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In the news Man dies while water-skipping over opening in ice NOME — A western Alaska man died after attempting to skip his snowmobile over open water.

Alaska State Troopers say 27-year-old Travis Fagerstrom of Golovin died Sunday night in water outside the coast village.

Troopers say Fagerstrom, accompanied by friends, had been using his snowmobile to water skip across a 30-foot opening in ice when he fell through.

Searchers responded to the area by boat.

They found his body with drag hooks at noon Monday and pulled it from the water.

Golovin is on the Seward Peninsula about 70 miles east of Nome.

The village is on Golovin Bay, which opens to Norton Sound.

Grand jury indicts Anchorage man in 2018 child’s death ANCHORAGE — A 32-year-old Anchorage man has been indicted in the death of a child in his care 11 months ago.

Anchorage police say Richard Vickery was indicted on counts of second-degree murder, manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

Police on June 12 took a call of a child choking at an east Anchorage home. Responding officers administered CPR to the 6-year-old boy until medics arrived.

The boy was transported to a hospital, where he died two days later.

Homicide detectives investigated and determined the cause of death to be suspicious.

An Anchorage grand jury indicted Vickery on Friday. He turned himself in to police on Monday.

His attorney, Wallace Tetlow, did not immediately respond to a phone message left before office hours Wednesday.

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School district contract negotiations stalled Spring Creek inmates riot over early cell check

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

School district employees rejected contract proposals from the Kenai Peninsula Borough District Wednesday evening, following an all-day contract negotiation.

“We rejected proposals because they don’t meet our needs for the rising cost of health care,” David Brighton, president of the Kenai Peninsula Education Association, said.

Brighton said he felt that progress toward an agreement was made.

Pegge Erkeneff, communications liaison for the district, said there will be another bargaining session at 10 a.m. on Monday.

For the last year, contract negotiations between the school district and two employee associations, Kenai Peninsula Education Association and Kenai Peninsula Support Association, which represent non-tenured teach-

By Brian Mazurek Peninsula Clarion

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District administration, members from the Kenai Peninsula Education Association and the Kenai Peninsula Education Support Association meet at a collective bargaining session to continue contract negotiations for employees who have been without contracts for a year, on Wednesday, in Soldotna.

(Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

ers and support personnel, have snagged on the rising cost of health care.

A previous agreement effective through June 2018 remains in use for the employ-

ees without contracts.

After months of negotiations, district and employee associations could not come to an agreement, so in February, an arbitrator held a hear-

ing to help guide contract negotiations.

At the Wednesday meeting, the school district offered a proposal for each employee See STALL, page A2

House panel votes Barr in contempt

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress, escalating the Democrats’ extraordinary legal battle with the Trump administration over access to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia report.

The vote capped a day of ever-deepening dispute between congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump, who for the first time invoked the principle of executive privilege, claiming the right to block lawmakers

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler, DN.Y., moves ahead with a vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Committee Chairman Jerfrom the full report on Mueller’s probe of Russian inter- rold Nadler of New York deference to help Trump in the clared the action by Trump’s Justice Department a clear 2016 election.

new sign of the president’s “blanket defiance” of Congress’ constitutional rights to conduct oversight.

“We did not relish doing this, but we have no choice,” Nadler said after the vote.

The White House’s blockade, he said, “is an attack on the ability of the American people to know what the executive branch is doing.” He said, “This cannot be.”

But Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said it was disappointing that members of Congress “have chosen to engage in such inappropriate political theatrics.”

Barr made “extraordinary efforts” to provide Congress and the public with informaSee BARR, page A3

Officers at Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward have regained control after 62 prisoners barricaded entry to their housing unit and began destroying property, according to a press release from the Alaska Department of Corrections.

Prisoners initially barricaded the Hotel Mod housing unit at 9 p.m. on Tuesday night, and correctional officers immediately locked down the facility.

After accounting for the well-being of all staff and prisoners, Special Operations Response Teams from Kenai and Anchorage were deployed to the scene and arrived at around 3 a.m.

Superintendent Shannon McCloud from Wildwood Correctional Facility in Kenai said on Wednesday that nine correctional officers from Wildwood were sent as part of the response team and have since returned to Kenai.

“They were trained for these kinds of incidents and knew what to do and how to handle the situation,” McCloud said.

The inmates were protesting an early cell inspection. They damaged fire suppressant systems, plumbing, computer lines and glass, corrections officials said.

“Officials at the prison estimate the damage at roughly $100,000,” Corrections Department spokeswoman Sarah Gallagher said in an email response to questions.

See RIOT, page A3

Soldotna advocate fights for Alzheimer’s awareness

By Brian Mazurek Peninsula Clarion

A local Soldotna resident was honored as Advocate of the Year by the National Alzheimer’s Association during their annual forum last month in Washington, D.C. The annual forum brings together thousands of advocates from around the country to celebrate their activism in local communities. This year Cindy Harris of Soldotna was declared Advocate of the Year for her pivotal role in putting Alaska on the map when it comes to Alzheimer’s advocacy.

Cindy Harris has spent

Cindy Harris, right, receives the Advocate of the Year Award from the Alzheimer’s Association during its annual forum in Washington, D.C. on April 1. (Photo courtesy of Cindy Harris)

more than four years as a volunteer advocate with the Alzheimer’s Association.

Even before that she was no stranger to Alzheimer’s and the impact that it has

House passes bill, partially repeals SB 91

By Alex McCarthy Juneau Empire

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The Alaska House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal and replace parts of Senate Bill 91, the controversial criminal justice legislation that some have pointed to as gasoline on the fire of the state’s current crime wave.

The House Judiciary

Committee, chaired by Rep. Matt Claman, DAnchorage, presented the bill basically as a compromise of many of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposed criminal justice bills. Rep. Tammie Wilson, R-North Pole, said on the House floor Wednesday that the bill increases sentencing ranges for many felony charges, imposes further protec-

tions regarding solicitation of minors and cracks down harder on drug dealers.

At the same time, provisions in it are aimed to help people get back on their feet after struggling with substance abuse or being in prison.

Claman, Rep. Tammie Wilson, R-North Pole, and other members of the See SB 91, page A3

on families and loved ones.

Harris lost her mom to Alzheimer’s in 2014, and her aunts all suffered from the disease as well.

“It’s been in my family since before it had a name,” Harris said. “So I’m trying to find a cure before it gets to me.”

The death of Harris’ mom would end up being the catalyst for her activism in fighting the disease.

What Harris quickly realized, however, was that she had to start from the ground up. Before Harris reached out to the Alzheimer’s Association in 2014, Alaska did not have much of a presence in the organization, she said. During her

first year of volunteering, Harris organized the first local event for The Longest Day, which is a worldwide fundraising initiative from the Alzheimer’s Association that takes place every year on the summer solstice.

The first year consisted of Harris and a couple other volunteers grilling hot dogs and handing out informational packets at Soldotna Creek Park. A year later, Harris got in touch with the organizers of the annual Golf Fore a Cure tournament that takes place at Birch Ridge golf course, and the two events have been combined ever See FIGHT, page A2

Alaska Senate passes “skinny” capital budget JUNEAU (AP) — The Alaska Senate has passed what a key lawmaker calls a skinny capital budget that largely leverages federal dollars for infrastructure and water projects.

The total package, which includes some supplemental spending items for the current budget year, totals about $1.4 billion.

The vast majority of that is federal money.

The measure includes about $70 million for de-

ferred maintenance, $3 million for current-year costs due to nursing shortages within the Department of Corrections and $2.5 million for a south Denali visitor center.

It also allows the Alaska Gasline Development Authority to accept up to $25 million in third-party funds for ongoing work on a federal review of that project.

The bill passed unanimously and next goes to the House.

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association, based on recommendations from the arbitrator’s report, released April 26.

“The district proposal accepts the recommendations in the arbitrator’s report,” Erkeneff said in a Wednesday press release.

The rising cost of health care has been a key sticking point in the negotiations.

The arbitrator’s report offered few suggestions for resolving the stalemate on health care costs but acknowledged the funding challenges facing the district as well as the evidence brought forth by the associations regarding health care employee cost share.

The report found that “evidence is irrefutable that it is costing KPBSD more to provide health care coverage, and that employees experience

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since. Karen Berger, a fellow advocate who handles the fundraising for the golf tournament, said that Harris was actually her hairdresser before convincing her to join the organization.

Berger said Harris reached out to her after the first Longest Day and by the next year Berger had hopped on board.

“We’re all very proud of Cindy. She earned that award,” Berger said. “She’s been knocking on senators’ doors and doing the legwork for years.”

Within a couple of years, the Alzheimer’s Association asked Harris to be Alaska’s ambassador to Congress.

Typically each senator and representative is assigned an individual ambassador by the organization who keeps in contact with the legislators and lobbies them on Alzheimer’s-related funding and legislation. In Harris’ case, she became the ambassador to all three of

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higher costs than virtually all of the other comparable districts,” which include districts in Anchorage, Mat-Su and Fairbanks.

Employee association negotiators said during Wednesday’s meeting that they wanted to reduce employees’ share of health care costs.

Since 2017, the district has provided employees with two options for health care benefits, which include a high deductible plan and a traditional plan. Employees pay 10% of the costs for the high deductible plan, and 15% of the costs for the traditional plan, according to the report.

One proposal put forward by employee association negotiators during collective bargaining was to incorporate wellness incentives into a health care plan.

The arbitrator’s report mentions that there are studies showing plans that incentivize efforts to reduce obesity rates, to educate people on the causes of high blood pressure

and benefits of good nutrition and encourage more active lifestyles could reduce health care costs.

District negotiators said they would consider the concept of such a plan, but wanted more time to look into the potential cost savings.

Cost savings were also high on the district’s priority list at the Wednesday meeting.

The district has been spending more of their fund balance in recent years, and during the negotiations, district administration expressed concerns over continued budget uncertainties, at the state and borough level.

According to the arbitrator report’s conclusions, however, the district’s “uncertainty about state funding, while understandable is not a sufficient reason to withhold consideration of the increases and proposed changes sought by the associations.”

“Every district in the state has the same uncertainty, yet others have been able to determine that they can settle

their contracts, and in certain instances to agree to wage increases,” the report said.”

The report’s conclusions also ask that the borough assembly and Mayor Charlie Pierce are made aware of the district’s fund balance allocations made over the last five years.

Despite budget concerns, the district accepted the association’s original proposal for salary increases, which were also recommended by the arbitrator in their report.

For both employee associations, the arbitrator’s report recommends settling FY19, FY20 and FY21 bargaining with salary schedule increases in the amounts of .5% in FY19, 1% in FY20 and 2% in FY21.

The report also recommends the shift differential for those working swing shifts be increased to 40 cents per hour, and to 60 cents for employees working the graveyard shift.

Bargaining will continue at 10 a.m. Monday. Location is yet to be determined.

Alaska’s members of Congress: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Sen. Dan Sullivan and Rep. Don Young.

“When they first asked me to be the ambassador I knew nothing about politics other than my own opinion,” Harris said. Harris’ advocacy has since led Alaska’s members of Congress to sponsor or co-sponsor several pieces of Alzheimer’s legislation, including the BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Act, the HOPE for Alzheimer’s Act and the Younger Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Act. Harris has since brought on two other Alaska ambassadors to work with her and now deals directly with Murkowski, whom Harris called a “champion” for the cause. The current ambassador to Sullivan, Molly Pelligrom, was not surprised to hear that Harris had been named Advocate of the Year.

“If it wasn’t for her, Alaska would not have progressed as far as it has,” Pelligrom said. “She’s really been putting herself out there. We’re really proud of her.”

Murkowski spoke with Harris on April 2 after Harris was named Advocate of the Year and applauded her for her efforts.

“We’ve got a long ways to go,” Murkowski said in a media appearence last month. “There’s a lot of people out there that need people like (Cindy) wearing a purple sash and raising the flag.”

Alaska is still currently the only state that does not have an official chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, but Harris intends to change that. Harris said she has been working with the Washington and Oregon chapters to create an Alaska chapter that will likely be based in Anchorage. In the meantime, her focus has shifted to raising awareness about younger onset Alzheimer’s.

