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Seward Highway reopens after rock slide near Anchorage

Ivor Ledahl, with his father Brian, plays with LEGOS at the Kenai Public Library’s monthly Lego Club event on Thursday, Feb. 19. This month’s theme was spaceships.

ANCHORAGE — Police say the Seward Highway reopened after crews cleaned up debris from a rock slide that rained debris on the roadway near Anchorage, including a massive boulder that was subsequently involved in a vehicle collision Thursday morning. Police say the driver of the vehicle in the crash sustained minor facial injuries, likely from the airbag deployment. KTUU reports the slide occurred at about 7 a.m. Thursday near milepost 113, south of the weigh station near Potter Marsh. Police spokeswoman Anita Shell says the highway reopened shortly before 9 a.m. after state Department of Transportation crews cleared the roadway. DOT spokeswoman Shannon McCarthy says some boulders, including the one struck by the vehicle, were half the size of an SUV. McCarthy says the slide debris was two feet deep and covered about 20 feet of the roadway.

Youth of the Year award chosen

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Teen prepares for next step in Boys and Girls Club program By BEN BOETTGER Peninsula Clarion

Annika Oren’s family moved to Kenai from Fairbanks when she was in elementary school. Soon after arriving, Oren’s mother signed her up for the Kenai Boys and Girl’s club. “I wasn’t getting along with the kids from my school and I was often getting bullied, so she (Oren’s mother) thought the Boys and Girl’s club would be a good way for me to get to know people and make new friends,”

said Oren. “I was there for no more than 15 minutes when a girl came up to me and asked if I wanted to play with her. We’ve been friends for over seven and a half years now.” Oren, presently a Junior at Kenai Central High School, has been involved in Boys and Girls Club activities ever since. She now participates as a staff member at the group’s Kenai clubhouse, where she works in the kitchen, helps kids with homework, and leads games in

the gymnasium. Her story of joining the club is included in a speech she will give as a competitor for the Boy’s and Girl’s club State Youth of the Year award, which will be judged on Friday at the Kenai Teen Center. Heather Schloeman, executive director of the Kenai Peninsula Boys and Girl’s Club, described the Youth of the Year award as “a character and leadership program, eligible for club members 14 to 18 years old.”

The Kenai Boys and Girl’s club held their local Youth of the Year event in late January. Of the three contestants, Oren was the winner, entitling her to compete in this weekend’s state event, in which she will be judged against a competitor from the Anchorage Boys and Girl’s Club. Judges will also select a second winner from members of Alaska’s three separate Boys and Girls clubs for children of military personnel, which will See YOUTH, page A-10

District to change pool operations By KELLY SULLIVAN Peninsula Clarion

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District plans to be operating school pools more efficiently by the start of the 2016 school year. Assistant Superintendent Dave Jones broke down current operations in a series of public meetings held in Seward, Homer and Soldotna this week. More than 70 central Kenai Peninsula residents packed into the Soldotna High School library Wednesday. Jones said the school district wants to make it easier for community members to take advantage of the open and lap swim hours. “When we looked at the overall use of all these groups,

and you look at the pools in our communities, usage is not real high compared to the amount of availability that it could be used,” Jones said. However, instructional needs remain the main function of the pools, Jones said. The facilities are being utilized for that purpose less than what administration had believed, he said. In addition to being more “user friendly,” the school district will be looking at ways to increase the financial viability of the pools, Jones said. This may result in increasing fees, which compared to other school districts in the state, are relatively low, he said. The school district funds the pools through two different budgets, the General Fund and

the Activity Fund, Jones said. Currently, the combined cost of operating the pools is running a nearly $800,000 deficit, he said. The goal is not necessarily to immediately bring that number “down to zero,” but to significantly minimize it, Jones said. The school district’s activity fund budgets the lifeguard salaries and benefits, chemicals and supplies, and the general fund budgets for custodians, pool managers and supervisors. Total cost to operate the school district’s pools is more than $1 million and the generated revenue is $242,116. Jones said he wants to also coordinate the management of the pools. Now the pool manager reports to the school principal.

Sites individually determine staffing, fees, chemicals and testing methods used in the buildings, pool schedule and pool temperatures, he said. Potentially the pools could coordinate so that, for example, one pool would be heated slightly warmer than others in the area for groups that use it for arthritis therapy, Jones said. Wrapping up Wednesday’s meeting Jones said the greater issue of the school district’s pools stems from tight budgets and asked each attendee to take the time to ask the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly to fund the school district to the fullest amount possible this year. Reach Kelly Sullivan at kelly. sullivan@peninsulclarion.com.

For the second year in a row the Kenai River will be closed to fishing for early run king salmon. The river will be closed to king fishing downstream of Slikok Creek through June 30 to protect early run king salmon. Managers have also closed the river to king fishing upstream of Slikok Creek through July 31 to protect spawning early run kings, said Fish and Game Sport Fish Division Area Management Biologist Robert Begich. While the king salmon management actions are largely similar to the 2014 preseason actions, anglers will have an opportunity to harvest Kasilof River king salmon during the early run. Anglers will be allowed to keep a naturally produced or hatchery fish on Saturdays during May and June, Begich said, but the fishery will be restricted to a single-hook and no bait. “Based on what we’ve seen at the weir, at the assessment site on Crooked Creek the last few years … they’re not producing well enough to do three days of harvest,” he said. “We feel that we can allow some harvest down there and still meet the needs for achieving escapement and then also a brood stock program for stocking.” Fish and Game released the emergency orders for the Kenai and Kasilof rivers on Thursday. Fish and Game also issued a number of emergency orders to conserve king salmon on southern Kenai Peninsula streams, including the Anchor River, Deep Creek and Ninilchik River. According to the Fish and Game release: — The Anchor River drainage is closed to sport fishing on the first and fifth opening weekend and the five Wednesday openings in May and June. These dates correspond to May 16-18 (first opening weekend); June 13-15 (fifth opening weekend); and Wednesday openings of May 20, 27 and June 3, 10, 17. — The Anchor River drainage is closed to sport fishing upstream of the Old Sterling Highway Bridge located approximately 550 feet below the junction of the North and South Forks during the Memorial Day opening weekend and the following two weekends. These dates correspond to May 23-25 (Memorial Day opening weekend) and May 3031; June 1 and June 6-8. See KINGS, page A-10

Walker makes plans to boost viability of gas line By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — Gov. Bill Walker said he plans to retool an in-state natural gas pipeline project into an export project, prompting concerns from some lawmakers about the message that sends as Alaska continues to pursue a separate major gas

line. In an opinion piece published on newspaper websites, Walker said he’s pleased with the progress that has been made on the major liquefied natural gas project the state is pursuing with BP PLC, ExxonMobil Corp., ConocoPhillips, TransCanada Corp. and the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., or AGDC.

It would include an 800-mile pipeline to move North Slope gas to a plant where it would be chilled, loaded onto tankers and shipped to Asia. He told reporters Thursday that the state would continue to assist that project any way it can, and if there is any way to speed the effort, he looks forward to doing that. But he also C

said he didn’t want to pin all the state’s hopes on it. He said the administration would pursue the major project while also moving to increase the size and volume of the smaller project. A larger volume would make it economic to provide energy for Alaskans and meet export market needs, he said in the opinion piece.

Whichever is first to produce a “solid plan” with terms acceptable to the state would get full state support, he wrote. Or, he said, the two might be combined. Walker’s opinion piece was posted online Wednesday night, hours after company representatives told lawmakers that the See GAS, page A-10

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NASA delays space station spacewalk tion. NASA lost the ability to launch its own crews when the space shuttles retired in 2011, and is paying Russia for crew transportation.

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A series of upcoming spacewalks at the International Space Station will begin a day late. The first spacewalk by a pair of U.S. astronauts was supposed to occur Friday. But on Thursday, NASA bumped it to Saturday to complete a spacesuit investigation. The second spacewalk is now Wednesday; the third is March 1. The extensive, outdoor cable-routing work will prepare for the arrival of new commercial crew capsules in 2017. Two critical fan and pump units for the astronauts’ spacesuits failed recently during routine maintenance in orbit. Engineers suspect water seeped into the bearings, causing them to corrode and seize up. Both units were returned to Earth on the Dragon capsule last week. The spacesuits that will be used for the spacewalks have check ed out fine. NASA says a pump failure

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In this image from video made available by NASA, astronauts Terry Virts, left, and Barry Wilmore speak next to their spacesuits aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday.

would cut short a spacewalk, but not endanger anyone. An unrelated problem with the same component led to an astronaut’s near-drowning in 2013. Kenny Todd, a space station manager, said earlier this week that the corrosion is likely the result of frequent water sampling put in place after the 2013 episode. NASA astronauts Butch

Wilmore and Terry Virts are the designated spacewalkers. The space agency would like to pull off all three spacewalks before Wilmore leaves the orbiting lab in mid-March. Private companies SpaceX and Boeing are working on crew capsules — under NASA contract — to ferry U.S. astronauts to and from the space sta-

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, February 20, 2015

Community Calendar Today 8 a.m. • Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 398-9440. 9:45 a.m. • TOPS #AK 196 meets at The Grace Lutheran Church, in Soldotna. Call Dorothy at 262-1303. 10:15 a.m. • Visit the Soldotna Public Library for a 45-minute free “Yoga Strength” session. Set to modern music, this class makes for a perfect introduction to yoga or a fun addition to your existing routine. Bring your own mat! Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. 8 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “It Works” at URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. • AA 12 by 12 at the United Methodist Church, 607 Frontage Road, Kenai. • Twin City Al-Anon Family group, United Methodist Church, 607 Frontage Road in Kenai. Call 907-953-4655. Saturday 8 a.m. • Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 398-9440. 9 a.m. • Al-Anon book study, Central Peninsula Hospital’s Augustine Room, Soldotna. Call 907-953-4655. 10 a.m. • Narcotics Anonymous PJ Meeting, URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. Noon • Homemade soup, Funny River Community Center. 7 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous support group “Dopeless Hope Fiends,” URS Club, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. 8 p.m. • AA North Roaders Group at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 242-9477. The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations.To have your event listed, email organization name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone number to news@peninsulaclarion.com.

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p.m. on Tuesdays from March 3-April 21, with additional sessions April 28-May 21, at Peninsula Christian Center, 161 Farnsworth Boulevard in Soldotna. Workshops include family dinner STEMventure Camps planned for spring break and group study of family needs such as: child development; character development; communication challenges; family comThe Challenger Center of Alaska in Kenai will host STEM- munication; behavior changes; positive discipline; and challengventure Camps during spring break, March 9-13. Camps will ing behaviors, with activities and care for children and teens. The include: Grades K-3 — Rocketry, Robotics, Simple Machines, cost is $35.00 per family. To register call 907-252-9082. 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 Community invited to Redoubt winter carnival open. Interested in an all-inclusive overnight option? Please Redoubt Elementary School’s third annual Winter Carnival contact the Challenger Center for additional details. Connec- is Feb. 28 from noon to 4 p.m. at the school on West Redoubt tions and I.D.E.A approved vendors. Contact: summer.lazen- Ave. in Soldotna. This fundraiser is open to the community. by@akchallenger.org or 907-283-2000. There will be games for the kids, a silent auction and raffles for adults. Enjoy an afternoon of fun, food and prizes. Money Early childhood screenings available raised will be used to purchase outdoor PE equipment for Redoubt students. Volunteers are needed; please call the school The KPBSD Child Find Program and Frontier Community office if you would like to help with this event. Services Infant Learning will be offering free screenings for children 5 years old and younger. The screening will be on Feb. 20 from 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. at the Frontier Community Ser- Kenai library plans family concert series vices, Suite 14 in the Red Diamond Center. We will screen your The Kenai Community Library will host a series of Family child’s early development, motor skills, speech, early learning Concerts. These programs are free and open to the entire famconcepts, vision and hearing. To make an appointment or for ily. Concerts will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturdays in the Kid Spot more information, call 714 -6647. at the Kenai Library. The next concerts is Saturday with violinist Elise Gelbart, of Anchorage. No tickets are required. For Parenting workshops scheduled more information, contact Children’s Librarian Amy Pascucci Alaska Christian Ministries and South Central Parenting will at 283-8210 or visit the Kenai Community Library’s webpage offer Practical Positive Parenting weekly workshops from 6-8 at http://kenailibrary.org/.

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LIO Schedule Friday 1:00 p.m. The House Judiciary Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 15 Credits For Time Served / Good Time, HB 83 Judicial Council: Civil Litigation Information and HB 79 Marijuana Regulation; Controlled Substance; Crimes; Defenses. Testimony will be taken on HB 15 and HB 83; listen only for HB 79. Friday 1:30 p.m. The Senate Judiciary Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss SB 30 Marijuana Regulation; Controlled Substance; Crimes; Defenses. Testimony will be taken. Friday 3:15 p.m. The House Labor & Commerce Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 81 Exemption: Licensing of Contractors. 3 minute testimony limit.

Friday 3:30 p.m. The Senate Resources Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss Board of Fisheries Confirmation, Dr. Roland Maw, SJR 13 OCS Oil & Gas Exploration / Development and Exploration & Drilling. Testimony will be taken. Friday 8:00 a.m. The House Education Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 30 Constitutional History Curriculum. Testimony will be taken. Feb. 26 10:00 a.m. The House Special Committee on Fisheries will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 103 Boards of Fish / Game Regulation Authority. All teleconferences are held at the Kenai Legislative Information Office, 145 Main Street Loop No. 217, Kenai, unless otherwise noted. To confirm call 283-2030 or email Kenai.LIO@akleg.gov. To watch online go to http://alaskalegislature.tv/.

Alaska communities report record high temperatures ANCHORAGE (AP) — Communities across Alaska are reporting record high temperatures. Alaska communities have been experiencing February temperatures as high as the mid-50s, Alaska Dispatch News reported. In Anchorage, Tuesday’s temperature reached an official high of 44 degrees, which broke the previous mark of 43 degrees for that date set

in 1984. In some parts of the city, unofficial temperatures approached 50 degrees Tuesday. The high Tuesday in Sitka was 54 degrees, which eclipsed the old record of 52 that was set in 1998. In northwest Alaska, Tuesday’s high in Kotzebue was 32 degrees, which broke the old record of 30 degrees that was set in 2006. Bettles, in Alaska’s interior,

had a high of 28 degrees Tuesday. That broke the old record of 26 degrees for that date that was set in 1993. The high reached 26 degrees Tuesday in McGrath, another interior community. The old record for that date in the community was 21 degrees, set in 1947. In the southeast community of Yakutat, Monday’s high of 47 degrees broke the previous record of 44 degrees that was set in 1977.

Besides experiencing an unusually warm winter, Alaska also has had a low-snow season. A lack of snow and rough trail conditions prompted organizers of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to move the competitive start from Willow to Fairbanks. The ceremonial start remains in Anchorage on March 7.

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More to local government than tax bills, permits During the Soldotna City Council’s

discussion on whether to introduce an ordinance that would provide a donation from the city to a non-profit organization to partially fund the purchase of Birch Ridge Golf Course, one council member questioned the degree to which the city should feel obligated to fund such endeavors. In the context of making a large donation to a noncity entity to acquire property, it’s a fair question. The council declined to introduce the measure, but had it done so, there certainly were a number of other questions that would have needed a thorough vetting before an informed decision could have been reached. That said, there is a bigger discussion to be had about the role of government, particularly local government, in our day-to-day lives. Most of the time, when we think of government, we think of taxes, budgets and regulations. We frequently hear calls for less government at all levels, and rants about overreach and intrusion into our personal lives. What those arguments tend to overlook is that, while it is government that sends out the tax bill or requires a permit, it is also government that provides for much of what could be termed quality-of-life infrastructure that we expect in our communities. For example, while the city of Soldotna has opted not to purchase the golf course on several occasions in recent years, it does own several city parks and playgrounds, baseball and softball fields, campgrounds, trails, river access and fishing structures, and an ice arena. Kenai has a similar list of recreational infrastructure, including a rec center and a golf course; in Nikiski, the pool and rec center are funded through property taxes. Some facilities are directly maintained and operated by city departments; others are leased or contracted. While not every resident utilizes every park or fish walk or racquetball court, there is enough interest to argue in favor of maintaining the wide range of public recreational opportunities. It’s part of what makes this area attractive to live and work in. Again, this isn’t to say that Soldotna should or should not acquire a golf course, or fund another entity’s purchase of a golf course. It is to say that when we talk about the role that local government plays, it’s important to remember that there’s much more to the conversation.

Letters to the Editor Alaska’s delegation is part of Washington, D.C., problems Well, there they were, our three knuckleheads from Washington, D.C., standing there trying to convince us what Alaskans they are. The old man of the House of Representatives that’s been fighting the same battle for 35 years (opening ANWR), declaring “we’re going to get it done, yet!” Maybe Americans don’t want what you’re hocking, Mr. Young. Then the lady of the senate (Lisa Murkowski) who everyone knows her daddy gave her the job in the beginning. And the newly-paid-for man, who real Alaskans had never heard of before the Koch brothers bought him a senator seat, saying federal overreach “is worse than I thought.” I believe Alaska has never been so poorly represented in Washington as now. When they talk about how bad Washington and the federal government is, I’ve got news for for them — they are Washington and the federal government, an two of them have been for a long time. They can’t count themselves innocent of what has been happening down there, just because they don’t have the art of compromise and getting things done. They live in Washington, D.C., and they aren’t fooling this lifelong Akaskan that they’re really beat down Alaskans fighting the horrible big brother thousands of miles away. Neil Robinson Kenai

No recourse to deal with aggressive dogs I live outside city limits and have a neighbor who has three dogs. On Jan. 11 his three dogs attacked my dog as he was passing by their house. My dog was nearly killed and so far his vet bills have been more than $600. Had the attack been on my property instead of in the street I would have had the right to shoot his dogs and been able to sue him for my dog’s vet costs. Every time I leave my house I must pass his house and his dogs chase my vehicle. I have chased them off my property several times. Once I stepped outside to find one of the dogs standing five feet from me, growling at me. When I stepped back in to get a gun, the dog ran off. I complained to my neighbor and warned him I would kill his dogs if they threatened me again. I called the Alaska State Troopers today to register a complaint. A trooper told me I could kill those dogs only if they attacked or threatened me or my animals. He said I could not kill them just for being on my property. He was not interested in who the neighbor was and said he was not even going to talk with him. Even though I told the trooper that there are always children playing in the street in the summer, he reiterated that there was nothing he was going to do. Got a neighbor with menacing dogs? Until something really tragic happens, there is no help for you! Robert White Sterling

Appointment process not following the rules

Jay Hammond must be rolling in his grave at the current shenanigans in Juneau. In his first term as Senator, the young Jay Hammond sought a way to protect Education and Fish and Game commissioners from political cleansing by the then new Republican administration. Sen. Hammond devised and passed a clever way to balance the system: An appointed board “We have learned that providing route security at a distance for fish management, another appointed and intentionally avoiding direct confrontation prevents injury to officers, limits liability, and minimizes the criminal actions of many protesters.” — Denver’s Police Chief Robert White in an email to officers asking them not to intervene but to stand by and watch as protesters threw red paint on a memorial for fallen officers during a weekend march against police brutality.

