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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

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Wolf recall shot down

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Borough rejects petition

In the news State says Obama is breaking promise on Arctic refuge

ANCHORAGE (AP) — Alaska political leaders who believed they had a federal government promise of “no more” wilderness designations in the state kept hammering away at President Obama’s announcement that he will seek that designation for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The president on Jan. 25 announced he would recommend that more than 18,750 square miles of the refuge be designated as wilderness, making all of the refuge’s 29,700 square miles part of the national conservation system and off-limits to petroleum drilling, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported. That would include 2,344 square miles of the refuge coastal plain, where the U.S. Geological Survey in 2005 estimated there could be as much as 10 billion barrels of undiscovered oil and more than 37 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Alaska officials for decades have sought unsuccessfully to open the refuge coastal plain to drilling. The desire for new finds has grown more acute with the price of Alaska North Slope crude oil falling drastically and state government facing billions less in revenue. Drilling advocates contend language in a 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) barred the federal government form creating more wilderness, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service doesn’t see it that way.

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By KELLY SULLIVAN Peninsula Clarion AP Photo/The Juneau Empire, Michael Penn

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of the Kenai MediCenter said in the past, it wasn’t common for patients to inquire about vaccine information, but now people ask every couple of days. Nationally, vaccination has been a trending topic, especially with the recent outbreak of measles at Disneyland in California. Since the beginning of January, over 120 cases of measles have been confirmed across 17 states and the District of Columbia, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. None of the cases have been reported in Alaska.

The recall petition for Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly member Kelly Wolf has been denied. On Thursday, the Borough clerk’s office released the results of the application that was submitted by Kasilof resident Chase Duncan on Jan. 26. Duncan cited “incompetent representation” as the reason he filed the petition. “Kelly Wolf has demonstrated extreme and egregious incompetence in his elected position due to his recent Ordinance 2015-002,” Duncan stated in his petition, but did not go into further detail. The borough’s response stated Duncan’s allegations were not stated with enough particularity, which is a requirement to warrant a recall, according to Alaska statute. “In fact, the substance of the allegation contained in the Application, even if taken as true and assumed to be factually sufficient, appear to voice dis-

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See RECALL, page A-10

Callahan Dillon rides a final wave into Lena Beach after surfing in Juneau on Thursday.

Many exempt from vaccinations 1,060 exemptions logged in Kenai Peninsula Borough schools By IAN FOLEY Peninsula Clarion

Despite Alaska state requirements, many Kenai Peninsula school children are not being fully vaccinated. Alaska state law requires that before attending school, children must be vaccinated against a variety of diseases. Those diseases include measles, mumps, polio, varicella (chickenpox), hepatitis A and B, diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus. However, any of the district’s nearly 9,000 students

can provide a notarized document exempting them from being vaccinated for religious or medical reasons. There have been 1,060 vaccination exemptions in the Kenai Peninsula School District this school year alone, according to an email from the district’s spokesperson Pegge Erkeneff; 833 exemptions were for religious reasons, while 227 exemptions were for medical reasons. The district doesn’t archive religious exemptions issued in previous years, Erkeneff wrote. The district hasn’t received

concerns from parents about children not being vaccinated against various diseases, according to Erkeneff. “However, as this topic is being discussed nationally, it is likely that there are local parents who are talking, gathering information, and sharing it,” Erkeneff wrote. “All students must have vaccinations up to date prior to attending school, and this is required by Alaska state law.” While the school district hasn’t heard concerns, other professionals around the community have. Dr. Lynn Carlson

Lawmakers see new draft of marijuana bill By MOLLY DISCHNER Associated Press

JUNEAU — Alaska lawmakers are considering a new approach to decriminalizing and regulating marijuana. That approach, which was introduced in a Senate Judiciary Committee bill Monday, would remove marijuana, hash and hash oil from the state’s controlled substance statutes. The 91-page bill would add the drug to laws addressing impairment and misconduct. As of Feb. 24, adults 21 years and older will be able

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to possess up to an ounce of marijuana under a ballot issue passed in November. Lawmakers have been working on a bill that accomplishes that, and also updates other related laws. The prior version of the bill was criticized for providing a defense in court if one was prosecuted for possessing marijuana, rather than legalizing it outright, as the initiative had

DOT proposes ferry service reductions By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — The state transportation department is proposing reductions in ferry service as part of an effort to cut costs. The changes proposed for the next fiscal year include pushing back the start of service by the Taku between Prince Rupert, British Columbia, and Juneau; and reducing service to Prince Rupert in the summer. Mainliner service to Sitka and southeast Alaska communities also would be reduced, the depart-

ment said. The Malaspina would not run as a day boat in north Lynn Canal between July and September under the proposal. Instead, service would be provided by mainliners and the LeConte, reducing the weekly number of port calls in Lynn Canal during that period, the department said. The department also has proposed reducing fast-ferry service in Southeast and Prince William Sound. This comes as the department is planning to close bars See FERRY, page A-10

specified. In a written statement, marijuana legalization advocate Tim Hinterberger said the latest version is a “huge improvement” but still does not match the voter initiative entirely. Sen. John Coghill, R-North Pole, said the newest bill allows adults to possess up to 4 ounces of marijuana. The initiative legalized possession of up to 1 ounce, but a previous court decision allowed possession at home of up to four ounces based on privacy rights. The draft largely treats marijuana like alcohol, Coghill

said. It outlines a wide range of situations where marijuana use is still illegal, including on ski lifts and while driving, and prohibits adults from giving it to youth. The draft also adds marijuana to language revolving around dependency — nurses can lose their licenses for habitually abusing marijuana, and individuals can receive treatment for marijuana abuse. Sen. Bill Wielechowski, DAnchorage, said that because marijuana can be medicinal, it might not be appropriate to apply all of the alcohol prohibi-

tions to marijuana. He also said the penalties for youth possessing marijuana may need to be reviewed. Committee members also noted that the bill would not address retail sales, and those will remain prohibited on Feb. 24. According to the timeline in the ballot initiative, the state has nine months from Feb. 24 to write regulations for the retail and commercial aspects of the industry. Gov. Bill Walker’s administration plans to introduce another bill that would create See DRAFT, page A-10

Bill would let terminally ill make decision to die By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — An Anchorage lawmaker introduced legislation Monday that would give terminally ill patients the right to decide to end their lives with the help of a physician. Democratic Rep. Harriet Drummond said it’s not suicide but rather an option for people who are already dying. She said in an interview that it’s about giving patients and C

their families peace of mind. HB 99 would allow adults suffering from a terminal illness and deemed capable of making a decision to die to do so. It would allow for the person’s doctor to dispense or write a prescription for medication that would end the person’s life. However, a doctor would not administer the medication; patients would take it themselves, Drummond aide Kristin Kranendonk said. The bill defines a terminal

disease as one that has been medically confirmed, is incurable and will “within reasonable medical judgment” result in death within six months. It provides immunity from civil or criminal liability or professional disciplinary action for acting in good faith, including being present when a person takes medication to end his or her life. To receive life-ending medication, a person would See DIE, page A-10

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

Barrow -19/-26

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24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.00" Month to date ........................... 0.00" Normal month to date ............. 0.28" Year to date .............................. 0.49" Normal year to date .................. 1.24" Record today ................. 0.64" (1996) Record for Feb. ............. 2.80" (1955) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963) Snowfall 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. .. 0.0" Month to date ............................. 0.0" Season to date ......................... 14.4"

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Rain will diminish along the mid-Atlantic coast today as the snowstorm exits New England. An area of snow will sweep across parts of the North Central states. Patchy rain will diminish in the Northwest.

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For Valentine’s, ‘Seal it with a Hiss’ NEW YORK (AP) — This Valentine’s Day, name a Madagascar hissing cockroach after your ex — or mother-in-law — or a loved one who’s an incredibly good sport. The Name-a-Roach program was first launched at the Bronx Zoo in 2011. Apparently people are still coming out of the woodwork to participate. The zoo said Monday that thousands of “hopeless” — or perhaps hapless — “romantics” have taken advantage of the strange sweetheart deal. Each lucky recipient is emailed a colorful certificate. The $10 goes to the Wildlife Conservation Society. The zoo’s website features a jarring glamour shot — a 2-inch-wide roach image, resplendent amid the rose petals. Among the selling points: the creature’s “surprisingly high tolerance for radiation.” The headline: “Seal it with a Hiss.” Online: www.bronxzoo.com/roach

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Anaktuvuk Pass -14/-23

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Monday Stocks Company Final Change Agrium Inc.............. 105.63 +0.60 Alaska Air Group...... 63.51 -2.41 ACS...........................1.81 +0.03 Apache Corp............67.22 -1.11 AT&T........................ 34.64 -0.23 Baker Hughes.......... 62.86 +0.19 BP ............................41.61 +0.44 Chevron...................110.43 +0.82 ConocoPhillips..........67.85 +0.36 ExxonMobil...............91.56 +0.06 1st Natl. Bank AK...1,590.00 +2.00 GCI.......................... 14.54 -0.02 Halliburton............... 43.51 +0.15 Harley-Davidson...... 63.79 -0.42 Home Depot........... 108.34 -0.70 McDonald’s.............. 92.72 -1.27 Schlumberger.......... 85.82 +0.16 Tesoro...................... 86.24 +0.88 Walmart................... 85.91 -1.42 Wells Fargo.............. 54.21 -0.24 Gold closed............1,240.75 +6.83 Silver closed.............17.04 +0.33 C M Y

Dow Jones avg..... 17,729.21 -95.08 NASDAQ................ 4,726.01 -18.39 S&P 500................ 2,046.74 -8.73 Stock prices provided by the Kenai Peninsula Edward Jones offices.

Oil Prices Friday’s prices North Slope crude: $53.78, up from $53.05 on Thursday West Texas Int.: $51.69, up from $50.48 on Thursday

Souvenirs from Apollo 11 come to light By MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer

NEW YORK — More than four decades after the Apollo 11 moon landing, a cloth bag full of souvenirs brought back by astronaut Neil Armstrong has come to light. Among the trove: a 16 mm movie camera from inside the lunar module that filmed its descent to the moon and Armstrong’s first steps on the lunar surface in 1969. That camera “took one of the most significant sets of images in the 20th century,” said Allan Needell, a curator in space history at the National Air and Space Museum. In an interview Monday, Needell said the museum had been told about the bag in June 2013 by Armstrong’s widow, who had found it while cleaning out a closet in their suburban Cincinnati home. Armstrong died in 2012. The long process of documenting the find concluded only recently, and that’s when the museum decided to go public, he said. The discovery was revealed Friday by the museum, which is already displaying the camera in a temporary exhibit. Needell noted that the im-

ages taken by the camera are far more detailed and clear than the grainy ones shown on TV at the time of the landing. The film cartridges had been removed during the mission and so the device itself was no longer needed. The camera would have stayed on the lunar module, which crashed on the lunar surface after delivering the astronauts back to the orbiter, Needell said, but Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins “decided to take some souvenirs home with them.” It had long been common knowledge that astronauts sometimes took pieces of unneeded equipment as souvenirs, Needell said. Congress recently passed a law approving the practice. The cloth bag also included other small pieces of equipment, including a waist tether that Armstrong had used to suspend his feet during a rest period while the module was on the moon. Needell called the bag’s discovery “extraordinarily exciting.” The Armstrong family has loaned the material to the museum and pledged to donate it, he said.

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Lawrence A. Devault

STEMventure Camps planned for spring break

Memorial services for Lawrence A. Devault, 84, will be held at noon on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015 at the Moose Lodge in Torrington, Wyoming. Larry died Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015 at Community Hospital in Torrington and cremation has taken place. Memorials may be made to Moose Heart Endowment Fund. The Colyer Funeral Home assisted the family with the cremation arrangements. Larry was born Sept. 24, 1930 in Seattle, Washington, the son of Clyde and Doris (Conly) DeVault. He lived in Big Horn, Wyoming for seven years, Seattle for two years, Yampa, Colorado for five years, Roseburg, Oregon for 25 years, and Nikiski, Alaska for 30 years before moving to Torrington, Wyoming in 1994. He worked for Crowley Maritime as a longshoreman transporting supplies to the oil fields in Alaska. He married Shirley Baker on Nov. 2, 1971 in Palmer, Alaska. He retired in 1989. Larry was a member of the Moose Lodge where he attained the Rank of Pilgrim, and was a member of the BPOE (Elks), and a member of the Eagles. Larry is survived by his wife Shirley of Torrington, Wyoming; sons Allen DeVault of Portland, Oregon, Scott DeVault of Reedsport, Oregon, Roger DeVault of Denver, Colorado, Guy DeVault of Salem, Oregon, and Todd DeVault of Denver; a daughter Karen Coats of Winston, Oregon; step-sons Ricki DeVault of Winston, and Joe Thirlwell of Fort Laramie, Wyoming; a step-daughter Carol Munger of Hawk Springs, Wyoming; 32 grandchildren; and 36 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; a son Clyde DeVault; a step-son Harry Thirlwell and a half brother Kendall Wheeler.

The Challenger Center of Alaska in Kenai will host STEMventure Camps during spring break, March 9-13. Camps will include: Grades K-3 — Rocketry, Robotics, Simple Machines, Ice Cream Engineering, StarLab, and more; Grades 4-6 — Climate Change, Careers in Science, Thermal Engineering, Forces and Motion, Team Building, and more. Registration is now open. Interested in an all-inclusive overnight option? Please contact the Challenger Center for additional details. Connections and I.D.E.A approved vendors. Contact: summer.lazenby@akchallenger.org or 907-283-2000.

Man returns stolen kitten with apology MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man stole a 3-month-old kitten from a Minneapolis pet store, only to return it the next day with an apology note. Ruff Start Rescue partners with PetSmart on pet adoptions. Its cat intake coordinator, Abbey Lynn, tells KSTP-TV a man went inside a Minneapolis PetSmart on Friday asking to look at the cats. When the man was done, a manager locked up the cages and left him alone. Another employee walked by shortly after and noticed the lock on the kitten’s cage had been cut with a bolt cutter. Ruff Start Rescue says the kitten was returned unharmed Saturday in a box at a Roseville PetSmart with an apology note. The writer said he didn’t have money, and wanted to give the kitten as a Valentine’s Day gift.

