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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2015 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 45, Issue 132

In the news Troopers find man who fled from Kasilof traffic stop

An Eagle River man who Alaska State Troopers say led them on a high speed chase a c r o s s the Kenai Peninsula before crashing and fleeing into the woods on the Seward Highway, Tanner has been captured. Andre Tanner, 32, was found by U.S. Marshals and Alaska State Troopers in a parked car at Knik Goose Bay Raod and Fairview Loop in Wasilla. Tanner, a passenger, was being driven by Anchorage resident Melissa Bradley who was arrested for hindering prosecution, according to a trooper dispatch. When Tanner was taken into custody, he had a wrist injury and was admitted to the Mat-Su Regional Hospital for treatment before being taken to the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility on an outstanding warrant for a parole violation and a warrant for reckless driving and failure to stop.

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Borough hires oil and gas adviser Former federal gas line coordinator joins staff By RASHAH McCHESNEY Peninsula Clarion

A presidential appointee to the Federal Office for Alaska Gas Line Projects will join the Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor’s Office as an oil and gas adviser. Larry Persily, is set to join borough staff on March 13, when he travels to Anchorage to attend the next meeting of a municipal gas advisory board designed to review the Alaska LNG project. Persily had been leading the federal coordinating office since 2010 and was following the behemoth Alaska LNG project closely in that

role. “In that sense, the federal government paid to train me so the borough doesn’t have to,” Persily said. In his new position, Persily will continue to monitor the Alaska LNG project — particularly the Federal Energy Regulator Commission’s environmental impact statement on the project. “That’s the kind of experience and expertise that he has ... he’ll be writing reports for the assembly and the administration, coordinating community meetings and things like that which we’ll need to do for planning and identifying project

impacts,” said Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Mike Navarre. While the Alaska LNG project, which is estimated by investors to cost between $45$65 billion to launch, will be the primary focus of Persily’s position with the borough currently, Navarre said the new position was designed to offer support on all oil and gas issues that the borough faces. Persily has worked on oil and gas issues pertaining to Alaska for more than a decade, including as an associate director to the Alaska Governor’s Office in Washington and as an aide to the Alaska State House See STAFF, page A-10

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In this October 28, 2014 file photo, Larry Persily, then-federal coordinator in the Federal Office for Alaska Gas Line Projects, speaks about the environmental assessment needed for the Alaska LNG project to progress in Soldotna. Persily has joined the borough administration as an oil and gas adviser.

Study: Nonprofits boost economy

— Rashah McChesney

By IAN FOLEY Peninsula Clarion

Man dies on Hidden Lake ice fishing trip A Sterling man was killed Tuesday after he and two friends went ice fishing on Hidden Lake in Kasilof. Central Emergency Services divers and Alaska State Troopers recovered David S. Riss’ body floating in an open section of water in the lake after his friends reported that he was missing, according to a trooper dispatch. Riss, 45, Arthur Fena, 47, and Herbert Myddelton, all Sterling residents, drove a Dodge Caravan onto the lake Tuesday evening to go ice fishing. Riss left the van to fish elsewhere on the lake, but didn’t return to the group’s camp by nightfall, according to the dispatch. Fena and Myddelton went searching for Riss. Both fell through the ice but were able to get out of the lake and get back to their camp to warm up by a fire, according to the dispatch. The two called for help the next morning. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officer traveled to the lake and found Riss’s body by midmorning Wednesday. The van has not yet been found, according to the dispatch. Riss’ body will be taken to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Anchorage for an autopsy, however troopers don’t suspect foul play.

cording to the resolution. Nikiski resident James Price, who has been fighting the sales tax for more than half a decade, said the ordinance “is the worst possible way to increase funding.” He asked the school board not to endorse grocery sales tax as a form of generating revenue. Assembly member Blaine Gilman said the $3 million the sales tax would raise would make it easier for the assembly

Non-profit organizations play an integral role in Alaska’s economy. That was the message from Dennis McMillian, CEO of The Foraker Group, on Wednesday at the joint Kenai-Soldotna Chamber of Commerce luncheon held in Kenai. “We are the people who build community,” said McMillian, referring to non-profits. “We are the people who make community healthy and keep it healthy.” McMillian, whose company provides services and consultancy to non-profits, said that several years ago, Alaska’s non-profit market became oversaturated. He cited 2010, when there were over 7,000 non-profits in the state. “That’s one non-profit for every 100 people,” McMillian said. “Nationally, the norm is one non-profit for every 200 people, so twice the density as the rest of the country.” Due to a variety of factors, the number of non-profit organizations has been decreasing in Alaska. McMillian said there are approximately 5,700 nonprofits currently in the state, and that number still continues to decrease. “We do think that trend will continue into the future,” he said. “Some of it will have to do with not being able to get enough board members. Some

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Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion

Open water Two men fish on the Kenai River Sunday in Cooper Landing.

School board stays out of tax debate Despite deficit, members reluctant to support grocery tax measure By KELLY SULLIVAN Peninsula Clarion

The Board of Education will not formally support the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly’s ordinance that would allow for year-round taxation of non-prepared food items. The request was introduced in the form of a resolution, put before the school board during Monday’s meeting. Board members Lynn Hohl and Tim Navarre drafted the laydown

document. The resolution was constructed as a possible means of convincing the borough assembly to fund education to the cap during this year, Navarre said. The resolution was devised following a school board work session Monday, where Assistant Superintendent Dave Jones reported on the fiscal year 2016 budget, he said. Jones reported the maximum allowable contribution the borough can make this year is

more than $4 million more than what the district is budgeting. The school district is currently predicting the 2016 deficit at $8.8 million, according to the fiscal year budget scenarios and information document. The sales tax exemption has resulted in a loss of nearly $16.7 million in revenues from Jan. 9, 2009 through fiscal year 2014, according to the resolution. The sales tax would have generated $3.3 million for the borough during the 2014 fiscal year, ac-

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Medicaid expansion event brings out lawmakers By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — Legislators, aides and others heard an alternate viewpoint on Medicaid expansion Wednesday from a senior fellow with an organization that has referred to the “dangers” expansion poses in states that opt for it. Christie Herrera, with the Foundation for Government Accountability, spoke to problems she said some states have experienced, including enrollment numbers that far exceed-

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ed projections. Herrera spoke during an informal “lunch and learn,” sponsored by Sen. Mike Dunleavy and put on by Americans for Prosperity-Alaska. The group is part of the national Americans for Prosperity organization and opposes Medicaid expansion. Dunleavy, R-Wasilla, said earlier this week that he is still

trying to understand what expansion is all about — what it could look like and what it might mean — and believes getting as much information as possible on the issue benefits everybody. At least 14 legislators — Republicans and Democrats — attended at least part of the event, which was crowded. She was challenged on some points by Democratic lawmakers and the president of the Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association, who support expansion. While state health CommisC

sioner Valerie Davidson has given presentations on expansion during various legislative hearings, those meetings were focused on hearing from the administration and were not open to testimony from challenging or opposing viewpoints. The House has not taken up a bill calling for expansion from minority Democrats. Davidson, who also attended Wednesday, questioned Herrera’s use of data in Arizona and Maine showing experiences those states had in expanding Medicaid on their own before

the federal health care law under which Alaska is considering expanding coverage. One difference between expansion before the law and after, Davidson said later, is the federal match rate. Herrera said those states, billed as cautionary tales, provide a longer-term view of data and are relevant because they included the same population as those who are eligible for expansion under the health care law. Herrera also said some states See EVENT, page A-10

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New fossil jaw Everest hikers shows old link create concerns By MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer

NEW YORK — A fragment of jawbone found in Ethiopia is the oldest known fossil from an evolutionary tree branch that eventually led to modern humans, scientist reported Wednesday. The fossil comes from very close to the time that our branch split away from more ape-like ancestors best known for the fossil skeleton Lucy. So it gives a rare glimpse of what very early members of our branch looked like. At about 2.8 million years old, the partial jawbone pushes back the fossil record by at least 400,000 years for our branch, which scientists call Homo. It was found two years ago at a site not far from where Lucy was unearthed. Africa is a hotbed for human ancestor fossils, and scientists from Arizona State University have worked for years at the site in northeast Ethiopia, trying to find fossils from the dimly understood period when the Homo genus, or group, arose. Our species, called Homo sapiens, is the only surviving member of this group. The jaw fragment, which includes five teeth, was discovered in pieces one morning by Chalachew Seyoum, an Ethiopian graduate student at Arizona State. He said he spotted a tooth poking out of the ground while looking for fossils. The discovery is described in a paper released Wednesday by the journal Science. Arizona State’s William Kimbel, an author of the paper, said it’s not clear whether the fossil came from a known early species of Homo or whether it reveals a new one. Field work is continuing to look for more fossils at the site, said another author, Brian Villmoare of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Analysis indicates the jaw fossil came from one of the earC

liest populations of Homo, and its age helps narrow the range of possibilities for when the first Homo species appeared, Kimbel said. The fossil dates to as little as 200,000 years after the last known fossil from Lucy’s species. The fossil is from the left lower jaw of an adult. It combines ancestral features, like a primitive chin shape, with some traits found in later Homo fossils, like teeth that are slimmer than the bulbous molars of Lucy’s ilk. Despite that mix, experts not involved in the paper said the researchers make a convincing case that the fossil belongs in the Homo category. And they present good evidence that it came from a creature that was either at the origin of Homo or “within shouting distance,” said Bernard Wood of George Washington University. The find also bolsters the argument that Homo arose from Lucy’s species rather than a related one, said Susan Anton of New York University. The new paper’s analysis is first-rate, but the fossil could reveal only a limited amount of information about the creature, said Eric Delson of Lehman College in New York. “There’s no head, there’s no tools, and no limb bones. So we don’t know if it was walking any differently from Australopithecus afarensis,” which was Lucy’s species, he said. It’s the first time that anything other than isolated teeth have turned up as a possible trace of Homo from before 2.3 million years ago, he said. “This fills a gap, but it hasn’t yet given us a complete skeleton. It’s not Lucy,” Delson said. “This is always the problem. We always want more.” Also on Wednesday, another research team reported in a paper released by the journal Nature that the lower part of the face of Homo habilis, the earliest known member of the Homo branch, was surprisingly primitive.

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Human waste left by climbers on Mount Everest has become a problem that is causing pollution and threatening to spread disease on the world’s highest peak, the chief of Nepal’s mountaineering association said Tuesday. The more than 700 climbers and guides who spend nearly two months on Everest’s slopes each climbing season leave large amounts of feces and urine, and the issue has not been addressed, Ang Tshering told reporters. He said Nepal’s government needs to get the climbers to dispose of the waste properly so the mountain remains pristine. Hundreds of foreign climbers attempt to scale Everest during Nepal’s mountaineering season, which began this week and runs through May. Last year’s season was canceled after 16 local guides were killed in an avalanche in April. Climbers spend weeks acclimatizing around the four camps set up between the base camp at 5,300 meters (17,380 feet) and the 8,850-meter-high (29,035-foot-high) summit. The camps have tents and some essential equipment and supplies, but do not have toilets. “Climbers usually dig holes in the snow for their toilet use and leave the human waste there,” Tshering said, adding that the waste has been “piling up” for years around the four camps. At the base camp, where there are more porters, cooks and support staff during the climbing season, there are toilet tents with drums to store the waste. Once filled, the drums are carried to a lower area, where the waste is properly disposed. Dawa Steven Sherpa, who has been leading Everest cleanup expeditions since 2008, said some climbers carry disposable travel toilet bags to use in the higher camps. “It is a health hazard and the issue needs to be addressed,” he said.

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Obituary Dean William Birmley Longtime Cooper Landing resident Dean William Birmley, 99, died Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015 at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna. Funeral services will be held at noon, Thursday, March 5, 2015 at St. Neumann Catholic Church, Mile 1 Snug Harbor Road in Cooper Landing. Rev. Jim Pearson will be officiating. Dean will be interred at the St. Neumann’s Catholic Church Cemetery. A reception will follow the services at the Cooper Landing Senior Center common room. Mr. Birmley was born Nov. 25, 1915 in Des Moines, Iowa. Dean loved hiking, fishing, photography, reciting Robert Service Poems and writing poems for family. His family wrote, “Family lived on the farms when Dean was born. They moved to a mountain homestead in Hamilton, Colorado in 1917. Dean and his brother roamed the hills and developed a lifelong love for nature. A sister Ethel Rose was also born there. The family moved to Ontario, California in 1931. After 2 years of college Dean joined the CCC’s working in Northern California. In 1940 he joined the Civilian Pilots Training program obtaining his private flying license. He was accepted into the Army Air Corps in May 1942. Moving to Alaska in 1962 he worked for the BLM in Anchorage. He retired as Chief of the cartographer section in June 1979 and moved to Cooper Landing in

Around the Peninsula Tracing Your Native American Roots Cheryl Hamann will present the program at the Saturday, March 14 meeting of the Kenai Totem Tracers Genealogical Society in the community room of the Kenai Community Library. Cheryl’s topic is “Tracing Your Native American Roots: An Overview”. She will address how to get started, the Five Civilized Tribes, DAWES Rolls and informational sites & key resources. The meeting begins at 1 p.m. and all are welcome.

Meeting to learn more about foster care and adoption A meeting to learn more about foster care and adoption on the Kenai Peninsula will be held Wednesday, March 18, from 6 to 8 p.m. at 145 Main St. Loop in Kenai. The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Office of Children’s Services, offers monthly Resource Family Orientations to give interested individuals a brief overview of the state’s foster care and adoption programs and process. To learn more about how to make a difference in a child’s life and in your community, please join us. For more info, call Tonja

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

Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. 5:30 p.m. • Free Seated Zumba Gold at the Kenai Senior Center. New participants, active older adults, and chair-bound or limited mobility participants are encouraged. 6 p.m. • Family Story Time (PreK and up) at the Soldotna Public Library in the Children’s Area. Bring the whole family out to listen to stories and sing songs. Younger and older siblings are always welcome with adult supervision. Call 262-4227.

1990. He was a wonderful son, brother, and a gentleman.” He was preceded in death by his parents, Minnie E. and William C. Birmley; brother, Ray Charles Birmley. He is survived by his sister, Ethel Rose (Red) Holt of Cimarron, New Mexico; nephews, Taylor Pierce (Pamela) Ramsey of Long Beach, California, Bradley William (Cheryl) Ramsey of Cypress, California and Robert Dean (Eunice) Birmley of Cimarron, New Mexico; nieces, Karen Kaye Ramsey and partner James Gibbs of Eureka, California and Cathy (Walter) Conway of Delaware Gap, Delaware and many grand- and great-grandnieces and nephews. Memorial donations may be made to the Senior Citizen Housing in Cooper Landing. Arrangements made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel & Crematory. Please visit and sign Dean’s online guestbook at AlaskanFuneral.com.

James Michael ‘Mic’ Hendryx James Michael “Mic” Hendryx passed away Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 at his home in Deep Creek. Mic was a very open-hearted generous man, and a gift to make each person he met feel special. A service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, March 7, 2015 at The Kenai Peninsula Memorial Chapel and Crematory, 5839 Kenai Spur Highway. A reception will follow from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Tyotka’s Elder Center in Old Town Kenai. Mic was born in White Salmon, Washington, on March 11,

Whitney or Michelle Partridge at 907-283-3136.

