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Friday-Saturday, June 6-7 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 212

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Judge rules for ADFG in lawsuit

Question Should an open burning ban on the Kenai Peninsula be extended until the Funny River Horse Trail wildfire is completely extinguished? n Yes; or

By MOLLY DISCHNER Morris News Service-Alaska

n No.

Alaska Journal of Commerce

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ANCHORAGE — A state judge ruled in favor of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in the lawsuit regarding the 2013 Cook Inlet salmon fisheries. The Cook Inlet Fisherman’s Fund, or CIFF, sued the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in July 2013, asserting that fisheries managers did not follow Cook Inlet salmon management plans appropriately that year and caused harm to commercial fishermen. After hearing oral argument May 29, Judge Andrew Guidi granted the state’s motion for summary judgment June 2. He wrote in his final decision that there was no evidence that ADFG had “exceeded its authority in executing the emergency plan promulgated by the Alaska Board of Fisheries. Specifically, the Fund has failed to articulate any concrete way in which the Department overstepped its management authority other than the claim — already rejected on motion for preliminary injunction — that the Fund’s fishermen were entitled to 51 hours of extra fishing time by law.” ADFG asked for summary judgment in December, which was the focus of oral argument May 29. The state asked the judge to uphold Fish and Game’s interpretation of the management plans in its motion for summary judgment; CIFF opposed that. CIFF President John McCombs said the ruling came as a disappointment. “I just don’t think the Department of Fish and Game did

In the news Bearup runs for mayor

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Tom Bearup, a former Soldotna mayor, announced he is running for Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor. Standing in front of a banner with the slogan “The People’s Mayor,” Bearup addressed a group of community members that attended the 2 p.m. Thursday press conference he held at Froso’s restaurant in Soldotna. “It’s not about me … it’s about the people,” he said. Bearup said he will use veto power to control the spending of taxpayer money and that shrinking the national deficit needs to start locally. He said he wants to support local businesses and encourage manufactures to come to the Kenai Peninsula to create jobs. “If we can stabilize (the economy) by diversifying, then we have an opportunity to really do something more for our people,” he said. Bearup is a pastor and a Vietnam veteran. He has worked in law enforcement locally and in the Lower 48. He has been married to Adele Bearup for 38 years, has nine children and 33 grandchildren. — Staff report

Photo by Kelly Sullivan/Peninsula Clarion

A wook inside

Nick Calvert makes a bacon, peanut butter and Nutella stuffed waffle in the bright, neon green RV converted into the Wook Waffaz Waffle Emporium Thursday in Soldotna.

Kenai ups mill rate, passes budget By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

After a failed attempt by Kenai City Council member Brian Gabriel to slash more than $300,000 from the budget to avoid a mill rate increase, the City of Kenai passed the fiscal year 2015 budget with more than $92,000 surplus in the general fund at Wednesday’s meeting. The new mill rate jumped from 3.85 to 4.35. The city council voted down $15,000 for a storefront improvement program, passed changes to city health insurance renewal quotes and added $80,000 to complete playground designs for Munici-

pal Park. During the course of discussion, the council passed seven amendments to the budget, which cut $52,200 and added $85,000 for a net increase of $63,800. The City of Kenai general fund for FY2015 is $16.2 million with a $92,414 surplus. Kenai City Manager Rick Koch said the budget process proved to be tumultuous given the late changes to the insurance quotes. The budget, he said, is operational with no significant new projects that would dip into fund reserves. The city saved more than $97,000 by switching from United Health-

Correction In a fishing report titled “Kenai sockeye and lakes the best options” that ran on the Thursday June 5 Tightlines page, the area of the river open to rainbow trout and dolly varden fishing was listed inaccurately. According to Alaska Department of Fish and Game regulation, anglers are allowed to fish for rainbow trout and dolly varden year-round on the Kenai River downstream of Torpedo Hole to the mouth of the Kenai River. The river is closed for all fishing upstream of Torpedo Hole until June 11. The Clarion regrets the error.

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care to Premera Blue Cross Shield of Alaska for healtcare. “I think we got lucky with the quote we received,” Koch said. “That has not been our experience in any of my 10 years I’ve been here.” Gabriel, who called in from Boston, Massachusetts, said he was hesitant to raise the mill rate. He would like to see the city make cuts, but not have a “bare bones” budget given the uncertainty of future healthcare costs. Gabriel worked with Koch to look at areas where expenditures could be decreased to

maintain the property tax mill rate at 3.85 — a rate that has not been increased in five years. If the rate stayed at 3.85 mills, the budget would have had a deficit of $303,829. Gabriel introduced 19 amendments in a memo to the council, but only motioned 12. If all 19 were adopted, it would have resulted in a budget surplus of $54,324 in the general fund. Three of his 12 amendments passed. The council voted to eliminate a $19,200 increase to council stipends, decrease $2,000 from travel budget and strike $31,000 for a rotary broom to be purchased from the equipment replacement fund. See BUDGET, page A-12

See SUIT, page A-5

Elodea eradication begins By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

Crews began eradicating elodea — an invasive aquatic plant — in two Nikiski-area lakes this week. Staff from the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, a representative from the Homer Soil and Water Conservation District Photo courtesy of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and representatives from SePScott Schuler from SePRO pours fluridone pellets into the hopper RO Corporation — an herbion the application spreader (a gas-fired blower).Matt Bowser from cide producing company — dethe Kenai National Wildlife Refuge watches in the background.

scended on Beck Lake Tuesday and Daniels Lakes Wednesday to begin treatments. John Morton, supervisory fish and wildlife biologist with the refuge, said the crews treated all 200 acres of Beck Lake with both pellet and liquid forms of the herbicide fluridone. “The reason you put the liquid fluridone down is because it’s fast acting,” Morton said. … “And the other thing is … it mixes well in the lake. And

then we also put down the pelleted fluridone and that’s a slow release so it will continue to release over an extended period of time.” SePRO and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have tested fluridone, and the product was applied and will be applied during future treatments at a level well below EPA’s maximum contaminate level. See ELODEA, page A-12

More details released in Buccaneer bankruptcy By TIM BRADNER and ELWOOD BREHMER Morris News Service-Alaska Alaska Journal of Commerce

Buccaneer Energy, an independent Cook Inlet explorer with high hopes but skimpy resources, saw those hopes come crashing down May 31. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection that day in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in south Texas. The company has been fighting a rear-guard action on finances almost since the time it arrived in Cook Inlet, bidding on lease sales and then bringing

a jack-up rig to the Inlet from Asia with a Singapore company and the State of Alaska as partners. Buccaneer had also become embroiled in a dispute with Cook Inlet Region Inc., which owns land adjacent to the state land on which Buccaneer’s producing Kenai Loop gas wells are located. Buccaneer previously had a lease on the CIRI land but the Anchorage-based Alaska Native corporation for Southcentral terminated the lease. Buccaneer sued, claiming the termination was improper, but lost in court.

Meanwhile, CIRI filed a complaint with the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the state agency that regulates industry production practices, alleging that Buccaneer’s Kenai Loop wells were draining gas from its lands. After two hearings and months of deliberations, the conservation commission decided May 22 to escrow all revenues from gas sales minus operating expenses at Kenai Loop until it could sort out how the gas should be shared among Buccaneer, CIRI, the State of Alaska and the Mental Health Land Trust. Under the commisC

sion order, the escrow account was to be created at an Alaska bank by June 1, and revenues to be deposited on the 10th day of each month beginning in June until an allocation was determined. Cut off from its only source of cash income amid its restructuring, Buccaneer had no choice but to file for protection, sources familiar with the company said. In bankruptcy filings for its parent and subsidiary companies, Buccaneer claimed combined assets of $50,000 to $500,000 and liabilities of between $50 million and $100

million. In a state Superior Court civil dispute between Buccaneer and CIRI paralleling the AOGCC case, the Native corporation sued for compensation over the gas drained from its land. On April 22, Judge Frank Pfiffner stayed a ruling on CIRI’s drainage claims until a decision is handed down by the commission or an agreement is reached between CIRI, Buccaneer, the Department of Natural Resources and the Mental Health Trust Land Office, which owns the Kenai Loop property adjacent to CIRI’s parcel. See FILE, page A-5

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

Barrow 36/27

Today

Saturday

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Tides Today High(ft.)

Prudhoe Bay 40/29

First Second

11:15 a.m. (14.2) 11:57 p.m. (16.4)

6:19 a.m. (5.4) 6:21 p.m. (4.2)

10:02 a.m. (13.5) 10:44 p.m. (15.7)

4:28 a.m. (5.5) 4:30 p.m. (4.3)

First Second

9:21 a.m. (12.3) 10:03 p.m. (14.5)

3:24 a.m. (5.5) 3:26 p.m. (4.3)

First Second

8:09 a.m. (6.5) 8:59 p.m. (8.4)

2:02 a.m. (3.8) 2:05 p.m. (2.4)

First Second

2:10 a.m. (26.1) 2:38 p.m. (23.5)

8:42 a.m. (6.0) 8:54 p.m. (6.0)

Deep Creek

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Sunshine mixing with some clouds

Mostly cloudy with a shower or two

Intervals of clouds and sunshine

Mostly cloudy

Hi: 64 Lo: 44

Hi: 60 Lo: 45

Hi: 61 Lo: 45

Hi: 60 Lo: 44

Hi: 58 Lo: 43

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

65 68 69 69

Full June 12

Today 4:41 a.m. 11:26 p.m.

Last June 19

Daylight

Length of Day - 18 hrs., 44 min., 13 sec. Moonrise Moonset Daylight gained - 2 min., 45 sec.

Alaska Cities Yesterday Hi/Lo/W

City 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

Tomorrow 4:40 a.m. 11:27 p.m.

New June 26

Today 3:07 p.m. 2:34 a.m.

Readings through 4 p.m. yesterday

Nome 47/32

Temperature

Unalakleet McGrath 51/39 69/44

First July 5 Tomorrow 4:23 p.m. 2:49 a.m.

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40/32/c 69/44/sh 62/50/pc 47/32/sh 70/42/pc 69/39/s 68/43/s 62/45/s 40/29/c 47/37/c 61/45/sh 58/48/sh 61/44/s 67/42/s 64/42/sh 68/41/s 51/39/pc 60/45/s 65/46/s 59/48/s 67/46/s 60/41/c

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

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74/52/pc 95/62/s 92/67/t 82/59/pc 88/70/t 78/55/s 94/72/pc 80/58/s 63/44/t 87/70/t 60/43/sh 83/52/pc 73/61/pc 73/51/s 70/46/pc 90/71/t 80/52/pc 87/65/pc 80/58/s 73/47/t 80/56/pc

Dillingham 63/46

From the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai

24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.00" Month to date ........................... 0.13" Normal month to date ............. 0.17" Year to date .............................. 4.01" Normal year to date ................. 4.15" Record today ................. 0.61" (1988) Record for June ............ 2.93" (1955) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963)

Juneau 65/45

National Extremes

Kodiak 49/45

Sitka 58/48

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115 at Death Valley, Calif. 25 at Bellemont,

State Extremes High yesterday Low yesterday

Ketchikan 63/49

74 at Bethel 28 at Point Hope

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Showers and severe thunderstorms will reach along a swath from Georgia to Colorado today. Spotty showers will occur in New England. Spotty thunderstorms are in store for the northern Plains and Florida.

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70/54/s 96/76/pc 75/58/s 66/53/r 91/75/c 75/57/pc 76/48/t 76/61/c 75/52/s 64/49/t 107/70/s 76/61/t 82/33/s 77/49/s 57/46/c 71/62/r 73/46/s 85/75/pc 92/75/pc 75/56/pc 89/73/pc

73/51/s 90/70/t 78/56/pc 75/50/pc 94/75/pc 77/55/pc 80/52/t 82/66/pc 77/55/s 76/48/pc 104/75/s 66/48/t 81/42/s 79/55/s 62/38/t 77/54/pc 69/42/t 87/75/pc 92/75/s 80/58/pc 92/72/pc

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Valdez Kenai/ 60/45 Soldotna Homer

Cold Bay 53/43

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High ............................................... 54 Low ................................................ 44 Normal high .................................. 60 Normal low .................................... 41 Record high ........................ 70 (1971) Record low ......................... 31 (1970)

Kenai/ Soldotna 64/44 Seward 61/45 Homer 58/45

Anchorage 65/50

Bethel 68/45

National Cities Yesterday Today Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W

From Kenai Municipal Airport

Fairbanks 69/45

Talkeetna 67/42 Glennallen 61/35

Today Hi/Lo/W

Unalaska 50/45

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Anaktuvuk Pass 44/33

Kotzebue 40/32

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91/67/pc 81/66/t 85/75/c 102/73/s 90/73/pc 78/59/s 80/66/c 87/69/t 87/73/pc 103/72/s 73/49/pc 78/63/t 75/69/c 88/74/pc 76/62/r 86/72/c 94/72/pc 81/65/t 91/68/pc 79/63/r 107/76/s

92/71/t 82/68/pc 87/79/pc 102/80/s 88/72/t 77/60/s 84/62/pc 88/73/t 89/76/pc 99/74/s 71/55/s 83/58/pc 87/66/t 89/73/s 78/62/s 78/59/s 90/73/t 84/65/pc 92/72/pc 80/62/s 106/77/s

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76/51/s 71/53/pc 79/54/s 62/45/t 90/58/s 94/60/s 82/57/s 94/75/pc 72/63/pc 68/53/pc 89/52/s 76/53/s 81/55/t 76/49/s 74/50/pc 91/74/pc 83/68/pc 103/71/s 87/73/t 80/62/s 86/70/t

Gunman disarmed by Seattle student SEATTLE— A lone gunman armed with a shotgun opened fire Thursday in a building at a small Seattle university, fatally wounding one person and injuring three others before a student subdued him with pepper spray as he tried to reload, Seattle police said. A student building monitor at Seattle Pacific University disarmed the gunman and several other students jumped on top of him and pinned him down until police arrived at the Otto Miller building, police said.

— Associated Press

Oil Prices Wednesday’s prices North Slope crude: $107.37, down from $108.97 on Tuesday West Texas Int.: $102.64, down from $102.66 on Tuesday

Thurs. Stocks Company Final Change Agrium Inc............... 90.97 +0.65 Alaska Air Group...... 98.90 -0.33 ACS...........................1.72 +0.03 Apache Corp........... 93.17 +0.67 AT&T........................ 35.10 +0.05 Baker Hughes.......... 70.90 +0.62 BP ........................... 50.44 +0.37 Chevron.................. 123.52 +1.17 ConocoPhillips......... 80.05 +0.25 ExxonMobil............. 100.55 +0.51 1st Natl. Bank AK...1,730.00 +17.00 GCI...........................11.28 +0.39 Halliburton............... 65.89 +0.50 Harley-Davidson.......71.06 -0.27 Home Depot............ 80.38 -0.16 McDonald’s............. 102.45 +0.01 Safeway................... 34.33 -0.01 Schlumberger......... 103.91 +0.19 Tesoro...................... 58.30 +0.64 Walmart....................77.32 +0.19 Wells Fargo...............51.63 +0.59 Gold closed............ 1253.77 +9.86 Silver closed............ 19.06 +0.25 Dow Jones avg..... 16,836.11 +98.58 NASDAQ................4,296.23 +44.58 S&P 500................1,940.46 +12.58 Stock prices provided by the Kenai Peninsula Edward Jones offices.

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at the Forelands Bar in Nikiski. A chinese auction is a combina- number for more information 283-7476. tion of a raffle and auction which allows buyers to chose which prize to bid on. A spagetti feed dinner starts at 4 p.m. and the Soup Supper and Auction coming up auction starts at 5 p.m. Everyone is encouraged to attend and help Car Seat Check Up Event We feed people because no one deserves to be hungry! Togethour friend in her time of need. For any questions or donations call Saturday, June 14 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Kenai Home De- 776-5833. er we can solve hunger—Be part of the solution! Mark the date pot parking lot. Contact: Safe Kids Kenai Peninsula Coalition for Aug. 23 for the Annual Soup Supper and Auction. Join the Fred more information @ Safekids@cpgh.org or 714-4539 Meyers reward program and link the Food Bank #83575 to your Kenai holds volunteer plant day card. You continue to get points and we get dollars! The Kenai Parks and Recreation Department is holding their Senior Center hosts Hawaiian Luau annual Volunteer Plant Day June 7 from 10 a.m.-noon followed Soldotna Senior Center’s Hawaiian Luau fundraiser will be on with an appreciation barbecue. Volunteers are asked to check- Get your vessel checked June 21 at 5:30 p.m. Enjoy a scrumptious sit down dinner, enter- in at 10 a.m. at the Kenai Fire Department. For more informaThe Kenai Flotilla of the U S Coast Guard Auxiliary will be tainment of 2 hula troupes, many door prizes, a grand door prize, tion, please call the Kenai Parks and Recreation Department at conducting a Vessel Safety Check station on Saturday June 7 and a silent and outcry auction. The Luau is open to the public, 907-283-8261 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Fred Meyer parking lot, 43843 Sterling adult tickets are $24 and children 12 and under $12. For tickets, Highway, Soldotna. The Vessel Safety Check is free and will proreservations, or more information call 262-2322. vide the public an opportunity to receive information concerning Habitat for Humanity to celebrate Federal and Alaska state boating requirements. For more information or to schedule a free Vessel Exam, call 907-776-8457. Garage sale planned to benefit Peninsula Spay groundbreaking, mortgage burning Central Peninsula Habitat for Humanity will have a dual celand Neuter Fund ebration on June 14. We will be celebrating the groundbreaking Coffee with Kenai Mayor The Peninsula Spay and Neuter Fund is hosting its third annual for Habitat’s 19th home in our community. We will also be celKenai Mayor Pat Porter invites you to her “First Saturday Cofgarage sale Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 265 West Katmai in ebrating a mortgage burning for one of our families who have fee” on June 7, downstairs in city hall. Bring with you ideas, soluSoldotna. Lots of neat items will be available including a com- paid for their home in full! Celebration will be at 3 p.m., at 1127 tions and concerns that discussing in a group setting might help puter desk, 8-foot Mizerak pool table with accessories, felt BMX 2nd Street, Kenai. Everyone is welcome. If you have questions or make Kenai the community you want to be a part of. The coffee bike and plants. Proceeds go toward helping dogs and cats on the need more information please contact Sharon at 907-262-7534. and morning pastries will be served from 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. MayKenai Peninsula. Thanks for your support. or Porter looks forward to this opportunity to meet and visit with North Peninsula Recreation, Nikiski Pool sum- our Kenai residents. For more information contact our City Clerk, Soldotna historical society board to meet Sandra Modigh at 283-8247. mer activities begin The Board of Directors for the Soldotna Historical Society Family Fun in the Midnight Sun/Nikiski Days, and the Famwill hold their monthly meeting on June 7 at 9 a.m. at the main ily Fun Run is June 21 at North Peninsula Recreation. Summer Youth group plans garage sale building on Centennial Park Road. For additional information call Day Camp at Nikiski Community Rec. Center begins June 10 for The Star of the North Lutheran Church Youth Group is hav262-4157. boys and girls first through sixth grade on Tuesday, Wednesday ing its annual garage sale on June 6-7 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Bring and Thursday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and Nikiski Pool summer swim les- donations to the church at 216 N. Forest Drive in Kenai, TuesdayCaregiver support program meeting scheduled sons has space available for sessions starting June 18-27 and June Friday or Sunday. For more information call 283-4153. Kenai Peninsula Family Caregiver Support Program-Caregiver 25-July 11 for semi-private and group swim lessons. Please call Support Meeting June 10 at the Soldotna Senior Center from 1-3 907-776-8800 for more information. Ninilchik Senior Center hosts dinner p.m. Topic for discussion: “Ways to Reduce your Risk for CanThe Ninilchik Senior Center will be hosting its annual Endowcer”. Honoring cancer survivors in the month of June. Come join Kenai Central High School pool schedule set ment Dinner and Pie Auction on June 7. Doors open at 4 p.m. for us, share your story! Let us take care of you, so you can take care Kenai Central High School Pool is taking sign-ups for swim complimentary wine and cheese with silent auction and raffles of your loved one. For more information (907) 262-1280. www. lessons. Sessions start: June 2, June 16, June 30, July 14 and July beginning. Prime Rib Dinner begins at 5 p.m. Tickets are $25 kpnfcsp.org 28. Morning lap swim is Monday-Friday from 6:30–8 a.m. Open each and can be purchased at the center 66265 Aspen Ave., Niniswim is Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1–2:45 p.m. Phone lchik. For more information, call 907-567-3988.

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Chinese Auction Benefit

Help Glenna Moore pay for added expenses for her cancer treatment by participating in a chinese auction June 14 at 4 p.m.

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Free Thinkers to meet

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. 9:45 a.m. • TOPS #AK 196 meets at The Grace Lutheran Church, in Soldotna. Call Dorothy at 262-1303. Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. 12:30 p.m. • Well Elders Live Longer exercise (W.E.L.L.) will meet at the Nikiski Senior Center. Call instructor Mary Olson at 907-776-3745. 8 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “It Works” at URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. • AA 12 by 12 at the United Methodist Church, 607 Frontage Road, Kenai. • Twin City Al-Anon Family group, United Methodist Church, 607 Frontage Road in Kenai. Call 907-953-4655.

• Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 398-9440. 9 a.m. • Al-Anon book study, Central Peninsula Hospital’s Augustine Room, Soldotna. Call 907-9534655. 10 a.m. • Narcotics Anonymous PJ Meeting, URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. 7 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous support group “Dopeless Hope Fiends,” URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. 8 p.m. • AA North Roaders Group at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 242-9477. The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations. To have your event listed, email organization name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone number to news@ peninsulaclarion.com.

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Last Frontier Free Thinkers will meet June 10 at the Soldotna Public Library from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the large community room. This group advocates progressive values for humanists, atheists, and freethinkers. The theme of this month’s meeting is the following phrase: “Life’s fulfillment emerges from individual participation in the service of humane ideals.” Attendees are encouraged, but not required, to speak on how they interpret that phrase and what it means to them. There is free WiFi at the library so if one is feeling ambitious one can bring ipads, laptops, or whatever and make a presentation. Please bring along anyone you feel may be interested. Please email courageoustiger@gmail.com with questions. Note: this event is held at, not sponsored by the Soldotna Public Library.

LIO Schedule Wednesday at 1 p.m. The AK Dept. of Health and Social Services, Division of Senior and Disabilities Services will hold a public hearing on proposed regulation changes to Title 7 Chapters 130 and 160, Medicaid

Home and Communitybased Waiver Services. The changes may be viewed at http://aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublicNotices/Notices/ View.aspx?id=172824

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What Others Say

Who’s really in the driver’s seat? Google, in a remarkable feat of

Bed Tax editorial misses the mark, marketing is never a bad idea for local business Response to “Bed tax may not be the best route for the borough”. The individual who wrote this article was very well spoken and polite. To this individual, thank you for shedding light on your perspectives, however, I have to refute this opinion article. Do you remember the folk tale, The Little Red Hen? “If any would not work, neither should he eat.” Let’s take a look at the big picture, think with logic; Let’s think like a business man/woman for a minute. Do we market less when business booms? Do we market less in a recession? Do we market less when the fish numbers are low? Did you know that the 3 top reasons people come to Alaska are because of our mountains, glaciers and wildlife viewing? The Kenai Peninsula is abundant with all three of these attractions. We are rebounding from the recession. Ask a local and look at the numbers. Seward and Cooper Landing anticipate a record year. In September, I personally look forward to hearing how well these communities prospered. Weak salmon runs are a far greater issue. Weak salmon runs effect our tourism industry here on The Kenai as well as what I get to put into my freezer. Again, does that mean we market less? NO, we market harder playing the melodies the tourist love hearing, mountains, glaciers and wildlife. Don’t believe me, ask any entrepreneur whether marketing is important to their business. There were a few remarks that lead me to believe that a face to face conversation with the Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council has not yet occurred. The Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council has been asked several times, over many years, by the borough, to find a sustainable funding mechanism. This has been a requisite, not a “this is what we want” situation. To the Author of the opinion article - “Bed tax may not be the best route for the borough”, I challenge you to have a conversation with the Executive Director of the Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council. She is very bright, very well spoken like yourself and will share absolute facts with you. The Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council is the marketing arm for the Kenai Peninsula. Anchorage has their marketing arm with a budget of around 7 million dollars, Mat-Su’s around $850 thousand and Fairbanks is around $2.9 million dollars. Your marketing arm is talented, solely focused on the benefit of the Kenai Peninsula’s economy. Seriously, the Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council’s mission is “To promote, develop and coordinate visitation to the Kenai Peninsula, and create an awareness and understanding of tourism’s effect on, and enhancement of, the local economy and residents’ quality of life.” That’s good for you, me and business right? The Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council and the tourism industry’s businesses are literally squeezing diamonds out of rocks to the benefit of all Kenai Peninsula residents. I ask you, when is marketing a bad idea? We can only reap what we sow.

engineering, has unveiled a prototype for a driverless car. While we should celebrate and encourage such technological innovation, we must also be mindful of the potential abuses and unintended consequences of the technology. In a post on Google’s official blog, the company hailed its self-driving car project and revealed a plan to build about 100 copies of the prototype and test them over the summer. A video showed passengers, including an apparently blind man, riding in a small car with no steering wheel, accelerator or brake pedals. “If all goes well,” the post noted, “we’d like to run a small pilot program here in California in the next couple of years.” The Google post states that the prototypes “have sensors that remove blind spots, and they can detect objects out to a distance of more than two football fields in all directions.” Considering that human error accounts for some 80 percent to 90 percent of traffic accidents, the more driverless cars there are on the roads, the more accidents may be reduced. But, as with other new technologies, there is also great potential for abuse. How secure will be the data and wireless transmissions, for example? Could someone track your every movement, or even remotely take control of your car? Would police (or hackers/robbers with ill intent) be able to force your car to a standstill? Could governments prevent you from going above a certain speed? There also are social implications. Google wonders at the possibilities of driverless cars: “(D)runk and distracted driving? History.” However, there are unintended consequences whenever individuals give up responsibility. It would be great if driverless cars could keep someone who had had a bit too much to drink from getting behind the wheel, but it also might encourage excessive drinking since people would no longer have to worry about driving home. These concerns are no reason to restrain developing the technology, however. It is only when people are free to create, unhindered by governmental mandate and regulation, that the greatest inventions and improvements to the quality of life of society at large will occur. There also are the circumstances that will best allow others to solve the problems created by the unintended consequences or abuses of new technologies.

U – More, Sportsman Warehouse, Steve’s Chevron, Sweeney’s Clothing, Tesoro, Three Bears, Tree House Restaurant, Trustworthy Hardware, United Rental, Upper Cleaning up the trash Deck Lounge, Walmart, Walton, Theiler & We would like to express our apprecia- Winegarden, LLC, Weaver Brothers, XTO tion to the thoughtful woman who has spent You are all truly appreciated. Thanks countless hours of picking up trash along again. the Kenai Spur Highway. Her efforts have not gone unnoticed and she is an example Tammy Freeman to us all. With gratitude, Cherrie Verkuilen Nikiski and family.

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Tutors deserve thanks Recognize the service of our community volunteer tutors, who serve community members facing literacy challenges. The Kenai Peninsula College Learning Center’s ProLiteracy America Literacy Program would like to take this opportunity to thank our community volunteer tutors. Volunteers are the heart of our program and the key to our success. They make it possible for us to offer additional services for community members who are working to improve their literacy skills and educational goals. When you see these folks out and about on the Peninsula, please thank them for the gift of their time and service to their fellow community members: Rebecca Weaver, Scott Downing, Dorothy Gray, Janice High, Susan Hawker, Sadie Arneson, Michael Skinner, Michael Leach, Robert Romig, Kathryn Christopherson, Sharon Anderson, Barbara Roberts, Vicki Leach, Clair Kochis, Bettie Wallace and Sharon Christopher. Diane Taylor, Learning Center Director Sharon Christopher AmeriCorps Member

Nikiski thank you

What a success! Nikiski high schools class of 2014 senior year has come to the end and they are all moving forward on to their future plans. On behalf of the Nikiski high school senior class of 2014, teachers, staff members and parents, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you for your generosity and commitment to making this event so memorable and successful with the numerous donations and volunteer time. Almost all the graduates attended the senior after grad party and really enjoyed it! This could not have been possible without YOUR donations! AA Dan’s, Acapulco, ACS, Airgas, Airport Equipment Rental, Alaska USA Federal Credit Union, Alaska Railroad Corporation, Alyeska Tires, Arby’s, Bare Threads, Blockbuster, Browns Electric, Burger Bus, C-Cups, C & M Muffler, Carmody Masonry, Car Quest, Charlie’s Pizza, Clearvu Window Cleaning, Craig Taylor, CPGH, Country Foods / IGA, Dan’s TV & Appliance, Ellis Automotive, Fitness Place, First National Bank Alaska, G & G Automotive, Grant Aviation, Hey Good Lookin’, Hilcorp, Hobbies, Crafts & Games, Jasmine Hair Design, Jay Rohloff, DDS, Jumpin Junction, Kaladi Brothers Coffee, Key Bank, L & J Enterprises, Legends Dental, M & M Market, Magtech, Medicenter, McKinley Services, Morgan Steel, Napa Auto Parts (Kenai), National Oilwell, Nikiski Community Council, North Kenai Community, Northern Lights, Orca Theatre, Peninsula Clarion, Pollard Jhasmine Lamb Wireline, Rain for Rent, River City Books, Soldotna River & Sea Marine, Ron’s Honda, Save –

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Thanks for a good graduation

The Skyview Class of 2014, the last class of Skyview High School, would like to thank the Soldotna community that has so generously supported them for the last 4 years and especially the support for the After Graduation Party. Businesses and individuals were extremely generous in celebrating the graduation of these seniors. Our sincere appreciation goes to: ACS Soldotna –Randy Dobbs, Alaska USA, Arbys – Soldotna, Big Daddy’s Pizza, Blockbuster – Soldotna, Bub’s Pizza, Central Peninsula Hospital, Soldotna Chevron, Coca Cola – Gary Toombs, Dairy Queen, Dr. Chris Hudson, Dr. Curt Buchholz, Dr. Steven White – Gentle Dental, The Eagles, Soldotna Elks Club, EyeWear Express, Fashionably Sassy, Fred Turcott Photography, Kelly Griebel – Freedom Realty, Grant Aviation, Hairforce, Homer Electric Association, Holiday – Soldotna, Hutchings Auto, Jersey Subs – Soldotna, Jumpin’ Junction, Kenai River Pizza, Dr. Tom Kobylarz, Legends Dental, Narrow Road Productions, Orca Theater, Pack Rat Military Store, Peninsula Ice Racers, Peninsula Scrub Shoppe, Pizza Hut, Priebe Orthodontics, Radio Shack – Soldotna, Renewal Skin Care Studio, Save U More, Soldotna Professional Pharmacy, Spenard Builders Supply – Soldotna, Nancy Field State Farm, Subway K-Beach, Sugar Magnolias, Susan’s Cuttin’ Up Hair Design, Sweeney’s, Three Bears, Tim’s Janitorial Service, Trustworthy, Wal-Mart, Peninsula Allergy & Asthma Center – Clint James, Joe Moore – Altman Rodgers. Apologies to anyone that we have missed – our error and still enormously appreciated. Heartfelt thanks from the Seniors and their Parents of Skyview High School Class of 2014 Rhonda Neill, Susan Mathews, Kari Cook, Leslie Morton, Valerie Flake, Pam Oberts & Cindy Schlung Soldotna

Baseball team appreciates successful conference The Soldotna High school Baseball team hosted the Southcentral conference region baseball tournament this past weekend. I’d like to thank all those that contributed to the tournament, but especially our Sponsors Kevin and Carol Asp of Alaska Sleep Clinics. Not only did they generously sponsor the tournament, but they also spent many volunteer hours working at the tournament. I’d also like to thank the City of Soldotna and Soldotna Little league for your assistance with our road closures and gate entry. It is a pleasure to work with such generous and caring people. Thank you! Tami Miller SOHI baseball parent

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their job when it came to managing the fishery,” he said. McCombs said he would have to talk to the CIFF board about the group’s next steps. CIFF could file a motion for reconsideration, but the grounds for doing so are limited. The fisherman’s fund had asked the judge to at least allow the process to continue to discovery before making a decision. Last summer, CIFF asked for a preliminary injunction requiring Fish and Game to follow certain aspects of the Cook Inlet salmon management plans, and both sides argued the case in Anchorage Superior Court. Guidi ruled that the injunc-

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As of June 3, Buccaneer had not set up the escrow account, AOGCC Commissioner Cathy Foerster said. The company asked for clarifications regarding its responsibilities, she said, and a 10-day comment period was issued for the other parties involved to respond. June 10 is also the deadline set by the commission for the parties to reach an agreement on gas and royalty payments. If an agreement is not reached, the commission will determine gas rights at a future hearing. “We don’t have an agreement yet; we’ve been close a few times over the last year — certainly the last six months,” DNR Commissioner Joe Balash said June 2. “I would say there’s no good reason we don’t have an agreement, that’s my perspective.” The “hodgepodge” of subsurface ownership, combined with disputing past and future payments has complicated negotiations, he said. Trust Land Office Deputy Director John Morrison said there has been “good communication among all four parties” and that he felt they were close to an agreement June 3. CIRI spokesman Jason Moore said it is unclear whether Buccaneer’s bankruptcy would influence negotiations, but also that the Native corporation could see the bankruptcy coming. Moore said CIRI pressed for the escrow account to be set up to hold funds in dispute. Further, he said the Trust Land Office owes CIRI “a lot of money” for royalties it has taken from CIRI gas produced on

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tion was not necessary, in part because a remedy was available if he later determined that managers had erred, and in part because he would simply be substituting the court’s judgment for managers if he ruled in favor of changing their practices. Guidi referenced that decision in his order supporting ADFG’s motion for summary judgment. ADFG is responsible for day-to-day management of Cook Inlet salmon fisheries, while the board approves the overarching management plans and makes allocative decisions for the fishery. In recent years, the department has been tasked with conserving Kenai River king salmon, which have had particularly low returns, while allowing opportunities to harvest Kenai River sockeyes, which are plentiful.

CIFF had said that the eastside setnet fleet was harmed when ADFG limited fishing time to conserve king salmon. The setnetters primarily target sockeyes, but also catch kings. CIFF, along with the United Cook Inlet Drift Association, has also challenged the federal decision that formally removed Cook Inlet from the federal salmon fishery management plan, eliminating the potential for federal oversight. That lawsuit is currently working its way through federal district court in Anchorage; oral argument was heard May 26, and a decision is pending. Guidi’s June 2 decision indicated that he thought there was enough information to make a decision. At the end of the May 29 hearing, he said that the two sides had a pretty good go at each other in court last sum-

mer when he considered the injunction. The May hearing was largely focused on whether or not there were remaining issues of fact to be considered. Alaska Assistant Attorney General Mike Mitchell said that it was up to CIFF to prove that the state erred in its management last summer, and had not done so. “The evidence shows that the department did not throw the plans out the window,” Mitchell said during oral argument. Mitchell said that during testimony last summer, there was no discussion of missing facts, or the need for more information about the management that was occurring. Bruce Weyhrauch, who represented CIFF, reiterated that organization’s position that ADFG strayed from the management plans and made allocative decisions without the

authority to do so, calling the 2013 decisions “willful mismanagement.” Weyhrauch has asked that CIFF be able to go through discovery and get further information about how 2013 management decisions were made before the judge decides whether or not ADFG was in the right. Guidi asked why CIFF thought there was enough evidence last summer, but no longer did, and Weyhrauch responded that the injunction had a different standard than summary judgment. The two sides also discussed this winter’s Board of Fisheries Upper Cook Inlet meeting, which occurred during two weeks in January and February. Mitchell said that CIFF had not gone to the board with its complaints over how ADFG

managed in 2013, although the board would be the correct way to address the issue, he said. He also noted that the board made significant changes to the management plans this year. McCombs, however, did submit numerous proposals to the Board of Fisheries seeking management plan changes, and the CIFF members who attended the hearing all attended the BOF meeting as well, citing 2013 management in their public testimony and discussions with board members. Weyhrauch said that ADFG’s comment in its reply brief that the board would have dismissed it if CIFF had raised the issue at the meeting did not paint a picture of the board that was open to the public or impartial.

the Kenai Loop pad. CIRI has a right to 20 percent of production minus expenses, according to Moore. CIRI Land and Energy Development Vice President Ethan Schutt said at an April 21 AOGCC hearing that the Kenai Loop wells were producing in the neighborhood of 8 million cubic feet of gas per day. Morrison said the Trust Land Office is “pretty comfortable” that the payments it receives from Buccaneer will be safe from creditors involved in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy action after discussing the issue with counsel. Foerster said she did not know whether the bankruptcy would affect Buccaneer’s regulatory commitments. As for the Land Trust Office’s royalties, Balash said there is a memorandum of understanding, or MOU, between the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority and DNR that gives the department the responsibility to help the authority maximize revenue from its lands. The MOU shifts gas royalty payments that typically go to the Division of Oil and Gas to the Trust Land Office when produced on Trust land, he said. “At least from where I sit (the MOU) causes all ‘ties’ to go to the trust, and that’s OK because the situation we find ourselves in is that it’s either going to the general fund or the Mental Health Trust account and either way they’re state sources of revenue,” Balash said. Income from leasing and resource development on the 1 million acres of Mental Health Trust land across the state is part of the roughly $26 million the trust budgets each year for programs and services for Alaskans with disabilities and mental illness, according to the trust.

Overall, Balash said the state has had “a couple rubs” with Buccaneer during the company’s oil and gas work in the state, but he said the issues were nothing out of the ordinary. Buccaneer still holds other Cook Inlet leases that are currently without issue, he said. “They were an aggressive company and had a lot of enthusiasm; they just didn’t have enough capital,” Balash said. Plague of problems Before the May 22 Kenai Loop decision and the May 31 bankruptcy filing, a lot of other things went wrong for Buccaneer, including a dispute and a lawsuit with its first rig operator, delays in getting the jackup operating, problems siting the rig at an offshore location in the Inlet and an expensive dryhole on the Peninsula. The unraveling of the company’s Alaska strategy began in March when the board of directors suspended CEO Curtis Burton with pay pending a review of operations. Burton meanwhile filed a lawsuit in a Texas state court arguing a breach of his employment contract. On May 14 the board completed its review, terminated Burton and also removed him from the board. Burton’s lawsuit continues, meanwhile. What really aggravated the financial situation was when an investor that had promised to help fund expensive offshore

drilling at Buccaneer’s Southern Cross prospect failed to come through with the money. One of Buccaneer’s shareholders, Meridian Capital International Fund, stepped in with interim financing, but the company was still left seeking other longer-term capital. There was a second win, however, with a potentially major gas discovery at Cosmopolitan, near Anchor Point. It was a bittersweet development, though. To raise cash, Buccaneer had to sell its minority interest in the discovery to its partner in Cosmopolitan, BlueCrest Energy of Fort Worth, and also its share of the jack-up rig. Through all of this, Buccaneer worked on a long-term refinancing strategy. On April 30 the company’s major creditor, Meridian Capital CIS Fund, an affiliate of Meridian Capital International, sold its debt to Houston-based AIX Energy LLC, a privately-held energy finance group that has been affiliated with Meridian. Meridian itself remained as a major shareholder in Buccaneer. Sources familiar with Buccaneer said a major payment to AIX on the debt is due June 30, but that may be delayed due to the bankruptcy. What made people really take note of Buccaneer initially in Cook Inlet was its discovery of the small Kenai Loop gas

field near the city of Kenai and successful production of gas in 18 months from the time the exploration well was drilled, which is light-speed compared with the lengthy permitting and occasional lawsuits that get other companies bogged down. Ironically, it was Kenai Loop that finally forced the company into bankruptcy after the commission’s decision. The company will now sell most of its assets. Kenai Loop’s discovery came at a time when the regional utilities were deeply worried about depleted gas fields in Cook Inlet and the possibility that they would have to import gas as liquefied natural gas. Buccaneer showed, with a drill bit, that there was still gas to be found. Also, the company found new gas just a mile from the long-producing Cannery Loop gas field, formerly owned and operated by a large company, Marathon Oil. This seemed to show that the large companies like Marathon that have long

dominated the industry were not aggressively exploring despite the utilities’ worries. “As part of the Chapter 11 proceedings Buccaneer Energy has also reached an agreement in principle with its secured lender on certain critical elements of a plan of reorganization that would result in the sale of substantially all of the company’s assets,” Buccaneer said in a June 2 press release. Meanwhile, there are no changes, for now, in production operations. The company has three employees overseeing the Kenai Loop gas wells. “Buccaneer will continue to operate and oversee its assets during and throughout the restructuring process,” the press release said. The restructuring should allow Buccaneer to pay off its creditors, but at the expense of its assets. “The company expects to have sufficient cash on hand

Molly Dischner can be reached at molly.dischner@ alaskajournal.com.

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Around the World Israel approves new settlement construction in sign of anger JERUSALEM — Israel gave the final go-ahead Thursday to build nearly 1,500 homes in Jewish settlements, saying the construction was a response to the formation of the Palestinian unity government backed by the Islamic militant group Hamas. The move triggered international criticism and deepened a rift between Israel and its Western allies. With Israel outraged at the world’s embrace of the unity government, Israel’s housing minister said the new construction was “just the beginning.” Israel has been sparring with its allies in Washington and Europe since Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas swore in the unity government Monday. Israel has asked the world to shun the new government because it is backed by Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks in the past two decades. The European Union and the United States, along with Israel, consider Hamas a terrorist group. Abbas says Hamas plays no formal role in the government. His new Cabinet consists of technocrats who have accepted international demands to renounce violence and accept Israel’s right to exist. None of the men have any affiliation with Hamas.

Man suspected in Canadian police killings spotted 3 times, but eludes capture MONCTON, New Brunswick — Royal Canadian Mounted Police combed the streets and woods of this normally tranquil city Thursday in search of a man suspected of killing three officers in the deadliest attack on their ranks in nearly a decade. The suspect, armed with high-powered long firearms, was spotted three times while eluding the massive manhunt that emptied roads and kept families hunkered in their homes in Moncton, an east coast city where gun violence is rare. Dozens of police officers could be seen in a part of the search perimeter with their weapons drawn, some glancing around buildings. Others, including members of a tactical unit, were patrolling streets within the cordoned off area. Armored security trucks were also visible. “Our search for the suspect is still ongoing,” RCMP Cpl. Chantal Farrah told a news conference Thursday afternoon. “Our focus remains in the mountain north area.”

