Peninsula Clarion, April 15, 2014 by Sound Publishing

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TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2014 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 167

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Time for construction season State DOT, area public works departments gear up for summer projects By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

Several road construction projects on the Kenai Peninsula are planned for this summer, as are city road improvements in Soldotna and Kenai, while other projects are still a few years down the road. Jill Reese, public information officer for the Alaska Department of Transportation central region, said pavement preservation has begun on sections of the Sterling and Seward highways and

rehabilitation construction is scheduled to begin on East End Road in Homer this summer. DOT will accept bids this month for pavement preservation from milepost 173 to 179 on the Sterling Highway near Ninilchick with work set to begin in June, she said. On the Seward Highway, four separate pavement projects are slated to begin this summer between Mile 54.5 to 75 near Turnagain Arm. Reese said work on two stretches of East End Road outside of Homer is

scheduled to begin this summer to address safety concerns on the narrow road. Crews will widen the road shoulders and add a separate multi-use pathway from Kachemak Drive to Waterman Road (milepost 3.75 to 5.16). After securing rights-of-way with property owners for the past three years, DOT awarded a bid last December for the remainder of East End Road to McNeil Canyon, which will undergo a pave and shave, in which dips and bumps will be smoothed over to improve sight dis-

tance, she said. The estimated completion date for both phases is the end of October. “Traffic will always be impacted by road construction, but we rarely ever totally close the roads,” she said. “We always provide a way around. We work on roads in most need of improvement first.” Plans to expand the Sterling Highway from Sterling to Soldotna and the Kenai Spur Highway from Soldotna to

Tire expert takes stand in murder trial

In the news Alaska Legislature passes abortion funding bill

JUNEAU (AP) — The Alaska Legislature has passed a bill further defining what constitutes a medically necessary abortion for purposes of Medicaid funding. The Senate on a 13-7 vote Monday agreed to the House version of the bill that removed language calling for expanded family planning services. That language was added in the Senate last year. Supporters of the provision said greater access to services would reduce unplanned pregnancies and abortions. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. John Coghill, said the state already provides women’s health and family planning services. The House passed the bill 23-17 on Sunday. SB49 supporters say the state shouldn’t have to pay for elective abortions. Critics say the bill raises constitutional questions. The bill is similar to regulations adopted by the state health commissioner that are being challenged in court.

Inside ‘I can’t count the number of people that died. They took them in open vehicles. People were running and there was confusion.’ ... See page A-5

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By DAN JOLING Associated Press

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The Arctic Sun takes on a load of liquified natural gas bound for Japan in 1998. The shipment was ConocoPhillip’s 1,000th to leave the Nikiski dock. On Monday, the company announced plans to resume shipments of LNG from its Nikiski facility.

LNG exports to resume ConocoPhillips to restart operations at Nikiski facility By TIM BRADNER Morris News Service-Alaska Alaska Journal of Commerce

ConocoPhillips is restarting its liquefied natural gas plant on the Kenai Peninsula and will resume shipments of LNG in May, the company announced Monday. Five shipments are planned this year, ConocoPhillips spokeswoman Amy Burnett said. The announcement came as the U.S. Department of Energy issued its approval of exports, also on Monday. DOE authorized the shipment of 40 billion cubic feet of gas over two years. “This is great news for the cradle of

Alaska’s oil and gas industry on the Kenai Peninsula,” said Alaska U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, who worked with the DOE on the approval. “With plenty of gas available to meet local needs through at least 2018, we’re seeing the kind of job growth responsible oil and gas development can provide.” The federal agency had agreed earlier that ConocoPhillips could export to nations that are in Free Trade Agreements with the U.S., such as South Korea. Exports to those nations are approved by DOE with a streamlined process. The April 14 approval by DOE, however, extended that to countries who are not in free trade agreements, such as Ja-

pan. ConocoPhillips has mainly exported LNG to Japan in the past although there have been shipments to Korea. Begich had pushed the DOE to process the ConocoPhillips application to ship to non-Free Trade Agreement countries outside the queue DOE has set up for nonFTA LNG export projects. “DOE has approved only six applications from Lower 48 projects in that queue since 2012, and at least 24 applications remain in the queue,” Begich said in a statement. Except for Alaska’s project, LNG export proposals seeking DOE approval are all Lower 48 plants. Those have sparked See EXPORT, page A-6

ANCHORAGE — The nail found in the truck tire of the man charged with killing two co-workers at a Kodiak Coast Guard facility likely was inserted mechanically, not picked up along a roadway, a tire expert said Monday. The weathered nail, about 3.5 inches long and bent 7 degrees, was perpendicular to the tire tread, Gary Bolden testified. The head of the nail showed no abrasions that would have indicated it had been driven on asphalt or gravel, Bolden said. “My conclusion was that it was inserted manually,” Bolden said. Federal prosecutors put Bolden on the stand to poke holes in the alibi of James Wells, 62, who’s charged with murder in the shooting deaths of Richard Belisle, 51, a fellow electronics technician, and Petty Officer First Class James Hopkins, 41, on April 12, 2012. See TRIAL, page A-6

Former CES captain, wife face charges By RASHAH McCHESNEY Peninsula Clarion

A Soldotna couple is facing multiple felonies after more than $8,200 was stolen from two organizations with ties to Central Emergency Services. Bank account records show the money was spent on multiple Amazon.com purchases and a trip to Disney Land, in addition to utility payments made to the Homer Electric Association and ENSTAR, according to court documents. The thefts occurred from 2011-2013, according to the documents. Former Central Emergency Services Captain Jack D. Anderson, of Soldotna, faces two class C felonies, punishable by up to $50,000 in fines and up to five years in jail per charge and one class B felony, punishable by up to $100,000 in fines and up to 10 years in jail. His wife, Angela J. Ander-

son is being charged with the same three felonies, theft II, fraudulent use of an acJack Anderson cess device and scheme to defraud. The charges come after nearly a year of investigation when two Central Emergency Services employees, John Evans and Josh Osborn asked for investigation into money missing from a non-profit fraternal organization they belonged to with Anderson, according to charging documents. The organization, Great Fools of Fire, a local chapter of the national Fraternal Order of Leatherhead Society, or FOOLS, had been defunct since 2009 and when efforts to resurrect the organization began, members were unable to

Family seeks answers after death of inmate By RACHEL D’ORO Associated Press

ANCHORAGE — A California parolee who recently was found dead in his Alaska jail cell continued to be held in custody even though his case had been dismissed more than a week earlier. The Alaska fugitive case against Davon Mosley of Bakersfield, Calif., was dropped March 27 after California authorities declined extradition even though a regional parole administrator said his office there recommended his return to that state. Mosley, 20, died April 4. He was arrested in Anchorage March 16 on a fugitive warrant from California. Alaska Department of Corrections spokeswoman Kaci

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Schroeder declined to comment, saying the death and custody issue are under investigation. “We understand the desire for answers, however, until all of the investigations are complete we can’t say much,” Schroeder said in an email Monday. Alaska State Troopers said public safety officials were notified in writing by the California Department of Corrections that the state did not want to seek extradition. Alaska officials in turn notified prosecutors, who sent copies of the case dismissal to state authorities, including corrections officials. Mosley’s fiancee, Vernesia Gordon, said officials kept her from visiting Mosley after March 23, telling her he

could not have visitors when she showed up at the correctional facility. Mosley, who was schizophrenic and bipolar, told her during earlier visits that he wasn’t allowed to take his medications for those conditions, according to Gordon, who is pregnant with her third child with Mosley. The couple had planned to marry in May. Gordon and other family members have hired a lawyer to investigate. “I really can’t just let this go without knowing what happened, without getting justice,” Gordon said. “I have to answer to my kids in the long run.” Mosley previously served 14 months in California after attacking two of Gordon’s See DEATH, page A-6

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

Barrow 25/12

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Tides Today Prudhoe Bay 28/3

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3:48 a.m. (20.8) 4:24 p.m. (20.0)

10:29 a.m. (-2.3) 10:38 p.m. (0.1)

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3:07 a.m. (19.6) 3:43 p.m. (18.8)

9:25 a.m. (-2.3) 9:34 p.m. (0.1)

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1:49 a.m. (11.3) 2:27 p.m. (10.1)

8:14 a.m. (-1.2) 8:18 p.m. (0.7)

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7:57 a.m. (30.2) 8:37 p.m. (29.7)

2:29 a.m. (3.3) 2:57 p.m. (-0.2)

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A couple of rain or snow showers

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Mostly cloudy

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

Rain or snow showers possible

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Full May 14 Tomorrow 11:51 p.m. 7:20 a.m.

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63/25/r 69/48/pc 64/42/pc 56/29/r 59/34/r 66/32/r 67/33/s 65/29/r 57/34/c 52/34/pc 52/25/c 63/38/pc 67/38/r 38/17/r 59/33/pc 79/43/t 53/26/sn 67/30/r 42/28/pc 59/34/pc 41/25/pc

Dillingham 44/32

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24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.00" Month to date ........................... 0.19" Normal month to date ............. 0.25" Year to date .............................. 2.82" Normal year to date ................. 2.73" Record today ................. 0.19" (1983) Record for April ............ 2.21" (1955) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963)

Juneau 53/36

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Kodiak 42/34

Sitka 45/39

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93 at Death Valley, Calif. -7 at Lake Yellowstone,

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Ketchikan 49/37

54 at Haines 3 at Barter Island

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Heavy rain will stretch from Maine to Florida today while thunderstorms erupt from eastern Pennsylvania to the Gulf. Storms could contain damaging winds. Rain will fall in Montana and Idaho.

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72/68/r 84/62/c 74/64/r 78/38/pc 62/45/r 66/62/r 41/18/pc 41/32/c 71/47/r 30/22/pc 72/47/s 32/19/c 55/28/s 59/41/sh 61/25/s 74/57/pc 62/20/s 83/71/s 77/73/r 59/58/r 71/60/t

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Cold Bay 45/32

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High ............................................... 47 Low ................................................ 25 Normal high .................................. 45 Normal low .................................... 27 Record high ........................ 51 (1958) Record low ......................... -6 (1972)

Kenai/ Soldotna 46/31 Seward 46/34 Homer 45/34

Anchorage 49/34

Bethel 42/27

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Talkeetna 48/26 Glennallen 44/17

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Leak delays resupply rocket launch By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A space station cargo ship will remain Earthbound for a while longer because of a rocket leak. With just over an hour remaining, the SpaceX company called off Monday’s planned launch. Officials said they believe the problem can be fixed by Friday, the next opportunity for flying and the last chance before astronauts do urgent spacewalking repairs. A helium leak in the firststage of the unmanned Falcon rocket forced a halt to the countdown, the latest delay spanning the past month. Over the weekend, NASA almost postponed the launch attempt because of a computer outage at the International Space Station. But mission managers decided Sunday that everything would be safe for the arrival of the Dragon capsule and its 2½ tons of supplies. The computer, a critical backup, failed outside the space station Friday as flight controllers were trying to activate it for a routine software load. The primary computer has been working fine. It’s the first breakdown ever of one of these so-called space station MDMs, or multiplexerdemultiplexers, used to route

AP Photo/NASA TV

This image made available from a video by NASA TV shows the SpaceX Falcon rocket on the launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Monday.

computer commands for a wide variety of systems. Forty-five MDMs are scattered around the orbiting lab. The failed one is located outside and therefore will require spacewalking repairs. The Dragon capsule holds a gasket-like material for next week’s computer replacement. This new material was rushed to the launch site over the weekend and loaded into the Dragon. NASA said astronauts can make the repair without it if necessary. NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Steven Swanson will perform the spacewalk next Tuesday — regardless of whether the Dragon flies by then. It will take several days to

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Should a state-wide ban on smoking in public places be enacted? The following selected comments were submitted by our readers:

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get the replacement computer ready, thus the one-week wait before the job, NASA’s Kenny Todd, a station operations manager, said Monday. SpaceX — Space Exploration Technologies Corp. of California — is one of two American companies hired by NASA to fill the cargo gap left when the space shuttles retired in 2011. Orbital Sciences Corp. of Virginia is the other.

