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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 45, Issue 32

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Soldotna weighs home rule and Feb. vote

Question Where do you get your health insurance coverage? n I’ve signed up through the exchange n I have coverage from my employer n I’m covered under another program n I don’t have health insurance

By KELLY SULLIVAN Peninsula Clarion

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In the news NTSB: Pilot choices caused AK crash

A fatal Alaska State Troopers helicopter crash was caused by the pilot’s decision to fly into bad weather and the agency’s inadequate safety management, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded Wednesday. Pilot Mel Nading, 55, Trooper Tage Toll, 40, and an injured snowmobiler they had picked up, Carl Ober, 56, all died in last year’s crash about 5.6 miles from Talkeetna, a community of nearly 900 about 115 miles north of Anchorage. It’s a popular tourist destination and a takeoff point for people climbing or flightseeing Mount McKinley. Contributing to the crash was the pilot’s motivation to complete the search-and-rescue mission, which increased the risk and affected his decisions, the NTSB said.

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion

A workers clears the airway of a large vacuum tube being used to remove a cement material from the woods at a Baker Hughes facility, on Wednesday in Nikiski, Alaska. Employees of the company dumped several thousand pounds of the material onto their property and an adjoining property over the course of at least a month, prompting a visit from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.

Baker Hughes cleanup nears finish Results from lab testing of spilled material not yet available By RASHAH McCHESNEY Peninsula Clarion

Between the intermittent noise of an industrial truckmounted vacuum running for several hours a day, a cleanup crew in hazmat suits moving the through the woods near his property and his general discomfort with the whole situation, Chuck Campbell has not been getting any work done. Contractors and employees of a Nikiski-branch of the behemoth oilfield services company, Baker Hughes, have been working to clean up a cement mixture that work-

ers had dumped in the woods adjoining Campbell’s property. An Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation investigator said the cleanup is expected to be complete by the end of the week. The 61-year-old Ninilchik man sat on a log sharpening two of his chain saws Wednesday. Wood piles loom large on Campbell’s lot which he uses as the base for his logging company. Several logging apparatus, a half-finished log cabin, a trailer, and several other vehicles dot the property where Campbell said he typically works a few days a week

before returning to his Ninilchik home. That all changed in late October after Campbell discovered a growing pile of dusty, white residue while hunting on his property. For some time, workers at Baker Hughes had been driving to the east end of the company’s lot, and dumping the remnants of the cement mixture down a dirt hill and into the woods — a clear violation of the company’s recommended disposal method for the mixture, according to its data sheet for the material. Several feet of the material encroach on property Campbell

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Correction In a Nov. 5, 2014 story titled “Races motivate peninsula voters,” a quote about Prop. 4 was incorrectly attributed to a Gerry Matthews, of Kasilof. In addition Matthews’ name is spelled Jerry Matthews. The quote: “The Pebble Mine is part of the worst idea anybody came up with. Ecosystems here are godlike. Things take millions of years to evolve into systems and the beauty and vastness of intrinsic wealth is not to be messed with for some copper and iron,” should be attributed to Michael Bishop, of Kasilof. The Clarion regrets the error.

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owns and, a long thin trail of it has streamed into a pit where Campbell had planned to sink a well for drinking water. At the time, a Baker Hughes communications specialist, Dana Morrison, wrote in an email that the company did not believe the cement was a risk to human health or the environment. Despite repeated requests to multiple employees, no one from Baker Hughes provided the Clarion a copy of the company’s material safety data sheet, or MSDS, on the cement-compound. Campbell said the compa-

Rethinking Pot Kenai Peninsula voters wary of new marijuana regulation

6 things the states that legalized pot need to know

By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

KRISTEN WYATT Associated Press

It appears the third time is the charm for Alaskans’ bid to legalize marijuana. After failed voter initiatives in 2000 and 2004, on Tuesday Alaskans voted 52 percent in favor of the legalization for the recreational use of marijuana. Alaska joins Oregon, which passed a similar pot measure Tuesday. Washington and Colorado became the first two states to legalize marijuana last year. While absentee ballots remain to be counted, the yes votes hold a 9,624-vote lead. The passage of Ballot Measure 2 allows the state to tax and regulate the production, sale and use of marijuana. Possession would be legal for those 21 years old and older. The initiative states marijuana would be regulated and taxed like alcohol. Election results from the Kenai Peninsula show the borough was split on the issue. The more populated central region opposed the measure. More voters in the north and central peninsula voted no, while the southern peninsula and east voted for legalization. District 29, which includes Sterling, Nikiski, Salamatof, Cooper Landing and Seward narrowly voted against marijuana legalization with 2789 against to 2639 votes in favor. District 30, the central peninsula region, voted 54 percent against the measure. The southern peninsula, or district 31, received 54 percent in support of the initiative. Soldotna resident Mike Hill said he thought the measure would pass. His wife, Angela Hill said she was concerned about how pot would be regulated. “It had to pass before the state could figure out how to regulate it,” Mike Hill said. “The drug war wasn’t working. We might as well try something else. If it doesn’t work down the road, we can go back.”

DENVER — Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C., voted to legalize recreational marijuana Tuesday. The drug is already legal for people 21 and older in Colorado and Washington, thanks to ballot measures voted on in 2012. It was a whole new frontier for those states, so here are some hints from the legal weed states on what the new places can expect:

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See POT, page A-10

UNCLE SAM IS (MOSTLY) LOOKING THE OTHER WAY Some expected a federal lawsuit when Washington and Colorado flouted federal drug law, which considers pot illegal for any purpose. But last summer, the U.S. Justice Department said it wouldn’t interfere with state marijuana laws as long as the states tightly regulate the drug and make efforts to keep it from children, criminal drug cartels and other states. There have since been isolated federal raids on pot businesses in Colorado, but no widespread federal crackdown on the industry in either state.

LEGAL POT BRINGS IN SOME GREEN Pro-marijuana advocates predicted that legal weed would be a huge windfall for Washington and Colorado. Marijuana opponents predicted the drug would prove a drain on state finances because of higher law enforcement costs. Both sides were wrong. Colorado is on track to bring in some $84 million this year from medical and recreational pot taxes and fees. Washington by some estimates will it bring in more than $50 million between 2015 and 2017. That’s not chump change, but in the mix of multibillion-dollar state budgets, legal pot isn’t exactly a game-changer.

In four months, Soldotna residents will decide how much autonomy they want for their city. A special election is scheduled for Feb. 3, 2015, for eligible voters to choose if they want a charter drafted for a home-rule government. Approval would mean Soldotna would have the maximum authority allowed for an Alaska municipality. Council members Pete Sprague and Linda Murphy said moving to home-rule would give the city the chance to adopt and exercise policy specific to Soldotna’s community. Soldotna is currently a firstclass general law city, whose powers are limited by state and borough law, according to the Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development. In Alaska, the unorganized and organized boroughs govern home-rule, first-class general law and second-class general law cities, according to the Alaska Department of Commerce. Of the six cities on the Kenai Peninsula Borough, Seward and Kenai are home rule law, according to the Department of Commerce. Seldovia and Homer are first-class general law cities, while Kachemak is the only second-class city, according to the Department of Commerce. Homer voted down the option of becoming a home-rule city in this year’s Regular Election on Oct. 7. Moving to home-rule would gives the municipality more control over setting tax mill rates and the ability to exercise all legislative powers not prohibited by existing law or charter. According to the Department of Commerce, the election and term of the city council and mayor would be determined by a charter and no longer by state regulations. Right now the state has rigid regulations on first-class city councils when it comes to making regulatory exceptions, said Soldotna Mayor Nels Anderson. If adopted, Soldotna’s charter may also define the veto powers of the mayor, according to the Department of Commerce. Anderson said he has not needed to veto a decision by the city council since being elected until recently. At the Nov. 5 city council meeting, Anderson told the council he would overturn any unscheduled approvals for small grant money, unless they created a policy that would be applied to all future requests. City manager Mark Dixson said a catalyst for the interest in home-rule came from the recent Supreme Court decision in Price v. Kenai Peninsula Borough et al., which could lead to a repeal by voter approval of the Kenai Peninsula Borough food-tax that allows Soldotna to collect a year-round tax on non-prepared food items. If the tax is repealed, the city would need to find another way to make $1.2 million in annual revenue, and it would likely have to happen through inSee SOLDOTNA, page A-10

A-2 Peninsula Clarion, Thursday, November 6, 2014

AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

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Rain is forecast to expand in the Northeast today with spotty showers southward to the upper Gulf Coast and drenching rain in coastal Texas. More rain will push onshore in the coastal areas of the Northwest.

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Kenai/ Soldotna 35/29 Seward 44/34 Homer 42/35

Valdez Kenai/ 34/28 Soldotna Homer

Cold Bay 39/30

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Anchorage 33/27

Bethel 16/7

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Supreme Court decision questioned By SAM HANANEL Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia thinks something smells rotten about the way prosecutors went after a Florida fisherman who threw undersized grouper off his boat. The conviction of commercial fisherman John Yates for destroying evidence seemed to trouble Scalia and several of his colleagues Wednesday as they questioned why the government brought charges under a law meant to tackle corporate fraud in the wake of the Enron accounting scandal. “What kind of a mad prosecutor would try to send this guy up for 20 years, or risk sending him up for 20 years?” Scalia asked during arguments in the case. A jury agreed that Yates dumped the fish to impede an investigation into whether they were under the legal minimum catch size in the Gulf of Mexico, and Yates ended up serving 30 days in jail. But critics have derided the case as an example of government overreach. The Obama administration says it was simply enforcing the plain language of a law that prohibits destruction of “any tangible object” during a federal investigation. Justice Department attorney Roman Martinez said prosecutors actually recommended about two years in prison. He stressed that Yates had disobeyed officers, tried to cover up his scheme and enlisted other crewmembers to lie. “You make him sound like a mob boss or something,” Chief Justice John Roberts said as laughter erupted in the court. The case started in 2007 when a Florida fish and wildlife officer inspected Yates’ boat and discovered 72 grouper that appeared to be less than 20 inches long, the minimum length permitted by law. The officer ordered Yates to return to port so the fish could be seized. C

Yates later had the fish tossed overboard and tried to replace them with slightly larger fish. Prosecutors charged Yates under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, passed in response to the Enron accounting scandal when scores of documents were shredded to conceal wrongdoing. Part of the law prohibits knowingly altering or destroying “any record, document, or tangible object” with the intent to obstruct an investigation. Roberts said the law gave the government “extraordinary leverage” to prosecute and get a guilty plea from anyone who throws fish off a boat. He suggested the case was similar to one decided earlier this year, in which the Supreme Court faulted the government for using an anti-terrorism law to prosecute a woman who spread deadly chemicals around the home of her husband’s mistress. Martinez said it would “a very strange thing if this court were to say that the obstruction of justice law is somehow applied differently when the offense is trivial.” Justice Stephen Breyer said the law might be “void for vagueness” if there isn’t a clear way to limit its scope. “If you can’t draw a line, it seems to me that the risk of arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement is a real one,” Breyer said. Yates’ lawyer, John Badalamenti, a federal public defender, argued that the phrase “tangible object” only means items used to preserve information, such as computers, servers or other storage devices. Suppose the fisherman took a picture of the incriminating fish and then destroyed the picture, Justice Anthony Kennedy asked. Badalamenti conceded such photos would probably be covered under the law. “It seems very odd that you can throw away the fish without violating the act, but you can’t throw away the picture,” Kennedy said.

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Hunter kills 2 bears while defending partner KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — A Washington state man is being hailed as a hero after his hunting partner was mauled by a bear on a small island east of Kodiak. KMXT reports Michael Snowden of Sitka suffered leg injuries in the brown bear attack on Tuesday. Snowden and his hunting partner, Jeff Ostrin of Camas, Washington, were taking a deer they had shot down to a beach for pickup when they stopped for lunch. The bears caught wind of the deer. The sow came through the brush and attacked Snowden. Ostrin stepped back, took aim with his rifle and killed the sow. One of the two cubs also was killed. State wildlife official Larry Van Daele (DALE’) says Ostrin is a hero for killing the bears, tending to Snowden’s wounds and getting help.

Wednesday Stocks Company Final Change Agrium Inc............... 98.14 +0.95 Alaska Air Group...... 53.97 -1.42 ACS...........................1.38 +0.00 Apache Corp........... 75.56 +1.35 AT&T........................ 34.92 +0.13 Baker Hughes...........51.35 +1.33 BP ............................41.77 +0.12 Chevron................... 117.05 +1.68 ConocoPhillips......... 69.88 +1.11 ExxonMobil.............. 95.07 +0.55 1st Natl. Bank AK... 1,681.00 -4.00 GCI...........................11.75 +0.00 Halliburton............... 52.37 +1.19 Harley-Davidson...... 64.36 +0.25 Home Depot............ 95.78 -01.8 McDonald’s.............. 94.64 +0.17 Safeway................... 34.97 +0.18 Schlumberger.......... 96.64 +2.48 Tesoro...................... 72.42 -0.53 Walmart....................77.70 +0.44 Wells Fargo.............. 53.53 +0.61 Gold closed............ 1,144.03 -24.32

Silver closed............ 15.33 -0.71 Dow Jones avg..... 17,484.53 +100.69 NASDAQ................4,620.72 -2.91 S&P 500................2,023.57 +11.47 Stock prices provided by the Kenai Peninsula Edward Jones offices.

Oil Prices Tuesday’s prices North Slope crude: $79.21, DOWN from $80.44 on Monday West Texas Int.: $77.19, DOWN from $78.78 on Monday

Peninsula Clarion, Thursday, November 6, 2014

Community Calendar Today 8 a.m. • Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 398-9440. 8:30 a.m. • TOPS AK No. 220 Kasilof weigh-in at CES Station 6, 58260 Sterling Highway. Meeting starts at 9 a.m. Call 262-7319 or 2523436. 10 a.m. • TOPS AK No. 164 Soldotna weigh-in at First Baptist Church, 159 S. Binkley. Meeting starts at 11 a.m. Call 262-7339. • Narcotics Anonymous PJ Meeting, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 11312 Kenai Spur

11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Sterling Group,” Moose River RV Park, Mile 81.5 Sterling Highway, Sterling. • Square dance group at Ninilchik Senior Center. • Alcoholics Anonymous “Unity Men’s Group” meets downstairs the Salvation Army building in Soldotna. 8 p.m. • AA Attitude of Gratitude at URS Club, 405 Overland Drive. Call 283-3777. • AA North Roaders Group at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 242-9477. • Alcoholics Anonymous Ninichick support group at United Methodist Church, 15811 Sterling Highway, Ninilchik. Call 907-567-3574. The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations. To have your event listed, email organization name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone number to news@peninsulaclarion.com.

