Peninsula Clarion, March 20, 2014 by Sound Publishing

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THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 145

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Sale of land to gun club OK’d

Bursting at the seams

By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

In the news State, feds to weigh options in Exxon Valdez case

JUNEAU (AP) — The state and federal governments have told a federal judge they are reviewing information from studies on the lingering effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and will be deciding how to proceed in a continuing legal case. Lawsuits brought against ExxonMobil Corp. by the governments following the 1989 disaster led to a $900 million settlement and 1991 consent decree that resolved claims related to natural resource damages. The decree, however, included what’s known as a “reopener” clause that would allow the governments to seek additional work for restoration projects. The governments in 2006 demanded payment of $92 million but have not asked a judge to enforce the provision. A Department of Justice spokesman declined comment beyond what the governments said in their status report to the court.

Inside ‘We hurt those who hurt us.’ ... See page A-6

Correction In a story in Wednesday’s Clarion, the spelling of Leif Hansen Memorial Park was incorrect. The Clarion regrets the error.

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Cinderella’s Closet grows into to new location

he final, excruciating choice between two prom dress options is a familiar predicament for high school girls every year in early spring. Thought and focus falls on racks of pastels, sequins and lace. Kenai Central High School senior Taylor Burke and her style assistant and father Eric Burke found themselves picking through an eclectic mix of vintage and modern gowns in the theater dressing rooms at Soldotna High School, this year’s new location for Cinderella’s Closet. The source of free, recycled garments, jewelry, purses and shoes, is now in its fifth year, and has so far helped 392 girls find the right outfit for the finale of their high school years. “Without Cinderella’s Closet I probably wouldn’t be going to prom,” said Burke. After some searching online, she Top: Cinderella’s Closet in Soldotna Highschool has so far paired 392 girls found every dress was out of her price with prom dresses over the last four years. range by hundreds of dollars. Middle: Soldotna High School senior Emma Seldon and volunteer Maureen Students in Burke’s situation are the Mokracek examine a vintage-style dresss on Tuesday at Cinderella’s Closet. reason Meggean Bos, SoHi teacher, cre Above: “I think this is the perfect color for me,” said Nicole Kreider after choos- ated the affordable boutique. Originally ing her favorite dress. See CLOSET, page A-9

Story and photos by Kelly Sullivan, Peninsula Clarion

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly unanimously approved the sale of 77 acres of borough wetlands to the Snowshoe Gun Club at less than half of its assessed market value at its Tuesday meeting. The ordinance states the land was assessed at $34,000 and was negotiated down to $15,000. While it states the additional acreage would be used for a 1,000-yard shooting range and for improved downrange safety, residents neighboring the range raised concerns about safety, loud explosions and the sale at less than market value. Steven Phelps, who lives on the Spencer Homestead adjoining the range, said while he “loves guns,” used to enjoy shooting and watches his son shoot at the range, he has been awoken by fully automatic gunfire at 6 a.m. and exploding targets have rattled the windows of his house and the artwork on the walls. See SALE, page A-9

School standards delay debated By MIKE COPPOCK Associated Press

JUNEAU — The House Education Committee began hearing testimony on a resolution Wednesday to delay implementing new English language and mathematics standards for Alaska. House Resolution 9, sponsored by Rep. Tammie Wilson, R-North Pole, called for the delay because it may force districts to overhaul their existing curriculum. “We visited different schools and their frustration was pretty high,” Wilson said. “They said See SCHOOL, page A-9

Familiar face takes reins of Kenai Fire Department By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

Although the City of Kenai has a new fire chief hired from outside the department, he is a familiar face on the Kenai Peninsula. Nine years since he left Central Emergency Services in Soldotna, Jeff Tucker returned to accept the top job at the Kenai Fire Department, replacing retired chief Mike Tilly. Tucker’s first day was Monday. “I’m happy to be back and excited to be with the department with young energetic folks who really care about the community,” he said. “It has always been a dream of mine to come back to the peninsula.”

Tucker previously served as chief of the North Star Volunteer Fire Department outside of Fairbanks. The North Star District covers 106 square miles with about 25,000 people and 30 volunteer firefighters that handle about 1,200 calls a year. With a smaller, but full-time staff he said he expects the same number of calls in Kenai. The biggest challenge will be dealing with the influx of tourists during the summer months, which have historically had the highest call volume, he said. Having a good working relationship with the Nikiski and Soldotna stations is vital to providing the best service for the community, he said. Tucker said he is the sec-

ond chief the City of Kenai has hired from outside the department. He has 32 years of experience in the emergency service field and has held a leadership role in his last three jobs. He said it would be a transition for his new employees to adjust to his management style, but also a learning opportunity. “I see my role as ensuring they have the tools and capabilities to perform their job,” he said. “I try to empower people and give them authority to carry out a task. It is our responsibility to give the highest quality of service to the residents of Kenai.” Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion Tucker started his emergen- New Kenai Fire Chief Jeff Tucker returns to the Kenai Penincy service career in 1982 as a sula after serving nine years as the chief for the North Star Fire See KENAI, page A-9 Department outside of Fairbanks. C

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

Barrow 7/-5

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Kenai/ Soldotna 32/9 Seward 36/24 Homer 35/20

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From the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai

24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.00" Month to date ........................... 0.28" Normal month to date ............. 0.45" Year to date .............................. 2.63" Normal year to date ................. 2.29" Record today ................. 0.57" (1979) 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 ............................. 0.9" Season to date ......................... 42.2"

Valdez Kenai/ 30/17 Soldotna Homer

Dillingham 27/14

Juneau 40/21

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Kodiak 38/31

Sitka 39/29

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Ketchikan 41/29

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Today’s Forecast

(Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation)

Snow will fall around the lower Great Lakes today as chilly air expands for the Midwest to the interior Northeast. Some rain and snow will fall over the northern Rockies. Most other areas will be dry.

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High ............................................... 34 Low .................................................. 9 Normal high .................................. 36 Normal low .................................... 17 Record high ........................ 49 (1998) Record low ....................... -15 (1959)

Anchorage 31/16

Bethel 20/2

Cold Bay 40/27

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Fairbanks 21/-12

Talkeetna 31/5 Glennallen 24/-9

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Full Apr 14

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Today’s activity: Low Where: Auroral activity will be low. Weather permitting, low-level displays will be visible overhead from Barrow to Fairbanks and visible low on the northern horizon from as far south as Anchorage and Juneau.

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Anaktuvuk Pass 14/-6

Kotzebue 16/-1

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Dinosaur gets a proper name By MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer

NEW YORK — It’s called the chicken from hell: a birdlike dinosaur some 7 feet tall that weighed around 500 pounds when it roamed western North America on its long, slender hind legs. The beast got its nickname long ago at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, where a replica of its skeleton has been on display for a decade. But the species has had no scientific name. Until now. The creature was formally introduced to the scientific community Wednesday as scientists published a description and analysis of its anatomy, and finally bestowed a name: Anzu

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Wednesday Stocks Company Final Change ACS...........................1.91 +0.02 Agrium Inc............... 93.88 -0.16 Alaska Air Group...... 92.38 -0.18 AT&T........................ 32.96 -0.02 BP ............................47.32 -0.24 Chevron...................115.20 -1.04 ConocoPhillips..........67.50 -0.60 1st Natl. Bank AK... 1,737.00 — Forest Oil...................1.83 — Fred Meyer.............. 43.69 -0.31 GCI...........................11.21 -0.34 Harley-Davidson.......67.83 -0.35 Home Depot............ 79.75 -0.07 Key Bank................. 14.20 +0.23 McDonald’s.............. 96.10 -1.21 National Oilwell........ 73.99 -0.30 Shell Oil....................71.64 -0.58 Safeway................... 38.38 -0.07 Tesoro.......................51.67 -0.94 Walmart....................74.38 -0.39 Wells Fargo...............47.81 -0.59 Gold closed............ 1,329.17 -26.56 Silver closed............ 20.59 -0.24 Dow Jones avg..... 16,222.17 -114.02 NASDAQ................ 4,307.60 -25.71 S&P 500................1,860.77 -11.48 Stock prices provided by the Kenai Peninsula Edward Jones offices. C

“I thought that if I couldn’t come up with a name that literally meant ‘chicken from hell,’ I could at least name it ‘feathered demon.’” — Matthew Lamanna wyliei. The moniker comes from a mythological feathered demon plus the name of a Carnegie museum trustee’s grandson. Anzu had a toothless beak and a crest on its skull like a

rooster’s comb, combined with long arms and sharp claws up to about 4 inches long. It apparently also had feathers over much of its body. The analysis, in the journal PLoS One, concludes that Anzu belongs to a group of dinosaurs that scientists knew little about, because they had recovered only fragmentary remains from its members. In contrast, the three specimens of Anzu from North and South Dakota that were included in the analysis collectively supply a nearly complete skeleton, said Matthew Lamanna of the Carnegie museum. Anzu “reveals the anatomy of these creatures almost from head to toe,” said Lamanna, lead author of the new paper. The dinosaur lived some 66

million to 68 million years ago in a hot and humid landscape, rather like the Louisiana bayou, he said. It ate plants and maybe small animals when it wasn’t fleeing from a hungry and much bigger T. rex, he said. When it came to naming the creature, why not go with a spiffed-up version of “chicken from hell?” That was actually the first choice, Lamanna said. But it turns out the phrase isn’t nearly as catchy in Latin or Greek. “All the names we came up with were just ridiculously unpronounceable,” he said. So “I thought that if I couldn’t come up with a name that literally meant ‘chicken from hell,’ I could at least name it ‘feathered demon.’”

Peninsula Clarion, Thursday, March 20, 2014

Community Calendar Today 8:30 a.m. • TOPS AK No. 220 Kasilof weigh-in at CES Station 6, 58260 Sterling Highway. Meeting starts at 9 a.m. Call 2627319 or 252-3436. 10 a.m. • TOPS AK No. 164 Soldotna weigh-in at First Baptist Church, 159 S. Binkley. Meeting starts at 11 a.m. Call 2627339. • Narcotics Anonymous PJ Meeting, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. 5:30 p.m. • Free Seated Zumba Gold at the Kenai Senior Center. New participants, active older adults, and chair-bound or limited mobility participants are encouraged. 6 p.m. • AA Step Sisters at Central Peninsula Hospital. Call 2622304. • Weight Watchers, Woodruef Building, 155 Smith Way, Soldotna. Doors open at 5:15; joining members should arrive by 5:30; Getting Started session for newcomers at 6:30. • TOPS AK 20, Soldotna, weigh-in at Christ Lutheran Church, 128 North Soldotna Avenue, Soldotna. Meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. Call 262-1557. • Celebrate Recovery, Midnight Son Seventh-day Adventist church on the corner of Swires Rd. and Kenai Spur Hwy in Kenai. Dinner is at 6 p.m.; Recovery Lesson at 6:30 p.m.; Open Share groups at 7:15 p.m. Email rking4@mac.com or call260-3292. 7 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Dopeless Hope Fiends,” 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. • Square dance group at Ninilchik Senior Center. • Alcoholics Anonymous “Unity Men’s Group” meets downstairs the Salvation Army building in Soldotna. 8 p.m. • AA Attitude of Gratitude at URS Club, 405 Overland Drive. Call 283-3777. • AA North Roaders Group at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 242-9477. • Alcoholics Anonymous Ninichick support group at United Methodist Church, 15811 Sterling Highway, Ninilchik. Call 907-567-3574. 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.

Around the Peninsula Creating Well-Being presentation Dr. Pam Hays, a well-known author who works in private practice and with the Kenaitze Indian Tribe’s Nakenu Family Center in Kenai, will be giving a presentation entitled, “Creating Well-Being” from 7-9 p.m. on March 20 in Kenai Peninsula College’s McLane Commons. Dr. Hays’ presentation aims to help participants take control of their lives by encouraging them to take stock of their personal strengths, assess their problems and connect to possible solutions with tips from Dr. Hays’ new book Creating Well-Being. This event is free and open to the public and it sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society and the KPC Psychology Club. For more information, please contact Prof. Dorothy Gray, Phi Theta Kappa advisor, at 262-0321.

Central Peninsula Hospital presents Dine and Discuss Dr. Rob McAlpine, a Pediatric Dentist, will be presenting the topic, “Pediatric Oral Health” at the Central Peninsula Hospital’s Dine & Discuss event on Thursday, March 20 at 5:30 p.m. Join us for a delicious dinner and informative discussion in the Denali Room at the hospital. $10 at the door. RSVP to Camille Sorensen at 714-4600.

Kenai Peninsula College Council meeting scheduled

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

struction and encouragement for artists of all ages at the Kenai Visitors & Cultural Center. This is a great opportunity to get creative for the Kenai Birding Festival’s PEEP’s Art Contest.

‘Chefs of the Night’ support the Food Bank The Kenai Peninsula Food Bank invites you to the third annual “Chefs of the Night” event at the Food Bank facility on Kalifornsky Beach Road, Saturday, March 22 at 6 p.m. This elegant event includes gourmet foods created and served by local chefs, music, dancing and conversation with new and old friends. Tickets are available for $ 150 at the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank. For further information call 262-3111.

Spaghetti feed fundraiser for KPC art students The public is invited to attend Kenai Peninsula College’s Art Student League Association (ASLA) spaghetti feed donation fundraiser at Kenai Lodge #11 36086 Kenai Spur Road on March 23, from 4 to 8 p.m. Desserts will be available for sale by auction. Six art degree students will be taking their scholarship abroad to deepen their understanding of the art they have only seen in books. Working to earn money toward this project for four years, they are now in the final stages of preparation for their journey.Please show your support by bringing your family to this event. For more information call 907-262-3506.

Trout Unlimited meeting scheduled

The College Council will hold their next meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 20 at KPC’s Kachemak Bay Campus in Homer. The College Council is advisory in nature and members are recruited from all sectors of the Kenai Peninsula to provide input to KPC administration. The meeting is open to the public. For a copy of the agenda, contact Sue Evanson at 262-0318 or visit kpc.alaska.edu/KPC/CC-reports

The Kenai Peninsula Chapter of Trout Unlimited will meet March 26 in room 121 of the Steffi Building at Kenai Peninsula College, Kenai River Campus. Robert Begich, area management biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, will give a recap of last years fishing season, discuss regulation changes for the coming season, and describe projects that the department will be undertaking this summer. Need not be a member to attend, anyone interested in fishing is welcome.

Writers reading at the Kenai Fine Arts Center

This Friday evening, March 21, at the Kenai Fine Arts Center, local writers will meet and read from their latest work from 6-8pm. Doors open at 6p.m. The public is invited and encouraged to bring samples of their own writing to read aloud and discuss. Kenai Fine Arts Center provides free refreshments.

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 31 to get insurance if they do not have it already. Let us help you get through the Children’s art workshop planned process in as simple and easy a way as we can. Please call (907) A free PEEP’s children’s art workshop will take place Sat- 260-3691 or (907) 260-7364 and ask for our trained staff Tina urday, March 22 from 1 to 4 p.m. Teachers will provide in- Wegener and Kelly Whitmore.

Poll: People still seek meaty news By CONNIE CASS Associated Press

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans of all ages still pay heed to serious news even as they seek out the lighter stuff, choosing their own way across a media landscape that no longer relies on front pages and evening newscasts to dictate what’s worth knowing, according to a new study from the Media Insight Project. The findings burst the myth of the media “bubble” — the idea that no one pays attention to anything beyond a limited sphere of interest, like celebrities or college hoops or Facebook posts. “This idea that somehow we’re all going down narrow paths of interest and that many people are just sort of amusing themselves to death and not interested in the news and the world around them? That is not the case,” said Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute, which teamed with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research on the project. People today are nibbling from a news buffet spread across 24-hour television, websites, radio, newspapers and magazines, and social networks. Three-fourths of Americans see or hear news daily, including 6 of 10 adults under age 30, the study found. Nearly everyone — about 9 in 10 people — said they enjoy keeping up with the news. And more than 6 in 10 say that wherever they find the news, they prefer it to come directly from a news organization. The study found relatively few differences by age, political leanings or wealth when it comes to the topics people care

about. Traffic and weather are nearly universal interests. Majorities express interest in natural disasters, local news, politics, the economy, crime and foreign coverage. With so many sources and technologies, 60 percent of Americans say it’s easier to keep up than it was just five years ago. But at the same time, Jane Hall, an associate professor of journalism at American University, said no one is setting the national news agenda the way The New York Times and network evening news once did. “I do lament those times in which something could become so important that we all watched,” Hall said. “But that doesn’t mean we aren’t all engaged now.” If you’re under 30, the future of news is in your hands, literally. Three out of 4 young adults who carry cellphones use them to check the news. Most owners of tablet computers also use them to get updates; young people are the ones most likely to have tablets. But the young think of news differently than previous generations did, said Rachel Davis Mersey, an associate professor at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. Their broader definition includes anything happening right now, whether it’s sports or entertainment or politics. “We don’t see young people thinking of it as a civic obligation to keep up with news,” Mersey said. “We see young people including news as part of a very complex, very diverse, very large media diet that includes a diversity of sources,

a diversity of platforms and really goes 24/7.” The Media Insight Project study found 20-somethings likelier to follow up when they hear something big is happening. Americans get that first word an assortment of ways. Traditional news operations still dominate, but word of mouth, email and text messages, Facebook and Twitter, and electronic news alerts also come into play. Most people say they have more confidence in a story when they get it directly from a news-gathering operation. But their media habit doesn’t include paying for it — only about a fourth have paid subscriptions. Nine out of 10 watched some type of TV news in the previous week. Newspapers, including on-

line editions, and radio news each reached more than half the country. Online-only news sources such as Yahoo! News and Buzzfeed reached nearly half. People flit across the news landscape, depending on what they’re seeking, the study found. Wonder why local newscasts seem fixated on crime, traffic, weather and health warnings? That’s why viewers go there. Cable TV channels draw the most people looking for foreign news, politics, social issues and business stories. Readers prefer newspapers — online or in print — for local news, stories about schools and education, and arts and culture coverage. Among news sources, newspapers have the widest range of topics that attract a significant number of people.

