Peninsula Clarion, May 29, 2014 by Sound Publishing

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Homer softball beats Soldotna

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THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2014 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 205

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Parnell signs budget bills, no vetoes By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — Gov. Sean Parnell signed a $12.8-billion state budget package Wednesday, issuing no vetoes and saying he was proud of the work that he and lawmakers had done. The state, amid slumping revenues, was still facing a nearly $3.1 billion draw from savings to fill budget holes between the current year and 2015. Parnell said lawmakers worked to reduce unrestricted general fund spending from $8 billion in 2013 to about $7 billion this year and $5.9 billion

for the coming fiscal year as part of the operating and capital budgets. The category of unrestricted general funds refers to money that isn’t restricted in its use by the law, constitution or something else. “We have a functioning legislative branch and a functioning executive branch working together for the benefit of Alaskans,” he said. He listed as accomplishments a plan to provide additional education funding over the next three years, passage of legislation setting the state’s participation in a massive proposed liquefied natural gas

project and the infusion of $3 billion from savings to help pay down the state’s unfunded pension obligation and lower annual payments required as part of that responsibility in the coming years. He told an Anchorage Rotary group that Alaska’s financial future is bright and that he and legislators had worked together to be wise stewards of the public’s money. Total spending authorized for 2015 is $12.8 billion. That compares to $13.2 billion for the current year, according to Parnell’s budget office. At a news conference later,

he said while lawmakers met the spending target he had set, he did an intensive review of the budget but found nothing that gave him pause and merited a veto. The state shows a budget deficit of $1.4 billion for next year, according to Parnell’s budget office. The deficit for the current year, which ends June 30, is $1.7 billion. Parnell, during a news conference in Anchorage, said the smaller projected draw is a sign of moving in the right direction. He said the idea is to continue conserving savings while

ANCHORAGE — Authorities say a helicopter has crashed at Birchwood Airport near Anchorage and the pilot is dead. A bystander reportedly was burned while trying to rescue the pilot. The Anchorage Daily News reports that Chugiak Volunteer Fire and Rescue Assistant Chief Clifton Dalton says crews responded in minutes Wednesday afternoon and found the helicopter engulfed in flames. The male bystander who tried to help was taken to Providence Alaska Medical Center for treatment. Neither the pilot nor the bystander was immediately identified. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer says the helicopter was a Robinson R-44. The cause of the crash is under investigation. — The Associated Press

Firefighters rescue wolf pups

By RASHAH MCCHESNEY Peninsula Clarion

Dehydrated and injured by porcupine quills — Hooper Bay, Huslia, Stebbens, Gannet and X-ray were named after the firefighters who rescued them and the area in which they were found. The fire crews heard the abandoned wolf pups making noise while working to secure the western flank of a massive wild fire on the Kenai Peninsula While the names may not stick, the three males and two female pups may survive after being taken to the Alaska Zoo by Alaska Department of Fish and Game staff. Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion The two-week-old pups Timofey Kolosov, firefighter from Delta Junction, sets up a tent in the Skyview High School soccer field Monday in Soldotna. were rescued from a den near Kolosov and his crew arrived to help fight the Funny River Horse Trail wildfire which has burned more than 176,000 acres of Kasilof, said firefighter Brian Kenai National Wildlife Refuge land. Nichols who was on one of crews that found the pups. “We actually

Rain helps slow fire

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reducing spending and getting more oil flowing through the trans-Alaska pipeline to help bump up revenue. Alaska relies heavily on oil revenue to fund state government operations and the Legislature last year passed an oil production taxcut, championed by Parnell, as a way to encourage more investment and production. Critics say it’s a giveaway to industry, with no guarantee of what the state will see in return. Asked when the deficits might be gone, Parnell said it could be next fall, given how subject the state is to the vaga-

As the threat of the Funny River Horse Trail wildfire lessens in Kasilof and Funny River, the massive fire pushes further into the refuge and threatens structures near Skilak Lake.

The Kenai Backcountry Lodge, owned by Alaska Wildland Adventures, lies in the path of the Funny River fire along its northeastern edge where there have been few efforts to mitigate its advance as Kenai National Wildlife Refuge managers hope for a burn that will revitalize the area’s ecosystem.

What few efforts there have been, however, have focused on keeping structures in that area of wilderness safe from the flames, said Alaska Interagency Incident Management Team public information officer Jim Schwarber.

Photo contributed by Brian Nichols

Firefighters rescued five wolf pups abandoned by mother during the Funny River Horse Trail wildfire.

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Soldotna under construction Murkowski hopeful that Eielson will house new jets and roundabout islands are being set. The Wilson Street roundabout, the first of three to be installed, will be operational by early Soldotna is set to have a productive sum- June. mer, with a variety of construction projects aimed at improving drinking water availability, walking trails and roadways through Sterling Street out the city. The street curbs are installed for the SterCity Engineer Kyle Kornelis said many ling Street road improvements, and all unprojects are on schedule with the help of derground utility work is completed. Worksome fair, early-spring weather. ers are prepping for sidewalk installation Kornelis said he is pleased with how and cleaning up back slopes. Paving should things are moving forward thus far. The be completed shortly afterward. The project community has been very accommodating is projected to be completed mid-June. in response to the traffic backups on Binkley Street, a result of shutting down one of the busiest areas in town, he said. By KELLY SULLIVAN Peninsula Clarion

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Binkley Street The city is currently reconstructing the set-up of Binkley Street to help with traffic congestion by installing three roundabouts. The project is on schedule. Asphalt is currently being removed south of the Redoubt Avenue intersection, and sidewalks

Riverside Drive, Porcupine Court

Workers on Riverside Drive are currently laying down topsoil and will stripe the road. The project will be completed soon. On Porcupine Court, curbs will be poured next week, which will ensure the project is completed by late June. See BUILD, page A-9 C

FAIRBANKS (AP) — Eielson Air Force Base likely will be on a narrowed list of potential locations for two squadrons of new F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said. In a luncheon speech Tuesday, the Alaska Republican said the Air Force will reduce a list of five candidates to two or three locations by the end of June. Eielson should be in that group, she said, and is in a good position to be picked for the jets, the Fairbanks Daily NewsMiner reported. “You always hate to jinx anything before you have confirmation, but I do believe we’re in a strong position in the Interior for the F-35s,” Murkowski

said at the 11th annual Ladies That Lunch Committee Spring Luncheon. Both Eielson and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage are on the current list with three undisclosed overseas Pacific bases. Recent tensions in Russia and China have underscored the strategic importance of the Pacific, Murkowski said, and Alaska squadrons allow the U.S. to have a regional presence without being in world hot spot. Hill Air Force Base in Utah was the first base to receive F35s. The military plans to buy more than 2,000. Military officials told Murkowski that the closure of See JETS, page A-9

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

Barrow 31/23

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Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Monday

Tides Today Prudhoe Bay 35/27

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5:07 a.m. (21.3) 6:06 p.m. (19.7)

12:04 a.m. (1.9) 12:37 p.m. (-3.3)

3:54 a.m. (20.6) 4:53 p.m. (19.0)

10:46 a.m. (-3.2) 10:53 p.m. (2.2)

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3:13 a.m. (19.4) 4:12 p.m. (17.8)

9:42 a.m. (-3.2) 9:49 p.m. (2.2)

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1:53 a.m. (11.6) 3:03 p.m. (9.2)

8:30 a.m. (-2.2) 8:31 p.m. (2.2)

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7:53 a.m. (29.6) 8:47 p.m. (29.3)

2:34 a.m. (4.9) 3:04 p.m. (-1.1)

Kenai City Dock

First Second Deep Creek

Smoke at times and some showers

Periods of rain

Hi: 57 Lo: 45

Hi: 61 Lo: 43

Rather cloudy with a shower or two

Mostly cloudy with a shower or two

Periods of clouds and sunshine

Hi: 54 Lo: 42

Hi: 56 Lo: 41

Hi: 57 Lo: 42

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

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

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First June 5

Today 4:53 a.m. 11:12 p.m.

Full June 12

Daylight

Length of Day - 18 hrs., 18 min., 20 sec. Moonrise Moonset Daylight gained - 3 min., 48 sec.

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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

Seldovia

Last June 19

Today 6:16 a.m. 11:50 p.m.

Tomorrow 4:52 a.m. 11:14 p.m.

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Kotzebue 47/41/sh 45/41/c 46/40/c McGrath 56/49/sh 59/49/sh 60/51/sh Metlakatla 57/48/s 26/22/c 31/23/sf Nome 42/37/sh 51/42/sh 53/37/r North Pole 69/36/pc 56/45/c 48/37/c Northway 67/39/pc 54/42/sh 56/47/r Palmer 60/47/c 67/41/c 70/51/pc Petersburg 57/46/pc 54/43/c 64/46/pc Prudhoe Bay* 34/28/c 50/46/sh 49/39/r Saint Paul 46/40/c 48/45/c 45/38/c Seward 51/47/sh 68/46/c 73/49/pc Sitka 52/48/c 66/41/pc 73/49/s Skagway 54/50/c 63/44/c 59/40/r Talkeetna 55/46/sh 61/43/pc 66/42/sh Tanana 62/47/sh 56/49/c 63/47/s Tok* 67/34/pc 57/48/sh 55/47/r Unalakleet 50/45/c 55/46/c 61/44/pc Valdez 54/44/c 63/49/s 60/47/pc Wasilla 57/48/c 36/33/sh 36/33/sf Whittier 51/44/c 55/46/sh 54/42/r Willow* 59/47/c 58/46/pc 60/44/pc Yakutat 53/42/c 58/48/sh 50/46/r 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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Nome 43/41

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Unalakleet McGrath 52/46 64/47

New June 26 Tomorrow 7:07 a.m. none

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City Albany, NY Albuquerque Amarillo Asheville Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Buffalo, NY Casper Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Charlotte, NC Chicago Cheyenne Cincinnati

60/53/sh 92/63/pc 89/57/s 83/56/t 87/66/t 62/59/t 83/68/t 83/67/c 86/54/t 83/69/t 88/50/s 72/51/s 50/47/sh 67/57/pc 92/41/pc 92/73/pc 85/60/c 88/63/pc 71/56/pc 82/49/s 84/65/pc

68/51/pc 86/63/pc 86/60/pc 82/59/t 84/67/t 63/50/sh 86/68/t 62/54/r 75/49/pc 84/65/t 93/61/t 70/49/s 64/47/s 67/51/pc 86/51/pc 90/69/t 80/62/t 88/66/t 73/53/pc 82/56/t 81/60/t

Dillingham 49/39

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24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.07" Month to date ........................... 0.54" Normal month to date ............. 0.81" Year to date .............................. 3.45" Normal year to date ................. 3.88" Record today ................. 0.53" (1985) Record for May ............. 2.77" (1966) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963)

Juneau 61/44

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Kodiak 50/46

Sitka 54/46

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112 at Death Valley, Calif. 28 at West Yellowstone,

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Ketchikan 60/47

69 at Eagle and North Pole 22 at Barrow

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Showers and storms will stretch from Texas to the Ohio Valley and the Southeastern states today. Storms will dot the northern High Plains with spotty showers over the upper part of the Northwest.

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76/65/c 92/69/t 92/67/pc 52/45/sh 84/65/c 84/67/pc 87/53/pc 84/60/pc 69/62/sh 69/47/s 97/68/pc 89/65/t 82/47/pc 71/65/c 75/48/t 56/50/c 78/48/pc 86/75/s 84/68/t 83/64/pc 75/67/t

71/53/pc 90/67/t 80/57/pc 69/42/s 86/71/t 80/54/pc 88/57/t 80/61/pc 77/53/pc 78/51/s 92/69/pc 88/62/pc 72/46/pc 76/52/s 70/39/pc 68/48/pc 72/44/pc 87/75/s 84/70/t 80/58/pc 77/65/t

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HOUSTON (AP) — The amount of explosive gas tainting a North Texas neighborhood’s water supply has increased in recent years, but the state’s oil and gas regulator says it can’t link the methane to drilling activity nearby, according to a report it released Wednesday. The state Railroad Commission has found that the contamination has gotten worse in most of the private water wells it tested in September 2013 compared with what was measured in 2010 and in 2011. However, Peter Pope, the agency geologist who signed off on the report, wrote that staff “has determined that the evidence is insufficient to conclude that Barnett Shale production activities have caused or contributed to methane contamination beneath the neighborhood.” The agency will not investigate further, Pope added in the report dated Friday. He suggested that infuriated residents of the subdivision in Weatherford, a suburb about 30 miles west of

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Kenai/ Soldotna 57/45 Seward 52/45 Homer 55/47

Anchorage 60/51

Bethel 53/37

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Fort Worth, “properly ventilate and aerate their water systems.” Methane is not toxic, but can be explosive under certain conditions. The agency’s report contradicts findings by independent scientists who have done fingerprint-like analysis of the methane in the water wells and compared it to those being produced by a gas driller. Those scientists have said that the methane originates from a well that was once owned by Fort Worth-based Range Resources. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached a similar conclusion in 2010 and took rare emergency action ordering Range to provide the homeowners with clean water. Range Resources has repeatedly denied the allegation and said its testing does not link the methane in the water supply to the gases it produced. “It’s not at all surprising that yet another round of regulatory investigations have determined that gas is naturally present in

the Trinity aquifer and is in no way associated with Range’s operations,” Range Resources spokesman Matt Pitzarella said in an email Wednesday. But Rob Jackson, a Duke University professor who specializes in isotopic analysis and has conducted this finger-

print testing on the water in the neighborhood, said he was surprised by the agency’s decision not to do further testing. “Based on their own data, five of eight water wells show increasing methane concentrations through time,” Jackson said in an email.

Wednesday Stocks Company Final Change Agrium Inc............... 89.73 -0.59 Alaska Air Group...... 99.41 +1.19 ACS...........................1.79 -0.02 Apache Corp............91.76 +1.40 AT&T........................ 35.34 +0.13 Baker Hughes.......... 69.99 +0.07 BP ........................... 50.67 -0.03 Chevron.................. 122.52 -0.32 ConocoPhillips......... 79.57 +0.53 ExxonMobil..............101.06 -0.30 1st Natl. Bank AK...1,755.00 +22.50 GCI...........................11.25 -0.10 Halliburton............... 63.44 -0.53 Harley-Davidson.......71.51 +0.11 Home Depot............ 79.68 -0.01 McDonald’s..............101.30 -1.06 Safeway................... 34.23 +0.02 Schlumberger..........101.87 -0.29 Tesoro...................... 55.42 +1.25 Walmart................... 75.53 -0.06 Wells Fargo.............. 50.44 -0.11 Gold closed............1,285.93 -5.97

Silver closed............ 19.04 -0.03 Dow Jones avg..... 16,633.18 -42.32 NASDAQ................4,225.08 -11.99 S&P 500................1,909.78 -2.13 Stock prices provided by the Kenai Peninsula Edward Jones offices.

Oil Prices Tuesday’s prices North Slope crude: $111.06, down from $111.20 on Friday West Texas Int.: $104.11, down from $104.95 on Friday

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Obituary Vincent Alexander Bayes Vincent Alexander Bayes died Friday, May 23 as his mother labored to bring him into this world. His loss is a great and stunning grief to his mother and father, Chantilly and Dustin Bayes of Kenai. Their sorrow is shared by their parents, Stephen and Diane Hileman, Evelyn McCoy, their grandparents Alida and Joseph Bayes, and their many brothers and sisters. The family would like to thank the physicians, nurses, and staff of Central Peninsula Hospital for their efforts, kindness, and consolation. We would also like to thank all our friends and family for theirs. There will be a funeral mass at noon Friday, May 30th, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Soldotna, with graveside services to follow in the Kenai Cemetery. Christ has called Vincent to Himself, and we will see him again.

Victor Brian Padilla Victor Brian Padilla, 55, passed away on Thursday, May 22, 2014, in Anchorage, AK his brother Kevin Perry Padilla and son Jachin Seth Padilla at his side, after a private and very courageous battle with cancer. Victor was born to Deloris and Dilio Padilla in Miles City, MT on June 20, 1958, the second of their seven children. Victor was raised in Casper, WY, and has been a resident of Kenai and then Sterling, AK for the past eleven years. He was employed as a welder for Udelhoven, Inc., and previously for Peak Oilfield Services. He was preceded in death by his daughter Leah Joy Padilla and his father Dil Padilla. He enjoyed living in Alaska, cooking, barbecues, playing guitar, spending good times with friends and family, riding his Harley, and sharing his faith in God and our Lord Jesus Christ with others. Victor has an extremely kind,

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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. 8:30 a.m. • TOPS AK No. 220 Kasilof weigh-in at CES Station 6, 58260 Sterling Highway. Meeting starts at 9 a.m. Call 262-7319 or 252-3436. 10 a.m. • TOPS AK No. 164 Soldotna weigh-in at First Bap-

Allan L. Char Allan L. Char, 69, of Kasilof passed away at his home May 22, 2014. Allan was born July 22, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Charles and May (Bills) Char, and was the Ivory Snow Baby for a year. He proudly served two tours in Viet Nam as a Military Police Officer in the Marine Corps and was awarded the Purple Heart. He and his wife moved to Kasilof in 1982 and shortly thereafter began his career with Safeway, where he retired in 2000. His family says, “He was a strong, kind hearted man who loved and served his country. Al loved fishing, target shooting and fostering animals. He was a true character; he made everyone around him laugh with his jokes and stories. Al will truly be missed by all, even his bossiness. We love and miss you Charlie.” He was preceded in death by his brother, Vince Char. Allan is survived by his loving wife of 44 years, Eileen; daughter, Cindi and husband, Dan Pritchow II of Renton, WA; granddaughter, Katie Houston of Centerville, OK and grandsons, Zachary Houston of Seattle, WA and Dan Pritchow III of Renton, WA. A memorial service will be held Thursday, May 28, 2014 at the Peninsula Memorial Chapel (5839 Kenai Spur Hwy in Kenai) at 4:00PM.

Donations in Allan’s name may be given to the Disabled Veteran’s National Foundation. Please visit Allan’s online memorial and sign his guestbook at alaskanfuneral.com

Greg A. Getty Longtime Kenai resident Greg A. Getty, 52, passed away Sunday, May 25, 2014 at home from complications of a heart procedure. Memorials services will be 3 p.m. Monday, June 2, at Peninsula Memorial Chapel in Kenai. His cremated remains will be buried with his parents in the Kenai City Cemetery. Greg was born Mar. 2, 1962 in Long Beach, Calif. He moved with his family to Kenai in Nov. 1972. Over the years, he worked various jobs including Enstar, Coca Cola, volunteer firefighter and EMT in Nikiski, Peak Oilfield Services, CH2MHILL, and as a carpenter/handy man. Greg and his father, Frank Getty, were both awarded a plaque for the work they did in the Kenai City Cemetery in 2002-03. Greg enjoyed golf, baseball, basketball and swimming which he was known throughout his high school career as “Goose.” He was also a devout Seahawks fan and enjoyed watching NASCAR. “Greg was very close with his family and friends. He enjoyed spending time with his niece, Crystal and his great-niece, Aubree. He would do anything for anybody, always cracking jokes with a smile on his face. He will be deeply missed by his family and friends. His sister, Jennifer, would like to say a “Big Thank You” to his special friends, Jim, Vicki, Lisa and Tim for always being there and taking such good care of him.” His family wrote. Greg was preceded in death his parents, Charlene “Muzz” and Frank Getty, and his significant other, Mary Emerson. He is survived by sister and brother-in-law, Jennifer and Mark Everson of Fairhope, Alabama; niece, Crystal Reamer and husband, David, of Spanishfort, Alabama; great-niece, Aubree Jane “Bugs” Reamer of Spanishfort, Alabama; and daughter, Alicia Maltby and her children. Arrangements were by Peninsula Memorial Chapel in Kenai.

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forgiving, loving, and generous soul, he is deeply loved by his family and he will be greatly missed. Victor is survived by his mother Deloris Padilla of Casper, WY; sisters Valerie Lynn Islas and Janae Rivera of Casper, WY; and brothers Michael Padilla of Kenai, AK, Kevin Perry Padilla of Anchorage, AK, Scott Padilla and Steven Padilla of Casper, WY; and his son Jachin Seth Padilla of Tupelo, MS. A Celebration of Life event will be held in Casper, WY on June 20, 2014, at the Casper Mountain Trails Center, time to be determined.

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There is still space available in the Nikiski Pool Summer Swim lessons Set 1 starting June 4-20, with Intermediates at 9 Mountain biking kickoff scheduled a.m. and Advanced Beginners at 11 a.m. Tsalteshi Trails Association will hold a mountain biking seaPlease call Nigel at 776-8800 for more information. son kickoff at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 5, at the Kenai Visitors and Cultural Center. Celebrate off-road riding with a screening of Senior softball up to bat the film “Arrival,” by Second Base Films, from the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival: “Step into our world as Senior softball in Soldotna has started on Tuesdays at 9 a.m. we bring you a raw look at the talents of the next wave of riders at Centennial Park on the first Little League diamond. New playand photographers. Come face to face with our diverse styles as ers are welcome. It doesn’t matter how long it has been since we take on new lines and new places!” you played. It is co-ed softball starting at age 50 and up. Call Admission is $20. (Includes one beer ticket. Additional beer Paul at 394-6061 or just show up at Centennial Park on Tuesday from Kenai River Brewing available for purchase.) $10 for those between 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Games last until about 11 a.m. or under 21, and $10 for TTA members. (Register for membership until players get tired. If you have a glove or bat, please bring at the event and get in for free!) For more information, visit them. If not, come anyway. It is not a league; there are no fees. www.tsalteshi.org, “like” Tsalteshi Trails on Facebook or call Jenny at 394-6397. Family Fun in the Midnight Sun in Nikiski

Youth group plans garage sale The Star of the North Lutheran Church Youth Group is having its annual garage sale on June 6-7 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Bring donations to the church at 216 N. Forest Drive in Kenai, Tuesday-Friday or Sunday. For more information call 283-4153.

tist Church, 159 S. Binkley. Meeting starts at 11 a.m. Call 262-7339. • Narcotics Anonymous PJ Meeting, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. 5:30 p.m. • Free Seated Zumba Gold at the Kenai Senior Center. New participants, active older adults, and chair-bound or limited mobility participants are encouraged. 6 p.m. • AA Step Sisters at Central Peninsula Hospital. Call 262-2304. • TOPS AK 20, Soldotna, weigh-in at Christ Lutheran Church, 128 North Soldotna Avenue, Soldotna. Meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. Call 262-1557. • Celebrate Recovery, Midnight Son Seventh-day Adventist church on the corner of Swires Rd. and Kenai Spur Hwy in Kenai.

