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MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 45, Issue 87

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Despite drop, Slope work strong

Question How do you feel about the low price of oil? n I’m worried about the negative impact on the state budget. n I’m happy about the positive impact on my personal budget. n I have a mixed opinion.

Construction season moves ahead

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Homer Electric crews are continuing to work on a maintenance project in the Kasilof area that will require intermittent power outages during the months of January and February. The crews will be installing new fuses along the power line which will improve the reliability of electric service. The outages will occur in the area from the intersection of Kalifornsky Beach Road and the Sterling Highway in Kasilof south to Mile 127 on the Sterling Highway, between Clam Gulch and Ninilchik. The outages will be isolated to the particular location where the crews are working and will generally last about 30 minutes, but some could be longer depending on the required work. HEA recommends members take steps to protect all sensitive electronic equipment in your home and business. For additional information, call 1-800-478-855. — Staff report

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businesses do, he said. Vendors need to apply for a temporary use permit to operate in Soldotna during any time of year, Johnson said. The process is an umbrella for anything interim, including weekend street shows, market or fairs, he said. Since the majority of Soldotna’s revenue comes from sales tax, creating a “business friendly” atmosphere in the city is critical, Johnson said. No other revenue source brings in more than $1 million annually for the city, whereas sales tax accounted for about $7.85 million in 2015, according to the 2015 fiscal year operating budget. Nearly one dozen mobile vendors, including food and non-food merchants, have sought permits in the city in the last three years, Johnson said. That is three to four per year, he said. Businesses have sold anything from ammo to food to fresh fruit inside the city, Johnson said. They are low impact

It’s a seeming paradox: Oil prices are still sliding as North Slope crude closed at about $55 per barrel Jan. 6, but this year’s winter construction season is shaping up to be one of the strongest ever. Industry employment, the most reliable indicator of activity, set new records in October and November, according to data from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. There were 15,100 at work in the industry in October and 15,000 in November, although the November data is still preliminary. That’s up by about 800 compared to the same months of 2013 and by 1,000 compared to October and November of 2012. Most of the 2014-15 winter activity has to do with projects previously launched, however, and capital spending decisions to be made by the North Slope producers in early 2015 may set a different tone. In 2014, ConocoPhillips announced a 50 percent increase in its 2014 Alaska capital budget and BP, the other major Slope operating company, announced a 25 percent increase for 2014. Those budgets will be reviewed in early 2015, however. For now the industry is still riding with the momentum from a surge of new activity following the Legislature’s approval of a revamped oil production tax in 2013. Work continuing this winter includes the $4 billion Point Thomson gas and condensate project east of Prudhoe Bay, where ExxonMobil Corp. is continuing construction. The company will be moving a drill

See MOBILE, page A-10

See SLOPE, page A-10

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion

Here comes the sun

The sun rises over Headquarters Lake near the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge visitors center on Friday in Soldotna. With sunrise at 10:02 a.m. and sunset at 4:25 p.m. today, the central Kenai Peninsula is gaining 3 minutes, 32 seconds of daylight.

Soldotna talks food trucks Planning and Zoning looks at permit issues for mobile businesses By KELLY SULLIVAN Peninsula Clarion

Mobile vendors have established a presence as a lucrative model in Soldotna. The city’s planning and zoning department and the owners and operators of the migratory businesses have agreed the setup is mutually beneficial. City staff, the Planning and Zoning Commission and the owners of Blue Moon Burgers initiated the discussion about creating policy that would address the requirements of operating the unique businesses within city limits at a commission work session Wednesday. “It is good to let all vendors come in because it benefits the city,” said commission member Colleen Denbrock. “It is good for us and it is good for them.” Soldotna’s city Planning and Geographic Information Systems Technician Austin Johnson said the current permitting process required of the vendors is burdening for both parties. Permitting standards need to

Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion

Dean Bostwick and his dog Buddy stop at the AK Taco Shack food truck August 29, 2014 in Soldotna. The city is discussing issues with permitting for mobile businesses.

be in place that minimize the time staff is focused on approval and enforcement and does not burden the business owner, Denbrock said. Commission Vice Chair Brandon Foster said regulations should address safety, parking and access. Standards should focus on

aesthetics to maintain a focus on downtown beautification efforts, which are a challenge to fairly enforce, said Commission member Jenny Smithwick. Signage standards will likely fall under signage code, Johnson said. Mobile trucks will likely have to adhere to the same requirements permanent

Trial delayed for man facing Commissioner assault, kidnapping charges candidates go to game, fish boards By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

Trial for a Soldotna man facing charges of sexual assault of two women in two separate 2013 home invasions has been delayed until April while the defense awaits more audio recordings for the case. Shane Heiman, 39, who worked as a handyman before his incarceration, returned to Kenai Superior Court for his seventh trial call Wednesday wearing a yellow jumpsuit. His trial would have started today but public defender Josh Cooley requested a 60-day continuance. Cooley said he is waiting on transcripts for all of the audio recordings that were made in connection with the case and

declined to comment further. Superior Court Judge Charles Huguelet set Heiman’s trial for the week of April 6. When Huguelet asked the defendant if he would waive his right for speedy trial once again, Heiman paused and sighed before he said yes. Heiman has been in custody since his Dec. 13, 2013 arrest after Soldotna police and Alaska State Troopers found enough evidence to link him to a report of a burglary, assault and attempted rape of a 23-year-old woman at a Soldotna residence earlier that night. In that incident, troopers allege Heiman broke into a woman’s cabin on Tobacco Lane after he shut off power to the cabin. The 23-year-old wom-

an woke up to find Heiman standing over her with a hunting knife and a headlamp. The woman was able to escape to a nearby relative’s house. The victim told police she recognized her attacker as Heiman, from when he worked on the house a few months earlier, according to court documents. A month earlier on Nov. 11, 2013, troopers allege Heiman kidnapped an 18-yearold woman from her Soldotna apartment and raped her repeatedly. The woman told police Heiman entered her apartment around 4 a.m. and tied her up at knifepoint. She reported he had a headlamp in his hands and he put a fast food bag over her head. The woman was able See TRIAL, page A-10 C

FAIRBANKS — Alaskans could find out this week who will be nominated as the state’s new commissioner of the Department of Fish and Game. The state boards of Fisheries and Game will hold a joint session Wednesday in Juneau to develop a list of qualified candidates that can be submitted to Gov. Bill Walker. The boards may interview applicants but will not take public testimony. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports acting Commissioner Sam Cotten,

a former Alaska lawmaker, and three others have applied. Walker named Cotten acting Fish and Game commissioner Dec. 1. The other candidates are Zachary Hill, a postdoctoral pharmaceutical researcher in San Francisco, Gregory Woods, a transportation terminal manager for a trucking and railroad company in South Carolina, and Roland Maw, director of a Cook Inlet commercial fisherman’s association. — The Associated Press

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

Barrow -11/-15

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Cloudy with a little rain

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24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.00" Month to date ........................... Trace Normal month to date ............. 0.36" Year to date .............................. Trace Normal year to date ................. 0.36" Record today ................. 0.52" (1963) Record for Jan. ............. 3.03" (1980) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963) Snowfall 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. .. 0.0" Month to date ........................... Trace Season to date ............................ 7.7"

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Ketchikan 44/42

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Snow and an icy mix threatens to disrupt travel from the lower Midwest states to the Northeast today, while rain wets parts of the mid-Atlantic and South and fresh arctic air pours over the Plains.

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Anchorage 30/26

Bethel 23/19

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‘Boyhood’ tops Golden Globes By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer

Hollywood toasted free speech in its myriad forms, from “Je Suis Charlie” tributes to George Clooney punchlines, at an earnest Golden Globes on Sunday, where the tender coming-of-age drama “Boyhood” topped all films. Richard Linklater’s 12-yearsin-the-making movie was right on time at the Globes, winning the night’s top honor, best drama, as well as best director for Linklater and best supporting actress for Patricia Arquette. “Bottom line is we’re all flawed in this world. No one’s perfect,” said Linklater, accepting his directing Globe. “I want to dedicate this to parents that are evolving everywhere and families that are just passing through this world and doing their best.” The prevailing tone of the evening, coming shortly after the terrorist attack in Paris, was of sincerity. And the sweetly humanist “Boyhood” had a similarly touching effect on one of Hollywood’s glitziest evenings. Taking out her written

speech, Arquette apologized: “I’m the only nerd with a piece of paper.” The night seemed to be setting up for the top two Oscar contenders — “Boyhood” and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s “Birdman” — to lead the Globes’ twin categories of drama and comedy. But in a major surprise, Wes Anderson’s “Grand Budapest Hotel” swooped in to win best picture, comedy or musical. Anderson listed a mock thank you to the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press, the collection of mostly freelance foreign journalists who put on the Globes, naming “Yorum and Dagmar and Yukiko and Mounawar.” The elegantly crafted backstage romp “Birdman” still came away with best actor in a comedy or musical for its lead, Michael Keaton, who plays a former superhero star mounting a serious play on Broadway, and best screenplay. Reflecting on his life, Keaton’s voice broke as he thanked his son, whom he called his best friend. “Shoot,” said Keaton. “Two things I said I wasn’t going to do: cry and

give air quotes.” Kicking off the show, thirdtime hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler wasted no time in skewering Hollywood’s most sensitive subjects: the hacking of Sony Pictures over “The Interview,” the sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby and television’s rise as a cultural rival to movies. In an opening blistering with zingers, the duo welcomed Hollywood’s “despicable, spoiled, minimally talented brats” to the Globes to celebrate “all the movies that North Korea was OK with.” They several times visited with a North Korean Army officer, played by Margaret Cho, who voiced her stout displeasure. “Je Suis Charlie” reverberated throughout, from signs held aloft on the red carpet by the likes of Helen Mirren to the speeches of Cecil B. DeMille winner George Clooney, who evoked the name of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, and presenter Jared Leto. HFPA President Theo Kingma drew a standing ovation for pledging support to free speech “from North Korea to Paris.”

Clooney, a young lifetime achievement honoree at 53, had been among Hollywood’s most vocal about preserving free speech after hackers threatened violence over “The Interview.” Referring to the embarrassing Sony Pictures emails leaked by the hackers, Clooney called the night “a good chance for us to meet face to face and apologize for all those snarky things we said to each other.” Clooney also spoke emotionally about his new wife, Amal Clooney: “It’s a humbling thing when you find somebody to love.” In one of the evening’s most hotly contested categories, best actor in a drama, Eddie Redmayne emerged victorious over Benedict Cumberbatch (“The Imitation Game”), Steve Carell (“Foxcatcher”), David Oyelowo (“Selma”) and Jake Gyllenhaal (“Nightcrawler”) for his performance as Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything.” Julianne Moore won best actress in a drama for her startling performance as an academic with early on-set Alzheimer’s in “Still Alice.”

Scientists learn from poker-playing computer By MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer

NEW YORK — A computer program that taught itself to play poker has created nearly the best possible strategy for one version of the game, showing the value of techniques that may prove useful to help decision-making in medicine and other areas. The program considered 24 trillion simulated poker hands per second for two months, probably playing more poker than all humanity has ever experienced, says Michael Bowling, who led the project. The resulting strategy still won’t win every game because of bad luck in the cards. But over the long run — thousands of games — it won’t lose money. “We can go against the best C

(players) in the world and the also include imperfect informa- ground for the mathematical humans are going to be the ones tion, which is one reason why approach to decision-making that lose money,” said Bowling, poker has long been a proving called game theory. of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. The strategy applies specifically to a game called heads-up Company Final Change Silver closed............ 16.48 +0.11 Agrium Inc............... 99.55 -0.23 Dow Jones avg......17,737.37 -170.50 limit Texas Hold ‘em. -0.97 NASDAQ................4,704.07 -32.12 While scientists have creat- Alaska Air Group...... 59.73 ACS...........................1.70 -0.04 S&P 500................2,044.81 -17.33 ed poker-playing programs for Apache Corp........... 60.69 -0.18 years, Bowling’s result stands AT&T........................ 33.40 -0.10 Stock prices provided by the Kenai -0.56 Peninsula Edward Jones offices. out because it comes so close Baker Hughes.......... 56.47 -0.15 to “solving” its version of the BP ........................... 36.58 Chevron.................. 108.21 -2.20 game, which essentially means ConocoPhillips......... 64.92 -0.01 creating the optimal strategy. ExxonMobil.............. 92.10 -0.13 Poker is hard to solve be- 1st Natl. Bank AK...1,600.00 — Thursday’s prices +0.02 cause it involves imperfect GCI.......................... 14.00 Halliburton............... 39.80 -0.41 information, where a player 64.80 -1.33 North Slope crude: doesn’t know everything that Harley-Davidson...... Home Depot........... 104.89 -1.83 has happened in the game he McDonald’s.............. 93.21 $51.44, up from -1.15 -0.01 is playing — specifically, what Safeway................... 35.24 $51.03 on Wednesday -1.48 cards the opponent has been Schlumberger...........81.22 West Texas Int.: Tesoro...................... 72.86 -1.41 dealt. Walmart................... 89.35 -1.12 $48.79, up from Many real-world challenges Wells Fargo.............. 52.68 -0.88 $48.65 on Wednesday like negotiations and auctions Gold closed............ 1,221.92 +13.18

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Community Calendar Today 8 a.m. • Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 3989440. 10 a.m. • Narcotics Anonymous PJ Meeting, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. 5 p.m. • TOPS group 182 meets at the Sterling Senior Center. Call 260-7606. 5:30 p.m. • Overeater’s Anonymous meets at the URS Club in the old Kenai Mall. Do you have a problem with food? Members come in all sizes. 6 p.m. • Kenai Bridge Club plays duplicate bridge at the Kenai Senior Center. Call 252-9330 or 283-7609. 7 p.m. • Women’s Barbershop sings at the Soldotna Church of God on the corner of Redoubt and Binkley. For more information, call 335-6789 or 262-4504. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Dopeless Hope Fiends,” 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. • Alcoholics Anonymous “Into Action” group, VFW basement Birch Street, Soldotna, 907-262-0995. 8 p.m. • Al-Anon Support Group at Central Peninsula Hospital in the Augustine Room, Soldotna. Call 252-0558. The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations.To have your event listed, email organization name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone number to news@peninsulaclarion.com.

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The Peninsula Clarion strives to report the deaths of all current and former Peninsula residents. Notices should be received within three months of the death. We offer two types of death reports: Pending service/Death notices: Brief notices listing full name, age, date and place of death; and time, date and place of service. These are published at no charge. Obituaries: The Clarion charges a fee to publish obituaries. Obituaries are prepared by families, funeral homes, crematoriums, and are edited by our staff according to newspaper guidelines. Obituaries up to 300 words are charged $50, which includes a one-year online guest book memoriam to on Legacy.com. Obituaries up to 500 words are charged $100, which also includes the one-year online guest book memoriam. Tax is not included. All charges include publication of a black and white photo. Obituaries outside these guidelines are handled by the Clarion advertising department. How to submit: Funeral homes and crematoriums routinely submit completed obituaries to the newspaper. Obituaries may also be submitted directly to the Clarion, online at www.peninsulaclarion.com, or by mail to: Peninsula Clarion, P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, Alaska, 99611. Pre-payment must accompany all submissions not already handled by a funeral home or crematorium. Deadlines: Submissions for Tuesday – Friday editions must be received by 2 p.m. the previous day. Submissions for Sunday and Monday editions must be received by 3 p.m. Friday. We do not process obituaries on Saturdays or Sundays unless submitted by funeral homes or crematoriums. Obituaries are placed on a space-available basis, prioritized by dates of local services. Copyright: All death notices and obituaries become property of the Clarion and may not be republished in any format. For more information, call the Clarion at 907-2837551.

Around the Peninsula KPC council meeting scheduled The Kenai Peninsula College Council will hold their next meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday at KPC’s Kenai River Campus in Soldotna. The College Council is advisory in nature and members are recruited from all sectors of the Kenai Peninsula to provide input to KPC administration. The meeting is open to the public. For a copy of the agenda, contact Sue Evanson at 2620318 or visit www.kpc.alaska.edu/about/college_council/ reports/.

Garden club looks at ‘Agriculture to Art’ Central Peninsula Garden Club’s presents “Agriculture to Art” by Lee Coray-Ludden, president of the AK Natural Fiber Business, at its Jan. 13 program at 7 p.m. at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Building, Mile 16.5 Kalifornsky Beach Road. Lee and others in the local fiber group, have raised awareness of growing various fiber producing animals, fiber products, and the unique processes involved. She will share information about the local group’s diversity, the role growing animal feed of all kinds plays in the quality of the fiber and their many activities. She will also bring fiber examples including one of her little goat kids. Learn more about gardening and the fiber producing process. A brief annual meeting to approve the 2015 budget and elect board members will precede the program at 6:50 p.m. Refreshments and most of the time, door prizes. The program is free and open to the public. For more information, call Marion Nelson, 283-4632.