Nikiski pool offers Idita-Swim competition Nikiski Pool’s annual Idita-Swim competition starts Tuesday, March 3- April 30. Come swim or water-walk your way to fitness all in the spirit of the last great race. Every 50 yard lap swam or walked counts as 1 mile toward your trip to Nome. $20 admission fee includes an Idita-Swim t-shirt. Please call 776-8800 for more information.

Refuge Accepting Applications for Summer Youth Conservation Corps Jobs Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is accepting applications for summer jobs for the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC). Eligible applicants will be youth 15-18 years of age and who live in or have lodging available in the local commuting area. Applications are available at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center, the Alaska Employment Service Office in Kenai, or from local high school career counseling offices. Applications will be accepted from March 3, 2015 through April 17, 2015. All applications must be received at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters on Ski Hill Road by 4:30 P.M.

• AA Step Sisters women’s meeting at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, O’Neill Hall, 222 W. Redoubt, Soldotna. Call 262-2304. • TOPS AK 20, Soldotna, weigh-in at Christ Lutheran Church, 128 North Soldotna Avenue, Soldotna. Meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. Call 262-1557. • Celebrate Recovery, Midnight Son Seventh-day Adventist church on the corner of Swires Rd. and Kenai Spur Hwy in Kenai. Dinner is at 6 p.m.; Recovery Lesson at 6:30 p.m.; Open Share groups at 7:15 p.m. Email rking4@mac.com or call 260-3292. 7 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Dopeless Hope Fiends,” 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. • Square dance group at Ninilchik Senior Center. • Alcoholics Anonymous “Unity Men’s Group” meets downstairs the Salvation Army building in Soldotna. 8 p.m. • AA Attitude of Gratitude at URS Club, 405 Overland Drive. Call 283-3777.

• AA North Roaders Group at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 242-9477. • Alcoholics Anonymous Ninichick support group at United

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1949 to Ellen Keys Hendryx and George Hendryx. He served in the U.S. Army in Viet Nam in the early 1970s. He was a heavy equipment operator and enjoyed going out to rural Alaska to work on airfields, and building water and sewer systems throughout the state. He was a father, grandfather, nephew, cousin and brother, uncle and friends to many. He is survived by his sons, Sean and Barbara in Nikiski, Jarred in Phoenix, Keene and Eulalia Hendryx and grandchildren Kate Hendryx and her brother Dezmond, Brandon and Hunter Wilson, Sharon, Jack Williford and family, also Eric, Pat Billman and family. He had many adopted sons and grandchildren. He leaves his beloved sister Karen Rhodes of Arizona, niece Shelly and Kris Kreps, Sara Baker and family, great-niece Kaci Kreps Bartkowski, great-nephew Kevin Kreps and cousins Marcy Hendryx and her children Duncan and Dana, and cousins Judy Busby and Sharon Blouin. He also leaves his good friends Gary and Eileen Wright and Curt McClain and many others, far too many to mention. He leaves his beloved dog, Shelia who was with him when he passed. He was preceded in death by his parents Ellen Keys and George Hendryx, his most favorite cousin, Mildred and John Gilman and Aunty Minnie and Aunty Bertha in Washington. We will miss him and his generous personality and his even bigger heart and easy smile. And we will always hold him close and be grateful to have shared his life. His ashes will be sprinkled on his property in Deep Creek and along the beaches that he loved to ride around the Deep Creek area.

(close of business), on April 17, 2015. The positions will be filled via a random selection process and selected applicants will be notified by phone no later than May 1, 2015. Youth will work 40 hours each week from June 8, 2015 through July 31, 2015, and receive $8.95 per hour. Job duties will include trail maintenance and rehabilitation, cabin restoration, campground maintenance, litter collection, biological assistance, and visitor information services. For additional information, please contact the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge office during regular business hours at (907) 262-7021.

Court Appointed Special Advocates Needed The Kenaitze Indian Tribe will hold a pair of meetings to provide information to people interested in becoming Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteers. CASA volunteers advocate for abused and neglected children in both tribal and state courts. Learn how to be the voice for a child in need Wednesday, March 18, from noon to 1 p.m. at Kaladi Brothers Coffee in front of Soldotna Safeway; or from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Dena’ina Wellness Center at 508 Upland St. in Kenai. For more information about the Kenai Peninsula CASA program, contact Joy Petrie at 335-7219 or at jpetrie@kenaitze. org.

Methodist Church, 15811 Sterling Highway, Ninilchik. Call 907-5673574. The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings

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Alaska could find itself in boiling pot with marijuana When the euphoria dissipates, Alaska

will realize that the pot in which it has positioned itself is boiling over. A new marijuana law took effect this week, which eventually will allow for commercial sales and personal purchase for possession in private homes. A Ketchikan business immediately began selling potsmoking paraphernalia. Meanwhile, also downtown, a few smokers on the sidewalk outside another business passed around a marijuana pipe, filling the air with smoke. The smokers clearly violated the law. Smoking pot in public is still illegal. Given the location of this week’s public display, local officials and authorities likely will be eager to address behavior that won’t exactly make Ketchikan an appealing place for most cruise ship passengers and other visitors, and, of course, locals not enthralled with the new law. Years ago an author described in a book following a visit to Alaska the inebriates he saw in downtown Ketchikan. Ketchikan doesn’t need or want another author to pen a similar scene when it comes to marijuana. Ketchikan invests too much financial capital into attracting upstanding business to let its fine reputation as a visitor destination go up in smoke. Ketchikan’s borough and city leaders met Friday and decided to form a committee to address concerns and establish guidelines in regard to Alaska’s new, relaxed pot law. The state Senate this week introduced a bill to define the rules for commercial sales of marijuana statewide. People in support of the marijuana ballot initiative that passed in November mainly asked for more clarification and fewer generalities. People who believe the new law eventually will prove to be devastating to the state and its communities will seek tough regulations and simply will wait until the time is appropriate to sway voters to rescind it. Costs, both socially and economically, will be forthcoming for individuals and governments. Taxes will be necessary to address the situation, and they should be high enough to realistically cover the costs. The Senate bill should limit commercial marijuana dispensaries from being within 200 feet of a school, correctional facility or church. In Ketchikan, a church is established in a building within that distance from a commercial marijuana products business. It also would set the hours of operation between 8 a.m. to midnight and the size of purchase per person per day to one ounce. That simply means more frequent traffic into businesses handling commercial sales, and for those leery of making public purchases, the opportunity to do it in the dark of evening. The proposed law states that packaging must be childproof, which only protects young children if adults act responsibly with a container. It won’t protect older children who have skills often unbeknownst to adults when it comes to getting into stuff they aren’t supposed to. The proposed law outlaws packaging of marijuana products in such a way as to be enticing to minors. Whatever that means, packaging should be explicit as to what it contains for both children and adults. Even adults can be fooled by packaging, buying one thing (a product containing pot) when they think they’re purchasing another (product without marijuana). Plus, pot products should be isolated to their own spot in a store. That spot should be clearly identifiable for shoppers, whether they seek pot products or not. The Senate bill also lists six licenses that could be required if it passes that body and the state House and is signed by the governor. The licenses would be required of marijuana producers, processors, retailers, testing facilities, boutique producers, home growers and brokers. The new law already has taken considerable time and money from Alaskans. Before this commercialization experiment is concluded, it will take even more. Much of it will have gone up in smoke, and Alaska won’t be better for it. But the governments are doing their best to deal with it. — Ketchikan Daily News, Feb. 28

The sad plight of Jihadi John

Mohammed Emwazi, aka Jihadi John, the masked, British-accented butcher of hostages on ISIS videos, makes an unlikely victim, to say the least. The entire point of the videos is to advertise his savagery and that of the hellish cause he serves. Yet, shamefully, even he can claim the expiating status of victimhood and get a sympathetic hearing. According to his own self-pitying emails prior to his star turn as a knifewielding executioner, Emwazi was harried by British intelligence beyond human endurance. Some so-called civil libertarians have picked up on his plaint to argue that a good, promising young Muslim man was pushed into the arms of a medieval terror group by the Brits. “Jihadi John: ‘Radicalized’ by Britain” was the title of a press release from the terrorist-defending, British “human rights” group Cage. It maintains that young Muslims like Mohammed Emwazi have “turned to violence because of British counter-terrorism policies coupled with long standing grievances over Western foreign policy.” The Washington Post, which broke the news last week that Emwazi was Jihadi John, ran a piece about his run-in with British authorities when trying to travel to Kuwait in 2010 headlined “The moment Jihadi John may have become a terrorist.” In that incident, Emwazi had traveled back to London from Kuwait and then found that British authorities wouldn’t let him fly back to Kuwait again (he was Ku-

waiti-born, but raised in Britain). This is when he supposedly began to feel intolerably squeezed by the tentacles of the British security state. There were, of course, many alternatives available to Rich Lowry Emwazi, if he were an innocent harassed by an out-of-control security service. He could have started a blog devoted to civil liberties. He could have joined an advocacy group fighting against such abuses. He could have gotten a law degree and fought for his rights and those of others falsely accused. He could have done any of a thousand things, including — it is worth adding — forswearing any association with Islamic radicalism. What he chose to do was to abscond to Syria — so much for the allknowing British surveillance state — and decapitate people. What was the extreme provocation that allegedly drove him to such barbarity? He wrote to Cage when he was still in Britain that he felt like “a person imprisoned.” He had to feel like a person imprisoned because he wasn’t actually imprisoned. It was just that his ability to travel overseas was apparently blocked. This, in effect, trapped him in Britain, one of the greatest countries in the world,

where many millions of people would be happy to immigrate on any given day. Not to mention that his surveillance seems to have been entirely justified, and — given subsequent events — inadequate. Around the same time he was complaining about his unjust treatment at the hands of the British authorities, Emwazi expressed sympathy for “our sister Aafia Siddiqui.” She is an al-Qaida operative who is serving an 86-year sentence in the U.S. for trying to shoot her interrogators after her capture in Afghanistan. Reports are now emerging of Emwazi’s radical associations going back years, suggesting, unsurprisingly, that his turn to ISIS wasn’t made on a whim. What accounts for the impulse to find excuses for even the most bloodthirsty monster? It’s another way of denying the Islamic character of Islamic terrorism, as if any random person — whether Episcopalian or Buddhist — could have been driven over the edge by such treatment. It is another way of blaming the West for the enemies besieging it, and so cloud the moral picture. And, finally, it is another way of denying the agency, and ultimately the evil, of fiends who choose to kill, maim and terrorize. The real victims, obviously, are the unfortunate souls who happen to fall into their clutches. Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.

Speech fallout could determine Netanyahu’s future By JOSEF FEDERMAN and DAN PERRY Associated Press

JERUSALEM — With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing a tough reelection fight in two weeks, the U.S. Congress has handed him an unprecedented boost with its effusive welcome to a message that resonates at home: Iran cannot be trusted as a threshold nuclear state. Which way it goes for Netanyahu may hinge on whether Israel is in some perceptible way punished by the White House for its leader’s extraordinary offensive against a U.S. president. If he is seen as having bravely spoken truth to power and escaped consequences, the episode will likely help him at the polls. That could deeply affect the Middle East for years to come on issues far beyond Iran, most notably the conflict with the Palestinians, which some consider even more important than the nature of any future deal on Iran’s nuclear program. At home and abroad, Netanyahu is seen by many as a leading obstacle to peace with the Palestinians and perhaps the Arab world. And his insistence on continuing Jewish settlement of the occupied West Bank has many fearing Israel will never be able to extricate itself from the territory and its millions of Palestinians — with or without peace — destroying its character as a Jewish state. For this and other reasons, Netanyahu has found himself at increasingly toxic loggerheads with the country’s elites — from the security establishment to academics, journalists, cultural figures and much of the business world. This has been recently compounded by scandals involving his expenses, and rage from middleclass Israelis who struggle to make ends meet and can no longer afford to buy homes. Polls show Netanyahu’s Likud party slightly trailing the Zionist Union, which is the main grouping of the center-left opposition. In the highly fractured political environment, it seems plausible that the union’s head, Isaac Herzog, may be given a first chance to form a majority coalition in the 120-seat Knesset after the March 17

AP News Analysis vote. Under these circumstances, while Netanyahu’s speech was delivered to the U.S. Congress, his primary audience may well have been Israel’s voters half a world away. In a comedy show that aired just before the speech, a mock Netanyahu was portrayed filling out U.S. immigration forms on the plane. Under “reason for visit” he declared: “one or two seats” in parliament. The images of Netanyahu mingling with congressional leaders and receiving standing ovations may achieve just that, or even better. Netanyahu made no mention of the election — but he deftly touched on Israeli fears and emotions with a litany of talking points that form the core of his political playbook. He condemned Iran as dangerously hostile, with tentacles stretching across the Middle East — and managed to connect it to this week’s Jewish holiday of Purim, in which ancient Jews defeated a Persian enemy. He presented Israel as peace-loving and progressive and stressed its deep bonds to the U.S. He even produced Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who waved as Netanyahu intoned “Never Again.” Even opponents acknowledged the masterful political theater. “There is no doubt that Prime Minister Netanyahu knows how to speak,” said Herzog. But it was risky: Netanyahu’s references to an emerging “bad deal” undermined a centerpiece of the U.S. administration’s foreign policy and challenged its insistence that no deal has yet been struck. The event was engineered by the Republican House speaker, John Boehner, and Netanyahu’s ambassador to Wash-

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ington, U.S.-born Ron Dermer, who once worked as a Republican operative. The White House made no secret about its unhappiness, making sure Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden were not present and refusing to meet the Israeli leader while he was in town. Dozens of congressional Democrats, caught between support for Israel and loyalty to the president, skipped the address. Some who attended gave it a cool response. Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the House, said she was “near tears” and “saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States.” But the mood in Netanyahu’s entourage was upbeat afterward. In a statement released after he landed back in Israel on Wednesday, Netanyahu said his speech to Congress offered a “practical alternative” to a possible Iranian nuclear deal and that U.S. lawmakers now “understand better” why the deal is bad. Avraham Diskin, a political scientist at Hebrew University, said that to an Israeli audience Netanyahu’s speech was “so exciting, so powerful” that “it will definitely help him in the campaign.” Diskin noted, though, that the remaining two weeks are a long time in Israeli politics. Israel’s media on Wednesday reflected that. Many praised the form, such as Meir Uziel, who gushed in the Maariv daily that “the speech was artistry.” But there was also a strong sense that Netanyahu had upset Obama for little practical gain on Iran, using the august foreign setting for an electoral maneuver that Sima Kadmon, writing in Yediot Ahronot, called “the most ornate (political) survival speech ever.” Much now depends on the White House response. Although Obama is somewhat unpopular in Israel, if Netanyahu is perceived as having truly unsettled relations with the U.S., it could boomerang.