AP 1944 report: Allies win footholds in France, push ahead The newsflash came on a slip of paper in a red-and-white striped courier pouch: “EISENHOWERS HEADQUARTERS ANNOUNCES ALLIES LAND IN FRANCE.” The Associated Press had some two dozen writers and photographers among the Allied forces as they landed on Normandy’s coast on June 6, 1944. From Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s London headquarters, Wes Gallagher — who later went on to become AP’s top executive — wrote up the first Allied official dispatches announcing D-Day and sent them in the sealed pouch to AP’s London office by military courier, after the military censor authorized their release. They arrived at 9:32 a.m. and were sent to the rest of the world by teletype one minute later. In France, the AP team included Don Whitehead, who was making his fifth landing with Allied troops, and Bede Irvin, a photographer who would soon be killed by friendly fire while covering the American forces.

Nation Threat to Bergdahl led to action By KEN DILANIAN, and DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration told senators it didn’t notify Congress about the pending swap of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban officials because of intelligence the Taliban might kill him if the deal was made public. That fear — not just the stated concerns that Bergdahl’s health might be failing — drove the administration to quickly make the deal to rescue him, bypassing the law that lawmakers be notified when detainees are released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, congressional and administration officials said Thursday. They spoke only on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly. Since Bergdahl’s release on

‘I don’t believe any of this.’ — Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. Saturday, administration officials including President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and National Security Adviser Susan Rice have said publicly that the key reason for the secret prisoner swap was evidence that Bergdahl’s physical health was deteriorating after five years in captivity. But on Wednesday night, administration officials told senators in a closed session that the primary concern was the death risk if the deal collapsed. At a news conference in Brussels on Thursday, Obama said he makes no apologies for recovering Bergdahl, and he

said the furor in Washington over the exchange has made the matter a “political football.” He appeared to be referring to potential danger to Bergdahl’s life when he said that “because of the nature of the folks that we were dealing with and the fragile nature of these negotiations, we felt it was important to go ahead and do what we did.” There was no overt threat by the Taliban but rather an assessment based on intelligence reports that Bergdahl’s life would be in jeopardy if news of the talks got out and the deal failed, said two senior U.S. officials familiar with the efforts to free the soldier. In public comments, State Department spokesman Marie Harf told reporters Thursday, “There were real concerns that if this were made public first, his physical security could be in danger.” The risks, she said, included “someone guarding him

that possibly wouldn’t agree and could take harmful action against him. So as we needed to move quickly, all of these factors played into that.” Not everyone in Congress was convinced. “I don’t believe any of this,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, RS.C. “First, we had to do the prisoner deal because he was in imminent danger of dying. Well, they saw the video in January and they didn’t act until June. So that holds no water. Now the argument is the reason they couldn’t tell us is because it jeopardized his life. I don’t buy that for a moment because he was a very valuable asset to the Taliban.” Bergdahl himself remained in a military hospital in Germany. His hometown of Hailey, Idaho, called off a big celebration planned for his eventual homecoming, citing security concerns.

Military jet crashes; no one injured By JULIE WATSON Associated Press

SAN DIEGO — Military crews on Thursday mopped up the debris of an exploded fighter jet that struck a Southern California neighborhood, as authorities launched an investigation into the latest crash of the Cold War aircraft with a history of problems. The Harrier AV-8B had taken off from the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma and was almost at his destination at Naval Air Facility El Centro when it went down Wednesday afternoon, going up in flames and destroying two homes and badly damaging a third. The pilot who was ejected landed in a nearby field and suffered only scrapes and bruises. There were no injuries in the neighborhood, which is near a

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county airport and the El Centro training facility. “We have air traffic every day from big military helicopters to Osprey to Blue Angels flying over us,” said resident Leonardo Olmeda, 25, who was racing remote-controlled cars in a street where children were playing when they saw the pilot eject and the jet ignite. “Everybody seems relieved and thankful that the outcome of this was not worse.” Two of the displaced families in the newer neighborhood of Imperial — a small desert city of about 15,000 people about 90 miles east of San Diego — went to stay with friends or relatives, while the Red Cross put up one couple in a hotel Wednesday night. Officials were assessing whether any of the families would need longer term help, such as rental assistance or other

items, said Red Cross spokeswoman Courtney Pendleton. Marine Capt. Anton Semelroth said the military was investigating to determine whether human error, a mechanical failure or some other reason caused the jet to crash. The probe could take months to complete. It was the second crash in a month of a Harrier jet from the Yuma air base. On May 9, a pilot was able to eject safely before his jet crashed in a remote desert area near the Gila River Indian Community, south of Phoenix. No one was injured. In July 2012, another AV-8B Harrier crashed in an unpopulated area 15 miles from the air base, which is among the busiest training aviation centers in the world for the Marine Corps. The Harrier, built by McDonnell Douglas, is a singleengine attack jet that can land

and takeoff vertically — hence its nickname, Jump Jet. Military officials say the aircraft is being replaced by the F-35 because it has been in use for more than 40 years and has reached the end of its life cycle. It also has had a problematic safety record over the years. In 1999, the planes were grounded after a series of crashes, and in 2003 the Los Angeles Times won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of reports that found the Harrier was the most accident-prone aircraft in the military at that time. “Every time we take off, safety is our biggest concern,” Semelroth said. “I’m sure after the previous mishaps we’ve got a better process now and will take this investigation and do the same thing. We constantly try to improve the process and make it safer.”

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, June 6, 2014

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Senators reach deal on VA health care By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Senior senators reached agreement Thursday on the framework for a bipartisan bill expanding veterans’ ability to get health care outside the government’s scandal-beset Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics. The bill would allow veterans who experience waits of 30 days or more for VA appointments or who live at least 40 miles from a VA hospital or clinic to use private doctors enrolled as providers for Medicare, military TRICARE or other government health care programs. It also would let the VA immediately fire as many as 450 senior regional executives and

hospital administrators for poor performance. The bill resembles a measure passed last month by the House, but includes a 28day appeal process omitted by the House legislation. The Senate deal came as acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson announced that 18 veterans who were kept off official VA waiting lists in the Phoenix area have died. Gibson said he does not know whether the deaths were related to long waiting times to see a VA doctor. The 18 veterans who died were among 1,700 veterans identified in a federal report as being kept off an electronic waiting list of scheduled appointments, Gibson said. Taking care of those 1,700 veterans is his top priority as VA chief, Gibson said during a tour of VA

facilities in Phoenix, where the furor started. The Senate bill is a response to a building national uproar over veterans’ health care following allegations that surfaced in April that as many as 40 veterans may have died while waiting an average 115 days for appointments at the Phoenix VA hospital or its walk-in clinics. Since then, investigators have found long wait times and falsified records covering them up at other VA facilities nationwide. “Right now we have a crisis on our hands and it’s imperative that we deal with that crisis,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. Sanders and Sen. John Mc-

Cain, R-Ariz., announced the agreement Thursday following two days of intense negotiations. Both had introduced competing versions earlier in the week. McCain said the bill was “a way to help to relieve this terrible tragedy that has befallen our nation’s veterans.” The bill also authorizes the VA to lease 26 new health facilities in 18 states and spend $500 million to hire more doctors and nurses. The VA now has 150 hospitals and 820 clinics nationwide. Senate leaders said they hoped to bring the legislation to the floor soon but offered no specifics. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama’s choice to be the top health official at the Veterans Affairs Department with-

drew his nomination Thursday, saying he feared his confirmation could spark a prolonged political battle. Jeffrey Murawsky, health care chief for the VA’s Chicago-based regional office, was nominated last month to be the department’s new undersecretary for health care, replacing Robert Petzel, who resigned under pressure. Petzel had been scheduled to retire later this year but was asked to leave early amid a firestorm over delays in patient care and preventable deaths at veterans hospitals. Murawsky now oversees seven VA hospitals and 30 clinics in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan, including one in suburban Chicago where there are allegations that its staff

used secret lists to conceal long patient wait times for appointments. Murawsky was a doctor at the Hines, Illinois, hospital and remains on its staff. In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Murawsky said his withdrawal was “in consideration of recent events, but most importantly in the best interests of serving our nations’ veterans.” The White House said in a statement that Murawsky feared a prolonged fight over his confirmation, adding that he believed the role was too important not to be filled quickly. Obama accepted Murawsky’s withdrawal and will move quickly to find a replacement, the White House statement said.

GM ousts 15 employees over ignition-switch scandal TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Auto Writers

WARREN, Mich. — General Motors said Thursday that it has forced out 15 employees for their role in the deadly ignition-switch scandal and will set up a compensation fund for crash victims, as an internal investigation blamed the debacle on engineering ignorance and bureaucratic dithering, not a deliberate cover-up. GM took more than a decade to recall 2.6 million cars with bad switches that are now linked to at least 13 deaths by the automaker’s count. “Group after group and committee after committee within GM that reviewed the issue failed to take action or acted too slowly,” Anton Valukas, the former federal prosecutor hired by the automaker to investigate the reason for the delay, said in a 315-page report. “Although everyone had responsibility to fix the problem, nobody took responsibility.” GM CEO Mary Barra said more than half the 15 employees forced out were senior legal and engineering executives who

failed to disclose the defect and were part of a “pattern of incompetence.” Five other employees have been disciplined, she said, without identifying any of them. The automaker said it will establish a compensation program covering those killed or seriously injured in the more than 50 accidents blamed on the switches. GM said not say how much money will be involved, but a Wall Street analyst estimated the payouts will total $1.5 billion. Barra called the report “brutally tough and deeply troubling.” The report lays bare a company that operated in “silos,” with employees who didn’t

share information and didn’t take responsibility for problems or treat them with any urgency. Valukas also portrayed a corporate culture in which there was heavy pressure to keep costs down, a reluctance to report problems up the chain of command, a skittishness about putting safety concerns on paper, and general bureaucratic resistance to change. He described what was known as the “GM nod,” in which “everyone nods in agreement to a proposed plan of action but then leaves the room and does nothing.” Valukas exonerated Barra and two other top executives, Mark Reuss, chief of global product development, and gen-

eral counsel Michael Millikin, saying there is no evidence they knew about the problems any earlier than last December. Since February, GM has recalled 2.6 million older-model Chevrolet Cobalts, Saturn Ions and other small cars because their ignitions can slip out of the “run” position and shut off the engine. That disables the power-assisted steering and brakes, making it difficult to control the car, and deactivates the air bags. Trial lawyers suing the company put the death toll at more than 60. “It’s somewhat comforting to realize that they do know that some things were done incorrectly and they’re aware

of that. They made the appropriate measures to make sure it doesn’t happen again,” said Ken Rimer, whose 18-year-old stepdaughter, Natasha Weigel, was killed in a 2006 Cobalt crash in Wisconsin. Last month, GM paid a record $35 million fine for failing to promptly report the bad ignition switches to federal highway safety regulators. Federal prosecutors are also investigating and could bring criminal charges against the automaker and some of its employees. Deep within the company, engineers and others believed the ignition switch flaw was a “customer convenience” issue rather than a safety problem, the report said. Engineers be-

lieved that the cars could still be adequately steered when the engines shut off, and they didn’t realize the air bags became disabled — even after police, academic experts and others outside GM had recognized the problem, according to the report. Around GM, engineers were instructed not to use words like “dangerous,” ‘’defect” or “safety” when describing problems in writing, which contributed to the lack of urgency in dealing with the problem, Valukas wrote. In addition, some workers told Valukas they did not take notes at safety meetings because they believed GM lawyers didn’t want a paper trail.

A-8 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, June 6, 2014

World

Disguised, Boko Haram slaughters hundreds By HARUNA UMAR Associated Press

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — When men wearing military fatigues and carrying weapons showed up in pickup trucks, villagers thought Nigerian soldiers had finally come to protect them from Boko Haram. But it was a disguise. The gunmen rounded up everyone in the village center and then started shooting. Altogether, Boko Haram militants slaughtered hundreds of people in three villages in the far northeast corner of Nigeria, witnesses said Thursday, describing the latest attack by the Islamic extremist group that drew international attention for the kidnapping of more than 300 schoolgirls. A community leader who witnessed the killings on Monday said residents had pleaded for the military to send soldiers to protect the area after they heard that militants were about to attack. The militants arrived in Toyota HiLux pickup trucks — commonly used by the military — and told the civilians they were soldiers and that they had come “to protect you all,” the same tactic used by the group when they kidnapped the girls from a school in the town of Chibok on April 15. “We all thought they were the soldiers whom we earlier reported to that the insurgents might attack us,” said the community leader, who spoke on

condition of anonymity because he feared for his life. After the militants forced everyone into the village centers, “they began to shout ‘Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar,’ then they started to fire at the people continuously for a very long time until all who had gathered were dead,” he said. Allahu akbar means God is great. The killings took place in the villages of Danjara, Agapalwa, and Antagara, part of Gwoza district in Borno state. The community leader said he fled to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, adding that some who escaped the massacre crossed into the neighboring country of Cameroon while others remain trapped in the mountainous region. “They still see the gunmen going about attacking villages and hamlets by setting them on fire,” he said. He said managed to survive because “I was going around to inform people that the soldiers had come and they wanted to address us.” As people were fleeing, other gunmen lurked outside the villages on motorcycles and mowed them down. The slaughter was confirmed by Mohammed Ali Ndume, a senator representing Borno whose hometown is Gwoza, and by a top security official in Maiduguri who insisted on anonymity because he isn’t allowed to speak to the media. It took a few days for survivors to get word of the massacres to Maiduguri because travel on the roads is extremely

AP Photo/ Haruna Umar,File

In this file photo taken on April, 21, security walk past a burnt out government secondary school in Chibok, where gunmen abducted more than 200 students, Chibok, Nigeria. Boko Haram militants dressed as soldiers slaughtered at least 200 civilians in three villages in northeastern Nigeria and the military failed to intervene even though it was warned that an attack was imminent, witnesses said on Thursday.

dangerous and phone connections are poor or nonexistent. In another incident, gunmen killed 45 people in Bargari village on Wednesday after gathering them in front of the village mosque, a witness said. “We were scared because we knew that they were Boko Haram members,” said Abuwar Yale, a witness who escaped the attack. The gunmen who arrived at 9:00 p.m. told the people they were there to preach Islam and

not kill and then asked them to go to the village mosque. As soon as the men gathered there, the militants opened fire chanting “Allahu akbar.” Yale and the others who escaped hid in the bush the whole night and returned to the village in the morning. The houses in the village were set ablaze and the livestock was stolen, he said. In Borno state, militants attacked Alagarno, a village near Chibok where the girls were

kidnapped, and destroyed it, according to Pogu Bitrus, a Chibok community. People heard gunshots as the fighters were approaching and were able to flee, he said. Ndume said the military has assured the Borno state governor that it will dispatch soldiers immediately. “It is sad that we have to wait until now that people are being killed for government to take action,” he said. “Soldiers of the Nigerian army have been

overstretched in both human and material capacity.” Calls placed by The Associated Press to Defense Headquarters spokesman Chris Olukolade’s mobile phone didn’t connect. An email sent to him seeking comment wasn’t answered. Calls to presidential spokesman Reuben Abati also didn’t connect, and he didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment. Nigeria’s military has insisted that a big influx of troops and a year-old state of emergency in Borno and two other states have the insurgents on the run. But soldiers have told the AP that they are outgunned and outnumbered by the insurgents, don’t have bullet-proof vests, are not properly paid and have to forage for food. Boko Haram, which wants to establish Islamic state in Nigeria, has been taking over villages in the northeast, killing and terrorizing civilians and political leaders. Thousands of people have been killed in the five-year-old insurgency, more than 2,000 so far just this year, and an estimated 750,000 Nigerians have been driven from their homes. The Gwoza district, where Monday’s attack took place, is a regional political center whose emir was killed last week in a Boko Haram ambush on his convoy. Emirs are religious and traditional rulers who have been targeted for speaking out against Boko Haram’s extremism.

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, June 6, 2014

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Obama and allies: Putin faces critical choices By JULIE PACE and JUERGEN BAETZ Associated Press

PARIS — Laying out clear conditions, President Barack Obama and Western allies opened a pathway for Russia to ease tensions in Ukraine on Thursday but pointedly warned Moscow it could face new sanctions within weeks if Vladimir Putin fails to go along. The leaders, who were gathered in Brussels for a wealthynations summit, said the Russian president could avoid tougher penalties in part by recognizing the legitimacy of the new Ukrainian government and ending support for an insurgency in eastern cities that is widely believed to be backed by the Kremlin. There was no mention of rolling back Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea, which precipitated the European crisis. “We are at a point where Mr. Putin has the chance to get back into a lane of international law,” Obama said during a

news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron. But Obama also said the West “can’t simply allow drift” in Ukraine, where insurgents continue to clash with government forces in eastern cities. From Brussels, Obama and other leaders jetted to France ahead of events marking Friday’s 70th anniversary of the D-Day Normandy invasion that paved the way for the Allied victory in World War II. This time Putin was on the scene. And Cameron, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel each were using the commemorations as a backdrop for separate meetings with the Russian president, who arrived in Paris. Hollande in particular appeared to be embracing the diplomatic mantle, hosting Putin at Elysee Palace Thursday night just after finishing dinner with Obama at a Paris restaurant. The willingness of Western leaders to meet face-to-face with

‘We are at a point where Mr. Putin has the chance to get back into a lane of international law.’ — President Barack Obama Putin for the first time since he annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine marked a noticeable shift in tactics. While leaders have spoken with Putin by phone during the crisis, they had avoided meeting him in person and boycotted the summit he was to host in Russia this week, choosing instead to meet without him in Brussels. It was the group’s first similar summit in two decades without the participation of Russia. Obama was not scheduled to hold a formal meeting with Putin, though the two men were expected to have some contact at a leaders lunch Friday in Normandy. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who have met frequently

during the crisis, huddled in the French capital Thursday evening. Aides said Obama was pressing Hollande, Cameron and Merkel to outline for Putin the specific conditions he would have to meet in order to avoid more sanctions. The West wants Putin to recognize the results of Ukraine’s May 25 election and start a dialogue with Presidentelect Petro Poroshenko, end support for the pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine and stop the flow of arms across the Russian border. Western leaders voiced some cautious optimism that Putin may be shifting his view of the situation, noting that he did not reject the results of Ukraine’s elections

Thai army government captures protest leader By GRANT PECK Associated Press

BANGKOK — Thailand’s new military government moved against two of its top targets on Thursday, capturing a top organizer of protests against its recent takeover and launching a probe into the finances of the former elected prime minister. Protest leader Sombat Boonngam-anong himself was the first to announce his own arrest, posting a message Thursday night on his Facebook account saying simply, “I’ve been arrested.” Thai media later reported that Sombat, also known as Nuling, was captured in a house in Cholburi province, about two hours east of Bangkok. Sombat had defied an order

from the new military government to report to the authorities, and went into hiding, going online to organize anti-coup protests in Bangkok. The website of the newspaper Khaosod reported that he was arrested by police officers of the Technology Crime Suppression Division working with the army, and that he had been traced on the internet by the National Intelligence Agency. The new government has warned that it is closely monitoring online activities, and plans to expand its surveillance capabilities. Several dozen people have defied the order to turn themselves in, and some are known to have fled to neighboring countries. The junta has declared that those who don’t surrender themselves may be sub-

ject to a two-year jail term. Sombat was one of the first people to organize protests against Thailand’s previous coup, in 2006, and became known for imaginative and non-violent tactics. Earlier Thursday, Thailand’s state anti-corruption agency said it would investigate the assets of former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and four members of her Cabinet involved in a controversial rice subsidy program. The move by the National Anti-Corruption Commission followed the May 22 coup that overthrew the elected government Yingluck had led. She was forced from office herself by a court ruling earlier in May that she had abused her authority in approving the transfer of a high-level civil servant.

outright, nor was there any overt Russian interference in the voting. But with violence still raging near Russia’s border with Ukraine, it remained unclear whether Putin was ready to fully de-escalate the months-long crisis or whether the West’s threat of more sanctions could push him in that direction. The U.S. and the European Union already have imposed sanctions on businesses and individuals with ties to Putin. But they have stopped short of slapping harsher penalties on Russia’s key economic sectors, including its energy industry. If there is no change in Russia’s involvement in Ukraine, the leaders warned, more sanctions could come within weeks, possibly by the time the European Council meets in late June. But it was unclear whether the West would simply expand the targeted sanctions or move to sector penalties. Cameron took the most aggressive stance, calling for sector sanctions unless Putin

quickly changes his actions. “The status quo is unacceptable,” Cameron declared before his meeting with the Russian leader. Britain and the U.S. have been the leading advocates for more aggressive penalties, while France and Germany continue to be more reluctant. In a nod to the concerns of the latter nations, which have deep economic ties with Russia, Obama took a softer public line than Cameron, saying, “It’s important to take individual countries’ sensitivities in mind and make sure that everybody is ponying up.” But he added in regard to further sanctions: “My hope is, is that we don’t have to exercise them because Mr. Putin’s made some better decisions.” Putin’s first opportunity could come as early as Friday, when he and the new Ukrainian president both attend the Normandy events commemorating the D-Day invasion that helped wrest Western Europe from Hitler’s grip.

