky 70 SS Aledmys Diaz.

60.3, 19, $136,771.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Southern Conference 26. (23) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, N.Y. Islanders 66 24 33 9 57 181 224 Men’s Scores Reassigned RHP Gabriel Alfaro, Semifinals 264, 62.9, 18, $94,835.

WESTERN CONFERENCE C Jeff Howell, LHP Tyler RobertChattanooga 77, Elon 44 27. (6) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, Central Division EAST son and 1B-3B Matt Skole to their Davidson 74, W. Carolina 67 264, 68.8, 17, $132,960.

St. Louis 64 44 14 6 94 211 145 La Salle 71, Saint Joseph’s 63 minor-league camp.

Summit League 28. (30) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, Chicago 65 38 13 14 90 223 172 Saint Louis 64, UMass 62 BASKETBALL First Round 264, 54.6, 16, $120,193.

Colorado 64 41 18 5 87 196 170 National Basketball SOUTH Denver 79, IPFW 73 29. (38) Michael Annett, Chevro- Minnesota 64 34 22 8 76 158 157 Association South Dakota 96, W. Illinois 94 let, 264, 50.8, 15, $109,868.

Maryland 75, Virginia 69, OT Dallas 64 31 23 10 72 185 179 HOUSTON ROCKETS — Re30. (33) David Gilliland, Ford, 264, Winnipeg NC State 78, Boston College 68 65 30 28 7 67 180 189 assigned G Troy Daniels to Rio 54.1, 14, $116,493.

Syracuse 74, Florida St. 58 Nashville 64 26 28 10 62 152 191 Grande Valley (NBADL).

31. (37) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, Pacific Division MIDWEST MIAMI HEAT — Assigned G 264, 42.1, 13, $112,682.

Anaheim 64 43 14 7 93 207 157 Spring Training DeAndre Liggins to Sioux Falls Minnesota 81, Penn St. 63 32. (26) David Ragan, Ford, 263, San Jose 65 41 17 7 89 199 157 (NBADL) for one game.

Nebraska 77, Wisconsin 68 45.2, 12, $102,435.

AMERICAN LEAGUE Los Angeles 65 37 22 6 80 159 137 TORONTO RAPTORS — ReNorthwestern 74, Purdue 65 33. (24) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, Phoenix 64 29 24 11 69 177 185

W L Pct called G Dwight Buycks from BaOhio St. 69, Michigan St. 67 263, 40.3, 11, $125,893.

Vancouver 66 29 27 10 68 153 174 Cleveland 9 1 .900 kersfield (NBADL).

34. (40) Reed Sorenson, Chevro- Calgary SOUTHWEST 64 25 32 7 57 150 191 Baltimore 8 2 .800 FOOTBALL let, 262, 41.7, 10, $91,535.

Edmonton 65 22 35 8 52 162 212 Seattle 10 3 .769 National Football League 35. (39) Ryan Truex, Toyota, 261, NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for No major team scores reported Tampa Bay 5 2 .714 CHICAGO BEARS — Agreed to 33.5, 9, $91,310.

FAR WEST overtime loss.

New York 7 4 .636 terms with DT Nate Collins and 36. (28) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 261, No major team scores reported Oakland 6 4 .600 QB Jordan Palmer on one-year 41.5, 8, $91,110.

Sunday’s Games Minnesota 5 4 .556 contracts.

TOURNAMENT 37. (36) Alex Bowman, Toyota, St. Louis 3, Minnesota 2, SO Detroit 6 5 .545 NEW YORK JETS — Released 259, 33.1, 7, $90,883.

America East Conference N.Y. Rangers 3, Detroit 0 Kansas City 5 5 .500 CB Antonio Cromartie.

38. (41) Timmy Hill, Chevrolet, Boston 5, Florida 2 Semifinals Toronto 5 6 .455 258, 27.3, 6, $85,590.

HOCKEY Albany (NY) 67, Vermont 58 Chicago 2, Buffalo 1 Houston 4 6 .400 39. (42) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 253, Los Angeles 4, Edmonton 2 Stony Brook 69, Hartford 64 National Hockey League Los Angeles 4 6 .400 27.9, 5, $81,590.

Atlantic Sun Conference Monday’s Games Chicago 3 5 .375 DALLAS STARS — Recalled G 40. (32) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, Pittsburgh at Washington, 3 p.m.

Championship Boston 3 7 .300 Cristopher Nilstorp from Texas 240, 28.9, 4, $77,590.

Mercer 68, Florida Gulf Coast 60 Nashville at Ottawa, 3:30 p.m.

Texas 2 7 .222 41. (16) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, Phoenix at Tampa Bay, 3:30 p.m.

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Big South Conference NATIONAL LEAGUE 237, 92.4, 4, $114,623.

Championship PHOENIX COYOTES — ReColumbus at Dallas, 4:30 p.m.

42. (31) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, Winnipeg at Colorado, 5 p.m.

