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MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2014 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 178

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Jury convicts man in Coast Guard killings

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By RACHEL D’ORO Associated Press

In the news Anchorage fitness club vandalized, suspect inside

ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police say a vandal caused up to $30,000 in damage to a fitness club — and then was found pretending to be asleep inside. KTUU-TV reports that police responded Sunday morning to a call at the Northern Lights Body Renew Fitness Club. They found office equipment was destroyed on the ground and a water fountain torn off the wall. Officers searched the building and said they found 29-year-old Deepak Chaudhary pretending to be asleep between two exercise mats. Investigators say Chaudhary used a member’s key card to get into the building but inadvertently destroyed the electronic door mechanism, locking himself inside. Police said the man didn’t notice the emergency exits and remained locked inside until police arrived. Chaudhary faces charges of first-degree burglary and second-degree criminal mischief. — The Associated Press

Inside ‘We are not fighters, we are diplomats in uniform.’ ... See page A-7

Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion

Live-Action fun

Cody Whiteley goes for the final blow to defeat his opponent Issac Dutton in a LARPing — Live-Action Role-Playing — bout at Beaver Creek Park in Kenai Sunday. The two are members of the Kenai/Soldotna chapter of Amtgard, a fantasy combat game played around the country, and one of four in Alaska. Nearly 30 people came out for the first outdoor session of the year. The group, known as the Frozen Coast Alliance of Northreach, meets every Sunday at 1 p.m. at the park.

ANCHORAGE — A federal jury in Alaska on Friday convicted a man of murder in the shooting deaths of two of his co-workers at a Coast Guard communications station on Kodiak Island. James Wells, 62, was charged in the 2012 shooting deaths of Coast Guardsmen Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins and retired Chief Petty Officer Richard Belisle. Wells, a man with thinning gray hair and a long white beard, did not testify at his trial. Jurors began deliberating Thursday afternoon. A day later, they found Wells guilty of two counts each of firstdegree murder, murder of an officer or employee of the See JURY, page A-10

Plans for elodea eradication move forward By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

While some details still need to be finalized, a team has prepared a plan to eradicate elodea, an invasive aquatic plant, from three Nikiski area lakes. Members of an elodea subcommittee of the Kenai Peninsula Cooperative Weed Management Area presented their plan to landowners along the lakes at a meeting in Nikiski on Thursday. One uncertainty with the plan is exactly how much money the project will receive. In the capital budget passed by lawmakers Friday, they included $400,000 for the Kenai Peninsula Borough elodea eradication project. John Morton, supervisory fish and wildlife biologist with the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, said while Gov. Sean Parnell could veto the allocation, he’s not “too worried about it.” The committee has received $190,000 to date for eradication treatments. The three-year eradication plan for the three lakes

is priced at $597,000. If Parnell scratches the project from the budget, Morton said the plan would be scaled back. Treatment for Beck, Stormy and Daniels lakes is scheduled to begin this summer. If the project doesn’t get the $400,000 from the state, Morton said crews would probably try to complete the full treatment for 2014 in only one lake. Because elodea is prevalent throughout Beck and Stormy lakes, the subcommittee plans to treat the two water bodies in their entireties. It is believed Daniels Lake was infested more recently than the other two lakes because it has less elodea, so the subcommittee has determined a partial treatment should be sufficient, Morton said. “Maybe just maybe we can knock this thing out given that it’s only in the three lakes and it’s not in the rest of the peninsula,” he said. For Beck and Stormy lakes the subcommittee has determined to treat the lakes for the

first time with both a pellet and a liquid form of the herbicide fluridone, which has been used to eradicate elodea in the Lower 48. For the following three treatments — in the fall of 2014 and springs of 2015 and 2016 — the subcommittee plans to treat the lakes with only the pellet form of the herbicide. The subcommittee plans to use fluridone produced by SePRO Corporation called Sonar Aquatic Herbicide. At the meeting, representatives with SePRO said the product has been tested by the company as well as tested and approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. They said the product, which will be applied well below the EPA’s maximum contaminate level, is not harmful to people or animals. However, it may have some effect on native aquatic plants. The herbicide works by restricting the production of the plant pigment carotene, which is involved in photosynthesis — the process of converting light into

Photo by Kaylee Osowski/Peninsula Clarion

John Morton, supervisory fish and wildlife biologist with the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, discusses the elodea eradication project for Beck, Daniels and Stormy lakes in the Nikiski area at a meeting at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center in Nikiski on Thursday.

energy. In Daniels Lake, the subcommittee plans to treat five infected areas using only the pellet form of fluridone and possibly the herbicide diquat as well. According to the subcommittee’s Integrated

Pest Management Plan for Eradicating Elodea from the Kenai Peninsula, diquat is fast-acting and is absorbed by the leaves where it is applied to interfere with cell respiration. Diquat is See ELODEA, page A-10

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By SAM FRIEDMAN Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

FAIRBANKS — Richard Oehrig spends his lunch hours laying railroad track and carefully gluing pieces of scale-size gravel along the tracks. Sometime he’s so busy with his project that he doesn’t eat. “When you’re modeling there’s always something you can improve on or make better,” he said during a tour of his new Oscale model railway. “The thrill for me is you have to know something about everything from carpentry ... to mechanics.” Oehrig, 59, is a retired Air Force electrical technician who now works in heating and plumbing. He has collected model trains for almost 50 years and describes himself as one of about a dozen serious model train enthusiasts in the Interior. In the past year, he’s been working on an especially ambitious project. In a

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In this photo taken on Tuesday afternoon, April 15, Richard Oehrig swaps locomotives on the upper rail line of his model railroad he’s building in a friend’s warehouse in Fairbanks. Oehrig spends his lunch hours laying railroad track and carefully gluing pieces of scale-size gravel along the tracks. Sometime he’s so busy with his project that he doesn’t eat. C

friend’s warehouse space, he’s building a layout for large “O-scale” trains. It’s probably the largest O-scale layout in the Interior, he said. O-scale is one of the largest scales for model trains. With a 1:48 scale, each inch in the model world scales to four feet in the real world. Oehrig’s setup centers around a crowded railyard. Oehrig owns more than 40 O-scale engines and more than 100 cars, although they don’t all fit on the layout. Around the yard are tracks with bridges, a passenger station, a house with a barbecue scene and an airport. When activated, automated steel loading cranes transfer small metal cylinders off or onto rail cars using magnets. Oehrig likes the entire modeling process from finding deals on eBay to setting up the model building facades. But See TRAIN, page A-10

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

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3:03 a.m. (21.4) 3:42 p.m. (20.2)

9:44 a.m. (-3.1) 9:54 p.m. (-0.1)

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2:22 a.m. (20.2) 3:01 p.m. (19.0)

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1:03 a.m. (11.9) 1:48 p.m. (10.2)

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7:05 a.m. (32.1) 7:39 p.m. (31.0)

1:27 a.m. (1.2) 1:58 p.m. (-2.1)

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Hi: 56 Lo: 30

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Today 6:08 a.m. 9:57 p.m.

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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

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Full May 14

Today 6:09 a.m. 9:43 p.m.

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Nome 39/29

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Unalakleet McGrath 49/35 64/36

Last May 21 Tomorrow 6:33 a.m. 11:00 p.m.

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Kotzebue 43/29/pc 43/36/c 47/39/c McGrath 60/30/pc 57/33/c 55/38/c Metlakatla 48/43/sh 25/16/i 9/4/s Nome 50/37/pc 57/33/pc 56/33/pc North Pole 59/27/s 47/40/c 46/33/c Northway 54/22/pc 55/37/c 51/31/pc Palmer 60/33/c 53/27/pc 54/35/pc Petersburg 50/37/sh 55/21/s 49/28/s Prudhoe Bay* 26/16/sn 54/41/pc 56/36/s Saint Paul 37/30/c 41/38/sh 46/38/s Seward 48/39/sh 60/33/pc 56/33/pc Sitka 49/45/sh 45/32/s 41/23/s Skagway 57/33/pc 57/24/pc 49/23/c Talkeetna 57/28/s 55/22/pc 53/24/c Tanana 59/30/pc 58/34/c 53/39/sh Tok* 52/21/pc 49/39/sh 51/34/pc Unalakleet 48/30/pc 58/30/c 54/39/r Valdez 50/34/pc 51/37/sh 50/40/r Wasilla 61/36/c 30/18/pc 35/23/s Whittier 48/39/c 55/37/c 57/31/pc Willow* 57/31/c 47/37/sh 52/42/r Yakutat 54/28/sh 44/40/sh 45/37/c Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

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62/43/pc 67/38/pc 71/38/pc 77/57/t 83/64/t 62/45/pc 93/54/pc 62/49/r 55/36/c 82/67/t 43/35/r 56/40/pc 56/41/c 58/44/pc 45/31/c 85/66/pc 80/61/r 79/63/t 58/51/r 46/29/c 76/61/t

Kenai/ Soldotna 55/30 Seward 48/37 Homer 51/34

Precipitation

From the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai

24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.00" Month to date ........................... 0.28" Normal month to date ............. 0.52" Year to date .............................. 2.91" Normal year to date ................. 3.00" Record today ................. 0.51" (1967) Record for April ............ 2.21" (1955) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963)

Valdez Kenai/ 49/37 Soldotna Homer

Dillingham 56/36

Juneau 54/39

National Extremes

Kodiak 45/37

Sitka 48/42

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High yesterday Low yesterday

109 at Kingsville, Texas 16 at Stanley,

State Extremes High yesterday Low yesterday

Cold Bay 46/33

Ketchikan 50/40

61 at Wasilla 5 at Atqasuk

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Some rain will spread to the mid-Atlantic today as the severe weather danger shifts to the Ohio and Tennessee valleys and the Deep South. Chilly rain will persist across the northern Plains.

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52/40/pc 89/55/pc 69/40/pc 52/38/c 91/73/t 69/40/pc 54/40/r 66/47/r 54/34/pc 35/31/i 72/53/pc 43/39/r 53/24/pc 58/39/sh 55/28/pc 57/41/c 57/30/s 83/72/pc 89/75/pc 72/47/pc 88/68/t

60/51/r 87/65/pc 71/60/r 61/38/c 86/54/pc 73/58/r 55/30/c 71/50/sh 55/49/r 39/30/sn 81/61/s 43/34/r 60/34/pc 53/45/r 53/32/c 63/42/pc 53/35/c 84/70/pc 90/68/t 76/58/t 84/68/t

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Anchorage 55/38

Bethel 56/33

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Fairbanks 56/33

Talkeetna 55/33 Glennallen 49/23

Today Hi/Lo/W

Unalaska 45/38

Anchorage

Almanac

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Seward

Anaktuvuk Pass 32/18

Kotzebue 36/25

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86/59/pc 74/56/t 87/74/pc 76/52/pc 75/65/t 71/55/pc 84/57/pc 72/65/t 88/74/s 80/63/pc 47/37/c 45/38/r 81/54/t 84/74/c 59/47/pc 64/56/s 84/64/t 69/57/t 92/67/pc 63/46/pc 80/57/pc

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Sky no limit for brothers pursuing astronomy By ROY WENZL The Wichita Eagle

SALINA, Kan. — In 1961, after NASA shot Alan Shepard into space, a 9-year-old boy named Steve Hawley asked his mother to buy him a dime-store telescope. Several years and several telescopes later, he asked his mother and father to help pay for college. To study astronomy. Some parents might ask how staring at stars would get him a job. But Bernie and Jeanne Hawley said yes. Steve Hawley became the astronomer and astronaut who used the robot arm of the space shuttle Discovery in 1990 to lift the Hubble Space Telescope out of the cargo bay while flying in orbit at 17,398 mph. Hubble weighed 11 tons. At 43 feet it was the length of a large school bus. And Steve Hawley, from Salina, parked it expertly in space, 360 miles above Earth. The Hubble has made what scientists say are the most astonishing discoveries in human history. It’s still up there making more. Hawley has a unique relationship with the Hubble. He deployed it, repaired it years later in space. Now he is one of the long list of scientists who get to tap on an office keyboard and tell Hubble what to look for.

John Hawley, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Virginia, can list many other historic Hubble discoveries off the top of his head: —The age of the universe: 13.7 billion years. —Vivid, compelling evidence that everything in creation started with a Big Bang. —Compelling evidence that the universe is expanding, and rapidly. —Evidence that there is “dark energy,” a force driving that accelerated expansion, just as Einstein briefly theorized. John Hawley, a theoretical astrophysicist based at the University of Virginia, is Steve Hawley’s younger brother. When they were kids in Salina, Steve would buy a newer and bigger telescope “and pass the hand-me-down telescope to me,” John said One day John Hawley went to Jeanne and Bernie and told them he wanted to study astronomy and physics, and not at the affordable University of Kansas, where Steve went. John wanted to attend Haverford, a private college outside Philadelphia. The family still didn’t have much money. Bernie was a minister; Jeanne taught piano lessons at home. “I’m sure they had real reservations,” he said. “But they didn’t bat an eye.”

John watched, with his heart in his throat, his brother’s first attempted launch in 1984, when Discovery’s engine stalled on the launchpad and someone on the radio said “fire.” He knew, before the Challenger blew up two years later, how dangerous all this was. And then six years later he kept tabs from Earth while his brother parked the greatest science experiment in history into orbit. “I talked with him after,” John said. “He said he had the worst headache he’d ever had in his life.” You could argue, John said, that the smartest Hawleys were Bernie and Jeanne, for saying yes to childhood dreams. But John, last year, along with a collaborator, won the Shaw Prize, which Steve says is the Asian version of the Nobel Prize. John split a $1 million prize with his collaborator. “People used to ask him if he was related to me,” Steve wrote in an e-mail. “Now they ask me if I am related to him!” The textbook that John wrote about the universe uses color photos shot by the satellite his brother put into space. In 1997, astronaut Joe Tanner rode Discovery into space and watched fellow astronaut Steve Hawley grab the Hubble with the robot arm.

Hawley brought it into the cargo bay so they could upgrade components. After that, Hawley redeployed it, and used the robot arm - with Tanner riding it - to do more work on the Hubble during a spacewalk. Hawley by that time was the most respected astronaut at NASA, Tanner said. “His nickname was GPC Number 6 because the other five GPCs were the five general purpose computers on the shuttles,” Tanner said. “He was that brilliant.” “I looked it up - NASA picked him for the astronaut program when he was only 26,” Tanner said. “How does anybody do that? And how does anybody get a Ph.D. by age 26? He’d done that, too.” The biggest reason NASA sent Hawley into space five times was that he was adept at keeping the peace between two astronaut tribes who didn’t always get along, Tanner said. NASA sent two kinds of astronauts up on shuttles, Tanner said: the pilot-engineers, “accustomed to working in teams to run the the operations of flight,” and the scientists, who had spent years working alone on Ph.D. dissertations on astronomy or medicine or other disciplines. “Dr. Stevie was both,” Tanner said. “He bridged that barrier like no other.”

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Tornadoes strike central, southern US, killing 9 Silver closed............ 19.70 +0.03 Dow Jones avg..... 16,361.46 -140.19 NASDAQ................4,075.56 -72.78 S&P 500................1,863.40 -15.21

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MAYFLOWER, Ark. — A state official says a massive tornado that swept through central Arkansas was responsible for four more deaths, raising the total in the state to eight. Matt DeCample, a spokesman for Gov. Mike Beebe, says Sunday night’s tornado was responsible for four deaths in Faulkner County. He earlier said it killed three people in Pulaski County and one in White County. The tornado was one of several that touched down Sunday in the central and southern United States. Among them was a twister that killed one person in the northeastern Oklahoma community of Quapaw. That tornado then moved northward into Kansas and destroyed dozens of homes in the city of Baxter Springs.

Oil Prices Thursday’s prices North Slope crude: $107.94, up from $107.52 on Wednesday West Texas Int.: $102.24, up from $101.74 on Wednesday

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Community Calendar Today 8 a.m. • Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 398-9440. 10 a.m. • Narcotics Anonymous PJ Meeting, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai 11:30 a.m. • Women’s Cancer Support Group at Soldotna Bible Chapel, 300 W. Marydale. Call 953-9343. Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. 5 p.m. • TOPS group 182 meets at the Sterling Senior Center. Call 260-7606. 6 p.m. • Kenai Bridge Club plays duplicate bridge at the Kenai Senior Center. Call 252-9330 or 283-7609. 7 p.m. • Women’s Barbershop sings at the Soldotna Church of God on the corner of Redoubt and Binkley. For more information, call 335-6789 or 262-4504. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Middle of the Road” at United Methodist Church, 15811 Sterling Highway, Ninilchik. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Dopeless Hope Fiends,” 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. • Alcoholics Anonymous “Into Action” group, VFW basement Birch Street, Soldotna, 907-262-0995. 8 p.m. • Al-Anon Support Group at Central Peninsula Hospital in the Augustine Room, Soldotna. Call 252-0558. The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations.To have your event listed, email organization name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone number to news@peninsulaclarion.com.

Around the Peninsula Sterling Community Center serves up volleyball The Sterling Community Center now offers competitive-style Volleyball on Mondays, 7-9 p.m. for high school age and adults. The center is located next to Sterling Elementary School. For more info, call 262-7224, www.sterlingcommunityclub.com, or Facebook Sterling Community Center.

Fry Bread Friday Fry Bread sold Friday, May 2 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Fort Kenay in Old Town Kenai. In addition to Fry Bread, we also have cinnamon rolls, Russian tea cakes, fudge, whole wheat bread, and two kinds of baked piroshki meat, sausage, sour cream and salmon, dill and sour cream. Fry bread and cinnamon rolls cost $3 each or two for $5 and meat or salmon piroshki is $3 each. All proceeds to benefit the Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church and National Historic Landmark. To preorder call 690-0136.

Totem Tracers present ‘Your Family Tree — Getting Started’

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An AARP driver safety course will be offered on Saturday starting at 9 a.m. at the Sterling Senior Center. The class is open to drivers of all ages. Completion of the course may allow drivers to have a ticket dismissed or points taken off their driving records. Insurance companies also may offer discounts for course completion. For more information or to register, call Vivian at 260-3966.

‘The Winter Bear’ presented in Ninilchik, Ionia North Star Community Foundation and The Winter Bear Project present the play “The Winter Bear,” a play by Ann Hanley, inspired by the life of Koyukon Athabascan elder Sidney Huntington, Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Carol Bock Hall at the Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds in Ninilchik, and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Ionia, Ionia, 5493 Burdock Road in Kasilof. “The Winter Bear” tells the story of an Alaska Native teenager who rises above the traumas of his past to become a leader with the help of mentor Sidney Huntington and a Winter Bear. The play is recommended for audiences age 12 and older. Admission is free. Visit www.WinterBearProject.com. The tour is sponsored by the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium.