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Local hire and honest boards Dennis Mandell, appointed by Gov. Sean Parnell to the State Assessment Review Board, withdrew from consideration with an email late Wednesday afternoon. He should never have been appointed in the first place. Parnell stubbornly defended his appointment of Mandell, a former oil company executive who lives in California, to a job the law says must go to an Alaskan. That appointment to the board, currently in the middle of a dispute among the state, Alaska local governments and the owners of the oil pipeline over the pipeline’s value and its corresponding tax obligation, met resistance from both sides of the aisle in the Legislature. It’s not the fact of resistance that should get the governor’s attention. It’s the fact that the resistance was justified because the governor was out of line. Parnell’s choice clearly violated state law, which requires that a member of the board be an Alaska resident — more specifically, a registered voter since before the last general election. Mandell is not. The administration at first claimed that the governor was abiding by the Alaska Constitution, which requires only that a board member be a U.S. citizen. That hardly gives the governor the right to ignore subsequent law passed by the Legislature. Then the administration referred to a 1973 record about the intent of lawmakers, some of whom said the governor should have greater latitude in appointments. But the administration had no answer when challenged with the clear wording of the law, which left no room for ambiguity, no matter what lawmakers might have said about intent. On Wednesday, the governor refused to withdraw the Mandell appointment and argued that the residency requirement was unconstitutional, and that a 1976 Supreme Court ruling backed him up. That’s questionable; the ruling applied only to executive branch department heads — Cabinet members — not to appointments to citizen boards and commissions. Further, all of this occurred after the governor fired Marty McGee, chairman of the assessment board, under whom the board put the pipeline’s value — and its tax bills — much higher than either the state or the oil companies did. Parnell’s decision to fire McGee and his subsequent appointments looked like the work of a man firing and hiring to get the assessment he wants and lower tax bills for the pipeline owners. Parnell’s appointment of Mandell simply didn’t pass the red face test. Sen. Hollis French, a Democrat and the Senate minority leader, was on target with a comparison — what if Gov. Tony Knowles during his administration had appointed a Berkeley environmentalist to the Board of Game? Sen. John Coghill, a Republican and the Senate majority leader, was on target when he said even if Parnell was right about the legal argument, he faced the political argument: Parnell couldn’t find a qualified Alaskan? No sale. There’s the matter of wise policy too. Alaskans expect Alaskans to serve on their boards and commissions because, at least ideally, they’re looking out for the common good of Alaskans and doing so independent of partisan concerns. They serve at the pleasure of the governor and with the consent of the Legislature but their obligation is to their fellow Alaskans. A hired gun (even if the hire is only for travel expenses and per diem) may be more sensitive to the one who hired him than to the common good. At best, Parnell’s appointment was ill-advised. At worst, it was an illegal bid to get the pipeline assessment he wants. If Mandell hadn’t withdrawn, the Legislature should have rejected the appointment. And Parnell should get the message now.

The foolish anti-vax cause

In a feat that would have been unimaginable a few decades ago, the anti-vaccine movement has managed to breathe life into nearly vanquished childhood diseases. It took all the ingenuity and know-how we are capable of to find safe, effective ways to dramatically diminish diseases like measles and whooping cough in the developed world; it took all the hysteria and willful ignorance we are capable of to give them a boost. A developer of the measles vaccine, Dr. Samuel Katz, says the question “is not whether we shall see a world without measles, but when.” Not if Jenny McCarthy has anything to say about it. The former Playboy model and current co-host of “The View” is a leading light of the anti-vaccine movement. She has a boy with autismlike symptoms that she is convinced were caused by the vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR). You can credit her passion for her child, sympathize with her heartbreak -- and still cringe at her wholly irrational cause. It is only natural that parents who see their young autistic children slip away at about the same time they receive vaccinations make the mistake of confusing correlation and causation. And it is only human to want to believe that a tragedy is a morality tale with readily identifiable villains, in this case the drug industry and the medical establishment. None of this makes the so-called anti-vaxxers any less wrong, or doggedly impervious to evidence.

Letters to the Editor Plug it in I feel that we are leaving a very bad impression with the merchants of our community who have been providing us those wonderful electric Carts to ride around in and enjoying shopping which was not possible before. I went into the Walmart store the other morning and entered the south door where there was a cart sitting (not plugged in) I took off and the power was almost gone in a few feet, so headed to the Center entrance where there usually more carts available and was able to get one that was plugged in. I did my shopping and took it back to the place where I first picked one up and there were three carts sitting there that no one had the courtesy to plug in for the next person, so I plugged mine in and my wife helped me plug another one in because of the limited plug ins available. A couple days later we went into the center door and one cart was left outside and another one was just sitting and

No amount of discrediting makes a difference. One theory was that a preservative in children’s vaccines called thimerosal was causing autism. But the U.S. removed thimerosal from most childhood Rich Lowry vaccines in 2001. If the theory had been sound, this should have reduced cases of autism. It didn’t. Cases have continued to rise, and the same held true in Canada and Denmark after eliminating thimerosal in the 1990s. Another theory, latched onto by Jenny McCarthy, is that the MMR vaccine in particular causes autism. Dr. Andrew Wakefield publicized this supposed link in a famous article in the British medical journal The Lancet. It has since been thoroughly debunked. The Lancet retracted Wakefield’s paper, and the British Medical Journal reported that he “falsified data.” He had his medical license revoked. All of which should have been enough to give the antivaxxers pause. Nonetheless, they fight on. In an interview with the Fox Business Network the other day, former MTV star Kristin Cavallari plugged the anti-vaccination cause, citing “books” and “studies.” Most parents don’t listen. Only 1.8 percent of kindergartners get exempted from

no effort was made to plug it in when you able to donate over $700. Thank you for helping our efforts to were done shopping. I am 82 years old and have a bad back feed hungry Kenai Peninsula residents! Kenai Peninsula Food Bank plus in the last eight years I have had to learn how to walk again three times after surgeries. I wish to thank the merchants for this service they have provided to me. Sincerely, Paul D. Morrison Write: Fax: Kenai

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Applause Ladies’ Night a success A big thank you from the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank to Sportsman’s Warehouse for hosting the 2014 Ladies’ Night to benefit the Food Bank and the Lee Shore Center. Also thank you to the participants and attendees. Attendees brought in 246 pounds of canned goods for the Food Bank, the Delta Waterfowl Foundation raised $400 through the Wall of Guns, and Sportsman’s Warehouse was

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vaccinations, according to NBC News. But the number is higher in some states. In Oregon, the rate is 6.4 percent, with some counties hitting double digits. In California, Marin County has an exemption rate of nearly 8 percent. The more kids go unvaccinated, the greater the chance that diseases can get a foothold. They usually are imported from abroad, but the absence of vaccination is a boon to their spread. A study in the journal Pediatrics found that the 2010 whooping-cough outbreak in California -- when the state had the highest number of cases since 1947 -hit hardest in areas with high levels of nonvaccination. In 2013, measles cases tripled nationwide. Outbreaks were centered in religious communities in Brooklyn, N.Y., Texas and North Carolina that had resisted vaccination. New York City has another small outbreak right now. In the panic created by the Wakefield article, England saw MMR vaccination rates fall to 80 percent in 2004 and Wales to 78 percent. In 2012, England and Wales had the highest number of measles cases in 18 years. These are dangerous illnesses, and the victims of an outbreak are often infants too small to have yet received vaccinations. Jenny McCarthy styles herself a “mother warrior.” If so, the kids sickened in the fallout from reduced vaccinations are the victims of friendly fire. Nothing good can come from undoing one of the miracles of medical progress.

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‘Fun while it lasted’

Gift store closes as owners look to future By KELLY SULLIVAN Peninsula Clarion

Gifts and Gadgets, Soldotna’s source of exotic trinkets, is closing its doors for good on Friday after a brief but fruitful threeyear run. “It was fun while it lasted,” said coowner Val Ischi. “Now I am looking towards the retirement side of life.” Ischi also runs the adjoining Dairy Queen with her business partner Pete Ischi, which is part of the neighboring building complexes that she also owns and manages. Ischi and her sister Deb Wise opened Gifts and Gadgets together in 2011 as Alaska Fudge and Gifts. After a fire ravaged the store in June 2012, the duo used the set back as an opportunity to revise their business plan. They gutted the property, and reopened (minus the fudge) as Gifts and Gadgets, less than a year later.

Ischi said the store’s clientele has always been kind and appreciative of the unique products and reasonable prices. Shutting down had nothing to do with the community response, Ishci emphasized. Wise’s round-the-clock job at Alaska Fish Connection keeps her based in Homer for half of the year. With Ischi also focusing on supervising Dairy Queen, and the two sisters hoping to be more mobile in the dark winter months, Gifts and Gadgets has become a time consuming endeavor. Full-time employee Louise Harris said she would be sad to see Gifts and Gadgets go. After almost two years at the store, she will miss the cyclical flux of enthusiastic tourists and friendly locals. Harris said she’s heard some clients will be hurting for the dragon and faerie statuary that was quite popular. “A lot of people are disappointed,” Harris said. “People are going to miss it, es-

pecially if you want (to find) something different.” She joked some male shoppers will be especially troubled losing their “secret store.” Men would come to Gifts and Gadgets to buy something rare for their spouses on special occasions, Harris said. The space is currently open for leasing, Ischi said. She said she is potentially looking to rent it out as office space. Being right off a main road it provides good visibility as a business, but she has to be careful about what to allow next to an eatery like Dairy Queen. Ischi said she isn’t too disappointed to be closing. She is ready to devote more time to traveling. Running a store from a distance has been less than ideal, and therefore not possible, she said. Kelly Sullivan can be reached at kelly. sullivan@peninsulaclarion.com.

Small business unfazed by paid sick time By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writer

NEW YORK — As more cities mandate paid sick days for workers, the reaction from many small businesses is a big, so what? New York City and two New Jersey cities, Jersey City and Newark, are the latest to require employers to give workers paid time off when they’re ill or to care for sick relatives. San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Portland, Ore. and Connecticut already had sick leave laws. Similar legislation elsewhere has been a bust because of opposition from business groups and some public officials. In Philadelphia, for instance, Mayor Michael Nutter has vetoed sick leave bills twice saying they threaten jobs and make the city less attractive to new business. The Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce also lobbied against the laws because of worries that businesses would flee. And the National Federation of Independent Business says when you add government-mandated sick leave to the minimum wage increases that are happening in some states, it equals rising labor costs for small businesses. But preliminary research shows the laws have little, if any, downside for profits. And many small businesses say they don’t find complying with the laws a burden. Many already gave employees paid sick time before the laws were passed. And having paid sick time makes employees happy. “If you’re sick and can’t make it into work, it gives you security,” says Leonardo Lima, who works for an electronics repair shop in New York. He was getting paid sick leave before the law was passed. Research in Connecticut, whose sick leave law went into effect in 2012, shows a minimal financial effect. A report released this month by the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the City University of New York’s Murphy Institute said many of the Connecticut businesses already had paid sick leave. Nearly 47 percent of 251 companies surveyed said the law hadn’t affected costs. Only 6.5 percent said costs rose 5 percent or more. And 60 percent said keeping records was somewhat or very easy. The think tank’s research tends to support paid time off for workers, including family and medical leave. Ray Fitzgibbon expected Seattle’s law, which took effect in September 2012, to create a nightmare for his Synergy HomeCare business, but he’s been able to afford paying a sick worker and a replacement. “I had used the arithmetic based on a worst-case scenario and it was scary. And in hindsight, it just hasn’t turned out like that,” he says. Washington, D.C.’s law, which took effect in 2008, hasn’t prompted an exodus of companies. Four years later, a survey found that 88 percent

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Peninsula Job Fair Job and Career Fair moves to Job Center The annual Peninsula Job Fair, billed as the biggest recruitment event on the Peninsula, will take place on Wednesday, March 26 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Peninsula Job Center. Employers, including private businesses and government agencies, and college representatives will be on hand to answer questions, provide job applications and accept resumes. Retail, tourism, oil and gas, healthcare, construction and commercial fishing sectors will be represented at the fair. Adult job seekers will have the opportunities to speak with employers, apply for their current openings, and learn about future employment opportunities. In addition, junior and senior students from Kenai Central, Nikiski Middle-High, Skyview, and Soldotna High Schools are being transported to the job fair by the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. For the second year running, the Department of Labor and Workforce Development and the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District partnered to deliver resume writing, interviewing and work ethics training in preparation for this event. This is an outstanding opportunity for people looking for work, looking for a career or looking to change a career. Job seekers should bring several copies of their resume and be dressed to interview with employers. The Peninsula Job Fair, coordinated by the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development with support from the Peninsula Clarion and alaskajobnet.com, City of Soldotna, City of Kenai and the Kenai and Soldotna Chambers of Commerce, is designed to provide opportunities for those looking to improve or change their career status. For businesses interested in having a booth at the Job Fair, please contact Jackie Garcia, Peninsula Job Center Business Connections Specialist, at 907-335-3030. — Information provided by the Peninsula Job Center

Business News Chambers set schedules n The Kenai and Soldotna Chambers of Commerce will hold a joint luncheon at noon on Wednesday at the Kenai Visitor Center. A sneak peek of the new Dena’ina Wellness Center, presented by Jaylene Peterson-Nyren, Executive Director of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe, is planned. RSVP to 283-1991 or 262-9814. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File

In this Friday, Jan. 18 2013 photo, activists hold signs during a rally at New York’s City Hall to call for immediate action on paid sick days legislation in light of the continued spread of the flu. New York City and two New Jersey cities, Jersey City and Newark, are the latest to require employers to give workers paid time off when they’re ill or to care for sick relatives. San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Portland, Ore. and Connecticut already had sick leave laws.

‘If I look at it in terms of the big picture, it’s an investment instead of this chore we have to do.’ — Larry Kenny, bakery owner of companies said they would not leave the city because of the law. But the laws do create some headaches. Workers at law firm Genova Burns Giantomasi Webster often work out of offices in different cities including Newark, Jersey City, New York City and Washington, D.C. Some municipalities have different laws about hour sick time is accrued. Figuring out how to manage sick time when employees work in different locations isn’t easy. “I’m not sure how the ordinances work if I have one of

my staffers in Red Bank (N.J.) work out of my Newark office for a time,” says managing partner Brian Kronick. Seven years after a paid sick leave law was passed in San Francisco, few companies have complained, says Jim Lazarus, senior vice president for policy of that city’s Chamber of Commerce. The Center for Economic Research/CUNY report on Connecticut’s law found that 60 percent owners it surveyed say keeping records was somewhat or very easy. Another wrinkle for owners is that they may need to pay two salaries: One for the sick

person and one for the person filling in. They also need to track employees’ work hours and report it to the government. Some companies use technology to handle the additional work involved. Playerize, a San Francisco software maker has a program that tracks the sick time that employees accrue and use, says co-founder Lyal Avery. For Larry Kenny, owner of a Newark bakery, the benefits outweigh the costs. He’ll have to provide sick time when Sweet Retreat Boutique hires its first employees by early June. The upside: It will help keep sick people away from baked goods, and he says having sick time will help employee morale. “If I look at it in terms of the big picture,” Kenny says, “it’s an investment instead of this chore we have to do.”

Job Center hosts workshops The following job skills workshops will be offered at the Peninsula Job Center the week of March 24: Monday, March 24 — 9:30 a.m., ALEXsys Job Leads; 10:30 a.m., Introduction to ALEXsys and the Job Center; 2:30p.m., Resume Writing Workshop Tuesday, March 25 — 9:30 a.m., Resume Writing Workshop; 10:30 a.m., Job Prep Workshop Wednesday, March 26 — Peninsula Job Fair at the Job Center, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday, March 27 — No workshops scheduled. Friday, March 28 — No workshops offered. All workshop are free of charge to the public. Those interested in attending any workshops offered at the Peninsula Job Center can call 335-3010 or visit the job center located in Kenai at 11312 Kenai Spur Hwy., Suite No. 2. Business hours are Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. excluding state and federal holidays. You can also reserve space by clicking on the “Schedule Workshops” option located on the main screen in your ALEXsys account www.jobs.alaska.gov.

What’s new in your business? Have you opened a new business, moved to a new location, hired a new person or promoted an employee? The community wants to know, and so do we. Send us your information at news@peninsulaclarion. com, fax it to 907-283-3299, or drop it by the Clarion at 150 Trading Bay in Kenai. Questions? Call 907-3351251. Business announcements may be submitted to news@ peninsulaclarion.com.

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Around the World Ukraine to hold joint military exercises with US, UK, leave Russia-dominated alliance KIEV, Ukraine — Russian forces seized military installations across the disputed Crimean Peninsula on Wednesday, prompting Ukraine’s security chief to announce that his country will hold joint military exercises with the United States and Britain. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was in Lithuania, trying to reassure nations along Russia’s borders who were terrified by the sight of an expansion-minded Moscow. “We’re in this with you, together,” Biden said. Ukraine has been powerless to prevent Russian troops from taking control of Crimea, which Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed on Tuesday. A day later, masked Russian-speaking troops moved into Ukraine’s naval headquarters in the Crimean city of Sevastopol, detaining the head of Ukraine’s navy and seizing the facility. They faced no resistance. Andriy Parubiy, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said the government was drawing up plans to evacuate its outnumbered troops from Crimea back to the mainland and will seek U.N. support to turn the peninsula into a demilitarized zone.

Malaysia, FBI analyze data deleted from flight simulator of pilot on missing jetliner KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The FBI joined forces with Malaysian authorities in analyzing deleted data on a flight simulator belonging to the pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, while distraught relatives of the passengers unleashed their anger Wednesday — wailing in frustration at 12 days of uncertainty. The anguish of relatives of the 239 people on Flight 370 boiled over at a briefing near Kuala Lumpur’s airport. Two Chinese women who shouted at Malaysian authorities and unfurled a banner accusing officials of “hiding the truth” were removed from the room. In a heart-wrenching scene, one woman screamed in sorrow as she was dragged away. “I want you to help me to find my son! I want to see my son!” one of the two unidentified women said. “We have been here for 10 days.” Files containing records of flight simulations were deleted Feb. 3 from the device found in the home of the Malaysia Airlines pilot, Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah, Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu said. It was not immediately clear whether investigators thought that deleting the files was unusual. The files might hold signs of unusual flight paths that could help explain where the missing plane went.

