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MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 160

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House panel version of gas-line bill takes shape

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.

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

To place your vote and comment, visit our Web site at www. peninsulaclarion. com. Results and selected comments will be posted each Tuesday in the Clarion, and a new question will be asked. Suggested questions may be submitted online or e-mailed to news@peninsulaclarion.com. Photo by Kaylee Osowski Peninsula Clarion

In the news Name of trooper involved in fatal arrest attempt released C

The Alaska State Troopers released the name of the trooper involved in the fatal arrest attempt in Homer on April 2. Trooper David G. Chaffin, a five-year veteran of the AST currently stationed at the Anchor Point Post, responded to a domestic violence call on East End Road when he got into a struggle with the suspect identified as 24-year-old Michael Rael-Catholic, according to a trooper dispatch released Saturday. A civilian witness at the scene of the event observed Rael-Catholic shoot himself with the trooper’s pistol during the struggle, according to the trooper report. On April 4, State Medical Examiner’s Office determined that Rael-Catholic died from a single gunshot wound to the head. Investigation by the Alaska Bureau of Investigation is continuing and when completed will be passed on to the Department of Law’s Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals for review. — Staff report

Inside ‘The Interior Ministry will not shoot at people, at this gang of paid-up provocateurs.’ ... See page A-7

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Rebecca Lopez (far right), Individual Assistance Branch Chief with the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, along with representatives from other state and Kenai Peninsula Borough agencies wait to answer questions from people affect by central peninsula flooding at the borough sponsored Flood Aware Fair on Friday at the Donald E. Gilman River Center in Soldotna.

High water, low turn out Flood Aware Fair sees little public interest

By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

The first Kenai Peninsula Borough sponsored Flood Aware Fair for the central peninsula didn’t draw many people out on Friday. Borough Community and Fiscal Projects Manager Bren-

da Ahlberg wrote in an email that while she didn’t have a count for how many people attended the fair, it was lower than expected. Shortly after noon Department of Natural Resources Division of Mining Land and Water Chief of the Water Resources Section David Schade

said he expected to see a lunchtime crowd, but that didn’t happen. Multiple representatives speculated that the low turn out during the day was likely due to people having to work and expected to see more flood victims after 5 p.m. The fair brought together

representatives from multiple state and borough departments at the Donald E. Gilman River Center in Soldotna from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. to answer questions for residents affected by flooding and rising water tables throughout the peninsula. See FLOOD, page A-10

JUNEAU — The House Resources Committee version of a bill to advance a major liquefied natural gas project was starting to take shape Saturday, as members dug into a thick stack of proposed changes. The committee, with a reputation for finely parsing language, was making slow but steady progress in an amendment process that began Friday. The panel planned to resume work Sunday, after making a slight dent in the stack after hours of meeting Saturday. Changes that had been approved included a provision to require negotiated contracts that must get legislative approval, such as marketing and transportation-services agreements, to be made public at least 90 days before the proposed effective date for the contract. Co-chair Rep. Eric Feige, R-Chickaloon, said the idea is to ensure there is adequate time to vet proposed contracts, months instead of a few days. The committee also approved allowing for certain legislative staff members and legislative consultants to be part of confidential briefings on negotiations rather than only See GAS, page A-10

Education supporters rally amid funding talks By MATT WOOLBRIGHT Morris News Service-Alaska Juneau Empire

JUNEAU — More than 150 students, teachers, parents and other Alaskans chanted “BSA! Raise today!” on the steps of the Capitol Friday as the House of Representatives considered the merits of the omnibus education bill.

Dubbed the “Education Session” by Republican Gov. Sean Parnell earlier this year, the governor’s education reform bill has stayed center stage since the Legislature convened two and a half months ago. “Because of excellent support from my teachers, counselors and family, I’ve been able to achieve all of my goals,” said Ruby Steele, a senior at Ju-

neau-Douglas High School and student representative to the Juneau School Board. Steele said she’s concerned for students following in her footsteps due to the state of education funding here. “The schools in our state may not have this opportunity in the future,” she said. Within the bill is a proposed increased funding to the base

student allocation, a component of the state funding formula for education, but lawmakers and the public have said it was not enough. Great Alaskan Schools organized the rally with some supporters flying to Juneau from Anchorage for the event. Their request is for a per-pupil increase, known as the Base Student Allocation or BSA, of

$400 this year and $125 in each of the following two years. “It’s filling back what we lost; it’s not asking for more,” said Alison Arians with Great Alaska Schools. “It’s just, basically, keeping up with costs.” She said having a physical event like a rally at the Capitol was about drawing connections between the decisions being See RALLY, page A-10

VA partners with Kenai adjusts dipnet fees Anchorage clinic

$55. Combining vehicle park- ery users over because of the ing and camping fees into one confusion with fees. fee is expected to eliminate the One of the proposals the council were at odds with was As the Kenai River person- confusion, he said. Eubank said he saw the the addition of a $10 vehicle al use fishery has grown over the years, the City of Kenai young adults who operated See FEES, page A-10 the fee shacks bullied by fishhas had to adapt with it. In an effort to clarify confusion on the fishery use fee structure, the Kenai City Council amended and approved a resolution to enact fee changes for the 2014 personal use fishery at the April 2 meeting. Finance director Terry Eubank said one of the biggest misunderstandings people had last year was how a vehicle parking fee was not included in the camping fee. For parking at both the north and south beaches users paid $20 from midnight to midPhoto by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion night. For participants with a The view of north beach from Erik Hansen Scout Park in vehicle or two all-terrain vehi- Kenai Sunday. The city council amended and passed a resocles, camping is now defined as lution for fee charges to the dipnet fishery for the north and overnight parking with a cost of south beaches. By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

By TEGAN HANLON Associated Press

ANCHORAGE — Veterans began filtering into the Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center this month as part of a recent deal with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to ease medical access. The overrun Alaska VA Healthcare System sends about 25 new patients to the Midtown health clinic each week, a routine that started March 17, officials said. The clinic is prepping for nearly 2,000 veterans during the next year, said Kimberly Cohen, the executive director of the health clinic. “We’re fine because we have the physical capacity to expand,” she said. The clinic, on C Street, currently has about 14,700 active patients and will serve as the primary care provider for the veterans, in place of the Alas-

ka VA Healthcare System. For now, two main doctors, who specialize in family medicine, and a physician’s assistant will handle the new case load, referring veterans out for speciality care, Cohen said. Over at the Alaska VA, the administration is struggling with a shortage of physicians, one factor behind the new partnership, said Samuel Hudson, spokesman of the Alaska VA Healthcare System. Alaska has one of the fastest growing veteran populations in the country and has long been the state with the most veterans per capita. More than 71,000 veterans lived in Alaska in 2012, according to U.S. Census data. To serve the veteran population, the VA has health clinics in Anchorage, Fairbanks, KeSee CLINIC, page A-5

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

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24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. Trace Month to date ........................... Trace Normal month to date ............. 0.10" Year to date .............................. 2.63" Normal year to date ................. 2.58" Record today ................. 0.48" (2011) Record for April ............ 2.21" (1955) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963) Snowfall 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. Trace Month to date ........................... Trace Season to date ......................... 42.2"

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Soaking rain will continue to spread across the Midwest and East Coast today as severe weather threatens the Southeast. The West will turn warmer with 90-degree warmth returning to Southern California.

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Anaktuvuk Pass -11/-26

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Peninsula Clarion, Monday, April 7, 2014

Community Calendar Today 10 a.m. • Narcotics Anonymous PJ Meeting, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. 5 p.m. • TOPS group 182 meets at the Sterling Senior Center. Call 260-7606. 5:30 p.m. • Cardiac Patient Support Group at Central Peninsula Hospital, Redoubt Room. Call 398-7763. 6 p.m. • Kenai Bridge Club plays duplicate bridge at the Kenai Senior Center. Call 252-9330 or 283-7609. 7 p.m. • Women’s Barbershop sings at the Soldotna Church of God on the corner of Redoubt and Binkley. For more information, call 335-6789 or 262-4504. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Middle of the Road” at United Methodist Church, 15811 Sterling Highway, Ninilchik. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Dopeless Hope Fiends,” 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. • Alcoholics Anonymous “Into Action” group, VFW basement Birch Street, Soldotna, 907-262-0995. 8 p.m. • Al-Anon Support Group at Central Peninsula Hospital in the Augustine Room, Soldotna. Call 252-0558. The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations.To have your event listed, email organization name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone number to news@peninsulaclarion.com.

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 Caregiver Support Program Kenai Peninsula Family Caregiver Support Program invites all family caregivers to join them for a video “Humor Your Stress,” some laughs, and a discussion about relieving your stress Tuesday from 1:00-3:00 p.m. at the Soldotna Senior Center. Contact Shelley or Judy at 907-262-1280.

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

Sterling Community Center serves up volleyball

The Sterling Community Center now offers competitivestyle Volleyball on Mondays, 7-9 p.m. for high school age and adults. The center is located next to Sterling Elementary Get the buzz on beekeeping School. For more info, call 262-7224, www.sterlingcommuniAn Introduction to Beekeeping workshop, part of the Neigh- tyclub.com, or Facebook Sterling Community Center. bor to Neighbor series, is scheduled for 6:30-8 p.m. April 10. Topics include an introduction to the fascinating world of bees, Volunteers needed for river restoration hives and honey. Keeping bees in Alaska is a great way to learn Alaska State Parks is looking for a group of volunteers conabout pollination, plants, food production, and then enjoy the sweet success of insect labor, honey. This free class will insisting of four or more individuals who are interested in learntroduce you to hive construction, feeding and what it takes to ing about river restoration and concerned about the impacts become a beekeeper. Taught by Sarah Sauder a successful bee- imposed on the river banks each season. Get a first hand look at keeper, attendees will come away ready for spring and looking damage done by bank fisherman on public lands and give back forward to hearing the friendly buzz of insect activity. Space is by conducting a spruce tree revetment projects. If you or your limited. Call the Cooperative Extension Service at 262-5824 to organization is interested contact Ranger Jason Okuly with Alaska State Parks at (907)262-5581 ext 28. reserve your seat.

Heroin addicts nationwide face barriers to treatment By MEGHAN BARR Associated Press

NEW YORK — As the ranks of heroin users rise, increasing numbers of addicts are looking for help but are failing to find it — because there are no beds in packed facilities, treatment is hugely expensive and insurance companies won’t pay for inpatient rehab. Some users overcome their addictions in spite of the obstacles. But many, like Salvatore Marchese, struggle and fail. In the course of Marchese’s five-year battle with heroin, the Blackwood, N.J., man was repeatedly denied admission to treatment facilities, often because his insurance company wouldn’t cover the cost. Then one night in June 2010, a strung-out Marchese went to the emergency room seeking

help. The doctors shook their heads: Heroin withdrawal is not life-threatening, they said, and we can’t admit you. They gave him an IV flush, and sent him home. Marchese, then 26, and his sister called multiple inpatient clinics only to be told: We have no beds. Eventually, Marchese found space at a facility but was released 17 days later when his public funding ran out. Less than three months later, Marchese was found dead of an overdose in his mother’s car. “Heroin is life-threatening,” said his mother, Patty DiRenzo. “We’re losing kids every day from it.” Of the 23.1 million Americans who needed treatment for drugs or alcohol in 2012, only 2.5 million people received aid at a specialty facility, according to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Ser-

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‘Heroin is life-threatening. We’re losing kids everyday from it.’ — Patty DiRenzo, mother vices Administration. Heroin addicts are a small slice of overall drug users, but their numbers nearly doubled from 2007 to 2012, to 669,000. The number treated for heroin also increased, from 277,000 to 450,000. At issue is whether these addicts are getting the treatment they need to successfully beat their habits. Advocates say they are not, partly because the insurance industry has not come to grips with the dangers of heroin withdrawal and its aftermath. It is true that, unlike withdrawal from dependencies on alcohol or benzodiazepines like Xanax, heroin withdrawal does not kill. But it is so horrible — users feel like their bones are breaking and fluids leak from every orifice — that many are drawn back to the drug, with fatal consequences. Even if addicts survive withdrawal, they often relapse if they fail to make it into treatment. That’s when many overdoses happen, because they try to use as much heroin as they did before, and their newly drug-free bodies can’t handle it. Because withdrawal is not directly deadly, most insurance companies won’t pay for inpatient rehab, said Anthony Rizzuto, a provider relations representative at Seafield Center, a clinic on Long Island. They either claim that the addict does not meet the “criteria for medical necessity” — that inpatient care would be an inappropriate treatment — or require that the user first try outpatient rehab. “Ninety-nine-point-nine percent of the time, we hear

‘denied,’” Rizzuto said. “And then we go to an appeal process. And we get denied again.” Susan Pisano, a spokeswoman for America’s Health Insurance Plans, the trade association that represents the health insurance industry, defended the industry’s practices. “Health insurers rely on evidence-based standards of care that look at: what is the right level of coverage, the right site of coverage, the right combination of treatments,” she said. There is debate over the best way to get clean, but most addiction experts agree that inpatient care is often essential for full-blown addicts. But for the few who do get some insurance coverage, what they’re getting falls short of what they need and often what their policies allow. While most insurance policies allow coverage of up to 30 days, nobody gets all 30, said Tom McLellan, CEO of the nonprofit Treatment Research Institute in Philadelphia who served as deputy drug czar under President Barack Obama. The average duration is 11 to 14 days. “It’s not enough time. And what do you do?” McLellan said. “If the treatment program calls you up and says, ‘Your loved one is half-treated, we’d like to keep him for another two weeks,’ you take

out a mortgage on your house and you cover it.” Elizabeth Thompson’s parents did just that to pay for her treatment in eight inpatient facilities beginning at age 16. It wasn’t until she spent several months at a long-term facility in Florida that she successfully stayed clean. “It almost didn’t matter so much what they did there ... but just taking me out of my environment and keeping me in a place that was really difficult to use,” said Thompson, 30, a policy coordinator for the Drug Policy Alliance in New Jersey. The cost of three to five days of heroin detoxification alone is around $3,000, Rizzuto said. The average cost of a 30-day inpatient stay is about $30,000, while outpatient programs typically cost $1,000 per month. Most clinics require payment upfront if insurance can’t be used. There are about 12,000 addiction treatment programs nationwide, according to McLellan’s organization. Of those, about 10 percent are residential facilities, about 80 percent are outpatient programs and about 10 percent are methadone clinics. Two-thirds of all treatment programs are nonprofit programs funded by government grants, McLellan said. When

the grants run out, programs are forced to put patients on a waiting list. In New York, a bill pending in the Legislature would amend the state’s insurance law to force providers to approve authorization and payment of substance abuse care that is deemed necessary by a doctor. That means the only prerequisite for receiving drug abuse treatment would be a doctor’s referral, preventing insurance companies from denying treatment based on a complicated set of guidelines. A similar law was passed in Pennsylvania years ago. Eventually, the federal Affordable Care Act should improve treatment for heroin addicts because up to 5 million people with drug and alcohol problems are eligible for insurance coverage under the law. But it will likely take years before insurance companies fully comply with the law, McLellan said. “And meanwhile,” he said, “people will die. That’s not melodramatic. That’s a fact.” Associated Press Writers Katie Zezima in Newark, N.J., and Dan Sewell in Hamilton, Ohio, contributed to this report.

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Every time the Supreme Court rules in favor of the First Amendment in a campaign-finance case, the left recoils in disgust. The court’s 5-4 decision in McCutcheon v. FEC is the latest occasion for the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth. The court struck down the limit on the aggregate amount a donor can give to candidates and political-party committees, ruling it incompatible with First Amendment protections for political expression. The left pronounced itself outraged. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who has $11 million in his campaign treasury despite being a senator for life, called the decision “another step on the road to ruination.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who has enough of a fundraising surplus that he bought jewelry for his donors from his granddaughter, resorted to a thunderous non sequitur in denouncing the decision: “All it does is take away people’s rights because, as you know, the Koch brothers are trying to buy America.” The First Amendment is for strippers, flag burners, pornographers, funeral protesters and neo-Nazis, but not for people trying to give money to political parties or candidates. In his decision for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts noted that contributing to a candidate is political participation just like volunteering for a campaign or urging others to vote. “Money in politics may at times seem repugnant to some,” Roberts writes, “but so too does much of what the First Amendment vigorously protects.”

auditing you, and you whined that getting all the documentation agents wanted was too hard and would take you years, what do you think the response would be? Exactly. Yet that’s the game IRS chief John Koskinen is playing with the U.S. House Government Oversight and Reform Committee. Apparently, turnabout is not fair play in IRS Land. At issue is how the IRS handled applications for tax-exempt status by tea party and other conservative groups, and what Koskinen says will be millions of communications involving his agency, White House officials and others. A leading member of the committee, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Koskinen, “we don’t want the excuses anymore. Prioritize it. Put more lawyers on the job. All means all.” Under this flurry of paper is the fact that the IRS has already disclosed that agency employees flagged groups that mentioned “tea party” or “patriot” in their applications for nonprofit status or were involved in “limiting/expanding Government, educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform/movement.” Add to that the fact Lois Lerner, the former IRS official at the center of the controversy, has twice refused to answer Oversight committee questions, and may be held in contempt of Congress and turned over to federal prosecutors. According to IRS.gov, the agency’s mission is to “provide America’s taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their Letters to the Editor tax responsibilities and enforce the law with inVeteran disappointed tegrity and fairness to all.” That mission statement in Kenai City Council action makes this stonewalling all the more unacceptable I would like to start off by publicly - and just as offensive as if a different party was in thanking Kenai Councilman Tim Nathe White House and a different party was asking varre, for his continued support of Veterans and especially the Memorial in Leif the questions. Hansen Memorial Park. I also want to — Albuquerque (N.M.) Journal, thank all the Veterans of the Peninsula April 1 of Kenai. Alone we are just people who

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have served our country but together we stand as we did on the battle field, ready to stand up for what is right. We showed our strength and numbers at the last Council meeting. Wednesday night Tim Navarre brought to the Council, Resolution 2014-22 that states, The City of Kenai Affirming it’s Support of the Veterans Memorial in Leif Hansen Memorial Park, for this I say thank you sir! At least you have the fortitude to back up what you say about supporting Veterans. As for the other members of the Council I say shame on you! Openly and vocally, on the record you said you support Veterans but when it actually comes down to it, to put it in writing, your true colors came out. You bowed down to the nay sayers, agree to disagree and then don’t even want to talk about it. You made a motion to table the Resolution indefinitely. It is apparent that you have forgotten about liberty and the American way of life and how it has been sustained. If this is how you support Veterans I say no thank you! Please remember, as stated during the March 19 meeting, Veterans vote and Election Day is coming. Respectfully, Bob Myles Kenai