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

Kenai Totem Tracers Genealogical Society will present “Your Family Tree — Getting Started” at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 3 in the meeting room at the Kenai Community Library, 163 Main Street Loop. Presenters Kari Mohn and Loretta Mattson will give instruction on how to use pedigree charts and family group sheets to begin tracing your family tree. The group will be exposed to Cribbage tournament continues Internet research through Ancestry.com and Find a Grave and The Soldotna Lions 20th annual Kenai Peninsula Cribbage two genealogy software programs. Tips on finding living relatives will be shared. Participants should bring a writing implement and Tournament continues every Saturday at 3 p.m. through May 3 at the American Legion Post 20, 902 Cook Street in Kenai. The whatever information they have on their family. public is invited to participate. For more information, call Ray at 776-5688 or Bob at 776-5339.

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NYC eatery sued over plan to move Picasso painting By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press

NEW YORK — New York’s storied Four Seasons restaurant has for decades harbored one of the city’s more unusual artworks: the largest Pablo Picasso painting in the United States. But a plan to move it has touched off a spat as sharply drawn as the bullfight crowd the canvas depicts. Pitting a prominent preservation group against an artloving real estate magnate, the dispute has unleashed an outcry from culture commentators and a lawsuit featuring dueling squads of art experts. The building’s owner says Picasso’s “Le Tricorne,” a 19-by-20-foot painted stage curtain, has to be moved from the restaurant to make way for repairs to the wall behind it. But the Landmarks Conservancy, a nonprofit that owns the curtain, is suing to stop the move. The group says the wall damage isn’t dire and taking

down the brittle curtain could destroy it — and, with it, an integral aspect of the Four Seasons’ landmarked interior. “We’re just trying to do our duty and trying to keep a lovely interior landmark intact,” says Peg Breen, president of the conservancy. The landlord, RFR Holding Corp., a company co-founded by state Council on the Arts Chairman Aby Rosen, says a structural necessity is being spun into an art crusade. “This case is not about Picasso,” RFR lawyer Andrew Kratenstein said in court papers. Rather, he wrote, it is about whether an art owner can insist that a private landlord hang a work indefinitely, the building’s needs be damned. “The answer to that question is plainly no.” Picasso painted the curtain in 1919 as a set piece for “Le Tricorne,” or “three-cornered hat,” a ballet created by the Paris-based Ballet Russes troupe.

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The curtain isn’t considered a masterwork. Breen said it was appraised in 2008 at $1.6 million, far short of the recordsetting $106.5 million sale of a 1932 Picasso painting at a 2010 auction. Still, “it was always considered one of the major pieces of Picasso’s theatrical decor,” says Picasso biographer Sir John Richardson. “And it is sort of a gorgeous image.” The scene depicts spectators in elegant Spanish dress socializing and watching a boy sell pomegranates as horses drag a dead bull from the ring in the background. “Le Tricorne” has been at the Four Seasons since its 1959 opening in the noted Seagram Building. The restaurant, which isn’t affiliated with the Four Seasons hotel a few blocks away, is the epitome of New York power lunching, having served President Bill Clinton, Princess Diana, Madonna and other A-listers. The curtain hangs in what’s become known as “Picasso Alley,” a corridor that joins the restaurant’s majestically modern, Phillip Johnson-designed main dining rooms. Some argue that the painting, donated to the Landmarks

Conservancy in 2005, is a vital piece of the city’s cultural landscape and the restaurant’s lauded decor. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger decried the curtain’s potential move in Vanity Fair, saying the canvas helps make the Four Seasons “a complete work of art.” Noted architect Robert A.M. Stern and Lewis B. Cullman, an honorary trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, both sent Rosen letters asking him to reconsider removing the curtain. Arts critic Terry Teachout blasted the potential loss of “Picasso’s most readily accessible painting” in The Wall Street Journal. The landlords also have their defenders. In tony Town & Country, arts editor Kevin Conley cast the debate as a misplaced outpouring over a “second-rate Picasso.” The debate has opened an uncomfortable divide in the city’s preservation circles. The Landmarks Conservancy honored Rosen in 2002 for restoring another important 1950s office building, Lever House, yet now publicly claims the major art collector

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In this Feb. 28, photo provided by the New York Landmarks Conservancy, a stage curtain painted by Pablo Picasso hangs on a wall at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York. Plans to move the 1919 canvas from the Four Seasons has touched off a dispute between a prominent preservation group against an art-loving real estate magnate.

dismissed the Picasso curtain as a “schmatte,” a Yiddish word for “rag.” “They’ve elevated this into something that it shouldn’t be. ... Everybody says I hate Picasso,” Rosen lamented to The New York Times last month. “But I live with five of them in my home.” Rosen, whose spokesman didn’t return calls from The Associated Press, told The

Times he aims to remove and restore the painting, then decide where it will go. The controversy has drawn a stream of art students, history buffs and other sightseers to look at the canvas. Breen, for one, isn’t surprised. “Most people would be very happy to have the largest Picasso in America hanging in their building,” she said.

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What Others Say

Obama must stress durability of U.S. Pacific role When President Barack Obama

scrubbed an October trip to Asia to attend to the government shutdown in Washington, Asian leaders worried that it meant the United States lacked sufficient interest in the region to remain a powerful presence. This week, Obama will finally make the trip, but it may not be enough to reassure allies and others. Why not? Two obvious reasons. One is Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its aggressive activities in eastern Ukraine, which have focused Washington’s attention on how to assure the security of Europe. The fear is that this new threat will divert American attention and resources to the task of bolstering NATO and containing Russia, at the expense of its Pacific role. Another is that the administration trumpeted its intent to make Asia a higher priority — the Asia pivot — but has repeatedly disappointed. In 2011, reported Peter Nicholas and Christi Parsons in the Tribune, “U.S. foreign policy revolves around a single idea: With U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan coming to a close, Washington is focusing on the fast-growing Pacific region to curb the influence of China.” But the world has had a way of preventing any “single idea” from enjoying a monopoly on the U.S. global agenda. Afghanistan, Iran, Syria and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have all demanded their share of the spotlight. Ukraine is the latest crisis to preoccupy the president and his advisers. Cuts in the defense budget mean the U.S. will have fewer military assets to bring to bear in the world. So Asian allies figure they’re bound to get shortchanged. That doesn’t have to be the case. The U.S. has proven in the past that it’s capable of addressing dangers in both places. The Pacific alliances were established in the same era that NATO came into being. We fought wars in Korea and Vietnam while facing down the Soviet threat in Europe. We’re a global power, with the means to act in more than one place at a time. None of the administration’s challenges are easy. Hammering out a good trade accord is anything but a sure thing. Countering a stronger and more assertive China will be tricky. North Korea remains the wildest of wild cards. There are limits to the time and energy of American policymakers, who are obliged to respond to immediate emergencies even when they have equally vital long-term work elsewhere. But those realities are just part of life in a turbulent and perilous world. The United States didn’t become the world’s only superpower without developing a capacity for coping with multiple challenges at once. It’s Obama’s task to convince Asians that our capacity and resolve are undiminished. — Chicago Tribune, April 22

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Sotomayor through the looking glass

All you really need to know about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent in this week’s affirmative-action case is that Attorney General Eric Holder praised it as “courageous.” There’s a strong presumption that whatever meets Holder’s approval will be insipid or politically stilted or both, and Sotomayor’s opinion doesn’t disappoint on either count. In a 6-2 ruling, the Supreme Court upheld Michigan’s prohibition on racial discrimination in college admissions, adopted as an amendment to the state’s constitution by voter initiative in 2006. It is this antidiscrimination measure that Sotomayor endeavors, in a dissent joined by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to deem discriminatory and unconstitutional. She tackles this difficult and dubious task with gusto, even promoting a new euphemism: “race-sensitive admissions policies.” If Sotomayor’s phrase were applied more broadly, we would rewrite the history of Jim Crow to refer to “race-sensitive” water fountains and lunch counters. Sotomayor builds her legal case on the “political process” doctrine developed beginning with the Warren Court in the 1960s. The doctrine can forbid voters from restructuring the political process in a way that harms the interests of minorities. Sotomayor leans on two flawed Supreme Court cases that unquestionably give her material to work with; the result is nonetheless a perverse hash of through-the-looking-glass legal reasoning. According to Sotomayor, Michigan’s amendment changed “the rules in the

middle of the game.” This is strange. As Antonin Scalia points out in his concurrence, amending the state constitution has long been part of the rules. Voters have done it 20 times since 1914. Rich Lowry Sotomayor further bizarrely maintains that the constitutional provision “draws a racial distinction.” By this logic, so does any law mandating equal treatment of people no matter what their race or ethnicity. For that matter, so does the 14th Amendment. The emotional heart of her opinion comes near the end, where she repeats over and over the mantra “race matters.” She notes how a minority can be asked what country he is from, even if his family has been here for generations, and the hurtful effects of other similar “slights,” “snickers” and “silent judgments.” This passage could be titled “Microaggression comes to the Supreme Court.” Needless to say, such inadvertent offenses can wound people. But what do any of them have to do with college admissions, or the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence? Sotomayor could have added that “race matters” when you are an Asian-American student who gets rejected from your top school because it discriminates against Asian-Americans to achieve a racial balance considered appropriate by its “racesensitive” administrators.

For Sotomayor, Asian-Americans are the invisible minority. They are highly inconvenient to her narrative. When California considered putting on the ballot a measure rolling back the state’s ban on affirmative action this year, it was a revolt of Asian-Americans that shelved it. If she had wanted, she could have included them in her discussion of the history of discrimination in America. In the 19th century, Chinese couldn’t give testimony against whites and were excluded from San Francisco public schools. In the 20th century, California banned marriage between whites and “Mongolians.” Of course, Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II. This history could extend all the way into the late 20th century and early 21st century, when colleges disadvantaged AsianAmericans to avoid having “too many” of them attend. Then, to add insult to injury, a Supreme Court justice who styles herself the champion of minorities didn’t bother even to mention them in a 58-page opinion about minorities and college admissions. For Sotomayor, racial preferences are clearly an unalloyed good. She seems blissfully unaware of research showing that they aren’t even necessarily good for the minorities they allegedly benefit. At least she leaves no doubt about her animating vision. It is of a perpetually racialized society with different rules for different groups, blessed by a “race-sensitive” Supreme Court. Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.

Putin likely to ignore West on Ukraine By LYNN BERRY Associated Press

AP News Analysis

MOSCOW — Since he took over Crimea, President Vladimir Putin has seen his popularity soar and his opposition fall silent. So when the U.S. vice president told Russia to defuse tensions in Ukraine, Putin had few reasons to listen. Emboldened by the national euphoria over the annexation of Crimea, Putin has moved against the few remaining critical voices in Russia and further neutered the news media. On Tuesday, a court cleared the way for sending his most vocal critic to prison. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was found guilty of slandering a lawmaker and fined the equivalent of $8,400. As a result, he may be jailed during a trial in a second case that starts Thursday. If found guilty, he could be sent to prison. Navalny was nearly jailed last summer, when he was running a high-profile mayoral campaign in Moscow, but his conviction brought thousands into the streets in protest. The Kremlin evidently calculated it would be better to allow him to run for mayor, but he surprised everyone by finishing a strong second with 27 percent of the vote. But now Putin, with his approval rating at 80 percent, no longer appears willing to tolerate any criticism. Chillingly, Putin has begun to cast his critics as “national traitors,” an intimation that anyone who opposes the Kremlin is serving the interests of the West. He has compared Russians who oppose his aggressive actions in Ukraine to the Bolsheviks, who took advantage of Russia’s defeat in World War I to stage their 1917 revolution. Navalny, who for years has led a relentless effort to expose government corruption, wrote an opinion column for The New York Times last month that urged the U.S. to impose sanctions on Putin’s closest friends as punishment for the takeover of Crimea. The next day, five of the nine C

people Navalny mentioned were hit. He understood that the Kremlin would make him pay for taking delight in the sanctions. “Time to pack a bag for jail,” said a post on his Twitter feed. The travel bans and asset freezes imposed on Russian officials by the U.S. and European Union have been greeted publicly by bravado and ridicule in Moscow, with those targeted proclaiming themselves proud to have made the sanctions list. But the sanctions have hurt Russia’s economy by spooking investors and driving up inflation as the ruble has lost value. The U.S. and EU have said they will broaden the list and impose more punishment against Russia’s banking and energy sectors if Moscow fails to follow through on the provisions of an international agreement on Ukraine reached last week in Geneva. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Russia must quickly “stop talking and start acting” to reduce tensions in Ukraine if it wants to avoid more sanctions. “We will not allow this to become an open-ended process,” he said Tuesday in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital. The visit was a show of U.S. support for Ukraine’s interim government, which took over after the pro-Moscow president was ousted in February following months of protests and is struggling to hold the country together. After Moscow seized Crimea, pro-Russian militias began taking over government buildings throughout southeastern Ukraine and setting up checkpoints on roads. Russia also has tens of thousands of troops arrayed along its side of the border. Biden urged Moscow to encourage the pro-Russia forces to stand down and “address their grievances politically.” The threat of violence only increased, however. Ukraine’s acting president reported late Tuesday that the bodies of two people he said were abducted by pro-Russia

insurgents were found and a military aircraft was reportedly hit by gunfire. Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov ordered security forces to resume “anti-terror” operations in the east, although previous ones have had little effect. Russia has denied that it has been stoking the turmoil or has failed to live up to the Geneva agreement. Putin has little interest in seeing an easing of tensions in eastern Ukraine, which he has described as historically Russian lands and part of what he calls the “Russian world.” The government in Kiev and many in the West believe that provoking a confrontation would give Russia a pretext to invade. Putin has said he hopes he won’t have to send in troops but retains the right to do so if necessary to protect ethnic Russians, a sizeable minority in Ukraine’s east. Putin’s ultimate goal is to prevent Ukraine from moving closer to the European Union and NATO. How he intends to do this is still an open question. But with dissenting voices at home falling silent, Putin may only need to see how far the West is willing to go. Lynn Berry, news editor of The Associated Press bureau in Moscow, has covered Russia since 1995. Associated Press writers Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow and Nedra Pickler in Kiev, Ukraine, contributed to this report.

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Police reports Alaska State Troopers

n On April 15 at about 3:00 p.m., troopers were investigating a trespass issue and contacted Steven Reichel, 21, of Homer. The investigation revealed Reichel to be in possession of heroin. Reichel was arrested for fourthdegree misconduct involving a controlled substance and taken to the Homer Jail. n On April 17 at 9:45 p.m., Christopher Manis, 32, of Kenai, was contacted during a traffic stop on Kalifornsky Beach Road in Soldotna. Investigation revealed that Manis was driving under the influence. After failing field sobriety tests, Manis was taken to the Soldotna AST Post, where he provided a sample of his breath on the Data Master, with a result of.213. Manis was found to have a revoked license and was required to have an ignition interlock device installed in his vehicle. Manis had been convicted of two prior DUI’s. Manis was arrested and charged for a felony driving under the influence, driving while license revoked and driving in violation of a limited license. He was taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility without bail. n On April 18 at 9:16 a.m., troopers received a report of damaged property at a lodge in Homer. Investigation revealed unknown suspects broke a door, windows, and dishes. Damage was estimated to be over $1,000. Investigation continues. n On April 18 at about 10:10 a.m., troopers received a report of a theft from a residence located in Ninilchik. Investigation revealed that unknown suspects stole a boat motor sometime between December 2013 and April 18. The motor was valued at $6,500. Investigation continues. n On April 18 at 8:59 p.m., troopers contacted a vehicle driving on the shoulder near Mile four of the Seward Highway. The occupants of the vehicle were engaged in a verbal altercation with a pedestrian. Investigation revealed that the operator of the vehicle, Jerry Albright, 58, of Seward, was impaired by alcohol. Additionally, it was discovered that Albright’s Illinois driver’s license was revoked. Albright

was arrested for driving under the influence and driving while license revoked and was taken to the Seward Jail without bail. n On April 19, troopers Dispatch received a report of criminal mischief at a residence located on Dana Bayes Street. The front door was damaged, after being kicked open sometime between April 16 and April 19. Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call the Alaska State Troopers at 262-4453 or Crime Stoppers at 283-8477. n On April 19, troopers Dispatch received a report of theft from a construction site located behind the Soldotna Food Bank. The theft occurred between about 10:00 p.m. on April 18 and about 7:30 a.m. on April 19. Various power and hand-tools were taken from the jobsite, many of which had the company name written on them. The incident is still under investigation. Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call the Alaska State Troopers at 262-4453 or Crime Stoppers at 283-8477. nOn April 19 at 3:05 p.m., troopers contacted a, red Ford pickup for speeding near Mile 162 of the Sterling Highway. After investigation, Alisa Delisle, 54, of Anchor Point, was for driving under the influence and taken to the Homer Jail where she was also charged with breath test refusal. n On April 19 at 12:55 p.m., Crown Point troopers received a call regarding a motor vehicle accident at Mile 43 of the Seward Highway. Investigation revealed that a dark-colored sedan had crossed the centerline twice, resulting in two vehicles needing to take evasive action to avoid a head-on collision. This evasive action resulted in one of the vehicles rolling. The dark-colored sedan did not stop and left the scene. The driver and passenger of the rolled vehicle walked away from the accident with minor injuries. Troopers are asking the public for any information reference locating the dark-colored sedan that caused the accident. Please contact Crime Stoppers at www.crimestoppersonline.com n On April 20 at 1:15 p.m., Crown Point trooper received a 911 misdial from Clause Birkholz, 49, of Seward. Investigation revealed that Birkholz had an outstanding warrant for failing to

comply with Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment resulting from a driving under the influence conviction. Birkholz was arrested for the warrant and taken to the Seward Jail on $500 bail. n On April 20 at 9:34 p.m., troopers in Anchor Point were informed of an Emergency Locator Beam (ELB) activation on land near Tuxedni Bay on the west side of the Lower Cook Inlet. Investigation revealed that the beacon belonged to David Hill, 34, of Eagle River. Contact with Hill’s wife revealed that he had departed Birchwood Airport with his son, 15, of Eagle River, at about 3:00 p.m. on April 29 in their PA-18 Super Cub, destined for the west side of Cook Inlet. Shortly after the emergency beacon activation, Hill was able to send a satellite text message to his wife, indicating that they had “bent” the aircraft but that no one had been injured and they had a cabin they could stay in at the crash site. Troopers’ air assets were unable to immediately respond, due to nighttime flying restrictions. On April 21 at about 7:00 a.m., AST HELO 3 responded to Tuxedni Bay from Anchorage. Both individuals were located and taken back to Birchwood Airport uninjured. Investigation revealed that the plane “ground looped” and sustained damage to the wing and tail. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was notified. n On April 22, troopers responded to 58090 Sterling Highway in Kasilof for the reported break-in of a cabin. Investigation revealed that a side window had been smashed to gain entry into the cabin and several items had been stolen from within the cabin. This investigation continues. n On April 22 at 9:35 p.m., the Alaska State Troopers Bureau of Highway Patrol, Kenai Peninsula Team, stopped a Toyota Corolla for equipment violations at Mile 106 of the Sterling Highway, near Soldotna. Investigation revealed that David Hoversten, 48, of Anchor Point, was driving with a revoked license. Hoversten was arrested and taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility on $500 bail. The vehicle was released to a licensed driver on scene. n On April 23 at about 12:30 p.m., troopers contacted Michael Martines, 64, of Homer, at a

Homer residence. Martines was subsequently arrested on an outstanding arrest warrant for violating conditions of probation and taken to the Homer Jail. n On April 23 at about 6:40 p.m., Frank Marotta, 38, of Soldotna, was arrested on an outstanding arrest warrant when he was contacted by troopers in front of his residence. He was taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility and held without bail. Marotta’s warrant was for failing to remand on an original charge of obstructing court order. n On April 23 at about 11:00 a.m., Britney Maureen Baier, 27, of Sterling, was arrested by troopers at a residence off Edgington Street in Sterling on an outstanding arrest warrant for failure to contact Wildwood Pretrial for remand on the original charge of driving with a suspended/revoked license. Baier was taken to Wildwood Pretrial with 10 days to serve. n On April 23 at 9:55 p.m., the Alaska State Troopers Bureau of Highway Patrol, Kenai Peninsula Team, stopped a Chevy Blazer for an equipment violation on Marie Avenue in Nikiski. Investigation revealed that James Edelen, 47, of Nikiski, was driving while under the influence of alcohol. Edelen was arrested for driving under the influence and taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility, where he later refused to provide a breath sample as required by law. Edelen was additionally charged with refusal to submit to a breath test and held without bail. The vehicle was released to a sober person on scene.