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‘Try it once’ with Change Club To help you achieve your fitness goals in 2015 the Central Peninsula Change Club is offering a series called Try It Once. The first class is “Lap Swimming for Fitness,” to be held Jan. 20, 6-8 p.m., at the Nikiski Pool. This one-time class for beginners will teach you the basics of swimming for fitness including designing an effective workout, and pool etiquette. Cost is $10 per person and limited to 15 participants. Goggles and swim caps will be provided. Contact Cooperative Extension Service at 262-5824 to register or for more information. Registration deadline is January 15.

Family movement class offered North Peninsula Recreation is offering a family movement class called Moving Together, taught by Dance and Early Childhood Educator, Robyn Zinszer. The class is designed for families with children ages 0-3, but children and adults of all ages are welcome to participate. Classes will be held Saturdays from 10-10:45 a.m. beginning Jan. 17 through Feb. 14. The first class on Jan. 17 is free for the entire family. For more information and to pre-register please call NCRC at 776-8800.

Kids Monopoly tournament registration open The Peninsula Winter Games Kids Monopoly tournament registration is now open. Register by calling the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce at 262-9814, or email Tami@Soldotnachamber.com. Kids ages 8-18 are eligible. This tournament kicks off the Peninsula Winter Games with check-in at 10 a.m. on Jan. 24 at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. Submit announcements to news@peninsulaclarion.com.

Selfie sticks: Convenience or narcissi-stick? By BETH J. HARPAZ AP Travel Editor

NEW YORK — Selfies at tourist attractions are nothing new. But until recently, if you wanted a perfectly composed picture of yourself with Times Square or the Colosseum in the background, you might have asked a passer-by to take the photo. Now, though, relatively new gadgets called selfie sticks make it easy to take your own wide-angled self-portraits or group shots. Fans say the expandable rods, which allow users to hold their cellphones a few feet away, are the ultimate convenience: no more bothering passers-by to take pictures, no more fretting about strangers taking lousy shots or running off with a pricey iPhone. But some travelers bemoan the loss of that small interaction that came with politely asking a local to help preserve a memory. And critics express outright hatred of selfie sticks as obnoxious symbols of self-absorption. They even have a derisive name for them, playing on the narcissistic behavior they think the sticks encourage: narcissi-stick. Sarah Kinling of Baltimore said she was approached “17 times” by vendors selling selfie sticks at the Colosseum in Rome. “They’re the new fanny pack — the quickest way to spot a tourist,” she said. “The more I saw them in use, the more I saw how much focus people were putting on selfies, and not turning around to see what they were there to see.” When Kinling wanted a photo of herself with her sister and

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Tourists use selfie sticks to take their pictures in Times Square in New York Thursday.

sister-in-law, she asked strangers to take the shot. “Even when the other person didn’t speak English, you hold your camera up and make the motion and they understand,” she said. But some travelers say it’s better to stage your own vacation photos. Andrea Garcia asked a passer-by to take her photo in Egypt and later realized he’d zoomed in on her face, cutting out the pyramids behind her. “I couldn’t really be mad at him — he wasn’t my photographer, I didn’t pay him,” she said. The experience made her appreciate the selfie sticks she sees tourists using at 1 World Trade near her office in Lower Manhattan. “Take control of your image!” she says. Selfie sticks are just starting to show up at attractions in the U.S., but they’re ubiquitous in many destinations overseas, from Dubai’s skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa, to the Eiffel Tow-

er in Paris. A soccer stadium in London, White Hart Lane, has even banned them because they obstruct other fans’ views. The Four Seasons Hotel in Houston started making them available to guests last week, “similar to the way many hotels provide umbrellas,” said hotel spokeswoman Laura Pettitt. The sticks range in price from $5 to $50. Simpler models merely grip the phone, so users must trigger the shot with a self-timer on the camera. More sophisticated versions either use Bluetooth technology or connect the phone to the stick with a cord, with a button on the grip triggering the shot. Jasmine Brett Stringer of Minneapolis writes a lifestyles

blog called “Carpe Diem with Jasmine” and uses selfie sticks to record her videos. “A friend brought one back from Dubai and I said, ‘I’ve got to get one,’” she said. Now she doesn’t have to rely on others to help shoot her work. The sticks are also an improvement over hand-held selfies because they let you shoot “at better angles, avoid the awkward arm reach and the dreadful half-face shot.” Megan Marrs of Boston, who writes a travel blog called Vanishing Balloons, thought the sticks were ridiculous when she saw them on a trip to South Korea last fall. “It seemed so vain and silly,” said Marrs. But she bought one to bring home as a gift, ended up trying it herself and became a fan. “I don’t love intruding on other people’s experience, asking them to take my picture — they’re there to enjoy their time, too,” she said. “Sometimes I feel silly — one more tourist taking a selfie in front of the Colosseum — but I’m more comfortable doing it myself than asking someone else.”

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What Others Say

Government must work to restore national trust American involvement in Iraq and

Afghanistan has scaled down the list. Concerns over the economy have, as well. For the past decade, these were the two most significant, long-standing issues garnering public concern in the U.S. They’ve been replaced, at least to some degree, by the increasingly exasperating vacuum of leadership that exists in Washington, D.C. In a Gallup poll published on Jan. 2, Americans that were surveyed listed poor leadership in government as the most important and troubling issue in 2014, a noticeable shift in the answers given in the same poll over the past 10 years. The dissatisfaction with government isn’t anything really new. However, it’s intriguing to note that as the economy shows signs of improvement and the U.S. looks to scale back operations in the Middle East, Americans are becoming more and more concerned about whether Congress, the president and even government in general can get anything done. The U.S. clearly has serious challenges ahead of it, and while government never should be the ultimate problem solver, policy makers do have a vital role and responsibility in making sure the country stays on a steady path. Years of gridlock and inactivity in Washington, D.C., have rightfully shaken the confidence of Americans when it comes to fulfilling that duty. Both sides have been at fault. The mishandled rollout of the Affordable Care Act by President Barack Obama and his administration certainly contributed to confidence levels diminishing. The failures of the Veterans Administration and its inability to properly take care of American veterans was certainly an eye-opener. The uncovering of the NSA’s secretive and dubious surveillance of Americans had to add to that slippage, as well. Obviously, however, polls such as these are just a snapshot of the moment. The upcoming term in Congress should offer a number of chances to at least partially restore some of that faith in government. Additionally, the positive economic news of the year’s end — with job growth, lower gas prices and a strong stock market — thankfully show that it’s not all doom and gloom ahead of us. Moving forward, however, there has to be some type of bipartisan movement among federal lawmakers for confidence in government to start to trickle upwards. Let’s hope there’s a healthy appetite for consensus and progress on the part of national leadership in the year ahead. Otherwise, the chance at a rosier future for the U.S. turns bleaker and even more troubling. — Aiken (South Carolina) Standard, Jan. 5

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By GARRY TRUDEAU

The crisis of free speech

The message of the Paris terrorists couldn’t have been clearer. They didn’t target the instruments of state power, the military or the police. They didn’t target the representatives of the state, its elected officials. They targeted cartoonists. They targeted, in other words, some of the most physically harmless people on Earth. Cartoonists don’t carry guns for a living, or command armies. They are formally powerless. They are people whose influence is entirely dependent on free expression. That’s why the attack on Charlie Hebdo was not just an attack on an institution but on a value. The terrorists wanted to bring a taste of Mosul to the 11th arrondissement of Paris, and they succeeded in ghoulish fashion. Their goal was to undercut free speech itself, and thus the power of people who operate in the realm of images, words and ideas. In the fight over free expression, the editors and cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo occupied the most forward and exposed position. They lit a flare over their own parapet every night and said to the enemy that you may bring your worst, but you can’t make us afraid. That their craft required such bravery in perhaps the most cosmopolitan city in the world is a testament to the embattled state of free speech in the West. The sad fact is that physical intimidation works. Some press outlets pixilated or cropped out the covers of Charlie Hebdo in their coverage of the Paris attacks, as if

they were the works of obscenity that the attackers consider them. One line of argument is, in effect, that Charlie Hebdo had it coming. A writer for the Financial Times scored the publica- Rich Lowry tion in the wake of the attacks for lacking “common sense.” Back in 2012, then-White House spokesman Jay Carney questioned the magazine’s “judgment” for publishing cartoons mocking Muhammad, and rued its “potential to be inflammatory.” But we don’t usually look to satirical magazines for “judgment.” Besides, no one ever has to question anyone’s deathdefying lack of “common sense” for mocking Christians. After the Benghazi attack in 2012, which the administration pretended was the result of an anti-Islam YouTube video, President Barack Obama said, “We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.” Since when? Thomas Paine, a quasiFounding Father, excoriated Christianity. Thomas Jefferson chopped up the Bible to leave in what he considered only the properly enlightened parts. It is true that the U.S. government doesn’t denigrate religions. But it is constitutionally obligated to protect the freedom of those who do. The president said at the United Nations

after Benghazi that “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” He did not add that the future must have a place for those who slander Islam. It is that aspect of the future that the Islamists hope to snuff out. There has been a calculated and growing threat to free speech in the West emanating from the Muslim world since the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against Salman Rushdie. This offensive has long relied on violence, as well as a noxious campaign of international diplomacy, to export the Muslim world’s anti-blasphemy laws to the West. The diplomatic campaign has met with partial success in Europe, where “hate speech” can be prosecuted, and the Obama administration has had a shamefully accommodating attitude to it. Now, it should be met with the official contempt that it deserves. And, domestically, we should foster a robust culture of free speech that forswears the insidious logic of “your right to free speech ends where my right not to be offended begins.” We all love the cliche that the pen is mightier than the sword. But it hasn’t been true through most of human history and isn’t true in many places — especially in the Muslim world — even today. The pen is an instrument that needs constant protection and the enlivening spirit of satirists of all sorts. The cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo understood that. Does the West? Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.

Looking at Obama’s chemistry with Congress By NANCY BENAC Associated Press

WASHINGTON — He hardly ever calls. When he does, it’s all business. And that’s President Barack Obama’s vibe with top Democrats on Capitol Hill. With Republicans, there’s even less chemistry. But GOP congressional leaders don’t show much inclination to buddy up to the president, either. When the president sits down with eight top legislators — four from each party — at the White House on Tuesday, there’s little expectation it will usher in a new era of comity and cooperation. Republican leaders will head to the White House already peeved with the president for his recent veto threats and go-italone policy moves. Democratic leaders, now in the minority party in both chambers, will find themselves less relevant. The White House is waving off any notion that the meeting is the start of a new congressional charm offensive. “For anyone craning to hear the conversation through the walls, I wouldn’t expect a lot of laughter,” says Jim Manley, a former aide to Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada. “It’s not the funniest group of people you’ve ever put together.” Three thoughts on how Obama gets along with top Republicans and Democrats in Congress, and how much it matters.

They just don’t click Although Obama was a senator from Illinois for four years before he became president, he never has had a strong rapport with members of Congress. Legislators from both parties have grumbled for years that the Obama White House doesn’t reach out to them much or even pay enough attention to small gestures such as White House tour tickets or Christmas cards. “That’s been missing for the whole time the president’s been in office,” says former Rep. Steve LaTourette, R-Ohio. Occasional attempts by the White House to change that dynamic — by inviting key legislators to dinners or the like — typically have faded fast. Obama’s first golf game with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, came about only after the president had been pestered relentlessly about why he hadn’t invited a fellow lover of the game to tee off. The outing was never repeated. Last week, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, John Cornyn of Texas, told a home state newspaper he never had gotten a call from the president, “which is kind of amazing to me.” Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., took it as a poke in the eye for the White House to issue veto C

AP News Extra threats just as lawmakers were taking the oath of office for the new Congress. “He could have waited a few hours,” the speaker groused. While Obama has a “rock-solid” relationship with Reid, Manley says, even they aren’t particularly chummy. “Everybody jokes about Reid and his nasty habit of hanging up the phone as soon as he’s done with his end of the conversation, but the president’s not much better,” Manley says. “There’s not a lot of idle chitchat.” White House press secretary Josh Earnest dismisses the intense interest in Obama’s chemistry with congressional leaders. “We’re focused a little less on sort of the charm and more on the substance,” he says.

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“This is certainly not the kind of interaction, back and forth, that you would expect in a normal circumstance,” Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., says of the president and the new majority leader. “But yeah, they have a relationship. In times past, when there’s been a major ox in the ditch they’ve been able to work through it.” Corker’s takeaway from all the recent fireworks: “I wouldn’t write this year off.”

... But maybe not that much It’s always nice to get along, but voices from both Congress and the White House caution against attaching too much importance to the idea. “People read way too much into personalities and all that stuff,” says Corker. “Despite what the American people think, there are a good many adults up here that understand that regardless of how you may feel personally about a situation, we have a job to do.” Obama himself seems to subscribe to that notion. Last spring, the president pointed back to those failed budget talks from 2011, and that infamous golf game: “I like Speaker Boehner personally, and when we went out and played golf we had a great time. But that didn’t get a deal done.”

Trust and good will lubricate the legislative process and any negotiations between the Capitol and the White House. It’s possible to do a deal without them, but it’s a lot harder. California’s Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the House, credits Obama for going overboard to try to build positive ties with the GOP. “The president has always extended the Associated Press writers Matthew Daly hand of friendship,” she says. “Some say and Connie Cass contributed to this retoo much.” port. But plenty of legislators from both parties talk wistfully about the presidency of Democrat Lyndon Johnson, who was unafraid to tangle, cajole and horse-trade with E-mail: news@peninsulaclarion.com legislators to translate big ideas into law. Write: Fax: Cornyn describes Obama, by contrast, Peninsula Clarion 907-283-3299 as “so detached and disengaged and apparP.O. Box 3009 Questions? Call: ently disinterested in doing the grind work Kenai, AK 99611 907-283-7551 that goes along with passing legislation that it would be hard to do anything.” The Peninsula Clarion welcomes As for the trust factor, LaTourette says letters and attempts to publish all both Boehner and Obama carry the scars those received, subject to a few of failed budget negotiations from 2011, in guidelines: which “both men honestly believe that the n All letters must include the writer’s other one sort of double-dealt them.” name, phone number and address. Such misgivings can loom large in the n Letters are limited to 500 words final push to seal a deal. and may be edited to fit available “In any business, it’s easier to negotiate space. Letters are run in the order when there is a personal relationship and they are received. a level of trust,” says Brian Walsh, a Ren Letters that, in the editor’s judgpublican strategist and former congressioment, are libelous will not be nal aide. “That may not necessarily exist in printed. this situation.” n The editor also may exclude letObama and McConnell, while not ters that are untimely or irrelevant chummy, at least seem to know what they to the public interest. can expect from one another.