Coastal Carolina 76, Winthrop 61 Washington 7 3 .700 called F Andy Miele from Portland 212, 27.9, 2, $69,590.

Colonial Athletic Association Miami 6 3 .667 Los Angeles at Calgary, 5 p.m.

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43. (35) Michael McDowell, Ford, N.Y. Islanders at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

Semifinals Pittsburgh 7 4 .636 engine, 141, 33.4, 1, $66,090.

Delaware 87, Northeastern 74 San Francisco 7 4 .636 TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Toronto at Anaheim, 6 p.m.

William & Mary 75, Towson 71 Arizona 7 6 .538 Agreed to terms with F Yanni All Times ADT Race Statistics Metro Atlantic Athletic ConferColorado 6 6 .500 Gourde.

Average Speed of Race Winner: ence Milwaukee 6 7 .462 WASHINGTON CAPITALS — 154.633 mph.

Semifinals Chicago 5 6 .455 Time of Race: 2 hours, 35 minIona 75, Canisius 72 New York 4 5 .444 Reassigned F Chris Brown and utes, 24 seconds.

Manhattan 87, Quinnipiac 68 Los Angeles 4 6 .400 F Casey Wellman to Hershey NBA Standings Margin of Victory: 1.530 seconds.

Missouri Valley Conference San Diego 3 6 .333 (AHL).

EASTERN CONFERENCE Caution Flags: 4 for 18 laps.

Championship Cincinnati 4 9 .308 COLLEGE Lead Changes: 21 among 10 driv- Atlantic Division Wichita St. 83, Indiana St. 69 St. Louis 2 5 .286 ers.

W L Pct GB Southern Conference Philadelphia 2 8 .200 IUPUI — Fired men’s basketball Lap Leaders: J.Logano 1-19; Toronto 35 26 .574 — Semifinals Atlanta 2 9 .182 coach Todd Howard.

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Noah leads Bulls past Heat in OT

By The Associated Press

CHICAGO — Joakim Noah had 20 points and 12 rebounds, D.J. Augustin scored 22 and the Chicago Bulls beat the Miami Heat 95-88 in overtime Sunday after Jimmy Butler stripped the ball from LeBron James at the end of regulation.

Dwyane Wade scored 25 for Miami, but with James struggling again, the Heat dropped their third straight to match their longest losing streak of the season.

James scored 17 points on 8-of-23 shooting and couldn’t come through after Miami blew a 12-point lead down the stretch. With a chance to win it at the end of regulation, he was stopped

by Butler on a layup attempt.

In overtime, it was all Bulls. Chicago outscored Miami 9-2, starting with Augustin’s 3 just under a minute in.

Noah also had seven assists and five blocks with his dad — tennis great Yannick Noah — looking on. Butler added 16 points and 11 rebounds.

ference lead.

Dirk Nowitzki scored 14 points on a tough shooting night as the Mavericks swept the two-game season series from the Pacers, who were coming off their most lopsided loss in a 26-point defeat at Houston.

Ellis, who also had eight rebounds, put the game away in the final 2 minutes with a pair of jumpers.

Dallas’ reserves outscored Indiana’s 41-4.

ROCKETS 118, TRAIL BLAZERS 113, OT

HOUSTON — James Harden scored 41 points, Jeremy Lin had 26 and Houston rallied to beat Portland in overtime for its fifth straight victory.

The Trail Blazers led by three in overtime after two free throws by Wesley Matthews. The Rockets took over from there, using an 8-2 run with a 3-pointer from Harden and four points from Lin to make it 116-113 with 35.4 seconds left. Lin added two free throws after that.

Harden hit a 3 with seconds left in regulation to send it to overtime.

LaMarcus Aldridge led Portland with MAVERICKS 105, PACERS 94 28 points and 12 rebounds, but managed DALLAS — Monta Ellis and Devin just two points in OT. Dwight Howard had 17 points with 12 Harris scored 20 points apiece and Dallas rebounds, and Chandler Parsons scored 16 extended Indiana’s season-worst losing for Houston. streak to four games.

The Pacers rallied from 17 points down in the first half and almost wiped out anLAKERS 114, THUNDER 110 other double-digit deficit after halftime, LOS ANGELES — Jodie Meeks scored but had the same offensive troubles late 24 of his career-high 42 points in the secthat plagued them early in the game.

Paul George had 27 points and 11 re- ond half, helping the Lakers overcome a bounds to lead the Pacers, who stayed 1½ triple-double by Thunder star Kevin Dugames up on Miami for the Eastern Con- rant.

Pau Gasol added 20 points and 11 rebounds for the injury-ravaged Lakers, who had lost 29 of their previous 37 games.

Meeks was 11 of 18 from the field and 14 for 14 at the foul line while becoming the third player to reach the 30-point mark this season for Los Angeles.

Durant had 27 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists for his third triple-double this season. Serge Ibaka had 21 points and 15 boards for Oklahoma City.