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board for game management, and an appointed Board of Education. The governor could not have more than four persons from his party on any of the boards. These board members were to be selected from the four Alaska judicial districts and be knowledgeable in the field. Under this regulation, the education board took nominees from professional organizations. After interviewing candidates, three nominees were sent to the Governor for selection. The Governor picked a nominee, whom the Legislators would then vet and confirm or reject. This system is very similar to the way Supreme Court Justices are selected at the national level; it assures a clear system of checks and balances. Hammond also limited the term of the Commissioner of Education to five years. Fast-forward to 2010: Governor Parnell, unhappy with the incumbent Commissioner of Education selected by previous Governor Palin, asked for that person’s resignation and received it. Then, at the December 3, 2010 Board of Education meeting Gov. Parnell — not the Board — put forward one candidate only. This violated the first control Hammond’s legislation had put in place. During that meeting State board member Esther Cox and others objected to this maneuver, but the nomination was put forward anyway. Ultimately that person was approved by the Board. Gov. Parnell and the Legislators were offered exactly one candidate to choose from. The Legislature, ignoring its duty to be the second control, confirmed the Governor’s illegally chosen candidate, who happens to still be commissioner of education, Mike Hanley. Fast forward again to November 2014: Commissioner Hanley submits his resignation letter to new Governor Walker, who rejects the resignation, appointing him acting commissioner. Gov. Walker also reappoints Ester Cox as Anchorage representative to the Board of Education. Sen. Hammond, who later became Governor, must be really spinning now. Gov. Walker has reappointed a commissioner, who was first appointed in a questionable process, and if reconfirmed Commissioner Hanley’s term will extend from 2010-2018 — three years longer than the term limit Jay Hammond initially envisioned. So much for checks and balances. The Alaska Legislature must reject rubberstamping Commissioner Hanley and request the Governor and Board of Education follow established rules. Make Jay proud. David Nees Anchorage

Applause Cooperation drives Frozen River Fest February 7, 2015 marked the first of what we hope is an annual event at Soldotna Creek Park. Even though Mother Nature gave us the coldest, most windy week of the winter, the Frozen River Fest was successfully introduced without a hitch. Sure, there were minor issues and setbacks, but the same spirit and can-do attitude that helped get the Fest organized also helped us deal with the minor inconveniences of negative wind chills and other day-of issues. And that’s really the story of the Fest. It began as a City of Soldotna economic development strategy that would bolster our growing brewing industry within the city and on the peninsula. The City aimed to foster the industry and firmly believed that a strong brewing industry on the Peninsula would benefit all communities — not just Soldotna’s.

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To start, the City invited our local producers to begin a dialogue that would help us better understand their needs and then explore options to strengthen their businesses. We came to understand the complexity of the laws, the logistics, and the customers that can either make or break these businesses. These discussions proved to be the genesis of the Frozen River Fest. One of the largest concerns expressed by the brewer’s was the downturn in business activity in the shoulder seasons and winter months. In addition to exploring marketing ideas and branding concepts, the group began to focus on a winter festival as a way to increase sales and visitation, and to build community through a winter event. As the winter festival concept gained strength, so did the group sitting around the table. New faces were added from all parts of the community: Rotary members, educators, graphic artists, chamber and visitor center staff, and more joined in the discussion. Meeting on a monthly basis, they set to work and created objectives that included raising awareness of the Peninsula breweries, increasing sales and growth within the industry, encouraging visitation to the breweries and our communities, and creating a fun, community event that would occur on an annual basis. To pull off such an event is no small matter. The group recognized this and tapped the minds of some of our successful non-profit and community organizations. In addition to Soldotna Rotary, the T-200 and Kenai Watershed Forum were invited to participate. They brought organizational strength, knowledge and resources to the table. Events like the Frozen River Fest need capital to get established; State Senator and former Soldotna Mayor Peter Micciche volunteered to help raise funds. Through his efforts donations from Apache, ConocoPhillips, Tesoro, and Peak Oilfield Services were obtained. In the end, about 700 people attended the Frozen River Fest. Like the true Alaskan’s they are, they enjoyed the live music, ice skating, food, and beer and wine from 12 Alaskan breweries and vintners, and didn’t let the cold get in there way. I guess we should have known -- calling it the “Frozen” River Fest pretty much guaranteed that Mother Nature was going to match the weather with the name. Another hallmark of Alaskan spirit is the way a community pulls together to help each other out. The spirit of cooperation that resulted in the Frozen River Fest is a reflection of our larger community. It was truly a collaboration of our entire community from local government and private citizen volunteer, to small businesses, state breweries and vintners, and multi-national corporations. Thank you to all who helped make this event so successful. Sincerely, John Czarnezki, Soldotna City Planner Robert Ruffner, Kenai Watershed Forum Executive Director Tami Murray, T200 Executive Director

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Peninsula Clarion, Friday, February 20, 2015

Nation & World Around the World Rebel fighters hug, pose for pictures as they take control of key east Ukrainian town DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine — For the rebel fighters who seized control of this strategic town, Thursday was a day of jubilation and bragging of victory. The retreating Ukrainian soldiers were grim, stunned and relieved to have escaped with their lives as the scope of their losses became clearer: at least 13 dead and hundreds missing, captured or wounded. Rebel fighters roamed the debris-littered streets of Debaltseve, laughing, hugging and posing for photos a day after the fall of the furiously contested railway hub. Associated Press journalists found its neighborhoods destroyed and all under the control of the rebels. On the road out of town, dozens of Ukrainian military vehicles, many riddled with bullet holes and with their windshields smashed, were heading to the government-held city of Artemivsk. The soldiers inside described weeks of harrowing rebel shelling, followed by a hasty retreat. “We left under heavy fire, driving on back roads,” said a soldier who gave only his first name, Andrei. “As we were leaving, we were attacked by artillery and grenade launchers. We came under repeated attack by tanks and assault groups.”

Police say they have arrested a suspect in the road-rage killing of Las Vegas mother LAS VEGAS — Police arrested a suspect Thursday in the road-rage killing of a Las Vegas mother after SWAT teams swarmed a home about a block from the site where she was shot a week ago. Police did not release the male suspect’s name or discuss his possible involvement in the killing of 44-year-old Tammy Meyers. The shirtless suspect was led into a car by an officer and taken to police headquarters for questioning. “We still have a lot of investigative work to do,” Las Vegas police Capt. Chris Tomaino said. The case has received significant attention since police initially said Meyers was killed by an angry driver who followed her home after she gave her teenage daughter a driving lesson. She was removed from life support on Valentine’s Day as police hunted for a suspect, and donations for her funeral costs quickly poured in to a fundraising site.

Immigrants going nowhere, frustration rising after judge blocks Obama’s executive orders

TUCSON, Ariz. — Brenda Armendariz, her husband and their two Mexico-born children were hoping to resolve their constant fears of being deported after President Barack Obama issued his latest executive orders on immigration. But now that a federal judge in Texas has blocked Obama’s efforts to protect four million more immigrants, her family is disillusioned and her children feel stuck as the president’s offer of temporary legal status moves frustratingly beyond their reach. About a third of the immigrants now living in the United States illegally would be eligible for temporary protection if Obama’s latest orders are upheld in court, either because they were brought to the U.S. as children or because their own children have legal status in the country.

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Rebels capture 32 in Aleppo BEIRUT (AP) — Rebels in Syria have captured 32 soldiers and pro-government gunmen near the northern city of Aleppo, where fighting is raging as the two sides try to grab new territory ahead of a possible truce, activists said Thursday. The fighting comes as U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura is trying to broker a truce for warravaged Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. On Tuesday he said Syrian President Bashar Assad has expressed willingness to suspend bombing of Aleppo for six weeks. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Aleppo-based activist Ahmad Hamed said the troops were seized in the village of Ratyan after it was retaken by the rebels on Wednesday. More than 170 fighters have been killed from both sides in the clashes, according to the Observatory. An amateur video posted online showed some 28 men in military uniforms sitting on the floor inside a room. The men, who included at least two wounded, were then asked to stand up and leave the room one by one under the watch of rebels. The video appeared genuine and corresponded to other Associated Press reporting of the

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This photo provided on Sunday by the Syrian anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian rebels preparing to fire locally made shells against the Syrian government forces, in Aleppo, Syria.

capture and fighting in the area north of Aleppo. On Thursday, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) urged all parties to facilitate the evacuation of people wounded in the clashes, which it said had triggered a new wave of displaced families trying to reach the Turkish border to seek shelter. It said medical staff were forced to evacuate an MSF facility on the outskirts of Aleppo because of the worsening insecurity.

“Our paramount concern is that the clashes block the only road open between Aleppo and the northern border with Turkey, making it almost impossible to run ambulance services and provide medical and humanitarian assistance to the people trapped by war in eastern Aleppo,” said Raquel Ayora, MSF director of operations. The Observatory said rebels also recaptured the village of Hardatnein on Thursday, two days after it was taken by government forces. The Observatory and Hamed said intense

clashes are taking place outside a third village, Bashkoy, which was also taken by the government on Tuesday. State-run Syrian TV reported that troops are still advancing in the north, adding that Syrian opposition fighters are coming from Turkey to take part in the battles near Aleppo. The Observatory said 90 troops and pro-government gunmen, in addition to 81 rebels, have been killed since the fighting began on Tuesday. In Geneva, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein urged Syrian authorities Thursday to release all those held by government forces and pro-government groups. Some detainees have been held for years. The High Commissioner estimated the number of people in Syria who have been held at some point or other in government and intelligence detention facilities to range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands since the crisis began in March 2011. “I urge the Syrian Government to immediately release all those who have been jailed for peaceful expression of their views and to ensure that all those detained are accorded their full due process rights,” Zeid said.

FDA issues warning as peanuts found in cumin spice By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of products are being pulled from store shelves after traces of peanut were found in ground cumin spice — a lifethreatening danger to some people with peanut allergies. The recall has been ongoing since December, as more retailers identify products that contain the cumin. The Food and Drug Administration is now warning all people with peanut allergies to avoid cum-

in and products that contain cumin. While such large allergyrelated recalls are rare, undeclared allergens like peanuts are the leading cause of food recalls in the United States. That can be very unsettling to people who are keeping a close watch on what they or their children eat, since food allergies can be a matter of life or death. “You might do all of the things you are supposed to do and read the label, but there could still be undeclared allergens,” says Dr. Michael Pistin-

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er, a Boston-based pediatric allergist. “It’s challenging to know that and still feel comfortable.” Pistiner says he sees the recalls as low-risk, since often the amount of the undeclared allergen is very small. “But the highest risk is to our comfort,” he says.

According to the group Food Allergy Research and Education, or FARE, 15 million Americans have food allergies, including 1 in 13 children. Eight foods account for more than 90 percent of the allergies — peanuts, tree nuts, milk, eggs, wheat, soy, fish and shellfish.

A-6 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, February 20, 2015

Al-Jazeera reporter in Egypt cites employer’s ‘negligence’ By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press

CAIRO — Al-Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who is out awaiting retrial after more than a year behind bars in Egypt on terrorism-related charges, said his Qatar-funded employer is partially to blame for his grinding ordeal. Fahmy said it would be “naive” and “misleading” to see the case purely as a crackdown on press freedom, because it was complicated by Al-Jazeera’s “negligence” and Qatar’s use of the outlet to “wage a media war” against Cairo. “I am not losing sight of who put me in prison,” he said, referring to the Egyptian prosecutors, who failed to present any evidence related to the terror charges in a trial widely condemned by rights groups and major media outlets. “However, Al-Jazeera’s epic negligence has made our situation harder, more difficult, and gave our captor more firepower,” Fahmy said in an interview at his family home in a Cairo suburb. “It is an infringement on freedom of speech to silence three innocent, recognized journalists. Yet a very important aspect of this case is Qatar abusing its Al-Jazeera Arabic platform in waging a media war against Egypt,” he said. Al-Jazeera spokesmen did not respond to emails seeking comment. The broadcaster spearheaded a global media campaign calling for the release of the reporters, insisting they were unjustly punished for doing their job. Egypt and Qatar have had tense relations since 2013, when the Egyptian military ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi amid massive protests. Doha is a strong backer of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups in the region. Cairo accused AlJazeera of being a mouthpiece for Morsi’s supporters, charges denied by the broadcaster. Fahmy maintained that Al-

Jazeera English, for which he was bureau chief for just three months before being detained in December 2013, was doing balanced and independent reporting. Al-Jazeera’s Arabic affiliates, however, were the only remaining platform for Islamists to criticize the military-backed government after Morsi’s ouster. Fahmy said his senior managers failed to provide the English network’s staff with enough security, and to explain to the Egyptian government that they were different from the Arabic stations. “They should have provided a security umbrella and put the security of their staffers ahead of getting the story, because it was framed as Al-Jazeera and Qatar are challenging the Egyptian government,” he said. He also said Al-Jazeera failed to provide press passes or equipment permits. Al-Jazeera has said that lacking press credentials is an administrative matter that should never have landed the reporters in criminal court. After a purely Egyptian affiliate of the network was ordered closed by a court in September 2013, the network continued to broadcast from its Doha studios, relying on amateur videos. At least 11 defendants were tried with Fahmy and the others allegedly for providing amateur videos to the network. Late last year, before a retrial was ordered, Al-Jazeera shut down its Egyptian affiliate, in what was seen as part of a thaw in the relations between Cairo and Doha. But tensions flared again over Egypt’s recent airstrikes in Libya, when an Egyptian official accused Qatar of funding terror groups there. Fahmy said the new tiff will likely complicate matters for him. “Like it or not, this case is a public opinion case and the judge could be affected by what is happening in the political arena,” he said. Al-Jazeera’s lawyer quit during the course of the trial in a highly emotional scene

in which he also accused the broadcaster of jeopardizing its staff by choosing to sue the Egyptian government for $150 million for closing its offices and jamming its signal at the height of the trial. Fahmy is now raising funds for his own defense team, which includes Amal Clooney, who has waived 90 percent of her fees, he said. Fahmy and his Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed begin

their retrial on Monday, after an appeals court threw out the case that opened last year and ended in sentencing the two to seven and ten years respectively. Australian journalist Peter Greste, who was originally sentenced to seven years, was released and deported Feb. 1. Fahmy was released on bail Feb. 12 following more than a year in prison. He said he is preparing for a lengthy legal battle in which his lawyers will

question the main investigator in the case, who accused him of being the head of a terror cell that was providing a platform for the Islamists. He is also going to seek deportation under the same new law that allowed Greste to be deported and spared a retrial. Fahmy, a dual CanadianEgyptian citizen, was asked to give up his Egyptian nationality by Egyptian officials in order to qualify for deportation. It’s not

clear why he was not then deported, but Fahmy said he thinks Canada could have pressed Cairo harder on the matter. Fahmy, who turned 40 in detention, has meanwhile been forced to postpone his wedding. Without Egyptian citizenship, he must apply to the Justice Ministry to marry his Egyptian fiancee Marwa Omara. Fahmy also has to report to the local police station every day while the trial continues.

Wal-Mart’s US workers to get pay raises By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is hoping its decision to boost workers’ paychecks will help it boost its bottom line. The nation’s largest private employer announced on Thursday that it’s giving a raise to about half-million U.S. workers as part of a $1 billion investment that includes changes that Wal-Mart says are aimed at giving workers more opportunities for advancement and more consistent schedules. The changes come as the company has faced increased pressure to pay its hourly employees more. But Wal-Mart, which has been criticized for its messy stores and poor customer service, says it’s also focusing on recruiting and retaining better workers so that it can improve its business. The company has struggled with disappointing sales for most of the past two years, even though it posted better-thanexpected results during the most recent holiday season. Wal-Mart hopes that taking better care of its workers will lead to better-run stores, more satisfied customers and an increase in sales and profits. “What’s driving us is we want to create a great store experience for customers and do that by investing in our own people,” Doug McMillon, Wal-Mart’s CEO, told The Associated Press during an interview two days ahead of the wage announce-

ment at the company’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. “A better store experience results in happier customers, resulting in stronger sales.” Wal-Mart’s changes indicate that it is moving beyond relying on its hallmark everyday low prices to make it stand out in an increasingly crowded and competitive retail landscape and moving toward investing in its workers. The company had previously cut back on staffing in stores two years ago in an effort to be more efficient. But the moves have backfired. Morale among workers was low at stores, employees weren’t able to quickly restock items on shelves and shoppers came to expect unkempt stores. Wal-Mart’s U.S. business, which accounts for 60 percent of its net sales of $482 billion, had declines or no growth for the past eight quarters. And an annual survey by the American Customer Satisfaction Index, which polled 70,000 customers, found that Wal-Mart’s customer satisfaction fell to the lowest level since 2007. “The stores are understaffed,” said Anthony Rodriguez, who has been pulled to do different jobs from being a bike assembler to sales floor associate at the Wal-Mart Rosemead, California, because of low staffing. “Often, there is nobody in a department. A lot of customers get upset.” McMillon, whose first job at Wal-Mart

was an hourly position loading trucks during college, acknowledged that some measures the company took to cut staff and other moves to increase productivity may have gone “too far.” But he says Wal-Mart has learned from its mistakes. “We want to make it really clear that working at Wal-Mart is a great opportunity,” he said. “Time will tell what the significance of the decisions will be.” In focusing on paying investing in workers, Wal-Mart follows other big retailers that have announced plans to increase pay recently as the national debate over raising the federal minimum wage has reached a crescendo. Swedish home furnishings retailer Ikea this year gave thousands of workers at its U.S. division a 17 percent average raise to $10.76 an hour. And clothing chain Gap Inc. raised its minimum hourly wage to $9 last year and to $10 this year. But Wal-Mart’s changes are likely to have a bigger impact because it employs 1.3 million U.S. workers. Among the changes, Wal-Mart is raising entry level wages to at least $9 an hour in April and to at least $10 an hour by February of next year. That includes the less than 6,000 workers who make the federal minimum wage. With the changes, the average fulltime wage at Wal-Mart stores will be $13 an hour, up from $12.85. For part-time workers, the hourly wage will be $10, up from $9.48.