Kenai Police

n On April 17 at 12:07 p.m., Kenai police made a traffic stop at the Kenai Holiday gas station. Kathryn R. Anthony, 31 of Kenai, was arrested for driving while license cancelled, failure to insure vehicle, improper vehicle registration and violating conditions of release and was taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility. n On April 17 at 11:57 p.m., Kenai police received a report of a possible stolen vehicle off Second Street. Julia D. Strouf, 22, of Kenai, was arrested for driving while revoked and was taken to Wildwood Correctional Facility. n On April 23 at 3:52 a.m., Kenai police responded to Walmart on a report of a shoplifter.

Tami R. Hangstefer, 23, of Kenai, was issued a summons for concealment of merchandise. n On April 23 at 11:09 a.m., Kenai police responded to Kulila Place on a report of three subjects forcing their way into a window. Sean T. Autry, 30, of Kenai, was arrested for first-degree burglary and fourth-degree theft. Chrystal L. Miller, 26, of Soldotna, was arrested for firstdegree burglary and fourth-degree theft. Hunter K. Williams, 20, of Kenai, was arrested for first-degree burglary, fourthdegree theft and violating probation. All three were taken to Wildwood Correctional Facility. n On April 23 at 6:12 p.m., Kenai police responded to an assault on Redoubt Avenue. Heather Kelly, 22, of Fairbanks, was arrested for fourth-degree assault (domestic violence) and was taken to Wildwood Correctional Facility. n On April 23 at 6:47 p.m., Kenai police arrested William E. Quill, 42, of Kenai, for felony failure to register as a sex offender and felony perjury and was taken to Wildwood Correctional Facility.

Soldotna Police

n On April 13 at 4:53 p.m., Soldotna police were contacted by the owner of Play-N-Trade in the Peninsula Center Mall regarding a theft. On April 14 at 2:56 p.m., officers responded back to the store for a theft in progress. Investigation showed that Curtis J. Parker, 22, of Soldotna, had stolen a total of 45 games from the store without payment. Parker was arrested for seconddegree theft in the second degree and concealment of merchandise and taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail. The video games, with a value in excess of $1,300, were recovered and returned to the store. n On April 16 at 12:19 p.m., Soldotna police stopped a vehicle on Birch Street after a REDDI (Report Every Dangerous Driver Immediately) report was received. Jerry Anderson, 48, of Sterling, was issued criminal citations for driving while license suspended and having no vehicle liability insurance and released. The vehicle was impounded. n On April 18 at 9:34 p.m., Soldotna police responded to Fred Meyer store for a shoplifter

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who had fled from the store. Investigation showed that Tommie Adams, 34, of Soldotna, had removed about $200 worth of property without offering payment. A short time later, Adams was located at Farnsworth Park in Soldotna. Due to prior convictions for theft, Adams was arrested for second-degree theft and taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail. n OnApril 19 at 2:12 a.m., Soldotna police stopped a vehicle on Kalifornsky Beach Road at Merrywood Avenue. Two passengers in the vehicle, Dustin Rediske, 18, of Kenai, and a 17-year-old female from Kenai were each issued criminal citations for minor consuming alcohol and released. Another passenger, Karl Buchholz, 22, of Nikiski, was issued a criminal citation for providing false information to a police officer and released. n On April 19 at about 2:20 p.m., Soldotna police stopped a vehicle on the Kenai Spur Highway at Big Eddy Road. Nicholls Sloan, 28, of Soldotna, was driving with a revoked license, in violation of a license limitation, and also had an outstanding warrant for his arrest on the original charge of driving while license revoked. A passenger, Brenda Dotson, 31, of Kenai, was arrested for fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance. Sloan and Dotson were both taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail. n On April 19 at 2:52 p.m., Soldotna police contacted Charles G. Dupuis, 31, of Soldotna, at Safeway and arrested him on two outstanding arrest warrants on original charges of fourth-degree assault and driving under the influence. He was taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail. n On April 20 at 12:54 a.m., Soldotna police stopped a vehicle in the Safeway parking lot. Anthony Quelland, 27, of Soldotna, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and taken to Wildwood Pretrial on $500 bail. n On April 20 at 12:25 p.m., Soldotna police contacted Joel K. Brence, 19, of Soldotna, near the Peninsula Center Mall and arrested him on an outstanding warrant on the original charge of providing false information to police. Brence was taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail.

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Student died of stab wounds By STEPHEN SINGER Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. — A 16-year-old girl stabbed at her high school on the day of her junior prom died of wounds to her torso and neck, Connecticut’s chief medical examiner said Sunday. The medical examiner’s office ruled that Maren Sanchez’s death was a homicide. A 16-year-old male classmate is charged with murder as a juvenile in the stabbing at Jonathan Law High School in Milford. The attack occurred Friday morning, hours before the school’s prom, and authorities are investigating whether Sanchez was stabbed after turning down the boy’s invitation to the dance. Police haven’t released the suspect’s name, but people who saw him taken into custody identified him as Chris Plaskon, a friend of the victim’s and an athlete described as genial and respectful.

Plaskon’s attorney, Richard Meehan, says his client is being held in a hospital under psychiatric evaluation. Plaskon will not appear at an arraignment scheduled for Monday in New Haven, the attorney said. Meehan has said he expects his client to eventually be charged as an adult and that the suspect’s family is reeling from the attack. “His family is devastated not only for him, but the youngster who was killed. It’s a terrible situation all the way around,” Meehan said. Mark Robinson, a technical education teacher who saw the suspect being taken out of the school in handcuffs, said Plaskon is the third of five brothers and has a good sense of humor. His family has deep roots in the community, Robinson said. “There’s no reason to suspect he would have done this. I think that’s what makes it harder,” Robinson said.

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Friends and family including many students from Jonathan Law High School attend a memorial service at the First United Church of Christ in Milford, Conn., for Maren Sanchez who was killed at the school Friday. The 16-year-old girl was stabbed to death inside a Connecticut high school Friday, and police were investigating whether a boy attacked her after she turned down an invitation to be his prom date.

Classmate Imani Langston, who saw Plaskon being read his rights and taken away in a police car, said Sanchez and the boy were just friends and had never dated. Sanchez, a member of the National Honor Society who was active in drama and other school activities, had been focused on prom in the days before her death. She had posted a photograph on Facebook of

her blue prom dress and was looking forward to attending with a new boyfriend. Milford Alderwoman Greta Stanford said the school would remain closed Monday. A memorial service is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday on the school’s football field. Organizers are seeking donations so the junior class can buy a memorial bench in Sanchez’s honor.

In Malaysia, Obama emphasizes human rights By JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — President Barack Obama on Sunday pressed the Malaysian government to improve its human rights record and appealed to Southeast Asia’s teeming youth population to stand up for the rights of minorities and the rule of law. Yet Obama skipped a golden chance to promote that human rights agenda, declining to meet with opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. Instead, he directed national security adviser Susan Rice to see Anwar on Monday. Obama said his decision was “not indicative of our lack of concern” about the former deputy prime minister who recently was convicted for the second time on sodomy charges, which the U.S. and international human rights groups contend are politically motivated. Obama said he had raised his concerns about Malaysia’s restrictions on political freedoms during meetings with Prime Minister Najib Razak. “Those values are at the core of who the U.S. is, but also I think are a pretty good gauge of

whether a society is going to be successful in the 21st century or not,” Obama said during a news conference with Najib. Obama called the prime minister a “reformer” committed to addressing human rights issues. To his critics, Najib said, “Don’t underestimate or diminish whatever we have done.” Obama wrapped up his stay in Malaysia, the third stop on a four-country swing through Asia, with a business-related event Monday morning. Executives from three American companies — General Electric Co., Verdezyne Inc. and MetLife Inc. — signed agreements with Malaysian companies as Obama and Najib looked on. Obama said the deals are worth nearly $2 billion. “It means these companies will be doing more business in Malaysia and selling more exports marked ‘Made in America,’” he said. “These deals support American jobs in places like Ohio and North Carolina, and companies that export often pay better wages, so it’s a good day for American workers as well.” Obama said more needs to be done to promote trade, such

as finalizing the Trans Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement among the U.S., Malaysia and 10 other countries. The president planned to head Monday to the Philippines, where he was expected to announce a 10-year security agreement that would allow for a larger U.S. military presence there amid the Philippines’ increasingly tense territorial disputes with China. The agreement will give American forces temporary access to selected military camps and allow them to preposition fighter jets and ships. Officials said the exact number of additional U.S. troops would depend on the scale of joint military activities. The accord is a centerpiece of Obama’s effort to highlight the U.S. military’s commitment to the security of Asian allies as China takes aggressive actions in territorial disputes. He carried that message during visits week in Japan and South Korea, two of Washington’s closest Asian partners. Obama’s visit to Malaysia, the first by a U.S. president in nearly 50 years, elevated human rights to the forefront of his agenda.

While Malaysia has undertaken some reforms, the organization Human Rights Watch says religious and ethnic minorities face persecution and the government uses “highly restrictive laws and abusive implementation” to crack down on political opponents. Part of Obama’s strategy for confronting these issues has been through direct appeals to young people. It’s an approach that his advisers say could be particularly effective in Southeast Asian nations such as Malaysia that have young populations. “Young people will ultimately determine the future of this region given that there’s such a big youth bulge,” said Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser. Following his talks with Najib, Obama met with students participating in a new technology program and then held a town hall with 400 young leaders from throughout Southeast Asia. The event was part of a U.S. initiative to help mentor emerging business, government and civil society leaders, mirroring a program the White House launched in Africa during Obama’s first term.

Supreme Court takes on privacy in digital age By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Two Supreme Court cases about police searches of cellphones without warrants present vastly different views of the ubiquitous device. Is it a critical tool for a criminal or is it an American’s virtual home? How the justices answer that question could determine the outcome of the cases being argued Tuesday. A drug dealer and a gang member want the court to rule that the searches of their cellphones after their arrest violated their right to privacy in the digital age. The Obama administration and California, defending the searches, say cellphones are no different from anything else a person may be carrying when arrested. Police may search those items without a warrant under a line of high court cases reaching back 40 years. What’s more, said Donald Verrilli Jr., the administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer, “Cellphones are now critical tools in the commission of crimes.” The cases come to the Supreme Court amid separate legal challenges to the massive warrantless collection of telephone records by the National Security Agency and the government’s use of technology to track Americans’ movements. Librarians, the news media, defense lawyers and civil lib-

erties groups on the right and left are trying to convince the justices that they should take a broad view of the privacy issues raised when police have unimpeded access to increasingly powerful devices that may contain a wealth of personal data: emails and phone numbers, photographs, information about purchases and political affiliations, books and a gateway to even more material online. “Cellphones and other portable electronic devices are, in effect, our new homes,” the American Civil Liberties Union said in a court filing that urged the court to apply the same tough standards to cellphone searches that judges have historically applied to police intrusions into a home. Under the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, police generally need a warrant before they can conduct a search. The warrant itself must be based on “probable cause,” evidence that a crime has been committed. But in the early 1970s, the Supreme Court carved out exceptions for officers dealing with people they have arrested. The court was trying to set clear rules that allowed police to look for concealed weapons and prevent the destruction of evidence. Briefcases, wallets, purses and crumpled cigarette packs all are fair game if they are being carried by a suspect or within the person’s immediate control. Car searches pose a somewhat different issue. In 2009, in

the case of a suspect handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a police cruiser, the court said police may search a car only if the arrestee “is within reaching distance of the passenger compartment” or if police believe the car contains evidence relevant to the crime for which the person had been arrested. The Supreme Court is expected to resolve growing division in state and federal courts over whether cellphones deserve special protection. More than 90 percent of Americans own at least one cellphone, the Pew Research Center says, and the majority of those are smartphones — essentially increasingly powerful computers that are also telephones. In the two Supreme Court cases being argued Tuesday, one defendant carried a smartphone and the other an older and less advanced flip phone. In San Diego, police found indications of gang membership when they looked through defendant David Leon Riley’s Samsung smartphone. Prosecutors used video and photographs found on the smartphone to persuade a jury to convict Riley of attempted murder and other charges. California courts rejected Riley’s efforts to throw out the evidence and upheld the convictions. Smartphones also have the ability to connect to the Internet, but the administration said in its brief that it is not arguing for the authority to conduct C

a warrantless Internet-based search using an arrestee’s device. In Boston, a federal appeals court ruled that police must have a warrant before searching arrestees’ cellphones. Police arrested Brima Wurie on suspicion of selling crack cocaine, checked the call log on his flip phone and used that information to determine where he lived. When they searched Wurie’s home, armed with a warrant, they found crack, marijuana, a gun and ammunition. The evidence was enough to produce a conviction and a prison term of more than 20 years. The appeals court ruled for Wurie, but left in place a drug conviction for selling cocaine near a school that did not depend on the tainted evidence. That conviction also carried a 20-year sentence. The administration appealed the court ruling because it wants to preserve the warrantless searches following arrest. The differences between the two cases could give the court room to craft narrow rulings that apply essentially only to the circumstances of those situations. The justices should act cautiously because the technology is changing rapidly, California Attorney General Kamala Harris said in her court filing. Harris invoked Justice Samuel Alito’s earlier writing that elected lawmakers are better suited than are judges to write new rules to deal with technological innovation.

LIVERMORE, Calif. — A young mother believed to be suffering from depression admitted to investigators that she stabbed her 7-month-old son to death in a Northern California park, police said Sunday. Ashley Newton, 23, of San Jose was arrested Saturday on suspicion of murder, the East Bay Regional Parks District Police Department said in a statement. “This is an extremely shocking case for us,” said Chief Timothy Anderson of the park’s police department. The motive remains unclear, but Anderson said that Newton had a history of depression and appeared to have self-inflicted knife wounds on her wrist. Police were called at 10:30 a.m. Saturday on reports of a damaged Honda sedan in the Del Valle Regional Park east of San Francisco. They found the car abandoned with the engine running and an empty child’s seat. Officers were about to tow the car two hours later, believing it was involved in a hit-and-run, when Newton walked up to them holding her lifeless baby, Anderson said. Officers tried to resuscitate the baby, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. Newton was arrested after she made statements implicating herself in the stabbing, Anderson said, adding that investigators found a knife in the area that they believe was used in the alleged crime. The stabbing occurred in a remote part of Camp Arroyo, the site of a popular children’s camp inside the 4,400-acre park south of Livermore, a suburb 45 miles east of San Francisco. Newton remains in jail with no possibility of release on bond, police said. She is due in court on Tuesday.

Two planes collide over northern San Francisco Bay RICHMOND, Calif. — The Coast Guard searched for a pilot in the northern part of San Francisco Bay on Sunday after two small planes collided over the water and only one of the aircraft landed safely, authorities said. Debris was spotted in San Pablo Bay after the 4:05 p.m. collision near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, Petty Officer Loumania Stewart said. The collision involved a single-engine Cessna 210 and a single-engine Hawker Sea Fury TMK 20, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said. Each aircraft had one person on board. The Cessna crashed into the water and the pilot of the Hawker was able to land safely at Eagle’s Nest Airport in the small Northern California city of Ione, Gregor said. The pilot was reportedly uninjured. Gregor said both planes took off from Half Moon Bay Airport, roughly 20 miles south of San Francisco. FAA records indicate the Hawker is registered to Sanders Aeronautics Inc. in Ione. A man who answered the phone at the company’s listed number declined to comment. Sanders Aeronautics’ website said the family-run company specializes in aircraft restoration and that its family members are avid air racers.