Hospital Auxiliary scholarships available The Central Peninsula Hospital Auxiliary has released the application packets for its 2015 High School Senior Scholarships. There will be 2 scholarships awarded at $4,000 each. To be eligible, you must be a member of the Auxiliary, or a dependant of a CPH employee. You must be a senior in high school, and have at minimum a 2.5 GPA. You must also be majoring in a medical career. For more information or an application please come to the Central Peninsula Hospital Gift Shop or call Jim childers at 907‐714‐4543. The deadline to submit an application is April 17.

VFW Auxiliary scholarship offered Applications for the Vickie Webb Nelson Memorial Scholarship, sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, must be received or delivered to the VFW Post No. 10046 located at 134 N. Birch Street in Soldotna by Feb. 13. Monetary awards of $500 for first place and $250 for second place will be awarded locally with the first-place winner’s entry forwarded to the statewide competition. The recipient must be an Alaska high school graduating senior or an Alaskan enrolled in a homestudy program with a desire to further his or her education. Citizenship, leadership and financial need will be considered. For more information, call the VFW Ladies Auxiliary chair at 262-9220.

Try It Once: Beginning spinning To help you achieve your fitness goals in 2015 the Central Peninsula Change Club is offering a series called “Try It Once.” The next class, “Beginning Spinning,” will be held Feb. 23, 5:30-6:30 p.m., at the Fitness Place in Soldotna. This one-time class for beginners will teach you the basics of stationary cycling, including fitting the bicycle. Instructor Merrill Sikorski will lead this beginners group through a sample workout. Cost is $6 per person and limited to 15 participants. Contact Cooperative Extension Service at 262-5824 to register or for more information. Registration deadline is Feb. 20.

Take-A-Break plans luncheon, speaker Peninsula Clarion death notice and obituary guidelines:

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.

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11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. will feature Jennifer Waller sharing “Saying Yes to God,” her continuing story about her freedom from addiction and her work in prison ministry. Vickie Tinker will provide special music. This will happen at the Solid Rock Conference Center, mile 90.5 Sterling Highway. Luncheon cost is $12 with complimentary child care provided. For luncheon and nursery reservations call Susan at 335-6789. Reservations or any cancellations must be made by Feb. 15. Peninsula Take-aBreak is affiliated with Stonecroft Ministries.

Join the ‘Great American Spit Out’ and quit chewing tobacco Join millions of Americans as they raise awareness on the dangers of smokeless tobacco during Through With Chew Week this February 16-20. Tobacco users are encouraged to quit with the support of their peers on Feb. 19, the official day to “quit.” The Tobacco Intervention Network (TIN), your local coalition of individuals and agencies dedicated to ensuring that all tobacco users have resources to quit will have free smokeless tobacco quit kits available from Feb. 16-20 at the following locations: Soldotna: Peninsula Smokefree Partnership (260-3682) and Peninsula Community Health Services (262-3119) Kenai: Dena’ina Wellness Center (335-7500) and Peninsula Community Health Services Dental (283-7759) Kenai Peninsula College Health Center Ninilchik Community Clinic (567-3370) There are free resources available for Alaska adults. Call Alaska’s Tobacco Quit Line at 1-800-QUIT-NOW or visit Alaskaquitline.com or Facebook.com/Alaskaquitline to receive coaching, nicotine replacement therapies and/or cessation counseling.

Fish and Game Advisory Committees to meet — The Central Peninsula Fish and Game Advisory Committee will meet Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Ninilchik School Library to prepare comments on statewide shellfish proposals and any other business that may properly come before the committee. The public is encouraged to attend. For more information contact David Martin at 567-3306. — The Cooper Landing Fish and Game Advisory Committee will meet Feb. 14 at the Cooper Landing Community Center at 2 p.m. Agenda will include preparation of a Request for Reconsideration to the Federal Subsistence Board regarding the use of gillnets on the Kenai River. For more information contact George Heim at 595-2000. — The Kenai/Soldotna Fish and Game Advisory Committee will meet Feb. 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture building on K-Beach Road. the agenda will include preparing comments for the Board of Fisheries statewide shellfish proposals. For more information contact Mike Crawford at 252-2919. — The Kenai/Soldotna Fish and Game Advisory Committee will meet Feb. 25 at 6:30 p.m. at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture building on K-Beach Road. The agenda will include preparing comments for the Board of Game Southcentral Region proposals. For more information contact Mike Crawford at 252-2919.

5:30 p.m. • Nikiski Senior Service Area board meets at the Nikiski Senior Center, 50810 Island Lake Road. Call 907-776-7654 for more information. Today 6 p.m. 8 a.m. • Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur • Weight Watchers, Woodruef Building, 155 Smith Way, Soldotna. Doors open at 5:15; joining members should arrive by 5:30; Getting Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 398-9440. Started session for newcomers at 6:30. Call 907-262-4892. 10:30 a.m. • Take Off Pounds Sensibly, for all ages, meets at the Kenai Senior 6:30 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous “Speaking of Solutions” group at Central Center. For more information call 907-283-3451. • Toddler Story Time (18 Months-PreK) in the Children’s Area at the Peninsula Hospital, Redoubt Room, Soldotna. Soldotna Public Library. Get up and get moving with stories, songs, 7 p.m. and silly fun that encourages your toddler’s language skills! For more • Lost & Found Grief Self Help Group at Christ Lutheran Church, 128 Soldotna Ave. For more information, call 907-420-3979. information, call 907-262-4227. 8 p.m. Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 11312 Kenai Spur High- • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “It works” at URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. way Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. • Kenai Bridge Club plays party bridge at the Kenai Senior Center. • AA North Roaders Group Step and Traditions Study at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 907-242-9477. Call 907-252-9330 or 907-283-7609. • Alcoholics Anonymous Ninichik support group at United Method 1 p.m. • National Family Caregiver Support Group meets at the Soldotna ist Church, 15811 Sterling Highway, Ninilchik. Call 907-567-3574. Senior Center. Call Shelley at 907-262-1280. • Free Seated Zumba Gold at the Kenai Senior Center. New par- The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of loticipants, active older adults, and chair-bound or limited mobility par- cal organizations. To have your event listed, email organization name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone ticipants are encouraged. • Stress Relief QiGong Practice in the Community Room at the Sol- number to news@peninsulaclarion.com. dotna library. Enjoy meditation to restore balance to the entire body. Easy and fun exercises. No previous experience or level of physical ability necessary. Parents and children are welcome! With Duane Gibson. 4 p.m. • LEGO Club (Ages 6 and up) on Tuesdays in the Community Room at the Soldotna Library. Tell your stories and build your world with Legos. Bring a friend with you and let your imagination go wild. Adult supervision needed for those under the age of 10.

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pack its bags and be given a one-way ticket north this summer. We’re confused by the news that the Alaska Public Offices Commission is expected to be based in Anchorage from now on. The last we heard Juneau was still the capital and center of state government. Under the Bill Walker administration, that seems to be changing quickly. It was bad enough that all but two commissioners call the interior home, but now APOC’s planned relocation smacks of something beyond capital creep. They call it capital creep when jobs disappear from Juneau relatively unnoticed. What Juneau is experiencing now is more of a capital crawl. The changes are happening in broad daylight for all to see. APOC commissioners were relatively silent when asked about the move. A state document, along with a quote from APOC Executive Director Paul Dauphinais, contradict the rationale behind this move. Closing the Juneau office is expected to save the state $188,500 (its total budget is $1.5 million) by reducing staff, saving on rent, and cutting telephone and copier costs. Wouldn’t the state save just as much by relocating the Anchorage APOC office to Juneau? We say this because Juneau, not Anchorage, is the base of state government. At least, it’s supposed to be. APOC’s Juneau office is housed within the Alaska Department of Administration. We’re sure there will be enough space to accommodate more APOC employees after job cuts in other departments begin happening. Did the APOC commission even look into cost savings of relocating the entire office to Juneau? It would be interesting to view the cost comparison. Perhaps then we could be sold that this is the best option available. Instead, it looks to be yet one more example of Anchorage playing the part of the big rich kid who steals everyone else’s lunch money. Anchorage is already the heart of commerce and banking, higher education and more. Now it’s taking more of our highest paying state jobs and an entire office to boot. Anchorage, this is why Fairbanks, Kenai, the Mat-Su Valley and Juneau get so frustrated with you. Anchorage already has so many toys of its own but still wants everything the rest of Alaska has. It’s gluttonous, for lack of a better word, and potentially crippling to other regions’ economies. According to the Fiscal Year 2016 budget change record, Juneau’s APOC office needs to go because efficiencies from an electronic filing system incorporated in 2012 for candidates, politicians and lobbyists have made it less necessary. APOC Director Dauphinais then told the Empire it also made sense because “Much of the contact is by telephone, that can be done from (Anchorage). Many of the lobbyists are not based in Juneau. Some are, but many of them are not, so they’ll have wider in-person access (in Anchorage). ... Several of the larger (lobbying companies) are up here.” The contradiction is hard to ignore. We’re being told an electronic filing system for financial disclosures streamlined efficiency, so the office must be located where lobbyists can have face-to-face interaction and become less efficient. We’re sure Gov. Walker and other state officials need no reminding that the filing deadline for lawmakers happens during session — fortunately Juneau still has that, for now — and the majority of reports required of lobbyists are due between January and May. Also, since when does the state relocate its offices to appease lobbyists, a group that primarily works three months out of the year during session? That’s like moving the Department of Fish and Game to Bristol Bay to be closer to fishermen, or having the Department of Natural Resources based at the North Slope since it’s where we extract oil. We’re being fed a poor excuse and nothing more. If most contact with APOC is done by telephone, and most reports are due during session, we fail to see how this is a smart move. Yes, it will save money for the state, which is important during this difficult financial time. However, we fail to see how those same savings couldn’t materialize by moving the entire office to Juneau. — Juneau Empire, Feb. 8

National Prayer Breakfast ... let us prey

There was a time when the 63-yearold National Prayer Breakfast was a rather mundane affair. It rarely made news. Speakers — evangelist Billy Graham spoke at most of the early ones — talked about Jesus and salvation. Presidents, beginning with Dwight D. Eisenhower, would follow with unremarkable comments mostly ignored or relegated to the religion page by the secular press. In recent years the breakfast’s higher purpose has sometimes been tainted by politics from a lower kingdom, not by the choice of the Senate and House members who alternate organizing the event, but by some speakers who have used it to promote personal agendas. Mother Teresa spoke against abortion at the 1994 breakfast and announced that any pregnant woman who didn’t want her child could send the child to her. That made headlines and I wrote approvingly of her remarks, noting they fit into a moralspiritual framework. Two years ago, retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson spoke and used the occasion to lecture President Obama on The Affordable Care Act. The notoriety his remarks brought him has led to a potential presidential candidacy. I wrote a column agreeing with his position, but thought it the wrong venue. At last Thursday’s breakfast, following a powerful personal salvation talk by NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Darrell Waltrip, President Obama counseled the world by linking radical Islam to the Crusades of the

Letters to the Editor K-Beach residents need to watch for flooding issues When I first bought property on KBeach we dug a test hole and found the water table down at the 12-foot level. After a couple of years of above average rainfall, the water table was up to about 2 feet below the ground level (this past summer). What is needed is a way to drain the surface water away, either to the Kenai River or to the Cook Inlet. The way to do this is drainage ditches along the roads. Few of the Borough roads in this area have drainage ditches along them. I attended a couple of Borough meetings and in one of them the Borough Mayor stated that the roads were designed to let water collect along the roads and dissipate over time. I couldn’t imagine roads without drainage ditches designed to actually drain water. I checked on the Borough website and found the following: 14.06.170 Road Construction standards Roads shall be constructed to prevent ponding of runoff waters in roadside ditch-

11th century and the Inquisition of the 15th century. He said Christians shouldn’t get on their “high horse” about fanaticism, asserting that people acting “in Christ’s name” used religion to justify slavery and Jim Crow Cal Thomas laws. That’s partially true, but the difference is that Jesus never justified violence or discrimination. The Koran records that Mohammed did, as do growing numbers of his radical followers today. The Crusades were a response to the violent Muslim takeover of what we call the Holy Land. What does that have to do with today’s Muslim “death cult,” as the president correctly called Islamic extremists? These are beheading and flogging people, oppressing and raping women, promoting child marriage, and jailing or discriminating against anyone who practices another faith, or no faith, including some who practice a different brand of Islam. It was similar behavior that spawned the Crusades. Modern Jews and Christians aren’t known for such behavior, and though it may be true that it is not unprecedented for Christian and Judaic faiths to use religion to justify violence and repression, it is radical Islamists who have taken violence, repression and extremism to a new and dangerous level. One cannot compare religions based in

es. Drainage ditches shall be constructed such that the runoff waters will be conveyed to natural drainage courses. Outfalls shall be constructed to prevent excessive siltation of riparian habitats, channel erosion, or other damage to public or private property. It appears that the Borough has been building and accepting roads that don’t even meet its own specifications. After looking at how the wetlands maps have increased over the years one has to think it is the Borough’s intent to create de-facto wetlands by not allowing the surface water to drain. A lot of what the Borough now calls wetlands has 40-foot tall spruce trees growing in it and everyone knows they won’t grow in wet ground. Now to get to the problems this high water table creates. The first of many is the flooding of septic systems. A flooded septic does not treat the sewage the way it was designed. This raises the possibility of contaminating the water wells in the area. Many people think that as long as the toilet flushes everything is fine — which is not the case. I suggest that people check to see if their leach field is flooded and go to the Borough if it is and ask for a $20,000 tax credit. That is the approximate cost of a

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peace and love with the religion of radical Islamists and their propagation of atrocities against those who do not believe as they do. Yes, as the president said, religion was used to justify slavery and Jim Crow laws, but religion also played a major role in the liberation of the slaves. Abraham Lincoln quoted Scripture in his 1858 “house divided” speech. Northern preachers filled their sermons with righteous indignation against slavery. In the South, it was the faithful who came down on the wrong side of history, not God’s word, not His entreaty that we love one another. The Bible did not command us to wage war against infidels and slaughter innocents. Are these commands not found in the Koran? The Middle East Forum writes, “...in its fatwa justifying the burning of the Jordanian captive, the Islamic State cites Muhammad putting out the eyes of some with “heated irons” (he also cut their hands and feet off). The fatwa also cites Khalid bin al-Walid — the heroic “Sword of Allah” — who burned apostates to death, including one man whose head he set on fire to cook his dinner on.” I don’t recall Jesus taking similar actions, do you? Whatever the president’s intent, he engaged in a kind of historical guilt by association, presenting an incomplete and distorted picture, as well as bad history. Email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

mound type septic system. People should also have their well water tested to be sure it is safe. If you have been affected or damaged by the flooding or high ground water I urge you to contact Borough officials, state representative and the Governor’s office and ask what is being done to resolve the problem. Scott Mobley Kalifornsky Beach

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Business Business News Chambers set schedules n The Kenai and Soldotna Chambers of Commerce will host a joint luncheon at noon on Feb. 10 at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. Borough Mayor Mike Navarre will discuss the Health Care Task Force. RSVP to 262-9814 or 283-1991.

