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In the news Hawaii shipping company buys Alaska business

HONOLULU (AP) — The shipping company with the largest share of the Hawaii market is acquiring the Alaska operations of its competitor. The companies said Tuesday that Matson Inc. will buy Horizon Lines, Inc. for $69 million. Matson will also acquire Horizon’s debt. Separately, Horizon will sell its Hawaii operations to The Pasha Group for $142 million and shut down its Puerto Rico business. Horizon has been operating container ships to Alaska since 1964. The company serves Anchorage, Kodiak and Dutch Harbor. Matson CEO Matt Cox says the deal is a rare opportunity to substantially grow the company’s Jones Act business. The Jones Act requires vessels shipping goods between states to have been built in the United States, be crewed and owned by U.S. citizens and fly the U.S. flag.

Inside ‘I think that consensus is growing that there’s going to be more viscosity, more tension with China over the next few years.’ ... See page A-5

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Kenai resident Dave Thompson stands for the Pledge of Allegiance during a salute to veterans celebration Monday at the Kenai Senior Center. Thompson served four years in the U.S. Army and one year overseas during the Vietnam War.

Celebrating heroes

Community pauses to honor those who have served By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, about 160 veterans and community members in Soldotna continued a tradition that began 96 years ago – to remember and honor veterans. Members of the Soldotna Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10046 started the Veterans Day ceremony Tuesday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex with the posting of the colors. As the flags were brought into the room, the audience stood and saluted the U.S. flag before the silence was broken with the Pledge of Allegiance. The program continued with the singing of the National Anthem and a brief history of Veteran’s Day, which start-

Audience members at the Veterans Day ceremony Tuesday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex place poppies on a field as a symbolic way to honor fallen veterans.

ed as Armistice Day to commemorate the end of World War I in 1918. Soldotna resident and VFW member Herb Stettler recited Lt. Col. John McCrae’s

poem, “In Flanders Fields,” while members of the audience placed poppies down as a symbol of remembrance of World War I. The ceremony concluded with a 21-gun sa-

lute, playing of taps and a closing benediction. Navy veteran Preston “Nick” Nelson, Commander of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, recognized the audience for coming out in support of those that have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Nelson said Alaska has the largest veteran population per capita with about 77,000 veterans. He said the families of soldiers should be recognized for their support. “To me we have 230,000 veterans,” he said. “Mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters who’ve all experienced anguish while their sons and daughter are overseas in the combat zone. I think about them everyday. To me they are my heroes too.” See VETS, page A-14

The number of homeless students in the Kenai Peninsula school system has grown since this time last year. Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Superintendent Steve Atwater announced that the number of youth in the Students in Transition program was 36 percent higher at the Oct. 20, Board of Education meeting. He said administrators were unsure of why the number of eligible students had jumped so drastically. The figure has declined slightly since Atwater’s report, said Students in Transition’s Homeless Liaison Kelly King. Currently the number of eligible students is closer to 30 percent more than it was at this time last year, she said. King said students are identified throughout the school year. Currently 147 children and youth are in the program, she said. Youth affected by unstable housing can lose up to one semester of learned material each year with each unplanned school move, King said. The district’s database contains information on the students the district identifies as eligible for Students in Transition services in the past decade, King said. Looking at enrollment numbers for the last 4 years, the average number of homeless students identified in KPBSD each year is 253, she said. The more populated an area is, the more students are reported as homeless, King said. See SCHOOL, page A-14

Fishing again restricted at Stormy Lake By RASHAH McCHESNEY Peninsula Clarion

Anglers looking to ice fish for Arctic char and Dolly Varden will again be restricted at Nikiski’s Stormy Lake as the Alaska Department of Fish and Game works to allow populations of the two fish to restore themselves to historic levels. The lake, which is located in Captain Cook State Recreation Area, was treated with the piscicide, or fish-killer, rotenone in 2012 to eradicate invasive northern pike. The lake was restocked in 2013 with longnose suckers, rain-

bow trout, Arctic char and Dolly Varden. On Monday, Fish and Game announced that beginning Friday, anglers would not be able to retain the char or Dolly Varden caught between Nov.14 and April 30, 2015 — though Fish and Game surveys indicate that the Arctic char population has been successfully restocked. The Arctic char that were reintroduced to the lake are hatchery-raised fish from eggs that were taken from Stormy Lake. Those char are distinct from others found in the Swanson River watershed and area management biologist Robert Begich said during a 2012 in-

terview that it was a priority for the department to save those fish because they could not be found elsewhere Arctic char grow slowly and have low population densities, according to Fish and Game data, and it is unknown how long it will take for the Stormy Lake fish to sexually mature and re-establish natural production. Sportfishing through the ice is permitted using two closely attended lines, anglers may only use one hook or artificial Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion lure on each line. Other area lakes, such as Rob Massengill, fisheries biologist with the Alaska Department Hidden Lake and Skilak Lake, of Fish and Game, releases Arctic char into Stormy Lake June See CHAR, page A-14 13, 2013 near Nikiski.

Test finds no Fukushima radiation in Cook Inlet water By RASHAH McCHESNEY Peninsula Clarion

A test on Cook Inlet waters turned up no evidence of radiation emissions from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster having made its way into the area. A crowdsourced funding effort through Cook Inletkeeper raised enough money to fund one test — though the

organization is still soliciting donations for further testing at its crowdrise.com funding page — and the organization on Monday announced the results of its test on water sampled in September, north of Yukon Island in Kachemak Bay. Cook Inletkeeper Executive Director Bob Shavelson said during a June interview that the Fukushima nuclear disaster

had stirred up fear and misinformation and the organization had received a lot of calls from Alaskans concerned about Cook Inlet fisheries. The Japanese reactor was disabled after a major earthquake in 2011, and high radioactive releases were measured during the week following the earthquake, according to the World Nuclear Association. However, the Federal Food C

and Drug Administration, which is responsible for monitoring the nation’s food supply, has yet to find any evidence of radioactive contamination in U.S. food supplies, according to a March update on the organization’s website. In addition, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and Department of Health and Social Services announced in 2014 that the two organiza-

tions’ tests of Alaska’s seafood have shown the product to be safe to consume. The Cook Inlet water sample was analyzed at the Woods Hole Center for Marine and Environmental Radiation and, according to an Inletkeeper media release, the sample contained very little evidence of radioactive material in the water. What was detected is normal backSee TEST, page A-5

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Spacecraft will attempt to land on Comet By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press

BERLIN— How do you land a spacecraft on a comet that is streaking by at 41,000 mph (66,000 kph)? That’s a problem scientists have been grappling with for more than a decade as they prepare for one of the most audacious space adventures ever — the European Space Agency’s attempt to land a scientific probe on the giant ball of ice and dust known as 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko. They’ll find out Wednesday whether their plan will work when the agency’s mission control center in Darmstadt, Germany, gives its unmanned Rosetta space probe the final go-ahead to drop a lander on the comet. The event marks the climax of Rosetta’s decade-long journey to study the icy celestial bodies that have long fascinated humanity. Scientists hope that the data collected by Rosetta and its sidekick lander, Philae, will provide insights into the origins of comets and other objects in the universe. On Tuesday, the agency an-

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nounced that systems aboard the Philae lander had failed to switch on properly at first. Fearing a cosmic calamity, scientists tried a reboot. “The lander successfully powered up, and preparations are now continuing as planned,” the agency said on its website. The hitch demonstrates how much can still go wrong with the

1.3 billion euro ($1.62 billion) mission first conceived more than two decades ago. Launched in 2004 after a year’s delay, the Rosetta spacecraft had to swing around Earth three times — and once around Mars — to gain enough speed to chase down the comet. After traveling 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles), it pulled up

alongside 67P in August. Now Rosetta and the comet are flying in tandem at 41,000 mph between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, 500 million kilometers (311 million miles) from Earth. The vast distance means the European Space Agency has to rely on NASA’s Deep Space Network of giant radio antennas to communicate with Rosetta.

Peninsula Clarion, Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Obituary

Vigil for homeless youth planned

Judo club hosts self defense class

James Edward Graham Jr. of Homer, 71 years young, died surrounded by family at Alaska Native Medical Center on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014 in Anchorage. His family writes, “To the best man we’ve ever known: How do you sum up an amazing life in a few short paragraphs? Simply impossible. We are sure going to try, Dad.” Jimmy was born March 1, 1943 at Providence Hospital in Anchorage, the celebrated only child of Mary Irene Johnson Graham of Haines, and James Edward Graham Sr. of Lead, South Dakota. Jimmy spent the majority of his life residing in Homer, a lifelong fisherman, hunter and boat captain who loved all things that involved the Alaskan outdoors. Through young adulthood he fished the family boats, the Mary G. and the J Boy, alongside his family. Jimmy joined the United States Navy in 1961 and proudly served in the Seabees for 6 years. He then worked many years for City Electric and Glacier State Telephone Company as a lineman in Anchorage and on the Kenai Peninsula. He the joined Crowley Maritime and retired from there as a respected Tug Boat Captain. Jimmy was always known for his humor, as he had the uncanny ability to walk into a room, and soon after it erupted into laughter. His charisma was renowned by everyone who met him. He could always be counted on to be a man of honor and made friends wherever he went. A hopeless romantic at heart, Jimmy had multiple unions, some of which were celebrated. Jimmy is survived by children, Kurtis, David, Nikki and Darla Graham; granddaughter Kaydence Korevec; and dog Sugar. He was preceded in death by his son, James Edward Graham III. Jimmy’s ashes will be spread between 60 foot and Gull Rock in Kachemak Bay, as is Graham Family tradition. He will also have a plaque placed at the Seafarers Memorial on the Homer Spit. His family plans to have a celebration of life and spreading of ashes the summer of 2015. “Anchors Aweigh my Boys.”

The Annual Candlelight Vigil for Homeless Youth and Families will take place on Thursday from 6-7 p.m. at Farnsworth Park in Soldotna. This years’ awareness event will feature guest speaker Dr. Steve Atwater, KPBSD Superintendent of Schools. There will also be a scholarship opportunity presented to high school students who attend. The vigil is an outdoor event — please dress warm. For more information, please contact Debbie Michael at dmichael@alaska.net or Kelly King at kking@ kpbsd.k12.ak.us.

The Sterling Judo Club is holding a free self defense class for women and girls (ages 8 and up) on Nov. 21, from 6-8 p.m. at Sterling Elementary School. The class is for women only and will be led by Sensei Katie Gibler. Participants are asked to wear loose clothing and to show up 15 minutes early. Mothers, daughters, and grandmothers are all encouraged to participate. For more information contact Sensei Robert Brink at 907-2429330 or at obobo1a@gmail.com. More information can be found on the Sterling Judo Club Facebook Page.

Fun run to benefit St. Jude’s

Bake sale, bazaar at Sterling Senior Center

The second annual Emma’s Run, an approximately 5-kilomter family fun run/walk, will take place at noon on Nov. 22, with the start/finish at the Kenai Visitors Center. Race day registration is from 11-11:45 a.m. at the visitors center; $10 donation to participate with the proceeds going to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Find more information at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Emmas-Run-for-St-Jude/308002649388891.

The Sterling Senior Center presents its annual Christmas Bazaar and Bake Sale on Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Handmade items and baked goods are available. Food available. For further information, please contact Glenda Graham at 262-2943 or the center at 262-6808.

The Liberty Quartet to perform

The League of Women Voters of the Central Kenai Peninsula will hold their monthly meeting at noon Friday at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna. The League will debrief the political forums that they recently presented. Bring a sack lunch and a friend. For more information contact Gail Knobf at 262-6635 or tiamat@eagle.ptialaska.net

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James Edward ‘Captain Jimmy’ Graham Jr.

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Sterling Baptist Church and Soldotna Bible Chapel are hosting gospel music performers The Liberty Quartet in concert at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Soldotna Bible Chapel. There is no charge for admission; a freewill offering will be taken up. This is the group’s only concert scheduled on the Kenai Peninsula this year.

Celebrate Alaska Native/Native American Heritage Month at Kenai Peninsula College Kenai Peninsula College invites the public to to celebrate Alaska Native/Native American Heritage Month during the month of November. A free beadwork and fish skin basket demonstration by Rochelle Adams (a Gwich’in Athabascan artist) will take place on Thursday at noon and again at 6:00 p.m. at the Kenai River Campus McLane Commons in Soldotna. A free Denai’na language class will take place on Nov. 20, from 6:00-7:00 p.m. at the Kenai River Campus McLane Commons in Soldotna.