The annual Family Fun in the Midnight Sun/Nikiski Days will be held on June 21 at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center. Festivities and music will begin at noon and run until 4:30 p.m. the event includes food, music, games, and fun for the entire family. Bikes and family prizes will be given away. For more information please call 776-8800.

Dinner is at 6 p.m.; Recovery Lesson at 6:30 p.m.; Open Share groups at 7:15 p.m. Email rking4@mac.com or call260-3292. 7 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Dopeless Hope Fiends,” 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. • Square dance group at Ninilchik Senior Center. • Alcoholics Anonymous “Unity Men’s Group” meets downstairs the Salvation Army building in Soldotna. 8 p.m. • AA Attitude of Gratitude at URS Club, 405 Overland Drive. Call 283-3777. • AA North Roaders Group at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 242-9477. • Alcoholics Anonymous Ninichick support group at United Methodist Church, 15811 Sterling Highway, Ninilchik. Call 907-567-3574. The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations. To have your event listed, email organization name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone number to news@ peninsulaclarion.com.

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Progress on natural gas delivery gratifying Construction projects are a hallmark of the summer months in Fairbanks, with work-

ers on new buildings and road projects around the city. But this summer will see the beginning of some different construction. And while it will involve disruptions on a good many streets, we’re happy to see it finally get underway. Starting this summer and continuing the next, Fairbanks Natural Gas plans to lay 30 miles of natural gas distribution pipe in local neighborhoods. The work is funded by a $15 million loan FNG received from the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, the first fruit of the $350 million in state funds and loan guarantees that Gov. Sean Parnell proposed and the legislature approved in 2013 for gas liquefaction, trucking and distribution to Interior communities. The Interior Gas Utility, which will serve the borough outside of the Fairbanks city limits, isn’t far behind FNG in their planning for building out gas distribution. Yesterday, IGU released a request for proposals for teams to design 80 miles of natural gas piping for neighborhoods in the North Pole area. It’s the first phase of a sixyear plan for the utility to build out distribution to the borough’s high-density areas, starting in North Pole and working counterclockwise around the greater Fairbanks area before finishing on Chena Ridge several years from now. While all of the plans, designs and schematics are good to see, what’s better still is boots on the ground. Interior residents are rightly skeptical of the prospect of gas delivery being a reality, as companies began promising the imminent availability of low-cost natural gas in the 1950s. Politicians and energy companies have been championing the cause ever since, with plenty of hot air but little in the way of actual progress toward delivery. As distribution lines start to go into the ground this year and the next, there will be progress that people in Fairbanks and North Pole can see with their own eyes after decades of waiting. This isn’t to say that everything will be smooth sailing from here on out. There are still plenty of hurdles to clear before gas trucking is a reality, from the construction of the North Slope liquefaction plant to the logistics of the trucks themselves and storage facilities where gas will be stored once it arrives. Even the natural gas trucking plan isn’t intended to be a long-term solution but a relatively stopgap measure until a larger delivery method, like a pipeline, comes online. There are still plenty of unresolved issues to take care of before those plans come to fruition. But as the Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu famously said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” or, in this case, a single piece of pipe. After plenty of talk, conjecture, dreaming and planning, it will be good to see that piece of pipe put in place.

The Kardashian industry The rapper Kanye West and reality star Kim Kardashian didn’t get married over the weekend in Florence, Italy, so much as complete a celebrity merger. As West reportedly gushed in his remarks on the blessed occasion, evidently overcome with emotion, “The Kardashians are an industry!” It was like he was marrying General Electric. He was right, of course, and one of the industry’s top products is weddings. There is an impeccable commercial logic to the proposition that it is better to sell two weddings than to sell one. The last time Kim Kardashian looked stunning in a wedding gown (by Vera Wang), passionately kissed her dapper new hubby (Kris Humphries, a basketball player) and cut into a wedding cake taller than the average person (by Hansen Cakes), she made $15 million. She released a “wedding fragrance” called, with scant regard for truth in advertising, “Kim Kardashian Love,” and got a two-part special on E! out of the wedding planning and ceremony. Her divorce filing 72 days later wasn’t quite as marketable, but every industry has its core competency, and the Kardashians still haven’t figured out how to make as much out of the end of marriages as out of their storybook beginnings. For all that the details of the latest Kardashian wedding differ (gown by Givenchy, Kanye West as dapper new hubby, 7-foottall cake by Galateo Ricevimenti), the bot-

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In his wedding speech, Kanye West enthused that the assembled guests included “the most remarkable people of our time,” with the power to “make the world a better place.” Especially if it involves Instagramming photos of themselves. The celebrity wedding is nothing new, of course. Once upon a time, the famous starlet Marilyn Monroe married the famous ballplayer Joe DiMaggio, and that didn’t last long, either. But the ill-fated MonroeDiMaggio union had an unmistakable element of tragedy, whereas the Kardashian productions play more like farce. Kim is the apotheosis of what Jason Roger Moore, one of the creators of the Paris Hilton phenomenon, calls Fame 2.0. It is celebrity with no substance. Kim isn’t an actress, singer or supermodel. She bootstrapped the temporary notoriety of a sex tape into a reality-show franchise that the family has managed to keep going well beyond its 15 minutes through shrewdness and shamelessness. The magic of Fame 2.0 is that it builds on itself -- until it doesn’t. The undoing of the Kardashian clan probably won’t be public revulsion, or any strategic misstep on their part, given their canny. It will be the onset of public boredom, with the artifice and manipulation and the whole cast of uninteresting characters. That’s how this particular industry ends. Rich Lowry can be reached via email: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.

racy, and XTO Energy Company Thank you for investing in Alaska’s students and helping them to pursue and achieve Time for reconsideration their goals. Nikiski High School From the P.C. 5-23-14, Outdoor View, “ Counseling Staff To ensure healthy salmon runs and to provide a quality fishing experience, fishing pressure must be reduced on Cook Inlet and the Kenai Contributions to KMS River. All use must be reduced and limited, with commercial use first.” Les once again students appreciated has shown his true colors and pretzel logic. One of the many groups to provide assis- From the constitution, in times of shortage tance to Kenai Middle School students this the non-resident will be restricted first. For past year was the Soldotna Church of God. the record, the commercial fishermen were Members of the church provided many items the first and remain the only user group that to KMS kids who needed them. Each week is limited. Just for clarification, the guides a member or members of the church showed remain unlimited along with the in-river up with backpacks full of items for kids and fishermen and the Deep Creek Marine fishtheir families.I was honored to be able to ermen (charter and otherwise) , winter king work with such kind people. fishermen, and the fastest expanding group Representatives of the Way Cafe also in a fully allocated fishery; the personal use shared food for KMS families. Their contri- dip net fishery. With concepts such as carrybutions were also much appreciated. ing capacities, genetic natural selection, hook Thanks to all who helped. and release mortality, shrinking spawning Mark G. Manuel habitats, derbies on declining stocks, sure it KMS School Counselor is time for some reconsiderations. How about (retired) a slice of honesty in that reality sandwich? John McCombs Ninilchik

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Thank you to all the local businesses and organizations that have so generously given scholarships and awards to students of Nikiski High School. We appreciate all the representatives who were able to come out to personally bestow these honors on the students at our Awards Night. ConocoPhillips, Eagles – Ladies Auxiliary #3525, Horatio Alger Association, Hilcorp, Homer Electric Association, Kenai Chamber of Commerce, Kenai Elk’s Lodge #2425, Kenai Peninsula Administrators As— Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, soc., Kenai Peninsula College, Kenai River May 24 Brown Bears, KPESA, KSRM, Masonic Outstanding Student, Moose Lodge #1942, National Honor Society, U.S. Army Reserve, Nikiski Fire Fighters Association, Nikiski Community Council, North Kenai Community Club, Peninsula Oilers Baseball Club, Redoubt Homemakers FCE, the Prichard family, Tesoro Alaska Petroleum Co., NikiSenior Center, Triumvirate Theatre, UA By GARRY TRUDEAU ski Scholars program, VFW Voice of Democ-

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tom line is the same: Some reports say they will make more than $20 million off it. If Elizabeth Taylor had had a similar knack for martial monetization, she might have died a billionaire. The rehearsal din- Rich Lowry ner was at Versailles, and the wedding ceremony at Forte di Belvedere in Florence -appropriately enough, since the Kardashians are part of a degenerate celebrity aristocracy that lacks for nothing except class, grace and enduring accomplishment. Both Versailles, built into one of the largest palaces in the world by Louis XIV, and Forte di Belvedere, a project of the Medicis, have seen their share of gross excess, needless to say. But the multimillion-dollar Kardashian-West union has to rank among the most sensationally vapid events ever to grace those centuries-old structures. For all its flaws, there was something noble in the old nobility. It set standards and maintained ideals. Selfishness and greed were usually at least filtered through a commitment to something higher. The Kardashians are a testament only to the tacky art of money- and fame-grubbing, without style, wit or a commitment to the common good. In TV program terms, it is the difference between “Downton Abbey” and “Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami.”

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Business

New bistro opening in Kenai Flats By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

While he despises the word, “foodie,” Luke Thibodeau appreciates delicious cuisine and has a vision to bring an elevated dining experience to Kenai. After 18 months of design and construction of a new restaurant, Thibodeau and his wife Naomi Thibodeau are in the final stages of preparation before the grand opening. The Flats Bistro will open Friday, June 6 located on the Kenai River Flats on Kalifornsky Beach Road. The Flats plan to offer smaller, yet more flavorful tapas-style dishes that focus on fresh local produce and seafood, said Chef Quintin Mapes, a Cordon Bleu graduate from Michigan who most recently worked at Orso in Anchorage. Along with Kenneth Hynes, who worked at a Michelin-rated restaurant in Napa Valley, they will incorporate local farms in their dishes. The crew will bring in whole animals from Tustumena Smokehouse, butcher them in house, grind bratwurst and make hand-made pasta. “I like to call it elevated Alaskan cuisine,” Mapes said. “We are going to do everything a little different than anywhere else. We will be able to tell you where most of our food comes from on the menu and try to do everything in house with the smallest amount of frozen ingredients possible.” With close proximity to the Kenai River, The Flats seafood menu will feature salmon, sablefish, king crab, razor clams and a ceviche taco appetizer. Mapes said sablefish is a meaty protein fish that will replace halibut on the menu. Mapes previously worked with Thibodeau before moving to Napa Valley to work with Hynes. About two years ago, Thibodeau contacted him about opening a restaurant and the plans have been in motion

ever since, he said. While the wood facade and stone exterior of the building is completed, inside staff and workers from Batir Construction are painting and putting the final touches on their rustic modern design, which includes a curved bar with a dark wood-stained top and brick walls behind the bar. Thibodeau said general contractor Doug Baxter has done a tremendous job with his attention to detail. “We will have a more beautiful building than any restaurant in town,” Thibodeau said. “We wanted to get away from the commercial feel and do this from scratch. Every square inch has been thought over.” Large bay windows on the back wall let plenty of light into the dinning area, which can seat 76 people. In the front near the entrance is a stage for live music. Local artist Paul Tornow, who designed the moose sculpture at Kenai Peninsula College, will have his art displayed on the walls. The back deck can seat 30 people with views of the Cook Inlet and mountains. The bar will have 12 taps of Alaskan micro-brews with local suds from Kassik’s and Kenai River Brewery along with Belgian triples and a variety of IPA’s like Twister Creek from Denali Brewing Co. and Sockeye Red from Midnight Sun Brewery. The bar will stock a selection of Old World European wine by the glass. “I have been a bartender around here for a long time and I think I know what people want,” Thibodeau said. “(Kassiks and Kenai River breweries) are amazing, but there is so much more. (Mapes) would not put a plate on the window that doesn’t taste good and I will not serve any drink out of a box.” Thibodeau grew up in the house next door and he said he originally planned to build a home on the 1.5-acre prop-

COLUMBUS, Ohio — At the heart of lawmakers’ decision to revisit the state’s renewable-energy standard is a fundamental disagreement over two goals: reducing carbon emissions and lowering electricity bills. For average residents, it may sound good to achieve both. But former state utility regulator Ashley Brown, executive director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group, says that’s hardly possible. A bill pausing Ohio’s 7-year-old energy efficiency goals and its renewable-energy targets for solar, wind and other renewable sources for two years cleared the state Legislature on Wednesday. It was sent to Republican Gov. John Kasich for his expected signature. Ohio’s renewable goals were touted for their ability to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, such as coal. Opponents of the targets in the Republican-led Legislature say they’re driving up electricity costs by imposing costly government mandates on utility companies. Brown called the competing goals of reduced pollution and lower electric prices “mutually exclusive.” When electricity is cheaper, people use more. That increases demand — and carbon-based pollution — from coal-fired power plants. When emitting carbon becomes more expensive, in conjunction with renewableenergy mandates or otherwise, electricity costs rise. “If you’re an environmentalist, high electric rates are a good thing — they discourage energy use,” said Brown, a former member of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. “That’s why, for consumer advocates (seeking to reduce bills) and environmentalists,

it’s almost impossible to make common cause — because their agendas are separate.” At the same time, the impact of renewables on the electricity market has been “really bizarre” and sometimes counterintuitive, Brown said. In Germany, for example, carbon emissions soared after renewable standards were put in place, he said. Factors can vary, but he said one reason that can happen is that utilities increasingly reliant on unpredictable supplies of solar or wind energy are forced to operate their aging coal plants in constant anticipation of peak demand. On the flip side, an analysis commissioned by business group Ohio Advanced Energy Economy and consumer group Ohio Partners for Affordable Energy found residential and industrial electric bills would

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Luke Thibodeau talks about the bathrooms near the entrance of his yet-to-be-opened The Flats Bistro Wednesday in Kenai. The bathrooms are located near the front door of the restaurant, which is scheduled to open June 6, because Thibodeau said he dislikes having to hunt for a restroom in a restaurant.

‘The entire experience from service to food, beer and wine will hopefully flow beautifully throughout the entire restaurant.’ — Quintin Mapes, chef at The Flats Bistro erty, but decided to sell his house in Kenai, move in with his parents and open a restaurant. His wife, Naomi Thibodeau, who has marketing and advertising experience, will operate that portion of the business while he concentrates on front-of-house operations. The Flats will start out dinner only for at least the first month to work out all the kinks before opening for lunch. In July Thibodeau hopes to open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. He said half of the restaurant will be on reservations but still accept walk-ins. “We do not want people waiting on a bench for half an hour waiting for a table,” he said. “We want people to come here on a date and know they can get a table so long as they plan ahead. We are also on the bike path and don’t want to be too formal.”

Thibodeau said he expects a busy summer but is already looking forward to the winter when business slows down and he can book live music. “Opening day will be one of my favorite days ever,” he said. “We are here out of passion and I would like to make a living doing this.” Mapes said The Flats will be a place for the community to come together and have a great time. “It’s not just a place to get food and fill their stomachs,” he said. “People will come here to have good conversations with good people. The entire experience from service to food, beer and wine will hopefully flow beautifully throughout the entire restaurant.” Reach Dan Balmer at daniel.balmer@peninsulaclarion. com

Ohio renewable-energy bill to start 2-year debate By JULIE CARR SMYTH AP Statehouse Correspondent

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rise if Ohio’s targets are removed. The analysis tied expected increases to the rollback of cost-saving energy efficiency programs that have resulted in consumer savings of more than $1 billion. House Public Utilities Chairman Peter Stautberg, a Cincinnati Republican, said during Wednesday’s floor debate that cost savings from efficiency programs are maxing out. “The low-hanging fruit is disappearing,” he said. “Consumers can only consume so many light bulbs, and only so many refrigerators can be thrown away.” Ohio’s 2008 law requires utilities to generate a combined 25 percent of their energy from renewable or advanced energy sources by 2025. It also set energy ef-

ficiency goals for utility customers. Under a compromise brokered by Kasich, the new bill calls for mandates to continue in 2017 unless the General Assembly acts on recommendations by a newly created 12-member legislative commission. Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols said after a lot of hard work Ohio’s got a solid plan for examining its progress on energy thresholds. “Ohio needs more renewable and alternative energy sources, and it needs a strong system to support them as they get started,” he said. “It’s naive, however, to think that government could create that system perfectly the first time and never have to check back to see if everything’s OK.”

Nine Alaska business owners, including one from Soldotna, were honored this year with Allstate’s Premier Agency award. This honor only goes to agents who have who have outstanding customer service and involvement in their respective communities. Kathy Waterbury, an Allstate insurance agency owner from Soldotna received the Allstate Premier Agency designation for 2014. Bestowed upon 48 percent of Allstate’s nearly 10,000 agency owners across the country, this designation was presented to each agent for their commitment to exceeding customer expectations. The Premier Agency designation is awarded to Allstate agency owners who have consistently met designated levels in customer service, demonstrated excellence in delivering an accessible, knowledgeable and personal customer experience while achieving outstanding business results.

New Sealaska CEO son of gubernatorial candidate JUNEAU (AP) — Sealaska Corp. is getting a new president and CEO. The board of the Juneau-based regional Native corporation announced Tuesday it has appointed Anthony Mallott to take the helm, beginning June 28. The Juneau Empire says Mallott is the son of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Byron Mallott, a former Sealaska president and CEO who still sits on the corporation’s board. Anthony Mallott is listed in state records as one of his father’s deputy treasurers. Anthony Mallott joined Sealaska in 2006. At the corporation, he has held the position of treasurer and chief investment officer. Mallott is replacing Chris McNeil Jr., who is retiring after 13 years as president and CEO.

Farmers Markets of the Central Peninsula Central Kenai Peninsula Farmers Market are Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. starting May 31 at the Kenai Spur Highway and East Corral Street in Soldotna. Farmers Fresh Market are Tuesdays from 3 to 6 p.m. starting June 3 at the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank on Community College Drive and Kalifornsky Beach Road. Kenai Saturday Market are Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Kenai Visitors Center, 11471 Kenai Spur Highway. Soldotna Wednesday Market are Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. starting June 4 at the Peninsula Center Mall.

Job Center hosts training The following job skills workshops will be offered at the Peninsula Job Center the week of June 9. Monday, June 9 – Job leads at 9:30 a.m., Introduction to ALEXsys and the Job Center at 10:30 a.m. and Interview Skills Workshop at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 10 – Job Prep Workshop at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 11 – CareerReady 101 Lab at 10:30 a.m. and WorkKeys® Testing at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, June 12 – Resume Writing Workshop at 10:30 a.m.,Vocational Rehabilitation Orientation at 3:30 p.m. All workshops are free of charge to the public. Those interested in attending any workshops offered at the Peninsula Job Center can call 335-3010, or visit the job center located in Kenai at 11312 Kenai Spur Hwy., Suite #2. Business hours are Monday – Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm excluding state and federal holidays. You can also reserve space by clicking on the “Schedule Workshops” option located on the main screen in your ALEXsys account www.jobs.alaska.gov.

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

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Nation & World

Around the World Oscar Dystel, paperbacks pioneer who published ‘Catcher in the Rye,’ ‘Jaws,’ dies NEW YORK — Oscar Dystel, a leader of the paperbacks market who transformed Bantam Books into a prolific powerhouse that released best-selling editions of “The Catcher in the Rye,” ‘’Jaws,” Ragtime” and many others, died Wednesday at age 101. He had been in failing health in recent years and died at his home in Rye, just north of New York City, said his daughter, literary agent Jane Dystel. Millions of people who loved to find quick reads for the airport or beach could thank Dystel, who had been a magazine editor when he was hired in 1954 to take over the thenstruggling Bantam imprint. Alert to the growing appeal of cheap and portable books, Dystel soon presided over popular paperbacks of Leon Uris’ “Battle Cry” and John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” and within years had made Bantam the dominant publisher of mass market paperbacks. In the 1960s and ‘70s, Bantam was releasing hundreds of books a year, from Peter Benchley’s “Jaws” and E.L. Doctorow’s “Ragtime” to a million-selling edition of the Warren Commission’s report on President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and Jacqueline Susann’s sensational “Valley of the Dolls.” At the time of Dystel’s departure, Bantam accounted for an estimated 15 percent of mass market sales. “My whole concept was to be an effective merchandiser of books,” Dystel said in a 2006 interview with Move! Magazine. “When we considered new titles, we didn’t read for the sake of enjoying the book but of considering its commercial potential. We learned how to read the first and last part of the book and make a judgment as to its potential sales.”

