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Friday-Saturday, April 4-5, 2014 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 158

Question Do you think the Legislature will complete its work by Easter Sunday? n Yes; n No, they’ll need to extend the regular session; n No, they’ll need to call a special session.

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Setnetter emergency petition fails Board of Fish finds lack of merit in proposal to separate Kenai, Kasilof sections By RASHAH McCHESNEY Peninsula Clarion

A petition to separate management of the Kenai, East Forelands and Kasilof sections of the commercial setnet fishery in Cook Inlet was failed unanimously by Alaska’s seven-member Board of Fisheries. During a Thursday hearing on the emergency petition, submitted by Paul A. Shadura II

representing the South K Beach Independent Fishermen’s Association, members of the board discussed whether the proposal met the criteria of an emergency. Under state law, the board can make an emergency finding if it determines an unforeseen or unexpected event has occurred that either threatens a fishery, or one in which a regulatory inaction would prevent harvesting a

surplus of those fish. The crux of the association’s, or SOKI, petition was that board members had not considered the potential effects to commercial fisheries when they amended the Kenai River Late-Run King Salmon Management Plan during their February meeting on the Upper Cook Inlet. New additions to the management plan include language

that would restrict the entirety of the commercial setnet fishery on the East Side of the Cook Inlet to 36 hours of fishing time per week. However, because sockeye runs peak at different times on the Kenai and Kasilof rivers — and commercial setnetters in the Kenai and Kasilof sections target the two different runs — fisheries managers will have to allocate those 36 hours between

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By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

Controversial permitM ting bill HB77 set to K die in committee JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The chairwoman of the Senate Resources Committee plans to hold a controversial permitting bill, effectively killing it this session. Sen. Cathy Giessel, in a release, said what began as an effort to create efficiencies in Alaska’s permitting process “morphed into a heated debate” and was “driving Alaskans apart.” HB77, from Gov. Sean Parnell, passed the House last year before stalling in the Senate. Soldotna Sen. Peter Micciche asked that it be sent to Senate Resources for additional work after hearing from his constituents during the interim. But an attempt to rewrite provisions of the bill didn’t allay concerns about the bill’s impact on things like public participation in the permitting process.

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two sections and could wind up prioritizing one river’s sockeye run over another. “Maybe managers will be saying ... let’s hold off on opening up the Kasilof area, even though the run is substantial for this area, so we can make sure we have enough hours on the Kenai,” Shadura said. “If we’re all bound together, it would be difficult for managers to make

Photo courtesy Bonnie Pierce/ Project GRAD

Trinity Standifer working with her Native Youth Olympics team on a fundraiser, in Tyonek.

Tyonek teen recognized for service By KELLY SULLIVAN Peninsula Clarion

Eight years ago, Bonnie Pierce noticed one of the second-graders staying regularly after school at Tebughna School, a kindergarten through 12th grade school in Tyonek. She met Trinity Standifer, and learned the young student was spending that time helping the janitor complete her evening

work. “I thought that was remarkable,” said Pierce who is the Campus Family Support Manager for Project GRAD, a nonprofit school improvement program. “She was really an impressive, well spoken little girl.” Standifer, now 15, volunteers for Project GRAD. She has grown into the perfect model of a Native youth leader,

Pierce said. “Trinity constantly seeks out ways to improve herself,” Pierce said. “She is always selfevaluating.” Pierce nominated Standifer and six other students across the Kenai Peninsula for the 2014 Alaska’s Spirit of Youth Award. Standifer won the Service to Children category. Pierce will join Standifer and her mother at the Spirit of

Youth Awards Dinner Saturday at the Anchorage Marriott Hotel. Standifer was one of 150 youth nominated statewide by the Spirit of Youth Teen Advisory Council, said Karen Zeman, executive director for Spirit of Youth. The Spirit of Youth program started in 1999 as a way to recognize positive contribuSee SPIRIT, page A-12

It has been about six months since the Kalifornsky Beach area saw rising groundwater creep into basements and crawlspaces and infiltrate septic systems and drinking water wells. While the borough installed culverts throughout the area and completed a drainage project from Karluk Avenue under KBeach Road out to Cook Inlet, the area is still being assessed to determine exact causes and possible solutions as some residents continue to pump water out of their homes. Sherrie Dahlen, who lives off of Bore Tide Drive, said she’s pumping water every single day. “We were going around the clock, pumping, to get this done when it happened otherwise we wouldn’t have been in our house,” she said. “We would have lost it.” While the borough and state officials have discussed mitigation strategies, Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Mike Navarre said funding through the Federal Emergency Management Agency is unlikely to be available until after this construction season. The federal disaster declaration allows for consideration See FLOOD, page A-12

Community project supports Man shoots self Soldotna family after accident with trooper’s gun By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

While looking for a civics project to help give back in the community, Kenai Central High School seniors Dacia Shier and Justice English could not think of a more noble cause then to support a Soldotna family struck by tragedy. Shier, 18, and English, 17, have organized a spaghetti dinner fundraiser for the Trevor Cunningham family to be held from 5-9 p.m. Saturday at KCHS cafeteria. All proceeds for the event go to the Cunningham family following the death of Trevor Cunningham, 29, in a Jan. 22 single-vehicle accident in Homer. The dinner event includes a silent auction, split the pot, raffles for prizes and games. Sportsman’s Warehouse will have sporting goods on display with proceeds going to the Cunningham family, Shier said. Ticket prices are $10 for ages 4-12 and $15 for anyone 13 and older. Shier said about the time she was searching for a senior project for her leadership class, Trevor Cunningham’s death hit the community hard. His death left his wife, Shannan Cunningham and four children without a husband and father. “While most projects I heard about were other students coaching or painting a building, which

Alaska State Troopers said a Homer man fatally shot himself with a trooper’s handgun after a struggle following a domestic violence assault call Wednesday night. A woman called troopers at 10:17 p.m. to report that her ex-boyfriend had assaulted her at her residence on East End Road and she had left the scene in a vehicle, according to a Thursday trooper dispatch. While troopers were in route, the assailant, identified as Aaron Michael Rael-Catholic, 24, rammed his vehicle into the woman’s vehicle at about Mile 4 of East End Road. Rael-Catholic exited his vehicle and a fight broke out between him and a trooper who arrived on scene, according to the report. The trooper used pepper

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Photo courtesy Shannan Cunningham

Trevor and Shannan Cunningham take a family portrait with their four children last fall. From top, Shelby, Shannan, Trevor, Dillan, Gage and Austin. After the death of Trevor Cunningham a fundraiser has been organized to help support the family. C

spray and a Taser in an attempt to apprehend the suspect, but the two ended up wrestling on the ground. During the altercation, “preliminary information is that Rael-Catholic obtained possession of the trooper’s pistol and fatally shot himself,” the dispatch said. Specific actions of how the fatal gunshot wound occurred remained under review, according to the report. An autopsy by the State Medical Examiner’s Office is expected later this week. The trooper was not injured and the woman victim was taken to South Peninsula Hospital for evaluation, according to the report. The Alaska State Troopers Alaska Bureau of Investigation is handling an investigation of the entire incident. The name of the trooper will be withheld for 72 hours, according to the report.

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

Barrow -6/-15

Today

Saturday

Mostly cloudy

Mostly cloudy with a passing shower

Hi: 42 Lo: 26

Hi: 43 Lo: 27

Sunday

10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m.

35 38 39 39

Hi: 43 Lo: 26

Hi: 37 Lo: 20

First Apr 7

Today 7:20 a.m. 8:56 p.m.

Full Apr 14

Daylight

Length of Day - 13 hrs., 36 min., 11 sec. Moonrise Moonset Daylight gained - 5 min., 35 sec.

Alaska Cities Yesterday Hi/Lo/W

Hi: 36 Lo: 19

Today 9:46 a.m. 2:25 a.m.

Kotzebue 19/4/pc 43/36/r 40/31/r McGrath 36/2/pc 41/22/pc 43/29/c Metlakatla 46/39/r 2/-3/sn -6/-15/c Nome 34/16/s 41/33/c 34/18/sf North Pole 36/6/s 42/37/r 45/32/sn Northway 35/-5/pc 41/19/s 43/27/c Palmer 44/23/s 37/9/pc 36/12/pc Petersburg 43/34/sn 36/1/s 37/12/s Prudhoe Bay* -7/-17/pc 39/34/c 41/29/sn Saint Paul 35/33/sf 44/38/r 42/36/sn Seward 39/25/c 38/10/pc 36/10/pc Sitka 45/32/pc 21/-9/s 22/2/s Skagway 47/30/s 39/3/s 38/7/c Talkeetna 40/10/s 38/-1/s 40/9/pc Tanana 31/-2/s 46/28/s 42/28/pc Tok* 33/-2/pc 45/28/r 43/32/sn Unalakleet 36/19/pc 46/28/s 44/30/pc Valdez 39/19/pc 47/39/r 44/37/pc Wasilla 45/18/pc 8/2/pc 2/-13/s Whittier 38/25/c 48/35/c 45/29/sn Willow* 40/20/pc 45/34/r 47/37/pc Yakutat 43/20/s 41/35/sh 40/33/r Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

Unalakleet McGrath 29/5 40/19

Today Hi/Lo/W 10/-13/pc 40/19/c 44/38/pc 19/-3/s 35/6/pc 35/2/pc 43/24/c 43/34/pc -4/-17/sn 32/21/sf 43/32/sn 43/36/pc 44/30/pc 42/22/s 29/5/pc 31/5/pc 29/5/s 39/24/pc 44/29/c 40/31/sn 43/28/c 44/23/pc

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Kenai/ Soldotna 42/26 Seward 43/32 Homer 43/32

Precipitation

From the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai

24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.00" Month to date ........................... 0.00" Normal month to date ............. 0.05" Year to date .............................. 2.63" Normal year to date ................. 2.53" Record today ................. 0.25" (2006) Record for April ............ 2.21" (1955) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963) Snowfall 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. .. 0.0" Month to date ............................. 0.0" Season to date ......................... 42.2"

Anchorage 43/29

Bethel 34/18

Valdez Kenai/ 39/24 Soldotna Homer

Dillingham 41/29

Juneau 44/30

National Extremes

Kodiak 40/33

Sitka 43/36

(For the 48 contiguous states)

High yesterday Low yesterday

101 at Zapata, Texas 5 at Stanley,

State Extremes Annette Island Nuiqsut

Cold Bay 45/32

49 -21

Today’s Forecast

Ketchikan 44/37

(Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation)

Severe thunderstorms will reach from the Gulf Coast to the lower Great Lakes today. Rain will soak the mid-Atlantic while snow falls in the Upper Midwest. Rain will push inland over the Northwest.

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Cleveland Columbia, SC Columbus, OH Concord, NH Dallas Dayton Denver Des Moines Detroit Duluth El Paso Fargo Flagstaff Grand Rapids Great Falls Hartford Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jackson, MS

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59/44/r 50/25/pc 58/44/r 35/10/pc 57/28/c 65/45/pc 57/35/pc 87/71/c 66/52/s 64/49/c 51/31/sn 56/43/r 36/33/r 54/33/pc 44/25/pc 79/65/pc 61/48/c 70/46/s 86/72/pc 69/53/c 53/46/c

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Fairbanks 36/10

Talkeetna 42/22 Glennallen 38/7

National Cities 48/37/r 62/44/s 60/35/s 74/46/t 75/48/t 48/48/r 74/47/pc 56/47/r 54/35/pc 76/46/t 44/28/pc 55/39/pc 44/39/c 56/35/r 52/27/pc 84/63/pc 78/45/t 81/54/t 50/32/sh 51/29/s 68/37/t

Readings through 4 p.m. yesterday

Nome 19/-3

New Apr 28

Unalaska 42/36

Almanac From Kenai Municipal Airport

Tomorrow 10:35 a.m. 3:18 a.m.

Yesterday Hi/Lo/W

City

Internet: www.gedds.alaska.edu/auroraforecast

Today’s activity: Moderate Where: Auroral activity will be moderate. Weather permitting, moderate displays will be visible overhead from Barrow to as far south as Talkeetna and visible low on the horizon as far south as Bethel, Soldotna and southeast Alaska.

Temperature

Tomorrow 7:17 a.m. 8:59 p.m.

Last Apr 21

Anaktuvuk Pass 10/-13

Kotzebue 10/-13

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Prudhoe Bay -4/-17

Chance of a little A chance for rain Sunny and chilly afternoon rain or snow showers

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

Adak* Anchorage Barrow Bethel Cold Bay Cordova Delta Junction Denali N. P. Dillingham Dutch Harbor Fairbanks Fort Yukon Glennallen* Gulkana Haines Homer Juneau Ketchikan Kiana King Salmon Klawock Kodiak

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70/40/r 41/35/pc 55/45/r 49/28/s 54/33/c 66/43/pc 57/40/pc 76/53/pc 66/55/pc 60/49/c 57/36/pc 53/41/r 38/27/sn 53/35/sh 48/39/r 83/67/pc 54/29/c 76/49/s 60/37/s 66/53/r 58/33/pc

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Peninsula Clarion, Friday, April 4, 2014

Community Calendar Today 9:45 a.m. • TOPS #AK 196 meets at The Grace Lutheran Church, in Soldotna. Call Dorothy at 262-1303. Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. 12:30 p.m. • Well Elders Live Longer exercise (W.E.L.L.) will meet at the Nikiski Senior Center. Call instructor Mary Olson at 907-7763745. 8 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “It Works” at URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. • AA 12 by 12 at the United Methodist Church, 607 Frontage Road, Kenai. • Twin City Al-Anon Family group, United Methodist Church, 607 Frontage Road in Kenai. Call 541-953-8335. Saturday 10 a.m. • Narcotics Anonymous PJ Meeting, URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. 7 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous support group “Dopeless Hope Fiends,” URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. 8 p.m. • AA North Roaders Group at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 242-9477. 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 Cardiac support group checks blood pressure The cardiac support group will meet Monday from 5:30-7 p.m. in the Redoubt Room at Central Peninsula Hospital for a discussion of blood pressures. Blood pressure checks will be done. Please feel free to bring your home blood pressure equipment if you would like us to check it against ours. For more information call Jeanette Rodgers, WomenHeart Cardiac Support Group Facilitator at 262-5547 or 252-1018.

‘Humor your stress’ with support program

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

nication, education and enjoyment for any interested quilters. Following the business meeting, there will be a potluck and hands-on class at 1:00 p.m. to create a quilted notebook cover. For more information contact Jan 252-2773.

Trap, skeet shooting clinics planned Beginners can learn how shoot the games of Trap and Skeet at clinics held on the first Sunday of the month in April, May and June at the Snowshoe Gun Club from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Clinics will introduce gun safety, gun fit and handling, explain the games of Trap and Skeet and then shoot a round of each. This is a good way for new shooters to learn and get comfortable on the fields. For more information call Alice Kerkvliet at 398-3693.

Kenai Peninsula Family Caregiver Support Program invites all family caregivers to join them for a video “Humor Your Celebrate NanoDays with Challenger Center Stress,” some laughs, and a discussion about relieving your NanoDays is a free community event from 5:30-7:30 p.m. stress Tuesday from 1:00-3:00 p.m. at the Soldotna Senior Centoday at the Challenger Learning Center, 9711 Kenai Spur ter. Contact Shelley or Judy at 907-262-1280. Highway, Kenai, and part of a nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering. This Soldotna Historical Society board to meet teeny, tiny science is a BIG deal and lots of fun to experiment The Board of Directors for the Soldotna Historical Society and explore! Visit on the web, www.akchallenger.org, “like” will meet on Saturday at 9 a.m. at the Fine Thyme Cafe in River them on Facebook, or call 283-2000. City Books. For more information call 262-4157.

Kenai Peninsula Quilt Guild to meet

Hospital service area board meeting canceled

The meeting of the Central Peninsula Hospital Service Area This guild invites all quilters on the Kenai Peninsula to Board that was regularly scheduled for April 14 has been canour semi-annual meeting Saturday at10:00 a.m. at the Christ celed. The next regularly scheduled meeting will be on May 12 Lutheran Church in Soldotna. This guild promotes commu- at 5:30 p.m. at Central Peninsula Hospital.

Report: Poor management led to grounding By RACHEL D’ORO Associated Press

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ANCHORAGE — Poor risk assessment and management were among factors that led to the grounding of a Shell oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Alaska in 2012, the Coast Guard said in a report released Thursday. The report also says Alaska’s tax laws influenced the decision to tow the Kulluk to Seattle for maintenance. Royal Dutch Shell PLC believed the drill vessel would have qualified as taxable property on Jan. 1, 2013, if it was still in Alaska waters. The Kulluk broke away from its tow vessel in late December 2012 after it ran into a vicious storm — a fairly routine winter event for Alaska waters. Multiple attempts to maintain tow lines failed, and the vessel ran aground that New Year’s Eve off tiny Sitkalidak Island, just off Kodiak Island. Several days before the tow initially broke, the master of the tow vessel, Aiviq, sent an email to the Kulluk’s tow master, expressing concerns about the towing conditions, according to the report. “To be blunt I believe that this length of tow, at this time of year, in this location, with our current routing guarantees

an ass kicking,” says the email quoted in the report. “In my opinion we should get to the other side just as soon as possible. It (sic) the event that our weather resources can route us “around” an area that will jeopardize any personnel or equipment on either the Kulluk or the Aiviq we should strongly consider the recommendation and deal with any logistical issues as they develop.” The Aiviq’s master and tow master shared their concerns about the weather forecast with Shell’s marine manager, and they requested to change course to minimize the impact, according to the report. The request was “not formally granted,” even though Shell’s tow plan gave those Aiviq officials the discretion to change course under certain considerations, the report said.

Damage to the Kulluk played a role in Shell’s decision to forego Arctic offshore drilling in 2013. Shell doesn’t plan to drill in the Arctic this year. Before the grounding in 2012, Shell had also experienced problems in the challenging Arctic conditions to the north where it was conducting pre-production drilling in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. In the Kulluk grounding, the Coast Guard report says sufficient evidence exists for other authorities to consider penalties. Lisa Novak, a civilian spokeswoman for the Coast Guard, said the final report stems from the Coast Guard’s formal marine casualty investigation. She said it is a factfinding report, with no direct penalties issued. The report also includes recommendations. Among them, the Coast Guard Commandant should partner with the Tow-

ing Safety Advisory Council to establish a group to address issues raised by the grounding. The report also recommends that the state of Alaska develop minimal criteria for ocean towing in the Coast Guard’s area of responsibility. It also says Shell and other corporations intending to work in Arctic waters should develop and maintain policies addressing all aspects of such operations in areas with histories of heavy weather. Shell spokeswoman Kelly op de Weegh said the company is reviewing the Coast Guard report. Shell already has implemented lessons learned and will measure them against the findings of the report, she said. “We appreciate the US Coast Guard’s thorough investigation into the Kulluk towing incident and will take the findings seriously,” she wrote in an email.