By GARRY TRUDEAU

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Coal mine blast kills at least 24 in Ukraine By NATALIYA VASILYEVA Associated Press

DONETSK, Ukraine — A rebel-held city scarred by months of conflict in eastern Ukraine suffered more tragedy Wednesday when a methane gas explosion in a coal mine killed at least 24 workers and left nine missing. As rescue efforts stretched past sundown, separatist authorities were accused by Ukraine’s government of failing to do enough to save the lives of the miners. The blast occurred before dawn more than 1,000 meters (3,200 feet) underground at the Zasyadko mine in the city of Donetsk in the coal-rich Donbass region. Nearly a year of bitter fighting by pro-Moscow rebels and Ukrainian troops in the east has killed more than 6,000 people. Rebel officials said the accident was caused by the everpresent danger of methane gas, rather than artillery fire. There were contradictory accounts of the toll of dead and

missing by the rival authorities. The rebel government that controls Donetsk was slow to divulge information, while a senior official in the capital of Kiev was swift to give a death toll of 32, only to retract it several hours later. The blast occurred as 230 workers were in the mine, and nearly 200 of them were quickly evacuated, but uncertainty lingered throughout the day about dozens of others. Rebel officials insisted into the afternoon that only one person had died. But a slightly wounded miner who gave his name only as Sergei told The Associated Press that he saw five bodies being pulled out. By nightfall, Yuliana Bedilko, a representative for the rebel-managed rescue services at the site of accident, said another 23 bodies had been located below ground, bringing the overall number of confirmed dead to 24. Under cover of darkness, a truck pulled up in the heavy rain to the mine’s opening in preparation to take the bodies

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A Ukrainian coal miner waits for a bus after exiting the underground of the Zasyadko mine, where he helped search for bodies of colleagues and clear up debris following an explosion, in Donetsk, Ukraine, Wednesday.

away. A woman emerging from the mine was heard wailing in grief from a distance. Rebel officials had said earlier that 32 workers were unaccounted for, suggesting 16 still remained trapped as of the evening. A news agency run by the separatist government reported that 14 people were injured in

the accident. Igor Murygin, a 42-year-old miner being treated for burns at a hospital in Donetsk, said he was blown off his feet by the explosion. “When I came to, there was dust everywhere. People were groaning,” said Murygin, who suffered burns over 20 percent

of his body. The mine had recently installed new equipment and nothing appeared to be out of order, he added. Speaking in Kiev, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk accused rebels of preventing a team of 60 Ukrainian rescuers from reaching the mine to provide assistance. But leading rebel representative Denis Pushilin denied that Ukrainian authorities had offered any help. “If we truly need assistance, we will turn to Russia,” Pushilin was quoted as saying by the rebel-run Donetsk News Agency. Miners arriving for their morning shift ended up doing most of the work to clear away debris. Reaching the stricken section was complicated because the entrance that was closest to the accident had been shut by the artillery fire that has beset Donetsk. Separatist officials arrived at the mine throughout the morning, but all refused to respond to questions, frustrating relatives of miners looking for answers.

Valentina Petrova came to the mine looking for her 47-year-old son, Vladimir. “He was supposed to retire next year. Everyone is angry that they say on TV that 32 people died, but nobody tells us anything,” she said. The mine has a history of deadly accidents, including one in November 2007 that killed 101 workers, and two more the following month that killed a total of 57. Workers complained about many safety violations at the site. “We work like crazy for peanuts. We want this place to be safe. We want our children to be able to work here,” said a miner who only gave his first name, Kostya. He told the AP that two of his brothers had been injured in earlier explosions at the mine. Safety officials say 99 people were killed in Ukraine’s coal mines in 2014, with 13 of those deaths directly attributable to the fighting in the east, where mines have frequently been hit in artillery duels.

Senate fails to override Obama’s veto of pipeline bill By DINA CAPPIELLO Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday failed to override President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill to construct the Keystone XL pipeline, the first of many confrontations between the Republican-controlled Congress and the White House this year over energy policy. The 62-37 vote is expected to be one of many veto showdowns between Republicans and Obama in his final term. Already, the White House has issued more than a dozen veto

threats on legislation. Proponents of the Keystone bill have said since its introduction that they didn’t have the two-thirds of the Senate vote needed to override Obama’s veto. They fell four votes short. But they’ve already been discussing other ways to force the pipeline’s approval, either by attaching it onto must-pass spending bills or other, broader, energy legislation. “If we don’t win the battle today, we will win the war because we will find another bill to attach this pipeline to,” said Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., the

chief sponsor of the bill, before the vote. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pleaded with Democrats for more support of a bill that he said advanced the president’s own priorities. “If you’re interested in jobs and infrastructure and saving your party from an extreme mistake, then join us,” he said. “Vote with us to override a partisan veto and help the president pursue priorities he’s advocated in the past.” But two Democrats, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Sen. Edward Markey

of Massachusetts, said at a news conference after the vote that further attempts to pass the project would be futile, especially given the failed attempt to overturn Obama’s immigration policies using a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security. The senators called the push on Keystone “politically delusional” and a “waste of time.” “The Republican pipe dream to pass this pipeline through Congress is over,” Markey said. “The Senate today said the president should get to keep his prerogative.” Obama has repeatedly re-

sisted Congress’ attempts to force his hand. His veto of the bill, the third of his presidency, said that the bill circumvented longstanding and proven processes for determining whether cross-border pipelines serve the national interest and cuts short consideration of its effects. The $8 billion project would transport oil extracted from Canada’s tar sands to pipelines linked to Gulf Coast refineries. Environmentalists have framed the pipeline as a test of Obama’s commitment to address climate change, arguing that it would open up a path

for tar sands oil to get to market. Republicans have pushed the pipeline as a job-creating infrastructure project that will supply the U.S. with oil from a friendly neighbor, rather than unstable regimes. The State Department’s analysis found that the oil would be harvested regardless of whether the pipeline is built, a conclusion that the EPA said needed to be re-examined given low oil prices. The same review said the pipeline would create thousands of jobs during construction, but ultimately it would require 35 permanent employees.

Private email questions emerge as Clinton nears 2016 bid By KEN THOMAS Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Republicans are signaling that questions about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of a private email account while she was secretary of state will follow her into her widely anticipated presidential campaign. GOP leaders, who control the investigative powers of Congress, say the revelations reaffirm a long-held GOP portrayal of Bill and Hillary Clinton as secretive and playing by their own rules. Democrats dismiss the accusations as trivial and question whether the emails will resonate with voters in an election 20 months away. But as the presidential nominating season begins, Clinton’s use of a personal email account for State Department business has stoked questions about transparency that threaten to cloud her early steps as the Democratic Party’s overwhelm-

ing favorite White House prospect. “The American people deserve all of the facts,” House Speaker John Boehner, ROhio, said Wednesday. He was responding to an Associated Press report that the computer server that sent and received the secretary of state’s emails — on a private account used for official business — was registered to Clinton’s New York home. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, intends to investigate whether Clinton, by using a personal email account, may have violated federal requirements that written communications of officials are preserved. The committee will join with a special committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. The Benghazi committee first discovered Clinton’s use of a private email address. The fresh inquiries create a distraction as she prepares

to embark on a second presidential campaign amid a thin bench of potential Democratic challengers. The questions follow recent reports about the Clinton family foundation’s raising of money from foreign governments, while she was the country’s top diplomat, to benefit the nonprofit’s philanthropic mission. Democrats say the latest probes are throwbacks to the 1990s when they say Republicans overplayed their hands pursuing President Bill Clinton. “This is part of what will be the onslaught of attacks that are just getting starting,” said Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. “It will be attack, attack, attack.” The Clinton family is no stranger to controversy. Bill Clinton’s personal and business dealings created a constant swirl of investigations, leading to his 1998 impeachment for perjury and obstruction of justice. Hillary Clinton, as the first

lady, was pressed by Republicans in the Whitewater probe of the couple’s real estate investments. Clinton’s team this week said she acted no differently from her predecessors at State who also used private email addresses. She used a BlackBerry before leading the department and continued to use it after she took the job. The former secretary of state’s team turned over 55,000 pages of emails from her time at the State Department but had discretion over what was included. If she emailed someone among the 100 State Department officials with whom she frequently corresponded, they said, it would have been on State Department servers, and Clinton’s office replicated that

to ensure it was included in the records. “I think this is mostly rightwing noise,” Howard Dean, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said by email. Republicans in the possible 2016 mix have kept relatively quiet on Clinton’s latest challenge to avoid bringing up transparency issues of their own. Email communication from Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, for example, has been the subject of criminal investigations. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., warned of national security considerations, telling reporters Wednesday that even government emails are vulnerable and presidential campaigns are

typically targeted by hackers. “You shouldn’t put anything in an email that you don’t think is going to be read by a foreign intelligence agency. Especially if you’re the president of the United States, or a candidate for it,” he said. The email dispute may also fall into a “what goes around, comes around” category of presidential politics. In 2012, Democrats spent several weeks blasting Republican Mitt Romney’s refusal to release his personal tax records, accusing him of trying to obscure details of his investments and vast wealth. “What is Mitt Romney hiding?” was a frequent refrain from the Obama campaign. This time, Clinton is the one accused of a lack of transparency.

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Italy rescues more than 1,000 migrants at sea By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press

ROME — In dramatic sea rescues north of Libya, a flotilla of ships saved more than 1,000 migrants and refugees, while 10 migrants perished in the southern Mediterranean, Italian officials said Wednesday. Rescue vessels, including from Italy’s coast guard and navy, and three cargo ships saved 941 people in seven separate operations that began Tuesday, Italy’s coast guard said. On Wednesday, the coast guard and two cargo ships rescued 94 migrants whose motorized dinghy was in distress 40 miles (65 kms) north of Libya, the coast guard said. Survivors were ferried to southern Italian ports. The migrants rescued Tuesday had been aboard five motorized dinghies and two larger vessels. One of the larger boats capsized, and 10 bodies were spotted or plucked from the sea. For months now, hundreds — sometimes thousands — of migrants fleeing conflicts or poverty have been reaching Italy practically weekly on smugglers’ boats setting sail from Libya. This year’s pace has seen a sharp uptick from 2014’s staggering count of 170,000 migrants and asylum-seekers rescued at sea by Italy’s coast guard, navy and other vessels

including cargo ships. The Interior Ministry says 7,882 migrants arrived on Italian coasts in the first two months of this year, compared to 5,506 in that period in 2014. The coast guard said the migrants saved in the latest rescues claimed to be Syrians, Palestinians, Libyans, Tunisians and people from sub-Saharan Africa. More than 30 children were among those rescued. One of the 50 pregnant women aboard was urgently evacuated for medical treatment. A tug deployed at offshore oil platforms raised one of the first alarms, and then joined in the rescue operations about 50 miles north of Libya, the coast guard said. For years, Italy has been appealing to the European Union to help ships, aircraft or funding. It points out that most of those rescued intend to reach relatives or jobs in other European countries. This year, an EU patrol mission known as Triton replaced Italy’s Mare Nostrum air and sea mission that had saved tens of thousands of lives. Triton patrols only EU national waters, while the Italians had carried out rescues off Libya’s coast, where many of the unseaworthy and overcrowded vessels founder. Italy says it won’t turn its back on those in danger.

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An officer carries a baby as migrants disembark from an Italian Coast Guard vessel after being rescued in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, southern Italy, Wednesday. In a dramatic sea rescue north of Libya, a flotilla of rescue ships saved nearly 1,000 migrants and refugees, while 10 migrants perished in the southern Mediterranean, Italian officials said Wednesday. The rescue vessels, including from Italy’s coast guard and navy, and three cargo ships, saved 941 people in seven separate operations that began Tuesday, Italy’s coast guard said. The survivors were being ferried to southern Italian ports. The migrants had been aboard five motorized dinghies and two larger vessels. One of the larger boats capsized, and 10 bodies were spotted or plucked from the sea. According to Interior Ministry figures, 7,882 migrants arrived on Italian coasts in the first two months of this year, compared to 5,506 in that period in 2014. The coast guard said the migrants saved in the latest rescues claimed to be Syrians, Palestinians, Libyans, Tunisians or from sub-Saharan Africa.

“Often the SOS call (arrives) when the migrants boats are outside the Italian rescue zone, 50 or 60 miles from the Libyan coast,” Coast Guard commander Filippo Marini told The AP

in an interview. International law obliges Italy to alert the coastal country with jurisdiction, he said, but calling on Libyan authorities would yield little help because

of the country’s chaotic security situation. “If there is no reaction or intervention for this country, we must rescue these people,” Marini said.

The EU’s smaller-scaled mission is fodder for right-wing Italian politicians, including Matteo Salvini, the leader of the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe Northern League party. “Ten more dead and 900 clandestine migrants ready to disembark,” Salvini said Wednesday. “In Rome and in Brussels, there are full pockets and hands stained with blood.” The migrants’ traffickers are reportedly getting even more ruthless. An Italian child protection advocate, Carlotta Bellini of Save the Children, said migrants have recently reported that armed traffickers demanded they jump in the boat to depart even if weather was bad. Government lawmakers also demanded the EU do more. Khalid Chaouki, from Premier Matteo Renzi’s Democratic Party, lamented “this unexplainable European indifference.” In Brussels, Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos told reporters: “Now more than ever we need a comprehensive and long-term strategy.” He spoke after a commission orientation debate on the EU’s new migration policy. Italian officials have expressed concern that militants could mingle among migrants from Libya, where the Islamic State group has gained a foothold in that northern African country’s chaos.

Guards ferrying gold bars get robbed on N. Carolina roadside By JONATHAN DREW Associated Press

WILSON, N.C. — The crew of a truck carrying a load of gold bars had just pulled off the interstate in North Carolina when, the two men told police, a seemingly ordinary episode of carsickness turned into a multimillion dollar heist. As soon as the guards stopped on the shoulder, three robbers drove up in a cargo van and confronted them at gunpoint, yelling “Policia!” and ordering the crew to lie on the ground. The robbers tied their hands behind their backs and marched them into nearby woods, authorities said. The thieves then set out orange traffic cones while they gathered up 275 pounds of gold bars worth $4.8 million and fled, leaving the two guards stranded along Interstate 95 as drivers zoomed by. On Wednesday, authorities released search warrants filed the day after the heist in which detectives write that they sus-

pected the robbery “could be an inside job.” “The fact that the truck was robbed immediately upon pulling over at an unannounced stop is suspicious in and of itself,” the warrant states, adding that the truck had no external markings indicating the cargo. The warrant said the suspects tried to steal the truck but could not get it started, indicating they did not know how to operate a commercial truck. At a news conference, Wilson County Sheriff Calvin Woodard said the guards were still considered victims, not suspects, but that all possibilities were being investigated. Asked to elaborate on the warrants, the sheriff said they were written in a hurry before the victims, who spoke little English, could be thoroughly interviewed in Spanish. The strange scene unfolded around dusk Sunday in a rural area about 50 miles east of Raleigh. Earlier in the day, the guards had stopped for gas in Dillon,

South Carolina, near the North Carolina line. As they kept driving, one of them started to feel sick and said he smelled gas, Woodard said. However, after deputies arrived, a mechanic found no problems with the truck, according to the sheriff. The guards got out of the tractor-trailer without their guns, according to the sheriff, who said it was a company security violation to leave the truck without their weapons. Woodard said that the robbers cut a padlock, but there were no other security measures to stop them. When the robbers were gone, the guards drew the attention of startled motorists, several of whom called 911 to report seeing uniformed men running into the highway with their hands bound, motioning for help. “They’ve got their hands zip-tied behind their backs, and they’re out in the road to try to flag people down to call the police,” one caller said. The caller described the

scene to the dispatcher and waited in his car for at least 12 minutes for officers to arrive, according to recordings released by Wilson County authorities. The man told the dispatcher he did not feel safe leaving his vehicle. One of the guards can be heard trying to relate details though his window. The heist happened hours after the truck left Miami for a town south of Boston. Neither guard was injured, according to their employer, Miami-based Transvalue Inc., which specializes in transporting cash, precious metals, gems and jewelry. A Transvalue spokeswoman declined to comment. The company has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. A woman who saw the guards walking into the road with their hands tied did not feel safe stopping. “It’s dark. It’s raining, and they’re walking in the middle of the road,” she said. “I didn’t know what to do.”