ReGroup finalizes recycling event plans

Cook Inlet Aquaculture Bulding on Kalifornsky Beach Road just east of the Bridge Access Road. Bird sightings, enrichment and ReGroup, local recycling group, meets Monday, at 6:30 p.m. snacks will be shared. Anyone who enjoys watching birds to any room 159 at Kenai Peninsula College. Arrangements for the degree will enjoy this gathering. For more information, call call AST accepting applications for Kenai Peninsula in Electronic Recycling Event Saturday will be finalized. Commu- 262-7767 Citizen Academy nity members are welcome to attend. Call Jan 252-2773 for more Registration is open for the third Alaska State Troopers Citizen information. Electronics recycling available Academy offered in the Soldotna/Kenai area to promote and enOn Nov. 15, ReGroup is planning an Electronics Recycling hance citizen understanding and awareness of the role of troopers Cook Inlet RCAC board meets Event from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Central Peninsula Landfill on the within the community. After two successful sessions in the Central Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council (Cook Inlet Sterling Highway. The event is free for households. Businesses Peninsula, the next will start on Jan. 13, 2015. RCAC) will hold its regular Board of Directors meeting at The and non-profits are invited to bring recyclable electronics in for The AST program is based on the Citizen Police Academy Hotel Captain Cook (939 W. 5th Ave.) in Anchorage on Dec. 5, free with the exception of monitors ($15/each) and televisions (CPA) model used by police agencies throughout the country. beginning at 9:00 a.m. The public is welcome to attend. For more ($0.18/pound). Businesses and non-profits are asked to schedule CPAs are intended to open the lines of communication between the information or an agenda, please call 1-800-652-7222 or 907-283- an appointment on Nov. 15 to minimize congestion at the Central community and their local police and help expand a police agen7222. Board materials will be available online just prior to the Peninsula Transfer Center. For more information, call 252-2773. cy’s community-based efforts. AST’s Citizen Academy can also meeting. alleviate some misunderstanding by providing citizens a firsthand look at the statutes, regulations and policies that guide troopers in Cabin Hoppers kick off season Trout Unlimited plans social their daily duties. The Caribou Hills Cabin Hoppers welcome the winter season Starting in January, the academy will meet 6-9 p.m. every TuesKenai Peninsula Chapter of Trout Unlimited is hosting a social with their annual Kick Off Party to be held on Nov. 8 from 6 p.m. day through March 31, 2015. There will be a few Saturday field on Nov. 14 at 6 p.m., at Mykel’s Restaurant, in their banquet room. to 9 p.m. at the Soldotna Sports Center. This is a family friendly, trips. Unless otherwise instructed, classes will be held at the EmerStop by and get to know your local chapter of Trout Unlimited, talk members only event; memberships can be purchased or renewed gency Operations Center in Soldotna. fishing, find out what the chapter has been up to this past year, and at the door. No host bar will be available courtesy of The Upper Advance registration is required for the academy. Applicants learn how to become involved with events to come. There will be Deck. Barbecued pork spare ribs will be provided by BBQ to Go; must be at least 18 years old and reside in Alaska. Additionally, free appetizers and door prizes. Everyone is welcome; need not be members whose last names start with A-R are asked to provide side participants must pass a background investigation including a a member to attend. dishes, salads, etc. while S-Z are asked to bring desserts. There will criminal history check. Felony and some misdemeanor convictions be door prizes for adults and kids, Split the Pot, bucket and silent will preclude participation in the AST Citizens Academy. Applicaauctions, and the Sportsmen’s Warehouse Wall of Goods raffle. Community choir forming tion deadline is Dec. 12. Applications can be picked up and dropped off at the Alaska A new community choir, The Kenai Peninsula Singers, is open State Trooper posts located at 46333 Kalifornsky Beach Road to everyone who wants to be there, whether it is their first time Coast Guard Auxiliary to meet or found on the AST Public Information Office website at http:// singing or they sang at The Met. The choir will rehearse every The Kenai Flotilla of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will conwww.dps.alaska.gov/PIO/citizenacademy.aspx. Tuesday night from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. in the Kenai Central High For more information, contact Dane Gilmore at 907-262-4453. School choir room. Call or email for more details: 907-283-2125 duct its monthly meeting on Nov. 15 at 10 a.m. at the Nikiski Fire Station #1, 44800 Kenai Spur Highway. The public is cordially inor simjnissen@gmail.com. vited to come and sharing ideas and information about paring safeFood bank offers healthy eating classes ty. For more information, please contact the Flotilla Commander, 907-776-8522, or the Vice Flotilla Commander, 907-776-8457. Want to eat healthy on a limited budget? Attend family friendly Hospital service area board to meet nutrition classes featuring ways to eat healthy at the Kenai PeninThe Central Kenai Peninsula Hospital Service Area Board will sula Food Bank Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-6:30 through hold its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, Nov. 10, at 5:30 Celebrate Alaska Native/Native American Dec. 11. Attend one or all. Classes include free recipes, samples, p.m. in the Redoubt-Spur conference room located downstairs at Heritage Month at Kenai Peninsula College with door prizes available. For more information call 262-3111. Central Peninsula Hospital. Kenai Peninsula College invites you to a free Fry Bread Social to celebrate Alaska Native/Native American Heritage Month Free Thinker group meets Woodturners meeting coming around on Thursday, November 6, from 12:30- 2:00 p.m. at the Kenai RivLast Frontier Free Thinkers will meet Nov. 18 at the Soldotna The Kenai Peninsula Woodturners Chapter will hold its meeting er Campus McLane Commons in Soldotna. For more information Public Library at 5:30 p.m. This group advocates progressive val- at 1 p.m. Saturday at the woodturning shop in the log building at contact Diane Taylor at 907-262-0328. ues for humanists, atheists, and freethinkers. Please email coura- mile 100 on the Sterling Highway, just a few miles south of Solgeoustiger@gmail.com with questions. Note: this event is held at, dotna where Echo Lake Road meets the highway. There will be a Garden club talks irrigation not sponsored by, the Soldotna Public Library. wood turning demonstration. Visitors are always welcome. QuesThe Central Peninsula Garden Club’s Nov. 11 program, “Irrigations? Call 801-543-9122. tion! Plan, Prepare & Assemble,” will benefit outdoor gardeners Car seat check up events scheduled and high tunnel growers who want to set up an automated sysChildren of all ages need special care when riding in motor ve- Gingerbread house contest under way tem and spend more time doing other things than watering. The hicles. Stop in at a Safe Kids Kenai Peninsula event to have a child The Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Ceter presents program presenter is Jeff Rypka, Civil Engineer for the Natural passenger safety technician check to make sure your child is riding the 2nd annual Gingerbread House Contest. The contest is free to Soil & Water Conservation (NRCS) office who is an experienced safely in your vehicle. CES/Soldotna Fire Station No. 1 — Noon-2 enter. Entries may be dropped off at the visitor center through Nov. gardener, has a high tunnel and outside garden himself. He will exp.m. on Nov. 8; Dec. 11; Jan. TBA. 15. Prizes will be awarded in three ages groups: 12 and under; 13- plain the evaluation and preparation one has to do prior to putting Kenai Fire Department — 1-3 p.m. Nov. 12, Dec. 8, Jan. 21. 17; and 18 and over. Houses will be on display Nov. 18-Dec. 20. in a system and will have the parts and pieces of his own system for Nikiski Fire Station — 1-3 p.m. Nov. 6, Dec. 12. show and tell. Gather information, parts and pieces for your earlyFor more information or to register, call 283-1991. For an individual appointment contact: Safe Kids Kenai Penas-possible installation. The presentation is at 7 p.m. at the Cook insula Coalition/Central Peninsula Hospital, Jane Fellman, RN/ Inlet Aquaculture Building, mile 16.5 Kalifornsky Beach Road not Birders to flock together Coordinator, at 714-4539 or safekids@cpgh.org. far from the Bridge Access Road intersection. Free and open to the The Keen Eye Bird Club will meet from 1-3 p.m. Nov. 8 at the public.

Around the Peninsula

Highway Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. 5:30 p.m. • Free Seated Zumba Gold at the Kenai Senior Center. New participants, active older adults, and chair-bound or limited mobility participants are encouraged. 6 p.m. • AA Step Sisters women’s meeting at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, O’Neill Hall, 222 W. Redoubt, Soldotna. Call 262-2304. • TOPS AK 20, Soldotna, weigh-in at Christ Lutheran Church, 128 North Soldotna Avenue, Soldotna. Meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. Call 262-1557. • Celebrate Recovery, Midnight Son Seventh-day Adventist church on the corner of Swires Rd. and Kenai Spur Hwy in Kenai. Dinner is at 6 p.m.; Recovery Lesson at 6:30 p.m.; Open Share groups at 7:15 p.m. Email rking4@mac.com or call260-3292. 7 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Dopeless Hope Fiends,”

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Old Faithful may have digital competition By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press

BILLINGS, Mont. — Can Old Faithful compete with Netflix? The prospect of streaming wireless service deep inside Yellowstone National Park is reigniting the debate over whether there should be any place off limits to technology. Park officials are in preliminary discussions with CenturyLink about installing a $34 million fiber-optic line through neighboring Grand Teton National Park and into Yellowstone. That would dramatically improve connectivity in certain areas for mobile devices. Details on the Yellowstone fiber optic project were obtained by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility through a public records request and confirmed by The Associated Press. The Washington, D.C. advocacy group’s executive director, Jeff Ruch, warned that bumping up the park’s bandwidth will cre-

ate more electronic distractions at the expense of the park’s natural wonders. The CenturyLink proposal coincides with a National Park Service campaign to “Go Digital” ahead of its 100th anniversary in 2016. And it comes as concession companies have been pushing for more digital access in national parks, including Arizona’s Grand Canyon, Texas’ Big Bend and Maine’s Acadia. It’s a notion far removed from the park system’s early days, when President Theodore Roosevelt took a break from a national speaking tour and dropped from the public eye for two weeks to go camping in Yellowstone. Yet as wireless connectivity spreads into almost every corner of modern life, the social pressures to “whittle away” at the remaining technology-free refuges are immense, said James Katz, a professor and director of emerging media studies at Boston University. Katz had a first-hand

dose of those pressures this summer, when he travelled through Yellowstone with his teenage children. They hit all the main attractions: Old Faithful, Yellowstone Falls, roaming herds of wild bison. Whenever connectivity dropped off, Katz said, the complaints from the teens would begin. “It was quite fascinating to see a naturally-occurring experiment about what happens when you take away technology from kids,” he said. “They wanted to be in touch with their friends and exchange Snapchat photos — not of the beautiful scenery but

themselves.” Another visitor, Vince Swagerty of Newberg, Oregon, wasn’t surprised when he ran into trouble uploading pictures during a July tour of Yellowstone with his wife, son, 20, and daughter, 23. “You take a cell phone shot of one of the bison right next to you, almost looking in your window, and you want to get that up on Facebook,” said Swagerty, a 51-year-old tech-savvy amateur photographer who works as an administrator at a Christian school.

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Americans still reaching for the stars? Americans are spoiled when it comes

to space travel. We beat the Soviet Union (now Russia) to the moon. We’ve sent unmanned crafts to Mars. We’ve sent craft toward Jupiter. Our satellites roam the nightly skies. So when there’s an accident involving a rocket, such as the one involving an unmanned Orbital Sciences rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station that exploded just above the launching pad, or the “anomaly” experienced by the Virgin Galactic test vehicle SpaceShipTwo that crashed in the Mojave Desert Friday, the question comes up as to how such a thing can happen. Virgin Atlantic chief Richard Branson expressed shock at the crash but vowed to push on. “Space is hard — but worth it. We will persevere and move forward together,” Branson said. Admirable, to be sure, but is it really achievable in the long run? When tragedy struck the American space program (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) with the fire aboard the Apollo spacecraft that killed three astronauts, NASA and the space program rebounded. When the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on liftoff or when the Shuttle Columbia blew up upon return, the space program rebounded. But will those who can afford the $250,000 ticket for three exhilarating minutes want to take the chance? Time will tell. The accident left one pilot dead, the other seriously wounded. But it leaves an even greater void. NASA has already seen its budget diminish, and the shuttle program has been mothballed. The public hasn’t demonstrated a strong desire to see the billions of dollars in taxpayer money sent into outer space. It all begs a larger question. Is there truly a place for space travel for private companies taking civilians up into the outer reaches of space? Given the exploratory nature of humans, it’s a question that at some point, those companies and the American people may not know how to answer. — The Daily Star, Hammond, Louisiana, Nov. 4

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Jeb Bush: Read my lips, part II

Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL.) is thinking seriously about running for president in 2016, according to his son, George P. Bush. According to Commentary magazine, Jeb Bush had an impressive record as governor, including tax reductions totaling $20 billion. Given that performance, why is Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, upset? Politico, and many others, assert it’s because of an answer Bush gave in 2012 to a hypothetical question posed by a member of the House Budget Committee, which resurfaced now as he contemplates running for president. Bush was asked if he could accept tax increases of $1 dollar for every $10 dollars in spending cuts. He said he could and seemed enthusiastic about the 10-for-1 formula. Norquist and other anti-tax advocates perhaps see in Bush’s comment a replay of his father’s pledge at the 1988 Republican National Convention: “Read my lips: no new taxes.” He violated that pledge when congressional Democrats promised to cut spending in exchange for tax increases. Bush raised taxes. Democrats did not cut spending. Many have long believed that broken promise contributed to his failure to win a second term. Republicans allow themselves to get caught in this trap because many assume that government not only needs increasing

amounts of taxpayer money, but that it can be relied upon to spend it wisely. Anyone who believes that hasn’t been paying attention. The Treasury Department last week released figures Cal Thomas showing tax revenue in fiscal 2014 exceeded $3 trillion for the first time in American history. Treasury also said the deficit was nearly $500 billion. The national debt has passed $17 trillion, and continues to climb. As Ronald Reagan and other conservatives have noted, the reason we have such massive debt is not because the American people are undertaxed; it is because their government overspends. If spending cuts alone were implemented, Jeb Bush would have no need to increase taxes. Doesn’t that work with our credit cards? If we reduce spending without additional income, we will have more money in our pockets to save and invest. Republicans need to reject the notion that government needs more money and change the subject to the elimination of wasteful and unnecessary spending. Deep within our DNA remains a Puritan ethic of living within one’s means and not borrow-

ing to pay for what we can’t afford. Some things remain true regardless of the era. I have always appreciated what Calvin Coolidge said about taxation. Here are just three of his better utterances on the subject, which contemporary Republicans would do well to memorize: “The collection of any taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny.” Or this one: “The wise and correct course to follow in taxation is not to destroy those who have already secured success, but to create conditions under which everyone will have a better chance to be successful.” And this: “No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.” These quotes and many other wise sayings of the 30th president can be found in Peter Hannaford’s book, “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge.” Jeb Bush and other Republicans who would even consider more tax hikes might want to carry around a copy and read from it whenever they feel the urge. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribune.com.

Wins give GOP wider Washington influence By JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON — With sweeping victories that exceeded their own sky-high expectations, the GOP has dealt President Barack Obama and Democrats the most devastating electoral defeat of his presidency. Their prize is full control of Congress, and with it, the power to shape the direction of America’s government in the next two years. Both parties talked Tuesday about need to compromise, but they will face tough obstacles in following through. The list is long: the already looming 2016 elections, persistent divisions within the Republican Party, and the frosty relationship between Obama and Sen. Mitch McConnell, who won re-election in Kentucky and is likely to ascend to majority leader. “I don’t expect the president to wake up tomorrow and view the world any differently than he did this morning,” McConnell said at his victory party Tuesday night. “He knows I won’t either.” The election puts Republicans back in power in the Senate for the first time in eight years, and alongside a GOP-led House, the party will set a legislative agenda unlike anything that would come from Obama’s White House. The president’s top advisers have spent weeks planning for how to deal with a Republican-led Senate. Obama will hold a press conference Wednesday afternoon, and plans to meet with congressional leaders Friday at the White House. In the rosiest of scenarios, McConnell and Obama can look for common ground in areas where their parties have overlapping interests: overhauling the nation’s complicated tax code, repairing crumbling roads and bridges, and inking free-trade agreements with the European Union and Asia-Pacific nations. “This is a new chapter in the presidency and it doesn’t have to be a defeated one,” said Bill Burton, a former Obama White House and campaign adviser. “We lost in C

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count on full support from Democrats who are unlikely to want to help the GOP look effective in governing during the lead-up to a presidential contest. Tuesday’s elections also strip him of some of the more moderate members of his caucus, such as Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina, leaving him with more liberal members who have fewer overlapping priorities with Republicans. The White House was silent as Republicans racked up one win after another Tuesday and won control of the Senate hours — if not days — before almost anyone expected. Privately, there was frustration among some advisers that Democrats wary of being associated with Obama largely sidelined the increasingly unpopular president throughout the campaign. That strategy did little to stem losses in places where Obama showed prowess in his runs for president, including Colorado, Iowa and Florida. For Democrats, the one silver lining in Tuesday’s elections is that they are now over. Attention can now turn to 2016, when the Senate contests will largely take place in states that are traditionally more favorable to Democrats. And while they may still fret about being saddled with an unpopular president at their party’s helm, many are already prepared to move on. An announcement from Hillary Rodham Clinton, the political juggernaut who appears poised to run to replace Obama, is expected around the end of the year.

a lot of places, but the truth is this could open up some real opportunity to actually get some things done.” For Obama, who has grown resentful of his diminished political standing, the prospect of reaching accords with a GOP-led Congress is a consolation prize that could help salvage his flailing second term. Republican Senate leaders may also see something to gain by showing Americans they can govern effectively, given that voters expressed dissatisfaction with their party as well with Obama, according to exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and television networks. But McConnell and Republicans are likely to have plenty on their to-do list that doesn’t match Obama’s plans for his final years in office, including cutting budget deficits, making changes to Obama’s signature health care law and approving construction of the contentious Keystone XL pipeline from Canada. “We will send the president bill after bill until he wearies of it,” said Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, a tea party favorite and potential 2016 presidential candidate. That fast-approaching campaign likely leaves McConnell and Obama a short window in which to make progress on any compromise legislation. McConnell will be fending off pressure from prospective White House hopefuls, including Paul and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who see little incentive to compromise Julie Pace has covered the White House with a Democratic White House as they ap- for The Associated Press since 2009. peal to the conservative voters who decide GOP primaries. Republican opposition to the president is likely to only deepen if the president accelerates his use of executive E-mail: news@peninsulaclarion.com actions, including presidential directives Write: Fax: on immigration that are expected before Peninsula Clarion 907-283-3299 the end of the year. P.O. Box 3009 Questions? Call: Obama, too, will be battling internal Kenai, AK 99611 907-283-7551 party politics. He may no longer be able to

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Feeding homeless: Act of charity or a crime? By KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — To Arnold Abbot, feeding the homeless in a public park in South Florida was an act of charity. But to the city of in Fort Lauderdale, the 90-year-old man was committing a crime. Abbott and two South Florida ministers were arrested last weekend as they handed out food. They were charged with breaking a new ordinance restricting public feeding of the homeless, and each faces up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine. “One of the police officers said, ‘Drop that plate right now,’ as if I were carrying a weapon,” Abbott said. The conflict pits organizations with charitable intentions against residents and businesses who don’t want their neighborhoods to become magnets for the homeless. Fort Lauderdale is the latest U.S. city to pass restrictions on feeding homeless people in public places. Advocates for

the homeless say that the cities are fighting to control increasing homeless populations but that simply passing ordinances doesn’t work. “Street feeding programs don’t work,” said Robert Marbut, a consultant and expert on homelessness in the U.S. “Outlawing it doesn’t work, either. ... You’re never going to have a good day arresting a priest.” In the past two years, more than 30 cities have tried to introduce laws similar to Fort Lauderdale’s, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless. The efforts come as more veterans face homelessness and after two harsh winters drove homeless people south, especially to Florida, Marbut said. But he called the laws “gimmicky.” In Fort Lauderdale, the arrests haven’t deterred Abbott, Dwayne Black and Mark Sims. The ministers were back at church Wednesday preparing meals for a feeding at a public park later that night. Mayor Jack Seiler said he thinks the three have good intentions, but that the city can’t

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Homeless advocate Arnold Abbott, 90, director of the nonprofit group Love Thy Neighbor Inc., prepares a salad in the kitchen of The Sanctuary Church, Wednesday, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Abbott was recently arrested along with two pastors for feeding the homeless in a Fort Lauderdale park.

discriminate in enforcing the law. He said it was passed to ensure that public places are open to everyone. “The parks have just been overrun and were inaccessible to locals and businesses,” Seiler said. Black noted that the or-

dinance passed after a long meeting after midnight, when many people had gone home. He said he knows there’s a good chance he’ll be arrested tonight, but he wants to be there to “reopen the discussion on this ordinance.” “If that’s what happens,

that’s what happens,” Black said. Police said that the men were not taken into custody and that they were given notices to appear in court, where the matter will ultimately be decided by a judge. Police spokeswoman DeAnna Greenlaw said those arrested “were well aware of the changes to the ordinance and its effective date.” Fort Lauderdale’s ordinance took effect Friday, and the city recently passed a slew of laws addressing homelessness. They ban people from leaving their belongings unattended, outlaw panhandling at medians, and strengthen defecation and urination laws, according to Michael Stoops, director of community organizing for the National Coalition for the Homeless. “I’ve never seen a city pass so many laws in such a short period of time,” said Stoops, who testified at a City Council hearing on the issue. Other cities are conducting routine homeless sweeps while some have launched anti-panhandling campaigns, according to the coalition. And many laws

continue to target public feedings. In Houston, groups need written consent to feed the homeless in public, or they face a $2,000 fine. Organizations in Columbia, South Carolina, must pay $150 for a permit more than two weeks in advance to feed the homeless in city parks. In Orlando, an ordinance requires groups to get a permit to feed 25 or more people in parks in a downtown district. Groups are limited to two permits per year for each park. Since then, numerous activists have been arrested for violating the law. They’ve drawn national attention, with some focusing on the contrast between the vacation destination of the Orlando area and the poverty in its surrounding cities. “I think cities have grown tired of the homeless situation, and businesses and residents complain about the homeless population,” Stoops said, citing the conflict between business needs and the needs of the homeless.