A-10 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, June 6, 2014

Religion

Answered Prayers Two weeks ago, my wife Maryna and I were watching along with about twenty other Sterling residents, the five Canadian tanker planes dumping water on a huge fire burning out of control about two miles East of Morgan’s landing State Park from where we were watching. The synchronized formation of the planes, how they dropped down and opened their bellies full of water on the smoke below then pulling up out of the smoke and heading back to Brown’s Lake for more water. The whole turn around from dumping to picking up more water to dumping took five minutes. Amazing and very successful aeronautics I must say. These guys really knew what they were doing. Each trip putting their lives on the line to save lives. My gratitude and appreciation go out to the hundreds of firefighters and pilots both helicopter and tanker planes, the scores of behind the scene people supporting the fire fighters, some 24 hours a day and again to the men and women on the ground fighting the fire with precision and experience that made a difference to so many people’s lives in the Funny River, Kasilof and Sterling areas where their homes and property were threatened by the beast of a fire. We have heard all the statistics of how big the fire was, the wolf pups, the timber lost; it’s all amazing statistics one can hardly imagine the enormity of it all. From our point of view, I knew how dry everything was prior to the fire. I knew that the more days of sun shine we continued to have, the more explosive the danger was going to be when we got our first forest fire, whether it was natural or man made. We had already put out an all points bulletin for prayers for our area because of the

Voices of R eligion M ark C onway dryness. We had people praying all over the lower 48 and heard prayers even in our own town and churches before hand. Then it hit. Monday night, prayers going out as the winds picked up that night and the first billows of smoke pluming high into the stratosphere. I was working the next day down on the river, just across from the fire a few miles away. By noon the helicopters were going back and forth with their buckets dousing the flames. Huge billows of smoke black on the ground but white as cumulus clouds on the top grew higher and higher. I called my wife and we prayed together for those who lived closest to the actual fire. The winds seemed light, but gusted every now and again. As the afternoon grew, so did the blaze. It looked like we were in for a big one. Maryna and I continued to pray. The friends were knew were all texting to pray for God’s Mercy and Grace to spare the homes and property of those closest to the fire. Who had any idea that that was just the beginning of a beast waking up with a bear size hunger for as much as it could consume. By the second and third day, the fire grew in intensity, smoke enveloped our area of Sterling with high winds pushing the smoke into our neighborhood. The tanker planes began to make their circle turns over head and the helicopters sounded like they were very close as smoke

Church Briefs Vacation Bible School scheduled Sterling Pentecostal Church will present a Vacation Bible School called “Weird Animals” June 11-15, Wednesday through Sunday. The games, puppets, crafts, songs, activities and snacks will all present the theme, “Where Jesus’ love is one of a kind.” The daily sessions will be from 12 noon to 3 p.m., except on Sunday which will feature a certificate presentation to participants. For more information, call 262-7240.

theran 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 2834153.

SALT Youth Group plans hike

The Apostolic Assembly of Jesus Christ, SALT Youth Group, for Jr. High and High School age students, will meet at 1 p.m. June 7 at the AAJC church and then head outdoors for an afternoon of hiking and Youth group holds light snacks. Register by June garage sale 4, please call Jeremiah BerThe Star of the North Lu- gevin, 907-398-1184 for per-

filled the inside of our house. Funny river and Kasilof areas were considering evacuation we heard. With the smoke in our area and embers of pine needles and ash falling on our cars and ground, westarted getting our motorhome ready to bug out. Yes, we felt the danger that close! As this was all happening, Maryna and I went from praying 4 times a day to four times and hour. Not so much for us, but for those closest to the actual fires. We knew some of the people who were being asked to get ready, and who did evacuate. I can only imagine what was going through their minds, all the possibilities of what could happen. We prayed and asked others we knew as far away as South Africa to pray for us and our neighbors. The calls and emails and texts began to flow in each day,”We are praying for you all!” Who knows how many people were praying for Mercy, Favor and God’s Graces, but, I’m sure it was more than I can count. What a difference prayer makes friends. I don’t know a lot. I won’t even pretend to act like I know a lot. I can only say that I found peace in the middle of the Funny River Fire Storm. I realized that at the drop of a hat, the winds could move that fire so fast in once direction or another, I saw it happen. I had no idea of what a forest fire like that could do. Maryna and I prayed for God’s Favor, His Mercies and Grace to save and be generous to us all. Then, we left the outcome in His hands. I knew it would not please Him to worry. I slept as well as ever each night as the fire grew, but, knew there was nothing I could do but to pray for others and their property. This Funny River Fire was a great challenge for me personally. My trust and Faith in God was put to my extreme limits. You can say what you

mission slip information. This inational) Camp will be held activity is free. July 7-11 (Mon-Fri), 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Kenai PenFair grounds. Ages 4-15 Vacation Bible school insula years. Snacks provided. Call n Birch Ridge Community Grace Huhndorf at 907-394Church will have Vacation 3714 to register or for informaBible School on August 4-8 tion. from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Our theme is Flight School, and kids ages Food Pantry open 4-5th grades are welcome. Call 260-6705 for more informa- weekly tion. The Soldotna Food Pantry n The Midnight Son Sev- is open every Wednesday from enth Day Adventist Church 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for residents proudly presents Son of Trea- in our community who may be sure Island VBS, June 23-27 at experiencing food shortages. 10 a.m. Open to ages 3 and up. The Food Pantry is located at It is free. Church is located at the Soldotna United MethodMile 8.4 Kenai Spur Highway ist Church at 158 South Binin Kenai. For more information kley Street. Non-perishable contact Charce Dunn at 260- food items or monetary dona9331. tions may be dropped off at the n Ninilchik Community church Tuesdays 10 a.m. to 1 Vacation Bible (non-denom-

want, but for me and my house, we put our trust in the Lord. The worst of the fire is over now. The rains came and are still coming on the fire, even as I write. The sky is blue, the trees are green in most places from the road as we drive around. The areas that burned will mourn for a while in their char and ash. But soon and very soon, life will come back to those areas. The black will begin to show signs of life, but not after a long period of quietness and peace on the ground. I have a verse God gave me during the time of the fire. It resonated with me over and over again giving me encouragement. I want to pass it on as a,”Taste and see the Lord is Good,” scripture. From John 5:24, “Jesus said, I assure you, those who listen to my words and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.” And last but not least, Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die like everyone else, will live again. They are given eternal life for believing in me and will never perish.” John 11:25 Once again, thank you Lord for your Love and Mercies always. God bless the Firefighters, the pilots, the support folks, the prayer warriors, the people of our community and support of everyone in this time of need. Here are a couple of easy verses to memorize: “With God, All things are possible!” “Prayer Changes things!” Lord Bless us all. Mark Conway is a believer of Y’shua Christ Jesus and is a Christian evangelist living in Sterling, Alaska with his wife Maryna.

p.m., Wednesdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Clothes 4 U Sundays 9 a.m. to 12 noon. First Baptist Church Soldotna, Thank you for your support. located at 159 S. Binkley Street, is re-opening its Clothes United Methodist 4 U program. It is open on the Church second and fourth Saturday provides food pantry of each month from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. All clothing and shoes are The Kenai United Meth- free to the public. odist Church provides a food pantry for those in need every Monday from noon to 3 p.m. Clothes Quarters The Methodist Church is located on the Kenai Spur High- open weekly way next to the Boys and Girls Clothes Quarters at Our Club. The entrance to the Food Lady of the Angels Church is Pantry is through the side door. open every Wednesday from 10 The Pantry closes for holidays. a.m. to 3 p.m., and the first SatFor more information contact urday of every month from 11 the church office at 283-7868 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more inforor email kumcalaska@gmail. mation, call 907-283-4555. com. Submit church announcements

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, June 6, 2014

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n On May 7, Kenai police arrested Travis D. Fine, 29, of Kenai, for second-degree theft, stemming from a Feb. 27 shoplifting case at Walmart. n On May 9 at 8:15 p.m., Kenai police received a report of a wanted person at Walmart. Police contacted and arrested Bridget L.M. Samson, 23, of Clam Gulch, for 4 outstanding Soldotna Alaska State Troopers warrants, totaling $1,200: a $500 felony arrest warrant for second-degree theft, tampering with physical evidence, with second-degree prior convictions, a $100 misdemeanor warrant for failure to comply with conditions of probation on original charges of two counts of petition to revoke probation, and a $500 misdemeanor arrest warrant for false information. She was taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On May 10 at 12:33 a.m., Kenai police received a report of a domestic disturbance at a residence in Kenai. Police responded and arrested Christine F. Marquis, 53, of Kenai, for fourth-degree assault (domestic violence). She was taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On May 10 at 5:47 p.m., Kenai police responded to Kenai Spur Highway at Main Street Loop for a report of a traffic accident with one vehicle fleeing the scene. Police responded and, after investigation, arrested Kentoria A. Wise, 32, of Nikiski, for driving under the influence. She was taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On May 11, Kenai police received a report of a theft from a residence. After investigation, on May 16, police arrested a 14-year-old juvenile male for second-degree theft. He was released to a parent. nOn May 12 at about 1:30 p.m., Kenai police received a complaint of a possible shoplifter at Three Bears. As a result, Robert J. Mamaloff II, 28, of Kenai, was arrested for concealment of merchandise and attempted fourth-degree theft. He was taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On May 12 at 3:15 p.m., Kenai police received a com-

plaint of a possible shoplifter at Safeway. As a result Jeremiah Love, 18, of Soldotna, was arrested on charges of Theft IV. He was taken to Wildwood Pretrial. n On May 12 at 11:24 a.m., Kenai police responded to a residence for a domestic disturbance. Misty R Frank, 33, of Kenai, was arrested for fourth-degree assault (domestic violence) and first-degree harassment. She was taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility. n On May 14 at 6:07 a.m., Kenai police responded to Bridge Access Road and Tern Avenue for a reckless driver. Angela J. Idzinksi, 21, of Soldotna, was arrested for driving under the influence and sixthdegree misconduct involving a controlled substance and was taken to Wildwood Correctional Facility. nOn May 14 at 3:35 p.m., Kenai police responded to Broad Street on a report of a violation of domestic violence protective order. Robert W. Westover, 43, of Kenai, was arrested on four counts of violating a domestic violence restraining order and was taken to Wildwood Correctional Facility. n On May 14 at 8:09 p.m., Kenai police responded to Fourth Avenue for a traffic complaint involving a street motorcycle. Jeremy S. Carroll, 25, of Kenai, was arrested for driving while license revoked, failure to insure vehicle, misuse of plates and violating conditions of release and was taken to Wildwood Correctional Facility. nOn May 17 at 9:39 p.m., Kenai police made contact with a male who had fled his vehicle. Nathan D. Epling, 39, of Kenai, was arrested for driving while license revoked. Epling was taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility. nOn May 17 at 11:23 p.m., Kenai police received a report of domestic violence. Crystal N. Pena, 27, of Kenai, was arrested for fourth-degree assault (domestic violence) and taken to Wildwood Pretrial. nOn May 18 at 2:21 p.m., Kenai police made a traffic stop on the Kenai Spur Highway near Redoubt Avenue. Angela M. Segura, 36, of Kenai, was issued a summons to court for failure to insure vehicle.

Soldotna Police n On May 9 at 5:29 p.m., Soldotna police responded to Safeway for a shoplifter. Carol Schaffer, 53, of Kenai, had placed $240.87 worth of items in a shopping cart and attempted to leave the store without payment. Schaffer also had an outstanding probation violation arrest warrant. She was taken to Wildwood Pretrial for third-degree theft and the warrant, with bail set at $1,000. nOn May 10 at 2:28 a.m., Soldotna police contacted a suspicious vehicle behind Safeway. Kellie Anglebrandt, 44, of Kenai, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and taken to Wildwood Pretrial on $500 bail. nOn May 10 at 2:33 a.m., Soldotna police stopped a vehicle on the Kenai Spur Highway at Soldotna Avenue. Loyd Ashouwak, 52, of Anchorage, was issued a criminal citation for driving without a valid license and released. n On May 10 at about 3:30 a.m., Soldotna police stopped a vehicle on the Sterling Highway near Devin Drive after a REDDI (Report Every Dangerous Driver Immediately) report was received. Ryan Fritz, 22, of Soldotna, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and taken to Wildwood Pretrial on $500 bail. n On May 10 at 10:23 p.m., Soldotna police responded to the Parkview Apartments, after a noise complaint was received concerning the occupants of a car in the parking lot. Officers contacted Michael A. Grieve, 26, of Kenai, who had been consuming alcohol in violation of his felony probation. Grieve was arrested and taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail. A second person, Anthony Quelland, 27, of Soldotna, was issued a criminal citation for consuming alcohol in violation of his court ordered release conditions and released. n On May 11 at 5:13 a.m., Soldotna police stopped a vehicle at Mile 94 of the Sterling Highway. Dary Langfitt, 22, of Soldotna, was arrested on an outstanding warrant from Clackamas County, Oregon for first-degree unlawful sexual penetration and first-degree sexual abuse. Langfitt was

taken to Wildwood Pretrial and held without bail, pending extradition to Oregon. nOn May 13 at about 10:00 a.m., Soldotna police stopped a vehicle on the Sterling Highway near Smith Way. Misty Alexan, 34, of Kenai, was arrested for driving while license revoked and taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility on $500 bail. n On May 14 at 6:31 p.m., Soldotna police responded to Fred Meyer for a shoplifter. Michael Zufelt, 26, of Soldotna, was arrested for third-degree theft and taken to Wildwood Pretrial on $500 bail. n On May 16 at 2:12 a.m., Soldotna police stopped a vehicle at Mile 94 of the Sterling Highway. Christopher Anderson, 22, of Soldotna, was in possession of a small amount of marijuana. He issued a criminal citation for sixth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance and released. n On May 17 at 2:14 a.m., Soldotna police stopped a vehicle at Mile 94 of the Sterling Highway. Michael Estrella, 25, of Anchorage, was issued a criminal citation for driving without liability insurance and released. n On May 17 at 2:32 a.m., Soldotna police stopped a vehicle at the intersection of Kobuk Street and Marcus Avenue. Joseph Smith, 27, of Soldotna, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and taken to Wildwood Pretrial on $500 bail. n On May 17 at 8:49 p.m., Soldotna police contacted Brian Raham, 43, of Nikiski, at Safeway and arrested him for second-degree criminal trespass. He was taken to Wildwood Pretrial on $250 bail. nOn May 17 at 10:12 p.m., Soldotna police responded to a residence on Trumpeter Avenue for a disturbance. Melody Harris, 59, of Soldotna, was arrested for two counts of fourth-degree assault and first-degree criminal trespass and taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail. nOn May 18 at 11:29 p.m., Soldotna police responded to a residence on Funny River Road for a disturbance. Geraldine Harrison, 53, of Soldotna, was arrested for two counts of fourth-degree assault and taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail.

Alaska State Troopers n On May 8 at about 12:00 p.m., troopers responded to a residence off Swanson River Road in Sterling for a report of a domestic disturbance. Investigation revealed that Andrew Herbert Oldenburg, 43, of Sterling, had assaulted a female. Oldenburg was arrested on two charges of fourth-degree assault (domestic violence) and taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail. n On May 13 at 11:45 a.m., troopers responded to a residence near Mile 16 of the Kenai Spur Highway in Kenai for a report of an altercation. Investigation revealed that John Anthony Efta, 50, of Kenai, had assaulted a family member. Efta was arrested for fourth-degree assault (domestic violence) and taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail. n On May 14 at about 11:00 p.m., troopers conducted a traffic stop on Bear Paw Road in Seward. Investigation revealed that Jacob Boulden, 32, of Seward, was impaired by alcoholic beverages. He was arrested for driving under the influence and cited for having an open container and was taken to the Seward Jail without bail. nOn May 15 at 2:45 p.m., Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Seward Post, issued a summons to David Leigh Nelson, 56, of Moose Pass, at Mile 6 of the Seward Highway for driving with a revoked operator’s license. Arraignment is scheduled in Seward District Court. nOn May 15 at about 11:30 a.m., troopers conducted a traffic stop on blue Ford F-250 at a residence off Swan Drive in Kasilof, after the driver had been called in as a REDDI (Report Every Dangerous Driver Immediately) report and was observed not wearing a seat belt as she was driving on the Sterling Highway. Investigation revealed the female driver, identified as Casey Michelle Dunne, 29, of Kasilof, was impaired by alcohol. Dunne was arrested for felony driving under the influence (two priors within the last 10 years) and charged with driving with a revoked operator’s license. She was taken to Wildwood Pretrial without bail. nOn May 16 at about 11:10 p.m., troopers conducted a traffic stop on Third Avenue in Seward. Investigation revealed that Den-

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nis Backstrom, 42, of Seward, was on felony probation. He was found to be violating his probation by having contact with a person who was a passenger in the vehicle. A probations officer requested that troopers arrest Backstrom and take him to the Seward Jail for violating his conditions of probation. Backstrom was arrested and taken to the Seward Jail without bail. n On May 16 at 4:45 p.m., Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Seward Post, issued a summons to Justin Seth Eberhard, 40, of Kodiak, in Seward for making a false statement on a 2014 Alaska Commercial Fishing Crewmember’s License Application. Arraignment is scheduled in the Seward District Court. n On May 16 at 3:23 p.m. the Highway Patrol, Kenai Peninsula Team, conducted a traffic stop on a red Chevrolet truck at K-Beach Road and Tanglewood Road, after observing that the driver and sole occupant was not wearing a seat belt. The operator was identified as Dorothy L. Gould, 54, of Soldotna. Investigation revealed that Gould was operating the motor vehicle with a revoked operator’s license for the original charge of reckless driving. Gould was arrested for driving while license revoked and taken to Wildwood Pretrial on $500 bail. The vehicle was released to a responsible party. n On May 17 at 6:25 p.m., troopers contacted Jared Hart, 31, of Soldotna, during a traffic stop. He was subsequently arrested on an outstanding $500 misdemeanor arrest warrant for failure to appear on third-degree theft and taken Wildwood Pretrial on $500 bail. n On May 17, Ronald Zahacefski, 50, of Kasilof, was issued a citation by Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Soldotna Post, for obtaining a 2014 resident sport fish/hunting/trapping license prior to meeting the resident requirements of Alaska. Bail is set at $310 in Kenai District Court. n On May 19 at 5:15 p.m., Alaska State Troopers made contact with Kenneth Beam, 41, of Soldotna, and arrested him on an outstanding $100 misdemeanor arrest warrant for third-degree theft. He was taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility on $100 bail.

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Gabriel failed to get a second motion to eliminate $50,000 on a feasibility study for a convention center and other park planning. He also did not get a second motion on his amendment to remove nearly $25,000 from the fire department, money that will be used to buy a second set of turn out gear for firefighters. The storefront improvement program, which passed through the Planning and Zoning Com-

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The herbicide is not harmful to people or animals, but may have some effect on native aquatic plants, representatives with SePRO said at an April public meeting in Nikiski. Morton said people should not use lake water treated with fluridone to irrigate crops, gardens or lawns because the herbicide works by interrupting the photosynthesis process. Crews treated five areas of the 600-acre Daniels Lake where elodea is present, which Morton

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throughout the Chapter 11 proceedings to pay all of its post (bankruptcy) petition obligations as they come due,” the press release said. What next for Endeavor rig? With the bankruptcy filing of Buccaneer Energy, what happens to the Endeavour jack-up rig that is still parked at Port Graham in lower Cook Inlet and partly owned by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority? The answer: AIDEA and Ezion Holdings, the remaining partner in the rig, are looking for work for the rig and wells to drill. Buccaneer had chartered the rig for its exclusive use to drill

mission during its May 28 meeting, had not been brought before the council and was a late addition to the budget. Vice Mayor Ryan Marquis said he did not feel comfortable funding a grant project before council had discussed the details. Council member Bob Molloy said he didn’t support raising taxes while showing support for a grant program. He said business owners can pay for improvements on their own and council should work to keep the mill rate flat before investing in business improvements. The motion to approve the Storefront Improvement Project

failed 4-3 with yes votes from Mayor Pat Porter and council members Mike Boyle and Tim Navarre. Boyle said, in his opinion, the residents of Kenai have had a low mill rate for “a while” and a half-mill increase is not an extreme cost. He commended the administration for their work to address the insurance issues and produce a balanced budget. Koch said for a $200,000 house, a half mill increase costs an extra $100 for homeowners. After Navarre’s motion to add $5,000 for Planning and Zoning commissioners to attend training was passed, Kenai

Finance Director Terry Eubank calculated a savings of nearly $172,000. The last amendment came from council member Terry Bookey, who motioned to add $80,000 for Municipal Park playground upgrades. The FY2015 draft budget had $120,000 allocated for playground equipment for 2-5 year olds. The council previously agreed on a proposal from the Parks and Recreation Commission to replace existing playground equipment for 5-12 year olds and complete the park under the “Enchanted Forest” theme.