Peninsula Clarion, Friday, February 20, 2015

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In Chicago, Obama designates a monument — and boosts Emanuel By JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press

CHICAGO — Officially, President Barack Obama came home to Chicago on Thursday to designate a new national monument. But you’d be forgiven for mistaking the visit for a campaign event for Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Obama’s visit to the area near the Pullman National Monument on the city’s South Side put a spotlight on Emanuel, who served as Obama’s first-term chief of staff and now faces re-election as mayor of Obama’s hometown. To avoid a runoff in Tuesday’s vote, he needs strong backing from African-American voters — one of the only groups still reliably supportive of the president. “Rahm hasn’t just fought for a national park in Pullman, he’s fought for new jobs and new

opportunities for Pullman and for every Chicagoan in every neighborhood,” Obama told a packed crowd in a school gymnasium near the historic Pullman site, where cheers and shrieks approached pop-star levels as Obama was announced onstage. Praising the notoriously blunt mayor for his smarts, toughness and judgment, Obama said he couldn’t be prouder of his former aide. He said Emanuel cares deeply about the city’s children and has been willing to make “really hard decisions” on Chicago’s behalf, an implicit rebuke of many minority residents unhappy with persistent violence and school closings since Emanuel took office. “Before Rahm was a bigshot mayor, he was an essential part of my team at the White House, during some very hard times for America,” the president said.

‘Rahm hasn’t just fought for a national park in Pullman, he’s fought for new jobs and new opportunities for Pullman and for every Chicagoan in every neighborhood.’ — President Barack Obama Emanuel, his voice hoarse after weeks of campaigning, embraced Obama and recalled the former state senator’s early years just a few blocks away where Obama got his start by knocking on doors as a young community organizer. When the rendition of “Hail to the Chief” that announces the president’s arrival suffered a false start, Emanuel turned comedic. “U.S. history for $200,” he quipped, riffing on the game show “Jeopardy!”

Later, the two popped in for a surprise visit to a South Side campaign office where volunteers were making phone calls for Emanuel and local Alderman Will Burns. Working the crowd, Obama urged Chicagoans to participate in Tuesday’s elections — and to vote for Emanuel. “I’m glad he’s my mayor,” Obama said. While Emanuel is widely expected to win a second term, his challengers hope to capitalize on the frustrations of neigh-

borhood residents and force an April runoff. That would happen if Emanuel can’t capture 50 percent plus 1 vote. The president has already cut campaign radio ads for Emanuel, as he did when Emanuel ran in 2011, and praised Emanuel’s fight for a longer school day and efforts to raise the minimum wage. Emanuel’s four lesserknown challengers, who’ve criticized the Obama ads, questioned the timing of Thursday’s visit. “This is pure politics and everybody sees through it,” said Alderman Bob Fioretti. Cook County Commissioner Jesus Garcia, who polls show is in second place, questioned why a monument designation two decades in the making would “happen on the Thursday before the election.” White House spokesman Eric Schultz disputed the notion that the monument designation

was a partisan move. He said Obama felt Emanuel had been “a very strong mayor for this city” and has remained close to the president. While in Chicago, Obama also stopped by his family home for an update on the competition to host his future presidential library. Marty Nesbitt, a longtime Obama friend chairing the library foundation, joined other foundation members in briefing the president. The 203-acre Pullman site includes factories and buildings associated with the Pullman Palace Car Co., which was founded in 1867 and hired former slaves to serve as porters, waiters and maids on its iconic railroad sleeping cars. The railroad industry — Pullman in particular — was one of the largest employers of AfricanAmericans in the United States by the early 1900s.

Greece drops key bailout demands, but lead lender in Germany still objects By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece — Greece heads to another round of negotiations Friday after dropping key demands for a bailout settlement, but still faced stiff opposition from lead lender Germany, which criticized Athens’ latest proposals as a “Trojan horse” designed to dodge its commitments. Eurozone finance ministers agreed to hold their third meeting on the Greek debt crisis in just over a week after Athens formally requested a six-month extension of loan agreements with rescue creditors that expire this month. Going back on recent election campaign pledges, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ new left-wing government said it

would honor debt obligations and agree to continued supervision from bailout lenders and the European Central Bank. Late Thursday, Tsipras held telephone conversations with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel after Germany sharply criticized the Greek offer during preparatory talks in Brussels. Greek media, including state television, widely quoted a German representative at the talks as saying the Greek offer “rather represents a Trojan horse, intending to get bridge financing and in substance putting an end to the current program.” The comments were confirmed by a senior official in the Greek Finance Ministry who could not be identified because the talks in Brussels were not

public. In Berlin, government officials did not comment publicly on the remarks, but told The Associated Press they accurately reflected the German government position. Germany argues that Greece has failed to provide detailed alternatives to cost-cutting reforms imposed by the previous government that helped the country balance its budget after decades of excessive borrowing. Greek and European markets were largely unaffected by the German response. Europe’s Stoxx 50 index rising 0.64 percent, but Athens is under increasing pressure to break the impasse with lenders. “If there’s no agreement in the next few days there is a risk of (a bank run) because liquidity in Greek banks is very limited and there are many who say

that capital controls are very close,” said Evangelos Sioutis, head of equities at Guardian Trust Securities. Although Greece emerged from the recession with a primary budget surplus last year, it faces a spike in debt repayment in 2015 with hopes of a full return to markets hit by renewed uncertainty and a resulting surge borrowing rates. Tsipras ousted traditionally dominant political parties in Jan. 25 elections, promising to scrap bailout agreements and supervision, and demand a massive write down of Greece’s

240 billion euro bailout debt so that his government could tackle a dramatic surge in unemployment. But in its latest proposals Thursday — carefully worded to avoid reference to the bailout agreement or “memorandum” — it scaled back those aims to seek more modest primary budget surpluses, budget-neutral growth measures, and calls for a deal later this year to improve bailout loan repayment terms. Greek officials appeared visibly irritated by the latest German objections. “All the conditions are there

for a transition agreement to be achieved,” Deputy Prime Minister Giannis Dragasakis said. “At this moment it appears that there are powers that would like Greece on its knees, exactly so they can impose their will.” In Washington, U.S. officials said that Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew had been closely monitoring the Greek debt negotiations. Officials said that Lew spoke by phone Thursday with finance ministers in Greece and France, as well as Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who is the current chair of Eurozone finance ministers.

A-8 Peninsula Clarion, Friday, February 20, 2015

Religion

Life comes with some assembly required

here are three magic words known to anyone who has bought toys, furniture, bikes and almost anything short of a box of cereal: Some Assembly Required. The tricky part is knowing what “some” means. “Some” meant 4 hours to assemble my barbecue grill. It meant just a few minutes to complete my fishing rod holder. The barbecue grill required paying careful attention to the instructions. In fact, by grabbing the wrong 6 screws during one of the steps, I had to backtrack and lost a good 15 to 30 minutes. The fishing rod holder was one of the easiest projects. I didn’t even look at the instructions. I simply looked at the pictures and snapped it

Voices of R eligion R ick C upp together quickly. Life itself doesn’t come without some assembly being required. We build our lives and character as we grow. It requires both the instructions and the pictures. Sometimes we need the instruction manual. My heart is just too selfish to simply do what I immediately think is the loving thing. I go to the Bible to be instructed. It is an old manual, to be sure. But God and people haven’t changed and the

Church News Stations of the Cross service at Our Lady of Perpetural Help Join Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, 222 West Redoubt Ave. in Soldotna, for a “Lenten Journey: Stations of the Cross” with an infusion of music, led by Deacon Dez and Dr. Cindy Martinez, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. A Soup supper will take place from 6-7 p.m. in Fireweed Hall. Donations will be accepted for Heifer International. The Martinezes have been involved in music ministry for over 28 years, sharing their music through concerts across the U.S., youth conferences and retreats. Call the parish office at 262-5542 for further information.

Calvary Baptist kids club meets Calvary Baptist Church has resumed its Awana Kids Club on Sunday evenings. The group meets at Kenai Middle School from 5:15-7:30 p.m. All kids, ages 3 through sixth grade, are welcome. See the Calvary Baptist Awana web page for further details and Club schedule: calvarykenai.org/awana.

wisdom found therein leads to a full life. But I also find myself in need of something else. I need the pictures. In fact, the instruction manual itself tells me to look at the pictures. It says that older men and women should teach the younger. That sometimes takes words. But more often it is the powerful example that brings home the point. So, for example, what does the Bible say? “He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” This is found in Micah 6:8. I need to hear it. But I also need to remember one of my

Soldotna Food Pantry open weekly The Soldotna Food Pantry is open every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for residents in the community who are experiencing food shortages. The Food Pantry is located at the Soldotna United Methodist Church at 158 South Binkley Street, and all are welcome. Non-perishable food items or monetary donations may be dropped off at the church on Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. or on Sunday from 9 a.m. until noon. For more information or if you have questions, please call 262-4657.

United Methodist Church provides food pantry The Kenai United Methodist Church provides a food pantry for those in need every Monday from noon to 3 p.m. The Methodist Church is located on the Kenai Spur Highway next to the Boys and Girls Club. The entrance to the Food Pantry is through the side door. The Pantry closes for holidays. For more information contact the church office at 2837868.

Clothes 4 U at First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church Soldotna, located at 159 S. Binkley Street, is re-opening its Clothes 4 U program. It is Nikiski Aglow meets each Saturday morning from open on the second and fourth Saturday of each month 9-11 a.m. at the Nikiski New Hope Christian Fellow- from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. All clothing and shoes are free to ship, Mile 23 North Road. All are welcome to attend. the public. Aglow International is founded on prayer and compassionate outreach. It is global in ministry vision, yet Clothes Quarters open weekly rooted in small groups. Nikiski Aglow is hosting the Clothes Quarters at Our Lady of the Angels Church is DVD teaching of Graham Cooke with “Game Changers.” The five themes are: 1. How you are known in open every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and the heaven; 2. Establishing your internal overcomer; 3. first Saturday of every month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For Mind of Christ; 4. Reinventing your walk in the fruit more information, call 907-283-4555. of the Spirit; 5. Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ. Submit announcements to news@peninsulaclarion. For information call Bev at 776-8022 or 398-7311 or com. Paulette at 252-7372.

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old Bible professors, Dr. Raymond Kelcy, who knew more Bible than anyone else I knew but always spoke gently with us students. Even when some stubborn student would get riled and want to get into an argument Dr. Kelcy never raised his voice and always sought to see their side. His picture was one of humility. Give me instructions and pictures! I need the Bible to tell me humility is a valuable part of a fully assembled life. I need more pictures like Dr. Kelcy to show me how the humble person looks and acts. Our need for pictures should inspire us all to want to live a fully assembled life. After all, who knows who might be looking to us for a

picture of what life should look like? A young child, a neighbor, or perhaps a family member may even now be watching to see how we are handling things. If our picture is all they see, will they be able to put their lives together during some of the difficult steps? So spend time in the manual. Look around at the good pictures that surround you. And never forget to be that good picture yourself. Rick Cupp is Minister of the Kenai Fellowship. Sunday Bible classes are at 10:00 a.m., Coffee and Fellowship at 10:45 a.m. and Worship at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday meal is at 6:15 p.m. at Worship is at 7:00 p.m.

Religion in the News Church of England appeals to voters LONDON — Church of England bishops appealed to Christians on Tuesday to take part in the politics ahead of upcoming elections, calling for a fresh moral vision for Britain at time of disillusionment. The bishops said in a 52-page letter that it is the duty of every Christian to vote May 7. The letter, the first of its kind before a vote, touches on topics such as the concept of a living wage and Britain’s relationship with the European Union. The Bishop of Norwich, Rt. Rev. Graham James, said the bishops are aware that voices in British society, notably comedian Russell Brand, have been arguing that voting is pointless. “While one may think that the bishops of the Church of England don’t quite have the sex appeal of Russell Brand, we think that we should counter it,” James said. The bishops urged a debate on whether Britain should have a nuclear deterrent and an “honest account of how we must live” in order to prevent future generations from inheriting “a denuded and exhausted planet.” They also addressed some of the more loaded rhetoric about public policy, including the often degrading way in which welfare recipients are described. “For instance, when those who

rely on social security payments are all described in terms that imply they are undeserving, dependent and ought to be self-sufficient, it deters others from offering the informal, neighborly support which could ease some of the burden of the welfare state,” the letter said. Though “not a shopping list” of preferred policies, it forced Prime Minister David Cameron to defend his employment and welfare policies — many of which have been challenged as unfairly targeting the poor. The Conservative Party leader stressed his government’s effort to create jobs and cut taxes.

Episcopal leaders offer ‘Ashes to Go’ CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire’s Episcopal bishop and other church leaders made it easier for Christians to observe Ash Wednesday by providing “Ashes to Go” in several locations. The Rev. Robert Hirschfeld administered ashes in Eagle Square in Concord from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, along with the rectors of St. Paul’s Church and Grace Church. Ash Wednesday is marked by prayer and fasting, and those who observe it have ashes placed on their foreheads as a reminder of human mortality. — The Associated Press

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bring competitors from Fort Wainwright Army Base and Eielson and Elmendorf Air Force Bases. In addition to a speech, judges will evaluate the candidates through 15 minute interviews, three previously-submitted essays, and three letters of recommendation from teachers, Boys and Girl’s Club leaders, and acquaintances. Oren wrote an essay on her “personal brand,” which she said was focused on athletics. “I’ve always been active,” Oren said. “I love sports. I played hockey, baseball, softball, all that stuff.” Oren said one of her concerns is that interest in sports has been “dimming recently.” “I’ve heard things about people in school not wanting to join sports because it’s uncool,”

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project was on track to meet the target for making a decision in the second quarter of next year on whether to move forward. Deputy Natural Resources Commissioner Marty Rutherford said given the amount of cooperation she has seen, the target is achievable. “Given our financial situation, we can no longer afford to stand by and wait while Alaska’s future is decided in the boardrooms of international corporations that have competing global interests. It is time to develop the option for a largevolume natural gas project with

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— Anglers may only use one unbaited, single-hook, artificial lure on the Anchor River, Deep Creek, and Ninilchik River during the three weekend openings in May and June.

Oren said. “I’ve heard a couple of kids say that. They don’t want to participate in PE, they don’t want to do the runs. They don’t want to play sports at all. They just want to sit down and play on their phones.” Another problem that Oren dealt with in her essays is religious intolerance, based on her own experience of growing up Jewish. “There are people who go to my school who don’t like the fact that I’m Jewish, and I’ve heard them say jokes behind my back, random things like

that,” Oren said. “But it’s never anything too big. I don’t quite mind it. But if it’s something major, I have to say something to them.” Following Friday’s competition, the Boys and Girl’s Club will hold an award dinner on Saturday at Kenai Catering. The winner will receive a $5,000 scholarship from the national Boy’s and Girl’s Club organization, The winner from the non-military clubs will also receive $1,500 from University of Alaska College Savings plan, and the runner-up will be awarded $1,000.

In addition, the winner will move on to a regional competition in Anaheim, California, where they can qualify for the national Youth of the Year competition. Oren said she has plans for this prize money, should she win it. “I want to go off to college and be a pediatrician, which is eleven years of schooling, so I’m definitely going to need the money,” Oren said. “I became a mentor here, and what I realized doing that is that I love to work with kids.” Oren said she is considering many possible schools. “The main one I want to go to is Washington University in Seattle, but it’s really expensive,” Oren said. “So if I go, I need to raise money for it. That’s why I’m doing this, and working here (at the Boys and Girl’s club) to earn money.” Reach Ben Boettger at ben. boettger@peninsulaclarion. com

Alaskans in control, with the decision-making based on what is best for Alaska,” Walker wrote. In materials to lawmakers last month, AGDC, which also has been pursuing the in-state Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline, indicated that final investment decisions for both projects were expected around 2019. The state faces projected multibillion-dollar budget deficits amid a crash in oil prices, and the stand-alone project is among the big-ticket projects for which Walker has halted new spending pending a review of them. Under the prior administration, the stand-alone line had been seen as a fallback should the big project falter. The possibility of the two

projects merging at some point also has been raised. But a bill passed by the Legislature last year, setting the state’s participation in the liquefied natural gas project, also laid the groundwork for releasing the size restrictions that had been placed on the stand-alone pipeline as part of a prior, failed effort to bring about a gas project. Walker said that was a factor in his change of tone on the stand-alone line. Natural Resources Commissioner Mark Myers said in an interview last month that whatever pipeline is built has to be economically viable. Should the big project not work out, the stand-alone project would have to be heavily modified, he said.

Many lawmakers see the liquefied gas project as the state’s next best chance for significant revenue. House Speaker Mike Chenault, a supporter of AGDC’s efforts, told reporters Thursday that the state should do everything it can as a partner to move that project forward. Others saw Walker’s proposal as a good move. Walker said he spoke with officials from the companies and got no pushback. On Thursday, Walker also announced three new appointments to the AGDC board. Walker had removed three members after taking office, saying he wanted Alaskans on the board and more geographic representation.

