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MARCH 16, 2014 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 141

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One of several passengers in a group headed to Anchorage talks about obtaining a refund from United Airlines Sunday after flight UA1425 was diverted to the Kenai Municipal Airport Friday and passengers were stranded for about 18 hours in Kenai, Alaska. More than 100 passengers, many of whom slept on the floor of the airport, were told their overnight stay was necessary as the pilot and flight crew had exceeded the hours the Federal Aviation Administration allows them to fly.

of the team, leading the dogs a quarter mile or so at a time, he said. He was moving too slow, getting too cold. “I was stuck, man,” Neff said. “Nature had me in her grasp and she wasn’t going to let me go.” The musher stopped trying to reach the end of the ice and set about surviving the night. He wrapped two headlamps around his handlebars, lights blinking as a distress signal to any passing snowmachines. Sweating, he climbed in his racing sled and covered himself in a sleeping bag. The huskies snacked on See RACE, page A-2

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By KELLY SULLIVAN and RASHAH McCHESNEY Peninsula Clarion

At least there were puppies. And for about 18-hours, the more than 100 passengers who spent the night at the Kenai Municipal Airport got to listen to and play with the four furry animals who got free reign over the Era Alaska counter until Saturday afternoon when the flight took off and headed back to its original destination in Anchorage.

The passengers and six crewmembers of United Airlines flight 1425 from Chicago to Anchorage were grounded in Kenai from about 7 p.m. Friday until 2 p.m. Saturday. A winter storm forced 14 flights to be diverted from the Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage according to an Associated Press article. “Apparently we circled (the pilot) said about 15 minutes, but it was like 30-40 minutes when we hovered in the air until he told us that we were about to run out of gas,” said

Amina Spring. She and her son are new to Alaska and were Fairbanks-bound where Spring’s husband relocated with the military. After they landed, the group sat on the tarmac. “For four hours,” Spring said. “They said (Transportation Safety Administration) wasn’t here so we couldn’t get off the plane. It was like 11:30 (p.m.) before they let us off.” When the Boeing 747 landed in Kenai, the plane had to refuel and be de-iced. See FLIGHT, page A-2

Iditarod musher: ‘I could feel my body dying’ BY KYLE HOPKINS Anchorage Daily News

ANCHORAGE — Tok musher and former Yukon Quest champion Hugh Neff has been in big trouble before during a 1,000-mile race. He has lost a dog on the trail. This time, he thought he might lose his life. “The ... words I kept repeating to myself was, ‘I want to live. I want to live. I want to live,’” Neff said in a phone interview from Nome, where he is recovering from a dangerous night stranded for 10 hours on frozen Golovin Bay. The nine-time Iditarod finisher’s tale is one of several horror stories emerging this

week as mushers describe the final hours of one of the toughest Iditarods in memory. What started as a sometimes snowless gauntlet of rocks and trees ended in a battle with surging winds that bullied mushers to their knees. Four-time winner Jeff King, all but assured a victory when he left White Mountain with a one-hour lead, was forced to scratch when the winds shoved his team from the trail. Second place Aliy Zirkle said her race stopped being about winning the Iditarod and became a game of survival by the time she reached Safety, 22 miles from the finish. Neff’s problems began Monday afternoon, when he was one

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of four mushers to leave Elim within a 28-minute span. He was the first to go, leaving with only eight dogs, Neff said. By 1:40 p.m., Jessie Royer, Ray Redington Jr. and Hans Gatt had also launched for Nome. The bay was like a hockey rink of glare ice, Neff said. Even with no booties on their paws, the dogs couldn’t scratch out enough traction to move steadily forward in what the musher described as 60 mph winds. “I could barely stand,” he said. Mushers start the Iditarod with 16 dogs. Neff was down to half that number on the ice and didn’t have the power to advance against the wind. Maybe

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he should have traveled around the bay, a path chosen by at least one other musher, he said. Or the trail should have been routed that way all along. Another ex-Quest champ and past winner of the Iditarod dog care award, Sebastian Schnuelle, wrote that responsibility for Neff’s safety ultimately rested with the musher himself. Zirkle, he noted, made a cautious choice in similarly difficult conditions that night. Her decision to seek shelter likely cost her a first Iditarod win but ensured she and her dogs were safe. “What has happened to responsible racing?” Schnuelle asked. Neff tried walking in front

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — A bill aimed at advancing a major liquefied natural gas project in Alaska cleared a key Senate committee Friday, with a provision that would allow for a portion of the state’s royalty revenue from the project to go toward energy projects in areas without direct access to a North Slope gas line. Sen. Lyman Hoffman, DBethel, said that’s a critical piece for him and the other amendment sponsors, Sens. Donny Olson, D-Golovin, and Click Bishop, R-Fairbanks. Hoffman has been outspoken in wanting to ensure the benefit of a gas line is spread to all Alaskans — including in rural communities suffering from high energy costs. During Friday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing, Hoffman said the provision would go a long way toward making Alaska a more affordable place for many residents. SB138, from Gov. Sean Parnell, would advance the proposed mega-project into a phase of preliminary engineering and design and cost refinement. Current cost estimates for the project range from $45 billion to more than $65 billion. The bill also would allow the state to enter into negotiations for project-enabling contracts that would be brought back to the Legislature for approval, as early as next year. The Senate Finance version sets a gas-tax rate at 13 percent of the gross value at the point of production beginning in 2022. The tax rate, together with royalty, determines the state’s equity share, which would be about 25 percent, Natural Resources Commissioner Joe Balash said. The bill also would have the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. — rather than a subsidiary, as originally proposed — carry the state’s interest in liquefaction and marine terminal facilities. AGDC would have separate funds for the large project and the smaller, in-state gas pipeline it is currently pursuing. There also would be a project director within AGDC for the liquefied natural gas project who would report to the corporation’s board and president. The Senate Finance version also struck language from the original bill that would make companies’ election to pay pro-

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Alaska unemployment rate unchanged in January JUNEAU — Alaska’s unemployment rate stood at 6.4 percent in January, which was unchanged from December. The January figure was slightly below the national unemployment rate of 6.6 percent. The the state’s labor department said was the closest the two unemployment rates have been since late 2008. The department says Alaska’s rate was close to its pre-recession levels while the U.S. rate remained higher. The department says Alaska’s unemC

ployment rate stabilized last year, while the national rate continued to trend lower. Data revisions, done annually, resulted in Alaska’s seasonally adjusted rate being revised upward in nine of 12 months last year. The department said that reduced volatility in the original estimates and put the average monthly unemployment rate in 2013 at 6.5 percent. That rate is down from the average rate of 7 percent in 2012.

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Ruthy Anderson and Shelby Turner, employees of Era Alaska airlines, play with four puppies that were deplaned at the Kenai Municipal Airport Friday evening and stayed in the airport some 18 hours until the flight could return Saturday to Anchorage.

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Several passengers spoke about problems with refueling as the group sat on the tarmac. United Airlines Director of Corporate Communications Christen David said there was no set time that it typically took to refuel an aircraft. “The time it takes to refuel and (de-ice) an aircraft depends on several factors such as the weather conditions, the number

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duction tax in gas instead of money irrevocable after lawyers for the Legislature raised questions with that language. Balash said the word was included to make sure the companies could not decide to pay in gas one day and in cash the next and leave the state without sufficient gas for its share of the project. But he said the administration could work with that language. The bill also tightened language concerning how leases could be modified. The measure was being sent on with a letter of intent that the parties to the project would honor the commitments they previously agreed to, including hire qualified Alaska residents; work with the state to provide training for workers and prior to construction, commit to negotiate in good faith project labor agreements. The bill calls on Parnell to create a board to advise him on municipal involvement in the project, a step Parnell’s spokes-

of crew working, the type of equipment available, etc.,” she wrote in an email. “There were several other planes in line ahead of flight 1425 to be refueld and (de-iced), so we had to wait for those to finish.” The process took so long that the pilots and crew could not longer legally operate the plane. The pilot reached his quota for working hours as designated by The Federal Aviation Administration and the flight had to be delayed. According to FAA regulations, the maximum flight time alwoman has said he is considering. Several mayors have raised concerns about being able to have a say on terms that will be negotiated that will affect local communities. The bill also calls for the Alaska Energy Authority, in consultation with others, to devise a plan for developing infrastructure to provide more affordable energy to parts of Alaska not expected to have direct access to the gas line. And it calls on the Revenue commissioner to devise a plan and suggested legislation for how municipalities, regional corporations or residents could participate as co-owners in the pipeline. The Senate is expected to vote on the bill as early as Monday. Assuming passage, the measure would then go to the House. Some committees there have already held hearings to try to familiarize members with the complex issue. Kelly’s co-chair Kevin Meyer, R-Anchorage, raised concerns with the proposal to put 10 percent of the revenue left from the state’s royalty gas used in the project, after payment is made to the Alaska Permanent Fund, for the rural

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lowed for a pilot during a working day is nine hours, followed by a mandatory 10-hour uninterrupted rest period. Passenger Steve Read said by the time everyone was let off the plane, the toilets had begun to back up. Once inside the airport the pilots “kind of snuck out the back,” Read said. He watched the pilot decline to make an announcement that he was leaving the premises or provide any information about a future take off time, Read said. Further complicating matters, a lack of TSA staffing at the airport in Kenai meant passengers could not be screened before boarding the plane. Mary Bondurant, airport manager, said the Kenai airport is a normal diversionary airport for Anchorage. “But they know we don’t have TSA here and once they get people off the plane, then we have to make arrangements with Anchorage because they’ll be coming in an unsecured aircraft,” she said. “I’ve been on the phone all night with TSA and all those arrangements are made at that end ... there was talk of bringing the TSA down here and then screening the passengers.” The last announcement made by the airline was that transportation and hotel accommodations would be made available for the travelers, Read said. Sit-

ting upright at 11 a.m. in an airport chair he hadn’t slept or left the airport since. A few passengers took it on themselves to make reservations at local hotels. Greg Fillmore said he booked a room for himself at the Quality Inn. After receiving his room key from the receptionist, she was immediately told Fillmore could no longer have the room, because “the rooms were for pilots, not passengers.” United did offer to pay for everyone’s breakfast at Odie’s Deli inside the airport. However, of the five hotels in Kenai, at least 70 rooms were still available last night by midnight, and multiple reported not having any contact with United Airlines about making accommodations for their customers. David said that typically United Airlines personnel would be on hand at an airport to assist passengers who had been diverted, however the airline does not regularly fly into Kenai. She said the a customer care team booked hotel accommodations for as many customers as Kenai had rooms available. “Hotel availability in Kenai was extremely limited. I wasn’t able to confirm how the hotel vouchers were handled in this case,” she wrote in an email. At least 75 people spent the night at the airport, many draped over chairs and tables or on piles of luggage in the air-

port lobby. The three customer service agents on duty were left to accommodate the influx, said Customer Service Agent Ruthy Anderson, an Era Alaska employee. It was the busiest she had ever seen the airport. “It was a very, very big deal to unload the passengers,” Anderson said. Through out the night Anderson and her co-workers made trips in their own vehicles to Walmart to buy food, water, pillows and blankets. Several passengers who were critical of how United Airlines handled the situation spoke highly of Kenai Airport staff. Andrew Spicher, of New York, said he was surprised at how local staff, like Anderson, went out of their way to make the passengers comfortable. “She brought us pillows from her house,” he said. “She is a saint.” Anderson said everyone who was stuck in the airport handled the situation very well. Staff reopened the airport bar so the passengers could cool their heels and have a drink. “We were able to say cheers and welcome to Alaska,” Anderson said. Still, despite the friendly local accommodations, several passengers said they were angered by the whole experience. Spring and her son both had asthma attacks during the night, she said. They were not allowed

capital energy fund. He said he didn’t want to limit availability of revenues for future legislatures. But Hoffman said if the state can’t address the energy needs of Alaskans, “what good are we doing?” Kelly praised the amendment, saying looking back 20 years from now, “I think we’ll be very pleased we made that decision.” Olson said he would not vote for the bill without that element. Bishop, when asked if there were any must-haves in the bill now, said “all of it.” The state has signed an agreement with pipeline company TransCanada Corp., the North Slope’s major players — BP, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil Corp. — and AGDC, setting out broad terms for moving forward. The oil and gas companies have called state involvement in the project key to its success. The state has signed a separate agreement with TransCanada to manage the state’s interests in a gas treatment plant and pipeline. While there is an equity buy-back option for the state, the arrangement is seen as a way for the state to not have to shoulder as much in upfront costs as it would without

TransCanada. The agreement also would serve as a transition away from terms of the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, which Parnell has said no longer fit with the type of project being pursued and the change in players. Senate Minority Leader Hollis French, D-Anchorage, has continued to question whether

the state could get a better deal if it went out for open bids. The departments of Natural Resources and Revenue say the state could do that but it would likely hurt the momentum of the project. The agreements are contingent upon passage of enabling legislation deemed acceptable by all the parties.

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fish. They appeared unhurt, the musher said. “That’s one thing about this race, it seems the dogs fared a lot better than the humans.” Neff began pushing the S.O.S. button on his beacon at about 9 p.m., he said. Hours passed as he shivered in his sled, wondering why no one had come. “It really felt like I was abandoned,” he said. Every two minutes he plucked a jelly bean from his bag, chewing to stay awake. “My legs and my arms, I could literally start feeling them freezing on me ... I could really feel my body

dying.” Iditarod veteran Dave Branholm - who Neff’s girlfriend on Facebook called a “guardian angel” - got a call about 5 a.m. to search for the missing musher. Neff said Branholm saw his blinking headlamps and rescued him. He believes he might not have survived many more hours in the sled. “When Dave picked me up, he said, ‘Dude you’re about a half an inch from the end of your candlestick,” Neff said. “Pretty much saved my life.” This is the first year that mushers have taken beacons equipped with an emergency button to call for help. It was not immediately clear if and when Neff’s signal was received by Iditarod officials. Neff said he was

to return to the airplane to get their luggage. “Luckily I’ve been having these my whole life, I know how to calm myself down,” she said. But, the experience has soured her on flying with United, she said. “Just, how can you just not have a protocol for this? As big as United is, how?” she said. Spring and the other passengers will be compensated, however the details are not specific. Some spoke of receiving $75 vouchers, others of $300, others of $500. David wrote in an email that United does not discuss the specifics of compensation with the media. After spending an uncomfortable night in the crowded airport, Sandie Keen and Read had become acquainted. The two heard from Keen’s daughter that the flight had been rescheduled to depart for Anchorage at noon. They left around 2 p.m. “To sum up, we were not informed by United,” Keen said. “We’re all disappointed with United.” Reach Kelly Sullivan at kelly.sullivan@peninsulaclarion. com and Rashah McChesney at rashah.mcchesney@peninsulaclarion.com

Fiscal notes attached to the bill total nearly $80 million for this year and next. Of that, AGDC has requested $66.7 million in the current year for its work related to the project, including new hires, travel and other costs. The corporation anticipates drawing on that money this year and next.

later told that he might not have correctly activated the S.O.S. “Perhaps by not pushing it down long enough, that’s why they didn’t get the signal to come and get me,” he said. Race officials issued a news release Monday saying that Neff had scratched at 7 a.m. in White Mountain after the race sent a volunteer out to do a welfare check on the musher. For now, Neff said he and his dogs are fine. He and Branholm are talking about writing a book about this year’s race. “Usually the trail is a roller-coaster ride where you have your highs and your lows. But this whole race has been one test after another,” Neff said.

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Death notice Beverly Lewis, 78, died Friday, March 14, 2014 at her home in Soldotna with her family by her side. No services will be held per Beverly’s wishes. Arrangements made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel and Crematory.

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Blue Grass music session today All are invited to the monthly session of Blue Grass held in the Fellowship Hall of the Kenai United Methodist Church. March’s session will be held on Sunday, March 16 from 1p.m. to 4 p.m. Musicians and listeners are warmly urged to participate. There is no charge. Participants are urged to enter through the side door of the church. For more information call Jim Evenson at 776-8060.

St. Patrick’s Day parade scheduled

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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 Bailey’s Furniture parking lot and proceeds down the Kenai Spur Highway toward the Y..

Learn about deck and indoor gardening

Swim America lessons available There is still time to sign your children up for the next SwimAmerica session at Skyview Pool starting on Tuesday, March 18 and ending on Thursday, April 10. SwimAmerica is the leading learn-to-swim program in the United States, and classes are being offered for children ages 3-teenage. Class times are 4:15-4:45 p.m. and 4:50-5:20 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays for four weeks. For more information or to register your child, please contact Joanne Wainwright at 262-5308 or joswims@alaska.net

Take a break with inspirational speaker Peninsula Take-A-Break will meet Wednesday, March 19 from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Solid Rock Conference Center, Mile 90.5 of the Sterling Highway in Soldotna. The program will include music and a special feature with Bonnie Nichols to discuss Central Peninsula Hospital volunteer opportunities, and inspirational speaker Mary Lou Cragg. Lunch is $12. For reservations and complimentary child care, call Susan at 335-6789. RSVP by March 16.

Deck & Indoor Gardening in Alaska presentation by Janice Chumley with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Build skills at KPC Extension Service on Tuesday, March 18. Janice will discuss Free basic skill building help in math, writing and reading how you can plant vegetables on your deck or indoors beginning at 10 a.m. at the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank, 33955 Com- is available in the Learning Center at Kenai Peninsula College munity College Drive, Soldotna. On Thursday, March 20, Lin- in Room 153. For more information, call the Learning Center da Tannehill, Cooperative Extension Service Home Economist, at 262-0327. will be demonstrating canning your vegetables. Both classes begin at 10 a.m. for one hour at the Food Bank. For questions, Children’s art workshop planned please call 262-3111. A free PEEP’s children’s art workshop will take place Saturday, March 22 from 1 to 4 p.m. Teachers will provide inCourt Appointed Special Advocates needed struction and encouragement for artists of all ages at the Kenai The Kenaitze Indian Tribe will hold a meeting to provide Visitors & Cultural Center. This is a great opportunity to get information to people interested in becoming Court Appointed creative for the Kenai Birding Festival’s PEEP’s Art Contest. Special Advocate (CASA) volunteers. CASA volunteers advocate for abused and neglected children in both tribal and state ‘Chefs of the Night’ support the Food Bank courts. The Kenai Peninsula Food Bank invites you to the third anLearn 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 nual “Chefs of the Night” event at the Food Bank facility on Tribe’s administration building at 150 N. Willow St. in Kenai. Kalifornsky Beach Road, Saturday, March 22 at 6 p.m. This For more information about the Kenai Peninsula CASA elegant event includes gourmet foods created and served by program, contact Tyler Nichols at 335-7229 or at tnichols@ local chefs, music, dancing and conversation with new and old friends. Tickets are available for $ 150 at the Kenai Peninsula kenaitze.org. Food Bank. For further information call 262-3111.