If the SpaceX Dragon isn’t flying by Friday, the company may have to get in line behind Orbital, on track for a May delivery run from its Virginia launching site. The Dragon should have soared in mid-March, but SpaceX needed two extra weeks of launch prepping. Then an Air Force radar-tracking device was damaged in a fluke accident; an electrical short caused the instrument to overheat. Monday’s helium leak apparently came from a system that separates the first-stage during the first few minutes of flight. Earlier in the afternoon, SpaceX signed a 20-year lease with NASA to take over the launch pad used during the Apollo and shuttle programs. Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39-A would be used for SpaceX launches with astronauts bound for the space station in three or four more years, if NASA approves the venture. Russia currently provides the only way to get astronauts to and from the space station.

Silver closed............ 19.98 -0.02 Dow Jones avg..... 16,173.24 +146.49 NASDAQ................4,022.69 +22.96 S&P 500................1,830.61 +14.92 Stock prices provided by the Kenai Peninsula Edward Jones offices.

“Wrong question and extremely misleading. We already have bans in 99% of our buildings. What’s left are a few bars where folks don’t have to enter. Amazes me the amount of sheople who willingly surrender to the Leviathan. May your chains bind lightly; I will never buy in.”

Oil Prices Friday’s prices North Slope crude: $108.00, up from $107.72 on Thursday West Texas Int.: $103.74, up from $103.40 on Thursday

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Peninsula Clarion, Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Obituary Dennis Dale Laxton

Kenai Central choir concert today

Dennis Dale Laxton of Edmonds, Wash., passed away Friday, April 11, 2014. Denny was born in Lafayette, Ind., to the late Wilbur P. Laxton and Frances E. Laxton on Flag Day, June 14, 1941. He was a graduate of Lafayette’s Jefferson High School where he was involved in class government and was a member of the tennis team. He later attended Purdue University and was a member of the U.S. Army serving in Turkey. Denny was a highly successful entrepreneur and land developer on the Kenai Peninsula. One of his developments was named in honor of his maternal grandfather, Valentine F. Cohee. In addition, he was involved in commercial fishing and was a keen stock investor, a legacy of his mother. Denny loved the outdoors and was an avid fisherman and hunter. Having grown up on the banks of the Wabash River he developed this love early on with his father. When he retired in Phoenix, Ariz., his tennis background was rekindled in the game of pickle ball. He became an avid player and competitor. Most of his immediate family predeceased him except for a niece Shelly Stockton of Lafayette, Ind. He leaves behind Ruth Elkins who loved and cared for him for the last several years, especially the last couple years as he battled cancer. Denny also leaves behind myriad friends in Indiana, Alaska, Washington and his second home in Arizona. He will be missed by all. Arrangements are pending and will be handled by Funeral Alternatives of Snohomish County, who will handle inquires.

The Kenai Central Concert Choir will present its annual Spring Concert today, featuring a wide variety of music including solos in preparation for the Alaska State Solo/Ensemble competition in Anchorage this May. The concert starts at 7 p.m. in the Renee C. Henderson Auditorium at Kenai Central High School.

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Today 8 a.m. • Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 398-9440. 10:30 a.m. • Take Off Pounds Sensibly, for all ages, meets at the Kenai Senior Center. For more information call 907-283-3451. Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. • Kenai Bridge Club plays party bridge at the Kenai Senior Center. Call 907-252-9330 or 907-283-7609. 1 p.m. • Free Seated Zumba Gold at the Kenai Senior Center. New participants, active older adults, and chair-bound or limited mobility participants are encouraged. 6 p.m. • Weight Watchers, Woodruef Building, 155 Smith Way, Soldotna. Doors open at 5:15; joining members should arrive by 5:30; Getting Started session for newcomers at 6:30. Call 907262-4892. • ICAN (International Cesarean Awareness Network) meets in Old Town Kenai. Contact Niki at 394-9166 for directions. Kids are welcome at this potluck type event. 6:30 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous “Speaking of Solutions” group at Central Peninsula Hospital, Redoubt Room, Soldotna. 7 p.m. • Lost & Found Grief Self Help Group at Christ Lutheran Church, 128 Soldotna Ave. For more information, call 907-4203979. 8 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “It works” at URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. • AA North Roaders Group Step and Traditions Study at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 907242-9477. • Alcoholics Anonymous Ninichik support group at United Methodist Church, 15811 Sterling Highway, Ninilchik. Call 907567-3574. The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations. To have your event listed, email organization name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone number to news@peninsulaclarion.com.

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Support meeting aims to ‘Humor Your Stress’

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Kenai Peninsula Cooperative Weed Management Area Annual Workshop The Annual Weed Workshop will be held at the Kenai River Center on Funny River Road April 25 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. This free workshop provides an opportunity to learn about invasive creatures in our community, what controls are being used, what are the risks, what to watch for and time to ask questions of the experts. From pike to elodea, roadside vegetation and reed canary grass, there are topics of interest for folks on the Kenai. DEC CEUs available; for further information visit: www.kenaiweeds.org or call Janice at the Cooperative Extension Service, 262-5824.

A Caregiver Support Meeting from 1-3 p.m. today at the Kenai Senior Center will look at the video “Humor Your Stress,” Hosts for exchange students needed with Loretta LaRoche. All caregivers are encouraged to parPlease consider hosting a college student from another counticipate for a good laugh. Take a respite break! Need respite try. These students will be attending Kenai Peninsula College help? Call Judy at 907-262-1280. during the 2014-2015 school year and are with the YFU (Youth for Understanding) program. They are responsible for getting Kenai gets to work on playground upgrades themselves places by carpooling or using CARTS and have their own funds for any other needs. People who host receive a $200/ A work session to help plan the upgrades and expansion of month stipend. You might consider hosting for a year or a semesKenai Municipal Park Playground is today at 6 p.m. and should ter. If there are any questions, you may contact Mark Larson at last until 7:30 p.m., downstairs at Kenai City Hall. Contact Bob 252-3058 or Diane Taylor 262-0328 at Kenai Peninsula LearnFrates at 283-3692 for more information. ing Center. Completing an application will not obligate you but will let program staff know you might consider this opportunity.

Prostate cancer support group to meet

There will be a meeting for men affected by prostate cancer Spinning, golf simulator at Nikiski rec center at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Redoubt room at Central Peninsula Spin bicycle classes and Full Swing Golf are available at the Hospital. Family and friends are welcome. For information Nikiski Community Recreation Center. Call 776-8800 for more contact Jim at 260-4904. information.

Snack might help avoid fight with spouse By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON — A quick candy bar may stave off more than hunger. It could prevent major fights between husbands and wives, at least if a new study that used voodoo dolls is right. That’s because low blood sugar can make spouses touchy, researchers propose. In fact, it can make them “hangry,” a combination of hungry and angry, said Ohio State University psychology researcher Brad Bushman. “We need glucose for selfcontrol,” said Bushman, lead author of the study, which was released Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Anger is the emotion that most people have difficulty controlling.” The researchers studied 107 married couples for three

weeks. Each night, they measured their levels of the blood sugar glucose and asked each participant to stick pins in a voodoo doll representing his or her spouse. That indicated levels of aggressive feelings. The researchers found that the lower the blood sugar levels, the more pins were pushed into the doll. In fact, people with the lowest scores pushed in twice as many pins as those with the highest blood sugar levels, the researchers said. The study also found that the spouses were generally not angry at each other. About 70 percent of the time, people didn’t put any pins in the doll, said study co-author Richard Pond Jr. at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. The average for the whole study was a bit more than one pin a night per person. Three people put all 51 pins in at one time — and one

person did that twice — Pond said. Bushman said there’s a good physical reason to link eating to emotion: The brain, which is only 2 percent of the body weight, consumes 20 percent of our calories. The researchers said eating a candy bar might be a good idea if spouses are about to discuss something touchy, but that fruits and vegetables are a better long-term strategy for keeping blood sugar levels up. Outside experts gave the study, funded by the National Science Foundation, mixed reviews. Chris Beedie, who teaches psychology at the Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom, said he thought the study’s method was flawed and that his own work disagrees with Bushman’s conclusions. The better way to test Bushman’s concept is to give people high glucose

Spring up with some asparagus By SARA MOULTON Associated Press

Asparagus has been a delicious symbol of spring since at least as far back as the Greeks, who called it asparagos — literally, “to spring up.” But however it is spelled, it makes me happy. Most grocers sell asparagus in a range of sizes, from thin and willowy to thick and stocky. Whatever the size, look for stalks that are firm and smooth from top to bottom, with tight, un-feathery tips. Also check that the grocer stored it properly, because asparagus is quite perishable. It should be stored stem down in ice or a bit of water. Once you get the asparagus home, arrange the stalks standing on their bottoms in a glass jar filled with 1/2 inch of water, or in a zip-close plastic bag with damp paper towel wrapped around the bottoms of the stems. And try to eat your beautiful asparagus within a day or two of purchase, when it’s still at its peak of freshness. When it comes to prepping

asparagus, I have one rule: If the stem is more than 1/3 inch thick, it must be peeled. Doing so ensures the spear will cook evenly. If you don’t peel it, you’ll overcook the tip before the stem becomes tender. Another reason to lose the peel on a thick stalk is that it’s tough. If, however, it strikes you as wasteful to lose those peels, you can gather them up (along with the tough bottoms of the stalks, which you also need to discard) and simmer them in chicken or vegetable broth to make a clear and flavorful asparagus soup. Once prepped, there are any number of delicious ways to cook asparagus. To start, there’s the old tried and true — briefly boiling or steaming the spears, then topping them with butter or vinaigrette. Simple and wonderful. It also can be grilled, broiled or roasted at high heat, all of which amplify its natural sugars. By the way, I think it is asparagus’ natural sweetness that persuades usually veggieaverse children to make an exception.

In this case, though, I’ve moved asparagus from the side to the center of the plate in the form of a one-pot Asian main course. You’ll want to have all the ingredients prepped and lined up on the counter before you start because once you get rolling everything goes into the pan very quickly. The actual cooking time is scarcely 10 minutes. You begin by pan-searing the raw spears in a hot pan to get a little color on them, adding shiitake mushrooms and shrimp, then flavoring it all with ginger, garlic, chili slices and oyster sauce. Serve it with a side of brown rice or your favorite whole grain and you’re good to go.

on some occasions and low glucose on others, and see if that makes a difference in actual acts of aggression, he said. But Julie Schumacher, who studies psychology and domestic violence at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, called the study well-designed and said it is reasonable to conclude, as the study did, that “low glucose levels might be one factor that contributes to intimate partner violence.” Still, she and Beedie said it might be a big leap to interpret the results with voodoo dolls as indicating risk for actual physical aggression against a spouse. The study procedure also raised another problem. Bushman had to handle a call from his credit card company, which wanted to make sure it was really he who had spent $5,000 to buy more than 200 voodoo dolls.