Community Calendar Today 8 a.m. • Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 398-9440. 10:30 a.m. • Bouncing Babies Storytime at the Soldotna Public Library. Call 262-4227. 11 a.m. • Redoubt Homemakers at Nikiski Fire Station No. 1. • Wee Read at the Kenai Community Library Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous re-

covery group at 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. • TOPS group AK 222 Soldotna meets at Christ Lutheran Church, 128 Soldotna Ave. Call 260-1662. 5:30 p.m. • Weight loss and health support group, Christ Lutheran Church. Call 362-1340. 7 p.m. • Card games, Funny River Community Center. • Narcotics Anonymous support group “Clean Machine” at Central Peninsula Hospital’s Re-

League of Women Voters to discuss forums

Soldotna library plans teen activities A Teens at the Library activity is planned for every Wednesday in November, at 4 p.m., in the Community Room. Nov. 12 — The library has Just Dance for the PS4. Wear your comfy shoes and take it for a spin at the inaugural dance off! Nov. 19 — This week is World Kindness Week! Collaborate with your friends and your librarian to brighten someone’s day this week. Nov. 26 — Turkey Day Survival Guide: When extended families get together, sometimes the bird isn’t the only one in the hot seat. Enjoy a snack (no stuffing allowed!) and talk about how to handle the holidays graciously and gratefully.

doubt Room, 250 Hospital Place, Soldotna. Call 907-335-9456. • Alcoholics Anonymous “Into Action” group, 12X12 study meeting, VFW basement Birch Street, Soldotna, 907-262-0995. 8 p.m. • Al-Anon Support Group at Central Peninsula Hospital in the Augustine Room, Soldotna. Call 252-0558.

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What Others Say

Ketchikan needs development, vision Ketchikan needs economic develop-

ment and a vision for the future. That’s what developing 297 acres of borough property along Revilla Road near Ward Cove would be. Ward Cove Group, a company owned and operated by the David Spokely family, has come up with a proposal for the property. The proposal is to study the property’s potential for development, which ultimately could include a community, with condos, townhouses, houses, senior housing, schools and churches. The proposal comes at the request of the borough. It issued a request for proposals to contractors. The borough received two bids and is considering a contract with Ward Cove Group. The contract calls for a five-year lease of the land for $30,000 annually and the option to buy the land during that period. The project would begin with infrastructure, such as roads and utilities. Nothing would be done without the borough’s approval until the property sold. The contract came up at this weeks’ Borough Assembly meeting. Assembly members indicated that they would be diligent in examining it and its effects on the borough as a whole. That’s as it should be. At the same time, it’s exciting and encouraging to see possible new development for Ketchikan. — Ketchikan Daily News, Nov. 5

What freedom of the press?

Will somebody please explain why a reporter is not allowed to impersonate an FBI agent, but it’s OK if an FBI agent impersonates a reporter? It’s obvious why no one should be allowed to dishonestly pass him- or herself off as a law-enforcement official, but it also should be apparent why any cop, federal or local, should not be pretending to be a newsperson. It undermines our credibility, and given the sloppy performance of too many in our business, we don’t have a lot of credibility to spare. Let’s face it: Someone with sensitive material about our government or institutions is frequently scared to share that information with the police. Since our job is to monitor public officials — and for that matter, corporations — the public’s need to know is served only if those with vital material can trust that those they are sharing it with are not in cahoots with the bad guys. It doesn’t seem to stop overzealous investigators from crossing that line. FBI Director James Comey just disclosed another case of such disdain when he admitted that an investigator in 2007 lied in saying he was working for The Associated Press while trying to build a case against a 15-year-old suspected of threatening to bomb his high school. The procedure even now would be, according to Comey, “lawful and in a rare case, appropriate.” No, it wouldn’t be appropriate. First of all, there were so many other ways to

appeal to the kid’s ego, which was the purpose of the deception. All it would take would be a little ingenuity. The FBI guy was lazy. In truth, though, his leadership doesn’t really like that someone is Bob Franken watching so closely. Authorities mostly consider the news media to be the nuisance media for getting in the way of their pursuits. Another overzealous agent from the very same FBI accused Fox News reporter James Rosen (a friend of mine, by the way) of being a “co-conspirator,” which is to say a criminal, while tracking down leaks of classified information that formed the basis of a Rosen report. Only when it became public did Attorney General Eric Holder apologize. So far, Holder has not decided what to do about the threat to put former New York Times correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner James Risen behind bars for refusing to testify against a former CIA operative, the alleged source of highly sensitive classified information for Risen’s reporting on American efforts to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program. Risen says he will go to jail before he’ll discuss his sources. He

shouldn’t be faced with that choice. But so far, he is. Holder is part of the Obama administration, which is unfriendly to the media in the extreme. Shutting out reporters from information and access has become the norm at this White House. Of course, journalists are considered fair game by many if not most law-enforcement officials. You see it in the rough handling reporters got in Ferguson, Missouri, when they were there braving the violence to get their story. They were interrupted at every turn, often forcefully, by heavily armored police who were striking out in rage at anybody who would have the audacity to show what they were doing. As someone who has covered a ton of these dangerous confrontations, I can tell you that the biggest danger to those of us in media is all too often bullying cops who will simply arrest or rough up anybody who dares to report on what’s going on. Yes, many of you reading this will share a low regard for media. All too often we fall short and distort. But the responsible ones need to be free to do what we’re supposed to, and that’s to keep our public officials’ feet to the fire. The same ones who go out of their way to stop us. It’s not hard to see why. Bob Franken is a longtime broadcast journalist, including 20 years at CNN.

Quotable “If we pushed someone who’s stayed in Detroit to suddenly hit the road and move to Chicago, would that person suddenly do better? Or has that person stayed behind exactly because he or she can’t find a good-paying job in Chicago?” — Danny Yagan, a University of California economist on mobility and job trends in the U.S.

Move to Ways and Means won’t preclude ‘16 bid

“I had sort of wondered if I’d get to wear a fancy dress and By PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press high-heeled shoes again.” — Chelsea Clinton, who was awarded a Woman WASHINGTON — Unbothered by sugof the Year award by Glamour magazine, on her first evening out since the birth of her daughter in September. gestions it could preclude a presidential campaign, Rep. Paul Ryan is on track to be “My thoughts were not my normal thoughts and normal way tapped to lead Congress’ main tax-writing of dealing. I was overcome with something I believe to be divine committee next week, a job allies of the Wisconsin Republican believe could set intervention.” — Aaron Edson, who foiled a kidnapper from the stage for a White House bid. His party’s nominee for vice president taking his daughter by remaining calm. in 2012, Ryan insists he will not make a decision about running for president until next year. For the moment, he seems eager to wield a new gavel as chairman of the House Ways and Means Commit By GARRY TRUDEAU tee — a role he could win as soon as next week. “We have a chance of putting bills on the president’s desk,” Ryan said of his bid for the top seat on the influential committee. Ryan is still taking care not to rule out a presidential run, and his advisers argue he has the network of political and donor contacts — years in the making as his party’s leading voice on the federal budget and boosted by his run on the Romney ticket two years ago — to join the field later than most. Under current House rules, and should the GOP maintain control of the chamber, Ryan could serve as Ways and Means chairman for six years, for the balance of President Barack Obama’s time in office and the next president’s first term. But nothing in the House’s rules bars chairman from running for higher office and, while officially neutral, House Speaker John Boehner is a Ryan booster, both for the Ways and Means post and a potential presidential bid. Ryan faces a challenge for the chairman’s job from Rep. Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican. Ryan is the favorite of both establishment-minded leaders in the party who see him as a fundraising force, as well as among newer members who see him as a buddy. While the powerful House panel’s agenda is expected to be busy, it is unlikely on

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AP News Extra its own to keep Ryan from a national campaign. Should Ryan decide to run, Boehner is expected to do everything he can to help one of his key lieutenants balance his duties. As chairman of Ways and Means, Ryan would be in position to shape trade deals and oversee Social Security and health care programs in the new, GOP-led Congress. The committee would also direct any overhaul of the tax code, an issue on which both Obama and Republican leaders have speculated they could work on together. If Ryan can usher a simplified tax code into law in 2015, that effort could be part of his pitch to voters in 2016 — or in a later run. At 44, Ryan has many potential campaigns ahead of him, his advisers and allies argue. If Democrats successfully nominate, elect and then re-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ryan could run in 2024 at the relatively young age of 54. An added draw for his family is the fact his pre-teen children today would be young adults by then. Unlike his potential rivals, Ryan is not openly fanning speculation about a national campaign. If anything, he’s trying to snuff it out. For instance, while his would-be rivals were campaigning at the Iowa State Fair last summer, Ryan and his family were camping in Colorado. He checked in with his office just once a day. Ryan and his team are also mindful the crowded field of likely GOP hopefuls could be upended easily. His advisers point to the great fanfare — and then even greater flame-out — that Texas Gov. Rick Perry enjoyed when he joined the field of GOP candidates in August of 2007, months after others had been participating in debates and campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire. Still, since the end of the 2012 race, Ryan has campaigned in 29 states, his

aides said. He has appeared at 58 events for House colleagues or candidates, as well as joined winning Senate candidates in Iowa, West Virginia and Kansas. Ryan’s team insists they are part of his moves to help fellow Republicans and build the party. None, his aides say, is a precursor to a presidential run. “I’m not one of those guys who has my life mapped out two, four, six, eight years,” Ryan said recently at a campaign event in his hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin. “I take one thing at a time.”

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ground radiation levels for the Pacific Ocean and is traceable to nuclear weapons testing in the 1960s, according to the release. On Monday, the Center for Marine and Environmental Radiation announced that it had detected small amounts of radiation from Fukushima about 100 miles west of Eureka, Cali-

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By RACHEL D’ORO Associated Press

ANCHORAGE — Independent candidate Bill Walker widened his slim lead over Republican Gov. Sean Parnell Tuesday in Alaska’s tight gubernatorial race. Alaska elections workers began counting more than 53,000 absentee and questioned ballots Tuesday. With a little less than onethird of those ballots counted by early evening, Walker was ahead by nearly 4,000 votes over Parnell among all ballots counted since the Nov. 4 election. The race remained too close to call, however. Elections director Gail Fenumiai said votes also will be counted Friday, and then Monday through Wednesday as necessary. Also being closely watched is Alaska’s U.S. Senate race. On election night, Republican challenger Dan Sullivan led first-term Democratic Sen. Mark Begich by about 8,100 votes. Sullivan maintained that margin as the counting continued Tuesday evening. No outcome is considered official until the election certification, which is targeted for Nov. 28, Fenumiai said. In the governor’s race, representatives for both campaigns

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Election workers, from left, Lorraine Derr, David Clover, Deborah Craig and Mel Perkins help count ballots cast during the Nov. 4 general election on Tuesday in Juneau, Alaska. Officials on Tuesday began counting absentee, early-voted and questioned ballots remaining from the election.

were monitoring the count of remaining ballots. “The governor’s going to respect the process until every Alaskan’s vote is counted,” Parnell spokesman Luke Miller said Tuesday. Meanwhile, with the possibility of victory, Walker is in the preliminary stages of forming a transition team “to create a roadmap” for a new administration, spokeswoman Lindsay Hobson said. Parnell initially was considered the favorite in the race over Walker, who finished

second behind Parnell in the 2010 Republican gubernatorial primary. Walker bypassed this year’s primary after opting to gather signatures to qualify as an unaffiliated candidate. The race tightened after Walker merged his campaign with that of Byron Mallott, who won the Democratic primary in August. To join campaigns with Mallott, Walker dropped his membership in the Alaskan Republican Party. The “unity ticket” was seen as providing a more formidable challenge to Parnell.

fornia. However, the Fukushimaderived radiation levels are below levels expected to present a risk to human or marine life, according to the organization’s announcement and the levels were more than 1,000 times lower than the acceptable limits to drinking water set by the U.S. EPA. The institute has been conducting sampling throughout the West Coast of the United States and in the Pacific Ocean, the results of which can be

found at ourradioactiveocean. reached at rashah.mcchesney@ org. peninsulaclarion.com If additional funding comes through, Inletkeeper intends to sample again in 2015, according to its release. Shavelson said the additional testing had more to do with timing and monitoring the water each successive year, than fears that waters situated in other portions of the Cook Inlet could be contaminated. “I think it’s just prudent to take another look at it,” he said.

During the campaign, Parnell also was dogged by criticism that he did too little too late in handling allegations of sexual abuse within the Alaska National Guard that emerged in 2010. Walker was criticized by Parnell as having contradictory views and no specific plans. Parnell and his supporters also questioned the merged campaign, asking how a social conservative, such as Walker, could govern with a more liberal second-in-command.