Community Calendar

LIO Schedule Monday 3:15 p.m. The House Labor & Commerce Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss SB 159 Air Ambulance Services, HB 288 AIDEA: Arctic Development Program / Fund and HB 281 Prescription Without Physical Examination. Testimony will be taken. Monday 3:30 p.m. The Senate Resources Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 77 Land Use / Disposal / Exchanges; Water Rights, SB 160 DNR: Hunting Guides, Concession Program and HB 135 Petersville Recreational Mining Area. Listen only. Tuesday 8:30 a.m. The House Finance Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 305 Junk Dealer & Metal Scrapper Licensing and HB 306 Evaluate Indirect Expenditures; Tax Credits. Testimony will be taken. Tuesday 10 a.m. The House Special Committee on Fisheries will sponsor a public hearing

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to discuss HB 18 Personal Use Fishing Priority. Testimony will be taken. Tuesday 3 p.m. The House Health & Social Services Committee will sponsor a public hearing for Presentations: “Pediatric Partnership” and “Alaska Health Workforce Coalition & Vacancy Study” and to discuss HB 324 Controlled Substance Prescription Database and HB 361 Licensing of Behavior Analysts. 3 minute testimony limit. Tuesday 5:30 p.m. The House Finance Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 278 Education: Funding / Tax Credits / Programs. 2 minute testimony limit. Wednesday 3:15 p.m. The House Labor & Commerce Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HCR 15 Task Force on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, HB 370 AWCB Controlled Substance Prescriptions and HB 152 PERS Termination Costs. Testimony will be taken. Friday 2 p.m. The Senate Fi-

nance Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 266 Appropriations: Operating Budget / Loans / Funds HB 267 Appropriations: Mental Health Budget . 3 minute testimony limit. Friday 3:15 p.m. The House Labor & Commerce Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 328 Board/Licensing of Massage Therapists and HB 60 Uniform Real Property Transfers On Death. Testimony will be taken. Friday 3:30 p.m. The Senate Resources Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discussHB 161 Auctions For Big Game Harvest Permits. Testimony by invitation only. All teleconferences are held at the Kenai LIO 145 Main St Lp #217, Kenai, AK 99611 unless otherwise noted. To confirm call 283-2030 or email Kenai. LIO@akleg.gov To listen or watch online go to http://alaskalegislature.tv/

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

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Constitutional Amendment would harm schools in Alaska STATE LAWMAKERS ARE CONSIDERING A constitutional amendment that would allow public money for education to be diverted for use in private or religious schools, though the proposal on Wednesday was pulled from the Senate floor and returned to the Rules Committee. Senate joint resolution 9 would strike a line from the state’s constitution that currently prohibits public funds from being used in such a manner. It also adds language stating that nothing “shall prevent payment from public funds for the direct educational benefit of students,” as provided by law. This is not the first time the issue has come up and probably will not be the last, however there are several issues to consider when discussing an amendment to the state’s constitution. First, there must be a clear and obvious reason to amend the document — one free of the whims of sectarian influence and popular opinion. In other words, what is the time-tested reason to change the way the state and nation have consistently delivered education? Second, using public funds to undermine public institutions is illogical and sets a dangerous precedent. This amendment would allow public funds to be diverted to religious organizations while taking money out of the hands of institutions specifically designed to educate students. It could hit the rural areas of the state the hardest — the ones that already have significant problems delivering education efficiently and with the same rigor that it is available to schools on the road system. This proposal comes at a time when school districts are already struggling to make ends meet as the state consistently refuses to increase the per-student funding formula and dangles “one-time funds” in front of school district’s facing budgetary shortfalls. Eliminating any source of revenue at this point will cause a commiserate reduction in services for Alaska’s public school students. Essentially, taking money out of the pockets of those whose kids attend public school and using it to force a lower quality of education on those kids. We have to wonder why lawmakers are spending time and effort debating a change to the constitution rather than finding ways to consistently providing adequate funding to the school system that is already in place. Currently, the State of Alaska must provide education to all children in the state regardless of background, religious beliefs or disability. While we support the ideal of school choice, the vast majority of students in the state attend public schools and do not deserve to see a reduction in educational quality based upon the whims of a but vocal minority. Does the small religious school next door have the capability of serving your profoundly disabled child in the same way they could some of their traditional students? Will that private school provide the same education to low-income students as it will those that can afford the tuition? How about English as a second language students or students that come from families with profound educational and socio-economic disadvantages, who will readily accept them and provide the same quality of service as the public school system? In all of these cases the state’s public schools have been required to develop systems of care that deliver instruction in the same way regardless of the child’s background. It is a system designed to provide some measure of equality in a world that is often built on inequality. It is a mission that private and religious institutions would not be bound to uphold, and public funds should not be used to undermine such an ideal.

The definition of success Every year we are subjected to lists. Forbe’s magazine lists the world’s wealthiest individuals. Time magazine lists the most “influential” people, though real influence is difficult to define or quantify. What I’ve never seen is a list of satisfied people, much less stories about how they attained satisfaction. Arianna Huffington is trying to fill that gap. One of the world’s biggest Type A personalities, Huffington, who launched The Huffington Post in 2005 and whose picture appears alongside celebrities, politicians and business icons, is now asking a question popularized in an old song by the late Peggy Lee: “Is that all there is?” In her latest book “Thrive: The Third Metric for Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder,” Huffington says her definition of success began to change after a fall in her Los Angeles home in 2007, caused she says, by exhaustion and a lack of sleep. She re-thought the meaning of a good life and found it to be something quite different from how it is portrayed by pop culture. The pursuit of money and power, she writes, didn’t satisfy after she had acquired a considerable amount of each. In fact, she says, these twin demons harm bodies, minds and relationships: “There are still millions desperately looking for the next promotion, the next million-dollar payday that they believe will satisfy their

longing to feel better about themselves, or silence their dissatisfaction.” One sentence I quickly underlined: “Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently Cal Thomas from the way society defines success?” It’s true. Think of the number of funerals you’ve attended. How many of the eulogizers say the departed one wished he had made one more phone call, or closed one more deal? Part of this -- and I believe it to be a large part -- is that culture, including the media, are less focused on people with good character qualities and work habits. The White House staffer is lauded for working 18-hour days and weekends. Working harder too often means working longer, as if the two are equal. I recall a prominent ex-network newsman who was once denied the anchor chair because management didn’t like him taking a little time off to watch his son’s baseball games. He didn’t get the anchor chair, but he has the love and respect of his son. Which is of greater value and pays more dividends? It’s not that Huffington’s conclusions about life and what matters most haven’t

been written about before. As she points out, the ancient Greeks debated these things centuries ago and one can always consult such books as “Ecclesiastes,” whose author reminds us, “Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.” (5:10) There is also the story of the Prodigal Son who wasted his inheritance on riotous living and finally “came to his senses.” Every generation has had individuals who call upon people to push the pause button, or even the stop button. Unfortunately there is no rewind to life. But we can start over from where we are. In “Thrive,” Huffington, who is at the top of her game, offers an off ramp to those headed at top speed in the wrong direction. I am regularly reminded of what truly matters from the mouths of children. Last weekend, my 3-year-old granddaughter looked up from her dinner plate and spontaneously said, “I love you, Poppa.” It takes the investment of time to earn that kind of love. No boss can give it; no career can satisfy like the love of a child, as yet uncorrupted by the world. “Thrive” isn’t about giving up. It’s about priorities and true satisfaction. It can improve any life. Mick Jagger take note. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribune.com

Serious political pratfalls It happens all too often: I’m on TV, cracking wise about something that’s happening in the wild and wacky world of Washington, and the anchor just doesn’t get it. The sarcasm goes right over his or her head. It can mean one of three things: I’m not funny, the person has had a humorgland removal, or all of the above. One program moderator — who shall remain nameless, because I need the work — said to me on the air, “I never know whether you’re making a joke or not.” In fact, usually, it’s both. This can be a grimly absurd place. Maybe there are too many people in power who fear they’ll be exposed as foolish. Perhaps that would explain the serious debate that has erupted over President Barack Obama’s appearance with Zach Galifianakis on the farcical Internet program “Between2Ferns.” For the benefit those among us who are not truly hip, the show is a parody of interviews as they appear on public-access television. Galifianakis is the out-there slovenly host who deadpans ridiculous and embarrassing questions of his star guests. This time, the star was Barack Obama. The White House decided it would be a good, albeit risky, venue to promote health-care sign-ups to the young-skewing audience. It was phenomenal. Galifianakis was his usual mocking self, and Mr. Obama was a total match. He was hilarious; they both were. Plus, it clearly reached the 20- and 30-somethings. But then the fun stopped. Out rushed the politicians and commentators to sniff about how this kind of thing demeans the presidency. Well, people, I don’t know how to break it to you, but it’s kind of difficult to demean any part of our political system these days. The participants have already turned it into slapstick. Look no further than those in our national-security apparatus, particularly the ones in charge of the nation’s spying. I think it’s safe to call them the Gang That Couldn’t C

Spook Straight. One can only hope they’re embarrassed as all their Maxwell Smart stealthy adventures spill into public view. The latest is that flare-up with Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Bob Franken Feinstein. If there was ever someone who has backed America’s intelligence efforts, it’s Sen. Feinstein. Even with Edward Snowden’s disclosures that the National Security Agency is prying into the private lives of every one of us, she has been there, backing the NSA and its higher-ups and saving her ire for Snowden. Many, and I’m among them, have criticized her for being an apologist. But now even she is attacking them. In a remarkable speech on the Senate floor, she charged that the Central Intelligence Agency had “violated the separation-of-powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution.” Pretty heavy criticism, I trust you’ll agree. She’s infuriated, she says, because operatives infiltrated the computers of committee investigators who were delving into the CIA torture of prisoners taken after 9-11. In response, the agency charged that it was the Senate people who had violated restrictions against snooping into certain documents, and turned the matter over to the Justice Department. It’s turned into a dissing contest, with a lot of “he said, she said,” but isn’t it Congress that’s lawfully supposed to provide oversight of the intelligence community and not the other way around? Meanwhile, Edward Snowden put out a statement criticizing Feinstein for regularly being such a staunch defender of the massive electronic surveillance, and trashing her for hypocrisy: “Suddenly it’s a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them.”

As for the allegations his people had spied on the Senate computers, CIA Director John Brennan told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, “Nothing can be farther from the truth” and “we wouldn’t do that.” Maybe, instead of Andrea, he should be interviewed by Zach Galifianakis. Bob Franken is a longtime broadcast journalist, including 20 years at CNN

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Senate passes crime bill By MIKE COPPOCK Associated Press

JUNEAU — With a possibility of building an expensive prison within three years staring them in the face, the Alaska Senate unanimously passed a sweeping crime bill Friday hoping to stem Alaska’s rising inmate population. The measure’s sponsor, Senate Majority Leader John Coghill of Fairbanks, said the bill was a bi-partisan effort. Alaska has one of the highest incarceration rates in the nation, costing state residents $58,000 a year to house one inmate. “Our recidivism rate is just too high,” said Coghill, speaking of returning offenders. “People have to be safe, but just putting people in jail doesn’t make Alaska safer.” Two-thirds of the state’s inmate population is behind bars for non-violent crimes. The bill establishes a 24/7 sobriety program with immediate arrest if violated, a financial fund assisting newly released inmates, raising monetary felony threshold levels from $500 to $1200, allowing jail-time credit for offenders in court-ordered treatment programs and the creation of an Alaska Criminal Justice Commission to re-evaluate current sentencing laws with an eye on alternatives to incarceration. The bill directs the Alaska State Department of Corrections not only to do assessments on incoming prisoners, but to specifically look for those suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome. There are costs for taking the new approach. Putting the 24/7 program into place will have an annual price tag of $4.3 million. Restructuring Alaska’s probation and parole system will cost $1.6 million annually, creating 16 new positions. Administering the new grant fund program for helping released inmates to get on their feet requires six new administrative positions with an annual price

tag of $603,600. The grant fund itself is budgeted for $550,000. The Criminal Justice System for reviewing the state’s sentencing laws will have three positions budgeted at $320,000 and be in operation for five years. What lawmakers are looking at is Alaska’s newest prison, Goose Creek, opened only two years ago with a capacity of 1,472. The facility cost $240 million to build and $50 million annually to operate. It is now housing 1,408 due to overflow from Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. “Are we sentencing people in the correct way?” Coghill asked the Senate. “We have to look at our sentencing structure.” The only opposition has been in raising the financial threshold for a felony from $500 to $1,200. The bill originally raised the threshold to $1,000. But opposition from Fred Meyer Stores and from the Alaska Chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business wanted the threshold to remain where it is. An earlier compromise in the Senate Judiciary Committee resulted in the threshold set at $750 before the Senate Finance Committee pegged it at $1,200. For Coghill, the current financial threshold for a felony is an example of what needed to be changed. “It is too low and felony convictions start up a legal machine that is costly to operate,” Coghill said. However, Coghill does anticipate opposition in the House over the felony threshold level. Senate Minority Leader Hollis French, D-Anchorage, called for the bill’s passage. “Having been a prosecuting attorney for six years, I believed in the therapeutic value of jail,” said French. “Violent people are the ones that need to be in a cell which this bill does.”

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion

Oh, snap!

A Homer Electric Association lineman pulls pieces of a powerline that snapped and fell over a driveway Friday on the Kenai Spur Highway in Kenai.

Kids get hands-on quake education By WESTON MORROW Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

FAIRBANKS — Representatives from University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute converted kids’ energy into seismic waves last weekend. The Geophysical Institute teamed up with Fairbanks Children’s Museum to teach kids about one of Alaska’s most common natural occurrences — earthquakes. The program took place as one of the museum’s bimonthly “Super Sunday” events, in which different nonprofit and educational organizations visit the museum to teach kids about topics, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported. The Geophysical Institute’s event was timed to educate kids about earthquakes just in time for the looming 50th anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake approaches on March 27.

“We live in a very earthquake active region,” said research technician Sharon Hansen. “No matter where you are in Alaska you are in a place where earthquakes will happen.” On top of just general awareness, the scientists wanted to teach kids about how and why earthquakes happen so they could understand what they have likely experienced. “And it’s not necessarily something to be afraid of,” said Lea Gardine, a public relations associate with the institute. Gardine and Hansen taught kids earthquake-related topics ranging from seismology to plate tectonics to the different kinds of P-waves and S-waves. They brought a large felt board with a world map, cut into each of the major tectonic plates in the Earth’s crust, a large slinky tool to demonstrate different wave types and even a seismom-

‘We live in a very earthquake active region. No matter where you are in Alaska you are in a place where earthquakes will happen.’ — Sharon Hansen, research technician eter that kids could jump near to see the direct effect of their movement. “In different venues it’s a little more hands-off cause kids don’t know if they’re allowed to touch it,” Hansen said. “So, in the children’s museum this has been awesome. None of the kids have hesitated to come and be like, ‘what’s this? What’s that?’ and interact.” The Fairbanks Children’s Museum has been operating out of the Museum of the North throughout the winter and will continue through April. It holds

Super Sunday events twice each month on the second and fourth Sundays of the month. Though the museum is still in search of a permanent location, in the summer the museum will host programs Monday nights at the downtown market as well as “pop-up” playground programs where the museum will bring exhibits to different playgrounds around Fairbanks, announcing the location of each event through email blasts shortly before they occur. The museum also plans to host summer camps.

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Rescue workers reach basement of NYC blast By JIM FITZGERALD Associated Press

NEW YORK — Emergency workers sifted through debris Saturday from the site of a deadly explosion at two New York City apartment buildings as they worked to clear the way for investigators to search for clues that might reveal what caused the blast. Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano said rescue workers reached the rear of the basement Saturday but said that investigation of the piping and meters in the front of the basement that will help explain what caused the blast that killed eight people will likely start on Sunday. He said that the National Transportation Safety Board should be able to start pressuretesting the pipes Sunday. Arson detectives and fire marshals have been waiting to enter the basements to examine meters, check pipes and inspect any possible ignition sources, such as light switches, that might have caused the blast. The theory that the explosion was due to a gas leak gained momentum Friday after the NTSB, which investigates pipeline accidents, said underground tests conducted in the hours after the explosion registered high concentrations of natural gas. The NTSB will conduct its own

inquiry after police and fire officials determine what might have caused the blast. Cassano said about 15 percent of the debris was left on the site late Saturday afternoon. An uplifting moment from the painstaking recovery effort came as crews pulled a large water-damaged Bible from the rubble of the Spanish Christian Church, which was located in one of the two destroyed buildings. About two dozen people, including clergy members, carried the Bible in a solemn procession near the East Harlem site. “This was in the depths of the rubble. Somehow God protected it,” said Rick del Rio, a bishop at the Church of God. The church’s pastor, Thomas Perez, suffered heart palpitations when he saw the Bible, said Letitia James, the city’s public advocate. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital as a precaution, supporters said. Cassano said Perez was overwhelmed with emotion. “It was singed but it meant an awful lot to the pastor,” he said. “It showed the pastor that they’ll be rebuilding.” Truckloads of scattered material will be sifted for any traces of human remains that might not have been found at the site, Cassano said. Although the bodies of all eight people reported missing after Wednesday’s blast

have been recovered, the rescue operation was continuing in case others may be buried beneath the rubble, he said. More than 60 people were injured in the explosion, and more than 100 others were displaced. Police have identified six of those who died: Griselde Camacho, 45, a Hunter College security officer; Carmen Tanco, 67, a dental hygienist who participated in church-sponsored medical missions to Africa and the Caribbean; Andreas Panagopoulos, 43, a musician; Rosaura Hernandez, 22, a restaurant cook from Mexico; George Ameado, 44, a handyman who lived in one of the buildings that collapsed; and Alexis Salas, 22, a restaurant worker. Mexican officials said another Mexican woman, Rosaura Barrios Vazquez, 43, was among those killed. The name of the eighth person recovered, a woman, hasn’t been released. After touring a Red Cross shelter where some of the displaced residents have been placed temporarily, Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged his support to find suitable temporary or long-term housing options for those displaced. “It’s our obligation as the city of New York, and I know all New Yorkers feel this way, to stand by them,” he said.

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

An excavator removes debris from the site of a building explosion, Thursday in New York. Rescuers working amid gusty winds, cold temperatures and billowing smoke pulled four additional bodies Thursday from the rubble of two New York City apartment buildings, raising the death toll to at least seven from a gas leak-triggered explosion that reduced the area to a pile of smashed bricks, splinters and mangled metal. The explosion Wednesday morning in Manhattan’s East Harlem injured more than 60 people.

Investigators were trying to determine whether the explosion had anything to do with the city’s aging gas and water mains, some of which were installed in the 1800s. More than 30,000 miles of decades-old, decaying cast-iron pipe still are being used to deliver gas nationwide, according to U.S. Transporta-

tion Department estimates. Fire and utility officials said that if the buildings were plagued in recent days or weeks by strong gas odors, as some tenants contend, they have no evidence anyone reported it before Wednesday. An Associated Press analysis of the city’s 311 calls database from Jan.

1, 2013, through Tuesday also found no calls from the buildings about gas. The blast erupted about 15 minutes after someone from a neighboring building reported smelling gas, authorities said. Con Edison said it immediately sent workers to check out the report, but they got there too late.

Obama to sign relief from flood insurance hikes By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is set to sign into law a bipartisan bill relieving homeowners living in flood-prone neighborhoods from big increases in their insurance bills. The legislation, which cleared Congress on Thursday, reverses much of a 2012 overhaul of the government’s much-criticized flood insurance program after angry homeowners facing sharp premium hikes protested. The Senate’s 72-22 vote sent the House-drafted measure to Obama. White House officials said he’ll sign it. The bill would scale back big flood insurance premium increases faced by hundreds of thousands of homeowners. The measure also would allow below-market insurance rates

to be passed on to people buying homes in flood zones with taxpayer-subsidized policies. Critics say Washington is caving to political pressure to undo one of the few recent overhauls it has managed to pass. “While politically expedient today, this abdication of responsibility by Congress is going to come back and bite them and taxpayers when the next disaster strikes,” said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a Washingtonbased watchdog group. “Everyone knows this program is not fiscally sound or even viable in the near term.” The hard-fought 2012 rewrite of the federal flood insurance program was aimed at weaning hundreds of thousands of homeowners off of subsidized rates and required extensive updating of the flood maps used to set premiums. But its implementation stirred anxiety among

many homeowners along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and in flood plains, many of whom are threatened with unaffordable rate increases. The legislation offers its greatest relief to owners of properties that were originally built to code but subsequently were found to be at greater flood risk. Such “grandfathered” homeowners currently benefit from below-market rates that are subsidized by other policyholders, and the new legislation would preserve that status and cap premium increases at 18 percent a year. The 2012 overhaul required premiums to increase to actuarially sound rates over five years and required extensive remapping. Many homeowners faulted the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s implemen-

tation of the 2012 law. In some instances, homeowners from areas that had never been flooded were shocked and frightened by warnings of huge, unaffordable premium increases. The resulting uproar quickly got the attention of lawmakers and peppered them with complaints. “In many cases, these are people with $100,000 homes that are getting (flood insurance) bills that are more than their mortgage payments,” said Rep. John Fleming, R-La. “You had certainly a significant number of people who were really going to be hurt seriously through no fault of their own.” The top leaders of both parties came on board, overcoming resistance from defenders of the 2012 overhaul like House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, RTexas, whose turf was trampled along the way. “Members on both sides of

the aisle and a broad geographic distribution got involved. And when you get enough members involved, it’s going to get the attention of the leadership, and that was a major factor,” said Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La. Another provision, eagerly sought by the real estate industry, would allow sellers of older homes built before original flood insurance risk maps were drafted to pass taxpayer-subsidized policies on to the people buying their homes instead of requiring purchasers to pay actuarially sound rates immediately, as required by the 2012 law. The new rates are particularly high in older coastal communities in states like Florida, Massachusetts and New Jersey, and have put a damper on home sales as prospective buyers recoil at the higher, multifold premium increases. The measure also would give relief to people who bought

homes after the changes were enacted in July 2012 and therefore faced sharp, immediate jumps in their premiums; they would see those increases rolled back and receive rebates. Separate legislation by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, would make sure that rebates would not go to recent buyers of beach houses and other second homes. It passed the Senate Thursday and is likely to get a vote in the House. “While it is important to put this program on sound financial footing, middle-class families should be able to afford the insurance they need to stay in their homes,” White House spokesman Bobby Whithorne said. Thursday’s bill was written by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., and Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., with input from Democrats like Rep. Maxine Waters of California, whose votes were critical to House passage last week.