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Injection of students needs full inquiry and airing Administrators at the University

of Alaska Fairbanks have a major challenge on their hands since learning that students in a medical assistant program at UAF’s Career and Technical College were instructed to inject fellow students with a solution not authorized for use on humans or animals. University officials so far appear to have responded with urgency and care to a situation that is highly troubling. It’s not only Chancellor Brian Rogers and other top administrators who are wanting to understand how an instructor could, apparently, so blatantly ignore the warning labels on the solution’s containers. Past and present students of the instructor will want to know, as will prospective students. The incident became public Wednesday in a story by News-Miner reporter Jeff Richardson. The story quoted Chancellor Rogers as calling the injection problem “the most serious issue I’ve seen” since he became chancellor in 2008. He also said UAF accepts responsibility for the misuse of the solution. It was a student who sensed that something wasn’t right with the class’s practice injections and contacted the solution’s manufacturer, who in turn quickly contacted university officials to express alarm at how the product was being used. The manufacturer instructed that the solution cease being used for injection practice on students and that students get medical attention. The tasks facing UAF officials here are many. They must find out how this happened. They must correct the procedures that obviously failed and allowed this to happen. They must, when determined appropriate, punish those whose decisions, actions or inactions allowed this to happen. They must provide medical assistance to the students as needed. They must make an extended effort to contact all students who may have been injected with the unauthorized solution this year or in prior years. They must assist students whose degree schedule may have been thrown off track by the incident. And they must make the findings of their investigation public. That’s a long list. But university officials have shown that they are, in fact, working on these very things. Chancellor Rogers is clearly upset, as he should be. So far, he is saying and doing all the right things to maintain confidence in the university. — Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, April 12

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Kathleen Sebelius: Scapegoat

Dictionary.com offers two definitions for scapegoat: “1. A person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place; 2. Chiefly biblical. A goat let loose in the wilderness on Yom Kippur after the high priest symbolically laid the sins of the people on its head. Lev. 16:8,10,26.” Both definitions seem to fit last week’s announcement of the “resignation” of Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services, who presided over the disastrous rollout of the government’s website, healthcare.gov, which was supposed to provide easy access for people who wished to sign up for Obamacare. It wasn’t entirely Sebelius’ fault, though her experience with a website when she was governor of Kansas should have sounded alarm bells. As The Daily Caller website reported last October, “Sebelius oversaw numerous costly and disastrous government website projects during her six-year governorship ... including a failed update of the Department of Labor’s program to provide unemployment pay and other services and similar updates pertaining to the Department of Administration and the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles services.” Kansas Labor Secretary Karin Brownlee told the Daily Caller about this: “In the Kansas Senate, I chaired the Commerce committee. We had oversight over the Department of Labor. For years, we watched as the Department of Labor under Sebelius worked on that computer program. After seven years and $50 million, something should work.” When you’re spending taxpayer money, apparently successful outcomes is not a requirement.

Sebelius was tasked with putting the square peg of government into the round hole of free enterprise and competition. It didn’t work in Washington any better than it did in Kansas. The prob- Cal Thomas lem wasn’t just the Obamacare website. The problem was, and remains, Obamacare itself. Those who have been paying attention know that the administration’s claim to have signed up more than 7 million people during the open enrollment period is bogus when one-fifth of those who are counted as “enrolled” have not paid their premiums. Costs have escalated, possibly discouraging new customers. Only 14 percent of those who have enrolled in Obamacare were previously uninsured, according to a McKinsey management consulting firm report cited by Forbes magazine. In addition, McKinsey found that, according to Forbes, “only 48 percent had thus far signed on for a 2014 health plan. Within that 48 percent, three-fifths were previously uninsured people who liked their old plans and were able to keep them. The remaining three-fifths were the ones who signed up for coverage on the Obamacare exchanges. Of the Obamacare sign-ups, only 27 percent had been previously uninsured in 2013. And of that 27 percent, nearly half had yet to pay a premium. (By contrast, among the 73 percent who had been previously insured, 86 percent had paid.)” In an April 9 article for Psychology To-

day, John C. Goodman, Ph.D., and author of “Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis,” writes the reason that Obamacare is failing to deliver on the president’s promises is that “...the administration had to appease every single Democratic constituency and every major special-interest group. Imagine going around a table and asking each group what is the one thing they must have in order to support the legislation — the insurance companies, the drug companies, the hospitals, the labor unions, AMA, AARP, etc., and no one making sure that all the separate demands fit together in a sensible way.” The question remains: Why do so many people put their faith in government, when it does so few things well and with efficiency and reasonable cost? We don’t even seem to be able to win wars anymore, so why would anyone have faith that the government can do a better job of directing health insurance and inevitably dictating who gets health care and who does not than the private sector, or at best a privatepublic partnership? President Obama’s nominee to replace Sebelius, budget director Sylvia Burwell, might turn out to be better at fixing websites, but she doesn’t have the power to fix Obamacare. No one does because it is based on a weak foundation and the notion that government can do anything. Obamacare is the wizard behind the curtain, but without the glimmer of Oz to back it up. Cal Thomas’ latest book is “What Works: Common Sense Solutions for a Stronger America” is available in bookstores now. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribune.com.

Keeping foster children with relatives a priority There are more than 2,000 children and youth in foster care throughout the state of Alaska. A shortage of foster homes and high caseloads among state social workers, are the result of children bouncing between temporary foster homes. It’s no secret that the state doesn’t make the best parent. Children suffer — struggling to attach to each new foster family, falling behind in their education, and costing society even more in high crime rates and reliance on public assistance as adults. How do we improve our states overburdened child protection system? There is no “One size fits all,” solution. There are smaller changes we can make to work toward improving our child protection system, and these efforts have been underway for several years now. Identifying family members early on, to prevent children from drifting through our state’s foster care system is one step in the right direction. House Bill 54 sponsored by Representative Les Gara and Representative Steve Thompson offers a simple, common-sense solution to prevent abused and neglected children from being placed with strangers in the foster care system. It offers children and youth a chance at success and an opportunity to remain with family. If passed, House Bill 54 would require an extensive relative search be completed during the first 30 days a child is removed from their home. While current law requires this search, it is sometimes not done completely. This bill calls for a failsafe in the system, so children don’t get left behind, and placed with strangers, often in lessthan-ideal foster homes, when a thorough search would have found a great relative to C

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A laska A manda M etivier raise the child. It would ensure compliance by asking that a supervisor signs off that the search was completed. A recent state-commissioned study confirmed what we all know. The state’s child protection system is understaffed, leading to less than ideal youth protection, success, and outcomes. It also leads to a less than ideal ability to detect child abuse and neglect. Overworked, and new social workers — who burn out at a rate of about 30 percent in their first year — sometimes aren’t able to do a comprehensive family search, and the lives of youth are altered for the worse, in a system that faces a chronic shortage of quality foster parents. A failsafe to ensure this work is properly done will reduce the case we know of where good family placements have been missed. There are foster youth who spend over a decade bouncing between homes, communities, and schools. These youth will leave the system without ever having been connected to a permanent family and struggle in adulthood. The need to keep children connected to family is urgent. Placing children and youth with family could be the difference between jail and high school graduation. If identifying relatives early is good for children, why wouldn’t we sup-

port this? Keeping children connected with family is the right thing to do. Amanda Metivier is the Director of Facing Foster Care in Alaska, holds a Master’s in Social Work, is graduate of Alaska’s foster care system, and was recently named one of Alaska’s Top 40 Under 40 by the Alaska Journal of Commerce.

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Nation & World Around the Nation Suspect in shootings had long history of white-supremacist activity but no violence OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Never one to keep his hatred to himself, Frazier Glenn Cross for decades sought out any soapbox to espouse his white-supremacist beliefs, twice running for federal office with campaigns steeped in antiSemitism. Yet there’s scant evidence the Army veteran and retired trucker with Ku Klux Klan links ever resorted to violence before Sunday, when authorities say Cross opened fire with a shotgun and pistol outside a Jewish community center and retirement complex near Kansas City. None of the three people killed turned out to be Jewish. The 73-year-old, who shouted a Nazi slogan at television cameras when arrested minutes later, is jailed awaiting charges that investigators said could come as early as Tuesday. At some point, a federal grand jury is expected to review the slayings, which investigators now deem a hate crime. “We want to express our condolences to the families of these poor souls who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and had the unfortunate experience of a first-hand encounter with evil,” U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.

April 15 not much of a deadline for most taxpayers; late penalties don’t apply to refunds WASHINGTON — The calendar shows April 15, and you haven’t even started on your federal tax return? Chances are, you don’t need to fret. If you’re due a refund — and about three-fourths of filers get refunds — April 15 isn’t much of a deadline at all. The Internal Revenue Service doesn’t like to talk about it, but penalties for filing late federal tax returns apply only to people who owe money. The penalty is a percentage of what you owe. If you owe nothing, 5 percent of nothing is ...nothing! But it doesn’t make much sense to file late. If you are owed a refund, why wouldn’t you want it as soon as possible? And if you have unpaid taxes, the late fees add up quickly. “Most people with refunds are filing early in January, February and March because they’d like the refund early,” IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said. “So we don’t see an incentive and we don’t see much experience of people waiting later for us to keep the money longer.”

Ukraine asks for UN peacekeepers for its restive east; Russia denies ties to unrest

HORLIVKA, Ukraine — Ukraine’s acting president urged the United Nations on Monday to send peacekeeping troops to eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian gunmen kept up their rampage of storming and occupying local government offices, police stations and a small airport. The request came from a government that has proved powerless to rein in separatists in its eastern and southern regions, where insurgents have seized or barricaded government buildings in at least nine cities, demanding more autonomy from the new government in Kiev and closer ties with Russia. The Kiev government and Western officials accuse Russia of instigating the unrest and of deploying armed Russian agents in civilian clothing to carry them out. In a telephone call with Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, acting President Oleksandr Turchynov suggested that an “anti-terrorist operation” be conducted jointly by Ukrainian security forces and U.N. peacekeepers, according to the presidential website. Peacekeepers, however, would have to be authorized by the U.N. Security Council, where Russia holds a veto.

Robotic submarine deployed for first time to search for Malaysia jet wreckage PERTH, Australia — Search crews sent a robotic submarine deep into the Indian Ocean on Monday to begin scouring the seabed for the missing Malaysian airliner after failing for six days to detect any signals believed to be from its black boxes. Meanwhile, officials were investigating an oil slick about 5,500 meters (3.4 miles) from the area where the last underwater sounds were detected, said Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency coordinating the search off Australia’s west coast. Crews have collected an oil sample and are sending it back to Australia for analysis, a process that will take several days. Houston said it does not appear to be from any of the ships in the area, but cautioned against jumping to conclusions about its source. The unmanned underwater vehicle, the Bluefin 21, was launched from the Australian navy ship Ocean Shield, the U.S. Navy said. The autonomous sub can create a three-dimensional sonar map of any debris on the ocean floor. The move comes after crews picked up a series of underwater sounds over the past two weeks that were consistent with signals from an aircraft’s black boxes, which record flight data and cockpit conversations. The devices emit “pings” so they can be more easily found, but their batteries only last about a month and are now believed dead.