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Wilson County Sheriff’s Deputies investigate an area near Interstate 95, Monday, in Wilson, N.C. Armed robbers hijacked an armored truck, tied up the two guards and disappeared with 275 pounds of gold bars.

Microsoft co-founder says he found sunken Japan WWII warship BY MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press

TOKYO — Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Paul Allen and his research team have found the wreckage of a massive Japanese World War II battleship off the Philippines near where it sank more than 70 years ago, he said Wednesday. The apparent discovery of the Musashi, one of the largest battleships in history, comes as the world marks the 70th anniversary of the war’s end. Allen and the team aboard his superyacht M/Y Octopus found the ship on Sunday, more than eight years after their search began, Allen said in a statement issued by his publicity agency, Edelman. Detailed images captured by a high-definition camera mounted on an underwater probe confirmed the wreckage as that of the Musashi, it said. Allen said on his website that the video and still images showed a valve wheel with Japanese letters saying “main valve handle” which used to be in a lower engineering area, a catapult system used to launch planes, a large gun turret, and one of the ship’s two 15-ton anchors. He said the team also found the ship’s bow. Japanese experts said they were eager to study the images to try to confirm the ship’s identity. Kazushige Todaka, head of a private museum specializing in the battleship Yamato,

Musashi’s sister vessel, said the details in the images matched those of the Musashi, which was the only battleship that sank in the area. “Judging from the location, it must be the Musashi,” Todaka told NHK public television. The Musashi, commissioned in 1942, sank in October 1944 in the Sibuyan Sea during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, losing about half of its 2,400 crew members. The ship was repeatedly hit by torpedoes and bombs dropped

by planes from Allied aircraft carriers. The naval battle, considered the largest of World War II, crippled the imperial fleet, cut off Japanese oil supplies and allowed the U.S. invasion of the Japanese-held Philippines. Allen’s team found the battleship at a depth of 1 kilometer (3,280 feet) in the Sibuyan Sea using the autonomous underwater vehicle on its third dive after narrowing

the search area with detailed undersea topographical data and other locator devices, the statement said. “The Musashi is truly an engineering marvel and as an engineer at heart, I have a deep appreciation for the technology and effort that went into its construction,” Allen said. He said he is fascinated with World War II history after being inspired by his father’s service in the U.S. Army, and that he was “honored” to play a part

in finding a key vessel in naval history, and in honoring the memory of those who served aboard the ship. Allen said he respects the wreckage as a war grave and plans to work with Japan’s government to make sure the site is treated properly in line with Japanese traditions. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters that he had no immediate comment. Suikokai, an organization

that supports Japanese navy veterans and conducts research in maritime defense, said that if the discovery is confirmed, a memorial service could be held at the site. Todaka at the Yamato Museum said the findings, especially during the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, were a “great achievement” that could inspire many Japanese to revisit the history of the war, whose memory has faded over the past decades.

Peninsula Clarion, Thursday, March 5, 2015

Mexico authorities arrest Zetas leader

Around the World Australia offers Indonesia a prisoner swap deal bid to save death row prisoners

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia has offered Indonesia a prison swap deal in an 11th hour bid to save the lives of two Australian drug smugglers who have been transferred to an island prison where they are to be killed by firing squad within days. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Thursday she made the proposal to her Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi who had agreed to convey it to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. Bishop said she had yet to hear back. The Australian newspaper reported Bishop had offered to repatriate three convicted Indonesian drug criminals in return for the lives of the Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. The Australians are among nine foreigners who are to be executed soon.

MEXICO CITY — Mexican police and soldiers on Wednesday captured Omar Trevino Morales, widely considered to be the most important leader of the Zetas drug cartel that once carved a path of brutal bloodshed along the country’s northern border with the U.S., a federal official said. The official, who was not authorized to be quoted by name because of government policy, said the man known as “Z-42” was arrested in a pre-dawn raid in San Pedro Garza Garcia, a wealthy suburb of the northern city of Monterrey. The Mexican government had offered a 30 million peso ($2 million) reward for his capture on weapons and organized crime charges. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration offered a $5 million reward for his capture, saying he was wanted for drug trafficking, but listed “Omar” as an alias and his given name as Alejandro. DEA spokesman Rusty Payne confirmed they are the same person, adding: “We certainly are excited and congratulate Mexico for another great arrest.” The suspect is the brother of Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, described as the most bloodthirsty leader of Mexico’s most violent cartel. Miguel Angel was arrested in July 2013, almost a year after Mexican marines killed the Zetas’ other big-

Can health care law survive major new challenge? Justices seem divided in arguments WASHINGTON — Sharply divided along familiar lines, the Supreme Court took up a politically charged new challenge to President Barack Obama’s health overhaul Wednesday in a dispute over the tax subsidies that make insurance affordable for millions of Americans. The outcome in what Justice Elena Kagan called “this never-ending saga” of Republican-led efforts to kill the Affordable Care Act appears to hinge on the votes of Chief Justice John Roberts, whose vote saved the law three years ago, and Justice Anthony Kennedy. Roberts said almost nothing in Wednesday’s 85 minutes of lively back-and-forth, and Kennedy, who voted to strike down the health law in 2012, asked questions of both sides that made it hard to tell where he might come out this time. Otherwise, the same liberal-conservative divide that characterized the earlier case was evident in the packed courtroom with the same lawyers facing off as in 2012. Millions of people could be affected by the court’s decision. The justices are trying to determine whether the law makes people in all 50 states eligible for federal tax subsidies to cut the cost of insurance premiums. Opponents say that only residents of states that set up their own insurance markets can get federal subsidies to help pay the premiums.

Defense admits Tsarnaev bombed Boston Marathon, says brother influenced him BOSTON — The question, for all practical purposes, is no longer whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev took part in the Boston Marathon bombing. It’s whether he deserves to die for it. In a blunt opening statement at the nation’s biggest terrorism trial in nearly 20 years, Tsarnaev’s own lawyer flatly told a jury that the 21-year-old former college student committed the crime. “It WAS him,” said defense attorney Judy Clarke, one of the nation’s foremost death-penalty specialists. But in a strategy aimed at saving Tsarnaev from a death sentence, she argued that he had fallen under the malevolent influence of his now-dead older brother, Tamerlan.

Latest on the Boston Marathon bombing trial: Victim says she watched pal die C

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A spectator at the 2013 Boston Marathon has testified that she watched her close friend die on the pavement next to her after the first bomb exploded. Karen Rand McWatters spoke Wednesday at the federal death penalty trial of Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv). She described the last moments of her friend Krystle Campbell’s life. She says Campbell “very slowly said that her legs hurt,” and the two held hands. McWatters says, “Shortly after that, her hand went limp in mine, and she never spoke again.” McWatters choked back tears as she recalled screaming for help. McWatters herself lost her left leg when the first of two bombs went off.

WHO says sugar should be no more than 5-10 percent of total calories LONDON — New guidelines from the World Health Organization are enough to kill anyone’s sugar high. The U.N. health agency says the world is eating too much sugar and people should slash their intake to just six to 12 teaspoons per day — an amount that could be exceeded with a single can of soda. So, put down that doughnut. And while you’re at it, skip the breakfast cereal, fruit juice, beer and ketchup. The guidelines, released Wednesday, finalize draft advice first released last year and are focused on the added sugars in processed food, as well as those in honey, syrups and fruit juices. The advice does not apply to naturally occurring sugars in fruit, vegetables and milk, since those come with essential nutrients. — The Associated Press

gest leader, Heriberto Lazcano “El Lazca.” Omar apparently took over leadership of the Zetas after his brother’s arrest. The Zetas was originally a gang formed by deserters from an elite army unit and left a trail of brutality, bloodshed and mutilated bodies across northern Mexico during turf battles with the rival Gulf cartel. But much of the violence along Mexico’s northeast border now is due to internal battles among Gulf cartel factions. “The truth is that this is a group that has been fragmented,” Javier Oliva, an expert on the drug war at Mexico’s National Autonomous University, said of the Zetas. “Their influence is now more on a local level, in townships” rather than the broad, multi-state trafficking corridor they once controlled. But Oliva said that doesn’t mean the Zetas and their internal fight to determine a replacement for Trevino Morales won’t turn bloody. He said gunmen or second-tier operators who were active under Trevino Morales may now seek to replace him. “One would hope that the federal and state governments have taken precautions to avoid this arrest from causing more violence,” Oliva said. The capture of Omar Trevino Morales follows Friday’s arrest of another big cartel leader, Servando Gomez, known as “La Tuta.” Gomez allegedly led the Knights Templar, a pseudo-

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This photo shows a mug shot, released on July 15, 2013 by Mexico’s Interior Ministry, of Zetas drug cartel leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales after his arrest in Mexico.

religious drug gang that built up control of many sectors of the economy in the western state of Michoacan before it was weakened by an uprising of citizen vigilante groups and a steppedup federal security campaign. The two arrests provided much-needed good news for the administration of President Enrique Pena Nieto, who has been battered by a series of scandals in recent months. “The government needed to show that some of its policies were successful,” said Raul Benitez, a security expert at the National Autonomous University. “And in this case, without doubt the strategy against the drug cartels is going well.”

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In this undated photo shows alleged Zeta drug cartel leader and founder Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano in an unknown location. Mexico’s Navy said fingerprints confirmed Lazcano, was killed on Oct. 7, 2012 in a firefight with marines in the northern state of Coahuila on the border with Texas.

Like Servando Gomez, Omar Trevino Morales was captured without any shots being fired. The Trevino Morales brothers took proceeds from their U.S. drug sales and laundered them by purchasing American quarter horses. That scheme was led by Jose Trevino Morales, a third brother. A jury in Texas found Morales guilty in May of investing $16 million of drug money in the buying, training and racing of horses across the Southwest United States.

United States clears officer in Ferguson case BY ERIC TUCKER Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department cleared a white former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old on Wednesday, but also issued a scathing report calling for sweeping changes in city law enforcement practices it called discriminatory and unconstitutional. The dual reports marked the culmination of months-long federal investigations into a shooting that sparked weeks of protests and a national dialogue on race and law enforcement as the tenure of Attorney General Eric Holder, the first black person to hold that office, draws to a close. In pairing the announcements, the Obama administration sought to offset community disappointment over the conclusion that the shooting of Michael Brown was legally justified with a message of hope for Ferguson’s majority-black citizens. Officials announced 26 recommendations, including training officers in how to de-escalate confrontations and banning the use of ticketing and arrest quotas. Holder called the federal report a “searing” portrait of a police department that he said functions as a collection agency

for the city, with officers prioritizing revenue from fines over public safety and trouncing the constitutional rights of minorities. “It is not difficult to imagine how a single tragic incident set off the city of Ferguson like a powder keg,” Holder said. The decision not to prosecute Darren Wilson, the white officer who was cleared in November by a state grand jury and has since resigned, had been expected. To win a federal civil rights case, officials would have needed to prove that Wilson willfully deprived Brown of his rights by using unreasonable force. But the report found no evidence to disprove Wilson’s testimony that he feared for his safety during the Aug. 9 confrontation. Nor were there reliable witness accounts to establish that Brown had his hands up in surrender when he was shot, Justice Department lawyers said. One of Wilson’s attorneys, Neil Bruntrager, said his client was satisfied with the outcome. Brown family lawyer Benjamin Crump said the family was not surprised but very disappointed, and one of Brown’s uncles, Charles Ewing, said he believed Wilson was “getting away with it.” “I really was hoping they would have come up with better findings because this whole

thing just does not add up,” Ewing said. “Everything just doesn’t make sense.” While the federal government declined to prosecute Wilson, it found that the shooting occurred in an environment of systematic mistreatment of blacks, in which officials swapped racist emails and jokes without punishment and black residents were disproportionately stopped and searched, fined for petty offenses and subjected to excessive police force. A 102-page report about the department found that its

lack of racial diversity — only four of 54 commissioned officers are black — undermined community trust. It also found that the city relied heavily on fines for petty offenses, such as jaywalking, to raise revenue. Police interpreted “innocent movements as physical threats” and engaged in practices that overwhelmingly affected minorities and reinforced patterns of racial bias, it said. The document was filled with examples of what it called a discriminatory criminal justice system.

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Alaska Hall to fete Hutchison, Ostrander By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

Peninsula athletes Michaela Hutchison and Allie Ostrander will be honored at the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony tonight at the Anchorage Museum auditorium. The event will be from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Hutchison will be honored in the “Moment” category for her state wrestling championship in 2006, which made her the first girl in the nation to win a state championship in a tournament including boys. Ostrander will receive a Directors’ Award, voted on by the Alaska Hall board of directors. The Kenai Central senior gets the female Pride of Alaska Award for consistent excellence in athletic competition. Hutchison’s historic title came in 2006 and is being honored as one of the best moments in Alaska sports history in the Hall’s ninth class. Hutchison, 25, is now an assistant women’s wrestling coach at McKendree University in Lebanon, Illinois. “It was a big moment in time, but as I’m getting older and more mature, it’s many moments just like that one that all make up the bigger moments in life,” said Hutchison by cellphone from Seattle on Wednesday as she made the trip back to Alaska. “It depends on how you look at it and take

advantage of it.” In front of about 2,000 people at Chugiak High School, Hutchison, then a Skyview sophomore seeded first in her weight class, wrestled against Colony’s Aaron Boss for the title at 103 pounds. Tension built throughout the match as the score remained deadlocked at 0. In the final minute, Hutchison slowly began to rise to her feet and the crowd reacted by amping up the level of noise. Hutchison said during the final minute that something Neldon Gardner had drilled into her head in countless practices — “If you don’t get up, you don’t deserve to win.” — kept running through her mind. With just 16 seconds left, Hutchison scored that escape, taking a 1-0 lead, and bedlam ensued. Hutchison would finish the season 45-4 with 33 pins. Later that evening, Hutchison’s brother, Eli, would win the title at 135 pounds to finish his high school career undefeated. Michaela would later say that her brother had the better accomplishment that night. She still feels that way. “The thing was Eli was such a role model for me as we grew up,” she said. “I kind of give a lot of credit to him because he stood back in the shadows and let me have the credit even though he deserved it way more. “He showed me how to do stuff,

taught me by example, and then let me have the limelight while he was working his butt off.” Hutchison went on to a successful wrestling career at Oklahoma City University. She also has a strong legacy in Alaska. This past fall, for the first time in this state’s history, there were enough girls wrestling to put together a girls Class 1-2-3A state wrestling tournament. Hutchison said one reason she is looking forward to the award is that it lets her get back to Alaska and see her family, as well as coach Gardner. Hutchison’s parents are Mike and Mary of Soldotna. They have had 10 children — five girls and five boys. Michaela is the sixth born. “Our parents were very humble as we grew up, and our work ethic was very important to our parents,” Hutchison said. “The younger kids watched how the older kids were doing it, and it turned into a tradition of hard work. “If you focus on goals and lead God’s life you’ll get what you worked for.” Hutchison is using her coaching to get a master’s in secondary education in biology. She has been an assistant in each of the program’s two years. She will finish her master’s in December and is not sure what her next step is after that. Ostrander gets her award for a running season that is as dominant as the

state has ever seen. The harbinger came in April 2014, when Ostrander, not having run a competitive 3,200-meter race outside yet, went to the prestigious Arcadia Invitational in California and finished second in the 3,200 meters. A string of successes befitting one of the nation’s top prep distance runners quickly followed, starting with shattering the 1,600 and 3,200 state track meet records in May. In July at Mount Marathon, she won her sixth-straight girls junior title, and also became the first girl to win the junior race, which also includes boys. Then came a third-straight Class 4A cross-country title in October, and a victory at Nike Cross Nationals in December. No other Alaskan has won a national prep cross-country championship. Ostrander said that of all her accomplishments last season, the national cross-country title stands out the most. “I extended my season by two months working really hard training for that race,” she said. “I put a lot into it, and it was awesome to see that result.” Despite all the accomplishments, Ostrander said she was still surprised to get the Hall call. “Kikkan Randall won it last year, and she’s an Olympian,” Ostrander said. “If I can get an award she just received the year before, that shows a lot of respect for what I’ve done.”