— From April 1-July 15, the combined annual limit is two king salmon 20 inches or greater in length for fish harvested in the Anchor River, Deep Creek, and Ninilchik River and all marine waters south of the latitude of the mouth of the Ninilchik River to the latitude of Bluff Point. — From July 1-15, the salt-

water area surrounding the Anchor River mouth will be closed to sport fishing for king salmon from the Anchor Point Light to the regulatory marker located 2 miles north of the Anchor River and regulations associated with the Special Harvest Areas will remain in effect from approximately one mile south of Stariski Creek

south to Bluff Point. This extends the current closure by 2 weeks. Emergency orders were issued for northern Cook Inlet as well, including the Susitna, Little Susitna and Deshka rivers.

‘I was there for no more than 15 minutes when a girl came up to me and asked if I wanted to play with her. We’ve been friends for over seven and a half years now.’ — Annika Oren

Reach Rashah McChensey at rashah.mcchesney@peninsulaclarion.com.

Alaska port proposed for vessels in Arctic waters ANCHORAGE — A historic Alaska gold-mining city could be the first place where the federal government invests in a deep-water port to serve vessels in Arctic waters. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing to release a study for public comment that suggests expanding the Port of Nome as a first step in improving infrastructure along Alaska’s west and north coast. Nome is south of the Bering Strait but far closer to Arctic waters than the nearest Coast Guard base in Kodiak, an island east of the Aleutian Chain. The lack of a deep-water port along Alaska’s north and west coasts has been a point of concern as climate warming has made Arctic waters more accessible. As ship traffic has increased, the corps, the Coast Guard and other federal agencies have expressed concern about responding to vessels in distress, industrial activities and oil spills. Royal Dutch Shell PLC began exploratory drilling on offshore leases in 2012 in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. The company is considering drilling again this summer in the Chukchi if it can obtain the necessary permits. Tour boats travel across the Bering Strait, and state and federal officials anticipate shipping companies could someday use Arctic Ocean routes for moving freight between continents. Nome would welcome expanded port facilities that could handle larger, deeper fuel tankers and possibly lower fuel prices, said Joy Baker, Nome’s port project manager. The city would also like to accommodate the Coast Guard fleet and vessels used for petroleum drilling, she said. The corps in 2012 launched a three-year study on deep ports in response to increased vessel traffic. The study area covered 3,626 miles of coastline from southwest Alaska to the Canada border. The goal was to evaluate, with the state of Alaska, potential locations that could service deep-draft vessels. Nome was the first location identified for possible expansion or development. The city offers advantages that morenorthern communities don’t, such as an airport that handles jets. Its outer port, however, with annual dredging is only 22 feet deep. Ships with deeper drafts must ferry their contents to shore. Corps spokesman Tom Findtner said by email that the agency in December tentatively selected a plan to modify the Port of Nome. The plan suggests extending Nome’s causeway by 2,150 feet, building a 450-foot dock and dredging the new, protected area and entrance channel to 28 feet. The corps report is a feasibility review that will be released for public comment, possibly by Friday. Details for expanding the port would be developed in a planning, engineering and design phase, Baker said. — Associated Press C

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Bears seek to boost playoff chances Despite recent slump, Kenai River still very much in race for postseason By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

Many bad numbers have been rapidly increasing since the Kenai River Brown Bears entered a protracted slump at the beginning of December. However, one number — the points the Bears remain out of a playoff spot — has been surprisingly stubborn during that whole time. “I think the guys have the right mindset, and that’s to focus on making the playoffs,” Kenai River head coach Geoff Beauparlant said. “We have to take it one game at a time and collect as many points as we can.” On Nov. 29, the Bears were 11-131 and held a one-point lead over the Minnesota Magicians for the final playoff spot in the North American Hockey League Midwest Division. Since that time, Kenai River has

posted a 2-20-1 record, yet the Bears trail the Magicians by just four points for that final playoff spot. “That’s what keeps the guys motivated,” Beauparlant said. “In all honesty, if we were out of the playoffs by now, we probably would have gone in a different direction. “If we were 20 points out, we would have helped the 20-year-olds get into a spot where they could make the playoffs, and developed the young guys a lot more.” Kenai River has 12 games left, while the Magicians have 14 more games. The next four games, all at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex, loom as crucial to the Bears’ chances. Tonight and Saturday, the Bears face the Johnstown (Pennsylvania) Tomahawks. Tonight’s game is at 7:30 p.m., while Saturday’s is at 7 p.m. Then next weekend, the Bears host

the Keystone (Pennsylvania) Ice Miners. Johnstown is 20-20-6, while Keystone is 23-18-5. Both teams gave the Bears trouble on the road, with Johnstown winning 5-3 and 5-2, and Keystone winning 5-2 and 3-2 in a shooBy JEFF HELMINIAK tout. Peninsula Clarion Tomahawks forward Casey Linkenheld gave the Bears fits, notching a hat As part of an effort to help some trick in the first game and registering of the Kenai River Brown Bears two goals and an assist in the second players move up in their careers, game. the starting time has been moved Combine that scoring touch with up for Saturday’s game between the goaltending of Ryan Bednard, who the Brown Bears and Johnstown is on the NHL Central Scouting list, (Pennsylvania) Tomahawks. and Jacob Gwillim, who has a .915 save percentage, and the Bears are in for quite a test. But the coach said Kenai River has “They are in your face and aggressive when they defend, and they have to be more concerned about itself than excellent goaltending,” Beauparlant the opposition. “Our Achilles’ heel as a group is said.

Prospects tournament gives 4 Bears chance to advance The game will start at 7 p.m. in order to allow Jack Gessert, Maurin Bouvet, Tyler Andrews and Tanner Schachle time to catch a flight to the North American Hockey League Top Prospects Tournament on Monday and Tuesday in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Last season, over 180 scouts atSee TOP, page B-4

just one lapse of judgment has been turning the tide,” Beauparlant said. And when that tide is turned, the See BEARS, page B-4

Cooper nabs classic win Kenai Central skier has chance to make Peninsula history today By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

If the Kenai Peninsula is to crown its first ever boys state skimeister champion, it will need a big day today from Travis Cooper. Cooper, a Kenai Central senior, won Thursday’s 7.5-kilometer classic race at Kincaid Park in Anchorage. Cooper’s winning time of 20 minutes, 24.3 seconds, left him 20 seconds ahead than second-place Max Donaldson of West Valley. Race times from Thursday and Friday will be added up and the fastest skier between

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Penguins forward Sidney Crosby, left and Blue Jackets’ Brandon Dubinsky, of Anchorage, are seen through the dasher board glass as they exchange blows in a fight in the second period of an NHL hockey game Thursday in Pittsburgh.

Islanders cool off Predators By The Associated Press

UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Nick Leddy had a goal and two assists, Jaroslav Halak tied the team record for wins in a season, and the New York Islanders cooled off the NHLleading Nashville Predators with a 5-2 win on Thursday night. Brian Strait, John Tavares and Johnny Boychuk scored in the first for the Islanders, who snapped Nashville’s six-game winning streak with their sixth victory in seven games. Tavares has at least one goal in each of his last four games. Leddy and Josh Bailey scored 1:39 apart in the third period to break open a onegoal nail biter. Halak made 30 saves for his 32nd win. Filip Forsberg and James

Neal scored for the Predators. hinney stopped 29 shots as the Pekka Rinne had a rare off Blue Jackets won their second night, allowing five goals on straight. 40 shots. Evgeni Malkin picked up his 22nd goal for Pittsburgh. Captain Sidney Crosby was BLUE JACKETS 2, held without a point, though PENGUINS 1 he tussled with Dubinsky in PITTSBURGH — Brandon the second period. It was the Dubinsky poked a pass from seventh fight of Crosby’s 10Matt Calvert past a sprawled year career. Marc-Andre Fleury with 2:17 remaining, sending Columbus SHARKS 5, STARS 2 to the road win. Pittsburgh’s Blake Comeau DALLAS — Andrew Desturned it over and the Blue jardins scored two second-peJackets quickly pounced. riod goals, and San Jose held Calvert fed Dubinsky as Pitts- on for the win. burgh’s Steve Downie ran over Antti Niemi made 37 saves Fleury. Dubinsky had little for the Sharks, who had lost trouble tapping in his seventh two straight. The victory goal of the season. vaulted them into a tie for sevScott Hartnell also scored enth place in the Western Confor Columbus. Curtis McEl- ference with Calgary, tied for

third in the Pacific Division. The Stars had won four of their previous five games. They fell six points behind Calgary and San Jose in the race for the final wild-card berth. CAPITALS 5, JETS 1 WASHINGTON — Nicklas Backstrom scored two second-period goals and had an assist, and Washington won for the fourth time in five games. Capitals star Alex Ovechkin added his league-leading 38th goal and an assist. Troy Brouwer had an empty-net goal and an assist, and John Carlson also scored. Backstrom, who has 16 asSee NHL, Page B-4

the two days will be crowned state skimeister. If Cooper can hold on to his slim lead, he will become the Kenai Peninsula’s first-ever state skimeister. “It’s been a rush,” Cooper said Thursday evening. “We got here and I thought I would have a chance to win it. I just believed it, and my name came up on the board after I finished. It was great.” All Cooper needs to do in today’s 10K freestyle event is ski fast enough to prevent Donaldson or any others from making up their deficit. Donaldson is gunning for his third straight state title. See SKI, page B-4

Area racers all set for Iron Dog By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

Racers preparing for this year’s edition of the Iron Dog snowmachine race can expect a lot of the usual dangers, as well as a few unpredictable surprises, both on the trail and off it. For one, there is the weather. A recent surge in temperatures across the Southcentral region of the state have melted the already thin snowpack and exposed much of the land with dirt, mud and open water. Then, there is the field of 37 Pro Class entries. One name that was originally left off the entry list but has since then been included is that of seventime Iron Dog champion Scott Davis of Soldotna. Also entered is Davis’ son, Cory, an X Games medalist that is attempting to win it in his third try. Another entry in this year’s edition is that of Soldotna veteran Mark Carr, who will be making his first start in a de-

cade. Carr and Davis rolled to three consecutive Iron Dog victories in the late ’90s, and total 11 wins between them. Davis has run the Iron Dog all but two years since its inception in 1984, but even with that type of experience, it is still impossible to be completely ready for what lies ahead. The race — which totals 2,031 grueling miles across rugged Alaska terrain — is billed as the “world’s longest, toughest snowmobile race,” and this year’s event is the 32nd running. The race officially begins in Big Lake and takes riders through 16 checkpoints to Nome, then on a return route that eventually lands them in Fairbanks for the finish. Competitors have been known to reach speeds of up to 100 mph in temperatures down to minus 57, creating a wind chill that can plummet into the triple-digit range below zero. It is generally known as the See DOG, page B-4

Point guards move quickly on NBA trade deadline day BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer

Point guards moving quickly made this trade deadline a transition game. Goran Dragic, Michael Carter-Williams, Reggie Jackson and Brandon Knight all were dealt Thursday in the final hours that trades were allowed, as a number of teams handed their keys to different drivers. Kevin Garnett also has a new address — his original NBA one. The Timberwolves brought him back to Minnesota by sending Thaddeus Young to Brooklyn. There were 12 trades involving 39 players. So many were on the move in deals agreed to shortly before the 3 p.m. EST deadline that most of the

transactions took hours for the NBA to approve. Dragic and Jackson were two players to watch on deadline day, because neither was expected to remain with his team after this season. Both their teams opted to move them rather than risk losing them for nothing. Phoenix sent Dragic to Miami, getting two first-round picks and a package of players for the Slovenian, a third-team All-NBA selection last season. The Suns filled his spot by acquiring Knight from Milwaukee in a three-team deal with Philadelphia, which sent Carter-Williams to the Bucks. “I did feel it was time to find a better fit,” Dragic wrote on Twitter, adding “NOW it’s #heatnation time and

I’m excited to bring the Dragon’s fire to Miami!!” Zoran Dragic, Goran’s brother, also went from Phoenix to Miami. “We are incredibly pleased to take another step in getting the Miami Heat back to real championship prominence with the acquisition of Goran Dragic,” Heat President Pat Riley said. “Goran is an All-NBA player, including the Most Improved Player last season, and we felt that once he became available, we would do all that we could to acquire him.” Jackson, who began the season replacing an injured Russell Westbrook, now will step in for the sidelined Brandon Jennings. The Oklahoma City Thunder sent Jackson to Detroit in a three-way trade that inC

cluded Utah. Even backup point guards seemed in demand, with players such as Isaiah Thomas (Boston), Ramon Sessions (Washington), Andre Miller (Sacramento), DJ Augustin (Oklahoma City), Norris Cole (New Orleans) and Pablo Prigioni (Houston) getting new homes. Some big guys got in on the little guys’ fun, with Enes Kanter getting his wish to leave Utah when he ended up in Oklahoma City as Kendrick Perkins’ replacement. “It is a rare opportunity to acquire a player like Enes who will be an added dimension to our frontcourt and has his best basketball in front of him,” Thunder general manager Sam Presti said.

The flurry of moves ended a busy season of swaps in which contenders such as Cleveland, Memphis and Dallas refused to wait for the last minute to get their dealing done, having upgraded long ago. Other teams had their chance Thursday, and Portland may have done it with the first completed deal of the day when it acquired Arron Afflalo from Denver. “Arron is a proven winner with playoff experience who will be easily integrated into our culture,” Blazers general manager Neil Olshey said. “He possesses a skill set that complements our style of play on both ends of the floor and will make an immediate impact as we continue our playoff push.

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Soldotna boys defeat Palmer Staff report

Joe Weltzin poured in 25 points as the visiting Soldotna boys picked up a 71-68 Northern Lights Conference victory over Palmer on Thursday. SoHi made the win happen by outscoring Palmer 27-21 in the final quarter. Brooks Furlong added 13 for the Stars, while Clayton Southwick had 22 and James Blake added 21 for the Moose.

prevailed. Nikit Fefelov scored 26 points on 10-for-10 free throw shooting to lead Nikolaevsk to the win. Teammate Neil Gordeev chipped in 11 points and seven rebounds as well. Nikolaevsk trailed 28-27 at halftime, but outscored Ninilchik 15-13 in the third quarter to take the lead, then held on with a 17-16 fourth-quarter effort. Nikolaevsk went 15-for-20 overall from the charity stripe.

Palmer girls 41, Soldotna 35 The host Moose outscored the Stars 15-7 in the final quarter to pick up the Northern Lights Conference victory Thursday. Kim Madruga had 17 for Palmer. The Stars received 14 points from Hayley Ramsell and an additional 10 from Lindsey Wong. Wasilla hoops teams sweep Kenai WASILLA — Big third quarters by the home team led to a sweep for the Wasilla Warriors Thursday night. The Wasilla girls used a 17-3 third-quarter run to get past Kenai 44-21. The Wasilla boys opened the second half with a 10-0 run to spark a 62-48 win over the Kards at Wasilla High School. Wasilla allowed Kenai only three Hannah Barcus points in the third quarter en route to improving to 6-0 in Northern Lights Conference play. The big third-quarter run helped open up what was a tight game through two quarters. Wasilla led 14-12 at the half. Forwards Leya DePriest and Cassidy Edwards combined for nine of Wasilla’s 17 third-quarter points. DePriest finished with 13 points and 11 rebounds. Edwards added 10 points and nine boards. Barcus led Kenai with seven. Isaac Hock and Zack Garnett combined for 10 points during the first 90 seconds of the third quarter to help Wasilla cruise to a boys basketball win over Kenai. Houck got the bucket, drew the foul and hit the free throw to complete a three-point play on two early possessions in the third quarter. Garnett also had four points early in the third. Hock scored eight of his team-high 13 points during Wasilla’s 23-point third quarter. Ryen Millrun and Alex Baham added 11 each for Wasilla. Keith Ivy posted a gamehigh 14 for Kenai. Nikolaevsk boys 59, Ninilchik 57 The Warriors battled the Wolverines all the way down to the wire in a Peninsula Conference matchup, and Nikolaevsk

Nikolaevsk girls 33, Ninilchik 32 The Warriors escaped with a close win earlier in the day in the girls game. Vera Fefelov and Serafima Kalugin led Nikolaevsk with nine points each. Kalugin grabbed 15 rebounds as well, and teammate Nadejda Gordeev brought down 11 boards. Trailing 26-21 after three quarters, Ninilchik poured on one last burst to outscore Nikolaevsk 11-7 in the fourth quarter. However, the comeback came up one point short. Thursday girls Moose 41, Stars 35 Soldotna Palmer

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SOLDOTNA (35) — Rouse 1 2-2 4, Nelson 2 0-0 5, Shaw 0 2-4 2, Wong 4 2-7 10, McElroy 0 0-0 0, Ramsell 2 10-12 14, Miller 0 0-2 0, Glaves 0 0-0 0. Totals — 9 16-27 35. PALMER (41) — Murphy 0 0-0 0, Venzke 2 0-0 4, Bowman 0 0-0 0, King 0 0-0 0, McCall 1 2-2 4, Uschmann 0 0-2 0, Madruga 4 4-8 17, Smylie 2 1-1 6, Till 1 3-4 6, Sherman 1 0-0 2, Millard 0 2-4 2. Totals — 11 12-2 41. 3-point goals — Soldotna 1 (Nelson); Palmer 5 (Madruga 3, Smylie, Till). Team fouls — Soldotna 19, Palmer 19. Fouled out — Venzke. Warriors 44, Kardinals 21 Kenai 6-6-3-6—21 Wasilla 8-6-17-13—44 Kenai (21) — Ostrander 1 1-2 5, Steinbeck 0 3-4 , Baker 1 0-0 2, Barcus 3 1-2 7, Beck 1 2-2 4, Every 1 0-2 2; Totals: 7 7-12 21. Wasilla (44) — Heath 1 0-0 2, Baham 3 0-0 8 Brandenburg 3 0-0 6, Toews 1 0-2 2, Anderson 1 0-0 3, Edwards 3 4-4 10, DePriest 5 3-4 13; Totals: 17 7-10 44. 3-point field goals: Kenai 0, Wasilla 3 (Baham 2); Total fouls: Kenai 9, Wasilla 14. Thursday boys Stars 71, Moose 68 Soldotna Palmer

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SOLDOTNA (71) — Kuntz 3 0-0 8, Weltzin 6 13-16 25, Furlong 5 0-0 13, Phillips 1 2-2 4, Spence 5 2-2 13, Duke 0 1-4 1, Gibbs 0 0-0 0, Fowler 3 1-1 7, Trammell 0 0-0 0. Totals — 23 19-25 71. PALMER (68) — Ramoth 5 2-4 14, Roth 0 0-0 0, Debach 2 0-0 4, Ferris 1 0-0 2, Witz 0 0-0 0, Southwick 6 10-13 22, Blake 8 4-6 21, Yanez 0 2-2 2. Totals — 22 18-25 68. 3-point goals — Soldotna 6 (Furlong 3, Kuntz 2, Spence); Palmer 6 (Blake 4, Ramoth 2). Team fouls — Soldotna 24, Palmer 18. Fouled out — Spence, Ferris. Warriors 62, Kardinals 48 Kenai 6-10-12-20—48 Wasilla 17-11-23-11—62 Kenai (48) —Theisen 0 1-2 1, Ivy 5 2-5 14, McKee 2 1-2 6, Tri. Landry 2 0-1 4, Ta. Landry 2 2-2 6, Jackman 3 2-2 9, Vest 1 1-2 4, Foree 2 0-0 4; Totals: 17 9-16 48. Wasilla (62) — Burns 3 2-3 8, C. Brown 4 0-0 8, Milleron 4 1-2 11, Baham 3 5-6 11, Garnett 3 2-2 8, Houck 4 5-6 13, K. Brown 1 0-0 3; Totals: 22 15-19 62. 3-point field goals: Wasilla 4 (Milleron 2), Kenai 5 (Ivy 2)

No. 3 Bulldogs win 20th straight By The Associated Press

STOCKTON, Calif. — Kyle Wiltjer scored 45 points for Gonzaga’s highest-scoring game in 54 years and the thirdranked Bulldogs tied a school record with their 20th straight win, 86-74 over Pacific on Thursday night. Gary Bell Jr. added 12 points as the Bulldogs (27-1, 15-0 West Coast Conference) used another strong shooting night to roll to a victory. Gonzaga, which leads the nation in shooting at 52.7 percent, made 60 percent of its shots, keyed by a 15-for-22 night by Wiltjer.