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‘Education session’ not as easy as it sounds In his January State of the State ad-

dress, Gov. Sean Parnell declared the current session of the Legislature to be the “education session.” But with just over two weeks left in the session, the current debate in Juneau hasn’t been much difEveryone knows that 9-1-1 is a univerferent than most every other session as lawmaksal number that should be called in the ers haggle over the details of temporary fixes and event of an emergency ... or do they? 9-1centers all over the United States have one-time funding sources for public education in 1encountered hurdles when educating the Alaska. public about 9-1-1 and its uses. April is National 911 Education Month, and there’s This week, members of the House Finance a major effort under way to educate people Committee proposed — and then rejected — the about the importance and appropriate use addition of $485, over the next three years, to the of 911 services. With all the advances in 9-1-1 has become much more current per-pupil education funding formula. The technology, complex. What began as a simple concept committee’s rewrite of Parnell’s education bill has grown into an amazing infrastructure includes an increase of $300 over three years; the that needs crucial attention. An informed caller is 9-1-1’s best caller. governor had proposed an increase of $200. It’s important that you know how to help Meanwhile, school districts around the state 9-1-1 help you. In an emergency, seconds are facing budget shortfalls to the tune of millions of dollars, and pink slips are being handed out to teachers. The Kenai Peninsula School District is Letters to the Editor in better shape than others — its projected budget Legalizing drugs doesn’t deficit is $4.5 million, and district administration eliminate the problem has said that an increase in the base student allocaAt the beginning of the last Legislation of $268 would solve its current funding issues. ture, the question of legalizing marijuana Solving current issues should be a priority for for personal use was brought up. One question was asked, how much tax money the Legislature, which is constitutionally tasked we can raise with it? Colorado has raised with overseeing the delivery of education in $3.5 million in one month to build new schools which all over the country are a Alaska. But addressing future issues — before they overtake the state — should be higher up on total failure, they do not teach reading, writing, cursive, and now some stupid lawmakers’ list of things to do. way of doing math. I planned on speaking at the Soldotna Simply funneling more money to school dismeeting on penalties for selling drugs, tricts, whether through increases in formulas or but went into the hospital the night betargeted appropriations, isn’t a long-term solution. fore. My penalty would be a minimum of It’s a Band-Aid. It would stave off the immediate $10,000 first offense; anything lower, the drug lords would just pay it and proceed. problems for another year and leave quality and The wonderful smoking industry has delivery of education for another Legislature to made cigarettes so expensive with taxes that they said now high school students address. With the state looking at a decrease in would have to use pleasure marijuana inrevenue, that might be the best course of action stead. We know a family whose high school for current lawmakers. A number of educationstudent started on marijuana 35 years ago, related bills are still moving through the Legislanow can’t hold a job, is on welfare, like ture, and whether they can be pieced together in millions of the same, but our politicians do not care. Money, money — taxes are an education package by the end of the session worth more than the mental health of our remains to be seen. children. Providing for meaningful change to public Paul D. Morrison Kenai education in a state as diverse as Alaska is a far more complex issue. To do it well requires at least as much focus as the Legislature has spent on oil taxes over the past few sessions — and an argument can be made that Alaska’s children are just as valuable a resource, if not more so.

When calling 9-1-1, details are important matter, so being knowledgeable and prepared can make all the difference. Tips everyone should know before dialing 9-1-1: n 9-1-1 is for law enforcement, fire and medical emergencies. n If you call 9-1-1, never hang up — you may have called 9-1-1 by accident. If that occurs, it is important to let the 9-1-1 dispatcher know. n Know where you are. This is the most important information you can provide as a 9-1-1 caller. Be aware of your surroundings. Make an effort to be as detailed as possible. If you are outside and don’t know the street address, look for landmarks or cross streets. n Know the capabilities of the devices

Applause Contribution helps fund emergency shelter On behalf of the board of directors, staff and clients of The LeeShore Center, I’d like to thank Alaska USA Federal Credit Union for its generous contribution of $1,000 to our agency for 2014. Community Support Grant funding will assist us in food costs to help feed the women and children in our emergency shelter facility. We appreciate all the support Alaska USA Federal Credit Union has generously given to our agency over the years! Again, thank you so much for your contribution! Cheri Smith, Executive Director The LeeShore Center

Chefs of the Night support food bank mission The Kenai Peninsula Food Bank would like to thank all the Chefs that made our third annual “Chefs of the Night” fundraising dinner possible. Guests enjoyed tasty and well-crafted food from AK supper club, Buckets, Fine Thyme Café, Iced & Sliced Cakes, Kenai Catering, Louie’s, Mykel’s, Tustumena Smokehouse, 2 Sisters Alaska Seafood and Veronica’s. Our great variety of beverages was provided by Bear Creek Winery, Hooligans, Kaladi

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you’re using. 9-1-1 can be contacted from almost every device that can make phone calls, but the callback and location information that accompanies your call to the 9-1-1 center can vary drastically among technologies and between geographic regions. n Stay on the line with the 9-1-1 dispatcher and answer all questions. The more information they have, the better they are able to help you. Their questions do not delay a response. This information is provided by Tammy Goggia, Soldotna Public Safety Communications Center Communications Center Manager. Brothers, Kassik’s Brewery and Odom Corp. Also thank you to Alaska Cab, Bailey’s Furniture, Big Daddy’s Pizza, CBC Rental, IGA Country Foods, Dreyer’s, Home Depot, McDonald’s, Odie’s Deli, Printer’s Ink, Safeway Kenai and Soldotna, Save-U-More, Sedona Florist, Three Bears, Uncle Lloyd’s and Walmart for their contributions. We had a wonderful night at the Food Bank, and it would not have been possible without our wonderful contributors and volunteers. Thank you! We feed people, because no one deserves to be hungry! Linda Swarner, Executive Director Kenai Peninsula Food Bank

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that decision.” According to ADFG data the historic midpoint, or peak, of the Kasilof river sockeye run is about a week earlier than the midpoint of the Kenai River run. So, instead of using the same 36-hour pool of available hours between the two sections — the SOKI petition requested that the board allow managers to fish the sections separately and provide up to 36-hours for both.

Deliberations Board member Fritz Johnson, of Dillingham, said he thought the petition could provide Alaska Department of Fish and Game managers who are tasked with running the Upper Cook Inlet fisheries, more flexibility when managing the two sections of the fishery to intercept sockeye headed for the Kenai and Kasilof rivers. “It may allow this department to have a little more precision in regards to managing those areas,” Johnson said after he and Kodiak board member Sue Jeffrey moved to take up the petition. Jeffrey echoed Johnson’s

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is great, I wanted to make more of an impact in someone’s life,” Shier said. “I have attended benefit dinners in the past and it has worked well for raising money for worthy causes.” Shier, who will be attending Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi in the fall, said she would like to pursue a career as an event planner. The organizers invited more than 2,000 people to the event through Facebook. For use of the kitchen, the school cooks will prepare the food ahead of time, while Shier organized volunteers to cover shifts to serve people. She said through her after-school leaderC

comments and brought up the “1 percent rule” which closes the commercial setnet fisheries in August if less than one percent of the season’s harvest is caught during two consecutive fishing periods. During the February Upper Cook Inlet meeting board members adopted a proposed regulation that changes the way the rule has been calculated in the past. Prior to 2014, managers calculated the harvest of the entire set gillnet fishery in the Kasilof, Kenai and East Foreland sections of the Cook Inlet — those fisheries were “decoupled.” Now the rule is calculated in each section separately and is expected to cause the Kasilof section to be closed more frequently. According to ADFG data, had the new criteria been applied in the two fisheries over the last 13 years, the Kasilof section would have been closed early in nine of those years reducing their sockeye harvest by more than 77,000 fish. Jeffrey also asked ADFG managers to clarify whether ADFG emergency order authority would be restricted by the recently adopted changes to the management plan. Under Alaska statute the commissioner of ADFG can open or close seasons or areas

for fishing or change weekly closed periods for fish or game via emergency order. The Board of Fisheries cannot adopt a regulation that would limit the power of the commissioner to exercise that authority. “In the actual new language now, yes,” said Tim Baker, an ADFG regional management coordinator over Cook Inlet salmon and herring fisheries. Baker said the new regulations —which are designed to kick in when Kenai River king salmon are returning to the river in low numbers — would trigger a reduction in the number of hours that the set gillnet fisheries could be fished. “Those are significant reductions on what they would normally do in this case if we’re trying to conserve king salmon,” Baker said. Orville Huntington, board member from Huslia, asked if the SOKI petition would make it easier to manage the fishery. “I guess the answer to that would be yes,” said Pat Shields, ADFG commercial area management biologist who manages the Upper Cook Inlet setnet fisheries. “That would provide more flexibility to the department and you would manage each section separately with the hours that were provided.” Some board members were unconvinced that the petition

As deliberations progressed, board chairman Karl Johnstone asked again about emergency order authority and whether ADFG managers felt they could do what the petitioners were

ship class, taught by Justin Carr, she has been able to fill up to 20 positions to make the event run smoothly. Shannan Cunningham said she was amazed that two high school students put the benefit together. “(Shier) read the story of his passing, and wanted to help me and the kids because Trevor was our sole provider,” she said. “It is amazing to me how the community has come together to support our family. I cannot put into words what that means to me.” While they have not met in person, Shier has been in contact with Shannan Cunningham asking her how they could incorporate things about her husband’s life into the event. Shannan Cunningham along with Trevor Cunningham’s mother Debora Lee, are putting to-

gether a photo collage and slide show for the dinner. Shannan Cunningham, who is taking correspondence classes to be a substance abuse counselor, said continuing her education has been slow going with everything she has been dealing with the last few months. “It is a little overwhelming,” she said. “I didn’t think we would get any help.” The Cunninghams, who were married in Homer last June, first met in 2008. She said Trevor Cunningham worked hard so she could be home with the kids. When he wasn’t work-

ing, family time was important to him; they would plan camping and snowmachine activities together, she said. Trevor Cunningham, born and raised in Soldotna, died in a single-vehicle accident on East End Road Jan. 22. While hauling drilling mud, the commercial semi-truck he was driving flipped and the tank separated from the frame. The mechanical failure caused his truck to run off the road and ejected him from the vehicle. Shannan Cunningham said she is thankful for the support from the community. People from throughout the peninsula

was a necessary change to the new regulations. Tom Kluberton, board member from Talkeetna, said the board made the changes to the king salmon management plan, at least in part, for the benefit of inriver sport fishers who target the same fish. “We all know the economic consequences that amounts to millions of dollars and the loss of those 389 guiding outfits,” Kluberton said. Allowing the commercial set gillnet fishers in the southern part of the Cook Inlet to fish also reduced the amount of fish available to anglers and commercial fishers in the northern part of the Cook Inlet, he said. “In my mind, there’s nothing unforseen about what we were doing,” Kluberton said. “Yes, there are impacts on all fisheries and I think this petition is an effort to reduce that impact on one set of fisheries ... so I’m not able to register the same level of concern that I’m hearing from some of my fellow board members.”

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asking with that authority. “We do feel we have that,” said Jeff Regnart, director of ADFG commercial fisheries division. However, while ADFG has that authority, it has rarely been used to separate fishing between the Kenai and East Foreland section and Kasilof section of the commercial setnet fishery. During the last five years, commercial area managers have fished the Kasilof section separately of the Kenai and East Foreland section for 15 days, according to ADFG data. During those time periods, the Kasilof setnet fishery has been restricted to within half a mile of the beach — instead of its usual one and a half miles. Shields said ADFG managers don’t typically split the two fisheries up via emergency order as doing so would allow commercial fishers in one section to harvest fish that could have been harvested in the other — an allocative decision that managers try to avoid. In addition to emergency order authority that could regulate the two fisheries, Regnart said managers could also use the Kasilof Special Harvest Area — a fishery that opens two miles around the mouth of the Kasilof river to all drift gillnet and commercial setnet fishers in the Cook Inlet.

Using it for king salmon conservation is a relatively new use for the area, which was designed to allow Kasilof section setnet fishers to harvest Kasilof sockeye when Kenai River sockeye were returning in low numbers. Shields said ADFG managers used the special harvest area, which has been in place since 1986, as a king salmon conservation tool for the first time during the 2013 fishing season. While it could technically be possible to pack the 450 setnet permit holders in the Cook Inlet into the two-mile area — as there are no restrictions on how far apart their nets have to be — Shields says the fishery can sometimes become chaotic as it “puts people in possible scenarios of contention.” Christine Brandt, an East Side Setnet fisher who listened in on the proceedings in Soldotna, echoed Shields’ sentiment saying that the special harvest area closed off inriver fishing in the Kasilof as so many nets were in the water near the mouth. “We hate it,” Brandt said. “It doesn’t provide equal opportunity for everyone in the area.”

have contacted her. One man from Homer tried to find the wedding ring in the field off East End Road, she said. “It’s an eye-opener that people from all over who don’t even know me have contacted us to help,” she said. Shier and English have gone to businesses in the community asking for donations. For anyone unable to attend but interested in helping, Shier said there is an account set up for the family at Wells Fargo under the name “Bridges Cunningham fund.”

Shier said she and English both enjoy volunteering in the community. She has served dinners at the Kenai Senior Center and helped at the Kenai River Marathon this past summer. She said while they have not set a monetary goal, for the event to be a success, support and generosity of the community is the most important thing to rally for a family in need. “It is cool to get out in the community,” she said. “It is nice for us to be able to help a deserving family and bring people together.”

Rashah McChesney can be reached at rashah.mcchesney@ peninsulaclarion.com.

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Around the Nation Soldier who killed 3 at Fort Hood may have argued with others before opening fire FORT HOOD, Texas — The soldier who killed three people at Fort Hood may have argued with another service member prior to the attack, and investigators believe his unstable mental health contributed to the rampage, authorities said Thursday. The base’s senior officer, Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, said there is a “strong possibility” that Spc. Ivan Lopez had a “verbal altercation” with another soldier or soldiers immediately before Wednesday’s shooting, which unfolded on the same Army post that was the scene of an infamous 2009 mass shooting. However, there’s no indication that he targeted specific soldiers, Milley said. Lopez never saw combat during a deployment to Iraq and had shown no apparent risk of violence before the shooting, officials said. The 34-year-old truck driver from Puerto Rico seemed to have a clean record that showed no ties to extremist groups. But the Army secretary promised that investigators would keep all avenues open in their inquiry of the soldier whose rampage ended only after he fired a final bullet into his own head.

Evidence of threats cited by Texas for keeping supplier of execution drugs a secret is scant DALLAS — Texas prison officials have offered scant evidence to support their claim that pharmacies that supply the state with execution drugs would be in danger of violence if their identities were made public. If those officials are investigating the threats, including a suggestion a truck bomb could blow up a such a pharmacy, as a serious risk to the safety of the pharmacies or their employees, they refuse to acknowledge doing so. The Associated Press could find no evidence that any such investigations are underway in Texas, and police in the community where one such pharmacy is located said they are not concerned. In neighboring Oklahoma, the attorney general said Thursday he was investigating such a threat, but several other law enforcement agencies told the AP his office has never mentioned it. Instead, anti-death penalty advocates believe Texas and other states are trumping up the possibility of violence to avoid having to disclose their name of suppliers, ensuring they can keep buying the drugs they need to put condemned inmates to death. “If these are the types of threats that the departments are hearing and they’re not providing the information to back it up, it’s just sort of irresponsible and playing on people’s fear,” said Jen Moreno, an attorney at the University of California-Berkeley who has represented death row inmates. — The Associated Press

Nation Apartment demand raises rate By ALEX VEIGA AP Real Estate Writer

These are good times for U.S. landlords. For many tenants, not so much. With demand for apartments surging, rents are projected to rise for a fifth straight year. Even a pickup in apartment construction is unlikely to provide much relief anytime soon. That bodes well for building owners and their investors. Yet the landlord-friendly trends will likely further strain the finances of many renters. A 6 percent rise in apartment rents between 2000 and 2012 has been exacerbated by a 13 percent drop in income among renters nationally over the same period, according to a report from Apartment List, a rental housing website, which used inflation-adjusted figures. “That’s what we call the affordability gap,” says John Kobs, Apartment List’s chief executive. “I don’t see that improving in the near future.” Demand for rental housing has grown as the U.S. economy has strengthened since the end of the Great Recession nearly five years ago. Steady job growth has made it possible for more people to move out on their own and rent their own apartments. Yet rising home prices are preventing many from buying. A combination of rising rents and sluggish pay gains will likely continue to weigh on the U.S. economy, which relies primarily on consumer spending. The trend is straining the finances of tenants like Michael Strane. The geologist recently decided to move from Pasadena, California, to the L.A. suburb of Whittier, where asking rents jumped an average of nearly 14 percent last year, according to

‘That’s what we call the affordability gap. “I don’t see that improving in the near future.’ — John Kobs, Apartment List’s chief executive real estate data provider Zillow. The location of Strane’s new apartment cut his two-hour commute to work in half. But he’ll be paying $1,045 a month, $200 more than he paid before. “I’m actually paying more than I really feel comfortable paying right now,” says Strane, 39.

Rental boom

Rental demand has risen in much of the United States since the housing market collapsed in 2007. A cascade of foreclosures forced many people out of their homes and into apartment leases. At the same time, construction of apartments was stalled until the last couple of years because many builders couldn’t get loans during the credit crisis. Add to that several recent trends, from rising mortgage rates to stagnant pay, which have combined to discourage many people from buying homes. It’s resulted in fewer places to lease and a bump up in rents. The national vacancy rate for apartments shrank from 8 percent to 4.1 percent from 2009 to 2013, according to commercial real estate data provider Reis Inc. As a result, landlords were able to raise rents in many markets. The average national ef-

fective rent rose 12 percent to $1,083 during those years, according to Reis, which tracked data for apartments in buildings with 40 units or more. Effective rent is what a tenant pays after factoring in landlord concessions, such as a free month at move-in. Over the same period, the median price of an existing U.S. home has risen about 14 percent, according to data from the National Association of Realtors. Among major U.S. markets, rents rose the most in Seattle in 2013, up 7.1 percent from the year before, according to Reis. The second-biggest increase, 5.6 percent, was in San Francisco. Nationwide, effective rent rose 3.2 percent last year compared with 2012. Rents rose even as the nation added about 127,000 apartments, the most since 2009, according to Reis. The addition of those apartments hasn’t been enough to absorb the surging demand for rentals. The Picerne Group is among the apartment complex owners with buildings under construction. The company, which owns properties in California, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado, expects to break ground soon on luxury rental buildings in the Southern California cities of Cerritos and Ontario. The buildings, which have nearly

500 units combined, are due to open next year, says Brad Perozzi, managing director of the company, based in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. “We definitely see demand improving, especially the younger demographic coming out of college and being in their prime renter years,” Perozzi says. “Even though the singlefamily home market is coming back, it’s still somewhat cumbersome to obtain a mortgage and come up with a down payment.” Jaswinder Bolina knows something about that. An assistant professor of English at a the University of Miami, Bolina couldn’t afford to pay the roughly $2,000 rent for his two-bedroom, two-bath apartment in an upscale area of Miami and still save enough money for a 20 percent down payment on a condo. Ultimately, his parents pitched in, helping him buy a $340,000 condo that he expects to close on in May. “It could have taken me 10 years to save enough for a down payment because property values have rebounded out here to the point where I’m priced out of the market,” Bolina says.