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The following judgments were recently handed down in District Court in Kenai: n William Beau Johnson, 31, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to violating a domestic violence protective order, a domestic violence offense committed Oct. 22. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 175 days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to comply with conditions of protective order and placed on probation for two years. n Matthew Micah Roy Jones, 26, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to driving without a valid operator’s license, committed Aug. 19. He was fined $150 and a $50 court surcharge. n Ahanasios D. Maheras, 59, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to permitting an unauthorized person to drive, committed Aug. 8. He was fined $500 with $250 suspended and a $50 court surcharge and placed on probation for one year. n Lorraine Cabrera Mercado, 42, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of attempted second-degree theft, committed June 27. Imposition of sentence was suspended and she was placed on probation for one year, fined a $50 court surcharge and $100 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to perform 40 hours of community work service and ordered to have no contact with First National Bank of Alaska. n Kurt Richard Miller, 62, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to fifthdegree misconduct involving weapons, committed Dec. 10. He was sentenced to 30 days

n On Dec. 14 at 8:32 p.m., the Bureau of Highway Patrol, Kenai Peninsula Team, conducted a traffic stop near Mile 81 of the Sterling Highway on an older model grey Chevrolet HHR for an equipment violation. During the traffic stop, investigation revealed that a passenger in the vehicle, Phillip K. Warren, 52, of Sterling, was in possession of methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana. Warren attempted to flee the scene and was arrested for disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, two counts of fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance and one count of sixth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance. He was taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility without bail. n On Dec. 25 at about 5:50 p.m., the Alaska Bureau of Highway Patrol, Kenai Peninsula Team, responded to a three-

Court reports in jail with 25 days suspended, fined $500 with $250 suspended, a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, forfeited the weapon and placed on probation for two years. n Robert Monroe, Jr., 40, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of third-degree theft, committed May 20, 2011. He was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $100 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete 150 hours of community work service, ordered to pay restitution and placed on probation for three years. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Robert Lewis Monroe, Jr., 40, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, committed Nov. 13, 2013. He was sentenced to 140 days in jail with 120 days suspended, fined $5,000 with $2,000 suspended, a $75 court surcharge, $1,467 cost of imprisonment and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had his license revoked for one year, ordered ignition interlock for 12 months, forfeited items seized and placed on probation for three years. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Justin S. Pruitt, 22, of Nikiski, pleaded guilty to one count of fourth-degree theft and one count of violating conditions of release from a felony, committed Feb. 19. On the count of fourth-

Police reports vehicle crash near Mile 145.5 of the Sterling Highway. Investigation revealed that a blue 1994 Toyota pickup, operated by Mathany Christine Satterwhite, 29, of Anchor Point, had broken down on the side of the highway while driving northbound. A white 1997 Dodge van, operated by Nathan Sargeant, 51, of Anchor Point, had pulled in front of it to jumpstart it. The truck had no operable lights. Only one of the van’s headlamps was shining down the highway. A green 1999 Toyota SUV, driven by Larry E. Pyatt, 29, of Anchor Point, was approaching the two vehicles, also driving northbound. Pyatt said he did not see the pickup, but only the unobscured headlight of the van and began to skid on icy and slushy roads as

degree theft, he was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 80 days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, forfeited all items seized, ordered to have no contact with Tesoro To Go and placed on probation for three years. On the count of violating conditions of release, he was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, forfeited all items seized and placed on probation for three years. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Justin Shawn Pruitt, 22, of Nikiski, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, committed Sept. 11. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 87 days suspended, fined $3,000 with $1,500 suspended, a $75 court surcharge, $330 cost of imprisonment and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, had his license revoked for 90 days, forfeited all items seized and placed on probation for three years. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Donna Lavelta Schouweiler, 55, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, committed Aug. 21. She was sentenced to 150 days in jail with 130 days suspended, fined $4,000 with $1,000 suspended, a $75 court surcharge, $1,467 cost of imprisonment and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had her license revoked for one year, ordered ignition interlock for 12 months, ordered not to possess, consume or buy alcohol for three years and placed on probation for three years.

n James Trevor Stanley, 43, of Kasilof, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree assault – reckless injury, committed Nov. 27. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 85 days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to have no contact with victim and placed on probation for one year. n Alex T. Toscano, 19, of Duluth, Minnesota, pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree criminal trespass – in a dwelling, and one count of possession, control or consumption of alcohol by a person under age 21, first offense, committed Oct. 9. On count one, imposition of sentence was suspended and he was placed on probation for one year, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $50 jail surcharge, ordered to complete 80 hours of community work service and ordered to pay restitution. On the count of possession, control or consumption of alcohol by a person under age 21, he was fined $600 with $400 suspended, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment and placed on probation for one year. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Robert Whitney, 32, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to driving without a valid operator’s license committed Aug. 23. He was fined $150, a $50 court surcharge and a $50 jail surcharge. n Angela Jean Wolfe, 37, of Sterling, pleaded guilty to violating condition of release, committed June 22. She was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and placed on probation for one year.

he slowed. He struck the Toyota pickup. Satterwhite was standing at the front of the pickup to connect jumper cables and was thrown into the ditch by the impact. She suffered serious injuries. A second person from her vehicle was standing between the pickup and the van. She was pinned and suffered serious, life-threatening injuries. She was Medevaced to Anchorage for further treatment. Sargeant and Pyatt suffered minor injuries. The SUV and pickup suffered major damage and were disabled. It is unknown at this time whether drugs or alcohol were factors. Investigation continues. n On Jan. 1 at 3:42 a.m., Kenai police conducted a routine traffic stop on the Kenai Spur Highway and arrested Christopher J. Jacokes, 18, of Kenai, for driving under the influence. Police also

charged was Steven D. Anasogak, 20, of Kenai, for habitual minor consuming alcohol. n On Jan. 1 at 3:58 a.m., Kenai police responded to Walmart for a report of a shoplifter in the store. Jennifer K. Henry, 30, of Kasilof was issued a summons for concealment of merchandise. She was also arrested on an outstanding $500 Anchorage Alaska State Troopers misdemeanor warrant for failure to appear for arraignment on the original charge of third-degree theft. She was taken to Wildwood Pretrial Facility.

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Judge clears Homer biologist of moose hunting violations ANCHORAGE — The former state area management biologist in Homer has been acquitted of illegally hunting a moose on the Kenai Peninsula. Jason Herreman, 34, who was placed on unpaid leave by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, was acquitted in a bench trial, the Alaska Dispatch News reported. Herreman had been charged in September with using illegal means to take a moose and unlawful possession of game. Herreman told investigators he wounded a moose Aug. 23 near Anchor Point but could not find the animal. He returned a day later and acknowledged that he had used a radio to speak to a pilot in an airplane overhead. Using an airplane to spot and kill game is illegal in Alaska. Defense attorney Myron Angstman said Friday he had planned to argue that Herreman had not received assistance from the pilot and that state law allows reasonable means to track down a wounded animal to prevent wasting it. Angstman said he made the first argument and didn’t have to make the second. Judge Margaret Murphy on Friday “decided that it did not give aid,” Angstman said of the communication with the pilot. “Therefore, she was not required to go on to our second argument.” The second question continues to need a resolution, Angstman said. “We never got that far,” he said. “Since there was no help from the radio, the judge found him not guilty.” Assistant attorney general Arne Soldwedel declined to comment on the outcome until he had reviewed the ruling.

Reward offered for information on Juneau window vandal JUNEAU — Authorities in Juneau are offering hefty rewards to find a vandal who smashed the window of a pizza parlor. The Juneau Empire reports the owner of Bullwinkle’s Pizza is offering $1,000 for information on the crime and local crime prevention group is offering another $1,000. The window was hit Wednesday. Owner Mitch Falk says the $3,000 window in the Mendenhall Mall was damaged beyond repair. Falk says he installed the colorful window showing the cartoon character for which the business was named about three years ago. He says it looks like someone walked by and hit it with a hammer. He says whoever did it probably has friends who would be willing to turn the vandal in for the reward.

Pedestrian struck, killed by vehicle in East Anchorage ANCHORAGE — Police say a pedestrian has died after being hit by a vehicle in East Anchorage. Police say Peter Andrew Albert was trying to cross Muldoon Road Friday night when a Ford Explorer hit him. Sixty-year-old Albert wasn’t in a crosswalk. He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. The 19-year-old driver stayed at the scene and cooperated with police. No citations have been issued. — The Associated Press

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Obama to focus on cybersecurity

Iowa GOP votes to continue straw poll

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Continuing the break with State of the Union tradition, President Barack Obama will spend most of the coming week previewing more of the proposals he will outline in the address, including on identity theft, electronic privacy and cybersecurity, the White House announced Saturday. Obama will use a Monday event at the Federal Trade Commission to lay out the next steps of a plan to tackle identity theft and improve consumer and student privacy. It follows a plan Obama announced last October to tighten security for the debit cards that transmit federal benefits to millions of Americans. After holding his first meeting of the new year with the top leaders in Congress on Tuesday, Obama will discuss cybersecurity, including ways of getting the private sector and federal government to voluntarily share more cybersecurity information. He’ll do so at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, a part of the Department of Homeland Security that shares information among the public and private sectors. Obama’s focus on cybersecurity follows the recent hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. The president and other senior administration officials blame North Korea for the crippling attack, which disclosed confidential company emails and business files and included threats of terror attacks against U.S. movie theaters until Sony agreed to cancel the Christmas release of its film “The Interview.” The comedy depicts an

DES MOINES, Iowa — Republicans in Iowa have opted to carry on with their presidential straw poll, a summer political tradition that detractors decry as a sideshow. Despite criticism from some prominent Republicans, including Gov. Terry Branstad, the Republican Party of Iowa’s central committee unanimously voted Saturday to continue the event. Committee members said the poll energizes the party base and serves as an important early test of a candidate’s campaign strength. Iowa Republican Party Chairman Jeff Kaufmann said the event will be held in August, but the date and location must still be determined. First held in 1979, the straw poll has grown from a county GOP fundraiser stop to a large event on the Iowa State University campus, where candidates spend heavily to entertain supporters. The poll has been a lackluster predictor of who will win the GOP nomination. Its winners in 1979 (George H.W. Bush), 1987 (Pat Robertson), 2007 (Mitt Romney) and 2011 (Michele Bachmann) did not win the nomination. Only twice — in 1995 (Bob Dole, who tied with Phil Gramm) and 1999 (George W. Bush) — did the straw poll winner go on to win the GOP nomination. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

President Barack Obama tours Techmer PM, a plastic fabrication company Friday in Clinton, Tenn. Obama will spend most of the week ahead focusing on identity theft, electronic privacy and other cyberspace issues. The events are part of Obama’s strategy of providing sneak peeks of the proposals he’ll outline in his upcoming State of the Union address.

assassination plot against North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Sony eventually released the film online and in a small number of theaters. On Wednesday, Obama will be in Iowa to talk about making affordable, high-speed Internet more available nationwide. Traditionally, the White House closely guards the details of plans to be offered in the State of the Union until just before the president delivers the nationally televised address. But in a bid to generate excitement for the speech as he begins the next-to-last year of his presidency, Obama began previewing new initiatives dur-

ing the week, including programs to boost homeownership by reducing mortgage insurance premiums and increase access to higher education by paying for the first two years of community college for Americans who meet certain criteria. “I didn’t want to wait for the State of the Union to talk about all the things that make this country great and how we can make it better, so I thought I’d get started this week,” Obama said Wednesday in Michigan, where he discussed a rebounding U.S. auto industry. “I figured, why wait? It’s like opening your Christmas presents a little early.” The proposals include steps

Obama can take unilaterally using his executive authority, a practice he used frequently last year that irritated Republicans. Other proposals will require collaboration with Congress, which Republicans now control. They reacted coolly to Obama’s announcements. Vice President Joe Biden is also pitching in with the previews. He travels to Norfolk, Virginia, on Thursday to announce new funding to help train people to work in the cybersecurity industry, the White House said. Obama’s State of the Union address is scheduled for Jan. 20.

Massachusetts awaits high-profile trials By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer

BOSTON — Jury summonses have been flying, police have been deploying and the news media have been scrambling like seldom before as two highly anticipated criminal trials get underway almost simultaneously in Massachusetts: the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the murder trial of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez. The trials began last week within days of each other, competing for jurors, security, headlines and the public’s attention. Both are expected to be lengthy, high-profile affairs. People find both cases fascinating but for very different reasons, said Jack Levin, a criminologist and sociologist at Boston’s Northeastern University. “In the case of the marathon bombing, the fascination comes from a widespread feeling that people have that they are vulnerable. There’s a negative fascination there,” he said. “People are scared to death by the possibility of terrorism.” “In the Hernandez case, it’s because we place a tremendous value on athletes, and when one of them commits a serious crime like homicide, it shocks the public,” Levin said. “It’s a hero falling from grace.” Tsarnaev, 21, and his brother allegedly set off the twin bombs near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, one of the world’s premiere races. The blasts killed three people, injured more than 260 and terrified people across the state. In the days after, the nation was gripped by television coverage of a dramatic gunbattle between police and the Tsarnaev brothers — ethnic Chechens who lived in Kyrgyzstan and Russia before coming to the U.S. more than a decade ago — and the capture of the wounded and bloodied Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, found hiding in a boat. Tsarnaev is also charged with killing an MIT police officer. His brother died in the shootout with police. Hernandez, a former tight end for the Patriots, is charged with fatally shooting Odin

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Police and media gather outside the federal courthouse in Boston Jan. 5 on the first day of jury selection in the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev, 21, is accused of planning and carrying out the twin pressurecooker bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 260 near the finish line of the race on April 15, 2013.

Lloyd, a 27-year-old semiprofessional football player who was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancee. At the time Lloyd was killed in June 2013, Hernandez was a rising star in the National Football League who had signed a five-year, $40 million contract and helped his team to the 2012 Super Bowl. Rarely has there been a confluence of two such highly anticipated trials. The saturation of media attention in both cases has led judges to call in unusually large numbers of prospective jurors to try to find people who haven’t already formed strong opinions. In the Hernandez case, between 1,100 and 1,200 prospective jurors have been asked to report for duty, the largest number for any state trial in recent memory, said Massachusetts Jury Commissioner Pamela J. Wood. In the Tsarnaev case, more than 1,350 prospective jurors reported to federal court. The size of the jury pools in each trial tops the number of prospective jurors called in some other high-profile cases, including the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial, which had a jury pool of about 1,000; and the 2013 federal racketeering trial of Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, which had a pool of about 675. “It’s requiring additional resources from my office, but it’s certainly something we’re able to handle,” Wood said.

The dueling trials are also presenting challenges for the news media. The Tsarnaev trial is expected to last three to four months, while the Hernandez trial is predicted to last six to 10 weeks. The Boston Globe, the state’s largest newspaper, plans to assign multiple reporters to each trial. But other news organizations whose staffs have been sharply cut over the last decade may not be able to do the same. “I assume it’s going to put a lot of strain on a lot of newsrooms in the Boston area,” said Jennifer Peter, the Globe’s se-

nior deputy managing editor for local news. Cameras will be allowed in the courtroom for the Hernandez trial, so trial watchers will be able to see at least some of it on television. Tsarnaev’s case will be tried in federal court, where cameras are typically not allowed. Tsarnaev’s trial will be held in Boston, while Hernandez’s trial will be held in state Superior Court in Fall River, about 55 miles south of Boston. Court officials in both trials have reserved seats for the public and the media in the courtroom, and have set up separate rooms with a feed from the courtroom for expected overflow crowds. In the marathon trial, the court has reserved seats for people who were injured in the bombings and family members of the three people who were killed, as well as seats for Tsarnaev’s family. In the Hernandez trial, the court has set aside seats for family and friends of Lloyd and Hernandez. Court officials would not release details on security for either trial. During the first few days of jury selection at Tsarnaev’s trial, security was visibly tight and included dozens of police inside and outside the courthouse, bomb-sniffing dogs and U.S. Coast Guard boats patrolling Boston Harbor.

MLK heirs locked in dispute over ownership of, Bible and Nobel Peace Prize medal ATLANTA (AP) — The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s traveling Bible hasn’t gone on regular display since President Barack Obama used it while taking his second oath of office two years ago. The public hasn’t seen the slain civil rights icon’s 1964 Nobel Peace Prize medal in recent years, either. Both relics reside in a safe deposit box, the keys held since March by an Atlanta judge presiding over the latest — and in many eyes, the ugliest — fight between King’s heirs. The Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. Inc., which is controlled by Martin Luther King III and his younger brother, Dexter Scott King, asked a judge a year ago to order their sister Bernice to turn over their father’s Nobel medal and traveling Bible. The brothers want to sell them to a private buyer. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney could decide the case at a hearing Tuesday or let it go to trial. He said when he ordered Bernice to hand over the Bible and medal to the court’s custody that it appeared likely the estate will win the case. This is at least the fifth lawsuit between the siblings in the past decade, but this one crosses the line, Bernice argued in February from the pulpit of historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where her father and grandfather preached. Her father cherished these two items, which speak to the very core of who he was, she said.

Tribes join effort to keep Yellowstone grizzlies protected BILLINGS, Mont. — Leaders of American Indian tribes in the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains have joined an effort to retain federal protections for grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to decide this year whether it will move to lift protections for the roughly 1,000 grizzlies that scientists say live in the Yellowstone region of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. The campaign to enlist tribal backing for continued protections is being coordinated in large part by wildlife advocates. Organizers say more than two dozen tribes have signed on with resolutions and other declarations of support. Tribal leaders cited their ancestral connection to the Yellowstone area and the cultural importance of grizzly bears to their people. “Any move to delist the sacred grizzly bear on this ancestral landscape must involve consultation with the affected Tribal Nations,” wrote Ivan Posey, a member of the Eastern Shoshone and chairman of the Montana Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council, in a letter last month. Lifting protections and allowing state-sponsored hunting “not only represents a threat to tribal sovereignty, but also contravenes the American Indian Religious Freedom Act,” Posey said. The council includes representatives from 11 tribes. — The Associated Press

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Millions rally for unity By ANGELA CHARLTON and THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press

PARIS — More than a million people surged through the boulevards of Paris behind dozens of world leaders walking arm-in-arm Sunday in a rally for unity described as the largest demonstration in French history. Millions more marched around the country and the world to repudiate three days of terror that killed 17 people and changed France. Amid intense security and with throngs rivaling those that followed the liberation of Paris from the Nazis, the city became “the capital of the world” for a day, on a planet increasingly vulnerable to such cruelty. More than 40 world leaders headed the somber procession — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas; Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov — setting aside their differences with a common rallying cry: We stand together against barbarity, and we are all Charlie. At least 1.2 million to 1.6 million people streamed slowly through the streets behind them and across France to mourn the victims of deadly attacks on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, a kosher supermarket and police officers — violence that tore deep into the nation’s sense of security in a way some compared to Sept. 11 in the United States. “Our entire country will rise up toward something better,” French President Francois Hollande said. Details of the attacks continued to emerge, with new video showing one of the gunmen pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and detailing how the attacks were going to unfold. That gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, was also linked to a new shooting, two days after he and the brothers behind the Charlie Hebdo massacre were killed in nearly simultaneous police raids. The attacks tested France’s proud commitment to its liberties, which authorities may now curtail to ensure greater security. Marchers recognized this as a watershed moment. “It’s a different world today,” said Michel Thiebault, 70. Illustrating his point, there were cheers Sunday for police vans that wove through the crowds — a rare sight at the many demonstrations that the French have staged throughout their rebellious history, when protesters and police are often at odds. Many shed the aloof attitude Parisians are famous for, help-

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Around the World Paris gunman claims ties to Islamic State group, rival of al-Qaida-linked comrades PARIS — Two days after his death, a video emerged Sunday of one of the Paris gunmen pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group, while his two fellow militants have claimed to be from al-Qaida — a fiercely rival extremist organization. That seeming contradiction has raised questions about the connections among the three French attackers, whether they acted with the direct involvement or knowledge of the networks, and whether their friendship allowed them to put aside the rift between the groups. The Islamic State group does not cooperate with al-Qaida’s militants and actually fights them for territory in a side conflict of Syria’s civil war. In video verified by the SITE Intelligence Group, Amedy Coulibaly said he had worked in coordination with Said and Cherif Kouachi, the “brothers from our team,” who carried out the massacre at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday.