Apple adds hip-hop flair with $3 billion purchase of Beats Electronics CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple is striking a new chord with a $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics, a headphone and music streaming specialist that also brings the swagger of rapper Dr. Dre and recording impresario Jimmy Iovine. Wednesday’s announcement comes nearly three weeks after deal negotiations were leaked to the media. It’s by far the most expensive acquisition in Apple’s 38-year history, a price that the company is paying to counter a threat posed to its iTunes store. The price consists of $2.6 billion in cash and $400 million in Apple stock that will vest over an unspecified time period. The deal is expected to close before October. With $1.1 billion in revenue last year, Beats is already making money and will boost Apple’s earnings once the new fiscal year begins in October, Apple CEO Tim Cook said in an interview. “We have known these guys forever,” Cook said of Iovine and Dre. “We’ve dated, we’ve gone steady and now we are getting married. This relationship started a decade ago, so we know there is an incredible cultural fit. These two guys have a very rare set of skills. It’s like finding a particular grain of sand on the beach. It’s that rare.”

Inspector general says 1,700 veterans awaiting care at VA hospital left off wait list WASHINGTON — About 1,700 veterans in need of care were “at risk of being lost or forgotten” after being kept off the official waiting list at the troubled Phoenix veterans hospital, the Veterans Affairs watchdog said Wednesday in a scathing report that increases pressure on Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign. The investigation, initially focused on the Phoenix hospital, found systemic problems in the VA’s sprawling nationwide system, which provides medical care to about 6.5 million veterans each year. The interim report confirmed allegations of excessive waiting time for care in Phoenix, with an average 115-day wait for a first appointment for those on the waiting list. “While our work is not complete, we have substantiated that significant delays in access to care negatively impacted the quality of care at this medical facility,” Richard J. Griffin, the department’s acting inspector general, wrote in the 35page report. It found that “inappropriate scheduling practices are systemic throughout” some 1,700 VA health facilities nationwide, including 151 hospitals and more than 800 clinics. Griffin said 42 centers are under investigation, up from 26. Colorado Sen. Mark Udall and Montana Sen. John Walsh on Wednesday became the first Democratic senators to call for Shinseki to leave. “We need new leadership who will demand accountability to fix these problems,” Udall said in a statement. — The Associated Press

Ukraine sees Russia as threat By PETER LEONARD Associated Press

DONETSK, Ukraine — As separatists conceded that militants from Russia’s province of Chechnya had joined the rebellion, a Ukrainian government official cautioned Wednesday that its borders had become a “front line” in the crisis. Chechnya’s Moscow-backed strongman brushed away allegations he had dispatched paramilitary forces under his command to Ukraine, saying he was powerless to stop fellow Chechens from joining the fight. While there is no immediate indication that the Kremlin is enabling or supporting combatants from Russia crossing into Ukraine, Moscow may have to dispel suspicions it is waging a proxy war if it is to avoid more Western sanctions. In a wide-ranging foreign policy speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, President Barack Obama addressed the crisis in Ukraine by saying, “Russia’s recent actions recall the days when Soviet tanks rolled into Eastern Europe.” The Kremlin welcomed the election Sunday of billionaire Petro Poroshenko as the president of Ukraine. An advocate of strong ties with Europe, Poroshenko also favors mending relations with Russia. He replaced the pro-Moscow leader who was driven from of-

‘Daily fighting with terrorists and groups of criminals near the Ukrainian and Russian border have become our routine reality.’ — Mykola Lytvyn, Ukrainian border service head fice in February. That ouster led to Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in southern Ukraine — which triggered the sanctions — and a violent proMoscow insurgency in the east. Reports circulate almost daily of truckloads of gunmen crossing from Russia, and authorities believe they are a vital reinforcement to the armed rebel force that has repeatedly thwarted government security operations. Intense fighting from a government offensive Monday to dislodge rebels from the Donetsk airport appeared to have died down, with only sporadic violence reported Wednesday. Ukrainian border service head Mykola Lytvyn said he has deployed all reserves to the eastern and southern frontiers. “Our border, especially in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, has become a front line that various terrorists are trying to break through,” Lytvyn said at a news conference in Kiev. “Daily fighting with terrorists and groups of criminals near the Ukrainian and Russian border have become our routine

reality.” Russians who cross into Ukraine by road must go through passport and customs control on both sides of the border, a procedure that usually takes several hours. But these controls would be virtually nonexistent for those who drive across fields. The Kiev government condemns the roiling insurgency as the work of “terrorists” bent on destroying the country, while rebels insist they are only protecting the interests of the Russian-speaking population of the east. Russia denies mass border crossings are taking place, although separatist leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic now freely admit their ragtag army has many foreigners, including some from the Russian province of Chechnya. Alexander Borodai, who calls himself the prime minister of the republic, said the fighters from the northern Caucasus, although not ethnically Russian, “share much of the same ideology.”

“And you know, sometimes, representatives of the North Caucasus turn out to be even more Russian than (ethnic) Russians themselves,” he added. The militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic is a force of uncertain strength, composed of units of varied provenance and abilities. At least one militiaman participating in a parade Sunday in central Donetsk wore a patch identifying him as belonging to a Cossack unit from southern Russia. Others were identified as members of a division calling itself the Russian Orthodox Army. Many of those questioned insist they are either local or from Crimea. Donetsk Mayor Oleksandr Lukyanchenko said that some fighters admitted for treatment after Monday’s clashes were from cities in Chechnya. It is this Chechen contingent that has aroused the most alarm in Ukraine. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov was a former rebel who fought Russian forces in the first of two devastating separatist wars and switched sides during the second campaign, when his father became the region’s pro-Russia leader. Following his father’s death in a rebel bombing, Kadyrov stabilized the region, relying on generous Kremlin funding and his ruthless paramilitary forces, which have been blamed for extrajudicial killings, torture and other abuses.

US decides between intervention, isolation By JULIE PACE and JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press

WEST POINT, N.Y. — Seeking to redefine America’s foreign policy for a post-war era, President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared that the United States remains the only nation with the capacity to lead on the world stage but argued it would be a mistake to channel that power into unrestrained military adventures. Obama’s approach, outlined in a commencement address at the U.S. Military Academy, underscored his efforts to straddle the line between global isolation and intervention. Neither view, he said, “fully speaks to the demands of this moment.” “It is absolutely true that in the 21st century, American isolation is not an option,” Obama said in remarks to more than 1,000 of the military’s newest officers. “But to say that we have an interest in pursuing peace and freedom beyond our borders is not to say that every problem has a military solution.” Obama has often struggled to articulate not only what should fill the space between intervention and isolation but also any success the administration has had in finding that middle ground. His preferred tool kit, which includes economic sanctions, diplomatic negotiations and international coalition building, rarely generates quick fixes

and is often more ambiguous than more easily explained military action. The president’s strategy also has garnered mixed results. While diplomacy and sanctions have brought the U.S. and Iran closer to a nuclear accord than ever before, neither approach has stopped the bloodshed of Syria’s four-year civil war or prevented Russia from annexing territory from Ukraine. The result at home has been a drumbeat of criticism from Republicans and others who say the president has squandered America’s global leadership and emboldened international foes in Syria and Russia, as well as China. The public’s approval of the president’s foreign policy has declined, even as his policies hew closely with Americans’ stated opposition to more military conflicts. Obama’s speech on Wednesday was part of concerted White House effort to answer critics and more clearly define his foreign policy philosophy. He outlined plans to seek approval from Congress for $5 billion that could be used to help countries fighting terrorism, foreshadowed a more robust U.S. military program to train and equip vetted Syrian rebels and declared that seeking international consensus through the United Nations or NATO is an example of American leadership, not weakness. The president vigorously defended his belief that unilateral

American military action should be reserved for instances where core national interests are challenged or the public’s safety is in jeopardy. He told the graduating cadets: “I would betray my duty to you, and to the country we love, if I sent you into harm’s way simply because I saw a problem somewhere in the world that needed fixing, or because I was worried about critics who think military intervention is the only way for America to avoid looking weak.” Obama’s speech came one day after he unveiled plans for ending the Afghan war by 2016, bringing to a close a conflict that started in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. He was cheered by his commencement audience when he noted that the cadets had the distinction of being “the first class to graduate since 9/11 who may not be sent into combat in Iraq or Afghanistan.” Thirteen years after 9/11, Obama said terrorism remains the most direct threat to American security, though the risks of a massive attack on the homeland from a centralized al-Qaida have taken a backseat to more diffuse threats from an array of affiliate groups. As the threat changes, so too must America’s response, Obama said. Instead of largescale military efforts, he called for partnering with countries where terrorist networks seek a

foothold, including Yemen, Libya and Mali. In Afghanistan as well, the U.S. will put an emphasis on counterterrorism missions in the final two years of the U.S. mission. The president also sought to cast Syria as more of a counterterrorism challenge than a humanitarian crisis. He defended his decision to keep the U.S. military out of a sectarian civil war and said the American response would focus on increasing assistance for the moderate opposition and helping neighboring countries including Jordan and Lebanon that have faced an influx of refugees and fear extremists spilling over their borders. The Syria conflict perhaps more than any other illustrates the difficulties Obama faces in seeking to hit the sweet spot between isolation and intervention He was among the first world leaders to call for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Assad as the violence escalated, but economic sanctions and diplomatic negotiations failed to push the Syrian leader out of power. Obama appeared ready to launch a military strike last year after Assad’s government used chemical weapons — a step that crossed Obama’s self-proclaimed “red line” — but backed away, choosing to seek to seek congressional approval first, then scrapping a strike altogether in favor of an international agreement to strip Syria of its chemical weapons.

Peninsula Clarion, Thursday, May 29, 2014

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Lebanese patriarch embraces exiled militiamen By KARIN LAUB Associated Press

CAPERNAUM, Israel — The leader of Lebanon’s Maronite Catholic church celebrated an outdoor Mass Wednesday for hundreds of exiled countrymen who are considered traitors by many back home for helping Israel maintain an 18-year occupation of south Lebanon. Cardinal Bechara Rai had soothing words for the former Lebanese militiamen and their families, who fled their country in 2000, many with just the clothes on their backs, as their Israeli allies withdrew from Lebanon. “Innocence paid the price and you are paying the price because of an international and regional game,” he said, standing behind the altar at sunset, with the biblical Sea of Galilee as a dramatic backdrop. He assured the exiles he was trying to help, adding: “We are following up your suffering with the respective authorities in Lebanon.” Some of the faithful said they hope the cardinal’s unprecedented pilgrimage to Is-

rael — the first Lebanese religious leader to do so — is a signal they may be able to return home someday. “We are very grateful,” said Vivian Shadid, 25. “We are full of hope that someone is fighting for us, that someone wants us.” For others, return remains a distant possibility. The young already speak better Hebrew than Arabic, while some older exiles, especially those who held senior positions in the former South Lebanon Army militia, would face imprisonment if they returned. Victor Nader, a 55-yearold former senior SLA commander who now works as an electrician, said that “until lots of things change in Lebanon, I wouldn’t think about going back.” He said the cardinal’s visit boosted the morale of the community. Mariam Younes, 19, was only 5 when her family fled. She speaks accent-free Hebrew and works as a waitress. She misses her extended family in Lebanon, she said, but is concerned about how the community there would receive

‘We are very grateful. We are full of hope that someone is fighting for us, that someone wants us.’ — Vivian Shadid, exiled Lebanese

the exiles. “We are considered traitors in Lebanon,” she said. “And then there’s the bad economic situation” in Lebanon. Israel invaded Lebanon repeatedly, including in 1982 in an offensive that initially was meant to drive PLO fighters from southern Lebanon. The war turned into a drawnout military occupation of parts of the south, where Israel carved out a “security zone” meant to serve as a buffer against crossborder attacks by the Lebanese Hezbollah militia. During those years, the South Lebanon Army militia fought alongside Israeli troops against the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah, today the strongest force in Lebanon. About 3,500 former SLA men and their families still live in Israel, said Shadid, 25, who

studies music at Haifa University and said she can’t return because of her father’s military past. Other exiles either returned to Lebanon over the years, some serving prison sentences before resettling in their villages, or emigrated to the West. The Mass at Capernaum, site of a biblical fishing village, was a highlight of Rai’s weeklong visit to the Holy Land, which began Sunday in biblical Bethlehem and at times overlapped with a pilgrimage by Pope Francis. In his sermon, Rai appeared to compare the exile of the militiamen to that of another group of Maronite Christians he met earlier in the day — former residents of the village of Kufr Birim, who were uprooted by Israeli troops in the war over Israel’s

1948 creation. “This evening is for the displaced, people who lost their homes,” he said. Rai has come under criticism at home for visiting Israel. Lebanon and Israel remain formally at war and Lebanon bars its citizens from visiting Israel, though Maronite clerics tending to their flock south of the border are exempt. The residents of Kufr Birim and their descendants have wrangled with Israel’s governments for the past 66 years to allow them to return, using prayer, protests and court challenges in their campaign. The cardinal told them he would try to harness the help of the Vatican and send a letter to the pope. “The only way is through the Vatican, because we cannot deal with the state,” he said, referring to Israel. The exodus from the village took place in November 1948, six months after Israel’s founding. At the time, Israeli troops told more than 1,000 residents they had to leave for security reasons, but would be allowed to return after two weeks, residents said. Israel didn’t keep its word

and the Defense Ministry later ignored a Supreme Court ruling allowing residents of Kufr Birim and another Christian village to return home. Instead, the military destroyed Kufr Birim in 1953 as part of an attempt to create a “security belt” without Arabs near the border with Lebanon, Israeli journalist Danny Rubinstein said. Many of the villagers now live in Jish, a community three miles (five kilometers) from Kufr Birim. Only the church and a oneroom village school remain intact, but villagers celebrate weddings and bury their dead in Kufr Birim. For the past 10 months, activists have maintained a steady presence, sleeping in tents pitched in the school. They have cleared weeds from village paths and affixed photos of the original owners to house walls still left standing. The cardinal’s visit “can help” with the religious side of things, activist Saher Geries said. “But politically, what we are doing now is going to advance” the issue of return, he added

Google to build prototype of truly driverless car By JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Google plans to build and launch onto city streets a small fleet of subcompact cars that could operate without a person at the wheel. Actually, the cars wouldn’t even have a wheel. Or gas and brake pedals. The company says the vehicles will use sensors and computing power, with no human needed. Google Inc. hopes that by this time next year, 100 of the two-seaters will be on public roads, following extensive testing. The cars would not be for sale and instead would be provided to select operators for further tweaking and have limitations such as a 25 mph top speed. The announcement presents a challenge to automakers that have been more cautious about

introducing fully automated driving and to government regulators who are scrambling to accommodate self-driving cars on public roads. Other companies are working on the technology but none as large as Google has said it intends to put such cars in the hands of the public so soon. To date, Google has driven hundreds of thousands of miles on public roads and freeways in Lexus SUVs and Toyota Priuses outfitted with special sensors and cameras. But with a “safety driver” in the front seat, those vehicles were not truly selfdriving. Instead of the standard controls, the prototypes would have buttons to begin and end the drive. Passengers would set a destination. The car would then make turns and react to other vehicles and pedestrians based on computer programs that pre-

dict what others might do, and data from sensors including radar and cameras that read in real time what other objects are actually doing. The route might be set by typing a destination into a map or using spoken commands, Chris Urmson, the leader of Google’s self-driving car team, told reporters Wednesday. The car will be powered by electricity and could go about 100 miles before charging. Its shape suggests a rounded-out Volkswagen Beetle — something that might move people around a corporate campus or congested downtown — with headlights and sensors arrayed to resemble a friendly face. Mark Reuss, global product development chief of General Motors Co., poked fun at the car’s look but acknowledged Google could become a force in the marketplace.

“I could wear it as a hat,” Reuss joked at an automotive technology forum in Detroit. “It’s cool. It’s like advanced. Like an old VW.” Reuss added though that Google could become a real competitor to GM, which is pursuing driverless technology. “If they set their mind to it, I have no doubt that’s a very serious competitive threat,” he said. Major automakers have steadily introduced technology that helps cars stay in their lanes and avoid accidents. However, all those vehicles come with a steering wheel and pedals — and the expectation that a driver will jump in should trouble arise. Several companies have said they expect by 2020 to market vehicles that can drive themselves under certain conditions. “Nothing is going to change

El-Sissi way ahead in presidential poll By HAMZA HENDAW and MAGGIE MICHAEL Associated Press

CAIRO — Egypt’s former military chief appeared well on his way to a landslide victory over his left-wing rival, according to partial election results announced late Wednesday, after voting was extended for a third day in an attempt to prevent an embarrassment over low turnout. The campaign of retired field marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said he won 4.2 million votes after results from 2,000 polling stations were counted, with left-wing politician Hamdeen Sabahi taking 133,548. El-Sissi’s win was never in doubt, but the 59-year-old career infantry officer had hoped for a strong turnout to bestow legitimacy on his ouster last July of Egypt’s first freely elected president, the Islamist Mohammed Morsi. However, el-Sissi’s campaign said turnout nationwide was around 44 percent, even after voting was extended for a third day Wednesday — well below the nearly 52 percent won by Morsi. In his final campaign TV interview last week, el-Sissi set the bar even higher, saying he wanted more than 45 million voters to cast ballots — a turnout of more than 80 percent — to “show the world” the extent of his popular backing. El-Sissi supporters began celebrating in Cairo, with hundreds gathering at the central Tahrir square, birthplace of the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. There were smaller crowds in two other Cairo districts. Critics said the lack of enthusiasm at the polls was in part due to apathy among even elSissi supporters, knowing that his victory was a foregone conclusion. Others said it shows discontent with el-Sissi, not just among his Islamist foes but also among a broader section of

the public that believes he has no concrete plans for Egypt’s woes and fears he will return Egypt to the autocratic ways of Hosni Mubarak. The tepid turnout was particularly embarrassing because the government and media had been whipping up adulation for el-Sissi over the past 10 months, depicting him as a warrior against terrorism and the only person able to tackle Egypt’s economic problems, high unemployment, inflation and instability. El-Sissi’s supporters in the Egyptian media have been in a panic the past two days. Political talk show hosts and newscasters urged people to vote, warning that otherwise the Brotherhood will be encouraged to step up its challenge to the new government. Prominent TV talk show host Amr Adeeb angrily said that by not voting, Egyptians might as well “go directly to the prison and return Mohammed Morsi to power.”

“Tell him, ‘Your excellency, President Mohammed Morsi, please come out and rule us,’” he said. The abrupt decision by the election commission to add another day of voting Wednesday raised complaints that authorities were tipping the playing field in el-Sissi’s favor. U.S.-based Democracy International, which had been observing the vote, said the extension “raises more questions about the independence of the election commission, the impartiality of the government, and the integrity of Egypt’s electoral process.” It said its observer teams outside of Cairo had ended their mission as scheduled on Tuesday. Some other international monitoring teams also left the country, since they had only planned for two days of voting, though EU monitors stayed on. Sabahi, el-Sissi’s only opponent in the race, protested the extension, saying it aimed to “distort” the will of the people.

His campaign pulled its representatives from polling stations Wednesday in protest against what it called a campaign of intimidation and arrests of its campaign workers. Sabahi’s spokesman, Hossam Moenis, told ONTV network that a member of the campaign has been referred to a military tribunal. “We are digging a channel for democracy ... in the face of an undemocratic project,” he said. “The same mentality that we thought we managed to topple on Jan. 25, is back and ruling,” — a reference to Mubarak’s ouster on Jan. 25, 2011. Only a handful of voters, or none at all, were at polling centers in multiple districts toured by Associated Press reporters Wednesday. At some, music played and kids painted Egyptian flags or el-Sissi’s name on their faces as the occasional voter drifted in. TV images beamed from more than a dozen locations across Egypt showed similar scenes.

overnight, but (Google’s announcement) is another sign of the drastic shifts in automotive technology, business practices and retailing we’re going to witness,” said Karl Brauer, a senior analyst at Kelley Blue Book’s KBB.com. A French company, Induct Technology, has produced a driverless shuttle, which in February drove people around a hospital campus in South Carolina. But in terms of a truly selfdriving car from a major company, Google looks to be first. The tech titan began developing the prototype more than a year ago after it loaned some employees its retrofitted Lexuses and saw that some “would basically trust the technology more than it was ready to be trusted,” Urmson said. Making a car that drives itself seemed more practical than somehow ensuring that people zoning out

behind the wheel could take over at a moment’s notice. The first 100 prototypes will be built in the Detroit area with the help of firms that specialize in autos, Google said. It would not identify those firms or discuss the cost of each prototype. This summer, Google plans to send test prototypes on closed courses, then later this year on public streets. Those test cars will have a wheel and pedals because under California law a test driver must be able to take immediate control. By summer 2015, however, California’s Department of Motor Vehicles must publish regulations allowing the public to use truly driverless cars. Big questions the DMV is wrestling with include who is liable if a driverless car crashes and how the state can be confident that an automated car drives at least as safely as a person.