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ANCHORAGE (AP) — A private school’s desire to continue saying a prayer before athletic events will mean the shift of the Alaska state small schools wresting tournament to a different venue. Anchorage Christian Schools hosted the tournament for seven years, but it declined to do so after the Alaska School Activities Association said a prayer could no longer be offered as part of opening ceremonies, the Alaska Dispatch News. The association took the action after a complaint. An unidentified person attending the event in 2013 reported the prayer to a national church-state separation watchdog group, which contacted the Alaska School Activities Association. There’s no place for public prayer at a state-sanctioned high school wrestling tournament, said Ian Smith, an attorney for Americans United for Separation of Church and State. “There are undoubtedly wrestlers at that event that are not Christians,” he said. “A Christian prayer does not represent them. That is what the separation of church and state is for: to ensure the government is not telling anybody what religion they ought to be.” Anchorage Christian Schools is the education ministry of the Anchorage Baptist Temple. Not saying a prayer is “a showstopper for us,” said Tom Cobaugh, the school administrator. The prayer was not evangelistic and was not meant to influence anyone, he said. The association board consulted with attorneys and agreed that public prayer was taboo. The board “concluded that a ASAA statewide tournament, even though hosted by (Anchorage Christian Schools) or other private school, is nevertheless sponsored by ASAA and is therefore subject to longstanding legal precedent forbidding the use of prayer at an event sponsored by a public entity,” ASAA said in a statement. — The Associated Press

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Obama’s bid for China ties can’t quell tension By JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent

BEIJING — When Xi Jinping took the reins of a booming China two years ago, President Barack Obama saw an opportunity to remake America’s relationship with the Asian power. But even after Obama’s unusually robust efforts to forge personal ties with Xi, the two leaders are meeting in Beijing amid significant tensions, both old and new. Xi has consolidated power since taking office, deepened China’s provocative maritime disputes with its neighbors and stands accused of continuing cyberattacks against the United States. U.S. officials have new concerns over the potential for a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong and are warily watching Beijing strengthen ties with Moscow as the West distances itself from Russia. For its part, Beijing remains skeptical of Obama’s intentions in Asia, seeing his efforts to bolster U.S. economic ties in the region as a way of countering China’s rise. Obama’s domestic political weakness, particularly following the Democrats’ defeats in last week’s midterm elections, has also sparked questions in China about whether the U.S. president can deliver on potential international agreements. At the opening of talks on Tuesday, Obama declared he wanted to take U.S.-China relations to a “new level.” The leaders planned to meet again on Wednesday and then make public statements. In the lead-up to the ObamaXi meetings, U.S. officials sought to refocus attention on areas of U.S. agreement with the Chinese. The two coun-

tries announced a reciprocal accord to extend visa lengths for their citizens. And Obama announced that the U.S. and China had reached an understanding that would allow negotiations to move forward on a deal with the World Trade Organization to reduce tariffs on high-tech goods. The U.S. and China also are looking to cooperate on climate change ahead of a summit in Paris early next year. The U.S. has been pressing China to set an ambitious target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and Beijing appears to be getting serious about the problem. That’s a shift for China, which in previous years argued that developed countries like the U.S. bore most of the responsibility to deal with climate change. “I think that consensus is growing that there’s going to be more viscosity, more tension with China over the next few years,” said Michael Green, an Asia analyst at the Washingtonbased Center for Strategic and International Studies. He added that Xi has proved to be “less accommodating” and “tougher than expected” in his dealings with the U.S. That’s hardly the landscape Obama envisioned when he began trying to cultivate Xi as partner. Obama had developed little personal rapport with Xi’s predecessor, the older and more formal Hu Jintao. But in Xi, U.S. officials saw a potentially new kind of leader, with closer ties to the U.S. than other Chinese officials — he spent time in Iowa as an exchange student — and an ease with public appearances that eluded Hu. In an unusual move, Obama last summer invited Xi to a two-day retreat at Sunnylands,

a sweeping estate in the southern California desert. Away from the glare of their capitals, the leaders held eight hours of wide-ranging talks, toasted each other with Chinese liquor and sealed their new relationship with a 50-minute stroll through the manicured grounds. Both sides considered the summit a success. Yet the months that followed have seen increased tensions, from the U.S. levying cyberspying

charges against five Chinese officials to a recent series of close calls between U.S. and Chinese aircraft in the Pacific. Xi is still reciprocating Obama’s California hospitality with a state visit in the Chinese capital. Following meetings Tuesday with regional leaders at an Asia-Pacific economic summit, Obama and Xi met for a private dinner at Zhong Nan Hai, the imperial gardens near Tiananmen Square that serve as

the center of power for China’s government and the Communist Party of China. In the spirit of the Sunnylands summit, the two men ditched their ties for dinner as they sought to project a more casual and comfortable atmosphere. Despite efforts to find consensus, White House officials insisted Obama would take a tough line with Xi on issues like cybersecurity and Beijing’s military actions in the South

and East China Seas that have put neighbors on edge. “There’s no mystery in our position on these issues, there’s no mystery on the Chinese position,” said Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser. “When there’s an opening, we take it, and we run through that opening, we work together. And when there’s a difference, we’re just going to keep raising it repeatedly with China.”

Snow buries parts of Rockies, Upper Midwest By JAMES NORD Associated Press

PIERRE, S.D. — Heavy snow blanketed parts of the Upper Midwest with more than a foot of snow on Tuesday, leaving residents there and in the Rockies waking up to frigid temperatures that plunged as much as 50 degrees overnight. The rest of the Midwest and the East are expecting a dose of the icy weather later this week thanks to a powerful storm that hit Alaska with hurricane-force winds over the weekend. A look at the storm and its effects:

Snow, snow... And more snow More than a foot of snow fell in northern Wisconsin, while Michigan’s Upper Peninsula was buried under more than 14 inches of powder with at least another foot expected before the storm moves out Wednesday. A much as 15 inches of snow has buried parts of Minnesota, and more snow is expected, but it wasn’t enough to convince Joe Meath to spend some of his recent $12 million lottery winnings to head someplace warm. He’s busy with his small snowplow business and a Chevy truck with nearly 300,000 miles. “I don’t know what I’d be doing if I

wasn’t doing this today,” Meath told KMSP-TV. Schools canceled classes across the region, including at Northern Michigan University. Multimedia journalism student Mikenzie Frost said she was headed out the door to figure skating practice early Tuesday when she got a text from the school saying it was closed. So, she shifted plans. “Going to buy a shovel because we don’t have one,” Frost said. “We’re probably the only people in the U.P. (Upper Peninsula) that don’t have one.” Other students weren’t so lucky. Classrooms were closed at St. Cloud Cathedral, a seventh- through 12th-grade private school in Minnesota, but students had to log into the school’s online portal to complete classwork from home. “I’ll be honest,” Principal Lynn Grewing laughed. “There has been some grumbling.”

And then the cold In Billings, Montana, where temperatures in the high-60s fell into the single digits, Patsy Kimmel said she’d been warned before arriving to visit family and celebrate her 70th birthday. Temperatures could bottom out around negative 20 degrees in the eastern part of the state over-

night. “Yesterday I was warning sandals and a short-sleeve shirt, and today I’m wearing a coat and scarf and turtle neck and sweatshirt and gloves,” said Kimmel, who is from Montana but hadn’t visited during the winter in 30 years. The blast of frigid air sent temperatures plunging as far south as the Texas Panhandle, where balmy 70-degree weather fell into the teens overnight. In Oklahoma City, Monday’s high of 80 degrees hit a low of 30 degrees Tuesday morning — a drop of 50 degrees. And in the Dakotas, where single-digit temperatures — already about 30 degrees below normal — came with frigid wind chills, dipping as low as into the negative 20s in Dickinson, North Dakota. But that’s good news for Action Mechanical Inc., where the heating and ventilating department is booming in Rapid City, South Dakota. “Bang, we get this arctic blast, and it just opens the floodgates,” said John Hammond Jr., a department head at the business. “We’re behind right now as we’re sitting here talking.” In Colorado, temperatures fell into the teens — and are expected to stay there through Thursday — prompting officials to move a Veteran’s Day ceremony indoors in Denver.

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America marks Veterans Day with parades, freebies read, “Land of the free, thanks to the brave.” Here is how the holiday was NEW YORK — Americans celebrated elsewhere around marked Veterans Day on Tues- the country and overseas. day with parades, speeches and military discounts, while in Eu- Armistice day rope the holiday known as ArEurope marked Armistice mistice Day held special meanDay with ceremonies and moing in the centennial year of the ments of silence as France start of World War I. opened an international meThousands of veterans and morial on a former battlefield. their supporters marched up The events had special signifiFifth Avenue in New York, home to the nation’s oldest Vet- cance because this year is the 100th anniversary of the start erans Day parade. At 11 a.m. — the 11th hour of World War I. Tuesday was of the 11th day of the 11th the 96th anniversary of the armonth — a solemn hush fell mistice that ended the war on over Manhattan’s Madison Nov. 11, 1918. French President Francois Square Park as veterans laid Hollande placed a wreath at wreaths under the Eternal Light the tomb of the unknown solMonument to honor the fallen. dier under Paris’ Arc de TriFormer New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, omphe. Later, he inaugurated who was a Marine lieutenant, an international war memorial at Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, in served as grand marshal. “I learned everything I know northern France, in the presabout leadership from my mili- ence of German, British and Belgian officials. The Ring of tary service,” Kelly said. The parade featured a float Memory carries the names of carrying rapper Ice-T, who is an 600,000 soldiers from over 40 Army veteran, plus six military countries who died in the redogs and their handlers, all of gion during the war. Names are whom have served in the U.S. listed alphabetically without their nationalities. armed forces. Maylee Borg, 40, of Staten Island, said she brought her two Celebrity concert daughters to show them “that Bruce Springsteen, Rihanna, we should support our veterans, Eminem and Metallica were because they supported us.” among the headliners for a free Her 13-year-old daughter, concert on the National Mall to Kaitlyn Borg, made a sign that raise awareness for issues afBy VERENA DOBNIK Associated Press

fecting veterans, In Washington, D.C. Tuesday’s first-of-its-kind Concert for Valor is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of fans to the Mall. The Veterans Day event was spearheaded by Starbucks president Howard Schultz.

Veteran bonuses State officials in Ohio used the holiday to remind Iraq war veterans that time is running out to claim bonuses of up to $1,500. Ohio voters in 2009 approved a $200 million bond issue to fund bonuses for veterans of the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq war eras.

Veterans perks and freebies Veterans Day is not only a time to honor those who have served in the military. For American businesses, it’s also a time to back up that appreciation with a freebie. Many national chains, as well as mom-and-pop retailers around the U.S., offered free goods and services to anyone who has served in the military, a trend that has been growing since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. They included IHOP pancakes, Starbucks coffee and even admission at select theaters to see the World War II film “Fury,” starring Brad Pitt.

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Around the World Palestinian leader accuses Israel of ‘religious war,’ draws angry response from Netanyahu RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel on Tuesday of leading the region toward a “religious war,” saying frequent visits by Jewish worshippers to a site sacred to both Islam and Judaism are fueling clashes that have raised fears of a widespread outbreak of fighting. The accusation drew a sharp response from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said Abbas was making matters worse. “Instead of calming tempers, he is inflaming them. Instead of educating his people for peace, Abu Mazen is educating them for terror attacks,” Netanyahu said in a nationally televised address, referring to Abbas. After meeting his Security Cabinet for several hours, Netanyahu also said security forces had been bolstered, and that he would begin imposing tough measures against violent demonstrators.

Incremental truce deal one of few ideas left for peace in Syria’s civil war BEIRUT — Traction is growing for one of the few ideas left for peace in Syria’s civil war: Work out a series of local cease-fires to try to quiet the bloodiest fronts around the country, without tackling the core issues of the conflict between President Bashar Assad’s government and the rebels. The U.N. envoy to Syria called Tuesday for such an incremental truce in the northern city of Aleppo as a building block for more — an idea that Assad has said is “worth studying.” The Islamic State group’s onslaught has given greater urgency to finding some sort of solution for the nearly 4-yearold conflict. But reaching even small-scale truces in the fragmented country of multiple, divided fighting forces could be a near impossible task. Staffan de Mistura is the third U.N. envoy to try to mediate a solution to the Syrian war. Previous peace initiatives and cease-fire attempts brokered by veteran U.N. diplomats Kofi Annan and Lakhdar Brahimi all ended in failure, including the brief deployment of a U.N. monitoring mission and two rounds of peace talks in Geneva earlier this year meant to discuss a political transition. Since then, the situation has become infinitely more complicated with the growing influence of extremist groups like Islamic State and the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, and U.S. airstrikes targeting militants in the country.

Doctor who had Ebola leaves New York City hospital, thanks medical staffers NEW YORK — Hugging the health workers who cared for him, a doctor who recovered from Ebola said Tuesday he was a living example of effective treatment and urged support for those combating the virus at its West African epicenter. “Today, I am healthy,” a smiling Dr. Craig Spencer said as he was released after nearly three weeks in Bellevue Hospital, where he had been the last Ebola patient under treatment nationwide, at least for now. “Please join me in turning our attention back to West Africa,” where the virus has killed thousands of people this year, he added after thanking Bellevue staffers who treated him and getting a hug from the mayor.