What are we fighting for? As a Vietnam vet who served at Da Nang AB, RVN, in 67-68, I have an opinion the leaders of our government might want to listen to. That opinion is based by the folC

The decision in McCutcheon should have been a slamdunk. Campaign-finance law limits how much a single donor can give in an election cycle to $5,200 for a federal candidate and $64,800 for Rich Lowry a party committee. The court let these so-called base limits stand on grounds that under the landmark Buckley v. Valeo decision, direct contributions to candidates hold the greatest possibility for creating corruption. But if you accept the base limits, the aggregate limits on the total anyone can give to candidates in a single cycle ($48,600) and to party committees and PACs in a single cycle ($74,600) make no sense. By the logic of the law, if a contribution to one candidate of $5,200 or less is not corrupting, there should be no fear that a donor giving a couple of dozen candidates that amount will be corrupting. Each of the candidates is receiving the proscribed amount or less. Once a donor hits the aggregate limit, though, it functions as an outright ban on further donations to candidates or parties — even though these donations aren’t corrupting. This is an impingement of his political rights without any upside of preventing graft. The critics of the decision object to it partly on egalitarian grounds: Very few

lowing facts. The lives of over 50 thousand young Americans were lost in the Vietnam War. Why? What did our country gain from those sacrifices? In my opinion, nothing! North Vietnam, the enemy then, took over the entire country. We invaded Iraq because we were told there were WMDs there, but none were found. Yet, the lives of over 4,000 of America’s young men and women were sacrificed. What did our country gain from those sacrifices? In my opinion, nothing! After we left, the internal war continued, and does through today. The Taliban is as strong as ever. We read, almost daily, about bombings in that country. Since we joined in the war in Afghanistan, over 2,000 lives have been lost. This time our government used the excuse that we were after Al Qaeda. Yet, we are pulling out and the bad guys, the Taliban and Al Qaeda, continue to operate in that country. What did we gain? In my opinion, nothing! Today, there was another mass shooting at Ft. Hood, Texas. A US soldier, who may or may not have had PTSD from serving in a war zone, killed himself after taking out his rage on fellow soldiers. Upon being told about the shooting our President’ comments were, “Many of the people there have been on multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.” We, as former and current military members were taught the following: “Ours is not to question why, ours is but to do or die”. Mr. President, I served this country, honorably for nearly 25 years. I would have given my life to protect it, as I have no doubt others who have served would have. I also would do it now if I thought my family and our way of life was threatened. But, put us in a battle we have a chance to win. In my mind, these recent wars are nothing more than an extension of political policy, with no victory in sight! Dean Hill Sterling

donors have the resources to contribute enough to bump up against the aggregate limits, so the decision gives disproportionate influence to a few people. A free political system always has such disparities. Should Thomas Paine have been silenced, since his incredible rhetorical powers made him more influential than other pamphleteers? Should The New York Times be shuttered, since it exercises more power than almost anyone else in New York? At the root of the left’s opposition to McCutcheon, and Citizens United before it, is that it reduces governmental control over the political process. That control is taken, ipso facto, to be a good thing. If the First Amendment gets in the way, so much the worse for the First Amendment. Remember: The position of the Obama administration in oral arguments over Citizens United was that the government could ban books printed by corporations. Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, has proposed amending the First Amendment to give the government more latitude to limit political expression. In his decision, Roberts writes “that the First Amendment ‘is designed and intended to remove governmental restraints from the arena of public discussion, putting the decision as to what views should be voiced largely into the hands of each of us.’” For those lamenting the decision, that is precisely the problem. Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.

Applause Homemakers feel right at home The Kenai Peninsula Homemakers FCE held their 28th annual retreat at Quality Inn, Kenai “Hearts In Bloom” March 28-30. 28 ladies attended and enjoyed it. We were well taken care of by them. The conference room was a good size for us and Jason helped us with tables and chairs. The pool was great fun and the continental breakfast was yummy! Special needs were met and handled quickly and we will be returning next year for our retreat. Special thanks to Karen Jensen, RN, who came and spoke to us regarding healthy eating and care of our hearts. We recommend Quality Inn highly! Thank You Kenai Peninsula Homemakers FCE

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Around the State Alaska gun crimes down, knife crimes up ANCHORAGE — University of Alaska Anchorage researchers say statistics show crimes committed using firearms are decreasing, while those with sharp objects like knives are rising. KTUU reports the Alaska trend matches a similar trend nationwide. Researchers from the university’s Justice Center examined crime data compiled by local law enforcement and the FBI between 1985 and 2012. The data show an overall decrease in violent crime in Alaska and nationally. Researcher Khristy Parker says the Justice Center regularly publishes fact sheets showing crime trends. She says it’s important for the public to recognize the difference between the perception of crime and the reality.

Motorcycle crash killed Wasilla man, 29 WASILLA — Alaska State Troopers say a 29-year-old Wasilla man was killed in a collision between a motorcycle and a Jeep Wrangler. The accident was reported about 10 p.m. on Saturday. Troopers say in a statement that Cameron MacDonald of Wasilla was riding a 1980 Yamaha motorcycle when it collided head-on with a 2012 Wrangler driven by a 20-year-old Wasilla man. Spokeswoman Beth Ipsen tells the Anchorage Daily News that troopers were still investigating Sunday afternoon and hadn’t determined what caused the crash.

Taylor Highway opens to Eagle FAIRBANKS — The Alaska Department of Transportation says residents of the small town of Eagle can now drive on the Taylor Highway. The 160-mile route opened for the season on Friday. Transportation workers started removing snow and ice in mid-March. Maintenance crews continue to work on it, and travelers are asked to be cautious because the road still has icy patches and drifting snow. Meanwhile, the Top of the World Highway will be closed until the U.S. and Canada Customs stations open in mid-May. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that the opening date for the road connecting the Taylor Highway with the Canadian border outside Dawson depends on when the Yukon River opens at Dawson, allowing the George Black Ferry to operate. -— The Associated Press

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nai, Juneau and Wasilla. “If we have the ability or physicians here, then the veterans will be seen here,” Hudson said. But at least three of the clinics currently have open positions, and upcoming retirements will increase that number, he said. The VA is actively recruiting doctors, Hudson said. Until more are hired, partnerships will fill the gap, he said. The VA already has contracts with Providence Alaska Medical Center and the Southcentral Foundation. About 350 veterans have been treated at Providence since last year, said Ginger Houghton, a hospital spokeswoman. Last year, the Alaska VA Healthcare System was backed up. Its electronic waiting list of veterans who wanted to enroll in VA health care neared 900, Hudson said. The offices of both of Sen. Mark Begich and Sen. Lisa Murkowski fielded complaints daily from veterans waiting to see doctors, representatives of the senators said.

Begich said in a prepared statement that he called a committee meeting in the Senate to discuss the backlog. Soon after, the state’s VA started partnering with local medical providers, paying the facilities for veterans’ care. It had already signed an agreement with tribal health programs in 2012 to provide care to veterans in rural Alaska. “I’m glad to see that the VA found a reasonable and workable solution to deal with the immediate crisis at hand until they are able to recruit more doctors to serve Alaska’s growing veteran population,” Begich said, Hudson said there is no longer a wait list for veterans seeking primary care. Once veterans enroll in VA health care, they are either assigned to a doctor at the Alaska VA Healthcare System or at one of the system’s partners, a decision based on the individual’s health needs, Hudson said. Cohen said the clinic will not treat combat veterans and will likely see “baby boomers or people in their 40s.” She also expects a group of veterans who spend summers in Alaska to be treated at the center.

n On March 26 at 7:38 p.m., Soldotna police responded to Fred Meyer for a shoplifter. Joseph M. Cooper, 47, of Soldotna, had removed $69.99 worth of merchandise from the store without payment. Because he had five previous misdemeanor theft convictions within the last five years, Cooper was charged with second-degree theft and taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail. n On March 27 at 9:36 p.m., Soldotna police contacted Jonathan Dalebout, 30, of Soldotna, and arrested him on an outstanding warrant. He was taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail. n On March 28 at 7:13 a.m., Soldotna police contacted Robin M. Porter, 31, of Anchorage, at a residence in Soldotna. Investigation revealed that Porter was not in compliance with the sex offender registry. He was arrested for failure to register as a sex offender in the second degree and taken to Wildwood Pretrial on $500 bail. n On March 29 at 9:07 a.m., Soldotna police responded to a residence on Linda Lane for an alarm. Investigation led to the arrest of John N. Olson, 48, of Soldotna, for first-degree burglary, first-degree criminal trespass and fourth-degree criminal mischief. He was taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail. n On March 29 at about 4:10 a.m., Soldotna police responded to the Caribou Family Restaurant for a disturbance. Iazell Thornton, 30, of Anchorage, was issued criminal citations for disorderly conduct and fifth-degree criminal mischief and released. n On March 29 at 6:09 a.m., Soldotna police responded to a residence on Hillcrest Avenue, after receiving a complaint from a homeowner about two males sleeping in his truck. Dylan Bergman, 26, of Soldotna, and Alexander Batson, 22, of Soldotna, were each issued criminal citations for seconddegree criminal trespass and released. n On March 29 at 7:44 a.m., Soldotna police responded to the Aspen Hotel for a disturbance. Isaac Lobendahl, 30, of Anchorage, was arrested for disorderly conduct and taken to Wildwood Pretrial on $250 bail. Iazell Thornton, 30, of Anchorage, was issued a criminal citation for disorderly conduct and released.

Police reports n On March 30 at 6:22 p.m., Alaska State Troopers contacted Tiffani Couch, 20, of Anchor Point, during a traffic stop near Mile 152 of the Sterling Highway. Investigation revealed that Couch was operating a vehicle without a valid operator’s license. She was arrested and taken to the Homer Jail. n On March 30, Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Soldotna Post, cited the following people for sport digging for clams in the area on the Ninilchik Beach when it was closed by Emergency Order 02-RCL-7-09-14: Jocelyn Huselstein, 22, of Anchorage; Leanna Price, 24, of Anchorage; Kristin Debbin, 45, of Eagle River and April Kubitz, 50, of Anchorage. Bail was set at $110 for each in Kenai District Court. n On March 31 at 6:47 p.m., Soldotna police responded to the area of McDonald’s for a trespassing complaint. Investigation resulted in Michael Parker, 23, of Soldotna, being issued a criminal citation for second-degree criminal trespass and released. n On March 31 at 9:59 p.m., Soldotna police stopped a vehicle on the Sterling Highway at Mackey Lake Road. Brooke Griffiths, 33, of Soldotna, was issued criminal citations for not having motor vehicle liability insurance and driving in violation of a license limitation and released. The vehicle was impounded. n On April 1 at 12:47 a.m., Soldotna police were conducting a security check at the Maverick Saloon and contacted Scott Grooves, 48, of Anchorage, who was smoking marijuana. Grooves was issued a criminal citation for sixth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance and released. n On April 1 at 4:38 p.m., Soldotna police responded to Safeway for the report of a shoplifter who had fled the scene. Sidney E. Morris, 49, of Kenai, was located nearby and was arrested for third-degree theft and taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility on $500 bail. n On March 28 at 5:41 p.m., troopers’ dispatch received a report of a domestic violence assault after-the-fact. Investigation revealed that a 38-year-old male, of Nikiski, had assaulted a 30-year-old adult female

earlier that day. An arrest warrant has been requested against the male, as troopers were not able to locate him. A charge of fourth-degree assault (domestic violence) has been filed with the Kenai Courthouse. n On March 30 at about 12:10 a.m., troopers responded to the Duck Inn reference a report from staff that there was an underage female at the bar using a fake identification card to purchase alcohol. Investigation revealed that Vanessa Sullens, 19, of Kenai, had entered the bar, showed false ID to a server, purchased and consumed alcohol. Sullens was arrested and taken to Wildwood Pretrial for being underage on licensed premise, using false ID to purchase alcohol, and she was issued a citation for minor consuming alcohol. n On March 31 at 3:42 a.m. troopers received the first of three 911 calls from a residence. Troopers responded to a residence on Echo Lake Road, where a 71-year-old male stated he had been placed in fear by the actions of Marshall Mills, 26, of Soldotna. Mills reportedly woke up the man and began arguing with him over various subjects and refused to leave the man’s bedroom. Mills was arrested and taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility. n On March 31 at 1:02 p.m., the Alaska State Troopers Bureau of Highway Patrol, Girdwood Team, stopped a 2001 Pontiac Sunfire near Mile 94 of the Seward Highway for a moving violation. The driver, Kenneth William Maal, 44, of Sterling, was found to be driving with a suspended license. The passenger, Christopher Todd Allen, 49 of Sterling, was found to have an outstanding $1,000 arrest warrant for failure to appear on charges of two counts of fourth-degree assault. Allen was arrested and taken to the Anchorage Jail. Maal was issued a misdemeanor citation for driving while license suspended and released on scene. n On April 1 at about 8:50 p.m. the Alaska State Troopers Bureau of Highway Patrol, Kenai Peninsula Team, stopped a Ford Expedition for speeding at Mile 68 of the Sterling Highway, near Sterling. Investigation revealed that Richard Poulin, 36, of Anchorage, was driving with a revoked license. Poulin was issued a misdemeanor citation for driving

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while license revoked and citations for speeding and no insurance. The vehicle was released to a licensed driver on scene. n On April 1, Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Soldotna Post, cited Chisato Johnson, 49, of Kasilof, for going over her daily bag limit on razor clams. Bail was set at $110 in Kenai District Court. n On April 1, Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Soldotna Post, cited Andrew Vandiver, 34, of Kenai, for making a false statement on his 2014 resident sport fishing license. Bail was set at $310 in Kenai District Court. n On April 1 at 7:01 p.m., Alaska State Troopers contacted Kristopher D. Corbin, 38, of Homer, during a traffic stop near Mile 45 of the Sterling Highway. Investigation revealed that Corbin had a revoked operator’s license. He was arrested for driving while license revoked and taken to the Seward Jail on $500 bail. n On March 29 at 12:47 a.m., Kenai police made a traffic stop on Lawton Drive and Rogers Road. Joseph S. Mesa, 22, of Kenai, was arrested for driving under the influence and driving while license revoked and was taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On March 30 at 11:03 p.m., Kenai police conducted a routine traffic stop on the Kenai Spur Highway. Therin L. Crauthers, 26, of Sterling, was arrested for driving under the influence and taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On March 31 at 12:57 p.m., Kenai police responded to a report of a student with drugs at Kenai Central High School. As a result, a 16-year-old male juvenile, of Kenai, was arrested for third-degree and fourthdegree misconduct involving controlled substances. n On April 1 at about 3:10 p.m., Kenai police arrested Kerry L. Agliettie, 43, of Homer, on a troopers warrant for failure to comply with conditions of probation on original charges of petition to revoke probation. She was taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On April 2 at 4:34 p.m., Kenai police arrested Jacob J. Garcia, 22, of Soldotna, on an Alaska State Troopers warrant for failure to appear for arraignment on original charges of theft and criminal mischief. He was taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility.

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Sick baby’s parents defend sailing trip

Around the World Lacking lawmakers’ support, Obama uses executive actions to test workforce ideas WASHINGTON — Lacking congressional support to raise wages or end gender pay disparities, President Barack Obama is again imposing his policies on federal contractors, in keeping with presidents’ tradition of exerting their powers on a fraction of the economy they directly control. Obama will sign an executive order Tuesday barring federal contractors from retaliating against employees who discuss their pay with each other. The order is similar to language in a Senate bill aimed at closing a pay gap between men and women. That measure is scheduled for a vote this week, but is unlikely to pass. The president also will direct the Labor Department to adopt rules requiring federal contractors to provide compensation data based on sex and race. He plans to sign the two executive orders during an event at the White House where he will be joined by Lilly Ledbetter, whose name appears on a pay discrimination law Obama signed in 2009. The moves showcase Obama’s efforts to seek action without congressional approval and demonstrate that even without legislation, the president can drive economic policy. At the same time, they show the limits of his ambition when he doesn’t have the support of Congress for his initiatives.

Near Texas’ Fort Hood, church service becomes tribute to victims of mass shooting KILLEEN, Texas — The church program pictured an empty road being enveloped by the dark clouds of a sweeping thunderstorm, and the service’s lesson was from Isaiah 35:4, “Be strong, fear not.” The preacher implored those gathered Sunday that they would find hope in God, but also acknowledged the question on everyone’s mind: Why Fort Hood — again? What would have been a routine Sunday service at Tabernacle Baptist Church just outside the sprawling Texas military base became a tribute to the soldiers killed four days earlier when a fellow service member opened fire. It also offered some catharsis for the community struggling to comprehend Fort Hood’s second fatal shooting rampage in less than five years. Similar somber religious gatherings were held throughout the military town of Killeen, but there were more questions than answers. “A lot of us, I think this morning, are asking the question, ‘Why? Why would this happen? Why Fort Hood again? Why are these types of things allowed to happen?’” Pastor Robert Sperbeck told dozens gathered at Tabernacle, where 90 percent of the congregation is current or retired military personnel. “The devil is the author of what happened on Wednesday, but we do know the answer, we know there is hope.” Investigators say Spc. Ivan Lopez, an Army truck driver from Puerto Rico, had argued with soldiers in his unit moments before killing three people and wounding 16 others and then fatally shooting himself. Base officials have said Lopez, who saw no combat during a deployment to Iraq, was being treated for depression and anxiety while being assessed for post-traumatic stress disorder.

2 NYC police officers critical after Brooklyn fire NEW YORK — Two New York City police officers were overcome by smoke while responding to a suspicious fire in a residential building in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn Sunday and were hospitalized in critical condition, police said. “Police officers Rosa Rodriguez and Dennis Guerra took the building’s elevator up to the 13th floor where they were overcome by smoke in the hallway as they exited,” Police Commissioner William J. Bratton said. Bratton said firefighters found both NYPD Housing Bureau officers “unconscious and unresponsive” in the hallway on the 13th floor. The firefighters pulled both officers back into the elevator and brought them downstairs where they were treated by EMS personnel, he said. Rodriguez, 36, was first stabilized at Lutheran Hospital and then transferred to Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. Guerra, 38, was taken to Coney Island Hospital and then airlifted to Jacobi Medical Center. Both officers suffered carbon monoxide poisoning and the effects of smoke inhalation and remain in critical condition, Bratton said. Guerra is married with three children and has more than seven years on the job. Rodriguez has been with the Department for more than three years. Fire officials said the blaze in the 18-story building on Surf Avenue broke out just after noon on the 13th floor and was brought under control within an hour. Fire Department spokesman Jim Long said three firefighters and two civilians were also treated for minor injuries.