Peninsula Clarion, Sunday, March 16, 2014

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Oil mars Ala. swamp months after crude train crash By JAY REEVES Associated Press

ALICEVILLE, Ala. — Environmental regulators promised an aggressive cleanup after a tanker train hauling 2.9 million gallons of crude oil derailed and burned in a west Alabama swamp in early November amid a string of North American oil train crashes. So why is dark, smelly crude oil still oozing into the water four months later? The isolated wetland smelled like a garage when a reporter from The Associated Press visited last week, and the charred skeletons of burned trees rose out of water covered with an iridescent sheen and swirling, weathered oil. A snake and a few minnows were some of the few signs of life. An environmental group now says it has found ominous traces of oil moving downstream along an unnamed tributary toward a big creek and the Tombigbee River, less than 3 miles away. And the mayor of a North Dakota town where a similar crash occurred in December fears ongoing oil pollution problems in his community, too. As the nation considers new means of transporting fuel over long distances, critics of crude oil trains have cited the Alabama derailment as an example of what can go wrong when

tanker cars carrying millions of gallons of so-called Bakken crude leave the tracks. Questions about the effectiveness of the Alabama cleanup come as the National Transportation Safety Board considers tighter rules for the rail transportation of Bakken oil, which is produced mainly by the fracking process in the Bakken region of North Dakota and Montana. Oil production is increasing there, boosting the amount of oil being transported across the country. Environmentalist John Wathen, who has conducted tests and monitored the Alabama site for months for Waterkeeper Alliance, said Genesee & Wyoming railroad and regulators did the bare minimum to spruce up an isolated, rural site and left once the tracks were repaired so trains could run again. “I believe they really thought that because it’s out of sight, out of mind, out in the middle of a swamp, that nobody was going to pay attention,” said Wathen. Regulators and the company deny any such thing occurred, however. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, which oversaw the cleanup, say more than 10,700 gallons of oil were skimmed from the water after the derailment, and workers collected about 203,000 gal-

lons of oil from damaged rail cars using pumps. Another 290 cubic yards of oily dirt was excavated with heavy equipment, or enough to cover a basketball court with soil nearly 2 feet deep. Yet four months later, officials still say no one knows exactly how much oil was spilled. That’s mainly because an unknown amount of oil burned in a series of explosions and a huge fire that lasted for hours after the crash. Since no one knows how much oil burned, officials also can’t say how much oil may be in the swamp. About a month after the crash, the head of Alabama’s environmental agency, Lance LeFleur, promised “aggressive recovery operations” in a written assessment for a state oversight commission. He said the oil had been contained in a “timely” manner and none had left the wetlands. Michael Williams, a spokesman for the Connecticut-based Genesee & Wyoming, which owns the short-line Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway line where the crash occurred, said the company is still monitoring the site closely and maintaining a system of barriers meant to keep oil from spreading. The work is continuous, he said. But regulators and the railroad confirm one of Wathen’s worst fears: That environmental agencies let the railroad repair

California woman, no longer a fugitive, set free

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Fugitive charges were dropped against a 60-year-old woman who escaped from a Michigan prison in 1977 after authorities discovered she had surrendered decades ago and already been sentenced to time served. Judge Michael Smyth ordered Friday that Judy Lynn Hayman be released immediately. Hayman was arrested Feb. 4 after Michigan authorities, who thought she was still wanted, discovered she was living in San Diego. U-T San Diego reported that Deputy District Attorney Richard Madruga asked the judge to dismiss the fugitive charge after a Michigan judge confirmed that Hayman had been sentenced to time

served. Defense attorney Lisa Damiani had previously submitted documents showing Hayman’s prison sentence was suspended in 1982 after she surrendered. Hayman escaped from an Ypsilanti prison after serving eight months of an 18-to-24month sentence for stealing clothes from a Detroit store. She legally changed her name to Jamie Lewis in 1983 and had been living in San Diego for several years. Her next-door neighbor told The Associated Press after her arrest that Hayman was a “quiet loner but basically a nice person.” The neighbor, Theresa Padilla, said Hayman had lived in the neighborhood for more than six years and had three

sons who “seemed like they were raised well.” One of her sons was visiting her when she was taken into custody, police said, and had no idea she was considered a fugitive. Authorities tracked the woman they knew as Judy Lynn Hayman to San Diego after a Michigan Corrections Department officer who was stuck at his desk because of bad weather pulled her fingerprints and sent them to the FBI and other police agencies. After the officer discovered the prints matched those of a woman living in San Diego under a different name, he sent an investigator to California and she was arrested.

the badly damaged rail bed and lay new tracks before all the spilled oil was removed. Wathen calls the move a mistake that’s behind the continuing seepage of oil into the water. “I do agree that they needed to get the rail cars out. But there were other ways to do it,” said Wathen. “Those would have been more expensive.” James Pinkney, an EPA spokesman in Atlanta, said the rail line had to be fixed quickly to remove oil and damaged rail cars that still contained crude from the wetland. Agencies are now working with the company and its contractors to recover the remaining oil trapped in the rail bed, but it’s unclear when or how that might happen. “The EPA and ADEM are continuing to work together to ensure all recoverable oil is removed from the site,” Pinkney said in a written response to questions. Ed Overton, an environmental sciences professor at Louisiana State University, said spilled crude can linger at a site indefinitely if it’s buried in the ground. Depending on the amount of oil that remains, he said, containment devices may be needed in the swamp for at least a couple of years. But Bakken crude evaporates quickly once exposed to air because of its composition, said Overton, so the fact that oil

remains in the swamp isn’t “the end of the world.” “It’s going to look bad for awhile,” he said. “It’s amazing how quickly Mother Nature can handle such things, but it will take time.” The cause of the derailment — which happened at a wooden trestle that was destroyed by the flames and has since been replaced by buried culverts that let water flow underneath the tracks — remains under investigation by the Federal Railroad Administration. The crash site appears in better shape now than right after the derailment, partly because burned tanker cars misshapen by explosions are gone. Much of the water surrounding the site appears clear, and the odor from the site isn’t bad enough to reach the home of Leila Hudgins, just a few hundred yards away. “I haven’t smelled anything,” said Hudgins. “They did a good job. They hauled off truckload after truckload.” The crash site, located off an old dirt road and a new one that was built during the response, is accessible both by car and foot, but Hudgins said she hasn’t looked closely at the spot where it happened. The railroad said testing hasn’t detected any groundwater contamination, and EPA said air monitoring ended about a month after the crash when it

became apparent there were no airborne health hazards. Still, questions linger. Wathen said he has been taking water samples several hundred yards downstream from the crash site and has detected the chemical fingerprint of so-called Bakken crude, which the train was carrying when it derailed. “There’s no question it is outside their containment area, and I think it’s even further away,” said Wathen. “This is an environmental disaster that could go on for years.” The Alabama train was on a southbound run when it derailed less than 3 miles south of Aliceville, a town of about 2,400 people near the Mississippi line. Another oil train derailed and burned in December at Casselton, N.D., and 47 people died in July when a train carrying Bakken oil exploded and burned in Quebec. The mayor of Casselton, Ed McConnell said he has been keeping up with the Alabama cleanup because spilled oil also was buried under the rebuilt railroad tracks near his town of 2,400 people. He worries that oil will reappear on the ground at Casselton as the spring thaw begins in coming weeks. “It’s still in the ground here, too,” said McConnell. “They’ve hauled a lot of dirt and stuff out. But they covered up the (oily) dirt before getting it all up and rebuilt the track to get it going.”

Los Angeles subway dig finds prehistoric artifacts LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists have long known that long before hipsters and tourists were crowding Los Angeles’ trendy Miracle Mile district, prehistoric animals were doing the same. Now, thanks to a subway dig, they’re discovering that sea lions may have been swimming nearby as well. An exploratory subway shaft dug just down the street from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has uncovered a treasure trove of other prehistoric artifacts in the land where saber-tooth cats and other early animals once roamed, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.

They include mollusks, asphalt-saturated sand dollars and possibly the mouth of a sea lion dating to 2 million years ago, a time when the Pacific Ocean extended several miles farther inland than it does today. “Here on the Miracle Mile is where the best record of life from the last great ice age in the world is found,” said paleontologist Kim Scott. The area dotted today with museums, restaurants, boutiques and apartment buildings, also includes the world-famous La Brea Tar Pits. It was there that mammoths and sabertoothed cats got stuck in the pits’ oozing muck, which preserved their skeletons for mil-

lennia. The shaft, dug ahead of work scheduled next year to extend a subway line across LA’s west side, is now revealing far more material, including geoducks, clams, snails, mussels and even a 10-foot limb from a pine tree of the type normally now found in central California’s woodlands. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is working with Cogstone Resource Management and the nearby George C. Page Museum to identify and preserve the artifacts. More such discoveries are expected when excavation work begins on a nearby subway station.

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Russia vetoes UN resolution

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Ukraine’s U.N. Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev speaks during an U.N. Security Council meeting on the Ukraine crisis, Saturday, at the United Nations headquarters. Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution declaring Sunday’s referendum on the future of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula illegal, but its close ally China abstained in a show of Moscow’s isolation. Supporters of the U.S.-sponsored resolution knew that Russia would use its veto, but they put the resolution to a vote Saturday morning to show the strength of opposition to Moscow’s takeover of Crimea. By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution declaring Sunday’s referendum on the future of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula illegal, and close ally China abstained, underlining Moscow’s international isolation. Supporters of the U.S.-sponsored resolution knew Russia would use its veto. But they put the resolution to a vote Saturday morning to show the strength of opposition to Moscow’s takeover of Crimea in the U.N. Security Council and got China to abstain rather than join Russia in casting a veto, which it did on three Western-backed resolutions on Syria. The final vote on Saturday was 13 members in favor, China’s abstention, and Russia as a permanent council member using its veto.

“The resounding message from today’s vote is that Russia stands isolated in this council and in the international community,” Britain’s U.N. Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant told the council after the vote. “Russia alone backs this referendum. Russia alone is prepared to violate international law, disregard the U.N. Charter and tear up its bilateral treaties,” he said. “This message will be heard well beyond the walls of this chamber.” Crimea, which hosts Russia’s Black Sea Fleet base, became the hotbed of tensions in Ukraine after its pro-Russia president, Viktor Yanukovych, fled last month following protracted anti-government protests and outbursts of violence. Russia refuses to recognize Ukraine’s new government, which it says came to power in an “illegal coup d’etat” and

has now effectively taken control over Crimea in what has turned into Europe’s greatest geopolitical crisis since the end of the Cold War. The West says a referendum on whether to split off Crimea and make it part of Russia is illegal, violates Ukraine’s constitution, and will not be recognized — and it is threatening costly sanctions against Russia if it moves to incorporate Crimea. The resolution would have reaffirmed the Security Council’s commitment to Ukraine’s “sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity.” It would have declared that the referendum on whether Crimea should become part of Russia “can have no validity, and cannot form the basis for any alteration of the status of Crimea.” The vetoed resolution also urged all parties to immediately pursue a peaceful resolution to the dispute over Crimea through direct political talks — something Russia refuses to do. Before the vote, Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told the council it was no secret that he would veto the resolution. “We cannot go along with its assumption — that is declaring illegal the March 16 planned referendum,” he said. Churkin said the people in Crimea have a right to self-determination under the U.N. Charter and confirmed “that we will respect the will of the Crimean people during the March 16 referendum.” “We do not dispute the principle of the territorial integrity of states,” he said. “It is, of course, very important. It is also understandable that enjoyment of the right of self-determination as to separation from an existing state is an extraordinary measure, applied when future coexistence within a single state becomes im-

possible.” U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power accused Russia of violating the U.N. Charter’s key principles that prohibit the use of force to acquire territory and respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations — principles she said Moscow agrees with “and defends all around the world, except, it seems, in circumstances that involve Russia.” “Russia has rejected a resolution that had peace at its heart and law flowing through its veins,” she said. “Under the U.N. Charter, the Russian Federation has the power to veto a Security Council resolution, but it does not have the power to veto the truth,” Power said. “Russia — isolated, alone and wrong — blocked the resolution’s passage, just as it has blocked Ukrainian ships and international observers” from entering Crimea. China is traditionally very sensitive to the issue of territorial integrity because of Tibet and other restive areas. China’s U.N. Ambassador Liu Jieyi reiterated Beijing’s support for “the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states.” He called for a political solution and an “international coordinating mechanism” to explore a political settlement as soon as possible, all parties to refrain from escalation, and international financial institutions to help shore up Ukraine’s faltering economy. The council meeting was the seventh on Ukraine in just over two weeks, but the U.N.’s most powerful body has been unable to take any action because of Russia’s veto power. France’s U.N. Ambassador Gerard Araud said the headlines Saturday will be quite clear: “Russia has vetoed the U.N. Charter.”

Around the World Car bombs kill 19 people in Iraq’s capital BAGHDAD — A series of car bomb attacks targeting commercial areas and a restaurant killed at least 19 people Saturday in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, authorities said. Police officials said a car bomb went off at night in a commercial street in al-Ameen district in southeastern Baghdad, killing four people and wounding 13. Minutes later, police said another car bomb explosion near a falafel restaurant killed three people and wounded six in the capital’s Qahira neighborhood. A third car bomb exploded in a commercial street in western Baghdad, killing four persons and wounding 14 others, police said. Later, a car bomb in a commercial area of Baghdad’s northwestern neighborhood of Shula killed four people and wounded nine, police said. In Baghdad’s northern district of Hurriyah, a car bomb also exploded, killing four people and wounding 10, police said. Health officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information to reporters. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but they bore the hallmarks of an al-Qaida breakaway group that frequently uses car bombs and suicide attacks to target public areas in their bid to undermine confidence in the government. Violence has escalated in Iraq over the past year. Last year, the country saw the highest death toll since the worst of the country’s sectarian bloodletting began to subside in 2007, according to United Nations figures. The U.N. said violence killed 8,868 last year in Iraq.

Israeli minister: No peace without recognition JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense minister says a peace agreement with the Palestinians is unreachable unless they recognize Israel as the Jewish homeland. Moshe Yaalon, told channel 2 TV Saturday, “it is impossible to make an agreement without there being recognition on the other side of our right to exist as the national homeland of the Jewish people.” He said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is “not a partner” for ending the conflict. Peace won’t happen in his generation, he said. The recognition issue is a sticking point in U.S. mediated talks. The Palestinians have rejected it. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called recognition the “root of the conflict,” as it predates settlements and other issues at the heart of the talks. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with U.S. President Barack Obama next week. — The Associated Press

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Gunmen kill 6 Egyptian soldiers at checkpoint By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF Associated Press

CAIRO — Gunmen stormed an Egyptian army checkpoint outside Cairo early Saturday morning and killed six soldiers, including some still in their beds, officials said, in what amounted to an escalation by militants on military targets near the capital. Just days earlier, masked men opened fire on a busload of military police inside city limits, another rare attack on soldiers this far from the restive Sinai Peninsula, where the army is fighting a counter-insurgency campaign. Provincial security chief Maj. Gen. Mahmoud Yousri told state news agency MENA that the gunmen also planted explosive devices after Saturday’s attack in Shubra al-Kheima, but bomb disposal experts managed to diffuse two and detonate another in

a controlled explosion. The military blamed the Muslim Brotherhood for the attack, calling the group “terrorists” and saying they had planted the additional bombs to target rescue workers rushing to the scene. Armed Forces Spokesman Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said the soldiers, of a military police unit, were attacked just after morning prayers. The Health Ministry confirmed the death toll. “These cowardly operations will only increase our determination to continue the war against terrorism,” Ali said in comments on his official Facebook page. Amr Darrag, former head of the Foreign Relations Committee for the Brotherhood’s political party, condemned the attack on his Twitter account and denied responsibility. “How can the (Brotherhood) be accused (a) few minutes after

the attack with no evidence or investigation?” he wrote. Egyptian authorities say the Brotherhood has orchestrated a series of bomb attacks on police and other targets following the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi, who hails from the Islamist group. This week, prosecutors referred about a dozen Brotherhood members to trial for allegedly forming an armed unit that has carried out attacks in the Nile Delta. They have produced little evidence open to public scrutiny to bolster these claims, however, and most attacks have been claimed by the country’s most active militant group, an al-Qaida-inspired organization based in the Sinai called Ansar Beit alMaqdis, or Champions of Jerusalem. The Brotherhood denies being involved in the attacks. Authorities in recent days have also said they arrested a

number of individuals they accuse of planning attacks on the police, including a group of 12 in the Delta governorate of Menoufia and others in northern Sinai. Separately, Champions of Jerusalem said that one of its founding leaders was killed when a bomb he was carrying was set off by a car accident. In a statement posted on militant websites early Saturday, the group said Tawfiq Mohammed Freij died Tuesday when an accident set off a “heat bomb” he was transporting in his car. It did not say where the accident took place. It said Freij, also known as Abu Abdullah, was one of the founders of the group, who masterminded its attacks on pipelines to stop Egyptian gas supplies from being shipped to Israel. It called him the “field commander” of an August 2011 cross-border attack into south-

ern Israel that targeted a bus and other vehicles near the resort city of Eilat, killing eight people. Egypt’s Interior Minister identified Freij as a key figure in the extremist group in January. David Barnett, a research associate with the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that Freij is the highest ranking member of the Ansar identified thus far. The wording of the most recent statement suggests that Freij moved from either Sinai or Gaza to Cairo or elsewhere in Egypt in early 2013 to supervise the group’s operations, including a failed suicide car bomb attack on the interior minister in Cairo in September 2013. The statement could not be independently authenticated, but militant groups regularly use the websites to make announcements. Also Saturday, a Cairo court

sentenced 68 members of the Brotherhood and other youth movements to two years jail for participating in a protest without a permit. They had been arrested during protests on the third anniversary of the 2011 uprisings that led to the ouster of longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Authorities have been cracking down on Morsi supporters and other regime critics since the Islamist’s overthrow last summer, saying they seek to establish law and order. Following Saturday’s attack, the National Defense Council, headed by the president and attended by military chief and other security officials, held a meeting in which members discussed security arrangements in advance of the upcoming presidential elections. They stressed the need for an atmosphere of “security and peace” to ensure a high turnout.

Malaysian leader: Plane’s disappearance deliberate By EILEEN NG Associated Press

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Someone deliberately diverted Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and shut down communications with the ground, and the jetliner continued flying for six hours, Malaysia’s prime minister said Saturday. The announcement shifted the focus of the investigation to the crew and passengers on the plane, which has now been missing for more than a week. Prime Minister Najib Razak’s statement also meant the flight path of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to Beijing could have strayed as far as the southern Indian Ocean or northwest to Kazakhstan, complicating the work of search crews who already have been scouring vast stretches of ocean seeking the plane’s 12-person crew and 227 passengers. “Clearly the search for MH370 has entered a new phase,” Najib said at a televised news conference. “It is widely understood that this has been a situation without precedent.” Experts have previously said that whoever disabled the plane’s communication systems and then flew the jet must have had a high degree of technical knowledge and flying experience. One possibility they have raised was that one of the pilots wanted to commit suicide. Najib stressed that investigators were looking into all possibilities as to why the Boeing 777 deviated so drastically from its original flight path, saying authorities could not confirm whether it was a hijacking. Earlier Saturday, a Malaysian official said the plane had been hijacked, though he added that no motive had been established and no demands had been made

known. “In view of this latest development, the Malaysian authorities have refocused their investigation into the crew and passengers on board,” Najib told reporters, reading from a written statement but not taking any questions. Police on Saturday went to the Kuala Lumpur homes of both the pilot and co-pilot of the missing plane, according to a guard and several local reporters. Authorities have said they will investigate the pilots as part of their probe, but have released no information about how they are progressing. The plane departed for an overnight flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing at 12:40 a.m. on March 8. Its communications with civilian air controllers were severed at about 1:20 a.m., and the jet went missing — heralding one of the most puzzling mysteries in modern aviation history. China, where the bulk of the passengers were from, expressed irritation over what it described as Malaysia’s footdragging in releasing information about the search. Investigators now have a high degree of certainty that one of the plane’s communications systems — the Aircraft and Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) — was partially disabled before the aircraft reached the east coast of Malaysia, Najib said. Shortly afterward, someone on board switched off the aircraft’s transponder, which communicates with civilian air traffic controllers. Najib confirmed that Malaysian air force defense radar picked up traces of the plane turning back westward, crossing over Peninsular Malaysia

into the northern stretches of the Strait of Malacca. Authorities previously had said this radar data could not be verified. “These movements are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane,” Najib said. Although the aircraft was flying virtually blind to air traffic controllers at this point, onboard equipment continued to send “pings” to satellites. U.S. aviation safety experts say the shutdown of communications systems makes it clear the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was taken over by someone who knew how the plane worked. To turn off the transponder, someone in the cockpit would have to turn a knob with multiple selections to the “off” position while pressing down at the same time, said John Goglia, a former member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. That’s something a pilot would know, but it could also be learned by someone who researched the plane on the Internet, he said. The Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System has two aspects, Goglia said. The information part

of the system was shut down, but not the transmission part. In most planes, the information section can be shut down by hitting cockpit switches in sequence in order to get to a computer screen where an option must be selected using a keypad, said Goglia, an expert on aircraft maintenance. That’s also something a pilot would know how to do, but that could also be discovered through research, he said. But to turn off the other transmission portion of the ACARS, it would be necessary to go to an electronics bay beneath the cockpit. That’s something a pilot wouldn’t normally know how to do, Goglia said. The Malaysia plane’s ACARS transmitter continued to send out blips that were recorded by satellite once an hour for four to five hours after the transponder was turned off. The blips don’t contain any messages or data, but the satellite can tell in a very broad way what region the blips are coming from. Malaysia’s prime minister said the last confirmed signal between the plane and a satellite came at 8:11 a.m. — 7 hours and 31 minutes after takeoff.