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Immigration delay ups the ante on Obama, GOP By JOSH LEDERMAN and ERICA WERNER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama announced he was looking for ways to ease deportations without going through Congress, Republicans called it a case study in overreach, arguing that it’s Obama — not Republicans — who is undermining prospects for an immigration overhaul by proving he can’t be trusted to enforce the law. Now as a narrow summertime window opens in which Congress could act on immigration, Obama is working to turn the tables on Republicans. He’s holding off any executive actions on deportation in hopes that Republicans will bear all the blame if that window closes with the nation’s immigration system no closer to being fixed. It’s an election-year gambit with the potential to backfire: By asking for patience yet again from frustrated immigration activists, Obama is driving up expectations about actions he’ll

take if the fight in Congress ultimately fails. “It’s an audacious strategy,” Democratic pollster Celinda Lake said. “But it has some downsides to it too.” Two months after Obama commissioned a review of how deportations in America can be more humane, the White House announced Tuesday that Obama had asked his homeland security secretary, Jeh Johnson, to hold off on releasing the results of that review until August. That’s when lawmakers leave Washington to focus on campaigning ahead of the November elections. White House officials said the delay is intended to give the GOP as much breathing room as possible to maneuver now that most GOP primaries are over, freeing incumbent Republicans from concerns about challenges from conservatives who oppose an immigration overhaul. Yet Obama’s allies also hope that by holding off on controversial steps to ease deportations, Democrats can keep the focus squarely on the failure of Republicans and House Speak-

‘It’s completely inappropriate for the president to threaten Congress that he will unconstitutionally act on his own if Congress doesn’t produce a bill to his political liking within his own made-up timeframe.’ — House Judiciary Committee Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. er John Boehner, R-Ohio, to bring immigration to a vote. “Giving the Republicans space takes away their final excuse,” said Jim Wallis, president of Christian social justice group Sojourners. “It’s all now focused on John Boehner.” But Republicans dismissed the notion that Obama’s move makes it easier for Republicans to act on immigration, noting that Obama has only delayed — not removed — the threat that he’ll go over lawmakers’ heads if they don’t act by August. “It’s completely inappropriate for the president to threaten Congress that he will unconstitutionally act on his own if Congress doesn’t produce a bill to his political liking within his own made-up timeframe,”

House Judiciary Committee Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said. And if lawmakers stall, Obama will be short on excuses not to take the aggressive executive action on deportations that activists long have demanded. “Delaying reform may keep the spotlight on Republicans for now, but it ramps up the pressure on (Obama) to not only to take executive action, but to make it big and bold,” said Frank Sharry of the proimmigrant group America’s Voice. “Otherwise, the president will undercut the historic opportunity presented by Republican inaction to once and for all cement the allegiances of immigrant voters in favor of Democrats.” Laying the blame squarely

at Republicans’ feet could motivate dispirited Latino voters, who tend to favor Democrats, in a midterm election in which Obama has warned repeatedly that the biggest hazard for his party is that Democrats won’t show up to vote. At the same time, some immigration groups and Democrats — including Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill. — have lost patience and already are balking at Obama’s delay. Most Americans — 55 percent — favor providing a legal way for those in the U.S. illegally to become citizens, according to a May AP-GfK poll, including 73 percent of Democrats. The White House believes it’s possible Congress could

move on immigration in June or July if Republicans can resolve their internal struggle over letting a bill get to the floor for a vote. Earlier this month, House GOP leaders rejected a narrow, Republican-backed measure that would grant citizenship to immigrants brought here illegally as children if they serve in the military. But House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., himself facing a tea party primary challenge, and other GOP leaders intervened to block a vote, marking the latest in a string of immigration setbacks. Johnson has said he was looking at reforms that include changes to the Secure Communities program that hands over people booked for local crimes to federal immigration authorities. But immigration advocates are also pushing Obama to expand his program allowing certain immigrants brought here illegally as youths to stay and work legally. Advocates want the program expanded at least to include the parents of those immigrant children and say that nothing short of that will suffice.

Priest: 30 killed at Central African Republic church By STEVE NIKO and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press

BANGUI, Central African Republic — Muslim rebels stormed a Catholic church compound in the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, killing as many as 30 people in a hail of gunfire and grenades, witnesses said. The attack on the compound at the church, where thousands of civilians had sought refuge from the violence ravaging Bangui’s streets, is the largest blamed on Muslim fighters since their Seleka coalition was ousted from power nearly five months ago. Wednesday’s attack marked a rare attack on a house of worship, as Catholic churches have served as sanctuaries for both Christian and Muslim civilians since the country erupted into sectarian bloodshed in December. Fears escalated late Wednesday that the new bloodshed

would spark reprisal attacks on the city’s few remaining Muslims, most of whom fled the city in a mass exodus earlier this year that the U.N. has described as ethnic cleansing. In the hours that followed, Christian militia fighters began putting up road blockades around Bangui. “We were in the church when were heard the shooting outside,” the Rev. Freddy Mboula told The Associated Press. “There were screams and after 30 minutes of gunfire there were bodies everywhere.” About 30 people were killed in the attack, including a priest at the church, Mboula said. An AP reporter counted at least 20 bodies taken to one hospital in the city because the morgue was not in service. At a second hospital, a doctor who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters confirmed that at least three other bodies had been brought there.

A political crisis took on inter-communal dimensions as hatred among the Christian majority grew toward a brutal Muslim rebel regime that had seized power by force in March 2013. Muslim civilians were largely spared, while the rebels looted, raped and killed Christians. Most of the sectarian violence in Bangui since January — when the rebels were forced from power — has involved Christian militia fighters targeting Muslims. Previous attacks have launched tit-for-tat retaliatory violence in the capital of Bangui. Since the ouster of the Muslim rebels, a transitional government led by interim President Catherine Samba-Panza has been tasked with organizing elections no later than February 2015. But many observers doubt such a vote can be held because of the ongoing violence, and because rebels destroyed scores of voting lists in the towns they ransacked across the country.

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The interior of the La Chaumiere restaurant which was the scene of a Saturday night attack, in the capital Djibouti city, Djibouti on Sunday. The European Union Naval Force and the African Union on Sunday both condemned an attack the government said involved two Somali suicide bombers in the tiny East African nation of Djibouti.

Peninsula Clarion, Thursday, May 29, 2014

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The remodel of Soldotna City Hall will relocate all public functions to the first floor. The City Clerk’s office will be moving upstairs, so visitors can cast votes and receive public information on the first floor. A new greeting lounge will be placed in the entry area. The project has begun, but is slightly behind expected schedule by roughly a week.

Soldotna Creek Park The renovation of Soldotna Creek Park is almost complete. The kiosks for information boards are being installed as well as fascia on steel structures. Growing grass on open areas is yet to be finished and the opening of these areas to foot traffic will be at the discretion of the Parks and Recreation department on how well the lawns grow this summer.

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As the rain and low winds continued Wednesday on the Kenai Peninsula, all evacuation advisories from the wildfire have been lifted. Overnight, the fire gained acreage, but its growth has slowed considerably. As of 8 p.m. Tuesday, the wildfire had consumed 186,862 acres of the 1.92 million acre wildlife refuge with just a few non-refuge acres burned along containment lines. “It’s not growing significantly,” said public information officer Tom Lavagnino during a morning news briefing Wednesday. The fire is about 30 percent contained according to the management team. Overnight, about .04 inches of rain fell on the fire and the weather forecast calls for rain throughout the week, however it would take several consecutive days of heavier rain to alter the overall fire activity, according to a management team media release. If the rain stops and the wind picks up, several cabins, including the privately owned Kenai Backcountry Lodge could be threatened. Other cabins are in the path of the fire including the Moose Creek cabin, Taylor Cabin, Andrew Berg Cabin and Lake

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cut through part of the den with the dozer and just kept going. Nobody realized anything, that was three or four days ago,” he said. “Yesterday, a couple of guys were sitting there mopping up … and saw (one) come out.” The pups were in bad shape by the time Fish and Game wildlife biologist Jeff Selinger and Deputy Refuge Manager Steve Miller got to see them. “All of them were injured by a porcupine and dehydrated,” Miller said. The pups were determined to

Sports Complex Centennial Trail Emma cabin. Firefighters are in the area working to protect those cabins from being burned, Schwarber said. Five structures have been confirmed as lost to the fire including one outbuilding in the Kenai Keys and four recreational cabins. The time it could take the wildfire to reach the other cabins is weather dependent, Schwarber said. But, despite the potential threat, President of Alaska Wildland Adventures Kirk Hossle, said he is confident in the fire protections currently in place around his Skilak Lake remoteaccess cabin. “This is our third fire in 10 or 11 years, so we’ve had quite a bit of experience getting ready for these things,” he said. “It hasn’t been damaged by wildfire and we want to keep it that way.” Beginning Sunday, staff started pumping water onto the property and a fire break that was constructed around the property in 2003 has been maintained, Hossle said. “We’ve pretty much got the whole five acres saturated,” he said. On Monday fire crews arrived to assess the property and they brought pumps, hoses and sprinklers to help protect the buildings. “Two or three came out and assessed the property and complemented us on watering the

have been abandoned because of their dehydration, Miller said. Two medics who were with the firefighting crew pulled some of the quills out, but didn’t feel comfortable pulling all of them out. “Some had been abscessed,” Miller said. Several firefighters got to hold the pups as Fish and Game and Refuge staff fed them a glucose mixture to help hydrate the worn out pups. “It’s just like a holding a dog,” Nichols said. “They were hungry and trying to suckle on anything. It was just like holding a puppy, they’re so young they don’t know any better.”

Construction of gravel trail The Apsen Drive project is behind Soldotna Regional currently in the design phase. Sports Complex connecting to Street light placement is being Centennial Trail is expected to finalized. begin on June 9. Gravel will replace the stairways to better al- K-Beach reservoir low for winter activities such as Soldotna will begin taking cross-country skiing. bids on June 3 for the Kalifornsky Beach Reservoir. The Sports Complex council is set to award a conboilers tract on June 11. ConstrucReplacement boilers have tion is expected to take place been ordered. A date for con- throughout this and the followstruction is not set, but will ing summer. begin soon. The project will be Kelly Sullivan can be complete by next winter. reached at kelly.sullivan@peninsulaclarion.com

Aspen Drive

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the Flint Hills Resources refinery in North Pole will not influence the decision. The refinery had supplied jet fuel for Eielson aircraft. Fairbanks officials have lobbied hard for F-35s to be based at Eielson. The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly in April allocated $250,000 to push for “mission growth” at area military bases.

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‘We’re not ramping down yet by any means, we are keeping the resources here.’ — Rob Schwarber, incident commander land and the fire break,” Hossle said. “We were very happy to see them.” Hossle said he was happy to see the rain on Tuesday as well. That rain has allowed firefighters to gain better control over where the fire is burning. “(It) moderates fire behavior and allows firefighters to get close and do direct attacks on the fire,” Schwarber said. Currently there are 713 firefighters on the ground, working to contain the wildfire, according to management team data and, while the weather has become more favorable, the teams are not leaving. “We’re not ramping down yet by any means, we are keeping the resources here,” Schwarber said. “This fire is ranked No. 1 in priority in the nation — something Alaska fires rarely do.” The quick expansion of the wind-driven wildfire is part of the reason so many firefighters have been assigned to help keep it controlled and away from communities, he said. “(It was a) big, significant fire, a lot at risk from fire,” he said.

“Firefighters all realize we have avoided a disaster here.” Hossle said he was thankful for the efforts of the fire crews to protect his property and the 10 staff currently staying at the lodge. “I’m not sure who is coordinating it, but having folks come out and assess the property and set us up was great. Once I contacted the fire control folks, they started calling us and they keep us up to date with where the fire was. We’re very grateful to have that support when you’re in the middle of nowhere.” The fire is still about seven miles away from his lodge and Hossle said the terrain could slow the blaze. He is confident that the lodge will remain standing. “If all goes well and things remain safe, we expect to host guests next week. We’ll see how it goes,” he said.

So, the puppies were taken to Anchorage where Alaska Zoo managers were able to pull the rest of the quills out. At least one of the pups, the runt, is on antibiotics and is being fed more to help him fatten him up. “He got a lot of quills,” said Shannon Jensen, curator at the Alaska Zoo. The pups are being fed milk replacer and handled extensively by zoo staff who are bottle feeding. “They seem to be OK with the situation, as long as we’re feeding them,” she said. Jensen said she doesn’t think it will be hard to get them adopted out. “There’s one that howls, it’s

pretty cute. It’s adorable,” Jensen said. Firefighters have spotted several other animals as they’ve been fighting to keep the 186,862 acre wildfire out of area communities, Miller said. These include a moose and calf, a brown bear with two cubs and a black bear with three cubs. “We saw one baby moose when we were cutting the line,” Nichols said. “It was about a day-old baby moose. It followed one of the dozer bosses around for a while and then mama came back and was not amused.”

Reach Rashah McChesney at rashah.mcchesney@peninsulaclarion.com and Dan Balmer at dan.balmer@peninsulaclarion. com

Reach Rashah McChesney at rashah.mcchesney@peninsulaclarion.com

ries of oil. Senate Minority Leader Hollis French, D-Anchorage, said the oil tax cut and budget are dangerous for Alaska’s economy. “You always have to keep downward pressure on the size of government; that’s a constant job of any elected official. But the idea that you’re going to cut, you know, $500 million, particularly out of the operating budget, is irrational,” said French, who is also seeking his party’s nomination for lieuten-

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The Fairbanks Economic Development Corp. estimates the F-35s would create 3,042 Department of Defense jobs at Eielson, adding $379 million in payroll. FEDC President Jim Dodson said it would be tough to make room for the squadrons at the Anchorage base. Eielson provides extensive training grounds and a receptive community, according to supporters. “I think we’ll make the next cut,” Dodson said. “It would be pretty hard to leave a U.S. base out.”

ant governor. Smaller capital budgets also harm the Alaskan economy, he said. Both he and Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, said the way to improve the state’s fiscal outlook is to repeal the oil tax. Wielechowski, for example, favors returning to a tax structure that captures more for the state at higher oil prices. A referendum on the oil tax is scheduled for August. Parnell, for his part, told the Rotary group the best facts available now show the tax structure is working. He said it’s not about oil companies making money but about opportunities and jobs for Alaskans.

Around Alaska Sitka man found dead on trail SITKA (AP) — Police are investigating the death of a 52-year-old Sitka man whose body was found on a local trail. The Daily Sitka Sentinel says Gregory Killinger had apparently gone on a day hike on the Mount Verstovia trail when he died, apparently of natural causes. The body of the longtime U.S. Forest Service employee was found Sunday evening on the trail by another hiker who was heading down the mountain.

Near miss reported between passenger jet, airplane ANCHORAGE (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board is reporting a “near miss” between an Alaska Airlines passenger jet and a cargo plane over Anchorage’s Fire Island south of the city’s main airport. Agency spokesman Clint Johnson says the Alaska Airlines flight inbound from Portland, Ore., was starting to land at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport just after 3 p.m. Tuesday when air traffic controllers gave instructions for a “goaround.” The order was given to avoid an Ace Air Cargo Beechcraft 1900 prop-jet taking off for Sand Point from the airport’s northsouth runway.

Fishery disaster funds to be distributed BETHEL (AP) — More than $20 million in federal fishery disaster funds will be distributed in Alaska in response to poor king salmon runs in recent years. KYUK says federal officials and 11 groups have worked out how some $20.8 million in disaster funds will be split. The Yukon-Kuskokwim region will receive a little more than $9.6 million of those funds and Cook Inlet will get slightly more than $11.1 million. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokeswoman Julie Speegle says funds can be used for efforts to restore the fishery, prevent similar failures or help affected communities. NOAA oversees the National Marine Fisheries Service.

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Sports

Homer softball earns another state berth Mariners nip Stars to earn 13th state ticket in 14th year of program By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

The Homer softball team clinched a state berth with a 3-2, eight-inning victory over Soldotna on Wednesday at the Soldotna Little League fields. The state berth is the 13th in the 14year history of the program. Homer and Kodiak tie for the top spot in the Northern Lights Conference with 6-2 records. Since the Bears and Mariners split this season in conference play, Homer coach Bill Bell said the NLC’s top seed at state will likely come down to a coin flip. Had Homer lost Wednesday, it would have left the door open for Soldotna (3-4 in the NLC) and Skyview (3-3 in the NLC) to earn a state berth, but now the Stars and Panthers are eliminated from state contention. The softball season on the cen-

tral Kenai Peninsula concludes with SoHi vs. Skyview today at 4 p.m. at the Soldotna Little League fields, and Skyview vs. Kenai at 4 p.m. Friday at the Soldotna Little League fields. The Mariners were able to come back and claim a state berth despite starting the year with 13 straight losses, although only one of those setbacks was a conference affair. “They were playing tough competition, but I hadn’t planned on losing everything,” Bell said. “I thought we would win a third of them. “I’m impressed that all the girls stayed up even though we started the season 0-13.” Homer also had to battle from behind against the Stars to clinch the state berth. The Mariners took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first when Kayla Stafford reached on a single, stole a pair of bases, and scored on a passed

Tourney will test pitching By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

The Northern Lights Conference baseball tournament starts today at the Soldotna Little League fields, putting the depth of each team’s pitching staff to the test. There are two state berths up for grabs at the tournament. For pitching staffs, the least stressful way to make state is to win a first-round game today, win the semifinal tonight, then win the tourney championship Friday night. The next best way is to lose in that championship Friday, go directly to Saturday’s second-place game, and win. Four games in three days. Not ideal, but doable. “The bottom line is that if you win three, you don’t have to worry about playing any more,” Kenai Central coach John Kennedy said. “The last two years I’ve had to play five games. “The first year, we made it. Last year, we lost out.” The toughest way is to lose in the first round or semifinals, then come all the way back through the second-place bracket. That means five games in three days, calling for remarkable pitching depth. “I’m not sure we have the pitching for four or five games, but I’m not sure anybody does,” Soldotna coach George Stein said. The first-round games are Wasilla, No. 1 from the Northern Division, against Soldotna, fourth from the south, at 10 a.m.; Homer, No. 2 from the south, vs. Houston, No. 3 from the north, at 10 a.m.; Kodiak, No. 1 from the south, vs. Palmer, No. 4 from the north, at 1 p.m.; and Colony, No. 2 from the north, against Kenai, No. 3

Northern Lights Conference baseball tournament All games at Soldotna Little League fields Today’s games Game 1 — Wasilla vs. Soldotna, 10 a.m. Game 2 — Homer vs. Houston, 10 a.m. Game 3 — Kodiak vs. Palmer, 1 p.m. Game 4 — Colony vs. Kenai, 1 p.m. Game 5 — Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner, 4 p.m. Game 6 — Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 winner, 7 p.m. Friday’s games Game 7 — Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser, 10 a.m. Game 8 — Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 loser, 10 a.m. Game 9 — Game 7 winner vs. Game 6 loser, 3 p.m. Game 10 — Game 8 winner vs. Game 5 loser, 3 p.m. Game 11 (championship) — Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner, 7 p.m. Saturday’s games Game 12 — Game 9 winner vs. Game 10 winner, 10 a.m. Second-place game — Game 12 winner vs. Game 11 loser, 1 p.m.

from the south, at 1 p.m. The Kards lost 10-0 to Colony earlier in the season. In that game, Kenai made crucial errors to give the Knights extra outs. Kennedy said his two best pitchers, Dallas Pierren and Miles Jones, have been prone to trying to do too much when the defense shows cracks. “That’s when they don’t hit their spots, leave the ball up, walk guys and hit guys,” Kennedy said. Kennedy is not sure who will get the start today. Regardless, the defense will have to limit mistakes. Particularly, the Kards have struggled catching pop-ups this season. “You get in a tournament like this, you give teams extra See PITCH, page A-11

Fire report: Bird is open for golf

he only thing on fire at Bird Homestead Golf Course are the very talented golfers. Bird Homestead Golf Course is completely safe from the blazing fire. There has been no damage to the course and we are open for those avid golfers to play. The firefighters have done an outstanding job, keeping the fire under control and making it possible for the golf course to remain open. Bird Homestead has a weekly calendar that stays the same every week to accommodate all golfers: Mondays: $1 a hole, all day. Tuesdays: Men’s Night, starts at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays: Ladies Night, starts at 6:30 p.m. Thursdays: Bring a friend for buy a round, get a round

B ird H omestead G olf R eport Kelsey S lough free. We always love to see new golfers at the course. Don’t have your own clubs? No problem, we have some you can rent. Don’t want to walk a round of golf? That’s OK, that’s what golf carts are for, and we have those too! Don’t forget to mark your agendas for a round of golf at Bird Homestead Golf Course, located at Mile 11.8 on Funny River Road. Fun Fact Thursday: The chances of making two holein-ones in one round of golf is one in 67 million.

ball. But SoHi came right back with two runs in the bottom of the first. With one out, Jessica Hanna reached on a fielder’s choice and Serena Prior singled. Kenley Kingrey then walked to load the bases. After Homer pitcher McKi Needham recorded a strikeout, Delaney Schneider poked a ball to right field to score a pair of runs. Bell said his second baseman should have caught the ball, but it was scored a hit by the home team. After the first, SoHi pitcher Prior and Needham dueled for the rest of the game. Both went all eight innings. Needham allowed six hits while striking out seven and walking just one. Bell said Needham was not as sharp as she was in a Tuesday win over Kenai, but he was happy with the way she battled through the game.

Prior allowed only six hits and no walks while striking out seven. “You had two pitchers that were basically controlling,” Soldotna coach Kelli Knoebel said. “Serena was great again for me. “She didn’t have more than five batters per inning. When that happens, you are pitching a great game.” Homer got the equalizer in the fifth inning. Lauren Kuhns reached on an infield single, moved to second on a wild pitch and to third on a groundout. Maggie LaRue then came up with a two-out single to score her. In the eighth, Stafford started the game-winning rally with a one-out single and then stole second. Needham then flew out to left field. The ball was thrown to Prior, who tried to get Stafford going back to second. The ball got away and Stafford came all the way around to score the winning run.