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Blast in Nigerian capital kills 72 By BASHIR ADIGUN and MICHELLE FAUL Associated Press

ABUJA, Nigeria — Suspected Islamic militants struck in the heart of Nigeria on Monday with a massive rush-hour bomb blast at a bus station that killed at least 72 people and wounded 164 in the deadliest attack ever on the nation’s capital. Survivors screamed in anguish and the stench of burning fuel and flesh hung over the area, where billows of black smoke rose as firefighters worked to put out the fires. Rescue workers and police gathered body parts as ambulances rushed the wounded to hospitals. Visiting the blast scene, President Goodluck Jonathan blamed Boko Haram, the homegrown terrorist network that has targeted schools, churches, mosques, villages and government facilities, killing thousands in its five-year campaign to make Nigeria an Islamic state. Authorities said at least 72 people were killed and 164 wounded, though the death toll was sure to climb because it did not include victims whose bodies were dismembered, the health ministry said. It was the deadliest attack yet in Abuja, the centrally located capital that is hundreds of miles from Boko Haram’s stronghold in Nigeria’s northeast. “I can’t count the number of people that died. They took

‘I can’t count the number of people that died. They took them in open vehicles. People were running and there was confusion.’ — Ben Nwachukwu, civil servant them in open vehicles. People were running and there was confusion,” said civil servant Ben Nwachukwu. A counter-terrorism expert said the bomb appeared to have been buried underground, while the emergency management agency said the explosives were apparently hidden in a vehicle. Bus driver Tunji Adeniran said he was about to leave the bus terminal when the explosion struck. “The bomb shattered my vehicle,” he said. “One vehicle was in front of me. As he started his car, I heard a loud noise. I thought it was his car that exploded.” Adeniran said his brother, bank worker Mohammed Ochai, was fatally injured in the blast and died on the way to the hospital. The explosion, which struck at 6:45 a.m. in the poor satellite neighborhood of Nyanya, left a 4-foot-deep crater and destroyed 16 luxury buses and 24 minibuses and cars, police spokesman Frank Mba said. Security personnel battled to cordon off the area as a bomb detonation team combed it for

secondary explosives amid fiery blasts from exploding car tanks ignited by the blaze. Thousands of bystanders gathered, ignoring warnings to stay away. While Jonathan blamed Boko Haram, there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing, though bus stations are a favored Boko Haram target. In March 2013, the extremists drove a car bomb into the main bus station in Kano, Nigeria’s second-biggest city, killing at least 25 people. Touring the blast site Monday, Jonathan tried to downplay the terrorist network’s reach, saying, “the issue of Boko Haram is temporary. Surely, we will get over it.” In Washington, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the Obama administration was “outraged by these senseless acts of violence against innocent civilians.” “We encourage the government of Nigeria to conduct a full investigation to identify and bring justice to the perpetrators of these attacks. We continue to stand with the Nigerian govern-

ment and people as they grapple with violent extremism.” Interpol secretary general Ronald K. Noble offered to deploy a special response team to help investigate what he deplored as “this mass murder.” Boko Haram’s campaign to make Nigeria an Islamic state poses the greatest threat to its cohesion and security and imperils nearby countries where its fighters have gone to train. Fighters from Chad, Cameroon and Niger have been found among extremists in Nigeria, whose 170 million people are divided almost equally between Muslims living mainly in the north and Christians in the south. While the capital of Africa’s most populous country had remained relatively peaceful even as Boko Haram attacks in northeast Nigeria have increased, there have been notable exceptions, including a 2011 car bombing of the local U.N. headquarters that killed 21 people and wounded 60. In May 2013, Jonathan declared a state of emergency and deployed thousands of troops to the northeast after the extremists took control of entire towns and villages. Security forces quickly forced the insurgents out of urban areas but have been battling to dislodge them from hideouts, despite near-daily air bombardments and ground assaults this year on forests and mountain caves along the border with Cameroon.

Post, Guardian win Pulitzers for NSA revelations By MEGHAN BARR Associated Press

NEW YORK — The Washington Post and The Guardian won the Pulitzer Prize in public service Monday for revealing the U.S. government’s sweeping surveillance programs in a blockbuster series of stories based on secret documents supplied by NSA leaker Edward Snowden. The Pulitzer for breaking news was awarded to The Boston Globe for its “exhaustive and empathetic” coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing and the manhunt that followed. Two of the nation’s biggest and most distinguished newspapers, The Post and The New York Times, won two Pulitzers each, while the other awards were scattered among a variety of publications large and small. The stories about the National Security Agency’s spy programs revealed that the government has systematically collected information about millions of Americans’ phone calls and emails in its effort to head off terrorist attacks. The resulting furor led President Barack Obama to impose limits on the surveillance. The reporting “helped stimulate the very important discus-

sion about the balance between privacy and security, and that discussion is still going on,” Sig Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes. The NSA stories were written by Barton Gellman at The Washington Post and Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill, whose work was published by The Guardian US, the British newspaper’s American operation, based in New York. “I think this is amazing news,” Poitras said. “It’s a testament to Snowden’s courage, a vindication of his courage and his desire to let the public know what the government is doing.” Snowden, a former contract employee at the NSA, has been charged with espionage and other offenses in the U.S. and could get 30 years in prison if convicted. He has received asylum in Russia. In a statement issued by the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Snowden saluted “the brave reporters and their colleagues who kept working in the face of extraordinary intimidation, including the forced destruction of journalistic materials, the inappropriate use of terrorism laws, and so many other means of pressure to get

Medical marijuana measure in Florida a key test of pot’s political potency for Democrats MIAMI — Tied to an unpopular president and his signature health care law, Democrats in the nation’s largest swing state see medical marijuana as a potential antidote to political malaise in this year’s midterm elections. Party operatives are pushing a constitutional amendment that would make Florida the first state in the South to legalize some pot use. Polls show the measure has widespread public support, and it’s particularly popular among young voters — a critical part of the Democratic coalition with historically weak turnout in non-presidential election years. “I wish that it didn’t take medical marijuana on the ballot to motivate our young voters,” said Ana Cruz, former executive director of the Florida Democratic Party. “But listen, we’ll take it any way we can get it.” Activists are also gathering signatures for medical marijuana initiatives in Arkansas, where Democrats are fighting to retain the governorship and a U.S. Senate seat, and Ohio, where the party is trying to oust GOP Gov. John Kasich. But those petition drives face significant organizational hurdles. The political world likely will be focused on Florida in November for clues about the turnout potential among young voters of pot on the ballot. At stake is the governor’s office, as well as a handful of competitive House seats. — The Associated Press C

them to stop.” Snowden’s supporters have likened his disclosures to the release of the Pentagon Papers, the secret Vietnam War history whose publication by The New York Times in 1971 won the newspaper a Pulitzer. His critics have branded him a criminal. “To be rewarding illegal conduct, to be enabling a traitor like Snowden, to me is not something that should be rewarded with a Pulitzer Prize,” said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. “Snowden has violated his oath. He has put American lives at risk.” At The Boston Globe, the newsroom was closed off to outsiders, and staff members marked the announcement of the breaking-news award — coming just a day before the anniversary of the bombing — with a moment of silence for the victims. “There’s nobody in this room who wanted to cover this story. Each and every one of us hopes that nothing like it ever happens again on our watch,” Globe Editor Brian McGrory told the newsroom. The bombing last April 15 that killed three people and wounded more than 260 also led to a Pulitzer in the feature

photography category for Josh Haner of The New York Times, for his photo essay on a blast victim who lost his legs. The Times also won in the breaking-news photography category, for Tyler Hicks’ coverage of the Westgate mall terrorist attack in Kenya. The Washington Post won a second Pulitzer in the explanatory reporting category, for Eli Saslow’s look at food stamps in America. The Pulitzers are given out each year by Columbia University on the recommendation of a board of distinguished journalists and others. The two winners of the public service award will receive gold medals. The other awards carry a $10,000 prize. The Center for Public Integrity’s Chris Hamby won for investigative reporting for detailing how lawyers and doctors rigged a system to deny benefits to coal miners suffering from black lung disease. The prize for national reporting went to David Philipps of The Gazette of Colorado Springs, Colo., for an investigation that found that the Army has discharged escalating numbers of traumatized combat veterans who commit crimes at home.

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Begich said. “That visit is paying dividends today.” Burnett said the reopening will not result in any significant increase in employment at the LNG plant because most of its employees were retained when the plant went into mothball status. Exports were stopped in 2012 because of shortages of natural gas in Cook Inlet fields. The gas supply situation has now improved due to new drilling to the point that a surplus would be available for export during summer. In winter, however, gas production will be reserved for local utilities.

sharp controversy over the possibility that exports could result in higher domestic prices for natural gas, and opposition to exports from U.S. industries, such as chemical manufacturers, that benefit from low-cost gas used as feedstock. Begich pressed the case for Alaska being treated differently “I asked Acting Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Chris Smith, to visit the plant last summer, and familiarize himself with our industry, our workforce and the unique situaTim Bradner can be reached tion of our country’s only LNG at tim.bradner@alaskajournal. export plant with a safe track com. record spanning four decades,”

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chapter. Jack Anderson told police he had discovered “numerous” Amazon.com purchases in recent years and after confronting his wife about it, had been told that she had forgotten about the FOOLS credit card being listed as the primary card on her Amazon account, according to the charging documents. At the time, both agreed to make personal purchases from their own bank accounts to pay for FOOLS items until the problem was fixed, according to the charging documents. Jack Anderson told police he didn’t think to check the FOOLS account again until Evans said he wanted to re-establish the FOOLS chapter. At that time it became apparent that additional personal purchases had been made, according to the charging documents. Jack Anderson told police that he did not understand how the finances were paid in the couple’s home and, according to the charging documents, said he wanted to make restitution. He “appeared surprised” when told that money had also been stolen from the Explorer troop, according to the charging documents. When interviewed by Soldotna Police, Angela Anderson said the situation was her mistake and she did not want her husband to lose his job, according to the charging documents. Angela Anderson told police she mistakenly took what she believed to be Jack Anderson’s personal checkbook and used the account number to make online utility bill payments, not realizing she was using the wrong account, according to the charging documents. Bank records verifying the fraudulent activity where seized from both Jack and Angela Anderson, according to the documents. It is not yet clear when Jack Anderson left CES. Fire Chief Chris Mokracek did not immediately return calls for clarification. Anderson was last quoted as a CES employee in a Peninsula Clarion article from May 5, 2013. There are no further indications of his employment after that time. Both Andersons have been summoned to appear in court on May 16 at 1:30 p.m. in Kenai, according to court documents.

get financial records from Anderson, who had been president of the local chapter, according to the charging documents. The two firefighters who filed the complaint said Anderson was being “evasive” about money missing from the group’s checking account and eventually told Evans that there was no money in the account, according to the charging documents. Included in the missing money was several thousand donated to the FOOLS organization after CES firefighter Cameron Carter was killed in a helicopter crash in 2007, according to the charging documents. More than $5,800 was fraudulently charged to the FOOLS account, including utility payments and charges from a hotel in Maui, and according to the complaint, the utility payments were made to accounts belonging to Anderson. The account had one debit card which was issued to Anderson, according to the complaint. After the investigation into thefts at FOOLS began, Lori Tyler, CES Training Coordinator, approached police in June of 2013 and said she believed Anderson had also stolen money from Explorer Post No. 999, according to the complaint. The Explorer Post is a youth group program, sponsored by the Boy Scouts of America, which targets students between 14 -18 years old and taught them the basics of fire fighting. Tyler gave police financial records from 2011 showing that utility bills registered to Anderson had been paid via electronic transfer from the Explorer Program bank account, according to the complaint. In addition, a $500 transfer was made from the Explorer account into Anderson’s personal checking account, according to the charging documents. That account was eventually overdrawn by about $60 after more than $2,400 had been fraudulently spent, according to the charging documents. When Soldotna police interviewed Anderson in 2013 he said his wife, Angela Anderson, was in charge of the household finances and, according to the charging documents, she was Reach Rashah McChesney “unofficially commissioned” to at rashah.mcchesney@peninmake purchases for the FOOLS sulaclarion.com.