This was more than five hours later than the previous time given by Malaysian authorities as the possible last contact. Airline officials have said the plane had enough fuel to fly for up to about eight hours. “The investigations team is making further calculations which will indicate how far the aircraft may have flown after this last point of contact,” Najib said. He said authorities had determined that the plane’s last communication with a satellite was in one of two possible arcs, or “corridors” — a northern one from northern Thailand through to the border of the Central Asian countries Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and a southern one from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean. The northern route might theoretically have taken the plane through China, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan — which hosts U.S. military bases — and Central Asia, and it is unclear how it might have gone undetected. The region is also home to extremist Islamist groups, unstable governments and remote, sparsely populated areas. Flying south would have

put the plane over the Indian Ocean, with an average depth of 3,890 meters (12,762 feet) and thousands of kilometers (miles) from the nearest land mass. Goglia said that if Malaysian military radar tracked the plane turning west, it then followed a standard route across the peninsula until it was several hundred miles (kilometers) offshore and beyond military radar range. Airliners generally keep to such highways in the sky to avoid colliding with other planes, but the routes are not straight lines, he said. That means it’s likely someone was still guiding the plane, Goglia said. Britain-based aviation security consultant Chris Yates thought it was highly unlikely the plane would have taken the northern route across land in Asia. “In theory, any country that sees a strange blip is going to get fighter planes up to have a look,” he said. “And if those fighter planes can’t make head or tail of what it is, they will shoot it down.” Najib said search efforts in the South China Sea, where the plane first lost contact, had ended.

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The new Harry Potterthemed area opening at Universal Orlando Resort this summer will allow fans to ride the Hogwarts Express train and experience the British countryside just as the characters did in the book and movie series. Guests will appear to magically pass through a brick wall and board a train with steam and a whistle, according to a Friday news release from Universal Orlando Resort. Riders will have two experiences — one on the way to the new London-themed area at Universal Studios Park and another on the way to the original Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal’s Islands of Adventure. During the ride, characters and magical creatures from the book will be spotted. Among them: Hagrid on a flying motorbike, the Weasley twins on brooms, and the Knight Bus in London traffic. Universal’s team worked with a group from the Harry Potter films on the new area

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Universal Orlando reveals Harry Potter details By TAMARA LUSH Associated Press

and train. If fans want to see both parks, a two-park ticket will be required — currently $136.32 for one day for ages 10 and older. The theme park also released details Friday about its newest hotel, the Cabana Bay Beach Resort. Based on 1950s and 1960s mid-century modernist architecture, the resort will open 600 of its 1,800 rooms March 31. When fully built, 900 rooms will be suites with kitchenettes. Standard rooms will cost from $93 to $127 a night for a stay of seven nights longer, company officials said. Family suites — which sleep up to six guests — run from $134 to $171 a night for the same length of time. Russ Dagon, the vice president/executive project director of Universal Creative, said guests will feel like they’re still in the theme parks. “It’s an extension of the experience,” he said. The hotel also will have two beach-themed pools, a lazy river and waterslide.

Lil Wayne says ‘Tha Carter V’ will be last solo LP AUSTIN, Texas — Lil Wayne said during an appearance at South By Southwest that he plans to make “Tha Carter V” his last solo album and that the first single from the still-in-progress LP will be out in the next week. The New Orleans rapper made the comments during a wide-ranging interview with Elliott Wilson as part of the CRWN series on Friday during the annual music conference and festival. “I’m approaching it like it is my last project, and I think that’s why it’s a lot different than everything else,” Wayne said. “That’s why I think the grind is different. I’m working harder. I’m approaching it a whole lot different. I’m approaching it as if you don’t have tomorrow.” “Tha Carter V” is one of the most anticipated albums of the year. “Tha Carter IV” sold nearly 1 million albums the first week of release in 2011.

Crop tops, high waists, wide legs

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s still chilly in much of the country, but stores are clearing out coats and sweaters to make way for spring’s bright colors and lighter clothing. And if you’re looking to update your wardrobe this season, you’ll need to know about a few key trends: crop tops, high waists and wider legs in pants. But don’t panic just yet about the idea of wearing a top that may not reach your navel. There are several ways to pull off the potentially midriffbaring trend — whether or not you have great abs, and even if you prefer to dress on the conservative side. “Crop tops are not the easiest thing to wear,” said Hayley Phelan, fashion features editor at Lucky magazine, acknowledging that skin-baring styles are not always “appropriate” for work or other situations. “But there are so many ways to wear crop tops that we saw on the runway and that we love at Lucky.” For example, you can layer a crop top over a blouse, Phelan said. Or wear a boxy crop top over high-waisted pants or a high-waisted skirt, and don’t worry about revealing much skin. “I would say a crop top is a must-have for spring,” Phelan said. “But make it one that you feel comfortable in. With a boxier shape, you can wear it on multiple occasions.” Another strong trend Lucky editors noticed for spring is the “painterly print,” meaning “bold, graphic brush strokes” and “art-inspired” designs, including portrait art and actual faces or flowers appearing on garments. “We saw faces at Prada and flowers at Dior,” she said. Finally, get ready for sandals and slides that are more hiker than fashionista — what Lucky editors call “the ugly shoe.” “It’s that kind of Birken-

stock shape, or even like Tevas,” Phelan said. “But that’s what’s cool about it — fashionable people wearing a fashionable outfit that’s put together, putting on these sandals.” Overall, she said, the silhouette for spring is evolving from past seasons: “It’s a tighter more form-fitting top but looser on the bottom, with high-waisted baggier pants and wide-legged culottes. It’s an interesting shape but what pairs perfectly with culottes is the crop top.” John Bourgeois, who directs personal shopping in the Midwest for Macy’s By Appointment, said the region is definitely seeing the looser leg look. “Pants are a little softer this year,” Bourgeois said. “The fabrication is very soft and flowy and whimsical.” But because Midwest weather stays cold longer, spring fashion isn’t quite as bare as in warmer places. “Really trendy women find ways to incorporate jackets in their spring wardrobe because we have to layer here into May,” said Farissa Knox, founder of the Chicago-based website What R U Wearing? Moto jackets — short, slimcut and zipper-front — are among Chicago’s trendy spring items. White button-down shirts were identified by both Dallas and Chicago retailers as a spring trend. In Dallas, it’s a crisp look; in Chicago it’s an element in layering. Fashionwatchers in both cities also say they’re seeing black and white combinations in outfits. Pink was cited as big for spring by retailers and shoppers in Dallas, Chicago and — maybe less surprisingly — in tropical Miami. “Women should look for pink in every shade,” said Ken Downing, fashion director of luxury chain Neiman Marcus, which has its flagship store in downtown Dallas. He added

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FILE - This Sept. 12, 2012 file photo shows an outfit from the Michael Kors Spring 2013 collection during Fashion Week in New York. Trends showing up in stores for spring include boxy crop tops, sometimes layered to hide the bare midriff; culottes and wider pant legs; black and white outfits and crisp white shirts; pinks and bright colors; and prints ranging from exotic animal and floral patterns to painterly art-inspired faces on fabric.

those varying shades of pink can be worn all in one outfit, and mentioned “denim on denim” — shirt, jeans and jacket in various washes — as another trend. Exotic patterns — florals, animal prints and designs inspired by snakeskin and crocodile skin — are also turning up around the country, while colors range from pastels to

brighter, more saturated hues. In Miami, exotic prints are even turning up on sneakers, and it’s not unusual there to see men wearing the same bright colors and playful patterns as women. “Men in South Florida are not afraid to wear prints or color,” said Anabel Llopis, senior director of sales and marketing at Aventura Mall.

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Court reports The following judgments were recently handed down in Superior Court in Kenai: n Stanley Jay Koberstein, 55, of Sterling, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance, committed Nov. 23, 2012. He was sentenced to 54 months in prison with 42 months suspended, fined a $100 court surcharge and a $200 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, forfeited all items seized, including firearm, ordered, among other conditions of probation, not to use or possess any alcoholic beverages or illegal controlled substances, including marijuana, not to possess, apply for or obtain a medical marijuana card or act as a caregiver while under supervision, to complete a substance abuse evaluation and comply with treatment recommendations, to have no contact with known illegal drug users or drug traffickers as identified by his probation officer, to submit to search directed by a probation officer, with or without probable cause, for the presence of alcohol of illegal controlled substances and was placed on probation for three years after

serving any term of incarceration imposed. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Sarah M. Plagge, 45, of Kenai, pleaded no contest to felony driving under the influence, committed Oct. 30, 2010. She was sentenced to 42 months in prison with 24 months suspended, fined $10,000, a $100 court surcharge and a $200 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, had her license permanently revoked, which may only be restored pursuant to conditions, was disqualified from driving a commercial vehicle for life, subject to reinstatement according to conditions, forfeited vehicle, ordered ignition interlock according to law if she regains any driving privilege, ordered, among other conditions of probation, not to consume or possess alcohol nor enter any establishment where the primary business is the sale of alcohol, not to have alcohol in her residence, to submit to test directed by a probation officer or law enforcement officer or treatment person acting under the direction of a probation officer, with or without cause, to determine use of alcohol, narcotics and/or other controlled substances, and was placed on probation for six years after serving the term of incarcera-

tion. n Bryan Wayne Keys, 49, address unknown, pleaded guilty to felony refusal of chemical test, committed Sept. 24. He was sentenced to 24 months in prison with 20 months suspended, fined $10,000, a $100 court surcharge and a $200 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, forfeited vehicle seized, ordered, among other conditions of probation, not to consume, use or possess any alcoholic beverages or illegal controlled substances, including marijuana or synthetic drugs, not to reside where alcoholic beverages are present, not to enter any business establishment whose primary business is the sale of alcohol, to complete a substance abuse evaluation and comply with treatment recommendations and was placed on probation for three years. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Herbert Dean Myddelton, 43, of Sterling, pleaded guilty to felony driving under the influence, committed Jan. 10. He was sentenced to 24 months in prison with 16 months suspended, fined #10,000, a $100 court surcharge and a $200 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, forfeited all items seized, had his license permanently re-

voked, subject to conditions of restoration, is disqualified for life from driving a commercial vehicle, subject to reinstatement conditions, forfeited vehicle used in commission of the offense, subject to conditions of remission, ordered, among other conditions of probation, not to use consume, use or possess any alcoholic beverages of illegal controlled substances, including marijuana, not to reside where alcoholic beverages are present, not to enter any business establishment whose primary business is the sale of alcohol, not to possess, apply for or obtain a medical marijuana card, to complete a substance abuse evaluation and comply with treatment recommendations, to be employed, actively seeking employment or actively engaged in school or vocational training while on probation and was placed on probation for three years. All other charges in this case were dismissed. The following judgments were recently handed down in District Court in Kenai: n Shawn C. Seaman, 29, of Anchorage, pleaded guilty to one count of fourth-degree assault, committed Oct. 25. He

was sentenced to 120 days in jail with 110 days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, forfeited items seized and placed on probation for two years. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Daniel Wayne Malone, Jr., 45, of Wrangell, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of thirddegree theft, committed May 14. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 170 days suspended, may perform 80 hours of community work service in lieu of jail time, was fined $1,000 with $500 suspended, a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to pay restitution and placed on probation for three years. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Robert D. McCamon, 22, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to resisting or interfering with arrest, committed Dec. 19. He was sentenced to 10 days in jail and fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended. n Maggie Lisa Penix, 37, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to sixthdegree misconduct involving a controlled substance, committed Feb. 22. She was fined $150, a $50 court surcharge and a $50 jail surcharge.

n A jury found Charlene Sterling, 53, of Kenai, guilty of violating a domestic violence protective order, committed Jan. 31, 2013. She was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to obtain a mental health assessment and follow recommendations, ordered to have no contact with victim unless written consent is filed with the court and was placed on probation for two years. The following charges were recently dismissed in District Court in Kenai: n A charge of driving under the influence against Jesse Wayne Chumley-Lawson, 22, of Sterling, was dismissed. Date of the charge was Sept. 15, 2012. n Charges of one count of third-degree misconduct involving weapons and one count of sixth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance against Kenneth C. Ibsen, 50, address unknown, were dismissed. Date of the charges was July 2. n A charge of driving while license cancelled, suspended, revoked or limited against Elijah Layne Anthony Jackson, 21, of Sterling, was dismissed. Date of the charge was Feb. 14.

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Police reports

n On March 4 at 7:19 p.m., troopers stopped a gray 2009 Chevrolet Impala for a moving violation near Mile 98.0 of the Seward Highway. Investigation revealed that a 34-year-old female from Anchorage presented altered documents to indicate she had valid insurance in effect. Further investigation revealed that the same female had presented similar documents at the Soldotna Trooper Post in order to fix a correctable insurance citation. The insurance policy was in no longer in effect. Charges for second-degree forgery will be forwarded to the District Attorney. n On March 4 at 7:19 p.m., troopers stopped a gray 2009 Chevrolet Impala for a moving violation near Mile 98.0 of the Seward Highway. Investigation revealed that a 34-year-old female from Anchorage presented altered documents to indicate she had valid insurance in effect. Further investigation revealed that the same female had presented similar documents at the Soldotna Trooper Post in order to fix a correctable insurance citation. The insurance policy was in no longer in effect. Charges for second-degree forgery will be forwarded to the District Attorney. n On March 6 at 10:07 p.m., Alaska State Troopers responded to the Lacross Lane area of Soldotna for a reported domestic disturbance. Investigation revealed that Keelan Lacross, 31, of Soldotna, had assaulted an adult female. Lacross was arrested for fourth-degree assault (domestic violence) and was taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility without bail. Alcohol was not a factor. n On Feb. 28, Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Soldotna Post, received information from Kenai Police Department about trapping inside the Kenai city limits. Troopers responded and investigation revealed that Ronald Wayne Hodson 44, of Kenai, was operating a trap line without a valid 2013/2014 trapping license. Hodson was cited for trapping without a license, with bail set for $260 in Kenai Court. n On March 1, Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Soldotna Post, conducted a traffic stop on a red sedan after it crossed the centerline near Mile 91 of the Sterling Highway Safety Corridor. Investigation revealed that Vitoon Towatanasatid, 60, of Anchorage, was driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license. Towatanasatid was charged with driving under the influence and driving while license suspended, with bail set at $1,000 in Kenai court. He was also issued traffic citations for having an open alcohol container inside a motor vehicle and driving left of the centerline. n On March 8 at 6:05 p.m., Alaska State Troopers with the Girdwood Bureau of Highway Patrol conducted a traffic stop

on a red 1990 Ford truck for a moving violation near Mile 76.5 of the Sterling Highway. Investigation revealed that Lawrence Reger, 63, of Cooper Landing, was driving with a cancelled license. Reger was issued a misdemeanor citation for driving while license cancelled and a minor offense citation for the moving violation and was released at the scene. The vehicle was released to a licensed passenger. n On March 9 at 11:18 p.m., Soldotna police stopped a vehicle on the Kenai Spur Highway at Sports Lake Road. Malachi McMullen, 27, of Anchorage, was arrested on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear on the original charge of fourthdegree assault in the fourth degree (domestic violence), driving while license revoked and driving in violation of a license limitation. He was taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility on $1,500 bail. n On March 8 at 12:02 p.m., Soldotna police responded to Trustworthy Hardware for a report of a female acting suspiciously inside the store. Sarah L. Urdahl, 31, of Soldotna, was found to be in possession of methamphetamine. She was arrested for fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance and taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail. n On March 7 at 11:52 p.m., Soldotna police responded to a residence on Shady Lane for a disturbance. George Guiles, 43, of Soldotna, was issued a criminal citation for disorderly conduct and released. n On March 6 at 11:46 p.m., Soldotna police stopped a vehicle near the intersection of Sterling Highway and Funny River Road. Karena I. Jenkins, 29, of Soldotna, was issued a criminal citation for not having motor vehicle insurance and released. n On March 9 at 4:11 p.m., Kenai police received a report of a dangerous driver swerving inbound to Kenai. Police stopped the vehicle, and Brenda S. Dotson, 28, of Kenai, was arrested for driving under the influence and taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility. n On March 9 at 7:26 p.m., Kenai police responded to a disturbance at a Kenai residence. Brian W. Keys, 50, of Kenai, was arrested for one outstanding Soldotna Alaska State Troopers warrant totaling $1,000 for failure to comply with conditions of probation on the original charge of petition to revoke probation. He was taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On March 8 at 3:03 a.m., Kenai police responded to a disturbance at a Kenai residence. Michael P. Brazell, 45, of Kenai, was arrested for fourth-degree criminal mischief (domestic violence) and first-degree criminal trespass (domestic violence). He was taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On March 8 at about 12:10 a.m., Kenai police conducted a traffic stop at the Kenai Spur Highway and Redoubt Avenue. Kaylie R. Peters, 28, of Kenai, was arrested for false informa-

tion and driving while license revoked and on three outstanding Soldotna troopersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; warrants totaling $1,000 for failure to comply with conditions of release on the original charge of petition to revoke probation for failure to appear for arraignment on the original charges of driving while license revoked, failure to insure vehicle, fourth-degree theft and failure to appear at pre-trial conference hearing on the original charge of driving while license revoked. She was taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On March 8 at 3:45 p.m., Kenai police responded to a report of male lying in the roadway. Daniel W. Lusk, 39, of Kenai, was arrested for disorderly conduct and obstructing a highway and was taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On March 8 at 7:42 p.m., Kenai police conducted a traffic stop at Kalifornsky Beach Road and Kalgin Drive. Nicholas C. Dushkin, 43, of Soldotna, was arrested for driving under the influence and taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On March 8 at 7:47 p.m., Kenai police stopped Brealand Garrett II, 27, of Soldotna, on Bridge Access Road, south of the Warren Ames Bridge. Garrett was arrested for driving under the influence, seconddegree misconduct involving a controlled substance, fourthdegree misconduct involving a controlled substance and sixthdegree misconduct involving a controlled substance. At about 8:50 p.m., officers were still on the scene of the arrest, when a southbound Honda passenger car, driven by Anna Nisler, 19, of Kasilof, rear-end impacted the arresting officerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s police cruiser. Mr. Garrett was in custody in the rear of the cruiser at the time of the crash. The investigating officer (Hershberger) was standing at the open right rear door of the cruiser at the time of the crash. The two police cruisers on scene were both parked on the far right portion of the southbound side of the roadway with police red/blue lights illuminated when the impact occurred. Brealand Garrett, Anna Nisler and Officer Hershberger were all taken to Central Peninsula Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Alaska State Troopers assisted the Kenai Police Department with the crash investigation. No citations have been issued, yet, and the case is still under investigation. n On March 8 at 8:12 p.m., Kenai police conducted a traffic stop at Carlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jr. parking lot. Jon D. Gilliam, 30, of Kenai, was issued a summons for failure to insure vehicle and was released from the scene. n On March 7 at 4:12 p.m., Kenai police conducted a traffic stop on the Kenai Spur Highway. Stephen M. England, 50, of Kenai, was arrested for driving under the influence, sixthdegree misconduct involving a controlled substance and driving in violation of a restricted license. He was taken to Wildwood Pretrial.