Ostrander also keeps a 4.0 gradepoint average in the classroom and started the Salmon Run Series, which is five runs held in the middle of summer at Tsalteshi Trails that benefit the Kenai Watershed Forum. The races have grown to include races of over 200 runners and numerous community businesses. Despite her running talent, Ostrander has still found time for other sports. She played in the state soccer tournament in 2014 with Kenai Central, and she currently plays guard for Kenai’s hoops team. She said she enjoys the different dynamic of team sports. “I know that I’m going to be pursuing running in college, so it’s kind of the last opportunity to play those team sports,” said Ostrander, who has not yet picked a college. “During the winter, I don’t see any reason why I shouldn’t take time off of running to play basketball. “It gives my body a break and strengthens other muscles.” Because the Kardinals will be playing in the Northern Lights Conference tournament in Kenai tonight, Ostrander is sending close family friend and Kenai cross-country teammate Kasey Paxton to accept her award. “I’m bummed I can’t be there to accept the award and congratulate all the other recipients in person,” she said. “But I’ve made a commitment to basketball and I need to be there.”

Kenai, SoHi meet again Seldovia boys gain semis Area squads need big NLC tourney to make state By JOEY KLECKA Peninsula Clarion

In the span of an entire high school basketball season, individual plays hardly have an impact on end-of-season results. But in the case of Soldotna and Kenai Central, those plays could now mean the difference between heading off to state or going home. Five days after walking off the hardwood at Cliff Massie Court in Kenai, the two rival schools will be back at it on the first day of the Northern Lights Conference tournament, held today, Friday and Saturday at Kenai. The Stars finished off their regular-season campaigns last Saturday with a pair of Northern Lights victories over the Kards, giving SoHi a season sweep for the boys and girls, but if there’s anything to be said about end-of-season tournament play, today’s matchups can go either way. Only the top two earn an automatic berth to the state tournament, putting extra emphasis and excitement into Friday’s semifinal games. After that, any remaining teams can only hope to grab one of two at-large state bids determined by the Winning Percentage Index standings. Those two spots will fill the remainder of the state seedings. In the latest WPI standings released by ASAA, the Soldotna girls are ranked 14th out of 20 teams, while Kenai sits right behind in 15th. In the boys standings, SoHi sits 15th, and Kenai is 19th.

2015 Northern Lights Conference tournament at Kenai Central BOYS Today’s games Game 1 — Kodiak (4) vs. Palmer (5), 3 p.m. Game 2 — Soldotna (3) vs. Kenai (6), 6:30 p.m. GIRLS Today’s games Game 1 — Kodiak (3) vs. Palmer (6), 4:45 p.m. Game 2 — Soldotna (4) vs. Kenai (5), 8:15 p.m.

It leaves both squads in desperation mode, needing a win today and a win in tomorrow’s semifinal round to clinch a berth at state. Soldotna boys (3) vs. Kenai Central (6), 6:30 p.m. A quarterfinal matchup between the Stars and the Kardinals is sure to pack the gym. The winner advances to tomorrow’s semifinal round against the second-seeded Colony Knights, which lost the top seed to Wasilla with a coin flip. Both Valley teams finished 9-1 in the division this year, and the next four tiebreaking procedures — including headto-head matchups, which they split — were not enough to decide the top seed. The longtime rivalry between the two Peninsula schools has not lacked in action this year. SoHi (5-5 in conference play) escaped with a pair of razor-thin wins over Kenai this season, starting with a 67-63 game in late January that saw

the Kards dig themselves out of a 24-point halftime deficit to come within two points of the Stars in the waning seconds. Then, last Saturday, SoHi was on the attack, as the Stars had to overcome an eight-point hole in the final four minutes to eke out a 43-42 victory. It’s added up to a five-point scoring discrepancy in over an hour of playing time between the two. Soldotna coach Mark Tuter, even with all his years of coaching experience, does not know for sure what to expect in the third meeting of the two sides. “I get really excited for these games, but my guys have been pretty relaxed,” Tuter said. “It’s pretty amazing that they can stay calm and collected for these games.” Tuter pointed out the fact that many of the boys on his team were also a part of the Soldotna football squad, which capped a second-straight undefeated season in 2014 with a third-consecutive, mediumschools state crown. “They’re all football players, they’ve all won a lot of big games, so there’s a lot of confidence there,” Tuter said. However, it will take more than confidence to get past the top two Valley teams. Tuter said he is looking for big games out of Joe Weltzin, Brooks Furlong, Drew Fowler and Nate Spence. Tuter said Spence — a senior forward that scored a gamehigh 18 points against Kenai last Saturday — in particular has raised his level of play in

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The Seldovia boys had no trouble Wednesday getting a jump on their defense of the Peninsula Conference tournament title. The Sea Otters handled host Lumen Christi a 68-36 defeat Wednesday night in Anchorage to set themselves up in a semifinal clash with Ninilchik, winners of an early game against Birchwood Christian, tonight at 6:30 p.m. Seth O’Leary exploded for 23 points, while teammate Aidan Philpot chipped in 17 and Dylan Waterbury added 10. Seldovia started hot, streaking out to a 23-14 lead in the first eight minutes, then outscoring Lumen 19-4 in the second quarter to lead 42-18 at halftime. Seldovia outscored the Archangels 26-18 in the second half to seal the win.

lead after the first quarter and Ninilchik led 26-16 at the built it up to 35-20 at halftime. half, then outscored BirchThe Eagles outscored Kodiak wood 16-11 in the third quar19-9 in the third quarter to ice ter to win. the game. Lumen Christi boys 57, Nanwalek 33

Nikolaevsk boys 69, Wasilla Lake 64

Nikolaevsk provided the closest game of the day with a five-point win over Wasilla Lake, a team that they had beaten by three points earlier in the year. Nikolaevsk advances to play familiar foe CIA in today’s semifinal round starting at 8 p.m. Nikolaevsk trailed early, but responded by outscoring Wasilla lake 18-10 in the second quarter to take a 32-25 lead into the locker room at halftime. From that point on, the Warriors managed to stay level with the Rams to secure the win. Nikit Fefelov drained four 3-pointers to lead Nikolaevsk with 24 points, while CIA boys 74, Felemon Molodih added 18 Kodiak ESS 35 and Jonah Fefelov chipped The Eagles clobbered Ko- in 11. Wasilla Lake was led diak ESS with a win Wednes- by Braden Thorn with 16 day night to begin their tour- points. nament. CIA moves on to face PenNinilchik boys 55, insula Conference rival NikoBirchwood 40 laevsk tonight at 8 p.m. in a semifinal matchup. The fourth-seeded WolTimmy Smithwick led CIA verines shook off Birchwood with 31 points, including 16 Christian to set up a date with in the third quarter alone. Ri- the top-seeded Seldovia Sea ley Smithwick scored 15 and Otters. Johnny Smithwick chipped in Tyler Presley scored a 12, leading to 58 total points game-high 28 points to lead by the Smithwick brothers. Ninilchik, while teammate CIA staked out a 25-12 Austin White chipped in 18.

The host team got its tournament off to a fine start, defeating Nanwalek Wednesday morning to set itself up with a late game against Seldovia. Nanwalek grabbed an early 13-10 lead after one quarter, but Lumen came back to take a 25-18 lead into halftime. Lumen outscored Nanwalek 32-15 in the second half to seal the win. Jarrett Fortune led the way with 20 points for Lumen Christi, while Nanwalek, playing with just enough players to field a starting lineup, got 21 points from Xavier Romanoff. CIA girls 38, Seldovia 21 The Eagles handled the Sea Otters Wednesday evening to advance to a semifinal matchup with second-seeded Birchwood Christian at 5 p.m. Madison Orth led CIA Wednesday with 16 points, while fellow senior captain Ashleigh Hammond chipped in 12. There were no first-round upsets for the Sea Otters this year, which fall into the consolation bracket with a second chance to come back through into the second-place game on Saturday. Olivia Turner See SEMIS, page A-9

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Parity should reign at Southcentral Conference tourney By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

The top-seeded Grace Christian boys have lost twice in Southcentral Conference play — once to No. 2 seed Anchorage Christian Schools and once to No. 4 seed Cordova. The top-seeded Nikiski girls have gone down four times in the league — twice to third-seeded Homer, once to fourth-seeded ACS and once to sixthseeded Houston. That should give some idea of the craziness that should ensue determining a champion once the Southcentral Conference tournament tips off today in Homer. And while picking the champion is tough enough, determining which three girls teams and three boys teams emerge with Class 3A state berths is even harder. “This will be a great tournament for the fans and the players,” Nikiski girls coach Scott Anderson said. “For the

coaches, it’s going to be a little stressful, but everyone else can enjoy it. “This would be the tournament to come watch if I was a fan.” Both the Nikiski and Grace Christian girls finished 6-4, but the Bulldogs swept the season series from the Grizzlies to win the tiebreaker for the top seed. That means Nikiski gets a firstround bye Thursday, resting up for the ACS-Seward winner. Anderson said there can be benefits to playing on the first day, but this year he said the better option is probably to rest on the first day. That’s because he doesn’t expect Cordova, the No. 7 seed, to be an easy game for Grace due to Cordova’s ability to keep games close with great shooting. “In a year like this, I think the bye is a bonus because every game will be so hotly contested,” Anderson said. The coach said the teams that do well will have the right mindset — fo-

Southcentral Conference tournament at Homer High School GIRLS Thursday’s games ACS (4) vs. Seward (5), 11:30 a.m. Grace (2) vs. Cordova (7), 3 p.m. Homer (3) vs. Houston (6), 6:30 p.m. BOYS Cordova (4) vs. Seward (5), 1:15 p.m. ACS (2) vs. Houston (7), 4:45 p.m. Homer (3) vs. Nikiski (6), 8:15 p.m.

cused and playing to win, not to lose. After returning just one full-time starter from last year’s state team, Anderson said that going into the season, he told his wife and assistant coach, Sari, that he was expecting a .500 team. With that returning starter, Rachel Thompson, having a great year, and all the players, especially Alison Litke and Chena Litzen, stepping up and filling big new roles, the Bulldogs have C

vastly outperformed the expectations of their coach. “We’ve exceeded what I thought they could do,” Anderson said. “They just have to go out and play, and let whatever happens happen. They shouldn’t put pressure on themselves.” And even though the tournament is in Homer, Anderson is expecting plenty of support for the Bulldogs. “I really appreciate the support the Nikiski community has shown us,” Anderson said. “I couldn’t be happier than coaching where I’m at. It’s an amazing place and I’ve been out there 24 years.” The third-seeded Homer girls start their tourney with a 6:30 p.m. tilt against No. 6 Houston today. Homer is 3-1 against the top two seeds Nikiski and Grace, yet has lost once to No. 4 ACS, once to No. 5 Seward and twice to No. 6 Houston. “Both times we’ve played them it’s been the third game on a third day,”

Homer girls coach Chad Felice said. “They shoot fairly well and they’re a physical team that wears us down a bit. “We’re excited we drew them on the first day. It’s a challenge for us and the girls.” Felice, who is expecting a boost from playing on Homer’s home floor, said defense, rebounding and a team approach to offense will be key for his squad. “We play best when we have five players within five points of each other,” he said. The Seward girls are a dangerous No. 5 seed and open with No. 4 ACS at 11:30 a.m. today. The Seahawks have a run of four straight state berths going, and the last two years have won twice on Saturday to book their trips to Anchorage. This year, that will be especially tough because Homer’s court is 10 See PARITY, page A-9

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led Seldovia with 11 points. CIA burst out in the second quarter with 15 points to secure a 24-7 lead at halftime, then held on for the win. Lumen Christi girls 27, Ninilchik 25 A late comeback by the Wolverines came up short as the host team escaped with a win to advance to a semifinal matchup today with the top-seeded Nikolaevsk girls. Lumen will face the Warriors at 1:30 p.m., while Ninilchik drops into a consolation matchup. Johanna Estes netted 11 points to lead Lumen Christi, while Melissa Ehlers topped Ninilchik with 10 points. Ninilchik trailed 16-4 at halftime, but came alive in the second half by outscoring Lumen 21-11. However, the rally came up shy of a win. Wednesday boys Sea Otters 68, Archangels 36 Seldovia Lumen Christi

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SELDOVIA (68) — Scribner 0 0-0 0, Ozyildirim 1 1-4 3, D. Waterbury 4 0-0 10, Collier 2 1-4 5, Haller 3 0-0 6, Philpot 7 0-0 17, O’Leary 10 3-5 23, Stanish 2 0-0 4. Totals — 29 5-13 68. LUMEN CHRISTI (36) — Malijan 2 1-2 5, Pepe-Phelps 0 0-0 0, Fertune 3 1-2 8, Macy 0 0-0 0, Chen 0 2-6 2, Brown 4 2-4 10, McDonald 5 0-0 11, Novcaski 0 0-0 0, Samuelson 0 0-0 0. Totals — 14 6-14 36. 3-point goals — Seldovia (D. Waterbury 2, Philpot 3); Lumen Christi 2 (Fertune, McDonald). Team fouls — Seldovia 15, Lumen Christi 11. Fouled out — none. Eagles 74, Kodiak ESS 35 CIA Kodiak

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feet longer than normal high school courts. “Once you get into that third-place bracket, it’s all about heart,” Seward girls coach Mark Clemens said. “Anytime you play at 8 a.m. or 9 a.m. — those games are a real bugger.” Of course, Clemens would prefer to make state through the winners’ bracket, and that starts with today’s game. Seward beat ACS twice this season, including in overtime last week. With the games expected to be so close, Clemens said every possession will matter. He is leaning on the experience of seniors Kiana Clemens, Maria Jackson and Jasmine Perea to make those possessions count. With those three playing solid, coach Clemens said the other five regulars will have a chance to step up and be the difference. The sixth-seeded Nikiski boys and third-seeded Homer boys will cap Thursday’s action with an 8:15 p.m. contest. Nikiski finished 2-10 in the league, with victories over No. 7 Houston. “We’ve been competitive in most of the games we’ve played,” Nikiski boys coach Reid Kornstad said. “We just haven’t been able to beat anybody else yet.” Kornstad said his team was in both games with Homer, but the Mariners pulled away at the end. He said Homer is tough to match up with because 6-foot-6 Sheldon Hutt is dangerous inside, while Jaruby Nelson and Kenneth Schneider are dangerous from outside. And if you forget about Filip Reutov, you will pay. Kornstad said Luke Johnson will have to do a good job on Hutt, and guards Hunter Holloway, Nathan Carstens, Cade Anderson, Sam Tauriainen and Brady Malston will have to keep order on the perimeter.