“It was a great idea to try and get that girl out, but unfortunately the ball got into center field,” Knoebel said. “They got a run, and we couldn’t push one across.” It was a strange way to win, but Bell will certainly take the win. “That was after we gave them a few runs in the first inning,” he said. Mary Hanna Bowe added a pair of hits for the Mariners. She was one of four JV players that got into the game. The JV team only lost once this year, in a close game to East. “I’m already excited about next year,” Bell said. Knoebel said the Stars will still be up for today, when seniors Allison Nelson, Prior and Kenley Kingrey will be honored, and the final chapter will be written in the Soldotna-Skyview rivalry. “To me, every game matters,” Knoebel said.

Scoreboard Baseball AL Standings

East Division W Toronto 32 New York 28 Baltimore 26 Boston 23 Tampa Bay 23 Central Division Detroit 29 Chicago 28 Minnesota 24 Kansas City 24 Cleveland 24 West Division Oakland 32 Los Angeles 29 Texas 27 Seattle 26 Houston 22

L 22 24 25 29 31

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GB — 3 4½ 8 9

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.592 .509 .480 .462 .444

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.604 — .558 2½ .509 5 .500 5½ .407 10½

Wednesday’s Games Houston 9, Kansas City 3 Toronto 3, Tampa Bay 2 Boston 4, Atlanta 0 Milwaukee 8, Baltimore 3 Chicago White Sox 3, Cleveland 2 Texas 1, Minnesota 0 N.Y. Yankees 7, St. Louis 4 Oakland 3, Detroit 1 Seattle 3, L.A. Angels 1 Thursday’s Games Texas (N.Martinez 1-1) at Minnesota (Deduno 1-3), 9:10 a.m. Detroit (Porcello 7-2) at Oakland (J.Chavez 4-2), 11:35 a.m. Kansas City (Shields 6-3) at Toronto (Dickey 5-4), 3:07 p.m. Atlanta (Minor 2-3) at Boston (Peavy 1-2), 3:10 p.m. Baltimore (U.Jimenez 2-6) at Houston (Peacock 1-4), 4:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 2-1) at Seattle (Maurer 1-3), 6:10 p.m. All Times ADT

NL Standings

East Division W Atlanta 28 Miami 28 Washington 25 New York 24 Philadelphia 23 Central Division Milwaukee 32 St. Louis 29 Cincinnati 23 Pittsburgh 23 Chicago 19 West Division San Francisco 34 Los Angeles 29 Colorado 28 San Diego 24 Arizona 22

L 24 25 27 28 27

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GB — ½ 3 4 4

22 24 28 29 32

.593 — .547 2½ .451 7½ .442 8 .373 11½

19 25 25 30 33

.642 — .537 5½ .528 6 .444 10½ .400 13

Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Mets 5, Pittsburgh 0 San Francisco 5, Chicago Cubs 0 Philadelphia 6, Colorado 3 Miami 8, Washington 5, 10 innings Boston 4, Atlanta 0 Milwaukee 8, Baltimore 3 N.Y. Yankees 7, St. Louis 4 Arizona 12, San Diego 6 Cincinnati 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 Thursday’s Games N.Y. Mets (Z.Wheeler 1-5) at Philadelphia (Buchanan 1-0), 3:05 p.m. Atlanta (Minor 2-3) at Boston (Peavy 1-2), 3:10 p.m. San Francisco (Vogelsong 3-2) at St. Louis (J.Garcia 1-0), 4:15 p.m. Cincinnati (Cingrani 2-4) at Arizona (Collmenter 3-2), 5:40 p.m. Pittsburgh (Cole 4-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Haren 5-3), 6:10 p.m. All Times ADT

Astros 9, Royals 3 Hou. KC

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Cosart, Williams (6), D.Downs (8), Farnsworth (9) and Corporan; Duffy, K.Herrera (5), L.Coleman (6), Ti.Collins (7), Mariot (8), G.Holland (9) and Hayes. W_ Cosart 4-4. L_Duffy 2-5. HRs_ Houston, Springer (9), Carter 2 (8). Kansas City, Hayes (1).

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(7), Oviedo (9) and J.Molina, Solis; Hendriks, Rasmussen (7), McGowan (7), Loup (9) and D.Navarro. W_Loup 2-1. L_Oviedo 1-1. HRs_Tampa Bay, Myers (5).

White Sox 3, Indians 2 Cle. Chi.

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House, Atchison (7), Allen (8), Shaw (8) and Y.Gomes; Noesi, Guerra (8), Belisario (9) and Flowers. W_Belisario 3-3. L_Shaw 1-1. HRs_Cleveland, Giambi (2).

Rangers 1, Twins 0 Tex. Min.

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J.Saunders, Sh.Tolleson (6), Cotts (7), Frasor (8), Soria (9) and Chirinos; Gibson, Burton (7), Thielbar (7), Guerrier (8) and K.Suzuki. W_Sh.Tolleson 1-1. L_Burton 1-2. Sv_Soria (9).

Athletics 3, Tigers 1 Det. Oak.

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A.Sanchez, Nathan (9) and Avila; Kazmir and D.Norris. W_Kazmir 6-2. L_Nathan 2-1. HRs_Detroit, Tor.Hunter (8). Oakland, Donaldson (13).

Mariners 3, Angels 1 LA Se.

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C.Wilson, Jepsen (8) and Conger; F.Hernandez, Rodney (9) and Zunino. W_F.Hernandez 7-1. L_C.Wilson 6-4. Sv_Rodney (13). HRs_Seattle, Zunino (7).

Red Sox 4, Braves 0 Atl. Bos.

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Floyd, A.Wood (6), Varvaro (8) and Gattis; Lackey, Capuano (7), Tazawa (8), Breslow (9) and Pierzynski. W_Lackey 6-3. L_Floyd 0-2.

Brewers 8, Orioles 3 Ba. Mil.

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B.Norris, Brach (7), Matusz (8) and Hundley; Gallardo, Kintzler (7), W.Smith (7), Duke (9) and Lucroy. W_Gallardo 3-3. L_B.Norris 3-5. HRs_Baltimore, N.Cruz 2 (19). Milwaukee, K.Davis (9).

Yankees 7, Cardinals 4 NY SL

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Kuroda, Thornton (6), Betances (6), Warren (7), Dav.Robertson (8) and J.Murphy; S.Miller, S.Freeman (6), Maness (7), Choate (8), Motte (9) and Y.Molina. W_Kuroda 4-3. L_S.Miller 6-4.

Mets 5, Pirates 0 Pit. NY

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Marlins 8, Nationals 5, 10 inn. Mia. 000 400 000 4—8 14 Was. 000 003 100 1—5 15

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H.Alvarez, Hatcher (6), Da.Jennings (6), A.Ramos (7), M.Dunn (8), Slowey (9), Cishek (10) and Saltalamacchia; Zimmermann, Detwiler (6), Storen (7), Clippard (8), R.Soriano (9), Blevins (10), Barrett (10) and W.Ramos. W_Slowey 1-0. L_ Blevins 2-2. HRs_Washington, W.Ramos (1).

Diamondbacks 12, Padres 6 SD Ari.

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Stauffer, Roach (1), A.Torres (5), Patton (7) and Grandal; C.Anderson, Delgado (6), Thatcher (8), Cahill (9) and M.Montero. W_C.Anderson 3-0. L_Stauffer 2-1. HRs_San Diego, Medica (3). Arizona, Prado (2), Goldschmidt (10).

Reds 3, Dodgers 2 Cin. LA

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Bailey, M.Parra (8), Broxton (8), A.Chapman (9) and Mesoraco; Kershaw, League (8), Howell (8), B.Wilson (9) and Butera. W_Bailey 5-3. L_Kershaw 3-2. Sv_A.Chapman (5). HRs_Cincinnati, Phillips (4). Los Angeles, Puig (11).

Basketball NBA Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Tuesday, May 27 Oklahoma City 105, San Antonio 92, series tied 2-2 Wednesday, May 28 Indiana 93, Miami 90, Miami leads series 3-2 Thursday, May 29 Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 5 p.m. Friday, May 30 Indiana at Miami, 4:30 p.m. All Times ADT

WNBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE W Chicago 4 Atlanta 2 New York 2 Washington 1 Connecticut 1 Indiana 1

L 1 2 2 2 3 3

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Minnesota Los Angeles Phoenix San Antonio Seattle Tulsa

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Morton, J.Hughes (6), Morris (7) and C.Stewart; Colon, Familia (8) and Centeno. W_Colon 4-5. L_ Morton 1-7. Sv_Familia (1). HRs_ New York, D.Wright (4), Duda (7).

Wednesday’s Games San Antonio 82, Tulsa 79 Thursday’s Games Connecticut at Indiana, 3 p.m. ADT

Giants 5, Cubs 0

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E.Jackson, Russell (6), Schlitter (6), Grimm (7) and Jo.Baker; Lincecum, Kontos (6), Affeldt (7), Machi (7), J.Gutierrez (8), J.Lopez (9) and H.Sanchez. W_Kontos 1-0. L_E.Jackson 3-5.

Phillies 6, Rockies 3 Col. Phi.

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Lyles, Belisle (6), Brothers (7), Masset (8), Hawkins (9), Logan (9) and Rosario; R.Hernandez, Bastardo (6), Mi.Adams (7), Diekman (8), Papelbon (9) and Ruiz. W_Papelbon 1-1. L_Hawkins 2-1. HRs_Colorado, Morneau (10),

NHL Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Tuesday, May 27 Montreal 7, NY Rangers 4, N.Y. Rangers lead series 3-2 Wednesday, May 28 Chicago 5, Los Angeles 4, 2OT, Los Angeles leads series 3-2 Thursday, May 29 Montreal at NY Rangers, 4 p.m. Friday, May 30 Chicago at Los Angeles, 5 p.m. All Times ADT

Tennis French Open Seeds

Wednesday At Stade Roland Garros Paris Men Second Round Novak Djokovic (2), Serbia, def. Jeremy Chardy, France, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2. Roger Federer (4), Switzerland, def. Diego Sebastian Schwartzman, Argentina, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. Tomas Berdych (6), Czech Republic, def. Aleksandr Nedovyesov, Kazakhstan, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-5, 6-3. Milos Raonic (8), Canada, def. Jiri Vesely, Czech Republic, 7-6 (4), 6-4, 6-1. John Isner (10), United States, def. Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstan, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (4), 6-3, 7-6 (4). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (13), France, def. Jurgen Melzer, Austria, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4. Mikhail Youzhny (15), Russia, lost to Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic, 6-0, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. Tommy Robredo (17), Spain, def. Kenny de Schepper, France, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3. Ernests Gulbis (18), Latvia, def. Facundo Bagnis, Argentina, 6-2, 7-5, 6-0. Alexandr Dolgopolov (20), Ukraine, lost to Marcel Granollers, Spain, 1-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-0, 6-2. Jerzy Janowicz (22), Poland, def. Jarkko Nieminen, Finland, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4), 6-4. Marin Cilic (25), Croatia, def. Tobias Kamke, Germany, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-0. Roberto Bautista Agut (27), Spain, def. Benoit Paire, France, 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-2. Gilles Simon (29), France, def. Alejandro Gonzalez, Colombia, 6-4, 6-0, 6-2. Dmitry Tursunov (31), Russia, def. Sam Querrey, United States, 6-4, 7-5, 6-1. Women Second Round Serena Williams (1), United States, lost to Garbine Muguruza, Spain, 6-2, 6-2. Agnieszka Radwanska (3), Poland, def. Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-4. Maria Sharapova (7), Russia, def. Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgaria, 7-5, 6-2. Angelique Kerber (8), Germany, def. Varvara Lepchenko, United States, 6-2, 7-5. Dominika Cibulkova (9), Slovakia, def. Tamira Paszek, Austria, 6-3, 6-4. Flavia Pennetta (12), Italy, lost to Johanna Larsson, Sweden, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2. Carla Suarez Navarro (14), Spain, def. Timea Bacsinszky, Switzerland, 7-5, 1-6, 6-4. Sabine Lisicki (16), Germany, lost to Mona Barthel, Germany, 6-1, 3-0, retired. Eugenie Bouchard (18), Canada, def. Julia Goerges, Germany, 2-6, 6-2, 6-1. Sam Stosur (19), Australia, def. Yvonne Meusburger, Austria, 6-1, 6-3. Alize Cornet (20), France, lost to Taylor Townsend, United States, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Venus Williams (29), United States, lost to Anna Schmiedlova, Slovakia, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. Daniela Hantuchova (31), Slovakia, def. Claire Feuerstein, France, 6-1, 6-4. Elena Vesnina (32), Russia, lost to Ajla Tomljanovic, Croatia, 7-6 (6), 6-2.

Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Placed RHP Clay Buchholz on the 15day DL, retroactive to May 27. Recalled RHP Alex Wilson from Pawtucket (IL). CLEVELAND INDIANS — Activated INF Jason Kipnis from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Justin Sellers to Columbus (IL). LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Placed LHP Sean Burnett on the

15-day DL. Recalled RHP Matt Shoemaker from Salt Lake (PCL). OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Sent RHP Ronald Herrera to San Diego to complete an earlier trade. SEATTLE MARINERS — Signed OF Xavier Nady to a minor league contract. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed C Ryan Hanigan on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Kevin Kiermaier from Durham (IL). TEXAS RANGERS — Activated LHP Joe Saunders from the 15day DL. Optioned LHP Aaron Poreda to Round Rock (PCL). Claimed RHP Phil Irwin off waivers from Pittsburgh and optioned him to Round Rock (PCL). National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Selected the contract of INF-OF Nick Evans from Reno (PCL). Optioned OF Alfredo Marte to Reno. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Placed OF Carl Crawford on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of INF-OF Jamie Romak from Albuquerque (PCL). BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined San Antonio C Tiago Splitter $5,000 for violating the league’s anti-flopping rules during C Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals. Y FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed WR Sammy Watkins. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Released LB Victor Aiyewa. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed CB Anthony Gaitor. NEW YORK JETS — Signed CB Brandon Dixon to a four-year contract. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended New York Rangers D John Moore two games for his hit on Montreal F Dale Weise in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference final. NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Agreed to terms with D Ville Pokka on a three-year, entry-level contract. OTTAWA SENATORS — Signed F Max McCormick to a two-year entry-level contract. SAN JOSE SHARKS — Extended the contract of assistant general manager Joe Will. ECHL READING ROYALS — Signed coach and director of hockey operations Larry Courville to a contract extension through the 201617 season. SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Rescinded the fine and one-game suspension for the red card issued to D.C. United F Eddie Johnson during a May 24 game against New England. COLLEGE ARIZONA — Agreed to terms with football coach Rich Rodriguez on a two-year contract extension and men’s basketball coach Sean Miller on a one-year contract extension, both through 2019. ARIZONA STATE — Agreed to terms with football coach Todd Graham on a one-year contract extension through 2019. BAKER — Announced baseball coach Phil Hannon has agreed to coach one more year while serving as part-time assistant director of development. NORTHERN ARIZONA — Agreed to terms with men’s basketball coach Jack Murphy on a two-year contract extension. NOTRE DAME — Readmitted WR DaVaris Daniels and men’s basketball G Jerian Grant after they were suspended for the spring semester for undisclosed academic violations. WISCONSIN-EAU CLAIRE — Announced the resignation of women’s golf coach Meghan Sobotta.

State soccer bracket draws reaction By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

The final three days of the Alaska high school soccer campaign will play out in Anchorage this weekend, beginning today with an eight-game slate C

that features the top eight teams in the state on both the boys and girls side. The eight teams that represent the field consist of three squads from the Cook Inlet Conference, three from the Northern Lights Conference,

one from the Mid-Alaska Conference and one from the Southeast Conference. Because the individual seedings were set by a random draw, the state matchups have surfaced as randomly, leading to cheers from some teams and

groans from others. Today begins with half of the matches being played at Eagle River High School, with the other half at Anchorage Football Stadium. All Thursday matches featuring Peninsula See KICK, page A-11

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teams will be played at Eagle River: Soldotna girls vs. Lathrop, 1 p.m. When the state championship bracket was released, the most jarring fact was the lopsided nature of the schedule. On one side of the bracket lies all four No. 1 seeds — Soldotna (NLC), Lathrop (MAC), Thunder Mountain (SEC) and South (CIC) — meaning that Saturday’s championship game will feature a No. 1 seed versus a No. 2 or No. 3 seed. The pairings have certainly left a bit of a sour taste in Soldotna coach Jimmy Love’s mouth. “That’s what you get in a blind draw,” Love said. “It is what it is. I’m sure there’s other coaches on the same side that are thinking the same thing. “I’ve had conversations about whether it should change, because it doesn’t make sense when the accomplishment of winning regions goes out the window.” Even with the slew of top seeds filling the top half of the bracket, Love said teams can’t get comfortable with the other four squads on the bottom half. “We can’t run away from these teams,” Love said. “We feel like South is No. 1 and we’re gonna have to anticipate them. I think we are up to that challenge. “You know, you’re not losing a whole lot with a ServiceDimond matchup.” However, Love is going with the attitude of it is what it is,

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outs and they tend to score extra runs,” said Kennedy, whose team was 3-6 this year. “That’s what has happened to us most of the year.” Kenai struggled at the plate for a good part of the season, but Kennedy said the Kards have raised their team batting average by 30 points in the last two games. “At this point in the year, it’s going to take everybody,” Kennedy said. “It’s going to take 10 or 12 guys to make this happen.” Soldotna, which finished 2-7 in the conference, also will be facing a tough first-round matchup. The Stars lost to Wasilla 13-3 earlier in the season. Stein sounded a lot like Kennedy when asked what could turn that around. “We have to play good defense and make the routine plays,” he said. “If we do that, we can stay in most games. I’m feeling pretty good about our hitting.” Stein said another key is for his pitchers to not give up free bases. Many look at the hits, but in high school baseball the result often comes down to free bases and errors. Stein said the possible exception to that comes if the wind is blowing in the right direction. “There are some short fences,” he said of the fields in Soldotna. “If the wind is blowing out, I’ve told coaches we’re going to see a lot of home runs.” Joey Becher, Klayton Justice and Tyler Covey will be the main pitchers for the Stars, while Stein said he will need solid hitting out of Kenny Griffin and Max Conradi. Homer topped Houston 12-8 earlier in the season. While coach Mark Putney said that gives the Mariners confidence, he still has a lot of respect for Houston. “They are a solid team,” Putney said. “They had quite a few seniors.” While Putney certainly would love to win the championship, he said his team is wellpositioned to play a lot of games in a short period of time. “We don’t have anybody that’s overpowering, but our strength is we have more pitching than some of the teams,” he said. Kyle Johnson, Wylie Donich and Brandon Beachy have been solid starters for the Mariners, while Sheldon Hutt and Owen Delehanty are sturdy relievers. At the plate, Tommy Bowe

and with the strength that the Stars have shown all year long, the team still stands a good shot at making it through the first day. Backed by senior goaltender Katelynn Kerkvliet — who has barely seen action in many games this year — the Stars bring an aggressive attacking front line that combined to outscore opponents 16-0 in three games at last week’s Northern Lights Conference tournament. The sister duo of sophomore Alyssa and senior Kylee Wolfe have provided an offensive punch to the team. Add to the mix senior Julie Litchfield, sophomore Olivia Conradi and senior Kelci Benson — a potent group of midfielders — the Stars make a strong case in the debate of which top seed stands the greatest chance of playing for Saturday’s state crown. “A couple years ago I gave a lot of credit to the success of the comp program, and now we’re seeing the culmination of that work,” Love said. “The senior class came through the comp program.” As the top seed from the Fairbanks region, Lathrop claimed a state berth on the back of a 9-0-2 overall season record (60-2 conference). But SoHi owns the advantage with a pristine 15-0 mark (including last week’s NLC tournament). Love acknowledged the perfect record by saying it’s a heavier burden at the conference tournament than it is at the state tournament. “I don’t go into that with too much on our shoulders,” he said. “With state it’s like starting over again. State is different because you don’t know these guys as well, and you expect it to be strong. At regions, we knew exactly what teams we can change any game with his power, while Greg Smith has been a clutch hitter. J.J. Sonnen also keys the offense and defense by leading off and playing shortstop. “I think this team is a good tournament team,” Putney said. “Our wins have mostly come from behind. That’s given us confidence that we’re never out of any game.”