Scoreboard Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L Montreal 58 37 16 Tampa Bay 60 36 18 Detroit 56 32 14 Boston 57 28 20 Florida 57 26 19 Ottawa 56 23 23 Toronto 58 23 30 Buffalo 58 17 37 Metropolitan Division N.Y. Islanders 59 39 19 N.Y. Rangers 56 34 16 Washington 59 32 17 Pittsburgh 58 32 17 Philadelphia 58 24 23 Columbus 56 26 27 New Jersey 57 22 26 Carolina 56 20 29

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Nashville 58 39 13 6 84 177 137 St. Louis 57 37 16 4 78 179 141 Chicago 58 35 18 5 75 174 134 Winnipeg 60 30 20 10 70 166 162 Minnesota 57 29 21 7 65 158 154 Dallas 58 27 23 8 62 181 185 Colorado 58 24 23 11 59 150 165 Pacific Division Anaheim 58 35 16 7 77 170 164 Vancouver 57 33 21 3 69 163 151 Calgary 58 32 22 4 68 168 150 San Jose 60 30 22 8 68 170 172 Los Angeles 57 27 18 12 66 159 151 Arizona 58 20 31 7 47 131 194 Edmonton 59 17 32 10 44 139 199 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Thursday’s Games Vancouver 5, N.Y. Rangers 4, SO Buffalo 3, Philadelphia 2, SO Florida 3, Montreal 2, SO N.Y. Islanders 5, Nashville 2 Columbus 2, Pittsburgh 1 Washington 5, Winnipeg 1 San Jose 5, Dallas 2 Friday’s Games Vancouver at New Jersey, 3 p.m. Toronto at Carolina, 3 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Buffalo, 3 p.m. Boston at St. Louis, 4 p.m. Colorado at Chicago, 4:30 p.m. Anaheim at Calgary, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Edmonton, 5 p.m. Saturday’s Games N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 8:30 a.m. Nashville at Philadelphia, 9 a.m. Winnipeg at Toronto, 3 p.m. Columbus at Montreal, 3 p.m. Florida at Ottawa, 3 p.m. Carolina at New Jersey, 3 p.m. Anaheim at Edmonton, 3 p.m. Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 4 p.m. Detroit at Dallas, 4 p.m. Tampa Bay at Arizona, 4 p.m. Los Angeles vs. San Jose at Santa Clara, CA, 6 p.m. All Times AST

Racing Daytona 500 Lineup

After Thursday qualifying; race Sunday At Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Fla. Lap length: 2.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 201.293 mph. 2. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 201.135. 3. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet. 4. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 200.187. 5. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 193.241. 6. (19) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 197.837. 7. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 197.968. 8. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 197.477. 9. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 194.995. 10. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 190.678. 11. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 197.994. 12. (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 193.282. 13. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 199.867. 14. (44) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 194.978. 15. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 193.133. 16. (66) Mike Wallace, Toyota, 192.509. 17. (40) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 193.299. 18. (51) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 196.532. 19. (35) Cole Whitt, Ford, 194.012. 20. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 197.959. 21. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 198.325. 22. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 198.177. 23. (95) Michael McDowell, Ford,

Malik Martin had 15 points to lead USC.

NO. 9 UTAH 47, OREGON STATE 37 CORVALLIS, Ore. — Dakarai Tucker scored 11 points as Utah handed Oregon State their first home loss in 15 games. Delon Wright added nine points, nine rebounds and five assists for the Utes (21-4, 11-2 Pac-12).

NO. 16 MARYLAND 69, NEBRASKA 65

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Melo Trimble scored 26 points, including a pair of pivotal 3-pointers down the stretch, and Maryland NO. 7 ARIZONA 87, USC 57 squeezed past Nebraska in the firstTUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Kaleb ever meeting between the teams. Tarczewski scored 15 points, Stanley Johnson added 13 in another NO. 21 SMU 67, strong all-around game and ArizoTEMPLE 58 na jumped on Southern California DALLAS — Nic Moore scored early in the rout. Arizona (23-3, 11-2 Pac-12) did 18 points, and SMU rallied from what it was supposed to at home 10 points down in the second half against the conference’s last-place to snap Temple’s seven-game winteam, overwhelming the Trojans ning streak. Ryan Manuel hit a tying with a slew of dunks and easy baskets at the rim. The Wildcats led 3-pointer and added another to cap by 18 at halftime and didn’t let a 7-0 run that broke a 52-52 tie and up to win their 35th straight home sent the American Athletic Conference-leading Mustangs (22-5, game. USC (10-16, 2-12) held its own 13-2 AAC) to their 20th win in 22 through the opening 10 minutes. games. The Mustangs outscored Once the Wildcats hit the throttle, the Owls 15-6 in the final four minutes. the Trojans stood no chance. C

195.3. 24. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 197.976. 25. (23) J.J. Yeley, Toyota. 26. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 195.346. 27. (46) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 196.554. 28. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 194.452. 29. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 195.588. 30. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 196.962. 31. (33) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 197.507. 32. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 196.816. 33. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 197.2. 34. (55) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 190.517. 35. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 200.214. 36. (83) Johnny Sauter, Toyota, 198.22. 37. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 197.256. 38. (9) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, 197.243. 39. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 193.357. 40. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 198.212. 41. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 197.946. 42. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota. 43. (32) Bobby Labonte, Ford, Past Champion. Failed to Qualify 44. (62) Brian Scott, Chevrolet, 197.828. 45. (29) Justin Marks, Toyota, 194.675. 46. (30) Ron Hornaday Jr., Chevrolet, 190.791. 47. (26) Jeb Burton, Toyota, 195.004. 48. (7) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 198.229. 49. (98) Josh Wise, Ford, 193.386.

Basketball Women’s Scores EAST Elon 74, Northeastern 73 Hofstra 62, Towson 48 La Salle 47, Rhode Island 45 Pittsburgh 68, Virginia 63, OT Quinnipiac 82, St. Peter’s 52 Siena 66, Manhattan 51 Syracuse 73, Boston College 51 SOUTH Drexel 63, Coll. of Charleston 52 Florida Gulf Coast 71, Kennesaw St. 60 Florida St. 81, Clemson 38 Georgia St. 69, South Alabama 54 Jacksonville 76, N. Kentucky 62 James Madison 85, UNC Wilmington 49 LSU 64, Georgia 52 Louisiana Tech 71, Charlotte 61 Louisiana-Lafayette 64, Texas St. 41 Louisville 69, Virginia Tech 49 Middle Tennessee 74, Marshall 48 Mississippi 51, Auburn 46 NC State 68, Miami 65 New Orleans 76, SE Louisiana 64 North Carolina 83, Wake Forest 45 North Florida 57, Lipscomb 54 Notre Dame 71, Georgia Tech 61 SIU-Edwardsville 77, Austin Peay 62 Southern Miss. 70, Old Dominion 53 Stetson 92, SC-Upstate 66 Tennessee 77, Alabama 56 Texas A&M 81, Kentucky 69 Troy 99, Georgia Southern 93, OT Vanderbilt 76, Florida 75, OT W. Kentucky 59, UAB 51 MIDWEST CS Bakersfield 83, Chicago St. 57 Green Bay 87, Valparaiso 45 IUPUI 76, N. Dakota St. 65 Maryland 81, Wisconsin 70 North Dakota 76, Portland St. 45 Oral Roberts 68, W. Illinois 61 UMKC 62, Seattle 61 Youngstown St. 79, Milwaukee 73 SOUTHWEST Grand Canyon 75, Texas-Pan American 63 Houston Baptist 67, Incarnate Word 64 North Texas 74, FAU 55 Rice 80, FIU 59 South Carolina 73, Arkansas 56 Stephen F. Austin 71, Lamar 60 Texas-Arlington 55, Appalachian St. 45 UALR 63, Arkansas St. 61 FAR WEST

CS-Fullerton 74, Cal Poly 60 E. Washington 88, S. Utah 67 Gonzaga 80, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 72 Idaho 78, N. Arizona 43 Montana 69, Idaho St. 51 Montana St. 60, Weber St. 49 N. Colorado 78, Sacramento St. 76 New Mexico St. 67, Utah Valley 62 Pacific 80, Portland 78 San Francisco 87, Loyola Marymount 75 Santa Clara 84, Pepperdine 66 UC Davis 83, Long Beach St. 66 UC Riverside 71, UC Santa Barbara 65

Men’s Scores EAST Bryant 66, Wagner 65 CCSU 53, St. Francis (Pa.) 50 Canisius 69, Siena 63, OT Delaware 70, UNC Wilmington 59 Monmouth (NJ) 63, St. Peter’s 58 Mount St. Mary’s 82, LIU Brooklyn 65 Niagara 55, Fairfield 53 Rider 94, Quinnipiac 83 Sacred Heart 80, Robert Morris 76 St. Francis (NY) 70, Fairleigh Dickinson 54 SOUTH Belmont 66, E. Kentucky 61 Chattanooga 74, Mercer 61 Coastal Carolina 81, Campbell 57 FIU 60, Rice 56 Florida Gulf Coast 54, Kennesaw St. 53 Georgia St. 79, South Alabama 51 Jacksonville 83, N. Kentucky 75, OT Louisiana Tech 83, Charlotte 82, OT Louisiana-Lafayette 64, Texas St. 42 Maryland 69, Nebraska 65 Memphis 75, UConn 72 Middle Tennessee 90, Marshall 51 Mississippi 71, Mississippi St. 65 North Florida 93, Lipscomb 78 North Texas 79, FAU 72 Old Dominion 64, Southern Miss. 38 SC-Upstate 73, Stetson 54 The Citadel 62, Furman 56, OT Troy 65, Georgia Southern 62 UAB 71, W. Kentucky 66 UCF 69, Tulane 55 Wofford 77, UNC Greensboro 62 MIDWEST Dayton 68, Saint Joseph’s 64 Iowa 81, Rutgers 47 Milwaukee 71, Ill.-Chicago 60 N. Dakota St. 57, IUPUI 48 Oral Roberts 81, Nebraska-Omaha 78 Purdue 67, Indiana 63 SIU-Edwardsville 75, SE Missouri 72 UT-Martin 75, E. Illinois 73, OT SOUTHWEST SMU 67, Temple 58 Texas-Arlington 81, Appalachian St. 68 UALR 70, Arkansas St. 57 FAR WEST Arizona 87, Southern Cal 57 BYU 75, San Diego 62 CS Bakersfield 64, Chicago St. 51 Cal Poly 65, Cal St.-Fullerton 54 E. Washington 78, S. Utah 75 Gonzaga 86, Pacific 74 Grand Canyon 64, Texas-Pan American 59 IPFW 63, Denver 47 Montana 88, Idaho St. 77 N. Arizona 72, Idaho 65 New Mexico St. 51, Utah Valley 38 Pepperdine 64, Santa Clara 55 Portland St. 80, North Dakota 70 Sacramento St. 66, N. Colorado 59 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 68, Portland 51 San Francisco 72, Loyola Marymount 45

UC Davis 65, Long Beach St. 58 UC Irvine 75, Hawaii 60 UC Riverside 64, UC Santa Barbara 62 Utah 47, Oregon St. 37 Weber St. 74, Montana St. 71

NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Toronto 36 17 Brooklyn 21 31 Boston 20 31 Philadelphia 12 41 New York 10 43 Southeast Division Atlanta 43 11 Washington 33 21 Charlotte 22 30 Miami 22 30 Orlando 17 39 Central Division Chicago 34 20 Cleveland 33 22 Milwaukee 30 23 Detroit 21 33 Indiana 21 33

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Memphis 39 14 Houston 36 17 Dallas 36 20 San Antonio 34 20 New Orleans 27 26 Northwest Division Portland 36 17 Oklahoma City 29 25 Denver 20 33 Utah 19 34 Minnesota 11 42 Pacific Division Golden State 42 9 L.A. Clippers 36 19 Phoenix 29 25 Sacramento 18 34 L.A. Lakers 13 40

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Thursday’s Games Oklahoma City 104, Dallas 89 L.A. Clippers 119, San Antonio 115 Friday’s Games Indiana at Philadelphia, 3 p.m. New Orleans at Orlando, 3 p.m. Toronto at Atlanta, 3:30 p.m. Chicago at Detroit, 3:30 p.m. Miami at New York, 3:30 p.m. Phoenix at Minnesota, 4 p.m. Cleveland at Washington, 4 p.m. Houston at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. Denver at Milwaukee, 4:30 p.m. Portland at Utah, 5 p.m. Boston at Sacramento, 6 p.m. San Antonio at Golden State, 6:30 p.m. Brooklyn at L.A. Lakers, 6:30 p.m. Saturday’s Games Oklahoma City at Charlotte, 3 p.m. New Orleans at Miami, 3:30 p.m. Phoenix at Chicago, 4 p.m. Toronto at Houston, 4 p.m. Sacramento at L.A. Clippers, 6 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL American League DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Angel Nesbitt, Jose Valdez and Drew VerHagen, LHPs Blaine Hardy and Kyle Ryan, C James McCann, INFs Jose Iglesias and Dixon Machado and OFs Wynton Bernard, Daniel Fields and Steven Moya on oneyear contracts. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with LHP Franklin Morales on a minor league contract. National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP David Aardsma on a minor league contract. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BOSTON CELTICS — Traded F Tayshaun Prince to Detroit for F Jonas Jerebko and G Gigi Datome. Acquired G Isaiah Thomas from Phoenix for G Marcus Thornton and a 2016 first-round draft pick to Phoenix. DENVER NUGGETS — Traded G Arron Afflalo and F Alonzo Gee to Portland for F Thomas Robinson, F Victor Claver and G Will Barton and a protected 2016 first-round draft pick. Traded C JaVale McGee, a protected 2015 first-round pick and the draft rights for F Chukwudiebere Maduabum to Philadelphia for the draft rights to G Cenk Akyol and cash considerations. GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Signed F James Michael McAdoo for the remainder of the season. MIAMI HEAT — Acquired G Goran Dragic and G Zoran Dragic from Phoenix for C Justin Hamilton, F Danny Granger and first-round draft picks in 2017 and 2021.

Traded G Norris Cole, F Shawne Williams and C Justin Hamilton to New Orleans for G-F John Salmons. MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Traded G Brandon Knight and G Kendall Marshall and Los Angeles Lakers’ protected 2015 first-round draft pick to Phoenix for G Tyler Ennis and F Miles Plumlee and acquired G Michael Carter-Williams from Philadelphia for draft picks. MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — Traded F Thaddeus Young to Brooklyn for F-C Kevin Garnett. NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Traded a protected 2016 secondround pick to Oklahoma City for G Ish Smith, a 2015 protected second-round pick, the rights to F Latavious Williams and cash considerations. Waived G Ish Smith. NEW JERSEY NETS — Traded C Kevin Garnett to Minnesota for F Thaddeus Young. NEW YORK KNICKS — Traded G Pablo Prigioni to Houston for G Alexey Shved and second-round draft picks in 2017 and 2019. OKLAHOMA CITY — Traded G Reggie Jackson to Detroit for G DJ Augustin, F Kyle Singler and a 2019 second-round draft pick and Detroit sent a 2017 secondround pick to Utah. Traded C Kendrick Perkins, F Grant Jerrett, the draft rights to Tibor Pleiss and a protected 2017 first-round pick to Utah for C Enes Kanter and F Steve Novak. SACRAMENTO KINGS — Traded G Ramon Sessions to Washington for G Andre Miller. Women’s National Basketball Association LOS ANGELES SPARKS — Signed G Elina Babkina. FOOTBALL National Football League DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed P Tom Hornsey. NEW YORK GIANTS — Resigned OL Dallas Reynolds. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Named David Young vice president of operations/general manager of CenturyLink Field. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Named Duke Preston director of player development. Canadian Football League SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS — Signed DL John Chick to a contract extension through 2016 season. WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Named Todd Howard defensive line coach. HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Reassigned D Michal Jordan to Charlotte (AHL). C DALLAS STARS — Assigned D Patrik Nemeth to Texas (AHL). Y MONTREAL CANADIENS — Reassigned D Morgan Ellis from Wheeling (ECHL) to Hamilton (AHL). COLLEGE CHATTANOOGA — Announced defensive line coach Marcus West will also be assistant head coach, receivers coach Will Healy will also be the passing game coordinator and linebackers coach Rusty Wright will also be the special teams coordinator. EASTERN MICHIGAN — Named Kimi Olson volleyball coach. GEORGIA TECH — Suspended men’s basketball G Chris Bolden for the remainder of the regular season and one game in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, for violating the athletic association’s student-athlete conduct policy. LOUISVILLE — Reinstated men’s basketball G Chris Jones from his suspension. TEXAS STATE — Announced baseball coach Ty Harrington is taking a temporary leave of absence. Named Jeremy Fikac interim baseball coach.