NY could become 1st state to stop police from using condoms as evidence of prostitution ALBANY, N.Y. — New York City spends more than a million dollars every year to distribute free condoms to combat unintended pregnancies and diseases such as AIDS. Yet city police are allowed to confiscate those very condoms as evidence of prostitution. That conflict is behind the latest legislative proposal to make New York the first state to prohibit condoms — specifically the existence of multiple condoms — from being used as evidence in prostitution cases, a widespread practice that advocates say undermines decades of public health goals. “There may be no actual evidence, and the condom is their only way to trying to prove it,” said Hawk Kinkaid, a former male escort who now advocates on their behalf in New York City. “The fear that this will be used against you — it prevents people from being able to protect themselves.” The practice has come under criticism across the country, with prosecutors in San Francisco, Brooklyn and Nassau County in suburban New York City announcing last year they will no longer use condoms as evidence in prostitution cases. Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said she decided the benefits of condoms as evidence don’t outweigh the public health impact. Most prostitution cases don’t go to trial, and trafficking cases typically require much greater evidence. - The Associated Press

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Francis presides over historic day of 4 popes By DANIELA PETROFF Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — Two 20th-century popes who changed the course of the Catholic Church became saints Sunday as Pope Francis honored John XXIII and John Paul II in a delicate balancing act aimed at bringing together the conservative and progressive wings of the church. As if to drive the message of unity home, Francis invited retired Pope Benedict XVI to join him on the altar of St. Peter’s Square, the first time a reigning and retired pope have celebrated Mass together in public in the 2,000-year history of the church. An estimated 800,000 people — many of them from John Paul’s native Poland — filled St. Peter’s, the streets around it and bridges over the Tiber River, a huge turnout but only half the size of the crowd that came out for John Paul’s 2011 beatification. John reigned from 1958-1963 and is a hero to liberal Catholics for having convened the Second Vatican Council. The meetings brought the church into the modern era by allowing Mass to be celebrated in local languages rather than Latin and encouraged greater dialogue with people of other faiths, particularly Jews. During his globe-trotting, quarter-century papacy, John Paul

II helped topple communism and invigorated a new generation of Catholics, while his defense of core church teaching on abortion, marriage and other hot-button issues heartened conservatives after the turbulent 1960s. Benedict was one of John Paul’s closest confidantes and went on to preside over a deeply tradition-minded eight-year papacy. His successor Francis seems a pope much more inspired by the pastoral, simple style of the “good pope” John. Yet Francis offered each new saint heartfelt praise in his homily, saying John had allowed himself to be led by God to call the council, and hailing John Paul’s focus on the family. It’s an issue that Francis has asked the church as a whole to take up for discussion with a two-year debate starting this fall. “They were priests, bishops and popes of the 20th century,” Francis said. “They lived through the tragic events of that century, but they were not overwhelmed by them.” Benedict put John Paul on the fast-track for possible sainthood just weeks after his 2005 death, responding to the chants of “Santo Subito!” or “Sainthood Now!” that erupted during his funeral Mass. John Paul’s canonization is now the fastest in modern times.

John’s sainthood run, on the other hand, languished after his 2000 beatification. Rather than let John Paul have the limelight with a canonization on his own — emboldening many in the conservative wing of the church — Francis decided to pair him up with John. To do so, Francis tweaked the Vatican’s own saintmaking rules, deciding that John could be made a saint alongside John Paul without the necessary second miracle usually required. Francis sounded a note of continuity in his homily, praising John for having called the council and John Paul for helping implement it. “John XXIII and John Paul II cooperated with the Holy Spirit in renewing and updating the church in keeping with her pristine features, those features which the saints have given her throughout the centuries,” Francis said. During the ceremony, Francis took a deep breath and paused for a moment before reciting the saint-making formula in Latin, as if moved by the history he was about to make in canonizing two popes at once. As soon as he did so, applause broke out from a crowd in St. Peter’s and beyond. “This is such a historic moment,” marveled the Rev. Victor Perez, who brought a group

of students from the John Paul High School in Houston, Texas and waited for nearly 12 hours to get near St. Peter’s. “John Paul was so impactful on the church. He completed the work of Vatican II. Today honors the last 50 years of what God has done in the church.” In John Paul’s native Poland, bells rang out as soon as Francis pronounced the two men saints. “He changed Poland and he changed us with his teaching and with his visits here,” an emotional Maria Jurek said as she watched the proceedings on giant TV screens at a sanctuary dedicated to John Paul in Krakow. In the Philippines, where John Paul in 1995 drew the largest ever crowd for a papal Mass at 4 million, Filipinos watched the canonization on TV and joined local celebrations, including a suburban Manila parade of children dressed like the pope. Yet the atmosphere in St. Peter’s seemed somber and subdued — perhaps because of the chilly gray skies and cumulative lack of sleep of many of the pilgrims who camped out on streets near the Vatican. It was a far different scene from the rollicking party atmosphere of John Paul’s May 2011 beatification, when bands of young people sang, danced and cheered before, during and after the Mass.

Spirits though did pick up after the service when Francis drove through the square and all the way down to the Tiber River in his open-topped car, giving many people their first — and only — close-up glimpse of him. The Vatican estimated that 800,000 people watched the Mass in Rome, with about 500,000 in the square and nearby streets and the rest watching on TV screens that had been set up in piazzas around town. Polish pilgrims carrying the red and white flags of John Paul’s beloved homeland had been among the first to push into the square well before sunrise, as the human chains of neon-vested civil protection workers trying to maintain order finally gave up and let them in. And while it was supposed to be a canonization for two men, it was clear that the vast majority of people who turned out were there for John Paul. “John Paul was our pope,” said Therese Andjoua, a 49-yearold nurse who traveled from Libreville, Gabon, with some 300 other pilgrims to attend. She sported a traditional African dress bearing the images of both new saints. “In 1982, he came to Gabon and when he arrived he kissed the ground and told us to ‘Get up, go forward and be not afraid,’”

she recalled as she rested against a pallet of water bottles. “When we heard he was going to be canonized, we got up.” Kings, queens, presidents and prime ministers from more than 90 countries attended. About 20 Jewish leaders from the U.S., Israel, Italy, Francis’ native Argentina and Poland also took part, in a clear sign of their appreciation for the great strides made in Catholic-Jewish relations under John, John Paul and their successors celebrating their sainthood. Benedict’s presence on the altar with them was as remarkable as the historic canonization itself. Benedict had promised to remain “hidden from the world” after resigning last year, but Francis has coaxed him out of retirement and urged him to take part in the public life of the church. During the Mass, Benedict sat off to the side of the altar with other cardinals, though he was clearly in a place of honor. He received the Italian president and a steady stream of cardinals. Francis himself embraced Benedict at the beginning and end of the service. Benedict had arrived in the square on his own to cheers and applause, wearing the same white vestments and white bishops’ miter as other cardinals. The only difference was he had a white skullcap on rather than red.

Observers held in Ukraine speak under armed guard By PETER LEONARD Associated Press

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine — Pro-Russian militants in camouflage fatigues and black balaclavas paraded captive European military observers before the media on Sunday, hours after three captured Ukrainian security guards were shown bloodied, blindfolded and stripped of their trousers and shoes, their arms bound with packing tape. The provocative displays came as the increasingly ruthless pro-Russian insurgency in the east turns to kidnapping as an ominous new tactic. Dozens of people are being held hostage, including journalists and pro-Ukraine activists, in makeshift jails in Slovyansk, the heart of the separatists’ territory, as the pro-Russian insurgents strengthen their control in defiance of the interim government in Kiev and its Western supporters. Speaking in deliberate and clipped phrases, Col. Axel Schneider of Germany, speaking on behalf of the observers, insisted they were not NATO spies, as claimed by the insurgents, but a military observation mission operating under the auspices of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe. “We are not fighters, we are diplomats in uniform,” he said,

noting that his unarmed team included an officer from Sweden, which is not a NATO member. The observers appeared nervous as they were escorted by the masked armed men into the Slovyansk city hall for the news conference. Referring to himself and his team as “guests” under the “protection” of the city’s self-proclaimed mayor, Schneider said they were being treated as well as possible under the circumstances. “The mayor of this city granted us his protection and he regarded us as his guests,” Schneider told journalists. “I can tell you that the word of the mayor is a word of honor. We have not been touched.” Schneider said his group, which was detained by proRussian militiamen outside Slovyansk on Friday, was initially kept in a basement before being moved Saturday. “Since yesterday, we have been in a more comfortable room, which has been equipped with heating. We have daylight and an air conditioning unit,” he said, “All our officers, including the interpreters, are healthy and well.” The spectacle of accredited diplomats being presented to the media as what Slovyansk’s insurgency-appointed mayor, Vyacheslav Ponomarev, has described as

“bargaining chips” provoked disgust in European capitals. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier condemned it as “revolting” and a violation of the men’s dignity. Four members of the team are German. One of the observers, Swedish officer Maj. Thomas Johansson, was released later in the day “on humanitarian grounds as he has a mild form of diabetes,” said Stella Khorosheva, a spokeswoman for the Slovyansk mayor. The officer got into a car with OSCE representatives outside city hall and drove off with them. Schneider, who was speaking before the Swede was freed, said he had no information about when they would be released and that this was a matter for diplomats of their countries. The group also includes officers from Poland, Denmark and the Czech Republic. The German colonel said he understood that the Slovyansk mayor could use the observers as a bargaining chip. “Our presence here in Slovyansk is for sure a political instrument for the decision makers here in the region and the possibility to use it for negotiations,” Schneider said. “It’s logical in the eyes of Mayor Ponomarev that he can use us to present his positions.” Ponomarev said Saturday the

European observers could be released in exchange for jailed proRussia activists. Overnight Saturday, the insurgents captured three Ukrainian security guards, who were shown to Russian journalists in the security service headquarters in Slovyansk. Barely concious and showing signs of sustained beating, they sat with their heads bowed. In footage obtained by The Associated Press, Russian reporters could be heard haranguing the officers, who were able to reply only in faintly audible monosyllables. Igor Strelkov, who has been identified as the commander of the armed insurgents, said the three Ukrainian officers were on a mission to seize leaders of the pro-Russia force when they were captured. Ukraine’s Security Service confirmed that its officers had been seized by armed men and said they were on a mission to detain a Russian citizen suspected in the killing of a Ukrainian parliament member. Also on Sunday, several hundred pro-Russia activists stormed the television broadcasting center in Donetsk, the regional capital of eastern Ukraine, to demand that Russian state channels be put back on the air. The Kiev government last month blocked broadcast of the Russian chan-

nels, which serve as propaganda tools for the Kremlin. The crowd included several dozen men wearing camouflage fatigues and face masks, the standard uniform of the pro-Russia forces that have seized government buildings in at least 10 cities in eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian government and the West have accused Russia of using covert forces to encourage the unrest in eastern Ukraine, and Strelkov has been identified as a Russian security services operative by Ukraine’s

government. In what appeared to be a closely vetted interview to Russian media, Strelkov did not directly deny the accusation, saying the uprising in Ukraine was being carried out by opponents of the “Kiev junta” — language similar in tone to that adopted by the Kremlin leadership. The U.S. and other nations in the Group of Seven have announced plans to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia in response to its actions in Ukraine.

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Clippers protest, then lose to Warriors By The Associated Press

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Los Angeles Clippers made a silent protest against owner Donald Sterling before Game 4 of their Western Conference playoff series against Golden State. The Warriors made a different kind of statement during the game. And just like that, a series pulled into a race-related scandal took another twist. Stephen Curry made a career playoff-high seven 3-pointers and scored 33 points, leading the Warriors past the Clippers 118-97 on Sunday to even their first-round series at two games apiece. “We wanted to come out and focus on all the work we’ve put in over the summer, throughout the course of the season to get ready for this moment in the playoffs and just have fun and enjoy it — not let one person ruin it for everybody,” Curry said. The game almost became an afterthought — until tipoff anyway — after an audio recording was posted Saturday online by TMZ purportedly of Sterling making comments urging a woman to not bring black people to his team’s games. The alleged comments, which are under investigation by the NBA, have set off reactions of

anger and calls for action through the league. Clippers players made a silent protest against Sterling by shedding their warm-up jerseys and going through the pregame routine with their red shirts on inside out. They also wore black bands on their wrists or arms and black socks in a show of solidarity. Clippers coach Doc Rivers said he knew what his players had planned but didn’t voice his opinion. He said he wasn’t thrilled about the demonstration, though he didn’t elaborate why. Curry and company did a better job focusing from the start. The All-Star guard made his first five 3s to give Golden State a 20-point lead in the first quarter that held up most of the way. Curry shot 10 for 20 from the floor, including 7 of 14 from beyond the arc, and had seven assists and seven rebounds to help the Warriors snap a two-game losing skid. “I just thought they were the tougher team and it wasn’t even close. Should have been a first round knockout,” Rivers said. Golden State outshot Los Angeles 55.4 to 42.9 percent. The Clippers had 19 turnovers, while the Warriors had a series-low 15 turnovers. Both coaches and players agreed

Blackhawks finish Blues By The Associated Press

CHICAGO — Duncan Keith had a goal and three assists, and the Chicago Blackhawks used a four-goal third period to finish off the St. Louis Blues with a 5-1 victory in Game 6 of their first-round playoff series on Sunday. Chicago won four in a row after a slow start in St. Louis. The defending Stanley Cup champions will play the winner of the Minnesota-Colorado series in the Western Conference semifinals. The Avalanche lead the Wild 3-2 heading into Game 6 in Minnesota on Monday night. Jonathan Toews, Patrick Sharp, Andrew Shaw and Keith scored in the third period as the Blackhawks improved to 14-2 in home playoff games over the last two seasons. Corey Crawford made 35 saves, keeping Chicago in a tie game when St. Louis controlled the second period. DUCKS 5, STARS 4, OT DALLAS — Nick Bonino scored 2:47 into overtime, after getting one of Anaheim’s two goals late in regulation, and the Ducks eliminated Dallas in six games. Bonino took a wrist shot from in front of the net after getting a pass from Andrew Cogliano, and made sure the Ducks didn’t need a Game 7 to advance in the playoffs for only the second time since winning their lone Stanley Cup title seven years ago. The Ducks scored twice in the final 2:10 of regulation to force

overtime for the first time in the series. Bonino skated around the from behind the net and got a puck over Kari Lehtonen’s left shoulder to get the Ducks within 4-3. Anaheim got the overtime-forcing goal with 24 seconds left after a wild scramble in front of the net with an extra skater and Lehtonen without his stick. When the puck trickled free, Devante Smith-Pelly pushed into the open gap for his second goal of the game for a 4-4 tie. Corey Perry had the primary assists on both third-period goals for the Ducks, who will have to wait to see who they play in the second round. Teemu Selanne assisted on the first two Anaheim goals, by Smith-Pelly and Ben Lovejoy. Trevor Daley scored twice on breakaways, the first goal coming after he got the puck charging out of the penalty box, and had an assist for the Stars.

RANGERS 4, FLYERS 2 NEW YORK — Brad Richards and Dominic Moore scored second-period goals, and Henrik Lundqvist made 24 saves as the Rangers pushed the Flyers to the brink of elimination. Defenseman Marc Staal gave the Rangers the lead in the first period and they extended it in the second in taking a 3-2 edge in the first-round series. Game 6 is Tuesday in Philadelphia. If necessary, a deciding seventh game would be back at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday. The teams have alternated wins the entire series. New York clinched this one on Brian Boyle’s empty-net goal with 15 seconds remaining.

Noh lifts spirits of South Korea By The Associated Press

AVONDALE, La. — SeungYul Noh overcame windy conditions and his nerves, shooting a 1-under 71 on Sunday to win the Zurich Classic by two shots for his first PGA Tour victory. While Noh, the leader through three rounds, never fell out of first, he did make his first three bogeys of the tournament and briefly fell into a tie with Keegan Bradley. But Bradley did himself in with a bogey on the fifth hole and a triple bogey on the sixth, while Noh remained steady enough to hold off remaining challengers. The 22-year-old South Korean player, the youngest winner this season, wore yellow and black ribbons on his hat to honor the more than 300 dead or missing in a ferry accident in waters off his home country. After taking the third-round lead and becoming the first to

play 54 holes at TPC Louisiana without a bogey, he said he hoped he could string together one more bogey-free round and come through with a victory to lift the spirits of his nation. He accomplished the second part, and he’ll take it. His best finish in 77 previous PGA Tour starts was a tie for fourth at the 2012 AT&T National. SWINGING SKIRTS LPGA CLASSIC DALY CITY, Calif. — Lydia Ko birdied the final hole for her third LPGA Tour victory and first as a professional, holding off Stacy Lewis and Jenny Shin in the inaugural Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic. It went down to the final shots, and the teen made a 6-foot birdie putt moments before Lewis knocked in a 4-footer of her own to finish one stroke back.

that Sterling’s purported comments affected their preparation, and neither side believed it was a determining factor in the outcome. “I think both teams were somewhat bothered by what has taken place the last 24 hours,” Warriors coach Mark Jackson said. “But my guys just played with great energy, great effort.” Rivers blamed himself for not getting his players ready. “I’m not going to deny that we had other stuff,” he said. “I just believe when the game starts, the game starts and nobody cares anymore. Golden State surely didn’t care.” Game 5 is Tuesday night in Los Angeles. Andre Iguodala added 22 points and nine assists, and David Lee, Klay Thompson and Harrison Barnes each scored 15 as the Warriors went to a smaller lineup to regain their shooting touch in front of a roaring, gold-shirt wearing sellout crowd of 19,596 that stood after every swish. “It just all came together,” said Iguodala, who also had nine assists and four rebounds. Jamal Crawford scored 26 points, and Blake Griffin had 21 points and six rebounds for a Clippers team wrapped up in the most talked-about

topic in sports.

3-1 lead in the Eastern Conference series. John Wall added 15 points and 10 assists for the Wizards, who forced 16 turnovers and committed only six. Washington played without forward Nene, who was suspended for grabbing Jimmy Butler by the head in Game 3. The Wizards are looking to win a playoff series for only the third time since the 1970s. They can finish off the Bulls in Game 5 on Tuesday in Chicago. Taj Gibson scored a career-high 32 points on 13 for 16 shooting for Chicago, but his teammates combined to go 22 for 62 from the field.

TRAIL BLAZERS 123, ROCKETS 120, OT PORTLAND, Ore. — LaMarcus Aldridge had 29 points and 10 rebounds and Portland took a 3-1 advantage in the series. Nicolas Batum added 25 points in the first win for the home team in the series, which moves to Houston for Game 5 on Wednesday. It was the third overtime game of the series. The Blazers haven’t advanced out of the first round since the postseason in 2000 James Harden had 28 points and Dwight Howard added 25 points and 14 rebounds for the Rockets. Portland trailed by as many as 11 points, but rallied in the fourth quarter. Mo Williams’ 3-pointer put the Blazers in front 105-104 with 18.9 seconds left. Dorell Wright missed the first of two free throws making it 106-104 with 8.3 seconds to go. Howard dunked off a feed from Harden with 3.6 seconds left to tie it again and Williams missed a 3 at the buzzer to send the game into overtime at 106-all.