Iran general said to mastermind Iraq ground war By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and VIVIAN SALAMA Associated Press

BAGHDAD — When Islamic State militants retreated from the embattled town of Jurf alSakher last week, the Iraqi military was quick to flaunt a rare victory. State television showed tanks and Humvees parading through the town and soldiers touring government buildings that the Sunni extremist group had occupied since August. However, photos soon emerged on independent Iraqi news websites revealing a more discreet presence — the Iranian general Ghasem Soleimani, whose name has become synonymous with the handful of victories attributed to Iraqi ground forces. Local commanders said Lebanon’s Hezbollah Shiite militia group was also involved. The U.S. has awkwardly found itself on the same side as Iran and Hezbollah in the war against the Islamic State group, which rampaged across much of northern and western Iraq in June. While U.S. military advisers have been coordinating

coalition airstrikes from within heavily fortified bases, Soleimani and his commanders are on the front lines and would assume a key role in the retaking of major cities. That could prove a major impediment to addressing the grievances of Iraq’s Sunni minority. Iran and Hezbollah are closely linked with Iraqi Shiite militias, which have also played a key role in driving IS out of the so-called Baghdad Belt of Sunni villages ringing the capital. The sectarian militias have long been implicated in brutality against Sunnis, and their advance could undermine efforts to knit the troubled country together. Militia commanders told The Associated Press that dozens of advisers from Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were on the front lines in Jurf al-Sakher. They said the advisers provided weapons training to some 7,000 Iraqi troops and militia fighters and coordinated with military commanders ahead of the operation. One commander, who agreed to be identified only by his nickname, Abu Zeinab, said

Soleimani began planning the Jurf al-Sakher operation three months ago. The cleared town, 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the capital, lies on a road often used by Shite pilgrims. Iraqi military officials declined to discuss Soleimani’s presence in Jurf al-Sakher, or in previous victories where he is known to have played a commanding role. Those successes include halting the IS advance in the town of Amirli in August and the city of Samarra in June. But senior figures with the Revolutionary Guard have publicly acknowledged Soleimani’s role in Iraq’s war with IS. As for Hezbollah, it has openly joined Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces against mainly Sunni rebels — a decision that has fueled sectarian tensions in Lebanon. But Hezbollah has declined to comment on reports of its involvement in Iraq. In July, officials in Lebanon said a Hezbollah commander was killed while on a “jihadi mission” in Iraq. Ibrahim Mohammed al-Haj was buried in Lebanon and his funeral attend-

ed by top Hezbollah officials. It was the first known Hezbollah death in Iraq since the lightning IS advance in June. A Lebanese official close to the group said Hezbollah is known to have “a limited number of advisers” in Iraq who are not directly involved in fighting, and that al-Haj was one of them. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. Iraqi officials have also said that a handful of advisers from Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, are offering front-line guidance to Iraqi Shiite militias fighting Sunni extremists north of Baghdad. But it is not known if any Hezbollah men are actually fighting. Iraqi Shiite militias were implicated in the mass killing of Sunnis at the height of the country’s sectarian carnage in 2006 and 2007 and have more recently been accused of brutalizing Sunni captives. Sunnis are also deeply suspicious of Shiite powerhouse Iran, which has played an outsized role in Iraqi affairs since

the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein’s Sunni-dominated government. “It is true that Iraq needs any kind of help in the current situation, but this help should be public and part of the international efforts,” Sunni lawmaker Hamid al-Mutlaq told the AP. “This undeclared Iranian help harms national reconciliation and the sovereignty of Iraq.” Amnesty International said last month that militias have abducted and killed scores of Sunni civilians with the tacit support of the Iraqi government in retaliation for Islamic State attacks. Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has pledged to reign in the militias and establish a national guard to mobilize Sunnis against the extremists. But it could take months to assemble such a force, and in the meantime Soleimani’s militias are the best placed to aid Iraq’s beleaguered military in regaining the initiative against the Islamic State group. Soleimani’s Quds Force, the special operations arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, has been

involved for years in training and financing Iraq’s Shiite militias. It has also long worked with Hezbollah in Lebanon and has been aiding Assad’s forces. In June, Revolutionary Guard advisers under Soleimani provided guidance for Shiite militiamen in shelling Sunni insurgent positions around Samarra, a Sunni-majority city north of Baghdad that is home to a revered Shiite shrine, local commanders said. Soleimani was also seen as playing a key role in ending the Islamic State siege of the Shiite Turkmen town of Amirli. And a top Revolutionary Guard general said in September that Soleimani had even helped Kurdish fighters defend their regional capital, Irbil. Militia commanders, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the media, describe Soleimani as “fearless” — one pointing out that the Iranian general never wears a flak jacket, even on the front lines. “Soleimani has taught us that death is the beginning of life, not the end of life,” one militia commander said.

Israeli police: Hamas militant driver slams car into pedestrians BY TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press

JERUSALEM — A Hamas militant slammed a minivan into a crowd waiting for a train Wednesday in Jerusalem, killing one person and wounding 13. Hours later, the Israeli military said a Palestinian motorist drove into a group of soldiers in the West Bank, injuring three. The incidents and a similar attack two weeks earlier raised concern that Israel could be facing a new type of threat. Police said they would put concrete barricades in front of train stations as a first step. Hamas said the Jerusalem attack was meant to protect the city’s most sensitive and sacred site — the compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount. Police identified the van’s driver — who was killed by police — as Ibrahim al-Akari, a 38-year-old Palestinian. His wife said he was angered by a confrontation between police and Palestinians at the Al-Aqsa Mosque earlier in the day in which part of the shrine was damaged. It was not clear how much damage there was at the mosque. Israeli police had dispersed dozens of masked Palestinians who threw rocks and firecrackers near the site in the Old City ahead of a visit by a group of Jewish activists. Neighboring Jordan recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations in a strong protest of the police action at the site and filed a complaint to the U.N.

Security Council. Under an arrangement with Israel, Jordan has custodial rights over Muslim holy sites in the Old City, which includes the Al-Aqsa Mosque. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry condemned what he called “the terrorist attack in Jerusalem,” and added that “the confrontation at the Al-Aqsa Mosque is also of particular concern.” “Holy sites should not become the sites of tension, and concrete steps need to be taken

now by all sides to de-escalate this situation,” Kerry said, noting that the U.S. was in touch with both Jordan and Israel and hoped that “all parties will draw back and reduce these tensions.” The developments raised fears of worsening violence after months of simmering tensions in the holy city and injected new religious fervor into a wave of unrest fueled by failed peace efforts and stepped-up Jewish settlement construction. Israeli Prime Minister Ben-

jamin Netanyahu blamed the Jerusalem attack on incitement stemming from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and “his Hamas partners,” a reference to a unity government led by Abbas and backed by the Islamic militant group. “We are in a prolonged battle in Jerusalem. I have no doubt we will win. We are deploying all the necessary forces to restore calm and security to all parts of the city but it may certainly be a prolonged struggle,” he said.

Israel has been trying for months to quell the unrest in east Jerusalem that began this summer but has surged over tensions surrounding the holy site. In Wednesday’s attack in Jerusalem, police said the motorist drove the minivan into pedestrians waiting for the train at a stop. The driver backed out and drove away, hitting several cars along the way. He then got out of the van and attacked civilians and police officers on the side of the road with a metal bar before he was shot and killed.

The train stop is located along an unmarked line between west Jerusalem and the eastern sector captured in 1967. Police said al-Akari was recently been released from prison after serving time for security offenses. His wife, Amira Soultan, told The Associated Press that he was inspired by the violence he saw at the mosque. “He saw how the carpet of Al-Aqsa was burned. He saw it on his laptop, on Facebook and he went out,” she said.

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Ukraine to halt subsidies to rebel-held areas

Around the World Obama, McConnell pledge to work for change — but with limits on compromise WASHINGTON — One day after sweeping Republican election gains, President Barack Obama and incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pledged to try and turn divided government into a force for good rather than gridlock on Wednesday, yet warned of veto showdowns as well. Trade legislation loomed as one possibility for quick compromise, and immigration as an early irritant. “There is no doubt that Republicans had a good night,” the president said at the White House, referring to big gains that left the GOP in control of the Senate, with an expanded House majority and in possession of a handful of governorships formerly in Democratic hands. To voters who handed the GOP control of Congress, he said, “I hear you. ... It’s time for us to take care of business.” He cited construction of roads, bridges and other facilities as one area ripe for cooperation, and trade as another. At the same time, he noted, “Congress will pass some bills I cannot sign. I’m pretty sure I will take some actions that some in Congress will not like.”

Amid Ebola disaster, WHO picks new chief to take over troubled Africa office COTONOU, Benin — With nearly 5,000 dead of Ebola in West Africa, the World Health Organization elected a new director Wednesday of its Africa office, which has been accused of bungling the response to the outbreak in its early stages. The new chief, Matshidiso Moeti, is a doctor from Botswana and a WHO veteran who stepped down as deputy director for Africa in March, the same month the crisis was announced. The results of the five-candidate election were made public at a meeting of the U.N. agency in Benin and came amid the worst outbreak of the dreaded disease ever seen. “I hope, with all the control efforts that are now in place, the situation will have improved by the time I take office in February,” Moeti told reporters. Moeti is unlikely to play a major role in ending the disaster, since the United Nations has already taken more direct charge of the control efforts. But she could be key to preventing another such crisis.

Principal: Boy whose mother told police she threw him from bridge was happy at school GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A 6-year-old autistic boy found dead after his mother told police she threw him from a bridge on the Oregon Coast had been happy in school since starting kindergarten in September, his principal said Wednesday. London Grey McCabe will be remembered as a student who was “just full of joy and laughter,” Crestview Heights School Principal Kelly Beaudry said. “We were really fortunate to have him here as a kindergartener at Crestview, and he will be missed.” Police say suspect Jillian McCabe parked her car at the north end of the picturesque Yaquina Bay Bridge as darkness fell on Monday then took her son in her arms, carried him to the middle of the span and threw him to his death in the water below. She then dialed 911 on her cellphone. “I just threw my son over the Yaquina Bay Bridge,” McCabe told the dispatcher, according to a probable cause affidavit filed by police.

Anger, demographics combine to fuel the Republicans’ election success in ‘blue states’ WASHINGTON — At the end, Kansans did what Kansans do on Election Day: They voted Republican. But the GOP’s midterm triumph can’t be explained away as just a good night for Republicans in the rural and Southern states they tend to dominate. In battleground states, in states with changing electorates and in states that are solidly Democratic, voters who were mostly white and often older said they were upset with both President Obama and Republicans in Congress. Forced to choose, they sided with the GOP. That trend in this year’s low-turnout election helped the Republican Party exceed its own already high expectations. It scored victories beyond the red states of Kansas, Georgia and Arkansas, sweeping into the more Democratic-friendly territory of Iowa, Maryland, and Colorado, too. Political operatives on both sides were still trying to figure out exactly how it happened on Wednesday. But a closer look at the electorate offers some clues about how the GOP seized the Senate majority, expanded its House control and broadened its advantage in governors’ seats across the nation. — The Associated Press

BY PETER LEONARD Associated Press

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine will freeze budget subsidies for the eastern territories controlled by pro-Russian separatists, the prime minister announced Wednesday — a move that could worsen the already grievous economic conditions there. Aging industrial operations in Ukraine’s economically depressed but coal-rich east have for many years relied heavily on state subsidies. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk told a government meeting that $2.6 billion in state support will be held back from rebel-held areas in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. He did not say what time period that subsidy figure represented. Yatsenyuk said the payment of pensions and government benefits to residents in conflictstricken parts of the east will resume after separatist forces have surrendered there. The government has not been paying pensions in those areas for several months, but has said back payments will be paid to recipients when the rebels move out. Ukraine’s government has

blamed Russia for fomenting the last six months of fighting between government forces and separatist fighters in the east. Moscow denies that it supplies rebel fighters with either manpower or military equipment. Yatsenyuk said suspending subsidies to the rebel-occupied areas would cut off a vital source of funding for rebel forces. “The money we pay into those territories today does not get to the people but is stolen by Russian bandits, and this would be nothing but directly supporting Russian terrorism,” he said. The regions are among the most economically depressed in Ukraine and living standards have slipped further since hostilities erupted. Yatsenyuk said gas and electricity from government-held regions would continue to be supplied to rebel zones. “Those are our citizens and the government will not allow these people to freeze, as this would lead to a humanitarian catastrophe,” he said. A cease-fire was agreed upon in early September but fighting has still continued. More than 4,000 people have been killed

in the region since the conflict began in April, according to UN estimates. Deputy Defense Minister Petro Mekhed was quoted as saying Wednesday that military intelligence had noted a recent increase in the number of Russian troops in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Fearing an imminent escalation in hostilities, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said additional troops are being deployed to the east to defend cities still under government control against any possible incursions. Ukraine and Western governments have heaped criticism on Sunday’s rebel-organized election, saying it violated the September truce. On Tuesday, the separatist leader in the Donetsk region, Alexander Zakharchenko, 38, was sworn in as head of a self-declared secessionist territory. German Chancellor Angela Merkel indicated Wednesday that more rebel leaders in eastern Ukraine could be added to lists of those targeted by European Union sanctions. Speaking to reporters in Paris, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he urged Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko

this week to “continue to take the high road” with the Minsk agreement, “and not to fall into the possibility invited by measures taken by Russia to engage in a tit-for-tat process.” He said Poroshenko agreed, and “could not have been more clear about his determination to maintain that high moral ground.” The main rebel stronghold of Donetsk saw regular shelling throughout Wednesday. Fighting in the city has been focused around the airport, which remains in the hands of government troops. Two teenagers were killed when a school was hit by shelling in a village outside the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk. The charitable foundation of billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, which paid to refurbish the school last year, said in a statement that the shell struck while children were playing in the schoolyard. Four children were injured in the incident, the foundation said. Writing on his Twitter account, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin urged international observers monitoring the cease-fire to carry out an immediate investigation into the incident.

US, France cite concerns about Iran nuclear talks BY LARA JAKES AP National Security Writer

PARIS — With time running out on the latest round of negotiations, France and the United States on Wednesday stepped up demands for Iran to prove that its nuclear program is peaceful — or risk scuttling the closest chance for a deal in years and losing a chance to ease crippling sanctions on Tehran’s economy. The entreaty to Iran comes days before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is to meet with top diplomats to Iran and the European Union to discuss how to break the yearslong deadlock before a Nov. 24 deadline. Iran is seeking global recognition for its right to generate nuclear power — which it says it will use for energy, medical and other benign purposes — and the removal of at least some Western penalties against its oil and financial sectors. But much of the rest of the world fears that Tehran, which has hindered fully transparent inspections of its reactors over the years, wants to build an atomic weapon. “We have presented to them a framework that would allow them to meet their peaceful energy needs,” President Barack Obama said Wednesday. “Whether they can manage to say yes to what clearly would be better for Iran, better for the region, and better for the world, is an open question.” In Paris, Kerry met with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and placed the burden to complete a deal on Iran. “They have a right to a peaceful program but not a

track to a bomb,” Kerry said after his meeting. “We believe it is pretty easy to prove to the world that a plan is peaceful.” Fabius called it “very important” for the U.S. and France to keep a united front as the negotiations enter the final stretch. The French diplomat’s comments underscored concerns that Washington could change course on its diplomacy with Iran after Jan. 1, when Republicans will control both houses of Congress. Many Republican leaders have criticized the Obama administration’s desire to ease sanctions on Iran while the talks are underway, or to embrace any agreement that would allow Tehran to continue generating nuclear power. If that’s the case, the November deadline may represent the last shot the White House will get at securing a deal with Iran — a major foreign policy legacy issue for Obama. But Obama also said that internal politics in Iran could also affect the negotiations. “They have their own politics and there’s a long tradition of mistrust between the two countries,” he said. “And there’s a sizable portion of the political elite that, you know, cut its teeth on anti-Americanism and still finds it convenient to blame America for every ill that there is.” Kerry dismissed questions about whether the GOP’s command of Congress would derail the nuclear deal, and said the same sticking points would remain no matter which U.S. political party was in power. “I don’t believe that changes either side,” he said. “I honestly don’t.”