The Lakers trailed the Thunder by as many as 18 in the second quarter before taking their first lead on a pair of free throws by Meeks that made it 71-70 with 4:35 left in the third.

WARRIORS 113, SUNS 107 OAKLAND, Calif. — Stephen Curry overcame a strained right quad to finish with 18 points and nine assists, and Golden State held off Phoenix for its fourth straight win.

David Lee had 26 points and nine rebounds, and Klay Thompson scored 22 points for the Warriors, who built an 18-point lead early in the fourth quarter before the Suns surged back.

Gerald Green had 25 points and six rebounds, and Goran Dragic added 24 points and six assists for the Suns, who dropped into a tie with Memphis for eighth place in the Western Conference standings.

Golden State is 9-2 since the All-Star break and a season-high 16 games over .500. The Warriors are two games ahead of Dallas for sixth in the West.

NETS 104, KINGS 89 NEW YORK — Marcus Thornton scored 15 of his 27 points in the fourth

quarter against his old team, and Joe Johnson added 18 points to help Brooklyn overcome an injury to Paul Pierce in a victory over Sacramento.

Alan Anderson had 11 points and Shaun Livingston and Deron Williams each scored 10 as the Nets won for the fifth time in six games.

DeMarcus Cousins had 20 points and 28 rebounds to lead the Kings. Rudy Gay added 20 points.

Brooklyn led by 16 in the first half after losing Pierce to a right shoulder injury early in the first quarter.

Sacramento trailed 49-40 at halftime but opened the third quarter with a 17-8 run to tie the score at 57 with 7:38 left in the period. Brooklyn outscored Sacramento 47-32 the rest of the way.

rebounds for Denver.

RAPTORS 111, TIMBERWOLVES 104

MINNEAPOLIS — Kyle Lowry had 20 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists for his fourth career triple-double, lifting Toronto over Minnesota.

DeMar DeRozan added 25 points and seven rebounds and Steve Novak hit five 3-pointers for the surprising Raptors, who have won nine of their last 11 games to climb to third place in the Eastern Conference standings. Toronto shot 58.3 percent (14 for 24) on 3-pointers.

Kevin Love had 26 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists, and Nikola Pekovic added 17 points and 11 rebounds for the Timberwolves. Minnesota has started a crucial four-game homestand with two losses PELICANS 111, in three games, and the team’s hopes of NUGGETS 107, OT climbing from 10th in the West into the NEW ORLEANS — Anthony Davis playoff picture are looking bleak. tied his career high with 32 points, grabbed 17 rebounds and blocked six shots, and CELTICS 118, PISTONS 111 New Orleans erased a 16-point deficit to BOSTON — Rajon Rondo had 11 capture its third straight victory by downpoints and a season-high 18 assists, Jeff ing Denver.

Tyreke Evans had 20 points and Antho- Green scored 27 points and Boston had its ny Morrow added 14, including a 15-foot second-highest scoring output of the seapullup in the lane that tied the game at 94 son to defeat Detroit.

Kris Humphries added a season-high with 1 second left in regulation.

Davis’ free throws gave New Orleans 20 points, including two free throws with the lead for good at 106-104, and his 25 seconds left to help Boston seal the block of Ty Lawson’s driving layup pre- win after the Pistons closed to 113-109. vented Denver from tying it with 1:14 left Humphries led Boston with 11 rebounds.

Jerryd Bayless scored 15 points, Kelly in overtime.

Davis became the first player in fran- Olynyk added 18 and Jared Sullinger 14 chise history — going back to the club’s for the Celtics.

Josh Smith had 28 points and 11 refounding as the Charlotte Hornets in 1988 — to have as many points, rebounds and bounds for the Pistons and was one of three Detroit players with double-doublocks in one game.

Kenneth Faried had 22 points and 10 bles.

Lundqvist wins No. 300 Wichita State stays perfect

By The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Henrik Lundqvist earned his 300th NHL victory and 49th career shutout in the New York Rangers’ 3-0 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday.

Lundqvist made 30 saves in shutting out the Red Wings for the second time this season, as New York completed a three-game season-series sweep of its Original Six rival. The Swedish goalie is one win shy of tying Mike Richter’s franchise record of 301. He caught Rangers great Ed Giacomin for the club mark in shutouts.

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go-ahead goal 1:34 into the third period, and the Chicago Blackhawks snapped a two-game road skid with a win over the Buffalo Sabres.

Patrick Kane celebrated his trip home to Buffalo by also scoring in helping the Blackhawks beat the Sabres for a fifth consecutive time. Cory Crawford made 20 saves in making his 12 straight start.

KINGS 4, OILERS 2

EDMONTON, Alberta — Jeff Carter had two goals and an assist as the Los Angeles Kings won their seventh straight with a victory over the Edmonton Oilers.

Alec Martinez and Trevor Lewis also scored for BRUINS 5, PANTHERS 2 the Kings, who have their longest winning streak SUNRISE, Fla. — Torey Krug scored the go-ahead since taking nine in a row from Jan. 21-Feb. 6, 2010. goal in the third period and the Boston Bruins won their season-high fifth straight with a victory over the BLUES 3, WILD 2, SO M Florida Panthers.