NYC inmate ‘basically baked to death’ in overheated jail cell at Rikers Island NEW YORK — Jerome Murdough was just looking for a warm place to sleep on a chilly night last month when he curled up in an enclosed stairwell on the roof of a Harlem public housing project where he was arrested for trespassing. A week later, the mentally ill homeless man was found dead in a Rikers Island jail cell that four city officials say had overheated to at least 100 degrees, apparently because of malfunctioning equipment. The officials told The Associated Press that the 56-yearold former Marine was on anti-psychotic and anti-seizure medication, which may have made him more vulnerable to heat. He also apparently did not open a small vent in his cell, as other inmates did, to let in cool air. “He basically baked to death,” said one of the officials, who all spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to discuss specifics of the case. The medical examiner’s office said an autopsy was inconclusive and that more tests were needed to determine Murdough’s exact cause of death. But the officials, all with detailed knowledge of the case, say initial indications from the autopsy and investigation point to extreme dehydration or heat stroke.

US announces $1.2B settlement with Toyota, files criminal charge WASHINGTON — Toyota agreed to pay $1.2 billion to settle an investigation by the U.S. government, admitting that it hid information about defects that caused Toyota and Lexus vehicles to accelerate unexpectedly and resulted in injuries and deaths. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the penalty is the largest of its kind ever imposed on an auto company. The four-year criminal investigation focused on whether Toyota promptly reported the problems related to unintended acceleration. The company admitted to misleading consumers and regulators by assuring them that it had adequately addressed an acceleration problem stemming from ill-fitting floor mats— which attracted widespread publicity in 2009 following a car crash in San Diego that killed a family of four — through a limited safety recall of certain models. Toyota knew at the time that it had not recalled other models susceptible to the same problem and also took steps to conceal from regulators a separate acceleration problem related to a faulty pedal, according to the Justice Department. “In other words, Toyota confronted a public safety emergency as it if were a simple public relations problem,” Holder said at a news conference.

Senatorial smackdown, coaches doing double-takes; why NCAAs are bad for America Welcome to BracketRacket. Think of it as one-stop shopping on game days for all your NCAA tournament needs. We’ll have interviews with celebrity alums drawn from sports, entertainment and politics, plus occasional “bracket-buster” picks, photos, news, gossip, stats, notes and quotes from around the tourney sites — all of it bundled into a quick read that gives diehard fans and officepoolers alike something to sound smart about. So without further ado: TAKE THIS JOB ... AND DUNK IT

German zoo’s polar bear twins make public debut BERLIN — The Munich zoo’s 14-week-old polar bear twins don’t yet have names, but they’re already stars. The tiny cubs — one male, one female — were greeted by nearly 100 reporters as they skipped across their enclosure during their first public appearance Wednesday. The still unnamed cubs were born on Dec. 9 and made their first outing under the watchful eye of their mother, Giovanna. — The Associated Press

Airstrikes escalate tensions BY DANIEL ESTRIN Associated Press

JERUSALEM — Israeli warplanes unleashed a series of airstrikes on Syrian military posts early Wednesday, killing one soldier and wounding seven in one of the most serious clashes between the countries in the past four decades. The airstrikes came in retaliation for a roadside bombing a day earlier in the Golan Heights that wounded four Israeli soldiers on patrol along the tense frontier with Syria. The overnight raids marked a sharp escalation of activity for Israel, which largely has stayed on the sidelines during Syrian President Bashar Assad’s battle against rebels trying to topple him. It is unclear which of the many groups fighting in Syria may have planted Tuesday’s bomb. But Israel has said it holds Assad responsible for any attacks emanating from his country, and accused his forces of allowing the attack to take place. “Our policy is clear. We hurt those who hurt us,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said Assad would “regret his actions” if attacks continue. Israel captured the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau overlooking northern Israel, from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war. It later annexed the area, though that move is not internationally recognized. Gunfire and mortar shells from the fighting in Syria have occasionally landed in the Golan in recent years. Israel has said much of the fire was errant, but has responded with artillery fire in several cases. None of those reprisals, however, were as intense as Wednesday’s airstrikes. The Israeli military said its warplanes hit a Syrian army training facility, an army head-

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A wounded Israeli soldier is brought to a hospital in Haifa, Israel, Tuesday. A roadside bomb hit an Israeli patrol near the frontier with the Golan Heights on Tuesday, the army said, wounding four soldiers in the most serious violence to strike the area since the Syrian conflict began three years ago. Israel said it responded with artillery strikes on Syrian army targets.

quarters and artillery batteries. Israel also had carried out artillery strikes against Syrian military targets shortly after Tuesday’s bombing. The Syrian military said the raids early Wednesday targeted three army posts near the town of Quneitra, on the edge of the Israeli-occupied part of the Golan. It confirmed the death of one soldier and said seven were wounded. The Syrian army denounced the airstrikes as Israel’s “desperate attempt to escalate and worsen the situation” and to divert attention from Damascus’ advances on the battlefront, especially the military’s capture last weekend of a key rebel stronghold near the Lebanese border. “Repeating such hostile acts (airstrikes) would endanger the security and stability of the region and make it open to all possibilities,” a Syrian military statement said. Analysts said they did not expect the situation to deteriorate, since neither Israel nor Syria is interested in a full-fledged war.

Assad is focused on his battle against the rebels and Israel has little desire to upset a period of relative quiet. Syria’s ally, Hezbollah, possesses tens of thousands of rockets and missiles aimed at Israel. Even so, the area has seen an increase in tensions in recent weeks. Last week, a roadside bomb exploded near an Israeli military patrol along the Lebanese border, causing no injuries. Israel responded with tank and artillery fire at suspected Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. Earlier this month, the Israeli army said it killed two militants affiliated with Hezbollah — whose forces are fighting in Syria alongside Assad’s troops — as they were trying to plant a bomb along the frontier. Also, an Israeli airstrike last month reportedly targeted a suspected Hezbollah weapons convoy in northeastern Lebanon, though officials in Israel never confirmed it. Hezbollah said it would retaliate for the airstrike, which killed a Hez-

bollah official overseeing the operation. Israel stopped short of blaming Hezbollah outright for Tuesday’s bombing, but defense officials said the group remained the main suspect. Israel and Hezbollah are bitter enemies. They fought a monthlong war in 2006 that ended in a stalemate, and both sides have been gearing up for another confrontation. Israel has said it will not allow sophisticated weapons to flow from Syria to the Iraniansupported Hezbollah. Since the Syrian war broke out, Israel has carried out a series of airstrikes in Syria that destroyed weapons shipments believed to be headed to Hezbollah. While the Israel and Syria have largely refrained from direct confrontation since the 1973 Mideast war, Israel has shown a readiness to act. In 2007, Israeli warplanes bombed a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria, and on two previous occasions, Israeli warplanes buzzed over Assad’s palace in a show of strength. In 2003, Israel also bombed a training camp belonging to a Syrian-backed militant group that had carried out a suicide bombing in Israel. Israel also remains concerned that an ouster of Assad could see power in Syria fall to Islamic militants there, particularly alQaida-linked groups, and further destabilize the region. Israeli analyst Ephraim Kam said neither Syria nor Israel want war, and that Hezbollah and Israel are interested in only limited confrontations. “What can Israel achieve by going to war?” asked Kam, a researcher at the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies. “Syria is not in a position to go to war now, with civil war taking place.”

Glimpse into GM’s future with Toyota By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer

DETROIT — General Motors, beware. Wednesday’s announcement that Toyota will pay $1.2 billion to avoid criminal prosecution for hiding information in a recall case could be a glimpse into your future. It’s also a warning to anyone selling cars in the U.S.: Although the federal government’s road-safety watchdog doesn’t have big fangs, the Justice Department does. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s maximum fine for hiding information is $35 million, a pittance to automakers. But the Justice Department can reach deeper into your wallet and hurt your reputation with damning public statements. Shortly after the announcement, Attorney General Eric Holder issued an apparent warning to GM and other automakers, saying the Toyota deal was “not necessarily the only time we will use this approach.” General Motors Co., which is facing a federal criminal probe over delays in recalling small cars with a deadly ignition switch problem, has many parallels to the Toyota case. Toyota got into trouble for withholding information from NHTSA about floor mats that can trap gas pedals and make cars accelerate wildly, and for concealing a problem with sticky gas pedals that can cause unwanted acceleration. According to court records, the company recalled some models for the floor mats while knowing that others had the same problem. At GM, the company has admitted knowing about the ignition-switch problem for more than a decade, yet it failed to recall 1.6 million small cars until last month. During the wait, at least a dozen people died in crashes because the faulty switches moved out of the run position, disabling power steering and brakes. Air bags also didn’t inflate. “We now see what GM may be facing,” said Peter Henning, a law professor at Wayne State C

University in Detroit and a former Justice Department prosecutor. “If you have comparable conduct inside the company, the government is going to come down hard.” The Toyota payment changes the model for regulating auto safety in the U.S. Before Wednesday, safety issues had been almost the exclusive domain of NHTSA. Now, the government has raised the stakes with criminal actions, Henning said. “GM has to be concerned what kind of a hit there is going to be to the bottom line,” said Henning, who predicted that GM’s penalty could rise toward $2 billion because its recall delays lasted longer than Toyota’s. The Toyota penalty is a “game changer” that will force automakers to take notice, said Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety. “Until today, automakers faced insignificant fines and no criminal penalties,” he said. Even with a $1.2 billion penalty, the bigger issue for both GM and Toyota is damage to reputations. Before a highly publicized 2009 unintended acceleration crash that killed a California Highway Patrol officer and three family members, Toyota was known by all for reliability, and it was gobbling up sales and market share in the U.S. The crash triggered the recall of more than 10 million vehicles and raised suspicions about Toyota’s safety. From 2010 through 2012, NHTSA fined the company a total of $66 million for safety-related violations, further harming its reputation. Since the California crash, Toyota’s U.S. market share has dropped more than four percentage points, to 13.3 percent last month. Today, a single point of market share equals more than 150,000 cars and trucks, the equivalent of millions in profits every year. And Wednesday’s statements from the Justice Department likely will raise further suspicions about Toyota. In court documents, prosecu-

tors said Toyota misled customers by assuring them that it had addressed the root cause of the acceleration problems, while knowing that cars outside the recall had the same problems. Toyota did this to defend its brand image after the California crash, the documents said. “In other words, Toyota confronted a public-safety emergency as it if were a simple public-relations problem,” Holder said Wednesday at a news conference. Toyota says it has put reforms in place to make sure this doesn’t happen again. But statements like Holder’s must have GM worried about damage to its brand image and a hit to its stock price. The company has tried to portray itself as transparent, submitting to NHTSA two

chronologies admitting mistakes. Its new CEO has apologized several times to families of those injured or killed in crashes. The company has also placed safety in the hands of a single executive and hired outside legal counsel to investigate its conduct. Still, in just one day last week, GM’s stock value fell 5 percent, reducing the total value of the company by $3.2 billion, according to Barclays analyst Brian Johnson. Itay Micheli, an analyst for Citi Research, wrote that only about one percentage point of Toyota’s market share slide came from the recall crisis. Toyota blames the drop on an artificially high market share in 2009 due to high gas prices that boosted sales of its fuelefficient models.

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Texas finds new execution drug supply By MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press

HOUSTON — Texas has obtained a new batch of the drugs it uses to execute death row inmates, allowing the state to continue carrying out death sentences once its existing supply expires at the end of the month. But correction officials will not say where they bought the drugs, arguing that information must be kept secret to protect the safety of its new supplier. In interviews with The Associated Press, officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice also refused to say whether providing anonymity to its new supplier of the sedative pentobarbital was a condition of its purchase. The decision to keep details about the drugs and their source secret puts the agency at odds with past rulings of the state attorney general’s office, which has said the state’s open records law requires the agency to disclose specifics about the drugs it uses to carry out lethal injections. “We are not disclosing the identity of the pharmacy because of previous, specific threats of serious physical harm made against businesses and their employees that have provided drugs used in the lethal injection process,” said Texas

Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark. The dispute in the state that executes more inmates than any other comes as major drugmakers, many based in Europe, have stopped selling pentobarbital and other substances used in lethal injections to U.S. corrections agencies because they oppose the death penalty. Until obtaining its new supply from the unknown provider, Texas only had enough pentobarbital to continue carrying out executions through the end of March. Earlier this week, a court rescheduled two executions set for this month in Oklahoma — another leading death penalty state — because prison officials were having trouble obtaining the drugs, including pentobarbital, needed for its lethal injections. Such legal challenges have grown more common as the drug shortages have forced several states to change their execution protocols and buy drugs from alternate suppliers, including compounding pharmacies that are not as heavily regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as more conventional pharmacies. Texas prison records examined by the AP show the state also has a supply of the painkiller hydromorphone and sedative midazolam, the drugs chosen earlier this year by Ohio

‘There are a lot of drugs, and Texas can be creative in finding some.’ — Richard Dieter, executive director of Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center to conduct its executions when they lost access to pentobarbital. But in their first use in January, Ohio inmate Dennis McGuire made gasp-like snoring sounds for several minutes during his 26-minute execution. His family later sued, alleging their use was cruel and inhuman. Alan Futrell, an attorney for convicted murderer Tommy Sells, whose scheduled April 3 execution would make him the first to be put to death with Texas’ new drug supply, said the issue could become fodder for legal attempts to delay his sentence. “This might be good stuff,” he said. “And the roads are getting very short here.” But Richard Dieter, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center, an anti-capital punishment organization, said it was doubtful that Texas would get to a point where a lack of drugs led officials to fully suspend capital punishment.

“There are a lot of drugs, and Texas can be creative in finding some,” he said. Texas’ current inventory of pentobarbital, the sedative it has used in lethal injections since 2012, will expire April 1. The state has scheduled executions for six inmates, including one set for Wednesday evening and another next week. Those two will be put to death with the existing stockpile purchased last year from a suburban Houston compounding pharmacy, Clark said. The new batch of drugs presumably would be used for three Texas inmates set to die in April, including Sells, and one in May. Sixteen convicted killers were executed in Texas last year, more than in any other state. Two inmates already have been executed this year, bringing the total to 510 since capital punishment in Texas resumed in 1982. The total accounts for nearly one-third of all the executions in the U.S. since a 1976 Supreme Court ruling allowed capital punishment to resume. The AP filed an open records

request in February seeking details about the drugs Texas planned to use to carry out executions. The AP received the documents on Tuesday, but in following up with Clark about their contents, he said they were moot as the state had secured the new batch of pentobarbital. Clark then refused to provide more details about the drugs, including how much the state has purchased and from where, and when the new drugs expire. He also refused to say whether the drugs would need to be returned if the attorney general’s office rules the provider must be disclosed. “I’m unable to discuss any of the specifics. Other states have kept that information confidential,” he said. Policies in some states, like Missouri and Oklahoma, keep the identities of drug suppliers secret, citing privacy concerns. Clark, in refusing AP’s request to answer any specific questions about the new batch of drugs, said after prison officials identified the suburban Houston compounding pharmacy that provided its existing supply of pentobarbital, that pharmacy was targeted for protests by death penalty opponents. It sought to have Texas return the pentobarbital it manufactured, and prison officials refused. Texas law does not specifi-

cally spell out whether officials can refuse to make the name of drug suppliers public, but Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office has on three occasions rejected arguments by the agency that disclosing that information would put the drug supply and manufacturers at risk. In a 2012 opinion, his office rejected the argument that disclosing the inventory would allow others to figure out the state’s suppliers, dismissing the same kind of security concerns raised this week. “Upon review, while we acknowledge the department’s concerns, we find you have not established disclosure of the responsive information would create a substantial threat of physical harm to any individual,” Assistant Attorney General Sean Opperman wrote. Clark said the prison agency planned to ask Abbott to reconsider the issue. “We’re not in conflict with the law,” Clark said. “We plan to seek an AG’s opinion, which is appropriate in a situation like this, and the AG’s office will determine whether it’s releasable.” When contacted by the AP and made aware of prisons department’s refusal to name the drug supplier, Abbott spokeswoman Lauren Bean said the attorney general would consider the request once it’s received.