“People think that it’s an old person’s disease, but we have a person that was showing symptoms at 27, diagnosed at 33, and passed at 34,” Harris said. “So I’m trying to fight that misconception.”

Harris said that more

than 200,000 people under the age of 65 have Alzheimer’s. One step to making those people’s lives easier is giving them access to support programs such as Meals on Wheels, which is currently only available to Americans over the age of 60. The Younger-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Act is Harris’s current pet project, as it would expand the support programs offered by the 1965 Older American’s Act to anyone diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, regardless of age. The act has already received bipartisan support and has been co-sponsored

by Murkowski in the Senate.

Harris has no intention of slowing down or stopping in her Alzheimer’s advocacy, and aside from pushing legislation in Congress she is gearing up for the fifth annual Longest Day Golf Tournament, which will take place this year on June 21. “(Alzheimer’s) takes more people than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined,” Harris said.

“If you have a brain, you should be concerned.”

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Around the Peninsula Cook Inlet Aquaculture Assoc. meeting Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association Board of Directors will meet Saturday, May 18 at 10 a.m., in the conference room at its Kenai office located at 40610 Kalifornsky Beach Road. The meeting is open to the public and an agenda will be posted at www.ciaanet.org.

Alaska Food Hub The Alaska Food Hub returns Friday, May 10 for the 2019 season in Soldotna! The Alaska Food Hub is an online farmers market offering 100% locally harvested veggies, fruits, seafood, oysters, meats, honey, flowers and more. Order online every week Friday-Monday at alaskafoodhub.org. Weekly pickup on Wednesdays at the Cook Inletkeeper office in Soldotna, 35911 Kenai Spur Hwy, Suite 13. Products change with the season, so check back regularly. For more information visit www.alaskafoodhub.org.

Caregiving and Depression Caregiver Support Meeting Topic: Caregiving and Depression will take place Tuesday, May 14 at 1 p.m. at the Soldotna Senior Center. During Mental Health Month, we will discuss how caregiving puts you at risk for depression.

Please join us to share your experiences as a caregiver, or to support someone who is a caregiver. For more information, call Sharon or Judy at 907-262-1280.

Fireweed Fiber Guild monthly meeting The public is invited to attend the Fireweed Fiber Guild monthly meeting at the Soldotna Public Library. There will be demonstrations for spinning and spindling. There are many activities planned for this Summer and DON’T forget this Autumn’s FiberFest’, which the Fireweed Fiber Guild is sponsoring.

Mother’s Day Lunch The Nikiski Senior Center is having a Mother’s Day Lunch on Friday, May 10 from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Ladies Eat Free.

Free Picnic at the Food Bank Join us for the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank Spring Festival and Fundraiser on Friday, May 31 from noon to 7 p.m. This is a community event for all ages and an opportunity for us to thank you, our neighbors, for your support. There will be a free barbecue/picnic, games, music, cake walks and bucket raffles. There will be prizes for the kids and even a clown making balloon animals. A no host beer/wine garden will be from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. and if you donate a food item you will be entered the drawing for a special prize.

est Drive, Kenai. Everyone is welcome. Bring any materials, curriculum, toys, games that you wish to share with other home-school families. Or stop by to browse the selection of donated items. All items are free. Contact Karen at karen@ acsalaska.net or 907-205-0663.

reading theater performance. After teams have presented to reviewers we will have a closing ceremony and high-five line for all mentees who participated in the program will receive a certificate. Food and drinks will be available. The event is free to the public. Come out for a night of fun as we celebrate STEM Club achievements and the 50th anniversary of the Local Food Connection meeting moon landing. For more information contact Dan or Kim at The Kenai Local Food Connection’s next Meeting is 283-2682.

Thursday, May 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the Soldotna Community Library. We are working for food security in Alaska which is Kenai River Special Management Area good for our health and our economy.

Advisory Board meeting The Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory 2019 TriTheKenai Triathlon Board will meet on Thursday, May 9 at 5:30 p.m. at the GilThe 2019 TriTheKenai triathlon is set for Sunday, June 9. man River Center on Funny River Road, Soldotna. Agenda This event is a great beginner triathlon for adults (15+) and topics include committee and agency reports. The public is youth (6-14) and includes both individual and team events welcome to attend. If you have any questions about the meetand for the serious-minded triathlete. We offer the more chal- ing you can contact Jack Blackwell at 907-262-5581, Ext 21. lenging intermediate distance event. The nonprofit TriTheKenai is a great family fun community event and this year our The Kenai Totem Tracers Society meeting charity of choice is the Soldotna Montessori Food Box program. If you are not a racer, we are always in need of volun- The Kenai Totem Tracers Genealogical Society will meet in teers on race day. Contact Janice at volunteer@trithekenai. the Kenai Community Library on Saturday, May 11 from com. Get all the event details or register at www.trithekenai. 1-3 p.m. This month’s program will be a compilation of com or email me at wahoo@trithekenai.com or call 252- genealogy topics, along with hand-outs on various subjects.

The meeting is free and open to the public. This is will be 0558. our last Totem Tracers monthly meeting before taking a Hazardous Waste Collection Day summer break. The Totem Tracers would also like to remind Hazardous Waste Collection Day will take place Saturday, the community that an Introduction to Basic Genealogy May 11 from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Central Peninsula Land- Methodology class will be taught on four consecutive fill, Mile 98.5 Sterling Hwy, Soldotna. Free to households; Saturdays starting June 8. It will be held for a few hours businesses charged a fee. For specific questions contact NRC each Saturday. Pre-registration is required and can be done Alaska 877-375-5040. General questions: Kenai Peninsula at the Kenai Library front desk or call the library and ask Borough Solid Waste Dept. 907-262-9667. This event is for them to put your name on the list. Meeting place is the households and small businesses. All businesses and house- Kenai library. The class is free, is limited to 20 attendees, holds with 55 gallons or more total must pre-register with and open to the public.

NRC Alaska, who manages this event. The Kenai Peninsula Special Olympics Annual Torch Run Borough Solid Waste Dept. provides the location.

Come support Special Olympics of Alaska athletes in Kenai Peninsula Woodturner’s meeting Central Peninsula by participating in the 2019 Alaska EnThe Kenai Peninsula Woodturner’s hold their monthly forcement Torch Run and Pledge Drive Saturday, May 18 at meeting at 1 p.m. this Saturday, May 11. Location is the log 10 a.m. starting at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. building, Mile 100 on the Sterling Highway, just a few miles Registration begins at 9 a.m., and the run starts at 10 a.m., south of Soldotna where Echo Lake Road meets the highway. followed by a barbeque for participants. Course length is a There will be a woodturning demonstration. Non-members 5K (3.2 miles) and can be completed by walking, running, are welcome. Questions? Call 801-543-9122. wagon, stroller, and more. All are welcome, family friendly!

See you on the 18th!

Boys and Girls Club LEGO STEM Expo

Join us for our 3rd annual FIRST LEGO League Jr. Challenge EXPO Thursday, May 16 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Kenai Clubhouse at 405 Frontage Road. This season’s challenge is Mission Moon. 12 teams and 48 STEM Club members (ages 6-10) from Kenai, Kasilof and Soldotna clubhouses have explored what kinds of problems they would need to solve if they lived on the moon. Each team has a motorized LEGO moon base model on display and designed 5th Annual Homeschool Swap and Share a solution to one of the challenge problems. We will have 5th Annual Homeschool Swap and Share will take place an art show on display, and various activities from a LEGO Tuesday and Wednesday, May 21-22 from 10 a.m. to 4 build challenge, make a rocket ship craft, face painting and a p.m. at Star of the Northern Lutheran Church, 216 N. For-

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“Those offenders involved have been placed in a more restrictive housing environment,” Gallagher said. “No charges have been filed at this time as DOC is still conducting the investigation.”

The maximum security Spring Creek Correctional Center can house 500 prisoners. The facility has a decentralized campus design, with three “houses” that are separated from the administration complex by a recreation field, according to the department.

Non-lethal force was used by the correctional officers to gain compliance of the unit, and by 6 a.m. DOC had full containment of Hotel Mod. No injuries to staff or prisoners have been reported, and nurses and medical staff were on hand to assess injuries. Every inmate was cleared by medical and decontaminated.

Prisoners in the disturbance will face internal discipline, Gallagher said, and possibly additional crimiThe Associated Press nal prosecution as Alaska contributed to this report.

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White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said neither the White House nor Barr “will comply with Chairman Nadler’s unlawful and reckless demands.”

Late Wednesday the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee issued his own subpoena to the Justice Department for the full Mueller report, as the confrontation intensifies.

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, whose committee had previously requested the documents, said he has “no choice” but to compel the department’s compliance. He warned that if it continues to “ignore or rejects our requests,” the panel could take legal action.

Kupec declined to comment.

Though the White House initially hesitated on invoking privilege, Trump told his staff and political advisers in recent weeks to refuse to cooperate with Democrats, believing the party’s goal was simply to damage him politically going into his re-election campaign.

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Majority said they worked closely with the Dunleavy administration on this legislation, and they thanked the administration for being open to the tweaks and changes they made.

The bill now goes to the Senate, with less than a week left in the session. Rep Chuck Kopp, R-Anchorage, repeatedly said to reporters Wednesday that time is a major concern. Wilson said the Senate Finance Committee might start looking at the bill as soon as Thursday morning.

Proponents of SB 91, which was passed two years ago, have said there hasn’t yet been enough time since then to really see it taking its

Fishing Vessel Drill Conductor class

The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association (AMSEA) will offer a Fishing Vessel Drill Conductor class in Homer on May 25 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. The class will be conducted at the Best Western Bidarka Inn, 575 Sterling Highway. This class is free to commercial fishermen, thanks to support from the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community & Economic Development, the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health, and AMSEA members. The cost is $175 for all others. Interested mariners may register at www.amsea.org or call (907) 747-3287.

president’s power to keep information from the courts, Congress and the public to protect the confidentiality of the Oval Office decisionmaking process.

The president’s decision was weeks in the making, the next inevitable escalation between the White House and Congress over a number of probes. The White House has rejected all efforts to probe Trump’s business dealings or tax returns as well as the West Wing’s security clearance procedure.

The committee voted along party lines, 24-16, to recommend the full House hold Barr in contempt, but only after some five hours of heated and, at times, emotional testimony.

Democrats made their case that Congress was at a historic juncture as it confronts what they consider Trump’s stonewalling of lawmakers’ ability to conduct oversight of the administration. Republicans portrayed the majority as angry and lashing out at Barr after the special counsel did not find that Trump colluded with Russia to swing the 2016 election.

Said Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas: “The president now seeks to take a wrecking ball to the Constitution of the United States.”

And Rep. Cedric Richmond of Louisiana said the road ahead may be “messy” but Democrats must fight to “protect our democracy.” Oth-

er Democrats called the standoff a “serious” and “grave” moment.

However, the panel’s top Republican, Doug Collins of Georgia, said Democrats were manufacturing a crisis and rushing the process to “sully Bill Barr’s good name.”

Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, a Trump ally, said the Democrats were trying to “delegitimize” the president and biding time before they try to impeach him.

“Get over it,” Gaetz said.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said the next step will be consideration by the full House. Nadler said that will happen soon.

If approved by the House, where the Democrats hold a solid majority, the contempt resolution would almost certainly move to an unusual, and potentially protracted, multipronged court battle with the Trump administration.

The contempt finding could be referred to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, a Justice Department official who would be likely to defend rather than oppose Barr. Democratic House leaders could also file a lawsuit, though the case could take months or even years to resolve. Some committee members have suggested they also could fine Barr as he withholds information.

Nadler said Wednesday the Trump administration’s refusal to provide the special counsel’s full Russia report to

Congress presents a “constitutional crisis.”

In a letter Wednesday to Trump, Barr explained that the special counsel’s files contain millions of pages of classified and unclassified information. He said it was the committee’s “abrupt resort to a contempt vote” that “has not allowed sufficient time for you to consider fully whether to make a conclusive assertion of executive privilege.”