Conservative wins Croatia presidential vote by slight margin AP Photo/Thibault Camus

People gather atop a statue at Place de la Nation during a rally in Paris Sunday. Hundreds of thousands gathered Sunday throughout Paris and cities around the world, to show unity and defiance in the face of terrorism that killed 17 people in France’s bleakest moment in half a century.

ing strangers with directions, cheering and crying together. Sad and angry but fiercely defending their freedom of expression, the marchers honored the dead and brandished pens or flags of other nations. Giant rallies were held throughout France and major cities around the world, including London, Madrid and New York — all attacked by al-Qaida-linked extremists — as well as Cairo, Sydney, Stockholm, Tokyo and elsewhere. In Paris, the Interior Ministry said “the size of this unprecedented demonstration makes it impossible to provide a specific count,” noting that the crowds were too big to fit on the official march route and spread to other streets. Later, the ministry said 3.7 million marched throughout France, including roughly between 1.2 million and 1.6 million in Paris — but added that a precise count is impossible given the enormity of the turnout. “I hope that at the end of the day everyone is united. Everyone — Muslims, Jews, Christians, Buddhists,” said marcher Zakaria Moumni. “We are humans first of all, and nobody deserves to be murdered like that. Nobody.” On Republic Square, deafening applause rang out as the world leaders walked past, amid tight security and an atmosphere of togetherness amid adversity. Families of the victims, holding each other for support, marched in the front along with the leaders and with journalists working for the Charlie Hebdo newspaper. Several wept openly. “Je Suis Charlie” — “I Am Charlie,” read legions of posters

and banners. Many waved editorial cartoons, the French tricolor and other national flags. As night fell on the unusually unified city, some lit candles. “It’s important to be here for freedom for tolerance and for all the victims. It’s sad we had to get to this point for people to react against intolerance, racism and fascism,” said Caroline Van Ruymbeke, 32. The French president joined Netanyahu in a visit to a synagogue Sunday night as authorities sought to reassure the Jewish population — Europe’s largest — that it is safe to stay in France. About 7,000 of France’s half-million Jews emigrated to Israel last year amid concerns for their safety and the economy. “The entire world is under attack” from radical Islam, Netanyahu said, citing attacks in cities from Madrid to Mumbai. He said these aren’t isolated incidents but part of a “network of hatred” by radical groups. At the synagogue, 17 candles were lit in tribute to the victims of the attacks. One was lit by a hostage at the kosher grocery store. The last was lit by two women whose sons were killed by Mohamed Merah, a radical Islamic gunman who attacked a Jewish school and paratroopers in southern France in 2012. The U.S. was represented at the Paris rally by Ambassador Jane Hartley. At an international conference in India, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the world stood with the people of France “not just in anger and in outrage, but in solidarity and

commitment to the cause of confronting extremism and in the cause that extremists fear so much and that has always united our countries: freedom.” The three days of terror began Wednesday when brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi stormed the Charlie Hebdo newsroom, killing 12 people, including two police officers. Al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen said it directed the attack to avenge the honor of the Prophet Muhammad, a frequent target of the weekly’s barbs. Charlie Hebdo assailed Christianity, Judaism as well as officialdom of all stripes with its brand of sometimes crude satire. On Thursday, police said Coulibaly killed a policewoman. The next day, he seized hostages at the kosher market while the Kouachi brothers were holed up at a printing plant near Charles de Gaulle airport. It ended at dusk Friday with raids that left all three gunmen dead. Four hostages at the market were also killed. Five people held in connection with the attacks were freed late Saturday, leaving no one in custody, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. Coulibaly’s widow, last seen near the Turkish-Syrian border, is still being sought. France remains on high alert while investigators determine whether the attackers were part of a larger extremist network. More than 5,500 police and soldiers were deployed Sunday across France, guarding marches, synagogues, mosques, schools and other sites.

ZAGREB, Croatia — A conservative populist become Croatia’s first female president Sunday after beating the center-left incumbent in a runoff election amid deep discontent over economic woes in the European Union’s newest member. The state electoral commission said that after about 97 percent of the vote counted, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic won 50.54 of the vote Sunday, while President Ivo Josipovic had 49.46 percent. The result meant that Grabar-Kitarovic won by a slight margin of about 21,000 votes, mostly by Croats living abroad. Josipovic, a law professor and composer of classical music, conceded defeat, saying Grabar-Kitarovic won in a “democratic competition.” The vote was seen as a major test for Croatia’s centerleft government, which is facing parliamentary elections later this year under a cloud of criticism over its handling of the economic crisis. The conservative triumph could shift Croatia back to right-wing nationalism, jeopardizing relations with its neighbors, including bitter Balkan wartime rival Serbia.

Merkel urges Putin, Poroshenko to implement peace plan BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the leaders of Russia and Ukraine that she’s not ready to take part in a four-way summit over the Ukraine conflict unless there’s a chance of real progress. Backing France’s position on the issue, Merkel met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and French President Francois Hollande in Paris after she spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone. Merkel and Poroshenko joined Hollande in the French capital to attend a unity rally against terrorism after attacks that left 17 dead. French, Ukrainian and German government officials confirmed the 15-minute-long meeting, but didn’t give any details. A French government official said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who was also in Paris for the rally, didn’t attend the meeting. The leaders of Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France are working on setting up a possible meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan. But Merkel’s office said late Saturday that it’s not yet clear whether the meeting can take place. In talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Poroshenko, she stressed that for the meeting to be successful there has to be progress on implementing a much-violated peace deal that was drawn up in Minsk in September. Merkel has insisted that every point of that agreement must be fulfilled. — The Associated Press

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OSU, Oregon have chance to make history By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer

DALLAS — Ohio State and Oregon will meet in a game that has never been played for a trophy that has never been raised. The winner Monday night in North Texas can be called the truest champion in the history of major college football. The first College Football Playoff national championship game matches the second-seeded Ducks and fourthseeded Buckeyes at AT&T Stadium. “It’s college football history,” Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said Sunday during a news conference with Oregon coach Mark Helfrich, with that new championship trophy sitting in between them. The days of bowls, polls and the BCS having the final say about who is No. 1 are over. The playoff that fans wanted for so long — and finally got — will determine a champion without a doubt.

Oregon (13-1) and its Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Marcus Mariota are in search of the program’s first national title, the last remaining goal for a school that has barged onto the national stage over the last two decades with ostentatious flare and flashy uniforms. Ohio State (13-1) is shooting for national championship No. 5, but the first under coach Urban Meyer, who returned to his home state three years ago to take over a college football goliath that was looking to start its next golden age. Tradition rich vs. cutting edge. The Ducks from the Pac-12 raced into the championship game with an emphatic 59-20 victory against Florida State last week at the Rose Bowl. The Buckeyes from the Big Ten upset Alabama 42-35 at the Sugar Bowl to cap an improbable rebound from an early season loss and injuries to two star quarterbacks. “This is much more of a business trip, this time around,” Ohio State All-

America defensive end Joey Bosa said. “Last week we went, we hung out and had some fun. This week it’s all about business; no going out, no messing around. We’re just preparing.” Ohio State has won 12 straight since stumbling at home to Virginia Tech in September. The Ducks have won nine in a row since, all by double-digit margins, since losing to Arizona in October. “We’ve been playing, both our program and Ohio State have played with that kind of early loss, and your back was against the wall to get to this point every play of every game, the entire rest of the season, it was to the those words: do or die,” Helfrich said. For decades college football’s best team was picked by poll voters and postseason matchups were set with little regard for determining a national champion. The Bowl Championship Series was implemented in 1998, a system designed to create a No. 1 vs. No. 2 national championship game to end

the season. It was an awkward and imperfect step in the right direction, often leaving everyone involved unsatisfied. The conference commissioners who ran the BCS relented a couple of years ago and decided to create a four-team playoff. Here are some things to know about the ultimate winner-take-all-game:

“Our No. 1 concern is their quarterback,” Meyer said. The Buckeyes hope to contain the fast-moving Mariota with a defensive line, led by Bosa, that is among the best in the nation. “They’ve got an awesome front seven,” Mariota said. “Big, physical guys that really control the line of scrimmage.”

SUPER MARIOTA Mariota can become the seventh Heisman Trophy winner since 1996 to win the national championship in the same season he won the Heisman. Florida State’s Jameis Winston did it last season. Another victory in what is very likely his last college game would top off a career that can go down as one of the best in college football history. Mariota has thrown for 10,463 yards, 103 touchdowns passes and just 13 interceptions while winning 35 games in three seasons as Oregon’s starter.

MEYER’S MILESTONE Meyer can become the second coach in college football history to win national championships with two schools, joining Nick Saban, who won the BCS title in 2003 with LSU and then three more titles with Alabama. Meyer won national titles with Florida in 2006 and 2008. A third championship would make Meyer the ninth coach in college football’s poll era (dating to 1936) to win at least three championships. Bear Bryant leads with the six he won at Alabama.

Luck, Colts stifle Denver Questions loom about QB Manning’s future after loss By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer

DENVER — Andrew Luck has his signature NFL win, and it came against his predecessor, of all people. Hardly pressured all afternoon, Luck threw two touchdown passes and outplayed Peyton Manning in leading the Indianapolis Colts past the Denver Broncos 24-13 Sunday. The Colts (13-5) advanced to the AFC championship game at New England (13-4), where they lost 42-20 on Nov. 16. “I’d like to think I am a better quarterback and would like to think we’re a better team” now, Luck said. “We are well equipped to handle the unknown, the unforeseen.” They sure were Sunday night in the Rockies, where Denver had gone 8-0 this season and averaged 35 points a game. “I think we’re playing good team ball,” said Luck, who improved to 3-2 in the playoffs with his first road win. “We’re feeding off each other. Offensively we’re making enough plays to put some points on the board. Great night. So proud to be a part of the Colts in this victory.” The Broncos (12-5) are left to deal with the hangover of yet another playoff debacle — and, more importantly, questions about Manning’s future. After saying on Christmas Eve that he planned on coming back for an 18th season, the five-time MVP wasn’t so certain after his latest playoff fiasco. Asked point blank if he planned on playing next season, Manning said, “Uh, yeah, I guess I just can’t give that simple answer, I’m processing it. So, I can’t say that. I could not say that.”

It was the first time Manning had been ambiguous about his future since spinal fusion surgery on his neck cost him all of the 2011 season and led Colts owner Jim Irsay to release him in 2012 so he could use the top pick to draft Luck. “I knew it was the right thing to do for the Colts,” Irsay said outside his jubilant locker room. “I saw Archie (Manning) last night. We had a nice conversation. Happened to be at Elway’s Restaurant at the Ritz Carlton. It was a decision that it was the right move to make. Peyton and I had talked about it. He said it best in the press conference, I didn’t decide. He didn’t decide. The football gods laid the cards out. We both knew it as best for him and us.” There’s sure to be questions about John Fox’s future, as well. He’s won four straight AFC West titles, but keeps coming up short in what he calls the “real season.” “I’m the head coach, the buck stops here,” Fox said. The Broncos were the AFC’s only unbeaten team at home and the only team in the NFL with a top-five offense and a top-five defense. “We picked a bad day to have a bad game,” said Terrance Knighton, who had guaranteed these Broncos, with an NFLhigh nine Pro Bowlers, would hoist the Lombardi Trophy next month. Manning has gone one-anddone in the playoffs a record nine times in his otherwise stellar career. That includes twice in Denver, where he’s 38-10 in the regular season but just 2-3 in the playoffs. Overall, he’s 11-13 in the postseason and this was one of his worst playoff performances ever.

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Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant catches a pass against Packers cornerback Sam Shields during the second half Sunday in Green Bay, Wis. The play was reversed. The Packers won 26-21.

Reversal of fortunes

Disputed catch by Bryant helps Packers defeat Cowboys By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Hobbled but happy, Aaron Rodgers might have felt a bit lucky, too. No matter: The All-Pro quarterback and his Green Bay Packers are one step away from the Super Bowl. More stationary than usual because of a left calf injury, Rodgers rallied the Packers from an 8-point deficit with two second-half touchdowns passes to beat Dallas 26-21 Sunday. The Packers (13-4), helped immensely by a video reversal with 4:06 remaining, went un-

defeated at Lambeau Field this season. They head to Seattle next weekend for the NFC title game. The Seahawks (13-4) beat Green Bay in the season opener, 36-16. “I think I got 120 minutes left in me,” Rodgers said. Green Bay might not have had any time left in its season if not for referee Gene Steratore’s decision. Dez Bryant’s leaping, bobbling 31-yard catch at the Packers 1 on a fourth-and-2 play was challenged by Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy. Instead of first-and-goal for Dallas (13-5), the ball went over to

the Packers. “Some people think throwing the red flag is fun,” Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. “It was such an impactful play, you had to challenge. It was a confident challenge. And a hopeful one, too.” One packed with controversy, as well. “Look, I’ll tell you this, I’ve never seen that a day in my life,” Bryant said. “I want to know why it wasn’t a catch.” Because Bryant didn’t maintain control all the way to the ground, as the rule states. Replays showed Bryant bobbling the ball as he rolled into the end

zone, with part of it touching the field. “By rule he must hold onto it throughout entire process of contacting the ground,” tweeted Dean Blandino, the league’s director of officiating. “He didn’t, so it is incomplete.” An impassioned Bryant didn’t buy it. “All I know is I had possession, I had possession of the ball coming down,” Bryant said. “That’s possession, right? One, two, reach. Bam, that’s possession.” Green Bay closed it out before a Lambeau-record 79,704 See NFL, Page A-9

Gasol, Randolph star as Grizzlies shade out Suns By The Associated Press

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Marc Gasol scored the first seven points in the second overtime, Zach Randolph had 27 points and 17 rebounds and the Memphis Grizzlies outlasted the Phoenix Suns 122-110 on Sunday night. Gasol finished with 12 points to help Memphis snap a two-game losing streak. Mike Conley added 25 points and eight assists and Courtney Lee had 18 points. Isaiah Thomas led Phoenix with 20 points, but had a costly turnover trying to get the ball into the front court with the Suns leading late in the first overtime. Markieff Morris added 17 points, Alex Len had 14 points and 13 rebounds, and P.J. Tucker, Eric Bledsoe and Marcus Morris had 11 points apiece. Tucker’s layup tied it 101 with 5.9 left in regulation. The Grizzlies

begged for basket interference, saying Bledsoe pulled the net as the ball was bouncing on the rim. Bledsoe’s 3-pointer with 33.3 seconds left in the first overtime gave the Suns a 108-106 lead. The Suns stopped the Grizzlies on the next possession, but Thomas gave away the ball and Lee — fouled by Dragic — made two free throws with 16.2 left. Bledsoe then missed at the buzzer, forcing the second extra period. The Suns trailed by 16 in the second half and 14 early in the fourth quarter.

12 rebounds and nine assists in his fourth start of the season and second against his former team. The Blazers have won 27 of their last 32 games and are a season-best 22 over .500 at 30-8. Kobe Bryant was rested by Lakers coach Byron Scott for the sixth time in 11 games and second game in a row. The NBA’s third-leading career scorer, playing in his 19th season at age 36, played in only six games last season due to a torn Achilles and a fracture in his left knee. Wesley Johnson returned to the Lakers’ lineup and scored 17 points after missing three games because of a strained hip flexor.