Russia: Iran nuke talks may suffer over Ukraine By GEORGE JAHN and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press

VIENNA— U.S.-Russian tensions over Ukraine spilled over into nuclear talks with Iran Wednesday, with Moscow’s chief envoy at the negotiations warning that his country may take “retaliatory measures” that could hurt attempts to persuade Tehran to cut back on programs that could make atomic arms. The statement, by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, appeared to be the most serious threat of reprisal by Moscow for Western sanctions against Russia over its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea re-

gion. Russia is key to attempts to coax Iran into significant long-term curbs of its nuclear program in exchange for relief from U.N. and other sanctions. Iran insists it does not want nuclear arms but is seeking a deal that will result in full sanctions relief. The Russian threat, hours after the latest negotiating round ended, appeared to catch Washington off guard. Days ahead of the meeting, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki had said she expects Russia to “remain an active partner” in the talks. During the two-day talks, Western officials involved described Russia’s participation as con-

structive and unchanged by the Ukraine tensions. Ryabkov was cited by the Interfax news agency as saying Russia may feel compelled to respond to U.S. and European Union actions. He said Russia considers “reunification” with Crimea more important than the developments surrounding Iran’s nuclear program. “We wouldn’t like to use these talks as an element of the game of raising the stakes taking into account the sentiments in some European capitals, Brussels and Washington,” Ryabkov was quoted as saying. “But if they force us into that, we will take retaliatory measures here as well.” Russia and the U.S. often

hold different positions about what Iran needs to do to banish fears about its nuclear activities. That includes uranium enrichment, which Iran says it needs to make reactor fuel — but which can also manufacture fissile warhead material. Ahead of the most recent talks, diplomats told The Associated Press that Moscow was ready to accept a more robust Iranian enrichment program than Washington. But American officials have always said that Russia and the United States are united in their goal of banishing the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, even if they differ on how to get there. Iran has often tried to exploit U.S.-Russian differences and

Half of US adults 40 to 75 eligible for statins By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer

Almost half of Americans ages 40 to 75 and nearly all men over 60 qualify to consider cholesterol-lowering statin drugs under new heart disease prevention guidelines, an analysis concludes. It’s the first independent look at the impact of the guidelines issued in November and shows how dramatically they shift more people toward treatment. Supporters say they reveal the true scope of heart risks in America. Critics have said the guidelines overreach by suggesting medications such as Zocor and Lipitor for such a broad swath of the population. “We wanted to be really objective and just quantify what the guidelines do, and not get into a discussion about whether they are correct,” said Michael Pencina, the Duke University biostatistician who led the analysis. It was published online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine. Under the new guidelines, 56 million Americans ages 40 to 75 are eligible to consider a statin; 43 million were under the old advice. Both numbers include 25 million people taking statins now. “That is striking ... eyeopening,” Dr. Daniel Rader of the University of Pennsylvania said of the new estimate. But since too few people use statins now, the advice “has the potential to do much more good than harm,” said Rader, a cardiologist who had no role in writing the guidelines. Nearly half a million additional heart attacks and strokes could be prevented over 10 years if statin use was expanded as the guidelines recommend, the study estimates. The guidelines, developed by the American Heart Association and American College

of Cardiology at the request of the federal government, were a big change. They give a new formula for estimating risk that includes blood pressure, smoking status and many factors besides the level of LDL or “bad” cholesterol, the main focus in the past. For the first time, the guidelines are personalized for men and women and blacks and whites, and they take aim at strokes, not just heart attacks. Partly because of that, they set a lower threshold for using statins to reduce risk. The guidelines say statins do the most good for people who already have heart disease, those with very high LDL of 190 or more, and people over 40 with Type 2 diabetes. They also recommend considering statins for anyone 40 to 75 who has an estimated 10-year risk of heart disease of 7.5 percent or higher, based on the new formula. (This means that for every 100 people with a similar risk profile, seven or eight would have a heart attack or stroke within 10 years.) Under this more nuanced approach, many people who previously would not have qualified for a statin based on LDL alone now would, while others with a somewhat high LDL but no other heart risk factors would not. The Duke researchers gauged the impact of these changes by using cholesterol, weight and other measurements from health surveys by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They looked at how nearly 4,000 people in these surveys would have been classified under the new and old guidelines, and projected the results to the whole country. The biggest effect was on people 60 and older, researchers found. Under the new guidelines, 87 percent of such men not already taking a statin are eligible to consider one;

only 30 percent were under the old guidelines. For women, the numbers are 54 percent and 21 percent, respectively. Dr. Paul Ridker and Nancy Cook of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston have criticized the risk formula in the guidelines. Ridker declined to be interviewed, but in a statement, he and Cook noted that most people newly suggested for statins do not have high cholesterol but smoke or have high blood pressure. Those problems and lifestyle changes should be addressed before trying medications — which the guidelines recommend — they write.

Dr. Neil Stone, the Northwestern University doctor who helped lead the guidelines work, stressed that the guidelines just say who should consider a statin, and they recommend people discuss that carefully with a doctor. “We think we’re focusing the attention for statins on those who would benefit the most,” Stone said. Dr. Harlan Krumholz, a Yale University cardiologist who has long advocated this approach, agreed. “The guidelines provide a recommendation, not a mandate” for statin use, he said.

Ryabkov’s comments could embolden it to resist significant nuclear cutbacks. China usually supports Russia at the negotiations but the United States, Britain, France and Germany are unlikely to accept a lenient deal. At worst, the talks could fall apart. That could embolden Israel to make good on threats to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and draw the United States into any military confrontation. The Russian comments overshadowed signs that Iran may be ready to compromise. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had suggested earlier Wednesday

his country was ready eliminate fears that a reactor it is building at Arak could be used to make atomic arms. Zarif implied that Iran was open to re-engineering the facility to one that would produce less plutonium, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. Like enriched uranium, plutonium can be used to arm nuclear warheads. While Iran insists on completing and running its nuclear reactor, “any proliferation concerns” linked to it “have to be removed,” he was quoted as saying.

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Fed clarifies guidance on short-term rates By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON — Janet Yellen tried at her first news conference as Federal Reserve chair to clarify a question that’s consumed investors: When will the Fed start raising shortterm interest rates from record lows? Yellen stressed that with the job market still weak, the Fed intends to keep short-term rates near zero for a “considerable” time and would raise them only gradually. And she said the Fed wouldn’t be dictated solely by the unemployment rate, which she feels no longer fully captures the job market’s health. But Yellen might have confused investors when she went further. She suggested that the Fed could start raising shortterm rates six months after it halts its monthly bond purchases, which most economists expect by year’s end. That would mean short-term rates could rise by mid-2015. A short-term rate increase would elevate borrowing costs and could hurt stock prices. Stocks fell after Yellen’s mention of six months. The Dow Jones industrial average ended the day

‘We’re not sure the comments suggest rates would begin to rise any earlier than the mid-2015 date already priced into rate futures markets.’ — Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics down more than 100 points. The Fed’s latest statement, issued after a two-day meeting ended Wednesday, said its benchmark short-term rate could stay at a record low “for a considerable time” after the Fed’s monthly bond purchases end. The Fed has been gradually paring its monthly bond purchases, which have been intended to keep long-term loan rates low. Most analysts expect the purchases to end by December. “This is the kind of term it’s hard to define,” Yellen said of “considerable time.” “Probably means something on the order of six months, or that type of thing.” Though stocks sold off after that remark, the Fed’s statement and Yellen’s comments made clear that borrowing rates for consumers and busi-

nesses could remain low for many more months. Yellen also stressed that rate increases, once they occur, would occur incrementally. Some analysts said they thought Yellen’s reference to six months didn’t really change expectations for the timing of the Fed’s first rate increase. “We’re not sure the comments suggest rates would begin to rise any earlier than the mid-2015 date already priced into rate futures markets,” Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said in a note to clients. In fact, Yellen devoted much of her news conference to explaining why the economy still needed a boost from the Fed. She stressed that low inflation and meager pay raises for many workers reflected a weaker re-

covery than the decline in the unemployment rate might indicate. “She sounded a lot more dovish than hawkish,” said John Canally, an economist at LPL Financial, referring to someone who favors low rates rather than one who worries more about inflation. “She spent a lot of time talking about how far away we are from full employment.” The Fed’s benchmark shortterm rate has been at a record low near zero since 2008. The Fed has previously resisted specifying the timing of a possible increase in the short-term rate. In its statement, the Fed said it will cut its monthly long-term bond purchases by another $10 billion to $55 billion because it thinks the economy is strong enough to support further improvements in the job market. One reason for dropping a threshold unemployment rate, as Yellen among others have noted, is that the rate can overstate the job market’s health. In recent months, for example, the unemployment rate has fallen not so much because of robust hiring but because many people without a job have stopped looking for one. Once people

stop looking for a job, they’re no longer counted as unemployed, and the rate can fall as a result. The Fed’s previous statement had said it planned to keep short-term rates at record lows “well past” the time unemployment fell below 6.5 percent. The rate is now 6.7 percent. Several Fed officials had recently suggested scrapping the 6.5 percent threshold and instead describing more general changes in the job market and inflation that might trigger a rate increase. The Fed’s decision to drop the 6.5 percent unemployment threshold “represents the difficulty in finding the perfect economic indicator for explaining something as complex as the state of the labor market recovery and other considerations such as financial stability,” James Marple, senior economist at TD Economics, wrote in a research note. More than five years ago, the Fed cut its benchmark shortterm rate to a record low near zero, where it’s remained since. Most analysts think the Fed will keep its target for shortterm rates near zero until mid to late 2015.

The Fed also updated its economic forecasts Wednesday. Fed officials expect the U.S. economy to grow at a steady if modest pace in 2014 despite weather-related setbacks this winter. The Fed is forecasting growth of 2.8 percent to 3 percent this year, a bit lower than its December projection of between 2.8 percent and 3.2 percent. The forecast suggests that Fed policymakers will continue to pare their monthly bond purchases, which are intended to stimulate growth by keeping interest rates low. It is doing so despite challenges the U.S. economy and financial markets face, from a brutal winter that’s depressed growth, to fears about how Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine might slow the global economy. The Fed’s decision came on an 8-1 vote. Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Fed’s regional bank in Minneapolis, cast the dissenting vote. Kocherlakota felt the changes the Fed made to its guidance on future short-term rate increases had weakened its credibility in raising inflation to the Fed’s target of 2 percent. Inflation is now running around 1 percent.

In Crimea, some now ask: should I go or should I stay? By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Associated Press

SIMFEROPOL, Crimea — Vait Sitdzhemiliev brought his wife and three daughters to Crimea to honor a deathbed wish from his father six years ago. Now, waking Wednesday in a land officially annexed by Russia, the Crimean Tatar is worried about what is to come. He fears for the eight tidy guestrooms he has built for sun-seeking vacationers. He worries about how Russian neighbors will behave now that they’re in Moscow’s embrace. Most of all, he frets over what lies ahead for his daughters, three hard-working students in their 20s. “We Crimean Tatars have never gotten anything good from the Kremlin,” said Sitdzhemiliev, a 49-year-old entrepreneur. Nonetheless, he has decided to stay. Crimea is his ancestral homeland: His parents were among the tens of thousands of Crimean Tatars deported en masse by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, and he brought his family here from Uzbekistan six years ago on his dying father’s request. Sitdzhemiliev’s choice mirrors that of the majority of members of minority populations in ethnic Russian-dominated Crimea — at least so far. Ukrainian Orthodox Archbishop Kliment of Simferopol

and Crimea says that there has been no exodus by those fearful of Moscow’s takeover. But the future fills the archbishop with dread — and the present has shaken his faith in God: “The worst is that when people ask me to,” he said, “I can’t guarantee their safety.” His network of clergy has reported the departure of about 200 people, among them three priests, in recent weeks, mostly from the farming country of northeastern Crimea. About 40 percent of Crimea’s population of 2 million is not Russian — mostly ethnic Ukrainians, Tatars and Belarusians. “It’s not massive. Yesterday a family, today another, tomorrow yet another,” the archbishop told The Associated Press. If Crimeans ask him what to do, the 44-year-old Kliment advises the young to leave and the old to stay until somebody can return for them. He’s afraid that ethnic Ukrainians, who make up about a fourth of Crimea’s total population, may become a “human shield” exploited by the Kremlin and their allies to stymie any attempt by Ukraine to retake control. Whatever the future brings, the archbishop said, “I’ll be here to the last.” Members of the ethnic Russia majority were jubilant over Crimea’s official change in status, which the United States and other Western nations are refusing to recognize because

‘If people express the desire to relocate to the mainland area of Ukraine, we will not leave them in need, and we’ll do all we can so they can rebuild their lives in other places.’ — Ukrainian First Vice Premier Vitaly Yarema they dispute the legality of the secession referendum. People from other ethnic groups — and Crimea has more than 100 by some counts — are staying for several reasons, Kliment said. First among them is economic. Many fear leaving their homes behind — or being robbed of their belongings by armed Russian militiamen as they flee. Renting a moving truck costs the equivalent of $1,000. That’s out of reach for many. And some families simply have nowhere to go. On Monday, Ukrainian First Vice Premier Vitaly Yarema said that the country was preparing for a possible “humanitarian catastrophe” caused by a flood of refugees from Crimea. To cope, some vacation resorts are being converted to emergency housing. And Ukraine has asked for humanitarian assistance from other countries, including the United States, Yarema said. “If people express the desire to relocate to the mainland area of Ukraine, we will not leave

them in need, and we’ll do all we can so they can rebuild their lives in other places,” Yarema was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying in a news conference. Such declarations may sound reassuring, Kliment said. But until now, there has been no firm commitment by Ukraine’s government to pay people’s relocation costs or compensate them for homes and other property they leave behind. Without such a guarantee, he said, some families may elect to stay put. Around 20 local Ukrainians — “the flower of our intelligentsia in Crimea” — have disappeared in recent days, their whereabouts unknown, according to the archbishop. He’s also worried that Crimea’s new leaders may no longer let his Kiev-based denomination rent the converted military academy that now houses the Cathedral of Saints Vladimir and Olga. To maintain his spiritual strength, Kliment is reading 10 Psalms a day and saying prayers to the Virgin Mary. At

night, when he is home in his apartment, he says he waits for “a knock on the door” from people come to arrest or abduct him. His family was also deported under Stalin, and sent to the Urals. Yevgen Sukhodolsky, 21, a government prosecutor in the western city of Saki, told The AP by email he has decided to stay put for the time being, despite uncertainties about his job prospects. Even before Sunday’s referendum, he said, the Russians had taken over the justice system — and put the peninsula’s overall administration in the hands of a man with a murky past linked to organized crime. “I am a citizen of Ukraine and a government civil servant,” Sukhodolsky said. “It’s understood that I will not work for an alien government.” Un-

married and without children, he lives with his parents and a grandmother. “If conditions for us become truly life-threatening,” the prosecutor said, “we will be obligated to leave.” For the past seven weeks, Michael Nevnerzhytskyy has worked as executive chef at Yenot, a 100-seat restaurant in Simferopol that specializes in “farm-to-table sustainable fare.” He is a local native — as well as a graduate of Catonsville High School in Maryland, Class of ‘07. “When my parents got divorced, Mom and me moved to America,” said Nevmerzhytskyy, 23. After a decade spent without seeing much of his father, he said, he decided to return to Crimea so he could be close to the retired police lieutenant colonel.

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‘No on 1’ group makes local pitch Attendees of the joint Kenai and Soldotna Chambers luncheon heard a presentation urging them to join the Vote No on 1 coalition Wednesday. Danny Bookey, general manager at Petroleum Equipment and Services Inc. delivered a presentation drafted by Al Hull, vice president of PESI and Kenai chapter president for The Alliance, on why Alaskans should support Senate Bill 21. SB21 took effect on Jan. 1, and Bookey said, is already working to reverse Alaska’s decline in oil production. “The old tax structure known as (Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share) is the major culprit (of the decline),” Bookey said. The Alaska Legislature passed ACES into law in 2007, which Bookey said, was the most complicated oil tax law in the country with the highest rates.

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“It did not increase production,” he said. “It chilled the investment climate.” SB21 eliminates punitive and progressive taxes, increases the base rate by 10 percent, reduces complexity and provides investment incentives, he said. Voters will face Proposition 1 asking them if they want to repeal SB21 on the August primary ballot. He said supporters of the repeal are believed to not know the facts of the tax reform. In fiscal year 2015, Bookey said, the SB21 tax system will bring in more tax revenue than ACES. He said SB21 is working with producers announcing investments and projected spending of $10 billion in the next 10 years. “Oil tax reform fixed a failed structure,” he said. — Staff report

said she feels like the club has exceeded its usefulness at that current location and needs to move out. “Extending the area does not do that,” Hutchison said. “I kind of feel like it’s one of those situations that’s not going to happen until we have an accident.” And she said as a taxpayer, she doesn’t want to give the land away. “If they have to have the property … I think they should pay for it,” she said. Club board member Don Feltman said that there is nowhere else for the club to go and that extending the size of the rifle range will increase the safety. The land is only to expand the range of the rifle range. The entire range, which sits on 185 acres, is the only facility on the Kenai Peninsula where law enforcement personnel can qualify. The club also plays host to various gun use and shooting training courses, he said. Assembly member Mako Haggerty said he thinks the range provides a “great service to the community” but he doesn’t want to borough to have to establish noise regulations for the club.

“I feel the expansion of the gun range with a 1,000-yard target will attract larger caliber rifles, which will make more noise,” Phelps said. When asked by assembly member Brent Johnson if he would be in favor of a noise restriction to address the issue, Phelps said he would be. President of the Snowshoe Gun Club Board of Directors, Bob Seymour, said the club abides by the City of Kenai ordinances for operational hours of 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., but recommends users stop shooting by 9 p.m. on school nights. He said the club has about 1,000 members and doesn’t expect additional acreage that would allow for long-range shooting to lead to a jump in the club’s membership. While some members use exploding targets, Seymour said, the club emphasizes that they be used as recommended. The board has also discussed banning it, he said. If the club doesn’t take measures to reduce noise pollution, Johnson said, the borough will likely look into restrictions. Christine Hutchison, who Kaylee Osowski can be lives a little more than one- reached at kaylee.osowski@ half of a mile from the range, peninsulaclarion.com.

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it was meant as a resource for Soldotna and Skyview High Schools. She expanded it to any high school on the Kenai Peninsula as it gained momentum in the community. Normally the clothing and accessories are set up in Bos’ classroom. Relocating to the dressing rooms provided better mirrors for the girls and space for racks of dresses, she said. Bos said she has met students who have driven from as far as Homer, and last year a counselor from Seldovia came with a list of sizes and colors and chose dresses to bring back

home for some students, she said. Not everyone comes to find something for a high school prom. Patricia Davis will be attending the annual Spring Social hosted by Hope Community Resources, Frontier Community Services, Peninsula Community Health Services and Friends of Athletes with Disabilities. The dress Davis settled on needed to be hemmed slightly. Volunteers have made adjustment services available without charge for items taken from Cinderella’s Closet, said Bos. Kita Wilcher was one of the first parent volunteers to help run the show. She and her covolunteers spent as much time looking through all the dresses as the students.

Wilcher said she had a daughter go through school at Soldotna and remembered the program when it first began to blossom. “I heard about it and thought it was such a great idea,” Wilcher said. Soldotna senior Emma Seldon, assisted Wilcher in the 15 plus hours it took to unload and organize the space this season. Having students available to assist other girls sift through styles makes for a comfortable atmosphere, said Bos. It also teaches the volunteers a sense of duty and giving back, she said. Unfortunately donation numbers are down from previous years, Bos said. Anyone can donate a new or slightly used dress, which brings the

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entire community together, she said. One of her more memorable donations was a light blue dress, embroidered with daisies, worn to a prom almost five decades ago. It went to a girl very much into out-of-date clothing styles, and fit her perfectly, Bos said. She never passes on dresses based on style. One 1980s themed dress with large puffy sleeves and rainbow metallic sequins went to a girl who designed her entire outfit like “an 80s rocker, Katy Perry look,” Bos said. “She pulled it off,” Bos said.

Kelly Sullivan can be reached at kelly.sullivan@ peninsulaclarion.com.