Barr told Trump he should assert privilege now, “pending a full decision on the matter.”

Talks with the Justice Department broke down over the committee’s subpoena for an unredacted version of the report.

Barr released a redacted version of Mueller’s 400-plus-page report to the public last month, but Democrats subpoenaed the full document, along with underlying evidence.

The department has rejected that demand, while allowing a few top lawmakers from the House and Senate to view a version with fewer redactions.

That version blacks out grand jury information, which needs a judge’s approval for release, and it doesn’t include the report’s underlying evidence.

Democrats have said they won’t view that version until they get broader access.

Almost half the report’s pages contain some type of redaction including those around the Russian influence campaign, presidential pardons and other topics.

full effect. Wilson acknowledged that they need more statistics to fully evaluate SB 91, but they knew that at least some parts of it were far too easy on those who have committed crimes.

“There’s compromises in this, because we still don’t have all the data necessary on the different programs that have been put in place, but at the same time, we knew changes needed to be done,” Wilson said.

For example, HB 46 broadens the scope of what can be classified as soliciting a minor, Claman said.

Possessing tools commonly used in car thefts would now also be a crime. Someone can also be charged with an additional felony if they are charged with a felony and miss a court appearance, Claman explained.

One key difference be-

tween the governor’s proposals and HB 46, Wilson said, was that this bill puts a particular focus on those struggling with substance use disorders. The bill’s “two strikes and you’re out” clause, as lawmakers called it, imposes a misdemeanor on a person’s first two drug offenses, but it ramps up to a felony on the third charge. With this increase, there’s an incentive to enter treatment and get better.

“It’s smart on time and tough on crime,” Claman said, “and that’s really what the public wants us to do.”

As indicated by the vote on the floor, there was far from unanimous approval of the bill. Some members of the House Minority condemned the Majority for pushing this bill too quickly and bringing up amendments at the last minute without enough time to prepare before the final

vote.

Kopp responded to those concerns afterward by saying he believed all the parts of the bill were mentioned at least at some point during the committee process.

Kopp also said the communication between the House and Senate leaders has been “unprecedented,” in large part because constituents are demanding solutions to the state’s crime problems, the fiscal situation and the future of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend.

“When you’re in desperate times, people come together,” Kopp said, “and that’s what you’re seeing, is people coming together in this legislative body to answer really hard questions.

I love to see it, because this Legislature is all in. People need to either be all in or get out, because times are too tough for being halfway right now.”

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UAA alum make a difference

Last weekend, more than 1,200 students graduated from the University of Alaska Anchorage. As they walked across the stage and toward their futures at Sunday’s commencement ceremony, I watched them join the ranks of more than 53,000 UAA alumni, most of whom live and work in the state. I am confident the class of 2019 will, like those who came before them, make a difference not only in Alaska’s economy, but also in its communities.

UAA alumni are leaders and business owners; they are our dental hygienists, nurses, journalists, police officers, K-12 superintendents, university professors, petroleum engineers, welders, diesel mechanics, pilots and earthquake engineers. They are also our neighbors, nonprofit board members, community council leaders, legislators, and friends. They are being recognized nationally and internationally. Recently, Samantha Mack was named UAA’s first-ever Rhodes Scholar, Eagle River teacher Valerie Baalerud won the Milken Educator Award, and alumna Megan Green received a Fulbright Scholarship.

Local employers recognize the value of UAA-educated graduates.

Companies like R&M Consultants, an Alaska-based consulting firm with a workforce comprised of 30% UAA

graduates, understand how important it is to provide by-Alaska, for-Alaska services. R&M employs nearly 100 people in Anchorage and Fairbanks to provide civil, structural, waterfront, and geotechnical engineering — UAA graduates’ depth of knowledge in engineering for cold weather is invaluable.

Nearly every industry in the state benefits from the students that walk across the UAA stage. The Anchorage School District, the State of Alaska, GCI, BP, ConocoPhillips, Southcentral Foundation, Providence Health and Services, Alaska Airlines, and, of course, UAA, are among the employers hiring the highest numbers of UAA graduates.

Here at UAA we work to recognize the successes and contributions of our alumni. Since 2010, UAA has honored nearly 30 Alumni of Distinction in our community. The Alumni of Distinction Awards recognize and celebrate those who have made important contributions in their communities and whose actions honor the legacy of excellence at UAA. Leaders like Sophie Minich, CIRI president and CEO, Tim Gravel, Kaladi Brothers Coffee CEO, Jennifer Thompson, Thompson & Co. PR president and CEO, Carol Comeau, former superintendent of the Anchorage School District, Roald Helgesen, CEO of the Alaska Native Tribal Consortium, and Ted Trueblood, a longtime Alaskan and civil engineer, are just a few of the many great individuals who have earned this prestigious award.

As it happens, nominations are now open for the 2019 UAA Alumni of Distinction Awards. Anyone in the community can nominate UAA alum-

smallpox, and they are well on their way to eradicating polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, hepatitis B and neonatal tetanus as well — diseases that are responsible for killing millions of people each year.

Putting that progress at risk because of a surge of misinformation, nearly as contagious as the diseases themselves, simply can’t be allowed. Which is why Oregon legislators are debating whether students should be excused from vaccinations due to their family’s beliefs.

HB 3063, if it becomes law, Oregon would effectively end religious and philosophical exemptions beginning August 2020, joining just a handful of states that only allow for medical exemptions.

Under the law, if parents choose to forgo any or all immunizations for nonmedical reasons, their children would be barred from public or private schools. Instead, the children could attend online courses or be homeschooled.

Critics of the bill, including Rep. Gary Leif, R-Roseburg, say the bill is an example of govern-

ment overreach and infringes on forgotten the anguish. Neither, individual freedoms. But unhowever, are good reasons to vaccinated individuals not only allow such insidious infections to endanger themselves, they pose return. a risk to entire communities.

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Those who reject vaccinations pose risk to whole community Seventy-five days and nearly $1

million later, the Oregon-Washington measles outbreak is over. But thanks to growing opposition to vaccinations, it’s unlikely to be the last.

The outbreak, which sickened 77 people, prompted a public health emergency declaration in Washington and prompted the Oregon Legislature to consider a bill that would eliminate all exemptions to vaccinations for school-age children, except for medical reasons. That’s because the re-emergence of the disease is scary.

Measles is highly contagious and spreads through the air, lingering for up to two hours in an enclosed area. In fact, it’s so contagious, nine out of 10 unvaccinated people who are exposed to the virus will contract it, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But thanks to a highly effective measles vaccine that was introduced in the 1960s and a strong vaccination program, the measles were officially wiped out in the U.S. by 2000. Before that time, an estimated 3 to 4 million people got measles each year, according to the CDC. But measles is much more than a fast-spreading disease — it’s dangerous.

There’s this understanding that even if you get measles, it isn’t a big deal. And fortunately, for most people, that’s true. But the problem with that philosophy is that for some, the disease is deadly.

“Three in 1,000 kids who get the measles will die,” said Allison Bartlett of the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital. “The odds are in your favor, but if everyone is vaccinated, 0 out of 1,000 kids will die.”

That’s the group of people who needs everyone to get vaccinated the most. Vaccines aren’t perfect, but they work much better when more people are immunized. The concept is called “herd immunity,” and it’s how modern science has been able to combat a number of dangerous diseases.

The concept works because once enough people are immunized, outbreaks become significantly less likely. Once a person is vaccinated, the possibility that the virus can spread to another person who is also immunized is greatly reduced, meaning the virus doesn’t have free reign to sweep through communities. If fewer people are immunized, outbreaks are more common and more people can get sick.

The greatest aspect of herd immunity is that it protects those who can’t get immunized, whether the person is too young to get a shot or is allergic to the vaccine.

Which is what’s most concerning about this recent outbreak. Because of a small, but a determined, group of parents who — incorrectly — believe vaccines cause autism and other medical issues, more people are choosing not to vaccinate their children.

The sudden distrust in longstanding science is happening nationwide, but it’s also happening in our own county. Just last year, Douglas County officials said they have seen an increase in the number of parents who have declined to vaccinate their kids.

“The number of kids that can’t get a vaccination because of medical reasons, has continued to drop and is now very, very low … less than one-in-athousand,” Douglas Public Health Network Director Bob Dannenhoffer told The News-Review last year. “All of the vaccinations that kids haven’t gotten (in Douglas County) have been from parental choice.”

Which seems to be the case up north, too. Of the people who were sickened in the Vancouver area, nearly all were under the age of 18 and completely unvaccinated, according to The Oregonian.

Maybe measles, for whatever reason, isn’t concerning enough (again, it should be) to convince that group or parents to vaccinate their children.

But vaccines are also credited with wiping out

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ni for these distinguished awards. Do you know someone who deserves to be recognized for the work they do in their community?

UAA also continues to grow and deepen our community connections through our honorary degree and meritorious service award program.

At commencement last weekend we recognized four community members for their significant and lasting contributions to the university and the state of Alaska — Bede Trantina, Sheila Toomay, Barbara Hood and Dr. Thomas Nighswander. These outstanding individuals join the growing and strong network of UAA alumni and friends who make a difference in our community and state everyday.

UAA’s commitment to and partnership with Anchorage and extended Southcentral communities is deep and permanent. As this new class enters the workforce, we are excited to see where they will end up, and how they will change their communities, and our state, for the better. A new generation of leaders is emerging and together our community and our university will grow. In a few years we might see some of the 2019 class back on campus for their own Alumni of Achievement awards.

I am proud to be part of an institution that produces so many of Alaska’s leaders and change-makers. If you know someone deserving of the Alumni of Achievement Award, contact the Office of Alumni Relations or visit www.uaa.alaska.edu to learn more about the nomination process.

Nominations are due by 5 p.m. on Monday, June 17.

Megan Olson is vice chancellor at University of Alaska Anchorage.

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Nation/World

UN chief: ‘total disaster’ if warming not stopped Slain teen charged attacker

in Colorado school shooting

By SETH BORENSTEIN and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations secretarygeneral said the world must dramatically change the way it fuels factories, vehicles and homes to limit future warming to a level scientists call nearly impossible.

That’s because the alternative “would mean a catastrophic situation for the whole world,” António Guterres told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview.

Guterres said he’s about to tour Pacific islands to see how climate change is devastating them as part of his renewed push to fight it. He is summoning world leaders to the U.N. in September to tell them “they need to do much more in order for us to be able to reverse the present trends and to defeat the climate change.”

That means, he said, the world has to change, not in small incremental ways but in big “transformative” ways, into a green economy with electric vehicles and “clean cities.”

Guterres said he will ask leaders to stop subsidizing fossil fuels. Burning coal, oil and gas triggers warming by releasing heat-trapping gases.

He said he wants countries to build no new coal power plants after 2020. He wants

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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is photographed during an interview at United Nations headquarters on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

them to put a price on the use of carbon. And ultimately he wants to make sure that by 2050 the world is no longer putting more greenhouse gases into the air than nature sucks out.

Global temperatures have already risen about 1.8 degrees since the industrial age began. The issue is how much more the thermometers will rise.

In 2015, the world’s nations set a goal to limit global warming to no more than 0.9 degrees from now. Most scientists say it is highly unlikely, if not outright undoable, to keep man-made climate

change that low, especially since emissions of heat trapping gases are rising, renewable energy growth is plateauing, and some countries’ leaders and voters are balking.

A panel of scientists the U.N. asked to look at the issue ran computer models for more than 500 future scenarios, and less than 2% achieved those warming limits.

Guterres said the wholesale economic changes needed to keep the temperature from rising another degree or more may be painful, but there will be more pain if the world fails.

“If you don’t hang on to that goal, what you’ll achieve

is a total disaster,” the secretarygeneral said in his 38th floor conference room.

If countries only do what they promised in the 2015 Paris climate agreement, it would be catastrophic because the world would warm by another 4.5 degrees, Guterres said, adding “that is why we need to dramatically accelerate… what everybody knows needs to be done.”

Yet, globally the trends are going the other way. University of Michigan environment dean Jonathan Overpeck said it looks unlikely that the world could prevent another 1.8 degrees of warming, let alone 0.9 degrees.