Chad Johnson made 20 saves, and Chris Kelly, ST. PAUL, Minn. — T.J. Oshie and Alexander K Jarome Iginla, Patrice Bergeron and Andrej Meszaros Steen scored shootout goals and the St. Louis Blues also scored for Boston. The Bruins are 7-0-3 during a took over the top spot in the NHL standings with a 10-game stretch on the road, their longest such point win over the Minnesota Wild. streak since 2010-11.

In his first shootout since his memorable Olympic performance against Russia, Oshie beat Ilya Bryzgalov through the five-hole in the first round. Steen sealed the BLACKHAWKS 2, SABRES 1 win in the following round after the Blues’ Brian Elliott BUFFALO, N.Y. — Jonathan Toews scored the turned away Zach Parise and Mikko Koivu.

Keselowski wins in Vegas GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer

LAS VEGAS — Dale Earnhardt Jr. knew he probably didn’t have enough fuel to finish. Being in Vegas, he decided to gamble anyway.

And when Earnhardt’s tank went bust on the final lap, Brad Keselowski was right there to clean up.

Keselowski surged ahead when Earnhardt ran out of fuel, claiming a dramatic victory Sunday in the NASCAR race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Earnhardt’s Chevy sputtered and slowed out of the second turn, and Keselowski roared past him on the backstretch in his Penske Ford for the first weekend sweep in his career.

Keselowski followed up Saturday’s Nationwide Series victory with his first Las Vegas Cup win, doing it in exhilarating fashion against the friend and mentor who gave him his first big break in racing.

“That’s what you live for as a driver, at least I do,” Keselowski said. “Those moments where you’re side by side, and you lay it all out on the racetrack and bring back the car with the tires smoking, engine smoking, and you’re worn out inside because you gave it all you had. It was one of those races there at the end.”

Keselowski knew all about the fuel shortage faced by Earnhardt and Carl Edwards, who both made their final pit stops about 10 laps before him.

So Keselowski decided to force the issue, getting around Edwards and pushing for the lead so Earnhardt would be forced to abandon his conservative, fuel-saving lines.

“I felt like we could run him down,” Keselowski said about the driver who put him in his first Nationwide ride. “He was

going to have to burn fuel to keep me behind him. At that point, it was just a matter of whether a yellow (flag) came out or not, because it was just a ticking time bomb. It worked in our favor today.”

Earnhardt finished second and didn’t regret it, secure in his overall position thanks to the new rules in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, which puts increased emphasis on wins. Still, Earnhardt and his Hendrick Motorsports ride were just a few ounces of fuel

shy of earning their second victory in three races to start the season.

When Earnhardt sat down for his post-race news conference in front of two cans of his sponsor’s energy drink, he picked up one can wistfully: “That’s all we needed, just 16 ounces.”

The Daytona 500 champion was disappointed, but not discouraged after his spectacular start to the NASCAR season.

He also finished second last week at Phoenix.

By The Associated Press

ST. LOUIS — Fred VanVleet scored 13 of his 22 points in the final 6 minutes and No. 2 Wichita State remained the nation’s lone unbeaten after defeating Indiana State 83-69 on Sunday in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament final.

Tekele Cotton added 20 points — with four 3-pointers — and Ron Baker had 14 points for the Shockers (34-0), who got tested in the second half before putting the title game out of reach with a 13-0 run capped by two 3-pointers from VanVleet that put them up by 18 points with 5:38 to go.

MARYLAND 75, No. 5 VIRGINIA 69, OT COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Maryland closed out its 61st and final Atlantic Coast Conference regular season in stunning fashion b y ending Virginia’s 13-game winning streak.

After blowing a seemingly secure lead in the closing seconds of regulation, the Terrapins never trailed in the extra session in front of an emotional sellout crowd of 17,950 at the school’s final home basketball game in a conference it joined as a charter member in 1953. Maryland moves to the Big Ten next season.

No. 7 SYRACUSE 74, FLORIDA ST. 58 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — C.J. Fair scored 22 points and Syracuse closed the regular season with a victory in the program’s first trip to Florida State.

The Orange, who ended a two-game losing streak, had lost 4 of 5 after starting the season 25-0.

Jerami Grant, who had been bothered by back problems recently, had 16 points and eight rebounds while Tyler Ennis finished with 16 points for Syracuse (27-4, 14-4 Atlantic Coast Conference).

Okaro White led Florida State with 20 points

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NEBRASKA 77, No. 9 WISCONSIN 68 LINCOLN, Neb. — Shavon Shields and Terran Petteway scored 26 points apiece, and Nebraska beat Wisconsin to bolster its resume for an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.

The Cornhuskers (19-11, 11-7) won for the 10th time in 12 games to clinch fourth place in the Big Ten for their highest conference finish since 1997-98. The Badgers (25-6, 12-6) had their longest conference win streak since 1940-41 end at eight games.