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Prosecutors say Hopkins, a nationally recognized expert in communications antennas, was unhappy that his power was ebbing at the shop where he had worked for more than two decades. All three men were due at work at around 7 a.m. the day of the shootings. Belisle opened the shop with a security swipe card at 7 a.m. and a security camera showed Hopkins pulling into the parking lot at 7:08. Their bodies were found shortly after 7:30 a.m. Wells told investigators he detected a soft tire on his pickup, pulled into the Kodiak Airport parking lot, examined the tire and drove home to repair it. A defense attorney said his opening statements that Wells was further delayed by chronic diarrhea after gall bladder surgery and spent 20 minutes in an airport bathroom. Bolden works for Stan-

dards Testing Labs in Massillon, Ohio, and usually testifies on tires in civil cases. The engineer worked for Goodyear for 30 years before joining the testing lab to analyze tires and wheels and why they fail. The FBI shipped the tire to Ohio for analysis and Bolden saw the nail below the tread in the outermost groove of the tire. Nails do not generally enter tires perpendicular to the tread, he said. “It’s very unusual, especially for a nail of this size,” he said. Rubber around a nail will begin to show wear. This one did not, he said. “The material was tightly adhered to the shank of the nail,” he said. In a static test, he pressurized the tire to its capacity of 80 pounds per square inch and let it rest for 13 days. The tire lost only 7 psi, indicating a slow leak. In a dynamic test, he inflated the tire again and ran it 24 hours on a dynamometer at 62 mph, the equivalent of 1,488 miles. It still showed only a slow leak, down to 62.8

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Kenai are still in the design stages, Reese said. Funding for $20 million is available for the Spur project with a target date set for 2017. A traffic and safety analysis was concluded last December on the 12-mile stretch of the Sterling Highway between Sterling and Soldotna, one of four designated highway safety corridors in the state. One improvement already made on the Sterling Highway is the digital speed limit signs placed between Sterling and Soldotna as part of Gov. Sean Parnell’s $5 million traffic safety initiative, for corridors that have the highest rate of accidents in the state, Reese said. The radar reader collects speed data for DOT studies and doesn’t share the report with the Alaska State Troopers, she said. “Hopefully it will help drivers self-correct their speed and lead to fewer accidents,” she said. In Soldotna, Lee Frey, pub-

lic works project manager, said the city expects to complete five road projects this summer. Work was started on Sterling Street last fall and halted during the winter. Frey said the contractors are waiting for the roads to thaw out, but once work is resumed it should be one of the first projects completed, sometime in June. “We set deadlines for when we would like to see the project done but it is up to the contractor when work can begin,” he said. “The mud is too soft now and it’s not very productive to work in muck.” At its April 9 meeting, the Soldotna City Council passed an ordinance to appropriate a total of $750,000 in the street construction of North Aspen Drive. Council voted down the Special Assessment District project in January. With the city funds now available, Frey said the contract will go out to bid in the next couple months and construction completed in late summer, early fall. Porcupine Court and Tyee Street will be paved sometime this summer, while Riverside Drive will be repaved, he said. The City of Kenai has sev-

Around Alaska Inmate found dead at women’s jail EAGLE RIVER — A 24-year-old inmate at a women’s prison has been found dead in her cell. The Alaska Bureau of Investigations Major Crimes Unit announced Monday that the inmate was found dead last Thursday in her cell at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in Eagle River. Correctional officers found Amanda Kernak of Kokhanok unresponsive during a routine security check at 1:35 a.m. A release says lifesaving efforts weren’t successful. Authorities say no foul play is suspected, and the State Medical Examiner’s Office took custody of the body. Her next-ofkin have been notified. A Department of Corrections spokeswoman says Alaska State Troopers are investigating Kernak’s death.

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tered authorities in February, Gordon said. He had been off his medication for months and Continued from page A-1 cycled into a rage that prompted Gordon’s mother to call police, brothers with a machete when Gordon said. he quit taking his medications, That time, even though Mosshe said. ley told police about the CaliOther than his mental illnesses, he was healthy, and the family can’t understand how he could die in the jail, Gordon said. Schroeder said an official autopsy report by the medical examiner’s office is likely a few weeks from completion, so the Alaska Department of Corrections cannot comment on the cause of death. According to Gordon, the medical examiner’s office said preliminary findings show the death was due to natural causes involving some type of gastrointestinal bleeding. Mosley’s family ordered a second, independent autopsy, which was performed last week, according to Gordon. Mosley’s arrest was prompted by his father in Bakersfield who called Alaska authorities to make a welfare check on Mosley’s young children in Anchorage after getting into a heated argument over the phone with his son. Mosley, Gordon and their two young sons were staying on an extended visit in Anchorage, where Gordon’s mother lives. Mosley also had encounpsi. Bolden concluded that Wells could have driven on the tire for several hundred miles before detecting it was soft. The nail head, however, showed virtually no wear, he said. “There would be abrasion on the head of the nail if that had happened,” he said. Also testifying Monday was John Stein, retired Coast Guard electronics technician who once supervised Wells and became friends with his family. Stein said he left a safe with his gun collection in Wells’ care while he traveled in 1996 but came back to learn that a Smith & Wesson .44-caliber silver revolver was missing with no explanation. Stein reported the loss to Alaska State Troopers. Investigators did not find the murder weapon in the case. Robert Shem of the Alaska state crime lab testified a Smith & Wesson was one of three revolvers that could have fired bullets recovered from the scene. C

eral streets listed as priorities for improvement. Sean Wedemeyer, public works and capital projects manager said via email the city is waiting to see if any money from the capital budget will be available to move forward with Magic Avenue, which is currently in the design process. First Street in Kenai is also in the design stage and on hold until funding is made available. The Alaska State Senate passed the $2.2 billion for the capital budget, approximately $110 million less than fiscal year 2014. Senate Bill 119 now sits in the House of Representatives. In February, the City of Kenai received a Special Assessment Petition from nine property owners for the proposed paving of VIP Drive. According to city code, the special assessment cost would be a 50/50 split between the property owners and city. In a memo to city council, City Manager Rick Koch said the city does not have a funding source for the VIP project other than reserves from the general fund and recommended postponement until the city FY2015

budget is considered and after the state has finalized its capital budget. As for a future road projects, Wedemeyer said the city is in the public information process for the Beaver Loop Road improvement and pathway design. Kinney Engineering LLC was awarded the bid and the city, along with the DOT will hold a public meeting on May 15 from 6-8 p.m. Reese said the plan for the roadway is to resurface, restore and rehabilitate. The project is currently under environmental review and today is the last day for public comment. Wedemeyer said the state wants the City of Kenai to take over maintenance of the 3.75mile Beaver Loop Road. A document on the Beaver Loop Road plan is on the city’s website. “When these transactions happen it is typical for a municipality to require upgrades to the road before taking ownership,” he said. Reach Dan Balmer at daniel.balmer@peninsulaclarion. com.

High court: Alaska tribe should settle dispute FAIRBANKS — The Alaska Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that a tribal dispute involving leadership should be settled locally, not through the court system. The dispute began with a lawsuit filed against Mount McKinley Bank by one group claiming leadership of the Healy Lake Village tribe, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported. Another group also claims it is the rightful leader. The state Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the case filed by the group led by Robert Fifer, saying the tribe’s constitution dictates the establishment of a tribal court that would resolve the dispute. The court agreed with a November high court ruling that it did not have the jurisdiction to determine who should govern. Fifer’s group appealed the lower court decision. The lawsuit was filed after the bank refused to change the signatory authority. — The Associated Press

fornia warrant, he was taken to the Alaska Psychiatric Institute, where he resumed his medications, Gordon said. He was held on a temporary basis and released. He was then arrested on the fugitive warrant weeks later.

Gordon learned about the case dismissal April 1 and was told by a court official that the paperwork could take a while, but that Mosley’s release should come no later than April 3. Instead, he remained in custody and died the following day.

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Phelps comes out of retirement BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer

Michael Phelps is coming out of retirement, lured back into the pool by the fun of it and the possibility of swimming at a fifth Olympics in Rio in 2016. The 22-time Olympic medalist will compete for the first time since the 2012 London Games at a meet in Mesa, Ariz., on April 24-26. Bob Bowman, the swimmer’s longtime coach, told The Associated Press on Monday that Phelps is entered in three events — the 50- and 100-meter freestyles and the 100 butterfly. “I think he’s just going to test the waters a little bit and see how it goes,” Bowman said by phone from

Baltimore. “I wouldn’t say it’s a fullfledged comeback.” Phelps returned to training last fall and re-entered the U.S. drug-testing program. He has completed his sixmonth waiting period by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to be eligible for competition. Bowman said Phelps is “pretty far” from being back in top form. He’s been training Monday through Friday with Bowman’s team at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club in his hometown. “He’s gotten back into good shape since September,” the coach said. “He can give a good effort and certainly not be embarrassed. He’s in enough shape to swim competitively.” Besides Phelps, USA Swimming said Olympians Ryan Lochte and Ka-

tie Ledecky are among those expected to swim in the Arena Grand Prix at Skyline Aquatic Center. “I’m excited to see what he can do,” Ledecky told the AP by phone in between classes at her high school in Maryland. “Definitely, it’ll bring some more energy to swimming again.” Phelps turns 29 in June and is the winningest and most decorated athlete in Olympic history. He captured 18 gold medals and 22 medals overall at the last three Summer Games. He broke Mark Spitz’s record for a single Olympics by winning eight gold medals at Beijing in 2008. If he comes back and doesn’t dominate, Bowman said it wouldn’t tarnish Phelps’ reputation.

“His legacy is sealed,” the coach said. Ledecky agreed that Phelps has nothing to lose by diving back in. “It’s just for his own personal kind of thing,” she said. “He’s already done so much. Whether he adds a couple more gold medals or not, what he’s done has been so incredible, whatever he does next should be accepted by all.” Phelps had vowed that he wouldn’t swim into his 30s. Since retiring less than two years ago, he has stayed busy with a chain of swim schools, a foundation focused on water safety and appearances on behalf of his sponsors. He devoted lots of time to golf and participated in a reality show with famed coach Hank Haney.

Five-time Olympian Dara Torres knows about comebacks. At 41, she made the 2008 U.S. Olympic team in her second return to the sport and won three silver medals. At 33, she made the 2000 Olympics after seven years in retirement. Torres said she came back twice because she missed competing. “Knowing how competitive Michael is, I’m sure that’s a big factor,” Torres said. “When you’re on top of your sport and all of a sudden you’re not and you’re out there in life, you miss what you used to do. When you retire, nothing is structured; with swimming, it’s very structured.” Phelps’ camp is being low-key about the comeback, and he wasn’t made available to speak Monday.