Claims from California wildfires top $12B

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Insurance claims have topped $12 billion for the November wildfires in California, making them the most expensive in state history.

The figure released Wednesday by Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara

covers the fire that largely destroyed the town of Paradise and two Southern California blazes. It’s up about $600 million from data released in January.

Most of the damages relate to the Paradise fire, which killed 85 people and destroyed nearly 19,000 buildings.

“While last year’s tragic wildfires turned thousands of

Today in History Today is Thursday, May 9, the 129th day of 2019. There are 236 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On May 9, 1980, 35 people were killed when a freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, causing a 1,400-foot section of the southbound span to collapse.

On this date: In 1712, the Carolina Colony was officially divided into two entities: North Carolina and South Carolina.

In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson, acting on a joint congressional resolution, signed a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. In 1926, Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett supposedly became the first men to fly over the North Pole. (However, U.S. scholars announced in 1996 that their examination of Byrd’s flight diary suggested he had turned back 150 miles short of his goal.)

In 1945, with World War II in Europe at an end, Soviet forces liberated Czechoslovakia from Nazi occupation. U.S. officials announced that a midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately.

In 1958, “Vertigo,” Alfred Hitchcock’s eerie thriller starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, premiered in San Francisco, the movie’s setting.

In 1961, in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton N. Minow decried the majority of television programming as a “vast wasteland.”

In 1962, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology succeeded in reflecting a laser beam off the surface of the moon.

In 1970, President Richard Nixon made a surprise and impromptu pre-dawn visit to the Lincoln Memorial, where he chatted with a group of protesters who’d been resting on the Memorial steps after protests against the Vietnam War and the Kent State shootings.

In 1994, South Africa’s newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country’s first black president.

In 2008, jury selection began in the Chicago trial of R&B superstar R. Kelly, accused of videotaping himself having sex with a girl as young as 13. (Kelly was later acquitted on all counts.)

In 2012, President Barack Obama declared his unequivocal support for same-sex marriage in a historic announcement that came three days after Vice President Joe Biden spoke in favor of such unions on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

In 2017, President Donald Trump abruptly fired FBI Director James Comey, ousting the nation’s top law enforcement official in the midst of an FBI investigation into whether Trump’s campaign had ties to Russia’s meddling in the election that sent him to the White House.

Ten years ago: The top religious adviser to Jordan’s king thanked visiting Pope Benedict XVI for expressing regret after a 2006 speech that many Muslims deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad. Pakistani warplanes pounded the Taliban-held Swat Valley in what the country’s prime minister called a “war of the country’s survival.”

Five years ago: Russian President Vladimir Putin made his first trip to Crimea since its annexation, calling it “historic justice” during a Victory Day display of military pomp and patriotism. A judge struck down Arkansas’ ban on same-sex marriage, saying the state had “no rational reason” for preventing gay couples from marrying.

One year ago: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in North Korea to finalize plans for a summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Three Americans who had spent more than a year in prison in North Korea were freed during his visit and left North Korea aboard Pompeo’s plane.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor-writer Alan Bennett is 85. Actressturned-politician Glenda Jackson is 83. Producer-director James L. Brooks is 82. Musician Sonny Curtis (Buddy Holly and the Crickets) is 82. Singer Tommy Roe is 77. Singer-musician Richie Furay (Buffalo Springfield and Poco) is 75. Actress Candice Bergen is 73.

Pop singer Clint Holmes is 73. Actor Anthony Higgins is 72. Singer Billy Joel is 70. Blues singer-musician Bob Margolin is 70. Rock singer-musician Tom Petersson (Cheap Trick) is 69. Actress Alley Mills is 68. Actress Amy Hill is 66. Actress Wendy Crewson is 63.

Actor John Corbett is 58. Singer Dave Gahan (GAHN) (Depeche Mode) is 57. Actress Sonja Sohn is 55. Rapper Ghostface Killah is 49. Country musician Mike Myerson (Heartland) is 48. Actor Chris Diamantopoulos (dy-uh-MAN’-toh-POO’-lehs) is 44. Rhythm-andblues singer Tamia (tuh-MEE’-ah) is 44. Rock musician Dan Regan (Reel Big Fish) is 42. Actor Daniel Franzese is 41. Rock singer Pierre Bouvier (Simple Plan) is 40. Actress Rosario Dawson is 40.

Rock singer Andrew W.K. is 40. Figure skater Angela Nikodinov is 39. Actress Rachel Boston is 37. TV personality Audrina Patridge is 34. Actress Grace Gummer is 33.

Thought for Today: “Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.” -- Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-born educator (1919-1990).

people’s lives upside down, insurance is helping to rebuild and recover,” Lara said in a news release during Wildfire Preparedness Week.

California experienced some of its deadliest and most destructive wildfires in its history in 2017 and 2018. A series of sweeping fires in late 2017 had been the most expensive, with claims topping

$11.8 billion.

The increasing destruction is making it harder and more costly for people to obtain homeowners insurance.

The insurance department has started collecting data on policy non-renewals to better assess patterns and locations where coverage is being dropped, Lara said earlier this year.

NYC closing Kushner landlord loophole

By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press

NEW YORK — New York City lawmakers voted Wednesday to close the “Kushner loophole” that critics say encourages landlords to file false paperwork with the city.

The rule approved by the City Council will require regulators to double-check that landlords are telling the truth in construction permits when they claim to have no specially protected tenants who pay low rates. Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to sign the new rule into law.

It follows an Associated Press report last year that found Jared Kushner’s family real estate company had falsely claimed it had no rent-regulated tenants in dozens of buildings

when, in fact, it had hundreds.

Kushner is President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser.

Critics say many landlords file false paperwork to avoid extra scrutiny that could stop them from using repairs and construction to drive out such tenants and replace them with ones who pay more.

The AP cited a study by the watchdog group Housing Rights Initiative that found New York City landlords filed paperwork falsely claiming they had no rent-regulated tenants more than 10,000 times in the 2 ½ years through June last year.

It also found that the Kushner Cos. filed false paperwork at least 80 times for 34 buildings over a three-year span when the company was run by Jared Kushner.

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — When a gunman burst into his high school classroom, Kendrick Castillo did not hesitate.

The 18-year-old immediately charged, pinning the attacker to the wall before Castillo was fatally shot protecting classmates, witnesses said. As he charged, so did two other students. One of them, Brendan Bialy, wrestled the gun from the shooter’s hand and the students subdued him.

A second shooter was captured by an armed security guard.

Authorities said these acts of bravery helped minimize the bloodshed from Tuesday’s attack, which also wounded eight people.

“We’re going to hear about very heroic things that have taken place at the school,” Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said Wednesday.

The attackers were identified by law enforcement officials as 18-year-old Devon Erickson and a 16-year-old who prosecutors identified as Maya McKinney but whose attorney said uses male pronouns and the name Alec.

The two allegedly walked into the STEM School Highlands Ranch through an entrance without metal detectors and opened fire in two classrooms.

Because the attack happened only miles from Columbine High School and just weeks after the shooting’s 20th anniversary, questions quickly arose about whether it was inspired by the 1999 massacre. But investigators offered no immediate motive.

Castillo sprang into action against the shooter “and immediately was on top of him with complete disregard for his own safety,” said Bialy, a close friend of Castillo’s who has signed up to join the Marines.

A member of the school’s robotics club and a relentless tinkerer, Castillo had an infectious smile and gentle sense of humor, according to friends. He worked part-time at a local manufacturing company that had offered him a job after an internship because he was such a standout employee.

“To find he went down as a hero, I’m not surprised. That’s exactly who Kendrick was,” said Rachel Short, president of the company, Baccara.

Cecilia Bedard, 19, had known Castillo since elementary school and said he was always friendly, modest and excited to help people. He made a point of always joining his father at Knights of Columbus fundraisers and bingo nights.

“He was amazing,” Bedard said. “He was honestly

the sweetest kid I ever met.

Never said a mean joke.”

Bialy smiled as he recounted the struggle with the shooter to reporters, saying that he wanted to focus on the positive. “They completely and utterly failed in a matter of half a minute,” he said of the attackers.

“What I saw yesterday was the absolute best of people,” he added.

Bialy would not identify the third student who helped subdue the gunman, but the family of Jason Jones put out a statement saying he was shot twice while disarming one of the attackers.

The security guard who detained the second armed suspect was employed by Boss High Level Protection, a company started by a former SWAT team leader who responded to the Columbine shooting. The owner, Grant Whitus, told The Associated Press the security guard is a former Marine who ran to the area of the shootings and confronted one of the armed students in a hallway.

The guard drew his weapon and apprehended the person, Whitus said.

“He doesn’t even realize how many lives he saved by stopping a school shooting,” Whitus said.

Both suspects were students at the school, and they were not previously known to authorities, Spurlock said.

Erickson made his first court appearance Wednesday and kept his head down.

His black hair, streaked with purple dye, covered his face as he nodded in response to most of District Court Judge Theresa Slade’s questions. At one point, the judge requested a verbal answer to whether he had any questions about the proceedings. Erickson simply replied “No.” McKinney, who has a short brown haircut, made eye contact with the judge and answered questions in a clear but quiet voice, saying “Yes, your honor” and “No, your honor.”

District attorney George Brauchler said he has not decided whether to file adult charges but added that McKinney is old enough to be charged as an adult without a judge’s review.

Formal charges were expected to be filed by Friday.

Brauchler said he could not discuss any motive or weapons used in the attack.

A message left at a phone number listed for Erickson’s home was not immediately returned.

Josh Dutton, 18, said he was close friends with Erickson in middle school but had not seen him for four years while attending a different high school. On Sunday, he spotted Erickson at a local light rail station and said he was shocked at how much his friend had changed.

Erickson wore all black and was significantly thinner and did not seem interested in talking.

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Warriors survive Durant scare to win Durant goes down with reported calf strain but Warriors beat Rockets to take 3-2 series lead

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer

OAKLAND, Calif. — Klay Thompson scored 27 points, including a key layup with 4.1 seconds left, and the Golden State Warriors overcame Kevin Durant’s calf injury to beat the Houston Rockets 104-99 on Wednesday night for a 3-2 lead in the Western Conference semifinals.

Durant strained his right calf late in the third quarter. The twotime reigning NBA Finals MVP limped to the locker room after landing awkwardly following a baseline jumper. He finished with 22 points, five rebounds and four assists.

James Harden scored 31 points for the Rockets, who will try to stave off elimination back home in

Houston on Friday night.

Durant’s status for Game 6 is unclear. After he departed with the injury, the rest of Golden State’s array of stars helped the Warriors close it out.

Draymond Green received his fourth technical of the postseason with 3:39 left, and then knocked down a 3-pointer on the other end.

Thompson followed Green’s 3 with one of his own to make it 9789 with 2:33 remaining.

Stephen Curry struggled with his shot yet again and finished with 25 points on 9-for-23 shooting. He went 3 of 11 from long range.

Curry hit a 3 with 5:09 to play that made it 89-85. He didn’t even score his first points of the night until a 3 4:22 before halftime.

Golden State nearly gave it

away with an awful third quarter, when the Warriors managed just 15 points and committed six turnovers. The game was tied at 72 going into the final 12 minutes.

Harden’s 3 with 3:07 left in the third trimmed Golden State’s lead to 66-62, and then Iman Shumpert made it a one-point game with a 3.

Eric Gordon’s layup with 40.6 seconds remaining gave the Rockets their first lead since the early minutes.

Green had eight points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists in another spectacular effort on both ends.

He supplied the energy for Golden State after two losses at Houston evened the series.

The Warriors led by as many as 20 but missed open looks and even layups, clanking shots off the front rim and allowing the tough-

minded Rockets to stay close.

BUCKS 116, CELTICS 91 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks found another gear after their first loss of the playoffs.

Kyrie Irving and the Boston Celtics just couldn’t keep up.

Antetokounmpo had 20 points, eight rebounds and eight assists, and the Bucks routed the Celtics 116-91 on Wednesday night to advance to the Eastern Conference final.