TRAIL BLAZERS 106, LAKERS 94

KINGS 103, CAVALIERS 84

LOS ANGELES — Damian Lillard scored 17 of his 34 points in the fourth quarter, leading Portland past Los Angeles. LaMarcus Aldridge had 15 points and nine rebounds, and Chris Kaman added

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — DeMarcus Cousins had 26 points and 13 rebounds and Sacramento handed Cleveland its seventh loss in eight games with LeBron James out with a strained back and sore left knee. Rudy Gay added 23 points for SacraC

mento. Darren Collison had 16, and Carl Landry 11. Kevin Love led the Cavaliers with 25 points and 10 rebounds, and Kyrie Irving scored 14 of his 21 points in the first quarter and had seven assists. Timofey Mozgov, acquired from Denver last week, had 14 points and 12 rebounds. JR Smith struggled after scoring 27 points in his second game since joining Cleveland in a trade with New York. He had four points on 2-of-10 shooting in 30 minutes. Cleveland is 1-8 in its last nine games to drop to 19-19.

HAWKS 120, WIZARDS 89 ATLANTA — Kyle Korver scored 19 points and DeMarre Carroll had 16 to help Eastern Conference-leading Atlanta beat Washington for its eighth straight victory. Korver was 5 for 7 from 3-point range, improving his NBA-leading percentage to 50.2. His smoothest move, however, was a behind-the-back pass to Carroll for a layup

and a 64-54 lead in the third. Improving to 16-3 at home and 29-8 overall, the Hawks got 15 points from Al Horford and 11 each from Paul Millsap, Jeff Teague and Mike Scott. Atlanta has won 13 of 14 and 22 of 24. John Wall had 15 points for Washington and Nene added 14. The Wizards were outscored 33-12 in the fourth quarter. They won their previous three games.

HEAT 104, CLIPPERS 90 LOS ANGELES — Chris Bosh scored 34 points, Hassan Whiteside had career highs of 23 points and 16 rebounds off the bench and Miami beat Los Angeles to end a three-game road skid. Whiteside was 10 of 13 from the field and 3 of 4 from the line in 28 minutes. Dwyane Wade added 17 points and 10 assists. Blake Griffin scored 26 points and Chris Paul had 23 points and nine assists for the Clippers. They had won two straight and six of their previous eight.

Ducks nip Jets in shootout By The Associated Press

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Sami Vatanen scored in the sixth round of the shootout, and the Anaheim Ducks rallied from a two-goal deficit in the third period for a 5-4 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday night. Rickard Rakell scored the tying goal with 2:03 left for the Ducks, capping the first multipoint game of his NHL career with two goals and two assists. BLACKHAWKS 4, WILD 1 CHICAGO — Marian Hossa, Bryan Bickell and Brad Richards each had a goal and an assist, leading the Chicago Blackhawks over the sliding Minnesota Wild. Defenseman Johnny Oduya also

scored and Corey Crawford had 36 saves as Chicago rebounded from an ugly 5-2 loss at Edmonton on Friday night. Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane added two assists apiece in the opener of a four-game homestand.

PANTHERS 4, OILERS 2 EDMONTON, Alberta — Brian Campbell scored the go-ahead goal in the second period, and the Florida Panthers got two more scores in the third period to win their third straight with a victory over the Edmonton Oilers. Tomas Kopecky, Jimmy Hayes and Sean Bergenheim also scored for the Panthers, who are 4-1 through the first five games of a six-game road trip. Jussi Jokinen added a pair of assists, and Roberto Luongo made 31 saves.

Sports Briefs Peterson, Smith win run at Tsalteshi The Tsalteshi Trails Association held the Black Stone Axe Ridge Run on Sunday, with victories going to Kent Peterson and Rise Smith. The running race was put together due to the lack of skiing on the trails. However, since winter rules are in effect, there is no running on the ski trails. The ski trails actually still have a thin, icy base that can be turned into skiing with just a few inches of snow. That left competitors to complete the six kilometers on the rolling, icy snowshoe trail. Runners started at the Wolverine Trailhead and ran three kilometers to Skyview Middle School before heading back to the trailhead. Peterson won with a time of 34 minutes, 7 seconds, while Tony Eskelin was second at 35:41 and John Mohorcich was third at 37:54. Rise Smith was the top woman, coming in at 46:20. Tammy Lafrancois was second at 49:12, while Jane Fuerstenau was third at 49:49. Black Stone Axe Ridge Run at Tsalteshi Trails Sunday

Individual six-kilometer results 1. Kent Peterson, 34 minutes, 7 seconds; 2. Tony Eskelin, 35:41; 3. John Mohorcich, 37:54; 4. Scott Huff, 38:44; 5. Matt Pyhala, 43:38; 6. Rise Smith, 46:20 (1st woman); 7. Tammy Lafrancois, 49:12 (2nd woman); 8. Jane Fuerstenau, 49:49 (3rd woman); 9. Sondra Stonecipher, 51:02; 10. Melissa Tafoya, 51:06; 11. Adam Tafoya, 51:27; 12. Jeff Helminiak, 51:35; 13. Molly Hull, 54:07; 14. Sheila Best, 56:32; 15. Jennifer Loop, 57:18; 16. Julie English, 57:39; 17. Christopher Pipkin, 1:02:04; 18. Landon Showalter, 1:18:03; 19. Natalie Kohler, 1:19:30; 20. Jen Showalter, 1:19:39.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Rex Ryan is switching teams — not divisions — after reaching an agreement to coach the Buffalo Bills. A person familiar with the talks told The Associated Press the former New York Jets coach accepted in principle the Bills’ contract offer after two days of discussions. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the Bills have not discussed their search to replace Doug Marrone, who stepped down abruptly Dec. 31. The offer came a day after the Bills identified Ryan as a finalist and met with him for a second time in South Florida, where new owners Terry and Kim Pegula live. Ryan was one of 12 candidates to interview for the job since last weekend.

Seahawks’ Richardson suffers torn ACL RENTON, Wash. — Rookie wide receiver Paul Richardson will miss the rest of the playoffs for the Seattle Seahawks after suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. The team confirmed Richardson’s injury on Sunday night. Fox Sports first reported the injury. Richardson was injured in the second half of Seattle’s 31-17 win over Carolina in an NFC divisional playoff game on Saturday night. Richardson landed hard on his left knee jumping for a deep pass from Russell Wilson and walked off the field with a signifi— The Associated Press cant limp. He did not return.

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on Randall Cobb’s diving 12yard reception of a deflected pass on third-and-11. That gave Cobb eight catches for 116 yards and set off a raucous celebration at the iconic venue. “It’s unbelievable,” Cobb said. “For the ball to get tipped and magically appear in my area, you can’t tell me there’s not a God. That was a crazy play.” One of many. The Cowboys’ first postseason trip to Green Bay since

the 1967 Ice Bowl for the NFL championship resulted in their first road defeat of the season after eight victories. Dallas got 123 yards rushing from league leader DeMarco Murray and a courageous effort from Tony Romo, who hurt his left leg in the third quarter. That meant there were two hobbling quarterbacks. All-Pro Rodgers, bothered by a left calf he injured in Game 15, lost much of his trademark elusiveness as the game wore on. “A little bit worse, yeah,” Rodgers said of how his calf felt as the game progressed. “Hard to say, see how it feels in the morning.”

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Scoreboard Football NFL Playoffs Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 10 New England 35, Baltimore 31 Seattle 31, Carolina 17 Sunday, Jan. 11 Green Bay 26, Dallas 21 Indianapolis 24, Denver 13 Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 18 Green Bay at Seattle, 11:05 a.m. (FOX) Indianapolis at New England, 2:40 p.m. (CBS) All Times AST

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First Quarter GB_Quarless 4 pass from A.Rodgers (Crosby kick), 8:30. Dal_Clutts 1 pass from Romo (Bailey kick), 1:05. Second Quarter Dal_Williams 38 pass from Romo (Bailey kick), 8:19. GB_FG Crosby 40, :00. Third Quarter GB_FG Crosby 30, 7:46. Dal_Murray 1 run (Bailey kick), 4:12. GB_D.Adams 46 pass from A.Rodgers (Crosby kick), 1:41. Fourth Quarter GB_R.Rodgers 13 pass from A.Rodgers (pass failed), 9:10. A_79,704. Dal GB First downs 21 23 Total Net Yards 315 425 Rushes-yards 28-145 30-119 Passing 170 306 Punt Returns 2-7 0-0 Kickoff Returns 4-92 3-48 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 15-19-0 24-35-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-21 1-10 Punts 2-48.5 2-37.5 Fumbles-Lost 3-1 3-1 Penalties-Yards 5-35 10-87 Time of Possession 30:39 29:21 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Dallas, Murray 25-123, Randle 2-15, Romo 1-7. Green Bay, Lacy 19-101, Starks 5-16, Kuhn 1-4, Cobb 1-2, A.Rodgers 4-(minus 4). PASSING_Dallas, Romo 15-190-191. Green Bay, A.Rodgers 2435-0-316. RECEIVING_Dallas, Witten 6-71, Beasley 3-38, Bryant 3-38, Williams 1-38, Murray 1-5, Clutts 1-1. Green Bay, Cobb 8-116, D.Adams 7-117, Quarless 4-31, Nelson 2-22, R.Rodgers 1-13, Lacy 1-10, Kuhn 1-7. MISSED FIELD GOALS_Dallas,

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First Quarter Den_D.Thomas 1 pass from Manning (Barth kick), 10:00. Second Quarter Ind_Herron 6 run (Vinatieri kick), 14:14. Ind_Allen 3 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), 7:23. Den_FG Barth 45, :02. Third Quarter Ind_Nicks 15 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), 8:21. Fourth Quarter Den_FG Barth 41, 13:50. Ind_FG Vinatieri 30, 4:06. A_76,867. Ind Den First downs 23 19 Total Net Yards 364 288 Rushes-yards 28-99 20-88 Passing 265 200 Punt Returns 3-7 1-(-1) Kickoff Returns 2-32 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 2-2 Comp-Att-Int 27-43-2 26-46-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 2-11 Punts 4-42.3 6-40.7 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 10-67 2-8 Time of Possession 34:01 25:59 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Indianapolis, Herron 23-63, Luck 2-21, Tipton 2-14, Hilton 1-1. Denver, Anderson 18-80, Hillman 2-8. PASSING_Indianapolis, Luck 2743-2-265. Denver, Manning 2646-0-211. RECEIVING_Indianapolis, Herron 8-32, Hilton 4-72, Allen 4-30, Fleener 3-49, Doyle 3-14, Moncrief 2-32, Nicks 2-24, Tipton 1-12. Denver, Sanders 7-46, J.Thomas 6-53, Anderson 6-29, D.Thomas 5-59, Welker 1-20, Green 1-4. MISSED FIELD GOALS_Indianapolis, Vinatieri 44 (WR).

Basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Toronto 25 11 Brooklyn 16 21 Boston 12 23 Philadelphia 7 29 New York 5 35 Southeast Division Atlanta 29 8 Washington 25 12 Miami 16 21 Charlotte 15 24 Orlando 13 27 Central Division Chicago 26 12

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Sunday’s Games Atlanta 120, Washington 89 Miami 104, L.A. Clippers 90 Memphis 122, Phoenix 110,2OT Sacramento 103, Cleveland 84 Portland 106, L.A. Lakers 94 Monday’s Games Detroit at Toronto, 3:30 p.m. Houston at Brooklyn, 3:30 p.m. New Orleans at Boston, 3:30 p.m. Orlando at Chicago, 4 p.m. All Times AST

Men’s Scores EAST Fairfield 79, Siena 67 New Hampshire 63, UMBC 60 Quinnipiac 66, Marist 54 Rutgers 67, Wisconsin 62 Syracuse 70, Florida St. 57 SOUTH Murray St. 84, Jacksonville St. 57 NC State 87, Duke 75 Richmond 60, St. Bonaventure 41 SMU 70, UCF 61 Tulane 56, South Florida 51, OT UMass 66, George Mason 62 MIDWEST Green Bay 82, Youngstown St. 67 Illinois St. 69, Missouri St. 55 Michigan St. 84, Northwestern 77, OT Nebraska 53, Illinois 43 Wichita St. 67, Loyola of Chicago 53 SOUTHWEST Memphis 62, Houston 44 FAR WEST Oregon St. 58, Arizona 56 Stanford 78, Southern Cal 76 UCLA 73, California 54

Women’s Scores EAST Albany (NY) 78, Mass.-Lowell 50

Delaware 54, Northeastern 48 Drexel 58, UNC Wilmington 53 Fairfield 59, Rider 47 Fordham 72, St. Bonaventure 62 George Mason 73, La Salle 71 Hofstra 58, Towson 42 Seton Hall 68, Providence 67 South Florida 70, Temple 58 Syracuse 70, Virginia 58 Villanova 69, Georgetown 57 SOUTH Elon 77, Coll. of Charleston 68 Florida St. 74, Duke 58 Georgia 57, Auburn 52 James Madison 65, William & Mary 43 Louisville 79, Wake Forest 68 Miami 62, Virginia Tech 45 Mississippi 77, Alabama 63 North Carolina 96, Georgia Tech 81 Rhode Island 71, Davidson 62 South Carolina 68, Kentucky 60 UAB 68, FIU 45 Vanderbilt 78, Mississippi St. 62 MIDWEST Butler 76, Marquette 67 Dayton 78, Duquesne 67 DePaul 84, Xavier 61 Drake 81, S. Illinois 66 IPFW 73, Oral Roberts 63 Indiana 69, Wisconsin 52 Indiana St. 64, Loyola of Chicago 37 Iowa 73, Purdue 59 Kansas St. 58, Kansas 52 Maryland 77, Minnesota 73 Michigan 100, Ohio St. 94, OT Missouri 66, Florida 47 N. Iowa 71, Illinois St. 43 Nebraska 58, Illinois 53 Northwestern 77, Michigan St. 70 Notre Dame 104, Boston College 58 St. John’s 61, Creighton 38 SOUTHWEST Tennessee 60, Arkansas 51 Texas A&M 55, LSU 48 UConn 87, SMU 28 FAR WEST Oregon St. 77, Oregon 48 Southern Cal 46, Utah 43 Stanford 86, Washington St. 76, OT UCLA 90, Colorado 84 Washington 79, California 77

Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Tampa Bay 43 27 12 4 58 140 Montreal 41 26 12 3 55 111 Detroit 42 22 11 9 53 117 Boston 43 22 15 6 50 113 Florida 40 20 11 9 49 100 Toronto 42 22 17 3 47 137 Ottawa 41 17 16 8 42 110 Buffalo 43 14 26 3 31 81 Metropolitan Division

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Nashville 41 28 9 4 60 125 93 Chicago 43 28 13 2 58 134 95 St. Louis 42 26 13 3 55 136 105 Winnipeg 43 21 14 8 50 113 109 Colorado 42 18 16 8 44 112 122 Dallas 41 18 16 7 43 126 135 Minnesota 41 18 18 5 41 111 121 Pacific Division Anaheim 43 27 10 6 60 121 118 Vancouver 40 23 14 3 49 113 104 San Jose 43 22 16 5 49 116 118 Los Angeles 42 19 13 10 48 119 112 Calgary 43 22 18 3 47 123 114 Arizona 41 16 21 4 36 97 136 Edmonton 43 10 24 9 29 97 145 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Sunday’s Games Anaheim 5, Winnipeg 4, SO Florida 4, Edmonton 2 Chicago 4, Minnesota 1 Monday’s Games Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 3 p.m. Colorado at Washington, 3 p.m. Toronto at Los Angeles, 6:30 p.m. All Times AST

Transactions BASEBALL American League OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Designated SS Andy Parrino for assignment. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Agreed to terms with SS Adrubal Cabrera. FOOTBALL National Football League DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed DT Ken Bishop from the practice squad. Released DB Jakar Hamilton. HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed S Shiloh Keo to a future contract. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed LB Shayne Skov to a future contract. HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled G Tom McCollum from Grand Rapids (AHL). Placed G Jimmy Howard on injured reserve. WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned D Steve Oleksy to Hershey (AHL). COLLEGE BOWLING GREEN — Named Kim McCloud assistant head coach/wide receivers coach, Sean Lewis quarterbacks/tight ends coach, Mike Lynch offensive line coach and Tom Freeman assistant offensive line coach.