Chasing lower rents

Rising rents in San Francisco compelled Marc Caswell to move to Los Angeles in September. He and his girlfriend couldn’t get past the cost of renting a two-bedroom apartment in the San Francisco Bay area, where such housing listed recently on Zillow.com for an average asking rent of $4,100 — more than double what the couple hoped to pay.

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White House defends ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest By ALBERTO ARCE, DESMOND BUTLER and JACK GILLUM Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday defended its creation of a Twitter-like Cuban communications network to undermine the communist government, declaring the secret program was “invested and debated” by Congress and wasn’t a covert operation that required White House approval. But two senior Democrats on congressional intelligence and judiciary committees said they had known nothing about the effort, which one of them described as “dumb, dumb, dumb.” A showdown with that senator’s panel is expected next week, and the Republican chairman of a House oversight subcommittee said that it, too, would look into the program. An Associated Press investigation found that the network was built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks. The project, which lasted more than two years and drew tens of thousands of subscribers, sought to evade Cuba’s stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform. First, the network was to build a Cuban audience, mostly young people. Then, the plan was to push them toward dissent. Yet its users were neither aware it was created by a U.S. agency with ties to the State Department, nor that American contractors were gathering personal data about them, in the hope that the information might be used someday for political purposes. It is unclear whether the scheme was legal under U.S. law, which requires written authorization of covert action by the president as well as congressional notification. White House spokesman Jay Carney said he was not aware of individuals in the White House who had known about the program. The Cuban government declined a request for comment. USAID’s top official, Rajiv Shah, is scheduled to testify on Tuesday before the Senate

Appropriations State Department and Foreign Operations Subcommittee, on the agency’s budget. The subcommittee’s chairman, Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is the senator who called the project “dumb, dumb, dumb” during an appearance Thursday on MSNBC. The administration said early Thursday that it had disclosed the initiative to Congress — Carney said the program had been “debated in Congress” — but hours later the narrative had shifted to say that the administration had offered to discuss funding for it with the congressional committees that approve federal programs and budgets. “We also offered to brief our appropriators and our authorizers,” said State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf. She added that she was hearing on Capitol Hill that many people support these kinds of democracy promotion programs. And some lawmakers did speak up on that subject. But by late Thursday no members of Congress had acknowledged being aware of the Cuban Twitter program earlier than this week. Harf described the program as “discreet” but said it was in no way classified or covert. Harf also said the project, dubbed ZunZuneo, did not rise to a level that required the secretary of state to be notified. Neither former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton nor John Kerry, the current occupant of the office, was aware of ZunZuneo, she said. In his prior position as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry had asked congressional investigators to examine whether or not U.S. democracy promotion programs in Cuba were operated according to U.S. laws, among other issues. The resulting report, released by the Government Accountability Office in January 2013, does not examine whether or not the programs were covert. It does not say that any U.S. laws were broken. The GAO report does not specifically refer to ZunZuneo, but does note that USAID programs included “support for the development of independent

social networking platforms.” At minimum, details uncovered by the AP appear to muddy the USAID’s longstanding claims that it does not conduct covert actions, and the details could undermine the agency’s mission to deliver aid to the world’s poor and vulnerable — an effort that requires the trust and cooperation of foreign governments. Leahy and Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said they were unaware of ZunZuneo. “I know they said we were notified,” Leahy told AP. “We were notified in the most oblique way, that nobody could under-

stand it. I’m going to ask two basic questions: Why weren’t we specifically told about this if you’re asking us for money? And secondly, whose bright idea was this anyway?” The Republican chairman of a House oversight subcommittee said his panel will be looking into the project, too. “That is not what USAID should be doing,” said Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform National Security Subcommittee. “USAID is flying the American flag and should be recognized around the globe as an honest broker of doing good. If they start participating in covert,

subversive activities, the credibility of the United States is diminished.” But several other lawmakers voiced their support for ZunZuneo, which is slang for a Cuban hummingbird’s tweet. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said USAID should be applauded for giving people in Cuba a less-controlled platform to talk to each other. “The whole purpose of our democracy programs, whether it be in Cuba or other parts of the world, is in part to create a free flow of information in closed societies,” Menendez said.

USAID and its contractors went to extensive lengths to conceal Washington’s ties to the project, according to interviews and documents obtained by the AP. They set up front companies in Spain and the Cayman Islands to hide the money trail, and recruited CEOs without telling them they would be working on a U.S. taxpayerfunded project. “There will be absolutely no mention of United States government involvement,” according to a 2010 memo from Mobile Accord Inc., one of the project’s creators. “This is absolutely crucial for the long-term success of the service and to ensure the success of the Mission.”

Panel votes to release CIA torture report By BRADLEY KLAPPER and STEPHEN BRAUN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to release parts of a hotly contested, secret report that harshly criticizes CIA terror interrogations after 9/11, and the White House said it would instruct intelligence officials to cooperate fully. The result sets the stage for what could be the fullest public accounting of the Bush administration’s record when it comes to waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques.” The panel voted 11-3 to order the declassification of almost 500 pages of the 6,300-page review, which concludes the harsh methods employed at CIA-run prisons overseas were excessively cruel and ineffective in producing valuable intelligence. Even some Republicans who agree with the spy agency that the findings are inaccurate voted in favor of declassification, saying it was important for the country to move on. “The purpose of this review was to

uncover the facts behind the secret program and the results, I think, were shocking,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the committee chairwoman, said. “The report exposes brutality that stands in sharp contrast to our values as a nation. It chronicles a stain on our history that must never be allowed to happen again. This is not what Americans do.” The intelligence committee and the CIA are embroiled in a bitter dispute related to the three-year study. Senators accuse the agency of spying on their investigation and deleting files. The CIA says Senate staffers illegally accessed information. The Justice Department is reviewing competing criminal referrals. As a result of Thursday’s vote, the CIA will start scanning the report’s contents for any passages that could compromise national security. That has led to fears in the committee that a recalcitrant CIA might sanitize key elements of their investigation, and demands for President Barack Obama to ensure large parts of the report aren’t blacked out. Obama, said Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., should “hold onto the redaction pen

himself.” White House press secretary Jay Carney on Thursday restated Obama’s support for declassifying the document and said intelligence officials would be instructed to conduct the work quickly. CIA spokesman Dean Boyd said his agency would “carry out the review expeditiously,” but suggested the process may be difficult. “We owe it to the men and women directed to carry out this program to try and ensure that any historical account of it is accurate,” Boyd said. The report was produced exclusively by Democratic staffers. It concludes among other things that waterboarding and other harsh techniques provided no key evidence in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to congressional aides and outside experts familiar with the document. Feinstein and other senators also have cited a series of misleading claims by the CIA over the years about the effectiveness of the program, including in statements the agency made to President George W. Bush and Congress.

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Israel calls off release of Palestinian prisoners By IAN DEITCH Associated Press

JERUSALEM — Israel on Thursday abruptly called off a release of Palestinian prisoners, sending U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s troubled Mideast peace efforts further into a tailspin. The Israeli announcement, made in reaction to a renewed Palestinian push for membership in United Nations agencies, deepened the crisis in U.S.-led peace talks and made Kerry’s goal of extending negotiations past a late-April dateline a more distant possibility. Israel’s chief negotiator, Tzipi Livni, said the Palestinians’ decision to seek accession to 15 international conventions through the U.N. violated the terms of the promised prisoner release, which would have been the fourth since talks resumed last summer. The Palestinians submitted their applications after Israel failed to carry out the release, as promised, by the end of March. Israel carried out the first three prisoner releases, but balked at the final one without assurances that the Palestinians would extend negotiations. “New conditions were established and Israel cannot release

the fourth batch of prisoners,” Livni said in a statement. In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the Israeli move “creates problems” but that U.S.-mediated efforts to bring the sides together were continuing. “Neither side has indicated that they want to walk away from the talks,” Carney said. “Despite the fact that there has been some progress, there is still a gap, and the Israelis and Palestinians must decide whether they will take the necessary steps to close that gap,” he added. “The United States cannot impose an agreement on either side.” Earlier Thursday, a frustrated Kerry exhorted leaders on both sides to “lead” and to do so now to prevent the negotiations from collapsing. Kerry called it a “critical moment” for the peace process and vowed to continue his efforts “no matter what.” But he added there are limits to what the Obama administration can do to push the parties together and said it would be a “tragedy” if the talks failed. “You can facilitate, you can push, you can nudge, but the parties themselves have to make fundamental decisions and com-

‘Despite the fact that there has been some progress, there is still a gap, and the Israelis and Palestinians must decide whether they will take the necessary steps to close that gap. The United States cannot impose an agreement on either side.’ — White House spokesman Jay Carney promises,” he said, speaking in Algeria, where he was participating in strategic security talks. “The leaders have to lead and they have to be able to see a moment when it’s there.” Under heavy pressure from Kerry, Israel and the Palestinians resumed peace talks last July, agreeing to a nine-month negotiating period with the aim of reaching a final peace deal. With little to show for his efforts, Kerry is now trying to broker a more modest “framework” agreement, in hopes of extending talks past the April 29 deadline through the end of the year to complete a deal. Under the original negotiating formula, Israel promised to release 104 long-serving Palestinian prisoners in four groups,

while the Palestinians put on hold their campaign for joining U.N. agencies. After the Palestinians won acceptance as a nonmember state at the U.N. General Assembly in 2012, they now qualify for membership in dozens of international agencies. Israel says that joining these bodies is an attempt to bypass negotiations. It also fears the Palestinians will use their newfound status to push an anti-Israel agenda. The Palestinians say the final release was already promised and should not be connected to any other issue. U.S. officials have also said that Israel was expected to carry out the release. The prisoner issue is emo-

tional on both sides after decades of conflict. Palestinians view the roughly 5,000 people held by Israel as heroes in their struggle regardless of the reason for their imprisonment — even when their crimes involved grisly killings. In Israel, they are widely seen as terrorists. The prisoners involved in the latest releases were convicted of bloody attacks on Israeli civilians, and the scenes of them returning home to jubilant celebrations have angered the Israeli public. Naftali Bennett, a hard-line Israeli Cabinet minister, said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “has blown up the peace talks.” “If he wants to go to the U.N., I will buy him the ticket and there he will face a personal lawsuit for war crimes for daily supporting the killers of women and children,” he told Channel 2 TV. The Palestinians condemned the Israeli announcement. “Israel didn’t fulfill the agreement sponsored by the U.S. concerning the release ... of prisoners in return for the Palestinian Authority not going to the U.N,” said Issa Qaraqe, the minister for prisoner affairs. At the same time, Palestin-

ian officials say they will not formally break off the negotiations before April 29, the U.S. target date for a framework agreement, because they don’t want to be blamed for derailing Kerry’s mission. The Palestinian decision to apply to 15 international conventions this week prompted Kerry to cancel a planned return to the region. It remains unclear if or when he will come back on his current overseas trip. U.S. officials have been in touch with the sides to find a formula to extend the talks that could include an additional prisoner release and a freeze to some Israeli settlement construction on lands the Palestinians want for a state. The U.S. has dangled the possibility of freeing Jonathan Pollard, a convicted American spy, as an incentive to Israel. In his first public comments since cancelling a trip to the West Bank, Kerry made his impatience clear, but acknowledged he could not force the sides to continue the talks, let alone resolve their decades-old conflict. He recalled the old adage that you can lead a horse to water but can’t make it drink. “Now is the time to drink,” Kerry said. “The leaders need to know that.”

Mortar fire kills 6 people in a suburb of the Syrian capital By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press

BEIRUT — Mortar fire killed at least six people in a suburb of the Syrian capital Thursday, activists and state media said, amid reports that clashes in a coastal province killed a top foreign fighter who was a former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Syria’s state news agency said four mortar rounds slammed into Harasta, a district northwest of Damascus, killing six children and wounding five

more. Another five people were wounded when a mortar struck the upscale central neighborhood of Maliki, the agency said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said shells also struck central Damascus, including Ummayad Square, which is close to the state TV and radio stations, as well as the army command. It said there were no casualties. The mortar fire came as activists reported heavy clashes and air raids in the Damascus suburb of Mleiha, as well as the

capital’s Jobar neighborhood. Both areas are controlled by the rebels. Also Thursday, private Lebanese television station Al-Mayadeen and Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar said Syrian troops killed a Moroccan militant once detained at the U.S. military’s Guantanamo Bay prison. The stations described him as the chief of the hard-line Sham al-Islam Movement. The stations said Brahim Benchakroun, better known in Syria as Abu Ahmad al-Maghribi, was killed Wednesday while

fighting government forces in the coastal province of Latakia. Rebels launched in offensive in Latakia late last month, capturing several villages while also gaining their first access to the sea. The Observatory said Benchakroun was critically wounded Wednesday but could not confirm whether he had been killed. A Latakia-based activist who goes by the name of Mohammed Abul-Hassan said Bencharkoun was defending the strategic hill known as Observatory 45 that

fell to the rebels last week. American authorities handed Benchakroun over to Morocco in 2005. He was captured in Afghanistan where he had moved in 1999, according to Islamic websites. Abul-Hassan said Benchakroun used to be a member of the Nusra Front, an al-Qaida-linked rebel group in Syria. Benchakroun then set up his own Sham al-Islam group after the Nusra Front split with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The Sham al-Islam Movement took part in a rebel of-

fensive in August that captured several Latakia villages before eventually being dislodged by government troops. Latakia is a bastion of support for President Bashar Assad, and the ancestral home the leader’s Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. In Lebanon, Lebanese troops shot dead a Syrian man and wounded two who were on a motorcycle when they refused to stop at a checkpoint near the Syrian border in the town of Arsal, security officials said.

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Viktor Yanukovych ordered snipers to shoot protestors By MARIA DANILOVA Associated Press

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s interim authorities on Thursday accused fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych of ordering snipers to open fire on protesters and getting help from Russian security agents to battle his own people, but they provided no evidence directly linking him to the bloodbath in Kiev that left more than 100 people dead. Acting Interior Minister Arsen Avakov also accused his predecessor, who was in charge of police, of recruiting gangs of killers, kidnappers and thugs to terrorize and undermine the opposition during the monthslong protests. The inquiry revealed by Kiev’s new leadership examined the months of anti-government protests that culminated in the bloodshed that peaked on Feb. 20, just days before Yanukovych fled to Russia. Speaking at a televised news conference, Avakov said police snipers shot at demonstrators near Kiev’s Independence Square, also known as the Maidan, as they walked toward the government district. He said 17 people were killed by snipers positioned at the October Palace cultural center and that one sniper alone killed as many as eight people. Security officials then moved to cover up and destroy evidence “to ensure that any investigations would be impossible,” Avakov said. “Clothes were burned, weapons discarded and

documents destroyed.” Ukrainian Security Service chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko charged that Yanukovych himself ordered the killings. “What was planned under the guise of an anti-terrorist operation, and which was in fact an operation of mass killing of people, took place under the immediate and direct leadership of former president Yanukovych,” Nalyvaichenko said. He did not elaborate on where he got his information. In an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press, Yanukovych firmly denied that he gave orders to shoot demonstrators, saying that members of his inner circle even criticized him for his reluctance to use force during the monthslong protests. Nalyvaichenko also said there was evidence that Russia’s FSB security service, the successor agency to the KGB, assisted in attempts to suppress the anti-government protests. He said FSB members were deployed at a Ukrainian security facility — 26 in December and six in January — and that they took part in planning and implementing anti-protest measures. He said the Russians even interrogated the Ukrainian security chief. Nalyvaichenko contended that in late January, when peaceful protests turned into bloody street clashes with police, Russia sent planes to Kiev carrying explosives, arms and crowd control devices “to organize executions and the extermination of our protesters on

AP Photo/Alexander Sherbakov, File

In this file photo taken on Feb. 20, Olesya Zhukovska, left, is helped after being shot in her neck by a sniper bullet, in Independence Square, the epicenter of the country’s current unrest, Kiev, Ukraine.

the Maidan.” Russia’s FSB swiftly dismissed the claims, telling the state news agency RIA Novosti on Thursday that the allegations should “rest on the conscience of the Ukrainian Security Service.” Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky said 12 members of an elite riot police unit called “Black Squadron” have already been detained on suspicion of shooting protesters. The identity of the snipers believed to be responsible for most of the deaths is the subject of bitter disagreement. Opponents of Ukraine’s new leadership deny that only police were to blame, contending some snipers were organized by opposition leaders trying to

whip up outrage. The new health minister, Oleh Musiy, who previously served as the protesters’ top medic, has said he treated both protesters and riot police with similar types of sniper wounds. On Thursday, officials skirted a question on whether snipers also shot at police. Avakov said establishing who was responsible for the deaths of law enforcement officers would be part of the broad investigation that is still ongoing. Avakov also detailed what he described as overwhelming evidence linking former Interior Minister Vitali Zakharchenko, who was in charge of police during the protests, to a person coordinating hired thugs who beat and intimidated opposition

activists. Avakov said another underworld figure operating under the patronage of Yanukovych and Zakharchenko ran a group of 10 people carrying out beatings and kidnappings of protest organizers, including the kidnapping of a prominent activist and his colleague, who was killed in the attack. In the weeks since the February killings, Russia seized and then formally annexed Crimea, Ukraine’s strategic Black Sea peninsula, and the U.S. and the European Union slapped sanctions on those responsible, mainly Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle. On Wednesday, President Barack Obama signed into law a bill providing $1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine. In his interview with the AP, Yanukovych said he was wrong to invite Russian troops into Crimea, which was swiftly annexed by Moscow following a referendum in which the vast majority of residents backed a reunion with Russia. Ukraine’s fledging government and Western leaders have expressed concern about a buildup of tens of thousands of Russian forces near the Ukrainian border. On Thursday, the European Aviation Safety Agency advised planes to avoid the airspace over Crimea because of possible risks posed by the two countries seeking to control the sky in the region. Also Thursday, Ukraine sent 16 senior officers to Bulgaria to

join a NATO military exercise in a demonstration of cooperation between the alliance and the crisis-torn former Soviet republic. The computer-simulation drills involved over 700 troops from 13 NATO members and partner nations and were being held just a few hundred miles from Crimea. U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, who commands all NATO forces in Europe, said Russia has 40,000 troops along the border with neighboring Ukraine and that they are capable of attacking by land and air on 12 hours’ notice. The sheer size and posture of Russia’s forces are destabilizing, although the Russians’ plans remain unknown to NATO, Breedlove said. The Russian force is capable of pushing all the way to the Ukrainian port of Odessa or the breakaway ethnic Russian enclave of Trans-Dniester in Moldova, he said. Alternatively, the Russians could open a “land bridge” through Ukrainian territory to the south, toward Crimea, he said. Putin says the troops are there for military exercises. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters Thursday that the Russian troops will be returning to “their permanent quarters as soon as other participants of the exercise have completed their tasks.” Lavrov added that Russia did not violate any international law by sending additional troops to its own border.