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recent weeks. “It’ll be pretty tough on us,” Tuter said. “We’ve gotta win on Thursday, and if we don’t, that’s it.” If the 1-9 Kardinals are to score an upset as the sixth seed, they will need to learn to finish strong, says coach Ken Felchle. “Offensively, down the stretch, we’ve got to make free throws, then turn around back to defense,” Felchle said. “We match up well with each other, so I think it’ll be a close game one way or the other. We figured we would be playing them even before our last game.” Kenai sophomore Josh Jackman flourished the most this year against the Stars, averaging 13 points in the two matchups, but one of the biggest heroes against SoHi last Saturday was junior Marshall Vest, whose tenacious defensive play in the second half resulted in Soldotna turnovers and transition buckets. “I asked Marshall if he had another game like that in him, and he said yes,” Felchle said.

However, Felchle added that if Kenai is to advance, the Kards will need all five players on the court competing at a high level, something they saw in the second half of the first game against SoHi. “We’ve got nothing to lose and few people expect us to win this weekend,” Felchle said. “It takes the pressure off of us.” Soldotna girls (4) vs. Kenai Central (5), 8:15 p.m. The Stars swept the Kards this year with scores of 34-23 in January and 40-35 last Saturday, but Kenai coach Stacia Rustad made it no secret that she is highly anticipating a rematch. “There are a couple changes we’ve made since Saturday, and all we can do is go out and play the best we can,” Rustad said. “The kids play hard every game, and I give them that.” Just like Rustad predicted at the start of the season, the Wasilla girls have returned as the top dog in the NLC, rolling to a 10-0 conference record. Colony, at 8-2, enters this weekend as the second seed. After two straight seasons of winless conference play, Kenai finally snapped the long drought with a 50-31 victory over Palmer in late January.

Rustad said the 2-8 Kardinals being able to finally break that NLC drought did a lot of good for the team. “We’re proud of ourselves, coach (Craig) Jung is proud of them, and we were pleased to get wins, it was a huge boost for us,” Rustad said. “But my kids expect more than what we’re able to obtain. There’s definitely a fire in them, we know we let games go that we shouldn’t have. It’s in the back of our minds.” Kenai swept Palmer in the pair of matchups they had with the Moose, and in division meetings with SoHi, Wasilla and Colony, the Kards were able to stay in games on the strength of a ferocious defense. In their 10 NLC games, the Kardinals had a points differential of minus-7.4 points per game. However, Rustad’s concern with Saturday’s game was the defensive play of Kenai. While scoring 35 points in the game was a high point, a low point was looking up at the board and seeing 40 points on the other side. “We had some defensive breakdowns we don’t typically have,” Rustad said. Some of that, according to Soldotna coach Kyle McFall, is

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due to the play of Haley Miller and Hayley Ramsell, a pair of seniors that combined for 39 points against Kenai in both games this year. “They’ve been patient, they’ve gotten good shots and haven’t tried to force anything,” McFall said. After senior Kelsey Jackson fell victim to injury after the holiday break, forcing her out for the remainder of the season, McFall had to come up with another lineup that would mesh well together. In Jackson’s absence, McFall said Wong has stepped up and added a third element in SoHi’s wheelhouse. “(Jackson) provided a huge spark off the bench, so we’re trying to adjust to that,” he said. “If those three are on their game, we can compete.” As host of the tournament, Rustad said both Kenai teams are prepared for 32 minutes of battle. “Every time Kenai and Soldotna play it’s going to be a hard-fought game,” she said. “Both the boys and girls put on a clean, hard-fought game that comes down to the wire, and as coaches, parent and athletes, that’s what we want to see.”

Scoreboard Basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Toronto 38 23 Brooklyn 25 34 Boston 24 35 Philadelphia 13 48 New York 12 48 Southeast Division x-Atlanta 48 12 Washington 34 27 Miami 27 33 Charlotte 26 33 Orlando 19 43 Central Division Chicago 38 23 Cleveland 39 24 Milwaukee 32 29 Indiana 26 34 Detroit 23 37

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Minnesota 13 47 .217 27½ Pacific Division Golden State 47 12 .797 — L.A. Clippers 40 22 .645 8½ Phoenix 32 30 .516 16½ Sacramento 21 38 .356 26 L.A. Lakers 16 44 .267 31½ x-clinched playoff spot Wednesday’s Games Phoenix 105, Orlando 100 Indiana 105, New York 82 Cleveland 120, Toronto 112 Boston 85, Utah 84 Charlotte 115, Brooklyn 91 New Orleans 88, Detroit 85 Oklahoma City 123, Philadelphia 118, OT Memphis 102, Houston 100 Denver 100, Minnesota 85 Miami 100, L.A. Lakers 94 San Antonio 112, Sacramento 85 Golden State 102, Milwaukee 93 Portland 98, L.A. Clippers 93, OT Thursday’s Games Oklahoma City at Chicago, 4 p.m. Dallas at Portland, 6:30 p.m. All Times AST

LUMEN (27) — Jones 1 1-3 3, Bakic 1 1-7 3, Estes 5 0-3 11, Kruger 2 2-4 6, Childs 1 0-0 2, Zitzow 0 2-2 2. Totals 10 6-19 27. NINILCHIK (25) — Delgado 1 0-2 2, Cooper 0 0-0 0, Sinclair 1 0-0 2, Goins 0 0-0 0, Ehlers 3 2-8 10, Finney 2 1-5 5, Me. Clark 2 1-2 6, Mi. Clark 0 0-0 0. Totals 9 4-17 25. 3-point goals — Lumen 1 (Estes); Ninilchik 3 (Ehlers 2, Me. Clark 1). Fouled out — none.

Southwest Division Memphis 43 17 Houston 41 20 Dallas 40 22 San Antonio 37 23 New Orleans 33 28 Northwest Division Portland 40 19 Oklahoma City 34 27 Utah 24 36 Denver 22 39

The Nikiski coach then views Sullivan Jackson and Javon Pamplin as tough matchups that could swing the outcome in Nikiski’s favor. Homer earned the third seed with an 8-4 record, losing twice to Grace and splitting with ACS and Cordova. This past week in Homer, the Mariners beat ACS by a point and lost to Grace by a point. With 10 seniors on the squad and with the tournament being in Homer, head coach Nate Creel said he feels things are breaking in his team’s favor. “With the home-court advantage, I believe my guys probably have a better shot to win it,” he said. “Our guys are excited and want to play hard, and want to come out on top in this tournament.” Seward, the No. 5 seed, opens with No. 4 seed Cordova at 1:15 p.m. The Seahawks

were 6-6 in the league, sweeping Nikiski and Houston, and splitting with ACS and Cordova. “They’ve got some very good pieces we don’t have such as height and athleticism,” Seward boys coach Curtis Berry said of the Wolverines. “But that’s what we’ll give up with anybody we play. “I’m feeling like we’re playing pretty well right now, and we’re peaking at the right time if there is such a thing.” Berry said the Seahawks overcome lack of height with tough, team defense. “Everybody is trying to do everything they can so we can go as far as we possibly can,” Berry said. “It’s not just one, two or three guys that are into it, everybody is into it. That bodes well.” The other boys game features No. 2 ACS against No. 7 Houston.

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Men’s Scores EAST Duquesne 81, Fordham 66 Miami 67, Pittsburgh 63 Ohio St. 77, Penn St. 67 Providence 79, Seton Hall 66 Richmond 56, UMass 53

Saint Joseph’s 55, La Salle 50 SOUTH Duke 94, Wake Forest 51 Notre Dame 71, Louisville 59 Tennessee 78, LSU 63 Vanderbilt 66, Mississippi St. 56 MIDWEST Illinois 69, Nebraska 57 Michigan St. 72, Purdue 66 St. John’s 67, Marquette 51 SOUTHWEST Cincinnati 56, Tulsa 47 Oklahoma St. 82, TCU 70 FAR WEST Boise St. 68, San Jose St. 51 Colorado St. 78, Nevada 62 Fresno St. 68, Air Force 66 Oregon 65, Oregon St. 62 San Diego St. 60, UNLV 58 UCLA 85, Southern Cal 74 TOURNAMENT America East Conference First Round Albany (NY) 83, Maine 66 New Hampshire 67, Hartford 63, OT Stony Brook 62, Binghamton 57 Vermont 66, UMBC 39 Big South Conference First Round Gardner-Webb 72, Campbell 64 Longwood 65, Presbyterian 61 UNC Asheville 80, Liberty 70

Northeast Conference Quarterfinals Bryant 91, Sacred Heart 85, 2OT Robert Morris 91, Wagner 68 St. Francis (NY) 79, LIU Brooklyn 70 St. Francis (Pa.) 73, Mount St. Mary’s 58 Ohio Valley Conference First Round E. Illinois 78, SIU-Edwardsville 66 Morehead St. 79, SE Missouri 74

Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L Montreal 64 41 18 Tampa Bay 65 39 20 Detroit 62 36 15 Boston 62 31 22 Florida 64 28 23 Ottawa 62 28 23 Toronto 64 26 33 Buffalo 64 19 40 Metropolitan Division N.Y. Rangers 63 39 17 N.Y. Islanders 65 41 21 Pittsburgh 63 36 18 Washington 65 35 20 Philadelphia 64 27 25 New Jersey 64 27 27 Columbus 63 26 33

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give the state other options. House Speaker Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski, responded by introducing legislation that would limit the role of a statebacked corporation in helping to develop the alternate gas line Walker had proposed. Walker held a press conference promising to veto that bill if it made it to his desk. Persily said the back-andforth between the governor’s office and the Legislature could potentially harm the project’s viability. “Right now, it’s just a distraction,” Persily said. “The financers and investors in a project like this, they look for proven gas reserves, they look for a cost-competitive project, they look for no environmental hurdles and they look for political stability. Alaska’s governor and legislators need to figure this one out pretty quickly before it escalates.” The borough appropriated $67,500 for Persily’s position, though Navarre said that amount would likely not be spent before the next fiscal year begins. The position is expected to cost the borough about $161,800 a year, according to a Dec. 23 memo to the borough assembly.

Finance Committee Co-Chairman, according to his arcticgas. gov bio. Persily said the borough has a significant stake in the Alaska LNG project and part of his role will be to make sure the borough’s interests are communicated to project coordinators. “Pipeline construction is very temporary — lay the pipe, cover the hole in the ground and move on,” Persily said. “The project’s impact in the Kenai Peninsula borough will be more lasting in terms of jobs, in terms of rerouting the highway, its effect on schools and health care. It has a much bigger impact on the Kenai borough than any other jurisdiction on the whole route.” Despite recent bickering between Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and members of the state Legislature the project is progressing, Persily said. In an opinion piece published in late February, Walker said he is concerned about the effects on the state if the Alaska LNG project falters, so he proposed Reach Rashah McChesney increasing the size of a smaller, at rashah.mcchesney@peninin-state gas project that would sulaclarion.com.

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did not get the flexibility that their governors had wanted in expanding coverage. Davidson told reporters later that it’s hard to have sympathy for a state that didn’t negotiate well with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. One concern raised by some Republican legislators has been what happens if the federal government’s match rate falls below 90 percent, the lowest level to which it is supposed to fall for the newly eligible expansion population. Davidson said the state has told the federal government it will not participate in expansion if the contribution falls below 90 per-

cent. Asked if there were any strings attached to that, such as having to find another way to provide coverage to people who fell within the expansion population, she said no. Walker made expansion a priority, but he has butted heads with members of the House, who have called for him to introduce a bill of his own dealing with expansion rather than deal with it as a budget item. The House Finance Committee has stripped items related to expansion from its draft of the operating budget. Walker spokeswoman Grace Jang has said the administration is working with the Senate. She said Walker is planning town-hall meetings to tout the benefits of expansion and rally support as lawmakers consider it.

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of it will have to do with the state’s economic situation.” As Alaska’s non-profits have seen a $460 million decrease in government grant money between 2007 and 2013, the combined earned revenue has grown by $740 million in that same time frame, according to statistics provided by The For-

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to fund the school district to the cap. “The school district is not the only pressure on the borough this year with the (low) price of oil,” Gilman said. Hohl said she considers a

aker Group. “Non-profits have learned how to make money,” McMillian said. Despite the decrease in number of non-profits, they still continue to be a major boon for the state’s economy. On the Kenai Peninsula, McMillian said between 18-19 percent of the workforce is in the non-profit sector. Nationally, he said the average is 10 percent. Statewide, more than 39,000

people are employed by nonprofits. The organizations have combined revenue of $6.5 billion, according to information a slideshow presented by McMillian. “That’s 13.5 percent of the state’s gross domestic product,” he said. “It’s huge. Very few industries can say they have that much of an impact on the economy.” McMillian said that after non-profits hire lawyers and accountants and join banks, they

are indirectly responsible for 63,000 in-state jobs. It is a common misconception is that people who work for non-profits aren’t capable of working in the private sector, he said. “There are a lot of people who don’t care about money,” he said. “They care about community, and that’s what the non-profit sector is.”

sales tax on grocery items regressive. “Normally I wouldn’t support a tax like this,” Hohl said. “I feel desperate about finding school funding.” School board member Dan Castimore said his concern is that boosting the borough’s revenues does not guarantee an increase in funding for the school district. It could potentially

alienate members of the public, who chose to vote down the option for the borough to collect the sales tax in 2008, he said. “It is not our place to support an ordinance that is in direct disagreement with voters,” Castimore said. School board president Joe Arness said supporting the ordinance would do more harm than good to public perception.

School board member Liz Downing agreed with Hohl that funding education should be the school board’s top priority. “We have to find a way to fund education or it will kill us,” Downing said.

Around Alaska Lawmakers discuss new marijuana board JUNEAU — Lawmakers discussed Wednesday who would sit on a new marijuana board and what it might cost the state, during a first hearing on a bill that would create a new regulatory body. Gov. Bill Walker introduced companion bills in the House and Senate to create a five-member marijuana board that would share staff and resources with the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. It was discussed Wednesday in the House Labor and Commerce Committee. The board would include a member each from the public safety and health sectors; one from a rural area; one or two from the marijuana industry; and one or two from the general public. State commerce department liaison Micaela Fowler said that for now, the industry members would likely be people who helped pass the intiative or lobby on behalf of a new commercial marijuana industry. They will not be people from the illegal marijuana industry, Fowler said. The costs associated with the board are estimated at $1.6 million for the upcoming fiscal year. Cynthia Franklin, executive director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, said that ultimately her agency wants six new staff members focused on marijuana. Two would be hired this fiscal year if a supplemental budget request is approved, and four more would be hired in the next fiscal year, Franklin said. The agency currently has 10 employees who deal with licensing and enforcement for alcohol. The budget also includes $500,000 for a database project so that marijuana could be tracked from legal cultivation to retail sales. Franklin said that is, in part, to ensure that black-market

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pot doesn’t enter the legal market.