After sweeping Detroit in the first round, top-seeded Milwaukee struggled in Game 1 against Boston and lost 112-90 in one of its worst offensive performances of the season. But Antetokounmpo led the way as the Bucks respond-

ed with four straight wins by a combined 65 points.

“I think our mindset changed,” Antetokounmpo said. “In the first game, we weren’t focused enough. We weren’t ourselves.

The next four games, we came out with a different approach, a different mindset.”

The Bucks used a balanced attack to close out the Celtics in Game 5, placing seven players in double figures. Khris Middleton had 19 points and eight rebounds, and Eric Bledsoe finished with 18 points.

Next up for the Bucks is the winner of the Philadelphia-Toronto series. The Raptors are up 3-2 heading into Game 6 on Thursday night.

It’s the first Eastern Conference final for Milwaukee since 2001.

Snakes win in 13 over Rays ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Wilmer Flores snapped a 13th-inning tie with an RBI single, helping the Arizona Diamondbacks end a three-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday.

Eduardo Escobar made up for a crucial throwing error, leading off the 13th with a single off Adam Kolarek (2-1) — Arizona’s first hit since the fifth inning. He moved to second on a double-play grounder before scoring on Flores’ two-out broken-bat hit to right field off Chaz Roe. Archie Bradley (2-3) pitched three scoreless innings to get the win. Zack Godley, the eighth Diamondbacks pitcher, worked a perfect 13th for his first career save.

Arizona pitchers combined to set a franchise record with 23 strikeouts.

CUBS 3, MARLINS 2, 11 INNINGS CHICAGO (AP) — Jason Heyward homered leading off the 11th inning to lift surging Chicago over Miami in Addison Russell’s return to the majors following a 40-game ban for violating MLB’s domestic violence policy.

Heyward lined a 1-2 pitch from Jose Quijada (0-1) into the basket in left field, helping Chicago hang on after blowing a 2-1 lead in the ninth. Carl Edwards Jr. (1-1), recalled from the minors Monday, pitched a perfect 11th with two strikeouts to get the win.

RED SOX 2, ORIOLES 1, 12 INNINGS BALTIMORE (AP) — Andrew Benintendi homered in the 12th inning, and Boston received a masterful pitching performance from Chris Sale and a game-saving catch from Jackie Bradley Jr. With their fifth win in six games, the Red Sox reached .500 (19-19) for the first time since they were 1-1.

BREWERS 7, NATIONALS 3 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Christian Yelich hit his major leading-leading 16th home run and Milwaukee won its sixth straight game, beating Washington.

The Nationals lost all three at Miller Park, marking the first time they’ve been swept this season, and have dropped four in a row overall.

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Soldotna pitcher Chris Jaime delivers against Homer on Tuesday at Homer High School in Homer. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/ Peninsula Clarion)

Homer deals SoHi tough loss Stars waste scoring chances, succumb to Mariners in nonleague game

By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

The host Homer baseball team defeated Soldotna 7-3 on Wednesday in nonconference action.

The teams will play their Southcentral Conference game May 15. Homer moves to 5-4 overall while Soldotna falls to 2-7 overall.

Tuesday’s game came down to cashing in on opportunities.

The Stars left 10 runners in scoring position and 11 runners on overall, while Homer left just two in scoring position

and four runners on overall.

Soldotna coach Robb Quelland also had his team making four costly baserunning errors.

“Every game we’ve played this year, we’re almost double digits with guys left on base,” Quelland said. “It’s just a sign of our inexperience.”

The Stars actually jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning, with Jacob Boze knocking in David Michael and Brennan Werner singling to score Tanner Ussing.

“We started off with a couple of errors, but then the

pitchers bore down and the defense tightened up,” Homer coach Rich Sonnen said.

Homer would give up just one run the rest of the game, allowing the offense to stage a comeback.

Seth Adkins started for Homer and went 2 2-3 innings, giving up two unearned runs on two hits while walking three and striking out three.

Austin Ceccarelli pitched the next 2 1-3 innings, giving up a run on two hits while striking out four.

Harrison Metz finished up for Homer, going two score-

less innings while giving up three hits and striking out five.

Quelland said his team said Metz had the best curveball they had seen all year.

Chris Jaime kept the Mariners in check for the first four innings, allowing four runs — two earned — on three hits while walking two and striking out three.

“He did great. You saw later what that lineup can do.

There’s four Legion players on that team and he was able to shut them down,” Quelland said of Metz, Ceccarelli, Mose See HITS, page A9

Sharks win Game 7 over Avs to reach conference finals

By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Joe Pavelski was positioned just a few feet away from the spot where he was bleeding from his head on the ice just over two weeks ago when he did what he has done so often in his brilliant career. Pavelski got his stick on a shot that he redirected into the net to give the San Jose Sharks a Game 7 lead they wouldn’t relinquish.

The Sharks got their captain back and are moving on to the Western Conference final.

Pavelski made a triumphant return from a gruesome head injury by posting a goal and an assist in the first period that helped send

the Sharks to a 3-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche in Game 7 on Wednesday night.

“I got to watch these guys play for six games. They gave a lot of motivation for me,” Pavelski said.

“They were there for me. I wanted to come out and give them a good game as well. There wasn’t going to be one guy who won this game and there wasn’t. It was a big group effort out there.”

But no one was more important than Pavelski, who inspired the crowd and carried his team to another Game 7 victory after the epic comeback in the first round against Vegas following his injury. He scored the first goal and assisted on Tomas Hertl’s goal as the Sharks advanced to their

fourth conference final this decade.

“He played unbelievable for a guy that missed playoff action for two weeks,” teammate Logan Couture said. “To have the injuries that he has, coming back, and set up a goal, scored a goal. I wish I could tell you what he’s gone through from seeing it firsthand.

You wouldn’t believe that he’s playing right now, let’s just say that. He played unbelievable.”

Joonas Donskoi ended a 39game goal drought, Martin Jones made 14 of his 27 saves in the third period and the Sharks capitalized on a favorable replay review that negated a potential game-tying goal by Colorado in the second period.

San Jose will now play St. Louis in a conference final matchup between two successful teams seeking their first championship.

Game 1 is Saturday night in San Jose.

Mikko Rantanen and Tyson Jost scored for the Avalanche, who were trying to make their first conference final since 2002. Philipp Grubauer made 24 saves.

“We set high expectations for ourselves and we came up a little bit short,” coach Jared Bednar said. “Our guys worked every day to try to fulfill our expectations of our group. It was a real good series, but they were the better team for too big a portion of tonight’s game and they won and they deserved to win.”

The excitement started early at the Shark Tank with the fans cheering loudly when Pavelski stepped out for warmups for his first game back since his bloody concussion in Game 7 of the first round against Vegas.

There was a deafening roar when Pavelski was announced as a starter and the entire first period became a lovefest for San Jose’s captain in what could be his final home game with the Sharks before he can be a free agent this summer.

Pavelski took less than six minutes to provide more than just inspiration. He deflected Brent Burns’ point shot past Grubauer for the opening goal of the game and celebrated with an exaggerated fist pump.

Russell rejoins Cubs after ban

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By MATT CARLSON Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — Addison Russell and the Chicago Cubs don’t believe the 2016 AllStar has become a completely changed man since his ex-wife accused him of physical and emotional abuse.

They do believe he’s made positive strides and, with the Cubs needing an infielder for a depleted roster, Russell has been deemed the best option available.

Russell rejoined the surging Cubs on Wednesday after completing a 40-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball’s domestic violence policy and spending extra time in the minors to get ready.

The Cubs recalled Russell from Triple-A Iowa, then started him at second base and in the eighth during a 3-2, 11-inning win over Miami. Russell was eligible to rejoin the team May 3 against St. Louis at Wrigley Field, but the organization opted to give him more time with the minor league club.

“This is not a finish line,” Cubs President of Baseball Operations Theo Esptein said.

“This does not represent the end of the road or an accomplishment in any way, but there has been progress.”

Russell went 0 for 3 with a walk. He received a mix of polite applause and discernable boos from the Wrigley Field crowd when he walked to the plate in the third. The boos picked up after Russell struck out looking against Jose Ureña.

“He looked really good in the field, defensively real smooth,” manager Joe Maddon said.

“I thought at the plate he was a little bit off.”

The Cubs had originally planned to recall Russell next week but moved that up after infielder/outfielder Ben Zobrist went on the restricted list Wednesday to take an indefinite leave for undisclosed personal matters.

Infielder Daniel Descalso remains limited to pinch hitting because of a sore left ankle.

The 25-year-old Russell was suspended last fall after a series of allegations made by ex-wife Melisa Reidy. He said in February that he was accountable for his past actions and apologized for “the hurt and the pain” he caused.

Russell was working out in Arizona, playing in extended spring training games and meeting with a counselor twice a week before joining Iowa in late April. He batted .222 (10 for 45) with two doubles, three home runs and 13 RBIs in 12 games for Iowa this season.

Russell hadn’t played for the Cubs since Sept. 19. The suspension covered the final 12 games in 2018 and the first 28 this year.

Epstein said Russell had not only been compliant with terms set out by the team and Major League Baseball, but continues to work with a counselor in what will be a longterm and possibly lifelong process.

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(Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Wednesday, May 8 Milwaukee 116, Boston 91, Milwaukee wins series 4-1 Golden State 104, Houston 99, Golden State leads series 3-2 Thursday, May 9 Toronto at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

Denver at Portland, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, May 10 Golden State at Houston, 5 p.m.

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hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS Tuesday, May 7 St. Louis 2, Dallas 1, 2OT, St. Louis wins series 4-3 Wednesday, May 8 San Jose 3, Colorado 2, San Jose wins series 4-3 CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Thursday, May 9 Carolina at Boston, 4 p.m.

Saturday, May 11 St. Louis at San Jose, 4 p.m.

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Texas 9, Pittsburgh 6 Arizona 3, Tampa Bay 2, 13 innings Milwaukee 7, Washington 3 Philadelphia 5, St. Louis 0 San Diego 3, N.Y. Mets 2 Chicago Cubs 3, Miami 2, 11 innings Oakland 5, Cincinnati 4, 13 innings L.A. Dodgers 9, Atlanta 4 Thursday’s Games Miami (Richards 0-4) at Chicago Cubs (Darvish 2-3), 10:20 a.m.

San Francisco (Holland 1-4) at Colorado (Freeland 2-5), 11:10 a.m.

Cincinnati (Roark 2-1) at Oakland (Bassitt 1-0), 11:37 a.m.

Pittsburgh (Musgrove 1-3) at St. Louis (Wacha 2-0), 3:45 p.m.

Atlanta (Soroka 3-1) at Arizona (Weaver 3-1), 5:40 p.m.

Washington (Corbin 2-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Hill 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

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L.A. Angels (Bard 0-1) at Detroit (Carpenter 0-0), 9:10 a.m.

Cincinnati (Roark 2-1) at Oakland (Bassitt 1-0), 11:37 a.m.

Seattle (Leake 2-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Happ 1-3), 2:35 p.m.

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for three runs in the fifth to go up 7-3. No. 6 hitter Coda Wood had a two-RBI douContinued from page A8 ble and No. 7 hitter Austin Gash had an RBI double.

Hayes and Adkins.

“I know they have that After taking a 4-2 lead in them,” Sonnen said. in the bottom of the fourth, “They’ve done it before, but Homer got to Davey Belger it’s not like they are going 3

for 4 every game. That gave the team a big spark.”

Atticus Gibson finished with a scoreless inning for Soldotna.

For Homer, Wood, Hayes and Adkins each scored two runs. For Soldotna, Michael was 2 for 2 with two runs.

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pitched into the seventh and Gerardo Reyes (2-0) got the win with 1 2/3 scoreless innings of relief. Strahm got a big assist from Margot, who jumped in front of the home bullpen to bring back Alonso’s drive for the last out in the sixth.

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Washington loaded the bases with one out in the ninth inning, but Josh Hader struck out pinch-hitter Kurt Suzuki and Adam Eaton for his 10th save in 10 chances. Mike Moustakas and Manny Pina also connected for Milwaukee, which leads the National League with 65 home runs.