World Forces retake strategic oil town Iraqi soldiers battling the Islamic State group recaptured most of Beiji By HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press

BAGHDAD — Iraqi soldiers battling the Islamic State group recaptured most of the town of Beiji, home to the country’s largest oil refinery, state television and a provincial governor said Tuesday. The strategic town, 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, will likely be a base for a future push to take back Saddam Hussein’s hometown just to the south, one of the main prizes overrun by the extremists last summer. But troops backed by Shiite militias faced pockets of stiff resistance around Beiji, hindering their advance. There was no word on the fate of the refinery, which lies on Beiji’s northern outskirts, but the advances in the town could help break the five-month siege of the facility by Islamic State fighters. Since June, a small army unit inside the refinery, resupplied and reinforced by air, has successfully resisted wave after wave of extremist assaults. Lifting the siege of the refinery, which sits inside a sprawling complex, was likely the next objective in the campaign to rid Beiji of the militants, according to military officials reached in the town by telephone. Hours after news from Beiji broke, a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a military outpost in the Tarmiyah district north of Baghdad, killing seven soldiers and wounding 13 others, according to police and hospital officials. Those killed included the post’s commander, a major, and two other officers, a captain and lieutenant, they said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but it bore the hallmarks of the militant Sunnis of the Islamic State group. Also, nine people were killed and 24 injured in three separate blasts in

— The Associated Press

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In this July 31, photo, a column of smoke rises from an oil refinery in Beiji, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, after an attack by Islamic militants. Iraqi soldiers battling the Islamic State group recaptured the heart of the town of Beiji.

and around Baghdad. State television quoted the top army commander in Beiji, Gen. Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi, as saying troops recaptured Beiji’s local government and police headquarters at the center of the town. It aired footage taken Tuesday of army tanks and armored personnel carriers moving around the town’s dusty streets and a ball of white smoke rising in the background. Al-Saadi later spoke to state television by telephone but the line appeared to be cut off after he said his forces were meeting stiff resistance. Three military officials later reached by The Associated Press in the town said the advancing army troops and Shiite militiamen are being slowed down by booby-trapped houses and ambushes. Raed Ibrahim, the governor of Salahuddin province, where both Beiji and Tikrit are located, said the military had secured about 75 percent of the town as of Tuesday, retaking the center of the town and outlying districts. He said government forces continued to meet fierce resistance from the militants, whom he said were

using suicide bombers to stall the military’s advance. Ibrahim, speaking to the AP by telephone, also said boobytrapped buildings posed an added threat in Beiji. Neither the military officials nor Ibrahim gave casualty figures for the government forces or the militants. The officials, however, said the forces had blocked access to Beiji from Anbar province, where militants control vast swaths of land, prior to their assault on the town to prevent militant reinforcements from reaching the city. The military, police and hospital officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Government officials in Baghdad offered no immediate comment on the news. The Beiji oil refinery has a capacity of some 320,000 bar-

rels a day, accounting for a quarter of Iraq’s refining capacity. A fire raged for days back in June at one of its storage units, but the refinery is believed to have also suffered major damage elsewhere. Iraq’s army and security forces have partially regrouped after melting away in the face of the summer’s Islamic State group offensive. In recent weeks, they recaptured a string of small towns and villages, but taking Beiji would be strategically significant in what is shaping up to be a drawn-out campaign of attrition against the extremists. Recapturing Beiji also would be a major boost for Iraq’s Shiite-led government. Airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition have aided Iraqi forces, militias and Kurdish peshmerga fighters battling Islamic State militants. Hundreds of U.S. advisers and trainers also have been working with the Iraqis. U.S. Central Command said Monday that coalition aircraft conducted seven airstrikes near Beiji since Friday, destroying three small militant units, a sniper position and two militant vehicles, including one used for construction. Meanwhile in Syria, U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura repeated his call for a truce in the northern city of Aleppo where rebels still hold large areas, although they are under increasing attack from advancing government forces. De Mistura, who met Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday, said an Aleppo truce could be a step toward a wider resolution of the country’s civil war.

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Sterilization leaves eight Indian women dead By KATY DAIGLE Associated Press

NEW DELHI — Eight Indian women have died and 20 others were in critical condition Tuesday after undergoing sterilization surgeries in a free government-run program to help slow the country’s population growth. A total of 83 women, all poor villagers under the age of 32, had the operations Saturday in a hospital outside Bilaspur city in the central state of Chhattisgarh. All 83 surgeries were conducted within six hours, said the state’s chief medical officer, Dr. S.K. Mandal. “That is not usual,” he said, but declined to comment further on what might have gone wrong until autopsies are conducted on the victims. Each of the women had received a payment of 600 rupees, or about $10, to participate in the program, Mandal said. The women were sent home Saturday evening after their surgeries, but more than two dozen were later rushed in ambulances to private hospitals after becoming ill. By Tuesday, eight had died — apparently from either blood poisoning or hemorrhagic shock, which occurs when a person has lost too much blood,

‘Their condition is very serious. Blood pressure is low. We are now concentrating on treating them, not on what caused this.” — Dr. Ramesh Murty, CIMS hospital state deputy health director Amar Singh told the Press Trust of India news agency. Twenty other women were in critical care, according to the district magistrate, Siddharth Komal Pardeshi. “Their condition is very serious. Blood pressure is low,” said Dr. Ramesh Murty at CIMS hospital, one of the facilities where the sick women were taken. “We are now concentrating on treating them, not on what caused this.” The state suspended four government doctors, including the surgeon who performed the operations and the district’s chief medical officer. It also will give compensation payments of about $6,600 to each of the victims’ families. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh said “it appears the incident occurred due to negligence” by doctors. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Myanmar, where he was on an official visit, that

he had spoken with Singh and urged a thorough investigation. The state’s surgeons met Tuesday night to discuss whether to continue the state’s sterilization schedule, with a target of 180,000 for the year ending in March set by the central government, Mandal said. He said the quota for Bilaspur district for the year was around 12,000. A spokeswoman for the federal Health Ministry declined to confirm whether the central government was setting sterilization quotas. India’s central government had said it stopped setting targets for sterilizing women in the 1990s. Activists blame sterilization quotas for leading health authorities to pressure patients into surgery rather than advising them on other forms of contraception. “These women have become victims because of the targetbased approach to population control,” said Brinda Karat of the All India Democratic Women’s Association, while de-

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Relatives mourn the death of women who died after undergoing sterilization surgeries, at a village near Bilaspur, in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, Tuesday. Eight Indian women have died and more than a dozen others in critical condition Tuesday after undergoing sterilization surgeries in a free government-run program to help slow the country’s population growth. A total of 83 women, all poor villagers under the age of 32, had the operations Saturday in a hospital outside Bilaspur city. Each of the women had received a payment of 600 rupees, or about $10, to participate in the program, said the state’s chief medical officer, Dr. S.K. Mandal.

manding that the state’s health minister resign. India’s government — long concerned about rapid growth in a country whose population has reached 1.3 billion — of-

fers free sterilizations to both women and men who want to avoid the risk and cost of having a baby, though the vast majority of patients are women. In many cases, they are of-

fered a one-time payment for undergoing surgery of $10$20, or about a week’s pay for a poor person in India. Hundreds of millions of Indians live in poverty.

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TCU jumps into top 4 in college rankings RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer

TCU still has Baylor beat in the College Football Playoff rankings — even though the Bears got the better of the Horned Frogs on the field. The Horned Frogs moved up to fourth in the rankings released Tuesday night, while the Bears were up to seventh, closing the gap between themselves and their Big 12 rivals. “For the third consecutive week, the committee looked at the overall body of work, their strength of schedule, and looked at the number of top 25 wins,” committee chairman Jeff Long said. “TCU has two top 25 wins and Baylor has one. And TCU’s loss is a top-10 loss. When you put all those factors together, we still think at this time TCU has a better résumé and was

voted that way ahead of Baylor. “ Oregon (9-1) jumped undefeated Florida State and moved into second. The Seminoles (9-0) slipped to No. 3. Mississippi State remained No. 1. The Ducks now have three wins against teams currently in the top 25 (Michigan State, UCLA, Utah). Florida State has beaten two teams in the top 25 (Notre Dame and Clemson). Long said the committee had a long discussion about the merits of the Ducks and Seminoles, and decided to look beyond the record. “It was a very close call, but the committee placed significant value on Oregon’s quality of wins against three top 25 teams, two of which were on the road,” Long said. The 12-person selection committee will choose the four playoff teams on Dec. 7.

Alabama (8-1) is No. 5 and Arizona State (8-1) is sixth, and both appear to be in good shape to secure a spot in the playoff if they can keep winning. Alabama hosts Mississippi State on Saturday. If Arizona State wins out, it would have to go through Oregon in the Pac-12 championship game. The Big 12 doesn’t have a championship game. The Bears (8-1), coming off a decisive victory at Oklahoma, and Horned Frogs (8-1) could end the season tied atop the Big 12. If that happens, the conference has said Baylor and TCU would be co-champions. The selection committee has been directed to use conference championships and head-to-head matchups as ways of distinguishing between teams with similar resumes. Long said TCU’s overall body of

work, which includes two wins against the top 25 (Minnesota and Kansas State) outweighed Baylor’s 61-58 victory against the Horned Frogs. TCU also beat Oklahoma, 37-33 at home. Long stressed Baylor could still move past the Horned Frogs and the committee was not trying to make a statement about nonconference scheduling by having Baylor, which played one of the weakest nonconference schedules in the country, behind TCU. Baylor played Buffalo, SMU and Northwestern State of the FCS. TCU played No. 25 Minnesota, SMU and Samford of the FCS. So how Minnesota fares the rest of the season — the Gophers play Ohio State, Nebraska and Wisconsin — could help sort out those Big 12 teams if they remain tied.

“I think that our rankings will send the message,” Long said. “We as a committee are not charged with sending messages to coaches and ADs about scheduling, but I think it’s likely that they will see the factors that we take into account and will take a message from that. But we’re not trying to send a message about that. We’ve said from the beginning, strength of schedule, total body of work, complete résumé, all of those are factored into this decision to get to the best four teams and rank our 25.” Ohio State (8-1) is up to eighth after its big victory at Michigan State. The Buckeyes are the highest ranked team from the Big Ten. Auburn, which had been in the top four the first two weeks of the rankings, fell to No. 9 after losing to Texas A&M at home on Saturday.

Rangers shut out Penguins The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Mats Zuccarello scored the first of New York’s three first-period goals, Henrik Lundqvist made 33 saves for his third shutout of the season, and the Rangers snapped Pittsburgh’s sevengame winning streak with a 5-0 victory Tuesday night. Martin St. Louis and Kevin Klein added goals in the first, Derick Brassard had a powerplay tally in the second, and Rick Nash — who had two assists — scored a short-handed goal in the third for the Rangers, who broke a two-game losing streak. Lundqvist earned his 53rd NHL shutout, extending his Rangers record. The Penguins (10-3-1), who complete a five-game trip Fri-

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Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki (41) of Germany shoots over Sacramento Kings’ Carl Landry (24) in the second half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday in Dallas. With the basket Nowitzki became the highest-scoring NBA player born outside the United States. The Dallas star passed Hakeem Olajuwon for ninth place on the all-time scoring list. The Mavericks won 106-98.

Mavs rally to dethrone Kings

Nowitzki passes Olajuwon for No. 9 on all-time NBA scoring list SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer

DALLAS (AP) — Dirk Nowitzki vividly remembers watching Hakeem Olajuwon from his home in Germany as a teenager in the 1990s. That’s one of the reasons his latest move up the NBA scoring list was special for the 7-foot Dallas star. Another would be the milestone coming at home when the Mavericks rallied from 24 points down to win. Nowitzki had 23 points to surpass Olajuwon as the highest-scoring player born outside the U.S., and the Mavericks came from way behind

on Tuesday night to beat Sacramento 106-98 for their 21st straight regular-season win at home against the Kings. “You know to pass ‘The Dream’ is unbelievable,” said the 36-year-old Nowitzki, in his 17th season with the Mavericks. “He was unguardable on the block. His footwork, his skill level, his hands, his touch was second to none, so I’m pretty proud.” Nowitzki hit a jumper from just inside the 3-point line early in the fourth quarter to pass Olajuwon at No. 9, and he finished the night at 26,953 career points. That’s seven more than the 7-footer from Nigeria, who starred for 17

years in Houston before retiring in 2002 after one season in Toronto. Before Nowitzki’s milestone, Monta Ellis scored 10 of 16 points in the third quarter, including a fadeaway 3-pointer at the buzzer after the Mavericks had taken their first lead. Rudy Gay scored 26 and Ramon Sessions had 18 for the Kings, who were outscored 58-28 from the middle of the second quarter to the end of the third. Sacramento matched the franchise’s largest blown lead since at least 2000-01, according to STATS. “What’s the word I’m looking for?” asked DeMarcus

Cousins, who had 16 points, 11 rebounds and five assists but combined with Gay for 12 of Sacramento’s 20 turnovers, 15 in the second half. “Trying to say this without getting in trouble. They had a momentum swing.” Chandler Parsons, who was 2 of 20 from the field the previous two games, scored eight points in a little more than a minute to get the Mavericks within five in the third, and Ellis put them in front for the first time on a layup for a 6967 lead. Parsons finished with 19 points and was 5 of 11 from See NBA, page A-13

day in Toronto, hadn’t allowed a power-play goal in 10 games, and their streak reached 39 kills before Brassard’s goal. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 30 shots for Pittsburgh, which is 5-1-1 on the road. DEVILS 3, WILD 1 NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Tuomo Ruutu and Mike Cammalleri scored second-period goals that helped New Jersey end a fourgame skid with a win over Minnesota. Travis Zajac sealed the victory with a power-play score into an empty net in the closing seconds. Jaromir Jagr had two assists. Cory Schneider made 23 saves in his 16th straight start. He is the only NHL goalie to start every game this season. See NHL, page A-13