Brawl erupts during charity hockey match between NYC police and firefighters

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The California parents of a 1-yearold girl who fell ill on a sailing trip around the world thanked military crews who rescued them from their stalled vessel on Sunday and defended their decision to sail with young children. Eric and Charlotte Kaufman said their daughter Lyra’s medical condition continued to improve after they boarded a San Diego-bound Navy ship hundreds of miles off the Mexican coast so the girl could get to a medical facility. “We understand there are those who question our decision to sail with our family, but please know that this is how our family has lived for seven years, and when we departed on this journey more than a year ago, we were then and remain today confident that we prepared as well as any sailing crew could,” the San Diego couple said in a statement from aboard the USS Vandegrift. “The ocean is one of the greatest forces of nature, and it always has the potential to overcome those who live on or near it. We are proud of our choices and our preparation,” the statement said. The Kaufmans, Lyra and her 3-year-old sister, Cora, had started across the Pacific in March when the baby girl developed a fever and a rash covering most of her body and wasn’t responding to medications. After their 36-foot sailboat lost steering and communication abilities about 900 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, they sent a satellite call for help to the U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday. Four California Air National

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In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, sailors from Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate USS Vandegrift (FFG 49) assist in the rescue of a family with a sick infant via the ship’s small boat as part of a joint U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and California Air National Guard rescue effort, Sunday. Eric and Charlotte Kaufman said their daughter Lyra’s medical condition continued to improve after they boarded the San Diego-bound Vandegrift hundreds of miles off the Mexican coast so the girl could get to a medical facility.

Guard members parachuted into the water and reached the boat Thursday night. The crew stabilized the girl, stayed by her side and then boarded the USS Vandegrift with the family Sunday morning. The frigate was expected to arrive in San Diego midweek, Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Barry Bena said. The ship reached the inoperable sailboat around 1 a.m. Sunday, but sailors waited until daylight to move the family from the “Rebel Heart,” which authorities

decided to sink because it was taking on water, Bena said. Charlotte Kaufman’s sister, Sariah Kay English, posted on her Facebook page that the family took only what they could carry from the broken boat. The Kaufmans said in the statement they were disappointed to lose their sailboat and their home. It was still not immediately known what illness the girl may have had. Before the family left for the trip, Lyra had salmonella poi-

soning, but doctors cleared her to travel after she was healthy again, English said. When her sister first mentioned plans to sail with two young children, English recalled, “I thought it was nuts.” But English said the couple was always careful. Eric Kaufman is a Coast Guard-licensed captain who introduced sailing to Charlotte Kaufman during one of their early dates. “They were not going into this blind. I knew they were doing this wisely,” English said.

California immigration holds drop By AMY TAXIN Associated Press

SAN DIEGO — Far fewer immigrants arrested by California law enforcement are being turned over to federal authorities for deportation since a new state law went into effect in January. The law was pushed by immigrant advocates and directs law enforcement agencies to more quickly release those without serious criminal records rather than hold them so federal officials can take them into custody for deportation proceedings. Already, according to a review by The Associated Press, the new law appears to be having a big impact in slowing deportations at a time when President Barack Obama is looking to ease immigration enforcement policies nationwide and appease immigrant advocates who say his administration has been too tough. Until now, California has accounted for a third of deportations under U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s Secure Communities program, which screens the fingerprints of arrestees for potential immigration violations. While it was expected the state law known as the Trust Act would reduce the number of people held for possible deportation,

UNIONDALE, N.Y. — A large brawl broke out during an annual charity hockey match between New York City police and firefighters on Long Island. Videos posted online show players from both teams clearing the bench and throwing punches while referees are seen trying to break up the fights. Hockey sticks and gloves are seen littered about the ice. Newsday reports the fights began during the second period of the match at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale on Sunday as both teams were tied 3-3. The NYPD eventually won 8-5. The fire and police departments both declined to comment.

Fire starts as bride and groom are pronounced wed FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Authorities say a three-alarm fire broke out at a wedding outside Boston just after the bride and groom were pronounced husband and wife. The Sun Chronicle reports that flames broke through the roof of the historic Lakeview Pavilion in Foxborough on Saturday night, destroying it. The fire was knocked down hours after it started. Justice of the Peace Jerry Cibley says the fire began at the end of the wedding just as the bride, groom and their wedding party walked down the aisle. He tells the paper he had “just pronounced them husband and wife” and that the couple were devastated about the fire. Cibley says everyone got out safely, including the 150 or so guests. The venue’s website says it opened in 1906. — The Associated Press C

it wasn’t clear how significant the drop would be. Since sheriff’s departments are responsible for most bookings, the AP surveyed those agencies in 23 counties responsible for most of California’s deportations under the program. Not all supplied data for the first two months of this year, but among the 15 that did, there was a 44 percent drop, from 2,984 people to 1,660. Those 15 counties included four of the five largest in the state — Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino. Orange County could not provide 2013 data because officials do not keep paperwork on this issue for more than a year. “It suggests that before the Trust Act went into effect, at least in California, Secure Communities was having a most significant impact on relatively minor criminal offenders, as opposed to the gang bangers the president was saying were being targeted,” said Kevin Johnson, dean of the University of California, Davis school of law and an immigration law expert. While most counties appear to be complying with the law, some sheriffs’ departments do not appear to have adopted policies to put it into action when the year began. Angela Chan, senior staff at-

torney at San Francisco-based civil rights organization Asian Americans Advancing Justice, said advocates have received reports of about a dozen instances where people should have been released under the new law but weren’t. “There is inconsistency, and that is something we’re working on,” she said. “This is a law they have to follow.” Secure Communities has led to more than 300,000 deportations since October 2008. The program has immigration agents screen the fingerprints of arrestees and ask local law enforcement to hold for 48 hours those they want to deport until they can pick them up and take them to a detention facility. Touted by supporters as a way to identify and deport those who have committed serious crimes, the program also has led to people with relatively minor infractions being sent back to their home countries. Under the Trust Act, immigrants facing trial on serious criminal charges or with serious criminal records can be held on immigration grounds, but those charged with lesser crimes are released on bail or after serving time, just like Americans. The law specifies which crimes are considered serious so that wherever someone is ar-

rested the treatment is supposed to be largely the same, though some counties may choose not to honor immigration holds, such as Santa Clara. In passing the legislation, California joined Connecticut and more than a dozen jurisdictions including Cook County, Ill., and Newark, N.J., in declining requests for immigration holds. State lawmakers in Massachusetts are considering similar legislation. ICE declined to comment. The agency is evaluating the impact of the Trust Act. Thomas Homan, ICE’s executive associate director for enforcement and removal operations, told a congressional committee in March that laws like California’s are having an effect. “It takes that leverage away from us,” Homan said, adding that he’d rather have his agents “arrest these people in a safe setting than be on the street looking for them, especially for the ones that have a significant public safety threat conviction.” ICE officials can pick up people arrested in California on minor violations, but must do so upon their release. That is much harder to coordinate and ICE agents don’t have the resources to get to every jail to pick up every arrestee.

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Rwanda genocide: Man and victim now friends By JASON STRAZIUSO Associated Press

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NYAMATA, Rwanda — She lost her baby daughter and her right hand to a manic killing spree. He wielded the machete that took both. Yet today, despite coming from opposite sides of an unspeakable shared past, Alice Mukarurinda and Emmanuel Ndayisaba are friends. She is the treasurer and he the vice president of a group that builds simple brick houses for genocide survivors. They live near each other and shop at the same market. Their story of ethnic violence, extreme guilt and, to some degree, reconciliation is the story of Rwanda today, 20 years after its Hutu majority killed more than 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus. The Rwandan government is still accused by human rights groups of holding an iron grip on power, stifling dissent and killing political opponents. But even critics give President Paul Kagame credit for leading the country toward a peace that seemed all but impossible two decades ago. “Whenever I look at my arm I remember what happened,” said Alice, a mother of five with a deep scar on her left temple where Emanuel sliced her with a machete. As she speaks, Emmanuel — the man who killed her baby — sits close enough that his left hand and her right stump sometimes touch. On Monday, Rwanda marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of 100 days of bloody mayhem. But the genocide was really in the making for decades, fueled by hate speech, discrimination, propaganda and the training of death squads. Hutus had come to resent Tutsis for their greater wealth and what they saw as oppressive rule. Rwanda is the most densely populated country in mainland Africa, slightly smaller than the

U.S. state of Maryland but with a population of more than 12 million. The countryside is lush green, filled with uncountable numbers of banana trees. The Hutu-Tutsi divide may be the country’s most notorious characteristic but also its most confounding. The two groups are so closely related that it’s nearly impossible for an outsider to tell which the average Rwandan belongs to. Even Rwandans have trouble knowing who is who, especially after two decades of a government push to create a single Rwandan identity. For Alice, a Tutsi, the genocide began in 1992, when her family took refuge in a church for a week. Hutu community leaders began importing machetes. Houses were burned, cars taken. Hutu leaders created lists of prominent or educated Tutsis targeted for killing. They also held meetings where they told those in attendance how evil the Tutsis were. Like many of his Hutu neighbors, Emmanuel soaked in the message. The situation caught fire on April 6, 1994, when the plane carrying Rwanda’s president was shot down. Hutus started killing Tutsis, who ran for their lives and flooded Alice’s village. Three days later, local Hutu leaders told Emmanuel, then 23, that they had a job for him. They took him to a Tutsi home and ordered him to use his machete. A Christian who sang in his church choir, Emmanuel had never killed before. But inside this house he murdered 14 people. The next day, April 12, Emmanuel found a Tutsi doctor in hiding and killed him, too. The day after, he killed two women and a child. “The very first family I killed, I felt bad, but then I got used to it,” he says. “Given how we were told that the Tutsis were evil, after the first family I just felt like I was killing our enemies.” In the meantime, Alice’s fam-

ily took refuge in a church, just as they had done before, crammed in with hundreds of others. But this time, Hutu attackers threw a bomb inside and set the church on fire. Those who fled the fire inside died by machetes outside. Alice lost some 26 family members, among the estimated 5,000 victims at the church. Alice, then 25, escaped with her 9-month-old daughter and a 9-year-old niece into Rwanda’s green countryside, moving, hiding, moving. She hid in a forested swamp. “There were so many bodies all over the place,” she says. “Hutus would wake up in the morning and go hunting for Tutsis to kill.” By late April rebel Tutsi fighters led by Kagame had reached the capital and chased Hutus out. Hutu troops began to flee to neighboring countries, and the violence spread, with killings carried out by both sides. On April 29, Emmanuel joined Hutu soldiers searching the countryside for Tutsis. The attackers blew a whistle whenever they found a Tutsi hiding. The murders began at 10 a.m. and lasted until 3 p.m. Alice had been hiding in a swamp for days, keeping out only the top of her face so she could breathe. That was where the Hutus found her. They surrounded the swamp. Then they attacked. First they killed the girls. When that was done, they came after Alice. She was sure she would die, but instinctively put up her arm to defend herself. Emmanuel, Alice’s school mate, recognized the woman but couldn’t recall her name. Perhaps that made it easier to rain down machete blows on Alice’s right arm, severing it just above the wrist. He sliced her face. His colleague pierced a spear through her left shoulder. They left her for dead. She was bloodied, scarred, and missing a hand, yes, but not

AP Photo/Ben Curtis

In this photo taken March 26, Emmanuel Ndayisaba, right, who during the 1994 Rwandan genocide cut off with a machete the hand of Alice Mukarurinda, left, in the swamp where she was hiding and killed her baby girl, but who are now friends, pose for a photograph outside Alice’s house in Nyamata, Rwanda.

dead. Alice fell unconscious, she says, and was found three days later by other survivors. It was only then that she realized she no longer had a right hand. In the months after the genocide, guilt gnawed away at Emmanuel. He saw his victims during nightmares. In 1996, he turned himself in and confessed. His prison term lasted from 1997 until 2003, when Kagame pardoned Hutus who admitted their guilt. After he was freed, he began asking family members of his victims for forgiveness. He joined a group of genocide killers and survivors called Ukurrkuganze, who still meet weekly. It was there that he saw Alice, the woman he thought he had killed. At first he avoided her. Eventually he kneeled before her and asked for forgiveness. After two weeks of thought and long discussions with her husband, she

said yes. “We had attended workshops and trainings and our hearts were kind of free, and I found it easy to forgive,” she says. “The Bible says you should forgive and you will also be forgiven.” Josephine Munyeli is the director of peace and reconciliation programs in Rwanda for World Vision, a U.S.-based aid group. A survivor of the genocide herself, Munyeli says more killers and victims would like to reconcile but many don’t know who they attacked or were attacked by. “Forgiveness is possible. It’s common here,” she says. “Guilt is heavy. When one realizes how heavy it is the first thing they do to recuperate themselves is apologize.” Although Rwanda has made significant progress since the genocide, ethnic tensions remain. Alice worries that some genocide planners were never caught, and

that messages denying the genocide still filter into the country from Hutus living abroad. She believes remembrance is important to ensure that another genocide never happens. For Emmanuel, the anniversary periods bring back the nightmares. He looks like a man serving penance, who does not want to talk but feels he must. “I’ve been asking myself why I acted like a fool, listening to such words, that this person is bad and that person is bad,” Emmanuel says. “The same people that encouraged the genocide are the ones saying there was no genocide.” He, too, worries that the embers of the genocide still smolder. “The problem is still there,” Emmanuel says. “There are Hutus who hate me for telling the truth. There are those up until now who participated in the genocide who deny they took part.”

Pro-Russians storm Ukraine government buildings By PETER LEONARD Associated Press

KIEV, Ukraine — Crowds of pro-Russian demonstrators stormed government buildings Sunday in several major cities in eastern Ukraine, where secessionist sentiment has sparked frequent protests since Ukraine’s Russia-friendly president was ousted in February. In Donetsk, 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of the Russian border, a large group of people, including many in masks carrying sticks and stones, surged into the provincial government building and smashed windows. A gathering of several hundred, many of them waving Russian flags, then listened to speeches delivered from a balcony emblazoned with a banner reading “Donetsk Republic.” Ac-

tivists in the building said they want to see a referendum for the Donetsk province to join Russia. An AP photographer reported seeing people bringing car tires to be used as barricades against any presumed attempt by authorities to retake the building. Eastern Ukraine was the heartland of support for Viktor Yanukovych, the president who fled to Russia in February after months of protests. About half of the region’s residents are ethnic Russians, many of whom believe Ukraine’s acting authorities are Ukrainian nationalists who will oppress Russians. Ukraine’s interim authorities deny they are infringing the rights of the ethnic Russian population and accuse Moscow of trying to sow instability. Russia has moved large contingents of troops to areas near the Ukrainian border,

and speculation is strong that unrest in eastern Ukraine could be used as a pretext for a Russian incursion. Since Crimea held a referendum to secede and then was annexed by Russia in March, calls for similar referenda in Ukraine’s east have emerged. President Oleksandr Turchinov’s office said in a statement he had canceled a planned visit to Lithuania this week to take personal charge over the situation in eastern Ukraine. In Luhansk, to the northeast from Donetsk, hundreds of people surrounded the local head-

quarters of the security service and later scaled the facade to plant a Russian flag on the roof. Ukrainian media reported that demonstrators pelted the building with eggs, and then stones, a smoke grenade and finally a firebomb. The flames were reportedly quickly extinguished. A police officer and a demonstrator were injured in the disturbances. Local media reported similar unrest in Kharkiv, less than an hour’s drive from the Russian border. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov wrote on his Facebook ac-

count that Russia was to blame for the turbulence. Russian President Vladimir “Putin and Yanukovych have ordered and financed another round of separatist unrest in the east,” he said. “Not many people have gathered, but they are behaving aggressively. In Donetsk, the crowd brought many children and women for the storming. They are provoking a spillover into blood.” Avakov said no heavy-handed measures would be adopted to deal with the unrest. “The situation will be brought back under control without

blood,” he said. “The Interior Ministry will not shoot at people, at this gang of paid-up provocateurs. Among the protesters, there are many that have been deceived, many that have been paid.” On Saturday, Ukraine’s security service said it had detained a 15-strong armed gang planning to seize power in Luhansk province. The Security Service of Ukraine said it seized 300 machine guns, an antitank grenade launcher, a large number of grenades, five handguns and firebombs.

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Sports

Blackhawks shake off injury, top Blues By The Associated Press

CHICAGO — Rookie Jeremy Morin scored and set up Patrick Sharp’s go-ahead goal in the second period, and the injury-depleted Chicago Blackhawks held on to defeat the St. Louis Blues 4-2 on Sunday for their third straight win. The Blackhawks ground out the victory despite skating without injured star forwards Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane for the third game. Forward Brandon Saad was a last-minute scratch. Marcus Kruger and Ben Smith also scored for Chicago. Jaden Schwartz and Vladimir Sobotka had goals for St. Louis, which lost its second straight and remained two points behind idle Boston for the NHL’s overall point lead. The Blues

and Bruins have four games remain- scored and Mark Streit had three assists. ing. Chicago’s Corey Crawford made BLUE JACKETS 4, ISLANDERS 0 21 saves and St. Louis’ Brian Elliott COLUMBUS, Ohio — Boone Jenner made 31.

By The Associated Press

MIAMI — LeBron James scored 38 points, Mario Chalmers added 15 and the Miami Heat survived a 3-point barrage from New York’s J.R. Smith on the way to dealing the Knicks’ playoff hopes a big blow with a 102-91 victory on Sunday. Chris Bosh added 14 points and Ray Allen had 12 for the Heat, who are a full game ahead of Indiana and two up in the loss column in the East race.

PHILADELPHIA — Brayden Schenn scored two goals, and Philadelphia broke a four-game losing streak with a win over lowly Buffalo. Philadelphia maintained third place in the Metropolitan Division, two points ahead of Columbus, and won for the second time in eight games (2-4-2). With four games remaining, the Flyers trail the second-place New York Rangers by two points, but have a game in hand. Schenn, Vincent Lecavalier and Zac Rinaldo scored second-period goals to put Philadelphia ahead 4-0. Matt Read also

TRAIL BLAZERS 100, PELICANS 94

Denver led by one in overtime when Houston made three consecutive 3-pointers to make it 130122 with less than two minutes left. Parsons made the last two and high-fived with fans on the front row as he ran down the court after sinking the second.