Alaska School Activities Association state championship At Eagle River High School and Anchorage Football Stadium GIRLS Today’s games Game 1 — Soldotna vs. Lathrop, 1 p.m. (ERHS) Game 2 — Kenai Central vs. Wasilla, 5 p.m. (ERHS) Game 3 — Dimond vs. Service, 1 p.m. (AFS) Game 4 — Thunder Mountain vs. South, 5 p.m. (AFS) Friday’s games Game 5 — game 1 loser vs. game 4 loser, 1 p.m. (ERHS) Game 6 — game 2 loser vs. game 3 loser, 5 p.m. (ERHS) Game 7 — game 2 winner vs. game 3 winner, 1 p.m. (AFS) Game 8 — game 1 winner vs. game 4 winner, 5 p.m. (AFS) Saturday’s games 4th place — game 5 winner vs. game 6 winner, 8 a.m. (AFS) 3rd place — game 7 loser vs. game 8 loser, 11:30 a.m. (AFS) Championship — game 7 winner vs. game 8 winner, 3 p.m. (AFS) BOYS Today’s games Game 1 — Wasilla vs. Colony, 3 p.m. (ERHS) Game 2 — South vs. West Valley, 3 p.m. (AFS) Game 3 — Dimond vs. Juneau, 7 p.m. (AFS) Game 4 — Homer vs. Service, 7 p.m. (ERHS) Friday’s games Game 5 — game 1 loser vs. game 4 loser, 3 p.m. (ERHS) Game 6 — game 2 loser vs. game 3 loser, 7 p.m. (ERHS) Game 7 — game 1 winner vs. game 4 winner, 3 p.m. (AFS) Game 8 — game 2 winner vs. game 3 winner, 7 p.m. (AFS) Saturday’s games 4th place — game 5 winner vs. game 6 winner, 9:45 a.m. (AFS) 3rd place — game 7 loser vs. game 8 loser, 1:15 p.m. (AFS) Championship — game 7 winner vs. game 8 winner, 6 p.m. (AFS)

were dealing with.” The Stars have not faced Lathrop this year, and so Love said he was left to research what he could about the Malemutes online. “We looked at comparable opponents, we looked at scores, and all three Valley coaches played them close,” Love said. “It means to me we’re on similar pages. Comparing scores is dangerous, because they could be short on kids during those games.” Kenai Central girls vs. Wasilla, 5 p.m. Kenai coach Dan Verkuilen said playing on the side of the bracket with no No. 1 seeds will not give Kenai an easy path to the state championship. “It’s kind of a crapshoot,” Verkuilen said. “One year we were ranked third in state, played Dimond, who was number five, and Dimond went untouched and won state.” Verkuilen said even though the seeding looks top-heavy, it’s important to remember that Lathrop (Mid-Alaska) and Thunder Mountain (Southeast) hail from conferences that are usually weaker than the powerhouse Northern Lights and Cook Inlet conferences. “I think SoHi has a good

draw with (Lathrop),” he said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if SoHi beats Lathrop handily and Thunder Mountain gets beat by South. “When it’s all said and done, the best team will win state.” The matchup for the Kenai girls looks good on paper, especially since they landed on the bottom half of the bracket, but a date with Wasilla is about as steady as a teeter-totter. It could easily go either way. “They play a strong game, very similar to ourselves,” Verkuilen said. “Either team could win on any given day, and I expect another close game.” The Kardinals sewed up their first state spot since 2012 by winning their way to last Saturday’s NLC championship game against Soldotna, which they lost 5-0. Less than a week after edging the Warriors 2-1 in the NLC tournament semifinals, Kenai will be facing a determined Wasilla team that is surely looking for vengeance. Wasilla, the No. 3 seed from the NLC, compiled a 12-3 regular season record, but the NLC semifinal loss left them with one last chance to continue their season in the third-place game. The Warriors handled Homer in a 5-2 win to earn their first trip to state since 2011.

Earlier this year, Kenai dealt Wasilla a narrow 1-0 loss. Today, Kenai will have about as full a roster as they can have. Sophomore Cori Holmes returned to play last week after sitting out a few weeks due to an injury, and junior Allie Ostrander will return to the midfield after competing at last week’s state track and field championships. “It’s nice to have (Holmes) back, you could tell she’s getting her stride back,” Verkuilen said. “Allie is with us this weekend, so that’ll help in our midfield area.” Verkuilen noted that midfielder Hannah Drury will likely get reduced minutes on the field this weekend after suffering an ankle injury three weeks ago. “We had her practicing, not at full speed though,” Verkuilen said. Three “really good” days of practice was vitally important to keep the team focused, according to Verkuilen. In goal, Kenai will continue to have sophomore Alli Steinbeck warding off attacks, while up front, Heidi Perkins, Abi Tuttle, Sarah Every and Lara Creighton remain the Kards’ key attackers. Homer boys vs. Service, 7 p.m. One year after missing the state tournament, Homer returns to improve upon the fourth-place finish the 2012 squad produced, the best showing for a Homer boys team at state. “I wasn’t expecting it so soon,” joked Homer coach Warren Waldorf. The Mariners’ hopes of a state berth came down to Saturday’s thirdplace game at the NLC tournament. Homer made sure of a trip to state by beating Kenai 3-0, getting two goals from Max Mangue and one from Quinn Daugharty. “Homer hasn’t played its best game yet,” Waldorf stated. The reason Homer was in the tourney third-place match was a 1-0 semifinal loss that came at the hands of eventual NLC champion Wasilla. If Homer and Wasilla were to meet in Friday’s semifinals, the Mariners will be needing the same effort that resulted in a 3-1 win over Wasilla back on April 25, instead of the effort that resulted in the loss in last Friday’s NLC semifinals. “It was early on and they were

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looking past us that day,” Waldorf said about the earlier meeting. “It was on our field and muddy.” After beating Homer in last week’s semifinals, Wasilla proceeded to topple Colony in Saturday’s championship game, giving them a No. 1 seed at the state tournament. It’s the only No. 1 seed on the top half of the state bracket, and it’s shaping up to be a doozy, as Wasilla was drawn into a rematch with Colony in the first round. Waldorf said he has no complaints about being on the opposite side of the bracket that holds three top seeds. “It looks like it worked good for us,” he said. “It’s better than last time. I mean, I still have questions about why Colony got the better seed two years ago. “Looking at the bracket, we’ll go either left or right, and it’s a fair chance of getting past Service.” The Service boys ended the regular season with a 10-2-2 record in Cook Inlet Conference play. Waldorf said he has “no idea” about how to approach Service since he hasn’t seen the Cougars in game action yet, but is expecting a challenge from the Anchorage team. “It’s not going to be easy,” Waldorf said. “Service is probably big, fast and strong.” With any luck, the Mariners will be able to match the Cougars with size and speed. Homer’s leading scorer, Kenneth Schneider, will be relegated to the sweeper position as he is nursing an ailing hamstring. Waldorf has consistently complimented Schneider by saying he could play any position on the field, and when Schneider is paired with the line of defense that the Mariners sport, Service could have some real trouble finding the net. “Our defense is really good,” Waldorf said. “We had the one mistake for Wasilla’s only goal, but looking at it, it’s not bad considering their two key strikers scored 20 goals a piece this year.” Brian Rowe will once again be manning the goal, according to Waldorf, and the resulting lineup is looking to produce a gigantic battle between the Wasilla front of Stone Krueger and Oleg Lozko and the defensive line of Schneider, Flynn Bloom and John Walsworth. “It’s cool because I can make adjustments every game,” Waldorf said. “The last three games we’ve had three different defensive alignments. “If we get to the last game it’ll be because of that defense.” Up front, Homer features a bevy of attackers such as Drew Brown, Mario Glosser, Sebastian Talamas, Mangue, Daugharty and Jake Worsfold.

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Hunting for Hooligan By RASHAH McCHESNEY Peninsula Clarion

If you stand long enough on the banks of the Kenai River this time of year, you’ll likely notice a ripple in the surface of the water. The curious may choose to stand in the water and feel the tickle of hundreds of tiny hooligan rushing by their legs. At times, they’re in so thick you snatch them out of the water with your bare hands. They’re eulachon (yoo-luk-kon), or hooligan, and they’re the first major run of fish on the Kenai River each year. Drive over to Bridge Access Road in Kenai, or Cunningham Park on Beaver Loop and fishers in waders can be seen out in the water — scooping the oily fish up and filling five-gallon buckets with their haul. The small, white-fleshed fish has a unique taste and they’ve been nicknamed “candlefish” because they’re so oily that after they’ve been dried a wick can be stuck in them and they will burn. Rick Gedney, said he likes to fry the fish in oil and then smoke it. “I’m not a big oily fish fan, for instance, I don’t like king salmon that much because they’re an oily fish,” Gedney said. “But I like these. You fry them up and they come out crispy and delicious.” No permit is required to fish for hooligan, just an Alaska resident sport fishing license. In salt water, anglers can fish for hooligan from April 1-May 31 and in fresh water they can be taken through June 15. There are no bag or possession limits for the fish. Gedney said when they’re in thick, it’s hard to catch just a few in a hooligan-sized dipet. “Usually it’s about three scoops to a buck, a five gallon pail,” he said.

ing to Fish and Game regulations. While the fish tend to be small, about 6-8 ounces each, in strong years the biomass of hooligan is far larger than other popular fisheries on the Kenai River as millions can swim up the river. Gedney said he has yet to see any hooligan in the water, though there have been people fishing for them. “It has been real quiet, he said. They should be here by now. I’ve been watching every day and I’ve not seen a single one.” Area management biologist in the sportfish division of Fish and Game Robert Begich said hooligan have been seen swimming past the Kenai River king salmon sonar. “Hooligan passage is heavy at times. They’re down there,” he said. Clarion file photo

Hooligan fishers check their nets in this June 2013 file photo. Clarion file photo

A group of friends fishing on the Kenai River on in this June 2013 file photo pluck hooligan from their nets. The group had caught at least 200 of the small fish. They were collecting the fish for the native elders living in Ninilchik. Anglers can use a drift gillnet on the tory marker at Cunningham Park. The Kenai River through May 31 and only gillnet cannot be any longer than 20 feet downstream of a fish and Game regula- and must be attended at all times accord-

What do do with a eulachon

Once caught, the tiny fish can be prepared many ways. Some prefer to eat them fresh, the same day they catch them. Others roll them in egg and corn meal and fry the whole fish. Some like to smoke their catch and a few like to kipper and can the fish. The fish can also be vacu-sealed and frozen for later use.

Kings picking up, lakes still the place to be By KELLY SULLIVAN Peninsula Clarion

Kings Alaska Department of Fish & Game research biologist Robert Begich said, things are looking a little better for king salmon this week, compared to last. Still, fishing for kind salmon on the Kenai River is closed until June, 30. Hatchery kings salmon can be fished on the Kasilof River, but no more than one can be kept per day, Pawluk said in a previous interview. Their missing adipose fin distinguishes hatchery salmon, he said. A healed scar will be in its place. The annual limit for king salmon in the Cook Inlet, greater than 20-inches is five. No treble hooks, baiting or scents are allowed. Only single hooks can be used to fish with. On the lower Kenai Peninsula streams, the Ninilchik, Anchor Rivers and Deep Creek will be open to fishing from 12:01 a.m. Saturday through

midnight Monday. Water conditions are good are good and levels are low, anglers should expect poor to fair fishing for king salmon, according to the Fish and Game fishing report. For better success, try fishing in the early morning and at the mouth of these streams on the incoming tide.

Important Regulations Changes to the king salmon regulations on the lower Kenai Peninsula streams are in effect through June 30. -Crooked Creek is closed to all fishing through July 31. — The combined annual limit of king salmon 20-inches or greater in length has been reduced to two from May 1-June 30 in the Anchor River, Deep Creek, Ninilchik River and all marine waters south of the mouth of the Ninilchik River down to Bluff Point. — After harvesting a king salmon 20 inches or greater from either the Anchor River, Deep Creek, or the Ninilchik river, anglers must stop fishing in those streams for the rest of

the day. — Anglers may only use one un-baited, single-hook with an artificial lure on the Anchor River, Deep Creek and Ninilchik River. — The Ninilchik River king salmon bag and possession limit is one wild or hatcheryreared fish during regular weekend openings in May and June but beginning July 1, it is reduced to one hatchery-reared king salmon.

Sockeye Some early run sockeye salmon have been seen in the Kenai River. “If folks want to try and get one, go to your favoire sockeye fishing spot, you’ll have to spend most of the day there to be successful,” Begich said.

Steelhead It’s the time of year for steelhead trout to be migrating downstream, but Fish and Game suggests familiarizing yourself with the differences between kings and steelhead.

Steelhead is a catch-andrelease fish that cannot be removed from the water and must be released immediately in the lower Kenai Peninsula streams.

Stocked Lakes The ice is gone from most of the stocked lakes on the Kenai Peninsula and fishing conditions are good. These are fishermen’s best bet right now, Pawluk said. The most successful fishing at this point in the season will take place on the 27 lakes Fish and Game stocks with fishery species. Johnson Lake will have the final rainbow “catchables” stocked in it by May 22, Pawluk said. Arc Lake, off the Sterling Highway towards Kasilof, and Tirmore Lake, on Lamplight Road, are slated to have Arctic grayling stocked and Island Lake, on Nikiski Avenue, will be stocked with Arctic char, he said. Trout can be taken on dry or wet flies with small spoons, spinners or bait.

A few lake areas have northern pike. Pike can be taken using spears, bow and arrow (with arrow attached by a line), bait, spin, and fly-fishing gear. Try fish-shaped and fishcolored lures and flies. There is no closed season for pike and the bag limit is unlimited. The numbers, kinds and locations of where to fish can be found at dfg.alaska.gov, or free packets are available in the office on Kalifornsky Beach Road.

Weekend Almanac Friday

61/43 High tides: 4:31 a.m. 5:31 p.m. Low tides: 11:22 a.m. 11:31 p.m.

20.3 feet 18.8 feet -2.8 feet 2.6 feet

(Tide information for Ninilchik)

Saturday

54/42 High tides: 5:08 a.m. 6:09 p.m. Low tides: 11:59 a.m.

19.7 feet 18.3 feet -2.2 feet

(Tide information for Ninilchik)

Sunday

56/41 High tides: 5:45 a.m. 6:47 p.m. Low tides: 12:10 a.m. 12:36 p.m.

18.8 feet 17.6 feet 3.1 feet -1.2 feet

(Tide information for Deep Creek)

Kenai River late run kings: The daily DIDSON sonar passage estimate for Monday May 26 was 48 kings. The cumulative estimate through Monday May 26 was 189.

Shellfish The next series of clamming tides will be May 26-31. For razor clams, try Clam Gulch beaches or beaches on the west side of Cook Inlet. For littleneck and butter clams, try the gravel beaches on the south side of Kachemak Bay from Seldovia to Chugachik Island. All shrimp and crab fisheries in Kachemak Bay are currently closed. Kelly Sullivan can be reached at kelly.sullivan@peninsulaclarion.com

Marine forecast: Cook Inlet north of Kalgin Island Thursday: NE wind to 10 knots. Seas 4 feet. Rain. Friday: NE winds, 25 knots, seas 8 feet. Saturday: S wind 20 knots, seas 2 feet. — National Weather Service

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Thursday, May 29, 2014

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n Local nature photographer Laurie Johnson is showing her work at Kaladi Brothers Coffee on Kobuk in Soldotna. More than 20 pieces will be on display for the month of June. Sign up for a drawing for a free print. n The Kenai Fine Art Center May 2014 All-Media Curated Open Show, held in conjunction with the May 2014 Kenai Birding Festival, and has a “Flight” theme. The exhibit will be on display through May 31, Wednesday-Saturday from noon-5 p.m. n The Kenai Peninsula Birding Festival’s PEEPs Young Artist Exhibit will be on display the month of May at the Kenai Fine Arts Center. For more information on the PEEPs Exhibit or the May Kenai Peninsula Birding Festival, visit www.kenaibirdfest.com. n The Alaska Watercolor Society is accepting submissions to the 40th Annual Alaska Juried Watercolor Exhibition. Submission deadline is June 4. Paintings must be primarily aqua media over natural or synthetic paper, and matted and framed under clear acrylic or glass. All submissions will be through CaFE.org (www.callforentry.org). Up to $4,000 in prizes. Prospectus available at akws.org. n A “Swinging Into Summer” big band dance concert will take place from 8-10:30 p.m. May 31 in the Kenai Central High School auditorium. Tickets are $10 in advance from any KCHS jazz band student or $15 at the door. Proceeds will benefit the KCHS jazz band and KPO big band. For advance tickets or more information call Deborah Sounart at 283-2124. n Kenai Performers and the Kenai Challenger Learning Center proudly present Ken Ludwig’s “Leading Ladies” as Dinner Theater, directed by Terri Zopf-Schoessler and Donna Shirnberg, with dinner provided by Kenai Catering. Dinner shows are June 6-7, 13-14, and 20-21 at 7 p.m. at the Challenger Learning Center, 9711 Kenai Spur Highway in Kenai. Tickets are $45 and available at Curtain Call Consignment, Charlotte’s Restaurant, River City Books, and Coffee Roasters. Reservations are highly recommended. For more information call Mary at 398-2931. Show may be inappropriate for age 13 and under. n The Alaska State Council on the Arts on behalf of Kenai Peninsula College (KPC) Kenai River Campus (KRC) is requesting qualifications from artists for interior and exterior artwork to be commissioned for two new buildings: KRC Career & Technical Education Center and Residence Hall (student housing). For exterior sites, professional artists residing in the U.S. and Alaska may apply. For interior sites, only Alaska artists are eligible to apply. Applicants must be professional visual artists. Applications from architects, landscape architects or other design professionals will not be considered unless included as part of an artist-led team. Applications will be accepted online only through CaFÉ at: www.callforentry.org. Entries must be received by 9:59 p.m (ADT), June 13. Requests for additional information may be directed to Andrea Noble-Pelant, Visual and Literary Arts Program Director, Alaska State Council on the Arts, andrea. noble-pelant@alaska.gov. n The Los Angeles Children’s Chorus Young Men’s Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Steven Kronauer, sings Music From Around the World at 7 p.m. June 26 at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna. Admission is free; any donations received will go to the Soldotna Food Pantry. n The Encore Dance Academy Spring Recital will be held Friday May 30th at 6 p.m. in the Renee C. Henderson Auditorium. The cost is $7 for adults and $5 for children. See ART, page B-2

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By Vicki Fruichantie We were going camping But ended up instead, Working the “information station” As the wildfires glowed red. We waited and watched and worried As the days went by, Fire crews came and went in a hurry As the spotter plane flew high. Updates and evacuations On Facebook filled our days And nights of work and worry; There was no time to play. Some of our friends left their homes Others chose to stayWe watched as the fires raged And the skies turned dark and gray. Our days were sad at times, Although we laughed a lot; It helps to have good friends around To remember what you’ve got. Its great how people bond At difficult times like these, Our community pulls together To put those hurt, at ease. And no matter how it turns out, Whether homes are lost or keptI’ve learned an awful lot this week As I’ve laughed and loved and wept. Poems must include the writer’s name, phone number and address. They should be kept to no more than 300 words. Submission of a poem does not guarantee publication. Poems may be e-mailed to news@peninsulaclarion. com, faxed to 283-3299, delivered to the Clarion at 150 Trading Bay Road or mailed to P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, AK 99611.

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This image released by 20th Century Fox shows Michael Fassbender in the film, “X-Men: Days of Future Past.”

“X-Men: Days of Future Past.” 20th Century Fox 1 hour, 44 minutes For the layperson, it’s enough to say “I like ‘Spider-Man’ comics,” or “I enjoyed reading ‘X-Men,’ but for hardcore fans, that just doesn’t cut it. For these guys you have to be more specific. You have to be able to list off a particular storyline. “So you say you you’re a ‘Daredevil’ fan, huh? Was it the ‘Born Again’ series you liked or are you more of a ‘Redemption’ guy?” Because the serious comic geeks have more power than ever in Hollywood these days, what with their various blogs, tumblrs, podcasts, and whatever other media format they can monopolize from their mother’s basement, the new trend in comic book films is not going to be simply sequels, but adaptations of particular stories

R eeling It In C hris J enness from the comic pages. See, for example, this week’s “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” loosely based on one of the most popular episodes in that comic’s long history. I’m not complaining about this new trend, understand. I’d much rather these movies tell a real story than just try to rehash the original - but I think it’s telling that the films are moving in the direction of the esoteric rather than the general. The last “Captain America,” though really good, would have

been pretty difficult to get through if you didn’t have a background in the characters, and this latest “X-Men” suffers from a similar problem. With Cap, though, the plot was dependent upon you, the audience, keeping up with specifics. “Days of Future Past,” however, is all about throwing the previous films under the bus and cleaning house. So, if you don’t know exactly what’s going on, don’t worry, they’re about to change it all anyway. “Days” is technically a sequel to “XMen: First Class,” which is technically a prequel to all the other “X-Men” movies, including last year’s “The Wolverine.” Where “First Class” was set in the sixties, the current film takes place both in the 1970s and in a nightmarish near future, around 2023. At the opening of “Days,” we see a scrappy group of young mutants holed up in a See REEL, page B-2

You wish you’d never done it Bookworm Sez You wish you’d never done it. If only you could hit “reset,” take it all back, call do-overs, and you wouldn’t make the same choices. You’d think things through and pay better attention. Instead, now you’ve got regrets you can’t fix but, as in the new novel “I Am Pilgrim” by Terry Hayes, you can sure try… There weren’t many times when he wished he hadn’t written the book. The book was supposed to be cathartic: every case, death and crime he’d ever worked put to paper so he could focus on forgetting them all, published by an esoteric press under a nom de plume because he had no name. You don’t get to be Rider of the Blue – the top of the top in a department the government officially denied – by holding

onto things like names. Months were spent pouring out observations for an audience he knew would be small – detectives and operatives, mostly - and he rarely regretted it. Not, anyhow, until he saw the aftermath of a perfect murder committed by someone who used what he’d written, to kill. He immediately felt guilt. Then he felt revulsion when he recognized a series of numbers scrawled on a clue as an area code for Turkey. He wasn’t eager to revisit memories attached to numbers like that. He was even less interested in going back to the Turkish town where he’d been a freshman agent – but when the President of the United States asks, you do what’s required. American forces had recently discovered something that made the President’s blood run cold: in a remote area of Afghanistan, three bodies were found burSee SEZ, page B-2

Bon Jovi guitarist hopes new song helps addicts BY WAYNE PARRY Associated Press

TOMS RIVER, N.J. — Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora drew on his own past in debuting a song at a forum on drug abuse Tuesday. The event, at a high school arena, was aimed at raising awareness about the abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers along the Jersey shore. Sambora, a New Jersey native, unveiled a song he wrote called “Lighthouse,” about providing hope to people mired in addiction. He acknowledged he once abused drugs but said he’s clean now. “I got firsthand experience,” he told reporters before the event. “I never did heroin, but obviously I did other stuff.” He originally titled the song “Needles On The Shore” but decided to change the name. “I wanted to do something optimistic, a beacon of light and hope,” he said. “Everyone needs that light when they’re far off the shore.” The track included the lines: “Those who matter don’t judge/When you’re swimming with the tide in the wake of a flood.” He told the crowd of 4,000 (with another 1,000 watching from an overflow video monitor room) that he is as scared as the parents who packed the arena. “I’m mostly here as the father of a 16-year-old girl,” Sambora said. “I’m