No. 17 SAINT LOUIS 64, UMASS 62 AMHERST, Mass. — Jordair Jett scored on a driving layup with 3 seconds to play and Saint Louis snapped a three-game losing streak to win the Atlantic 10 regular season title outright for the second straight season.

Jett finished with 17 points, including the Billikens’ last six of the game. Saint Louis (265, 13-3 A-10) got its final possession on a jump ball call with 36.4 seconds left. Jett dribbled out the clock near midcourt before starting the gamewinning drive.

OHIO ST. 69, No. 22 MICHIGAN ST. 67 COLUMBUS, Ohio — LaQuinton Ross scored 22 points and Aaron Craft added 12, including a late free throw, to lead Ohio State.

Keith Appling’s jumper with 2 seconds left was off the mark for the Spartans, who failed to score over the final 4:30 as Ohio State scored the game’s final four points. Adreian Payne scored 23 points, Gary Harris had 12 and Denzel Valentine 11 for the Spartans (23-8, 12-6 Big Ten), who have lost seven of their last 11.

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Peninsula. During December meetings held in Homer and Soldotna about HB77, hundreds of people showed up and voiced their displeasure, which caught the state’s attention, he said.

Kasilof resident George Pierce said HB77 needed to be thrown away. Micciche said it doesn’t work like that.

“Most of the bill is current code,” he said. “We may not get everything we want but if we can compromise for adequate protection in a robust public process, then I’m going to be inclined to support the bill.”

Soldotna resident Penny Vadla said she appreciated his efforts in spearheading changes to the bill, but she didn’t think it would be enough protection.

“We have a commodity here, something we appreciate on a local and personal level,” she said in reference to the Kenai River. “For many fishermen it

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Speaker Rep. Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski, said Wednesday.

“At the end of the day we’ll probably somewhere north of $85, but south of the $404 the Democrats are asking for,” he said, later adding, “We need to argue about what’s that right amount. Is it $85, $200 or $400 even? But I know if we put $400 in it today, next year they’ll be back wanting more money because the cost of education is going up.”

The challenge, Chenault explained, is balancing increasing the education budget to make up for federal shortfalls with other budgetary needs across the state.

“The Anchorage School District says they’re $25 million short this year — $23 million of that is federal funds,” Chenault said. “The Legislature has been doing their job.”

As the state faces a $2 billion revenue decline, many in the majority party are look-

will affect how they maintain their livelihood and enjoyment in life.”

Dave Atchenson, of Sterling, said people still have problems with some of the amendments made to the bill and Alaskans are disenfranchised with outside companies getting preferential treatment. Still, he thanked the senator for his work to amend the bill.

Micciche opened up the town hall meeting with a presentation of his legislative work this session. He highlighted SB 148, a bill he sponsored that removed the Homer Harbor from the critical habitat area and was the first bill to pass this session.

In addressing education, Micciche said he is in support of increasing the base student allocation. He also said he did not expect Senate Joint Resolution 9 to receive the two-thirds votes needed to pass. SJR 9 and the companion bill HJR 1 proposing a constitutional amendment to allow public money to be used for private schools, is scheduled for a House vote Monday. He said while he supports choice ing to tighten spending across the board due to the uncertain short-term economic future, Chenault told the Empire.

“Whether it’s the education budget, the health and social services, transportation — you name the budget — people want to control that budget more to keep the budget from growing and burning through our savings,” he said.

Those who favor a compromise on the Democratic side of the spectrum contend that education funding should be the state’s top priority. Other parts of the budget come later.

“We should say, ‘this is what we do for education come hell or high water,’ and then do whatever else we can,” said Sen. Berta Gardner, DAnchorage, one of the architects of the Democrat-backed proposal.

“You do whatever else you can after taking care of the kids,” she added.

Failing to do so, Gardner surmised, will result in other investments being wasted due to the consequences of under-

with the great programs in the area, his concern is the cost.

A couple of people in the audience thanked Micciche for sponsoring SB 209 for smokefree workplaces. SB 77, an act related to big game hunting with children, was also well received by the public.

When asked about for his opinion on the Board of Fisheries proceedings, Micciche said the process is flawed and that their should be more scientific reasoning in the process and less political influence.

Micciche, who is a drift commercial fisherman in the summer, said commercial fishing is the number one employer in the state and politicians are not showing them the support.

“It’s a numbers game. We are going to lose that game until we get everyone pulling together and understanding the value of all fisheries,” he said.

“We are the farmers of Alaska.

You would never see a Republican in Iowa go against an Iowan farmer. We need to turn that around.”

Micciche took a moment to

clarify any confusion people may have had with his other jobs and his annual income.

He asked the audience if anyone was unaware of his employment with ConocoPhillips when he ran for senator to raise their hand. Nobody did, affirming everyone knew of his position as superintendent to the LNG plant in Kenai.