Lawmaker wants to limit seine vessel length JUNEAU — A Ketchikan lawmaker is proposing that no seine vessels longer than 58 feet can fish in state salmon fisheries. Rep. Dan Ortiz said the bill he introduced Wednesday would protect fishing and processing opportunities for Alaskans by limiting the size of boats seining for salmon. The bill would remove language from state law that enables the Board of Fisheries to allow longer vessels. Ortiz said the bill was not intended to limit the board, but responded to a community concern. Ortiz said the larger boats take more of the catch, which can limit opportunities for fishermen with smaller boats, and that a longer seiner might process on board, taking jobs out of coastal communities. The board is expected to consider a proposal addressing seine lengths in March.

Alaska receives AAA bond ratings JUNEAU — Alaska has received AAA bond ratings from three agencies for general obligation debt, welcomed by Gov. Bill Walker as “excellent” news. Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services and Fitch Ratings each gave Alaska a stable outlook, citing large state reserves. Moody’s Investors Service, meanwhile, had a negative outlook. Moody’s said while the state has benefited from high oil prices in recent years, prices well below previous expectations could lead the state to substantially reduce its financial reserves, eroding a key support to its highest-level rating. — The Associated Press C

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What’s Happening First Thursday n The Peninsula Art Guild will host the First Thursday Artists Reception for the March 2015 Biennial Judged Exhibit, 6-8 p.m., today at the Kenai Fine Arts Center, 816 Cook Avenue, Old Town Kenai across from the Oilers Bingo Hall. Call 283-7040, noon-5 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday for more information. n There will be a First Thursday Art Evening with Artist Chelline Larson at the Kobuk Kaladi Coffee Shop from 4-6:00 p.m. today. Fabric Media. Refreshments will be served.

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n Kenai Performers, in collaboration with Vergine’s Dance Studio, will present “Chassé into Spring,” a fashion show done in dance on March 8 at 1:00 p.m. at Curtain Call Consignment in Kenai. Food and drinks will be provided. Tickets are $12 and are available at Curtain Call Consignment on Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Seating is limited, so please purchase tickets in advance. For more information call Mary at 907-398-2931. n Peninsula Artists in Motion, Maura’s Cafe, and Triumvirate Theatre present P.A.M. Unplugged, two shows, one day only, March 21 at Triumvirate North, just north of Kenai on the Kenai Spur Highway. The matinee at 5:00 p.m. is open to all ages and is $8.00/ticket. The 8 p.m. evening show will feature desserts and wine/beer and is for ages 21 and over. Evening tickets are $30/each. Tickets are available online at www.triumviratetheatre.org. n The Rarefied Light photography exhibition is on display in the Gary Freeburg Gallery at Kenai Peninsula College’s Kenai River Campus. n An art show sponsored by Friends of the Soldotna Library is hanging in the Soldotna Library with the theme of “Alaskan Landscape.” The art will be on display through April 6. Please stop by and drink in the richness of the art. If anyone is interested in purchasing any of the art pieces, the Friends receive a 20 percent commission which is used for library program support. The librarians have contact information for the artists. The next art show will hang from April 8-June 1 and the theme is Wildflowers. A Call to Artists is open through March 26, 2015 for Wildflower original art. Artists can pick up submittal forms at the Soldotna Library in the entryway on the Friends bulletin board or on the website: http://www.soldotnalibraryfriends.org. n Kenai River Council on the Arts and The Peninsula Art Guild are inviting artists to apply for month long Exhibitions in Calendar Years 2016 and 2017 at the Kenai Fine Arts Center in Old Town Kenai. Artists applying for solo, shared or group shows, please provide the following: — Up to 12 labeled images (digital, slide, and or print) representative of recent work, with 3-D artists providing additional views of art works as needed. — A separate image sheet, including title of piece, media, dimensions and when the piece was made. — A proposal for your show (could include floor plan if needed). If you have a theme you are aiming for, this would be the place for that. — A one-page Artist Statement. Submit entries by mailing to: Peninsula a Art Guild/Kenai River Arts Council, P.O. Box 703, Kenai, AK 99611; by email to ourkfac@ gmail.com; or drop off at the Kenai Fine Arts Center, 816 Cook Avenue, Old Town Kenai. n The Seldovia Arts Council is still looking for music artists to apply for the Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival being held M June 19-22. There is still time to apply until March 31. View more K information about the festival and download the application form at www.seldoviaartscouncil.net under application for 2015 Festival. Forms can be made to Seldovia Arts Council, POB 257, Seldovia, AK 999663. Visit “Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival” on Facebook.

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In this July 2, 2013 file photo, audience members dance through a haze of bubbles during The Big Wu’s show at Salmonstock in Ninilchik, Alaska.

Fish, Love, and Music

Festival returns with new identity By IAN FOLEY Peninsula Clarion

This summer, a familiar music festival will be held on the Kenai Peninsula, but with a few minor changes. Salmonfest, the reincarnation of Salmonstock, will be held July 31Aug. 2 at the Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds in Ninilchik. The event is a celebration of fish, love and music. The festival’s name change is a result of new partnership. While the Renewable Resources Foundation presented Salmonstock in previous years, Salmonfest is associated with the Kachemak Bay Conservation Society. Despite the name change, the family-friendly festival will share similar causes with its predecessor. “Salmonfest will carry on the vision of protecting Alaskan salmon and its habitat throughout the state,” according to a press release from the event’s organizers. Salmonfest also has another key remnant of Salmonstock - its organizers. “The important thing is Salmonfest is being produced by the same festival producers as Salmonstock,” said Jeffrey Abel, the festival’s assistant producer. “It’s the same high

quality show that was put on in the past.” The festival’s organizers are confident that attendees, which are expected to reach nearly seven thousand, will be pleased with the quality of music this year. “We’re really excited,” said Jim Stearns, the festival’s producer. “We’re expecting the strongest lineup we’ve ever had.” This year, 13-time Grammy Award winning artist Emmylou Harris will perform with Rodney Crowell to headline the event. Other acts include Moonalice, The Dirty River Ramblers and The Motet. Stearns said more big acts would be announced in the coming weeks. Stearns said that typically around 50 acts perform during the weekend, including nearly a dozen national acts. He said that each year, bigger acts want to play the festival and are prepared to travel all the way to Alaska to perform. “They’re willing to roll the dice,” Stearns said. “We have a proven track record, and they trust us and know we’ll put on a great show.” Stearns said one of the biggest challenges of having a successful Clarion file photo event, is trying to accommodate all In this July 2, 2013 photo, Salmonstock music festival See LOVE, page B-2 attendees enjoy many bands in Ninilchik, Alaska.

Dave Barry shares keys to happiness Bookworm Sez

And yet, sometimes Barry wonders if he’s really happy, in the way he was when he was “young and carefree and basically an idiot.” He envies his daughter for the fun she has, just like he envies his Greatest Generation parents for the fun they made years ago. David Beckham, though: Barry envies him because he’s “considered to be the hottest man on Earth by essentially every woman on Earth…” Including Barry’s wife, who’s a soccer writer for a major newspaper. Not that he’s bitter about it… Maybe happiness comes with a driver’s license. Barry’s daughter is awfully excited about that, even though “there isn’t anybody that the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles doesn’t think can drive a car.” If it was left up to Barry, at any rate, Sophie would drive a 1961 Plymouth Valiant sta-

Why are fluorescent lights Hung from the ceiling? Where they offer new heights In out-of-place meaning.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. The Declaration of Independence says those are things you get just for living here. But did you ever notice that the third one takes some work? You have to pursue happiness, but how can you chase something so ethereal? Dave Barry has some ideas for you. And in his new book “Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer is Much Faster)” (c.2015, Putnam, $26.95, 225 pages), you’ll catch them. Contrary to popular belief, money can buy happiness. The truth, says Barry, is that you “need a really large quantity of it.” And if you don’t have money, “you’re going to have to face the harsh truth: You need more beer.”

If heat rises and cold drops By clear laws of nature. Why are mountaintops Such a treeless, white feature?

‘Nightcrawler’ is certainly going to stick with one

Facets & Faucets of Cool English By Brent Johnson, Clam Gulch If it is morning that has broken Why is it the fire that needs fixed? Or are these words, often spoken, Merely metaphors mixed? If it was night that visibly fell Why is it I who must get up? My bed has me under its spell And I wince as it ends so abrupt.

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If “All Dogs Go to Heaven” As the movie predicts, Why is sweet Cerberus Still standing by Styx?

R eeling It In

Leave no turning undone To view perspectives right. Revealing how earth, not the sun Causes every night. Words can mean what they don’t say And writers twist them, too. Sometimes, just for play That’s what they like to do. Poems must include the writer’s name, phone number and address. They should be kept to no more than 300 words. Submission of a poem does not guarantee publication. Poems may be e-mailed to news@peninsulaclarion. com, faxed to 283-3299, delivered to the Clarion at 150 Trading Bay Road or mailed to P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, AK 99611.

C hris J enness “Nightcrawler” Bold Films 117 minutes Jake Gyllenhaal is one of those actors I find impressive, if not particularly appealing. He’s got a kind of weasily look that just never speaks “trustworthy” to me. In “Nightcrawler” 2014’s dark thriller about the underbelly of TV news, Gyllenhaal has AP Photo/Open Road Films, Chuck Zlotnick found his vehicle. His Leo Bloom is disIn this image released by Open Road Films, Jake Gyllenhaal, left, and Riz Ahmed turbingly, intensely untrustworthy. He is, See REEL, page B-2 appear in a scene from the film, “Nightcrawler.” C

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Sony plans to launch virtual-reality headset in 2016 By DERRIK J. LANG AP Entertainment Writer

SAN FRANCISCO — Sony plans on putting its virtual-reality headset on consumers’ noggins next year. The gaming and electronics company announced Tuesday at the Game Developers Conference that its VR system nicknamed Project Morpheus will debut in the first half of 2016. Sony Corp. originally unveiled a prototype of the headset at last year’s gathering of video game developers. The headset works in tandem with Sony’s PlayStation 4 console and camera by covering users’ vision and simulating virtual worlds on screen. Sony flaunted an updated version of the VR headset prototype at Tuesday’s event. While it largely resembles the prototype introduced last year, the new version redistributes

‘Our goal with VR is to deliver a sense of presence, making the player feel as though they’ve stepped inside the world of a game. The new Project Morpheus prototype brings us closer to that goal, as it improves the visual experience and tracking accuracy, both of which are critical to achieving sense of presence.’ — Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios weight toward the back of the user’s head and features a screen that can slide back and forth to accommodate eyeglasses. The new prototype also features a larger 5.7-inch OLED screen that displays nearly a 100-degree field of view and is capable of rendering imagery at up to 120 frames per second.

There are nine LED lights on the headset’s exterior that are to track movement. No price was announced. “Our goal with VR is to deliver a sense of presence, making the player feel as though they’ve stepped inside the world of a game,” said Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Stu-

dios. “The new Project Morpheus prototype brings us closer to that goal, as it improves the visual experience and tracking accuracy, both of which are critical to achieving sense of presence.” The company showed off the new prototype at Tuesday’s event with four technical demonstrations, including a game that utilized a pair of PlayStation Move controllers to simulate a shootout inside a lavish building in London and a more passive presentation that featured tiny robots responding to users’ movements. Sony is among several gaming and electronics companies working to bring VR into homes. HTC and Valve announced plans Sunday to release its Vive VR system to consumers later this year, while Oculus VR has yet to reveal when its Oculus Rift headset will be available to consumers.

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eryone who wants to be there, whether it is their first time singing or they sang at The Met. The choir will rehearse every Tuesday night from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Kenai Central High School choir room. Call or email for more details: 907-283-2125 or simjnissen@gmail.com. n A bluegrass jam takes place on the first Sunday of the month at from 1-4 p.m. at the Mount Redoubt Baptist Church on South Lovers Loop in Nikiski. n The Flats Bistro on Kalifornsky Beach Road has live music with Garrett Mayer on Tuesdays from 6:30-8:30 p.m. and Raymond MachenGray on Mondays from 6:30-8:30 p.m. n Veronica’s Cafe in old town Kenai has open mic from 6:30-9 p.m. Friday, and live music Saturday at 6:30 p.m. n An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday. The jam is at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thursday of the month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the month. Jam starts at 6:30 p.m. n AMVETS Post 4 is open to all military veterans and their families for support and camaraderie. Join us for Friday night tacos, or Saturday night steaks with Karaoke. Sunday afternoon its super hamburgers. Not a member? Stop by and we can show you how to become a part of this special veteran’s organization. AMVETS is located in the Red Diamond Center next door to IDEA Schools. n Sharpen your dart skills with a fun tournament every Sunday during the season at the AmVets in the Red Diamond Center. The number of players will determine the game. Sign up begins at 1 p.m. For more information call 262-3540. n Odie’s Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. n The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays and live music Fridays, Saturdays at 10 p.m. n Hooligans Saloon in Soldotna has poker Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 p.m. and live music Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. n The Duck Inn on Kalifornsky Beach Road has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and DJ Arisen on Saturdays. n Mykel’s in Soldotna has live music Thursdays from 6-9 p.m. with Robb Justice, and Fridays and Saturdays from 6:30-9:30 p.m. with Bob Ramponi and Dave Unruh. n The Duck Inn will have live music from 7 to 10 p.m. every Wednesday with Robb Justice and Trio. n The Pinochle Club, formerly from Kasilof, plays at Hooligans Bar & Restaurant in Soldotna Saturdays at 12:30 p.m. Questions? Call Jay Vienup at 907-252-6397.

the new people that want to participate, whether bands or vendors. He said that he receives hundreds of applications from bands wanting to play the festival. “The more successful you get, the more everyone wants to participate,” Stearns said. The event’s organizers are pleased a music festival on the Kenai Peninsula is proving to be successful. “It’s such a great internal satisfaction that people enjoy the show,” Abel said. “To make such a great thing that people enjoy - it’s a lot of hard work, but it pays off.”

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In this June 10, 2014 photo, Jordan Saleh tries Sony’s Project Morpheus virtual reality headset at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, in Los Angeles. Sony unveiled a new prototype of its Project Morpheus virtual reality headset Tuesday, March 3, 2015, and announced plans to release it to consumers in early 2016.

Tickets are currently on sale at www.salmonfest. org Clarion file photo Reach Ian Foley at Ian.foley@peninsulaclarion. In this August 2, 2014 file photo, Samson Henneous, 13, watches a band durcom ing the second day of the Salmonstock music festival in Ninilchik, Alaska.