Congress has very limited power to influence a potential deal. It could refuse to lift sanctions imposed on Iran, but it can’t stop the president from suspending or relieving some of the sanctions by executive order. And, he noted: “As we have learned in the last few years, the minority has enormous power to stop things from happening.” Obama’s party, the Democrats, will be in the minority in Congress next year. Kerry also insisted that the U.S. is not prepared to extend the looming deadline, just three weeks away with scant sign of a final agreement. But he left open the possibility if, at the end, the two sides find themselves “inches” away from a resolution that has long bedeviled the international community.

On-and-off negotiations between Iran and world powers have languished for years without resolution, and the last time the two sides came close to a deal was in 2008. But world powers saw a new opening with the 2013 election of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who campaigned to end bruising Western sanctions to punish Tehran for its nuclear production. Israel has also objected to the negotiations, which have become a sore point between Washington and Tel Aviv. While in Paris, Kerry also met with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh — both of whom have been focused on the stagnant effort to broker a peace agreement between Israel and Palestinian authorities.

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Region volleyball tourneys to test players Tight-knit Northern Lights and Southcentral championships kick off today By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

A serve that trickles off the net chord and falls on the opponent’s side of the court. An attempted attack that is shanked, yet still somehow finds its way to the weakness of a defense. A perfect bump and set leading to a golden attack opportunity, leading to a resounding slam that goes just long. These are the momentum-changing plays that are expected to decide a tight dash for the championships and the state qualifications at the Northern Lights Conference and Southcentral Conference volleyball tournaments. The six-team NLC tourney, which begins today at Palmer High School and includes Peninsula squads Soldotna and Kenai Central, will determine three state berths. The seven-team Southcentral tourney, starting Friday at Grace Christian School, will include Peninsula teams Nikiski, Homer and Seward, and also will determine three state berths. If regular-season play is any indication, the difference between celebrating a state berth and ending a season will be razor-thin at both tournaments. In the NLC tourney, Palmer is the

top seed with an 8-2 record, while Kodiak is second at 7-3. Both SoHi and Colony finished at 5-5, and a series of four tiebreakers was needed to give the third seed to the Stars. No. 5 seed Wasilla (4-6) and No. 6 Kenai Central (1-9) have served notice they won’t go down quietly. In Wasilla’s final two matches, the Warriors lost to Colony and Wasilla, but each match went to 15-13 in the final game. Meanwhile, the Kards have a victory over that Wasilla squad and took top seed Palmer to five games earlier in the year. The tournament is also a true double-elimination format, which could only add to the drama. “It’s a very, very, very even region,” Soldotna coach Sheila Kupferschmid said. “It’ll depend on confidence, and you’ve gotta have some luck as well. “You’ve got to have balls drop in. These are such momentum matches.” Momentum is something the Stars carry into their first-round match with Kenai today at 3 p.m. The winner of that match plays Kodiak at 8 p.m. for the right to go to state. After getting swept in a three-match trip to the Valley, SoHi ended the season on a four-match winning streak, and added a Silver Bracket victory at

the Dimond-Service tourney to boot. Two of those victories were sweeps of Kenai. Kupferschmid said seniors Haley Miller, Bailey Rosin, Alex Ashe, Skylar Shaw, Hayley Ramsell and Taylor Wilson will play a vital role. “I would love it if they would step forward and play the best ball they can play,” Kupferschmid said. “They’re hungry and confident.” Kupferschmid said controlling the ball will be vital, and she said Shaw, Ashe and Rosin excel at that. Miller and junior Makenna Rosin have helped the back row by putting up a stronger block as the season has progressed. Ramsell provides offensive firepower and all-around play, while Lindsey Wong has improved running the offense. Kupferschmid also said she has a feeling sophomore Judah Aley could play big minutes in the tournament. “I believe the kids will be ready to play the best ball they can,” Kupferschmid said. Kardinals coach Tracie Beck has a similar vibe about her squad. “I’m excited because Soldotna is the team we know best,” Beck said. “I just feel like we have a good shot against them.”

Beck said the Kards have yet to put their best foot forward against the Stars. In the first loss, a couple of players had recently left the team. In the second loss, senior leader Kiana Harding was running a fever and didn’t play her normal game. “Kiana’s definitely still a little weak, but she’s times 10 better and we’re excited to have her back in our offense,” Beck said. Coach Beck can also count on offense and overall play from Abby Beck. Like Kupferschmid, Beck said ball control will be key. She said Heidi Perkins has been coming on in that regard. The coach said libero Jamie Bagley worked out a few kinks in practice and is back to putting the ball in the setter’s hands. Beck said Emily Koziczkowski has really come on as a hitter, and senior Kyla Whannell is doing the best hitting of her career. Alli Steinbeck and Amber Walter have also been doing a good job setting. Coach Beck said the Kards’ serving was bad in the second loss to SoHi, but that has been shored up in practice as well. “It’s crazy,” Beck said. “There’s See NETS, page A-8

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at Palmer High School Thursday’s games Game 1 — Colony vs. Wasilla, 1 p.m. Game 2 — Soldotna vs. Kenai, 3 p.m. Game 3 — Palmer vs. Game 1 winner, 6 p.m. Game 4 — Kodiak vs. Game 2 winner, 8 p.m. Friday’s games Game 5 — Game 2 loser vs. Game 3 loser, 11 a.m. Game 6 — Game 1 loser vs. Game 4 loser, 1 p.m. Game 7 — Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 winner, 5 p.m. Game 8 — Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner, 7 p.m. Saturday’s games Game 9 — Game 8 winner vs. Game 7 loser, 10 a.m. Game 10 — Game 7 winner vs. Game 9 winner, 1 p.m. Game 11 (if Game 7 winner loses Game 10) — Championship, 3 p.m.

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at Grace Christian School Friday’s games Game 1 — Cordova vs. Nikiski, Noon Game 2 — Homer vs. Seward, 2 p.m. Game 3 — ACS vs. Houston, 4 p.m. Game 4 — Grace vs. Game 1 winner, 6 p.m. Game 5 — Game 2 winner vs. Game 3 winner, 8 p.m. Saturday’s games Game 6 — Game 2 loser vs. Game 3 loser, 9 a.m. Game 7 — Game 1 loser vs. Game 5 loser, 11 a.m. Game 8 — Game 6 winner vs. Game 4 loser, 1 p.m. Third-place match — Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner, 4 p.m. Championship match — Game 4 winner vs. Game 5 winner, 6 p.m.

Hayward jumper gives Jazz victory The Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gordon Hayward made a step-back jumper at the buzzer, one-upping LeBron James and boosting the Utah Jazz to a 102-100 victory over the struggling Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday night. Hayward, who had 21 points, broke free of James to catch an inbounds pass, faked a move to the basket and then stepped back on the right wing and swished a 21-foot jump shot as the horn sounded. The forward was mobbed by his Jazz teammates in a scene reminiscent of a college tournament game. Derrick Favors had 21 points and 10 rebounds but the Jazz had to overcome a last-minute effort by James, who scored 31 points as Cleveland fell to 1-3.

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Detroit Red Wings goalie Jonas Gustavsson (50), of Sweden, watches as the New York Rangers celebrate a goal by Rick Nash during the first period of an NHL hockey game Wednesday in New York.

Rangers win tight one in OT New York notches win over Detroit after losing late equalizer The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Derick Brassard scored a powerplay goal 1:50 into overtime, after Detroit tied it in the closing seconds of regulation, to give the New York Rangers their fifth straight victory over the Red Wings, 4-3 on Wednesday night. Lee Stempniak gave the Rangers a 3-2 lead with 7:50 left in the third period, but Detroit got even for the second time when Tomas Tatar scored on a power play with 7.7 seconds left and goalie Jonas Gustavsson off for an extra skater. Pavel Datsyuk tripped Mar-

tin St. Louis 46 seconds into overtime, and Brassard took advantage when he slammed in a rebound of Dan Girardi’s shot. Stempniak was in line for the winner when he finished a 2-on-1 rush by scoring off a pass from Dominic Moore. Rick Nash and St. Louis also scored for the Rangers, who dropped their previous two games in shootouts. Henrik Lundqvist stopped 25 shots after getting a rare game off on Monday night. Jakub Kindl and Daniel Cleary scored 13 seconds apart in the second to erase Detroit’s 2-0 deficit.

CANADIENS 2, SABRES 1, SO BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — P.A. Parenteau scored in regulation and added the shootout winner in Montreal’s victory over Buffalo. Dustin Tokarski made 31 saves to help Montreal end a three-game losing streak. Parenteau opened the scoring 19 seconds into the third period with the Canadiens’ first goal in 107 minutes, 1 second. In the third round of the shootout, Parenteau beat Michal Neuvirth with a wrist shot.

Drew Stafford tied it for Buffalo on a power play at 3:14 of the third, and Neuvirth made 30 saves. ISLANDERS 3, DUCKS 2, OT ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — John Tavares scored his second goal on a power play 2:18 into overtime, and the New York Islanders snapped their three-game skid. Kyle Okposo also scored and Jaroslav Halak made 32 saves for the Islanders, who blew an early two-goal lead in their third stop on a five-game trip.

points and eight rebounds for the Bucks. With Chicago leading by one, Gasol hit a jumper and Butler made an acrobatic layup. That started a clinching 9-2 run that was capped by Kirk Hinrich’s 3-pointer with 2:16 remaining.

GRIZZLIES 102, SUNS 91

PHOENIX (AP) — Mike Conley had 24 points and 11 assists, and Memphis used a strong defensive effort in the third quarter to beat Phoenix and remain unbeaten. The Grizzlies, who won all four meetings last season, forced 10 turnovers in the third and turned an 11-point deficit in the second period into a five-point lead going into the fourth. Conley and fellow guard Courtney Lee, both coming off injuries, combined to score 17 of Memphis’ 30 third-quarter points. Lee, who missed the past two games with a concussion, scored 22 points with 4-of-5 shooting on SPURS 94, HAWKS 92 3-pointers. Memphis (5-0) is off to SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Tim the best start in franchise history. Duncan had 17 points and 13 rebounds, and San Antonio held on PISTONS 98, KNICKS 95 for its 17th straight win at home AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) over Atlanta. The Spurs had a season-high — Greg Monroe had 23 points and 25 assists for a balanced scoring 18 rebounds, and Detroit held off effort that they needed to fend off New York for its first win of the the Hawks’ furious rally in the fi- season. The Pistons (1-3) went 1 for nal quarter. Tony Parker scored 17 points and Manu Ginobili added 17 on 3-pointers in Sunday’s 12, including a pair of free throws loss to Brooklyn, but Kentavious Caldwell-Pope hit their first three with 3.8 seconds remaining. After a closing double-team attempts against New York, and forced Jeff Teague to pass up an they ended up with a season-high attempted 3-pointer, Pero An- 11. Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 20 tic’s shot from near halfcourt was blocked by Boris Diaw as time ex- points for the Knicks, who lost at home to Washington on Tuesday pired. DeMarre Carroll and Paul Mill- night. They were facing a rested sap each had 17 points for Atlanta Detroit team that had two days off before the game. (1-2). Al Horford added 10.

BULLS 95, BUCKS 86 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Derrick Rose returned from his latest injury and helped Chicago to another victory at Milwaukee. Taj Gibson scored 23 points, Pau Gasol added 22 and Rose had 13 points and seven assists in 32 minutes for the Bulls, who have beaten the Bucks nine straight times in Milwaukee. Giannis Antetokounmpo had 13

RAPTORS 110, CELTICS 107 BOSTON (AP) — Kyle Lowry scored 35 points and had a key steal in the closing minute to lead Toronto over Boston. DeMar DeRozan had 23 points and Patrick Patterson added 14 for the Raptors. Rajon Rondo led Boston with a triple-double of 13 points, 15 asSee NBA, page A-8

Commissioner testifies for over 2 hours on Rice hearing ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell testified for more than two hours to start Ray Rice’s appeal hearing on Wednesday, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press. Rice and his wife, Janay, will testify on Thursday at the offices of former U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones in New York, according to the person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonym-

ity because Jones has told both sides not to discuss details of the private hearing. The source said Goodell spent much of his testimony under cross examination by Rice’s attorneys. Rice spent nearly 10 hours at the hearing, which took place nearly two months after the former Pro Bowl running back was suspended indefinitely by the NFL and released by the Baltimore Ravens. League security chief Jeffery Miller and Ravens President Dick Cass are among the key

witnesses expected to testify in the two-day hearing. Rice was suspended indefinitely Sept. 8 for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy after a video of him hitting his then-fiancee was released publicly. Rice is seeking immediate reinstatement, though it’s unlikely a team would sign him this season. Rice has also filed a separate wrongful termination grievance against the Ravens. It’s uncertain how long Jones will take to make a decision, but she’s not expected to make it on

Thursday, the source said. Goodell originally suspended the running back for two games. The incident occurred inside an elevator at an Atlantic City casino in February. The couple married a month later. The league considered the video made public after the initial suspension to be new evidence, giving Goodell the authority to amend Rice’s punishment. But Rice’s attorneys are arguing he should not be disciplined twice, citing the collective bargaining agreement. C

Rice’s side also is arguing that he described details of the incident to Goodell when they met in June. Goodell has called Rice’s description “ambiguous” while the player’s representatives have maintained he gave exact details.

Romo sits out practice

LONDON (AP) — Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo sat out the team’s first practice in London on Wednesday because of his injured back. Romo, who missed last Sun-

day’s 28-17 loss to the Arizona Cardinals with his third back injury in the last 18 months, made the trip to England but stayed at the hotel while the rest of his teammates practiced at Allianz Park. “It’s just based on the feedback, and what he’s told us how he feels,” Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said. “Is it more worthwhile to stay there and get treatment, or come over here and watch practice and stand up for a couple of hours? It makes sense to stay there and get some treatment.”

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Scoreboard basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Toronto 4 1 Brooklyn 2 2 New York 2 3 Boston 1 3 Philadelphia 0 5 Southeast Division Washington 4 1 Miami 3 2 Charlotte 2 3 Atlanta 1 2 Orlando 1 4 Central Division Chicago 4 1 Milwaukee 2 3 Cleveland 1 3 Detroit 1 3 Indiana 1 4

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Memphis 5 0 Houston 5 0 Dallas 3 1 San Antonio 2 1 New Orleans 2 2 Northwest Division Portland 2 2 Minnesota 2 2 Utah 2 3 Denver 1 3 Oklahoma City 1 4 Pacific Division Golden State 4 0 Sacramento 4 1 Phoenix 3 2 L.A. Clippers 3 2 L.A. Lakers 0 5

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Wednesday’s Games Orlando 91, Philadelphia 89 Charlotte 96, Miami 89 Detroit 98, New York 95 Toronto 110, Boston 107 Minnesota 98, Brooklyn 91 Chicago 95, Milwaukee 86 Washington 96, Indiana 94, OT San Antonio 94, Atlanta 92 Memphis 102, Phoenix 91 Utah 102, Cleveland 100 Sacramento 131, Denver 109 Golden State 121, L.A. Clippers 104 Thursday’s Games San Antonio at Houston, 4 p.m. Dallas at Portland, 6:30 p.m. All Times ADT

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EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L Montreal 14 9 4 Tampa Bay 12 8 3 Detroit 13 6 3 Boston 14 8 6 Ottawa 11 6 3 Toronto 12 6 5 Florida 10 4 2 Buffalo 14 3 9 Metropolitan Division Pittsburgh 11 8 2 N.Y. Islanders 12 7 5 New Jersey 12 6 4 N.Y. Rangers 12 6 4 Philadelphia 12 5 5 Washington 12 4 5 Carolina 11 3 6 Columbus 12 4 8

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division St. Louis 12 8 3 Nashville 12 7 3 Winnipeg 13 7 5 Chicago 13 7 5 Minnesota 11 7 4 Dallas 12 4 4 Colorado 14 3 6 Pacific Division Anaheim 14 10 3 Vancouver 13 9 4 Calgary 14 8 4 Los Angeles 13 7 4 San Jose 13 7 4 Arizona 12 5 6 Edmonton 12 4 7 NOTE: Two points for a point for overtime loss.