Workshop to build peninsula farmers markets There will be a Farmers Market Roundtable from 9 a.m.4 p.m. on Wednesday at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture building on K-Beach Road. This event is for market farmers and anyone considering becoming a market farmer. Topics include business basics, planning, marketing, food safety, local markets and more. Featured speakers include Arthur Keyes from the South Anchorage Farmers Market and Glacier Valley Farm, and Amy Pettit from the Alaska Division of Agriculture. This event is free and open to the public, however registration is required. A local foods lunch will be provided. To register, call 283-8732 ext. 5 or RSVP on Facebook. Sponsors for this event include the Central Peninsula Garden Club, Kenai Soil & Water Conservation District, Alaska Grown and the USDA Farmers Market Promotion Program.

Nomination period open for Homer Electric Association Board of Directors seats Homer Electric Association is accepting nominations from members interested in running for a seat on the cooperative’s Board of Directors. The cooperative’s Board is made up of nine directors, three from each of the three districts that make up the service area. This year, the District 1 (Kenai-Nikiski-parts of Soldotna) seat held by Kenai resident David Thomas will be on the ballot. In District 2 (Soldotna-Sterling-Kasilof area) the seat currently held by Soldotna resident Dave Carey will be up for election. In District 3 (Kasilof-Homer-Seldovia area), HEA members will vote for the seat currently held by Jim Levine of Homer. HEA directors are elected by district, with members voting only for the director in their respective district. Members interested in being on the ballot must fill out a Candidacy Packet that requires the candidate to gather at least 15 signatures from current HEA members that live in the district where the candidate resides. The Candidacy Packet is available at HEA offices in Kenai and Homer and online at www.homerelectric.com The deadline to submit the Candidacy Packet is 5 p.m. on March 6. Completed packets can be dropped off at either the Kenai or Homer HEA office. Ballots will be mailed out to HEA members on April 3, and the results will be tabulated and announced at the Annual Meeting on May 7 at Homer High School. For additional information contact Joe Gallagher at 907-283-2324 C

Junior Achievement Raffle tickets available The Kenai Junior Achievement Committee has put together a raffle fundraiser for the 2014-2015 school year. Junior Achievement is the world’s largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices. Tickets are $10 each and all proceeds benefit Junior Achievement programs on the Kenai Peninsula. Winning tickets will be drawn on March, 21, 2015 at the Kenai River Brown Bears hockey game. You need not be present to win. First place is $1,000, Second place is $600 and third place is $400. To purchase tickets, please contact Janet Johnson at johnsoja@denalifcu.com or 907-257-1669 or Renee Rybak at r.rybak@alaskausa.org or 907-395-4505.

Small business series offered Small business workshops will be offered in Fairbanks and by webinar around the state. The series is hosted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, UAF Community and Technical College and the Alaska Small Business Development Center. Extension economic development specialist Kathryn Dodge said the workshops will provide guidance to small business owners interested in starting or expanding their businesses. Participants may attend one or all of the workshops. Topics include: — Starting a small business, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 12 — Writing a business plan, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 19 — Creating a one-page business model canvas, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 12 Classes will be taught in Room 216 of the UAF Community and Technical College at 604 Barnette St. and by videoconference at the Anchorage Extension district office at 1675 C St. Anyone who wishes to connect by desktop may contact Dodge at 907-474-6497 or kdodge@alaska.edu. Each class costs $25. Register online at http://bit.ly/cesworkshops. Instructors will include Kimberlee Hayward of the Small Business Development Center, accountant Paul Robinson, Scott Swingle of the Small Business Administration and Dodge. See details about the classes at www.uaf. edu/ces.

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Small businesses think big Cheaper gas creates expansion opportunities By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writer

NEW YORK — For small business owners who deliver goods and services via car, truck or SUV, lower gas prices have brought more customers within reach and put more money in their pockets. As gas prices fell below $3 a gallon, Kristen Harris went back to delivering her desserts to Chicago-area neighborhoods she had abandoned. Harris was able to cut her delivery charge from 70 cents a mile to 60 cents, and win back customers who had balked at the higher fee. Her revenue during the holidays rebounded 30 percent, and she’s thinking about a further expansion. “We definitely want to saturate the Chicago market,” says Harris, whose Homewood, Illinois, based Pizzazzed Plus makes cookies, cake pops and other treats At a national average of $2.04 a gallon, regular gas is down 45 percent from its 2014 peak of $3.70, saving companies hundreds or thousands of dollars each month. Cheaper gas also puts more money in consumers’ pockets and contributes to a stronger economy. Between 2011 and 2013, gas averaged around $3.50 a gallon nationally — more in the Chicago area, where gas taxes are high. Harris, who uses a Lexus for deliveries, shrank her territory from a 35-mile radius around her company down to 10 miles by last summer, and no longer included Chicago itself. Harris, who also sells online, used FedEx for local orders beyond her delivery area. Some customers chose instead to make the trip and pick up their orders. Now, revenue is strong enough that Harris may hire two to three workers and buy another vehicle. But she’s keeping her delivery charge at 60 cents because she can’t be sure gas will remain cheap. CQC Home has seen a double benefit from the gas price plunge. The amount the Durham, North Carolina, home remodeler reimburses its employees for fuel has dropped to $40,000 a year from $70,000. Meanwhile, business has picked up as homeowners have spent less on gas, seen the economy growing and decided to expand or update their homes, CEO Ken Combs says. Revenue was $1.6 million in 2014, and Combs is projecting $3 million for

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In this Jan. 27 photo, Kristen Harris, owner of Pizzazzed, a home-based baked goods business, displays some of her goodies, in Glenwood, Ill. The drop in gas prices allowed Harris to expand her delivery area; she had to cut it back when prices got too high. She’s considering buying a second delivery truck.

2015 and $4.5 million for 2016. “We’re talking about expanding and growing our market to other areas, a little bit farther away,” he says. Customers are also spending more on renovations. The top price of a project has risen to $150,000 from about $70,000. That has enabled the company to hire eight more workers, bringing its staff to 22, and is interviewing for three more openings. CQC is planning optimistically, but Combs knows he may need to rethink his strategy if prices head higher again. That caution is a good idea, says Jeffrey Berdahl, a certified public accountant with RLB Accountants in Allentown, Pennsylvania, whose clients include small businesses. “I wouldn’t manage your growth plans based on what gas prices are doing now,” he says. “I would manage it more what you feel your revenue is going to grow by.” Lower fuel prices aren’t the main reason more people are willing to plunk down $100,000 on a Kona Ice food truck franchise. But they help. Tony Lamb, who owns the franchise parent company, already has deposits on 91

franchises for 2015. He sold 142 last year, giving Kona Ice a total of 400. Would-be franchisees are aware that many consumers are more confident in the economy and feel freer to spend money — such as $2 to $5 on a cup of flavored ice. As a bonus, cheaper gas might save a truck owner about $40 a day, Lamb says. “You always feel like you’re being robbed when it’s $4 a gallon. When it’s $2, you feel like you’re stealing it,” he says. Lisa Hennessy saves between $200 and $300 a month because it costs less to deliver her pet foods in the Chicago area. She’s using that money to conduct classes on making home-cooked food for pets. Hennessy, whose company, Your Pet Chef, has revenue between $3,000 and $4,000 a month, realized in early November she was saving a substantial amount of money on gas. She decided to invest the cash back into the business, holding a class last month that already brought her several new customers and has helped make more people aware of her products. “When I started to spend so much less on gas, I said, let’s try this,” she says.

Report: Automakers fail to fully protect against hacking WASHINGTON (AP) — Automakers are cramming cars with wireless technology, but they have failed to adequately protect those features against the real possibility that hackers could take control of vehicles or steal personal data, a member of the U.S. Senate is asserting. Basing his argument on information provided by manufacturer, Sen. Edward Markey has concluded that “many in the automotive industry really don’t understand what the implications are of moving to this new computer-based era” of the automobile. The Massachusetts Democrat has asked automakers a series of questions about the technologies — and any safeguards against hackers — that may or may not have been built into the latest models of their vehicles. He also asked what protections have been provided to ensure that information computers gather and often transmit wirelessly isn’t used in a harmful or invasive manner. Appearing Monday on “CBS This Morning,” Markey said motorists should be asking questions because “there really

aren’t any clear guidelines on the books.” Markey said the movement of the automobile from the combustion engine era to the computer era carries wide implications. “No longer do you need a crowbar to break into an automobile,” he said in the interview. “You can do it with an iPad.” Markey posed his questions after researchers showed how hackers can get into the controls of some popular cars and SUVs, causing them suddenly to accelerate, turn, sound the horn, turn headlights off or on and modify speedometer and gas-gauge readings. The responses from 16 manufacturers “reveal there is a clear lack of appropriate security measures to protect drivers against hackers who may be able to take control of a vehicle or against those who may wish to collect and use personal driver information,” a report by Markey’s staff concludes. Today’s cars and light trucks typically contain more than 50 electronic control units — effectively small computers — that are part of a network in the car. At the same time, nearly all

Job Center hosts training The following job skills workshops will be offered at the Peninsula Job Center the week of Feb. 16: Monday, Feb. 16 — The job center is closed in observance of Presidents Day Tuesday, Feb. 17 — 10:30 a.m., Career Ready 101 Lab; 1 p.m., GED Orientation Wednesday, Feb. 18 — 1:30 p.m., WorkKeys® Testing Thursday, Feb. 19 — 9:30 a.m., Resume Writing Workshop Friday, Feb. 20 — No workshops offered All workshop are free of charge to the public. Those interested in attending any workshops offered at the Peninsula Job Center can reserve space by clicking on the “Schedule Workshops” option located on the main screen in your ALEXsys account (www.jobs.alaska.gov), call 3353010, or visit the job center located in Kenai at 11312 Kenai Spur Hwy., Suite #2. Business hours are Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. excluding state and federal holidays. Business announcements may be submitted to news@ peninsulaclarion.com. Items should be submitted by 5 p.m. on the Friday prior to publication. C

new cars on the market today include at least some wireless entry points to these computers, such as tire pressure monitoring systems, Bluetooth, Internet access, keyless entry, remote start, navigation systems, WiFi, anti-theft systems and cellulartelematics, the report said. Only three automakers said they still have some models without wireless entry, but those models are a small and declining share of their fleets. “Americans are basically driving around in computers,” Markey said. Most new cars are also capable of collecting large amounts of data on a vehicle’s driving history through an array of preinstalled technologies, including navigation systems, telem-

atics, infotainment, emergency assistance systems and remote disabling devices that allow car dealers to track and disable vehicles whose drivers don’t keep up with their payments or that are reported stolen, the report said. Half the manufacturers said they wirelessly transfer information on driving history from vehicles to another location, often using third-party companies, and most don’t describe “an effective means to secure the data,” the report said. Manufacturers are also using personal vehicle data in various and often vague ways to “improve the customer experience,” the report said. Policies on how long they store drivers’ information vary considerably.

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Nation

Marine faces trial after vanishing

Southern resistance: Gay marriage comes to Alabama over chief justice’s objections

By JONATHAN DREW Associated Press

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — A U.S. Marine who vanished from his post in Iraq a decade ago and later wound up in Lebanon chose Monday to have his case decided by a military judge instead of a jury. Court was recessed until Tuesday, when opening statements are expected in Cpl. Wassef Hassoun’s trial on charges of desertion, larceny and destruction of property before the judge, Marine Maj. Nicholas Martz. Hassoun also formally conceded that his second disappearance began with an unauthorized absence, entering a guilty plea to the lesser offense. Prosecutors will still seek to prove the more serious desertion accusations against Hassoun and that he stole a pistol that was later lost. They have dropped an accusation related to a military vehicle that went missing. Defense attorneys maintain Hassoun was kidnapped in 2004 by insurgents and later became tangled up in Lebanese courts. Prosecutors allege Hassoun fled his post because he was unhappy with his deployment and the treatment of Iraqis by U.S. troops. Hassoun, a 35-year-old native of Lebanon and a naturalized American citizen, faces a maximum sentence of 27 years in prison if convicted of all charges, prosecutors said. Defense attorney Haytham Faraj said the plea on the lesser charge will simplify the debate about Hassoun’s decision to go

AP Photo/The Daily News, John Althouse

Cpl. Wassef Hassoun is escorted to the courtroom on Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C., Monday for the beginning of his court martial trial. The U.S. Marine who vanished from his post in Iraq a decade ago and later wound up in Lebanon chose Monday to have his case decided by a military judge instead of a jury.

to Lebanon in early 2005 after briefly returning to the U.S. The lawyer says Hassoun didn’t intend to stay away permanently — a component of the desertion charge — but had his passport taken by Lebanese authorities. Hassoun’s case began in June 2004, when he disappeared from a base in Fallujah, Iraq. Days later, he appeared blindfolded and with a sword poised above his head in an image purportedly taken by insurgents. An extremist group claimed to be holding him captive. Not long after that, Hassoun

turned up unharmed at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, saying he’d been kidnapped. But officials were suspicious, and he was brought back to Camp Lejeune in 2004 while the military considered charging him. After his return, Hassoun was allowed to visit family in Utah. With a military court hearing looming, Hassoun disappeared a second time in early 2005. Hassoun traveled to Lebanon but was arrested by that country’s authorities after Interpol issued a bulletin triggered by his deserter status,

Faraj said. The defense says court proceedings in Lebanon lasted until 2013, and Hassoun turned himself in after the government there lifted travel restrictions. Prosecutors have said his whereabouts were unknown for years. The judge denied a defense motion Monday to prevent prosecutors from calling an Iraq native now living in the United States. Faraj argued that the witness interacted with his client long before the disappearance and those conversations weren’t relevant.