The motion passed 5-2 with Gabriel and Molloy casting the two no votes. The two, who both participated telephonically, also cast the two dissenting votes to raise the mill rate. Marquis said the community had expressed a desire to see the Municipal Park completed and with the cost estimated at about $200,000. The city would need the funds in the FY2015 budget to complete the park next summer. Bookey said the fact that no residents attended the council meeting where officials passed the budget showed him they have confidence in the council

responsible for allocating taxpayer dollars. “It tells me we must be doing a good job,” he said. Gabriel said he would have liked to maintain a flat mill rate this year and build a fund balance for a long-term view for costs like the bluff erosion project, which could cost the city money as the project moves forward. “Next year we may find ourselves in a more challenging position,” he said. “I hope we are not changing the (mill rate) again.”

said added up to about 100 acres of treated area. Because the attack on elodea was focused on select areas, crews used pelleted fluridone as well as another chemical called diquat. Diquat is a contact herbicide that kills elodea fairly quickly above the root mass, Morton said. It is considered a “moderately toxic material” by the EPA, according to the Kenai Peninsula Cooperative Weed Management Area’s Integrated Pest Management Plan for Eradicating Elodea from the Kenai Peninsula. The chemical interferes with the plant’s cell respiration. “The whole idea is to knock the biomass down this spring

so that these fragments don’t go off and start new colonies elsewhere,” Morton said. “The whole object of course is to try to keep it to these five treatment areas.” To treat the lakes one boat applied pellets and one applied the liquid chemicals while traveling at about 3-5 mph. Crews followed GPS lines to ensure exact coverage. So the two applicator boats don’t have to move out of their lines, a third boat ran between the staging area and the boats transporting additional unopened product. Treatment at each lake took one day, Morton said. In the third week of July treatment for Stormy Lake is

scheduled to begin. He said the eradication for Stormy Lake is beginning later because the team is waiting for funds approved by lawmakers this past session to be made available. Before beginning treatments, crews resurveyed the three lakes to see if the elodea had spread. Morton said the infestation for each was about where it crews thought it would be based to two previous surveys. “It hadn’t spread too much,” Morton said. Elodea is most prevalent in Beck Lake, he said. In September all three lakes will receive a second treatment of pelleted fluridone so the concentrations will carry through

the winter, Morton said. Additional treatments of the lakes will be in the springs of 2015 and 2016. Last summer, crews sampled 38 lakes on the Kenai Peninsula to verify that the infestation is only in the Nikiski area. “Now as we’re actually beginning to treat these three lakes, we’re really going to go in with a fine-tooth comb and really start looking at small lakes and ponds in the area and really make sure that it’s not other places that we might have overlooked,” Morton said. While elodea has not been found elsewhere on the Kenai

Peninsula, it has infested lakes in the Anchorage, Fairbanks and Cordova areas. None of these lakes have been treated. If no eradication action is taken, elodea can choke off aquatic habitats. Morton said the hope is that the Kenai Peninsula’s eradication plan becomes a model for other infected water bodies in the state. Morton said if people have concerns about elodea eradication near their property to contact him at 907-260-2815.

several wells in the Inlet this summer, including a deep test for oil at the “Tyonek Deep” North Cook Inlet gas field held by ConocoPhillips’. That well will not be drilled, this summer at least. AIDEA officials expect Buccaneer will be relieved of its charter obligation as a part of the bankruptcy filing. Assuming the South Texas bankruptcy court approves this, the rig would be placed back under the control of Kenai Offshore Ventures, the AIDEA/ Ezion partnership that owns the Endeavour, according to Mike Catsi, business development manager for the authority. “KOV, through its membermanager Ezion, is already investigating and negotiating with a replacement rig manager,” an entity to take the place of Buccaneer. The day-to-day management

of the rig is through a drilling contractor, Spartan, which is also managing the other jackup rig in the Inlet, the Spartan 151 that is working for Furie Operating Alaska, another independent working in the Inlet. Catsi said Buccaneer, through a subsidiary Kenai Drilling, was obligated to make payments and it did so through Dec. 1, 2013. However there were five monthly payments from the end of 2013 and through the first months of 2013 that were deferred and not yet due, Catsi wrote in an email. There may yet be business for the rig. “AIDEA has been approached by another party who has expressed strong interest in using the rig in Cook Inlet. AIDEA has passed this information through to Ezion Hold-

ings,” Catsi wrote. Buccaneer had promoted the rig being brought to Cook Inlet and persuaded AIDEA and Ezion Holdings to help finance the purchase of the drilling unit and its move to the Inlet. Buccaneer was originally an investor and a major partner in Kenai Offshore Ventures but had to sell its shares last year when the company encountered financial difficulties. Although it was no longer an owner, Buccaneer still had its charter of the rig for drilling, however. In his email, Catsi described AIDEA’s current relationship with the rig: “AIDEA is a Preferred Member in Kenai Offshore Ventures, LLC with a stake of about $23.6 million invested. Ezion Holdings Limited and its affiliate Teras Investments Pte., Ltd. (who

bought out Buccaneer’s stake in KOV in January of this year) are the Common Members of KOV; Buccaneer is no longer a member of KOV,” Catsi wrote. “AIDEA is entitled to receive repurchase payments of its entire investment plus dividends at fixed dates, if KOV’s revenues and cash permit. AIDEA has received one payment against dividends owed to AIDEA of about $4,062,000 in February of this year. All of AIDEA’s investment plus dividends must be repaid by KOV by January 1, 2018 (regardless of KOV’s revenues and cash) or AIDEA may pursue recourse to all its security including the rig.” The Endeavour is capable of drilling to 20,000 feet and in water depths up to 300 feet. It was originally designed for the North Sea but was in storage in Asia when it was purchased by

the Kenai Joint Ventures partners. After modifications it was brought to Cook Inlet. The other jack-up rig in the Inlet, the Spartan 151, was brought earlier from the U.S. Gulf coast by Escopeta Oil and Gas (now Furie Operating Alaska). AIDEA made the decision to help Buccaneer get its jackup to Alaska because at the time it was not clear that Escopeta could get the Spartan rig moved. The authority felt there was an urgent need to have a jack-up rig in Alaska because of the belief then that there could be shortages of natural gas in Southcentral Alaska.

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After slow start, Homer seeks fast finish Mariners softball team lost first 13 games, but came back to qualify for state tournament By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

It was a rough go of it at first, but the Homer softball team managed to grab a spot at the state tournament for the 13th time in 14 years. After starting the season with a 13-game losing streak, the Mariners managed to hold strong and finish out 8-3. More importantly, they got wins against their Northern Lights Conference opponents, which was the difference in a state berth and going fishing for the summer. The bulk of Homer’s early losses

came at the hands of some of Alaska’s powerhouse teams in Anchorage, such as West, South and East (the defending large-schools state champion), as well as the traditionally strong teams from Southeast. Homer coach Bill Bell originally set up the tough schedule in the opening month of action, hoping to sharpen and fine-tune his squad. “But I thought we’d at least pick up a couple wins, maybe get five to eight wins there, not zero,” Bell said. But a 6-2 conference record (8-16 overall) was good enough to put Homer into the state championship tournament, which begins today at Cartee

Fields in Anchorage. Kodiak and Homer ended the regular season tied for the top spot in the NLC with 6-2 marks, but Kodiak won the coin toss that decided who got the top seed in the state brackets. Homer will face Hutchison — the No. 2 seed from the Mid-Alaska Conference — today at 1 p.m. The winner of that game will play the top seed from the Southeast Conference, Juneau-Douglas, at 3:30 p.m. “I saw (Hutchison) last year at state, and they didn’t look particularly strong, but I’m assuming they’re stronger now,” Bell said. “I expect a pretty

good draw to start off with.” No matter how things shake out in the first game, Homer (and the other first-round teams) will have to gear up for another game or two Friday. The winner plays Juneau and the loser drops into the bottom side of the double-elimination bracket for a 6 p.m. matchup. “We might platoon some players in that first game,” Bell said. “We’ll rest our starters.” Bell said that McKi Needham will start as the pitcher, but Pam Jantzi will likely be brought in to finish up. Needham sports a 6-3 record as a starting

By The Associated Press

CINCINNATI — Left-hander Madison Bumgarner got his career-high sixth straight win, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Reds 6-1 on Thursday afternoon, taking a series in Cincinnati for the first time in five years. San Francisco moved a season-high 18 games over .500 with its 11th win in 14 games. The Giants have the best record in the majors at 39-21. Bumgarner (8-3) gave up three hits in eight innings, including Todd Frazier’s homer, and retired the last 16 batters he faced. He’s 6-0 in his last seven starts, the best such streak of his career. Michael Morse hit a two-run homer, and Brandon Crawford broke out of a slump with a three-run shot off Mike Leake (3-5), who had overwhelmed the Giants the last four times he faced them.

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Spurs melt Heat SAN ANTONIO — “Beat the Heat!” had a whole new meaning in a sweltering start to the NBA Finals. The San Antonio Spurs handled the conditions, and the team, and it sure helped when a suffering LeBron James couldn’t make it to the finish. Tim Duncan had 21 points and 10 rebounds, and the Spurs beat the Heat 11095 on Thursday night in Game 1 at steamy AT&T Center. With an air conditioning failure making it feel like a sauna and causing James to battle cramps that knocked him out of the decisive stretch, the Spurs pulled away to win the opener of the first finals rematch since 1998. “After I came out of the game, they kind of took off,” James said. “And it was frustrating sitting out and not be able to help our team.” Manu Ginobili had 16 points and 11 assists, Tony Parker added 19 points and eight assists and the Spurs — 6 for 6 in NBA Finals Game 1s — shot 59 percent. “Just very proud of my team,” Parker said. “We kept believing, kept pushing. We know it’s not easy.” They host Game 2 on Sunday — likely in cooler conditions. James finished with 25 points but played only 33 minutes, and Miami was outscored 36-17 in the fourth quarter. “It sucks not being out there for your team, especially at this point in the season,” James said. Dwyane Wade had 19 points and Chris Bosh added 18, but the Heat wilted in temperatures that soared to 90 degrees in the second half. “It was tough on both teams,” Spurs coach

pitcher this year with 61 strikeouts and an ERA of 4.68, while Jantzi sits at 1-4 with 22 strikeouts and a 7.42 ERA. Jordan Raymond, a JV pitcher, could also get some varsity innings under her belt. Raymond has pitched only 5 1-3 innings but holds an ERA of 3.93. It’s a plan that could work well since Homer’s JV squad compiled a 14-1 record this year. “The only game we lost this year was a one-run game to the East JV,” Bell lauded. With the strength that the JV team has shown, Bell decided to bring a few

NATIONALS 4, PHILLIES 2 WASHINGTON — Doug Fister kept himself and his club on a roll, allowing two runs and four hits over seven innings as Washington Nationals capped a sweep. Fister (4-1) struck out five and didn’t walk any as he won his fourth consecutive start for what’s starting to look like the tough-act-to-follow rotation expected from the Nationals this season. The Nationals have won five of six. They’ve outscored opponents 38-12 in those half-dozen games, including 19-6 in each of the three-game series against the Texas Rangers and the Phillies. Kyle Kendrick (1-6) allowed four runs over seven innings and walked a season-high five as the Phillies dropped their season-high sixth in a row.

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Miami Heat forward LeBron James sits with ice on his leg after injuring himself against the San Antonio Spurs during the second half in Game 1 of the NBA basketball finals on Thursday in San Antonio.

CHICAGO — Anthony Rizzo hit a tiebreaking homer, Travis Wood went deep and drove in three runs, and the Chicago Cubs beat the New York Mets 7-4 Thursday night to complete the threegame sweep. Rizzo’s solo drive off Vic Black (1-1) with one out in the seventh gave Chicago a lead after New York’s Andrew Brown capped a four-run comeSee MLB, Page B-4

World Cup visitors about to learn about ‘Brazil Cost’ LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO — World Cup visitors, welcome to Brazil, land of soccer, sun and skyhigh prices. Unlike nearby Latin American nations where a tourist’s U.S. dollar or European Union euro seemingly stretches forever, Brazil is astoundingly expensive. If one’s budget isn’t immediately busted by the flight or the hotel, it will soon be done in by

the $10 caipirinha cocktail, the $17 cheeseburger or the $35 pepperoni pizza. And those are the prices city-dwelling Brazilians saw even before the World Cup set off a new standard of sticker shock. “Prices in Rio are absurd,” Maria Anda, a Norwegian artist who has lived in Brazil for a year, said while enjoying the sunset on Ipanema beach. “I still like it. It’s worth being here, but it’s not paradise.” The dizzying prices are referred to here as the “Custo Brasil,” or “Brazil Cost” — the mixture

of high taxes and steep import tariffs, combined with bad infrastructure, a dose of inefficiency and a thick shot of bureaucracy. Demand leading up to a big event like the World Cup naturally raises prices. But, since costs already were high to begin with, tourists should prepare to dig deep into their wallets and not be too miffed to receive goods or services of inferior quality, said Rafael Alcadipani, a business administration professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil’s top think tank. “Anything you buy in Brazil will be more

expensive than in the United States or Europe, but the quality is going to be worse,” Alcadipani said. Hotel rates in many of the World Cup host cities more than doubled ahead of the tournament. Massachusetts-based TripAdvisor reports visitors to Rio will face the highest prices, with hotel rates averaging $445 per night. Add in food, a ticket and other expenses, and a solo traveler to Rio should prepare to spend $682 each day. Next costliest are Fortaleza and Manaus, See CUP, Page B-4

PGA Tour pro Beck to run junior camp at Birch Ridge

ext Wednesday, PGA Golf Professional Chip Beck will host the Birch Ridge Golf Association Junior Camp. You read that correctly. Chip Beck is a four-time winner on the PGA Tour and a threetime runner-up in major Championships. Mr. Beck is one of only six golfers in history to shoot a 59 in a PGA event. He also played on three Ryder Cup teams and ranked in the world’s top 10 for 40 weeks in 198889. This guy can play! We are so excited to offer this opportunity to our junior golfers. For camp participants to get a full day of instruction from a golfer as accomplished as Chip Beck is truly invaluable. Lots of kids are already signed

up to participate but you can still sign your miniature duffer up if you haven’t already. Registration forms are available to download off our website (www.birchridgegolf.com) or you can simply visit the pro shop. Old Folks Golf Seventeen experienced golfers converged Monday morning for riveting senior on senior golf action. Darell “Cool Hand” Jelsma and Don “Super Seahawk” McGhee tied for low net honors with a pair of 33s. Steve “Thor” Hammarstrom took closest to at the sixth. Out of all the golfers that competed, Dennis Simmons’ ball was the closest at the eighth. Jelsma, unsatisfied by his first-place finish, rolled in the long putt at the ninth,

mons combined their talents to finish second, which is nice, but second doesn’t get you cool nicknames in the Peninsula Clarion! Thursday Night Couples The lovebirds enjoyed another N olan Rose beautiful evening last Thursday. The leaving his enemies trembling. dazzling duo of Dennis and Diane Tuesday Morning Ladies League Simmons romanced their way to the The delightful dames were turnwinning score. The Boedekers, Tom ing heads Tuesday morning at Birch and Tanya, matched Pat and Myrna Ridge for another week of Ladies Cowna stroke for stroke to claim a League play. Leona “Heartbreaker” T-2 finish. Lovers played a mixed Jackson paired with Shirley “Sweet scramble, which is far too goofy to Thang” Johnsrud, the scintillatexplain in the newspaper but really ing Sally Tachick, and Susan “The fun to play! The games promise Queen of Coconut” Jelsma to take to be even wackier next week. If home team glory. Tanya Boedeker, you’re a man that loves a woman Vicki Hollingsworth and Diane Sim- (or even likes her a little bit) we en-

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courage you to try couples golf. It’s a great evening of social interaction and golf! Golf Joke of the Week A guy stood over his tee shot for what seemed an eternity, looking up, looking down, measuring the distance, figuring the wind direction and speed ... driving his partner nuts. Finally, his exasperated partner says, “What the hell is taking so long? Hit the ball!” The guy answers, “My wife is up there watching me from the clubhouse. I want to make this a perfect shot.” “Give me a break! You don’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of hitting her from here.”

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Sharapova reaches final HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer

PARIS — Might be easier said than done. Still, Maria Sharapova offered a tidy aphorism to sum up the formula that’s carried her to a third consecutive French Open final. “It’s not how you finish a first set,” Sharapova said, “it’s how you finish the last set.” Right now, no one is a better closer than she is on clay. Nearing a second championship at Roland Garros, and fifth Grand Slam trophy overall, Sharapova gritted her way to yet another comeback victory, beating 18thseeded Eugenie Bouchard of Canada 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 in the semifinals Thursday. “If some things are not working out, I don’t just want to quit in the middle. Because when you lose the first set or a few games or you’re down a break, that’s not the end of the match,” Sharapova said. “That’s the type of philosophy that I play with.” She famously described herself years ago as feeling like AP Photo/Michel Spingler a “cow on ice” on clay, but Russia’s Maria Sharapova celebrates scoring a point during Sharapova now has won her past the semifinal match of the French Open tennis tournament 19 matches that went to three sets against Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard at the Roland Garros sta- on the demanding surface. In Saturday’s final, the No. dium in Paris, France, Thursday.

7-seeded Sharapova will face No. 4 Simona Halep, a 22-yearold Romanian who never before had been past the quarterfinals at a major. Halep turned in a much more straightforward victory than Sharapova, eliminating No. 28 Andrea Petkovic of Germany 6-2, 7-6 (4). “I have a lot of confidence in myself now,” said Halep, who a year ago was ranked only 57th and lost in the first round in Paris for the third time since 2010. “I played really well here; a few good matches. But next round will be very tough. I know Maria. She’s a great champion.” She is 0-3 against Sharapova. But Halep has claimed seven titles since the start of last season — “Impressive 12 months,” she called it — and used her smooth movement and smart angles to win all 12 sets she’s played these two weeks. Sharapova took a more difficult route to her ninth Grand Slam final. In the fourth round against 2011 U.S. Open champion Samantha Stosur, Sharapova trailed 6-3, 4-3, then won the last nine games. In the quarterfinals against 20-year-old Garbine Muguruza, the woman who stunned Serena

Williams last week, Sharapova trailed 6-1, 5-4, then won nine of the last 10 games. That pattern continued against another 20-year-old, Bouchard. After dropping the first set, then standing two games from defeat at 5-all in the second, Sharapova won eight of the last 10 games. She did it by playing aggressively in crunch time, risking more but also coming through more. After Bouchard’s ability to take the ball early helped her build a 13-8 edge in winners in the first set, Sharapova had a 25-16 edge in that category over the last two, celebrating most by shaking her left fist and crying, “Come on!” “She kind of elevated her game a little bit,” said Bouchard, who had been 9-0 in Grand Slam matches when winning the opening set. This was only Bouchard’s fifth major tournament, her second in a row reaching the semifinals. Less than two years ago, Bouchard was at the junior level, winning the Wimbledon girls’ title. “She is literally just scratching the surface,” said Nick Saviano, Bouchard’s coach. “She can play a much, much higher level as she goes along. She’s going

to get faster. She’s going to get stronger.” The 27-year-old Sharapova already owns a career Grand Slam, with titles at Wimbledon in 2004, the U.S. Open in 2006, the Australian Open in 2008, and the French Open two years ago. And for someone who used to have a hard time on clay, she is 53-4 with six titles on it since the start of 2012; three of those losses came against Williams, including in the 2013 French Open final. “Sharapova does a good job of trying to stay in the moment,” Saviano said. “She’s got a lot of experience and a lot of fight. And she’s been around a long time.” Sharapova put aside various problems she had Thursday, including nine double-faults, two that wasted set points at 5-3 in the second. She showed terrific defense and court coverage when it counted most, forcing Bouchard to hit extra shots. Most important, at 2-1 in both the second and third sets, Bouchard raced to 40-love leads on her serve, only to have Sharapova steel herself and wind up breaking. “I didn’t feel that I was playing my best,” Sharapova said. “I fought, I scrambled, and I found a way to win.”

California Chrome tries to complete Triple Crown BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer

NEW YORK — Three races in a five-week span at varying distances on different tracks. It’s so tough only 11 horses have won the Triple Crown, and none in 36 years. It’s the longest span without a winner. Now it’s California Chrome’s turn to try on Saturday at the Belmont Stakes. The striking chestnut colt with a blaze and four white feet appears to have rebounded well after two hard races in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, with the most exhausting still to come. He’ll run 1 1/2 miles around Belmont’s sweeping oval with 10 rivals gunning to keep history from happening. Before Affirmed swept the 1978 Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont, 25 years had passed between Citation in

1948 and Secretariat in 1973. Few can agree on what makes winning the Triple Crown so tough. Often it’s a combination of factors that help or hurt a horse, including racing luck and jockey error. In 2002, War Emblem nearly fell to his knees when the starting gate sprang open, and jockey Victor Espinoza knew right then the colt was doomed. He straggled home in eighth place, beaten 19 1-2 lengths by a 70-1 shot. Espinoza gets another shot on Saturday aboard California Chrome, who, if he wins, will have faced down the largest field of any Triple Crown winner. “It doesn’t matter if there are 14 or six horses. He needs to break clean,” said Bob Baffert, the only trainer to lose the Belmont three times with horses that won the first two legs, including War Emblem.