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Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora performs a new song, “Lighthouse” at an anti-drug forum in Toms River N.J. on May 27. The song will raise money for a drug treatment center in New Jersey.

scared. ... But we can’t be scared silent. Together we can make a difference because this epidemic has to stop. “Lighthouse” will be sold on iTunes, with proceeds going toward a drug treatment facility envisioned for the region, Sambora said. Backed by a children’s choir, Sambora also performed the Bill Withers classic “Lean On Me” and a slow-paced version of the Bon Jovi megahit “Livin’ On A

Prayer.” He also hugged a mother whose son suffered brain damage and is in a wheelchair after using heroin one time. Sambora was introduced to Ocean County prosecutor Joseph Coronato through a mutual friend and decided to help Coronato in his anti-drug campaign, which has already reduced heroin overdose deaths in the area. See SONG, page B-2

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Author Maya Angelou’s life and art By HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press

NEW YORK — Maya Angelou’s story awed millions. A childhood victim of rape, she broke through silence and shame to tell her tale in one of the most widely read memoirs of the 20th century. A black woman born into poverty and segregation, she recited the most popular presidential inaugural poem in history. “I’m not modest,” she told The Associated Press in 2013. “I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned behavior. But I do pray for humility, because humility comes from the inside out.” Angelou, a renaissance woman and cultural pioneer, died Wednesday at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was 86. “She lived a life as a teacher, activist, artist and human being. She was a warrior for equality, tolerance and peace,” said her son, Guy B. Johnson. Tall and regal, with a deep, majestic voice, she was unforgettable whether encountered in person, through sound or the printed word. She was an actress, singer and dancer in the 1950s and 1960s and made a brave and sensational debut as an author in 1969 with “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” which became standard (and occasionally censored) reading and made Angelou one of the first black women to enjoy mainstream literary success. “Caged Bird” was the start of a multipart autobiography that continued through the decades and captured a life of hopeless obscurity and triumphant, kaleidoscopic fame. The world was watching in 1993 when she read her cau-

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tiously hopeful “On the Pulse of the Morning” at President Bill Clinton’s first inauguration. Her confident performance openly delighted Clinton and made publishing history by making a poem a best-seller. For President George W. Bush, she read another poem, “Amazing Peace,” at the 2005 Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the White House. Presidents honored her in return with a National Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. In 2013, she received an honorary National Book Award. She called herself a poet, in love with the “sound of language,” ‘’the music in language,” as she explained to the AP in 2013. But she lived so many lives. She was a wonder to Toni Morrison, who marveled at Angelou’s freedom from inhibition, her willingness to celebrate her own achievements. She was a mentor to Oprah Winfrey, whom she befriended when Winfrey was still a local television reporter, and often appeared on her friend’s talk show program. She mastered several languages and published not just poetry but advice books, cookbooks and children’s stories. She wrote music, plays and screenplays, received an Emmy nomination for her acting in “Roots,” and never lost her passion for dance, the art she considered closest to poetry. “The line of the dancer: If you watch (Mikhail) Baryshnikov and you see that line, that’s what the poet tries for. The poet tries for the line, the balance,” she told The Associated Press in 2008, shortly before her 80th birthday. be clinging when you read “I Am Pilgrim.” Beginning with a body in an acid bath, author Terry Hayes flings us from New York to Paris, New England to the Middle East and everywhere in between, to the past and a future that’s so chillingly realistic that you’ll want to bar the doors. Our host is a taciturn man who officially doesn’t exist but who’s quietly known as someone who finishes a job, no matter what it takes. And what it takes, well, look at your seat again. This is a thriller in the finest form, perfect for poolside, park, or plane ride. You’ll understand why, once you read “I Am Pilgrim” - and you’ll be glad you’ve done it.

ied in quicklime and infected with a virus that was hand-engineered to bypass vaccines. It had potential for mass devastation that would make the Black Plague look like a children’s game. And it was obvious that its creator – a man he nicknamed Saracen – was ready to use it. He wasn’t happy about coming out of retirement, but he was the best chance anyone had of catching a madman. He would start in Turkey; he’d require fake passports, a faux life, and yet another identity: he told the President to call him “Pilgrim.” Whatever you’re doing right The Bookworm is Terri now, stand up and turn around. Take a good look at the edge of Schlichenmeyer. Email her at your seat. That’s where you’ll bookwormsez@gmail.com.

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Sambora said drugs had nothing to do with his departure from Bon Jovi last year. He said the band tried to do too much too soon and he needed a break from the pace.

“It was my family,” he said. “We’ve been doing this for over 30 years. I’m the guy who wrote these songs, who co-produced the records. We would tour for 12 to 18 and a half months. My last tour was 52 countries. ... You realize you miss a lot of life.” Sambora said he expects to rejoin Bon Jovi but has no time frame.

Her very name was a reinvention. Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis and raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and San Francisco, moving back and forth between her parents and her grandmother. She was smart and fresh to the point of danger, packed off by her family to California after sassing a white store clerk in Arkansas. Other times, she didn’t speak at all: At age 7, she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend and didn’t talk for years. She learned by reading, and listening. “I loved the poetry that was sung in the black church: ‘Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt’s land,’” she told the AP. “It just seemed to me the most wonderful way of talking. And ‘Deep River.’ Ooh! Even now it can catch me. And then I started reading, really reading, at about 7 1/2, because a woman in my town took me to the library, a black school library. ... And I read every book, even if I didn’t understand it.” At age 9, she was writing poetry. By 17, she was a single

mother. In her early 20s, she danced at a strip joint, ran a brothel, got married and then divorced. But by her mid-20s, she was performing at the Purple Onion in San Francisco, where she shared billing with another future star, Phyllis Diller. She also spent a few days with Billie Holiday, who was kind enough to sing a lullaby to Angelou’s son, surly enough to heckle her off the stage and astute enough to tell her: “You’re going to be famous. But it won’t be for singing.” After renaming herself Maya Angelou for the stage (“Maya” was a childhood nickname, “Angelou” a variation of her husband’s name), she toured in “Porgy and Bess” and Jean Genet’s “The Blacks” and danced with Alvin Ailey. She worked as a coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and lived for years in Egypt and Ghana, where she met Nelson Mandela, a longtime friend; and Malcolm X, to whom she remained close until his assassination, in 1965. Three years

later, she was helping King organize the Poor People’s March in Memphis, Tennessee, where the civil rights leader was slain on Angelou’s 40th birthday. “Every year, on that day, Coretta and I would send each other flowers,” Angelou said of King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006. Angelou was little known outside the theatrical community until “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” which might not have happened if writer James Baldwin hadn’t persuaded Angelou, still grieving over King’s death, to attend a party at the home of Jules Feiffer, a cartoonist and writer. Feiffer was so taken by Angelou that he mentioned her to Random House editor Bob Loomis, who persuaded her to write a book by daring her into it, saying that it was “nearly impossible to write autobiography as literature.” “Well, maybe I will try it,” Angelou responded. “I don’t know how it will turn out. But I can try.” Angelou’s musical style was clear in a passage about boxing great Joe Louis’ defeat in 1936 against German fighter Max Schmeling: “My race groaned,” she wrote. “It was our people falling. It was another lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree. One more woman ambushed and raped. A Black boy whipped and maimed. It was hounds on the trail of a man running through slimy swamps. ... If Joe lost we were back in slavery and beyond help.” Angelou’s memoir was occasionally attacked, for seemingly opposite reasons. In a 1999 essay in Harper’s, author Francine Prose criticized “Caged Bird” as “manipulative” melodrama. Meanwhile, Angelou’s passages about her rape and teen pregnancy have made the book a perennial on the American Library Association’s list of works that draw complaints from parents and

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earlier group and decide that a few hours of time-travel just isn’t cutting it. The real solution is to go back fifty years, to the days when the Sentinels were first created. Somehow it has been determined that Mystique, our old favorite nude blue shapeshifter, is responsible for this entire dystopian future as a result of her assassination of one Bolivar Trask, the inventer of the original Sentinels, back in 1973. This murder by a mutant encourages the government to ramp up the Sentinel program leading to the horror of the present. It’s further determined that Wolverine should go back in time to stop the event, saving humanity and mutant-kind alike, and picking up the story a little less than a decade from where “First Class” left off. There’s a whole lot more plot to come, but suffice it to say that “Days,” keeps up the action and drives the story forward relentlessly, finally closing with a satisfying, if a little bewildering climax. Without spoiling anything, I’ll say that “Days of Future Past” pulls off the im-

possible - it completely reboots the entire “X-Men” series by effectively erasing the events of all the previous films, but does so while keeping both casts, the older and the younger versions of the characters, in place. I’ll admit that, for the uninitiated, “Days” might be a little difficult to keep up with. Characters come and go at a fairly rapid pace with little or no explanation as to who they are or where they fit in the series. One of the antagonists is a young army officer by the name of William Stryker, for example. The movie never fills you in on why he’s important, though his actions drive the plots of at least two of the other movies, and drive most of the events of Wolverine’s life. On the other hand, since “Days” is wiping the slate clean, is Stryker’s place in the canon important? Probably not. The same can be said for much of the plot, foreknowledge that should allow you to simply sit back and let the mutant action wash over you. Said action is fun, the acting is above average, especially

Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File

In this Oct. 17, 2013 file photo, Maya Angelou, seated, Junot Diaz, back left, Norman Mailer Center president and co-founder Lawrence Schiller, center, and Samuel R. Delany, pose for photographs during the fifth annual Norman Mailer Center benefit gala at the New York Public Library in New York. Angelou, a Renaissance woman and cultural pioneer, has died, Wake Forest University said in a statement Wednesday. She was 86.

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partially destroyed building, on the lookout for Sentinels, tenfoot-tall mutant-hunting robots that have the ability to alter their makeup to defend against whatever particular mutant power they’re facing. When the Sentinels inevitably arrive, most of this rag-tag X-Men offshoot go to battle, a futile effort against these nearly invincible machines, while two, phaseshifting mutant Kitty Pryde and another, Bishop, run to a fortified hiding place. There Pryde manages to phase-shift Bishop’s mind back in time several hours to his younger body, where he can warn the team to move locations - to someplace where this will, eventually, all happen again. It’s a tenuous existence, at best, and one in need of a better solution. Enter the real X-Men: Storm, Wolverine, Professor X, and now with Magneto in tow. These elder statesmen join forces with the

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p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and DJ Arisen on Saturdays. n Mykel’s in Soldotna has live music Thursdays from 6-9 p.m. with Robb Justice, and Fridays and Saturdays from 6:30-9:30 Continued from page B-1 p.m. with Bob Ramponi. n The Duck Inn will have live music from 7 to 10 p.m. every Wednesday with Robb Justice and Trio. Entertainment n Main Street Tap and Grill has Wednesday karaoke with KJ n Veronica’s cafe has open mic at 6:30 p.m. Friday and live Natalia, Thursday acoustic music with Dustin and Friends and Keeley & Nelson, and live music and dancing with 9Spine Frimusic at 6:30 p.m. Saturday with Jack and Sue. n Join Steve and Fern Holloway for Karaoke every Saturday day and Saturday. night at the Kenai Moose Lodge. Singing starts at 9 p.m. and everyone is welcome. Markets, fairs and bazaars n An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday. The jam is as Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thursday of the n Kenai’s Saturday Market starts on May 24 and runs for 17 month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the Saturdays, until Sept. 13. It is held in the grassy area across the month. Jam starts at 6:30 p.m. parking lot from the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitors n AmVets Post 4 in the Red Diamond Center holds blind dou- Center. The market will include very talented folks selling beaubles darts every Friday evening with sign up at 6:30 p.m. Tacos tiful Alaskan Arts & Crafts. Fresh vegetables will start showing are available; and burn your own steak dinner from 6 to 8 p.m up about the middle of June. Vendor rates are as low as $20 every Saturday with Karaoke after dinner from 8 p.m. to mid- per Saturday and spaces are limited, so pick up an application night. at the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center or call n Four Royal Parkers on the Kenai Spur Highway in Soldotna Harold at 283-1991. has live music with Bob Ramponi and the Alaska Swing Com- n The Central Kenai Peninsula Farmer’s Market will open May pany Friday and Saturday at 10 p.m. 31 and will be open each Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. unn Odie’s Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. til mid-September. This market features Alaskan Grown and and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. Alaska Made products and includes fresh baked goods, jams, n The Studio Espresso Shop at Spur Highway and Nikiski Av- jellies, fresh vegetables and gift items. The market is located at enue in Nikiski hosts an open mic night on Saturdays starting the corner of Corral Street and the Kenai Spur Highway at the at 7 p.m. Call 776-7655. bus “turn-around.” New vendors are welcome. Call Carolyn at n The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays and 262-7502 for more information. live music Fridays, Saturdays at 10 p.m. n The North Peninsula Recreation Service Area is accepting n Hooligans Saloon in Soldotna has poker Tuesdays and Thurs- booth applications from local vendors, organizations, groups days starting at 5:30 p.m. and live music Thursday, Friday, Sat- and other parties interested in reserving booth space at the urday and Sunday nights. annual Family Fun in the Midnight Sun Event, June 21 at the n The Duck Inn on Kalifornsky Beach Road has karaoke at 9 C

educators. “’I thought that it was a mild book. There’s no profanity,” Angelou told the AP. “It speaks about surviving, and it really doesn’t make ogres of many people. I was shocked to find there were people who really wanted it banned, and I still believe people who are against the book have never read the book.” Angelou appeared on several TV programs, notably the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries “Roots.” She was nominated for a Tony Award in 1973 for her appearance in the play “Look Away.” She directed the film “Down in the Delta,” about a drug-wrecked woman who returns to the home of her ancestors in the Mississippi Delta. She won three Grammys for her spoken-word albums and in 2013 received an honorary National Book Award for her contributions to the literary community. Back in the 1960s, Malcolm X had written to Angelou and praised her for her ability to communicate so directly, with her “feet firmly rooted on the ground.” In 2002, Angelou communicated in an unexpected way when she launched a line of greeting cards with industry giant Hallmark. Angelou admitted she was cool to the idea at first. Then she went to Loomis, her editor at Random House, who was concerned the project would “trivialize” Angelou, whom called “the people’s poet.” “And then I thought about it. And I thought, if I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in the people’s hands — and I hope in their hearts. So I thought, ‘Hmm, I’ll do it.’” She had been a professor of American studies at Wake Forest University since 1982. She was also a member of the board of trustees for Bennett College, a private school for black women in Greensboro. Angelou hosted a weekly satellite radio show for XM’s “Oprah & Friends” channel. with heavy hitters like James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, and Jennifer Lawrence in the mix, and the story is compelling. The minor characters come and go so quickly it’s hard to take close note of them, but one in particular steals the show. Evan Peters as Quicksilver (Marvel Comic’s answer to The Flash) is hilarious and his scene is very cool. It’s not a perfect movie, by any means. Even I got a little tired of the overstuffed plot at times, but, like the comic book from which it hews, “Days of Future Past” is fun, though serious, without ever really taking itself too seriously. I liked it a lot and hope it offers similar good tidings for the next sequel/prequel, “XMen: Apocalypse,” to be set in the 1980s and slated for release in 2016. Grade: B+ “X-Men: Days of Future Past” is rated PG-13 for language and comic-book violence and mayhem. Chris Jenness is a freelance graphic designer, artist and movie buff who lives in Nikiski.

NPRSA facilities in Nikiski. Interested vendors are encouraged to contact us early. The deadline to apply is May 31. Applications are available online at www.northpenrec.com or can be picked up at the Nikiski Pool or Nikiski Community Recreation Center. For more information or application details please contact Rachel at 776-8800. n A new farmers’ market in downtown Ninilchik will open May 24, Memorial Day weekend, featuring homegrown plants and veggies, a wide variety of crafts, handmade artisan sea salt and dog cart rides. It will be across from the Kenai Peninsula State Fairgrounds. Vendors are needed! For an application or information call Michelle Hogan 299-4999. Cost for a booth is $25 for the season or $5 per day. n Kenai Watershed Forum is accepting applications from local artists and food vendors to reserve booth space at the Kenai River Festival on June 6, 7 and 8 at Centennial Park in Soldotna. Space is limited. Please visit www.kenaiwatershed.org for more information and application details. Last year’s event attracted over 10,000 people! Early deadline for applications is May 12.

Films n Call Orca Theaters at 262-7003 for listings and times. n Call Kambe Cinemas at 283-4554 for listings and times.

Down the Road n The Pratt Museum in Homer is open Tuesday-Sunday, noon5 p.m. For more information and a schedule of events, visit www.prattmuseum.org Submissions may be emailed to news@peninsulaclarion.com. The deadline is 5 p.m. Mondays.

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Peninsula Hearing Services, Inc. has an opening for a part/full time medical receptionist. Experience in computers, medical terminology, phones, scheduling, filing, verifying insurance eligibility. Must be able to multi-task and work well with the public. Attention to detail and able to meet deadlines. Must be able to work well under pressure in a busy workplace with little or no supervision. Monday – Thursday, 6- 7 hours per day. Salary DOE. Bring resume to Peninsula Hearing Services at 105 Shady Lane, Soldotna, Alaska. No phone calls please. Only serious applicants need apply.

Peninsula Clarion, Thursday, May 29, 2014 B-3

Homes

CAR WASH ATTENDANT

Forklift Operators & Pipe Inspectors NOV Tuboscope currently has opportunities available for Entry-Level Forklift Operators and Pipe Inspectors at their facility located in Nikiski, AK. The Forklift Operator must have some previous forklift experience and good writing skills. Pipe Inspectors must have experience in the inspection of oilfield tubular goods. Compensation will depend on experience level. National Oilwell Varco offers a comprehensive and very competitive employee benefits package including health, dental, life, and disability insurance, a retirement plan, and paid time off. To apply, please call Frank or Ken at (907) 776-5137. EOE, M/F/D/V

General Employment

Advertising Assistant Proficiency with both Mac and PC computer using Word/ Excel and Outlook, as well as experience with other software programs desirable. Exceptional customer service and telephone skills, accuracy in data entry with a high attention to detail. Professional appearance. Ability to meet deadlines and complete multiple tasks, this individual will support the Advertising Department with office related tasks, may work directly with customers in a receptionist capacity, perform data entry on a daily basis, and learn to answer phones. Hours are Monday – Friday, 8am- 5pm. Salary DOE. Benefits available. Submit completed application attention: Leslie Talent Peninsula Clarion PO Box 3009 Kenai, AK 99611 No Phone Calls. The Peninsula Clarion is an EOE. Applications are available at our offices on 150 Trading Bay Road in Kenai, Suite 1.

Two story home has 2,576sqft. living area, 728sqft. garage; 4-bedrooms, 5-bathrooms, vaulted ceilings, radiant floor heat (both floors) & a two story fireplace/woodstove area that is the centerpiece of living/dining room. Large living room windows, southern exposure, high efficiency gas furnace keeps the heating bills down. Five star energy rating. Underground utilities, well with excellent water quality & flow. Finishing touches to be selected are flooring, cabinets, appliances, countertops, stairway hardwoods & bathroom tile/sinks/baths/toilets. Can be sold As Is, or can be finished to owners specifications for additional costs. Six miles from Soldotna, towards Sterling, on Forest Lane. Quiet subdivision with covenants. $126 per sqft. for living area, $76 per sqft. for garage. AS IS price $380,000. (907)262-1609

Healthcare

FSBO

Cook - School Year

Is responsible for providing, maintaining, and serving a family style menu for Early Childhood Center children. Will ensure complete and accurate production records, food/supply purchasing, and sanitizing the kitchen per USDA inspection requirements and CACFP protocols.

Cook Aide - School Year

Assist the Cook at the Early Childhood Center by performing basic tasks in the preparation of foods or to perform food service duties.

Teacher - School Year, 37 weeks

Create a successful environment that will promote the growth and development of up to 20 preschool children and families, following the guidance of the Head Start performance standards.

Teacher Aide - School Year, 37 weeks

Support and assist the teacher in providing a positive learning experience for children and families, creating a successful environment that will promote the growth and development of up to 20 preschool children and families.

Teacher Aide Substitute School Year, on call

To provide support for all classrooms of up to 20 preschool children each, in all aspects of the classroom operations and activities. Benefits include Holidays, Paid Time Off, Extended Sick Leave, Medical/Dental/Life & Accidental Death Insurance, 401(k) For the job description or to apply visit our website at http://kenaitze.applicantpro.com. For questions call 907-335-7200. P.L. 93-638 applies

MOVING/ REMODEL/ STORAGE SALE Thursday- Saturday 8am- 3pm 507 South Willow St. Kenai. Furniture, collectibles, dishes, art, Christmas decor, clothes, shoes, used building remodel supplies, electronics, jewelry, exercise equipment.

Garage Sales

Garage Sales Frontier Community Services is a Soldotna based non-profit agency providing in-home and group home services to people experiencing a disabling condition. We are seeking top-notch personnel for full-time and part-time positions within the agency with an interest in providing health care services for the Kenai Peninsula area.