Markets, fairs and bazaars n The Nikiski Senior Center at 50810 Island Lake Road will hold their spring bazaar on March 27 and 28 (Friday and Saturday). Call the Nikiski Senior Center at 776-7654 and ask for Loretta. n Nikiski Community Recreation Center Spring Craft Fair is April 18, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Call 776-8800. n The Sterling Community Center Spring Craft & Vendor Fair is April 25 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Call the Center at 262-7224 or email sterlingcommunityclub@live.com for more information. n Central Peninsula Community Bazaar will host a Spring is in the Air bazaar on March 14th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. More than 20 vendors; Artists and Crafts, small business, home based business and more.

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

Down the Road n The Pratt Museum in Homer is open Tuesday-Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. For more information and a schedule of events, visit www. prattmuseum.org. Salmonstock music festival attendees leave their mark in the sand in Ninilchik, Alaska. Submissions may be emailed to news@peninsulaclarion.com. The deadline is 5 p.m. Mondays.

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tion wagon for awhile. But seriously (if that’s possible here), our parents had much more fun than we’re having, maybe because “They were just not as into worrying as we are today.” In Brazil, they know what happiness is, whether their soccer team wins or not (preferably not “not”). Russians are people just like us — they love their families, they want nice things, they hate referees — and they certainly seem happy. On the other hand, happiness is not found on TV or through the American Dream, and it’s definitely not found in DIY stores. Maybe happiness is found with family, past and present, near and far. “If not, there’s always beer.” Take a hike around any bookstore, and you’ll see that the Self-Help section is pretty

good-sized. It can be difficult to know which book will make the most impact on your life, so why not make it easy for yourself? Just grab “Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer is Much Faster)” and call it even. I’m kidding: this book will be found in the humor section. Still, the point is that author Dave Barry will make you happy laughing at his rants and hilarious (but spot-on) observations about, well, just about everything from high school nerdiness to Vladimir Putin. Nothing’s safe from his gentle pokes – and that includes your heart, at the end of this book. That’s typical, vintage, perfect Barry and fans are going to love it. If that’s you, then “Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer is Much Faster” is a book to pursue.

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in fact, odious, but Gyllenhaal manages to make him completely compelling. “Nightcrawler” is one of those films you can’t take your eyes off of. Bloom is an manic presence - driven to succeed, but with a twitchy danger behind his rapid-fire “how to succeed” patter. When we first meet him, our hero is using his disarming smile and non-threatening selfdeprecation in the service of petty, sometimes violent theft. After witnessing a disturbing car wreck and the vulture-like freelance cameramen who film the police response, Bloom has a brainstorm. Not particularly creative, but far more driven than most, he pawns a stolen bike for some camera equipment and a police scanner and goes immediately to work. On The Bookworm is Terri his first call, Bloom dives right Schlichenmeyer. Email her at in, filming a shooting victim, inches from the bloody body, bookwormsez@yahoo.com. C

flagrantly disregarding the rule to stay back 100 feet. When an officer angrily chases him away, Bloom acts chastised, but the key to this character is a complete lack of humanity. Leo Bloom is a true sociopath. When he barges right into a late night television studio offering tape for sale, Bloom finds a true fellow in the form of Nina, a third-shift news director hungry for anything to capture the viewer’s attention. In describing the kind of content she was looking for, Nina tells Leo, “Picture our newscast as woman running down the street with her throat cut.” Leo Bloom is a character with big ideas, big dreams, and no patience. He takes his enterprise to the next level almost immediately by hiring a desperate homeless young man as an “intern,” to operate a second camera and to drive to the locations. Really what he wants is an acolyte. But Rick, played excellently by relative newcomer Riz Ahmed, is exactly what Leo is not. He has a con-

science, and while not exactly above reproach ethically, Rick is our representative, becoming increasingly alarmed at the spiraling path Bloom is taking him on, as the jobs go from mere filming to actually manipulating events. I had heard “Nightcrawler” was good when it was initially released last fall, but I hadn’t guessed just how sharply written, and how darkly engaging it was. Gyllenhaal gives the performance of his career, no question. I don’t know whether to call Leo Bloom an anti-hero or a villain, but the character is instantly iconic. Ahmed, as well, does a marvelous job in his role as Bloom’s reluctant accomplice. Rene Russo, as Nina, is quite good playing a character who only thinks she’s in control. The scene where Bloom informs her otherwise is chilling. Showing up in a small role is Bill Paxton, the competitor “nightcrawler” who unwittingly sets Bloom on his path. As good as the acting is, the writing is top-notch.

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Bloom’s rapid-fire dialogue is exquisitely written and paced. Writer and first-time director Dan Gilroy knocks it out of the park, expertly intermixing shadow and over-bright lights to depict Los Angeles in the wee hours of the night. “Nightcrawler” was up for only one Oscar nomination, and it’s a shame because it’s one of the best films I saw from 2014. Of the major awards, only the American Film Institute honored it with a top prize, which is, perhaps, appropriate. The AFI, in theory, honors film of importance and real merit, looking at the long-term impact a movie has. “Nightcrawler” is certainly going to stick with me for a while, and I predict audiences will be rediscovering it for years to come. Grade: A “Nightcrawler” is rated R for pervasive language and bloody violence. Chris Jenness is a freelance graphic designer, artist and movie buff who lives in Nikiski.

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REQUEST FOR BIDS HOMER ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION, INC. LINE EXTENSION CLEARING NORTH UNIT PRICED Homer Electric Association, Inc. (HEA) is seeking bids from qualified contractors to provide clearing and grubbing services on an 'as needed' basis in support of HEA's distribution line extension projects. Bids will be unit priced, based on the length of ROW to be cleared or cleared and grubbed. Services will be rendered within HEA right-of-ways on both public and private property. HEA will not be responsible for any costs incurred while developing a bid. Services to be provided will be within HEA's northern district, extending from Ninilchik AK to Captain Cook and east of Sterling AK. To qualify, responders must as a minimum be licensed in the State of Alaska as a General Contractor, and provide certification of insurance as follows: • General (Public) Liability Insurance - $2,000.00 • Auto Liability Insurance - $1,000,000 • Workers' Compensation/Employers' Liability Insurance To obtain a bid package contact Marti McCleery at (907) 235-3332 or by email: mmccleery@homerelectric.com Deadline for receipt of bids will be 3:00 p.m. Tuesday 24 March 2015 PUBLISH: 3/2, 5, 8, 13 2015

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI In the Matter of the Estate of JAMES MICHAEL DALY ) ) )

Deceased. Case No. 3KN-15-00016

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the undersigned Personal Representative of the estate, at DOLIFKA & ASSOCIATES, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, P.O. Box 498, Soldotna, Alaska, 99669. DATED this 16th day February, 2015 PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE PATRICK DAY DALY PUBLISH: 2/19, 26, 3/5, 2015

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Unclassified Excavation 3,950 C.Y. Subbase Grading A 2,742 C.Y. Asphalt Concrete Type III, Class B 376 Ton 6 Inch Class 52 DIP Water Main 936 L.F. StormDrainPipe 454L.F. Curb&Gutter 1,798 L.F. A non- mandatory pre-bid conference will be held at the City Hall, Soldotna, AK on March 19, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. Attendance at the pre-bid is not required. This contract is subject to the provision of State of Alaska, Title 36, Minimum Wage Rates. The subsequent contract will require certificates of insurance and may require performance and payment bonds. One (1) complete set of the bid package is to be submitted to the City of Soldotna at 177 North Birch Street, Soldotna, Alaska 99669. These forms must be enclosed in a sealed envelope with the bidder's name on the outside and clearly marked: BID: North Aspen Drive Improvements SOLB 15-04 DUE DATE: March 31, 2015 at 3:00 P.M The project documents may be obtained from the City of Soldotna beginning March 5 2015 for a non-refundable fee of $30.00 (without tax). An additional non-refundable fee of $5.00 will be required if mailing is requested. Project documents may be downloaded from the City of Soldotna web site at www.ci.soldotna.ak.us site. It is not required to be on the planholders list to bid on City of Soldotna projects. To receive project addendums, you must be on the planholders list. To be placed on the planholders list, please contact Suzanne Lagasse either by phone (714-1241) or email: publicworks@ci.soldotna.ak.us Downloading projects from the City web site does not automacally put you on the plan holders list PUBLISH: 3/5, 8, 10, 2015

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DEAR ABBY: My letter is in response to “A Mom in Connecticut” (Dec. 27), who feels she is being “fitted in” because her daughter calls her only while driving in her car.

My daughter calls me almost every morning on her way to work. She calls me her “commute buddy.” It gives us 10 to 15 minutes to catch up, vent about “stuff” on both ends of the phone, or just chat. I can tell when she arrives at work or very nearly, and we always end with “Love you.” I love our conversations and the fact that although she has an extremely busy sched- Abigail Van Buren ule she finds the time to chat with me. She uses her handsfree phone, so I don’t worry too much about her being distracted. — SHEILA IN PRESCOTT, ARIZ. DEAR SHEILA: You may not be worried about your daughter using a hands-free phone, but others have a different view. Read on: DEAR ABBY: Drivers on cellphones — even hands-free — are four times more likely to crash and hurt themselves or someone else within five minutes of making a call. Texters are 23 times more likely to crash. More than 3,000 people are killed this way each year and 300,000 to 500,000 are injured.

The daughter should not be using a phone at all while driving. How do I know the statistics? My son was killed by a driver on a cellphone. — GARY IN KENOSHA, WIS. DEAR GARY: Please accept my condolences for the tragic loss of your son. You are generous to have written. Too often people take the privilege of driving for granted, forgetting that if they don’t concentrate fully on driving, they place themselves and those around them in danger. I see this happen often, and I’m afraid that unless the consequences are draconian, it will continue. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. For everything you need to know about wedding planning, order “How to Have a Lovely Wedding.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Wedding Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)

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tivity bubbling up around you. Juggling the different forces in your life might be dependent on a partner’s goodwill, sense of humor and suggestions. Tonight: Invite a friend over for munchies. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You could be in a situation where you need to look at your alternatives. Pressure builds around communication as you attempt to deal with a changeable situation. Double-check meeting times and places. Misunderstandings are likely. Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Tension surrounds your finances. It would be wise not to make any decisions in this highly pressured moment. You could feel as if a dayto-day matter has been blown out of proportion. Be one of the few who decides to remain nonreactive. Tonight: Think “weekend.” VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHHYou are a key figure in today’s Full Moon. You might want to handle a creative endeavor or a new relationship with care. Be aware of how little you know about the situation. Stay open-minded, and avoid making snap judgments. Tonight: Let others act out. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HH You might look around and wonder what is going on. Lie low, and try to steer clear of controlling people. Your sense of humor emerges when you walk into a similar situation with someone you consider to be profoundly logical. Tonight: Get as much sleep as need be. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Keep your eye on the big pic-

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ture, even if you don’t agree with what is going on. You would be well-advised to keep your opinions to yourself for now. When things calm down, then you might be in the position to have this discussion. Tonight: Where all your friends are. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Listen to a higher-up, as you aren’t likely to be able to avoid him or her. You might want to rethink your decisions involving this person. You have a lot going on around you that you’ll need to gain a different perspective on. Tonight: Try to juggle different people’s needs. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You’ll be taken aback by news that heads your way. You might need to make a call or clarify information. There could be some facts that are missing. Be sensitive and listen well. Adjust your plans accordingly. Tonight: Meet a friend at a preferred hangout. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH Be aware of how much you can give to someone else. This person might be subtle about asking for what he or she wants. Be bold and clarify. You’ll need to keep communication open. You don’t need to agree to anything right now, even if you feel pressured. Tonight: Your treat. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Before people and situations demand your attention, ask yourself how you feel. If you feel tired or pressured, that could explain your recent lack of patience. Try not to get too wound up in today’s Full Moon tales. Tonight: Start the weekend now.

Prevent poisonings Dear Readers: Sunday, March 15, 2015, is the beginning of National Poison Prevention Week. Read this and you may help save the life of someone you love! Although we should always be aware of and diligent about keeping homes, garages and workshops safe, things can happen! This is especially true if children (younger and older ones) are part of your household. Or, if they may visit once in a while. Grandparents, are you listening? Kids are curious and can get into trouble in seconds. It’s vital to have all medications, household cleaners, laundry detergents and other POISONOUS products out of the reach of children, put away and marked as dangerous. Take a minute to read just a few safety hints from the American Association of Poison Control Centers (www.aapcc.org) and me — right now, not later! * Always keep poisonous products in the original, child-resistant packaging. * Don’t take medications in front of young children or refer to meds as “candy.” * Aspirin and many over-the-counter medications can be harmful to young children, so take note. If you suspect a child has ingested something poisonous: * Act immediately. Do not induce vomiting. Call 911 or the Poison Control Center: 800-222-1222. Each is open 24 hours a day, every day. * Know the age and weight of the child, and the name of the medicine or product you suspect was swallowed. * The Poison Control Center will help and guide you about what and what not to do. * Call, call, call! Don’t wait a second, they have heard it all. If you even think a child has ingested something that may or may not be harmful, dial that phone number! — Heloise P.S.: This service is FREE and confidential.

SUDOKU

By Tom Wilson

By Dave Green

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

1 5 9 3 4 2 7 6 8

4 7 8 1 9 6 2 5 3

2 3 6 8 7 5 1 4 9

7 2 1 5 3 4 8 9 6

3 9 4 2 6 8 5 1 7

6 8 5 7 1 9 4 3 2

8 1 7 9 5 3 6 2 4

9 4 2 6 8 1 3 7 5

Difficulty Level

5 6 3 4 2 7 9 8 1

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

A baby born today has a Sun in Pisces and a Moon in Virgo. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, March 5, 2015: This year you are open to many fast changes. Others sometimes express frustration at your tendency to go back and forth with some issues. Use your sixth sense to determine what stance you should take. If you are single, you are likely to meet someone important to your life sometime after mid-August. Make sure this person accepts you as you are. If you are attached, you often might be on the other side of an issue from your significant other. Accept and embrace your different views. Remain spontaneous, and the romance will continue to blossom. VIRGO can be quite picky. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH You’ll have a lot of ground to cover with new, unexpected items popping up. You easily could spread yourself too thin. You might need to pay extra attention to a boss or loved one who dominates your daily life. Tonight: Stay in the neighborhood. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH You know how to deal with a loved one who seems intent on stirring up some controversy. However, understand that this type of behavior could resurface. Friends surround you with advice. Tonight: Express your caring in your own terms. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Stay close to home. There could be an unusual amount of ac-

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Garfield

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Tundra

Shoe

6 8

3 1

7 1

Difficulty Level

6 4 9

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DEAR ABBY: A family member, “Bill,” likes to come visit in the afternoons and, because he’s not comfortable driving in the dark, he always plans to stay overnight. When he does, he wakes up very early, often before 6 a.m. Bill tries to be as quiet as possible, but we know when he is up. Our dog hears someone moving around and thinks it’s time to go out and eat. My husband or I will get up to take care of our dog, but at that point, it seems rude to go back to bed. My husband likes to go back to sleep, but I feel I should get up and entertain our guest. Is it bad manners to go back to sleep even though it is still very early? — TO SLEEP, OR NOT TO SLEEP DEAR T.S. or N.T.S.: If you need your sleep, go back to bed. The right amount of sleep is important, and not getting it can ruin one’s entire day. If you’re concerned about Bill not having a good breakfast, before going to bed, put the coffeemaker on “automatic” and show him where the cereal is kept. That’s not being a bad hostess, and I’m sure Bill will be just fine.

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