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A-Rod’s apology does him no favors with fans

lex Rodriguez finally said he was sorry, though his handwritten apology on the eve of his return to the New York Yankees seemed to fall flat. Not really surprising, but give ARod some credit for trying. Doesn’t anyone realize how hard it is to write in cursive these days? Surely it seemed like a nice oldfashioned touch when the scorned slugger sat down to put pen to paper. You could almost picture him laboring over every paragraph — all five of them — while wadding up draft after draft and tossing them into an overflowing wastebasket. Unfortunately, Rodriguez forgot to say exactly what he was apologizing for in his missive. Was it his serial steroid use? His years of defrauding fans? The fact he once dated Madonna? Maybe next time he could try email. Easier to do, and much more room to get all the sordid details out there. Or

spend some of the $500 million or so he will earn as a baseball player on a public relations firm that might advise him to finally tell the truth. Apologies can be a hard thing to do, as evidenced by the difficulty Lance Armstrong has with them. He went on with Oprah to confess that he cheated to win all seven of his Tour de France titles in an appearance that was widely panned as staged and bereft of contrition. “I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people,” Armstrong told the talk show host. But it was Armstrong’s girlfriend doing the apologizing a few weeks ago after the cyclist hit some parked cars after a party in Aspen. She initially told police she was driving because Armstrong had been drinking, but in the end it was Armstrong who pleaded guilty to careless driving. Mike Tyson was still recognized as among the baddest men on the planet

Pete Rose 15 years to finally admit he bet on baseball, and only then because he had a book coming out that said just ports iews that. Saying he was sorry took years longer, though Rose seems to now be making up for lost time. T im D ahlberg As he waits for some indication from new commissioner Rob Manwhen he was forced to apologize for fred on his possible reinstatement to biting Evander Holyfield’s ear. Unthe game, Rose is autographing baselike A-Rod, Tyson didn’t hand write balls in Las Vegas. For $299 you can his apology or even write it at all. A get a ball with the personal inscripformer image maker for President tion “I’m sorry I bet on baseball.” Reagan produced it in a desperate Rodriguez probably won’t be attempt to keep Tyson from being reduced to selling apologies on basebanned from boxing for life. balls, if only because he doesn’t need Tyson promised to seek both religious counseling and sessions with a the money. By the time he’s done playing, he will have made nearly shrink to deal with his anger issues, though Nevada boxing officials didn’t $500 million, even while taking a hit for sitting out last season because of seem terribly impressed. his role in the Biogenesis scandal. “Something bad happened in the As Rose did with his gambling, ring,” Nevada Athletic Commission though, he scarred the game by using chairman Elias Ghanem said at the PEDs, then brazenly using them again time. “The apology doesn’t change after begging for fans to judge him on what happened in the ring.” At least Tyson acted quickly. It took his future actions. He shamed himself

and discredited a Yankees organization built over the years with so much pride by great players who came before him. Five paragraphs that express regret and say he is sorry aren’t enough to make up for that. What Rodriguez should have done — and was invited by the Yankees to do — was hold a news conference, and this time honestly answer the questions he lied about the first time around. Then he should declare he won’t accept the $6 million bonus in his contract for hitting the six home runs he needs to catch the great Willie Mays on the career list at 660. Because just being mentioned in the same conversation with Mays is something Rodriguez should really be apologizing for. Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg@ap.org or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg

Goosen, Singh among Riviera leaders DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. heads for the finish line to win the first of two qualifying races for the Daytona 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., Thursday.

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JENNA FRYER M AP Auto Racing Writer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Danica and Denny provided the dust-up. Hendrick Motorsports delivered another sweep. Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Jimmie Johnson swept the Budweiser Duel races Thursday night to give Hendrick Motorsports a 1-2-3 start for the Daytona 500. Jeff Gordon had already won the pole the season-opening race, and the rest of the field was locked in through the pair of 150-mile qualifying races. Danica Patrick was in the second race and needed to finish 15th or better to guarantee a spot Sunday. She was sitting pretty, too, until her second incident with Denny Hamlin in two days damaged her car and put her in danger of missing the field. Her Stewart-Haas Racing team worked frantically on rapid repairs and she restarted 18th with two laps to go. She was pushed all the way around Daytona International Speedway by teammate Kurt Busch to finish 10th and make the 500. “There’s a lot of stressing out. Obviously, for my team

Gordon backs away from any 2016 racing DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Jeff Gordon is backing away from the possibility of running more races after this year. The four-time NASCAR champion announced last month this will be his final year as a full-time driver, but he did not use the word retirement. and everybody, but mostly for (sponsor) GoDaddy, it made me nervous, too,” she said. “This is the biggest race of the year and they need to be in it.” The tension spilled over after the race when she confronted Hamlin and they differed on what occurred. She was already in her backup car because of an incident in Wednesday’s practice, and she believed Hamlin spun her Thursday. It led to a heated argument, with Hamlin at times appearing to try to calm Patrick, and he finally seemed exasperated when he covered his face with

LOS ANGELES — Retief Goosen and Vijay Singh, among the top five players in the world a decade ago, were part of a six-way tie for the lead in the Northern Trust Open in what amounted to “throwback Thursday” at Riviera. The 51-year-old Singh, who plays the occasional Champions Tour event, picked up four birdies on the back nine for a 5-under 66, his lowest opening round on the PGA Tour since the 2012 McGladrey Classic. The three-time major champion and former world No. 1 has not won since 2008. Goosen, a two-time U.S. Open champion who turned 46 this month, was slowed by a pair of sloppy bogeys early on the back nine until he made a pair of late birdies to join Singh at 66. Goosen hasn’t won since 2009. They played in the game group with 28-year-old Brian

On Thursday, he said it’s “highly unlikely” he’ll race a Sprint Cup car in 2016. He says it is difficult to put together a ride for one race and be competitive enough to win. He said trying to get a one-off ride with Hendrick Motorsports would be disruptive to the organization.

his hands. “He cut across my rear bumper and pulls the back end around,” Patrick said. “I get being close. But he’s been going to my left rear and it just gets it light. I don’t want to have these issues, but if we’re going to have these issues then we’re going to have to deal with them. We can’t be putting ourselves out of our race at someone else’s expense and nothing’s happened to him.” Tony Stewart, her car coowner, entered the fray and instructed Hamlin to watch the video.

Harman, who shot a 78. “It was nice to see the two old boys play pretty good,” Goosen said. Pebble Beach runner-up Nick Watney, competing for the fifth straight week, kept up his form with an eagle on the opening hole on his way to a 66. James Hahn, Daniel Summerhays and Derek Fathauer joined them in the lead as an overcast morning turned into mild sunshine, typical of the weather on this wondrous West Coast Swing. Fathauer was the only player at 66 who played in the afternoon, when the already difficult greens had a bit more bounce with approach shots and bump on the putts. Such is Riviera that on a perfect day for scoring — mild weather, no wind — the average score was just under 73. No one managed better than 66, while three players failed to break 80. One of them was Scott Piercy, who

became this year’s face of the par-4 10th hole. He began his round by going from the front bunker to the back bunker to the front bunker to the back bunker before a great putt for double bogey. Carlos Ortiz of Mexico, who had a 67, summed up the 312-yard hole this way: “I’ve never seen a par 4 that short that hard.” Singh didn’t make everything, but he made enough. He moved into a share of the lead with a 35-footer from just off the 15th green, followed by a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-3 16th hole. He finished strong except for missing a pair of birdie putts inside 12 feet. “I’m finally not hurting as much as I did the last five years,” Singh said. “That’s a big part of playing good golf. You’re not hurting, you can go out and play and you’re comfortable. “Right now, nothing hurts. The golf swing feels good, and I’m happy to be playing.”

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tended the event, and a third of the players there ended up with an NCAA Division I opportunity. Gessert, Bouvet and Andrews will be on the Midwest Division roster. Gessert, a forward, leads the team with 36 points, while Bouvet, a forward, has 32. Andrews, a defenseman, is third on the team with 26 points. Bears head coach Geoff Beauparlant, who also will attend the tournament, said Gessert has been drawing Division I interest. He added that the tournament is a great chance for Bouvet, who is from France, to get his name out there, since imports face different sets of rules

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Bears often don’t recover. The team has now allowed 205 goals, just one off the league lead, while scoring 108, tied for second-fewest in the league. But it is games like last Friday’s, where the Bears played even with one of the league’s top teams — the Fairbanks Ice Dogs — for nearly the entire game before a defensive breakdown cost them the game in the final minute, that gives Beauparlant hope. “We proved Friday that we can play with one of the top teams in the league,” Beauparlant said. In order to do that, Beau-

and eligibility requirements. The coach also sees the tournament as crucial for Anchorage’s Andrews. Beuparlant said Andrews is drawing Division I interest. Unlike Gessert and Bouvet, Andrews is out of junior eligibility after this season. Schachle, meanwhile, has a chance to burnish his reputation as a top young prospect as part of the NAHL Selects roster. This roster is made up of the top young players in the league. “He’s played his best hockey of the year these past five games,” Beauparlant said of Schachle, a forward from Wasilla. “He’s been solid in practice, and you can see his confidence growing every day. “He’s finding the back of the net in practice more, and that has translated into more scoring chances in the games.” parlant said the whole team needs to be firing on all cylinders rather than just five or six guys. The coach said young players Tanner Schachle and Nick Klishko had good weekends against Fairbanks, while Joey Sardina played well when he got into the lineup Saturday. Beauparlant said Alex Jackstadt has returned to the form that got him a Division I commitment at the University of Alaska Anchorage, while scoring leaders Jack Gessert and Maurin Bouvet continue to play well. Notes: Evan Butcher continues to progress from breaking his jaw in two places on Feb. 7 in Fairbanks. Butcher should be cleared to resume skating in practice next week.

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The last Peninsula boy to even finish in the top 10 was Soldotna’s Daniel Harro in 2003, so Cooper stamped his name in pretty rarefied air. “That was his goal that he set out to do, and he made it,” Kenai coach Brad Nyquist said. “He skied very well, it was all about him. He didn’t have anybody pushing him.” “It’s fun to up on cloud nine.” Because Cooper was one of the early starters for the interval-start race, recording his splits during the competition proved futile, as much of his main competition was racing behind him. But when he came across the line and his name popped up on the stadium timing board as No. 1, Cooper said he felt a giant wave of relief. “I just had to ski my heart out,” Cooper said. Cooper said classic is his stronger technique, so today’s interval start race will be one to watch. “I definitely feel like I can hold them off for maybe 20 seconds,” he said. “There are a lot of good skaters, so we’ll see.” Coach Nyquist has his back all the way as well. “I believe he can (win),” Nyquist said. “I know he believes he can, he’s definitely capable of doing it.” The Kenai boys ended day one ranked sixth in the team

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Clips nip Spurs By The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — DeAndre Jordan had 26 points and 18 rebounds, Jamal Crawford added 26 points and the Los Angeles Clippers beat San Antonio 119115 Thursday night, increasing their lead over the Spurs by 1 ½ games in the West. Chris Paul had 22 points and 16 assists, and the Clippers outscored the Spurs 56-46 in the paint despite the absence of Blake Griffin, who is recovering from right elbow surgery.

standings, a mere 5.8 seconds behind the fifth-place Dimond Lynx. The Soldotna boys, led by the 30th-place finish of Levi Michael, finished the opening day ranked ninth in the standings. In the girls 5K race, Sadie Fox led the Soldotna Stars with a fourth-place finish, just 42 seconds behind Lydia Blanchet of West, who won with a time of 14:40.7. “She had a very good race, we’re really happy,” said SoHi coach Dan Harbison. “She did really well when it counted.” Fox, a senior, will have a chance to gain as much time as she can in today’s 7.5K freestyle event, as second-place Taryn Hunt-Smith of Service is a mere 21 seconds ahead of her. That gives Fox a chance to match her state-best result of second from a year ago. “She has the potential,” Harbison said. “But those other two are very good also. We’ll just have to see.” Perhaps the good news is that Fox is typically a stronger skate skier, according to Harbison, so today’s event technique will hopefully play to her strengths. Harbison also praised the efforts of Hannah Pothast, who finished 14th on Thursday and only 95 seconds adrift of the leader, and freshman Kellie Arthur. Nyquist added that Kenai freshman Addison Gibson impressed in her state debut with an eighth-place finish in the girls race. On the boys side, Harbison commended Levi Michael,

sists in his past 16 games, moved into a tie with Chicago’s Patrick Kane atop the NHL scoring list with 63 points. Ovechkin, celebrating his bobblehead night, extended his point streak to six Thunder 104, Mavericks 89 games, and Braden Holtby stopped 19 shots. OKLAHOMA CITY — RusToby Enstrom scored for Winnipeg, sell Westbrook had 34 points which had won four of five, and Ondrej and 10 assists for the Thunder. Pavelec made 28 saves. Serge Ibaka had 21 points and a career-high 22 rebounds and CANUCKS 5, reserve guard Anthony MorRANGERS 4, SO row added 16 points for the Thunder, who won for the sixth NEW YORK — Alexandre Burrows time in seven games. They and Radim Vrbata scored in the shootout, moved into a tie with Phoenix and Vancouver stopped New York’s fourfor eighth place in the Western game winning streak. Conference. Henrik Sedin scored twice for the Ca-

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largest motorized sporting event in the state, and with 74 Pro Class competitors in this year’s race, there is no shortage of talented competition. The ceremonial start takes place Saturday in Anchorage, while the real deal begins Sunday in Big Lake. The Trail Class begins its journey to Nome today, starting from Big Lake. Of the 37 teams and 74 racers, there are 27 rookies, four father-son teams, four all-brother teams, eight returning champions and one all-female team. The last all female team to compete was in 2011. The following is a closer look at the Peninsula racers that will line up for the ceremonial start tomorrow in Anchorage: Ashley Wood, age 26, rookie Ashley Wood knows history is not on her side. The former Soldotna resident is teaming up with fellow Iron Dog rookie Rachel Kidwell in an attempt to become only the second ever all-women’s team to finish the grueling race. If they can complete all 2,031 miles, they will join Jackie Page and Missy McClurg as the only all-female teams to successfully finish the race. Page and McClurg became the first to do it in February 2001 when the duo placed 15th with a time of 60 hours, 23 minutes. “It would definitely be an accomplishment,” Wood said by phone from Anchorage. “The goal would be to start building from there, that’s the baseline. After that, you just progress from there.” Wood and Kidwell, who met on the racing trails, are the only two women competing in this year’s Iron Dog. The last all-female team to compete in the race was 2011. Wood, who resides in Wasilla these days, was born and raised in Soldotna and caught the racing bug early from her father, Rick Wood, and Scott Davis. Rick Wood took up snowmachine racing starting at age 16 and was a regular on the trail, running in about a half-dozen local races a year. Wood won one of the runnings of the Petro-

leum 150 event in the mid-1970s, a race that used to run from the Carr’s parking lot in Kenai out to the Holt Lamplight road area in Nikiski. “We lived to ride snowmachines,” the elder Wood said of his family. “Every weekend I’d take the kids out, we had a cabin in the Caribou Hills, and they’d start riding from about 3 years old.” Wood said his work prevented him from ever running the Iron Dog — although he and Davis had off-and-on talks about teaming up for it — but now that his daughter is competing, his support is at 100 percent. Ashley ran her first competition in 2005 as a teenager, and one year later, Davis was helping her get onto a competitive sled, something that father Rick has been grateful for ever since. “Scott Davis put me on a sno-cross sled, and I’ve been hooked ever since,” Ashley Wood said. Wood added that her experience competing in races that take riders across Alaska terrain similar to what the Iron Dog sees helped whet her appetite for the big one. “I had been racing in local crosscountry races, and I guess the Iron Dog was the next step after that, and things just fell into place with sponsorship,” she said. Wood’s racing experience, as vast as it may already be, is in much shorter races, ranging from 150 to 200 miles. The Iron Dog is about 10 times longer than those events. To put it in better perspective, the longest single stretch between checkpoints in the Iron Dog — 120 miles — is nearly as long as one of the typical races in which Wood competes. “In the shorter races, we don’t have to be as strict in making sure the sleds are mechanically sound,” Wood explained. “The races are a lot faster paced. “In the Iron Dog, you have to have a machine that will last.” In an endurance race like the Iron Dog, any time spent repairing and fixing components on the sled is time spent watching your competitors speed by. Wood and Kidwell may have picked a bad year to try the race, as the recent warm weather has put trail conditions into a spin. Wood said she and Kidwell have put on about 2,600 training miles this winter preparing for the race, getting time on snow from Big Lake up to

John-Mark Pothast in 33rd and freshman Coby Vinson in 44th on great results. Changes were also made in lieu of the minimal snow. With barely enough snow to properly set classic tracks, and with several loops at Kincaid out of commission due to the dilemma, race officials decided to change today’s freestyle event to an individual start, instead of the planned mass start. In addition, all four legs to Saturday’s relays will be freestyle, instead of the traditional free-free-classic-classic order. Harbison said Thursday’s race was one of the more challenging he has had to wax for, mostly because of the breakdown the trails were seeing with a full field of racers skiing multiple laps over the same terrain. “I guess I could say there were the best (trails) they could be,” Harbison said. “To give you an idea, you step off the trail and you’re on dirt.” Aspen Daigle led the Homer girls’ effort with a 44thplace finish in 18:18.8. Ruby Lindquist topped the Seward girls team in 57th. Jacob Davis led the Homer boys with a 68th-place finish in 25:46.8, with teammate Ghen Sasakura 12 seconds further behind in 72nd. Dylan Gillespie was the top finisher for Seward in 93rd. High school state ski championships Kincaid Park, Anchorage BOYS Team scores — 1. Service, 1:24:16.3, 2. South, 1:25:02.4, 3. West, 1:25:43.9, 4. West Valley, 1:25:56.0, 5. Dimond,

nucks, including a tying tally on a rebound with 2:00 left in regulation after Vancouver pulled goaltender Ryan Miller. Miller finished with 30 saves, and he stopped Mats Zuccarello and Derek Stepan in the shootout. Shawn Matthias and Bo Horvat also scored as Vancouver snapped a five-game losing streak against the Rangers dating to January 2011. Stepan, Rick Nash, Martin St. Louis and Carl Hagelin scored for the Rangers. Cam Talbot made 24 saves, but he was beaten on both shootout attempts. PANTHERS 3, CANADIENS 2, SO MONTREAL — Dave Bolland scored in the sixth round of the shootout, lifting Florida to the road victory. Tomas Fleischmann and Steven Kampfer scored in regulation for the Panthers (26-19-12), who won their second game in a row to start a five-game trip.