WARRIORS 130, JAZZ 102 OAKLAND, Calif. — Klay Thompson scored 33 points, Stephen Curry added 31 points and 16 assists, and Golden State rolled past Utah to keep pace in the Western Conference playoff race. The streaky shooting backcourt tandem helped the Warriors (4829) eclipse last season’s win total and move 19 games over .500 for the first time in 20 years. Golden State remains 1½ games behind fifth-place Portland and 1½ games ahead of seventh-place Dallas in the crammed conference standings.

PORTLAND, Ore. — LaMarcus Aldridge had 25 points and 18 rebounds and Portland clinched its first playoff appearance in three seasons with the win over New Orleans. Wesley Matthews added 21 points, Damian Lillard 20 and Nicolas Batum had 16 points and 12 rebounds for Portland (50-28). SPURS 112, GRIZZLIES 92 The Blazers are in fifth place in SAN ANTONIO — Kawhi the Western Conference with four Leonard matched his career high games remaining. with 26 points, Manu Ginobili had a season-high 26 and San Antonio SUNS 122, THUNDER 115 eased past Memphis after losing PHOENIX — Kevin Durant Tony Parker to injury. Parker’s status is unknown after scored 38 points, his 41st consecutive game of 25 or more, but he was forced to leave with back Phoenix got 26 points from Goran spasms early in the first quarter. Dragic and 24 from Gerald Green to beat Oklahoma City. CLIPPERS 120, LAKERS 97 Durant moved ahead of Michael LOS ANGELES — Blake Jordan with the third-longest such streak in NBA history and longest Griffin and Chris Paul scored 23 since Oscar Robertson did it for 46 points apiece, and the Los Angeles Clippers hung another rout on the in a row in the 1963-64 season. Lakers to take three of four games this season from their beleaguered HAWKS 107, PACERS 88 Staples Center co-tenants. It wasn’t quite the blowout of INDIANAPOLIS — Jeff Teague the Clippers’ previous two wins — scored 25 points in Atlanta’s rout of reeling Indiana, which was held 48 points on March 6 and 36 points to a franchise-low 23 points in the on Jan. 10 — but they were easfirst half of an embarrassing per- ily in command as the designated home team. formance on its home floor. The Hawks (34-42) have won three of four and extended their MAVERICKS 93, KINGS 91 lead over the Knicks for the final SACRAMENTO, Calif. — playoff spot in the Eastern Confer- Monta Ellis scored eight of his 23 ence to two full games. points in the fourth quarter and Dallas kept its playoff position by beating Sacramento for its third ROCKETS 130, straight win. NUGGETS 125, OT The Mavericks won for the HOUSTON — James Harden fourth time in five games to mainhad 32 points and Chandler Par- tain seventh place in the Western sons scored eight points in over- Conference. It was Dallas’ fifth time to lift Houston over Denver. straight road win.

Jones makes Masters played collegiately at Arizona HUMBLE, Texas — Matt State. Jones told his caddy he was about to make a 42-yard chipin on the first playoff hole at the Kraft Nabisco Championship Houston Open. RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. The Australian did just that — Lexi Thompson went after on Sunday, earning his first it at the Kraft Nabisco ChamPGA Tour win in spectacular pionship, smashing driver on fashion — and changing his every hole she could. Michelle immediate travel plans in the Wie reined in her power, hitprocess. ting conservative fairwayJones, who began the day six metal stingers and only occashots off the lead, shot a final- sionally letting loose with the round 66 and ended the tourna- driver. ment 15 under to earn his first Thompson ended up cantrip to the Masters with the dra- nonballing into Poppie’s Pond matic win over Matt Kuchar. late Sunday afternoon in the He earned nearly $1.2 mil- traditional victory leap, while lion for the win, also making Wie was left to wonder about amends for a disastrous missed her strategy. putt last September that apThompson closed with a peared destined to keep him bogey-free, 4-under 68 for a from playing at Augusta Na- three-stroke victory over Wie, tional. birdieing four of the first nine Destiny, however, had other holes to open a five-stroke lead plans for the 33-year-old who and parring the final nine. By The Associated Press

in the past two weeks. The Oilers beat the Ducks 4-3 in overtime on March 28, and Anaheim edged Edmonton 3-2 on Wednesday. Jakob Silfverberg and Corey Perry scored for the Ducks (50-20-8), who have lost two straight and remained just one point ahead of the idle San Jose Sharks in the Pacific.

and Mark Letestu each had a goal and an assist, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 31 shots for his second shutout of the week to lead Columbus past the New York Islanders. The Blue Jackets, desperate to hang on to a playoff spot in the East, matched a season high with three power-play goals. Jack Johnson and Ryan Murray ended OILERS 4, DUCKS 2 long droughts with goals, and Brandon Dubinsky had two assists. Bobrovsky, EDMONTON, Alberta — Taylor Hall who won at Philadelphia 2-0 on Thursday, had a goal and two assists, and Edmonton earned his fifth shutout of the season. beat Pacific Division-leading Anaheim. David Perron, Jordan Eberle and Justin PENGUINS 3, AVALANCHE 2, SO Schultz also scored for the Oilers (28-42DENVER — Jussi Jokinen skated 9), who have won two in a row. across the front of the crease and roofed a It is the third time the teams have met

FLYERS 5, SABRES 2

Heat, James topple Knicks

shot over sprawling goalie Semyon Varlamov to give Pittsburgh a shootout win over Colorado. After Jokinen’s goal, Marc-Andre Fleury made a pad save on Gabriel Landeskog’s shot, snapping Colorado’s six-game winning streak and denying Varlamov franchise records for most home and overall wins in a season. After falling behind 2-0 on Brandon Sutter’s first multiple-goal game this season, Colorado scored twice in the third period to tie it.

PANTHERS 3, STARS 2 SUNRISE, Fla. — Sean Bergenheim scored with 4:31 left to break a third-period tie, and Florida snapped a five-game losing streak in a win over Dallas. Bergenheim put the Panthers ahead for good when he redirected Colby Robak’s drive from the left circle into the net. Scottie Upshall and Brandon Pirri also scored for Florida, and Roberto Luongo made 35 saves and beat Dallas for the first time in five starts.

Scoreboard Golf Shell Houston Open

Sunday At The Golf Club of Houston Humble, Texas Purse: $6.4 million Yardage: 7,441; Par: 72 Final (x-won on first playoff hole) x-Matt Jones (500), $1,152,000 68-68-71-66—273 Matt Kuchar (300), $691,200 66-67-68-72—273 Sergio Garcia (190), $435,200 67-65-73-70—275 Cameron Tringale (135), $307,200 68-68-69-71—276 Shawn Stefani (110), $256,000 67-69-73-69—278 Rickie Fowler (100), $230,400 70-70-68-71—279 Brice Garnett (80), $186,240 68-71-72-69—280 Retief Goosen (80), $186,240 68-71-71-70—280 Russell Henley (80), $186,240 73-69-72-66—280 Rory McIlroy (80), $186,240 70-71-74-65—280 Ryan Palmer (80), $186,240 70-68-73-69—280 Erik Compton (59), $125,440 66-73-73-69—281 Ben Curtis (59), $125,440 67-70-71-73—281 J.B. Holmes (59), $125,440 66-73-71-71—281 Phil Mickelson (59), $125,440 68-70-72-71—281 Chris Stroud (59), $125,440 68-72-71-70—281 Martin Flores (54), $99,200 68-72-72-70—282 Lee Westwood (54), $99,200 70-72-71-69—282

Baseball AL Standings

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Sunday’s Games Minnesota 10, Cleveland 7 N.Y. Yankees 6, Toronto 4 Baltimore 3, Detroit 1 Milwaukee 4, Boston 0 Texas 3, Tampa Bay 0 Chicago White Sox 5, Kansas City 1 Houston 7, L.A. Angels 4 Oakland 6, Seattle 3 Monday’s Games Baltimore (Jimenez 0-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 0-1), 9:05 a.m. L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 0-1) at Houston (Cosart 1-0), 10:10 a.m. Oakland (Kazmir 1-0) at Minnesota (Correia 0-0), 12:10 p.m. San Diego (Erlin 0-0) at Cleveland (Kluber 0-1), 3:05 p.m. Texas (Scheppers 0-0) at Boston (Lackey 1-0), 3:10 p.m. Tampa Bay (Moore 0-1) at Kansas City (Vargas 0-0), 4:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Paulino 0-0) at Colorado (Lyles 1-0), 4:40 p.m. All Times ADT

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8 7

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Weaver, Shoemaker (6) and Conger; Feldman, Bass (8), Qualls (9) and J.Castro. W_Feldman 2-0. L_Weaver 0-2. Sv_Qualls (1). HRs_Houston, J.Castro (1), M.Dominguez (2), Guzman (2), Presley (1), Villar (1).

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8 7

2 1

Sale, Lindstrom (9) and Flowers; Shields, K.Herrera (8), Ti.Collins (9), Bueno (9) and S.Perez. W_ Sale 2-0. L_Shields 0-1.

Athletics 6, Mariners 3 Se. 021 000 000—3 Oak. 003 020 01x—6

8 9

0 1

E.Ramirez, C.Young (5), Leone (7), Medina (8) and Zunino; Gray, Gregerson (7), Doolittle (8), Ji.Johnson (9) and Jaso, D.Norris. W_Gray 1-0. L_E.Ramirez 1-1. Sv_Ji.Johnson (1). HRs_Oakland, Moss (1), Cespedes (1).

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9 9

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Gallardo, Duke (7), Thornburg (8) and Lucroy; Lester, Mujica (8), A.Miller (9) and D.Ross. W_Gallardo 2-0. L_Lester 0-2.

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7 5

0 2

Kennedy, A.Torres (7), Thayer (7), Benoit (8), Street (9) and Grandal; Eovaldi, Da.Jennings (8), Marmol (9) and Saltalamacchia. W_Kennedy 1-1. L_Eovaldi 1-1. Sv_Street (2). HRs_San Diego, Amarista (1).

Reds 2, Mets 1 Cin. 000 002 000—2 NY 010 000 000—1

8 4

0 0

Simon, M.Parra (8) and B.Pena; Niese, Germen (6), Farnsworth (8), Valverde (9) and d’Arnaud. W_Simon 1-0. L_Niese 0-1. Sv_M. Parra (1).

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3 6

0 0

Wainwright, Neshek (8) and Y.Molina; Volquez, Watson (6), Melancon (8), Grilli (9) and T.Sanchez. W_Watson 1-0. L_ Wainwright 1-1. Sv_Grilli (1).

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8 4

2 1

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A.Wood, Schlosser (8), Avilan (8) and Laird; Jordan, Blevins (7), Clippard (8), R.Soriano (9) and Leon. W_Blevins 1-0. L_A.Wood 1-1. Sv_R.Soriano (1). HRs_ Washington, Desmond (2).

Cubs 8, Phillies 3 Phi. 000 010 002—3 Chi. 400 004 00x—8

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1 1

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Miley, A.Reed (9) and Montero; Anderson, W.Lopez (7), Belisle (9) and Rosario. W_Miley 2-1. L_Anderson 0-2. Sv_A.Reed (2). HRs_Arizona, Trumbo (5).

Dodgers 6, Giants 2 SF 000 002 000—2 LA 010 301 01x—6

8 7

0 0

M.Cain, J.Gutierrez (7), Huff (8) and Posey; Greinke, Withrow (7), Howell (8), C.Perez (8), Jansen (9) and Butera. W_Greinke 2-0. L_M.Cain 0-1. HRs_San Francisco, Belt (4), Pence (1). Los Angeles, Kemp 2 (2), H.Ramirez 2 (2).

Basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L x-Toronto 45 32 x-Brooklyn 42 34 New York 33 45 Boston 23 54 Philadelphia 17 60 Southeast Division y-Miami 53 23 x-Washington 40 37 x-Charlotte 39 38 Atlanta 34 42 Orlando 22 55 Central Division y-Indiana 53 25 x-Chicago 45 32 Cleveland 31 47 Detroit 28 49 Milwaukee 14 63

Pct GB .584 — .553 2½ .423 12½ .299 22 .221 28 .697 — .519 13½ .506 14½ .447 19 .286 31½ .679 — .584 7½ .397 22 .364 24½ .182 38½

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division y-San Antonio 60 17 .779 x-Houston 51 25 .671 Dallas 47 31 .603 Memphis 45 32 .584 New Orleans 32 45 .416 Northwest Division y-Oklahoma City 55 2 1 .724 — Portland 50 28 .641 Minnesota 38 38 .500 Denver 33 44 .429 Utah 24 53 .312 Pacific Division y-L.A. Clippers 55 23 .705 Golden State 48 29 .623 Phoenix 46 31 .597 Sacramento 27 50 .351 L.A. Lakers 25 52 .325 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

— 8½ 13½ 15 28

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Sunday’s Games Miami 102, New York 91 L.A. Clippers 120, L.A. Lakers 97 Dallas 93, Sacramento 91 Atlanta 107, Indiana 88 Houston 130, Denver 125, OT San Antonio 112, Memphis 92 Phoenix 122, Oklahoma City 115 Golden State 130, Utah 102 Portland 100, New Orleans 94 Monday’s Games No games scheduled

NCAA Women FINAL FOUR At Nashville, Tenn. National Semifinals Sunday, April 6 Notre Dame 87, Maryland 61

UConn 75, Stanford 56 National Championship Tuesday, April 8 Notre Dame (37-0) vs. UConn (390), 4:30 p.m. ADT

NCAA Men FINAL FOUR

A.Burnett, Lincoln (6), Manship (7) and Ruiz; Villanueva, Schlitter (6), H.Rondon (7), Veras (9), Strop (9) and Jo.Baker. W_Villanueva 1-2. L_A.Burnett 0-1.

Ari. 002 120 000—5 Col. 000 010 101—3

Justin Hicks (23), $18,374 Jeff Maggert (23), $18,374 Brendon Todd (23), $18,374 Camilo Villegas (23), $18,374 Ernie Els (23), $18,374 Hudson Swafford (23), $18,374 John Mallinger (16), $14,656 John Merrick (16), $14,656 Kyle Stanley (16), $14,656 Henrik Stenson (16), $14,656 Stewart Cink (12), $14,208 Harrison Frazar (12), $14,208 Brian Harman (12), $14,208 Robert Garrigus (9), $13,760 Davis Love III (9), $13,760 Webb Simpson (9), $13,760 Michael Thompson (9), $13,760 Chris Kirk (5), $13,312 Justin Leonard (5), $13,312 John Rollins (5), $13,312 Kevin Kisner (3), $13,056 Greg Chalmers (2), $12,864 Tommy Gainey (2), $12,864 Tyrone Van Aswegen (1), $12,672 J.J. Henry (1), $12,480 Jhonnattan Vegas (1), $12,480 Stephen Ames (1), $12,224 Bubba Dickerson, $12,224 Roberto Castro (1), $12,032

At AT&T Stadium Arlington, Texas National Semifinals Saturday, April 5 UConn 63, Florida 53 Kentucky 74, Wisconsin 73 National Championship Monday, April 7 UConn (31-8) vs. Kentucky (2910), 5:10 p.m. ADT

Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L z-Boston 78 53 18 x-Montreal 79 45 27 x-Tampa Bay 78 42 27 Detroit 78 37 27 Toronto 79 38 33 Ottawa 78 33 31 Florida 79 28 43 Buffalo 78 21 48 Metropolitan Division y-Pittsburgh 79 50 24 N.Y. Rangers 79 43 31 Philadelphia 78 40 29 Columbus 78 40 31 New Jersey 78 34 28 Washington 78 35 30 Carolina 78 34 33 N.Y. Islanders 78 31 36

OT Pts GF GA 7 113 251 167 7 97 212 199 9 93 229 211 14 88 211 222 8 84 229 248 14 80 226 261 8 64 188 258 9 51 150 234 5 105 240 197 5 91 212 190 9 89 220 220 7 87 219 207 16 84 191 200 13 83 222 236 11 79 196 215 11 73 215 258

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division x-St. Louis 78 52 19 7 111 245 177 x-Colorado 78 50 21 7 107 239 209 x-Chicago 79 45 19 15 105 259 207 Minnesota 78 40 26 12 92 195 194 Dallas 78 38 29 11 87 227 221 Nashville 78 35 32 11 81 198 231 Winnipeg 79 35 34 10 80 220 232 Pacific Division x-Anaheim 78 50 20 8 108 251 202 x-San Jose 79 49 21 9 107 239 192 x-Los Angeles 79 45 28 6 96 197 166 Phoenix 78 36 28 14 86 209 221 Vancouver 78 35 32 11 81 187 210 Calgary 78 33 38 7 73 200 228 Edmonton 79 28 42 9 65 197 261 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference Sunday’s Games Pittsburgh 3, Colorado 2, SO Chicago 4, St. Louis 2 Florida 3, Dallas 2 Columbus 4, N.Y. Islanders 0 Philadelphia 5, Buffalo 2 Edmonton 4, Anaheim 2 Monday’s Games Calgary at New Jersey, 3 p.m. Minnesota at Winnipeg, 4 p.m. Anaheim at Vancouver, 6 p.m. All Times ADT

Soccer MLS Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE W Columbus 3 Toronto FC 3 S. Kansas City 2 Houston 2 Philadelphia 1 D.C. 1 New England 1 Chicago 0 New York 0 Montreal 0

L 1 1 1 2 1 2 3 1 1 3

T Pts GF GA 0 9 7 4 0 9 5 4 2 8 5 4 0 6 7 6 3 6 6 6 1 4 4 6 1 4 2 8 4 4 8 9 4 4 6 9 2 2 5 9

WESTERN CONFERENCE FC Dallas Real Salt Lake Vancouver Colorado Seattle Chivas USA Los Angeles Portland San Jose

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NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. Saturday’s Games Portland 4, Seattle FC 4, tie Montreal 2, New York 2, tie Chicago 2, Philadelphia 2, tie Toronto FC 2, Columbus 0 Colorado 2, Vancouver 1 D.C. United 2, New England 0 FC Dallas 4, Houston 1 Sporting Kansas City 0, Real Salt Lake 0, tie Sunday’s Games Los Angeles 3, Chivas USA 0

Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Placed 3B Will Middlebrooks on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Saturday. Recalled INF Brock Holt from Pawtucket (IL). HOUSTON ASTROS — Assigned RHP Chia-Jen Lo outright to Oklahoma City (PCL). LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Sent RHP Dane De La Rosa to Arkansas (TL) for a rehab assignment. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Sent OF Craig Gentry to Stockton (Cal) for a rehab assignment. TEXAS RANGERS — Announced C Chris Gimenez refused outright assignment and elected free agency. Optioned RHP Nick Martinez to Frisco (TL). Reinstated RHP Yu Darvish from the 15-day DL. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Sent LHP J.A. Happ to Dunedin (FSL) for a rehab assignment. National League CHICAGO CUBS — Sent RHP Jake Arrieta to Tennessee (SL) for a rehab assignment. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Sent RHP Brian Wilson to Rancho Cucamonga (Cal) for a rehab assignment. NEW YORK METS — Optioned INF Wilmer Flores to Las Vegas (PCL). Reinstated LHP Jon Niese from the 15-day DL. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Sent LHP Cole Hamels to Clearwater (FSL) for a rehab assignment. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Sent C Chris Stewart to Bradenton (FSL) for a rehab assignment. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Assigned OF Javier Herrera to Fresno (PCL). WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Placed OF Scott Hairston on the 15-day DL. Recalled 1B/OF Tyler Moore from Syracuse (IL). FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Agreed to terms with C Brian de la Puente on a one-year contract. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Agreed to terms with WR Nate Burleson. HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS — Reassigned F Chris Mueller to Texas (AHL). MONTREAL CANADIENS — Reassigned F Stefan Fournier from Hamilton (AHL) to Wheeling (ECHL). TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Signed F Henri Ikonen to an amateur tryout contract and assigned him to Syracuse (AHL). SOCCER US SOCCER — Fired U.S. women’s national team coach Tom Sermanni. COLLEGE OHIO UNIVERSITY — Named Saul Phillips men’s basketball coach. SANTA CLARA — Named JR Payne women’s basketball coach.