RANGERS 9, PIRATES 6 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Hunter Pence connected for a pinch-hit grand slam in the eighth inning and Isiah KinerFalefa drove in the go-ahead run in the ninth as Texas rallied past Pittsburgh.

Kiner-Falefa doubled off Tyler Lyons (1-1) and an offline relay throw allowed Nomar Mazara to score. Rougned Odor followed with a two-run homer.

MARINERS 10, YANKEES 1

Muncy and Justin Turner each homered, and Los Angeles beat Atlanta for its 10th straight win at home, where it earned a third consecutive sweep.

Clayton Kershaw (2-0) gave up four runs and a season-high nine hits in 6 2/3 innings. He struck out a season-low four and walked one to remain unbeaten in 11 career starts against the Braves.

TWINS 9, BLUE JAYS 1

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jerad Eickhoff allowed three hits in eight innings, César Hernández homered and drove in three and Philadelphia beat St. Louis.

Aided by a pair of double plays, Eickhoff (2-1) faced just two batters over the minimum through the first seven innings as the NL East-leading Phillies took two of three from the Cardinals.

TORONTO (AP) — Jorge Polanco had his second career five-hit game, including a tworun home run, Kyle Gibson (3-1) struck out a career-high 11 and Minnesota beat Toronto, completing a three-game sweep.

Eddie Rosario hit his ALleading 13th home run, one of four long balls by the Twins.

Minnesota had 18 hits, one shy of its season high. C.J. Cron had a two-run homer among his four hits and Jonathan Schoop added a two-run shot.

ASTROS 9, ROYALS 0

TIGERS 10, ANGELS 3

HOUSTON (AP) — Michael Brantley homered twice, Brad Peacock pitched seven innings and Josh James completed the three-hitter in Houston’s win.

Peacock (3-2) allowed three hits and set a career high with 12 strikeouts to help the Astros bounce back after a 12-2 loss on Tuesday night. Peacock also rebounded after allowing seven runs in just 3 2/3 innings in his previous start. James struck out five in the last two innings.

DETROIT (AP) — Ronny Rodriguez drove in a careerhigh four runs and Matthew Boyd pitched six strong innings, helping Detroit beat Los Angeles.

Boyd (4-2) allowed only one run on David Fletcher’s leadoff homer and just two more hits after the blast to left.

PHILLIES 5, CARDINALS 0

NEW YORK (AP) — Yusei Kikuchi was brilliant on the mound in his Yankee Stadium debut, Ryon Healy had four extra-base hits and Seattle routed New York.

Healy homered and hit three doubles to help the Mariners win for only the second time in 10 games. Mitch Haniger and Edwin Encarnación also went deep as Seattle (20-19), which PADRES 3, METS 2 opened 13-2 this year, avoided dropping below .500 for the SAN DIEGO (AP) — Huntfirst time since the final day of er Renfroe hit a tiebreaking the 2017 season. solo shot in the seventh inning, center fielder Manuel Margot Pete Alonso of a homer DODGERS 9, BRAVES 4 robbed and San Diego beat New York.

Eric Hosmer also went deep LOS ANGELES (AP) — Enriqué Hernández, Max for San Diego, Matt Strahm

ATHLETICS 5, REDS 4, 13 INNINGS OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Stephen Piscotty homered leading off the bottom of the 13th, lifting the Athletics over the Cincinnati Reds.

One day after Mike Fiers pitched the 13th no-hitter in franchise history, the A’s got a big lift out of their bullpen and then won it on Piscotty’s winner off Robert Stephenson (2-1).

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W_Brasier 2-1. L_Y.Ramirez 0-1.

Sv_Hembree (1). HRs_Boston, Betts (7), Benintendi (4).

Rangers 9, Pirates 6 Tex. 002 000 043 —9 9 2 Pit. 000 222 000 —6 10 0 Miller, B.Martin (5), Dowdy (6), Chavez (7), Jurado (8), C.Martin (9) and Mathis, Kiner-Falefa; Kingham, Ri.Rodriguez (5), Liriano (7), Feliz (8), Lyons (8) and E.Diaz. W_Jurado 1-1. L_Lyons 1-1. Sv_C.Martin (1). HRs_Texas, Pence (5), Gallo (12), Odor (3).

Pittsburgh, Bell (9), Moran (3).

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Phillies 5, Cardinals 0 Phi. 000 040 100 —5 7 0 S.L. 000 000 000 —0 3 2 Eickhoff, Dominguez (9) and Realmuto; Flaherty, T.Webb (6), Gallegos (7), Gregerson (9) and Molina. W_Eickhoff 2-1. L_Flaherty 3-3. HRs_Philadelphia, Hernandez (3).

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Cubs 3, Marlins 2

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L_Foltynewicz 0-2. HRs_Atlanta, Acuna Jr. (7). Los Angeles, Turner (5), Hernandez (7), Muncy (8).

racing NASCAR Cup 2019 Schedule

Sunday, Feb. 17 — Daytona 500, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Denny Hamlin) Sunday, Feb. 24 — Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Hampton, Ga. (Brad Keselowski) Sunday, March 3 — Pennzoil 400, Las Vegas (Joey Logano) Sunday, March 10 — TicketGuardian 500, Avondale, Ariz.

(Kyle Busch) Sunday, March 17 — Auto Club 400, Fontana, Calif. (Kyle Busch) Sunday, March 24 — STP 500, Martinsville, Va. (Brad Keselowski) Sunday, March 31 — O’Reilly Auto Parts 500, Fort Worth, Texas (Denny Hamlin) Sunday, April 7 — Food City 500, Bristol, Tenn. (Kyle Busch) Saturday, April 13 — Toyota Owners 400, Richmond, Va. (Martin Truex Jr.) Sunday, April 28 — Geico 500, Talladega, Ala. (Chase Elliott) Monday, May 6 — Gander RV 400, Dover, Del. (Martin Truex Jr.) Saturday, May 11 — Digital Ally 400, Kansas City, Kan. Saturday, May 18 — x-Monster Energy Open, Concord, N.C. Saturday, May 18 — x-Monster Energy All-Star Race, Concord, N.C. Sunday, May 26 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C. x-non-points race Points Leaders Through May 6 1. Kyle Busch, 460.

2. Joey Logano, 455.

3. Kevin Harvick, 397.

4. Denny Hamlin, 383.

5. Martin Truex Jr, 378.

6. Brad Keselowski, 377.

7. Chase Elliott, 371.

8. Kurt Busch, 347.

9. Ryan Blaney, 335.

10. Clint Bowyer, 319.

transactions BASEBALL American League NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled RHP Jonathan Loaisiga from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

Optioned RHP Jake Barrett to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

TEXAS RANGERS — Optioned OF Delino DeShields Jr. to Nash-

ville (PCL).

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Activated LHP Mike Montgomery from the 10-day IL. Recalled INF Addison Russell from Iowa (PCL). Placed RHP Pedro Strop on the 10-day IL, retroactive to May 7. Placed INF-OF Ben Zobrist placed on the restricted list.

MIAMI MARLINS — Placed RHP Drew Steckenrider on the 10-day IL, retroactive to May 7. Recalled LHP José Quijada from New Orleans (PCL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Placed RHP Keone Kela on the 10-day IL, retroactive to May 6.

Announced OF JB Shuck cleared waivers and was assigned outright to Indianapolis (IL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned RHP Cal Quantrill to El Paso (PCL). Recalled RHP Gerardo Reyes from El Paso.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned LHP Williams Jerez to Sacramento (PCL). Activated LHP Derek Holland from 10-day IL. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Named Aaron Nelson vice president of player care and performance.

FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Signed LB Kevin Pierre-Louis to a one-year contract.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed DE Stacy Keely. Waived OT Adam Bisnowaty.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released WR Bruce Ellington.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed RB Rod Smith, G Austin Droogsma, PK Joey Slye, DB Tenny Adewusi, P Ryan Anderson and DE Alex Jenkins. Waived LB Ukeme Eligwe, DE Myles Humphrey and DB Michael Hunter.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Signed F Arttu Ruotsalainen to a three-year entry level contract.

SOCCER Major League Soccer COLUMBUS CREW — Acquired $125,000 in targeted allocation money from Colorado for D Lalas Abubakar. Acquired M David Accam from Philadelphia Union for $100,000 in targeted allocation money, $400,000 in general allocation money and an international roster spot for the 2019.

SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Acquired M Benny Feilhaber from Colorado for D Abdul Rwatubyaye and an undisclosed draft pick.

NEW YORK RED BULLS — Signed F Tom Barlow.

NEW YORK CITY FC — Traded F Jonathan Lewis to Colorado for $650,000 targeted allocation money and an international spot in 2020.

PHILADELPHIA UNION — Signed F Michee Ngalina.

TENNIS International Tennis Federation ITF — Named Jamie Delgado player relations consultant.

COLLEGE NORTH CAROLINA — Graduate RB Jordan Brown announced he will transfer to Kansas State.

OKLAHOMA CITY - Named Kristen Coventon volleyball coach.

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Arts&Entertainment

What’s Happening

Gordon writes memoir of life in Alaska, on mountains

Events and Exhibitions n The public is invited to attend the Fireweed Fiber Guild monthly meeting at the Soldotna Public Library. There will be demonstrations for spinning and spindling. There are many activities planned for this Summer and DON’T forget this Autumn’s FiberFest’, which the Fireweed Fiber Guild is sponsoring. n Celebrate our state! Alaska’s 60th Anniversary dinner and auction with Keynote Speaker Kelly Tshibaka, Alaska Commissioner of Administration, will be held on Friday, May 17 at the Merit Inn, 260 Willow St., Kenai. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. No-host bar. 6 p.m. dinner. Tickets $50 per person. Purchase eight tickets if a full table is desired. Visit rwk.nationbuilder.com. n Registration is now open for Kenai Performers’ Summer Drama Camp. Junior session, ages 5-7, June 17-June 28, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-noon.

Fee: $250. Senior session, ages 8-18, June 17-July 13, Monday-Friday, 12:30-4 p.m. Fee: $450. Location: 43335 K-Beach Road (backside of Subway).

Early enrollment discount if fee is paid by June 1.

For more information or to register, call Terri at 2526808. n The Kenai Totem Tracers Genealogical Society will meet in the Kenai Community Library on Saturday, May 11 from 1-3 p.m. This month’s program will be a compilation of genealogy topics, along with hand-outs on various subjects. The meeting is free and open to the public. This is will be our last Totem Tracers monthly meeting before taking a summer break. The Totem Tracers would also like to remind the community that an Introduction to Basic Genealogy Methodology class will be taught on four consecutive Saturdays starting June 8. It will be held for a few hours each Saturday. Pre-registration is required and can be done at the Kenai Library front desk or call the library and ask them to put your name on the list. Meeting place is the Kenai library. The class is free, is limited to 20 attendees, and open to the public. n The Kenai Peninsula Woodturner’s hold their monthly meeting at 1 p.m. this Saturday, May 11.

Location is the log building, Mile 100 on the Sterling Highway, just a few miles south of Soldotna where Echo Lake Road meets the highway. There will be a woodturning demonstration. Non-members are welcome. Questions? Call 801-543-9122. n Come in and see the Kenai Fine Art Center’s May exhibit, “Of Stone,” by Alanna deRocchi and Jonathon Green. This dual artist exhibit will showcase two artists that are currently instructors at UAA. A combination of immense pottery and printwork that melds natural and architectural elements. The Kenai Fine Art Center is located across from the Oiler’s Bingo Hall and next to the Historic Cabins. 2837040, www.kenaifineart.com. “Of Stone” will hang until June 1. n Kenai Performers presents “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller. May 9, 10, 11 and May 16, 17, 18, at 7 p.m. Location: 44045 K-Beach Road (backside of Subway restaurant). Tickets are $15, available at the door and online at www.kenaiperformers.org. For more information call Rebecca at 398-2951. n Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival will be celebration its 20th year with a very special appearance of The Sahanas Brothers with Susan Lansford and Tumbledown House Band over the solstice weekend of June 20-23 in Seldovia. Tickets are $49, adults. $16, teens. Under 12, free. The En Plein Air Art Festival will be happening throughout the weekend where local and visiting artists display their impressions of Seldovia. A silent auction will be the culmination of the weekend. Visit Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival on Facebook, or Seldoviaartscouncil.net.