GIRLS Team scores — 1. West, 1:01:50.9, 2. Service, 1:03:20.9, 3. South, 1:04:41.4, 4. Chugiak, 1:06:26.7, 5. East, 1:06:32.8, 6. Kenai, 1:07:33.7, 7. Dimond, 1:08:43.3, 8. West Valley, 1:08:59.9, 9. Soldotna, 1:09:51.2, 10. Colony, 1:11:33.0, 11. Homer, 1:16:32.3, 12. Eagle River, 1:17:31.2, 13. Palmer, 1:18:16.7, 14. Grace, 1:25:03.4, 15. Valdez, 1:28:52.5. Individual results — 1. Lydia Blanchet, Wes, 14 minutes, 40.7 seconds; 2. Taryn HuntSmith, Ser, 15:02.1; 3. Emma Tarbath, Ser, 15:08.3; 4. Sadie Fox, Sol, 15:22.9; 5. Annika Flynn, Sou, 15:27.0; 6. Magdalen York, Wes, 15:32.8; 7. Molly Gellert, Wes, 15:34.8; 8. Addison Gibson, Ken, 15:45.0; 9. Ryan Terry, Ser, 15:46.1; 10. Abby Amick, Eas, 15:49.9. Other Peninsula finishers — 14. Hannah Pothast, Sol, 16:15.8; 27. Riana Boonstra, Ken, 17:02.7; 29. Alex Bergholtz, Ken, 17:10.0; 38. Katie Cooper, Ken, 17:36.0; 42. Mikaela Salzetti, Ken, 18:13.9; 44. Aspen Daigle, Hom, 18:18.8; 49. Rachel Ellert, Hom, 18:58.6; 51. Olivia Hutchings, Sol, 19:02.0; 53. Emily Werner, Sol, 19:10.5; 57. Ruby Lindquist, Sew, 19:17.7; 58. Sara Wolf, Hom, 19:19.9; 59. Kellie Arthur, Sol, 19:22.7; 63. Ithaca Bergholtz, Ken, 19:30.7; 65. Audrey Russell, Hom, 19:55.0; 68. Mia Alexson, Hom, 20:02.6; 74. Mariah Vantrease, Hom, 20:22.5; 75. Meika Chythlook, Sol, 20:44.2.

Brendan Gallagher scored both of Montreal’s goals in the second period. The Canadiens (37-16-5) outshot the Panthers 3921 and blew a 2-0 lead. SABRES 3, FLYERS 2, SO PHILADELPHIA — Brian Flynn scored the clinching goal in the shootout, leading Buffalo to a rare win. Nicolas Deslauriers and Brian Gionta scored in regulation for Buffalo, which won for just the fourth time in the last 27 games. The Sabres improved to 7-2 in shootouts. Jakub Voracek and Ryan White scored for Philadelphia, which fell to 2-7 in the tiebreaker. After Voracek tallied on Philadelphia’s first shootout attempt, Claude Giroux, Wayne Simmonds and Sean Couturier came up empty. Ray Emery stopped Zemgus Girgensons and Tyler Ennis after Gionta scored in the tiebreaker. But Flynn deked past Emery to win it for Buffalo.

McGrath. will pay dividends. “I think it’s gonna be rough up “I break it down to riding ability there,” Wood said. “It’ll be a matter of and his ability to perform in big races,” keeping the sleds together.” Davis said. “He’s proven he can do it. He has a pretty diverse background in snowmobiles. For the Iron Dog, that’s Scott Davis, 55, veteran important.” Davis is not as concerned with the Bartel has run the race five times trail conditions as most may be. before, with two DNFs. But when you are a seven-time Davis has seen massive changes in champion of the race and have run it rider comfort, navigation and technolevery year save for two, there’s not ogy in his time. He said it used to take a whole lot that may come as a sur- the leaders well over 30 hours to make prise. the trip to Nome. Now, the leaders are “It is what it is,” Davis said via rolling into Fairbanks in the mid-30phone from Anchorage. “I’m sure hour range. we’ll figure out how to get through Additionally, the jump in suspenit.” sion technology has decreased the poIn a race that rewards experience tential of shocks becoming brittle in over accolades, Davis will be reap- extreme cold and breaking down. ing the benefits of 30 years of Iron “There’s no way of getting me on Dog seasoning. He has learned that the kind of machine we ran 30 years the real race is not against the com- ago,” Davis said. petition, but against the elements, Last year, Davis ended up scratchand one must be versatile to hold up ing out of the race. This year, he exin temperatures that could plummet pects to be in Fairbanks when it’s all to minus-50. said and done. “You’ve got to have a really diverse “It’s gonna be pretty hard,” he said. skill level,” he said. “I’ve seen world- “It’s been seven or eight years since class racers come in and they can’t get I’ve won, and I know there are guys out of their own way. You just need to that are top-notch racers that have nevbe able to adapt to weather, adapt to er won it. It’s going to take the right your machine not working so good, combination of speed, preparation and adapt to no snow, lots of snow, rain, execution. deep water and everything in be“And some luck.” tween.” Davis raced in the inaugural Iron Cory Davis, 26, veteran Dog in 1984, then won it the next year at the tender age of 25. Since then, Scott Davis’ 26-year old son, Cory, he’s racked up victories in 1989, 1993, is partnered with Ryan Simons of Alberta, Canada, for the second year in a 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2007. Overall, he’s notched 20 podium row. Unlike his father, however, Cory finishes and only failed to finish three hasn’t had nearly the amount of time times. The only years he has not raced preparing for the Iron Dog. That’s because he’s been busy winare 1991 and 1996. So why is Davis entered in his 30th ning medals at the Winter X Games in Iron Dog race at the ripe old age of Aspen, Colorado. “I’ve got six medals, so at this point, 55? “I’ve got a short memory,” Davis I’d like to win this race,” Davis said. quipped. “I forget how much work it Simons is also an X Games medalis. I think I’m just a competitive guy, winning competitor, so Davis said the I’ve been racing over 40 years, and preparation for this weekend has been started when I was 11 years old. I got singular. it in my blood. “It’s been short and sweet,” he said. “Plus, it’s one of the few things I “With all the other stuff I’ve been doing, it’s pretty busy. I definitely haven’t can remain competitive at with age.” Davis and company — which this been able to devote as much time to it, year includes teammate Aaron Bartel, but every year it’s like that.” a 24-year-old from Anchorage— have Davis captured a silver and a bronze been working on two snowmachines medal in Aspen four weeks ago to add this winter for the race. Davis said to his growing collection of X Games Bartel’s young age does not concern medals, which now stands at six total. him, adding that his riding experience Davis’ podium spots came in the long C

1:29:34.1, 6. Kenai, 1:29:39.9, 7. Colony, 1:32:04.7, 8. Grace, 1:34:18.2, 9. Soldotna, 1:34:38.0, 10. East, 1:34:59.0, 11. Eagle River, 1:37:51.1, 12. Chugiak, 1:38:56.9, 13. Palmer, 1:44:14.8, 14. Lathrop, 1:44:33.3, 15. Homer, 1:48:21.0, 16. Bartlett, 1:54:54.6. Individual results — 1. Travis Cooper, Ken, 20 minutes, 24.3 seconds; 2. Max Donaldson, WV, 20:44.4; 3. Hunter Wonders, Sou, 20:48.1; 4. Gus Schumacher, Ser, 20:52.2; 5. Canyon Tobin, Ser, 20:59.0; 6. Conner Truskowski, Ser, 21:03.4; 7. Will Balcao, Sou, 21:03.9; 8. Kelson Denton, Dim, 21:15.2; 9. Matthew Muffoletto, Ser, 21:21.7; 10. Riley Bickford, Wes, 21:22.2. Other Peninsula finishers — 25. Karl Danielson, Ken, 22:11.0; 30. Levi Michael, Sol, 22:22.4; 33. John-Mark Pothast, Sol, 22:42.8; 37. James Butler, Ken, 23:06.3; 44. Koby Vinson, Sol, 23:51.3; 48. Jordan Theisen, Ken, 23:58.3; 67. Daniel Shuler, Sol, 25:41.5; 68. Jacob Davis, Hom, 25:46.8; 72. Ghen Sasakura, Hom, 25:58.0; 73. Aaron Swedberg, Sol, 26:00.9; 74. Tanner Best, Sol, 26:02.1; 79. Hoxie Parks, Hom, 26:40.4; 83. Liam Floyd, Ken, 27:08.7; 92. Tadhg Scholz, Hom, 29:55.8; 93. Dylan Gillepsie, Sew, 30:10.8; 94. Patrick Michaels, Ken, 30:15.4; 96. Hunter Kratz, Sew, 31:06.4; 98. Logan Smith, Sew, 32:34.5;

jump and speed-and-style competitions. Once the X Games wrapped up, Davis immediately set his sights on the Iron Dog, which gave him only a few weeks to prepare. After the big race is over, Davis will be right back to business working as vice president of Davis Block and Concrete, his father’s company. And, at this stage of his life, Davis has no plans to curtail his national competition schedule in favor of putting together a full-out campaign to win the Iron Dog. “Maybe when I’m older,” he said. “But honestly the stuff that keeps me going is doing these other things. It’s nice to have that. It’s nice when I have a bad weekend to come out here and forget that.” After an injury sidelined Cory from competing nationally in 2010, he and his dad teamed up to finish third in the 2011 Iron Dog. “We got third, and (Cory) said he’ll never do it again,” Scott said with a laugh. Four years later, Davis is suiting up for his third go at it. Last year, he and Simons finished ninth. Davis said there is nothing like standing on a podium at the X Games with the country watching on live TV, but the thrill and reward of conquering the toughest snowmachine race in the world would also rank pretty high. “It’s grueling, it’s a long race, and a lot of long hours on the trail,” he said. “But it’s rewarding. It’s probably the most rewarding thing I do all winter, and crossing the finish line is great sigh of relief.” Mark Carr, 56, veteran If Scott Davis is heralded as the old legend still making track out on the trail, then Mark Carr must be the man behind the curtain. Carr first ran the Iron Dog in 1994, then proceeded to win it in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2004. But Carr has not raced it since 2005. This year, he’s throwing his hat back into the ring. Carr is teamed with Micah Huss, a 39-year-old rookie. Of the four victories Carr has racked up in the Iron Dog, three of those came riding with teammate Scott Davis. “I’m glad to see him back, he’s kind of stepped up quite a ways,” Davis said.

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ccording to WebMD, in 2014, new studies found that sitting for long hours is linked to worse mental health, a higher risk of death from heart disease and other causes, and a higher risk of being disabled. And yet, Americans seem to be sitting more than ever before. Much of the sitting we do stems from our obsession with high-tech gadgets. My particular pet peeve is cell phones in all their guises. I just might be the only person on earth who doesn’t have a cell phone. In past columns, I’ve railed against them and how they intrude on our peace and privacy, and how you can maim or kill yourself and others by using one while driving. But it’s all been for nothing. Despite my dire warnings, there now are almost 7 billion cell phone subscriptions, about one for every person on earth. Astoundingly, this explosion happened in little more than 20 years. Our obsession for gadgetry doesn’t bode well for the future of the human race. I don’t know how bad things will get, but here’s how bad they are right now. According to the results of a study published in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions, male college students were found to be spending an average of eight hours per day on their cell phones, while female students were spending 10. nnn The scene is The Oyster Bar, an upscale restaurant with a view of Puget Sound that helps justify spending 150 bucks on lunch for two, if you like the other one enough. Warm sunshine streams through the window, causing me to think it would be a fine day to be out on the water. Four men come in and sit down at a nearby table. Judging by their looks and demeanor, they’re related. Grandpa and grandsons, I guess. The “kids” are probably in their 30s. They order. A few minutes later, all four men are completely engrossed in their own little world, their mobile phones. It’s not that they’re showing each other photos, or sharing a funny video. They’re just silently staring at their mobile screens, thumbs and fingers busily texting, checking e-mails, playing games or whatever they do with these things nowadays. If one of them had pulled out his cell phone, I’d have chalked it up to rudeness or some dire emergency, but when I saw all four of them staring at their laps, and doing it for several minutes, I realized how low on the Good Manners Scale we had plunged. It was like they were saying to one another, “My cell phone is more interesting than you are.” nnn On a charter boat 10 miles about of Homer, with six of us fishing for halibut in one of the most scenic places on earth, I’m the only one who isn’t talking on a cell phone. nnn I’m standing on the sidewalk, waiting for a light so I can cross a street. Right in front of my unbelieving eyes, a woman drives completely through the intersection without once looking up from See PALMER, page C-2

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In this photo taken Jan. 17, 2015, curling enthusiasts participate in a curling clinic hosted by the Bozeman Parks and Recreation Department at Southside Park in Bozeman, Mont.. Participants learn the basics of the game and help raise interest in the sport.

By ERIC DIETRICH Bozeman Daily Chronicle

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Bozeman’s hottest up-and-coming winter sport, it turns out, doesn’t have anything to do with mountains. Instead, it’s curling — perhaps best known for its presence in the winter Olympics, and perhaps best described for the uninitiated as a cross between shuffleboard, hockey and bowling. Obscure even a few years ago, the sport is seeing dramatic growth in Bozeman’s recreation scene. The city’s league, only in its second year, filled rosters for 16 teams in a matter of days this winter, said Holly Crane, the city’s assistant recreation manager. That’s twice as many teams as during the inaugural season. “Doubling in size in one season — it’s pretty impressive,” Crane said, adding that it’s far more typical for league sports like kickball to see grad-

ual growth over several years. Curling, she said, has “exploded.” “It’s a team sport, but it’s a very polite and civilized team sport,” said Bruce Richards, a volunteer who helped get the city’s league started. “There aren’t even any referees,” he added, noting it’s also traditional for the team that wins a match to buy the losers a round of drinks. I was one of 30 Bozemanites who took part in a recent parks and recreation clinic, hoping to get in on the action. That Saturday morning, we spent an hour-and-a-half learning the sport’s basics on an ice rink adapted from a tennis court in Southside Park as temperatures hovered a few degrees below freezing. The gist of the game is this: The AP Photo/Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez lead, one of a curling team’s four members, pushes off from a footrest In this photo taken Jan. 17, curling enthusiasts sweep the ice behind a stone embedded in the ice at one end of a during a curling clinic hosted by the Bozeman Parks and Recreation Department at Southside Park in Bozeman, Mont.. Participants learn the basics of See CURL, page C-2 the game and help raise interest in the sport.

Hiking with kids takes a bit more planning By ZACH URNESS Statesman Journal

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This Dec. 2014 photo, Kristi Neznanski carries her daughter Hazel in a pack during a Salem Hike It Baby outing at the Croisan Trail system in South Salem, Ore.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Once upon a time, going for a hike was a simple activity. Toss a few snacks, water and appropriate gear into a backpack, lace up your hiking boots, and you’re ready to roll. That all changes once you have children. Between diapers, changing pad, spit-up rag, food, toys, carrier, clothes — and a few million other items you’d never even considered — it can feel as though you’re outfitting a small army rather than a tiny human being. And that’s without even considering your child’s mood. Taken together, it can be difficult for parents, especially new parents, to get out on the trail. But a group called Hike It Baby, which recently opened a branch in

Salem, is encouraging new parents to get outdoors by offering a supportive atmosphere on organized weekly hikes. A collection of 118 people are part of the Salem group, and during the last two weekends, they’ve had hikes at the Croisan Trail system in South Salem and Kezier Rapids Park. “There’s so much to consider when you’re hiking with young children, and the great thing is that other parents understand and are supportive, while other people, even your friends, might not be as understanding,” said Bob Reinhardt, a Salem parent of a 1- and 3-year-old. “We really want to get our children to experience the outdoors, and it’s really helpful to do that with a community of parents facing the same challenges.” The co-leader of the Salem group is Amy Snook Rockwell, 39, who is the See HIKE, page C-2

115th Christmas Bird Count: Records fall in Soldotna

consistently warmer than normal November and December, with scattered days and even nights above freezing, resulted in a mid-winter landscape exhibiting a dearth of snow and local rivers and streams open their entire courses. Average temperatures were well above normal for the period. The mild weather pattern defined the 115th Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC) in our local Soldotna count circle. The count was held Dec. 20. With virtually no sea ice in

Cook Inlet, area bird counters found two species of ducks not previously recorded on the count — Greater Scaup and Surf Scoter. These two open water species are normally excluded from our ice-choked marine waters. Both species winter in Kachemak Bay in large numbers with scattered flocks occasionally occurring as far north as Ninilchik, to the extent where marine waters usually remain ice-free. While two Surf Scoters were found, sixty Greater Scaup were observed in a single flock — a surprisingly

large numobserved efuge ber for a in the icefirst CBC free lower otebook record! reaches O p e n of the KeToby B urke marine wanai River. ters have beThese specome more cies were common during our last several previously unknown so late in counts, resulting in recent CBC the year. As our winter climate “firsts” of White-winged Sco- warms, the occurrence of new ter, Common Loon, and Com- winter species is happening almon Murre — species usually most annually. restricted to the lower Cook Three other duck species Inlet in winter. Additionally, were found in record numbers in November, a Steller’s Eider this year: Mallard (482), Longand a Horned Grebe were both tailed Duck (87), and Common

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Goldeneye (411). Mallards and Common Goldeneyes are species found in both fresh and marine winter waters while Longtailed Ducks are strictly marine in winter. Nearly every duck species recorded on the count far exceeded or approached previous all-time highs. More open water, not surprisingly, is attracting more wintering waterfowl to our area. Among land birds, Rock Pigeons, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Brown Creepers, and Whitewinged Crossbills also were recorded in record numbers.