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE East Philadelphia 6 2 0 .750 234 177 Dallas 6 3 0 .667 230 195 N.Y. Giants 3 5 0 .375 178 209 Washington 3 6 0 .333 197 229 South New Orleans 4 4 0 .500 227 198 Carolina 3 5 1 .389 177 236 Atlanta 2 6 0 .250 192 221 Tampa Bay 1 7 0 .125 150 245 North Detroit 6 2 0 .750 162 126 Green Bay 5 3 0 .625 222 191 Minnesota 4 5 0 .444 168 199 Chicago 3 5 0 .375 180 222 West Arizona 7 1 0 .875 192 156 Seattle 5 3 0 .625 202 174 San Francisco 4 4 0 .500 168 178 St. Louis 3 5 0 .375 149 220 Open: Houston, Indianapolis, Minnesota, New England, San Diego, Washington

Wednesday’s Games Montreal 2, Buffalo 1, SO N.Y. Rangers 4, Detroit 3, OT N.Y. Islanders 3, Anaheim 2, OT Thursday’s Games Edmonton at Boston, 3 p.m. Florida at Philadelphia, 3 p.m. Minnesota at Ottawa, 3:30 p.m. Calgary at Tampa Bay, 3:30 p.m. New Jersey at St. Louis, 4 p.m. Pittsburgh at Winnipeg, 4 p.m. Nashville at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. Toronto at Colorado, 5 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Los Angeles, 6:30 p.m. Vancouver at San Jose, 6:30 p.m. All Times ADT

Thursday, Nov. 6 Cleveland at Cincinnati, 4:25 p.m. Sunday, N ov. 9 San Francisco at New Orleans, 9 a.m. Kansas City at Buffalo, 9 a.m. Miami at Detroit, 9 a.m. Tennessee at Baltimore, 9 a.m. Pittsburgh at N.Y. Jets, 9 a.m. Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 9 a.m. Dallas vs. Jacksonville at London, 9 a.m. Denver at Oakland, 12:05 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Seattle, 12:25 p.m. St. Louis at Arizona, 12:25 p.m. Chicago at Green Bay, 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10 Carolina at Philadelphia, 4:30 p.m. All Times ADT

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NFL Standings AMERICAN CONFERENCE East New England Buffalo Miami

W L T Pct PF PA 7 2 0 .778 281 198 5 3 0 .625 178 165 5 3 0 .625 211 151

BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB С Suspended free agent LHP Troy Patton 80 games following a positive test for an amphetamine under Major League Baseball’s drug program.

American League HOUSTON ASTROS С Acquired C Hank Conger from the Los Angeles Angels for RHP Nick Tropeano and C Carlos Perez. LOS ANGELES ANGELS С Acquired LHP Cesar Ramos from Tampa Bay for RHP Mark Sappington. TEXAS RANGERS С Named Michael Young special assistant to the general manager. National League PITTSBURGH PIRATES С Named Brad Fischer to the coaching staff. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA С Suspended New York G J.R. Smith one game for hitting Washington’s Glen Rice Jr. in the groin during a Nov. 4 game. PHILADELPHIA 76ERS С Named Sachin Gupta vice president of basketball operations and Ben Falk vice president of basketball strategy. Promoted Vince Rozman to director of basketball operations & scouting innovation. Named Phil Jabour director of scouting development, Danny Mills international scout, Sean Rooks player development coach and Eugene Burroughs shooting coach. FOOTBALL National Football League GREEN BAY PACKERS С Signed G Jordan McCray to the practice squad. Released RB Michael Hill from the practice squad. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS С Signed FB Anthony Sherman to a contract extension. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS С Re-signed WR Jonathan Krause to the practice squad. Released DL Kona Schwenke from the practice squad. NEW YORK GIANTS С Claimed CB Chykie Brown off waivers from Baltimore. Placed CB Prince Amukamara on injured reserve. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS С Announced the retirement of RB Marcus Lattimore. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS С Placed DE Greg Scruggs on injured reserve. Claimed DE Demarcus Dobbs off waivers from San Francisco. TENNESSEE TITANS С Signed TE Brett Brackett from the Seattle practice squad. Placed TE Taylor Thompson on injured reserve.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL С Suspended Columbus D Jack Johnson three games for an illegal check to the head of Carolina F Jiri Tlusty during a Nov. 4 game. NEW YORK RANGERS С Assigned D Dylan McIlrath to Hartford (AHL). PITTSBURGH PENGUINS С Signed G Marc-Andre Fleury to a four-year contract extension through the 2018-19 season. SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS С Fined New England MF Jermaine Jones an undisclosed amount for simulation in the 70th minute of the Nov. 1 game against Columbus. SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC С Signed F Victor Mansaray. USL PRO USL PRO С Announced Real Monarchs SLC as a new franchise for the 2015 season. WILMINGTON HAMMERHEADS FC С Named Carson Porter coach and technical director. COLLEGE BUCKNELL С Named Ryan Ayers men’s assistant basketball coach. CHESTNUT HILL С Named Mike Pearson sprint football coach. DELAWARE С Named Caitlin Papili club sports coordinator, Cortney Ranck assistant director of recreation for marketing and Kevin Rose facility operations coordinator. LSU С Suspended women’s junior basketball G Danielle Ballard indefinitely from game competition for violating team rules. MICHIGAN СAnnounced DB Jabrill Peppers will redshirt this season because of a leg injury. RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE С Named Christina Tavana women’s soccer coach. SAM HOUSTON STATE С Named Omar Lowery men’s assistant basketball coach. TENNESSEE С Suspended women’s basketball F Cierra Burdick and G Jannah Tucker two games each and Gs Ariel Massengale and Andraya Carter one game apiece for academic reasons. UALR С Named Marques Townsend director of men’s basketball operations. UTAH STATE С Suspended WR Gregory Weichers indefinitely.

Messi ties Champions goals record The Associated Press

Lionel Messi scored twice to tie Raul Gonzalez’s career record of 71 Champions League goals, and Barcelona won 2-0 at Ajax on Wednesday night to advance to the tournament’s knockout stage for the 11th straight year. The 27-year-old scored with a header in the 36th minute and doubled the lead in the 76th after exchanging passes with Pedro Rodriguez. Messi moved one goal in front of Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo. Messi has played 90 Champions League matches, 52 fewer than Raul. “Messi is absolutely the best player I have ever seen as player or coach,” Barcelona coach Luis Enrique said. Barcelona (3-1) advanced from Group F along with Paris Saint-Germain (3-0-1), which beat APOEL 1-0 on Edinson

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Cavani’s goal 57 seconds in. Ajax is 0-2-2 and APOEL 0-31. Manchester City (0-2-2) finished two players short and lost 2-1 at home to CSKA Moscow (1-2-1). Seydou Doumbia scored in the second and 34th minutes around an eighth-minute goal from Yaya Toure in the Group E match. Fernandinho was ejected in the 70th and Toure in the 82nd by Greek referee Tasos Sidiropoulos, both for their second yellow cards. “It’s very difficult to understand why we played so badly,” City manager Manuel Pellegrini said. “From the beginning, we were so nervous and we gave them the two goals. Really, we didn’t play. The first half especially, we didn’t see the team we normally see. We didn’t shoot once at their goal. We just had

Yaya’s free-kick, and we gave away two easy goals.” Bayern Munich (4-0) reached the final 16 for the seventh straight year, winning 2-0 at home against Roma (1-2-1) in the other Group E match on goals by Franck Ribery in the 38th and Mario Goetze in the 64th. In Group G, Jasmin Handanovic saved Eden Hazard’s 85th-minute penalty kick, preserving a 1-1 tie for Maribor (0-1-3) against visiting Chelsea (2-0-2). Agim Ibraimi put the hosts ahead with a curled shot in the 50th, and Nemanja Matic tied the score in the 73rd for the Blues, who are unbeaten in 16 games in all competitions this season. “Only when Maribor scored did the players realize the game was in danger,” Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho said. “After that, a fantastic reaction. We

deserved to win, clearly.” Sporting Lisbon (1-2-1) rallied for a 4-2 win over Schalke (1-1-2) on goals by Naby Sarr in the 26th, Jefferson (52nd), Nani (72nd) and Islam Slimani (first minute of injury time). Slimani’s own goal put the visitors ahead in the 17th, and Dennis Aogo scored in the 88th for Schalke. Porto (3-0-1) advanced from Group H by winning 2-0 at Athletic Bilbao (0-3-1) on goals by Jackson Martinez in the 56th and Yacine Brahimi in the 73rd. Luiz Adriano scored a hat trick in to help Shakhtar Donetsk (2-0-2) to a 5-0 rout of BATE Borisov (1-3). After goals by Darijo Srna in the 19th and Alex Teixeira in the 48th, Luiz Adriano converted a penalty kick in the 58th and added goals in the 83rd and the third minute of stoppage time.

including getting swept in the first Roy Hibbert’s 3-point attempt in round of the Eastern Conference the closing seconds to move three playoffs by Miami last season. games above .500, a mark they didn’t reach until March 1 last season.

(4-0) showed off the swagger of a confident and complete contender. They built a 25-point lead in the second quarter and held off the Clippers the rest of the way, getting a small slice of revenge after losing a heated first-round playoff series to Los Angeles last season.

TIMBERWOLVES 98,

NETS 91 points on 5-of-21 shooting for New York. He missed his first nine NEW YORK (AP) — Nikola shots and didn’t score until the fiPekovic converted a tiebreaking nal minutes of the second quarter. three-point play with 48 seconds left, and Minnesota scored the final nine points of the game to beat RAPTORS 110, Brooklyn. CELTICS 107 Kevin Martin led the TimberBOSTON (AP) — Kyle Lowry wolves with 26 points and rookie scored 35 points and had a key Andrew Wiggins, playing in the steal in the closing minute to lead arena where he was taken by Toronto over Boston. Cleveland with the No. 1 pick in DeMar DeRozan had 23 points the draft, added 17. and Patrick Patterson added 14 for the Raptors. HORNETS 96, HEAT 89 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Al Jefferson scored a season-high 28 points and added 10 rebounds, and Charlotte snapped a 16-game, regular-season losing streak against Miami. Charlotte was winless against the Heat in the LeBron James era,

WIZARDS 96, PACERS 94, OT

WASHINGTON (AP) — John Wall had seven of his 31 points in overtime, and Washington won its fourth straight and gained a tiny measure of revenge from last season’s playoffs by beating resilient but even-more-depleted Indiana. The Wizards blew a 12-point, second-half lead and survived

MAGIC 91, 76ERS 89 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Tobias Harris made a jumper at the buzzer to give Orlando its first win of the season. Nik Vucevic scored 17 points and Channing Frye had 13 points and 11 rebounds for Orlando. Harris had 18 points and eight rebounds to help the Magic snap a season-opening, four-game losing streak.

KINGS 131, NUGGETS 109

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — DeMarcus Cousins had 30 points and 11 rebounds, Rudy Gay scored 29 and Sacramento beat Denver to extend its best start in more than a decade. Darren Collison added 10 points and eight assists, and Carl Landry had 18 points off the bench to help Sacramento to its second win over WARRIORS 121, Denver in three days and fourth CLIPPERS 104 straight overall following a seasonOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Ste- opening loss to Golden State. phen Curry had 28 points and seven assists, Draymond Green scored a career-high 24 and Golden State remained unbeaten with its most impressive performance yet, routing the Los Angeles Clippers. Green added eight rebounds and five assists as the Warriors

Sports Briefs Ostrander captures college championship Former Kenai Central runner Taylor Ostrander claimed her first collegiate championship victory Saturday, Nov. 1, at the Northwest Conference Cross Country Championships at Bush’s Pasture Park in Salem, Oregon. Ostrander, a 2012 Kenai Central graduate that currently runs for Willamette University, won the womens six-kilometer race in a time of 22 minutes, 25.2 seconds, tied in a photo finish with Bearcats teammate Olivia Mancl. Defending NWC champ Michaela Freeby finished third, just a tenth of a second behind her two teammates. Ostrander led a pack of Willamette runners in a dominating 1-2-3-4-6 finish for the team, which was enough to cruise to the NWC team championship for a second consecutive year. The Willamette men’s team also took the team title.

Italian tennis player admits to match-fixing ROME (AP) — Italian tennis player Daniele Bracciali partially admitted to match-fixing during a hearing last week with judicial authorities, a prosecutor said on Wednesday. “He admitted a few things and he denied a few things” Italian investigator Roberto Di Martino told The Associated Press. Bracciali and occasional doubles partner Potito Starace face corruption accusations after intercepted Internet conversations claiming they sold matches were printed in Italian media three weeks ago. Bracciali and Starace were already two of five Italians — along with Alessio Di Mauro, Giorgio Galimberti and Federico Luzzi — who were given suspensions in 2007-08 by the ATP Tour ranging from six weeks to nine months for betting. The intercepted comments are part of data that investigators led by Di Martino in Cremona have been sorting through in a soccer match-fixing inquiry. The roots of the soccer inquiry led to Singapore, and the tennis branch of the investigation is also extending beyond borders. “The reality is it’s the same story as with the football case,” Di Martino said. “It’s reached a level where it’s all over the world.” The Last Bet operation has resulted in more than 100 people placed under investigation in Italy since mid-2011, with suspect soccer matches being looked at by prosecutors in Cremona, Bari and Naples. Di Martino would not confirm or deny reports that former Swedish tennis player Tomas Nydahl is also under investigation for recruiting players to fix matches.

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no domineering teams. I think whoever shows up for this tournament and peaks at the right time will go on to state.” Area coaches feel the same way about the Southcentral Conference tournament. Host Grace nabbed the top seed at 11-1, but coaches think even the Grizzlies are vulnerable. “They’re far above in winloss record, but looking back at scores they haven’t really outplayed anyone that strong,” Homer coach Beth Trowbridge said of Grace. After Grace, things get real tight, as No. 2 seed Anchorage Christian Schools, No. 3 seed Homer and No. 4 seed Cordova all finished at 7-5. It took a series of tiebreakers to separate them into seeds. Who knows what it will take to separate them at the tournament? And right on their heels are No. 5 Nikiski at 6-6 and No. 6 Seward at 4-8. No. 7 Houston was 0-12. Homer, seeking a first state berth since 2003, opens with a match against Seward at 2 p.m. Friday. Homer beat Seward twice in the regular season. “They are a great defensive team,” Trowbridge said of the Seahawks. “We can’t afford to get into games where there are long rallies and we are just waiting for an error to happen.” The Homer-Seward winner plays the ACS-Houston winner at 8 p.m. Friday for a spot in the championship and a state berth. Trowbridge said outside hitters Larsen Fellows and Jane Rohr will be important in the effort to get the ball down as quickly as possible. Middle hitter Kyla Pitzman has also shown offensive abilities since coming back from injury. Trowbridge said setter McKi Needham and libero Maggie

Larue also will be key, especially because of their tough serving. “The teams are all pretty even and have their strengths and weaknesses,” Trowbridge said. “If any one of the teams really shows up to play, that team could be a lot better than the other teams.” Seward is led by senior captains Maria Jackson and Paige Carter-Kurtz. The tough serving of the duo gave Grace trouble as Seward lost three close games to the Grizzlies on Saturday. Kiana Clemens was Seward’s top offensive threat in the match. Nikiski opens with a noon match against Cordova. The Bulldogs lost both matches to the Wolverines this season, but Nikiski coach Stacey Segura said her team is looking forward to a third chance. The matches were both in Cordova, with Nikiski taking the ferry to Cordova on a Friday and playing that night. “We need to clean up the silly mistakes we made against Cordova,” Segura said. The Cordova-Nikiski winner faces Grace at 6 p.m. Friday for a spot in the title game and a state berth. The coach said the key for her team is focusing on each point. “Sometimes teams can get caught up in regions and lose focus because it is so intense,” Segura said. “We have to make sure we encourage each other and work hard point to point. “If one person is not working hard, our system will not work.” Senior Rachel Thompson will be the rock upon which Segura rests her squad’s conference run. Senior libero Laura Hufford also will provide steady passing. Segura said those two seniors will be particularly important because they have the experience of what it takes to qualify for state, owing to the Bulldogs’ run two years ago. The offense will come from hitters Ayla Pitt, Brittany Perry.