Ex-School official gets decade for abuse RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A onetime California school official was sentenced Monday to 10 years in state prison for sexually assaulting two women when they were her students, including a woman who confronted her in a phone call that went viral on YouTube. Andrea Cardosa, 41, of Perris, was sentenced in Riverside County Superior Court on three charges of committing lewd acts on a child. She avoided a potential life sentence by pleading guilty last month. Prosecutors dropped more than a dozen other counts.

Cardosa was charged with abusing a former student at Chemawa Middle School in Riverside beginning when the girl was 12. The abuse lasted from 1997 to 2001, prosecutors said. In court papers, prosecutors said Cardosa molested the girl over 100 times in a locker room and Cardosa’s car, and at the home of Cardosa’s sister. In a recording that was posted online in January 2014, the former student telephoned Alhambra High School, where Cardosa was assistant principal, and confronted her.

“You should be so ashamed and so disgusted with yourself,” the caller said. “I am. I am,” Cardosa said. “I regret it every day. Every day.” Cardosa later resigned. The ex-student spoke at Cardosa’s sentencing. “I will stand up for my 12-year-old self who did not have anyone to fight for her,” the woman, now 28 and identified only as Jamie C., said in a written victim-impact statement she read in court. “It is never OK for an adult to betray the trust of a child.”

Another former student came forward after the recording appeared online. Cardosa was charged with abusing that victim from 2009 to 2010 while she was a 15-year-old student at Tomas Rivera Middle School in Perris. A statement was read in court on behalf of that woman, identified as Brianna G, who described having nightmares and trust issues. “How will I ever trust anyone around my son?” she said in the statement. The victims also have sued the Riverside Unified and Val Verde Unified school districts.

New England dealing with record snowfall By BOB SALSBERG and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press

BOSTON— More than 2 feet of fresh snow piled up in parts of New England on Monday, breaking records set during the Blizzard of 1978 and testing the patience of officials and commuters as forecasters warned of more winter misery later in the week. The latest onslaught forced the cancellations of hundreds of flights, tested transit systems and tempers, and collapsed roofs straining beneath the weight of 5 feet or more of snow that has fallen in less than two weeks. “It’s awful. I’m done with it. It’s ridiculous,” said Priscilla Medina, a sandwich shop worker in Westborough, Massachusetts, suffering from a nasty case of snow fatigue. Here’s the latest on the winter that just won’t quit: ONE FOR THE RECORD BOOKS By midafternoon, the National Weather Service reported an unofficial measurement of 24.5 inches in Quincy, Cohasset and Weymouth, all south of Boston. Norwell got 23.3 inches, Milton 22.6 and Braintree 21. Sudbury and Ashland, west of Boston, got 16 inches. Logan Airport in Boston had well over a foot, and the city was forecast to get as much as 2 feet. “You can’t change it. The snow is there,” said Helen Ferullo, a social worker in Weymouth. “You can’t do anything

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about it.” Much of Connecticut and parts of upstate New York braced for 6 to 12 inches, and southern Maine was in for about 8 by the time the storm tapers off Tuesday. 90 FOOTBALL STADIUMS FULL In Massachusetts alone since last month’s blizzard struck, state workers have removed enough snow to fill Gillette Stadium 90 times over, Gov. Charlie Baker told reporters, calling the situation “pretty much unprecedented.” Boston set a record for the most snow recorded in a 30day period, with 61.6 inches by 7 a.m. Monday, breaking the record of 58.8 inches set in February 1978. Bangor, Maine, tied its own 30-day snowfall record with 53 inches, which hasn’t been seen in such a short period since 1969, the weather service said. ROOF COLLAPSES Massachusetts emergency management officials confirmed that snow-laden roofs collapsed Monday in Quincy, Rockland and Bridgewater. No injuries were reported. Police said a former set of “The Finest Hours” — a Disney film about a Coast Guard rescue of crewmen aboard an oil tanker wrecked off Cape Cod during a 1952 blizzard — suffered a partial collapse at an old shipyard in Quincy. The movie starring Chris Pine and Casey Affleck is scheduled to open next year. TRANSIT TROUBLE Boston-area subways, trol-

leys and commuter rail trains were scheduled to shut down at 7 p.m. Monday and remain idled Tuesday, with only limited bus service continuing. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said it needed the break to clear snow and ice from tracks and to assess equipment damaged by the spate of storms. Boston’s transit system, the nation’s oldest, has been particularly hard hit this winter.

The buildup of snow and ice on trolley tracks combined with aging equipment has stalled trains, delaying and angering commuters. Fifty commuters were rescued Monday from a train that became disabled between stations in Quincy, south of Boston. A frustrated Baker called that “unacceptable,” and commuters complained bitterly of the now-daily delays.

MONTGOMERY, Ala.— Alabama’s chief justice built his career on defiance: In 2003, Roy Moore was removed from the bench for defying a federal court order to remove a boulder-size Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse. On Monday, as Alabama became the 37th state where gays can legally wed, Moore took a defiant stand again, employing the kind of states’ rights language used during the Civil War and again during the civil rights movement. He argued that a federal judge’s Jan. 23 ruling striking down the Bible Belt state’s gay-marriage ban was an illegal intrusion on Alabama’s sovereignty. And he demanded the state’s probate judges not issue any marriage licenses to same-sex couples. “It’s my duty to speak up when I see the jurisdiction of our courts being intruded by unlawful federal authority,” the 67-year-old Republican chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court said in an interview Monday. His stand did not succeed in stopping gay couples from tying the knot. And it brought forth another round of criticism of Moore at a time when the movie “Selma” has reminded many Americans of Alabama’s segregationist defiance of the federal government in the 1960s.

Ohio girl, 11, charged with murder in beating death of 2-month-old CLEVELAND — An 11-year-old girl from a Cleveland suburb has been charged with murder in the beating of a 2-month-old who was staying overnight with the girl and her mother to give the baby’s mom a break. Wickliffe police Chief Randy Ice said at a news conference Monday that the 11-year-old, her mother and the baby girl, Zuri Whitehead of Cleveland, were on a couch downstairs when the mother fell asleep at about 3 a.m. Friday. The mother was awakened less than an hour later by her daughter, who was holding the badly injured infant. Ice said the 11-year-old took the infant upstairs. When she returned downstairs, the infant was bleeding and her head was badly swollen, he said. The 11-year-old’s mother immediately called 911, Ice said. Zuri was flown to a children’s trauma center in Cleveland, where she died. The mother of the 11-year-old and Zuri’s mother, Trina Whitehead, had known each other for five or six years but weren’t related, Ice said. Trina Whitehead has three other children and had the girl’s mother keep Zuri overnight to give her a break. The Associated Press is not naming the 11-tear-old or her mother because of the girl’s age.

Boyfriend charged with homicide in death of freshman at Pennsylvania university MILLERSVILLE, Pa. — The boyfriend of a college freshman found dead in her dorm room was charged Monday with homicide after an autopsy found signs she had been severely beaten and strangled. Authorities responding to a 911 call early Sunday at Millersville University said 19-year-old Gregorio Orrostieta had blood smeared on his face and a dried cut on his forehead and was trying to administer CPR to student Karlie Hall, police said. His shirt was ripped, exposing scratch marks on his chest, and he had blood on his hands and jeans, the police affidavit said. Orrostieta told police he shoved Hall, causing her to fall and hit her head on a chair, and then gave her a “back hand” to the face, court records show. Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman said that the autopsy indicated Hall suffered numerous injuries while she fought for her life. “He’s responsible and we’re going to hold him accountable,” Stedman told reporters at a news conference to announce the homicide charge. Orrostieta had previously been charged in the case with aggravated assault. His arrest affidavit said the dorm’s video surveillance confirmed no one else entered or left the room during the time when the slaying occurred. — Associated Press

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Riots highlight Egypt’s struggles Car bomb

explodes in Niger town targeted by Boko Haram

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press

CAIRO — Survivors described it as a corridor of death: a narrow route of high, chainlink security fences and barbed wire that thousands of soccer fans were filing through before entering the stadium to watch their team play. Then, mayhem broke out. Those at the front of the line were turned back by police. Those in the back continued to press forward. Jittery police fired tear gas into the middle of the crowd, creating what survivors said was “like a whirlpool” — sucking people into a crush of bodies with no way out. The stampede killed 22 people Sunday night at the Air Defense stadium, a military facility in an eastern suburb of Cairo, prior to the game between Egyptian Premier League clubs Zamalek and ENPPI. The scene was all too familiar. Almost three years to the day, 74 soccer fans were killed in unprecedented stadium riot in Port Said where the Al-Masry team hosted a match with rival Al-Ahly of Cairo as police watched and failed to intervene. That Feb. 1, 2012, bloodshed prompted the cancellation of the national championship, further entrenching the hostility between police and soccer fans. Political factions Monday called for the resignation of the interior minister, who heads the security forces. Police were criticized for incompetence and for callous disregard for life. In a further show of insensitivity, Sunday’s match went ahead despite the deaths, ending in a 1-1 tie. A Zamalek player who refused to play was punished, with the team cancelling his contract. Many saw the violence as political — police settling scores with fans who have often clashed with security forces even before the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak and other unrest that has followed in the country. “I never thought they would fire tear gas here. I thought it would be impossible, and they would realize that people would for sure die,” Mahmoud,

By DALATOU MAMANE Associated Press

AP Photo/Ahmed Abd El-Gwad, El Shorouk Newspaper

In this Sunday photo Egyptians watch a match between Egyptian Premier League clubs Zamalek and ENPPI at the Air Defense Stadium in a suburb east of Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s Cabinet has indefinitely suspended the national soccer league after more than 20 fans were killed in a stampede and clashes with police outside the Cairo stadium.

a 27-year-old survivor, told The Associated Press. He said he climbed one of the fences to escape when a boy about 12 years old begged him to pull him up too. When he did, both tumbled back into the tangle of panicked people. “People were fainting. Everyone stepped over the other,” said Mahmoud, who asked to be identified by only his first name for fear of police reprisal. “My luck was I was the last on the pile.” Sunday’s match was the first Egyptian Premier League game in which fans were allowed back into the stadiums since the 2012 riot, adding to the excitement and eagerness of the fans of Zamalek, one of Egypt’s two top teams. Before Sunday, crowds had been banned from attending. Only 10,000 tickets were distributed for the 35,000-seat stadium, but hundreds more tried to enter. The crowds had to make their way through slow security searches and the corridor of fences that led to a single, small secondary gate — not the larger main entrance. The Interior Ministry said the violence began when fans without tickets tried to force their way in. Another survivor,

a 22-year-old Zamalek fan who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared retribution, said the crowd arrived more than three hours before the match. Fans were getting agitated by the slow security searches, and the police were getting nervous, he added. Finally, police just shut the gate and allowed no one else to enter, and they beat some at the front with sticks, he added. As the front part of the crowd turned back, others in the narrow corridor pressed forward, and the tear gas hit. Authorities said all 22 victims died of suffocation from tear gas and the stampede, according to Hesham AbdelHameed, a spokesman for the state’s forensics agency. “It was a circle of death,” the 22-year-old soccer fan said. “It was like a whirlpool — whoever was pulled will never make it back up.” Those at the bottom of the pile grasped desperately at shoes and clothes of those above them, trying to claw their way out. Another witness said he was injured by birdshot. Most of the dead were from a group of young, hard-core Zamalek supporters known as the Ultras White Knights. Though their members come

from many different political movements, the White Knights and other such fan groups are united by a hatred of the police and have clashed with them in the past. President Abdel-Fattah ElSissi ordered an investigation into the “root causes” of the deaths. But with hundreds killed in police crackdowns since the military’s 2013 overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, few expected security forces to be held accountable for Sunday’s deaths. Both secular and Islamist activists have been jailed for violating a draconian law from 2013 that regulates protests. Despite the soccer tragedy, el-Sissi kept to his schedule on Monday with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin. They both went to the Cairo Opera House, where the symphony was performing excerpts from “Swan Lake” and “Aida.” Pro-government TV commentators quickly sought to distance the security forces from any responsibility. One called the victims “thugs” who were breaking the law. Others accused the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists, the top opponents of the government, of stirring up the fans to cause instability.

Explosion at Ukraine chemical plant By PETER LEONARD Associated Press

DONETSK, Ukraine — A powerful explosion rocked a chemical plant and set it on fire Monday outside the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, where fierce fighting has surged despite a renewed diplomatic push for peace. In Washington, President Barack Obama held talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel about reviving an elusive Ukraine peace plan, a meeting that comes as she and French President Francois Hollande are getting ready to meet Wednesday with their counterparts from Russia and Ukraine. No casualties or damage were immediately reported from the huge blast at the plant in Donetsk, which the rebels said was hit by government shelling. The city lies in the middle of Ukraine’s industrial heartland and explosions like this have long been feared. The fighting between Russia-backed separatists and Ukraine government forces has killed more than 5,300 people since April and displaced more than a million people in eastern Ukraine. The rebel Donetsk News Agency said Monday the chemical plant west of the city was hit by a Ukrainian artillery shell but the fire was put out and it posed no danger to residents. Heavy shelling around Donetsk killed two people, rebel official Eduard Basurin said. In neighboring areas under government control, at least seven people were killed Sunday, the Donetsk regional police chief said.