The increase in Rock Pigeons (56) can be attributed to an increase in suitable urban habitat with its associated artificial food sources. But, accordingly, this species’ existence is tenuous at best as they depend nearly solely on hand-outs and are quickly predated upon outside their urban haunts. Red-breasted Nuthatches (47) and Brown Creepers (6) are temperate species that gained a toehold in our area nearly fifty years ago and continue to slowly but steadily increase and grow more wideSee REFUGE, page C-2

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By CARLY OMENHISER Dothan Eagle

NEWVILLE, Ala. (AP) — It’s known as “golf with shotguns” to many, but to Ravenwood Sporting Clays owner J.D. Sadler, it’s just plain fun. Sadler recently transformed 43 acres of land near Headland in southeast Alabama into a shooting enthusiast’s paradise and the only of its kind in this area. Sporting clays has been around in the United States for years and Sadler said it’s become the fastest, most popular form of sport shooting in the country. “I lived in Chattanooga (Tennessee) for about five years and that’s where I was introduced to sporting clays and just fell in love with it and got hooked,” Sadler said. The sport is very similar to golf in that shooters travel from station to station and shoot a series of targets. By the time they finish the course, they will have shot at 100 total targets. The Ravenwood Sporting Clays course has 14 different stations positioned throughout the property that offer a wide range of angles, distances and speeds for shooters. The course is landscaped with about a mile of graveled path for the course’s fleet of golf carts to make their way from station to station over creeks and past ravines. “We hired the number one course designer in the nation to set the course and lay it out,” Sadler said of course designer Heyward Cunningham. From start to finish, construction took about eight months. It included clearing out a lot of underbrush, leveling the pathway, setting the gravel, constructing the stations, pavilion and impressive clubhouse.

The clubhouse has a gift shop and seating area complete with fire pit as well as a semiprofessional kitchen for catered events. An outdoor viewing area has seating available to watch others finish the course. Construction finished up last week and Sadler said he’s excited to open the doors to the public this week. “This is an outdoors area. There’s a lot of people that like to dove hunt and quail hunt,” Sadler said. “If you go dove or quail hunting there might be a lot of birds or there might be few birds. But somebody that likes to shoot can come here and be guaranteed a challenging time, a fun time, and they’re guaranteed to shoot as much as they want to shoot.” General Manager Tyler Peters said the course also offers a great opportunity for beginners to learn how to properly shoot a shotgun. “This will give dads and children an opportunity to come out here and shoot and enjoy themselves. They may go into a dove field and a kid may look forward to it all day, and may not get to shoot,” Peters said. “Well his dad can bring him out here and he can shoot all he wants. We’ll teach them the safe way in a controlled environment.” Lessons will be offered for beginners, but Sadler said they also plan to occasionally bring in professionals to offer classes. Sadler said they do not sell guns, but do have ammo and shotgun rentals. “We’re extremely excited, and it helps that the interest has been overwhelming,” Sadler said. “This is just something additional that this area has to offer . Anybody that likes to shoot shotguns will enjoy it.”

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In this photo taken on Tuesday, a ‘’Momotxorro’’, wearing typical carnival dress, walks to take part in a parade in Alsasua, northern Spain. While Rio de Janeiro may boast the world’s most famous carnival, the festive period of masquerades and wild and colorful costumes that precedes the Christian religious season of Lent is also a permanent and popular fixture for celebration in Spain and Portugal, with each country having its own strange and unique way of doing it.

100-odd-footlong playing surface, sliding a 42-lb granite stone toward a 12-foot target painted on the ice at the far end of the sheet. As the stone skims across the ice sheet, a pair of broomequipped “sweepers” frantically brush the ice in its path, strategically adjusting friction to fine-tune its trajectory. If the thrower has applied a gentle spin to the stone, it will also gradually curl over the course of its travel, providing the motion that gives the sport both its name and much of its strategy. The fourth teammate, the “skip,” or captain, directs the action — providing the lead with a target to shoot for and relaying instructions to the sweeps. While we didn’t have time to play a complete game at

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mother of 2-year-old Marshall. Rockwell liked the idea of hiking with other parents. “Once you have kids, you have to learn to hike at a different pace, in a different style, than you did before,” Rockwell said. Right now, the group brings together a combination of children aged from just a few months to 3 year olds (one pregnant lady even joined on the Croisan hike). “My goal is to get enough people involved that we could have different styles of hikes, one for babies in strollers or carriers, and one for older kids who might want to spend some time running around themselves,” Rockwell said.

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spread in our receding sub-arctic climate. White-winged Crossbills took the title as the count’s most numerous bird species. This irruptive finch species is directly benefiting from the area’s banner crop of spruce cones (see Matt Bowser’s Aug. 15 Refuge Notebook article). This winter you cannot escape these ubiquitous and noisy flocks as they are everywhere in our conifer-dominated forest habitats. Large numbers should remain and breed in these habitats. As an irruptive species they are characterized by magnificent boom and bust cycles — plentiful one year and nearly absent another. Unlike snowshoe hares, when nnn preferred local foods become Statistically, if you’re an Alaskan sitting at a table with scarce, they don’t die-off but Continued from page C-1 instead migrate great distances four other Alaskans, one of in search of huge cone crops you is obese. In the past 30 years, childhood obesity in the among the continent’s vast coher cell phone. niferous forests. U.S. has tripled. One in three I hope someone sends her But as notable as the record American kids is obese. this message: According to highs counts are, so too are I don’t need a study to tell the National Safety Council, 1 me that people who spend too species that were detected in in 4 car accidents are caused much time sitting while using significantly lower numbers. by people using cell phones Bald Eagles (259) and Comtheir computers, mobiles and while driving. Incidentally, statistics show other electronic devices tend to mon Raven (272) numbers were down markedly. The vast be overweight. I only need to that texting causes only 5 majority of both species are percent of the accidents. Most look in a mirror. found in the Soldotna landfill are caused by drivers who Les Palmer can be reached each year. This year, however, are distracted by cell-phone at les.palmer@rocketmail.com. with so much open water, esconversations.

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Saturday’s clinic, I’m told this latter duty typically involves a significant amount of shouting. Olympic-level precision, it turned out, wasn’t in the cards for me on my first go on the ice. My early attempts at launching a stone toward with me splayed across the ice, with the stone skidding to a stop somewhere around the ice sheet’s halfway mark. I started to get a feel for things with a bit of practice, though — and after an instructor pointed out I needed to account for the ice rink’s slight tilt as I aimed. That’s the thing about curling on outdoor ice instead of an indoor rink, it turns out — bumps and irregularities that would be less noticeable with something like hockey become a slightly bigger deal when you’re agonizing over the finer details of a stone’s trajectory. The tennis court the city rink in Southside Park is built on,

Crane explained after the fact, is designed with a slight slant so it drains in warmer months. Especially given a late start to the rec department’s annual rinkbuilding, forced by this year’s warm December, that means the ice surface is something less than competitive grade. As far as I’m concerned, it’s part of the charm. Crane added that recreation staff spend hours prepping the ice used for the city curling league Tuesday and Thursday nights. They start by flooding the tennis courts in Southside Park off College Street to, weather-permitting, build up a new layer of ice, she said, then painstakingly shave off high spots before polishing the ice sheet with something akin to a “huge dust mop.” Just before play a sort of hand-held sprinkler is used to spread droplets of water on the ice surface, which freeze on contact to create “pebbling”

that makes it easier for stones to skim across the sheet. Part of the sport’s challenge is taking changing ice conditions into account as the pebbles melt or are scraped down over the course of a match. “If it snows... we start all over again,” Crane said. “We’re fighting against nature.” Richards, a longtime curler in his native Michigan before moving to Montana, says the sport is a perfect fit for Bozeman’s winter recreation scene. It’s something that can be played evenings during the week, he said, and in contrast to higher-impact sports like soccer or hockey, curlers can remain competitive as they age. “It’s easy to get started,” he said, “but you never get tired of it.” The original story can be found on the Bozeman Daily Chronicle’s website: http://bit. ly/1zb4AKZ

She added that while the last two hikes have been within Salem-Keizer city limits, in the future, she’d like to add hikes to places a bit farther away. “We’re starting very local and then branching out,” she said. Hike It Baby was launched a year and a half ago in Portland by Shanti Hodges, a new parent who, like Rockwell, was looking for a more social hiking experience. Problem was, many of her friends wanted to do bigger hikes she wasn’t ready for. At a parenting group, she invited a few “new mamas” to join her on a short hike. “I was attending these groups for moms, which were great but were all inside, and since it was summer, I wanted to get out,” Hodges said. “I asked a few of the moms if they wanted to go

for a hike the next day, and we went to Forest Park (in Portland). “I saw how cool it was the way the mamas supported each other, the way those with more experience would show others how to use the carriers and things like that.” From those humble beginnings, Hike It Baby has exploded into something of a national phenomenon. Spurred on by social media, there are now Hike It Baby branches in 70 cities. There are branches in Oregon in Portland, Salem, Eugene, Corvallis, Bend and Pendleton. A whopping nine branches opened in just 10 days. Part of the appeal, along with getting outdoors with young children, is the simplicity. Each branch publishes a calendar online and has a private Facebook group.

It’s free, you don’t have to RSVP in advance, and anyone can show up. The only caveats are a zero tolerance for discussion about race, religion, sexual orientation, politics, socio-economic status or personal child-rearing choices. The group also endorses Leave No Trace ethics (even packing out diapers). Beyond that, it’s all about parental collaboration and the benefits of getting children in nature. “What’s really cool is how many moms and dads have said they were suffering — just feeling like their adventure life was over — until they started with Hike It Baby,” Hodges said. “And that’s the goal, to show people the benefit of getting young children into nature as soon as possible. It really makes a difference.”

pecially along the Kenai and Kasilof Rivers and Skilak and Tustumena Lakes, both species widely dispersed along these and other water bodies, foraging more on native foods and less on human waste. So these “declines” don’t indicate so much as a change in population as a temporary change in distribution. Not only do CBC counters note what we see but also what we don’t see. Barrow’s Goldeneyes, never abundant or widespread in our specific count area, but a fairly consistent winter resident of the recent past, are becoming increasingly

difficult to find. Over the last seven counts we’ve been unable to document them within our count circle. Understandably, some years they are nearly absent, as in very cold years when there is little open fresh water along the Kenai River. But, lately, counters are unable to find them even when there is sufficient open water and even when their closest relative, the Common Goldeneye, is found in abundance. Questions abound. As our sub-arctic climate grows temperate and our wild habitats become urbanized, our local bird populations respond

to those changes — sometimes rapidly and conspicuously, and sometimes slowly and imperceptibly. Local Christmas Bird Count citizen-scientists revel in uncovering these gross and fine trends, cycles, and patterns, both locally and continentally. Toby Burke is a biological technician at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge who is intrigued by the status and distribution of Alaska and Kenai Peninsula birds. Find more information about the Refuge at http://www. fws.gov/refuge/kenai/ or http:// www.facebook.com/kenainationalwildliferefuge .

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this marriage. DEAR ABBY: I had an abusive boyfriend who, I realized later, had abused his wife and children. After we broke up, my close friend and neighbor asked me if I’d mind if she went out with him. I initially said no, but after thinking about it, I thought how could she? She knew how he had treated me, push- Abigail Van Buren ing, shoving and isolating me from my friends. I had words with her about it, and she said she wasn’t there, so she didn’t know if it really happened. What kind of a woman wouldn’t support me? He is over there often, and I live right next door. I am furious with her. Do I have a right to be? — ALICE IN NEW MEXICO DEAR ALICE: Your friend must be desperate for male companionship, or incredibly naive in failing to recognize that what happened to you (and the man’s former wife) won’t also happen to her. Please don’t waste your time being angry. You are

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHYou are more visible than you realize. Wherever you go, you make a strong impression. Some people will instantly trust you, whereas others can’t seem to get away from you quick enough. Stay where you are best accepted. Tonight: Where your friends are. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You might feel as if you are on top of a problem. However, someone else could tell you in no uncertain terms that he or she thinks you are on the wrong path. Listen to this person’s comments and slow down. Ask others for their feedback. Tonight: Take the lead. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Your fiery ways add flair to whatever you do, especially this afternoon. Know that the dramatic way in which you present yourself will have an effect on others. Today you will be able to see beyond the here and now when making an important choice. Tonight: TGIF! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You could feel guilty for not having met a partner halfway. As uncomfortable as it might be, take advantage of an opportunity to clear the air. This person has a very strong sense of what he or she wants and expects from you. Tonight: Join friends to welcome the weekend. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You know that you need to have an important conversation. If you don’t move quickly, the other party will be the one to initiate this chat. Listen to how much this person has to offer and pay attention to how composed he or she is. Tonight: The only answer is “yes.”

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lucky to be rid of your abuser and should be grateful you realized he was one before he caused you physical harm. DEAR ABBY: A woman I know has a husband who is deployed. I would like to send her a card offering support and love, to tell her how thankful I am for both of their sacrifices in the service of our country. Can you assist with wording and other ideas on how I can be supportive? She lives far away, so this will all be long distance. I don’t want to come across wrong or say something that could offend. I ran across an article the other day on what NOT to say to military wives, and I’m afraid I may have committed a faux pas and don’t want to do it again. — CIVILIAN IN IOWA DEAR CIVILIAN: If you think you “may” have committed a breach of etiquette, pick up the phone, call the woman and offer an apology. Explain that you read an article about what not to say to military wives, and hope you didn’t offend her. Offer to stay in touch — if that’s what she would like — so you can let her know she and her husband are in your thoughts, and let her suggest other ways you might be helpful even though you are geographically distant.

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars A baby born today has a Sun and Moon in Pisces if born before 3:13 a.m. (PST). Afterward, the Moon will be in Aries. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, Feb. 20, 2015: This year you tell it like it is, and tend to get strong reactions as a result. You don’t do anything halfway — it is all or nothing. Passions run high no matter what your status is; however, if you try to sit on your feelings, you could experience a backfire. If you are single, look toward the end of summer and beyond to meet someone who gives you a case of the butterflies. This relationship will be important. If you are attached, the two of you often have arguments about how much you put into this or that. Why argue? Accept each other rather than criticize. ARIES often stirs up strong feelings. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH The planets will encourage you to return to the friendly yet direct Aries who everyone knows and likes. You feel most comfortable when you’re being straightforward. A conversation with someone at a distance could have you rethinking a matter. Tonight: Out and about. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH You’ll want to express what is on your mind, but a certain vulnerability could stop you. Understand that you will miss an opportunity if you are not clear. On the other hand, you might be more content keeping your feelings to yourself. Tonight: Vanish.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Your mind is likely to drift to different thoughts. By midafternoon, you’ll realize what you need to do. What you can accomplish could be beyond what you originally had thought. Eliminate all your internal chatter, and you’ll have much more free time. Tonight: Join a friend. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHYour fiery personality is likely to take a back seat, as you have been practicing self-discipline as of late. A child or loved one’s actions will make you smile and encourage you to go with the flow. Do yourself a favor and don’t overthink it. Tonight: Be a little wild. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You could find that your interest now points you in the direction of security, real estate and your domestic life. You might try to calm down or mitigate a disagreement. Know that there are deep feelings on both sides about the matter at hand. Tonight: Try something cozy. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHYou’ll be direct with others.Be careful, as you could be met with a very powerful response. How you see what is going on might change as a result of an intense conversation. Do not push others away just because you are angry right now. Tonight: Hang out. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Weigh the pros and cons of a financial agreement. You might be pushed to commit before you are ready. Ask questions and talk to someone who has been in a similar situation before agreeing to anything. Tonight: Treat a friend to munchies.

Who stole my trash can? Dear Heloise: My city provides each house with a container for trash collection and one for recycling. Our trash can recently went MISSING. I looked around but can’t find it. Why would someone steal a trash can? — Nicole in San Antonio It’s a pretty sad day if someone steals a large trash can! Check with your neighbors to make sure someone didn’t accidentally take your can by mistake. They all are green and look alike here in San Antonio, and someone might have grabbed it by mistake. You should call the company (or city agency) that provides the service for information about a replacement and to report that “one got away.” Here in San Antonio, that number is 311 to connect with almost every city agency. Some companies will replace the trash can at no charge, but if this continues, they most likely will charge you, and those cans are not cheap! Most trash containers have an identification number on them somewhere, so take note. I sprayed a big purple circle on both sides of our can so no one can “mistakenly” take it. If someone does, it will stand out among the other cans. — Heloise Travel hint Dear Heloise: When traveling, I go through my wallet and take out anything I won’t need on my trip. I take only one or two credit cards, identification and only what I need. That way, if my wallet is stolen, it would limit the amount I would have to replace, saving me time and hassle. — A Reader in New York

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