Pigskin Pick‘em

Peninsula Clarion, Thursday, November 6, 2014

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Week 10 Pick’em: Contenders separate themselves By NOLAN ROSE For the Peninsula Clarion

November is my favorite time of year because I’ll be able to stuff my stomach with turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole, rolls, biscuits, pumpkin pie, funky cranberry stuff, and all the other delightful things I associate with the month. November is also the time of year when NFL contenders separate themselves from NFL pretenders. There are three definite contenders in the AFC. The Denver Broncos are still the favorite to visit Glendale, Arizona in early February, but the New England Patriots are certainly vying for the crown. The AFC’s representative may well come down to which team emerges with home field advantage. Peyton Manning has a lengthy track record of playoff failures in outdoor cold weather cities. Manning’s mark in New England over the years speaks for itself, but don’t forget last year’s Super Bowl was in frigid New York. There’s evidence that suggests the temperature has been Manning’s greatest opponent during his historic career. Joining the AFC fray is Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts. Luck, predicted by many to be the next great QB when he left Stanford three years ago has lived up to the billing. At some point legendary passers like Manning and Tom Brady will pass the torch to Luck. Does that happen this season? What’s going on in the AFC North? The Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Baltimore Ravens are all over .500. Each team has had moments of brilliance, but each has also looked thoroughly incompetent at one point or another. The NFC is more muddled. The Arizona Cardinals have the best record. A reasonable person could make the argument that the Desert Bats are the best team in the conference. Teams like the Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawks, Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers are somewhere in the mix. I have no idea who will emerge

from the NFC. Of the already mentioned group only the Detroit Lions would surprise me and that’s only because they’re still the Detroit Lions. My record against the spread isn’t nearly as confusing. After a solid 8-5 performance in week nine the column’s season total improved to 7459-1. For the math majors out there that’s a 56% clip, solid if not spectacular. Cleveland Browns @ CINCINNATI BENGALS -6.5 The Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals kick off the tenth week of the NFL season Thursday night. Neither team is terrible which marks the first time since the mid-80’s that both NFL teams from Ohio entered a contest competently. I’m not ready to buy stock in Cleveland however, despite a respectable 5-3 record. The Browns victories have largely come at the expense of NFL afterthoughts. Cincinnati is at home, star receiver A.J. Green is healthy, and the Bengals must win to keep pace with a surging Pittsburgh Steelers team in the AFC North. Bengals win 30-17

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS @ Buffalo Bills +2.5 The fast charging Kansas City Chiefs have won five of six contests since opening the year with consecutive defeats. Will the Chiefs war party continue in frigid Buffalo? The Bills are a surprising 5-3 led by a strong defense and an offense which hasn’t played its traditional brand of awful football. I have more faith in Chiefs QB Alex Smith than I do Buffalo’s Kyle Orton. Kansas City’s defense leads the AFC in points allowed. Historically, Native Americans eat buffalo; the mascot edge goes to KC. Chiefs win 24-17

MIAMI DOLPHINS @ Detroit Lions -6 Lions are ferocious killers but they don’t swim well. Dolphins are at home in the water and they can be sneaky mean, but land turns them into canned tuna. With no definitive mascot edge we’ll have to use more elaborate measures to determine the victor. Detroit leads the entire NFL in points allowed, a startling statistic considering the team’s rich tradition of letting the other

team score. Oddly, it’s Detroit’s offense that has struggled this season despite obvious talent at QB and the skill positions. Miami is coming off a 37-0 shellacking of the San Diego Chargers. The Dolphins are third in the NFL in points allowed. Six points is too many in what should be a low scoring affair. Lions win 20-17

DALLAS COWBOYS vs. Jacksonville Jaguars +7 The Cowboys reward for travelling to London? A “road” game against the lowly Jacksonville Jaguars. Venturing across the pond is undoubtedly a burden for an NFL team, but getting the Jungle Kittens on a neutral field in place of a real road game is a gift from the footballs gods. If Tony Romo is reasonably healthy and capable of playing I fully expect the Cowboys to emerge with an easy victory. If Brandon Weeden is under center all bets are off, literally. These are the games you hate to pick so early in the week. Cowboys win 30-13

San Francisco 49ers @ NEW ORLEANS SAINTS -5 Something is amiss with this 49ers club. Has the team finally tuned out clinically insane head coach Jim Harbaugh after suffering through years of his belligerent antics? Have injuries, suspensions, and age finally caught up to a declining defense? Is Colin Kaepernick a loser? Some or all of the above may be true. New Orleans seems to have righted the ship after a rocky start. Considering the 49ers offensive struggles it’s hard to imagine the boys from the bay keeping pace in the Bayou. Saints win 31-21

Tennessee Titans @ BALTIMORE RAVENS -10 There’s never really a good time for the Tennessee Titans to participate in a professional football contest, but this certainly qualifies as a bad timing indeed. A pissed off Baltimore Ravens team, losers of two straight including a record breaking defeat to their rival Pittsburgh Steelers, will play host to the Titans this Sunday. Baltimore has to win to stay in the hotly contested AFC North division race. With everything to play for, and facing a team whose QB is too busy taking selfies to complete a pass, Baltimore is a safe side. Ravens win 27-10

PITTSBURGH STEELERS @ New York Jets +6.5 I said it last week and I’ll say it again. I will never back a Rex Ryan coached Jets team again. Steelers win 38-14

Atlanta Falcons @ TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS +1.5 How far has Atlanta fallen? Just two years ago the Falcons were a score away from reaching the Super Bowl. Now the team sits at 2-6 and is only asked to lay 1.5 points to one of if not the worst team in football, an embarrassing reality. Tampa Bay, to their credit, has marvelously equaled Atlanta’s ineptitude. Siding with the Bucs appears to be a quick way to spend money, but right now Atlanta feels like a team that will find a way to lose. Bucs win 21-20

DENVER BRONCOS @ Oakland Raiders +12.5 Denver set the stage beautifully for a return trip to Foxboro in January when the Broncos spent some time in Tom Brady’s woodshed a week ago. The 4321 drubbing must have been particularly painful for Lord Manning having come at the hands of his greatest adversary. Of course, the hapless Oakland Raiders are on the schedule this week providing an excellent opportunity for Denver to gain a positive result. Like any team, home field advantage is vital to Denver’s postseason prospects. Expect the Broncos to get back on track facing the only winless team remaining in football. Broncos win 35-13

ST. LOUIS RAMS @ Arizona Cardinals -7.5 The Goats face the Desert Bats in an unanticipated matchup of NFC West rivals. Unbelievably, Arizona has the best record in football after nine weeks of play. Nobody predicted that in the pre-season. With a pair of home games in front of them there’s every reason to suspect the team will reach 9-1 after ten contests. The thought of Arizona being 9-1 makes a man wonder which universe he’s currently in! It appears obvious that my take on the team is wrong, but I still don’t believe the Cardinals are a true contender. The Rams pass rush is has made an impression on opposing quarterbacks in recent weeks. The 49ers Colin Kaepernick was sacked

eight times by St. Louis defenders this past Sunday. A mix of pressure and the Cardinals inevitable return to Earth will make for a tight contest. Cardinals win 23-17

New York Giants @ SEATTLE SEAHAWKS -9.5 It’s hard to spot a Seattle Seahawks opponent 9.5 points with the shaky form the team has displayed, but it’s hard not to when the lifeless New York Giants are that opponent. Injuries have ravaged both teams (Seattle was without eight starters a week ago!) but a number of quality performers are set to return to the field this week for the Seahawks. Behind a bolstered lineup and a raucous home crowd Seattle will fly away with the victory. Seahawks win 30-16

Chicago Bears @ GREEN BAY PACKERS -7.5 The Berenstain Bears were more ferocious than the collection of missed tackles currently assembled in Chicago. If things weren’t bad enough for the Minnows of the Midway this weekend’s opponent, the Green Bay Packers, have had an extra week to prepare for the matchup. Not that Aaron Rodgers needs additional time to decipher the Bears rudimentary defense. The only suspense remaining is if Bears fans will consider a three touchdown defeat a moral victory? Packers win 41-20

CAROLINA PANTHERS @ Philadelphia Eagles -6 What happened to Superman? Cam Newton has failed to rescue his team from a dearth of talent for three consecutive weeks. Carolina isn’t good at football, that’s been established, but are you ready to lay a six points with Mark Sanchez as your quarterback. The Sanchize, a football comedian unlike any other in recent memory, is starting again after Nick Foles injured his shoulder last Sunday. Nobody made terrible football more entertaining than Sanchez did in New York for four seasons. Sanchez has a lot more talent around him in Philadelphia, and comparing current coach Chip Kelly to ex-coach Rex Ryan is like pitting Garry Kasparov against a baboon in a game of chess. Still, I need to see four quarters of solid play from Sanchez before siding with the Eagles becomes an option again. Eagles win 23-20

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ny also refused to provide him with a copy of the sheet. “They almost handed me one and then they took it back,” he said during a previous interview. A material safety data sheet contains company-specific information about its products and is designed to provide workers and others with procedures for handling substances safely. The company did provide an MSDS to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, or DEC. According to that sheet, the cementing material is considered hazardous by Occupational Safety Health Administration, or OSHA, standards. The sheet

lists the spilled material as Cement Type I and it contains gypsum, calcium carbonate, calcium oxide, magnesium oxide, and a silica material according to the data sheet. Acute overexposure can be corrosive internally and externally, and potential long-term heath effects to overexposure include organ damage and chronic respiratory irritation, according to the data sheet. If the material is spilled, it is not safe to touch or walk through the substance and, according to the data sheet, the concrete material should not come in contact with soil, waterways, drains or sewers. In the days since the spill was first reported, Baker Hughes has given DEC investigators a rough timeline of when its cleanup efforts will be completed, said DEC Environmental Program Manager Steven

Russell. According to state law, the company is required to submit a final report on the incident — including the results of lab testing of the material which is required by the DEC — within 15 business days of completing its cleanup. However, it can be hard to determine exactly how long cleanup could take, Russell said. His co-investigator, DEC Environmental Program Specialist Jade Gamble has been providing him with regular updates on the company’s progress, Russell said. After cleanup, DEC investigators will revisit the site and determine if any further lab tests are needed. “We want the best picture we can get to see the effects that the material has had on the surrounding property,” Russell said.

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion

Several bags containing a cement mixture being pumped out of the nearby woods line an area at a Baker Hughes facility, on Wednesday in Nikiski.

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Once the election is certified, the initiative will not become law for 90 days. Then the state can create a marijuana control board under the direction of the Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development. The board will have nine months to develop regulations to control marijuana business operations. Kenai Police Chief Gus Sandahl said until the measure becomes a law, at an undetermined date next year, marijuana use is still illegal and police will still enforce the present law. “We will adapt to the laws,” he said. Kalie Klaysmat, the executive director with the Alaska Association of Chiefs of Police, said she was disappointed with the result. She said it was encouraging to see many people in the Kenai Peninsula have the same concerns.

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creased property taxes, Dixson said. Soldotna needs to be in control of its finances, instead of leaving them subject to the whim of the borough, he said. The city has already adopted policy facilitating the move to home-rule. The council allocated $5,000 of leftover funds from the 2014 Regular Election toward the expenses of the Feb. 3, 2015 special election. It is estimated the special election will cost $9,500.

On Wednesday, Campbell stood on the dirt hill near a wooden stake that marked the border of his property with the Baker Hughes lot. He has called a lawyer, and both a surveyor and materials testing company that will be have visited his property since then. He looked at a row of large white bags, filled with the cement mixture being vacuumed out of the woods and shook his head. “There’s just so much of it,” he said. Each of the approximately

15 bags currently on Baker Hughes’ property can hold up to 1 cubic yard of material, Russell said. Depending on the composition of the material, a cubicyard of dirt could weigh more than 1,000 pounds. “It’s several feet deep. Once they started digging it was clear that there was a lot more there than I thought,” Campbell said. The sheer volume of material surprised Gamble as well, Russell said. Several people have contact-

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POT LEGALIZATION PROMPTS MORE DRUG LAWS

NOT CLEAR WHETHER OVERALL POT USE GOES UP

Washington and Colorado both had to create a raft of new regulations when pot became legal. That’s because when weed was illegal for all, there was no such thing as, say, a crime of providing weed to someone under 21, or growing pot where it’s not zoned. The new legal weed states will need hundreds of pages of new regulations governing how and where marijuana can be produced, sold and consumed.

Though it’s been two years since Colorado and Washington legalized weed, it’s too soon to say whether more people are using it. That’s because drug use is gauged by survey responses, so changes take time to show up in public health metrics. All eyes will be on 2015’s “Monitoring The Future” survey, a federal youth assessment of risky behaviors. Next year’s is the first post-legalization survey to include state-specific data. Both states have seen increased marijuana-related admissions to hospitals and substance abuse treatment facilities, but marijuana remains a small fraction of admissions.

Colorado and Washington both have seen an uptick in drivers testing positive for marijuana. But traffic fatalities in both states are down. Marijuana proponents and opponents argue about whether the increase is a result of more testing, or whether more folks are driving high. There’s still no widely available pointed to increased expense to law enforcement it would take to regulate marijuana dispensaries. Klaysmat said the state estimated the measure could increase the cost to small towns by $6 million. Todd Hansen, of Sterling, said while he understands the health benefits associated with marijuana, he thought it would have a negative effect on the economy with the potential for unemployment and welfare to rise. “It makes people not want to do anything and it creates a bigger burden on taxpayers,” he said. Sterling resident Tom Hubbard agreed. “The working people and tax payers are the ones paying the bills around here and the people that smoke pot don’t want to pay any bills they just want to go to the post office and collect a check,” he said. Voters in Kasilof favored legalization. Anchor Point was the only southern peninsula region to vote against the mea-

During the special election, residents will determine which seven nominated candidates would develop the new charter. At the at the Nov. 12 council city meeting, the council will vote whether or not to approve the question as it will appear on the special election ballot. If the question is approved, qualified voters shall elect seven Charter Commission Members from nominated candidates, according to the ordinance. An eligible charter commission candidate must have been a qualified Soldotna voter for one year preceding the special election, according to the ordinance.

The candidate must have received 50 votes on a nomination petition. The filing period begins 9 a.m. on Dec. 8 and ends 4:30 p.m. on Dec.19. If at least seven nominations for qualified charter commission candidates are not filed the election on the question may not be held, according to the ordinance. The ordinance approving the special election ballot question will be open for public comment at 6 p.m., Nov. 19 at Soldotna City Hall. Reach Kelly Sullivan at kelly.sullivan@peninsulaclarion. com

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roadside pot test similar to an alcohol breath test, though saliva tests are in development. Convictions for driving stoned in Colorado and Washington for now rely on blood tests.

MORE DRIVERS MAY TEST POSTITIVE FOR WEED

“I’m proud of everyone who voted against legalization in the interest of public safety,” she said. “We will continue to speak up about the risks we see and hopefully others will do the same as we figure out how to properly regulate it.” Kenai district No. 1 was the only precinct in district 30 to vote yes on measure 2 with 514 yes votes to 436. Soldotna voters cast 882 no votes to 699 yes. Voters in the central Kenai Peninsula expressed a variety of concerns on marijuana legalization from increased regulatory costs and if it would affect the economy and work productivity. Sterling resident Cynthia Wellman said she voted against marijuana legalization because the measure didn’t answer all her questions on how it was going to be regulated. “Too many unresolved questions,” she said. “Look at Colorado and the problems they are having. It needs to be reworked.” Opponents of the measure

ed Russell about the cleanup process and, he said he doesn’t fault Campbell for hiring a lawyer to sort through the process. “It is everybody’s responsibility to occasionally look over the (neighbor’s) fence once in awhile and see what’s going on,” he said. “Don’t wait too long before going and knocking on the neighbor’s door to say ‘what’s going on here?’”

sure. The measure also passed in Seward. Kasilof resident Michael Bishop said it is about time marijuana is legal in the state. Since Ravin v. State allowed personal pot use in the privacy of the home in 1975, this decision has been a long time coming, he said. “Get the government off our backs and out of our lives,” he said. “You can’t overdose on it. I’d rather let kids stay home and smoke pot than drink beer.” Brenda Quinn, of Soldotna, said she voted to legalize pot

PEOPLE STILL DRINK Some wondered whether widely available pot would have people replacing cocktails with joints. But according to alcohol-tax receipts in both states, legal weed appears to have little impact on how much alcohol people drink.

because the system in place isn’t working. She said she is not pro-marijuana and has a teenage daughter. The bill would prohibit the sale to minors. “It is costing billions of dollars that could be better spent elsewhere,” she said. “I don’t think people base their decision to smoke marijuana whether it’s legal or illegal. It’s a moral issue.” Klaymat said the association would form a task force and look for ways to find money to fund police training and learn

how to “cope with the repercussions” that could result with marijuana legalization. She said the national trend of marijuana legalization is credit to the strategy used by the Marijuana Policy Project, she said. “Their playbook is to use distraction and the public seems to feel their arguments are valid,” she said. “Time will tell. … Our agencies will respond and keep the community as safe as possible.” Reach Dan Balmer at daniel. balmer@peninsulaclarion.com

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What’s Happening Best Bets n The Performing Arts Society 2014-2015 Concert Series presents the John Damberg Latin Jazz Sextet in a delightful evening of Brazilian, Afro-Cuban and original music. Concert is Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Kenai Visitors and Conference Center. Admission is $20 General Admission and $10 Students. Tickets available at Northcountry Fair and River City Books in Soldotna, and Already Read and Country Liquor in Kenai, and at the door.

First Thursday n “Looking for Inspiration,” a fiber art exhibit by Jan Wallace, is on display for November at the Kaladi coffee shop on Kobuk. Reception is 4:30-6:00 p.m. today. n The Peninsula Art Guild is hosting two exhibits in November at the Kenai Fine Arts Center, 816 Cook Ave., Old Town Kenai. The community is invited to attend the Opening Reception from 6-8 p.m. today celebrating the Annual Watercolor Exhibit and the SoHi Art Club Exhibit. Art Center hours are noon-5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday. Call 283-7040 for information. n Join Naomi Gaede-Penner as she presents her Prescription for Adventure book series today at noon, in the Community Room at the Soldotna Public Library. Listen to excerpts from her books and see slides from her family’s early homesteading years on the Kenai Peninsula. Her Alaska History Study Guide has been used by students across the state, grades 6-12, especially those needing to complete their Alaska History credit requirements. A discussion to follow. For a sneak peek visit Naomi’s website at http://www.prescriptionforadventure.com. For more information, call 907-262-4227.