RAPTORS 87, NETS 79 NEW YORK — DeMar DeRozan scored 24 points, Kyle Lowry added 22, and Toronto evened the first-round series at two games apiece. Amir Johnson had 17 points for the Raptors, who started fast, gave up all of a 17-point lead, then shut the Nets down over the final 5 minutes to snap a 13-game road losing streak in the playoffs that went back 13 years. Game 5 is Wednesday night in Toronto, with the series now guaranteed a return to Brooklyn on Friday for Game 6. Paul Pierce scored 22 points for the Nets, who were 3 for 17 in the fourth quarter and didn’t have a field goal after Pierce’s basket with 6:13 left gave them a 77-73 lead.

WIZARDS 98, BULLS 89 WASHINGTON — Trevor Ariza had a career playoff-high 30 points, and Washington scored the first 14 points of the game and barely looked back in taking a

Scoreboard Golf Zurich Classic

Sunday At TPC Louisiana Avondale, La. Purse: $6.8 million Yardage: 7,425; Par: 72 Final Seung-Yul Noh (500), $1,224,000 65-68-65-71—269 Robert Streb (245), $598,400 67-66-68-70—271 Andrew Svoboda (245), $598,400 64-68-70-69—271 Jeff Overton (135), $326,400 67-68-67-70—272 Erik Compton (100), $248,200 66-68-72-68—274 Robert Garrigus (100), $248,200 73-69-68-64—274 Charley Hoffman (100), $248,200 68-67-68-71—274 Keegan Bradley (80), $197,200 69-66-65-75—275 Tommy Gainey (80), $197,200 71-66-67-71—275 Justin Rose (80), $197,200 71-67-69-68—275 Paul Casey (63), $149,600 71-68-64-73—276 Bud Cauley (63), $149,600 71-68-66-71—276 Peter Hanson (63), $149,600 65-69-71-71—276 J.B. Holmes (63), $149,600 71-65-69-71—276 Ben Martin (56), $119,000 62-67-73-75—277 David Toms (56), $119,000 73-68-67-69—277 Mark Anderson (53), $98,600 72-65-70-71—278 Stuart Appleby (53), $98,600 67-72-70-69—278 Rory Sabbatini (53), $98,600 69-72-69-68—278 Cameron Tringale (53), $98,600 73-69-66-70—278 Retief Goosen (49), $73,440 72-65-68-74—279 Brooks Koepka, $73,440 71-68-67-73—279

Baseball AL Standings

East Division W New York 15 Baltimore 12 Toronto 12 Boston 12 Tampa Bay 11 Central Division Detroit 12 Minnesota 12 Chicago 13 Kansas City 12 Cleveland 11 West Division Oakland 15 Texas 15 Los Angeles 11 Seattle 10 Houston 9

L 10 12 13 14 14

Pct .600 .500 .480 .462 .440

GB — 2½ 3 3½ 4

9 11 13 12 14

.571 .522 .500 .500 .440

— 1 1½ 1½ 3

10 10 13 14 17

.600 .600 .458 .417 .346

— — 3½ 4½ 6½

Sunday’s Games Toronto 7, Boston 1 Kansas City 9, Baltimore 3 Houston 5, Oakland 1 Chicago White Sox 9, Tampa Bay 2 Detroit at Minnesota, ppd., inclement weather San Francisco 4, Cleveland 1 Seattle 6, Texas 5 N.Y. Yankees 3, L.A. Angels 2 Monday’s Games Oakland (Gray 3-1) at Texas (Darvish 1-0), 4:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 1-2) at Chicago White Sox (Rienzo 1-0), 4:10 p.m. Cleveland (Masterson 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Skaggs 2-0), 6:05 p.m. All Times ADT

All Times ADT

Blue Jays 7, Red Sox 1

L 7 11 12 12 14

Pct .708 .560 .538 .520 .440

GB — 3½ 4 4½ 6½

7 12 14 16 16

.720 .538 .440 .385 .333

— 4½ 7 8½ 9½

10 12 12 14 20

.600 .538 .538 .462 .286

— 1½ 1½ 3½ 8½

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Mets 4, Miami 0 Atlanta 1, Cincinnati 0, 10 innings San Diego 4, Washington 2 Chicago Cubs 4, Milwaukee 0 St. Louis 7, Pittsburgh 0 San Francisco 4, Cleveland 1 Colorado 6, L.A. Dodgers 1 Philadelphia 2, Arizona 0 Monday’s Games Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 0-2) at Cincinnati (Simon 3-1), 3:10 p.m. Milwaukee (Gallardo 2-0) at St. Louis (Wacha 2-2), 4:15 p.m. Colorado (Morales 2-1) at Arizona (Miley 2-2), 5:40 p.m. San Diego (T.Ross 2-3) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 2-2), 6:15 p.m.

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(2).

Braves 1, Reds 0, 10 inn.

Bos. 010 000 000—1 6 1 Tor. 011 000 23x—7 9 0

Cin. 000 000 000 0—0 5 0 Atl. 000 000 000 1—1 7 0

Lester, A.Miller (8), Badenhop (8) and D.Ross; Dickey, Delabar (7), Rogers (9) and Thole. W_Dickey 2-3. L_Lester 2-4. HRs_Toronto, Lawrie (6).

Cueto, LeCure (9), Hoover (10), M.Parra (10) and B.Pena; Teheran, J.Walden (9), D.Carpenter (10), Thomas (10) and Laird. W_ Thomas 1-0. L_Hoover 1-3.

Royals 9, Orioles 3

Padres 4, Nationals 2

KC 101 020 401—9 13 1 Bal. 000 002 001—3 5 1

SD 000 112 000—4 8 0 Was. 100 000 010—2 5 0

Shields, K.Herrera (8), G.Holland (9) and S.Perez; M.Gonzalez, Meek (7), Stinson (7), R.Webb (9) and Clevenger. W_Shields 3-2. L_M.Gonzalez 1-2. HRs_Kansas City, Infante (2). Baltimore, N.Cruz (7).

Kennedy, Benoit (8), Street (9) and Grandal; Jordan, Detwiler (5), Barrett (6), Blevins (6), Storen (8), Clippard (9) and Lobaton. W_Kennedy 2-3. L_Detwiler 0-1. Sv_Street (9). HRs_Washington, McLouth (1).

White Sox 9, Rays 2

Cubs 4, Brewers 0

TB 000 010 010—2 7 4 Chi. 000 005 40x—9 11 1

Chi. 020 001 010—4 9 2 Mil. 000 000 000—0 3 0

Price, Lueke (7), H.Bell (8) and J.Molina; Carroll, D.Webb (8) and Flowers. W_Carroll 1-0. L_Price 3-2. HRs_Chicago, J.Abreu (10).

Hammel, Strop (8), H.Rondon (9) and Jo.Baker; W.Peralta, Kintzler (8), Wang (9) and Lucroy. W_Hammel 4-1. L_W.Peralta 3-1. HRs_Chicago, S.Castro 2 (4).

Astros 5, Athletics 1 Oak. 000 000 001—1 2 1 Hou. 001 000 40x—5 7 0 Milone, Otero (7), Ji.Johnson (8) and Jaso; McHugh, Valdes (9) and Corporan. W_McHugh 2-0. L_Milone 0-2. HRs_Houston, Altuve (1).

Mariners 6, Rangers 5

NL Standings

East Division W Atlanta 17 New York 14 Washington 14 Philadelphia 13 Miami 11 Central Division Milwaukee 18 St. Louis 14 Cincinnati 11 Pittsburgh 10 Chicago 8 West Division San Francisco 15 Colorado 14 Los Angeles 14 San Diego 12 Arizona 8

Bronson La’Cassie (49), $73,440 Daniel Summerhays (49), $73,440 Robert Allenby (45), $54,230 David Duval (45), $54,230 Danny Lee (45), $54,230 Bo Van Pelt (45), $54,230 Graham DeLaet (40), $44,200 Freddie Jacobson (40), $44,200 Alex Prugh (40), $44,200 John Senden (40), $44,200 Boo Weekley (40), $44,200 Sang-Moon Bae (32), $30,785 Greg Chalmers (32), $30,785 Derek Ernst (32), $30,785 David Hearn (32), $30,785 Charles Howell III (32), $30,785 Mark Calcavecchia (32), $30,785 Kevin Chappell (32), $30,785 Morgan Hoffmann (32), $30,785 Kevin Kisner (32), $30,785 Charlie Wi (32), $30,785 Will Wilcox (32), $30,785 Chad Collins (25), $21,080 Tag Ridings (25), $21,080 Andres Romero (25), $21,080 Max Homa, $17,544 Troy Merritt (22), $17,544 Kevin Tway (22), $17,544 Y.E. Yang (22), $17,544 Briny Baird (15), $15,477 Ricky Barnes (15), $15,477 Martin Flores (15), $15,477

Tex. 020 300 000—5 8 0 Sea. 000 101 13x—6 7 1 M.Harrison, Tolleson (7), Ogando (8) and Chirinos; Maurer, Luetge (4), Furbush (6), Wilhelmsen (7), Farquhar (8), Rodney (9) and Buck. W_Farquhar 1-0. L_Ogando 1-2. Sv_Rodney (5). HRs_Seattle, Seager 2 (5).

Yankees 3, Angels 2 LA NY

000 101 000—2 6 1 000 010 11x—3 3 0

Richards, Kohn (8), Maronde (8), Jepsen (8) and Iannetta; Tanaka, Warren (7), Dav.Robertson (9) and McCann. W_Warren 1-1. L_ Kohn 1-1. Sv_Dav.Robertson (4). HRs_Los Angeles, Freese (2). New York, Teixeira (2).

Giants 4, Indians 1 Cle. 000 000 010—1 3 0 SF 000 100 003—4 8 0 Salazar, Rzepczynski (8), Allen (8) and Y.Gomes; Vogelsong, Casilla (8), Romo (9) and Posey. W_Romo 2-0. L_Allen 2-1. HRs_ Cleveland, Y.Gomes (3). San Francisco, B.Hicks (3).

Mets 4, Marlins 0 Mia. 000 000 000—0 3 1 NY 010 030 00x—4 6 0 Koehler, Capps (6), Hand (8) and Saltalamacchia; Gee, C.Torres (9) and Recker. W_Gee 2-1. L_Koehler 2-2. HRs_New York, C.Young

Cardinals 7, Pirates 0 Pit. SL

000 000 000—0 3 0 100 014 01x—7 9 0

Volquez, J.Gomez (6) and T.Sanchez; Wainwright, C.Martinez (9) and Y.Molina. W_ Wainwright 5-1. L_Volquez 1-2. HRs_St. Louis, Jh.Peralta 2 (6).

Phillies 2, Diamondbacks 0 Phi. 100 001 000—2 8 0 Ari. 000 000 000—0 6 1 A.Burnett, Papelbon (9) and Nieves; McCarthy, O.Perez (8), Ziegler (9) and Montero. W_A. Burnett 1-1. L_McCarthy 0-5. Sv_ Papelbon (8).

Rockies 6, Dodgers 1 Col. 020 013 000—6 11 0 LA 100 000 000—1 8 3 J.De La Rosa, Ottavino (8), C.Martin (9) and Pacheco; Ryu, League (6), B.Wilson (8), J.Wright (9) and Federowicz. W_J.De La Rosa 2-3. L_Ryu 3-2. HRs_Colorado, Rutledge (1).

Basketball NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Saturday, April 26 Indiana 91, Atlanta 88, series tied 2-2 Dallas 109, San Antonio 108, Dallas leads series 2-1 Miami 98, Charlotte 85, Miami leads series 3-0 Oklahoma City 92, Memphis 89, OT, series tied 2-2 Sunday, April 27 Washington 98, Chicago 89, Washington leads series 3-1 Golden State 118, L.A. Clippers 97, series tied 2-2 Toronto 87, Brooklyn 79, series tied 2-2

Andrew Loupe (15), $15,477 71-70-71-73—285 Sean O’Hair (15), $15,477 71-69-71-74—285 D.A. Points (15), $15,477 73-68-69-75—285 Kyle Stanley (15), $15,477 71-67-71-76—285 Brendan Steele (15), $15,477 73-67-70-75—285 Shawn Stefani (15), $15,477 69-72-72-72—285 Tim Wilkinson (15), $15,477 70-70-65-80—285 Lucas Glover (7), $14,416 71-71-69-75—286 Fabian Gomez (7), $14,416 72-69-66-79—286 John Merrick (7), $14,416 69-72-72-73—286 Wes Roach (7), $14,416 74-67-71-74—286 Vijay Singh (7), $14,416 70-71-68-77—286 Joe Durant (3), $13,872 69-71-67-80—287 Padraig Harrington (3), $13,872 70-72-71-74—287 Michael Thompson (3), $13,872 66-71-75-75—287 J.J. Henry (1), $13,396 68-69-75-76—288 Doug LaBelle II (1), $13,396 68-73-72-75—288 Troy Matteson (1), $13,396 72-68-69-79—288 Jim Renner (1), $13,396 75-67-71-75—288 John Rollins (1), $13,056 74-66-73-76—289 Made cut did not finish The following players made cut did not finish. Ken Duke (1), $12,648 73-68-73—214 D.H. Lee (1), $12,648 68-71-75—214 Scott McCarron (1), $12,648 70-71-73—214 C Josh Teater (1), $12,648 73-69-72—214 Nick Watney (1), $12,648 69-73-72—214 Y Scott Gardiner (1), $12,104 74-68-73—215 Luke Guthrie (1), $12,104 70-71-74—215 Billy Hurley III (1), $12,104 71-71-73—215 Brice Garnett (1), $11,832 69-73-75—217 Geoff Ogilvy (1), $11,696 72-70-78—220

Portland 123, Houston 120, OT, Portland leads series 3-1 Monday, April 28 Miami at Charlotte, 3 p.m. Atlanta at Indiana, 4 p.m. San Antonio at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 29 Washington at Chicago, 4 p.m. Memphis at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m. Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 6:30 p.m. All Times ADT

Hockey NHL Playoffs (x-if necessary)

FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) Saturday, April 26 Boston 4, Detroit 2, Boston wins series 4-1 Pittsburgh 3, Columbus 1, Pittsburgh leads series 3-2 Colorado 4, Minnesota 3, OT, Colorado leads series 3-2 Los Angeles 3, San Jose 0, San Jose leads series 3-2 Sunday, April 27 N.Y. Rangers 4, Philadelphia 2, N.Y. Rangers leads series 3-2 Chicago 5, St. Louis 1, Chicago wins series 4-2 Anaheim 5, Dallas 4, OT, Anaheim wins series 4-2 Monday, April 28 Pittsburgh at Columbus, 3 p.m. Colorado at Minnesota, 5 p.m. San Jose at Los Angeles, 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 29 N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, 3:30 p.m. All Times ADT

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

L 1 2 2 3 2 3 4 3 4 1

T 3 2 2 2 5 0 2 5 3 6

Pts GF GA 12 10 7 11 9 6 11 10 8 11 7 9 11 13 12 9 6 7 8 8 13 8 9 11 6 7 14 6 10 11

WESTERN CONFERENCE Seattle 5 2 1 16 FC Dallas 5 2 1 16 Real Salt Lake 3 0 5 14 Colorado 3 2 2 11 Vancouver 2 2 4 10 Los Angeles 2 1 2 8 San Jose 1 2 3 6 Chivas USA 1 4 3 6 Portland 0 3 5 5 NOTE: Three points for victory, for tie.

18 12 18 14 13 8 9 9 12 10 7 4 6 7 8 14 9 13 one point

Saturday’s Games Montreal 1, Philadelphia 0 Seattle FC 4, Colorado 1 D.C. United 4, FC Dallas 1 Columbus 1, New York 1, tie New England 2, Sporting Kansas City 0 Real Salt Lake 2, Vancouver 2, tie San Jose 1, Chivas USA 0 Sunday’s Games Houston 1, Portland 1, tie Saturday, May 3

New England at Toronto FC, 9 a.m. San Jose at Vancouver, 3 p.m. Real Salt Lake at Chicago, 4:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Colorado, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Seattle FC, 6 p.m. Houston at Chivas USA, 6:30 p.m. D.C. United at Portland, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, May 4 New York at FC Dallas, 11 a.m. Columbus at Sporting Kansas City, Noon All Times ADT

Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Suspended Minnesota INF Jonatan Hinojosa (Cedar Rapids-MWL) 50 games after a positive test for metabolites of Nandrolone under the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Placed 1B Chris Davis on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 26. Recalled INF Jemile Weeks from Norfolk (AHL). CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Selected the contract of RHP Scott Carroll from Charlotte (IL). Transferred OF Avisail Garcia to the 60-day DL. DETROIT TIGERS — Placed RHP Anibal Sanchez on the 15day DL. Recalled RHP Justin Miller from Toledo (IL). LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Selected the contract of RHP Michael Morin from Salt Lake City (PCL). Optioned OF Brennan Boesch to Salt Lake City. Designated LHP Michael Roth for assignment. NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled RHP Preston Claiborne from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Placed RHP Bruce Billings on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 26. TEXAS RANGERS — Activated LHP Matt Harrison from the 15day DL. Optioned INF Luis Sardinas to Frisco (Texas). National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled INF Carlos Triunfel from Albuquerque (PCL). Optioned RHP Jose Dominguez to Albuquerque. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Recalled RHP Casey Sadler from Indianapolis (IL). Optioned RHP Jared Hughes to Indianapolis. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Placed OF Bryce Harper on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 26. HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned F Tomas Jurco, F Riley Sheahan, D Xavier Ouellet and G Jake Paterson to Grand Rapids (AHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC — Recalled MF-F David Estrada from Atlanta (NASL). COLLEGE UCLA — Announced G Jordan Adams has decided to enter the NBA draft.

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Braves topple Reds in 10th inning By The Associated Press

ATLANTA — Freddie Freeman’s single to the center-field wall scored Jason Heyward from second base with two outs in the 10th inning on Sunday, lifting the Atlanta Braves to a 1-0 win over the Cincinnati Reds. Cincinnati’s Johnny Cueto and Atlanta’s Julio Teheran each allowed only three hits in eight scoreless innings. Cueto struck out 11. With two outs in the 10th, Heyward singled off J.J. Hoover (1-3) and B.J. Upton followed with a grounder off the pitcher’s glove for an infield hit. Left-hander Manny Parra was summoned, and Freeman hit a drive that bounced on the warning track beyond center fielder Billy Hamilton’s reach. Ian Thomas (1-0) got one out for the win. Reds manager Bryan Price

and pitcher Homer Bailey — who was on the bench — were ejected in the first inning after a replay ruling went against them. CUBS 4, BREWERS 0 MILWAUKEE — Jason Hammel pitched three-hit ball for seven innings, Starlin Castro homered twice and the Chicago Cubs blanked the Milwaukee Brewers. Hammel (4-1) struck out a season-high seven. Wily Peralta (3-1) had won three straight decisions. Brewers stars Ryan Braun and Jean Segura both missed the game with injuries. Braun out sat with a slight chest muscle strain and might be out three to five days.