Ukraine, meanwhile, said about 1,500 Russian troops had crossed the border into Ukraine via rebel-controlled border posts over the weekend but military spokesman Andriy Lysenko did not provide any proof. Russia has denied supplying the rebels with either troops or heavy weapons, but Western military experts say the sheer amount of new heavy weapons in eastern Ukraine belies the Russian denial. The leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine aim to hold a summit Wednesday to breathe new life into a muchviolated September peace plan for eastern Ukraine. Without a resolution, “Russia’s isolation will only worsen, both politically and economically,” Obama said after his talks Monday with Merkel. Both the U.S. and Germany have emphasized a need to resolve the conflict through diplomacy, but the escalation of fighting has led the White House to reconsider its opposition to sending lethal aid to Ukraine. Germany, France and some other EU nations oppose the idea of arming Ukraine’s beleaguered military, fearing it could spark even wider hostilities. Martin Schaefer, a spokesman for the German foreign ministry, told reporters in Berlin that discussions in Minsk wouldn’t contain any radically new elements. “It’s not about developing new parameters but about doing the obvious, which is achieving an end to the direct fighting,” he said. In Brussels, European Union foreign ministers decided to hold off for now on expanding

sanctions against Russia and the separatists so as to await developments from the peace talks. The need for more sanctions will be re-assessed Monday. In Moscow, Russian radio station Govorit Moskva quoted President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, as dismissing speculation that Merkel had handed the Russian leader an ultimatum at their talks Friday in Moscow.

“Nobody has ever talked with the president with ultimatums, and they could not even if they wanted to,” Peskov was quoted Monday as saying. __ Nataliya Vasilyeva and Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow, Frank Jordans in Berlin and Lorne Cook and Raf Casert in Brussels contributed to this report.

NIAMEY, Niger — The Nigeria-based Islamic extremist group Boko Haram escalated its attacks in neighboring countries Monday, as a car bomb exploded in one Niger town repeatedly targeted by the militants and residents said other fighters in Cameroon had abducted 20 people aboard a public bus. A huge explosion rang out in the Niger town of Diffa about 3 p.m. Monday, according to Hassan Maina, who said casualties were seen being taken to a hospital. There was not immediately a toll for the attack, which was near a customs office. Boko Haram is well known for car bombings and suicide bombings within Nigeria during its five-year insurgency, but the group had not carried out such assaults within neighboring countries. Monday’s bombing comes as Niger’s lawmakers are due to vote on a plan to send troops to help Nigeria rout the terror group blamed for 10,000 deaths over the past year. Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Benin have pledged to help Nigeria create a force with as many as 8,750 troops to fight Boko Haram. As a result, Boko Haram has vowed to attack those countries promising to aid Nigeria. In northern Cameroon, Boko Haram fighters seized a bus with 20 people aboard in Koza late Sunday and then drove it back toward the Nigerian border, some 11 miles (18 kilometers) away, resident Bouba Kaina told The Associated Press by telephone. Early Monday, another Cameroonian town, Kolofata, was attacked by extremists who looted food and livestock. The town had recently been retaken by Chadian troops who have been helping Cameroon fight Boko Haram. Diffa, the Niger town where the bombing went off Monday, already had seen three previous attacks since Friday by the group including an overnight gunbattle that lasted until Monday morning. Boko Haram has scoffed at the regional effort, most recently in a video posted on YouTube by the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau. “You are sending 7,000 of your soldiers. Why don’t you send 7 million? The 7,000 is little and we can kill them step by step ... Your soldiers are infidels and God’s soldiers are victorious,” he said. Shekau also urged the people of Chad and Cameroon to renounce democracy to be true Muslims. He ridiculed the force planned by “you tyrants of Africa” and told Chad’s President Idriss Deby that he will “burn in hellfire.”

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Sports

Spurs’ Popovich claims win No. 1,000 By The Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — The San Antonio Spurs’ huge fourthquarter rally helped Gregg Popovich reach the 1,000-win milestone Monday night. Marco Belinelli’s baseline jumper with 2.1 seconds left capped San Antonio’s 95-93 victory at Indiana. Popovich became the ninth coach with 1,000 regular-season wins and the third-fastest to achieve the feat. He also joined former Utah coach Jerry Sloan as the only coaches in NBA history to win 1,000 games with one team. Tony Parker led the Spurs with 19 points. Tim Duncan had 15. Rodney Stuckey scored 18 for Indiana, which had won a season-best three in a row. The Pacers had a 79-65 lead after three quarters. But the Spurs scored nine straight to tie the score at 91, tied it again at 93, took the lead on Belinelli’s shot and held on when George Hill’s 3-pointer bounced off the rim.

Chandler injured his left ankle 39 seconds in and went to the locker room about a minute later. Ellis joined him there with 8:03 left in the first quarter after hurting his left hip. The Dallas injuries came on a night that started with news that Griffin would be out three to four weeks after surgery earlier in the day for a staph infection in his right elbow. Charlie Villanueva tried to keep Dallas in the game by scoring 13 points in the last 5 minutes of the first quarter. He finished with a season-high 26.

THUNDER 124, NUGGETS 114

DENVER — Kevin Durant scored 40 points, Russell Westbrook had 26 and Oklahoma City handed Denver its sixth loss in a row. Durant matched a career best by hitting seven 3-pointers and finished 13 of 19 from the floor. Mitch McGary added 17 points and 10 rebounds for the Thunder. The Nuggets, who have lost 13 of 14, were led by Wilson Chandler’s 23 points. Kenneth Faried and Ty Lawson each added 22 for Denver, which also lost its sixth straight at home — its longest CLIPPERS 115, home skid since dropping seven in MAVERICKS 98 a row at the Pepsi Center from Feb. DALLAS — DeAndre Jordan 6 to March 2, 2003. had 22 points and a career-high 27 rebounds, and Los Angeles won WARRIORS 89, 76ERS 84 without Blake Griffin, beating DalPHILADELPHIA — Stephen las after the Mavericks lost Tyson Chandler and Monta Ellis to inju- Curry scored 20 points, Leandro Barbosa had 16 off the bench and ries in the first 4 minutes. With Dallas’ interior defense Golden State snapped Philadeland rebounding gutted by the loss phia’s four-game home winning of Chandler, Jordan led the way streak. Klay Thompson and former as the Clippers stopped a seasonhigh, four-game losing streak. Sixer Andre Iguodala added 13 Chris Paul had 25 points and 13 points apiece for the Warriors (419), who have won four of five and assists for Los Angeles.

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two straight after opening their four-game road trip with a loss to the Hawks on Friday. Robert Covington scored 21 points to pace the 76ers (12-41), who committed 27 turnovers and shot 7 for 24 from 3-point range. Luc Mbah a Moute had 13 points and nine rebounds. Golden State, the NBA’s second-best 3-point shooting team, shot just 7 for 29 from behind the arc.

HAWKS 117, TIMBERWOLVES 105 MINNEAPOLIS — Al Horford scored a season-high 28 points and grabbed eight rebounds, and DeMarre Carroll added a career-best 26 points to lift Atlanta over Minnesota. Paul Millsap had 19 points, nine rebounds and seven assists for the Hawks (43-10), who bounced back from a loss to Memphis the previous night. The NBA-leading Hawks still have not lost back-toback games since Nov. 18. They shot 51 percent and outscored Minnesota 58-44 in the paint. Kevin Martin scored 21 points and Shabazz Muhammad had 18 points and eight rebounds in his first game since Jan. 9 because of a strained oblique for Minnesota. The Timberwolves lost for the first time in four games.

WIZARDS 96, MAGIC 80 WASHINGTON — John Wall fell one point shy of his first tripledouble of the season, Marcin Gortat had 14 points and 14 rebounds, and Washington beat Orlando to sweep the season series. Wall hit a 3-pointer early in the third quarter — the first shot made from beyond the arc by either team — to open an 11-0 run that put Washington in control. He wound

AP Photo/Darron Cummings

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich talks with Patty Mills (8) during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Indiana Pacers Monday in Indianapolis. up with nine points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds after missing a floater with about 50 seconds left. The Wizards have won two in a row following a five-game losing streak. They went 4-0 against the Magic this season and have won the past eight matchups.

HEAT 109, KNICKS 95 MIAMI — Chris Bosh scored 32 points, Mario Chalmers added 18 and Miami pulled away from New York. Luol Deng and Norris Cole each scored 12 for the Heat, who posted their biggest comeback win of the season after trailing by 14 early. Carmelo Anthony scored 26

points for the Knicks, who became the first NBA team this season to JAZZ 100, PELICANS 96 be guaranteed of finishing with a losing record. Anthony left in the NEW ORLEANS — Gordon fourth quarter to get his knee re- Hayward scored 25 of his 32 taped, but never returned. points in the second half, and Utah overcame a 14-point, thirdquarter deficit to defeat New OrBUCKS 103, NETS 97 leans. MILWAUKEE — Khris MidDerrick Favors scored 18 and dleton scored 12 of his 18 points Enes Kanter had 14 points and 11 in the third quarter, and Milwau- rebounds for Utah, which won its kee rallied from a 17-point deficit second straight while handing the to beat Brooklyn. Pelicans their second consecutive Jared Dudley had 19 points for loss. Milwaukee, which won its fifth Eric Gordon tied a career high straight home game. Giannis Ante- with seven 3-pointers on eight attokounmpo added 12 points, nine tempts and finished with 31 points rebounds, eight assists and three for the Pelicans. Tyreke Evans addsteals. ed 18 points and 10 assists.

UConn women blow out South Carolina By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer

STORRS, Conn. — Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis scored 23 points and Breanna Stewart added 22 to help No. 2 UConn beat top-ranked South Carolina 87-62 on Monday night. Moriah Jefferson had 16 points for the Huskies (231), who improved to 17-3 in matchups between the top two teams in the poll. The teams traded baskets early and South Carolina (22-

1) led 18-15 7½ minutes in before UConn took over. The Huskies scored the next 13 points to blow the game open. Jefferson got it started with a three-point play. Morgan Tuck and Mosqueda-Lewis added 3-pointers as UConn led 2818. Bianca Cuevas hit a floater with 8:48 left to end the drought for South Carolina, but it was short-lived. The Huskies scored the next eight to take command. The Huskies led by 16 at the

half and South Carolina could only get within 10 the rest of the way. Aleighsa Welch and Tiffany Mitchell each scored 17 to lead the Gamecocks. This game had been highly anticipated since it was the 54th meeting of The Associated Press women’s basketball poll’s top teams. Not even a blizzard that dropped around a foot of snow in the area could keep fans away. Students arrived more than two hours before

the game started to get in their seats where T-shirts awaited with the phrase “Basketball Capital of the World” adorning the front. Even the 600 fans who couldn’t make it turned in their tickets so that students on campus could attend to make this game a sellout. This was the first on-campus sellout for UConn since last season’s senior day. After all, it’s not often that UConn has hosted a No. 1 team in the nation. Usually, it’s the Huskies who are the top team

in the country. South Carolina has been No. 1 in the poll the last 12 weeks since UConn suffered its only loss of the season at Stanford. Assuming the Huskies can beat Tulane on Saturday, they will reclaim the No. 1 position in the poll. That’s not too much of a stretch to believe since UConn has won its conference games this season by nearly 50 points a game. With about a minute left, the student section started chanting, “We’re No. 1.”

Oilers nip Devils for 2nd-straight victory By The Associated Press

NEWARK, N.J. — Nail Yakupov shook off an early mid-ice collision and scored a game-winning power-play goal in the second period to lead the Edmonton Oilers to a 2-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Monday night. Jordan Eberle had the primary assist on Yakupov’s goal, and helped set up defenseman Oscar Klefbom’s tally as the Oilers snapped a two-game losing streak. Ben Scrivens made 13 saves in sending the Devils to their second straight loss. Edmonton (15-30-9) has the fewest wins in the NHL. Patrik Elias scored for the Devils, who had gone 8-2-2 in their previous 12. Cory Schneider had 22 saves, including a stop on a breakaway by Teddy Purcell with just over three minutes to play. Scrivens wasn’t seriously tested in

just two goals in 15 games. the third period, and the crowd booed ver for its sixth straight win in regulation. Jordan Schroeder got his first goal with Patrick Kane scored the only Blackhawks during the closing seconds.

the Wild, against the team that drafted him, goal in the shootout against Mike Smith, and Nino Niederreiter and Kyle Brodziak who made 36 saves through an overtime that also scored to send Canucks goalie Ryan had a wild finish. COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jeff Carter and Miller to an early exit midway through the Dwight King each had a goal and an assist, second period. FLAMES 4, SHARKS 1 and Jonathan Quick stopped 23 shots to lead Los Angeles past Columbus. SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jiri Hudler scored Tyler Toffoli and Dustin Brown also COYOTES 3, BLACKHAWKS 2, SO his fifth goal of the season against San Jose scored for the Kings, and Brayden McNabb CHICAGO — Antoine Vermette scored to help Calgary win for the fourth time in added two assists. in regulation and netted the deciding goal in five games. Scott Hartnell, playing in his 1,000th the third round of the shootout to lift AriMason Raymond, Lance Bouma and DaNHL game, notched his 263rd goal. David zona over Chicago. vid Jones also scored for the Flames, who Savard had a goal and an assist, and Jack Lucas Lessio also connected in the shoo- won four of five meetings this season against Skille and scored for the Blue Jackets. Cur- tout, and Arizona’s Shane Doan scored in San Jose to move ahead of the Sharks into tis McElhinney had 40 saves. regulation to help the Coyotes snap a two- second place in the Pacific Division. Jonas game losing streak. Oliver Ekman-Larsson Hiller made 33 saves. WILD 5, CANUCKS 3 assisted on both of Arizona’s goals. Brent Burns scored the lone goal for the Chicago’s Marian Hossa scored two Sharks but also committed the penalty that ST. PAUL, Minn. — Jason Pominville goals for the second straight game, and led to Hudler’s power-play goal in the third and Ryan Suter scored power-play goals, Jonathan Toews set up both. Hossa recorded period that helped seal the game for the and Devan Dubnyk earned another victory Chicago’s final two goals in a 4-2 win at St. Flames. Antti Niemi made 22 saves for the in the net, guiding Minnesota past Vancou- Louis on Sunday. Before this run, he had Sharks, who have lost four of five.