Peninsula Clarion, Monday, April 7, 2014

Orioles hand Tigers their 1st loss

Sports Briefs Rain forces NASCAR race to today FORT WORTH, Texas — On a day when the weather was more suitable for ducks than racing, the Sprint Cup Series at Texas Motor Speedway became NASCAR’s first rainout of the season. The Robertson family from “Duck Dynasty” had prominent roles at Sunday’s race, called the Duck Commander 500, but Uncle Si never got to give the command to start engines. NASCAR pulled the plug after a delay of about four hours. The race will be run Monday at 8 a.m. ADT, nine hours before the start of the NCAA national championship game in nearby Arlington. Tony Stewart, making a comeback this season after missing the final four months of last year with a broken leg, will start on the pole. It’s the third time in seven Sprint Cup Series races this season that rain has hampered the event. The season-opening Daytona 500 was stopped for more than six hours, and the race at Bristol Motor Speedway had two delays totaling more than five hours.

Emmert against unionization ARLINGTON, Texas — The NCAA president called an effort to unionize players a “grossly inappropriate” way to solve problems in college sports while insisting the association has plans to change the school-athlete relationship. Mark Emmert said Sunday that the NCAA wants to allow the big conferences with moneymaking teams to write their own rules, and those changes could solve many athletes’ complaints more effectively than unionization. “To be perfectly frank, the notion of using a union-employee model to address the challenges that exist in intercollegiate athletics is something that strikes most people as a grossly inappropriate solution to the problems,” Emmert said at his annual news conference, held the day before college basketball’s national championship.

UConn, Notre Dame reach final NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Connecticut Huskies are back in a very familiar position, undefeated and playing for a national championship. They’ll be going for an unprecedented ninth national championship after Breanna Stewart scored 18 points and the Huskies advanced to another title game with a 75-56 win against Stanford on Sunday night. It wasn’t easy early, though the Huskies (39-0) did part and set up the highly anticipated championship showdown of undefeated teams. They will square off against Notre Dame, an 87-61 winner over Maryland, on Tuesday night in the title game. It will be the first women’s national title game between unbeaten teams. “It wouldn’t be any fun if you didn’t beat teams that were any good,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma said of the matchup with Notre Dame. “I think women’s basketball needs rivalries like this, teams that aspire to be great and want to win championships.” The Huskies also won their 45th straight game after overcoming another sluggish start. Stewart, the Associated Press player of the year, missed her first four shots and UConn was up just 28-24 at halftime. In the Notre Dame game, Kayla McBride seemingly did whatever she wanted, and enjoyed herself while she did it. The All-American senior guard shed defenders with behindthe-back dribbles and quick cross-overs before scoring. She set the tone, refusing to let for Notre Dame’s pursuit of a perfect season end and her Irish teammates followed her lead into Tuesday night’s championship game. In one of the most impressive games of her career, McBride scored 28 points to lead Notre Dame to an 87-61 win over Maryland Sunday night. — The Associated Press C

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DETROIT — Chris Tillman outpitched Justin Verlander, allowing one run while working into the ninth and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Detroit Tigers 3-1 Sunday to avoid getting swept. Tillman (1-0) gave up five hits, including Torii Hunter’s solo homer in the fourth, in 8 1-3 innings. Tommy Hunter entered with one out in the ninth and Victor Martinez on second base and retired the last two batters for his second save. Baltimore won for the first time since its opener against baseball’s last undefeated team. RANGERS 3, RAYS 0 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Yu Darvish allowed seven hits over seven innings in his season debut, Elvis Andrus hit a two-run homer, and Texas avoided a three-game sweep. Darvish (1-0) struck out six and walked one. Sidelined by neck stiffness, it was his first outing since a spring training game on March 16. Darvish got his 500th career strikeout, coming in 401 2-3 innings, by fanning David DeJesus and Wil Myers in the first. According to the Rangers, it is the fewest innings for a starter to reach 500 strikeouts in major league history.

YANKEES 6, BLUE JAYS 4 TORONTO — CC Sabathia pitched six innings for his first victory of the season and Brett Gardner hit a two-run home run for the New York. Sabathia (1-1) allowed four runs and seven hits, walked none and struck out six. He was hit hard in Tuesday’s opening day loss at Houston, allowing six runs and eight hits, including two home runs, in six innings.

TWINS 10, INDIANS 7 CLEVELAND — Chris Colabello drove in four runs, Brian Dozier scored three times and Minnesota outslugged Cleveland. Colabello, who played seven seasons of independent ball in Canada before signing with the Twins in 2012, broke a 6-6 tie with a three-run double in the sixth inning off Blake Wood (0-1). The 30-year-old Colabello leads the

AL with 11 RBIs after six games. Joe Mauer had three hits and scored twice for the Twins, who took two of three in the series and will play their home opener Monday against Oakland.

ASTROS 7, ANGELS 4 HOUSTON — Scott Feldman threw seven strong innings, five Astros homered, and Houston snapped a three-game losing streak. Feldman (2-0) did not allow a hit until two outs in the fourth, when Josh Hamilton dribbled one toward first base that went under the glove of Feldman, who charged at it off the mound. The right-hander allowed his first run in 11 1-3 innings this season in the fifth on a groundout to second by Erick Aybar that cut the lead to 4-1.

WHITE SOX 5, ROYALS 1 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chris Sale gave up four singles in eight scoreless innings for Chicago. Alexei Ramirez and Tyler Flowers each drove in a pair of runs as the White Sox won the series finale after dropping the first two games.

ATHLETICS 6, MARINERS 3 OAKLAND, Calif. — Jim Johnson struck out two and closed it out after losing back-to-back outings to begin with his new team, saving Oakland’s victory. Brandon Moss hit a three-run homer, Yoenis Cespedes connected in the eighth and Josh Donaldson beat out an infield single in the fifth to drive in the go-ahead run. Sonny Gray (1-0) allowed one earned run and six hits, struck out three and walked two in six innings. In the ninth, manager Bob Melvin went back to Johnson, who delivered his first save despite allowing two baserunners.

BREWERS 4, RED SOX 0 BOSTON — Yovani Gallardo made his second straight scoreless start and Milwaukee completed a three-game sweep. The World Series champion Red Sox, who never had a losing record last year, fell to 2-4 and matched their longest skid of 2013. They were swept just once last season, in a three-game series against the Texas Rangers from May 3-5. But the Red Sox couldn’t score

against Gallardo (2-0), who pitched six innings in Milwaukee’s 2-0 win over the Atlanta Braves in the season opener, and have lost their first three home games for the first time since 1984. Jon Lester (0-2) pitched well for his second straight start but received little support again.

pearances for the Reds since his previous start, on Sept. 28, 2011, for Baltimore, but manager Bryan Price tapped the right-hander because Mat Latos is rehabbing from knee and elbow operations. Manny Parra retired all six batters he faced for his first career save.

NATIONALS 2, BRAVES 1

DIAMONDBACKS 5, ROCKIES 3

WASHINGTON — Ian Desmond led off the seventh inning with a home run — the only run of the game scored on a hit — and Washington Nationals and its makeshift lineup avoided a sweep. Desmond ripped a down-themiddle fastball from Alex Wood (1-1) well into the left field bleachers, the Nationals’ first hit since the first inning. But it was enough to win on a day when four Washington pitchers combined to allow eight hits.

PIRATES 2, CARDINALS 1 PITTSBURGH — Tony Sanchez hit a tiebreaking RBI double in the seventh inning and Pittsburgh edged St. Louis. Sanchez’s double to deep center field with two outs came off Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright (1-1) and snapped a 1-1 tie.

PADRES 4, MARLINS 2 MIAMI — Pinch-hitter Alexi Amarista celebrated his 25th birthday by delivering a go-ahead, three-run homer in the seventh inning to lift San Diego. Ian Kennedy (1-1) allowed one run and three hits in six innings for the Padres. He struck out five. Four relievers then helped the Padres end a four-game losing streak, including two against the Marlins to begin the series. Huston Street pitched the ninth for his second save.

DENVER — Mark Trumbo homered for the fourth straight game as Arizona averted a sweep. Wade Miley pitched eight strong innings to extend his mastery over the Rockies. He also had a career-best three hits, including an RBI single and benefited from a defense that turned five double plays as the Diamondbacks won for just the second time in nine games this season. Miley improved to 7-0 with a 2.52 ERA in 10 career games (nine starts) against the Rockies, matching the longest winning streak against Colorado to start a career. The winning pitcher in Arizona’s only other victory this season, Miley (2-1) allowed two runs and seven hits.

CUBS 8, PHILLIES 3 CHICAGO — Ryan Kalish hit a two-run double and an RBI triple and Chicago avoided a sweep. Cubs starter Carlos Villanueva (1-2) allowed a run in five innings in his first start and third outing of the season. A.J. Burnett (0-1), who signed a one-year, $16 million contract with the Phillies after he spent the last two seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates, allowed eight runs, four earned, in 5 2-3 innings. He struck out three but walked six. The Cubs scored four runs in the first and sixth innings.

REDS 2, METS 1

DODGERS 6, GIANTS 2

NEW YORK — Alfredo Simon pitched seven impressive innings in his first start in more than two years and began the go-ahead rally with his second career hit, helping Cincinnati salvage a win in the three-game series. Joey Votto had a sacrifice fly and Ryan Ludwick a tiebreaking single off Jonathon Niese (0-1), who was making his first start of the season after a being slowed by shoulder and elbow injuries this spring. Simon (1-0) made 99 relief ap-

LOS ANGELES — Matt Kemp hit his first two home runs at Dodger Stadium since late in 2012 and Hanley Ramirez slugged his first two homers this season, helping Los Angeles avoid a three-game sweep. Zack Greinke (2-0) pitched six innings, allowing two runs and six hits — including Brandon Belt’s fourth homer leading off the sixth, and the first of the season by Hunter Pence three batters later. The right-hander struck out eight and walked none.

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Individual Assistance Branch Chief with the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Rebecca Lopez said common questions directed to her department from affected homeowners have centered around how funds through the program can be used. She said the money can only be used to repair or replace items that were damaged during the declared disaster for the Ka-

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made within the building’s halls and Alaskans on the street. “It’s really important to show the faces of people who really care,” she said. “It’s not just in Anchorage, and it’s not just in Juneau. It’s statewide.” The current proposal contained within the governor’s bill, HB278, is for $185 this

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or all-terrain vehicle drop-off or pick-up fee. City Manager Rick Koch said over the last few years the city has became aware of users being dropped off and avoiding paying fees for use of city services. The intention of having a drop-off fee is to make sure everybody who uses the dipnet services are charged accordingly, he said. With more users being dropped off, another benefit would be a reduction of congestion on city streets caused by vehicles parking, he said. Council member Ryan Marquis said he would have a hard time supporting a drop-off fee because it could be charging the wrong people. He asked why charge drivers dropping off dipnet users for using city services, if the drivers may not be using the services themselves. He said it is easy to lose

lifornsky Beach flood on Oct. 27-28, 2013. The funds cannot be used to improve items or infrastructure. Ahlberg said because of the widespread issue, the borough determined the fair would be beneficial. “Obviously the K-Beach area was largely affected, but we also had areas in Anchor Point, out in Nikiski, areas past Homer that were also affected,” she said. “They didn’t have significant damages, but they certainly had damages of their own. In the Kenai area there was reports made also.”

The borough puts on a similar event annually in Seward due to the area’s regular flood problems. Ahlberg said how well the Seward event is attended depends on the severity of year’s flood event. “I know they greatly appreciate it because it’s kind of a one-stop shop for folks that are also looking for permits,” she said. Ahlberg said the borough wanted to keep the fair casual and non-threatening and allow the public plenty of time to meet with officials set up at tables opposed to town hall meetings

where members of the public are only allowed three minutes to speak. Attending agencies included: KPB Home builders Association, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, the Division of Mining Land and Water, the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration River Watch and borough departments.

year and $58 for each of the next two years. Members of the powerful House Finance Committee rejected an amendment last week that would have bumped that increase to $404 this year. Students and others distributed pieces of pie to legislators after the rally as part of the message of wanting a bigger slice of the funding pie devoted for education. “It’s just one crumb of the fiscal reserve pie of Alaska,”

said Callie Conerton, an event volunteer and student senator at University of Alaska Southeast. Juneau Republican Rep. Cathy Muñoz told the Empire previously that she expects this year’s BSA increase to end up around $250. If passed as-is, the current funding increase proposed would net the Juneau School District an increase of $2.1 million from the state. Even without further fund-

ing, that’s enough to stave off any teacher layoffs this year, school board member Lisa Worl said. “Anything we get is encouraging because we hadn’t had that last year, and anything we don’t have to cut we’re grateful for,” Worl said. “We need the funding,” she added. “I know it’s not all about the money, but, really, when you’re making big, deep cuts, it’s hard to make progress and go forward and gain traction.”

sight of all the benefits in sales tax the city receives from the influx of fishery users. “We need to try to figure out ways to take advantage, not take it for granted,” he said. “We want people to spend money while they’re here and share with the private sector, not all with the government.” The council amended and approved fees, rates and charges for the 2014 personal use fishery by a 7-1 vote. Marquis cast the lone no vote. Boyle motioned to delete the $10 drop-off fee. The council voted 6-2 to remove the $10 fee. Mayor Pat Porter and council member Brian Gabriel voted against the amendment to remove the drop-off fee. Gabriel said the city is close to a break-even point in running the fishery. The city expends money before the fishery even starts without knowing how the season will pan out, he said. If the city doesn’t cover the expenses, the residents could be stuck to cover the costs. Gabriel said over the years

dipnet users have found creative ways to avoid fee stations. With Kenai residents making up only 5 percent of all dipnet users, he said he didn’t think it is fair for them to subsidize the cost. “We have higher participation rates but are generating less revenue,” he said. “If we don’t cover our expenses, City of Kenai residents foot the bill and I don’t think they should have to do that.” Koch said it is the city’s intention to collect more fees from all participants, not to increase the price of fees. Council member Terry Bookey said more fees could cause other problems with people finding other ways to get to the beach as cheaply as possible. Porter said it is important to her that Kenai residents not have to pay for the fishery while the people who try to avoid fees get charged for the services they use. “Its like getting into the movie theater and not paying for it,” she said. “We don’t ask for the fee because we want to.

If we didn’t charge, our beaches would be a mess.” Porter recommended city attorney Scott Bloom look at what the city can offer residents to access the fishery for free. The council also unanimously passed an ordinance that prohibited camping, fires and parking on a section of south beach during dipnet season, in response to the complaints of private property owners. The prohibited area goes from the city boundary line at Old Cannery Road and extends north to the most northerly residence, an area of 2,200 lineal feet. The ordinance suggested by Porter and Navarre is intended to decrease conflicts between private property owners and the public, decrease risks to environmentally sensitive areas and increase the city’s efficiency in cleanup. The next council meeting is at 7 p.m. April 16 at Kenai City Hall.

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

Reach Dan Balmer at daniel. balmer@peninsulaclarion.com

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lawmakers. Another amendment required legislative briefings on project progress every four months, accompanied by a written report by the Department of Natural Resources on the amount of money the state may be obligated to pay TransCanada Corp. if a project were terminated before gas starts flowing. The bill under consideration by House Resources, SB138, from Gov. Sean Parnell, would set state participation in the project, also being pursued by the North Slope’s major players, TransCanada and the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., or AGDC, at about 25 percent. It also is aimed at moving the project — currently estimated to cost between $45 billion and more than $65 billion — into a phase of preliminary engineering and design and cost refinement. It is one of the biggest issues of the legislative session, scheduled to end April 20. House Resources is one of three House committees to which the measure has been referred, though House Speaker Mike Chenault has said the referral to Labor and Commerce could be waived, allowing for the measure to go next to House Finance. As proposed, TransCanada would hold the state’s interest in the gas treatment plant and pipeline, with the state having an equity buy-back option. The arrangement has been cast by Parnell administration officials as a way for the state to not have to bear as much in upfront costs as it would on its own and as an amicable transition from terms under the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, under which TransCanada had been pursuing a project for years. Parnell has said terms of the act do not apply to the project currently being pursued. Questions have been raised over at what point the license with TransCanada under the inducement act expires. Natural Resources Commissioner

Joe Balash said TransCanada has signed a letter, which he and the state revenue commissioner also intend to sign, clarifying the intent that the license would terminate following the execution of a new agreement, which would happen within 90 days of passage of the legislation currently under consideration. As for other amendments, the committee, on a 6-2 vote, added language to allow for out-of-state residents to serve on AGDC’s board. As proposed, the corporation would hold the state’s interest in liquefaction and marine terminal facilities. The lead sponsors of the bill that established AGDC have said it was their intent to allow for out-of-state residents to serve on the board in an effort to get the best, most qualified people, and it was an oversight to not have made that point explicit. That issue flared up with Parnell’s appointment of a Texas man and former pipeline company executive to the board. Critics of the appointment say the law calls for Alaska residents to serve on Alaska boards and commissions. Parnell has argued that under the state constitution, appointments to boards like that of AGDC only need to be U.S. citizens. A separate bill — in line with the amendment added to the gas-line bill — was introduced in the state House on Friday. Other proposed amendments, which were still pending, included putting off state investment until a final investment decision in made on a project; taking oil taxes off the table in contract negotiations; and putting a share of the revenue received from the state’s share of royalty gas in the project, after payment is made to the Alaska Permanent Fund, into special funds for transportation projects and for Railbelt electrical generation and transmission upgrades. The version of the bill that passed the Senate last month earmarked 10 percent of the revenue from the royalty gas toward energy projects for communities that won’t have direct access to a North Slope gas line.