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Where to look to find the true treasure

ust last year in the California foothills within the city of Auburn a husband and wife were out walking their dog on their ranch property and discovered a cache of gold coins next to a stump. These amazing coins in three rusted canisters, though dirty, were in mint condition and valued at over 10 million dollars. What a find! Or should we say, “What a loss for the person who left them there.” It was very common for people to bury their valuables even in the 19th century to keep them safe as banks were not always trusted. People have been

Voices of R eligion Frank A lioto doing this for centuries, especially in the time of Jesus. When Jesus came to earth 2,000 years ago he preached to people that God’s kingly reign had arrived. No longer would people need to be separated from God, but they could be in a relationship with the living God. This message was hard to understand

Church Briefs Youth at Our Lady of the Angels to perform Stations of the Cross The youth at Our Lady of the Angels, Catholic Church will be performing the Stations of the Cross today at 6 p.m. with a meatless soup supper to follow. An encore performance will take place on Sunday at noon. All are welcome. For more information please contact the Parish Office at 283-4555 or ladyoftheangels@gmail.com.

Passover service recreated

for people because many wanted a “king” or savior who would come rescue them from their oppressors and establish an earthly kingdom. Jesus was inviting them to be a part of a different kingdom. Jesus declared in a simple story the “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.” (Matthew 13:44) Jesus was communicating the kingdom is so valuable, that giving up everything on earth and getting the kingdom is the best thing ever.

Jesus was not encouraging people to be consumed in looking for riches on this earth, but was stressing the most important thing in life is to seek Him. He was sharing it is a “treasure” to have God ruling over you and for you. In Jesus’ story he shares the man sold everything with joy to seek the best treasure. There is joy in pursuing the kingdom God has to offer and there is also joy in sharing this treasure with others. I am sure the couple who found 10 million dollars in gold coins has felt a certain economic relief in their lives — maybe even some joy. But

like most physical treasures, they do not last forever. What “treasure” are you seeking? What investment are making in the things that are eternal? Is it time to seek the True treasure? Frank Alioto is the pastor of The River Covenant Church: “An Alaskan church for people who would rather go to the River.” We gather on Sundays, 10:30 a.m. at K-Beach Elementary in Soldotna. Call 252-2828 or visit www.therivercovenantchurch. org.

though the development of an affordable vaccine and bed nets. 7:00 p.m. April 18-20. The Mallorys will share their knowledge and experience from marriage and ministry, including beFor more information, call Susie at 283-7469. ing missionaries to the Philippines, pastor in Hawaii, and an international evangelist. A seminar syllabus is $20, and there is Church shares ‘The Jerusalem Experience’ no additional charge for the seminar. Call 262-7240 for more Do your kids think Easter is all about chocolate bunnies information. The church is located on Swanson River Road at and ham dinners? Do they get more excited about cartoon re- Entrada. runs than the Easter story? Then make a change in their Easter this year! Bring your children to “The Jerusalem Experience” Pilgrimage to Mexico City planned where you can use your senses to discover more than ever All are invited to come to a presentation about Our Lady about the true story of Easter and the depth of Jesus’ love for of Guadalupe in Mexico City at Our Lady of Angels Catholic us. Bring the whole family to Grace Lutheran Church and School Church on April 24, at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. An informational (47585 Ciechanski Road, Kenai) on April 12 from 10 a.m. to meeting will follow the presentation about the planned pilgrimnoon (“tours” leave every 10 minutes and last about 1 hour, the age. The pilgrimage will take place Jan. 21-27, 2015. For more last tour leaving at noon) for a multi-sensory learning event that information call 283-4555. covers the last days of Jesus’ life on earth. Meet witnesses from the Bible; taste, touch, feel, and be a part of the Passion story; Sack Lunch Sunday in Kenai take a walking journey with your passport in hand and be transStar of the North Lutheran Church, 216 North Forest Drive in ported back to the time of Christ. Come, celebrate the resurrection in a whole new experience. For more information, visit Kenai, will serve free sack lunches every Sunday starting at 1 p.m. www.GraceLutheranKenai.com or call Pastor Rob Guenther at For more information, call 283-4153 or visit www.sotnlc.org. 907-690-1660.

Jesus’ Last Supper was actually a Jewish Passover. Rob Wertheim of Jews for Jesus will re-create the traditional Passover service and explain how it foreshadowed Jesus’ death and resurrection in a presentation called “Christ in the Passover” at Birch Ridge Community Church today at 7 p.m. Rob Wertheim will set a table with items traditionally used at the Passover meal and detail their spiritual significance. He will also explain the connection between the events of the first Passover in Egypt and the redemption that Jesus accomplished, as well as the deep bond between the ancient Passover feast and Rapid Response Team to hold training the Christian Communion celebration today. Call 907-260-6705 On Saturday, the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team — a or visit www.birchridgecommunity.org for more information. nationwide network of crisis-trained chaplains ready to deploy There is no admission charge. whenever disaster strikes — will hold regional training in Soldotna to prepare Christians to appropriately respond with the Spaghetti feed to benefit prison ministry love and hope of Jesus Christ in times of crisis. A spaghetti feed fundraiser to benefit prison ministries at The seminar is titled “Sharing Hope in Crisis.” Seminar topWildwood Correctional Center will take place from 6:30-8:30 ics include “Mission to Respond,” “Suffering and Trauma,” p.m. today at New Life Assembly on Princess Lane in Kenai. “Ministry of Hope,” “Message to Share,” “Communication to a The event will include a dessert auction and duck derby. For Diverse Community,” and “Messenger to Serve.” more information call 907-283-7752. The training will take place 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at Soldotna Bible Chapel, 300 W. Marydale Ave. in Soldotna. There is a registration fee of $25 per person. For more information Garage sale aids efforts to fight malaria and to register online, visit http://bit.ly/1q87iid or call 907On Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., a 262-4865. fundraiser garage sale will be held at at Soldotna United Methodist Church on Binkley Street in Soldotna. It’s a modest garage Join ‘Family Revival’ at Sterling church sale for a ginormous purpose. All proceeds from this sale will go to Imagine No Malaria, an ongoing and successful commitSterling Pentecostal Church will host a family seminar called ment by the United Methodist Church to end malaria deaths “Family Revival” presented by Gordon and Afton Mallory at

Food Pantry open weekly

The Soldotna Food Pantry is open every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for residents in our community who may be experiencing food shortages. The Food Pantry is located at the Soldotna United Methodist Church at 158 South Binkley Street. Non-perishable food items or monetary donations may be dropped off at the church Tuesdays 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Thank you for your support.

United Methodist Church provides food pantry The Kenai United Methodist Church provides a food pantry for those in need every Monday from noon to 3:00 p.m. The Methodist Church is located on the Kenai Spur Highway next to the Boys and Girls Club. The entrance to the Food Pantry is through the side door. The Pantry closes for holidays. For more information contact the church office at 283-7868 or email kumcalaska@gmail.com.

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tions teens are making in their communities. Every year the applicants are doing more service work and are increasingly qualified, Zeman said. Standifer is incredibly active, Pierce said. She attends the local Boys and Girls Club, participates in Native Youth Drum and Dance, coaches and competes in the Native Youth Olympics. On the side she babysits, goes to church and sometimes takes kids to open gym. Standifer’s cousin, whom she calls Auntie, Betty Valka said Tebughna, the only school in the village, houses 35 students Kindergarten through 12th grade. Only a handful of students are

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for mitigation projects, if a need can be demonstrated, Navarre said. In the mean time, he said the borough has been monitoring the area and will continue to do so and identify potential areas of concern. “One of the reasons we’re taking a bit of wait and see approach is that last year was the first time in that area that we saw that type of flood event,” Navarre said. “So we don’t want to overreact and start taking what could be very expensive actions unless we can demonstrate that it’s going to be something that requires that type of action.” The Department of Natural Resources has authority over water movement so any project the borough is considering has to be approved by the agency. Department of Transportation and Public Facilities infrastructure also has to be taken into consideration when looking at options, Navarre said. “There’s a perception that we can do a big drainage plan and we’ll solve the problem,” Navarre said. “There’s a lot more to it than that, a lot of agencies to coordinate with and then the whole issue of draining and the impact of draining a wetlands

in high school, Valka said. The older students are often elected to hold a higher level of responsibility, a role Standifer is always eager to take on, Valka said. Standifer takes her work in the community very seriously, Valka said. She is always ready to step into any kind of role that’s needed, she said. Many of her peers are Standifers’ immediate and extended relatives, but Trinity refers everyone as family, she said. The village of Tyonek rests up against the western gravely, glacial shore of Cook Inlet, Valka said. Tebughna, the name of the village’s school and Tyonek people, translates “the Beach People,” according to the Tyonek Native Corporation website. Tyonek heavily relies on caught fish dried, smoked, fro-

zen and salted, and moose the village resident’s process personally, Valka said. Otherwise groceries are purchased and brought back by relatives on Spernack Airways. Flight is the main transportation to and from the village, she said. In the darkening, deteriorating September cold, Standifer one year took part in a successful moose hunt, Valka said. Standifer takes part in the camps in the village where children are taught traditional hunting and fishing practices, she said. When her mother Lindsay Bismark heard the news she began to cry tears of joy. She was finally seeing her oldest daughter’s constant service reap a worthy reward, she said. Standifer has also been nominated for two other awards, Tyonek Native Corporation’s

Youth of the Year award and the Peace First award, for which Standifer would receive a $50,000 Peace First Fellowship over two years. The winner will be announced in May. Bismark taught Standifer and her two younger sisters the same lessons as they grew up. However, their persistent and compassionate nature is just who they are, Bismark said. “I teach them they can change they world,” Bismark said. “And they know it.” Bismark also instilled in her children the unequivocal value of an education. If Standifer wants to improve her life, and the life of her tribe and community, she will have to continue to excel in her studies, she said. Standifer is currently looking to attend a boarding school outside of the village to extend

her education, Bismark said. She is encouraging her daughter review her options even beyond Alaska. Trinity will achieve wonderful things, but she will have many hurdles to clear to get a good education, Bismark said. Growing up in a very rural community is one example. Moving will give her a chance to really see the kind of impact she can make on the world, she said. In the mean time, Standifer stays focused on her family. Whether they are doing homework or just hanging out together, she constantly has a group of five to eight other children around her. Standifer said she is looking forward to the changes ahead. She loves the opportunity to meet new people, even though she considers herself to

be a shy person. Standifer said one minute she will remain reserved, and the next minute she acts like she has known a person forever. She said she just has to figure out she is in a safe place first. Last summer, her work with Project GRAD earned a meeting with Governor Sean Parnell and a visit to to Juneau. Standifer hopes to go to college and become a lawyer, Pierce said. Last year she began to talk about orienting her focus on helping women and children. Improving life in her tribe always comes first though. “I am trying to basically be the best I can,” Standifer said. “I want to help kids realize their courage and trust and help them realize their responsibilities, and be there for them when they’re having a rough time.”

area. There’s a whole host of information and analyses that need to be done before. There’s no simple solution.”

that’s the problem,” he said. “Some people suggest to move it off their property, but analysis would indicate that it would go onto somebody else’s and just move the problem from one place to another. And that is not in the state’s idea of being acceptable.” Schade said one K-Beach resident, David Yragui, filed an application for a five-year temporary water use permit to build a berm along the east and south borders of the property to divert water. The application was received, on March 3, according to DNR’s website, but closed on Tuesday after it was withdrawn. The borough filed an opposition to the permit application and collected comments from K-Beach residents about the project. Navarre said most of the residents were not in favor of the project. One action Scott Walden, borough emergency management director, recommended

residents can take is to keep driveway culverts clear as much as possible to ensure water flow or equalization.

warm snap. He expected the reports about basements re-flooding to come in sooner than they did, so the state is looking into why it occurred at the rate it did. Water ran along Karluk Avenue in the ditch all winter, Schade said, which surprised him because it previously did not have a continuous flow. The borough and state are studying the cause and effect of that anomaly. “We’ll be studying it and watching it this summer,” he said. He said because the area didn’t see significant snow following the January thaw, spring breakup likely won’t wreak as much havoc as it otherwise could have. Clare Swan, a Karluk Avenue resident, said her home fared well compared to others and water in the area seems to be going down right now. However, she’s concerned about what will happen with the water table after the

weather “really warms up.” “I’m just waiting for spring,” she said. “It would just be lovely to be able to say we’re high and dry.” While state and borough officials seek answers for causes and solutions, flood victims from throughout the Kenai Peninsula can ask questions of their own at the Flood Aware Fair today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4-7 p.m. at the Donald Gilman River Center in Soldotna. Representatives from the KPB Home builders Association, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration River Watch, area technical experts and borough departments will be available. “(The fair) is a very positive step from the borough’s perspective,” Walden said.

Further study DNR Division of Mining Land and Water Chief of the Water Resources Section David Schade said some solutions have been suggested, but until studies are done, they’re just ideas. He said the state assigned a hydrologist to the area to conduct further studies. While ditching — to a degree — can help some surface water issues, Schade said, the area needs to be carefully studied before significant ditching is done. “We have to look at the subsurface of the area and try to figure out where, if any, places could be done to move water away from the houses without inundating another area and

Multitude of variables Schade said officials don’t have a “clear cut” answer for what caused the flood, but it was a combination of factors including high snowfalls and water pushed in nontraditional directions. Navarre said the area already had high ground water and the higher than average rainfall last summer likely overwhelmed the situation. “If it took a couple years to build to this level, it may take a couple years for it to go back to whatever normal is or this would be the new normal,” Walden said. “We don’t know.” Schade said some K-Beach residents reported the water table rose again following the January

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As usual, Ice Dogs are in the way In order to win franchise’s 1st playoff series, Bears must top nemesis from Fairbanks By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

It’s the Ice Dogs vs. the underdogs. History, both current and ancient, has the Fairbanks Ice Dogs as the favorites in a first-round, best-of-five playoff series that opens today and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Fairbanks. Game 3 and Game 4, if necessary, are Tuesday and Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. Game 5 would be April 12 in Fairbanks. “Obviously, they are a good team and we have the underdog mind-set,” Kenai River forward Alec Butcher said. “Fairbanks is not the easiest place to play. “It’s a rough environment. We have to control our emotions and take the crowd factor out by scoring crucial goals that quiet the fans.” The Bears have made the playoffs

six times in seven years as a franchise and have yet to win a playoff series. This is the fifth time Kenai River has faced Fairbanks in the first round of the playoffs. The Ice Dogs swept the first three series from the Bears, then squeaked out a 3-2 win last season. But last season the teams were 8-8 against each other. This season, the Dogs have rolled up a 13-3 advantage against the Brown Bears, including 5-1 and 7-3 triumphs in Fairbanks last Brown Bears vs. Ice Dogs weekend. Best-of-five The Big Dipper Ice Arena is much Game 1 — Today in Fairbanks, 7:30 p.m. Game 2 — Saturday in Fairbanks, 7:30 p.m. smaller than the Olympic-sized sheet Game 3 — Tuesday at Soldotna Regional at Soldotna’s sports complex. Sports Complex, 7 p.m. The Bears did not adjust well last Game 4 (if necessary) — Wednesday at Soldotna Regional Sports Complex, 7 p.m. weekend. Game 5 (if necessary) — April 12 at Fair“I don’t think we had urgency with banks, 7:30 p.m. the puck,” Kenai River head coach Geoff Beauparlant said. “We need to know what we’re going to do with the options are. “We spent time this week working puck before we get it, and when we do create turnovers, know what our on creating that urgency with certain

types of drills.” The Bears also arrived in Fairbanks on Thursday night, so they will get to skate the Dipper before the game. Normally, Kenai River arrives in Fairbanks the day of the game. Captain Jake Davidson said that should help with the adjustment. “We’re not used to having so little time,” he said. “There’s a split second less, so seams for passes and holes to shoot at close quicker. “Obviously, they have a great fan base but that building will get our guys going, too.” The Ice Dogs (45-14-1) have the best record in the North American Hockey League and will have home ice as long as they are in the Robertson Cup playoffs. They scored the most goals in the league and have three veterans from a 2011 run to the Robertson Cup. The Bears (28-24-8) were able to make the playoffs despite the disad-

vantage of playing Fairbanks 16 times and have the NAHL’s scoring champ in Butcher. Kenai River lost eight games by three or more goals this season. Seven of those lopsided losses came to Fairbanks. “It’s no secret who’s the favorite and who’s the underdog,” Beauparlant said. “It’s been pretty even the last six games or so. “I think we need to play our style of game, and I know Fairbanks will play their style, and it’s going to be fun to be a part of an intense series.” The Bears lost the first seven games to Fairbanks this season, and have gone 3-6 since then. “We just need to play a full game, I feel,” Davidson said. “There are times within the game when we aren’t playing as a unit and we get away from the team game. “If we can stay together for 60 minutes, and we can do that, I feel we’re See BEARS, page B-4

Thunder snap Spurs’ streak By The Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY — Kevin Durant’s rare streak of games with at least 25 points continued, and San Antonio’s run of 19 straight wins came to a halt. Another streak might mean more than both of them — Oklahoma City’s season sweep. Durant scored 28 points and Russell Westbrook scored 27 to help the Thunder defeat San Antonio 10694 on Thursday night in a showdown of the top two teams in the Western Conference. Oklahoma City won all four games against the Spurs this season, and this was the most lopsided result. C

Serge Ibaka added 11 points and 12 rebounds for the Thunder, who trail San Antonio by three games with eight remaining. Durant scored at least 25 points for the 39th consecutive game, the longest streak since Michael Jordan did it 40 consecutive times during the 1986-87 season. MAVERICKS 113, CLIPPERS 107 LOS ANGELES — Dirk Nowitzki scored 26 points, Jose Calderon added 19 and Dallas beat the Los Angeles Clippers for the first time this season.