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Kenai/ Soldotna 28/19 Seward 28/24 Homer 32/26

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24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.00" Month to date ........................... 0.23" Normal month to date ............. 0.37" Year to date .............................. 2.58" Normal year to date ................. 2.21" Record today ................. 0.61" (1955) Record for March .......... 3.18" (1963) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963) Snowfall 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. .. 0.0" Month to date ............................. 0.4" Season to date .......................... 41.7"

Anchorage 25/22

Bethel 31/20

Valdez Kenai/ 27/19 Soldotna Homer

Dillingham 35/25

Juneau 42/28

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Kodiak 38/31

Sitka 39/31

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Ketchikan 41/30

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Strong thunderstorms will rumble through the Florida Panhandle and southern Georgia today, while rain spreads from the Arkansas to the Carolinas. Snow will spread from Missouri eastward to Maryland.

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Bears move 1 point from playoff spot Staff report

The Kenai River Brown Bears came from behind in the third period to secure two crucial points in the North American Hockey League playoff chase Saturday in Wichita Falls, Texas. After getting outshot 16-4 in the second period and giving up three straight goals to go down 3-2, the Bears stormed back in the third period for a 5-3 victory over the Wildcats in front of 1,532 fans. “I thought we showed some real good character being able to recover when our backs were against the wall and getting two points,” Kenai River head coach Geoff Beauparlant said. The Bears (27-22-7) drew within one point of the Coulee Region (Wis.) Chill and Wenatchee (Wash.) Wild

in the chase for the final two playoff spots out of the Midwest Division. Kenai River has 61 points and four games remaining — all against the Staff report After a scoreless first period, the score was tied at 4 with league-leading Fairbanks Ice Dogs. Soldotna High School and Kenai River Brown Bears 2 minutes, 45 seconds, left in regulation when Duwe Coulee Region has 62 points and product Brad Duwe had the game-winning goals Friday registered the winning goal in the 5-4 victory. Blake five games left — three against the and Saturday as the University of Alaska Anchorage Tatchell and Jordan Kwas got the assists. Minnesota Wilderness (second in the defeated the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the first On Friday, UAA kept its season alive with a 2-1 win Midwest) and two against the Minround of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association over Fairbanks. nesota Magicians (sixth in the Midplayoffs. The game was tied at 1 early in the second period west). UAA, which won the series 2-1, advances to the when Duwe tapped home a rebound from a Tatchell Wenatchee has 62 points and four WCHA Final Five on March 21 and 22 in Grand Rap- shot for the game-winner. The goal came 4:27 into the games left — two against Northids, Mich. second period. leading Port Huron (Mich.) and two All three games of the series were played at the CarlOn Thursday, UAA fell to UAF 3-2 in overtime. In against Aberdeen (S.D.), currently in son Center in Fairbanks. video review after the game, Duwe also was credited second in the Central. On Saturday, the series finished up with a wild game. with a goal in that contest. The Bears host the Ice Dogs on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. “I think it is a great challenge for have a solid game plan. in the league from the net out.” 3-1 in front of 1,348, the Bears needed See BEARS, page B-2 us,” Beauparlant said. “We have to “I think they are by far the best team After losing Friday to the Wildcats

Duwe stars as UAA topples UAF in playoffs

Getting defensive Bulldogs, Seahawks clamp down for 3A tournament By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

Class 3A tourney at Sullivan Arena

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Defense wins championships. That mantra has been proven to be true time and time again, and it’s exactly what the Nikiski and Seward girls hoops teams will be relying on to carry them through the Class 3A state tournament, which begins Thursday at the Sullivan Arena in Anchorage. As the two teams representing the Kenai Peninsula in the 3A tournament, both managed to clinch a state berth last weekend at the Southcentral Conference tournament in Cordova by keeping their opponents’ scoring to a minimum. The Bulldogs beat Cordova 50-31 on the first day, holding the home team to 10 points in the first half, then topped Seward 42-32 in the semifinals, outscoring the Seahawks 23-7 in the final quarter to clinch their first state berth since 2009. “Through the season, our defense has been rock-solid,” said Nikiski coach Scott Anderson. “I think we’re giving up around 35 points a game, which is really good for us. I told the girls if you hold a team to 20 points, you’re going to win the game, so they try to focus on defense.” Seward was even more stifling, statistically, over the weekend, beating Grace Christian 33-11 on Thursday, then beating them again 35-12 in Saturday’s third-place game by

Thursday’s girls games Galena vs. Bethel, 9:45 a.m. ACS vs. Seward, 5:15 p.m. Mt. Edgecumbe vs. Nikiski, 3:30 p.m. Barrow vs. Valdez, 8 a.m. Thursday’s boys games Monroe vs. Nome, 8:45 p.m. ACS vs. Houston, 7 p.m. Sitka vs. Grace, 1:15 p.m. Bethel vs. Delta, 11:30 a.m.

shutting them out completely in the second half. In the two games combined, Seward allowed the Grizzlies to score only 23 points in 64 minutes of action, so the defensive effort is there. “It’s huge,” said Seward coach Mark Clemens. “We’ve been working on offense too, but sometimes defense is easier to get tuned up.” Simply making it to the state tournament is a tall order, so in order to further polish their offense and defensive play, both Nikiski and Seward will each be using their boys squads to challenge the girls and keep them sharp, taking full advantage of the fact that both schools’ boys teams missed the cut to state. “At this point, we’re not working on any new things, just fine-tuning our offensive and defensive schemes,” Anderson said. Nikiski opens Thursday with a 3:30 p.m. game with Mt. Edgecumbe, the top seed from the Southeast Conference, and See POINTS, page B-4

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion

Soldotna’s Makayla Wong looks for an opening to pass during their game against Dimond on Jan. 17 in Soldotna.

Stars ready to rebound at state By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

Now that the Soldotna girls have clinched a spot at the Class 4A state basketball tournament in Anchorage, they can breathe easier. But they won’t be relaxing for too long, because their pursuit of a state championship will take every bit of preparation, determination and focus as they can muster. Coming into the tournament, which SoHi begins Thursday with a 7 p.m. matchup with the West Eagles at the Sullivan Arena, the Stars’ season is statistically on a decline, as evidenced by two losses in two games at the Northern Lights

Class 4A tourney at Sullivan Arena

Thursday’s girls games Kodiak vs. Dimond, 8:45 p.m. Ketchikan vs. West Valley, 11:30 a.m. East vs. Colony, 1:15 p.m. West vs. Soldotna, 7 p.m. Thursday’s boys games West vs. Kodiak, 5:15 p.m. Thunder Mountain vs. Colony, 8 a.m. Service vs. West Valley, 9:45 a.m. Lathrop vs. East, 3:30 p.m.

Conference tournament last weekend. The second of those two losses was a 69-27 blowout at the hands of the defending state champs Wasilla Warriors, a team that didn’t even make the cut this year due to their

The Seldovia boys hoops team sure knows how to start a state tournament in style. Hopefully, they know how to finish one too. Seldovia kicked off the Class 1A state boys basketball tournament with a classic, as they edged Selawik 81-76 in double overtime to advance to the winners bracket. After a rest day today, the winners bracket starts Monday, when Seldovia faces Yakutat at 11:30 a.m. at the Sullivan Arena. It also puts the Sea Otters two wins away from playing in Wednesday’s championship game. In a game that featured a total of 14 lead changes and six ties between the two teams in the fourth quarter and overtime periods, Seldovia had the final laugh with the go-ahead bucket with 2 minutes, 4 seconds, left, when Chance Haller put up a driving layup. The basket broke a 73-all tie, as Seldovia outscored Selawik

to Chugiak at the Dimond Lady Lynx Prep Shootout tournament in early February, which Blossom attributes to poor shooting affecting the overall game play. “We’ve had one game where we’ve shot 18 percent in the last three years,” Blossom said. “So we can win games, but you got to play defense. You can’t let it affect the rest of your game. “I thought our game against Colony was very sound. They’re a good team, they always peak around this time of year, and I still think our conference has some of the best teams around the state in it.” The late-season numbers may not be the biggest issue for the Stars. The team they are See STARS, page B-4

Warriors’ Dorvall collects 1A POY

Seldovia boys win a double-OT thriller By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

Winning Percentage Index. SoHi arrives at the state tournament with a 17-7 overall record, including games from the NLC tournament. Since starting the year on a 13-game win streak, the Stars have gone 4-7. Of course, Soldotna coach Doug Blossom doesn’t see it as a decline, but rather an opportunity to learn where the team’s weaknesses lie. “I really haven’t talked about that Wasilla game since then,” Blossom said. “We can’t do anything about yesterday, but we can do something about tomorrow. I still believe in this team and these kids.” The early success was eventually halted by an overtime loss

Peninsula places 12 on all-state teams

CIA, N ikolaevsk girls lose /B-3

By JEREMIAH BARTZ Frontiersman.com

11-6 in the second four-minute overtime period. “It was too much,” Seldovia coach Mark Janes quipped. “I told them they had to keep their heads together, and play hard and play their game. Play to win, play not to lose.” Given an early start to the day with an 8 a.m. matchup, Seldovia played the first game of the tournament. Sophomore Aiden Philpot made the most of the opportunity, coming up with a big double-double, scoring 25 points and grabbing 20 rebounds. “Our shots weren’t really falling, so we just kept doing what we usually do, crashing the boards,” Philpot said. “We just kept it up, just kept up our hustle.” Photo courtesy of Leonard Ball Philpot’s teammate Calem Collier led Seldovia in scor- Nianiella Dorvall of Nikolaevsk posts up against Ninilchik earing with 27 points on 8-for-12 lier this season. Dorvall has been named the Class 1A girls See OTTERS, page B-2 player of the year. C

As a 6-foot-1 center in the 1A girls class, Nianiella Dorvall could probably easily dominate the basketball and the scoring column. But there’s more to the game of the Nikolaevsk standout, her head coach Bea Klaich said recently. “She’s an incredible team player. She could be dominating. She could be a one-dimensional player, but she’s an incredible team player,” Klaich said. But Klaich is not the only coach who understands Dorvall’s talents. The Nikolaevsk senior has been named the Alaska Roof Coatings/AABC 1A Girls State Player of the Year. Klaich used the Los Angeles Lakers big man Pau Gasol as a way to describe Dorvall’s talents. Klaich said she’s not just a big athlete a coach sticks inside the paint.

“She’s got great post moves, great finesse. She can easily hit 15-, 18-footers,” Klaich said. “She’s difficult to guard.” Dorvall is averaging a double-double for Klaich’s squad, which just recently won a Peninsula Conference title. The senior is averaging 12.8 points and just about 10 rebounds per game. But that’s not all Dorvall can do. She has also has 64 assists, 47 steals and 41 blocks in 22 games. “She’s been double- and triple-teamed all season,” Klaich said. “She’s a great passer. When she’s double-teamed, it opens up the guards.” A player with a different mentality, but with her talents, could easily hold on to the basketball and finish with the 20 or 30 points in a game. “If she wanted to, she could,” Klaich said. “She’s very unselfish. In 1A basketball size really makes a difference. Size can be very imposing.” See AWARD, page B-4

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a win Saturday and came out playing like it. The top line of Alec Butcher, Albin Karlsson and Sebastian Fuchs was on the ice for both first-period goals, one by Karlsson and the other by defenseman Gustav Berglund. But Wichita Falls changed goalies in the first period and stormed back behind Chase Munroe in the second. Will Vosejpka and Ben Kucera had the game tied just 2 minutes, 37 seconds, into the second period, then Kucera struck again with 1:32 left in the period for a 3-2 lead. “They came with a lot of pressure early in the second,” Beauparlant said. “They were probably chewed out a bit by their coaching staff. “They responded and we didn’t make the plays we were making in the first period. We got out of doing what was working, and the next thing you know it’s 2-2 very quickly.”

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shooting, including 4 for 5 from beyond the arc. After an already wild fourth-quarter battle, Robert Waterbury hit a clutch 3-pointer with 1:28 left in regulation that put Seldovia ahead 65-64. “He comes off the bench, and he always puts one in,” Janes said. “It’s always time for him to take that first shot, to get it up there.” Edward Kelly put Selawik back into the lead with a jumper with 35 seconds left, but Collier tied it up with a free throw seconds later. “I was just excited,” Philpot said. “Robert Waterbury hit a giant 3, it was sweet. I was just like, screaming, it was awesome.”

Between the second and third periods, Beauparlant said the coaching staff challenged players not on the top line to produce in the third period. Just 1:09 in, Matt Rudin, assisted by Tommy Dierl and Jack Gessert, responded to tie the game. Dierl drove the puck to the net, and Rudin scored on the follow. The top line also kept humming, as Karlsson and Butcher assisted on a goal by defenseman Ben Campbell for a 4-3 lead with 16:11 left in the game. Then Kenai Central product Zack Zulkanycz, in his first series back after missing time due to a concussion, scored on a weird bounce with 11:20 left for a two-goal cushion. Beauparlant then gave credit to goalie Kris Oldham, who had 35 saves, and the defense for closing the door. “The goaltending was suspect on their end at times, and Oldy was good,” Beauparlant said. “He didn’t have a chance on a couple of them.” Beauparlant did not get the total team effort for which he was looking Friday. “I don’t think we had enough guys

give a full, 60-minute effort,” Beauparlant said. “We didn’t have all 20 guys pushing in the same direction and when that happens we’re an average hockey team.” Beauparlant said two turnovers in the gray area, or the area 5 feet from the blue line, cost his team. The first led to the only goal of the first period, by the Wildcats’ Rudy Jonda. In the second period, Wichita Falls took a 2-0 lead at the 11:26 mark by earning a two-on-one off a faceoff. Josh Haverstrom got the tally. With 6:11 left in the second period, Karlsson won the puck deep in the zone and got it to Fuchs, who found Butcher for the goal. But another turnover in the gray area set up a Tyler Ledford goal with 4:36 left in the second period. “We didn’t take care of the puck and secure the puck twice tonight in the gray areas, and it cost us,” Beauparlant said. The Bears outshot the Wildcats 13-4 in the third period en route to a 31-29 advantage in the game, but could not

In the final 30 seconds of both regulation and the first overtime period, Selawik attempted to get the final shot by holding the ball until the final seconds, but both attempts failed. Collier iced the game in the final overtime frame with a steal and a layup with 47 seconds remaining that resulted in a seven-point Seldovia lead. Janes said he was satisfied with his team’s ability to keep mental mistakes to a minimum in the late minutes. “They have the physical ability to make all the other stuff happen, it’s about stopping mental mistakes,” Janes said. “They pulled through. It’s good.” Seldovia turned the ball over 23 times, compared to 16 for Selawik, but were more efficient in their shooting with a 40 percent mark, while Selawik was 33 percent from the floor. Selawik hammered the Sea Ot-

ters from beyond the arc, attempting 37 shots from 3-point land, but only hit six. William Knox was especially cold, only hitting two of 21 shots from beyond the arc. Knox notched a double-double with 14 points and 12 boards. Meanwhile, Seldovia hit 9 of 17 from long range, and was 5 of 7 in the second half. Nathan Lestenkof led Selawik with 20 points. Saturday boys Sea Otters 81, Wolves 76 Seldovia Selawik

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SELDOVIA (81) — R. Waterbury 2 0-2 5, Sidibe 0 0-0 0, D. Waterbury 3 1-4 9, Collier 8 7-11 27, Haller 3 1-3 7, Philpot 10 3-6 25, O’Leary 4 0-0 8. Totals 30 12-26 81. SELAWIK (76) — McCoy 3 0-0 7, Skin 0 0-0 0, Beylund 1 0-0 2, Foster 6 0-0 14, Foxglove 0 0-0 0, Knox 4 3-4 14, Lestenkof 8 4-4 20, Kelly 7 1-2 15, Ramoth 2 0-0 4. Totals 31 8-10 76. 3-point field goals — Seldovia 9 (Collier 4, Philpot 2,

cut into the lead. Kenai River had two goals called back in the third period. The first came on a power play, when Butcher knocked in a shot, but it was ruled the net was off before the goal went in. On the second, the Bears’ RJ Salvato blocked a shot and earned a breakaway. Frankie Spellman put in the rebound, but the referee ruled that he was in the process of blowing the whistle. “We have to bear down earlier in the game so we don’t have to rely on those types of judgement calls,” Beauparlant said. Beauparlant said the line of Salvato, Spellman and Jacob Wolter continues to be very good after being put together last weekend. Friday Wildcats 3, Brown Bears 1 Kenai River Wichita Falls

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D. Waterbury 2, R. Waterbury 1); Selawik 6 (Knox 3, Foster 2, McCoy 1). Team fouls — Seldovia 10, Selawik 20. Fouled out — O’Leary, Knox.

Klawock boys 73, Nikolaevsk 41 After the Chieftans blew the game open with a third-quarter charge Saturday night at West High School, the Warriors were relegated to the Class 1A state consolation bracket. The loss sends Nikolaevsk to a Monday evening matchup with Noatak, 7 p.m. at West High School. Sophomore Neil Gordeev led Nikolaevsk Saturday with a double-double of 14 points (on 6 of 10 shooting) and 10 rebounds. Junior teammate Jaruby Nelson followed with 14 points of his own, including an attempted 17 shots from beyond the arc (hitting two of them). The size and strength of the powerhouse Klawock boys proved to be too much for Nikolaevsk to handle, but early on, the Warriors proved their mettle.

15:24. Penalties — Kenai River 1 for 2:00; Wichita Falls 1 for 2:00. Third period — none. Penalties — Kenai River 1 for 2:00; Wichita Falls 2 for 4:00. Shots on goal — Kenai River 11-7-13—31; Wichita Falls 9-16-4—29. Goalies — Kenai River, Quinn (29 shots, 26 saves); Wichita Falls, Munroe (31 shots, 30 saves). Power plays — Kenai River 0 for 5; Wichita Falls 0 for 4. Saturday Brown Bears 5, Wildcats 3 Kenai River Wichita Falls

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First period — 1. Kenai River, Karlsson (Butcher), 2:54; 2. Kenai River, Berglund (Karlsson), pp, 16:01. Penalties — Wichita Falls 2 for 4:00. Second period — 3. Wichita Falls, Vosejpka (Junda), 1:53; 4. Wichita Falls, Kucera (Koch), 2:37; 5. Wichita Falls, Kucera (Koritzinsky, Ledford), 18:28. Penalties — Kenai River 6 for 31:00; Wichita Falls 3 for 17:00. Third period — 6. Kenai River, Rudin (Dierl, Gessert), 1:09; 7. Kenai River, Campbell (Karlsson, Butcher), 3:49; 8. Kenai River, Zulkanycz (Loewenstein), 8:40. Penalties — Kenai River 4 for 8:00; Wichita Falls 5 for 18:00. Shots on goal — Kenai River 7-4-9—20; Wichita Falls 11-16-11—38. Goalies — Kenai River, Oldham (38 shots, 35 saves); Wichita Falls, Zevnik (4 shots, 2 saves), Munroe (16 shots, 13 saves). Power plays — Kenai River 1 for 5; Wichita Falls 0 for 5.

In a first quarter that featured the highflying act of Matthew Peters, Klawock streaked out to a 21-9 lead. The Chieftans sank four 3-pointers, three of them from Peters, and 6-foot-4 forward Tyrus Morgan even added a two-handed dunk for good measure. Peters ended the night with 18 points, while teammate Josh Looney ended with 16 points and 10 boards. Morgan also notched a double-double of 19 points and 14 boards, and dished out eight assists. But the second quarter belonged to Nikolaevsk. After trailing by as much as 13 points, the Warriors went on a streak of 10 unanswered points to close the gap to three, getting steals and layups off of picture-perfect passes. Nikolaevsk ended the first half on a 10-3 scoring run to trail Klawock 31-25 at halftime. However, Klawock’s fast-paced offense finally prevailed, and the Chieftans pushed out their lead to nearly 30 points by outscoring the Warriors 22-2 in the third quarter.

No. 1 Florida takes down Tennessee in semis By The Associated Press

ATLANTA — Patric Young scored 16 points and No. 1 Florida turned up the defensive pressure in the second half, rallying for a 56-49 victory over Tennessee in the semifinals of the Southeastern Conference tournament Saturday. Florida (31-2) extended its school-record winning streak to 25 in a row after trailing by 10 in the first half. The Gators were down 35-28 at the break, but they wore down the Volunteers (21-12) over the final 20 minutes. After shooting 54 percent in the opening period, Tennessee made just 5 of 20 shots and turned the ball over 11 times, leaving its fate in the hands of the NCAA selection committee. The Gators, improving to 20-0 against SEC opponents, will face Kentucky or Georgia

in the championship game Sunday. Florida’s Scottie Wilbekin added 14 points and Casey Prather had 12. Jordan McRae led Tennessee with 15 points, while Jarnell Stokes had 13 points and eight rebounds. UCLA 75, NO. 4 ARIZONA 71 LAS VEGAS (AP) — Kyle Anderson had 21 points and 15 rebounds, Jordan Adams hit a huge 3-pointer in the final minute, and the Bruins outlasted the Wildcats in a spirited Pac-12 championship game. The Pac-12’s two best teams during the regular season, UCLA (26-8) and Arizona (30-4) put on a show in the tournament final, trading big plays and floor burns. Offense ruled the first half and defense the second until Adams

dropped in his contested 3-pointer to put the Bruins up 71-68 with 45 seconds left. David Wear and Norman Powell combined to hit four free throws down the stretch, giving UCLA the Pac-12 title in its first year under coach Steve Alford.