See EVENTS, page A11

Poet’s

Corner May

By Bonnie Marie Playle This is the month of renewal and fresh starts.

The migratory birds and whales follow their hearts.

The signs are Taurus, the bull and Gemini, the Twins; the elements are Earth and Air, with these, spring begins.

The birthstone is Emerald, meaning success and love, both enhance the mental.

The colors are yellow, red and green; sunshine, energy and growth, which makes a beautiful scene.

May’s flowers are Lily of the Valley and Hawthorn; happiness is reborn.

The birds are warbler and nightingale, trees the poplar, chestnut and ash.

Enjoy the songs and the color Alaska’s season is short, gone in a flash.

May is start of the summer season.

God please guard the children and motorcyclists for good reason.

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.

Mike Gordon, left, and Shelli Gordon, right, pose with a copy of Mike Gordon’s memoir, “Learning the Ropes.”

(Photo by Joe Columbus)

By Michael Armstrong Homer News

In his 76 years of roughand-tumble living, Halibut Cove writer Mike Gordon has come to be known as “Mountain Mike” for his alpine adventures. Another adjective might be “persistent” for his dogged perseverance.

In no particular order, Gordon: • Started and ran one of Alaska’s most iconic bars, Chilkoot Charlie’s in Anchorage; • Attempted the Seven Summits, including three tries at Mount Everest; • Kicked cocaine and quit smoking;

• Finished his undergraduate degree at the University of San Francisco 48 years after he started college, • Worked his way back into the good graces of the love of his life, Shelli; • Ran marathons, and • Wrote, rewrote and revised his memoir, “Learning the Ropes,” starting it in 1990 and publishing it in February of this year.

Now out in paperback and hardcover, “Learning the Ropes” pulls no ropes.

As author and actor Peter Coyote wrote in a cover blurb, “I loved this book.

I laughed my ass off; and more than once he made me choke off a sob. I wish I’d written it, but I get vertigo standing on a chair.”

Don Rearden, author of “The Raven’s Gift,” also praises the book.

“This is a wild and crazy glimpse into old school Alaska, where fists, guns, cash and cocaine ruled,” he writes in a blurb. “Gordon’s tale is a powerful reminder of the importance of love and how we can turn to nature to save ourselves.”

From 2-4 p.m. next Saturday, May 18, Gordon signs his book at the Homer Bookstore — the authorized, “banned in China” and printed in the USA second edi-

tion.

All but a dozen copies of a first run of 6,000 got confiscated when censors at a Chinese printer objected to a section Gordon wrote about Tibet. Officials noticed some photos of Tibet associated with a chapter, “Mt. Everest, First Attempt, North Side, 1990.”

“If they read that chapter, they’re not going to like it,” Gordon said he thought when he heard the Chinese News and Publication Agency had asked about the photos.

In that chapter he writes about crossing into Tibet.

“We arrived at the border with Tibet around noon, processed through Nepalese immigration and customs with no problems, then pulled up to the ‘Friendship Bridge,’ aptly named since it is just wide enough for a Chinese tank to cross over if reassurance of the sincere mutual friendliness of the relationship is ever required,” he writes.

Chinese authorities told Gordon’s Hong Kong printing contact that his book couldn’t be printed in China unless the entire chapter — pages 84 to 101 — on the 1990 Mt. Everest attempt was pulled.

See ROPES, page A11

Review: David McCullough explores the pioneers in new book

By Jeff Ayers The Associated Press

“The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West,” by David McCullough (Simon and Schuster).

When the Revolutionary War was over, and the Treaty of Paris had Great Britain recognize that a new country had been formed, Britain also gave the new government of the United States vast land northwest of the Ohio River, David McCullough notes in “The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West.”

While Congress was working on establishing a Constitution, a Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler visited the area, trying to persuade people to pass a law declaring the area a new territory. The Northwest Ordinance was the first of its kind since the act passed promising freedom of religion, free education and the prohibition of slavery.

Soon the first pioneers braved the wilderness and established a permanent home in the area. They

This cover image released by Crown shows “The Paris Diversion,” by Chris Pavone. (Crown via AP)

settled off the banks of the Ohio River and named the town Marietta after the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette.

McCullough is a master of research along with being a wonderful storyteller. He takes the history of the area, and turns what

could be dry and somewhat dull into vibrant and compelling tales. The people who risked the vast wilderness fought disease, lack of food, and harsh winters without supplies.

Each colonist had different reasons for gambling for a better future for themselves and their families.

The region and its occupants truly come alive in the hands of McCullough.

It is a history that unfamiliar to most, and brushes with the famous and infamous add to the surprises.

He also includes the viewpoint of Native Americans, and does not gloss over the uncomfortable reality that westward expansion had devastating consequences for existing populations.

Not everybody who journeyed to Ohio was virtuous, and he includes stories from a diverse cast of characters. The book covers the movement to the area in 1787 up to 1853, when the State of Ohio had over 1.5 million people.

Lovers of history told well know that McCullough is one of the best writers of our past, and his latest will only add to his acclaim.

Review: New movie starring Pikachu is just a hokey Pokemon

By Mark Kennedy The Associated Press

It’s got an adorable hero from an iconic media brand who is voiced by a proven box office master at snark.

But, somehow, “Pokemon Detective Pikachu” never really gets arresting.

A neutered Ryan Reynolds tries hard but can’t make this live actionmeets-animated movie gel.

It’s plodding and listless and really not funny or smart enough. Turns out, you can’t copy “Deadpool” tricks for the PG set.

“Pokemon Detective Pikachu ” borrows lightly from film noir crime dramas to create a mystery in a world where humans and Pokemon co-exist. A young man called Tim Goodman (the terrific Justice Smith) joins with Pikachu (Reynolds’ voice) to search for what happened to the man’s father, a missing detective.

The movie’s best moments are those between the scenes, where the Japanborn creatures thrillingly share the same urban space as humans.

Smith is very appealing as a son coming to grips with the loss of his estranged fa-

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Justice Smith, left, the character Detective Pikachu, and Kathryn Newton in a scene from “Pokemon Detective Pikachu.” (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

ther, but Reynolds, as a cute coffee-guzzling detective with a Sherlock Holmes’ deerstalker cap, ping-pongs from heartfelt to caustic uneasily and tries to mimic his best-known, fourthwall breaking “Deadpool” movie character (“That’s a twist. Very twisty,” he says of one plot point.) It’s the most mismatched buddy flick since Will Smith teamed up with an Orc for “Bright.”

The film starts slowly, builds to a sort of plateau and then ends with the final third consisting of nonstop action sequences and an un-

derwhelming conclusion.

Ken Watanabe is underused as a police chief. Equally inexplicably, Suki Waterhouse gets credit for a role in which she never speaks and lasts about 15 seconds onscreen.

Speaking of speaking, you’re probably wondering why there’s any dialogue between the adorable pocket monsters and humans since Pokemon traditionally only just say their own names. Enter five screenwriters — Rob Letterman, Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit, Derek Connolly and Nicole Perlman.

Their solution is a weird gas that makes everyone crazy but somehow allows Tim to communicate with Pikachu. Sure, gas.

The pair are joined by a junior reporter — really an unpaid intern tasked with writing listicles, played by a winning Kathryn Newton — who helps them get to the bottom of the mystery using shoe leather and guile. (This is a film that celebrates the media in a big way — there are newspaper clippings, honourable TV reporting and a respected giant cable network.

See MOVIE, page A11

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. . . Events

n The 2nd annual Kenai River Paddling Film Festival will return to Continued from page A10 the Soldotna Sports Center at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 18. This year’s festival will feature 12 of the year’s best paddling films, including locally made films and nine award winners from the Paddling Film Festival World Tour.

Admission is $10 in advance at Peninsula Power Sports and $15 the night of the festival. Admission includes a free digital subscription to Paddling Magazine. Preceding the film will be a gear swap hosted by the Kenai Watershed Forum. Food will be available from Yo Tacos. All proceeds from the film festival and gear swap go towards river conservation and supporting paddling here on the Kenai Peninsula. n Creative entries for the Salvage Art Exhibit are encouraged to be displayed at the Kenai River Festival June 7-9 This event is cosponsored by ReGroup and The Kenai Fine Art Center. For more information or to volunteer to help at any of these happenings call 252-2773.

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. . . Ropes Continued from page A10

He got an American printer and published an uncensored version.

Gordon builds “Learning the Ropes” around his mountain climbing adventures, particularly his attempts at climbing the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on the seven continents.

“The mountains are the framework,” Shelli Gordon said in an interview with Mike Gordon last month at the Homer News. “Is it a climbing story? Not really.

It’s a memoir.”

“Learning the Ropes” begins with a short piece about a precarious climb on Denali.

“I think that the coming down the mountain then with the* flashback grabs people’s attention,” Mike Gordon said.

While the mountaineering pieces set the tone of his memoir, the book has several different narrative threads winding back and forth and ultimately connecting. In “Learning the Ropes,” Gordon tells of his life from growing up in Florida to moving to Alaska as a boy to starting a family and then several businesses.

As Alaska history, it covers Anchorage from late territorial days through early statehood, the pipeline era and the glory days of the oil boom. That history gets told from the filter of owning

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“Learning the Ropes” could be subtitled, “Divorce, Drugs and Despair.”

Gordon admits his flaws, but he also seeks and finds redemption. As he put it, quoting Coyote, “It’s hard work writing an honest memoir.”

At its heart, “Learning the Ropes” also is a love story, about how through infidelity Gordon lost his wife, Shelli, rediscovered his love for her, and then regained her trust. Spoiler: the couple remarries in the end.

Gordon got his start writing on his mountain ascents when he waited for weather to clear.

“Climbing gave him something to think about,” Shelli Gordon said. “I felt like it had something to do with the altitude.”

“I would lay in my tent and think of these stories and write them out,” Mike Gordon said. “…It seems to have a parallel with great thinkers, the type that sit in mountain huts.”

Some of those stories had to do with growing up in Anchorage, and Gordon put them up on the Chilkoot Charlie’s website. The author and journalist David Holthouse noticed them and suggested to Nick Coltman, the cofounder of the Anchorage Press, that he reprint them. The Press ran them as a series of columns, many now part of “Learning attempt to burn a miming Pokemon with mimed gasoline. It’s a film that explores daddy issues and also riffs off “Silence of the Lambs” (“Are you gonna make me into a lampshade?” Pikachu asks his human minder).

Some of it is very scary for younger kids most of it is incomprehensible to adults.

Then there’s Rita Ora playing a research scientist.

We’re not sure why that is but she also teams up with

Mike Gordon, left, and Shelli Gordon, right, pose with a copy of Mike Gordon’s memoir, “Learning the Ropes,” on April 21, 2019. (Photo by Joe Columbus)

the Ropes.”

Gordon wrote “Learning the Ropes” as his master’s thesis at Alaska Pacific University. He’d started the book in 1990 and finished a first draft in 1998.

“People I gave it to weren’t necessarily impressed,” Gordon said of earlier versions.

He dug into the book full time while attending

APU from 2012-15, taking the advice of his professor, Dave Onofrychuk, who told him to “write a book nobody else can write.”

Now done and finished, Gordon said of his book, “I’m really happy and really proud of how it’s turned out.”

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Kygo to supply the film’s signature song “Carry On” — a bland, lazy, derivative club banger. It’s perfect for this flat film.

Live-action feature film adaptations of video games have proved a dicey proposition in the past. For every “Mortal Kombat” there’s a “Prince of Persia.” This one just feels like a venal money grab from a mega corporation. You’ve played Pokemon Go, right? Call

this one Pokemon Don’t Go. “Pokemon Detective Pikachu,” a Warner Bros.

Pictures release, is rated PG for “for action/peril, some rude and suggestive humour, and thematic elements.” Running time: 104 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.

——— MPAA Definition of PG: Parental guidance suggested.