Sharks nip Kings, gain in standings By The Associated Press

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Minnesota’s Deandre Mathieu, left, and SMU’s Nic Moore, right, scramble for control of the ball during the second half of the final of the NIT on Thursday in New York. Minnesota won the game 65-63.

Minnesota wears NIT crown Another Pitino gets to cut down nets in April as SMU’s Brown is denied MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Sports Writer

NEW YORK — Richard Pitino held his 3-year-old daughter in his arms as his Minnesota team cut down the net at Madison Square Gar-

den. “Richard, get up there!” yelled his famous father, Rick, the Hall of Fame coach at Louisville. First, the kid had others in mind. “The assistants!” he shout-

ed back. Spoken like a coach who listened closely at the dinner table and ate up every last lesson. Austin Hollins hit a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 46.1 seconds left and Minnesota

won the NIT championship Thursday night, beating SMU 65-63 to give the Pitino family its latest postseason tournament title. Hollins scored 19 points and Andre Hollins had 14 for See NIT, Page B-4

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Brent Burns and Logan Couture scored second-period goals and the San Jose Sharks clinched home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs by beating the Los Angeles Kings 2-1 on Thursday night. Antti Niemi made 26 saves and the Sharks overcame a firstperiod deficit to move within a point of Anaheim for first place in the Pacific Division. The Ducks still have two games in hand and the inside track on the top spot. Jordan Nolan scored the lone goal for the Kings, who had their eight-game road losing streak snapped by their first loss away from home since Jan. 28 in Phoenix. Martin Jones

made 19 saves as starter Jonathan Quick got rest a night after shutting out the Coyotes to clinch a playoff berth. The Kings are locked into third place in the division after the loss. Of more immediate concern was an upper-body injury that knocked star defenseman Drew Doughty out midway through the first period. Doughty appeared to hurt his left shoulder while checking Tyler Kennedy. BLUES 2, SABRES 1 ST. LOUIS — Brian Elliott stopped 24 shots, and the Blues set a franchise record with their 52nd victory. Maxim Lapierre and Brenden Morrow scored as St. Louis imSee NHL, Page B-4

Mickelson brushes off injury’s effects By The Associated Press

HUMBLE, Texas — Phil Mickelson did more than prove to just himself that he’s ready for next week’s Masters on Thursday. The five-time major winner showed to everyone that he’s fully recovered from last week’s muscle pull and likely to be a factor in this week’s Houston Open as well. Without so much as a practice round this week at the 7,441-yard Golf Club of Houston, Mickelson opened with a 4-under par 68 and was among the leaders following Thursday’s opening round. The bogey-free performance was a far cry from last week when Mickelson was forced to withdraw during the third round in San Antonio after pulling a muscle in his right side “I’m surprised because I was worried about the Masters,” Mickelson said. “I was certainly worried about Houston, but it healed a lot quicker. I felt great today; didn’t feel any pain or discomfort and didn’t even think about it.” Mickelson is three shots

back of first-round co-leaders Bill Haas and Charley Hoffman, both who finished at 7 under. Hass had five birdies on his back nine, while Hoffman needed just 27 putts to earn a share of the lead. Keegan Bradley and Matt Kuchar lead a group of five golfers at 6 under. J.B. Holmes, Erik Compton and Jim Renner are also at 6 under, with 10 golfers are at 5 under. Of the 144 players in the field, 113 finished at even par or under on an overcast and occasionally misty day. “The greens are absolutely perfect,” Haas said. “... I think the scores are reflective on that. They were a little slower, but part of that, too, is the weather. It was like a little dewy mist out there all day, which played a part in the speed of the greens.” Mickelson and Bradley were part of a threesome with Webb Simpson, who also finished 4 under. All three players in the group navigated the course without a bogey in their morning rounds. Former world No. 1 Rory McIlroy, playing in the afternoon

and one of the five top-10 players in the world in the tournament, finished with a 2-under 70. While Haas and Hoffman shared the lead after Thursday’s play, it was Mickelson — who was forced to withdraw during last week’s third round in San Antonio after pulling a muscle in his right side — who was the center of attention leading into next week at Augusta National. Mickelson has won the Masters three times, the latest coming in 2010, but his status was in doubt following last week’s injury. The left-hander, however, underwent treatment in the days following his departure from San Antonio — along with fitting in two days of light practice at Augusta National — and appeared in top ball-striking form on Thursday. Kraft Nabisco Championship RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Angel Yin was asked if there was a player she wanted to meet this week at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, but was too shy to approach.

“Michelle Wie,” said Yin, the 15-year-old high school freshman who shot a 4-under 68 on Thursday to finish a stroke behind her idol after the first round. “If she sat next to me and said ‘Hi’ to me, I’d probably run.” The 24-year-old Wie laughed when told about Yin’s response. “It’s crazy,” Wie said. “These girls are starting to make me feel really old.” Wie played a four-hole stretch in 5 under, showing off all the talent that made her a star in her early teens and helped attract players like Yin to golf. “I just felt comfortable out there,” Wie said. Wie ended up a stroke behind leader Shanshan Feng, lipping out a 3-foot par putt on the par-3 17th and settling for par and a 67 on the par-5 18th. “I’ll take it,” Wie said. “I’ll take a 67 here.” Feng shot a 66 in perfect morning conditions at Mission Hills in the first major championship of the year. The 24-yearAP Photo/Patric Schneider old Chinese player had seven Phil Mickelson tees off on the fifth hole during the first round of birdies and a bogey. the Shell Houston Open on Thursday in Humble, Texas. C

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Storm clouds loom for March Madness Despite successful tournament, cases involving unionization, paying players could harm NCAA EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer

ARLINGTON, Texas — The tournament that began with the lure of a billion-dollar bracket will end at a billion-dollar stadium outside of Dallas. Big as March Madness and the Final Four have become, they’re not big enough to blot out the storm clouds on the horizon. The NCAA has issues looming — among them, the possible unionization of players and a lawsuit challenging the NCAA’s ban on paying players. If the NCAA loses either case, it would threaten almost everything. That includes its most lucrative and intoxicating event: The basketball tournament, which is celebrating bestin-a-generation TV ratings, a record number of overtime games and a staple of big-name programs in the Final Four — Florida, Wisconsin, Connecticut and Kentucky. “If the NCAA loses, you’ve opened a Pandora’s box that will generate problems, questions and concerns for decades,” says Arthur Miller, the chairman of New York University’s Sports and Society program. “It may be the end of the NCAA. It certainly

will reduce the power of the NCAA.” For the last three weeks, the NCAA’s sway over America has been strong as ever. The average 9.8 million viewers are the highest in 21 years. The 6.2 rating is tied with last season as the best for the tournament since 2005. The NCAA’s 14-year, $10.8 billion TV contract made every game available on a national telecast and there was plenty to watch, including a record-tying seven overtimes and about as many games that came down to a made or missed shot at the buzzer. Meanwhile, Warren Buffett’s offer of $1 billion to anyone who could fill out a perfect bracket served to bring more casual fans into the mix. Nobody won the billion. But the billions really at stake are those the NCAA distributes to its member schools from the TV deal. That cash makes the system run, and it is in limbo while the unwieldy organization, made up of 351 schools with very different missions, tries to resolve issues on several fronts. “It doesn’t look good for them,” said civil engineering professor Timothy Ross, the University of New Mexico’s representative at the reform-minded

Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics. “They don’t have much of a leg to stand on. The whole situation gets worse and worse every year. Coaches make more money, universities make more money, the way the athletes are treated is a joke. It’s embarrassing from a university standpoint.” Last week, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Northwestern football players had a right to unionize and likened college players to full-time employees. Players are seeking better health care and more protection after they graduate, along with a stake in the profits. There are similar stakes involved in the lawsuit filed by former UCLA player Ed O’Bannon. The trial is scheduled for June and an NCAA loss there could force a complete rewriting of the current relationship between the NCAA, its schools and their players. Even staunch supporters of the current system agree changes are afoot. “You can’t ignore all the litigation,” said Chuck Neinas, a longtime college sports leader who most recently served as interim commissioner of the Big 12. “There is a need for some

changes. The auto industry is always trying to improve their model. College athletics should do the same. But the basics are still sound.” Earlier this year at the NCAA convention, ideas were shared about giving the five power conferences — ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC — more autonomy within the current system. Some are hoping a new model will be in place by this spring. A key goal would be to make it possible for players at bigger schools to receive a stipend. The idea of a $2,000 stipend was on the table but got voted down by smaller schools that don’t have huge moneymaking basketball and football teams to buttress the entire athletics program. If those reforms don’t go through, there’s a chance the five conferences might peel away, much the way the big powers did in college football three decades ago. “That’s not a preferred option on any of our parts,” said Harvey Perlman, chancellor at Nebraska who chairs the new college football playoff board. “But if we can’t achieve something within the organization, as I say, some of these threats to us are existential and we could be forced into

a circumstance where we don’t have any choice.” A split like that would end the NCAA tournament as we know it. What’s March Madness, after all, without the prospect of a Butler or Dayton or Wichita State crashing the party? Though the four teams at this Final Four are all considered “big,” UConn is a 7 seed, and eighth-seeded Kentucky, of all teams, has managed to shape an underdog story of its own: Ultra-talented freshmen almost implode, before embracing the team concept and making their run. It will all play out starting Saturday in the $1.3 billion AT&T Stadium, the colossus built by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. It hosted a Super Bowl three years ago. Now, it gets arguably the nation’s second-biggest sports weekend. “I remember when I was playing in college, when we went to the tournament, we weren’t playing in venues like this,” said UConn coach Kevin Ollie, who played for the Huskies in the early 1990s. “Everything has changed and evolved, and, in some way, the student-athlete, that dynamic has to evolve and change, too.”

As World Cup approaches, Pele reflects on soccer RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer

NEW YORK — Pele’s family doesn’t call him by his nickname. They don’t even call him by his given name, Edson Arantes do Nascimento. Sitting for a half-hour interview Wednesday at the headquarters of The Associated Press, Pele said he resisted the nickname given to him by his schoolmates. “Very few people know,” he explained, “My father gave me Edson because of Thomas Edison, the engineer — the lights. I was very proud. They start to call me Pele, I fight with everybody. But in my family, when I was young, they called me Dico. Until now, my family, my sister my brother, my mother call me Dico.” Pele is thinking back to his youth these days. In a little more than two

months, the World Cup will be played in Brazil for the first time since 1950, when 9-yearold Edson’s father listened on the radio as Brazil lost the final round-robin game and the title 2-1 to Uruguay in Rio de Janeiro. As soccer’s showcase returns to the land of “jogo bonito” (the beautiful game), Pele’s views are sought. He even has a new book, “Pele: Why Soccer Matters,” which was released this week by Celebra. Of course, Pele hopes Brazil will reach the final. And he would like it to be against Uruguay. “An opportunity for revenge,” he said. The 73-year-old said he doesn’t expect Brazil will have an easy path to a record sixth title — two more than any other nation. “I think Germany has a very good team, young team,

and then Spain. Spain is a team who plays together eight years, 10 years — same team. Very nice organized team,” he said. “This will be difficult. But we must respect Italy. We must respect Uruguay, because Uruguay is there. Argentina is there.” Pele was a part of Brazil’s first three World Cup champions, in 1958, 1962 and 1970, and he scored 77 goals in 92 games for the Selecao. He starred for Santos from 195674 and then kick-started soccer in the United States with the Cosmos from 1975-77. He still keeps an apartment in Manhattan. When he first arrived in New York, he could walk into Central Park, play some pickup with kids and watch a few people take Polaroid photographs. Four decades later, when the U.S. has purchased the second-most World Cup

Shiffrin backs off on bold prediction WASHINGTON (AP) — Remember when U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin talked about dreaming of winning five gold medals at the 2018 Olympics? She’d like to take that back. Sort of. It’s not so much that the Sochi Games slalom champion doesn’t think she’s capable of a big haul in four years. It’s more that she realizes what an outlandish thing it was to say out loud to a room full of media members back in February. “I was just on, like, a goldmedal high there,” Shiffrin said with a laugh at the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Best of U.S. Awards on Wednesday night. “You say something to the press and of course it’s going to be a quote. And I’m like, ‘I’m ready for five gold medals.’ (And then) I’m like,

‘Whoops. Shouldn’t have said that.’” After jokingly rapping herself on the side of the head, Shiffrin continued on the topic. She sort of presented a defense of her comments from the day after she became, at 18, the youngest slalom champion in Olympic history. “Of course, that’s everybody’s dream — you go to the Olympics to bring home gold, right? So I was really happy with bringing the slalom gold home this year and ... hopefully there’s quite a bit of time between now and (2018) to practice, and hopefully I have a shot at as many gold medals as I can get,” Shiffrin said. “And who knows if I’ll actually get them,” she added, “but as long as I give myself a chance, then I’m happy.”

tickets behind the host nation, that’s not possible — and not because of the right hip replacement surgery he had in 2012 that has him walking with a slight limp. “Now people, they follow more, but not only Central Park, every place where I go — Broadway,” he said before quickly adding with a smile: “This is good because people love me.” When he retired, he was considered to have no equal. Then Diego Maradona led Argentina to the 1986 World Cup with amazing darting runs, and to the 1990 final, where La Albiceleste lost to West Germany. And in this era, Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo are scoring at pretty much a goal-a-game rate for their clubs, although they haven’t won the ultimate prize with the national teams.

“I think to compare Pele with Messi, with Maradona, is difficult because we have different styles,” Pele said. If Pele were in charge of a club, who would be the first player he’d try to sign? “I’m going to say Neymar because he belongs to us. He comes for free,” said Pele, referring to the young Brazilian forward Santos sold to Barcelona last summer. “But at the moment,” Pele went on, “as I am a forward, as I score a lot of goals, I will decide: Cristiano Ronaldo.” In the years since his retirement, soccer tactics have become far more defensive. Flowing offense has become a rarity. Pele is saddened by that. “Italy always played defense — in my time, now, always,” he said. “But unfortunately today, I think because of the millions, because of the new technology, because of the money from the

sponsors, the people, they don’t care the way they win.” He says the message from coaches is not win, but rather “don’t lose.” “They don’t care about the beautiful game. They don’t care about the elegance of football. In my time, we used to think and give a little show.” He never wanted to be a coach, never wanted to be teaching what came to him so naturally, from his days growing up in the Sao Paulo state city of Bauru, to his years of acclaim at soccer’s highest level. Teaching is for a technician, not for such a talent. “If I would be a coach, I think it would be a little difficult because sometime I’m going to make a mistake, a big mistake, because I’m going to ask the forward, the No. 10, do what I used to do,” was Pele’s reasoning. “But he is different. Then I say it’s better to stay out.”

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Cards overcome delay to topple Reds By The Associated Press

CINCINNATI — The St. Louis Cardinals overcame another long delay and Todd Frazier’s two homers on Thursday, holding on to beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 and take two of three in their season-opening series. The first pitch was delayed 3 hours, 42 minutes because of rain. The Cardinals then emerged from their twogame hitting slump by knocking Homer Bailey (0-1) out of the game in the fifth inning. Jhonny Peralta homered to get it going. Lance Lynn (1-0) gave up Jay Bruce’s two-run homer and Frazier’s solo shot during five innings. GIANTS 8, DIAMONDBACKS 5 PHOENIX — Angel Pagan hit a threerun home run in San Francisco’s five-run eighth inning and the Giants rallied to beat Arizona in a game that was halted briefly in the top of the first due to a swarm of bees in the outfield. Paul Goldschmidt and Mark Trumbo each hit two-run home runs and Arizona led 5-3 after seven, but the Giants teed off on reliever Will Harris (0-1) in the eighth to take three of four games from the Diamondbacks. Brandon Belt hit his third home run of the series and Brandon Hicks had a pinchhit solo shot for the Giants. Jean Machi (2-0) got one out for the victory.

NATIONALS 8, METS 2 NEW YORK — Tanner Roark recovered from a shaky first inning as an emergency starter in place of ailing Jordan Zimmermann, and the Nationals rallied past the Mets for an opening three-game sweep. Ryan Zimmerman tied his career high with four hits. Zimmermann, 19-9 last year, was fine Wednesday but developed a fever overnight and was throwing up. Roark (1-0) got just two swings and misses in the first two innings and fell behind in a 30-pitch first. He wound up allowing just the two runs and six hits in six innings with three walks and five strikeouts — including his final four batters. Wheeler (0-1) gave up three runs and seven hits in six innings.

MARLINS 8, ROCKIES 5 MIAMI — Giancarlo Stanton singled home the go-ahead run with two outs in the eighth inning, capping a comeback to help the Marlins beat the Rockies. Casey McGehee had two hits and three RBIs for the Marlins, who scored 27 runs while winning three of four games in the season-opening series. The Marlins were 1 for 15 with runners in scoring position for the afternoon before Christian Yelich made the score 5-all in the eighth with a two-out RBI single off Matt Belisle (0-1). A.J. Ramos (1-0) pitched a perfect eighth. Steve Cishek followed with a

scoreless ninth for his 31st consecutive Ichiro Suzuki. converted save opportunity, and his secSolarte also had a nifty defensive play ond this year. at third when he grabbed a liner hit right at him by Jose Altuve for the third out in the eighth. CUBS 3, PIRATES 2 Ivan Nova (1-0) allowed two runs and PITTSBURGH — Jason Hammel six hits in 5 2-3 innings. David Robertson, pitched two-hit ball into the seventh in- who took over as closer for Mariano Rivera, ning and the Cubs edged the Pirates for pitched a perfect ninth for his first save. Houston starter Brett Oberholtzer also their first win of the season. Hammel (1-0) allowed a run, struck went 5 2-3 innings, allowing five hits and out five and walked one in 6 2-3 innings three runs. to help the Cubs avoid their worst start in 17 years. RED SOX 4, ORIOLES 2 Emilio Bonifacio went 2 for 4 and BALTIMORE — David Ortiz had three scored twice to continue his torrid start. The Chicago center fielder hit 11 for 16 of Boston’s 12 hits off Wei-Yin Chen, and (.688) during the opening three-game se- the Red Sox got an effective pitching performance from Felix Doubront and four ries. Wandy Rodriguez (0-1) struggled early relievers. Xander Bogaerts also had three hits for in his first start in 10 months but settled down late. The left-hander allowed three the Red Sox, who took two of three in the runs on five hits with a walk and five season-opening series between AL East rivals. Boston finished with 14 hits, 12 of strikeouts. them singles. Matt Wieters had three hits YANKEES 4, ASTROS 2 for the Orioles, and Chris Davis had two hits and scored twice. HOUSTON — Rookie Yangervis Solarte had three hits in his first major league RAYS 7, BLUE JAYS 2 start and Derek Jeter drove in a run to give ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Chris Arthe New York Yankees their first win this season, over the Houston Astros on Thurs- cher threw six solid innings, Evan Longoria hit a three-run homer and Tampa Bay day night. Solarte singled during a two-run third split a four-game series with Toronto. Archer (1-0) allowed two runs and four inning that put New York up 2-1. He doubled in the fifth and scored on a single by hits in his first start since he agreed to a $25.5 million, six-year deal Wednesday. Jeter to make it 3-1. Houston cut the lead to one in the bot- The contract includes club options for tom half before Solarte came through 2020 and 2021 that could raise the value again, this time with a single that drove in to $43.75 million.