Homer hockey stops Soldotna Staff report Peninsula Clarion

The Homer Mariners hockey team avenged a loss to Soldotna over the weekend with a 3-1 nonleague win over the Stars Tuesday night on the Homer Spit. After being handed a tough 4-3 loss by the Stars last Thursday in the Peninsula Ice Challenge tournament, the Mariners returned the favor by establishing the early lead and never giving it up. Two first period goals from Clem Tillion and Robbie Larson provided the difference. Ethan Brown scored for Soldotna’s lone goal before four minutes were up in the second period, getting the assist from Justice Miller and closing the gap to one goal. However, Garrett Butcher added the insurance goal for Homer with 6:33 remaining in the period and a

3-1 lead which would hold up in the final frame of play. Markian Polushkin earned the win for Homer in net, saving 15 of 16 shots on net. Soldotna sophomore Will Rogers got his first start of the season and took the loss, saving 27 of 30 shots sent his way. Both teams won’t see their next game action until the End of the Road Shootout tournament in Homer, starting Thursday, Nov. 20. Mariners 3, Stars 1 Homer Soldotna

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Showalter, Williams named Managers of the Year MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Sports Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Buck Showalter and Matt Williams won the Manager of the Year awards Tuesday, turning a Beltway double play. Showalter took the American League prize for the third time after guiding Baltimore to its first division title in 17 years, and Williams snagged the NL honor following his first season as a big league skipper with Washington. Showalter received 25 of 30 firstplace votes and 132 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. He’s established a unique pattern of winning once a decade following victories with the New York Yankees in 1994 and Texas in 2004. “I won’t be doing it 10 years from now,” Showalter said on the MLB Network telecast. Williams, who played under Showalter in Arizona from 1998-00, led the Nationals to an NL-best 96 wins. He got 18 first-place votes and 109 points,

joining Houston’s Hal Lanier (1986), San Francisco’s Dusty Baker (1993) and Florida’s Joe Girardi (2006) as the only men to win in their first seasons as a major league manager. “This is an organizational award as far as I’m concerned,” Williams said on a conference call. “It’s a testament to how the organization has built itself.” Mike Scioscia of the Los Angeles Angels was second in the AL with four firsts and 61 points, and Kansas City’s Ned Yost finished third with 41 points. Seattle’s Lloyd McClendon followed with 29 points. The 58-year-old Showalter piloted the Orioles to a 96-66 record and their first AL East crown since 1997 despite playing large chunks of the season without All-Stars Chris Davis, Manny Machado and Matt Wieters. Voting took place before the playoffs, when Baltimore swept Detroit in the Division Series and then was swept by Kansas City in the AL Championship Series. Until the ALCS, the Orioles had not

lost four in a row since May and had not dropped consecutive home games since June 28-29. Showalter became the first manager to win with three teams in one league. He is the third Orioles winner, following Frank Robinson in 1989 and Davey Johnson in 1997. “I think you’ve got to keep in mind that (players) allow you to manage them in today’s game. It’s not like you get to do it because of your job title,” Showalter said from his Texas home. “It was a lot of fun to kind of get out of the way,” Showalter added. “I had a great seat.” Pittsburgh’s Clint Hurdle, who earned the NL honor last year, finished second to Williams with eight first-place votes and 80 points. Bruce Bochy of the World Series champion San Francisco Giants was third with three firsts and 30 points. “For me, as a newcomer to the managerial fraternity, it is a privilege just to be considered amongst the best in our game. Clint and Bruce are certainly that,” Williams said in a NationC

als statement. Miami’s Mike Redmond also got a first-place vote and finished fifth, behind St. Louis’ Mike Matheny. A hard-nosed player and five-time All-Star over 17 seasons, Williams was coaching third base for Arizona when he was hired by Washington. Now he is the franchise’s fourth winner, joining Johnson (2012) and Montreal’s Buck Rodgers (1987) and Felipe Alou (1994). Williams credited his players, saying, “These guys made my transition easy.” The Nationals had hoped to contend for the Series title in 2013 under Johnson and came into this season with high expectations. Some predicted they would take the crown, which can often hinder a manager’s chances of winning this award. “What we accomplished this season would not have been possible without the right man at the helm,” Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo said. “It was a pleasure to watch him grow throughout.”

Williams stressed fundamentals from the start of spring training, and worked on creative defensive alignments. His biggest stamp might’ve come in late April when he benched young star Bryce Harper in the middle of a game for failing to run out a grounder. The 48-year-old Williams kept the Nationals on track despite injuries to Harper, Doug Fister, Ryan Zimmerman and Wilson Ramos. Washington still won the NL East by a whopping 17 games, the biggest margin in the majors. “As a staff, we tried to empower our players and allow them to have a voice and decide how they’re going to go about doing it,” Williams said. “So, these guys did it. I didn’t do anything except try to guide that at certain times.” The Nationals lost to the Giants in four games in the NL Division Series. AP Sports Writers Ronald Blum and Howie Rumberg, and AP Baseball Writer Ben Walker contributed to this report.

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3-point range after missing all 11 from beyond the arc in the previous three games. Tyson Chandler had his third straight double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds. RAPTORS 104, MAGIC 100 TORONTO (AP) — Kyle Lowry scored 19 points, Terrence Ross had 17 and the Toronto Raptors erased an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat Orlando 104-100 on Tuesday night, their ninth consecutive victory over the Magic. DeMar DeRozan had 16 points and Lou Williams scored eight of his 14 in the fourth as the Eastern Conference leaders won their fifth straight game overall and improved to 7-1.

GRIZZLIES 107, LAKERS 102 MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Mike Conley scored 23 points and the Grizzlies finally got a strong effort from their struggling bench to beat the Lakers. Kobe Bryant led the Lakers (16) with 28 points, but shot 10 of 26 from the field and surpassed Boston Celtics great John Havlicek for the most missed field goals in an NBA career. Reserve guard Wayne Ellington was not with the Lakers after his father was killed in Philadelphia

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BUCKS 85, THUNDER 78 MILWAUKEE (AP) — O.J. Mayo scored 19 points and Brandon Knight added 16 as the Bucks held off a late Oklahoma City rally to beat the Thunder. Reggie Jackson had 29 points, nine above his season average, for Oklahoma City. Serge Ibaka added 14 as the Thunder fell to 0-5 on the road.

RAIL BLAZERS 102, HORNETS 100 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Damian Lillard had 29 points and the Trail Blazers trailed by as many as 23 points in the first half before rallying in the fourth quarter to beat the Hornets. Charlotte’s Gary Neal made a layup at the final buzzer that would have sent the game into overtime, but the refs reversed the call after a review.

SPURS 113, WARRIORS 100 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Tony Parker had 28 points and seven assists, Kawhi Leonard scored 19 and the Spurs beat the Warriors. The defending NBA champions played their aging Big Three — Parker, Manu Ginobili and Tim Duncan — on consecutive nights to pull off California’s most difficult back-to-back. The Spurs rallied past the Clippers 89-85 on Monday in Los Angeles before cooling off one of the league’s hottest teams in Oakland.

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Tuesday’s Games Toronto 104, Orlando 100 Memphis 107, L.A. Lakers 102 Milwaukee 85, Oklahoma City 78 Dallas 106, Sacramento 98 Portland 102, Charlotte 100 San Antonio 113, Golden State 100 Wednesday’s Games Detroit at Washington, 3 p.m. Utah at Atlanta, 3:30 p.m. Indiana at Miami, 3:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Boston, 3:30 p.m. Orlando at New York, 3:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at New Orleans, 4 p.m. Brooklyn at Phoenix, 5 p.m. Portland at Denver, 5 p.m. Houston vs. Minnesota at Mexico City, Mexico, 6 p.m. All Times ADT

hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Tampa Bay 16 11 3 2 24 Montreal 16 11 4 1 23 Boston 16 10 6 0 20 Detroit 15 7 3 5 19 Toronto 15 8 5 2 18 Ottawa 15 7 4 4 18 Florida 13 5 4 4 14 Buffalo 17 3 12 2 8 Metropolitan Division Pittsburgh 14 10 3 1 21 N.Y. Islanders 15 10 5 0 20 Washington 15 7 5 3 17 Philadelphia 14 7 5 2 16 N.Y. Rangers 15 7 6 2 16 New Jersey 16 7 7 2 16 Carolina 14 5 6 3 13 Columbus 15 4 10 1 9 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Nashville 15 10 3 2 St. Louis 15 10 4 1 Chicago 16 9 6 1 Winnipeg 16 8 6 2 Minnesota 14 7 7 0 Dallas 15 5 6 4 Colorado 17 4 8 5 Pacific Division Vancouver 17 12 5 0 Anaheim 16 10 3 3 Calgary 17 9 6 2 Los Angeles 15 8 4 3 San Jose 17 8 7 2 Arizona 15 6 8 1 Edmonton 16 6 9 1 NOTE: Two points for a win, point for overtime loss.

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MONTREAL (AP) — Carey WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Price made 29 saves for his first Ovechkin and Marcus Johansson shutout this season in Montreal’s Ryan Carter scored against his each scored two goals, and Wash- victory over Winnipeg. former team and Darcy Kuemper ington extended Columbus’ losing stopped 20 shots for the Wild, who streak to nine games. PREDATORS 3, OILERS 2 lost their fourth straight. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — BLUES 6, SABRES 1 Filip Forsberg and Mike Ribeiro ISLANDERS 6, ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jori Lehtera each had a goal and an assist to AVALANCHE 0 scored a natural hat trick for St. lead Nashville over Edmonton. UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Louis with the game’s first three Matt Cullen also scored for the Nick Leddy and Anders Lee scored goals, and Brian Elliott stayed un- Predators, winners of three straight. early, and Jaroslav Halak stopped beaten in his career against punch- Pekka Rinne made 21 saves. 20 shots for his second straight less Buffalo. shutout as New York beat ColoBLACKHAWKS 3, rado to win its fourth straight. PANTHERS 4, SHARKS 1 LIGHTNING 2, SO Travis Hamonic, Nikolay Kulemin, Casey Cizikas and Ryan SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — AleksandCHICAGO (AP) — Corey Strome also scored to help the Is- er Barkov scored and Roberto Luongo Crawford made 25 saves and three landers get their first home victory made 21 saves as Florida beat San Jose more stops in the shootout to lead since Oct. 25. to snap a three-game slide. Chicago over Tampa Bay. M

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Transactions BASEBALL MLB С Suspended Minnesota Twins Minor League C Erwin

STARS 4, COYOTES 3 GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Ryan Garbutt scored on a shorthanded breakaway with 1:16 left to give Dallas a victory over Arizona, snapping a seven-game los-

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“Alex” Real 50 games without pay after testing positive for Methylhexaneamine, a stimulant, in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. National League NEW YORK METS С Agreed to terms with OF Alex Castellanos on a minor league contract. PITTSBURGH PIRATES С Acquired RHP Rob Scahill from Colorado for RHP Shane Carle. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS С Agreed to terms with INF Dean Anna on a one-year contract and with RHP Marcus Hatley, RHP Miguel Socolovich and INF Scott Moore on minor league contracts. BASKETBALL NBA Development League TEXAS LEGENDS С Named Nick Van Exel associate head coach and DeSagana Diop and Fred House player development coaches. FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS С Placed QB Carson Palmer on injured reserve. Signed QB Ryan Lindley from San Diego’s practice squad. BUFFALO BILLS С Released S Jerome Couplin. CHICAGO BEARS С Signed WR Rashad Lawrence to the practice squad. Waived WR Santonio Holmes. Terminated the practice squad contract of LB Terrell Manning. CLEVELAND BROWNS С Signed FB Ray Agnew. Signed DL Jamie Meder to the practice squad. DALLAS COWBOYS С Activated DT Josh Brent from the reserve/ suspended list. Waived LB Tim Dobbins. GREEN BAY PACKERS С Signed WR Alex Gillett to the practice squad. Released G Jordan McCray from the practice squad. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS С Placed WR Allen Robinson

on injured reserve. Waived LB Dekoda Watson. Activated CB Aaron Colvin off the reserve/ non-football injury list. Claimed CB Teddy Williams off waivers from Chicago. Waived CB Peyton Thompson. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS С Signed RB Charcandrick West from the practice squad. Signed TE Phillip Supernaw. Placed TE Demetrius Harris and RB Cyrus Gray on injured reserve. Signed TE Adam Schiltz to the practice squad. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS С Placed LB Patrick Willis on injured reserve. Signed RB Alfonso Smith to a one-year contract. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS С Placed DT Brandon Mebane on injured reserve. Signed TE RaShaun Allen from the Minnesota Vikings practice squad to the 53-man roster. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS С Placed G Kadeem Edwards on injured reserve. Released LB Denicos Allen from the practice squad. WASHINGTON REDSKINS С Activated NT Barry Cofield, Jr. from the injured reserve-return list. Waived LB Jackson Jeffcoat. HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES С Reassigned D Michal Jordan to Charlotte (AHL). DALLAS STARS С Acquired LW Travis Moen from Montreal for D Sergei Gonchar. NEW JERSEY DEVILS С Activated F Martin Havlat from injured reserve. Placed F Ryane Clowe on injured reserve, retroactive to Nov. 6. Recalled D Seth Helgeson from Albany (AHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS С Rescinded the fine and one-game suspension for the red card issued to Columbus MF Ethan Finlay during a Nov. 9 game against New England.