California Chrome had been slow out of the starting gate in some of earlier his races because of his habit of shifting from one foot to the other. Espinoza will try to keep his head pointed straight and get him to show some early speed leaving the gate. “With a clean break, he’s way better than all the other horses,” said Baffert, who will be watching from Southern California on Saturday. Trainer Art Sherman often describes California Chrome as a “push-button horse,” meaning the colt can respond to whatever Espinoza asks him to do. Tactically, he can run on or near the lead or make a move for the front in the latter stages of a race, like California Chrome did in the Derby and Preakness. “He’s going to probably be galloping on the lead,” Sherman said. “He doesn’t want any horse passing him.”

California Chrome is clearly the dominant horse in the 3-year-old ranks, having won six straight races and impressively taken charge in the Derby and Preakness. He has given every indication in his gallops and one official workout at Belmont Park during his nearly three weeks in New York that he likes the deep, sandy track. Unlike at the Preakness, California Chrome hasn’t coughed and he’s been eating up all his feed — both welcome signs that he hasn’t missed a beat in his preparations. “I just like what I see. He looks so darn good,” Sherman said. “People have a lot more respect for this horse than they did going into the Derby. I really think he’s the real McCoy.” The 1 1/2-mile distance could catch up with California Chrome, whose modest pedigree suggests he can’t do what he’s already done. Now it’s a question of

whether he can run an extra quarter of a mile in the Belmont. Of course, 10 other horses will have a say in what happens Saturday. “California Chrome is a horse that’s going for history, and we’re all trying to throw something in his way,” said Rick Violette, who will saddle Samraat. Luck — good or bad — plays a big part in winning the triple Crown. Bad luck could befall California Chrome in the form of stumbling out of the gate, getting squeezed or bumped by his rivals or being ganged up on by other horses. Sometimes jockey error proves costly, too. Riders aren’t used to 1 1/2-mile races in the U.S., where the focus is on sprinting. Some have mistakenly moved too soon and burned out their horses before the 1,097-yard stretch run. Others have moved too late and let the leaders get away.

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, June 6, 2014

Scoreboard Tennis French Open

Thursday At Stade Roland Garros Paris Purse: $34.12 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Clay-Outdoor Singles Women Semifinals Maria Sharapova (7), Russia, def. Eugenie Bouchard (18), Canada, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. Simona Halep (4), Romania, def. Andrea Petkovic (28), Germany, 6-2, 7-6 (4).

Hockey NHL Playoffs FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Los Angeles 1, N.Y. Rangers 0 Wednesday, June 4: Los Angeles 3, NY Rangers 2, OT Saturday, June 7: NY Rangers at Los Angeles, 3 p.m. ADT

Basketball WNBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE W Chicago 5 Washington 4 Atlanta 4 Indiana 3 New York 2 Connecticut 2

L 1 2 3 3 5 6

Pct .833 .667 .571 .500 .286 .250

GB — 1 1½ 2 3½ 4

WESTERN CONFERENCE Minnesota Phoenix San Antonio Los Angeles Seattle Tulsa

7 4 4 2 2 0

0 1.000 1 .800 4 .500 3 .400 6 .250 5 .000

— 2 3½ 4 5½ 6

Thursday’s Games Washington 74, Connecticut 66 San Antonio 87, New York 75 Friday’s Games Indiana at Washington, 3 p.m. Phoenix at Tulsa, 4 p.m. Los Angeles at Chicago, 4:30 p.m. Minnesota at Seattle, 6 p.m. Saturday’s Games Chicago at Atlanta, 3 p.m. Indiana at Connecticut, 3 p.m. Phoenix at San Antonio, 4 p.m. All Times ADT

NBA Playoffs FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) San Antonio 1, Miami 0 Thursday, June 5: San Antonio 110, Miami 95 Sunday, June 8: Miami at San Antonio, 4 p.m. ADT

Baseball AL Standings

East Division W Toronto 37 Baltimore 30 New York 30 Boston 27 Tampa Bay 23

L 24 28 29 32 38

Pct .607 .517 .508 .458 .377

GB — 5½ 6 9 14

Sports Briefs Central Division Detroit 31 Chicago 31 Cleveland 30 Kansas City 29 Minnesota 28 West Division Oakland 37 Los Angeles 31 Seattle 31 Texas 30 Houston 26

25 30 30 31 30

.554 .508 .500 .483 .483

— 2½ 3 4 4

23 28 28 30 35

.617 — .525 5½ .525 5½ .500 7 .426 11½

Thursday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 2, Oakland 1 Toronto 7, Detroit 3 Miami 11, Tampa Bay 6 Houston 8, L.A. Angels 5 Texas 8, Baltimore 6 Milwaukee 8, Minnesota 5 Kansas City 3, St. Louis 2 Friday’s Games Oakland (Milone 3-3) at Baltimore (W.Chen 6-2), 3:05 p.m. St. Louis (Lynn 6-3) at Toronto (Stroman 2-0), 3:07 p.m. Boston (R.De La Rosa 1-0) at Detroit (Smyly 2-4), 3:08 p.m. Seattle (C.Young 5-2) at Tampa Bay (Bedard 2-4), 3:10 p.m. Cleveland (Bauer 1-2) at Texas (Darvish 5-2), 4:05 p.m. Houston (Keuchel 6-3) at Minnesota (P.Hughes 6-1), 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Whitley 0-0) at Kansas City (Guthrie 2-5), 4:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Rienzo 4-2) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 6-4), 6:05 p.m. Saturday’s Games St. Louis at Toronto, 9:07 a.m. Houston at Minnesota, 10:10 a.m. Cleveland at Texas, 12:05 p.m. Seattle at Tampa Bay, 12:10 p.m. Boston at Detroit, 3:15 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Kansas City, 3:15 p.m. Oakland at Baltimore, 3:15 p.m. Chicago White Sox at L.A. Angels, 6:05 p.m. All Times ADT

NL Standings

East Division W Atlanta 31 Miami 32 Washington 30 New York 28 Philadelphia 24 Central Division Milwaukee 36 St. Louis 31 Pittsburgh 28 Cincinnati 27 Chicago 23 West Division San Francisco 39 Los Angeles 31 Colorado 28 San Diego 27 Arizona 26

L 27 28 28 32 34

Pct .534 .533 .517 .467 .414

GB — — 1 4 7

25 30 31 31 34

.590 .508 .475 .466 .404

— 5 7 7½ 11

21 30 31 33 36

.650 — .508 8½ .475 10½ .450 12 .419 14

Thursday’s Games San Francisco 6, Cincinnati 1 Washington 4, Philadelphia 2 Miami 11, Tampa Bay 6 Chicago Cubs 7, N.Y. Mets 4 Milwaukee 8, Minnesota 5 Kansas City 3, St. Louis 2 Arizona 12, Colorado 7 Friday’s Games Miami (Eovaldi 4-2) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 6-3), 12:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Lohse 7-1) at Pittsburgh (Cumpton 0-2), 3:05 p.m. St. Louis (Lynn 6-3) at Toronto (Stroman 2-0), 3:07 p.m. Philadelphia (Hamels 1-3) at Cincinnati (Cueto 5-4), 3:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 6-2) at Colorado (E.Butler 0-0), 4:40 p.m. Atlanta (Teheran 5-3) at Arizona (McCarthy 1-7), 5:40 p.m. Washington (Roark 3-4) at San Diego (T.Ross 6-4), 6:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Niese 3-3) at San Francisco (M.Cain 1-3), 6:15 p.m. Saturday’s Games St. Louis at Toronto, 9:07 a.m. Miami at Chicago Cubs, 12:05 p.m. Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 12:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 12:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 12:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets at San Francisco, 6:05 p.m. Atlanta at Arizona, 6:10 p.m. Washington at San Diego, 6:10 p.m. All Times ADT

Brewers 8, Twins 5 Mil. Min.

8 7

Royals 3, Cardinals 2 SL KC

Blue Jays 7, Tigers 3 000 303 001—7 002 010 000—3

9 9

010 100 000—2 000 003 00x—3

8 7

0 0

Wacha, C.Martinez (7) and Y.Molina; Ventura, Bueno (7), W.Davis (8), G.Holland (9) and S.Perez. W_Ventura 3-5. L_Wacha 4-4. Sv_G.Holland (17).

Giants 6, Reds 1 1 0

Pomeranz, Ji.Johnson (8) and Jaso; Tanaka, Betances (7), Warren (8), Dav.Robertson (9) and McCann. W_Tanaka 9-1. L_Pomeranz 5-3. Sv_Dav.Robertson (13). HRs_Oakland, Jaso (6). New York, Gardner (4).

Tor. Det.

0 1

W.Peralta, Wooten (6), Kintzler (7), W.Smith (7), Fr.Rodriguez (9) and Lucroy; Correia, Thielbar (6), Swarzak (6), Burton (9) and Pinto. W_W.Peralta 5-5. L_Correia 2-7. Sv_Fr.Rodriguez (18). HRs_Milwaukee, C.Gomez (12), K.Davis (10), Lucroy (4). Minnesota, Arcia (4).

Yankees 2, Athletics 1 Oak. 100 000 000—1 NY 011 000 00x—2

000 303 002—8 13 004 000 010—5 9

SF Cin.

020 300 100—6 11 100 000 000—1 3

0 0

Bumgarner, Kontos (9) and Posey; Leake, S.Marshall (6), Hoover (7), A.Chapman (9) and Mesoraco. W_Bumgarner 8-3. L_Leake 3-5. HRs_San Francisco, Morse (13), B.Crawford (7). Cincinnati, Frazier (12).

Nationals 4, Phillies 2 0 1

Phi. 100 000 100—2 Was. 100 030 00x—4

4 8

0 0

Happ, Jenkins (7), Janssen (9) and Kratz; Verlander, E.Reed (8), Coke (9) and Avila. W_Happ 5-2. L_Verlander 6-5. Sv_Janssen (10). HRs_Toronto, J.Francisco (10), Lawrie (10), Me.Cabrera (10).

K.Kendrick, De Fratus (8), Diekman (8) and Nieves; Fister, Clippard (8), R.Soriano (9) and Lobaton. W_Fister 4-1. L_K.Kendrick 1-6. Sv_R.Soriano (12). HRs_Philadelphia, Mayberry (4). Washington, LaRoche (8).

Astros 8, Angels 5

Cubs 7, Mets 4

LA Ho.

100 020 002—5 9 100 300 04x—8 10

0 1

Skaggs, Morin (6), Jepsen (7), Bedrosian (8), Salas (8) and Iannetta; Peacock, Fields (6), D.Downs (7), Farnsworth (7), Clemens (8), Qualls (9) and Corporan. W_Peacock 2-4. L_Skaggs 4-4. Sv_Qualls (6).

Rangers 8, Orioles 6 Bal. Tex.

002 030 010—6 8 230 000 30x—8 13

3 0

Tillman, Brach (2), R.Webb (5), Matusz (7), Guilmet (7), McFarland (8) and C.Joseph; Lewis, Ross Jr. (6), Scheppers (8), Soria (9) and Gimenez. W_Ross Jr. 2-4. L_Matusz 2-2. Sv_Soria (12). HRs_Baltimore, Markakis (5), A.Jones (8). Texas, Choice (4).

Marlins 11, Rays 6 Mia. TB

000 303 302—11 17 100 022 100—6 13

0 0

Ja.Turner, Da.Jennings (6), Hatcher (6), A.Ramos (7), M.Dunn (9) and Realmuto, Mathis; Odorizzi, McGee (6), Boxberger (7), Jo.Peralta (7), Balfour (8), Lueke (9) and Solis, J.Molina. W_Ja.Turner 2-3. L_Odorizzi 2-6. HRs_Miami, Stanton (17), Ozuna (11). Tampa Bay, Kiermaier (3), Zobrist (5).

NY Chi.

000 002 200—4 030 100 12x—7

8 8

0 2

deGrom, Black (6), Edgin (7), Mejia (8) and d’Arnaud, Recker; T.Wood, Schlitter (6), Grimm (7), Strop (8), N.Ramirez (9) and Whiteside. W_Grimm 2-2. L_Black 1-1. Sv_N.Ramirez (1). HRs_New York, A.Brown (2). Chicago, T.Wood (2), Rizzo (11).

Diamondbacks 12, Rockies 7 Ari. Col.

201 112 023—12 18 100 011 310—7 10

1 1

Arroyo, Thatcher (7), Cahill (7), O.Perez (7), Ziegler (8), A.Reed (9) and M.Montero; Nicasio, Kahnle (6), C.Martin (8), Ottavino (9) and Rosario. W_Arroyo 5-4. L_Nicasio 5-4. HRs_Arizona, M.Montero (7), Goldschmidt (11), Owings (5). Colorado, Blackmon (11), Tulowitzki (16), Barnes (1).

Transactions BASEBALL American League NEW YORK YANKEES — Reinstated OF Carlos Beltran from the 15-day DL. Designated INF Scott Sizemore for assignment. TEXAS RANGERS — Activated RHP Tanner Scheppers from the 15-day DL. Optioned LHP Aaron

Poreda to Round Rock (PCL). Transferred OF Jim Adduci from Frisco (TL) to Round Rock (PCL). National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed RHP Jordan Lyles on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Chris Martin from Colorado Springs (PCL). NEW YORK METS — Recalled OF Andrew Brown from Las Vegas (PCL). FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed S Deone Bucannon. CHICAGO BEARS — Signed QB Jimmy Clausen to a one-year contract. Waived LB Lawrence Wilson. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Claimed WR Jasper Collins off waivers from Pittsburgh. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Agreed to terms with LB Chris Kirksey. DETROIT LIONS — Signed LB Kyle Van Noy to a four-year contract. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Claimed WR Kevin Smith off waivers from Arizona. Waived LS Trevor Gillette. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed G Gabe Jackson, WR David Gilreath, K/P Michael Palardy and WR Rahsaan Vaughn. PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed Ryan Shazier to a fouryear contract. Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Released WR Joe Adams. HOCKEY National Hockey League MINNESOTA WILD — Signed F Michael Keranen to a one-year contract. NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Acquired D Dan Boyle from San Jose for a conditional 2015 fifthround draft pick. SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Fined Kansas City D Igor Juliao an undisclosed amount for striking D.C. United’s Davy Arnaud in the head or face in a May 31 game. Fined Montreal D Hassoun Camara and Vancouver MF Sebastian Fernandez undisclosed amounts for attempting to draw fouls. COLLEGE ARIZONA STATE — Named David Cohen senior associate athletics director. AUBURN — Named Chad Prewett special assistant to the men’s basketball coach and Jordan VerHulst video coordinator for men’s basketball. CHARLESTON SOUTHERN — Named Mark Kost women’s assistant basketball coach. CHATTANOOGA — Signed women’s basketball coach Jim Foster to a one-year contract extension through the 2018-19 season. KENTUCKY — Signed men’s basketball coach John Calipari to a seven-year contract extension through 2021. RICHARD STOCKTON — Announced the retirements of baseball coach Marty Kavanagh and women’s tennis coach Phil Birnbaum, effective June 30. UAB — Named Erica Sisson assistant softball coach.

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Mickelson posts 67 at Memphis MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Phil Mickelson talked about finishing off rounds coming into the St. Jude Classic, and he did just that Thursday with a 3-under 67 at TPC Southwind. Mickelson birdied three of his final four holes for his first round in the 60s since the third round at the Wells Fargo Championship. He hadn’t shot below 70 since then, missing the cut at The Players Championship and tying for 49th at Memorial last week following a visit from FBI agents and lingering questions about an insider-trading investigation. He hasn’t won in 19 events dating to the British Open and is among the players in Tennessee tuning up for the U.S. Open next week at Pinehurst. “I did exactly what I need to do and some momentum that I need heading into the U.S.

Open,” Mickelson said. “Tomorrow’s round, the same thing. Finish strong and play a good round.” Retief Goosen was the clubhouse leader at 66. Mickelelson, who tied for second at Southwind last year, was among the 53 players who finished before play was delayed in the afternoon because of a thunderstorm. With the storm bringing high wind, tournament officials closed the course to fans for the rest of the day and sent home as many volunteers as possible. Play was scheduled to resume at 4:45 p.m., with officials hoping to squeeze in as much of the first round as possible. Even with tricky wind Thursday morning, Mickelson said his focus on each shot was much better. He’s trying to better vi-

sualize the shot and curve his irons so that his approach shots land closer to the hole, giving him more tap-in opportunities. Finishing with the three birdies in his final four holes was exactly what he wanted in a round with five birdies and two bogeys. He hit his approach from 135 yards on the par-4 sixth to 5 feet and rolled in the birdie putt. He left himself longer putts with a

7-footer on the par-3 eighth and an 11-footer on the par-4 ninth, but knocked them in for his strong finish. “I’ve been struggling with finishing the round strong,” Mickelson said. “I had a good round last week on Thursday and then played poorly. To birdie three of the last four made it a great round. That’s exactly what I need to do.”

Flip Saunders to coach Timberwolves MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Timberwolves’ best days came with Flip Saunders on the sideline. Now that the organization is shrouded in uncertainty surrounding the long-term future of star forward Kevin Love, Saunders is returning to the bench to try revive a franchise that hasn’t made the playoffs in 10 years. With the team’s coaching search complicated by Love’s status, the Timberwolves decided the best course of action was to have Saunders, who was hired last season as president of basketball operations, step in for a second stint as coach until the situation stabilized, Saunders said in a text message Thursday. The official announcement will come at a news conference on Friday afternoon. Saunders previously coached the Timberwolves from 19952005. He won 411 games in 10½ seasons in Minnesota and guided the Wolves to the only eight playoff appearances in franchise history, including the Western Conference finals in 2004. He has a career record of 638-526 in 16 seasons as an NBA head coach, a career that also includes stops in Detroit, where he coached the Pistons to three straight Eastern Conference finals, and Washington. Saunders is joining a short list in the NBA of coaches who also have final-say executive authority, one that includes newly hired Stan Van Gundy in Detroit, Doc Rivers with the Los Angeles Clippers and, to a certain extent, Gregg Popovich in San Antonio. Saunders will continue to work closely with GM Milt Newton in the front office while handling coaching duties. When Rick Adelman retired at the end of the regular season, he did so in part to try to help the Timberwolves move forward with a plan to show Love, a three-time All-Star who can opt out of his contract next summer, that there was a long-term plan in place for success. But Love’s tenuous situation didn’t help the search process, with trade rumors serving as a caution sign for several high-profile candidates.

Kentucky gives Calipari $52.5 million deal LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky gave coach John Calipari a seven-year, $52.5 million contract extension that will pay a base package of $6.5 million next season and $8 million over each of the final three seasons. Already one of college basketball’s highest-paid coaches, Calipari led the Wildcats to the 2012 NCAA championship and is coming off his third Final Four appearance in five years with Kentucky, a 60-54 title-game loss to Connecticut in April. He has often been rumored as a potential candidate for NBA coaching openings, most recently this spring with the Los Angeles Lakers. Calipari quickly reiterated his happiness with Kentucky, later using social media to state his commitment after Los Angeles fired coach Mike D’Antoni. He continued that theme with his new contract that pays more than most pro coaches. “I’ve said over and over that I have the best job in the country,” Calipari said in a release Thursday night. “With the continued support from our administration and the greatest, craziest, fans in college basketball, we have accomplished a lot in our five quick years, but we still have lofty goals for the future. “We want to continue to help young people and their families reach their dreams, while at the same time maintaining our success on the basketball court, in the classroom and in the community.” Besides building a 152-37 record at Kentucky, Calipari has established himself as a master recruiter in landing top-three freshman classes annually. That includes next year’s group which figures to make the Wildcats a title contender again, and with this contract the school appears to have locked him in for the long term. “It has long been our goal over the last three to five years that Cal enjoy this as his final stop in coaching,” athletic director Mitch Barnhart said in the release, “and that he has an opportunity to finish his career at the University of Kentucky and hopefully set standards and win championships that will be remembered for many, many years to come.” — The Associated Press

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Kings earn Rangers’ respect after Game 1 GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Alain Vigneault reviewed only portions of the video from the New York Rangers’ Stanley Cup finals opener before he sat down at their oceanside hotel to explain how it got away. The coach had already formed a few impressions, and they made him even more wary of the Los Angeles Kings. “They’re one of the best teams I’ve seen in a long time,” Vigneault said Thursday. “Areas to exploit, they don’t jump out at you. We’re going to have to be better than we were.” The Rangers realize they missed a golden chance to grab an early game from the weary Kings, who were 72 hours removed from a grueling, sevengame Western Conference finals victory over defending champion Chicago.