NO. 5 LOUISVILLE 71, NO. 21 UCONN 61 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Montrezl Harrell had 22 points, 11 rebounds and three blocks, and the Cardinals beat the Huskies for the inaugural American Athletic Conference tournament title in the Cardinals’ lone season in the league. The defending national champions clinched their 40th NCAA tournament berth. The Cardinals (29-5) have won three straight league tournament titles after taking the last two in the Big East, and they added their 19th overall to go with their share of the regular-season title with Cincinnati.

They will play next season in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Russ Smith, named the tournament’s most outstanding player, had 19 points and five steals for Louisville, and Chris Jones added 11 points. UConn (26-8) came in looking for an eighth tournament title to go with seven from the Big East. It was barred from postseason play a year

ago, but is a virtual lock to return to ence tournament. the NCAA tournament this year. Gill was shooting 63 percent from the line for the Cavaliers (27-6) but calmly made both free No. 6 VIRGINIA 51, throws after James Robinson’s PITTSBURGH 48 hanging layup had brought the GREENSBORO, N.C. — An- Panthers to within 49-48. Pitt had a chance to tie with 4 thony Gill hit two free throws with 8.5 seconds left to help Virginia seconds left, but Justin Anderson hold off Pittsburgh in the semifi- tipped Robinson’s 3-pointer to Gill C nals of the Atlantic Coast Confer- with 0.5 seconds left. Y

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Nikolaevsk, CIA girls both lose on opening day By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

In a span of less than two hours Saturday evening, the two girls basketball state finalists at the Class 1A level from a year ago were eliminated from championship contention in the opening round of tournament play at West High School. The reigning champion Cook Inlet Academy Eagles were dealt a 37-24 loss by Yakutat, and the team that took them to three overtimes in last year’s title game — the Nikolaevsk Warriors — was upset by Buckland 43-42. The losses puts both squads into the consolation bracket Monday. Nikolaevsk will play Kake at 8 a.m., while CIA will face Huslia at 3:30 p.m. Both games are at West High School. Nikolaevsk, a team fresh off the Peninsula Conference championship, struggled down the stretch to contain Buckland’s main scorers from getting looks under the basket, namely sophomore guard Taylene Jones, who led the Sissauni with 17 points. “I knew that if I tried to slow the ball down too much and too quick, we’d be in trouble because that’s what helped us get back in the game,” said Nikolaevsk coach Bea Klaich. “When we try to slow the game down too early, we’re vulnerable to turnovers, and I felt it was too early to go into ball control. “I told the girls to keep attacking, and unfortunately, it didn’t go our

way.” The Warriors let a six-point lead slip away with under five minutes to go by giving up turnovers and rebounds. Jones put Buckland ahead for good with 1 minute, 5 seconds, remaining on a driving layup that was set up by a Nikolaevsk turnover. On the final possession of the game — when they trailed by a single point with 5.4 seconds to go — a rebound shot by Megan Hickman off a Nianiella Dorvall field-goal attempt fell short at the buzzer. “I asked (Dorvall) after the game if she got fouled, and she said she did,” Klaich said. “But sometimes in tight situations, that call doesn’t get made.” Dorvall, a senior who was recently named the Class 1A girls player of the year, led Nikolaevsk with 16 points and five rebounds, but she faced pressure all game long from Buckland, and also gave up a game-high seven turnovers. “I knew we had a tough first-game matchup,” said Nikolaevsk coach Bea Klaich. “I thought they did a good job of being aggressive and denying us the ball. “What it came down to for us was missed free throws and turnovers.” Nikolaevsk was 10 for 23 from the free-throw line, and suffered 23 turnovers that contributed to 15 points. “The girls have had to play catchup before, and they’ve always had good second halves,” Klaich said. “When I went into halftime with the girls, they

weren’t demoralized at all. I liked the way they came out and played with a lot of heart.” Nikolaevsk senior Sophia Kalugin had 10 points and six boards. Early in the game, it looked like Nikolaevsk would get their tournament started off on a hot streak, as they did last year, building a 12-5 lead by the early minutes of the second quarter. But the momentum shifted when Buckland began to find open looks from beyond the arc, and after three consecutive 3-pointers, Nikolaevsk was suddenly looking at a 18-12 deficit with 1:55 to go in the first half. Buckland ended the half on a 17-2 run to take a 22-14 lead into halftime. “Just keep your head in the game,” Buckland coach Fred Lee told his team. “Just like we’ve done all year. “My girls can run through all four quarters, but we tried to pick up our pressure on defense, and they keep their head in the game.” Nikolaevsk pushed back in the third quarter, outscoring Buckland 15-8 in the frame, led by 11 points from Dorvall and Kalugin. The Warriors took the lead on a free throw from Serafima Kalugin with 6:02 left in the fourth quarter, and stretched it to 40-34 with 4:41 to go. That was when Buckland scored nine unanswered points to retake the lead for good. “It’s a big letdown,” Klaich said. “All season long, the girls have had their eye on winning state, especially

after last year.” Yakutat girls 37, CIA 24 After the Nikolaevsk upset, the Cook Inlet Academy Eagles were the next ones to fall victim to late surge and tumble into the consolation bracket. Leading 16-11 at halftime, CIA was stifled by Yakutat in the third quarter by only scoring three points, all from free throws. “I told them that I don’t remember being on offense in the second half,” said CIA coach Rustin Hitchcock. “I just don’t. We just didn’t really get an opportunity to run any of our plays, which, we were working, but we were missing some clutch free throws and some down-low, easy shots.” Madison Orth led CIA with 10 points and seven rebounds, but had half of her team’s eight total field goals. Kendra Brush scored CIA’s only basket in the second half. Yakutat, on the other hand, managed 15 field goals. Yakutat came out with a plan to shut down one of CIA’s main threats, senior Nicole Moffis, and was largely successful. Moffis scored seven points. “We were just really trying to concentrate on her not having any open looks at the bucket,” said Yakutat coach Rose Gordon. “The last couple minutes we we’re just trying to run our man offense and stretch the court. Then we could go for some open buckets that were there, and they really picked it up, and really took care of the ball.”

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With 4:37 to go in the game, Brush’s layup closed CIA’s deficit to 26-23, but Yakutat took advantage of turnovers by CIA to close the game on an 11-1 run, getting layups and jump shots from Kasia Adams and Janie Jensen. Both players had 10 points to lead Yakutat. “We’ll be having practice tomorrow as if we had won,” Hitchcock said. “Go through our normal state procedure. I think habit and routine are important for state tournaments, so we’re going to stick to that.” Saturday girls Sissauni 43, Warriors 42 Buckland Nikolaevsk

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BUCKLAND (43) — Melton 3 2-5 10, R. Hadley 1 0-2 2, Jones 6 4-5 17, Washington 1 0-0 2, Thomas 5 0-0 10, B. Jones 1 0-0 2, C. Hadley 0 0-2 0. Totals 17 6-14 43. NIKOLAEVSK (42) — Ki. Klaich 0 2-2 2, Fefelov 0 0-0 0, So. Kalugin 4 2-4 10, Stafford 3 3-4 9, Se. Kalugin 1 1-7 3, Dorvall 7 2-4 16, Hickman 1 0-2 2. Totals 16 10-23 42. 3-point field goals — Buckland 3 (Melton 2, Jones 1); Nikolaevsk 0. Team fouls — Buckland 19; Nikolaevsk 14. Fouled out — Jones. Yakutat 37, Cook Inlet 24 Yakutat CIA

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YAKUTAT (37) — Jensen 4 2-2 10, Newlun 3 0-1 6, Lord 2 3-3 7, Adams 4 1-2 10, Bell 1 0-0 2, Pate 1 0-0 2, Long 0 0-0 0. Totals 15 6-8 37. CIA (24) — Hanna 0 0-0 0, Moffis 2 3-6 7, Taplin 0 0-0 0, Hills 0 1-2 1, Brush 2 0-0 5, Lyons 0 0-0 0, Hammond 0 0-0 0, McGahan 0 1-2 1, Orth 4 2-4 10. Totals 8 7-14 24. 3-point field goals — Yakutat 1 (Adams 1); CIA 1 (Brush 1). Team fouls — Yakutat 11; CIA 10. Fouled out — Orth.

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facing in the opening round came up just a field goal shy of winning a region championship. West completed a magnificent undefeated regular season and then had a 35-34 loss in the Cook Inlet Conference championship game against crosstown rival East, leaving the Eagles with a 26-1 overall record for the year. “They’re a very good, sound team,” Blossom said. “I’m excited about the matchup, it’s a good challenge for us. They’ve struggled a little bit in their region tournament, I mean, they barely beat Eagle River and South, which are teams they beat by 20 or 30 points earlier. And that doesn’t mean anything, it’s all about matchups now.” Blossom noted that he emphasizes defense to his players, and believes a fundamental defense is what has sustained his team all season and will continue to hold the Stars up throughout the state tournament. “Our defense is what’s gotten us where we are, and just relaxing and focusing on offense,” he said. “Those are two main things.” The senior class on the team has been to state three out of four years, so

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if they hope to move on to Friday’s semifinals, they’ll need to keep the Braves’ Taryn White from finding the rim as she typically does. “It’s going to go through her,” Anderson said. “The last time we played them, we led for two and a half quarters, and then they had a bit of surge, and we stayed close but we just couldn’t finish it.” Mt. Edgecumbe’s top threat has been a terror for other 3A teams by averaging doubledouble figures with 13 points and 10 rebounds a game, and when the Braves visited the Kenai-Soldotna area before the winter holidays for the Kenai River Challenge, White scored 15 points in a 33-31 win against Nikiski in their second game of the year on Dec. 20. “They don’t like to shoot a lot from the outside, it’s mostly inside,” Nikiski junior Rachel Thompson said. “We’re trying to take away their inside game and make their outside players shoot.” Thompson has led the team in much of the scoring this season — also averaging 13 points a game — and said finally qualifying for a state tournament is satisfying. “It’s always been my dream,” Thompson said. “My sister Hannah went to state four years in a row, and I always saw her there, so it’s been my dream to go to the Sullivan Arena and play.” Regarding mental preparation, Thompson added that, “Coach always wants us to shoot 10 free throws in our mind before we go to bed, so you make that ball go in.” Thompson has proven to be effective from beyond the arc all year, but admitted she would not be as successful from 3-point land if not for her teammates’ effort at the post. “We used to never look at our posts,” Thompson said. “Alyssa (Darch) would be down there wide open, and we would never look at her.” Darch, a 5-foot-11 senior, is averaging 11 rebounds a game, and her improved post play has opened up other areas of the court.

when Katelynn Kerkvliet, Julie Litchfield, Kelci Benson, Makayla Wong and Kiana Hendricks enter the Sullivan Arena on Thursday, they won’t be expecting any nerves or anxious moments. “I’m really excited about it, I love playing under the lights at the Sullivan Arena,” Kerkvliet said. “It’s a fun environment to be in, and I’m really glad to be going.” Having played in the Sullivan Arena twice before, Kerkvliet and her senior teammates are no stranger to the bright lights, and that familiarity should bode well for the team. “I know in the first round, it’s not bad because it feels so empty in there,” Litchfield added. “I like playing there, it’s a good experience. “I don’t think there’s too much pressure. Being ranked number seven, it’s not like we have huge expectations, and the field is so wide open. Anything could happen at the tournament.” West Anchorage features one of the top scoring threats of the CIC, Chanel Bookert. If the Stars can shut her down, it leaves West with less opportunities to score. At the Lady Lynx tournament earlier in the season, Soldotna watched West beat Dimond, a team that SoHi had beaten just a week earlier. “It just seemed like we could be

‘The rest is about relaxing and having fun. There’s no more WPI, no more worrying about our record and getting a good place in conference and seedings.’ — Doug Blossom, Soldotna girls coach

out there playing,” Litchfield said. “We were all upset that we weren’t in that game, so I think we can definitely compete with them. “I think it’s an advantage that we haven’t played them before, that they don’t know us and they don’t know our strengths and our weaknesses. It’s good to just come out and play, and not have a common rival that we’ve played five times already during the season.” If defense is the deciding factor, then perhaps SoHi can pull off the win and clear a much more visible path to the state championship game.

“If our shooters are open, they can shoot the shot and get others open, as long as we set good screens,” Kerkvliet said. “I don’t want to make it out to be all on me, we have other shooters.” Depending on what happens Thursday, SoHi will face either Colony or East Anchorage on Friday. After dropping a 50-42 semifinal game matchup with Colony in the NLC tournament, it can be a sure bet that the Stars will attempt to dish out a mean plate of revenge if it’s the Knights. “I’m so ready to play them again,” Litchfield said. Kerkvliet added, “I know we hit a rough patch but I’m ready to come out and show everyone what we’re made of.” Since SoHi was essentially guaranteed a state tournament bid based on their superb WPI that the Stars built up over the season, Blossom said he and his team can now enjoy an actionpacked three days. “I don’t think there is any pressure on us,” Blossom said. “Earlier in the year I think they were putting pressure on themselves, and maybe that’s why we hit a little bit of a roadblock, but I don’t think right now they are. I think they’re all focused on going up and playing the best they can. “The one nice thing about this team is they all get along really well. Even

in the struggling times, they’re not getting on each other.” Additionally, the team has also been scrimmaging with some experienced players, namely SoHi assistant coach Lindsey Keener and Sarah Herrin. Herrin played basketball for both UAA and UAF, as well as helping Nikiski High School to the 2006 3A state championship. Keener is a Kenai Central alum and was a part of the 2009 George Fox University hoops squad that captured the Division III national championship. “We’re just trying to have someone here to help push them,” Blossom explained. Litchfield will be playing at George Fox next year, and Blossom said Kerkvliet is getting offers from junior colleges and may be playing ball after high school as well. But for now, the seniors are focused on trying to bring the SoHi Stars a state basketball title. “The rest is about relaxing and having fun,” Blossom said. “There’s no more WPI, no more worrying about our record and getting a good place in conference and seedings. It is what it is, now everybody is 0-0 and you just go play three games and have some fun. Make some noise. “Our goal is to play three games and be playing on Saturday.”

‘It’s always been my dream. My sister Hannah went to state four years in a row, and I always saw her there, so it’s been my dream to go to the Sullivan Arena and play.’ — Rachel Thompson, Nikiski guard “Getting rebounds, boxing out and giving my team second shots,” Darch said when asked where her biggest strength lies. “Not giving it to the other team right away.” Complementing Darch is senior Emily Lynch, whose offseason training efforts have paid off. Lynch is averaging nearly 10 points a game herself. “At the beginning of the season, I was contributing more with points, and then I got bolder and started covering key players most of the season,” Lynch explained. As much of a challenge that White presents with Mt. Edgecumbe, many eyes are on the Anchorage Christian Schools girls, who have shown that they are among the favorites to win the state championship this year after coming up short against reigning champions Barrow last year. Luckily for Nikiski, ACS is positioned opposite of the Bulldogs in the bracket, and the three team leaders believe that the Southcentral Conference title game against ACS, which they lost 69-31, was a bit of an outlier. Nikiski played ACS much closer earlier in the season, losing by only 12 points. “I think we gave up in the second half a little bit, we came out with less energy than they did,” Lynch said. “I think we fought a lot with each other in the first half, and in the second half, we came out but we weren’t as focused. “The first time we played them, we were the ones having fun and they were the ones kind of yelling at each other, and we only lost by 12.” Coach Anderson, who is taking his team to state in his third year as head coach, said if his team can match the defensive pressure that Mt. Edgecumbe is sure to put up, the Bulldogs can reach their goal of playing to Saturday.

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Klaich joked that she sometimes wishes Dorvall a little more selfish sometimes, but continued to praise Dorvall’s character. “She’s the nicest girl. She’s very kind, not mean-spirited,” Klaich said. Klaich has been coaching Dorvall since she was a third-grader and Dorvall has been a part of her high school team since she was an eighth-grader. Klaich said the Alaska School Activities Association began allowing 1A programs to use eighth-graders when Dorvall hit the eighth grade. “It wasn’t for that, we wouldn’t have had a team that year. We had three eighth-graders that year,” Klaich said. Dorvall started as an eighth-grader, and has been a staple of the program ever since. Klaich said Dorvall also excels in

“We want to, number one, enjoy the journey,” Anderson said. “For them, especially the seniors, it’s been one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences, so we want to make sure it’s one to remember. “Number two is to do everything we do as a team. We’re hoping to jell more as a team than we have all year, and play for each other.” “Number three is to play hard and whatever happens is going to happen. It’s a thing where you have eight quality basketball teams, and the only thing you can control is how hard you work on defense and how well you take care of the ball. The rest is up to who shoots the ball well.” The Seward girls start their tourney with a 5:15 p.m. matchup with ACS. As mentioned before, the pace at which the boys teams compete will certainly present a challenge during scrimmages in practice, which is good, because the Seward girls will need all the help they can get in advance of a first-round matchup with the Lions. “With ACS you’ve got to be on both ends of the court, and don’t turn the ball over,” Clemens said. “That team is known for pressure and transition points.” Leading the charge for ACS is Southcentral Conference MVP Dallas Dickerson, whose size and speed presents a formidable challenge. Dickerson managed 24 points against Nikiski in the SSC championship game, even while sitting for much of the first quarter due to foul trouble, and helped ACS to a 71-37 victory over Seward six weeks ago. “We’re going to try to contain her as well as we can,” Clemens said. “I think she’s one of the top girls in the state, 3A or 4A. She’s really smooth.

the classroom. The senior maintains a 4.0 grade-point average and plans to pursue a career in medicine. Dorvall was joined on the Class 1A first team by Cook Inlet Academy’s Nicole Moffis and Ninilchik’s Jessica Rogers. CIA’s Madison Orth and Nikolaevsk’s Sophia Kalugin were on the second team. The Class 1A boys saw the Peninsula’s other first-teamer in Timmy Smithwick, while Nikolaevsk’s Jaruby Nelson was on the second team. Soldotna’s Katelynn Kerkvliet was the lone Peninsula player to get a 4A nod, making the second team. At the Class 3A girls level, Nikiski’s Rachel Thompson made the second team, while Nikiski’s Alyssa Darch, Homer’s Tayla Cabana and Seward’s Ashley VonBorstel were on the third team. 2014 Alaska Roof Coatings/Alaska Association of Basketball Coaches AllState Basketball Teams Class 4A Boys Player of the Year: Reece Robinson, Service

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Nikiski’s Rachel Thompson runs in for a layup against the Mt. Edgecumbe Lady Braves on Dec. 20, 2013, at Kenai Central High School in Kenai.

“They’re a pretty wellrounded team, and one of their main keys is tempo and transition.” The Seahawks are traveling to the state tournament for a fourth-straight year, which Clemens attributes to an abundance of offseason work. “We get into the gym as much as we can,” Clemens said. “We’re a school of about 170 kids, and this is a pretty competitive conference. I mean, look at Homer, they came on strong at the end there, and with

Coach of the Year: Dave Andersen, Kodiak First team: Reece Robinson, Service; Travon Brackett, West Valley; Damien Fulp, Colony; Desmond Johnson, East; Deandre Wilson, West Second team: Austin Frick, Kodiak; Alec CaneteHall, Kodiak; Kyle Carlson, Lathrop; Ihro Raguindin, Service; Matt Seymour, Thunder Mountain. Third team: Jacob Calloway, Thunder Mountain; Daniel Hornbuckle, West Valley; Tyrell Ford, Lathrop; Adam Ramoth, Palmer; Da’Zhon Wyche, West. Class 4A Girls Player of the Year: Chanel Bookert, West Anchorage Coach of the Year: Amy Fogle, Kodiak First team: Chanel Bookert, West ; Ruthy Hebard, West Valley; Jerica Nelson, Kodiak; Tara Thompson, Dimond; Hannah Wandersee, Kodiak. Second team:; CC Cockerham, West; Faith Farris, Colony; Katelynn Kerkvliet, Soldotna; Taria Page, East; Jayley Taylor, Ketchikan. Third team: Brandy Bookout, Chugiak; Royhn Huss, Dimond; Shayla Johnson, Wasilla; Megan Pyles, Kodiak; Ashley Young, Thunder Mountain Class 3A Boys Player of the Year: Scooter Bynum, Monroe Catholic Coach of the Year: Chuck Boerger, Grace Christian First team: Scooter Bynum, Monroe; Tyler Eide, Nome; Calvin Hoffman, Anchorage Christian; Theodore Naneng, Bethel; David Stepovich, Monroe. Second team:; Eric Johnson, Grace Christian; Lawrence Kaleak, Barrow; Immanuel Lopez, Anchorage Christian; Brian Way, Sitka; Tyler Wells, Monroe. Third team: Matt Barron, Houston; Hans Karlberg, Grace Christian; Cass Matthies, Nome; Jalon McCullough, Monroe; Nate Simmers, Anchorage Christian.