He said when he first came to Juneau he went to the ethics committee to check which measures he would have to watch to avoid a conflict of interest.

In a recent article in the Alaska Dispatch, from Feb. 11, it was reported his salary is listed as $200,000 to $500,000 a year.

He said last year he crossed over from $199,000 to more than $200,000 and salary earnings have not been released since he became a senator last year. He said the reporter confused readers into thinking the passage of SB 21 doubled his income, which is not accurate.

“I work very hard and am proud of the things I do,” he said. “If you don’t want me to go back next time get someone

‘As long as we’re putting money in education, we’re doing the right thing.’

— House Speaker Mike Chenault funded education.

“If we want to develop this state and for our children to stay here, it does no good to have thriving industry and good bridges and roads if our kids can’t qualify for the jobs that are here,” Gardner said.

As lawmakers move into the second half the session, Democratic representatives Les Gara of Anchorage and Sam Kito of Juneau released a report last week detailing what each of the state’s six largest school districts would need to offset expected shortfalls.

The average need is just over $314. Juneau had the greatest need, at $450 per student — beyond even the Democratic proposal.

Proponents of greater school spending say the state needs to make up lost time because it has been “flat-funding” schools

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since 2011, the last year the base student allocation was raised. The “flat-funding” argument irks Chenault, who says the state has more than kept up with the rate of inflation over the past decade when all state dollars to education are factored in.

“The BSA is just one part of the formula,” Chenault said.

A document prepared by staff to Rep. Alan Austerman, R-Kodiak, shows that school foundation funding increased from $1.063 billion in 2011 to $1.143 billion in 2013.

When factoring state-funded education appropriations for pupil transportation, one-time items, major school maintenance payments and others, the 2011 figure increases to $1.664 billion, and the 2013 figure is $1.9 billion.

That means education fund-

to run and make sure they win.

If you send me back, I’m going to do the best to represent you the very best I can every day. I’m not embarrassed about where I work and the fact I make a decent living.”

The audience applauded his sincerity.

One woman in the audience asked Micciche to clarify the intention SB 21, a tax reform for oil and gas companies signed into law last June.

He said the intention is to spur economic growth by encouraging gas and oil production. Alaska still has the highest tax rate in North America, but by adjusting the tax rate, it makes the state more competitive, he said.

“Decline in revenues is because of a decline in oil production,” he said. “(SB 21) gives us a chance for positive results producing here again.

Since we have seen new projects that have pulled the trigger and hundreds of jobs are filled that were not before.”

He said production declined under Alaska’s Clear and Eqing rose 14 percent in three years of no changes to the BSA. By comparison, the cost of living in Anchorage increased by about 5.5 percent during the same years.

“If we would have inflationproofed the funding we had for the last 10 years, they would have had considerably less money,” Chenault said.

Education funding is just one of the 30 education-related topics lawmakers are considering.

About 60 bills are making their way through the Legislature this session, Chenault said.

“As long as we’re putting money in education, we’re doing the right thing,” he said.

Politicians may differ on the details, but both Democrats and Republicans have called 2014 the education session.

“What’s in the constitution that we have to do first is provide a free public education to all students, and that doesn’t mean just opening a building,” Gardner said. “That means having quality teachers, it means mentoring teachers and it means doing everything we can.”

uitable Share, known as ACES, and if there were a sustained decline in production, he would be the first to challenge the bill.

“I would not have pushed the green button if I did not believe in my heart this is the best thing for Alaska,” he said.

Micciche said he is proud to represent District O, but lamented the district change next year. He will go from representing Homer and Kenai to representing the Nikiski, Soldotna and Seward area.

When asked why government bodies like the fish board are selected from nominees by the governor rather than from biologists who understand fishery issues, Micciche’s response had everyone laughing.

“When I’m governor by golly I will take care of it,” he said. “Keep pushing and let your voice be heard. I am proud to represent this district and share your concerns at the state level.”

Reach Dan Balmer at daniel.balmer@peninsulaclarion. com.

State sues over North Pole refinery contamination FAIRBANKS (AP) — The North Pole refinery’s problems with soil contamination may be headed for court.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the state has sued current and former owners of the refinery, claiming they failed to stop a sulfolane spill and allowed the chemical to flow into groundwater.

The lawsuit claims former owner Williams Alaska and current owner Flint Hills Resources should pay for cleanup. The Department of Law in a statement says the lawsuit’s ultimate goal is to determine where responsibility lies.

Flint Hills claims the spill began with Williams and that the responsible parties include the state, which owned land beneath the refinery.

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Bids INVITATION TO BID CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS KOTSINA STREET #N3KOT EAGLE RIDGE COURT AND WINDRIDGE AVENUE #W7EAG The Kenai Peninsula Borough Road Service Area hereby invites qualified firms to submit a firm price for acceptance by the Borough for Road Capital Improvement Projects: â&#x20AC;˘ Kotsina Street #N3KOT (Nikiski) â&#x20AC;˘ Ridge Court and Windridge Avenue (Kenai) Projects consist of furnishing all labor, materials, and equipment to upgrade these roads.