Longoria tied Carlos Pena for first on the Rays’ career home run list with 163 on his seventh-inning shot off Esmil Rogers that put Tampa Bay ahead 7-2. Toronto’s Brandon Morrow (0-1) gave up four runs and seven hits over five innings in his first start since May 28.

TWINS 10, WHITE SOX 9 CHICAGO — Chris Colabello had a career-high six RBIs, Oswaldo Arcia hit a go-ahead triple and Minnesota avoided a season-opening sweep. Trailing 9-8 heading into the ninth, the Twins scored twice off Chicago closer Matt Lindstrom (0-1), who blew his first save chance in two opportunities. Trevor Plouffe hit a tying RBI single with two outs before Arcia’s triple off the wall in center gave Minnesota a 10-9 lead.

ATHLETICS 3, MARINERS 2 OAKLAND, Calif. — Coco Crisp homered leading off the bottom of the 12th inning to lift the Oakland Athletics to a win over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday night. Crisp, who scored the tying run with two outs in the eighth inning, hit a towering home run off Seattle reliever Hector Noesi (0-1) on an 0-1 pitch. The ball landed just above the out-of-town scoreboard in right field. It’s the sixth game-ending hit of Crisp’s career. Yoenis Cespedes and Sam Fuld also drove in runs for Oakland, which rallied from two runs down for its first walkoff win of the season.

Mets manager defends Murphy’s paternity leave RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer

NEW YORK — Daniel Murphy is proud he put fatherhood ahead of baseball, and New York Mets manager Terry Collins thinks criticism his second baseman received for taking paternity leave this week was unfair. Murphy made his season debut in Thursday’s 8-2 loss to Washington, three days after the birth of son Noah. He called staying in Florida an extra day “the right decision to make” following wife Victoria’s cesarean section and said “we felt the best thing for our family was for me to stay.” He learned Sunday that his wife’s water broke, then trav-

eled to Florida and missed Monday’s 9-7 opening loss to Washington and Wednesday night’s 5-1 defeat. He said his son was born at 12:02 p.m. Monday. Major league rules allow up to three days of paternity leave, and WFAN broadcaster Mike Francesa said on the air Wednesday that Murphy should not have skipped the second game. “One day I understand. And in the old days they didn’t do that,” Francesa said. “But one day, go see the baby be born and come back. You’re a Major League Baseball player. You can hire a nurse to take care of the baby if your wife needs help.” Former NFL quarterback

Boomer Esiason also was critical during his show on WFAN. “Quite frankly, I would have said C-section before the season starts. I need to be at opening day, I’m sorry,” he said. “This is what makes our money. This is how we’re going to live our life. This is going to give my child every opportunity to be a success in life. I’ll be able to afford any college I want to send my kid to because I’m a baseball player.” A day later, Collins bristled after learning of the comments. “If you’re accusing Dan Murphy of not wanting to play — this guy played 161 games last year, wore himself out, played through all sorts of discomfort,” he said. “You know,

the man had his first child. He’s allowed to be there. The rules state that he can be there, so he went. There’s nothing against it. There’s nothing wrong with it. You know, he missed two games. It’s not like he’s missed 10. You know, when you start attacking Dan Murphy’s credibility, you need to look in the mirror a little bit.” Murphy said he received text messages about the criticism. He was applauded before his first at-bat, singled and scored the Mets’ first run against the Nationals. Murphy went 1 for 3 but also made a throwing error and a fielding error. “Pretty good at the plate, not so much in the field,” he said. “A little sluggish on defense. It was frustrating.”

Minnesota Twins left-hander Brian Duensing also returned Thursday after three days on the paternity leave list, and Tampa Bay put outfielder Sean Rodriguez on the list. “Little did I know I was going to start a national dialogue,” Francesa said on the air Thursday. “I never attacked Daniel Murphy,” he added, saying his distinction applied if “you have the wherewithal to maybe afford care that some people may not.” “I think two days is plenty, and get back to work,” he said. Murphy said he was happy to hear about people who backed his choice to spend time with his wife and won. “I appreciate it, anyone who supports me,” he said. “My wife

and I, we made a decision, and we were excited about it.” Murphy said his son was named after the Biblical character Noah, not for Mets teammate Noah Syndergaard. “People are going to say you named him after the monstrosity that throws like 1,000 miles an hour,” Murphy said. “We didn’t. Noah came from Noah’s Ark. Peace and rest is what it means.” Baby Noah kept his parents awake at 3 a.m. Wednesday. “We had our first panic session. It was dark. She tried to change a diaper, couldn’t do it. I came in,” he said. “It was just the three of us, 3 o’clock in the morning, all freaking out. He was the only one screaming. I wanted to.”

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more likely to like the results.” Davidson, Conor Deal and Vince Stefan will try and avoid having their seasons ended by Fairbanks for the third straight year. “Jake, Vinny and I carry three years of experience, and a lot of guys carry two years,” Deal said. “They know it’s the small details that allow us to beat Fairbanks. “We’re going to teach the younger guys what it takes in the playoffs. This is probably one of our best years. This is probably one of the most talented teams I’ve been on.” Fairbanks is 11-0 when scoring first against Kenai River this season, while the Bears are 3-1-1 when drawing first blood. Finishing chances, especial-

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the Golden Gophers (25-13), who took home the trophy for the third time. They also won the National Invitation Tournament in 1993 and ‘98, though the second one was vacated because of an NCAA rules violation involving player eligibility. “We made some big-time plays,” Richard Pitino said. “Austin made a big-time 3. We gutted it out. That is a very good team. They’re a really good team. They deserve to be in the NCAA tournament. I’m really proud of our guys. I’m so happy for our seniors. They get to walk off this court with a win.” With Rick Pitino sitting near his son’s bench at Madison Square Garden, Minnesota made up for a blowout loss to Stanford in the NIT final two years ago and finished with a flourish in its first season under the 31-year-old Pitino.

ly early, will be crucial against the Dogs. “You need to capitalize on good opportunities, especially in playoff hockey when teams are playing much better defense and there are less chances than in a regular season game,” Davidson said. As if the fact that the teams played 21 times last season and 16 so far this season isn’t enough, familiarity runs deeper than that. Beauparlant was an Ice Dogs assistant for the last three years, and Bears forward Jacob Wolter and Ice Dogs forward Colton Wolter are twin brothers. Dogs defenseman Jake Bushey and Bears defenseman Ben Campbell were swapped for each other this season. “Once the game is over, we still have friends on the other team, but when the puck drops we’re not friends,” Butcher said. “The Wolter brothers probably go at it the hardest.” “I think it’s one of the highlights of my life,” Rick Pitino said on the court afterward. “He’s a brilliant young man.” After dad was knocked out of the NCAAs last week when the defending champion Cardinals were beaten by rival Kentucky in the Sweet 16, it was left to the younger Pitino to bring home a title in April. That’s exactly what he did, defeating SMU and Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown — old enough to be his grandfather. “It was a character win,” Richard Pitino said. Nic Moore had 17 points and Nick Russell added 15 for the Mustangs, who led by seven with less than 6 minutes to play. “Got to give a lot of credit to Richard and his team,” Brown said. “They were really well prepared. Got down seven and I thought he got their kids to dig in a little bit. We didn’t handle prosperity very well. Had some terrible turnovers in the guts of the game, and I think it turned the game around.”

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proved to 14-2-0 in their last 16 games against Buffalo. The previous record for wins in a season belonged to the 1999-2000 Blues, who won 51 games on their way to their last Presidents’ Trophy. Elliott improved to 18-5-2 overall and 10-1 at home this season. He was coming off a 1-0 win at Pittsburgh when he had 33 stops. St. Louis (52-17-7) also moved into a tie with Boston for the most points in the league with 111. The Bruins lost 4-3 to Toronto in overtime. Buffalo’s Cody Hodgson scored a power-play goal at 19:04 of the third period.

MAPLE LEAFS 4, BRUINS 3, OT TORONTO — Nazem Kadri scored 2:51 into overtime, giving Toronto the win. Brad Marchand, Milan Lucic and Patrice Bergeron scored for Boston, which lost back-to-back games for the first time since Feb. 26 and March 1. Chad Johnson made 27 saves. Bergeron tied it at 12:51 of the third against backup goalie James Reimer, after Lucic scored 5:03 into the final period. Paul Ranger, Tyler Bozak and James van Riemsdyk scored for Toronto, which finished the game without goaltender Jonathan Bernier. It remains to be seen how severe Bernier’s injury is. He left 7:22 into the third period after Ranger

KPHA squad drops game at nationals Kenai Peninsula Hockey Association lost Thursday at the USA Hockey Tier II Girls 16U National Championships. KPHA fell 3-1 to the Bay State (Mass.) Breakers in Amherst, NY. The Ice Hawks jumped on top in the first period when Taylor Shelden scored on assists from Anna Shelden and Leah Johnson. But Bay State came back with three unanswered goals by Emma Crocker, Sara O’Connor and Katy Meehan. Samantha Morse had 36 saves for the Ice Hawks, while Hannah Congdon had six saves and Shea Kearney had 11 saves for Bay State. KPHA is now 1-1 for the tournament. The Ice Hawks take on Amherst today at 8:05 a.m. ADT. Bracket play is Saturday, then the championship is Sunday.

NFL Network source: Carroll gets extension RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle Seahawks have called a news conference for Friday morning amid a report they have reached a contract extension with coach Pete Carroll. NFL Network reported Thursday night, citing a “source,” that Carroll and the Seahawks had reached agreement on a contract extension. Carroll’s original five-year deal with Seattle was set to expire after the 2014 season. The Seahawks announcement did not specify the nature of the news conference and team officials would not confirm the report of an extension for Carroll. Carroll reached the top of the NFL last season, leading the Seahawks to their first Super Bowl title. Lured away from USC in 2010 with the chance at complete control over the football operations, Carroll tore down then rebuilt the Seahawks roster into one of the best in the NFL. He’s 38-26 in four regular seasons with Seattle and 5-2 in the playoffs.

Sampson to coach Houston HOUSTON — Houston introduced Kelvin Sampson as their men’s basketball coach on Thursday, confident that he can bring the once-proud program back to prominence and undeterred by his past improprieties with the NCAA. Sampson committed numerous NCAA violations regarding impermissible calls to recruits at both Oklahoma and Indiana, resulting in a five-year show cause order from the NCAA in 2008 which effectively barred him from coaching in college. That order expired last year. On Thursday, Sampson vowed that NCAA compliance will be his staff’s highest priority and didn’t shy away from his checkered past when he was introduced as the successor to James Dickey, who resigned last month citing family issues. “Mistakes were made, lessons were learned, while I don’t agree with all the conclusions that the NCAA made, I respect their decision and respect the NCAA as an institution,” Sampson said in his opening comments. Though Sampson touched on his past troubles on Thursday, he wasn’t exactly thrilled at repeated questions about his NCAA violations. “I’m excited about the future,” he said. “That stuff is in the past — all of it.”

NASCAR won’t regulate tire pressure FORT WORTH, Texas — NASCAR will not regulate tire pressures at Texas Motor Speedway, and if drivers have tire failures during Sunday’s race officials believe they won’t be able to blame Goodyear. Hoping to give more control over setups and strategy to race teams, NASCAR is refusing to get involved in monitoring whether teams choose to follow recommendations set each week by Goodyear. There were multiple tire issues at California two weeks ago, and many drivers tried to blame the product Goodyear brought to the track. NASCAR insisted the issues were self-inflicted and a product of teams going far beyond the air pressure limits recom— Staff and wire reports mended by the manufacturer.

slot for Martin, who fired a onetimer by goalie Ondrej Pavelec. Brian Gibbons added an insurance goal when the Jets turned over the puck and he beat Pavelec with a low shot at 16:24. Pittsburgh (49-23-5) won the NHL’s Metropolitan Division title before the game was over because Philadelphia lost to Columbus earlier in the evening.

BLUE JACKETS 2, FLYERS 0

PHILADELPHIA — Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 37 shots for his fourth shutout of the season, leading Columbus to its first win in Philadelphia. James Wisniewski and Brandon Dubinsky scored for the Blue Jackets, who were 0-5-1 in Philadelphia since the franchise’s inception in 2000. Led by Bobrovsky, a former Flyer, the Blue Jackets moved closer to clinching their secondever playoff berth. They closed BLACKHAWKS 3, within two points of the Flyers for WILD 2, SO third place in the Metropolitan DiCHICAGO — Marian Hossa vision. The Flyers have lost three scored the lone goal in the shootout, and the banged-up Black- straight and were shut out for the hawks stopped a three-game slide. second straight time. Chicago goaltender Corey Crawford made 25 saves through PENGUINS 4, JETS 2 overtime, and then stopped all WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Paul three Minnesota attempts in the shootout. Hossa connected on the Martin returned after an 18-game Blackhawks’ second attempt in absence and scored the winner to the tiebreaker by powering a shot help Pittsburgh eliminate Winnipeg from playoff contention. through Ilya Bryzgalov. Martin, who was out with a It was Chicago’s first game since coach Joel Quenneville said broken hand, made it 3-2 with a captain Jonathan Toews would power-play goal at 7:42 of the third miss the rest of the regular season period. With Jets defenseman Mark due to an upper-body injury. The Blackhawks also were without Stuart in the penalty box for hookPatrick Kane, another star forward ing, James Neal sent a pass into the

HURRICANES 4, STARS 1 RALEIGH, N.C. — John-Michael Liles had a goal and two assists to lead Carolina to the win. Liles, Eric Staal and Justin Faulk scored during a run of three goals in a 4:36 span of the second period. Riley Nash added a key late goal and Chris Terry had his first two NHL assists to help the Hurricanes win their second straight game. Carolina has the league’s secondworst power play but scored twice with the man advantage. Anton Khudobin made 33 saves to help Carolina beat Dallas for the first time since 2009. Tyler Seguin scored for Dallas, which had won three in a row. Kari Lehtonen made 13 saves but was pulled after allowing three goals. Tim Thomas took over and finished with 15 stops.

FLAMES 4, LIGHTNING 1 TAMPA, Fla. — Karri Ramo had 31 saves for the Flames, and Mike Cammalleri and Kevin Westgarth scored 15 seconds apart in the first period. Calgary’s Curtis Glencross scored twice in the final two minutes, including an empty-netter with 16 seconds left.

Scoreboard hockey NCAA Tourney FROZEN FOUR At Wells Fargo Center Philadelphia Semifinals Thursday, April 10 Boston College (28-7-4) vs. Union (N.Y.) (30-6-4), 1 p.m. North Dakota (25-13-3) vs. Minnesota (27-6-6), 4:30 p.m. Championship Saturday, April 12 Semifinal winners, 3:30 p.m. All Times ADT

NHL Standings Atlantic Division GP W L y-Boston 77 52 18 x-Montreal 77 43 27 x-Tampa Bay 77 42 26 Detroit 76 36 26 Toronto 78 38 32 Ottawa 76 32 30 Florida 77 27 42 Buffalo 76 21 46 Metropolitan Division y-Pittsburgh 77 49 23 N.Y. Rangers 78 43 30 Philadelphia 76 39 28 Columbus 76 39 30 Washington 76 34 29 New Jersey 76 32 28 Carolina 77 34 32 N.Y. Islanders 76 31 35

(28-6), 2:30 p.m. UConn (38-0) vs. Stanford (33-3), 5 p.m. National Championship Tuesday, April 8 Semifinal winners, 4:30 p.m. All Times ADT

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At Madison Square Garden New York Semifinals Tuesday, April 1 SMU 65, Clemson 59 Minnesota 67, Florida State 64, OT Championship Thursday, April 3 Minnesota 65, SMU 64

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DENVER — Colorado’s Tyson Barrie scored in the final minute of regulation, and then scored again in the shootout. Semyon Varlamov had 29 saves for Colorado, which has won five in a row. Varlamov also stopped each of New York’s attempts in the shootout. The Avalanche maintained a three-point lead on the Blackhawks for second place in the Central Division. The Blackhawks beat Minnesota in a shootout but still lag behind Colorado with 10 days left in the season. Henrik Lundqvist had 35 saves for the Rangers, who gained a point on Philadelphia despite the loss. Derek Stepan and John Moore scored for New York.

who is expected to miss the rest of the regular season because of a lower-body injury. Chicago did get Bryan Bickell back from an injury, and he scored a tiebreaking goal in the third period. Ben Smith also scored for the Blackhawks. Charlie Coyle and Erik Haula scored for Minnesota.