KINGS 4, BLUE JACKETS 3

Prosecutors dismiss charges against Hardy By The Associated Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Prosecutors dismissed domestic violence charges against Panthers defensive end and soonto-be free agent Greg Hardy on Monday after they said the accuser in the case couldn’t be found. The dismissal happened just as Hardy’s appeal in the case was set to begin. Mecklenburg County district attorney Andrew Murray told the judge that officials attempted many times to contact the woman, but failed. Murray said the woman had reached a civil suit agreement with Hardy. Hardy, whose NFL future is uncertain, left with his attorney and did not answer questions. Moments before court con-

vened, Hardy appeared calm, tweeting that he was would be giving away a pair of his game cleats to a fan who could name his favorite color, his favorite president and his favorite NBA player. Hardy was convicted last summer on assault on a female and communicating threats in a case involving a former girlfriend. The Associated Press generally does not name victims of abuse. Murray told Superior Court Judge Robert T. Sumner that law enforcement had taken “extraordinary” measures to find the accuser so that she could testify during the appeal. He said they took surveillance of her new address, attempted to find her at work and tried to C

contact relatives but couldn’t Seahawks since Pete Carroll’s locate her. arrival as head coach in 2010, first as an assistant defensive Seahawks promote Rich- backs coach. Since 2012, Richard to defensive coordinator ard has been the head defensive RENTON, Wash. — The Se- backs coach, helping develop attle Seahawks stayed in-house the “Legion of Boom” secto fill the biggest vacancy on ondary featuring All-Pros Earl their coaching staff. Thomas and Richard Sherman, The Seahawks promoted and safety Kam Chancellor. Kris Richard on Monday to deRichard, 35, spent two seafensive coordinator, replacing sons as a graduate assistant at Dan Quinn who took over as Southern Cal on Carroll’s staff head coach in Atlanta. before following him to Seattle. Richard seemed the likely candidate to replace Quinn and Ed Sabol dies at 98 it became even more apparent NEW YORK — Ed Sabol, he was Seattle’s choice after the NFL Films founder who revKen Norton Jr. left the Sea- olutionized sports broadcasting hawks defensive staff last week and transformed pro football to become the defensive coor- from an up-and-coming league dinator in Oakland. to must-watch theater, has died. Richard has been with the He was 98.

Sabol died Monday at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona, the NFL said. Sabol was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011. During his tenure at NFL Films from 1964-1995, the organization won 52 Emmy Awards. Working with his son, Steve, Sabol introduced a series of innovations taken for granted today: super slow-motion replays, blooper reels, reverse angle shots. They stuck microphones on coaches and players, set highlights to pop music and recorded pregame locker room speeches. And one of their most important decisions was hiring John Facenda to narrate all this. He became known as the “Voice of God,” reading lyrical descriptions in solemn tones.

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Duke tops Seminoles By The Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Quinn Cook scored a season-high 25 points and Jahlil Okafor was 5 of 5 from the floor in the second half and finished with 13 points as No. 4 Duke held off Florida State 73-70 on Monday night. Florida State pulled within one at 70-69 as Xavier Rathan-Mayes drove the lane for a layup after dribbling under the basket with 11 seconds to go. But the Seminoles couldn’t close the gap. Tyus Jones added 16 points and 12 assists for Duke (21-3, 8-3 Atlantic Coast Conference), which won its fourth straight. Okafor has scored in double figures in 24 straight games, breaking Johnny Dawkins’ record for the longest scoring streak by a Blue Devils freshman. Devon Bookert scored a careerhigh 23 points for FSU (13-12, 5-7 ACC). No. 17 OKLAHOMA 94, No. 14 IOWA STATE 83 NORMAN, Okla. — TaShawn Thomas had 22 points and 11 rebounds, and Oklahoma defeated Iowa State to move into sole possession of second place in the Big 12. Isaiah Cousins scored 19 points, Buddy Hield scored 17 and Ryan Spangler added 14 points and 12 rebounds for the Sooners (17-7, 8-4 Big 12), who won their fifth straight. Oklahoma shot 51 percent from the field, had just seven turnovers and scored a season-best point total. Dustin Hogue scored a season-high 19 points, Jameel McKay scored 16 and Naz Long and Bryce Dejean-Jones added 14 for the Cyclones (17-6, 7-4), who had won three of four.

No. 21 OKLAHOMA STATE 74, No. 16 BAYLOR 65

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Scoreboard Basketball The AP Top 25

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 8, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Record Pts Prv 1. Kentucky (65) 23-0 1,625 1 2. Virginia 21-1 1,518 3 3. Gonzaga 24-1 1,486 2 4. Duke 20-3 1,450 4 5. Wisconsin 21-2 1,385 5 6. Villanova 21-2 1,294 7 7. Arizona 20-3 1,185 6 8. Kansas 19-4 1,171 8 9. Louisville 19-4 1,120 9 10. Notre Dame 21-4 948 10 11. Utah 18-4 946 13 12. North Carolina 18-6 871 12 13. N. Iowa 22-2 846 14 14. Iowa St. 17-5 842 11 15. Wichita St. 21-3 743 16 16. Baylor 18-5 694 19 17. Oklahoma 16-7 565 21 18. Butler 18-6 462 22 19. Maryland 19-5 347 17 20. VCU 18-5 296 18 21. Oklahoma St. 16-7 273 — 21. West Virginia 18-5 273 15 23. Ohio St. 18-6 271 20 24. Arkansas 18-5 221 — 25. SMU 19-5 81 23 Others receiving votes: Iowa 38, Providence 26, Texas 25, Stephen F. Austin 22, Cincinnati 21, Murray St. 20, Indiana 13, Rhode Island 12, Georgetown 9, Texas A&M 7, Temple 6, Mississippi 3, Old Dominion 3, Harvard 2, San Diego St. 2, Xavier 2, Valparaiso 1.

USA Today Top 25 Poll

The top 25 teams in the USA Today men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 8, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Kentucky (31) 23-0 799 1 2. Gonzaga (1) 24-1 749 2 3. Virginia 21-1 727 3 4. Wisconsin 21-2 704 4 5. Duke 20-3 694 5 6. Villanova 21-2 626 7 7. Arizona 20-3 564 6 8. Louisville 19-4 560 8 9. Kansas 19-4 517 9 10. Utah 18-4 497 11 11. Notre Dame 21-4 456 10 12. Northern Iowa 22-2 448 15 13. Wichita State 21-3 389 17 14. Iowa State 17-5 388 14 15. North Carolina 18-6 383 13 16. Baylor 18-5 328 19 17. Oklahoma 16-7 278 21 18. Butler 18-6 242 22 19. Maryland 19-5 206 16 20. West Virginia 18-5 187 12 21. Ohio State 18-6 128 20 22. VCU 18-5 120 18 23. Arkansas 18-5 96 — 24. Oklahoma State 16-7 63 — 25. SMU 19-5 39 23 Others receiving votes: Indiana 26, Iowa 20, Cincinnati 18, San Diego State 18, Texas A&M 18, Stephen F. Austin 15, Texas 15, Providence 14, Mississippi 10,

Colorado State 9, Murray State 8, Tulsa 8, Dayton 7, Valparaiso 7, Georgetown 5, Rhode Island 5, Boise State 4, Wyoming 3, George Washington 2.

The Women’s Top 25 The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 8, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Record Pts Prv 1. South Carolina (26) 22-0 842 1 2. UConn (8) 22-1 824 2 3. Baylor 22-1 777 3 4. Notre Dame 23-2 751 4 5. Maryland 21-2 698 5 6. Tennessee 20-3 690 6 7. Florida St. 22-2 630 9 8. Oregon St. 21-2 578 7 9. Louisville 20-3 566 8 10. Kentucky 18-5 536 11 11. Duke 18-6 488 15 12. Arizona St. 21-3 470 10 13. Mississippi St. 23-3 432 17 14. Iowa 19-4 404 16 15. Texas A&M 18-6 331 14 16. Princeton 21-0 327 18 17. North Carolina 19-5 307 13 18. Rutgers 18-5 277 21 19. Stanford 17-7 239 12 20. G. Washington 21-2 148 24 21. Chattanooga 20-3 145 23 22. Nebraska 17-6 123 19 23. Syracuse 17-7 122 25 24. Georgia 17-6 92 22 25. South Florida 19-4 56 —

MIDWEST No major team scores reported SOUTHWEST Houston Baptist 77, Texas A&MCC 66 Lamar 80, Abilene Christian 61 Oklahoma 94, Iowa St. 83 Oklahoma St. 74, Baylor 65 Sam Houston St. 88, Texas College 39 FAR WEST Utah Valley 77, Saint Katherine 55

Women’s Scores EAST Bryant 74, Mount St. Mary’s 72, OT CCSU 61, St. Francis (NY) 43 Fairleigh Dickinson 78, St. Francis (Pa.) 63 Quinnipiac 85, Iona 74 Robert Morris 77, LIU Brooklyn 58 Sacred Heart 73, Wagner 60 UConn 87, South Carolina 62 SOUTH Alabama A&M 72, Ark.-Pine Bluff 48 Alabama St. 61, MVSU 57 Chattanooga 68, Wofford 41 ETSU 72, Furman 61 Florida A&M 78, Delaware St. 63 Grambling St. 82, Alcorn St. 57 Hampton 80, Howard 61 Md.-Eastern Shore 60, Norfolk St. 50 Mercer 82, W. Carolina 60 Morgan St. 54, SC State 46 Samford 88, UNC-Greensboro 66 Savannah St. 63, Coppin St. 56, OT Southern U. 82, Jackson St. 60 MIDWEST No major team scores reported

Others receiving votes: California 47, Texas 44, Oklahoma 27, Florida Gulf Coast 18, Seton Hall 18, Washington 10, DePaul 9, James Madison 9, LSU 8, Green Bay 5, Gonzaga 2.

SOUTHWEST Arkansas 54, Georgia 48 FAR WEST No major team scores reported

NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE

Men’s Scores EAST Boston U. 74, Lafayette 60 St. Peter’s 65, Siena 57 SOUTH Alabama St. 65, MVSU 57 Alcorn St. 91, Grambling St. 77 Delaware St. 90, Florida A&M 74 Duke 73, Florida St. 70 Hampton 73, Howard 69, OT Jackson St. 62, Southern U. 52 Md.-Eastern Shore 82, Norfolk St. 64 Morgan St. 55, SC State 43 New Orleans 81, McNeese St. 71 Savannah St. 73, Coppin St. 70 Stephen F. Austin 93, Northwestern St. 82 UNC Asheville 92, Gardner-Webb 89 Virginia Tech 65, Georgia Tech 63

Atlantic Division W L Toronto 35 17 Brooklyn 21 30 Boston 19 31 Philadelphia 12 41 New York 10 42 Southeast Division Atlanta 43 10 Washington 33 20 Charlotte 22 29 Miami 22 29 Orlando 16 39 Central Division Chicago 32 20 Cleveland 32 21 Milwaukee 29 23 Detroit 20 32 Indiana 20 33

Pct GB .673 — .412 13½ .380 15 .226 23½ .192 25 .811 .623 .431 .431 .291

.615 — .604 ½ .558 3 .385 12 .377 12½

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Memphis 38 13 .745

Sports Briefs Ninilchik girls top Kalskag The host Ninilchik girls basketball team notched a nonconference victory over Kalskag on Monday. The Wolverines grabbed control from the outset, leading 15-5 after one quarter and 27-14 at halftime. Melissa Ehlers led the way for Ninilchik with 16 points, while Olivia Delgado added nine. Kristen Levi had 11 points for the Grizzlies. Monday girls Wolverines 48, Grizzlies 29 Kalskag Ninilchik

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KALSKAG (29) — Holmberg 0 0-0 0, Levi 4 2-3 11, Samuelson 0 0-2 0, Nook 0 0-0 0, Abarca 2 2-6 6, Nelson 1 0-0 2, Wise 4 0-0 8, Stewart 1 0-0 2. Totals — 12 4-11 29. NINILCHIK (48) — Delgado 4 1-5 9, Appelhanz 1 0-1 2, Cooper 3 0-0 7, Goins 2 2-3 6, Ehlers 5 6-12 16, Finney 1 2-4 4, Me. Clark 1 0-0 2, Mi. Clark 0 2-2 2. Totals — 17 13-27 48. 3-point goals — Kalskag 1 (Levi); Ninilchik 1 (Cooper). Team fouls — Kalskag 20, Ninilchik 14. Fouled out — Levi.

Shields signs up with Padres SAN DIEGO — Right-hander James Shields, who helped Kansas City reach the World Series last season, has agreed to a $75 million, four-year contract with the San Diego Padres. The deal includes an option for 2019 and is subject to the successful completion of a physical, which likely to take place Tuesday. Shields is the latest addition by first-year general manager A.J. Preller, who in December added sluggers Matt Kemp, Justin Upton and Wil Myers, as well as Derek Norris and Will Middlebrooks. Shields was traded from Tampa Bay to Kansas City two years ago in a deal in which Myers, then the Royals’ top prospect, was acquired by the Rays. Shields was 14-8 with a 3.21 ERA last season and declined a $15.3 million qualifying offer from the Royals. He lost both of his World Series starts, outdueled each time by Madison Bumgarner.

Griffin will be out 3 or 4 weeks DALLAS — Blake Griffin will miss three to four weeks after the Los Angeles Clippers’ All-Star forward underwent surgery for a staph infection in his right elbow Monday. Clippers coach Doc Rivers said the timetable offered after the procedure in Los Angeles was about what the team expected. Griffin sat out his second game Monday night in Dallas after the Clippers were blown out 131-108 by Oklahoma City on Sunday in their first game without Griffin this season. Third in MVP voting last season, Griffin is averaging 22.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 5.1 assists while shooting 50.1 percent. Rivers said Griffin should be able to start conditioning work in about two weeks — not too long after the All-Star break ends next week. “We’ve got a week off, where he’s healing instead of playing games,” Rivers said before the game against the Mavericks. “But he also got hurt during the toughest part of our schedule. So that’s not good luck for us.”