ACS and Nikiski, there’s some really good teams.” “Hopefully, after the two defeats last year, we want to go in this year and take the games, not just have them given to us.” The two losses at last year’s state tournament certainly does not sit well with Clemens and the team, but with junior Laura Kromrey’s post play, senior Ashley VonBorstel’s shooting, and the support of Ashley Whiteshield and Kiana Clemens, the Seahawks are ready to Class 3A Girls

Player of the Year: Dallas Dickerson, Anchorage Christian Coach of the Year: Beth Buchanan, Galena First team: Dallas Dickerson, Anchorage Christian; Shaina Burley, Galena; Jess Reiter, Delta; Mariam Wamsley, Valdez; Taryn White, Mt. Edgecumbe. Second team: Kiana Edwards, Hutchison; Rianna Joseph, Bethel; Angela Miguel, Barrow; Bryn Tennyson, Anchorage Christian; Rachel Thompson, Nikiski. Third team: Tayla Cabana, Homer; Adelaine Ahmasuk, Nome; Alyssa Darch, Nikiski; Ashley VanBorstel, Seward; Savannah Wells, Houston. Class 2A Boys Player of the Year: Everett Moorcroft, Bristol Bay Coach of the Year: Bryan Anderson, Bristol Bay First team: Everett Moorcroft, Bristol Bay; Harold Hoelscher, Hooper Bay; Gage Ivanoff, Unalakleet; Brent Sampson, Glennallen; Tristan Winter, Metlakatla Second team: Tristan Alexander, Metlakatla; Dawson Matthews, Susitna Valley; Kynan Monroe, Nenana; Brydin Pacheco, Bristol Bay; Cameron Peters, Glennallen. Third team: Lincoln Isaacs, Craig; Morgan Lake, Hooper Bay; Ken Savo, Dillingham; Tristan Ticket, Unalakleet; Dylan Wassily, Dillingham. Class 2A Girls Player of the Year: Drew Carlos, Dillingham Coach of the Year: Jim Lorence, Glennallen First team: Drew Carlos, Dillingham; Arianna Dougall, Glennallen; Eileen Ford, Hooper Bay; Monica Hayward, Metlakatla; Jonisha Wilson, Unalakleet. Second team: Maggie Dinom, Craig; Tierra Schroed-

rebound. Even though Seward tops out at 5-foot-9 — with VonBorstel, Kromrey, Clemens and Tori Stallings reaching that mark — coach Clemens said he firmly believes in the scrappy defensive effort that his team presents. “Dallas is going to get her points, she’s pretty tough to stop, but this defense has carried us,” he said. “We’re pretty aggressive on the boards, but all five (starters) have got to be there.”

er, Dillingham; Edna Standifer, Nenana; Marie Yates, Craig; Roberta Walker, Unalakleet. Third team: Mariah Del Rosa, Nenana; Lake Magdelene, Hooper Bay; Kendall Maslen, Glennallen; Emily Hartley, Susitna Valley; Theresa WellingtonMcGilton, Metlekatla. Class 1A Boys Player of the Year: Tyrus Morgan, Klawock Coach of the Year: Brent Hostetter, Noatak First team: Tyrus Morgan, Klawock; Billy Brown, Yakutat; Casey Sherman, Golovin; Timmy Smithwick, Cook Inlet Academy; Ralph Stalker Jr, Noatak. Second team: Jerry Carroll, Fort Yukon; PJ Hamilton, King Cove; Jaruby Nelson, Nikolaevsk; Sam Rew, Klawock; Kalani Russell, Yakutat. Third team: Matthew Bravo, Sand Point; Tristan Brown, Scammon Bay; Franklin Carroll, Fort Yukon; Cylas Okitkun, Stebbins; Edward Wesley, Noatak. Class 1A Girls Player of the Year: Nianiella Dorvall, Nikolaevsk Coach of the Year: Bea Klaich, Nikolaevsk First team: Nianiella Dorvall, Nikolaevsk; Alice Amaktoolik, Golovin; Denise Fernandez, Shishmaref; Nicole Moffis, Cook Inlet Academy; Jessica Rogers, Ninilchik. Second team:; Kasia Adams, Yakutat; Sophia Kalugin, Nikolaevsk; Madison Orth, Cook Inlet Academy; Kelly Sam, Huslia; Martha Wells, Kiana. Third team: Zhane Akeya, Savoonga; Macayla Alexander, Minto; Helen Bruns, Brevig Mission; Amber Dennis, St. Mary’s; Ayla Rickteroff, Newhalen.

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U nhinged A laska N ick Varney

Mother Nature’s snit fits

t felt as though we were trekking through a spring defrosted paradise as my wife and I walked the dogs along the Homer Spit last weekend. The bay was a placid mirror with small ensembles of wind pixies randomly dancing on its surface as rafts of snoring otters drifted by on the docile surf. Any Alaskan with an intellectual capability of a frozen fish stick knows that when such conditions pop up in March, the best thing to do is to haul in more firewood and check to make sure the lug nuts on your studded tires are still tight. Mother Nature didn’t disappoint. Monday rolled around and she started throwing snit fits all over the state. I don’t know why Ma N’s latest weather chaos maxed me out on the Sourdough Grump Scale but it did, big time. I must admit that there were others like Jeff King who had a much better excuse to go cagefighter all over the cantankerous old *&%^ after she slapped him off the trail toward the end of the Iditarod Race. As did citizens of assorted burgs who were walloped with two feet of new snow and the hillside residents of Anchorage who suffered wind gusts of 70+ mph that relocated their pet free range chickens to the outskirts of Vancouver, B.C. Tuesday afternoon, as the sleet continued to shoot across the yard, my bride realized that I was mumbling exotic profanities into an old tackle box as I tried to find a lure that hadn’t morphed into a hook-accented sculpture honoring rust and remarked, “I don’t think you should playing around semi-sharp objects while your so peeved about the weather changing again. We’re down to our last case of tetanus vaccine and pressure bandages so be careful.” “I’m not ‘peeved’ about anything.” I snorted. “Peeved is what I feel when I have a close encounter with dip-sticks who shoot through public parking areas like they were conducting a driveby in East L.A. I’m talking about nearly getting bagged by Lego brains blowing across business lots at a forty five degree angles, yapping on a cell, while trying to beat some other able-bodied brain stem to the nearest ‘Disabled Only’ slot. I swear they navigate around town like they have their heads planted so deep they have to drive with their zippers down. It must be tough to steer from place to place when you’re sporting the IQ of a suppository. Don’t you have any serious peeves,” Nick? “Come to think of it, I do.” She murmured. “One of my principal gripes is when a person asks me a question then never pays attention to my answer.” “Huh?” “Never mind.” “Easy now, I was kidding. I thought you’d come up with something like standing behind some cave dweller at a checkout stand who makes your eyes water because they’re giving off an aroma usually associated with cretins whose last bath was when they inadvertently became trapped in a cloud burst. You know the type. They haven’t changed clothes for so long their duds are on the cusp of becoming permanent body tattoos.” “Whoa, Captain Snark,” she chided. “Are you in a mood or what? Why don’t you take the mutts for a saunter and work on chilling your ‘tude about the weather witch being a bit testy this month?” “I think her formal first name is spelled with a ‘u’ but I’ll give canine therapy a shot.” The pup promenade managed to cool my jets except for the fact that I had forgotten a Dumpster-size poo bag for my mutant dog Howard who has been known to shame an elephant with his post-digestion displays. The situation was irritating but at least it was a dilemma I could solve with a proper receptacle and a reinforced coal shovel. That’s when it hit me. I’ve been spoiled this winter. While the majority of my clan in the Lower 48 has spent the season thawing out their butt cheeks so they wouldn’t shatter when they plopped down after coming back from the mailbox, I’ve been barbecuing steaks on the deck. March has always been unpredictable and for me to get all cheesed off about a few days of tempestuous weather before spring starts earnestly nesting in around here is like having a snowball fight with a blizzard. I’m going to lose and look like an idiot doing it. So, as for now, it’s back to mining my tackle box for rare workable lures while keeping an eye on the mountains across the bay because I’m sure the miserable environmental sorceress is fully aware that the Homer Winter King Derby is next Saturday. Just wait. Although the forecast is wicked great for the tournament, she’ll come out of nowhere and sumo slam her lame… There I go again, picking a snowball fight with a blizzard without a flake of ammunition because it’s too warm for the stuff to stick. When will I ever learn? Nick can be reached at ncvarney@gmail.com if he isn’t busy grilling goodies during the day and shoveling the driveway at night.

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Community Hannah Stratton and Tim Todd welcome baby girl Elle Annette Stratton-Todd born on 2/27/14 at 2:42 pm, 9 lbs 4.2 ounces at Sacred Heart at River Bend hospital in Eugene, Oregon to Hannah Stratton and Tim Todd of Kenai, Alaska. Baby sister to “Zest”. Grandparents are Kenne and Karen Stratton of Soldotna, Connie Todd of Soldotna, Tim Todd and Deborah Rigg of Kingston, Washington, and Julie Stratton of Tangent, Oregon.

News and Notes The IRS is seeking civic-minded volunteers from Alaska to serve on the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP). TAP is a federal advisory committee that listens to taxpayers, identifies key issues and makes recommendations for improving IRS service. The application deadline is April 11, 2014. Need insurance? The time to enroll is now; we have staff in the office and in the field that can help you navigate this law and how it affects you. The law goes by many names: The Affordable Care Act, Marketplace, the Exchange or even the infamous Obamacare, but regardless of what we call it, it is a reality and all Americans have until March 31st to get insurance if they do not have it already. Let us help you get through the process in as simple and easy a way as we can. Please, call (907) 2603691 or (907) 260-7364 and ask for our trained staff Tina Wegener and Kelly Whitmore.

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Kenai Senior Center What’s happening at the Kenai Senior Center for the month of February 2014 (all activities are held at the Kenai Senior Center unless otherwise stated):

n Knitting — 1 p.m. Fridays n Allin1 Craft Time — March 4th – Unique Craft Class, 1 p.m., $3

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n Wednesday, March 5 and19 — Social Security virtual office: 9 a.m.-noon (The Kenai Senior is the venue to talk to the Anchorage Social Security Office via video conferencing. This is a first come first serve service. A signup n March 17 — Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon, noon – 2 p.m. sheet will be available when you arrive at the KSC. No appointments and n March 19 — Birthday Lunch no age limits) n March 24 — No Host Dinner to Pizza Hut, 5 p.m. n Kenai Senior Connection Board Meeting — Friday, March 28 at 9:30 n March 25 — Celebrating National Puppy Day with puppies from the Kea.m. nai Shelter, 10:45 am n March 27 — Remembering the 1964 Earthquake, 12 p.m. Community Meals are served Monday – Friday from 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. n March 27 — Movie Time , Far & Away unless otherwise noted. Our mission at the Kenai Senior Center is to serve as a community focal point for senior services where adults 60+ come toBody / Mind / Soul: gether to engage in opportunities for dignity and personal growth. Please call (907-283-4156) or stop by our facility (361 Senior Court, Kenai AK n General Exercise: Monday / Wednesday / Friday — 9 a.m. 99611) anytime during regular operating hours (8 a.m.-4 p.m.) – Monday n Growing Strong Strength Training Class: Monday / Wednesday / Friday – Friday. — 10 a.m. n Line Dancing: Monday / Thursday — 10 a.m. at the Kenai Recreation Save the dates: Center (Please stop by the KSC to sign up for Beginning Line Dancing) n Spanish Class, Monday’s — 1 p.m. —donation suggested n Friday, April 4, Community Dance n Tai-Chi: Tuesday / Thursday — 10 a.m. Break-Up Hoedown n Zumba Gold: Tuesday / Thursday — 2 p.m. — donation suggested n Friday, April 25 “Meals on Wheels” n Sign Language Class: Wednesdays at 3 p.m.

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In this photo taken on Monday, warm weather draws spring beakers and locals to Pensacola Beach at Pensacola Beach in Pensacola, Fla.

Spring break in Florida: Here come the tourists BY MELISSA NELSON-GABRIEL Associated Press

PENSACOLA, Fla. — From portable beach jails to extra emergency medical staffing, Florida is coping with the annual — but not altogether unwelcome — invasion otherwise known as spring break. But if your impression of spring break from MTV and “Girls Gone Wild” is of an unscripted, chaotic mess of beaches, booze and bikinis, you’re only partly right. The state’s Gulf Coast does experience an onslaught of thousands of teenagers and college students every spring. But the fact is, the bulk of spring tourism to the state is families, said Paul Phipps, spokesman for Visit Florida. And this year, Phipps expects March and April to break Florida tourism records because of pent-up demand created by unusually cold and snowy weather in much of the country. “January and February numbers were up over last year and we expect that trend to continue,” he said. More than half the state’s spring break visitors will head to theme parks and other attractions in Orlando. This is the third-most popular time of year to visit Orlando after peak summer and Christmas-

time, according to Mark Jaronski, spokesman for Visit Orlando. Advance hotel bookings for March and April already indicate a record spring season for the area, he said, despite the lack of discounts this time of year. In Panama City Beach, officials are preparing for a different demographic: thousands of teens and 20-somethings. Dan Rowe, president of the Panama City Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau, expects 250,000 to 300,000 college students during March. The city brings in dozens of additional law enforcement staffers from outside agencies to handle the crowds, along with a mobile booking unit with a juvenile detention area. Panama City Beach Police Chief Drew Whitman, who has 20 years of experience with spring break law enforcement, said the mobile unit allows officers to enforce underage drinking and other violations without making the two-hour round trip from beach to county jail. The spike in law enforcement activity following a slow winter has already started. Between March 7 and March 12, Whitman said Panama City Beach made 211 arrests, most for underage drinking, public intoxication, DUI and other spring break-related offenses, including one person charged with sexual asC

sault, he said. And despite precautions and enforcement, tragedies happen. Rice University student Reny Jose went missing early March 3 after witnesses said he took LSD the previous evening at a beach house. Officials have been searching for him since. Another spring breaker died March 9 in a DUI-related crash. Whitman encourages commonsense safety for spring breakers like sticking together and keeping an eye on each other and an eye on drinks, so nobody can slip anything in them. “The hotels have extra security staff, we have on our website information about how to enjoy spring break responsibly, and police walk the beaches and interact with the kids throughout the day to make sure that they are staying smart and to addresses situations before they occur,” said Rowe, the convention and visitors bureau president. Even after spring break, Panama City Beach law enforcement stays busy through the summer with tens of thousands of visiting families and other tourists. Other beaches have fewer college-age spring breakers, but still expect crowds. Destin has long been a favorite destination for vacationers throughout the Southeast and expects crowds again this sea-

son. Another concern is beach safety in a region where rip currents claim lives from drowning every year. “The beach is a lot of fun but it can be a dangerous place particularly when people are drinking and there is rough surf,” said Sgt. Jason Fulghum, who oversees beach patrols for the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. Buck Lee, president of the Santa Rosa Island Authority, which oversees Pensacola Beach, said officials monitor beach conditions and add life guards and beach patrols on the roughest days. Pensacola Beach’s annual Mardi Gras Parade brought about 50,000 visitors to the beach on March 2, some 20,000 more than in 2013. Lee said the spike in parade attendance suggests a busy spring and summer tourist season. Tori Lellbach, 19, and Stefani Schrader, 19, university students from Lexington, Ky., chose Pensacola Beach as their spring break destination because it is more laid back than Panama City Beach. “It is not as crowded,” Lellbach said. But the women and two other friends said safety is a top priority. “We always stick together, look out for each other. That is what you have to do these days,” Schrader said.

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Let’s pick up Northern city’s loss of annoyance law

here is a scene in It’s a Wonderful Life in which George Bailey steals Mary away from Freddie, who is telling her a boring story at the school dance. (Freddie is played by Carl Switzer, who was Alfalfa in the Little Rascals (Our Gang) comedies, but that’s another story.) “Hey, this is my dance!” Freddie cries, to which George dismissively says: “Oh, why don’t you stop annoying people?” That scene came to mind recently when I read a news story out of Grand Rapids, Mich., whose city commission is discarding part of its city code that, for 38 years, has made it illegal to annoy other people. The city code is vague and unconstitutional, according to an Associated Press story that was picked up from the Grand Rapids Press. The commission will give its final approval

want to spend any time looking up to the change Tuesday, so if you’re the number of the correct person to a jerk and living in Grand Rapids call. (known as “Furniture City” and Drivers hogging the passing “River City,” because of its factories lane could be pulled over, thrown and the Grand River it lies on), you against the car, searched and perhave to wait one more day to irritate haps even used as target practice others. for a stun gun. The state House Wouldn’t it be great if our local already has approved a “slowpoke governments took up that Michigan bill” that gives these drivers their city’s slack and adopted anti-annoy- Glynn Moore comeuppance, but perhaps the antiing codes? Surely it’s not unconstiannoyance law would make them eligible for tutional here in the Deep South to make our life in prison without the possibility of parole. lives more pleasant. If that driver is talking on his phone, that Just imagine how things would improve if annoying people were fined, arrested, chewed could open him up to a “three-time annoyer” provision of the law, especially if he is drivout, deported or, oh, I don’t know, executed. For instance, annoyers would be prohibited ing along with his phone elbow sticking out from leaving obnoxious tirades on your tele- at a right angle from his body to make sure you see that he is so special that he was alphone just because they are upset and don’t

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recommend it as a house gift. DEAR ABBY: I’m a single mother supporting four children with no help from my ex-husband. I am fortunate to have a good job that I like. I referred a friend to the company who has Abigail Van Buren since become a regular employee, and he seems to be happy here. I was recently told that I’ll be receiving a referral bonus, which was a pleasant surprise. My friend approached me and asked me pointblank to split the money with him! I was taken aback. He knows my situation. He has a wife who also works full time, and two kids. I think he has a lot of gall to put me in a spot like this. The bonus money will be a huge help to me, and I don’t think it’s right that he expects me to give half of it to him. How do I handle this while keeping our work relationship intact? — EXTORTED IN NEVADA DEAR EXTORTED: Ignore your coworker’s question. If the subject is raised again, laugh and tell him you thought he was joking. If he says he wasn’t, remind him how hard jobs are to find and tell him he’s lucky you didn’t ask HIM for a referral fee. You don’t owe him anything; he owes YOU his gratitude. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. Good advice for everyone — teens to seniors — is in “The Anger in All of Us and How to Deal With It.” To order, send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Anger Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)

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Deathbed promise turns into a living nightmare DEAR ABBY: I have been widowed for five years. I have a close friend, “Louise,” who was also close to my late husband. She promised him on his deathbed she would “take care of me” when he was gone. Well, she has taken it to the extreme. She became very controlling and didn’t want me doing anything without her. I went along with it to keep the peace until about a year ago, when I met a wonderful man I’ll call Bill. Bill recently moved into my home. Louise says he has no right to live with me here because my late husband had it built and I have no right to let anyone else stay here. Now she refuses to visit. People have repeated to me some of the awful things she has called Bill. We have had many arguments over the hurtful things she has said in my presence. Bill feels bad about this. He hasn’t said or done anything to deserve the treatment Louise is dishing out and has encouraged me to try and work it out. Any advice on how to handle this very stressful situation? — WIDOW IN SALEM, N.J. DEAR WIDOW: Yes. Stop trying to appease Louise. She has gone beyond “taking care of you” and is trying to dictate the way you live your life. Bill means well, but you have already tried to get Louise to accept the situation. Because she refuses, perhaps it’s time to move on.

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lowed to buy a cellphone. (“You have the right to remain silent, sir,” the officer could tell him, “so to help you out, I’m going to toss your phone across four lanes of traffic.”) Companies could be cited for telling a different story each time you call, simply because you never get the same person twice. Political groups that call during suppertime to push a cause or a candidate would be punishable under a “big-time offender” clause of the annoyance law. If we wanted our appetites ruined, we could find better ways than listening to a recorded pack of lies. So, what do you think? Should we penalize annoyances? Grand Rapids’ loss could be our gain.