4:05 into overtime to lift Vancouver over Ottawa. The Canucks gained a share of CANUCKS 4, first place with their eighth win in SENATORS 3, OT 10 games. The Senators lost their VANCOUVER, British Colum- third straight. bia (AP) — Daniel Sedin scored

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each accounted for 27 percent of the 200 students identified as homeless in the district, according to Students in Transition program data. Homeless students in Soldotna accounted for 18 percent, according to the data. The Students in Transition Program was a result of the McKinney-Vento Act, the first piece of legislation that systematically addressed the issue of homeless youth in schools systems, King said. It was then reauthorized under No Child Left Behind. Students in Transition began in 2002, she said. King said reasons for homelessness on the peninsula include a lack of affordable housing, addiction disorders and domestic violence and abuse, poverty even when employed, illness and lack of health insurance, and disasters such as house fires or flooding such as the October 2013 Kalifornsky Beach Road area flood, King said. Students in Transition assistance includes helping students with immediate enrollment, transportation from their school of origin, free school meal benefits, school supplies, and obtaining important documents, and a variety of other supports and services, King said. School stability helps youth with their academic performance and emotional well being, King said, adding that school is sometimes the only constant when everything else is chaos. “It is a critical issue in our area,” King said.

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The Anchorage School District The Purple Heart fraternal reports more than 3,000 homeorganization helps veterans in less students each year and the the community and their famiFairbanks North Star Borough lies get the care they need, he School District reports more said. than 400, she said. “I’m out of uniform now, but If enrollment continues I’m still serving my country when along current trends, numbers I help my veterans,” Nelson said. may prove to be high this year “That’s what I enjoy doing.” for the district, King said. It is Guest speaker Col. Jim Holhard to tell right now what the liday said every veteran has a profile will look like by the end story to tell. Holliday attended of the year. the veterans celebration at the Once a student is known to Kenai Senior Center Monday. be a homeless child or unac“I was amazed by some of companied youth — a student the stories men and women not living with a parent or legal had,” Holliday said. “All ordiguardian — the district connary Americans compelled by tinues to support and monitor events across the world to do them for the duration of the extraordinary things.” school year, King said. Once a student experiences homelessA veteran’s story ness the likelihood that they Kenai resident Dave Thompwill become homeless again is son, who fought in the Vietnam increased, she said. War from 1969 to 1970, was King referred to homeless one of five brothers who served students as “invisible members in the U.S. Army and all came of the community.” She said loback home alive. cal events such as the annual Thompson worked in a Candlelight Vigil for Hometransportation outfit that supless Youth and Families, to be plied bases and landing zones. held from 6-7 p.m. Thursday at He said he traveled through enFarnsworth Park in Soldotna, emy territory in convoy supply attempt to illuminate the seritrucks and worked long hours to ousness of the issue. complete dangerous missions. Atwater will speak at the “It’s unbelievable the work event, followed by the presengrunts have to do,” he said. “We tation of a scholarship opporreally didn’t know what was gotunity for high school students ing on. You might have to sleep who attend the vigil, King said. in a ditch under your truck for Community efforts also help three days to keep yourself alive eliminate some of the barrifrom incoming rounds.” ers to education for homeless The reason he decided to put youth, which is the goal of Students in Transition program. Reach Kelly Sullivan at kel- on the uniform came shortly afDuring the 2013-2014 ly.sullivan@peninsulaclarion. ter his best friend was killed in combat. school year, Homer and Kenai com. “It’s tough to think about sometimes,” Thompson said Rainbow Trout Lake are con- holding back tears. “A lot of sidered to be good fishing for good men died over there. Some Arctic char and Dolly Varden, 58,000. What inspired me to go Continued from page A-1 with Rainbow Trout Lake listed into the Army was, not only all as good ice fishing throughout my brothers wearing a uniform, can be fished for Arctic char the winter months, depending but my close friend in high and Dolly Varden. on ice conditions. school was killed in Vietnam.” In addition, anglers have Near Stormy Lake, Daniels Thompson said Veterans Day reported that Engineer Lake is Lake is considered to be good is important to him because it is considered to be good Arctic year-round Dolly Varden fish- a time to reflect on those who char and Dolly Varden fishing ing. have paid the ultimate sacrifice through the ice, once it’s fully to secure freedom. formed. Rashah McChesney can be “I think the younger generaIn the Swanson River Road reached at rashah.mcchesney@ tion today needs to remember area, Dolly Varden Lake and peninsulaclarion.com. where everything came from all

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‘All ordinary Americans compelled by events across the world to do extraordinary things.’ — Col. Jim Holliday the way back to the Revolutionary War,” Thompson said. “A lot of young people today don’t really appreciate where their freedoms come from.” Thompson and his wife Katty Thompson attended the veterans celebration Monday at the Kenai Senior Center. More than 150 community members gathered for an evening event that included a potluck dinner, patriotic concert performed by the Mountain View Elementary School choir and a live radio broadcast. Radio host Duane Bannock interviewed eight veterans who talked about their military service experience. One of those interviewed was Kenai resident Mary Quensel, 93, who worked as a U.S. Army Nurse during World War II. Quensel spent a month stationed in Tinian, one of three islands of the Northern Marianas controlled by Japanese forces until it was seized by the United States and used as an air base during the tail end of the war. Quensel was sent to Tinian to be a nurse for a new hospital. Two weeks after she arrived on Aug. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. “One morning I awoke to air raid sirens,” she said. “It took us a week to find out what happened. The bomb dropped and soon after the war was over. The hospital we were preparing never opened its doors.” Quensel said her life after the war was more interesting when she met her husband in Venezuela before they moved to Kenai in 1968 and raised five kids. She said she celebrate Veterans Day every year and enjoys hearing stories from other veterans.

Kenai resident Mary Quesnel stands for the Pledge of Allegiance at a veterans ceremony Monday at the Kenai Senior Center. Quesnel, 93, served as an Army nurse overseas during World War II until the war ended in 1945.

ordinator for the Kenai Senior Center, said listening to the stories from seniors inspired her to organize the event to salute the veterans. “Anytime we can get the older generation to mingle with the younger generation it’s positive,” she said. “There is so much we can learn from people that frequent this building every day.” Students from the Mountain View Choir, under the direction of music teacher Jonathan Dillon, performed four patriotic songs, including, “America the Beautiful” and “This land is your land.” Fourth-grader Bianca Hansen, 10, said it was a “cool experience” to perform at the senior center. Hansen, who moved to Alaska from Montana two months ago, said she joined the choir group because her previous school didn’t have one. “I though it would be something fun for me to do,” she Learning from said. “I think it’s really fun to veterans be here and meet new people.” Mountain View Elementary Carol Bannock, activities co-

School principal Karl Kircher said they like to get students out in the community as much as possible. Dillon was already practicing songs for Veterans Day with students and contacted the senior center to be involved. “We’re always looking for ways to get students out in the community and the community into our school,” Kircher said. “Seniors come in and read to the kids. It’s a natural fit to mingle little kids and older citizens.” Thompson said his military service has shaped who he is today and believes more young people would benefit from the experience gained from service to the country. “Sometimes I wonder why all young fellas in the country don’t serve two years,” he said. “I think it would do the country a lot of good and our country would be a better place.” Reach Dan Balmer at daniel.balmer@peninsulaclarion. com.

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About Thanksgivings Past

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Grandpa and Grandma’s turkey 1947 or earlier North of Fort Collins, Colorado Grandpa and Grandma Cogwell raised chickens and a few turkeys in the middle of the cherry and apple orchard where they lived in a basement house. The chicken coop was huge - in my eyes. Grandpa would get chicken feed from the mill in Fort Collins, being careful to pick out the right kind of material on the feed sacks so Grandma could sew her aprons and clothes for me along with dish towels. The left over bits of material were then made into quilts. But usually Grandma went with him on Saturdays to trade eggs and later in the year, chickens for groceries at Scribner’s Grocery. They traded eggs and dressed chicken. Dad and Mom traded pinto beans and white Japanese pop corn. Every Friday in the fall, we spent helping Grandpa and Grandma kill and pluck chickens - those that did not lay eggs, that is! Mom would help and I tried. I learned a lot even though I was pretty young, to pluck feathers off the wet chickens and watch grandpa pull the “Innards” out. He would locate the heart, liver and gizzard. We cleaned them in a bucket of water, and placed them in a dish for grandma to flour and fry in bacon grease for supper that night. Such a delicious meal! About a week before Thanksgiving, Grandma would help Grandpa pick out a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. She would help him chop his head off and dunk him in boiling water to be able to pluck the feathers. This was a huge job, depending on how big that turkey was. Grandma gave instructions on where to put the big feathers and the fluffy pin feather. They went into pillows and “comforters.” If Grandma sewed a quilt I preferred to call it a “comforter” especially if Grandma stuffed it with her turkey and chicken feathers. The plucked naked turkey hung upside down in the “coal shed” to cool and age. The day before Thanksgiving was a full preparation of getting ready to cook the turkey, the morning of Thanksgiving. I can remember my Grandma saying they would get up at 3 in the morning to stuff and put the turkey in the big blue enamel oven roaster pan, put the lid on and slide it into the Kerosene oven to cook slowly for about 6 to 10 hours. Later she acquired a large electric oven to accomdadate the turkey so it could cook to perfection. Grandma’s bread dressing was the best - homemade bread, chunks of chopped giblets - onions and celery, lots of sage and pepper. Sometime in that day, potatoes were peeled and soaked in water, sweet potatoes were peeled and placed in a baking dish, butter and brown sugar sprinkled over top with a squirt of maple syrup.The pecans and marshmallows came later. A day or two before that, Grandma peeled apples to make two or three apples pies with her most delicate lard pie crust. She had already pitted and canned cherries from the orchard, so cherry pies were next and last of all a couple of pumpkin pies. I have no idea when she had time to make sugar cookies and fudge that also was the dessert on the table. And then there was the homemade breads and rolls that appeared out of the kitchen pantry! How did she do all that? Grandpa was kept busy taking the “peelin’s” in a bucket, out to the remaining chickens and turkey’s. Nothing was wasted in the Cogwell household! Usually green beans with bacon and onions was the vegetable. Her salad was the Apple Waldorf Salad that I loved so much. Of course from apples stored after being picked from the 80 acre orchard. Those apples were not peeled and were always bright red Delicious apples. Chopped celery, walnuts were added and then cream was whipped, with powdered sugar and real Watkins vanilla added and folded into the salad. She sometimes added mini marshmallows. I still marvel at how much food she prepared and still was smiling long afSee ABOUT, page B-2

Turns out the safest way to cook turkey is also the way I enjoy preparing (and eating) turkey most – from a bird that has been roasted unstuffed. Unstuffed turkeys tend to cook more evenly and quickly than stuffed turkeys, and the empty cavities can be filled with ingredients, such as pieces of onion, celery stalks and fresh herbs – many of which are still going strong in late autumn gardens – that will flavor pan drippings for making gravy. When you look to purchase your turkey, either, fresh or frozen, allow about a pound and a half per person, which will give you ample turkey for dinner, plus leftovers. And, if you are expecting a large crowd for dinner, consider making two smaller size turkeys. Not only will you double the amount of wings and drumsticks, but your birds will fit better in your oven and cook more evenly. When purchasing a frozen turkey, be sure to look over the instructions on the packaging so that you give yourself enough time for the turkey to thaw. (Your turkey will need approximately 24 hours of thaw time in the refrigerator for every four pounds of weight.) Once the turkey is thawed, remove the wrappings, make

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note of the weight of your turkey and proceed with the instructions that follow. Thanksgiving is coming, and if you’re looking for ways to make this year’s turkey your best ever, these pointers, plus the ones located at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Let’s Talk Turkey website at www. fsis.usda.gov/PDF/Lets_Talk_Turkey.pdf, will get you there.

Photos by Sue Ade unless otherwise indicated.

A perfectly cooked turkey will have crisp, golden skin and meat that is moist, Sue Ade is a syndicated food writer flavorful and tender. Fresh whole herbs, baked under the turkey’s skin, add with broad experience and interest in both flavor and flair to a holiday meal

the culinary arts. She has worked and resided in the Lowcountry of South Carolina since 1985 and may be reached at kitchenade@yahoo.com.

The only sure way to be certain your turkey is safely cooked is to check its internal temperature with an accurate meat thermometer. The thermometer should be inserted into the innermost part of the leg and thigh joint (not resting on a bone) and the thickest part of the breast. For optimum safety, turkeys should be baked unstuffed at a minimum temperature of 325 degrees.