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INVITATION TO BID CITY OF SOLDOTNA 177 NORTH BIRCH STREET SOLDOTNA, ALASKA 99669 Phone 907-262-9107 The City of Soldotna hereby invites qualified firms to submit a firm price for acceptance by the City for the Redoubt Avenue Asphalt Rehabilitation 2019.

Scope of work includes, but is not limited to removal and replacement of existing 3” thick asphalt, upgrading curb ramps to ADA standards and several repairs to City utility infrastructure including hydrant replacements, installation of a new gate valve and installation of water and sewer services.

A non-mandatory pre-bid conference will be held at City Hall, 177 North Birch St. Soldotna, AK on May 21, 2019 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:

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DUE DATE: June 3, 2019 at 3:00P.M The project documents may be obtained from the City of Soldotna beginning May 9, 2019 for a non-refundable fee of $20.00 (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.soldotna.org. 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@soldotna.org. Downloading projects from the City web site does not automatically put you on the planholders list.

Pub: May 9 and 13, 2019

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LEGALS PUBLIC MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT The regularly scheduled monthly board meeting for the Board of Directors, Central Emergency Services Area, will be held on Thursday, May 16, 2019, 6:00 p.m., Station 4, 37699 K-Beach Road, Kenai. Regular agenda items and reports will be discussed. The public is welcome to attend the meeting.

For further information, please contact Chief Roy Browning at 262-4792.

Pub:May 9, 2019

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KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF REDEMPTION FOR PROPERTIES LISTED ON THE FORECLOSURE JUDGMENT FOR 2017 A judgment of foreclosure and sale of real property was entered in the Superior Court of the State of Alaska on the 24th day of May 2018. Civil Action No. 3KN-18-00175CI. Notice is hereby given that the right to redeem such properties will expire on the 24th day of May 2019. If the 2017 and prior years real property taxes and special assessments are not paid in full by May 24, 2019, all the property subject to this decree, and not redeemed, will upon expiration of the period of redemption immediately be deeded to the Kenai Peninsula Borough or, if applicable under AS 29.45.450(a), to the city within which it lies; and every right or interest of a person in the properties will be forfeited forever to the city or borough.

Johni Blankenship, Borough Clerk Pub: 4/18,4/25,5/02,5/09,2019 850153

Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 7:00 PM The RSA Board Meeting will be held in the Betty J. Glick, Assembly Chambers, George A. Navarre Borough Administration Bld, 144 N. Binkley Street, Soldotna Invited to attend are all members of the public. If you would like to speak at the meeting, please call the Road Service Area office at 262-4427, toll free within the Borough at (800) 477-4427 or Email us at: roads@kpb.us.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Hilcorp Alaska, LLC, Beluga River Unit (BRU) 232-09 Disposal Well Easement The Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas (Division) received an easement application from Hilcorp Alaska, LLC, dated March 28, 2019, to authorize the use of BRU 232-09 Class I disposal well to inject downhole non-unit and third-party wastes. The proposed disposal well and subsequent easement will be authorized under AS 38.05.850.

The Division is providing public notice and opportunity to comment.

Applicant: Hilcorp (see application for contact information) Project ID: ADL 233373 BRU 232-09 Disposal Well Location: Seward Meridian, T12N, R10W, Sections 4, 9, and 10 Project Description: The project will be located in the Cook Inlet within Beluga River Unit. The surface location of BRU 232-09 is located on Kenai Peninsula Borough property. The wastes are injected into the Sterling-A geologic formation, which has been depleted of natural gas, at a depth of 4,141 feet measured depth. This easement is subsurface in nature and will not require surface use or access.

The application package is available for review at the Division’s Permitting Section, 550 West 7th Avenue, Suite 1100, Anchorage, or online at http://dog.dnr.alaska.gov/Home/Newsroom.

Please send comments to the Division by e-mail to dog.permitting@alaska.gov, or by regular mail to the Division address above. All comments must be in writing. A copy of the final decision will be sent to any person who provides written comments. An eligible person affected by this decision who provided timely written comment or public hearing testimony on this decision may appeal or request the commissioner’s reconsideration in accordance with 11 AAC 02.

All comments must be received by the Comment Deadline: 4:30 pm, Alaska Standard Time, May 26, 2019.

The Department of Natural Resources complies with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. This notice will be made available in alternative communication formats upon request.

Individuals with disabilities who may need auxiliary aids, services, or special modifications to participate may contact the address above or call 907-269-8411.

AO:19PE-10-044 Pub: May 9 & 16, 2019 855996

LEGALS Public Notice The 2019 Kasilof & Kenai River Community Gillnet Fisheries are scheduled to open to Federally qualified Ninilchik residents. Residents wishing to participate must first obtain a Federal subsistence fishing permit. These permits are currently available at the Kenai Fish and Wildlife Field Office located at 43655 Kalifornsky Beach Road, Soldotna, AK. Permits will also be issued in Ninilchik on May 14, 2019, from 1:00-4:00 pm at the Ninilchik Traditional Council (NTC) Administration Office at: 15910 Sterling Hwy., Ninilchik, AK. Participants wishing to sign up must then present their Federal subsistence fishing permit to the admin staff at the NTC office. Sign up is on a first come first served basis. For more info call (907) 567-3313.

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Die Hard Stooges “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” (2005, Action) Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie.

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Stooges Stooges “Predator” (1987) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers.

“Predator 2” (1990) Danny Glover, Gary Busey.

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“Punisher: War Zone” (2008) Ray Stevenson.

“The 5th Wave” (2016) Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson.

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“A Bronx Tale” (1993) Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri.

“The Departed” (2006, Crime Drama) Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon.

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Picking up after mom is lifelong family dilemma DEAR ABBY: I found out a few years ago that the first love of my life, my college sweetheart, was murdered by her husband in 1999. At the time, I was married. My wife died three years ago, and I now live with a significant other.

I never got closure.

Now that I know about my Abigail Van Buren girlfriend’s brutal death, I have thought about contacting her family, who live in another state. Would it be all right to do that, or am I just reliving my past and need to move on? I am torn about what to do. What do you suggest?

-- CONFLICTED IN NEW MEXICO DEAR CONFLICTED: Write her parents a letter and tell them you only recently heard about your former girlfriend’s death. And when you do, express to them that she will always live in your heart, and share a pleasant memory of her with them. I’m sure they will be appreciative.

DEAR ABBY: It’s time someone publicized this. Chewing ice in your tea, coffee or soft drink is as rude as eating your food or cracking your gum with your mouth open.

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of a black hat. Tonight: Rest up. Count on needing all the energy that you can muster for the weekend.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHHH Your style of having a discussion transforms, drawing different and more positive results. When dealing with a child or loved one, be as sensitive as you can be. Tonight: Stay on top of a problem, yet let off steam.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHH You could want more from a situation that seems to be bothering you.

Understand what might need to happen in order to make it so. Are you ready for the additional responsibility? Only you can answer that question. Tonight: Up to the wee hours.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH Reach out for a loved one at a distance who means the world to you. Your ability to read between the lines proves to be helpful. You might hear news or gain information that could be more significant than you’re aware of. Tonight: As you like it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Someone drops a nugget of information or gossip that forces you to stop in your tracks. How you work with a situation could change. Verify that you’re hearing facts and not hearsay. Tonight: Fun with a favorite person.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Defer to another party. How you handle a personal issue could be a lot different from how this person will. Learn and watch. You might like to study this person’s style. Tonight: As you like.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Tension builds. You sense an impending event or happening. Worry less; clear out as much work as possible. You’ll want to free up as much time as you possibly can in the next few days. Tonight: Burning the midnight oil.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You seem to be the master of ideas and creative solutions. Others appreciate any feedback that you can give them. Choose empathy rather than judgment. Popularity surges. Handle an important matter now. Tonight: As you like it.

BORN TODAY Actress Candice Bergen (1946), musician Billy Joel (1949), actress Grace Gummer (1986)

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Suicide prevention Dear Readers: Different types of people can contemplate SUICIDE: teens, veterans, LGBTQ+, the elderly and trauma survivors.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (suicidepreventionlifeline.org) recommends supporting someone who might be contemplating suicide with the following action steps: Ask; Keep Them Safe; Be There; Help Them Connect; and Follow Up. The NSPL has a toll-free number staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year: 800-273-TALK (8255).

Assure people that you care, that their feelings are real and valid, and that help is available.

-- Heloise COVER ALL YOUR BASES Dear Readers: Eye shadow base serves many purposes: It evens out skin tone, gives shadow something to “grab on to” if your lids tend to be oily, it can reduce creasing, and it can make colors more vibrant and long-lasting.

Also, you don’t need a special eye shadow base. Concealer has the right consistency to act as an eye shadow base. Give it a whirl!

-- Heloise IS THAT FRIED? Dear Heloise: Your readers should be aware: If an item on a menu is described as “crispy,” “crunchy,” “browned,” “breaded” or “golden,” bet your bottom dollar it’s fried.

-- Delores O. in Dallas BEAUTY SPOT Dear Heloise: I am willing to spend extra on a good anti-wrinkle cream. To help it go further and cover more evenly, I first daub my face with two or three drops of water. I read your column in the Statesman Journal.

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, May 9, 2019: This year, you might be prone to excess or overindulgence. Somehow, you seem to be able to rein yourself in before a big problem ensues. Be aware of this tendency and how others might judge you as a result. If single, take care of a personal problem before becoming too involved with a loved one who might knock your socks off. If you’re attached, you and your partner will take or contemplate taking the next step in your relationship. CANCER needs a lot of nurturing to be open.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You might be delighted about, yet wary of, an offer. Change often causes angst, but if you don’t take risks in life, you’ll have nothing. An elder or someone with whom you often brainstorm could be unduly negative. Before allowing his or her words to affect you, question what’s going on with this person. Tonight: Stay close to home.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH Don’t push yourself. If a situation or business agreement is meant to work out, it will. By letting go, you sometimes allow what’s meant to occur to reveal itself. You might like the end results a lot.

Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You tend toward independence and freedom. Sometimes, dealing with finances and their implications is burdensome, but you like what money can do.

Note a tendency to be clingy and insecure today. Postpone decision-making. Tonight: Treat yourself well. Make yourself your first concern.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Your more emotional nature reveals itself. You understand that people sometimes find you akin to a mood ring; like the colors of a mood ring, your feelings constantly transform. Let yourself be.

Tonight: Letting off steam.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH Your senses of drama and timing help you clear out a potential pitfall. Your creativity and energy soar once more. Know that you’re heading into a period of being able to pull white rabbits out

By Eugene Sheffer

As I write this, I am sitting in a nice neighborhood coffee shop. The man next to me ordered an iced beverage, which he has been chomping through for the last 10 minutes. This is rude under any conditions, but magnified by the fact that some of us are going over work matters and trying to enjoy a coffee and muffin break. Moreover, it is not good for teeth. Even if the ice crunching habit were benign with regard to health, it’s inconsiderate of those in earshot.

-- BREAKING THE ICE DEAR BREAKING: Has it occurred to you and your co-workers to move to another table if the crunching annoys you? If it hasn’t, I recommend it.

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DEAR ABBY: My mom has never been what you would call a housekeeper. Dad did all the shopping, cooking and cleaning. As a child, I remember our house always being a mess. Mom worked, and I don’t know why she never felt like she needed to clean up after herself. My dad would straighten up after her, and there were often arguments about it.

Fast forward. Dad passed away three years ago, and my mom hasn’t changed. She leaves things all over the house like she did before -- dishes, bowls, soda cans, shoes. The first year, I would go over and clean only to return a couple of days later and find the place a mess again. She won’t let cleaning people in because she “doesn’t like the smell of the cleaning products.”

I feel like a bad daughter because at this point, I won’t go over to her house anymore. I cannot spend time there. If this were new behavior, I would be concerned, but it’s been this way as long as I can remember. She seems to not care that the place is a mess all the time. I feel bad for not helping her anymore. My daughter won’t visit her either. What do I do?

-- MIFFED ABOUT THE MESS IN VIRGINIA DEAR MIFFED: Don’t feel guilty. Because your mother is the way she is and always has been like this, take her out or to your home when you want to visit with her.

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