Devils, Badgers, Wildcats all lose By The Associated Press

RALEIGH, N.C. — Trevor Lacey scored 21 points and the Wolfpack shot 55 percent to beat No. 2 Duke 87-75 on Sunday, knocking off one of the last three undefeated teams in the country. The Wolfpack (12-5, 3-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) ran constant double teams at preseason All-American Jahlil Okafor to slow Duke’s big man. N.C. State went 10 for 16 from 3-point range to take control. Okafor finished with 23 points and 12 rebounds, but the Blue Devils (14-1, 2-1) shot 37 percent and just couldn’t keep up when N.C. State’s offense got rolling. RUTGERS 67, NO. 4 WISCONSIN 62 PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Myles Mack had 19 of his 21 points in the second half and Rutgers scored its biggest upset in school history, beating banged up No. 4 Wisconsin. Kadeem Jack added 20 points for the Scarlet Knights (10-7, 2-2 Big Ten), whose previous biggest upset was a win over No. 6 West

Virginia in 1982. Sam Dekker and Nigel Hayes had 15 points apiece for Wisconsin (15-2, 3-1). The Badgers did not have leading scorer Frank Kaminsky for the game because of a concussion, and they lost guard Traevon Jackson early in the second half with an injury to his right leg.

OREGON STATE 58, NO. 7 ARIZONA 56 CORVALLIS, Ore. — Langston Morris-Walker made a go-ahead layup with 26 seconds left, lifting Oregon State over No. 7 Arizona for its first win over a top-10 team since 2000. Arizona’s T.J. McConnell missed an off-balance shot with 1 second left, and Oregon State fans rushed the court at Gill Coliseum. Morris-Walker had 12 points and eight rebounds, and Gary Payton II had 10 points and nine rebounds for the Beavers (11-4, 2-1 Pac-12). McConnell had 13 points and six assists, and Rondae HollisJefferson scored 14 points for the Wildcats (14-2, 2-1).

NO. 15 WICHITA ST. 67, LOYOLA OF CHICAGO 53 CHICAGO — Tekele Cotton hit

four 3-pointers and finished with 16 points to lead No. 15 Wichita State over Loyola of Chicago on Sunday. Ron Baker scored 15. Fred VanVleet added 14 points and 10 assists, and the Shockers (14-2, 4-0 Missouri Valley Conference) took control in the second half. They

outscored the Ramblers (12-4, 2-2) 44-25 after trailing by five at the break to pick up their 22nd straight league win. Earl Peterson led Loyola with 13 points and Devon Turk scored 11. The emerging Ramblers hit 10 of 18 3-pointers.

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said. “Everyone is willing to work with everyone on this.” Bartlett said she is planning on keeping her trailer at the same location next season, since she built up a client base there. Johnson said the plan is to develop the new permitting season for vendors looking to set up shop for the 2015 summer tourism season.

businesses since they don’t require any kind of construction to set up, he said. Harlene Bartlett, owner of Blue Moon Burgers that sits just outside city limits, attended the work session. “I think the city is on the Reach Kelly Sullivan at kelly. right track with this,” Bartlett sullivan@peninsulclarion.com.

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this was a routine traffic stop.” According to court documents, Huguelet ruled the facts show custodial interrogation did not begin until Heiman was placed in handcuffs. Huguelet said there was reasonable cause for an investigative stop and a suspect is not entitled to a Miranda warning until the stop turns into a custodial interrogation. The two 2013 incidents are similar to allegations in 2008 when Heiman was convicted for criminal trespass of a Soldotna home. In that case, Heiman was convicted of illegally entering a home on Birch Street around 2:30 a.m. when a then 23-yearold woman woke to find Heiman sitting at the end of her bed. According to police, she “freaked out” and woke up her parents. Her father confronted the intruder, which forced him out of the house and into the woods. Heiman was convicted on three misdemeanor charges of criminal trespass, harassment and DUI on Jan. 13, 2009 and Kenai Superior Court Judge Anna Moran sentenced Heiman to 180 days in jail with 160 days suspended. Four other misdemeanor charges were dismissed. In a February 2014 bail hearing, Lawson described the cases as a “pattern of behavior.” “His conduct is similar to the 2008 incident,” Lawson said. “Now here he is in 2013 committing similar if not more perfected types of crimes. I’m concerned about putting him back on the street.” Heiman’s next court date is a trial call on April 1 in Kenai.

to escape Heiman’s truck after he stopped to use the bathroom. She ran down the Sterling Highway in her underwear in the early morning from Ski Hill Road to Safeway, according to a police affidavit. Heiman is currently housed at Wildwood Pretrial Facility on eight felony charges between the two incidents, including two counts of first-degree sexual assault, kidnapping, two counts of first-degree burglary, second-degree sexual assault, and two counts of third-degree assault. Heiman is also charged with resisting arrest. Last July, Cooley filed a motion to sever charges of the two incidents. Kenai assistant district attorney Kelly Lawson opposed that motion and Huguelet rejected the motion last August. The two incidents were linked through DNA testing after a Sexual Assault Response Team at Central Peninsula Hospital examined the 18-year-old and results matched with Heiman’s DNA. Last December Huguelet denied a motion filed by Cooley to suppress statements Heiman made prior to his arrest. Cooley claimed in his argument, based on audio and video from Soldotna police and troopers, that police pulled him over with the intent to arrest him and he was interrogated before he was given a Miranda warning. “This isn’t Mr. Heiman driving down the road with a taillight out,” Cooley said in an evidentiary hearing last November. Reach Dan Balmer at dan“They knew they were going to iel.balmer@peninsulaclarion. arrest this guy. Nothing about com.

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rig back to the field as soon as a 50-mile winter ice road is finished. The company will also be moving “truckable” modules to the site this spring. The big part of the 2015 activity at Point Thomson will be the summer sealift with the planned arrival of four large production modules now being fabricated in Korea. These will have a combined weight of 10,000 tons. Point Thomson will begin production in 2016, producing and shipping 10,000 barrels per day of liquid condensates to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System at Prudhoe Bay. Another big project underway is CD-5, a $1 billion new drill site near the Alpine field that is west of the Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk River fields. ConocoPhillips has essentially completed three smaller bridges with only minor completion work to be done this winter. Meanwhile, construction of

a larger span over the Nigliq Channel of the Colville River is nearing completion. Other work this winter and spring includes installation of the drill site facilities, power lines and the pipeline. Drilling of production wells will begin in May. About 700 people will be working on CD-5 this winter and spring. “First oil” is expected in December 2015, with production estimated to peak at 16,000 barrels per day. Another ConocoPhillips project underway is at Drill Site 2S in the southern part of Kuparuk River field, a $500 million project. This is the first new drill site built in the Kuparuk field in years. Production is also expected to start in late 2015, with an estimated peak production of 8,000 barrels per day. About 250 people will be employed on the Drill Site 2S project this winter and spring. In another development, independent Brooks Range Petroleum has started its drilling of production wells at its Mustang field project, also west of the Kuparuk field. Nabors Alaska Drilling Rig 16E was moved to

Around Alaska Number of women jailed in Alaska reaches all-time high ANCHORAGE — The state Department of Corrections has moved women prisoners from Hiland Mountain Correctional Center to the Anchorage Jail as Alaska’s female prison population has reached an all-time high. On Jan. 5, 31 women were confined at the Anchorage Correctional Complex, a facility that in the past has held only men, the Alaska Dispatch News reported. Moving women out of Highland Mountain began last year. Sherrie Daigle, a Corrections Department information officer, said 581 female prisoners were in custody early last week. Women now make up 12 percent of Alaska’s prison population, according to the department, up from 8 percent a decade ago. Alaska is not the only place where the female prison population has increased. Across the nation, harsher penalties for drug and property offenses have increased women’s numbers behind bars, said Ron Everett, an associate professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center. “The severity of the punishment has increased,” he said. Women in Alaska were most likely to be serving time for probation violations, drug offenses, driving under the influence and theft, according to a Corrections Department offender profile published in 2014. Women make up about 21 percent of the people in jail for drug offenses. They accounted for just 9 percent of the people

the location in December. Brooks Range plans to award contracts for fabrication of field production facilities this spring and to have those built and moved to the Slope by late 2015. Meanwhile, another independent, Caelus Energy, plans to begin work this winter on its new Nuna project near the Oooguruk field, which Caelus also operates, but the company is still awaiting approval on a royalty modification deal with the state of Alaska. If Caelus proceeds on Nuna, gravel installation will take place this winter and spring, and facilities and flow-lines will be installed in 2016. Production is targeted to begin in late 2016 but under terms of the royalty modification, if it is approved, Nuna production must be underway by March 31, 2017. Nuna has an estimated 50 million to 100 million barrels of recoverable reserves, Caelus’ senior vice president for Alaska, Pat Foley, told a state legislative committee in a Dec. 2 briefing. Caelus expects to have about

500 contract workers employed this winter in addition to its company operations staff of about 80, Foley said. Some of the contractors will be employed on projects other than Nuna, such as at the Oooguruk field itself and a large seismic program that Caelus will have underway east of Prudhoe Bay. That is where the company acquired new leases in the fall 2014 state areawide lease sale. Overall North Slope capital investments are estimated at $4.45 billion this year and are expected to increase to $4.88 billion in 2016, according to figures given by companies to the state Department of Revenue. The years are in state fiscal years, with the current fiscal year 2015 starting last July 1 and fiscal year 2016 beginning this July 1. By comparison, the industry spent $3.73 billion for capital projects in 2014, the fiscal year ending last June 30, according to the state data. Tim Bradner can be reached at tim.bradner@alaskajournal. com.

incarcerated for violent crimes and robberies, Probation violations are a common reason for women to be in prison, Everett said. “They get in a little trouble and get put on probation, then violate probation and are more likely to end up (incarcerated) in an institution,” he said. Daigle would not speculate on future plans for a higher number of imprisoned women. “It is too soon in the budgetary process for the department to discuss long-term plans or changes to any of our institutions,” she said.

Judge evicts former TV reporter, pot activist from building ANCHORAGE — A marijuana activist is looking for a new location for her business. The Alaska Dispatch News reports Alaska Cannabis Club owner Charlo Green has been evicted from her downtown Anchorage location. A judge on Friday ruled that Greene failed to provide insurance for the Alaska Cannabis Club, where she held events. Greene, whose real name is Charlene Egbe, had argued that her landlord, Ethann Oldham, interfered with her ability to get insurance. But Judge Pamela Washington ruled Oldham hadn’t interfered. Greene made national headlines last year when she quit her job as a television reporter with a four-letter outburst, saying she’d advocate for legalized marijuana. — The Associated Press C

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School board to meet The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meets at 7 p.m. in the borough building at 148 N. Binkley Street in Soldotna (unless otherwise noted). For more information, call 907-714-8888 or visit kpbsd.k12. ak.us. The agenda and packet items are posted on Wednesday afternoon prior to the date of the Board meeting. Persons with disabilities who need accommodations to participate at the School Board meetings should contact Debbie Tressler at 907-714-8836 or email dtressler@kpbsd.k12.ak.us no later than three business days before the meeting date. The board will meet: n Jan. 12; n Feb. 2; n March 2; n April 6; n May 4 (at Seward High School); n June 1; n June 2 (Board planning session).

Holidays and vacation days scheduled Jan. 19 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day; Feb. 5-6 — Parent-teacher conferences, no school for students; March 6 — End of third quarter, no school for students; March 9-13 — Spring Break; April 3 — Good Friday; May 20 — Last day of school.

Career and tech training offered

KPBSD Career and Tech Department is offering free after school academies to train students in the welding, construction and medical field. Listed below are our upcoming academies. Nikiski High School will be offering a welding academy beginning Jan. 6, running every Tuesday and Thursday from 2:30-4:30 p.m. Students will be learning Oxy-Acetylene Cutting, torch safety and set up, cutting torch free hand, interpret welding symbols and much more. In January we will be offering a Personal Care Attendant (PCA) class that is limited to juniors and seniors only. This class will take place at the Workforce Development Center. Students will learn how to physically care for people. Students who are close to the age of 18 by May 2014 will receive a State Certificate after passing the exam. The class is limited to 12 students. Textbooks will be provided, however they are available to purchase for $35 if a student chooses to keep their book. There will be a mandatory meeting (dates and times to be announced). During this meeting class times will be set depending on student and instructor’s schedule. Any high school student is able to participate in any of our academies. If a student successfully completes the 60 hour academy they will receive a half practical art credit. To sign up students can see their counselor, call Debbie Pearson at 283-2145 or go to MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from “onestop.kpbsd.k12.ak.us” claiming to be onestop.kpbsd.k12.Alaskaus/

Connections Homeschool Program Dates to remember: n Fridays: Soldotna Battle of the Books Grades 5th & 6th Meeting at 11:00am This Week: n 01/05-01/30 – AIMS K-5 (please make appointments with your local office) ; Ed Performance Testing 6-8 n 01/14 - Community input meeting for administrator position on January 14 at Soldotna Connections office 5:00 p.m. Upcoming events – look: The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Superintendent, Mr. Dusek, will conduct a community meeting to share information and seek input regarding the hiring process of the new principal for the 2015-16 school year. This meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 promptly at 5pm at the Soldotna Connections office located at 143 E. Park Ave. The meeting will last approximately 20 minutes. In the event that you are unable to attend, we have set up a webinar for you to participate in the meeting directly from your home. To register for the webinar go to: See BRIEFS, page B-2

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Students in Kate Hamre’s kindergarten class play during indoor recess at Mountain View Elementary School on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015 in Kenai, Alaska.

Schools revise recess routine By IAN FOLEY Peninsula Clarion

With unusual weather this winter including freezing rain and hardly any snow, some elementary schools around the Kenai Peninsula have had to occasionally adjust their normal recess routines to ensure safety and, at the same time, keep kids active. Karl Kircher, principal of Mountain View Elementary, said he doesn’t recall such an unusual winter. He said that when the playground area gets slick due to freezing rain, the school is forced to have indoor recess. “Our number one job is safety,” Kircher said. With large numbers of students, Kircher said sometimes indoor recess is necessary. “If I was out here with my own kids my three boys, - we’d be hooting, hollering, having a good time (sliding on the ice),” Kircher said, “But with 400 kids to monitor the safety of– we are very limited in options.” Indoor recess is not only caused by icy conditions - other factors, including rain or temperatures 10 below wind-chill, can result in teachers having to have the

break inside. Kircher said that when he makes the decision to have indoor recess, it doesn’t always go over well with all of the students. “(Having indoor recess) results in a lot of unhappy kids,” Kircher said. “There are certain kids that would like to stay inside, but I think we have a pretty hearty population that would much rather be outside.” When the weather forces students to stay inside, they have a variety of activities of which to choose from. Students can play games, build with blocks and even have air guitar contests. Kircher said that while some kids aren’t happy about having to stay inside when the weather is bad, parents and guardians don’t mind. “Most parents understand that we have hundreds of kids with a variety of physical abilities,” Kircher said. “Some kids will be out (on the playground) loving it, but there are a lot of kids (that won’t).” Kate Hamre, a Mountain View kindergarten teacher, said that outdoor recess is preferred to staying indoors and is beneficial. “It’s just nice that they get some fresh air,” Hamre said. At Mountain View Elementary, when

the weather has allowed students to go outside, normal winter activities such as sledding have rarely been possible. Other popular activities include running, football, soccer and four square. John Pothast, principal of Redoubt Elementary School, said that the playground at his school hasn’t been terribly affected by the adverse weather and recesses have rarely been held indoors. Pothast said that some of the areas of the playground are slicker than normal, but the school staff makes sure the kids don’t go near those areas. To combat the slick surfaces, Pothast said that the playground gets sanded at least once year. Overall, Pothast said that this year’s playground conditions have been good. “It’s been so warm that most of the playground is clear,” Pothast said. He said students at Redoubt haven’t complained too much about the lack of snow this winter. “They’re just happy to be outside,” Pothast said. “They’re a little bummed about not being able to use (the sledding hill).” Reach Ian Foley at Ian.foley@peninsulaclarion.com

Spring semester underway at KPC KPC students are back in classes today and enrollment across the KPC system remains stable. At this year’s spring convocation, held on Jan. 5, KPC Director Gary Turner reported to staff and faculty that the college is fortunate to see spring semester’s current enrollment essentially flat compared to the same period last year. As has been the trend for the past year, many institutions around the state are seeing decreasing enrollments. “Again this semester, seeing flat enrollments is considered very positive in the current university climate. Overall, the University of Alaska is seeing a four percent decline compared to the same period last year,” Turner said. Turner also informed employees that KPC remains the third largest UA campus (head count and student credit hours) behind Anchorage and Fairbanks, followed by Juneau and Mat-Su. At press time, KPC’s enrollment had in-

K enai P eninsula C ollege A round C ampus creased slightly from Jan. 5 in comparison to spring 2014 semester. Late registration for the current semester will be available on campus through Jan. 16. For more information, contact Student Services at 262-0330 or email iyinfo@kpc. alaska.edu.