EASTERN CONFERENCE OT Pts GF GA 7 111 246 165 7 93 200 192 9 93 227 206 14 86 205 215 8 84 227 244 14 78 219 252 8 62 184 254 9 51 146 226 5 103 237 191 5 91 210 187 9 87 213 213 7 85 212 203 13 81 217 231 16 80 186 198 11 79 195 212 10 72 212 250

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division x-St. Louis 76 52 17 7 111 243 169 x-Colorado 76 49 21 6 104 233 206 x-Chicago 77 43 19 15 101 251 202 Minnesota 77 39 26 12 90 191 194 Dallas 76 37 28 11 85 220 216 Winnipeg 78 34 34 10 78 216 230 Nashville 76 33 32 11 77 190 229 Pacific Division x-Anaheim 76 50 18 8 108 247 193 x-San Jose 78 49 20 9 107 239 189 x-Los Angeles 78 45 27 6 96 196 164 Phoenix 77 36 28 13 85 207 218 Vancouver 77 34 32 11 79 185 209 Calgary 77 32 38 7 71 198 227 Edmonton 77 26 42 9 61 190 257 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s Games Chicago 3, Minnesota 2, SO Colorado 3, N.Y. Rangers 2, SO Columbus 2, Philadelphia 0 Carolina 4, Dallas 1 Toronto 4, Boston 3, OT Calgary 4, Tampa Bay 1 St. Louis 2, Buffalo 1 Pittsburgh 4, Winnipeg 2 San Jose 2, Los Angeles 1 Friday’s Games Montreal at Ottawa, 3 p.m. Chicago at Columbus, 3 p.m. Washington at New Jersey, 3 p.m. Buffalo at Detroit, 3:30 p.m. Calgary at Florida, 3:30 p.m. Edmonton at Phoenix, 6 p.m. Nashville at Anaheim, 6 p.m. Saturday’s Games Philadelphia at Boston, 9 a.m. Colorado at St. Louis, 10 a.m. Washington at N.Y. Islanders, 1 p.m. Winnipeg at Toronto, 3 p.m. Detroit at Montreal, 3 p.m. Dallas at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m. Ottawa at N.Y. Rangers, 3 p.m. New Jersey at Carolina, 3 p.m. Pittsburgh at Minnesota, 4 p.m. Los Angeles at Vancouver, 6 p.m. Nashville at San Jose, 6:30 p.m. All Times ADT

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Atlantic Division W L x-Toronto 43 32 x-Brooklyn 40 34 New York 33 43 Boston 23 52 Philadelphia 16 59 Southeast Division y-Miami 52 22 x-Washington 39 36 Charlotte 37 38 Atlanta 32 42 Orlando 21 54 Central Division y-Indiana 53 23 x-Chicago 43 32 Cleveland 31 45 Detroit 27 48 Milwaukee 14 61

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Thursday’s Games Oklahoma City 106, San Antonio 94 Dallas 113, L.A. Clippers 107 Friday’s Games Denver at Memphis, 3 p.m. Indiana at Toronto, 3 p.m. Orlando at Charlotte, 3 p.m. Detroit at Brooklyn, 3:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Boston, 3:30 p.m. Minnesota at Miami, 3:30 p.m. Cleveland at Atlanta, 3:30 p.m. Washington at New York, 3:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Chicago, 4 p.m. New Orleans at Utah, 5 p.m. Oklahoma City at Houston, 5:30 p.m. Phoenix at Portland, 6 p.m. Sacramento at Golden State, 6:30 p.m. Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 6:30 p.m. Saturday’s Games Minnesota at Orlando, 3 p.m. Chicago at Washington, 3 p.m. Brooklyn at Philadelphia, 3:30 p.m. Charlotte at Cleveland, 3:30 p.m. Boston at Detroit, 3:30 p.m. Toronto at Milwaukee, 4:30 p.m. All Times ADT

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NCAA Tourney FINAL FOUR At AT&T Stadium Arlington, Texas National Semifinals Saturday, April 5 UConn (30-8) vs. Florida (36-2), 2:09 p.m. Kentucky (28-10) vs. Wisconsin (30-7), 4:49 p.m. National Championship Monday, April 7 Semifinal winners, 5:10 p.m. All Times ADT

NCAA Women FINAL FOUR At Nashville, Tenn. National Semifinals Sunday, April 6 Notre Dame (36-0) vs. Maryland

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East Division W Boston 2 Tampa Bay 2 Toronto 2 Baltimore 1 New York 1 Central Division Detroit 2 Chicago 2 Cleveland 2 Minnesota 1 Kansas City 0 West Division Seattle 3 Houston 2 Texas 2 Oakland 2 Los Angeles 0

Thursday’s Games Kansas City at Detroit, ppd., rain Minnesota 10, Chicago White Sox 9 Boston 4, Baltimore 3 Tampa Bay 7, Toronto 2 N.Y. Yankees 4, Houston 2 Oakland 3, Seattle 2, 12 innings Friday’s Games Baltimore (M.Gonzalez 0-0) at Detroit (A.Sanchez 0-0), 9:08 a.m. Milwaukee (Estrada 0-0) at Boston (Peavy 0-0), 10:05 a.m. Minnesota (Pelfrey 0-0) at Cleveland (Salazar 0-0), 11:05 a.m. Chicago White Sox (E.Johnson 0-0) at Kansas City (Guthrie 0-0), 12:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 0-0) at Toronto (McGowan 0-0), 3:07 p.m. Texas (Saunders 0-0) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 0-0), 3:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Richards 0-0) at Houston (Harrell 0-0), 4:10 p.m. Seattle (C.Young 0-0) at Oakland (Straily 0-0), 6:05 p.m. Saturday’s Games Minnesota at Cleveland, 9:05 a.m. N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 9:07 a.m. Baltimore at Detroit, 9:08 a.m. Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 10:10 a.m. Seattle at Oakland, 12:05 p.m. L.A. Angels at Houston, 3:10 p.m. Milwaukee at Boston, 3:10 p.m. Texas at Tampa Bay, 3:10 p.m. All Times ADT

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Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with C George Kottaras on a minor league contract and assigned him to Columbus (IL). DETROIT TIGERS — Claimed LHP Mike Belfiore off waivers from Baltimore. MINNESOTA TWINS — Reinstated LHP Brian Duensing from paternity leave. Optioned RHP Michael Tonkin to Rochester (IL). OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Voided the March 29 option of INF Jake

Elmore to Sacramento (PCL) and placed him on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 28. Assigned OF Michael Taylor and INF Hiro Nakajima outright to Sacramento. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed INFOF Sean Rodriguez on paternity leave. Recalled INF Vince Belnome from Durham (IL). National League NEW YORK METS — Placed OF Chris Young on the 15-day DL. Activated 2B Daniel Murphy from paternity leave. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Waived F Erik Murphy. FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Announced Mary Wilson is the controlling owner. CHICAGO BEARS — Agreed to terms with T Eben Britton on a C one-year contract. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Y Signed S Danieal Manning. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Resigned FB John Kuhn to a oneyear contract. HOUSTON TEXANS — Resigned CB Elbert Mack. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed WR Kevin Cone to a one-year contract. Named Ryan Grove athletic trainer. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed S Patrick Chung. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed C Jorgen Hus. TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with OL Eric Olsen on a one-year contract. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed QB Colt McCoy. Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed DE Willie Jefferson.< HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Montreal D Douglas Murray for three games, without pay, for an illegal check to the head of Tampa Bay D Michael Kostka during a game on April 1. MONTREAL CANADIENS — Recalled D Nathan Beaulieu from Hamilton (AHL). NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Assigned D Marc Cantin from Bridgeport (AHL) to Stockton (ECHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Rescinded the fine and one-game suspension for the red cards issued for violent conduct to Portland D Michael Harrington and FC Dallas MF Je-Vaughn Watson in the 40th minute of a March 29 game .SEATTLE SOUNDERS — Loaned MF David Estrada to Atlanta (NASL). COLLEGE BOSTON COLLEGE — Named Jim Christian men’s basketball coach. KANSAS — Announced junior G Lamaria Cole will transfer to Prairie View A&M. LOUISIANA TECH — Agreed to terms with men’s basketball coach Michael White on a six-year contract extension. MISSOURI — Suspended junior F Zach Price indefinitely from the men’s basketball team after being arrested on suspicion of assault. NORTH CAROLINA — Announced junior F James Michael McAdoo will enter the NBA draft. ST. JOHN’S — Granted F Chris Obekpa a release to pursue transfer options. Announced G Max Hooper has been granted permission to pursue postgraduate studies elsewhere. TENNESSEE — Announced basketball G Quinton Chievous has decided to transfer.

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hadn’t thought much about zombies until just recently, but now that they’re lurching around pretty much everywhere, and a zombie apocalypse is imminent, I guess I should devote a column to them. “Here he goes again,” I can hear you saying. “What do zombies have to do with the outdoors?” Plenty, but the most important thing I can think up right now is that running for your life from a zombie horde is a good way to get in good physical shape for a summer of fishing, hunting and other skills that will help you survive the coming zombie apocalypse. As a kid, in the 1940s and early 1950s, we didn’t have zombies, at least not in my neighborhood. My first memory of zombies is a calypso song from the Kingston Trio’s “From the Hungry I” album in 1959, “Zombie Jamboree.” The lyrics, including the catchy “Back to back, belly to belly at the zombie jamboree,” must’ve infected my brain, because I still remember every word. After that, zombies lay dormant in my life until 1962, when “Monster Mash,” performed by Bobbie Pickett and the Crypt Kickers, came on the radio. It spread like a plague, and to this day is heard far too often. Since then, I’ve seen bits and pieces of zombie movies, but none held my interest. Maybe it’s a character defect that the walking dead aren’t one of my reasons for getting up in the morning. They’ve certainly become popular. When I Googled zombie, I got 781 million hits. Humans apparently have an innate need to fear something, and zombies have probably been around since the beginning. They loom large in the “The Epic of Gilgamesh.” Written on 12 clay tablets, it’s likely one of the first stories ever written. Modern zombies owe their existence to George A. Romero’s 1968 film “Night of the Living Dead.” Thanks to movie-making technology and audiences yearning to be scared half to death, the undead now lurch faster and look more gruesome, making them even more scary and threatening. As if that weren’t enough scariness, the idea that zombies might infect the entire world — a zombie apocalypse — has come to be expected in recent movie or TV plots. The good news is that, if you’re into zombies, there’s help out there for you. For fitness fanatics, there’s a “Zombies, Run!” app that’s compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Providing a reason to run, the app’s promo urges you to join more than 800,000-plus runners in an epic adventure. Here’s a taste: “You tie your shoes, put on your headphones, take your first steps outside. You’ve barely covered 100 yards when you hear them. They must be close. You can hear every guttural breath, every rattling groan — they’re everywhere. Zombies. See PALMER, page C-2

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In this photo taken March 30, unicyclist Elliott Wilson leaves a checkpoint during the White Mountains 100-mile ultra-marathon, north of Fairbanks, Alaska. When Wilson decided to ride a unicycle in the White Mountains 100 endurance race, he knew it was an off-the-wall idea. After all, most people wouldn’t think about riding 100 miles on snowmachine and dog mushing trails in late March in Fairbanks on two wheels, much less one. Wilson succeeded, much to the surprise of himself, as well as some of Fairbanks’ foremost two-wheelers.

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FAIRBANKS, Alaska — When Elliot Wilson decided to ride a unicycle in the White Mountains 100 endurance race, he knew it was an off-the-wall idea. After all, most people wouldn’t think about riding 100 miles on snowmachine and dog mushing trails in late March in Fairbanks on two wheels, much less one. Wilson succeeded, much to the surprise of himself, as well as some of Fairbanks’ foremost two wheelers. “That dude’s crazy,” is how Alaska’s winter riding king, Jeff Oatley, put it after Wilson finished the 100-mile bike, ski and foot race in the White Mountains National Recreation Area on Sunday in a more than respectable 18 1/2 hours.

No, what’s crazy is that Wilson took up unicycling less than a year ago and did most of his training — and learning — in India, which is about as far away from winter in Alaska as you can get. “What really blows my mind is it’s been less than a year,” Wilson said on Monday after finishing the race. “I think it’s so cool at the age of 30 that you can pick up something and explore the limits with it in a short amount of time.” Explore the limits? Wilson did something that nobody in Alaska, or probably anywhere else in the world for that matter, has ever thought about doing. To say that he puts the uni in unique would be an understatement. “It just seemed like something crazy enough that it might work,” Wilson said. “There’s something very fascinating in doing something that seems stupid.” It worked out better than Wilson ever expected.

Riding a unicycle with a 4-inch-wide tire — a fat uni, not a fat bike — he finished in 43rd place, ahead of 20 other racers, including a handful of two-wheeled cyclists, several skiers and all but one runner. His official time was 18 hours, 38 minutes. The winner, Josh Chelf, did it in just less than eight hours. “It was much better than I originally thought,” Wilson said of his performance. “I had packed enough food for 30 hours.” Race organizer Ed Plumb heard about Wilson’s plans to ride a unicycle and spoke to him before the race. “I thought he would make it, but I was just going by his confidence,” Plumb said. “Some very hardcore cyclists were skeptical.” Wilson benefited from ideal trail and weather conditions. With no snow in the past two weeks and lots of traffic during spring break, the trails were See UNI, page C-2

Panel rejects design for Eisenhower Memorial By BRETT ZONGKER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A federal commission that oversees plans for monuments in the nation’s capital voted Thursday to reject the current design for a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower, sending the concept back to its architects for revisions. The National Capital Planning Commission voted 7-3 to endorse its staff’s report opposing the current design. The objections focus primarily on the scale and placement of columns that would hold large stainless steel tapestries framing a memorial park honoring Eisenhower. One concern is preserving views of the nearby U.S. Capitol between the massive columns. Architect Frank Gehry has designed large metal tapestries depicting the Kansas landscape of Ike’s boyhood home held up by 80-foot-tall limestone columns. Statues of Eisenhower as president and World War II general would stand at the park’s center. Gehry did not attend the meeting Thursday. Eisenhower’s family has opposed the design’s See DESIGN, page C-2

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This handout image courtesy of Gehry Partners, LLP, 2013 shows the planned Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington.

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am often asked thought provoking questions while working in the Kenai Refuge Visitor Center. Recently, I was asked how Hidden Lake Campground received its name. It dawned on me that in the sixteen years I’ve worked here, I hadn’t given it much thought despite the huge amount of time I spend in the campground both for work and play. In writing this article, I did a little digging to uncover some interesting facts about this “hidden gem” of the Kenai Peninsula. The 18.8 mile-long Skilak Lake Photos courtesy Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Road was part of the original SterLooking to the right of the boat launch across glacially-carved Hidden Lake ling Highway built back in the late Once called “comfort stations,” Camp Hosts assist with basic upkeep at HidSee REFUGE, page C-2 den Lake Campground. is 2,890-foot Hideout Hill. Y

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practically as hard as pavement. It was a beautiful, sunny day with no wind to speak of. All of that said, Wilson’s feat still is impressive, Oatley said. COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — People across the state will “That doesn’t make ridbe looking to the skies as the South Carolina State Museum ing 100 miles in the White hosts the inaugural Star Party. Mountains on a unicycle with The party includes stargazing events at various locations something like 7,000 feet of across South Carolina on Friday and Saturday. elevation gain trivial,” Oatley On Friday, there are stargazing sessions scheduled for said of the biker-friendly conCongaree National Park outside Columbia, at the Roper ditions. Mount Science Center in Greenville and at the Francis MariWilson, a 30-year-old engion University Observatory near Florence. neer for PDC Engineering in On Saturday, there will be sidewalk stargazing at the HuntFairbanks, took up unicycling er-Gatherer Brewery & Ale House in Columbia and outside in June. He decided to sign up at the USC-Aiken planetarium in Aiken. for the White Mountains 100 At Francis Marion on Saturday, there will be solar obserlast summer — a lottery is held vations at midday at the university observatory. in October to pick the 65 racers who get in the race — after his friend, Seth Adams, skied the race last year and told him how much fun it was. That was before he even really knew how for preparing for such an event, to ride a unicycle. “When I first signed up for as well as for real unpleasantit, I didn’t know if it was posries. Continued from page C-1 While researching zombies, sible,” said Wilson, who figured I realized they’ve gotten a bad he could ski it if he got a spot There’s only one thing you can rap. People in any other demo- in the race and didn’t feel confident on a unicycle by that time. graphic would’ve been given do: Run!” In November, Wilson enspecial attention and opportuIf you thought the federal tered a five-mile mountain bike nities to better their situations. government was ignoring the race on the snow to see what he And yet, despite this utter lack zombie apocalypse, you were was getting into. It wasn’t an of caring and respect, these wrong. From the Centers for auspicious beginning. corpses somehow overcome Disease Control and Preven“I was horrible,” he said. “I the challenges of putrefaction, tion website: “The rise of could barely complete a fiveand stagger on to lead successzombies in pop culture has given credence to the idea that ful lives. Or deaths. Whatever. mile race.” Yes, zombies do scare people, a zombie apocalypse could eat their brains and infect them happen. In such a scenario zombies would take over entire with the zombie germ, and yes, countries, roaming city streets zombies leave rotten pieces eating anything living that got and parts of themselves in their wakes, but ya gotta admire in their way. The proliferaContinued from page C-1 their spirit. tion of this idea has led many people to wonder ‘How do I Les Palmer can be reached Hidden Lake, largely unseen or prepare for a zombie apocaat les.palmer@rocketmail.com. “hidden” from this road, leads lypse?’” The CDC offers tips me to believe this may be the origin of its name. Hidden Lake Campground, located 3.5 miles from the east site and transforming it into a entrance of Skilak Lake Road, green space with a presidential is a favorite camping spot for locals and visitors where pleamemorial in it,” he said. Continued from page C-1 Representatives of the Na- sures range from enjoying a tional Park Service and the U.S. campfire to sighting a black large scale and the inclusion of General Services Administra- bear. Leaving technology bemetal tapestries. The 34th pres- tion voiced support for Gehry’s hind helps you make an unhinident’s granddaughter Susan design for the memorial but dered connection with nature to Eisenhower listened to the de- were outvoted in the final tally. recharge your mind and spirit. Republican Rep. Darrell The awe inspiring beauty of bate Thursday but did not testify. Other critics have opposed Issa, an ex-officio member of the area may also provoke your the project citing Gehry’s style the commission, made a rare curiosity about the topography and a preference for more clas- appearance and suggested the and forest history of this area. Carved by glaciers amidst Eisenhower Memorial group sical architecture. L. Preston Bryant Jr., the return every two months with the 2,000 to 3,000 feet high Keplanning commission’s chair- updates to keep the project nai Mountains, the Hidden Lake man, voted to oppose the cur- moving. Issa said that if it con- basin was deglaciated 14,000rent design but also voted to tinues to be delayed, it will 16,000 years ago. Climbing bring the project back every become difficult to get more on the exposed rocky outcrops two months with updates on its money from Congress to fund within the campground, you can see the glacial striations the memorial. progress. “The time for endless debate — scratches in the rock caused “There is widespread agreeby the tremendous weight and ment on the need for an Eisen- has to be over,” he said. Republican Rep. Aaron pressure of moving ice grinding hower Memorial,” he said. The commission’s vote Schock of Illinois also made and scarring the rocks. From June-August 1947, a Thursday was its first formal an unusual appearance before action on Gehry’s design and the commission to criticize the huge fire burned 300,000 acres is the first major rejection that design. He said the imagery of forest including areas around could force changes in the de- doesn’t covey the “majesty” of Hidden Lake. Sixty-seven sign. Gehry’s concept has won Ike and called it “a four-acre years later, we see a mature support at the separate U.S. theme park without a coherent boreal forest with primarily spruce and aspen trees. Within Commission of Fine Arts, theme.” None of the current Kansas the campground, you can hike which also must approve the lawmakers who have champi- Burney’s Trail, named after a design. Now the design is caught be- oned and overseen the project wildlife researcher who studtween the two federal agencies, testified. But Howard Bauleke, ied lynx and snowshoe hares in said Daniel Feil, the Eisenhow- the chief of staff for former the early 90s in the Skilak area. er project’s executive architect. Kansas Rep. Dennis Moore, This trail travels through spruce “There’s no Supreme who once sat on the Eisenhow- forest to a rocky outcrop viewCourt” to deliver a final de- er Memorial Commission, said point overlooking Hidden and cision on the design, he said. it was a good design that’s been Skilak Lakes. This is a good Now the architects must de- bogged down with political dis- hike for bird lovers of all ages to look and listen for boreal and cide whether changes can be tractions. “Frank Gehry’s design black-capped chickadees as made to answer the commisis unique and memorable,” well as Swainson’s and hermit sion’s objections. thrushes. “The project is taking a bleak Bauleke said.