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Monday, April 7, 2014

Fuel for success By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

Chance Percival

School board to meet The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meets at 7 p.m. in the borough building at 148 N. Binkley Street in Soldotna (unless otherwise noted). For more information, call 907-714-8888 or visit http://www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/ board.aspx?id=28035. The agenda and packet items are posted on Wednesday afternoon prior to the date of the Board Meeting. Persons with disabilities who need accommodations to participate at School Board meetings should contact Debbie Tressler at 907-714-8836 or email dtressleratkpbsd.k12.ak.us no later than three business days before the meeting date. The board will meet: n April 14; n May 5 (at Seward High School); n June 2; n June 3 (Board Planning Session).

Early release dates for KPBSD schools Six times throughout the academic year, on a Wednesday, schools will meet the minimum day, so that teachers may have approximately 90 minutes of additional time to work on improvement strategies. On these early release dates, school will end 90 minutes earlier. Bus transportation will be adjusted by 90 minutes. Upcoming early release date is: April 16.

KBEA scholarships up for grabs The Kenai Borough Employees Association scholarship committee is currently accepting applications for three scholarships of $500 each. The scholarships are available to all 2014 graduates of the Kenai Peninsula Borough, including public schools, private schools and home-schooled. Applications and instructions are available from any Kenai Peninsula Borough High School counselor’s office or on the borough’s website at borough.kenai.ak.us. Applications must be delivered or postmarked by March 28. Applications can be mailed or dropped off at the KBEA Scholarship Committee, 144 N. Binkley St., Soldotna, AK 99669.

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If you will be a graduate in 2014, live in the community of Nikiski, and plan on continuing your education after graduation, please consider applying for the Thelma McConnell Scholarship. Applications are available at Nikiski Middle-High School. The deadline for applications is March 31. If you have questions, please contact Patti Floyd at the Nikiski Senior Center at 907-776-7654.

Career and Tech training offered KPBSD Career and Tech Department is offering free after school academies to train students in the Welding, Construction and Medical Field. There will be a summer construction academy at the Workforce Development Center (located behind KCHS). Students will be constructing a greenhouse and a shed. Class days will be May 28-30 and June 2-6 from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Also offered this summer is an Emergency Trauma Technician (ETT) academy. Dates and times TBA. This course will cover all areas required to receive certification as an Emergency Medical Technician. The last week of class will be for review and the final exam. If you pass the exam you’ll receive your certification and an ETT patch. Any high school student is able to participate in any of our academies. If a student successfully completes the 60 hour academy they will receive a ∏ practical art credit. To sign up go to http://onestop.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/ or for more information call Debbie Pearson at 283-2145 or students can see there counselor. Funding for the Alaska Construction Academies comes from a grant from the Ak Dept of Labor and Workforce Development, The Ak Dept of Commerce and Economic Development and The AK Youth First Program.

Connections Home-school n April: Enrollment for 2014/2015 begins April 14. Please make an enrollment appointment with your advisor. April 8 — Science Assessments for Grades 4th, 8th and 10th n April 15 — Seniors: All correspondence courses and finals need to be finalized Soldotna Connections Easter Egg Hunt: The Soldotna Connections Office is hosting an Easter Egg hunt on April 16. It will be from 2-3 p.m. outside next to our office, so please wear appropriate clothing. Remember: bring your boots, warm cloths, super sleuth eyes and we hope to see you here! April Safe Sitter Course: There is another safe sitter class offered April 28 and 29, 2014 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. This class is very informative and offers hands on training for general care to emergency care. Preparing our children for what to do in case of an emergency is so important. Children need to be between the ages of 11 & 13 to attend. Each class has room for 13 students. The cost is $50.00 and may be reimbursable by Connections. Each child will receive a backpack with tools that they will know how to use upon completion of the class. For more information go to www.safesitter.org or www.cpgh.org click on quick links, go to community programs and click on safe sitter. Please register early to attend. For more information please contact Marcia Knowlton 598-0950(Instructor/Parent contact) or Sheila or Roberta 714-4775(Hospital contacts). Please feel free to invite other home-school families who are not currently with Connections.

Kaleidoscope School Of Arts and Science n Monday — APC meeting in the library from 4-5 p.m.; New parent informational meeting in the library from 6-7 p.m. n Tuesday — SBA science testing for 4th grade only; PTA is meeting at 9:15 a.m. n Wednesday — D.A.R.E for the 5th/6th grade classes n Thursday — Bus evacuation drill for students on arrival at school; Kindergarten family math night and potluck from 5-7 p.m. See SCHOOLS, page B-3

Along with getting their energy up via a tug-of-war tournament on Thursday, Soldotna Middle School students had the option of tackling the final day of statewide Standards Based Assessments testing with a belly full of sausage and scrambled eggs. Soldotna Middle Principal Sarge Truesdell said the school does about an hour’s worth of games every day before testing to get students’ blood flowing, get any late kids breakfast and make sure any unaccounted for students are called. He said the first two days the students played goofy games like carrying books on their heads, but found that by the third day students were tired of those kinds of games. The school had been doing the games for years, but last year, he said, the school created a “March Madness” type of bracket for tug-of-war. The seventh grade homerooms made up of about 16 students each go headto-head as do the eighth grade classes. Then the seventh grade and eighth grade champions compete for all school bragging rights. “All of the research that I’ve read on physical fitness with kids and getting oxygen to the brain … we know helps them in the classroom,” he said. Not only did students get active by participating in tug-of-war, but also in the stands cheering and dancing to music. Eighth grader Sean Lewis said with the games, testing days are actually better than normal school days. “(The games) have brought fun to testing,” he said. Sierra Reid, an eighth grader, said tugof-war helped her to get pumped up for the math portion of the SBA. While the school has held games as a way to get its seventh and eighth graders’ energy up and ready for testing for years, the daily breakfast program has only been in play since December. With help from volunteers and donations, teacher Sheilah-Margaret Pothast began the program after Kenai Peninsula Borough School District homeless liaison Kelly King spoke to the middle school staff about homeless students in the district. “It doesn’t matter how much food you have in the cupboards or how much money your family has,” Truesdell said. “If you didn’t eat well and you’re hungry, then we can provide that for you before you test. The thought of any kid sitting in and not being able to concentrate on the test because they’re hungry is just a shame.” Pothast said bringing a breakfast program to Soldotna Middle had been on her mind for a while, but King’s presentation pushed her to make the idea a reality.

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion

Joseph Hensley, 14, takes the front of the line during a school-wide tug-of-war competition at Soldotna Middle School Thursday in Soldotna.

“As a teacher there’s times … I hear tummies growl,” she said. After determining through a survey a sufficient number of students would utilize the program, and receiving generous donations and volunteering individuals, breakfast could be served. “Anybody who’s hungry is allowed to go,” Truesdell said. Everyday cold and hot cereal is available as well as yogurt, granola bars and juice. Some days — like Thursday in preparation for the math portion of the SBA — Pothast and her group of volunteers prepare and serve sausage and eggs. Waffle days are a big hit, Pothast said. Without the grandparents and parents of students, retired school staff and community members who volunteer and donate money and food, the program would not be successful, she said.

Peggy Rogers, who used to work with special needs students at Soldotna Middle, started volunteering in January. She said she enjoys seeing the students and thinks the breakfast program is really important. When the program first started, the servers saw about 20 students on average in the home economics room. Now they see about 30 to 40 students daily. Thursday, they fed about 60 kids. “The numbers have grown every month,” Pothast said. Along with providing breakfast to students, the program has also fostered new friendships, Pothast said, with kids becoming “breakfast buddies.” “It is a happy place,” Pothast said. Kaylee Osowski can be reached at kaylee.osowski@peninsulaclarion.com

Bookmobiles reaching out to rural areas SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s bookmobile program has been reaching more rural communities, despite little funding. Employees who run the program have only three bookmobile buses to serve the entire state, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported. Dozens of smaller communities still rely on a vehicle toting books, which is seen as old-fashioned concept by some. Each mobile visits the commu-

nities once a month and packed with more than 4,500 books. It also offers audio books and DVDs. The most recent community to get on the bookmobile map is Pecos. The mobile library stopped at Pecos Elementary School for the first time March 19 after 5-year-old Jacob RetaPerea made the request. “This is a wonderful opportunity to spark that interest in reading and being able to travel through books,” said Gerard

Flores, school assistant principal. Pecos marks the 11th school stop statewide. Charri Richards, a former teacher who manages the New Mexico Rural Bookmobile Northeast, said it’s great “just getting out and seeing rural New Mexico and visiting people.” Richards is a nine-year veteran of the program. The Bookmobile Northeast alone makes 37 site visits in seven coun-

ties, she said. In rural places, the bookmobile is still relevant and people plan their schedules around its visits, Richards added. “We have broken down in some real remote places,” Richards said. The program is estimated to have cost about $578,000 last year with much of the funding covered by a federal grant. Bookmobile employees traveled more than 63,000 miles in 2013.

Tell us your Kenai Peninsula College story This year marks KPC’s fiftieth anniversary (1964-2014) and to help commemorate this milestone, KPC’s advancement team is asking you, the Kenai Peninsula community, to take the time to tell us how the college has impacted your life, your family and the community as a whole. The story of KPC is more than facts and dates—it’s the collective experiences had by students, staff and faculty members. Are you an alum, retired staff member, current student or friend of the college? Are you a current or former College Council or Kachemak Bay Campus Advisory Board member? Let us hear from each of you! Many of the stories collected may be included in KPC’s semicentennial events, including select stories placed in a time capsule that will be opened at KPC’s centennial celebration in 2064. Plans are underway for a huge celebration of the anniversary, in conjunction with the annual community barbecue, from 4-6:30 p.m. at the Kenai River Campus on Aug. 14. What types of things would help flesh out your story? Here are some guidelines that might help: What brought you or your family to the Kenai Peninsula? Explain why you chose to study/ work at Kenai Peninsula College. In what areas of college life were/are you engaged? Describe what the college was like and your principal interests during your year(s) at the

K enai P eninsula C ollege A round C ampus college. During your time at KPC, who were people you had friendships with, were inspired by, or in some way made a difference in your time here, and why? What were some of the biggest changes or most significant events that took place during your time at the college? What impact did your experiences at KPC have on the rest of your life? What years were you at KPC? What degree or area of study did you pursue during your time at the college? What would you say was your biggest accomplishment at KPC? Feel free to include any other comments about your KPC experience. Please send stories (by Aug. 1) by e-mail to iynews@kpc.alaska.edu or mail to KPC Advancement, 156 College Rd., Soldotna, AK 99669 or send a Facebook message to www.facebook.com/KenaiPeninsulaCollege <http://www.facebook.com/ KenaiPeninsulaCollege>

Don’t miss the second annual Advice And A Slice event

What degrees and certificates does UAA/KPC offer? Do KPC’s credits transfer to other UA locations and outside universities? Thinking about living in the new residence hall but want to scope it out first? Unsure what requirements need to be met to qualify for financial aid? Find out the answers to these questions, enjoy a slice of pizza and discover the benefits of attending UAA on the Peninsula at the Kenai River Campus from 4-7 p.m., Friday, April 11 in the McLane Commons. Transformation is a constant these days at KRC with ongoing construction projects continually improving the campus. This occasion is a great time for prospective students, and their parents, to learn about all the opportunities available. Current KPC students, and those who may have taken a break from the college, will also benefit from the event as the campus hardly resembles what it was like even two years ago. With the opening of the new KRC Residence Hall, those interested in getting a taste of residence life can preregister to stay at the hall after the event. Breakfast will be provided the next morning. For more information about the event or to preregister for the night in the residence hall, call 1-877-262-0330 or e-mail iyinfo@kpc.alaska.edu.

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n Friday — D.A.R.E for the 5th/6th grade class-

PTA is now accepting nominations for the 2014/2015 PTA Board. For more information contact the PTA at ksaspta@gmail.com. Reminders n April 14 Spring Pictures n If you are able to volunteer for the Bike Rodeo on May 12, please let nurse Mary Lou know. n Year-end “Being There” trips are getting scheduled now. If you plan on volunteering for any trip, please make sure that you have the volunteer requirements done 48 hours prior to the trip. n The Life Skill we are focusing on this week is Active Listening: To listen with the intention of understanding what the speaker intends to communicate.

Kalifornsky Beach Elementary K-Beach will be holding Kindergarten Visitation for next year’s incoming kindergartners on April 16 from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Your child can ‘go to school’ for an hour while parents meet with the principal and register. You can pre-register your child at that time. You will need to bring the student’s immunization records and birth certificate. Students must be born before September 1, 2009 to attend next fall. Please call the school office at 260-1300 for more information and to schedule your child for visitation day. The second graders in Mrs. McCoy’s class are busy learning about plants. We’ve planted many different types of seeds and are busy recording the growth of our plants in our science journals. Our beans and sunflowers have sprouted but we are still waiting for our radishes to pop out of the soil. Mrs. McCoy brought in her Aerogarden and we are hoping to see lettuce sprouts in the very near future. K-Beach 6th grade is sponsoring a school-wide Food Drive. Please send cans or sealed boxes/bags of food to your child’s classroom beginning April 7. Our last day to collect food is on April 17. All food will be donated to the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank. n April 8 — Science SBA testing for grade 4 only. n April 11 — Spring Pictures

Kenai Central High The junior class would like to thank all of the parents and business that donated items and time to help make this year’s prom and after prom event a huge success. Wednesday the Junior Class is going to work for the annual Job Shadow Day. Juniors will be shadowing a community member who works in a career that interest the student. Seniors, the executive officers are currently accepting photos for the senior slideshow that will be shown during the graduation ceremony. Please send all of your photos to Ms. Wagoner.

Kenai Middle SBA testing was a huge success and Kenai Middle School would like to thank all the parents and guardians for making sure students were here every day prepared and ready for testing. Kenai Middle would also like to send out a sincere thank you to all the parents that volunteered to arrive early to make and serve breakfast before testing began. These types of activities aren’t possible without parent/guardian support and dedication! Thank you! Track season starts today for 7th and 8th graders. Volunteer Appreciation Picnic is being held Wednesday to honor our parents and community members that have helped out at various times with our students. It is being held in the library from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Spring pictures are scheduled for Tuesday at 8 a.m. Order forms are available at the office. It is time to start collecting aluminum cans. Students that bring in a full garbage bag of crushed cans will get first choie of mini-courses. Aluminum can collection will begin on April 15 and 16. Bags of cans are not allowed to be transported on the bus so students will need to make arrangements to transport their cans to school. Congratulations to last week’s Character Counts award winners: Sierra Longfellow and Bridget Marston. Great Job!

Mountain View Elementary PTA meeting Tuesday at 4 p.m. Mountain View Elementary early Kindergarten registration for the 2014-2015 school year open is now open. Students must be 5 years old by Sept. 1. Registration forms may be picked up at the Mountain View Office. Kindergarten Parent Orientation will be on April 24. Registered students will be invited to visit a Kindergarten classroom on April 29. Applications are available for the 2014-2015 Mountain View Pre-K Program. Screenings for this program will be held at the Kenai Community Library on April 15. In order to be considered, a child must be 4 years old by Sept. 1 and have a completed application returned to Mountain View Elementary. Screenings will be scheduled after applications are brought back to the school. For information please call 283-8600. April 16 — “Character Day.” Students may dress up as their favorite character. Congratulations to our Soaring Eagles for the month of March. They are Isabella Bond, Synder Calderon, Summer Cartier, Kacey Cunningham, Madeline, Edelen, Jonathan Freeman, Ashten Gordon, JJ Hart, Robert Hayes, Jonas LaBarre, Emma Lawson, Cyanna Lindquist, Adrienne Maxie, Kara Pratt, Isaac Sharpe, Nicole Toepel, Genesis Trevino, William Wilson, & Evyn Witt.