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Jaqueline Bigar’s Stars A baby born today has a Sun in Pisces and a Moon in Virgo if born before 8:46 p.m. (PST). Afterward, the Moon will be in Libra. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, March 16, 2014: This year you often focus on relationships. The issue for you might be how much you need to give. You will deal with guilt and resentment in learning where the correct boundaries lie for you. If you are single, you will want your potential sweetie to reveal more of him- or herself. Don’t rush the development of this bond; let a relationship build. If you are attached, the two of you often see situations differently. Use the many opinions you can come up with as a couple to add to the strength of your decisions. VIRGO can test your patience! The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH The Full Moon tugs at others’ emotions. You will be smart enough to not get involved in one of these highly dramatic situations; instead, you might opt to do your taxes or start some yard work. Say little and listen more. Tonight: Ready for some fun! This Week: Excess marks Monday, Tuesday and maybe even Wednesday. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You might feel as if you are being pulled like saltwater taffy as you listen to both sides of a story. Clearly, you can’t merge the two divergent opinions. Encourage the parties involved to respect each other’s differences. Tonight: Make it early. This Week: Once more, distractions roll into your life. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You might want to stay away from crowds and duck someone’s moodiness. Do what you want, but know that you probably need some R and R. You will want to be up to snuff as you go till the wee hours. Tonight: Add some mischief and fun to a relationship. This Week: Take some time off. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHHH The Full Moon today affects you more than it does any other sign. Don’t sit back any longer, and go for what you want. Make calls and reach out to your loved ones. Throw a spontaneous party. Everyone is likely to relax and have fun. Tonight: Speak your mind. This Week: Work from home. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You will be coming from a very secure spot with a loved one. You could be questioning what you want and seeking more information that will give you some insight into a particular person. You might feel awkward when dealing with a child. Tonight: Your treat. This Week: You speak your mind, and you will get a reaction by Friday. C

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You could not be better, as you reach out to a loved one. Make special plans together. You could feel torn, should today’s Full Moon affect your relationship. Know that you can honor your differences. A serious talk will open a door. Tonight: Indulge a loved one. This Week: A project demands your attention. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You might feel a bit out of sorts. You could decide to stay close to home and relax. Take a serious look at your finances. Some of you might be doing your taxes, while others could be checking out an investment. Recharge your batteries. Tonight: Out for dinner. This Week: You hit your power days Monday and Tuesday. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Use the daylight hours to meet friends for a movie or brunch. You could be concerned that you will say the wrong thing around a roommate or loved one. Try to relax. You might disagree, but that does not mean you need to fight. Tonight: Head home. Make it early. This Week: You feel out of sorts until Wednesday. The change will be radical. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Make time for a friend today. You might be more irritated than you think about a personal matter. Your comments could indicate a brewing issue. Discuss it or let it go. Tonight: A meeting could turn into a fun happening. This Week: Get as much done as you can before dealing with others Monday. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Keep reaching out to someone at a distance. This person could be far more demanding than you had anticipated. Be kind, but maintain your boundaries. Your sense of humor will help everyone relax. Avoid being controlled, even if it is second nature to you. Tonight: Out late. This Week: All eyes look to you. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Others clamor for your time and attention. Make it your pleasure. Allow greater give-and-take between you and a key loved one. Someone from a distance could be frustrated when trying to reach you. Tonight: Where there is great music. This Week: Detach from difficult situations until you are sure you have the right answers. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHThe Full Moon emphasizes your friendships and major ties in general. You’ll have an opportunity to iron out a problem with a loved one before it gets worse. Understand where this person is coming from. A conversation could be awkward. Tonight: Ease up and relax. This Week: Discussions need to be one-on-one in order to succeed.

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

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Treaties of the New Frontier

Launching Laws for Space

About half the countries in the world have some type of space program. And now private companies are going into space. What would happen if one company’s satellite crashed into another satellite? What if three different countries wanted to colonize Mars? The Mini Page talked with a professor of space law to find out more about the rules of the new frontier.

The seeds of space law The United States and the Soviet Union* signed the first major space treaty in 1967. At that time, the two countries were enemies. They were in the middle of the Cold War, a scary time when there was a threat of real war. The United States was upset when the Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite made by humans, into Earth’s orbit. The U.S. worried that if the Soviet Union could send a satellite over our country, it might also be able to launch a bomb over America. *The Soviet Union was a large country spread over parts of Asia and Europe. It broke up into several countries in 1991.

The treaties held. In 1975, the Americans and the Soviets joined together in the first international human spaceflight, the ApolloSoyuz mission. The two craft docked in space to test how an international space rescue would work. The artist imagines the two crews working together.

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In the sunny days of spring training, Andrew McCutchen warms up, preparing for another baseball season he hopes will be as good as his was last year. The versatile Pittsburgh centerfielder batted .317 with 21 home runs, was voted National League Most Valuable Player and led the Pirates into the playoffs. McCutchen can do it all: hit, run (27 stolen bases) and cover the outfield with grace. He has made only 7 errors in the last two seasons. During the offseason, McCutchen helped raise money for a youth baseball program in Fort Meade, Fla., where he excelled as a high school athlete in football and track as well as baseball. McCutchen remains a hero in his hometown — and in Pittsburgh, where he’s a Pirate whom opponents don’t like to face.

Working Together For the good of all

Private concerns

The Soviet Union and the United States agreed to freedom of outer space exploration for the benefit of all humanity. Both countries wanted to make sure that outer space was for international cooperation. Outer space, including celestial (suh-LESchuhl), or outer space bodies, could not be taken over by any country. When Americans landed on the moon, they did it on behalf of all people. When the Apollo missions brought back samples of moon rocks, NASA gave scientists all over the world access to study those rocks.

Treaties among countries include guidelines for covering damages. For example, if a U.S. satellite crashes into a Chinese satellite, the U.S. would have to pay for damages. But what happens when a satellite owned by a private company crashes into someone else’s property? If a private company’s spacecraft damages anything in another country, that company’s home country is responsible, or liable (LIE-uh-buhl). The company may then be forced to repay its own country for part or all of the damage costs. Most countries make sure private companies have money set aside to pay any possible damages. Only then do they grant companies licenses to launch satellites.

Even though Neil Armstrong planted the U.S. flag on the moon, it did not mean the United States could control the moon.

Putting the law into practice In 1978, a Soviet nuclear-powered satellite burst apart over Canada. Luckily, no one was hurt, but it spread dangerous radioactive waste over thousands of square miles. Many countries had already signed a treaty about satellite use. This made it easier to settle this problem. The Soviet Union agreed to pay $3 million (Canadian) in damages.

Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean collects samples of moon dust.

photo courtesy NASA

Space tourists

A National Weather Service satellite collects data from the Earth’s poles. photo courtesy NOAA

Brave New Worlds Several private companies are planning space tourism projects. Space tourists are already paying millions of dollars to go up in space. By the time you are an adult, space trips will probably be more affordable. Some companies are considering setting up orbiting hotels. Maybe you will stay a week in outer space! Space tourism presents special problems for the law. Today, astronauts have to complete a demanding training process. They are not likely to get stressed or do strange things because of nerves. But tourists won’t have this type of training and experience. What if one passenger steals from another passenger? Earth isn’t going to send police officers into orbit. The companies would have to handle it in a legal manner. Nations still have to develop laws to deal with space tourism and colonization. In 20 years, you might be one of the people making these brave new laws. Or maybe you or your children will be traveling in space.

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Meet Skai Jackson Skai Jackson stars as Zuri in the Disney Channel series “Jessie.” She has acted in several films, including “The Smurfs” movie. She has appeared on “Sesame Street” and in the Hallmark Channel’s “The Watsons Go to Birmingham.” She has been a voice actor for many shows, including “Dora the Explorer,” “Bubble Guppies” and “Team Umizoomi.” She has also been in many commercials. Skai, 11, grew up in New York City and now lives in Los Angeles. She enjoys fashion designing, playing video games and being with her friends.

When the Soviets launched Sputnik 1 in 1957, they started the space age.

The United States wanted the Soviet Union to agree to certain limits in the use of outer space. It especially wanted to ban weapons in space. Officials in the Soviet Union wanted some rules as well. They knew the United States could catch up with or overtake them in space. They didn’t want America sending weapons over their country either. The two countries agreed that outer space could not be used for orbiting weapons of mass destruction. Weapons could not be placed on any body in space, such as the moon.

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In many ways, outer space is like the high seas, or the open ocean far from any country. No country can claim it owns the ocean far beyond its coastlines. In the same way, no one owns outer space. Most of the world’s countries have signed treaties, or agreements, to protect the sea for everyone’s use. Laws protect the environment, fishing and people traveling over the seas. Laws can be hard to enforce on the high seas — and in outer space. Treaties and pressure from other countries help make sure the seas stay open to everyone. Usually this works.

The law takes off

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The high seas

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In this artist’s vision of a Mars colony, the living quarters are covered with soil to protect the colonists from the sun’s radiation. The settlement has a greenhouse and a pressurized work area where colonists would not have to wear spacesuits.

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Space Laws

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Space colonies

Getting together

There are no laws in place about colonizing the moon or other planets. Space colonists would probably follow a similar path to ones taken by colonists on Earth. For example, the Chinese could send colonists to Mars. But they could not claim Mars as part of China. They could not keep out Americans who also wanted to go to Mars. Chinese laws or American laws would not apply to the whole planet. They would apply only to their own citizens. Planetary colonists would probably not follow the laws of their home countries for long anyway. Colonists would build their own societies and laws.

Today, 102 countries have signed an international space treaty. Not all of these countries can launch rockets, but they have an interest in what happens in space. Once a year, countries with space programs meet in Vienna, Austria, to discuss space law. The United Nations helps set up these meetings, but cannot enforce any space treaties. The Mini Page thanks Dr. Frans G. von der Dunk, space law professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Law, for help with this issue.

Look through your newspaper for stories about outer space. Next week, The Mini Page celebrates the animation of “Mary Poppins.”

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The Beach ›› (2000, Drama) Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton. ‘R’ (2:00) + MAX Mon. 5 p.m. Beautiful Creatures ›› (2013, Fantasy) Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert. ‘PG-13’ (2:03) + MAX Mon. 11:05 p.m. Beauty Shop ›› (2005, Comedy) Queen Latifah, Alicia Silverstone. ‘PG-13’ (1:45) 5 SHOW Sun. 4 p.m. Bedtime Stories ›› (2008, Comedy) Adam Sandler, Keri Russell. ‘PG’ (1:39) (51) FAM Sun. 5 p.m. Beowulf ›› (2007, Adventure) Voices of Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins. ‘PG-13’ (1:54) (43) AMC Thu. 10:01 p.m. Big ››› (1988, Comedy) Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins. A wishing machine turns a boy into a 35-year-old man with a fun job

and a girlfriend. ‘PG’ (1:44) + MAX Thu. 7:15 p.m. Braveheart ››› (1995, Historical Drama) Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau. Enraged by the killing of his wife, Scotsman William Wallace leads a revolt against the tyrannical English king in the 13th century. ‘R’ (2:57) (43) AMC Fri. 7 p.m. Broken City ›› (2013, Crime Drama) Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe. ‘R’ (1:48) + MAX Sun. 11:55 p.m.; Fri. 7:10 p.m. Bruce Almighty ›› (2003, Comedy) Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman. ‘PG-13’ (1:41) (51) FAM Sun. 9 p.m.; Wed. 8 p.m.; Thu. 6 p.m.

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Dark Shadows ›› (2012, Comedy) Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer. ‘PG-13’ (1:52) ! HBO Wed. 11:30 p.m. The Day After Tomorrow ›› (2004, Action) Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal. ‘PG-13’ (2:03) (82) SYFY Sun. 5:30 p.m. Déjà Vu ››› (2006, Suspense) Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer. A time-folding federal agent falls in love with a New Orleans woman who is targeted to be murdered. ‘PG13’ (2:08) (38) SPIKE Wed. 11:30 p.m. The Departed ››› (2006, Crime Drama) Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon. In Boston an undercover cop gains a gangland chief’s trust, while a career criminal infiltrates the police force for the mob. ‘R’ (2:32) (43) AMC Wed. 7 p.m.

Die Hard ››› (1988, Action) Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman. A New York policeman outwits foreign thugs holding his wife and others in a Los Angeles high-rise. ‘R’ (2:11) (43) AMC Mon. 6 p.m. Die Hard With a Vengeance ››› (1995, Action) Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons. Suspended from the police force, John McClane enlists a Harlem shopkeeper to help stop a terrorist bomber. ‘R’ (2:08) (43) AMC Mon. 9 p.m.; Tue. 6 p.m. Disconnect ››› (2012, Drama) Jason Bateman, Hope Davis. A youth becomes a victim of cyberbullying in one of three tales centered around the impact of the Internet on people’s lives. ‘R’ (1:55) + MAX Mon. 8 p.m.; Thu. 11:50 p.m. Disturbia ›› (2007, Suspense) Shia LaBeouf, David Morse. ‘PG-13’ (1:45) (31) TNT Sun. 9:02 p.m. Do the Right Thing ››› (1989, Drama) Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis. Spike Lee’s account of erupting racial tensions on a summer afternoon in a predominantly black Brooklyn neighborhood. ‘R’ (2:00) 5 SHOW Mon. 5 p.m.; Fri. 5 p.m. Double Jeopardy ››› (1999, Suspense) Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd. While in jail for murdering her husband, a woman discovers he is living under a new identity with their son. ‘R’ (1:45) (31) TNT Sun. 5 p.m.

Edge of Darkness ›› (2010, Suspense) Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone. ‘R’ (1:57) (31) TNT Sun. 11:04 p.m. Entrapment ›› (1999, Action) Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones. ‘PG-13’ (1:52) ^ HBO2 Tue. 4:30 p.m. Epic ›› (2013, Adventure) Voices of Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson. ‘PG’ (1:43) ^ HBO2 Sun. 4:15 p.m.

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 42 ››› (2013, Biography) Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford. In 1946, Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, signs Jackie Robinson to the team in defiance of major league baseball’s notorious color barrier. ‘PG-13’ (2:08) ^ HBO2 Mon. 9:30 p.m.; Thu. 6:15 p.m.

Gangster Squad ›› (2013, Crime Drama) Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling. ‘R’ (1:50) ^ HBO2 Sat. 11:30 p.m. Girl vs. Monster ›› (2012, Comedy) Olivia Holt, Brendan Meyer. (1:30) (49) DISN Tue. 7 p.m. A Good Day to Die Hard ›› (2013, Action) Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney. ‘R’ (1:38) ! HBO Mon. 11:40 p.m. ^ HBO2 Sun. 8 p.m. The Goonies ››› (1985, Adventure) Sean Astin, Josh Brolin. Coastal Oregon kids follow the treasure map of pirate OneEyed Willie past his deadly traps to gold. ‘PG’ (1:51) (51) FAM Sat. 8 p.m. The Great Gatsby ›› (2013, Drama) Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire. ‘PG-13’ (2:22) ! HBO Sun. 6:30 p.m.; Thu. 7:30 p.m. ^ HBO2 Tue. 6:30 p.m.

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Lawless ›› (2012, Crime Drama) Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy. ‘R’ (1:55) 5 SHOW Tue. 7 p.m. Life of Pi ››› (2012, Adventure) Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan. After the freighter they’re on sinks in a storm, a teenager and a Bengal tiger wind up on a small lifeboat and must learn to trust each other to survive. ‘PG’ (2:05) + MAX Sun. 4:20 p.m. A Little Help ›› (2010, Comedy-Drama) Jenna Fischer, Chris O’Donnell. ‘R’ (1:49) 8 TMC Mon. 5 p.m. The Long Kiss Goodnight ››› (1996, Action) Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson. Former cohorts come after a small-town New England mom who gradually remembers her past as a government assassin. ‘R’ (2:00) ^ HBO2 Mon. 5 p.m. The Longest Yard ›› (2005, Comedy) Adam Sandler, Chris Rock. ‘PG-13’ (1:53) 5 SHOW Thu. 8 p.m.

Machete ›› (2010, Action) Danny Trejo, Robert De Niro. ‘R’ (1:44) (43) AMC Tue. 11 p.m. Mama ›› (2013, Horror) Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. ‘PG-13’ (1:40) ! HBO Wed. 6:45 p.m.

Man on Fire ›› (2004, Crime Drama) Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning. ‘R’ (2:25) (38) SPIKE Mon. 8:30 p.m. The Man With the Iron Fists ›› (2012) RZA, Russell Crowe. ‘R’ (1:35) ^ HBO2 Wed. 9:30 p.m. The Matrix ››› (1999, Science Fiction) Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne. A computer hacker joins forces with rebel warriors to battle a malevolent cyberintelligence. ‘R’ (2:16) (8) WGN-A Sun. 4 p.m. Mega Piranha ›› (2010, Science Fiction) Tiffany, Paul Logan. ‘R’ (1:30) (82) SYFY Sat. 10 p.m. Men in Black II ›› (2002, Action) Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith. ‘PG-13’ (1:28) (31) TNT Sat. 7 p.m. Mission: Impossible III ››› (2006, Action) Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Now a trainer for IMF recruits, agent Ethan Hunt squares off against the toughest foe he has ever faced: a ruthless arms and information broker. ‘PG-13’ (2:06) (43) AMC Sat. 9:30 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. Smith ›› (2005, Action) Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie. ‘PG-13’ (2:00) ! HBO Sun. 4:30 p.m. The Muppets ››› (2011, Comedy) Jason Segel, Amy Adams. Kermit, Miss Piggy and the other Muppets join forces with their fans to raise $10 million to save Muppet Studios from a greedy Texan who wants to raze the building and drill for oil. ‘PG’ (1:38) (49) DISN Sat. 7 p.m.

Now You See Me ›› (2013, ComedyDrama) Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo. ‘PG-13’ (1:56) ^ HBO2 Mon. 11:40 p.m.; Fri. 8 p.m.

Oblivion ›› (2013, Science Fiction) Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman. ‘PG-13’ (2:05) ! HBO Fri. 6:45 p.m. One Day ›› (2011, Romance) Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess. ‘PG-13’ (1:48) ! HBO Thu. 5 p.m. Out of Time ›› (2003, Suspense) Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes. ‘PG-13’ (1:45) (38) SPIKE Mon. 11:30 p.m.

Quartet ››› (2012, Comedy-Drama) Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay. A long-smoldering flame is rekindled when a once-popular opera star reunites with her ex-husband and fellow performers at a retirement home for musicians. ‘PG-13’ (1:39) 5 SHOW Tue. 5:15 p.m.

Road House ›› (1989, Action) Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch. ‘R’ (1:52) (30) TBS Sat. 11 p.m. The Ruins ›› (2008, Horror) Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone. ‘R’ (1:31) (82) SYFY Wed. 5 p.m., 10 p.m.

Sahara ›› (2005, Adventure) Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn. ‘PG-13’ (2:04) 8 TMC Sun. 7 p.m.; Wed. 4:15 p.m. Saw II ›› (2005, Horror) Donnie Wahlberg, Tobin Bell. ‘R’ (1:33) 5 SHOW Sat. 7 p.m. Seven Psychopaths ››› (2012, Comedy) Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken. A struggling screenwriter finds himself inadvertently entangled in the criminal underworld when his knucklehead friends abduct a mobster’s beloved Shih Tzu. ‘R’ (1:51) 8 TMC Tue. 8:40 p.m. Silver Linings Playbook ››› (2012, Comedy-Drama) Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence. An unexpected bond begins to form between a man trying to rebuild his life and a young woman promising to help him

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Paul Blart: Mall Cop ›› (2009, Comedy) Kevin James, Jayma Mays. ‘PG’ (1:31) (50) NICK Thu. 6 p.m.; Fri. 7 p.m., 8 p.m. The Perks of Being a Wallflower ››› (2012, Comedy-Drama) Logan Lerman, Emma Watson. Friends try to help an introverted teenager become more sociable. ‘PG-13’ (1:43) 8 TMC Mon. 7 p.m. Piranha ›› (2010, Horror) Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott. ‘R’ (1:28) (82) SYFY Sat. 8 p.m. Prometheus ››› (2012, Science Fiction) Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender. A clue to mankind’s origins leads a team of explorers to deep space, where they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race. ‘R’ (2:03) ^ HBO2 Fri. 4:45 p.m. Psycho ›› (1998, Suspense) Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche. ‘R’ (1:49) 8 TMC Sat. 8 p.m., 11:30 p.m. Pulp Fiction ›››› (1994, Crime Drama) John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson. Criminals cross paths in three interlocked tales of mayhem. ‘R’ (2:33) (43) AMC Wed. 10:31 p.m. The Purge ›› (2013, Suspense) Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey. ‘R’ (1:25) + MAX Sun. 9 p.m.; Sat. 5:15 p.m.

Keep the men and women who have served our country in your hearts. Remember how much they have given of themselves to make America what it is today: One Nation, Under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice For ALL.

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