UA president says gun bill unacceptable By MIKE COPPOCK Associated Press

JUNEAU — University of Alaska President Pat Gamble told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday a bill permitting concealed handguns on campus is unacceptable. Gamble said the Board of Regents is very satisfied with the current firearms policy it has, which only allows firearms on campus if they are locked in vehicles. The original version of the bill that would have allowed people to carry concealed firearms on university system campuses. After initial concern was raised, sponsor Sen. John Coghill, R-North Pole, introduced a draft rewrite of SB176. In the new version, possession of firearms on University of Alaska campuses would be limited to those at least 21 years old who hold a concealed handgun permit. It also would allow for someone legally permitted to possess a concealed handgun to do so in student housing on university property, provided the person provides proof of the permit and keeps the gun in a lockbox when the gun isn’t concealed and within the person’s immediate control.

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University of Alaska President Patrick Gamble, right, speaks to Sen. John Coghill, R-Fairbanks, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, after public testimony on Senate Bill 176 at the Capitol in Juneau on Wednesday. Senate Bill 176, sponsored by Sen. Coghill, would prohibit the university from banning firearms or knives on its campuses with the exception of restricted areas where visitors are screened. Gamble has spoken against the bill.

Qualifications for a permit include successful completion of a handgun course. Sen. Fred Dyson, R-Eagle River, said the language of the bill involving lock boxes needed to be more defining in description with the lock box bolted down and cannot be forcibly opened with a knife. He also said the bill needs to include long guns as well.

The bill was revised by Coghill’s staff to find common ground with university safety concerns. Coghill’s staff told the committee they had worked closely with university representatives on the bill’s rewrite. While he opposed the original version of the bill, Gamble said he was at least impressed by its focus on fundamental rights. “But now we came off fun-

damental rights to a compromise, and I am now confused with what the argument is,” he said. He said he felt the current version of the bill is now about who is winning points, and said everything he sees in the bill has real world downside potential. He pointed to recent studies show the University of Alaska campus is one of the safest places to be in Alaska, and worries the bill would change that. “We don’t deal with the hypothetical,” said Gamble, who also has raised concerns about allowing guns on campuses because of child care centers and a constant string of visiting K-12 students. “We deal with possibilities.” Gamble said he could not go along with the idea university campuses would be safer with more handguns. “I don’t think citizens check their rights at the university door,” Coghill responded. Gamble said he was receiving letters from people saying they plan leaving the University of Alaska if the bill becomes law. Coghill said he hopes to have the committee vote on the bill no later than Monday.

Police identify driver in fatal Anchorage crash

Around Alaska

ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police have identified the person killed in a two-vehicle crash on the Seward Highway. U.S. officials to meet Police in a Wednesday release say the victim was 29-yearwith China on shellfish ban old Salafai Carol Iosefa of Whittier. She was driving a southbound passenger vehicle that colSEATTLE — U.S. officials are traveling to Beijing this lided with a northbound fuel tanker Tuesday evening near Potweek to discuss China’s ongoing import ban on geoduck clams ter Marsh, in South Anchorage. The crash temporarily closed and other shellfish from the U.S. West Coast. A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the only highway leading south of Anchorage. spokeswoman says Chinese authorities have agreed to meet APD, troopers make 25 DUI arrests Friday with officials from NOAA’s seafood inspection program. ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police saw a significant reChina imposed a ban in December on the import of clams, duction in the number of driving under the influence arrests oysters, mussels and scallops harvested from Washington, Or- made this year on St. Patrick’s Day compared to last year. egon, Alaska and Northern California. China detected high levPolice in a release say four people were arrested on Monday, els of inorganic arsenic in geoducks from Puget Sound. It also compared to 18 arrests on St. Patrick’s Day last year. found paralytic shellfish poisoning in geoducks harvested in But Anchorage police arrested another 16 people for driving Alaska. under the influence during a targeted enforcement that went NOAA has asked China to limit its ban to two localized ar- from Friday to early Tuesday morning. Alaska State Troopers eas rather than a wider swath of the West Coast. also had extra patrols out during the holiday weekend. Troopers NOAA spokeswoman Connie Barclay says U.S. officials reporting making five misdemeanor driving under the influence hope to identify and address the country’s remaining con- arrests. cerns. — The Associated Press

three sons will remain in the Interior. Patty is a nurse at Bassett Army Community Hospital Continued from page A-1 in Fairbanks and will not move down until their youngest son paramedic and later became a graduates from high school firefighter. He is a former fire this spring. One of his boys is chief with Gainesville Fire and studying at the University of Rescue in Florida. It wasn’t Alaska Fairbanks and the other until a family trip to Alaska in in enrolled in a trade program. 2001 when he considered movTucker said he enjoys being ing north. back on the peninsula and with He was hired as CES fire it all the outdoor activities. He chief in 2002 and held that said it is exciting time to live position for three years before here during a period of growth. accepting the same position at “I don’t think I will miss North Star. Despite spending the minus 40-degree tempera- Continued from page A-1 nearly a decade away from the tures,” he said. “There are more peninsula, he has stayed in con- fish here.” too much was happening at tact with other local firefighters once.” through state fire conferences Reach Dan Balmer at danWilson said both the Legisand training programs. iel.balmer@peninsulaclarion. lature and local school districts For now, his wife Patty and com. need a cost analysis on implementing the new standards. She noted a delay would help school districts with the transition to Complaints of bedbugs increase in Alaska the new standards. Wilson said requiring the districts to make ANCHORAGE (AP) — Blood-sucking insects are on the the transition within a year was rise in Alaska, and it’s not even mosquito season. not fair. The state Department of Health and Social Services issued The Alaska State Board of a bulletin Tuesday announcing a proliferation of bedbugs, the Education approved the new apple seed-size pests that can double in number every 16 days. English language arts and mathThe biting bugs are more of a public nuisance than a health ematic standards this year. They hazard, the bulletin said. Bites are at first painless but can are to go into effect 2015. turn into itchy welts. Some people do not develop welts. “Without the funding, this Signs of an infestation include molted exoskeletons and is another unfunded mandate white eggs or eggshells about one millimeter long. Bed bug we’re asking our districts to excrement looks like small rusty or reddish stains on bed do,” said Chairwoman Lynn sheets, the bulletin said. Gattis, R-Wasilla. Bedbugs can arrive with people back from trips outside, Rep. Peggy Wilson, Ror new residents. Wrangell, felt a delay would be “They’re the ultimate hitchhikers,” said Tony Barrett, engood for teachers involved. vironmental health program manager for the municipality of “They need a reasonable Anchorage. They arrive and lay eggs in a couch or bed, he time for in-service to do a good told the Anchorage Daily News. job,” said the Wrangell repre“Bed bugs don’t care if it’s a four-star hotel or a no-star sentative. hotel,” he said. However, superintendents Anchorage received 68 bed bug complaints in 2013, down from Kodiak and North Slope from 84 in 2012. However, in 2007 and 2008, the city took school districts disagreed. just one call each year on bedbugs. “If we move back now, it Ken Perry, general manager of Pied Piper Pest Control in will be demoralizing to our Anchorage, has been dealing with bedbugs since 1987 but teachers who have spent hours has seen high rates only recently. The company takes five and days already to get ready,” calls per day on the pests. said Peggy Cowan, superinten-

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dent for the North Slope School District. Cowan said she is concerned about the costs to her district for implementing the standards, but her staff are already prepping for the new standards. Stewart McDonald, superintendent for the Kodiak Island School District, did not wish to go backward. He said the committee should be patient once the new standards are implemented for there will be a

natural dip in grades during the transition period. “I think attaching performance too close to funding would be a mistake,” McDonald said. Wilson said she had witnessed educators practicing different teaching styles at some districts for the new standards. “We are teaching for the test,” Wilson said. “On everything we do, we train for a test.” Wilson said under the news

standards curriculums are to change every six years. Rep. Lora Reinbold, R-Eagle River, suggested the cost analysis be extended out to cover 10 years as well as an analysis of the entire impact the new standards brings into play. I would like to know how much time will be taken for testing in classroom,” Reinbold said. The resolution remains in committee.

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Sports

Knicks start Jackson era with victory By The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Carmelo Anthony scored 34 points and the New York Knicks opened the Phil Jackson era by beating the Indiana Pacers 92-86 Wednesday night for their season-high seventh straight victory. With their new team president watching from a midcourt seat, the Knicks dominated the first half, then pulled away after the Eastern Conference leaders finally got untracked in the second half. Fans stood to cheer Jackson in the first quarter and were on their feet again in the final minute to watch the Knicks beat the team that knocked them out of the playoffs last year.

and the Heat lost for the first time in their three games without him this season. Rondo finished with nine points, 15 assists and 10 rebounds as Boston stopped a five-game losing streak. Avery Bradley led Boston with 23 points and had career highs of six 3-point baskets and nine 3-point attempts. Brandon Bass added 18 points.

BULLS 102, 76ERS 94 PHILADELPHIA — D.J Augustin scored 20 points, Taj Gibson had 19 points and 13 rebounds, and Chicago handed Philadelphia its 22nd straight loss. The Sixers are four losses shy of matching the NBA record for longest-single season losing streak.

SPURS 125, LAKERS 109

CELTICS 101, HEAT 96 BOSTON — Rajon Rondo hit two running baseline shots in the last two minutes and Boston capitalized on the absence of LeBron James to beat Miami. One night after scoring 43 points in a 100-96 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, James sat out the game with back spasms

LOS ANGELES — Tony Parker scored 25 points, Kawhi Leonard added 22 points and 10 rebounds, and San Antonio pulled away from Los Angeles for its 11th consecutive victory. Danny Green scored 16 points and Tim Duncan had 12 points and 16 rebounds for the NBA-leading Spurs, who haven’t lost

since Feb. 21 while winning 14 of 15. With their seventh straight victory over the Lakers dating to last season’s playoffs, the Spurs opened a 1½-game lead over Indiana for the league’s best record. San Antonio leads Oklahoma City by two games atop the Western Conference.

their second straight victory to move two games over .500 for the first time since Nov. 23. Dirk Nowitzki scored 27 for Dallas and put the Mavericks ahead with a fadeaway over Love with 33 seconds left in overtime before Love scored on a jump hook with 17 seconds to go.

Western Conference playoff spot with the victory over Utah. Gasol and Randolph each had 10 rebounds for Memphis, which won its eighth straight home game and fifth straight over the Jazz. Mike Conley finished with 18 points and seven assists, and Tony Allen scored 10 points.

NETS 104, BOBCATS 99

RAPTORS 107, PELICANS 100

SUNS 109, MAGIC 93

NEW YORK — Deron Williams scored 23 points, Joe Johnson added 20 and Brooklyn overcame a late deficit to win its 10th straight at home. Williams scored 11 of his points in the final six minutes. Al Jefferson scored 18 points for Charlotte and Gary Neal added 17.

NEW ORLEANS — DeMar DeRozan scored 31 points and Greivis Vasquez victimized his former team with six points in the last two minutes to help Toronto defeat New Orleans. Kyle Lowry scored 23, Amir Johnson added 17 and Vasquez finished with 14 to help Toronto overcome a 14-point firsthalf deficit and snap a two-game skid. Tyler Hansbrough, playing additional TIMBERWOLVES 123, minutes with starting center Jonas ValanMAVERICKS 122, OT ciunas sidelined by a sore back, grabbed DALLAS — Kevin Love scored 35 13 rebounds, seven on the offensive end. points, including the go-ahead basket in overtime, Ricky Rubio had a triple-double GRIZZLIES 96, JAZZ 86 and Minnesota blew several leads before MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Zach Randolph hanging on to beat Dallas. The Timberwolves broke a six-game scored 21 points, Marc Gasol added 20 stretch of alternating wins and losses with and Memphis maintained its hold on a

PHOENIX — Goran Dragic scored 18 points to lead a balanced offense and Phoenix used a big second-half run to beat Orlando. Gerald Green added 14 points, including three 3-pointers during a 23-3 Phoenix burst that turned a close game into a runaway.

NUGGETS 118, PISTONS 109 DENVER — Aaron Brooks had 27 points and a career-high 17 assists to lead Denver past Detroit for its fourth win in five games. Randy Foye added 22 points, Kenneth Faried had 14 and J.J. Hickson had 11 points and 11 rebounds for the Nuggets, who were without Ty Lawson (sinus infection) and Wilson Chandler (injection to treat hip injury).

Otters finish third By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

Nikolaevsk’s Vera Fefelov (12) drives past Cook Inlet Academy’s Nicole Moffis (11) during the 1A girls consolation game at Anchorage’s Sullivan Arena on Wednesday.

Split decision As Nikolaevsk girls beat CIA, Warriors boys lose on other side of curtain By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

In a span of five minutes, Nikolaevsk basketball fans were dealt a loss and a victory Wednesday afternoon at the Sullivan Arena in Anchorage. On one court, there was the Nikolaevsk boys team falling short in a 62-51 loss to the King Cove T-Jacks that determined the Class 1A boys consolation champion. On the court next to it, separated only by a large, black curtain, there was the Nikolaevsk girls team cruising to a 45-26 win over conference rival Cook Inlet Academy to claim the Class 1A girls consolation

crown. “At halftime, I cut my halftime short because the girls wanted to support the boys,” said Nikolaevsk girls coach Bea Klaich. “I was OK with that because for one thing, it keeps my girls loose. If they get too concerned with the game, sometimes they don’t play well, and they need to stay happy and loose and having fun.” On more than one occasion, Nikolaevsk boys coach Steve Klaich took a peek at the girls game to see how things were progressing. “I felt real comfortable when I looked up and saw the girls Photos by Klas Stolpe/Juneau Empire were taking care of business,” Nikolaevsk’s Nianiella Dorvall (32) scores over Cook Inlet Academy’s Nicole Moffis (11) during See SPLIT, page A-11 the Class 1A girls consolation game at Anchorage’s Sullivan Arena on Wednesday.

Blackhawks, Crawford shut out Blues By The Associated Press

CHICAGO — Corey Crawford stopped 23 shots for his second shutout this season, backstopping the Blackhawks to a physical 4-0 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Wednesday night that gave Chicago coach Joel Quenneville his 700th NHL win. It was a costly victory for the Blackhawks, though. Leading scorer Patrick Kane left the game at 7:56 of the second period, favoring his left leg as he headed to the dressing room following a collision with Brenden Morrow. Kane is expected to miss about three weeks, Quenneville said. Duncan Keith, Andrew Shaw, Marcus Kruger and Ben Smith scored as Chicago ended the league-leading Blues’ nine-game point streak (8-0-1) and dealt St. Louis its first regulation loss against a Central Division opponent this season. The Blues entered 20-0-2 against division foes and hadn’t lost in regulation since a 1-0 defeat at Anaheim on Feb. 28. Quenneville, who previously guid-

ed St. Louis and Colorado, has the most wins of any active NHL coach and ranks third all-time behind Al Arbour and Scotty Bowman, now the Blackhawks’ senior adviser of hockey operations. Crawford earned his 10th career shutout in Chicago’s first win against the Blues this season after three losses. Kane, who has 29 goals and 40 assists in 68 games, assisted on Keith’s opening goal. St. Louis goalie Ryan Miller lost in regulation for the first time since joining the Blues following a trade from Buffalo on Feb. 28. Miller, now 7-1-1 with St. Louis, was replaced by Brian Elliott at 7:58 of the third period after allowing four goals on 27 shots. LIGHTNING 5, MAPLE LEAFS 3 TORONTO — Steven Stamkos had a natural hat trick and Tampa Bay beat Toronto in a game that included a frightening injury to Maple Leafs defenseman Paul Ranger.

Ranger left the ice on a stretcher after his head hit the boards following a first-period hit from Alex Killorn. Ranger was “stable, conscious and alert,” according to the Maple Leafs, after being taken to the hospital for what the team called a “precautionary assessment.” Toronto announced the update on Ranger’s condition on its Twitter account during the second intermission. Killorn was given a 5-minute major penalty for boarding and a game misconduct. James Reimer gave up a goal on the first shot he faced, and the Maple Leafs lost their third straight. Stamkos, in his seventh game back after missing four months with a broken right leg, scored his three goals on three shots. Radko Gudas had Tampa Bay’s first goal 59 seconds in, and Tyler Johnson added an insurance goal. Ben Bishop made 36 saves. Phil Kessel scored his team-leading 35th of the season for Toronto. Nikolai Kulemin and Jake Gardiner also had goals for the Maple Leafs.

Wheeler scored in overtime on a shot through the crowd to lift Winnipeg over Colorado. Andrew Ladd scored twice for the injury-depleted Jets. Eric Tangradi and Evander Kane also had goals. Ryan O’Reilly, Gabriel Landeskog, Nick Holden and Cody Mcleod scored for Colorado. It was the fourth time in five meetings this season that the Jets and Avalanche went to overtime.

CANUCKS 2, PREDATORS 0

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Eddie Lack made 30 saves, and Nicklas Jensen and Alex Edler scored 1:13 apart in the third period of Vancouver’s victory over Nashville. The Canucks posted their fourth win in seven games but remained in 10th place in the Western Conference while pulling within three points of eighth-place Phoenix. Lack earned his fourth shutout of the season, tops among NHL rookies, even JETS 5, AVALANCHE 4, OT though the Predators enjoyed a 30-22 edge WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Blake in shots.