Philadelphia Phillies ended a 10game road trip with a victory over Arizona. Burnett (1-1) gave up five hits, struck out eight and walked none in his sixth start. Jonathan Papelbon pitched the ninth for his eighth save and second in as many games. Chase Utley hit an RBI single in the first, then doubled and scored in the sixth while raising his batting average to .360. The Phillies took two of three from Arizona and went 6-4 on their trip.

METS 4, MARLINS 0

NEW YORK — Dillon Gee pitched three-hit ball over eight innings, Chris Young hit a two-run homer and the New York Mets beat Miami. Gee (2-1) struck out six, walked four and threw 110 pitches — his PHILLIES 2, high since May 30, 2012, against DIAMONDBACKS 0 Philadelphia. That was six weeks PHOENIX — A.J. Burnett before season-ending surgery to pitched eight sharp innings for repair a damaged artery in his right his first win of the season and the shoulder.

Carlos Torres pitched a perfect ninth to finish the three-hitter. Tom Koehler (2-2), who was born in Bronx and grew up in New Rochelle, allowed four runs in five innings.

CARDINALS 7, PIRATES 0

strong innings, leading the Colorado Rockies over the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Rockies won their fourth straight series after beating San Diego, Philadelphia and San Francisco. De La Rosa (2-3) allowed a run and four hits. The left-hander has beaten the Dodgers in three straight starts after going 0-8 with a 7.32 ERA in his 10 previous career starts against them. Hyun-Jin Ryu (3-2) gave up six runs and nine hits in five-plus innings. He is 0-2 with a 9.69 ERA in his three starts at Dodger Stadium, but 3-0 with a 0.00 ERA in four road starts.

ST. LOUIS — Adam Wainwright became the majors’ first five-game winner and Jhonny Peralta ended the St. Louis Cardinals’ 366 at-bat homerless drought with a pair of long balls in a victory over Pittsburgh. Peralta drove in four runs. The Cardinals totaled five runs in their previous four games. Wainwright (5-1) allowed three hits in eight innings and hasn’t al- PADRES 4, NATIONALS 2 lowed a run in 25 consecutive inWASHINGTON — Cameron nings. Maybin celebrated his return to the lineup with a pair of hits, Ian KenROCKIES 6, DODGERS 1 nedy pitched seven strong innings and the San Diego Padres beat LOS ANGELES — Josh Rut- Washington. ledge hit a three-run homer and Maybin had been out since Jorge De La Rosa pitched seven rupturing his left biceps in spring

training. The center fielder doubled down the third-base line in his first at-bat, then singled and scored during a two-run sixth. Kennedy (2-3) gave up three hits, struck out nine and walked none. He retired 16 straight batters at one stretch. Huston Street closed for his ninth save in nine chances. Ross Detwiler (0-1) lost in relief.

GIANTS 4, INDIANS 1 SAN FRANCISCO — Brandon Hicks hit a three-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning and the San Francisco Giants completed a three-game sweep over Cleveland. Buster Posey led off with a single against Cory Allen (2-1) and pinch-runner Gregor Blanco went to second on Juan Perez’s sacrifice bunt. Pablo Sandoval struck out and Brandon Crawford drew an intentional walk, setting up Hicks’ home run. Sergio Romo (2-0) pitched a scoreless inning to get the victory.

Rookie Abreu continues hot start for White Sox By The Associated Press

CHICAGO — Jose Abreu drove in four runs and set a major league rookie record for RBIs through the end of April and the Chicago White Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays 9-2 on Sunday. Abreu, who had a two-run home run in the sixth and a two-run single in the seventh, has 31 RBIs. Albert Pujols had the previous RBI mark of 27 in 2001. The homer was his major leagueleading 10th and extended his own record for home runs by a rookie through April. In his major league debut, Scott Carroll (1-0) gave up two runs, one earned, in 7 1-3 innings after he was called up from Triple-A Charlotte to fill in for injured ace Chris Sale. Rays starter David Price (3-2) allowed eight runs, six earned, in six innings. Trailing 1-0, the White Sox scored five runs in the sixth and four runs in the seventh. The Rays committed four errors in the sixth. Gordon Beckham reached on an error and scored from second when Price threw away the ball after fielding Marcus Semien’s bunt single. Adam Eaton scored when right field-

er Wil Myers fumbled the ball after were all from the Dominican Republic: lead with his two-out bomb down the right timore, including 7-2 at Camden Yards. shortstop Jose Reyes, outfielders Cabrera field line in the eighth off Alexi Ogando Nelson Cruz hit his seventh homer for Price’s throwing error. YANKEES 3, ANGELS 2

and Jose Bautista and first baseman Edwin Encarnacion. Juan Francisco served as the designated hitter, batting sixth, and outfielder Moises Sierra batted seventh. Esmil Rogers, the seventh Dominican player on Toronto’s 25-man roster, struck out the side in the ninth. R.A. Dickey (2-3) won for the first time in four starts. Jon Lester (2-4) allowed four runs and five hits in seven innings. He walked none, struck out seven and threw a season-high 122 pitches. Brett Lawrie homered, doubled and drove in two runs as the Blue Jays avoided their first sweep against Boston since June 2011.

NEW YORK — Mark Teixeira hit a tying homer and Jacoby Ellsbury scored the go-ahead run thanks to a passed ball and wild pitch in the eighth inning, sending New York past Los Angeles. Masahiro Tanaka struck out a seasonhigh 11, including Mike Trout twice, and overcame an early bout of wildness in a pitchers’ duel with Angels right-hander Garrett Richards. Neither starter received a decision, leaving both undefeated this year. Adam Warren (1-1) struck out two in 1 2-3 scoreless innings. David Robertson worked the ninth for his fourth save and second in two days. The Yankees took two of three in the MARINERS 6, RANGERS 5 series and have won 10 of 14 overall. David Freese homered for the Angels, SEATTLE — Kyle Seager hit a pair of who went 4-5 on a tough road trip to Dehome runs, including a three-run shot in troit, Washington and New York. the eighth, to lead Seattle over Texas. Seager has five home runs in four BLUE JAYS 7, RED SOX 1 games, a power surge that started with a TORONTO — Melky Cabrera, one of two-homer game against the Astros on a record six players from the Dominican Wednesday. He’s also had at least two Republic in Toronto’s starting lineup, hit a hits in all four games, tying a career-best go-ahead double and the Blue Jays ended streak. Seager led off the seventh inning with a season-worst four-game losing streak. The first four hitters in Toronto’s lineup his first home run and then gave Seattle the

(1-2). The comeback victory also gave the Mariners their first home series win against Texas since September 2012. Danny Farquhar (1-0) pitched the eighth to earn the win and Fernando Rodney closed out the ninth for his fifth save. Rangers starter Matt Harrison made his first appearance in more than a year, giving up two runs on three hits in six innings.

the Orioles, who finished with five hits. Before the game, Baltimore put slugger Chris Davis on the 15-day disabled list with a left oblique strain. Miguel Gonzalez (1-2) gave up four runs, three earned, and six hits in six innings.

ROYALS 9, ORIOLES 3

HOUSTON — Collin McHugh allowed two hits over 8 2-3 stellar innings and Houston beat Oakland. McHugh (2-0) followed up his first outing where he struck out 12 and allowed three hits in 6 2-3 innings at Seattle on Tuesday with another dominant performance. He struck out seven and walked three, allowing one run in the longest outing of his career. His previous longest outing had been seven innings on Aug. 23, 2012 against Colorado when he was a member of the New York Mets. After the first, McHugh retired 23 of the next 24 batters, including 19 straight before Brandon Moss was hit by a pitch with two outs in the ninth. Moss stole second and came around to score on Alberto Callaspo’s single — McHugh’s first run allowed in 15 1-3 innings this season. Raul Valdes got the final out to complete the two hitter.

BALTIMORE — Omar Infante homered and tied a career high with six RBIs, James Shields pitched seven innings of three-hit ball and Kansas City coasted over Baltimore. Nori Aoki scored three runs for the Royals, who took two of three from Baltimore to conclude a 3-4 road trip that began in Cleveland. Kansas City is 12-0 when scoring at least four runs and 0-12 when scoring three runs or fewer. Infante hit a run-scoring groundout in the first inning, a sacrifice fly in the third, a two-run double in the fifth and a two-run shot in the seventh. He entered with one home run and 11 RBIs in 21 games. Shields (3-2) allowed two runs, struck out six and walked two in winning his third straight start. The right-hander gave up only an infield hit in the first five innings and improved to 10-7 lifetime against Bal-

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considered a “moderately toxic material” by the EPA, according to the management plan. Morton said diquat is a contact killer that doesn’t eradicate elodea, it just sets it back, but the subcommittee is considering using it so the elodea doesn’t spread and require a whole-lake treatment in Daniels Lake. Morton said the subcommittee wants to begin treatment soon after ice-out because water levels are low and the water is clearer. He said ideally, crews would apply the first treatments in early June in Beck and Daniels lakes. If the state money comes through, treatment for Stormy Lake would begin in July. Morton can’t set an

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he’s most at home with electronics. His setup has analog controls, digital controls and block lights that trigger when trains approach and leave a switch. The trains have speakers on their front grills that broadcast the sounds of roaring engines, squealing brakes or the chatter of conductors talking on radios. Oehrig grew up with a military family in Iowa and Texas. Originally, he favored models of the red and silver Santa Fe trains he’d see Outside, although he’d always been interested in the Alaska Railroad. “Alaska Railroad is fairly unique, it’s one of the last remaining class one (large) U.S. railroads that still has passenger service,” he said. But early Alaska Railroad model trains were crude, childish things not geared to the serious model crowd, he said. Almost all the model cars had a silhouette of a waving Eskimo that was used on some real trains but was relatively rare. An explosion of better Alaska Railroad products followed an Alaska vacation a group of model manufacturer owners took in

‘To the best of our knowledge Bishop Creek is not contaminated. I think that’s just pure luck because I’m fairly certain there are fragments going out there and we may have just been lucky that it hasn’t gotten established yet. It’s a time bomb.’

exact date for application because crews need a day when wave and wind action is low. The subcommittee is also waiting for approval on permits from the Alaska Department of Natural Resources and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game before it can begin treatment. Elodea eradication has not been done in Alaska. Lakes in

‘Alaska Railroad is fairly unique, it’s one of the last remaining class one (large) U.S. railroads that still has passenger service.’ — Richard Oehrig, model train enthusiast the 1980s, he said. Today Oehrig’s favorite O-scale train is a contemporary a Alaska Railroad passenger train although he’s also fond of some novelty Alaska cars like a flatbed carrying a pair of Zambonis and another with a load of planes. Oehrig’s model layout completely fills the 15-by-20 foot room he started in. If he expands he’d like to make a real-life Alaska Railroad scene. In particular, he’s thinking the steel bridge over Hurricane Gulch or the area around Nenana Canyon. To see videos of Oehrig’s model train layout, search for his name on YouTube. Model train enthusiasts interested in seeing the layout in person can also call him at 347-5333.

no elodea was found. He said Bishop Creek is a concern because Beck and Daniels lakes flow into the creek. “To the best of our knowledge Bishop Creek is not contaminated,” Morton said. “I think that’s just pure luck because I’m fairly certain there are fragments going out there and we may have just been lucky that it hasn’t gotten established yet. It’s a time bomb.” Morton said the subcommittee believes the elodea infestation originated from the same source because all three lakes have the same elodea hybrid. He said the infestation on the peninsula likely began in Beck Lake because elodea is very abundant there.

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United States, and possession of a firearm in a crime of violence. Outside the courtroom, Hopkins’ widow, Deborah, said she was satisfied with the verdict and now her husband — John Morton, biologist could rest. She said the guilty verdict will help with closure, but not completely. “Nothing will ever take my the Anchorage, Fairbanks and husband’s spot,” she said. Cordova area are also infested. Federal prosecutors earlier Elodea, which is commonly used said they would not seek the in aquariums, can reproduce with death penalty if Wells was sections of the plant. Boats and convicted. He faces life in floatplanes have been identified prison, and his sentencing was as likely accidental transporters set for July 8. between lakes. Kaylee Osowski can be U.S. Attorney for Alaska Morton said crews surveyed reached at kaylee.osowski@pen- Karen Loeffler said justice Bishop Creek along with 68 lakes insulaclarion.com prevailed after an arduous, on the peninsula last summer and circumstantial case. Asked if the quickness of the verdict surprised her, Loeffler said she doesn’t predict outcomes one way or another. “This was a tough case that was very well investigated,” Old Fairbanks city hall she said. could become a distillery After the reading of the verdict, federal public defender FAIRBANKS — The old Fairbanks city hall could become Rich Curtner was asked if he a distillery under a plan that seems to have the support of city wanted to comment. He turned council. his back and walked away as The building has previously also housed a fire station and a associates shook their heads. community museum. Now, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Kodiak Island, some 250 reports that Patrick Levy, of Fairbanks Distilling Co., says he miles south of Anchorage, hopes to be making whisky, vodka or gin within six months. is home to the largest Coast He still has to buy the city-owned building first, not to menGuard Air Station in the Pation persuade the borough to designate it a manufacturing cific. The double homicide zone. took place 3 miles away at the It would be the sixth distillery in Alaska. The Fairbanks City base’s communications staCouncil passed a nonbinding resolution in support of the plan tion, where personnel monitor last week. radio traffic from ships and planes. Police: 3 shot in fight The victims were found in the station’s rigger shop, at Anchorage nightclub where antennas are built and ANCHORAGE — Police say three people were shot during repaired. a large fight outside an Anchorage nightclub early Saturday. Hopkins, 41, was an elecThe Anchorage Daily News reports someone called police tronics technician from Veraround 2:34 a.m. to report the shooting outside the Soraya gennes, Vermont. Belisle, 51, Club. was a former chief petty offiPolice spokeswoman Anita Shell reports witnesses said cer who continued service to about 60 people were involved in the brawl that began inside the Coast Guard as a civilian and spilled out into the Sunshine Mall parking lot. Club secuemployee. rity turned on the lights and ordered everyone out of the club Prosecutors contended after the fight began. Wells, a Coast Guard civilian Shell says a 22-year-old woman and two 21-year-old men technician, resented the growwere shot and taken to a local hospital. The victim’s names ing influence of Belisle and were not released and the investigation is ongoing. Hopkins in the shop where he was a nationally recognized — The Associated Press antenna expert. They said he meticulously planned an alibi,

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sneaked onto the communications station and gunned them down on April 12, 2012. According to the government’s theory, after the shootings, Wells made it home and called Hopkins’ work phone, leaving a message saying he would be late for work because of a flat tire. Prosecutors say the flat tire was a ruse to give him a cover story for committing the murders. According to authorities, Wells told the FBI he started driving to work, detected a soft tire, stopped at a hotel near the Kodiak airport entrance, checked the tire and returned home to change it. Unbeknownst to Wells, a security camera at the nearby Coast Guard main gate recorded his truck heading for the communication station shortly before 7 a.m. and driving in the opposite direction toward his home 34 minutes later. Wells’ wife was out of town the day of the shooting, and her blue SUV was parked at the Kodiak airport not far from the communications station. Investigators believe a blue vehicle seen in blurry security footage belonged to Wells’ wife and concluded he switched cars, waited for Hopkins to drive by, followed him to the communications station and shot him and Belisle. Curtner said in his opening statement that Wells suffered from chronic diarrhea following gall bladder surgery and was delayed the morning of the murders because he spent 20 minutes in a bathroom of a commuter airline. Wells made no mention of using an airport bathroom to the FBI. Curtner and defense attorney Peter Offenbecher of Seattle contended authorities immediately focused on Wells and ignored other possible suspects. They said prosecutors had no eyewitnesses, no confession, no murder weapon and no physical evidence linking Wells to the homicides. Wells served eight years in the Navy and 13 with the Coast Guard. Upon discharge in 1990, he was hired as a civilian employee.

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

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

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The Study will be holding Kindergarten Visitation for next year’s incoming Kindergartners and Pre-K students from 1-2 p.m. on May 16. Students can participate in an hour of school while parents register.

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Above: Aurora Borealis Charter School kindergartner Peyton Kindred reads out loud with his reading group at school on April 15 in Kenai. Below: From left: Melanie Seater, Adelyn Pontius, Katie Nye and Adrianna Kindred, all Aurora Borealis Charter School second graders, read in a group at school on April 15 in Kenai.