New York jumped to a 2-0 lead in the first period at Staples Center, but was soon overwhelmed. The Kings tied it in the second, utterly dominated the third and won early in overtime on Justin Williams’ latest clutch goal. The comeback was classic Kings — and now the Rangers realize exactly what they’re facing. “We’re a team that’s just never going to go away,” Kings forward Jeff Carter said. “We’re going to play hard no matter what the score is.” Game 2 is Saturday. The Kings enjoyed a rare day off at home, while the Rangers tried to relax near the beach on a splendid sunny day. Despite Vigneault’s lofty praise, the Rangers don’t seem intimidated by the 2012 Stanley Cup champions. Although New York was outshot 20-3 in the third period, Carl Hagelin was denied by Jonathan Quick on a breakaway in the last minute of regulation,

barely missing a chance to steal it. “To be honest, I don’t think they had that many grade-A scoring chances in the third,” Hagelin said. “They had a lot of puck-possession time. They had some shots. It wasn’t really a lot of good chances. I mean, we can’t look too much into shots.” The Kings realize they’ve also got work to do after stumbling early in their first series opener at home in the entire postseason. New York’s speed on the wings surprised the Kings, leading to numerous prime scoring chances for the Rangers. But Los Angeles’ ability to adjust during a game has been a strength throughout its remarkable playoff run. The Kings also have proven to be an incredible comeback team after rallying from four multigoal deficits to win: They’ve rallied from at least two goals down in three of their last four games, winning twice.

“Well, you can’t chase leads all the time,” Kings coach Darryl Sutter said. “It’s the National Hockey League. It’s the best teams in the world. There are two teams left out of 30, which means that they’ve both come a long ways, and they both had to be resilient. You don’t get any award for ‘resilient.’ So we can play a lot better, and it’s way better when you’re not chasing the lead.” New York acknowledged Los Angeles took control of the second half of Game 1, using its disciplined structure and balanced offense to dominate puck possession. It’s a familiar formula to the Western Conference after the Kings gritted out seven-game series victories over San Jose, Anaheim and Chicago. The Rangers have a renewed respect for the Kings after Game 1, but they also see simple fixes for their biggest problems. “I think maybe we’re pressing,

holding our sticks a little too much, too tightly,” Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh said. “Looking for stuff that wasn’t there. We know if we get pucks in deep and get our forecheck going, that’s where we can generate offense. We were looking for a little bit too much on the rush, looking to carry it across and gain the zone a little bit too much.” The winner of Game 1 has gone on to win the Stanley Cup title roughly 77 percent of the time since 1939. The Kings won Game 1 in overtime two years ago in New Jersey, ultimately finishing off the Devils in six games. The Rangers might spend two days stewing over the lost opportunity of Game 1, but they also realize they’ve got time to counter the Kings’ strengths. “Ultimately, I feel this group has a lot more to give,” McDonagh said. “We’re going to need that in Game 2.”

Glacier Pilot selected 8th Staff report

Kyle Freeland, a left-handed pitcher for the Anchorage Glacier Pilots in 2012, was selected eighth overall in the Major League Baseball draft Thursday night. Freeland, who won the Lefty Van Brunt pitching award in 2012, was taken by the Colorado Rockies.

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San Antonio Spurs guard Marco Belinelli (3) is caught between Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade (3) and forward Chris Andersen (11) during the first half in Game 1 of the NBA basketball finals Thursday in San Antonio.

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Gregg Popovich said. “They were pretty dead. We tried to get guys in and out. ... It was really hot out there.” James, who had cramping issues two years ago in the finals, had to ask for a break in the fourth quarter and was getting treatment during a 15-4 Spurs run that turned around the game. James came back in and made a basket that cut it to two points with about 4 minutes left, but couldn’t even run back on defense, promptly putting his hand up and lingering at the baseline until help arrived to take him off for good. “I think it felt like a punch in the gut when you see your leader limping like that back to the bench,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.

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back with a two-run shot in the top half. Junior Lake added a two-run triple in the eighth, and the Cubs came away with their first series sweep since they took three at San Francisco last July 26-28.

DIAMONDBACKS 12, ROCKIES 7

Danny Green followed with 3-pointer to trigger what became a 16-3 run to end the game. “You could see the heat was getting to a lot of guys. If I played as many minutes as he did, I’d probably be cramping up, too,” said Green, who scored 11 of his 13 points in the final quarter. The crowd chanted “Beat the Heat! Beat the Heat!” late in the game, which was just what the fans themselves were trying to do. The Spurs said an electrical failure for the power that runs the air conditioning system had occurred. They apologized for the inconvenience but also seemed to poke fun of it, playing songs with “hot” in the lyrics over the sound system. Fans were trying to cool themselves on the hot night, a reminder of what it was like in the old Boston Garden when the Celtics and Lakers got to-

The AL East-leading Blue Jays have won 19 of 23, including sweeps of defending champion Boston, AL West-leading Oakland and AL Central-leading Detroit. J.A. Happ (5-2) allowed three runs and seven hits in 6 1-3 innings for Toronto. Casey Janssen got the final out for his 10th save in 11 chances. He needed only one pitch to retire Nick Castellanos on a line drive to left with two on.

YANKEES 2, ATHLETICS 1 NEW YORK — Masahiro Tanaka tamed the highest-scoring team in the majors and New York stopped a four-game skid, beating Oakland and ending the Athletics’ five-game winning streak. Facing the A’s for the first time, Tanaka (9-1) got an early jolt when John Jaso homered as the second batter in the game. But that was the only run Tanaka allowed in six innings, and he left with an ALleading 2.02 ERA.

DENVER — Paul Goldschmidt, Miguel Montero and Chris Owings homered as Arizona reached doubledigits against the Colorado Rockies again and completed a sweep. Arizona took all three games at Coors Field for the first time since April 2008. Bronson Arroyo (5-4) pitched effectively most of the evening before running out of steam. The 37-year-old allowed four runs and six hits in 6 1-3 innings. RANGERS 8, ORIOLES 6 A night after the Diamondbacks put up 16 runs, they pounded RockARLINGTON, Texas — ies starter Juan Nicasio (5-4). Rougned Odor had a leadoff single in the seventh and scored the tiebreaking run with the help of two BLUE JAYS 7, TIGERS 3 errors by Baltimore Orioles shortDETROIT — Juan Francisco and stop J.J. Hardy and Texas avoided Brett Lawrie hit consecutive home a three-game sweep with a win. runs in the sixth inning off Justin The Rangers blew an early 5-0 Verlander, and Toronto completed a lead, but their three-run seventh three-game sweep of Detroit. started when No. 9 batter Odor had

gether. The Heat are the first team since those Celtics of 1984-87 to get to four straight finals. They are well-rested after a relatively easy roll through the Eastern Conference playoffs, a key to keeping Wade healthy entering the finals. James was the MVP of the series last year when the Heat rallied from five points down in the final half-minute of regulation to win Game 6 in overtime, then won a Game 7 that was close the whole way for their second straight championship. A rematch was widely anticipated and was close almost throughout. The Heat led 8679 after Bosh’s four-point play with 9:38 remaining in the game, but it was all San Antonio from there, and Wade said there were problems even beyond James’ absence. “Obviously, tonight we would’ve loved to have him in there to finish the game, but we’ve got to finish the game

an infield single off reliever Brian Matusz (2-2) and moved up on throwing error by Hardy. Odor came home when Hardy misplayed a grounder hit by Elvis Andrus to make it 6-5. Alex Rios and Chris Jimenez then added consecutive RBI singles off Preston Guilmet, the fifth Baltimore pitcher.

better,” Wade said. The Spurs ended up extending their NBA-record streak to eight straight home playoff wins by 15 or more points. Their roster is filled with international players, such as Parker and Ginobili, who both said they were used to playing without air conditioning overseas. Bosh, scoreless in Game 7 last year, scored Miami’s first five points in the Heat’s 7-2 start. But Ginobili came off the bench firing, making consecutive 3-pointers for an 18-13 lead. Wade and James combined for six straight points before Ginobili made another 3, and Patty Mills added one to close the first-quarter scoring and give the Spurs a 26-20 advantage. The Spurs committed nine turnovers while managing only 20 points in the third quarter, and Miami led 78-74 heading to the fourth.

The Royals rallied for three runs off Michael Wacha (4-4) to take the lead in the sixth inning, and Francisley Bueno and Wade Davis each pitched a perfect inning in relief of Ventura.

MARLINS 11, RAYS 6

HOUSTON — Jose Altuve and George Springer drove in two runs each during Houston’s four-run eighth inning as the Astros pulled away for a win over Los Angeles. Altuve had two hits, including a two-run double in the eighth, and Springer finished with three RBIs for the Astros. Brad Peacock (2-4) allowed three runs and six hits with a strikeout in five innings.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — J.T. Realmuto had three RBIs in his major league debut, Marcell Ozuna homered and drove in four runs, and Miami handed Tampa Bay its 10th consecutive loss. Realmuto drove in two runs on his first big league hit, a fourthinning single, and added a sixthinning RBI single. Ozuna’s two-run homer put Miami up 11-6 in the ninth. Giancarlo Stanton hit his 17th home run, a two-run shot during a three-run seventh that made it 9-5.

ROYALS 3, CARDINALS 2

BREWERS 8, TWINS 5

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Yordano Ventura threw six innings in his return from a sore elbow, and the Kansas City ended a string of eight straight home losses to their in-state rivals. Ventura (3-5) was skipped his previous time through the rotation because of minor elbow pain, but he looked sharp in his return. He pitched to contact and took advantage of some sharp defense, which helped him to limit the damage whenever he ran into trouble.

MINNEAPOLIS — Carlos Gomez hit a three-run homer against his former team to spark Milwaukee’s comeback. Khris Davis hit a two-run homer off Kevin Correia (2-7) for the lead in the sixth inning to pull Brewers starter Wily Peralta (5-5) out of an early deficit built by Oswaldo Arcia’s grand slam. Jonathan Lucroy tacked on a two-run shot in the ninth, and Francisco Rodriguez finished up for his 18th save in 20 attempts.

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players up to the varsity team, putting Mary Hanna Bowe in right field and Isabel Beach on third base. If Bell and his team wish to win a state championship that has eluded them since 2006, they will probably have to go through a team from the Southeast. Sitka and Ketchikan have combined to win the last five small-schools state titles. Because Juneau-Douglas and Ketchikan took the two seeds given to the Southeast Conference with strong seasons, it left four-time defending small-schools state champion Sitka out of the picture entirely. Nevertheless, Bell said Juneau is a handful. “Nobody throws the ball as well and quickly as they do,” Bell said. “Nothing’s out of place with them, they’ve got the fundamentals down.” Homer lost to Juneau twice earlier in the season with scores of 17-1 and 5-2, but Bell said his team is a much different group right now. “We were sloppy,” Bell recounted. “Our minds weren’t in it and we just had stupid errors, but it was a lack of experience of the whole as a whole. There just wasn’t a lot of experience from the older kids, that was the biggest thing we saw.” But once Homer won its first game in early May, the confidence level rose as well, leading to a six-game win streak. “Things just started to click, we started to hit the ball better,” Bell said. “It was just to convince them that they can win games. They knew they could come out and win convincingly, but to have come-from-behind wins too, then they started believing in themselves.”

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where average daily expenses are estimated at $602 and $554, respectively. Even the more affordable host cities will set travelers back a good amount: $457 per day in Cuiaba and $477 in Sao Paulo. “The Cup prices are ridiculous. Everything shot up. The only thing you can buy in Brazil is a bikini, a cachaca (Brazilian sugar cane liquor) and a pair of Havaianas (sandals),” said Gillian Santos, a Brazilian who now lives in Belgium and was back in Rio on a recent visit. “How do people afford things around here? As a Brazilian living abroad, I think it’s outrageous.” Experts say prices are kept high because supply can’t keep up with demand. About 40 million Brazilians — a fifth of the

The 6-foot-4, 190-pounder is from Denver, so he is going home after playing his college ball for the University of Evansville. As a junior this season, he was 10-2 with a 1.90 ERA with 128 strikeouts and only 13 walks. After playing in the Alaska Baseball League in 2012, Freeland played in the Cape Cod League in 2013. Led by the First Team Northern Lights Conference pitcher-catcher duo of McKi Needham and Maggie LaRue, the Mariners have been able to get enough hitting this year, but the team is going to need more than two good batters at the state tournament. “McKi and Maggie are the real nucleus of the team,” Bell said. “They just have a great camaraderie of setting up batters and thinking together.” LaRue currently holds a .476 season batting average while Needham is at .470. The pair are responsible for 31.6 percent of the team’s total hits this year (61 of a total 193). LaRue also leads the team with 18 RBIs. The big question is whether or not the rest of the lineup will be able to do the same. Second baseman Riley Walls (batting .361) and shortstop Larsen Fellows (.397) have racked up 26 and 23 hits, respectively, while Lauren Kuhns is batting .426 with 20 hits this year. “We’ve just been doing a lot of defensive practice days,” Bell said about the week. “Mary Jo Cambridge has been working with us with pitching, and I think it’s done a lot of good.” Cambridge holds pitching experience at Division II University of North Carolina, and also spent time as a coach. In addition to Needham and LaRue being named to the First Team NLC, Jantzi and Walls were named to the Second Team NLC list. All-Northern Lights Conference awards

Coach of the Year — Steve Schoessler, Skyview. Player of the Year — Kaia Yatski, Kodiak. First team — Kaitlyn Clark, Kodiak; Kait Yatsik, Kodiak; McKi Needham, Homer; Maggie LaRue, Homer; Serena Prior, Soldotna; Cat Schoessler, Skyview; Celeste Chichenoff, Kodiak; Dannika Catt, Kodiak; Sam Reynolds, Skyview; Amber McDonald, Soldotna. Second team — Kenley Kingrey, Soldotna; Havan Shaginoff, Kenai; Pam Jantzi, Homer; Kassidy Ellison, Kodiak; Christina Glenzel, Kenai; Victoria Oberts, Skyview; Riley Walls, Homer.

population — joined the middle class in the past decade, on the back of strong economic growth and increased government social programs. Between 2009 and 2012, average annual income rose by more than 40 percent, from $8,140 to $11,630, according to the World Bank. For many, the new affluence sparked a spending spree. Brazil tries to protect its local industries by charging high tariffs on virtually all imported goods. For travelers who lose or forget an item, they might decide to do without rather than pay local prices. Take iPhones: The unblocked 5s that costs $649 in the U.S. h as a starting price of $1,250 on Apple’s Brazilian website. Need a pair of running shoes? A pair of the popular Nike Flyknit Lunar 2 runs about $313 at a Rio shopping mall - nearly triple the U.S. price.

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ne of the nice features of my neighborhood in Sterling is an unnamed crick. In case you’re wondering, I call any running water that you can jump across without getting your feet wet a crick. Anything wider than that is either a creek or a river. Cricks don’t usually have names, at least not officially. My neighborhood crick is spring-fed, so it runs clear and cold, year-round. Walk near it in mid-January, and you’ll hear it babbling away under a heavy coat of snow and ice. It begins near the intersection of the Sterling Highway and the east end of Scout Lake Loop Road. From there, it meanders through a low, swampy area for about a mile, then turns right at Silver Salmon Drive. From that point, it picks up speed and runs through two driveway culverts and a road culvert before making a 200-yard dash to its mouth, at the Kenai River. When most people think about salmon habitat, they don’t likely think about places like this unassuming crick. Unless you get down on your hands and knees beside it and watch for a while, you’d never know there were fish in it. It seems impossible that tiny fish can work their way upstream, sometimes for miles, in these cricks, but they do. This crick and many more like are nurseries for young salmon. According to studies, salmon that rear in small streams survive better in the ocean than salmon that rear in other places. In other words, more “crick fish” survive to become the adult silvers that so many of us like to catch. Over the years, my neighborhood crick has suffered abuse. At some point in the past, someone dumped the crushed body of a car into its bed. Whoever constructed Silver Salmon Drive diverted the crick, forcing it to run straight down a hill instead of meandering through the woods. Neighborhood kids occasionally try to dam it. One neighbor set up a fish-cleaning table beside it and threw fish carcasses into it, until it brought bears. Another neighbor stuck a hose in it and pumped its water to his greenhouse. The worst abuse to date has been three culverts, one under a road and two under driveways. The downstream ends of these culverts were too high for baby salmon to be able to jump into them. When combined with the swift current of the modified stream bed, they blocked young salmon from migrating upstream. In effect, these culverts caused the loss of more than a mile of habitat. If we Alaskans can unanimously agree on anything, it’s that we want to protect salmon runs in Alaska from disappearing as they’ve done in many other places. A major problem in the Pacific Northwest has been the loss of spawning and rearing habitat due to various types of development. With this in mind, the Kenai Watershed Forum (KWF) has been determining whether Kenai Peninsula streams that could provide salmon spawning or rearing See PALMER, page C-2

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In this May 14, photo, Pacific Crest Trail self-supported speed record setter Heather Anderson of Bellingham enjoys the scent of blooming serviceberry while hiking near Sandpoint, Idaho. In 2013, Anderson, who goes by the trail name Anish, didn’t have time to smell the flowers as she hiked the trail from Mexico to Canada in 60 days, 17 hours and 12 minutes, beating the previous record of 64 days.

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SPOKANE, Wash. — “I’m not a particularly fast walker,” Heather Anderson said — much to the relief of her interviewer — as she recently hiked a North Idaho trail. “The difference between me and the thru-hikers who have a fast pace is that I walked 3 mph all day and into every night, averaging 5 hours of sleep, without a rest day.” For two months! That’s how Anderson, 32, beat the unsupported backpacking speed record on the Pacific Crest Trail by four

days. Starting June 8, 2013, at the U.S-Mexico border, the Bellingham hiker averaged nearly 44 miles a day gobbling up nearly 2,700 miles along the PCT to arrive at the Canada border in 60 days, 17 hours and 12 minutes. “Once I realized this was not a backpacking trip — that it was all about pain and suffering — it was easier to cope,” she said. Anderson, who works at the food co-op in Mount Vernon, has no current plans to set another record of any kind. She says she’s content running 30- to 100-mile ultra-marathons and disappearing into the wilderness regularly to climb peaks and hash out obscene

mileages with friends. She’s already proved herself to herself — hiking through obesity, fear of the dark, self-doubt, a marriage and the triple crown of the USA’s longdistance trails. She started from scratch 12 years ago. “Never in my dreams did I imagine setting a record of any kind, much less an athletic record,” she said, noting that she grew up in a relatively inactive Michigan family. “I weighed 200 pounds when I graduated from high school.” Her epiphany came that summer after she landed a job at Grand Canyon

National Park. “I fell in love with the trails,” she said. “I had never hiked before.” In college she majored in religious studies and minored in creative writing. “I wanted to be a Christian missionary,” she said. “I had my sights on Mongolia until I realized I was no good at proselytizing.” Meantime, her introduction to hiking had been taking root and was ready to blossom into another sort of mission. “The day after I graduated from college in 2003, my friends dropped me off in Georgia at the beginning of See HIKE, page C-2

Fabien Cousteau plans 31-day underwater mission By JENNIFER KAY Associated Press

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Fabien Cousteau waves, on June 1, from the boat ferrying him from Florida International University’s Medina Aquarius Program headquarters in Islamorada, Fla., to the waters above Aquarius Reef Base in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Cousteau plans to spend 31 days underwater at Aquarius, leading a team of researchers and making a documentary.

ISLAMORADA, Fla. — Like viewers worldwide, Fabien Cousteau was entranced by his famous grandfather’s films about marine life and human exploration underwater. Now he’s adding to his family’s sea stories with a 31-day underwater expedition in the Florida Keys. Cousteau dove Sunday to Aquarius Reef Base, a school bus-sized laboratory 60 feet below the ocean’s surface, a few miles off Key Largo. He plans to spend more than a month living underwater with a five-person crew, making a documentary and leading science experiments on the nearby coral reef. Before their boat left an Islamorada dock Sunday morning, Cousteau and his crew said they would miss seeing the sun for more than month, but they weren’t nervous about being isolated in the undersea lab. “I imagine we’ll want to stay down once we get comfy down there,” Cous-

teau said. “We won’t want to come back up to the surface because it’s such a magical place.” The idea for “Mission 31” came to Cousteau two years ago when he visited Aquarius during a fundraising push to save the lab, which federal budget cuts had threatened to permanently close. “It reminded me that I’ve always wanted to live underwater,” Cousteau said Saturday at his training base in Islamorada. “Mission 31” builds on the legacy of Conshelf II, the 30-day underwater living experiment in the Red Sea that Jacques Cousteau filmed in 1963 for his Oscar-winning documentary “World Without Sun.” The younger Cousteau can do something his grandfather could not: broadcast the entire adventure live online and communicate with the public through social media and video chats with classrooms on land. “For the first time I’m able to invite See PLAN, page C-2

Fire-adapted plants thrive after wildfire The massive wildfire that recently engulfed a good chunk of the local landscape may look like a bleak, uninviting place for some time, but regenerative ecological forces are already at work. As we embrace the hard work, dedicated suppression efforts, and good fortune that resulted in a positive community outcome, many of our floral friends can rejoice in the opportunities of the fire-altered system. Wildfire is nothing new to boreal spruce-birch forests, as these systems evolved with fire and are dependent on disturbance for regeneration. Many plant and wildlife species have adapted to fire disturbance, and their continued survival and success is dependent on it. Fire not only prompts regeneration of many plant species, it recycles mineral elements like nitrogen and phosphorus, and removes accumulated organic matter. Wildfires are variable, with some areas burning so severely that only mineral soil is left, and other areas left with patchy vegetation or organic mat chunks. During a fire, vegetation either

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survives by chance or by adaptations like thick bark; by recolonizing from seed banks or seed transport by wind, flooding, or animals; or by sprouting new growth from underground roots or plant parts. Reestablishment of ecological communities following a fire is variable in Alaska, but we understand general patterns of succession, and know what to expect around the Kenai Peninsula. Post-fire ecological succession generally follows a process of soil building and early colonization by mosses and liverworts, then wildlflowers and grasses, then deciduous shrubs and trees, and finally by conifers. Large fires in both 1947 (still the largest recorded wildfire on the peninsula at over 310,000 acres) and in 1969 left

a legacy of patchy birch stands interspersed with spruce stands, structuring diverse wildlife habitat. Plants that have fire-adapted traits are known as pyrophytes, and quite a few are found in our fire-evolved boreal forest system. Many species of moss and liverworts readily establish in patchy or severe fire areas, sprouting from wind-dispersed spores. These species help other species to establish by accumulating organic material like drifting leaves, twigs, and other organics, and holding moisture. Horsetails are common in post-fire areas that were not hot enough to burn the rhizome, or underground stem. Every gardener in the region knows the persistence of these plants that sprout and sprout again despite attempts to remove them. The most celebrated early post-fire gem is the morel mushroom, which for somewhat mysterious reasons tends to abundantly fruit in the first or second year following a wildfire. Photo from Kenai Refuge

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The iconic fireweed in a post-fire patch on the Kenai Peninsula.