The Seldovia boys basketball team had to fight its way through a tough schedule this season, which made the Sea Otters look worse than they really were. In the end, however, it paid off with the best end result at a state tournament. Seldovia topped Shaktoolik 66-55 in the Class 1A tournament to grab third-place honors. The previous best finish for a Seldovia squad was fifth place in the 2008 tournament at the 2A level. “It’s big,” said Seldovia coach Mark Janes. “We were third going into our region (tournament) so no one really expected a lot from us, and last year we were fifth. So they really, really improved.” The star of the game emerged in the form of junior Seth O’Leary, who scored 27 points and nearly had a double-double with nine rebounds. “Last night was a big devastation,” O’Leary said, referring to Tuesday’s semifinal loss to Toksook Bay. “It killed me to not be able to go to the championship. But I thought, I can’t get down on myself, there’s still one more game, so I just need to play my last game of the season and make it count.” O’Leary racked up the impressive stats with solid play under the basket, shooting 11 for 18 from the field. “Coming to state, that’s one thing,” O’Leary said. “Getting third, that was a dream.” Seldovia sophomore Aiden Philpot added to an already impressive tournament with his fourth double-double in as many games, scoring 18 points and grabbing 22 boards. “It’s crazy because no one’s ever done it before,” Philpot said about the Seldovia boys’ latest triumph. “I didn’t think we’d be here at the start of the season, but, we’re here.” Janes said he was directing his team by giving out defensive assignments in a man-toman scheme. “It’s like giving them a job,” Janes said. “It gets them a little more focused on the defensive end, and they get a little more aggressive and it transfers over to the offense as well.” After a fast start which saw Seldovia stake out a 24-10 lead in the first quarter, the boys had to use a late rally just to keep ahead. The Sea Otters found better success in their shooting, managing 40 percent from the floor compared to 30 percent for the Wolverines. Shaktoolik also attempted 29 shots from beyond the arc, hitting six of them. Seldovia crashed the glass See OTTERS, page A-11

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he said. “If it would’ve been a one-point game when I snuck a peek at the score, I would’ve been a lot more uptight.” It all made for some interesting drama on the final day of the Class 1A tournament. Nikolaevsk girls 45, CIA 26

The Warriors sent off seniors Nianiella Dorvall and Sophia Kalugin with a win in the consolation championship game. “I don’t think I can describe it,” Dorvall said. “I’ve been playing for five years, we started with CIA and ended with CIA, and they’re a good team.” Both seniors are crucial post players, consistently grabbing rebounds and adding second-chance points. Dorvall led Nikolaevsk on Wednesday with a double-double of 17 points and 10 boards, and shot 8 for 11 from the floor. “The memories I’ve made with everybody, it’s indescribable how much fun I’ve had,” Dorvall said. CIA, the defending 1A champions, suffered the same fate as Nikolaevsk in Saturday’s first round. The Eagles lost to Yakutat 37-24 to drop themselves out of contention right away. However, CIA coach Rustin Hitchcock was quick to say the tournament results were not for a lack of effort. “Free throws and lay-ins just weren’t falling, once again,” Hitchcock said. “But they played hard all the way through, so I have no qualms about our team.” Nicole Moffis, the lone senior for the Eagles, led the team with 12 points and six boards. Moffis was faced up against an improved defensive assignment from Nikolaevsk’s Kayla Stafford. “She paced herself out pretty well,” Hitchcock said. “Even with foul trouble, we were going to keep her in. “I think Nicole ended the season really good, even though we didn’t reach the high-water mark like were hoping for.” After moving out to an 11-5 lead after one quarter, Nikolaevsk outscored CIA 14-7 in the second frame to take a 2512 advantage into the locker room. After beating CIA 37-20 in the Peninsula Conference championship, Klaich said she believes her team finally realized that it had what it took to overcome a perenially tough Eagles squad. “CIA was such a force for so many years, and they’re still an excellent team, but every time we went into a game with them, our girls had a hard time getting over the fact that they were the champions,” Klaich said. “I feel like my girls have gotten over that fact, and that they know they can beat them, and went into the game confident.” Dorvall added that as a younger group two years ago, she saw CIA as an unbeatable team, and “as we got better and better, we had a better attitude, and we went into games having fun and playing our game.” Kilina Klaich and Kayla Stafford each hit a pair of 3-pointers that helped spark the early offensive game. Klaich ended with nine points and Stafford with 12. After the game, coach Klaich revealed that her daughter Kilina had been competing all year with a torn ACL she suffered before the season started. “She decided that rather than get surgery and miss her junior year, she’d rather get a championship with her team,” coach Klaich said. “She’ll be getting surgery and will hopefully be back at full strength next year.” Serafima Kalugin also suffered a sprained ankle early in the season, according to Klaich. “It’s something we haven’t made a big deal about because that’s something you have to play through sometimes,” Klaich said. Turnovers played an important factor in the second half, as Nikolaevsk outscored CIA 13-7 to take a 38-19 lead into the fourth quarter. Overall, the Warriors scored 18 points off

of turnovers. At the sound of the final buzzer, the emotion finally came through on the faces of the Warriors. “It’s huge for these girls to finish a season strong,” Klaich said. “To have no regrets, feeling good about what they’ve accomplished, and feeling good about beating what I feel is one of the better quality teams in our conference. “I think the girls will take this into next year, and that’ll be the driving force for them.” For CIA, Hitchcock mentioned that the absence of tall post players for both squads next season will play a role in the style of play seen between the two schools. CIA is losing Moffis to graduation, while Nikolaevsk is losing Dorvall and Kalugin. “For us, it wasn’t the title that we had last year, but this group came together, improved and played hard,” Hitchcock said. “If we can get some offseason improvement in a few areas, there’s no reason why we can’t be back next year.” King Cove boys 62, Nikolaevsk 51 In the Nikolaevsk boys consolation final, a late surge was not enough to take the title. “I thought the boys played well,” Nikolaevsk coach Steve Klaich said. “We just gave up too many turnovers, and our shooting was average, if we would’ve shot better we could’ve come out on top.” Jaruby Nelson had another big game for the Warriors, scoring 26 points and grabbing seven rebounds. Nineteen of Nelson’s points came in the second half. However, the speed and power of King Cove senior Paul Hamilton overcame the eight 3s the Warriors hit. Hamilton scored 22 points (on 10 of 15 shooting) and grabbed 11 rebounds to record a doubledouble. “We got to go out on a win, so that’s big,” said King Cove coach Randel Newman. “I was telling them only four of these 16 teams get to leave with a victory, and we got to be one of them.” Newman said he felt his team slowed down with Nikolaevsk’s defense at times, and he encouraged them to step up the tempo. “It was about playing their game,” Newman said. “Fastbreak points, defense, stuff like that.” Trailing 35-23 at halftime, Nikolaevsk continued to find difficulty with shots in the paint, as the T-Jacks outscored the Warriors 14-12 in the third quarter. Nikit Fefelov nailed a trey to cut the lead to 56-51 with 1:05 remaining, putting Nikolaevsk on the doorstep of a late comeback. “I was thinking if we could get a few stops on defense we had a real shot at it,” Klaich said. “The boys played hard, they were tired at that point, but their motivation was high. They were running on adrenaline.” Unfortunately for the Warriors, a couple late turnovers erased any hopes of a comeback in the final minute. Hamilton put up two late layups after getting steals. “We didn’t get over the hump, but we were right there,” Klaich said. Wednesday girls Warriors 45, Eagles 26 Nikolaevsk Cook Inlet

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NIKOLAEVSK (45) — Ki. Klaich 3 0-0 9, Kr. Klaich 0 0-0 0, Fefelov 1 2-2 4, So. Kalugin 0 1-3 1, Stafford 5 0-0 12, Se. Kalugin 1 0-0 2, Dorvall 8 1-2 17, Hickman 0 0-0 0. Totals 18 4-7 45. CIA (26) — Hanna 0 0-0 0, Moffis 5 1-2 12, Taplin 0 0-0 0, Hills 0 0-0 0, Brush 1 0-1 2, Lyons 0 0-0 0, Hammond 0 4-8 4, McGahan 1 0-0 2, Orth 3 0-1 6. Totals 10 5-12 26. 3-point field goals — Nikolaevsk 5 (Ki. Klaich 3, Stafford 2); CIA 1 (Moffis 1). Team fouls — Nikolaevsk 15; CIA 13. Wednesday boys T-Jacks 62, Warriors 51 King Cove Nikolaevsk

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KING COVE (62) — Newman 3 1-2 7, I. Samuelson 9 0-0 19, Christansen 3 0-0 6, C. Samuelson 1 0-0 2, Larsen 0 0-0 0, Mack 3 0-0 6, Hamilton 10 2-2 22. Totals 29 3-4 62. NIKOLAEVSK (51) — K. Molodih 0 0-0 0, Nelson 10 1-1 26, A. Yakunin 2 0-0 4, S. Yakunin 0 0-0 0, N. Fefelov 3 0-0 8, Gordeev 3 0-0 6, F. Molodih 1 0-0 2, J. Fefelov 2 0-0 5, A. Kalugin 0 0-0 0. Totals 21 1-1 51. 3-point field goals — King Cove 1 (I. Samuelson 1); Nikolaevsk 8 (Nelson 5, N. Fefelov 2, J. Fefelov 1). Team fouls — King Cove 4; Nikolaevsk 8.

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Scoreboard Hockey NHL Glance EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L Boston 69 47 17 Tampa Bay 69 38 24 Montreal 70 38 25 Toronto 71 36 27 Detroit 68 31 24 Ottawa 68 28 27 Florida 69 26 35 Buffalo 69 19 42 Metropolitan Division Pittsburgh 68 45 19 Philadelphia 68 36 25 N.Y. Rangers 70 37 29 Columbus 68 35 27 Washington 70 33 27 New Jersey 69 29 27 Carolina 69 30 30 N.Y. Islanders 70 26 35

OT Pts GF GA 5 99 223 149 7 83 203 181 7 83 180 177 8 80 208 219 13 75 178 190 13 69 194 229 8 60 172 223 8 46 133 205 4 94 214 168 7 79 195 195 4 78 185 174 6 76 196 187 10 76 204 209 13 71 168 180 9 69 172 195 9 61 195 239

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division St. Louis 69 47 15 7 101 226 156 Chicago 70 40 15 15 95 237 182 Colorado 70 44 20 6 94 216 192 Minnesota 69 36 23 10 82 171 168 Dallas 68 32 25 11 75 194 197 Winnipeg 71 32 30 9 73 199 208 Nashville 70 29 31 10 68 165 208 Pacific Division Anaheim 69 45 17 7 97 220 175 San Jose 70 45 18 7 97 216 168 Los Angeles 69 38 25 6 82 168 148 Phoenix 69 33 25 11 77 192 196 Vancouver 72 32 30 10 74 172 194 Calgary 69 28 34 7 63 168 203 Edmonton 70 25 36 9 59 176 225 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Wednesday’s Games Tampa Bay 5, Toronto 3 Chicago 4, St. Louis 0 Winnipeg 5, Colorado 4, OT Vancouver 2, Nashville 0 Thursday’s Games Minnesota at New Jersey, 3 p.m. Dallas at Philadelphia, 3 p.m. Columbus at Montreal, 3:30 p.m. Tampa Bay at Ottawa, 3:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at Detroit, 3:30 p.m. Buffalo at Edmonton, 5:30 p.m. Florida at Phoenix, 6 p.m. Washington at Los Angeles, 6:30 p.m. Anaheim at San Jose, 6:30 p.m. All Times ADT

Basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Toronto 38 29 Brooklyn 35 31 New York 28 40 Boston 23 46 Philadelphia 15 53 Southeast Division x-Miami 46 20 Washington 35 32 Charlotte 33 36 Atlanta 31 35 Orlando 19 50 Central Division x-Indiana 50 18 Chicago 38 30 Cleveland 26 42 Detroit 25 42 Milwaukee 13 55

.567 — .530 2½ .412 10½ .333 16 .221 23½ .697 — .522 11½ .478 14½ .470 15 .275 28½ .735 — .559 12 .382 24 .373 24½ .191 37

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division San Antonio 51 16 .761

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Houston 45 22 .672 6 Memphis 40 27 .597 11 Dallas 41 28 .594 11 New Orleans 27 40 .403 24 Northwest Division Oklahoma City 49 18 .731 — Portland 44 24 .647 5½ Minnesota 34 32 .515 14½ Denver 31 37 .456 18½ Utah 22 47 .319 28 Pacific Division L.A. Clippers 48 21 .696 — Golden State 43 26 .623 5 Phoenix 39 29 .574 8½ Sacramento 24 44 .353 23½ L.A. Lakers 22 45 .328 25 x-clinched playoff spot Wednesday’s Games Chicago 102, Philadelphia 94 Brooklyn 104, Charlotte 99 Boston 101, Miami 96 Memphis 96, Utah 86 Toronto 107, New Orleans 100 New York 92, Indiana 86 Minnesota 123, Dallas 122, OT Denver 118, Detroit 109 Phoenix 109, Orlando 93 San Antonio 125, L.A. Lakers 109 Thursday’s Games Oklahoma City at Cleveland, 3 p.m. Minnesota at Houston, 4 p.m. Washington at Portland, 6 p.m. Milwaukee at Golden State, 6:30 p.m. All Times ADT

NCAA Tournament FIRST ROUND At UD Arena Dayton, Ohio Tuesday, March 18 Albany (N.Y.) 71, Mount St. Mary’s 64 N.C. State 74, Xavier 59 Wednesday, March 19 Cal Poly 81, Texas Southern 69 Tennessee 78, Iowa 65, OT EAST REGIONAL Second Round Thursday, March 20 At First Niagara Center Buffalo, N.Y. UConn (26-8) vs. Saint Joseph’s (24-9), 2:55 p.m. Villanova (28-4) vs. Milwaukee (21-13), 30 minutes following At Spokane Arena Spokane, Wash. Cincinnati (27-6) vs. Harvard (264), 10:10 a.m. Michigan State (26-8) vs. Delaware (25-9), 30 minutes following Friday, March 21 At PNC Arena Raleigh, N.C. Memphis (23-9) vs. George Washington (24-8), 2:55 p.m. Virginia (28-6) vs. Coastal Carolina (21-12), 30 minutes following At The AT&T Center San Antonio North Carolina (23-9) vs. Providence (23-11), 3:20 p.m. Iowa State (26-7) vs. North Carolina Central (28-5), 30 minutes following SOUTH REGIONAL Second Round Thursday, March 20 At First Niagara Center Buffalo, N.Y. Ohio State (25-9) vs. Dayton (2310), 8:15 a.m. Syracuse (27-5) vs. Western Michigan (23-9), 30 minutes following

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better too, out-rebounding Shaktoolik 55-31, which also led to 16 second-chance points on Shaktoolik. “I think we were just clicking on offense,” Janes said. “Those guys have a lot of vertical, so I think we were just positioned right most of the time.” Trailing Seldovia 35-27 at halftime, Shaktoolik came out swinging in the second half, getting better looks at the basket than it had earlier, especially from senior Vernon Rock, who ended up with 21 points on the day to lead the Wolverines. “They came out a little flat in the third, and it happens to us a lot, we let the other team come back in,” Janes said. “We rolled into it thinking it’s our game, and the other team wanted it a little more than us at that point.” With 1:16 to go in the third quarter, Alex Sampson drained a 3 to tie the game at 39-all, and Melvin Hunt added two free throws on the next possession to give Shaktoolik a two-point lead, the first of the game for the Wolverines. Calem Collier answered back for Seldovia with a trey that put the Sea Otters back up by a point, and Philpot wrangled a steal away on the next Wolverines possession and tossed in a layup to pad the lead. At the end of the third quarter, Seldovia led 44-41. O’Leary then went on a scoring binge with 10 of Seldovia’s next 11 points in the fourth quarter, resulting in a 55-45 lead with 4:15 left in the game. “I knew we had to focus on controlling the ball, because (Shaktoolik) would come at us hard,” Janes said. “We had to get the ball into our free-throw shooters hands, because they were going to foul.” After a layup from Nathan Savetilik and a trey from Rock, Shaktoolik was back within five points, but Seldovia responded with an offensive rebound putback from Philpot with 3:04 to go, and a full-court heave from Collier to O’Leary that resulted in an easy layup that put Seldovia ahead by nine with 1:18

At The Amway Center Orlando, Fla. Colorado (23-11) vs. Pittsburgh (25-9), 9:40 a.m. Florida (32-2) vs. Albany (N.Y.) (19-14), 30 minutes following Friday, March 21 At Scottrade Center St. Louis New Mexico (27-6) vs. Stanford (21-12), 9:40 a.m. Kansas (24-9) vs. Eastern Kentucky (24-9), 30 minutes following At Viejas Arena San Diego VCU (26-8) vs. Stephen F. Austin (31-2), 3:27 p.m. UCLA (26-8) vs. Tulsa (21-12), 30 minutes following MIDWEST REGIONAL Second Round Thursday, March 20 At The Amway Center Orlando, Fla. Saint Louis (26-6) vs. N.C. State (22-13), 3:20 p.m. Louisville (29-5) vs. Manhattan (25-7), 30 minutes following At BMO Harris Bradley Center Milwaukee Michigan (25-8) vs. Wofford (2012), 3:10 p.m. Texas (23-10) vs. Arizona State (21-11), 30 minutes following Friday, March 21 At PNC Arena Raleigh, N.C. Duke (26-8) vs. Mercer (26-8), 8:15 a.m. UMass (24-8) vs. Tennessee (2212), 30 minutes following At Scottrade Center St. Louis Wichita State (34-0) vs. Cal Poly (14-19), 3:10 p.m. Kentucky (24-10) vs. Kansas State (20-12), 30 minutes following WEST REGIONAL Second Round Thursday, March 20 At BMO Harris Bradley Center Milwaukee Wisconsin (26-7) vs. American (20-12), 8:40 a.m. Oregon (23-9) vs. BYU (23-11), 30 minutes following At Spokane Arena Spokane, Wash. Oklahoma (23-9) vs. North Dakota State (25-6), 3:27 p.m. San Diego State (29-4) vs. New Mexico State (26-9), 30 minutes following Friday, March 21 At The AT&T Center San Antonio Baylor (24-11) vs. Nebraska (1912), 8:40 a.m. Creighton (26-7) vs. LouisianaLafayette (23-11), 30 minutes following At Viejas Arena San Diego Arizona (30-4) vs. Weber State (19-11), 10:10 a.m. Gonzaga (28-6) vs. Oklahoma State (21-12), 30 minutes following All Times ADT

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First Round Tuesday, March 18 Robert Morris 89, St. John’s 78 Florida State 58, Florida Gulf Coast 53 Georgetown 77, west Virginia 65 Belmont 80, Green Bay 65

left. From there, Shaktoolik played the free-throw game, as Collier, Philpot and Dylan Waterbury all took turns hitting freebies in the final 36 seconds, putting up 7 of 8 to clinch the victory. Janes said he is glad to know that all of the boys are expecting to return next year, save for

Minnesota 88, High Point 81 Clemson 78, Georgia State 66 Arkansas 91, Indiana State 71 Missouri 85, Davidson 77 Saint Mary’s (Calif.) 70, Utah 58 Wednesday, March 19 Illinois 66, Boston University 62 Louisiana Tech 89, Iona 88 Georgia 63, Vermont 56 Southern Miss 66, Toledo 59 SMU 68, UC Irvine 54 LSU 71, San Francisco 63 California 77, Utah Valley 64