When the temperatures in each of these areas reaches a minimum of 165 degrees, the United States Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) tells us that harmful bacteria has been killed, and the turkey is safe to eat. For safe holiday cooking and eating, be sure to use kitchen thermometers for all your cooking tasks and for checking the holding temperatures of your refrigFor added moistness and flavor, place butter and fresh herbs between the erator (no more than 40 degrees) and loosened skin and breast meat of your turkey, then brush turkey with vege- freezer (a zero reading is good). table oil before roasting. The herbs remain visible after the turkey is roasted To learn more about appliance for an attractive presentation at the holiday table. thermometers, go to www.fsis.usda. gov/FactSheets/Appliance_Thermometers/index.asp.

• From the two turkey cavities, remove the neck and giblet packet. • Rinse turkey with cool water, in and out, and dry with paper towels. • Preheat oven to 325 degrees, placing oven rack in lowest position. Lightly grease a roasting rack with vegetable oil and place in a roasting pan large enough to hold the turkey. (Ideally, your pan should be 2 to 2½ inches deep. Pans deeper than 2½ inches will keep the sides of your turkey from browning and achieving a nice crisp skin.) Also, try not to use a pan so large that it touches the sides of your oven, which will inhibit the circulation needed for even cooking. If you use a disposable type pan for cooking your turkey, be sure to place a baking sheet under it for support, especially important when trying to remove a heavy turkey from the oven. • Place turkey, breast side up in the prepared pan. You may optionally tuck the wings under the breast, or snip off the wing tips. (If you remove the wing tips, save them for making broth for flavoring gravy.) • Gently slide your fingers between the skin and breast meat of your turkey to form a pocket; prepare butter mixture and gather herbs to place in pocket (see following).

• Cover entire breast area with buttered heavy-duty aluminum foil. larger amount for turkey weighing (This is called “tenting.”) Tenting the breast will help to retain moistness over seven pounds.) Set aside. and keep the breast from over brownFor the herbs (use fresh whole ing before your turkey is fully cooked. (During the last estimated hour of herbs) bake time, you will remove the foil to Parsley ensure even browning.) Sage • Keeping in mind that a dark Thyme roasting pan, which absorbs more heat, Rosemary will cook a turkey about a half hour Optional, for the turkey cavi- faster than a pan that is shiny, use the ties following table as a guide for cooking Quartered onion times for an unstuffed turkey: Celery stalks, with leaves Parsley sprigs

Baking time per pound 4 to 8 pounds (breast) 1½ to 3¼ hours 8 to 12 pounds.......... 2¾ to 3 hours 12 to 14 pounds........ 3 to 3¾ hours 14 to 18 pounds........ 3¾ to 4¼ hours 18 to 20 pounds........ 4¼ to 4½ hours 20 to 24 pounds........ 4½ to 5 hours

• Resist the impulse to open the oven door to baste or check on your turkey more than once every 45 minutes. Doing so results in the temperature of the oven dropping, effecting the overall baking time of your turkey. • Remove foil from turkey breast an hour before the end of the estimated cook time. • Roast turkey to a minimal internal all-over temperature of 165 degrees. Although dark meat cooked to an internal temperature of 165 degrees will not make anyone ill, many people prefer turkey cooked to a more palatable 170 to 175 degrees. (Dark meat won’t be really tender until it reaches about 175 degrees.)

You will also need Vegetable oil Basting brush Salt and pepper Kitchen twine Heavy-duty aluminum foil for “tenting” turkey breast

• Smear some of the butter mixture beneath the skin over the breast meat. Keeping them as flat as possible, top meat with herbs, then smooth skin over herbs. (You may smear leftover butter all over the outside of turkey.) • If you wish, fill turkey cavities with a quartered onion, a few celery stalks and parsley sprigs, which will add flavor to the pan drippings. • With a basting brush, brush Cooked to perfection, this herb-roasted turkey is the only centerpiece needturkey with vegetable oil For the butter mixture ed for the Thanksgiving table. • Season with salt and pepper ¼ to ½ cup softened butter • If needed, tie turkey legs to½ to 1 tablespoon vegetable oil In a small mixing bowl, com- gether with kitchen twine loose • Allow your turkey to rest for at least 20 minutes after it is removed bine butter with oil, mixing well to enough for air to circulate around from oven, giving the juices time to redistribute and making the turkey eascombine. (Use the smaller quantity them during roasting. ier to carve. for turkey six pounds and under, the C

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Grannie Annie is the author of Grannie Annie Cookbook series, featuring Alaskan recipes and stories

GRANDMA’S APPLE WALDORF SALAD 4 firm red Delicious apples-diced Drop in water with lemon juice added to keep from browning 4 stalks of celery - diced 1/2 cup walnut halves An hour before serving - drain apples thoroughly Add celery, apples and walnuts in a decorative bowl

Fold in freshly whipped cream - however Cool Whip works Additions: 1 cup of mini marshmallows. In place of whipped cream, one cup of Miracle Whip or Mayonnaise. This will serve 4. I am sure Grandma tripled hers. OH! And don’t put mini marshmallows in mine!!

GRANDMA’S HOMEMADE BREAD DRESSING FOR TURKEY A large dishpan full of dried home made bread-cubed or broken into small pieces 2 large onions chopped 1 bunch of celery chopped 1 teaspoon sage, salt and pepper. Taste test and add more to your liking Usually add more sage. Boil giblets from turkey until tender -about an hour-dice and pour the hot broth over top of bread dressing

Add the diced giblets, fold in Add 2 eggs and stir carefully. Place dressing in cavity of turkey and left over into a baking dish. Store dish of dressing in refrigerator, and bake one hour before serving your meal. Make sure the turkey is cooked through and dressing in turkey is cooked.

MOMS CLOVER LEAF ROLLS 1 cup of milk scalded 1/4 cup shortening - butter will be better 1/4 cup sugar 1 teas salt 1 pkg of fast rising yeast 1/4 cup lukewarm water 2 well beaten eggs 3 1/2 cups flour Stir yeast into lukewarm water and let set until bubbles Combine milk, shortening, sugar and salt. Heat. Cool to lukewarm.

Pour in mixer bowl and add eggs and mix. Add flour one cup at a time to form a soft dough. Cover with a cloth and let rise in warm place until double Punch down and pinch off walnut sized dough pieces. Place three balls into a well greased large muffin tin. Fill muffin tin and let rise. Bake 350° for 10 to 15 minutes until golden brown on top. Mom made these for most Holidays.

GRANDMA’S OLD FASHIONED FUDGE This takes time, but well worth the effort. I can remember beating and beating this! If you want old fashioned Fudge this is the one! Combine: Remove from fire and drop in: 2/3 cup cocoa 4 1/2 tablespoons butter 1/8 teas salt Set aside to 110 degrees, or lukewarm. 3 cups sugar Add 1 1/2 tablespoon light corn syrup 3/4 teas vanilla and beat with a wooden 1 1/2 cups milk spoon until thick and it loses it shiny appearStir and cook stirring, to 330 degrees on ance.(Everyone took turns beating it!) candy thermometer or as Quickly turn into a buttered 8X8 pan. Grandma did - Drop a small amount of hot Cool and cut into 1 1/2 inch squares. Makes liquid into cold water to form a soft ball. 24. Grandma cooled her fudge at the bottom of the stairs on a ledge in her basement house.

Cookbooks make great holiday gifts! The “Grannie Annie” Cook Book Series includes: “Grannie Annie’s Cookin’ on the Woodstove”; “Grannie Annie’s Cookin’ at the Homestead”; “Grannie Annie’s Cookin’ Fish from Cold Alaskan Waters”; and “Grannie Annie’s Eat Dessert First.” They are available at M & M Market in Nikiski.

ter the desserts were devoured. Usually with all the aunts and uncles and cousins milling around - most of the kids were outdoors and the aunts and nieces were setting around the

kitchen table with a quilt that was lowered from the ceiling on pulley’s and rope. This is where I learned to quilt by hand and listen to the gossip! What fun!! My prayer, hopefully we will have a calm, peaceful Thanksgiving. Invite the less fortunate to your table. Our tradition in Alaska continues and is labeled

“Orphan Holidays.” There are so many people who have moved to Alaska and are so far away from the loved ones - we need to include them into our own families. After all we were in the same boat in Alaska at one time too. Shake a Veteran’s hand and smile at someone you do not know.

he series is written by a 44 year resident of Alaska, Ann Berg of Nikiski. Ann shares her collections of recipes from family and friends. She has gathered recipes for more that 50 years. Some are her own creation. Her love of recipes and food came from her Mother, a self taught wonderful cook. She hopes you enjoy the recipes and that the stories will bring a smile to your day. Grannie Annie can be reached at anninalaska@gci.net

10 fresh ways to improve a warm mug of cocoa By ALISON LADMAN Associated Press

We can’t help it. Once the cooler weather arrives, we crave hot cocoa with the same intensity that we crave a cold beer during barbecue season. There is, after all, something intensely comforting about drinking a warm mug of nature’s most perfect food — chocolate! Add a dollop of freshly whipped and lightly sweetened cream and it doesn’t get much better. Or maybe it can. To help take our hot cocoa game to the next level, we decided to see how many deliciously fresh ways we could doctor a mug of basic cocoa. Turns out, the possibilities are pretty inspiring (and tempting). So we picked our top 10 to share. Here are 10 fresh combinations to consider adding to your hot cocoa.

10 Fresh ways with hot cocoa: Start with your favorite purchased hot cocoa mix, or make our hot cocoa. For homemade, heat 1 cup of whole milk until steaming. Sift together 1 tablespoon cocoa powder and 1 tablespoon sugar. Whisk into the hot milk along with 1/4 cup milk chocolate bits until completely smooth. Add any of the following and garnish with whipped cream: — Almond praline: Use brown sugar in place of the white sugar. Stir in 1 teaspoon

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This Nov. 3, photo shows chocolate for hot cocoa in Concord, N.H. Once the cooler weather arrives, the hot coca craving can intensify.

almond extract or 1 tablespoon amaretto liqueur. — Hazelnut: Whisk in 2 tablespoons chocolate hazelnut spread (such as Nutella). Add 1 tablespoon Frangelico liqueur, if desired. — Grasshopper: Whisk in 1/2 to 1 teaspoon peppermint extract, to taste. — Raspberry: Strain 1 tablespoon raspberry preserves through a fine mesh strainer. Discard any solids, then whisk the raspberry puree into the hot cocoa. — Chili: Stir in a pinch of cayenne and a pinch of cinnamon. — Gingerbread: Add 1 1/2 tablespoons of molasses and 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

blend. Stir in 1 tablespoon ginger liqueur, if desired. — Coconut-lime: Add the finely grated zest of 1/2 lime and 2 tablespoons of cream of coconut. Add 1 ounce of rum, if desired. — Honey-pepper: Use 1 1/2 tablespoons of honey in place of the sugar. Stir in 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper. — Peanut butter-banana: Mash 1/2 of a very ripe banana until smooth. Whisk into the hot cocoa along with 1 tablespoon of peanut butter. — Vanilla bean cheesecake: Scrape the seeds from a 1/2 vanilla bean pod into the cocoa. Transfer to a blender, add 2 tablespoons cream cheese then puree until smooth.

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Writing thank-you notes gets easier using the right advice DEAR ABBY: The issue of thank-you notes comes up often in your column. May I share how I learned to write them? When I was young, my mother asked me one day why I was so resistant. I said I hated addressing them and I never knew what to say! It was overwhelming to me. Mother taught me some phrases such as, “I appreciate your thoughtfulness,” and ways to close like, “I hope to see you again soon.” She gently reminded me that the sooner I wrote, the easier it would be to express words of gratitude. She also made a deal with me: If I quit complaining and procrastinating, she’d address them for me until I turned 18. When I turned 18 she gave me an address book filled with the addresses of our family and friends, beautiful new stationery and a book of stamps. In case you’re curious, my 18th birthday gifts were all acknowledged with thank-you notes addressed by me! I’m 22 now, and I have never missed a note. — SARAH B., ANSONIA, CONN. DEAR SARAH B.: Thank you for your charming letter. Your mother was not only a good negotiator, she also taught you a skill that will be valuable as you grow older.