Events and Exhibits

n Soldotna High School will be hosting the second annual One-Act Play Festival Thursday-Saturday at 7 p.m., in the SoHi auditorium. High school and community theatre performers will be featured in “The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet” (SoHi directed by Terri Zopf-Schoessler), “13 Ways to Screw Up Your College Interview” (SoPrep/SoHi directed by Sara Erfurth and Heather Swanson), “The Red Balloon” (Kenai Performers directed by Donna Shirnberg), and “How to Kill a Mockingbird” (KCHS directed by Meredith McCullough). Tickets are available for $10 at the door/$30 a family. n The third annual Recycled Runway Design Competition is Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. in the Cooper Landing Community Club. Create a fashion forward garment with accessories from materials that are used, post-consumer, or on the way to a landfill. Sign up by Nov. 10 by filling out the entry form and sending it to CooperLandingRecycle@gmail.com. A complete list of rules and the registration form can be found at www.facebook.com/CooperLandingRecycle. Free to all ages. Hosted by AmeriCorps. n A new community choir, The Kenai Peninsula Singers, is open to everyone who wants to be there, whether it is their first time singing or they sang at The Met. The choir will rehearse every Tuesday night from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. in the Kenai Central High School choir room. Call or email for more details: 907-283-2125 or simjnissen@gmail.com.

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Juliet (Mandarin Wilcox) and Romeo (Logan Parks) in the Soldotna High School production of “The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet” in the SoHi auditorium on Wednesday.

One hit wonders Area drama clubs perform one-act shows for second festival By BEN BOETTGER Peninsula Clarion

Three Central Peninsula high school drama clubs and one adult club are participating in this year’s One-Act Play. Each of the four groups will be performing a half-hour play on Thursday and Saturday evenings at the Soldotna High School Auditorium. The program consists of “The Suessification of Romeo and Juliet,” a Dr. Suess/

William Shakespeare mash-up performed by Soldotna High School, the fast-paced verbal comedy “How to Kill a Mockingbird,” performed by Kenai Central High School, the experimental meta-play “The Red Balloon,” presented by the Kenai Performers, and “13 Ways to Screw Up Your College Interview,” by a mixed cast from Soldotna High School and Soldotna Preparatory School. This will be the second installment of the One-Act Play Festival. See SHOWS, page B-2

Entertainment n Veronica’s Cafe in old town Kenai has open mic from 6:309 p.m. Friday, and live music with The Charmers Daughters Saturday at 6:30 p.m. n Join Steve and Fern Holloway for karaoke every Saturday night at the Kenai Moose Lodge. Singing starts at 9 p.m. and everyone is welcome. n An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday. The jam is at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thursday of the month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the month. Jam starts at 6:30 p.m. n AMVETS Post 4 is open to all military veterans and their families for support and camaraderie. Join us for Friday night tacos, or Saturday night steaks with Karaoke. Sunday afternoon its super hamburgers. Not a member? Stop by and we can show you how to become a part of this special veteran’s organization. AMVETS is located in the Red Diamond Center next door to IDEA Schools. n Sharpen your dart skills with a fun tournament every Sunday during the season at the AmVets in the Red Diamond Center. The number of players will determine the game. Sign up begins at 1:00 p.m. For more information call 262-3540. n Odie’s Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. See ART, page B-2

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Still So Happy By Brett Van Sickle, Kenai

Today I found myself thinking, of the past five years of life. I still treasure every moment, since the day you became my wife. How I never could have realized, that our love just somehow grows. With every passing minute, our friend ship always flows. That’s why when I get these feelings, poems to you I write. In hopes that when you are lonely, and I’m far away at night. Just know I’m still so happy, and how I miss you to. I’m still counting down every single day, until again with you. Poems must include the writer’s name, phone number and address. They should be kept to no more than 300 words. Submission of a poem does not guarantee publication. Poems may be e-mailed to news@peninsulaclarion. com, faxed to 283-3299, delivered to the Clarion at 150 Trading Bay Road or mailed to P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, AK 99611.

If you go: The One-Act Play Festival will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday November 6 and Saturday November 8, at the Soldotna High School Auditorium. Tickets are $10 for individuals, or $30 for families.

Unretirement - is it for you

Baby Boomers Are Changing the Way We Think Bookworm Sez For much of your employed life, you dreamed about not having to work. Retirement would be great. It would stretch out for years, a horizon with no alarm clock and no deadlines. What will you do with it? Chances are, says author Chris Farrell, believe it or not, you’ll go to work. And in his new book “Unretirement,” he says you’ll do it because you want to, not because you have to. It’s a statistic that has some politicians very worried: within the next fifteen years, say demographers, the sixty-five-plus population of America will be nearly equivalent to the current population of New York, California, and Texas combined. That’s a lot of retirees, and a fortune paid out in benefits. For quite some time, though, economists and pessimists have expressed doubts that Social Security will even be around then.

Others bemoan the amount of retirement savings that many Baby Boomers (the age group retired or soon retiring) don’t have. According to Farrell, however, these fears ignore the fact that most Boomers are re-thinking the way retirement will work for them. He says that Boomers’ “last third of life is being reimagined and reinvented into ‘unretirement.’” They are, for instance, looking at Social Security as a supplement, rather than a sole income – and even then, they’re putting off collecting it. That’s the way it should be, says Farrell: Social Security is sound – it only needs “some tweaks to shore up its finances for the long haul” – but because of longer lifespans and better health, retirees should be encouraged to file later, unless they absolutely can’t wait. And those late filers? They’re seeing work in a whole different way: the rate of senior entrepreneurship is up, and so is gradual reSee SEZ, page B-2

2 young boys plus 1 young girl equal conflict “The Book of Life” Twentieth Century Fox 1 hour, 30 minutes Growing up in the southwest, the grinning skulls and festive, yet somewhat grotesque decorations surrounding the Day of the Dead were fairly common sights at this time of year. The Day of the Dead falls on November 2 and, though it’s proximity to Halloween would make you think the two occasions were one in the same, in my experience they have completely different purposes. Keep in mind, this is from my perspective - I have no idea whether they’re related or not, but Day of the Dead has always had a more wholesome, communal feeling, where Halloween seems to be based on a kind of negativity. Don’t get me wrong, I love Halloween, but as far as I know there’s no tricking on the Day of the Dead. As an adult, I have another reason to get excited about November 2, as it’s the birthday of my daughter, who along with her six-year-old brother, and tens of thousands of other kids around the country, was very excited to see the big screen embodiment of Dia de los Muertos, “The Book of C

R eeling It In C hris J enness Life.” For the little ones, this sweet tale of true love and family was a hit - for myself, more of a mixed bag, though it’s heart was certainly in the right place. The scene opens on a group of school children on a visit to a boring old history museum. However, due to some bad attitudes and an obvious need for a moral lesson, the kids get a special tour of the Mexican exhibit where they are introduced to the real players in our tale, though just in tiny figurine form. At this point, the real movie begins. In a tiny village in the heart of the center of the universe, i.e., Mexico, two young boys vie for the attention of one strong-willed little girl. Manolo, Joaquin, and Maria are the best of friends but such a trio can never last. This inevitable conM

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This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows the character Manolo, voiced by Diego Luna in a scene from “The Book of Life.” The film opens Friday.

flict draws the attention of La Muerte and Xibalba, godlike rulers of the Land of the Remembered, and the Land of the Forgotten, respectively - essentially heaven and hell, but they never really frame it like that. Playful La Muerte and bitter Xibalba decide to play out a little wager to see who See REEL, page B-2

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Rare van Gogh, Giacometti offered at auction By ULA ILNYTZKY Associated Press

NEW YORK — New York City’s big-ticket auctions of impressionist and modern art get underway Tuesday night. Among the blue chip offerings is a still life by Vincent van Gogh painted weeks before his death. There’s also a rare sculpture by Alberto Giacometti that could set a new auction record for the Swiss artist. Sotheby’s predicts “Still Life, Vase With Daisies and Poppies” could sell for $30 million to $50 million. Van Gogh painted the bouquet of wildflowers at the French home of

his physician, Dr. Paul Gachet, in 1890. It’s one of the few works the Dutch artist sold during his lifetime. One of the founders of the Museum of Modern Art, A. Conger Goodyear, acquired it in 1928. It remained in the family for decades and was on permanent exhibition at the AlbrightKnox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, for 30 years. It was purchased by the current owner around 1990. The auction record for van Gogh is $82.5 million. The sale also features a major work by Giacometti. “Chariot,” a 1951 bronze sculpture of an elongated goddesslike figure

. . . Art and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. n The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays and live music Fridays, Saturdays at 10 p.m. n Hooligans Saloon in Soldotna has poker Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 p.m. and live music Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. n The Duck Inn on Kalifornsky Beach Road has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and DJ Arisen on Saturdays. n Mykel’s in Soldotna has live music Thursdays from 6-9 p.m. with Robb Justice, and Fridays and Saturdays from 6:30-9:30 p.m. with Bob Ramponi and Dave Unruh. n The Duck Inn will have live music from 7 to 10 p.m. every Wednesday with Robb Justice and Trio. n The Pinochle Club, formally from Kasilof, will be playing at Hooligans Bar & Restaurant in Soldotna. Starting with a play day on Saturday Oct. 4 at 12:30 p.m. League will start on Sat. Oct. 11. Bring a partner and come along for some winter fun. Questions? Cal Jay Vienup at 907-252-6397. n The Performing Arts Society will present UAA professors Dr. Armin Abdihodzic, guitar, and Zach Milliman, tenor, in two school concerts on Wednesday Oct. 22, at Soldotna High School and Nikiski Middle-High School will be the venues. Music teachers Kent Peterson, Vernel Schneider and Kristen Dillon will be hosting the events. For more information, please call 283-3024.

Markets, fairs and bazaars n Soldotna Senior Center’s Fall Bazaar, Bake Sale and Annual Amateur Art Show will be held on Nov. 7-8 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Buy the finest crafts and gifts for the upcoming holidays, delectable baked goods, jams and jellies and enjoy the area wide amateur judged art show. A festive lunch menu will be available. For more information call 262-2322. n The Sterling Senior Center is seeking vendors for their annual fall bazaar Nov. 14-15 from 10 a.m-4 p.m. Tables are available for $25 each for both days. Merchandise must be hand crafted. Tables can be reserved by calling the Center at 2626808 or Glenda Graham at 262-2943. n The Kenai Fine Arts Center annual arts and crafts fair will be held again at the Kenai Central High School Nov. 28-29. The fair includes more than 220 vendors with room for a few more. To rent a booth call Joyce at 260-5996. Santa Claus will be at the fair on Nov. 28 and Nov. 29 at Kenai Central High School. n The Peninsula Center Mall craft food fair is Nov. 21-22. Tables are still available; call 252-3292. n Lutheran Women’s Missionary League members and members from the South Alaska Chapter of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans are hosting a Christmas Bazaar to help fund mission projects locally, nationally and internationally Nov. 15 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Star of the North Lutheran Church, 216 N. Forest Drive in Kenai. Baked goods and craft items will be available for sale to provide funds for mission projects. For more information call 283-4153. n The 4th Annual Black Friday Bazaar will take place on Nov. 28-29 at the Challenger Learning Center in Kenai. For vendor information email: bazaar@douthits.com. n The Central Peninsula Hospital Auxiliary Annual Holiday Bazaar will be held Dec. 4 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Dec. 5 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The bazaar will be held in the Denali Conference Room at the hospital. n Nikiski Community Recreation Center is now taking vendor registration for annual Christmas Craft Fair on Dec. 13. For additional information, please call 776-8800.

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

Down the Road n The Pratt Museum in Homer is open from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily. For more information and a schedule of events, visit www. prattmuseum.org. Submissions may be emailed to news@peninsulaclarion.com. The deadline is 5 p.m. Mondays.

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tirement. They’re staying on the job longer, are finding second (or even third) careers, or are volunteering. And despite that age discrimination can be a real issue, many workplaces have finally recognized the experience and reliability of older workers who are, in many cases, perfectly happy with part-time jobs. In short, Boomers have been “behind many changes in the workplace over the past four decades,” and they’re definitely not done. Your IRA is fat and you like it that way. But how, when the time comes, will you use it? Read “Unretirement,” and you might have a different answer to that question. With intriguing statistics and a thoughtful tone, author Chris

Paris construction site. It has a presale estimate of $45 million. The auction record for any work by Modigliani is $69 million. The auction house Bonhams, which is selling more than 700 items from the homes of Lauren Bacall, is offering two Henry Moore sculptures from her collection on Tuesday. The legendary actress’ other artwork, jewelry and furniture will be offered for sale in March. The major fall sales continue Wednesday at Christie’s. Among the highlights is a celebrated portrait of a Parisian actress by Edouard Manet. “Spring” has a presale estimate of $25 million to $35 million.

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perched atop a wheeled chariot, may eclipse the $104.3 million auction record for the artist. Sotheby’s predicts it could sell for over $100 million. The 1951 piece, embellished with paint to enrich the textural quality of the bronze, has been in the same collection for over 40 years. Giacometti made six casts of the “Chariot” during his lifetime. The one for sale is one of only two painted examples. Another important sculpture at the sale is Amedeo Modigliani’s “Tete.” The deitylike elongated head was carved in 1911 and 1912 from a block of limestone scavenged from a

Farrell pooh-poohs pundits who decry the viability of Social Security and avow the belief that retirement-resistant seniors take jobs from younger workers by showing that doom-andgloom prophesies and myths aren’t warranted or true. Along the way, he examines healthcare and the ACA, aging, home ownership, mentorship with (and from) younger workers, the history of retirement itself, and how other countries perceive their “gray revolution.” While I’d say that this book is absolutely for Boomers, it’s also, surprisingly, something that Gen X’ers should check out, too. If you’ve already retired, are about to, or have worked all your life so you don’t have to work someday, “Unretirement” is unmissable. The Bookworm is Terri Schlichenmeyer. Email her at bookwormsez@gmail.com.

This photo provided by Sotheby’s shows Vincent van Gogh’s “Still Life, Vase With Daisies and Poppies.” One of the few works sold during his lifetime and was painted weeks before his death; the painting could sell for up to $50 million when it goes up on the block at Sotheby’s on Tuesday.

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It was initiated last year by SoHi drama teacher Terri ZopfSchoessler. In her previous role as a dance coach at the former Skyview High School, she and another high school instructor had the idea of an arts event that combined performances from different area schools. Zopf-Schoessler and other local coachs sucessfully organized a mass high school dance event, which she said has been going for the past five years. “Last year, we thought ‘Why don’t we do the same thing for plays?’” said Zopf-Schoessler. “Everyone brings their own plays, does their own stuff, and we’ll bring them together.” At the festival Zopf-Schoessler organized last year, Soldotna and Kenai High Schools performed a play each. This year’s festival doubled the number of participants by including Soldotna Preparatory School and the Kenai Performers. The play that Zopf-Schoessler’s Soldotna High School Drama Troupe brought to this year’s event was “The Suessification of Romeo and Juliet.” Both it and “13 Ways to Screw Up Your College Interview” were taken from Random Acts of Comedy, a book of one-act scripts by the writers of Saturday Night Live. “It’s translating Shakespeare into Dr. Seuss,” said Zopf-Schoessler. “What would happen if Dr. Seuss told the story. And it’s hysterical.” “It’s really fun to experiment with the costuming and the hair and the makeup,” said Soldotna High School senior Mandarin Wilcox, who performs as Juliet. “To play with the cheesiness of it. It has really accentuated hand movements and blocking.” Sarah Erfurth, drama and English teacher from Soldotna High, and Heather Swanson, drama teacher from Soldotna Preparatory School, co-directed a cast of 15 students in “13 Ways to Screw Up Your College Interview.”

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will get to rule which kingdom going forth, and choose the two boys as their proxies. If Manolo eventually wins Maria’s hand, the beautiful Lady Death, La Muerte, will get to continue to preside over the non-stop parties of the Remembered, relegating Xibalba back to his dreary kingdom, and if Joaquin wins, the reverse shall be true. Joaquin, coming from a family of warriors, is primed to follow in his families footsteps and become a hero. Manolo, a gentle boy more enamored of the guitar than he is of his father’s bullfighting cape and sword looks to have a harder time of it. The tale undergoes a few twists and turns, leading us from the land of the living to the land of the dead and back, and though the final result isn’t hard to guess, I was a little surprised at the route the film takes to get there. “Book of Life’s” greatest asset is definitely in the visuals. C

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(left) Lucie Anderson, Cody Torres, Rebekah Weeks, and Hunter Fitt in Kenai High School’s production of “How to Kill a Mockingbird” on Wednesday at the Soldotna High School Auditorium. The show is part of a One-Act Play Festival that will begin Thursday and run through Saturday.