Baseball Spring Training Glance AMERICAN LEAGUE Tampa Bay Cleveland Seattle Baltimore Detroit Oakland New York Kansas City Los Angeles Minnesota Houston Toronto Chicago Boston Texas

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NATIONAL LEAGUE Miami 13 7 .650 Pittsburgh 11 7 .611 Arizona 11 9 .550 San Francisco 11 9 .550 Colorado 10 10 .500 Washington 10 10 .500 New York 9 10 .474 Milwaukee 10 12 .455 St. Louis 7 9 .438 Chicago 10 13 .435 Cincinnati 9 13 .409 Atlanta 8 13 .381 Los Angeles 6 10 .375 San Diego 6 11 .353 Philadelphia 5 13 .278 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not. Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 7, Atlanta 0 St. Louis 3, Minnesota 1 Tampa Bay 7, Baltimore 4 Toronto 11, Philadelphia 6 Milwaukee 9, Seattle 7 L.A. Angels 14, Chicago White Sox 10 Oakland 13, Cleveland 3 Houston 2, Washington 0 Pittsburgh 4, Boston 2 Kansas City 6, Cincinnati 3, 6 innings Colorado 9, Chicago Cubs 6

Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Suspended L.A. Angels RHP Luis Pena (Dominican Summer League) 50 games after testing positive for a performanceenhancing substance in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned C Johnny Monell and RHP Suk-Min Yoon to Norfolk (IL). Reassigned OF Xavier Paul to their minor league camp.

exchange student Souleymane Sidibe, and added that he plans on working out another tough season schedule. “I’m working on it already,” he said. Wednesday boys Sea Otters 66, Wolverines 55 Seldovia Shaktoolik

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CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned C Josh Phegley, RHP Andre Rienzo and LHP Eric Surkamp to Charlotte (IL). Reassigned RHP Chris Beck, INF Andy Wilkins and RHP Cody Winiarski to their minor league camp. CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned RHP Preston Guilmet, RHP Frank Herrmann, LHP Colt Hynes and INF David Adams to Columbus (IL). TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Assigned LHP Ricky Romero and RHP Marcus Stroman to minor league camp. National League ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned LHP Tyler Lyons to Memphis (PCL). FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Named Troy Vincent executive vice president of football operations and Dave Gardi senior vice president of football operations. BALTIMORE RAVENS — Named Chris Hewitt assistant secondary coach and Billy DeLorbe crosstraining specialist. CHICAGO BEARS — Agreed to terms with CB Sherrick McManis on a one-year contract. DETROIT LIONS — Signed FB Jed Collins to a one-year contract. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Resigned RB James Starks. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Resigned OT Fred Evans and G Charlie Johnson. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed LS Charley Hughlett. NEW YORK JETS — Re-signed G Willie Colon. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Resigned S Usama Young to a twoyear contract. Signed OT Donald Penn to a two-year contract. TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with DT Antonio Johnson on a multiyear contract and WR Marc Mariani on a one-year contract. Released K Rob Bironas. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed LB Akeem Jordan. HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with F Brandon Mashinter on a two-year contract extension. PHOENIX COYOTES — Signed F Greg Carey to a one-year entrylevel contract. WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled F Chris Brown from Hershey (AHL). Signed G Pheonix Copley to a two-year contract. SOCCER Major League Soccer Players Union MLS PLAYERS UNION — Named John Thorrington special assistant to the executive director. WINTER SPORTS U.S. SKI AND SNOWBOARD ASSOCIATION — Named M. Alex Natt executive vice president and general counsel. COLLEGE KENNESAW STATE — Announced men’s basketball coach Lewis Preston will not return next season. NOTRE DAME — Named Theresa Romagnolo women’s soccer coach.

SELDOVIA (66) — R. Waterbury 0 0-0 0, Sidibe 0 0-0 0, D. Waterbury 0 1-5 1, Collier 6 2-2 18, Haller 1 0-0 2, Philpot 6 6-10 18, O’Leary 11 5-6 27, Swearingen 0 0-0 0. Totals 24 14-23 66. SHAKTOOLIK (55) — Savetilik 1 0-0 2, Auliye 2 0-2 4, Hunt 0 2-2 2, Rock 7 6-10 21, Sampson 4 0-2 9, Paniptchuk 6 1-1 17, Takak 0 0-0 0. Totals 20 9-17 55. 3-point field goals — Seldovia 4 (Collier 4); Shaktoolik 6 (Paniptchuk 4, Rock 1, Sampson 1). Team fouls — Seldovia 16; Shaktoolik 18. Fouled out — Auliye.

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Fishing with bears Upcoming Fishy Events:

Photo courtesy Dave Atcheson

Anglers must be bear-aware to avoid dangerous situations By Dave Atcheson For the Peninsula Clarion

Having just seen Dan Bigley’s recent presentation at Kenai Peninsula College and with the continual progression toward spring, the time seems ripe for talking about bears in Alaska, especially when it comes to fishing around them. For those that missed Dan’s talk or are unaware of him, he is the fisherman who was attacked and severely mauled on the Russian River back in 2003. The attack, which resulted in the loss of his sight, along with the aftermath and his amazing recovery, is the subject of his book, “Beyond the Bear: How I Learned to Live and Love Again After Being Blinded by a Bear.” Mr. Bigley is a mesmerizing and often humorous speaker and his story and book a true inspiration, yet his account of this terrifying ordeal brings up many questions, the most important of which might be: What steps should fishermen take to avoid a similar confrontation? It is a topic that often generates a great deal of speculation and debate. While bears are most active during evening hours, trouble can occur at anytime and it’s important for anglers in Alaska to first and foremost be “bear aware,” and that means being in constant touch with where they are and what they’re doing. Larry Lewis, a Wildlife Technician, who among other duties teaches bear safety for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, preaches this during his classes. He maintains that too often people get in trouble

encounter and to give bears the opportunity to avoid you. Make plenty of noise while hiking. If possible, travel in a group. Clap your hands, sing, anything that will make your presence known. When you do have an unwanted encounter, it’s important to remain calm, and never run. It’s natural for bears to give chase and impossible to outrun one. First, identify yourself, let the bear know you’re human, talk in a normal voice. If the bear continues approaching, become more defensive: raise your voice and wave your arms. Make yourself as large as possible. If you’re in a group, have the members stand together and shout. Usually this is all it takes to avoid a confrontation. When the time comes to retreat, back away slowly, move off the trail, and always leave the animal a route out. If you are attacked, experts say you have two choices— play dead or fight back— depending upon whether the bear is behaving defensively or seeking food. In most cases, brown bears that attack are reacting defensively, often defending a carcass or protecting their young. If this is the case, and the bear is a grizzly, play dead. Lie on your stomach and cup your hands behind your neck.Usually the bear will end its attack once it perceives the threat over. It’s important, however, to remain in this position for as long as possible after the bear breaks off Bear Safety and Close its attack, as movement often causes the bear to return. If it’s Encounters a black bear, or any bear trying It’s always best to avoid an to break into a tent or cabin, because they lose contact with their surroundings, becoming totally engrossed in their fishing, for instance. The other problem, he says, is complacency or a cavalier attitude, believing that “it couldn’t happen to me,” or that because I know all the “rules” for being in bear country I’ll be alright. While it is extremely important to be mindful of these rules, Lewis emphasizes they are only guidelines and never a guarantee. After years of dealing with nuisance bears and investigating attacks, he says the one thing he’s learned for certain is that these animals, just like people, are individuals and it’s impossible to know how each one is going to behave in a given situation. “You simply don’t know if a particular animal is agitated already. Has it been provoked by other bears in the area, or have other fishermen been getting too close?” It’s always best, Lewis advises, to ere on the side of caution, and that means not fishing in the middle of the night and avoiding areas where there’s even a chance of trouble. This may create a dilemma for die-hard anglers, most of whom are guilty of fishing at off-hours in order to beat the crowds. Nevertheless, with the ongoing loss of bear habitat and a steady increase in both the number of bears and anglers, it’s a question we may all need to take into serious consideration in the future.

fight back. What about carrying a weapon? The experts agree: If you are not proficient in the use of a firearm and not fully prepared to use it, don’t even consider bringing one; it only increases the chance of injuring yourself or someone else. For those comfortable carrying a gun, choose the right weapon. Many tote largecaliber pistols because of their convenient size, but experts say they are not the best choice. A hunting rifle, a .338 or .375 caliber, is standard, although a 12-gauge shotgun loaded with rifled slugs probably offers the best protection at close range. For those uncomfortable packing heat or who like the addition of a non-lethal defense, pepper spray is often the answer, and has been proven to be an effective last line of defense against bear attacks. Many experts believe that, especially for fishermen, it may be their best line of defense, as carrying a firearm and a fishing rod can be burdensome and bear spray is almost as easy as carrying a cell phone. Many recommend a shoulder harness rather than carrying it on the belt. Although the spray is closer to your face, it keeps the weapon away from trees and other obstacles that could easily bump it and unexpectedly set it off. While easy to carry, the only drawback to these sprays is that if they are discharged upwind, they can disable the user. It’s important to know how to use the spray and take the appropriate precautions. Knowing the rules, and car-

rying a firearm or pepper spray, should never preclude simple common sense. Avoid crowding bears and allow them plenty of “personal” space. Plan ahead, stay calm, and make noise. Alaska is home to a vast array of wildlife. They should neither be feared nor taken for granted, and we should exalt in the fact that we are still able to share this land with them. We should respect what they represent and enjoy their presence, but always in a safe and nonthreatening manner.

Addition Bear Safety Tips for Fishermen n Bears are attracted to splashing fish. If you have a fish on and a bear approaches, cut your line immediately— even if it’s a 30-inch rainbow. Then, slowly back out of the water, move to an open area, preferably with other people. n If possible fish in groups, or have a lookout. Fish in an open area, where you can see bears and they can see you. n Try to avoid “tunnel vision,” make it a habit to take a break from fishing and look around every few minutes. n Try to avoid odors by storing fish in a bear proof container and sealed plastic bags. n Bears are attracted to carcasses, so if possible fillet your fish at home. For more information: Alaska Department of Fish and Game website at: http://1.usa. gov/1j5r4dF and: www.bebearaware.org.

The Fly Fishing Film Tour F3T, The Fly Fishing Film Tour, the very popular annual national film series, will be back on the Kenai Peninsula Saturday, April 26, at the Kenai Convention and Visitor’s Center. This popular series regularly makes its way around the country, featuring clips of the most exciting fishing footage filmed over the previous year. Once again this year’s event is a fundraiser for the newly formed Kenai Peninsula Chapter of Trout Unlimited. Along with these exciting films there will be door prizes and a silent auction. Last year’s event was a huge success and sold out. Tickets for this year’s F3T are currently available from event organizer Mark Wackler of Fishology Alaska (3948378) or they can be purchased online at https://www.ticketriver.com/event/8879 Trout Unlimited March Meeting The meeting will be held at 6:30p.m. in Room 121 Steffy Building, Kenai Peninsula College Kenai River Campus: Robert Begich, area management biologist with the sportfish division of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, will give a recap of last year’s fishing season, discuss regulation changes for the coming season, and describe projects that the department will be undertaking this summer. Need not be a member to attend, the event is free and anyone interested in fishing is welcome.

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 The Corner Cafe in the Blazy Mall in Soldotna will be showing a colorful collection of Hand Painted Art Quilts by Chelline Larsen through the month of March. Call 260-9113 for more details.  The Sterling Community Center invites artists, crafters, and vendors to participate in its Spring Craft & Vendor Fair to be held Saturday, March 29, 2014, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the SC Center. $30 for a space, $10 to rent a table. Limit 1 vendor per product line. Visit www.sterlingcommunityclub.com for a registration form, or visit the Sterling Community Center in person. Call 262-7224 or email sterlingcommunityclub@live. com for more information.  A free PEEP’s Children’s Art Workshop will be held on Saturday, March 22nd from 1-4pm. Teachers will provide instruction and encouragement for artists of all ages at the Kenai Visitors & Cultural Center. This is a great opportunity to get creative for the Kenai Birding Festival’s PEEP’s Art Contest. AmVets Post 4 in the Red Diamond Center holds blind doubles darts every Friday evening with sign up at 6:30 p.m. Tacos are available; and burn your own steak dinner from 6 to 8 p.m every Saturday with Karaoke after dinner from 8 p.m. to midnight.  Join Steve and Fern Holloway for Karaoke every Saturday night at the Kenai Moose Lodge. Singing starts at 9 p.m. and everyone is welcome.  An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday. The jam is as Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thursday of the month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the month. Jam starts at 6:30 p.m.  Veronica’s in Old Town Kenai has open mic Friday at 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. This Saturday we have Mike and Ktmea from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Come in and enjoy some homemade soups, dessert, delicious coffee and a great homey feel, see you then.  Four Royal Parkers on the Kenai Spur Highway in Soldotna has live music with Bob Ramponi and the Alaska Swing Company Friday and Saturday at 10 p.m.  Odie’s Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m.  The Studio Espresso Shop at Spur Highway and Nikiski Avenue in Nikiski hosts an open mic night on Saturdays starting at 7 p.m. Call 776-7655.  The Nikiski Senior In-Home Services’ Spring Craft Bazaar and Bake Sale will be held April 11-12 from 10 a.m. to 5p.m. Booth reservations are being accepted at $10 a day (tables not provided). For more information call Laurajean at 776.7586.  This Friday evening, March 21, at the Kenai Fine Arts Center, local writers will meet and read from their latest work between 6-8pm. Doors open at 6p.m. The public is invited and encouraged to bring samples of their own writing to read aloud and discuss. Kenai Fine Arts Center provides free refreshments.  The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays and live music Fridays, Saturdays at 10 p.m.  Hooligans Saloon in Soldotna has poker Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 p.m. and live music Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.  The Duck Inn on Kalifornsky Beach Road has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and DJ Arisen on Saturdays.  Mykel’s in Soldotna has live music Thursdays from 6-9 p.m. with Robb Justice, and Fridays and Saturdays from 6:309:30 p.m. with Bob Ramponi.  The Duck Inn will have live music from 7 to 10 p.m. every Wednesday with Robb Justice and Trio.  Main Street Tap and Grill has Wednesday karaoke with KJ Natalia, Thursday acoustic music with Dustin and Friends and Keeley & Nelson, and live music and dancing with 9Spine Friday and Saturday. The public is invited to attend Kenai Peninsula College’s Art Student League Association (ASLA) spaghetti feed donation fundraiser at Kenai Lodge #11 36086 Kenai Spur Rd on March 23, 2014 from 4-8 p.m. Desserts will be available for sale by auction. Six art degree students will be taking their scholarships abroad to deepen their understanding of the art they have only seen in books. Working to earn money toward this project for four years, they are now in the final stages of preparation See ART, page B-2

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Thanks for the Memories Bill Lowe, Sterling

I’m happy for my childhood days, and the lessons my parents taught. “Pursue moral and ethical pathways; Don’t follow those which are not.” Their words were quite profound: “Play fair; give life all you’ve got; do your best the first time ‘round; don’t expect to see a second shot.” “Don’t live behind an artificial smile, pretending you’ll never get caught; a fabricated, make-believe lifestyle, only makes you feel more distraught.” “Forget about self-centered dreams, that give others neglected thought; don’t attempt self-righteous schemes leaving your stomach tied in a knot.” I so value their respectable training; life’s early lessons I’ve never forgot. They’re principals I’m still retaining, and memories of an occasional swat. Poems must include the writer’s name, phone number and address. They should be kept to no more than 300 words. Submission of a poem does not guarantee publication. Poems may be e-mailed to news@peninsulaclarion. com, faxed to 283-3299, delivered to the Clarion at 150 Trading Bay Road or mailed to P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, AK 99611.

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Undated handout photo issued by London antique dealers Wartski via the Press Association on Wednesday of a rare Imperial Faberge Egg . The London antique dealer says the gold ornament bought by an American scrap-metal dealer has turned out to be a rare Faberge egg worth millions.

LONDON — There is good luck, outrageous good fortune — and now there is the case of the scrap metal dealer who found one of the eight missing Faberge imperial eggs at a flea market in the American Midwest. A London antique dealer said Wednesday that that the scrap metal entrepreneur bought the egg for about $14,000, thinking

he could make a small profit by reselling the piece for its gold content. It turned out the jewel-encrusted piece was worth millions. Kieran McCarthy of Wartski, which specializes in Russian artifacts, said the scrap metal dealer began to suspect he was holding a rare piece after seeing an article online about an imperial Faberge Easter

egg made for Russian royalty. The dealer contacted McCarthy, who verified the egg as genuine and negotiated its sale to a collector. “The second I saw it, my spine was shivering,” said McCarthy, calling the piece a “Holy Grail” for collectors. Both buyer and seller want to remain See LUCK, page B-2

Having braces wasn’t bad enough Bookworm Sez Having braces apparently wasn’t bad enough. You hated your tin grin, but that wasn’t as demoralizing as acne, which was nothing compared to hormones, which wasn’t as annoying as untamable hair, which was minimal compared to your teenage self-esteem which hovered around 5 on a 1-to-50 scale. Still, you overcame, lived through it, and here you are. And in the new book “Handbook for an Unpredictable Life” by Rosie Perez, you’ll read about another survivor. Lydia Perez was an up-and-coming singer in Puerto Rico when her much-older husband forced her to quit before moving her and their children to New York City . Unhappy and restless, she fatefully met Ismael Serrano, a married ladies’ man who wanted to date her sister – but Lydia stole him away and, months later, pregnant, she

accused him of cheating (again), waved a gun at him, and he (understandably) left. A week after giving birth, Lydia visited her new daughter’s aunt and vanished, leaving baby Rosie there for the next three years. For Rosie Perez, her Tia’s home was the perfect place to live. Tia had three daughters who doted on their little cousin and encouraged her to dance and sing. Perez remembers being safe, clean, and loved. And then her mother – who’d been diagnosed with schizophrenia – returned. Without warning, Lydia reclaimed Perez and turned her over to “the Home.” At age three, Perez was “the ‘property’ of the Catholic Church.” Immediately, she was given chores she didn’t understand and rules that were strictly enforced. She found a friend and learned that crying resulted in swift punSee SEZ, page B-2

Reviews of Mr. Peabody & Sherman/ Out of the Furnace R eeling It In C hris J enness Mr. Peabody and Sherman 1hr 30min Rated PG Animation Out of the Furnace 116 minutes Rated : R This week I saw two very different films and, while they were of approximately the same level of quality, they are for vastly different audiences. It should go without saying that parents will want to take their kids to the one with the cartoon dog voiced by “Modern Family’s” Phil Dunphy as opposed to the one where Christian Bale and Woody Harrelson play mumbling misanthropes in the backwoods of the Rust Belt. I remember watching “Mr. Peabody & Sherman” as a kid on “Rocky and Bullwin-

AP Photo/ DreamWorks Animation

This image shows Sherman, voiced by Max Charles, from left, Penny, voiced by Ariel Winter, and Mr. Peabody, voiced by Ty Burell, in a scene from “Mr Peabody & Sherman.”

kle” reruns, although I don’t think it was called that. In fact, the duo has been around so long that my parents could also have watched them as children, taking delight in their screwball trips through time via the WABAC machine. I remembered that Mr.