Nikiski Middle-High 4.0 Honor Roll — 12th grade – Cory Carr, Seth Carstens, Jodi Cook, Alyssa Darch, Michael Hollinger, Kerry Ross, Jared Wallis; 11th grade – Calvin Carpenter, Marilynn Davis, Michaela Dean-Apted, Jade Elsey, Laura Hufford, Bryce Jensen, Katelyn Sexton; 10th grade – Nathan Carstens, Evangeline Cox, Marguerite Cox; 9th grade – Braden Ellis, Chrystal Epperheimer, Avery Kornstad, Savannah Rizzo; 8th grade – Rylee Jackson, Sarah Nash, Hai-

ley Peterson, Melanie Sexton, Donovan Smith, Jamie Yerkes; 7th grade – Bethany Carstens, Garrett Ellis, Thomas Halliday, Alie Minium, Carlee Rizzo, Emma Wik, Hannah Young; 6th grade – Jakobee Anderson, Kaycee Bostic, Hamilton Cox, Martin Cox, Linnaea Dohse, Angela Drusedow, Danielle Elsey, America Jefferys, Bryan Rutherford, Jordyn Stock, Joseph Yourkoski, Tika Zimmerman 3.5 Honor Roll — 12th grade –Emily Cooper, Acacia Fisher, Tanar Jackson, Michael Stangel, Hannah Tauriainen; 11th grade – Morgan Carmody, Benjamin Carstens, Brendon Colton, Erin Cox, Garratt Dohse, Dylan Jackson, Brady Malston, Jasmine Monroe, Christian Riddall, Mira Solmonson, Rachel Thompson; 10th grade – Dennis Anderson, Wyatt Carpenter, Mikaila Colton, Aubrey Coreson, Thomas Cox, Luke Johnson, Lauren O’Brien, Dylan O’Reagan-Broussard, Destiny Owens, Karon Pagcu, Brittany Perry, Gracie Satterwhite, Jeanelee Stock, Samuel Tauriainen, Lorilee Whitcomb, Haley Wik; 9th grade – Maiya Anderson, Emily Hensley, Matthew Minium, Tirzah Young; 8th grade – Kaitlyn Dela Cruz, Ian Johnson, Claire Merrill, Rykker Riddall, Ashlee Tiner, Gavin Wallis; 7th grade – Ian Davis, McKenna Leighton, Sara Moore, Angela Nunley, Samantha Perry, Gabriel Smith, Jacob Smith, Shirika Thomas, Shane Weathers; 6th grade – Madison Akers, Ethan Hack, Noah Litke, Steven Patrick Jr, Mariah Samson, Chirsten Williams 3.0 Honor Roll — 12th grade – Abbie Cason, Keturah Costello, Michelle Fandel, James Hadella, Rebekah Krogseng, Katrina Panzel, Taylor Peterkin, Justice Uhls, Richard Vollertsen; 11th grade – Gregory Brown, Matthew Bumbaugh, Breanna Carpenter, Nicasio Castro IV, Skylair Childress, Nataliyah Davis-McDaniel, Tiffany Lopez, Isaiah Metcalf, Erin O’Brien, William Olsen, Jacob Olson, Jared Parnell, Melissa Roza, Allyson Vincent, Jacob Williams; 10th grade – Christopher Carr, Christina Gonion, Hunter Holloway, Tyler Jagd, Mikayla Larson, Alison Litke, Hannah Love, Aedreena Nicks, Kaitlyn Odis, Ryder Payment, Hallie Riddall; 9th grade – Paige Brame, Maizie Carpenter, Christian Carr, Brandon Hanifen, Makayla Hansen, Patrick Perry, Lauren Ryan, Skyler Smith, Anders Solmonson, Stephanie Thomas, Maddison Williams; 8th grade – Michael Bridges, Luck Broussard, Hope Burleson, Verity Feltman, Skylar Freeman, Baker Hensley, Deidra Lamping, Tyler Litke , Elizabeth Oliva, Hayden Riley, Myranda Rockett, Jack Sullenger, Emilee Tiner; 7th grade – Sabrena Christoffersen, Kelsey Clark, Seth DeSiena, Shaeanne Dohse, Patricia Doty, Justin Harris, Jace Kornstad, Connor McAleenan, Katelyn Moore, Dustin Mullins, Dylan O’Brien, McKinsey Pitt, Ashana Poage, Ashley Pope, Cheyanne Wall, Natanie Whitcomb; 6th grade – Samuel Berry, Erika Bollig, Petie Deveer, Tawnisha Freeman, Vanessa Lopez, Bryan McCollum, Kassidy Meyers, Erica Mistecka, Cecily Quiner, Katerina Sinenko, Kenden Snook, Shaylyn Stroman, Alice Turner-Walker, Matthew Weathers, Michael Weathers, Brayde Wolfe n Monday — Middle School Track Begins n Tuesday — High School Awards Night – 6 p.m. in the auditorium; Site Council Meeting – 4 p.m. n Thursday — PTSA Meeting n Saturday — Prom! Prom is from 7-11 p.m. at the new Nikiski Senior Center. Promenade will be at 5:30 p.m. in the Auditorium at Nikiski High School. Prom tickets will be sold until Wednesday. Cost is $25 per person or $45 a couple. Guest signup sheets can be picked up in the office and are due by Wednesday. Kelly Reilly Photography will be doing pictures for Prom. Price sheets and order forms are available at the office. Cheer Tryouts! Cheer tryouts will be held April 14, 15 and 17. If you are interested in Cheerleading please see Ms. Boyle for a cheer packet

Nikiski North Star Elementary The SBA Science test will be on Tuesday for 4th grade only. Please make sure your 4th grader gets a good night’s rest, eats a healthy breakfast and arrives at school on time. This week is volunteer appreciation week at NNS. We will honor our volunteers with a tea in the library on April 1 at 3:45 pm. Please call the school at 776-2600 to RSVP. Congratulations to our 5th grade Masonic Outstanding Student Rosalie Anderson! Rosalie is a student in Mrs. Barnes class. Congratulations goes to the following students who were also nominated for the award: Emilee Braun, Savannah Ley, Aspen Hooper, Boden Quiner, Alex Johnson, Brenden Boehme, and James Lamping. Rosalie will represent NNS at the Masonic Awards on April 25 at KCHS. Mrs. Burnett and Mrs. Trammell’s classes will have artwork of sled dogs displayed in the Capitol building in Juneau during the month of May. The students were sent a state pin of the Alaska state dog, the malamute, from Speaker of the House, Mike Chenault. Good job Kindergarteners!

provided. The next Site Council meeting will be held April 9 at 3:30 p.m. in the staff lounge. Redoubt Elementary 2014/2015 Preschool applications may be picked up at the school office. Children must be 4 years old by Sept. 1. Redoubt’s 4th grade classes will be selling ice cream every Friday through the month of April to raise money for their spring field trip to the Kenai Fjords. Ice cream prices range between .75cents and $2. This year’s Masonic Student of the Year is Cameron Blackwell from Mrs. Arthur’s sixth grade class. Congratulations to all nominees: Brooke Beliuomini, Elijah Wackler, Levi Rosin, Whitney Benson, Kaylyn Bearup, Kianna Holland, Jersey Truesdell, Zach Hanson, and Galen Brantley. Fun Fest will be held Friday 3:30 – 5 p.m. This will be the last Fun Fest of the school year. All permission slips are due by noon the day of the Fun Fest. See you there! Last week’s Box Tops for Education winners were, Easton Gentry, Jonah Blanton, Anika Jedlicka & Davey Doremire. Keep turning those Box Tops for Education.

Soldotna Elementary Our Reading Counts contest is on the downhill slope as there are only about 5 more weeks of reading and taking those quizzes until the grand prize winners will be drawn. For now, the winners in each classroom last week were the following wonderful students: Triston Gallegos, Andrew Pieh, Bella Twidwell, Carter Cannava, Jessica Croom, Tristan Edmondson, Lydia Jenkins, Gage Baktuit, Marc Billings, and Iona Reutov. Our Volunteer luncheon will be this Friday from 11 until 1 p.m. This is a time of appreciate to honor these dedicated people and their work on behalf of our staff and students. Thank you volunteers! Our PTA is meeting again on April 14. Childcare is provided, so come and join us. All are always welcome! Site Council meeting is April 8 at 3:45 p.m. in the conference room. “Basseo & Trebleet” Concert coming up for the 4th,5th, and 6th grades on April 30 at 6 p.m. in the gym. See you there! Outstanding 6th Grade Student Chosen: Each year the Masons ask the staff to honor students who have exhibited outstanding qualities of leadership, citizenship, caring, academic achievement, and activity participation. Tim Cashman was chosen as the 2014 Outstanding Student! Katie Creglow and Clara Moore were the runners up. Congratulations to all, and thank you for being outstanding examples for all of us! Spring Pictures are just around the corner. Students will have their photos taken on April 10. Please remember that only those students with their order packets will get their pictures taken. Our 5th and 6th graders have been working with clay to make bowls. There is a display case down the intermediate end of the school where you may see some of these bowls displayed. They are amazing, and the kids are enjoying the new glazes and learning about design and properties of clay. Mrs. Baktuit’s 2nd graders are beginning their adventure with magnets. Also, they will be researching about either a famous person, an animal, or a dinosaur for this quarter’s writing project. They will be gathering facts and presenting their findings to the entire class. Be sure to notice outside Mrs. Cannava’s preschool classroom that the children have been helping the Elves and the Shoemaker. They have decorated some very fancy footwear. Also the preschoolers have explained about their super powers. These projects are in the hallway also, and they are wonderful. Mrs. Vasilie’s kinders have learned about the art of Wassily Kandinsky. They have made lovely pictures using circles and art techniques of printing.

Soldotna High On April 15, Soldotna High School will be hosting a Post-secondary Planning Night for juniors and below. Students and parents are encouraged to attend to learn more about preparing for college and career training. The event will begin at 6pm in the SoHi library and dinner from Subway will be provided. For further questions contact Emily Cotton, College and Career Guide, at 260-7083 or emily.cotton@alaska.gov. On April 12, from 11:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. the Parents of Juniors will host a chaperoned, drug and alcohol free party after the Prom at Soldotna Middle School. The ‘After Prom Party’ is held to help SOHI students continue their prom celebration in a positive and safe environment. All juniors, and seniors (and their guests) are invited to attend. There will be a photo booth, food, music, games and lots of great prizes including money prizes given away.

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Volunteer Appreciation Week April 7-11 The staff and students at Redoubt would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the volunteers who volunteer their time at our school. You make a difference; Redoubt is a better place because of you. All volunteers must be registered with the school district prior to volunteering in classrooms/driving on field trips. Field trip drivers must complete a driver form and submit required documentation when driving on school related field trips. Please contact the school office for additional information or go to http://www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/ click on volunteer link and follow the instructions. Each spring we provide parents the opportunity to provide input into the classroom placement of their child for the following school year. This input can be very helpful to the school staff when placing students into classes. Placement decisions for each student will be finalized by Mr. Pothast, classroom teachers and the school’s Intervention Team. If you have questions about the placement process, please see Mr. Pothast. So that your input may be considered during the placement process, input forms are available at the school web site and at the school office. Forms must be returned to the school office no later than April 25, at 4 p.m. Forms returned after that date will not able to be considered in the placement process. The next PTA meeting will be held April 8 at 3:30 p.m. in the staff lounge. Child care will be

Soldotna Middle School’s 8th Grade Masonic Outstanding Student of the Year is Jode Sparks. Jode demonstrates outstanding qualities in 5 areas: Character, Academic Achievement, Extra Curricular Activities in and out of School, Leadership Role, and Volunteerism in the School and Community. He was selected from a group of five finalists: Kellie Arthur, Rachel Davidson, Portia Padilla and John-Mark Pothast. Jode will be honored at the Masonic ceremony on Friday, April 25, at the Renee Henderson Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. in Kenai. Mrs. Sheilah-Margaret Pothast was selected as a BP teacher of Excellence. She gets $500 for herself and another $500 for our school. She is also in the running for BP teacher of the year! We appreciate all she does for the students and staff at Soldotna Middle School. Thank you Mrs. Pothast! Track and Field Begins Today! Soldotna Middle School Third Quarter Honor Roll: 8th Grade 4.0 — Anna Aley, Kellie Arthur, Ethan Bott, Caroline Cho, Rachel Davidson, Austen Eriksson, Derek Evans, Gavin Goggia, Talon Hagen, Alice Han, Kealey Hendricks, Selby Hill, Jaela Hubbard, Kaley Hunter, Madeline Kindred, Sarah McConnell, Samuel McElroy, Melia Miller, Tyla Moorleghen, Mikala Mudrick, Hannah Noyes, Portia Padilla, John-Mark Pothast, Cody Quelland, Delaney Risley, Christy Satterwhite, Eli Sheridan, Jode Sparks, Kevin Tautfest, Hannah Wells 7th Grade 4.0 — Kortney Birch, Brittani BlosC

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Soldotna Montessori Charter Sixteen fifth and sixth grade students will be traveling with their teachers and chaperones to New York City next week to participate in the Model United Nations Conference in New York City. Our students will join over 500 other 5th – 8th graders from around the world. Intermediate classrooms will have guest teachers for the week and will be participating in Science Camp, Art Camp and Dance Camp. All 4th – 6th graders will go to Nikiski Pool on Friday. Students in 2nd and 3rd grade are preparing for an overnight trip to the Seward Sea Life Center on April 24.

Skyview High On Tuesday Skyview will be hosting a Post-secondary Planning Night for juniors and below. Students and parents are encouraged to attend to learn more about preparing for college and career training. The event will begin at 6pm in the Skyview library and dinner from Subway will be provided. For further questions contact Emily Cotton, College and Career Guide, at 260-2397 or emily.cotton@alaska. gov. Seniors, your College and Career Guide will be proctoring the AccuPlacer Exam on Thursday after school at 2:30 p.m. If you would like to take the exam on this date, please sign up with Emily Cotton or Wes Andrews Friday Freshmen and Sophomores who are interested in becoming foreign exchange students are invited to this presentation in the Skyview Library. Students must have their Advisory teacher’s permission to attend. (Contact Information: Lisa from Rotary, 283-9500 or 252-7577) Skyview Prom: Atlantis: A Night Under the Waves, April 12, 7:30-10:30 p.m., Tickets $30 each in advance, $35 each at the door Promenade 6:30-7:30 p.m., $3 admission Sneak Peek $5 (includes admission to promenade) starts at 6. This is so your parents can come see the dance floor- they will have 15 minutes to look around, then have preferential seating for promenade.

Tustumena Elementary n April 15 — PTO Meeting, 4 p.m. n April 16 — Pre-K Screening

Wings Christian Academy This week at Wings, Salena Pena won the “Cleanest Desk of the Week” award. Results from the volleyball home game on April 4 will be posted next week. Stanford Achievement Testing began on April 7th and will continue in the mornings until April 11th. Students are encouraged to get a good night’s rest and eat a healthy breakfast full of protein. Samuel Kuehn won “Student of the Month” for the month of January and Joanna Grant won for the month of February. These two students will enjoy going off campus to eat lunch with the administrator of the school on April 14. In other news, Wings Christian Academy will be participating in a field trip to the Anchorage Zoo on April 18th. Students will need to bring a sack lunch and will eat at the Anchorage Zoo before beginning their tour. April 1h is also the final deadline for submitting Box Tops and Campbell’s Soup Labels for this quarter. Students can win prizes for bringing in labels for the year, including “Non-Uniform Day” certificates.

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Kenai Peninsula College/UAA In Soldotna, Homer, Anchorage, Seward KPC needs part-time face-to-face and online instructors in academic and career/technical areas.

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We're especially looking for qualified instructors to teach online college credit classes as we continue to expand our distance education program. If you have taught online or via eLive before, we are interested in knowing more about you. KPC is a Quality Matters (QM) institution; QM provides a standard for high-quality design of online courses. KPC has an Educational Technology Team to support part-time and full time faculty in their creation of a high-quality distance course. You can live anywhere in Alaska and teach for KPC! Adjuncts for academic areas should have a Masters degree in the discipline or related subject area. Career/ technical education adjuncts must have a Bachelors degree or extensive expertise in the subject area. Adjuncts receive a 3-credit tuition waiver each semester they teach. These waivers can also be used by family members. Interested? Visit the KPC website, http://www.kpc.alaska.edu/employment/ Call 262-0317 for additional information.

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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.

3-Bedroom 2-bath 2-car garage. Beautiful cedar sided home in very quite paved neighborhood on a corner lot with 1.37 acres. All one floor with no steps! All doors are extra wide. Paved driveway and parking area. Excellently maintained. Ideal open floor plan with open kitchen. In floor heat throughout. Vaulted ceilings and a gas fireplace. Large master bedroom with walk in closet and sliding glass door leading to the back deck with lots of privacy (perfect for a hot tub). Each room has its own thermostat and this house is very energy efficient. Well maintained large front and back lawn with lilac trees and rose bushes. Top of the line water filtration system that has eliminated all iron! Garage is 601Sq.Ft. Asking $269,000. (907)283-5747

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General Employment 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

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WINTER IN MESA ARIZONA. Why pay rent when you can own a 3-bedroom home in a 5 star gated retirement park. Priced to sell at $27,000. Includes major appliances, air conditioning & much more. For more information please call (505)321-3250

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

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WHY RENT ????? Why rent when you can own, many low down & zero down payment programs available. Let me help you achieve the dream of home ownership. Call Now !!! Ken Scott, #AK203469. (907)395-4527 or cellular, (907)690-0220. Alaska USA Mortgage Company, #AK157293.

2-BEDROOM 6 miles north of Kenai. $850. per month plus electric & deposit. No pets. Coin operated laundry on site. (907)262-7248.

THREE-Bedroom, 2-bath, 2 large walk-inclosets, 1352 inside living space, crawl space, 1.5 car garage, fenced back yard, front and back decks. Asphalt DW & neighborhood roads. Large space next to garage for boat or RV. Back yard fully sunned, perfect for greenhouse. Just shy of 1/2 acre. Excellent water. 2 blocks down from K-Beach. New in 2010 natural gas furnace, all new in 2010 appliances included (DW, oven, microwave, frig, washer & dryer). Master bath renovated w/walk-in tile shower; beautiful easy to maintain high-end vinyl flooring throughout. Custom vertical blinds in living room and kitchen, and window coverings. Also included is 55-inch Samsung Plasma TV and 3-speaker Bose surround system; 8 camera security system; outside shed w/Honda lawn mower & weed trimmer. $1500 paint and wallpaper credit provided. Broker courtesy 2.5%. TWO ways to buy - Straight purchase $207K or ASSUME low balance with $880 monthly payments for $70,000 up front cash. (No realtor or credit check is required for the assumption) MLS 14-560 and Zillow.com. Please call 398-8161; 24 hr notice requested for viewing. Owner financing not available.

Apartments, Unfurnished 329 SOHI LANE 2-bedroom, carport, storage, heat, cable, tax included, $875. (907)262-5760 (907)398-0497 REDOUBT VIEW Soldotna’s best value! Quiet, freshly painted, close to schools. 1-Bedroom from $625. 2-Bedroom from $725. 3-Bedroom, 2-bath, from $825. No pets. (907)262-4359.

Apartments, Furnished DOWNTOWN Soldotna on the river. 2-bedroom, 1-bath, Seasonal/ Permanent, furnished/ unfurnished, NO pets/ NO smoking. Credit/ background checks. $795., (907)252-7110 EFFICIENCY APT. $450./ month. Includes Electric Call for appointment, (907)260-2092. Mile 118 Clam Gulch, Ocean View.

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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

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Apartments, Furnished EXCELLENT OCEAN VIEW! Bay Arm Apartments, Kenai. Accepting applications for 1 & 2 bedroom apartments, utilities included. $25. nonrefundable application fee. No pets. (907)283-4405.