KPC’s process technology degree comes out on top The UAA Institute of Social and Economic Research recently released a report titled “UAA Graduates: How Many Stay and Work in Alaska?” The research was coordinated by ISER in collaboration with

UAA’s Office of Institutional Research and the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The report summarized that most graduates stay in state for at least five years and work throughout the Alaska economy. They also determined that five years after students graduate from UAA locations, their earnings double. There were several interesting findings that focused on KPC degree programs. According to the report, graduates who earned KPC associate of applied science degrees in process technology and occupational safety and health, rank first and third in average earnings five years after receiving their degrees when compared to all other UAA degrees (master’s, bachelor’s, and other associate degrees). It was determined that students who earned the process technology AAS from 2003-2007 top the earnings category among See SPRING, page B-2

Optimism: Learning to look on the bright side of things

once told a friend an when their own struggles aphorism that even weigh them down. Those though an optimist is helpers, the optimists, are wrong just as often as the those who raise others pessimist, they are far hapup. Optimism is selfless pier. Though hard times because it brightens the must come in life for us to lives of others. Be selfless progress, how we respond in your cheer and smile to them defines who we even when you don’t feel are and our very future. like it because at the end of Happiness and gloom day you will find that it V erbatim the grow in the same way. is the surest way to feeling Like a fire, they will grow like smiling. if fueled. Optimism should When I feel morose, C laire K incaid be our priority because looking on the bright side it lifts us and others to a takes effort. It’s easier greater degree of joy. The sought after to wallow in gloom and justify my secret to happiness is as simple as feelings of sadness, but it is always having a good attitude. the strong choice to put my trials in With all the darkness and destruction perspective and look for the sunshine. prevalent in today’s world, light and Gordon B. Hinckley once said, “Stop goodness often seem scarce. Though seeking out the storms and enjoy more disasters and turmoil will come, there fully the sunlight.” Each moment we will always be helpers. The helpers are spend dwelling on the negative is a those who selflessly serve others, even moment taken from happiness.

I like to think of optimism as a verb because it’s an action. Being optimistic requires thought and deed. Even with practice, the attitude of optimism is always a choice. It sometimes seems a daunting choice because it’s not a popular one. It’s choosing daily to say “What’s the BEST that could happen?” Once when comforting a friend in a time of trouble, I grew discouraged that my words of encouragement seemed to make no difference. I asked her if I was being too optimistic because I felt like I wasn’t empathizing enough with her pain. She said “No, I need your optimism; it gives me hope when I have none.” Since then I have grown steadily in my desire to be an example of cheer and live according to the optimist creed. My younger sister and I are the best of friends now as teenagers, but when we were younger we bickered when we played as kids often C

do. While admonishing us for our fighting, my dad would tell me to be my sister’s “biggest cheerleader.” Over the years I have developed a knowledge of his meaning. Instead of picking on my sister, I need to cheer and applaud her in every good thing. Everyone needs someone to encourage them and I hope to be a cheerleader to many that I come in contact with throughout life. While my peers and I wait to receive news back about our admission to the colleges we have applied to, I’ve noticed a trend. Though our chances of acceptance vary only slightly from our similar qualifications, the attitudes amongst my friends differ enormously. Some, like myself, eagerly hope for acceptance to our first-choice colleges, but others mope and dwell on their inadequacies and doubt their chances of success. I’ve noticed that those who are pessimistic about their applications

are in constant anxiety and fear of failure. Though I have a backup plan, I have allowed myself the freedom of a happy conscience and hope for my future. The brief disappointment I will feel if I end up failing despite my best efforts seems insignificant compared to the angst I would feel for months if I worried about it. An optimistic attitude frees me from stresses and worries that would taint my current happiness. Optimism is a priority in my daily life because I’ve witnessed its benefits. It brings true and lasting happiness to my life and lifts those I speak it to. As optimism becomes a habitual part of my character, my strength against worry solidifies. I am hopeful and cheerful about my future and welcome the momentous years to come. I now proudly can proclaim: I am an optimist. Claire Kincaid is a senior at Soldotna High School.

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https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8682677661250630401 If you would like your written input considered please complete forms that are available at the Soldotna Connections office. You can fax the form to (907) 262-9132 or email them to: superintendent@kpbsd.org . These forms must be submitted by January 16, 2015 by 5:00 p.m. If you have any questions please call our Soldotna office at (907) 714-8880. Information regarding interviews will be sent out at a later date. Connections Talent Show: The Connections Talent Show has become an event we look forward to each school year. We enjoy seeing the work & success our students are finding outside of the academic realm, and we love giving them a chance to put those talents on display each spring. If your student has a talent they may wish to share at out talent show this year, please contact our talent show coordinator, Mark Wackler, at mwackler@kpbsd.k12.ak.us. Most of our acts are musical (i.e. singing, piano, dance, etc.) but we welcome and encourage a wide variety of different types of talents, so get creative! Please contact Mark with all your questions or to express interest. A date has not yet been set, but mid to late April is when the show is typically scheduled. We look forward to seeing you at the 2015 Connections Talent Show! Connections Spelling Bee: Please contact you advisor if you would like to participate in our annual Spelling Bee if you have a student in grades 3rd-8th. For word lists and information, contact Carole Nolden at 7148880 or cnolden@kpbsd,k12.ak.us. We look forward to hearing from you! Our local Spelling Bee will be held on Thursday, January 22, 2015 at the Soldotna Public Library starting at 2:00 p.m. The 2015 Alaska State Spelling Bee will be held on Thursday, March 5, 2015 at the Center for the Performing Arts in Anchorage (PAC).

Kenai Middle Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful break and are looking forward to the year ahead. Clubs will begin on January 14. Teachers/ classes will follow an altered schedule on each Wednesday for 5 weeks and students will spend the last period of the day learning a new skill/hobby. Be sure to ask your student how their Club is going. It’s a great way for the students to break up the day during the long winter. Volleyball intramurals have begun. 7th and 8th grade girls interested in trying out for Volleyball should stop by the office for the appropriate paperwork and plan on joining intramurals. Practices are each day after school from 2:30-4:30. Cross Country Skiing has begun for 6th, 7th, and 8th students. Practices for 6th graders are Monday and Wednesday from 2:30 – 4:00. 7th and 8th graders practice Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 2:30 – 4:00. There is still time to join. Students should stop by the office for appropriate paperwork if interested. Wrestling for 7th and 8th graders has begun. Practice is every day from 2:30 – 4:00. Anyone interested should stop by the office to pick up paperwork and start practicing! Don’t forget that we have an ongoing Boxtops for Pizza challenge. The student who brings in the most box tops by the end of January will earn a Pizza! Start Saving today! This challenge will happen each month from now through the end of school. There will be no school on January 19th in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Save The Date~ There will be an Activity Night on January 30rd for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders!

Nikiski Middle-High The following Students were named to the Honor Roll for the 1st Semester at Nikiski Middle/High School 4.0 Honor Roll 12th Grade — Sadie Averill, Calvin Carpenter, Benjamin Carstens, Erin Cox, Marilynn Davis, Jade Elsey, Jenna Hansen, Laura Hufford, Bryce Jensen, Chena Litzen, Tiffany Lopez, Erin O’Brien, Katelyn Sexton, Rachel Thompson, Allyson Vincent. 11th Grade- Nathan Carstens, Evangeline Cox, Luke Johnson, Billemir Medetov, Destiny Owens, Jeanelee Stock, Haley Wik, Maya Yamaguchi. 10th Grade- Crystal Epperheimer, Brandon Hannifen, Emily Hensley, Avery Kornstad, Matthew Minium, Savannah Rizzo 9th Grade- Verity Feltman, Rylee Jackson, Delaney Jensen, Sarah Nash, Melanie Sexton, Donovan Smith, Gavin Wallis, Jamie Yerkes. 8th Grade- Bethany Carstens, Shaeanne Dohse, Garrett Ellis, McKenna Leighton, Carlee Rizzo, Emma Wik, Hannah Young. 7th Grade- Jakobee Anderson, Kaycee Bostic, Martin Cox, Angela Druesedow, America Jefferys, Kaitlyn Johnson, Jordyn Stock, Joseph Yourkoski, Tika-Marie Zimmerman. 6th Grade- Rosalie Anderson, Brenden Boehme, Emilee Braun, Aspen Hooper, Alexander Johnson, Audrey Johnson, Savannah Ley, Samuel Smith 3.5 Honor Roll 12th Grade — Katie Boerem, Nicasio Castro IV, Brendon Colton, Nataliyah David-MacDaniel, Garratt Dohse, Augustus Gaetke, Max Handley, Dylan Jackson, Brady Malston, Jasmine Monroe, Nicholas Olsen, William Olsen, Jared Parnell, Christian Riddall, Jayton Rizzo, Mira Solmonson, Jacob Williams. 11th Grade- Dennis Anderson, Chloe Braun, Zykiah Cooney, Aubrey Coreson, Marguerite Cox, Sarah England, Christina Gonion, Ross Halliday, Lauren O’Brien, Kazuya Okamoto, Karon Pagcu, Javon Pamplin, Shayne Pope, Hallie Riddall, Gracie Satterwhite, Samuel Tauriainen, Lorilee Whitcomb. 10th Grade- Maizie Carpenter, Molly Cason, Kaitlyn Hoeldt, Laila Isaac, Delaina Mullins, Lochlan Quiner, Lauren Ryan, Anders Solmonson, Mark Weathers, Tirzah Young. 9th Grade- Ian Johnson, Deidra Lamping, Aaron McCollum, Claire Merrill, Marah Meyers, Rykker Riddall, Alysa Smith, Ashlee Tiner, Emily Tiner. 8th Grade- Kelsey Clark, Justin Cox, Ian Davis, Thomas Halliday, Justin Harris, Samantha Perry, McKinsey Pitt, Zina Schwenke, Gabriel Smith, Shirika Thomas. 7th Grade- Samuel Berry, Hamilton Cox, Titus Riddall. 6th Grade- Kalei Biamonte, Faith Burleson, Emily Hufford, James Lamping, Mika Olson, Irisa Pitt, Boden Quiner, Cooper Stock, Gavin White, Cailin Yeager 3.0 Honor Roll 12th Grade — Taylor Andeway, Jared Coyle, Michaela DeanApted, Tylor Handley, Heidi Kaser, Katrina Panzel, Melissa Roza. 11th Grade- George Brown, Christopher Carr, Corin Cooper, Thomas Cox, Hannah Love, Richard Lynch, Ryder Payment, Brittany Perry, Susan Sylvester, Autumn Walters. 10th Grade- Paige Brame, Tyler Foultner, Curtis Larson, Isabelle Lopez, Andrew Pennison, Patrick Perry, Ayla Pitt, Gregory Schmidt Jr, Skyler Smith. 9th Grade- Luck Broussard, Hope Burleson, Henry Heft, Angel Kluge, Tyler Litke, Elizabeth Oliva, Myranda Rockett, Jack Sullenger. 8th Grade- Seth DeSiena, Jace Kornstad, Connor McAleenan, Katelyn Moore, Sara Moore, Dustin Mullins, Angela Nunley, Ashana Poage, Jacob Smith, Shane Weathers, Natanie Whitcomb. 7th Grade- Madison Akers, Erika Bollig, Tylor Brown, Chance Chilson, Hunter Fraley, Ethan Hack, Noah Litke, Vanessa Lopez, Mariah Samson, Chirsten Williams, Brayde, Wolfe. 6th GradeJohn Akers, Emilio Alex, Hunter Carr, Christopher Druesedow, Brady Evoy, Millie Fisher, Racheal Hoke, Emma Laken, Elizabeth Leavitt, Koleman McCaughey, Kayla Miller, Trevor Mysing, Joseph Sylvester, Megan Wolverton

Christmas for our annual Christmas Kindness program. Due to overwhelming participation by all classrooms, it was a huge success! Congratulations to Mrs. Straw’s 3rd grade class for collecting the most items. They win a pizza party for their hard work. Thank you to everyone who participated! Get out that new calendar, and let’s mark it up a little. NO SCHOOL on Monday, January 19th. Nothing special going on. It’s just a vacation day. Also, Parent Pack Movie Night is scheduled for Friday, January 23rd, in the gym at 5:30 until 8:00 p.m. Please know that movie night is dependent on parent volunteers. We are still in need of at least 6 more volunteers. Please contact Steph Hunt if you’re willing and able to help. Thank you! Parent PACK Meeting will be on tonight, January 12th, in the library at 3:45 p.m. Site Council meeting will be tomorrow, Tuesday, Jan. 13th, 3:45 P.M. in the libray. Friday, January 30th is Sport Day. Wear your favorite team jersey. Congratulations to Heath Hart who won the Box Tops drawing on December 18th. Heath has probably forgotten about that fruit bar by now, but I’m sure it was delicious. Keep up the good work, Buddy. Soldotna Elementary was able to provide Christmas surprises for some families from our school community. Special thanks to Christmas elf, Nurse Tammy, and the SoEl Parent Pack for spearheading the Christmas project. Sincere thanks also to the following contributors: Toys for Tots, Bridges, Soldotna Elks Lodge 2706, Paternal Order of Eagles, The Bread Store/Adam Barret - Mgr., IGA Country Foods/ Gordon- Mgr., J & H Electric, SoEl staff, parents, and many other community members for financially helping bring Christmas to many. Mrs. Kvamme’s 6th graders are opening the school store every Wednesday morning before school so that students may purchase school supplies. They have pencils, pens, folders, pencil holders, and many other items. Thank you 6th graders for providing this service to our student body. Please remember that we continue to have the savings cards available for the purchase price of $20. These cards provide savings at many local businesses in Soldotna and Kenai, and cards do not expire until October 1, 2015. You may purchase these cards at our office. Thank you. Soldotna Elementary School is proud to partner with the American Heart Association to help kids with special hearts! Mark your calendars now for our upcoming Jump Rope for Heart event taking place on March 4th, 2015. You can help the American Heart Association by helping your child make a web page. Visit www.heart.org/jump and click on “Students Sign Up” to get started.

Skyview Middle Wrestling, Nordic Skiing and Intramural Volleyball are underway! n Wresting – First scheduled meet is Friday, January 16 @ Kenai – 3:00 p.m. n Nordic Skiing – First scheduled meet is Friday, January 23 @ Kenai – 3:00 p.m. n Intramural Volleyball – Ends Friday, January 23. Competitive Volleyball Begins Monday, January 26. A complete sports schedule can be found online by visiting the Skyview Middle School KPBSD Web Homepage @ http:// skyviewmiddleschool.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/wpmu/ > Skyview Sports > Sports Schedule Events: n Today, January 12 – Site Council Meeting – Skyview Staff Lounge – 4:00 p.m. n Thursday, January 15 – School-wide Spelling Bee n Monday, January 19 – No school for students and staff n Tuesday, February 10 – NAPE Testing for 8th grade students Congratulations to 7th grade student Ayla Read, December Chamber Student of the Month! The Skyview Student Council sponsored Holiday Food drive collected five grocery carts full for a total of 610 pounds of food for the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank! Watch for information on a Spring Drive that will include a competition between Homeroom classes for the most items collected. Many thanks to all who donated and helped with this great event. Students interested in joining Student Council for second semester should pick up a Membership Commitment Contract from Mrs. Pothast before or after school. Contracts for second semester are due back to Mrs. Pothast no later than Wednesday, January 14th. If you have any questions, please see Mrs. Pothast. The next Student Council meeting will be Thursday, January 15 during lunch.

Soldotna Elementary The Parent Pack sponsored a food drive before Christmas for our annual Christmas Kindness program. Due to overwhelming participation by all classrooms, it was a huge success! Congratulations to Mrs. Straw’s 3rd grade class for collecting the most items. They win a pizza party for their hard work. The school wants to thank everyone who participated! Get out that new calendar, and let’s mark it up a little. No school on Monday, January 19. Nothing special going on. It’s just a vacation day. Also, Parent Pack Movie Night is scheduled for Friday, January 23, in the gym at 5:30 until 8:00 p.m. Please know that movie night is dependent on parent volunteers. We are still in need of at least 6 more volunteers. Please contact Steph Hunt if you’re willing and able to help. Thank you! Parent PACK Meeting will be on tonight, January 12, in the library at 3:45 p.m. Site Council meeting will be tomorrow, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 3:45 p.m. in the library. Friday, January 30 is Sport Day. Wear your favorite team jersey. Congratulations to Heath Hart who won the Box Tops drawing on December 18. Heath has probably forgotten about that fruit bar by now, but I’m sure it was delicious. Keep up the good work, Buddy. Soldotna Elementary was able to provide Christmas surprises for some families from our school community. Special thanks to Christmas elf, Nurse Tammy, and the SoEl Parent Pack for spearheading the Christmas project. Sincere thanks also to the following contributors: Toys for Tots, Bridges, Soldotna Elks Lodge 2706, Paternal Order of Eagles, The Bread Store/Adam Barret - Mgr., IGA Country Foods/ Gordon- Mgr., J & H Electric, SoEl staff, parents, and many other community members for financially helping bring Christmas to many. Mrs. Kvamme’s 6th graders are opening the school store every Wednesday morning before school so that students may purchase school supplies. They have pencils, pens, folders, pencil holders, and many other items. Thank you 6th graders for providing this service to our student body. Mark your calendars now for our upcoming Jump Rope for Heart event taking place on MARCH 4th, 2015. You can help the American Heart Association by helping your child make a web page. Visit www.heart.org/jump and click on “Students Sign Up” to get started.