Peabody was super-smart, that he was in charge, and that he was a dog. Sherman, as I recall, was a bit of dork and sounded a lot like Rocky the Squirrel. What I don’t remember was any kind of familial relationSee REEL, page B-2

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Autism-friendly New York City show offered for younger kids MARK KENNEDY AP Drama Writer

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In this June 13, 2013, file photo, from left, bassist Gene Simmons , guitarist Tommy Thayer and singer Paul Stanley of the US band Kiss perform on stage in Berlin, Germany. Kiss and Def Leppard are joining forces for a summer tour. The legendary bands will embark on a U.S. tour June 23 in West Valley City, Utah.

Kiss, Def Leppard pair up for summer tour

NEW YORK — Families of young autistic children have a new place to engage their sons and daughters — a live Disney show. The Theatre Development Fund, a nonprofit that provides access to live theater, will partner with Feld Entertainment, Inc. to offer an autism-friendly performance of “Disney Junior Live On Tour! Pirate & Princess Adventure” on April 19 at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. The Fund has previously helped create autism-friendly showings of “The Lion King,” ‘’Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” and “Wicked.” The new April show is the first time the target audience is younger and comes during Autism Awareness month. The Fund bought all the tickets to the show and will offer them at a discount for young children and adults on the autism spectrum. The venue holds more than 5,000 seats but only 2,000 will be made available so patrons have welcoming space. Tickets range from $32 to $69. The show will be slightly altered to make those with autism more comfortable, including cutting jarring sounds and strobe lights. Quiet areas with beanbag chairs and coloring books, staffed by autism experts, also will be created inside the theater.

Jagger bandmates offer support By MESFIN FEKADU AP Music Writer

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This is a Jan. 23, file photo of British actress Angela Lansbury photographed on stage at the Gielgud Theatre in central London, as she returns to the West End this spring for the first time in nearly 40 years, with the play, Blithe Spirit, by Noel Coward.

Lansbury wows critics in London stage return LONDON (AP) — Angela Lansbury has British critics spellbound with her performance as a dotty mystic in “Blithe Spirit” on the London stage. The 88-year-old actress is appearing in the West End for the first time in almost 40 years as medium Madame Arcati in Noel Coward’s supernatural farce. She won a Tony for the role on Broadway in 2009. The Daily Telegraph’s Charles Spencer praised Lansbury’s “astonishing energy and comic panache” in the production, directed by 85-year-old Michael Blakemore. In Wednesday’s Times of London, Dominic Maxwell said Lansbury’s “amazing precision and vim” were “a master-class in character comedy.” London-born Lansbury is known worldwide as small-town sleuth Jessica Fletcher on long-running TV series “Murder, She Wrote.” She said after Tuesday’s opening night that “being back in London felt very natural and terrific.”

NEW YORK — Members of the Rolling Stones are offering support to Mick Jagger following the death of his girlfriend L’Wren Scott. The Stones canceled their seven-date tour of Australia and New Zealand following the fashion designer and celebrity stylist’s apparent suicide in New York City on Monday. Keith Richards said in a statement Wednesday that “no one saw this coming” and that Jagger has “always been my soul brother and we love him.” “We’re thick as thieves and we’re all feeling for the man,” he added. Charlie Watts said the band’s priority is the 70-year-old Jagger. “Needless to say we are all

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anonymous, and McCarthy did not disclose the sale price — but experts note that a nonimperial Faberge egg sold at Christie’s for $18.5 million in 2007. Independent Faberge expert Geza von Habsburg said the egg is “absolutely genuine” and matches the one-line description found in records kept by Russia’s Imperial Cabinet. The egg, which contains a Vacheron Constantin watch, sits on a jeweled gold stand and was given by Alexander

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their journey. Please show your support by bringing your family to this event. 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 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. 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.  Celebrate Spring Break by watching free movies at the library. Friday March 14 from 2-4:30 p.m. visit the library to watch the film based on the award-winning novel Catching Fire. Large screen experience, refreshments are provided. Children under the age of 10, please bring an adult.  Soldotna High School Presents “Twelve Angry Jurors.” Come see Soldotna High School’s adaptation of the classic play Twelve Angry Men! Performances will take place in Soldotna High School’s auditorium March 27, 28, and 29th at 7:00, with a special matinee performance on the 29th at 1 p.m. This play will be performed arena style with the audience on the stage, so tickets are limited for each show! Admission is $5.00 a person.

ship between the two, although the 2014 big-budget 3-D animated adventure sure does. Apparently Mr. Peabody, the world’s most accomplished being, was lonely and decided to adopt a baby. After gaining specific permission from the courts to do so, Peabody takes legal parental custody of Sherman, raising him as his own, with a little help from historic figures of the distant past. While the five minute cartoon segments focused mainly on the adventure followed by a not-so-clever pun, this current incarnation is all about the family stuff, which is frankly, slightly off-putting. Peabody, upon dropping Sherman off at school for the first time, is nervous, understandably, it turns out because his Films precious boy winds up biting a bully who was taunting him  Call Orca Theaters at 262-7003 for listings and times. in the lunch room. As a solu Call Kambe Cinemas at 283-4554 for listings and times. tion, Peabody invites the bully and her parents (the bully in question is a pretty blond girl Down the Road named Penny - anyone want to  The Pratt Museum in Homer is open Tuesday-Sunday, noon- take odds on whether Sherman 5 p.m. For more information and a schedule of events, visit www. is going to have his first crush?) prattmuseum.org. home to supper to work it all out. Predictably, Sherman and Submissions may be emailed to news@peninsulaclarion.com. Penny wind up in the WABAC The deadline is 5 p.m. Mondays. machine and all heck breaks C

completely shocked but our first thought is to support Mick at this awful time,” he said. “We intend to come back to Australia and New Zealand as soon as it proves possible.” Ronnie Wood echoed Watts’ statement. “This is such terrible news and right now the important thing is that we are all pulling together to offer Mick our support and help him through this sad time,” Wood said. “Without a doubt we intend to be back out on that stage as soon as we can.” Scott had been Jagger’s companion since 2001. The Rolling Stones frontman paid tribute to his girlfriend Tuesday on his Facebook page writing, “I will never forget her.” “I am still struggling to understand how my lover and best friend could end her life

in this tragic way. We spent many wonderful years together and had made a great life for ourselves. She had great presence and her talent was much admired, not least by me.” Scott launched her high-end fashion label in 2006. First lady Michelle Obama, Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz were among the big names to wear her designs. Accounts filed by Scott’s LS Fashion Ltd. in London show

the company had liabilities that exceeded assets by 4.24 million euros ($5.9 million) as of Dec. 31, 2012. The company’s long and short-term debts totaled 6.75 million euros against assets, capital and reserves of 2.51 million euros, according to the accounts, which were filed in October. Scott recently collaborated with Banana Republic on a more affordable line of clothing.

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bragging and name-dropping. Happily, that’s (mostly) not the case here. To quote author Rosie Perez, “Yay!” Though there is some celeb-spotting in “Handbook for an Unpredictable Life,” Perez doesn’t focus solely on careerfueled celebrity-stroking here. Instead, this book consists largely of her unique emotional-rags-to-riches tale of childhood and adolescence, abuse and struggle. Lesser writers might have treated the harshness she endured with poor-me maudlinism, but this memoir is charming and spirited. Did I mention that Perez is a funny writer, too? Yes she is, which softens the outrage of this triumphantly forgiving story and turns it into a don’t-miss. If you’re a celebrity watcher or you just love a good autobiography, grab “Handbook for an Unpredictable Life” and brace yourself…

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III to his wife Empress Maria Feodorovna in Easter 1887. Only 50 of the imperial eggs were made for the royal family, and eight remained missing before the latest find, though only three of those are known to have survived the Russian revolution. “I think it’s pretty exciting,” said Tatiana Zherebkina, spokeswoman for Faberge. “The experts seem to agree it’s authentic and of imperial provenance — one of the eight missing eggs.” It will be on display at Wartski’s London showroom April 14-17, the first time it will have been seen in public for 112 years.

At that tender age, she lived without privacy and with beatings, though she encountered kindness in a few of the nuns and Brothers who were tasked with caring for and teaching the children in the Home. The Home, however, wasn’t the only home Perez had during her childhood. She bounced between her mother’s abuse, her Tia’s apartment, houses of Home volunteers, friends’ bedrooms, and a group home with dizzying infrequency – which made her grow angry and depressed. She was nearly molested. She watched beloved family members turn to drugs. She lost her best friend. And finally, at age 14, Perez found her permanent home again. I always start celebrity memoirs with a little trepidation. The Bookworm is Terri Too many times, in my experi- Schlichenmeyer. Email her at ence, they’re just vehicles for bookwormsez@gmail.com.

loose. At first, I was fairly annoyed at the number of dumb, everso-gently crude jokes there were in the film. The material is certainly not offensive, just lowest common denominator stuff. Gradually, however, the story picks up steam and by the end things get both fun and pretty sweet. The movie moves at a break-neck pace, perhaps to satisfy a generation children being brought up on “Phineas and Ferb,” but there are some genuinely enjoyable moments. Ty Burrell, as Peabody, is nicely witty and urbane, although he can’t do much beyond an impersonation of the original Peabody from the ‘50s. Stephen Colbert is a welcome addition as Penny’s father, as is Patrick Warburton as a dimwitted Agamemnon from the Battle of Troy. Unfortunately, as many of the jokes fall flat as land, and many of the plot twists, including one involving Child Protective Services, seem needlessly flamboyant. By the time the credits rolled, I had bought in, but it took a while to get there. The movie is a fine little diversion, but really sets itself up for failure when it touts both “How to Train Your Dragon,” and “The Lion King,” among the pedigree of its creators. There is nothing classic about “Mr. Peabody,” and not

even a trip back in the WABAC can change that. Grade: B“Out of the Furnace,” though slightly better as a whole, also suffers somewhat in comparison to its predecessor. Touted as the next major project from “Crazy Heart” director Scott Cooper, this tale of small town tragedy and justice can’t come close to living up to the beauty and heart of that previous film. That doesn’t make it bad, but it’s just not great either. Christian Bale and Casey Affleck are two brothers in the rural Northeast - the older, Russell, working quietly at the steel mill while younger brother Rodney flounders at home while in between tours to Iraq. Russell has a handle on life, taking care of his ailing father and keeping his brother out of trouble, all the while growing closer to family and fatherhood with his beautiful girlfriend Lena, played by Zoe Saldana. But, when a tragic accident puts him out of commission for an extended time, life spins out of control. Lena leaves and takes up with a local law enforcement officer played by Forrest Whitaker, and Rodney, under the reluctant tutelage of small-time crime boss John Petty, takes a gig bare knuckle fighting for the dangerous Harlan DeGroat, played by Woody Harrelson. As you can imagine, things go from bad to worse.

Most of the pieces of “Furnace” are top notch. The acting, though certainly minimalist, is well done, especially by Harrelson and Affleck. Christian Bale, in trying to play “real” barely says anything at all, but it works. It was also nice to see Willem Dafoe in a completely non-disturbing role, for once, as Petty. The problem is that the movie fails to really grab the audience. Everything is so muted, from the performances to the music, that even when the stakes are rising, the tension level seems to stay the same. In the end, you’re left with the feeling that you’ve just watched two hours of backwoods lowlifes butting up against each other and nothing ever really comes of it. It’s not that nothing happens - plenty does, but the stakes feel low and there is little consequence to it all. The performances are impressive in a non-impressive way. Unfortunately, the movie only seems impressive until you realize it isn’t. Grade: B“Mr. Peabody & Sherman” is rated PG for mild crude humor and cartoon action. “Out of the Furnace” is rated R for language and strong violence. Chris Jenness is a freelance graphic designer, artist and movie buff who lives in Nikiski.

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Mom seeks guidance for son questioning legal marijuana DEAR ABBY: I moved into my boyfriend’s home several months ago. In the beginning, he was very attentive and we had fun together. But over the last couple of months, he has become abusive and unbearable to live with. He orders me around and doublechecks to make sure I’m doing things “his way.” I feel as though there isn’t room to breathe and no way Abigail Van Buren out. I have lost weight, and I’m having trouble sleeping now. I have no family or friends who can help me out. I want to end this misery! But how? — MISERABLE IN FLORIDA DEAR MISERABLE: Pick up the phone and call the National Domestic Violence Hotline (800799-7233). Although your boyfriend’s controlling behavior hasn’t yet escalated to physical abuse, it very well could. The counselors at the hotline can help you to formulate a plan so you can safely get away. Please don’t wait to make the call, because the symptoms you’re having are ones of extreme stress.

Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars A baby born today has a Sun in Pisces if born before 12:57 p.m. (PST). Afterward, it will be in Aries. The Moon is in Scorpio all day. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, March 20, 2014: This year you finally will be able to deal with a loved one directly. Conversations will start flowing even more, toward the end of 2014. Your creativity surges mid-July, which allows for more solutions and better investments. If you are single, you will encounter an exciting period for romance anytime from summer on. This person could be very special to you. If you are attached, the two of you start acting like newfound lovers. Enjoy this moment in your relationship. You might find the structure of your family changing if you are at the right stage in life. SCORPIO bottom-lines situations. 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 Use your intuition with an important situation involving a loved one. You can rely on feelings only to a certain level; a conversation is a must. In the afternoon, you will discover that there is a good flow between you and this person. Tonight: Celebrate the first day of spring. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Handle any important matter in the morning; otherwise, you might not gain the results you want. You could find others unusually difficult later today, which is likely to affect your opinion of them. Tonight: Defer to a friend or loved one for now.

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DEAR ABBY: We live in a small town. My husband is friendly and outgoing and seems to know everyone. We can’t go anywhere without running into someone he knows. Meals out that should be quiet affairs turn into social situations I do not want to be part of. I have wracked my brain as to a polite response to people when they say, “Join us!” I don’t WANT to join them. How do we politely decline their friendly offer? — “NOT TONIGHT” IN NORTH CAROLINA DEAR “NOT TONIGHT”: A polite way to refuse would be to say, “We’d love to do that another time, but it has been a long day and we just want to sit and be quiet.” It wouldn’t be considered rude unless you say it often. If these people are friends, they should understand because not everyone is up for company all the time. It is also understandable if a couple has things they need to discuss privately. 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. Hints from Heloise

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHYour resourcefulness draws strong results in the morning. A family member, though well-meaning, could add to the pressure of the moment. Reach out to a friend or neighbor who has been very uppity for a while. Tonight: Relax. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You could be more easily confused than you realize. Ask questions to clarify, but phrase them carefully in order to get an appropriate response. You will see changes in how you handle your funds because of what you are hearing. Tonight: Remain upbeat. Greet spring with a smile. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Use the morning to the max, when others are more responsive to your inquiries. Look at a personal matter through someone else’s eyes. Once you see this person’s perceptions, your instinctive response could be right-on. Tonight: Happily head home. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Pace yourself, as you have a lot to get done. You have a smile that helps draw others closer to you. Remain sensitive to the possibilities. Allow more lightness and spontaneity into your day. Read between the lines with a close loved one. Tonight: Out till the wee hours. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You could be in a situation that touches many other people. Understand what is happening by reaching out and getting more information. Your questions might help someone else gain some insight. Delay a discussion until the afternoon. Tonight: Treat a loved one well.

Envelope Etiquette? Dear Heloise: What is the proper way to insert a greeting card into the envelope? — Rosa H., Moundridge, Kan. Rosa, good question! There is not a right or a wrong way to put a card into an envelope. A good way to follow is to hold the card with the card front facing up and slide it into the envelope so the fold ends up at the bottom of the envelope. The front of the card should be toward the back of the envelope. That way, when the recipient opens it, he or she immediately sees the front of the card. And by grabbing the open side of the card, it prevents anything sent inside the card from falling out. Readers, what do you think? — Heloise Tissue holders Dear Heloise: I usually buy whichever brand of facial tissue that is on sale. I’ve found that the cheaper brands typically take the box with them when you’re trying to remove the tissues. So, I have found all kinds of unique square tissue-box holders at thrift stores or discount stores. I have boxes all over the house and in my office, so I didn’t want to spend a ton on holders. They are always heavy enough to hold the box in place when removing a tissue, and now I have quite a random collection that matches my decor. — Marj A., Garland, Texas Twin tablecloths Dear Heloise: I just read the idea to use twin-size sheets as tablecloths. The reader might try using a twin ready-made quilt, too. I’ve used them with seasonal motifs, purchased when on sale. — A Reader, St. Francisville, La.

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DEAR ABBY: Due to various anti-drug lectures he was exposed to at school, my 13-year-old son believes that marijuana is not only illegal, but also is very bad for you. He said it is poison. My state has recently legalized marijuana and I am at a loss about how to explain to him that pot is no longer “that bad,” as people partake of it in a responsible manner going forward. Any suggestions? — COLORADO MOM DEAR MOM: Marijuana isn’t poison, unless it was sprayed with a poisonous chemical before being harvested. The marijuana being sold to adults in the states where it is now legal has been carefully cultivated and harvested. Its use is not encouraged among teenagers, however, because research has shown it can impair brain development among young people. Stress to your son that like alcohol, marijuana can slow reaction time and impair judgment and memory, which is why it’s illegal for minors to use it. Whether it will become legal across the nation is still an open question. If it’s abused the way that alcohol sometimes is, smoking weed may also be harmful because, like any smoke, it poses a risk to the lungs.

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