Homes 3-BEDROOM HOUSE Furnished, Seasonal 4370 Eagle Rock Drive Kenai Spur (907)469-0665 BEAUTIFUL 1-Bedroom home, large kitchen/ bath on 5 acres. Walk to beach, Happy Valley area. $750. month plus deposit. (907)399-2992

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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 $450. (907)260-5943

Trucks: Heavy Duty MAKE AN OFFER 2010 dually long bed, F-350, 4wheel drive, 6.4 diesel truck, 24k miles, Auto Tran. Hide away goose neck Tow & Trailer brake packages. Spray bed liner. Back up camera. Heated/power mirrors, warranty, Power chip Keyless entry, Power windows/seats Asking $36,400 OBO. KBB at $37k (907)953-4696

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Plan holder registration forms, and Plans and Specifications are available on line at http://www.cityofhomer-ak.gov/rfps . All proposers must submit a City of Homer Plan Holders Registration form to be on the Plan Holders List and to be considered responsive. Sealed proposals shall be received at the Office of the City Clerk no later than 4:30 pm, Thursday, April 17, 2014. Please direct proposal submission questions to Jo Johnson, City Clerk, at (907) 235-3130. Please direct technical questions regarding this proposal to the City Manager's Office in writing at abrowning@ci.homer.ak.us, or to 491 E Pioneer Avenue, Homer, AK 99603. There will be a mandatory meeting/teleconference held prior to the closure of the RFP. This will give all proposers involved the opportunity for questions and answers with City Staff to ensure all information is open and concise. The Pre-Close RFP meeting/teleconference will be held Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 2:00 pm at the Homer City Hall Conference Room. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any or all proposals, to waive irregularities or informalities in the proposals, and to award a contract to the respondent that best meets the selection criteria and the City's needs.

There is of record a JUDGMENT in favor of WELLS FARGO EQUIPMENT FINANCE, INC., a Minnesota Corporation, against SILVER FOX CONSTRUCTION LLC, an Alaska Limited Liability Corporation, ROBERT E. HARR, individually, in the amount of $35,918.06, plus interest, costs and fees, entered May 25, 2011, under Case No. 3AN- 10-11415 Civil, in the Superior Court for the State of Alaska Anchorage, Third Judicial District, and recorded June 1, 2011, Serial No. 2011-005177.

Dated the 20th day of March, 2014. CITY OF HOMER Walt Wrede, City Manager PUBLISHED: 4/7, 2014

There is of record a JUDGMENT in favor of WELLS FARGO EQUIPMENT FINANCE, INC., a Minnesota Corporation, against SILVER FOX CONSTRUCTION LLC, an Alaska Limited Liability Corporation, ROBERT E. HARR, individually, in the amount of $45,133.82, plus interest, costs and fees, entered May 25, 2011, under Case No. 3AN- 10-11415 Civil, in the Superior Court for the State of Alaska Anchorage, Third Judicial District, and recorded June 14, 2011, Serial No. 2011-005573.

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The City is seeking solutions to current problems and working to prevent others. Unsecured, uncovered waste containers are not suitable on the Homer Spit. Bird and wind proof dumpsters are desired. For upland locations, container options that deter bears should be considered. Safety for users and litter control are a concern as well; large, high-sided containers are difficult for normal public use when they are unable to reach the top. We have also found that these units are difficult to bird and wind proof. The City encourages proposals that keep in mind our prime goals of public safety, and keeping the trash in the dumpsters while also keeping wildlife out.

There is of record an Assignment of Deed of Trust, including the terms and conditions thereof, executed by CALVIN W. FERTIG and PATSY A. FERTIG, as Assignors, for the benefit of LEONARD BALLARD, as Assignee, recorded February 12, 2014, Serial No. 2014-001082, Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska.

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The City of Homer, Alaska is requesting proposals from qualified firms for solid waste collection and disposal. Successful proposer will be contracted to collect and dispose of solid waste from designated City facilities, and to furnish the necessary labor, material, equipment, tools, supervision, and other facilities to perform under such contract.

Said Deed of Trust was executed on the 10th day of January, 2008, and recorded on the 14th day of January, 2008, Serial No. 2008-000383.

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INVITATION TO BID CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS ASHLE AVENUE AND ELLY CIRCLE #C3ASH GLACIER BLUE STREET, RIVERWIND DRIVE, VIENNA COURT, LEGENDS CIRCLE AND CRAMPON COURT #C3GLA The Kenai Peninsula Borough Road Service Area hereby invites qualified firms to submit a firm price for acceptance by the Borough for Road Capital Improvement Projects:

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Ashley Avenue and Elly Circle #C3ASH (Soldotna) • Glacier Blue Street, Riverwind Drive, Vienna Court, Legends Circle and Crampon Court (Soldotna) Projects consist of furnishing all labor, materials, and equipment to upgrade these roads. Projects include subgrade modification, drainage, clearing, ditching and roadbed widening. Pre-bid conferences will be held at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Road Service Area office, 47140 East Poppy Lane, Soldotna, Alaska for Road Capital Improvement Projects:

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Ashley Avenue and Elly Circle, April 9, 2014 @10:00 AM • Glacier Blue Street, Riverwind Drive, Vienna Court, Legends Circle and Crampon Court, April 9, 2014 @ 10:30 AM Attendance at pre-bid conferences is recommended but not mandatory. Contracts are subject to the provision of State of Alaska, Title 36, Minimum Wage Rates. Contracts will require certificates of insurance and may require performance and payment bonds. Bid documents may be obtained beginning March 27, 2014 at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Road Service Area office, 47140 East Poppy Lane, Soldotna, Alaska 99669 (907) 262-4427, for a non-refundable fee of $20.00 per set, $10.00 additional for mailing. Bid documents may also be downloaded from the web at: http://purchasing.borough.kenai.ak.us/ Opportunities.aspx One (1) complete set of the bid package is to be submitted to the Kenai Peninsula Borough, Purchasing and Contracting Department, 144 N. Binkley Street, Soldotna, Alaska 99669. These forms must be enclosed in a sealed envelope with the bidder's name on the outside and clearly marked: BID: GLACIER BLUE STREET, RIVERWIND DRIVE, VIENNA COURT, LEGENDS CIRCLE AND CRAMPON COURT #C3GLA DUE DATE: April 16, 2014, no later than 2:00 PM BID: ASHLEY AVENUE AND ELLY CIRCLE #C3ASH DUE DATE: April 16, 2014, no later than 4:00 PM PUBLISHED: 3/27, 4/2, 7, 2014

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PUBLIC NOTICE KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH ROAD SERVICE AREA Effective Monday, April 7, 2014 at 8:00 AM weight restrictions are imposed for Kenai Peninsula Borough Road Service Area roads: 75% on paved roads and 50% on gravel roads. Weight restrictions are stated as a percentage of legal allowable weight and shall be applied to the maximum axle loading of state code 17 ACC 25.013(e). Pursuant to KPB 14.40.070(C) persons or entities using the right-of-way in a manner causing damage are liable to the borough for the cost of repair and subject to a fine set forth in KPB 14.40.260. Applications for overweight permits must be approved by the Road Service Area Director. KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH Pat Malone, Road Service Area Director PUBLISHED: 4/6, 7, 11, 2014

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Public Notices IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI In the Matter of: D.T., 11/27/11

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A Child Under the Age Of Eighteen (18) Years. Case No: 3KN-12-00030CN NOTICE AND SUMMONS TO ABSENT PARENT To: Tommie Adams (dob: 06/07/79) PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under AS 47.10.080(c)(3) has been filed in the Superior Court, Third Judicial District, Kenai, Alaska concerning D.T. (DOB: 11/27/2011), a minor, who is believed to be your child. This petition may result in an order terminating your parental rights. A copy of the petition is on file in the Kenai Courthouse, 125 Trading Bay Drive, Suite 100, Kenai, Alaska 99611. A termination trial call is scheduled to be held Kenai Courthouse, 125 Trading Bay Drive, Suite 100, Kenai, Alaska 99611, on May 9, 2014, at 2:00 p.m. The phone number to the courthouse is (907) 283-3110. You have the right to be represented by an attorney. In the event you cannot afford to hire an attorney, an attorney may be appointed to represent you at state expense. If you or your attorney cannot appear at the hearing, you must file with the court a response to the petition within thirty (30) days after the last date of publication of this notice. DATED: 3/10/14 CLERK OF THE TRIAL COURTS By: Denice D. Chappell Deputy Clerk PUBLISH: 3/17, 24, 31, 4/7, 2014

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Public Notices City of Soldotna Council Meeting Agenda April 9, 2014 177 N. Birch St. Soldotna, AK 99669

There is of record a JUDGMENT in favor of WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., a National Banking Association, against SILVER FOX CONSTRUCTION LLC, an Alaska Limited Liability Corporation, HARR TECHNOLOGIES, LLC. a Colorado Limited Liability Corporation, ROBERT E. HARR, individually, and SHERRY L. HARR, individually, in the amount of $203,903.79, plus interest, costs and fees, entered November 20, 2011, under Case No. 3AN-10-12989 Civil, in the Superior Court for the State of Alaska Anchorage, Third Judicial District, and recorded November 30, 2011, Serial No. 2011-011440.

CALL TO ORDER APPROVAL OF AGENDA CONSENT AGENDA Introduction of Ordinances (Setting Public Hearing for 04/23/14) - Ordinance 2014-011 - Accepting a Grant from the State of Alaska, Division of Forestry and Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $3,000 in the Parks and Recreation Capital Projects Fund for the Purchase of Trees at Soldotna Creek Park (City Manager) Resolutions - Resolution 2014-010 - Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Contract with Blazy Construction in the Amount of $135,640 for the Soldotna City Hall Safety, Security and Efficiency Remodel Project (City Manager) - Resolution 2014-011 - Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Contract with Great Northern Construction & Management in the Amount of $65,600 for the Kalifornsky Beach Water Reservoir Clearing and Grubbing Project (City Manager) Approval of Minutes - Council Meeting of March 26, 2014 Other - No Items PUBLIC COMMENTS AND PRESENTATIONS (Items other than those appearing on the Agenda; 3 minutes per speaker) PRESENTATIONS WITH PRIOR NOTICE - Visitor Center Quarterly Report, Michelle Glaves, Executive Director of the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce - Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, Loretta Knudson-Spalding, Career Guidance Liaison - Request to waive a portion of the Soldotna Sports Complex User Fee ASSEMBLY/LEGISLATIVE REPORT PUBLIC HEARINGS (Testimony limited to 3 minutes per speaker) Ordinances - Ordinance 2014-009 - Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $4,693.06 in the General Fund for Federally Forfeited Property (City Manager) - Ordinance 2014-010 - Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $690,000 in the General Fund, $60,000 in the Utility Fund and $750,000 In The Street Construction Fund for North Aspen Drive Road Improvements (City Manager) UNFINISHED BUSINESS - No Items NEW BUSINESS Resolutions - Resolution 2014-012 - Supporting the Continued Operation of the Skyview Pool and Directing Administration to Include $50,000 in 2014-2015 City Budget Towards its Operation Under Certain Conditions (City Manager) - Resolution 2014-013 - Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Reimbursement Agreement with Drug Soldotna Limited Partnership for Up to $100,000 for Street Upgrades to 47th Street (City Manager) - Resolution 2014-014 - Authorizing the City Manager to Waive Formal Bidding Procedures and Execute a Professional Services Contract for the Amount of $28,756 with Wince-Corthell-Bryson for the North Aspen Drive Improvement Project (City Manager) - Resolution 2014-015 - Adopting the City of Soldotna 5-Year Capital Plan (City Manager) APPEALS - No Items MAYOR/COUNCIL REPORTS CITY MANAGER'S REPORT PUBLIC COMMENTS COUNCIL COMMENTS EXECUTIVE SESSION PENDING LEGISLATION - Ordinance 2014-007 - Amending Soldotna Municipal Code Title 9 - Public Peace, Morals and Welfare by Adopting a New Chapter, 9.12 - Synthetic Cannabinoids and Substituted Cathinones (City Manager, Bos) [Motion to enact on the floor from 03/26/14; postponed until 04/23/14] ADJOURNMENT The next meeting is April 23, 2014, at 6:00 p.m. For agenda items & other information, call the City Clerk's Office at 907-262-9107.

Said documents having been recorded in the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, describing: TRACT TWO-D (2-D), K-B SUBDIVISION, Part 10, filed under Plat No. 2006-40, Records of the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska. The physical address of the real property described above is 35403 KB Drive, Soldotna, Alaska, 99669. 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: FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR AND 84/100TH DOLLARS ($436,744.84), 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. 2014-001259 Date: 02/20/2014 PUBLISHED: 4/7, 14, 21, 28, 2014

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KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT INVITATION TO BID #139-14-W Office Supplies The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District hereby invites qualified vendors to submit a proposal for acceptance by the District to purchase Office Supplies. One (1) original of the sealed bid must be submitted to the Purchasing Department, Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, 139 East Park Avenue, Soldotna, AK 99669, no later than 4:00 PM local time on April 30, 2014. Bid can be obtained by calling 907-714-8876 during normal business hours, or from the District website www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us

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Mother who lost baby wants to find right words for grief DEAR ABBY: My 1-year-old baby recently passed away. I have two other children, one with special needs. I find it irritating and not at all comforting when people tell me that “at least I have other children and that I should concentrate on them.” How can I politely tell them that I have never stopped taking care of my other children, and that nothing eases the pain of burying your child? — MOURNING MY BABY IN PUERTO RICO DEAR MOURNING: Please accept my deepest sympathy for the loss of your child. My heart goes out to you. While I can imagine that you might be tempted to lash out at these insensitive individuals, I hope you realize their comments are made out of ignorance. Sometimes it isn’t what you say as much as how you say it. In a case like this, exactly what you have written to me would be an appropriate response as long as it is said calmly and without anger.

cheats!” Now, two years later, the girlfriend is pregnant. My daughter would like a paternity test done before the kids are introduced to this new child. She thinks it would be harmful if they are introduced to a new half-sibling who may later prove to belong to another man. (“Everyone cheats”?) Abigail Van Buren What do you think about this? Is it wrong for my daughter to want proof that this is her ex’s baby? He feels certain he’s the father, but he also knows the other woman has kept in touch with her ex-boyfriend. — JUST WONDERING IN CONNECTICUT DEAR JUST WONDERING: If your daughter’s ex wants to claim paternity without a paternity DEAR ABBY: My daughter was married for eight test, there is no legal basis I can think of to prevent years before divorcing her cheating husband. They him from being considered the father. While your have two children. When my daughter found out about daughter has reason to be angry at her ex and to the affair, she was inconsolable. The girlfriend actually dislike the woman with whom he cheated, she can’t phoned her and said, “Why are you so upset? Everyone prevent her children from seeing the baby if he

wants them to. (P.S. You’d think her ex would WANT to know for certain, but it takes all kinds ...) DEAR ABBY: What is the best way to answer your children when they ask if you have taken drugs? I smoked a little marijuana back in college, but stopped before graduation and I haven’t done it since. My children are about ready to go to high school. I have avoided answering their questions in the past, but I know I’ll have to say something sometime. What? — TONGUE-TIED IN ANYTOWN, USA DEAR TONGUE-TIED: I don’t believe in lying to children. When you are asked, tell them you tried it in college, didn’t like it and considered it a waste of time. Then tell them that as long as they are living under your roof, using ANY illegal substance will not be condoned. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Be open to a different method of handling your finances. You might get some important tips that could help you in the future. Be more forthright in your dealings with others. A loved one could cause some problems. Tonight: Buy a treat on the way home. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You could be facing a problem you don’t want to deal with, but you will have little choice. You might not be sure what to say. Honor a change with a friend or loved one. You could find some of this person’s views challenging at best. Tonight: Do what makes you happy. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HH You might be walking right into a hornet’s nest without even realizing it. You could have very little to do with the situation, yet you could be the one being blamed. Listen to your instincts. Use care with flaring tempers. Tonight: Cocoon at home if possible. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Emphasize the positives, even if all you are hearing are the negatives. The more you detach from this situation, the better your choices will be. Honor a need for a change, but know that you don’t have to act just yet. Tonight: Escape the tension around you. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You might want to try a new approach or find a different way of handling a problem. Clearly you do not have all the answers. Still, you must take a bigger role in what is going on. Be sensitive to a boss who could be off-kilter. Tonight: Vanish quickly.

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars A baby born today has a Sun in Aries and a Moon in Cancer. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, April 7, 2014: This year you will have plenty of opportunities to deal with your anger. You will learn to turn this uncomfortable feeling into a positive one for you and those around you. Your willingness to look within yourself will be important. If you are single, you could be passionately drawn to a Libra. The fireworks will be incredible, but the fighting also could be intense. Ask yourself if you really want a relationship like this. If you are attached, you could be forging a new path where both you and your sweetie express your deeper feelings. Rather than judge your partner, learn to empathize and understand where he or she is coming from. CANCER can drag you down. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You could find others to be demanding. Know that you can’t make everyone happy all the time. A loved one or associate will let you know this fact in no uncertain terms. Explaining can only go so far with someone who does not want to listen. Tonight: Play it low-key. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH Keep communication flowing. You might want to consider what is said without personalizing the comment. You could feel as if you have no say with a volatile person in your life. It might be good to go to the gym to work out some stress. Tonight: Visit with a friend.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Detach from any volatile situation. You might be angrier than you realize. Express your side of a disagreement by saying what you want. A friend could be very difficult to deal with. Don’t be petty. Tonight: Answer emails, then see what you feel like doing. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Your creativity will be pushed to the max when dealing with a changeable situation. The issue could involve a friend or loved one. You will need to renegotiate what was previously thought to be written in stone. Tonight: With a favorite person. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You defer to others easily and probably too quickly. Honor a change within yourself, and keep in mind that a situation could get better with time. You seem to be less attached to a personal matter than you realize. Let go and relax. Tonight: Join friends. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Try to stay away from controversy. Buckle down and get your work done. Others might share a lot of their feelings. Detach and gain a new perspective. It is important for you to stay neutral. Tonight: Jump on your computer and surf the Web. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHYour imagination and creativity will take you to a new level. A partner suddenly might be very short and irritable. Be smart and walk away from an argument. Understand that a money matter needs to be handled. Realize what you want here. Tonight: Add some caring.

Don’t bring us your trash! Dear Readers: Here is this week’s Sound Off, about courtesy trash cans: “I work for a large retail chain store. Among the many conveniences provided to our customers, we have a number of trash receptacles in our parking lot. These are meant to be used for trash, such as coffee and soft-drink cups, etc. But many customers have taken to using them to dispose of their household garbage. This causes the trash cans to fill up faster than we can empty them. Please let your readers know that dumping household garbage in public trash cans is a big no-no! — Dumped On in Ohio” Fast facts Dear Readers: Other uses for a potato masher: * Break up ground meat when cooking. * Mash eggs when making egg salad. * Use to mix up items in a round pot or bowl. * Make designs on peanut-butter cookies. * Crush up fruit to make jams and jellies. — Heloise

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Order organization Dear Heloise: I do a lot of catalog shopping, sometimes paying with a credit card or check. I make a copy of the order, with the source of payment and also the date. This way, I know which card is used, what has been ordered, the amount and about when I can expect the merchandise to be delivered. — Glenna D., Chanute, Kan.

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