Cards break Crew’s groove By The Associated Press

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Brewers’ nine-game winning streak was snapped Monday night when Lance Lynn struck out 11 in seven innings and Jon Jay hit a threerun homer for the St. Louis Cardinals in a 4-0 victory. Lynn allowed three hits over seven innings before Carlos Martinez finished off the surprising Brewers, who still have the majors’ best record at 10-3. Lynn (3-0) frustrated hitters by mixing a fastball that topped 95 mph with a slider. BRAVES 9, PHILLIES 6

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Wizards guard John Wall (2) goes up for a shot past Miami Heat guard Ray Allen (34) in the second half of an NBA basketball game Monday in Washington. The Wizards won 114-93.

Heat choose rest over top seed By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Miami Heat opted for rest for LeBron James and Chris Bosh over the pursuit of the Eastern Conference’s top seed, and the Washington Wizards capitalized in a 114-93 breeze of a game Monday night that clinched the No. 1 seed for the Indiana Pacers. Trevor Ariza scored 25 points for the Wizards, who shot 59 percent and made 14 3-pointers and remained one game ahead of the Charlotte Bobcats in the race for the East’s No. 6 seed. Washington is trying to avoid dropping to seventh so that it can avoid the Heat in the first round of the playoffs — when LeBron and Co. will be back. Michael Beasley scored 18 points for the Heat, who will be the No. 2 seed when the playoffs begin this weekend. The Heat began the day still in contention for the top spot, but they would have needed to win their last two games and have Indiana lose to Orlando on Wednesday because the Pacers hold the head-to-head tiebreaker. Figuring it would be better to be fresh for the postseason, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra sat James and Bosh, saying they were dealing with “the residual of a long season.” BOBCATS 95, HAWKS 93 ATLANTA — Chris DouglasRoberts dribbled into the lane and sank a short jumper as time expired, and the Charlotte Bobcats overcame a 15-point deficit in the final period to beat the Atlanta Hawks. Al Jefferson had 27 points and 15 rebounds for Charlotte, which remained one game behind Washington in the race for the sixth spot in the Eastern Conference playoffs. Gary Neal had 17. Jefferson’s turnaround jumper gave

the Bobcats a 93-91 lead before Lou Williams answered with a tying jumper for Atlanta with 2.6 seconds remaining. Following a timeout, DouglasRoberts penetrated and lobbed the soft jumper as the buzzer sounded.

RAPTORS 110, BUCKS 100 TORONTO — Greivis Vasquez scored 25 points, Kyle Lowry had 24 and the Toronto Raptors set a franchise record with their 48th win, beating the Milwaukee Bucks. Jonas Valanciunas had 14 points and 13 rebounds and Tyler Hansbrough had 12 points and 11 rebounds as the Raptors won for the sixth time in seven games and completed the first season sweep of Milwaukee in franchise history. Toronto had dropped 11 consecutive games against the Bucks coming into this season, but has since won four straight.

76ERS 113, Celtics 108 PHILADELPHIA — Michael Carter-Williams had 21 points and 14 rebounds, Tony Wroten scored 20 points, and the Philadelphia 76ers beat the Boston Celtics. Chris Johnson appeared to hit the tying 3-pointer with 0.9 seconds remaining, but stepped out of bounds before attempting the desperation shot. James Anderson made two free throws a half-second later to seal Philadelphia’s win. Kelly Olynyk scored 28 points to lead the Celtics. Jeff Green had 27 points and Avery Bradley added 23. Rajon Rondo finished with eight points, 14 assists and 11 rebounds.

BULLS 108, MAGIC 95 CHICAGO — Joakim Noah had 18 points and 10 rebounds and eight assists, Mike Dunleavy scored 22 points and the Chicago Bulls pulled away late for a victory over the Orlando Magic.

With one game left in the regular season, the Bulls are fourth in the Eastern Conference playoff race and looking at a first-round matchup with Brooklyn. To catch Toronto and finish third, the Bulls would need to win the season finale at Charlotte on Wednesday and have the Raptors lose at New York Kyle O’Quinn led Orlando with 20 points on 9-for-11 shooting, and Andrew Nicholson added 19. Rookie Victor Oladipo was limited to 10 points after scoring a career-high 35 points against the Bulls earlier this season.

ROCKETS 104, SPURS 98 HOUSTON — Chandler Parsons scored 21 points and Dwight Howard and Terrence Jones added 20 apiece to lift the Houston Rockets to a win over the San Antonio Spurs. The victory gave No. 4 seed Houston home-court advantage in their first-round playoff series with Portland. San Antonio used a big run at the beginning of the fourth quarter to go on top and was up by three later in the period when Houston scored eight straight to regain the lead, 95-90. A layup by Jeff Ayres got the Spurs within four points before James Harden knocked down a long 2-pointer with less than a minute left to make it 100-94.

PELICANS 101, THUNDER 89 NEW ORLEANS — Tyreke Evans scored a career-high 41 points to go with nine rebounds, eight assists and three steals, and the New Orleans Pelicans snapped an eight-game skid by shocking the playoff-bound Thunder. New Orleans beat the Thunder for the first time in 11 meetings, dating to Jan. 24, 2011. Evans made 14 of 26 shots while scoring mostly on quick, powerful bursts to the hoop. He also scored 12 points at the foul line and made a 3 that put the Pelicans ahead 90-82 with 4:21 left.

Kevin Durant scored 25 for the Thunder, who have lost two straight and won’t lock up the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference playoffs without at least one more win or a Los Angeles Clippers loss. Oklahoma City played without Russell Westbrook, who was given the night off to rest.

LAKERS 119, JAZZ 104 SALT LAKE CITY — Nick Young scored a season-high 41 points and helped the Los Angeles Lakers snap a seven-game losing streak with a victory against the Utah Jazz. Jodie Meeks had 23 points and Jordan Hill added 21 for Lakers, who had only eight healthy players. Alec Burks scored 22 points and Gordon Hayward had 21 points for Utah. Enes Kanter had 19 points and 12 rebounds and Trey Burke chipped in 17 for the Jazz, who have lost 10 of 11 games.

GRIZZLIES 97, SUNS 91 PHOENIX — Zach Randolph scored 32 points and the Memphis Grizzlies clinched the final playoff berth in the Western Conference with a victory over Phoenix that eliminated the Suns from postseason contention. The Grizzlies scored the last six points of an intense fourth quarter. Mike Conley sank a 3-pointer to put Memphis ahead for good 93-91 with 1:08 to play. Goran Dragic threw the ball away on the Suns’ next possession and Randolph scored inside to make it 95-91 with 47.1 seconds left.

WARRIORS 130, TIMBERWOLVES 120 OAKLAND, Calif. — Stephen Curry had 32 points and 15 assists, and the reeling Golden State Warriors rallied from 19 points down in the first half to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves. C

PHILADELPHIA — Dan Uggla hit two home runs, including a grand slam in the ninth inning that lifted the Atlanta Braves to a wild win over the Phillies. Evan Gattis also homered twice and Uggla drove in five runs as the Braves won their fourth straight. The teams combined for five homers and 12 runs in the final two innings. Gattis, Uggla and Andrelton Simmons hit consecutive homers in the eighth that put Atlanta ahead 5-1. Domonic Brown’s three-run homer capped a five-run bottom of the eighth that gave the Phillies a 6-5 lead. But the Braves rallied against Jake Diekman (1-1). Luis Avilan (3-1) wound up with the win and David Carpenter got his first save. Ryan Howard homered and

Marlon Byrd drove in two runs for Philadelphia. Utley had two hits, and is batting .489 this season.

PIRATES 7, REDS 7, 6 INNINGS, SUSPENDED CINCINNATI — Neil Walker and Gaby Sanchez hit back-toback homers twice, and the Pirates and and Reds combined for 10 homers in only six innings before rain forced a suspension. The game will be resumed in the top of the seventh inning Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.

NATIONALS 9, MARLINS 2 MIAMI — Jordan Zimmermann bounced back from the shortest start of his career to pitch seven innings and lead the Nationals to a win over the Marlins, who endured their eighth loss in a row. Bryce Harper had two doubles and an RBI triple for Washington. He has batted .520 over his past seven games to boost his average to .348.

PADRES 5, ROCKIES 4 SAN DIEGO — The Padres scored twice in the eighth inning on Rex Brothers’ wild pitch and catcher Edwin Rosario’s errant throw back to the plate. The Rockies held a one-run lead when Brothers walked the bases loaded with two outs. Facing Yasmani Grandal, Brothers unleashed a wild throw. As Edwin Rosario retrieved the pitch, he turned and threw wildly back to Brothers covSee MLB, Page A-8

Playoffs primer NHL action begins Wednesday LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer

Here’s a look at 10 things to watch when the NHL playoffs begin Wednesday with a new format, some stars returning from injuries and renewed rivalries: NEW LOOK: Forget what you knew about how teams matched up in the playoffs. When the league went from having six divisions to four this season as part of its realignment, the plan for postseason was also altered. Two wild cards were added in each conference and at least half the first-round series were guaranteed to have teams face division opponents. IN THE EAST: The Atlantic Division-winning and defending Eastern Conference champion Boston Bruins will face the wild card Detroit Red Wings in the opening round. The team that advances will face the division’s second place Tampa Bay Lightning or third place Montreal Canadiens. The Metropolitan Division-champion Pittsburgh Penguins will play the wild card Columbus Blue Jackets and the winner moves on to face the division’s second or third-place teams, the New York Rangers or Philadelphia Flyers. OUT WEST: The Pacific Division-champion Anaheim Ducks are set to match up with the wild card Dallas Stars, the fifth team in from the Central, in the only interdivision series.

The winner will play the Pacific’s second place San Jose Sharks or Los Angeles Kings. The Central champion Colorado Avalanche face the wild card Minnesota Wild and the team that advances will match up with the division’s secondor third-place teams, the St. Louis Blues or defending Stanley Cup-champion Chicago Blackhawks. ON THE MEND: The Blackhawks expect to have Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane in the lineup when they play at St. Louis on Thursday after each had long layoffs to heal injuries. Kane has been out since hurting his left knee March 19 — against the hardhitting Blues. Tampa Bay might have to get to the second round to have goaltender Ben Bishop on the ice. Bishop has been out since last week with an upperbody injury and isn’t going to be re-evaluated until early next week. “It’s unfortunate, not just for our team, but for Ben,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “He’s had a great run with us this year.” Tampa Bay has to hope Anders Lindback, who has played in one playoff game previously, makes the most of his opportunity to play in net. BUCKLE UP: One of the many intriguing matchups in the opening round has the 2012 Stanley Cup champion Kings against the Sharks for the third time in four postseasons. The Kings eliminated the Sharks See NHL, Page A-8

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Juan Lagares left in the seventh inning with a strained right hamstring after legging out a grounder. Curtis Granderson went out in the Continued from page A-7 sixth with rib and forearm injuries he sustained in a collision with ering the plate. the wall in the first, though X-rays The ball was out of Brothers’ were negative. reach as Xavier Nady scored and, as the ball sailed past the mound, ATHLETICS 3, ANGELS 2 Seth Smith scored from second ANAHEIM, Calif. — Pinchbase as the Padres took a 5-4 lead. Brothers (1-2) allowed a game- hitter John Jaso came through for winning homer to Brandon Craw- the Athletics with a two-run homford on Sunday in San Francisco’s er off closer Ernesto Frieri in the ninth inning. 5-4 win in 10 innings. Yoenis Cespedes also went deep for the A’s, offsetting Albert METS 7, Pujols’ 496th home run. DIAMONDBACKS 3 Frieri (0-1) was trying to prePHOENIX — Lucas Duda serve a 2-1 lead for starter Hector had four hits and two RBIs, Zack Santiago when Josh Donaldson led Wheeler pitched effectively into off the ninth with a single. One out later, Jaso drove a 1-2 pitch deep the seventh inning for the Mets. David Wright added two RBIs into the right-field seats for his first and the Mets had 13 hits to open a homer of the season and the first three-game series in the desert they by an A’s pinch-hitter. Jaso has six homers and 21 hope won’t be too costly.