When asked about the particular challenges of a one-act play, Erfurth said “Mostly it’s just a lot attention to detail, because every second counts when it’s that short of a play. Especially in comedy, getting the inflection correct is the biggest challenge. It can fall flat really easily if you don’t.” Meredith McCullough, director of Kenai Central’s “How to Kill a Mockingbird,” said her play is about “a group of slackers who were supposed to do a book report on To Kill a Mockingbird, but none of them did it. So now they’re trying to figure out how to cover.” “It’s kind of like Seinfeld, in that it’s a play about nothing, but we see all these different characters,” McCullough said. “How to Kill a Mockingbird,” involved eleven students, including backstage managers. McCullough said that most were new to drama. “One challenge we had is that there’s not a lot of movement and blocking in the play because they’re sitting in a res-

taurant, so a lot of what they have to do is with facial expressions and body language, rather than getting up and moving around,” McCollough said. “Its been a big challenge with kids who are incredibly movement-oriented. That’s been a whole new learning experience: how to portray the characters with just the voice, face, and hands. They’re coming along really well with that,” she said. This year, high school drama clubs were not the only groups to bring plays to the festival. The adult volunteer theatre group Kenai Performers brought a three-person play, “The Red Balloon,” directed by Donna Shirnberg. “It’s very cute,” said Shirnberg, who acts in the play as well as directing. “This is my first time directing, so it’s been a learning curve,” said Schirnberg. “I’ve had to learn lighting and sound cues--I’ve never done that before. It’s a different lingo be-

tween us actors and the tech crew.” The Kenai Performers are filing a slot in the program left by Nikiski High School, whom Zopf-Schoessler had originally invited to perform, but who were unable to attend due to another commitment. “It’s been a lot of fun,” said Schirnberg. “It’s a nice community event, and it’s nice to get to work with the high school kids.” “It’s been fantastic to do the festival with the other high schools, to be able to have the kids connect through drama” McCollough said. “We do that a lot through athletics and other activities in this district. So to be able to have them come together through something that’s not a traditional field, to see other students who are interested in the arts--that’s been really cool,” she said.

Expertly mixing the intricate aesthetic of traditional Mexican Day of the Dead decoration with the zany, often grotesque cartoon style of Max Fleisher, and then going one step further to create the effect that all of these characters are actually wooden toys, with all the detail implied, is quite a feat. Artistically, this film is a real treat, beautiful, interesting, and constantly surprising. It is unlike most current mainstream animated films, some of which can probably be attributed to the involvement of Mexican auteur Guillermo Del Toro in the role of producer. If only the rest of the film could have had the confidence of the graphics. Structurally, the framing of the story with the group of snotty kids in the museum is completely unnecessary. Every time we returned for their reaction the film grinds to a halt. I wonder if 20th Century Fox thought this already exposition-heavy film need more just in case people didn’t get what was going on. The story on its own is plenty strong without a bunch of white kids and a blond narrator to

explain it to us. Similarly, the music is a complete misstep. Instead of original music done in a mariachi/Mexican style, which is what Disney or Pixar would have done, we get current pop songs or pop-esque numbers with only the slightest attempt to Latinize them. Again, it felt as though the studio was afraid kids would get up and leave if they couldn’t sing along to Mumford & Sons. Not all the music is like this, but even the original stuff feels sanitized and modernized and doesn’t fit the rest of the film. The voice casting of the film is, for the most part, well done. Diego Luna is great as Manolo and Channing Tatum, as the heroic Joaquin, proves yet again just how funny he can be. Frequent Del Toro collaborator Ron Perlman shows up as Xibalba and is perfectly creepy without being evil. In fact, one of the nicest things about the film is how kind it is. Even the villains are not irredeemable, and the one really bad guy doesn’t hang around for long. The biggest casting misstep, however, was including Ice Cube as The Candlemaker, a

character that looks like an embodiment of the western image of God, but who has very little to do and really slows things down with his comic relief. That entire character could have been edited out and nothing of the story would have been lost. All in all, I enjoyed the movie and was more frustrated by it’s shortcomings than with other, lesser animated fare. I thought “The Nut Job,” for example, was just dumb, and therefore had no higher expectations for it. “The Book of Life,” on the other hand, is a true work of art, and I wish the whole thing worked as well as some of the individual aspects. The kids, however, loved it, so I’m sure I’ll have the opportunity to examine the movie in detail several dozen more times over the next couple of years. Grade: B+ “The Book of Life” is rated PG for some rude humor, gently cartoon violence, and mildly scary scenes.

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Chris Jenness is a freelance graphic designer, artist and movie buff who lives in Nikiski.

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Finance & Accounting ACCOUNTS PAYABLE CLERK Fast-paced company in need of an Accounts Payable Clerk in Kenai. Duties include verification and timely payment of vendor invoices through accounting software, managing vendor records, filing of yearly 1099 and 1096 forms, maintenance of fixed asset list, management of document storage and other tasks as assigned General Ledger reconciliation experience desired, but will train the right person. Salary DOE. Send cover letter and resume to: soldotna.office@altrogco.com.

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Requirements: Able to perform pre and post press duties. Operate and maintaining printing press, cutting, folding, scoring and perforating machines. Strong, organizational and good communication skills, and ability to handle deadlines. Some training provided to the right applicant. Hours Monday- Friday, 8am- 5pm. Pay dependent on experience. Applications available at Peninsula Clarion, 150 Trading Bay Rd. Kenai, Alaska.

Join the Clarion Newspaper Team! Now Taking Applications. 25- 30 hours per week. Evenings to early morning shift. No experience necessary. Applicants must be able to lift up to 35 lbs. & be deadline orientated. Pre-employment substance abuse testing required. Applications available at the Clarion front office

For a complete job description and application go to fcsonline.org or apply in person at Frontier Community Services 43335 K-Beach Rd. Suite 36 Soldotna, AK 99669 Or email completed application and resume to work@fcsonline.org FCS is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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WAGGING TAILS GROOMING Are you a Dog Groomer looking for a place to successfully build your business, yet stay independent? Do you love what you do? Need a place to show it off? We have space available for you! If you possess excellent, gentle handling skills, quality scissoring, grooming skills, kind and courteous customer service skills then I want to work next to you! Clients are waiting for you. Set up shop in this sunny, beautiful, positive location with a great reputation. Call 907-260-6161 ask for Robin or drop by 48798 Funny River Road, Soldotna, AK 99669

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

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A college degree is desirable or a minimum of three years' experience which would provide the employee with the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the essential job functions. Position announcement, job description and application are available through the Alaska Job Center Network, (907) 335-3010. Submit resume and City of Kenai application form by 11/12/14 to Peninsula Job Service, 11312 Kenai Spur Hwy., Kenai, AK 99611. The City of Kenai is an equal opportunity employer. For more information about the City of Kenai, visit our home page at www.ci.kenai.ak.us.

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The City of Soldotna is recruiting for a full time grant funded Police Officer, and a regular full time Police Officer. These positions serve the City of Soldotna as Peace Officers in the administration of laws and ordinances. Becoming a member of the Public Safety Employees Association is a requirement of the positions. A complete job description and application packet is available on the City's website http://www.ci.soldotna.ak.us/jobs.html. Please submit a City application, F-3, Cover Letter and Resume to Human Resources at 177 N. Birch Street, Soldotna, by fax 1-866-596-2994, or email tcollier@ci.soldotna.ak.us by 4:30 p.m., November 21, 2014. First review will be November 4, 2014. The City of Soldotna is an EEO employer.

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• Individual Service Provider Positions will be open until filled. Job description and application available online at www.pchsak.org Careers Please send cover letter, resume & application to: Human Resources, 230 E. Marydale Ave., Suite 3, Soldotna, AK, 99669 or fax to 907/260-7358. PCHS is an equal opportunity employer.

Duties: Provide crisis intervention, education, support, and advocacy to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Requirements: Understanding of domestic violence and sexual assault, excellent written and verbal communication skills; basic computer skills; ability to work with diverse population, multi-task, work independently and with a team, calm in crisis. Shift work, hours vary. High school diploma or equivalent required, degree in related field preferred. Executive Director, The LeeShore Center, 325 S. Spruce St., Kenai, AK 99611 by November 6, 2014. EOE.

Healthcare DIRECT SERVICE ADVOCATE Transitional Living Center Part Time

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Organized, energetic and creative person to positively assist women and children residing in transitional / supportive housing. Excellent understanding of or working experience in domestic violence/sexual assault, and related victim issues. Must promote and model non-violent behavior, empowerment philosophy, positive parenting and direct communication. HS diploma or equivalent required, degree in related field preferred. Valid driver's license required. Resume, cover letter and three references to:

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

Homes

PCHS has Full-time hire position for

DIRECT SERVICE ADVOCATE Full-time Shift Work

Kenai Peninsula Borough is recruiting for the a full time Administrative Assistant, Capital Projects Under the general direction and supervision of the capital projects director, the administrative assistant prepares contracts, legal documents, project documentation and correspondence, inputs data, monitors project cost accounting, assists in report preparation, schedules appointments, gives information to callers, takes meeting minutes, and otherwise relieves officials of administrative and business details. Recruitment closes 11/7/14 at 5:00 p.m., ADT. A complete job description, including salary and benefits, and instructions to apply on-line, can be found at:

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Property Management and Oversight Division 170 N. Birch Suite 101, Soldotna (907)262-2522 Mary.Parske@century21.com www.Century21FreedomRealty.com

NIKISKI 3-Bedroom, 2 1/2-baths, large kitchen with island, wood burning stove, 2-car garage. approximately 2000sqft., on 2 acres. Very peaceful, a lot of wildlife. $310,000. (907)776-8487, (907)394-1122.

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By bringing together medical, dental, and behavioral health services, PCHS offers highquality, coordinated care for the entire family.

Healthcare

CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA Position Announcement Administrative Assistant I for Kenai Fire Department. Pay $22.31 per hour. This position provides administrative support to the Fire Chief and fire department staff. Position announcement, job description and application are available through the Alaska Job Center Network, (907) 335-3010. Submit resume and City of Kenai application form by November 14, 2014 to Peninsula Job Service, 11312 Kenai Spur Hwy., Kenai, AK 99611. The City of Kenai is an equal opportunity employer. For more information about the City of Kenai, visit our home page at www.kenai.city

General Employment

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

ALL TYPES OF RENTALS

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

POLICE OFFICER Wage Range 15 Starting Wage $26.49hr-$37.70hr D.O.E.

General Employment

SERVICES

Apartments, Unfurnished

Retail/Commercial Space

CITY OF SOLDOTNA EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Position Vacancy Library Aide. Pay $17.36 per hour. This is a part-time year round position at 24 hours/week that will include regularly scheduled hours evenings and weekends. Position provides assistance to Library customers, staff and volunteers in basic library functions such as locating and utilizing library materials and equipment. This position will work closely with the children's librarian on programming for that department.

3-Bedroom, 2-bath, K-beach area home, over 2200ft, 1.23 acres. 2200+ square foot home with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 car garage,shed, two story addition with second living room and downstairs family room. Located just off K-beach in a desirable, K-beach elementary school location. Energy upgrades made from 3 star to 4 star. Motivated sellers. (907)252-1960

Healthcare

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

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Accounts Payable/ Purchasing Specialist

Frontier Community Services is a Soldotna based non-profit agency providing in-home services to people experiencing a disabling condition. Duties of the position include purchasing supplies, agency travel arrangements, process all invoices/payment requests to ensure accurate & timely payment, reconciling agency credit cards and other accounting clerk duties. 2 years progressive accounting and/or A/P-Purchasing experience. Preference given to individuals having prior experience working in purchasing and A/P and/or college-level hours of coursework in accounting. Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Word.

Homes

ENERGETIC, EXPERIENCE OPERATOR FOR PRINTING PRESS.

OPTICAL/CONTACT LENS ASSISTANT Full-time, Professional position. Includes Optical Pre-testing, Training Patients, Assisting Dr., Optical Sales. Requires strong math, Computer and Multi-tasking ability. Resume with References: Kenai Vision Center 110 South Willow #108, Kenai

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

REAL ESTATE RENTALS

General Employment

General Employment General Employment

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

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

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Executive Director, The LeeShore Center, 325 S. Spruce St., Kenai, AK 99611 by November 14, 2014. EOE.

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

Apartments, Unfurnished COLONIAL MANOR (907)262-5820 Large 1-Bedroom, Walk-in closet, carport, storage, central location. Onsite manager. EXECUTIVE SUITES K-BEACH, SOLDOTNA Brand new executive suites 2/3 Bedrooms, 2-baths, washer/dryer, heated garage. No Smoking/ no pets. $1,300. (907)398-9600

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3-BEDROOM, 2-Bath over size 2-car garage. Sterling area, 4 miles to Soldotna. No smoking/ pets. $1,450. per month plus utilities, (907)394-3939, (907)262-3806. WHY RENT ????? Why rent when you can own, many low down & zero down payment programs available. Let me help you achieve the dream of home ownership. Call Now !!! Ken Scott, #AK203469. (907)395-4527 or cellular, (907)690-0220. Alaska USA Mortgage Company, #AK157293.

Manufactured/ Mobile Homes NIKISKI 2-Bedroom, $800. per month. Pets allowed, includes utilities. Call (907)776-6563.

Financial Auctions Business for Sale Financial Opportunities Mortgages/Loans

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

EFFICIENCY APT. Clam Gulch Mile 118 Ocean View Great for single occupant Available now on approval $450./ month. Plus Electric. Dish available. Ed (907)260-2092.

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

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

Trailers 2014 26x8.5FT. Heavy duty, tandem axle, enclosed, trailer/ car hauler with man door. Lightly used. $7,000. Call (907)420-0434

Trailers 2014 24FT. x 8.5FT Enclosed Trailer / Car Hauler 10,400 GVW. Trailer has side door & 30in.x30in. side window. Clean title in hand. Trailer is lightly used, in excellent shape. $9,800. Call (907)299-7252 or email thesnaders@gmail.com

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Pawsitive training for all dogs & puppies. Agility, Conformation, Obedience, Privates & Rally. www.kenaikennelclub.com (907)335-2552

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

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Notice to Creditors IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI In the Matter of the Estate of: ) EDWARD P. MACIARIELLO, ) Deceased ) ) Case No. 3KN-14-00067 PR NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that Laura Maciariello has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to Laura Maciariello, Personal Representative, % Law Offices of PHIL N. NASH, 110 S. Willow, Suite 104, Kenai, AK 99611, or be filed with the above named court.

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2008 Chevy Sierra, White Truck WY Lic. #48183 Vin#1GCHK23668F195099 located at 50610 Littmitz Ave. Kenai, AK has been abandoned during the time period of September 15, 2013 to October 16, 2014. If you wish to claim this vehicle as a lein holder or family member, please contact Henry D. Braswell via certifed mail at the above address by December 13, 2014 PUBLISH: 10/23, 30, 11/6, 13, 2014

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars A baby born today has a Sun in Scorpio and a Moon in Taurus. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014: This year you will have so much energy that sometimes others can’t imagine joining you, even if it’s just to go shopping. Try to center yourself more often. You will make good decisions as a result. If you are single, you will meet people with ease. The issue could be how close you are willing to let someone get. Hopefully you will meet someone with similar needs. If you are attached, it could be quite an effort for your sweetie to keep up with your pace. Make it a point to slow down for this person. TAURUS has similar needs to yours, but he or she is more open. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You might want to be more creative in how you approach a money venture. Taking a risk might be tempting, but it also could be problematic. Do some research to better understand your choices. Curb a tendency to overindulge or go to extremes. Tonight: Your turn to treat. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Energy seems to surround you right now, which might be necessary to get a project launched. You seem willing to break precedent and let go of some of your basic points of view. Tonight: The Full Moon throws you into the position of lead actor. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Read between the lines and understand what it takes to make

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HHHH You might try to reach beyond your limits in order to get what you want. Perhaps you are not as aware as you need to be about the outcome of playing hardball with a friend or loved one. If you are not careful, this situation could backfire. Tonight: Just don’t be alone. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHYour creativity can make nearly anything shine. You often put more hard work and thinking into what you do than you let on. You might have to push harder than you would like in order to make a point. Be willing to let others pitch in. Tonight: Try not to be reactive. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH Your ingenuity is likely to come out without you even realizing it. Sometimes you push a bit too hard to have a situation play out as you think it should. Others might feel left out of the decisionmaking process and act out. Tonight: Be with the one you love. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH You will feel the pressure of the Full Moon. It might feel as if you have demands being dropped on you left and right, and you don’t know which way to turn. Delegate some work to others. Do not toss yourself into an emotional frenzy. Tonight: Head home fast. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You could be hearing a lot of news all at once. You might decide to get some more information in order to clarify what you’ve heard. Do yourself a favor: listen carefully and be open. Tomorrow, you can sort everything out. Tonight: Meet up with some friends.

Bury your personal info Dear Heloise: My recycling center will not accept shredded paper. I accumulate a large amount since I shred all mail that contains any personal or business information. I also am a gardener. Before I apply mulch in the spring and fall, I put down layers of shredded paper. I wet the paper first so it does not blow away and become trash. Wetting also destroys information that can be misused. The mulch is placed over the shredded paper, thus hiding it. The worms love it, and I feel secure that none of my personal social or financial information can be obtained. The paper also can be put in the bottom of flower pots for drainage. — Ann K., Omaha, Neb. Ann, this is a very good green hint — less trash in landfills, saves money on mulch, and great for the worms! If documents are shredded, especially with a crosscutting machine, I doubt there is much personal information left for anyone to be able to use. — Heloise Clean coffeepot Dear Heloise: I received one of the new combination coffeepots that brews a pot of coffee on one side or one cup on the other. Unfortunately, the coffee tasted terrible — like the hot plastic of the reservoir smelled. I brewed several cycles of vinegar through it, and the plastic taste and odor disappeared. Now it makes great coffee. — Kathy B., Pekin, Ill. A big Heloise Hug for using a classic Heloise vinegar hint! It’s just amazing how many uses for vinegar there are. Do you want even more money-saving hints? To receive my Heloise’s Fantabulous Vinegar Hints and More pamphlet, please send $5 and a long, self-addressed, stamped (70 cents) envelope to: Heloise/Vinegar, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001. — Heloise

SUDOKU

By Tom Wilson

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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