Projects include subgrade modification, drainage, clearing, ditching and roadbed widening.

Pre-bid conferences for both projects will be held March 13, 2014 @ 10:00 AM at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Road Service Area office, 47140 East Poppy Lane, Soldotna, Alaska.

Attendance at pre-bid conferences is recommended but not mandatory.

Contracts are subject to the provision of State of Alaska, Title 36, Minimum Wage Rates. Contracts will require certificates of insurance and may require performance and payment bonds.

Bid documents may be obtained beginning March 5, 2014 at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Road Service Area office, 47140 East Poppy Lane, Soldotna, Alaska 99669 (907) 262-4427, for a non-refundable fee of $20.00 per set, $10.00 additional for mailing. Bid documents may also be downloaded from the web at: http://purchasing.borough.kenai.ak.us/ Opportunities.aspx One (1) complete set of the bid package is to be submitted to the Kenai Peninsula Borough, Purchasing and Contracting Department, 144 N. Binkley Street, Soldotna, Alaska 99669. These forms must be enclosed in a sealed envelope with the bidder's name on the outside and clearly marked: BID: DUE DATE:

KOTSINA STREET #N3KOT March 26, 2014, no later than 2:00 PM EAGLE RIDGE COURT AND WINDRIDGE AVENUE #W7EAG March 26 2014, no later than 4:00 PM

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Public Notices Local Notice of Proposed Tower Construction Pursuant to the recently filed Federal Communications Commission Form 854 bearing File Number A0894115, Kenai Broadcasting LLC proposes to construct a new uniform cross-section guyed tower at 36474 Northern Lights Blvd, Soldotna, AK, having geographic coordinates in the NAD83 datum of N. Latitude 60-30-32.5, West Longitude 151-4-17.3. The tower will be 23 meters above ground level with appurtenances. The elevation of the site is 70 meters above mean sea level. The tower will have no marking nor obstruction lighting. Interested persons who allege that the tower may have a significant environmental effect may file a written Request for environmental processing with the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission setting forth in detail the reasons justifying or the circumstances necessitating environmental consideration of the proposed tower's construction.

Any such Request may only raise environmental concerns. Informal objections to the proposed tower based on environmental considerations must be filed prior to the FCC grant of a construction permit, or prior to authorization for facilities that do not require construction permits.

The Federal Communications Commission strongly encourages interested parties to file Requests for Environmental Review online. Instructions for making such filings can be found at http://www.fcc.gov/asr/environmentalrequest.

The mailing address for interested parties that would prefer to file a Request for Environmental Review by paper copy is: FCC Requests for Environmental Review, Attn: Ramon Williams, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554.

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Public Notices City of Soldotna NOTICE OF MEETING CANCELLATION March 12, 2014 The regular meeting of the Soldotna City Council scheduled for March 12, 2014 has been cancelled.

The next regular meeting is March 26, 2014, at 6:00 p.m. For agenda items & other information, call the City Clerk's Office at 907-262-9107.

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High blood pressure can quietly damage kidneys have learned.

— DUANE SUNWOLD, SPOKANE, WASH. DEAR DUANE: It is generous of you to share your medical history in an effort to caution my readers. The National Kidney Foundation urges everyone to learn about these vital organs and whether they might be at risk.

The three major risk Abigail Van Buren factors for kidney disease are: high blood pressure, diabetes and a family history of kidney failure. People who have these risk factors should ask their doctor to check their kidney function with a simple blood and urine test.

Readers, March is National Kidney Month, and March 13 is World Kidney Day. If you are at risk, schedule an appointment with your doctor. For anyone who needs more information, the National Kidney Foundation’s website is kidney.org.

joys studying for my ministry and doctoral work at a local coffee shop. Three men who go there every day have found out that I’m a minister, and they each want to talk with me while I’m there. Although all three are members of the same religion, none of them is affiliated with a church.

I have invited them to visit my worship services, as well as call the office and set up an appointment with me. I have also tried to diplomatically explain that I go to the coffee shop to study. One of them ignores it, another appears hurt and the third one gets offended.

When they’re not around, I am productive. When they show up, they want me to be their chaplain.

Because of where I live, finding another coffee shop is not a viable option. How can I set a boundary with them and still do my studying there? Thank you.

— REVEREND KEN IN NEW YORK DEAR REVEREND: Do it the same way doctors or lawyers do with people who approach them for “free” advice outside the office. As soon as you are approached, say firmly, “I’m studying right now. If you want to talk, please call my office and I’ll schedule an appointment with you. Right now I’m busy.” And then refuse to be intimidated by their reaction. Unless you draw the line, they’ll DEAR ABBY: I’m a member of the clergy who en- suck you dry.

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, March 10, 2014: This year a lot happens very quickly in your life. You barely have enough time to adjust to one surprise before another one pops again. Stay flexible, and be willing to look at the glass as being halffull rather than half-empty. If you are single, you might nearly commit several times, possibly to different people. Take your time, and get to know your potential suitors.