RBIs at Angel Stadium along with a .424 average, the highest by any player with at least 75 plate appearances at the “Big A.” Jim Johnson (1-2) got the victory with a scoreless eighth, and Luke Gregerson earned his second save.

doubles. It was by far the worst of Archer’s 30 big league starts. The seven runs and 12 hits allowed by Archer (1-1) were both career highs, and his ERA jumped from 1.38 to 4.50. Chen (2-1) retired his first 10 batters and didn’t allow a hit until ORIOLES 7, RAYS 1 James Loney doubled with one out in the fifth. The left-hander gave up BALTIMORE — Wei-Yin one run, five hits and two walks in Chen took a four-hitter into the 6 1-3 innings. seventh inning and Baltimore got its offense back on track against Chris Archer in a victory over MARINERS 7, RANGERS 1 Tampa Bay. Matt Wieters and J.J. Hardy ARLINGTON, Texas — Mike each had three hits, scored twice Zunino homered an inning before and drove in a run for the Orioles, adding an RBI single in Seattle’s who were coming off a three-game strange six-run outburst that inseries against Toronto in which cluded three Texas Rangers errors they scored only five runs in 30 in- and a replay reversal that gave the nings. Mariners a run. In this one, Baltimore built a Roenis Elias (1-1) worked into 6-0 lead over the first three innings the seventh inning with five strikeand coasted to the finish. The Ori- outs for his first major league vicoles had 13 hits, including five tory in his third career start.

Sports Briefs Pacers commit to Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS — The Pacers’ biggest win so far this season came Monday — off the court. One day after breaking out of a slump by beating Oklahoma City and hours before Miami rested its star players, essentially ceding the top seed in the East, the city’s Capital Improvement Board approved a new deal that would help the Pacers stay financially competitive in one of the NBA’s smallest markets. In exchange for providing $164 million to pay for operating costs at Bankers Life Fieldhouse over the next 10 years, the Pacers agreed to extend a lease agreement that will keep them in Indy for up to 13 more seasons. Board members voted 8-0 in favor of the deal. “This is a major factor helping us get on solid financial ground going forward,” Pacers president Jim Morris said Monday. — The Associated Press

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Scoreboard Hockey NHL Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Detroit vs. Boston Friday, April 18: Detroit at Boston, 3:30 p.m. Montreal vs Tampa Bay Wednesday, April 16: Montreal at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m. Columbus vs. Pittsburgh Wednesday, April 16: Columbus at Pittsburgh, 3:30 p.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers Thursday, April 17: Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers, 3 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE Minnesota vs. Colorado Thursday, April 17: Minnesota at Colorado, 5:30 p.m. Chicago vs. St. Louis Thursday, April 17: Chicago at St. Louis, 4 p.m. Dallas vs. Anaheim Wednesday, April 16: Dallas at Anaheim, 6 p.m. Los Angeles vs. San Jose Thursday, April 17: Los Angeles at San Jose, 6:30 p.m. All Times ADT

Basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L y-Toronto 48 33 x-Brooklyn 44 36 New York 35 45 Boston 25 56 Philadelphia 18 63 Southeast Division y-Miami 54 27 x-Washington 43 38 x-Charlotte 42 39 x-Atlanta 37 44 Orlando 23 58 Central Division z-Indiana 55 26 x-Chicago 48 33 Cleveland 32 49 Detroit 29 52 Milwaukee 15 66

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Monday’s Games Washington 114, Miami 93 Philadelphia 113, Boston 108 Toronto 110, Milwaukee 100 Charlotte 95, Atlanta 93 Chicago 108, Orlando 95 Houston 104, San Antonio 98 New Orleans 101, Oklahoma City 89

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Pittsburgh (Cole 2-0) at Cincinnati (Leake 1-1), 3:10 p.m. Washington (Strasburg 1-1) at Miami (Koehler 1-1), 3:10 p.m. St. Louis (S.Miller 0-2) at Milwaukee (Estrada 1-0), 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Mejia 1-0) at Arizona (Arroyo 1-0), 5:40 p.m. Colorado (Nicasio 1-0) at San Diego (Erlin 1-0), 6:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Beckett 0-0) at San Francisco (Lincecum 0-1), 6:15 p.m. All Times ADT

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Transactions BASEBALL American League NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned RHP Shane Greene to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). SEATTLE MARINERS — Sent RHPs Taijuan Walker and Stephen Pryor to Tacoma (PCL) for rehab assignments. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Optioned LHP Jeff Beliveau to Durham (IL). Recalled RHP Brad Boxberger from Durham (IL). TEXAS RANGERS — Selected the contract of RHP Colby Lewis from Round Rock (PCL). Designated RHP Daniel McCutchen for assignment. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned RHP Will Harris to Reno (PCL). Selected the contract of RHP Mike Bolsinger from Reno. Transferred RHP David Hernandez to the 60-day DL. NEW YORK METS — Traded C Blake Forsythe to Oakland for future considerations. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Signed INF Jedd Gyorko to a six-year contract through the 2019 season. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Suspended Sacramento F Marcus Cousins one game for receiving his 16th technical foul of the 2013-14 season in an April 13 game against Minnesota. CHICAGO BULLS — Waived F Tornike Shengelia. Signed F Greg Smith for the remainder of the season. DETROIT PISTONS — Announced the resignation of president of basketball operations Joe Dumars, who will remain as an advisor. WNBA NEW YORK LIBERTY — Traded F Alyssa Thomas, F Kelsey Bone and a 2015 first-round draft pick to Connecticut for F Tina Charles and a 2015 third-round draft pick. WASHINGTON MYSTICS — Trade F Crystal Langhorne to Seattle for F Tianna Hawkins and G Bria Hartley. FOOTBALL National Football League CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed FB Chris Pressley. DETROIT LIONS — Claimed DE Kourtnei Brown off waivers from Buffalo.

Pistorius comes under pressure CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press

PRETORIA, South Africa — Oscar Pistorius came under intense pressure Monday at his murder trial from the chief prosecutor, who dismissed his account of how he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp as a flimsy web of lies and accused the Olympian of staging emotional outbursts to mask difficulty in answering a barrage of probing questions. His voice quavering at times, Pistorius struggled to explain alleged inconsistencies in his testimony and broke down sobbing on two occasions, forcing Judge Thokozile Masipa to temporarily halt proceedings. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel was sometimes quick to acknowledge Pistorius’ distress — possibly to allow him time to recover and avoid any defense argument that he is not getting a fair trial — but also said the athlete was frantically trying to shore up a fabricated story.

“You’re getting frustrated because your version is improbable,” Nel said, standing at a lectern and gesturing with his spectacles in his right hand. “You’re not using your emotional state as an escape, are you?” Pistorius said he wasn’t in a “rational frame of mind” at the time of the shooting in his home in the early hours of Feb. 14, 2013, suggesting he was therefore unable to remember some things about that night or explain some of his actions, such as rushing around with a cocked gun after he killed Steenkamp. The cross-examination, which resumes for a fifth day Tuesday, is at a pivotal stage in a trial watched on television around the world by viewers who had admired the doubleamputee runner for his track achievements. Once a role model with lucrative sponsorship deals, Pistorius is now a suspect in a witness box, challenged by an accuser in a black robe. C

Canadian Football League HAMILTON TIGER-CATS — Announced the retirement of OL Marwan Hage. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Fined Philadelphia F Scott Hartnell $5,000 for spearing Carolina D Brett Bellemore during Sunday’s game. COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Reassigned D Thomas Larkin to Springfield (AHL). DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned G Petr Mrazek to Grand Rapids (AHL). Reassigned D Richard Nedomlel and G Jared Coreau from Toledo (ECHL) to Grand Rapids. FLORIDA PANTHERS — Reassigned D Colby Robak to San Antonio (AHL). MONTREAL CANADIENS — Reassigned F Stefan Fournier from Wheeling (ECHL) to Hamilton (AHL). NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Announced they will not renew the contract of coach Barry Trotz. NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned Fs Mike Sislo and Tim Sestito and D Jon Merrill and Adam Larsson to Albany (AHL). NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Reassigned D Ryan Pulock to Bridgeport (AHL). Returned Fs John Persson, Johan Sundstrom, Mike Halmo, Justin Johnson and Brett Gallant and D Scott Mayfield and Matt Donovan to Bridgeport. WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned D Julien Brouillette and C Peter LeBlanc to Hershey (AHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer CHIVAS USA — Signed D Michael Nwiloh. National Women’s Soccer League SKY BLUE FC — Signed M Meg Morris. WINTER SPORTS USA LUGE — Elected Dwight Bell president, Erin Warren treasurer and Mary Ann Deignan secretary. COLLEGE NCAA — Promoted Jonathan Duncan to vice president of enforcement. ARKANSAS — Named Christy Smith assistant women’s basketball coach. CHOWAN — Named Dawn Peipher volleyball coach. CLEMSON — Dismissed QB Chad Kelly. GEORGETOWN — Named Natasha Adair women’s basketball coach. GONZAGA —Promoted assistant women’s basketball coach, Lisa Fortier, to women’s basketball coach. HOFSTRA — Named Sarah Dalrymple assistant field hockey coach. MAINE — Fired men’s basketball coach Ted Woodward. MICHIGAN STATE — Announced sophomore G Gary Harris will enter the NBA draft. OAKLAND — Announced men’s basketball G Max Hooper is transferring from St. John’s. OHIO STATE — Announced men’s basketball C Trevor Thompson is transferring from Virginia Tech. UT MARTIN — Named Jermaine Johnson and Thomas Gray men’s assistant basketball coaches.

in Game 7 of the second round last year after being eliminated by them in Game 6 of an opening-round series in 2011. Los Angeles and San Jose have played 22 times the last three years, including the playoffs, and each has won 11 of those games. “We figured we were going to see them at some point,” Sharks defenseman Dan Boyle said. The Rangers and Flyers, whose arenas are about 100 miles apart, have met many times in the playoffs in the past, but not since 1997 when Philadelphia got past New York in five games and went on to lose in the Stanley Cup finals. PRESIDENTIAL PRIVILEGE: Boston had the best record in the regular season, giving the franchise its first Presidents’ Trophy since 1990. The Bruins can be pardoned for not being too cocky about their chances because they lost three of four matchups this season against the Red Wings, who are in a 23rd straight postseason. “All of the pressure is going to be on them,” Detroit goalie Jimmy Howard said. “They’ve got to win, we’re not supposed to. We’ve got to make it as hard as possible on them.” CROSBY’S CHANCE: Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby won the Art Ross Trophy for the first time since he really was a kid, scoring a league-high 120 points during the 2006-07 season as a 19-year-old, second year pro. Crosby crushed the competition in scoring, reach-

ing the 100-point mark for the fifth time in his career to finish 17 points ahead of Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf. “There’s so much more to his game than just scoring, but it is pretty amazing to see,” Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma said. WELCOME BACK: The Stars are in the playoffs for the first time since 2008. Columbus is still playing for just the second time in its 13-season history and first since 2009. The Avalanche are playing among the league’s best after three years of missing the postseason. The Lightning are back in the 16-team tournament for the first time since 2011. Dallas forward Tyler Seguin was in the postseason the previous three years in Boston, and he’s got advice to share with teammates: “A big thing with the playoffs is, you’ve got to hate the other team.” SELANNE’S SWAN SONG: Ducks star Teemu Selanne plans to retire after this season, ending a 21-season run that includes a Stanley Cup in 2006. The 43-year-old “Finnish Flash” averaged less than half a point per game for the first time in a decade. Selanne has become a supporting player on a talented team that should advance for the first time since 2009. WOE CANADA: The hockey-crazed country north of the U.S. border is represented by only one team — Montreal — in the playoffs. It has been 41 years since that was true and back then, the Scotty Bowmanled Canadiens won one of their NHL-record 23 championships.