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That’s where his trip to India came in. “I usually take a vacation in December, January and February because the engineering and design season is pretty slow,” Wilson said. “I’m very interested in philosophy, and I figured India would be a better place to learn how to unicycle than 40 below in Fairbanks. “That’s where I got most of my practice in,” he said. Wilson spent three months unicycling around India, which he said was a “very interesting experience.” “Nobody there had ever seen a unicycle before,” he said. “I would stop for 30 seconds, and all of a sudden, I’d have 30 Indians around me grabbing my unicycle and asking questions. It was a little overwhelming.” The key to riding a unicycle is learning to keep your balance without thinking about it, something he was able to do by riding almost every day for three months in India, Wilson said. “I kind of have a personality for getting very focused on things,” he said. When he returned to Alaska, Wilson swapped the all-terrain tire he was using in India for a fatter tire for riding in the snow and began commuting to work on the Tanana River from his home on Rosie Creek on the Tanana River. The farthest he had ridden at one time before Sunday’s race was 50 miles, which he did two weeks earlier from Nenana to Fairbanks on

the Tanana River. “I wanted to get an idea of trail hardness and how stupid of an idea this really was,” is how Wilson put it. The trip went well enough that Wilson was encouraged to give the White Mountains 100 a try. After talking with him at the start of the race, Oatley, who sat out this year’s race after riding to Nome a month ago, said he could tell Wilson knew what he was getting into. “He knew what he was doing, or what he was going to try to do,” Oatley said. As far as unicycles go, Wilson’s Nimbus Oregon is “fairly fancy.” It has only one gear, but it’s equipped with a disc brake, which Wilson controls with a lever under the seat. The brake made riding the White Mountains 100 course, which features some long, steep downhills, much more feasible because he could slow down, said Wilson, noting that the faster he goes, the faster his legs have to turn. “You don’t get to coast, but at least, it takes little bit of pressure off your legs going downhill,” Wilson said of his brake. “If you start spinning too fast, it causes a lot of problems.” Even with a brake, it’s not easy going downhill, he said. “You always have to be applying pressure because that’s also how you maintain your balance,” said Wilson, whose 6-foot-6-inch, 190-pound frame makes for an imposing sight

sitting three feet off the ground. “The brake will lock the wheel sometimes, so you’re still using your feet to brake. You’re sort of dancing back and forth with your legs and hands.” It was going downhill when other racers, taking advantage of the ability to coast and glide, would pass him, Wilson said. “The moment I started going downhill, I had all these skiers and bikers zipping past me,” he said. “It would have been really nice to be able to coast.” At one point going down a hill on Cache Mountain Divide, Wilson said he got a little cocky and got going a little too fast, at which point his tire punched through several inches of soft snow and he was thrown out of the saddle. His unicycle flew over his head as he landed face first in the snow, but the only injury he suffered was a bruised ego. “That kept me humbled,” said Wilson, who wore a backpack with food and extra clothing in it. Other than that and one or two other face plants, Wilson said he managed to stay upright. He figures he rode about 80 percent of the course and walked 20 percent, most of which was in the last 30 miles when his right knee started hurting. “At around mile 70, my right knee started going out, and it made it hard applying a whole lot of pressure,” he said. “I started using my left leg as the dominant one.”

Hidden Lake Campground received an overhaul in 1989 when the campground was paved, new camp loops were added (Ridge and Skyview) and sites were defined each with a parking space, hardened tent surface, fire grate, and picnic table. Now, as the largest Kenai Refuge campground with 44 camp sites, handicapped accessibility, picnic areas, and a boat launch, it receives the most camping use within the Refuge. Throughout summer weekends, the boat trailer parking lot is full as visitors access the lake with canoes, kayaks, powerboats, and even a few sailboats. The depth of the lake varies from really shallow (less than 10 feet) to its maximum depth of 148 feet. The deepest portion of the lake is the first third of the lake from the boat launch to the start of the islands. According to Robert Begich with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, “a feature that is attractive about Hidden Lake is that for a large lake it does not get too rough, and it is deep with relatively few boating haz-

ards.” I know this for a fact as my family spends time fishing, exploring, boating and camping out along the islands. A highlight of my summer is to catch a fresh “laker,” wrap it in aluminum foil, and cook it in a hot-coal campfire with butter and lemon and fry some potatoes on a skillet. Ken Gates at the Kenai Fish and Wildlife Field Office shares that “lake trout is likely the most popular fish people target in Hidden Lake followed by kokanee.” The lake supports the largest ice fishery on the peninsula. The lake also supports spawning and rearing sockeye, rearing coho salmon, rainbow trout and stickleback. Hidden Lake Campground is just one of the “hidden gems” within the Kenai Refuge and would be an extraordinary place to experience during summer 2014. One way to experience this special place in depth is to become a campground host. Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is currently recruiting campground hosts for Hidden

Lake Campground for summer 2014 from mid-May to Labor Day. Camp Hosts have been present here since the early 1990s and are appreciated by campers for their friendly service. Their efforts to care for campgrounds and help visitors are tremendously important. Hosts need their own trailer or camper and receive a tax free reimbursement stipend of $150 per person ($300 per couple) per week for groceries, personal supplies, propane, and generator gas. If you are interested or know of someone who would like to host, contact Education Specialist Michelle Ostrowski at 907-260-2839 or by email at michelle_ostrowski@fws.gov for more details. Michelle Ostrowski is the Educational Specialist at the Kenai Refuge and has enjoyed working with “kids” of all ages since 1998. Find the Refuge on Facebook, or check out our current events at http://kenai. fws.gov/current.htm.

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7320 SQFT BUILDING 4.21 acres w/electric, well & septic. No Covenants & near N. Cohoe Beach MLS# 14-1133 $400,000

COOK INLET BEAUTY 3 acres, 3bd, 3ba Greenhouse, deck & unfinished basement, CLAM GULCH MLS# 14-360 $267,000

B&B IN NINILCHIK 1 acre, 5bd, 3.5ba Fish cleaning facilities & RV hookups MLS# 13-12326 $219,000

NINILCHIK VILLAGE Views of Cook Inlet, Ninilchik River and mountains. Residential, B&B, recreational or business potential. Owner finance upon seller approval with large down. MLS# 13-7113 $79,900

CLAM GULCH RECREATIONAL AREA .46 Acres 1.78 Acres 5.18 Acres 6.74 Acres 3.72 Acres KASILOF 4.9 Acres 4.6 Acres ANCHOR POINT 19.5 Acres KENAI 1.51 Acres SOLDOTNA .99 Acres .72 Acres COMMERCIAL 2.23 Acres COMMERCIAL STERLING 2.04 Acres FUNNY RIVER .93 Acres .93 Acres NIKISKI .39 Acres .81 Acres

NINILCHIK Residential or recreational. Quiet neighborhood.Open Kitchen, dining and living Area. Includes appliances, greenhouse, and smokehouse. Conveniently located. MLS# 13-9493 $155,000

NINILCHIK VILLAGE RIVER FRONT HOME View of Cook Inlet, mountains and sunsets. Unique opportunity to own a part of the original historic Ninilchik Townsite. MLS# 13-10989 $194,000

Recreational Lot Near the Beach Mountain Views, Corner Lot & Electricity Mtn Views, Rolling Hills & Electricity Mtn, Inlet, Volcano Views & Electricity No Covenants, Commercial & Res. Potential

MLS# 13-8220 MLS# 14-3627 MLS# 14-349 MLS# 14-243 MLS# 13-10835

$9,500 $38,000 $68,000 $185,000 NEW PRICE $44,900

K-Beach Frontage, View, Near Fishing K-Beach Frontage, View, Easy Access

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$65,000 $75,000

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MLS# 11-9492

$16,000

Kenai River Front w/Mtn. View

MLS# 12-6021

NEW PRICE $199,500

K-Beach Area w/ Gas & Elec avlbl Kenai Spur Hwy Frontage w/W&S Sterling Hwy Frontage w/Mtn. View

MLS# 13-12619 MLS# 10-15913 MLS# 14-805

NEW PRICE $19,900 $327,000 NEW PRICE $300,000

Seasonal Pond Frontage, Gas & Elec avlbl

MLS# 13-16388

$23,000

Runway & Kenai River Access Runway & Kenai River Access

MLS# 13-15687 MLS# 13-15688

$47,900 $47,900

Corner Lot w/Cabin Lake Access Lakefront Lot on Cabin Lake w/gas & elec

MLS# 12-11189 MLS# 14-165

$4,900 $39,900

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The City of Soldotna has an immediate opening for a short term part-time Library Clerk and a regular part-time Library Clerk at the Soldotna Public Library. These entry level positions provide clerical support services to the Library. Schedule will vary depending on the staffing needs of the library and will include evenings and Saturdays. A complete job description is available on the City's website at http://ci.soldotna.ak.us/jobs.html Must submit City application, resume and cover letter to Human Resources at 177 N. Birch Street, Soldotna, by email tcollier@ci.soldotna.ak.us, or fax 866-596-2994 by 5 p.m., April 16, 2014. The City of Soldotna is an EEO employer.

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General Employment Teck Alaska Incorporated, Red Dog Operations, one of the world's largest producers of zinc concentrate, is recruiting for a temporary nonexempt Sand Filter Operator with hydro-blasting experience. Red Dog Mine, located in NW Alaska, is a large, technically challenging open pit mine, mill and port facility. It is a remote, but modern and well-equipped fly-in fly-out operation that provides free room and board for employees, and regular transportation to and from Anchorage and surrounding regional villages. More information on Red Dog Mine is avalable at www.teck.com Please go to www.nana.com to apply.

General Employment

NEWSPAPER CARRIER The Peninsula Clarion is accepting applications for a Newspaper Carrier. Delivery area Sterling.

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FREE TO A GOOD HOME Older female cat, spayed, very loving, will go outside. Grandkids are allergic so she must find a new home. (907)398-4647

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MEDICAL RECEPTIONIST Opportunity for a part-time experienced medical receptionist with excellent customer service and organizational skills. Requires strong computer literacy and the ability to perform multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. Must be a team player and have an understanding of HIPAA laws. Please fax resumes to (907) 262-0834 or email to kpo.rriley@acsalaska.net

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Alaska State Parks in Kenai District Seeking Volunteer Campground Hosts for Summer 2014. Seeking host for new Eagle Rock boat launch & Issac Walton State Rec site. For further info please contact AK StateParks (907)262-5581

BARTENDER WANTED TAPS card, part-time could be full-time. Apply in person, call 776-5833.

Parts & Accessories

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TOYO A/T TIRES. P245 70R16 065 1yr old, plus they are on rims, I have Ford hub caps (4). Came off ‘02 Explorer. ALL just $500. (907)260-5943

Auctions Business for Sale Financial Opportunities Mortgages/Loans

WANTED: Advertising Sales/ Customer Service Representative

The award-winning Homer News is looking for an energetic, motivated person to serve as our sales/customer service representative. This full-time, year-round position includes benefits. Pay is commission based. Qualified candidates will have an understanding of the importance of small newspapers in the life of a community, as well as the ability to translate print and Internet opportunities into tangible benefits for the newspaper's clients. Must have reliable transportation and a good driving record. Applicants must be able to work independently and efficiently in a fast-paced environment with multiple projects and deadlines. Some sales experience preferred, but willing to train right candidate. The Homer News is a drug-free workplace and a drug test is a condition for employment. Send resume to: lori.evans@homernews.com or deliver to 3482 Landings St., Homer, AK 99603. Questions? Call (907)235-7767.

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Pawsitive training for all dogs & puppies. Agility, Conformation, Obedience, Privates & Rally. www.kenaikennelclub.com (907)335-2552

TEACH ALL DOGS Everything with brains, not pain. Obedience, Puppy, Nose work, Rally, Agility, Privates. K-Beach Road (907)262-6846 www.pendog.org

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Public Notices The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council will meet telephonically Tuesday, April 8, 2014, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. in Grace Hall Conference Room 233, 4230 University Drive, Anchorage. To participate call: 800.315.6338, code 8285. For more information call: 907.278.8012 or 800.478.7745 or on the web at www.evostc.state.ak.us. If you have a disability and need special accommodations to participate, please contact Cherri Womac at the above contact numbers or email to cherri.womac@alaska.gov no later than 72 hours prior to the meeting to make any necessary arrangements. PUBLISHED: 4/4, 2014

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FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY TRUSTOR: RANDY PHELPS TRUSTOR: DONNA SERNA 2002 REVOCABLE TRUST OWNER OF RECORD: RANDY PHELPS Said Deed of Trust was executed on the 18th day of June, 2013, and recorded on the 8th day of July, 2013, Serial No. 2013- 006395. Said Deed of Trust has not been assigned by the Beneficiary. Said documents having been recorded in the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, describing: LOT ONE (1), BLOCK FOUR (4), KENAI RIVER BRIDGE SUBDIVISION AMENDED, according to the official plat hereof, filed under Plat No. 75-028, Records of the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska. The physical address of the real property described above is 36790 Ord Lane, Kenai, Alaska, 99611. The undersigned, being the original, or properly substituted Trustee hereby gives notice that a breach of the obligations under the Deed of Trust has occurred in that the Trustor has failed to satisfy the indebtedness secured thereby: EIGHTEEN THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED EIGHT-THREE AND 55/100TH DOLLARS ($18,183.55), plus interest, late charges, costs, attorney fees and other foreclosure costs actually incurred, and any future advances thereunder. Said default may be cured and the sale terminated upon payment of the sum of default plus interest, late charges, costs, attorney fees and other foreclosure costs actually incurred, and any future advances thereunder, prior to the sale date. If Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously and default has been cured, the trustee may elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. Upon demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee elects to sell the above-described property, with proceeds to be applied to the total indebtedness secured thereby. Said sale shall be held at public auction at the ALASKA COURT SYSTEM BUILDING, 125 TRADING BAY DR., #100, KENAI, ALASKA, on the 22nd day of May, 2014, said sale shall commence at 11:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in conjunction with such other sales that the Trustee or its attorney may conduct. DATED this 19th day of February, 2014. FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY By: PENELOPE BUNDY Title: Authorized Signer Recording Information Serial No. 2014-001258 Dated: 2-20-2014 PUBLISHED: 4/4, 11, 18, 25, 2014

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DEAR ABBY: My mother-in-law watches my four kids so I can work outside the home. On the off chance that she can’t, she tells me my brother-in-law will watch them. While I appreciate her gesture of trying to “cover her shift,” my brother-in-law is irresponsible, suffers

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Hints from Heloise SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH A partner might be demanding, as he or she seems to need a lot from you. It’s up to you to decide whether this is manipulation. Express your irritation without upsetting the applecart. Avoid being standoffish or withdrawn. Tonight: A close encounter. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHOthersdowhatevertheyneed to do to get your attention. You could be shocked by what goes on. Be careful with your funds, as someone you deal with might not be on the up and up. A friend could be too assertive for your taste. Tonight: So many invitations. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Pace yourself, and establish some much-needed boundaries. What you do with a situation could impress others. Realize that you don’t need to start a disagreement — you just need to support yourself in what you want. Be sensitive to the alternatives. Tonight: In the limelight. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH Be playful and forthright in what you do. Somehow, you will need to open up to the lighter side of life. You hear so many problems from so many people that you could start to feel down. Listen to what someone is sharing with you. Tonight: Time to frolic. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You’ll want to accomplish more; however, a loved one could be very distracting. Listen to news with an open mind and a more caring attitude. Do not fall prey to someone’s manipulation. Honor a change. Tonight: Say “yes” to being out and about.

Coupon calculations Dear Readers: Who doesn’t love saving money with coupons? They can be a great way to help reduce your grocery bills, but sometimes it can cost more to use coupons. Here are some hints to help you make the most of them: * Clip coupons only for items you use or need. Just because there is a coupon for something doesn’t mean you have to use it. If it is an item you wouldn’t normally buy, then don’t! Why waste your money? * Check store-brand prices against the coupons. If a name-brand item is still more expensive with the coupon than the store brand, and you don’t mind the store brand, then don’t buy the name brand. * Watch for deals on products you have been considering trying. Sometimes manufacturers will give good deals to get consumers to try a new product. * Try to match up coupons with items already on sale. You can save a bundle this way. * Coupon-swap with friends and family. If there is a coupon for a product a friend uses that you don’t, give it away, and vice versa. Readers, any hints you have for using coupons? Write in and let me know. — Heloise

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Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to Friday.

1 6 5 9 4 8 3 7 2

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHHYou’re likely to attract someone who has a different point of view and a creative, unique approach. Go along with this person’s suggestion. You have thought so much about a project that you easily could be blindsided and not see the obvious. Tonight: Start the weekend in style. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Know when to kick back and not push so hard. A partner and/ or an associate could become unusually controlling. You know when to say “enough.” Recognize your limits, and let others clearly know your boundaries. Tonight: Make it private. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You have an opportunity to make a popular decision. Do not hesitate, and move forward. Keep others posted — that is, if you want to continue this kind of support and interaction. You are more direct and fiery than you realize. Tonight: Go with tradition. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Pressure seems to build quickly, and it could put you in an uncomfortable situation. Be aware of what others think, especially someone you need to answer to. Avoid overspending when trying to straighten out a problem. Tonight: A force to be dealt with. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Confirm plans. You might need to make a long-distance call or two. Someone might not be as responsive as you would like. Is this a pattern? You might want to resolve the issue or perhaps make an adjustment to your plans. Tonight: Opt for something new.

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars A baby born today has a Sun in Aries and a Moon in Gemini. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, April 4, 2014: This year you are full of surprises. You will receive your fair share of them, too. Sometimes you feel as though a friend, relative or boss expects you to respond to him or her at the drop of a hat. You could feel manipulated as a result. Try working through this issue together. If you are single, you could attract someone who is a lot like you. Being too similar could become irritating, though, and as a result, you might decide to move on. If you are attached, you often find your sweetie putting on war paint. Learn to air out problems when they begin, and both of you will be happier. GEMINI makes you laugh. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Return calls and make important decisions that surround your plans. Someone you look up to could cause a problem. Realize what is happening: The other party feels threatened and does not want to be dominated. Listen carefully to a suggestion. Tonight: A must appearance. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH A lot has been happening, and you keep gaining new insights. Use some of your intuitive ability with your interactions. Listen to feedback that is heading in your direction, and focus on the risks of taking action. You will make an excellent decision if you do. Tonight: Your treat.

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