If you are attached, the two of you enjoy a more playful and fun time together, as if you were just starting to date. Give up being rigid or determined to have your way. Just enjoy your sweetie. CANCER is as emotional as you are!

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You have a flair for creating tension, as people find you to be unpredictable. However, a role reversal seems to be at play: A partner or loved one could decide that impulsiveness is a great way to go.

Strap on your seat belt! Tonight: Do some yoga or take a walk.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH How you handle the key people in your daily environment reflects who you are. You intuitively know what others want or need.

Even still, your best bet is to allow others to ask for your help before rushing in to fulfill an anticipated need. Tonight: Hang out.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You are able to juggle your finances with the best of them. You are likely to discover how difficult

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Tonight: Pay bills first.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH While others play out their Monday-itis, you seem to be full of unusual and effective ideas. Test them out on several people before launching into action. Your sense of well-being will emerge when dealing with a loved one at a distance.

Tonight: Only as you like it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HH You might not want to share too many of your thoughts right now; instead, listen carefully to a partner or friend. This person will have a lot of great ideas to share, and you could get feedback that might surprise you. Unexpected news heads your way. Tonight: Not wanting to socialize.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You seem to know what to do in order to achieve specific results. Listen to a loved one when discussing an unpredictable associate or partner. This person sees the issue differently from how you do. You will like what’s about to happen. Tonight: Make plans with a friend.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Others expect you to come to the rescue for them when they aren’t able to help themselves.

You could be a little ticked off by this attitude. Your plate is full, and you have a lot of ground to cover.

Refuse to take on any extra work for now. Tonight: Do something just for you.

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HHHH You are bound to make a difference by expressing a more complete perspective of a problem. Know that you don’t need to be so vested in the outcome. Others will be impressed by your drive and determination. Tonight: Let your mind drift -- you need some R and R. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Someone gladly would take up all of your time and attention, if you would allow it. Only you can decide if this is OK. State your boundaries clearly. If a loved one is involved, do not be surprised if you receive a volatile response.

Tonight: Say “yes” to an invitation.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Others can’t seem to get enough of you. However, you have a strong need to go a certain way, and you don’t want anyone holding you back. You could have some difficulty explaining this desire to a needy friend or loved one. Tonight: Carve out the correct situation for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH You seem more than capable of staying away from problems today, as long as you don’t take an unusual financial risk. Incoming news could shock you, or you could surprise someone else. Tonight: In the whirlwind of living.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You could be taken aback by a sudden and unexpected financial change. Tap into your creativity in order to find the right solution. As a result, you’ll find the right person with whom to connect regarding a project in the near future. Tonight: Act like there is no tomorrow!

RAZOR’S STRIP TAKES A DIP Dear Readers: Here is this week’s SOUND OFF, about razor manufacturers: “I do not like those lubricating strips that manufacturers put on razors these days. You can’t avoid them. I soak the razors in hot water for a while, then remove that strip. I can’t stand that slick, soapy feel on my face, and wish some makers would realize that not everybody does.

— Craig, via email” You may have to use a straight razor!

— Heloise FAST FACTS Dear Readers: Here are other uses for a coffee mug with a broken handle: * Plant small herbs in it and keep on the kitchen windowsill. * Use in a bathroom to store cotton balls or cotton swabs. * Place on a desk as a pencil-andpen holder.

LETTER OF LAUGHTER Dear Heloise: A friend shared that she had gone to a restroom at the hospital. There was not much room on the counter for her purse, and she did not want to put it on the floor, so she put it in the sink. When she came out of the stall, her purse was full of water because the automatic faucet clicked on. So, find someplace else to put it besides the sink. She had a good laugh.

— I.N., Audubon, Iowa It may be funny now, but my question is why on earth anyone would put a purse in the sink or on the counter in a public restroom! This is NOT a good idea! All it takes is someone else walking in, taking the purse and walking out.

Ladies, don’t EVER leave your purse out of your sight!

— Heloise

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DEAR ABBY: I thought I was a healthy 40-yearold until I was diagnosed with high blood pressure.

My doctor began treating it as a stand-alone condition, without considering that high blood pressure is a major risk factor for kidney disease.

At first, I wasn’t even tested for kidney disease. But eventually, he gave me a urine test, and it was discovered that I had protein in my urine — one of the earliest signs of kidney damage. Apparently, my high blood pressure had damaged my kidneys.

Healthy kidneys filter out wastes and toxins, but my kidneys’ ability to do so began to decrease at an alarming rate. I continued to manage my blood pressure with medication and decided to make a few lifestyle changes, as well, that helped me avoid the progression of kidney disease to kidney failure.

I limited my salt intake, started eating more fruits, vegetables and whole grains, decreased the amount of meat I was eating and began swimming every day. I began to feel better, and when I went to the doctor, it turned out my kidney function had stabilized.

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