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Public Notices INVITATION TO BID MUNDELL BUILDING PARKING AND ACCESS IMPROVEMENTS

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Capital Projects Department hereby invites qualified firms to submit a firm price for acceptance by the Borough for the Mundell Building Parking And Access Improvements. The project consists of the following: Access and parking improvements to the rear parking of the Mundell Building. The work will include but not be limited to, approximately 3,430 square yards of AC pavement, 565 cubic yards of sub-base grading B, concrete curb, sidewalk, lighting/head-bolt receptacles, and other associated improvements. A pre-bid conference will be held at the KPB Public Works Conference Room, 47140 East Poppy Lane, Soldotna, AK on April 22, 2014 at 10:00 A.M. Attendance at the pre-bid is not mandatory but is strongly recommended. This contract is subject to the provision of State of Alaska, Title 36, Minimum Wage Rates. The subsequent contract will require certificates of insurance and may require performance and payment bonds. Bid documents may be obtained beginning April 15, 2014 at the Capital Projects Department, 47140 East Poppy Lane, Soldotna, AK 99669, 907-262-9657 for a non-refundable fee of $20.00 for each set of documents, $30.00 for any that require shipping and handling. 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 at 144 North 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: Mundell Building Parking and Access Improvements DUE DATE: April 30, 2014, no later than 2:00 PM PUBLISHED: 4/15, 2014

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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI ) ) of ) ) VARVARA (BARBARA) SEDIAKINA-LARSON, ) ) Deceased. ) ) Case No. 3KN-14-32

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the undersigned Personal Representative of the estate, at the Law Office of DALE DOLIFKA, P.O. Box 498, Soldotna, Alaska, 99669.

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION HILCORP ALASKA, LLC DOLLY VARDEN PLATFORM COMMENT PERIOD CLOSING DATE CORRECTION The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) proposes to issue Air Quality Control Operating Permit No. AQ0060TVP03 to the Dolly Varden Platform, under Alaska Statutes 46.14 and regulation 18 AAC 50. Applicant: Hilcorp Alaska, LLC Mailing Address: PO Box 244027, Anchorage, AK 99524 Location: 60Â° 48â&#x20AC;? North; 151Â° 38' West; Upper Cook Inlet, AK Activity: Offshore oil and gas production Application: May 14, 2013 Emissions: The annual emissions of regulated air pollutants will not exceed: 23 tons of PM, 571 tons of NOx, 430 tons of SO2, 256 tons of CO, and 31 tons of VOC. Preliminary Review and Available Information: Based on review of the application, ADEC drafted a preliminary permit decision for the source. Copies of the draft Operating Permit, Statement of Basis, and administrative record are available at ADEC's office: 410 Willoughby Avenue, Juneau, AK 99801. These documents are also available at the Department's website at: http://dec.alaska.gov/Applications/Air/airtools web/AirPermitsApprovalsAndPublicNotices . Opportunity for Public Participation: Notice is also given that any interested person may present written statements relevant to the draft documents by the close of the public comment period. Written comments will be included in the record if received by close of the comment period. ADEC will consider all comments received and make any changes ADEC finds beneficial or necessary to assure compliance with 18 AAC 50 or State Law. Any person may request a public hearing and that hearing will be held if ADEC finds that good cause exists. ADEC will issue a final decision to issue or deny the permit after the close of the public comment period. ADEC complies with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. If you are a person with a disability who may need a special accommodation in order to participate in this public process, please contact Deborah Pock at (907) 269-0291 or TDD Relay Service 1-800-770-8973/TTY or dial 711 within 15 days of publication of this notice to ensure that any necessary accommodations can be provided. Please direct written statements or requests relevant to the proposed permit to Kwame Agyei by mail at PO Box 111800, Juneau, AK 99811, by fax at (907) 465-5129 or send e-mail to Kwame.Agyei@alaska.gov. Comments must be received by close of public comment at 4:30 p.m. on May 14, 2014. PUBLISHED: 4/14, 15, 2014

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Signs of an abuser apply to women as well as men DEAR ABBY: I read your Jan. 8 column about the warning signs of an abuser. Would you use your influence to say that men are also victims of abuse? My son was in a three-year relationship with a woman who scored 15 out of 15 on your list. We knew it was a toxic relationship, but he couldn’t see that. The night he came to us for help, battered and bloody, I finally took a stand. It took six months to get her out of his life. My son was ashamed to be a battered man, and she had told him that men who call 911 go to jail. It kept him from calling. Please, Abby, help to change that. If you use this, please keep me anonymous. He thinks I’m an “interfering mom,” but at least he’s not being abused anymore. I love him and miss him terribly. — INTERFERING MOM DEAR MOM: I’m glad you wrote so I can emphasize that abusers can be members of both sexes, from every economic level and

sexual orientation. I received a TON of mail about this: DEAR ABBY: Thank you for including both “he and she” in the warning signs of abusers. My second marriage was a sad and unhealthy rebound affair. My ex was attractive, talented and Abigail Van Buren host to multiple addictions — risky sexual encounters with men and women, cocaine, alcohol and marijuana. I became aware of her blackouts and outrageous behavior just before our wedding. I finally left after two years to avoid committing a crime in response to her physical abuse, chronic infidelities, psychological cruelty and pathological intoxication. Please urge men to report their abusers, file charges and flee bad

situations! I had no way of knowing what lay ahead for me back then. Do you have advice for other men contemplating marriage to a pretty party girl? Today I’m happily married to a deeply beautiful and noble woman, and grateful to have found her. — SET FREE IN NORTH CAROLINA DEAR SET FREE: I think you’ve stated it well. All I can add is that men who suffer physical abuse at the hands of a partner should go to an emergency room for treatment so their injuries can be documented, then file a formal complaint and end the relationship. DEAR ABBY: Gay people need to read those warning signs because abusers abound in the gay community, too. I have gay and lesbian friends who were involved with abusers. Gay and lesbian centers offer counseling for this. LGBT people face the same problems as straights do. — MIKE IN DAYTONA

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars A baby born today has a Sun in Aries and a Moon in Libra if born before 12:20 p.m. (PDT). Afterward, the Moon will be in Scorpio. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, April 15, 2014: This year you often get into situations where you encounter a conflict of ideas and actions. You will learn how to handle this type of collision, and you’ll come up with compromises as a result. You often wonder which voice to listen to. Whether your impulsiveness or your logic dominates will be your call. If you are single, you could meet someone of interest after June. Do not rush out to meet someone; rather, be yourself and trust that the right person will come along. If you are attached, the two of you seem to get each other fired up. You also act as if you were newlyweds. You will smile when you look back at this year. SCORPIO is as intense as you are, but he or she is more secretive. 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 The Full Moon triggers some high drama. Normally, you would choose not to get involved, but right now you might feel cornered. A friend will come to the rescue. Let this person know how much you appreciate him or her. Tonight: Enjoy dinner together. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Focus on getting the job done and accomplishing whatever you want. Pressure could come from a touchy situation that is not being resolved easily. You would be wise to go with the flow and not get caught up in someone else’s issue. Tonight: Join a friend for dinner.

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New roles for prescription bottles Dear Readers: Recently, we asked you to send in your hints on all the ways you reuse those small, brown, plastic prescription bottles. Here are some of the many ways you reuse and recycle these bottles: * Rosanna D. in Kentucky wrote: “Use for travel storage of used diabetic fingerstick pins and test strips. Once home, seal the bottle for trash disposal.” * Mary G., via email, said: “After collecting and drying seeds from my garden, I store them in empty prescription bottles. Just be sure the seeds are completely dry, or they will mildew.” * Charlotte F., via email, said: “As a Cub Scout den leader, I taught my Scouts to use empty prescription bottles to keep matches dry. In a separate bottle, store tinder (cotton fibers and other dry plant material) for kindling fires (under strict supervision only, of course).” * Marty B. in Arkansas wrote: “My hunting buddies and I use these bottles to store cotton balls saturated with deer scent. Take the lid off and place on the ground. When finished hunting, put the lid back on.” — Heloise Screen cleaning Dear Heloise: Do you have a hint on how to clean an LED screen? — Julie M., via email Yes, and here is the Heloise information: Wipe the screen gently with a microfiber cloth. There are cleaners made specifically for these screens, but you do not want to use any harsh liquid cleaners. A little splash of tap water on the cloth will help if the screen is really dirty. — Heloise

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Pet Tails Officer has knack for calming dogs By EVAN GOODENOW The (Elyria) Chronicle-Telegram

LORAIN, Ohio — The dog whisperer carries a pistol, but rarely uses it. Police Officer Richard Broz relies on patience and instinct to win dogs over. “A lot of cops are afraid of dogs,” Broz said. “A dog growls at them and they think the dog’s going to attack them, and the dog gets shot.” Broz, an officer since 1990, has had to shoot vicious dogs three times, but only as a last resort. He goes out of his way to avoid violence. On March 15, he climbed a fence and used a snare pole to keep a pit bull that was caught in a fence from biting him. Broz on Feb. 22 crawled under a car to leash a loose pit bull that had been sprayed by a skunk, but turned out to be friendly. Sometimes the dogs jump into his police cruiser when he leaves the door open. Broz since last summer has become the officer dispatchers call for dog complaints. “He takes a special interest,”

said Dr. Thomas Wood, a veterinarian at the Lorain Animal Clinic where Broz takes strays for treatment before they are turned over to the Lorain County Dog Kennel. “He’ll go the extra mile.” The clinic has worked with the police department since 1956 and handles between 300 and 500 animals annually, Wood said. Broz is a familiar face, dropping off dogs on a weekly basis. Those with tags are reunited with their owners quickly. Most are friendly, but some, who may have been abused, are not. Broz has volunteered at the Friendship Animal Protective League since 2012. He works on controlling his fear of being bitten, something dogs can sense and react aggressively to. Training includes sitting in a cage with a dog that is not vicious but won’t socialize. Broz said sometimes it takes an hour, but the dog will eventually come to him. Broz, who spends several hours per week volunteering, said it’s given him a better understanding of canine behavior.

Photo by Dan Balmer

World is his chew toy This 8-month-old mutt, named Kilgore, is a rescue dog who now lives in Sterling. He is an energetic pup being mentored by an older wiser dog, Mindy. He is great around his 1-year-old human sister. Kilgore loves chasing and chewing sticks.

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A-14 Peninsula Clarion, Tuesday, April 15, 2014