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of the Appalachian Trail,” she said. “I said goodbye and took off on my own for four months hiking to Maine. Most people prepare for something like the AT, but I had never backpacked overnight. “At the first resupply opportunity, I had to go shopping. I had to shiver under a space blanket for a week to realize I needed a sleeping bag.” Her empty cache of backpacking experience started filling as she shared the miles with experienced thru-hikers. She took on the trail name Anish, (pronounced “ah-NISH”) to honor her Great Lakes heritage and her full-blooded Anishi-

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naabeg grandmother. “The big eye-opener wasn’t just learning that I could do long-distance hiking, but that I was pretty good at it,” she said. That hike — and shedding 70 pounds that year — was her new beginning. On the AT, she learned about the Pacific Crest Trail. In 2004, she hiked it with a partner in a normal time of about four months. “On that trip, I crossed paths with David Horton, who was on his way to setting a supported PCT speed record,” she said. “I’d never even thought about such a thing. I began to wonder if I could do it.” Hooked on the freedom of trails, she completed long-distance hiking’s Triple Crown by bagging the 3,000-mile Continental Divide Trail in 2006. tion. As with veins, you can get along without a few cricks, but lose too many, and things no longer function. We’re doing more on the Kenai Peninsula to avoid harm to fish habitat now than we were 20 years ago, but we still have a long way to go. Whenever we build a road or clear land for anything, we need to remember that every trickle could become part of a crick that’s a salmon stream. We need to take care not to put anything on the ground or in the water that might harm fish or the fauna and flora fish need in order to live. We need to take care of the places where fish live at all stages of their lives. If we can learn to welcome the small ones with the same fervor that we have when welcoming the big ones, we just might have salmon 50 years from now.

habitat had been altered in such a way that they could block fish migration. They found that nearly half of the culverts on salmon streams weren’t providing adequate passage for salmon. These culverts were causing the loss of many miles of useable habitat. A few years ago, the three culverts on my neighborhood crick made the “top priority” list for replacement, and were subsequently replaced. Afterward, young salmon were again found using the creek upstream. This little crick plays only a bit part in the overall scheme of things. I guess you could equate it to a tiny vein in your little toe: You could get along without it, but along with the multitude of your other veins, Les Palmer can be reached it performs a necessary func- at les.palmer@rocketmail.com.

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vite the world on a Cousteau expedition in real time,” said Cousteau, who has filmed documentaries on sharks and other marine life. Jacques Cousteau was revered worldwide for exploring the ocean in a multitude of documentaries and books, as well as for pioneering the advanced scuba diving techniques used at Aquarius. While he developed underwater living experiments out of the belief that an overpopulated world might drive humans to live in the oceans, interest in the habitats waned through the decades until Aquarius was the last underwater research lab. His grandson believes interest in the oceans is reviving as climate change threatens to disrupt life on land. “Whether you care about economics, in your personal life or your business life, whether you care about your health or your child’s health, whether you care about saving creatures, it all pertains to making sure that our oceans are healthy. And our oceans are not,” Cousteau said. Throughout the expedition, Florida International University and Northeastern University researchers will study the effects of climate change and pollution on the coral reef. The crew will

experiment with new technology that uses sonar to create three-dimensional video images, allowing them to gather data and footage without lights that would disrupt the fish. Diving with a Cousteau helps bring more attention to the scientific work being performed at Aquarius, said Andy Shantz, an FIU researcher who will spend half the month living and working at the base. “These are really important issues and to be able to bring that out and get a bit of a spotlight on the research and the science behind it is awesome,” Shantz said. The 400-square-foot pressurized Aquarius lab has six bunk beds and allows scientists to live and work underwater and scuba dive for extended periods of time, without needing to return to the surface or decompress. It’s owned by the U.S. government and operated by FIU. Astronauts train at Aquarius to simulate living and working in outer space. The lab’s technological edge doesn’t extend to its kitchen area. “Unfortunately for me as a French person, the food also will be simulated. Freeze-dried, astronaut type of food, canned foods, things like that,” Cousteau said, grimacing. Cousteau plans to resurface July 2, at the end of the longest mission ever held at Aquarius since it began operations in 1993.

Her hiking and climbing treks gained speed and distance. A few ultramarathons quenched her lust for mileage. “Some people put up with hiking so they can get to a good place to camp,” she said. “I was becoming one of the people who put up with camping as a means of hiking farther and farther into the wilderness.” By 2013, the girl who had never dreamed of an athletic achievement became the first woman to take a serious stab at the PCT speed record. “I had the advantage of having done the PCT on a normal trip, enjoying the social part of it and learning the route,” she said. “It was the driest year in California since 1977. That meant snow-free hiking through the High Sierra.” She planned for months using spreadsheets to map out the mileages she would need to make, including side trips for the resupply boxes she’d package and mail before she left. While she would later avoid snow in the Sierras by opting for a late June 8 start, she paid a price during the initial 40- to 50-mile days in the California desert, packing up to six liters of water as temperatures soared. After running out of water and relying on a source that turned out to be a mud hole, she wandered two more hours in 115 degrees to find another. “Too close,” she said. “That almost did me in.” Confidence that she could keep up the record pace was elusive until she scaled the last of five major passes ranging to 13,200 feet in the Sierra Nevada Range in two 40-mile days. “At 1,000 miles I realized I could do it,” she said. “But it was going to hurt.” Huge blisters formed on her

heels in the desert and never had a chance to heal. “They were tangerine-size beauties,” she said. “Didn’t clear up for two months after the hike.” Before she was out of California, she was passing thruhikers who’d started in April. Some hiked with her for awhile, but only one man, trail name Lint, kept up more than two days. On his Facebook page, Lint posted, “Anish took me on my first 49-mile day on trail, followed by a 50-miler. It was inspiring to be crushing miles with her!” But after the third day, he hiked off-trail to resupply and they parted. “I got a text from him,” Anish recalled. “He said he was sitting in a bar having a beer and it felt a lot better than hiking with me.” Most hikers offered encouragement, but speed hikers can expect negative vibes. Anish has been criticized for making a race out of backpacking, a sport most people associate with enjoying the scenery, smelling the roses and communing with nature. “Actually, I was getting heaping helpings of almost everything a backpacker seeks except sitting around in camp,” she said, pointing to her iPhone and a single photo that included about three dozen mountain goats in the Goat Rocks Wilderness. “I was up and walking during every sunrise when wildlife is most active and I was on the trail enjoying every sunset when wildlife is out again. Then I’d put on my headlamp and keep going.” Night hiking was one of the fears she had to overcome. “I’ve always been a scaredy-cat,” she

said. “But I couldn’t reach my goal without continuing after dark. There simply weren’t enough daylight hours. “Night hiking grew on me. After I got over the initial shock of walking by four rattlesnakes and stepping over a tarantula in the desert, I realized night hiking was cooler, peaceful and I used more senses. The sounds and smells were different.” Courage she never knew she had emerged one night in Oregon. “It was 11 p.m. and I was trying to get in another couple miles when I lifted my head and the light shined on the eyes of a cougar,” she said. “It was right there, way too close. I reacted purely out of instinct. I barked. It was a very tough, don’t-mess-with-me bark. “That cougar was outta there.” Anish is quick to counter people who say she was walking too fast to see the scenery on the Pacific Crest Trail. “I’d never seen a cougar in my life or on any of my four-monthlong backpacking trips, but I saw four cougars during the speed trip,” she said. By Oregon, her body was in peak trail condition, pared down like her pack of any unessential weight. She was a calories-in, miles-out, trail-terminating monster in a sun dress. “The alarm on my watch would chime every hour to remind me to reach into my pack for 200- to 300-calorie snacks I’d eat on the go,” she said. Nevertheless, her plan to hike 50-mile days and blow through Oregon in nine days pushed her limits. She had trouble carrying enough food to eat. She bought extra food at stores, inhaled Oreos smothered in congealed coconut oil, and sucked down a bag of tuna

at night for protein. She’d elevate her legs on a pack at night to reduce the swelling in her feet, but she wasn’t getting enough hours in the sack for her body to recover. “I was falling asleep on the trail, thinking this was ridiculous to be this tired and be barely halfway,” she said. “The challenge was becoming as much mental as it was physical.” She got a boost by discovering she’d become famous. “I came across a Boy Scout troop,” she recalled. They asked if I was Anish. When I said yes, they were like the paparazzi. “I checked in and found out I had 3,000 Facebook followers. Word was spreading that I was on a record pace.” Caffeine gave her a boost she needed to hike the last tough 500 miles through Washington’s Cascades. “The key was hiking to midnight or later, and I had to stay awake,” she said. Lonesomeness ate at her psyche, but being alone had its advantages. “I cried a lot, especially in the mornings or when a resupply didn’t work out right and I’d lose hours and think my goal was out of reach,” she said. “I’d have my little pity-fests, and then get over it. “Sometimes I sang. It was good to be alone for that. I’m a terrible singer. “People always ask me if I was afraid, being a woman alone in the wilderness. No. Wilderness might be the safest place a woman can be alone. “I’ve learned that I need wilderness to be whole. I take strength from it. “And like I told my mom, don’t worry. When I’m on a trail like the PCT, I’m with family.”

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Several shrub species, including dwarf birch, blueberry, lingonberry, and Labrador tea, will readily resprout in less severe burn areas from root crowns in partially burned or intact organic mat locations. Taller shrubs like willow, particularly Barclay’s willow and Scouler’s willow, sprout prolifically after fires. Alder can sprout, but tends to reseed in areas adjacent to fires to reestablish itself. Deciduous tree species depend on fires for large-scale reestablishment. Paper (or Kenai) birch, an integral part of the forests here, readily grows on post-fire sites burned to mineral soil in vast patches from longdistance seed dispersal. Quaking aspen generally resprouts

from root suckers which quickly grow in nutrient-rich post-fire soils. Cottonwoods, including both balsam poplar and black cottonwood, produce light tufted wind-dispersed seeds, and can resprout from lateral roots and even stems or branch fragments. Black spruce is entirely firedependent for regeneration, as its resin-sealed cones require the heat of fire to melt and release seeds. Black spruce’s structure is very fire susceptible, with flammable low-growing short crowns that tend to burn completely in fires. Seeds are released between one to three years following a fire that kills the tree, and seedling growth can occur in both mineral and organic mat areas.

White and Lutz spruce do not need fire to release seeds, but adjacent stands will produce large seed crops after a hot, dry summer to recolonize burned areas. Post-fire landscapes can be eerie and solemn places, but within them is the pulse of new life and regeneration almost immediately following the destruction. As the landscape renews itself, creating fresh wildlife habitat for generations to come, we’ll have the chance to directly observe the ecologically fascinating process – and perhaps even harvest some delicious morels along the way.

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The fungus may possibly seeking new food sources or substrates to colonize, prompting a big surge in fruiting bodies to produce spores. Morels can be easily distinguished from nonedible look-alikes as they have cap and stalk as one unit. False morels have brain-like lobes, with a detached cap. As with any wild edible, consult experts and guides before attempting to harvest them. Bluejoint reedgrass mainly regenerates after a fire from thick root mats, and also through prolific seeding adjacent to burned areas. This common grass species can compete with tree regeneration, leading to a complex set of potential long-term changes in forest composition. The iconic fireweed is probably the best-known post-fire plant, incorporating its affinity for burned areas into its very name. This species has prolific light seeds that can travel large distances in wind. Vast patches of bright pink flowers are visible from considerable distances in the years following a fire.Unfortunately, many nonnative flowers – such as the orange and yellow hawkweed and dandelions – display the same wind-dispersed prolific spread if there are seed sources following a fire. Monitoring for nonnative species will take place to reduce invasions in recently burned areas.

Dr. Elizabeth (“Libby”) Bella is an ecologist at Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.

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Hope Community Resources is seeking an experienced candidate for our Home Alliance Coordinator position in Kenai! Hope is a private, non-profit agency that provides services to people who experience disabilities. Through in-home supports and community activities, people supported by Hope have the opportunity to live a full life in the community of their choice. The HAC is a live-in assisted living home manager. This involves assisting with daily living needs, connecting the individuals with activities in their community, and training and scheduling other staff who work in the home. This position is compensated at approximately $49,900/yr. We offer paid training and competitive benefits. Visit our website and apply online at www.hopealaska.org or visit our local office at 47202 Princeton Ave in Soldotna.

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The Forget-Me-Not Adult Day Program Manager is responsible for Managing and providing program leadership, supervision of staff, ensuring that policies, procedures and practices are in compliance with state and federal regulations and are consistent with the agency's mission statement. Education: Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Gerontology, Psychology, Human Services, Healthcare, Nursing or Related field. Qualifications: Have demonstrated skills, education and experience to serve the population in a manner consistent with the philosophy of the adult day program. One year of supervisory and program management experience preferably working with seniors or adults who experience disabilities. For a complete job description please visit fcsonline.org Please return application packet to Frontier Community Services 43335 K-Beach Rd. Suite #36 Soldotna, AK 99669 or email to work@fcsonline.org

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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.

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KENAI, AK 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: Is a member of the Registration Desk Team and is responsible for the collection, verification, and entry for all patient demographic and insurance information. The Registration Technician I will work with the dental team. The accurate and timely performance of job duties of the Registration Technicians directly impacts the revenue received by the Kenaitze Indian Tribe.

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Dental Assistant

(Can be filled by 2 part time employees) Performs chair side assistance and related duties in all phases of restorative, prosthodontic, surgical, endodontic, interceptive orthodontic and periodontal treatment as provided in general dentistry. 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

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Sterling Area Senior Citizens, Inc.(SASCI) is accepting applications for an Executive Director to facilitate all of the programs, activities, staff, and facilities of SASCI Any combination of education and/or experience that has provided the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for the satisfactory job performance of the position would be qualifying. A detailed job description is available at our facility or via email request to sterlingseniorcenter@alaska.net.

Duties: Education, support, advocacy for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Requirements: Understanding of DV/SA and victim issues, excellent communication skills, knowledge of available community resources, ability to work with diverse population, model non-violent discipline techniques, ability to function both independently and on a team, calm in crisis. Shift work, hours vary. High school diploma or equivalent required, degree in related field preferred. Full-time position, including benefits. Resume and cover letter to Executive Director, The LeeShore Center, 325 S. Spruce St., Kenai, AK 99611 by 5pm June 20, 2014. EOE

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Applications may be completed online at http://homerelectric.applicantpro.com/jobs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Human Resources at (907) 235-3369 or hr@homerelectric.com. HEA is an Equal Opportunity Employer; Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled. Recruiting will continue until a qualified applicant has been hired.

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Homer Electric Association, Inc., is seeking a detail oriented individual with an accounting proficiency to assume the duties of TEMPORARY Plant Accountant I in the Homer office. A minimum of one year college level accounting and two years of general accounting experience are required. RUS accounting experience is desirable. This individual will assist with a variety of plant accounting duties which include processing work orders, maintaining asset records, data entry and other duties associated with plant accounting activities. This position is not expected to exceed 6 months.

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Chief Executive Officer The Kahtnuht'ana Development Corporation (KDC) Board of Directors is seeking an experienced business professional to serve as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). KDC is a federally chartered Section 17 corporation formed and capitalized by the Kenaitze Indian Tribe for the purpose of economic development for the benefit of the Tribe. Position Summary: The CEO will be responsible to create and implement new and long-term revenue streams. Essential functions include business development, budget management, legal compliance and oversight of daily operations. The position reports to the KDC Board of Directors and is located in Kenai, AK. This is a unique opportunity for a proven executive to provide visionary leadership for a newly formed tribal development corporation.

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Sister’s erratic behavior can’t be blamed on deceased dad life might not have been any different than it is. The person who COULD use some professional help might be your mother. Counseling might help her to quit trying to rescue her adult daughter, or blaming herself for the problems Delia has created for herself. I’m not saying it will be easy — letting go rarely is. But it might improve her emotional and physical health.

Should I pursue this relationship, or wait until I’m attracted to someone closer to my own age? Help! — A.S. IN SAN DIEGO DEAR A.S.: Whoa! Slow down. Regardless of the age difference, an overnight first date (with a co-worker, yet) seems like an awfully speedy beginning to me. If you’re smart, start with a coffee date, graduate to a dinner date, and pursue the relationship from there. Only time will tell if this is the real thing. Abigail Van Buren

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www. DEAR ABBY: I am an attractive, physically fit, DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA well-educated, 41-year-old divorced woman with two 90069. young children. Recently a co-worker I have known for several months asked me to accompany him on a Abby shares more than 100 of her favorite reciweekend hiking trip. (He’s 23.) After a few conversa- pes in two booklets: “Abby’s Favorite Recipes” and tions, he confessed that he was “deeply in love” with “More Favorite Recipes by Dear Abby.” Send your me and hoped we could begin a “serious relation- name and mailing address, plus check or money orship.” der for $14 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, CookbookAbby, he’s mature, good-looking, financially inde- let Set, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. pendent and has a great sense of humor. I’m attracted (Shipping and handling are included in the price.) to him.

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Fun with folders! Dear Heloise: Could you please reprint your hint on how to create new folders on your computer for those of us who need a little extra help? — A Reader in Illinois Happy to reprint it for you! Organizing things into different folders can make them much simpler to find later. Here is how to do it: * Click on the “Start” button and then click on “Computer.” * Choose one of your libraries (documents, pictures, etc.) and double-click on it. * At the top of the screen there will be an option for “New Folder.” Click on it, and a new folder will appear, which you can title whatever you want. * Then just click and drag or cut and paste files into your new folder. — Heloise Travel hint Dear Heloise: My family laughs at me, but when we stay at a hotel, I take a picture of the hotel and our room number. This way, I can decide if I want to stay there again or would rather have a different room because of noise, etc. — A Happy Traveler from New Hampshire Zippered bags Dear Heloise: I noticed someone has ideas about using the zippered bags that hold sheets, blankets and comforters. I use one of the bigger ones to put all my manuals and warranties (with the dates the items were purchased on them) so that when I need to find information, it is right at my fingertips. When I give items to Goodwill, it is very handy to put small items, such as long necklaces, in one of the smaller zippered bags for pillowcases. — Doris M., Fort Jennings, Ohio

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

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A baby born today has a Sun in Gemini and a Moon in Virgo if born before 10:01 p.m. (PDT). Afterward, the Moon will be in Libra. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, June 6, 2014: This year you blaze a new path, and you’re unwilling to give in to boredom and routine. Though you might have your critics, you empower many others simply by example. If you are single, this summer will provide you with many potential sweeties. You’ll see someone who is very different from you as the right match. If you are attached, give your significant other time to catch up to you. You are transforming, and that will demand a response of growth. Give this person some space and time to move forward. LIBRA knows how to excite you. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Follow your sixth sense, and good results will arise. Your emotions might be the key to opening up a pal who has been withdrawn. The effect that you have on this person will make you smile. No wonder you miss this facet of his or her personality! Tonight: Let someone else decide. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHHNoonecandenyyourinnate resourcefulness. Your smile suggests to a friend or an associate that you will come up with an appropriate response or solution. Others would be wise not to cross you right now. Take a hard look at those who do. Tonight: Let it all hang out. GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

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DEAR ABBY: I’m the middle child. Our father died in the Gulf War. None of us really knew him, but my younger sister, “Delia,” has no memory of him at all. She has been acting out for years now, and has broken our mother’s heart more times than I can count. Whenever she messes up, she blames it on not knowing our father and the life she “could” have led. It has been 20 years, Abby! The past is the past. Delia continues to ruin her future and blame our mom. It has Mom wondering why she was able to survive this crisis 20 years ago but can’t manage to deal with my sister. I think Delia may have a chemical imbalance, or just never dealt with our father’s death. How do you convince someone to get help? How do you make her see that Dad died so she could enjoy the many freedoms of America? — DRAINED IN DELAWARE DEAR DRAINED: I’m sorry for your family’s loss, but we are all responsible for our own behavior and our own emotions. You can’t force “help” on your dysfunctional sister. Before she’ll be willing to accept that she needs it, she will have to accept that SHE has been responsible for her own mistakes and behavior. If your father had lived, her

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