Maze nabs gold in Alpine combined BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — Tina Maze pulled off an impressive feat on the soft snow — a cartwheel in ski boots. Her racing wasn’t too bad, either. Maze captured gold in the Alpine combined Monday, earning her third medal of the Beaver Creek world championships on a warm afternoon when Lindsey Vonn failed to finish the slalom. Leading after the downhill portion, the Slovenian standout used a clean slalom run to finish in a combined time of 2 minutes, 33.37 seconds. Nicole Hosp of Austria was second, 0.22 seconds behind, and fellow Austrian Michaela Kirchgasser earned third. “If I didn’t win today I wouldn’t have felt good,” Maze said. “It was a lot of pressure today. It’s not easy to race like that. I was really nervous before the slalom. “This was a hard win.” And a difficult day for Vonn, who struggled in the downhill portion, with the icy surface bothering her surgically repaired right knee. Later, in the slalom, she straddled a gate just before the first interval, ending her day. Vonn was in tears after the race — overwhelmed by the pressure of racing in front of a hometown crowd. She will race in one last event, the giant slalom, on Thursday. “I’m just really disappointed,” said Vonn, whose lone medal at worlds so far is a bronze in the superG. “I really tried as hard as I could. I came up short. That’s disappointing for myself, my family and my fans. I didn’t figure out this hill at all.” Maze certainly is dialed in at Beaver Creek. She adds this gold to the silver she won in the super-G and gold in the downhill last week. She’s trying to match Norwegian great Lasse Kjus, who earned medals in all five disciplines at the 1999 worlds in Beaver Creek. — Staff and wire reports C

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Houston 35 16 Dallas 35 19 San Antonio 33 19 New Orleans 27 25 Northwest Division Portland 35 17 Oklahoma City 27 25 Denver 19 33 Utah 19 33 Minnesota 11 41 Pacific Division Golden State 41 9 L.A. Clippers 34 19 Phoenix 29 24 Sacramento 18 32 L.A. Lakers 13 38

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Monday’s Games Golden State 89, Philadelphia 84 Washington 96, Orlando 80 San Antonio 95, Indiana 93 Miami 109, New York 95 Utah 100, New Orleans 96 Milwaukee 103, Brooklyn 97 Atlanta 117, Minnesota 105 L.A. Clippers 115, Dallas 98 Oklahoma City 124, Denver 114 Tuesday’s Games Detroit at Charlotte, 3 p.m. Houston at Phoenix, 4 p.m. Sacramento at Chicago, 4 p.m. Brooklyn at Memphis, 4 p.m. Denver at L.A. Lakers, 6:30 p.m. All Times AST

Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 55 34 16 5 73 179 145 Montreal 52 34 15 3 71 141 117 Detroit 52 31 12 9 71 155 130 Boston 53 28 18 7 63 139 131 Florida 51 23 17 11 57 127 145 Toronto 54 23 27 4 50 153 165 Ottawa 51 20 22 9 49 139 144 Buffalo 54 16 35 3 35 102 189 Metropolitan Division N.Y. Islanders 53 34 18 1 69 167 149 Pittsburgh 53 30 15 8 68 151 134 Washington 54 28 16 10 66 157 135 N.Y. Rangers 51 30 16 5 65 152 123 Philadelphia 53 23 22 8 54 145 155 New Jersey 54 21 24 9 51 122 148 Columbus 52 23 26 3 49 135 161 Carolina 52 19 26 7 45 116 139

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Nashville 53 35 12 6 76 161 127 St. Louis 53 34 15 4 72 168 132 Chicago 54 33 18 3 69 163 124 Winnipeg 55 27 18 10 64 152 145 Minnesota 52 26 20 6 58 144 143 Dallas 53 24 21 8 56 167 172 Colorado 54 22 21 11 55 137 152 Pacific Division Anaheim 54 34 13 7 75 162 148 Calgary 54 30 21 3 63 156 137 San Jose 55 28 20 7 63 154 153 Vancouver 52 29 20 3 61 143 136 Los Angeles 53 23 18 12 58 144 144 Arizona 54 20 27 7 47 125 178 Edmonton 54 15 30 9 39 123 178 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Monday’s Games Arizona 3, Chicago 2, SO

Edmonton 2, New Jersey 1 Los Angeles 4, Columbus 3 Minnesota 5, Vancouver 3 Calgary 4, San Jose 1 Tuesday’s Games Dallas at Boston, 3 p.m. Ottawa at Buffalo, 3 p.m. Edmonton at N.Y. Islanders, 3 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 3:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Montreal, 3:30 p.m. Anaheim at Florida, 3:30 p.m. Arizona at St. Louis, 4 p.m. Tampa Bay at Nashville, 4 p.m. Minnesota at Winnipeg, 4 p.m. All Times AST

Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Named Chris Martrich coordinator of public relations. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with OF Matt Joyce on a one-year contract. NEW YORK YANKEES — Agreed to terms with RHP Kyle Davies on a minor league contract. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Named Mike Mordecai coordinator of minor league instruction and Danny Solano roving minor league infield coach. National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Named Fred McGriff and Greg Walker special assistants to baseball operations. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Chris Perez on a minor league contract. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with OF Jon Jay on a two-year contract. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association HOUSTON ROCKETS — Recalled C Clint Capela and G Nick Johnson from Rio Grande Valley (NBADL). Women’s National Basketball Association LOS ANGELES SPARKS — Signed C Marianna Tolo. FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Named Dr. Elizabeth G. Nabel chief health and medical advisor. BUFFALO BILLS — Signed G Richie Incognito. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Named Sam Anno defensive assistant coach, Darryl Eto, Kevin Kijowski and Wesley Miller assistant strength and conditioning coaches, Jethro Franklin defensive line coach, Joe Gomes strength and conditioning coach, Tim Holt assistant offensive line coach, Nick Holz quality control/offense, Jake Peetz senior offensive assistant coach, Travis Smith quality control/defense, Brent Vieselmeyer assistant linebackers coach and Rod Woodson assistant defensive backs coach. SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Named Chris Shula defensive quality control coach. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Named Micheal Barrow linebackers coach, Brennan Carroll assistant offensive line coach, Lofa Tatupu assistant linebackers coach. Promoted defensive backs coach Kris Richard to defensive coordinator.

Signed QB R.J. Archer, G C.J. Davis, LS Luke Ingram, LB Brendan Kelly, DE Will Pericak, WR Kevin Smith and C Jared Wheeler. HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned G Louis Domingue to Portland (AHL). Recalled G Mike McKenna from Portland. COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Placed D Ryan Murray on injured reserve. DALLAS STARS — Reassigned G Jack Campbell to Idaho (ECHL). DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned D Xavier Ouellet to Grand Rapids (AHL). FLORIDA PANTHERS — Recalled D Shayne Taker from Cincinnati (ECHL) to San Antonio (ECHL). MONTREAL CANADIENS — Assigned F Gabriel Dumont to Hamilton (AHL) and D David Makowski from Hamilton to Wheeling (ECHL). NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled D Jaynen Rissling from Cincinnati (ECHL) to Milwaukee (AHL) SAN JOSE SHARKS — Recalled F Rylan Schwartz from Allen (ECHL) to Worcester (AHL). TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Traded G Evgeni Nabokov to San Jose for future considerations. WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned D Cameron Schilling to Hershey (AHL). OLYMPICS USA BASKETBALL — Named South Carolina coach Dawn Staley, DePaul coach Doug Bruno and Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve women’s assistant basketball coaches for the 2016 Olympics. SOCCER Major League Soccer FC DALLAS — Announced an affiliation with Arizona United SC (USL PRO). TENNIS USTA — Named James Blake chairman of the USTA Foundation board of directors. COLLEGE NCAA — Named Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt to the College Football Playoff selection committee. BYU — Signed men’s basketball coach Dave Rose to a five-year contract extension through the 2019-20 season. EASTERN WASHINGTON — QB Vernon Adams announced he will transfer to Oregon. FURMAN — Named Brian Bratton receivers coach. OKLAHOMA — Named Kerry Cooks defensive backs coach and Dennis Simmons outside receivers coach.

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agreement with the discretionary position taken by Assembly member Wolf, rather than particular incompetence,” according to the response. Because Duncan’s statements against Wolf were not specific enough, it did not provide an opportunity for Wolf to defend himself, which is also required by state statute, according to the response. Wolf said the petition was “far fetched,” and “disgruntled.” Introducing the ordinance was under his legal right as an elected official. The petition

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“Measles is a highly contagious viral respiratory illness,” according to the Alaska state epidemiology website. “Common symptoms include fever, cough, runny nose, followed by a rash over most of the body. Although no complications occur for most, pneumonia can develop in one out of 20 infect-

required outside legal counsel and the process cost borough taxpayers. The legislation called into question was introduced at the Jan. 20 assembly meeting. If approved, marijuana cultivation operations would be prohibited in the borough’s unincorporated areas. “I will also point out that on the Kenai Peninsula outside the incorporated cities this measure received nearly a split vote,” Wolf said in an email. “As an elected representative of the people I represent both sides of this issue. That is why I had the ordinance drafted to give it to the people to vote on.” Wolf said he expected dissenting opinions before open-

ing up the topic of marijuana regulation. However, he said some commentary from the public has devolved into “name calling.” Duncan could not be reached for comment concerning the denial of his petition, but he had spoken briefly at Tuesday’s assembly meeting. “Why would a competent representative want to ban the vast majority of the Kenai Peninsula from commercial cultivation,” Duncan said. Wolf should be more concerned about “schools, playgrounds and churches,” for example, Duncan said. Duncan addressed previous statements made by Wolf that his position on marijuana re-

sults from his experience losing two friends that committed suicide while using marijuana. “I feel for you, I’m sorry,” Duncan said. “I won’t go any further on what I believe is a statement of pure ignorance though.” Duncan said public comment had turned toward ridicule of some assembly members and that was an irresponsible response. However, he suggested, with the possibility that his petition would be denied, assembly members take the time to learn about the effects of marijuana use.

ed people, and for every 1,000 infected people, one or two will die.” One common concern regarding vaccines is a belief that they cause autism in children, according to the CDC. Thimerosal, a preservative found in several common vaccines has been the subject of several studies regarding its role in causing autism, according to the CDC website. The website states that in 2001, Thimerosal was no longer used as a vaccine

ingredient, or was only used in trace amounts. “Besides Thimerosal, some people have had concerns about other vaccine ingredients in relation to autism as well,” the website states. “However, no links have been found between any vaccine ingredients and autism.” The “CDC supports the Institute of Medicine conclusion that there is no relationship between vaccines and autism rates in children,” according to

the website. Mountain View Elementary School Nurse Matthew Neisinger said that parents shouldn’t be afraid to ask for information regarding vaccines. “If a parent has questions about required vaccines, any of the nurses are happy to answer any questions,” Neisinger said.

Around Alaska Man killed in Unalakleet, another injured ANCHORAGE — Alaska State Troopers are investigating the death of a 31-year-old man in Unalakleet. Troopers say they were notified late Sunday night about an incident that resulted in the death. Troopers say Tauna Showalter of Unalakleet was found dead from an apparent gunshot wound at a home where the incident reportedly took place. According to troopers, another man was transported to the local clinic with non-life-threatening injuries. Troopers say the man was being transported from the community for further treatment. Troopers say Showalter and the other man were involved in a fight that led to the death. Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters says no one was immediately arrested Monday in connection with the case. Few other details have been released and troopers continue to investigate.

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amount seized the previous year. KTOO reports 4.7 kilograms and 3.6 kilos of meth were seized last year. That’s seven times the amount of heroin seized in 2013 and almost five times the amount of meth seized. Lt. Kris Sell says the amount of hard drugs on the street probably didn’t change, but some high profile busts accounted for bigger chunks of the supply. Altogether, all illegal drugs seized in Juneau in 2014 totaled more than $5.7 million. That compares with the nearly $2 million seized the previous year.

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KODIAK — Responders have found the body of a missing Kodiak man after searching for two days. The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports 37-year-old Kevin Rogers was reported missing Wednesday. The man’s mother reported her son was last seen operating a red 2008 Ford Fusion sport utility vehicle, located stay near mile 14 of the Chiniak Highway. Searchers included Alaska State Troopers and the Coast Guard. Rogers’ body was found Friday afternoon. The body was Juneau police say heroin, meth seizures up sent to the state medical examiner’s office. Authorities say an inJUNEAU — Juneau police say officers seized an increased vestigation is continuing. No foul play is suspected in the death. — The Associated Press amount of heroin and methamphetamine in 2014 over the

The following judgments were recently handed down in District Court in Kenai: n Timothy Irwin Beltz, 34, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to second-degree harassment, committed Dec. 20. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail with 57 days suspended, may perform 24 hours of community work service in lieu of jail time, was fined a $50 court surcharge $100 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and was placed on probation for one year. n Jessica Lynn Bordelon, 31, of Kasilof, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, committed Sept. 12. She was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 87 days suspended, fined $2,000 with $500 suspended, a $75 court surcharge, $330 cost of imprisonment and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had her license revoked for 90 days, ordered ignition interlock for six months and placed on probation for one year. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Eric S. Dahlman, 41, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, committed Nov. 3, 2013. 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, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, had his license revoked for 90 days, ordered ignition interlock for six months and placed on probation for one year. n Riley D. Edwards, 19, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to sixthdegree misconduct involving a controlled substance, committed Jan. 4. Edwards was fined a $50 court surcharge, ordered to complete 14 hours of community work service and placed on probation for one year. n Jordan R. Ferguson, 33, of Ninilchik, pleaded guilty to driving while license cancelled, suspended, revoked or limited, committed Jan. 3. He was sentenced to 50 days in jail with 40 days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge, had his license re-