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ally ranking second in the earning category. “The strong demand for these (Process Technology) graduates is clear in their earnings: five years after getting process technology degrees, 2003-2007 graduates earned on average more than $100,000. That was double the average for all UAA graduates — and far more than the average for civil engineers or those with master’s degrees,” the report stated. On average, UAA graduates earned $51,000 (adjusted for inflation) five years after receiving their degrees. Visit the ISER website at http://www.iser.uaa.alaska. edu to view and download the entire report.

all other UAA degrees averaging $105,627 annually. The process technology degree program is offered at KPC’s Kenai River Campus in Soldotna and at the Anchorage Extension Site. There were 68 students who earned KPC process technology degrees between July 2013 and July 2014. KPC’s occupational safety and health AAS, available completely online and at the Anchorage Extension Site, came in third in the earnings list with graduates earning average annual wages of $76,909. This column is provided Students graduating with UAA’s masters of business by Suzie Kendrick, Advanceadministration degrees earn ment Programs Manager at on average $101,200 annu- Kenai Peninsula College.

and again at 6 pm during the KTVA 11 Evening News. In addition, we run a :30 promo the whole week on GCI cable and KTVA congratulating the recipient. This is a great way for us to recognize educators in our state while also giving recognition to the schools. Parents, students and teachers can use this link to submit their nomination: http://ulink.tv/2041 Microsoft IT Academy (ITA) Program provides students with the technology skills they need to be successful in their education and careers. With Microsoft Certification, students can validate their skills that will be beneficial in a variety of career paths including engineering, business and technology. ITA members receive price reductions on Microsoft Certification exams so they can enable sills validation through certification for their students globally. n 91% of hiring managers consider employee certification as a criterion for hiring n 81% of hiring managers believe certified individuals perform better than non-certified peers n Worldwide, Microsoft Office holds 94% of the market share (500 million customers). Students need skills on Microsoft Office whether they are moving towards advanced education or looking for a business career. Soldotna High will be participating in the 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. This is for all students at Soldotna High. Students will be bringing home permission slips for parental signatures. Our school has been given a budget of $2,600 to offer incentives for students to turn in their forms and to take the survey. Students will be eligible for drawings for gift cards from the following: The Orca Theatre, Fred Meyer, River City Books, Subway, I Tunes, The Moose is Loose and Kaladi Brother’s Coffee. n We will be administering the survey during 2nd hour on Tuesday, January 27. Questions regarding the actual content of the survey should be directed to Central Office. Questions regarding the administration can be directed to LaDawn Druce SoHi Counselor. We need at least 60% of our students to bring back their permission form marked “YES” and 60% to be here and take the survey on Jan. 27th. Need money for college? Come to SoHi’s very own College Goal Alaska (CGA) and fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)! CGA is a FAFSA Completion Event where students, their parents, and members of the community can come work on their FAFSA and receive help from local financial aid experts. The event will be held on Thursday, January 22nd at 6pm in the SoHi Library. To complete the FAFSA, you will need to provide some personal and financial information, so make sure to bring your Social Security Number and your tax information (2013 taxes can be used as estimates). Contact Emily Knight at emily.knight@alaska.gov or 907-260-7083 for more details.

Soldotna Prep There will be a meeting with Community, Staff, Students, Site Council members and Mr. Dusek (Superintendent) on Tuesday, January 13 @ 4:00 p.m. in the Soldotna High School Library to discuss the hiring process for the new principal at Soldotna High School. Mr. Dusek is hoping to get feedback on the following: n What qualities are you looking for in your next Principal? n What questions might you like to see asked at the interview? Skate Ski Instruction with Coach Peterson at Tsalteshi Ski Trails session #2 begins in January. 10 Lessons for $100. All Levels welcome Tuesdays 6 p.m. and Sundays 2 p.m. Tutoring Monday through Thursday in Rm 10 during the lunch hour After-School Tutoring Monday through Thursday 2:25-3:25 in Room 15 Native Youth Leadership Club in Room. 10 2:15-3:00 the first and third Wednesday of every month Poetry Out Loud meetings in Rm. 10 2:15-3:00 the second and fourth Wednesday of every month Visit Soldotna Prep blog for current information: http://soldotnaprep.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/wpmu/ Phone number for Soldotan Prep is 260-2300

Sterling Elementary n 2015 BP Teacher of Excellence nominations are being taken through January 30. The school is asking families to lease nominate a favorite teacher at www.bpteachers.com n The Share in the Giving donations were plentiful! Thank you to all of the families who donated new toys, clothes and food items which were all given to Sterling families in need this holiday season! n The school’s Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) committee also encouraged our students to clean out their toy box of gently used toys to donate to children in need. Over 300 toys were donated to two different agencies in the central peninsula, Lee Shore Center and Child Advocacy Center. Thank you to our students and to our families who encouraged the spirit of giving! n Sterling will participate in a bus evacuation drill on January 14 to learn safety when exiting the bus in an emergency.

Tustumena News January n 13, 14, or 15 Lynx Track to Ice Skating n 19 No School/Vacation Day n 20 PTO Meeting, 4 p.m. n 26 Site Council, 4 p.m. n 26-30 Pre-Registration for 2015/16 Kindergarten

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There will be a meeting for Community, Staff, Students, PTSA and Site Council members on Tuesday, January 13 at 4:00 p.m. in the Soldotna High School Library to discuss the Principal hiring process. Mr. Dusek is hoping to get feedback on the following: n What qualities are you looking for in your next Principal? Submit school announcements to schools@peninsulaclarion. n What questions might you like to see asked at the interRedoubt Elementary com. Submissions are due by noon on the Wednesday prior to view? Each week we recognize a teacher at 6 am during Daybreak publication. Our wonderful Parent Pack sponsored a food drive before C

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BUSINESS OFFICE ASSISTANT The Peninsula Clarion newspaper has an opening for a Business Office Assistant. Experience in a business office environment, excellent customer service skills, knowledge of PC platform as well as proper grammar and spelling skills are a must. Accounting experience preferred but not required. The ideal candidate must be able to multitask, meet deadlines, be able to work individually and in a team environment, and have a positive atti tude. This person will do data entry, billing, filing and basic accounting functions among other duties. This is a full-time position with benefits. Salary DOE. Interested parties can submit an application by mailing it to: Peninsula Clarion Attn: Teresa Mullican PO Box 3009 Kenai, AK 99611 Email resumes to: teresa.mullican@peninsulaclarion.com NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE The Peninsula Clarion is an equal opportunity employer. Applications are available at our offices on 150 Trading Bay Road in Kenai.

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COLONIAL MANOR (907)262-5820 Large 1-Bedroom, Walk-in closet, carport, storage, central location. Onsite manager. DUPLEX APARTMENT with awesome fenced yard! 2 bed 1 bath on Walker Lane, Kenai. 1 car garage, W/D in unit. $600 deposit and $1,250 per month includes gas, water, and trash. Tenant pays electric. Pets additional $250 deposit. Call Ryan 907.394.1764.

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PROJECT MANAGER Trihydro Corporation has an opening for a Project Manager in Soldotna, AK. Applicants must have a BS in Geology or Civil/Env Engineering and ten years of relevant experience. Applicants with refinery, petrochemical, or upstream oil and gas experience and professional certification are preferred. Duties will include project management, technical report preparation, field work, health and safety compli ance, oversight of field crews performing general environmental services, client/business development, and oversight of operation activities for groundwater remediation systems. The selected applicant will oversee the delivery of work scope, schedule, budgets, and client expectations within an active petroleum refinery. Additionally, the selected applicant will assist in the development of a Trihydro office in the Soldotna area. Applicants must have a clean driving record. Applicants must live or be available to relocate to the Kenai Peninsula. Excellent technical writing, client management, and Microsoft Office computer skills are required. Submit application, resume and cover letter at: www.trihydro.com Trihydro is an EEO/AA employer.

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City Hall Council Chamber 177 N. Birch St. Soldotna, AK 99669 6:00 p.m. - Regular Meeting CALL TO ORDER APPROVAL OF AGENDA CONSENT AGENDA Introduction of Ordinances - None. Resolutions - Resolution 2015-001 - Approving the City of Soldotna Mobile Device Use Policy and Procedure (City Manager) - Resolution 2015-002 - Authorizing the Purchase of Radio Frequency Identification Software Licensing and Equipment for the Joyce K. Carver Library in the Amount of $22,665 (City Manager) Approval of Minutes - December 10, 2014 Council Meeting - December 16, 2014 Special Council Meeting Other - Approving of the February 3, 2015, Special Election Boards • Election Officials Janet St. Clair Linda Cusack Carolyn Prince Barbara Jewell Dawn Jackson • Canvass Board Linda Cusack Carol Freas • Absentee Official Janet St. Clair PUBLIC COMMENTS & PRESENTATIONS (Items other than those appearing on the Agenda; 3 minutes per speaker) PRESENTATIONS WITH PRIOR NOTICE - Visitor Center Quarterly Report (10 Minutes) ASSEMBLY/LEGISLATIVE REPORT PUBLIC HEARINGS (Testimony limited to 3 minutes per speaker) - Ordinance 2014-037 - Amending Section 17.10.330(E)(4) of the Soldotna Municipal Code to Increase the Maximum Driveway Width Allowed in a Residential District to 30-Feet (Murphy) - Ordinance 2014-038 - To Confirm the Assessment Roll and Fix Times for Payment, Penalties on Delinquent Payments, and the Rate of Interest on the Unpaid Balance of Assessments for the Tyee Street Road Improvements Special Assessment District (City Manager) - Ordinance 2014-039 - Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $5,000 in the General Fund for Expenditures Which Could Influence the Outcome of Ballot Proposition No. 15-01 at the 2015 Special Municipal Election, Addressing Whether a Charter Commission Shall Be Elected to Prepare a Proposed Home Rule Charter (City Manager) - Ordinance 2014-040 - Confirming the Assessment Roll and Fix Times for Payment, Penalties on Delinquent Payments, and the Rate of Interest on the Unpaid Balance of Assessments for the Porcupine Court Road Improvements Special Assessment District (City Manager) UNFINISHED BUSINESS - No Items NEW BUSINESS Resolutions - Resolution 2015-003 - Supporting the Efforts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Soldotna to Secure Funding for the Purpose of Purchasing, Transporting and Installing an Iron Mike Statue in Soldotna Creek Park (City Manager) - Resolution 2015-004 - Approving the Educational Materials to be Provided to the Public Regarding the Question "Shall a Charter Commission be Elected to Prepare a Proposed Charter" and Election of Seven Commissioners at the February 3, 2015 Special Election (City Manager) Other (Includes appointments and items requiring action by city council, other than ordinances or resolutions) - Findings of Facts Regarding the Board of Adjustment Decision to Grant the Appeal of the October 28, 2014 Planning and Zoning Commissions Denial of a Conditional Use Permit for the Development of a Day Care Facility Located at 104 N. Kobuk Street, Soldotna, AK APPEALS - No Items MAYOR/COUNCIL REPORTS CITY MANAGER'S REPORT PUBLIC COMMENTS COUNCIL COMMENTS EXECUTIVE SESSION PENDING LEGISLATION ADJOURNMENT The next Regular meeting is January 28, 2015, at 6:00 p.m. For agenda items & other information, call the City Clerk's Office at 907-262-9107. PUBLISH: 1/12, 2015 2049/319

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Woman should leave her abusive boyfriend asap DEAR ABBY: I have been with “Paul” for 10 months. We met shortly after he and his fiancee broke up. Because of her, he had gone into debt, and after their breakup he lost his job. I have helped him with money from the moment we met. He’s still jobless and his unemployment benefit will end shortly, but Abby, he is careless with money. He ends up spending mine and borrows from friends who have to be paid back. Last month, he took my credit card, and within a week 1,400 euros were gone and bills were left unpaid. Because Paul is stressed and depressed, he goes out and drinks. More than once he has spent the rent money in bars. He often gets home at 4 a.m. He’s also jealous and controlling. He texts and rings me constantly and asks why I took so long to answer. If I go out for a coffee, he demands to know who with. He has a hot temper and shouts at me for the slightest thing — like if I didn’t close a door, or he thinks I didn’t pay attention to something he said. Our sex life has never been great. He blames me for that, too. He says I don’t initiate it enough, and he’s threatening to start going with other girls. He is also bossy. He always says I never do anything for him. Even though I work until 5:30, he expects me to bring him water, coffee, turn on the air con and stuff.

I love Paul, but I don’t feel appreciated. I’m scared of what he will do when I leave. Please, Abby, I need your advice. — TORN IN LONDON DEAR TORN: Your Paul is an emotionally abusive, bottomless pit. He will suck you dry financially and emotionally if you let him. It’s important that you get Abigail Van Buren rid of him NOW. If you think Paul might do something to you if you end the relationship, contact the police or a domestic abuse hotline and take their guidance. If you think he might harm himself, FORGET it. Paul will survive. It doesn’t take a psychic to predict he will quickly find someone else to use, so don’t worry about him and don’t look back.

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars A baby born today has a Sun in Capricorn and a Moon in Libra. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, Jan. 12, 2015: This year you open up to a new beginning. You could be in a position where you can help others dream and think in a more dynamic manner. You also can help others manifest what they want. If you are single, you will meet someone of interest in the second part of this birthday year. This person will be very different from anyone else you have met. If you are attached, you enjoy your sweetie now more than ever. Make one-on-one time happen more frequently. LIBRA can be challenging. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Avoid getting involved in a situation where everyone is stuck in his or her own perspective. Veer away from this matter, and you will be much happier. You are wise not to want to tumble into a no-win situation. Tonight: Enjoy time with a loved one. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHYour ability to resolve a problem walks hand in hand with a new drive to accomplish an important goal. Whatever has been holding you back needs to be dissolved. Detach and look for a new, unthought-of path. Tonight: Choose a favorite way to relax. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHYou might witness someone in your daily environment behaving in an angry way. The unexpected

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to energize yourself in order to meet his or her demands. Understand what is happening behind the scenes, and remain optimistic. You will see positive results come forward. Tonight: Ever playful. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You could be full of energy, and you might want to take a different position on a personal matter. You see life from a different perspective and have the ability to open up to new ideas. Interactions with others remain significant. Teamwork is emphasized. Tonight: Ask questions. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Take news with a grain of salt. You could be in the position of taking the lead. Pressure builds because of a situation at home. Be willing to adapt to different situations. A loved one seems to come through for you more often. Show your appreciation. Tonight: Make it cozy. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Take your time when evaluating a situation that is going on. You might want to rethink a personal matter. Listen to someone else’s opinion without contributing your own. Both of your approaches could be right, even if they’re different. Tonight: Read between the lines. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Deal with a partner directly. Listen to what is being shared, and share what you think needs to be dealt with. There could be a financial bias here that is adding to the friction. Prioritize your plans, and be willing to change them if need be. Tonight: Snuggle in.

Person praises pizza packaging Dear Readers: Here is this week’s Sound On, about easy-open packaging: “I love companies that think about their customers and make their packaging easier to open. For example, there is a frozen-pizza company that, instead of shrink-wrapping the pizzas, uses a peel-open plastic wrapping. I don’t have to get out a knife or scissors just to open it!” — A Happy Reader in Texas Yay for the good guys! I’m with you about some “impossible-to-get-open” packaging. I know it’s for our safety, but for heaven’s sake, I sometimes need a hacksaw! — Heloise Send a great hint to: Heloise P.O. Box 795000 San Antonio, TX 78279-5000 Fax: 1-210-HELOISE Email: Heloise(at)Heloise.com FAST FACTS Dear Readers: Other uses for greeting cards after the holidays: * Cut up to use as gift tags. * Use in scrapbooking. * Donate to organizations that use them. * Laminate several for place mats. * Frame to use as decorations next year. — Heloise Slow down Dear Heloise: I read the Sound Off about people speaking too fast on answering machines. Here’s an easy fix: When you record your outgoing message, ask the caller to please speak clearly and slowly. Some may still zoom through the message, but that little reminder should help most to remember to speak a little slower. — Denise S., Omaha, Neb.

Friday’s Answer

SUDOKU

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7 6 2 5 1 3 4 9 8

9 4 3 6 2 8 7 1 5

5 1 8 9 7 4 6 2 3

3 2 9 1 4 6 5 8 7

4 5 1 7 8 2 3 6 9

6 8 7 3 9 5 2 4 1

2 3 4 8 5 1 9 7 6

1 7 6 4 3 9 8 5 2

Difficulty Level

8 9 5 2 6 7 1 3 4

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