I print letters about this subject so often because of the number of complaints I receive about the failure to receive a thank-you note. When a gift (or check) isn’t acknowledged, the message it sends is that the item wasn’t appreciated, which is insulting and hurtful. Chief among the reasons people don’t send thank- Abigail Van Buren you notes is that they don’t know what to say and are afraid they’ll say the wrong thing. That’s why my booklet, “How to Write Letters,” was written. It contains samples of thank-you letters for birthday gifts, shower gifts and wedding gifts, as well as those that arrive around holiday time. It also includes letters of congratulations and ones regarding difficult topics — including letters of condolence for the loss of a parent, spouse or a child. It can be ordered by sending name, mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds), to Dear Abby Letters Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-

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strong boundaries, and you might feel the need to establish yet another limit. Have a conversation with the person in question. Make an adjustment. Tonight: Favorite spot with favorite people. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Use the morning to the max, as you’ll feel more energized. By the afternoon, you might want to slow your pace. News from a distance could encourage you to consider taking a trip. Be aware of the feelings of a boss or older friend who might be quite difficult. Tonight: Your treat. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH You could be slow to get going, but once you do, you’ll be unstoppable. You’ll have the ability to express an unusual perspective that others might be keenly interested in. Know that a partner could have difficulty seeing your vision. Tonight: You call the shots wherever you are. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Use the morning for peoplerelated matters. By the afternoon, you’ll enjoy weighing the pros and cons of a certain situation. Do some research, and you’ll be able to get past a barrier. A loved one could startle you with a decision. Tonight: Choose a favorite stressbuster. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHYour clarity regarding how to get what you want will help you stay on track. You won’t need any supporters, but the fact that they are there only seems to help. A loved one or partner could be difficult. Don’t push your luck with this person! Tonight: Let off steam. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

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0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.) Use it to tailor your own messages. With the holiday season approaching and people sending gifts and greetings through the end of the year, this is the perfect time to reply with a handwritten letter, note or well-written email. Because composition of letters and notes is not always effectively taught in the schools, my booklet can provide a helpful tutorial, and is particularly valuable for parents as a way to teach their children how to write using proper etiquette. DEAR ABBY: My question is very simple, Abby. Who determines right or wrong in your life, your opinions, your column? This will tell me all I need to know about your wisdom or advice. — RON IN MICHIGAN DEAR RON: Actually, I think your question is anything but “simple,” and the answer is: I DO. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars A baby born today has a Sun in Scorpio and a Moon in Cancer if born before 1:44 p.m. (PST). Afterward, the Moon will be in Leo. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014: This year your subtle ways seem to be diminished. Your intensity continues to draw others to you like a bee to honey. Your popularity is one of your greatest strengths this year, but it also might prevent you from experiencing many quiet, reflective moments. If you are single, you could discover that others often are possessive. If you can’t handle that behavior, move on. If you are attached, the two of you infuse your bond with much more fun and adventure. LEO knows how to grab your interest. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH You might want to stabilize a difficult situation with a loved one. You could be dealing with a feisty older person. Try to curb your anger and frustration. Go for a walk or choose some other relaxing activity. Get creative, if need be. Tonight: Love the one you are with. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Schedule an important meeting for the morning. By the afternoon, you won’t be as fluid or sure of yourself. Someone who has been quite difficult finally might loosen up. A friend might have an exciting proposition for you; go along with it. Tonight: Onward! GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Don’t hesitate to express your feelings. You know how to create

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HHH Gather some information this morning, as you will need to apply this knowledge to a difficult situation. A testy attitude could cause a problem. Tap into your ingenuity to defuse the situation. A child might play a dominant role. Tonight: Burn the midnight oil. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Handle a personal matter in the morning. Later in the day, you will want to take off and explore a new place, or tap into someone’s knowledge about a certain topic. You seem more than willing to make a major purchase involving your home. Tonight: Try a new spot. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You might note that you are unusually hot-tempered. Consider incorporating a little more exercise into your daily life. The good news is that your new steaminess is not long term. Share an idea through more visual description. Tonight: Share news with a close loved one. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Others seem to come toward you with determination. Be open to a change of plans, as you could be presented with an interesting offer. Follow your instincts. Come to an understanding with a boss before you veer in a new direction Tonight: Go along with the moment. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHYoucoulddiscoverthatsomeone else has a better idea. You know when to pull back and say when you’ve had enough. A male or very assertive friend could be pushing you quite hard. Hold your ground. Tonight: Make calls, but plan on an early night.

Crushing rocks into onion powder Dear Heloise: i buy the large onion-powder spice for quick recipes. Over time, however, the onion powder clumps together into rocklike balls and won’t flow out of the container. I can’t afford to throw away the “rocks,” so how do I get them back to powder form? — D.G., Metairie, La. The only hint is to crush them! Use a large spoon or even a serving fork to break up the lumps. The quality of the spice may not be exactly the same as when it was new. Moisture got into the container, causing the clumps. To prevent this, don’t sprinkle over a steaming pot of soup or use a damp utensil to dip into the container. — Heloise Diced tomatoes Dear Heloise: I keep a can or two of diced tomatoes on hand. When I want to prepare a salad but have no fresh tomatoes, I open a can of diced tomatoes. I drain off all the liquid and mix the tomatoes with my leafy salad items. It brightens up the dish and adds a zesty flavor. — Joe C., Clemson, S.C. Hey, Joe, have you been looking in my pantry? I do the very same, and it’s a quick fix when there are no fresh tomatoes in the basket. Tasty, too! There are certain staples that need to be in the pantry, and diced tomatoes are one of them! Added to soups, salads and pasta and casserole dishes, they come in handy on many nights! With cooler nights on the way, my Heloise’s Spectacular Soups pamphlet can give you some great ideas for dinner! To order one, please send $5 and a long, self-addressed, stamped (70 cents) envelope to: Heloise/Soups, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001. Keep rice, noodles, barley and macaroni in the pantry to add to broths for a hearty meal! — Heloise

SUDOKU

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

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A decade of tons of fun & sweets

Local Special Olympic bowlers qualify for State Tournament. Page 2

Sage Hill has built a perpetual woodshed at the Peninsula Food Bank.

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In keeping with the motto of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Kenai Peninsula “A Safe Place for Kids,” a decade ago the Kenai Club held the first “Trunk or Treat.” The successful event has grown every year, regardless of the weather drawing sponsors and haunted campers to the frontage road in front of the Kenai Club house where thousands of costumed trick or treaters can load up on sweets then head into the club house gym and enjoy a bunch of fun games. “It was one of our best Trunk or Treats ever! I love seeing all the costumes and we had such great sponsors again this year and they make this a total community event,” said Kim Dent, unit director of the Kenai Club. “We started the event ten years ago to include the parents in the fun rather than just driving the kids around from house to house and worrying about dogs in the yard, traffic on the streets. So we decided to have trunks out front with the candy so the parents can park and join in the socialization and fun of being with their kids. It started with four trunks and this year we had more than 14 trunks and over 1,000 kids we

Costumed kiddos make an inside monster mash cake walk.

estimate but have no official counting method,” said volunteer Shauna Thornton. The goal of reducing kids going door to door in the community hasn’t really materialized says Dent, “Kids are still trick or treating and a lot of them go from here out into the neighborhood to double their

booty,” she laughed. Dent expressed her appreciation to everyone who turned out for the event and all the volunteers who helped decorate and make the event such a community success. She also wanted everyone to mark Saturday, November 15th on their calendar and be sure to get their

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tickets for the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Kenai Peninsula annual auction and gala, “It’s our 27th Auction and our major fund raiser of the year we invite everyone to join us as we ‘Open the Door to Great Futures” our theme for this year’s event. It’ll be held at the Old Carr’s Mall again this

year and we encourage everyone to get their tickets as soon as possible because this is a sellout event, so call us here in Kenai at 283-2682 for tickets or more information,” said Dent. See TREAT, page A-3

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Special Olympic bowlers collect ribbons at local tournament.

Special Olympic complete weekend bowling tournament with awards ceremony.

Local Special Olympic bowlers head to State Tournament.

Local Special Olympic bowlers qualify for State Tournament An exciting weekend of bowling culminated Monday, October 27th with an awards ceremony and announcement of the local Special Olympics bowlers who will advance to the state tournament in Anchorage later this month. “We had a record number of athletes this year with 36 bowlers participating all through our training and local competitions and that’s been a wonderful turnout and we work hard to accommodate anyone who wants to come and bowl,” said Special Olympics bowling coach Tina Strayhorn. Athletes begin their training in August according to coach Strayhorn, “We have eight weeks of mandatory practice each athlete to complete twenty four games in order to qualify for the local tournament which

gives them a chance to advance to the state competition the weekend prior to Thanksgiving. The athletes love bowling and it’s one of our largest growing activities. Younger people are getting involved and loving it and of course we have athletes up to 68 years of age bowling with us so we have a wide variety of ages and they all truly love it. We make accommodations for anyone who wants to come out and bowl. We do this to have our Special Olympic athletes be part of the community and we encourage everyone to get involved, come out and watch, support and cheer us on,” said Strayhorn. Following the state tournament spring activities that include basketball and swimming which also a fun time for the

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Happy Special Olympic bowlers celebrate tournament results.

athletes according to Strayhorn. “We are always looking for volunteers and never have enough and anyone interested can go on line to the Special Olympic website and download a volunteer form and bring it to us or you can contact us directly and we’ll get you a form or pick one up at anyone of our events, we always have them with us. Right now we are recruiting for basketball and swimming coaches and if anyone has one night a week for eight weeks for basketball or swimming we’d love to hear from them. You can reach me at 907-2231255 or like us on Facebook and learn about sponsorship opportunities as well for our local athletes.”

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SoHi Junior builds perpetual woodshed at Food Bank No one deserves to be hungry is the motto of the local Food Bank and now thanks to the efforts of Sage Hill no one deserves to be cold on the Kenai can be included. There is a new woodshed at the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank on K-Beach Rd., due to Hill’s efforts, a junior at Soldotna High School and Eagle Scout candidate. For his project Hill identified a community need, “The idea came from my parents and leaders of my scout troop helped me develop the project. The materials to build the shed came from Spenard Builders Supply who donated half of the costs and we are still looking for help from individuals or businesses to pay off the rest of the balance which is about $1, 200,” Hill told the Dispatch in an interview. The project is called the Perpetual Wood Fund and Hill hopes it will go on into perpetuity, “People can stop by the Food Bank and talk with Linda Swarner about your need and she’ll open the shed for you. She has been a great help in working out the details on how the fund will operate and the construction design. We invite anyone to help keep the shed full as they clear

trees or fallen wood from their property and just want to contribute some extra firewood to the fund to keep the shed full for those in need or for a stock pile for the community in the event of a natural disaster,” explained Hill. Sage said working toward becoming an eagle scout and doing something different from his peers has helped him become an adult, “I had a lot of encouragement from my dad who was a scout, but never became an eagle scout, not many scouts do, it’s something special and the project helped me learn more about my community and value that comes from contributing or giving back. I also had a lot of encouragement of Dr. Nels Anderson, our Scout Master. It’s a good feeling and now that it’s almost over and I see the shed we built full of wood, it feels even better. It was a big effort and took a lot of hours to build. My intention now is to keep it full even after I graduate from high school,” he said. Anyone interested in donating to the cause can make a tax deductible contribution to Troop # 151 or contact the Food Bank, “They can call me at 252-8547 and I’ll be glad to pick up the Sage Hill has built a perpetual woodshed at the Peninsula Food Bank. check,” said Hill.

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Zombie Prom Queen fills her bucket with sweets at Trunk or Treat.

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Entering the mouth of the monster for Halloween fun at Boys & Girls Club.

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Imaging the Future…IRIS brings new UAV industry to Kenai

John Parker shows the Unmanned Aerial System data link terminal and ground control station now available in Kenai.

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At a recent Kenai Chamber of Commerce meeting John Parker outlined the mission of Integrated Robotic Imaging Systems (IRIS) to provide advanced, versatile unmanned aerial system solutions to meet real world challenges. “This is not a toy! This is a commercial UAV or unmanned aerial vehicle that came my attention a couple of years ago when I was involved with helping the State of Alaska deal with the tsunami clean up along our shores. What became apparent was that the state and federal agencies needed information regarding the location and type of debris and amounts we were dealing with and that is what spawned IRIS, because the best technology available to gather that information safely and economically was with a UAV as opposed to conventional aircraft and crew,” said Parker. The Infotron SARL that Parker is the North American representative for is made in France and he told the Chamber that he hopes someday to assemble them in Kenai, “We are in discussions with Infotron to become an assembly plant to serve the U.S. market right here in Kenai. They had not approached the U.S. market until I made initial contact with them a year and a half ago and at some point we will be assembling them right here in Kenai,” Parker said. Infotron produces both an electric and combustion powered UAV with the electric model starting right about $188,000 dollars. “It’s expensive equipment, but it’s reliable and cost effective when you compare it to conventional manned aircraft and applications. It also has a multiple array of onboard sensors controlled by integrated software that keeps it in contact with the base station over

a secure three-way radio link. The avionics simplify handling by translating commands from the operator into flight controls and is also loaded with radar object avoidance equipment. It’s very reliable but requires specialized training to operate. They are easy to learn how to fly but have specific procedures that you have to learn and understand or you’ll crash it,” said Parker. UAV’s are regulated by the FAA because they are considered aircraft says Parker and search warrants for law enforcement surveillance uses have the same requirements as home privacy rights, “Alaska has the strongest privacy laws in the country and the first hoops UAV’s went through and laws were enacted to relate to the use of UAV’s. As a member of the of UAV systems task force for Alaska we were tasked to address the privacy issue and recommend legislation which we did and the board continues to look at on an ongoing basis to be sure that people’s privacy rights are protected,” he said. According to Parker the IT180 is a helicopter-type, counter-rotating rotor UAV developed for civilian and military security applications and for aerial work. The IT180’s original design gives it higher performance capabilities in gusty conditions and Parker believes has capabilities for applications such as industrial facility inspections, marine & wildlife surveys, search & rescue missions, TV & movie film production., forest and urban fire monitoring, natural disaster support missions and many other applications. To learn more drop the IRIS headquarters in the log building on Main Street in Kenai or log on to uav-alaska.com.

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