Court reports voked for 90 days and placed on probation for three years. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Daniel L. Gentry, 28, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to false information or report, committed Jan. 10. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail with 55 days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and placed on probation for two years. n Connor R. Hamman, 22, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, committed June 28. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 85 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, ordered to complete Alcohol Safety Action Program treatment, ordered ignition interlock for six months and placed on probation for two years. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Brian Henry, 42, of Kasilof, pleaded guilty to one count of violating a domestic violence protective order and one count of violating condition of release for a felony, a domestic violence offense, committed Dec. 9. On the count of violating a domestic violence protective order, he was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to pay restitution, forfeited all items seized, ordered to have no contact with victims except about child custody, consistent with conditions in a civil case, ordered to possess no controlled substances without a valid prescription, including marijuana, to possess no handguns and was placed on probation for three years. On the count of violating condition of release, he was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, forfeited all items seized, ordered to have no contact with victims except about child custody, consistent with conditions in a civil case, ordered to possess no controlled substances without a valid prescription, including marijuana, to possess

no handguns and was placed on probation for three years. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Johnathan Harold Hunter, 22, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of no valid operator’s license, committed Aug. 20. He was fined $150 and a $50 court surcharge. n Derek Killian, 29, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to no valid operator’s license, committed Feb. 3, 2013. He was fined $200 and a $50 court surcharge. n Coy E, Kirby, 26, of Soldotna, pleaded guilty to unlawful contact, committed July 1. Kirby was sentenced to 60 days in jail with 55 days suspended, may perform 40 hours of community work service in lieu of jail time, was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, ordered to have no contact with victim unless in the presence of an attorney to discuss child custody, unless victim requests contact in writing and was placed on probation for one year. n Larry D. Mc Gee, 43, of South Salt Lake, Utah, pleaded guilty to driving while license cancelled, suspended, revoked or limited, committed Jan. 21. He was sentenced to 20 days in jail with 10 days suspended, may perform 80 hours of community work service in lieu of jail time, was fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended, had his license revoked for 90 days and was placed on probation for one year. n Robert E. Morehart, 18, of Kenai, pleaded guilty to one count of driving without a valid operator’s license and one count of violating conditions of release for a misdemeanor, committed Dec. 3. On count one, he was fined $150 and a $50 court surcharge. On count two, he was fined a $50 court surcharge and placed on probation for two years. All other charges in this case were dismissed. n Jesslyn Crystal Lee Morris, 38, address unknown, pleaded guilty to false information or report, committed Oct. 2. She was sentenced to 40 days in jail with 35 days suspended, fined a $50 court surcharge and a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and placed on probation for one year. C

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on ferries and raise some fares. The proposed ferry system cuts, which also include reducing spending on advertising, would be about $8.9 million, according to information recently provided to a House Finance subcommittee. The issue came up during a House Finance Committee overview of the department’s budget on Monday. Department spokesman Jeremy Woodrow said by email that most of the ferry system’s operating budget is costs associated with the actual running of the vessels. He said other items have been cut or reduced to limit service reductions, such as eliminating gift shops and

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have to make oral and written requests to his or her doctor and repeat the oral request more than 15 days after the first one. If a person cannot speak, the request must be made by some means in person. If the person cannot write, he or she can have another sign on their behalf. At least two witnesses would be required for the written request, only one of whom could be a relative, an heir or someone who works at the health care facility where the person is being treated or lives. The doctor would not count as a witness, the bill states. The death last year of Brittany Maynard in Oregon brought the issue back into the national conversation. Maynard, 29, had brain cancer and ended her life with lethal drugs available under Oregon’s Death With Dig-

would share resources with the Alcoholic Beverage Control board. Committee chair Lesil McGuire, R-Anchorage, said the committee will go through the bill in more detail and take public testimony on Wednesday. free-pass programs. He stressed that the proposal is just that at this point, a proposal, and could change once the budget is finalized. Department budgets are being scrutinized by lawmakers grappling with a projected multibillion-dollar budget deficit. Early Monday, a co-chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Anna MacKinnon, said she would recommend that no discretionary money be available for capital projects for the coming year. Finance committee co-chairs often give lawmakers discretion in proposing how to spend a set amount of funds for their respective districts. MacKinnon, R-Eagle River, said she is trying to reset people’s expectations, to let them know that kind of money won’t be available for the upcoming budget. nity Law. Drummond said in a news release that everyone deserves the right to make their own endof-life choices. She said the goal is to increase patient control and reduce “unwanted and often unnecessary interventions at the end of life.” A Colorado House committee rejected a similar proposal last week after a long day of emotional testimony from more than 100 people. Doctors who opposed the measure said it closed off the possibility of a recovery when a prognosis can sometimes be wrong. Lawmakers in California and Pennsylvania also are considering laws to let terminally ill people get doctor-prescribed medication to die. Oregon, Washington, Montana and Vermont allow patients to seek aid in dying. In New Mexico, a court ruling cleared the way for it, but that ruling is being challenged by the state’s attorney general.

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Student wants to uphold high standards while living abroad DEAR ABBY: I’m a high school student who has the amazing opportunity to travel to Spain for a school year as a foreign exchange student. I know I am very lucky to have this opportunity to travel, but I am scared about the people there. I am a Mormon, so I will have to uphold my standards alone in a non-Mormon environment. I have never been away from home for this long, and that’s hard enough as it is. I guess I just need some advice on how to be strong when I’m there. — ALONE IN SPAIN DEAR ALONE: I agree that you are being given an amazing opportunity to grow and learn. If you haven’t spoken about this with your adviser, please do so. I assume you will be living with a host family. When you get there, consider discussing your concerns with the parents. I am sure you will be encouraged to stick to your standards and beliefs, and be respected for doing so if you remember to also respect others who may not think exactly the way you do.

her daughter than send her toys for gift-giving holidays. My niece was thrilled, so I set up a college savings account for her daughter and contribute to it monthly in lieu of birthday and Christmas gifts for them. However, when those gift-giving occasions come, I worry they may feel slighted when presents arrive from me for others. My niece and I never mentioned it Abigail Van Buren to other family members. Would it be appropriate for me to send some kind of reminder occasionally so they know the account is there and growing? — CONTRIBUTING TO HER FUTURE DEAR CONTRIBUTING: Yes, it’s appropriate. You should also send your niece a summary at the end of each year so she can see the progress. In addition, you might consider sending the child an DEAR ABBY: My niece had a baby a year after inexpensive small gift or card so she’ll have somegraduating from high school and is now raising her thing to open. daughter as a single mom. After the first year, I told her that if there was anything she needed to let me know, DEAR ABBY: In response to the letter from “Dabut that I would rather contribute to a college fund for vid in Kentucky” (Nov. 2), the 50-year-old single

man who was unsure what to do with his late mother’s engagement ring, I disagree with your answer. Yes, gems are meant to be enjoyed, and the ring is doing no one any good in a drawer, but he should NOT sell it. I think David should have a man’s ring made for himself with it, so he can have a memento of what his dad gave his mom to treasure many years ago. I wear my mom’s and grandmother’s rings every day on my right hand, and remember them often with joy. — DEVOTED FAN IN FLORIDA DEAR DEVOTED FAN: Your suggestion was the No. 1 comment I received from readers. Some said if David was eventually to meet the woman he wanted to marry, the stone could be removed again and reset into a lady’s ring. Another good idea several readers offered is to donate the ring in his mother’s memory to a charity auction of a cause she supported. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Hints from Heloise

Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015: This year your intuition works well with professional dealings. Your focus often will be on joint finances, partnership issues and romance. Be realistic about any risk-taking ventures. You will be more concerned with your public image and your career than you have been in recent years. If you are single, romance could enter your life at any point. You will know when you have met Mr. or Ms. Right. If you are attached, the two of you become more visible as a couple, as you seem to enjoy being out together. Nevertheless, you also will like to take vacations without children or any responsibilities interfering. SCORPIO can be a stern taskmaster. 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) HHHHConfusionseemstosurround a partnership. You will have a better sense of what is going on than the other party. Your sixth sense could kick in and point you to the best way to resolve the situation. Convincing others will take talent. Tonight: Let go and relax. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHHYou’llmovethroughaproblem quickly, especially if you decide to let someone else take the lead. This person seems to have a firm grasp of the issue. Confusion might be difficult to eliminate, as you could be wearing rose-colored glasses. Tonight: Go along with a suggestion. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You have a lot of ground to

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cover, and you might feel as if you are running around in circles. Stop and take a deep breath. Your intuition will let you know what is happening. Listen to news carefully, but know that some facts could be missing. Tonight: Change gears. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Allow your creativity to flourish. Others are likely to ask questions and make suggestions. News comes forward that will allow you to see a different path. The question boils down to whether you are ready to take a risk. Tonight: Act as if there were no tomorrow. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You could be withdrawn and somewhat quiet, which is unlike you. You might not want to share what is going on. Be prepared for a barrage of questions from those who care about you. Realize that a financial matter needs to be dealt with carefully. Tonight: With a favorite person. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHHHYou might be slightly disoriented in the morning, but by the afternoon, you will have a clear view of what is going on. A loved one will respond well to a one-one-one conversation. You both will enjoy being on the same page. Tonight: Visit over dinner. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Be aware of your finances. Double-check your budget, and understand what is required in various situations. The pressure you feel could be eliminated more quickly than you might have expected. You’ll be able to manifest a long-term goal soon. Tonight: Get into a favorite pastime. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

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HHHHH An opportunity is likely to present itself in the midst of a confusing situation. You’ll want to sort out what is happening and understand the facts before saying “yes.” You might not have a clue about what this will involve. Tonight: Allow your imagination to speak. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Do you know what needs to happen in order for you to move past an obstacle? You must figure this out before more complications arise. A friend will encourage you, but he or she might not have the solution. A family member also adds an element of chaos. Tonight: Do your thing. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You’ll be more upbeat than those around you. Your positive energy might be needed in various situations. Your plans could become quite erratic as you absorb a lot of others’ confusion. Confirm meetings and verify any news you hear. Tonight: Read between the lines. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Someone you respect demands your attention and time. You naturally will do what is asked, but it could add some tension to your day. Use caution with funds, as you easily could make an error. Follow through on priorities, but don’t give in to an impulse. Tonight: Your treat. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Work on detachment, and you’ll get a better perspective of what is happening in your immediate environment. Observe what might not be obvious. Seek out an answer as to why others seem to be acting in a confusing manner. Tonight: Be entertained!

Hang On to These Ideas Dear Readers: In a recent column, Bev A. asked for hints about what to do with all the PLASTIC HANGERS she had. Here are just a handful of all of the hints readers sent: Dolores S. in Mansfield, Ohio, wrote: “Please mention the laundromat. I worked at a laundry for three years, and we could always use hangers. The owner had to buy boxes of them, and donations would help with expenses. People wanted their laundry hung up, but wouldn’t bring their own hangers.” * Nancy Meyer, via email, wrote: “We help settle refugees, and really need hangers when we set up their apartments. Spread the word to check with an agency in the area that settles refugees. They will gladly take them.” * A Reader, via email, wrote: “Other great ideas for extra hangers are to contact hospitals. The hangers seem to disappear from the patient rooms when patients are discharged.” All good hints, and it’s wonderful to find out about great ways to recycle hangers. Here is another hint from me: See if nursing homes and assisted-living facilities would be able to use extra hangers. — Heloise READY FOR EXERCISE Dear Heloise: Many people have made a New Year’s resolution to exercise or get more fit. I have a piece of advice that works for me. Have workout clothes ready. If you have to search for the socks, the shoes, the top and the pants, it won’t take long to be discouraged. I have walked every day (2 miles) for 37 years, and I have my clothes ready to jump into in the morning. Another hint: Get it done in the morning, if you can. As the day progresses, you are less likely to feel like doing it. — Corrinne B., Universal City, Texas

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2015 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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

2/09

Previous Puzzles Answer Key

B.C.

Tundra

By Johnny Hart

Garfield

Shoe

By Jim Davis

Take it from the Tinkersons

By Bill Bettwy

By Chad Carpenter

By Chris Cassatt & Gary Brookins

Mother Goose and Grimm

By Michael Peters

Pet Tails Pigeons vie for best in show By SUE MANNING Associated Press

ONTARIO, Calif. — Dogs aren’t the only animals that vie for best in show. Hundreds of breeds of pigeons compete in their own version of the Westminster show, strutting on long, thick legs or fluttering curly, lacy feathers in their bid to be best bird. These pigeons aren’t the nuisance flocks that swarm food scraps at outdoor restaurants. They are genetically rich birds, including variations bred to look like turkeys or sound like trumpets, that drew thousands of enthusiasts — including exboxer and pigeon lover Mike Tyson — to the National Pigeon Association’s 93rd annual Grand National Pigeon Show. Showing pigeons is one of the oldest and largest hobbies in the world. It thrives at a time when pets are becoming a more important part of people’s lives and animals kept as companions range from the traditional to the unique, such as rats and tarantulas. More than 7,800 birds packed the Ontario Convention Center in Southern California last weekend, cooing and strutting in their cages, which sent feathers and feed flying. But the well-behaved show birds wouldn’t let one drop of waste

fall on a judge’s shoe as they were examined for build, color and weight. There were birds in blacks, whites and browns with feathers on their feet, circular crests framing their faces and 8-inch necks. Some looked like street pigeons but bigger and stronger, with massive shoulders and thick necks. Tyson, the four-time heavyweight world champion, kicked off the three-day event by releasing 100 white pigeons. He agreed with the mostly older male owners about the need to infuse young blood in the aging hobby. “Take this opportunity at a young age to enhance your responsibility and enjoy it,” he told youngsters who asked for photos and autographs. Tyson, 48, who had pigeons as a kid, keeps 1,800 birds. He said he was 10 when he won his first fight because a bully killed one of his birds in front of him. Nearly a thousand different breeds of pigeons exist. Not only can these birds become pampered pets, they can be raised for racing and stunt performances. Racing pigeons can fly for hundreds of miles a day and flap as fast as 80 mph, and performers will unleash deathdefying stunts midair.

Peninsula Clarion, Tuesday, February 10, 2015

A-15

Best Friends

Family reunion

Submitted photo

Tim Lohmer shared this photo of his long-haired Chihuahua, Jolie, reuniting with one of her sons recently. This took place in the lobby of the Main Street Hotel Tap & Grill. Tim writes that they were so happy to see each other again.

Have a photogenic pet? Pet photos run on the Pets page every Tuesday. They can be color or black and white and may include people. Limit one photo per household. They may be e-mailed to news@ peninsulaclarion.com, dropped off at the Kenai office or mailed to the Clarion at P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, 99611.

A-16 Peninsula Clarion, Tuesday, February 10, 2015