Reading soars at Aurora By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

Nearly all the Aurora Borealis Charter School second graders shot up their hands when asked to volunteer to take turns reading out loud in a group of six. Principal Larry Nauta said eagerness to read is common in students across all grade levels. The school, which started 17 years ago makes reading a priority, he said. “Without reading you’re going to struggle,” he said. Kindergartners are reading at a minimum of a first grade level weeks before the end of the 2013-2014 school year. Statistics for the 2012-2013 school year saw 79 percent of Aurora Borealis students reading in the advanced category and 19 percent at proficient level. Nauta said these numbers are typical for Aurora. Comparatively, the district saw 44.5 percent of students reading at the advanced

level and 43.3 percent at the proficient level. The Alaska statistics for readers were 35.6 percent at the advanced level and 42.7 percent at the proficient level. Aurora Borealis teacher Julie Ball substantially modified an existing reading program that advances students’ reading levels, kindergarten teacher Luke Oliver said. The program takes a phonics-based approach to teaching reading that begins the first week of the school year in kindergarten. He said students learn two letter sounds a day and are tested after each pair. About

the second month of the school year, he starts introducing words by writing them on the board and sounding them out with students. After that the students begin writing and Oliver begins a spelling program followed by a reading program beSee READ, page B-2

Connections Home-school Dates To Remember: n April 28-May 16 — Ed Performance Testing for 6th, 7th and 8th n April 29 — Connections Talent Show; Alaska Construction Career Days at Soldotna Regional Sports Complex n April 30 — Last Day To Turn In Connections Reimbursement Forms n May 1-16 — AIMS/CBM Testing K-5 - Call to set up appointment n May 1 — Kenai Fjords Marine Science Field Trip n May 6-7 — Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies Overnight Field Trip to Petersen Bay Field Station n May 6 — Salmon Celebration Salmon Celebration The “Salmon Celebration” will be held at Johnson Lake State Campground in Kasilof on May 6. Grades K-3 are invited to attend from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and Grades 4-6 should attend between 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. It takes about 1 1/2 - 2 hours to do all the activities. Please remember that all Connections students need to have a parent in attendance. Great lunch locations can be found throughout the campground! Homer Shorebird Festival Connections is offering an amazing opportunity to explore and celebrate the migration of the shorebirds of Kachemak Bay! Hundreds of thousands of shorebirds, representing over 25 species from as far as Asia, Hawaii and South America, use sites around Kachemak Bay as feeding grounds during their spring migration. Connections will be hosting a science field trip to explore these fascinating birds and science centers will be available, also! This invitation is to all Connections students and families. n Where: Homer/Mud Bay (down East End Road) n When: May 13 n Time: Begins at 12:30 p.m. on the beach. I suggest arriving at noon. Early birds can help set up the science centers. n Who: Connections students- the field trip is geared for grades 3-6. Please email or call Shelli Furlong to RSVP (required – limited space available) 907-714-8880 or sfurlong@kpbsd. k12.ak.us Kenai River Kids Clean Up Day Mingle with other homeschool students/families, get outside to enjoy the springtime weather, and get an overwhelming feeling of pride that you helped improve your beautiful river community! If you are interested in participating, please contact Mark Wackler (mwackler@kpbsd.k12.ak.us). Lunch is provided for all participants and we’d love to see you there! Below is a tentative time-line for the day along with the primary clean up locations we have selected. We will be using three primary clean up locations, Isaac Walton in Sterling, Swiftwater Park in Soldotna and Centennial Park in Soldotna. Each student will be given their own trash bag and label. Awards will be given to the class or classes that collect the most trash. General awards will also be presented to all the students that participate.

IDEA Home-school IDEA is now accepting enrollment for the 2014/15 school See SCHOOLS, page B-2

The final weeks of the school year matter So here we are, one single month left of school. And some of us are thinking “Im ready for summer.” or “I cant wait for summer.” However how many of us are trying to get that last 100 percent on our math grade? Or who are still trying to listen in class to the teacher rather than hollering to a friend across the room? As I watch the flowers start to peek up from the dirt my mind wonders to having my bare feet in the thick grass of my yard, and yet I cant help but forget that I have geometry homework. And for a split moment I think “What’s it matter? It’s only worth five points and there are only 19 school days left.” But then I realize… Those five points add up after a while. And soon five turns into 30 and 30 into 100 then out of no where I find that I’m failing. As I listen to the conversations throughout the hals I realize, not many kids honestly care anymore. They are counting down

V erbatim M elinda A nderson the days… But not the same way I am. They’re waiting to be able to sleep in and have fun and wear their short shorts and tiny shirts as well as not knowing the date until 2 weeks before school starts again. So what is this? Premature summeritus? Grades don’t really have an affect until the very last week, when you know you have no chance? Where kids no longer have the respect for teacher as they used to and now just deviously disobey them? Is it the smell of spring that causes kids to do this? What makes our skin crawl with excitement at the end of the day to go outside and just enjoy the sunshine rather than think about what our homework was from that day…? Maybe it’s the thought of those sum-

mer time activities. Green grass, parties, no schedule, swimming in lakes, fishing season, people from different states coming up, or even just being able to sit in the sun and relax. But I think what our highschooler community needs is a school wake up call. Those projects that are due in the middle week of May, yeah those will be due here soon. The last book reports/essays due the first week of May? Yep, that’s in a few days. Then before we know it, it’s all over. The year is done. Its over, there’s no going back. So here are my last few words of wisdom. If you’re one of these kids that feel as if the last few weeks are nothing important, rethink. Because you cannot redo it. Try working on school work rather than working on finding when the first party is. Finish that essay rather than that flirty text. But basically, don’t give up just because the numbers are almost done.

Share your home with an exchange student Kenai Peninsula College has expanded the Youth for Understanding International Exchange Student program and is seeking host families for the entire 2014-2015 school year or just for a semester. According to Diane Taylor, Learning Center programs manager, hosting students does not require providing transportation; the students will use CARTS and/or carpooling. Host families will a receive $200 stipend per month and get the experience of a lifetime during this cultural exchange. The application form for the program can be downloaded from the Kenai River Campus home page. Return applications to the KRC Learning Center (Brockel Building, room 153) or by mail to: 156 College Rd., Soldotna, AK 99669. For more information, e-mail dttalyor@kpc.alaska.edu or call 262-0328 or 252-3058.

New Veterans Talent Grant Scholarship established John Pollock, KPC’s veteran’s services coordinator, saw a gap in veterans benefits for some very deserving, highlydecorated vets. “I was seeing Vietnam-era vets, with bronze stars and other metals of valor, with expired benefits and no educa-

tional resources to work with. I wanted to put something in place for these vets and the Veteran’s Talent Grant Scholarship will help. The VTGS is not a substitute for, or to be used to augment, existing VA educational benefits. The VTGS is designed to assist veteran students (meeting the eligibility requirements) who have expended their benefits or are currently ineligible for benefits. This program will compound KPC’s investment in its veteran population,” Pollock said. This scholarship is designed to reinvest three percent of all KPC VA funded credit hours back into veteran students in the form of tuition waiver scholarships. For academic year 2014-15, there are 72 tuition-free credit hours to award to deserving veteran students. Credit hours will be awarded in a manner to be determined by the scholarship committee with the intent of meeting the needs of as many qualified veterans as possible. To be eligible a veteran must meet the following criteria: be honorably discharged as reflected on the veteran’s DD214, be admitted to a KPC degree program and enrolled in at least 6 KPC credit hours, have a GPA of at least 2.0 (for returning students). Preference will be given to combat veter-

ans as defined by the award of a recognized campaign medal or badge, service in Korea between June 30, 1949 and the present, or earned hostile fire or imminent danger pay and to veterans with no VA educational entitlement remaining. Applicants must submit a cover letter requesting consideration for the program. The cover letter should include full name and student ID number, KPC degree program, total credit hours completed toward degree, number of registered credit hours (fall 2014) and brief statements regarding current VA educational entitlement status and how the VTGS will help meet academic needs. A copy of the DD214 should be attached to the cover letter. Tuition waivers are only good for KPC-sponsored courses that are required for a specific degree program or occupational certificate. Applications are due by May 31, 2014 to the VSC via e-mail to kpc_vsc@kpc. alaska.edu. Selected veterans will be notified no later than June 16, 2014. Questions can be directed to the VSC at kpc_vsc@kpc.alaska.edu or by calling (907) 262-0261. For updates on KPC’s veteran’s issues, follow Pollock on Twitter at John Pollock@Veterans_KPC.

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ginning around February. A kindergarten group read the illustrated book “We All Fall for Apples” by Emmi S. Herman on April 15. First Oliver read it to the students and asked comprehension questions

along the way. Then the students read the book out loud together. The group, one of three in the classroom, then rotated to a different table and read the book out loud to the new adult reading leader. A few doors down first graders were also broken into reading groups based on similar reading levels. Books ranged from fiction to nonfiction. After finishing a book, the students take

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year. To enroll visit our website www.ideafamilies.org or call 260-7555. IDEA families get ready for a busy week beginning May 5 with a Graduation Celebration for our local graduates to be held at The Challenger Learning Center at 7 p.m. All families are welcome to attend and hear graduates and their families talk about their accomplishments and their plans for the future. On May 6 families have the opportunity to go Behind the Scenes at the Anchorage Zoo. Sign up through your contact teacher to take part in this exciting hands-on field trip to learn more about Nocturnal Animals. Families are welcome to come by the resurce center on K-Beach Road to browse and purchase gently used curriculum with this year’s allotment funds. Programs and books are being offered at discounted rates so stop by today to build your curriculum library.

Kaleidoscope School Of Arts and Science n Tuesday — 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. 1st and 2nd grade are going on a “Being There” trip to Captain Cook and Agate Beach; 5-6 p.m. You are invited to attend the Big Roll out Habitat Meeting n Wednesday — 6:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Mrs. Stroh’s class and half of Ms. Maguire’s class will go to Halibut Cove for a Study Trip; D.A.R.E for the 5th / 6th grade classes n Thursday — 7 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Mrs. Darch’s and half of Ms. Maguire’s class will go to Halibut Cove for a Study Trip n Friday — 7:45 a.m.-3 p.m. Kindergarteners will go to Bishops Beach for a Study Trip Notes n Student Placement forms are available in the circular magazine file in the entry. They are due back to the office by May 9. This form is one of the considerations looked at when building class lists. n Spring picture packets and / or proofs are expected to arrive in a week. n If you are able to volunteer for the Bike Rodeo on May 12, please let nurse Mary Lou know. n Year-end Study Trips are happening now. If you plan on volunteering for any trip, please make sure that you have the volunteer requirements done 48 hours prior to the trip. n The Life Skill we are focusing on this week is Truthfulness: to be honest about things and feelings with oneself and others. PTA PTA is now accepting nominations for the 2014/2015 PTA Board. For more information contact the PTA at ksaspta@gmail.com The end of the year BBQ with the firefighters is May 16 at 6 p.m. Volunteers will be needed. There is no school carnival this year.

Kalifornsky Beach Elementary 6th graders Trayce Lyon and Ryan Hill represented K-Beach at the Middle School Math Meet, held in Homer on April 11. Ryan was among the top 12 competitors who advanced to the Countdown Round. Ryan was also a member of the team that was named the Top Team at the competition. Congratulations! Emma Mullet, K-Beach 5th grader, participated in the Future Problem Solving State Bowl which was held in Soldotna on April 14 and 15. Emma prepared for this event by doing independent research on the future of Land Transportation and writing an Individual qualifying packet. Her Individual packet came in 3rd place at State Bowl! Congratulations! The KPBSD Film Festival was held at SoHi on April 17. The following K-Beach students’ films were selected to be shown at the festival. The Jewel Thief - This team received third place for the People’s Choice award! Cassidy King, Connor Koppes, Dylan Hogue, Cody Hanson, Aubrey Girves, Kalee Vanderwall; Ms. Radius and the Freaky Creature - Owen Rolph, Sorin Sorensen, Kylie Cramer, Kaylee Lauritsen; Speaking up to Bullies - Jesse Judy, Charles Cole, Chrissy Hodo, Hannah Braden; Franky’s Adventure - Leroy Evarts, Bryce Zimmer, Owen Winfrey, Cameron Prior; Future Jupiter - Payton Rusk, Grace Wahl, Gavin Haakenson, Zachary Conrad; The Time Pad - Ryan Hill, Danielle Kjostad, Trayce Lyon. Congratulations to these students and all K-Beach students who submitted films this year. All is going well in the Art Portable! Starting April 28, second visits to the Art Room will include painting with ‘non-washable’ acrylic paints. Students will need to wear smocks or clothes that can get paint on them! Student art will be on display at the May 12 Art Fair. More information to come. The final band concert of the year will now take place at K-Beach on May 8 at 7 p.m. Students should arrive to the library from 6:30-6:45 p.m.

Kenai Central High Tuesday — The National Honor Society is a blood drive that is open to the community. If you would like to donate blood, please make arrangements to stop by KCHS or contact Mrs. Bergholtz for more information. Students in many content areas have had many opportunities to be exposed live and interactive to a variety of experts and professionals so far this semester. The world history students continue their CWOW partnerships with their peers that have World History with Mr. Sparks at Skyview high

a comprehension test. “Especially in kindergarten but all the way through, we’re always working toward mastery,” Oliver said. The highest-level kindergartners read at second grade, fifth month, Oliver said. One student in that group began school already reading, but the other three did not. “They went clear through the program and that is what the program

school. Students continue to use face to face live small group collaboration to learn about world history. World history and geography students also participated in the 3rd virtual field trip of the year when they went to Manhattan School of Music for a presentation on the music and composers that helped shape Nationalism in the 17th and 18th century Europe. These same students will take their final trip in May for the year when they hear about how music and politics shaped the Soviet Union and how music helped America battle Communism. Students in the Tunisia Club finished a yearlong series of video conferencing this month and put together a collaborative cookbook with their peers in Sousse, Tunisia. Mr. Zorbas and Mr. Sparks are currently working on adding an extracurricular credit opportunity for next years “Youth Talk” participants. This would give students another opportunity to earn credits that could apply to graduation and scholarship opportunities. Students from US History and Government participated in a video conference learning more about the transition in the Middle East. They heard from experts and participants in some of the places that are experiencing change in governments. They heard from some of the young people their own age in Syria who started the uprising wanting more freedom. Geometry students participated in a video conference last week learning about the application of geometry in the art world. Mr. Kennedy said his students saw how tessellations were applied during the one hour program that was free, thanks to our friends in Canada, at the Center for Global Education. Mrs. Davis has added another video conference to her Anatomy Course. Earlier in the year students got to watch and interact with a surgeon during a knee replacement operation. This week they will get to ask questions and watch the doctor do a live kidney transplant. Students who have Mrs. Bergholtz for Earth Science will be participating in another free opportunity from the Center for Global Education when they learn about the carbon footprint from producing food. This VCT will look at the carbon footprint of food production from its inherent production to transportation and consumption. Ms. Rustad had her Health class participate in a video conference with a class in North Carolina who had a guest talking about her upcoming attempt to get an official bib number and run in the Boston Marathon to support cancer research.

Kenai Middle n Tuesday — Mass Band Concert at the Kenai Central High School auditorium starting at 6 p.m. n Thursday — Choir Concert at 7 p.m. at Kenai Central High School n Friday — Track meet at Soldotna Middle School at 3 p.m. Upcoming events include Mini-Course sign-ups on May 7. There is a list of all Mini-Courses being offered this year in the commons area. Come take a look and help your student decide which Course would be the most fun for them!!!

Mountain View Elementary Parent input forms for student placement for the 2014-2015 school year are available now at the office. Your thoughts regarding your students strengths and needs is extremely helpful in developing classroom assignments. For parent input to be considered in the placement process this form needs to be returned to the office no later than Friday. Interviews for the new Assistant Principal will be held on Tuesday starting at 4 p.m. in the Mt. View Library. Pre-orders for the Mt. View yearbook are now being accepted. There will only be 100 yearbooks available for $17.00 each– order yours now! Order forms are available at the office. May 6 is Teacher Appreciation Day. Attention all 1st and 2nd graders mark your calendars, it is Bike Rodeo time! May 8 will be Bicycle Safety Instruction. The Kenai Police Department will send an officer to teach and instruct students on Safe Bicycle Tips. May 9 students may bring their bicycle and helmet to school and ride the obstacle course. Students will also be able to have their bicycle checked and registered with a sticker. Outgrown or don’t have a helmet? No worries! Helmets can be purchased for $5 and will be personally fitted for students thanks to Safe Kids through Central Peninsula Hospital. Get ready for fun! If you would like to help with the bike rodeo, please call the office at 283-8600. May 13 the PTA will have their final meeting for the school year at 3:45 p.m. in the staff lounge. Please check the Lost and Found outside the school office before the end of the school year. There are a lot of coats, hats, and gloves just waiting to be claimed.

Nikiski Middle-High The end of the year activities are quickly approaching. Athletes are busy with Soccer and Track and Field. The Musical Theater Class is in the middle of their run performing Hello Dolly! Choir and Band are looking forward to concerts and district wide music activities. Seniors are counting down the days until Graduation! The Middle School students are anticipating their campout coming the last week of school. Here is what is coming up this week: n Monday-Wednesday — Cheer tryouts. See Ms. Boyle for more details. n Tuesday — Middle School Mass Band at C

has done for them,” he said. He said the lowest level kindergarten readers are at a first grade level. “So all the kindergartners that leave this class are ready to read and they can read quite easily,” Oliver said. When meeting with parents of this fall’s kindergarten class, he said he recommended parents read to their kids during the summer so the they

Kenai Middle School n Tuesday — High School Track and Field at Seward Invite – TBA n Thursday — Soccer vs. Colony at Nikiski. Girls Varsity and Boys JV at 4 p.m. Boys Varsity & Girls JV at 6 p.m. n Friday — Saturday — The Musical Theater Department Presents “Hello Dolly!” at 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium. $10 adults. $5 Students (check out the Book Fair in the Library during intermission!); High School Track at Palmer Relays - TBA n Friday — Middle School Track at Soldotna Middle School — 3 p.m.; High School Soccer vs. Palmer at Nikiski. Girls Varsity and Boys JV at 4 p.m. Boys Varsity and Girls JV at 6 p.m. n Saturday — High School Soccer vs. Houston at Nikiski. Girls Varsity and Boys JV at noon. Boys Varsity and Girls JV at 2 p.m. n May 5 — Spring Choir Concert at 7 p.m. Upcoming Dates for Seniors: Scholastic Book Fair — The Book Fair is going on in the library at this time. It is open during both lunches and after school. The book fair will also be open before, during intermission, and after Hello Dolly performances. Come check out the selection of books and posters at this years’ book fair and don’t miss out on the buy one, get one free sale!

Nikiski North Star Elementary Fifth Grade Step Up Day will be Tuesday. The 5th graders will be going up to Nikiski Middle/ High School for a tour of the school and to meet teachers. They plan on leaving NNS at 9:30 a.m. and returning at 11:45 a.m. after they have lunch. If you have any questions, please see your child’s teacher or call the office at 776-2600. The NNS PTA would like to let NNS parents know they will be needing lots of volunteers for Teacher Appreciation Week, May 5–9, and also for the end of the year picnic on May 21. If you would like to volunteer, please see one of the PTA board members (Samantha Playle, Sheri Yeager, Trina Stichal or Michelle Maguire) and let them know if you are available to help with these events.