CUTE HOME * MOVE-IN-READY

New Carpet, 2-bedroom, 1-bath, Bonus room, 5-Star Energy, Stainless Steel appliances, washer/dryer stays with full-price offer, K-Beach between Kenai & Soldotna, Vaulted ceiling. Must See. (907)252-7733 $155,000.

Current Openings • Care Coordinator • Accounts Payable /

Super Garage Sale. Saturday May 31, 9am- 3pm 315 Fairway Cr, Soldotna Power tools, camping and sports equipment, kitchen items, meat grinder, cookbooks and popular books, junior-hi math and science textbooks w/TE, craft items, furniture, coats, shoes, clothing, games, more!

Purchasing Specialist

• Forget-Me-Not Adult Day

Real Estate For Sale

Program Manager

Commercial Property Condominiums/Town Homes Farms/Ranches Homes Income Property Land Manufactured Mobile Homes Multiple Dwelling Out of Area for Sale Steel Building Vacation Property Wanted To Buy Waterfront Property

• Support Staff Full job descriptions can be found on our website, www.fcsonline.org ____________________________________ Pick up and return application packet to FCS’ HR Department, 43335 K-Beach Rd. Suite #36, Soldotna, AK 99669 or email to work@fcsonline.org FCS is an Equal Opportunity Employer

NIKISKI

Under the direction and supervision of the Controller, is responsible for the charge card program accounts payable function of the Tribe's accounting department.

Garage Sales

HUGE GARAGE SALE Saturday, Sunday 11am- 5pm. Clarence off Skyline, K-Beach. Follow signs. Fishing, guy stuff, kitchen, bedding books, puzzles, clothes, kids stuff, household.

Homes

Accounts Payable Specialist Charge Card Program

HUGE INSIDE MOVING SALE Antiques, Primitives, household goods, clothing, furniture, snow blower, garden items, freezer, lamps, gas-fired grill, shop tools and misc. 510 West Riverview, Soldotna. 8am- 4pm. Thursday- Saturday

NEW HOME ON 2.49 ACRES

Retail

Come join a family-friendly, innovative work environment. The Kenaitze Indian Tribe has opened our Dena'ina Wellness Center, featuring an integrated model of care. Employees at Kenaitze Indian Tribe deliver health, social service, education and tribal court services to tribal members, Alaska Native/American Indian people and others. Kenaitze Indian Tribe is recruiting for the following Full Time Position:

To place an ad call 907-283-7551

Garage Sales

General Employment

FINANCIAL Auctions Business for Sale Financial Opportunities Mortgage/Loans

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE Commercial Property Condominiums/ Town Homes Farms/Ranches Homes Income Property Land Manufactured Mobile Homes Multiple Dwelling Out of Area for Sale Steel Building Vacation Property Wanted To Buy Waterfront Property

Currently seeking Framing Specialists who can.. -Provide friendly and helpful customer service. -Process transactions, registers and/or custom framing sales. -Produces framing orders according to company conservation & design standards. -Supports teamwork & collaboration. Other duties as assigned. Requirements: -18 years or older and have a High School Diploma or equivalent. -Successfully pass a background check. -Work schedule includes Saturdays. -Have a willingness to learn and develop your custom framing knowledge.

3-Bedroom, 3-baths, large kitchen with island fireplace, 2-car garage. approximately 2000sqft., on 2 acres. Very peaceful, a lot of wildlife. $310,000. (907)776-8487, (907)394-1122

Experience is not required, on the job training. Full and part time permanent positions. Questions Call 262-5248 or drop off a resume at Frames & Things Inc. 44539 Sterling Hwy Ste 104 Soldotna Alaska 99669

Employment Agriculture Computing & Engineering Construction & Trades Domestics, Childcare, Aides Drivers/Transportation Education Finance & Accounting General Employment Healthcare Hospitality & Food Service Manufacturing & Production Oil & Refinery Office & Clerical Personal Care/Beauty Professional/ Management Real Estate, Leasing, Mortgage Retail Sales & Marketing Schools/Training Tourism Work Wanted

BEEP! BEEP! YOUR NEW RIDE IS WAITING IN THE CLASSIFIEDS

Land 1.7 to 2 ACRE LOTS. Holt Lamplight & Miller Loop. GAS, ELECTRIC & borough maintain roads. Owner financed , 10% down, 8% interest, 10 years. $25,000. (907)776-5212

Construction & Trades EXPERIENCED PAINTER & DRYWALL FINISHER

Rentals Apartments, Unfurnished Apartments, Furnished Cabins Condominiums Town Homes Duplex Homes Lots For Rent Manufactured/Mobile Homes Misc. Rentals Office Space Out of Area Rentals Rental Wanted Retail/Commercial Space Roommate Wanted Rooms For Rent Storage Rentals Vacation Rentals

Full time Kenai Peninsula. (907)398-7201

General Employment WANTED WAREHOUSE/ DELIVERY HELPER Fulltime, year round, benefits. Drug test required. Apply in person at Sadler's in Sterling, Mile 81.5, Sterling Hwy. EOE

Personal Care/ Beauty

SOLD!

HAIRDRESSER With clientele wanted, P/T, F/T. Ask for Mary, (907)262-6334.

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Apartments, Unfurnished EXCELLENT OCEAN VIEW! Bay Arm Apartments, Kenai. Accepting applications for 1 bedroom apartment, utilities included. $25. nonrefundable application fee. No pets. (907)283-4405. REDOUBT VIEW Soldotna’s best value! Quiet, freshly painted, close to schools. 1-Bedroom from $625. 2-Bedroom from $725. 3-Bedroom, 2-bath, from $825. No pets. (907)262-4359. SOLDOTNA 2-Bedroom, 1-bath, apartment, washer/dryer No smoking/ pets. $850. plus electric & tax. (907)252-7355.

Homes KENAI 3-Bedroom house, attached garage, appliance. Available 6/1/14 $1,000. (907)262-4629

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

Financial Auctions Business for Sale Financial Opportunities Mortgages/Loans

Financial Opportunities CASH 4 NOTES! Money 2 Lend! McKinley Mortgage Co. Family owned since 1989 License#100309 (907)783-2277 mckinleymortgage.com

Garage Sales MOVING SALE Friday/ Saturday 9am- 4pm 45438 Cessna St. off of South Miller Loop Road follow signs. NO KIDS STUFF! Household, tools, camping, building, aircraft, boating, garden. MORE NEW STUFF!

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

Merchandise For Sale Antiques/Collectibles Appliances Audio/Video Building Supplies Computers Crafts/Holiday Items Electronics Exercise Equipment Firewood Food Furniture Garage Sales Heavy Equipment/ Farm Machinery Lawn/Garden Liquidation Machinery & Tools Miscellaneous Music Musical Instructions Office/Business Equipment Vacations/Tickets Wanted To Buy

Appliances Refrigerator/Freezer. Kenmore 21, top freezer, white. call (907)335-9993

Heavy Equipment/ Farm Machinery 7Ft. GROUSER BLADE For Skid Steer $3,000. ----HOTSY- Hot water pressure washer $2,500. ----PELLET MILL Saw Dust to Pellets $3,000. -----1906- 15Hp. FOOTE Steam engine, restored $10,000. (907)398-4461

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Recreation Aircrafts & Parts All-Terrain Vehicles Archery Bicycles Boat Supplies/Parts Boats & Sail Boats Boats Charter Boats Commercial Campers/Travel Trailers Fishing Guns Hunting Guide Service Kayaks Lodging Marine Motor Homes/RVs Snow Mobiles Sporting Goods

Boats & Sail Boats 15' Willie Drift Boat with trailer. Comes with ors & locks seats & more. $5,600. Call (907)388-0362. 19FT. JET CRAFT Excellent condition. Extras. Anchor Point (907)235-2950 (907)435-7070

Campers/Travel Trailers ‘05 37FT. EVEREST 5th wheel, super clean 3 slides, sleeps 4, large storage, many upgrades, Arctic package. 1-owner. $29,950. (907)229-3739 ‘92 9FT. WESTERN WILDERNESS cab-over camper. Excellent condition stored in heat shop. sleeps-4, self-contained, roll around jack stands. $10,500. (907)262-3828

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Campers/Travel Trailers WOOLRIDGE BOAT 15.7Ft., Honda 30-50, 5 seats, 3/4 canvas-top, full length cover, anchor/ rope/ chain. Hummingbird depthfinder, trailer. $12,500. (907)262-3828

Transportation Autos Classic/Custom Financing Motorcycles Parts & Accessories Rentals Repair & Services Sport Utilities, 4x4 Suburbans/Vans/ Buses Trucks Trucks: Commercial Trucks: Heavy Duty Trailers Vehicles Wanted

Motorcycles ‘98 HARLEY DAVIDSON Road King Classic, Hard Bags, tour package, wired for heated clothing. Over $5,000. in extras/ upgrades. $10,500. (907)690-1148

Services Appliance Repair Auction Services Automotive Repair Builders/Contractors Cabinetry/Counters Carpentry/Odd Jobs Charter Services Child Care Needed Child Care Provided Cleaning Services Commercial Fishing Education/Instruction Excavating/Backhoe Financial Fishing Guide Services Health Home Health Care Household Cleaning Services House-sitting Internet Lawn Care & Landscaping Masonry Services Miscellaneous Services Mortgages Lenders Painting/Roofing Plumbing/Heating/ Electric Satellite TV Services Snow Removal Tax Services Travel Services Tree Services Veterinary Water Delivery Well Drilling

Education/ Instruction RESIDENTIAL CONTRACTORS Test Prep Course. Wisdom & Associates, Inc. (907)283-0629.

Health

Trucks ‘94 FORD PICKUP F350 2x4, crewcab, air, long bed, gas motor, 15-mpg, Hallmark camper cabover, will sell separately. $5,900. (719)963-5515

Pets & Livestock Birds Cats Dogs Horses Livestock Livestock Supplies Pet Services Pet Supplies

PENINSULA THAI MASSAGE Thompsons’s/ Soldotna, next to Liberty Tax. (907)252-8053, (907)398-2073

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Foreclosures

Notice to Creditors

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND SALE 2223952 NAMING TRUSTEE: FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY TRUSTOR: ROLAND W. ZUMWALT, a married person BENEFICIARY: EDIE HANDSAKER, an unmarried person, OWNER OF RECORD: ROLAND W. ZUMWALT Said Deed of Trust was executed on the 15th day of July, 2013, and recorded on the 25th day of July, 2013, Serial No. 2013007128. Said Deed of Trust has not been assigned by the Beneficiary. Said documents having been recorded in the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, describing: LOT THREE (3), COLLEGE ESTATES SUBDIVISION NO. 3, according to the official plat thereof, filed under Plat No. 83-92, Records of the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska. The physical address of the real property described above is 35857 Knackstedt Street, 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: SIXTY-NINE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED NINETY-SEVEN AND 60/100TH DOLLARS ($69,597.60), 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 beapplied to the total indebtedness secured thereby.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI In the Matter of the Estate

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of J. F. WHITESIDE, Deceased. Case No. 3KN-14-52

PR/E

NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the undersigned Personal Representative of the estate, at the Law Office of DALE DOLIFKA, P.O. Box 498, Soldotna, Alaska, 99669. DATED this 22rd day of May, 2014. PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE ROBIN WHITESIDE PUBLISH: 5/29, 6/5, 12, 2014

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Public Notices

Said sale shall be held at public auction at the ALASKA COURT SYSTEM BUILDING, 125 TRADING BAY DR., #100, KENAI, ALASKA, on the 24th day of June, 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 25th day of March, 2014. FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY

BY: PENELOPE BUNDY Title: Authorized Signer 302 Kenai Recording District 2014-002188 March 25, 2014 PUBLISH: 5/22, 29, 6/5, 12, 2014

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Freebies

Dogs

ANDREA REVALLE 17 Jewel Swiss Pocket watch $99. (907)741-8111 CHAMPION JUICER Commercial, 1-hp beldor electric motor $99. (907)741-8111 TEACH ALL DOGS Everything with brains, not pain. Obedience, Puppy, Nose work, Rally, Agility, Privates. K-Beach Road (907)262-6846 www.pendog.org

Lost & Found FOUND BICYCLE Soldotna area Call Sue to identify. (907)262-4455

Public Notices/ Legal Ads

Livestock TULLOS FUNNY FARM

Taking orders. Quality Timothy Hay. $8. (907)262-4939.

Adoptions Articles of Incorporation Bids Foreclosures Government Misc. Notices Notice to Creditors Public Notices Regulations

Health

**ASIAN MASSAGE** Grand Opening, Welcome Visitors Call Anytime! (907)741-1644, (907)398-8896.

Bids Invitation to Bid HC 14 The Ninilchik Traditional Council is seeking a General Contractor w/residential endorsement to construct a single level handicapped accessible ranch style home 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. Bid opens May 22, 2014 @ 9am and closes June 20, 2014 @ 5pm. Please contact Diane Reynolds, Procurement Officer for a bid packet @ (907) 567-3313. PUBLISH: 5/22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 2014

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Foreclosures NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND SALE 2209952 NAMING TRUSTEE: FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY TRUSTOR: JESSE R. NOEL BENEFICIARIES: AURORAS, LLC as to 50%; Zack 05 LLC as to 25% ; and Jake 72, LLC as to 25% OWNER OF RECORD: JESSE R. NOEL Said Deed of Trust was executed on the 13th day of April, 2006, and recorded on the 20th day of April, 2006, Serial No. 2006003610. There is of record an Assignment of Deed of Trust, including the terms and conditions thereof, executed by HUGH R. CHUMLEY and LINDA G. CHUMLEY, as Assignors, for the benefit of AURORA S, LLC as to 50%; Zack 05 LLC as to 25%; and Jake 72, LLC as to 25%, as Assignees, recorded October 16, 2008, Serial No. 2008- 010775, Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska. Said documents having been recorded in the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, describing: LOT SEVEN (7), TALLARICO SUBDIVISION RUFUS ADDITION, according to Plat No. 96-80, Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska. The physical address of the real property described above is 36888 Lou Morgan Road. Sterling, Alaska. 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: T W E N T Y - T H R E E THOUSAND THIRTY-SIX AND 23/100TH DOLLARS ($23,036.23), 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 uponpayment 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 Beneficiaries, 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 24th day of June, 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 20th day of March, 2014. FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY By: Sharon M. Dallmann Title: Authorized Signer 302 Kenai Recording District 2014-002084 March 20, 2014 PUBLISH: 5/22, 29, 6/5, 12, 2014

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Bids Invitation to Bid HC 15 The Ninilchik Traditional Council is seeking a General Contractor w/residential endorsement to construct a single level handicapped accessible ranch style home in Anchor Point. 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. Bid opens May 22, 2014 @ 9am and closes June 20, 2014 @ 5pm. Please contact Diane Reynolds, Procurement Officer for a bid packet @ (907) 567-3313 PUBLISH: 5/22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 2014

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Couple feeling financial strain receives many helpful ideas DEAR ABBY: “Holding on in Arkansas” (Feb. 27) asked where to go for free counseling. You suggested she call her local mental health department for counseling options for her marriage and money issues. Another resource would be her local church. Pastors often offer counseling to couples. Many churches also have support groups for parents to connect with each other. I have seen churches save marriages and get couples back on the right track emotionally and financially. — PASSING IT ON IN TENNESSEE DEAR PASSING IT ON: Your suggestion was mentioned by a number of other readers. They, too, felt that solving her financial problems would lessen or eliminate the marital discord “Holding” and her husband are experiencing. Read on: DEAR ABBY: One of the largest contributors to our national charitable network — United Way — offers many helpful services. The Consumer Credit Counseling Service may also be a resource, if credit cards are part of the problem. If there is a choice between paying a bill or buying groceries, the bill should come first. There are many food pantries. The family can also apply for food stamps.

Asking for help can be difficult or embarrassing, but knowing your kids won’t be hungry makes it worth it. — BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, TOO DEAR ABBY: “Holding” should contact her bank about refinancing her mortgage. If she can’t pay her electric bill, she should see if she qualifies for a reduced rate for her inAbigail Van Buren come level. As for the kids, if they’re in school, they probably meet the criteria for the reduced-cost lunch program. — FULL OF IDEAS IN WASHINGTON DEAR ABBY: “Holding” should seek help from the school counselor. He/she can recommend mental health support within the family’s financial means, and connect them with additional community resources to lessen some of the stresses of daily life. With many families struggling in many ways, encouraging this woman to seek out available help is crucial. — SCHOOL COUNSELOR-IN-TRAINING

DEAR ABBY: Does her employer or her husband’s have an Employee Assistance Program? These services offer a wide range of help, including dealing with mental health and financial issues, and may be paid for as part of the employer’s contract with the EAP organization. — JUST MY TWO CENTS DEAR ABBY: If the woman’s county doesn’t have a mental health department, her region should have a department of public health. Or she could be guided by the school nurse at her children’s school. School nurses are often the first responders to families in crisis or in need of counseling. — NEW ENGLAND NURSE DEAR ABBY: It is human nature to want the best for one’s family, but a lot of the couples suffering this kind of stress have brought it on themselves. There won’t be enough money for food and monthly bills if they are paying for new cars, a house they can’t afford, ordering takeout instead of cooking, subscribing to the deluxe cable TV package, going on expensive vacations and paying for activities the kids “have to do” just because their friends are. Couples’ financial problems could be greatly improved if they would only make better choices. — LIVING WITHIN MY MEANS DOWN

Hints from Heloise

Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars A baby born today has a Sun and Moon in Gemini. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, May 29, 2014: This year you have the unique opportunity to break past a restriction that was placed on you by a certain person or situation. You become quite adept at handling funds and making the most of your income. Friends often startle you with their choices. You have the ability to see what others don’t. If you are single, you could have difficulty meeting the right person. Explore your options, and give yourself time. If you are attached, the summer will be an excellent time to schedule a second honeymoon and/or a long-desired trip together. Your sense of fun and your ability to draw out your sweetie will help fuse this bond. Another GEMINI can be very fun, but he or she also can talk you to death! 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’ll encounter various situations that will surprise you, but you can handle them. The effort of dealing with certain scenarios might not be worth it. Be willing to bypass what doesn’t work. You seem to sense what is going on with a family member. Tonight: Speak your mind. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You might want to bypass a controlling situation that seems to be getting you down. Your sensitivity will point to a new direction. If you head down that path, expect a strong reaction from someone you will have to deal with. Tonight: Invite a friend to join you. GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

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HHHHHWeightheprosandconsofresponding in a certain way. You could be overworked and tired, but trust yourself to come through in the end. You might consider going back on a recent decision. Ask yourself whether this would be wise. Tonight: Make plans for the weekend. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Accept the fact that you need more privacy if you ever are to accomplish anything. A boss could be difficult. Relax with the moment, and make choices that work. You also might consider taking a day off just to recharge your batteries. Tonight: On center stage. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You’ll want to talk about how a situation seems to be developing. Your choices might be different because of an increased sensitivity. You could have difficulty telling someone that you changed your mind about a matter that is important to him or her. Tonight: Among the crowds. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH A situation is likely to become complex. Unexpected news could have a loved one or close partner feeling out of sorts. Share your perspective. Keep communication open and fluid. Someone might feel as if you don’t have much imagination. Tonight: Till the wee hours. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You could feel pressured by a developing situation. You might want to escape someone else’s demands. Detach and gain some distance from this person. Think through a decision more carefully. Consider your options. Tonight: Follow a friend’s lead. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH A close loved one or partner

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will appreciate hearing from you. Focus on getting a project completed. You might be a bundle of nerves because of a recent conversation. Your ideas seem quite unusual when discussing a situation, yet everyone will be all ears. Tonight: Be a duo. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You’ll wander into someone else’s turf; you will be able to tell by the response you receive. The nature of your reaction might surprise you. An apology could be necessary. Do not allow an honest mistake to get the best of you. Tonight: Return calls before deciding. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You might want to move in a different direction, if possible. In the next few weeks, a friend or loved one will be playing devil’s advocate to anything you come up with. Understand that this person will be doing you a favor. Tonight: Clear up some work and finish running errands. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You might want to request some feedback from a creative person. This person is used to thinking outside the box, and can grasp what you are doing. Perhaps he or she will come up with an even better path. Take a stand, if need be. Tonight: Decide to start the weekend early. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Tension will build at home, to the point at which you will want to tiptoe around a certain person. You could be quite withdrawn until you gain a new perspective. Allow your penchant for off-the-wall ideas to emerge. You could be walking into new territory. Tonight: At home.

Add water, get rid of carpet dents Dear Heloise: I’ve seen the hints about removing or at least alleviating carpet indentations before, but I cannot find the clipping I saved. Would you please readdress this in your column? — Lynne A., via email This is a frequently asked question, and there are a couple of things you can try: * Put an ice cube in each indentation. As it melts, use your fingers to pull up the carpet fibers. You even can use a comb (gently) to help the fibers stand back up. * Add warm water to a spray bottle and use it to dampen the carpet indentations. Then use a hair dryer on a warm setting, and your fingers, to fluff up the fibers while blowing the air on them. * You also could use a clothing steamer to moisten the carpet and then again use your fingers to help the fibers stand up, but be careful not to burn yourself. — Heloise Finding the parts Dear Heloise: One of the most frequent and frustrating situations people find themselves in after moving is having disassembled an item and not being able to find the parts needed to reassemble it. A simple solution is to keep a supply of zippered plastic bags on hand, and as soon as something is disassembled, put the parts into the bag and tape the bag to the underside of the disassembled piece. — Dave S., Reading, Pa. Send a money-saving or timesaving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box 795000, San Antonio, TX 78279-5000, or you can fax it to 1-210-HELOISE or email it to Heloise(at)Heloise.com.

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