Redoubt Elementary All volunteers must be registered with the school district prior to volunteering in classrooms/driving on field trips. Field trip drivers must complete a driver form and submit required documentation when driving on school related field trips. Please contact the school office for additional information or go to http://www.kpbsd. k12.ak.us/ click on volunteer link and follow the instructions. Spring Book Fair — April 28–May 2. Buy one book and get the other book free. Last week’s Box Tops for Education winners were, Hannah Burton, Bridger Brewer, Michael Davidson & Emma Knowles. Keep turning those Box Tops for Education. Redoubt Art Show – A collection of artwork created by students at Redoubt will be displayed through the month of April at Kaladi Brothers on Kobuk in Soldotna. Redoubt students earned another PBIS school wide celebration. Last Friday students and staff celebrated their Super Behavior by dressing up in their favorite Super Hero costumes. Redoubt students continue to prove that they are Respectful, Responsible and Safe. A job well done! Redoubt Elementary 2014/2015 Preschool applications may be picked up at the school office. Children must be 4 years old by Sept. 1. Screening for this program will be held at the Soldotna Public Library on April 29. In order to be considered, a child must be 4 years on September 1st and have a completed application returned to Redoubt Elementary. Screenings will be scheduled after applications are brought to the school. For information please call 260-4300. Redoubt 3rd grade students will be preforming the play “Third Grade Rock Concert” May 16 at 10:30 a.m. at Redoubt Elementary. Parents are invited to come and enjoy this fun musical performance. See you there! The Redoubt Running Club is off and running. Approximately 25 students and 8 staff members from Redoubt hit the trails after school every day Monday through Friday. Students are being taught technique and the importance of how running can benefit them throughout their life.

can hear a fluent reader and see how the process works. “It also allows the kids to see that reading is important,” he said. “Whatever they see their parents putting emphasis on is what they’re going to care about too.” Kaylee Osowski can be reached at kaylee.osowski@peninsulaclarion. com

Landess and Hayley Ramsell won the 4x200 relay Interested in careers in Alaska’s dynamic construction industry? Skyview will be taking a bus over to the Soldotna Sports Center to experience the construction trades first-hand on Tuesday. Apprenticeship programs and industry representatives from Alaska will give you the opportunity to learn about exciting, high paying jobs in the booming construction trades. Experience demonstrations and hands-on activities in heavy equipment operation, painting, welding and much more. Pick up a permission slip from Wes Andrews or Emily Cotton. Skyview students; get your musical and/or artistic talents flowing. The last Skyview annual Talent Show will be held Wednesday in the commons. If you wish to participate, you need to fill out the audition form and turn it in by Tuesday. The forms are on the back of Mrs. Raemaeker ’s door (B205) or in the office. They need to be turned into either Mrs. Raemaeker or the office. The auditions will be Tuesday at 2:45 p.m. for the live performance portions of the show. Prizes will be awarded. If you are entering an art piece, fill out the form and submit it to Mrs. Taylor and/or Mrs. Raemaeker. Skyview’s last Academic and Senior’s Awards night will be May 6 at 7 p.m. in the commons. Seniors need to submit scholarship award information to Mrs. Madden by Friday in order to be included in the program.

Soldotna Elementary This is the last week for our Reading Counts contest, and here is our listing of the winners for last week: Anna Cannava, Andi Hiler, Luc Beauparlant, Carter Cannava, Eddie Goans, Jade Nelson-Russell, Olivia Davis, Vydell Baker, and Ryann Cannava. Congratulations to all of you for your consistent hard work! Our final PTA meeting will be May 12, in the library at 3:45 p.m. Please join us, and remember that childcare is provided. D.A.R.E. graduation & the 6th Annual D.A.R.E. Lock-In will occur on Friday at 6 p.m. at Soldotna High School. This is for all 5th graders. Please bring a sleeping bag, pillow, swimsuit, sleeping attire and money for snacks. This event is sponsored by the Soldotna Police and the SOHI Swim Team. Thank you. It’s not too late to order a yearbook. Be sure to return your order as soon as possible. The cost is $18, and if you still need an order form, please stop by the office and pick one up. Wednesday our 4th-5th-and 6th graders will present the “Basseo and Trebleet” concert at 6 p.m. in the SOEL gym. Please join us for a delightful evening. “Moustache Day” is this Friday Each spring we provide parents with the opportunity to provide input into the classroom placement of their child for the following year. The form is available from our office and must be returned by this Friday before 4 p.m. A big heart-felt group hug and congratulations go out to Tim Cashman, Katie Creglow, Olivia Davis, Clara Moore and Catie O’Dell who participated in the Future Problem Solving Scenario Writing Contest this spring. Catie’s scenario took 2nd place, and Olivia’s scenario took 3rd place. They received their trophies at the FPS State Bowl Awards ceremony on April 15! You young people continue to make all of us proud! Thank you, and way to go!

Soldotna High The Soldotna High School Child Development class is having a free daycare Thursday and Friday from 12:15-2:15 p.m. Games, crafts, snacks, and other activities will be provided. Children must be potty trained and between 2-5 years of age. Registration is required with a maximum of 20. Please contact Meggean at mbos@kpbsd.k12. ak.us <mailto:mbos@kpbsd.k12.ak.us> for an enrollment form. The track/football area/field is closed until further notice. No cars will be allowed in the area. The utility road between SOHI and SMS will be closed to all traffic!

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n Monday — Site Council Meeting, 4 p.m. n Thursday — Kindergarten Visitation (for those kindergarten students that have pre-registered for next school year; Science Fair at 4:30-6 p.m. River City Academy n May 6 — Salmon Celebration n May 3 — 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday School; n May 7, 8, 9 — 6th Grade to Peterson Bay focus will be on social studies and PECC. n May 6 — 7:50 a.m.-12:10 p.m. New student Wings Christian Academy shadow day. Incoming new students for next year This week at Wings, Ethan Berga won the are invited to join us for the morning to see what life is like at RCA. Please call the school to sign “Cleanest Desk of the Week” award. Good job! Volleyball has been a focus for most of the stuup. n May 7 — 5:30-7:30 p.m. New building ori- dents these last few weeks. The volleyball team entation. This invite is open to all students and par- had their last home game for the season on April ents, including those planning to attend next year. 24. Details of that game will be announced next week. This week they will be driving up to Anchorage for the last away game against the NACA Skyview High White team on Tuesday at 1 p.m. This will be Morgan Chesley, Aurora Derflinger, and Austin their first time playing NACA White for the spring Craig received 4th place for their Caring for the season and they hope to do well and have lots of Kenai project and Haley Trefon was a finalist. fun. Also, the final volleyball tournament will The Track and Field team did well in Homer: take place at Wings on Friday at 1 p.m. Everyone Tim Duke won the triple jump with a new state best is welcome and encouraged to attend. of 41-4. In other news, there are 15 more days left in the Logan Hemphill, Brenner Musgrave, Daniel Wings Christian Academy school year! The two Shuler, and Coltin Yancey won the 4x800 relay. seniors, Matanya Bush and Salena Peña, are busy Hayley Ramsell won the triple jump with a 30-0 trying to put together their graduation speeches jump. Kaylee Fisher, Heather Tolliver, Hayley for the final program. A 2nd grade graduation Ramsell and Carajean Gibbons won the 4x100 re- will also be taking place, with Valerie Cázares lay. and Charisma Watkins moving up to the 3rd grade Sabrina Hames, Jessie McNamara, Haille next year. Way to go!

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The undersigned trustee, STEWART TITLE OF THE KENAI PENINSULA, INC., elects to sell the above-described property at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash in lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale upon acceptable bid, to satisfy the obligation on the 22nd day of July, 2014, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock A.M.m. at the front door of the Alaska Court System Building, 125 Trading Bay Drive, Kenai, Alaska 99611.

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NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that JOEL HARMON and BRENDA HARMON, Husband and Wife, as Trustors, on the 15th day of October, 2004, executed a Deed of Trust affecting certain real property to SOUTHCENTRAL TITLE AGENCY as Trustee, STEWART TITLE OF THE KENAI PENINSULA, INC. having since been substituted as Trustee, and FRANCES PARKER, an unmarried woman, as Beneficiary, which Deed of Trust was recorded on October 27, 2004, at Serial Number 2004-010935-0, in the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, the beneficial interest in which was assigned to the Frances G. Parker Trust by instrument dated April 1, 2007 and recorded on May 3, 2007 at Serial Number 2007-004596-0, and describing and encumbering land and improvements known as:

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Public Notices Invitation to Bid The Ninilchik Traditional Council's HUD Program is seeking a General Contractor w/residential endorsement for a Mod/Rehab in Ninilchik. Indian Preference applies. Contractor must pay Tribal Wage Rate, must obtain proposal packet, do an on-site visit, and attend the Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference. Partial scope of work consists of fuel oil heater installation, water-testing & water treatment system installation, vinyl siding, generator wired into home, etc. See full scope of work in Bid Packet. Bid opens April 22, 2014 @ 9am and closes May 21, 2014 @ 5pm. Please contact Diane Pherson, Procurement Officer for a bid packet @ (907) 567-3313.

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NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND SALE 2192752 NAMING TRUSTEE: FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO SOUTHCENTRAL TITLE AGENCY TRUSTOR: SILVER FOX CONSTRUCTION, LLC BENEFICIAR: LEONARD BALLARD OWNER OF RECORD: SILVER FOX CONSTRUCTION, LLC Said Deed of Trust was executed on the 10th day of January, 2008, and recorded on the 14th day of January, 2008, Serial No. 2008-000383. There is of record an Assignment of Deed of Trust, including the terms and conditions thereof, executed by CALVIN W. FERTIG and PATSY A. FERTIG, as Assignors, for the benefit of LEONARD BALLARD, as Assignee, recorded February 12, 2014, Serial No. 2014-001082, Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska. There is of record a JUDGMENT in favor of WELLS FARGO EQUIPMENT FINANCE, INC., a Minnesota Corporation, against SILVER FOX CONSTRUCTION LLC, an Alaska Limited Liability Corporation, ROBERT E. HARR, individually, in the amount of $35,918.06, plus interest, costs and fees, entered May 25, 2011, under Case No. 3AN- 10-11415 Civil, in the Superior Court for the State of Alaska Anchorage, Third Judicial District, and recorded June 1, 2011, Serial No. 2011-005177. There is of record a JUDGMENT in favor of WELLS FARGO EQUIPMENT FINANCE, INC., a Minnesota Corporation, against SILVER FOX CONSTRUCTION LLC, an Alaska Limited Liability Corporation, ROBERT E. HARR, individually, in the amount of $45,133.82, plus interest, costs and fees, entered May 25, 2011, under Case No. 3AN- 10-11415 Civil, in the Superior Court for the State of Alaska Anchorage, Third Judicial District, and recorded June 14, 2011, Serial No. 2011-005573. There is of record a JUDGMENT in favor of WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., a National Banking Association, against SILVER FOX CONSTRUCTION LLC, an Alaska Limited Liability Corporation, HARR TECHNOLOGIES, LLC. a Colorado Limited Liability Corporation, ROBERT E. HARR, individually, and SHERRY L. HARR, individually, in the amount of $203,903.79, plus interest, costs and fees, entered November 20, 2011, under Case No. 3AN-10-12989 Civil, in the Superior Court for the State of Alaska Anchorage, Third Judicial District, and recorded November 30, 2011, Serial No. 2011-011440. Said documents having been recorded in the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, describing: TRACT TWO-D (2-D), K-B SUBDIVISION, Part 10, filed under Plat No. 2006-40, Records of the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska. The physical address of the real property described above is 35403 KB Drive, Soldotna, Alaska, 99669. The undersigned, being the original, or properly substituted Trustee hereby gives notice that a breach of the obligations under the Deed of Trust has occurred in that the Trustor has failed to satisfy the indebtedness secured thereby: FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR AND 84/100TH DOLLARS ($436,744.84), plus interest, late charges, costs, attorney fees and other foreclosure costs actually incurred, and any future advances thereunder. Said default may be cured and the sale terminated upon payment of the sum of default plus interest, late charges, costs, attorney fees and other foreclosure costs actually incurred, and any future advances thereunder, prior to the sale date. If Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously and default has been cured, the trustee may elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. Upon demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee elects to sell the above-described property, with proceeds to be applied to the total indebtedness secured thereby. Said sale shall be held at public auction at the ALASKA COURT SYSTEM BUILDING, 125 TRADING BAY DR., #100, KENAI, ALASKA, on the 22nd day of May, 2014, said sale shall commence at 11:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in conjunction with such other sales that the Trustee or its attorney may conduct. DATED this 19th day of February, 2014. FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY By: PENELOPE BUNDY Title: Authorized Signer Recording Information Serial No. 2014-001259 Date: 02/20/2014

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Help to curb child abuse by learning its symptoms DEAR ABBY: Child abuse is epidemic in the United States. It occurs at every socioeconomic level, across ethnic and cultural levels, within all religions and at all levels of education. Every year, more than 3 million reports of child abuse are made in the U.S. Without intervention, about 30 percent of those abused and neglected children will later abuse their own children. With the proper skills, all parents can raise happy, healthy children. Treatment is necessary, but our communities also need to do a better job at prevention. April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. Please ask your readers to learn about programs and activities in their communities that support parents and promote healthy families. — JOHN E. THORESEN, DIRECTOR, BARBARA SINATRA CHILDREN’S CENTER, RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIF. DEAR MR. THORESEN: Thank you for your letter. Readers, the first step to curbing child abuse is recognizing it. These are the 10 most common indicators: 1. UNEXPLAINED INJURIES: Visible signs may include burns or bruises in the shape of objects. There may be unconvincing explanations for a child’s injuries.

2. CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR: Abused children often appear scared, anxious, depressed, withdrawn or more aggressive. 3. RETURNING TO EARLIER BEHAVIOR: Abused children may display behaviors shown when they were younger, such as thumbsucking, bed-wetting, fear of the dark or strangers. For some, loss of basic language Abigail Van Buren or memory problems may occur. 4. FEAR OF GOING HOME: Abused children may express fear or anxiety about leaving school or going places with the abuser. 5. CHANGES IN EATING: The stress, fear and anxiety lead to changes in a child’s eating behaviors, which may result in weight gain or weight loss. 6. CHANGES IN SLEEP HABITS: The child may have frequent nightmares or have difficulty falling asleep, and appear tired or fatigued. 7. CHANGES IN SCHOOL PERFORMANCE OR ATTENDANCE: Children may demonstrate difficulty

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You could opt to stay behind the scenes today. Conversations will surround you, and others are likely to express their ideas freely. In order to encourage the flow of this exchange, avoid attacking anyone else’s ideas. Tonight: Head home to exercise and ponder. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Zero in on a key matter that is instrumental to your well-being. Understand what is happening with a loved one. Honor what you need to do, and observe what is occurring with a family member who has been unusually out of sorts. Tonight: Swap news with a dear friend. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH You’ll give a full Leo performance today, no matter what you do. A disturbing conversation will provide the incentive to work through a problem. You’ll resolve an issue and leave everyone smiling. A boss or important loved one appreciates your efforts. Tonight: Live for the moment. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH One-on-one relating will open up doors. You might want to explore your options. Reach out to someone at a distance and listen to his or her news. Curb spending with the knowledge of your ultimate financial goal. A partner will delight you with suggestions. Tonight: Surf the Web. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Relating on an individual level will help you understand someone who is a dominant presence in your life. You are very different, yet together you conjure up perhaps some of the wildest ideas. Deal with a matter involving your finances. Tonight: Enjoy dinner for two.

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concentrating in school or experience excessive absences, sometimes because of adults trying to hide the children’s injuries from authorities. 8. LACK OF PERSONAL CARE OR HYGIENE: The child may appear unkempt, be consistently dirty and have severe body odor, or lack sufficient clothing for the weather. 9. RISK-TAKING BEHAVIORS: The child may engage in high-risk activities such as using drugs or alcohol, or carrying a weapon. 10. INAPPROPRIATE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR: A sexually abused child may exhibit overly sexualized behavior or use explicit sexual language. We can all support children and parents to reduce the stress that often leads to abuse and neglect. Be a friend to a parent or child you know. Volunteer your time or donate to programs that support child abuse treatment and prevention as well as those that build healthy families. Trust your instincts. Suspected abuse is enough of a reason to contact authorities. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars A baby born today has a Sun in Taurus and a Moon in Aries if born before 10:23 a.m. (PDT). Afterward, the Moon will be in Taurus. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, April 28, 2014: This year your friends play a bigger role in creating more of what you want. Brainstorming sessions will result in remarkable ideas — some of which actually might be applicable! You easily could feel overworked or go to extremes with your health and ideas. If you are single, a friend might become more, or you could meet someone of interest through a friend. You will tend to be far more romantic than you have been in the past. If you are attached, the two of you enjoy hanging out together more. The friendship that exists between you is as strong as your romantic tie. A fellow TAURUS could be more stubborn than you are! The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH You might not be looking forward to a conversation that has the potential to be awkward. Your intuition could tell you to be more vulnerable. Try to find some common ground between you and the other party. Tonight: You have reason to celebrate. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You might wake up dreading that it is Monday, but you will be pleasantly surprised as the day goes on. Someone could surprise you by going out of his or her way for you. You’ll feel this person’s sensitivity, as there is a strong bond between you. Tonight: Be spontaneous.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Be receptive to new ideas. You might be overwhelmed by what is happening around you. Defer to someone who often needs to take the lead. Your imagination is likely to provide a solution to a difficult matter that will please most parties. Tonight: Go along with a suggestion. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Your mind might be on everything else but the here and now. Force yourself to focus by midday, or else you might not get done what you might need to. Honor a need for a change in plans. Stay level and direct in handling a problem person. Tonight: Do something different. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Tension could get you going this morning. Your creativity will find the answer to relieve the stress. Honor what is happening, but don’t hesitate to lighten up the moment. Allow your sense of humor to emerge, and maintain a grounded perspective. Tonight: Fun and games. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH You could be overwhelmed by everything you have to do, and you might need to make an adjustment to your plans. You won’t know for sure until you catch up with a key person. If you can, work from home, or perhaps make your work setting more comfortable. Tonight: Order in. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Share more of your wilder ideas that take you to some interesting places. A friend absolutely will respond well to this facet of your personality, as this person loves your imagination. A brainstorming session could inspire you. Tonight: Visit with a pal.

A vague listing Dear Readers: Here is this week’s Sound Off, about ingredient lists on products: “My Sound Off is about manufacturers that do not put enough description in their ingredient list. Many people, due to religious, moral or health reasons, do not or cannot eat pork products. However, many ingredients just list ‘enzymes’ or ‘gelatin,’ without stating what their source is — beef, pork or otherwise. I have had to call many companies to find out, or have had to get rid of products due to this labeling.” — A Reader, via email Very good point, and one I hope manufactures will listen to. — Heloise

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Fast Facts Dear Readers: Here are some places to put reflector tape to make things easier to find: * Put above a doorbell. * On each side of a driveway. * Above light switches or doorways, in case of emergency. * In a garage so you know how far to pull in your car. * On children’s clothing when walking at night. — Heloise Weigh down Dear Heloise: I save plastic gallon milk jugs. I fill them with water and use them to weigh down the blankets, sheets and towels I use to cover my plants when needed. I was having a problem with the blankets blowing off. The jugs help keep them in place. — Sheila in North Carolina

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